Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day dred minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House
Speaker 1: of hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air
Speaker 1: everywhere louviating every single eight days a week. This is
Speaker 1: I think the eighth thing we I don't know, I
Speaker 1: have no idea, but it is the Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and not Danny G Radio. As Danny G
Speaker 1: is away, we roll up our sleeves. We knuckled down
Speaker 1: with the Great Alexander, Alexander the Great, well actually Alex
Speaker 1: Alex Tiger, Alex the Vegan as he has known. Back again.
Speaker 1: He was the Penny on Friday, he gave us stories
Speaker 1: of the anime world and the gym on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: now he is back to help us answer listener mail
Speaker 1: on this podcast. Very exciting here and listen, Alex. I
Speaker 1: hope you're prepared for this. You never know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get in the mail bag. You have no idea
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get. It's a pot pourri of questions.
Speaker 1: We're about to raise the curtain and embark on a
Speaker 1: mission that will go through the cosmos. And before we
Speaker 1: get that going, here, we've got to say hello, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Al's got this little ditty. That's how we start the
Speaker 1: mail bag. Here we go, all right, very good, thank you,
Speaker 1: Ohio Al. So first up here, Kevin in Kansas. I
Speaker 1: don't have my usual male sound effects here because I'm
Speaker 1: we're doing this on a different setup. So just imagine
Speaker 1: male blank blanks. All right, Kevin in Kansas writes, Since says,
Speaker 1: dear Benn and friend, it's it's a Thursday, and I'm
Speaker 1: eating a turkey meal at school. Kevin is a teacher,
Speaker 1: by the way, in Kansas. He says, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I was wondering what you liked or looked forward to
Speaker 1: for school lunches back in your heyday. Alright, So Kevin,
Speaker 1: I'll go first here, and then Alice you can chimm it.
Speaker 1: So I my mom made most of my lunches. It
Speaker 1: was normally a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or tuna
Speaker 1: fish sandwich. She alternated and a bag of chips. And
Speaker 1: I did not like the tuna fish sandwich because often
Speaker 1: by the time lunch came around, it was a warm
Speaker 1: tuna fish sandwich. And there's nothing worse than a warm
Speaker 1: tuna fish sandwich. And uh and my mom would slob
Speaker 1: it with mayonnaise and all that, and she loved it
Speaker 1: and she was an easy meal and all that, but
Speaker 1: I I did not. So that's what I don't like.
Speaker 1: But every once in a while to be able to
Speaker 1: eat the cafeteria. And this one's gonna be surprising, but
Speaker 1: I love the big corn dog. The big corn dog
Speaker 1: that I was like a special treat. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: particularly good, as I remember, but for some reason I
Speaker 1: loved the corn dog when they had that on the
Speaker 1: menu when I was was a kid. What about you, Alex,
Speaker 1: any of any fun memories of school lunches man back
Speaker 1: in your day, which wasn't that long ago, But no,
Speaker 1: it was. Actually you know what's funny, Ben, is that
Speaker 1: I still remember. So at the school I went to,
Speaker 1: we had this little hole in the wall Mexican spot
Speaker 1: called Meet Guel's Junior. Have you ever tried Met Guels Junior? Ben?
Speaker 1: So this is like, uh, when you're in high school
Speaker 1: and this was This was in junior high and high
Speaker 1: school where I went to school. They were right next
Speaker 1: to each other the schools. Have you ever tried the spot?
Speaker 1: I know their local here and Cow. I do not
Speaker 1: believe I've seen it, but I have not eating it. Okay,
Speaker 1: tell me the next time you're in studio, I will
Speaker 1: bring you one of their famous bean rice and cheese burritos.
Speaker 1: So I, oh gosh, it's amazing. It's like a home
Speaker 1: style grandma cooking burritos. And I remember it was the
Speaker 1: longest line in history of school. You would literally try
Speaker 1: to get out early and ask your teacher at the
Speaker 1: class from out early so you could get your food first,
Speaker 1: so you weren't waiting fifteen minutes of your thirty minute
Speaker 1: lunch to get the food. Forever and always, I'll remember
Speaker 1: those burritos and getting a bag of hot cheetos and
Speaker 1: putting them inside of the burrito. Oh my gosh, Ben,
Speaker 1: that was it, man, that's it, Mber we talked about
Speaker 1: with the happy previous episode right or by the way,
Speaker 1: is there anything like when you're in elementary school? I
Speaker 1: remember the corn dog when I was like like maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it was junior high, but I remember I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was high school. It was high
Speaker 1: school younger than that. In elementary I remember we had
Speaker 1: a taco Tuesday and it would be like a taco bar,
Speaker 1: and the best part about it was the tacos were
Speaker 1: so messy. You would have a taco salad after so
Speaker 1: I would always get those as a kid in elementary school.
Speaker 1: So you're from a different generation. I think by the
Speaker 1: time you got to school, they probably had healthier items.
Speaker 1: Like when I was a kid, they did. They didn't
Speaker 1: give a ship like whatever, and it was feeding what
Speaker 1: they want. Shut the kids, Hey, what do we have
Speaker 1: in the freezer on some old hot dogs? Give it
Speaker 1: to the kids. They'll be kids like that thought. Whatever.
Speaker 1: As long as we don't see floaters in the toilet,
Speaker 1: that's for another time. Yeah, exactly, all right. Next up
Speaker 1: Pierre from the recliner, waiting to see Josh Allen dig
Speaker 1: his way out of up the four feet of snow.
Speaker 1: Well not anymore, Pierre. They moved that game out of
Speaker 1: an abundance of caution to Detroit. But Pierre, yeah, that
Speaker 1: that that abundance of caution thing. I know Pierre didn't
Speaker 1: ask about this from Springfield, mass But that is the
Speaker 1: excuse he can use about anything. You know, I didn't
Speaker 1: finish that assignment out of work, out of an abundance
Speaker 1: of caution. I was a little onto the weather, and
Speaker 1: I just want to you know, you can literally say
Speaker 1: that about anything, the greatest get out of whatever you're
Speaker 1: gonna do situation. And I said this on the radio
Speaker 1: show the other day. But my theory is why the
Speaker 1: NFL moved the game out of bubble. They've played games
Speaker 1: in blizzards when I was a kid that used to
Speaker 1: play no matter what. But I'm blaming lawyers, Alex really, yes,
Speaker 1: because of liability. They don't want someone to get hurt
Speaker 1: traveling tour from the game in the snow. And because
Speaker 1: that's that's a lawsuit. If somebody were to die and
Speaker 1: their family were to sue the NFL and say, well,
Speaker 1: you know it's unsafe. You were asking people to come
Speaker 1: to the game. I know they didn't have to come
Speaker 1: to the game, but you asked them to come to
Speaker 1: the game. You know, so and so was a big
Speaker 1: fan of the Bills, went to the game driving on
Speaker 1: the road. The snow would not have been driving Admint
Speaker 1: for the game. Guy, don't accident. They died, and so
Speaker 1: now you gotta pay us a bunch of them. That
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, I agree, they didn't do that back
Speaker 1: in the day anyway. Pierre Pierce's is there any truth
Speaker 1: to the rumor, uh that you and Danny and the
Speaker 1: elitist will be subpoenaed as defendants in the ft X
Speaker 1: lawsuit along with the likes of Tom Brady, Gelle, Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: David Ortiz, and Larry David used this alex Is ft
Speaker 1: X lawsuit was just going around about it. What happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this big company f t X crypto currency outfit.
Speaker 1: They they had like thirty two billion in venture capital.
Speaker 1: They were, yeah, like insane amounts of money. They had
Speaker 1: Super Bowl commercials, they were mainstream, and they signed deals
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady, Steph courage Azel, they had your kidding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they went bankrupt this week. Yeah. Yeah, the leven uh
Speaker 1: US investors lost eleven billion dollars and now all these
Speaker 1: famous people are being sued because they endorsed it and
Speaker 1: they made it seem like it was no easy, no
Speaker 1: brainer and all that stuff. Legit thing. Yeah, Larry David's commercial.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If you saw that, you might want
Speaker 1: to look that up on YouTube. It is the funniest
Speaker 1: commercial I've seen, and it's even funnier now because the
Speaker 1: entire thing, like Larry is like, uh, you know, who's
Speaker 1: gonna buy coffee? Who's gonna want that man on the moon? No,
Speaker 1: they're not going to the moon. You know. He said
Speaker 1: no to all these great inventions like in human history.
Speaker 1: And then at the end of the commercial there was like,
Speaker 1: you know, they asked him about this this ft X things.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not gonna work, and I'm never wrong
Speaker 1: about this, and of course he was right. It didn't. Wow.
Speaker 1: Really it was a good commercial. That's hysterical. But I'm
Speaker 1: happy to report I have not invested in ft I'm
Speaker 1: not no, I don't care. I'm low on the investment
Speaker 1: side for you without let anime money. Now you know.
Speaker 1: Then you know I will neither confirm or deny. I'm
Speaker 1: just to fill in here. I'll keep the eyesight on
Speaker 1: Danny g and yourself. But Crypto. I might have some
Speaker 1: interest in Crypto. I'll just say that, Oh yeah, be careful, man,
Speaker 1: that's the wild West, the wild wild West. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this. If Tom Brady and Giselle invested in it,
Speaker 1: I'm going the other way. So that's a safe bet
Speaker 1: for me. So I'm good on that. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: an interesting conspiracy theory that somebody came up with actually
Speaker 1: on TikTok that Brady when he went to the Bahamas
Speaker 1: and Giselle when she went to Costa Rica was tied
Speaker 1: into that story. The conspiracy is Brady went there and
Speaker 1: I think it was August because he was tipped off
Speaker 1: that this might be happening, that trouble with the Feds,
Speaker 1: and so he was like, wait a minute. You know,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of money invested here, and I've
Speaker 1: got you know, my name and all my brand, and
Speaker 1: so he went down there to try to figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on. And then the theorious Giselle went to
Speaker 1: Costa Rica because they have a lot of offshore banking
Speaker 1: options where you can hide your money. Yes, so though
Speaker 1: it's a good conspiracy. And then they get a divorce
Speaker 1: to cover their trail. Yeah. Well, by the way, Ben
Speaker 1: to this whole divorcing, if Gizelle for Tom Brady, for example,
Speaker 1: a seven times super Bowl winner, most money in the world,
Speaker 1: a playboy guy. All this stuff can't keep Jaiselle. None
Speaker 1: of us are safe? Are you kidding me? But she
Speaker 1: might be a pain in the end. She looks like
Speaker 1: she'd be doing those rituals for his games and stuff.
Speaker 1: Get out of here with that? What is that? To
Speaker 1: be fair to women? I think Brady is probably a
Speaker 1: pain in the ask too. You know, he does look
Speaker 1: like a pain? Does they both look like contaminated with
Speaker 1: whatever that is? Anyway? All right? Moving on Mike from
Speaker 1: Fullerton Rights and and so, Callie says, how big a
Speaker 1: fan of car chases are you? Also? Do you like
Speaker 1: the current You like the current way they're handled in
Speaker 1: California where they can last until the suspect runs out
Speaker 1: of gas, or would you rather bring demolition derby cops?
Speaker 1: Back from Mike, Yeah, I'm a huge fan of the
Speaker 1: car chase. It's it's great. And I have friends that
Speaker 1: local that work in local television, and sometimes they get
Speaker 1: upset because if you do the sports and there's a
Speaker 1: car chase at eleven o'clock, they just go to the
Speaker 1: car chase because it's a ratings winner. People, It's it's
Speaker 1: the greatest drama that you have. You have good guys,
Speaker 1: bad guys like the good guys, the cops chasing the
Speaker 1: bad guys. You don't know what's gonna happen. Someone could die, right,
Speaker 1: there's always the surprise plot twist where they throw stuff
Speaker 1: out of the cars and they stop the car they
Speaker 1: run somewhere. Uh, it's it's great. I had an idea.
Speaker 1: I told Eddie on the Overnight Show the other day, Alex,
Speaker 1: I said, we should start a internet channel or like
Speaker 1: a real TV channel, like on you know, traditional TV,
Speaker 1: where all we do is show car chase. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: it would only air for a few hours a day
Speaker 1: because most of these car chases happen daytime or early evening.
Speaker 1: They get on television, and we'd go east coast, west coast,
Speaker 1: Like there are car chase. People think it's only a
Speaker 1: California thing. It's not. There are police chases everywhere. It
Speaker 1: gets a lot of attention in California because they have
Speaker 1: so many news copters up in l A, more so
Speaker 1: than most cities, so it gets a lot of coverage.
Speaker 1: But I've yet to meet anyone that doesn't enjoy a
Speaker 1: good car chase on TV. Are you that guy, Alex,
Speaker 1: Are you the guy that does not enjoy watching a
Speaker 1: car chase, Ben, I am not that guy. You've gotten
Speaker 1: the infection. Also, dude, n I'm telling you. We're in
Speaker 1: the studios and we have multiple TVs on multiple different stations.
Speaker 1: I've never had anything in my life in these studios.
Speaker 1: Stop everybody and they go, there's a chase on eight
Speaker 1: and we put it on every single TV. It's insane.
Speaker 1: And a few times, Alex, we've had police chases go
Speaker 1: right by our studios. Awesome, it's there's something really cool.
Speaker 1: And we have these showcase studios while that we're moving
Speaker 1: to a new studio. We can't get that right now.
Speaker 1: But we're moving to a new studio. We won't to
Speaker 1: have we won't have this view anymore. But right now
Speaker 1: we have a view out to it's right near the
Speaker 1: corner of Ventura and Supulvito Boulevard. We have a view
Speaker 1: of Subulvito Boulevard and you'll be watching It's it's really
Speaker 1: one of those surreal things, like when you're watching the
Speaker 1: car chase and then you look out the window and
Speaker 1: it goes by, Yes, it goes by where you're working.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty well. I still remember Jason Smith was
Speaker 1: in studio. He ran outside, waving at the car it
Speaker 1: was driving with all the cops, and he comes back
Speaker 1: in like a kid who just got ice cream from
Speaker 1: a truck. Like it was amazing to me. That's funny.
Speaker 1: It was like the the o J Chase then before
Speaker 1: your time. Then the famous o JA people were out
Speaker 1: running out on the freew their hundreds of people. Can't
Speaker 1: nuts saw, you know, I saw this is I was
Speaker 1: in college at the time. I saw. I was going
Speaker 1: to my college radio station at Saddleback. The o J
Speaker 1: Chase actually started in South Orange County in I think
Speaker 1: it was Laguna Hills Lake Forest. That's where Nicole Brown
Speaker 1: Simpson was buried. Yes, and o J, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: you know who knows as I understand it as I
Speaker 1: remember it, o J went to for some reason, he
Speaker 1: went to the cemetery and the cops got word on it,
Speaker 1: and that started the chase. And it started all the
Speaker 1: way there, and obviously it went up. It picked up
Speaker 1: a lot of cops and TV and all that. When
Speaker 1: it first started, there was not that, but I I
Speaker 1: was actually going southbound on I five. O J was
Speaker 1: going northbound. I didn't realize at the time what I
Speaker 1: was witnessing, But it wasn't. It wasn't until I got
Speaker 1: to the radio station in the college station, and then
Speaker 1: I turned on we had the TV going, and it
Speaker 1: was like, wait, I think I saw all the beginning
Speaker 1: of that. I was like wow, but I did. At
Speaker 1: the time, it didn't mean much to me because I
Speaker 1: was like, I remember there was the Knicks were playing
Speaker 1: the Rockets in the NBA Finals and they actually NBC
Speaker 1: split the screen on the finals to show the o
Speaker 1: j CS. Was that big a deal? It's crazy? All right?
Speaker 1: Nick in Wisconsin rights and he's next on the mail bag.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben and guest, Well, how about that? Actually
Speaker 1: calls you guests, anticipating that there would be so many,
Speaker 1: I didn't name you because I wanted to have the surprise.
Speaker 1: I love it. But you'll be on next week too, right,
Speaker 1: So next week people can send questions, all right, So
Speaker 1: if you want to ask Alex a question about anime
Speaker 1: or the vegan lifestyle or anything anything at all, he's
Speaker 1: a bachelor life. Since Danny g no longer can do that,
Speaker 1: I got you. You've got bohemian tendencies, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're all about that action bas absolutely, I'm all about
Speaker 1: that actual all right, Nick says Bett and guessed when
Speaker 1: you were younger and you did something wrong or got
Speaker 1: in trouble, who were you most afraid of? Your mom
Speaker 1: or your dad? All right? So for me, it's my
Speaker 1: my my dad. My mom would always put the fear
Speaker 1: of God in me when your dad gets home from work.
Speaker 1: And I did get the belt one time, really, I
Speaker 1: did get the belt. Yeah, because I'm of the age
Speaker 1: you got the belt. And that's all it took was
Speaker 1: one time. Because the rest of my life, any time
Speaker 1: I fucked up, my mom would say, your father's gonna
Speaker 1: get home and he's got the belt, you know, And
Speaker 1: I'd be like, okay, I'll correct my behavior. Right. So
Speaker 1: my dad was pretty you know, mellow as it turned out,
Speaker 1: and he didn't like doing that stuff either, but does right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, they that's how they grew up, and so
Speaker 1: they did it, but it was unnatural for them and
Speaker 1: they didn't want to be part of What about you, Alex,
Speaker 1: When you were a little kid growing up there who
Speaker 1: who laid you to a ways? Who devastated you among
Speaker 1: the ther your folks. The wooden spoon was the biggest
Speaker 1: fear of my life growing up, Ben, And my mom
Speaker 1: is from Macedonia, so she is from She is from
Speaker 1: the other side of our globe here, Ben. She is
Speaker 1: from the old Republic of Yugoslavia, and she grew up
Speaker 1: very old school, Third World country style, and so for
Speaker 1: her in her household, she was a very strong woman.
Speaker 1: Where if I messed up, if I slipped, if I
Speaker 1: even thought about talking back to my mom, because I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've seen those clips where they showed kids and
Speaker 1: they're all like, screw you, mom, you dumb horror, and
Speaker 1: then their friends are sitting there like what the hell
Speaker 1: is this kid doing? And then that kid goes on
Speaker 1: and does the same thing. Shut up, Jay, you know, Like,
Speaker 1: so my mom made it known real quick. If you
Speaker 1: ever think about lipping off in this house, you're going
Speaker 1: to be tasting a wood spoon. And thankfully, Ben, the
Speaker 1: fear of God, as you said, kept me away. I
Speaker 1: never got hit. There was threats, but I never got hit.
Speaker 1: My dad was so mellow, so Chilly'd come home and
Speaker 1: just be like, hey, man, just listen to your mom.
Speaker 1: I know, thanks Dad. Your mom was She was the
Speaker 1: gosh dude. She ran a strict household, and Ben, that
Speaker 1: is why to this day. She has been running her
Speaker 1: own daycare for twenty two years out of her house
Speaker 1: and has up to twelve to fourteen kids, raging from
Speaker 1: under one to six years old, and she runs it flawlessly, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Man by herself or if you have people twelve kids,
Speaker 1: you got to have people insane? No, all by herself. Really,
Speaker 1: she is a super She's a superwoman, Ben, She is
Speaker 1: a super Her gift is that it's insane. Well, I
Speaker 1: told the story on the set of a podcast by
Speaker 1: my niece and nephew over we had three people for
Speaker 1: two kids. Can you imagine like we could have used
Speaker 1: four people? That's what she just She has the gift. Ben,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Literally, people come over, it's naptime, everybody's asleep.
Speaker 1: How do you get all the kids to sleep at
Speaker 1: the same time. You should do a podcast with your
Speaker 1: mom and she can tell her secrets about how I
Speaker 1: would actually do that. I'm gonna do that. Should you should?
Speaker 1: I would like to, I would listen to that. I will.
Speaker 1: I will do a podcast. Kids weren't wild. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: as SOFTI though, I admit it. Almost Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: like God, Yeah, I feel bad for you do whatever
Speaker 1: you want your kids, right, yeah, alright. Jeff in Chicago
Speaker 1: rights and he says, been a friend. Uh, I called
Speaker 1: you a friend. I'm a friend. I love friends. Do
Speaker 1: you guys believe that compliments are really genuine? Oh no,
Speaker 1: Uh well, I'll answer it this way, Tisher. I think
Speaker 1: if somebody compliments everything, their phony facts. If if you
Speaker 1: sporadically compliment, I think it's more genuine. We all know
Speaker 1: people that just you know, they just they're they're sweet.
Speaker 1: Kiss oh yeah, brown on their nose, right yeah, brown noses,
Speaker 1: and and those people are just totally totally funny. The
Speaker 1: other people, and I don't want to name names here,
Speaker 1: put the thing that I don't like. And I've been
Speaker 1: a lot of meetings over the years of different places
Speaker 1: I worked. The compliments sandwich. Oh that's so annoying. Oh
Speaker 1: I hate that. Oh gosh, everybody's doing great. The numbers
Speaker 1: are down, but we're doing great. Yes, everybody. No. When
Speaker 1: they start out with a compliment, they said, you know,
Speaker 1: you're doing really wonderful, we love you. But then they
Speaker 1: get to what they really want. You're a fucking disaster.
Speaker 1: You don't know what the funk you're doing. And then
Speaker 1: they by the way, I really like what you're wearing today.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. It's like, no disrespect they say something
Speaker 1: totally disrespectful, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what's funny.
Speaker 1: I will say this. The reason why I said no
Speaker 1: is because I don't believe there's true, genuine compliments unless
Speaker 1: it is something that is heartfelt. So I think that
Speaker 1: is something entirely different from a compliment. I truly believe
Speaker 1: when you give something like a little insight, and you
Speaker 1: give somebody like a little piece of something about you
Speaker 1: and you really like kind of almost like you let
Speaker 1: them in and express something deep, I think that's above
Speaker 1: a compliment because to me, compliments are so like ground level.
Speaker 1: It's like seeing a good looking girl, Oh, you're attractive.
Speaker 1: We know why you think she's attractive. You know, like
Speaker 1: you're trying to get in her pants. We know. So
Speaker 1: I think it's the same thing though, ben like a
Speaker 1: compliment is so skin deep to really show somebody be like,
Speaker 1: hey man, I just want to let you know. If
Speaker 1: I never met you, I don't think I would be
Speaker 1: doing this well in my life. Like that's the stuff
Speaker 1: I enjoyed, that's real stuff. Yeah, I have read in
Speaker 1: the past. Obviously married now, but I wish I had
Speaker 1: known this when I was single with it's more successful
Speaker 1: because every guy like just compliment with always, always, So
Speaker 1: it actually is more effective if you goof on them. Yep,
Speaker 1: if you rip sarcasm and trolling works who all the time?
Speaker 1: Who knew that that would be more of it? Was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, beautiful, I'm living proof, brand I'm living proof
Speaker 1: of it. Ben. It's crazy. It has worked all the time.
Speaker 1: It never fails. You want to throw them off. They're
Speaker 1: used to everybody knocking over them. Be the different one.
Speaker 1: You gotta stand out from the cross tallest play of
Speaker 1: grass gets cut first, right, all right, madd In Dallas writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, can you remember the last time you
Speaker 1: laugh so hard you snorted? I don't know about snorting,
Speaker 1: but I've laughed up many times. We've had a lot
Speaker 1: of funny moments on the show where I've laughed his story.
Speaker 1: The one of the moments that just popped in my
Speaker 1: head now was when we had this caller Genie in Medford.
Speaker 1: I love Genie, alright, yeah, rest in peace, Genie. And
Speaker 1: she she was on with Pete and Pittsburgh and Genie
Speaker 1: started acting like a gangster rapper from l A. It
Speaker 1: was a you know, this middle aged older woman from Oregon.
Speaker 1: It was. It was hilarious. I was like, I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought she had been possessed by a demon. It was.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. And then the other one, which is
Speaker 1: the funniest I've ever laughed in my life, is at
Speaker 1: a Dodger game. I was in the press box. It
Speaker 1: was years ago. There was this broadcaster named Jerry Coleman
Speaker 1: who was a legend in San Diego, the Colonel, and
Speaker 1: he was calling a game for Network Radio with Gary Cohen,
Speaker 1: who's a famous Mets broadcaster. And it was way back,
Speaker 1: it was probably almost thirty years ago. The Dodgers had
Speaker 1: a picture named Hideo Nomo from Japan. It was very famous,
Speaker 1: and they had they were calling me him right in
Speaker 1: front of me. Usually they had their own booth, but
Speaker 1: they right in front of me. And it was in
Speaker 1: between innings. It was like the sixth or seventh inning.
Speaker 1: And Jerry Coleman, this old guy, he'd played with the
Speaker 1: Yankees back in the glory days of the Yankees, and
Speaker 1: he was an older gentleman at this time, and he
Speaker 1: went back to the cafeteria to get a cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: and Paul Bear this engineer, I think I believe his
Speaker 1: name was Paul Barry anyway, the engineer for the broadcast.
Speaker 1: As Jerry was walking back, he said, watch out, Jerry's
Speaker 1: got the coffee. He's gonna spill it. And so but
Speaker 1: for some reason, Jerry had a stack of paper and
Speaker 1: he was balancing this cup of car feet on the
Speaker 1: stack of paper. And as he's walking back through the
Speaker 1: press box, he walks back down the steps and Gary
Speaker 1: Cohen's sitting there waiting for the game to pick up.
Speaker 1: They're playing the Montreal Expos, a team that doesn't even
Speaker 1: exist anyways, how long ago, and Jerry spills the blazing
Speaker 1: hot coffee all over the back of the the other
Speaker 1: guy who's calling the game. He then reaches out and
Speaker 1: starts screaming he's burned all over his booke. So now
Speaker 1: it's like Keystone Cops episode. So Jerry's like feeling bad.
Speaker 1: So he then walks back to get some napkins to
Speaker 1: clean up the mess. Meanwhile, the game's coming back and
Speaker 1: the broadcast the show must go on. At show Business,
Speaker 1: the show must go on. So the the Gary Cohen,
Speaker 1: the Mets broadcaster takes his shirt off, right, so he's
Speaker 1: sitting in the press box and it looked like the
Speaker 1: map of Africa on his back with all the different
Speaker 1: like red spots, and oh my god, it was. I
Speaker 1: laughed so hard, just the whole visual of watch out,
Speaker 1: Jerry's gonna spill the coffee and then write them back
Speaker 1: and then seeing a guy who play by play with
Speaker 1: his shirt off and seeing the back all it was.
Speaker 1: I guess you had to be there, but man, was
Speaker 1: it funny? Man? What about you? Any any hilarious memories
Speaker 1: of laughing out loud that you laugh a lot? Gosh, Ben,
Speaker 1: I'm such a happy guy, like I always enjoy every moment.
Speaker 1: But snorting, I don't know if I've ever snorted Like
Speaker 1: that's a really tough laugh to get too, because I
Speaker 1: always laugh. I can just tell you, like there are
Speaker 1: a plethora of ones just from Rob Parker here in
Speaker 1: the studio. Just just Robb being robbed cracks me up
Speaker 1: every time. Ben, Like he God, he's a character, this
Speaker 1: his mannerism. I've never wanted to impersonate somebody more in
Speaker 1: my life. Ben. That says something like I literally wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning like it's morning one I've never
Speaker 1: done in my life before. It cracks me up. There
Speaker 1: are some people that are very easy and fun doing. Personally,
Speaker 1: we have one of our bosses we like to have
Speaker 1: fun with. Yes, yes, he's got a very interesting cadence
Speaker 1: and all that, so we'd like to goof on him. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. A snorting I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: tough because I think like that's a type of breathing style,
Speaker 1: Like you're a person who is inhaling as they're laughing,
Speaker 1: so that's why the snorting happens. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever breathed while laughing like that. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: might have, Yeah, I don't think I have. Next up,
Speaker 1: Jed who fled? Who? Maybe in jail? This was sent
Speaker 1: way before he had a date in court, facing a
Speaker 1: lot of time. In The Pokey Pokey Pokey from the
Speaker 1: Redneck Riviera in Florida, he says, if you could shoot
Speaker 1: a liquid out of each one of your fingers, which
Speaker 1: five would you choose? He says, essentially, if you have
Speaker 1: an unlimited amount of any five liquids, which five would
Speaker 1: you pick? You want to go first on this one?
Speaker 1: Any liquids, that's what he says. Any liquids, okay, some
Speaker 1: superhero stuff. Yeah, I guess the first finger would be
Speaker 1: my pointer finger, and I would do the actual uh
Speaker 1: five W twenty that I need for my car, so
Speaker 1: I drive so damn much I want to be I
Speaker 1: would love to fill up my oil tank easier. Uh.
Speaker 1: The second one would probably be if I could do
Speaker 1: this spring water, like if I could find actual a
Speaker 1: way to do spring water out of one of my fingers,
Speaker 1: say less, that's two right there. Uh? The fifth or
Speaker 1: the third one? Holy crap, this is where it gets
Speaker 1: a little nicy. Okay, So I cook a lot, Ben,
Speaker 1: like I know you were saying more recently you found
Speaker 1: your niche for the griddle and everything as well, in which,
Speaker 1: by the way, Ben, I might have to break my
Speaker 1: coat and try your pastrami one of these days. Pretty good, Okay,
Speaker 1: I might have to. I say. My third one would
Speaker 1: be olive oil because I cook so much and there's
Speaker 1: so many times I'm missing oil. It would help, like
Speaker 1: it would be just astronomical. Okay, So that'd be three.
Speaker 1: The fourth one, I'm a sucker for sauces, Ben, Like
Speaker 1: if you give me a good sauce on any thing.
Speaker 1: It always slaps, so this might be a little hot,
Speaker 1: taky saracha. I love saracha. Wow, you want to have
Speaker 1: sarach it anymore? I would love to just put it
Speaker 1: on eggs if I have some eggs, put it on
Speaker 1: like a sandwich on pizza on your ring finger. Yes,
Speaker 1: because think about that. That's a hot, you know, hot one.
Speaker 1: And then the last one, Ben, and this is a
Speaker 1: big one too, because I drive so much. I would
Speaker 1: love to be able to pee for my pinky just
Speaker 1: so I don't have to. I can literally grab a
Speaker 1: water bottle, fill it up and keep driving. It would
Speaker 1: make road trips so dope. All right? So again, what
Speaker 1: was the you have the five there? What was the
Speaker 1: last one? The last one would be taking a pee, Ben,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear so I could just fill
Speaker 1: up a bot. I'm gonna The first one I would
Speaker 1: have is ghasoline. I didn't think of that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a liquid. Can I change? Yeah, well you can?
Speaker 1: Which one would you get a bit? All right? I'll
Speaker 1: stop to pee? Give me gas all right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right yeah, because if you had gas at any moment,
Speaker 1: and that's huge right now? Right? Oh, I mean, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to worry about Yeah, that's money gas. I
Speaker 1: would go water too, and want to drink of water. Uh.
Speaker 1: I like a nice glass of lemonade. Leade. There. I
Speaker 1: thought you might be a wine guy, bend little. The
Speaker 1: last two, the cooking oil is not bad. Makes it easy.
Speaker 1: I love to cook, Yeah, makes it easy. There. And
Speaker 1: then the fourth one, I'm trying to think you. It
Speaker 1: is a tough one. Like I don't really like melk liquid.
Speaker 1: Not a wine rinker. I don't really drink soda anymore.
Speaker 1: That's out, like man, because we drive a lot. I
Speaker 1: don't like this, the blood thing. No, I don't need that.
Speaker 1: I don't. I got I got four? How about extra gas?
Speaker 1: How about yes you can because the first tank runs out,
Speaker 1: absolutely double it up? Alright? Time for you, maybe one
Speaker 1: or two more. Frank in Philly says, would you rather
Speaker 1: eat ice cream or popcorn? All day? Ben? I saw
Speaker 1: a documentary of how popcorn has really made I will
Speaker 1: never eat popcorn again? Really? Yeah? Why how is it that?
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it for you or anybody else.
Speaker 1: I will just say ice cream till I die, alright.
Speaker 1: And I used to be a huge popcorn guy. Just okay,
Speaker 1: Well you don't want to know how they make the
Speaker 1: hot dogs or anything like that. Oh man, you never
Speaker 1: want to know how the hot dogs made. Oh you'd
Speaker 1: be a vegan? Yeah? No. From Austin as a Thanksgiving question,
Speaker 1: You're I don't know, that's kind of I mean, I
Speaker 1: love you know, I'm glad you're a fan, but your
Speaker 1: favorite at least favorite Thanksgiving this that's that applies to
Speaker 1: my my warning for holiday radio. Yes, yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We should we should do that. Anyway, we will get
Speaker 1: out on that. Thanks to to everyone. Uh. Mike fred
Speaker 1: in Spring Texas also asked a question about the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame whether Joe Jackson, Pete Roach should get in.
Speaker 1: I say, when you let the steroids in, steroid guys in,
Speaker 1: you should let them in. Hello, Joe Jackson did did
Speaker 1: take money from gamblers, and Pete obviously bet on baseball
Speaker 1: and all that. But let them all in, Ben Baseball
Speaker 1: is all in in bed with gambling now anyway, let
Speaker 1: them all in. Wine. It's like they should release the
Speaker 1: people are in jail for weed now too. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are we doing? Weed's mainstream? Now? Come on? People should
Speaker 1: not be in jail for weed related to come on
Speaker 1: pretty stupid On that note. Anything remote here, Alex, I
Speaker 1: know you've got places to go, things to do, people
Speaker 1: to see. Ben. It was an absolute pleasure to be
Speaker 1: here again. I cannot wait for next week. Ben out
Speaker 1: standing listen, you're the man again. Thank you for supporting
Speaker 1: the podcast that you guys download it. I'll be back
Speaker 1: tonight on the terrestrial radio show eleven o'clock in the West,
Speaker 1: three a m. Or two am rather in the East,
Speaker 1: and we'll be here the majority of the week and
Speaker 1: we'll catch you next time.