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every week. You know that already, so you've downloaded it. And here we are Tedda with this weekend's edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and David Gascon. Now we will have a lot to talk about today. I think, uh, it's going to be very interesting to see if we can pull this one off. There's some behind the scenes maneuvering which you don't need to know about. I was told by a program director early in my radio career, they don't need to know how you make the hot dogs,

because no one will eat the hot dogs. But we we have some some technical technical issues, as they say, But we are here for you, and you don't really care about that, and we'll probably edit all that out of the podcast anyway, so don't matter. So it'll sound smooth, it'll sound clean. But on this edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, we have Golden Mike Worthy only in Burbank. We have an extended study this. We also have an extended a segment where you send in questions.

It's like a rip off of ass Bend. And then we also have don't stick to sports. That's a quite the menu guess on for today's podcast. We'll see if we can actually pull it off, and I think we can, especially because I'm loud, proud, and uh in charge and you feel like you are fully recuperated from your gall bladder misapp well mostly, although my my latest issue is that the wound is here healing and I it's at the point now where I want to scratch. I want to pull this like the wound, the top of the

wound off me. So you have the stitches that were yanked out, But did any of them were in the stitches dissolvable stitches? Uh? No, though they were not. They they took a bunch of staples in one part of my chest and then I had little. The other ones are not that big a deal. They are a little, little, small, minor incisions, and that those don't bother me. But the main one, I just want to take my fingernails and

pull the scab off. I think it would feel so good. Well, don't forget whatever you do this time around with post surgery habits. We get to live stream or colonoscopy next year, so we're all looking forward to that. Yeah, well that'll

be It'll be exciting and annual tradition. Ben Maller in the I see you, thank you well only working with you, and I want to point out I will win some kind of award from I Heart Media for coming in a day early to do this podcast, because we typically record on a certain day, but Gascon decided that he had to book something during that window, the holy window.

The Goldilocks own the podcasting. I love how you take shots at some of the broadcasting efforts that I have and they don't line up with your with your genre, so it is all about me. But I I you know Howard Stern wouldn't do this, Colin Cowhard wouldn't do this. But here I am. I am able to change my schedule, the flexibility, the adaptability that I have to do this. Guest guy, I again, Uh, you'll be buying me a meal to make up for the inconvenience you have provided me.

When I look forward to that. Speaking of a meal, I'm happy. Well, now we'll get to that. We get to that. Don't get ahead of us. All right, let's start with the Golden Mic. Everyone wants to know. Guess gun, Everyone wants to know. What was it like? Magical Television, the podcast Duo United on Camera, the Fox Sports Go app. It was an amazingly competitive high school football playoff game in southern California with Jay, Sarah and Centennial. And we

had it last day. We were there out in the i E. Just near Riverside calling that game, and I guess I thought it went pretty well. The game was terrible, it was. It was a pathetically bad game, and but I had fun. Yeah. I think in honor of a great gymnast, Simone Biles, I think we stuck the landing. I think most importantly, if anyone's curious, we did the open on one take and one take only, right, which is important. I will say. With the open, though, you

look like you were swimming in your attire. And why I was because I have my all my closer from when I was like a lot fatter. So I don't have any skinny clothes and I won't buy them because I'm still trying to lose weight and closer expensive. And also I figure my wife's always oh, let school by clothes. I'm like, well no, because like last time I lost a lot of weight, I bought some new clothes. Then I gained the weight back, but I had gotten rid of my old close. Well, don't get don't pile the

weight back on, dummy. Well no, I don't plan on piling the weight back on. I didn't plan on piling the weight back on when I lost the weight initially. But most people lose a lot of weight, they gained chunk of it back, and that's what happened to me. But now I've lost most not most, but a lot of what I had gained back. Yeah, And just to tell the audience of how boogie you are, you actually shoot up to the game with a stylist and a makeup artist, which is bullshit. I did not. I had

my posse with me. I had the mouther posse that was keeping me a company there and follow me around. And I'm very happy to report to the militia behind the scenes that Gascon almost got his car towed at the high school football game, but was able to talk the rent a cop to not tow his car in a heated conversation. This is what I showed up to. I go there, I park, and Gascon is like nose to nose with his rent a cop who's ready to

throw down. And you know you call, call the police in there, call a tow truck and have Gascon's car tot away again. Parking, gas guy, he parking is the devil for you. Well, he asked what am I doing here? And I'm like, what are you doing here? He's like who are you? And I'm I said, I'm David. Who are you? Why are you parking here? And I said, well because I was told to park here, so I'm gonna park here. And they said, well, I don't know who you are. I was like, I don't know who

you are either, What do you want? And then I told him I work eventually worked for Fox. He's like, well, you didn't say that, and I said, well you didn't ask, but he went on his way. You did escalate the situation though I probably did. But the fact that he didn't know what was going on with somebody else that he works with allowed us to park there. It was a little aggravating. Well, I was just happy. I felt like I won the day because they didn't have to

pay for parking. The fact that they charged your welcome high school football game, You're welcome, he's fascinating. Charge of the gate for people to enter, they charge for food, and I did. I did something for you, Ben that you have never done for me. I got you free parking. I got you compensated for your work. I want to tell you the people that run the Fox Sports go out for that company, they have not sent a check it.

I do not have any compensations, so it is just hearsay that I am going to end up getting paid. There is no actual factual check that has arrived yet with the dollar amount said to be paid to me for that broadcast. For the record, you need to fill out of W nine and an invoice, and if you're not too lazy to do that and email it back to the people that I directed them to, un that will happen. I never got an email with the w nine form to fill out. It's online. You could just

go to www dot gov dot com. I'm I needed handed to me. That's how I operate. I needed That's how you want to You want to script handed to you so you can what I want to be like you. Yeah, I mean I know that whole opening you scripted it out. Man. You had it all right there on a teleprompter. I mean, who do use a teleprompter for a live sports But we did not have a gas Gard. You're like Obama. We could teleprompter reading off the prompter. No, no, your

nicknames prompter. That's your new nickname prompter gas Yeah, prompter. That's how you do it. Man. I will uh, I will acknowledge the fact that the the hat and the black and blue checkered plaid uh coat, we're dashing. Yeah. I like that. Like if I if I you know, we'll talk about the future. Who knows. But if I do more of that stuff anywhere, I would like to get more. I want to channel my inner. The late

Craig Sager and we talked about it. We kidded around about that last week and Don Cherry the outrageous outfits on television. I think that's the way to go. I want to point out though, that we promised I was not allowed to do the colowns were slide. We wanted to do the colwns were slide. I had practiced the colin worst slide. I had practiced the kind of lean in and smile goofy um. But the setup would not

allow that. The way the cameras were set up, and the way the chair, the chair didn't roll like Collinsworth has a chair that rolls in the press box. We we had these little stools that we were sitting on, so I I could not like move the stool over and slide it. Even though there was that nice fake grass there, that plastic grass that they had at high school State. That was the only distippointing part of the night. That and you could not show if your your football socks.

Yeah yeah, I had a special football socks because I'm a baller, and I had those on. And my pants are so baggy you couldn't even rock them up so we could take a picture of it. Well, I could have, if somebody had asked, I would have pulled the pants because it looked like you were wearing pajamas. Those things are so big and baggy. Wow, thank you for that,

I mean my vanity. I really appreciate that. But you're like the equivalent of the Josh Baskins in uh in Big when the kid turns to Tom Hanks and Tom Hanks Hanks turns young again and he's got that giant suit on. That was you. Well, I have turned young again, so you feel young. Let's go through the list you have. Yes, you had two thousand nineteen. You have bit your tongue making a pizza. That's right, burned and bit my tongue.

Don't get that. That is correct? Car hit. Yes, just you got the matamobile back you were you were makeup to a prep game high school games. Had been to a high school game since I was in high school. Probably hadn't done a TV game like that. I got a TV at NBC years ago, but I that was a studio show. I had not done like a since I was at saddle Back College. I think was the last time I did a sporting of it on television. Like that's good, Yeah, it's it's been been a long

time now. The letter grade, um, I would I see, I feel like you get like an A minus. I would give myself like a B plus. But my mate, see you do this all the time, like this is your you love hanging out of high schools and stuff like you're a creeper, you're hanging out of high schools and all that stuff. So so I don't, I don't know. This was new to me and you kind of knew the formatics of getting information. That was the hard to me. That was the worst because there was not a lot

of this high school football. Yeah, you'd have to really appreciate what I do for research. Not really, I don't appreciate it, but I'm just saying that I I don't I went when I when I do, uh, And in the show, I I feel like I know everything. Are most things about the teams we talked about. In pro pro sports and big time college sports, the information is accessible. There was no information in place because a teenagers, you know, it shouldn't be a lot of information about these guys

playing high school football. So that part kind of was like, uh. And I did as much as I could define information. And the coaches were very nice and they were cool and stuff like that, but does help. You had a former NFL player as one of the head coaches. Which is great in Pat Harlow. Yeah, Pat Harlow was very nice. This team lost fifty six to nothing. Yeah, I think

they that come to Jesus. Moment for me that night was as soon as I mentioned the word of the name general booty, because then you went on this, let's just all of a sudden, name off Chubby Cox. Yeah, fair Dick, and you on a fair hooker, not fair Dick, Fair Dicks. That's a that's a basketball player. Fair hooker is a football wasn't Pole? Also, we didn't. I don't

think I mentioned Dick Pole. That's a good one. Dick Paul the old pitching coach, Rusty Kohn's many people pronounced it rusty you know what, But uh yeah, I could have done that. Also, you did that for me during a high school game. That that's amazing. Well, I I know you'll you'll get the ratings and all that because it was on the Fox Sports go Up. One thing about the Internet is you have the analytics on exactly how many people are watching. But I'd be I'd love

to know. This is one of the great acid test guests on here. This high school football game, which is a Golden Mic worthy event, is that if we actually had anyone watching in the fourth quarter, that is amazing, because I mean it was it was the game was over at halftime, the game was probably over at the end of the first quarter. And uh. But for anyone to tune in on a Friday night for a high school football game, you know, and you know there were people on the mall like this, like an ascid test

for the mallam lish like your p one. Just by downloading this podcast, you're at a higher level, right because I mean, listen the year go out of your way. It's not the radio show. It's different, so I have to download it. So you're at a different level just

downloading this. But then to spend your very valuable Friday night watching a high school football game, where chances are you don't have no interest at all, because you even you need Southern California, any of you're in Southern California. You didn't go to those high school So who do

the f cares? And uh? And in the fourth quarter, and I was very proud, ye when I act Gascon, I'm tired when I Gascon when they put the graphic up and it said, asked Ben, we didn't we did a rogue hostile takeover of the high school football broadcast on the Fox Sports Go app and they we did ask Ben, we did a few questions in the fourth quarter. That was great. That warmed my heart. You're you're welcome.

It was awesome. You're you're welcome. Otherwise I think you well, remember I told you, I said, otherwise I'm going to just leave. Remember I said, because it's fifty six to nothing, I have things to do and no one's watching. So but but fortunately, and that's the other things. Unlike these other guys. You know Joe Buck, when he does a game and it's like twenty eight to nothing at halftime, Joe Buck gives seven different ways the other team can come back. I said, the game's over. I mean we

pretty much. I didn't. I didn't dance around and say, Hey, this so and so is gonna come back. No, I the game. So there's a lot of language that's used for pregame, postgame, and even in game analysis and commentary. But the thing that you hit the nail right on the head is one of the top players for j Sarah was out and you sit in the open, Well that sucks. Yeah, yeah, I got that from sports cliche dot com. I got that from sports sa dot com.

That's where I learned that from. But but yeah, you got sports you got sports cliche dot com open during the game on my laptop. By the way, no bad job by Centennial High School. No workable WiFi for the Fox Sports Go crew, so I had to use my cell phone data or data to connect, which was kind of an annoyance, but that that did happen. So but anyway, listen, here's the deal. It was fun, had a good time. You're very good gas go on. I don't want to

give you too many compliments. You already have a big ego. Uh. People were asking me on email, you're gonna do this again? I said, I don't know. That's up to guess Gone, that's up to what kind of muscle he has. I also would like to point out to those that think I should do in every high school game, I don't want to do every high school game. I don't. My wife would kill me if I did that every week because I already worked five nights a week. I don't

see your five nights a week. So if I did that on every Friday, I would probably have to get a divorce. So I don't want to do it, but I wouldn't mind doing it, like every once in a while, like maybe once a month or something like that. I wouldn't mind doing that, but that's out of my control. But it was fun. I had a good time. It was a good time. It was an opportunity for your wife to see you out of your own element and

into a different broadcast medium. Broadcast medium because you're, yeah, but you're in a in a studio here at Fox Sports Radio, so there's not really an opportunity for her to come in and see you what you do. And when you're over at NBC, when you're on the East Coast, she couldn't go out there to see you. So this is a little bit different of a flavor. And as she said, it got you out of your comfort zone. So um, yeah, I know it did. It did give

me out of my comfort zone. And the cool thing about and I know I remember this when I was doing stuff in college, doing games on local cable television back when that was a thing before the internet took over and all that. But back in college, I was like, when the only time you do a sporting event on TV, the only time you're really on TV is the open and like at the end of the beginning of the

next quarter, you know when you put you on camera. Otherwise, just like radio, you know you're not on camera, so don't matter. You can just say whatever you want and you know there's photos, but you can talk. I had I had a lot of fun guests on with the replace, like recapping the play I I felt like mad I gave some boom bams. I gave some of those in the replay game. I had a fun time with that. That was good and I didn't step on you. I got some grades from from my from my dad, you

know he's he's big in your old man watched the game. Yeah, he gives some feedback and says, you guys had really good chemistry. I'm not surprised. Um, I think you should be. Uh, you should be the number two on his overnight show Money through Friday. Now you we've already tell your pops that you do not do overnights. You you're you cannot your body cannot handle the overnight lifestyle, the grind. We we overnight people are a special breed and yeah, not

sober well, I don't know about that. The people that call up many of them are not sober, but I don't know. Well, they're asleep, they're asleep, Yeah, I have the people that call are usually asleep. And then you've got that little pussy willow Chris from Houston. So that guy's been out of control. Man. I had an epiphany the other day. We we've been battling about the Astros for the last like ten days or whatever that since

that story came out in the Athletic. My theory is that Chris is he's just being a troll that he doesn't really believe. He said earlier this week that there's no evidence against the Astros, no credible evidence against He asked us, there's hundreds of videos, there's a whistleblower who said what happened. The Commissioner of Baseball is pretty much, you know, beating around the bush about what exactly happened. Oh, there's no evidence. I think he's just doing that because

he gets a rise out of me. I think that's what's going on with that whack of doodle. That's the only deflection he has right now. Because the Houston Texans got slapped around on Week eleven by the Baltimore Ravens. So he's got nothing else to chewing. Well, he's got the Rockets. You've got the rockets. It's early in the season. He can't talk about the Rockets for the NBA, And well you can't according to the ratings. No one's watching

the NBA. I mean, I feel bad, like I I like talking mixing in some NBA with my football, Yeah, and I feel I feel like I shouldn't do that. It's because no one's watching these games. Like they're getting ratings that are there. They're going down to the level where it's like less than a million people watching a

TNT game that was that almost never happened. And that's why Sunday Night I told you, or at least I asked you if you can do an opening monologue of Jay Sarah and Centennial and how that game wrapped up, but you refused to do so. So well, I put that in the sixth Hour with Ben Maller, This X Hour with Ben Maller and Blind Scott, that podcast, very popular podcast we had, So you had people from the UK, from New Zealand, from Australia, anywhere else outside of the

United States, Canada. We had. Yeah, well these people I don't know how many of them actually watched. I had people R s v P like, say, how I'm gonna watch him? So and so we had people that were apparently unable to watch because the Fox Sports Go app is only available in certain places. That's true. I sent it to I sent to Terry, and Terry's in the UK and Terry in England. Yeah, yeah, he can't access that stuff. So I sent him a link to it and he used the VPN access the UH club stream.

So yeah, yeah, no, no, it was cool. I mean, Terry's a big he's a super fan. Plus he's got a time zone advantage and all that. It's much. This was not an overnight. They didn't play the high school game to accommodate me. If it had accommodated me, it would have been much later than the kickoff because I had to deal with something I don't normally deal with, rush hour Los Angeles traffic to get out to that high school football game. And I'm so happy I work

overnights and don't have to deal with that. What an nightmare? What an effing nightmare it is. I played pea soup or letter. I played the letter game with the and the number game with the It was like Bingo with the freeways. That's well, did you have any big, big lifters, big swingers that were watching this game? Any TV example? Well, I know my friends Sports with Coleman had sent a link to Kenny Albert from from Fox to watch the game. Kenny as always lives in a hotel room because he's

does a game every night. He's in a different city, whether it's hockey, basketball, or football. I don't know if Kenny actually watched, but he he had a link, he had an option to watch. And then other than that, you know, there are some super p ones that work in the big powerful positions and meet I don't know how many of them actually watched. They did they, that's just put it. They didn't offer me a contract after the game. They didn't send me an email saying hey,

we'd love to hire you. You're wonderful. Did they ask for my contact information? They don't know who you are? They they do not know who you are. I'm sorry there, who's that? Who's that? What's that? What's his name? Well? Yeah, I had to do as much as I could to publicize my myself because half the game was spent plugging your show I know, yeah, I was very I was

very happy. You know, sometimes people aren't very generous. But you probably figured since it's like, you know, thirty five nothing, maybe we should just help out and promote something here. Uh But and before I forget, I want to get onto it only in Burbank. We'll get to that in a minute. But I would like to point out that after the gate, we were already out in the I E. So we went deep in the I E. We went into the land that gave us Kawhi Leonard Riverside, and

I hadn't been to Riverside in a long time. Is there actually a river in Riverside, South California? It's probably dried up, Okay, because I've never seen an actual river. And if your town's name Riverside, there must be a majestic, beautiful river. There was none I did not see. But anyway, we were hanging out in Riverside. We went to the cheesecake factory in Riverside. A fine okay, very nice people there at the cheesecake factory in Riverside. And I paid

for the meal. You paid. I paid for the meal you paid off a bet. You got your little cheese steak cheese steak, and you devoured that. You were like you had you you hadn't eaten in days. That's what happens when one of us actually says that they're gonna fast and ends up fasting sheets and eats at twelve o'clock in the middle of the day. Yeah. Well, one of us is married and their wife dragged them to a family lunch with the in laws to have a

nice meal, and I was forced. I was like, well, maybe I'll just have a glass of water and I'll have some nice conversation. No, you're eating, so I had to eat, and I gave you some great apple cake as well. When oh my god, that apple cake was amazing. We talked about that in the game if you watched it, but that you gotta get more of that. Man, you gotta sell that stuff, is what you gotta do. I

don't know what's in that, but that's amazing, that apple cake. Yeah, that I think that kind of rivals and anything that Tammy has gotten us throughout the years because that that dessert was fan plastic. Well, Tammy's looked U up. You know. I had a listener send me a whole bag of Cadbury eggs I love Cadbury eggs. Those are wonderful. And

he's gotten us tarts though and cakes. Oh yeah, Well, Tammy had a hook up at this bakery in l A, her friends and it's not unfortunately it's not around anymore, but they that's the bakery made these amazing cakes back a couple of years ago, probably why I gained all my weight back. We had like a camel cake. Remember I did a rant about Adrian Peterson having a camel at his birthday party, his thirtieth birthday party, and they and she had a cake design with a camel. They

had to chuck the condor recreation, which was amazing. These were works of art, these cakes. And I hope that whoever was behind the woman behind that bakery, I hope she's doing okay because she's really talented like that. She's a really good baker. She should be doing stuff making money doing that. That reminds me. Since you love documentary so much and we're talking about baking and cooking, you need to go on Amazon Prime and watched this documentary

called Charged Charge. I will leave it at that, but you watch it, and if anyone's watched it on Amazon Prime, don't spoil it for Ben. Please do not, But it is a documentary that as soon as you start watching again, you're gonna be like, what the funk am I watching? But you will know right now I'm watching, I'm going through. I love the toys that made us. I just watched the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode, which was fascinating. I

love it. And I'm told that Amazon Prime. I think we've talked about this last week somewhere I don't know, was here the radio show that a comedian who's a fan. Uh, he said that all of the ken Burns documentaries are available now on Amazon Prime, and so there's like he did one about country music, which is actually more of a thing about radio and stuff like that. So I

am looking forward to getting some of that. But I don't have a lot time doing these high school football games in the weekend, Guestcott, I did not my My documentary watching time went way down because Friday nights I usually watch a lot of them, sit around and watch a documentary and go do a game and get a fifty six and nothing game. I have to I didn't actually get paid as much because I would you rather do a podcast, and I get paid for that. Well, I would never do a podcast. I don't get paid

for a guest on unless I would. I would never do that unless I would do a podcast and not get paid a cent on the TV. I'm happy to report that. Is that right? We're on Apple TV A shout out my homeboys on Apple TV. Yeah, that's good. That is good. But we're everywhere, man, We're everywhere. It's like that Johnny cash Long everywhere man. Yeah, I've been everywhere. I'm on the Dusty win a muck a Road. You're a married man. I don't think you want to admit

that from a national international men like that. But uh, there is actually a win a Muckle Road, do you know that? That's a famous line and the Johnny cash Long it's outside Vegas. And I told my wife next time, I'm gonna go to Vegas over the the gap might take some time off at the end of the year and I might might head to Vegas. And I said, we gotta. I'm gonna go outside Vegas and go to win a Muckle Road just to take a photo with the win a Muckle Road. That's what my move's gonna be.

Are you gonna eat some chicken fingers with it. Uh yeah, of course I'm all about the chicken fingers. Man, Why not? That's good. I haven't had I had. I had chicken fingers with you. It was fine. It was a good meal. They were the mist has had a salad. I had a California cheesesteak. We had a lot of bread with a lot of bread. I devoured the bread. You did you love? I love the break. I had no alcohol.

You should be happy. Yeah, but I want to point out, since I had to pay for your meal that it actually cut down on how much I made doing the high school football game, even though I haven't made anything. You paid off the bat. You paid off the bat. That's exactly what moving on. Get anything else you want to add before we move on. From people that actually listened or watched, sestulated, or appeared to we got very little fat shaming, which was awesome. Hateful comments. I got

a lot of comments about my hat. People were fascinated. Some said I pulled it off. Other people said I should just let my bald head be shown on television. So there was that at which was pretty good. And again for those of you that have been emailing me, I don't know that will ever happen again. It might happen again, I don't know, but it's that's up to the powers that be, all right, So moving on from that, uh,

only in burb Bank, Only in bird Bank. So on Saturday, the day after our high school game, updating my life. My dad is a huge fan of Dennis Praeger, my old man, Dennis. So, Dennis Praeger had a documentary that came out and it was actually playing in movie theaters, but it was very select movie theaters, and it was a limited release, and I didn't know how long it was going to be in theaters. I didn't have that information. And so anyway, I felt like, you know, let me

do a solid from my old man. Let me let me do a solid from my old man. So why don't, uh, you know, why don't we go out and and I'll take him to see the movie. The problem was it was only playing in Burbank, right, only in burb Bank. But my dad, who never leaves the Orange County area where he lives the o C. Because you know, he's old and he doesn't like leaving the o C. He very rarely comes up here, et cetera. So so anyway, uh, I convinced him to drive to the Mallard mansion, the

second Mallard mansion. He lives at the original O. G. Mallard Mansion. And so he showed up and I drove him the rest of the way to Burbank. And it was no safe spaces with the documentary. It was Dennis Praeger and it was Adam Corolla's documentary. It was about the college campuses now and there's anything you don't agree with, you want banned from college campuses. And it was pretty good. I liked the documentary. I thought it was good. My dad enjoyed it. He was happy to get out of

the house and he was really happy. I bought him popcorn and paid for the movie. He was very happy about that. He enjoyed that very much. Uh. So fine, you know, we watched the watch the documentary, did our thing and all that and uh and and then so we watched it. We had our we had our fun. And then afterwards we're walking back the little street fair

and Burbank, walking around doing that, you know and all that. Uh. And then I go to the parking garage to leave the parking garage, and as I am leaving the parking garage. I'm stuck in traffic. There was a lot of traffic in the parking garage, and hand the god. Driving past me in a blue Beamer was Adam Carolla, who had been apparently the next showing. Adam was going to give

a speel about the documentary, but I can't. I went to the early showing because that was the only one I could make because I had some other plans and all that. But yeah, I mean that only happens in Burbank, where you can see a documentary where someone is in the documentary, and then you know two people, you know, semi famous people, and then as you're leaving the parking garage, you see the person that was in the documentary. It was it's crazy man. The documentary. Yeah, the documentary was

pretty good. I enjoyed it. You know, I well part of it I agree with. I think it's ridiculous. You know, my I grew up with disagreement, and I'm fine with disagreement. I have no problem with disagreement, and I think it's ridiculous the way people react. We had that stupid Charles Barkley story earlier this week where someone was told the joke by Barkley and tried to make herself the story. And these things just annoyed me, So I was I did enjoy it. I thought I thought it was pretty good.

You should check it out. Yes, I think it's still playing, actually, if you have a chance. I know you're very busy with these high school games, but I commute all around the southern California area, so that includes traving Arizona to go to go see your ass and certain holiday parties now, and uh, I could do that if it's in Burbank, It's it's not too far away from our Geico Fox Sports Radio studios, but I can I can certainly do that. It's uh, I'm surprised that it's not in many more theaters,

but it might be now. But I didn't want to take the chance because sometimes these things, these documentaries. My wife, by the way, doesn't like to watch documentaries in the theater. She thinks that it's only for blockbuster movies. You should only watch documentaries like a Netflix or Amazon Prime. So she she wasn't. She had a baby shower to go

through anyway, so she she wasn't that into it. 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. But moving on, study this guest. And that's right, everything's working in our gast gard and we can move on to study this. I know you're excited. Yes, yes, of course, all right, these are actual studies and the way this works. I

love these studies. And we determine on the fifth hour with Ben Maller whether these studies are legit or their bullshit. All right, we believe them or not. Now, the first study is all about dirty tech. Now, they said tens of millions of people carry their smartphones with them obviously everywhere. I mean, if you have a smart phone, you know you're you're going into the bathroom, you're going to the shower, you're going to make love, You've got the smartphone right

next to you. Right, we all do it. And so here's the thing, um there, the phone is exposed to whatever bacteria we are exposed to, like, and we most of us wash our hands, right, yeah, most of us do. Ye quoting a new survey of Americans and they're cleaning habits. How many what percent give your percentage, what percentage of people have never cleaned their phone? What percentage of Americans have never cleaned their phone? I'm gonna, I mean, you

just ruined it. It's not eighty four percent, because you gotta remember, people have to admit to it. A lot of people want to admit to not cleaning their phone. All right, all right, you ruined the bit. That's okay. One in four, one in four people have never cleaned their phone. One in four, all right, And they say they broke it down by gender. It said more than one in four men in have never cleaned their phone. It's like that one in five women have actually admitted

to not washing their phone at all. And as far as how dirty phones can get, according to this study, the researchers estimate that a regularly used smartphone you're out and about, hustle and bustle of the big city, uh, that has never been cleaned has more bacteria, they say, than the entire household bathroom that you are holding in your hand. If you never clean your phone, you might

you're holding a toilet in your hand. Yeah, and think about this, because not only are you holding your phone, but also your earbuds, which I doubt there's a high percente of people that clean their earbuds. The ear wax. The earbuds get dirty no matter where you put them, if you put them down, if you put them in a bag, you put them in your glove compartment box,

those get dirty. Most people. I eventually guess a lot of people don't wash their hands for some reason after they use the restroom, after they relieve themselves or have sex, or eat food or ay that stuff you included. Yea, by the way, by the way, Uh the I'm gonna go on a rant about headphones, like these expensive headphones. Yeah for the earbuds. No, I I can't game, I can't, I don't. I don't get it. I know it's cool, you're hip like that. I don't know. I'll go to

the dollar tree or whatever get headphones. I don't need that. But and I have nice headphones for radio. But I'm a professional broadcaster, possibly a professional broadcast, but really earbuds. Yeah, but you're one of those old folks that has to hold your phone to your head when you drive in your car. Right? Uh? No, what do you have hands free in your car? Yes? You do? Cars like thirty years old, is it not the thirty years old paint

job is it's not? Dare you? Well? Most people have hands free So if you can be hands free and not to worry about cables and cords and a lot of stuffhen you're working out or walking or or at work, then why not. It's a combination. I couldn't use it because I lose it. That's my problem. I drop it and fall in my ear. I'd step on it and break. I used to have a bluetooth back in the day. Of course you did. Did you have your right your right pant like folded up to wow, like the fubu

attire Ben Mallard and fubo. Oh. Anyway, just to finish this, I'm moving on. I'm ignoring you. Uh. Here's the various forms of bacteria, disease, strep, staff and eat cole I. All could be on your phone. So eat cole I on my phone. Yes, you especially probably the places you go and the people you hang out with. I would go with some fine people. I don't know about that. I I hang out with some wonderful people. It's not

what I hear. I do notice, though, when you go hang out with these certain people, you suddenly stop returning my text I I guess it's easy to figure out when you hang out with these certain people, suddenly you don't get back to me. Uh, it's a giveaway. It's a dead giveaway because normally you're whenever I text you, you will get back to me, like within a second, because you have no life. But occasionally you have a life and you don't get back. That's that's the spice

of life, right. You gotta have a little bit of riding the life. That's exactly what I have. I don't know about that. So essentially you're whoever you hang out with there. These people do not allow you access to your phone. That's not true. I am a an accommodating person when it comes to text messages and phone calls. But I tried to keep myself on the subject or the individuals that I'm hanging outlet and not stuck to my phone because I am like the majority of the

people in the United States. I can't get rid of my phone, and so I got issues with it. So it's like glued to my hip. So it's nice to unplug an escape for for a short period of time. Alright, alright, next study sports hyperbole are you dismissing what I do with my phone? Because I don't believe you. All Right, sports hyperbole hyping up one team or athlete over another. Now, we know that it's good for the box off, it's it's good for sports radio, it's good for television ratings

and professional sports. But a new study done by Duke University claims that if the players on the other side of the field pay two much attention to all the hype and all the noise, it will negatively affect their performance. About that. They studied tennis matches and over five million online chess matches and they determine this research. I think this is I think this is bullshit. Uh, those are

two isolated one. It's an individual sport. I would imagine if use golf in that same kind of testing it it probably similar. Well, my experience as a gambler, and we do Benny versus the Penny, which will be up later, but my experience as a gambler is typically a lot of hype affects the people you're hyping. See the Cleveland Brown, see Baker Mayfield, and these people start buying into the hype that their God's gift to whatever sport, and they whether they don't put the work in or they just

let it get to their head. Um. That's my experience that it actually hurts more the people that are being hyped up than the other team. I would think as a competitor, if you're on the other team, you would love the opportunity to bring them down a couple of notches right when you love that. Of course, the underdog rolls something. Even the Patriots kind of revelent at times, and that's what you want to have. Do you gamble on tennis, by the way, oh god no, I do

no football and tennis a little bit of baseball. But if you can gamble on tennis, you don't have as many outlying factors that go into the results of the match, which is beautiful. Well that's because you live near the Pacific Oceans. I don't further you get away from because that's tennis people. You live near tennis people up in the one per centers and all that with the tennis people. I'm out here with the working man. I'm a blue collar guy. Blue collar people aren't tennis people. That's not

We're not. We aren't. I speak for all blue collar people, definitely, not all right, Moving on robotic jousting. About this one. This is again kind of tied with the last story. It's a different study. This is from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Try ash, talk hurts even when it comes from a robot. How about that? Uh? The study from Carnegie Mellett determined and demonstrated that disparaging words can fluster an opponent no matter who or what utters them. That's right.

Quoting a new study, humanoid robot Pepper mocked and taunted game players, admiring zingers like administering rather zingers like I have to say, you are a terrible player, and over the course of the game you're playing has become confused. And they claimed that this did work and it did cause the other person to perform more poorly. I forget what country it is. I think it might be China. But did you know they are manufacturing robotic men to

act as boyfriends and husbands? Now for women, well, I know they have robotic women androids that men enjoy, maybe not as girlfriend wife, but doing other things with yes, like what cooking? Yeah? Remember during the Olympics in was it Russia, they had brothels with androids. Remember that you go in and which makes you wonder it's not a person. It looks like a person. But is that is that cheating? You're in a dungeon somewhere with an android? Is that cheating?

Isn't cheating? If you don't finish? Wow, well you would know more about you know more about that. But I I finished what I start. That's what I usually too soon. But anyway, all right, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern even pm Pacific. Moving on genetics of veggies. Genetics of veggies. Now, I love this story and I will use this story. I will put this in my back pocket. And uh and this is from the University of Kentucky

School of Medicine and Lexington. Uh says, if you've never been able to enjoy the tay east of vegetables like broccoli or Brussels sprouts, uh, and you can't understand how other people actually do enjoy the taste. It turns out that you may be going through an issue that you have different taste buds when you bite into a fork

full of veggies. According to a new study. And I think I have this it's preliminary research, but they said it's a certain percentage of people carry a specific gene that makes certain foods like broccoli, Brussels spouts, and vegetables in general. Um, most of these heart healthy vegetables taste bitter and they don't want to eat it because it doesn't taste right. Yeah, but don't Well, my taste buds

evolved throughout the years. When I was a kid, I hated squash, I hated Brussels sprouts, I hated broccoli, I hated peas. And now I eat all that stuff I eat, I eat none of it. I still have the diet of a nine year old. That's what I still have, and I'm proud of that. And they say that those carrying this taste gene are much more likely to have a harder time incorporating obviously vegetables into their diet. They say it impacts roughly twenty five of the public suffer

from this gene mutation, if you will. I wonder if that works out for alcohol too, because my my palate for alcohol has changed over the last ten or fifteen years. You love the booze now, but I went from I guess beer when I was younger than red Bull and vodka to Bombay, sapphire and tonic, and now I'm on a whiskey and scotch. Yeah, well, you just like it's for social reason you like to taste about who likes to taste of alcohol? Yeah, certain things are just good, man,

I enjoy them. Wine's tasty. Saki is really good. We'll talk about that when we go to Japan next year. Yeah, well, when we get paid by the Chamber of Commerce in Japan, which will be after I get paid to go to New Zealand and hang out with our friends in New Zealand and all that. All right, more of these studies. It's a study. This this portion of the podcast asked brought to you by nobody a shark food. All right, shark food scientists are testing shark bite proof wetsuit material.

It's made from fabrics that incorporate ultra high molecular weight polythene fibers, whatever that is. I think I butchered that one of those words. But they claim it's it's early in the research that this will reduce the amount of bleeding when you get beaten by that great white shark when you're swimming out in the ocean. It's great, It's exactly what I want to have. How would you like to be one of the people that test it? Though? Don't you have to have this on and have a

shark bite you don't find out whether or not it works. No, I don't know how else would you test it. I guess you could put it on robots and have things bite down, but it's not the same. You could have different cutting cutting a tire and cutting hardware to rip up the attire. Two right rocks, scissors, knives, um, what else can you have? I don't know, some teeth from an animal, put it in a wood chip. Oh you could do that? Yeah, alright. The last one money matters,

all right? Money for you? Uh. This is actually something we talked about the other day at our our meal and riverside husbands are not stressed out there the least stressed I not know, not stressed out, but the least stressed out when their wives earn up to of the household income, meaning that the wives are carrying their weight and providing some some money. So it's not all the

guy of coming with the income and all that. But the study indicated that these men become increasingly uncomfortable as the amount of money their wives make their spouses make when their wives wages rise beyond the threshold, the guys become most stressed out when they are entirely economically dependent on their their wife. I can see that. Yeah, I can believe that. Do you have any friends that that

married up? Though? Do you have any friends that? Yes, I there's a guy I've worked with in radio that that married his His wife makes uh more money than him and and all that. So I I think there's other people too, but that's the one, one guy in particular. But but this is a thing, man, you see. I

I love that my wife works and all that. I wouldn't mind if she made more way, to be honest with you, because I I'm always paranoid working in radio that you know, I'm gonna get stabbed in the back and the song and dance is gonna come to an end. You know. It's it's like casino. You get the bats in the corn fields and then your game over. Yeah, I feel like it's insurance. You're like, I, I can just live off her for a while if I have to bury my head in the sand and uh and

and all that. There's a sense of attractiveness when when a female we're opposite sex, is not only pulling their own weight but also making more too. I think it's attractive when a woman is just, uh, I bet you hustling and making money and earning it. Yeah, why not, especially if they're using their potential. I think that's huge. Now, what if what if a woman said to you, guess gun, I make so much money, i'd and I want you

to go do these little high school football games. I don't want that, See I I had that in my twenties. Um yeah, I think I Yeah, there's always like that one that you probably should have married or probably should have had. And uh yeah, in my twenties, before I got into sportscasting, even though I wanted to do it, I was in real estate. But I was dating someone

for a long period of time. She was really wealthy, was connected to some some prominent people, and I had a set life and I elected to leave the career, leave the woman of the relationship. And then I went back to grad school. And then yeah, I started working for I had radio part time, working making ten dollars an hour. How about that? The rest is history? Guess the rest is it. You're living the dream. Make more working with Jack in the box, But you're living the dream.

I could be an in and Out manager making a hundred twenty five thousand dollars. Yeah. Although I this guy at the gym that worked for In and Out for years and then not I love in and Out. But his story He worked there for years and he claimed once he got to a certain point where his salary got ridiculously high, he got whacked. So I guess it happens even in the fast food game. That usually happens in radio. You're you're fine as long as you make a certain amount of money. But if you go over

that threshold, uh, you got problems. That's why I've tried to diverse the portfolio into radio and TV and digital and even podcasting. So Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. It's in the bag. These are listener messages. This is a rip off of Ask Ben. Your questions are answers,

and here it is in the bag. Dave from Medford, Oregon. Right, so he says what was the first poster in your bedroom, first poster in your bedroom that you remember. I probably had some superhero poster, Dave. But the first sports poster I remember had I Reggie Jackson poster, the old Hall of Fame slugger from back in the day, Angel Yankee, well, Mr October, I think it was with the Angels at that point. But I I had a Reggie Jackson what about you guess? And you probably like the teenage mutant

Ninja Turtles. Maybe Power Rangers cartoon was a transformer poster like probably Optimist, Optimist Prime or in jazz um or for professional athletes. I probably had a John Elway poster or two. I got a lot of Denver Bronco attire, like Elway's helmet, autograph authentic, a jersey of throwback one that's been signed. Well, I like to throwback Broncho helmet, which is better than the current Bronco helmets are good.

I gott have been Scully jersey, like on a Dodger jersey, just a Scully in the back of We're not we're not asking. I don't think Dave's asking for your memory, your commercial pastor kind of free lance. I don't have to go buy his rules. Wow, what's wrong with you? I mean, okay, I have to get into a pissing match. I have baseballs from the World Series. You want those? I got those. I hope it's not from two thousand seventeen. It's actually I don't know. I was from the game

they won. Anyway, all right, All night Mike from Tucson, Arizona rights And he says, with the holidays coming up, what's an appropriate gift to get your girlfriend if you've been dating less than a year? And how much do I spend on her lingerie? Baby? I'm all good about lingerie for a woman? Yes, well, we would love the line. I think the lingeriate does more for the woman than the man. I believe. I think anytime if she's lingre

is good. Um. Some some bottoms for pajamas are always good with a nice sweater, depending on the state that you live in, I know East Coast, if you do. Some ugs are great. Gloves of course are great. Beanies are good. Lotion is fantastic for women. Um, anything else dating advice you need? Ben or yes see, my advice would be all night Mike. You're supposed to ake up with your girlfriend, but now before the holidays, before Thanksgiving

and Christmas, because then it gets awkward. And then you probably should stay broken up until mid February and then get back together with mid February because that's when that's when Valentine's Day. So you want to avoid Valentine's Day. So you've got to get through Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day. So you should be single from late November. Dump your girlfriend just before Thanksgiving. That way you don't have to worry about meeting the family and meeting her family, so

you avoid that. You dodge that bullet. Then you dodge Christmas, and then in January you got football playoffs. You don't have to worry about your girlfriend taking your attention from you. And then in February you've got Valentine's Day. So you wait the day after Valentine's Days and I know I was thinking about you, and then you get back together.

Boom done, we'll see it. Here's the luxury, though, is that if you've been dieting her for a long period of time, then you could be on the outs because once the New Year's Eve hits, she'll be thinking New Year knew me, and you'll be on the move if you have not proposed to her anytime soon. So, yeah, that's true. But most people's New Year's resolutions, they like, three days later, they're back to doing what they said they wouldn't. I could safely say I've been a part

of that statistics, so I I can. I can pledge to uh, maybe holding on a little too long before you get announced it. So I love that you had a whole list of things to get your girlfriend. You've clearly had a lot of girlfriends over the years. I know how to treat women. I know how to take care of about that. Women take care of me. I'll take care of them. Nothing wrong with that, alright, dude, no lifetime contracts for you though you've not agreed to. Yeah,

what do you want for me? I want nothing. I want nothing at all. I could be I could be designated as Mr right now, just not Mr Wright. Yeah, okay. Mark in Ottawa writes and says, if you had to choose one of these food items to eat for the rest of your life, which one would it be? And he lists three things here Mark in Ottawa, he says, hamburger, hot dog, or pizza. Now to me, this is easy. I you love list radio guests, guys, this is this

is great, um, and you to put hot dog number three. Yes, now I don't I like a hot dog, but I can't be eating hot dogs the rest of my life, so that's number three. I put Hamburger at number two. Pizza's number one because there's so many different ways you can have a pizza with the toppings on top as

you choose. So if you're only gonna eat one food oem of the rest of your life, you choose pizza because you can make amazing combinations of toppings and so it's kind of like you're eating other things on top of the pizza. That's true, and I agree with that list, especially because we have the great cities of Chicago and New York, so those pizzas are good. Out here in California, ours there a little bit different. We have Kirkland brand pizza, which is wonderful. We got got Mexican pizza to New

York pizzas overrated. Chicago pizza is pretty good, but New York pizzas overrated. Boston's actually got some good piece of pizza places, which is surprising, as would you consider a cal Zone pizza or Now I do not know. I do not, just like I don't consider a taco a sandwich. I know, all right, but yeah, I'll go with that list too, because yeah, pizza's rep there. You can have anything think crust deep, dish long and uh greasy, or the New York style. But whatever, I'm going to have

veggies on top, barbecue chicken, you can do that. You can do the meat whatever you want, Hawaiian style. I know you like the meat. I know you like the meat based kind of guy. Yeah. Jason from Parts Unknown says, what's Gascon's favorite list? All right, go ahead, guest girl, favorite list? Uh, I don't have a favorite list? Mean favorite lists? You do list radio. You're the o g

Old Gangster of list radio. No, your colleague Calin Caliherd actually does that television format, and that kind of leads you into what you do for the night. For your monologue, you take whatever soundbites he generates, and then you you leave that into your opening monologue. So it is a travesty of justice in sports radio. But I just pretty much steal all of my material from Colin Coward. It's a luxury of everything podcast that so you kind of go back and it's great. I don't do any prep.

I just watched Cowherd show. I scribble down a couple of notes, and then I just roll in here and let it rip. That's how I do it. Yeah, going to do it. The most nauseous lists of all time got to be the top ten UH teams of all time or the top ten quarterbacks of all time. No, you're wrong, top ten defense. We are heading in. Next week is Thanksgiving, and I don't know if we're gonna do a podcast. Are we doing a podcast next week? I thought we were supposed to do it at a

designated fire station. I have a buddy of mine, Patrick in Norwalk station twenty. I think it is we can maybe go over there, but I don't know if logistically that will work out. But I would like to point out that we are heading in and we'll maybe we'll do a segment on this Holiday sports radio what to

look forward to on Holiday Sports Radio. I do this rant on radio, but the podcast guys need to hear it also, and there's certain things you hear Thanksgiving week and Christmas week, and it's a checklist to determine whether you're talk show host is prepared or is just doing layup line radio, mailing it in baby like Manny Machado in the World series mailing it in baby. So anyway, all right? Mark in New Hampshire says, why is gas can such a funk up? That's a good question to

find up. He did not define funk then he's a funk up. Okay, very nice way to treat a listener there. He's in New Hampshire. Man, come on the guys. A p One Sean and Oceanside says, what's your favorite type of pie to indulge in for the holidays. It's a good question. It's good kind of pie. I'm always banana cream pie. I once I crossed over to banana cream pie. It's always number one. But I love a nice apple pie a la mode with a scoop of a vanell

ice cream on top. Obviously, traditionally Thanksgivings more about the pumpkin pie. You feel more like Thanksgiving with the pumpkin pile. I don't usually celebrate Thanksgiving anymore, so I don't. I don't have much pumpkin pie. But but but you have that. But my my big two banana cream apple anything else? Uh so, my my grandmother Martha, God rest her soul. She's uh. She was a Mexican woman and it was

all about Molley's, Enchilada's, Cassadilla's during the holidays. But for some reason, Ben she would make this absolutely amazing apricot pie and we never had it warm. She would always have it like cold, almost getting out of the freezer. But she would douse it with with sugar and it was amazing. It was one of the best pies I've ever had. I like strawberry pie, I like Boston cream pie, but apricot pie straight from when I was a kid

with my grandmother, it was dynamite. Well that's nostalgia, that's pure nostalgia. What's wrong with that? It's fine, But I've said, if you didn't have that when you were a kid, you'd probably be as a grown up, you'd like I had as a as a grown up. You ever had prune pie? No, never gives you the runs. I don't like apple. Everything gives you the runs. Now it doesn't count. You can't digest anything. No, Actually that's the problem, man. I everyone told me I can't. I've had more constipation.

Guess I know you're curious about that than I have. I wish I had the other problem. I was like, this is great, I can eat whatever I wanted to run right through me. It hasn't happened. For fox sake, I know. I'm like in the one percent of people that had their gallbladder ripped out and I don't hasn't really affected anything. I don't think you should be trying it on a regular basis, though, for a couple of different reasons. One is to remain out of the hospital. Yeah,

well that's true. Yeah on the weekends. Like I'm I'm in the middle of a fast right now. I'm going doing a forty probably forty five hour fast. I did. I did a fifty four hour fast. Did eat from Sunday afternoon until was it Tuesday night? Earlier this week? So you're what are you signing for? You're losing a lot of weight. I'm happy for you. Thank you, man. I appreciate it, and I love doing it. I don't mind not eating as long as I get my water, I'm fine. I don't It's not for everybody, I get it.

Not for everybody. Yeah, all right, let's move on. We have Jose repping the nine five six. I think that's in like Laredo, Texas. I believe the nine five six, Brownsville, Texas. If I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. But from THEE says, with the holidays coming up, guys, will you or gag on Ben be doing any Black Friday shopping? Yeah? No, I will not. Now. Um, my wife and I what we usually had done for like a holiday gift is

we would buy something for the mall or mansion. We'd buy like a new very adult, grown up, boring thing to do. We buy like a new microwave or dishwasher or something like that. But we're trying to save some money, so I don't think we'll be buying anything. Although that is the best day to buy television, Black Friday, you're gonna if you need a new television, you gotta be out there sprinting at the door of Walmart when they opened.

Although Black Friday didn't even start on Friday anymore. Guest, it doesn't start like it starts like like Thanksgiving morning or even before that. These Black Friday deals, But in today's in today's digital age, aren't you usually shopping on Amazon Prime now? Yeah? But some stores have only in store deals, like you have to go pick up the item in in the store, so they have that. I'm I'm kind of Ship's Creek too because most of my family is all female. So yeah, that's tough when you

have all women. Yeah, I got a bunch of sisters, and mom's got a bunch of sisters. Isn't a bunch of nieces, no nephews. It's tough. It's tough sledding for me. And then all the all the all your female listeners, and I gotta give gifts for two and so it's it's a challenge, you know, the listener host relationship. You don't actually have to give gifts to women just because women listen to show and very few women listen to sports radio. Uh, you don't have to give every woman

who lives in a jerkwater town a gift. You don't have to do it. But when your listeners specifically listen to your show, for me, it's a it's a little bit different. That doesn't happen. We know that that's not true. All right, more, well, a lot of questions. I want to get to most of these we can. Uh. This is from Big Oh listening to the podcast in Columbus, Ohio, home of the Ohio State University says if the moon was made out of spare ribs, would you eat it? Uh? Yeah,

the spare rib not anti spare rib. But if it was made out of chicken fingers, big oh, I would devoured. If it was made out like a cheeseburger or a Philly cheese steak, I'm all about that action, boss. I don't think I would devour a moon made out of spare ribs. What about you guess baby back ribs for sure? Maybe back maybe back baby back baby backgrounds. Whatever was made out of a bloom and onion, would you eat that? Absolutely? From out back, Absolutely, as long as this sauce was

in the middle of the moon. Got into the man all right. Ja from Kentucky Rights and says, Ben, if you were banned from radio or talking about sports in general, where do you see yourself working tomorrow? Okay, I would do traffic updates shout out. Uh. I would work for the traffic bureau. No, I don't know. I I've always I've thought about being in real estate. I think you can make a lot of money if you're good at it, and I think that would be fun. I could have

some fun. I know some people I've worked with in radio that have gone into real estate. Re member John Fricky, who's talk shows, he used to work at Fox. He's in Atlanta. He's he does radio, but he also sells real estate in the side. Yeah, that's what I did before I got into this racket. People have said I should become a lawyer. Now, Uh, there's a lot of lawyers. Most of them don't make any money. You gotta pay a thousand dollars just to take the bar exam out

here in California. But most people passed the bar. No, they don't. They don't. They do. Sixty thousand people a year become lawyer. But it's not in the first try, That's what I'm saying. So you're spending a grand just to take the bar exam, you'll probably fail it on your first try. It's not gonna failure like you. You don't have any faith in me. You are such a faith in you. You even said you keep all your old rejection. I have a box from in my childhood

bedroom made my mom rest in peace. She never threw it out, and it has a box of rejection letters from radio stations that Ted told me I wasn't good enough to work at the radio there you go. See. One of those was w e I, which I've worked for twice. You got fired from twice. I've worked for them twice. Uh. The station in Seattle KJR we're on.

I've been on there for years. Uh. Several other stations around the country that I wanted to work at they would never hire me, and they've now, of course hired me, So screw you. It's amazing how how much you can really pat yourself on the back during a podcast. It's absolutely kind of like talking about how many gifts you buy people like that during your podcast. How great you are with women? You know that kind of thing. I

caught it your female listeners. You comment in the mail female Okay, I don't know if you know this, but sports radios about the dudes, all right, it's all about to do. It's entertainment radio. That really is that what this is? Yeah, we don't really talk about sports much. I don't think we've mentioned anything sports related. Uh, sports with Coleman, that's what we mentioned. Yeah, we did mention

sports with moment. All right, Um, more more questions. What would you do, guest if you were banned from from well, you're not kind of barely in radio, but if you were banned from it, yeah, I'd probably try to do a podcast. You do a podcast or did you try to get paid for the podcast? You just do it for free like pro bono? I would. I would definitely get paid for it. So I hope definitely made that app In real estate is always an option. PR is

an option, Yeah, PR. Firefighter could be an option. Getting too old for that? You almost know. I'm in a great shape, though, what's wrong with you? As Yeah, but I can. I can bench press a buick maybe like looking for guys like you have to be firefighters? You know, no, no, no, that's what I hear. John shots, Well, you've already done that. How embarrassing is that? Maybe it's embarrassing you had a woman put makeup on you for a high school football

game last week? A global broadcast on the Fox Sports Go app, which is available globally. I mean, come on, that's Internet. That's not just local Yoko cable television like I used to do back in the day. That's big time every man, woman and child, all watching right there on a mission to watch watch that. That's longest steps anyway, what was it. John from Parts Unknow says, will you vote for Andrew Yang for President Ben? He'll give you a thousand dollars extra every month and your wife too.

That's an extra twe four thousand dollars a year. That's from from well listen, I Andrew Yank. I don't hate the guy. Seems like a cool guy and all that, but I can't vote for any of these politicians, any of the Democrats that are promising to give you everything, because I grew up learning there is no free lunch that that's gonna come from somebody. They're gonna raise your taxes, they're gonna they're gonna screw some people over to get that money. So it's not like all of a sudden,

you're a magician and Abraca dab as a politician. Here's an extra thousand dollars a month. That money's got to come somewhere, from somewhere, and so that's my problem. I feel like you've got to earn your money. I don't like being given things in general unless I earn them, and so I I will not. But I do enjoy him on TV. Is a good interview. He's a slick talker. I think he's a nice guy, but I would I

disagree with him. Isn't he doing that though? Because he thinks that all these jobs are gonna go away anyway and it'll be all robots, and so you need to get paid by the government and everything's automation sooner or later, all right? Blake in Miami says what menu items differentiate a Thanksgiving dinner from a Christmas dinner? Turkey? Well, I do hanukah, so I don't. I don't know. But what

you don't do Christmas? Well we have yeah now because he's I got married, But before that I didn't do it. Was growing up obviously I didn't do it. But there's a grown up. I put even Christmas lights up and uh we have hanakah lights also both. Um we mix and matcht but um what differentia? So I would assume like the stuffing? Do you have stuffing on Christmas? You don't know? So the stuffing? Do you have yams on Christmas? All right? So yams? Turkey? You don't have turkey on Christmas?

But do you have ham? Have ham? Yeah? Some roast beef when I have a brisket, wouldn't that be a good Christmas dinner. Brisket be solid. You canna get up a couple of mins if you gotta learn how to cook. Though you don't learn how to I know how to cook. I'm a fine cook. I cook a lot. No. Yeah, no, I chopped the chicken. I do the whole thing. Yeah, I have. You know, my new thing is that I've changed my diet. I used to eat a lot of meat. Now I'm trying to eat more chicken because apparently it's

better for you. But the only way I can eat grilled chicken, which is I used to just fried chicken. The only way I can eat grilled chicken is I have to cut it up into little bite sized pieces. Right, So I get these chicken breasts, I pound the chicken breast with a hammer, and then I get I have a kitchen scissors, and I have to cut it into like little pieces, and then I can eat grilled chicken because if not, I can't eat it. I find it repulsive. You are so bougie. But I know I do it myself.

It's not like other people do it. I I know this is my neurosis. And I eat my grilled chicken that way, and you won't go to a fine steakhouse, but you'll chop up poultry and chew it into small, little bite sized size. That is embarrassing. No, it's not. It's good. I hope my Heart Network like cancels this podcast. That well, I would that would be devastating to my bank account. It would help you out because you have more time to do whatever nonsense you're doing. Might be

a soccer game somewhere you can broadcast. R J writes, and he says he's in parts unknown. Uh, he says, Uh, what are y'all's Thanksgiving plans for this year? Well, I will be doing radio, r J. I have I worked on Thanksgiving most years, but I will be in student's big football Day, Big football Day, and I'm kind of down on Thanksgiving, so I will I will be partaking in the gift of sports talk radio. That's what I'll

be doing. Yeah, I will be I'll be stuck doing sports talk radio middle of the day, so we've got the morning games, afternoon and evening time. And I got my family is spread out, so part of them are in Canada, other parts are in Alabama, Florida, Texas. I kind of wanted to go to New York, but I'm stuck in in southern California for Yeah, you're stuck in southern California weather sandals. I gonna work it all right. One more real quick Derek from Derek the Chef from Auckland,

New Zealand. Listen to the podcast. This is actually one of these good questions. Would you rather your parents or your wife be able to read your thoughts? Good question? Now I'm gonna go my parents. I'm gonna tell you why, because my wife would analyze every thought I had. Okay, she's a deep thinker and intellectual and in that department, so she would like examine everything. She'd give me therapy.

My dad wouldn't pay any attention to my thoughts. My mom's you know, she's gone, unfortunately, but my dad would not would not. He wouldn't even tend it's to have been a second concerned about my thoughts. The real reason is because your wife is a ballbuster too, so she would absolutely crush you if she could read some of the thoughts that you uh swirling around the domes. We gotta put the baby to bed, guests, gun, so we'll dude,

don't stick to sports stories. That would give me a couple of these stories here, and because you came in late here, we have to put the baby to bed. But these are stories that aren't about sports. Chuss this whole podcast apparently it's not about sports. But what do

we have today? How about this one? A civil jury has awarded fifty eight million dollars to ten Planoffs who actually sued a donation facility Biological Resource Center in Arizona because basically what they were doing was that they would take these It was kind of what that story that we talked about think before this UH podcast launched. But this company basically sold corpses UH and they used it for experimental purposes without the family's consent, so remem remember that.

But the bodies the corpses were used for testing against I E. D. S. Yes, Yeah, that was the mom got blown up, Yes, without permission. So that was pretty damn good. I don't know if you remember that. It was, you know, a couple of months ago, as yeah, you love that story. You kept sending me that story. That was like your favorite story. You hate moms, you like moms being blown up apparently had nothing to do with

that whatsoever. I thought it was just appropriate that someone was getting the getting hammered for using bodies as anything else than cremating. Or you're putting six ft underres some nothing wrong with that. Um. I don't know if you saw the video, usually you are well. I don't know if it's you or your wife. It's all about four years of But in Arkansas, police officer is suspended for dancing naked in a nightclub. Read about that. Uh no,

I don't know. I assume it's a dude. Yeah, yeah, I don't normally go out of I know you like to see men dance naked, but I normally don't go out of my way. I don't cozy up to that like you do. I I really don't discriminate between the mail or female dancing. They're all in compassing, especially when they're naked. I would. I don't know what you're talking about. That thing flying around in the air, you like that? Uh huh. You gotta get the hell out here because

that mean that's it? Yes, it's like it's like Prom nine for you. It's cut short, alright, finished ear well, h very disappointing, gascing on, just like your prom date. All right, very nice, uh sweetest honey and all that stuff, all right, thank you very much. There it is another edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben malloy. Don't forget to download the Benny Versus the Penny podcast, which possibly will be made available for your dancing and dining pleasure

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