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four hours a night are not enough. Eight days a week, eight days a week. We are glad you have found the radio show in podcast format. It is a standalone podcast, no radio, only on the podcast format. And we are ready to rumble, is what we are ready to do. Yes, I think the bell here has joined yet again from West of the four oh five, David Gascon, You're you're not the only one with some drops, although mine probably a little bit better than yours. So well, no better.

So I have a more authentic audience here that they're very happy. I'm here decided. Yes, the reason what you have is like fake over the top. What I have is legit. That's a you can feel the president of the crowd. Can't you know this? But we're we're in Los Angeles and everything here is pretty much fake. So um fake tops, Well, not not on this show, just the reality. No, would you ever get inclined to get would you ever be inclined to get hair plugs? Uh? No, No,

I don't. I don't. I don't think so, although if somebody, you know, sponsor paid for it, I consider it. But it seems like a lot of you know, a lot of work you could probably put off. The pull off the John Travolta look like people were giving him shit about having the hair plugs and all that fake hair, and then all of a sudden he wouldn't he picked it, and you know he was. He's rocking it. He's rocking the bald. So if it, if it goes for you, I think it'd be I think it'll be good. Just

with the bald. What is your here gonna start to fall out? You're you're getting up there in age. I don't know, man, I don't know. I'm a little worried if that comes in anytime soon. Although the beard is is pretty pretty gray now, like it's getting there. I got like salt and pepper. Yeah, so you're I mean, you're a long time television guy. So is the look to go, you know, without facial hair, or is it to rock the salt and pepper look on camera? Well, see,

I think you look. It's that kind of with glasses. I'll answer you this like when I first started wearing glasses, I said, oh my god, what a what a clown? I the clown at the classes. But then I realized that people see you more educated, that you have knowledge when you have classes on. So it's it turned a negative into a positive. Now I think the same thing is true with salt and pepper. Okay, I will have I have that going on any people look as well,

you've been around, you're a seasoned veterans. Yeah, there's something, there's something there and uh and so yeah, I don't think that's bad. I think that's that's pretty good. So uh yeah, I'm not I guess now there is a point where you cross over and then you become the old guy. And then when that happens, your phone likely

will not be ringing that much. And you know it's gonna it's gonna be that kind of So it sounds like it sounds like to me, where you're trying to tell me is that I need to get my best suit on, grow the hair out, and and kind of mimic Dallas reins of our local uh of our local ABC affiliate a global podcast Gascon. You're doing local l A TV personalities as your reference. That is not not something we're looking for. It's a bad job by you. It's all right, it's all about proximity for me. So

I can't do that. It's a podcast, but yes, um, it's been Yeah, I mean, I don't know like Robe as well. Roll. Rob is a great friend of the show. He's a friend of the Mallain Unleish. I've known Rob for many years. I love Rob. Rob's great Channel seven in l A. Rob Fukusaka and if you if you look at his name and the last name, you'll say that that name would be pronounced a different way. But we love Rob. Rob is outstanding. So I can't I

can't get enough of him. I don't know what. But as far as the way this podcast, and this is the email podcast, the email podcast that we're gonna go deep into the mail bag. We're gonna answer all of your burning questions because this, let me tell you, the Mallar militia endless questions and and these are not a waste of time. They're not They're not like that. They're they're more meaningful guestcount they are, I think. But anyway, we'll get right into the mail bag, not dilly dally.

Do not waste any time. No no, no, no no, so uh. The first email and if you want to send an email by before we get into this, if you want to send a message to the show every Tuesday now, I will put up on the show facebook page, my Facebook page Ben Mallers Show on Facebook a post. Normally it's in the morning. It could be mid morning at late morning if you're on the East coast, early morning on the West coast. Here's the around seven or eight on the West coast, of ten or eleven on

the East coast. I will put a post up and ask for questions. And you can do it at any point over that that day Tuesday, or you can email your question whenever, Like right now, you can be listening to this Sunday podcast and say hey, I got a question for next week. As long as it's not dated, then we can use it. Just put question in the headline and send it over Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. So you can send questions whenever, whenever you want. And I would be remiss now being that this is

the mail bag podcast. We actually have a legitimate big time podcast open which needs to be played here. Guesscan because you can't start. That's right. So now we're ready to go. Thanks to all high Oh wow who re recorded that and it's solid. That's it's gonna go viral. Doesn't sound playing again now I like it so much, very exciting. Alright, So first email comes in from the state of Montana, The State of Montana. It says, Benn and David, have you guys ever worked with or been

best friends with someone who is so negative? Such a cry baby, tries their best to get people in trouble and emotionally is such a pussy. That is what Helen is. She's completely toxic. She can't handle people enjoying their jobs, their lives. She must have a very sad, depressing life, probably no friends or family that even want to be around her because of her toxicity. Stu is probably similar and has made the mistake of treating her like a queen.

Queen of shit is what she is. I will pay David not to apologize for using an acronym crazy ugly negative. Toddler signed Tammy in Montana, Well, Gascon, you really have a group of listeners. It seems like they're mostly women who runder your defense. Here. You have a a squad, will call them the squad here that run around the very upset with him. Now, I did not get an email this week from Helen. Now that could mean that Helen is no longer listening to the podcast. I hope

she's still listening. I'm a fan of Helen. The friends of mine, they're good friends of mine via email, or it's possible she's not listening. It's possible she's this thing and she's stewing. I see what I did there. She's stealing and and then she could respond with a more vicious attack. But Tammy, Montana, how much did you pay her for that? What's the dollar she said she was gonna pay me? So I just wonder what kind of

transaction this is? Um Montana. Anytimes I need to go to Montana, I need I didn't make a trip that way. North Dakota, South Dakota maybe Montana for sure. Wyoming. I need to do that. I need to you know, we're not able to do too much here in Los Angeles County anymore. So Bys Well, you know my great to other parts of the country. If you're allowed to do that, show me your papers go to like Wyoming, you should, you'd be good in Wyoming. Yeah, she would be great.

Now did you have did you have a fake idea when you were younger? I did have a fake idea? What was the state of the idea from? Well, it was actually in California. This is a long time go. And there was a meat shop. I've told the store before. There's a meat shop though in I grew up in Orange County, in Santa Anna, which was the bad part of Marge County in those days. So we went in there and every buddy in high school say hey, I I know this place and saying and it's a meat shop.

But if you on the back, you walk all the way through the meat shop, all the way through all the different meats that are cut up and you know, and being stored in the freezer. You go the very back. They have a storage room. And in the storage room, if you talk to whoever the person was, I forget

the name. They have a machine and they do I D s and if you pay them an extra whatever it was like twenty bucks, they'll do an I D. Put any age you want, doesn't matter, they don't check, doesn't and it's official California state I D. And in those days that's how you could get an I D. And now you have to have everything. It's a lot more red tape and supposed to be more legit. But yeah, I fake id my name on my cake. I d uh. This is when Cheers was on TV. Was norm not Peterson.

That's good. I brought it up because mine was for Billings, Montana. Billings, Montana. Now the veteran move here and I have a guy that we've had on the podcast here. I will not reveal his name, but I think you can figure out who it is. Who's got a license plate from one state, a driver's license from another state, insurance from a different state, all in an effort to circumvent having to pay taxes

the full amount of taxes. And so it's great, but my my friend will point out that it does become a little bit of a hassle when you get pulled over and you have to explain why your cars from one state, your driver's licenses from the second state, and your insurance is from the third state. So that becomes a little that becomes a little lessy. But but once you work around that, and then it takes a long time. It's a hassle. But legally you're not breaking the law

per se. You're allowed to do that. So yeah, that's good interstate commerce. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, you're up and out other parts of the country. Why not Kevin from Rockford, Illinois, Right, So, and he says, Hey, if I saw you at Costco Bend and wanted to picture and an autograph, would you shun shun away or would you take the picture where you shotted me away? Or take the picture? Uh? Some well known people are nice

in the spotlight, but dicks in real life. So Kevin, Now, I've actually had this happen multiple times, which is odd to me because I'm on radio. But I've had people I've been at Costco, not the not scess I moved, but before and there was a gentleman that came up to me and was a fan of the show. Very nice. So here's what would happen, Kevin, First of all, it would be very awkward. It's very awkward. I'm at Costco.

I'm in my happy place. I'm eating my hot dog, my slice of pizza, I'm having my my good time getting some samples. They're walking around Costco. So be awkward. It's unexpected and you never expected. But yeah, I'd be having to take a picture unless I'm dressed like a slob. Then I'd be like, I don't know if I want to take a picture. The autograph things always awkward. The autograph things awkward because you know what, my autograph is

not worth anything. But if you wanted it, Kevin, I would give you an autograph, and as long as I wasn't a total disheveled slap dick, I would take a photo with you. Sometimes I go to Costco and I'm I'm not wearing my Sunday church clothes. I'm dressed like you know, So it happens. It does happen. Now, Gascon would charge you thirt for the autograph, and for the

photograph that's actually eighty dollars. So he charges more for photographs because it's it's still cheaper than what you charge for Cameo, so um, I would say I'm within a reason after after this explain after on Cameo, as we talked about in the previous podcasts, after Apple takes, and after Cameo takes, there's not much left over, and then the tax man gets in there, so there's not much.

It's too much of public service, even though it seems it seems like that's a lot of money to buy Cameo with me in it, but then when you do the math on that, you're like, wait a minute, that that's not that much at all. Because when everyone puts their hand in the cookie jar and you gotta take money out for this, that and the other thing, and the grind is on, and then I'm left licking left that by the time it's done, I'm like, my watch that raise your price. I'm like, no, I already raised

it once a couple of years ago. I said, I can't go any higher. No Moss, no Mass, no no Mass. Joe in Richmond, Virginia says Ben, the game's played on the radio show are so entertaining, but over the past two months there seems to be no time to fully play them. Have there been any discussions among your team to improve time management and allow more time for the games. Uh, well, Joe,

it's a question we get quite a bit. It is the ebb and flow of the radio show as we gibber gabber and yapp the night away, and it's a balance. And some nights we have more time for the game,

some nights we don't. The problem I have, Joe, is this, there's no guarantee the games are gonna be any good, and oftentimes it's like drinking from a fire hose when you get these games going and you're like, they're they're they're terrible, and there's nothing worse than having allotted a fair amount of time, which is very valuable, most valuable resource we have as time, and then you set up an extra long game show and then you get a couple of dumb dumbs like just morons, Mama, Luke's on

the game, and then you're like, what have I done here? We were just this is bad radio. It's terrible. Now. It is frustrating when we have two good people in the game and then the game ends up being short. I don't like it. And we do need to have a fair amount of time, and some of these games we've had very short amounts of time, but we get carried away and some other things, and then time escapes us and we the ebb and flow of the show.

But at some point maybe the the people upstairs and suits will come knocking on our door and then I'll be on time mat by the clock, four the clock, possibly all about the clock at that point, right, as much as I love the games, when you when you get goofy flexus versus hollering James in the game show, and or not even really Holliday James, I mean those guys actually somewhat try. It was our guy in Ottawa, Gordy and Ottawa who's now in Waterloo, which nobody knows

unless you're in that area. But Waterloo and some of the other goofballs they get on there, So that answers your question, Joe. But I'm glad you like like the games, Hey, Ben and hopefully David. People don't know when you're gonna be here, Ben, since you moved into your new Mallard mansion, what's the story on your laundry basket? Wait? Who's that from? Uh? Hold on a sec here. This was posted on Facebook.

I don't think they always say every post I say name and city, and of these Yahoo's never actually I never actually post their name in city. Let me I'm gonna go to the Facebook page right now. Hold on a sec here, and we're listening live to Ben Maller going deep into the heart of Facebook. Yeah, I'm gonna go into Mark Nuckerberg's political weapon of choice. Calm down over there, Hold on a second. Were you a big MySpace fan while you're looking that up? Were you bigger

in my Space or Facebook? Uh? No, I had my Space. We we used my Space. My Space was bigger than at one point it was bigger than Facebook for a while. They screwed that up. It's kind of like there was VHS and there was Beta, and Beta was bigger than VHS, but then VHS passed them by. Now they're all done. This is from Kevin. That's a little bits around you. You. I looked up the name, and the name is Kevin. I don't know where Kevin's at. Kevin didn't give his name.

I don't see anything on his his Facebook pages. No workplace given, no school, no place to show, no relationship information to show. Pretty much a ghost. Well, you know what, he's a male and he was hoping for me to be on the show. So it's it's a good job. I'm kind of males and females. You you're hoping that it was a a woman, are you? Are you bummed

out right now? No, I'm just showing the balance that I have amongst your your your loyal listeners are are obviously male and female that would like to be a part of more and more and more. So it's a beautiful thing, man, It's a beautiful thing. My man. There's a lot of people right now that wish your time on this podcast would just go a different direction. Always say so anyway. Uh, just like just like in Donkey Donkey Kong. There you go. I love that. Uh it's

not fake at all, Mr President, It's not. It's legit. It's authentic. It's wonderful news. It didn't happen. It happened. I just played it. I just played it right there, all right? What is next on the mail bag? Blake

in Arkansas? By the way, to answer your question, Kevin, on the laundry basket that you're talking about, the laundry cart that I found on the side of the road that I took to the Mallam Mansion, that, and then I'd say, of all of my belongings are any storage ship, and it is collecting dust, and it is very valuable trash. You're paying a lot of money to store trash at

this point. And I have realized one of my my takeaways from this experience, this little episode of my life, is that I have lived a good life over the last couple of months without all of my stuff that I really do not need pretty much everything that's in a storage situation right now, I don't need. My life's fine. I don't I have everything I need. I can live my life. Everything's fine. I mean, that's just extra stuff that now. I'm not saying I'm going to become a

minimalist and live out of a backpack. I'm not saying that at all. But but all I am pointing out is that I really do not need the crap, the laundry cart, the you know, go go down the list of all the other random nonsense that I have, and it's why am I paying all that money. It's it's ridiculous. So anyway, uh, Blake in Arkansas says, boys, you should have taken me up on the Arkansas Texas tickets. That place was rock. What an atmosphere? Damn Yeah, I saw

that game crushed. Yeah, I was watching that. It was that was good. You put Steve Sarkise in in his place, I says, oh, and David the talent, Oh, the talent. Every five steps, little southern bell, shorty rocking, the short skirt and cowboy boots. That sounds good. It sounds good. That's good, good scenery. I need to go. I need to go make my way down there. Yeah, you'd be big in Arkansas. You can go to Arkansas. I can see in little Rock, rocking rock. It would be kind

of fun, man, just for a week. When I started telegating on Thursday and then finished Sunday, Sunday night. Yeah, I was in I don't know about Arkansas. I was in Oklahoma. And as soon as the game and then they were they were drinking the beer at seven in the morning. They were going for seven am. And the game was like, it wasn't an early aim it was a late afternoon evening game and they were they were

drinking the drink. Let's see good God, Almighty Blake says. Anyway, changing gears, Ben, I called a month ago and told you I have around ten thousand new era fitted hats from the old Negro leagues. Some some are super cool and I have the cruise, but I don't have a single one that will fit your big gass mail and so no in the in those hats unfortunately, which which sucks. He says. I finally found you one locally that will fit. Well, thank you, thank you for that. Uh, it'll be in

the mail this week. David, what is your hat size? Any color? I don't know, seven and three eights, I don't. I gotta look at all the Negro League teams, then, I man, how does one with around ten thousand a new era of fitted hats from the Negro man? I don't know, but they gotta be some really good ones, though, Oh you know what you should? That sucks that they have one. Ben, the Baltimore Giants, hold on sick. Let me go to the Yeah, the Birmingham Black Barrens. That's good,

and it's good. Okay. I think you have a guy. I used to have a guy named Quentin from l A. He's probably, but he used to call me up and he would anytime I talk baseball. He talked about Josh Gibson and he was convinced that Josh Gibson. They said, they call him the black Babe Ruth, and he was better then Babe Ruth. And he called up and tells stories. You know, he's old, old black guy, and he tells stories about Josh Gibson, how far the home runs he hitting,

all this stuff. He was so old. I think he watched Josh Gibson play. Really, I mean it was crazy. But let me see, I'm going to them. You know. I think the Nsas City Monarchs is a good hat, and probably there, yeah, and probably the Newark Eagles. I'm my favorite color is probably blue on these hats. But I just went on. I went to the Negro League website and they're all all the hats are sold out.

But I'm looking here the Memphis Red Sox. That's that's big M. It's not a bad looking, you know, as you know, I have a fascination with M and and B hats, so uh yeah, I look at the Baltimore Elites. Although that looks it's a B, but it looks like an eight to me. Yeah, it kind of looks like an eight to me. Let's see what else do we have here? You can wear that when you can't wear you can't you can't wear the ABC. I can't wear that, like, uh, the a lot of black a lot of black crackers? No, oh,

is that what? I don't know. I even looked at that Austin Black Senators that looks like the University of Arizona hat. That's good. Just got like a red A with white outline on it. That's good. Yeah, Memphis is solid. I think it was just the kind of content that people are looking for. Is this writing. People tune into the podcast to hear us look at random neg really

gots here's the Oakland Larks. That's like, oh, kind of reminds me of an Ohio State hat, except it's black and yellow, black and yellow yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow. Oh my god. And they of those the two that I would rock the ones I've looked at Baltimore elite giants, I'd go that in Memphis Red Sox, Yeah, Memphis is good seed by the Boston Red Socks. I mean, do you imagine if you started a team and you just said I'm gonna I'm gonna call him the Dodgers

and we'll have a team name. We'll see how that goes. And I see New York humans. That looks like that looks like the Mets hat to me, just a fatter in and a fatter why yeah, why there? Man? Could you imagine if you rock that Atlanta hat the Atlanta Black Crackers, if you rock that getting knocked out? It just says ABC, right, doesn't it? Is it? Well? It has ABC in the middle, but around it says Atlanta Black Crackers. Oh does it? I don't see that page

them on. Yeah, that would be awkward that there's like the Cleveland team was called the Buckeyes. Yeah, so Baltimore, the Baltimore Black Sox and the Memphis Red Sox are probably the two best hats I see on? Are those are the ones? I know? I'm just saying I'm going to talk to bottom like looking at all these because I didn't see the other ones. Uh, that's good man,

it's good. Yeah, that's good moment. This is Kansas City, All Nations one that it's kind of weird, but I think we were trying to do the cee like a baseball diamond. It looks like to me, yeah, that's a good pace. Well that that we spent way too much time on that, But thank you Blake for the hat that you're gonna send preactive and pre preemptively. Thank you, and yeah, seven and three eight, seven and three eights. But you didn't really specify which what you're looking for.

I mean, you were all over the place. You mentioned like seven or eight different hats. Chef's choice, How about that chef's choice? All right, let's see here. Mike from Fort Wayne, Indiana, the cub fan says, how annoying is Stephen A. Smith? Well, he's not. I've known I've known Stephen casually since he was a writer in Philadelphia. Um, but I don't watches I'm sleeping when he's on, so I don't watch his show, So he's not annoying to me at all. I don't really consume his social media.

I don't follow him on social media, so he he exists in a parallel to mention. But I am fascinated every time I see how popular with the two percent on social media, how popular Stephen A is, And I flashed back to when he was the morning guy at the shop that we work at and didn't didn't really move the needle at all. It's fascinating, you know, But good for him. He's he's done very well for himself, but didn't quite work as a morning morning radio guy.

John writes in he says, when you go out to dinner, soup or salad, always soup, never salad, sometimes never sup. Always soup, never salad, sometimes never sup. Uh So, I I love my new thing here when we have a nice Mexican restaurant near the house here, tortilla soup, big fan of Do you like tortilla soup? Yeah? Absolutely, soup and an Italian soup Italian restaurants, I get that, like meat ball soup. Forget what it's called, but got some

some authentic Italian name. But I like that. Yeah. I don't like the salad unless it's not really a salad. Just put a ton of chicken on it and salad dressing and make it seem like it's you know, you think you're eating a salad, but it's really just a lot of fattening stuff on top of lettuce. Now the question is what tortilla soup? Do you eat it? Cold? Warmer? Hot? I like it hot? I like it, Yeah, I like it. You I go, I go hot or cold oddly enough

like my food hot, mostly unless it's ice cream. Jason in Rocky Mountain. Hey, guys, I was wondering if you have watched Malice at the Palace, the documentary. I caught it the other day and I had no idea. Charlie Lee in San Antonio used to be a Pistons fan and his claim to fame was getting clocked by Ron Artest and Jermaine O'Neill. I guess that's why he moved to Texas and became a Spurs fan, says Jason. I have not seen the documentary. I've been had people recommended.

I'm not able to watch a lot of documentaries right now because of my living situation, but I will at some point. It's on my my two watch list, so I'll check it out. I've also heard good things about this Mets documentary that has been popping up on the radar in the last week about the eighties six Mets, so I gotta check that out. The Malice of the Palace one was amazing because we we lived it on the show. We were on that night one of the great nights I've had in radio, Jason, if you were

listening back then, we were on the radio. It was a Friday night. I was doing the weekend show. It was the big ESPN game, the Pistons and the Pacers. I happen to be watching the game and the malice at the Palace, chaos on the Western Front, and it was on. We We did the entire show four hours, and I had planned out some other things as I normally do, and I tossed it all aside, and so

let's just go with it. We did four hours of Brooder film style coverage and the thing was so crazy with all of the delays and and all the things that took place there. The game ended not that shortly or not that long, rather before we came on the radio, and then even crazier later on roun our Test. At that time, not as metal World, Peace did some shows at Fox Sports Radio. In fact, I did one I did when Jay Moore was out. I did a fill

in show for j with Ron our Test. We did a bunch of I think it's like a three or three hour show. Whatever. We off the air. I was asking about the Malice of the Palace and all that was very cool, very mellow, very calm. Uh So, I'll have to to check that out. But I'm not said, have you seen it not yet do you not? No, I do. I just to swamp this other crap going

on right now. NFL season man NBA takes a back seat. Yeah, And I think I think when I went to Europe was when I was able to consume that the one manning documentary that you told me that with Al Jazeera, that yeah, it was, it was perfect. I think I was taking a train from from Berlin down to Poland and I put that sucker odd and I was glued to it mad. It was well done, and I do

have information on that. Now we're still waiting. There's a lawsuit filed by Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman, I believe was the only guy from the Nationals back in the day, and so they've they've sued al Jazira. This is still work through the legal system, and once that is adjudicated, I'm pretty confident that we can have one of the producers of that documentary who has been a someone that I've had a casual relationship with that we've gone back

and forth in business relationship. I was just talking about about that documentary and so uh, they have said that once that's all settlement's supposed to happen, sooner than later that they will come on the podcast here and do an interview. So we'll get looking forward to about that documentary. I look forward to it. Uh, let's see what else do we have? Let's see pages down. Oh, Mike from Fort Wayne had another question. He says, uh, he says, for both of you, is it better to ask for

forgiveness or permission? My wife is going away for a week for work. I have my eye on a corvette. Should I buy it and ask for forgiveness? That's a very expensive item. And I'm not sure your financial situation, Mike, And how payments? What's the what's the plan here? Do you have the money saved up? Is it just in case you buy the car? You don't have the car payments? How long has he been married? Yeah? How long has he been married? And how much money is your wife

make in comparison to you and vice versa? How money than you? And that's a problem, you know. I feel like if he's gonna buy the car, he's got to do something big for her, like a vacation or like a nice, really nice gift, Like he has to get something to compliment that. He's got to do something big for her. The other recommendation with the Corvette thing and just cars in general, is you gotta you gotta put a big chunk of money down, if not pay the

whole thing off. Because the car payment is one of the great scams of right time because they will give you and what sounds like an amazing deal, but when you see how much interest you're paying on the car payment, it's you're getting taken and bent over behind the wood shehade and beaten. So but if you love the car and you can afford it and you've got the money, yeah, that's I've always follow the philosophy more it's it's better

to ask for forgiveness than permission. Because if you used to work with a guy in radio I forget his name. I did a football show with him, but he he would always say, just just do it then and then if we make, you know, make a mistake, just just then we'll say we're sorry, and then we're good. But it is true because if you ask for permission, my life experience is oftentimes you will not get that permission.

The answer will be but if you do it, and then it's like, okay, yeah, you screwed up that job by me and then things. Yeah, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say pull the trigger. And if you do, do it take a picture for us so we can see what color it is. What color corvette are we talking about? You think it's gotta be red, right? What's that? I gotta be red? Right? Well, that's the cliche that trope is red? Could be yellow? Could bumble be yellow? For

all we know? Those are the those are the two most ticketed cars in the country, Not Corvette, but red and yellow cars. And the most ticketed car yellow. Well, most cars are white or black. Actually most cars are white on the road. Yeah, And so that's just the way it isn't it. And you get those occasionally, the ugly orange car. I'm just really good. I saw a BMW that was in like laser blue, like that really bright laser kind of blue. I don't know how to

subscribe it. It really really great. It was wonderful that. Now, well, Tesla that costs more if you want to get most testless they have like a standard palette of colors, which is like white, black, red, blue. But if you want to get any exotic colors, you gotta spend more money. But if you canna afford a test like you can you canna afford more? Yeah? For sure? All right? Would you rather have an itch? This is from Lord Goofa

from Tent City, USA. He says, would you rather have an itch that you can't reach or have a song that is stuck in your head? So I would rather have these songs stuck in the head, because to me, that's the better way to go when you have an itch that you can't scratch. I've itched a lot lately. I have been attacked, as we've mentioned on the radio show. We mentioned on the podcast this weekend, mosquitoes. The skeeters

are getting me. And every time I I do inventory, I've got one or two more bites and its nonsense, and I've had to to rub itch cream all over my arms. Otherwise I'll just rip these things off and I'll have Google, like the Google from the bug bite and all that all over my arm. So that sucks. But I can reach that, but it would be even worse if I couldn't reach it. So I'm going with a song stuck in my head because then you can kind of humming, and you can hum it and and

that's that's okay. I'm gonna go with I'd rather have an itche that I can't screach. It's a bad answer. That's the wrong answer, because I can. It's somewhere else to have my body like think that that's an itchy spot, so it takes away from concentrate on the one spot I can't get to guess it's all misdirection man. Yeah, yeah, alright, well, let's bad job at you. What is next on the mail bag? Let's see here, page down, page down. Let's see here. We have a Valls fan, Jimmy. He says

he's in Faetteville, Tennessee. For both of you. Have you ever had a Brazilian wax? Well, you've you've had one every other month for the last three years. I have not. I've ever dated a Brazilian. Have I dated a Brazilian woman? Uh? I don't. She was. I did date something from South America, but not from Brazil. M you yeah, one time fond memories. It was very rowdy. I'll just say that. Yeah. Yeah, I've never done the Brazilian wax. I've done the petty. My my wife will take me to get the petty.

She likes to go and have the manny and the petty and all that, and I just like you want to soak my feet in water and massage my feet and do the toe nail thing, get the goo outside and all that well, in diligent. But keep in mind that's only because I followed the philosophy happy wife. Wife. She did not want me to go There's no reason for me on my own to go in and spend a fortune on a pedicure. Why would I do that?

But she likes it because we can hang out and she sits on one side, I said, on the other, and she's happy like that. Yeah, you got like a woman that's like four ft eleven working on you. Yes, likely screaming profanity as soon as I walk out of the salon. But this asshole, I can't believe this. They don't pay me enough. Here, you know, here, here I am. You know, I'm doing my thing and this asshole comes it probably used to like women that come in there

every month. I'll get up. My wife will drag me there a couple of times a year, right, and it's like, well, you know, it's just ridiculous. And I go in there and immediately alarm belt start buzzing there, like what are you doing? Bloody you what are you going boy? For a kid in the candy store. They just keep firing away. The malle militia enjoy what they're they're hearing here, and they they're fans. They like it. I'll roll your eyes and little Classic what a yeah? All right, okay, we'll

move on. Now, what is next? What is next? Charlie in Memphis, Tennessee, says Ben, why do you call the NFL, NHL, Major League Baseball, and NBA champion a defending champion? It is impossible to defend a trophy that you cannot lose. Points out the m M, a UFC, Pro wrestling and pro boxers are defending a title. The legacy sports leagues are reigning champions. Well, Charlie, you need to get a

fucking life, Charlie. That's number one. Number two, Okay, if you are the heavyweight champion of the world, like Mike Tyson was the heavyweight champer in the world. Now technically he lost the belt, but people still call him a former heavyweight champion the world. So by your status, by your statement there, we shouldn't say that because he doesn't have the trophy anymore than on the belt anymore. Uh, but it's just it's that that's how we do it.

You're a defending champion. You could say reigning champion if you want, but you are defending the title, trying to go back to back, And it's like the Chicago Bulls when they would with three pete right, three p then they took a couple years off. Jordan could go hang out and play baseball. But come on, and really, the advice here for you, Charlie, when with a question like this, I'm gonna turn to the president for some advice because he's got better advice than he. We all need to laugh, yes,

let it go, come on, laugh a little. I think it's three stages of a title defense though, right you're you're trying to get into the playoffs. You have to win in the regular season, then you have to obviously advance in the playoffs, and then you have to win the championship game or serious. So it's three levels of this defense. Yes, there's there's different levels to it. But I'm gonna continue just to annoy Charlie, just to annoy him. I will continue to go down the path of defending

champion just to annoy him. Pierre in Springfield Massachusetts says Ben, what's your biggest gambling pay day and your biggest loss in a single day or weekend? Well, I cannot give that information out here. As you know, gambling is illegal in California, not legal yet, and some of those wagers may or may not have been made in let's just say, awkward situations with bookmakers that might not have been licensed by the government. But I have I have the ability,

and this is a skill pier. I have the ability to get just as upset at losing a small wager as I would losing a large wager. But the biggest loss I I recall was the Atlanta Braves in the nineties against the They were playing the St. Louis Cardinals, and it was a first round playoff series three Hall of Fame pictures, and the Cardinal is not that good, and I had put a rather large wager on the Braves just winning the series, and a couple of weird things happened and they went belly up, and I think

I remember correctly. Will Clark, known as a San Francisco giant, was on the St. Louis Cardinals that year and had had a couple of big plays, a couple of big hits, at least one that killed me in that In that little episode, Pierre Cliff from Nashville right since, says Ben on the Mallard scale of panic, how do you feel or how do you see rather the Titans moving forward in this season? Well, that's a sporto question, Cliff says, he's at a nine now. You can't be at a

night now, tennessee total stumble bumps. They went out there and played like the only preparation they had done, the only preparation they had done for that particular game was involving smoking, and that was it, and they had not been doing any other preparation. That was ridiculus. They didn't tackle. There was a video clip of some some small, like less than two hundred pound defensive guy for Arizona running around this big three pound offensive tackle for the for

the Titans. It's embarrassing. They didn't block, they didn't tackle, they didn't do anything right. It was a gutless performance by the time, But it's only one game and you actually get some you get some some benefit out of that if you're a gambler, because people are overreacting, I gotta see that performance more off. If I see if they come out today against Seattle on a rainy, cool day in the Pacific Northwest and play similar to that, then we've got something. But I expected a much better

performance from the Titans in that particular game. Andre from New Hampshire writes in he says, I love the show and what you gents provide. And he says, secondly, would NFL owners at any given point reconsider overtime rules and make them like college, but maybe started the thirty five yard line going in, and then like in college, after two overtimes, go to alternating two point conversions or maybe no p A T s in the NFL overtime and

strictly go for two. Thank you, No right or wrong answer, but a thought from Andre, Well, Andre, my first reaction to that is that yet, yes, it is is certainly possible that the NFL will piggyback off college. Oftentimes, the NFL is so locked in their ways they don't want to change anything, and so it's not just college football, but those fugas. Startup leagues like the XFL and some of the other leagues that have come around, they've tried things ings and then the NFL owners see it and

they're like, hey, that looks pretty good. Why don't we do that? But somebody else has to be the guinea pig. The NFL very rarely is the leader in the pack. They need somebody else to follow them because they're a legacy sports league and they're afraid to take many chances, and so that's that's the answer. But there should there should be no ties. There's gotta be a way to not have ties, and even if you have to do something totally hokey, something ridiculous, but it is a absolute

bleepfest that there there can be ties. We almost had a tie. Are the other Seattle or not to see Attle minute the Minnesota? Yeah, it was almost like a tie. Just ridiculous. Uh. Berry from Nashville says yo yo mo Benny. For both you and Riscon, there's a beep. What is the one decision in your life you would like to change and why? I feel like that's question has been asked us a few times. Yeah, I feel like we've been asked that. I am I'm gonna refrain go back

to a previous pockets at this moment. Uh, there's there's nothing. I mean, you are a product of all the choices you make right. Life is just a series of choices and the result of those choices is your life. And if it's if it's good, then you're happy about that. If you're you're feeling good, and if it's not, you know, you're like, uh, you know, wait a minute. And the cool thing about life is it's like it's always like

that big the surprise. You don't know what's what's going on, right, it's you know, sometimes it goes well, and you know, sometimes it goes the other way and surprised motherfucker. Yeah yeah, let's see here. This is from Andy Still near the Tommy's in Hobo, Hollywood. That's the Tommies. I used to go to two or three in the morning and eat triple chili cheeseburger chili cheese drive and I lived my

best life. And I watched all the crazy people coming from clubs on the Sunset Strip that came down sunset and went over to that location in Hollywood and would be a ten ten sheets to the wind and just having a wonderful time. And it says, would you rather fight? I think we've had this one too. Would you rather fight a horse size duck or a hundred duck sized horses. We've we've got You want to answer that guest here?

You want to know when did we did you get that live live on one of your shows or was it here on the podcast? Yeah, it must have been on what it might have been when you were away. I feel like I've answered that question that somebody else I had that same question, and the answer is all answer A hundred duck sized horses. Because if this size of duck, you're feeling pretty good about it, like a horse size duck epic top, that'd be difficult. But anyway to thank you for that? Who else do we have

to see? Page down here? Got a few more. Glenn in Chicago has been I just heard the Jim Moore interview from last weekend. I can't believe he is eighties six now it shouldn't sound it. I used to love him in the Saints back Saints States back then uh ric linebackers and defensive team. Although always felt the Saints team's got a little too conservative offensively, it was funny watching those Falcon teams with Jerry Glanville beat them to make the playoffs and beat them in the first round.

Jim Mora is a really good man, Glenn says to me, resembles another good coach and a good man, Marv Levy. Marv has to be a hundred and thirty one years old by now. Jim Morris deserves to live another twenty years. Well, yeah, Jim's great. We're so happy. Jim came on and Marv Levy, another member of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association in the very early days of Fox Sports Radio. Marv Levy, it's a weekend show. And how how old Marv's is he a hundred yet? I believe he's a hundred yet.

It's a good question. Let me, let me, let me google that. Marvel Lee. He's nineties. Yeah, nineties. I was thinking about the same since you had mentioned it. Um, you know Morea's lives out Where does he live? He lives in the desert. He mentioned he lives in the palms. Yeah, yeah, in that area. She got there and have dinner with him. Yeah, I'd love that. Could you imagine he's got some he's got some great stories. Oh yeah, yeah, he'd be be awesome.

Those old coaches, I won't know where the bodies are buried, that's for sure. Yeah. You know another one, he's not around anymore. He died. Dennis Green. Dennis Green worked, Yeah, way too young, but he had some great story. Dennis Green. I mentioned I sent you the card, and I was doing college radio Dennis Green. I was in college DJ at Saddleback at the radio station there, obviously, and Dennis Green came in. He was in a jazz band, as I remember, and was promoting his jazz band and came

to the radio station. Since I was the sports fan, everyone else at the radio station hated sports. I got to interview Dennis Green. He was in studio and he played some We played some of his music, and we talked and the whole thing, usual standard radio interview. And at the end of it and Dennis said, hey, listen. He was coaching the Vikings at the time, and he said, hey, we've got a game against the Chargers anytime we're in southern California. If you want a tickets, just here's my card.

Just send a message over here and I'll get your tickets. And uh. I kept the card. I was going through my stuff when I was going through my parents died and I found this card from Dennis Green, and it was pretty cool and it was like you brought back good memories of that. I was like, that's like the coolest thing. You didn't have to do that, and it's probably just being nice. But I never hit him up for tickets. I never did, never got the tickets when

the Vikings came to play the Chargers. David in Kansas from Kansas says, I hate to say it, but after listening most of the week that he was onto the Overnight Show, is it possible that Brian Finley isn't quite as bad as he has historically been. Well, that's that's up to you, David. I'm not gonna go down that road again. I'm not gonna go down that road again. But um, we moved on. My therapy is working, the meds are working, the therapy dog is working. We're good

And I think that's it. David from Toronto and everyone else there. I don't we have time because we have exceeded our time allotment. And there's people people have things that do. They want to watch football today at Sunday? You wanna watch football? You dont want to listen to this? Right, You're done with this, That's right, I'm done all right? Any to promote anything at all? Twitter handles, uh, Facebook,

of course, the show, the podcast reviews back in the day. Yeah, we know we've been the reviews have calmed down, and we need more reviews. We need good, solid, positive reviews. And then when we look and we'll be wonderful when you see that good reviews. It's great. We just stand there and we say, you know what we say. Guess you know I have been a nice Yeah, we've not taking one phone call here. I don't know what I mean.

The phones have been ringing here and they're ringing right now, but we've not Let's go, let's go, let's go, Mattley. The phone is right. You gotta answer the phone. Man, Come on, it's a bad job by you. Shame on you, strong man. You gotta do a better job. You gotta do a better job. Yeah, come on, man, Yeah, you gotta do it. Yeah. I gotta be fair, though, I gotta let's here. It's not working. I said, lay on this thing. I'm gonna get back to my old sound ef. Yeah.

Let see I hit this and it's not working. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, exactly. Alright, alright, calm down now, won't stop playing now, it's just gonna keep playing over and over again, and we have a great rest your Sunday. I'll be back on the radio breakdown all the games in week number two, including that big Kansas City and Baltimore game to night between Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson.

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