Pimples and Flags

We are back at it again, another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and joined again this week by Ryan McBain who is in the number two chair. What do we call the shotgun writing shotguns on the Saturday podcast? Exactly there. So I'm looking forward to I love the mail Bag, as you know, it's my favorite podcast of the week, answering the questions. It's a spin off of Ask Ben and a great way to pass time on a Sunday. A wonderful way to pass time

on a Sunday. And we thank you for feeding the the mail Bag. And without you feeding the Mailbag, there is no Ask Ben. And some weeks are better than others. This week better than last week. So that's good crunching

the numbers on how many questions we get in. So we need a certain amount of questions, Ryan, because there's a lot of dumb questions that we don't use, so we need we need a volume of questions so we can trim the fat, right, trim the fats what we want to do so we can get to the better questions. And that sounds odd because people said, well, that was a dumb question. What do you ask? That one was? Well, you should hear some of the ones that didn't make

it on the podcast. But people bitch about everything, So what are you gonna do? What are younna do? All right, let's get to it. Here we go. These are actual questions sent by actual listeners. If you would like to contribute to the mail bag, you don't have to wait until I put a post up on Facebook. I normally posted this stuff on Facebook on Wednesday, and that's where most of the questions come. The Facebook page, which is Ben Maller's show, Ben Mallers Show on Facebook. You should

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mail Back. You could send a question in for next week's mail back and then we can obviously answer it next week. You don't have to wait. So where that as the backdrop? Let's get right to it. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, Why he writes in Uh, he says, can Gagon's recent absence from the podcast be attributed to extreme pressure that he is under on a weekly basis to dish out high quality podcast? And number two, have you nominated him

for a Profile Encourage award yet? Uh? Yeah, No, it does seem like he's he's pulled us Simone Biles here and just walked off and that's it. I'm not I'm not doing it anymore. So I don't know. But mcbe has done a great job. You've done a fine job here stepping in and we thank you for your service. And yeah, I think guest Gon should win some kind of Courage Award, and he should be on CNN and they should give him magazine covers. What's what's the Naomi

Osaka package? Magazine to magazine covers, Netflix documentary and a Barbie doll. I think that's what you got. I think that's correct. Yeah, he probably would enjoy the Barbie doll. It would be a new spin on the Ken doll. It would be would be a little different, a little bit, a little bit different there for sure. So all right, thank you for that. Pierre Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia says, Ben, what were you guys doing when nine eleven happened? He says, well,

what were you doing? This? The same for whoever is in with you this week? Whoever? That's the great Ryan mcbank. He's a twitch star. So I'll go first. Jason, I, on September eleven was working at Fox Sports Radio. At that time, I was the weekend overnight guy and I was an update anchor. I was in the newsroom and

I was filling in on September eleven doing updates. I was living at my ship apartment in Hollywood, and I was doing updates that we're supposed to start at I think my shift started like eight in the morning, eight or nine in the morning and went to like four o'clock in the afternoons. It was like an all day shift West Coast time. So I woke up thinking I was in a dream. On September eleven, I woke up and being on the West Coast, it had already happened while I was sleeping. And I woke up and the

emergency broadcast system had been activated. This is not a test, this emergency broadcast and I was like, what the hell is going I thought. I was like, well, what happened to the radio station of my alarm clock. I was like this, they must be malfunctioning. This is not real. And then I was like half a half a week. I was in a day. So I turned on the TV and I saw what had happened, and oh my god,

and it was still playing out. The towers hadn't collapsed by that point by the time I'd woken up, and you know, I made the drive. I had to work, so I made the drive over to the Fox lot. We had studios in West Los Angeles at the Fox Movie Studio lot there and so that's where I did the updates from and I went over there and I went in and and it was just like this weird vibe. I remember that. And we every game got canceled, everything was being postponed because of what had happened. And we

were Sports Network. We shifted to do news, and being at the Fox lot, we had access to the back feed that wasn't being broadcast, and so we saw stuff that we probably should not have seen, and probably stuff we wish we hadn't seen that were just being put on the satellite and and reused for b roll or whatever down the line. And and uh so, I I

very distinct memories of that. But the things I remember most about September eleven, where the guy I filled in for I was not my shift, was very upset that he took that day off because he wanted because a big news story and he wanted to be there. That

was that sounds seemed bizarre to me. I also remember they made us all evacuate our cars from the underground parking lot below the Fox Network center there in West l A. Because they were concerned there were gonna be more planes that were you know in the movie studio is a target, So they made us all move our cars out from underneath the parking garage because they were worried that the plane was going to hit the studio.

I recall that it also changed everything about that I used to go to the Fox lot and I had free reign, I had a pass to do dumb dumb radio, and I would spend hours walking around the the New York Skyline sets and the different sets that they had in the back, and no one gave a fuck. And I would take friends from out of town and I had to pass so I could get by the security gate on the Fox lot, and I would take them

my buddy from Dallas. We spent hours walking around the New York City, you know Brooklyn Street in in the on the Fox lit and it was the greatest time in the world. And then after not eleven that all ended. And then I also remember driving down when when my

shift ended at like four o'clock. I remember my mom was freaking out because my brother lives in Manhattan and we couldn't get ahold of my brother and my sister in law was pregnant at the time with their first kid, and my mom was losing her mind, as you might imagine, because the phones were down. We finally got ahold of

them they were okay, which was great. And then I went down to see my parents after living in Orange County and driving by l A X on the four oh five three Way, which is one of the busiest airports, if not the busiest airport it has been at certain points in the entire history of airports. And I remember driving by and seeing no planes in the sky, and all the planes had been grounded. There were no planes taking off, there were no planes landing. It was completely silent,

and it was just weird. It was just weird. Everything that happened after that, Well, that's a long winded answer. I just gave the Jason a Rocky Mountain. What was Ryan mcvain doing in September eleven. I was a few months out of college. I was trying to get into radio so to make ends meet. I was working at Enterprise Renter Car, which is a ship place. Don't work there, and um, why is it a ship plane? Because paid like paid ship, You're you're putting in sixty hours a week. Uh,

it's angry customers. It's just just just just the rudest of people. It was just a ship job. You have to wear a suit and tie in the hot as Son. The place that I worked at was in Recita, so you know, it was really hot. Oh god, it was so freaking hot. So, um, I'm driving to work and I hear about the news on the radio. I'm like, what the hell, And I'm freaking out because my aunt worked in that building, so and we can't get ahold of her because, like, dude, like just the phone lines

weren't working. So throughout the day, I'm trying to like work and also make sure my mom's calmed down because my mom's freaking out because that's her sister. It was. It was just really bizarre. We hardly had any like business like because it just seemed like everything shut down

all over the world. It was crazy. Yeah. The other thing I remember, my mom like started crying because two weeks before September eleven, the Fateful Day, I was in New York visiting my brother with my younger so all three of my mom's kids were in New York and we went to the World Trade Center And this is a life lesson that I learned that you know, this was two weeks before nine eleven, but I learned it after nine eleven. So we are at the base of the World Trade Center. Were in the lobby of the

Trade Center, right. They had this windows to the World thing that you could go to at the top of the and there was like a restaurant, and there was also an observation deck. And so we we had been walking around. It was a hot day. It was you know, summertime, and you know, it's late August in Manhattan gets very humid and nasty there, and so I was tired. I was very fat. I was covered in sweat. We got to the Trade Center. We get in the lobby. I

remember looking up. I stood on the side of the World Trade Center looked up and I said, holy crap, this thing goes to heaven. This thing, I mean, this goes to the heavens. And so we went into the lobby and it was just like typical office building lobby or whatever. There's a security desk, you got to check in, and then you want to go to the observation tower operation deck. You had to pay money and you did

the restaurants. So we we go in there and the guys like, okay, well we got there like three thirty almost four, and the thing closed like five if I remember correctly, and they were going to charge his full press. I'm like, well, wait aynut, I mean this is more gonna be there for an hour, And they said, well, no, that's just I mean, you can go up if you want. And so I remember turning my older brother, I said, well, you know, I don't think I'm gonna do it. Why

don't we We'll just do it next time. I was like, these buildings are gonna go anywhere. I mean York, I swear to that's exactly what I said, something along those I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but said, well, just the next time, I'll come back and be here. It's not going anywhere. And so I learned the lesson when you have an opportunity to do something, don't push it back because it's

not guaranteed to be there. I still can't. I can't wrap my head around having been there and in the just outside it for a little bit, walking around the little area between the towers, and then it's just amazing to me that all just vanished in one day. So many things changed because of that day, and a lot of kids that they don't get it, like this is how it's always been. No man, it used to be pretty laid back. It's so many things changed. Yeah, the

world changed that day for sure. That was that was nuts. To be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Alright, Changing Gears, Changing Gears of Alls. Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee says, guys, when you were a kid writing carnival rides, did you ever get sick and throw up or ship your pants? That's for both of you, Okay, do you ever have a reversal of fortune? Well? I have, I

have uh shot my pants or ship my pants? Uh, but not because of a carnival um because you thought it would be fun and you know, I just couldn't make it to the bathroom in time, you know. Or you think you have a safety and you don't have a safety and like oops, oh, Spaghettio's gonna change my bitches. Yeah, that's the worst we've all been there where you you let one rip and then you realize, wait a minute, it's uh, that's not that's not gas, that's that's something else.

That's something I got A story for Freddy by Fred who did that. It was in the summertime. He was in the kitchen and he was I don't know why, but he was naked and he thought like I gotta fart supposed to do it, and like, oh no, he's like, I thought I had a safety. Oh man, Jesus, there's that the moment where you have the lightbulb go off saying, oh man, this happened. That's that's horrible, right, that's like, oh crap, And then you got to figure out a

solution to the problem. And the worst is when you're out like a social event, like I've had it happened before. We're you know, you let one rip and it comes out, the wrong stuff comes out there, and so I'm walking and then go somewhere where you're expected the social etiquette is to sit down. But you don't want to sit down because you got to go to the you know, because then it's gonna get really locked in and everything,

and so you want to go to the bathroom. And so it's a big it's a big pain in the ask. Where's the worst place you've had to go to the bathroom? Like you're like, you're like, man, I can't hold it on any longer. I can't hold it any longer. I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go. Well, the worst I've told the story in the pocket. I was walking back when I was out before I got my treadmill, and I was out walking. I was out walking around and I I couldn't. I thought I could make it home.

I thought I could make it home. I couldn't make it home. And then I was like, it was early on in COVID, so I didn't want to touch anything. But they had a public bathroom that was open. So I went in there and I tried to straddle the toilet so I wouldn't touch the toilet and aim for the bowl and no, no, no. So I thought I had perfect aim as I was doing this, and then my horror when I stepped away from the toilet, I had only gotten about of my intended target and about

it looked like a crime scene. It was all over the Oh my god. So, so you're trying to aim with your butt hole. Yeah, but I was straddling the toilet. No, when I was straddling the toilet, so I thought, as long as I stayed with my back straight up, and Mike took us down and I'm straddling the toilet. I think that's perfect. And it was so bad. One of my first jobs in the radio, I was I was on the board. By the way, this this did not happen here. It was many years ago. Okay, So I'm

not gonna say where. But I couldn't leave the board because I'm playing sound running stuff. I couldn't go anywhere. But I'm by myself. I'm like, oh my god, I gotta go. I gotta go. Well, you know, in the corner there was a trash can, So I dropped trout and I took a dump in the trash can. I couldn't go anywhere else. I'm not gonna shoop my AT's what else? What else? And so did you just leave it there in the trash get or did you know?

I actually I took it in, like uh, and I took the bag out and I put in the trash get in the bathroom or or something like that. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you took it out. Yeah, yeah, Well that's polite of you. Yeah, just leave it there and then it smells a little funky in here? What happened? I wonder what would happened here? Yeah, apparently you shouldn't, uh, you know, eat scrambled eggs and drink coffee. Yeah, well,

anything with scrambled eggs. There's only a few things you can't eat with scrambled eggs that will not cause you to have at least for me, I eat. I don't need a lot of eggs. But when I used to, I love the good omelet, like a cheese omelet. I love that. But it was scrambled eggs and bacon and coffee. That's man, I'm gonna tell you that's a dangerous game. Yeah, I like uh is it pastrami hash? Yeah? I like that. That's pretty good. A lot of crap mixed together there.

Let's see page down here on the questions Murray in Saskatoon. That's a fun city, isn't it? Saskatoon? Fun city to say? Saskatoon fun place to say? For both of you, what's your best, favorite, funniest Petro's story the p Well, that would be more about you, Ryan. I didn't really work with Petros. I knew Petros, I've known him for a

long time. I my my favorite Petrol stories when he was a running back on a on a crappy USC team and they finally beat U C. L A after losing like eight games in a row to the Bruins. And I think it was at the Coliseum if I remember correctly. And I was on the field after the game and the students section for USC carried Petros off the field like like that movie. They picked him up and they were carrying him around the field like the guy from Notre Dame. Even the Rudy Rudy, Yeah, Rudy.

They gave Petros the Rudy treatment. So I remember that you worked with Petros though, didn't you. Oh? Yeah, he's a funny guy. Uh. He does a very very good scarface impersonation. And uh one time many years ago he prank called Fred Rogan as scarface. Fred Rogan had new idea. Who the hell was Ruts? It was so good, I dude, I laughed my ass off. Dude. I love that guy. Yeah, No,

he's a great guy. Petrol has been very very nice to me and the big, big fan of Petrols, and he's like the number one guy in afternoon d I've been number one guy him and Money for many many years on a M five seventy in La La, La and Kevin in Kansas right. Since this, dear been, I know you're not a licensed sleep disorder doctor and your sleep habits aren't typical, but do you have any suggestions for helping a person fall asleep at night? County sheep

doesn't seem to work. M I can't help you fall asleep at night because I don't sleep at night as sleep during the day. But I can tell you what you should do now. This is not what I necessarily do, and you should never take advice from an overnight talks your host or a podcast guy. Should never take advice from those people. They're bad people. But here's what I would suggest. No technology. Don't the number one mistake people make, and I do it. I'm guilty of it. Take your

phone with you to bed. Play on your phone before you go to bed. Don't do it. Do not do it. You can watch television. Some people fall asleep when the TV is on. That's why they have the sleep timer on the TV. You can try that, but you don't want to watch anything too interesting because then you want to stay awake. And normally you should not eat anything three hours before you go to bed. Nothing you should eat. You gotta like wind down is the way to describe.

You gotta wind down. That's the first thing you gotta do, and have nothing to distract you when you get in the bed. The bed's got to be the right temperature. You gotta have the room for me. I like it very cold when I sleep. I like to have it like a morgue when I sleep in there. That's what I like. That's the temperature of my air condition. It says morgue. Okay, I like, yeah, that's the same temperature to keep the bodies. And so that's what I prefer.

And then if that doesn't work, I just use my Kirkland brand sleep aide. So that's the other option, and he tips Ryan McMain. To fall asleep, I do one or four things. You are Either I I work out so I get tired. I played video games okay, uh, drink whiskey. Or if that doesn't work, I just masturbate. That always works. Right asleep, I'm like, oh man, that's done, alight, I'm tired now. That's a that's from the old country right there. Self gratification. And then that's how they did

it back in the early days, the Bronze Age. That's that's how mankind. Dude, absolutely correct on that. All right, look at you, alights in and says, have you or any of your staff ever won any journalism awards? Now a couple of ways. Second, as ay, we're not journalists, were radio people. And I always have to explain this to people. See what saying, Well, you're in the media, you're a journalist. No sports, radio and talk show host our opinion providers. Right, we are like the old newspaper.

You had the writer, the reporter that gave you the news, supposedly unbiased. That's not true, but that was the theory. That reporter would just give you the facts, just give me the facts. The columnist would give you the opinions. And so a good talk show host has strong opinions. Is a columnist giving you their opinion on the news of the day or what they think is going to

happen next, So they don't give awards. The other thing that I'll let you in on a dirty secret, is these awards in radio, somebody has to nominate you for those awards, or you have to submit your own material to win an award. I have friends of mine I will not name them, who suck at radio that have won Golden Mic Awards. The reason they won Golden Mic awards is because they submitted material and not very many people actually do that, believe it or not, and they

won Golden Mic or their Golden Mic winners. I've never

won a Golden Mic award. I've never won any award, but I do have food items named after me, which for my money, having chicken fingers in Kansas City at the Landing, having the Mallard Fowler at the Bird in Lawrence, Kansas having that, having the Ben Mallard chicken fingers at the sports Book Bar and grill, or the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich rather the sports Book Bar, and that to me is better than any award because when people go in and they're hungry and they want a nice meal

and they see my name on the menu, that's awesome. It's like my It's like being Tommy John having an operation, but it's food. It's what. But no, I would like to win a Mark Cony. I did work at w e I in Dreaded Boston. McBain hates it, but they won the Marconi Awards. So I consider myself part of a team that won the Marconi Award for the top Sports Radio station in the country. There are individual Marconi awards,

but I have not I will not nominate myself. Someone has to submit it, and nobody has chosen to do that from this company, and no listeners have done it. I don't even know if listeners are allowed to do it. I know Pierre was making a big deal about that about submitting something, but I don't think he actually did so. I have never won any awards, and no one I know that I work with because of the overnights, they don't really give awards out to overnight people, so none

of us have won any awards. There you go, Do you know anyone this one award in radio? I think Coward has well, yeah, probably probably anyway. Fats from Philly, Fats from Philly rights in. This guy's crazy. This guy your typical neanderthal Philadelphia sports mean. He says it has more stars on the American flag or pimples on my ass cheeks. Would you care for an actual video signed Fats in Philly? You can take that one. Well, I have seen all that Fats has to offer, not that

I wanted to see all that Fats has to offer. Oh, this is the guy Ryan that during the NFL Draft lit himself on fire and screamed my name, Ben Baler. I thought that. I thought he was the guy that you met at that truck stop. And that's why you No, No, that's that's moving man, Matt. You're getting your callers, your your celebrity callers mixed up. Bad job by you. This is a different celebrity. This is Fat from Philly. Yeah, I've never met Fats. Fats is one of the great

characters in the history of the show. I'm so glad Fats founder show. So this guy Fats, this cat Fats right, he loves the show. He he lights his chest hair on fire during the draft and screams my name. Then we have this guy, Doc Mike, who drinks his own piss, right, So Fats thought it would be fun to goof around with Doc Mike and and pretend like he was gonna, you know, be a Doc disciple. So he starts talking to Doc on the phone, and Doc believes you should

drink your own urine. So Fats made a video in his kitchen. He wanted to prove that he was drinking his own urine straight from the tap, so he so he he took I think it was like a little cup, and then he had the video and he pulled his shorts down and uh the full Monty, the full, the twig and berries right there and uh, yeah we saw all the Fats. I have not seen his ass cheeks, and I'm good though, I'm good. Yes, Scot would probably like that, but he's not. He's not here. He is,

that's true. But if I'm betting, I'm betting that Fats has more pimples on his ass than the American flag has stars. You're probably you're probably right. Well, here's a new email. This is from Little Fats. It says, Fats in Philly's twenty two year old son. How about how much you having Fats as your dad? You imagine having a crazy dad like that, wild and crazy that will

light himself on fire. Anyway, Little Fats, I wonder how fat Little Fast is says if you had to guess who is more crazy, mirror Pops double shows a um, which is that's the famous sign off by Fats and Philly. He says, us, uh, double shows him. Well, I don't know much about you, a little Fats, but I know you're old man's nuts. He's got he's got the roastes going there that that Fats guy in a good way, and he's everything you expected that every trope of a

Philadelphia sports fan. That's Fats in a nutshell. That's the guy that you know people goof on Philly and certain fans of Philly. But that, to me, Fats is great. But I don't know much about your Fats. But if you are anywhere close to your old man, then when I say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, isn't what they say? That's true? Phrase? So yeah, and you're and you're you're younger, so yeah, can you light yourself on fire? Though? That don't do it for me?

But can you light yourself on fire? Yeah? Do it like storm? Wow, that's a fantastic four comic book reference. Shane Shane writes in Here We Go. Shane writes and says, Hey, Ben, question for you. I know you have lost a ton of weight and you work the overnight shift like me. Do you do all of your eating before work or do you still eat at night? Which is hard to do but you know, at the worst time. Alright, So

a couple of things here, Shane. Let's start with the fact that I have a very bizarre situation I do inter minute fasting is my michigas. I'm into the intermitute fasting, and so I don't eat very much during the week, and that's worked for me. You should, as I said earlier, don't take advice, dietary advice, medical advice from someone on the radio or a podcast. But it's worked for me.

And my routine is to eat. When I do eat, I'll eat normally around four or five o'clock in the afternoon, so what I considered like the middle of the day, which is not really the middle of the day. It's kind of earlier in the day, and that's it. I try to eat and for one hour and sometimes less than that. I'll eat a meal slowly and then maybe a little snack and then that's it and I'm done.

I try to fast at least twenty three hours, but usually I do a couple of fasts that are longer than that, and then overnight I just drink a lot of water. And I figured out it doesn't work for everybody, but it works for me that I can trick my stomach by filling it with water and it it works. Now the problem I've had recently is the key to this is to just work out occasionally, go on the treadmill, get a little sweat going, because then you burn off

the water. Recently, though, McBain, I have not been able to do at because my treadmill is in thirteen thousand pieces, so it is a little problem. I have a lot of water weight, but it'll go away as soon as I start getting back and being able to work out again once I move in a couple of weeks. So that's that's the move. You don't work over nights, pik Man. So I don't know what you would have the tips on losing weight. Uh, you know, I try to work out of like, uh, at least three times a week.

If I can't run or go to the gym, I just I'll like go on long walks like yeah, yeah, walking is great, walking three or four miles. I try and get in. Uh. I try not to pig out, you know, um and uh water waters, water is key or light beer that works, or you know about whiskey. Whiskey is too because whiskey has no carbs. So there you go, go with the whiskey went into out, throw the whiskey out. I hope that helps you. Good good luck, it's tough, man. I've been battling and weight my entire life.

It's a pain in the ass. But I don't give have you try right cocaine and go to the Hollywood Hills? So yes, exactly. Craig from Cammel's City, formerly of St. Louis, says, I think I asked this years ago. But Jennifer Aniston or Angeline, Angelina Joe Lee, Oh, it's it's easy. Yeah, Angelina, what are you talking about? He says Jennifer Aniston. But I tend it's just like that's called what it is?

What's the new? We've got to update that. Unfortunately, because both of them have they've got a little older now Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston. What would be the new? I'm not really you're a twitch guy, so you're up on pop culture, like, who are the two women who you would put in those categories there that you would say It's like the old was Gilligan's Island, That should do? Mary Anner Ginger was the thing? Right? That was always the Which one would you be more attracted to? Type deal?

I don't know. I gotta I gotta think about this one. I'll tell you a girl who I think is drop dead gorgeous. That's Karen Gillen. Oh my god, I give her my left kidney. Really. Oh yes, I love that head hold on, I don't know who this is? All that would be like, let me google Karen. What's your last name? Yeah? G I l l A N. Yeah, I think it's I A N. But yeah, g I L l a N an actress. Actress, Yes, Scottish actress, yes, six ft tall, red hair. Oh yeah, you like you

like those redheads? Oh? I do? I do? Firecrackers? Yes, yes, yeah? Okay, all right, she's a lovely lady. I've never heard of her before. What had she been in? Uh? Gardens of the Galaxy? Uh? Oh wait, I'm looking she's yeah, okay, I haven't been to the movies. By the way, guests, who's now recently single? Who would that be? Mia Khalifa? She's single? Now? Is that right? Yeah? She's single. Would you like to take me a Khalif out on a

nice day? Would you like to? Um? I don't know. Uh. She's definitely got a lot of experience a rookie, she has experienced, She said that recently, since, she says since she announced that she's seeing all that She's had to block a lot of people on the internet. Imagine that. Could you imagine all the messages she's getting. Yeah, that's that's not a job you can leave easily. That's a job.

It's it's kind of like being a musician. You know, when you're a musician, you read a song when you're twenty years old, and then when you're sixty years old, people still want you to perform the song. When you're a porn star, the same thing people people expect you to. Wow. Well, she was dating a lot of athletes, wasn't she the athlete, And a lot of athletes are trying to slide in her d M s and she would put them on blast. Oh that's not well. You shouldn't be like, I don't know, uh,

propositioning people on the internet. That's bad. I had a porn star get upset with me one time on Twitter over something, and then I said, but it wasn't me, a caliph, it was somebody else. I forget her name. Uh. She named some of the film she's in. I know, I know it was something I said about the Dodgers, and I think it was the story. Remember, was a teenage girl ran out on the field hug Cody Bellinger a couple of years ago, and you remember that story.

But we anyway, we had the girl called the show we found I found her on Twitter and it was like it was like one of those stories for twenty four hours where I was like, oh, you know, she became internet famous for twenty four hours whatever, and she's a big dodger fans. We put her on that was interesting, like what happens to you when you run out on the field at a game? And she she told the

stories like nothing happened like that. Her mom came down and had to take her and yelled at her and then that was like and the security guards were laughing. And anyway, so this porn star got upset that I was giving her face Lisa. And by the way, yes, yes, yes, yes yeah, look at you. You know your porn stars. That's a great film to check it out, Lise, look at you. Unbelievable poor knowledge. You must have been to the Avian Awards before. Come on, that is a very impressive. Wow.

I am a sayer of knowledge. I would not have that name just was in and out of my head. But yeah, Lisa Anne who was messing around doing some satellite radio show or something like that. I don't know if she still does, but she got upset with me over my my hot take and got angry. Why was she mad? I forget exactly. I have to go look

it up. But it was something to do as I remember, and remember your memory is not usually all like, but as I recall, it was something to do with the I was giving this girl attention for running on the field, and I shouldn't do that, because you shouldn't celebrate that, you know, that kind of stick in the mud type what you'd think from a porn star. You wouldn't care, right, Yeah, exactly care about that. But she did. She get very upset about that around here too. Yeah. I believe you're correct.

And she does like the Dodgers, and so she's into sports. She follows the Dodgers. I don't know she's I don't know what's going on with her. I don't know. He's the most famous porn star. You know, the most famous ports star of all time is Ron Jeremy. No Kim Kardashian. That's Kid das right. Without Ray, Without Ray J and her, there's no Kim Kardashian. She became a viral sensation of the nation because of a taboo video. Yeah. I mean if I put out a sex tape, I don't think

i'd be famous. I don't know. I don't know how that happened, you know. Yeah, Oh, if I put out at tape, I'd get arrested. So what's the villa sex tape drop? Nobody wants to see that. That'll it'd be like Medusa. You'll become blind if you see that, My god, holy trap. Johnny from Kentucky writes in blue Grass Countries, says, how can I convince my wife to see the light with us and eat crunchy tacos When we have taco night at home? She will we eat soft shells, and

I say, that's not a taco, that's a burrito. Please help, counselor band, Signed Johnny in Glasgow, Kentucky. Well, a great, great email, Johnny. First of all, you're right, your wife is completely wrong. I'm sure your wife's a lovely lady and you love her very much. You married her, you've got a lifetime contract. But this is a bad take by your wife on tacos. So let me let me educate your wife. Okay, I have I live in the mecca of Mexican food in southern California, and we are

just north of the Mexican border. We're like another state in Mexico. It's wonderful with all the different culinary choices. We have a Mexican food here. It's wonderful where I live, and I have. I have friends of mine. I had buddy, my Alex, my friend Alex, he passed away a couple of years ago, and Mexican guy, and he used to bust my balls because he said, those are gringo tacos, right, that the the the the crunchy tacos are gingo taco

And I disagree to me. That is the perfect meal because you get all the delicious meat, all the delicious cheese, a little bit of less, not too much lettuce for me, um, whatever else you like in your taco, and then you get the deep fried crunch of that corn or flour. I like corn shell. It's perfect it. You don't mess with perfection. And I need the crunch. I need the crunch. You don't get that. And you're absolutely correct that a soft taco is just a burrito that hasn't been wrapped.

That's all it is. It's a small, little pint sized burrito. And and so so No, And if you ever get to l A the the holy land of the crunchy tacos, this place called Tito's Tacos. It's in Culver City and I used to go there when I lived at the old apartment three times a week. That's probably why I got so fat, because I love those tacos so much. And and if you go there, you might want to get a second job because the tacos used to cost.

When I started going there, they were like a dollar seventy five, which was I thought expensive a two dollar taco. Now they're like five bucks. Yeah, it's like five bucks for a taco. It's just ridiculous. They're big tacos. Yeah, I mean they're big, but they're not they're not human. Have you never been there? No? But but I know, I know, Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, not really. It's and you're you're close enough you don't have to get on a plane to go there, so

you should check it out. And I've tried to recreate My wife does a pretty good rip off version of Tito's Tacos. We don't have a deep friar. They deep fry their shells and so they have an advantage. Clue. That's a money making operation. They used to be a cash only business. They only added credit cards a couple of years ago. They were getting straight cash cash. Yeah, that's right. That's just like Randy Moss. Straight cash hold me,

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I have not eaten the steak I am. I think my plan now is to wait until I get moved into the new place and then burn the burn the ship out of that steak. Make it look like the tires on my cars. I'm tiring my car. He says, you did say you were going to eat it on a special occasion. So yeah, well it is a special in the change occasion. Get him in a gas can west of the four or five also, he says, yeah, he who knows he's like a cockroach gascon though he

might come back, You never know. You know, he's a cockroach. Uh. He says, you guys need to change it up on the show with Marcel, it's getting kind of stale. Carlos, I disagree. The only thing getting stale with Marcel is the food he eats. But Marcel, you've got to appreciate Marcell. People get so upset. Who knew that Marcel would be a polarizing call. It blows my mind The things that the consumer of radio get upset with. It just blows my mind. For example, Marcel is harmless. He lives in

the projects in Brooklyn. He doesn't leave his apartment. The only joy the man gets in life is calling dopey radio shows like the one I do. So if we take a call for three minutes on a Wednesday or a Friday or Monday, how is that gonna funk up your life? And we which we attempt to spend and make it exciting and have fun with Marcella, I don't I think, I think, I'm I'm fine with it. I get a kick out of marcel. I love how seriously

he takes this and how it's for him. This is the most important thing in his life, and I appreciate that. It's my act of kindness. Say I'm not a cold hearted bastard all the time. McBain, I'm not say that, But no, occasionally I'm Benny Brightside. Yeah, all right. Adrian in the Mile High City. He's he actually visited Disneyland. I was trying to meet Adrian. He's with his family, is a huge super fan of the show in Denver, and unfortunately he was not here on one of the

days I could meet him. So I'm really only available a couple of days a week because of the show takes up all my time, and I don't have any any free time at all pretty much during the week, but Fridays and Saturdays are typically the only days I could do anything like that. Anyway, He's sent a photo and this guy had a rip off Ben Mallor's shirt made and he went to Disneyland wearing my name McBain walking around the Magic Kingdom, Tune Town and all the

all the different worlds there at Disneyland. So thank you, Adrian. That was that was pretty cool. And you got you got a good looking family there. You're proud of yourself there. I have not been there in a long time. Disneyland. It's too expensive, Jesus. Let me tell you a little secret, a little secret. You gotta find somebody that works at Disney because they and you. You gotta you gotta help

model it because you they can take you. Disney employees can take up to three other people and get you in for free. I don't know if that's still the case with COVID, but I'm fortunate enough that I've been in radio long enough that I have many friends that I used to work with in radio. As you know, it's a transient business that now work at Disney and the evil four letter, and they have they give him this little card when you work at Disney and you can go to to Disneyland. But then I end up

not that I would ever do is. But if I did do this, Ruyn, you know, not that I would ever do this, because it'll be wrong, of course and correct. But if I were to do it, I would have to, you know, slip them a hundred bucks or something like that to get me and a friend in or something like that, you know, which is which is a lot cheaper I hear than actually buying admission to Disneyland. And

they keep raising their prices to must make a fortune. Yeah, I think that's bullshit because they're they're screwing Disneyland, you know, the admission pride. I know it's their business. They can do whatever they want, their private business and all that, but wouldn't you want the whole point is to get the kids in there and then they become fans for life. We all get indoctrinated as kids with Mickey Mouse and Goofy and Donald Duck and all these ridiculous characters. It's

like the McDonald's Happy Meal. The greatest thing ever McDonald's did was come up with a happy meal. Kids love McDonald's because of the happy meal, and when they're adults will stolen get hungry. I'll go get a big mac and fries because they flash back to their childhood. But you'd want to encourage more younger people to get in, so that's a bad job by then. But it's there there. How much is a Disneyland one day pass? What do

you think it is? Right now? Today? I could probably work a full shifts here and not pay for a pass for one day. All right, I'm looking right now. Hold on a second, I'm looking. I'm going on Disneyland dot Disney dot go and and it also depends on on on the time you go to see theme park tickets clicking on that this continue to shopping, all right? An want to sare there's always COVID warnings. I don't need that standard theme day ticket, a one to five

day ticket. The longer you play, the less you pay per day. It says it starts at oh, wait a minute, one day one theme park ticket is seventy two dollars. That seems like that's low, actually, says California Residents. UH says a three day, one park per day take a one park per day though. Yeah, you gotta go to both, don't you. That's eighty three dollars. How much is it if you want to go to both? Is that like right now or like because I'm pretty sure like certain

times of the year the prices shoot up. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Although aren't they limiting how many people can get in these days? Because there's because the COVID? I think that's I definitely wouldn't go there right now. No, he would stay away, hang out with the masses. Look, I don't even like people to begin with. Now you are asking me if I'm gonna go to a place to where I can catch COVID. No, I'm good. Well, conceivably you can catch it anywhere. Yeah, but I'm more

likely to catch it there. But I thought you were hit the vaccination. You had the vaccine, but the delta variance out. Now I gotta worry about that ship. Yeah, live your life, okay, Yeah, I'll live my life in a casket. That's great. Thanks. Well, you're gonna up there anyway. At some point, there's gonna happen in the end game, you have a fatal illness. It's called life. No one's ever gotten out of life. No one has everything that's right. You know, the moment you start dying is the moment

you're born. Yes, it's pretty wild to think about that, but it's my positive thought of the day. Positive re affirmations future. Tony Robbins Mike in Rhode Island. Right so, and he says, should Tokyo have a secondary Olympics with games for people who test positive for COVID while they're there? I'd actually watch watch that. He's dying. But you know what, look at that speed? Yeah, he says, hurdles wall hooked up to a respirator sounds like musty TV. Wow, he

went there there. I watch a boxing match. Two dudes is Coffin just thrown throwing haymakers, coughing blood up. He'd be like, hey, I'm in on that. Yeah. I say, if they want, if they're in an individual word and they're not going to be in contact with anyone else, and they want to participate, and they have COVID and they're okay, let him participate. Let them they're asymptomatic, let him, let them do their thing, let him go. Last one

last email from Ohio Al. He says, bennybo anybody, even though I clearly stated that my prior email with Talent Show observations was feedback, and feedback was for your information only. Well, my apologies, Ohio, Wow, my reading retention skills not the greatest. I must have overlooked that. He says. It was not made to be shared on the air. He says it was actually eye opening hearing you read it on the

Fifth Hour podcast. All of what I said was factual, but Ohio, all says, I realized that it came off sounding like a douche canoe full of sour grips. Well that is, he says, my song, Your song was great. Ohio, Wow, You've got nothing to be upset about. Your song was wonderful. We still play it all the time. You get a lot of airplay on four hundred radio stations. You know how many struggling musicians would love to be played on four hundred radio stations, and you're getting that. You're getting

that your national airplay, international airplay. Anyway, says my song was not the only act doct points for being recorded versus live, and the best act did win the Talent Show. Congrats to just Josh and Jay Scoop. I probably triggered you by using the word hypocritical in describing your judging. For that, I am sorry. Well yeah, yeah, yeah, you hit my button. You sent off the volcano of molten lava, he says, in retrospect, inconsistent would have been a better

choice of words, which is also an offensive words. He also said my sincere apologies to Dick and Datono. Don't worry. Dick only listens to terrestrial radio. Dick is not listening, nor has never listened to the podcast. He doesn't listen. He says, I had no right to drag him into my poor attempt at self deprecating humor. It takes real balls to perform live on the radio. Blah blah blah blah blah, he says, uh, and I better end this before it turns out to be a Drew Breese apology tour.

Thank you. Yeah, well yeah, you're proper to end it there, as Breeze apologized again, it's it's the weekend. I think you should applogize anyway. Thank you. Ohio, I apologize. I didn't realize that was not for on air consumption. I just assumed it was on air and you should probably write that in the email. Hey, don't say this on the air. Yeah, well, he says he did, but I don't remember seeing that. I thought I read the whole email on on the show. I guess I did not.

I guess I screwed that up bed job by me. Well that is it. We will put the baby to bed. We'll be back. I will be back tonight in the Magic Radio box. The NFL training camp period continue, were just a couple of days away from exhibition football. Whoo so exciting and let's it's not. I'm except we didn't closer to the NFL. That's where that's where we have more listeners, that's where we have higher ratings. That's where things really matter. Hot takes on football. Let's go Raiders, Baby,

Let's go Raiders. Greatness of the writers. All right, Mr McBain, how can people reach you? Ryan? You've been great here the last month Dorman's work. As I said here and as I mentioned in a previous podcast, they should throw a bunch of gold buoy on your direction. Yes, find me on Twitter a's Ryan McBain R Y A N M C B A I N and on the Twitch. Yes, I'm cool like that. Ryan McBain on Twitch, and remember folks that the root of all evil pretty much came

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