Emptying the mailbag

days a week. This would be the eighth there week. This being Sunday, it's an NFL Sunday, a National Football League Sunday, which means double duty because not only to get this podcast, but we'll be back on the radio late at night into the early morning hours Sunday into Monday at two a m. In the East, eleven pm in the West, breaking down all the football activity and the Benny versus the Penny as well. You can watch that if you're getting up early. Here and joined again

by my new podcast partner. We have gotten rid of David Gascon and in his place, the great Ryan Smith is here and Hello Ryan. But it's good to have a professional on the podcast wouldn't go far, but thank you for the kind words. Yes, all right, so this is a mail bag. Are you prepared? Do you have your hazmat suit on? For what is going to happen here with all these slimeballs and these arch villains and all these bad guys sending in questions? Are all right,

so we're gonna go right to the mail bag. These are actual questions sending by actual listeners. If you'd like to contribute content and feed the content machine, which is the fifth hour with Ben Mallard podcast, So usually on Wednesday, typically it's in the morning, Typically in the morning. I'm not sure exactly when changes every week, but usually in the morning, and I will post something on the show facebook page, which is Ben Mallers Show, and you could

submit a question via the Facebook page. Now if you don't want to do that, because your question is very important and you want to keep it private. Like our friend I Am a pilot who gave us that great story about traveling to China. We had that a few weeks ago and his experience dealing with that. It was an interesting tale and he gave great detail. And he did that via email send a long email and it was just between us. So you can send the email

Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Really just put question in the headline so I know it's a question for the podcast and you're not trying to get me to buy something. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. So we opened up the mail bag this week and we begin with a question that came in from Glenn in Chicago. He says, when you do the instant advice lone in your show, who is the high pitched voice guy? It sounds like he says, I'm Fuggie Komodo. Um. I don't know who that is. I I don't know if

you know this, Glenn. We don't have paid callers. This is not this is not something like it's a comedy show. I guess it's become that, but we don't have a budget. It's I don't do impersonations like Phil Hendry, the radio legend Phil Hendry would do. Um, so that's just a guy that's his stick. And he says, who are what is Fudgie Como? It's it's Komodo. Um, I'm not that part. I don't know. I probably shouldn't know. Ryan, do you know who that is Is that just a made up character?

I don't know. Is that some some reference that I'm missing? I don't know. If it's funny. I like the way he does it. It's probably something, but I have no idea. I have your guests as good as mine. It sounds like something from south Park to me, but I don't know. Maybe not. And it sounds like they had Mr. Mr Poo on South Park, you know, like I think? So? Yeah? All right, ja'son in from Rocky Mountain, Virginia Rights and he says, big bag? Are you and your elitist co

host on Parlor? He says, well, the last co host is not here. I'm tired of the total garbage on Twitter. The only reason I'm on it is to follow your show hashtag mallar Militia. I may delete my account when you think of starting over on Parlor. Well, Jason, I did start a Parlor account. I have one. I'm not active on it um And the problem that I have with Parlor is it's it's one of these weird things. Is it what came first? The chicken or the egg? Right?

Because I need to go where the people are, and the people are not on the the the Parlor platform. Yet when more people get on there, I will be there and I will interact more on Parlor, and I'll make that part of my routine. But it's it's got a fraction of the following, and it's unfortunately, as you know, Jason, it is broadcasting, not narrow casting. So if I was only worried about Parlor, it would be narrowcasting. But I

hope Parlor does well. I like the fact that they don't have the draconian bull bullcrap rules that Twitter and Facebook have, and how ridiculous those companies have become censoring everything, and I believe the public square should not be a place of censorship. Twitter disagrees, Facebook disagrees. And and if you've noticed, Jason, I'm not nearly as active as I used to be on Twitter. I very rarely get into much anything on there these days because I'm not a

big fan of the platform. But I'm on there to reach people and occasionally, you know, and when the time is right and there's something going on and I'm not doing the show, I will I will post away. But I do have a Parlor kunt. I think it's just my name. I believe it's just Ben Matler on Parlor. So if you want to you want to know how that works, I think you can follow me or however that works there and pay attention to what I post. Not that I have posted much of anything, but it

is on there. Checked my name in and you can check that out. And Ryan, are you on Parlory the new social media a platform Parlor? I've never even heard of that. Yeah, it's supposed to be. Uh, it's new, which means it's probably not gonna make it because usually first in market wins, right, it is not Usually it works the first one that becomes the name brand. But it's kind of like a version of Twitter. Uh, not quite,

but it's a social media platform. But they're they're selling point is it's not gonna They're not gonna censor you the way that Twitter censors anyone that disagrees with their their tenants. You know, they're talking points the political agenda of Twitter. If you disagree with that, you get shut down. They put a slap, they slap something on your tweets about how you know, yes, exactly, the cancel culture, which speaking of the council culture, Oh my god, So the

governor of California, I'm getting a little carried away. The governor of California, who has been telling King Newsome, his majesty, who's been telling people not to you know, go together and hang out, not to have meals together, not to eat out out to you know, all these all these things you cannot do because you know he's gonna protect you. He's like your father, He's gonna protect you. The slimeball

politician Gavin Newsom. So he was caught red handed at a restaurant, a very high end one of the top five restaurants in the world, I think even higher than that in northern California, NAPA. And he was eating and frolicking. No one was wearing masks. It was indoors everything he says not to do. So he gets caught red handed, and uh and and so he's trying to sneak out of it. And and the great thing here is one of my my friends, this big liberal guy that I've

known for a long time. Uh and uh, he's he's trying to defend Gavin Newsom. He was trying to ffend Gavin Newsom and all that it was. It was outstanding. And then I I of course then said we need to recall Gavin Newsom. And there's actually a campaign in fact, I should I should give them a pub right now. If we have a lot of listeners in California. Uh, it's recal recall all Gavin dot com. It might be the most important thing that you here on this podcast.

Recall Gavin Com. You get this slimeballd dork of a governor out of office. California has succeeded in this. They have gotten a governor, great Davis. That's how we got the terminator, the governator Arnold Schwartzenegger years ago in the history of California. But Gavin Newsom deserves to be kicked out of office. He's a loser and I hope he does. But one of my friends was like defending him and on. But but he was upset with me because he said,

you want to recall Gavin Newsom, that's cancel culture. So then I had to explain to this idiot, this ignor ramis that no, dummy, it's not cancel culture. Cancel culture is you tweet something or you post something on online and and the mob, the mobs is, oh, we're going to cancel you. This is a process where you have to get thousands of people to sign up, right, there's thousands of people that need to sign up to get to another vote. That's called the democratic process. That's called

the that's how it's supposed to work. That's not cancel culture. That's all right, we're gonna have we need a bunch of signatures, then we're gonna have a vote. And if everything goes that way, you're out. It's not hey, you posted something online and you're done. It's people so stupid. Some people my one of my my buddies. What are you doing? It's ridiculous. Anyway, I got a little carried away there, right o carried away. It seems like you're triggered,

just just annoyed. I need my safe space. I need my warm glass of milk in my blanking and I'll be okay. Dylan in Nashville writes in on the mail bag. He says, I'm back on the third shift. So it's back to the Ben Mallor show. How about See, there's a guy, Dylan admitting when out of sight, out of mind right when he's listening to it was working night h nights. He's a listener. But when not he turns his back on the show. He's admitting that, yeah, and

that's how most people are. Remember when I lost my job. I've lost my job a few times and I thought, oh man, people aren't gonna live without me. And then you know, whoever is on people get used to you know, they can plain for a couple of days and then they're like, Okay, all this is this guy. You know, I'll move on. Very rarely do you get the blind loyalty that, no matter what, I'm gonna ride or die

with you. He says, He's drives around at night in the company car listing all right, and then he has a sporty question. He said, so, Ben, is there anything to step Tannehill can do is save the Titan season before he poops his pants and the Titans fall back into the dismal obscurity of the a f C. South. Well, the simple answer, Dyllan, not that we try to do sporty questions on this, but the simple answer is is no. I mean there are limits. There are limits here the

skill set of Ryan tan Hill. He's got abilities where occasionally he plays pretty well for a stretch, but you know that in an extremely in more important game, at a crucial moment, you cannot depend on that. You cannot depend he doesn't have what it takes. And that's the problem. And so the Titans are gonna have to scape by then they can win. We've seen teams win where the quarterbacks not that great and get to a super Bowl. The Rams got to the Super Bowl with Jared Goff

and he's not very good. Uh. And then there have been other teams that have won Super Bowls. The grant example is always the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with Trent Dolford back in the day. And they've been teams that can get there. But you have to be so good on special teams in defense, and that's the that's the problem. That's the rub on the Titans. Their defense is carefree and uh no, no concern bothering to tackle anybody. Um. So that's the problem. So that the answers, now, do

you have a different answer? Run? Are you a big Tennessee Titan fan? Now, not to be the guy that's correcting you, but Trent Dilford was on the Ravens. Oh I say the Ravens will excuse me. That's but now that he was on the Buccaneers, he's the last quarterback to go an entire season and have less than five touchdown passes as a starter he had in Tampa Bay. I think it was Tampa. He played the entire year and had like four touchdowns for the Buccaneers. All right, yeah, great,

great moments in NFS three, Charlie. And you never correct me again or you're fired. D okay, Charlie. In Memphis, he's the CEO of Gagon Limited. I thought they went out of business. I hey, he says, Ben, do you always find a way to weasel out of a bed? And he says, for your information, down south, we have just mountain oysters hog nuts. Well, Charlie, I want you to go to my Instagram page, my Facebook page. It's right, there's right at the top of the Instagram page. I

ate Rocky Mountain oyster jerky. And I was told by a farmer that that is actually a harder eat that Rocky Mountain oysters when Deep Fried, Have you ever had Rocky Mountains Not that's disgusting. Well, don't make a bet on the radio, and then I have to do it. So I got some jerky. A listener sent in the mail Rocky Mountain oyster jerky. I ate it one piece it was disgusting, it was jerky, and I still could buy I still feel the vein I been into. It

was horrible. And then I and these guys busting my ball saying, oh no, you didn't really do it, You didn't really do it. Shut up, Shut up, you losers. You are the stuff behind the toileted and seedy truck stop, is what you are. All right? Uh? This is from Mr Luciano in l A. He says, would you rather live in Vegas or Reno? And why? All right? Since great show, keep it up, Thank you, Mr Lucy. And I'm a Vegas guy. I went to Reno when I

was a kid, but Vegas is not now. But Vegas is where the action is, so I would go Vegas now. I do know a bunch of people that live in Reno. I got old radio friends that retired to Reno or you know that whole thing. But Vegas is more my my speed. What about you, right? I'm a Raiders fan, so Vegas for me, it's right right there. You can be in the belly of the beast literally, yes, the death Star. And they've had no fans. The Raiders have been such an abject failure in Vegas. Nobody's gone to

their games and Vaga the attendance is zero. We beat the Chiefs and beat them again on Sunday. Yeah it is Sunday, by the way, is our Sunday podcast by you? And uh, not that I want to correct you, but but now the raid the Raiders are doomed. That is going to be at least at ten point win for the Chiefs. At least at ten point win for the Chiefs, and if not, there should be an investigation. Alright, Kevin

from Garden City, Kansas. Right, so, and he says, Man, I discovered your show while lying awake this spring when we shut down schools says, I'm glad you're putting out all the podcast now that we're back in school, Kevin says, and I need my sleep. Do you have any words of advice to teachers and the trenches during these strange times? Uh? They well, thank you, Kevin. Uh and and you do a great, great service there being a teacher. I mean, we all remember, we all have that one teacher that

really moved us in a in a good direction. That specially, a lot of teachers kind of go by the wayside, but there's that one teacher that really nailed it right, just got it right and was a cornerstone in your in your life. The thing I don't know what great you teach, Kevin. The thing I would say to any teacher is a lot of kids. I think it's just

human nature. You're you're not sure yourself. People are kind of like I don't know that self confidence a lot for most people, they're not They don't have a lot of self confidence. And just a few words of a teacher saying you're really good at this, You've got a chance to be amazing at this. You know that, just a little throwaway line like that for someone who's at a young age can make the difference, right, believing in them. That's like the most important thing I know. Teachers are

supposed to do that. I don't know how many of them actually do it, but that's just that little thing. I can't give you any health advice. I can't give you any tips on that kind of stuff, but I can tell you that my experience when I was in high school, I had a guy that you know instead you know, it was in debate class, and he thought I was really good at debate and thought I could have a future, you know, and that kind of like empowered me and you know, gave me more confidence. And

so it's cool. So anything Ryan that you would give advice to a teacher, well, fun fact, my mom was a teacher that I got respect for teachers. My mom was a special lead teacher. And no, before you ask, she did not teach David Gascon. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. That's uh so we've learned about on the Saturday podcast, we learned about your

dad an engineer. Who's why didn't you have your mom do that? Wait a minute, you had your dad do the mass stuff. I guess because he's an engineer. But your mom is a teacher, wouldn't you you have had your mom help your homework out. My mom does everything. I felt like maybe we should just give her a break. I mean, like she mean, she's at work teaching. The last thing she wants to do is come home and start teaching. You know, it looks like I tell my wife, you and I do radio, I don't want to I

talk for a living. You think I want to come home and talk, you know, right, I'm always wondering, you know, and like, if you're a porn star, you know you're daking someone. Do you want to have sex when you come home? I mean you're doing it at work? Exactly. Yeah, they're probably they're celibate when they're not working, right, come on, exactly. There you go. Well, you live not far away from the porn valley there, so you can. I've actually fred you a couple porn stars. Have you a weird feeling

by the going, Hey, man, know who you are? Like, you know what? Never mind, you know that that happened to me one time at of all places, Tito's Tacos, the beautiful Tito's Tacos in Culver City and Great Taco Shock. You ever come to l A, gotta go to Tito's Tacos. It's a legendary spot. Gringo Tacos is my Mexican brothers and sisters like to tell me, but they're good. So I go there and this is my bachelor days, you

know whatever, back in the day. And I go over there and I had maybe been watching a few movies prior and I get there and it was one of these, uh, these weird moments, you know. Serendipity, I believe is the term serendipity. Where I had seen this and um, uh there's a certain tattoo that this woman had like on her neck that um the person in front of me in line. It was the person. The tattoo was the same, the hair was the same, the whole thing. So I

was like, wow, what are the odds? Like, seriously, there's so much of that like porno stuff, but one are the odds? You would see something and then within a couple of hours he would happen to be at a place that person is ordering tacos. Right. Synchronicity, right, synchronicity, Although I think that's more than synchron is. I think that is serendipity because but one of those big high falutin terms, I don't know they all, you know, it's just sound. You sound smart when you say stuff like that.

You know, you just trying to work those things. And Greg writes it and he says, hines, catch up. Twitter page posted this and blocked the replies catch up and steak should always go together. Reply if you disagree, do either of you agree? And why would you cook your steaks like shoe leather if you do well, Greg, I like a steak well done, like nothing wrong with me at all. Um, you know, to each their own. I like my steak well done, and I've always been that way,

and people get very offended. I get the snobby waiter who then comes back and says, the chef believes you should have a medium rare, and no, I like it well done. I wanted to look like the tires of my car. I don't. I don't really do catchup per se anymore. When I was a kid, I did catch up. I've done the a one steak sauce or some other style, you know, barbecue, saw something like that. Um, you gotta go with the great poupon, my friend, Yes, that's west

of the four oh five stuff. You know. You don't want to go to a restaurant order like a steak well done, that's bad. I do it all the time. My one of my friends owns a restaurant. One of his friends brought a date and the lady asked for a steak well done. Well. They brought the steak out, and I kid you not if they stuck like the knife into the steak like they were stab someone. That's all piste off. They were, well, I don't understand that.

Like you're you have the food, you prepare the food, you're supposed to put the customers always right, So what's them? That's not true? Now? The customers not always. Most customers are radiots. Look at you. I'm a very angry person. Yeah, so yeah, do you what do you think give the listeners to a radio show? Yeah, your listeners are great? Yeah, be careful exactly. I'm not my friend. I know about I don't want you don't want to get in the bad the bad side of the Mallard militia. Man, they

are lethal. And you just wait until you start seeing the tweets. Then people welcome you to the militia here, they're oh my god, it's gonna be out of control. Will you get positive reviews or will you get negative reviews? Things that make you go. I think my reviews will be more positive than gas On. I would agree. I think that is a no brainer. Gascon is public enemy

number one for the Mallard militia. And uh so yeah, I mean it'll be like you know, and they promote movies and and all that, they'll be like, what are they gonna say about the debut weekend of Ryan Smith. How about the rare sequel that surpasses the original. So I'm kind of like the Empire strikes back. Yeah, there you go go, there you go. Oh your Godfather too? Okay,

I'll go with that, all right. Most people agree Godfather Too was the top and the Godfather trilogy or what was the Now Rocky's harder because everyone's got their favorite Rocky Rocky three man, Mr Lee, Yeah, a lot of people say rock Rocky three. Uh yeah, alright, moving on. I don't know what you want me to do it. I don't know any way you think the customers not not right now? Eric in Bingham to New York says, dear Ben, if you could be any superhero, who would

you choose? I would probably choose Spider Man. Uh, he says. I work in comic books, so that is why I ask. I know I haven't written in a while. Always, he says, he cares for apparent. Well, Eric, listen, you got more important fish to fry there than there's some dumb podcast feeding content to a podcast. You're doing a good thing there, being a good uh good sibling respawn of a parent taking care of him. That's tough man. They get old

and sick and all that. That's panting, So keep that up. Uh, Superhero. I've been asked this before. My answer changes pretty much all the time. So, like, if you were saying, like superhero, superhero, what power would you want? Superman can fly? Right, Superman and can fly, So that's that's obviously, um Hugh mongous um. But then I really depend like Aquaman, would you want to be in the water and be Aquaman? Um? Batman, you'd have the bat Cave. That's really a power. He

has money, that's his power. Yeah, he's got he's got money. What does aunt Man have? He can shrink and grow well a joke and he can also you don't need to be aunt Man because a lot of people know how to shrink and Incredible Hulk would be pretty good too. That would be like superhuman strength and all that, right, and you get a he turned green, you know, right? Yeah, I gotta go with Luke Cage. It's one of my favorites. Why don't you know who Luke Cage is? Well? Why

why would you? I mean, there's so many superheroes small, he's bulletproof and right now being a black guy and being bulletproof kind of important. Right now? Wow, the third round, my man, it's the third all right now? How dare you? How dare you? I think some of the other see Hawkeye was Hawkeye. Do you know Hawky is superpower? She's just really good with the bone arrow and he can fight. Yeah, yeah, archery right, archery. When the gold medal in the Olympics,

iron Man just had the suit. We know money had money? And what about what's the one that stops time? Because you can fat you know, to get what's that one called? I forget the name of it. You know the superhero that kind of stops slows down time so he goes fast. You're talking about the Flash or yeah, I think the Flash that's time. He just runs away fast. No, no, I thought I thought the thing was one of them stops time and that's why they can kind of go.

It makes them appear like they're running fast. Is that the power you want? Well, if you could stop time, you could do whatever you want. I mean, growing up, I always wanted to be able to be able to like read people's minds. And then when I got older, I was like, no, I don't want that. I don't really give a damn what you're thinking. And more times than not, people are thinking things that I don't want to even think about. Yeah, so I gotta go with

the flight. Flight's good, all right. I guess for the purposes of this, I would pick the Incredible Hulk just for today, and that would change you. Maybe I'll be Doctor Strange next time. You know, they're going to like some like drunken rage. That's pretty much what the Hulk's power is. He gets so angry you can get he has no control whatsoever. Yeah, well, I'm like that sometimes when I get ang I don't get angry very often. When I get angry, I am a ball of fire.

I'm a ball of fire. So I'm like that. And Doctor Strange. We have a guy named Doc Mike that calls my show. He's doctor Strange. I remember Doc Mike all the way back from the Sporting News radio. Yeah, well yeah, because he's I used to call in because it was on in Chicago. He was based in Chicago. So yeah, he's been calling me for twenty years. He's been begun to jail and gotten out and called me,

sends me. I got a whole stack of books over here about drinking your piss that doc sent me and uh, yeah, you guys, guys nuts. I met him a couple of times. He came to Kansas City and uh and hung out. He drove all the way from Chicago down to Kansas City because I was making an appearance in Kansas City and showed up and and then signed autographs for people. He passed out T shirts. It's crazy. No, at that time, he wasn't into the urine. That was before the year

you're in luck. He's only been in the urine therapy the last few years. You're in therapy, and you know what, forget it. I don't want to know, you know. I mean, I got a book here, I can healing water from within from brother's age. He says, how the ancient five thousand year old Yogic healing practice, which is drinking your your piss. No, seriously, but I might. You're not trying this. I'm not into that type of thing. Oh. It says it's in the Bible, and I mean it's unbelievable. Bibles,

no Bible verse that shall be pete on. You know, they're gonna James Bible or something like that was coming down from the mountain, going, hey, I got this eleventh one right here. Well, you know when you're walking through the desert and you need something to drink, you know why not. It's just it's amazing though the book, like all the things that cures and like how to drink it and all this like for what you know what

I mean, how to drink it you swallow? Well, no, but like there's certain amounts for certain illnesses, and like you can mix it with other stuff and whiskey or uh no, says here's one chapter five, how what you eat affects the color, smell, and taste of urine. See that's there's no lies detected here. This is all solid about drinking it. Let's see it. And I only got the chapter three. I didn't even get the chapter five soccer. I stopped reading. Uh, let's see chapter three mental uh

psychology of a p drinker. That's chapter four, Chapter five, I said. Chapter six, Testimonials from clients on urine therapy protocols. Um, there's the evolution Chapter one, evolution of the shivambou and and or and they don't call it piss, they call it or in therapy. What is the secret sauce? That gets results. Let's check that one out. Chapter two. You can only imagine you don't want to hear about that

the secret well ducks. Ducks said this, by the way, let's see here and from the pages of this this novel here, let's see here in chapter two. All right, Uh, he says you're in his water that includes thousands of enzymes, compounds, and hormones. And then it lists all this bull crap that they say is in there and truth is stranger than fiction. Wow, that really makes me thirsty. You've got an endless You never need to buy another bottle of

water or beer, wine or anything like that. There you go. Uh. The funny thing is there's an eye cleans if you have a problem with stop. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding, all right, Kelly, yeah, exactly. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. All Right, Kentucky, J and Kentucky, Tay right in J and Tay or is that Ky? I think it's all right? So from Scottsville, Kentucky, is it?

First of all, did you guys get the package the hat Uh now Kentucky J. And also David in South Carolina. By the time you're hearing this podcast, I will have gotten the mail that you said. We do thank you the mail system. We actually use the Pony Express. At Fox Sports Radio. We use the Pony Express and it takes a little time, but I will pick it up. I do thank you very much. I appreciate very kind

for everyone. Uh, Kentucky J. And Tay say, secondly, what would be the chances that you could get either one of your cronies Eddie Roberto or Coop dal Loop two guests appear on the fifth hour for some intriguing dialogue outsignd of their standard comfort zone. Uh. I mean they would likely do it. Um, I don't know. Would that be good? That'd be good podcast though, I mean, I mean, we have mom, we talked about a lot of the

things that you know we do ask Ben. I don't know, and I guess down the line, eventually we'll we'll have mon if they'd be willing to come on. They don't get paid for it. They probably want to get paid. We don't pay. We don't have a budget, so that would be a problem. But I'm I'll considered, I'll consider. So, um let's see here. Uh, David in South Carolina rights in again. He says, hey, why not have a Leo Terrell on again? Discussing the the election, uh situation with

the votes and all that stuff. Uh, why I love Leo. Leo is a good radio guest, Leo Terrell, who we've had on several times here on the podcast. And we'll have Leo on again at some point because he's good radio and he's a radio friend. So Leo Terrell who does a show in l A at k ABC, but there's no plan to have him on. You gotta understand, David, we we go fast and loose. We go fast and

loose with the guests. It's typically last minute situation, cimico, last minute situation and uh it's like, hey, who can we get on this week? And then we're in a scramble mode there. And this is really the technique of Gagon who's in here. He Uh there's no preparation. Um, he's not meticulous. There's no Hey, let's get this guy on, you know, two weeks from an hour or three weeks from now, let's book this. No, it's uh, it's Wednesday at eight o'clock at night. Hey, we should probably get

somebody on the podcast. Who can we get That's typically how that goes. I'm letting people know here, Ryan, how we make the hot dogs. You're never supposed to know how they make the hot dogs? Uh, with gascon. I'm not surprised. That's that's how I envisioned him. Yeah, exactly. Lazy, no ambition, no perseverance. Yeah, he wants everything handed to him. Uh. Kevin in Rockford, Illinois rides and he's a loyal minion to the Fifth Hour Podcast and the Ben Mallow Show.

Thank you, Kevin, appreciate that, he says, I'm giving you each three guesses to see if you know the up and coming star NBA player from Rockford, Illinois. Now, before you use Google, Ben, you talked about him a few weeks ago on your show. Other than the the band Cheap Trick. He's the most famous person ever to come out of Rockford, Illinois. All right, I do not know. I do not know who this is. You would know anyone from Rockford, Illinois that has become an up and

coming star basketball player? No idea here? You did not? All right, Now, Rockford Illinois is the largest city outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. Did you know that? I did not. That is a fun fact about beautiful Rockford, Illinois. Salt of the Earth, Salt of the earth. People there. So I'm trying to find out. Uh, and I am gonna just google it. Um. So let's see here Rockford, Illinois. Let's see here. Any meny money mo notable people from Rockford, Illinois.

See here, page down page dan Ah, All right, here we go. Now I got it. Fred and Vleet, Yeah, six Man of the Year with the Raptors. He's a free agent, is gonna get a big contract. I did, now that you bring that up, Kevin, and I did a rant about Fred van Vleet because he was like the most honest guy in the world. Van Vleet. Uh, he was asked about free agency and where he wanted to go and all that stuff, and he said his answer. His answer was, uh, he's already won a championship, so

he's it's all about the money. He was thought that was great and uh, and I looked it up here, Kevin, And there's another guy that's given Fred van Vleet to run for his money. James Robinson, James Robinson, the rookie running back for Jacksonville. And this guy has been great as a rookie, undrafted rookie, and he's actually already set records for an undrafted running back in the end, he plays in Jacksonville, So that's not that's not all that

all that good. Any other are fun facts about Rockford, Illinois that you want to want to share. You even know more than I do, which is nothing. I like learning random fun facts Like Youngstown, Ohio is halfway between Chicago and New York. It's the way point halfway point. I thought that was interesting, Like how cool would be if you lived in Youngstown, Ohio and you just like, one weekend, I'll go to New York, you'll come home, and then next week and I go to Chicago. You're

halfway between each Uh sure, that sounds great. It's like living Where would the equivalent be in California? Like what is halfway in the middle of California, the central California area? Like what city would be halfway? Freds No, I don't know. I'm just guessing. Yeah, I don't know the answer that. Um, let's see, because you got San Francisco. It's not Bakersfield, because Baker's Fields closer to l A. Maybe around the you know, I think I do know that there where

the Hearst Castle is right, you've been, you've been. You live in San Jose, you grew up there there, you've been in the Hearst Castle, right, I have not. I don't even hop the hell that is the funk is wrong with you? Lots of things? What you care for A list in alphabetical order. Oh my god, I I but no, it's right on the beautiful like the whole. Uh.

William Hearst owned the entire coastline of California. That's why in central California there's no big cities because he owned it all and he gave it to the state of California. So it's all just empty land for the most part. Uh, let's see, all right. So the according to the Internet, the halfway point from San Francisco to Los Angeles is Hanford, California. I've never I don't recall. I've probably been. I've been all over the state of California. I've never been. I

don't remember being in Hanford, California. I probably have gone past it, I don't I don't think that's because it looks I'm looking in the map here, it looks like it's closer to San Jose. Huh, it's in the San Joaquin Valley King's County. I don't I think this is I think I'm getting bull crap here. I think this is not right. I think I'm getting false information off the double check that. But that's what the Internet says that I did a quick search and that's what it said.

It's fascinating. Yeah, all right, Uh, let's see what who is next year? Thank you Kevin in Rockford and Way that means a lot. That means a lot. Aaron and winter set Iowa. Right. So, and he says, been whatever happened to Radio Rich in West Virginia? Uh, he just stopped calling Radio Rich. Yeah yeah, he he told some wild stories and he's he's welcome to call again. He's not like he's banned from the show. I think he got upset because we kept cutting him off and we

kept goofing on him. But as far as I know, he's still around, still calls radio shows, and Radio Rich is one of these guys that calls up let's get profession of the caller and thinks he's God's gift to call and talk radio. And he's bragged about I call Rush Limbaugh and all these other people, and he brags about that, and I'm like, okay, congratulations. And he also told the story about being with prostitutes, which was which

is pretty good storytime from radio Rich. Well, you know what they say, we all pay for it one away or another. Yeah, I don't agree. I mean, I don't disagree. Rather, I mean, there's it's usually it's it's usually goods and services. Right, Usually it's good and services. It's not a straight trash straight cash. Sometimes it could be trash cash transaction. Yes, all right, there's there's nothing. There's no such thing as

a free lunch. So I was I was raised that way, right, there's no you're around my age, right, you gotta earn what you get, right, that's all box lunch. Yeah, but go on, you gotta earn what you get. That's the key to life. Uh. And then also Aaron in Winter said, I sa is also to the power couple from Florida ever call on the show other than the play factor efficiing, no, No,

that is their bit. That is their bit, now, Jack, as I remember, and I might be wrong on this, but I remember Jack the judge calling me prior to becoming the staple of Factor fiction. But they typically only call um on on Thursday morning. That's their their day to call the show. And Aaron says he loves seeing me in the hawkeye hat. Well, well thanks, you can thank Chris and de Moine who sent the Hawkeye hat. It's a good hat. That's a solid hat, the Iowa Hawkeye hat. And I am open to any and all.

I'm gonna get a Kentucky Wildcat's hat. I would put that in my rotation, and any college hat whatever, I'm good with it. Yeah, I got a big I got size eight. What size hat do you wear there, Ryan? What size hat do you have? I got a big head, so I probably probably around the same size. You don't wear fitted hats? No, you've never in your life had show. I have one point or another, but I don't like nah it all I have, especially since my hair started

going away. It's uh fitted hat. After fitting that Alfhi, alien O Pineer also known as Pierre and Springfield, says first though, after some deep reflection and a huge slice of humble pine. This week, after orally dropping a Deuce on the live are I have decided to apologize to Mr Gascon? What? Pierre? There's no need to apologize. He then goes on this bullcrap about how he's appreciative of him and all this stuff. There's he's just sucking up because I guess he's worried Giscon is gonna ban him

and cancel him and all that stuff. There's no need to apologize to him. He can't ban anybody. And let me tell you something, I'm not going to even read the rest of this email because it's blasphemy and and Alf the alien o Pinter and Pierre. I mean, what are you doing? I mean you're in Springfield, mass That is my grandfather, May he rest in peace, lived in Springfield, Mass. There's Mallard roots in Springfield, Mass. Well he actually a different last name than that, but still, uh, what are

you doing? Alright? Valls Fan Jimmy writes in from Fayetteville, Tennessee. He says, Ben, have you told gag On the lame joke of the year? Do you know how to keep gag On from choking? I'll ask you this, Ryan, you know gag On? Do you know how to keep gag on from choking smack him across the back of his neck. No, you just take two steps back. That's good. Uh. We're gonna teach Gascon how to set turn off automatic updates on his computer. We're gonna take teach a class on that,

you know, simple simple things, basic things like that. Alright, one more then we'll get the hell out of here. Yes, all right. Carlos in Houston writes, and he says, you told us what is your favorite drop on the show? What is your least favorite? He says, well, carl so that one is easy. And as you know, many of my engineers I got Roberto now, but I had Danny g and I've had a bunch of other guys that

have had that chair over the years. At Fox Sports Radio, they love too put together got You audio, which is often edited audio. They'll take I'll say crazy, I admit, I say some silly things and some goofy things. Whatever. It's a four hour show, five days a week. You're gonna say stupid, stupid stuff. But they'll edit together stuff that I say to make it sound really bad. And

that that that bothers me. But the one that's been the most troublesome I don't want to say it's my least favorite, but it's the one that gets me in the most trouble, which I think has been embargoed for. Is Ed from Spokane called up and it was a conversation about Phil Niekro and Joe Niekro and uh and and I made a comment about you know, they are the brothers and they have the name Phil Niekro and Joan Crow and so I I said something related to that, and it got taken as a drop and hand to

God here Ryan. From that date forward, everyone every time after that Roberto would play that drop, I would get an angry email or a Twitter message or Facebook message or all of the above. You are such a racist. I can't believe you said that because people don't listen and they hear it, they think they're it's like a ear hack where they think they're they're hearing something that they're not hearing, you know what. You know what I mean. It's like, so it made it seem like I was

saying something that I was not saying. You understand where I'm going out exactly what you're saying. People love to be offended sometimes. Yeah. And the the other thing is that people only remember in audio content, which is what we're the business we deal in. People usually only remember around of the things that they listen to. So that means it's like seventeen according to a study. So everyone's pretty much bad at hearing, hard of hearing, whatever, hearing impaired.

Everyone say it, um, So think about when I do a four hour show or like this podcast is an hour, usually it's round an hour. It's might be a little shorter today it's round an hour. Let's say it's an hour, will round it off to an hour. That means forty minutes of the content you're not paying any attention to, you will not remember. There's only twenty minutes of it. And even maybe that even is high. So there you welcome to our world outstanding. Now, now you are an

enlightened young grasshopper. I wish I was young. Oh stop, you're not old. You're not old. What are you doing? You know that great quote I used on the radio the other day, which which is appropriate about you know, aging and and all that stuff. It's it's I was just my favorite quote about getting old from Eleanor Roosevelt, who said today is the oldest you've been ever and the youngest you'll ever be again. But that is that

not deep? I just lost a few IQ points. Wow, yes, no, but think about like you're complaining you're old now, but tomorrow you're gonna be a day older, so stop your complaining. And a week from now you're gonna be a week older. Yeah. And eventually you do this long enough, you're gonna be an oct de darian or whatever it is, I mean, your eighties, and then you'll be a centurion. You'll be I just tell myself this black, don't crack. Simple to

the point. All right, Well, thank you, appreciate it. Good job by you. There, tremendous debut weekend. On the Mallard scale of goodness one to ten, I'm gonna give this a solid nine. I would have gone ten, but you live west of the four oh five, so I cannot go higher than a nine because you live west of the four oh five. You might want to make it at eight since I hate Massachusetts. Oh that's a good point. All right. Now you're down to an eight, so you

want to keep talking. We can go lower. I'm good. We'll do the limbo. You want to do the limbo, good, let's do the limbo. All right, well, thank you Ryan again to give your Twitter account. People want to reach you. How can they find you on Twitter? Ryan McBain on Twitch Ryan McBain Very simple. The man's a wrestler. The man's a wrestler. He's lived an interest in life, and he has to suck up to Colin Coward because he's one of his producers. All Right, have a great Sunday.

Will be back on the radio tonight. Tonight tonight another week of radio shows on the Ben Maller Show. We'll catch you then. Thank you and Arriva der Chay