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You can hear a cup of the microphone right there. Who he is very very productive week and into the weekend we go for me. Um yeah, I finished that some baseball last week. I don't know you'll probably probably be repulsed by this story before we get into the mailbag. But college baseball ben has locked themselves into the Rob Manfred group, where if you're in a baseball game and you have a ten run advantage after seven innings, you can call it. They have a mercy rule right now

in college baseball. It's yeah, Well, the other day we were talking about this story with Larus I did a monologue with the White Sox and you know, the Twins and this whole thing that the Etiquati Baseball is like, well, just put the damn mercy rule in. If you can't, you know, swing from your heels and try to hit a home run, what's the point of plan? What fun

is baseball if you can't do that? And and I was keeaning around and like Aaron Boone, the manager of the Yankees, is like, yeah, that's a great you know, this great idea. We should have a mercy rule. Just put the mercy at least visit, you know, think about the mercy rule. Well yeah, I mean, if they condense games to seven innings for double the ghost run, the ghost runner kills me, like I'm watching a Dodger game. They get to the tent Tennic. All of a sudden, Tedda,

there's a runner on second base. Presto, just like that, you know, Waila Like it's like so stupid my thought on this, and no one's brought this up. I don't know if you have it all. But if you're Mercedes, if you're in that spot like Mercedes is, and let's say you come to the dish three O count to you, but prior to that you were over six, would you swing away? Yeah? Yeah, yes, you try to hit at

all times. What's the point of doing something half ash and then Russa and these these old guard oldergarchs of baseball. You gotta you know, you shouldn't try You shouldn't try to steal, you shouldn't swing on a three old pitch. But stut up, shut up, man, listen. I'm known as Benny the Bopper, and I know at all times you've got to try to hit that ball out of the yard way to go Mercedes. And but it's good for us. I you know, I went on with my guy Bob

Fesco in Kansas City. We're talking about this is really the only crossover type story that we get from baseball on a regular occurrence like this is the kind of story that you can talk about on a sports radio show and debate. There's not a lot of that in baseball. There's not a lot of that, you know, black and white. You know, there's where you actually have something that you can go back and forth and have conversation about. A lot of it's pretty black, it is, and in baseball

that's one thing. If I was in charge of baseball, I would try to package the sport more like they do in football and basketball, where you you you can do this on social media, where you create, you know, not create per se. I don't want this totally contrived, but there are ways you can present it which make it more friendly for media conversation, which then in turn

will lead to more people partaking your business. I was perplexed by the mad Dog the other day talking is His bullshit take was I can't live in a world where a guy swinging three oh, And I thought to myself, if a guy is over six or better yet, if he's six for six and he heads into that at bad, why the funk wouldn't he swing away? Whether you have no confidence or all the confidence in the world. If he was four for four with four homers and he

walked twice. Would you have an issue with him swinging away? Fuck? No, like that's that's sport. If you don't fucking like it, you don't have a picture out there and then just dropped to a knees and don't play well. And as you know here here's the thing too, it's like, uh, you know the take sign. There's like, well the Russa said to take the pitch, to take the in that spot. Yeah, what are you doing? Yeah? You know, bad job? All right, anyway, we have mail back. I didn't want to say thank

you to the reviews. Some some good reviews earn the Apple podcast page, and we we do need this, we need we love round numbers. Humans love round numbers. And we're eleven away still from the three hundred threshold of of reviews on and this is on the Apple podcast page. And I know we've got a lot of guys that have messages and say I'm not on Apple. I'm an

Android guy, and I get it. But if you do have an Apple product and you're able to get on the Apple podcast page, that does help us out of the bosses, the powers that be, do check that out. Some of the latest reviews here. Uh, this one came in the other day. Good show, but Gagon needs to pick it up. I thought that was solid five star review said that I don't know. Jimster seventy six said that, uh what okay. The Phoenix wrote in says great show. Loved the program with Earl more or love it he

combined the combining of two worlds. Yes, absolutely it was. That was fun. Uh no deals here wrote in says great podcast. Uh these two chowder heads keep me entertained. They are funny, have great chemistry you know, we don't and interview great guest. This podcast is a must listen to add to your favorite list. That's good. So those are some of the latest podcast reviews and we would

love to have you joined that. It's very simple. You can go to the podcast the dot Apple dot com and searched The Fifth Hour The Fifth Hour f I F T H The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, and you can reviews Now. People are so people. I don't know if they know this too, Ben. When you rate this podcast, you can also go to the Ben Mallar Show and rate the Ben Meller Show on Apple iTunes as well. Like your most sent review on the Ben Mallar Show says Gascon is the man he makes the

fifth hour podcast It must listen. That's pretty awesome. That is pretty cool that you were able to put that out. There's that is solid. John in Brighton appreciate that, right. That's actually from Gascon, David Gascon West west of the four or five people have now polluted your podcast, your show if the compliments of me, well again, you know you are a lot a lie biomission would be the Gascon way of doing this, all right, I mean, let's

be let's be honest here. You want me to dabble in some of the reviews here, you want me to go down that road, because I can go down that road if you want. By the way, on the on the Mallard page, on the Ben Mallard Show podcast page, which has been around longer, we actually are closing in on seven hundred, which is which is pretty pretty good. Uh uh, let's see here, no deal says best show on radio benmu Show. Give the show two weeks and

you will be laughing your bag off about that. It's good. Uh. Let's see here, you're just skipping over everything. This is I'm like, so The best part of people, do know is you're limited to just ten reviews on the iTunes page, so half of that is uh, as a little bit of me in there. I yeah, uh, I can feel you're just turning in your grave right now. Here's one. Stop shouting in the microphone. Okay, that was Andrew didn't like that. Ben pronounces milk as milk weed. Man, Hippy

is a junkie. Screw that scrammer. Do you pronounce it like that? I did one time and these guys pst in my balls. Yeah, you know, you never let me forget it. Uh. Let's see here. Very entertaining in a first rate podcast. There you go, very nice. Let's see here. I can't read that. I don't want to read that. Uh. Here's one burger in Dallas? He said, is this guy drunk? What a terrible show? The segments are awful. What an embarrassment for Fox. I agree, sir, I agree. That's why

I'm on in the middle of the night. Oh man, Oh, this is the one from last year that I love. I love this show for years. It's been too political lately. Uh, it's a it's a tense time in America, and I have counted on bend to lighten things up. These days, there's too much non sports point of view. Why not not? Why I'm here? Come back, Benny, I'm a Browns fan. Yeah, mind you. This was when sports was shut down stalls like the guy posted there's not enough sports when there's

no fucking sports to talk about. I love it. I love it. Uh. That is how it's standing standing all the way around anyway. All right, let's get to the mailbag. Yes, uh, some of your fan girls and boys have overwhelmed the inbox. I'm sure these people are paid to write in. You've got a lot of money. Queen Roxanne in Colorado sent you a love note. Yes, Queen Rocks answers, Ben, you must not discount the Gagon Gang, unlike that creeper that gives awful updates and created and pushed his own fake

fanatics group. I wonder who she's talking about. Interesting, Uh, the Gascon Gang was created by an actual fan who appreciates David Interesting and the work that he does on the fifth Hour. And now there might not be many in this gang that will change. Ben. You know I love you Queen Rock Sanzese, she loves me. But let's give David a little credit, because if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't get to hear you eight days a week.

That's not true at all, Queen Robs. Al Right, First of all, I love that you, You and Gagon have a have a thing. I don't know what that's all about. Get to get a room. That's number one. Number two, okay, Uh, Gascon has missed more podcast than I've missed, and the show is still delivered. It's still delivered eight days a week. Now. Sometimes you can't hear it because Gascon has the person sabotage the podcast when he's when he's away. But I

still do it. Yeah, there you go, She says, thank you both for all that you do to entertain us on the weekends. Well, you're welcome, kid, Roxanne, You're welcome. I like her. I've heard that Ben and Gagon. This is from Ohio. Ill. If you are second in line at a four way stop sign intersection, the person in front of you is timid and deferring to the other driver even though it is his or her turn, so traffic is still old. How long do you wait before

you blow your horn and curse with it? I can only wait about four to five seconds before my horn kicks in. Am I a prick or a good driver? Good driver? Good driver? Yeah? I agree with that. Now I have a pretty feminine horn now, so I don't hit the horn quite as often. But the car that I had before had a very masculine horn, and I would hit the horn more often. Plus, um, my wife is not a big fan of me hitting the horn.

Listen leads to road rage and all that stuff. So when I'm driving with her in the car, I generally don't do that, But when I'm driving alone, I am more apt to hit the horn. I also hate when people are at like a right turn on it. You can turn right on a red and they don't, you know, they wait for the green light. That annoys the hell out of me, especially when there's plenty of space for them to turn. Why do I hate that? Very annoying. Yeah,

it's not like passive. I don't like passive really in anything, you can put some effort into it, all right, John. The jailer system United States government has admitted they are regularly encountering UFOs and everything. Everyone rather seems to be fine with it. Ben and a co host, what is your plan for first contact. Get in the fetal position and suck your thumber. I don't know, uh, I think there's already been contact with alien civilization, so I think

it's already happened. But the big moment would be if they actually announced it to the masks, because that changes people's perspective on everything from religion all the way down, and so then that becomes problematic and how do people handle that? And will people lose their minds? I mean, I don't have a lot of confidence for human beings based on how everyone was holding toilet paper and whatnot.

You know what I'm saying, like getting gasoline and plastic bags. Yeah, like I am if you if you're doing that, I don't know. It's that fight or flight thing that would would be the case. I'm a little little concerned. We're a little I don't have a plan. Do you have a plan? A plan alien invasions? Shoot first, ask questions second. Edgar from Norwalk in Cali says, I have been listening to you since the old Bannon Dave shows Ben and

Dave the original day. Well, this is the guy was in high school, by the way, how about that this guy, Edgar was in High School. This is the new and improved Ben Dave Right. He says, you still talk to Dave Smith? And who has been your favorite co host or person you work with throughout the years? Edgar says, I do not talk to Dave Smith on the regular. Occasionally, we had a reunion, a Benn and Dave reunion that

was orchestrated by Tom Looney. We had a bit of a falling out after the Ben and Dave show had ended. Why well, there was some some disagreement on why the show ended, and this was responsible for the show ending? Tell me, I want to know, Well the show ended, and uh, you know, there's different people had different positions. Some thought that Dave was responsible. Some thought that I was responsible for the demise of the show. But did you But I was the one that was actually let go.

So Dave continued on, I got whacked. Did you have good chemistry? Uh? Yeah, I mean we were, we were we were pretty good. We we had pretty solid ratings. I mean we had higher ratings now. But then then the l a midday sports talk shows half Today that killed Okay, well fine, I won't name them then, but we we dominated compared to the shows that are on

these days on local l A sports radio. So we had a lot of people listening, but it wasn't good enough for the bosses because they were they wanted like FM, you know, four top forty ratings, and that's never gonna be the case in l A. L A is not like they get those kind of ratings in Boston. You'll get that kind of rating in Philadelphia, in New York, you're not. You're not gonna get that in in l A. It's just not the way the city set up. So wow.

So so you blamed him and he blamed you. Well, I mean, there was just some some bad blood, but we patch things up and I have no animosity towards him, and as far as I know, he's got no animosity towards me, and I I know he's still doing some sports radio syndicated at at A network, and I would have him on the podcast like a benn In benn In Dave reunion show. You can tell you about some of the old crazy stuff that we did back in

the day. And it's interesting because you were let go, but it's sling shot it all the way back around because then you came back and now you're like full frontal on a you know, natural platform five days a week. Yeah. No, it's worked out well. But you know at the time, in the moment, you'll be your prisoner of the moment you think I'm never gonna work again. I remember calling my mom when I got like, oh, I said, that's it. I've worked in radio. I'm done. Uh you know, And

then I gotta get a real job. And then I was able to get another dopey radio job. Anyway, Berry from you six City, says yo Yo Ma Benny. That's his nickname for me, Yo Yo Ma Benny. Yo Yo Ma. Does meeting callers in person ruin the mystery of the caller? Or is it good to put a face with the caller? And and he says, have you ever met Tammy from Montana? Uh no, I've not met Tammy from Montana. I I'm cool with meeting listeners, although it's sometimes it's awkward. You know,

we have a weird relationship. Like if you're a person that calls the show, we talk, but we don't see each other, and it's like this weird relationship where you know, I can hang up on you and make you go away. Well, you meet somebody at a meet and greet. You can't do that, but I've had good experiences. I remember when I first started meeting listeners. I always got the sense, once you meet them, the magic is gone, you know, the magic of being the voice in the radio box.

And and there were some people that I had met and then they didn't call the show anymore, and I thought, well, I'm a fan. And then somebody told me one time they felt once they met me they were like on on the same level, so they didn't want to call the show anymore. But uh, you know, I had a great time. We The last one we did was in Seattle at the end of twenty nineteen and it was great.

J J from Wrennen, who ironically doesn't really call the show anymore, uh, and several joke writers were there, and guys that are contributors to the show. No Stradina's popped up, who's on Twitter. It was really nice to meet him. He's a regular guy, and um, yeah, everyone was nice. We had some some interesting cats in Boston. I've told the story about our our guy Wayne from Southey, who showed up their local guy. We had David from Winter Park, Florida.

He drove all the way from Winter Park, Florida Boston for a one hour meet and greet which was crazy and had a stuffed animal parrot. But yeah, I don't mind you ruining the mystery and sometimes and I'm not really a people person, I'm a netrovert. But I've met some really interesting people. I've been shocked. I mean, there's some guys that are, you know, fans of the show. There's a professor I guess I could say where it's Syracuse who's been a big fan of the show and

listened to me for years and I met him. We did a meet and greeting Syracuse years ago. So I met Blind Scott and he took me through an entire tour in history of Boston. Yes, while running his dog Cramer into the ground that he had to get a new dog man the new dog dealing. But he took me to Cheers, which is fucking awesome. Yeah. I've been to Boston much, never been to the Cheers man it was, and I went there with Blind Scott. It was. It

was pretty fu wild. I remember the end of the Cheers TV show when they did like Jay Leno had the cast of Cheers on. They did it from Boston and everyone was completely just hammered. Yeah, I think you know? Do you do you know Ken Levine? Are you aware of Kenya? Yeah? Ken, we should get him on. He wrote episodes of Cheers, he was on, did some stuff with Ted Dance, and did a bunch of TVs great stories. I was referred to Ken, God, I think it was. I was either referred to Ken, either by you or

Tom Looney. Oh yeah, well we all you know. Ken's great. Ken's wonderful. He did game. Yeah, he did Minor league, but he quit Hollywood to do minor league baseball, wrote a book about it, got hired for the Seattle Mariners, the Baltimore Orioles, the Seattle Mariners, the podres play by play like I got into booth and did play by play and very funny. I worked with him when I did Dodger I didn't postgame Dodger talk and he was

doing the pregame show. So we were we were together around the same the same era, back back in the day. Let's see your sweet potato Bob from Sincecinnati, one of the Cincinnati Bros, says Ben and gas can Uh says, I am a I'm sicker than a poodle in a frog pond due to the lingo that has been adapted up over the last five years. He says, a sweet but pato Bob, Why in the hell does every professional

sports personality use the word right when talking these days? Example, Tim Duncan was a lock to be put in the Hall of Fame? Right? Uh? Wasn't he and David Robinson the ultimate twin Towers? Rights? Uh? And he and Pop are like father and son? Right? Yeah? Um mama, he says, should have warned me because I'm about to walk the plank. Help me understand me? Well, listen, sweet potato Bob, you're a smart guy. It's pretty simple. Right when I just didn't see I just did it. There's there's an example.

You're confirming whatever statement you just made, Sweet Potato Bob, you are to the listener, you're saying what I said was correct, And just to make just in case you had a doubt, I'm gonna throw in the word right, just like the Fifth Hour podcast is the greatest podcast you're going to listen to at this moment. Right, See what I did there? Yeah, but that's that's an earworm for sweet Potato Bob. Let it go. Bob, It's gonna be okay, Neil, Neil right, since it's the Earl. The

Earl interview was the bomb. Neils in Miami says more props to Gascon. Really on booking another another hood guests, you must be proud. Earls slip Earls slip on the banana peel. Uh he put himself with the Joe Rogan podcast has me wondering what awesome gigs are opportunities you and Gascon passed on in your career. Well, it's not really so much passing on, it's being close and not getting it. I've told the story before, but I was

uh finalist. I was gonna be hired at TMZ to run TMZ Sports when Fox Sports Radio got rid of me, and I got a phone call saying that I was about to be hired and they were gonna call me back at at this time and prepare for the phone call. And I'm still waiting for that phone call from our friends over at TMZ. And you know what I could do, Yeah, I can make a call into Harvey. Yeah you know Harvey, You're you're the chief knows them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I'm good now, but I uh yeah, he he was.

They were launching TMZ Sports. This is like in oh nine, right around that time, and Tiger would scandal it right around there as well. Uh maybe a little after that, but it was in that period of time. Uh. And then I've had some other really good opportunities. You have to wait for my book though. To get those stories, you have to get my book. I I would I remember the one time I was up for a commercial and uh, I didn't get hired because I didn't I

didn't look right. They didn't want to hire me because I have a right look. Like, what do you mean by right look? Well, I mean they were trying to hire I think. I think when they told me guest was they were trying to hire a more diverse group. And apparently because of my my origins, that's that that set me back. Interesting. I don't know why you would do it. I think that's when I grew up. That was called racism, hiring somebody based on the on that.

But I guess you know there's some people modern era, they don't they don't share that. Judge someone you know that Martin Luther King quote character and you know the content of their character, UM, not something professional but something personal. UM, I did pass on I'm going out on a date. Not that I passed on it, but I slow played it. Um a president's daughter, I had the opportunity to go out with her and did not do it. Why not? UM?

I guess the terminology would be, I didn't want to be a c B. I didn't want to be a cock blocker. I had a buddy of mine that was into her and she was and she was into me, and I didn't want to fuck him over make him look bad by swooping in. I was an idiot. I was. I was like nineteen years old, twenty years old. Bad mistake by me. Really remember that. The next time you complain about the money that you make, you could have been the president, the first son in law. I'm sure

I'm gonna get an email, will name the president? Yeah, you want to do that? The train from naming who the person became eventually the president? Well, I'll just say it's a former president, not a president president. All right, leave it there. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week day said two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart

Radio app Let's See. Neil also's is speaking of jobs, What would it take for you to move to Florida? Not a lot? Well, I gotta convince my wife. But he also says I didn't know about this. I guess Howard Stern began broadcasting from Florida for the first time ever. At that he's now hosting his show from his Palm Beach home. He began, I guess it actually happened back in uh last month, mid April, but he never officially

announced the move. It's the first time ever, story Neil sent me from the the new the next time next, Miami dot Com says it's the first time ever Stern was broadcast from Florida. Stern at a replica of his New York studio built in Palm Beach, only the floor is different, keeping the move hidden for weeks. About that, I think you would enjoy the Cuban food down there too. Yeah, I've been to Miami. I like Miami. Do you like Do you like the food? No? But I like my amy.

I have a simple palette. I know but I thought you'd like the Cuban face. I'm really like Howard Stern. I'm broadcasting from home. Guess on you see that all the greats broadcasting, Art Bell, Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, the Legends, and the radio business. Russia's dead, so it is right, Bell, but still they when you know everyone dies, the death rates, no one's getting out alive. We all have a fatal illness.

It's called life, so deal with it. Howard Stern paid fifty two million dollars for his Palm Beach home, and uh, but he said that he remained in New York in order to be able to interview star guests who may not come to Florida. But he's been cut conducting interviews remotely since the pandemic began. So there you go. He's uh got lower taxes and all that in Florida. Good for him, the king of all media. I remember when Stern had his Fastball. Boy was he good? And I

I love the hell out of Howard Stern show. And now he's the wokester. It's too bad, but it happened. Uh. Let's see here, says Neil says one more for Ben money Ball Mallard uh. He says. If you were in Vegas with gascon and he says, at some sports book and saw a prop bet on what would happen first, Ben winning his own Mallard Mountain of money or eating a gascon give steak from over a year ago? Which one would you put a grand on over over over a year. It's like wine, it's aged. Are you good

in the sports books? Are you good in the casinos? What do you mean? Am I good in the casino? Do you win? Are you profitable? Or you are someone that I am selective but successful. I don't bet. It's not the quantity, it's the quality. And then my problem is I run through my mind different scenarios on how I'm gonna get fucked when I put a bet down, who's gonna rule me over? And then I think, I try to walk through it. What was the I'm playing

the probability, praying the odds. You know what, what's gonna actually work? What's not gonna work? That kind of thing. I'm exceptional at the craps table. I'm really good. Yea, yeah, but we'll see about that. Like the buddy I had, you know, give me a couple of hundred bucks take me to the casino all way and playing a couple hundred dollars. That's the all. That's what Craig Carton did, right, He's like playing with other people's money and then you

start losing, and then you got you got problems. Carlos from Bang Bang Houston says, what's the origin story on the Golden Tickets? Also, there's a weekly tradition on the podcast, so he said he was gonna ask about the frozen steak. We've already been asked Carlos about the frozen steak. Uh, he says, for the record, I had Facebook and Twitter, but I am completely off the grid for personal reasons. Oh what do what happened? Um? Think he's running from the law, is running from a couple of girls. I

think some lady ladies rama. Yeah, or maybe he wants to lay off that because he's looking for a new job and he doesn't want HR to be spying on him. That's a good one too. The poison, the poison of social media. But there's not a big backstory. And the Golden Tickets, it kind of started organically. I think Danny g had the idea. We were trying to come up

what I remember correctly was it. I think it might have been that guy that from New York that used to call the show who's banned uh And he wanted that he was the first one to use it, the Golden Ticket real something. I forget what his last name, his last part of his nickname was, but he hasn't. He's banned till the summertime. Rhymes with bunt uh. Yeah, But anyway, he Danny g came up with the name. And then I guess somebody said, Jim Rome does like the same thing or so. I don't know. I don't

Jim Romes an overnight show for me. I sleep when he's on, So I don't know. But people like the Golden Ticket and we've kept it around for several years. Pierre from Springfield rights in just down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame Er Mufett McGraw is and Clipper Darryl will be in the Hall of Fame soon enough. Any chance that you guys have any plans of doing something else on the YouTube like you did

with Benny Versus the Penny. It was a lot of fun interacting with the two of you and the rest of the militia interacting. Mostly it was just about how we looked the product. The production value increased with each passing weeks up, especially after Dave updated his computer and Ben figured out his green screen. Uh he says, ps, will that Tomahawks steak be moving with you and the misses or will you leave it for the new owners of the Mallard Match. I don't know if you're talking

about Pierre. I have not disclosed any of that information, but uh, yeah, I mean we're always working on something, and the big the big part of the year. For most people, the year starts in January one, but in the sports world it starts the first Sunday in September when the NFL kicks off. That is the beginning of the year. And we love the Benny versus the Penny brand. We used to have it on radio. I did that on radio for a long time. We did it on

this podcast. We moved it to YouTube, and uh, we've got some big plans. We'll see if those plans actually come to fruition or not. But even if the plans that are in the works don't happen, there's something else that we're gonna do. They have you always gotta have a backup plan. You gotta have a plan A and a plan being. We've at least I have in my head. Uh, he's gotta have a fall guy. Yeah, we need that too. Fred from Spring Texas says, what's your opinion of Philadelphia

sports teams and fans? I love the passion number one? And I've always said as a fan, even though I grew up in California and it laid back California cool, as a sports fan, I'm I'm much more relate to the fans in Boston. Uh. One of the reason I think the show has done well in Boston, Philadelphia and New York. That's that's really my approach to being a sports fan. More more in line with that. Now, Listen, I've been to I've been to Philly these games. I've

never been to an Eagles game. I've been in Philly over the years, and I you know, some real animals, let's be honest here, that are mixed amongst the fan base hoodlums, But I do like I mean, there was a video this week of a fan running out in the field and the police came over and pushed the guy. The guy was trying to he was running off the field.

He was jumping back in the stands and the fan tackle the police officer tackle him, and the crowd's going wild and the fans the police officer he had such an adrenaline rush that he like patted the guy in the back, saying, good job, good job running out in the field. It was hilarious. That was really funny. Gaster, I think that's a said from Fresno says for all

of you. He says, which would you prefer having a paradise landscape in your own backyard to enjoy with fran Is in family or spending a lot of money to go to a paradise getaway. Give me the backyard. Give me the backyard. You can enjoy it the rest of your life if you stay in that house. Give me the backyard. Are you okay? Yess? Guy? Did you fall asleep? Are you? Are you bored? Do you want to move on? I mean you not want to answer the question what

the fun is going on? I agreed with you, but yeah, backyard? So you're not one word answer guy? No, I mean I can elaborate if you like. But we're in California. We're in southern California, so it's such a vacation from southern California, Like you know, vacationing here would be either

San Diego, Hawaii. I don't know anyway, work man, you need to recover from Vegas anywhere in California, Northern California, Fox, San Francentral California, Central California, right around the Hurst Castle, Beautiful, sat us Obispo, Santa Barbara. Yeah, that area, San Louis Obispocious, much further northcu been San Francisco for anybody anymore. You don't like watching people ship on the street. What's wrong with you? It is a cesspool of just thuggery. Crim

That Golden Gate Park, though, is beautiful. It is that nice. That Golden Gate Park, walking across the Golden Gate Bridge beautiful. Yeah, It's wonderful and I was so upset. I've talked about this in the past, but if you're new to the show, I I've been to San Francisco many times over the years and never visited the Golden Gate Park. And I went the last time I was there, Like, WHOA, what have I done if I haven't I've been to this place.

This place is amazing. Everyone loves San Francisco. Alcatraz is pretty awesome too. Never been to Alcatraz, never never done Alcatraz. Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee says, for both of you, have you ever gone to a restaurant and the food or service was so bad? How bad was it that you walked out? Never done that? M I remember as a kid, we had some really bad service, took a long time get food, food was wrong when the food

came to the table. But the way that my mom handled that and adjudicated that was just to not leave a very good tip at all, like leave like a you know, like a ten percent tip instead of or whatever. That was her way of paying back and getting I

remember going to UH. I was on a date in Vegas at at a restaurant, and I remember the food was so bad that after the date or after the dinner was over, my date went to the restroom and the waitress came by and she she asked how how dinner was, and I said, I gotta be honest with you, and she said what And I said, you know, this is my first date with this woman. She's awesome. She was like a longtime friend and dah da da da, like buttering her up and she's like, oh, that's a

really good story. Da da da dada. But I'll be frank, this dinner was awful, and I don't know if I'm gonna get a second date. She just started apologizing profusely. She gave us, she credited us, like the entire dinner was all comped um. Yeah, like dessert we got out of it. And my date was like, wow, how did you hook up the dessert? And I was just like, I don't know, it's just a kind waitress. I tipped her out like the full bill, so I gave the

waitress a tip on that. But it was awful. It was so bad, I you know, but kill him with kindness a little bit. It was I forget the name of it. It was the French restaurant on top of them, on top of the Yeah, and it was awful. It was so bad. And not only a restaurant was horrible. Yeah, yeah, it was. I don't know, man, it's tough to uh, it's tough to fathom in a city like Las Vegas, because you have so many restaurants and so many good chefs and someone good cooks. It's tough to shipp the bed.

It's like making a pizza right. It doesn't matter if it's Chicago or New York or here in Cali. Good pizza is good no matter what. Like you'd have to be so fucked up to destroy a pizza. Well, especially the Mallard pizza, Mallard brand pizza, the garl like the onion, the bell pepper. That is a wonderful pie. It's a wonderful pie. That's great. You've never enjoyed a pizza until you've had the Mallard garlic, onion, bell pepper pizza. And

it's a wonderful experience. That's a good That's a good trick to use though, when you go to a new restaurants say, oh, this food was so bad, I don't know that I'm gonna get another day, And then you get free food you can you should give that to that vagrant in Miami that used to call the show, so you know, you get some some meals out of it.

Let's see what is next year. Kyrie in Okay, see my guy, Kyrie says, Hey, big man, do you think Roberto could get with Danny g sometime and get some of the old drops back in rotation, like Genie and Medford and other show leggeds. I love my guy, Roberto and gascon and you going back and forth is awesome. He called you a piece of ship on your birthday. That is correct. Never forget David gascon On called me a piece of ship on my birthday. He says, are

you fucking serious? He says, I love you guys listen eight days a week, seriously, asked my wife. She can't stand it, but who cares? Well, God love your wife. I did a cameo for Kyrie back into Dead young family guy and all that, and okay, see, yeah, the thing about Roberto and I don't know there's any way to correct, Like Roberto didn't live through the Genie and Medford years. He didn't experience Genie in Medford, so he's

foreign to that. And to really get the magic of Genie and Medford, you have to know the context of those sound bites. So in a perfect world, yeah, you could say, all right, we'll put Danny g and Roberto together and they will play the sound bites. But you know, when you change engineers, and I've had many engineers over the years, usually what happens is that it's what they experienced, Like that's that those are the drops that they play, and everything else gets kind of lost, which in many

respects is good. I think it's not a bad thing because you want to keep the show as fresh as you possibly can't, even though we don't. We're doing a lot of the same bits, you know that trying to keep them a little different make it sound a little different. So yeah, I have no no problem that, But I do miss the Genie meant for drops. She had so many, she was a drop machine. She said so many crazy wackys any things back in the day, and I missed her. She was so crazy. I didn't think she was a

real human being. And then I and when she got sick and she ended up passing away, but I was able to talk to her on the phone and relay how much she meant to the people to listen to the show, and I really it's one of those things you always say this when somebody dies. But when she passed away and and there weren't you know, she had no family, She was a strange from her family, and we know, I hate doing this kind of stuff. But we asked the Mallar Militia to help pay for funeral costs,

and we were overwhelmed. We didn't we didn't know what we were gonna get. We didn't think we'd get anything of any maybe a couple hundred bucks, and we've got thousands of dollars. So much so that we were able to put a plaque in the Swan park in Echo Park over there near Dodger Stadium, the swan boat thing, the duck the swan boats right there, duck boats of swan boats and there's a plaque there. If you can get around the homeless people, you can find the plaque

right near the playground. It's dedicated to Genie and Medford. So that's pretty pretty cool, Kyrie, Uh Tombalin stomper in Mississippi right, since it's what are the chances of Marcel's food picks being a large ice cold mug of Doc's urine asking for a friend? Yeah, I'd like to have what the Tomblin Tomberlins having the stomper there in in Mississippi. Why that Doc is crazy, man, he is so out there.

It's the people call. There's a call the other night this week and this last week, and you know it was I think it was again that Blair and Mains, like, you know, talking about you know, urine, animal urine, and doctor oh yeah, camebl urins. Great, you know he's like feeding your feeding your chickens urine, you know, human urine. You know. Oh the guy from New Hampshire called up and uh and and Doc was like, oh yeah, that's great.

You know I have I have a client in Washington state that and she gives her chickens urine and they're they're very valuable chicken. I was like, oh my god, fuck Chris and Marracca to Iowa. Did I pronounced that right? Chris says if you could go back in time to any sporting event ever and watch in person only one play, what would it be? But asked this a version of this before Chris, I have stated I only want to go back to the era with the modern plumbing uh

and air conditioning things like that. But it would be cool to go back to this like see Babe Ruth and that famous story that he called his shot at Wrigley Field, heard that a million times? Did he actually do that? Is that? Is that being embellished sitting out in the bleachers at Wrigley and seeing what happened? That would be kind of cool. Anything for you the Gibson

home run and I saw that on TV. But to be there though, I mean I was only eight years old, But that would have been awesome that you would have been one of the guys with the rear view when when they when when they hit the home run, and then there were people leaving and they tapped their brakes the time because they were listening to the game on the radio. And could you imagine that, Oh it's unfortunate, Yeah,

as as awful. Fuck, you know, it would have been cool to be at the Boston Garden when Magic hit his hook shot to beat the Celtics. Not if you're a Celtic thing. What if you went to the Bulls Cavaliers game when Jordan hit that shot over Elo or in Salt Lake City when he hit that shot over Byron Russell. Yeah, tremendous moments like that. I mean, Joe Carter hitting a walk off home run for the Blue I was actually at one of those. I was at the Edgar rent Aria bass it for the Marlins. Yeah,

I was that. Yeah, I was at that game. It was wild Man, extra innings, Craig Counsel, this was the generic and nobody was the pinch runner. And he scored the winning run. And yeah, Edgar rent Toria game winning hit right up the middle. Tony Fernez, I remember Jose Mesa to this day. Teammates of Jose Masa blame him.

They were. I was there. I witnessed them putting the plastic wrap up in the Cleveland Indians locker room, and they had the champagne in a cart right in front of the locker room to handle the players when they came into the locker room to celebrate them winning the World Series. And then Mason blew it for Tony Fernandez, who was I guess he died a year ago whatever. A great, great ballplayer, Tony Fernandez, but he he made a mistake. I think he was playing second base, if

I remember. That's the most dramatic ending to a game that and I was at some I hate say, like some Laker playoff games back in the Kobe years. They came back. They were down seventeen to the jail Blazers. Thrashid Wallace and Robert Ory hit some ridiculous circus shots. I remember that John from Omaha, Nebraska, right, so he says, let's say, hypothetically, you gotta check in the mail from

a rebate slash insurance. Do you tell your wife so she can buy herself something nice or do you keep it a secret and get a rub and tug and you think I'm Bob Kraft or something like that. I don't. There are no secrets, And um, my wife does not need me to tell her to buy something. She pretty much does that on her own. So she's a grown ass woman. Shoesn't to me to tell her what to do.

Blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan and Olympia Washington, says, if you were forced to leave the sports radio industry, what career would you want to be in? All right now? The answer costco receptionist at Costco. I would be the shopping cart guy at Costco. I'd restock the shelves at Costco. And if that didn't work out. Lately, I've been more into investing, like something in the investment segment of society. Uh. And also I've always had the fascination with law, but

you've got to pass the bar to get that. So ship these days though, you don't even need the else set to get in the law school anymore. You can use the g R E to get in. Yeah, so I think i'd be a decent lawyer. I know a lot of the tricks that lawyers use. I don't know that I could actually successfully use them in a court of law. But I like the idea of thinking I could, you know, thinking I could do that. And so that's the answer that what about you, I guess what would

you be doing? I think finance would be one of them for sure. Um, mental health and therapy would be another. Pretty pretty easy for me. Probably anything sales driven. It's really the most money is out anyway. Well, we do do sales here on radio. Yeah, But I mean the most important part of sports radio programming is not the show, it's the commercials being played in between segments. Gotta sell the soul. Heard that from John Sterling. Gotta sell the soul.

That's the most important thing. Did you hear his no hitter call the other day for Corey Kluber? No, I didn't hear it. What do you what? Him and Susan are just I don't know it just it was not good. Come on, that's my guy, that's my guy, John Sterling. You know Sterling was good. Just like when Susan got into it. It just fucking you know, just ruined. It's like putting a car cover on a Ferrari. You don't. You don't do that. It's like hanging a monet at

a motel six. Is that what you're here? Yes? Yes, okay, I got you, Paul or no, Pat? Rather Pat in Winter Park, Florida right since this, do you think the that whoopee pie could have helped his problem if he would have driven on a on half points John Deer with beer drinking Brian Uh to the hospital. I don't. I don't know, Pat. I think that was an attempted humor. I'm not sure exactly what you were getting at. I'm not sure r J. And san Antonio says. Have y'all

ever been interested in comics while growing up? Now? Growing up or now? If so, what were your favorites to read? Yeah? When I was a kid back in the Stone Age, when we didn't have all the high falutin video games. We had video games, the Colico Vision, Nintendo whatever, But yeah, we we always had comic books at the house and we would read you know, traditional I'm a purist, you know, Superman and Batman, and we had some Donald Duck comics.

My parents loved Disney. So we'd go to you know, growing up in Orange County and Disneyland at that time was pretty cheap, and we'd go there a lot and we pick crap up and g I Joe comic books. We got a lot of those. I remember when I was a kid, what about you guest on you a comic book? X Men was probably my Yeah, we had some of those. Two Yeah, so the X Man, he Man and some of that going on. I remember those a lot of those. Sunday or the Saturday Morning cartoons.

Part of the deal was you had they would create a cartoon around the show. If there was no cartoon for the show, they would create it as a marketing vehicle to get kids to watch the show. They'd be like, Okay, we we need to come up with a cartoon for this because they're gonna get more people to to be part, all right. Last one from Paul on the mail bag. Paul says, I am beyond piste. Off the station I used to listen to the Ben Mallor show on UH and other sports people all of a sudden turned into

a Spanish radio station. Bluetooth and apps are not an option all right now, Paul listen. I I appreciate you reaching out. I know that's frustrating. You have your routine, you like listening to the show a certain way. UM, and I'm not sure what your work set up is. I I didn't really go into a lot of detail here, Paul, I have heard from people in the past. My advice, first of all, to stay calm. It'll be okay. I've worked in network radio a long time. We have been

on and off radio stations in different cities. UH. In Boston, I think I've been on four radio stations over the years. I've been on EI, the Sports Hub. We were on two shitty AM stations in Boston. UH. We've been on and off in Dallas on multiple stations, and Phoenix, a lot of other cities. So we we come and go. It is the nature of the beast. So that's the first thing. So we'll be back at some point on

one of your local radio stations, I promise you. Because typically what happens is radio stations change ownership or they change bosses, and the new boss the only real leverage they have. They can't really change anything, so they change the network feed. So they go from Fox to CBS and then CBS to Fox or whatever. So there's that or in this case Spanish, I don't know the Spanish one. You might have to turn down the dial and find

a different station that turns back to sports. Um. And then what I've what I've heard from from from Fansom of the advice I've given out is that you just download the podcast. If you say you can't use Bluetooth or apps, I guess that would ruin the Pope, but you can listen. If you have access to the internet, you could always download the podcast and then listen to it like a radio show, or just go on a browser, go on Google Chrome or Firefox and then go to

Fox Sports Radio dot com. All right, uh and that with that, that concludes the mail bag. I need as many positive reviews for a guest on Friday, Dr godsid Um, Yeah, this is brillant. This has been a it's been a goldmine of of excellent guests. I might say, yeah, I mean in the way I would say it listen. I thought he was great. I loved it, and it's really you know, we really go pound stand but it it

is listener, That's what I would say. But we do judge this on how many downloads we get and what people like and what they don't like, what we get positive feedback Earl example, there are a lot of people that loved Earl. So when I'm just trying to get him on again, get some more comedians on the podcast and have some fun with that. We all need to laugh a little bit. But it's hard to find the comedians that are not the woke comedians, and you gotta you gotta dig a little deep to find those guys.

So we gotta get those guys on, and I would love to have more people on Like Dr Side, I am a dummy, as I said, you know, I'm not you know, I'm street smart, not book smart. And he's he's got a little bit of both because of his background growing up in in the Middle East and as a kid and then has his family having to move to Canada. So Doctor said a very interesting guy in his book, which I don't know if you think, is that too far out of my realm? The parasitic mind?

How infectious ideas because he talked specifically about marketing and it plays right into your your weasel words, right like that is oh sure, you know? And I have studied like infomercials. I've read books on how they sell crap on infomercials and how casinos convince you to to amble more I am. I'm fascinated by that. It's the little place too, like people always are always curious on I mean, I even asked my dad this, what is the what

is the most ticketed car that's out there? And some people will say it's a red car, a red car or a yellow car. That's why fast food chains are either red and yellow or just yellow or just red, like they attract the highest volume of traffic for people. I heard a story about that years ago, and I've repeated it. I don't even know if it's true. It might be fake, but I repeated it. That the reason the taxi cabs in New York we're are yellow and

and across the country. You know now most people use Uber, but the taxi cabs are yellow is because there was a study done in the New York Times in this guy that was, you know, behind the taxi. One of the early taxi people is like they read that the human eye spots the color yellow from the furthest distance, like it stands out, and so that's why they you know, when you're on the street looking for a taxi, you can always spot the yellow taxi because it's it's the

color shows up more than other colors. And I when I worked at the mighty six nine in San Diego, we had black and gold, yellow bright yellow as the color scheme because that really drew the eye. That's interesting. Yeah, But I love the tricks at casinos. I know we're supposed to put the baby to bed here, but you know, no clocks, no windows, and casinos deliberately attempting to limit the senses and the ceiling. The ceiling colors are usually

soft colors. Yeah. Uh, And they often make a casino amazed. Now why do they do that. They design it as a maze because once you're out gambling and you're on the gaming floor there, everything is put out in a way they want you to get lost in seemingly like you're in the in the Wizard of Oz and there's an endless row of machines. You've fallen down the rabbit hole. Uh. They're hoping that you'll see something and be like, well, wait a minute, I want to gamble on that machine,

or I want to gamble at that table. Before you can find your way out. So it's, uh, it's great. What a great business casinos are You go in there, no one you're gonna lose, and you still go in with a smile on your face, and it's entertainment, it's

recreational activity and you're you know. But then see, that's why the book would would be great because doctor saw it said that specifically during the interview, like how we would feel if we were put in a Ferrari versus how we'd see if another man that we were competitive with was in that said Ferrari. Yeah, like the testosterone levels, the endorphins, like the the feeling that would get from that sensation. No, no, absolutely, all right, well that's it.

Have a great memory review. We need a lot of positive because I understand you know, the negative netlies will send some negative reviews in, but we need a positivity. So if you're a fan you haven't done the review thing, or if you have and you can do another one fifth hour podcast Apple podcast, ask page, give us a good for you. We'll be back on the radio. I will be tonight live radio show eleven o'clock on a Sunday night in the West, two am in the East.

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