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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. It's a Sunday, Sunday Sunday, and it is time now for the mail bag, as we are back at it again here all over the I Heart podcast network, a global audience and people downloading this podcast in countries all all over the world. But of course the big ones are the U S and Canada, and they're winking a knock to our friends in Mexico, joined again by the man west of the four oh five, David Gas. Right there, the cloud has

returned to the now. Not there, Anthony, how they if they pick and choose their spots, It's kind of like Paul George and Kawhi Leonard and times Tylou So, yeah, you agree with me on that. Sometimes they're there and sometimes they're like Anthony Davis, they're injured wearing street clothes, street closed Davis. It's an ugly look what's uglier though? Him? Or Joel embiid uh Joel m beat. Well, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Anthony Davis. You can't go. You can

go push if you want. I go Anthony Day. I'm gonna go Anthony Davis. When go on that? Oh yeah, it's embarrassing. Yeah, all right, So we have the mail bag, and you know, I don't like to waste any time. I want to go right into the mat backs. My favorite podcast. I love answering the questions of the random people that listen to the podcast that bother to send these questions. And before we get going here, I just want to point out that you can submit your question.

I post every usually Wednesday, some times I'll do it on Tuesday, depending on when we roll the podcast. But on Facebook on the Ben Mallor show page, I will post on there, Hey I need some questions name and city, name and city, and then most people put their name in city and there's always some a holes that don't. And then you can also email the real It's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. You have to spell fifth out f I F T H real fifth hour at gmail dot

com and you can submit a question that way. Now I have not a question, but I do have not an email, a letter from a listener. Oh is that right, an actual physical snail mail letter. Yes, an actual handwritten letter. Might allowed to read it. I didn't know people still send those, Yeah, I mean they still sent him. We got it a few days ago in the mail. Oddly enough, it came with a bottle of Texas style whiskey. Mm hmm. Interesting.

So the note says, David, thanks, thank you for you and Ben providing some laughs over the past shitty year. Save some of this from when Ben finally cooks his freezer burnt tomahawk, and of course when King Newsome gets booted out. Sorry it took so long. Work in vacation with the family, got Tokyo Sydney tele Avision coming up. I'm a pilot. We'll give you an email report. So we're looking forward to that. I believe we are locked

down in all rooms now. We did have freedom in Japan, but with the Olympics, I think just one away or just a few months away. Sydney has always been a prison, bunch of assholes. Tel Aviv shall be interesting. Take care, I'm a pilot, Yes, sir, he did. He did. He send me some some Texas style whiskey. And it's dark. So the darker it is, the heavier the hangover will be. Well, I hope you enjoyed. But he sent me that really cool looking m hat you know, the minor league team

from Montgomery Biscuits. Yeah, yeah, so that that had will last, you know, many years. I'll get to wear that hat, you know, occasionally, for for many many years. That but once you drink that alcohol, it's gone. It's over, I know, but it's seems it's the opportunity to cherish that with a burnt tomahawk steak again. Once you cook that tomahawk steak the way it needs to be, it's not a past. So you're not gonna put it in a frame. Not no, no, no,

to love the Mallard Louve. I will document everything like we're at the Louve. Absolutely all right, I'm glad I'm a pilot. Still right, have an email. I haven't got an email from I'm a pilot in a while. I wondered what he was up to. Still traveling the world, John in northern Colorado. Right, So he says, Ben, do you drive out of your way to buy cheaper gas or do you pay whatever the most convenient station is charging?

Not what I do, John. I am a Costco member, so I I go to Costco to get my guest. But Costco's gas is usually pack so my move, I will go right when they open. The gas station near me opens at five thirty in the morning, and I will get there at five and I will go in and out and no problem, and I'll get the because Costco is always twenty the thirty cents cheaper than any of the gas stations. So I always go to Costco

and get gas. And now occasionally when I'm out and about and I'm not near a Costco or Costco is closed, like on the weekends, they're not open very long, so I'll I'll then have to suck it up and get gouged, but I will refuse. I'd rather run out of gas. Like sometimes there's parts of of l A and there's and New York is the worst of this, but but there's there's places where the gas is like they like five fifty six dollars a gallon. You know, they just

they don't want you to buy it. I would rather run out of gas on principle than spend five fifty for a gallon of gas, So screw them. Yeah. Usually next to the airports, of course, or or the rental car Yeah, the rental car places. They always jack up the price right around there. You're gonna be in a delicate spot once you moved the Mallar Mansion. I'll be curious to see, like where you pin your gas locations for pick up? Yeah, I don't know. I mean maybe

we won't move the Mallar Mansion. You never know. No idea. Barry in Music City Rights and he says, yo yo mob Bennie, how long have you and Eddie worked together? And would you to be the longest tenure duo at fs ARE. Uh, Well, we me and Eddie worked together at different times on the weekends and the early days. We were paired together and Eddie went and did some other stuff. I did other stuff, and then we've been

together on this version of The Overnight Show since. But we had worked together off and on, and yeah, it's really a technicality, Berry, because I've been at the network since two thousand which is a long time. But I was whacked. I was giving a pink slip January nine, had a six month, twenty six day break from from radio. Was let go, and then they brought me back. After that point, Eddie started, I think a couple of years after that, or at least a year after that, and

then uh he uh, he's been straight through. He didn't he didn't get he didn't get the guillotine like I got. So uh so it's really but but you know, six months and twenty so I think I'm still a few months ahead, at least a few months ahead of Eddie in the overall employment. But you'd have to contact HR. But but but yeah, as far as the people that work at the network, yeah, there's nobody. They're all going.

Everyone's gone. I mean I know people all over the place that used to work at the network that are not there. I mean, just complete, complete turnover. There's like, there's a guy in the imaging department, Chris Lindsley, who's been there longer than me, but he's he's behind the scene, secret guy. But he's the only one. Every everyone else's yeah, come in late Chris, and Iowa says, can you give

us a mini monologue on the Tuck Rule game. Keep in mind that Brady had both hands on the ball when he was hit, thereby re establishing himself as a ball carrier, not a thrower. Awesome. The original call was fumble. See the picture he posted a picture here, I says, ps, it's all I have left as a Raider fan. Uh yeah, christ No, I was actually on the night of the Tuck Rule game, and so I did a monologue then.

So I'm not going to recreate the monologue, but I do recall the radio call from Gregg Poppa, who was assuming that the Raiders were going to the Super Bowl, right they had won the game and it didn't work out. Let's see your Kyrie in Okay. See says hey, big Ben, why does Cooper Loop get so butt hurt when you tell the truth about those bums, the Fakers. I hate the Lakers more than any team in all of sports. That's one of the reasons why I love you, Big Ben.

You let those historians know the truth. That's right. Uh. Email continues, I don't care who wins the championship. As long as the Fakers don't, then I feel like my team won. He says. He says, f the Lakers a rhythmic chance style, just like you like it. There you go, that's the great Kyrie, one of my my big supports. Well, thank you, Kyrie. I'm right there with you. Well, there's a Cooper loop and in Roberto, but Coop's worse than this.

They think they're just better because they like the Lakers, you know, and they they support the Lakers, so they're better people. And it's just bullshit. But this is the mindset you gotta deal with. These people have ne roses, these Laker historians, and it is great. It's great for life, it's great for human nity, it's great for the sporting world. When the Lakers take it in the chin, it's just better. Sports are just better when the Lakers lose. It's just

more fun. Life is better, you feel, you feel good, you look better. That's just the way it is. Right. They're bad. They're just bad people. They are clearly all right. This one's from Jose in Massachusetts. He says, Hey, Lord Ben, it's Jose. Thank you again for working Memorial Day. I really appreciate it. You're the only one I listened to now. You and Kwammy Brown at that. Thanks again, you're a good example of hard work. We try to get Kwammie Brown on the podcast, he did not get back to it.

Kwammie Brown not interested in the past. I guess Kwami is at the point now where he's becoming a big internet star all of a sudden, so he doesn't need to promote himself anymore. Pierre in Springfield, mass Stitusetts down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, where you can see Muffett McGraw says Ben, Are you and or Dave responsible for drumming up sponsorships for Benny Versus the Penny on the YouTube? Fanatics is great in a huge get, but sometimes the answer is staring you in

the face. Have you, guys not landed a major alcohol distributor, weed dispensary or sports betting coming? There you go? You've made a living on drunks and Degenerate's time to monetize. Wow, not there you, Pierre. Now, we we are opened all of that, and if anyone wants to advertise, I mean, we're not sure what Benny Versus the Penny is gonna look like in one, but it's rapidly approaching. NFL training

camp opens up in less than fifty days. They'll be playing exhibition games shortly after that, and then the regular season of the NFL will start in September. And that's the biggest part of the year for sports programming. That's the really New Year's Day is the start in the NFL season kicking off. That's when it all begins. Uh. He also says, I'd like to to plug your cameo.

He said, Ben, a fantastic, fantastic fifty a birthday shoutow. Yeah, Pierre had a birthday and his birthday was yesterday, June fifth was his birthday, and he said he thanked thanks for the shout out, the mini monologue, and he appreciated the the length. He says, I look forward to ordering one from David as soon as I can find a discounted promo code off the dark web. I can't wait to hear him wax poetic about all my outstanding qualities

as a contributor to the show and podcast. Now, I guess the question is for all of us, outside of this love fest between you and Pierre, Um, were you in a shower or bathtub when you did this cameo for him? Now, I was sitting right here in this chair in the studio, and I watched. But in to this, Pierre is one of the great show contributors. The guy adds, content,

I wasn't. I was in bullshitting, Like, there's some guys that are really tuned in and they're locked in on what we're doing, and they help drive the content and segments. They will give us something to talk about and lo and behold, we've done a great segment of radio in part because of something that somebody like Pierre sent in. Listen, you can walk on the four h five freeway crap your pants and he'd say that was Filet Mignon Like that guy absolutely adores you. Listen. He's a bit of

a renaissance man, Pierre. He is. He's obviously a great father. His daughter wanted the cameo for him, so shatter errands. So that's a good job, good job by her. And uh yeah, happy birthday. There you go. Happy birthday to you, Pierre, and many, many, many many more. Kevin in Kansas he writes and says, Hey, Ben and David, you've set the bar pretty high the past few months. Great podcast. Your

Friday guests have been informative. Your Saturday topics and Sunday mail bags have been very entertaining by this is pretty good. This is buttering the biscuits. It's good here. Good job by you. I think you missed the spot, Kevin. He says, do you ever feel pressure to keep the content so good? Or do you just ride the wave each week and go with the flow keep up the good uh work? Uh well, Kevin, I believe in the one step at

a time philosophy. And I don't know, but I don't like you think I'm worried about next week's podcast, I'm not. I'll I've got the radio show to worry about during the week. So usually a day or two before the podcast, I'll be like, okay, we gotta get you know what

were gonna do here? But it's really dependent. It's a uh, what's the word I'm going It depends on what's going on, Like there's gotta be something that you can't plan too far and ahead too far ahead, like I there's sometimes we'll have people on that wrote books, like we had Dave Parker on that was booked way in advance, and there's some other people that have actually I've talked to about booking that we we might might put on here in the future that we have to book in advance.

But for the most part, it's you who can we get on what would be interesting, who's in the news, what something like that. But we usually do that like just a couple of days before the podcast, and I think personally, for me, I don't I don't feel pressure. I just look for the most vulnaible situation to try to put you in with the guests. Yeah, but you do as you said, let me do a cost benefit analysis. How can I have malleus the most fans standard. There's

like a boiler plate email the Ben. I've been listening to you for blank for blank years. I've always enjoyed your show and found it entertaining, but it's for the button there. But I can no longer gonna listen to you because you said blank and you had blank on your podcast, and I politically don't agree with you, so screw you. Yeah, that's pretty much how those emails go. Thank you for that. Like we had doctor sat on

you know, very good. I thought he was great from Montreal and informative and you know, straight shooter and all that, and the same emails popped up you know, Johnny on the spot. They're showing up saying I don't want I liked you for so long, but yeah, you really got those from him. Yeah that is unbelievable. Well, you know what it is because he pops up on Fox News and so people. I'm convinced these people like the Biden crowd,

they like watch Fox News and whoever's on. They're like, oh, I can't you know enemy combatant there you full draw the line on that. He's a foreigner. Check he's educated, check, he's a doctor. Check. And he's not even from the United States. I know, I don't know, and it doesn't matter, doesn't matter. Listen the local Rodi I was getting crap because I said that Naomi Osaka I did a couple

of monologues. I said, well, listen, if she doesn't want to it, doesn't want to talk to the media, let her go get her therapy and that's it and she

can't play. And then the next day she she did leave the French open because she was didn't want to talk to the media, and uh, I was getting nasty messages from people that I can't believe you were so insensitive and somebody should hold you accountable for what use for an opinion I should be held accountable for an opinion that somebody should do their job right, that the job part of being a professional athlete and tennis players

to talk to the media is not exactly torture. The media is fluff, fluff, fluff, fluff, fluff, fluff, and the media has gone softer and softer and softer and softer and softer and all this, and so listen, I get it. She doesn't like to talk. She's an introvert. I'm an introvert. But you still got to do things you don't like to do. There's still things in life you have to do. And the problem is it's it's Pandora's box because once you allow that, you know it's the given an in

She'll take a mild philosophy. They'll be like, Okay, I'm not doing this because I mental health. You know, I feel anxiety. There's a lot of things in life that you're gonna feel anxiety. That doesn't mean that you should be allowed to not do them. Yeah, yeah, And that's to me, that's the the issue that people are like, oh, okay, I can't can't do that because you know I might feel uncomfortable or whatever. It's like, come on, there's there's a special amount of mental capacity that you want has

to have to be an athlete, let alone a professional athlete. Yeah, and and there's gonna be things, you know if you know what I do. But like my point was, if she doesn't want to talk to media, she can be a douche and be like Marshawn Lynch and uh, you know, both teams played hard by man. You know that's trying to bring my a game. You know. Go through sports cliche dot com, which I contributed two back in the day.

My name is there at the bottoms of the contributors and you can you can use that as your your sounding board. Just use those cliches, hop on that bandwagon. You don't do your thing there. Why don't you respond to those emailers now and say, you know what, I can't respond to this email like i'd like to because I have some some mental issues right now. I'm going through some well the soccer craters said, well, listen, I'm triggered by this. I need therapy now. Your email hurt

my feelings. You know. The trick is that what you should do is you should actually screenshot those emails, blackout your email address, and then posted on social media, so that way you're the victim. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Oh yeah, well that's big.

Being the victims very important. You're being targeted and harassed. Yeah, you gotta find in any story, you gotta find the them, and then and then you post it online and then people say, oh, I feel so bad for you. Oh my hanging there, Oh my, my, my, my my. It's good. Yeah, it's wonderful. All right, what is next year? Let's see any meny money mo. David from Parts Unknown says he can fix baseball. Just stick to the freaking rules of the game. It's just fine, nine pitches to start and

only eight every half inning after that. Otherwise provide box springs and mattresses the odd lazy boy it would be good too. So he wants a limit of eight pitches per half any that'd be interesting, So you don't have to walk anymore, you have to swing. What if the pitch is out of the strikes and you still gotta swinky? I guess so, I guess you do that. Yeah. Jason from Rocky Mountain, Virginia says, have either of you been on a cruise ship before? If not, your boy Rob

Parker commended the Golden Girls cruise. Your thoughts. I've never been on a cruise. I have thought about it, but I understand the accommodations are not for someone of my height, so it would be problematic. And uh, it would be kind of cool. I heard they're really good deals that you can eat all the food you could possibly want, and they've got all the great accommodations and and all that. I've not been on a cruise ship. Yeah, I've been on a cruise. I wanted a couple of them, but

I took a cruise. Mm hmmm. Twelve years ago, went down to Cabo for a wedding. The wedding took place prior to leaving the dock, and then obviously didn't get married in international waters. They did not know. Part of it's because not everyone that was attending the wedding was actually going on the cruise. So we embarked I think later in the afternoon, but the wedding was in the middle of the day, and uh yeah, it was pretty fun. Although I don't know, I'm not a huge fan of

going to Mexico. But what's wrong with Mexican sucks? Yeah, you know, like the what do you not like the water? You can't drink the water. You can't drink the water. I got food poisoning down there. Well that's mono zumas were range, okay, law enforcements, trash, Oh yeah, federalities, federalities. You want to go down the wrong street because the cartels will get you. They'll do you in on that. It's just disappointed, man, because there are certain parts of

Mexico that look gorgeous. Cobble was nice. I have family in Guadalajara, and I fucking love Mexican food. Yeah, we like American Mexican food. No, no, no, no, I mean half my family's Mexican. That doesn't mean I think that means like the food in Mexico is different than the food in l A or whatever. You know, It's like it's a different, different animal. I don't know. My mom my aunt used to make those homemade tamales. Yeah, fun man, Look one of my favorites. The nostalgia flashes back to

your child. I know, well, it could say the same thing about matsa ball soup. Come would make it, and I did, and it was great back when I was But anything to eat when you're when you're a kid, you like flashback to that age. But if you had days right, I mean, I obviously, I know it's a little bit different down to l A, but you'd have days right where you'd go to like the local taco trucks and you get the street tacos. Oh. I could eat Mexican food every day the rest of my life

and be content and not anything else. I love Mexican food, but I like that my my buddies, my Mexican buddies would be like you like the green govers, like the crunchy tacos, so they'd bust my balls green got tacos. They'd call it. My buddy. Alex used to give me a hard time about that. Roberto says, there's a good

spot in North Hollywood that sells some excellent street tacos. Yeah, yeah, he was saying that, But yeah, I mean, this is the this is the mecca of the taco Yeah, l A. It's you know, I mean so so many people here from Mexico. It's uh, they brought their local delicacy. It's just up the road. Great. Which is bullshit, because why can't we get good pizza out here like Chicago, New York.

I mean you can, and there's a few good piece of place, it's not very many the Chicago I told you a couple of years ago I had I had not eaten Chicago style pizza. I didn't really think it would be my thing. Because the tomato sauce is on top. Man, is that good. There's a place in Vegas that does. Actually there's a place in Oaks here in l A that has that, but it's not I don't know, it's not the same thing. Yeah, you gotta go to Rance's and Long Beach on the Uh in Belmont Shore. Yeah,

you have a good pie there, they do. It's a really good pie. Yeah, the meat Lovers is really good. The cheese is fantastic too, and uh but yeah, forty five minutes. It's similar to what gear Donald's is. There's gotta be a way you can make that at home. There's gotta be a way you need to You need a certain the pot they put it in, right, it's not really a trade. Yeah, yeah, you need that. There's

gotta be a way you can do that, right. I don't make something similar, you know, the right amount of dough. It's like dough, cheese, dough. You know that's like multiple layers. Yeah. I think if you crash and burn on it, you can just flip it into a caw zone. Right, even if you don't make it exactly right, How bad could it be. It's dough and cheese and tomatoes. It can't be that bad. Yeah, it's just the whole process. I'd had no idea until I had my first pie. It

took that long to make a Chicago style pizza. Yeah, I remember we went there to order. It's like, holy crap. You know, It's like so then you have to order the appetizers because you're waiting forty five minutes for the food, so you gotta get something else. You know, you're not just sitting there staring. You're you know, your yourself, each other or whatever. Uh, let's see here. Mike from Fort Wayne, Indiana, says, Ben, when are you going to switch over to America's team,

the Cubs. I'm good on that. I had a great memories of going to Wrigley Field when I was doing stuff with the Dodgers. It was awesome to vibe at Wrigley Field. But I'm good on that. Rememberhen I was a kid, we went to Chicago for a family reunion, and I did as a child, I did get a few Cub memorabilia things because I thought it was cool. You know, I didn't was a kid. Whatever. Uh. Fred from Spring Texas says, what's your favorite brand of sneaker?

I'm not really a sneaker head. I gravitated to Nike a lot because they they had big sizes and I have a large foot, so I do that. But now I wear you know whatever. I know, I'm just like generic brand sneakers. I have a wide foot, so it's hard to find shoes that fit properly because my my foot is extremely wide. Well, what about you gassing on any favorite sneaker? Um for working out, probably be under Armour, but then just for casual attire, I think Puma's pumas

are cheap. They're really inexpensive. It was like last year, two years ago. Jonas Knox had told me that Puma's got a couple of outlets past Ventura, and the outlet stores are relatively cheap, so I'd buy like a handful of Pumas for like thirty dollars, super comfortable. They look pretty decent, and you'll rocket I'm the same position as you. I've I have wide feet, and uh, a lot of shoes don't work because you get the wide people. I guess the Pumas are the way to go. Yeah, girth,

Ben girth. That's right. Okay, keep going with that. John the jailer says, been my daughter got several questions wrong on her math desk. She explained to the teacher that she used Mallar math. You could you please cite sources so I can educate her teacher. Perhaps next time she should use the gascon geometry. Yeah, do you have gry? Imagine if she said that Miller math, as you know, is a it's close, it's in the ballpark, it's in the neighborhood, it's in the zip code, but not necessarily

right where it needs to be. Yah. Yeah, I mean we've actually had someone get out of being arrested, so if that's right, that's right. Yeah, the guy in the parking line, you had a costco, you had a teenage girl or a guy that was doing math and said, I'm doing Mallar math, the greatest math of them all. Man, listen, you be a math major if you could use Miler math absolutely day even mill Valley, California rights And he says, a man, you say you're a distant relative of Nostredamas

and a friend of no Stredins. How are you related to No Stredamas? And who the heck is no Stredinus? Well day, thank you for those questions. Uh, And it is true. I am a distant relative of the great Nostre Damas. There was a study done in that confirmed that everyone on Earth is related to everyone else on the planet, so that means the Trojan family. It's not just a metaphor. So I am related to No stre Damas. And as far as No Stredina is, No Stredinus is

a listener. He lives in the Seattle area and he I met him on the mallard Man March Meet and greet in twenty nineteen. He showed up there. No Stredinas, that's his alias. He's incognito on Twitter. No Stredinus and the good guy hates the weed man try to you know, brought some little stickers to get rid of the weed man and all that and uh, some different things. So yeah, that's the great Nostredinus. I saw Marlin's Man the other

day on TV. Did I did? I forget what game he was at, but yeah, ESPN had him on and it looked like he was acknowledging the press box. Okay, obviously behind home plate like he normally is, and he was doing something in the crowd and then the press box and they were featuring him on ESPN. Well that's cool. Yeah, yeah, I I still get a bunch of messages from Marlin's Man. I'm very big with the celebrity crowd. I had somebody

fan crowd. Marlin's Man were tight. Clipper Darryl was sending me messages the other night in the middle of the show when he should have been sleeping. He couldn't sleep. He was obsessed with the the Clippers situation. So he's giving me like, you know, we were going back and forth comparing and contrasting different things. But Marlin's Man, I I hope that offer still applies. He we were gonna sit together at the All Star Game in Dodger Stadium. There was no All Star Game in a Dodger Stadium.

So it's supposed to be next year two. I think it's gonna be a Dodger Stadium. Have you been out to the stadium since they renovated Dodger Stadium? I have not. No, I haven't been anywhere. Roberto was there, he said it was amazing. Really yeah, I gotta get out there and check it out. They spent they spent a bunch of

C notes on it to get that. It should be amazing. Right, it's on the leading edge of you know, what you can do with you know, redesigning an old ballpark and putting you know, taking the old bones and then moving some things around. Aren't they supposed to have like an air like a railway system that goes from downtown. And they were talking about a gondola thing. Yeah, like a

gondola like you're in the Swiss Alps or something. But yeah, they're they're supposedly gonna do that, Yeah, from from somewhere down the hill, which will be which would be kind of cool until somebody falls out of it, and you know, ben sounds like a Bond thriller. Yeah. That well, you know, the drunk people and all people do stupid, stupid crap. Valls Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes, and he says, my wife and I recently purchased a new living room suite.

It was with the delivery free. They got there and immediately the delivery people started talking about a tip they did. They did have to, you know, put the item together, the items together. So, uh, was I supposed to tip them? Valls Fan Jimmy says, I gave them a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes and three bottles of water. Was I wrong? Uh? I don't know what is the etiquette on delivery. You're already paying for the delivery. Do you then have to tip on top of the livery? But I would definitely

not give someone a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes. That's like, that's a kick to the nuts. Who's wanting cucumbers and tomatoes in a bag as a as a tip? I guess the water bottles are nice, you should do that. I guess the question is are you paying for shipping? Yeah? Usually to get something that big delivered the living rooms? Uh, you know set up. Yeah, I think you're paying for so you pay for the item, shipping and then tax. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I mean, what's the proper amount to tip?

What do you give them? I know, like you cross side looking at the how much the tip? Here's the tip? Thanks for not scratching my wall? I don't know. Yeah, but then you're always worried if you don't, if you don't leave a tip, then they'll come back and like, you know, slash your tires or something like that. Yeah. Uh, I can't help you on that jet, Jimmy, but I guess in the future. You know, I have, you know,

ten box, here's tin box whatever. I don't know you need more in that West from Oregon, says a genie from Medford. We miss you, And he says, what's the best hamburger in l A? We've had this question before. I feel like we've had this question before. The best hamburger in l A. There's a bunch of different different options. Uh, slater'sies not bad, not a bad burger. There's a few locations in l A obviously, in and outs and that regional chain Fat Burger. If you like the fat Burger.

Tommy's a bunch of those plays. Yeah, exactly, depends what your poison is. Picked your poison, right, Yeah. Uh. Emmett, the blind Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington, says, what is the craziest call you've taken on the show. Uh, Well, it really depends on what genre. I remember one time we had a guy call up and he was on hold of play a game. Oh and he was stooping a married woman and he wanted to play the game show.

So he sat outside in his car and played the game. Um. And then while he was playing the game, I guess the woman's husband showed up or whatever. So if he had gone in there, he would have had a very awkward, awkward situation. So he gave us to play by play on that. We've had people pulled over Emmett while they're they're on the air. That's awkward. That's awkward. Uh. We've we've had guys puke on the show. That's uh. And and pretty much anything Doc Mike has done is wild

and crazy with the yurine and and all that. I listened live I forget We're I think it was in Bakersfield at the time, after a game, and I listened live when Mark the full name guy called and you pissed him off so bad and you're it's the throwaway. So she said, yeah, yeah, go to hang up on your stuff. It's like, you'll go hang up with yourself. And I was fucking hilarious. I have I died when he I can feel him. Yeah, I had to block he sent some anti Semitic stuff. I had to block

him on that. Yeah, yeah, I had to block him on on Twitter. Yeah, you just NonStop. So I was like, all right, you know, go harass somebody else. But then he then I apparently he just listens all day and he's gotten he can't leave his house or I don't know what's going on, but he just sends these NonStop, like really bad messages to random, random people. It's yeah, so yeah, we won't hear from him anymore unless I decided to unblock him. He's in, he's on time out

right now. So we'll see what happens with that. Let's see here. You know what else do we have here? The best but the best burger? Though we go back to that one. Did you have a best burger suggestion? Fat burger is always good. I can't go wrong with that. I'm I was shocked that you said you didn't apply all of it. But I love the double West Western Bacon cheeseburger from Carls Jr. That's not in l A Burger l A centric burger. What about the counter do

you have you're reading at the counter? Yeah, I'm being into the counter. Yeah that's not bad. A little pricey, but make your own your own Yeah, yeah, it's not bad. Let's see, can I said Slater counter places like that. There's a lot of those type deals where you can make your own burger or whatever design designer burger places. Chad from Champagne Illinois says, Hey, guys, who is the most famous celebrity or athlete you have met? I think

we had that last week, and uh, who is your favorite? Yeah? I think we we answered that in a previous show. Chad, go back and download last week's mail back and get that. Randy says, why does Mallard hate the Lakers so much? It's not hate, it's just truth telling. I'm a truth teller, Randy, and most of these guys they sucked the toes of the Lakers and and all that. But I give the other side, the other side of a story. Kevin from Rockford, Illinois writes and says, hey, Ben, I am about to

embark on a trip to Colorado. I'm thinking about going through Kansas City on my way. Would it be worth it to stop in and have the mallard chicken fingers? And isn't there a place in Denver where I can get some mallard food? He says, well, let's stop right there. Pump the brakes. Yes, Kansas City, you could do the full Mallard tour. You could do the full Mallard tour here. Uh, and the full Mallard food tour is you gotta go to Lawrence, Kansas, which is a short drive away from

Kansas City, great college town. And there's this place called the Bird in Lawrence, Kansas. And at the Bird you can have the Mallard Fouler, the Mallard Fowler there, which is which is tremendous, tremendous, tremendous, tremendous, tremas. The Mallard Fowler is a culinary piece of art, a culinary piece of art, and it is available at me. And now they have the Great Ballet there and you can enjoy that. It's the Flamingo Cup Club which is called they call

it the bird. The locals called the bird there. The Mallard Fowler is a mouth watering chicken sandwich uh. And you can enjoy the show and all that. That's one forty North ninth Street in Lawrence, Kansas. Then in Kansas City at the in the Greater Kansas City area. They're just down the road from where the Chiefs and the Royals play the Landing Eatery in Pub. And at the Landing Eateryan Pub you have the Bend Mallard Chicken finger basket.

It's a large, hardy portion of delicious breaded chicken fingers fried different faction, piled on a mound of delicious fries. Uh. And you can get to that as well. So that's that's available at the at the Landing Eatery and Pub there in Liberty, Missouri one eight nine West Kansas Street

in Liberty, Missouri. Check that out. And in Denver there's actually a couple of locations now the sports Book Bar and Grill the original location in Greenwood Village and that is hand battered, hand battered chicken breast tossed and Frank's Red Sauce. Now, unfortunately, the way it comes they put lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese on it. You can get get it without the lettuce in the tomato. You can request no lettuce and tomato. Um. But that that's also in Greenwood Village.

As I said, I don't know how to pronounce the name of the street here, but it's nine six six oh east and then it's a R A P O P A h O E is the name of the road. And uh yeah, it's gonna check that out. And that's that's a location where a Denver Bronco player enjoyed eating at that location so much that they ended up getting arrested. A safety for the Broncos got released because he was like hiding in the multure around the sports book bar

and grill. Famous famous story. Those are some of the Those are actually all the food locations that currently have a Mallard food dish. Originally, the first place was in Syracuse. The mal Zone was the first Mallard. It it's like a cal zone, but it's a mal Zone. That was at Vetos Pizza and Seafood. But they changed ownership and so they got rid of that. And then there was a pizza in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Mallard pie that was available, and we also had the drink that I

think is still on the menu. I don't I have not heard an update on that. But we did have a drink at a truck stop in Colorado that that was a bail But I don't know if that's still there though, alcoholic or now. Yeah, it was an alcoholic drink. Oh yeah, the Mallard maneuver. Here it is. I found it, mallarw maneuver. I'm not sure if it's still there though. You can go in if you're driving through Colorado. Lynman, Colorado. It is fifty nine miles east of Denver. It's at

Oscar's truck stop in Lyman, Colorado. Tell him you want the Mallary maneuver. This came out in twenty It's makers Mark whiskey, ginger ale, cherry juice and garnish. And that's the Mallary maneuver right there. You want to give your food dishes now, guests, gunn I don't have anything good like that. There's no food dishes like that, all right, And I'm still open. We we have the chicken kind of covered here. But if you don't want to have a Mallard poutine. You know, I'm all for that. That

would be great, mallorputine. Uh point. We just went to a new poutine place. It's actually an Anaheim, believe it or not, and it is amazing. I forget the name of it, but that's this like food court thing, and they had it's like chicken fried poutine, gravy little pieces of fried chicken cut up. Oh my, so good. I'm gonna probably go back there again. I went to last week for the first time. Probably gonna go back again at some point here maybe today was it. Did they

serve it in a basket? It's like a little uh well, everything's to go, so it's probably a basket, but it's like the paper equivalent of a basket. Yea, son, that's really good. Yeah, I mean it's your typical poutine play and it's not it's not cheap, but it's not like expensive expensive. It's yeah, eight to ten bucks or whatever for the thing poutine. But that's good. Yeah, that's it's pretty good. Uh. Kevin also says he says, you did

not eat Rocky Mountain oysters. They make steak jerky and if I told my wife that I was taking her out for a steak dinner and instead substituted the actual steak for jerky. You would find my body at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Well, Kevin, that might be true, but let me play Devil's advocate, Kevin, because in a court of law, if I go into a courtroom and I make my case to the judge, I said, listen, I said, I was gonna eat rocky mountain oysters. These

are rocky mountain oysters. They just happened to be in the Jeopardy and the Jeopardy they happen to be in the jerky shape. Technically, that is in the eyes of the court, that is rocky mountain oysters. Because it is bull testicles that I ate, and that is rocky mountain osters. And it says on the package rocky Mountain oysters. So while I agree with you that your wife would not be very happy if you took her out for steak and all that stuff, but by the letter of the law,

I am. By the letter of the law, I'm correct. I'm just curious what to bet you're gonna lose this year. I'm not gonna lose any bets. I am a winner, winning, winning, Eddie is the one losing bets. Now he's the one making hockey bests with Gordy and Ottawa losing those bets. Chris from Edmonton Last one christa Edmonton writes and speaking of Canada, he says, men, do you think it is a good idea to keep investing with wealth? Simple? My portfolio is up a hundred and forty dollars in one day.

I think he said, he just said a hundred four. I think he said a hundred forty thousand, better than a savings account he said. So I'm a little confused. I don't know if there's a great question, is a good idea to keep investing? Who would tell you not to keep him? Like, who's gonna say no, no, I don't think you should invest. I think I think you're good on that. No more investing, please, no more? Uh yeah,

I mean these apps it's like it's it's addictive. It's like gambling, you know, I played playing around day trading and it's so simple you don't even realize what you're doing. Some of the time. You're I guess the social media too. You can jump on any rede website like Reddit, going discored some of those other platforms to go on Wall Street bets. You know, goes up and down and up and down and up and down, and you gotta be able to take the swing. I mean you have You're

gonna have a good chin. You're gonna be able to take the falls because sometimes in the flow, you gotta be able to bob and weave, bob and weave when you're playing the stucks and you My advice is much like when you like, weigh yourself, you're not supposed to. Some people say to weigh yourself every day. I think if you're on a diet you're trying to lose weight, that's bad. You should weigh yourself maybe once a week

or once every other week because it's depressing. I mean, you're not gonna have the results you're looking for every day. But if you do it every week or every other week, you're more likely to get good results. Anyway. All right, that is it. We will be back back back back in the magic radio box to night. I will be here eleven pm in the West on Sunday night, and that of course is to a m in the East, a new week of programming for you. Keep an eye out on the on the Facebook page and also on

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