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It's the Fifth Hour. We welcome in with myself, Ben Mallor and Mr West of the four oh five David Gascon. It's a full weekend here. This is the mail bag which I look forward to every week. I I love the unknown, the surprise questions that come in and the interesting question. So we're gonna open up the mail bag in a few minutes. We have some other business to get to though, Mr Gascon offecially known by your nickname Gagon,

what other business do we have here? Well, Um, we had a request and typically we actually are you highlighted this last week? Um? Changes on your cameo account yes, yes, on Friday, I gave you a week warning that I was gonna raise my rate because of some changes with the politics of cameo and all that stuff. So just I was gonna bump it up. I bumped it up to ten bucks ten bucks higher. So it's like, I think it's forty bucks now it was thirty bucks, so

it's up to forty and uh yeah. So I I had a few cameo requests that came in this week, so I thank you. Those took advantage for the price hike, so so I thank you for that. And that does make a great stocking stuffer. By the A Mallard Mallard cameo, listen, I put some I put some thought that I don't just I don't just bull crap. I put some thought on that. But if you want a cameo, type my name out, search my name on cameo and it's a nice little stocking stuff. Or if you know a big

fan of the show, and we'll rant about anything. I've had guy one guy twice has had me do rants about the Lakers. He's a Laker historian, and this knucklehead has been busting my balls getting me to do rants. About the Lakers. So anything's fair game. You want to hanakah, shout out a Christmas, shout out, a happy New Year, anything on on cameo. It's very polite and because you've

had that, I actually, uh I pought the cherry. I had to request a few days ago from a fan of your show and um and he actually requested a a cameo appearance for myself, and uh I was told part of the order was that I needed to play the audio for you right here and right now. So that is exactly what I'm gonna do. What's up man? The first of many, but it is the maiden voyage here in cameo, and how fitting that my first one has to go out to you. Big thanks to Neil

for making this thing happen. And with Neil's instruction, I have to devise and arrange and order. Eight reasons why you are the best talent at Fox Sports Radio and why the Ben Mallas Show is the best show on the network. Eight reasons why. Number one durability. Now, we always hear the old saying availability is more important than ability. I disagree. I think durability is most important as well. You've taken on the Chin several years ago. Obviously have

an abbreviated vacation, and Fox Sports Radio came back. Prior to that, you were working down in San Diego. He worked as an overnight update anchor and an overnight weekend host. He battled through all of it. You made your way back to Los Angeles, which is arguably the most important marked in the country, whether that's New York, l A, Chicago, you're right there, swinging for the fences amongst the big dogs across the United States, four affiliates, and of course

the Armed Forces network worldwide. So durability. If you didn't have that, if you had no grid, there's no chance. And fucking hell you make it to where you're at today. Kudos to you. That's over two decades being in the industry. Entertaining four hours is not enough, but four hours every night overnight, it's tough. It's grueling. You get no fucking sleep, You hardly get any kind of appreciation, and the compliments

you do get at no certain times. You just take it with what it is, and it may not be sincere, but you're running with it and you make the most of four hours. It's odd that you can do that. Especially given the fact that you work solo, but you make it happen. You take topical things, you make into something different, and then on top of that, you always spin in a couple of interesting stories that catch people

off guard. And because of that, people don't know what they're gonna give for you, and for that super entertaining offensive. I think this kind of piggybacks off of that. You're not offensive in the sense that you are offensive to people, but I think you're always working on the attack as

opposed to being defensive, protecting people, safeguarding individuals. You don't pull any punches, you don't sugarcoat much either, but you're always always in front of the crowd, and you're always on the attack as opposed to being reactionary to whatever bullshit that's out there, which is always important because you want people that don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk, Um, intelligent, saddleback college, whatever it may be. You grew up in

the street of hard knocks. Well it's Orange County, Los Angeles. Um, you are the fitting example of why you can't put a college degree on on intelligence. You've been around the block, You've been through l A, You've been through San Diego, You've traveled across the United States. You're taught to people. You absorb a lot of information, UM, and you're you're good.

You're good in terms of retaining information that most people either don't know or don't give a shit about, but you use it at any given time, or you borrow from other individuals. You make it in your own which is always important because you know how to make it into your own words and say it in your own way,

which is fantastic. UM. Field awareness. It's great that when you have someone in your position always looking across the other side of the aisle, whether it's for television, radio, digital, you know who the bosses are, you know who the program directors are, you know who the executive producers are, the coordinating people. UM. You've got a great awareness in terms of having a wide, wide net of people that you can talk to, a good network of individuals that

you could probably lean on if you wanted to. And of course you're friendly with all of them, so you keeping those good graces that people appreciate what do they do, or people appreciate what you do even if they can't be vocal about it. I'm sure that they send, use some emails or direct messages on Twitter, especially during the sensitive times. Relentless. I think this goes back to your durability and then also the fact that you're entertaining relentless,

you're always looking for something else that's different. I mean, we have guys that kind of run through and recycle the same old, boring ship over and over again. But you look for something different in between the cracks, whether it's stats, whether it's news with its background information on the individuals. Um. You don't get cheated on what you do, whether it's an opening monologue for fifteen minutes, the back end of the show, or in the middle of an update.

When there's a story that one of the update anchors decides to report on early in the day, like at five am, and it's the same redundant, boring bullshit, you know how to add a little spice to it, little pepper, a little hot sauce, and then make it into actually something that's worthwhile to talk about when you're coming back from break. Um immature. I don't have to say this, but when you work in the industry that we work in,

immaturity might be frowned upon by some people. But it actually works in your favor because you don't want to be boring. You don't want to have the collar all the way up. You don't want to look straight down and just be black or be black white. Um, you had that immaturity that makes people laugh, that keeps people coming back for more information because you have the information.

Now it's about translating into a way that's actually funny, relatable, and of course leads to the common man being like, Hey, Noah, that'ship. Could happen to me someday. Case in point last year with the gall ladder, or of course the the misapp in the park when said bathroom was absolutely destroyed. Um. Linguistically profound. One of my favorite movies with Robin Williams is Dead Poets Society, And part of that he said,

you know, poetry is the language of love. The unique thing about what you do is that you spend a lot of your stuff, which is the same stuff that we hear morning afternoon, late at night. And you have your words, but you have your vocabulary, your vernacular. It's all drastically different than anybody else I've ever heard, not only on our network, put at CBS, at ESPN, at

t NT wherever it may be. Um, So you have ways to incorporate new words, different words, the words that I've never even heard of, and I have to go on Google and look exactly what that is in the middle of the night to see the fund did you mean by that? But you use the language to keep people they're enticed and then curious about what the funk

you're actually talking about, which is fantastic. So um eight reasons why you know top to bottom Ben Mallar Show and Ben Mallard is the best show and the best talent on the network. With that being said from what's the four oh five? With great audio after a great workout, take a look at that view, I'm out whoa wait a minute, did I'm gonna overdose on sugar? Oh? My god? Extolling the virtues of the Ben Maller Show. Unbelievable, My man,

gesh God, You've you've seen the light. You've come enthusiastically to rhapsodize. Uh wow. Look and somebody somebody had to pay you to do that, right, somebody had to pay you a couple of bucks. Who do we need? Who do I need to thank for that tremendous praise? Wow, I'm gonna start smelling myself after that. That was our buddy Neil that that passed along the cameo request. He he did a few days ago. So I was a big fan of the show. So that's great. I did

a cameo for Neil as well. He just had a daughter. Neil has been listening to me for seventeen I think you said seventeen years. Going back, lad Mila, his daughter was just born like a couple of months ago. Congrats. I don't even think she's two months old. I don't believe so. I think she turns too on the six. But yeah, so how great is that? Yeah? That was cool. I was trying to figure out like where I should

do it at and then had to prop recorded. Um, it sounds like you were at the beach and can see obviously you were bracking as you usually do about the view. You couldn't you couldn't help yourself. Yeah, yeah, you had to give a little, give a little, get a little. So I did that. I was down. Um yeah, I was down at her most of the beach a couple of days ago, and so I decided to pop that sucker off, and uh, well I do thank you for genuflecting to the show, and I will save that.

This is one podcast I will be downloading my phone from my future audio content A ray of sunshine. Who knew David Gascon uh can bow down to the man. I I can't believe that. Wow, exactly when I when I lose my job, and I'm sure I will eventually here, I will use that. I will send that out to program directors and say, hey, you know, I just want to point this out. You know, I might be bombastic and braggados and all that, but listen to this. That

was great. Thank you, Neil. That was I feel like that was my honaka gift from from from you and from Neil. That's what he said. Yeah, he said an honor of Hanakah. So it was one of many gifts. Right. Well, that's awesome. That was That was very cool and uh, that was very long too. You know, I don't know how long a cameo is supposed to be. I usually do about five minutes or so. Sometimes you go a little longer than that, but I tried to do about five minutes. I think that might be too long. I

don't know. I don't know what the norm is. I don't know what the standards and regulations are for cameo, but I want to give if you if you're going to really spend some money, I want to make it worth your time. I don't want to like a thirty second go pound sand, you know, I don't want do that. Yeah, I see, I saw, you know a bunch of your videos and I figured, yeah, like I didn't wanna cut Neal short or cut anything short on it, and I want to make the most of it. That was like

six minutes and forty seven seconds. That's a lot of cameo. It was money's worth. Yeah, all right, that's good. Thank you for that. Thank you, Neil. I appreciate it was a little intimidating to do a kind of like a ejaculation of Ben Mallory in the middle of her most of beach when you got men and women walking by on the boardwalk. But well you always remember your face. Neil deflowered you. There you go. I took advantage of

you in his wicked ways. I was able to persuade you with money, of course, to provide him and with what he wanted. So thank you very much, Neil. We have the mail bag. Are you excited about this. The mail bag. We have much activity this week. I don't know if you had gotten much of it out on Facebook at all, but yeah, we had a lot of Most of this is on Facebook. Yeah, the email was not that great this week. Some weeks the emails is good. The most of this came from the Facebook page. And

there's two ways you can On Facebook. Every Wednesday, usually in the morning, I'll post hey, begging for questions, help us out. Begging for questions, help us out, And you have until Thursday, early in the day to send a question. Just go to the Ben Mallar Show page on Facebook. You gotta scroll down a littleit's paying the asked. You gotta scroll down because I put some videos up. And then if you don't want to do that, you can just email to the show Real fifth Hour at gmail

dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. And so there's two ways to do it. First email comes from this is on Facebook. Caleb in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Alright, Sting says Ben, do you think a lot more of us will be allowed back into stadiums? In one I miss seeing my minor league Pittsburgh Pirates play at PNC Park. Man, it is beautiful. I've not seen the game there, but I've walked around it when I was in Pittsburgh. The

Pirates were not playing when I was there. They were on the road, but they had the courtyard kind of behind it where they have you know, those bridges and the water right behind it. I was able to walk through a little part of of of the ballpark there and check it out. Is awesome that they just nailed that. They that and the one I hate to say it because you know the Giants, but the ballpark in San Francisco. Those two are just works of art. Yeah, they are

works of art. I think to echo that along with Petco Park, Petico is hard to beat because part of the reason for it is if you take the trolley from either Mission Valley or anywhere else. If you take the trolley down to gas Lap, then you can get off close by. But if you took the train, like let's say you're coming from l A, Orange County and you took Amtrak, Amtrak takes you on the back side of Petico where the convention center is, so you're able to walk in the area and then get to Petco

Park that way too. So everything's down there gas Lap. You of the hotels, you get the bars, the clubs. Yea, Petco is cool. I don't not think it gets Pecco. I just like the ballpark in Pittsburgh. It's like it looks like a painting, like an oil painting, with all the bridge in the building, and much the same San Francisco with the the water McCovey Cove and all that. It's just just wonderful. They really did a wonderful job

with both those ballparks. But to answer your question, Caleb, from what I have heard, it likely will not happen until sometime in July at the earliest, So we've still got another six months before people will be allowed. From what I've been told now, it depends. I don't know how the politics are in Pennsylvania. I've heard they're somewhat like California from my guy Tony Bruno, So uh, you know,

good luck good luck on that. But I think realistically, if we can be back by July after the All Star Games saying baseball watching games and be back to normal, I think we'd take that right now, wouldn't we. But we have fans that are in attendance for NFL in college games. Correct, So how can we not get Dodger Stadium holds fifty five thousand people. I know it's drastically different at Fenwayne at Wrigley, but don't tell me you can't get anyone at Dodger Stadium. In no, of course

you can. But it's politics, man, It's a it's a waste end, it really is. I mean, it's you know, and and then you The other thing is you also have a lot of people that have been now programmed to be a worry warts and fearmongering, and so there's a certain percentage of people that, oh, my god, if you want to when they eventually do open society up again and we're allowed to live our lives the way we have lived our lives, there's people freaking out. They're

gonna bean the other people. I can't handle it. No, it's not safe. If it's never safe, it's you know, it's not safe enough, means it's never gonna be safe enough. I think the only area that I'd be worried about when things do open up personally is getting on a flight. Getting on a plane, But I've heard that that's actually the safe way to show I guess now because they don't have the middle seat right. But I don't know.

I've heard that that's not really really where this this gets spread because they have air coming in from outside the plant. I don't know. I don't know how that works. But yeah, we've I've I've got friends that have traveled and they've they've said it's great. They one guy complain one of the airlines book completely booked to flight. But other than that, they've had a lot of empty seats and they were able to spread out and it's been

more enjoyable flying now than it was before. Yeah, I think the one flight I would take, or be more inclined to take nowadays, would be a red Eye. I think that's I love red Eyes, man. I used to take red Eyes. Although I go back to Connecticut to do that TV stuff. We took out every Sunday night. Took the Red Eye. Loved it. Ten pm or or eleven pm. You fly on it was on even like ten thirty, it was right around. It was ever in

that window. If you get exactly win. But yeah, I get to l a X take off, boom, you land. You're in morning rush hour traffic at JFK. But it's fine, it's all good. Yeah, head on. Carlos in Houston writes in Bang Bang he says, have you guys had any allergies as a kid? Do you all have them? Now? That's his first question. He has another question. Uh, yeah, I'm allergic to penicillin. Uh. And I was a kid. I was allergic to cats. Oh yeah, so I was. I was allergic cats when I was a kid. So

I think that's that's it. What about you know, not not for me at all, but meah, I had cats when I was a kid, but being around other people's cats sometimes they'll start getting sneezes and sniffles and stuff like that. But no, no allergies. Okay, so you're allergy free. Look at you you want. And now the other question from Carlos in Houston. He says, how do you have such a good rating in Houston if all you do is take shots at Houston teams? I just have to know,

all right, I can. It's an easy one, Carlos. The term for that, it's known in the industry, it's known as the Stern effect. That doesn't really apply anymore because Howard Stern has gone soft. But when Howard Stern was in his prime and his salad days, he was just annihilating people. And they did research, market research, because Stern is the king of over the year radio a m

FM radio, mostly FM UM. But they determined that the people who really hated Howard Stern the most and thought he was vile and wretched and disgusting actually listened longer than those who loved Howard Stern because the people that hated him wanted to make sure they didn't miss an opportunity to be offended. So, yeah, the worst thing you could be in radio is right down the middle. No, yeah, you do not want to be sitting on the fence. You do not want to be the person sitting on

the fence there at all. Mr Luciano writes in he says, who would win an mm A fight or boxing fight between Ben Maller and David Gascon. This is Mr Luciano in Los Angeles. I think we all know the answer. I would pummele you. You would have no chance. You'd have a really of time and an m m A scrap with me. I have perseverance, Yeah, but I would chop your legs down, literally chop your legs. Remember the good old school movie Kickboxer. I would annihilate your kneecaps.

I would come flying down from the top rope for nuclear destruction is what I would do. I would wallop you. It's like that old line I ustill love the Jim Healy Show, and there was a drop that he played. Uh it was a Don Drysdale radio call. Knocked his eyeballs a little goofy a little bit. I would knock your eyeballs a little goofy a little bit. What's gonna happen? We should set up a celebrity boxing we I don't think we're big enough. It'd be cool, like a celebrity

boxing thing. Yeah, I guess we can do with Mayweather? Right, Well Mayweather, that's a money yeah, maywere the money grab man. Get one of those Paul. All those Paul guys are the same generic white dudes on YouTube. Line them up, man, knock line them up, knock them down. You can do. That'd be great. You did something world's almost like Survivors series, you know, like Survivor's series or even the Royal Rumble of Survivor series. You get like a team of four

versus four and then last man standing wins. You can do that or you have consecutive guys coming in at you. I would love to do a celebrity box. I could box Eddie Cooper. I think he's just he's you know that. That'd be no contest. Uh, Roberto, you you gotta be careful. Roberto gets some tequila and him he's a fight and he's got some street cred from Yeah, he's got a few guys he put in a body bag. Uh, not literally, of course, but that'd be a great idea for management

at Fox. How about Fox Sports Radio celebrity boxing. No, there's too many guys here that are out of shape. It doesn't matter, it's celebrity boxing. I could get in the ring with Cowherd and and Clay Travis and these guys and Rob Parker. I know I'd win. Wait, I'm tough. I mean I'm not West of the four or five on East of the four, Alaska. You'd want to get in the ring with its probably Jonas everyone shot with Well, yeah, Jonas would just kicking the nuts and uh he'd go

below the belt. I like that idea though, Mr Luciano Celebrity celebrity boxing Eric in Binghamton, New York, Rights and He says, Ben and Dave, if you if I had an airplane that was guaranteed to explode with no survivors, who would you make sure it was a board that point politicians aside, he said, oh, you can't do that. Yeah, pretty much both of us would probably just say politicians.

Right at this point, I think we're getting certain political leaders in different states that we could name that we would want to put on there. Yes, I would put the entire Chinese government, how about that? Okay, so you'd have them in the front of the plane, and then uh put some of these defund the police people and they're also how about that? Yeah, to the professors there, you go, alright, we kid because we care. Uh Vahid Habib but in New Orleans rights in you have his

full name. He says, question, how many songs do you know the lyrics of and are able to sing from the beginning to the end of the song. Then for some reason, he said, by the way, Gascon show is great again, So this must be one of your burner emails or something like this is one of your buddies a friend in New Orleans. That's good. Now with answering his question, I wonder if he means reciting it from start to finish dry or if you need help from the music. Yeah, I'm really bad with that. Like I

can sing Happy Birthday to you have that's it. I don't know. You can do the Star Spangled Banner, Yeah, I can do that, but those you just repetition. You're you're over and over again. It's beaten into your you're indoctrinated in those those kind of things. But the other song. You might know a few bars, I might know a few ares had of different songs, but to actually do

the whole song, no, you could do. I have the Tiger, yeah, I mean it's parts of it I could I could do, but I don't know if I could do the whole thing. You you got any songs that you're doing karaoke with over there? I think what was the I forget the length of the song. Bruce Springsteen had one of the shortest songs ever. I think it was a minute and forty five. I think it was called I'm on Fire.

Oh yeah, like that was that. When I was a DJ and I was a jazz DJ, I loved Brantford Marsalis had a song like jazz DJ well in college but when I was a DJ, they had like an eighteen minute jazz song and that was always all right, you gotta go take a dump. That's the song you put on. I go to the bathroom, you gotta unload the key, stir, you go right there and play that

song at eighteen minutes. That's pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty That was back when you had to play the songs manually off the CDs, you know, and all that back in the day, like in the Stone Age, Kevin. Now you could just put a whole block of songs together and said it and forget it. That's true, Kevin in Garden City, Kansas. Right. Since this been, I've been I really enjoy your monologue ticking of the three topics that seem unrelated and you managed to tie them together.

How and when did you develop the process? Well, thank you, Kevin, first of all. Secondly, it just kind of organically happened. If you listen to me fifteen years ago, I didn't do that, probably not even I think I started about seven or eight years ago, maybe a little longer than that. I just just trial, trial and error, just trying different stuff, and that kind of worked. And so I've kept that it's kind of become a staple of the show, and

I don't think it's going away anytime. So it's it's really an over it's really overhead for for those in the scholastic worlds of a five paragraph essay. Well, it's a way too tie. As you said, and your tremendous

glowing testimonial to the show. Um, when I come on at the end of the day, sometimes I'm talking about stories that happened many hours as ago, that have been rehashed all day long, and I'm I'm late to the party, right, I'm I'm gascon showing up two and a half hours after the party wanting to get fresh hot chicken uh

and and getting upset. So the way around that to work around for me has been, Okay, I'm talking about the same thing, but when I get in the batter's box, i might be hitting ninth, but I'm gonna approach it differently than all the other hitters, and I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna put my own, my own touch on it. And so that's just that just works for me. And and plus I love words. I've become addicted. I wish I was like this when I was in school. I really didn't care that much about words. When I was

in school, I didn't pay attention to them. But now, as an adult and since ideal in the currency of communication and and words, I love finding ways to to say, as you pointed out, to say the same thing, but it sounds different, right, use different words and you're making the same point. But if you're doing it, it's it just is a different sound to it. So that is why we do what we do. Chris in uh Ma Cocata, Iowa. Right, so, and he says, can you say the town name? Right?

I just did Ma Cocota, Iowa. This guy is so obsessed this, he must be the mayor, Chris, Chris must be the mayor of Cocta, Iowa. Seriously, all right? He says. Also, who would win an arm wrestling match between you and guest? We've already addressed that, Chris earlier. Bad job by you. I would win. I have a distinct advantageer for doing it left handed. Well that well, yeah, that would be. But I'm I'm a righty. I'm not a lefty. I

knew you were a lefty. I knew your trouble. Uh Sarah from Minnesota Sarah sent a video on the fifth hour email, but unfortunately, she says, it's a lot of the third Rail but good stuff. But the video did not try to play the video. I clicked on it, it didn't load. So I don't know if you can send a link if it's on YouTube, which is probably isn't because it was. If it's third Rail, I probably took it off. Um. But if there's another way you can send it, maybe try again, Sarah and i'd I'd

love to watch the video. I like interesting content and but I could not get it. So Kentucky J and Ta right in from Scottsville, Kentucky. Yeah, glad you like the hat and hope David Gescott enjoyed the beverage. If this COVID crap was said to the last five more years in California continued in lockdown, no sports, etcetera, would you pack up the mallarmobile and go to a state less controlled or write it out? Yeah? It was it was up to me, all things being equal, Uh, I

would I would leave California. I mean, my whole life is in California, but my both my brothers left years ago. My my one brother lives in New York City. I got another brother lives in Wisconsin, so they move. Their lives are fine, They're enjoying life in different places. And ironically though both those places have similar problems that I have here in California. But I would, but there's there's other facts. It's not it's not even my life has a job. She's not gonna you know, she's not gonna

lose that job anytime. So that's a good stable job. And so I don't think we'll be leaving for other reasons. But if if it was as simple as just pack up the station wagon and get the hell out of here and go to Texas or Florida or somewhere else, yeah, sure, Elon must did it. I saw that he went to was it Austin? Austin, which is a really blue city in the great state of Texas. Now, remember what I

told you. Randomly last year, I was in line at Walmart to return something and an old guy was in front of me and started hitting me up with conversation, which I'm annoyed by. But he was a nice guy, and he said he was from Texas, and he then proceeded to complain about how all you people from California moved to Texas and bring the same laws in the same crap from California to Texas. And so prediction if if this influx, the contamination of Texas from Californians uh continues,

eventually Texas will be just like California. The politics will be the same because these people are gonna be voted in uh. And and so you're gonna have the same situation you have in California, the same problems with the politics in Texas. If you got that plus the electoral votes that go with it, that's that's the game, set and match. It is a final. Yeah. Kentucky Tay rights in from Scottsville, Kentucky, not Kentucky j This is Kentucky Tay.

She says, I thought I do my own question this week. First, I am glad, She says that you got the gifts and like that we did. Thank you very nice and I hope you told your daughter that we we got the birthday candles as well as very sweet uh and uh. She says, came very close to drinking the bourbon instead of sending it out a couple of times. That's my kind of woman right there. That's Kentucky. Tay, I'm going

for it. I'm gonna have the bourbon. Screw this guest gon Uh she's anyways, what is your favorite old school video game? That's a good question. So now I'm of the age where I had archaic video games like duck Hunt and uh what else did I mean? You know, the Nintendo, the early Nintendo games, Mario Brothers. I loved Mario Kart, the original Mario Kart. That was like a game changer. But then Tech Mobowl, RBI Baseball, I think it was called Man. I'd play those games for hours.

I would play those games, the baseball and the football, and I loved the early was an NBA jam when that came out of the two on two things, that was awesome. But then one of the first games I when I was a little kid, there was a game my my parents had the early Apple computers, and they had this game called Apple Galaxians, which was like Space Invaders, but it was like a rip off. And I love that. I was the master of that game, and all me and my brothers would play the game, and I dominated

the How was I ruled the roost? And so I always fondly looked back at that game, which is just like a crappy computer game with bad graphics. But I nailed it. I mastered it. They you get to a certain level, they give you a little flag, and I had the most flags, So what about you. I was a huge fan of Blades of Steel Tech Mobile Blades of Steel. Yeah, I played that too. Basses Loaded was there? Um, Mike Tyson's Punch Out obviously, Arcade wise, I love Street

Fighter two. That was one of my favorites. Another game called Rolling Thunder. I don't know if you remember that, and Final Fury where you turned from a man to like an or not Altar Bates excuse me on Final Fury. Uh to fighting games though, but that and Double Dragon when I remember that, old school games, and of course when we got into the nineties, it was all about Madden and NHL. Yeah. The early Madden was awesome. When they had the ambulance that would come out in the field,

it was so wonderful. And then the overlords at the nfls no, no, no, we're politically correct. We cut out having a relance out on the field. No, no, no, So I love that. Oh my god, the ambulance they came out, man, they corpora tized the Madden Game franchise. They took those and then the opening montages the way like the opening montages were great because they just had llacious hits, one receivers, the crackbacks, the heads of the head shots. They took all that shot out. Yeah it sucks.

Hey we're the old guys complaining. Yeah, we're the old guys complaining. So uh. The the NFL also, I loved when I was a kid and we were in high school, we get fired up by watching NFL films and they had like the hardest you know, hardest hitters, hardest knockdowns,

and it was great. All those videos were amazing. And they put Ray Nitchkey and Dick butt Kiss on there and they Chuck ben Nerrick would be talking about ripping a guy's head off, and uh, Jack Lambert would be going on about something with the Steelers back in the day, and it was it was amazing. As a kid, I loved that. Well, what about North of the Border Don Cherry who was a hockey commentators more yeah, more that

he used to have rock'em sock 'em. He'd have it on cassette, on cassette tape, and our VHS and basically was goals, great saves, and then just great fights. It would be like Stu Grimson versus Marty McSorley, just ship like that Bob prober Taye DOMI guys that were throwing you know, I gotta you just dropped the name here that I I actually relate to here, Uh, Stu Grimson.

When I covered the Mighty Ducks, he was kind of near the tail end of his run as a hockey player, at least, you know, he had he had become a name him as a a goon prior to that, and I I would interview because people knew who he was. And there's not a lot of guys in the Ducks in those days, and peop knew who he was. They were and so he went. He wrote like a children's book, if I remember correct. He was like a pretty even cool regular dude. But on the ice, he throwed down, man,

he throwed down. But Stu Grimson, I haven't heard that name in a long time. Oh yeah, great, And he's intelligent to like guys. I believe you what the law school about that. But yeah, he was nice. He was. I I put a lot of his audio on the mighty six ninety back in the day. John the jailer from Alan Town p a right, since says we're currently getting our first dusting of snow. Would you ever consider moving to a colder area of the country, John, Yes.

In fact, I occasionally wonder if I had taken that an offer to work in Boston years ago. And I always wonder if I had taken that. You know, I I love the passion of Boston sports, but I also know the weather in Boston is really nasty about five six months out of the year. It's pretty horrible, and uh, I think I would have but I would have adjusted. I think, you know, he's spend enough time somewhere you adapt.

It'd be kind of cool to have snow everyone, So I don't know if you'd be happy if he had snow for two months in a row or something like that. But I always here from people that live in places where it snows, and they seem to get really excited when it snows, So it can't be that bad, right, Yeah. See, And in the benefit of being in Boston is then you can go to Vermont, Rhode Island, New York. Like You've got everything up there that you can get into

whether it's for sports or leisure. Make a trip up to Canada. You're not that far away from Toronto, Montreal. Oh con alright Stopper Stopper in Mississippi asked the very important question is it really safe to drink your own urine? Stopper? First of all, listen, you should never take advice from an overnight sports radio show. You should certainly not take advice from Doc Mike. But I hold in my hand here three different books that have been written about people

drinking their own piss. So would I advise it? No, I'm not going to advise it. But there are people that apparently do it, and there are videos of people doing it. So yeah, it's not it's not my my thing. But this guy that we had on Martin Laura, the guy that wrote with what we had him on there on the show, that guy is all in. So but to east their own stopper, right, I would advise it.

You know, there's other things like water to drink. Matt from Holden Beach, North Carolina says, as a lifelong Eagles fan suffering through this dumpster fire of a season, if you were running the Eagles this year, would you fire Doug Peterson before the end of the season. Well, you're asking the wrong person, Matt, because I I think I've fired every coach in the NFL at one point or another. I I am captain knee jerk when it comes to coaching fires. I have fired Mike Tomlin over in Pittsburgh

several times. Now, Mike Tomlins on my good side now because he's given me some good audio content recently. Doug Peterson's gotta be on the clock right He's facing a standing eight count at this point. It has only been a couple of years since they won the Super Bowl, But that team is going the wrong direction and they're not a well coached team. You can tell they're not a well coached team the way that they these games have have gone down. I if I owned the Eagles,

I would consider it. Now you can say, hey, let's give him mulligan because Carson Wentz is the problem. If you believe Carson Wentz is the problem, it's not a coaching problem. You can trade Carson Wentz and then give Doug Peterson another opportunity with some other quarterback and see if it will work. But he's got to be on that list of coaches that could be whacked at the at the end of the and then I gotta fire him during the season, but after the year, I could

see it. Who gets fired first though, Anthony Lynn or Anthony Lynn. Yeah, he's he gone out of there. See you later. Uh valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee. He says, if you were the president, who would be on your cabinet from the crew and add Brian Finley and Arnie Spaniard. Yeah, maybe you can make Arnie your press secretary. Could you imagine a report partners newspaper writers. Oh, Brian could be the court jester, right, Brian Finley because he's he's got jokes. Well,

he could hire the interns, is that right? Yeah? Give him a little Hey, hey, what's going on? I really love those videos that Finley puts up, the hard old videos he puts on the Internet. There to look at me. I'm behind the microphone a little bit. You do the same thing. No, I do not. I do not do a video saying look at me as I'm working. That's exactly what you're doing. No, I don't, well, I don't before on Twitter, I don't send a let's go behind the curtain. Okay, I got you, I got you. I

don't know those kind of things. I'm not. You know, Brian's he's mastered Goofy's Sky School. You know he's he's hanging out in Goofy's playhouse. We love him, though. If he's happy with it and he gets paid for it, then all the power to him. Yeah. Kyle from San Antonio says, what is the most boring sport? Chess, backgammon, par Cheesi, or the W N B A. I think we all know the answer, Kyle. I don't even know any further there. Tiddley winks answer was the way to go.

Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame and friend of Alfie Alien Opiner says, as someone who has never been west of Pennsylvania, what is your holy trinity of West Coast specific chain restaurants? All right, I'll go first, Uh, in and out is obviously at the very top, in and out, in and out. That's what a Hamburger is all about. Some of the other chains that are West Coast specific. I don't think Weener

Schnitzel isn't national chain. Is great, that's not a national chain though, right. I think that's only in the West. I think they have underrated French fries. And the corn dog is to die It's good. Corn dog is amazing. And they got every kind of chili fries and you name it. They got a lot there. I'd say, fat Burger a little expensive for me. Fat Burger, good burger. Would you consider Carl's Jr. Or West Coast thing even though they have hardies. Yeah, I don't consider them West Coast.

They call it Carl's Junior in the West, but I don't consider that West West Coast. Uh, Tommy's Tommy Chili Cheeseburgers, Tommy's Guy am Tommy's seat there late at night after the show when I was getting really fat, when I was really at my fattest, I would go to in the one in Hollywood right off the one on one and I'd sit in there in my car in the parking lot because don't want to have people see me eat.

And I'd watched like there were so many people coming out of those clubs in Hollywood that would go down to Tommy's at three in the morning to eat the chili cheeseburgers. Oh that was place. Was a great I don't don't. I don't know if you you remember seeing it or if you've ever been by. But in between all the monstrosities in Las Vegas, all the hotels on the Strip, there's actually a Tommy's in the middle of two hotels. Yeah, that was the instant spot to go

to for hangover. They have a White Castle now in Vegas. Man not a fan of the White Castle. It's in one of the hotels. Yeah. Vegas has added to some of those changes that you don't normally see here in the West. They've added some one of the some of Roscoe's. That's that Roscoe's Chicken and waffle. Trying to think what else anything else come to mind? West Coast restaurants that are kind of small chains that our guy Pierre in Massachusetts had have no idea about. Do they have Taco

bell in the East Coast Taco? Yeah, Talco Del Taco. I don't think the Taco bells in Nashka, Yeah, Talco Taco Bells. Night. Come on, I'll talk about all right now. No, I know, I get crazy here. Lee and Phoenix says, have the Arizona Cardinals become relevant on your radar because you have two or three monologues a week about oh, we took a shot at you. Well, I'd just like to point out the frailties of alligator arms Murray. I've noticed on this podcast that David Gascon no longer brings

his name up to praise Kyler Murray? Could that be because he has faired the last four weeks? No longer underappreciated? Is he? Kyler Murray has been baffling the NF fails, almost like they've figured him out, and now he is bemused when he runs around on the field. You don't know what to do. It's the sixteen game regular season schedule and plus the playoffs. I think we have to look at it as a as a whole, as opposed

to looking at a couple of weeks. You would admit that he is mystified right now by what opposing defenses are doing. You would agree with me on that. Yes, I would admit a little bit to that. But I think there's some coaching issues to go along with it as well. I see, Okay, so the usual playbook to defend a quarterback, it's the coaches, Paul. It's it's the head coaches, Faul. You just did a monologue two days ago about how Sean McVeigh needs to go into that

mode of protecting his team against his fucking quarterback. Yeah, but I ripped the quarterback. Yeah yeah, exactly ripped the quarterback. But the Kyler Murray that you love you you had. This guy's your m v P. Not having the last of the season. Where is Kyler Murray as far as quarterback rating is concerned, I don't know. Middle of the back.

He's essentially tied with Cam Newton. He's twenty three in the NFL and he's behind Mitch Trobiskie has a higher pass reading uh Andy Dalton, Alex Smith of the Washington Football Team. Jared Goff has been the better player over the last of the NFL season. That's fine. Four weeks. That's imagine being bad at your job of the time. That's still good. I'll get you in the Hall of Fame. Wow, you are such a defender and apologist. Long with ago man.

He plays in the toughest division in the National Football League. He doesn't have his full weapon ry around him. That means defensively and offensively, and the play calling has been shoddy. Alright, So you're admitting you're such a loyalist to Kyler Murray that you're admitting the only way he's good is if

everyone stays healthy. And we know that's reasonable position that players don't get hurt in football, so it's reasonable think that if ever the Cardinals have a season where no one gets injured, none of their key players get injured, then Kyler will win the champions. You know, I'm not saying that. That's pretty much what you're saying. I'm not saying it's pretty much what you're saying. You're a mouse mouthpiece for Kyler Murray. He needs to improve his level

of play, including accuracy. But I think you're you're looking at this like it's just uh, you're a prisoner of the moment. Everything is just happening right before your eyes. I didn't hear a peep from you for the first eight weeks of the regular season, and then all of a sudden you went into attack mode, where that's a lie. You just lied. Wash your mouth out with salt and water. I was I was roasting this guy even earlier in the year, and you were you were like, you were, like,

what are you while you're doing that? He's playing great? I was like, no, he's he's he's a fraud. I was saying that early in this Open your ears. Bad job by you. It's a bad job by you. All Right, I have one more, one more email question. All right, you want to hear the last question here? Sure? Drumroll please? All right, the last the final question that made the cut here. Uh. This is from mckvin in Rockford, Illinois. Beautiful Rockford, Illinois. Is Kevin the biggest fan of the show.

Is that the same Kevin? He says? Mr Mallard and Mr gascon Old. Yeah, that's just west of Rockford. There is a small city called Freeport, Illinois. Their school mascot, I shoot you not is a pretzel. That's that's great, the Freeport Pretzels. What weird mascots do you guys know of? That is the the question. Well, I don't know what I'm trying to get, like high school ones. I don't you do more high school stuff than me? But I

know in colleges that most of us know. The the ant Eaters where I grew up in Irvines pretty good, diculous having a mask at the ant Eater at cal State Bakersfield. The road Runners, road Runner Banana slugs, right, Santa Cruz. How about for all those football fans out there Coastal Carolina. Oh yeah, what the s Schanta clears. There's a community college in Arizona that had there are

their masks an art choke. That's pretty amusing. I guess that's one mascot that you don't have to worry about someone you know, a hundred years from now saying hey, we're gonna get rid of this. You never know, you never know, you believe the art oft choke will become offensive to certain people, will be triggered. I need a safe space from art. When I was a kid, I

needed a save space from artichoke. I did. Uh well, now cal State Long Beaches the forty Niners, but their baseball team, now they got they got rid of the forty Niners. They're not because the world is triggered behind Long Beach State's happy confine. So now they're just the Beach What. Yeah, I didn to see that. I thought they got heard of the logo, but they kept the nickname. All of it's out like, yeah, their baseball team is considered the dirt bags. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

That's pretty cool. The dirt bags. Yeah, dirt bags. That is good, that's great. Yeah. Any other mascots that I'm forgetting here? That what about up in Modesto the minor league baseball team, the Modesto Nuts. Oh yeah, yeah, there's there's Minor League baseball has done a really good job with crazy nicknames, you know, just the ridiculous over the top nicknames. Yeah. Yeah, Um, like I'm trying to think the Biscuits, remember the Montgomery Biscuits. Yeah, yeah, that's that's

pretty good. Is there at one? There's a team in Michigan called the lung Nuts or something like that, Right, that's that's cool. Yeah, So I think that's it. Yeah, that's all all right, Thank you, kevinth that you everyone that email appreciate that if you did not hear the other podcast for some reason. Over the weekend, we had the chief on David's father, who ran the l a p D with the big shots of the l a p D for over thirty years and was central in the O. J. Simpson case, and we get to that

in that Friday conversation. So you can hear that and uh and also if you want to hear a wellness update on Dick in Dayton that was on the Saturday podcast, as well as a hum dinger humdinger of a day that I had on Monday of this week, but have a great day. Will be back on the radio. I will be tonight into Monday. Another edition of The Ben Maller Show two am in the East on Monday, eleven pm in the West on Sunday night. We'll catch you

next time. Have a great day. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific