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Speaker 1: Guess Scott. I'm here. What the hell was loud and
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Speaker 1: Fan of the Opera or Hamilton's whatever? Terrible? I thought
Speaker 1: it was good. I got a powerful voice, freaking brutal
Speaker 1: like I didn't need to have surgery to you know,
Speaker 1: fix my voice like some people on this podcast. But
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You got corrective surgery, right,
Speaker 1: I've never had corrective surgery my voice. I was told
Speaker 1: you did. Yeah, I just smoke Marlborough cigarettes, you know,
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Speaker 1: that works. Right. So this is the Mailbag Now. I
Speaker 1: actually like this a lot. I am a fan of
Speaker 1: the Mailbag it. I love the Sunday Podcast and I'm
Speaker 1: glad that we're not getting rid of it because I
Speaker 1: like answering the questions and I'm very curious. We have
Speaker 1: some talented people, some creative people in the malle Militia
Speaker 1: that are the super fans of the show, and we're
Speaker 1: getting legitimately interesting, good questions on a weekly basis, and
Speaker 1: so I like this. This is fun. My question for
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Speaker 1: a stand still. So the way this mail bag works,
Speaker 1: if you're new to the podcast, we beg for questions
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Speaker 1: Ben mall or show. I will go out and beg
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Speaker 1: to the podcast. You can send an email to Real
Speaker 1: fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. So we have some email questions. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of Facebook questions. Are you ready? Guest? Guy?
Speaker 1: I am. I'd like to have the password back to
Speaker 1: the email if you could so kind Well, I didn't
Speaker 1: change it. It's the same password I gave you, got it.
Speaker 1: It's not my fault. I kind of liked that I
Speaker 1: have complete control over the email bag because there aren't
Speaker 1: messages for you, and I get to respond. Well, here's
Speaker 1: one for you from Let's see here. It says Ben.
Speaker 1: This is from I'm a pilot, Yes, Ben, as a
Speaker 1: commissaire in the Royal West of the four oh five
Speaker 1: Gascon Gender Army. Is that it? G? How do you
Speaker 1: say this? Giscon? I'm not that educated. G E N
Speaker 1: D A R M E R I E uh was
Speaker 1: a gender mayor, gender mayor? Is that it? So? I
Speaker 1: have a question for both of you. I have been
Speaker 1: on flying hiatus, so the uniform has not been worn
Speaker 1: in five months. Man, So I'm a pilot, not really
Speaker 1: a pilot at this point. He's just a guy rounded. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's been grounded, which got me think. I'm a pilot says,
Speaker 1: when was the last time you and Gascon have worn
Speaker 1: a pressed shirt or even tucked in a shirt. Looking
Speaker 1: at Giscon's head shot versus yours, I can tell you
Speaker 1: refuse to take his satirical advice. General Gascon portrays a
Speaker 1: professional image that demands respect. Your pictures, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: look like you just emerged from a truck stop bathroom
Speaker 1: somewhere around Beacon Street a little worse for wear. I
Speaker 1: think I know why, he says, Due to the COVID,
Speaker 1: Fox Sports is about to have a little shake up.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot says, I suspect that Gascon will soon
Speaker 1: be program director with a resume as exemplary as as his.
Speaker 1: It was only a matter of time. Once this occurs,
Speaker 1: Gascon will restore the profession by enforcing mandatory wardrobe camp compliance.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot says. No longer will you be able
Speaker 1: to mask behind a trashy clippers hat and raising cane's
Speaker 1: chicken grease t shirts and ship soiled shorts, He says,
Speaker 1: may General Gascon will enforce dress attire that would be
Speaker 1: acceptable for listeners west of the four or five. Your
Speaker 1: full compliance of the Gascon whatever it is, also requires
Speaker 1: you cook that fucking Tomahawks steak. It better be medium rare. Respectfully,
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot. What? First of all, what a dick?
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot. I want a dick this guy. And secondly,
Speaker 1: I am starting to think mallard conspiracy theory that I'm
Speaker 1: a pilot is actually Gascon, That this is one of
Speaker 1: your burger email accounts on Yahoo and this is one
Speaker 1: of your extra accounts, that I'm a pilot does not exist.
Speaker 1: No one could be that bigger schmuck and be a
Speaker 1: fan of Gascon does not have it. So I am
Speaker 1: now until proven otherwise, until proven, owise convinced that this
Speaker 1: is one of your personalities. As you do know well
Speaker 1: in the media stream that we're in is you can't
Speaker 1: disprove a lie, and so you can believe the conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory all you want. But he speaks from the heart
Speaker 1: on his sleeves, and I agree with him the answers question, um,
Speaker 1: I wore a pressed dress shirt last week on Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny Week number two. I was basically blasted
Speaker 1: by by Ben in week one and and two for
Speaker 1: wearing set attire. But look like Jim Kramer, I look
Speaker 1: like I look like Mike Nolan. I look like Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan when he was the head coach in the National
Speaker 1: Football You want to be you really want to go there?
Speaker 1: You really want to go there with me? What's wrong
Speaker 1: with that? Nice professional attire? Doesn't look like I have
Speaker 1: ship coming out of my shorts. I think he's got
Speaker 1: a good point. I don't look like I have ship
Speaker 1: coming out of my shorts. I had ship coming out
Speaker 1: of your shorts. I will say, though, that is actually
Speaker 1: now that now that I remember what you know, kind
Speaker 1: of put that in context. You are the Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: of podcasting. Mike Nolan, I looked it up here. Eighteen
Speaker 1: and thirty seven record is coach of three seven seven
Speaker 1: career winning percentage in the Bay Area. So you are
Speaker 1: the Mike Nolan of coaches. Good job by you. He's
Speaker 1: in great shape, good attire. I could live with that
Speaker 1: being a professional head coach. I don't care what my
Speaker 1: winning percentage is. I mean, you could be Hugh Jackson,
Speaker 1: but you know you're still a coach in the national
Speaker 1: So he's a great defensive coordinator, that's why he did
Speaker 1: not work as a defensive coordinator in the last five
Speaker 1: years until this year. That doesn't what he's working as
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator right now? Like look at Jack del Rio, Jack,
Speaker 1: what team is he on? What team is what team
Speaker 1: is your? Mike Nolan his story and what team is he?
Speaker 1: I don't know what He's Detroit? No, he's on Detroit.
Speaker 1: Where's the Great Bay Dallas? Dallas? Yeah? I like the whatever.
Speaker 1: They're doing great. They're twenty five and points allowed so far.
Speaker 1: That's good. A great defense. They've been getting caught. And
Speaker 1: he is the last two years in Atlanta, the Falcons
Speaker 1: back to back years of ranked twenty seventh in defense.
Speaker 1: He's a genius. I see more crooked numbers than singular
Speaker 1: numbers on that. So anyway, all right, moving on here.
Speaker 1: This is from Adrian in the Mile High City, Ben
Speaker 1: and Gagon. If you had to choose, would you go
Speaker 1: with Doc Mike's medicine or Odell Beckham's favorite bedroom activity?
Speaker 1: That's bad, I'm going with the doc. I'll go with
Speaker 1: the doc. Also, any chance of getting Denver Broncos radio
Speaker 1: play by play guy Dave Logan on the Friday Interview
Speaker 1: podcast he's been calling Bronco games for over thirty years,
Speaker 1: very NFL knowledgeable. He's on a M eight fifty k
Speaker 1: O A. Well, that's a great radio. See. I usually
Speaker 1: listen to KO when I was a kid because it
Speaker 1: would come in l A at night. And I was
Speaker 1: a radio nerd and I'd listened to KO, and I think, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll get that Denver here in a station in Denver.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. I'd love to have him on. I
Speaker 1: don't have a contact for Logan, So if we have
Speaker 1: to track him down, if we can find a way
Speaker 1: to get ahold of if anyone knows how to get
Speaker 1: ahold of Dave Logan, let us know what. I'd love
Speaker 1: to Yeah, talk to him about his career and calling
Speaker 1: Bronco games and crazy things that have happened and all that.
Speaker 1: He says. Agent says even the West of the four
Speaker 1: oh five guy might be interested in this since he's
Speaker 1: a Bronco fan. Yeah, it's a good pin. U tie.
Speaker 1: The cop in Minnesota writes in both have been a
Speaker 1: cop in Minnesota right now? Uh, does your wife ever
Speaker 1: listen to or watch your content? Or does she get
Speaker 1: enough guest baggery firsthand? Yeah? So the way I'll answer
Speaker 1: that time. My wife is usually working now she's one operator,
Speaker 1: so she's working. We're on the same schedule, and of
Speaker 1: course you know this as a police officer, schedule changes
Speaker 1: every few months. But she's been on the schedule for
Speaker 1: a while. And she does not she's not able to
Speaker 1: listen live, and she does not listen to the radio podcast.
Speaker 1: But she does occasionally listen to this podcast. Yes she does. Yes,
Speaker 1: she look how excited guest. Excay, you just walked right
Speaker 1: down that path? You just walked right down at Well,
Speaker 1: she likes this because we do. She she doesn't like
Speaker 1: when I'm just ranting. She likes when we chat with
Speaker 1: people like Paddle Brian, who he had on the other day.
Speaker 1: She's like into that kind of thing. She likes hearing
Speaker 1: those kind of things, which I'm fine, fine with, But
Speaker 1: on the overnight we're not able to do that. Shake
Speaker 1: it off. You know, there's a difference between having Pat
Speaker 1: O'Brien on and then like your regular show, which you
Speaker 1: have Fred dry Iron. I love Fred. What's wrong with Fred?
Speaker 1: I'll put Fred on the podcast. Fuck you. Fred's good.
Speaker 1: Fred's a legend. Guy was a first pick in the
Speaker 1: NFL draft. He forced do you want to play for
Speaker 1: the Patriots? Forced to trade? Played in l A crossed over,
Speaker 1: had a successful career in Hollywood hood ready for HOLLI
Speaker 1: they will. That's right. Fred's got all the great stories.
Speaker 1: He's great, great source. All right, Rick from San Ramon Right? So,
Speaker 1: and he says, as a p one dedicated to listen
Speaker 1: to the show, how do you maintain your composure working
Speaker 1: with your executive and technical producers who obviously do not
Speaker 1: share your political views? Uh? Well, Rick, it's not a
Speaker 1: political show. Sports have become political, but listen, I'm I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I've always worked with people working in media. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that are limousine, liberals and whatnot a
Speaker 1: work of I mean, I don't I don't hate hate
Speaker 1: people because of their politics. I don't have all the answers.
Speaker 1: They don't have all the answers either. But as long
Speaker 1: as you don't shove it down my throat, and as
Speaker 1: long as you are okay and you're willing to work,
Speaker 1: I have no problem with it. Every once in a
Speaker 1: while will become an issue. It's certainly this past year
Speaker 1: because of everything that went on. Uh, we briefly became
Speaker 1: a political show, because that was all that was there
Speaker 1: to talk about. So we did and went in Rome
Speaker 1: act like a Roman. Um, but I I'm in it
Speaker 1: for the sports, and yeah, fine, they have their political views,
Speaker 1: they think they're right. I think I'm right, and the
Speaker 1: world goes around. Well, you guys also have differences in sports.
Speaker 1: Entertainment takes two, so it kind of goes hat in
Speaker 1: handed right, Yeah, exactly. And this is not just limited
Speaker 1: to politics, Matt in Elmira, New York, says Ben and Gasca.
Speaker 1: Is it just me? Or is Robert DeNiro ridiculously overrated
Speaker 1: as an actor? He seems to play the same characters
Speaker 1: in the same way over and over again, and people
Speaker 1: say he's some genius. Anyone else you to feel the
Speaker 1: same about. Love the show and the podcast. I will
Speaker 1: I will take first crack at this, right. He was
Speaker 1: great in the movie Heat. I liked him a lot
Speaker 1: as not as alite as a co star in a
Speaker 1: Bronx tail where he was a father, and he was
Speaker 1: pretty fucking good at Casino. I I like those movies
Speaker 1: a lot, Good Fellas Solid, those are like the top
Speaker 1: four movies that come to mind for me, at least
Speaker 1: with Heat was number one for me wasn't one of
Speaker 1: his first big It was Raging Bull right, that was
Speaker 1: where he came on the scene, which I watched that recently.
Speaker 1: It does not hold up. It's it's a hard watch.
Speaker 1: I found it to be a hard watch. You're not
Speaker 1: a fan of his more recent body of work, The
Speaker 1: War with Grandpa. I think some of the stuff now,
Speaker 1: I think it's really watered him down a ton. But
Speaker 1: the stuff back in the a Good Fellas Casino. He
Speaker 1: You can watch those movies at any given time and
Speaker 1: there it's like Indiana Jones at the original Star Wars.
Speaker 1: Those those movies hold up any time of the day,
Speaker 1: anytime of the year. Yeah, anytime I'm on a plane.
Speaker 1: If they put Meet the Fockers on there, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, that's I'm down. Meet the Parents, Beat the Fockers.
Speaker 1: I'm all about that. Yeah, what's his name? Who was?
Speaker 1: That's twenty years old? But Meet the Parents is like
Speaker 1: twenty years old? None, didn't it? Really? Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: it's twenty years old. Well, who do you think as
Speaker 1: an overrated actor or like or it has played out?
Speaker 1: Oh I don't. I don't really pay attention. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't know. I didn't know. It
Speaker 1: was fine whatever. I mean, he's been in everything, and
Speaker 1: the keep giving him work. I'd rather see him act
Speaker 1: than tell me how politics are supposed to be. How
Speaker 1: about that? That's all right? What else do we have here?
Speaker 1: Let's see Charlie from Memphis. He says, can we start
Speaker 1: a fan base for David and make it sound elitist?
Speaker 1: How about the Gascon group. That's a good one, Charlie.
Speaker 1: It's about right with guest guesscon group? What is it
Speaker 1: that would be? Like the Gascon Group limited? Like lt
Speaker 1: D at the end? Oh yeah, LLC or something like
Speaker 1: you know, it's some PS thing. Yeah. Jane from still Water, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: good college town, still Water, Oklahoma's this? How do you
Speaker 1: come up with your three things when you're doing your
Speaker 1: malar monologue? They are so vast and completely different, but
Speaker 1: you work them in perfectly. Well, thank you, Jane, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you appreciate that. To answer that for you, alright,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Guescon Cooper Loop writes it and I just
Speaker 1: repeat it. You know, it depends on the text messages
Speaker 1: I sent him. Oh stop stop that is bull crap.
Speaker 1: Well no, when I there's a method to the madness, Jane,
Speaker 1: there's a method to the madness, isn't I I form
Speaker 1: in my head an idea, try to find four stories,
Speaker 1: four unique stories that can do a monologue during the
Speaker 1: show on so that I start with that and then
Speaker 1: kind of work my way through what I think about
Speaker 1: that with a couple of different points on each I
Speaker 1: ask you a question, a couple of different points and
Speaker 1: uh and then I'll write down some random things and
Speaker 1: just try to put them together. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: a puzzle. It is. It's like a if you go
Speaker 1: back to your academic days. It's almost like an audio
Speaker 1: version of a five paragraph essay. Uh yeah, it's a verbal,
Speaker 1: verbal thing, obviously an essay, but uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I try to I try to make it unique. I mean,
Speaker 1: pretty much the one thing I will say, and anybody
Speaker 1: does sports radio, we're all doing pretty much the same stories.
Speaker 1: There are four or five stories that day, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the same thing. So the only way to stand
Speaker 1: out is it try to make them more interesting. Like
Speaker 1: we have guys and women that listen to sports radio.
Speaker 1: They don't just listen to our show. They listen to
Speaker 1: Jason Smith before us, Rob Parker they listen to other
Speaker 1: channels and other local hosts, and so by the time
Speaker 1: you get to me, you heard all this stuff. So
Speaker 1: I have to change it up a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: like you It's like in pitching when you put a
Speaker 1: rotation together. You don't want hard thrower, hard thrower. You
Speaker 1: want hard thrower, junk ball guy. Uh and then hard
Speaker 1: thrower you want to throw you know, you want the
Speaker 1: knuckleball guy after the fastball guy. Right. Yeah, left handers
Speaker 1: and right handers to changing exactly all right, uh. Valls
Speaker 1: Fan Jimmy says Ben I listened to the Brian Finlay
Speaker 1: Show with Danny G. Well, I apologies to you Alls
Speaker 1: Fan Jimmy and Fayetteville, Tennessee, And he says, Danny G
Speaker 1: told the story about you stopped You stopped speaking to
Speaker 1: him after the Super Bowl a couple of years back.
Speaker 1: Do you mind defending yourself? Uh, Well, I didn't hear
Speaker 1: what Danny G said on the podcast, so I'm taking
Speaker 1: your word for it. But yeah, we had a situation
Speaker 1: where Danny had been part of the show for a
Speaker 1: long time, had been a big part of the show,
Speaker 1: and I loved Danny. I think Danny does great work
Speaker 1: and he was a big part of what we did.
Speaker 1: And he left to go work on Clay Traviss show,
Speaker 1: which was fine, but then he got he got kind
Speaker 1: of sucked into that world where you go to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl and all those things and you you hang out.
Speaker 1: And one of my mortal enemies was Deshaun Watson and
Speaker 1: Danny who was part of those shows and was also
Speaker 1: part of the war with Deshaun Watson on social media. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was like canodling with Deshaun Watson at the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and like taking photos and it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a mocking way it was. It was annoying. It was annoying.
Speaker 1: But I don't I talked. I text Danny every once
Speaker 1: in a while, and uh, but no, we stopped talking
Speaker 1: for a while. But we don't work We didn't work together.
Speaker 1: We don't work together. We usually what happens is once
Speaker 1: you stopped working with someone, it's kind of how it ends,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's usually how that goes, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really work with anybody, So no,
Speaker 1: I'm any one of a few people, like like Looney,
Speaker 1: I still talk to who I used to work with,
Speaker 1: But I but you guys, trying to trigger each other.
Speaker 1: That's why it's a little bit different. Yes, yes, I
Speaker 1: I admit like looneys like, well are you suiting me?
Speaker 1: This was I just like to see see the see
Speaker 1: the monkey dance. I like to see the monkey dance
Speaker 1: is what I like to do. Yeah, so I I
Speaker 1: point that out. All right, what else do we have here?
Speaker 1: John from Arlington, Virginia? Right? Since this, If you would
Speaker 1: be remembered for ruining your career with a hot Mike
Speaker 1: faux pau, which type would you like it to be? Sexual?
Speaker 1: Professional or racial? Has to be sexual? Really I'd go professional.
Speaker 1: But what what would be? What would constitute professional? Like
Speaker 1: attacking a co worker, something like that, you know, saying
Speaker 1: something about the company you're not supposed to say. That's
Speaker 1: something like because I feel like you can come back
Speaker 1: from that. You can't come back from racial. That's done,
Speaker 1: dun skis you can't really come back from sexual. Keep
Speaker 1: it not now? Well, you can't give me an example
Speaker 1: of someone in recent years. Do you think Harvey Weinstein
Speaker 1: is gonna go back? And when you know, well, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying, well, no, Cosby when he gets out of jail.
Speaker 1: I think Cosby is gonna go back and talking about
Speaker 1: Albert and we're talking about a hot mike. So if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go that way on a hot mike, I
Speaker 1: mean because the sports realm is is it's a small bubble.
Speaker 1: So if you took a shot someone professionally, that that's
Speaker 1: gonna go to no matter what network you go to.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, but it would be bad. But if you're good,
Speaker 1: you can overcome that. If you're good and they they
Speaker 1: label you a racist, you're done. Okay, you're done. But
Speaker 1: if you say something in a sexual context, you can
Speaker 1: recover from that. You got a shot. It's not completely done.
Speaker 1: But if you were to make a big board of
Speaker 1: what is you would rather have, I say professional, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying you go full up blowing Matt lower like
Speaker 1: you're going down that down that locked door dungeon. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you can recover from it. I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I gotta be good first. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: hardest part for you. Kentucky j Rides in from Scottsville,
Speaker 1: kentuck cocky roommate with gascon for a year, or cruise
Speaker 1: to the Dollar General in a trailer pulled by half
Speaker 1: pint on her, John Dear, oh man Man, I would
Speaker 1: take the half pint on her, John Dear, I would
Speaker 1: rather than be with Gascon as a roommate for a year.
Speaker 1: What a nightmare that would be, because I'm a better cook.
Speaker 1: You would spend all that time putting makeup on and
Speaker 1: making sure your hair looks right and make sure that
Speaker 1: the walls were black and yellow in honor of Babylon Bee.
Speaker 1: It's gonna stop stop half point. I'm thinking, if this
Speaker 1: this pandemic stuff ends, I might have to make a
Speaker 1: trip to Kansas City to go to the wedding of
Speaker 1: half pint and beer drinking Brian, you might have to
Speaker 1: do it. What is it is? It? Is it in
Speaker 1: the winter. They have not announced the date. It is
Speaker 1: the social event of the year in the can in
Speaker 1: the city area, and I might get a ticket. Alex
Speaker 1: from Independence, Kansas says, over under on another million in
Speaker 1: fines for mask violations this week in the NFL has
Speaker 1: to be over. Yeah. I want to go over for
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. Number one, the NFL is all
Speaker 1: about the virtue of signal. They think this is good
Speaker 1: for them, makes them feel better about themselves. They are
Speaker 1: really leading people in society and number two like John
Speaker 1: Gruden makes a ton of money. These guys are well paid,
Speaker 1: these coaches, so like they can afford a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: what might not? I think the one question I would
Speaker 1: have too is why aren't the owners that are there
Speaker 1: at the venues being fined. They don't have masks on.
Speaker 1: It's good point, and they're coming in contact with servers
Speaker 1: like people that are handing them food, drinks, media packets,
Speaker 1: press releases like the Whole nine Yards. Those people should
Speaker 1: get fined too. Yes, I think you should get fined
Speaker 1: if you don't have your mask on when you're driving
Speaker 1: in a car by yourself, you should get fined for that. Serious.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. Bad habit giscon It's not right. It's
Speaker 1: not right. Not that. Steve oh from Florida Rights Since says,
Speaker 1: when the public address announcer asked for a moment of silence,
Speaker 1: how long is that moment? Five seconds or ten seconds? Now,
Speaker 1: this is a great question. How long is a moment?
Speaker 1: M hmm. What is the consideration of a moment? I'd
Speaker 1: consider ten seconds a solid moment for silence. According to
Speaker 1: the Internet, a moment is ninety seconds. Yeah. According the
Speaker 1: Internet says a little length of a moment in modern
Speaker 1: seconds was therefore not fixed, and on average a moment
Speaker 1: corresponded to ninety seconds. I guess it's not it's not.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be ninety seconds, but that's what
Speaker 1: it should be. Alright, Let's see what else do we have.
Speaker 1: Jason Rocky Mount Virginia says, The Godfather or good Fellas
Speaker 1: or is there another mobster movie you prefer? I'm more Godfather,
Speaker 1: I'm more good Fellas. Yeah, I'm good Fellas. I love
Speaker 1: good Fellas, Godfather this we quote Godfather. There's an offer
Speaker 1: you can't refuse. O kind of There's a few lines
Speaker 1: in Godfather we quote. But I love good Fellas. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to do TV shows, Sopranos is right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: soprano was was wonderful. Plus. The other thing about Goodfellas
Speaker 1: is it was based on Henry Hill, and when he
Speaker 1: was in his final years, he lived in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1: And I actually had a confrontation with Henry Hill outside
Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio studios, which is one of the
Speaker 1: most amazing, surreal experiences I've ever had. Uh And if
Speaker 1: you've not heard that story, it's rather long. Winded. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have time to get into
Speaker 1: it here, guess gun. But Henry Hill was banging. This
Speaker 1: guy was banging on the door saying, I'm Henry fucking Hill.
Speaker 1: I have things to say. Let me on the radio, right,
Speaker 1: So I had to go out. This is what I
Speaker 1: would call in. Joe McDonald was doing a show at
Speaker 1: night in l A, the late Great Joe McDonald, the
Speaker 1: Big Nasty, and I would call in to promote my
Speaker 1: show on his show and just shoot the ship for
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. But I went outside because I
Speaker 1: wanted privacy, so I went outside to do it. So
Speaker 1: I had to go outside, and and then this guy
Speaker 1: came up and said, hey, are you on the radio,
Speaker 1: like just like totally disheveled, looked like Bill Belichick, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know I smelled of alcohol. Hey are you on
Speaker 1: the radio? And I said, no, I'm not on the radio.
Speaker 1: And I walked right by him, right, And then the
Speaker 1: guy goes back to bang on the door. So I
Speaker 1: do the phone call went down to the corner of
Speaker 1: Vent Turtles, Paul, but it did. The phone call came
Speaker 1: back up the street battle block and I have to
Speaker 1: Now I have to walk by the guy, right, I
Speaker 1: have to walk by the guy. Uh, he's not paying attention. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: So I get in and the guys I I'm fucking
Speaker 1: Henry Hill let me in the studio and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh whatever. So then I was like, I had epiphany.
Speaker 1: I said, wait a minute, this guy. I remember that
Speaker 1: Henry Hill had lived in that area. I had heard
Speaker 1: he was in the Witness Protection program and which is
Speaker 1: apparently not very effective. Everyone knows where you live. And
Speaker 1: he had been living there. And so anyway, I went
Speaker 1: in to the Google machine and I typed in Henry
Speaker 1: Hill current photo and he had made an appearance on
Speaker 1: the Howard Stern Show. And that was Henry Hill, the
Speaker 1: guy that was outside. It was on Crazy the Mobster
Speaker 1: that they based Good Fellows on it. It's pretty weird.
Speaker 1: One of those weird, weird moments in life. Ricardo from Fresno. Right,
Speaker 1: the funniest part about that gascon is at the end
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, So I came in, right, and now
Speaker 1: that guy's really getting Henry's upset because I I he didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, stop me, and he didn't pry the door open.
Speaker 1: So now he's really banging on the door. So I
Speaker 1: went to my producer at the time, Gregg Bergman, who
Speaker 1: was now like the programmer to at ESPN Radio, and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, you go take care of this. That
Speaker 1: was funny, all right. Ricardo from Fresno says, who is
Speaker 1: your favorite caller? My parent doesn't say who their favorite
Speaker 1: children are, right, You can't say that each caller brings
Speaker 1: something different to the show. I love a good hollering
Speaker 1: James snorefest. I like to go back and forth with
Speaker 1: Chris in Houston, or blind Scott or blind Sea Bass,
Speaker 1: or a funny line from Regina in Minnesota, or I mean,
Speaker 1: everyone's got their own little thing beer drinking Brian and
Speaker 1: a half pint each. Each person has become a character
Speaker 1: on the show, and they have their stick a lot.
Speaker 1: Uh Andrea and Berkeley, she's got her star charts and
Speaker 1: that's always fun to check out and see what she's
Speaker 1: got about reading the stars and checking out the cosmos
Speaker 1: and yeah, so it's a it's a little bit of this,
Speaker 1: a little bit of that. Some days I don't like
Speaker 1: any of them. Some days I hate all of them.
Speaker 1: Other days I love all of them. So that happens.
Speaker 1: Caleb in Meadville rights and he says, should I, as
Speaker 1: a Falcon fan, change teams? Do you think their hate
Speaker 1: do you think they hate their fans? Yes? I think
Speaker 1: the Falcons hate their fans. I do not recommend changing
Speaker 1: teams unless the team relocates. So if the Falcons were
Speaker 1: to leave to like, move to I don't know, Memphis,
Speaker 1: then you were allowed or Birmingham, You're then allowed to
Speaker 1: pick a new team. That's what I did when the
Speaker 1: Rams left l A. I was a Rams fan. They
Speaker 1: went to St. Louis. I do recommend Caleb thou getting
Speaker 1: a radio show and having a large amount of people
Speaker 1: vote for your new team. It's a good bit Berry
Speaker 1: from Nashville right. Since says Ben, what's the one thing
Speaker 1: career wise you would like to do but haven't done yet?
Speaker 1: I'd I'd like to give another swing on on television.
Speaker 1: I did it years ago, wasn't good at I'd like
Speaker 1: to do it given another shot. I think that would
Speaker 1: be fun. Pays a hell of a lot more money
Speaker 1: in radio. But other than that, I love the doing
Speaker 1: the overnight and having the artistic freedom to be on
Speaker 1: late at night. And people have said, go do a
Speaker 1: morning show or an afternoon show and I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a post it if it paid a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But I like I like what I got going on
Speaker 1: in the overnight. So I found my niche. I feel
Speaker 1: like I've found my niche and I'm I'm happy with that.
Speaker 1: But there's other things I'd like to branch out. I'd
Speaker 1: like to do other things. I I've always had a
Speaker 1: couple of gigs at any time because I don't like
Speaker 1: to put all all my eggs in one basket. Guest gun,
Speaker 1: I don't. It's good. I agree. What about you though?
Speaker 1: You want to because you want to be the next
Speaker 1: what Kenny Albert? Your goal is to be Kenny Albert
Speaker 1: or Chris Myers or Kenny Albert's good because he covers
Speaker 1: so many events, like he goes from football. You want
Speaker 1: me to get Kenny on the podcast. I can get
Speaker 1: him on the putt. Yeah, that'd be great. We'll get
Speaker 1: him on. We could do that and maybe do dinner after.
Speaker 1: That'd be acceptable. If you can travel to New Jersey
Speaker 1: or New York, you can do that. You know, it's
Speaker 1: all about the networking man. I don't. I would fly
Speaker 1: to New Jersey to have lunch with Kenny Albert. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, I think. Uh. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: about you. I don't know if you prefer winter or summer.
Speaker 1: But I would love to call an Olympic event too.
Speaker 1: It'd be a lot of fun. I mean, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with the Olympics, but I'm not like hard oh Olympic guy. Still,
Speaker 1: it's once every four years, man, It's it's nice every
Speaker 1: two years or whatever now in summer or winter or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm just that's a good gig. I'm surprised you
Speaker 1: haven't gotten in on that. I had buddies of mine
Speaker 1: that every four years they would go to some exotic
Speaker 1: destination around the globe and they would work for you know,
Speaker 1: the month or whatever it was. In the Olympics. It
Speaker 1: would be part of the broadcast team, whether it be
Speaker 1: radio or television. You know, I think still does that
Speaker 1: is Steve Mason, who used to work with Fox is
Speaker 1: the afternoon guy on ESPN in l A. But I
Speaker 1: think Mason still does Olympic stuff. Yeah. NBC does a
Speaker 1: great job of it. And the nice thing I like
Speaker 1: about them is they actually promote with ends, so they
Speaker 1: use a lot of people that work on Comcast to
Speaker 1: work some of those other other events. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of tough not to crack, but I'd love
Speaker 1: to do it. Barry from Nashville. Wright's another one question.
Speaker 1: He says, how long do you think it will take
Speaker 1: you to understand every word from half point? Oh, Barry,
Speaker 1: it's not possible. I don't have good hearing to start with.
Speaker 1: And she's John, dare you know? That's how she sounds.
Speaker 1: It's like the teacher and the peanuts. Wanton wont want,
Speaker 1: won't want? Yeah? Exactly? Well John, Yeah, all right, John
Speaker 1: the jailer from Allan Town, Pennsylvania. Tommy the sort of
Speaker 1: old stomping grounds, Ben and Gascon. Does every black hole
Speaker 1: contains singularity? Go ahead, Gisca, mm hmmm, I'd say yes
Speaker 1: and say yes. You say, do you believe there are
Speaker 1: portals in the cosmos that will take you from one
Speaker 1: point to another like a pass? Yes, we're leaving from
Speaker 1: Mario Brothers. I believe there are those things, but no,
Speaker 1: none of the creatures on Earth, the way we're designed,
Speaker 1: our bodies could handle the amount of pressure to go
Speaker 1: through a portal. But I believe they do exist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if black holes are consuming other black holes, then
Speaker 1: where does that lead you to Well, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like looking up in you know, starry night out in
Speaker 1: the Boone docks, you see all the stars and saying,
Speaker 1: what were the end is? What's at the end? Where's
Speaker 1: the end of the line on this There's gotta be
Speaker 1: an end, right, I can't go on forever unless it
Speaker 1: can do well. I'll be encouraged to see what happened
Speaker 1: space program heading to Mars, Like when we we land
Speaker 1: a human on Mars, I will be extremely intrigued by
Speaker 1: how that goes down. Now, what about the conspiracies that
Speaker 1: the moon, the other side of the moon is where
Speaker 1: the crazy stuff is and they don't talk about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe we've had what was It's weird because over the
Speaker 1: last year there's been more and more discussions about UFOs
Speaker 1: than we've ever seen in the past. Like it's always
Speaker 1: people bring up UFOs, they immediately dismiss it, but now
Speaker 1: more so than ever we talked about it in the open. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's ah, that's true. But still society based
Speaker 1: on I guess it's possible to live to live through that.
Speaker 1: It will be the next maybe that'll be apocalyptic movie man,
Speaker 1: we have had alien contact. See if there was alien contact.
Speaker 1: How do you think this would go down? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go full art Bell West the Rockies, Hello East of
Speaker 1: the Rockies, Hello, International line, wild card line. Just imagine
Speaker 1: I'm in purumpt Nevada. How about this. Let's say the
Speaker 1: aliens came down. What country would they kind? What if
Speaker 1: they contacted like I don't know, Zimbabwe or something like that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some some kind would the other countries, the big countries
Speaker 1: like China, Russia of the US, they would then say
Speaker 1: wait a minute, no, no, no, we're going to contact
Speaker 1: with We're gonna be in contact with the aliens. Is
Speaker 1: there at NASA? And I guess it wouldn't just be
Speaker 1: nasked because it's a global thing. Is is there a
Speaker 1: plan guardrails or a boiler plate on? Okay, alien contact
Speaker 1: that somehow we can communicate with these aliens like e
Speaker 1: T with Reese's pieces? Um? Is there a way? Is
Speaker 1: there is like an you know what I mean? I
Speaker 1: wonder if they have that, if the if the United
Speaker 1: Nations have a plan for communication with alien being I
Speaker 1: think only the United States and the Chinese would have
Speaker 1: that kind of technologically advanced I guess template, But it's
Speaker 1: not even about that. It would be like who what
Speaker 1: is the order? Like who gets to who's the lead?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I think it would either.
Speaker 1: I think it would have to be us. Now, what
Speaker 1: if the Aliens are not bilingual and they don't speak Chinese, Russian,
Speaker 1: and America? What do you do then? Mathematics? Mathematics? Flashing lights?
Speaker 1: Possibly maybe flashing lass better? Hope it's not like a
Speaker 1: charging bull. Uh? All right, that was interesting. Mark in Renton,
Speaker 1: Washington writes, Sin says, why do men play the best
Speaker 1: of five sets in professional tennis and women play only
Speaker 1: the best two out of three? What about gender equality?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, guess you're a tennis guy. Don't they flip
Speaker 1: that though from season of season? No, they've never done that,
Speaker 1: not not that I recall. Ever, No, I don't think they.
Speaker 1: I'm a big tennis fan though, Like the argument had
Speaker 1: always been that women not I don't like tennis, but
Speaker 1: women are always you know that petite. They don't they
Speaker 1: can't handle their bodies can't handle five sets. I I've
Speaker 1: always been a fan of especially from the gambling perspective,
Speaker 1: because you have less variables to bet on and against. Well,
Speaker 1: wasn't it like when Serena Williams was dominating women's tennis,
Speaker 1: and she was just kicking everyone's as she was the
Speaker 1: biggest star in tennis. Wasn't the the counter arms? Well yeah,
Speaker 1: if she went against men, though, she might win two
Speaker 1: out of three, but she could she win three out
Speaker 1: of five. That was always the rebuttal in that in
Speaker 1: that deal, I hadn't tennis. Has never been a big
Speaker 1: tennis guy. I like golf more than tennis. Oh man,
Speaker 1: no way. As a nicore, Yeah, it's just there's it's
Speaker 1: boring as fuck, not when you're doing it. I think
Speaker 1: tennis is boring to watch on television also, but I
Speaker 1: think golf it's frustrating and rewarding at the same time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my long game is better than my short game. Not
Speaker 1: all of us can go to company paid trips to
Speaker 1: Newport Beach and golf on the coast. It was Data Point,
Speaker 1: not Newport Beach. Whatever. Yeah, well it's been nice. At
Speaker 1: least I won't be invited anymore, guest, because no one will.
Speaker 1: No one will be invited. Those days are long gone.
Speaker 1: Like a house on the side of the roads would
Speaker 1: say yes. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, right, since says this
Speaker 1: week's been the thirty fourth anniversary of the first episode
Speaker 1: of alf I says, who was your favorite Muppet? Uh,
Speaker 1: you're in your youth fictionary? Finley fanatics excluded Jesus from
Speaker 1: Pierre Well. I was a big fan of Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: I love Snuffle Luphagus, that was my favorite. He wasn't
Speaker 1: on there very much. Oscar the Grouch was very cool,
Speaker 1: Cookie Monster. Those are the big three in the Muppets
Speaker 1: for me. And then like in what do you think
Speaker 1: about the Kermit the Frog World? I was a fan
Speaker 1: of Fozzy Bear. I liked Fozzy Bear. I was a
Speaker 1: fan of that. It was some of the Muppets. What
Speaker 1: were your what was your favorite move? You were probably
Speaker 1: Burton Ernie, I would imagine, But all of those are good.
Speaker 1: What happened you had a bunch of those followers on
Speaker 1: Twitter and didn't you like abolish all of them? Or no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Well we had Ernie the great old Piner whose abby
Speaker 1: his abby as what's his name would say, the guy
Speaker 1: sports dock Barry. His abbey was Ernie from the from
Speaker 1: Sesame Street. And then there was this battle because other
Speaker 1: people were jealous that Ernie got all the attention earning
Speaker 1: the Great Old Piner and then he finally quit the show.
Speaker 1: But before he quit the show, the Muppet Militia took
Speaker 1: over and all these guys started these burner accounts with
Speaker 1: different Muppet names, and it was crazy, it was so funny.
Speaker 1: There's only a couple of them left, Herbert Bird's Foot,
Speaker 1: the Great Old Pines still left, and a couple of others.
Speaker 1: But that's it. Yeah, that's all. Yeah, alright, couple more
Speaker 1: here on the podcast, Eric in Binghamton, New York rites
Speaker 1: in with the little bell there. Dear Ben, I have
Speaker 1: been listening since the weekend overnight days. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for that. My question is, do you lose a little
Speaker 1: bit of your faith in humanity every time you leave
Speaker 1: the house and deal with people. Never underestimate the stupidity
Speaker 1: of others? Yes, Eric, Yes, I've tried to be more positive.
Speaker 1: You know, my wife's a good influence on me for that.
Speaker 1: But I do see a lot of ridiculous things. I
Speaker 1: will give credit though, to society. I see more dumb
Speaker 1: things on social media than I do in actual society.
Speaker 1: Feel like there's been a there's been a crossover somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know when it happened. Where the really dumb
Speaker 1: things I see happen on Twitter and not as much
Speaker 1: in real life. I think people are usually nice to
Speaker 1: each other. They're generally nice to each other. When I
Speaker 1: go out, people are polite. They respect each other most
Speaker 1: of the time. Twitter, not soone's it is. It is
Speaker 1: a cesspool. It is the stuff on the back of
Speaker 1: the toilet at a truck stop that hasn't been cleaned
Speaker 1: in thirty years. That is what that is. It is
Speaker 1: the It is the floor of a whorehouse after a
Speaker 1: Saturday night. That is what it is. There's no other
Speaker 1: way to say it. There's no other way to say it. Right,
Speaker 1: all right, that's it. We gotta put the baby to bed. Guestcot. Yes,
Speaker 1: I hear people chatting yet Uh must subscribe on YouTube
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