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Maller starts right now. That it does. We are in the air everywhere coast to coast, border to border and beyond as we alluviate the weekend away eight days a week, eight days a week, Philip Buster ring because four hours on the overnight not enough, we do thank you. This is a podcast. The Sunday podcast is really the great litmus test. There's not a lot of promotion for the Sunday Podcast. We're competing with the NFL, but the download numbers continue to be great, so thank you for that.

As I said in an earlier podcast, I thank you and hate you at the same time, because that means we have to keep doing this because the numbers are good, so management likes that, so we'll keep it going. Uh, and we'll keep the train of moving down the tracks. It is a mail bag podcast, So we're not gonna deally dally, not gonna waste time, not gonna lollygag, not to gonna procrastinate like Gascon does. David Gascon here west

of the four or five. You hate him, You tell me to get rid of him, and he's still here. He's still here. Y'all could kiss my fucking ask very nice this? How about this used to be way more fun before the guys dove deep into their conservative political agendas. Maybe move back to one show a week with guests. The episodes of picking games against the spread and with the guests are actually really good. If not, either one of these guys would make a great talking head or

guests for Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel. Well, first of all, I would I would love to be a guest on Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson. That would be a great honor a highly grated show. Why don't we get Tucker Carlson on the podcast where people have heart attacks? If we got them, why don't we get him on? Why don't these put them on. You have You have colleagues here at Fox that call Tucker Carlson a white supremacist? Is that right? Well? How is he white supremacist? What

is he in the KKK? I didn't he didn't get that message. I have no idea. Okay, uh but no, I see, so you don't if you don't agree with me politically, calm down. I'm looking forward. I I hope someone does take our advice and does like a five pick parlay on the presidential prop bets that you gave out. I think it'd be awesome. All right, let's take a bet. Now. We usually do an interview podcast on Friday. We try to do that. We try to bring somebody in we like,

somebody we know or somebody we don't know. We want to know and we want to like, how will the Friday podcast do? Which was only about the election? We went way too long. We went way too long because of the situation. We got excited with the prop bets. Will it do as well as last week's podcast? Better or worse? I think it will do better better, Yeah, I think it'll do. The last Friday was the Babylon b Guy, the CEO of the Babylon Be, which was very good. Yeah, I'm gonna say it does about the same.

Did you What was the reaction like, because I saw a lot of people commenting, so they liked it. Yeah, I got some positive feedback. People really enjoyed it, which is always nice, and it makes you feel good when people say that they like something you do. It makes you feel like that's kind of cool that people actually listened to it and liked it. So uh. In fact, I have an email here from Let's see here from

the Couch. The couch actually wrote in it says, great interviews with Andy Furman and the guy from the b both are very funny. Perhaps a journalism gig for Gascon coming up. Yes, some people did say Gascon that that you were fishing for a job at the Babylon Be. Any truth to that. Why would that be? He said, He was clear. He said most of his staff as part time people. Yeah, but you could get a part time gig and worked that into a full time gig

if the BE really blows up even more. And he did say that they're lacking the sports gene at the Babylon Be, that they don't have a lot of sports people. There's an option. It's like, hey, I'll be your sports guy. Maybe I don't know. How about we could both team

up and submit. You should email him and say, hey, you know, we'll be your sports guy because we can think of Babylon be like stories that are so ridiculous and over the top, right, we could like that Tony Larussis and LaRussa got hired as the White Sox manager, and you could you could think of the comedy you could do on the Babylon b with the LaRussa story. Actually, how about this, we're thinking out loud, Um, how great is it to be in your late seventies though the

russ Is in his mid to late seventies. White Sox manager Joe Biden seventies seven. Donald Trump was seventy four. Yeah, one of those gonna be president and get a big league managing job. I remember Jack McKeon managed the Marlins at age eighty and uh he won a World Series a little younger than that, but he was man he I had some great conference, me and Lee Klein, who

had on the podcast. We had some amazing conversations with Jack McKeon about the early days of baseball was wild, So what what if we did what if we did a Babylon B podcast where you had to open up the podcast with a fake monologue, but you and I were playing off of it and obviously a thing of if we would fit, if people would believe it or not. So it's like a war of the world situation and where you know, I, I gotta tell you guess I got street cred. I can't be given up my street cred.

I am a bastion of truth. I cannot be compromised. I cannot be You're trying to compromise my my credibility here. You just said we should do something. Well, no, I said no if I if I submit that, I gonna put my name in it or your name in it. But if we submit it like a headline, they said, the most important thing is the headline. That the story

doesn't really matters the headline. So what would let's just do a little exercise LaRussa hired by the White Sox and drive through of um, well, no, you gotta tie it in, like, let's let's try to work this out. Um, what's been the big unfortunately very sad story, But it is a story that many people dying in nursing homes. So the Russa's saved from coronavirus, taken out of nursing home to manage the White Sox. How about that? No? Could you don't seem to like that? All right, well

you better than that. I was gonna say, like, maybe like LaRussa, Larissa arrested for d u I gets hired by White Sox. Oh no, that's too obvious. Yeah, how about let's see here, Larussa's saved from drowning in drunk tank. About that. You're gonna have some comedy, man, Yeah, I don't think about that. LaRussa hired to manage the White Sox. In an unrelated note, whiskey and bourbon sales going up in Chicago. All right, let's get to the mail bag. We don't have tons of time here. Yes, these are

actual questions sent in by actual listeners like yourself. I do apologize. I got a little carried away because the Dodgers won the World Series, and so I did not part really post this on Wednesday. I was in my Championship hangover, So I did not do that bad job by me. Alright, Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts rights and he says, by that, how great is it that Pierre who's one of the big star fans of the show, pe One guy. Pierre is from a town my and father lived in

and grew up in. Worked as a plumber in Springfield, mass before he headed out to the West coast. All right, so Pierre says, He says, Hey, why are people so easily triggered these days? I'm drinking the Mallard brand kool aid. I listen every day to the show and podcast. Well, thank you, I comment live on Twitter. This is true. I sent in a care package for you and the crew. I may have bought the first item from your fanatics link. I have missed a YouTube episode. I have not missed

a YouTube episode. And I even spent the time to write a very factual and eloquent review of the podcast on Apple. And yet Gagon doesn't appear to appreciate my efforts. What happened to the customers? Always right? That's a great point. You know, when you're raised west of the four oh five, you spit a loogie at the people below you. I do not. I'm a man of the people. I am a man the people. I don't see his name, unlike you, I don't see his name anywhere in the podcast The

little People. Yeah, you know. The funny thing about this guest gun the more this podcast continues. Yes, you know what I've learned about you. You're learning things about man. Huh. No, No, I have learned that you are like Hillary Clinton. How's that you call the Mallam militia the deplorable? You do you do? You call them? Well? You do? You? You've said very mean things toothless yes, exactly, yes, smelling uh huh, poor hygiene. So you're the Hillary Clinton the show, and

I'm the Donald Trump. You're the Hillary. Yeah. Yeah, you're totally dishonest. No, you're like Joe Biden. Totally like Joe Biden. You stay in your bunker. You stay in your bunker. You don't want to go outside. You are fake news. You are an enemy of the people. You are a sworn enemy, you and your little alternative facts guest guys. Right, yeah, I guess yes, but you're full of lie. It's your

full of lies. I don't see pierrece comments anywhere on the comments section of the podcast, so open your bloody eyes. All right, Well, thank you, Pierre. He also says where can I cash in my golden ticket that you issued, but Gagon doesn't egnoce, we'll call in call into the show. We don't take calls in the show anyway. Called into the show. Uh see, when is Gagon's old man going to be on to speak all things law Enforcement o

J and explain how David came from his loins. Was gonna bring him on a couple of days ago, but Ben was not too excited about that. Well, I know, I'm excited to have your dad on. I probably should sit that one out and just let you and your dad talk. I would sit that out. I can't, like, I can't ask questions of your dad. Okay, well I can go that way. He can either go you asking your dad or I could ask your dad. But okay, so fine, and then uh yeah, we're gonna have him on.

I I was lining up bigger name guests, but I think we got the Ron pull Peel treatment. I'm pretty sure we got the Robbo Peel treatment, so I know, so yeah, I wanted to get Rompol Peel on. The old infomercial guy was retired and I was friends with him on social media, so I sent him a bay a message, and of course the response was can you send me an email to my publicist. You know, so you know you retired, you have a goddamn publicist. So I went, all right, I sent an email, and then

was back and forth. And you know, Ron such a dick that I like him. I'm a fan of his still, but he's a deck. He wouldn't come on because we weren't big enough, so it wasn't worth his time to leave his Malibu abode. Uh. So there was that. And then so this guy is a very powerful figure in sports. We will not say who. Who is someone related to the most powerful athlete in the most important sport for many people. And so we were gonna have this person on.

And again, the same situation. I was friends with this person on social media. I sent said person a message about coming. Said person Rolleac said contact my publicist please, uh, and then I'll know implied that he would do it. Um sent email to publicists, thinking that this was a done deal. Um, still waiting to hear back. Still still waiting to hear back from said publicists. So screw you. That's what I have to say about that. But we will have your your old man on. The chief will

have him on. At some point. I think I got somebody for next week. I bet somebody on the election, and if I win, we won't have this guy. But if I lose, he has to act. If he wins, he has to come on, and if I if I win, I have to go on his show. Okay, So that's the mail what age group? Uh it's someone I worked with years ago. All right, Um, let's here Michael and Newton falls, Ohio, says Ken, Or will the Dodgers repeat in Michael, I'm living in the moment right now. I'm

not worried about one. I can't wait to see what pandemic is gonna be upon us, what plague is going to be upon us. Uh, here's how I'll answer that. Can of course, the Dodgers are always going to be in a vision where they can win the World Series? Will they win the World Series? Will they repeat? Probably not.

Baseball is a it's a flukey sport, right. You think about how baseball, the outcomes of baseball and the three true outcomes and all that stuff, But the the way baseball teams are set up, it's a it's a weak link sport, which means that you can have the highest payroll and it doesn't really matter that much because the quality of the bit players on the team is more important often in baseball than it isn't like basketball, for example, where if you have a superstar player in basketbent, I

don't know this. If you have a superstar player in basketball, you're set at least to get to the playoffs. You really gotta suck at the plays. Baseball, by rule, it spreads around the opportunity. So therefore, what I'm trying, it's a long way to answer the question, A long road for a short answer. You want brevity. The answers, no, they're not going to repeat. But that's because of the

way baseball set up. A successful major league team should not allocate more than sixtent of its payroll to one player. That usually doesn't happen anymore. It doesn't happen. And even if you've got a dominant picture like look at him or a player Dan Tampa Bay, right, they had the very bonds of modern times, the very bonds amoundern times on their team. He hits only once every turn through the lineup. So you're talking about three or four bats.

That's it, three or four opportunities, and all of those three or four opportunities. Randy Rose Arena, you could walk him a couple of times so he doesn't get the at home run. I'll tell you what though, that guy was fucking white hot. That guy was hot. Now is he a one hit wonder? Is he my Sharona or does he come back and do it again in the regular season. Is this guy that has staying power? I think he does. We'll see. Here's the thing that I'm sure you noticed this when he was playing like he

was spraying the field. He wasn't trying to pull every ball like months he or like Bellinger. He can go to the opposite way. That wasn't a problem. I think Brandon Low, of anybody, that was the one guy. I was like, how the fund does this guy walking with fastball and hit it out? And he did? But yeah, I think it Rose a Rand stays for a long period of time. I say, he stays, but it's couldn't be impossible to match the legacy that he has built.

The foundation right because if he goes a month and bats two hundred with no home runs, they'll say, well, there you go. I don't know what happened to the playoffs, but I look at him now he's warped. He's buckled. That that whole one hit wonder thing though, and we've seen that in baseball. We see Kevin moss Is a famous one in baseball. Came up hit all these home runs, did nothing, Brady Anderson. Brady Anderson, well that was there

was some chemical reasons for that. But the fifty home runs, and it was wonderful, and you turned into a one trick pony. One trick pony. So a cause celebra right is what they call it. Coselem again like this to him, alright, moving on here, thank you, Michael, and I did see Michael. They were there were Mallard Militia guys in Ohio that we're bonding because of our show. So that that made me feel pretty pretty good. There they were, they were

going back and forth. There was one guy in Steubenville, Ohio, Dusty, and he was like going back with Michael's They were having a great conversation, Carlos, and Houston says, how much did you and Roberto drink after Dodgers won the World Series? Well, I'm saving my true celebration to the weekend, but I will tell you that my man Roberto was so schnockered, as we said on the radio that he I'm we weren't making this up. He had to take an uber

to work because he could not drive. He would have gotten if he had gotten pulled over in an accident, and it could have injured somebody. So he at least Roberto listened to my ps A guestcon and did not drink and drive. But yeah, he was completely slashed and uh and I told him, I said, dude, just calling sick, take the day off, and but you know I can't do that at the last minute. Cannot do it. They

don't allow that. So he showed up and I give him credit for showing up to work, but he was he was so blitz that he couldn't do his bit cooking with the burder. He was so so hammered and was like, oh man, jeez, all right, falls fan, Jimmy says, Ben, and now that you have broken through and won a championship, that leaves Eddie with the longest championship drought. Come up with a cursed name for Eddie. He says, the Curse of Edmund Dallas steamboat Willie Garcia, Wait, what's this drought? Well,

the teams he likes. Yeah, but the King's won in two thousand fourteen. Yeah, but that's still the Lakers just won sixteen days before the Dodger. Oh, here's the Laker frown. What's that? No, no, no, I'm saying, no cooping bird or Laker fans. Eddie's a He's a pirate Steeler Kings fan, which is odd, bizarre, weird. What were the curse of Garcia? But you see, Eddie celebrated his nineteenth anniversary at Fox Sports Radio. I am just months ahead and I've been

at the company for over twenty years. But the company gave me a six month, twenty six day vacation in twenty on nine, so it's very close. It's like neck and neck between me and Eddie. I asked, Eddie, did they give you a gold watch for that, because I'm still waiting for my gold watch for my twenty. We only like round numbers though, so nineteen is not impressive, but twenty will be impressive when he gets to twenty because I'm a twenty. Next year will be seven for man. Yeah,

call me when you get to fifteen. You know, I don't know if I want to. Oh, you actually did leave. Also, you left and let's put on I actually had a leave of absence. For some reason, people allowed you to come back into the building. No, I don't know why. That was clearly oversight, may mistake was made. Uh No, I don't know who sent this one in It says it's so good to finally hear a sports talk host makes sense of the Dodgers Justin Turner COVID nineteen incident.

Then he goes on a rang. He says, these limbs want the world stopped secondary to COVID. I don't know about all that, but there is certainly uh a feeding frenzy, like blood in the water for a piranha. Then he then he rips. He says, in the midday pussies on w E I still don't go to the studio. But they want baseball to have Turners suspended for life. Yeah, well, we've heard there are many wokesters, the wocarati would like

to have Justin Turner suspended. I'm not in that. I I think Turner should just retire and say screw you. I've made my money, I'm thirty five, I'm a free agent. The Dodgers likely weren't going to bring him back, and uh, a guy works as in higher license, he's a kid to win the World Series, and these idiots think just because you know, he found out he had something he didn't realize he had because he's asymptomatic, all of a sudden going back out as like a war crime? Are

you freaking kidding me? And I didn't even do a monologue on it. I I don't want to give it that attention because I think he's a bullshit story and I don't want to give the attention. But all the other people freak out, grab their pearls and clutched their pearls and virtue signal and all that. I don't know what's going on with the midday guys that he I don't know. I don't work there anymore. I have friends there. I hope the station is doing well. Um I don't

know that it is, but I hope it does. No. Maybe I'll be back there someday. So you never know what bad leadership, good leadership, good people. Some brakes went against them. There was an activist we had Jerry Callahan on his morning show Number one morning show in Boston was torpedoed by a whack job actist. So that took the whole station down, good morning show. It's like having a dominant ace in baseball back in the old days. You have a dominant number one starter, You're in it

your shot, right, you got a shot. You gonna be good, you gonna be competitive, or a superstar in the NBA. You might not make the finals. But if you have a big time star, you're relevant, you're interesting. You have a good morning show on radio, it trickles down to everything else, all right, Chris and Marrit Cocoa, Iowa writes in he says, say it right. You said you are an old Hank Williams fan senior, not junior. What are some of your favorite songs country or not? No love

for Hank junior. You I'm not a big Hank junior fan. Oh I loved him on that Monday night football open. I get rowdy from Monday night love that. Um. But you know, when it comes to music, I just go on in these streaming services and I type in like I'm watching the country music documentary. So I typed in Hank Williams SR. I was like, Wow, that's that's pretty good man, that's pretty cool. I like that song, you know, And and then some of the other the the odal

guys or ogel whatever it is. Uh, keep screwing that up. But that guy, Jimmy Rodgers I think is his name, early country music guy. Learned about him because of because of the documentary and so I just try to sample. But as far as country for the only one that I assume is considered country would be Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, but like uh, Jombalaya from Hank Williams the Honky Tonk Blues, which I think the Honky Tongue Blues was the was the one that was stolen and that became Rock around

the Clock. But I mean there's a few of them. So any country music for you, guess, guy Johnny Cash is always up there. Ring of fire. There you go, simple went in doubt. Throw Johnny Cash out pretty much, and I understand, Uh see what else do we have any meany money? Mo Charlie from Memphis, He says the CEO of the Guestscon Group Ltd Limited, Wayne, will you allow David to do another caller free radio show? That was awesome? And just so you know, I drive an

eighteen wheeler for a living. Yeah, so I am the people who work well Charlie, we have no verification. This could be Guestcon's burner account. He's not afraid to leave his house. Listen, we don't know that you actually drive a truck. That doesn't sound like the kind of guy that would be a guest on face because he's spelled out every word correctly. He wrote a lot of caps here, which is the sign of somebody who's paying attention. Little

office rocker, Little office rocker. But Charlie, I'll give you the answer that the next time Guestcon comes in there will depend on Cooper loops vacation schedule, and as far as a caller free show, that depends if guesstcon and continues to be lay z and not actually learn how to use the equipment. Um and if you learn how to lose use the equipment, that we can take calls. But if not, we won't. So MGM John from Vegas writes in Lost Wages and Nobody says, when did you

meet your best friend David Gagon? I guess I met you seven years ago, Gagon when you started at the company. I didn't know you before you worked here. No, yeah, June often yeah. I want to know the point of demarcation where my life got worse June right there all went away. I to hear this, this guy gag On. I think the first time I met you, you were bragging about your San Diego roots. You're working in San Diego radio. Wait a minute, you were working in San Diego.

I know that's why you were bringing it up to me. And I hear stories about you working in San Diego. I don't really have any good stories. All the greats get out of San Diego, they all they all leave Kentucky Tay and Kentucky Jay, right, and this is the last one, by the way, because did you get the bourbon from them? No, Scottsville, Kentucky says we have the goods as promise. I keep hearing this. I'm getting teased. I had a guy from Nebraska that say he was

gonna send me a hat. I had a guy from Minnesota that say he was gonna send me something or something. Now I got Kentucky Tay in Kentucky Jay, remember the world. You gotta let me know, all right, because the mail, the mail situation is at the companies all messed up. So you have to let me know so I can go on a goose chase to find find the package. I will find it, hand to God, I will find it. But it's not easy. And so you gotta let me know,

and I'll go in. I'll go into the office. I'll go just to the very edge of the abyss because our studios are Fox Sports Radio studios are just barely barely east of the four oh five, right on the doors the I'm trying to think of the the lip of death, right the doorstep of doom right there. Anyway, Kentucky, Tay and j right in and say we have the goods as promised. So Ben, regardless of the team and their suckage, will you still sport I had at least once,

all right, See, I know where this is going. And if you send me Laker merchandise or a Stro merchandise, I will not wear one of those hats. Will not happen. So no, but anything else is open. Like pretty much any college, I like wearing college hats, and I'll wear those I have in my arsenal now because if you generous listeners, I've got an Iowa hat in a Minnesota hat. So I need to get more big ten teams represented.

We're very big and Big ten Country. But but yeah, So to answer that question, No, I will not wear any hat. You know, if you wear me, you send me, you know, some ridiculous hat that's gonna get me in some trouble. I'm not gonna wear the hat. Why would I do that. It's getting close to winter season. Maybe a beanie everywhere Beanie Benny's beanie. All right, and gag on, this is for for you. Gag On. You wanted Kentucky bourbon, which you will have. Would you take a shot on

air for authenticity? Fuck? Yeah, I would. So we'll do this on the YouTube channel. Yeah, we do that. That's cool. We gotta do it after November the nine. Why what is that? I've been on antibiotics for a little while and I can't drink Well, no booze for you. You can't take a booze cruise non, Okay, it'll be interesting interesting you're waiting. It's kind of like somebody I know that waiter to heed a steak and I'm not shaving you for that. Yeah, because, okay, taking medicine that's a

little bit different. I'm taking medicine to my medicine every week. I gotta deal with you. Three days a week. That's my medicine. It's a lot of medicine. Guest, Gun, I'm excited for the bourbon. Are you really excited for They fake excited. I'm really excited for bourbon. Can I have some? Yeah? You know you know where we need to go? We need to go to Churchill Downs? Well, yeah, we could do, you know I Buddy, I I went to Saddleback with

was the PR director at Churchill Downs. He's not there anymore. I think he's had a track in Texas, but he was the PR director at Churchill Down. I never took advantage of it. I never made I should have gone. I would have gotten v I P access. They would have let me go anywhere I wanted. I didn't go, Benny v I P would have been amazing. Yes, damn it. I'm still pissed about that, and you should be. Uh

you've ever been to the Derby? Never? Only only places I've been in Santa Anita and obviously del Mar. Santa Anita is great, though, and del Mar is awesome. Where the surf meets the turf at del Mar it is beautiful. My god, there is no track more beautiful than that. I I know Churchill Downs looked good. Santa Anita is awesome.

The way they designed it where you can't even see all of the disgusting humanity between it and the hills, and it looks like you're in this oasis and you're looking at the San Gabriel mountains there and you can't even see the houses, the free way, the business, than all that stuff which is right next to it. It's done right. Yeah, they did do a really well. That's why they built Dodger Stadium the way this Dodger Stadium.

If they built it now, they would built it looking over the skyline of l A, which would also be awesome. But they built it that way so people working in downtown. The O'Malley family, they built it that way so when people working in downtown after the end of the day, they didn't want to look at big buildings. They want to look at the trees and the hills, and so

they built it facing the trees and hills. Fun fact there you go, all right, anything else, guess that's enough for the email, because we uh, you're good, I'm good, alright, Fanito done. We didn't do study this are you bummed out? We didn't do study this. Yeah, but whoever listens to the podcast, don't don't forget Friday, we did the presidential prop bets. Yes, someone does a parlay five picks or more,

five wagers or more in a parlay. Tweet a picture to Ben and we'll have you incorporated in Benny versus the Penny week number nine. Yeah. Absolutely, send us an email, make sure we will know. It'll be obviously time stamped, and we'll read some of those emails and see how we did what we got It's like that big cow your hero coward, does what we got right, what we got wrong there, what the fifth Hour got right? With the fifth Hour got wrong? We'll steal that from him.

Why not, he's still stuff from us. We can still stuff from him. Yes, all fairs and love and war and sports radio, get out and vote like your life depends on it. Yeah, you know, I don't care if you vote good. I think it's I don't want to

get carried away because this thing's over. But I think it's kind of bad to tell people that aren't political, that don't give a shit about politics to vote, because I think if you're engaged, you should, if you you're willing to put some effort, a little bit of effort into it. Then you should vote if you're if you're not educated, but I mean, what are you doing. It's your civic duty. It's like going a jury duty. Yeah, I guess, well, how many more votes we said over?

Under five? I think I'll get five. I got I got two in the bag right now. Mallard votes, Yeah, I think you get six total. I hope I go over. I'm going five, but I hope we got a week over all. Right, listen, have a great rest of your day to enjoy the NFL depending on when you listen to this, and we will be back. I will be back in the Magic Radio Box for a new week of shows. We'll recap what happened this weekend in the NFL.

It's gonna be a crazy roller coaster week with the election, the NFL trade deadline, which I don't think we'll get much attention, but there's something slightly bigger on November three. We will get to all of that over the course of the week. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for supporting the podcast, word of mouth, word of mouth advertising that helps, and we'll catch you next time. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific,