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The mail back continues and it never ends, joined by the man from West of the fourth five. Now he I think you have to step out. You only have a few minutes here, Gascon. You have another assignment here that you have to get to. So we'll have you for the first part of this a mail bag and then I will carry the baton after that. But West of the four or five David Gascon making his way into the podcast as studio. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. I got some bad news. What's that you know? Like

when you can go to Costco? Will you do usually get your medicine at a Costco? Or do you go to a local pharmacy where do you go, Uh, well, we have through the insurance, I think my wife's insurance. We are with one of the big man. I wish we went to Costco, but no, we go to one of the big medical conglomerates. I promote them. I just got a bill that I might have to pay for two small little prescription medications eight hundred and ten dollars from Costco or what? No, just from my local pharmacy.

Like my did you contact your insurance and say, yeah, my insurance and issues said that they're not going to pick it up. Did you threaten to hire a lawyer? Deal? Kidding right, It's like, can I get some lube with this thing? Holy sh it? Eight hundred dollars plus? Well, typically you do, they tell you like, have to threaten a lawsuit, and then they'll be like, what, it's just cheaper to just pay the money. That's what I've heard.

I don't know. I've never had to do it, man, I might maybe be going the hippie route for for treatment. You're gonna go, Doc Mike and just drink your own urine, drink my own urine, bathing my own urine, uh, cook my own urine, and a microwave. Whatever should he does. Hey, listen, I am a little surprised, and speaking of the mail bag, this is a this is a turbulent week for you. I don't I don't know if I should do this

and not, but I'm going to. Since you're on the mailbag session of this weekend podcast, I think it got to publicly apologize, not only to Brian Fenley, but you might have to apologize to moving man Matt, like you took out a baton and a sledgehammer and a shovel and he decided to club all of them and then dig a ditch and put him into it. Uh no, I don't. You're a little saucy this week. I was, well, you know, it's retired. Well, I was a little tired.

I had to do some extra work, you know, and I did not really have much of a weekend sleeping. I've been I've moved, and they've been doing construction randomly during the day. I don't have air conditioning. I have a room airic conditioning, which doesn't really work as well as I would I would like him. It's good, but not really sleeping good. So I don't have blackout curtains up,

so all the comforts of life. That made me, uh, you know, kind of deal with a lot of the bull crap I don't currently have right now, but like like Moving Man Matt. I think I'm on the email that he said I didn't like your tone. I thought that. I don't think I was wrong, and I might have been wrong to call him a do She's a big fan, and I appreciate the fandom of Moving Man Matt. As far as Brian, I know, as a bunch of people emailing me asking me about that Kurf fluffle that took

place that rhubarb um. But Brian wanted to get into the ring, and when you get into the ring, and you've gotta you gotta make sure you don't punch outside your weight class, and and he made the mistake and and then you know, and then I'm the bad guy because he was the one pick in the fight, and uh, and then I engaged in him, and then I'm I'm the bully, which I don't. I don't think that's that's the kid. I like Brian, I I don't. I think he means well. And hopefully going forward we will we

will not have this issue again. But I've always had the philosophy, and I I had Brian's job, you know, years ago, I was a weekend anchor and I filled in. And you know, it's just the way I was taught that when you're in someone else's house, you don't piss all over the carpet. And so that's always how I Now. Some people leave, you should piss all over the carpet, but I I I was raised for not to do that.

And so, uh it bothers me when people come into to somebody else's house and uh, you know, try to ship on the kitchen floor. Well, you haven't been to San Francisco in a while, then I take it, Well, no, I have not, but that happens in l A two. So anywhere where the honorable governor overseas. Uh, I'll see you've had You've had all these elements. No sleep, no lighting or poor lighting, poor lighting, hungry, extra work, no weekends,

no kitchen, had a kitchen. Of course, I'll occasionally complain to my wife and say, you know, this is not She's how exciting everything is. He like, it's all excited about everything, And I'm like, you know, I'm not on that that picture. But I do have my ballot here. I'm holding my ballot in my my hand, and it's a very simple ballot, although it's very long living in

the state of California. There not question for you, and it says very simply, a shall Galvin Gavin Newsom be recalled removed from the office of governor and you can either vote yes or no. And then it has candidates to succeed Gavin Newsom as governor if he is recalled, and there are. I didn't realize how many people were running. I see Caitlin Jenner to some that we've heard of, Larry Elder, who we support. I think both of the

support Uh Angeline, Uh, he's running. It's some of these other people though, I don't know that Chauncey slim Killings, retired correctional offer officer. Um. Looking, I'm trying to see if any other names here. There's a lot of political hacks that I don't software engineers running major singh I think is the name. Yeah, I got a question for then, Yeah, so who did your parents vote for? Uh? Oh, my pace, Well, if if I don't we know, I don't know, I mean my dad did he he vote? That would be

that was something are dead people voting. You know that. Uh, I don't know. Man, Apparently that stuff does not happen. Well, I'm sure some of that that happens. Well, it depends on who wins. That's that will be Whoever whatever side loses will claim that there was there was fraud. I mean, doesn't matter anyway. Let's say like Larry Elder gets in, he's only gonna be the governor. Governor for fourteen months. Yeah, you can, you can do some stuff for four teen Yeah,

but the legislator is controlled by the Democrat. I think it's like democrats. So I don't know if he's be able to move a lot. At least you can try, yeah, you know, and at that point if you try, and and and one thing about Larry Elder, he's very he's a very good communicator from his years in broadcasting. He's very good at getting a message across. And so the theory would be that he could let people know that listen, this is I'm trying a B and C and X,

Y and Z is why this isn't happening. So if you want things to change, you then have to vote out these is of these country bumpkers, these other rubes that are supporting the nonsense that's going on. So and there are as you know, he's pointed. I don't know if he's blowing smoker, I but Elder has said that there are certain powers the governor has that you can use and get some actual change to kind of overstep the legislature if you choose to do it. So hey,

we'll see. We have a for a few emails with you, and then you gotta step out. So uh, this is Lord Goofa from Hooverville, USA, says for you and whatever co host it is, would you rather wake up in the in your underwear at work or wake up naked in the woods twenty miles from home? All right, so I'm gonna go first. Now, the answer for me is, uh, in my underwear at work, because I have a studio in the house I am in and I could be in my underwear at work. I could be in my

underwear right now and nobody would know it's radio. But if I had a job where I was around other people in a in an office environment, and I would rather be naked in the woods twenty miles from home, I think I would that would be preferable because I figured there's not many people out in the woods, and I think I could handle it. Okay, I get I get some some leaves or something. I'd be like Adam and Eve and get some leaves to cover my my private parts, my twig in berries. You know. Yeah, I'd

rather do that. Um. Part of the reason is if I'm in here, there's just certain people that like to talk a lot, and they feel like they can garner attention by you know, bringing that to the people who upstairs for what think so a little odd but yeah, I mean you have people that you know, try to take people's jobs and stuff like that. So might be some some snakes in the grass a little lot, a little odds. So yeah, I'd rather be in I'd rather be in Death Valley naked than than be here in

my underwear. Yeah, all right. Next next email, Rich rights in from Parts and Only says, will you ever switched to everyday podcast instead of the dying radio industry? Well, the radio industry is not dying, that's number one. It's

changed a lot. I will give you that. The problem the flaw with the podcast thing, and I this podcast does very well, but the percentage of the amount of podcasts that are available, and the percentage of people that listen to each podcast, it's I think we we got we saw some numbers on on one of the data websites. It's like there's only four or five of podcasts. I

don't even know if that numbers. Maybe I'm I'm that number is wrong as I understand it, though, it's like podcast people do no one listens, like we're lucky that this podcast has a following, and but it's because of the radio show rich Maybe people I I've been on radio and and I make a lot more money from radio than I do from the podcast. And there are some podcasts that do very well. Joe Rogan clearly has a lot of advertisers as very well. Dan Lebotard has

been able to monetize that. There's some former athletes that have deals with Fortune five hungry companies. But by and large, most of the people that do this content are not making what you think they're making. There's and and they'd love to do radio because radio and there's more people that listen to radio. It's hard for people to grasp that that even with all of the platforms, most people go what's convenient, and for a lot of people when

you're driving around. Even though you can listen to a podcast and cook hook it up to your your phone, a lot of people, I mean just turn on the radio and flip around the dial and see if I can find something to listen to, because it's just easier. It's just convenient and having to plug your phone in or connect the bluetooth and and then click click on the podcast page and then find the latest podcast that you want to listen to. So there's a lot of

work that goes into a podcast. We're on the radio, it's pretty simple. It's full proof. Whatever whoever whatever idiots in the radio box is on at the time, you're in the car, and you listen to him, and if you like him and I you flip the button you go to a different station. But uh, but no, I mean the podcast. At some point I have a feeling, well, I will just when when I'm done with radio and I want to just work. I have the podcast studio set up, so I'll just do that. But I love radio.

I love I love the the live reaction we get in radio. So what else? Pierre from Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, says, uh, we're Muffett McGraw's inshrine. Ben. Now that you dropped the cartoon anvil down on the head of Ned Flanders, should any other co workers be looking over their shoulder? It says, maybe someone on the the podcast. So he says, no, no, no, Pierre,

I don't know that that is the case. Uh. The most part, I'm mostly mellow, but every once in a while and someone hits my button, then I will explode into Mount Mallard a volcanic eruption co boom. But doesn't happen, though doesn't A few times a year that will happen, and usually it is directly related. There's a correlation between sleep schedule and uh you know have you know certain things go wrong, hey wire that are out of out

of my control, that drive me to the edge. So as long as those things don't happen, I'm pretty most of the time. Yeah. I remember I had a producer one time I had screamed at and I asked him, I said, would you rather me be a small asshole every day or pretty mellow and then every once in a while be a total asshole? Yeah? Yeah, he picked that. Yeah, So I try to no one's perv. I don't know anyone that never gets angry or upset and overreacts and uh,

you know, acts like an idiot and all that. I mean, I I I'm as guilty as anybody, but I try to I try to limit that. But you know, some points, Pierre, We're all fallible, right, We're all human, we all funk up. So anyway. Uh. Pierre also says, did you ever imagine a day where you would look forward to working with wreck itt Ralph compared to the other guy He looks like a regular George Michael and his sports machine. Yeah, you know, it was very odd this week. And you know,

record Ralph has been a rival. And I've known Ralph since I worked in San Diego back in the day million years ago. I was a young pup intern in San Diego and Ralph and I have been in the business side by side all these years later, and we always tell old stories about hacksaw and go back the old days. But um, yeah, I know, I I loved when I saw you know, Ralph on the schedule, and

it was it was it was a joy. Now this and there's things about Ralph that annoy me too, But overall compared to what we had earlier in the week, the hostile takeover. I'm I'm all about record Roup. I'm all about record row. Alright, the mail bag, back to it we go, Who is next? Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia. He says, big Bat. I thought you may have been a little tough on Brian, but it seems like you put him in his place as he sat there and sucked his thumb the rest

of the week. Do you feel like now whenever he fills in the twenty seven minute updates are finally over and I listen is a topic. We're gonna get a lot of questions in the mail bag about what happened? Uh? And do I think it's over? I think it's over for a while. I think it's over for a while. But what happened here, as we said, it was a

hostile takeover? And Brian thought that I would just sit there and take incoming incoming weapons, uh torpedoes being directed at me, and uh, I said, you know, I said, well, surprise, motherfucker. I'm not in the mood to do that. And then I had to go nuclear. I had to go down the nuclear option. And you heard what happened during the radio show at the beginning of of Eddie Garcia's a vacation week, and so it ended up where Brian had to make a hasty retreat to the corner. And hate

when that hate when that happens. So keep in mind though. One of the issues that we have with the overnight is we have a fair amount of anchors, but as I understand it, what I've heard through the grapevine is a number of them are not interested, are not interested in working the overnight hours. And it is a tough schedule. The shift is not for everyone. You've got to have

some hair on your chest. And two stopsterman. Anybody that works the overnight any job, whether you're in radio or not, it can be a grind and it's not for everybody. And so we only have a few people that are willing willing to do it. Uh and uh. And so it's a short list. It's a shortlist. Whose who else is on the email? Jennifer Enrichmond, Virginia says Hi, Ben and other guy. If you were taking a stroll on a path through the woods and came across a large

oak tree, swarming with bees? What would you do? Jennifer writes, if more than one he started attacking and stinging as you proceeded to run like the wind, how else would you get them off of you? Would you roll on the ground, jump in the nearby creek, cuss them off? I really want to know, says Jennifer. That's a great question. This is a unique question, Jennifer, and I want to thank you for that, because I don't think we've ever

gotten this question. And you know, a lot of times the questions all kind of sound the scene after a while, but listen to good job by you. The crowd goes wild for you, Jennifer. That, uh, this is the anque question. So if I am strolling on a path through the woods and I come across a large oak tree swarming with bees, uh, of the options you laid out, I would choose to jump in the creek. I think rolling on the ground you would likely end up rolling on

some bees. You'd end up getting stung stung that way, so I don't think that would be the way to go. Uh. And I'm pretty confident that bees don't mind bad language, that you can curse and bees won't really care so all the options you laid out, I'm saying, what else Off the top of my head, you you could do. I guess you could take a if you could do

it quick enough. A branch or is Adrian Pearson said, back into a switch, Uh, you know, and you could take that switch and start whacking away like your you know, whoever your favorite baseball player is, and just just go for it an attempt to knock that you know what out of out of the bees. I mean that that would be the other option, but that you've gotta be quick enough, and you've got to get a branch that

can be like a Louisville slugger. And if you fail, if you fail to do that quick enough, well that will not end. That will not end well. So the bees. It will not be the bee's knees. It will be the bees. Dinner will be with That is all right? What is next here? Ronnie Date from Casey says, would you ever consider doing a fifth hour podcast with some of the lame jokes you're not allowed to read on the Mallard Show. Well, Ronnie, we get this question a lot.

I think we've answered in the past, but let me be very clear and to the point. I would love to do that, but there are long term ramifications. The Wokesters have no sense of humor. Life would be so much better for all of us if people could just laugh and and have fun and have a good time and not everything has to be the most offensive thing in the world. Not everything has to be the worst

thing in the world. Uh. And but the problem, Ronnie, and I'll give you the Jeopardy answer to you and to the other people, I'm sure we'll continue to answer this question, or send the question and ask me to answer the question. So the the guy that was going

to be the Jeopardy host. One of the things that took him down other than the fact that he was asked to nate to I'm the next Jeopardy host and just named himself, which takes a hell of a lot of hutzpah, but the guy also had a bunch of old podcasts that were comedy podcast where he was doing comedy and it was, as I remember as racial stuff I believe it was, and people were holding that against him and saying that this guy can't host Jeopardy because he did a podcast where he he did some comedy

and it was offensive comedy that's the problem. Like the jokes, many of the jokes we don't read are tremendously racist to the wokesters. Uh, they're they're sexist, right, you know, the usual, the usual stuff that gets people in trouble, and so we have to avoid that. And if I read them on the podcast, they'd be great, you'd laugh your ass off. We they're funny jokes, they're good jokes, the kind of jokes I grew up on listening to and some of my favorite comedians did that kind of comedy.

And but now if it's my name reading the jokes, then all of a sudden, it's not gonna affect me now per se. But you know, someday, if I have to leave Fox Sports Radio and I want to go work somewhere else, and and it's a it's a high profile job, people will go back and start snooping around, try to tear you down and see if they can find any kind of mistake, right, any kind of mistake there.

And if they find it, they'll be like, yeah, they'll be so excited, right, they'll be like, that is great, we found something and we've we've gotten So you always have to be on the defensive Yeah, Yeah, you gotta play defense. You do even on a podcast. All right, Lee in Phoenix, right, since says Ben. By the way, guesscon had to step out. Lee, so you're you're not going to get Guestscon here uh ripping you and taking time out of his schedule to uh to assault you.

Uh he's busy anyway, Lie, says Ben. I just went to a Guns and Roses concerts. So my question is are you a fan of rock, of a rock band or do you have any experience on going to a rock concert? Lee, I've never been to a real rock concert, never lived that. Life has not done it. Um, And I do like rock. My I don't have the music gene per say. I like music. I'm a big Johnny

Cash fan. That really resonates with me. Johnny Cash. I listen to him more than anybody some of you know, all this stuff's obviously been gone for a while, so it's old stuff. Johnny Cash. I like that. And I have a very eclectic taste. My my wife bust my balls all the time because I when I listen to music, I don't really listen to the actual lyrics. It's more the rhythm and if I like the rhythm. I can

listen to some really dumb songs. When you actually listen to the lyrics and read the lyrics, it's like, holy crap, I can't believe I like that. But I'd like the rhythm. I enjoy the rhythm and and so that's that's what I went too. But I've never been to a rock a rock concert. I would like to do that. The schedule I have is not not generally a kind of

going going to concerts. Queen Roxanne writes in and she had a question about Benny versus the penny, But this is the Sunday podcast and she's still asking bad job by you. She also wanted to know can we release the podcast a little earlier so she can listen and everyone else can listen before the NFL games begin. Yes, we started that. You can thank Adrian in Denver. I believe it was Adrian who said, hey, can you put the podcast up earlier? So we start the podcast? It

is available to download. I forget. I think it's like, I want to say, four am Pacific, seven am in the East, so you're in the Mountain time zone, Queen Roxanne in Colorado. So that would be if Mallard math is correct. Uh, five am, that should be early enough. You've got like a five hour window before the five hour I think I have a five hour window before the game's kickoff. They said there would be no math.

They said there would be no math, and she she also put in here there there was a heart heart emoji thing here for for Gagon, which is I was offended by that that you gave him the hard eyes and I didn't get the hard eyes you gave those two guests on Blind Emmett one of our favorites. This kid's studies in high school. Man, this guy's one of the great callers in the show and he's only in high school. Imagine how good he's gonna be when he

reaches his calling prime. When is your talk radio calling prime? That might not be till your fifties or sixties. I mean, I got guys that are in their seventies that are calling the show. They've been calling the show since they were in their forties, So I actually guess not fourties, fifties, but crazy anyway. Blind Emmett the Seahawk fan and Olympia Washington going back to school now, he says, what's the craziest food combo, you guys have had so so at first of I don't do a lot of craziness on

the food. I don't know when I was in high school. Uh, you know, and you'll experience this. I'm sure it's not different people. Society changes, but people are generally the same. Uh. And you go out with your friends and you have you have a good time. And if you're at a restaurant. I remember said to McDonald's and one of the guys at the table said, hey, um, there was some food that was left in the McDonald's rapper there. It was

like a it was a quarter pounder. It wasn't a big mac, as I remember, And it was like a quarter of a big mac that was eaten by somebody on the table. And there were some some stuff. There was some sauce packets. Uh. There were some things that were like random fries and a few other things that had just been around the table. Uh. And then it was all like piled on top of each other, and they they added a bunch of other sauces. They mixed

all these McDonald's sauces together. And it doesn't sound that bad, I guess, but at the time, as I remember it it was like pretty disgusting the pile of stuff, and I thought I was like in the circus, you know, and it was it was a clown of a clown or something going on. But I did it. I ate it, and I got a couple of bucks out of it. I love a good food challenge. We've done food challenges on the show. We've had Cooper Loop will eat anything.

I had read one time that the person that invented uh petroleum jelly uh would eat that a spoonful of that every day. And thought that vasoline was the key to longevity, and we we looked it up online as I was safety to take vasoline, and so Cooper Loop, knowing that Coop is a garbage disposal, we had him. If you're new to the show, we had a listener actually came by with a little container of vasoline and we had a spoon we ou out of the kitchen and on the air, Coop ate a spoonful of a vasoline.

Not a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of vasoline, and we were all like, man, what are you doing? I mean, but he did it and he's still here, so you won't kill you. I don't know that it makes it live any longer. And then we also had a when Jay Moore was doing a show at fs ARE back in the day. He had some um food I forget, I forget the name. It was a hot dog place,

might have been that big hot dog chain. Anyway, they brought some hot dogs over and there was there were a couple of dogs that were sitting in the room, had been sitting in room all day. And as I remember, we were like, why can't him you know that bleeping hot dog and uh and you say that, but yeah, hot dog and it somehow he ended up on the air. It was like, well, Coop, would you do it? And how much money would it taken. We came up with

a I forget how much. It wasn't very much, and we all put some money in and Coop ate a hot dog that have been sitting around for um at least a day, maybe a couple of days. It might have been a couple of days. But he ate the hot dog. But that's not a combo Emmett. That's just one one food dish. Let's see Ozzy momentum. Ozzy momentum

very popular on social media. He writes in he says, have either of you watched any Australian rules football, not that garbage game rugby, our national sport, Ozzy rules football, and what are your thoughts? It's our religion down here, interested on your thoughts. Well, I'll give you my thoughts, Ozzie, and the other guys is not here, so it's it's just me now. I have not watched an entire AZZI rules football game. I'm not, so I'm not gonna sit here and say I have, and I don't watch it.

I watched paradically if it's on. I think Fox actually has the TV deal here in the States, and seen a bunch of clips on YouTube. And I know a few of the rules. I actually have. I have a list of rules here comparing it to American football, and it is much different. It's it's unique and the thing that I remember, I'm not a fan of it, so I don't don't confuse me as a fan. But if I was from Australia when in Australia, act like an Australian and I would. I would be into it if

I grew up with it. But there's so many players on the field. You've got two teams of twenty two players. There's eight teen players on the field at each time in these Aussie rules football, so you got three backups, there's one injury replacement, and you're only allowed a certain amount of substitutes, like conceivably in the NFL and the NBA, you can make as many substitutions as you want as long as they're in in the NFL before the next play, and you have to change players during time outs in

the NBA and all that. The field also this over over, you over over what I'm working Oval. That's the word, hello, dummy Oval. Yeah, I got that wrong. The Oval field, which is massive. It is two hundred in two yards by a hundred and sixty nine so it's two football fields by almost two football fields. So it's huge and it's it's oval shaped. The word I just screwed up. And it goes on Instead of sixty minutes, they go

eighty minutes because everything's different in Australia. As you know, Ozzie momentum and it really is football like you have to kick the ball through these middle. They have a bunch of posts and I guess the ones in the middle that's worth six points. But if you hit one of the goal posts and the ball is deflected, it's worth one point. And you can also get one point if you kick it between a long goal post and

a short goal posts. All this minutia, and like defensively, you you're allowed to block a kick, you can intercept it, you can push off, uh you know you can, you can. You know they can push you off the field. Players can push you around or tackle you by grabbing you below the shoulders a cord of the rules here that I've got pulling you to the field. But if they do tackle you, they are awarded a free kick from the spot of the tackle. So there there is that.

And you can go any direction backwards forwards. All of that nobody cares. And the one thing though, it's it's kind of like football that you have to bounce the odd shaped football or I guess it's called the football every fifteen meters, which is sixteen a little over sixteen yards for Americans that don't understand meters like most of us. And so that's that's a big difference. And throwing the ball is not a lot you have to it's only

the bounce pass. It's it's only the bounce pass. But they have this thing called the mark, which is a it's kind of the same same deal as a past, but you kick it and you can kick it like along like a punt in American football, and it has to go fifteen meters or more and if a teammate catches it without the ball bouncing on the ground, the player is then awarded a free kick from that spot. So that's like a big game changing play. Uh. And

you have ten seconds the key thing, the mark. If you get that, you have ten seconds like a free kick, and then there's one version we get thirty seconds, but I don't know how that works. And they have this thing called the specy where you're allowed to push anyone in the back, but if there's a marking contest and an opponent is standing in your way, you are allowed to use their back for elever. So I guess you're not allowed to push anyone in the backs what I

meant to say. And but if there's a marking con test, you are allowed to jump on them like a trampoline and catch the ball. And that's why we have some of those crazy highlights. Some of those wild and crazy highlights come from that. And there's a bunch of penalty. I mean, I ain't going into this and go on and on. It's like do a deep dive on Ausy

rules football. But there's a a bunch of these penalties that it's uh fifty fifty meter penalties, fifty six yards or fifty four yards for arguing, disputing decisions pretty much anything talking to the official, which they call the umpire. You're screwed. But I would love I'll tell this Ausi woman, how about it someday. I'm I'm sure my my wife would take me to Australia. I'd love to do New Zealand and Australia. I used to be on the radio in New Zealand. I've got friends in New Zealand. I

know you Ausy Momentum, Ausy guy. There's a few other p ones in the Mallard Militia. I think it would be awesome to come to Australia and to hang out and and I want to make that happen, so so hopefully at some point we'll do that. And if that happens, then I gotta go to an Ozzy rules game. I would like to experience that because the energy in the stadium is awesome. So I want to see if that that vibe is as as real as authentic uh in person?

All right, thank you for that. I was much longer answer than I planned, Azzy momentum, But that's the way of the world. You'll have to wait because the the other guy is is not here. It is not here. But as you said, it's your religion's kind of like in in the in the States. Here, American football, the NFL is the religion. It's the zeitgeist of the times. And all uh ben this email from Adrian in the Mile High City. Uh. He says, have either of you ever caught a home run ball at a baseball game?

How about a foul ball? Well? The the only He then tells the story, said, the only home run ball I ever got was a moonshot pulled down the right field line at corps Field by Larry Walker back in and Adrian says he remembers it well because it's the only home run ball that he ever got. His dad got Fourth of July fireworks tickets. That's good dad, right, you got the fireworks show after the game. Way to go.

The whole family was their second deck at course Field out in right field and Larry crushed the ball, Adrian says, and it's speeding closer and closer right at us. The ball ended up bouncing off an empty seat a few rows behind where we were sitting. It bounced off the empty seat, hit my sister in the back, and right off my sister, and it rolled down the aisle, and that's where I began to chase. He said. At the time he had a broken left arm, and uh, he

was using his cast and sort of shield. Let's get strategy to shield other people with the cast. That's like NFL lineman. We'll do that. We'll have like a broken hand or finger or something like that. I'll have a big cast and they'll use that as a mallet, as like a cartoon mallet. That's a that's a solid move. And he says he was able to grab it somehow, rolled right down under a flight of stairs towards the concourse,

and he had the souvenir. Well, to answer your question, I as a fan, I got one baseball that I remember. There was a couple that I got a lot of batting practice I I learned as a fan. I don't know if this is still the case, but when I was a kid. Nobody went to batting practice, and I

grew up in Orange Canics. I actually went to the Big A more than I went to Dodger Stadium, and I would go out early and they were really bad about cleaning up the baseballs that were hit over the right field fence in Anaheim, and back in those days, it was a football stadium, and so there was a gap between the fence, the actual outfield fence in the warning track, and then you had the actual stands. And I had Jerry rigged a watch m a hall it,

which was a plastic cup and a string. I literally used a plastic cup and a string because you couldn't get down and reach where the balls were, and I would the suction and I had to put a weight on this plastic cup. It's one of the cooler things that I did as a I was like in high school at the time, but I remember taking this thing and I got a lot of baseballs that way. I don't know who hit him and all that, but it

was a very effective tool. And then they caught onto that because they would recycle the baseballs and they had some old dude who would run through and try to grab the home run balls as quickly as they were hit because they were losing too many of the balls. Two punk kids like myself, And after I was doing it, some other people started joining it, and it was a it was on. It was on everyone's like, wait a minute, here, what the dog doing? Yeah, you know what you're doing.

And it turned out we were we were taking away from the rain baseballs that were being hit. Uh anyway, but I also got one from Jeffrey Leonard during a game, The hack Man, Jeffrey Leonard, great star baseball. He was at the end of his career. But foul ball down the line, Big a fat kid Ben comes up to the foul poll and I remember yelling, hey hack Man,

Hey hack Man, because I remember his nickname. I even though he played for the Giants, he was originally a Dodger, and he played for the Giants, and he had that home run trot where you're mad dog, he's mad dog the opponent, and he had the arm flap one flap down, and so I liked his style. I liked his bravado, and I yelled the Hackman and he tossed the ball to me, and that that moment when you think, like everyone in the stadiums looking at you, and and most

people aren't. It's time you think everyone's looking at you. And then you have that do I catch it? Do I not catch it? I gonna drop it? And m I gonna drop it on the field? Is somebody gonna come over my back and get the ball? Like all these thoughts are going through your head at the same time, and uh, and then finally you get the ball and it's great. And I had several in the press box when I was in radio. I had a Chad Cruder, who was a backup catcher for the Dodgers, foul the

ball off shattered my laptop in a million pieces. And uh, I'm still bitter about that, still bitter about that all these years later. And there are there were a few other incidents that took plays. Uh. Adrian says, can you share any prop action plays you would put down on the Denver New York Giants game today? I like the Broncos. Uh. Yeah, I gave the pick out. I gave the pick out on Benny versus the penny. But I I am on

the on the side there. I generally like Denver in the game, although the line I don't like Road favorites. I try to avoid road favorites. But they're the better team, and I expect the defense to to do very well. Did that be very surprised if Daniel Jones and the Giants offense explodes? Uh? In Teddy Bridgewater. If I'm right about Teddy Bridgewater, he's been very good p pfittably over the years. That uh, Teddy is is the guy that

you want to bet on. He's the guy that you want to you want to bet on because you're're gonna win money most of the time. Cliff from Nashville, right, So we'll do a few more here on the mail back Cliff and Nashville has been My wife has been sick out lately. She she has criticized, but lately she has criticized everything I do. Is that a sign she's a recovering Yes? Yes, that is a sign. Your wife is on the road to health, on the road to hell.

So you're in good shape there. Who else do we have? Uh, let's see page down here page DWN vaults. Fan Jimmy says, did you buy your first car or did your parents buy it for you? None of you? Boff. My grandfather, my grandfather's old car, a Volari, a brown Valeri, which I love because you know, anybody who's a teenager and gets a car, you love it. But it had the most comfortable seats and it was very big and roomy on the inside, and I loved it. Was ugly and

I would never buy a brown car. But at the time I thought this was it just reeked of the eighties and the seventies. I don't even remember what year it was. I think it was like in the seventies the car was made and I got it, uh much later than that. But I loved that car. I was great, loved it. I absolutely loved it. Who else do we have here? Ronnie D from Casey says, do you have the Mallard oath memorized or do you have it written down at your desk? I have it memorized, but occasionally

I forget something, so I do have a copy of it. Ronnie, I'm not gonna lie. I'll be honest there. I do have a copy of it here because I don't want to make the mistake like some of the callers do, who are just repeating it a moment later. As far as some of the other guys burying in music, City of Balls fan Jimmy Ricardo from Fresno. We didn't have time, Chris and Marraccona, Iowa. Did not have time for your

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