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podcast of the weekend because it's today's podcast. The that would be the mailbag, that would be the mail bag. We are back at it and looking forward to answering your questions, a staple of the Fifth Hour podcast. And we were going to get rid of the Sunday podcast because we're like, well, you know, that doesn't do well whatever, and then we settled it on this mailbag format and

it's been great. It's one of the Usually it's the number one podcast every weekend, depending on how big the guest is that we have on on Friday or friend to the show that hangs out with us on Friday, it is the Fifth Hour. Yet again, even on a Sunday, a day of rest, David gascon for the rest of the four or five making his Way Day studio. There got us the name Dropper the Snob. Say a special Happy Mother's Day to all those women out there that are doing God's work. Yes, moms are the greatest. I

love my moms are so wonderful. Yes, you're so lucky to have a great mom. I hear there are bad moms, but I've i've ever ever met one, and I had the greatest mom in the world. For me, it was perfect for me, So big respect to the mom. I don't know how my mother did it. She had four of us and she was was working. My dad was working like nineteen hours a day. She is a fucking rock star. So yeah, all the women out there, Happy Mother's Day from us to you. Yeah, that's that's one

of the keys to a good life, having a good mom. Now, what's and Dad? I think you'd agree with me on this, but I think for Father's Day it's probably more important to to isolate and do a dinner. But mothers they need like breakfast or brunch, right, Like is that kind of it depends on the mom. You know, not all moms are the same. I know you like the stereotype, guest gun, but all moms are different. I mean, you

gotta gotta kind of read the room. But yeah, usually it's it's um more of a lunch type deal in it, yeah, than a dinner. I would agree with you on that. All right, we have the mailback, so these are all questions in and I would like to say thank you because somebody messed up. Who Goofed, I've got to know, did not post the mail bag email a request on Facebook when it was supposed to be put up early in the day on Wednesday. And this person I will

not reveal their names. I will not reveal their names. Here the streets are talking though Gascon and this particular person who I am referring to, uh, it is possible that they realized while they were on the air in the middle of the night that they had failed to do this, and then spent the next hour and a half begging from people to send questions a little birdie. I will not reveal the person's name, but their initials are b M. That's what I will say. The dogs

are barking. The dogs are barking. But then Mallar Militia answered the call a lot of email questions, which is cool, and I like that the militias. Shifting over to the email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. We had a good number of questions on on Facebook as well. First one comes from Neil in Miami, Miami, Miami, Living Large and in Charge in South Florida. Says, Big Beg. Your Twitter avatar is straight pimp salad days, physique and

smile right on. But that guest guy, good looking cartoon avatar, myavy. That's what sports Talk Barry calls at the Abbey. I'm gonna be cool like sports Barry. Uh, he says. Another home run miler monologue on Russell Westbrook this week, Whirling Dervish Tasmanian devil. Wow. He said, how do you come up with all those and who inspired you to take the verbal ninja star assault in monologues and how did that develop? Well, it just kind of happened over the years.

I didn't start out like that, and for a long time, in the early days at Fox Sports Radio, Neil, I did not do any of that. And you know, it's like, I'm wanted to change it up a little bit. And I love words. I've always loved words, and I didn't pay that much attention in school. I was a terrible student. So it's an opportunity and with the Internet you can you should be a student forever till the day you die. You should be learning something new every time and every day.

And so I've also had this weird quirky thing where I like the origins of words and phrases. And so I've trump in there at the the overnight and I'm generally rehashing the same stuff that Jason Smith was talking about on his show and Rob Parker and everyone else. I mean, there's there's only a finite amount of sports news in any twenty four hour window with there's a few exceptions, so we're pretty much all talking about the

same stuff. So I was like, well, how can I dress it up a little bit, make it sound a little bit better? Even though I'm saying the same thing. I am merely just changing up the way it's delivered so it it's more pleasing to the ear. How can I make it more place so it doesn't sound the same as everyone else and blah blah blah blah blah. And so that's kind of the origin of how that that start. Now, have you included tilting at windmills yet? I don't know that I have used that in the past.

I don't know that I've used that recently. You've used it in the past, yeah, long ago, all right, long ago. Well you you got upset when I would do the tempest in the teapot. You got upset that one. I remember you and get upset. Yeah. It sounds like man, Yeah, which is it's a good phrase. It's a solid for is. Uh. You can mix it in there. Making a mountain out of a mole hole mole hill is another one. That's one you can can you use him pretty much just

saying the same thing. And you know, anyway, Uh, what else from Neil? He says the interview with the Cobra was entertaining and a nice change of pace. I really liked you bringing on athletes. A good job by Gascon for booking. He didn't by book I booked Dave Parker. That was my guest. I didn't he didn't have any to do it. I was dealing with Dave Parker's publicist.

No I was, and uh Dave Party was supposed to come on the week before and it didn't work out because you know, something came up and then so we were able to finally get him on customers always right. I appreciate the words nail, thank you very much for those. But it's a good job, I guess for booking. And he is actually good at asking questions. I'm fantastic at asking questions. Must have been listening to it someone else anyway. Dave Parker's you on modern baseball got me thinking of

where sports are going. Given the change in rules in NBA, Major League Baseball, et cetera, allowing the inmates running the prisons. Uh, and you being a distant relative of the great Nostra Damas and friend of Nostradinas, where do you see the major US sports intended twenty years giving, given introduction to Mike grow betting and a new generation watching on mobile

device as well. It's always evolving, right, Sports is always evolving, and we're heading into the great gold Rush with sports gambling, and the sports leagues are going to reap the benefits more than anybody. And it's really from around four onward that's when that gambling market is gonna fully mature and it's gonna be insane to the membrane, and in the sports leagues are gonna cater their product to the gambling market.

Because that's that's who's gonna pay the bills on. Charles Barkley had said this a while back, and actually buy it to some degree when Barkley said, an NBA owner told him that once sports gambling gets fully going that they will make more money from that than television, where it's all it's all related, it's all together, right. I mean, you gotta have the games on TV so people can bet on them to watch the games because a lot of people like to watch the games when they put

a bet down. So everything's tied together. Everyone's in bed with everyone else. But the gambling money, the licensing money to use the logos of the teams is humongous. Now, what's gonna happen? Who will be the first active player to put their name as an endorsement? Will they be allowed to endorse endorse a gambling website? Will we see that like somebody like Lebron James or something like that, say, you know Ron James and when I gamble, I bet

on you know FanDuel or whatever? Will that be allowed? A good question? And if you're in business with these operations, why wouldn't it be able? Yeah? Of course, uh, he says, since you were so close to your mom. Curious on the biggest lesson you learned from your mom and most memorable sports moment with your mom. The same question for your untrusty sidekick if he is working on the podcasts, what a piece of ship? Guys? Good? Now this I learned everything from my mom. I don't know with the

biggest lesson I learned? Uh? Is you know my mom always told me when I early on my radio run it was not going well. I was making just terrible money and I was working every single day and I wasn't going anywhere, and and my mom was like, listen, you know, you know, just keep keep your head down and see the good advice all moms if you just keep your head down, don't worry about the noise and

all that. Uh you're you're talented, you're good, You're gonna make it, and uh you'll you'll get the last laugh. You know, those kind of things. And you know, as a kid, you hear that stuff, You're like, wow, that's you know, that's cool. And my mom believed to me. And my mom listened to every every single show right until she died that I was on, and and gave me her advice, what she what she thought was working, what wasn't working, things like that, you know, and so, uh,

that would be that. And as far as memorable sports moments, and I didn't go to too many games with my mom, used my dad was where I'd go to games, where

we'd watch a lot of games. My mom was a big Dodger fan from the Sandy Kofax days and we'd watched that, and I guess the most memorable moment was we were all as a family watching the nine World Series Game one Dodgers and A's when Kirk Gibson hit that home run against eckers Lee and we were all there and we're like, we couldn't were like study, we were like, oh, the Dodgers are gonna lose. I suck,

you know, I couldn't do anything. And then all of a suddenly I came back and Mike Davis I remember running the bases there and then uh, Gibson with the home run. So and that would be the one that stands out. And also it's kind of an odd note my mom. My mom was in the hospital, she was battling the cancer, and I actually missed I was I'd gone in those days I went to every Laker Clipper

game all that stuff. But I had to miss the Kobe Ryant seventy point game or whatever it was because or eighty one point game because I was at I was at the hospital with my mom. We were watching the eighty one point Kobe Bryant came there against the Jalen Rose Raptors. What about you, a gas gun, I think, Well, I guess a word of kindness for my mom was

always exercised patients. She was a teacher and she uh she dealt a lot with the special needs kids too, so she obviously had to have a bulleload of patients. And then I think the best moment I've had with her was probably in two thousand twelve, our entire family was able to go and see the Kings when the

Stanley Cup. We were at Game six at Staples Center, and we're all spread out, like I was the only one that didn't have a seat with everybody else, well yeah, pretty much with eighteen thousand uh fans that there in attendance. But yeah, I get to meet up after when the Kings won the Cup, and uh yeah, it was a great moment because we've been die hard King I mean, being from l A, we're huge Kings fans, Laker fans, Dodger fans, um usc not really, they're not huge into

football like I am. And uh, but yeah, the Kings were one of one of our first loves, like in back in eighty nine when Gretzky got here and the run of nineteen ninety three was awesome, but it came up way too short and we were young obviously, but my parents would have those date nights where they'd go to Staples or not Staples, go to the Great Western

form back of the day to watch the Kings. And then when we're all adults, we got to see them finally win a cup and uh, and it was awesome and they ran rough shot over the entire National Hockey League that Stanley Cup playoff runs, so it was great. And then would win another one a couple years later. Yeaeen they beat the Blackhawks in Game seven at Chicago, and then they took apart the New York Rangers and uh and the cool one about the Rangers was that

was at Staples Center. Yeah, and that was that was very cool. Alec Martinez won it. He scored Ben That game was the first night I think I've told you the story. But that night of Game five was my first night ever at Fox Sports Radio, and my dumbass had to be at the studio at ten o'clock. So I left Staples five minutes before Martinez scored that goal. At you listen, I've made that drive many times, had

to get to the studio by a certain time. I I know, because if you got two ways to go from Staples, and you can need to go down the ten up to the four oh five, or you can go around the one oh one to the little four oh five. So you got two options, So you just put on the traffic app You're good to go. Yeah, but this is a championship game though, so I didn't know how bad Staples would be. Well, see, you probably part close, but my I I don't have that problem.

Before you I part. So, do you know the Taco standard, the Taco truck, Like it's like three blocks east of Figaroa where the railroad tracks are at the Metro. Yeah, yeah, I know that. Yeah. Yeah. Like parking at that time was like six dollars a spot side park over there. Yeah,

I part. I had a six dollar a lot, which is not like a twelve dollar a lot up in a little further north, and so yeah, it was great, sous the gameans uh, you sprint fast walk up Figaroa and then I'd cut over and you're you're so far ahead, you're you're ahead of the traffic essentially because everyone's still, you know, taking their time getting out of the arena, and then you can you can make it on the highway pretty quick. Let's see what do we have, Carlos

and Bang bang Houston, Texas, says Ben. How does one become a p one? I worked too early to do the Mallard oath, and I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. Also, when you guys were kids, did y'all take the school bus to school? Walk or mom and dad took you. I'll answer that question first callers. I did take the school bus when I was in elementary school, like first,

second grade, even like kindergarten. But then my mom would it really depending on my mom's worst schedule, but she some days I would take the bus and some days I wouldn't. So back then you could do that. I think now if you if you take the bus, you have to take the bus every day. But back in those days, you can you can do that, and uh, listen, Carlos, you can be one of these silent members of the Mallard Militia. You're not silent. You send emails to the

podcast every week. What you on Facebook? I guess you got rid of your Facebook account, but you I know you were on there, used to post on Facebook. But yeah, you don't have to take the oath. I mean, the oath is the next level. It's not for everyone. Only a few people have actually called into the show and taking the oath, and it's rare and we only try to do it once a week, so we don't want to do it too much to the bit plays out.

But yeah, you're you're part of the militia. Call you support the show as long all you have to do is barely support the show, tell people about the show, download the podcast, and you're you're in the Mallar Militia. That's it. You can be a p one in the Mallar Militia. You don't have to necessarily take the oath. Why did you run angry Bill off? He was one of my favorite callers. Signed from your biggest fan, Kyrie

in Okay. See well, Kay, First of all, I remember doing a a fine cameo for you and your lovely family there several months back. But I had nothing to do with Angry Bill leaving the show. Angry Bill's job caused him to use to leave the show. He told me he called up a little while ago and out of the blue. He hadn't called him months, and he said the reason he stopped calling is because he I guess he has to go to the basements of hospitals

or something like that, and that only knows what he's doing. Um, but he can't stay on hold because when he stays on hold, the line drops and it's very frustrating for him. And so that's that's why he stopped calling. But he says he still listens. He's in and out of his car. He's picking deliveries up and dropping things off and whatnot. So I hope that answers your question, Kyrie. But no, Angry But I love screaming and shouting at Angry Bill.

He's wrong about everything. I like pointing out when he's wrong, and he's one of the few people that call up and like want to get into it. I want to get into a dust up, which I'm fine with. The what was that smirk. What was why why did you smirk? And dust ups? Doesn't sound great? No, that's good. You get into a little rhue barb. Little Donnie Brook on the radio is good? All right, uh Andy writes, and he says, I'm near Ben's Tommy's in Hollywood. Great members there, Andy,

good spot chili cheese fries man double Tommy's Chili cheese. Man. Oh man, it's wonderful. That's really good, uh, he says. The beautiful harmony of hate serenade delivered to the Stros in New York City along with the European Super League Manchester protest, causing a match postponement. Is there any chance that sports returns to a time more akin to the seventies, when fan behavior turned more real, turning more real rebellious in consequence. Uh well, everything, listen. This is the zeitgeist

that we're dealing with right now. But nothing lasts forever. Right there's ebbs and flows of life, and you know, you don't want to get caught up in thinks the way it is right now with the local Rotti and

all that's gonna be the way it is forever. You don't want to be like that because things change and there have been other incidents where things have come into society and it's people have said it's terrible, and then things evolve, and so you don't I don't know what's gonna happen next, but I would I would say that it will. There will be a coming that will take place. Now. I don't know how you get rid of the wokeness because corporate America is fully in bed with the wokeness.

So I don't know how you get rid of that crap. But there is a way it will happen. I am gonna be Benny Bright said on this one. He says, I'm old, and I grew up a huge fan of the Flyers, the broad Street bullying teams in the nineteen seventies, a glorious ear indeed, can it ever get better again? Or a sports tied to you almighty coin and it will never change back. Well, listen, Andy, first thing, here, you know my theory on this. Like you're old, I'm

probably not quite as old as you. But here's the deal, all right, whenever you were in that goldie I called the Goldilocks zone from like age eight or nine to like twelve or thirteen, as a sports fan, everything the rest of your life will not be able to live up to that period of time, won't be able to do it. And it's just just like the kids today

like that are watching the sports for them. When they're old farts like us, they're gonna say the same thing, like, man, do you remember watching Lebron James And I'm like, no, I remember Michael Jordan's fuck you know like that? Uh? And in the greats it's like Joe Montana, but no, no, Joe Montana sucks, you know. So that's a big part of it. It's really about when you became a sports fan, what was great in your youth that will you'll never

be able to match that. 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. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven p m Pacific. Uh. Here's one, hey, lord, Ben, this is Jose in the Bay. Do you think you'll ever do what Kirk Minihan did and leave radio? A lot of people followed him where he left, left too and did you meet him? Was he an asshole? Or

you didn't mention him? You mentioned Mutt and Jerry Callahan. You know, I never met Kirk minihand I was on the w e I Morning Show with Jerry and Kirk as a guest. I was on there. I actually went back to audition to be the third wheel in the morning show. And the day that I was supposed to work, Kirk's parents were very sick and they both actually ended up dying, very sad, horrible within a short period of time. It was terrible for Kirk Uh and I I was

supposed to host with him. It was gonna be me, Jerry and Kirk, and then he couldn't make it because it was something that had happened. And I ended up doing the show with Mutt, uh and Jerry, but now I didn't. I did Peter on the show. I think it was a couple of times back in the old days. Let's see here, who do we have about? Dave Rights and says, hey, I am a police sergeant in Ohio and I am set to retire at the end of May.

I've always worked third Shift and your show and cast Eddie Coop, Danny g Roberto and yes, even Gascon have always made my night. Uh the police sergeant there. David says, thank you for all the years of laughs without the politics, especially lately. I will continue to listen to your podcast and enjoy the cast of callers. I am not a social media guy, Dave says, So I wanted to let

you know how much I appreciate, uh, your show. I wanted to give you a five star rating, but my dumbass could not figure out how to do that on I Heart Radio. It's actually not on iHeart Radio. So that's probably, Dave, why you could not figure that out, Dave. It's actually only on the it's the Apple uh podcast page right, Apple iTunes is where you can review the podcast, he says. If you can let me know how, I will leave you a five star rating. I think we

did it, says PS. Please thank your wife for her service. Yeah, she's a nine one one DISPATCHA. Well, thank you, Dave. I appreciate that. And I imagine your third shift guy. That's cool that you can just keep working third shift. I thought, I know the department my wife works that they have to change shifts every every four months. I think it is on a rotating thing. You have to work at least once a year. You have to work during the day. You can't just work overnights and all.

That's good. Keep you healthy. I don't know what you're talking about. Here's one me like show copraate interview. Good you and Gus gone funny? Sorry email too long, Must go get beer on tractor now sign I'm a pilot. Yeah, excited, you got me excited. You coherent. The words are spelled out accurately, great diction, good grammar. I love that guy. Yeah, there you go. You should get a room. You can get a room well, first class cabin. Yeah. Uh. Joe

and Darcy in Florida? How about that. I think this is the first time we've heard from Joe and Darcy. Where's the whiskey couple? Man? I don't know what happened to him. I hope they're still I hope you okay? And and Jay, I hope they're okay. I'm worried. We tried to smoke him out last weekend. They didn't come through. My theory as you said something that was offensive and they stopped listen. No, the last time we communicated with them was I think during Beny versus the Penny when

they sent that bourbon over hat. I wear the hats in my rotation, the Hilltoppers. That's a cool hat. That's that's the kind of thing I was talking about. Unique hat, college hats. Pretty cool in my my hat rotation. Anyway, this is from Joe and Darcy. Stay focused, guest says number one. Do you and gascon agree with me that the word narrative has become one of the misused and overused words in the English link So that's that's one of your your words there that according I guess Joe

is just annoyed by the word narrative. I do use the word narrative. It is a synonym for story. So rather than just keep saying story, I will say narrative. Um. And there's only so many ways you can again I talked about earlier, there's only so many ways you can say the same thing. So I do use it. Is it played out? I don't really pay attention to it. It's not played out for me. I try to mix it up. But I might be guilty of using it too much, depending really the judge of that. Do you

have a problem with the word narrative? Um? I think the phrase I'll say this, let's played out a lot now. The one that really bothers me is my pet peeve at the end of the day. Yeah, I hate that about the start of the day. Why is it always the end of the day. My day starts in the morning, So at the end of the morning, you know, I could say at the end of the morning, and I

go to bed in the morning. The worst phrase that I have these days, especially with the NFL Draft passing, is whenever guys in the NFL, whether they're pundits or experts or whatever the funk they are, when they refer to a receiver as a good pass catching and receiver, that's redundant. It's just a receiver. You're not a pass catching receiver. You are a receiver. Like no one talks about a stock blocking wide receiver. They talk about a receiver. Can you catch? Yes? If you can't catch, guess what

you are? A corner? Yeah. Well, you understand that you have time to fill as a broadcaster, and so you have to mix in the alphabet soup. You have to you have to concoction together of words, a rich tapestry of words, and make makes you sound really smart. That reminds me. I thought I was. We used to we used to have fun with Looney when we did the Blitz and and he would always mock them by saying, this guy's a football player, and I was like, well,

they're all football players, you know. I was like, yeah, the funniest thing. I've said this before, but if you're new to the podcast, when I did an NFL show, we interviewed the NFL, Fox broadcasters and NFL players for We did that for like eight years on Sundays, and it was a lot of fun. It was like a

red red zone around the NFL type deal. We had a lot of fun with it um, but it was very frustrating interviewing the players because we we really thought about the questions we asked, and we we attempted to ask good questions and we wanted these great answers, and once we crossed over were getting terrible answers. But once we just asked cliche, hokey questions, the answers were great. Like we were speaking the language the lexicon of the football player, and all of a sudden, are it changed

the whole thing. It's like, wait a minute, we're speaking the native tongue the lingo. You know it was good. You gotta speak, athletes speak and you will get good answers. Anyway. Uh, let's see here. Number two from Joe and Darcy. Why do former NFL players on TV and radio always insist on saying National Football League as opposed to NFL when discussing the league? Is that an official directive mandate from the NFL? I find it nauseating. I love the radio

show and podcast. Well, thank you and Darcy. I do hear that a lot, and I say it sometimes you change again, It's another way to change it out. But I don't say it all the time. Wasn't Chris Berman the one that used to do that all the time that n Ash Football League? Was it Howard Costell? Beforing they? Yeah,

they both did it. Yeah, Tim writs in and says happy belated birthday, Bend love the show listening from davinport Iowa on I heart no thank you for that does great job on the Rodster Earling impression, by the way, very well done. But that also hopefully no more poulter Geist scratching at your door. I would scare the absolute hell out of me. Yeah, Tim, we didn't have that this week's bella State in the House, no Scratching at the door Berry in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee, says Yo

Yo Mo Benny. What is the one thing you have done in your career where you got the most notoriety, good or bad. That's a pretty solid question, And off the top of my head, I'm trying to think, what was it that got the most publicity. Uh. We've had a few dust ups where I've made the local newspaper in Phoenix or in Houston or Cleveland or something like that, where I'll attack one of the local stars and they'll unload on me. But I'm trying what was the mall?

I guess the thing that I probably got known for the most was the bashing of the Cavaliers against the Warriors with Lebron James. When remember the Warriors blew with three to one lead, and I was like, the Calves aren't winning. I did all these rants. I was screaming into the microphone, They're not when they sucked, they're not gonna come back. It's just for ratings purposes, and uh,

and then they won. And of course everyone loves goofing on a prediction that doesn't go the right way, and that was so crazy that period of time, the Cleveland papers were writing about it, and I ended up at the Calves. I still have this photo in my office of a guy at the Cavalier parade after they had beaten Golden State, ending the curse of Cleveland sports, and he had to sign up and it listed all the people that didn't believe in the Cavaliers, and I like,

right next to Skip Bayliss and Stephen A. Smith. That was That was pretty cool. That was that was pretty neat. But I mean there's been this's, but other things I'm probably forgetting. Uh it says also for David Barry says, what year do you think Ben will finally grill up that Tomahawks steak? Well, I'll screw you, Barry. How dare you? Uh?

Dave in Mill Valley, I'm blaming it on COVID. Dave and Mill Valleys has been uh frequently Lame Joe contributor and Talent Show judge Inca Terror has been described as a classically trained musician who has played all over the world. Wanting to know more, I searched extensively via Google, YouTube, et cetera, using multiple spellings variations can't find any reference whatsoever, which is rather odd, especially for a professional blind piano

player living in New York. One would think there would at least be a passing mentioned somewhere. So, Ben, is this guy for real? Or have we been hoodwinked and horns swaggled not to mention bamboozled from Dave in Mill Valley. Uh, well, here's the the plot twist on us. I actually know for a fact that Inco Terror is a classically trained musician. But you're ready for the plot thickening here? Are you ready for this? Uh? The reason you cannot find any

revenge to inco Terror is that's a pseudonym. That's his name on the show. He goes by a different name. He's got a very uh long name, shall we say. A lot of guys do this, you know, you get the funky name or the long name that's not easy for the normal idiot like me to pronounce, and you go with a pseudonym. Uh. And so he's he uses inco Terror as an alias, and I don't know if he wants. I mean, we'll have him on incoter is great, very funny. I'd love for him to run a little

tune for the show. He hasn't done that. He's he's beyond our show. Um, but that's that's just a stage name he uses inco Terror. But if he wants him, he can give his name out if he wants us to. I don't think I can properly pronounce it, but he can pronounce it. And he's performed in Russia, um, in Moscow, there in Russia, all over Europe. Obviously not recently because

of the the pandemic. Kevin in Kansas. Right since this man, I have listened to a number of baseball broadcasts where the announcers are reporting the games live from a studio. As someone who used to cover games and do interviews at the venue, do you see this current trend replacing the old ways? If so, what would be be gaining and losing? Alright, so Kevin, let me answer you this way. Uh Ay, we would be gaining the opportunity for teams

to save money. It's very expensive to travel, and the teams have ridiculous travel budgets, even though they have and I travel with the Dodgers very briefly years ago, but they have huge travel budgets. They have deals with the hotels, and they have deals with the airlines and the bus services, but it still costs them a bunch of money out of pocket cost of doing business. So if you don't have to send the radio crew, you know how to send the TV the production crew that usually travels with

the team. Uh. And then you talked about you know, you know Spanish radio. Oh, you know some teams have other languages other than Spanish. You know, you're talking conceivably as a broadcast wing. Let's say you've got two radio guys to TV guys, to producer, director, sideline reporter that what are we up to? That's uh, that's five six seven Spanish radio. That's a couple more plus an engineer. You're talking about ten to twelve people that are broadcasters

that travel with the team. So you don't have to pay for their hotel rooms. You don't have to. You know, every head on the plane, they charge money the airline on the charter flights. From what I understand, so you don't have the teams will be gaining a savings. What would be losing, Well, I think we'd be losing a lot. I think to properly call a game, listen, I I

can call a game off of television. But when you're there and you can see things that the camera doesn't show, like guests and you're a play by play guy, right, I mean you you would admit, I mean, it's a much different experience. Yeah, you can call a game, it'll be fine, it would be paint by numbers whatever the camera shows. But when you're actually at a game, you see crap that's not on the camp. But you also

pick up the stories too. You pick up antidotes from either other broadcasters, your beat writers, the reporters that are their TV personalities, the players, the coaches, the trainers. Like you get to pick up all those things and ingested into your broadcast. And yeah, when you're working remotely, you

can't do any of that stuff. Yeah, oh true. I mean listen, we had Charlie Steiner on and Charlie's a famous schmoozer and he'd be down there during batting practice and John Sterling is the same way, yeah, walking around and and that's how those guys do it there. That's those are the stories they get, and you pick up gems to Most of these guys won't talk to you unless you develop a report with them, So that's the best way to do is when you're traveling, that's when

they kind of divulge all that information. Do you build trust that way, and then of course you get to uh solidify some relationships. Yeah, it's it sucks, but there's a lot of these guys that are out there nowadays that just look up all that information online and then just reported as or talking about it as they got it from that source, which is unfortunate, but that's the kind of the world we live in now. Yeah. Yeah, and then there's also a lot of the straw men

they bring up and whatnot. The straw man. Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the pro why did you make that noise? Because it's just I'm just waiting for this awful email. It's great. It's like a colonoscopy. Everyone on this guy is wonderful. This guy gets it. He gets it. Pierre from Springfield says, I would like to thank the listener that unearthed the audio confirming your nickname Benny the Bopper.

That was a big story on the show this week, Benny the Bopper, But I would like to touch up his or her her work because they forgot that you are also known as the Seth Strike him out, sent him down, as evidenced by your first pitch at the Bakersfield Blaze game. Any truth to the rumor that you essentially shut down a minor league franchise because you embarrassed the collection professional pictures, some of which have never made

the major leagues because they were so humiliated. Also, did they suspend the media game at Dodger Stadium because of the bomb you hit off a former professional player? Well, those are great questions, Pierre Uh, and I do think I had a small role. Um The bigger role would actually Gascon. As far as Bakersfield going out of business, the Gascon touch, the sodom touch of Gascon caused the franchise that had been around for almost a hundred years

to go away. But yeah, I have been vindicated. The lollipop curve, which is my bread and butter on the mound outstanding, and now Major League Baseball players are copying that, honest to goodness Mallard creation, the lollipop curve, And so I do create, take credit, and I embarrass some of those minor leaguers for the Seattle Marriers, clearly, oh boy, every week that guy gives you just lollipop questions it's embarrassing. Yeah, you know, Peter, are you get a golden ticket? I'm

gonna give Pierre. You can't give m a golden ticket on a podcast. I can't. You can't do anything I want. You know what, I'll give him another. You get two golden ticket. You had a golden ticket. You had a golden ticket. There you go, p here, congratulations. He didn't call anybody, so who cares case everyone's one. Remember he sent a bunch of pickle stuff because Eddie hates pickles. A bunch of pickles, chips, all kinds of pickle items to the That was pretty funny. It was a good

busting of the balls there. Paris in Nashville, writes in He says, what's going on, gentlemen? A long time no speak. I'll jump right into it. Have been absolutely fucking madd He says, on top of all the political nonsense, I broke my kneecap, femur and hip in a car accident. That's wow. That's like the Holy Trinity right there. Knee, cap, femur, and hip. Holy crap down, how old Paris is? That's and I've heard that that hip man, that ale that'll

addle han You man, the pain in that hip game changer. Yeah, that's terrible, man, I feel bad. Wow, that sucks, he says. I was out of work for four to five months, so I missed the podcast. I finally caught up to the fifth hour, some one hundred odd episodes, but it was worth the time. I couldn't listen to the main show because your other co workers aren't nearly as good as guests. Holy crap, Why did you pay this guy

to write that gag? On Jesus? David Gaffagan right over there? Uh, it says, I would love to leave review, but as an Android user, this isn't possible. If there becomes a way let the people know so we can show support and again listen if you have an Android, I get it. The main way you support the show is just subscribing to the podcast, downloading the podcast, telling your friends you don't have to, you know, shove it down their throats, but just bring it up casually. Hey I got this podcast.

You know, it's kind of it's a hidden gem that kind of thing. Um, but whatever. The guerrilla marketing, that's how we roll the Mallard Militia, and you've been very very good. We we the numbers are from what we're hearing, gascon very good. For the podcast, they continue to go up, and that's a that's really not us, that's you. We're doing the same marginal podcast that we did when we started it. The only thing different is that listeners like

yourself are spreading the word. Well. I don't know. I think that the production I think has been fantastic. I think the product. My favorite podcast we when you were producing and we had an interview and you couldn't understand anything during the entire interview because everything was overmodulated. That was your work, but you you did not change, Big Mike, how to properly produce the podcast Bad job by you. You sabotaged a great interview with mel Proctor Baltimore Oriole

Broadcasting legend. I had a headache listening to that podcast. What do you what do you think about his his approval though the show? Oh, I mean the podcast compared to the show, Like, do you think that that warrants me to come in every night to be on your show? No? No, Coop's holding down the ford. I think we're okay. Well, I mean you have him to produce, but yes, you know that that wouldn't be my role if I came

out on this. No, no, I will tell you I would prefer you over that at stage five cleaner guy that is also from I believe West of the four oh five Brian Familey. I forget the guy's name. I don't know that. I don't I don't say his name. That's an FCC violation. But that the Art Martinez Flinger already out of the blue. The great Art Martinez when to me the gold standard. He is the greatest. With all due respect to Roberto and Danny g and the

other engineers. I've had Julio Art Martinez amazing as an engineer. The soundbites he play is, oh my god, he's great. But anyway, Art, I didn't talked to Art in months, and he randomly sent me a text. He was complaining about the Dodgers, like they lost to the Cubs the other day. The hell is going on with ourt Dodgers, you know, and he's getting angry. He's pretty funny. It was it was pretty good, uh, he said last week? Then you mentioned feeding a dog human food and it

is not good for them. Paris says, well, in actual reality, kibble isn't good for them either they have a hard time digesting kibble. I feed my husky raw and have since he was a pup, and he is by far the healthiest dog I know. I love huskies. Huskies are great, big big dogs are cool, like to hang out with for a day or two. But then they shipped everywhere and it's like, I'm more into the little lap dogs, a little little bitch boy dogs like the little lap

dogs dogs. Good dog dog was sitting in your lap watch Team you with the couch potato dog. Anyway, he gave me his website. He says he gets his food from we feed raw dot com. You ever heard of that? How don't you go look it up? For men? It's a porn size. I mean, you think this is a joke. And then I'm not gonna look. Now I'm not gonna look. I'm now you scared me. Now I'm not gonna go to we feed draw dot com because I uh, yeah, we feed raw right, excuse me? We feed raw all right?

He says, what is the What is the worst movie you've seen recently? He says, I watched Without Remorse that debuted on Amazon Prime this weekend, and it was fucking terrible. Yeah, Michael beat Jordan. Everyone's gonna heart on for him. I don't know why you haven't seen a lot of movies. I'm watching a lot of documentaries. But there's nothing that's been terrible. There's a lot of average stuff. He says, ps that email from I'm a Pilot last week was

absolutely hilarious. So good see someone else that agrees with me on this. I mean, I'm a poltis magnificent, a little long winded, and we appreciate that because he's got tales from going over them. We have limited time. I gotta hurry up here, he says. Also, if you if you add a fourth date of the podcast till now, that's not happening, But he says, if you did, just do movie reviews, I'm good. Travis and Roseberg Oregon says, with the trend of celebrity fights, who would you like

to get in the ring with given the chance? Well, I think you mentioned the name earlier there, Keiscon. I forget the guy's name there, but he's a Stage five cleaner. Well, a couple of punches, that guy would be down and he would be saying no moss, no moss. He'd be crying for mommy. That's what he would be doing. You're not the violent type. But when I get the rage, when I get angry enough, it is impending doom. Uh.

And you talk to any of my producers. You know, I'm pretty mellow, pretty calm, but every once in a while, uh, Mount Benny explodes called boom. When you get bad, I laugh, Oh, I've really got I got angry with Bergie one time. I've gotten angry with Coop. Uh. Not so much with Bob Garret, but some of these other guys. I've screamed, been shouted. And you ever did that ship to me, I would laugh in your face. Sometimes you gotta bring

down the hammer. Got John the jailer says. It's been reported It's been reported that Bill Gates had a stipulation before getting married that he would still be allowed once a year to go on vacation with an ex girlfriend. Is that true? Ben? I was wondering if you had any plans on renewing your vows, maybe you could slip this in there when you guys get married again. We got married in July of you got what twe years

away then from renewing agreement. I didn't know it was just a ten year deal and you had to renew the contract. They didn't realize that a lifetime deal. I don't know. I know a lot of people that do it like in mentally every five years. Uh. Yeah, I'm fine, my wife wants to do it, okay with it? Uh? This is uh also gascon. Would you attempt to convince your future bride or groom to agree to such terms? Yeah?

Would you like to have like it's the de Andre Cairolinko think John that jail are saying we'll get some free pass. Would never share? Yeah? Well I know. I think it's more she doesn't get to share, but you get to have a little uh side action side. Nah. You just go down a dark hole and you do that. Yeah, that is true. And even when people say it's no big deal, it's a big deal. Yeah, it's a big deal.

A balls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says, Ben, if you walked into the studio and saw a gag on both the show and Brian Finley, what would your expectations be? Will they be very low? Uh? And just being sincere here, they'd be very low. I look around the room, I say what what did I do to this? Or of this? You know what? What kind of the marginal shoddy inferior people. I'm surrounded by what a rinky dink outfit? This is how dare you out there? You? Shame on you? But

really I did talking about you get gone? Yeah, I want to point that out. Yeah, great, colleague, I think we're out of time. Thanks to Kevin from Rockford, Illinois. He had a question about He said he went hiking in Manito Springs Incline in Colorado. Ever heard of that? No? But did he have a did he send a picture? No? But I saw some some photos of it. He's, uh, it's pretty cool. I don't know that would be He says, you can once you do that, you can skip the

treadmill for a few days. I bet it looks beautiful. I looked at some photos of it. M A. N. I t o U Springs Incline in Colorado, So you can check that up. Charlie and Memphis Will in Springfield sent questions. We didn't have time to get to your questions, so we thank you. Big. Mike from Courtland, New York, the Crown City he sent a question as well, and we just ran out of time, So bad job by us, but we do acknowledge you contributing content to the podcast

and that is the most important thing. All right, Gas, thank you. We'll be back on the radio tonight. Another amazing addition of the Ben Maller Radio program. All the big news of the weekend. Will catch you then and have a wonderful rest of your day. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekday, said two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio

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