Dialing Up

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the podcast. That's always nice, give us a nice review and tell us what you think of the fifth Hour podcast and what you like and what you don't like. And you can email us give us feedback. We've had people email suggestions on our Friday Conversation or Interview podcast, recommending certain people that they would like to have on. We've had a lot of requests for Dave Logan, the the Broncos broadcaster, any movement on that any Yeah, in the middle of a they're in the middle of a

playoff run. I don't know if I should distract Mr Logan from jumping on this. You know I'm saying, I mean reach out, say hey, I want to come on. Will promote the Dave Logan Brain Bronco Talk. Yeah, No, I don't know. I'm running out of people on my phone here. I don't know. You've pretty much Ladex runs runs pretty deep with with people. Some of these people I haven't talked to in years, though. I could you know I have Larry King's number. Should we get Larry

King on the podcast? I remember when you wanted me to send out an email to a bunch of media people for a dump on on some audio and I had a ton of kickback emails from from the contact list that you. Oh yeah, I had an old email. I had an old email list of people. There were numbers, actually the phone numbers of people from back in the day. And uh, only a lot of people have changed changed

their numbers. I'm sure I'm spinning through my phone here, I'm seeing let's see here, We're gonna have Lance the bus driver on? Got his number in my phone? Here, Fred Claire, former Dodger GM. You wanna have Fred Claire on? We got a Fred? How about Mike mart Would you want to have Mike martz on? Don't have his number? Brian Cox, former Fox sports radio personality who hates me. I have him. Uh, you know we should get on his Tim Conway, we could get him on from kfive,

the Great Tim Conway. He's good. Clipper Darrell's on my phone. We can get him in here, he'd be good. You know, we should get on Evan Drelich. You know who Evan Drelich is. Yeah? Who does he work for? Now? He's at the Athletic and I did a couple of radio shows with him in Boston when I was doing EI stuff. He is at the Athletic. He's the guy that broke the seen astrois eating story. That was his story and then Rosenthal took credit for it, but it was Evan

Drelich who was all over it. He's drill as. I understand that he had a relationship with Mike Fires because he had covered fires with the Astros and they had a relationship, so Fires trusted him to give the story. And Dreller has done a good job. He's done a lot of great investigative reporter. We get him on, yeah, because he's with a couple of publications to write. Was it just the Athletic? Well, now he's at the Athletic,

but he used to be at the Boston Herald. He was a Red Sox beat guy and he went to Houston and he was the Houston beat guy. We can also get Lenny Dikestra on. I have him on. We can have him on again, Lenny, I want to do that. No, let's see who else to have page down here, page down, just to see anybody you would want. Steve Futterman, we could have Funderman on from CBS News Radio. Steve Fudderman,

I've just noticed that I go through my phone. A lot of these people are dead, which is not U. I never take someone's name out of the phone when they're dead. I leave him in. That's my tribute. That's my tribute to them. Uh. Gail good Rich, I have his number. You want to call legend he's still around, right, Yeah, yeah, let's see you. People are dropping like flies. I'm aware of that. Let's see here. I can't. Yes, it's kind of boring me going through my phone. Genie Memphis number.

I don't think she'll answer that. What do you want to do? Go to the park and go say how to regret her tem Gus Johnson I can have you can call him up and great college football announced very excited when he does the college with Kevin Kennedy. How about Kevin. Haven't talked to Kevin in years? Base guy. Yeah, all right, that's enough, all right here in my god.

All right, So let's get into the podcast today. They meet on the podcast and on this podcast it is all about pop quiz and the mail bag, mailbag, mailbag, mailbag. We're gonna start with the pop quiz and you can play along. I'm gonna ask David gascons and questions. These are questions I found around the internet and know we will quiz gascon here and you can play along. See how you do? All right? So, in New York and l A, this creature is considered to be the perfect

pandemic pet hamster. All right, is it a hamster? No? It is not. Amped snails the snail of paint. How's that a pet? Where the fun did you get that from? I don't know. I found on the internet. No, seriously, what what what do you? What do you feed a snail? And then like how long does how long does snails live? I have no clue. I have no ethnic clue, Like they don't they must not live long? Right, yeah, how do you classic? Oh wait a minute, hold on a second.

Snails can live fifteen years. Some have gone on to live as long as twenty five years. That's gotta be. But I guess they say an aquarium snail will live between three and ten years. That doesn't make any sense. Did you know you can kill us a snail with salt? Yes, yes,

that would be if you're um. Well, isn't that one of the things they look at when a kid kills animals in weird ways, that that's a sign of a future murderer, that this kid's gonna, if you know, take a bird and chop its head off or something like that, Well, eventually you're gonna gonna do that to a human being, you know, Yeah, you're more likely to do that to a human being something like that. But that's what it

says on the internet. But then I'm reading an aquarium snail will live between three and ten which means like why would one be And I don't get it. I'm looking at a different website. This says snails through their life cycle, uh, their metab babolism, they die in a year to eighteen months. This that's what this says. That makes more sense. But if they're in an aquarium, it will be between three and ten years. What do you take it out and put on your arm to show

your friends? Look at my pets snail. Imagine giving your snail and am such an asshole l a and New York thing to do? It isn't probably look at then they go eat the fried snails. Yes, all right. When it comes to new relationships, a new study found that this has a lot to do with the success or the failure of the relationship. Sex life, uh no, sexual chemistry. No, No, it involves meeting the parents. Meet the parents. If the parents like it, you're good to go. Can't like it,

can't meet him early. I agree with you on that. You gotta wait, Yeah, I gotta wait a long time. I'm right there with you, you know, man, I'm saying probably a year. Yeah. Well, I never brought any of my girlfriends to meet my mom and my dad. No, I didn't until I when I got married. That was it. But no for that, No, alright. Two out of ten people said they already started doing this way back in August, something normally done in December. Christmas shopping, nope, watch Christmas movies? Why,

I don't know. I didn't one of the stations in l A flip to Christmas music already, I don't know. Yeah, is it? Coast is that the station that does Christmas music every day one or three point five. I think it is. Yeah, I think they flipped to Christmas music or they're either that somebody told me, my radio nerds told me that. Either they did, or they're about to. That's awesome. It's not even you know, we're weeks before

Thanksgiving here, yikes, are right? A new survey asked couples which annoying conversations keep coming up over and over in their relationship. What was number one? Could it be politics? No? Would it be taking your relationship to the next level? No, this is more like a day in, day out kind of thing. If you're in a relationship with someone, Oh man, um, I'm trying to think maybe doing chores? Uh no, uh it is? And what should we have for lunch or dinner?

Like what meals to eat? We? Why don't you all right? That's interesting. I would just I wouldn't even ask, especially for lunch. No. But if you're in a relationship, if you're with a girlfriend, you're like, hey, what do we want for dinner? You know, and then you want to agree on it. You want to have some common ground, and that's why you're still single. Guest gun. Women like to eat too, might want to share a meal. It's a big time to bond over a nice meal, but

quickly they'll eat what I cook. Such a snob. I'm not a snob. I'm just good at what I do. You are You are insufferable, is what you are? Sufferable. I was great over the weekend. I had some bacon wrapped scalops I made. I barbecued to a filet. I did that, high and mighty. Yeah you go some turkey meatballs. That pompous ass gas count some sere doye here. I did that too. It was really good. You're getting like big times points on snob appeal. Keep going excellent. People

like that food. Just you're cute rating rating, very good, cute writing. Yeah, okay, there you go. I would say no, not according to what I'm reading. I actually go out and meet the listeners. Guess boy, they trash you. Man moving man Matt the other day. Good for him, yeah, good for him, and fans not fans. All right. Women are more likely than men to do this, especially as they age. Um get I can't say plastic surgery. That's obvious, um except their gray hair. No, it's live alone. Oh,

thus the television trope of Catwoman. Yes, exactly exactly. I live alone, get enough cats all and stuff. So I think guys usually like to live alone. Younger, I liked living alone. I liked it. I didn't mind it. I mean, I like living now and having people in the house and all that stuff, so it's cool too. But I got I got used to it. But I like coming and going ever I want, and I leave trash all over the place, didn't matter. Did you live with your

wife before you, guys got engaged? Uh, yeah, we had. We had been living together for a brief amount of time. But I don't know. Actually no, I don't think it was before. I'm trying to think. I don't know the timeline in that. I don't think it was before we got engaged. We hung out pretty much all the time anyways. It was like we were but that we lived. I don't think we did until we got engaged. I don't think so. I don't remember. Though. Time flies when you're

having fun, it does, all right. This produce item has just recently been developed to be pink on the inside. Pink on the inside, um produce, how about? I don't know. I'm gonna throw something out there randomly. How about corn? Corn? Uh? No, no, pineapple, pink pineapple? Interesting? You want to buy some pink pineapple? Yeah, I'm down. I like pineapple. I like pink lemonade, which is just flavored lemonade too much sugar. Oh my god, pineapple is good? Man. All right, this is the most

popular children's Halloween costume in any given year. It's been that way for years. For boy or girl. It's a girl costume. Oh, I'd say like snow white. Yeah, princess, Yeah, yeah, princess. Uh. What's the number one costume for for little boy kids? I would say like Batman or something like that. Some superhero Batman, Superman encompasses a lot. All right. A new survey asked people what makes you feel better when you're fighting a cold. Of people said this hot shower, Nope,

cuddling with a pet. You cut it with your No, no, your pet snail, my pet snail right here, get a little slimy. But I'm feeling good, my man. Could you imagine all right now, when you pour so on a snail, it just evaporates. Is that what happened? I guess it can't consume it? So just what turtles up? All right? Thirty three of people say this is one of the worst things you can do at a party. Mm hmm. Not bring not bring food or drink? No right again, um get wasted. No. The answer be the last one

to leave. That's we call that the Art Martinez a worm. My man already he loves to be the last one at the Mallard party every year. She and already hanging out at the very end, at the bitter end. Yeah. So you want to make and I learned this from a guy that we used to work with. I forget his name, But you want to make a loud You want to show up a little late, like a big introduction. Yeah, well not two hours late when the food's cold. But you you want to show up a little late, make

a big introduction. And then you want to sneak out and not say goodbye to anybody, so they wonder where you went, because that leaves the mystery. That's the key. That's good party etiquette, good party etiquette. If you visit a party. Now, problem is I try to do this with my wife's like she wants to say goodbye to everyone, shake hands, you know, the whole thing, and I'm like, no, no, it's get out. It's time to go. Sneak out the back door. We're out of here. Goodbye, see you later on,

and that's party is over. That's right, all right. About half half of us say we never do this, went on vacation, and I'm in this half, by the way, never do this, never do thisation. Never relax, No no, I I relax not much because I'm always stressed about the flight back. But I can relax a little bit the first couple of days anyway. Um, never sleep, no, no, Never unpacked the suitcase. Never unpacked this, never packed the suitcase, not until I got married. When I traveled, and I

traveled a lot. I traveled many years of my life, and I just left everything in the suitcase, just open it up, left everything the suitcase, didn't hang anything up, and just left everything in there. And when I was ready to go, I just threw it back in the stuff that I wore and I'm good to go. I

always had a plan of attack. Whenever I checked into a hotel, it was always stripped down the bed to make sure that ship was clean, and then unpack everything like I just got home, just because you know, like if you if you unpack things item by item and then you stuff it back in your suitcase, it usually feels like it's fuller that it was originally. Yeah, that's true. It does. You just throw everything in there? Yeah, I care. Just take everything out throat in the washing machine that's on.

You're on your way, all right. A but I was religious about that. I travel. I did that NBC thing. I flew back to Connecticut every month, and I ned never. I never unpacked my seat, cass open it up on the little table, little table you're supposed to have like a cup of coffee out or whatever, or the sofa in the room with ana sofa. All right. A new sleep study says this may be the best way to get a better night's sleep without medication. Without medication, um,

sleeping naked. Now open the windows. I can't do that. I can't do it because I sleep during the day and there's a lot of you know, trafficking noise and things like that. I can't do that. I got my windows have to be closed. My schedule and you got blinds to right, Yeah, I got it. I got blackout curtains, two layers of blackout curtains. I got tinted windows. I got all kinds of stuff to keep the sun out. Alright.

Almost thirty percent of people say they like the taste of this, even though they know it's kind of weird to like the taste of this. Oh man, um, and I'm I'm actually in this group. I don't mind the taste of this. I don't know that I like it, but I don't mind it. Man's I don't want to say garlic. Um, No, it's not. People are proud to say that, like they taste of garlic, not anchovies. No envelopes,

licking an envelope? Random? Yeah, do you like to taste of We don't even we can't even lick envelopes anymore. You have the stick. Um, I still have envelopes, even like they haven't gotten rid of those, They still have those. Maybe not for you west of the four h five, but for the rest of us, a festivus for the rest of us. Of all American homes have at least one of these. What is it a furnace? Nope? A cat? Oh all right, not the mallard mash and cat freezone.

We're a doghouse. No cats, allow, I've never had I was allergic to cats when I was a kids. I've never had that helps you when I was a kid. Yeah, a bunch of cats, cats and dogs? Uh yeah no, no, cats has grown up? No, no, alright, the average man has eleven of these? What is it? Um? Eleven of these eleven ties? That's not a bad guess. I have way more than the level of leaves. How about that? Does that help your hats? Yes? Hats? Yes, I am the mad Hatter of sports chatter and tons and tons

of the hats. Man, I don't have eleven hats. I have like five. Oh my god, if I counted on my hat collections were thousands of it is. I'm telling you, man, you're like the most shoot collectors. Right. Yeah, that's become my Michie Gass. My hair has gone away, my hat collection has grown leaps and bounds. You've got baseball hats. Well, that fedora is my dress up hat, Like I got the newsboy hat. That's my dress up hat. And then for the day to day I got the baseball Caps

college ones too. I got the beanies for the cold weather. Yeah I got yeah, I got a collar. I love the college hats. Love rocking different college hats. It's kind of cool, all right. Seventy six percent of us say, we can only do this for a minute. What is it? And it's something that ties into sports talk radio, But we can only do this for one minute? What is talk without breathing? No? Stay on hold? Seventy people can't

stay on hold from one a minute. And we do get that, like people will call up and they'll be on hold for a few minutes and they'll hang up because they don't want to be on hold. You really have to be able to handle it if you're going to call into a raider show because you're on hold for a while, Typically you get on the air. But are most of your collars calling from home or they on the road? Uh, it's a mix. We have a lot of truck drivers, um that obviously out driving the

highways and byways of America. A lot of people working in factories. I don't think it's a lot of people at home, but I haven't really taken a straw poll, so yeah, I don't know. Normally, people up at night are are there because they're working, unless you have insomnia then maybe or or it's it's the guys that get off work and then have a couple of pops and like, let me let me funk with Maller and call the show and goof on him. Yeah yeah, alright, So that

ends the another successful edition of pop Quiz. Time Now for the mail bag. Yes, yes, yes, all right, I think compared to uh last week, I know I'm a Pilot took took the show last Saturday, Well he got featured building. Uh. We actually have a I'm a Pilot follow up in the mail bag and if you want to send a question a little slow this week, um, and if that continues, we will get rid of the mail bag, but to pick it up Facebook page Wednesdays Wednesdays. I'll try to get it up by the early morning

hours on Wednesday and Ben Maller's show on Facebook. Submittive question, we might use it on the air. Also the Real Fifth Our just Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. R E A L F I F T h our Ho you are at gmail dot com and that is where I'm a Pilot sent this in. He points out some some details. He said he was listening to us read his email and react to it. He enjoyed it. He said, this was in I think I'm allowed to read this email on the here he didn't say not to.

This was in Shanga Hi. This happened where he had that instant. He says, the city of twenty five million people. And he pointed out that many people cannot comprehend how populated China is. And for reference, New York City has nine million people. Los Angeles has like four million people. So this is l A a New York almost times too combined, which is mind boggling. That is a lot

of traffic plus the pollution. Yeah, he said, very it is very communist, as you know, you key, he says, yeah, I can never find any Chinese people who will speak negative of China in general conversation. They very much know where you are. And yes, he did say, we use VPNs. By the way, guess gn you were surprisingly quiet this week. I made an offer to you for your VPN hook up. You did not exactly reach out to me. Wow, man, a job by you? Yeah, like you, like you said

a couple of days ago. I guess I've been having a Trian week or something. So the election has been affecting, yes, very affected me. Yes, Yes, he did say we were right the only American channel that they got in China was CNN as the only English channel, or Sky News yea or Sky News, and he said, what's funny is when you watch television and communist China, whenever something comes

up about Donald Trump, the TV goes dark. The TV goes dark, right, And he says Biden though it's fine, nothing is censored when Biden, when Biden talks uh and uh anyway, says I only say this as the English channel was also on a loop and then it was updated and I saw it happen again. Oh, so they must they must record this and then brought you know what I mean. There must be a delay, and then they eded out what they don't want. Okay, Uh, there you go. He says he's been to China over the years.

Anything about Hong Kong Trump gets automatically banned. Yeah, there you go. Um. And then he talked about the hotel a little bit. I'm a pilot. This is the follow up email from I'm the pilot. I says it was all Chinese government officials working at the hotel. Uh, and that's how they do it. He said the hotel was like, uh, it was old, like a Motel six or like a Howard Johnson jo Man. Also he also said that fasting would work really well. Uh. He says that you could

bring packaged food and there was a fridge. He says, I'm a huge water guy, so he would grab like a gallon of water off the planet. It's a smart move. That's a savvy move right there. Well, yeah, it's anytime you get off a plane or do you get a massage or like during physical fitness, they always say that you need to immediately drink water. And that's always a tradition, especially on a line flight. I think it's flight to

China's like sixteen to seventeen hours. It's a long one. Uh. He says the fasting would have helped, as I said. He also says, apparently the tables are twofold. One I'm a pilot says it's a disinfectant and waste containing the virus. And to to let let's just say their water treatment and waste management, Phil silly is they're not the same as here in the good old US of A. We were told not to drink the water out of the

taps that may have just been in hotel facilities. Oh oh, so they take the stuff from the shipter and they put it in the oh my, oh my, yikes. So it's like Mexico. I need to tell you not to drink the water. You get it. Monezuma's revenge in certain parts of Mexico. Right, can you imagine showering then? Yeah, cover your mouth with you Yeah, yikes. All right, well thank you. I'm a pilot. We do appreciate that. But calm down. I'm just act like you've been there before.

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not throwing rose petals at him because he drove from one coast to another. I think, Wow, secretly, I'm a pilot is actually more of a Mallard fan. He just pretends to be a Gascon fan. That's what I think. Listen, you're gonna be I think it's a You're gonna be triggered one day if he has like David Gascon on his pilot jacket or on on some kind of panever, he would never do that. He would

never do that. He did say though, that when his travels take him to Los Angeles at some point, he says, I might find myself at L a X. We could all find some tacos there we go, We will go. Let me tell you I'm a pilot, I will meet you. We will go to Tito's Tacos, which is east of the four oh five, but very very close to the four h five. But that's where we're gonna go. Actually, there's a pretty good spot next to l A X.

It's called Nudes, Nudes, Nudes, that's gone. It's called the it's called Ponchos, and Ponchos is in this wonderful little city called Manhattan Beach. No, no, no, that's west of the format. But there's just plenty of opportunity there. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, I think I'm a pilot would enjoy that very much. No, not at all. Yeah, the option to going to Culver City or Manhattan Beach. When you come to l A what would you rather do?

That's where they make the movies in Culver City. They got the lot right across the way there. That's where they make the movies. The talent, the talent is in Manhattan Beach. That's where they made like those old early Hollywood movies. They that never They have that building, the weird Triangle building where they used to make the black and white movies, and they had like the three stooges would would run around, and Abbot and Costello and those

types of Yeah, I get the novelty. Yeah it's historic Culver City. All right, thank you, I'm a pilot. We do appreciate that. And more email, more email, more email. Let's see who I'm trying to get the names on this here. Uh, I'm a pot also said you can decline to fly to China, and apparently a lot of people do. Good, So he did say that. Adrian my li City writes in uh he said, is how's the search for the Rocky Mountain Oysters not even happening? Now?

It is happening. In fact, it is. Let's just say the Rocky Mountain Oyster benefactor has solved my dilemma about that, and I will be eating a version of Rocky Mountain Oysters very soon. So very soon, he says. Any luck track tracking down the radio voice of the Broncos, Dave Logan for a Friday interview, Well, we've brought that up before. Gascon does not want to talk to Logan for some reason.

I don't know why. He also says that, well, out on a run about twelve years ago, it hit me, he says, he has he wants to give us a ship story. He says, I had to use the restroom, Mrs Adrian, how to use the restroom right then and there. I was too far to turn back home and on a public running trail with few trees and very little privacy, so my run quickly turned into a panic walk. I know that. Adrian says, I had no other option but to go right then, and they're luckily that day I

had on underwear spandex shorts and basketball shorts. Thankfully, the spandex shorts were able to hold everything contain the damage if you will, until I made it home and we're able to be washed. The underwear, however, it was a total loss and had to be thrown away. I was so embarrassing. See the problem I have noticed, and this is only people that have the ships like I do have can have, is when you walk after you ship

yourself and you walk, you get a rash. You know, you get a little rash back there, depending on how long you walk. It's a problem, oh man, Adrian. Adrian also says has West of the four or five guy ever crapped himself? Yeah, I actually did it during a football game. Was that just your play by player. Did you actually listen here, asshole? Like you're not in the same student was me right now? Crap on you? I

uh my senior year in high school. Like we'd always go to an Italian restaurant for pregame meal, which is always pasta and salad in the case, and we went to this Italian spot, had pasta and salad, and all of a sudden prior to kickoff, I usually get nervous and get the jitters a little bit, but for some reason, the jitters and the food didn't sit well with me this time. And this was two hours after I ate. Still didn't matter, and I'm on the kickoff return team.

I'm actually one of the up backs, and the kickoff was short. It came to me and the opening kickoff of the game, I almost took it to the house and this little pip squeak tackled me from the side, and I remember this because it was like a sideways, awkward tackle. I landed stomach on the football and as you can imagine, like football, the stomach, the fetty chini alfredo come out of your All of a sudden, we

get into the huddle. This is the opening play of the of the game, We're getting the huddle and it smells like someone just died, and everyone's like, what the fund is that. I was like, I don't know. That fucking smells like ship. So I literally had to I had to play the entire first half while just fucking soiling myself. It was pretty bad. That reminds me of a story Lincoln Kennedy told me our colleague the Old Raider offensive lineman, and he said that there were certain

guys that had the reputation for intentionally shooting. Because if you're like an offensive lineman and you've got shipped all over you, yeah, the defensive players don't want to really, you know, get in on that. And it works vice versa. Man, if you're an offensive lineman and the defensive lineman smells like shit and something died in his body and there's crap all over his you know, the backside, then yeah, it's a little competitive gamesmanship. Situations delicate situation. Yes. John

the jailer rights in from Allantown, Pennsylvania. He says, Ben and Gascon, you are looters. What are your top three items from Costco? If I could I go most expensive items you can get at Costco which is like a sofa or something like that, Right, I think so television. It's not like you can get a car. You have to order that online television. Yeah, you have some computer computer stuff, Yeah, sofa software for sure. Drum of mayonnaise from Mannis, I don't know, it's what Costco's note for right,

the big time big tub of mayonnaise. Maybe Brandon in Seattle. Rights and he says, how little money are you willing to pay for a daily special chicken taryaki bowl at the local restaurant? Seven dollars and fifty cents. Yeah, if you can find one for five bucks, though, that would be good. Yeah, there's a up a good spots there where I live. That is a special thing when you find your local Chinese restaurant that has good quality, cheap

Chinese food because it's hit and miss. Right, there's some some of those places you will immediately have to go and spend some good time on the throne if you know what I'm saying. I'm not gonna lie. There is a great spot in the city of Torrance which serves chicken taryaki white rice. But I'm also guilty of this. I order fat fries with it. Oh yeah, fat fries. Yeah, I put I put the terryaki sauce on the on the fat fries. I like the poutine. Any kind of

poutine I'm good with. That's the greatest thing to come out of Canada is the poutine. You don't have any of those spots near you though, right, that's sir? Poutine? Uh no, there is one. There's one. It's not great poutine, but it is poutine. There's a burger place that has has a little poutine, So there is that. Uh, let's see who else do we have. Let's go Pierre from Springfield, also known as Alf the Alien Opinar. He says, you asked us to share the podcast with just one person,

or to recommend the show to someone. With that in mind, I have been calling out former callers. He says. Pierre is a big super fan to contribute once again. Would you be open to the idea of doing a throwback Thursday or a flashback Friday like you do for newbies? Uh? Yeah,

that's not a terrible idea. The problem with that is we'd have to do it in advance to let people know, to get the word out, because what happens usually with my show is people graduate from the overnight and then go back to the dreaded day shift, so it's hard for them to call in because their daytime people that's why they listen to the podcast, and so it's I don't know that that logistically would work. We could try it. Maybe we will try it. What sounds better, Throwback thir

Day or flashback Friday? M hm um. I like flashback Friday. Flashback Friday. There you go, He says. I know that the Old Time Color is always welcome to call in, but some have fallen off. My efforts so far have only had tempid results, being that I've only gotten a maybe I'll call in from barbecuing Lynn. Oh yeah, barbecuing Land. That guy, what a character. Barbecuing Lynn is up all night eating big meals like two in the morning and

the just living large. David from Simpsonville, South Carolina says, what do you drink during your fast diet? Soda or water? Um? Yeah, it's pretty much water. David, Like, I'll cheat on the weekends and have like a glass of lemonade or something like that, but during the week it's pretty much just agua water, water. Water. He also says he's gonna hook us up here with an Sucky Wildcats cap. I can add that to my Collectional, thank you, David, it's good.

I appreciate that. My college hat collection I have saddleback. Then listeners have sent in Minnesota Golden Golfers and Iowa Hawkeyes, so I'm up to three, and I think I have some actually, like an old Oklahoma hat and a Missoo hat that listeners have given me over the years. My my college hat collection. I had got in Nebraska to say he was gonna send something, and outside got in Wisconsin,

but they did not actually do that. Right, Carlos in Houston says, I know you don't condone using illegal streaming services, but if you did, what is one of those services that you would recommend, Carlos, you know it's it would be inappropriate me for to give that information out. So I don't know that I can do that, but I will tell Gascon if he gets his head out of his ask, I will give him the holy grail of illegal streaming services that I might or might not know. Uh,

and all I need is a little trade. I will VPN. I pay for the VPN, you get the holy grail. Mhmm. I'll think about it. Yeah, okay, I'm slow playing it. Are you drinking water right now? To honor our guy from South Carolin, I am How do you drink diet soda? I do not? Yeah, drink I don't drink soda. I gave that up. I I got so fat drinking soda. I just that's it. I'm done. Were you sprite coke? Dr pepper? I was a dr pepper, cherry coke, regular coke. I do PEPSI also, but that was like my big deal.

Occasionally root beer if I was feeling frisky, I do a root beer. But yeah, that was that was the man Mike grew up. I mean, we didn't even drink water when I was a kid. It was all soda. I mean my parents loved it because when they were kids, soda became a big thing. And you know, it's like it was a status symbol of the astoda. You know you were doing well if you had soda. So we would buy My mom would buy cases of that crap and we would just man, I loved it. Yeah, it

was hard, like crack. That's so good, all right. Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says Ben, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Thank you? I think the rooster, right, did the rooster come first? Caleb from Meadville, Pennsylvania says there are so many funny drops by callers on the show. Ben, do you have one that cracks you up more than the others? Uh? Yeah, there are several that I laugh at. The Hey mona one which is in rotation. Now. I

like any of those old Genie drops. Unfortunately Roberto and he didn't really know Genie, and he a lot of those drops we don't get. We don't play them anymore. But I love those old Genie and Medford drops. And then there's one from this guy, uh that sounded like Bill Cosby and and then he said something in Cowboys said the same thing. He's like, Ben, I don't know if you know this. I'm black like that. It was hilarious the way that they said it. It It was. It

was just tremendous dead pan comedy. Uh. That always. I always crack up at that. And then Mark the full name guy Burn Moller, you hang up on yourself, you know that kind of he's just screaming like a lunatic. I heard that live. I remember that. Yeah, he's he's out there. He still sends me nasty emails. Yeah, you get very upset, and I'll take like a sarcastic shot at him on the radio, and then I'll get a manifesto manifesto email and uh, you know, like RiPP me.

But then he'll rip Nancy Pelosi right in the middle of it, and then he'll go back to ripping me. And normally, normally how that goes our last email? Kevin in Rockford, Illinois, says Mr Mallard and Mr Guescott, Well, no, it's it's just Ben Gesscon's west of the four or five. You can call him, call me Mr Uh. He says, I am competing in a jitsu tournament jiu jitsu tournament on the fourteenth in Crown Point, Indiana. It was supposed to be in Oak Lawn, Illinois, but our governor is

even more in nep than the King of California. Well, I don't know about that, Kevin, his majesty here in California, I don't know about that. So he says, the guy in Illinois shut down everything down in the state. Uh, that all isn't really relevant to my question. He says, I just wanted to bash the Illinois governor. Well, congratulations you have, he said. Anyway, my question is why doesn't sports media talk about m m A or ufcmore combat sports,

beautiful art and deserves more notoriety. Dana White is also the best leader in all of American sports. Yeah. I like Dana White. Uh. But then there's there's several variables to UFC and why it does not get a lot of attention. The main one is it's broadcasting, not narrow casting. In the UFC still has a rather narrow following. That would be the first variable. The second variable is you

don't have the overwhelming personalities. There's a few of them, but that really moves in the like Connor McGregor and his Shenanigans. John Jones. Yeah. I mean there's a few of those guys, but a lot of To me, and maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a huge UFC fan. My brother in law loves the UFC. He's not a sports fan, but he loves the UFC. He'll like pay for pay per views on Saturdays and have parties and back when

you could have parties and all that stuff. Their best sequence, at least time structure was when they first started the ultimate fighter. That was great because you you saw these guys coming up from the bottom up to where they were to compete and training, being in the cages by themselves and working with the coaches and then obviously them sparring and then eventually fighting each other with the right to compete in the UFC like that was. That was

the epitome. I mean, I remember though UFC and Mixed martial Arts way back in the day when there was no weight class. This is like full blown Jean Claude Van Damn Blood sport. Like if you're a guy, it's a hundred fifty pounds, you can fight a dude that was two eighty six ft five and two eighty. It was drastically different. But yeah, I love the sport, especially with the way that it is now, the divisions and whatnot. But like you said, it's just it's too it's too niche.

It's not you know, you get those fights, those those exclusive fights once a month, maybe once every six months, I mean every six weeks. Yeah, I would have to be And even boxing, I mean we don't we only talk about boxing, and there's like a big fight, you know, and you know, guys get Booter battered, bruised and completely beaten and all that stuff. And then but it's it is fun. I missed that, like, come in after a

big heavyweight fight. We haven't had a big heavyweight fight. Well, I guess we had actually had one one that stood out with the uh what was that guy's name, the the big English guy that that one was it last year? It was must have been last year. Remember who are you thinking of? Oh, the guy that was the big upset, the guy from England that beat Deante Wilder. Oh shit, um, yeah, I've already forgot the guy's name. He was a character, that guy, uh with the Tyson Fury. Yeah, there you go,

Tyson Fury. Yeah. Like, that guy was a character. That was fun, that was an event. And you know those those things, you know, the Gypsy King that's his nickname, the Tyson Fur, the Gypsy Kam like that. That that's a big deal because you can come in, you can break it down, you know. And back in the day with the the the late what was his name him Letterman or whatever the guy's name was, the judge. All right, Jim,

here's here's I have it. Ten nine that round uh and then they go I always love at the end of the fight when you check the CompuBox, uh compu box, punch that and you see punches landed. But then it's like power punches. It's always fun to analyze the numbers after after the fact. But you know, we'll do a big boxing match, but the UFC, it's hard to do that because you know, if the most of the audience did not watch. It's kind of like hockey, Like how

I like going to hockey games. I enjoy watching hockey, but it doesn't really resonate into talk radio, at least national syndicated talk radio. It pound for pound does not does not work. Plus I like I like the combination. I think it was Mike Greenberg and UH and Joe Rogan like they were they're great. I like Lampley and and as you mentioned, Harold Letterman, like those guys were fantastic. Whenever they're working together, I just we get Lampley and

I get Lampleys. I I called him in the summertime, don't you remember, Oh he didn't want to come on. He had some he had some things he couldn't not discuss. Oh at the moment, what about now? Maybe you can come on now? He did sit hit him up after September so I can I can reach out to him. He's on the East coast. Did you know that? Oh he is. I thought he was on the West coast. I didn't realize that. Where's he living? What state? I think he's in North Carolina? Is that right? Yeah, he's

doing some I didn't know that really interesting. That's who knew. Yeah, the great Jim Lamber. At last I heard he was living in San Diego. Um, yeah, lamp is very good. What's your favorite type of boxer? You? Uh, like the swarmer, You like the slugger, like the brawler. Yeah, I mean that's part of why I liked I like the UFC so much, is because you don't get many guys that

are just trying to jab you to death. You know, you get the get the guys like Floyd Mayweather that'll just jab you to death and just try to score off you no matter what him at times of Cardella Hoya, other guys they're just they're throwing haymakers, even the small guys like pack Yo. But yeah, I prefer guys who just throw bombs left and right. It doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean who who likes like you know, this is one of the knocks on Mayweather, right, Floyd Mayweather is

technically a great boxer. He will out box you. He's um if you're a boxing snob, he's elegant, right because he he's he moves around and all that stuff, and he knows how don't win, you know, the points, but not entertaining. So all right, that's it. That's all I got. Guessco it's the thriller in Malarilla, is what it is. No, No, the rumble in the Mallard Jungle. No, no, the great Mallard hope. No, no, just punt the brawler in the maler No. No, thunder versus Lightning. That's not really a

Mallard reference. Like Fight of the Century, that's always a good one, right, yeah, no, the showdown. Uh, I don't know. I don't know. You can put all that in the eighteen wheeler and pack it up and throw it back to these ghosts. About that moving man, Matt who hates you. I'd like to take you and give you a pile driver, is what he would like to give you. A spine buster the head scissors back in the day, Speaking of which, did you know that a new documentary is coming out

about Stone Cold Steve Austin. I did not. Yeah, I have to watch it. That'll be a good one. Do a podcast review, Yes, that would be a good one because he transformed himself and was obviously a badass when he was sparing with Vince and the Rock and everybody else. So am I gonna have to see now there's a lot lizard. I don't know if I'll have time to get to it, but yeah, I don't know. Weekend's almost over. It's Sunday, you know, yeah, so almost over all, right, listen,

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