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Speaker 3: On this episode of the Fifth Hour podcast, we've got
Speaker 3: mister American Pie and into the Parrot's nest, which is
Speaker 3: quite the plot twist. But we begin with this so
Speaker 3: certain days on the calendar they feel fake until you
Speaker 3: think about them for more than I don't know, twelve seconds.
Speaker 3: So I bring this up as I'm looking for things
Speaker 3: that interest me for the podcast. I came across National
Speaker 3: Pie Day, not the math. Pie today is National Pie Day.
Speaker 3: Delicious pie. It's one of those days. At first glance,
Speaker 3: it is something that you assume was invented by big
Speaker 3: Dessert in America, Big dessert, not big Pharma, big dessert
Speaker 3: to sell more whipped cream.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: Then you start looking around and you remember that pie
Speaker 3: is basically America's emotional support food, and suddenly it all
Speaker 3: makes perfect sense. It does so in honor of a
Speaker 3: National Pie Day today. Pie is woven in to my
Speaker 3: muscle memory, and I think all of our muscle memory.
Speaker 3: Right in America, we have a song literally called American Pie,
Speaker 3: American Pie, which somehow became this long history lesson you
Speaker 3: sing along with it. It's very gatchy at the campfire.
Speaker 3: It's a cultural test, all of that rolled.
Speaker 1: In one and in America.
Speaker 3: As wholesome as apple pie is, American is apple pie,
Speaker 3: right And even though apples are not native to North America,
Speaker 3: they're an invasive species, the apple. And that's peak Americana
Speaker 3: right there. We borrow something we in our head, we
Speaker 3: improve it, and we now own it. And pie is
Speaker 3: really old when I started going down this rabbit hole
Speaker 3: for National Pie Day. Like when I say really really old,
Speaker 3: I am talking about ancient Rome.
Speaker 1: Old, like the ancient Romans.
Speaker 3: We're eating pie, although they're pie, we're talking about goat, cheese,
Speaker 3: honey rye, and something called placenta, which sounds like you
Speaker 3: need to call an ambulance. There's some kind of medical
Speaker 3: condition with the placenta.
Speaker 1: As I was amused by breathing about this.
Speaker 3: Apparently it was like cheesecake, So the ancient Romans had
Speaker 3: their own cheesecake factory. And back then the crust was
Speaker 3: like tupperware. You weren't supposed to eat it. It was
Speaker 3: more like the container to keep the meat from turning
Speaker 3: into I guess charcoal or whatever. And they didn't instagram
Speaker 3: photos of this back in forty BC, so we just
Speaker 3: have to go by the historians putting all this together.
Speaker 3: Crust was the I guess, the shipping box you'd get
Speaker 3: when you get your Amazon delivery of food. And then
Speaker 3: later on, many years later, England picked up the pie
Speaker 3: baton and the relay race of the pie. Big Pie
Speaker 3: the twelfth century promptly filled pies with mystery meat.
Speaker 1: What's in the pie, not what's.
Speaker 3: In the box, what's in the pie, mystery meat, which
Speaker 3: led to urban legends, bad vibrations, and likely heartburn. And
Speaker 3: then our friends the pure Tins crossed the Mighty Atlantic
Speaker 3: and they said, you.
Speaker 1: Know what we're gonna bring with us Pie?
Speaker 3: They brought pie, because of course, why would you not
Speaker 3: bring pie?
Speaker 1: And then there's the twist. The first Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: I knew this years ago, but I was reminded of
Speaker 3: it the very first th Thanksgiving. They did not have
Speaker 3: sweet pie like I would think they would be sitting
Speaker 3: around eating yams and pumpkin pie and all that stuff. Well,
Speaker 3: pumpkin pie did not really hit until the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 3: So if you're annoyed by pumpkin pie Thanksgiving, you can
Speaker 3: blame progress. You can blame progress. So we continue here
Speaker 3: on National Pie Day. Modern American, right, Modern America. This
Speaker 3: is where pie became the thing and and sweet pies
Speaker 3: are the dominator. They run the show. The savory pie
Speaker 3: are hanging out like the weird cousin who moved far away,
Speaker 3: and you see them once in a while. And somehow,
Speaker 3: despite all of these artists in bakeries, at least where
Speaker 3: I am in La there's a lot of artists and
Speaker 3: bakeries and nine dollars slices and all that stuff. The
Speaker 3: MVP of pie still comes from the frozen aisle that
Speaker 3: Sarah Lee is the.
Speaker 1: Queen of the pie game.
Speaker 3: With Marie Calendars chasing after Sarah Lee, they're in a
Speaker 3: cat fight. And then you've got or I guess, a
Speaker 3: pie fight, and then you've got Missus Smith, the leader
Speaker 3: in the clubhouse of I'll just heat this up real quick,
Speaker 3: or I'll let it defrost.
Speaker 1: If it's in the freezer.
Speaker 3: So, in terms of the rankings, because America loves rankings
Speaker 3: almost as much as it loves pie, not a list,
Speaker 3: not a list to Terry in England, not a list.
Speaker 3: These are rankings, which is much different than a list.
Speaker 3: It's also not Big Men's Big board. It's also not
Speaker 3: Big Ben's Big board. So apple pie is the Swiss
Speaker 3: Army Knife of the pie community. You can have apple
Speaker 3: pie with literally any meal.
Speaker 1: Of the day.
Speaker 3: It works in any situation. There's something there. It's like
Speaker 3: a Swiss army knife. There's a tool for any job
Speaker 3: that you need, and the apple pie you want to
Speaker 3: have it with your eggs and bacon in the morning,
Speaker 3: you can do that. If that's what you eat, you
Speaker 3: can have it with you as your dessert. You can
Speaker 3: have it with lunch or dinner. You can throw some
Speaker 3: ice cream on top. It literally works in any way.
Speaker 3: You watch now number two on the rankings banana cream
Speaker 3: pie perfection. That is the Michael Jordan Bolls of desserts
Speaker 3: from back in the day. Then you've got pecan pie,
Speaker 3: very controversial pecan pie. For many, pecan pie is a
Speaker 3: once in a while situation. Even for me, I don't
Speaker 3: see pecan pie. It's like a holiday specialist. If you're
Speaker 3: a baseball fan, you might remember they got rid of
Speaker 3: this baseball because of the rules the nerd Rob Manford
Speaker 3: put in.
Speaker 1: But the lugi.
Speaker 3: Remember the lugi in baseball, like Jesse Orosco if you
Speaker 3: know that he was a lugie lefty one out guy
Speaker 3: is called the lugi. So you bring the pecan pie
Speaker 3: in to get one meal out at a holiday in
Speaker 3: November and possibly again in December, and then that's it.
Speaker 3: And then the lugi just kind of sits there in
Speaker 3: the bullpen and waits to be called out. Now, occasionally
Speaker 3: the lugis called in for Fourth of July. Occasionally you
Speaker 3: get the Lugi for the Fourth of July, but very rarely.
Speaker 3: The mud pie is just a whole bunch of chocolate
Speaker 3: moose and it's got the sweatpants with the elastic on it.
Speaker 3: Then you've got Lemon Mering, which is like a jazz album,
Speaker 3: Lemon Ring not for everybody, however, unforgettable if you're into it, hey,
Speaker 3: come on now. Then you got pumpkin, which is just
Speaker 3: I'm not a big pumpkin guy, very seasonal. You know,
Speaker 3: it's a Thanksgiving thing. Cherry pie is way too inconsistent.
Speaker 3: Cherry pie has a very high ceiling a low floor.
Speaker 3: There's other fruit pies like strawberry pie, which is not
Speaker 3: high up blueberry pie. And there's also some fun facts
Speaker 3: that are absolutely absurd. One hundred and eighty six million
Speaker 3: pies are sold every year in America. Now, to put
Speaker 3: that in perspective, nearly half of Americans fine pie comforting,
Speaker 3: which I mean, say what you want about that. You
Speaker 3: can do a whole dissertation on that. One in five
Speaker 3: Americans have eaten an entire pie alone. Anyone who want
Speaker 3: to raise your hand, my hands raised, no judgment. I
Speaker 3: give you respect. I've done it when I was at
Speaker 3: my fattest. I hit a whole pie by myself nine percent.
Speaker 3: Eat the crust first. I bet you that ferg dog
Speaker 3: eats the crust first. I bet you I do too.
Speaker 3: I like the crust, buttery crust, way to go. There's
Speaker 3: even a myth about pie. I learned on National Pie
Speaker 3: Day today that someone named Oliver Cromwell.
Speaker 1: I've heard of that.
Speaker 3: There's the Cromwell Cromwell Hotel in Vegas. But Oliver Cromwell
Speaker 3: banned pie in sixteen forty four for being too fun,
Speaker 3: which is just perfect, is it not.
Speaker 1: You know, we need to be serious.
Speaker 3: And then of course there were religious battles, but it
Speaker 3: was about pie, which just feels wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's on brand. You know. If it's not true, you
Speaker 1: know fine. Whatever. Of course, someone tried to cancel pie.
Speaker 1: We live in the age.
Speaker 3: Where they're still trying to cancel things. Not as much anymore,
Speaker 3: but you get the point. And so anyway, celebrate guil Free,
Speaker 3: have a big giant piece of pie, because pie is
Speaker 3: not just any dessert. You can get your cake and
Speaker 3: your cupcakes and your cookies and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Pie is nostalgia. You're honoring America with pies. Pie.
Speaker 3: It's tradition, and you know it's one you get the
Speaker 3: flaky crust sometimes there.
Speaker 1: It's one of the if not the most American dessert.
Speaker 1: Apple pie. It's the way to go.
Speaker 3: All right now, turning the page on that, I did
Speaker 3: want to spend a couple of minutes going to a
Speaker 3: place I did not think I was going to go to.
Speaker 3: I did not think I was going to go to
Speaker 3: this place. So there are days in this wacky radio
Speaker 3: world when I'm very bad about writing back to people,
Speaker 3: and I apologize.
Speaker 1: I say that, you know, it annoys me. I wish
Speaker 1: I was better. I'm not very busy.
Speaker 3: I've limited time, so usually I'll open up my inbox
Speaker 3: and I'll just kind of scan it, and I'll occasionally
Speaker 3: I'll write back to somebody. So I opened up the mailbox,
Speaker 3: and you open things up, you expect a lot of
Speaker 3: junk mail, check complaints. I get, why did you do
Speaker 3: that monologue? Why didn't you say this? You should have
Speaker 3: said this, You didn't say this? People complaining about my
Speaker 3: hot take. There's people that have great conspiracy theories that
Speaker 3: reach out to me.
Speaker 1: There's people that recommend topics for monologues.
Speaker 3: I get all this on my inbox that's Benmathershow at
Speaker 3: gmail dot com. Every once in a while I'll get
Speaker 3: someone that sends me a long letter saying how much
Speaker 3: they hate the show. And then I'll get someone that
Speaker 3: sent an occasional love letter, which is written, of course,
Speaker 3: in entirely all caps the caplock is on, which is
Speaker 3: not psychotic at all. But they love me, so it's okay.
Speaker 3: And then there are days when one message nudges you
Speaker 3: down a I guess you call it a parrot's nest,
Speaker 3: and you didn't even know it was there, like a
Speaker 3: trapdoor opened up beneath years of talk radio, a lot
Speaker 3: of noise, laughter, late night static, whatever you want to
Speaker 3: call the thing that we do. And so this one
Speaker 3: started innocently enough. It's like, hey, Ben, I really like
Speaker 3: your show. I haven't listened for a while. I started
Speaker 3: listening again because of And then this person explained why.
Speaker 1: They started listening again.
Speaker 3: They started working at night again, so they started listening
Speaker 3: in I guess you can't listen to the podcast anyway.
Speaker 3: The listener reached out asking whatever happened to so? And
Speaker 3: so you know the drill, right, So the old celebrity
Speaker 3: caller roll call I guess we'll call it the celebrity
Speaker 3: caller roll call. So I was like, well, you know,
Speaker 3: Chris and Houston moved to the day shift. That guy
Speaker 3: got divorced, so he stopped listening, so he changed his routine.
Speaker 3: There's another guy that he had the health problem, so
Speaker 3: he kind of drifted away from the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 3: Life happens, and so the audience turns over on the
Speaker 3: Overnight Show like crops in a field denial, you can't
Speaker 3: get attached. I occasionally do get attached, which is my problem.
Speaker 3: So I'm going through this email and then a name
Speaker 3: surface that I had not heard in a good amount
Speaker 3: of time. David from Winter Park, Florida with his sidekick
Speaker 3: Roscoe the Parrot. Now, if you're an OG fan of
Speaker 3: the Overnight Show and we're around back in the day,
Speaker 3: you likely know who this is. You'll remember the name anyway,
Speaker 3: even if you don't remember his phone calls. If you weren't,
Speaker 3: let me catch you up to speed on this, you
Speaker 3: missed a live wire. So I did what anyone with
Speaker 3: insomnia and occasional access to a very powerful microphone, the
Speaker 3: bully pulpit and a suspicious mind would do. I said,
Speaker 3: you know, I haven't heard from David a while, so
Speaker 3: I went looking.
Speaker 1: I didn't go deep. I don't go deep on these things,
Speaker 1: mind you.
Speaker 3: I had a minutes long malor investigation, more flashlight than
Speaker 3: searchlight type situation going on. So I went down social media,
Speaker 3: because you always go there first. To go to social media.
Speaker 3: I checked out some old emails, digital breadcrumbs, silence. Then
Speaker 3: I looked he hadn't posted on the X machine in
Speaker 3: I think almost a year. I think it was March
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty five. And so then I started typing
Speaker 3: some words in what I knew about my friend, David
Speaker 3: radio friend.
Speaker 1: And then the.
Speaker 3: Thing you never want to find but you can't ignore
Speaker 3: once you do took place. And as I was searching around,
Speaker 3: an obituary that lined up too cleanly to totally dismiss.
Speaker 3: In fact, it was so clean you had to accept
Speaker 3: it from the Orlando Sentinel and listed all the key facts,
Speaker 3: winter Park, Florida, the right age, the right information. Now,
Speaker 3: the words that stopped me were not flowery or poetic.
Speaker 3: They were very clinical that this man who was a
Speaker 3: part of our world, if this is accurate, you're died alone,
Speaker 3: no listed family. Uh, and it said right underneath it
Speaker 3: is said, anyone with information about relatives was asked to
Speaker 3: contact the funeral home.
Speaker 1: And that's like when that happened, I was.
Speaker 3: Like, oh man, when I read that, I like, who
Speaker 3: took a deep breath, paused, and I started going through
Speaker 3: some memories.
Speaker 1: You know, I was like, well, I mean, far as
Speaker 1: I know, this is accurate.
Speaker 3: I mean, how what are the chances there are two
Speaker 3: people with the same name, at the same age, from
Speaker 3: the same city. Uh, you know, everything everything lined up
Speaker 3: like planets in a row. And at that time, I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 3: why do I keep doing this in terms of going
Speaker 3: down these rabbit holes, because you be careful, you really
Speaker 3: don't know what.
Speaker 1: You're going to find.
Speaker 3: And so just like this guy died alone, no listed family,
Speaker 3: and it's again it said anyone with information, you know,
Speaker 3: contact the funeral And so what we do is an
Speaker 3: odd circus. There's a lot going on, right. You hear
Speaker 3: people call in for years without ever seeing them. They
Speaker 3: become these these characters in your documentary, in your world.
Speaker 3: They become voices, some of them background noises, depending what
Speaker 3: you're doing, punchlines. There are people that are foils of mind.
Speaker 3: That that a goofon that play along with the bit
Speaker 3: familiar ghosts who pop up at three in the morning
Speaker 3: and then vanish and are gone. And you assume, like
Speaker 3: I always like to think, well everyone's ever called the
Speaker 3: shows alive until I hear they're dead right. They're out
Speaker 3: there somewhere, They're just not part of the show for
Speaker 3: whatever reason, you know, blame it on the wife or whatever.
Speaker 3: They're still breathing, they're still eating, they're still living life
Speaker 3: and enjoying life. They're still listening, they're still yelling at
Speaker 3: the radio until they're not right. So David was one
Speaker 3: of the great characters of the Mallard Militia, and so
Speaker 3: I wanted to spend a couple of minutes talking about
Speaker 3: what I remember.
Speaker 1: From David in Winter Park, Florida.
Speaker 3: Not because he was he was a great character, not
Speaker 3: because he was loud or outrageous, but because he was
Speaker 3: all in the kind of a fan who doesn't just listen.
Speaker 3: He participated, and he created content.
Speaker 1: He was a content creator showed up. So this goes
Speaker 1: back number of years. I don't know exactly how many.
Speaker 1: It's just one giant ball of time.
Speaker 3: So it goes back a number yusers before the pandemic,
Speaker 3: and when I was pulling double duty, I had a
Speaker 3: side hustle. I was doing Boston Radio Wei. I did
Speaker 3: it remotely from the home studio in la and I
Speaker 3: would fly back to Boston for certain events. And one
Speaker 3: of those trips included a meet and greet at a
Speaker 3: legendary bar which is just down the street from Finway
Speaker 3: pac a Pilgrim image site for baseball lifers, right and
Speaker 3: of course in this case radio diehards need to go there.
Speaker 1: So people came from everywhere. It was great.
Speaker 3: It was one of the great turnouts we've had, just
Speaker 3: phenomenal for a malor meet and greet. The show does
Speaker 3: very well in the Boston area, and so every corner
Speaker 3: of New England, all the Commonwealth, it was all involved there.
Speaker 3: We had a guy even that came down from Toronto.
Speaker 3: We had people from the South. Somebody drove up from
Speaker 3: North Carolina with their kids. I'm sure they love that.
Speaker 3: Blind Scott held court telling stories that nobody wanted to hear.
Speaker 3: Blair from Maine showed up with his assistant. He was
Speaker 3: wide eyed, very uneasy, and convinced that the late DMX
Speaker 3: group that he's dead DMX, but the fans who were
Speaker 3: there at that concert, he was just down the street.
Speaker 3: We're lurking in the shadows around every corner. You had
Speaker 3: Wayne from Southey, who torpedoed years of sobriety, jumped off
Speaker 3: the wagon, who immortalized himself with the iconic drop. I
Speaker 3: did it for Mala. Yeah, now we don't hear that anymore.
Speaker 3: Lorena's new kind. Shepelled the show for a while, but
Speaker 3: she doesn't know any of that stuff because she wasn't
Speaker 3: around for those days. And so unfortunately a lot of
Speaker 3: these drops just vanished. And that's it. It's over. And
Speaker 3: then there's David, David from Winter Park floor. So I
Speaker 3: remember doing a double take at this event, the Malor
Speaker 3: meet and greet, the last one we did in Boston,
Speaker 3: by the way, the lost official we didn't want. I
Speaker 3: did one on the streets of Boston after that, in
Speaker 3: the North End, but this was before that. So I
Speaker 3: remember doing a double take. And when he told me
Speaker 3: how far he had driven. You see, David got in
Speaker 3: the car and drove thirteen hundred miles from Winter Park,
Speaker 3: Florida to Boston. He did it to spend a couple
Speaker 3: of hours at a bar with a bunch of strangers and.
Speaker 1: Here I am. I'm out there shape.
Speaker 3: Hands and kissing babies and all that, and we're all
Speaker 3: telling stories and trying to soak it all in. And
Speaker 3: he was there, he was involved in all of it.
Speaker 3: That's not casual fandom. That is devotion, bordering on madness.
Speaker 3: The good kind, the good kind, all right. And so
Speaker 3: David in my interactions, he loved to talk about sports gambling.
Speaker 3: He was a big gamba. He would drive out to Vegas.
Speaker 3: There was a casino and I think it was Biloxi, Mississippi.
Speaker 3: He would drive over there because that was like the
Speaker 3: big one that this back before Florida had legalizing gambling.
Speaker 3: He loved the angles, the bad beats, the mythology of
Speaker 3: it all. And somewhere along the way, my man David
Speaker 3: in from Winter Park, Florida, invented Roscoe the Parrot, a
Speaker 3: character that lived on the airwaves so vividly as any
Speaker 3: flesh and blood collar. So when David walked into the
Speaker 3: cask and flagging, I asked him the obvious question. I said, David,
Speaker 3: where's Roscoe? So where's Roscoe at now? Without missing a beat,
Speaker 3: he said, it's He's.
Speaker 1: In my car. You want to meet him?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Hell, yes, no. I assumed, rather foolishly that this was metaphorical.
Speaker 3: Well, David disappeared, and I went back to forcing myself
Speaker 3: to socialize at the Malor meet and greet. We did there,
Speaker 3: doing the awkward introvert dance, the devil's dance of smiling
Speaker 3: and nodding and trying not to look like I wanted
Speaker 3: to crawl under the nearest barstool or there's just table now.
Speaker 3: A few minutes later, as I was busy schmoozing, David
Speaker 3: returned from he had parked down the street. He returned
Speaker 3: and I saw him. He didn't have anything in his hands.
Speaker 1: I said, well, where's Roscoe. No Roscoe, I asked.
Speaker 3: And that That's when he reached behind his back, very dramatically,
Speaker 3: with a big smile on his face, and he pulled
Speaker 3: out a stuffed parrot, but kind you would buy it
Speaker 3: like the San Diego Zoo gift shop, and he had
Speaker 3: tucked it into the back of his pants like contraband.
Speaker 3: And then without warning, he started talking in a parrot voice.
Speaker 3: I'm not making this up. Those that were there, No,
Speaker 3: those that were there, no commitment timing zero shame. That
Speaker 3: is Radio Gold, even though it wasn't on the radio.
Speaker 3: That was Radio Goal. So David wanted me also to
Speaker 3: partner with him on the million dollar NFL contest in
Speaker 3: Vegas where they pick NFL winners and all that. So
Speaker 3: I had to decline that because of a TV deal
Speaker 3: I had at the time and I didn't want to
Speaker 3: step on any toes and all that. And so my
Speaker 3: picks I gave out on TV.
Speaker 1: So they paid me for that, So I couldn't give
Speaker 1: them out even though it was a contest. It was
Speaker 1: just I didn't do it. So I could have checked with.
Speaker 3: The lawyers and it may have been able to work out,
Speaker 3: but I chose not to do that.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 3: The fact that he was willing to bankroll it was
Speaker 3: thousands of dollars to get in on this and he
Speaker 3: was willing to bankroll it told.
Speaker 1: Me like he really is.
Speaker 3: I mean, he wants it. And they drove all those miles.
Speaker 3: He wasn't like half stepping. He pushed all his chips
Speaker 3: to the center of the table. And now knowing how
Speaker 3: this story seems to have ended, based on what I
Speaker 3: have come across here on the interweb, those memories hit
Speaker 3: a little different. The jokes don't land quite the same,
Speaker 3: the laughter echoes a little differently. There's something uniquely sad
Speaker 3: about dying quietly when you once had so much much
Speaker 3: energy and all that stuff, And even if that space
Speaker 3: was just a few minutes of airtime in the middle
Speaker 3: of the night. And he made some friends with some
Speaker 3: of you guys on social media. I know that he
Speaker 3: would interact with fans of the show and the Mallard Militia,
Speaker 3: Shane and des Moines, and I believe of alf and
Speaker 3: even Terry and some of these these guys interacted with
Speaker 3: with David. And it's the old idiom come to life
Speaker 3: right here today, gone tomorrow, and the world barely breaks stride.
Speaker 3: But we in the overnight radio realm.
Speaker 1: Right in the overnight radio room, we remember, and the
Speaker 1: Malard Militia remembers.
Speaker 3: And so somewhere in the great after hours bar in
Speaker 3: the sky, I like I'd like to imagine that David
Speaker 3: is holding court with Roscoe the stuff parrot right nearby.
Speaker 3: He's talking trash and a parrot voice, and having a
Speaker 3: cold one with Jimmy Ray from Ye Bye Bye, or
Speaker 3: smoking some cigarettes some new Ports with Genie and Medford
Speaker 3: and masshole Mickey's arguing a point that makes no sense
Speaker 3: at all, but he's masshole Mickey.
Speaker 1: And maybe Matt.
Speaker 3: The Raider Warrior a's Tom Brady rose Fan, the great boy.
Speaker 3: I miss him too, Matt the Warrior Raider A's Tom
Speaker 3: Brady rose Fan. What a legend is nodding along loudly
Speaker 3: agreeing with himself, which he often did.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing about.
Speaker 3: These voices, right, they really they don't really disappear, you know,
Speaker 3: they just they stop calling. I know, And so again,
Speaker 3: sad sad story appears based on the investigation and no
Speaker 3: other way to get hold of this person and nothing
Speaker 3: else working, and the obituary and the timing and all
Speaker 3: that rest easy Roscoe and David and all that. A
Speaker 3: guy that drove thirteen hundred miles to not go on
Speaker 3: the radio just to hang out with a bunch of
Speaker 3: radio fans and my fat ass, that alone earns you
Speaker 3: a permanent seat at the.
Speaker 1: Malard Militia Bar. So there is that anyway We'll get
Speaker 1: out on that.
Speaker 3: Don't forget Benny Versus the Penny available for you on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Two episodes. Two episodes.
Speaker 3: Watch it today Friday, Sunday before kickoff, but Benny Vspenny
Speaker 3: on YouTube. If you want to watch monologues of the
Speaker 3: radio show, you can do that care of Ben Mahler
Speaker 3: Show on the YouTube. So two channels there and we'll
Speaker 3: hopefully have at some point here Ask Ben. This weekend
Speaker 3: there will be an Ask Ben, so follow the social
Speaker 3: media accounts will try to get you in on that answer.
Speaker 3: Some of your questions turn on the notifications on X
Speaker 3: I can tell who has the notifications on and.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't have the notifications on it.
Speaker 3: Some of you guys always respond round and it usually
Speaker 3: takes a little while. I've noticed recently there's like a
Speaker 3: warm up time to get the questions going on Ask
Speaker 3: but less so on Facebook. Less so on Facebook. It
Speaker 3: seems like on Facebook the Facebook page is Ben Malor's
Speaker 3: show Instagram Ben Maller on Fox. But on the Facebook
Speaker 3: page it does seem like that moves a little quicker.
Speaker 1: It moves.
Speaker 3: Are just people on there more engaged. I don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Anyway, have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 3: We'll have new episodes on Saturday and Sunday and we
Speaker 3: will catch you then got a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go