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and and again for better or worse. Joined by David gascon West of the four oh five as he checks yes, yes, loud and proud, happy to report for you, Ben that I said a new personal record. Uh. I've took upon a liking of of biking now and um took a travel a little wander down the boardwalk from South Redondo Beach all the way up to Santa Monica and back. Um it's not easy, but it was a a pleasant ride. Since we can't do too much in terms of working out, so I gotta get the cardio in somehow, some way.

You know, skins, nice and tan beards, vibrant cardio is great. Yeah. I like the fact that we're not even a minute into the the latest podcast and you're already humbling, bragging. God. Great, get a chance to talk to often, So I'd like to share a few things with you before we ramble on amongst this nonsense. So well, I got a big mail bag. My mail bag is bigger than your mail bag.

Big mail bag, but listen, My inbox on Twitter has been full of of your listeners that are objecting to the content that you have on your show, especially when you have updates that take five or ten minutes. You you, you are so you've got this neurosis? What No, I don't you are so upset? I am not. I am not. I am not upset. I'm just looking out for you. You're obsessed and I'm obsessed with I mean, the goal and the idea is to have not only good shows,

but to have better shows every day. Right, You're not You're as good as your last sale derailed by bullshit. I think it's incumbent upon me to let you know that, Hey, ship up, ship the funk out well again. I don't hire. A lot of people think I run the ship. I don't. I'm I'm a captain, but I'm not the lead captain. There are bosses that hire these people, and clearly the management has a great deal of enthusiasm for Brian Finley and you of course have a preoccupation with a fascination

and fixation. But they clearly think he's doing a good job because he's might go to go to guy. They don't even call anyone else At this point, no one else is permitted to step in at the news desk other than Finley, Like, you can't do it because you can't handle the overnights. De Seger has kind of been chased away by the Mallard militias, so he didn't do it. And deb obviously works during the day and Buyer would never come in and work be overnight unless he was

forced to. So who else is there? That's pretty much it. Yeah, that's it. I mean. So, so he's been delegated as the as the go to guy on the overnight and he thinks he's funnier than he is Finley, and uh, he's telling jokes and all that, and he's trying to, you know, chop it up with the guys and it's usually awkward and uncomfortable, and that's why he's he's gotten a lot of weird nicknames, Finley, and you don't have very many nicknames, but he's known as the butcher because

he butchers the show. Uh, he's noticed ned Flanders locally, docally do wonder Bread of Radio and Quaker Oats. Those are all nicknames Brian Finley has picked up in recently. You can't use Quaker Oats. That's offensive. No, that's his name. He's the Quaker Oats. The Quaker Oats has been canceled, hasn't it? Not only Goat's been canceled. I thought it was an antwer mima and uh Eskimo pie. I was always a fan. I was a kid. I knew that Eskimo pie was defensive. I knew when I was when

I used to bite into an Eskimo pie. So this is not right, this is not proper. I'm going to hell. I'm going to hell. When I saw the little Eskimo on the thing, Oh no, no, no, no, no no no no no no, say no, just say no. Uh. And Uncle Ben, I'm so dumb. When I was a kid, my name is Ben. I thought, oh this is cool, Uncle Ben Rice. It's my product named after me. Someday maybe if my brothers has kids, I'll be an uncle. And now I'm an uncle. Now I'm Uncle Ben. But

now I gotta give her of that too. It's amazing anyway, all right? Uh? We have be or not to be? Yes, we do a little little parody, a little satire, the ode to the Babylon b. This is where I will give you, uh five titles, and I need you to identify Ben first, if it's real or if it's critic is where you You got me in trouble because you sent me something from Babylon B. And then that cause? All right, go ahead, what do we well? First? Off

of the five titles that did not make the cut? Uh, San Francisco Giants higher Colin Kaepernick as head kneeling coach did not make the cut. That's pretty ones out. Progressive parents disappointed in how white their children are. That's not making the guy did not survive? No, um, how about this Chick fil a change his name to gender neutral? They file at not making the cut? Facebook to require masks in all profile pictures that to not make the cuts.

And last, but not least, Alexandria Cassio Cortez lectures homeless man on how fortunate he is not to have to pay rent to evil landlords. Did not make the cuts. So we go from those five on the Babylon B two. Is this the babel on B? Or is this actual real news? Ben? Uh? Disney Plus displays warning label that Hamilton's the play may contain positive depictions of founding fathers.

All right, so you're starting out is a good one, all right, because, like you say, anybody with common sense would say, well, of course not God, I'd like to think I'd like to give Disney the benefit of that that they wouldn't do this. But they have about. They've taken a knee of the mob. They're part of it. They're like hip with it, their hip with the mobs. So I think this is I think this is real, but unfortunately it is not not real just yet. It could be in the future, but it is fake. It's

courtesy the Babylon be So for one so far? How about this one? New York Times accidentally publishes gose Lane Maxwell's obituary ahead of schedule. Is that courtesy the Babylon b or is that real news? She's the girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein? Uh yeah, I think that's I want to go, that's fake. That's that's Babylon all right. You are one for two. See at that one? Right? All right? How

about that? There we go. I'm on fire now. Now this one's gonna be a challenge because this comes on the heels of our interview a couple of days ago with Dave Ruben. Study finds most people are just wearing masks to avoid c of of judgmental glares from people. Oh so yeah, no, that's that's definitely Babylon B. And that's correct. You got two or three that was that was easy, and that was that was a layup line. That was t ball. All right, that's the one easy

one for you. How about this one? Okay, ahead, by the way, two to one, I'm ahead, that's right. Uh TV hosts wife is willing to teach your kids about sex by watching porn with them? All right, now, this should be a Babylon BE story. But there's a lot of whacka doodles in television and in media in general who are married and working in the business. So I I'm gonna say that's legit. I think that's a real story that somebody was trying to say. How how I

don't know, progressive? They were something like that that they were they would hold hold there. It's like that that guy, what was the guy that would take his teenage daughter to the guyda cologists remember the music guy? Oh a couple. That was a real story. Uh so I'm gonna say this is a real ben You're three for four. Yeah, I'm about fire mallord on fire. Check this out out in the first inning. Three hits in a row. Former White House Director of Communications George Stephanopolis, who is now

a host on ABC. He's married to an actress. You're correct done that. Her name's Ali Wentworth. She went on a podcast a few days ago and said, you certainly can't stop kids from watching porn. Parents should consider watching it with them to explain what is actually happening. She's got two daughters, one seventeen and one fifteen, and she says, at least one time she'll why you with them in order to explain to them that it's the performance and

it's not realistic. Wow. Can you imagine when you were growing up, when you were learning about sex with most of us learned from porn. We were old school. You're older than me, guest. We had to go to like the liquor store and get the porno magazine. Now you can just go on the internet and you're you're just rolling around with porno. But imagine how awkward that. I can't imagine. I mean, that's that's something you got to

kind of go on your own on, don't you. You got to kind of figure it out for yourself and and what you like and what you don't like. You can't have your mom there you Oh yeah, oh boy? All right, so you're are you're you're batting a crisp and cool seven fifty right now, let's see if you can go to eight hundred one. Al right. 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. In an odd role reversal, woke executives got fired alright, so uh I woke? Oh wait, Let's see, it's very difficult to get fired being woke. You get it promoted when you're woke. That's the way this works. You get you get extra virtue signaling points and things like that, pandering points. Uh. But that doesn't seem like strange enough for the Babylon But I think the Babylon Bee would be more crazy. I

want to say that is real, Ben. You are four out of five, So someone is pushing back, and that somebody is red Bull. Red Bull dissolved. It's so called culture teams and two executives responsible for injecting wokeness into the company's policies. They have internal culture classes that were they're brought in and they put pressure on the teams to implement more support for Black Lives Matter and to

adopt a progressive political stance. Wow, good for them. Can they contact the people are red Bull contact the people that are running the Seattle government local government there and let them know that that's okay? And what about Portland? Oh yeah, Portland's yeah. But I don't know what's going on in the Pacific Northwest, man, I don't know what's going on there. I got friends there, I got people I love that live in the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, you've

got Jay Scoop. Jay Scoop complimented me a couple of days ago on a nice Twitter post to add uh at the beaches west of the four oh five, and I was like, Hey, why don't you get Ben Mallar to pay for a first class ticket like he did for you? You are so nice? Are you are? I just think one favorite deserves another? You do you not understand that you were hanging out with the Green Eyed Monster is what you're doing? I mean, you have such resentment and animosity. Well, I just think that if he

scratches your back. You should scratches. I mean, these are tough economic times and he foregoed money first before no, I told well, first of all, uh, he did not pay for a first class ticket person. I think he might have gotten upgraded to that. But whatever. But here's the here's the thing. Like Jay Scoop was such a big fan. He wanted this, and I was like, I don't do it, I don't need it, but he offered it, and I was like, I wasn't gonna go really otherwise,

And so he wanted me to be in Seattle. We hung out together and we had you know, a good time, was wonderful and all that. I think you should that. This was we are in July. This was eight months ago. All right, This is this is the kind of unrational whack job Gascon is right, and this is why you need therapy and mets. All right, you are so unsounded on wise that you can't get this out of your head. You're such a nutball that you're delirious and demented because

of something that happened in December of nineteen before the apocalypse. Alright, move on, stop being disturbed. You're sounding deranged, Gascon, is what you're sounding you're sounding just deranged. You know, I saved my receipts. That's what I do, and so I just here, do you know? I mean, you gotta do for him what he did for you. So very emotional, You're very emotional. Yeah, well, dude, Ben, four out of five. That's that's not bad. I gotta get tough for next

week on you. But good job closing out the Babylon B the B or not the B? Yes? All right, well, very very exciting here. So moving on, do we haven't Don't stick to sports? Or are we just gonna jump ahead to the mail bag that was not sticking to sports? We had I thought it was be not be or not? Are we changed the name of Don't six Sports to be or Not? I didn't realize that I didn't get the memo. I told you. I told you this two weeks ago on the air when we were doing the podcast.

I said I was making an audible and I was looking for the green light from you, and you gave me thumbs up, a pound the back. And of course, as it sounds now, you're probably just deaf airing me and worrying about what you were gonna say on the air. All right, well, let's get to the mail bag. Here we go. Let's get to the mail bag, and we'll see how agitated gascon gets. These are actual questions sent in by actual listeners to the show, like yourself. There's

a couple of ways you can do this. Most we'll just post on our Facebook page Wednesday during the week. If you follow the show page Ben Maller Show on Facebook, I will send out a link. Normally it's in the morning. Sometimes I forget it's in the afternoon. Sometimes I really forget it's in the evening, and and I just we just asked for questions. Good questions, fun questions, interesting questions,

questions we haven't been asked, original questions. If you if you really want to know something kind of about the show and you haven't been able to get it figured out, I'll try to help you out. We can get that on the radio show. I'll answer it here. And it's it's pretty simple. It's pretty simple concept. So Facebook page Ben Maller Show. But we also have the email address guess on which I guess you lost the past word too, so I'm the only one that has access to it.

Thank God for that. I can't believe you would lose a password. It's I haven't changed the passwords. Bad job by you. But we we have email, and you can send me an email Real fifth hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth hour at gmail dot com, so you can join join the show that way. Any chance I can get that password back, then really appreciate it. We'll see if you're on your best behavior, possibly we can do that.

All right, So these questions we start with Jesse for Pomona. Uh, he says, first of all, you wanted to compliment me Gascon. We're pointing out that Mookie was not going back to Boston because there was a rumor a week ago or so that that was going to happen, and he's now going to be a Dodger for over a decade, and he'll get a couple of rings. According to Jesse, I don't know how you grade the Dodgers a C minus

on that transaction. But finally, they were bidding against them, So this is what they were doing there, bidding against themselves. They could have gotten Mookie bets for even less if they had played their cards right. Unless, of course, he turns into Manny Ramirez of a few years ago when he got white hot with the Dodgers, and Mookie Bets bats over four hundred in a sixty game schedule. So you're calling Mooki a cheeter, is what you know. I'm not calling the cheater. But Many was on. It was

feminine hormones when he was hitting four hundred. I loved Manny. I was, You're not gonna find a bigger Manny Ramirez. Fan I. I was in New York visiting my brother and I was going into Penn Station when I looked on my phone that Manny Ramirez had been traded to the Dodgers. I think it was two thousand nine. I I screamed with excitement. I said, no fucking way, I said, this is great, and man I was so bummed out. I was on the East Coast because if I had been in l A, I would have been at his

first game as a Dodger and all that. I didn't get to go because I was I was traveling, but that would have been cool. But I love Manny, but he was changing. He was changing anyway. Get to the question from Jesse says, my question is what what is with all the drops of all the drops you have on the overnight show. What is one drop you wish they were delete from the soundboard? All right, So Jesse, this is easy, all right. And it's not because it's not a funny drop. And it's not because it's it's

not good for the show. It's because people are pussy Willows. So Ed from Spokane called up maybe a year and a half, two years ago, and he made I think he had said something. And if he's either on Twitter or the phones, I forget which one might have been on Twitter, but it was something about Phil Niekro and Joe Nikro. Okay, so I I had a funny singer, had a funny one liner about Phil and Joe Nikro

and it was cut up and saved posterity sake. And every time that that has been played on the air, someone who doesn't listen very closely, someone who doesn't apparently know the history of baseball and the Necro Brothers right doesn't understand that, will inevitably say, oh my god, you're a bigot. I cannot believe you said that on the air. Maller, Oh my god, we're gonna get you. I'm gonna contact management. Yeah, So that's that's the one. That's the one because not

that I don't think it's funny. I think it's funny. I think it's good. But the problem is people don't listen in and they only hear a little bit of what you say. We've preached about this, I've I've mentioned this many times being in in the radio business and how people here and they really only remember about seventeen of things you say. And you know, so that's that's just the reality. And often words only convey about seven

percent of what you're trying to say. A lot of it's through facial expressions, which doesn't work on radio obviously, but but tone of your voice. Tone of your voice is big. But um, yeah, So that's the one. And if people don't believe you, you can always reference television. That's the reason why people take cue ratings, and you have people that get rated because of their looks. And the reason why is because more often than not, people are only paying attention to the person on camera, not

to the message itself. That is true, That is true. Absolutely. Well, it's like, remember the political game changed. Richard Nixon, didn't he lose the elect to John Kent, John F. Kennedy because of the because it was appearance right, that he was disheveled and and that was the theory that he didn't look good on TV. They people voted for the better looking person, which is Kennedy. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at

two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. Alright, Kyle in, by the way, who's who's better looking? Between Trump and Biden? They're both kind of not easy on the eyes there, So I think that's a that's a wash, right, Are you grading anyone that's past seventy under look? Well, I'm just saying though, if that was a factor on what people are going to vote for, very people like you west of the four oh five that are vain, that's a that's a toss. Like Biden's he's a little out there.

Trump's a little out there. I mean, they're both at because they've got nice suits on, they got good ties, they got a good approach, and how they're presented on television. Alright, Kyle in sun an Tonio in that area, He says, I've been listening to show since at least twenty two or twenty three. Wow, thank you, Kyle, it's almost twenty years of service. Uh, you've had a whole bunch of

great crew members. I don't know about that, he says, excluding the current squad, so as not to hurt anyone's feeling. If you had to put together a COVID nineteen emergency backup crew, whom would you choose? All Right, So this is an interesting question. There's a good question. I would say, obviously Looney because I love to just goof on Looney and he gets the joke and he goose on me, and I think we have a good rat a tat tat between us. I put Luney on there. Uh. Former producers.

I enjoyed working with Miranda Marino. She was fun, she was cool. Uh you know, she kind of got it and I had a good time as with her and Julio, who was one of my producers. Those those guys that would probably put it in the part. See now I'm offending Bergman and some of these other guys, but I just, off the top of my head, that's what I'm going with. Um, I'm trying to think who else I would throw into that that bag. We've had some some real, real characters

that have been on on the show. But I guess that I go, Julio, Miranda, and Looney some combination of that. Yeah. Good. You thought I was gonna pick Felix. I love Feelix. I don't haven't heard from Felix, and I don't know what's going on with him. I thought maybe your technical director would be Jake. Oh, stay away with I love Jake too, and that's it. I'm done. Yeah, but I see,

I don't. I still see Jake all the time on social media, so for some reason, I still think of him like I'm still working with him even though I'm not, and I haven't worked with them in a long time. But I see when I used to go to games, I see Jake's the engineer for the Clippers and the Kings and all that, so i'd see him out there, and uh yeah. So it's I don't like, I don't see Miranda. I don't have any contact with him Randa.

I guess I do have contact with Looney. So that's that's kind of like doesn't really fit with it, but that's the answer. R J and San Antonio. We're big in San Antonio. Guascar On on the mail bag, he says, cake or ice cream? Go ahead, guest on cake or ice cream? Ice cream for sure. Wrong answer. It's cake frosting. It's cake with good frost moist cake with good frosting, ice cream cake, ice cream cake close, but a well made cake. I will frosting just melt in your mouth.

Now you are you are a fan of the especially during Thanksgiving Kings Hawaiian Yes, yes, yes, love the Kings of Wine rolls. They just put a bunch of sugar in the roll. What they do they do make an amazing cake. It's called a paradise cake. And they also make a paradise cheesecake delicious. What is a paradise cake? Is it just bread? Is it just the bread and all that I have to go into description filled with

weed or something like that. Okay, Anthony in Van I shout out to the eight one eight says in southern California. That's east of the four oh five. By the way, guest, so you don't like Anthony because he's east of the four or five. I couldn't find it on a map if you could drill any s strows player, who where

and what pitch? All right? So this is obviously you think I'd say al Boovea or that guy with the punchable face Alex Bregman, but my antswer is not bregmant and not out to of a. The guy at the top of my list is George Springer because that guy hit a couple of dagger home runs while cheating for

the Stros in the Seen World Series. So I would like to drill him right between actually between the numbers, but just above the numbers and between the name plate on the back of the uniform with a nineties seven mile fastball. Bam, just like that. Not him in the head, but right there. Boom done. No, I think you go the other way. I think you play. If you play a nationally park, you dot, you dot justin Verlander in

the rib cage. Tough to do because there's not a designated hitter in the Nationally gets well, yeah, that's just for this season. So no, it's gonna be permanent. They're not. Pitcher is never going to come back to hitting in the Nationally. It is over, don't you. It's like when you vote for a limited tax increase, it was ballad. They never go away. They never go away there they're there forever. That's how it works. But back to your point or your question, you dot the guy in the

rib cage. You turned him into what Hanley Ramrez was a few years ago when I think the Dodgers played the St. Louis Cardinals and he was hot to end the season. All of a sudden he got hit with a fastball in the ribs and could not hit his

weight to save his life because he had bruise ribs. Yeah. Well, I I've actually been told over the years some ballplayers that the worst is when you get hit in the wrist of the hands you gotta you know, when you're swinging the bat, you need your hands and your wrist to hold the bat properly, and you're you have no power after that, Like you might be able to hit, but you're gonna hit singles. You're not gonna be hit with any kind of power. You have no slugging ability.

So if you really want to just hit the hand and the wrist there, that will really screw him up. So anyway, all right, uh, I'll have a handbook in a future podcast on how to damage baseball players with pitches. Alright. Pierre from Springfield mass says, Hey, Ben, it has now become a parent that Mookie Betts has decided to wear Dodger hat at his induction into Cooper's Town. Let's hope he does end up in Cooper's town. There. We've been plenty of players, Pierre that have started great and then

fizzled out. We hope that Mookie is not one of those players. That being said from Pierre's email, he says, uh, he says it's okay. Is it okay to root for more than one team? That he says it is okay to be for more than one team? A k A. Dick and Dayton. Can I order a cardboard cutout of myself to ride shotgun on the Dodger bandwagon? And how much will it cost? Uh? Well, those are what are they?

A couple hundred bucks guests going right the Dodger unless it's for your dog, and then it's a hundred forty nine for your dog. Could you have imagine pissing away a hundred and fifty bucks for your fucking pet? Yeah, they know though, the people that run the Dodgers. No, I have a dog. I love my dog, but I don't love my dog that much. But some people do.

And they you know that's you know, if you don't have kids, that they're your kids, right, you're part of the family, and you're gonna you're gonna treat it like your kid, your kids. If your kid had an opportunity to have a cardboard cut out of the dodge, again, you do it. So if fight Oh has it wants one, or you think wants one, you do that as well. So they're they're expensive. I can't just imagine, just imagine

Giscono like a year ago. If you said, all right, let's turn on opening day and there's a bunch of cardboard cutouts from video game crowd noises, welcome to the Twilight Zone. I'd rather be South Korea. Right. Didn't they get popped for having sex dolls? Yeah, they had sex dolls.

They had stuffed animals and all that. All right, Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, writes in says, by and if you invited helmet man angry Bill and marked the full name guy to your ugly Christmas party, your ugly sweater party there for Christmas, who would you worry about the most? All right? So this is a good question. Now, helmet man, I love he's pretty harmless. I hope he's okay. We haven't heard from him in a while with all

the roaches crawling around and all that stuff. Hey, Ben, can I talk about the orioles? I love that um Mark the full name guy has threatened me with justifiable homicide. He got banned for the show from the show for a long time because of that, so that that's not not particularly good. So he has actually physically threatened me. But I'm not gonna pick him out. He's calmed down,

he's mellowed out. He moved to Oregon, um and so he's I just found a lady friend, So he's more like lovey dovey Marked the full name guy now and he's got the harmonica, so I think he's pretty harmless. Now, I'm gonna go angry Bill. Uh, angry Bills. He robbed a bank in his past, and he says a lot of creepy stuff. And I've never trusted anyone I've met from Nutley, New Jersey, So I'm gonna I'm gonna go angry Bill on that list. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week day said two

am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia writes, and he says a question for David. When Brian Finley drives to Montana to get with your girl Tammy, will you get revenge and go after his playmate? Mom No, I can't do, mom No. If you want to get revenge and a guy like Brian Finley, you take his dog and you just keep the dog. That's what you do because he he is much like you with Bella. He absolutely adores that little dog. I think, yeah, that's

what I do. I just keep the dog. Wow, I keep the dog. In a angry bill with the dog? Is that what you're gonna do? I don't know what you're talking about. I'd prefer not to have your elaborate on that, but I just keep the dog. Okay, Um, that was bad answer. Matt in Mansfield, Texas says a great conversation with the legendary Dick Stockton in a recent episode of the Fifth Hour, who is the top lead television play by play guy, not analysts, not an analyst

in any sport right now now? He does point out, thank you man for not using the term best. He said top because best means as good as all the rest. So thank you for that, Matt. Good job by you to me. This is easy it's al Michael's calling a big football game on a Sunday night. Al Michael's it just feels like a big game. Now, some of that is nostalgia. I still believe al Michaels has a lot

on his fastball. So I'm gonna go Al Michael's calling a big NFL game, you know, Patriots game against too, you know, Steelers or something like that, A lot on the line. It just means it to me. It means that's that's the most important. What about what about you guests? Man? I think I'd go away from that and go Kevin Harlan. I'm I'm a big to Kevin Harlan, especially when it comes screaming into the microphone. I just because he's got the range two, which is nice. So you can go

from from football to basketball. Um, I don't care about how Michael's did. Baseball is played by play guy for the Giants back. I know, just and he used to do Sunday night or Monday night baseball. Now Michael's are usually original. One of the original voices of that he did? Didn't he do the nineteen ninety World Series? I believe that is true? Double check, but that sounds right, So you're going, I'm going Kevin Harlan. I thought you would be a Joe Buck guy. You didn't pick Joe Buck

And alright, Fats in Philly rights. Since it's Ben being a football fan is myself over the years watching football. If you were a quarterback with a Swiss Cheese offensive line, I like that, what player on defense would you be afraid of on a third and long? And he said, in no particular order, my list is Greg Lloyd, Charles Haley, Reggie White, and lt Well Fats. There's only one acceptable answer. I think we're around the same age Fats. That is

Lawrence Taylor. I was a kid watching a Redskins game. That's right, that's offensive. They used to they used to be a football team in Washington called the Washington Redskins, and they won a bunch of Super Bowls and all that. So I was watching the Redskins Giants game. You know my mom, I was getting into sports, and my mom would, hey, Ben, there's a football game on. I got all excited. I

got to watch the football game. And I still remember, I'm still traumatized, all these years later of seeing the image of Joe Fisman's leg twisted into a pretzel by LT. So I'm going Lawrence Taylor. I don't think anyone I'm with all due respect to Haley and Reggie White was the Minister of Defense and all that, it's LT. And I'm sure there's somebody before that, like in the olden

days that I don't I don't really know. I didn't watch I I watched those old NFL films videos and they talked about what was the guy, the baddest guy in NFL history, the biggest I played for, like the Cardinals, you know what? You know what I'm talking about. I gotta think I gotta google that now. Yeah, he's an old story in the sixties. He's like the dirtiest player in NFL history, although some would say the dirtiest player in modern NFL story was Rodney Harrison of the when

he was with the Chargers and the Patriots. But Conrad Dobler is the guy's name, Conrad Dobler. You ever heard of Conrad Dope? You've never heard of Conrad Dobler. Look up his story. The guy would like gouge people's eyes out and grab their junk and twist it and like just disgusting things. That you're getting a whole bunch of trouble for right now. But that was just that was

just his yam. I didn't play for the the St. Louis Cardinals back in the olden days in the NFL, but Rodney here's I got a funny Roddy Harrison's story. So I had a buddy of mine when I was working in San Diego, had a TV guy who would hook me up with sideline passes. Now it's very difficult to get one of those, and I radio guys are not allowed to have them unless you work for the

team on the broadcast. But I had a sideline PA and I had access, full access, full rain, and I went to a couple of Chargers games and they were terrible. It's like the Ryan Leaf hears of the Chargers and I'm on the sidelines. So playing the forty Niners. It was Jerry Rice's final road game as a forty Niner before he left, and I'm on the forty Niners sidelines and the play would end right, it would be like one.

It was like one, one thousand, two, one thousand through in thousand and Rodney Harrison several times like a human torpedo after the play it ended, came running in on top of the pile and and what was the what was the forty Niners coach? There was the guy he's on TV now, Steve Marucci was a coach at the time, and he was upset. All the Niners were screaming around. My god, kick him out, throw a flag, and they didn't throw a flag, and he did it like several times.

He just came in there like a human torpedo. Um. But my answer is still Lawrence Taylor. What about you guess on anything, just for the sake of being different, I'd probably like Bruce Smith or ray Lewis. Yeah, you get ray Lewis and he killed somebody or at least

knows who did and was part of that. So yeah, I mean Reggie White though when you looked at old tapes of him, the head slap, I mean there were there were certainly a lot of guys that when they got past the right or left tackle, but head slap to get to the quarterback was pretty awesome. Yeah, that's

that's well. Raider fans by old school Raider fans, uh would say it was the guy's name, Remember, well, Jack Tatum, right, was Jack Tatum against that Darryl Stingley, one of the unfortunate stories in NFL history where he landed that hit that paralyzed Darryl Stingley. But Jack Tatum is a little before my time. So so there's that. Let's see you

what else do we have here? Russ in Evansville says, since ninety of FBS schools that play football rely on that money to support the rest of their athletic budgets, or FCS Division one Double A schools who are relying on revenue of their one or two games against the big boys UH this year do not play and have

no college football this fall or spring? Do you think Ben and guests gone that a number of f c S schools that's one Double A and Nonpower five D one, non Power five schools like Conference USA and the MAC will drop football in two because of this. Alright, So Russ, listen, first of all, you're not off base. I mean there is going to be collateral damage. There is You mess with the money and it's going to have an effect.

And so I would think that I don't think conferences, but there will be school I would say there's gonna be multiple colleges that will drop football because of this, because of what's going on right now, if they can't get those money games. So I'm gonna say yes, I don't think it will be an entire conference, but I think it will be a couple of teams in multiple conferences that will do this. So my prediction is that

does happen. What about you guess I was gonna say with the television money that's available, I don't think it will happen with the MAC or Conference USA, especially because don't forget, when you get later on the season, you get maction. Maction is usually like you know, conference games on a Tuesday or a Wednesday night, and that's on

usually showcased on ESPN. So just for the sake of that, with the ESPN money, and don't forget not only to get ESPN but ESPN three, so the digital platform, there's still money coming out of that that the universities get. So I don't think any Division one program is gonna fall. But yeah, Division one, double A, yeah, I certainly see that there are I think there are six truly independent college football teams like Notre Dame is the most famous one,

but Army b y U is isn't using independent. Yeah, New Mexico State, I think is independent schools like that. Like if you're New Mexico State, for example on the Yankees, what's your move there here? And you're in Las Cruces, New Mexico. You don't have any of the money coming in, Like what's the move there? You just pull the plug or you figure it out? Yeas to one and you mask you Mass is another one, like anythink they're on that list and anyway we'll find out. We'll find out.

But I believe there will be some of those schools that will go bye bye and uh say audios, Uh, let's go. Stacy from Ottawa, Canada are Canadian brothers and sisters, right, so and says, if you could be reincarnated after death, which pro athlete would you like to be? I think we've gotten this question before, but I'll answer it this way, Stacy. I I'm going big. I'm going Babe Ruth, which I The problem is you gotta live before technology really took

off in America. So that's a little that sucks. But Babe Ruth is like the biggest star and they used to write these amazing stories. He was like a mythical figure. It was like a lumberjack. Babe Ruth. The way the media reported him. And I remember the late great Burt Sugar.

I love that guy, the boxing historian, but he was a sports story and he used to tell stories about how when the Yankees would travel by train and the media had one car on the train and the players were in the rest of the train, and but to get to the food car. I believe I'm paraphrasing this, so don't hold me to him. But the way that Burt Sugar I remember the story is that the food car was in front of the media car, so the players had to walk through the food to the food car.

They had to walk through the media car. But on one road trip, and who knows who the Yankees were playing, Babe Ruth. The legend is either he was being chased or he was chasing women, but they were naked. The women and him were naked and ran through the media car. Not a single member of the media, not a single member of the media reported that Story's good. Didn't happen. That's good. 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. Have here any me any money? Well, I I guess other than Babe Ruth thou just the answer Stacy's great, I guess modern athlete Tom Brady guy, but he played New York City and that you look at his list of accomplishments off the field, they are more impressive than his accomplishments on the field. Derek Jeter, Yeah, Derek Jeters. Who

did I say Tom Brady? You did say Tom Brady? Yes, Oh, I met Derek Judy. I think if I had to do one real quick, I think it would be Patrick Mahomes. Given the fact that NFL players are coddled a lot now, they don't have the extensive workout in the off season that they have in years pass and you can't hit quarterbacks anymore. And this guy, you know, the contract he got is one thing, but the content, I think the second contract that he gets when they renegotiate this thing

is going to be enormous. But either way, quarterbacks don't get touched nowadays. That is true. Well, yeah, but you're hoping that Mahomes is the next Brady, But Brady's already been Brady. So you know for sure that you're getting the full package. Travis and Roseberg Oregon. Right, so, and he says, who wins a West Side Story style dance off between the Finley Fanatics and the Muppet Militia. Well, listen, the Muppet Militia is real. The Finley Fanatics is a

figment of Brian Finley's imagination. That being said, I think Finley has some mean dance moves. I think he's got some mean dance moves. What about you? Guess you wanna? I think that I'm not gonna dignify that question. Well you don't have a fan club? Are you jealous about that? No? I just really finally question offensive, And I think is if you're like to cancel the question? Are you that that upset with Travis? Is that I just don't think it's a good question. I see Brian Finley like if

they made a remake of Napoleon Dynamite. I see him as that kind of danswer, you know, like the goofy, nerdy white guy as if yeah, like the white Steve le Sure, yeah, alright, Jordan's in, Everett writes, and he says, what do you think about high school? Is moving? The fall? High school football season to March in April. Um, well, we talked about it. You said January, right, January, California, Georgia's high school guy. You you know, if you were

into high school football, that's like in your blood. You know, you live and you eat and you breathe it, and you know that's yeah. But what if you're what if you're one of those kids that played multiple sports, like you went football to basketball and then basketball to baseball. Now you can't do that anymore. Well, you just played basketball on Wednesday, you play football on Friday, and you

play baseball on something. Maybe they're done there, you go. Uh. Andre in Nashville says, hey, Ben and Gascon, would you, gentlemen, be in favor of the runner on second rule from Major League Baseball if a game goes into extra innings for one season and the future. Andre says he loves the podcast. Uh, that's what I'm not in favor of. I think it's dopey and dumb. It's like a little

league or softball type thing. I think that's ridiculous. And because all you're gonna have is you're gonna have if a team doesn't score on the top of the of the tenth inning. In the bottom of the tenth inning, you're gonna have a team attempt to bunt to get the run of the third, so there's one out. Then the team on the mound is gonna walk the next

two batters to load the bases. So essentially, you're setting up anytime the road team does not score a run, you're setting up a situation where you're gonna have bases loaded one out, and then that's where the game is gonna be decided. Agreed, There's nothing on with a game of baseball. When you look at the clock, you see the average game time of a game Major League Baseball.

It's the same with the NFL. It's even it's probably even fashion some college football games, since those with commercials tend the last three, three and a half or four hours. I don't get where people are bitching the moment in about Major League Baseball. The lengths. Well. The other thing too, that's chicken crap. The other thing that's chicken crap is the fact that nobody watches an entire NBA game, nobody watches an entire NFL game for that matter of fact.

The most popular thing now for many people and I'm in there is like the red zone. I make my own red zone channel. Sorry, Andrews Siciliano, but I make my own red zone channel where I kind of do my own thing. Uh most of the time. Occasional I'll watch his red channel. Uh, you know, whatever is a red zone thing. But I I do my own thing. But I'm not watching one game from beginning to end,

right from soup to nuts. I'm not doing that. Yeah, alright. Uh, Ross in Michigan says, now, Ben, you say you were a big fat guy with no game or money. How did you manage to pull down your wife because you were really punching out of your weight class. Uh, well, that is true, Russ. I don't really know how that happened. Clearly it was a moment of weakness by by my wife there obviously, But you know, you have to ask

her that question. I don't. I don't doesn't have any real game there when I met her, I didn't tell her worked in radio. I think I had the website. I had my my rumor blog, Ben Mallard dot com, and I was gonna I think I told her I did like some internet thing or something like that. Well, didn't you say that she also goes to you first and then came back later. Yes, yes, I that is true. I I had made contact. I wanted to go out with her, and she rejected me, and it turned me down.

And then you know, guess what. Somebody rejects you, all right, you you know what you do is you just I move on. I'm like, okay, I'm I'm good. Most you know, I learned early on. I didn't do that, but I at some point I learned, all right, somebody rejects you, kind of move on. But she then contacted me like she a couple of months later. So then that's how I would not have contacted her again, and uh I would all right, that's it, you know. And uh so

it was several months later. I still reminder of that everyone. So I said, you know, we could have been married longer if you had just you know originally, uh, you know, taken my my my move. So but but that's the answer to that. Rico from Denver Rico used to call the show, but he has not called the show in a while. He's a he's a character. When he calls Enrico from Denver says, who is willing to sign a release?

Form to go to sporting events. I know, I am Rico says, because I know that COVID is being overhyped by the media. Well, Rico, I think to answer your question, I think a lot of people, more than the media would like to believe, would be more than willing to sign a release form a waiver. When you go to a game anyway, you get a waiver on the back of the ticket. You know, you your balls can enter the stands and you have to be on your toes at all times. And they're not. You know, they rely

they released the teams from liability. Now those things don't always stand up in court. Uh, but yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely would. I think a lot of people would. I would be willing to go to games. And what about you, gasking man, if I was aware of mask in a game, that would probably only be for a hockey game or for for baseball. Like I prefer watching NBA Action and the NFL or college football at home on television. Yeah really, Yeah, the football is more at home for sure, because you

want to watch the other games and all that. Yeah, in the NBA, just the angles unless your court side or you're sitting at half court. I really don't you know. The the angles just make it a little awkward. So you have a tough time deciphering the the angles and how they're shooting from different spots on the court. So I'm more of a television guy with the NBA. Each there by you last one here, last in the mail bag, and we'll put the baby to bed. Here soon we'll

put the baby. And that's that's how this stuff normally orls. Jeff from Spokean writes and he says, Ben, now what goes good with perfectly cooked corn beef hash? And why did I capitalize that? There you go? Says, uh, all right, so I love corn beef hash. I'm not a big breakfast guy. My go to with breakfast foods are normally high carb stuff pancakes, waffles, the breakfast potatoes. But corn beef hash, I would say with like pancakes, um, like

a cornbread type thing. You're corn beef hash guy. I guess I like it and the perfect the perfect compliment to it. Ben, have a fucking Guinness. Oh well, yeah, that's in any sentence with have a Guinness. That's easy. That's that's a cheat, car laure I'm going get us man, that is a perfect compliment. Wow, what is up with that that? I don't think you're little jealous that you didn't think about that first. No, I didn't. That's really

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