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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 4: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahlor
Speaker 4: and in for the Flying Hawaiian Danny G Radio.
Speaker 1: We've got my buddy Alex Tyshirt, better known in my
Speaker 1: world as Alex le Vegan, a fellow Inner Minute Faster.
Speaker 1: We are both members of the cult. Yes, and we've
Speaker 1: talked about that a fair amount. But we're back at
Speaker 1: it again and the Sunday Podcast on this tenth day
Speaker 1: of March all about out the mail bag. But before
Speaker 1: we get to the mailbag, we have to celebrate National
Speaker 1: Landline Telephone Day because today is National Landline Telephone Day,
Speaker 1: a big day's At one point, the phone company's made
Speaker 1: so much money off those landline phones, right, that was
Speaker 1: how they made their money. Yes, how many people have
Speaker 1: landline phones? I don't have a landline? No, do you
Speaker 1: does your does your mom have a We.
Speaker 3: Have nothing at the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know, if I remember when they when
Speaker 1: the cell phone took over, they were like, well, if
Speaker 1: there's an earthquake, the cell phones won't work and your
Speaker 1: landline and it's a Yeah. It's also a terrible that
Speaker 1: it is National ranch Day, which is a terrible day.
Speaker 1: The devil's blood well, a day to celebrate the demon
Speaker 1: ranch dressing, which is absolutely horrific.
Speaker 3: I'm getting the vibrant not a ranch guy, ben uh.
Speaker 1: I made that pretty clear over the years, my disdain
Speaker 1: for the rotting ranch addressing. Not not a fan. And
Speaker 1: what else is it? Today's a National Pack your Lunch Day? Wow? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a National pack your lunch Day. That's always a
Speaker 1: big day. Check your batteries day, important, big day of
Speaker 1: my house. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So some of the dopey holidays, so many just stacking
Speaker 3: on every day. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Every day is a dopey holidays. National Pretzel Sunday not
Speaker 1: to be confused with National Pretzel Day, but its National
Speaker 1: Prestel Sunday Pretzel Sunday today. So let's get to the
Speaker 1: mail bag. These are actual questions by actual listeners to
Speaker 1: the show, and here we go, here we go, here we.
Speaker 2: Go.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So the first one thanks to ohio
Speaker 1: a who So anyway, the first one comes from Kevin,
Speaker 1: who is in Kansas, and Kevin says, dear Ben and
Speaker 1: Alex Ben, I enjoyed your discussion on the radio about
Speaker 1: Joe DiMaggio and how you snuck out through the kitchen
Speaker 1: when you went to his hotel, or when he snuck
Speaker 1: out through the kitchen when you went to see him
Speaker 1: at his hotel in San Diego to get an autograph.
Speaker 1: I've never had to worry about doing something like that.
Speaker 1: But as you've become more famous and recognized, Kevin says,
Speaker 1: have you ever had to sneak out of someplace to
Speaker 1: avoid your fans or do you find yourself planning a
Speaker 1: quick escape route when you go out in public. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm flattered, Kevin that you think the overnight radio guy
Speaker 1: has to is being treated like Taylor Swift. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: flattered that that that is the case. But yeah, fortunately
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good in that department. Although
Speaker 1: I do love that quote, and I've used this quite
Speaker 1: a bit. It's an old Danny Kay quote. It's old
Speaker 1: actor about sunglasses, and it says, the definition of a
Speaker 1: celebrity is one who works their entire life to be famous,
Speaker 1: to be known, and then goes through backstreets wearing dark
Speaker 1: glasses to avoid anyone recognizing them. Right, That's pretty much.
Speaker 1: But that's that's almost a dated quote because it's like
Speaker 1: in the TikTok social media world, I don't see a
Speaker 1: lot of people.
Speaker 3: Wearing dark glasses trying to be recognized, yeah anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I'm guessing Taylor Swift probably does that when
Speaker 1: she's out. She's not, you know, doing things. But the
Speaker 1: only time I've had to get away from people, well,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say the only time. The only time I
Speaker 1: remember right now was the famous story at a Mallard
Speaker 1: meet and greet in Boston in twenty nineteen. It was
Speaker 1: in I think it was April of twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 1: I was doing some filling stuff on Wei in Boston,
Speaker 1: and I went back there to do some shows and
Speaker 1: I had a Mallard meet and greet. We did it
Speaker 1: at the Cask and Flagging, which is to paint the picture, Alex,
Speaker 1: it's this really old bark is everything in Boston's Old
Speaker 1: right across from the historic Finway poc oh poc where
Speaker 1: the Red Sox play, and we had a great turnout.
Speaker 1: We had people from all over the New England States.
Speaker 1: David from Winter Park, Florida, I drove up from Florida. Wow,
Speaker 1: for a two hour meet and greet. We had a
Speaker 1: guy from Toronto that was there, but one of the
Speaker 1: gentlemen who was a little over the top, bombastic and
Speaker 1: in your face. And I liked the guy, but he's
Speaker 1: he's a character. Wayne from Southey, Okay, Wayne, typical stereotype
Speaker 1: guy from Southeye, Wayne, you know, just a playful, in
Speaker 1: your face kind of guy. Southee is where Whitey Bulger's from,
Speaker 1: the famous Mobster. We talked about Mobster for this weekend.
Speaker 1: Whitey Bulger from south Man. Wayne's not the mob but
Speaker 1: he's just a typical Boston guy. And he hadn't he
Speaker 1: hadn't had a drink in seven years, the famous sound
Speaker 1: by I hadn't had a drink in seven years. I
Speaker 1: did it for Mallor And so he starts drinking and
Speaker 1: buying me drinks and he's getting upset. I'm not drinking
Speaker 1: enough because I'm trying to socialize. I'm an introvert, as
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm trying to go out there and
Speaker 1: I'm not a blabber mouth, but I'm trying to be
Speaker 1: polite and people. People took time out of their lives
Speaker 1: to come say hello to me. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: cool thing, you know. I feel like that's a big thing.
Speaker 1: The most important thing we have is our time, and
Speaker 1: so for somebody to do that, it's a very important thing.
Speaker 1: So I try to be nice and hello and greet people.
Speaker 1: So Wayne, you know, he thought me and him were
Speaker 1: now we were best friends, you know, because we've we've
Speaker 1: had beers and we we were just buddies, you know,
Speaker 1: from the radio. And it was just it was just craziness.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, as the night went on, the event
Speaker 1: was kind of winding down from my end my commitment
Speaker 1: to be there. I had said I was going to
Speaker 1: be there X amount of time, and we were getting
Speaker 1: close to the end of the time and I was
Speaker 1: going to remain for a little bit because there were
Speaker 1: still people there that wanted to hang out. And I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, that's fine. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not the party guy. But Wayne's like, hey, I got
Speaker 1: a night, let's go bar hopping. He wanted, and he
Speaker 1: thought he was going to take me, right, I put
Speaker 1: my my my goodie bag or maybe that's my my
Speaker 1: my briefcase, whatever I had, and we just go bar hopping,
Speaker 1: you know, that party of the night away, right, And
Speaker 1: so he's got this whole plant. Then it's like him,
Speaker 1: me and a couple of the other listeners that were there,
Speaker 1: Blind Scott, there was the guy from Toronto, this couple
Speaker 1: from Maine, and so we were all gonna go borropping,
Speaker 1: and so Wayne, I'll never forget it. It's a funny,
Speaker 1: funny thing, Alex. So Wayne says, hold on, I gotta
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, right, Okay, So he goes to
Speaker 1: the back where the bathroom is. The cask and Flagging
Speaker 1: actually was kind of in the middle, but we were
Speaker 1: in the front and so it looked like the back.
Speaker 1: And so he goes to the bathroom and then I
Speaker 1: had this epiphany. I was like, this is my chance,
Speaker 1: this is my jail. So I grabbed a couple of
Speaker 1: the listeners. I said, let's get out of here before
Speaker 1: before Wayne. Wayne gets out of the bathroom, and we
Speaker 1: we took off We didn't even know where we were going.
Speaker 1: We just like started walking. Amazing. We had blind Scott
Speaker 1: was leading us, uh you know, blind guy leading us. Smart. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't know. We had a guy from Toronto, a
Speaker 1: couple from Maine. You know, they don't know the geography
Speaker 1: of bo and so we we started walking around. We
Speaker 1: actually went down. It was funny. We went to a hotel.
Speaker 1: This guy, Vinnie, a friend who was a listener. He
Speaker 1: told me the hotel he was working out in Boston.
Speaker 1: So we walked. We saw the sign on you know, skyscraper,
Speaker 1: big hotel had the name of the hotels, like a
Speaker 1: Marriott or whatever. So we walked down to the hotel
Speaker 1: and hung out with Vinnie for a little bit. So
Speaker 1: it was an interesting night. But that's the only time
Speaker 1: I've had to really get out of anywhere, and I
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily have to get out of there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not planning to go through kitchens like show Imagio
Speaker 1: when I was when I was younger, trying to get
Speaker 1: his autograph and he stuck through the kitchen at a
Speaker 1: five star hotel in San Diego. Now you're a TikTok guy,
Speaker 1: You're a big social media influence. Yes, and have you
Speaker 1: ever had to sneak out of anywhere? Maybe he didn't
Speaker 1: have money for the bill.
Speaker 3: I will say, I'm very responsible and I'll make sure
Speaker 3: that I can afford the things that I go to.
Speaker 3: But the thing that's funny is so when the anime
Speaker 3: stuff was really popping off, So this was probably two
Speaker 3: years ago now or see me about a year ago
Speaker 3: with SEMPI and everything. So the trickling effect we had
Speaker 3: from we Nation and the crazy fanom we were growing,
Speaker 3: and it took us out to Texas. We went out
Speaker 3: to Pittsburgh. We were going to all these events because
Speaker 3: we're getting invited. I always had the recognition. People knew
Speaker 3: my content, the show, they loved my stuff. So everybody
Speaker 3: was really cool. We had great times. We would go
Speaker 3: to karaoke out in Texas. We were singing, dancing and drinking.
Speaker 3: It's like soju. I don't know if you ever had
Speaker 3: soju ben, but be careful. That stuff is deadly. It
Speaker 3: tastes like a Capri sun, but it'll get you completely
Speaker 3: fucked up, so just be careful about it. And so
Speaker 3: I never had issues, right, but then when I started
Speaker 3: doing SEMPI and started em seeing these events and being
Speaker 3: the host and hosting these cosplay events. The anime community
Speaker 3: has a lot of interesting people. They're all full of love,
Speaker 3: but a lot of them are more introverted and just
Speaker 3: not sociably acceptable. You could say a lot of them
Speaker 3: smell that's like a big standard in his like deodoran stuff.
Speaker 3: So I've never had a weird situation where I've ever
Speaker 3: had to like duck out or go to a bathroom
Speaker 3: or hide. But there have been situations where I'll get
Speaker 3: so caught up with these combos with people because they
Speaker 3: love my stuff that it actually like almost makes me
Speaker 3: late to go to the next stage or something. So
Speaker 3: I'd be like, oh, yeah, like come over here and
Speaker 3: I'll introduce them to. What I would do is I
Speaker 3: call it the pawnoff. So I would go to a
Speaker 3: booth where I knew some of the vendors and they
Speaker 3: had great stuff.
Speaker 1: I was like, Hi, I just met this guy.
Speaker 3: This is like Carrie and Caitlin or whatever it is,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to introduce you guys so they can
Speaker 3: see some of your stuffy're time about. I got to
Speaker 3: go to the stage, So I would do the pawn off.
Speaker 3: But I never had to duck, dip, dodge, or any
Speaker 3: of the d's from dodgeball. So thankful these none of
Speaker 3: the Thankfully, it was all good. Yeah, it was all good.
Speaker 3: But a did move. I did have ben is for
Speaker 3: when we would do some meet and greets. There's a
Speaker 3: place out here in the City of Industry. It's called Frankinson's.
Speaker 3: It's like a giant convention area every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday,
Speaker 3: and it's like over two hundred vendors. They sell trading cards,
Speaker 3: anime collectibles, sports cards, you name it. It's like a
Speaker 3: giant place that's like a little mini convention. And so
Speaker 3: what we would do is every time we would set
Speaker 3: up a meet and greet, we would set it up
Speaker 3: there because then at least it's a public setting. We're
Speaker 3: all there enjoying ourselves and then say if it was
Speaker 3: weird or if somebody was just a little bit off
Speaker 3: or whatever it is, it was really easy to leave
Speaker 3: because we'd be like, all right, guys, we had to
Speaker 3: go to record a podcast or some content or anything.
Speaker 3: So we would set it up to have an easy out.
Speaker 3: But thankfully, again, I never had to do a Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift or duck you you know, in a kitchen or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 1: So no, no, I got Well, you mentioned Dodgeball and
Speaker 1: one of my favorite quotes from Dodgeball patches o'halan. If
Speaker 1: you can dodge a wrench.
Speaker 3: You dodgeball.
Speaker 1: It's a great quote. I love it. Dog quote. That's true,
Speaker 1: that is true, dodger wrench. That's not wrong, it's it's
Speaker 1: factually correct. It's a factually correct statement. And I think
Speaker 1: also in Dodgeball the quote that's a bold move cotton. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's also yes, bold move cut. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: big quotes that came out of it.
Speaker 3: It's a great movie.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Am I am? I being an old
Speaker 1: man saying I don't think the movies these days are
Speaker 1: as quotable. No they're not. Yeah, okay, trust so you
Speaker 1: agree with you? Oh movie, young guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben, seventies, eighties, nineties and some early two thousands
Speaker 3: are best of the cinematography we had. It's crazy to
Speaker 3: say most stuff now is just streaming. It's it's they
Speaker 3: don't want to do movies because Hollywood.
Speaker 1: But well, yeah, I and even the streaming stuff is
Speaker 1: like is it what? What are There's nothing? Everyone's watching?
Speaker 1: You know what? I mean, like the thing about Dodgeball
Speaker 1: is in those days, you had to go see the
Speaker 1: movies because there was not much else. Everything's so spread
Speaker 1: out across the piece of bread that you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit here, a little bit there. But there's no
Speaker 1: communal movies where you have to watch.
Speaker 3: There's too many options too, if you think about it,
Speaker 3: just too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't even stay awake in the movie a
Speaker 1: movie theater. I fall. Do you knock out? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1: My wife last movie I saw was like the Barbie
Speaker 1: movie last year. Okay, w like, let's go see that.
Speaker 1: And I said, my deal is always get me a
Speaker 1: popcorn or whatever and I'll, you know, I'll sit through
Speaker 1: the movie. She gives me popcorn and within like ten minutes,
Speaker 1: I'm just no kidding. Yeah, I'm just snoozing.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fall asleep like I don't. I'm a terrible
Speaker 1: sleeper too. Really, Yeah, I don't sleep. Well, let's see
Speaker 1: what's next, Pierre writes in from Springfield, mass He says
Speaker 1: technology update says I do not know if this is
Speaker 1: a result of the latest Apple iPhone update or if
Speaker 1: this has always been an option, but he says that
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Now they have a transcript which is
Speaker 1: now available. You can read alongside listening to our podcast.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: AI integration Baby, that's AI my man, the world over
Speaker 3: my mind.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he sent me a screenshot. That's pretty cool. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's pretty neat. It's my my bloviating and a Mallord
Speaker 1: monologue is all written down and you can read along.
Speaker 1: See when I'm watching movies, my wife likes to have captions, right,
Speaker 1: get captions. I don't really like it takes away from it.
Speaker 1: I want to. I don't want to read it, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to enjoy it. I want
Speaker 1: to let it breathe in my had I want to
Speaker 1: read it. I get book. Yeah, exactly exactly What is next?
Speaker 1: Nick in Wisconsin rights and says, hey, Ben and Alex
Speaker 1: when you are traveling, do you rent a car or
Speaker 1: use uber to get around? Also, Ben, when is there
Speaker 1: going to be a Benny Award for the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: contributor of the year. Oh, that's a great point, Nick,
Speaker 1: And that is an oversight. We have not had any
Speaker 1: Contributor of the Year for the Fifth Hour. We'll have
Speaker 1: to add that next year. I think that's a great
Speaker 1: idea that's a bad job by the Blue Ribbon Panel.
Speaker 1: As far as traveling, yeah, we normally normally rant a car.
Speaker 1: What I like to do is rent a car and
Speaker 1: drive around a region and kind of soak it all in.
Speaker 1: Like I've I've done. I've driven through Pennsylvania from Philly
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, drove up to Buffalo, down to New York.
Speaker 1: I've driven all the New England states. I've driven around
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and all the way through Wisconsin up to Green
Speaker 1: Bay down to Kenosha, Chicago. I got to me, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I love just exploring places I
Speaker 1: haven't been. So you can't really do that in an uber.
Speaker 1: So you got to have a rental car, right, And
Speaker 1: they're very expensive and it's a pain in the ass,
Speaker 1: and but yeah, I prefer a car. What about you
Speaker 1: when you've traveled a bunch recently.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, So for me, which is fun is like
Speaker 3: I love how I grew up been and my mom
Speaker 3: always said, never get in a car with strangers. And
Speaker 3: now I like call strangers all the time to pick
Speaker 3: me up. It's hitchhiking and shiking Hitchhiker's guy to the Galaxy.
Speaker 1: But no, for myself.
Speaker 3: What I really love is if I go somewhere new
Speaker 3: and I don't plan to do too much traveling outside
Speaker 3: of just basically the event, or if it's just some
Speaker 3: kind of podcasting gig or just visiting somebody, Right, I
Speaker 3: personally like if I don't have somebody there to drive
Speaker 3: me around and show me places that they enjoy to
Speaker 3: do ubers or lyft or whatever, because then I can
Speaker 3: ask the people there where I should go, what they like,
Speaker 3: what's their favorite spot, what's a good place to eat,
Speaker 3: what's a good place to go, maybe just wander around.
Speaker 3: And I've always been very intrinsically like surprised with how
Speaker 3: open these people are. They're always super pumped to talk
Speaker 3: about their place they live and where they know. And
Speaker 3: sometimes they even tell me like, yeah, just shoot me
Speaker 3: a text, and I like, I'll bring you somewhere.
Speaker 1: Are cool?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's always been a good time. I
Speaker 3: like being part of the people, So it's been fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are generally proud of where Yes they live. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's why they live there, That's what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: who better to ask?
Speaker 3: Like if I ever go to a different country, bench
Speaker 3: so like say Macedonia with my family, or like Bosnia,
Speaker 3: hed Schlovina or Greece or whatever. I don't like to
Speaker 3: go to touristy spots. I'll go right into the dead center
Speaker 3: of town and just walk around and wherever I see
Speaker 3: people going, I'll go there too. Have a bunch of
Speaker 3: people are eating here, let's go see what's up. Like
Speaker 3: I like just becoming a part of the aura. It's
Speaker 3: so much fun.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I've had this conversation with my my wife,
Speaker 1: who you know, she likes to goes. He actually wants
Speaker 1: to go to Europe a lot with me. We haven't
Speaker 1: been together. She went when she was younger, and you know,
Speaker 1: she likes the big city stuff. But I love just
Speaker 1: like I could be as happy. I love Minnesota. Minnesota
Speaker 1: was awesome, Theapoles was great, Milwaukee, you know, those nice
Speaker 1: Midwestern cities just kind of cool, just you know, seeing
Speaker 1: how people lived. But she's like, eh, they're they're all
Speaker 1: the same, you know, No, they're not. The things are
Speaker 1: different about the cities. And you know, I've been to
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and it's different than you know, Detroit or whatever.
Speaker 1: So anyway, what's next, Mike in Fullerton? Right since says
Speaker 1: Knetschiwa Ben and Alex. My question is more in Ben's
Speaker 1: wheelhouse this weekend. But feel free to pitch that in
Speaker 1: Alex if you have any ad uh And Mike says I,
Speaker 1: I'd like you guys to settle the subs versus dubs
Speaker 1: debate in the anime community once and for all. Should
Speaker 1: all anime be watched in its original language with subtitles
Speaker 1: or is it okay to watch it dubbed into English? Personally,
Speaker 1: I watch a mix of both. Well, Mike, you've turned
Speaker 1: to the right guy. I am missing your anime. Okay.
Speaker 3: Ben is my influence, let me tell you. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 3: that Ben is my muse.
Speaker 1: Alex is just pretending to be in I've never watched
Speaker 1: an a but yeah, these tattoos are fake.
Speaker 3: By the way, Ben, this entire sleeve event, it's all alive.
Speaker 1: It's all rus, it's all alie. So you want to
Speaker 1: take that one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'll say this, okay, as somebody who loves the
Speaker 3: Japanese culture and has not been to Japan because I
Speaker 3: will not come back, I will say when you watch
Speaker 3: cultural entertainment pieces in their distinct language, it only increases
Speaker 3: it that much more. For the enjoyment of what you're experiencing. So,
Speaker 3: for example, why would I go to an Italian restaurant
Speaker 3: and tell the chef how I want him to make
Speaker 3: pastel zul or the fetichini alfredo. You you get what's
Speaker 3: there and you enjoy it the way they give it
Speaker 3: to you. So, from my aspects, and I've seen plenty
Speaker 3: of sub and dub sub voice actors are just more
Speaker 3: integrated with the characters and truly become the role, whereas
Speaker 3: a lot of these English voice actors they're a always
Speaker 3: trying to basically create their own persona and make it them,
Speaker 3: which they shouldn't do. That's what's the difference between like
Speaker 3: method acting and relacting, etc. That's why there's so many
Speaker 3: different varieties of it. So I can just say this
Speaker 3: in the most distinguisha ways. If you really want the experience,
Speaker 3: you want to increase your reading ability, you want to
Speaker 3: really indulge yourself into the culture and experience the show
Speaker 3: as it should be. And to see how they get
Speaker 3: so involved so descriptive. I mean, shoot, there's a new
Speaker 3: show out right now that's taking over the world called
Speaker 3: Solo Leveling. It's airing every Saturday. The voice actor had
Speaker 3: to go to the hospital after episode two because he
Speaker 3: was bleeding. His voice was literally coughing off of blood
Speaker 3: because of how involved he got into the scene, and
Speaker 3: it was pretty horrific and it was crazy to see.
Speaker 3: So for me, I can see when somebody else tries
Speaker 3: to do their twist on something else, it's never the same.
Speaker 3: And I do believe that people can enjoy DUB. It's
Speaker 3: still a great watch. Some people don't like to read
Speaker 3: like we just mentioned, and I think it is a
Speaker 3: good experience. But if you want to get it for
Speaker 3: what it is, it's always sub. It's superior. It's way better.
Speaker 3: But there aren't shows that I preferred in DUB, so
Speaker 3: I would be lying to say that you shouldn't watch
Speaker 3: it in your preference. It's just Sub is superior in
Speaker 3: my opinion.
Speaker 1: There you go. He answered the question. Ozzie was right
Speaker 1: and from Western Australia on the mail bag. He said, hey,
Speaker 1: big Ben and Alex, see here a simple question. What
Speaker 1: is your favorite condiment on burgers, sandwiches or even chicken tenders.
Speaker 1: I like the hot chili sauce. Ozsie was says, So
Speaker 1: it depends on my mood. I'm a honey, mustard, barbecue. Guy.
Speaker 1: Generally for like chicken, I usually go with that, but
Speaker 1: Alex is the vegan, so it's very difficult for you
Speaker 1: to answer.
Speaker 3: I do have When you won't like, though, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you that, then me guess the devil's blood. I do
Speaker 3: love a Sacha ranch plan I can't even I really
Speaker 3: like a Sacha ranch.
Speaker 1: I've been eating occasionally eat cheese curds from Wisconsin, and
Speaker 1: I like the garlic Aolie bomb super bomb, garlic Aolie
Speaker 1: solid solid. So this some of the things, uh, alf
Speaker 1: from the line at the porta potty rights, since there's
Speaker 1: anything worse than going into the bathroom after a vegan
Speaker 1: has dropped the deuce. Wow, shots fired by out, Shots
Speaker 1: fired at Alf? Oh over there, Alex, can I throw
Speaker 1: fire back?
Speaker 2: Ben?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Go ahead.
Speaker 3: So I'll say this number one. You should be grateful
Speaker 3: because if they're a true vegan and they're eating plants
Speaker 3: and vegetables, we just bless your toilet because not only
Speaker 3: is it gonna smell good, we'll leave no stains on
Speaker 3: the side because that is only from meat products. Okay,
Speaker 3: and third off, third off, we are so quick with
Speaker 3: it because our fiber intake is so quick. I literally
Speaker 3: sit down it's out to wipe some up. You don't
Speaker 3: even have to wait for me. So all I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say is your loss.
Speaker 1: Okay, your loss. Wow, you're saying you have magical poopy.
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
Speaker 3: I've actually seen Ben there is a legit website that
Speaker 3: would pay top dollar for people who are plant based
Speaker 3: their poopoo, just saying, just.
Speaker 1: Saying, well, there's people will pay for it. That's true
Speaker 1: that they go for it. All right, what is next year?
Speaker 1: Let's see, we'll skip over that one page down, Ryan
Speaker 1: writes in. Ryan C. Says, Hey, hey boys, I'm from
Speaker 1: a small town called Shrewsbury, mass and the Commonwealth, and
Speaker 1: I have listened to every podcast in full since October
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three. Wow, it's very kind of here
Speaker 1: we are in March. My question is that I have
Speaker 1: been to northern California in twenty sixteen, specifically San Francisco.
Speaker 1: But I want to go back to California, but to
Speaker 1: the southern part, like La and all that. So you
Speaker 1: both live in southern California. What would you guys recommend
Speaker 1: doing and seeing when I get out there with the wife.
Speaker 1: So Ryan is asking for some recommendations here, okay, and
Speaker 1: let's see what the beach is.
Speaker 3: Obviously absolutely the spot. I gotta go out to Venice
Speaker 3: and just watch people. People watch so much fun like
Speaker 3: Venice like a zoo. Yes it's a concrete jungle man.
Speaker 1: Go there's a bunch of little beach towns if you want,
Speaker 1: all the way down the coast Highway one is a
Speaker 1: really cool drive.
Speaker 3: Maybe just cruise.
Speaker 1: You can cruise all the way up to central California
Speaker 1: and down Santa Barbara amazing. No billboards in Santa Barbara,
Speaker 1: against the law to have billboards in Santa Blar beautiful.
Speaker 1: You get the all the way down if you want,
Speaker 1: you can go to what it's the town I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of there. It's kind of below San Francisco, I forget,
Speaker 1: but there's a there's some really cool beach towns just
Speaker 1: along the coast there. And then if you want to
Speaker 1: go hang out with all the people that think they're
Speaker 1: important in Malibu, a lot of traffic. I don't recommend
Speaker 1: that the work your way, work your way down and
Speaker 1: all the way down to the beautiful beaches in Orange County,
Speaker 1: Hunting Beach and Newport Beach, which is amazing, just just
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely great there. So yeah, there's there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of wonderful beaches, and then it's sort as like the
Speaker 1: restaurants and stuff like that. I would avoid the tourist places. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know what your favorite food is, Ryan. We
Speaker 1: do have the number one pastrami sandwich if you're into
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And Langer's Delhi in LA which
Speaker 1: is really good, some great Mexican food here. And there's
Speaker 1: obviously the tourist traps, but I don't think the tourist
Speaker 1: traps are the spots. They're just well too much. You know.
Speaker 3: That's like wine country. It's like more my area in
Speaker 3: Corona area had some great wineries and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Out there.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful land, just open farmland that's really nice too. Norco, Horsetown, USA,
Speaker 3: it's like basically like Norco.
Speaker 1: Yes, Ryan, come from Shrewsbury Master Norcoe. Yes, that is true.
Speaker 1: No one else has ever given that advice. You're the
Speaker 1: only one in the history of podcasting as to recommend
Speaker 1: a guy coming to southern California with his wife on
Speaker 1: vacation go to Norco.
Speaker 3: Beautiful place, more horses than people.
Speaker 1: You'll love it. Wow, that is outstanding advice. Nobody else
Speaker 1: has that. Also, I don't know how much you're into entertainment, Ryan,
Speaker 1: there's some What I think is kind of cool is
Speaker 1: driving around where they film famous movies and TV shows,
Speaker 1: a lot of those, And that's not the I'm not
Speaker 1: the Hollywood part, but just in neighborhoods around southern California.
Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy if you want to see some
Speaker 1: of that stuff. I used to go to the Brady
Speaker 1: Bunch House all the time, for example, because I'm old
Speaker 1: and it's actually not far away from where our studios are,
Speaker 1: so that was one of my spots. You know, the
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters fire Station is actually in skid row in La. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Ghostbusters fire Station. So if you want to get shanked,
Speaker 1: you can go down there with your wife and look
Speaker 1: at where the Ghostbusters fire station is. Fun time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ian in New Mexico writes in he says, hey, Ben
Speaker 1: and Alex, what acress? What actress from your youth made
Speaker 1: you first start paying attention to the ladies? He says,
Speaker 1: I'll start for him. Ian says Linda Carter, especially when
Speaker 1: I found my dad's Playboy with her. That really made
Speaker 1: some things pop there for ian back in the day
Speaker 1: safe to say, yeah, I don't know if there was
Speaker 1: like one. I was like a teenager. I guess when
Speaker 1: I've reference is Pam Anderson. There were there were, there
Speaker 1: were women before before her that moved the needle. Sure
Speaker 1: shall we say, but what about you? You're younger than
Speaker 1: me any any moment there, Alex were just kind of connected.
Speaker 1: You're like, this is something I could be into here.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a man, back in sixth grade, I
Speaker 3: was just always so intrinsically just pulled to women.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: They were just so divine, so elegantly designed right but
Speaker 3: for us like actresses and stuff. I remember when I
Speaker 3: because Disney Channel was a big thing for me growing up.
Speaker 3: We had Disney Loading, et cetera. And I remember there
Speaker 3: was this one it was Lizzie McGuire show, and I
Speaker 3: remember watching her name was Hillary Duff, the actress, and
Speaker 3: I was just like, man, something about her makes me
Speaker 3: want to actually get a job when I grow up
Speaker 3: and do something to impress the like. I just remember
Speaker 3: watching Hillary Duff in the way she carried herself, how
Speaker 3: she articulated herself, and it was just so consuming because
Speaker 3: from a persona of watching like a girl be an actress.
Speaker 3: It was just so cool to see this beautiful woman
Speaker 3: doing all these different type of charactures and stuff. And
Speaker 3: then also Hannah Montana with Miley Cyrus, but she didn't
Speaker 3: turn out great at all. So thank god I don't
Speaker 3: have any you know, interest in her anymore, because that
Speaker 3: was woof. She definitely went. She came in like a
Speaker 3: wrecking ball. Ben, Let's just say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you, I hear you. I see what
Speaker 1: you did there. Thanks Stewie. What else do we have here?
Speaker 1: John from o'fallen, Illinois, just outside of Saint Louis, over
Speaker 1: the river from Saint Louis, right city's he was. John
Speaker 1: knows I get into I get into beefs with certain
Speaker 1: people at work. So he says one of our competitors
Speaker 1: as an evening producer who thinks he's some kind of star.
Speaker 1: John says, he's telling me this Alex to make me
Speaker 1: feel better about the people we work with. He says,
Speaker 1: this guy will jump on sometimes and respond to callers
Speaker 1: questions or correct them ahead of the host of the
Speaker 1: of the show. John says, I heard him say to
Speaker 1: the host, let me take this one.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: That's a big ball move. Wow, that is a big
Speaker 1: ball move. John says it's a shame because the host
Speaker 1: of the show is not all that bad. But there
Speaker 1: you go. He has lackey that kills.
Speaker 3: The show interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I don't know who that is, John,
Speaker 1: But I do enjoy good stories from you as the
Speaker 1: consumer room and radio and what you think of that?
Speaker 1: Dan and Ohio do a couple more, Dan and Ohio, right,
Speaker 1: since this gentleman, are you guys going to be getting
Speaker 1: a cyber truck? I have seen a couple. He also
Speaker 1: sends a story here of a cyber truck being stuck
Speaker 1: on a beach. Uh, stuck in the sand. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't actually think they look that good that that's
Speaker 1: an unpopular opinion. I think they look like something I
Speaker 1: would have made in wood shop class if I were
Speaker 1: trying to make a truck, Yes, in a wood shop class.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean they're they're theyre apparently very well
Speaker 1: made from what we've read.
Speaker 3: I hope so because the Tesla's aren't, so hopefully these
Speaker 3: are better.
Speaker 1: Uh Lee and Chicago writes in. Uh says Been and
Speaker 1: Alex is a story going around this week. That said,
Speaker 1: lazy teachers use chat GPT to grade papers.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've seen.
Speaker 1: Do you do you use chat GPT to do your
Speaker 1: malard monologues? No? I wish I did. They'd be a
Speaker 1: lot probably be a lot better. And uh, yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 1: I I don't think I uh, I'm into that. Steven
Speaker 1: Seattle says, uh, what is Alex the Vegan's favorite motivational speaker? Oh?
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite of you? Into that?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 3: I would say, of a motivational guy yourself, Alan Watts.
Speaker 1: Alan Watts, Yeah, what about him resonating with you?
Speaker 3: I kind of just stumbled across some of his things
Speaker 3: and things he was talking about and his kind of
Speaker 3: persona on the world and spirituality in himself. And he
Speaker 3: turned his whole life into basically trying to find a
Speaker 3: better way to not only conversate with people, but to
Speaker 3: help people see more so attributes outside of just modern
Speaker 3: day Eastern or e's gonna be Western teachings. He was
Speaker 3: very big into Eastern societies and cultures and studying in
Speaker 3: Buddhism and Hinduism. And I just love the fact of
Speaker 3: somebody going in a sense a different direction within modern
Speaker 3: day standards and so he fine tuned himself so well.
Speaker 3: The things he would talk about, it just almost resonated
Speaker 3: with you with thinking to yourself, man, it's nice to
Speaker 3: know somebody else out there in a sense kind of
Speaker 3: understood more of what he was and was understanding more
Speaker 3: of self. And so it kind of it's crazy because
Speaker 3: I never really listened to anybody, but as soon as
Speaker 3: like little things by his trickled into my social media
Speaker 3: and I just I would sit there and tell myself,
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, it's it's good to know I'm on
Speaker 3: the right track, as there was people before me who
Speaker 3: were also following that kind of same atonement. So it's
Speaker 3: it's I'm such a fan of his stuff.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at a photo I've never heard of
Speaker 1: this guy, Alan watch and I could see you as
Speaker 1: you ate, that's what I'm saying, becoming him. You kind
Speaker 1: of look like that.
Speaker 3: It's I don't know if you know about past lives
Speaker 3: and stuff, but it trips me out how this guy
Speaker 3: resonated with me and I've never even knew about the dude.
Speaker 1: It's a trip. Yeah, he's been dead for a while.
Speaker 1: He died. He died before I was alone. Yes, and
Speaker 1: I'm getting old, so big fan of man. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could put a pipe in your mouth and beads around. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a trip, isn't it.
Speaker 1: There's one left? It's political? Should we bother with that? Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I love Okay, all right? Mike
Speaker 1: from Florida writes in I love it, I says not
Speaker 1: to get political. You guys, did you guys vote on
Speaker 1: Super Tuesday? And also he says, I saw this story
Speaker 1: that Wall Street is hedging its bets on Don Trump
Speaker 1: with Joe Biden? Can you put your political political cap on?
Speaker 1: What does this actually mean? Okay? So I did vote.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you voted, Alex, I know I
Speaker 3: don't like voting anymore. No, no, no, you do not vote.
Speaker 1: Okay. I voted, and I was. It made me feel
Speaker 1: good because I was the youngest person to vote. Everyone
Speaker 1: was much older than me that was voting when I
Speaker 1: was voting, So that made me feel good. As far
Speaker 1: as this Wall Street thing, yeah, I mean hedging their
Speaker 1: bets from from a business standpoint, Trump would be better
Speaker 1: for business than Biden. Sure, but they must not see
Speaker 1: I often. Let me rephrase it. So Alex on the
Speaker 1: radio show, when I we talk about certain point spreads,
Speaker 1: I would say, go to the gambling market to find
Speaker 1: out what's going to happen with the free agent who's favored,
Speaker 1: because they're never that far off because they have skin
Speaker 1: in the game, Wall Street. If you go behind the
Speaker 1: scenes here and peel back the onion. Oh yeah, they
Speaker 1: decide who the president is.
Speaker 3: Yep, always do. It's not us, trust me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so that's a big part of it. Yes,
Speaker 1: And if they're hedging their bets on Trump with Biden,
Speaker 1: that either means a they don't know who's going to win,
Speaker 1: they're not convinced of it, or they think what's the
Speaker 1: other scenario. They think one of them is not going
Speaker 1: to maybe make it, so they how to cover themselves
Speaker 1: with the other.
Speaker 3: One possibly possibly Well. It's also like with just the
Speaker 3: whole state of the economy right now and inflation, et cetera.
Speaker 3: It's a weird place to be and it's kind of
Speaker 3: weighing on a lot of different things, not just presidency itself.
Speaker 3: And that's why I like the conversation of politics because
Speaker 3: to me, I've never been somebody who really is focused
Speaker 3: on voting for one or the other, because I know
Speaker 3: the only way you'll really make any type of implemental
Speaker 3: changes at your local level around you before it gets
Speaker 3: up to the lobbying and stuff, because that's where I
Speaker 3: just tell people all the time, like, if you don't
Speaker 3: know that lobbying exists and lobbyist is actually a thing,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty almost kind of curious as to how you
Speaker 3: think anything really matters at the top scale, et cetera.
Speaker 3: But to me, all I know is that there's definitely
Speaker 3: something that's going to happen with all this coming up,
Speaker 3: and especially with how it's been moving forward. Because number one,
Speaker 3: just seeing like the fact we only still have in
Speaker 3: this type of age ben and like social media and
Speaker 3: influence and insights into just any information, right, how are
Speaker 3: we still stuck in a two political system? Blows my mind,
Speaker 3: Like we're just literally stuck with this dude or this dude,
Speaker 3: and we literally have a predominant statement always saying, oh,
Speaker 3: it's the it's the better of the two evils, the
Speaker 3: better of the worst. It's how are we still at
Speaker 3: this level? To me, it blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Well, you get to a certain point if nothing lasts forever,
Speaker 1: at some point will be blown up. I'm ready for that.
Speaker 1: Like the state of Texas will leave the Union, which
Speaker 1: is close or whatever. That'll who knows, that might be
Speaker 1: the next big thing, right, it just leaves the United
Speaker 1: States and that'll be wild. And then if one state leaves,
Speaker 1: there'll be others still go. Yeah, you'll have It'll be
Speaker 1: like Africa where there's a bunch of different countries. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: in America, which would be wild and crazy and all that.
Speaker 1: But it's like with polity. I have friends of mine.
Speaker 1: I'm I lean a certain direction. I think you're listening
Speaker 1: to the podcast, you know which direction I lean politically,
Speaker 1: And in California they lean the other way. And it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have friends of mine and are like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I even bother vote. Well, nothing lasts forever, you know.
Speaker 1: California was the other way and then it went this way.
Speaker 1: It goes back and forth. Sometimes it takes a long time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes a couple of generations, but it does
Speaker 1: go back and forth. So anyway, all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out on that. Alex, thank you for being here all
Speaker 1: the weekend. I appreciate it. You're the man my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank you for moving me how can people hear you elsewhere?
Speaker 1: And I know they hear you with Jason and occasionally
Speaker 1: chime in there with Rob Parkers, those guys for sure.
Speaker 1: If they want to hear your own work, your own podcast,
Speaker 1: your own Alan Watts like yes, yes.
Speaker 3: So if you would like to have some more inspiration
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Speaker 3: And if you're still an anime too, or you want
Speaker 3: to get introduced to culture, cultural entertainment that's outside of
Speaker 3: the American infrastructure and you know the empire it is,
Speaker 3: and have something that's more attuned with you know the
Speaker 3: whole value of just growing up in tradition and culture
Speaker 3: and just morals and values and especially good just hand
Speaker 3: drawn stuff that's almost going away with AI. Just look
Speaker 3: up anime Sempi podcast. I have so much fun. I
Speaker 3: love doing what I do and I do it just
Speaker 3: simply for everybody. Because I haven't sold a single ad
Speaker 3: or promotion, even though I've had plenty of people who
Speaker 3: have asked, I don't do it for money. I do
Speaker 3: it for you guys.
Speaker 1: Well, money's kind of you know, it does help, it does.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm just saying, you know, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you.
Speaker 3: Know, you're trying. You're right, You're right, and I'm just
Speaker 3: trying to sound good right now. You're cool.
Speaker 1: Thank you, very cool. Thank you all. Have a great day.
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