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and filipbuster. Your podcast needs your audio content needs now eight days a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show. And here we are together again on a Sunday, the Sunday Podcast, which has done very well, very well, despite the fact we don't really promote it and I generally forget to send out even tweets on on Sunday promoting people to download or post it on the Facebook pitch to download the pot Kiss, But the numbers have been

very good for this. We thank you for that. And you put up with the nonsense, the David Gascon bullcrap that you have to put up with every week, so we do appreciate that. From West to the four oh five, who's here? Uh? And we we have the mailbag. These are actual questions by actual listeners, and we do this rapid fire machine gun Mallar style where we're gonna go

through the questions as quickly as we can. If you want to submit a question for a future edition of the mail bag, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday is the day hump Day. Normally in the morning. Sometimes I forget, but normally in the morning. On the Facebook page, which you should be uh following, liking whatever Ben Maller show on Facebook, I'll

send a link out. I'll say, hey, listen, I'll send a post post your question here, or you can send your question via email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. So there's a couple of way is a couple of ways that you can interact to be part of the mail back and that we do. We do appreciate it. So all right, uh, let's get right into it here. These are again actual

questions by actual listeners. Tres in Texas Rights and he says, have you considered a website for the show complete with merchandise like T shirt stickers, downloads of the shows songs, et cetera. It could have archives of the greatest hits and misses. And you could dabble again in the gossip stuff without full time pressure. Maybe a chat form for militia to go at it from time to time. There

you go. Uh. He says, you are a big enough commodity and the time waster wouldn't be appreciated by shift workers truckers at truck stops when not with lot lizards and insomniacs. Tres says Tress, this is not a terrible idea. And I have played around with the concept of doing something back on. It was starting a website. I don't have Ben Mallard dot com anymore, but starting starting a website and doing something with the show. But the merchandise

thing I have dabbled in that. I had a listener that made some T shirts and wanted to sell them, and I helped out. I know people always complain. In fact, I still have some old T shirts. I was going through some stuff with all that happened this year with me personally, and I went through some old T shirts and I might attempt to put those on the market and sell some of those. But I would be willing to make stuff if there was a an interest in it, like if somebody wanted a Mallard militia had or a

T shirt would actually be into it. Yeah, but there's like that sweet spot with pricing where if it's too high people complain. If it's too low, it's like, well it's not good quality. So I tried to make good quality stuff and then people were very upset and they were complaining and saying, I can't believe how expensive this is, and I like, well, it's not that expensive. The shirt

will last forever anyway. All right. Brian in north Bridge, Massachusetts rights and he says, how is Gascon still employed? It's a great question. I don't know. I don't even know if he's on this podcast. He's been very quiet so far. I think you'd have to contact the management at Fox Sports Radio to figure that out. I was just waiting for a proper introduction. Has been well, I said your name? What I mean? What more needs to be said? I don't know, chump in. How about again,

this is another example why you're bad. Here's the reactive and the proactive. Be proactive? How about that proactive? Waiting me properly introduced? What do you need me to give you a BackRub? Would be dice? What do you want the Deshaun Watson treatment. I'm sorry it's haunting here with this toe. Jeez, nothing wrong with that. Just so, how are you employed guests? And explained to Brian because he can't figure it out. Many of us can't figure it out.

How is someone like you imput you clearly lead management astray? Yes, yes, yes, I was. I was actually brought in by your former boss, Bruce Gilbert Um. Bruce did not every higher. It was great by Bruce, and he made some mistakes. Everyone not everyone was great, but not everyone was bad. Um came from San Diego, worked my way up and obviously you're at the national levels opposed to in little old San Diego. So go from market seventeen to market number two. I

would consider that a considerable mark up. Well, it's actually the number one radio market. There's a myth that New York is number one, but it's actually Los Angeles. More people listen to the radio in Los Angeles to New York, and want to be precise, that would be the number one audio publisher in the entire world. I heart media, So if you want to try to one up me, that is the one up. But I still I'm old, so I still use the term radio. I know the

industry is trying to digital world. Have brought you into the digital The industry is trying to get rid of the word radio. You've heard, you know, audio instead of radio, and I'm like radio the die just did that last last week. The Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. Yeah, they no longer have radio. It's audio. No longer radio audio. That's uh, you know, teach their own. It's not my my thing. I don't know, but somebody clearly thought that

was a good idea anyway. Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts rights in home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you can see Muffett McGraw in the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame. So he writes in Ben, have you ever had second thoughts about signing a contract? I've listened to you for your entire ride at Fox Sports Radio, but

lately I fear for your health. In the past, Gagon put the hex on your gallbladder, and more recently, I feel like you're one shift away from throwing your back out carrying the dead weight that is fill in producers and update guys. I think that you may need to start self medicating prior to the show to prevent a heart attack while dealing with some of these buffoons. This guy writes you every week with sausage in his mouth. It's just like Ben Mallar Salami every day, all day tweeting,

telling you just the way I look at this. There were no lies detect unbelievable. There were no lies detectable. I mean, first of all, people move up and they move on. You really outcast a lot of people. You don't appreciate their work until they go on to uh do it? Who have I not appreciated Bob Gara. I appreciated Bob. He couldn't handle the overnight. It wasn't for him,

just like you. You couldn't handle the over. I don't want to work eight nine hours overnight when h you know there's nothing in the news world going again, you do not You're not relatable. Understand you're not. Some people have the the IT factor and other people don't. You don't have the IT factor. You know, working you don't understand in syndicated radio, you want to be the overnight guy. I'm we're on more affiliates than the daytime. That's as

a host, not as an update anchor. Now, But if you work on a show, you want to be on a show that's actually hurt. We have more radio affiliates than anyone because of the time that we're on. I guess it's not because we're great, but it's the time that we're on. So if you're doing syndicate, if you're doing a daytime show, you want to be on the

morning or the afternoon. But if you're in syndicated radio, you want to be on at night or overnight because that's where the that's where the listenership, the potential listenership is through the roof because you're on more radio station. Yeah, but if I'm gonna be an anchor, why would I want to be an overnight anchor when I could just repeat and replay updates like some of the other guys you work with. Well listen, I mean, there there is

that approach, man. I've never understood that. I've I've questioned why certain people just repeat the same update over and over again. It doesn't make sense to me. I I think there's a craft. And when I started, there was a guide book that was handed out in the early days of Fox Sports Radio called rewriting your updates and

adding new material and it. It's fascinating because there's so much stuff that goes on overnight that drops while we're on the show, and uh, a lot of times that stuff, you know, it's just repeating the same, the same scores over and over. You're not really doing the legwork to try to go out and find the stories that they're there. But listen, a lot of a lot of the people do that throughout the day too. There's just to give the same scores and they don't put put any kind

of gumption into finding what's going on out. Thankfully, I'm not one of those people. What I hear, you hear wrong? Guilt by association, game, guilt by association. Pierre says, did you mention something about feeding a content kitty? Yes, that's what I put on Facebook Pier the content kitty, Dan and Durham writes, and he says, I had someone steal my don't tread on me flag and pull It's okay, though I'm feeling unified. On another note, do you guys

know how much about low voltage elect trick devices? Well, first of all, I wonder if you caught that person on camera, that'd be a good question to ask. Well, he's not here. I can't ask him the question, I know, but he's gonna email you next week. So Dan, let us know if you caught that person or if you saw them on camera. Still your your material, alright? Next one, Patricia's is the mail back. Patricia writes in from Vegas,

originally from Rhode Island. Yeah, she She's moved all the way across the country, but still a Mallard Militia card carrying Mallew Militia. Remember, Patricia says, why do I hear some parts of this show is prerecorded? When I listened to a couple of other shows, I can tell the last hours just a repeat of an earlier hour. Well, Patricia, that you don't want to know how they make the hot dogs? Patricia, all right, I don't get that either, but they don't ask me. Uh, stay in your lane.

But I believe radio should be live. A lot of these shows are actually taped, you know, every where in the industry. Now it's a I don't get it, but we do a live show I have done in the past. I used to do a five hour show on the weekend, and they wanted a six hour show. So what they did with they would take one of the hours and replay it in the sixth hour. So I would do five live, unique hours, and then the sixth hour would

be a repeat. But yeah, I mean there's some guys that do three hour shows and the whole thing is on tape. I don't I don't get it, but you know, to each their own. I guess it's interesting you picked it up at your six I bet most listeners don't even figure. They can't figure that out. But usually the tell is if you're a call in show and you no longer take calls, it's because you've been recorded. That's usually the one of the dead giveaway, Dad giveaway. Anyway, Well,

I remember Rick D's the radio legend. He used to record the beginning of his morning show in l A Kiss FM one h two point seven Kiss F s f M. Yeah, and he approached me in the hallway and he give me some sage advice. Now, I don't do this because I don't record the show. It's all live. I figured, you know what, that's the whole point of doing a show overnight. You're you gotta be there and talking to people that are working odd jobs and whatnot. Anyway, uh,

Jee's told me to listen, you're gonna tape something. Leave the mistakes in, he said, because the people that listen, don't they hear a mistake, they think, well, it can't be on tape, because you know, why would you use it was taped, It would clean up the mistake. Pretty good advice. It's pretty good advice. He gave me my

largest tip. When I worked in the restaurant industry. I worked for Petro's papadick as his dad at his Greek restaurant in San Pedro papadickas Taverna and USC's football team, the Marching Band, And that same night Rick D's came in and I waited on him and gave me a hundred dollar tip. I'll never forget it. I told you get out of radio. Don't I'm ever going yet out

of radio? Uh vahed in New Orleans. Right. So, he says, if you were a famous athlete, this is for both of you, what most likely would have brought you down? Would it be drugs? Alcohol? Uh? He says, ladies, social media or blank man. That's tough. Well, you would be alcohol, drugs and ladies. It would be like all three. They'd be like trifecta. There little Dennis Rodman action, the Worm. Yeah, I don't. I don't know that any of those would take me down. Per se. I don't really do the drugs,

the alcohol moderation. I'm married. If I was single, I could be the ladies, but I'm not not a single guy now, so yeah, I don't know. Maybe social media take me down. Yeah, I think maybe alcohol for me, just the parting, going out and then thinking you can re cover. You know, the recovery from a hangover is a lot easier in your twenties than in your thirties. And uh, you go in Vegas and that's part of being a professional ball player though. You gotta have the

ability to compartmentalize. You play your sport. But then after you know, it's it's like having a mullet. It's uh, you know, it's business in the front, party in the back. Thank you, sage advice by me, Thank you, he also says. But he says all bars in New Orleans were closed from Thursday, uh to says February eleven to ash Wednesday, So says no, Marty gras R. Sorry. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at

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 al Al Ohio. Al rights, and he says, Ben, why do you always say any meani mighty mo pick a caller by the name instead of by the toe like the old saying actually goes well, a couple of reasons for that, Al, he says, But he said, you're afraid of offending flexus, the six toe

drag queen. No, I'm not afraid of offending Flexus the six toe drag queen at all. I don't don't worry about that at all. When I'm doing that. That is actually I'll let you in on a little inside radio here, Ohio, al and only for you. When I say any meany miny mo pick a caller by the name. That is a time fill because my callboard is not reset and that is a cue to cooper loop to wake up and actually send the calls over. So that's a time kill.

And I say any meanimnum will pick a caller by their name, because I have a list of names in front of me, not a list of toes anyway, Uh, let's see here. And ohio All also says, what the fund does Marcel mean when he says mixed match in food picks? This makes no sense to me. The Marcel calls are getting very stale. By the way, ohio All says, I think he is hoping to get a job at FSR or something with his announcing bits. Uh. Yeah, there's

likely some truth in that. And back in Marcel the back of Marcel's head, he believes that he is actually how is he has a job? I think he thinks right now he has a job. He calls in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It's part of his routine. He's got a whole bunch of stations he calls into around the country. But that's the beauty of Marcel. Mixed match is his way.

And a listener actually pointed this out to us. When he had said mixed match, that was a sign of you got it right, You had got whatever the food pick was, you had gotten right. But then somebody I believe, pointed out to him that he was doing this and he stopped doing it for a while. I think he's back doing it though, so I I can't figure, uh what is next here? Let's see any meaning money. I

did not write down the name. This person did not say their names, so I don't know who said this, but somebody wrote in said Ben, well to you, what makes a good baseball hat? Please discuss the best type of crown, high or low brim, shaped or flat, fit, adjustable or fitted, label, price tag on and off? All right, so I'm not I don't leave the label like the price tag on. I don't do that. I enjoy a good fitted hat that fits properly more than the adjustable.

The reason I that is most of the adjustable hats I have a very large head, very large head, and most of the adjustable hats it just doesn't work. It just doesn't work the adjustable hat. And because my head is too big, and so the fitted hat obviously would fit would fit perfectly. So that that is the That is the key. As far as the other stuff, I I like the I don't like the flat bill. I don't like that. I like I like it shaped a little bit. I think it looks better that way. It's

more aesthetically pleasing. Um. So those are some of the things I look for in a hat. Anything guess scaring that you look for in a hat. I'm just I'm a fan of it being fitted and and shaped. Of course, the color is everything too. So that's why I'm a fan more of minor league teams than I am of the proteins in Major League Baseball. I don't think a lot of them have a good look. Dodgers Yankees, yes, but I'm not really a fan of I like that Brooklyn Dodgers. The bet be for Benny, be for Brooklyn,

one of the same. Pretty good, right, come on all about Benny alright, So listener, who I did not say your name? You know who you are. I thank you, but you gotta I tell you guys every week, name in city, name in city before you send the message. Mark from Waverley, Iowa. Right, since says how many hats are you wearing in your current rotation? Great question, Mark,

I have. I try to rotate two weeks of hats at a time, So in my rotation right now, I have the Oregon State Beaver cap, the Fox Sports Radio Cab Saddleback College cap. Uh. There's a couple of minor league hats that are in here. The Iowa Hawkeyes hat has gotten a lot of play in the rotation, and I've been very lucky. I've got a good percentage of hats that have come in recently. I love this m hat that I'm a pilot sent in Smooth. It's a

minor league baseball hat, and that that's pretty good. The Montgomery Biscuits hat, I think, I think that's the team. So yeah, man, those are some of them. But I usually I try to have a ten hats in a two week rotation and then I change you up, like every month. I'll try to mix in some new hats, and then I have seasonal hats. Usually during football season Sundays, I always wear the NFL shield hat Sundays. In the Monday, that's my go to hat. So there is a method

to the madness. Mark, Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia right, since it's besides the wrestler formerly known as RUSSEV. Have either of you met any wrestlers? Yes, Jason, I have. I I've told the story a few times over the years. But I was a celebrity manager at a w w E event many many years ago, and we were promoting the event through the radio station. They wanted some publicity, so they said all right. I was doing the Ben and Dave show with this guy damed Dave Smith, and

we went out there and we were celebrity managers. I was the manager of the Headshrinkers, and I remember being in the locker room was very exciting. I was a huge wrestling fan growing up, and we were in the locker room because we were the next to last event, the next to last event, so we had to wait through the undercard, and I met George the Animal Steel

passed away, and Viscera, who also passed away. So the two guys that I met, we were, you know, my old legends, and George the Animal Steel, an all time great, and russef uh you know not russef Viscera I believe

was the name there, but yeah, he he had. Actually the funny thing was that Visra the wrestler he had, he was on the match like before us, and he broke he's He was a massively large human being and he broke the ropes and so everything got delayed for like forty five minutes as a crew came in to try to fix the ring because he had just destroyed it. And I mean this guy was like five pounds. He was like six nine pounds and he wore he wore these contact lenses to make his eyes look like demon dies.

And I'll never forget I was. We were in the locker room and everyone's complaining. All the other wrestlers were complaining because they're like, oh, man, we want They wanted to get their thing over with and go and enjoy their night, and they had to wait for for Viscera, who I think changed his name to something else later on. He passed away a number of years ago. But um so he comes waddling in to the locker room and all the other wrestlers are sitting around piste off and he's,

you know, shaking his head. I'm sorry, guys, I didn't mean to do it. I was hilarious. It was a fun Maybe have you met any wrestlers Gagu I met back in the day. I met Andre the Giant, And oddly enough it was in Vegas, and that same weekend trip that I was in Vegas, I saw Andre the Giant. I also saw Jaws, the character who played Jaws and Moon Raker. Yeah. Now when you met Andre the Giant,

did you like meet him? Meet him? Were just kind of like casually, Hey, hi, Yeah, it was a casual hey hi, Like there was a bunch of people that were were next to him, so we were at the MGM. Oddly enough, when I was younger, I went to a w WF event at the Anaheim Convention Center. And this is like in the Haull Cogen days, that year of wrestling, and I I was such a loser that I was more excited to see mean Gene Okerland. And I had a Mean Gene Oakland action figure with him holding the microphone,

wearing the tuxedo and all that. And I still I remember I saw him. I got that. I waited for the wrestlers to come out, and Mean Gene came out and he was wearing like a track suit because you know, he didn't have to wear his tuxedo and all that. I fondly remember that. I also fondly remember getting morbidly obese on those WWF ice cream bars. Man with those things, damn with the outstanding well made product, A well made

product for sure. All right, who is next here? John the jailer from Alan Town p A. Says Ben and gascon some per soonalities behind the microphone work until they die. Do you have an exit? Strategy or will you will I be listening to my grandchildren's lame jokes about Lizzo. Yeah, very funny, John. Uh. I don't really have an extras strategy. I love the job. I'd like to do the job

in one form or another. I'll stay at Fox Sports Radio for for a good amount of time, but I mean there's other places to work eventually down the line if this doesn't work out. But I don't see myself ever completely getting out of it. I could see myself as I get older, just doing shows occasionally on the weekends and part of the time like the grind, uh per se, the audio grind will be something I would

want to do forever and ever. But a couple of days a week, keep your fastball up, keep keep yourself in the game, keep some skin in the game. So I'd be okay with that. It's like being a head football coach, right, you're hired to get fired. Yeah, I mean, but it's like a football coach. You still end up like it's a consultant or somewhere. You know, these old coaches still work somewhere and they still do something. I know,

it's completely advantaged. It's true. Old guard entertainment realm is you get a lot of folks that circulate in and then out and then in back again. Well, once it's hard to get in. And that's the problem with these entertainment jobs. It's hard to get one. But then when you get one, you don't want to give it up. You want to keep it, and then when you lose it, you want another one. Ken in Toledo writes, and he says, Ben and David, do either of you have one of

those black stone outdoor flat top griddles? Ben if yes, what you cook the now freezer burn tomahawks. Thak, I don't know what you're talking about. It's talking about your laziness, your incompetence. Actually, I don't have a griddle. I got a And you saw this guest on when you came over to the Malory mansion with him. I have a grittle top that I put on my barbecue that turns it into a griddle. Yeah, what do we have? Had we have? We made fahitas and then you brought some

carniasad over that. That's right. But we had had chicken fahitas and some beef fahitas, and then you brought the carne man cooked that up Joe in Richmond, Virginia, right, since says, have you all gotten the COVID vaccine? Why or why not? Guest guard, I think we've talked about this. Have you got the COVID vaccine? I have not. I'm a little low on the totem pole in terms of people that qualify initially for it, but I know that. I think it's April fifteenth or sixteenth that Joe Biden

had announced that everyone will be eligible for it. I'm actually waiting, though, to see which one turns out to be the most effective, because they've talked in isitue it was Maderna fires are not so much than Johnson and Johnson has been on the come lately, and part of the reason for that that's only one shot. With Johnson and Johnson, you might need a booster shot every year, but one shot as opposed to double the dose as you'd get from a DIRNA advisor. So no, I have

not yet. Yeah, I haven't gotten the vaccine either. I I've heard we actually could get it, guess because we are technically frontline workers, believe it or not, thanks to the Martial Act. But I have not, and uh, I will get it at some point. I'm not rushing to get it either, but my wife got it, and a lot of my relatives have purchased it, not purchased pay

for it. But my brother is getting it. So I'm waiting to see I said this last week, but I'm waiting to see how he does with it, and then if everything's good with him, then I have the same DNA, so I have no should have no problems. I know this is a little dark, but did you hear what FEMA is doing this year with funerals? No? No, what

are they doing? So FEMA is actually they are refunding reimbursing people up to nine thousand dollars for funeral costs for individuals that have died due to COVID from Tony twenty two where we're at now, and I think it's up to thirty five thousand if it's multiple people in a family paying back the money. Yeah, I'm like, Unfortunately Dad did not die from COVID, so I don't I'm

not eligible to get to nine thousand. Yeah, but if you said that he had COVID at the time of his death, even if he died from you know, a car accident, you'd qualify you get some of that money. Uh. Dave from Mill Valley Rights and says, is there a way to find the podcast of last year's Talent Show? I would love to be able to hear the full version of more? Uh yeah, we were a fan of the Talent Show, right. It's very lazy radio. It's like

the Power Hour edition to the Ben Mallory Show. Just very kick up my feet again, this lacks my feet an example of why all from j to the Brick and Tom Looney piled it in for big fan of the Brick House. Clearly that big fan. Uh uh No, listen, you have to find the date. I don't off the top of my head, I don't know the date of the Talent Show, but we did it. I believe we did it earlier. I want to say we did the Talent Show. I think it was in April or May of I have to go back through my notes and

and check. But yeah, if you find the date, it's very easy to find the podcast. All the podcasts are podcasts are archives, so you just have to find find the date. But I don't have it right now off the top of my head. Here, I don't remember the exact date. I'm not rain Man, I'm not Cowboy and windsor right know the exact date of balls. Fan Jimmy says he's from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says Ben and Mr West

of the four oh five. As a youth playing sports, what was the biggest thrill of victory for you in the agony of defeat? I think we've been over this before. I feel like we've answered these questions before, this question before. Yes, So I don't know. I mean, go back and hear the old podcast bat You Up by You. Wow, what a jerk. I don't want to repeat old material. Big Mike from Courtland, New York rites in the Crown City. He says, it appears that mobile sports betting is coming

to the Great state of New York. Yeah, what are your thoughts on legalized sports betting expanding across the US? Good or bed? It's not good or bad. It's great. The word is great. First of all, I'm a gambler, so for me, you're asking the wrong guy the question if you're looking for a negative answer. Uh. Secondly, there are gonna be people. They're gonna lose money and will not be able to manage their money and we'll get carried away. But it's the same as alcohol, right, alcohol

is legal. There's a certain persentie of people that drink too much and get in the car, accidents and problems happen, things like that. But gambling, I think, I think it's a it's a cool thing. I think if you have disposable income, a little bit extra money, rather than buy a lottery ticket or a bunch of lottery tickets, put a couple of bucks down on a game, you're gonna watch the game anyway. I think it's a wonderful thing,

and it should have been legal years ago. And adults have the decision to make whether or not they want to make a better or not. If it's not for you, don't do it. Other people want to do it. Good for them to each their own. I'm gonna push back and say that it's a bad thing. The reason why is because I think there was something great about going to Las Vegas. You had to, you know, to save up money, and you had to allocate certain funds for a weekend or a couple of days in Las Vegas.

And you don't do that anymore. You don't need to do that. And then on top of that if you do know this. If you're a gambler when you go to Vegas, if you're betting on the slots, craps, you know, poker, blackjack, whatever it is, certain tables will give you action and they'll give you comps like drinks, food rooms, things of that nature. Or if you're gambling on sports right now

on a mobile ap, you get no comps. You might get an initial match play you put in a hundred dollars will match you up to a hundred dollars and something that nature. But outside of that, there's no real incentive outside of just comparing books. When you're online, yes, and you realize that there's really no there's nothing called the free lunch. Like you even though you you think you're getting free drinks and all that, you're actually not,

Like those are built into the cost of everything. Well, I I understand that, but if you're winning, I mean you're getting something for free, are you not? Yeah, but you're not. Nobody wins, right. You know, going in the casino is great because you know going in the odds are against you that you're going to lose, but you still enjoy it. It's like recreational. It's entertainment, of course, But who goes into a casino thinking I'm gonna make money.

I'm gonna make a ton of money. I'm gonna come out here with more money, a bigger pile of money than when I came in here. Poker players and people that are typically gambling on crops, I mean, those are the two games and black jack that are close that you get fifty odds at least crap craps some blackjack that you get odds to the house. It's not accurate to Vegas is gonna be fine. People are still gonna go to Vegas, the gambling mecca and all that. It's

not gonna kill Vegas. I mean, the sports betting has been legal in a lot of states for a while. It's not like Vegas is is falling off the face of those casinos though they know all the tricks, man, I mean, they don't no clocks, no windows, and those Vegas casinos and they're all designed like a maze. It's it's fascinating. I read a book about that years ago, about how they design casinos and why they do the things they do and all that, and it's, uh, it's

pretty pretty interesting. The mental tricks that they put on people to get them to gamble. But gambling is like a reverse a t M machine. You put money in and you don't get a lot of money back. So anyway, what else do we have to see? Page down here? Page down mark in Ottawa? Right, So, and he says, how do you come up with the Mallard monologue? Connect three words? So we've got pink lemonade, barbecue cover and Jens saki and we're going to combine all these things

together and make some baba ganooche. Well, there is a method to the madness mark, but it's really random. I go I'll find something that I want to talk about in a monologue, and you know, I'll jot down some some bullet points and then I'll be like, no, I try to figure out a way to tie everything together. So um, it's not like I go in and say, well, I gotta use you know this, that or the other thing. It's kind of organically happens. But some some days are

easier than others. Some days it's like they have anything unique here. But blind blind Emmett the Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington, leading the race for blind Caller of the year he's up for the Beny. He says, if you guys could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be? You ask this question too blind? Emmett did not him, but I think someone asked very popular question. Yeah, I think we already answered that. We we already got like New

Zealand or Australia. Yeah, I said, toky Europe or Mars or Bangladesh. I've been watching these vloggers, these video travel guys on YouTube, and there's one of these guys went to Afghanistan and was traveling, you know, like recently, like a couple of months ago, went to Afghanistan, was one and around went to North Korea years ago on a trip. Crazy. I know the w w E does a great job of honoring the military, and they go out to the Middle East. Did they go to Afghanistan? I think they've

gone well, I know they've gone a Baghdad. I don't know if they've gone to Afghanistan. It's pretty wild. And this guy was like in a Taliban controlled city and just wander around, damn like white dude from Arizona, like sticking out like a sore thumb exactly. Uh. Stevens Swanton Ohio says, do you guys get along outside of work, watch games together, cook out? No, not at all. We don't get along together at all. We don't go together. No, not,

None of that happened geographically undesirable. Ricardo from Fresno right See says Ben. How much of a feminist is David Gascon? Well? The late Rush Limbaugh would call him a feminazi is what he would call the gascon he is? He we call him at at work, we call him the Rapino of Fox Sports. Rod Yes, actually looks like Megan Rapino a little bit too, Not that that's bad. She's a lovely lady. In my apologies doing purple hair, Chris and Iowa writes, since is what is the Mallard maneuver for

getting out of the doghouse with the wife? Currently in that situation? Right now? Chris is having some some issues there. Chris, I'm I'm pretty lucky. I don't get in the doghouse very often, but normally my wife's pretty chill. I just apologize, And I've learned as a married man that you often have to apologize for things that don't deserve an apology, but you still have to Apologie. So I wish I had more to tell you. Gascon's got nothing on this

because he's I recommend you cook and you clean. Well, what if you already do that and do better? I doubt he cooks and cleans. I'm a dishwasher. I occasionally do some of the laundry. Uh, you know, I know how to cook. I learned how to cook a couple of years back. So yeah, it's work in progress for your husband of the year. My god, there's the things you could do. Flowers, cook, clean, wash the sheets, make

the bed. Eric and Omaha rights and says, is there an athlete you despise growing up and ended up meeting them later in life and they ended up being friends? Well, I wouldn't say friends, and I wouldn't say someone I, you know, dealt with growing up. But when I was younger, I had heard some terrible stories. There's two people that I'm want to name here, and this is off the

top of mind. I mean there's probably others that I'm forgetting that I'll kick myself and say, boy, I wish I had brought that person up if I think about this. But but Eric, Mike Milbury and Mike Keenan a couple of hockey coaches, and I Mike Keenan in particular. I had covered hockey a little bit early in my career at six ninety and Keenan would come in with the various teams and he was such an asshole, such a dick, and you know, really short and give you the death stare,

kind of like the Belichick stuff. And Milbury. I had heard some horrific stories about Mike Milbury, the old Boston Bruin from back in the day. And then I worked at NBC for a year and would travel back every month to Stanford, Connecticut, and we'd all hang out on the set, and then after we we wrapped up the taping of the show, we would go hang out at the hotel bar and those guys would fly into Connecticut also and stay at the time they were they were

wonderful guys. I have very fun memberis of Mike Keenan telling me how he was approached by a Russian aristocrat aristocrat to go coach hockey and Russia and then proceeded to try to convince Mike Milbury to go join him and coach a team in Russia. And Mike Milbury was like, I don't know, and then he Keenan told him how much money he got paid, and then all of a sudden, Milbury perked up. He's like, oh, maybe I don't think he ever did, but those those guys were pretty cool.

And Mike Milbury told me the famous one of the great stories in NHL history when he beat up a fan at Madison Square guard right around Christmas, got into a Donny Brook in the crowd a Bruins Rangers game. It's one of the great stories in hockey history. And he gave me the play by play from his perspective what happened, and you know, he was like, hey, I

just wanted he was around Christmas. I want to get back and see my mom, you know, and this guy you know, grabbed something and then one thing lent to another and William Bam, here we go. Interesting anybody for you against Tommy Losorda sorta you thought Losorda was I thought I thought Losorda was a really nice guy, and then I met him in person. He was a fucking asshole.

And he actually he actually is an asshole too. He was supposed to speak at one of my sisters graduation or commencement events and apparently he had too much to drink the night before, two hungover, didn't show up the next day, and this is in Louisiana. Bailed on them at an uncle that he was supposed to speak to an event at an event for for my uncle bailed on that he's a dick. Not rest of soul, but he's a fucking asshole speaking of the dead. I didn't

have that experience. I will tell you that my experience with a sorta he did have multiple personalities. I think most people have multiple And there there was the public the sort of in front of the cameras, and then privately. You know, you can't be like that all the time. But I I you know, he was nice and he would always ask me how I was doing, and it will sort of like me. I think in part because I started covering the Dodgers. I was nineteen years old.

He was he only had a couple of years left as the manager of the team. But I was one of the last of the regulars at Dodger Stadium that was covering him as a reporter. So I think that he uh like that. But I'm glad that he treated it like an asshole. That's good. I like Losorda Moore. Now hearing that story, well he's gone. Well, I know, maybe he'll come back to haunt you. Maybe that'll be the case. Uh. Kathleen writes and says, hey, Benny Jet,

have you ever done any stand up comedy? I noticed that you put the same techniques to good use as stand up comedians. Kathleen, listen, it's open mic night every night on the Ben Mallo Show. What are you talking about? No, I've never done stand up comedy. I've never really considered doing end up comedy, although, you know, if there's money to be made. Joe Rogan owning, he he opened a new comedy club. He's not open yet, but in Austin, Texas. Go down the little stand up in Austin. Come on,

what do you say? See that house? Rogan bot in Austin. Home? My god. I don't know. Good for him, living like a king. He got out of California. Job by him? Man. Uh. John in Corona, for some reason, says, are you best friends with the hot dog vendors at Petco Park? No? I actually haven't been to Petco Park in a while. Adrian in the mile I said he actually said this a while ago, but I don't think we got to this last week, he said. He and his family returned.

He lives in Obviously the Colorado returned from Midland, Texas. They want on a trip to Midland, Texas to visit family and whatnot. And he points out here the key part of this message. He says, while in Texas, I finally got to try the famous raising canes chicken fingers at the Midland restaurant. I walked up to the counter and I asked for the Ben Mallard Special Adrians. The young lady behind the counter looked at me funny and didn't know what I was talking about, and then I

had to explain to her. Adrian says that I wanted the Keniak Combo no Coast law, extra fries, the Texas toast on both sides, and a large lemonade. Adrian says the meal was delicious and I will eat there again. He also points out this is this is also interesting.

During his drive from Denver to Midland, Texas, the speed limit, he says, is mostly seventy five miles an hour, so he says he said his cruise control to seventy nine miles an hour per the Ben Mallard show recommendation that we always talked about, and he made it there and back with no speeding tickets. It's pretty good. There. You good? All right? He also wants us to talk to Alan and Roach, he said, would be a great Friday interview

for the podcast Good Idea. Do you know who Alan Roaches? Yeah? Why? I wonder what the fascination behind Alan Roaches? Though? Well? Who is Alan Roach? Do you know what he does? Yeah? He is a public address announcer. I know that. Yeah, he's the Denver Broncos. You're a Bronco fanboy, He's the Denver Broncos public address announcer. He's also the voice of the train that runs inside Denver International Airport and he works at k o A and Denver, a legendary, uh

legendary radio station. Does he do the trainer? Does he do the actual airport like I thought he did the I don't know. According to Adrian, he says, when's the last time you were the Denver Airport? It's been it's been a few years. It's been seven or eight year. It's depressing seven or eight years. Yeah, I know what l a xual. They have celebrities doing a lot of the stuff which is I find annoying? I find annoying. Alright,

guess I apparently have things to go. I don't know what things to do, if things to you know, I don't know why. I don't know what you have to do. I have no idea. But that's my weekend. You have a lot of things on the plate for the weekend, and you're rushing me through this. And there's so many other questions we didn't get to in the mail bag. You know, none of them have been addressed to me,

So who cares? Wow, all right, we'll be back on I will be back on the radio, and I'm sure guesscout will probably miss a podcast or two coming up here. But I will be back on the radio tonight Sunday in the Monday eleven p m. Sunday Night in the West two AM in the East with four hours of original audio content. Will be recapping the Masters and everything else that happened the good, the bad, the ugly from

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