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the top one percent of the Mallard militia. That means you have risen up the ranks of the listenership of the show because listen, there's a lot of people listen during the week and our fans of the overnight show, and we thank you for that, but very few a hearty bunch go to the podcast because this is only on the podcast format, The Fifth Hour with Ben, because five nights a week, four nights, four hours a night not enough, and so here we are eight days a week.

This is the Sunday mail Back Podcast, which is one of the more popular things we do even on the radio show as far as downloads the mail Bag podcast. People love the mail Back podcast and back a rare. Another appearance back to back Belly to Belly on the mail Bag and the weekend editions of the podcast. David gas Sky really excited to be back. I think it's better to be back in the in the weekend editions

with you because that means I'm not driving. You know, the average price for gas in California is four and a half dollars. But there's also a city that's charging seven fifty nine for a gallon of gas here in this great state. Uh is that in Paris, California? Or where would that? Where would that be? Where would the gas for over seven dollars be? Can you imagine? It's in Monterey County. It's off the it's off the pch

off of Highway one. UM. I will tell you if I was in the mecca of the Internet there in the Silicon Valley, I would charge twelve dollars a gallon because I'd have the people at Facebook, Yahoo, Google, you know, all all the big web companies there that are based all their operations. I would just have them pay twelve dollars a gallon. Could you quite imagine that they pay an arm in a leg though for for gas in

the UK? UM yes, yes they do. And uh, there's really no good reason for the cost of gas to be what it is, but there's there's no going back unless unless they close businesses down again. And I guess they can lower the price because there'll be too much gas and they'll have to get rid of it. But ridiculous. Anyway, this is the mail bag gas on. Do not waste any time. We must get right to the questions. Please,

we have to have the proper ohio al open. Come on, here we go, Yes, thank you, Ohio all a great musician, many talented musicians in the show. And I'm very happy, very happy that some of you guys are just randomly sent in songs. It used to be that only at the Talent Show would we get New Mather theme songs, but now year round we are getting these wonderful tones.

So it's it's great to see, all right. So the first question, these are actual questions either posted on our Facebook page, which is Ben Maller's show on Facebook every Tuesday, usually early in the day. Unless I forget, I will post a message on Facebook and then we will call.

We will curate your questions. Will you'll post them on there and then all pick as many as I think are good for the broadcast, and then we'll get to the questions on this podcast and also the Real Fifth Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com and you can send your questions in for the Sunday mail Back podcast. And this is appropriate. I was not going to start with this one because I was gonna wait for it, but since you started talking about gasoline, I thought this

would be approppropriate. Uh Sobby writes in, says Ben, I have been listening to you since I was thirteen. How about that that's probably why I'm a complete loser in life. Well, thank you, savvy, I appreciate that. Screw you anyway, he says, thanks for that, just kidding. Your callers probably have a bigger part to play than you did. Wow, how about that shots fired that I have not I'm just the middleman, and that Sabby likes the people that call the show.

The whack pack of losers that call our show. Anyway, he says, I found this in the sense of he sent a link it's a YouTube video from the CBC, and thought of the argument that you had with Coope premium versus regular gas. I guess this is uh definite proof that you need to win this argument. There you go, says you don't need to read the email on the podcast. Well, I'm reading the email on the podcast, Sabby, because of the fact it relates to what gascon said and it

makes me look good. So guesscan are you a premium gas guy or regular gas guy? Good? Okay, that's your smart man and the CBT and I watched this thing from pillar to post, Sabby, this thing, this email, this uh not email YouTube video, It's like over twenty minutes long. CBC did an investigation of gas. They studied the effects of fuel mileage on your car and they determined what I had determined years ago, that paying for premium gas

is bullshit, That it is a scam. It is an absolute scam, and it's proof of human beings when marketed a certain way. Human beings are very gullible. And the people that do marketing for living know this. And if you tell you tell people, hey, you know, by by the premium gas, it costs a little more, but your your your car will last longer, you'll get better gas milege.

None of those things are true. It's bullshit. But if you say it enough and people just believe it to be true because well I heard it, somebody said it, so it must be true. So I just wanted to get that off my chest. But thank you for that. I did appreciate the email. The next email from Rabbi in Dublin, California, says, Ben, I really missed, along with many other listeners, an opportunity to hear your outrage after

the Dodgers lost in the National Age Championship Series. The international caller provoked you a bit that would be Ozzy momentum the other night. I expect a full hour coverage, he says, I expected a full hour coverage. Robbie continues, anything another thing, rather to check. I know your viewpoint about the gifts, as listened multiple times, your opinion as you shared publicly with to David's gift your last birthday, knowing that I am still asking as now you moved

to a new home and settled down. I hope did you get a chance to open the gift I sent on May twenty one, says there's two reasons here, Robbie. One, I handmade wooden boards, knife your name plate. It's a personal personal time spent. Uh wow, this sounds like a really nice gift that sounds like wonderful gift. Uh. And then he says number two, there's a page longhand written letter. And I am more interested in knowing your thoughts. All right, roll, Bobby,

I apologize. I do think I know where that item is. Uh. There were none, I explained. So when I moved in the haste to move out of the which house was this? This was the midway house with the halfway house. We called it right the halfway house. I'd moved out of the Mallard mansion to the halfway House. When all of that was going on. One night you might remember this, Robbie, if you listen, my equipment in the studio burned up at the home studio. So I had to run into

the main studio in Sherman Oaks. And when I did that, I picked up my mail, and so I took the mail back to the halfway House. And then in the process of moving the halfway house, which I was in the middle of, those boxes got put in a storage shed. I know where they are. They're in storage shed number two. That's the good news. The bad news, Robbie is I gotta get some construction equipment to get to where they are. They're they're in the middle back part of the uh,

the shed. So I'm gonna work on that, robb I can't promise anything, but I I am going to work on it, which is a weasel term, as you know, Robby. I will go open the shed. I will look at where your wonderful gift is, which sounds like a really nice gift. That will be a conversation point in the new Mallard mansion kitchen. Uh. But I will not be able to get it until I get through the other stuff. But the good news is I'm motivated because I need to get through these storage sheds if I need. If

I want to get my treadmill back. My treadmill, there's no room for it. I have to get rid of a lot of stuff to put the treadmill in the garage, which is the plan. So I'll keep you posted, Robbie. I'm sorry, sorry about that. Boy, what a man? I mean, that's sounds like a really nice thing to do. And here I am Scott in Northern Kentucky rights and he says, been not a question, but I do have a solution. Well, thank you. The soft pretzel problem at Dodger Stadium. I

also love a good soft pretzel. You have to go to the Wetzel's Pretzels on the loge level at Dodgers Staateum. Scott aware of the Wetzel pretzel location of Dodger Stadium. The ones they sell at the regular snack bar our garbage. That is true. They are bad. Love the show. Loyal fan who left King Newsome's California late last year. Now I'm in northern Kentucky, just outside of Cincinnati, remember me, Scott,

I'm on the radio and w k RP. And since the Nati Great Shows, many many idiots have ruined their lives and got into radio because of that show. But not anymore. But when the show was on obviously back in the day, and Scott, you'll have to send it other email and let us know if living in Northern Kentucky and leaving the People's Republic of California has been

everything you hoped it would be. I'm curious, you know, if the people left California, because you know, I'm pretty much locked in here, Gascott at this point, I'm not going to well, at least for for Scott, since he's out there. When you do email back, I would at least like a small comprehensive list of distilleries that you would venture off to in Kentucky. Yeah, well you could go to Andy Furman. He's saying that Andy Furman who lives in in that area, right, He said, it sounds

like Scott's more relatable. He's more like my age bracket. Wow, but he won't send you a nice type written letter like our friend Andy. We gotta get Andy back on the podcast The Great Andy Furman Radio legend to him at one time, Pierre from Springfield Rights, and he says, question, for your sidekick on the Gascons scale of atrocities, which

of the two is more egregious? A the amount of time that the infamous Tomahawks steak has been aging in a controlled environment, or be finally cooking said Tomahawks steak to the perfect char at which Ben would consume it while also dipping it in ketchup. It's a toss up question. That's a bad question. I don't think there's a win situation in this thing. I think we need to I think we can need to give it to Bella. That's

like the proper way to go about this. This is so you would rather, I feed the steak to the dog. That can't be arranged. That can be arranged. I mean the steak is over two years old. So what, it's fine, it's it hasn't fine, It's fine, all right, Cliff from Nashville writes in he says wal and in Pierre, he didn't answer your question. Cliff from Nashville, says Wall. At a resort in Mexico recently, my wife saw a guy with an orange hat with a star on the front.

She asked me, what team is that? Without hesitation, Cliff from Nashville says, I. I yelled out loud the cheating as stros the guy turned to face me. Cliff says he had East Side Boys tattooed in block letters across his chest. And Cliff says though the story had a happy ending because the guy said that he listens to the Mallard Show. Also so he I did not die that day. Wow, that's you think that's a real story.

You think that's bullshit. It could be real, It could be real, could be bullshit, but yeah, I don't know. We We did have our our buddy, the the hood guy, Sean the hood guy, who called in Tales from the hood and pointed out Coop did not realize this. I'm sure you guess. Go on with your background realizes this that every baseball hat has been hijacked by a gang in l A. If you wear a hat, it is representation of a gang. And there's not a team. Right. If you got blue, you're on one team. If you

got red, you're on the other. If you know, even the Oakland Athletics, you don't have blue or red and they have been hijacked by the Avenue gangs in in l A. Well, that's a good story, Cliff, I hope that's true. I did. I did wear the other day at work. I wore one of the Negro League hats. I wore the the Baltimore Elite Giant's hat. It's it's got a giant and be in the middle with a

black um, black lining and white. It was solid. I didn't know this, obviously because I'm not a fami with the league itself, but Roy camp Vanilla was one of the most famous members of the Baltimore Elite Giants from nineteen twenty to nineteen fifty. Is that right? Yeah? Does anyone look at that and I recognized that hat? Or

do they ask, what where's that hat from? Matter? No, I just wore it for the first time midweek, and I so I wore it for Game one of the World serious because I was working with Robin Chris and uh Rob has his own website MLB bro, which you really focuses on um black baseball players and and so I thought it was kind of fitting because he does a lot of stuff historically with with the Negro leagues and research and obviously promoting the game. So it's, uh, yeah,

it's fascinating. Man. I I dig the material, all the all the hats that we got. This one doesn't fit a lot. It's it's pretty loose, but I mean they got some good stuff back of it. I hate to I'd hate to see these ripped off, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, what would be wrong? Kevin in Kansas right, since says dear Ben and David, you guys make me laugh. I look forward to every weekend in high school. Were you guys someone that I'd enjoy having in class? Kevin teaches.

He's a teacher. That's why you asked that. So, Kevin, I'll go, no, you would have hated me. You would have hated me for a different reason than guess gun. I could not, for the life of me get up early for school. I hated it. I just was not a morning person. And so the days I was at school, you wouldn't really have a problem with me. But my attendance was lacking and uh and and so I was not the most social. I was not the most interactive

person in class. I was the quiet one that sat in the back and was upset that I had to sit in the last row and there wasn't a row further back that I could sit in, so that I was that guy. I'm that guy. Gascon though you were rambunctious, I hear. Is that true that you were more of a troublemaker in in class? Is that accurate? I was

a troublemaker. I some of my fondest memories or in physics my senior year in high school, and um, it was in a lab, so we had I think five rows, and it was usually three or four students per row. But I was typically in the second to last row in that classroom, and so typically when the teacher would turn her back, UM, I would grab one of these soap soap bottles in front of us. The hand soap

bottles and I jammed it. I'd hit the top like so it squirts out, and so I'd hit guys in the back, in the back so the soap was clear, so it might look like a male substance after um, getting busy between the little tartar sauce. Yeah. Yeah, So I would fire that in class and then like two of my best friends in high school, Uh, they would sit behind me, and these guys were super super good students, so they were always paying attention, always jotting down notes.

Um in those back in those days, we would have those did you ever use the rulers that were wooden but they'd have the men Yeah, I'm from the phone age. Yes, So during class, when the teacher would turn her back, I would turn around and hit these guys in the knuckles with the rulers. I'd break rulers on their hands. So I was very for that called asshole that I was a bully. So, uh, yeah, it was pretty bad. We uh, you know, we did all kinds of stuff

in that physics class. I was awful. You know, there wasn't a day that I didn't do something bad in that class. And and my friends hated me. For it so well. I gotta tell you that Kevin the key. It's you gotta have the right teachers, like you know, any of these things I had. Mr Carl was one of my teachers in high school that really resonated with me, and he he had a very unorthodox way of teaching.

We didn't do a lot of bookwork. It was a lot of talking and back and forth, and he forced me to engage and it's one of my favorite memories. I also was just there was a debate class I was in that I think it was Mr Laura I think was his name, and he was very very good as well. Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee rights and he got very upset when I did a rant about the astros and pointed out how I despised the color orange. He got upset with that because he's a Tennessee volunteer

fan and he was upset. But my I read a study that said orange is one of the most ten most disgusting colors there. Yeah, well, I don't like and when I see these astro games, like what makes me want to puke? But maybe it's just the astros. I don't know. Anyway, he says, So we know you eat like a bird. You and your wife work overnight. So how is the house work split up? Great question? So so, Jimmy, I get asked this from time, and so what I

do is I am a professional dishwasher. I wash the dishes, which is working out really well right now because the kitchen is not completely done, so there's not a lot of dishes. If I could say, hallelujah, hallelujah, there's not a lot of dishes there. Uh. And then in addition to that, I will normally we split the laundry. A lot of the cleaning of the floors. The wife handles that department and the bathrooms. But I'm the I'm the dishwasher, and I do the laundry and occasionally some of the

outdoor work. But we don't have a lot of that. So that's that's how it goes at the Mallard Mansion. Thanks for asking, Vallas fan. Jimmy Fred from Spring Texas says, where do you both like that? Wherehere would you both like to see yourselves in ten years ten years from now? Let's start with saying I'd like to be alive ten years from now. I think we will be uh. That's the first thing. And then secondly, I'd like to be a little more set up financially, have more bills paid off.

You know, I want to Just ten years from now, I'm gonna be much closer to the end of the road. So I'd like to be in a better financial spot where it's not tough sledging, if you know what I'm saying, and I don't have to worry as much and can be like every other radio hack and just move on and do some random podcast and not have to do the Daily Grind or or just get paid ridiculous money to do the Daily Grind, either one of those things.

What about your guest, you see yourself married ten years from now, a nice white picket fence, the mini gascon's running around, any of that, I would I'd want to be in a place where I can take like three weeks to a month off and just travel. I want to be in that space. That would be great. I'm right there with you. Wouldn't that be fun? Oh? I did um because I do some stuff here in California with with college soccer. And there's a guy that I

was covering in the Big West Conference. He traveled last year in Switzerland, his hometown and then home country. He backpacked and uh and cycled throughout the country. I just thought that was that's pretty awesome just to do that. I don't I don't know if you can get away with doing stuff like that here in the United States, but I'd love to travel the US. It's very European to to live that that life. Yeah, I would really love to do. And I have a lot of friends

that have driven across the country. Have a lot of truck drivers that get to drive across the country. It's a job for them. They probably don't even care that much about it because they've seen the entire country. But yeah, don't don't don't underestimate how cool that is to somebody that doesn't get to do it. And I would be really nice. I wonder if there's a way to set up like a mobile studio in the back of an RV with the technology today, get a satellite hook up

and just travel. Just do the show from nowhere, Oklahoma on location, from a studio on a mobile studio somewhere in the middle of nowhere. See you take the tape off, you put it on the new bus, and you call it the Mallard Cruiser. Yeah, you could do something like that, you get sponsors on it. That'd be fun. When to me, that would be wonderful. You just travel around and do the show at night and then you're on living your life.

One week you're in Florida, then you move on, you're in South Carolina, go down to You, go up to Ohio, go over to Montana, you name it. Just have to worry about any kind of elk crossing the roads, right, yeah, yeah, that could be what you're looking for. Well, that would win the studio. That would imagine you get an accident. You gotta do the show from the junkyard in the back of the the only the only thing you could

say as well, dinner served, I guess, yeah exactly. A critter from Tulsa writes in says, if you could kill off any character in a television series, pastor present, who would it be. It's a good generic question from our man critter. So I was annoyed. I don't even know if people remember the show The Nanny fran Drescher, very annoying, the voice, the voice she she annoyed, the academy and Barney the Dinosaur. Not that I watched Barney in the Dinosaur.

But Barney the Dinosaur just annoying? Anything for you? Gas on any characters you'd like to chase away and tell me to go suck an egg. I can't even think like that. I don't know. I don't even watch a lot of TV these days. So both of my references are dated. No, it's not. It's not like I'm watching a lot of TELEVI in these days. I'm not. Well, nobody's watching TV. They're watching everything on the stream. It's all about the stream. Streams, streams, streams, stream Yeah. I okay,

So did you ever watch Game of Thrones? I did not, but I'm sure the listener did well the game. In Game of Thrones, everybody dies pretty much. Yeah. So I don't know how to answer this by saying I want someone killed off. But the guy that played Sean Bean is his name, but he played a father in the season one got killed off, um early. I would like him to stay alive. I feel like there are certain characters that get killed off too early. Okay, so that's

the reverse of what critter asked. He asked, if you would like to have killed off? You said no, you would like someone to live longer in the television world. I got you all right. Moving on, Gary in Pittsburgh writes in He's from the city that give us Pete In Pittsburgh, he says, as I was sitting to down to dinner this past Sunday, I needed something to listen to, and since I had already consumed the Friday and Saturday podcast, I just randomly picked our two from Friday night. So

I'm eating and listening. Nothing out of the ordinary being said. Then the thirty seventh minute came around, and as you so often say, Radio Gold, with that ringing endorsement of the Taliban, do you think you may have pioneered the fourth rail? On my end? When Roberto chimed in with that drop and total mayhem ensued the next minute and a half, I was literally in tears. I think your show would run right around Morning Drive in Kabul. Those

listeners would bring new meaning to Mallard Militia. Now that is why I like your show. Everyone can have a laugh at another's faux paw and no one gets their panties in a bunch. There you got from Gary in Princeburgh, he says, p p s. When you get around to cooking the tomahawk Google reverse sear Gary says, it lets you get a good char on the outside and moist on the inside, so Mrs Mallard can enjoy it as well.

I do like the butterfly cut. Me and Rob Parker enjoy the butterfly cut because that that's well done throughout. And uh, I don't ever go to a steakhouse without getting the butterfly cut. I demand the butterfly cut. If they won't do the butterfly cut, I don't eat the steak. I'll get something else. That's the way I operate. James the pool Guy is next in Panama City, Florida. He says, My question is what happens to all those hats and T shirts that the losing team has, they had, they

had made for the losing team, etcetera. For example, Braves Dodgers, if it had gone to Game seven Major League Baseball have had both teams apparel printed with NL champions on them. Where does it all go? Do they send it to a pail of dimension alternative universe where the losing team actually won and the aliens where the shirts and hats? Uh? He wants to know. Love the show? He says, and I would say hey to gas Can, but he is probably off today. So James that I did not believe

you would be here. Well, I think it's kind of kind of an open secret here, James the pool guy. It was as of a few years ago. The Major League Baseball Marketing Department has made a big deal. They give this to a charity who sends it to an

improverished country. Is it? Wasn't that the line that the somewhere in Africa there's kids walking around with Tampa Bay Ray's World Series shirts from last year and the l A Rams Super Bowl champions from that Super Bowl against the Patriots, And so they sent it to a place where they have no idea what American sports are, and then they put those shirts on and they wear them proudly in the hats and all that stuff. I believe that. I think that's still going on unless they ended that.

And I didn't hear about it. Terry and England rights and he says, have you ever watched or seen cricket? Ben, It's my favorite sport. Being a baseball fan, you might find it interesting as there are some similarities. Well, Terry, the reason I like baseballs I grew up in America. The reason you like cricket is you grew up in England. It's the same thing. And I have never watched a

cricket match. I have never done it. But I have had my radio broadcasting delayed because of cricket when I was in a correspondent in New Zealand, which I haven't been for a while now, but when I was on New Zealand radio, there would be cricket matches that would preempt the show that I was supposed to be on, and and so that has happened. No, I've never watched cricket. If you ever watched cricket, not from start to finish. I've only watched bits and pieces of it. But it's

my understanding. I think Terry had mentioned this that it can go on for hours and days, not just a window of two or three hours. Yeah, yeah, you know, it goes any from a couple of days, so like seven days. That's why when I would call up to do my spot in New Zealand, Darcy, who we've had on the podcast, would be like, well, I don't know what to tell you. It depends on when the matches. I'll let you know. I'll keep your post and it

was that. It was that kind of thing. Was that kind of so yeah, anyway, all right, so no cricket for me, although I did watch aussy One of the Ausy guys wanted me to watch Auzzy Rules football, so I watched some of that and I did enjoy that. I thought that was pretty good. Kevin from Rockford, Illinois. Right so, and he says, a few years ago, I was working out at a fitness center here in Rockford and incomes Polly Shore. He had a stand up gig

that night. About that, Rockford, Illinois, and Polly Shore walks in. He says he had had a gig that night and he was getting a quick workout in I'm assuming you know who he is. Yes, maybe cheesy movies Polly Shore has been in. And his his mom was the first lady of comedy in l A. Right, didn't she run? Was it the comedy store on Shore's mom ran? Yeah, Yeah, that's a legendary store. She Polly Shore grew up around

all these amazing comedians. His mom. I think she passed away a couple of years ago, recently, somewhat recently, maybe not, but um, yeah, she was the person that was in charge of the I think it was the Comedy Store. I have looked that up. But I have a good friend that used to write for poly Shore. Oh yeah, what was what's your favorite Polly Shore movie? That sound to be good. I don't think I've ever seen a poly Short movie. You've never seen? Yeah, I don't think

I've ever seen From Wire to Wire. I don't think I've ever seen a poly Short movie. Yeah. Yeah, and Sino Man or you know what I've seen most of been Sino Man. Yeah, I mean that was a big that was a big deal. Like he made a ton of those nineties movies. That's it. That's the only one I've seen. Yeah, you see Bio don't. Nope, never saw Bio Dome. I'm going through his IMDb right now. No, I haven't seen any of these movies. Huh, all right, I would saying Man is the biggest one that most

Maybe maybe that's the early nineties he made. There was a stretch in the early nineties that he was making tons of movies, and then he vanished for a while. I guess he still hasn't really come back. Uh. Anyway. The email continues from Kevin and Rockford Illinois, says, I assume you know who he is. I didn't really talk to him because I didn't want to be that guy. I just told him the movie Bio Dome rules and he laughed. Have you guys ever been in a random

place and all of a sudden a celebrity shows up? Yeah, Kevin, absolutely. I mean when we're living, we're based in l A and this is the entertainment mecca, and a lot of these folks live in the area over the years living in Los Angeles. I was at the Beverly Center and we were walking I was with Jason Smith. Actually he

can confirm this. I was with Jason Smith. We were walking through the Beverly Center and there was this big buzz in the Beverly Center because David Hasselhoff, who at the time was the star of a show called Baywatch, was at the pet store with his daughters two they were they were looking at puppies in the pet store

at the Beverly Center. So I remember that. One I was at a job interview with one of my bosses at what turned out to be the Yahoo gig in Hollywood at and we met in the afternoon happy hour at a bar in Hollywood and David Spade walked in by himself and was flirting with the bartender. I've told the story before. I was in an elevator in Burbank at the studios of AM eleven fifties sports radio M eleven now a conservative talk station in l A. The Patriot,

but it was a sports talk station then. And I got an elevator with Rodney Dangerfield, the dead comedian from a different generation. So there's that. Who else lamar Odom at Roscoe's Chicken Waffles. It was with Jake when I was in an elevator with Spike Lee one time at a USC game and Spike gave me the look of death. It was he was hanging out with Rick Fox. This is back during the Pete Carroll Reggie Bush days at SC when they were the greatest show in l A.

And I got on the elevator. It was me, Spike Lee, Rick Fox and the elevator operator. And apparently Spike had been used to being in elevators. It was just him and whoever he was with, and was very uncomfortable and gave me the look like what are you doing? How dare you? I can't believe this? That come what about you. Guess any lane celebrity sightings that you have had living West of the four oh five. Yeah, I when I

was Yeah, when I was nineteen years old. UM, I had a fake I d so I'd go to Vegas and right after their Super Bowl run, I went to this this club at the time, it was pretty popular, was called Rain at the Palms, and I partied with with the Denver Broncos, like Alfred Williams was there. UM, Ray Crockett was there. I think Damian Gordon was there. UM.

I had walked up to the UH. I had walked up to like where the suites were at, and I just randomly was just scoping everything out, seeing who's there and who's what and um and I saw Ray Crockett and I was like, oh man. I was like hey, Ray, like I'm a huge Broncos fan. Congrats da da And I ran to him. Was up there for a little while. UM. I ran to Robert Ory at at Pure Nightclub in Vegas. UM. Jason Veritech down in San Diego. He was actually time out time out time. I'm impressed that you ran into

the Denver Broncos and you knew who they were. I recall a story. This is a funny story that I had. I was at a I think it was a It was a Laker Clippers game at Staples Center, and there was this this guy in there. People were talking like he's an NFL player, and so somebody's like, who's that and I said, I don't know, he's not wearing his helmet. I don't know who. It turned out it was it was Arian Foster, remember, running back for the Texans. Very

good player for the Houston Texans. But but he was he was sitting eating in the press room and I didn't and I did. I really didn't know. And that's how outside of quarterbacks and a handful of receivers defensive backs, I could not recognize these people. I don't know who they are. They're just random, faceless people that wear helmets

and face mask. I don't know. I was. I was a massive Broncos fan when I was younger, and so I could tell you everything about anybody and just about any game, especially during that back to back run, and um, yeah, I was just yeah when I saw Ray Croc and I was just like, oh my gosh, you know, I like it just jumped out because I've watched because back then NBC would show a ton of Bronco games, UM or NBC or CBS, and so dick Enberg was always on those calls. And you know, I just, yeah, I was.

It was pretty wild. I uh, I think one of the I guess one of my fanboy moments ever and I'll send it to you. UM. I had. I had gone to a cafe to meet someone for a meeting. It was a Hollywood cafe and I'm a huge Bond guy, like I love all the James Bond movies. The franchise is awesome. And I went to get an espresso and I'm in line and I turned around after I ordered, and I see this woman and she was dropped dead gorgeous, and I recognized her right away, and I said, oh

my gosh, that her name is? Her name in the Bond movie was was Severen. It was it was Skyfall. She was in Skyfall with with Daniel Craig. And I don't want to butcher her name, but her first name was was his Berenice. She's French. And the first thing I thought, ben because when you see actors and actresses usually like they're nothing like what they look like on camera. This woman looked exactly how she looked on camera, like she was dropped dead gorgeous, and she wasn't wearing hardly

any makeup like she was. But she's a model too. She was, I mean, she was jaw dropping and I thought, Wow, that that is. That's the world. Yeah, how come it's only the dudes I have run into. I've never run into any famous women. It's it's only the dudes. And another one I forgot was Jason Alexander from the sein film franchise. That was actually I remember the exact day that was because I was getting a sandwich. It was

the day that Dale Earnhardt died. Oh Man at the daytone of five hundred at the end, and they didn't realize he had died. The broadcast went off the year, but I had gone off to get a sandwich and

I was in this. This is after Seinfeld had ended and they had ABC had given Jason Alexander this new show that was a disaster that nobody watched because it wasn't Seinfeld and Jerry Seinfeld wasn't on anyway, but he was in there and he's ordering a sandwich HOGI and he had a hat on like he thought, just wearing the baseball hat, no one would recognize and the people that worked at the sandwich shop were like, oh man, you know And immediately he was on every every bus,

in the back of the buses and all that the billboards. There was a huge marketing campaign because the people in ABC thought that show, I'm pretty sure it was ABC. They thought that show what I forget the name of it was gonna be amazing and people are gonna watch it because the Seinfeld and it tanked and nobody watched

it and not stuff. But his face was everywhere, and I remember I didn't say anything to him, but I remember the look he gave to the people once the people recognized him that that was who it was, and he kind of he gave the look that he gave on the Seinfeld Show, where he kind of his eyes kind of squinted. He was really he was really funny, like awkward kind of it's hard to describe it, but it's a very awkward look, like crap, you know, this is not that's that's Did you did you approach him

at all? No? No, I didn't because I'm an introvert, so I don't. I don't do that kind of thing. I just I looked from Afar and as our friend, as our friend Kevin, and Rockford said, you know, I want to be that guy. Wow, you want to be nothing wrong with that? What gosh? I forget the show that he's on. Um, it wasn't Married with Children? You know the actor Ed Bundy right all right, O'Neil. Yeah, what was the show that he's on? Now? Do you remember the name of it? I think it's is it

Modern Family? I think it might be Modern Family? Yeah, so, and that would be a good one to right across Al Bundy. What a great show. So I bring that up because one of my old bosses when I was in my young twenties, he went out and we went out collectively. He went out with Sophia Vergara's best friend and um, and we went out in Long Beach. He had together. I mean, talk about it, timidating like I do,

exactly who she was. And you know, for as hot as Sophia Vergara as her friend was as equally as hot. That's hot. And I just thought like mad, I am, yeah, I'm like down here and she's way up punching outside your weight class man. This is like Little Mac versus Mike Tyson bed Yeah, but her her friend was Colombian too, and they were they were firecrackers. They were obviously just

dropped in gorgeous. I remember, you know, hanging out there, so well, that's kind of wild because usually good looking people hanging out with ugly people because they look even better. Yeah. I just the eyeballs on those women and then the eyeballs and me and my buddy were just like, how are you guys hanging out with them? I was I think it was twenty or twenty one at the time, so I was I was a deer in headlights, you know,

going out with these people. Why, I had never experienced going out as a twenty one year old, so it's a completely different world. They were opening your eyes, teaching Mrs Robinson's neighborhood. They were Devin in Pittsburgh Rights, and we're very big in Pittsburgh. I gotta tell you, Gary, we got Gary, we got David h. Devin asked a sport oh question? Are we allowed to do a sport

of question? She says, more likely and most likely to be the Steeler quarterback next year, Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson, assuming Russ wants out of Seattle. Well, this is obvious. The answer is Aaron Roger. Aaron Roger Mike Tomins already been flirting with Rogers and back and forth. They've been doing a mating dance. So that would be the the clear and obvious one. There's no way Wilson more in like Miami or New York. I could see Russell Wilson

with the Giants. I could see Russell New York City. The Giants are gonna give up on Daniel Jones. That makes some sense. I don't think the Jets will give up on their guy yet. What what are you say? In no way, By the way, if Aaron Rodgers is going anywhere, he's going to Denver, and Russell Wilson could easily play in Pittsburgh. Yes, no, No, you're speaking as a Bronco fing No I'm not. I'm speaking because it adds at least five to seven yards on your deep passes.

Rogers would go there and lurish. He's not gonna go to Pittsburgh where you have no personnel on the outside. No, it's the quarterback that makes the receivers. The chicken and the egg arguments the quarterback that makes the receiver. The greatest example of that is with the Rams right now, look at Cooper Cup. The guy's the same ball player. He had a stiff he had a turn at quarterback Jared Golf, and Golf's gone now and Matthew Stafford's in

and Cooper Cup is one touchdown. He's on pace to be one touchdown away from Randy Moss's record for touchdown receptions. It's insane. The guy's the greatest receiver in the NFL right now. He's putting up better numbers than anybody and the same coaching staff. They have the same offensive line pretty much, you know, a couple of minor changes here and there. They have no running game, and it's the quarterback that makes the receiver. I I agree with you

for the most part. But Cooper Cup hasn't been some slug over the last cup full seasons either. I mean he's had he's had a good career. I mean, was it two years ago a marginal receiver slightly above average two years ago? Yards, ten touchdowns? Yeah, he had how many touchdowns? Three touchdowns last year? Four yards in ten games. That's not that, it's not but I mean, look at what Manning did when he had that broken neck. He goes to Denver and he makes he revitalizes west Walker's career.

He makes Eric Decker into some kind of number two wide receiver, which he's not. And then obviously to Marius Thomas and Julius Thomas, like those guys. The man Randy Moss when he played for the Raiders and they had Collins was the quarterback and Randy was sulking. And I love my Randy Moss story that he had a paid radio show with us and wouldn't talk to the Bay Area media when he played to He then went to the Patriots. He was back to being great, was on

the war path again. All right, let's just do one more here. Alan in Akron says, since maller monologues are filmed, does Fox Sports Radio require you to follow a dress code like shirts with no band names? Uh? No, No, The only dress code is to not be naked. That's it. To actually have clothing on, which I would do anyway. I'd wear multiple layers of clothing. But yeah, there's no dress code. In fact, I love wearing random hats. Uh. There was some police over the last couple years ah,

I'm ason. Our police, I do that police fire your business. Our guy in in Colorado, Adrian sent a hat from his business in that I have here in my desk in the studio. So yeah, like the had thing, I can put any logo I want on it with obviously inappropriate, I can't do it. But there's though there's no dress code, but it is on camera, and no matter what I do, people love to attack your vanity. It's the one of the number one attack methods of humans too disempower other humans.

You're fat, you're ugly, you're this, you're that. Whatever. So uh yeah, do no matter what I wear, people are gonna trash what I wear. But no, to answer your question, Alan, there is no dress code, So there you go. Alright, anything else? Guess on anything that we did not get to, that we should have gotten to that would you care to throw it out right now or forever? Hold your piece? No? I think the one thing I haven't seen anything the last week while I was there. But don't forget my

my size is large for T shirts. Wow, Okay, yeah, you just got a bag full of hats. You see. You need Our guy in Arkansas there, he's got to get some more hats of that Amazon. Let's see. Listen, you gotta understand the reason why I'm panhandling now is because if anyone sends anything to us now with the way that our climate is, with our cargo ships, is if we won't get this these items for an lyc

six to seven months since we that is true. So Blake and Arkansas, you know, get started there the postal service, to see the things. I used to work with Looney and he would always say things get better, they never get worse, things get better than never. That was one of his mantras, right, one of the kippy mantras. That's not exactly true. Right now, like this, Haine, everything is more expensive. My hairline is much lower than it used to be. I've got the receding hairline. You've got. The

price of everything has gone up. Inflation is through the roof. The mail service is worse than it used to be. You in the People's Republic of California and some other places, you have to wear masks all the time, and yet you can be living your same life in like Texas and be fine. Uh. There's there's a lot of bullshit going on right now, a lot of bullshit. But ignorance is blitz, right, Ignorance is blitz all right, have a wonderful rest of your weekend. We will be back in

the Magic Radio Box. I will be eleven pm tonight on Sunday night in the West, two am in the East, and if you're in Europe figure it out on your own. But we will have in depth coverage of not only the NFL Card of the day, but in addition to all that, will have a deep dive, a wonderful look at the World Series. All of that and a bag of chips. You gotta bring the chips. But have a great rest your day and we'll catch you there.