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cost you a penny. There's a few commercials. That's it, and it's as sweetest honey, at least when I'm here and joined by West of the four oh five David Gascot, I'm on Garden time or Poking time. You're on Gascon time. You know my My call times change, Uh, you know they go really when you feel about it, when you when you like showing up, you'll show up. And we have a certain call time we record the podcast. I'm there with bells go, I'm on Lombardi time. Do you

recall it? Two weeks ago you were a no show when I interviewed Ryan Harris that was technical difficulty. Would have been there, technical difficult was a live show for you? Money through Friday? Would you've come You would have come into the studio and changed things around. But priory, as I guess, uh So, here's the deal. We are here, it's the it's the mail bag, and this is my favorite podcast. And it's gonna be a smaller mail bag because of you, guest, because we're on guest on time.

I showed a fifteen minutes early. You were forty five minutes late. So forty five minutes, five minutes late. Listen. You had a fanboy tweet a picture to me two days ago, three days ago with a fucking Tomahawks steak daunting me. That's right, it's not it's not really appreciated. As we come into the Sunday Sunday sudden enjoyed that steak. Let's get to the mailback note, Debbie Dawling, I want to get as many listener questions on as we can.

Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts, just down the street from the Pro Basketball of Fame, where Muffett McGraw isn'trined a great fan of the show, he says, been it is very well known that you're coaching tree is immense and quite impressive. I don't want to jinx anything, but now that Mr Gascon has replaced pit Poll as Mr Worldwide, how long before you begin the search for his replacement. It's already started here between all of the acting gigs and job

opportunities in China and Germany. I'm afraid that David is burning the candle at both ends and has no time for a social life, but feels obligated to crank out such high quality podcast on a weekly basis. However the outcome, Please, whatever the outcome, he says, please don't let Mr Quaker Oates on the podcast. You have to rename it the fifth, sixth and seventh Doar with Ben Maller and Ned Plane. No. Yeah, well we have not made that phone call. I don't

know if you've never made that phone call. I don't know that's ever gonna happen there. I don't think we have to worry about that. Yeah, I mean, I'll have the saga on every week. I'll get leeklined back. Jerry Callahan, Mike North will roll through, hack Saw Hamilton's will bring them all back. My goodness. Uh, let's see here, Uh. Now, I guess is it true that you're burning the candle at both ends here, that you have no time and you should really take a step back. I am, I'm

I'm working hard though. You'd be proud of me. I just finished shooting a web series a couple of days ago, doing the German Games. I got spain and in Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Froy got root swaf, I got poland on deck. Um. Yeah, I got some things in the mix. Oh and I might have something for us at the end of July. Dum. Where are we going Hawaii? What do we Vegas? Vegas? It's let me know. He's been teasing me with this

whole Vegas thing. You know, I love Vegas. We should have a Millard Meet and greet in Vegas and you can be part of We can have like a podcast meet and greet. Would you how would you handle that? Guescom? Would you be okay? Meeting the people? Flash with the people. But I like going to the MGM. What's your favorite hotel out there? I'll go anywhere they give me a deal.

I don't I like the MGM. The problem is when you get one of those deals at the MGM, you're at the end of those massive hallways and it's like a forty five minute walk to get to the elevator. And I always hate that. Uh uh. Vahid Habib from Saints Country, Ne Orleans says, how long and where was both of your vacations? Myself, he said, he took two months in Europe. He's a originally landing in Bosnia and then traveling around Europe. Originally I am Bosnian, he says,

and living in New Orleans since twenty two. That's pretty cool. Ian languages he speaks. He does not say here. He says, have a safe summer, that's all. That's really cool that you were able to take two months in Europe. I've never felt comfortable being in radio. Everyone in radio is very paranoid, and I've never felt that I can take

that much time off. And even like this year, at the end of the year, I take my I usually save up all my time to the end of the year, like between Christmas and New Year's and then usually a few days before Christmas, i'm I'm not around, and then I come back a few days after the New year starts. But this year, my my father passed away, so I had to take an extra like week off to take care of all that stuff, and I felt soul like out of sorts. When I came back, I was like, oh, man,

I can't imagine taking too much. It would be awesome if I could, though. But my last trip, I went to San Louis Obispo, Central California, the Hearst cat astle Morro Bay, San Simeon the central coast of California, which is great off the grade away from humanity and and I loved it. What about you, guess? Yeah, my last vacation were selebrate one of my good friends forty birthday and my other buddy Patrick and I. I went to

London by myself. I went from London to Paris, and then I met Patrick in Amsterdam, and then all three of us met in Barcelona and then Porto, Portugal, So five countries in a two week period. It was awesome. But I mean, I don't know if I could do two months, but at least a month in Europe would be fucking amazing. Training it and um backpack and I'd be fantastic. But yeah, I mean, I guess, have you

been to Israel? No, I've never been to Israel. I have my I have family there, and my cousin actually runs a restaurant in Tel Aviv in Israel Jerusalem. I believe it's an American theme restaurant. He grew up in l A and he's lived in Israel for probably thirty years or something like that. I don't know my family. Oh, you gotta go to Israel, man, I don't know. I don't know. I mean I have at some point. I'd

like to. I'd like to get there um when I start traveling, but I don't know who knows if that's ever gonna happen. You know, way things are going. They keep paying me when I'm they're paying me. Guest, I'm gonna keep working here and not travels. I'm just saying, but maybe this podcast will take off, Guest, I won't get the big Yeah. All right, let's see here Kyrie and Okay, see writes and says, dear Moneyball Mallard, Hey,

big man. Is it bad that I do a fifty fifty split on answering that I listened to a sports podcast, or say I listened to Ben Maller The Goat podcast about that the goat called me the goat. The real question is who is your biggest influence, Kyrie says, into being a radio gas bag. Uh, well, I've I've I've used that. You know, I've been asked that before. Kyrie and I always go Jim Healy. But I listened to

I listened. I listened to Howard Stern when he was in his prime, before he became a Mr. Softie in his older age there and went woke. But I had fond mermaids of the Howard Stern Show listening to that. Jim Healy was an influence. Haxaw Hamilton's Joe McDonald, some of the people that I listened to, uh in l A when I was when I was growing up. Uh what announcer radio personnel? Well, Jim he I just I gave the name. Uh. He says, what was the moment

you knew that you wanted to be a sports broadcaster? Well, that would be one of my sports career. My playing career ended and I realized I was not going to make the big leagues or the NFL or the NBA. He says. Always much love to you and gas Can. That's from Kyrie, big fan there in Oksey. Thank you, Kyrie, appreciate that Carlos in Houston, Texas bank bye, he says, was one of the reasons is that you moved from the Mallard mansion because Doc Mike finally found out where

you live. No, but I did get a very stockersh email from blind Scott when I moved, and blind Scott sent me a message and he said he like a like a a serial killer. He then said, well, you moved out of blank he named the city that I live in. How do you find that out? And then he said, well when you finally move again, I'll find out where you live. Then. Also a fucking second, right, what a nut job? What an absolute nut job? I can I know? I had a Oh man, let miss

hold on second. Here I got I gotta go to my bag email here. This is a different email. So this is guy Marked, a full name guy who sent a much of anti Semitic racist stuff. So I blocked Mark, the full name guy he used to call the show. He's banned from the show now. But he sent me a stoker ish threatening email. Uh, let me see if I can find it here. There you go, page down. That's good. Uh, I mean, he's just like he's turned to email because I should block his email address. No,

you can't do that. Let's see here. I'm trying to find it because he was very threatening here, so you can't read that one on the air. Ah. It was like he knew people and some hold on, Uh, let's see what here? Oh, here it is. 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. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. He says, this is from Mark.

He says, it is very possible that some crazy assholes are still waiting around where you live and where I was living, sleeper cells with dangerous bosses and dangerous information. And so I am telling you do not piss me off with something that damn stupid. Again. Does that not sound like it's threatening? Does that not sound like he's threatening to violence against me? That's how I took it.

I mean, there's a stack of these emails. You you have reached celebrity status, though you're not a celebrity until you start getting threats like that. I've been getting these for years, but this this guy is off. I don't mean from like Arizon or like Texas reporters. I mean from like fam boys. Oh no, I've had that. I mean that's been uh stay but anyway, Um no, Carlos, I did not move because people found out where I live. He says, also did the Rockets dodgy bullet by not

trading James Harden for Ben Simmons. I'm gonna go No, Ben Simmons sucks, but he's still better than what a Rockets got in return for James Harden. And he says, what are the pros and cons of interminute fasting? I really want to start by my wife is if he about it? Uh, well, there's going to be in a learning curve when you start this. It takes a little time to kind of get used to it. Like anything, It's gonna take like a month or a couple of

months before it just becomes second nature to you. But for me, in my experience, I'm part of the coult of interminute fasting. Uh. It allows me, when I eat, which is not very often, to eat whatever the hell I want. Pretty much, you don't have as big an appetite because your stomach kind of shrinks a little bit. And it's really for me, not that I know some people have a problem with it. But I'll just drink

a lot of water. I don't fast and not drink water, so I'll just fill my stomach with water, so I have in my mind my stomach is full. It's not. And I've been able to keep the weight off and lose even more weight. So for me, it's it's works. But I mean there are issues when you fast, you have a long fast, I'll go um. Lately, I've been mostly doing forty fast and when you do fast for forty eight hours or longer and you eat something, I think this might because of my gall bladder, but you

just immediately you have to exit. There's an exit plan right away for me. But I think that's more gall bladder related. Now you've been doing the fasting guests gun, yeah, I think there's an improved improved I guess sense of urgency. I know the energy like is drastically increased. I sleep better, I don't have a brain fogg during the day. Um, when I speak sometimes I get a lazy tongue. That's just because I eat a lot, or I just eat shitty food. So when I don't and I fast, I'm sharp. Um.

And then yeah, reduction of weight. I don't feel bloated or full anymore. And then um, like the ideas you want to get to a top of which is a state where you're your old cells are recycled out and new cells are in. That's where you get to when you hit forty eight hours, so in six and eight two hours. It also teaches you, hey, like, you don't need you don't need all kinds of food in your

system to function throughout the day. If you're keeping yourself busy, drinking water, staying hydrated, and you know, exercising a little bit, it goes a long way for you. Yeah, it's it's it's it's for me. It's the way to go. But to each of their own, there's other people who want to eat, you know, cut their calaries to a certain amount,

eat three meals, a little small like mouse meals. I'm like, man, just imagine that if you didn't, I mean, if you were fasting back in the day, you wouldn't have ate all that fast food when you're working the beats, Uh, I would always like I have to eat dinner and be like two in the morning. I got to eat dinner. You have to eat dinner or two in the morning. Barry and Nashville rites and he says, yo, yo, mob Benny, big news. The news is so big I wasn't able

to submit a question last week. It's that big Berry says. That's right, Raising canes is coming to Nashville. In big news, he says, I know you love them, so what should I expect? And what's the go to can't wait? That is from from Barry. Well, for me, it's the candy at combo, which is the biggest combo. A couple of life hacks for raising canes. You can get the bread toasted on both sides if you want, no cole slaw, extra fries, the way to go. Lemonades a little more expensive.

They tack on a little few extra cents worth it. Lemonades pretty good. The sauces outstanding. The sauce that comes with it. You can't get other sauces if you want. I don't recommend it, but they have honey mustard, and they have barbecue and some other stuff, but they the sauce, the cane sauce that they give you is outstanding, and it's it's far as far as fast food. It's the only fast food I really eat these days. I'll eat that every so often and I love it. And you're

guess you're a fan of canes as well. You appreciate prefer to have it when it's warm. Well, show up on time, show up when the when restaurants open, don't show up the restaurant's closed. Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia writes in he says, two things guys. First, Ben, did you get the hat that I sent? And David, did you ever think about going into law enforcement like your dad? Uh? He says, And I'll get you the shirts soon. I'm waiting for them to get more psyched. Well, yes, I'm

actually I'm holding it. Here's this big man. This is the a Salem Red Sox cap Single, a affiliate to the Boston Red Sox. Even if it's the Carolina League. It's a chance to play every day. That's from of course, Bull Durham. I hope it fits. Happy birthday your pile. Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Jason, I'm wearing the hat

right now. It is very cool. It's got the the S on it, and it's got kind of like designed a little bit like the Red Sox B but it's got the s instead obviously, and it's got the Red Sox logo on the side the socks, and then it says Salem Virginia, which is pretty cool. So I'm wearing that right now, and I thank you. I've added that to my hot my hat collection in and we are honoring not Rocky Mountain Virginia, but Salem, Virginia with this.

That's cool, So thank you. Kevin in Rockford, Illinois rights and he says next month is when I will make the pilgrimage to Colorado. Kevin says, I'm going to be hiking the tallest mountain in the state, named Mount Elbert, but I'm going to bring a petition with me to try and get the name change to Mount Mallard. Would you and guess God be the first to sign the petition? Absolutely please, let's make that happen. We'll get the mallinmotion. That sounds like a great that's a great bit for

the show. Kevin, put a petition up, We'll get a bunch of people to sign it. I think we're good for about seventeen people. We can get to sign that thing solid maybe over under. And when you're in Colorado, Kevin, make sure to stop by Oscar's truck stop in Lyman, Colorado, fifty nine miles east of Denver. Just can't. And you can have the Mallard Maneuver. That's Mark Makers, Mark whiskey, ginger ale, cherry juice and garnish. That is the Mallary

Maneuver in Lyman, Colorado. And if you're in Colorado, you've got eat at one of these sports book bar and grill locations, the original in Greenwood Village. There's multiple locations. You can have the Mallard breaded chicken sandwich. Alright, Mallard bread and chicken sandwich, hand battered chicken breast tossed in Frank's red hot sauce with lettuce, tomato and cheddar cheese. Now I would change that around a little bit, but

that's how they make the sandwich. Mallard's Bread and Chicken sandwich, bread and chicken sandwich, sports book bar and grill, and the Mallaw maneuver and Lyman, Colorado, fifty nine miles east from Dead Any food items for you guess? No, Right, Tom from Florida rights and he says, now that Bill Cosby is being released, would you all have a drink with him in a non public setting? You hang out with Bill Cosby dr Huxtable. Only o J is there too, you know, J. You shoot the ship with o J.

Does he still hang out at those bars in Vegas? Yeah? At the grand old time. Still getting that NFL pension. Get that pension coming in? Man, Well, Cosby has gotta be getting something from SAG right, I'm sure. And all the shows I have, they they've taken all the shows he was on off the air. I don't know he's doing. Okay, He's got houses in California and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, uh and and elsewhere. Uh well, yeah, if like nobody knew about it,

you might. I'm sure Cosby's got some amazing stories to tell. Right, who else? Do we have? Your Fred in Spring Texas says, how involved are you and Gascon with your alma maters? Um? Not at all. I did do a radio promo. I signed off on a radio promo or Saddleback College, but that was was it. I'd love to go back there and and do some stuff, but I have not at the opportunity. What about you know? Yeah, San Diego State would only contact me for money, That's how that works.

And then every time I had reached out to Northwestern about some kind of stuff that was sports related, they would always start passing me around other people. I just said, fuck it, I'm not even gonna worried about you guys. Yeah, so that you're not a big enough Yeah yeah. John from Omaha Rights and he says, been long time listening to the podcast. Since why does humanity make so much trash? It's completely disgusting. There has got to be big changes now,

don't you believe so? Uh? Yeah, I mean you'd like to think that, John, I'm not particularly optimistic that there's going to be a bunch of big, big changes. You get you think things are gonna dramatically change, although there is the ebb and flow where like stuff goes one direction and then eventually people get tired of that and then it goes back a different direction. So I do believe in that. I think that that, you know, things are not going to be as nuts so as they

are right now. Change, But how much they're going to change? Are we gonna get people gonna get tired of the local ROTI and all that. Well, we'll see. I think within the next five years we're going to see a massive, massive, overlord overlord. We're gone overlord overload of of states based on just their political allegiance. So if you're a Blue team, or you go to one state, if you're a Red team, or you go to another. Yeah, I mean, I guess the one state that could be the exception is Texas

because Austin. Austin is a very liberal. But you've had mass migration from California and New York to both Texas and Florida. But I know a lot of people that have gone to Idaho. I know a lot of people have gone to Arizona. Yeah, I know a lot of people that moved to But the problem is that often they bring their same bad political decisions to those states and they turn those states like California like people. That's

the big concern of people in Texas. These nut jobs from California gonna move to Texas and turn Texas into California and bring their their venom from California to Texas. Yeah, it's wild. I don't think Florida those in any day. I think Florida is big enough and there's enough, uh free spirits, But Florida could be in trouble if Rhn de Santis de sens to run for president, why would they be in trouble Because he's no longer obviously going

to be the governor, so he should run for president. Yeah, we'll see you be better than anyone else I know, Ron de Saint anyway, Queen Roxann, Right, since it's Ben and David, since you both are doing TV gigs, now, when can we expect you to to go big time? And will you remember the little people you met along the white No, I will not remember anyone. I will forget everyone. I will turn my back on all of you, throw your phone into the Pacific Ocean, end that none

of this ever happened. I will have my memory erased. I will take in a racer out, you know that the men in black. Yeah, put the glasses on. Put the glasses on, and then we are off to the races. Get that neuralizer, I don't get that neuralizer out and just you know, wipe the mind with a flash like that. Be wonderful. Who else? Kevin and Kansas says Ben and David. Both of you have great radio voices. Is this something you've always known or did you have to train to

get where you're at. Thanks and keep up the good work. Yours developed after you lost weight. My voice has changed drastically. When I started at sports radio, I sounded much different than they found now. But I was very young when I started at Fox Sports Radio. But I you know, the greatest comparisons like someone squeezing your voice box. M it was just fat and then all of the sudden. Guestcon's voice Kevin is a product of nicotine, a lot of cigarettes that he has smoked over the years that

has given him the voice that he is. I used to hear a golden folklore about broadcasters that would do that. They'd smoke and then drink whiskey in order to change their pipes. Yeah, well that's true. I've witnessed it. People really would go out and smoke, and yeah, what those You've never well, I guess you're younger than me, but yeah, I've never seen that. I've never even heard of that. You know, it does you have a much Smoking cigarettes is not good for you, but it doesn't prove your

voice for some people, that's crazy. I remember when I when I hit my gross spurt at fifteen, in school, you know, when they asked for participation in certain classes. Whenever I speak, my voice started croaking. I sound like a frog, and I was like, what the fun's wrong with me? You know? And then all of a sudden you go from that high pitched voice to too deep. So my dad has deep pipes. I don't know if your dad did. My dad his voice was was pretty good or not not the grace. He had a decent,

decent voice. What about your brothers? Do your brothers have similar voices to you? Um? No, no, I My voice is much different than my younger brother, and I think I sound more like my older brother a little bit. But I haven't really stopped and done like a analysis, just just from yeah, occasionally hearing them speak. Let's see Chris and Marracca to Iowa says, would you accept a minor role in a major movie if it involves tastefully

tasteful nudity? Yes? Of course, you've already admitted that. The couple in Florida pointed that out there supposed you the ones in diapers. Wow, you're so jealous that these people did their due diligence and to realize what's going on with you? That you are open to nudity in movies. Taking your shirt off is classified as nudity. Well you are okay with that? Of course, I'm okay. And you

have a big problem. You don't put a car cover on a Ferrari then, uh huh, yeah, you're you're very You have the issue with Helen, right, Helen and Stu and Palmetto Bay. You have a problem with him. There is some nice people from New York City that just hanging out New Yorkers. That says enough right there there they're Floridians right now. Of course you would No, I wouldn't if they paid, He says, here at the standard rate, why would I do that? I don't need you know

what the standard rate is for a day. I'm not doing it. It's not worth my time. Boy, you gotta pay me top dollar to see this body. She suck valls. Fan Jimmy writes in from Fayette Bill, Tennessee. He says, for both of you, do you own land do you do your own landscaping or do you hire it out? Well, Gascon, you don't do any of that, and I don't do any of it either. I have a a person we hired the gardener. We call him who does the landscape,

but they do. They do it for just like the block. No, well here where I'm living now, Yeah, but when when I move, I've had the gardener and all that, so yeah, but I do not do that. When I was a kid, I did it. We had the lawnmower and it's old metal lawnmower, not not electric or anything. That. That's the

worst thing about HIAS though. Like I know one of our colleagues, Mike Harmon, he lives in a pretty good part of town, but his HIA way doesn't include a lot of scene reward, and so you're always kind of curiously where does that money actually go? Yeah, well, yeah, I hate hys. I can't stand him, and I'll never live in one again once I move out here anyway. David in Toronto, last one, He says, your favorite two words in sports mine are sudden death. Sudden death. He says,

Canadians suck. Canadians suck. Why are you ripping these guys in Toronto? What is wrong with David? In? Toronto is a great town. Where you've been, I haven't been, but I'm not a fan of Toronto. Maple leaves and I'm definitely not a family of Montreal, Canadian, so they could both funck off. Wow, how about that? I like, Uh,

sports scandal, That's what I like. Those are my two favorite words because that provides great sports talk radio and he gives me content, whether it's Deshaun Watson, Trevor Bauer, you name it, if it's a scandal. Low hanging fruit, which is the sweetest fruit of them all, the low hanging fruit. Love it, leven leven, leve, leve, leve, love it, love it, love it. You can't get enough of it. Yeah, I don't point that out. It's good. Have you been in Toronto? I have not. I want to go. I

heard Toronto's awesome. I've been just south of there in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, which is about an hour and a half or an hour away from from Toronto, but I've not actually been to Toronto proper. But Buffalo is like a suburb. Isn't a suburb because you have Well, it's not a suburb unless you've jumped off a table onto a fire pit. And well, I'm merely pointing out I'm merely pointing out the reality that the Toronto Blue Jays are playing in Buffalo Buffalo Blue. Yeah, anyway, all right,

I'll give you a get out of here. All right. We're to get things to do, places to go, people to see that. So I have a great week. We'll be back on the radio. I know it's July fourth today, doing a podcast in July four, and I'll have a live show July four into July five, working. I am working, man of the people. I will be working with the fireworks going off, and you can catch that live show

tonight courtesy the l a p D. What's that? Courtesy of the l a p D. Yeah, exactly, with a good with fireworks, they are what could possibly go wrong? God forbid the people shoot off the fireworks. Let the police shoot off the fireworks. That they know what they're doing, Grid, Yeah, it can possibly. Anyway. I have a great rest of your day. Will catch you then and aloha. H 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. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific