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and powerful podcast network, the I Heart podcast Network. The Fifth Hour, as you heard with myself, Ben, be a spin off of the radio show. Now. The radio show was on hiatus for a couple of days this week, so still was broadcast, but I wasn't part of the show because I've been on fur low. But we still do the podcast here. As you know. You you heard

the Saturday podcast when Lee hacks on Hamilton. Back on Friday, we had Leo Terrell, the fair minded civil rights attorney, talking about all the activism in the NBA and college football madness and all that good stuff. So today is different. We are just gonna be blow beating. We have the

mail bag later that we're gonna get to. And also because I believe in the bit Pop quiz, we've got that as well, and joined yet again for Better or Worse West of the four oh five David Gascott, who is deemed a partly necessary So who will strutting here? I definitely will. Then that's uh, it's good to know that that you can, you know, extract me from my my chains at the hospital and bring me. Yes, it's

like the old TV show The A Team. We broke you out of the looney Band and we brought you in here and to this barren, sterile, desolate radio station. What a hardship Gascon? Really? I mean you talking about the misfortune human sacrifice by David Gascon, The pain and suffering of having to do a podcast that is mau treatment is what that is? That is mause treatment. In between, I keep in mind, in one hand, I had my cell phone and I was, you know, texting you on

my deathbed. And then in the other hand, I had my MacBook and I was calmly looking as I see splits Apple and Tesla. Yes, yes, yes, I've I've made one plunge into the deep end of the pool to pay for for medical bills. Um, so this is this is my life, this is my life as we get ready for Well, I want you to know and I don't give you should never take stock advice from someone on the radio or a podcast. And I certainly am

not qualified to give financial advice. But I have been told by someone who would know these things in the financial world, who's a friend of sorts, that now is the time to actually sell half of your Apple and half of your Tesla. And the reason you do that because it's at peaks. It's gonna go down here in the next couple of months, right, because it's splay. It's gonna go down a little bit and then I'll go

back up. But then you sell now, and then you buy when it goes down, and then you sell sell again. But it's like the old saying with real estate is you never ever try to time the market because when real estate properties are up, then you got interest rates that are also going the opposite direction. So you know if you're looking at a refinance that you can't time

the market. It's not an exact science. Well, there are some indicators though that tell you that certain things are gonna happen because these things are cyclical, right, the the EBB and the flow of the stock market. I've I've gotten more into the stock market because you know, it's just gambling. I like Hambling's just gambling, you know. I for years I was and I still believe that really, if I had the money, I would be much more more into real estate. But it's so expensive to buy

property and all that. You know, I can't afford to be a real estate tycoon or anything like that. But you can't play the stock market. And I have gotten more into it. I see. That's one of the ways, Gascon, you should be proud of me here. I have evolved over recent years because before I was all real estate, real estate, real estate, real estate, real estate, real estate. But I have broadened my horizons here. That's what I

have done. I have prolificated, uh in the podcast, on the podcast, in the in the stock market world, I think you hate. I think you hit the nail right on the head. You've you broaden your horizons across the podcasting world. This is a this is a victory laughter. Listen, Victoria. It's a victoria lap. It's a victory lab you know the one thing that you're You're like Zeke Kelliott, and do I go through the a gap of the beat gap and you see daylight and you just run through

the whole. They're like z Kelly and hoping to get in the end zone for the Cowboys. I will eat my bowl of cheerios all the way to the finish line. And the one consistent is, uh, you have rotten your horizons. And here I am walking with you, side by side, pushing you, even sometimes rolling you in a wheelchair across the finish line. Yeah, are you done? I don't want you to pull a muscle. Here is stretching out to pat yourself in the back. Yeah, this is You're on

the up and up. And in a couple of days we'll put a little powder on your nose and a little makeup around your face and uh no, no, no makeup, no makeup. But yeah, I'm excited. Week number one's right around the corner. So NFL season is here, and who then knows of college football? Well, I'm excited. We are artists. Some people think we're not artists. Were audio artists. You remember that great quote by Andy Warhol back in the day Gascon and artist is somebody who produces things that

people don't need to have, like a podcast. So really we're artists. We're audio artists in the definition of the great late Andy Warhol. We are artists here, yes, yes, struggling artists and so we're always trying to new things and all that, which is which is cool. So I think we's just getting right into the meet. But and you want to you've teased this whole thing with the YouTube. We're not ready yet. We don't have the big announcement. We'll send this out on social media, yes, yes, yes,

of course. So I'll be available on social media, be able to be part of this in real time, and we'll we'll have some some surprises for us. So we're excited about that. There's an army of people, an army. It's a small army, but there's an army of people behind the scenes that are working here on this ridiculous plan for global domination. An assortment of very powerful people, a multitude coming together, unless that's not actually true. No, No, it's it's just maybe just one or two people. It's

about it. That's We've got motto kind of always be prepared and uh, it's about it man. Well, it's like D I Y right, do it yourself. That's the model we believe in. That it might be easier and more financially savvy to do it another way, but we believe in the D D I Y model. That is the way for us. So what's on the menu today? All right? So we have pop quiz, as I mentioned in the mailback. So let's start with pop quiz. Yes, alright, very good. This is a quiz of gascon. We will see how

he does here and here we go. So twenty of women would change this about their mother? What is it? All right? See how guess gun knows about the ladies and with they're into with moms um their fashion fashion? Uh that is I'm gonna give you half credit? Is this this fashion? Lady? Women would change their mother's hairstyle about that? That's interesting. I don't like the mom haircut, isn't it normally like when women get to a certain age they go with the mom like the shortcut. You know? Yeah?

Right that that seems to happen to a high percentage of women. Now, my wife's promised me she won't do that, but she could always renege on that promise. Yeah. I mean, of course here on the left coast, you've got people now just doing their hair with like green in it, or purple in it, or blue in it, pink. I've seen pink. I saw someone crossing the street and it was not the artist pink had pink hair just doing there.

I saw. I saw this younger woman on the boardwalk a couple of days ago on the boardwalk, on the boardwalk, and she had purple hair. Ben she looked awesome, Oh you're a fan of that. Well, I was a fan of it on her. I'm not usually well you liked. I mean, she could have had no hair and you would have been like, that's a good look, good woman, right. Not all women can have short hair, like you gotta really have a pretty face. That's a good point. You can't.

Not everyone can pull that off. But but that's the case. I mean, that's not a good example. You were going hubba hubba, So it doesn't really matter what kind of hair there. You were ready to have a candlelight dinner. Did you make the move on that person with the purple hair? I did not. I did not. Did you say, hey, I was a fan of Barney the dinosaur and I was a kid. I love purple. No. No, I think that probably have got me slapped. I think so. Yeah, Okay, alright,

U seventy of us don't do this anymore. What is it? It It was something that it had. It was a staple of not only American life, but life around the world. But now seventy percent of us don't do this anymore. Eat family dinners at the dinner table. Uh no, this involves financial uh financial stuff. Invest no right checks, all right, seventy of us no longer right checks. Everything's credit cards, credit cards, credit cards, credit cards, credit cards, credit cards,

credit cards. They don't want you to spend cash anymore because there's a coin shortage everywhere. I go, Oh, these are doing no please, we need credit with no cash or exact change if you have cash, that kind of thing. When's the last time you wrote a check, an actual physical check back In March? I wrote one for my c p A. Okay, Like I write checks maybe once

every two years. And when I write a check, since I don't do it all the time, I have to like go on my phone and say, all right, here's what boxes do I have to sign to make sure I don't fuck it up because I don't do it very off. So yeah, I'm in that do not do the check thing all right. Now, did you know that you can deposit a check via your cell phone? Uh? Yeah,

I assumed it. I didn't know that for sure. I don't know how to do it, but yeah, you can do anything on your phone, right, So, like if certain institutions, you have to endorse the check on the back side and then say four deposit purposes only with such and such bank, and you take a picture of the front of the check, then a picture of the back of the check, and then you upload and transmit it to your bank on your on your app. Then boom, it's good. There you go. My my dad had an epiphany a

while back. He was very excited when he found out when he had to pay bills, so he had to send it a couple of days early and all that and to be freaking out whether they get it. So then you can just show up to the bank and they'll automatically send the money from the bank. And this was like a big deal for my dad. You know, my dad's that didn't that much going on, so it was like a big deal. Was like oh, I can just go to the bank. So he would go to

the bank. I think he stopped doing that because he got lazy. But anyway, all right, Uh, these days nearly forty of people do this at the dinner table more frequently. Burp, burpitty burp. No eat on paper plates. On paper plates? You a paper plate, guy, I guess, guy. Na Um. Only if I get like the little pizza bites, like a little bagel bites, a little pizza bites, then I'll do on paper plates. But otherwise you pull out the

fine china. Yes, yes, yeah, I used. I used the plates also, but when I was you know, I'm married. That's why, Because if I've been back in then, when I was single, I would go to the cost guard to get one of those giant things of paper plates. Never had to do dishes done boom right there, just like. But I wasn't even eating at home very much back in those days, so I didn't really eat the Yeah, I eat a lot, but I didn't eat at home

because I was going to games and eating there. All right, A small village in Serbia, of all places, has his own version of this Philadelphia tourist attraction. Um, you've been to Philadelphia, right, I've only been to Philadelphia once. Yeah, I've been there once. Also, No, it's better than the Freedom Bell. Yes, the Rocky State. There was a small village in Serbia for some reason, has his own version of the Rocky Statue. That's kind of wild. Have you

did you run up the steps at the library? That? Did you make the movie? I was not running. Condition was in Philadelphia. I was way too intoxicated, and I got you. When I was in Philly, the weather was so nasty. I didn't want I thought I would have died if I had tried to, because I was slipped and fallen if I had tried to run up the Rocky Statues because it was nasty, like rainy, cold and brutal. I did not know what cold meant when I was

in Philadelphia until I went there. I went there during the wintertime, and it was so cold my ears were piercing like it was just it was ridiculous. I had to go inside and get some whiskey. Well you would

have gotten whiskey anyway. It reminds me of when I was in doing the TV stuff and I was at Bobby V's restaurant in Stanford, Connecticut and it was a very cold winter night, and I thought, you know what, I was gonna save money on like a taxi or in uber so I was gonna walk back to the hotel, which was like three or four blocks and it was it was cold, but I thought, you know, I can, you know, no big deal, And oh my god. I got about a block and I'm like, what the funk

am I doing? My god, this is horrible. I got to the hotel. My hat, my fingers were frozen, my toes I could. It was terrible. Ship. Yeah, and it was only like three or four blocks. That was it. Did you did you jog? Did you try to? Can't? I tried to walk quickly, but then in my mouth and lips get all chapped from the cold winter, you know, night air and all that. It was brutal, all right. When it comes to the workplace, nearly twice as many women as men feel guilty about doing this. Um do

do do? Do? Do? Do? Desk? No, Now, this is something I actually feel guilty about. So I'm on the side of the ladies on this one. Well, it's not showing up to work because you don't do that eight days a week. The correct answer, guest, and you have no answer. Is taking vacation h Yeah, I I do feel like I am not doing my part when I am miss shows. I to miss a couple of shows this week because of furlough, and uh, I do feel a level of guilt about It's one of the reasons.

I'll be on the radio tonight on Labor Day. And I had the option of not working, but I said, you know what, I can only miss so many days. It's football season now, the NFL is coming up in a few days. I gotta be there. Yeah, that's good. I mean, I don't take vacation days. I don't get vacation days. I don't here we go contain to work and press on. So well. You know, listen, there's different types of automobiles. You've got to be more like a

Ferrari or a Porsche or a Lamborghini. Right now, you're like the Glapi, the Toyota Camra, the you're the Chevy Spark is what you are. You've got to upgrade. You got upgrade? How did I go about upgrading? We'll make better life choices. That's the first better life too. All right now, all right, here we go pop quiz on average, a man gets this item every two years. What is it? You should know this, guest gun, because you pla posibly are a man every two years. Every two years he

he gets this, he buys us. Uh, he gets this or buys it, but either way he gets um bum bum he gets fuck. Is that your answer? It's an interesting answers. A toothbrush that's actually not a bad answer. The correct answer though, it's not toothbrush. That would be a belt. Oh he belt. Yeah. One thing about being a man, the older you get, the more shitty the gifts get right, ties, belts, all that kind of stuff. It's like, really, what do we what are we doing?

All right? Uh? The next one on pop, because's got a few more of these, and we'll get to the mail bag. We have an extended dance remix of the mail bag. In the mead fifties, a company created a toothpaste with this rather unique flavor. Is alcohol. That is actually, right, guest guy, a whiskey. There was a whiskey too that would have been right up your alley, Scotch and bourbon,

but whiskey there you go. So back in the fifties that's absolutely the only thing Worse than that is if they actually had a taste or a flavor that was like black liquorice, because that sucks. You're not a fan of the black liquorice. No, I'm not a liquorice fan. You don't like red liquorice. I don't need it. I'm a chocolate guy. I like the chocolate, all right. H Next one, people claim these are spot on twenty five of the time. What is it clear? Your clear your phone?

There spot on twenty five percent of the time? Yeah, um, wow, I don't know. I need a hint. I don't like what. Um, it's something that you would get. Uh, it's it's something in a kind of at the end of a meal you would get. I guess that that's not really I don't if I give it away, if I give you any more, you'll know. But it's it's a no, it's the fortune in a fortune cookie. Yeah. People think this is the same thing about um, like if you look at the uh, what's the word I'm looking for there?

Your yeah, horoscope. And I read something about this back in the day that and it's one of the ways that con men operate, like when they they say they're talking very vague terms. There's an art to it, like when you go to see um Shaney character, that's that's gonna tell you they can see into the future, that kind of stuff, you know what I mean. Like you'll go in there and they'll say, okay, uh, I'm sensing a contact from a relative with a first letter m

Um died painfully um. You know, they use these generic terms and then what what has happened is a lot of times. And the way this works is the people will fill in the blanks for them, right, They'll say, Hey, I see someone with a name M. And then you know, everyone's got a relative that has died that has a letter M somewhere or a friend somewhere along the way, right, and you get to a certain age. It's just like that.

And so it works much the same way with fortune cookies, like you apply it or but when you when you get a horoscope or you get you know, a reading of the other side or whatever, you end up connecting the dots for the other person or in this case, the inanimate object the fortune cookie, and those things are usually generic enough where they'll you know, you can connect

them together in something in your life. You know, so all right, by the time they're twenty three, just a third of Americans will have done this, just a third. You've got to do better. Graduated college now it's close. Uh,

get arrested. Just a third of Americans will have been arrested by the time the twenty It feels like those numbers are going up there with all the anarchy and the chaos going on in major cities across and minor cities across America for defending themselves, and people that are burning buildings not getting arrested. Or you get people that get arrested and it's like a turnstile and they go in and it's like that Grandpa Slimpson meme where he goes in, grab you know, puts his hat down in

his coat, and then right back out the door. All right. A new survey says of people do this when expecting visitors at their home. What is it that they do? They clean their house? Uh? No, I hope we've been more than They light candles like candles. Yeah, why would you light a candle? You're trying to get rid of the smell. Yeah, the roma brighten that day. Get little

vanilla up there in that action. Vanilla vanilla send him in. Yeah, all right, You're nearly three times more likely to lose weight over a course of a year if you do this. What is it? Do do do do? Do do do do do do do do do do vacation? Uh no. You diet with a significant other, like a spouse. If you're both in it together, science says you are three times more likely to lose weight. That makes sense because

you hold the other person accountable and they hold you accountable. Now, you guess you have multiple personalities, So do you hold the other personalities in your head accountable for your dieting habits? Yes, each each, each selfie I take, I I strap it to that personality more and after. So it's kind of like going through tridding cards. It's a little easy that. It's good that you are not unaware of the many

voices in your head. That is good. So you're not just whistling in the dark there, That is It's nice. All right. Uh, let's move on here. Five percent of people never leave home without this without this. You gotta have it, gotta have it. I always have this with me wherever I am. Wait, you said five percent, just five percent, But I'm in the five percent. I'm in the five percent TiAl. That's how I operate. Um do do do Do? Do? Do do do? Final answer incorrect.

Phone charger. Gotta have a phone charge you don't keep one in your car. That's what I'm saying. I have one in the car. But then I also got this battery backup thing for when I go off the grid, like if I go out to the boondocks somewhere, and this thing will charge my phone for like twelve hours. It's awesome. It's pretty good. Yeah, And so I if the power goes out, I got my phone charged and I'm good to go an emergency situate. I'm a boy scout.

You gotta be prepared. You gotta be prepared, all right. Now, A new report says that you're more likely to use this on Friday than any other day of the week. Remember last week we had was it cottage cheese? People eat more on Monday. Yeah, this is on Friday. People do this more than any other day of the week. Alcohol related, No, man, Yeah, I don't know. Use the A T M. Get some money for the weekend, get a little cash out there and all that. Right. Yeah,

that's pretty good. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, all right, let's move on. I got two more and then we'll get to the mail bag. As this is pop quiz. So they're in almost every home, every home now, but they first appeared in eighteen sixty five. What are they? Every home has at least one of these. Many homes have multiple refrigerator, refrigerator, all right, final answer, yes, ceiling fans. All right, do you have a ceiling fan at the

Casa Gascon there? You do not? Anywhere in there you don't have a because you're near the west of the four oh five marine layer. Yeah, you don't need that. So those of us east of the four oh five we need that. That's the difference there you're living a Yeah, exactly, by the way, I guess. On the refrigerator, the first

refrigerator was invented in in eighteen o five. The process actually was originally invented in seventy eight, and the more practical modern refrigerator that's that's used the version kind of what we're using now. The loose version eighteen thirty four is a long as time. Yeah, think about how big that was though, because before that, like food would go bad and be terrible and all and now you could keep food for longer. Think about how wonderful that must

have been. Guy from Guy from Germany, Carl van Lind credited with inventing the refrigerator. That's pretty good. That's pretty awesome. That's a fun fact. I love fun facts, all right. Last one on popcornts. Here we go. According to the consensus on social media, women would like to see more men wearing this what is it? What the fuck? Um wedding rings? Um, let's see men are wearing more of the suits. Uh no, actually, kind of the opposite of

that board shorts, shorts, short shorts. You guys, do women really want to see men in short shorts? I want to see quads. They want to see hamstrings and legs. Go watch some old NBA highlights in the nineteen eighties and you'll see in seventies you'll see short shorts, old school Magnum p I man, you got that also, Magnum prown short shorts? Oh god, no, you kidding me? Come on? Why not? Because I've got decorum? That's why, all right. I have fashion sense. I know how to accessorize is

what I do. And I know that's not a good thing. You go west of the four oh five. I could see you. I could see you wearing the short shorts. I could see that. Yeah, I think I do have a pair. I do have a pair of short shorts. I got some shocking. I got some royal blue short shorts that there are great for the beach. I also have I know it's along the same lines, but I also have a kilt, an authentic kilt. So that's a dress s gun. That's address the Scots Irish. They they

appreciate the kill. I'm gonna have to take you to a haberdash ary and get you some real clothing. Okay, I got some fun attire. No no, no, no, no, no, three piece suits. Got the style? You have a lot of fashion fox pas over there, I definitely do not. If someone had to match us up side by side on a presence and appearance, I'm gonna take that ten times at a ten. No. No, those people that would say that would need new eyeglasses. Get some bifocals there,

because clearly the eyes are not a working all right. Anyway, mail back, these are listener questions from people like yourself. We go deep into the mail bag. I've got my hazmat suit on Gascon and I am ready to do a dive into this and so so excited, so excited I hear it is alright, first one come from Kentucky Tay and Scottsville, Kentucky, Ben and gas cap. If we lived in a world where the top sports football, baseball, basketball, and hockey did not exist, what do you guys think

the top three favorite sports would be. It would be funny to hear a play by play of croquet, uh, says a Kentucky Tay. Well, Kentucky, Hey, we've lived in we haven't lived in the world. But before before the big sports in blowing up and blossoming in America with football, baseball, basketball, hockey, the most popular sports were boxing and horse racing. Not no, NASCAR was not at that time. It was actually was baseball, horse racing, and boxing. And college football was more popular

than the NFL. But I would say we'd have a return of boxing. That would be big, or you know, m m a, if you want to go down that road. And the whole racing is a tough one. I love betting on the ponies and going to the track and trying to hit the daily double and all that, but it's It's tough, man. It's hard to get people to watch because the races are only a couple of minutes, but there's so much lag time between races if you

actually at the track and uh so that's tough. But what else I know In New Zealand soccer for sure, uh. In New Zealand they've got rugby, right and uh and cricket that that has never caught on in America. Cricket. What rugby rugby is big in like the Northeast, right, isn't the rugby big in the Northeast? And that's a very popular sport it is. There's a map uh that that is available going back around the globe and the

different pockets of the country. And in one of those, uh, not as Beekistan, but one of the stand countries, there's like there's really like arm wrestling is the most popular sport. You know. It's like there's these weird, weird pockets around the world where there's some really strange, strange things. But my answer again would be horse racing boxing And I guess m m a if you were to say that that is a separate sport from from boxing. What about

soccer though Americans don't like soccer. I know. Yeah, all right. This one comes from Aaliyah in Maine. Aliyah and Paul, the power couple there from the great state of Maine. Good people. We hung out together in Boston back in nineteen at the Mallard Meat and Green at the Casking Flagging just across the way from from Finnway. She's actually from Brooklyn. She's a She's a saucy, sassy Brooklyn woman. She just says, living in Maine right now, she's like authentic.

They should make a sitcom about Aaliyah. They've actually done that about people from Brooklyn, and she is. She's authentic, unlike those frauds on television. She's the real deal, the real McCoy. It's a good name too, all right. So Aliyah writes in with with Paul, although she didn't mention Paul. So, if you could have any food with no repercussions slash side effects, what would the top two be? In with

what drink? All right? Well, obviously listen uh only uh you know, deep fried, the chicken fingers, the fried chicken sandwich, or at the top of list, the filly cheese steak. All that if you can eat as much filly cheese steak and as much fried chicken sandwiches as you possibly could and not have any problems. That would be great. As far as the drink, I'm not a hardcore alcoholic

like Gascon, so I don't know. You know, it's just like if you could drink sugary drinks and like I used to love soda, but it's bad for you, so I stopped. I like lemonade, it's not great for you. I I picked my spots on lemonade because there's a lot of sugar in it. But if you could use that stuff and not have any repercussions, then I would just have the diet of cheese, steak and chicken fingers and fries, and that would be great. I live a

great life. Yeah, brisket, like some good brisket. Brisket is a good one. Solid Um. That's that's really good. Um. I don't know alcohol wise, probably some whiskey or some scotch, but yeah, I think brisket would be in baby back ribs. Yeah, all right, And I don't understand the rest of the She asked, like some follow up questions, and who would you have it with dead or alive? That's Oh yeah, come on, you're better than Natalie. Slap you around by job by you alie. Alright, the first part of that

was good, the second part alright, Matt from Elmira, New York. Right, since it's been in gast gun, can you too, please settle an age old argument once and for all and let us know officially is a hot dog a sandwich or not? Jesus all right, man, So here's my position on hot dog. It is a hybrid. It is not a sandwich, but it's it's in the sandwich family. Do you know what it's like a taco. It's not a sandwich.

You could say, if you say a hot dogs a sandwich, you could make the same argument that the taco is a sandwich. I do not believe a taco is a sandwich. I My position is the taco and the hot dog are position in their own genre, their own little bubble. Guess your thoughts. It's a big question. Guess. I don't screw this up. No, I get what you're saying. There's no way that it's a sandwich like it can't be well in the definite, what is the definition of a sandwich?

The definition, I guess would be what two buns that are are two two slices of bread and and some meat in between, meats and some condiments, vegetables whatever. It may be a hot dog, you're not. It's not two slices of bread. It's just one that's cut open. Well it could be though if you cut the hot dog bun all the way through, and that has happened. I have made a mistake there where you cut it all the way through. That's what. That's not with intent though

it like you said, that's with an accident. I remember a couple of years ago this was didn't some dictionaries say that the hot dog is a sandwich? Yeah? I think so. But that's bullshit, you know, that's that's absolute bullshit. Is is what it is. And they're just trying to be polarizing all this stuff. But you know, uh, there's there's other people that have said it's not. And in fact, there was a story we talked about a while back.

But the newspaper in Louisville, the Courier Journal, Uh, somebody went back and they looked at the archive and the the Kentucky newspaper had apologized for learn to do a hot dog is a sandwich ten times between eight seven in So there you go. All right, So on this show we did not believe the hot dog is a sandwich. Right there your final answer. Sorry, Matt, that's the way it is. Chuckle Joe in Pennsylvania. I don't know if we want this one. If you had a genie, what

three wishes would it be? I think we'd all picked the same thing, internal health, money, and those are really only two you need. What more do you need than that? Those are the big two? You don't even need three wishes. Kentucky J. Writes in from Scottsville, Kentucky, not to be confused with Kentucky tay. See, you got Kentucky J. And Kentucky K. They're the power couple on Facebook. From Scotchsville, Kentucky. Ben. If you were unable to go on your walks outside,

what would you rather use inside? A treadmill or an exercise bike? Well, Kentucky J. This is an interesting question because where I live it is oppressively high. Uh. In fact, it's the hottest it's been here recently as we get into the month of September, and I'm talking like a hundred and ten type I don't mind walking in that but my wife thinks I'm gonna drop dead walking in that weather. So we have thought about purchasing a treadmill.

We used to have a treadmill, got rid of it because the wife hated the noise that it made when I was on the treadmill. So we're thinking about buying a more modern treadmill. But yeah, I'm more of a treadmill guy than an exercise bike guy. I as I used to love um. It was not an elliptical, but it was like it was. It was an in the elliptical family across trainer. Yeah, it was. It was that kind of I love that thing. And I used to go to a twenty four hour fitness in downtown l A.

And they had these machines. Was the only one I've been to that had those machines, and I was on that thing. I lost a lot of the weight originally just on that thing. And and it was great because I'd go on there and I'd spend like an hour and a half two hours just watching TV or listening to a radio show. And I didn't even realize I was working out because it was just so fluid. But

I was losing weight of sweating. It was good exercise. Well, get a good thing about a treadmill, though, is the treadmill? You can run, you can walk, you can go up the hill, you can change the speed on it. Bite not so much. Yeah, well you're you're a peloton guy, right, you're a peloton guy. No, you're not a pelotonic West of the four or five. I'm on the beach, you know, you go take the view there and yeah, again the narcissist comes out and guest gone, you don't. You don't

keep the ferrari in the garage too often. Ben, You're gonna get that thing out a little bit on the road. So balls fan Jimmy rice and from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says Ben and Mr West of the four oh five? What is your top three series on the boob tube of all time? That's tough, it's tough. How do you limit? Why if you go all the time? The Simpsons is still on iconic all time great show, The Simpsons. But over the years there have been shows that I I

love the Sopranos. I religiously watched the Sopranos Curb your Enthusiasm, which is still sporadically on I love Curb your Enthusiasm, the humor of the brand of humor. So those are those two would be in my top top three. And then the third one I'd have to throw some old school radio show in like w k RP and Cincinnati. Uh Fraser Fraser Crane spin off of Cheers. Cheers was

also a good show. Um. I mean, you can go down the list, man, there's so many, so many great shows that have been out there over these top three guests. On TV shows, I think Family Guys there, Family Guys a great show. Um, I'd have to go like if I went you know, Simpsons is good too. Um, I don't know. I guess just for game shows, I think Jeopardy is always a fun show to watch, especially because Alex, Yeah, Jeopardese gets a game shows. I feel like it's like

a different genre. Yeah, because like you know, when I think of TV, I think of scripted television. I think of what married with Children. That's a throwback that was good that would survive in today's climate. Uh no, of course not, are you kidding me? You know most of this stuff, there's a lot of stuff they did on the Sopranos is so you can't back even back then there were people complaining about it, but now there'd be even more people complaining about it. So you can't do anything.

Entertainment's been canceled, guestcount you can't be entertaining the comedy thing. I feel so, you know, I don't feel terrible, but I loved the uh, the comedians, and you know, the funniest stuff would be the racial humor. And you do that now and you're canceled. God can't do it, God forbid. Yeah, it's ridiculous, all right. Anyway, Uh, let's see moving on, Mr Stephen Luciano. He says to you and guest gun, do you guys listen to any international broadcast if so,

wish one? And have you heard of the app simple radio? No, I've never heard of it. I've not heard that one. Uh, Stephen, and I have listened to a little international radio. Um

when you know some unfortunately had to say that. But when there was like a terrorist attack in London, I would turn on the uh the BBC or the local broadcast there I could get on like the tune in app and then obviously I've done appearances on radio in New Zealand and I've been on shows in Australia, uh, and a few other I was on a show in Israel one time, so I've listened when I was on hold? Does that count? Probably not? What about you, guess gunn No,

I don't. Yeah. I mean outside of watching some stuff like on Sky News or BBC, I don't watch any kind of any kind of programming internationally. Alright, Yeah, you're all about America. You're all you're all about America. Yes, America's first America. That's a news network, isn't that? I think? Yeah? All right, let's see here. Blah blah blah. Mark in so Cal Hey, uh, if Ben has the Mallard militia, what does David Gascon have, guestcon? Would you like to

answer that now? Brian Finley, I was on his podcast last week. Um, it was It was fine, and he was annoying called me. He called me job of the hut at the beginning. Finley, Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna have to teach him how to do broadcasting. You asked someone on my day off, Gascon on my day off, I a lot time as an act of charity, and it turns in I go on this podcast and it turns into a target war. He's calling me job of the hut.

It's offensive to me. I'm doing the sixty hour fast a week to lose weight and this guy's calling me job of the hut. That make you feel I wanted to punch you. Take a crow bar and smack him over the head. All right, Anyway, do you have a fan club? Probably do not. Do I seek one. I don't need people kind of like foaming at the mouth for me like you do guys kind of like wanna shine your shoes. Well, what you're really saying is, no

one likes you. You're a one man band. You are you are unchaperoned, you are independent, You are in solitary confinement in your own little world. Yeah, no one likes you. I'm not insulated by the fanboys, the ball washers, the guy rub my shoulders and takes a village yet takes a village guest gown. We are doing broadcasting, not narrowcasting. We need a broad range of people to listen. I will teach you all about that, the synergy of broadcast.

Please do yes, it's very important. All right? Moving on on the mail back Brian and Boston writes in Brian says, I think my Celtics are taking down the people's team, the Clippers. You've gotta have a march here if they do. Would you come back to Boston? Of course I would, Brett. I love Boston. I did radio at w e I for a couple of years there and I had a great time, and I was offered a job and I considered moving to Boston, but because of the family, I could not do that. But uh, and I just love

the whole vibe. Boston is such a great sports town and so passionate about sports, and as someone that loves sports, I I just just eat it up. So yeah, sign me up, sign me up. I'll be back. And because the Clippers are gonna beat the Celtics, so we can have a Clipper parade in Boston and that'll be interesting to see who shows up with that. I know Blind Scott will be there because he'll just wander around loosely. All right, Clayton writes, since says, what are your favorite beers?

I think we've had this one before. I'm not a big beer guy. I'll drink like Heineken and things like that, but I love that root beer beer, which is not really beer, it's just root beer. And they throw alcohol in there, guest, and you're more of a whiskey bourbon guy, right, Yeah, I mean I like I like Highlight. It's a pretty good beer. Tell is good. Um, Heffan Wisen's pretty solid. A Guinness. Have you ever had? Um? Have you ever had a snake bite? Ben, I've never been bitten by

a snake? Have you ever had a snake bite? It's it's a concoction. It's uh, it's guinness and cider. No, I'm not I'm not had that's pretty too. I like Guinness. Do you like any of those? You're west of the four or five? So those local small breweries, which is based in San Diego, it's pretty good. Yeah. This is not thing a national one, is it? Fat Tire something

like good? Yeah? Yeah, pretty cultured. That's what happens. Like when you come west of the four or five, you just you just see the world in a completely different view, you know, like there's just more to look at and more to appreciate. Yeah, it sucks out there where you live. Not hard working salt of the earth, just good hearted people call those parasites. Hand down foot after foot you did. Your fingernails are covered in schmuck and dirt and all

that stuff, and it's just wonder all right. Jeremy writes in, says, what does Ms Mrs Mallard do when you're doing the show? And had she ever sat in? And as she sat in and listened? Uh, yes, listen, she has sporadically, Um, you sat in. I remember I did some shows in Vegas and we were we were together in Vegas, and she sat in with me on the show and and all that. She's been to the studio. But when I

do the show during the week, she's actually working. She works at the police station, is a nine one one operator. So she's doing her job and I'm doing my job, and so we're not here at the same time. So which is good because I scream and shout in the little studio that I have here in the home studio, and I would wake anyone who's here trying to sleep. I would wake them up by screaming and shouting. And I'm glad I don't live in an apartment or I'd

have some major problems. Some majors, all right, Carlos and Bang Bang Houston writes in, says, did blind Scott die? He hasn't called the show in a while. What and he he says that, and what is the origin of Real Talk. Well, I'll start with blind Scott. Now, blind Scott, he's got a few issues going on in his life and and those are personal of nature. I don't know that he wants to share those with the public, so I will refrain. But blind blind Scott has been in

contact with me, and I'm aware of his situation. Hopefully that'll all be sorted out soon and he'll be back as a regular contributor to the show. He still listens, but he's got bigger fish to fry than our show right now. He's got some serious things he's gotta do it. So hopefully goes will work out and he'll be back and and we'll have him on the show. Uh. And as far as Real Talk, um, I don't know if there's any real story. He just started calling the show

and screaming and shouting and all that stuff. And I like the fact that Real Talk worked in some original bits to the show. And he has offered guest Gon to come on this podcast. He there is a way I can contact Real Talk and I can get him on this show. If you want to interview Real talk. I don't want to interview him, but how about we hang out with how about five good minutes with real talk? Could we do five good minutes next week with real talk? No, non,

I get to make the decision. How dare you all right? Chris in Cocona, Iowa rites in And the only reason I know how to say my Cocona is because Chris demanded. I said, most people who are from a small town will name the biggest city next to the small town. What is closest to that? I don't know. I just know it's pronounced mo Cocona and there's like a big

There's apparently some caves there that are popular. Yeah, it's a small town in Ioway anyway, So he says, we all know, for a hundred thousand dollars you would endorse a gay magazine. But for a hundred thousand dollars, would you wear an Astro hat and shirt and never speak of them again? Yeah? You would, absolutely you kiddn me. I would move to Houston and work on seven nineties the Astro postgame apologies for a hundred thousand dollars, tax free,

tax free, HI invested? Can you imagine what you could do? Investing a hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, you can buy some air condition and get rid of those ceiling fans. Screw you. And then he says, by the way, my cocona is Indian for beer river or bear river, bear rip beer bear river, beer river would be more interesting interesting. Alright, John, With every sports canceled, this is last one. What is there to talk about? John? There is so much to

talk about. It is amazing. And I have been gascon somewhat able to dodge the torpedoes on the radio show over the last last couple of weeks here not Yeah, not any landlines. I've avoided a lot of. I talked about the actual sport part of it. Shocking. You're luckier though, that you're luckier that there's contents. Four months the tap dancing was challenging. Hundred and thirty four days without live sporting events. I'm talking about the major sports things. But

this is great, man. I'll tell you you, knock on, knock on wood. We won't have this happen again. Usually it's once a hundred years we'll get a pandemic like this. Let's hope that continues that trend. So whoever is alive a hundred years from now, we'll have to worry about it next um and so then we can brag about this, like all of us are. We will brag about especially those of us who do this dumb job for a livings.

And we survived a hundred third or four days because my entire career, All Star Weekend Baseball was the week that everyone took vacation, because that was the week there were two to three days without any sports. We survived a pandemic, and we survived virtue signaling. Well, we haven't quite survived that yet, guest. The virtue of signaling we have not the prol grabbing and all that stuff. We're not out of the woods on that, we're not out

of awards on that. And now hopefully hopefully people will will evolve on that and realize that just because you get some social media clout does not mean that this is a good thing. But yeah, I've never been a fan of pandering, virtue signaling and pearl clutching. Cannot stand it. And uh, I'm surprised so many people seem to enjoy it, or at least pretend to enjoy it, especially the pandering part, Like what are you doing it's just fordicuous. Anyway, I'm

getting carried away on that guest gone. Thank you for coming in. I know you did not want to come in, and I dragged you in here. You were pitching and complaining the entire time. But we thank you for that. And I will be back, even though it's a labor day, we will be back. I will be back on the radio show and doing a live original radio content talking NBA playoffs and the impending NFL season. Be talking about the Stanley Cup playoffs. Your Boston Bruins got eliminated the

other night. That's because I watched the Bruins. They got trounced. Yeah, that that was a beat down situation, is what that where? That was the the Bruins were like the pig being roasted at a traditional Hawaiian luau. Right, that's essentially what that was. A flam bay they were covered in isn't how flam They were covered in liquor and then set on fire. Is what happened for the Boston Bruins. Uh, do not for a get since uh, since you'll be gone for a couple of days and we get back

at this. We have Benny versus the Penny. That's right, the return of Benny versus the Penny on a new platform. I'm excited about that. All right, listen, have a great day to day. Thank you for supporting the podcast. It means a lot, obviously, Otherwise we wouldn't do this. And if you guys didn't download the podcast as much, I could have taken the weekend off. But you guys have been great, so I wanted to keep the podcast going,

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maybe it's not. But if somebody you know in your circle tells you that there's a good restaurant, do you'd be like, I gotta go. I want to try this, and you're excited. You think it's gonna be good because it's been recommended. Yeah, that's the reason why I bought that forty Tomhawk's teake for you was recommended. Almost made it through the whole weekend. We almost made it through the g D weekend, and then at the very end, in the eleventh hour, you bring that crap up. Shame

on you, Shame on you. All right, listen, I'm autie, I'm done. I gotta go. I got places to go. All right, have a great day today. We'll get you on the radio tonight. That's eleven o'clock in the West. On Sunday, two am in the East. That's Primetime, Afternoon Drive and Morning Drive globally, and we'll catch you. Then, be sure to catch the live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific