Easter Sunday Blessings

old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse to clearinghouse of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, the sore is underway. It is a parte even on an Easter Sunday, the fun Oorama, in this case, the Mallard Orama is underway. We're hanging out at the Audio Copa cabana here having

a it all time on a Sunday. And the mailbag, which has become one of the more popular features of the podcast. Weekend is the mail bag which we thank you guys for feeding the content and we hope you continue to enjoy the content. That we provide here with the mailbag obviously, and U the full weekend is in effect here and it's the only way you get Gas gone to work on an Easter Sunday is to record

it several days before. But there he is, west of the four oh five, coming in to join the fun here tailgating at our part a David gascon the private gaging pretty much. Stay from those introductions. They applaud you for bringing me on into this part A lot of fun. And how embarrassing is it every week you have to hit that button to hit the sound effects? Embarrassing at Crappola? Is that? No shame? You do it every week? What

are you talking about? You have live people calling your show to lick your ass like that's what they do. Who does that? Somebody? You have grown? Name someone right now? Justin doesn't Justin bust the time about the clippers. He's a troll. He's a low grade troll. Justin. That guy would allow you to vomit in his mouth A listen, that is a sieve. That guy is just an absolute sip, that's what he is. He's just you don't understand the

mallow militia motto. All right, We welcome everyone, right, we have the Mallew Militia oath, which, by the way, we have not given out in a long time, the Mallew Milicia oath. But the Mallew Militia motto is it doesn't matter whether you're liberal or conservative, or independent, or gay or straight, or it doesn't matter you're raised. We don't. We're not into racial identity politics like the Democrats are. We welcome everyone, but we bust each other's balls, all right.

And you're not good at that. You can't handle that, guess on you can't. That's why the Malla Militia eats you a lie. Okay, they eat you alive. The piranha. They smell blood in the water and they attack they and we don't even have to send in the piranha. The attack puppies get you. The poodles that the attack poodles get you. Now, they're all little bitches. The Mallar motto is grab ankles for Ben Mallar, no matter what. That's exactly what they do on point as scheduled Monday

through Friday and sometimes eight days a week. That's fine, wow, all right, when are you taking your next holiday? I don't get holidays. What are you not showing up to work again so we can get we can get a plumber in here next week. How about that electrician. That's what you did, plumber, electrician, a carpenter. I do need an electrician, dude, if you know a good electrician, contact needs. Well,

let's get to the mailbag, uh and listen. Cameos obviously avail, but you want to download the cameo app if you can get that on your phone or on cameo dot com, and we'll do a personalized video message just not free. But if you want your own Mallard monologue themed about you, you you gotta give me some info, give me a little bullet point action. But I'll I'll be more than

happy to do a Mallard monologue just for you. Uh. I've got birthdays, bar mits, fuzz hey, Easter Sunday, got wedding coming up, pass Over, Yeah, wedding, whatever it might be. We got well, this could be a big year for Malla militia weddings. We got luminaries. We've got three power couples that are gonna get married. You have one in Minnesota, right, Well, well, well you have Anthony in Anaheim, whose girlfriend soon to be wife hates the show and and she's they're getting married.

We've got ed and Christina from Spokane. They're getting married beer drinking Brian and Half Pint. If they survive, we'll be getting married later the summer. So we got three. This is a big year for wedding. Now. I'd like to go to as many of these as I can't, and I think they're all getting married in Vegas, so it is doable. Now what happened. We can have like a Mallard militia theme wedding weekend. We can have one on Friday, one on Saturday, one on Sunday. Bam, bam bam.

But what if you need to show your papers in order to get into these weddings? Yeah, well you listen, that's your president. That's your guy Biden there, that's President's sleepy San Francisco is doing that now with the giants. Um, you know what I looked at the protocols at the baseball stamps. You know the thing that I I I laughed at was they have mask guidelines, which you're like, fine, whatever, but they they are not. I guess I'm not allowing

you in several ballparks. I don't know if this is universal. I know the Indians and the Dodgers have this that the gator mask is not acceptable. But keep in mind, if you watch a baseball game, you will see players on the Dodgers and the Indians and these other teams wearing the gator mask. So the fan that goes into the ballpark not allowed to wear the gator mask. But you know, the guy on the team can can wear

the masks. And it's odd. At Yankee Stadium earlier in the weekend Game one against the Blue Jays, he had fans in attends that weren't wearing masks at all. Yeah, oh my god, I can't believe that. More rules for thee but not for me is the general mantra. There also, hey, review of the podcast. We got a couple of good reviews while back. We've had didn't have any last weekend, I don't think, but we we do need those reviews.

I know it's a pain in the ass, and who wants to do that, and you know, you just want to get the content and move on. But if you do, take a couple of minutes and give us a review on the Apple podcast page for the fifth hour, and boy, does help. It does help. Five stars and then you write a little little clip there and it's really neat. It's really neat. Uh is uh Kaiser's mustache wrote just the best show out there. Um must listen. Big Ben is always on top of his game. Keep it up.

There you go. I might have edited that, but pretty much what he said. I'm gonna point that out. Yeah, all right, let's get to the mail bag. We got got a lot of questions, so we'll go quick. Yes, right, alright. Kevin in Kansas, Right, since it's been you mentioned Keith Smart in a trivia question this week and how he started at Garden City Community College. That's right. He's the only n c A A player of the final four,

player of the tournament. Whatever it was that that was a jew cool player, Keith Smart back in the day at Indiana, he said, Kevin says, which is just down the street for me. I was wondering if you ever covered any budding sports stars when they were in community college earlier in your career before you hit the big time. Well, I there were a few that made the pros then when I was doing community college play by play at Saddleback College, Anthony Carter was our top player. He was

a guard, played for the Miami Heat. Hit a game winning shot at Madison Square Garden in a playoff series. He's an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks now, but he played in the NBA for like ten years. He would go on to go to Hawaii, but he was on the team that I was at at saddleback Keon Clark, who you probably don't know he played in the NBA. He was. He played at Irvine Valley College. We we did some games that he did and as its saddleback.

And then the third person that I remember. I'm sure there's more, but the third that I remember, we did a football game. Saddleback was playing at Gagon's old school and the quarterback was Steve Sarkisian. And uh so those are the three that that stand out. El Camino College, Yes, el Comino College. And that's before Sarkeesian went to b y U, before he fell in love with Whiskey, uh you know, and all that. And now he's the head coach of Texas, right, so I've had a house connection

with the last two Texas Longhorns coaches pretty well. The previous coach was an intern at the radio station I worked at, and now sarkis all right? R J Insane Antonio says, I sometimes hear you say the phrase, oh y'all jumping onto the third rail during the show when it's about to briefly turn political. What is the origin of that phrase and when did it begin? Well, good question, r J. In San Antonio. It's rather obviously if you've ever been on a subway, it comes from the subway system.

Right there, there's a pair of rails that the subway cars on, and then in most subway systems, there's that third rail that runs between or alongside, and that third rail is where the electricity is. So if you touch the third rail, you're going to die. Many people have died. It's also an homage to our boss, are programming guru, the Great Don Martin, along with Scott Shapiro run Fox Sports Radio, and uh Don's quite the character. And I've

met with Don several times. I have good relationship. We don't talk that often, but when I've been in Don's office, Don Martin, and when we discussed the show and what we talked about and here, you know, anything political or things like that. The third round, my third round you know. That's so we're quoting him when we do that. It's a way to suck up secretly, stealthily to our boss. Third round, my m because that's his quote. That's his quote.

But it goes back to like the late eighteen hundred's the first subway system with that with that technology in the like the eighteen sixties, So it's been around for

a hundred and sixty years. That that phrase so fun fact Marcus and chin No California says, when you were taking a shower, this is for both of us, when you were taking a shower and you have to pee, do you stop what you're doing to go to the toilet then resume your shower, or do you take care of business and improve your aim in the drain during the shower? And Marcus says, any guy that says they don't aim in the drain is a liar in his opinion. Well, absolutely,

we all piss in the shower, don't. I don't believe people that stop the shower. I don't buy that. Now it gets a little more dicey if you got to drop a deuce, Like if you're in the shower and you gotta squirt, squirt, some some turns out that that becomes problematic because you do have to stop the shower.

I don't think you've gotta be like an animal to to poop in the shower, right, yeah, because then you just ruin you know, once you do get out of the shower, though, then you just ruin the toilet paper because it's all wet. So it's really it's a bad and it's a bad situation. Well, plus, you gotta get whatever you left in the shower, assuming it's not running. If it's a solid turd, you gotta then pick it up and get rid of it. It comes you're not stop. No,

I I completely agreed. And it's like those baseball players. It's good for your skin, right, the urine is good for your skin. Yeah, Jorge Posada moises alu. Yeah. Jason from Beautiful Rocky Mount, Virginia says most of us have had an experience, UH riding around with your friends when you were kids. Did you ever get pulled over by the police, Uh for the first time? Give me your age and all the details you can recall of your first police involved situation. Uh police, All right, yeah, I

I will tell you the one I remember. Jason my first interaction with the police when I got my driver's license. I was like sixteen years old and I was driving across town to football practice. It was it wasn't training camp. It was like the offseason like practices that we're having during the summer. But I was running late, and uh I got ding. I got pulled over for going a little too fast and I didn't have my driver's license. I had forgotten to take my wallet with me, and

so I I started sweating profusely. I was freaking out, Oh my god, I'm gonna go to jail because I didn't have my wallet. And uh the the officer did me a solid, gave me a lecture. It didn't even give me a ticket because you said, told me to go home and get my wallet, and uh I did, and uh So I had a good interaction the first time. But that's that's the one I remember. I I was just when when those cherry tops came on behind me,

and I got oh my god. It's like I was trying to remember, like what are you supposed to do? And like, you know, because you're a kid, you're like, you know I do in the parking lot? Do I stop on the side. You know, it was like the whole thing. What about you, gagun? I remember, was it with your dad? Did he pull you over? Did? He was with my my mom and my my three sisters. We were going to school. My mom was running late.

She was a teacher, and she was speeding from our house to UH to school to drop us all off. And an officer a a bike a bike cop pulled us over. And I remember the first thing he did was looking the back and all of us are obviously belted up, and so he looked at us like in the passengers said to see my other sister, and then looked at my mom, and you know, obviously gave us the whole rundown. I'm a speeding in the whole nine yards and then uh then yeah, obviously uh gave us

a warning and we were off on our way. But I remember that I was like, oh my gosh, what's going on here. I thought it was like a big formal thing, like it was a procession to go to school or something like that, because obviously my dad was in the Harvard Division at that time, UH Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, right since he's with a the vaccine rollout being in full swing. Would you be open to having a Christmas in July ugly sweater cookout? That's from Pierre. You will not. Well,

you know, we we're gonna handle. I was watching the Dodger Rockies games and with you know, crowds. It looks like to me almost a full house at some of those games in Denver, so there's people are coming back milling about. I'm not gonna lie. I think you're a little hesitant about doing something like that, like you would the worst thing that can happen I go out and do stuff. I think it's a lot of these these

rules I think are more for optics than anything. I'll remember that if if I if I come to your house and I go in your freezer and I see that fucking Tomahawks still there, I'm a little piste off, a little piste Off'm not gonna lie. Maybe it's in my belly, definitely not. What are you getting the vaccine? By the way, I guess you probably not gonna do that anytime soon. No, I think you're eligible right now. I don't know if I'm actually we are eligible. We're

considered a frontline workers. Really yeah, yeah, if you have your badge on the Yeah, your your badge to come into the building, slash that and you get right away. Yeah, we have a couple of colleagues that did that at Dodger Stadium and also at cal State Northridge. They got to the front of the line because we're considered essential personnel because of the news agency that well represent interesting. I wanna, I wanna that's the Marshal right, is not

the Marshall bill or whatever? That? Yeah? Yeah, when when are they coming out with a one shot so you don't have to do the two Johnson and Johnson that they consider a one shot. Now, you might have to get a booster once every year, but Johnson and Johnson's considered the one shot. Yeah, I maderna and fiser or two? What are you gonna get it? I don't know. I mean my wife wants me to. She had it and

she's fine or whatever. Actually, the fun and the funny thing is I told my my brother, my liberal brother, uh in Wisconsin. He just got the vaccine and he was asking me the same question you asked me, and I told him, I said, oh, no, you're my guinea. I'm gonna wait and see how you do. And then Uh,

which is true. I mean we have the same DNA, So if nothing happens to him, I think I'm good, you know, So I'm gonna wait until he gets the second shot in a couple of weeks, and then nothing happens with him, I'll go down and get my vaccine. But you could agree to that. There's not that's not it's not a reason to to go rush into it, right Like it's just oh no, I'm not rushing you.

I mean I wanna you know, I want to make sure you know everything is is good, and you know, many every day more people get the vaccine, and it seems like most most everyone's okay. So you know, there's always gonna be a margin of error in anything where you know, crap goes wrong with anything. There's bad police, there's bad teachers, there's bad doctors. But as long as it's a very low percentage, you play play the plus.

I don't think we have any choice here at Kisco, and I think if you don't do it, you're not gonna be able to do anything. So it's a it's an interesting dilemma. Uh. And Pierre also says, what is the shelf life of the average frozen steak asking for a friend. Boy. We're gonna find out though, one of these days. Barry in Tennessee, our buddy Barry writes in who Questions for this week, he said, I know we have our favorite callers and those who we don't care for.

But I don't think I have ever heard why Eddie does not care for the calls of Rachel from Manta Bello dealy dedy Uh if you had to guess, why does Eddie not care for Rachel's call? All right, So good question, Barry. I have to theory theories on this. First of all, I feel like they, the guys on the show don't like Rachel because she's a big fan of mine. She's very kind to me, she's very courteous to me. She's a very polite woman. She flirts with me,

she's flirtatious. This bothers them. They're troubled by that. Secondly, they're annoyed because Rachel will break out into song and it's usually the same song, and that bothers them. They're triggered by that. So though some version of those two things I would say is why they dislike Rachel. But I love Rachel. I think Rachel's great, She's fun. She's a big fan of the show. She's been very kind to us over the years. She's sent us candies and

whatnot and supported us. So I'm a big fan. Uh. And also, Barrus is, how did the idea for the fifth Hour come about? Was it Gascon's idea? No, well, I'm glad he asked that question. Did you just sit around and say, you know, I don't think twenty hours a week of radio is enough. I need to do three more hours of podcasting. What is the backstory for the fifth Hour? Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven

pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Now, I'm sure we have different versions of this. You want to go first, Guestcon, then I'll give the truth, or you want to give the lie after I give the trip lie of the truth. But you know age before beauty, I guess you can go first. Well, I'll give the truth here, Barry, So I had been moonlighting. I always

like to have a couple of gigs. I always like to have a couple of gigs. I like to juggle a couple of things. And I had a gig, a side gig at w e I in Boston doing satellite broadcasting for the Red Sox station during the night show, where I would do that two or three days a week and then I would do my show. So I was doing seven hours of radio. Uh that show is like three hours, and sometimes it was four hours. So sometimes I do eight hours of radio working a real job.

But we switched affiliates in Boston. My my show had had not been on and it was off the Boston market, and they picked us up at the Sports Hub, which is the number one station in Boston. We're excited to be on there. We've been on there a while now. The show has done well on the Sports Hub. But as a result of that, I lost the EI gig because they're major competitors, and it's like if you work at Apple, you can't work at Microsoft or Vice versus. So uh uh. Obviously I get paid much more from

the syndicated show. So I I left EI, and I was like, well, I gotta do something else, and the podcast is something I was playing around what I wanted to do, and so uh I Heart has invested a lot in podcasting, and they were looking for the content, and uh tell, here we are now for the lie. Here's David Gasco. That's interesting. It's a it's a good tale, and I think it's a fascinating one because you revealed

a few things. Because you you work Carret Fox, uh I Heart obviously and then w E I, which you worked at UM both paying jobs. Both the compensated for your services that were rendered. And so I remember when this came to its inception, I had the thought that you should do more digital stuff, and then I had the I guess the thought, but more like the desire to do more on the network as well, and to get my voice out there. And I thought, well, I've

worked on some of your shows. I don't like working the overnights because you should get off like Eddie gets off, like at six o'clock in the morning. But I want to to work with you, and I just thought like, hey, maybe I could provide that was some support on a digital platform, since I've done that previously and I do it to this day. So I remember vividly texting you about this, and you're like back and forth, back and forth.

And then I specifically remember talking to our our program director, Scott's Shapiro about this and word I uh say, I brought it up to him about doing something like this, and I came to the knowledge that I heard Media provides each employee with a portal to create podcasting content if they like to on their own accord. Now there's no marketing budget behind it, but you are able to do it free at charge because they will handle all the background stuff on it. Uh So we had talked

finally put some them together. I had nudged a veto our sound guide to create a little something something, and then Scott, by the graces of God, from July to August, got that thing in motion and eventually it was green light and we got it off the ground. So that is the fairy tale version of events, and what I gave was the real version. We talked about this early

in January of twenty nineteen. Well, I talked about a lot of Actually I talked about a lot of things, but you usually talk about a lot of things with a lot of people. But I wasn't gonna do the podcast while I had the two radio gigs I was talking to do it. I my I was stretched thin as I could possibly be stretched. But it reminded me

when I was doing the EI stuff. It reminded me when I had the website Ben Mallard dot com and I would do that for like twelve hours thirteen hours a day and then do the radio was paying the ast. Yeah anyway, Uh, Carlos in Bang Bang Houston, Texas, he says, I'm not gonna lie. David as a producer, was all right? Kind is that? Congratulations guests on According to our guy in Houston, you were adequate. Wow, I dope. I love it. Uh it wasn't great, but was it wasn't bad either? Well,

you weren't bad anyway, Uh, he says. Anyway, what are your your guys favorite documentary of all time? What are your favorite documentaries of all time? And what is the name of the series that you watched on Netflix that devalued all the baseball cards and stuff like that? All right? Uh, so you've asked two separate questions. The baseball documentary, I

believe it was called Jack of All Trades. I'm not sure if it's still available on on the streaming services or not, but jack of all trades and it goes into the late eighties early nineties and how the baseball card and market just all of us who are around the age where we bought a bunch of baseball cards were complete jackasses because we we got screwed. They just

kept printing up baseball cards. My favorite documentaries off the top of my head, the three that stand out that I recommended or must watch documentaries are Operation Odessa, super Men, and I'm gonna throw in that super Size Me to the Chicken thing that we we actually did a podcast about that a couple of years ago. I thought that was a really well done documentary. So those are the

three right off the top. Gascon Any documentaries that you would like to add that there must watch, I guess being a homer, i'd say, O. J May in America it was a really good documentary, wonder why. Yeah, that was fantastic. Um the Al Jazeera documentary that you sent me, Oh the Dark Side and Dark that was that was pretty good one. And I think the most entertaining one for me was what we did the documentary coverage, um with the fucking Russians and the submarine that was Operational Desk.

It was that was called Operational Desk. Really good one. Quite a big character, a bunch of characters in that they got nuclear they got a nuclear sub and helicopters. And then the way they talked about it was, you know, they finally rested that guy that was on the run. Yeah, a couple of years ago, popped him. That was really good. That was I agree, Uh, well made all right, keep

it going. It's the mail bag Sunday staple. Hey, if you want to add content, if you think this is good and you want to add your own question, we might use it on the podcast. There's a couple of ways you can do it every Wednesday. I tried to do it in the morning this week. I did it late. I think it was probably like almost midnight on the East Coast. But Ben Mallards Show is the Facebook page, and I will post every Wednesday on hump Day. I'll say, hey,

I need some questions for the mail bag. I'll beg, I'll plead and uh and and so many of you have answered the call. But if you want to get on there on the Facebook page, you can do that. Or if you're not on Facebook, or you just want your your question to be private, you can send a question in care of the Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. So there's a couple of ways you can send your questions

in We do. Thank you for that, John, But Jailer, our buddy from alan Town, p A. Says Ben in Gascon. Have you ever had any non traditional pets. My father was a biology teacher, so we had many creepy crawlers growing up. Now I want to get a snake, but the warden says no, So no snake, no snake for John the jelly. Well, I never had anything crazy. My brother had a snake, and I've told the story before,

but I was a little freaked out by snakes. My brother's a little older than me, and my mom and my brother the snake got out of the cage, and my mom and my brother said, don't worry, Ben, the snakes probably out in the in the backyard and the trees or whatever. You have nothing to worry about. Uh. And the snake was actually sleeping under my bed. We found it under my bed and I got a little freaked out by that. But that's that's about it. What

about you, guess do you consider rabbits a non traditional pet? Nah? I think more cats, dogs, and fish like a pig would be a non traditional pet. Pig coyote. No, I haven't had. We We had our guy from North Hollywood's got a pet bobcat. He domestic. Yes, we got a listener who domesticated a bobcat. That's awesome. Uh, yeah, until the bobcat gets hungry late at night eats your nose. But yeah, up until there, you're you're good. All right. Lee from the Valley of the Sun says, how many

times have you guys been fired? Let's see here? I got fired from FSR one time college football gig, a studio show that I did, done, NBC Sports Network Done. That's three. I didn't get fired from six ninety. I relocated to another station in the company in l A. I didn't get fired from w e I. It was I had to leave on my own. Uh. Lost a couple of website gigs. But I didn't really get fired. They just didn't offer me enough money, so I didn't

want to do it anymore. When I had Ben Mallar dot com and I was with Yahoo and Fox Sports dot com, the money was just not it was ship money. So I think it's only three times. What about you guess? Yeah, only once. That was when I was working in the banking industry, when they started just decimating mortgage departments after the two thousand and seven two nine mortgage back securities. That took a nose dive. So you're not counting when the baseball team went to the Carolinas. No, they dissolved.

The team just dissolved flat I thought they relocated in the North Carolina and they dissolved flat out. Sure about that. I'm positive Mason the Millennial alright, see, and he says, I had another five star review. But this is also what I'd like to contribute. Uh, he says, all jokes aside, I love of your guys. Combo. Uh, then this must be a miss. I don't know. It just says David's not a bad guy. Okay, this thick it sound? Why

does it sound painful for you to say that? But but he says, don't don't don't tell him that, all right. I will not Mason, I will not tell I will not tell Mason the Millennial at Gagon is a good guy. And Mason, you should be on Baseball Reference, right, now, I know it's Sunday, but you should be on Baseball reference trying to learn you know, maybe one player in baseball.

How about that? You just point that out alright, Ohio, al rights, and he says, Ben, if you are at a four way stop intersection, car in front and to the side are trying to be so nice. They both sit there forever waiting for the other person to go How many seconds do you consider it appropriate before you honk your horn to get somebody moving off their ass. I usually wait three to four seconds before I I hit the horn. Do you think that is too much

or not enough? Yeah? Well played? Uh well, here's the way I I look at all of the variables involved in this. Am I alone in the car? Am I with my wife in the car? If I with a relative in the car? Right? So I look at that. Uh. Then I also look at the other people, whether or not they might have guns in their car, right, because some people get triggered just by a horn honk. But yeah,

three or four seconds is more than enough. I mean, and we live in the age where every time I'm at a stoplight, I feel like the person in front of me is texting away and not watching the signal, and so there's always this lag time. Now at least I've noticed this where they're looking at their phones and they're not driving and paying attention, and so it ends up becoming problematic. But I don't hank the horn as much. And I'll tell you why. Al uh, because I have

a rather meek, weak sounding horn. It's not a masculine, strong horn. It's a very weak horn. And I feel a little embarrassed. It's like a clown horn. Dude, Like I said, you know, I don't know. If I had a more masculine, loud, powerful, intimidating horn, I would use it more. But I don't. I don't have that sounds prison. You want to chime in here, are you get? Well, the rules of the road. You typically have the driver to your right, you allow them, you yield to the

driver to the right. Now we're not doing rules, we're doing what actually happens. Yeah, well, I always observe the driver to the right, So I will wait, and if I have to wait, i'll wait. Okay. Rock Sanne in Colorado Rights and you might know her work. She is a big fan girl for you, by the way, all right, as she should be I don't know but that, she says. First off, whoever Gretchen is tell her to go listen to someone else or something else. Oh, she's referring to

the previous podcast. A second, whoever said Brian Finley was better at the podcast than Gascon needs their head checked. Rock Sand says Finley is seriously a creep and a stalker. Wow damn. She says, his updates are atrocious and he looks and sounds like he smokes five pounds of we today. Wow, Rock Sand damn, believe them. I disagree with everything Rock Sanne said, except the part where he's a stalker. He's

a Stage five clinger, Ryan Finley, she says. Third, whatever you have to do to get Gascon to do the podcast, please do it. The chemistry and the banter between you two is hilarious and much needed entertainment on the weekends. Rock Sand, every time I see your name, Rocks and I think of the song by the way, But listen, listen to me, all right, take a step back, all right. I know, I know you're a fan of Gascout. I

don't know what happened. I don't know why. It seems odd to me that you'd be such a fan of his. But please, I thought it was well written. Yeah, well interpreted by you. Uh she She's not done. She says whoever said stick to sports should know you do a sports show five days a week. And if that's all they want to hear, they can just listen to that. Some of us actually do appreciate the podcast and gascon and some of us are women. Okay, it's good. How

much should you pay for that? Talk about cameo letter? But it's fine? Okay, Yeah, yeah, Roxanne, just get guests. Got to do a cameo for you. I'm done, problem solved. Yeah you do. You would you do a cameo Roxanne wanted? Like with your shirt off? When you do that? You would? Yeah? Interesting, I would not be Yeah you would don't. I wouldn't. I would not do a cameo with my Didn't you do a cameo video with for someone in your robe? No?

I didn't do it, right. I had a Philadelphia Phillies like a Philly fanatic goofy hat that I wore for one that's as crazy as I've got, and I actually know I did for Hollering James. I did one somebody bought for Hallerwy James cameo and I wore I had this like Viking head dress thing that that I wore his you know, hollering James in Minnesota loves his his Viking, so I had to I do that, all right. Moving on. Hello, my name is Tad and I'm from Portland, Oregon. Hello, Tad,

I'm a new listener for about two weeks now. Well, welcome to the Mallow Militia. Tad. Good to have you with us, he says. And now I listened to the entire overnight show, and I guess he's now a podcast listener as well. He had a question about Matthew Stafford. I think we answered this actually on the radio show the other night that but Matthew Stafford is going to be wonderful, right, this is a major upgrade. They had that scrawny, hollow cheeked loser in uh in Jared Goff.

I said that with the most kind intentions. But now they have this colosso veteran, a colossal goliath of a quarterback. So in comparison Matthew Stafford versus Jared Goff is he's Stafford's a yetie, alright, He's he's the abominable snowman coming from Detroit, and he looks like he's in shape. He looks like he lost weight, you could see it in his face. He looks like he's in game shape. So I'm betting on Sean McVeigh being a really good coach,

one of the top five coaches in the NFL. And if I'm right about that, if I'm correct about that, then that would mean that Stafford, who hasn't had a really good coach in his career with the Lions, with the XS and ohs, ability of Sean McVeigh to drop up an offense, and now a quarterback that can actually run that offense without having to be spoon fed like Jared Golf, this should be an amazing relationship. So I

anticipate big things for Matthew Stepford. We had Sean Salisbury on the Great Houston Talk Shows to ESPN Guy back in the day, and Sean Salisbury said he thinks Stafford's got shot at winning the m v P in the NFL this year, but that it would be fun. That division is going to be pretty much wide open if San Francisco gets fully healthy, well, they don't have I don't really have a quarterback. The Niners, you know they have a guy that and the Arizona does. They got

a pint sign and they've got alligator on. It's not August yet, and there'son to take shots at Murray. Keep you gotta stay, stay in shape, gotta be prepared. Boys the garden home there running around there, you go, Let's use your guy, get shorty. That's that's what the defense to say when they play year number three for Aler Murray. Yeah, I've heard that before. Barely bigger than a garden only. It's gonna be great. We can put some you can

put your your money where your mouth is. When we get down to regular season totals, yeah, we'll do that. We'll do that. I look forward to it. Of course, the total is gonna be low because the Cardinals have they put a great team together. It was like they'd have a really good team with all these old guys they keep signing. Brandon in Wisconsin says, I know this is more of a girl thing to do, but have you thought about what you would name your kids slash

children if you were to have them. With our twins coming, my wife and I have been thinking of both boy and girl names. It's really becoming difficult. So from Brandon in Wisconsin. Yeah, the name things. That's a tough one, right because you a lot of families wanna honor a relative, you know, from from previous generations. Other people want original names. It's a tough it's a tough deal. And then the name is sold part because like it kind of work.

Most people work in to the name, like you know, the cliche if you you you know, if you name like a woman a certain name, she's more inclined to be a dancer. You know what I'm saying. Guess singer, do you go? Would you go Biblical with the name? Um, I don't know. It depends if Brandon's a religious you're asking me, I would likely honor a relative or I try to come up with a unique name, but not a unique name that is so off the grid. You know, there's some names that are not as popular. When I

was a kid, Ben was not a popular name. There's a lot of people named Ben now, But when I was a kid, it was not popular and they just the only band that was famous was Benji the dog in a in these movies. And uh, yeah, it's a

tough call. I mean that's I'm guessing woke society. At some point, Brandon will say kids should not be named until they're old enough to pick their own name, right, you know, because it's it's it's really wrong that these kids are forced to have their their names presented to them by their parents. It's not right. Whatever they do, they can't butcher the spelling. So if they go Jeff, please don't go G E O F F. You don't

want the toys r US version. Yeah, you know. And the other thing too, is like you want your kid to be able to go to Disneyland and get the little license plate with their name on it, if possible, right, if possible. And if you're your your name is like Jabroni, it's hard to find a little license plate that says Jabroni or something like that. Anyway. Uh. Jared from Montclair in Callie says, how do the Clippers win come playoff time with Kauai and playoff p Well, Jared just watched

stay tuned because they're gonna win the NBA Championship this year. Emmett, the blind Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington, says, if you could buy a shirt that says anything, bad about the Astros. Would you buy it and wear it now? I'm not gonna buy astro. Eddie sent me a shirt as a gift a couple of years ago that said asterisk Houston asterisk, which is a cool shirt. But that's it. I'm I don't need to wear any astro astro paraphidia, do not do not need that. Who else do we have here?

Chris and Edmonton, Alberta says, how many times do you think Kyrie Irving is going to take a personal day? Do you think he'll ever play for the Nets again? Wait, he came back, Chris, you said this before he came back, But he came back. If he pulls the same stunt during the playoffs and we if we get there, if they get there, any chance that the Nets have of taking home a ring without Kyrie available? Yeah, they can win without Kyrie. If Harden and Durant are there, they're

they're certainly more than capable of winning. But unfortunately we're gonna lose to the Clippers in the NBA Finals. Kent in Colorado writes it. Uh. He says, I've listened to another fine podcast when he sent this email in he sucked up to you a little bit clearly that I'm gonna I'm gonna skip over that part there by job by him. Uh, he says, when next in Vegas, try a pastrami on rye from the Greenberg's Delhi at New York,

New York. Good idea, I don't know, but that I'm a I'm a Langer's Deli guy in l A. But I don't give a shot. I guess what's your favorite place to eat at in Vegas? Uh, there's a barbecue place that we go to that is off the strip, right near that row that has all the strip clubs on it. Uh, that's we gotta I gotta get back to. I've been a Vegas in a couple of years. And I also loved the the Deep Dish Chicago pizza place, Uh, which is the same one from Chicago. What's the name

of it? Social the G's Dear Donald's. Yeah, that's it. But that that's really good. But you gotta you or you gotta wait an hour. It takes like an hour for that to make. The pie at at the Heart Rock Um Pink Taco It's a Mexican cantina. Really fucking good. Probably my favorite place in in Vegas to eat at, just because the the margaritas are in those giant bowls pretty much. And then the plates that you bring out like a taco plater, a britto plater, just mons stories

or like oh and there was a we found. There's a speakeasy Italian place my wife likes. And then there's another Italian place which is off the strip and it's like open all night. They got you know, typical, but it's just like in a strip mall. It's really good, really good fetucchini out freight. I forget the name many. I gotta come up with the name, but I can't. Also says that Verne Lundquist lives in Steamboat Springs. We

gotta get Verne Lundquist on the podcast. It can't. If you run into Verne, can you tell them we want to get him on the podcast. Give him our card. I'd love to get Vernon. You know who I would really like. I want to get Al Michaels. Can we get al Michaels? Do you know al Michael's a gag on? He was the first celebrity I ever met. Um, so you don't know him? What you met him? No, I

don't know. I can try to get him. We should I had dinner, not that he'll remember, but when the Kings were in the Stanley Cup finals, I'll love the l a Kings, And he sat at the table in the media dining room and told stories about watching King's games when they were terrible back back in the day. So he was weren't a baseball cab ract casual. It was cool. I wonder if he had money on the puck line. Gordo from Victoria right since says Ben Ben

being a degenerate gambler. As you I previously mentioned, I am a in a handful of gambling groups on Facebook. Well, last week when Montres Harold sucked, a guy lost his bet and he sent Harold a d M on Instagram and Mantres Harold replied, he said about that. Uh, Gordo says, have you ever sent a men sage and haven't been replied to? But I guess he's talking about a celebrity. Um, yeah, no, I don't usually do that. That's not my my m O, IM my experience with social media's I'll I'll end up

getting blocked because guys like that pervert. Deshaun Watson, the accused pervert, will search their name out and get upset with something I say. They'll hear about it, either from one of their fans, or they'll hear a clip on the Internet, or maybe they even listened, and they get upset and then they'll they'll attack me. Uh. One of the funniest ones was when in Dominican Sue Who's on Tampa?

When he was coming to the l A Rams, I had a member of the Malla militia who was tipping me off told me that the report was that in Dominican was not going to play with the Rams, that the contract didn't work out. And a guy who's a big fan of the show informed me because he had worked at a certain hotel that in Dominican had checked in under an alias at the hote Hell and was about to sign with the Rams. So I reported that and in Domican got very upset and block me on

on Twitter, upset that I had that inside information. Kathleen says, who's that guy on your show who laughs like Burt Reynolds. Yeah, I don't is that Roberto? People like Roberto's laugh be it might be Roberto. And then the last one from Charlie in Memphis. Uh, he says Uh, it wants me to praise. This must be a praise Gascon. It's kind of a hard weekend for you with all that fan mail. Did you send out a mass email begging people to send things in here? And social media power of reach

and uh, power of my brilliance? What can I say less? None of that is true unless none of that is true, which is also a possibility. Sounds painful when you read these emails. Some of them are paying talking, some of them are paying. All right, listen, have a great rest of your Easter Sunday and enjoy the baseball and look forward to the championship game in college basketball. We'll be back on the radio. I will be anyway tonight live

show Easter Sunday into Monday. We will have the usual shenanigans, shall we say so. It'll be all available for you on Fox Sports Radio, the I Heart Radio app, wherever you listen to the show. And also we'll have a podcast up on Monday from the program, so we'll catch you then. Stay healthy, remember review of the podcast, and we'll catch you then.