Into the Well

Ben Maller starts right now that it does. We are in the air everywhere coast to coast, the vast power and beyond the global reach of I Heart Podcasting and available wherever you get your podcast. We thank you for supporting the podcast, and we were planning on not doing the Sunday podcast, but you idiots have kept downloading the podcast on Sundays, so here we are, even on the

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proud making my entrance? I don't know, auditioning for the Fan of the Opera or Hamilton's whatever? Terrible? I thought it was good. I got a powerful voice, freaking brutal like I didn't need to have surgery to you know, fix my voice like some people on this podcast. But what are you talking about? You got corrective surgery, right, I've never had corrective surgery my voice. I was told you did. Yeah, I just smoke Marlborough cigarettes, you know,

seve and packs a day. I'm good. That's pretty good. Hey listen, So, people that watch Benny Versus the Penny, there's two things. You need to subscribe to the channel, and then you got to click on the bell icon because every time we publish it and you twittered out, it's a good indicator for people to get notified of when we're live or when the new video is released. So really, what you're saying, Gascon is we have no marketing budget. This is an independent vehicle. We have no

corporate overlords. We're on our own on Benny versus the Penny. The only way we can let people know it's out there is by people spreading it to their friends and their enemies and all that. Yeah, well that and the beautiful thing is is when we go live is we have design partnerships. So people that want to watch and support it, there's ways that they can become involved that we have partner with these companies to get back to

individuals that are are interested. So you have to watch, you have to find out, you have to subscribe, do do all the little things because we do a lot of little things to make a big thing go. Right. Yes, well, we're making so much money from this guestcounts, so we are willing to do the little things. It's usually how that works. Right. So this is the Mailbag Now. I actually like this a lot. I am a fan of

the Mailbag it. I love the Sunday Podcast and I'm glad that we're not getting rid of it because I like answering the questions and I'm very curious. We have some talented people, some creative people in the malle Militia that are the super fans of the show, and we're getting legitimately interesting, good questions on a weekly basis, and so I like this. This is fun. My question for you is have you gotten that bourbon yet? Uh? No,

well I have not. I gotta be informed by the Power Couple when I need to go pick up said berman um and and the whatever else they were sending. So yeah, I don't. You guys gotta let me know

because I will go in. I will make the pilgrimage to the I Heart Media building in Los Angeles and Sherman Oaks and will pick up the mail and maybe even do a show from Oh please don't don't don't break your back driving here a couple of miles down the road to As you said, the traffic is back in Los Angeles, so it's a gridlock situation, stuck at

a stand still. So the way this mail bag works, if you're new to the podcast, we beg for questions on Facebook, usually on Wednesday on the show Facebook page Ben mall or show. I will go out and beg for a question and and and do that, uh, and don't try to get some mailp uh. And then I also have the email bag. If you don't want to have your question available for everyone to look at prior to the podcast. You can send an email to Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour gmail

dot com. So we have some email questions. We have a lot of Facebook questions. Are you ready? Guest? Guy? I am. I'd like to have the password back to the email if you could so kind Well, I didn't change it. It's the same password I gave you, got it. It's not my fault. I kind of liked that I have complete control over the email bag because there aren't messages for you, and I get to respond. Well, here's one for you from Let's see here. It says Ben.

This is from I'm a pilot, Yes, Ben, as a commissaire in the Royal West of the four oh five Gascon Gender Army. Is that it? G? How do you say this? Giscon? I'm not that educated. G E N D A R M E R I E uh was a gender mayor, gender mayor? Is that it? So? I have a question for both of you. I have been on flying hiatus, so the uniform has not been worn in five months. Man, So I'm a pilot, not really a pilot at this point. He's just a guy rounded. Yes,

he's been grounded, which got me think. I'm a pilot says, when was the last time you and Gascon have worn a pressed shirt or even tucked in a shirt. Looking at Giscon's head shot versus yours, I can tell you refuse to take his satirical advice. General Gascon portrays a professional image that demands respect. Your pictures, on the other hand, look like you just emerged from a truck stop bathroom

somewhere around Beacon Street a little worse for wear. I think I know why, he says, Due to the COVID, Fox Sports is about to have a little shake up. I'm a pilot says, I suspect that Gascon will soon be program director with a resume as exemplary as as his. It was only a matter of time. Once this occurs, Gascon will restore the profession by enforcing mandatory wardrobe camp compliance.

I'm a pilot says. No longer will you be able to mask behind a trashy clippers hat and raising cane's chicken grease t shirts and ship soiled shorts, He says, may General Gascon will enforce dress attire that would be acceptable for listeners west of the four or five. Your full compliance of the Gascon whatever it is, also requires you cook that fucking Tomahawks steak. It better be medium rare. Respectfully, I'm a pilot. What? First of all, what a dick?

I'm a pilot. I want a dick this guy. And secondly, I am starting to think mallard conspiracy theory that I'm a pilot is actually Gascon, That this is one of your burger email accounts on Yahoo and this is one of your extra accounts, that I'm a pilot does not exist. No one could be that bigger schmuck and be a fan of Gascon does not have it. So I am now until proven otherwise, until proven, owise convinced that this

is one of your personalities. As you do know well in the media stream that we're in is you can't disprove a lie, and so you can believe the conspiracy theory all you want. But he speaks from the heart on his sleeves, and I agree with him the answers question, um, I wore a pressed dress shirt last week on Benny Versus the Penny Week number two. I was basically blasted by by Ben in week one and and two for wearing set attire. But look like Jim Kramer, I look

like I look like Mike Nolan. I look like Mike Nolan when he was the head coach in the National Football You want to be you really want to go there? You really want to go there with me? What's wrong with that? Nice professional attire? Doesn't look like I have ship coming out of my shorts. I think he's got a good point. I don't look like I have ship coming out of my shorts. I had ship coming out of your shorts. I will say, though, that is actually now that now that I remember what you know, kind

of put that in context. You are the Mike Nolan of podcasting. Mike Nolan, I looked it up here. Eighteen and thirty seven record is coach of three seven seven career winning percentage in the Bay Area. So you are the Mike Nolan of coaches. Good job by you. He's in great shape, good attire. I could live with that being a professional head coach. I don't care what my

winning percentage is. I mean, you could be Hugh Jackson, but you know you're still a coach in the national So he's a great defensive coordinator, that's why he did not work as a defensive coordinator in the last five years until this year. That doesn't what he's working as a defensive coordinator right now? Like look at Jack del Rio, Jack, what team is he on? What team is what team is your? Mike Nolan his story and what team is he? I don't know what He's Detroit? No, he's on Detroit.

Where's the Great Bay Dallas? Dallas? Yeah? I like the whatever. They're doing great. They're twenty five and points allowed so far. That's good. A great defense. They've been getting caught. And he is the last two years in Atlanta, the Falcons back to back years of ranked twenty seventh in defense. He's a genius. I see more crooked numbers than singular numbers on that. So anyway, all right, moving on here. This is from Adrian in the Mile High City, Ben

and Gagon. If you had to choose, would you go with Doc Mike's medicine or Odell Beckham's favorite bedroom activity? That's bad, I'm going with the doc. I'll go with the doc. Also, any chance of getting Denver Broncos radio play by play guy Dave Logan on the Friday Interview podcast he's been calling Bronco games for over thirty years, very NFL knowledgeable. He's on a M eight fifty k O A. Well, that's a great radio. See. I usually listen to KO when I was a kid because it

would come in l A at night. And I was a radio nerd and I'd listened to KO, and I think, oh, I'll get that Denver here in a station in Denver. That's pretty cool. I'd love to have him on. I don't have a contact for Logan, So if we have to track him down, if we can find a way to get ahold of if anyone knows how to get ahold of Dave Logan, let us know what. I'd love to Yeah, talk to him about his career and calling Bronco games and crazy things that have happened and all that.

He says. Agent says even the West of the four oh five guy might be interested in this since he's a Bronco fan. Yeah, it's a good pin. U tie. The cop in Minnesota writes in both have been a cop in Minnesota right now? Uh, does your wife ever listen to or watch your content? Or does she get enough guest baggery firsthand? Yeah? So the way I'll answer that time. My wife is usually working now she's one operator,

so she's working. We're on the same schedule, and of course you know this as a police officer, schedule changes every few months. But she's been on the schedule for a while. And she does not she's not able to listen live, and she does not listen to the radio podcast. But she does occasionally listen to this podcast. Yes she does. Yes, she look how excited guest. Excay, you just walked right down that path? You just walked right down at Well, she likes this because we do. She she doesn't like

when I'm just ranting. She likes when we chat with people like Paddle Brian, who he had on the other day. She's like into that kind of thing. She likes hearing those kind of things, which I'm fine, fine with, But on the overnight we're not able to do that. Shake it off. You know, there's a difference between having Pat O'Brien on and then like your regular show, which you have Fred dry Iron. I love Fred. What's wrong with Fred? I'll put Fred on the podcast. Fuck you. Fred's good.

Fred's a legend. Guy was a first pick in the NFL draft. He forced do you want to play for the Patriots? Forced to trade? Played in l A crossed over, had a successful career in Hollywood hood ready for HOLLI they will. That's right. Fred's got all the great stories. He's great, great source. All right, Rick from San Ramon Right? So, and he says, as a p one dedicated to listen to the show, how do you maintain your composure working with your executive and technical producers who obviously do not

share your political views? Uh? Well, Rick, it's not a political show. Sports have become political, but listen, I'm I'm fine. I've always worked with people working in media. There's a lot of people that are limousine, liberals and whatnot a work of I mean, I don't I don't hate hate people because of their politics. I don't have all the answers. They don't have all the answers either. But as long as you don't shove it down my throat, and as long as you are okay and you're willing to work,

I have no problem with it. Every once in a while will become an issue. It's certainly this past year because of everything that went on. Uh, we briefly became a political show, because that was all that was there to talk about. So we did and went in Rome act like a Roman. Um, but I I'm in it for the sports, and yeah, fine, they have their political views, they think they're right. I think I'm right, and the world goes around. Well, you guys also have differences in sports.

Entertainment takes two, so it kind of goes hat in handed right, Yeah, exactly. And this is not just limited to politics, Matt in Elmira, New York, says Ben and Gasca. Is it just me? Or is Robert DeNiro ridiculously overrated as an actor? He seems to play the same characters in the same way over and over again, and people say he's some genius. Anyone else you to feel the same about. Love the show and the podcast. I will I will take first crack at this, right. He was

great in the movie Heat. I liked him a lot as not as alite as a co star in a Bronx tail where he was a father, and he was pretty fucking good at Casino. I I like those movies a lot, Good Fellas Solid, those are like the top four movies that come to mind for me, at least with Heat was number one for me wasn't one of his first big It was Raging Bull right, that was where he came on the scene, which I watched that recently. It does not hold up. It's it's a hard watch.

I found it to be a hard watch. You're not a fan of his more recent body of work, The War with Grandpa. I think some of the stuff now, I think it's really watered him down a ton. But the stuff back in the a Good Fellas Casino. He You can watch those movies at any given time and there it's like Indiana Jones at the original Star Wars. Those those movies hold up any time of the day, anytime of the year. Yeah, anytime I'm on a plane. If they put Meet the Fockers on there, I mean,

you know, that's I'm down. Meet the Parents, Beat the Fockers. I'm all about that. Yeah, what's his name? Who was? That's twenty years old? But Meet the Parents is like twenty years old? None, didn't it? Really? Yeah? I think it's twenty years old. Well, who do you think as an overrated actor or like or it has played out? Oh I don't. I don't really pay attention. To be honest with you, I don't know. I didn't know. It was fine whatever. I mean, he's been in everything, and

the keep giving him work. I'd rather see him act than tell me how politics are supposed to be. How about that? That's all right? What else do we have here? Let's see Charlie from Memphis. He says, can we start a fan base for David and make it sound elitist? How about the Gascon group. That's a good one, Charlie. It's about right with guest guesscon group? What is it that would be? Like the Gascon Group limited? Like lt D at the end? Oh yeah, LLC or something like

you know, it's some PS thing. Yeah. Jane from still Water, Oklahoma, good college town, still Water, Oklahoma's this? How do you come up with your three things when you're doing your malar monologue? They are so vast and completely different, but you work them in perfectly. Well, thank you, Jane, I'm glad you appreciate that. To answer that for you, alright, go ahead. Guescon Cooper Loop writes it and I just repeat it. You know, it depends on the text messages

I sent him. Oh stop stop that is bull crap. Well no, when I there's a method to the madness, Jane, there's a method to the madness, isn't I I form in my head an idea, try to find four stories, four unique stories that can do a monologue during the show on so that I start with that and then kind of work my way through what I think about that with a couple of different points on each I ask you a question, a couple of different points and uh and then I'll write down some random things and

just try to put them together. It's like it's like a puzzle. It is. It's like a if you go back to your academic days. It's almost like an audio version of a five paragraph essay. Uh yeah, it's a verbal, verbal thing, obviously an essay, but uh yeah, I mean I try to I try to make it unique. I mean, pretty much the one thing I will say, and anybody does sports radio, we're all doing pretty much the same stories. There are four or five stories that day, we're talking

about the same thing. So the only way to stand out is it try to make them more interesting. Like we have guys and women that listen to sports radio. They don't just listen to our show. They listen to Jason Smith before us, Rob Parker they listen to other channels and other local hosts, and so by the time you get to me, you heard all this stuff. So I have to change it up a little bit. It's like you It's like in pitching when you put a

rotation together. You don't want hard thrower, hard thrower. You want hard thrower, junk ball guy. Uh and then hard thrower you want to throw you know, you want the knuckleball guy after the fastball guy. Right. Yeah, left handers

and right handers to changing exactly all right, uh. Valls Fan Jimmy says Ben I listened to the Brian Finlay Show with Danny G. Well, I apologies to you Alls Fan Jimmy and Fayetteville, Tennessee, And he says, Danny G told the story about you stopped You stopped speaking to him after the Super Bowl a couple of years back. Do you mind defending yourself? Uh, Well, I didn't hear what Danny G said on the podcast, so I'm taking

your word for it. But yeah, we had a situation where Danny had been part of the show for a long time, had been a big part of the show, and I loved Danny. I think Danny does great work and he was a big part of what we did. And he left to go work on Clay Traviss show, which was fine, but then he got he got kind of sucked into that world where you go to the super Bowl and all those things and you you hang out.

And one of my mortal enemies was Deshaun Watson and Danny who was part of those shows and was also part of the war with Deshaun Watson on social media. Uh, he was like canodling with Deshaun Watson at the super Bowl and like taking photos and it's kind of like a mocking way it was. It was annoying. It was annoying. But I don't I talked. I text Danny every once in a while, and uh, but no, we stopped talking for a while. But we don't work We didn't work together.

We don't work together. We usually what happens is once you stopped working with someone, it's kind of how it ends, you know, I mean, it's usually how that goes, right. I don't know. I don't really work with anybody, So no, I'm any one of a few people, like like Looney, I still talk to who I used to work with, But I but you guys, trying to trigger each other. That's why it's a little bit different. Yes, yes, I I admit like looneys like, well are you suiting me?

This was I just like to see see the see the monkey dance. I like to see the monkey dance is what I like to do. Yeah, so I I point that out. All right, what else do we have here? John from Arlington, Virginia? Right? Since this, If you would be remembered for ruining your career with a hot Mike faux pau, which type would you like it to be? Sexual? Professional or racial? Has to be sexual? Really I'd go professional.

But what what would be? What would constitute professional? Like attacking a co worker, something like that, you know, saying something about the company you're not supposed to say. That's something like because I feel like you can come back from that. You can't come back from racial. That's done, dun skis you can't really come back from sexual. Keep it not now? Well, you can't give me an example of someone in recent years. Do you think Harvey Weinstein

is gonna go back? And when you know, well, I'm not saying, well, no, Cosby when he gets out of jail. I think Cosby is gonna go back and talking about Albert and we're talking about a hot mike. So if you're gonna go that way on a hot mike, I mean because the sports realm is is it's a small bubble. So if you took a shot someone professionally, that that's gonna go to no matter what network you go to. Uh yeah, but it would be bad. But if you're good,

you can overcome that. If you're good and they they label you a racist, you're done. Okay, you're done. But if you say something in a sexual context, you can recover from that. You got a shot. It's not completely done. But if you were to make a big board of what is you would rather have, I say professional, I'm not saying you go full up blowing Matt lower like you're going down that down that locked door dungeon. But yeah, I think you can recover from it. I think so. Yeah,

I guess I gotta be good first. Well, that's the hardest part for you. Kentucky j Rides in from Scottsville, kentuck cocky roommate with gascon for a year, or cruise to the Dollar General in a trailer pulled by half pint on her, John Dear, oh man Man, I would take the half pint on her, John Dear, I would rather than be with Gascon as a roommate for a year. What a nightmare that would be, because I'm a better cook.

You would spend all that time putting makeup on and making sure your hair looks right and make sure that the walls were black and yellow in honor of Babylon Bee. It's gonna stop stop half point. I'm thinking, if this this pandemic stuff ends, I might have to make a trip to Kansas City to go to the wedding of half pint and beer drinking Brian, you might have to do it. What is it is? It? Is it in the winter. They have not announced the date. It is the social event of the year in the can in

the city area, and I might get a ticket. Alex from Independence, Kansas says, over under on another million in fines for mask violations this week in the NFL has to be over. Yeah. I want to go over for a couple of reasons. Number one, the NFL is all about the virtue of signal. They think this is good for them, makes them feel better about themselves. They are really leading people in society and number two like John

Gruden makes a ton of money. These guys are well paid, these coaches, so like they can afford a hundred thousand what might not? I think the one question I would have too is why aren't the owners that are there at the venues being fined. They don't have masks on. It's good point, and they're coming in contact with servers like people that are handing them food, drinks, media packets, press releases like the Whole nine Yards. Those people should

get fined too. Yes, I think you should get fined if you don't have your mask on when you're driving in a car by yourself, you should get fined for that. Serious. I'm not kidding. Bad habit giscon It's not right. It's not right. Not that. Steve oh from Florida Rights Since says, when the public address announcer asked for a moment of silence, how long is that moment? Five seconds or ten seconds? Now, this is a great question. How long is a moment? M hmm. What is the consideration of a moment? I'd

consider ten seconds a solid moment for silence. According to the Internet, a moment is ninety seconds. Yeah. According the Internet says a little length of a moment in modern seconds was therefore not fixed, and on average a moment corresponded to ninety seconds. I guess it's not it's not. It doesn't have to be ninety seconds, but that's what it should be. Alright, Let's see what else do we have. Jason Rocky Mount Virginia says, The Godfather or good Fellas

or is there another mobster movie you prefer? I'm more Godfather, I'm more good Fellas. Yeah, I'm good Fellas. I love good Fellas, Godfather this we quote Godfather. There's an offer you can't refuse. O kind of There's a few lines in Godfather we quote. But I love good Fellas. Now, if you want to do TV shows, Sopranos is right there. Yeah, soprano was was wonderful. Plus. The other thing about Goodfellas is it was based on Henry Hill, and when he was in his final years, he lived in Sherman Oaks.

And I actually had a confrontation with Henry Hill outside the Fox Sports Radio studios, which is one of the most amazing, surreal experiences I've ever had. Uh And if you've not heard that story, it's rather long. Winded. But I don't know if we have time to get into it here, guess gun. But Henry Hill was banging. This guy was banging on the door saying, I'm Henry fucking Hill. I have things to say. Let me on the radio, right, So I had to go out. This is what I

would call in. Joe McDonald was doing a show at night in l A, the late Great Joe McDonald, the Big Nasty, and I would call in to promote my show on his show and just shoot the ship for a couple of minutes. But I went outside because I wanted privacy, so I went outside to do it. So I had to go outside, and and then this guy came up and said, hey, are you on the radio, like just like totally disheveled, looked like Bill Belichick, and uh, you know I smelled of alcohol. Hey are you on

the radio? And I said, no, I'm not on the radio. And I walked right by him, right, And then the guy goes back to bang on the door. So I do the phone call went down to the corner of Vent Turtles, Paul, but it did. The phone call came back up the street battle block and I have to Now I have to walk by the guy, right, I have to walk by the guy. Uh, he's not paying attention. Fortunately, So I get in and the guys I I'm fucking Henry Hill let me in the studio and I'm like,

oh whatever. So then I was like, I had epiphany. I said, wait a minute, this guy. I remember that Henry Hill had lived in that area. I had heard he was in the Witness Protection program and which is apparently not very effective. Everyone knows where you live. And he had been living there. And so anyway, I went in to the Google machine and I typed in Henry Hill current photo and he had made an appearance on the Howard Stern Show. And that was Henry Hill, the

guy that was outside. It was on Crazy the Mobster that they based Good Fellows on it. It's pretty weird. One of those weird, weird moments in life. Ricardo from Fresno. Right, the funniest part about that gascon is at the end of it. Yeah, So I came in, right, and now that guy's really getting Henry's upset because I I he didn't, you know, stop me, and he didn't pry the door open.

So now he's really banging on the door. So I went to my producer at the time, Gregg Bergman, who was now like the programmer to at ESPN Radio, and I said, hey, you go take care of this. That was funny, all right. Ricardo from Fresno says, who is your favorite caller? My parent doesn't say who their favorite children are, right, You can't say that each caller brings something different to the show. I love a good hollering

James snorefest. I like to go back and forth with Chris in Houston, or blind Scott or blind Sea Bass, or a funny line from Regina in Minnesota, or I mean, everyone's got their own little thing beer drinking Brian and a half pint each. Each person has become a character on the show, and they have their stick a lot.

Uh Andrea and Berkeley, she's got her star charts and that's always fun to check out and see what she's got about reading the stars and checking out the cosmos and yeah, so it's a it's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Some days I don't like any of them. Some days I hate all of them. Other days I love all of them. So that happens. Caleb in Meadville rights and he says, should I, as a Falcon fan, change teams? Do you think their hate do you think they hate their fans? Yes? I think

the Falcons hate their fans. I do not recommend changing teams unless the team relocates. So if the Falcons were to leave to like, move to I don't know, Memphis, then you were allowed or Birmingham, You're then allowed to pick a new team. That's what I did when the Rams left l A. I was a Rams fan. They went to St. Louis. I do recommend Caleb thou getting a radio show and having a large amount of people vote for your new team. It's a good bit Berry

from Nashville right. Since says Ben, what's the one thing career wise you would like to do but haven't done yet? I'd I'd like to give another swing on on television. I did it years ago, wasn't good at I'd like to do it given another shot. I think that would be fun. Pays a hell of a lot more money in radio. But other than that, I love the doing the overnight and having the artistic freedom to be on

late at night. And people have said, go do a morning show or an afternoon show and I wouldn't be a post it if it paid a lot of money. But I like I like what I got going on in the overnight. So I found my niche. I feel like I've found my niche and I'm I'm happy with that. But there's other things I'd like to branch out. I'd like to do other things. I I've always had a couple of gigs at any time because I don't like to put all all my eggs in one basket. Guest gun,

I don't. It's good. I agree. What about you though? You want to because you want to be the next what Kenny Albert? Your goal is to be Kenny Albert or Chris Myers or Kenny Albert's good because he covers so many events, like he goes from football. You want me to get Kenny on the podcast. I can get him on the putt. Yeah, that'd be great. We'll get him on. We could do that and maybe do dinner after. That'd be acceptable. If you can travel to New Jersey or New York, you can do that. You know, it's

all about the networking man. I don't. I would fly to New Jersey to have lunch with Kenny Albert. Yeah, of course, I think. Uh. I mean, I don't know about you. I don't know if you prefer winter or summer. But I would love to call an Olympic event too. It'd be a lot of fun. I mean, I'm okay with the Olympics, but I'm not like hard oh Olympic guy. Still, it's once every four years, man, It's it's nice every two years or whatever now in summer or winter or whatever. Yeah,

but I'm just that's a good gig. I'm surprised you haven't gotten in on that. I had buddies of mine that every four years they would go to some exotic destination around the globe and they would work for you know, the month or whatever it was. In the Olympics. It would be part of the broadcast team, whether it be radio or television. You know, I think still does that is Steve Mason, who used to work with Fox is the afternoon guy on ESPN in l A. But I

think Mason still does Olympic stuff. Yeah. NBC does a great job of it. And the nice thing I like about them is they actually promote with ends, so they use a lot of people that work on Comcast to work some of those other other events. So yeah, it's it's kind of tough not to crack, but I'd love to do it. Barry from Nashville. Wright's another one question. He says, how long do you think it will take you to understand every word from half point? Oh, Barry,

it's not possible. I don't have good hearing to start with. And she's John, dare you know? That's how she sounds. It's like the teacher and the peanuts. Wanton wont want, won't want? Yeah? Exactly? Well John, Yeah, all right, John the jailer from Allan Town, Pennsylvania. Tommy the sort of old stomping grounds, Ben and Gascon. Does every black hole contains singularity? Go ahead, Gisca, mm hmmm, I'd say yes

and say yes. You say, do you believe there are portals in the cosmos that will take you from one point to another like a pass? Yes, we're leaving from Mario Brothers. I believe there are those things, but no, none of the creatures on Earth, the way we're designed, our bodies could handle the amount of pressure to go

through a portal. But I believe they do exist. Yeah, but if black holes are consuming other black holes, then where does that lead you to Well, it's kind of like looking up in you know, starry night out in the Boone docks, you see all the stars and saying, what were the end is? What's at the end? Where's the end of the line on this There's gotta be an end, right, I can't go on forever unless it

can do well. I'll be encouraged to see what happened space program heading to Mars, Like when we we land a human on Mars, I will be extremely intrigued by how that goes down. Now, what about the conspiracies that the moon, the other side of the moon is where the crazy stuff is and they don't talk about that. Maybe we've had what was It's weird because over the last year there's been more and more discussions about UFOs

than we've ever seen in the past. Like it's always people bring up UFOs, they immediately dismiss it, but now more so than ever we talked about it in the open. Yeah, yeah, I know that's ah, that's true. But still society based on I guess it's possible to live to live through that. It will be the next maybe that'll be apocalyptic movie man, we have had alien contact. See if there was alien contact. How do you think this would go down? I'm gonna go full art Bell West the Rockies, Hello East of

the Rockies, Hello, International line, wild card line. Just imagine I'm in purumpt Nevada. How about this. Let's say the aliens came down. What country would they kind? What if they contacted like I don't know, Zimbabwe or something like that, Yeah, some some kind would the other countries, the big countries like China, Russia of the US, they would then say wait a minute, no, no, no, we're going to contact with We're gonna be in contact with the aliens. Is

there at NASA? And I guess it wouldn't just be nasked because it's a global thing. Is is there a plan guardrails or a boiler plate on? Okay, alien contact that somehow we can communicate with these aliens like e T with Reese's pieces? Um? Is there a way? Is

there is like an you know what I mean? I wonder if they have that, if the if the United Nations have a plan for communication with alien being I think only the United States and the Chinese would have that kind of technologically advanced I guess template, But it's not even about that. It would be like who what is the order? Like who gets to who's the lead? You know what I mean? I think it would either.

I think it would have to be us. Now, what if the Aliens are not bilingual and they don't speak Chinese, Russian, and America? What do you do then? Mathematics? Mathematics? Flashing lights? Possibly maybe flashing lass better? Hope it's not like a charging bull. Uh? All right, that was interesting. Mark in Renton, Washington writes, Sin says, why do men play the best of five sets in professional tennis and women play only the best two out of three? What about gender equality?

Go ahead, guess you're a tennis guy. Don't they flip that though from season of season? No, they've never done that, not not that I recall. Ever, No, I don't think they. I'm a big tennis fan though, Like the argument had always been that women not I don't like tennis, but women are always you know that petite. They don't they can't handle their bodies can't handle five sets. I I've always been a fan of especially from the gambling perspective,

because you have less variables to bet on and against. Well, wasn't it like when Serena Williams was dominating women's tennis, and she was just kicking everyone's as she was the biggest star in tennis. Wasn't the the counter arms? Well yeah, if she went against men, though, she might win two out of three, but she could she win three out of five. That was always the rebuttal in that in that deal, I hadn't tennis. Has never been a big tennis guy. I like golf more than tennis. Oh man,

no way. As a nicore, Yeah, it's just there's it's boring as fuck, not when you're doing it. I think tennis is boring to watch on television also, but I think golf it's frustrating and rewarding at the same time. Yeah, my long game is better than my short game. Not all of us can go to company paid trips to Newport Beach and golf on the coast. It was Data Point, not Newport Beach. Whatever. Yeah, well it's been nice. At least I won't be invited anymore, guest, because no one will.

No one will be invited. Those days are long gone. Like a house on the side of the roads would say yes. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, right, since says this week's been the thirty fourth anniversary of the first episode of alf I says, who was your favorite Muppet? Uh, you're in your youth fictionary? Finley fanatics excluded Jesus from Pierre Well. I was a big fan of Sesame Street. I love Snuffle Luphagus, that was my favorite. He wasn't on there very much. Oscar the Grouch was very cool,

Cookie Monster. Those are the big three in the Muppets for me. And then like in what do you think about the Kermit the Frog World? I was a fan of Fozzy Bear. I liked Fozzy Bear. I was a fan of that. It was some of the Muppets. What were your what was your favorite move? You were probably Burton Ernie, I would imagine, But all of those are good. What happened you had a bunch of those followers on

Twitter and didn't you like abolish all of them? Or no, no, no, Well we had Ernie the great old Piner whose abby his abby as what's his name would say, the guy sports dock Barry. His abbey was Ernie from the from Sesame Street. And then there was this battle because other people were jealous that Ernie got all the attention earning the Great Old Piner and then he finally quit the show.

But before he quit the show, the Muppet Militia took over and all these guys started these burner accounts with different Muppet names, and it was crazy, it was so funny. There's only a couple of them left, Herbert Bird's Foot, the Great Old Pines still left, and a couple of others. But that's it. Yeah, that's all. Yeah, alright, couple more here on the podcast, Eric in Binghamton, New York rites in with the little bell there. Dear Ben, I have

been listening since the weekend overnight days. Well, thank you for that. My question is, do you lose a little bit of your faith in humanity every time you leave the house and deal with people. Never underestimate the stupidity of others? Yes, Eric, Yes, I've tried to be more positive. You know, my wife's a good influence on me for that. But I do see a lot of ridiculous things. I will give credit though, to society. I see more dumb things on social media than I do in actual society.

Feel like there's been a there's been a crossover somewhere. I don't know when it happened. Where the really dumb things I see happen on Twitter and not as much in real life. I think people are usually nice to each other. They're generally nice to each other. When I go out, people are polite. They respect each other most of the time. Twitter, not soone's it is. It is a cesspool. It is the stuff on the back of the toilet at a truck stop that hasn't been cleaned

in thirty years. That is what that is. It is the It is the floor of a whorehouse after a Saturday night. That is what it is. There's no other way to say it. There's no other way to say it. Right, all right, that's it. We gotta put the baby to bed. Guestcot. Yes, I hear people chatting yet Uh must subscribe on YouTube Benny versus the penny um like you could type in, uh, your name, my name the channel I think it has like David gascoont media on it. But you'll tweet it

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