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ways to avoid commercials on a podcast. Now I don't know how, I forget how that works, but there is a there might be a button there that you can use to avoid certain commercials. But I think I say you should not do that. And you should listen to all of the commercials because that's the most important part

of the podcast. Now, on Friday, we had the Man, the Myth, the legend, Chucky from Chuck E. Cheese, the Rodent, our friend Jonas Knox was in here at a great time with Jonas and it was fun catching up with him. And he worked on my show back in the day briefly, and now he's he's worked all the way up the ladder at Fox Sports Radio into a daytime day part during the week, which is wonderful. We're's very excited for Jonas.

It was great having him on. And then on Saturday, I told the story I hope you heard the Saturday podcast about my vaccination situation with the Dodgers were Major League Baseball was not going to allow me to attend the game because I did not have the proper paperwork even though I have the Dr Fauci that that the nonsense with that, and so anyway it was it was

I told that whole story. But now I was solo on Friday and Saturday, and stepping out of the Chappo held the bath down, non compliant, non submissive, I'm I'm here, I'm loud and proud. We'll see what happens in the l A city. Uh, the last three or four weeks November, I think third will be the enactment. Los Angeles City has required and mandated all vaccination proof to enter a large majority of businesses. Yeah. Well, you're living west of the four or five. Are you planning on moving east

of the four or five? Because there are or south if you go further south where the four oh five ends Orange County. Baby, Yeah, there are locations that you can go to that are more like our brothers and sisters that live in the south where they amazing. It's all the same country and you have the ickets, don't. I don't get carried away here gas come. But you have the people in charge that are making you show your paperwork everywhere you go at checkpoints kind of like

they didn't the old days in certain countries. And uh, and then other places where you're able to live freely. It's it's stunning how that works. Is there is there a point I make you're not long in the tooth, but you're in the prime ripe age of your your career. Is there a point in time where you would actually stand up against anything that's being um being applied right

now or being applied some time down the road. I mean, because you think about people that listen to your show, like I'm a pilot's one of them, and a couple other people that work in these big businesses where there's a high volume of no pun intent but traffic. You know, he's obviously a pilot. A lot of pilots across the world, stewardesses, flight a tendance, people that are on the ground that

I have to be required to u to convaccentate. In fact, you had a doctor I think down south that wrote us last year that we had on So I mean, there's gotta be a point in time where these people push back and they just walk away. Do you think there will be a point in time for you like that. I don't, and I'll tell you why, because the deck

is stacked the well. Yeah, it's kind of like that argument that it was I think it was be No Cook, the quote where Beano said, you know, you never want to get into a case against the federal government because every case against the federal government they have, they're the favorite and they have home field advantage. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's very difficult, and so yeah, I think we've already

seen there been lawsuits. Unless I'm mistaken Gascon, there have been lawsuits here and the courts have ruled that these companies in can do whatever you want. That essentially, all the freedoms that we have, we're not free to not follow what the bosses want. Essentially, so if the bosses want you to get a shot in your ass or whatever, um,

you either do it or you don't work. But I think to counter your argument, we have seen over the last two three, maybe even five years that if you cause a boog enough stir with the protests, with a peaceful protest or rally, you can cause some of these lawmakers to be on their heels a little bit and change policy or turn to bly eye the other way. Yeah. But the people that control the major media, the news media, um, they all are on the same page except one or

two networks that are not. But everyone else is all in lockstep. It's it's group think, my man. It's group think that what's going on right now. So that's interesting. I I feel bad because there's obviously a lot of people in the health industry that are either being terminated or forced out and I mean you see it a lot these people were these people were heralded as heroes last year and now they're they're outcasted as pariah's. Yeah,

it's it's fascinating what's going on right now. And uh, I just the whole the whole experience going to a game and I I'm at Dodger Stadium outdoors, there's no one around me within ten yards on the field, and I have to wear my my mask. I'm so stupid. I'm like, but you were you know this from the Charger Radar game on Monday night. You only had to

wear a mask to enter so far stadium. Once you got in, masks off, didn't matter what where you were, who are you're with seventy thousand people inside, It didn't matter when dead. So well, that is true. They can't enforce that. It's impossible the math on that because no Dodger game. A lot of people see the problem. I was in the media and I'm on the field and there's all these Gestapo guys that are like, well, you

don't have your mouth going, and they're they're freaking out. Anyway, let's you ready for the mail bag here, you're ready tune that band up. It's all right, thanks Ohio. Ow we love it, Ohio. A good job by you. Let's get to the mail bag. We got a lot of questions this week, guest Gun, and a lot of them are for you also. So I'm glad you were here. I was worried you weren't gonna be here because you missed the Friday and the Saturday, so I thought you

might not make it for the Sunday. But you have arrived, and so here we go up here in Springfield right since, says Ben, you have a very good ear when it comes to callers. So I'd like to take a trip to the hot tub a dip, he says, in the hot tub hot tub time machine, and riddle me this. Pierre in Springfield, Mass says, Uh, we're Troy the gambling Man and Gay Brad one in the same Every time I heard one of their calls, I swear that that was the same person. All right, So, and he has

another another point to make here, but we'll start with that. Pierre. No, I spoke to Troy the gambling Man off here and Gay Brad off the other caller known as Gay Brad, who I'm pretty sure is the guy, if I remember correctly, that gave one of the great answers of all time in Jeopardy when they added seats to the Green Monsters. The Green Monster in Boston, we had said, I think the question was something like, uh, you know, so and

so has been added to the Green Monster. And the answer that somebody gave Gay Brad was, um, a hot tub. He thought they had put a hot tub, and he was being totally serious, by the way, he was not. It is not a comedy answer. He for some reason he thought they put a hot top of there. But no,

they were not the same person. And those callers go back at least fifteen years, if not longer, And I have no idea what happened to the gambling Man was one of my most uh, you know, hardcore guys that love the show, and and he gave picks and he was terrible and we loved him. And he drove a sweeper truck around Nashville. I'm not sure what happened to him.

He was all right around, all right. And the other question, he says, Ben, I am debating whether or not to brave the masses and congregate with the unwashed at the Big e New England's Great State Fair, and Pierre points out he's down almost forty pounds since May, and he says, I know, I know you break your fast on the weekends. I've attached maps listening listening rather some tremendous state fair foods. Sincerely, alf the alien Opiners. So I think we should look

at this here and kind of help out Alf. You can't see it. I don't think yes unless you have your your email up you have the access to the email. I means check Pierre, here, I gotta put this up here, Hold on a sec here. I love state fair food. Yeah. So the question is are you a big fan of the the entree per se the the entres that they serve at state fairs are more like the snacks. Oh yeah, I love anything fried, any combination of food fried. I am all about that action. I am all about that action.

All right. So here's the email. I've got it up now. Sorry about that. Pierre A. K A Alfhi alien Opiner in Springfield, Mass. I click on the West Springfield map. I was wondering what would have what would my life have been? My grandfather was in Springfield, mass dot to California. What if I had been born back there. Back things have been different anyway. They have the West spring Field Lions Club Guestcon. That's where you can get burgers, grilled cheese,

rubens where you're going the flat Liner Burger. That's that's a pretty good start. There's the aga Wama Lions Club. I guess each Lions Club has their own place. That's where you get the dinner in a cone, bacon mac and cheese and a cone. Shepherd's pie in a cone pie. I don't not the Shepherd's Pie guy. The Yankee Boy Lobster House that's right up your alley. You can get oh my, they have camel, kangaroo and alligator burgers. You can get that that doesn't really do much for me.

A shrimp mac and cheese if you're into that. There's a a saloon with local beers and whatnot. They have a train that goes at the West Springfield State Fair. The Big Cahunas Creek and veggie euros salad forget that. Who goes to a state fair and eats salad? Chicken? They have London broyal sandwiches. I might try one of those London broil sandwich. And they have an ice cream place where you can get floats and Sundays. So I the move here, Pierre, is you start out at the

West Springfield Lions Club. Yes, and you get your burgers, you get your rubin, you get the grilled cheese. You go, you go to that. Then I would cross all the way over. I go down West Road and I'd go over near the train at the opa Opah Saloon. Right next door to it is the Big Cahunas. I go there and I'd eat some chicken, and I tried the London broil sandwich, and then after that I would cross over to have a nice ice cream Sunday. That would be how I would play. That would be I was

at the West Springfield Fair. That's what I would do, all right. So I think what I would do is, I'd be like you. I'd go from east, but I'd go east to southeast like a smile, like a reverse smile. So I'd go West Springfield for some grilled cheese and a little thin to start, but then I would go bacon mac and cheese in a cone. And then just because I had to try it, I would try a kangaroo burger, and then I'd make my way to the

saloon for some beer. I'd probably grab a London broil sandwich and then cap it off with some ice cream. But I'm not gonna lie. I'd probably go around this place multiple times to try a bunch of different things. Yeah, that's great, that's I like that. They have the old school map there. They have a little drawing in the ferris wheel on there, and pretty that's pretty neat. Now do you start your day with the float or do you start your day with a Sunday? That's the question? Yeah,

like I think you start with the float. That's actually not a bad call. You start with dessert, you go float, ice cream, float. Yeah, I still whether it's not you know, it's it's fall in New England, so it's not gonna be warm. It's gonna be nice cool temperatures. So you start with the float, you go flow grilled cheese. Oh wait, a bit. We screwed up? Why what we screw up? We screwed up massively. There's a page. There's a page two. Oh my god, Eddie, I called you Eddie. Oh my god, yes,

I called you Ryan. Oh that's a that's eight pages here. Yeah, all right, so but page two is even better. Because they have doughnuts. I'd like to retract everything I say. Sinnamon rolls. Holy crap, I love a cinnamon roll. There's dog called me, fried dough pick Mark barbecue with ribs, nachos, brisket. Oh my god, that's some Page two. You'd have to do all of it. Yes, you gotta go point By. They have the soft service cream. They've got to add

the deep fried whoopie pie. That's what Whoopie Pie Blair. You gotta get one of those for Whoopie Pie Blair. Holy crap, that's better. I'd rather have page two than page one. One tease. Page two is where it's at Man barbecue, nachos and brisket. Holy crap. That signed me up for that. Oh more, page three, you got more. You got fried mac and cheese. Fried flutter nutter. Just a fun word to say, flutter nutter. I worked that my lexicon. I gotta use that. In what context? Could

I use flutter nutters? In three? I was describing a describing an athlete or a team. A flutter nutter is a sandwich made up of peanut, butter and marshmallow. Oh, I know what I could do. I said that I could say that team was so soft. They were a flutter nutter on defense because White Seahawks defense. Yeah, flutter nutter Tampa defense. But your flutter nutters. Oh man, hey, I gotta ask you. Have you ever had fried oreos? I have, yes? At the alright, that's on page five.

I was out on pitch five. Now. The Urban Dictionary, which I always go by, says they're definition of flutter nutter is a wonderful concoction of marshmallow fluff and peanut butter and a likely tasty sandwich. Just the real definition. There's others that are very graphic here describing a certain activities in the gascon the tug and the rub there and uh yeah, I don't know, is uh that is outstanding some of the other descriptions on that man, oh man, all right, let me get back to this. It is

very important, Pierre. We're wasting a lot of valuable time on the mail bag. I'm a little jealous of Pierre going to this thing. I'm not gonna lie. This thing looks awesome. Yeah. Originally I was like, well, it's not that good because I didn't realize there were all these other pages. I just looked at page one. I'm like, okay, that's fine. You know you can get a London broil, you get a grilled geese. But then you're right, the better, the better stuff is down the line. You can't. I'm

at age three right now. You can get three pigs in a bunch. Another barbecue plays ultimate Cowboy Nacho, fried snickers, fried pineapple, fried pop tart, Boom boom, boll murderers row oh man. They have something called the garbage bowl. That must be really good. The garbage bowl. I but that's solid. Does it sounds like I haven't eaten in three days? Because I haven't eaten in three days getting all of this good sandwiches. They've got the West Springfield Firehouse Restaurant,

traditional burger, hot dog, You've got breakfast sandwiches. You like the breakfast sandwich, but you're more of a breakfast burrito guy. Yeah, I'd clean up in this place though. Page five. Fried chicken and waffles. We have a place out here in l A called Roscoe's which is famous for fried and waffles. Have you been to Roscoe's game? I have. There's one in Long Beach, there's one in the Hollywood. Been of

both of those? I was at the one in l A and lamar Odom was in there when he was playing for the Clippers and he was suspended for doing weed and and he knew who I was. I was in the I was covering the Clippers at the time, and he he looked at me, and he once he put two and two together that I was the same guy.

He then put the hoodie he had on over his head, trying like somehow I think he thought maybe maybe I wouldn't realize it was him if he put the hoodie over his head, which was rather rather Uh, Let's see what else do we have here on the state. I think we could spend the whole mail back talking about this bloody Mary grilled cheese. So is that like tomato? And with the grilled cheese, Gertrude's pretzel, pretzel wrapped hot dog, giant pretzel, giant pretzel. Pierre, You've gotta have a giant

pretzel for me and take a picture. Take a picture. Deep fried cheese, hot Wisconsin cheese. They've got that. That sounds wonderful. I'm a big fan of page six, big fan of page six. Pierre. Classic poutine. They have classic poutine. Gascon awesome buffalo mac and cheese. Oh man, this is food porn. And I'm not even looking at the food. I'm just looking at the names of the food. Frozen cheese, steak, who wants that? Pass on that? That's a veggie, the

veggie patch, kill bassa polish plate. They have parogis. I've never had a parog You ever had a program once? Yeah? It's pretty good. Good? Yeah, eighteen inch brot worst. There's some jokes on that. Uh who else? All right, that's boy, good job, Pierre. Do it all. Skip page one and retrospect page eight. You know, people want to uh fast forward on commercials. I want if they want to fast forward to just this one email that we had that cracked open. Well, that's it. We're out of time. We'll

see you next week. Everybody. Oh, alright, moving on and here we go, moving on. Let's see we have a big E. I think this is from Big E. Uh, he says, guys, since it is apparent that Ben is never going oh, this is actually from Tammy and Montana. I apologized. Uh, since it is apparent that Ben is never going to cook the better than the best cut of meat that he received from David for his birthday

years ago. I think the frozen freezer wrapped Tomahawk with autographed from both you and David, both of you should be put on eBay, proceeds going to a charity of Ben's choice, Tammy and Montana. I'd be okay with that. I am planning on eating the Tomahawks steak at some point. It is saved for forever. It's it's like that. What was remember the story this week the guy in in Europe, the caveman, the Neanderthal that they finally on ice because the ice melted. Remember that. I think it was a

couple of weeks ago. Now, Oh yeah, yeah, I think I sent you, Yeah, I think I sent you something about that. Yeah. So the Tomahawks steak is gonna be like that. I'm gonna I'm gonna it's the ice is gonna melt and then it'll be ready to cook. It'll be great. I can make a YouTube video cooking with Benny in the kitchen, right, the whole thing. Uh, but I'm I'm okay. It sounds like dammy, it sounds like gascon.

Your buddy over there is not supportive of this plan, so not really Blake in Arkansas right, since says gentlemen, I had my grand opening for the Amazon's or last weekend. It was wild. He says, I wasn't sure what to expect. I spent a couple of grand on radio and did some social media advertising the whole deal. And he said, I had pictures on the Facebook page of some things that we were selling. The structure is he gives us the business model here. I'm I'm fascinated by this guest gun.

This is a great hustle. I'm impressed with Blake, and it sounds like Blake's making money hand over fist. So if you miss last week's podcast, what Blake does is he buys a truck full of items returned to Amazon for a flat rate. He has no idea what's in the truck, and then massive eighteen wheeler truck. He then empties all of the stuff out into his warehouse. On Friday, everything's five dollars. That means you could get a three vacuum cleaner for five dollars. You could get uh five

dollar jacket somebody returned on Amazon for five dollars. Saturday is five dollars, Monday is three dollars, and Tuesday is one dollar. And then they start the whole process over again the following week. And uh, he said, well, I would guess I had three to four hundred people waiting online for him to open. Wow, that's like Blake. That's like a field of dreams. Build it and he will come. Situation. Can you imagine opening a business you're not sure if

anyone's gonna show up. You've spent a lot of capital on advertising, on radio advertising and the whole thing, and you show up and there's people wrapped around the building. And I did look on Blake's Facebook page and there were people asking how long do you have to wait in line? I guess he lets people in for twenty minutes or so, or like every twenty minutes they let more people in and all that. But that is that

is great. And he also if you see guest kind if you're in the email he sent, there's some fun photos that Blake sent kind of like behind the scenes of of everything there. That's not for air consumption. But it's pretty cool, man, pretty pretty cool. So hey, we could get into that, guscan he's he says he would help us out if we want to get into that. Teach teach, teach, Yeah, he knows people, and I bet you he one of the emails, I think he said he could cut us a deal. Oh my god. You

know who would clean up with this? Your wife would clean up on it. She would crush or she just get a lot of the stuff that she would return to Amazon. She'd just get for cheaper. Yeah, does that include a chandelier? Was a nightmare. Let's play this out in a parallel universe. Let's say we agreed and Blake was kind enough nice Arkansas razorback fan and said, you know what, let me help these these two losers out and we had to rent out. We know southern California,

We've lived here a long time. Yeah, where would be the place that that business model would do the best in in the l A area. I would say, like Riverside. I'm thinking out in Riverside. And so you're thinking, I was say, Anaheim. Yeah, you could do Anaheim. You could do Santa Anna in the o C. Riverside is a good call, though, what Van Eyes in the sand right near the Fox studios in the San Fernando Valley, you can do Van Eyes? What about the valley like Santa Clarita.

I don't know. This. There's a fair amount of money in Santa Clarita, though, Yeah, how about the high desert in Land Chacter Palm Dale. Out in the high desert, we spend so much money driving out there. That would be bad. It's just very tempting though, you know it would be a good spot. Actually, you know, this would be a great spot. I'm or you remember this. But San Clemente their main street on Sundays, they actually close off for drivers, Like they have all these vendors that

are out in the middle of the street selling stuff. See, I don't think you could do that. I think what you'd have to do is rent out a warehouse. Like but there's so much stuff you'd have to actually rent out a warehouse. Plus you've got to make your money back. I wonder what the And maybe Blake, you can tell us in the next your next email. I do appreciate it, give us the infro. But how many items does one

have to sell? And what's the mathematical equation? If the truck costs twenty dollars to buy, and I don't know how many items you can fit in an eighteen wheeler, what's the math on that? So it obviously sounds like it works out, but I'd be curious how many, because what if the weather is bad, whether there's a big storm or something, and you can't say anything, you're stuck with. I guess you can always wait to the to the next week and and do it that all right? Good

good email, Blake. Next one comes from Steve in North AUGUSTUS, real quick for Blake. For Blake. I didn't get the hats he set. I didn't either, uh, and I asked Coop. I was in the studio. I picked up the mail this week. I want to thank bread Man. I want to thank Adrian, our friend from Denver. Adrian, to answer you, only one of the hats you sent fits. I have a very large head, and so if if you think it's gonna be too small, it probably will be. But one of them I did squeeze into and I will

wear at some point here. And bread Man, thank you for the hat. But I did not get the hats from Blake. I don't know if you sent them to our plass. I went in the mail room at the Premier Network's Gascon. I was trying to find in the hats Blake, because Blake not only sent you and I hats. He sent Coop hats Eddie. I mean he took care of all of us. He one of those Amazon trucks he has stash or maybe it was an Amazon truck, but he has stash of Negro League hats. So he

was very kind and I I did not see. I went through the entire mail room. There's mail for Clay Travis, help Rush Limbaugh, who's unfortunately been dead for many months. There was a pile of mail for Rush. Now who who's sending Rush mail? Did they not get the message that Rush unfortunately had to check out and he's in

radio heaven right now. I don't get it. But but anyway, I went through all of that and I did not find any box in the Premier Networks studios there that that had my name on it, or Coop's name, or your name, or Eddie's name, or Roberto's name or any of us. So I'm sorry, but I maybe you can double check. Maybe you send it the wrong place, maybe

it'll be returned to you anyway. Steve in North Augusta, South Carolina, just across from the Savannah River from a ust to Georgia, says, I have been a long time listening to your radio show thinking and your podcast, because I usually lay awake at night from about two AM to five am, unable to sleep. Well, that's bad for you and good for us. Steve, that's bad for you and good for us. I believe that is known as insomnia. Is that isn't I correct on that? That's something I

think anxiety exactly, he says. I enjoy your weekend podcast very much and tune them in when I walk the dogs? Who let the dogs out? Steve in North Augusta, South Carolina? Let the dogs out? He says. I have a few questions for you. Number one. Number one, he says, when and how did you develop the hook of using three unrelated points to introduce your monologues. It's a gimmick, but it gets me every time. It gets me thinking, how is he going to link these three items? I am

not aware of anyone else who uses that technique. All right, so, Steve, that only started a couple of years ago, and I've always tried, even though it sounds like it's the same show every night, I've always tried to experiment with different things. And usually when I try new things, it's a disaster. I'm not sure, how many years you've been listening, you said,

you're a long time listener, Steve. Do you remember when I did the spelling be I had this great idea we were gonna do a spelling bee, and then I learned that the average call it to sports talk radio cannot even spell it. You know, if I said what spell it, they would not You'd spot on the eye and they wouldn't be able to spell it. So it was a disaster. And in my head that would have

been a great bit. But the three things deal popped up randomly and I got a lot of good feedback on it, and people seem to like it, and so then I started doing it more, and now it's the only thing that I do like if I and occasionally I will do a monologue where I don't do it, and then people will inevitably complain and say, why didn't you do it? Why did you change your way? You know, so I I now I'm kind of forced to do

it that way. But sometimes I'll roll in and I'll just you know, I usually jot down a few notes before monologue, but sometimes I'll just let it rip without, you know, I just have nothing, and then people will get upset, so you can't win, guest, can you can't? When He also says Steven North Augustin, he says, were there any techniques you were taught to avoid the ers

and oz and uz while on the radio? For most people, including myself, when you stick a microphone or camera in front of you and your brain goes blank and you fill the airwaves with er, uh and uh or ah and uh. You see, I just did it. Here's the thing I would say, Steve. I do say uh er, and I try not to do it as much, and I've been pretty good about limiting it. But it's just part of human conversation to say those things. And it's hours and hours and hours and hours of being on

a on a microphone. So it's ten thousand hours and then some and you master something and you go on on your way. Try anyway exactly. He also says, when you have on air disputes with guests and staff wreck it, Ralph comes to mind, are those real or just a gimmick? Don't those victims complain to management? Well, here's how I will answer that they are real. Nine of the time. They are really. Now wreck it, Ralph and I go

way back to San Diego. We worked together when I was first starting out in Radio wreck It Ralph was starting out. We're around the same age, so we have many of the same stories. We met many of the same people in our San Diego radio days. Ralph stayed in San Diego much longer than I did. Typically, I love Ralph, but when I hang out with Ralph, he tells me the same eight stories every time, which annoyed me. Uh And so I like to bust Ralph's balls because

Ralph also gets annoyed. It's legitimate annoyance. He does get annoyed. The time that he got upset with Justin and Cincinnati and became a rhino Gascon and stormed into the studio and tried to hang up on everyone was one of the funniest nights on the show, and that was legitimate hate. And some of the other beefs we've had have also

been been real. They've been authentic. I don't I don't like to to pretend on that stuff, but normally what happens men being men, guys being guys, and we have an old school philosophy on the show Gascon that we bust each other's balls. But then at the end of the show, we move on and we don't let things linger. And that's an important thing. And you can't let stuff if you have you fight during the radio show. There's

an new day tomorrow, and you don't fight the next day. Yeah, there are people I have worked for people that would have things linger. No, you just once you go to bed, it's a new day. Bygones are bygones. You get a fresh start. That's how I try to follow. That's the mantra I try to follow. Steve also says, I know you'd like to make fun of golf, but if you

ever want, how about this one? He says, if you ever want to go to the Master's golf tournament the first full week in April in Augusta, Georgia, Steve says he'll hook us up. Yeah, he says, I usually have tickets and can give you a place to stay. Even let this. A pass to the Master's cost about five thousand dollars. Getting a room during the Master's Week is

about five a night at a mid value hotel. Can you imagine the damage will do an Augusta with all that fried food in Georgia and it's all dirt cheap it's cheap, Steve. Is that the way this email reads, Steve, It's like, hey, I'll take care of you. You don't have to spend the five thousand dollars. Am I am? I reading this correctly here at Gascon. That's what it was like. If it's free for me, if all I have to do is pay for the travel, my god,

that is a tempting off. That's one of those things you got to do as a sports fan, just to do it right. Like even if you're not like a NASCAR fan or an indiecr fan, you have to go to Indianapolis. You have to go to Daytona. Yeah, like you have to you have to do that. Um yeah, I goof about the Masters, but every year I do at least a couple of Masters monologue. So it's you know, it's a love hate double edged sword situation. Right, we'll see.

That's a very generous offer. And why don't you send me a follow up and you know, let me know the details on this, and I know Gascon, you're you're very excited about this year. Very interesting. That's a bucket list thing that that is, like you just said that, like those are are specific sports moments that you can't pass up. Absolutely, I would I would consider consider doing that.

Isn't that final four weekend though? That doesn't matter, right, I can So if you get a if you get a round trip ticket from Los Angeles to Augusta just now, like looking at flights now, like in the near future, it's it's about three change. But obviously this is you're flying to Atlanta. Wouldn't it be cheaper than just drive to Augusta? Maybe? But I mean, well, no to seventy six to seventies six round trip ATLA to Augusta, that's not bad. No. I was going to fly to Wisconsin.

The Rams play the Packers on Thanksgiving weekend and my brother. I was gonna surprise my brother and visit him in Appleton, Wisconsin. And I looked up the plane fare and they jack up the prices. I can go to Appleton or fly into Milwaukee dirt cheap most of the year because who

the hell wants to, you know, fly into Appleton, Wisconsin. Ever, but Thanksgiving weekend, man, they jacked up the rates and that Sunday, Sunday Monday flight back, I'd have to fly back Monday because the Rams played the Pactors on that Sunday. Think that Thanksgiving weekend Sunday is insane. And then I was like, well, I'll fly into Chicago and I'll just drive up. It's a few hours up to Appleton. I'll drive up to Chicago from Chicago. And that was insane. So, oh, Matt,

you just said that. And I looked at the dates for the Masters. What do you think the prices for a flight l A to Augusta? From Los Angeles to Augusta on Delta Airlines, what do you think the price is for a ticket round trip? So round trip? Yes, you're close. It's a thousand and fifty eight. Oh oh my god? How much is it to fly to Atlanta? Though? Can you check that out right now? Because you could, you could do, and I don't have a map here. I'm trying to think, and maybe I'm wrong. George is

a rather big state. But Augusta, Georgia, is there a Maybe you could fly into somewhere in South Carolina, but I assume all the airports around there because people are like us, and they realize, they wait a minute, let's fly someone else and save a couple of bucks. And so I'm sure they jack up the rates through Red Eye to Atlanta. Okay, well you just save a lot of but then you gotta rent a car and you gotta drive all over the back road swamp land if

you will. Um, I mean Augusta, Georgia. The next you could you could do Columbia, South Carolina. Oh yeah, that's actually that's the closest actually city, I would say, I think it's looking at the map here two from Atlanta. Yeah, you take I twenty. You take I twenty from Columbia and you go down and you're good to go. And oh my, you know what, my niece I wish you. She's not really big sports fan. Though she's in Charleston.

Charleston's real close to Augusta. So here's the move. Here's how I sell the move, guest guy to go to Augusta. I'm like, hey, my niece has been in college for a couple of years. I haven't seen her in a long time. Why don't I go to Charleston and then I'll stay an extra couple of days and go to Augustin. Bam. That's that's a that doesn't look that bad. All those there's not really a direct a direct trip you've got

to take a back road. I guess I twenty six you could take across and then you gotta cut over through what looks like pretty much hillbilly land, and then you you cut around and then you get to Augusta and flights to Charleston are like four sixty. Oh yeah, all right, all right, forget it not. I will consider that. That's you know, that's that's a very nice offer. That's a very kind offer from our buddy there, Steve. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Next up, Fred in Spring, Texas.

Right since this, do you really think that being an overnight host put you at the bottom of the barrel. If so, what would be your next step up the ladder? Yes, Fred, uh, some of that is tongue in cheek, But in the radio business, the way it works, there's a a totem pole, like an in any business, there's a list of power list. The way our business works. If you're on the radio from six am to six pm, that matters. You're it's a big day part and that's where they value it

the most. Anything after six pm before six am you are looked down upon. It's just the way the business works. The morning and afternoon drive are the most important, and

that's just because of human nature. People listen to the radio more on their way to work, on their way home from work, stuck in traffic, and I have a more difficult road anybody on the radio after six pm to six am, because you have to get people to listen when they're at work or listen while they're you know, we're you know doing you know, I can't sleep like our friend we just talked about Stephen North Augustine, South Carolina, and he's got to listen because he's got insomnia. So

you're it's a smaller pool to pick from. So but the next step. I I love doing the overnight show. I would also love a big fat paycheck, so at some point I would give it a shot. I think I could do a decent morning show for that money. I wish it was like the police department or a city job. You know how they do it where you work your entire career, and then a lot of places. It's like where my wife works at the police station. Whatever your highest salary is, they pay you that the

rest of your your career. You know, when you retire, your passion you're based on your house. Sorry, yeah, you're teared. You're you're teared on a percentage based on your salary. Yeah, you're no. Uh uh we we definitely don't. We we don't. We don't believe in that. Uh. The powers that be have decided to know. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia says, Hi, Ben and David, this is an important, dramatic question. Are you excitedly counting down to the eleventh season premier of

Curb Your Enthusiasm October? I cannot wait, he says, Other than Larry David, who makes you laugh the most? And she says, you make make me laugh every day. Well, thank you very kind, Jennifer. I love Curb your Enthusiasm. As you know, Jennifer, it is my favorite show. I generally do not like sitcoms or that type of programming. I'm I'm a I'm a dumbass. I like serious stuff. I like documentaries things like that. But Curb Your Enthusiasm

is a guilty pleasure. And I'm pretty lucky because my brother in law works on the show behind the scenes. He's on the crew, and I always ask him, I give me inside information, you know, and he he won't really say much. He'll tell me occasionally where he has to go because he has to make all the sets. Like was it last year or the year before they made Latte Larry's that fake coffee shop, and so they

went out to a coffee shop. They went to a strip mall in the San Fernando Valley, guesscon and they had to set the whole coffee shop up a working coffee shop. And he's on the crew that does that that they make the signs and everything, they have to put it up, and and then they burned the whole thing down, the dramatic ending of that. And so he he does that kind of stuff. So he'll he'll send me, you know, little clues. But I am so And it's the guy that I get a kick out of, is well, Susie.

I love the woman that screams for fanit. He gets very upset at at Larry. I've known some some women like that. Uh And and Jeff Garland, the fat guy, My hero actually saw Jeff Garland do stand up in Burbank. He does every Sunday. I think he moved to Hollywood now but he and I have no idea what COVID what's going on, But he would do a stand up comedy routine every Sunday night. He'd come in at like

eight o'clock and do half an hour set. And I believe he still does, and he does all's on two popular shows, Curbing Enthusias and what's the one on ABC he's on, Oh, I gotta look that up. Um, I don't, I don't remember, I don't want, I don't watch it. But it's a popular show. I think it's the line. I'm not sure. Cliff from Nashville rights and he says, Ben, is it true that Gavin knew someone the U haul

Salesman of the Year award? Uh well, Gavin Newsom and the lap dogs for the King of California who somehow avoided being kicked out of office. Uh my goodness. But Ley Elder would have been a much better governor anyway. Gavin Newsom, he will argue with the people that support him, We'll say, well, yeah, a lot of people are leaving, going to Arizona, going to Texas, to Tennessee, to anywhere below the Mason Dixon line. But there's other people coming

into California, guests gond to replace them, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, So that that's his argument. Chris and Boston writes in he says, would you have taken the w e I morning job if it was offered after you got the guest hosting gig, Chris? I did audition. I've talked about this a few times. I did audition for the morning show that was back in the Kirk Minihan days. Kirk very talented, goofy morning radio shock jot guy no longer doing radio. He's on a podcast at Barstool. I understand.

I love w e I. I've worked there a few times over the years remotely and been to Boston and done shows from the studios multiple times, and I love it. The station has been great to me. The only reason I'm not on there now, but there's a couple of reasons. The person that hired me no longer as the program a director, but I still know a bunch of people that worked there. And also that our show is picked up by the Sports Hub and we the Sports Hub has been very good and we do very well in

the Sports Hub and they're the monster station right now. Uh. I would have. I would have likely taken the job, but I the problem I had at the time was I was married and I'm still married. So I had to get approval. It's not a one man decision here. You gotta get the wife to sign off on it. That would be a dramatic move. If they had offered me the job in oh nine, I would have absolutely

moved to Boston. I did some shows for Mikey Adams back in oh nine when he was doing the nighttime show, and if they were thinking about offering me a gig, then if they had offered me a gig, then I probably would still be in Boston right now, assuming I didn't tank and nobody listened to the show and I

got whacked. This time around was a little different, but the conversation was, if the dollar amount is what they pay a morning and afternoon drive host in Boston, I would have taken the job because that would have been silly money. There would have been no reason not to take the job. They did offer me a position there as a as a host at night, but I make more money doing what I'm doing now, so I stayed where I am. But do do you have fond memories?

I did the Red Sox postgame show Gascon for eighteen Red Sox review. They called here in l A. They call it Dodger talk, but Red Sox review. They call it after the these Socks games. Uh, let's see who's next, Neil from the real Miami, says big man in Diesel David Gascon speaking of Miami, have to agree with you on the views. Oh yeah, we talked about this in a previous podcast. You got upset with me. You gotta

remember I said these views. People pay a lot for these views, and then after a while they just become normal and you block them out. He says he has lived in it for a decade. Spectacular views. He sent a photo. I'm looking at it here, beautiful penthouse apartment condo there in Miami. View of the ocean, downtown, South Beach, the Bay, the Port of Miami. Seventy degree panoramic view right across the street from the arena, the American Airlines

Arena where the Heat play their games. It is awesome. That is a chamber of commerce. Photo. But Neil points out over time the views lose their effects. He says, do you think the same thing happens for Tom Brady and his views? If you know what I mean, maybe m I'm going yes, I'm gonna go yes on that. I think that's the reason if you marry someone. I think this works both for women and men. My theory on this gascon is, you know, even and women will do the same thing. Guys do they marry a guy

because they think he's good lucking or whatever. But you gotta really have a connection otherwise because those looks are gonna go away, and even if they don't go away, you get used to him. Right If if you eat vanilla ice cream every day, after a while, you know you're okay with it, but it's you're gonna have it or not have it, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

it's unfortunate. I like chip cookies. But if I ate nothing but chocolate chip cookies and I didn't appreciate the cookie and the full part of the cookie, I wouldn't really, I wouldn't give two rat, you know, to you know what's about the cookie. But unfortunately I'm gonna in a marriage where my wife is beautiful, but we have a

we have a good connection. So it's it's uh, you know, that's why it's always important to eat mint and chocolate chip or Rocky Road got it up a little bit, that's right, John and Tacoma writes in Actually there was one more from Neil. He says, I wonder if you know why some teams go with state versus city naming, I e. Gascon's Arizona Cardinals beat your l A Rams, the Atlanta Hawks versus the Minnesota Vikings, who are downtown

by the way, any idea from the Wicky Mallard. Yeah, I think a lot of it is just based on who gave them the money, I think, am I Right? Like Tampa Bay there is actually no Tampa Bay right guesting on, there's Tampa and there's St. Pete. Yeah, I've been there. I drove through there. I haven't spent a lot of time in that area. And if you think of the regional teams, there's North Carolina, South Carolina, there's no Carolina. You said the Carolina is New England, encompasses

the six New England states. Yeah. I the Patriot thing, am I? When I was doing stuff at e I, somebody told me that the reason they were called the New England Patriots is because they left Boston and went to Foxboro. That's that's why they became the New England Patriots. Nowadays they just still call him the Boston Patriots. Even though they play like the Jets and Giants play in New Jersey, the Rams and Chargers play in Inglewood, and

they just it doesn't matter. So uh. In Minnesota, he's the Lakers were the Minneapolis Lakers when they played there, weren't they? I believe they were? The Yeah? And the Arizona Cardinals When I was a kid and my my mom, we want a family vacation to Flagstaff, Arizona, and we were camping and my mom read in the local newspaper at the Arizona Cardinals had the St. Louis Cardinals had just moved to Arizona. They were having their first training camp.

Was night, I believe eight or eighty nine. I was a kid and my mom took me out to Cardinals training camp and Neil Lomax was the quarterback and Gene Stallings was the coach. And it was a great story.

My mom would brag about me to her friends when I was a little fat kid because Gene Stallings, the head coach of the Phoenix Cardinals, pulled me aside and and the Cardinal players were like, we gotta get this guy on the offensive line, because kid, and it was it was something my mom was beaming with pride about until her you know, last days on the planet, because

I have fond memories of that was fun. And also as a kid, we went and got gas after we went to the Cardinal practice, and they were like two or three Cardinal players were at the gas station. And I was like, oh my god, I'm getting gas with the Phoenix Cardinals. This is like an NFL player. I was like, a cool girl. When you're a kid, You're like, I can't believe they get gas too. Anyway, John and Tacoma rights, and he says, do either of you have

subscriptions to Instagram or Snapchat booty models? No, that's fans only. Isn't that that fans only thing? Yeah? Only fans? Yeah? Yeah, uh no, although I gotta tell you for some reason, they must people on Instagram must know I enjoy a nice caboose because every time I go on there to update my Instagram page, which is not very often, the things that pop up are boutatious gascon the but dunky

dunk is everywhere? Are there getting women on man that don't bend over or or you know that thing women do where they hold their feet kind of up that women where you know what a do. I give the ladies credit. They know all the cheat codes to make them look even better. Good job by them, push up bras the accentuation. But yeah, they got at all a lot of deception Gascon. There's a lot of deception. Yeah. Dave it our buddy from Simpsonville, South Carolina. He's been

a great hat benefactor over the years. He says, Ben, we know you're married. You're beautiful bride. Has David ever been engaged? If so, how close to a wedding? Alright, guess con would you like to share with the class? No? No, never been engaged. Came close once to proposing. It was in two thousand nine. I came so close to pulling the trigger. In fact, I was like out shopping for for a prize eye. Why didn't what caused you not do? Get?

Told me that I couldn't trust your long term despite the fact that I was with her for a long period of time, And I actually played out to be right because we had been together for a long period of time and then shortly after we broke up, um, she got a new boyfriend with him like a month, and then six months day later she was engaged. So like you know, you had stuff in the pipeline. It just so so she she had she had a couple in the minor league system that she was grooming. Yeah,

she had some horses in the stable, you know. I mean, she's an attractive woman, really nice, and so you know, I gotta go with you know, option beer, like we saw a few days ago with the Nashley wild Card. If your ace is not too good for nine, got to bring the hook early. And so that's what she did. Yeah, Alan in Akron, Ohio says, our golden tickets still given out to each winner of the games. Yeah, we give out I think all the games except one we give

out factor fiction. We don't give out golden tickets for. But everything else I believe we give out golden tickets. He says. How does Cooper Loop keep track if it's legit when someone calls into cash one in Alright, So the way this works out, and there's like a master list. The golden tickets only the last a month. So once you win a golden ticket, you have a month you

can transfer the golden ticket to somebody else. Many people love to give Tammy and Montana golden tickets because she's the the I Candy on the show or the ear can Indy on the show, and so they like to give her golden tickets. I know our friend in Minnesota, Hollerween James does that all the time. Um, but you have you have a month. There's a massive list. And so when Coop's away, then there are people that call

up the claim they have a golden ticket. But normally the other producers have They're not fans of the show. They don't listen, so they have no idea what that means. Uh, so we don't have to worry about it. Uh. Here's Ben in San Antonio, Texas rights and he says, is it true that all the great ones are named banned? Yes? Except Ben Roethlisberger. But you think greatest defensive player in my lifetime in the NBA Ben Wallace a band right, one of the great starting place. Do you take him

over Dennis Rodman? Yes. Fear the frow, fear the fro. Dennis Robbins, North Korean guy. You know he's he's hanging out with the North Koreans. Uh. Stephen Boston rights and he says, what happens first Tom Brady retires or Tiger Woods is given another runt of car. I've like, we get that joke every week. That's good though. Yeah, Rex from uh Lima, he says it's with an eye, not an e. I thought it was Lima, but he says lime. Is that? Am I saying that? Right? I thought it

was Lima but he says Lima. Anyway, He's like Bobby Petrino, Will Urban Meyer be buying a motorcycle anytime soon? We're gonna find out. Well, we'll find out today's Sunday. If Jacksonville goes out there lays an egg against Tennessee, turn out the lots the parties over for Urban. I've been an Urban defender, David, I have, and for for you as well, obviously, Rex, But I think it's gonna work out. I'm not looking good. Darryl from Marry In Illinois, right, say,

isn't there a big prison in Marry in Illinois? Why do I I know? I'm serious, I'm not kidding. Can we look can look at Yeah that's right. Yeah, yeah, it's a big, big, full security prison, right like full I've heard of that over the years. I think I watched documentaries from Marrying the giant federal prison. Yeah, yes, yes, uh there's some Do you have a list of the famous prisoners that are in there? You know I could, Yeah,

I can probably get it. Yeah, that's interesting. The biggest prison for the worst deadbeats of society isn't John Gotti, John Gotti, Pete Rose. Oh my god, they've been. They've been to Mary and that's where they did their time. Interesting. Wow, Walter Bond do you remember him? Well? The name brings about what. Yeah, he's he's a former NBA player for professional basketball player. Uh. Played for the University of Minnesota. He was not drafted, but did play three seasons Mavericks

Jazz and Detroit Pistons. That is right, interesting, all right, well, fun fun fact. Uh. And that's is that's Mary in Illinois at Marion, Ohio though Illinois Illinois. Okay, because there's a Marian Ohio, I think too. All right, moving on here, what do we have? Barry from Music City? Says Yo Yo Mo Benny. I just saw an episode of an American crime story. I didn't recognize Gascon at all, but I recognized his voice when he was asking the question. He must have had a hairpiece on for that part.

Did you have a hairpiece on? No? I did a lot of my friends actually asked him the same question. I said, no, I just had to grow it out. It took me forever to grow that thing out. It took me, like, I don't know, six months. Remember, I remember seeing you with the longer hair. I thought, what the hell is going on here? You've always been well groomed. What's going on with this unwashed? Yeah, you look like a knee and with all there for a while. I

know you've gotten good reviews. That's a very popular show, that American Crime Story. Did you get a lot? Yeah, Ryan Ryan Murphy has got I think one more in the can too. He's got the first two, like the Versace and then the People versus O J and then obviously this one. He's got one other one that's in progress. So does this help you now that you were in that show and that shows a popular show, So that'll help you get other gigs? Is that how it works?

So it doesn't really matter, I hope. So. I mean I've had I've had other auditions with him or for his projects. Um so at least it keeps me kind of in the pipeline, per se. I don't know. Barry writes, also he says he writes and says, I have to agree with Chris from Houston. Something is definitely up with your microphone. It sounds hollow, but only at the beginning of you speaking. It's very strange. Yeah, I don't know.

I have a four hundred dollar microphone. I have. I spent a ship ton of of money to build out the podcast studio. I had a professional radio engineer, Jake Warner, who's the engineer for the Los Angeles Clippers and the l A. King's former engineer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, former Stay Away with Jake, engineer on the Ben Maller Show, who works for podcast one in here putting this together. So there's nothing else I can do. I mean, I have pulled out, I spent up. I pulled out my wallet,

I dusted off my wallet. I got all the right cables, I got everything connected where it needs to be, and I'm using the same microphones that the top broadcasters used. There's nothing more I can do. So we'll do a few more because I know you've gotta run gascon greg from West st Paul says, Ben and David, what was the first movie you went to as a kid, Well, the first one I remember was being online for I

think it was The Empire Strikes Back. Uh. And I also remember seeing the Muppet movies when I'm old though, guest guy, what about you? Wait? So, did you see those at home? Or did you see those in the theater? Oh? In the theater? No? My mom, My mom was the coolest mom. And I always tell you know, guys and gals with kids, you know, I don't remember much about my youth. There's a few things. You get old, you

don't remember a lot of stuff. But I remember how cool it was my mom pulled me out of school to see the thing. It was The Empire Strikes Back, And we waited online, got the big bucket of popcorn and candy and all that, And I just remember how cool that was that she was willing to take us out of school and have a day with us to watch that movie because she knew we were into it.

My parents, my my parents were really strict back then. Um, so I couldn't see any kind of R rated movies except one day my my Godma there who's my mom's twin sister, snuck me out of the house and she brought me to go see Terminator. Two. So that was the first, and it was so good. Man, I'll never forget about the first movie I ever saw and that I loved that I could recall was first Bieler's Day Off. But yeah, it was. That was a very good movie.

I enjoyed that. That's I think that's still kinda stands up. That's that's scene at Wrigley Field. That was awesome. It's so good. It's so good. But yeah, Term Martor two was great. I think that movie is timeless too. I feel like it stands up as well. Yeah, that's pretty pretty cool. J Bone from Portland, Maine, it's been I love your vocabulary worth Thank you, Jy Bone. Can you email me or can you not email me? But can you email my old teachers at Northwood Elementary School and

where else? Uh? Uh? Sierra Vista and some other places I went there because they if they knew that I was using big words, uh, they would they would be gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked. But J Bone says, I use red herring, weasel word, third wheel and others when I am debating someone, uh you know something with my my lovely girlfriend. J Bone says, it has been great. She has no idea where I'm getting this from, and it has been a game changer. I find myself winning sometimes other than on

air disagreements. Do you find yourself using these? Keep them coming only occasionally, j Bone. I'll tell you why, because I have noticed when I get into a disagreement. I don't disagree with my wife on much, but every once in a while any relationship, there's gonna be occasional disagreements, and so I'll start using some of that stuff. I'll say that's a red herring that has nothing to do with what we're talking about, and she'll get piste and uh,

and that'll make things worse. So I have to be selective in that those things you really work better when I'm just debating a sports issue then something more serious. But I do use a lot of that stuff. I feel like you need I feel like you should amplify your use of of Latin. I feel like the Latin is really the Latin is beautiful. Man, you want more? I like pig Latin x nay on the x nay or whatever I say there. I can't even get at. The one I like is when the legend becomes the

fact the man who shot liberty valance. When the legend comes the fact, you go with the legend. I had not seen that until my dad showed me that scene. It's a great scene, right, I was like, I heard that. I read that. Yeah, that is outstanding. That sums up life, That sums up all of life. A lot of what we repeat is bullshit. But when the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend, and people just keep repeating bullshit.

That's what happens. Greg and Iowa write, since this we're both you and Gascon, gas Can Gagon or whoever is working with you this weekend, Ben, what are your thoughts on your buddy William Shatton are going into space? Would you like to travel to space? Well, somebody paid for me to travel to space, paid my way. I think it would be amazing to see what's out there, which is a whole lot enough that at least what we can see. And I'm happy for William Shatner, he's ninety

years old. It's one of the great accomplishments of my career. Guestcon, I've never won an award, never been recognized really for anything. I didn't make a top twenty list on a Consultant's list last year for broadcasters. Yeah, you could say that, but whatever. I'm happy to be on there. I don't know how I ended up on that list, but uh, William Shatner, the Mallard Militia, the upstart Mallar Militia beating the Trek eas amazing. We lost a lot of good

Foot soldiers in that battle. We had a cyber warfare situation, the Mallard Militia versus the Trek E's and Bill Shatner, and we won. William Shatterer had blocked me, He blocked everyone on the show. Somebody paid hundreds of dollars to Bill Shatner to unblock me. And it was a trekky. It was a Star Trek It wasn't a Mallar Militia person. It was a Star Trek fan that doesn't even know the show, but was so upset with the Mallar Militia fighting with the Trek E's he paid the bounty and

William Shatner unblocked me. So luck man at Night he's the older How crazy is that guestcon Like, who's gonna break that record? He's gonna be ninety years old in space here he really will be Captain kirk Man. Yeah, James Tiberius kirk Good for him. Is he gonna take one of his horses up there? He loves horse. Terry in England says, hey, Ben, can you tell us the timing of the radio show podcast being posted? Sometimes they are not available for four or five hours after the

show ends. That's a terry in England. You really have to check with the coop the loop. Typically Justin does it right away after the show, and when he's not there, we will have others. Occasionally I will tell you, Terry, with the I Heart app, it's down for maintenance from time to time and nothing can be posted. So that's that's at the corporate level and there's nothing we can do about that. And that has happened multiple times over the years, and every single time, Guest gone, I wake up.

Twitter is ripping me, Email is ripping me. Hey, asshole, where's the podcast? Fuck you? And I have nothing to do with any of that. Yeah, And then certain days I'll get a text message from you passing the buck. Oh yeah, uh, We've not had too many problems recently. Are you out of time? Guest? Can? I don't want to keep you a few if you got a get a run of you have time for a few more. You want to do a couple more? Yeah, I can do a couple more. I spent like an hour. We

spent hour on a food court. So I know, I know the alienal Piner eight pages. I know. I thought, well, this is I thought Springfield, you know, kind of a small smaller city, midsize city in Massachusetts. They just have one page. But no, they had eight pages of food. Man, I might have to fly back and hang out with Pierre and you know, Alfhi alienal Piner and wander around. That's awesome. I can go look at the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where Mffett McGraw is inshriuged. It's a

hell of a way to breaker fast. Oh god, And you know what's gonna happen here? Gah, I have I'm working on a seventy two hour fast. Okay, seventy two hour. Let me check my phone. I'm gonna go to the phone right now. Hold a second, I'm going on the phone. It's in the bag. If they see that as playing, yeah, I just I turned the phone on that plate right away. I'm sorry. Ohio, all it's it was on my phone.

Let me check. What do you what do you think I'm at right now as I'm doing this, I'm at seventy one hours and fifty five minutes, so I'm five minutes away from at the seventy two hour three day fast. You can see that, guess put that up to the camera there. That's kind of cool. Yeah, so I've got get another five minutes so that means I can eat like a freaking pig all weekend. Right, I might have to go to Raising Caines. Our kitchen's not done. I thought it was gonna be done. It was supposed to

be done. It's not done. Still, it's not that I'm pissed about that. Kevin and Kansas unless I am Kevin in Kansas right since says hey, Ben and David, with Halloween coming soon, at what age did you both stop tricker treaty and what was your favorite treat or treats? I don't remember the exact age. I was like, let junior high, right around junior high when you just wanted to go out and hang out and destroy pumpkins with your friends. Around that age, you're a total asshole. And

then other than that, my favorite go to candy. When I was a fat kid were Baby Ruth and Butterfinger with a Snickers. Those are the big three. And then as I grew I'm matured and I love the Reese's Peanut, butter Cup and the Peanut eminem Ye, what about you. I'm right there with you, the Reese's Pieces, Twigs, kit Kat and of course Eminem's. Yeah. The great thing about the hallow and seven seven grand seven grounds good too. Yeah,

it's not bad. The cool thing about Halloween when you pill up, when you fill up your pillow case, you get a little bit everything. It's a medleaf in the mouth, right, it's get a little bit of this, a little bit of that. You mix in some hard candy as well. My mom would never let me have the lollipops though she was convinced she watched the TV news that somebody put a razor blade or poisoned the lolly. You know what what I would do is I'd start the trigger

cheating at my grandmother's house. And before we left, she actually gave us um carmel covered apples with nuts on him. Yeah, and those were always Yeah, that's a good start. My mom. One of the great moms of all time. What she did for me every year, even when I was like, you know, I was in an old fart, you know, I was in my thirties, and she knew I loved Baby Ruth and Butterfinger, so she'd be at the store.

She'd buy a bag of Baby Hooth and Butterfinger. So I'd always get Fatty again around Halloween because my mom would hook me up with these bags, you know, every year. And I can't remember the last time I had a Baby Ruth or a Butterfinger. She passed away a few years ago. I mean, every year, even after I kind of moved on to other candy. My mom knew that Fat Benny loved Baby Ruth in butterfinger, you'd still buy

me that. It was really cool. Nestly Crunch too. I can't believe I left out in Nestly cry And that's a good one. Nestle Crunch is a good one. That's a that's can't miss. Nestley Crunch cannot What about like the hard candy, like the lemon the lemon ones, lemon drops not bad. My wife loves the sour patch is that what they call? Yeah, she likes those. She loves gummy worms. Gummy worms are solid. We have a little in the pantry when you come to the Mattler Mansion

guestcount if it ever gets done. Here we have my section, which is mostly the chocolate. I like when I cheat, I like to have my chocolate. I like the chocolate covered um what was it? Almonds? I love those peanut Eminem's got some of that stuff. But then my wife's section is the gummy worms, the you know that kind of stuff. So she's got olive her candy right there. Ricardo from Fresno says, I think this is where we've had Also, he says, Ben and Coast, if you could

move anywhere, where would you moved? We we get that question a lot. Yeah, yeah, I think we've already answered that a bunch. Why don't we leave on this question from r J says, with the holidays coming up, what are your favorite meals to eat during the holidays that you're looking forward to? This is an obvious one, what especially during Thanksgiving since we're kind of next to it. They go to whether you're having turkey or ham as, you have to make it into a sandwich with Hawaiian

bread kings. Hawaiian is clutch. Yeah, you know, I really haven't done Thanksgiving in the last you know, decade, you know, since the since the mom passed away. I really haven't. I'll visit occasionally thanks even, but I don't know a traditional Thanksgiving because I usually work on Thanksgiving. My wife she works at the police station, so she's working, so we usually work. We don't really have it, but they're you're right. I don't even really like turkey all that

much on Thanksgiving. The next couple of days, Oh cold turkey sandwich, mayonnaise slopped all over whatever topping you want to put, honey mustard. Sometimes I'll put that on top bag of fried doos or some kind of potato chip. Oh god, yeah, man, I'm hungry. Yeah. Other than that, there was some traditional Hanaka food that again a lot of stuff I haven't had, like, so I'm not gonna eat it. So like lacas, which are just fried potatoes, and the jelly donuts, which are always big. I love

a good jelly donut. That kind of stuff. Which is the reason you love those things, right is you? They you flash back to your youth, right, you flashback to when you were a kid having that kind of stuff. Anyway, anything to promote, guessco on anything at all you'd like to promote here? No, I mean unless you want to promote the the audio book that I sent you via text message. That would be, That would be would be fantastic. I've not been looking at my audiobook here their text messages.

Oh what is this? What is this? What? Vernon news? Good? Mountain Vernon news out of Ohio? What's up? It? Says? Mount Vernon resident Jared McCann, in collaboration with Fox Sports broadcaster David Gascon, recently released his second audio book, The Dead Will Rise? What is this? Gascon? That's good? Look your photos in here? That's from the YouTube. Who is am? I know who Jared McCann is. He's he's just an author. No, he's just an author from a small town in Ohio.

And how does one do this? How do you end up doing an audio book for ace an author from Ohio? Well, I auditioned for his first book on on audible through UH through Amazon, and he likes he like it, says The Dead Will Rise audiobook is available now through Audible, Amazon and iTunes. How much does that cost? Because I know certain women who are your your fan girls. I'm sure they will buy the audio book. That's like Gascon Voice porn to have you an audio book The Dead

Will Ride. Oh my god, that's craziness. That's pretty awesome. Man. Um, it's a good question. I don't know. I haven't been on there, but I put a coupon code on my Instagram account at Dave Gascon. But I mean it's not expensive, no, because he handles obviously all the royalties and that stuff because it's it's his audio book. So um, you can shaped flat fees and things like that. And uh and yeah, I do. Who cares. Money is not an option? We're listening to something as juicy as that. I was going

to sign up for Audible. I think it's a pretty cool service, but it's rather expensive. I didn't realize how expensive it was, and I'm pretty cheap, right, Well, then you have to Yeah, when I signed up, it's it's a there's a rate, but then you have to pay extra for the books. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah,

it's not unless they changed it. But I remember reading and it was like the way it works, you sign up, there's a monthly fee, and you sign up and you have to purchase the books also, so yeah, unless they changed it. This was a while back, so maybe they changed it, but I swear I remember. That's why I didn't do it, because I'm like, well, pay a flat fee. I should be able to get what any any book I want from any genre and I can have multiple books on my phone at the same time. But no,

that's weak. If I if I write a book, yes, and some people have been talking to me about writing a book about my radio career. If I write a book, do I have to do the audio books? Some people said I should have Marcel and Brooklyn duty. We're hollering James to the audio books. Oh man, it's not good. Probably not. Marcel is fascinated to me. I know he's got a few issues. I love that he's part of the show. We treat everyone, whether you've got issues or not.

We treat you all the same. We goofon you, we bust your balls. And Marcel loves being on the show. The other night though on Friday, right, he's morning. When I asked him a question, his answer about the Mallard The Mallard, what's the name of the podcast? The spinoff? You've been Have you been on that Roxanne. It's uh,

what's it coffeem begetting the name again? It's not is it Mallard Time or Mallard Town, Mallar Town, right, yeah, yeah, with our friend from Australia, the Ausi guy and Queen Roxanne, and they have I have no skin in the game. You people have told me I need money from Listen. It's just I'm sure that they're doing well. I'm glad they're promoting the show the way I look at it until my corporate overloads and not as I told. I believe it was our friend the Ozzi guys said, Listen,

I'm fine with it. Sometimes the people at the company get upset about this stuff, but they're not using the company logo. They're just using my name, and I'm for now, I'm I'm fine with it. So now if they start getting they start making more money than we're making, guestcount, I might have a problem with it. I think it's just a labor of love. I think they're just doing it. They're fans of the show, Queen Rocksann and and they're they're just going for it. So I think that's that's it. Anyway, Uh,

and catch me tonight. I'll be back after that Big Bills Chiefs game eleven PM Sunday night in the West, three A, three am, two am. What am I doing? Two am in the East. Holy crap, I've gotten no sleep to the last couple of days. Not that I'm complaining, Not that I'm complaining, But we will be back in the Magic Radio box. And I thank you guests for for showing up to the Sunday mail bag. I'm glad you you made it to Sunday. Now will be next weekend? Will you be on all three? How's this gonna work

next weekend? Do we know? It's a good question. I don't know. To be continued alright, anyway, have a great weekend what left of it? And that we'll catch you there.