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with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does. We are in the air everywhere, spanning the globe with podcasting, marginal podcasting, this podcast because four hours are not enough on the overnight. We do this eight days a week, eight days a week, obviously spin off of the radio show you know all that. And on this the Sunday Sunday Sunday Funday edition of the podcast, we have a giant, oversized stuff to the gills version of the mail bag. A lot of questions in the mailbag, and we also

have to be or not to be. And right over there, David Gagon, effectually known by his code name Gascon, Loud and Proud, in the Geko Fox Sports Radio studios, where you have not been for the last six months and counting, Ben Mallery. I went in there pick up my mail, picking up your mail is not really working and spending time with your colleagues. I had to go in one time because the equipment didn't work right, and so I had to drive in there and I spent about three

hours there was enough, so I've been there. Very considered you to pass on by during your vacation stay at home. I make sure to go when you're not there though. That's what I do. That's not true. You came in one time when I was here and you popped in the studio to say, mistake, there's a mistake. I don't know. It was a mistake that you went in the opposite direction. I don't know. It's good though. It's got a very cool hat. This week listener or Aaliyah in Maine, and uh,

she's a big fan. I met her at the Mallard meet and greet in Boston, and uh, Leah and Paul there, Paul's big super fan also. And what kind of hat? Oh, it's a it's a Portland's Sea and they sent me to Portland's Sea dogs hats and I wore one. These are cool. I love minor league baseball hats. They're pretty net, it's good looking logo, it's got the p there with the dog coming out of the p there with his head peeking out. It's a good look, good logo. Has Has anyone gotten you a a new but old school

version of the San Diego Padres brown. No, that's a good looking hat too. I like that Padre hat, you know. And and people complain because I wear like the Iowa Hawkeyes hat. I wore that the other day, and they're these idiots in Minnesota. Listen, that hat was sent I I have no affiliation with the University of Iowa. But Chris and de Moine, he said, you listen, you got a size eight hat. I'll send you the hat whatever.

And I'm open if somebody wants to send me a Minnesota Golden Golfers hat, I'll wear the I'll wear the damn Minnesota Golden Golfers. I got no problem with that. But I got a big and that's a problem and all that. I don't expect anyone to send me anything, but some some super fans like to do it. But if you have a problem, I'll wear it. I'm a billboard with these these dumb videos I gotta do on YouTube for the show. I'll put it out there. Why

not people just want to complain. Speaking of complaining, did you hear about this? Uh? Podcast is starting to go downhill? Is that right? According to Colin in Denver, at first, this was one of the best sports podcast I'd ever heard. Ben and Gascon had a great back and forth and actually occasionally different on some issues. The past few months have been rough in all caps. Rather than a few good interviews here and there, this podcast has become a joke.

They can't be too many era. There can't be too many podcasts spreading more off base conservative propaganda than this one. Every show is now a misguided adventure through the current events of the day. And what's this guy's name? Uh? Colin in Denver? Colin, and he says almost every guest is brought on dispute the same nonsense, and Gascott now exists to lick Ben's toes and agree with whatever he says, literally everything Republican garbage. This is getting bad, regardless of

which side of the four oh five you are on. Boo, wow, guess God, listen, this is more. This is more an example of uh, you know that guy's got issues or whatever. But I got plenty of email. Look at this one. I'll you wanted to be in for Yang Rick from San Moro, a San Ramon. He's a p one, he says, Ben and Ben and Dave. Your interview with Dave Ruben was a ten. I follow him on Twitter I normally

and normally his takes are spot on. I wish people would educate themselves and stop being intimidated by the social justice warriors. Keep up the great work. So from from Rick, who enjoyed the hell out of it and was a was a big fan. And and then there's a bunch of other ones. Uh, this guy Steven san Diego. He says, Hey, my Aime is Steve. I listened to your radio show

in the Fifth Hour podcast. I wanted to say thank you for not bowing to the current world group think and expressing sane opinions on the absurdity that's going on with athletes and the world. We need more voices like yours, how about that to speak up? And he said, also like the Jerry Callahan podcast from Boston. Dave Ruben, he said he enjoyed those episodes. And he says he's gonna subscribe to their stuff as well because of our podcast that he will now be a fan of theirs and

listen to their material. That's good. Now, Steve Dave Rubens off social media. I think for a month. He's taken a nice little sabbatical. Um, we need to get him back. We need to get Leo Terrell back in. Those guys are a lot of fun. So some of the radio guys, hacks All was was good and I'd like to branch out and John Stossel. We did a whole thing about John Stossel. I love his his material. I would like to get him on. And at some point there we

should get Corolla. Adam Corolla has got some book to remote. We should get Corolla on here. Yeah, he's he takes a blowtorch to everything though, too, doesn't he. Yeah, we had a really offend. Colin in Denver so did give us three stars. So we're at least batting about two fifty two seventy five right now. Okay, I'll take that. Well, in fairness, we had four months with no sports, so we change it up a little bit. Yeah, and then we had and then we had sports of politics. Yeah, exactly,

mean everything in sports is political. Now they've decided to politicize sports, and so that's blame must blame Adam Silver and uh the other commissioners of sports who have decided Roger Goodell this is this is good. I'm not I'm not buying, though I know Clay has been sending out all these ratings about how they're down and all that. I need more of a sample size. Yeah, it's only been a little bit, and it would be fascinating though.

If that actually data at the bottom line, you would see a lot of those messages vanish and the you'd see, like I I predict if that does happen, when the ratings continue to go down to the NBA, you will see a statement from Adam Silver. We made our point on social justice. We want to since it's the playoffs, we want to get back to just basketball. So we're gonna take the messages off the jerseys and that kind

of thing. Well, I think the true test of all this will be when the NFL starts scrambling around, if they lose viewership based on like name usage and decals on their helmets and patches on their uniforms, Like, I think that will be the true test. I mean, NFL is king anyway. So I think when the NFL now pushes what their social justice causes. I think that's the true test. Because NBA ratings that can gone down annually. N h L is not strong. Major League Baseball's regional sport.

So I think the NFL because it is king and they have a lot to lose. Yeah, there's no question that that is the reality. Uh people because of the way we're consuming television, not not everyone's got cable. A lot of people got rid of cable, satellite television. Um, there's a lot of streaming. You should never watch illegal streams, guest gun, that's wrong. You should never do that. You should never go to some of the great websites that have every single game you want for free. That would

not be right. I should not do that, that would be inappropriate. But of course, if you're a T mobile customer, you can get the MLB package for free. Is that right? Yes? Yes, Bill Benson, and one of your producers told me because we're T mobile subscribers, and he said, yeah, like last year he was able to watch all the Dodger games for free on his mobile device. So he's like, yeah, if you just call it T Mobile, they'll hook you up. It's an MLB active code that you can watch on

an iPad, on a smartphone or Android device. Yeah, so do that. I have my ways to watch. I know. I'm still waiting for those links appreciate. Oh yeah, well I was gonna give it to you, but you did not. You did not treat me with the proper respect. Yeah. Not really better than the old world mafia. You have to genuinelect is what you have to do. That's a bad job by you, all right, B. Or not to be here we go, man, Yes, God's baby. B or not to be so exciting. Oh my god, I'm so exciting.

This is a joy across the world and an ode to the Babylon B, which is a prominent figure on social media, in particular Twitter. One that Ben introduced me to Ben. These are stories. We gotta find out if they're actually true stories or if they're from the Babylon B, which is based on parody and satire. Yes, these are five titles that did not make the cut for them. First one, Trump estimates that it could take four more years to accurately count all votes. Alright, so note to

what's going on in New York right now? How about this one? Democrats proposed creation of national Trump voter registry. That's like trace tracking, right, and you want to shame some of that voted republic in or Trump, you could do that. Third story that did not make the cut, Chinese government lays off entire propaganda team as American media doing their job for them. Ah, there you go, that's funny.

Shout out in New York Times on Washington Post Lebron James is a media mogul's advising everyone how to deal with the Chinese people. How about this one? Experts now recommend taking up vaping to increase social distancing. Oh there you go. I don't get did not make the cut them did not make to make the be or not to be? And last, but not least, will end this one on on a on a high note, woke polar Bear apologizes for being white? Is that to lead on CNN? Oh,

it's hilarious. That's good, all right? Did you see the one? Uh? The l A Times wrote this is actually the only time not bad. But they wrote a column sad because Trader Joe did not bow down. They were they were like they broke our heart, broke our heart because like seven people on the signed a petition to get rid of from the names of products. I'm gonna actually shop

at Trader Joe's more. I don't usually go to Trader Does that often, but I'm gonna go there more to support Trader Joe's for actually having the balls to stand up to these idiots. Good job by them. What you should do is you should go to Trader Joe's and then buy Goya products. Yeah, that's exactly what you should do. Exactly Why not. I gotta get my collection of Anthrew Mima and Uncle Ben's Rise and Escobo pies before those go off the shows, and they're not off the shelves yet.

I think they're still around. You know. What you should do is you should do it. A lot of people like I have cousins that have done this. Is like back in the day g I Joe Transformers, they'd buy all those collectible toys, or they buy all those toys and not take them out of the package, and so now they're valuable collectibles. Yeah, you should get for Jemima, though, like, could you imagine the price? How long would that syrup blasts?

I know honey lasts forever, but I'm assuming at some point that product would go back Eskimo pies you could just leave in the freezer if you got space in there. I think the and the actually the Uncle Ben's rice rice last a long time, so all those items you could last. Yeah, it's actually not a bad idea. All right, So here we go. Last week you went five for five, so yeah, I was on fire. Greatest week in the

history of beer or not to be. Yeah, So we gotta get tougher with us, and so stra off with a really tough one high scale about a nine point five a right new Google technology Auto correcx users thoughts.

All right, so put big tech, the oligarchs and big tech have been doing a lot of a lot of this kind of stuff where they block out You see that video the the woman who had a video about the actual stats on crime and police and all that YouTube pulled it because she was she was giving government facts and they pulled and pulled the video that it was was offensive and you have to have an age. Oh my god, Um, you know, I'm gonna say that's true.

It sounds like something Google would do, right. The people at Google kind of take their playbook from China. I think that's true. Ben, You're oh for one, so already better from last week, so worse than last week. Doesn't that seem like something like the algorithms on Google though,

that that is something they could absolutely do. Is they say, no, you know you said this, but that's offense if you really meant this, this is what you meant, because didn't we have it was a professor, it was it was a It was a hardcore democratic professor that voted for Hillary Clinton back in two thousand and sixteen. He testified that Google manipulated their figures and what they put out there for publication because it manipulated people on how they

were voting in the election. Ah. So he talked about that a lot. I mean they've they've done some pieces on it on Netflix to um. Second, one governor signs legislation to allow ice cream made with liquor. Uh, I'm gonna say that's a that's a B story, all right, Ben, you are officially oh for two to space right now. You didn't say it, right, it's altboo bay. So this is a special nut to your brother. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last week sign an executive order align the

sale of liquor infused ice cream in his state. Now the kicker on all of this is the liquor infused desserts will only be allowed to contain a limit of up to five percent of alcohol by volume, and we'll have similar labels of that with wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages. Wow wow wow wow wow wow. That's crazy right. Well, New York's crazy, man, that is, And they're stuck with that de Blasio guy for another year unless they impeach him.

But he's his term is gonna be up in so there's another year that New York is gonna be like the fifth Ring of Hell. And by the time the Blasio gets done, who the hell I mean, they're gonna have to bring in somebody with a big cleanser to clean up New York City because that what a rat hole that place. It's morphing. Back when I first went to New York, it was like it was horrible. At times, Square was a cesspool and it was like debauchery and peep shows and nudy bars and all that and crime

people getting mugged. And it's starting to more turn back into that. It sucks, it's bad. How about this, what's next? Earl for two right now? Can you go one for three, three thirty three batting appams. If I go one for three, that's a good batting app get you in the Hall of Fame. Uh. Public school teachers continue to insist their jobs are non essential. Um. Let's see, so there's been a lot of teachers who have been complaining about they don't want to teach, they don't want to go back.

They're freaking out about the kids giving them the corona. I'm gonna say that, but I'm gonna say this is the Babylon bie. I'm gonna go with the Babylon bie. Is that your final answer? That's Ben, you're batting three. We go private school teachers. They think they're central public not so much. Shout out to the union. Um story number four for four. All right, that's a five hundred batting average. I get this right, that's great. Let's right. Actor pretends to not know head of company that is

marking up cost of ventilators. Alright, so let's see actor does not I did see. There was a story about ventilators that took ace this week. The over charging of that Uh Babylon b Ben Ben yes name Ben? Yes? What you are? One for four? Crap? You should have stuck with your inclination. The actor Billy Zane. Do you remember Billy Zane not really didn't have too many good movies.

He was in the Titanic. But Billy Zane is pushing away from a company that has led by a good friend of his, that is selling venerate ventilators marked up six hundred percent all in all the costs should be for these hundred and fifty thousand dollars for sixty ventilators. That would break down to about a cost These sixty ventilators ben were sold for seventeen thousand dollars each, totally

over one million dollars. Wow, that what kind of an My favorite, My favorite part of these type of stories is there's always that douche bag in the back of the room thinks this is acceptable. Yeah right, there's always well, medical companies have to make their money back somehow, and so and so I don't see a problem with this. Don't you know how to punch those people right between the eyes, right in the schnazola, just bam, right like that,

Give my haymaker, give my money maker. All these opportunitists, man, all right, so last one, this will this will help salvage a one for four performance to make it two for five, two for five, four batting average. I have to get you in the Hall of Fame. Ted Williams called me the splendid splinter if I get it right. All right, well, we'll see. This one's challenging too because of what's going on down south Texas construction border wall

to keep out unwanted refugees from California. All right, so this is Texas goofing on California and all that stuff, which we all know. There's a rivalry there, there's bad blood. But I'm gonna say this is the B Babylon B. Is that your final answer? Yes, Benjamin Maller, you were two for five. Ye that that's better than well last week five for five. But you know you go five for five and the next day you go to for five. That's a good day. That's a good that's a good

couple of days for you're still batting seven. So that's the job all done? Okay, there you go. You ready for the email bag? You want to put on your has Matt suit for this email bag. It can't be that toxic Canada. Well, no, this most people are pretty nice. There's always the douche bags to get in there, but most people are pretty cool, alright, fair enough. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week

days at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific. All right, these are actual questions sent in by actual listeners, and we thank you guys have been great. I put it up late after got on Facebook this week. I put it up a little late, but you guys hooked this up and that was it was pretty neat alright, So you can email us too. I got some of these questions from email. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Remember to review us on the podcast right in five stars, five stars.

We like seven to to acid washed. That Colin guy it doesn't like the podcast. Well he give us a three though it wasn't a one. I need a five, alright, five or nothing? Five or nothing? Fair enough? All right? Dan and Durham, North Carolina writes and has have either of you ever had a close encounter with a shark, tornado, or any other deadly force of nature? All right, well, Dan, I've never been with the shark. I've never swam with a shark, although I in Hawaii, I swam with some

giant sea turtles and some seals and that was pretty wild. Uh, Tornado, No, don't live in Tornado country. I've been in some bad storms on the East Coast, but not a hurricane. I guess the biggest force of nature living in California is the earth earthquake. Yeah, and I've experienced several of those big earthquakes over the years, the big north Ridge quake back in the day, and a couple of other tremors.

So that's the one you guess on Yeah, nothing with the Shark earthquake is probably the closest, um kind of a blizzard. I was in Tahoe once, but it wasn't like it cut the power to the entire city for like ten days. Um, but it wasn't. It wasn't deadly like we were able to drive and get out to where we were. But yeah, no, nothing, nothing of a natural disaster and they had to worry about so not yet. Any knock on wood. Well, you're living through an apocalypse

right now, that's true. Put that in your book Apocalyse. I survived apocalypse. Yes, let's see who's next. John from Vermont Right soon, He says, if someone gave you a million dollars on the condition that you could never watch or listen to sports again. Would you do it? All? Right? John? A couple of questions. Number one is that after taxes. So I've already paid my taxes. I have a million

dollars capital I don't have to pay taxes on. That's important because you start paying taxes on a million dollars, that becomes a problem. But if it is after taxes a million dollars, I could do it. I could. We've just gone four months without watching sports, so that yeah, I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't like it. It would be an adjustment and I'd have to find other stuff to do. But I did for the last four months.

So yeah, what about you guys? Yeah absolutely. I mean we can go in so many different directions with that too, because you want to watch something on television or on your computer, you can go to like movies or shows. Um. You could of course travel, Um, you know, make some transactions in real estate. Um. Yeah, I'm invest in some Apple stock before you can do that, or some Tesla maybe if you would afford it. Yeah, so's tests are gonna split? Why don't they split? I don't know if

Elon Musk is going to do that. We'll wait and see if he moves one of his factors down to Texas to Alright, a doctor Goopy from Main Rights in one of our favorites, he says, Ben, if you were offered a primo spot on Fox Television, would you leave radio forevermore? Let me let me answer that fu, Yeah, he would. Well, I did television and radio at the same time. It was a part time RAI television contributor. Uh, you know, TV pays better. It's just the reality of

the economics of it. I've always thought it would be cool to just put the overnight show on television, like although I think radio should just be radio. I've I've said that, I've advocated for that a lot. But a lot of these radio shows are simulcast on television. It's easy to do, it's cheap. You just put a camera in the studio and you have like one person put it all together. They're in real time, and and that that's an easy way to do it and then get

double your money, double your pleasure. But yeah, I mean, if somebody offered me an amazing television job and like a five year contract for dunculous money where I wouldn't really have to work for years after that. Why would I not do it? Yeah? I love radio though, I

feel like a better at radio than anything. But but you know, so what, Yeah, but radio prepares you too for television because in radio you're always doing shipped by yourself, or in television you'd have like five six seven producers. You'd have a makeup artist, you'd have someone do in your hair, you have someone dressed you like, you'd have all that stuff, like your fingertips. So yeah, but it was an adjustment, like because I am used to doing

a lot of things really by myself. The content on the show is all put together by by me U unless it's not. Uh, and then then the problem when you go to television. You got all these production meetings and you've got every block is planned out, the block, the B block, the C block, the D block. You're like, oh my god, there's too many blocks. You know. Sometimes we'll plan out like we have certain bits that we do, but there's open segments where just fill it with random,

random stuff whatever comes into her head. Matt in Rochester, New York, right since says, if you guys were to skip a day of healthy eating. What would your go to be for an unhealthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner? All right, So breakfast, I would have like a nice French toast, a stack a mile high of pancakes. I'd have those breakfast biscuits with the gravy. I'd have some of those. I'm going all carb all the time there, Uh maybe

a little turkey bacon or something like that. I'd have that. Uh. Lunch, Philly cheese steak, Philadelphia Philly cheese steak with the pro bolone. I do that nice big fat pretzel also from Philadelphia, just the kind that Fats sent in the in the mail a few months back. And then for dinner I would have I would I mean, I think a big plate of of chicken, fingers and fries piled to the heavens,

piled to heavens. And then aside, i'd have a grilled not a grilled I'd have a barbecued burger, triple stack cheeseburger with the onions, the cheese on top, there, the garlic, all that, and then I also finish it off a three course meal. I'd have the mallard pizza oversized pizza pie thick crust, garlic, onion, bell pepper. Uh and uh and I do that? What about Uh? If we're going, no worry about the diet. I'm going breakfast. It has to be a giant breakfast burrito, bacon, sausage, hash browns,

no sausa. I'd be chasing that either with a mimosa or with a bloody Marry Um breakfast. From that, I go to lunch. Lunch I'm definitely doing. I'm definitely doing a pizza. I'm doing like deep dish meat lovers or thin crusts, one of those nature's but definitely doing pizza at twelve o'clock, one o'clock. And then for dinner, I'm gonna go out the reservation here. I'm gonna go like a nicety Tomahawks stick medium done. Men, you gotta burn that mashed potatoes side of noki. Uh. Probably some some

sweet potato fries. I chase that bit with a scotch. And then I would definitely have like I don't know, like cranbrule or like some kind of like chocolate ice cream cake, like some kind of awesome dessert. But yeah, that's how I'm done. You're done. I don't know. I'm

kind of hungry. Yeah. Uh, let's see. Jason in our Rocky Mountain, Virginia says, I was wondering your opinions on if the NFL should try to do a bubble situation like the NBA and the NHL, or do you think the NFL players can be disciplined enough to do it like um baseball? Well, Jason, do I think the NFL players are going to be able to handle it? No? Of course not, because you're talking about se players. Plus in the NFL baseball they don't have as many players

as the NFL does. And the only difference with the NFL is the road trips are not like baseball where you're on the road for a week and you're you've got a lot of downtime to leave the hotel. Now they bann you from leaving the hotel and you get called out for that and could be suspended. Different in football, especially with the teams that are all bunched up on the East Coast. They're talking about having teams fly out

on a Sunday morning and play that afternoon. Uh, And so that limits the amount of time you would have obviously to go out and have debauchery and excess and and all that, But I don't think the bubble is necessary. NASCAR has been able to pull it off, and it seems like a little too much overkill. But for some people that are freaking out about this, like if you want to have the hotel bubble like the Saints or the Buccaneers, fine, but it is required. No, I think

it's a lot more challenging. But don't forget if these guys break the bubble, then they're losing their salary, so too if it comes into play here. But I do think if you want to make this cost effective and to limit any kind of exposure, I think a bubble would be great. If you just use Los Angeles for an example, l A can get away with it. The reason why we had the Colosseum, we had the Rose Bowl, we have so Far Stadium now uh and we have

Stubbub Center. And even if you want to go down south, we got Petco Park and uh Quacom Stadium, so you've got those two ballparks there too. So if you want to move the entire NFL the California, no, but if you did one division, like you can do the a f C West here in Los Angeles or the NFC West in Los Angeles. Yeah, I mean you could conceive what we do something like that, but you'd have to

put astro turf or whatever they call it field turf. Yeah, but don't they have destroy I thought they had the retractable turf though, right for so Fi and for uh yeah, for so far Stam. Don't they have the retractable turf? Now do they? I don't know, so, I don't know. I'd be kind of down for that, but I have to go out. I have an immedia privileges Gascon. I'm you have to go out and see the Rams Cowboys that first game of the year because it's closed to

the public. But I'm gonna media elite, so I might have to go out there. Call me up and I'll drive you over there. You want to go to the game? You, yeah, i'd go. I didn't put it in for credentials, but yeah, I'm done. Well, I haven't done it yet. We have time to do that, but maybe there must be plenty of media seating. There's no you know, I mean, it's like there's no there's no fans at all. Yeah, you know,

maybe we'll do that. How about that? And I'm also I have not been to a sporting event, and even though media can go to these things, but I will. I'm gonna break my silence. Dodgers Astros, Dodger Stadium going one of those games. I'm gonna be at one of those games. Am I gonna get in trouble? The players will hear me If I boo the Astros like I'll tube comes up and I yell out bo bay, They'll be able to hear it because there's no one else in the ballpark. I'll get kicked out, but I don't care.

I'm a rebel. Come on, who cares? Alright? Phil from us Awego, New York says, what is the ultimate pizza topping? My answer is pepperoni and sausage. But I get to pick two options because I have become a big tub of goo since the apocalypse. Well good for you, Phil, letting yourself go during the apocalypse could probably enjoy the hell out of that. I love multiple toppings on my pizza. The traditional mallard pie I just gave it is the garlic, onion,

the bell pepper. That's the mallard pie. But if I had to pick one topping, it's a toss. I gotta go. Garlic. Roasted garlic on top of pizza is really just wonderful. What about you, guys? Got um? I think Canadian bacon is good. Canadian bacon, yeah, nobody picks Canadian baker, but everything else. Would you pick Canadian bacon because everyone else is gonna pick pepperoni or sausage. Those are the big those are the big thing. My dad's a free he

likes the mushroom pizza. But everyone, come on listen. I'm not gonna pick pineapple. That's one thing I will not pick. So a pineapple pie. Yeah, I can't do that, man, You can't do the pineapple. Can't do it to a pizza. Kevin from Minnesota says, should I kick the dog off the bed when I'm done listening to the last hour of your show? Well that's a personal decision, Kevin. I don't know if i'd actually physically kicked the dog off the bed. I might throw the dog off the bed.

But you know, I know what the Mallard Mansion, Bella, she's in that bed all day. She's there, right there, no matter what we're there, she's there. That's how she operates. She's a diva dog valls fan Jimmy writes and says Fate from Fayetville, Tennessee. He says, Ben, if you won the lottery, would you continue to work? What would you do for your crew? Including Mr West of the four oh five? Well, listen, I would continue to work. I

don't know that i'd work as much. I would cut some things out so I have a little more me time. I do that, And what I would do for the crew is continue to engage them in witty branter on the on the audio channels that were on there, and give them some advice and tell them what it's like when you win the lottery. I do some of that. I'd probably make sure that you got fired. How would I get fired? I don't know. I'd do something to

make sure that you got fired. Well, I think you're trying to do that on a weekly basis on this part. But this is a little bit different. This would be for you, not because of you. Uh, you know, Like, then you can get some peaceful sleep, then you can have less stress, and then you can travel a little bit and not worry about the bullshit air that It's true. I don't need to worry about the crap that goes on behind the scenes that we don't third round, my man,

don't go on the third rail. Rachel in the Alamo rights in. She says, hey, y'all, that proves she's from Texas. She said, y'all take a shower with me every morning, Like it or not, I love it, And she says thoughts on the San Antonio Spurs, Well, Rachel, I have not spent too much time talking about or thinking about the San Antonio Spurs since Tim Duncan exited stage right, But I know Joe and san Antonio, some of our listeners there, Chris and san Antonio all about that Spurs action.

They're like this weird transitional phase where they're not terrible, but they're not great. They're just kind of mediocre. Where the Spurs are right now and the next couple of years because Popovich he's near the end of the road there and it's it's gonna be similar to what happened with the Patriots with Belichick, Like when Belichick leaves and he's his time is coming up in the next couple of years ago, Oh, let's what happened they fall apart.

Are the Spurs gonna completely Vanish and there's so many disciples of Popovitch that are coaching around the NBA, and that'll be interesting. But that I don't have any real thoughts on this, Sirs Carlos in Houston, right, and says, what's the origin story on Dick in Dayton. He also says the worst caller of the year has to be Chris in San Antono. Okay, uh, well, you had another guy from Houston who called in the other night that was pretty bad with his girlfriend all hammered and all that.

But Carlos Dick and Dayton is a professional radio caller. He's been calling Fox Sports Radio since I began. He's one of the original callers with Cowboy John Brad Doc Mike in Chicago. These guys have been with us for many, many years, decades calling the radio show. Um, and I don't know too much about Dick and Dayton other than the fact he calls a lot of radio shows and I've learned a little bit from just talking to him. But I have traveled around the country and I'm a

radio nerd. So when I drive around late at night, you know, driving through Pennsylvania or upstate New York or whatever, I'll have the radio, scan the dial and I'll hear Dick and Dayton. He just randomly calls his shows. And it's great because he doesn't actually watch sports and he doesn't seem to know a lot about anything, but he always he loves being on the radio. He works at Low's in Beaver Creek, Ohio. We've had super fans of the show that have gone to meet Dick and Dayton.

He is actually in the Cattering Banjo Society. It's a real thing. It's not made up. I've seen photos. They've written stories about him, and the newspaper, the Dayton Daily News and some of the other papers they were in Ohio written stories about him. And he's just a nice, harmless guy that loves sports radio. And the great thing about Dick and Dayton, whatever I say, he'll agree with, Yeah, that's right, Ben. And I'd said the most ridiculous thing,

and he'll I bet. The funniest thing we did a couple of weeks ago was Uh, that picture for the Indians? Is that Shane Bieber? Uh? And then we were talking about the Indians and I said, boy, the Indians. I really liked this justin Bieber and Uh and in the rotation and dicks up. Yeah, that's right. Really like that, Justin Bieber. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am eastern pm Pacific.

Pretty funny, Greg and Iowa writes and it says, have you ever been in a situation where you're watching the game with a group of other people, the game is between two rival teams and you're stuck in verbal arguments between fans of both teams and trying to stay neutral. Um? Well, I don't usually try to stay neutral. Greg. One of one of the things with the job is most people know my opinion on a lot of this stuff, so I don't recall being in that situation. I've been in

that situation more or like. We talked about it earlier with politics, where uh, this weekend we talked you know your name, You're at a social event and you gotta be able to read the room and know who's you know who's on which team and all that that becomes a problem. But I don't remember any specific situation where you had to rival fans and you had no skin in the game. But anyway, Ah, here's the one from Mason the Millennial from the Bay Area. Love the content,

he says, he Mason the millenial, a big fan. This is my question, is what is your most feared injury? For example, mine is breaking my collar bone, which I think David did also sounds like a complete nightmare. What would it be for you guys. I'm not gonna answer this because last time I answered the question like this had happened to me, So I'm gonna refrain. You got Guesscan you wanna? Yeah? I turned my road tury cup twice.

But I think the one that I fear the most, just because we saw a couple of days ago with Atlanta Um, I think the Achilles rupture is probably the one thing I fear the most in there. Yeah, and it's just like you got shot and it's the smallest part of your body for the most part, and you just dropped like a bag of rocks. I mean, I tore my a couple of days ago. I was running. I tore a portion of my hamstring, like running on the down near the beach, and I popped the ship

out of it. But I popped it and torn in two spots. And the guy that was working on me do an ultra sound. He was like, yeah, I just did that with my calf and it was above like barely above his achilles tendons and as achilles tendon and I said, hey, did you fall? He's like yeah, as soon as that happened, I just dropped. And what were you doing? He said, I was climbing upstairs. It's like, that's horrible. And he's like thirty years old, so he's young.

And you know, I mean that's a sign, gas Gun, that you were one step closer to a convalescent home, that you were your head towards residential care. That it's it's autumn. You're in the final years here. You have the tail in you in the twilight. Listen as old as the hills. Man, my money falling apart. My medical chart looks like it's spread and prayed with all kinds of bandages. So turn the road, tearra cuff twice, bust

the sept um busted, wrists, broken toes. So you are really the radio version of Cavity, Sam, Maybe yeah, but I have a lot of arelier with Cavity saying I am. But still that's just don't game operation, don't don't don't don't try to bless me with early dirt nap. If you will know, I'm not saying you're gonna die. You're just gonna be living in a convalescen, which is the safe thing. You got a hitch in your guinea up

you got you got atle hitch in your getty up there. Yeah, I'm not saying you're a salesman for toilet paper, but you have you have considered Charman ultrasoft. You have them sitting in at some point along the way. All right, what is next? Year? Matt and Grand Rapids. Michigan says, the episode where you recounted You're excremental misfortune is still one of my all time favorites. Maxins says, I find myself going back for a listen whenever I'm having a

bad day or just need a good laugh. I'm glad you. That's called shot in Freud and Matt. You're taking joy out of my ship. It's a bad job by you. If you missed it. I didn't. I I had my gallbladder taken out last year, and one of the side effects is that if you fast and then you eat a meal, or if you eat fried foods or really heavy foods, it runs right through you. You you literally

get the runs, you get the Tennessee Trots. And I had eaten the meal, and I was driving into the studio and I had not given it enough time to unload, and I parked, and I was trying to make it to the bathroom, and I got into the elevator, I got upstairs, and as I was running down the hall to the bathroom, I could see the finish line and the ship just came raining out of my ass and uh, and it was. It was a nightmare. And I did.

I did do the show, and like, I like less than ten minutes, less than ten minutes to a clean up operation, recovery mission, and then go do the show. If you want to go back to that episode, it's on February one, then titled Eloquently Poop Festival. If only the apocalypse had happened earlier than that, then I would not have happened because I would have been home. I would have been right here in the bathroom right there,

no problem. Yeah, but this just shows like you still have it when you need to get when you need to bear down, you're like Game seven, you only have your fastball left. You found a way to get to the bathroom. There you go. Uh. Matt also said. He says, I I came upon the review section of sugar Free Ummy Bears on Amazon, and once I stopped laughing, I wondered if there was a connection for your incident. Maybe you've been blaming your gallbladder all this time, and sugar

Free Gummy Bears are the real culprits. He sent me a link here. Ah, yeah, I know. Listen, I would like to blame gummy bears. I don't think I've eaten gummy bears in a long time, so that wasn't gonna be I wish it was Pierre in Springfield Rights, and there's many Springfields. I don't know which one. I'm assuming Springfield, Missouri, but maybe Springfield, Illinois. Pierre says, what is your opinion

on burner accounts? I miss Ernie, the great old Piner, but do very much enjoy the muppet militia who seemingly have taken out Ernie. And he says, can you follow me on Twitter? I'm not following on Twitter. There you go. Uh, well, Pierre, listen, here's the deal, all right, we miss Ernie. Ernie was great for the show. He had a meltdown. He couldn't handle the muppet militia and he quit the show, and uh,

you know, the twitter mob got Ernie. People were jealous of Ernie being the person that Robin Vegas is in many ways replaced Ernie as the guy that immediately gives me feedback on the monologues. But there's other people that do it as well. Moving Man Matt from Boston writes and says, why haven't you done a deep dive interview with the Moving Man on the podcast? It's two fold.

It's a victory for you. At number one, you get blow by blow details on the Mallard food marathon that is true, he's done it twice, and guests gon will be annoyed. Matt, this is a great idea. Why don't we book Moving Man Matt for next weekend's podcast about that? We'll put him on there. We'll do a little deep dive on that would be great. I don't I don't get annoyed. What do you do get annoyed? I did not by acting like you're not annoyed, you're annoyed. No, definitely,

everyone can tell you. You You know your West of the four or five. You're pretentious, that's how you operate. No, no, I just to handle with pretentious people. You are you are, you are the company that you keep. You're a prima donna. You're self absorbed, you are all of that. You and you and Tom Luney are rubbing off on me. Apparently, then you put up this facade. It's not even a facade, it's real, alright. This is Veneer West of the four

oh five. Well, listen, I'm just trying to give you the greener side of the grass because I know most of the stuff that you're walking on is usually dead. So I've brotten you from the terrestrial days of radio to the digital realm of a new world again. I hang out with a working class. You don't even go to work. What are you talking about? You do not go to work, morning, noon and night. I work more now than I've ever worked. To work studio, a professional

grade broadcast studio in the Mallard mansion. I bring my lunch pail here, I get my hands dirty. How many have to turn on the microphone and the equipment, plug the headphones in. I'm tough, minded, gritty, scrappy. How many so operate? How many employees have technical equipment sent to

their house. I don't know. I built this myself the w e I, So this was a homemade studio when I was doing shows for Boston and w E I. I built all this equipment here and I was actually my wife's maybe we should get rid of it because they did not do the Fox show from here. And then we started the podcast, but that wasn't I'm gonna getting paid anything really for that. So that what am I doing? And uh, and it worked out. Lien, you're you're over. You're the white caller guy, right, You're the

non manual labor. You're the quarter office elitist. That's who you. People curls in front of the mirror, arrogant, shameless, unembarrassed, all of that, brazen, pampered. I wouldn't say pampered nobody paper. Definitely pampered, not taking care of that. It's definitely not true at all. Fussy baby, no, definitely not complained. Bit. Yeah, you think a bit, and I don't think you know. What you do is you grumble. You're a grumbler. Maybe you grumble, but I'm not full bitch. But you grumble.

I'll be a better grumbler when I'm fifty already crossed that rubicon. Moving on here, Matt, I'll think about next weekend if you're available when we record the podcast for the weekend. Sue in Round Rock, Texas. Right sin. It says if the team's stopped playing the national anthem, would people start watching the NBA and NFL p g A doesn't play it and the ratings are through the roof,

I wouldn't miss it if it went away. Uh yeah, I mean there are some people that if you don't play in the Nashal anthem, you're bowing down your genuine

flecting to the to the protesters. They were considering twenty years ago getting rid of the national anthem in the early two thousands, like two thousand year, two thousand into two thousand one, and then this thing called nine eleven happened and everyone started saying, wait a minute, we need the national and them more than ever, and so they But there were guys back then that they did not

stand for the national anthem. Mak Mud abdul Rauf of the Denver Nuggets was one Brian Williams who had changed his name to bison Dale, the late Bison Daily at the Clippers In fact, the buddy of mine noticed that Brian Williams or bison Dale was not standing for the Nashal anthem and and he told he talked about it on the radio, and the Clipper PR people they were so upset. Oh my god, really upset that he talked about it. This is deplorable. How could you talk about it?

Oh my god. But no, I mean so, yeah, they they're gonna get rid of it. That is a solution. Uh, you know when I when I not watched because they got rid of it. No, but there would be some people that will be like, I'm not gonna watch. But you gotta look at the majority. You can't make make based decisions on the smaller group that is voting. You to make decisions on the larger group. Marco from Oakdale writes in Oakdale, California Whole Team question, favorite adult beverage,

favorite weed strain? All right, I'll do the adult beverage. I like that root beer beer. You do the weed. Go ahead, guest. Don't smoke weed. You don't smoke weed. That on the air, you don't smoke in air quotes smoke weed, period. Scott writes and says, why doesn't Bella serve you breakfast in bed Belgian waffles and fresh fruit smoothie. Because that dog is like half the size of his foot. That's C. Scott is giving me a tribute. That's from

a great commercial that we did. We had a radio commercial and I tossed out Belgian waffles and fresh fruit smoothie. Oh boy was my touch on the commer That was I ad libbed that dude. That was an ad lible. Alright, last one Mark in Sun diego right sit He says, Ben, if you got called up from the Miners to pitch against the Stros, would you buzz the Astros hitters heads? Even though you might get suspended or lose your spot on the team. You'd be a hero to the fan

for sure. But it's your career. Mark Absolutely, mark list. It's hypothetical and a hypothetical situation. Absolutely like because the chance that this is a chance to be remember Joe Kelly is gonna be remembered by Dodger fans for generations because of this, and the Squeaky Wheel gets the grease right, You're going just something your legendary. You're memorable. That's an act.

Imagine first game called up for the mile leagues and you drill Bragman just between the numbers on his back, or are you hit out Toba on the arm and you you know, shatter his wrist or something like, oh man man, would that be something? Of course, the other part of that is the quacking duck gets shot, right, isn't that the other part of that? Yeah, yeah, it does work, doesn't work both ways? Or anything else to

promo out here, Gascon, any other funny business anything at all. No, but just a further reminder to continue to rate and review five stars. Of course, Um, that's important podcast. It'll be interesting to see the ratings on how the Looney podcast does, because if it doesn't do well, I will make sure to let Looney know that he was not successful and not as good as hacks are Jerry Callaghan or Mike North to these other great radio professionals, legends

of radio that we've had on the podcast. Yes, we go from legends to a hack. Uh. Next weekend, the Moving Man Met podcast could be on the area. It might happen by Yeah, we'll put anyone on this podcast. Well, jealous, jell, We're still We're supposed to put christ in Houston, but Chris is so far up the Astros took us, I don't think we can put him on becaues he call anymore? At least uh Yeah, he conveniently did not call after the Dodgers swept the Astros. Somehow. I guess he was

on vacation. The phone stopped working even though he was tweeting the show. Yeah, convenient never fails. Alright, have a great rest of your wee can We're back on the radio Sunday night into Monday on the East Coast too am Monday, two am to six Monday through Friday. On the West Coast, we start at eleven pm Sunday night in Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Oregon, Las Vegas, and all the cities in the Pacific time zone.

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