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Speaker 1: all the NFL playoff games inside the Magic Radio Box,
Speaker 1: and we'll be doing that tonight into the early morning
Speaker 1: hours on Monday, two am Monday morning to six am,
Speaker 1: and then, of course, as you know, Sunday night, eleven
Speaker 1: pm in the west, two three three in the morning
Speaker 1: we were joined again by west of the four oh
Speaker 1: five David Gascon right over there here, I'm here, not
Speaker 1: to be confused with the District Attorney of Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: that's a different guest. Would not allow criminals to run
Speaker 1: scott free across this great wide world, or especially believe
Speaker 1: in law and for it, you believe in the laws
Speaker 1: and law and order and things like, Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I do acknowledge that needs to be some retuning, some refining,
Speaker 1: some recalibrating of of law enforcement practices. But nevertheless, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not down for any kind of anarchy or any
Speaker 1: other bullshit that's happening in our world right now. Understandable,
Speaker 1: understand So this is a mail bag. Yes, we haven't
Speaker 1: done a mail bag in a while. We have not
Speaker 1: answered the people's questions. There probably is not a lot
Speaker 1: of people whining, complaining, bitching to an any other bullshit
Speaker 1: that they do. So I'm happy about that. Oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of people complaining and whining and all
Speaker 1: of that. Yes, that never ends. Did I'm a pilot,
Speaker 1: send you a note. Yes, actually he did. Good. Let
Speaker 1: me let me get that up. Hold on a sake,
Speaker 1: let me get that up. We haven't heard from him
Speaker 1: in a long time. So now he did. He said
Speaker 1: very nice. In fact, he sent um, I believe he
Speaker 1: sent something to that. I need to I need to
Speaker 1: pick up my mail here. But I believe there is
Speaker 1: something in the queue there for me and probably for you.
Speaker 1: But I heard they moved the mail from where the
Speaker 1: mail was. No, they didn't move the mail. Ben They
Speaker 1: took all the mail and just put it on top
Speaker 1: of a fucking table. He just said, go figure it out. Really,
Speaker 1: that's all they did. Yeah, so this seemed like a
Speaker 1: good strategy. But I shouldn't criticize. I should not criticize.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem it seems right. It almost feels like
Speaker 1: Christmas in a way, because you just have a table
Speaker 1: that's just littered with mail and packages, and you're trying
Speaker 1: to situate all of it and separate those from yours
Speaker 1: and mine from his. So I'm a pilot. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much of this he wants me to read
Speaker 1: on the air or not, but he sounded very nice.
Speaker 1: Note a couple of nice notes. He had a trip
Speaker 1: to Tahiti recently, and he says he says he knew
Speaker 1: I liked Hawaiian. I got married in Hawaiian. I love Hawaiian.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Tahiti. And so he sent me
Speaker 1: some photos. They're gorgeous and uh, yeah, it's pretty cool
Speaker 1: there you go, and uh it flies a plane all
Speaker 1: around the world there and whatnot. And he's got a
Speaker 1: pretty good life. You got a couple of kids. He
Speaker 1: just loved sports. He's flying all over the place there
Speaker 1: and he sent a very nice note. I do appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and it was cool because it was pretty awesome. He
Speaker 1: sent a photo this will Anoi you gas go on.
Speaker 1: So it's from the cockpit and he's got his meal
Speaker 1: in front of him, which has way too many vegetable
Speaker 1: looks like salmon, looks like salmon. He's got a fruit.
Speaker 1: I'd eat the watermelon, I think the I'd eat the
Speaker 1: orange there. I don't know about the blueberries. A lot
Speaker 1: of vegetables. He's heats a healthy life, this guy. It's good.
Speaker 1: But he put a note it was really neat. It
Speaker 1: touched me on the on the steering wheel for this
Speaker 1: big plane, Ben Mallard in the air everywhere. Come on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how cool is that? I had a big chech ire
Speaker 1: cat smile on my face. I was like, that's pretty neat, man,
Speaker 1: man's cool. That was awesome. So he didn't have your
Speaker 1: name anywhere? Guy, I didn't see gascon anywhere I see
Speaker 1: my name. I did not see Gascon. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been to Tehiti? Never? Never? I wonder what the length
Speaker 1: of the flight is because Hawaii from l A to
Speaker 1: Tona lou it's what five hours? Yeah, so it's longer
Speaker 1: going than coming back because you're going against the jet
Speaker 1: jet stream so but yeah, yeah, it's it's beauty. It
Speaker 1: looks beautiful on the photos there. Did he send me
Speaker 1: a night shot or was the daytime he said? He
Speaker 1: said a couple of plots. There was one as the
Speaker 1: sun was setting, which was beautiful, and then he had
Speaker 1: one gi of this resort. I guess that's where he
Speaker 1: was staying there. And there's a couple of big pools
Speaker 1: and little huts and then the water out in front
Speaker 1: of it. It's just looks awesome, beautiful place. But I
Speaker 1: have to get there at some point check it out.
Speaker 1: So thanks to I'm a pilot. Very kind of you.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your your kindness, and I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: to get to the dude. I don't know how I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick up the mail though, because I always I
Speaker 1: went to a certain spot, nails not there, and well,
Speaker 1: you know, I could always rummage through that and take
Speaker 1: a look and see, I'm good. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: crime to open another persons to crime, and he was
Speaker 1: gonna come after criminal. The good news is that Gascon
Speaker 1: will not punish you for that, so you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about it. Yeah, yeah, oh, don't don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about it at all. The thing I do
Speaker 1: miss with your mail is that annually you would always
Speaker 1: get UM media vouchers or passes for Santa Anita. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I loved going to Santa Anita. UM was awesome hang
Speaker 1: out day with the ponies, and they gave me every
Speaker 1: year they would send me a v I P pass
Speaker 1: parking everything, and I loved it. I haven't I missed
Speaker 1: that too. I miss missed going out to the track
Speaker 1: and it was always always a lot of fun. But
Speaker 1: like this, that's not fund has been canceled. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have mail you want mail. We got mail, all right,
Speaker 1: we have this one was sent in actually was saying
Speaker 1: in a while, I go, we'll use it now. This
Speaker 1: is from j A k. Ozzy momentum, he says, a
Speaker 1: mail bad question. What is your favorite body of water
Speaker 1: and its location? For example, I got married on this
Speaker 1: awesome beach here in southwestern Australia called meal Up Beach. Clarify,
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for riverpool beach. I'm talking about a
Speaker 1: specific location, all right, so Ozzy momentum. For me, it
Speaker 1: is in Kauai. When you land at the airport in Kauai,
Speaker 1: you go north. There's only one highway there and between
Speaker 1: the three and four mile marker there's a dirt road.
Speaker 1: You go down the dirt road. There's a lot of potholes.
Speaker 1: You go to the end of the dirt road. There's
Speaker 1: a little park. You park there and there is a
Speaker 1: deserted beach with no human beings around. And it is
Speaker 1: the most beautiful beach you have ever seen. Perfect weather,
Speaker 1: the sands, wonderful, unfettered by ugly human beings for the
Speaker 1: most part. And that is my my favorite beach. And
Speaker 1: that's actually the beach we got married on. So when
Speaker 1: we go to Kauai back on a vacation. We always
Speaker 1: and we've been there a few times and hopefully go
Speaker 1: again soon. We we always go to that spot. You
Speaker 1: guys have never been to the Bahamas? Right? No, never
Speaker 1: been the Bahamas. I was supposed to go. Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio sent everyone to the Bahamas for the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: years ago except me. What so, Yeah, they had that
Speaker 1: big resort down there, they had a promotion, they were
Speaker 1: a sponsor and they sent everyone went to the Bahamas
Speaker 1: to Yeah, I I was not. I say everyone except me,
Speaker 1: and they were like two other people that didn't go.
Speaker 1: That's unreal. Yeah, I did not, did not make it
Speaker 1: app what's your favorite body of water? I guess, and
Speaker 1: specifically I think probably the Gulf of Mexico. My sister
Speaker 1: and her husband and the kids, they live in Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: and she took me to St. Petersburg and I mean,
Speaker 1: you know this, The sand was white and you can
Speaker 1: see your feet when you get into the water. It
Speaker 1: was absolutely gorgeous. There's calm and peaceful, and I know
Speaker 1: different seasons it's hurricane season and whatnot, and uh a
Speaker 1: little bit while down there, but yeah, it's it's absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1: In that area. The thing about the beach I love,
Speaker 1: I will. I don't usually go in the beach in
Speaker 1: California because water is usually disgusting in l A, I
Speaker 1: don't go in the water. Like, if I go to
Speaker 1: the beach, I'll look at it, I'll walk, maybe I
Speaker 1: put my feet in, but I won't like swim. But
Speaker 1: if the water is clear, I mean you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like Hawaii, places like that. Oh it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. When I when I went to
Speaker 1: to Europe a couple of years ago, there was these
Speaker 1: little coves in Portugal where you can do cliff diving
Speaker 1: off of and it was gorgeous. The only problem is
Speaker 1: is that you could see to the bottom of the
Speaker 1: you know, of the bed that you were in in
Speaker 1: that lake or that river spot. The only problem is
Speaker 1: you couldn't gauge your depth. So when you jumped off
Speaker 1: these cliffs, you didn't know. I mean, we went with
Speaker 1: guys that were professional cliff jumpers and stuff. You let
Speaker 1: the other guy go first. Yeah, that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 1: So he's just like, hey, you're jumping here and in
Speaker 1: this direction, don't go that way, and don't do anything else,
Speaker 1: and so we did just that. The water was was
Speaker 1: obviously beautiful, cold as fuck, but it was pretty nice. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: what else do we heavy here? Let's see? Uh? Any
Speaker 1: menimny mo? Uh? This question? Who sent this one? In?
Speaker 1: This is from Brian from Parts Unknown. He says, I
Speaker 1: listened to the Fifth Hour, but when I asked Google
Speaker 1: to play the last episode of the best of the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallor Show, it always comes up the fifth Hour?
Speaker 1: Is that right? I don't know. Uh interesting, there's no
Speaker 1: big deal. But one time it played a song by
Speaker 1: Michael Buble. What it seems odd to me? Kevin in
Speaker 1: Kansas rites and he says, I teach high school English.
Speaker 1: What were you like in high school with English? You
Speaker 1: have a way with words, So I imagine you were
Speaker 1: that way or did you realize that gift later on? Kevin,
Speaker 1: much later on. I was not a good high school student.
Speaker 1: I just kind of passed skated by in high school,
Speaker 1: barely got out of high school. And be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I just I was not into it. But as I've
Speaker 1: gotten older, I have the great thing about the Internet
Speaker 1: as you can educate yourself, which is pretty cool, and
Speaker 1: so I've always had a passion as an adult for words.
Speaker 1: And I pointed out in the past that all we
Speaker 1: have in radio and audio broadcasting is words we don't
Speaker 1: we can't show you anything we're not on camera. And
Speaker 1: so I I learned. I've been inspired by certain people, Um,
Speaker 1: Brian Wheeler, we've had on the podcast Wheels the voice
Speaker 1: of the Trailblazers, a friend of mine, and he would
Speaker 1: always use these big words. And Vince Scully would use
Speaker 1: some words I've never heard of before watching dodging games
Speaker 1: grown up. And but just in general, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you you you can say the same thing but
Speaker 1: using different words and it sounds a lot better. And
Speaker 1: in some words that I just love. They're fun to say,
Speaker 1: like hoodwinked or bamboozled or hornswoggled, like words like that.
Speaker 1: I love those type of words. And skullduggery not a
Speaker 1: word that's regularly is. You don't hear skullduggery all that much.
Speaker 1: But it's a fun word, and you know, you can
Speaker 1: you can have a good time with that and all
Speaker 1: those all those things. So but it in high school enough.
Speaker 1: If you if you met me in high school, this
Speaker 1: guy is an idiot. This guy's a dump dump. You know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't pay attention at all, But so and I
Speaker 1: was trying to learn something. As far as words, I'm
Speaker 1: always looking around trying to find new words and things
Speaker 1: I haven't heard before. Phrases I love, uh, idioms, old
Speaker 1: you know, proverbs, things like that, learning about those, the
Speaker 1: history of some of those things. So it's pretty I
Speaker 1: find it interesting. It's just happened. I've picked up. I'm
Speaker 1: at in Elmira, New York, right city. Since is there
Speaker 1: any tactful way to tell a receptionist coworker that their
Speaker 1: flagelence has become an issue? It honestly smells like a
Speaker 1: horse has ship in the entryway, which I find to
Speaker 1: be distracting, let alone disrespectful to the rest of the staff.
Speaker 1: And then he he says, Matt, how about an anonymous
Speaker 1: letter on the desk, a bottle of beano? Uh? Any
Speaker 1: suggestion would be appreciated, Sincerely, Matt in l Myra. All right,
Speaker 1: So this is a tough one. You've got someone you
Speaker 1: work with who stinks you have to be delicate with this.
Speaker 1: You have to be right because you get in trouble.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have an HR department, what
Speaker 1: would be the move here Gascon. I think I think
Speaker 1: you gotta lie. I think the approaches you. You lie
Speaker 1: to that person and you basically say, hey, just a
Speaker 1: heads up. I don't know what time you got here,
Speaker 1: but I sprayed down this area, um, because it's been
Speaker 1: kind of smells like just in this region of the
Speaker 1: last couple of days. I don't know if you've noticed
Speaker 1: it or not. Um, So I spread it down so
Speaker 1: I apologize if it stinks to you, if it just
Speaker 1: has that kind of weird uh where it's sent. And
Speaker 1: if I spread down later, I'm gonna do that too.
Speaker 1: So that would be year solution to the yeah you lie,
Speaker 1: you played dumb and you make her ask the questions
Speaker 1: of like what does it smell like? Yeah? Uh? The
Speaker 1: one thing I will say, and we've all done this
Speaker 1: at some point with with flagelence, you're trying to cover
Speaker 1: it up with the spray. Yeah, it just makes it.
Speaker 1: You still smell it. It just has a little bit
Speaker 1: of a sugary smell, you know what I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, anyway, let's see you. Who else do we
Speaker 1: have your any meny miney mo Jack in Greensboro and
Speaker 1: Carolina says, Hey, Ben, what is the most important piece
Speaker 1: of advice that your father passed down to you. Well,
Speaker 1: it's hard to summon up with just one piece of advice,
Speaker 1: the fatherly wisdom that you pick up just being around
Speaker 1: your dad or your mom. And uh, yeah, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of interest things. My dad
Speaker 1: had a tremendous knowledge. He was an engineer. He worked
Speaker 1: with computers when I was a kid. But this was
Speaker 1: before computers are com uters today. This is when computers
Speaker 1: were the size of a football field, and so he
Speaker 1: helped develop programs and things where computers in the early
Speaker 1: days before before they became the things that have overwhelmed us,
Speaker 1: uh these days. And he had interesting No, he loved
Speaker 1: there's certain things that were just he was very passionate
Speaker 1: about Mark Twain. He loved Mark Twain for some reason.
Speaker 1: That was this guy, old Mark Twain quotes books about
Speaker 1: Mark Twain, Ham Radio. Um, those are some of the things.
Speaker 1: But I mean, as far as advice, it just kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, how to how to live and
Speaker 1: be a good family guy, and be loyal and supportive
Speaker 1: and all that. Those are things I learned from my
Speaker 1: my father just by observing. You know, my my mom
Speaker 1: and dad were married forever and ever and ever, and
Speaker 1: they had, you know, they didn't a good relationship. And
Speaker 1: also I tould I've told the story before. You know,
Speaker 1: both my parents are now gone and growing up. I
Speaker 1: think it's really interesting now looking at the way the
Speaker 1: world's gone. My mom was more liberal, my dad conservative.
Speaker 1: And they would talk about the issues of the day.
Speaker 1: There's always something and they would duke it out and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't agree, and but at the end of dinner
Speaker 1: they would you hug it out. They're good. No problem
Speaker 1: these days. So like you're at each other's next you
Speaker 1: want to you want to kill each other. You can't
Speaker 1: be in the same room. You can't have friends that
Speaker 1: don't agree with your political idea. You know your political beliefs. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, those are some of the things. Uh, Corey
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, is what's your favorite memory of your father? Again,
Speaker 1: that's the tough to sum it up in one memory.
Speaker 1: I I flashed back to some of the games. My
Speaker 1: dad was not a huge sportsman. My mom was more
Speaker 1: of a sportsman. But my dad knew I love sports,
Speaker 1: and so I remember some of the games we went
Speaker 1: to and he had gotten tickets, whether through work or
Speaker 1: something I remember when I was a kid. The first
Speaker 1: NFL game I went to was a RAM game and
Speaker 1: I was playing the forty Niners and this was Joe Montana,
Speaker 1: you know, big deal in in in Bill Walsh and
Speaker 1: all that. And I remember I was so excited, such
Speaker 1: a nerd as a kid, because I even at that age,
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe I'll be a broadcast to some day.
Speaker 1: And I saw the Madden Cruiser parked out the big
Speaker 1: parked outside the Big A in Anaheim because Madden doesn't fly,
Speaker 1: and he took the Madden Cruiser and it was like
Speaker 1: a big deal. And I remember it was with my dad,
Speaker 1: I went to the All Star Game. He got tickets
Speaker 1: to the All Star Game in Anaheim in the late
Speaker 1: eighties there, and it was funny because it was that
Speaker 1: was a big All Star game at the time because
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson was in the All Star Game Nike. He
Speaker 1: had a big marketing campaign about about Bow. But we
Speaker 1: had terrible seats, but it didn't matter. We were in
Speaker 1: the stadium and it was a big deal. And and
Speaker 1: my dad was more excited though, because Ronald Reagan was
Speaker 1: at the game in the press box. He did a
Speaker 1: couple of innings on NBC for the I think it
Speaker 1: was NBC for the All Star Game. They brought him in.
Speaker 1: He was no longer president at nineteen nine, but they
Speaker 1: brought him in. And I remember how exciting that was.
Speaker 1: And we were looking all the Secret Service people and
Speaker 1: all that so and uh and I also remember I
Speaker 1: was at an Angel game. They're playing the Tigers, and uh,
Speaker 1: I was a little kid with my dad and some guy.
Speaker 1: I tossed like a cigar cigarette thing over the upper
Speaker 1: you know, the deck above us, and landed on my leg.
Speaker 1: I was wearing shorts and burned the ship out of
Speaker 1: my legs, right, And um, I remember my dad taking
Speaker 1: care of me and all that stuff. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's some there's a bunch of those type of things.
Speaker 1: But I will I will miss my old man for sure.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a tough one. Enjoy you got your
Speaker 1: parents still. I I've I've I've found out now I've
Speaker 1: joined a club, a club I didn't want to join.
Speaker 1: But we're all going to join at some point if
Speaker 1: we're lucky. Actually, where you outlive your parents and it's uh,
Speaker 1: that's it sucks, but it's part of life. It's part
Speaker 1: of life. Um, Pierre in Springfield right saying he's now
Speaker 1: here we go. He says, did your father look down
Speaker 1: on your association with Gagon? And he says, did your
Speaker 1: parents approved your decision to go into radio? And no,
Speaker 1: my dad actually was impressed because Gagon's got credibility. Because
Speaker 1: my dad loved the police and law enforcement, and he
Speaker 1: actually volunteered with Ham Radio locally in the city he
Speaker 1: lived in with the police department. He loved the police.
Speaker 1: And so you know the fact that I could brag
Speaker 1: that I worked with Gascon and his dad ran the
Speaker 1: l A p D. You know, you know, it was
Speaker 1: a big shot. That was like a big deal. So
Speaker 1: he loved that. And uh, my parents, No, my my
Speaker 1: mom the good thing. I'm my mom and dad. They
Speaker 1: just wanted me to do something I was passionate about
Speaker 1: and to work hard at it. And they knew the
Speaker 1: odds were against making it in radio. But my mom
Speaker 1: was very supportive and my dad was you know, he
Speaker 1: went along with it. He was good, you know, give
Speaker 1: it a shot. Um. And I remember when I was
Speaker 1: making no money when I got hired at six ninety
Speaker 1: in San Diego and I was a reporter and I
Speaker 1: was making ship money. I could have worked at Jack
Speaker 1: in the box and made more money, and I was
Speaker 1: working everything, but I after the baseball strike in they
Speaker 1: ended the season early. They came back and they I
Speaker 1: covered every game Dodgers and Angels for for the following season.
Speaker 1: They had no days off, so I was at the
Speaker 1: ballpark every day. And I even got sick because I
Speaker 1: was going out there so much, so I could get
Speaker 1: sick o to baseball games. But I was like, I
Speaker 1: had no time off. I had like, no not even
Speaker 1: one day a week, and I was making no money.
Speaker 1: But they were very supportive. Both my parents were very
Speaker 1: very supportive, and they were proud of me. You know,
Speaker 1: that's and that's all you want as a kid, right
Speaker 1: you want your parents to be proud of you. And
Speaker 1: you know my mom and dad, I mean they made
Speaker 1: sure they always let me know that. Uh it was.
Speaker 1: They were very pregnant. And you know, my mom would
Speaker 1: listen to the overnight show. I was doing weekend overnights
Speaker 1: and my mom, who was not in the best of health,
Speaker 1: would stay up all night to listen to the show.
Speaker 1: She would change her schedule because she wanted to. And
Speaker 1: whenever I went and I worked some when I first
Speaker 1: started a Fox Sports radio, I was like the swing guy.
Speaker 1: I would fill in, you know, different different parts of
Speaker 1: the day parts and no matter when I was on
Speaker 1: my own, always made sure to to listen to My
Speaker 1: dad was very supportive and um he didn't look the
Speaker 1: one disappointment. I think he wanted me to get a
Speaker 1: ham radio license and I didn't. I didn't end up
Speaker 1: doing that, but he did love the fact that I
Speaker 1: at least went into some kind of radio, so he
Speaker 1: he appreciated that. Kevin in Rockford, Illinois rights and says
Speaker 1: Mr Mallor and Mr Gascon David seems like he's a
Speaker 1: He's pretty comfortable talking on the podcast and on the
Speaker 1: radio doing updates. I think he does a good job.
Speaker 1: Well is this your is this your? Wow? He says,
Speaker 1: does does a good job for a West of the
Speaker 1: four oh five situation here? Uh, he says, you both
Speaker 1: you will think, Ben, do you think Gascon could one
Speaker 1: day have his own radio show? And David, is that
Speaker 1: the route or route you would want to go? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: sure Guesscon could have a radio show. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that's what you want to do. I think you
Speaker 1: your dreams are play by play right, Your your goal
Speaker 1: is to be the play by play voice of X
Speaker 1: or Y or is he right? All right? Just to
Speaker 1: be maybe a national guy like Kenny Albert. He does
Speaker 1: everything he does football, basketball, hockey, boxing. I think he's
Speaker 1: done Olympic events. To correct me if I'm wrong, I
Speaker 1: don't know. If it's whatever, yea, yeah, surely. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I'd love to be on on that kind of track. Um.
Speaker 1: I love talk radio. I just think like, personality wise,
Speaker 1: I think the way that that we are or I
Speaker 1: am with you on this is drastically different than how
Speaker 1: I am on Nashville Radio. I feel like, personality wise,
Speaker 1: I'd get fired or I'd get busted, or I'd get
Speaker 1: reprimanded and it just wouldn't work. I like the I
Speaker 1: like the the podcasting format allows to be a lot
Speaker 1: more free and loose with language and how you communicate
Speaker 1: and radio you're you're not in a box. Like That's
Speaker 1: the lecture that you guys have here at Fox is
Speaker 1: that I've never heard of management tell a personality you
Speaker 1: can't say this or don't be like that. Like Scott
Speaker 1: and don Or are extremely extremely um comfortable and allowing
Speaker 1: their all to be who they are. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're not It's not like what was that video that
Speaker 1: popped on the internet like at CNN where they tell
Speaker 1: you what to say that day. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: like that at all. We we have, uh, not totally unfettered,
Speaker 1: but in comparison to a lot of people this, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously they're they're very cool allowing us this. Last year.
Speaker 1: Management's like they went to us like, listen, there's no
Speaker 1: sports going on. We understand that we're sports radio show,
Speaker 1: but people want to hear you know, talk radio, So
Speaker 1: just do good radio. Whatever you talk about. There's no
Speaker 1: sports to talk about, but just a good radio. And
Speaker 1: it was great advice and we do appreciate that because
Speaker 1: I know I have some friends at work at competitors
Speaker 1: who did not have that freedom, that had to continue
Speaker 1: to just only talk about sports, and they wanted to
Speaker 1: pull their hair out and it was it was a nightmare.
Speaker 1: But it is a daily grind. Man. You do a
Speaker 1: daily show, guest scout it it can wear on you.
Speaker 1: There's certain points where you're like you you don't want
Speaker 1: to talk like I I love doing the show. Oh
Speaker 1: and I it's my passion and I spend my entire
Speaker 1: life dedicated to that. But there are some days I'm good,
Speaker 1: I got nothing to say, I got no opinion about this,
Speaker 1: But you still gotta do the show. The show's gotta happen.
Speaker 1: You've gotta you've got to find a way to make
Speaker 1: it work. And and so you there's certain things you
Speaker 1: have to do to kind of get yourself fired up
Speaker 1: on days you're not into it. But it's like any job,
Speaker 1: Like I think there's any job that you have just
Speaker 1: gonna be days you're not into it. Even if you're
Speaker 1: like a professional athlete playing in the NBA or the NFL,
Speaker 1: there's gonna sometime you're like, I really want to be here.
Speaker 1: But you can get off on someone else's energy, like
Speaker 1: if you're having a bad show, like Coop could do something,
Speaker 1: or Roberto could do something, or any could say something
Speaker 1: that that gets you in a groove or that gets
Speaker 1: you inspired to do something else. Whereas if you're working
Speaker 1: like solo, if you're you know, if it's just you
Speaker 1: and a microphone, you know, if there's a day that
Speaker 1: you're flat, then you're dead man walking. Yeah, like I did,
Speaker 1: the Boston shows I did was totally solo. They had
Speaker 1: no no one right along as a support staff. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember the one night I was on on EI
Speaker 1: and there was a blizzard and the only people that
Speaker 1: called in were driving snow trucks, snow plow trucks around.
Speaker 1: That was a tough one. I'm not gonna lie that was.
Speaker 1: That was a tough night. That was. I was testing
Speaker 1: my my skills there. I was. I was dragging out
Speaker 1: certain things. And I remember the the w E I clock.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the same now, but they
Speaker 1: had the opening segment of the hour. It was like
Speaker 1: a twenty minute block, you know, and you're you're there
Speaker 1: and you're by yourself and there's not a lot going
Speaker 1: on and snowing, and you're like, oh crap. And I
Speaker 1: was like, ohly crap, What am I gonna do? All right?
Speaker 1: Seawan and Nashville rights and says when and how did
Speaker 1: you to meet? Also, I have tried to invite David
Speaker 1: over to cook the t bone or you have. You know,
Speaker 1: um gascon for governor has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 1: For that ship whole state that you guys reside in
Speaker 1: Shawan and Nashville. Uh say, well, how did I mean?
Speaker 1: I met you at Fox Sports Radio guestcoun r. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've met you before. Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: No No. Came up to me one day and introduced yourself.
Speaker 1: I did. I was larger than life, right, yeah, because
Speaker 1: we had the same You worked in San Diego radio,
Speaker 1: but a different era of San Diego radio than me. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: younger than me. But I met you. I was filling
Speaker 1: in for Eddie on an overnight and I didn't know
Speaker 1: who you were. And then and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: like you started this is that you're pacing days, so
Speaker 1: you take the break and then pace around the entire Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would walk around the building to get steps in. Yes,
Speaker 1: you did that for years, right right. I had the
Speaker 1: commercial breaks time to the second I knew exactly how
Speaker 1: long I had to walk before I had to be
Speaker 1: back on the air, you know. And this is during
Speaker 1: the time when someone got stabbed down the street to like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know for for a pretty nice part of l A.
Speaker 1: I guess it's just because we've been there for so long,
Speaker 1: but there have been people killed and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: people doing all kinds of wild things. And I and
Speaker 1: I walked around in the middle of the night and
Speaker 1: I saw things I couldn't believe, people like come crawling
Speaker 1: out of the woodwork. It's wild and you don't see
Speaker 1: any when you're there in Sherman Oaks. During the day,
Speaker 1: you don't see any of that. It's beautiful. But then
Speaker 1: at night it's like a whole different, different vibe, Like
Speaker 1: the swamp creatures come out. It's wild. It's the night
Speaker 1: of the Walking Dead pretty much. I knew all the
Speaker 1: homeless people in the neighborhood that were sleeping around the
Speaker 1: building and wave at him, See what's going on? How
Speaker 1: you doing all that stuff? But that's how that's how
Speaker 1: we met. We met at Fox Sports Radio and just
Speaker 1: gonna introduced me and I was like, who's this loser?
Speaker 1: And there you go, and then I introduced uh, well,
Speaker 1: I was introduced to Tammy, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you guys started getting all these goodies because of me,
Speaker 1: thanks to Tammy. That's not a lie. Tammy was a
Speaker 1: fan of the show Hunt. She predates guest Hunt. But
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I mean we really bonded, Dammy and
Speaker 1: I yeah, really yeah. Do you want to expand on it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: She got me, well, she got she got cooped too.
Speaker 1: These awesome cupcakes. She got us cupcakes. I think she's
Speaker 1: gotten us fat sALS once for my birthday. Well, she's
Speaker 1: very kind, she is. She might or might not be
Speaker 1: friends with a cake benefactor who got us these designer cakes.
Speaker 1: I lost. I'd lost a hundred over a hundred, actually
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds. I'd lost two hundred pounds, and then
Speaker 1: I gained I getting a lot of it back by
Speaker 1: eating these designer cakes for any birthday or just for whatever.
Speaker 1: For giggles, these would show up and they were awesome.
Speaker 1: They had such such wonderful memories of gaining all the
Speaker 1: weight back to lose it again. Wonderful. Carlos and Bang Bang,
Speaker 1: Houston writes, and he says, how often did he interact
Speaker 1: with Losorta? And we talked a lot about that in
Speaker 1: a previous episode, Carlos, But I I interacted interacted with
Speaker 1: Tommy when he was managing the two and a half years,
Speaker 1: the last two and a half years of his career,
Speaker 1: every you know, every day at home when the Dodgers
Speaker 1: were at home, and then once he left and was
Speaker 1: the ambassador, I saw him a lot. He would hang
Speaker 1: out in the press box a lot. He liked to
Speaker 1: hang around the media. So I saw him quite a
Speaker 1: bit and it was just like a hello, how you doing, Tommy,
Speaker 1: what's going on Ben that kind of thing. I just
Speaker 1: love the fact that sort of knew my name. That was,
Speaker 1: as I said, Losorda and Vince Gully. When you're you're
Speaker 1: you know, you're a made man. Um the memory. As
Speaker 1: far as Loss, I don't his greatest memory, but the
Speaker 1: last time I saw him. Um one of the last
Speaker 1: time was eighteen. I was at Staples Center and I'm
Speaker 1: walking through the streets of l A. And I walked
Speaker 1: by this steak place in downtown l A. And waddling
Speaker 1: out of the stake places Tommy losorder but hey Tommy,
Speaker 1: and I went over there and I took a photo.
Speaker 1: It's actually on on Twitter. It was and you know, Tommy,
Speaker 1: he's getting frail a little bit, but he even remembered
Speaker 1: me and said hello, and we took a photo and
Speaker 1: it's a brief conversation and he got into a car
Speaker 1: service that picked him up, and then I kept walking,
Speaker 1: and I think that was the last time I actually
Speaker 1: saw because he didn't, you know, he didn't go out
Speaker 1: that much in nineteen didn't hang out in the press box,
Speaker 1: it was hard for him to get you move around
Speaker 1: as much, and uh and all that, but fond memories.
Speaker 1: Fond memberis Jason and Rocky Mountain, Virginia says, glad you're back.
Speaker 1: I was wondering when you were on vacation, did you
Speaker 1: and the misses stay in a cabin or a lodge?
Speaker 1: It seemed like you may have been up in the
Speaker 1: woods for several days. Well, Jason, we would have, but
Speaker 1: King Knewsome would not allow that, and the polot I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's King Newson, might have been the
Speaker 1: federal government, but they they have lodges in Sequoia, but
Speaker 1: because of COVID they were not open, so we had
Speaker 1: to stay at a hotel down the mountain, which sucked.
Speaker 1: It was. It was all right, but you would have
Speaker 1: been much cooler if we had been able to stay
Speaker 1: in a lodge right there, because you know that we
Speaker 1: even have to drive. It's paining the ask to drive
Speaker 1: through the snow and that whole thing and put the
Speaker 1: chains on and take them off. So that would have
Speaker 1: been that would have been pretty pretty cool. We were
Speaker 1: not allowed to do that though, but it was it
Speaker 1: was fun. Skip does zip Skippy in Cleveland says, Uh, condolence.
Speaker 1: He said, Secondly, did you ever get my Christmas card?
Speaker 1: Or if no, I have not picked up the mail
Speaker 1: and the mails I'm gonna pick up the mail. I
Speaker 1: promise I'll get to it here. I can't promise that
Speaker 1: it will be done already by the time you hear this,
Speaker 1: but it's on my list of things to do. I
Speaker 1: have a lot of other things, unfortunately, that I have
Speaker 1: to take care of. Uh. And he says, I, I
Speaker 1: feel as though the Browns were his Chiefs will be
Speaker 1: an offensive shootout, and of course I'm picking the Browns
Speaker 1: to win a squeaker. While I am certain you will
Speaker 1: disagree with that. In Gallon's how much sobbing will Pete
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh do when that happens. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much into sports Pete is anymore. Pete piece and old
Speaker 1: school caller Pizza become very political last I heard. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, yeah, I I miss Pete's calls.
Speaker 1: I do. But would he care now? He'd probably just
Speaker 1: say we're still the Pittsburgh Steeter is the greatest team
Speaker 1: of them all. Blah blah blah blah blah. Eric and
Speaker 1: Omaha is a very important question. He says, where is
Speaker 1: the best place in Los Angeles to get some damn nachos?
Speaker 1: I'm not a big nacho eater. I I like Taketo's
Speaker 1: and crunchy gringo tacos. Where are the where's the top
Speaker 1: nacho spot? Guest on in l A. Somewhere in East
Speaker 1: l A, Lincoln Heights, somewhere over there, man Pico Rivera,
Speaker 1: No anywhere. That's a good question. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We have no answer. We have no healthy and I'm
Speaker 1: sorry we failed you. Are you a fan of Cardian
Speaker 1: set up fries? Yeah, I'm good with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out of the way to get him,
Speaker 1: but I'm good with that. Oh yeah, this is that
Speaker 1: place you like. What was the breakfast burrito place you
Speaker 1: were bragging about, Oh, fantastic cafe. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Um,
Speaker 1: Ponchos in Manhattan Beach has some big gas nachos. There's
Speaker 1: but there's multiple Poncho's locations, are there? Yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: Ponchos is not a standalone location. There was a Pontos
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's still around. In l A.
Speaker 1: There was a Poncho no kidding, You didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I had no I didn't know. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was a standalone because the fucking
Speaker 1: portions were just huge. You get a plate of of
Speaker 1: enchiladas and it was like twenty bucks. Well now I
Speaker 1: think there might be several with the same name Ponchos.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the same because I've been
Speaker 1: to a restaurant called Ponchos and they didn't have the
Speaker 1: unbelievably large portions of food, So maybe it's a yeah,
Speaker 1: a different Ponchos restaurant. How how big are we talking
Speaker 1: like cheesecake factories? Yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean it's good.
Speaker 1: It's really good. Ponco's restaurant. Yeah, in Manton Beach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like right off the pier ald on that Secon. Let
Speaker 1: me look this place up here. Have you ever gone
Speaker 1: to I know Jim Rome swears about this place grab
Speaker 1: a Viney, But Javier is in Newport Beach. I have been.
Speaker 1: I've been to a Jabyers. There's one in Vegas. Um
Speaker 1: it's good but very Um. Yeah it is, but I'm
Speaker 1: more of a like an El Coyote guy. That's good.
Speaker 1: Prices have gone up though quite a bit over the years,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a good restaurant there. They also have
Speaker 1: the They have the Green Go Taco as well, which
Speaker 1: is which is nice for me. I'll see you, Caleb
Speaker 1: in Meadville, Pennsylvania, says big Man. I've heard you sing
Speaker 1: the praises of raising canes chicken figures for a while. Now.
Speaker 1: I was blown away to discover there was one in Youngstown, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Is it worth the pilgrimage? Alright? So a couple of
Speaker 1: things here, Caleb. First of all, what is your level
Speaker 1: of joy for eating chicken figures? That's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: If you are a chicken finger connoisseur, you love the sauce,
Speaker 1: you love the whole meal, a traditional all American meal
Speaker 1: of chicken fingers, fries, and a lemonade with Texas toast.
Speaker 1: If you're passionate about that food, If that's a food
Speaker 1: that resonates with you, uh, then absolutely. Now I have
Speaker 1: driven to raise before Raisingknes opened up in my backyard.
Speaker 1: I used to drive all over God's Greener to eat
Speaker 1: raising canes. But I love the chicken pie, and I
Speaker 1: was one of the most attractive things to me about
Speaker 1: going to Vegas because they didn't have it in California
Speaker 1: for a while. But I go to Vegas and they
Speaker 1: were all over Vegas, so I'd go to hang out
Speaker 1: there and I'd get my raising canes. I go to Vegas,
Speaker 1: all those restaurants in Vegas, I'd beat in raising canes. Um,
Speaker 1: So it really depends on that. But yeah, it's good,
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't know, I'd plan a whole
Speaker 1: trip about it if that's I don't know how many
Speaker 1: miles that is for you. But if it's it's not
Speaker 1: too bad, chair, why not go and do something in
Speaker 1: Youngstown and go have some chicken fingers and keep an
Speaker 1: eye the Raising Kine's website because they're expanding new locations
Speaker 1: all over a lot of a lot of expansion there.
Speaker 1: So all right, uh, let's see here. Glenn in Carmichael,
Speaker 1: California says, I feel like we've had this question before
Speaker 1: since Ben, what baseball great from the past would you
Speaker 1: wish you could have seen play? I've answered this, the
Speaker 1: answer is not changed. Um, Babe Ruth, the legend of
Speaker 1: the Bambino Babe Ruth, I want to see what all
Speaker 1: the hypes about would be nice dolphin Mike says, I
Speaker 1: work at a newspaper and it's like an unguarded fortress.
Speaker 1: He says, if you get in the front door without
Speaker 1: a key, fop, good luck getting in any other doors
Speaker 1: without a key fop. Dolphin Mikes says, my question, why
Speaker 1: was it so easy to get into the Capitol building
Speaker 1: that has armed guards, better security, etcetera, etcetera. Well, I
Speaker 1: can't answer that, Dolphin Mike. I I missed all that.
Speaker 1: I was doing stuff my with my father and going
Speaker 1: through stuff. I guess John, I think I I text you,
Speaker 1: like we were you, you wouldn't sent me something or
Speaker 1: believe that's how it went down. But says somebody, maybe
Speaker 1: it wasn't. You sent me a text telling me what
Speaker 1: had happened at the Capitol. But I had not. I
Speaker 1: didn't watch it in real time or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't
Speaker 1: find out until after it because I was completely off
Speaker 1: the grid when that happened. Have you've been to d C?
Speaker 1: Have you've done time there in d C? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: went to I had a call a game at Morgan
Speaker 1: State and and I stayed in Baltimore and part of
Speaker 1: the trip and we went was what we got to
Speaker 1: go through d C for a day. I didn't spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time there. But DC is fun, man,
Speaker 1: there's there's a good vibe and it's a dirty slash
Speaker 1: energetic vibe that you get almost rivals in New York
Speaker 1: in d C. Yeah, but like this, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of security, I would imagine right around. I've never been
Speaker 1: to d C. I need to get there at some point.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go and hang out. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot everywhere you go, right because it's a target. No
Speaker 1: if three years ago when I went there wasn't no
Speaker 1: not at all. I mean, but it seems odd to me.
Speaker 1: Maybe they just shouldn't. Maybe he didn't notice it about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they weren't front center like they are with
Speaker 1: the National Guard these days. Yeah. So there's so there
Speaker 1: you go, isn't there not advertising? They keep a low profile. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: where you go? All right, let's put the baby, but
Speaker 1: anything else, guess on anything else you would like to
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Speaker 1: So I have a great Sunday again. We're gonna be
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