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Mr eight oh six in a Fico score. I that more of that applause was for you, and how you uh dazzled the night away with the United States, with the NFL and a new national anthem being plays that monologue the night said, mallor holy ship. It's amazing because I know certain times when you're asleep at like eight or nine or ten o'clock in the morning, I'll click on a story that comes out and it's like Monologue one, monologue too, Monologue three, and it's like Taylor made on

certain days for certain shows with you. That's uh. The NFL continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. Ben. So yeah, well, I've always had a pet peeve of mine people that pander I just don't think that's the society is not better for people pandering. But the NFL's fully on the pander train church they're going down the tracks. Uh. And as I said in the monologue the other day, I mean, you know it's it's that slippery slope, right's Pandora's box. Well, now you have announced that you fully

are invested in this. You're gonna play the black nat Philantham, which I didn't even really know was a thing I didn't Did you know that? I did not. I guess I might educated on that. But now you've positioned yourself. Well, what if there is a story involving a Mexican American or an Asian American, or a go down any American, simon American, that's right. Do you then and they have a song that's important to them? Do you then if

you don't play it, you're insensitive? Um? And Uh. The line that I'm the most proud of in that monologue is that they're gonna turn NFL games into a concert. It's gonna be like a going to see the Boston Pops or something like that, where let's see what songs are gonna be playing before Maybe we'll get the game and we're gonna shorten the games from four quarters to

one quarter. It's just a wild story, you know. And Guscian I would like to just talk about sports stories, but I haven't been sports in a hundred and seventeen or eighteen days or whatever is now. So, uh, we deal with what we have. We we make, as Bill Parcelves would say, chicken salad, chicken shit. Uh. And then you know, when you have bananas that go bad, you make banana bread. Yeah, we'll see, And so that's how

that works. But see, here's the amazing thing, though, is that you just mentioned with the national anthem being played that's on the horizon. You also have NASCAR on one driver that has a Trump car and that's right. All people offended by that, Yes, it's also people offended by the BLM car that has been driven around. Yes. And then you also have on deck the the NBA with their social justice issues on the backs of their jerseys. It's never any I'm so glad we had Leo Toorell

on the other day. We might have to have Leo as on a retainer. We might have to bring Leo back carefully. He's an attorney. You don't want to use the word. Yeah, you don't want to use that word for sure, because that is dangerous. But I just I didn't think I mentioned this on the radio show the night but that NASCAR thing, they're they're woke, woke act.

But he did not exactly resonate with the NASCAR fan And I don't know if you saw the ratings were horrific for the NASCAR race after Bubba Wallace and all that attention. You know that the belief and I've always kind of bought into this over the year's guest gone that any publicity is good publicity, Right, That's that's something that I've I've been a big believer. And well, apparently

not because the NASCAR race. You'd think with all this attention and all the buzz about Bubba Wallace and he said it was a news and of course it was just a it was apple phoenia is the term that would apply there. It's a it's a human condition. I actually told you about that. I think we talked on the phonest that's apple phenia. Yeah. That was to close out the month of June, which was even more alarming because don't forget FS one had the entire broadcast. It

was a triple header. They did the Truck Series in the morning, than the Exfinity Race, and then the NASCAR Cup Series to close out the day. So that's a little alarming, especially on the aftermath of everything that went down earlier with Yeah, you would think more people would be tuning in to see what it would happen and did not did not take place. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and

the I Heart Radio app. Alright, so on this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got odd stuff I found surfing the web. If you don't stick to sports stories the weekend, a bunch of mail listener questions. Will open up the mail bag for your quizzes and we'll get right into it. This is some awesome I like these oddball stories. And when I used to work with Looney Tunes, we would try to one up each other. It would be a pissing contest to see who could find the

most ridiculous odd fact about life. In fact, we turned the blitz when it was baseball season. We would just try to entertain ourselves by throwing fun facts out. Like when we do that, we go to Arlington, Texas, which is just a few miles away from where Whiteout was invented, and uh, you know the Rangers, they're playing the Angels or whatever, and we do these facts. We're going out of Fenway Park and just down the road the chocolate chip cookie was invented at the Toll House restaurant and

hotel and anyway, So that is the backdrop. Here we go. This is interesting. I thought this was kind of cool in the nineteen eighties. So back in the nineteen eighties, went back a long time. There there was this unexplained noise that was coming out from under the ocean, and there's a lot of tension between Sweden and Russia because Sweden and Russia they were accusing accused of sending Sweden had an accused Russia of sending submarines into Swedish waters.

Uh do you know the rest of the story, As Paul Harvey would say, I do not. This is great. So they investigated what do you think the sound was? Um, I think the sound was whales. I think the whales were humping. No, it was actually the sound of Harry is farting in the water, that we had an international conflict between Sweden and Russia because of flagelence by fish. It's what, it's what we adn't that great. That's pretty good. I did not know about that. I thought that was

that was pretty interesting. A lot of people concerned about who's gonna win. Is it gonna be uh sleepy Joe Biden or Donald Trump? Who's gonna win the election? Here in well, uh, good news, guest down, we will know by October thirty feet. We are gonna know who's gonna win the election. We don't have to wait untill early November, which is a few days after that. Is that since a company named Spirit Halloween has accurately predicted who is going to become the president United States based on which

candidates sells more masks. So if you want Joe Biden to be your president by a Joe Biden mask, if you want Trump to be your president by a Trump mask, that's good for us, since we're just a couple hours away from Vegas looking at the totals and then run in bed. That's right. Yeah, all right, now, this is another one. We have a lot of blind listeners. This is actually a positive thing if you were born blind. This is the first positive thing I can recall in

many years. If you're born blind, that's very tough life when you're born blind. It's the obstacles and it's it's really impressive when somebody can overcome those odds. We have a lot of people that listen to the show that have done that. We have inca terror who's a classically trained musician who's performed all over the world. Uh, and he's he's blind blind Scott. I don't know that i'd put him in the good category, but but he's there. We had a guy Vision that used to call the

show back in the day and legally blind Bread. So we've had We've had a lot of callers, and we have many people that have also emailed me that are in the blind community. So, and at one point, guest Scout, I was number one with blind people. It's pretty number one radio show, Colin Cowards number one like overall, but I was number one with the blind. So anyway, no person born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. That's great, it's never happened. Now, why would that be, Guess why

would that be? Is it because your eyes lead you down that path? What was we learned Andrew Tolls the Dodger outfield, he was diagnosed as schizophrenic. You know, it's it's interesting that you you bring this up because I was watching The Right Stuff the other night and I was bs with my dad about how that movie actually ended and with the Pallette going spinning out of control after his jet had stalled, and I asked him, I said,

why didn't the pilot black out? And he said part of it was because he wasn't the g force wasn't hitting him as hard, but also because he kept his eyes on the on the altitude, and he he says that you won't go into vertigo if you're looking just at the altitude reading. If you looked outside to see yourself spinning, then he'd be placed in into vertigo. Really, yes, that's interesting. Yeah, it's pretty fascinating. That's your fun fact. These are these are odd things I found surfing the

internet that I figured I might as well. That's sad. You know, it's actually very common. There's more than three million people a year that are diagnosed with schizophrenia in the United States. I think I think that number is right. I wonder if that's gonna rise here over the last like three or four months with everything going on and being more hallucinations, delusions and all that stuff, all right, uh, or are some other things here? All right? This is cool.

So in the in the early twentieth century, medicine was not as advanced as it is today, and they recommended for a strained athlete, they recommended the athletes that were strained dose themselves with a bottle of champagne. And that would they would. And if you were like a sprinter and you had an injury, you would be best cured by two hinds of champagne. Good solid, solid medical advice. It was just my advice is just rubbed some dirt on it. That's my advice. That's old school advice. Babe

Ruth and alcohol and cigars. Yeah. Great thing about Babe Ruth is we only remember him as a big, fat ass that eight hot dogs. But he was a fine tuned athlete with the Red Sox and early with the Yankees, and I think he stole home plate like ten times. You could pitch and fucking swing the stick. Yeah, And then we only remember him as the as fatty fatty Ruth. All right, today's a children. This is called this is

a good thing for for us. Today's kids take about nineties seconds longer to run a mile than their parents did. About that. That's pretty interesting, absolutely all right. And then one other thing that was interesting to me. Nineteen somebody posted this. There's an ad that was posted by the people that make seven Up and it recommended to mothers whose children did not want to drink milk as the studio falls party. They said, hey, uh, here's what you do.

And they recommended a wholesome combination of seven Up and milk for kids. And then there's an image here and there's equal parts milk and seven Up do not mix, and it will make a delicious beverage that kids are gonna love. Do you do you like uh? Yolk? I do not like you like ice cream? I love ice Do you like orange? Orange? Sherbet's like the uh, the popsicle sticks? I do not mind it, although I am more of a cookie dough, mint chip, chocolate chip. That's

my that's my big three. Typically sometimes strawberry, all right, I'll go strawberry occasionally. That's usually where I go. I leave that that neighborhood much. I bring that up because I used to date this Uh, I used to date this volatile Mexican girl then San Diego, and her drink of choice was Captain Morgan's and orange juice, and Bennett tasted like orange sherbet. It was absolutely delicious, Like I've never seen that. You're just endorsing that guest gut. And

you know, I like my my big beverages. At the Ugly Sweater Party, I drink root beer beer. Yeah, I love it. It's got high alcohol content, but it tastes like root beer. It's fucking great. So what do you want to say that against you? You mixed together Captain Morgan and Yes, isn't that what's a Screwdriver's vodka in orange? Correct? But that doesn't taste that good Captain Morgan and orange? Yes? Yeah. And so my wife likes to drink occasionally. She gets

very upset with me that I don't drink much. Yeah, I never see a drink, So this could be an avenue for me to drink. Yes, and it tastes you could you could get me to become a raging alcoholic. I prefer not to do that, especially because you're not working out at the gym. Alright, so Captain Morrigan, I'm gonna try that next time, my wife on like a Saturday and night. We will fire in the back there and we burn away our sorrows. Yeah, and I'll say, all right, we'll do this is what we're gonna do,

Captain Morgan. And orange juice. Now, I don't know what kind of orange juice do you usually drink anyway? Do you drink like the Tropicana orange juice or just the whatever. I'm not an orange juice snob. I'm not. I'm east of the four or five year west of the four or five that's what you are. So you're more concerned. But now that we really orange juice, the real orange juice debate is paulp or no Paul. That's the big debate,

Paul or no Paul. And I'm fine either way. I got a little bit of paulp but too much is not good. Yes, I agree, Yeah, yeah, I agree on that. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, you want to do some don't six of sports and we'll get to the mail back. Yeah we can, we can definitely do that have you do you know, first of all, do you know anybody that's uh that has had the coronavirus, like anyone in the in the family,

anyone or my wife's one of her great girlfriends. Both her parents had the coronavirus UM. That is that. And my mother in law work at a hospital in Los Angeles and several of her co workers have had that. I think that is the that's it. So it's like three people loosely related that I in my circle that no people that have had it directly. No. The only one I guess would be the guy in Cincinnati who's just a pain in the ask Justin and Cincinnati, who had it. But he had it like right away, he

had it when this first thing went down there. Yeah, didn't he fly across the country to get it? Uh? He is flying. He's flown across the country to get a lot of things. Uh. Yeah, he's he's not afraid to spend, spend money and fly the friendlies guys. Good for him. Well, I bring that up because of this. A sixty two year old man um found out that

he had the coronavirus. Then he was placed on a ventilator in a hospital in France, and was also left with the direction for four hours because he had blood clots in his crank, so he was standing at attention for four hours because of when they say, because of the corona. Yes, you had the blood clots. Wow. That those things you know in life, when you're a kid and you're first learning learn about sex, You're like, man,

would that be great? Have that for four hours? And then when you get to a certain age you're like, hold rap, that is not good. That is a that is a terrible thing. When that is you don't want no part of that. It's it's odd. It's one of those things that sounds like it would be great, but then in actual execution not so. Yeah. I kind of

like this podcast four hours is not enough. Anyways, Then how about this UM since we're in cancel culture UM an online petition right now, UH is calling for Christopher Columbus and in the state of Ohio to be replaced to honor the life of Chef Boyer. D Wait wait, wait, so they want to honor Chef Boyard you or they want to put a Chef boy or be statue? Yeah, they no, they want to have a figure of him. Honoring him is that. Yes, yes, it's it's a recent change.

Change dot Org has an appeal going on right now for the Cleveland City Council to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus Um in Tony Brush Park in the little Little Italy neighborhood. And they want to have uh yeah, they want to have the new the new figurine that will be placed in there. Well, this is this is odd to me, and I'll tell you why. All right. First of all, I have no problem with Chef Boyard. I have no problem with Christopher Columbus per se. He

guys been dead for five years. Who the hell cares um? And I think part of America is you the legend, the mythology that the folklore, right, the American folklore that gets passed down from generation. But maybe I'm old and i'm you know, the people call me a boomer because I think that stuff is mildly important. But but whatever the case, So if you want to get rid of it.

But Chef boyar D, I thought that was dean racist that was on the chopping block with you know, they got rid of Uncle Ben, they got rid of Anti Mima, and you know there have been people over the years that have complained that it's mocking Italian Chef boy Ard. It's goofing on the Italian heritage with that. And and also I've heard Gordon Fisherman could be in danger. Um. Count Chocola is also u something that could be called raisings. This is the by the way, the entire diet of

Marcel in Brooklyn is his entire diet. He's gonna have to change because all these products are now taboo and cancel culture. We'll see. The one thing I could say for Chef board d is he actually immigrated from Italy at the age of sixteen, and then he came to Cleveland to open It doesn't matter, doesn't just like that high school high schools that have redskins on Indian reservations, doesn't matter. If people are offended, even if they're not

have no reason to be offended. You gotta cancel. Those are the rules. Cancel culture. It's the world we live in now. Yeah. Um, every time I hear of Chef Boyard, though, I think of the famous call when I was doing stuff at at e I and Marcel called up that show and he was so terrible. Uh had nothing to say, and so I said you know what, I'm gonna try to ask him questions to see if you can make this interesting. And so I said, what do you have for dinner? And marcel then said I had chef boy

r d. I had some ravioli or whatever. It's good. So then I told Marcelle. I said, Marcella, I don't know if you know this, but in Italy, the finest restaurants in Italy served chef boyar d ravioli. Uh, it's it's it's actually directly out of Italy. And Marcelle said, yeah, that's right. He's like agreeing with me. Yeah, it was great, and you're doing this it was so funny. And that that led to food picks with marcel And you're doing

this at what one or two o'clock in the morning. Ah, that was probably yeah, like one in the morning or something like that. Poor bastard. Do you remember Tommy Tubberville, I do, yes, the Auburn coach that sure he's uh, he's a US Senate candidate and he was on the campaign trail earlier this week. Um his campaign supposedly went up in flames. Ben literally, he had a campaign bus that was caught on the interstate up engulfed in flames.

Interstate state was shut down, He asked, because it caught fire. Wow, jeez, that's that's a for those busses when they light they man it is it is a firebox? Yeah, it's I've never seen a small bus fire. No, I've I've driven like on the Vegas or Arizona out here in the west, and you go buy it. Everyone saw it was a tour bus on fire. And that thing is like a firepit. It is crazy. Anyway, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern

eleven pm Pacific. Alright, anything else there's that? Is it? All right? Let's get to the mail bag. These are listener questions and these are posted on our Facebook page every usually Wednesday, most week. Some weeks we won't do the mail bag, but you can post a question. Ben Mallers Show is our eacebook page. Guys have been very good. We've gotten more uh more people interacting on Facebook, which

is a good to see and I like that. I feel like it's better during the day though it doesn't really work as much for what we do on the on the live show, but I certainly check it out and I post videos on there. And also, if you don't want to post your comment publicly and see everyone, let everyone see it on Facebook. If you're not on Facebook, like guest Gone, you can send me a message at Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. These first couple

actually came from the email bag Rick in San Ramon. Uh, he actually wanted to thank It wasn't really a question Guestan. But he's worked for the East Bay Police Department for twenty seven years, retired in seventeen. He's still working in law enforcement, just at a different agency. And uh, he's a fan. He does appreciate the support that we have for for the police. Well, Rick, we do listen. Guests obviously got a vested interest, but I also have a bit of a us an interest in that because my

wife and her job. But yeah, I hope you heard Rick the interview we did on Friday. If not, go back and listen because Leo Terrell, who says, this guy's been in lawsuits against law enforcement. He's a civil rights attorney, the fair minded civil rights attorney, and he of all people you would think would be leading the charge to get rid of the police. And Leo was like no, the police are important police and most are good and

that's what people with common sense would say. But there's a lot of people that have no common sense, that have an agenda, and right now they've got the loudest bullhorn on the block. But but thank you many thanks. Yes, all right, this is from Kyrie in Okay c He says, Hey, Ben, you did a cameo for me on Father's Day. Thanks made my man and made my year man. Well, thank you, Kyrie. Was it was fun to do it. I'm glad, glad

I was able to pull that off. And I hope he had a wonderful Father's Day there and your family spoiled the A lout of you, uh says how come your best of podcast on the radio show is so short? Kyrie says, compared to the other Fox Sports Radio's best of podcast? Is that true, guest cup, I didn't even know that ours is a lot shorter than everyone else. You know what, You'll have to ask your your producer for that one. That's uh, that is well out of

my skille. Yeah. Kyrie then says, please tell Coop to stop being lazy and give us more content. Please. Uh, Well, Kyrie, I I did not know that. I will have to look into that. But we have four hours, and I think the only other show this four hours is Jason Smith Show. Everyone else does a three hour show or less on the network, So we have more content to pick from than any other show. So we should have at least the same length on the Best Of. But if you want to hear the whole thing, you can

hear the whole thing and just fast forward to it. Um, So it's up to I know there are people that like the Best Of just because it's a quick listen and you don't have to listen to the whole thing. And in theory, you want the best parts, right. It's like when you eat a cinema and roll. The best part of a cinema roll in the middle part. I don't know, the entire roll is good for me? Bullshit. No, if you've ever had monkey bread, right, I would call it.

But it's all just the middle part of a cinnamon roll. Oh god, I should make that. I need to. I haven't made that in a while. That's a great fat guy you made that. I used to have. Well. My yeah, my wife Aaron, she uh she got me cooking and all that and uh, but that's a lot of prep. It is. It's actually not as hard as you would

think it's. It is. You just gotta make the stame stuff you'd make for the cinnamon roll, and then you roll it up into little balls and you put cinnamon on it and then you stick it all together and it's you. It's actually not that difficult to make. Wow, it's pretty interesting. Yeah, and it's fucking delicious. It is. It is awesome. And uh boy, you get fat eating that man, you get fat. Yeah, So thank you, Kyrie. I will, yeah, I will. Heads are gonna roll. Heads

are gonna roll. But all right, Jay from New Bedford, Mass rights and he's a is the The sound bites on the show are hilarious. How do Roberto and Coop get them out so quickly? On the spot always wondered that even with no live major sports, you guys are killing it at night at night in and night out. Thank you Ja. Well. Coop actually doesn't play any of the sound bites. The people that say play sound on

the show are Roberto and actually Eddie. Believe it or not, Eddie will play a lot of sound bites during the show kind of dress things up. So it's we've got two people playing sound bites, and sometimes the Roberto and Eddie will play the same sound bite. They're they're thinking he's the same and they think a sound BITO works.

So it's those guys and the way it works, to let you know, is we we have in our in our studios there's computers obviously with all the equipment, and there's a board's got like these little buttons and you have a mouse and you just scroll over it and it's got like my page has what do you think, forty or fifty sound bites. Yeah, you've got multiple pages too, So there's sound bites from obviously call is yourself, the crew, um, obviously athletes and whatnot. So you have a you have

a gallery. That's what you have. Yeah, we don't have guests on the podcast or on that on the show we do on this we have we're not really guests. We have people we like that hang out with us. Yeah, but I done really well with radio people. I we Mike North, I consider Leo Torrella radio guy. Even though he's a lawyer, John Sterling, you know, yeah, you know what I'm saying, I I he might identify himself as a lawyer, first, I would say radio guy. Yeah, radio guy.

You love the radio guy I think, I mean, I don't know, you probably disagree with me on this, but sound drops for you, I think the top one is your sports cliche sound drops. Um you what are you going to? Specifically? What are you Yeah, you have two athletes that took you talking about, Oh, Scott pod Sednik, Yeah, pot Segni was his number one for sure. Yeah. My favorite one is the the one from the old Cubs

manager Lee ilia Hey Eddie. Five percent of the world's at work and the other fifteen percent come out here. It's a playground for the blank blanks. It's hilarious. The one thing you can't do is attack the customer. And he didn't just attack the customer, he went all in. All right, Thank you j for that question. Brady from Massachusetts. Right since his first time new listener, I've been listening to the Final Hour every week for the last two years. Well,

thank you, Brady. One question I have for you is who is your favorite cabinet member? Uh, Coop Eddie or master cheffer Bird. I guess he would include you here, guests Gun Uh, Well, he didn't include you. Actually, he just included the people on the radio show. I guess of that group, Eddie has been with me the longest, So if you had to pick a favorite, I guess I would go with Eddie because we've been together. Eddie

started a couple of years. I think it was either a couple of years or a year after I started. And I started like a week after Fox Sports Radio launched, so we've seen a lot of crazy stuff hiding in the show. It was at Fox Sports Radius. I would of that group. You're never supposed to say your favorite kid is, but whatever, not my kids, I'll go with that. Travis in Roseberg, Oregon, says, one of you guys heading

to Vegas, and what's the first thing gambled? He says, when you guys rather heading to Vegas, what's the first thing gambled on your the sports book or the first table machine through the door. Alright, so Travis, this is not a bad question. Now I'm gonna tell you how I roll. I am such a freak when it comes to the gambling. I don't even wait to Vegas. I drive gascon flies. So he doesn't have the same experience. He's west of the four oh five, but I'm east

of the four oh five. So I drive to Vegas, and when I get to the Nevada state line, there's a place called prim Nevada. Gascon doesn't know that because he doesn't drive to Vegas. Prim is a border city. There's Whiskey Pete's and Buffalo bills to hotels. That's it. There's a there's a mall, and there's some fast food restaurants in a gas station, a couple of gas stations.

That's all that's in prim Nevada. Nothing else. I stopped in prim Nevada because when I go to Vegas, normally, if I leave because I do the overnight and I'll wake up and by the time I get there, I will miss the East Coast games, I will not be

able to wage it on the Ease Coast games. So what I do is I go to I usually go I think it's Whiskey Peats Uh one of the there's like three hotels there, but when I forget which one, I go into one of them and I'll run to the sports book to try to beat because the game starts four o'clock in the in the Pacific time zone, and I'll try to get in there and put my bets in and then I'll keep driving to Vegas know when I got a little action, and then I'll try to listen to the game as I'm on the way

on one of the apps on my phone so I can hear what's going on. I go a little bit different because if I fly, I obviously want to get it there early before and of the games, so I'll dip my toes into uh into a football game if

it's on a Sunday or Saturday for college ball. But after that, I immediately go to the tables and I'll go craps first to see if there's a bad table there with some poor rollers, and if that's the case, I'll sit on that one for a while, and if it's not, I'll go find a blackjack table that's completely empty because I like playing against the dealer heads up.

That's always always the case. My favorite, my favorite sports book, I don't know if you if you have a favorite ben but it's Legassi Stadium that's under that's actually underneath Venetian and Palazzo because it's it's a massive sports book, but it actually looks like a giant movie theater too, like in the middle of the of the sports book.

You have all the like reclining and couch seats with a giant flat screen TV, and then the book in front of you used to can place your wagers, and then surrounding it it's a bar so you can look over with televisions all around the place. That's probably my favorite sports book. MGM is pretty good. The Winds pretty pretty nice as well, but Gossi is probably my favorite. If you want to go, what's the the Orleans? If you want smokey kind of you know, Vegas type situation,

The Orleans. Uh, I used to love the Aria. One of the guys got upset with me because he's a the guy that used to run it. He's not there anymore, but he he was a big Mets fan. And I've told the story before, but I stopped getting Freebe's guests gone because I I ripped, you know, not Chase Utley role at second base, and I ripped the Mets shortstop because he was in the wrong position and that's why

he got hurt. And this guy got all upset. Um Matt in Rochester, New York right since says everyone has been or stayed in a bad hotel in their life, do you guys have a bad hotel experience story that you can tell. Uh, yeah, of course, Matt. I've stayed at some really shitty hotels. When I was at Saddleback, we we traveled to I think it was a San Jose to do a game and we got the cheapest hotel because we had a very small budget college radio.

And I remember the hotel we stayed at. Uh. Each side of us, on each side of the room we were in, there were families living in the hotel and UH and it was not the greatest hotel in the world. It had not been updated in a long time. And I felt really bad. I mean, there's always kids, and they weren't just there on vacation that was their home. They were living in hotel. And then the worst hotel experience that I ever had was that was just depressing

because I felt bad for these kids. You know, they didn't have a place, and that was you know, you want to live in a shitty hotel with your kid, but they didn't know any better. So I was in New York and I was trying to stay I was using my brother and I said, you know, I was with my other brother, my younger brother, and we found this cheap hotel in in New York is a couple of blocks away from my brother who lives kind of near the East Village, a little bit in the East Village,

and so we got to the hotel. I didn't really read the fine print when I booked the room. Gascon it was a five story. We wasn't If you're on the first floor was fine. We were on the fifth floor. It's a five story walk up in Manhattan. As I remember, it no working air conditioning in the summertime in New York City. I was very fat at this time, so imagine fat guy five story walk up. Um. The other thing I recall is the bathroom was so small. How small it was it I'm glad you have. It was

so small. I could not actually sit to drop a deuce. I could only do a number one. I couldn't do a number two because my legs were too long. And there was literally a wall right in front of the toilet that you could not You could barely squeeze in there and kind of, you know, hover over it and do your business, but you could not. I was too tall to sit on it. So that was my worst hotel experience. What about you get. Oh man, my worst hotel experience takes me back to the to the glory

days of us kind of. I I was in San Diego at the time. I was I was going to San Diego State and this girl that I wanted a date for the longest time was back in l A. And she said, Hey, come up, I'm free this weekend. So I met up with her in like Hermosa Ro Donald Manhattan Beach that area one night, and we were drinking and you know, obviously we couldn't drive after that, so we needed a hotel and I didn't know where

the fund to go. I hadn't been back in l A for a long time, and so we got into a cab and I just said, hey, make your way down pc H and we'll find like the first hotel that we we can see, We'll go to ben I went to the spot and remember the name was in Torrents. It's called El Dorado. It was this motel. It looked like ship. Yeah, I get a room charged by the hour. Yes, they charged by the hour. And when I booked the room,

or I booked it, but I got it. I go inside and the first thing I see as I entered into the door is two bullet holes onto the chain which you like chained the door locked, so there's two bullet holes there. On top of that, it was a small bathroom like the one you just mentioned, and it cracked mirror above the bed. Have you ever stated did you feel like you were gonna get bed bugs when

you and I like that? One? Yeah. One time I was at a hotel in Vegas and you know, you always think, wow, they don't really clean the rooms, but maybe they do, you don't know for sure. So I go into the hotel and we checked in at the casino in Vegas, and we get to the room and there was a guy's driver's license and like part his wallet was on the table little tables sit at you know, And I was like, yeah, that means no one came in here and actually looked this over at all. Man.

Last time I went to a bachelor party in Vegas to stay at the Cosmopolitan and it's expensive. COMO check this out. I got that's a that's a chickotoe right for the ladies. Yeah, I check in there. All of a sudden, we feel this this like the ground moving a little bit, and we and we smell, the stench ben the plumbing underneath the building. There's a burst and a pipe. It was all the sewage that came out

on the street. And then on top of that, we go into the room and I swooped down the room like you're talking about, I found a used condom in the bed. No, no, I know, you did. I swear to you. I did. So they upgraded our room and I got a different spot. But yeah, like there was sewage. You got a lawsuit there. Yeah, in the case traumatic experience.

I was in Vegas last in December before the apocalypse, and we were walking around the strip outside New York, New York right here that NHL Arena, and there was a sewer leak and the entire strip smelled like ship as. I mean, the it was. It was so strong the smell. I mean, you felt like you had moved into the squatty potty or the or or the porta potty. Rather, Yeah, you felt like you had moved into a porta potty

or whatever. Was like unreal. It was like, uh, you know that Tennessee trots, like somebody had dysenterry, but the entire street had dysenterry. You know, it wasn't a steaming dump. It was just unreal. Um anyway, So there you moving on. Trucker Joe says, if you could go back to any era in time, what era would it be? Era? Being like anything prior to two thousand's, you know, would be interesting if I could be guaranteed to come back. I quote William Shakespeare a lot. Many of the phrases we

use are from William Shakespeare. So he was from like the six hundred, early sixteen hundreds. I think he was in his prime there. I'm curious if the legend lives up to the reality is as good as the legend, or if I'd be like, this is fucking terrible. Why are we quoting Shakespeare four hundred years later, five hundred years later? Whatever? I guess that. What about you, Gasca? I think I probably go all the way back to

the to the Roman Empire. I would love to see or maybe even be involved coming back alive, of course. But the being inside the Colosseum, Oh, ye're watching the gladiators, which are actually like slaves, right. I'm surprised they haven't torn down the Colosseum because there were slaves that were fighting the the animals never know, but that that would be amazing to be a part of something like that. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Yeah, yeah, you wonder. I think if you could use the knowledge that you know in the modern world, and a lot of it wouldn't translate them to that time, so it would be useless,

all right. Pierre from Springfield, Ish, Massachusetts. By the way, Pierre, my grandfather, the the guy that I quote a lot who spoke Yiddish when I was a kid, when he didn't want us to know what the bad words he was saying, and I learned some Yiddish words from him. He is from Springfield, mess so I have some some

bloodlines there. Anyway, Any chance of getting some old co workers on the podcast, maybe uh fill in for Gascott, k K, Marcel Julio, maybe even an old caller like Gay Brad or Troy the gambling and well that's you're going way back, Pierre. I don't think we could even call Gay Brad gave Brad now because someone will be triggered used to Yeah, gay guy from Tennessee who he chose the name Gay Brad as a caller, and he was kind of an effeminine gay guy. Uh, that called

the show and was a character for several years. Troy the gambling Man was great. He drove a sweeper truck around Nashville and we had him picking games. And I don't know what happened to Troy. I used to have a correspondence with Troy. I don't know. I haven't heard from him in years. I don't know if he's still around. I don't know what's going on, Troy. If you're listening, check in with me. I'd love to hear from Troy the Gambling and that would be pretty cool. Jerry says,

when's there? When's another talent show? By the way, just to answer that last guy from Springfield. Uh, maybe next week, yescar, we might do a day and and just put one of these old people on that I used to work with and go down memory lane. You've worked with a lot of people. There's a lot that's true, there's a lot of options, but catch up with an old producer, find out what it was like. Yeah, yeah, I could do that. Uh, Jerry says, when there when is there

gonna be another talent show? I can't wait. I want to win it. Well, Jerry, we just did one during the apocalypse, and sports are supposed to come back, uh in late July, and so if that happens, we'll probably not do another one. But if everything gets walky and shuts down again, I will go back to my bag of tricks and we will certainly do that as well. This kind of relates to that, Carlos, and Houston says, why did you stop doing the Power Hour on the show? Uh, Carlos,

that's a good question. People have been asking me that. Why. I know the answer because it was awful radio and it was very lazy, and you have to come to Jesus moment, you know, I know not will do something better for the audience as opposed to no no, no, no, no no. I thought it was very interesting. I thought it was it was compelling, and it was fun with Cowboy and Windsor and Uh. Several of the guys were great and it was a lot of fun. Chris and Houston,

Sean the hood Guy. I thought all those guys were very good. But Felexis was so bad. The last one that we did, it was so terrible and so painful that I just said, I can't, I gotta take it. But I was suffering from PTSD, I this post traumatic stress disorder because of how bad that was. And and so if you want to blame anybody, blame America's favorite drag queen, the only known drag queen caller sports Radio Flexus, because that is uh boy, that was nightmare causing that

was things that go bump in the night. That is what it was. So that's the answer. Carlos says, I also do hope to see you here in Houston, if you decide to come with Carlos, I'd love to meet you, and I I will get to Houston. I'm hoping to go this year, but unfortunately right now that's that's off the table. But I'm hoping and I am optimistic, Benny Brightside, that I am able to go and hang out with you,

Carlos and some of the other big fans. Which is great guest gun because I take a lot of pot shots at the Astros, the Astros and the Texans and the Roquettes, but yet we have a very solid loyal branch of the Mallard militia that do not mind being pummeled are having their teams pummeled on the radio. When is here's one from Jason and Baker. So when is guests got going to start playing more sound effects on the Fifth Hour podcast? All right, So this is something

I get asked a lot. Guest. We are in a different studio. That isn't that the issue? Guest, gon We're in a different studio, so you don't have access to the same sound effects that we have on the radio show. Yeah, part of that, and plus we just go more long, long form talk and the show is obviously different than the podcast because these are are dedicated to to you, the listeners. So if you're gonna have questions and answers and whatnot. I don't like to play sound drops during that.

I mean I could, technically speaking, but we have a lot of guests and friends of the show that come on, so we want to interrupt them with any sound drops

or anything like that. It is an odd thing though, when the sound effects, because there's some people like our friend here in Bakersfield who loves it, and then there's other people like that Snowflake fun House who he thinks it's like the Hindenburgh when he hears the bell, you know, it's like, oh my god, lose loose tons is sinking, and it's like, you know, come on, it's the redundancy of the bell that it's getting played over and over and over again that he does not like, do not

control any of these sound effects at all. Chris from seven eighty Edmonton, Alberta says, if Doc Mike possessed the same qualifications as Dr Fauci, would you recommend you're in therapy? Yeah? Good question. Says uh, yeah, I was a little uncomfortable. Doc called up the other night and said that some woman who has cancer he's gonna help, And I was like, oh, this is not you know. I mean, I get a kick out of Dock. I think he's pretty good and entertaining,

but that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's going you're going too far. Of course, Doc is convinced that that he's he's got the magic, the magic Beans Valls. Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee says, if you were elected president and had to make take these callers with you, what would their jobs be? Doc Mike, Skeeter, Tammy and Montana and Mr Tibbs. Wow, I have not heard Mr Tibbs name, and he didn't call the show. He hasn't called a long time. Mr Tibbs fun caller. I don't know what

happened to him. Uh, well, that's that's the I guess. I would have Doc Mike would have to be the health guy, right, he would be the attorney the surgeon general. Yeah. I think what would Tammy's job be? What would she she could be like in charge, she could work at like the Pentagon, do something at the Pentagon. Yeah, she's very feisty and battles back and counterpunches. What about Skeeter Wonder good guys Skeeter do? What could he our buddy Skeeter do? Where is he from? He's from Montana, but

he's got a he's got an interesting career. He's been in the military, He's lived an interesting life. And you can make him your chief of staff chief of staff, all right? And then Mr Tibbs. What would Mr tibsby like what? I don't really know much about Mr Tips other than he told some wild stories when he called the show about his neighbors and random things. And yeah, I'm not sure one of their jobs in the cabinet there? How about the Well, this would be a fun job.

Mr Tips is always always would be mesmerized when he talks. So how about the press secretary? Yeah, I can get out. I don't know. You could have blind Scott as your press secretary. He'd be like fighting with reporters, throwing hay bakers and tiss and for nation. Jack in Greensboro? Right, since this Ben, how where did you first meet Mrs Maller? Also? Once you realized she was interested in you, did you make did that make her less desirable? Since she apparently

has either mental deficiencies or poor judgment? Uh? Well, thank you Jack? Right kind of you to say that you met her west of the four oh five. I know that firsthand. Uh. No, I did not meet her west the four You did? You did you married her west of the four or five as well? No? I did not. There's no four or five freeway in the garden Island of in POI poo I got married. Uh No, I met my wife. I was doing internet dating and I met her and then we went out, and then I

didn't hear from her for a while. You know, she wasn't interested. Um and uh, but then she contacted me again and we first date we went on was in Pasadena, beautiful Pasadena, Yes there and call Ronald Boulevard. And we were supposed to go to a movie. Um, and she she did bait and switch. She said, because my idea of a perfect date was to go to the movies, and then because you don't have to talk. Yeah, it's

like the Power Hour. Yeah. So so anyway, she she we met at the movie theater and she's, uh, why don't we Uh, why don't we go over here instead? And so we we talked and then it worked out well. But yeah, clearly she's got poor judgment. That is that is obvious. Jack, no question about it. A dub bar rights and he says, why don't you post and asked for questions for the Fifth Hour podcast on Twitter? Why is it always Facebook? Um, well, a dub The reason for that is I'm down on the Twitter. I'm down

on the Twitter. I think we get better questions on Facebook. I've done it on on Twitter. It's just not it's a cesspools. I use it during the show and i've I have You've noticed I don't nearly post as much as I used to. I just don't not something I'm I'm really a big fan of I just don't like the way that that platform has gone very much. So but to each their own, and we still use it during the show, but it's just that's not it doesn't

seem to work for this jess in. Pomona rites in and he says, hey, man, my question is what is the strangest thing you did do impressive date? And that's for both you and guess. Well, yeah, Jess, I, I did not really do a lot. That's part of my problem. I mean, I guess the most I would do to impress a date was to take a shower and maybe putting on a nice shirt or something like that. But yeah, i'd always like hide the fact that I worked in radio and didn't you know, I didn't really promote that.

Uh you know, not that many women listen to sports radio because they don't, so it's not like they would know who I was. But I just gonna whatever. But what you guess got your west of the four or five? You probably just took him to your house and said, look at my house, look at the Pacific Ocean. I'm

west of the four or five. Man. There's some embarrassing moments. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, um, it's like when you when you go to to Vegas and you lose quickly on a hand of black jack and you need it rush to the A t M. Because you're already in the hole. You're trying to dig yourself out. Like I've had that happen a few times. Were like I've gone on a date and you know, whatever you're doing, like if I'm ordering dinner or something like that, you kind of get just

deep into what you're doing. You're like, let's order this, let's order that, let's order this, and let's order that, and then all of a sudden you find out you're ordering too much. You're trying to impress her, and it looks pretty freaking weak. One of the signs to tell that a woman's in you. Usually this maybe has changed, but when I was dating, when you first go to restaurants, they would order like a salad or something small. And then the longer you date and then they're eating like

chocolate Sundays and they're they're going for Yeah. Yeah, anyway, r J and san Antonio rights and says, hey, what is your favorite Saturday Night Live skit? Well, I haven't watched Saturday Night Live very much in years, but some of my favorites they were They were guests on Saturday Night Penn and Teller many years ago. It's on YouTube. They did this skit where they were hanging upside down, but you didn't know that was the gag, but she didn't know until the end of it, and it was amazing.

I was like as a kid, I was like, Wow, that's the coolest thing in the world. Uh. Some of the other ones I loved being a Jewish kid. I loved hanaka Harry, which was John Lovitts did that back in the day. Eddie Murphy did Mr Robinson's neighborhood. Remember that. Yeah, that would be canceled right now, wouldn't it. That would not be allowed. The Church Lady was pretty funny. Stewart Smalley,

anything for you guess on. One of my favorites, and everybody likes this one, was the Christopher walkin Will Ferrell cal Bell. Yeah, that was that bad timeless. I used to love and Living Color, by the way, that was your your gig, that was your show. Jim Carrey was was fantastic. The Wayne's Brothers, But yeah, Jim Carrey was was fucking phenomenal and living color. It's a great show. Kentucky Tay rights In says hotter than Kentucky. J I

would hope, so, says, I don't believe in reincarnation. However, the idea is pretty cool to me. If you could come back as a child of any athlete, who would it be and why? Uh? Well, yeah, I would go I don't know, Michael Jordan's because on top of the world dominating, I would inherit all that money. That would be pretty cool. So I guess I would go with that. Guess quickly, man, I think I'm either going Tiger Woods or Derek Jeter. He didn't have any kids still he

stopped playing. Yeah, but you know what, his Hall of Fame roster of the women that he nailed is pretty fucking phenomenal. His his check mark list. Yeah. And the gift box or the gift bag before the disclosures that you gotta like drop off your cell phone and then you get a gift bag when you get kicked out.

That's pretty good. Derek Jeter all pro man, All right, Chris and mac Keita, Ioway easier for me to say, says, please explain who gets the extra home game when NFL goes to seventeen games and why, Well, Chris, that's easy. I believe what they're planning on is eight home games, eight road games, and then a neutral sight game. That's the plan. And then also, why is the universal d age a good idea this year? The season is a waste,

so let's try it. Uh No, it's a good idea, Chris, because the players are pussy willows and their Mr softies the pictures and ninety eight percent of them don't give two ships about hitting. They don't even try. And pictures make so much money starting pictures that they they're trying

to insulate. It's all about risk management, and they're worried that a picture is gonna get hit on the wrist and be out and they're gonna lose value on the contract, equity and the contract, and they're gonna be injured running the basis. So that's pretty much one. Plus, they need to boost television ratings what the games already being missed, more offense, more runs, and they believe there's more interest,

So an extra bad in there, all right? Last one, Tres in San Antonio says, why do we park on a driveway, yet drive on a parkway. And why does guests Gone park in more than one spot at a time, Because I can what a dick west of the four five? What's you? That's your west of the four or five privilege? Apologize? Apologize at least to the four or five. I park in one space. Listen, you don't park every time you park in two spaces. That's a dog whistle to the

people who live east to the four or five. You're mocking us. You are mocking us, Guest Gone, how dare you? Yeah? Anyway, all right, listen, have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Don't forget back on the Magic Radio box tonight on the Ben Mallor Show and cameyo, Camyo, camyo. If you haven't done that, cameo dot com Ben Mallard guest gons on there, follow us on social media, and more importantly, have a great day.