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David Gascon is hanging out with this year. Yes, no applause this weekend. I noticed no, you know, I get something every so often and other times not so much. People are dabbling in their in their alcohol, so it's it's all good. I finally got a haircut and feeling good about myself, shaved a little bit. The beard is no moss. Hey, I got a haircut too, But that

I did, I didn't. I don't think I talked about I went to I went to here, I got a haircut, and uh, you know, I mean I was a little disappointed because well, you know what, I thought, maybe i'd look a little better without, you know, the mop that I got on the sides, but it, you know, it's so I still need to wear in my baseball caps. I got the hogan going on. I got the hogan. Do you do you feel better that you get a haircut?

Though I do. I it was I felt like I was turning into weed man hippie, you know, like it was just like it was nasty. I was like a totally disheveled the mess become a mountain man, you know, some kind of undomesticated mountain man or something like that. I was like, come on, that's right. It looked like for quite a while, we all we all look like the under falls and caveman. We normally normally act like caveman in the NFL, but we look like it's like

she's some kind of pruitive, borish brute walking around. So anyway, before we get into the medio podcast, this is a shameless promotion. If you haven't already followed us, please do on social media because I realized guessing most people don't listen to the entire podcast. We usually promote this at the end, but instead we'll promote at the beginning. On Twitter at ben Mouth if you're not already following me on there. If you want to follow me you don't

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pep talker. You know somebody's a fan of the show that needs a pep talk, I would love to do it for you. It's not free. It's not free, but it's not that much and it's a cameo. Dot com. Ben Mallory can search me out. We gotta get guests. Got on there to see if anyone will pay guests on to do a video shoutout should be I mean I could do a video shout out. I can do uh. I can do a dance for you if you want. I can do a strip tease if you want. I'm surprised, guest.

Nobody's nobody's asked to do like a video with Bella because I would do a video with Bella. Not a dog. It's not a dog that it's not a dog. Bella is a dog. What are you talking about? Bella is awesome. Bella's a shaggy dog. She's getting a haircut too. You're such you are such a loser with that that awful you're monsters with you are You're an ogre. Bella is the sweetest thing. Bella is the greatest. I've had a

lot a dog. I grew up in a dog family family dogs, a packet dogs, and she's like the coolest dog. He's doesn't bark that much, kind of follows you around and uh, perfect perfect dogs. She's a harmless little dog, Yes, I was. I don't need it. I don't need a dog that weighs three hundred poles and ships everywhere like a human being. I don't need that. It's fine. I like huskies. Yeah, I didn't know you in more ways than one. Yeah, I uh, speaking of that, I was.

I was working with our good friend the other night in Jonas Knocks, and uh, yeah, you're not gonna promote your social media. I like that you're not promoting your social media. That's good. I will in a second. But but I had this really confrontational experience with him because I just I can't get over the fact it's like getting passed over on prom night by by the hottest girl in your school. Like, I don't know what, I don't know how he got back to back Benny's. I'm

just I'm I'm perplexed by that. And uh, you know, I have a theory why he got back to like Benny's. And it's the fact that I don't take much time away, so there's not a lot of options, like and like the militia has chased away Arnie Spaniard canceled him, can't canceled him. The Varmint's got to Arnie, he doesn't want any part of us. The undomesticated animals and the Mallam militia chased him out of the out of the zoo. And uh so it's Jonas fills in the most. I guess,

Brian no does some trying to think who else? There's not very many to choose from. Chris Plank. Chris Plank does some stuff as well. Chriss fills in for me from time to time, but it's not a It's not a large pool of people, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, alright, So we have on this podcast, Gascon, We've got, We've got don't stick to Sports? And then we have a long email bag, big segment of email questions that were sent in on our Facebook page, which is not really email,

but it's our mail bag. I'm down for him, all right, very good. Uh So let's set into why don't we start with don't stick the sports stories of the week? What do we have this week? So weird not sticking to sports? And how about this? Um this actually might be uh stimulating for some of the folks in the Middlewest. A team of doctors and China Ben removed a fish from a man. Uh, they just remove it from him. They had to pull it out of his ass after he accidentally sat on it. Uh is that right? Well?

How well, that's the the mechanics on that are It's impossible it should be right. Um. This man actually said that he was feeling discomfort in the stomach, proceeded to win go to a clinic nearby. Um doctors found out through an X ray and a CT scan that he actually has a fish in his bowels and the only way that it got there was through his ass. Now, I wish you would have to shove said fish into said ass, right, wouldn't you? That would be the way that would work. Yes, yeah, I mean I it's gone

to the days of Giant Naxville and Jackass. But like this happens overseas and the People's Republic of Communist China, and that's what we got. You wake up one day you're like, I'd like to shove a fish in my ass. I think this will be a good thing today. Why don't I see what will happen? Hey? You know what you know the coronavirus and people are looking for new ways to stimulate themselves. Maybe he was going off the beaten path a little bit and decided to do that.

I guess, So why don't you try that tonight? Guestcan let me know how that goes. Why don't you just go down that road? Yes, yeah, I don't know if I can do something like that. The fact that Fats was able to light himself on fire after drinking his own piss is still horrifying for me. So yeah, I doing it on video and then you haven't Doc Mike

mail you a book on piss. It's just absolutely amazing. Um. Speaking of doctors, how about this used to a students box and are calling for firing of a professor after he refused to cancel final exams over the George Floyd death. Really? Yes, yeah, what's up with that? One? Professor's name is Gordon Klein of Useles Anderson School of Management. Was docked by students after you declined to allow minority students to skip the

final exams and grief over the death of George Floyd. Um. Back on May the twenty so, somebody said, well, you've got you know, the world's gonna happen, Like, if you have a job, you still have to work to do right. You can't go if you gotta show up to work. Yes, that's that's your is a student, that's your job. Yeah, that's the general idea. He said it. He said it an email. Thanks for your suggestion in your email, but below I give black students special treatment given the tragedy

in Minnesota. Uh do you know that the names of the classmates that are black? How can I to five them? Since they've been calling for online classes only? Are there any students that may be of mixed heritage? Uh, such as half black Asian? What do you do or what do you suggest they do with them out of respect? A full concession or just half? So well that's the yeah, well that's the the the arguments. I will how far do we take this year? Like where where do we go?

Like who's allowed to not do their job? I mean it's like the the idea. Some people are saying, well, the NBA shouldn't come back until the Uh this movement gets what they want. I mean, you know, are we supposed to society is supposed to shut down and no one work until something happened? Is that where we're at? I don't know. Because the officer has been fired, he

has been arrested. And there's an ongoing investigation, So be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Anyway, how about this, Disney fans wants Splash Mountain UH to update their music, and the reason why is they claim racism? Is that right? I like Splash mount I like the

vibe there. It's a very happy, upbeat vibe when you were ade Splash Mountain and it's pretty mellow until the very end and then you get so Yeah, they have the song it's the Song of the South, which is based off of ninety six film Um and the tail end of it, you know, you hear it. Zippity dooda zippity a UM. Protesters right now a asking Disney to change the music on that, calling it racist. But shouldn't you buy that? Following that train of thought, shouldn't you not?

Should you cancel Disneyland? Because if Walt Disney was a racist and he was behind that movie, and maybe he was, I don't know, how can you go to Disneyland because it was built on racism? Yeah? Isn't that the logic? Isn't that the train of thought there where they were racist? We gotta get rid of Disney. Anything with Disney's name on it should be blasphemy. We should get rid of it.

Speaking of that, how about this? Uh, Leaders at Berkeley College of Music out in Boston have publicly apologized for allowing Boston p D to use restrooms at their campus concert hall during the protests last week. They've apologized for that because they're not getting enough woke credit, because they looked down upon by the upper balcony there. Yes, they said it was not a formal decision to allow the officers to use the restrooms. It was an informal one.

It was made on the spots. So they in turn published a public apology. So coming correct for you taking care of the men in blue? So so, yeah, I guess, I guess if you're a bad actor, they would have let the people pillaging the cities, the unsavory characters, the miscreants, would have been allowed to take a whizz or whatever. They would have been. Okay, So that's that's where we're at. I got you. Yeah, Wow, that's great, are you price? No,

I'm not. I mean, that's at Berkeley College is a pretty liberal institution, I believe, right, Yeah, most of them more in Boston. Were you a fan back in the day of Jurassic Park any of the movies? No, not the first one. But I didn't really get that. Wasn't

like hardcore into it. Alright. I bring that out because there's a company called oxy Tech, and oxy Tech has received a special permit to experiment under the umbrella of the US Environmental Protection Agency to release genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. What could possibly go wrong? What could

possibly go wrong? Now, you're gonna love this because can you guess of the forty eight states here in North America that are located on our land, not Alaska, not Hawaii, can you guess one of the two states that these mosquitoes are getting released into? Well, the obvious one, that's anything anything like that. You just go Florida. You just

go Florida, and that's a that's it. Yeah, Florida and Texas are going to get the release of the mosquitoes initially, um then obviously they'll be able to travel throughout the entire country. Well, that's pretty funny. Speaking of that, I just I sent you this story of a while ago did you see the night parrot story? This comes from Australia. Know what. The researchers found that the night parrot actually has poor vision and keeps flying into things in the dark.

How great is it that the night parents they have similar eye size to other parrots, with smaller optic nerves and lobes that provide less resolution. And so the turns out the night parrot actually he's flying around crashing into walls and crap. So that's pretty good. That's pretty oh boy, that is so that is us not sticking to sports. Be sure to catch live edition of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific. Alright, not sticking in sports, but we do have a bunch of questions

the mail bag, the inboxes open. These are actual questions by actual listeners like yourself and the the Mallard Militia. I looked at the numbers. We have some breakdowns on Facebook of where people are and what countries they're in and where they're listening. It's it's it's mostly the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Those are the big three, but we got a few in Australia, Japan, Ghana. For some reason. Can you explain that to me? Guess there's a lot

of Mallard militia people in Ghana. Well, I have a couple of friends that now listen to the shows in Israel, in Berlin, uh, in London and in Dublin. So spreading out. The nice thing is with the metrics that we use for the podcast is yeah, we can see the demographics. We can see where they're at geographically. It's pretty nice.

So I cannot explain Ghana. I cannot explain that. Uh, Cutter, I don't know if people are listening and Cutter, but do we get the map all across the world, so you're bringing them in at any given time, Penny, they're all over the place, and might I say mostly dudes? The if you believe the numbers that I've got here, they send me the data or data every week and the Mallam militia breakdown. What do you think the percentages between men and women? What do you think the I

think ninety three to seven? Are you looking at the same numbers? That's exactly ninety over ninety three and six percent women? Damn, that's pretty good. That's close. Yeah three. Now I'm not looking at your numbers, but if you were to look at my d M S would be the other way around. If let may say so, Yeah, well I don't know that's actually true or not. I mean, there's no way to vary. It's like the owner is saying that they're losing money. There's no way to verifying

unless you give me your password. I can read your private conversations, prefer not to. That's that's fine. That's how many of you got going on? Yeah? I got enough? Yeah, okay, we got we got fifty states, and we got plenty of people across the country that like to like to listen. Yeah, all right, Well let's get to the questions here, actual questions sending by actual listeners. Um, you want to start with the FATS question. Fats, my job in Philly, we love Fats is out of control. Uh, this is bed

and gascon. If you could give yourself a Fallacio, would you ever leave your house? Go ahead, guest you go first. Yeah, of course I'd have to buy paper towels and buy the paper and by So, something tells me FATS has attempted this. I have me guessing it's somewhere along the way. Fats is probably like one of those backstretching machines right loveside down. You're inverted. And now you're trying to the funny thing with Fats, Like he drank his urine because

Doc told him to drink the urine. The other night, I had read through chapter I have of this urine propaganda book that Doc had sent me, and and I brought it up on the air. But not only did the urine cult think that you should drink your urine, they were also talking about using it in like for air freshener. Uh what else was it? It was they said air freshener, earwashing, eye washing, that you were like supposed to wash your eyes out with you here in

Nettie Pott. If you get a cold, you put the Oh my god, I can't believe you've read that much. How how thick is the book? But it's not that it's not it's not that big. It's but it's fourteen chapters and uh, yeah, I mean it's but yeah, it's wild. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Ottawa. Mark Rides by the way, Fats, I mean, I'm I'm good in that, you know, I don't. I don't need that.

You let me know if you figure that out, fat, let me know how your life changes an amazing ways. Ottawa Mark right Soon says, have you have you do one of the following for a million dollars? You have to drink one cup of your own doc Mike juice. You have to set all your body here on fire like Fats, or you have to spend a night sharing a bed with Flexis. This is Ottawa Mark. So yeah, I'm drinking my own piss, and if I have to

double fisted, I of those of those options. The body hair thing, you say, Well, Fats obviously doesn't hurt FATS. But what could go wrong? I mean a lot of stuff could go wrong. So you know, you know I don't do that. I know there's a technique that allows you to do that safely, but there's always something that could go wrong. Yeah, I would take a shot glass

of piss. I would do that. Sure? Why not? Uh alls fan Jimmy right In from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says, Ben, if you had to take one of your crew members in the foxhole, would it be including gascon? Well, you'd have to be well, I know what, I definitely would not put in my fox all because it's not on my team. But I don't know. I take you or Eddie? I guess what are you? Two guys would go with me? Sure?

Why not? Kennon Toledo? Right, Since it's since someone called out you Ben for the way you say the word company like company, I need to call out Gascon for the way he says the word actually instead of actually, bad job bout you guys? Actually, yeah, you said you just did it again. You just did it again? Actually what I say? Actually? How am I am? I not saying it right? Kennon Toledo points out it sounds a little awkward. I apologize, all right. Here's the question, Uh,

your go to hangover cure? And Ken says for him it's McDonald's sausage McMuffin with egg, Fountain coke and ibuprofen. Yeah. I've never really unhammered in in a while. I usually just try to sleep it off. That's usually my move there and not wake up until I'm feeling better. What about you? Guess what's your your go to? That? In San Pedro, Fantastic Cafe makes these delicious breakfast Brittos, bacon sausage, hash brown eggs. You don't need to give a promote

via an advertiser, guess. I mean, this is like a low budget restaurant, but it's good man, and have a dr Pepper with it. And I'm usually okay, but you're you're okay, yeah, okay, got you all right? That's it, very good. I thank you Ken for the the question. Who's next? Dan in Durham in the Carolinas there says, with all the unrest, all the writing, all the looting, have you upgraded or considered upgrading your home security? Arsenal Dan points out, Uh, Dan, Yeah, I have considered. You know,

I'm I've never been against the Second Amendment. I've never been against the right to bear arms and all that I have not. But I've never had a gun. And I actually have considered recently getting a gun. Uh. And depending on how people vote, and depending on how many police get defunded, I will buy a gun. Um. That will that will happen. Um. If you you get rid of the police, that's your move. My move would be to go out and buy a gun and a bunch

of bullets. What about you, guess, gun Yeah, I actually did it earlier this week, and some of the stores that I went into were completely dry of ammunition and weapons altogether. So one story I went to, it took me two weeks to schedule appointment, and it took me ninety minutes just to get in the door on that said time. So what's the process like in California, the People's Republic of California. There's a waiting period You've got

to fill out of paperwork. It's a hole to do right. Well, first off, you need to take a fire arms safety Certificate exam and yet to pass that yet it's thirty questions, multiple choice and you have to get above and then after you pass that, then you pick out a weapon. If it's available, then you could buy it. But then you you have a clock that starts where it's a ten day Department of Justice background check that's done on you,

and then you need to pick out your ammunition. So here in California, you can't have a magazine that carries more than ten bullets at any single time. Like you could have modifications obviously, and if you get to a different state, you're fine, but ten bullets is the maximum. And then anything I know that's fine, but you also need to have a gun that is licensed here in California. So if you go to a store, you've gotta buy what's available, and you can't have something transferred in that's

not approved by the state of California. And then on top of that, you're paying whatever it is for your ammunition, and that's not even guaranteed to be available to So how much ammunition cost usually costs anywhere from like thirty five to fifty dollars, depend ending on what kind of bullets you're buying and the amount of bullets that you're buying at one time, the magazines, or anywhere from thirty

five dollars too for clips. So yeah, it's pricey. And uh yeah, anyone that says that it's easier to buy a gun than it is to you to do anything else is full of ship. Well here it is, but anywhere because gun manufacturers aren't even working right now, I don't forget because the coronavirus. So it's not like people are at work right now producing weapons and producing guns whatever it may be, shotguns, pistols, rifles, it doesn't matter

what it is. But they're not producing them. So even if you order a gun right now, it's not available, there's no guarantee that you're getting it next week or the week after that either. Yeah, there's a lag time on that. So you're saying, if I decide officially to get a gun once they defund all the police, then I need I should probably be proactive on that. That's

what you're saying. Yeah, well, that's the thing. If if if you go get a gun now, if it's available, you can buy it, but if it's not available, you could put a deposit down for the gun, and then when the gun comes in, then they bring you back in to start your your background check, So then you have to wait an additional ten days to get cleared by the d o J. All right, well we will we will see, uh what happens with that going forward. Big Lou from the LBC, he says, six four two

sixty checks in. He's asked, Ben asked. Gagon says, for Ben, I've been listening to your Mallard monologues for almost ten years. He says, I rarely hear you say a quarterback is actually good. There are thirty two teams in the NFL. How many teams have a good starting quarterback. All right, well, big a Lou, thank you very much for your loyalty and your dedication. That is true. I do not do very many positive Mallard monologues about quarterbacks because that doesn't

make for good talk radio. I went to the school. We had Jerry Callahan on Big Boston Radio Guy a couple of days ago, and I'm of that same mindset or Rob Parker, where if it's positive, you don't need to spend too much time talking about it because people don't like to hear about that, like to hear about the negative. But the quarterbacks who are good in the NFL, um Drew Brees. I know it's taboo to say his name. He got canceled, uh, and he's I think he's apologizing again.

He's probably massaging my feet right now. But Drew Brees, Patrick Mahomes, Uh, Tom Brady, although I'm waning on Brady at this point because he's been pretty mediocre the last two years of the Patriots, but he's the all time legends. So you give him like a Lifetime Achievement award, and then Russell Wilson and then that's it. I don't have anybody else, everyone else to me is flawed in one way or another. So I got Mahomes, Breezes, Brady and Wilson and then that's it, and it's open season on

every other quarterback in the NFL. Everyone either sucks or blows in one way or another around the NFL. Uh Jonathan in Delaware writes and he says, if you had the opportunity to retroactively remove one player's injury prone career and by doing so have them have a productive career, who would it be and why? All right, Well, there's there's a couple of players that come to mind here, Jonathan.

That's a that's a question. I like this question. So basketball would be Chris Paul because the Clippers would have won multiple championships if Chris Paul hadn't been snap crackle pop and been the self imploding man in big moments in the playoffs with injuries and what now. So I would go Chris Paul and basketball, and then baseball only because I was somewhat friendly with him when he was

playing for the Dodgers. There was a picture by the name of Darren dryford Man who had the nastiest stuff and was just awesome, but he couldn't stay healthy, and that killed him, and that ruined his career. He would have been a dominant picture of a starting pitcher. They really believed that he was gonna be like a Roger Clemens type, just amazing starting pitcher, and it never never happened because he always had some kind of ailment and injury.

I would have been curious. I mean, obviously we weren't around at that time, but I'd be curious if Sandy Kofax was healthy throughout his entire career. Oh yeah, co Fax is before my time, of course, but that's a good anybody you got guest on your a broncho apologist, I mean, I could easily say Terrell Davis, but I mean, all jokes aside. I would love to see what Andrew Luck would have been had he not been hammerd with injuries and then just decided to walk away from the game.

That's the one that comes to my mind, all right. Jesse from Pomona says, with Whoopie Pie Blair saying he's going to put the moves on your wife, my question is who are you more concerned about, Blair or gascon Uh. Yeah, I would actually be entertained by Blair because I Blair talks a good game on the phone. I've made him know he's kind of he was kind of shy, a little bashful. Where is he from? Um, he's from California.

He started calling me in Orange County and then he moved His mom moved to Maine, and so Blair had to move to Maine with his mom, and so he's It was really funny because he used to call the show and he was just like another guy that would call the show randomly, and he knew I went to Saddleback College age and he lived and did some stuff around there, and so he would want to ask about

Saddleback College. And then he moved to Portland, Maine. He started calling the shows in Boston and then he became like a known caller. It was like he was just like a random guy that you got this like celebrity thing because of the power of sports radio in Boston. All right, uhlet's see, Um, I guess to answer your question, I would say yes, Scott, only because he actually knows my wife. And uh yeah, I just get a kick out of Blair. Mr Luciano right in from Los Angeles.

Very formal. Mr Luciano, uh says who is your favorite philosopher? The same goes to David uh Well. The one I referenced I quote a lot in the monologues as Aristotle, So I guess I would go Aristotle and the many quotes that he's had that knowing yourself is just the beginning of all wisdom. And what's I used the one a few weeks of patients is bitter, but it's fruit is sweets is another one, and uh, and there was no great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness,

which is important. That's pretty good too. What about you, guys, what's your favorite philosopher? I would say Aristotle. Is it okay to use an economist? Yeah, I mean I think Thomas Soul is really good, and I think more so now because you get people that tweet out stuff from his his books and his writings. Um, but you look at guys, I mean, you use that stuff in your monologues, which is great because it's just a certain quotes to jump out too, and you're like, wait a minute, it's

so simplistic quotes that that Matt. I mean, well, I guess in times now, this guy has been dead since uh nineteen fifty, but people quote his work quite a bit these days. That would be George Orwell, yeah, right, georgioell he wrote he wrote the book in nine teen nine, he wrote a book called ninety four projecting about what

the world might look like now. He was off by about forty years because a lot of that stuff he talked about in the book, the Orwellian thought police and all that, um, it happened not in four closer too, So I guess maybe fifty years or whatever. But yeah, that's another one. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live.

So all right, thank you Mr Lewis Luciano. Classing up the show Lenny the crypt keeper from Florida. Right, so he says, who do you pick? Carl Malone or Elvin Hayes, Jabbar or Shack Bird or magic? Alright, So I'm gonna take car Malone over Elvin Hayes. I lost a radio job the Carl Malone and uh he was awesome for the Utah Jazz a player to watch. I enjoyed that.

The Jabar Shack thing. I want to pick Shock because of his physical dominance, But the most unstoppable shot in the history of sport, in any sport, is the sky hook. So I gotta go with Kareem on that. The fact that no one's been able to mimic that is wild you have. If you could just do that, you would be a dominant force in the n b A and Kareem pulled it off all those years, So I would go with the sky hook of Kareem. And then the Bird Magic one. I mean, that is a the ultimate

toss up. I give an edge to to Magic though because it's it's close. I felt like Magic lasted a wee bit longer than bird Bird's back started giving out, So I'll give the edge to Magic. You want to end on that guest gunt, Yeah, I mean I like Malone. I think I'd go a Shack just because of when he was in Los Angeles, he was so dominant. And then Kareem is the all time leading score in NBA history, though I understand that, I mean people could say that.

Part of the thing was when I was a kid, I went to the first game I went to was like a Lakers Golden State game. It was I was in youth basketball play on the court at the Forum after the game, right and as through the eyes of a child, they took us down to stand so we could run out right after the game and playing on the court. So we were sitting like a last row

the forum. So we walked down and I'm walking and I walked by the basket as Kareem is doing the sky hook and I'm a little fat, round kid, and I look up and it looked like Kareem's hand was touching the fucking ceiling at the Forum. It was it was beautiful. I mean, I I don't know what I was saying. And through the eyes of a child, Oh my god, and no one ever could stop him. And I watched Shock and Shack was great, but Shock had Shock had no moves on offense. His move was just

to run you over, which was very effective. But like Stanley Roberts who he played with at l s U. And I knew Stanley when he played with the Clippers of the but Stanley had many more offensive moves than Shaquille O'Neil did so. And also I think in today's game, i'd take burn. But back in the day, I Magic Johnson was my favorite player. So yeah, Bird would be really really good in the way the NBA that just to jump popping shot, Poppa shot NBA of today, Ethan

and Acron writes and says, what franchise has the saddest history? Alright, So there's different definitions of sad, Like you said, just rotten, losing, pathetic. He'd go like the Detroit Lions, the Cleveland Browns at one point where a respected franchise, he beloved franchise. I can't go with the Cleveland Browns. They've been a laughing

stock lately. You could also say the Bengals. But the Bengals occasionally had some good teams that got to the Super Bowl with Boomers siasin that the Ken Anderson days, they had some some decent teams. So I guess you San Diego and l a Chargers man, like they have never won. They got to one Super Bowl, got blown out in two cities, but they were like average, like Chargers are like your typical, like Indiana Pacers. Like the Indiana Pacers are average. They're never that bad, they're never

that great. They're kind of in the middle. They've had Hall of Fame talent that has revolutionized the game and they still fell short. They had a four ten two team that lost at home after Marlon McCree made a pick of Tom Brady and then fumbled the football away like that. You know, the Chargers have had a sorry but I'm talking all times, just like the Linons suck every year and the only time people watch him is on Thanksgiving and this boring. They don't compete most of

the time and they suck. And then, my god, if people would say the Clippers in basketball, but the Clippers over the last decade have been one of the top teams in the NBA consistently during the regular season. Minnesota is actually the Timberwolves. Pathetic, They're gonna be the worst. And in baseball, see, baseball is tough. Yeah, baseball. You could even say the Marlins are terrible. But they've won two World Series. Yeah, they've only made the Laofs twice.

They've had more hunt ninety eight plus lost seasons, and they've had playoff appearances. Uh, the Mariners, but man, the Mariners were the most exciting team in baseball and the Griffy years, the Mariners are the most exciting team when they had and your Martinez and those guys. They never won, but they were fun to watch. Randy Johnson on the mound, they were the show. I remember when they come into Anaheim and they would get a big crowd, the fucking Mariners.

People wanted to see Griffy. He was a rock star. Well he was like the is he the last rock star? I don't. I don't think Jeter played longer, and obviously they crossed over, but I don't think people went out of their way to watch Jeter a a rod maybe a little bit, but like Griffy that he had this this charisma to him, that he was like the last of the baseball players where people actually cared about all the stars that he gives a funk about. Nobody goes

out to watch Mike Trout, Who the funk cares? The guy's boring. Uh, he's not. He didn't want to be a star. And then so people don't treat him like one. Well what about the San Diego Padres. Then, oh, my sad sack. Padres. They do a couple of World series though they got sweat. Yeah, but the Marriners have never even been to the World Series. There's never been to the World Series. Padres had the great Tony Gwin Podres

like they were. I think the more like the Chargers of the Pacers kind of average average, Like the Mirrors have been really terrible. They were terrible early on when

they started, and they've been terrible again. Here all, we gotta be a time for a couple more so, let's try to get these last couple In Kentucky, Jay says, would you guys rather attend an arm wrestling match or a Knickerbocker Hawks game, because I'm taking the exciting arm wrestling, And he said, I'm talking about the exciting arm wrestling like the movie Over the Top of the Top Lincoln Hawk. Is his name Sylvester Sloan? Well, are we talking? Are

we talking? Wouldn't be a playoff game because the Knicks never make the playoffs or the Hawks. But if it was like a playoff game, I would rather watch a Knicks Hawks playoff game if they both made the playoffs. But if if not, if it's like a boring regular season game on a Wednesday night where there's no juice in the building, then I take arm wrestling. I'm down for arm wrestling just for the simple fact that someone might snap their arm. You're sick you're you've gone to

the dark side. You're on the highway to hell. Trucker Joel writes in from Pennsylvania. He says, if both of y'all could bring back anyone from the dead for twenty four hours, who would it be? What would you say? And where would you go with them? It's kind of a cop thing. I mean, the obvious one for me would be my mom to say, Hey, Mom, look how funked up the world is today. You're not around. Look at that ship that we're gonna do with um. But if you want to go like someone in sports, I mean,

the cliches will be like bringing back Babe Ruth. He was. He was a five tool player and he was great with the ladies. Right party Again, here's some of those stories about when he was you know, women were chasing him naked through the train that Birch Sugar used to tell that story, the late great Birch Sugar. How about Wilt Chamberlain. I was on the air of the day Wilt Chamberlain died. Uh, we're doing radio in l a And imagine some of the stories Wilt has to tell

about his days with the women. He was a big will Will was ahead of his time in more ways than one. But like can you imagine Wilt Chamberlain today, which the story telling and people wouldn't be able to handle. They'd be triggered by the stories about it. He would have been canceled by the culture before being a woman. What about Joelton Joe DiMaggio. You know, I saw the

matt I as a kid. I went to a hotel in San Diego to get Joe Tomaggio's autograph because he was in town for an autograph show, and a buddy of mine tipped me off what hotel he was staying at. So we hung out, is me and a couple of kids. We hung out. We were teenagers. They hung out in a lobby at this hotel in Sandy as swanky hotel in San Diego, waiting for the Maggio to get out of his room and get on the elevator. And that fucking guy to matt he was an old man at

that point. I think he died a couple of years later, but he he they even at that point in life. They snuck him through the kitchen. They snuck Joe to Maggio through the kitchen because he didn't you want to sign autographs for US kids. How about that? That's pretty good. Um, who, so who do you want to be? Who you would want to I probably want to bring back some presidents.

I'd bring back to JFK and bring back Lincoln and then George Washington of course, what about William Howard Taff No, it would be it would be interesting to bring back the forefathers and say, all right, is this what you intended? Is this? You put all these guidelines and guardrails in the constitution. This is the country the way it is today with mobs of people running around for people disagree with people that have free thought and disagree with their position.

Is this what you expected? And if you saw this, what would you change? Wouldn't that be interesting here with a guy like George Washington or any of those Benjamin Franklin, any of those people would say, Yeah, you get Thomas Edison in there, that'd be great. Um, what if you got like a warrior? What if you got Ganghis Khan or someone like that. Yeah, yeah, you could. You could go down that that rotor of you want? Or sun Zoo?

How about the fact sun Zoo wrote a hundred page book The Art of war, which everyone to this day credits like any military people and when the military reason, sports people use it and they used the concepts from that book from sun Zoo in in athletic competition, on any kind of competition. Alright. Last one, Carlos in Houston U says, how much money did you lose on the Music City Miracle? Uh, Carlos, I don't want to get into it. It was a very painful amount of money.

And I am trying to forget that that was of illegal forward passes, you know, Carlos from Frank White check to Kevin Dyson. Into my last breath in this mortal coil, I will believe that with all my being. He also says his three year old child is saying number one like to drop on the show. I hope he's not using the thing. Well, that's great. I love I love this man. You guys are cool. So I've heard Carlos says is three year old kids, which is like the

coolest three year old kid around saying number one. And then another guy and I forget the guy's name, and I apologize from I think it was from Minnesota, said that his kid has adopted bad job by you and so his kid runs around saying bad job by you, which is great. That's pretty cool. That's pretty neat. So as we wrap this thing up, I do need to add we we have actually have a review that was added to two iTunes. Can I can I throw that in here as we Oh, let me guess, let me,

let me go. This is gonna be massaging You're junk, is what this is gonna be. This is gonna be a fallacio for guess god. Yes, no, no, it's actually not the title of it is seriously entertaining, and it's five stars. It's from half nineteen eighty um, but it says this podcast is simply the best podcast around. Dave and Ben make a great parent. Always entertained me. I never missed an episode. That's it's pretty pretty amazing. It's interesting you read that one. He didn't read great podcast,

great podcast. Big Ben is a radio legend. Who's the other guy from rob Rob wrote that one you put five stars? That's fine. You don't know who you are, that's fine. He again, Remember you're probably not listening now because most people don't listen to the whole fucking podcast. But if you are, God love you. We're like extreme get a life. But no, seriously, but five stars on the podcast. I know it's a pain in the ask. Nobody does it. I don't do it. I listen to

podcasts all the time. I fuck it. I don't think I've ever reviewed one, so I guess I'm disingenuous. Do what I say, not what I do. But it does help us out, and we we got a couple. Um keep them coming. They'll keep those reviews coming. And five stars, it would be great. And uh, we'll love you forever. We'll love you forever. All right, have a great rest of your Sunday here, and we will be back at

it tonight. I'll be back in the box in the flying pan behind the microphones for another edition of the Ben Mallar Show. Stay healthy, be well. We'll catch you next time.