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we've been listening over the weekend. Here we had Mike Harmon, great radio conversation with my my buddy Mike Harmon, and then we also had the story they Look Back at Rush Russia lim Bossom of my memories of Russia, Limball and in interactions with Russia's pen and whatnot. On the Saturday podcast What Today Is All About? You it's the

mail bag. The mail bag. And since Gascon is too lazy to come in here this weekend, we have both the show Who's gonna be with us as well, so the way this works both now, I solicited a bunch of of questions from members of the Mallard militia, big fans of the show, and we'll just go through as many of these as we can. I want to answer them. If you want to add on anything, Bow, you are more than welcome to do that. You want to touch up my work, you can do that if you like,

and we'll see where this takes us. It sounds like sounds like a blast, all right, So here we go, Here we go, all right. Question number one, number one from Chris in any Town, Iowa, formerly known by a different name. He says, during your Fox hiatus, you ran the Rumor website. Why did you end it? And didn't actually make any money? Chris says, well, Chris, I don't actually own the domain name anymorey believe or even it's my name, I don't own the domain name. It's Ben

Mallard dot com was the website. And yeah, I actually made a very good living. I didn't make riduculous money. Didn't make riduculous money, but I made a good living. I ran the Gossip website on my own independent website for many many years. I then partnered with Fox Sports dot Com as the Rumor Guy, and my content I aggregated was put out on on the Fox Sports dot

Com website. UM And at one point I think the eek of that was when Drudge, the Drudge Report was the the end all be all and there was a story that I had put up about Tim Tebow when Tebow came onto the scene with the Broncos in the NFL and uh, and that popped up on the front page of the Drudge Report, and that that was like the coolest thing because that I was like, that was like, oh man, you've arrived. You know, Matt Drudge has taken a story that you put together and that's like a

big deal. And my parents, who were more more political than sports people, that was like that was cool for them to check out. But yeah, I made money on it, and I actually did it way before I was doing both gigs. I did the radio show for a long time. I was the weekend filling guy in radio, so I was like the six man I would do a weekend show Friday, Saturday and occasionally Sunday, and then I would fill in. And a lot of radio people very lazy. They take a lot of time off, and so I

would get a lot of fill in time. But my my main gig day through Friday was running and and correlating the content on the gossip site, aggregating it. And I did that for a long time and I made very good money. And then the thing that really changed, and there were two things that happened. It was the double way, right A. I was offered full time work in radio, and the amount of time I was a one man band. I didn't have a staff, I didn't

have people. I was me. Anything you saw on that website was me, and that's a bad job by me. I should have hired other people and whatnot, but I didn't do it. And so once I got the full time radio gig, I was like, I can't. I just cannot do both. It's just physically impossible to do both because the timing and all that, and the amount of hours that it took to to make the product that I wanted on the website, I couldn't do it. That was the first part Part B though, was around that time.

This is probably twelve thirteen years ago, give or take. Maybe a little sooner than that, maybe remember a little less, but around that time, and so social media was starting to really take off. Because remember and before that it was my Space, it was a O L Netscape navigator, and I started doing the website. In the early days, it was like the old West of the Internet, Chris. And so, to make a long story longer, once social media took over, people were not reading websites much. It

was all about social media. It was about Twitter. Twitter was coming and becoming a bigger and bigger thing, and and all of these worlds converging that the social media stuff, along with the fact that I I had the radio gig, I let it go. Um, but it's always something that I've thought about bringing back, and if anything happens to me in radio, it's certainly something I would consider if I can monetize it and there's a market for it,

and I think there is now. What I've seen is a lot of people now have shied away from spending as much time on social media because of the the down downside of social media. So I think they're the people are starting to come back to just regular websites. I know, in my life, I used to be on Twitter, you know, fifteen hours a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not on there much at all these days. Um, I'm

I'm over it. Um. I get my information from different websites that I trust, uh, and in different other sources outside of the social media world. So that's a long answer to a short question for Chris Michael in Newton Falls right. So he says, this question is for Benjamin. How do you keep such a sharp wit when you hardly sleep? Perhaps you are a sleep deprived, drunk and delirious. Michael says, well, first of all, Michael, thank you for

the question. Uh. Secondly, you can blame my DNA. I come from a family of bad sleep I come from a family of terrible sleepers. That's just the reality. We're all like that. And I used to bust my dad's balls. Yes, I can't sleep, it's your fault, you know. And he couldn't sleep. He was a bad sleeper. And um, yeah, I'm a four or five hour a night sleep guy. I wish that how long? How long do you sleep? Both? I try to get like the seven or eight, but it just doesn't do anything for me. So maybe I

should try the four or five hours. No, no, I I would. I want to get seven or eight. I my goal is to get seven or eight. But I'm usually up and I just wake up randomly and can't go back to sleep after about four or five hours. See like that. That happens to me too. But yeah, I don't know. It's just it feels like it's never enough for me. So I don't know. Yeah, I'm not. My wife's a very good sleeper, but I'm not a

a good sleeper. But but that's the cool thing. It's actually sometimes when my wife's told me this and other people said that, it's actually thing that I can get more done because I don't have to sleep as much and I'm and now there are times where for whatever reason, I don't get like maybe I get like an hour for an hour and a half. And then I will come in here and you'll know when this is because I will sound like I I have, you know, had

a case of booze right before I came. I will be a stumble bump, just a complete drunk and I'll slur my words. And so that does happen every once in a while, but usually if i'm if I'm if I get four or five hours, I'm fine, I'm I'm okay. And and usually the end of the week, like today's a podcast day that we're when we're recording this, and this is a day and we record this during the

day I do the overnight show. I you know, go to bed around the same time every every morning, which is not convenient to do a daytime podcast, and so I don't get a lot of sleep, and we when we are recording these podcasts. But that's just part of the part of the deal. See I've always wondered, Uh, do you go to sleep right after the show is over?

Or do you stay up for a little bit? No? No, God, no, I have to wind down, Like I have a whole routine, like I, you know, doing doing the radio show, being on the radio, you know, you you work yourself into a different spot and there's a different level of energy, and then I have to wind down. So I'll usually jump on the treadmill and I'll go on there, which is I don't think a good way to wind down. Probably by the way, I don't think they recommend that,

but I'll just go on there and us walk. You know, I don't jog or run. I just kind of walk and get my body moving because you do it a four hour show. You're sitting around for four hours. You gotta get the blood going a little bit. Um. So I'll kind of hang out there and I'll I have some me time. We're all I'll look at some stuff and and then I'm always My problem is I'm always

like looking for the next show. I'm like always looking like what can I do for the next show, What what's gonna be the big I'm trying to project what the big stories are gonna be. So that's part of the My mind's always racing. That's that's one of the issues. I can't I can't seem to shut it down. It's problem not see that. That happens to me too. If I if I know I have to do an overnight or something like that, like I try to sleep, but it just the thought in my head is like while

I'm asleep, I'm gonna miss something happening. And then you know, like I'm sure that Ben or Jonas or whoever I'm working with will know. But I still want to be on top of it. So that's a that's a struggle. Oh it's terrible. And I used to have this argument with my dad because my dad was like the same way. But even though my dad didn't work in radio, but

he would. He loved keeping up on the news. He was a news junkie and he'd always be on his phone looking at the news, whatever the political news was or politics, and I was listening, it'll be there when you wake up, you can then you'll have even more news to go through. But of course I didn't follow my own advice either, because I'm the same way like. And then sometimes right before I go to sleep, something big will happen and then I'm like, oh crap, now

I don't want to go to bed. I remember the last time that happened was I was about to go to bed and the story came out that Rob Bob Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, have been been arrested for the tug and rub or the rub and tug, and as I couldn't go to sleep, I might I'm like, oh, my gods, amazing story. I wanted to see what was gonna happen and let you know next and that that goofy local hack police guy came on there and started, you know, trashing Robert Kraft and made this whole big deal.

The story turned out to be nothing as as as you will. But I remember that day. I didn't want to go sleep and I just want to stay up and hear everything. All Right, Who else do we have about Kevin in Kansas? Right? Since it's been last week, you and guest Gon discussed cartoons you watched as kids. I know you watched sports. What are some of the game shows and evening shows you watched? How about Johnny Carson? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we watched the Tonight Show. That was but everyone seemed

only when I was a kid, everyone watched the Tonight Show. Um, and then I was a fan because it seemed cool because he was like the weird late night guy David Letterman. We used to watch. Saturday Night Live was a big thing. That was a big deal to watch Saturday Night Live. I watched Saturday Night Live in years. Um, maybe once in the last couple of years, I watched Saturday Night Live. Uh so, I Kevin. I would watch those shows a

lot of sports, Monday Night Baseball. Fact, I'm such a loser that I stumbled on this old, but it's not old. It's a YouTube channel that shows old games and and I love it because they don't give the score and they don't really tell you what happened. The other night after the show, I'm on the treadmill trying to wind down, and I put on I think it was a nineteen eighty two Chicago White Sox versus Oakland Athletics game. Billy Martin's managing the Athletics and the late great Billy Martin,

Tony Larusso's managing the White Sox. Carlton Fisk is playing catcher for the White Sox. Ricky Henderson was a very young player still at that point for the A's. Uh, they had Cliff Johnson was on the A's. All these like random players that I recall because I'm old. So

I'm I'm watching this and I loved it. And and Howard Cosell, the legendary iconic sports caster, Howard Cosell and Keith Jackson we're calling in the game, and Bob Yucker was like the third man in the booth and uh, and I just loved the hell out And I watched this for like an hour and a half and I still I still have like an hour and a half to get through, and and I it was just a

random game. And you know, I don't even know if I watched it when I was a kid, But it's just nostalgia, I guess would be the way the way to say it. So, uh, that's not really what you were asking, Kevin. But I did watch the tonight show to answer your question. Saturday Night Live, we watched sixty

minutes was a big thing every Sunday. Remember one time my mom, as she rest in peace, she wrote a letter that they read on on sixty minutes and that was that was a big thing for the family that she was famous because there because the letter was read on sixty minutes. Um Valls Fan Jimmy the caller formerly known as Walls Fan. Jimmy says, been and Mr West of the four oh five? Have you ever gone out on a date and the woman was all about you

and you completely blew it? Uh? Well, well, Jimmy, Uh, we don't know Miss West of the four or five is doing Mr West of the four so four or five things with no work. I think he's not here so Bo will help answer this. But but yeah, I was terrible I was so awkward dating and just it was it was a world I was not good at um, which it is amazing. I ever end up getting married, and I went on a lot of a lot of first dates and not a lot of second dates. And

there were reasons for that. I mean, there were obviously reasons for that, and it was uncomfortable. It was my hours, my schedule. Plus I was fat, and uh, women don't like dating fat guys. That's a problem. Uh. So you know, there are a lot of a lot of variables that led to that. But yeah, I mean there were there were some women I would go out with them like, oh my god, amazing, and I'm like okay, and then I just I started talking and I I just keep

biting my tongue, and you know, it was terrible. So I think it happens to every right, even even the show right there's yeah. I I I was in a relationship in high school and then that ended. So most of my my twenties I was in a relationship. So I had no idea how to date. And I finally, you know, worked up the courage to ask someone and we met at a Starbucks in North Hollywood and it was nice. Talking, but it kind of just felt awkward, and you know, like the goodbye hug was weird. Um,

But thankfully she didn't kick me to the curb. And we're supposed to get married here in July, so you got God willing. If everything goes to plan on, that'll be fine. But wait, wait, so you got out of a long term, relatively long term relationship that you started in high school and then the next person you went out with you ended up you're gonna get married to? Wow? Yeah, look at that bow the show. You don't mess around, But you're not a serial dat or No, I'm not.

I'm not much of a Yeah, I I went on a couple of first dates with other people but it just didn't click. But thankfully this one did. So that's that's nice. And also, you know, it's it's good that I'm here to answer this question because I don't think Gascon has been on a date, and in his head, he's wouldn't be wouldn't be much for him to add to this conversation. Yeah, well, being west of the four oh five is guestcon is uh, you know, let's be

honest here. The thing about Gascon is the person he loves the most is the person in the mirror, right right, I mean when you're that, when you're that high brow and pompous and the elitist and all that. I mean, he just he doesn't need a data woman. He can just look at himself in the mirror and just be in love. In love. Oh my, my, my, my my, all right, Clayton writes, in says, can you please tell us the story again of you getting Russia limboss Pen

would be good? Well, go back in Clayton, hear the podcast from Saturday. I did tell the story on the Saturday podcast of Rush, and I told two stories. I told the time I almost met Rush but pot that would have been cool to meet him didn't happen. And then I also told the story about when it was Rush week and he had left and they left the studio open and I gone in there. It was a Rush limball Pen. It's in my collection. J Bone, J Bone in May rights in or in Maine, not may

not May in Maine. He says. So if there was a dating site for the Mallard Militia, who would hook up? Can you imagine the characters that call the show? My god? Well, I know who wouldn't be able to day. It would be like angry Bill. That wouldn't really work too well. Uh oh, well, we'd man. You mentioned dating, we man, send me money, g Matte weed man, hippie and gmail dot com send me money, I mean holler and James

he might fall asleep. Well then you got I'd feel bad for the women because we have a few women that love the show and they're big fans, and there's a lot of creepy guys. You know. It's like, uh if imagine if Regina spin Cycle, Regina in Minnesota was on their Holy crap, these losers, you guys, Oh my god, would be a nightmare. How about Flexus, America's favorite drag queen caller. I think she was my first caller that

really weirded me out. And I was told about Flexus, But yeah, not being told about Flexus is not the same as actually talking to Flexus. Well, it really is the Welcoming Committee to the Ben Maller Show and what the show is all about. There is the what seven and a half towed drag queen from Upstate New York, the great and really America's most beloved drag queen and only known drag queen caller to sports talk radio flexus. Who else do we have that would be all Hollerwing James.

You imagine Halloween James. He would just scream and shout and h and yell all about would be Halloween James. So, uh, there's plenty, plenty characters that would be fun though. That'd be like a good cartoon. Wouldn't that be a fun cartoon that you have the characters draw them up. Cowboy and windsor Cowboy and winsor would be another one. And uh, you know Blair in Maine. You go down the list there. So all right, Glenn from Carmichael Carmichael, California says, what's

the highest speed you have reached driving an automobile. Now we've been asked this question a few times, Glenn, I have gotten around a hundred. I do not believe I've ever gone over a hundred, mainly for two reasons. I am paranoid that if I go too fast, I'm gonna lose control and that's it, lights out, game over. So that's the first problem. The other problem is I generally have not had vehicles that are designed to go all

that fast. I've had commuter vehicles mostly or I had had an F one fifty for a while, I had an Explorer for some time. I have the Malon wobile I have now is a hybrid. Hybrid are not designed to go over a hundred miles, even though it says you can. They're just not designed to do that. So yeah, I might cut off is somewhere in the nineties, somewhere in the nights. But I've told the story before, My my my thing here and I got I got pulled over from a highway patrol guy and he said that

he never gives tickets. He can't be said, he couldn't speak for other officers, but he couldn't. He never gives tickets to anybody driving seventy nine and under. He said the threshold for him was eighty and above. So Ever, since that conversation, that really resonated with me. So Ever, since that conversation, I of course set the speed the max speed to seventy nine, which is still speeding. But

I have I've not gotten a ticket. I've not been pulled over for a speeding violation since I got that advice, especially especially when you're in like a nondescript car. I used to I used to drive a Mustang and I got pulled over going like nine on the freeway. But I can get up to a five eight nine in my current Corolla and nobody cares. It Really all depends, I think, on what car you're driving. So the advice from both the show is, if you want to be a speed racer, get a generic car. Yes, the most

nondescript car as possible. He can get like a white Corolla or white camera. Drive as fast as you want to. So if you buy a red Lamborghini, chances are that's going to get the attention of law enforcement. Yeah, yeah, I'm giving some of these guys just pull the the really exotic cars over just so it's kind of cool. Can take a closer look at them, you know, yeah, totally.

Like we see some of the cars around our building in Sherman Oaks out here, some of the because the celebrities live up in bel Air and they come down to drive cruise around Ventura Boulevard and whatnot. So Pulvita and I have seen some of the most exotic, outrageous like three wheeled cars, looks like they're out of a circus and really all old cars, cars I've never seen before. And you know, it's just some Hollywood dope driving around taking a joy ride in the middle of the night

or whatever. And area area matters to, like, you know, upper upper class areas. I don't think they're going to pull over cars like that. I remember I used to work at Dodger Stadium, and do you remember, y'all see how Pueak he drove that orange Z car. Yes, yes, he uh. I was walking back to my car after a game and he just zoomed by us, like he almost hit me. Just just cruise out of Dodger Stadium with you know, cops all over the place, because at the end of a Dodger game, nobody cared, like just

that's Pueek being peak. I guess. Yeah, well that was part of the reasons he's no longer a Dodger. It was pweak being pweak. They got they got tired of that. I remember one time I was leaving and it was a playoff game, Playoffs, and I parked in the auxiliary

media parking lot, which is down the hill. You probably parked there if you worked at Dodger Stadium, bow you know that you had to take a shuttle bus up to the top of the hill right near the fire Museum they have their Yeah, so I that during the playoffs we have to park there, and it was the overflow lot. And I remember one time I was walking. I was always I take the shuttle up because it was uphill to Dodgers Statum. But on the way back I would just walk because it was all downhill. If

you know the layout of Dodger Stadium. So I'm walking down and um, and there's a bunch of traffic after a playoff game. It's about half an hour after a playoff game, tons of traffic backed up, and uh there is a I see Cherry Tops. There's a police escort leading yao peg down you know that backstreet that goes behind that parking lot, leading Pueak to the one ten freeway.

It was like the funniest thing. He's he's driving this clown card and he's got a police escort to lead him past all the fans that are stuck in gridlocked traffic trying to get out of Dodger Stadium at like five o'clock after a day playoff game against the Brewers or you know something like that. So yeah, alright, Uh, what else do we have Let's see page down here, A page down. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Pro Basketball Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, rights in and

he's got a couple of questions. He says, you're stuck on a deserted island with gag On, Brian Finlay and record Ralph. Who do you eliminate? First? All right, that's his his question. And then the second question is what do you do to pass the time with Finley and Ralph until you're rescued? Uh? Well, Finley would probably tell stories about tennis, right, or he ball washed some athletes, which he loves to do. He is a big fanboy,

loves his professional athletes. Uh. And then Ralph would probably tell me some stories about the old days in San Diego and we worked together at the Mighty, So that's that's how we were past the time. And then we just goof on, gag On, that's what we're doing. That that that's that would be what we did. Uh. Yeah, you imagined gag On on a deserted, deserted island. He can't even handle doing a podcast. Eye. Yeah, he wouldn't, he wouldn't make it. Yeah, I think I think he'd

last maybe six hours. I try to explain to guy on the key to this, you've gotta be here every week. He has missed more time, My god. Anyway, Dave from Mill Valley rights in. He says, Ben, who would win an arm wrestling match between you and David guns Gascon? Would it be? Would he be a worthy opponent? Or is he all show and no go? Well, Dave, thank you for the question, Dave, And uh, of course the answer is is he's not is he all show and no go. It's he's all no show, is the answer.

Because he wouldn't show up. Yeah, you wouldn't show up. He'd be the guy. He'd be like Conseco when Barstool had Conseco in that celebrity boxing match a couple of weeks back, and Conseco it certainly looked like he took dive there. He showed up, lasted five seconds or whatever, and then now hit hit the hit the mat. That's it. That would be Gagon. That would be all right. Big Mike from Courtland, New York writes in Home of the

Red Dragons. He says, how about discussing all of this sometimes confusing talk about quarterback shifting teams salary caps, dead money, etcetera. The more this is talked about, the more it seems to go in different angles. Perhaps you could make some sense of it. Well, Big Mike, that's a sport oh question. I will attempt to answer it briefly. I do this kind of stuff on the Overnight Show. But I am a salary cap cruther. I'm a salary cap truther. I I believe it is fiction. It is malleable. It is

something you can move around. It is something you use as an excuse when you don't want to keep someone on your team. If you want to keep someone on your team, you're gonna find the money. And because of all of the loopholes and all of the offset language and the fine print in these agreements, as the rams are the living embodiment of this. Now, at some point down the line, you have to you have to take it in the shorts. But you can keep kicking it

down the line. It's like the United States economy. You know how much debt the United States is in. They just keep finding, you know, loopholes and printing money and whatnot. And you know, eventually eventually that will be problematic. Eventually that will be problematic. But until then, no, so I always gett a kick. I see these stories on the latest. One this week was von Miller and the Broncos might have to release von Miller for Sarry Cat reason all

they don't. They don't have to release von Miller for Sarry Cat reasons. They can move some some numbers around and have fun with numbers, used the funny math there to make it work. But they're they're over. They're like von Miller is getting a little long in the tooth. He missed all last season. He wasn't as good as he was that nineteen and he's part of the old guard.

Von Miller is part of the old Broncos. We want a new identity and as long as von Miller is gonna be there, he's gonna be associated with the old Broncos and we want someone new, and so we'll move on. Ethan. In Akron Ohio Rights in our man, Ethan, he says, hey, man, I just got a job in ticket sales. Sales obviously a huge part of the radio industry. That's true, Ethan.

Any sales advice or crazy sales stories that you've run into over the years, well, Efan, good luck being the sales guy because I actually briefly, briefly worked in sales. I briefly worked in sales at a cable radio. He gave me a desk and I was gonna dose sales, and I I just was terrible at it. I was, I was horrible at it. There's an art to it. Now. My experience with sales people in radio is the way to get the easy street is once you get with the uh. I forget what they're called there that I

of the media buyers. The media buyers, I believe it is, and so you know, they just buy a certain number of spots every every month or whatever. I'm not sure how the ticket game works and all that, and I don't know what you're selling tickets to. But most of all of human relations is is personal. So you've got to get on the level. You're selling a product, but you have to let the person know that you care

about them, and just like the basic stuff. I'm not saying anything you have to go full Tony Robbins and go that direction. But from what I've heard from sales people, most of the successful sales people, it is, you know, knowing about people's families and getting on that personal level. And I don't even know if you can do that in the ticket sales game. I'm not sure how that racket works. Um, but you can slowly work on those skills.

Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia. Right, since has Ben, my question for you this time is what is one of your favorite travel vacation memories? Also, if you had the opportunity and to guarantee that you would make it back alive, would you want to visit and walk on the moon. Yes, yes,

hell yes, Jennifery. As far as the moon part, yeah, you guaranteed me I'd come back and I'd be in one piece, and I'd have that experience of being out in the cosmos and looking back at this little blue rock rotating around, thinking everything I've ever known and everything that has ever you know in the humanity has been in that little blue dot. My god, that would be awesome. Plus, I think you'd see some cool stuff. I think you see some stuff that they don't tell us about traveling

to the moon. Yeah, I don't know, that's a that's a no brainer, right, But I mean I think there's there's goblins and creatures and stuff that we don't know about. And yeah, for sure, not believe that there's a other other things out there but us. Yeah, oh definitely. Now what those things are, who the hell knows, And but there's something, there's something out there. And as far as like the travel stories, yeah, I mean I remember family vacations.

I remember when you know the Mallard family is not a camping family. Remember we tried to camp we failed. Um, I remember that. Remember going to the Grand Canyon when I was a kid, trips to Vegas, to Chicago to see family in Chicago. Uh, I grew up in Orange County. We'd go into l A to visit my relatives in l A. I remember going to Hawaii, I mean northern California. Just like random, random trips and very very fun mambies.

When when I was a kid, we had these big family reunions because my family extended family spread out all over the country, and the older generations of the family always made it a point. I don't think it was every year, but it was like every other year they'd

have a family reunion. They're usually in Phoenix, but sometimes they were in Chicago, and we had the Midwestern family and uh in other places, and so I I fondly remember going to meet with my cousins and and uh, you know all the the different characters that were in the family and the older the older generation, which you know they've died off now, but I have fond memories of Uncle Joe and some of the some of the people that we u we hung out with back there.

But I think that's most people. Right when you're a kid, you remember certain certain things that stayed out about your your childhood and trips that you made and things like that. Yeah. Yeah, uh personally, like I had a family friend that would take me to Disneyland every summer, Disneyland and Universal Studios. That's awesome. Yeah, so that was fun. But uh yeah, I know that's that's those are probably like the most memorable trips for me personally, was doing that every summer.

And I was like gotten older. I have you know, when I have I have nieces and you know, nephews and things like that. And in fact, my sister in law just she's got a couple of young kids, so I'm waiting they're not quite old enough yet. But there's that goldilog zone when you're a kid between nine and eleven, where you that's the point you don't reset. You know, there's a certain point you reset, you're not gonna remember stuff.

Usually it's it's different for everybody. But I don't remember anything before I was like five, But for a lot of people, it's like nine, nine to eleven right around there as you start to figure things out a little bit, but you're still a kid, and like that's the time to take, you know, to have the trips to Disneyland and those because those are lifetime memories that will influence

kids for like the rest of your life. Like I'm thinking, like when I was a kid, the stuff I remember, it was around that age nine, ten, eleven, twelve, right around there. Yeah, no, I I I don't get the people they take their infants to Disneyland, Like, uh, that

seems like a waste to me. Well because they're free, but yeah, like when they start charging, like it's like, you know, come on to really get the full experience, it's gotta the kid's gotta be like, you know, seven, eight, nine, I'd go nine to a nine to twelve someone in those lines. So you gotta remember meeting Mickey, Yeah, exactly. It's very important, very very important. All right, who else do we have let's see page down here. Eric and Omas has any chance that the polar vortex is karma

for the cheating as Stros. I hope the buzzers are frozen now. Wow. Then he says, prayers out to everyone that went through the polar votchecks uh in Texas. Yeah that was pretty crazy. Yeah, I'm gonna say that that had nothing to do with the cheating Astros, but the downfall of the Rockets and the downfall of the Texans, there is a correlation between what happened with the Astros.

Stephen Boston writes and says, if Cam Newton returns next season, will teams know his injury passed and total lack of ability, Will they will start really going after him? Or because of his likability, will he be given a past. No, he's not gonna be giving a pass. No, no, no, they were, They were going after him this year. I don't think that business operates where they don't go if they you find a weakness. It's like anything the art of war. You find your opponent's weakness and you attack.

So I can't If Cam comes back, holy crap, what a what a disaster? Cam Newton is back? Is the Patriots quarterback will have things will have have to gone really wrong for that to happen. I think, Yeah, they don't want to spend any money on a quarterback, and he has spent a little bit. You can't sell Patriots fans on another year of Cam. I just I just

don't think it'll work. Well. They were hyping up Jared Stidham, the other guy, and then they never hardly play him at all, and they was talking about he was gonna be the heir to Tom Brady and all that didn't happen. That was weird. That never felt real to me. Um, yeah, well I thought it was. I was buying into it, and then What's training camp started? Forget about it? I'm Matt you Almira New York rights in. He says, what is the song that comes on the radio that you

absolutely can't stand and turn off immediately? So I think we all have one. He says, mine would be Life is a Highway. He says, I f and hate that song. I'm actually pissed right now just thinking about it. Um, And so he then curses out Tom the guy that made this song. Uh, you know, I I'm not good

with song names. My my thing, Matt is that I I cannot stand the parts of songs where they just repeat the lyrics over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, and I just I'm done. And there's a lot of the newer songs where it's just you have, like I understand, you have verses and you repeat verses, but I'm saying it's just one line over and over and over again. I'm out. I'm out.

And you know, there's there's those lists of songs that have the the most repetitive uh songs, which you know, I again I don't know in names. I can look them up if you want, but it's just I cannot I cannot stand that. I just man, uh that there was that pump Up, pump up the jam that's an old one from back in the day. Heck uh even uh, I don't know was it was it Funky Town? I think it was that and it was that that was trying to think of some of the older ones. But yeah,

that's what I had. Any song that is in your head there both that you cannot stand, you know, I I used it. I used Spotify mostly. I don't really listen to the radio when I'm in my car, but working? Are you working? Radio? Pet By? I do remember my dad loves that song and I got a Evita. I don't remember who does it. I remember the band, but the first time I heard it, I just I begged him to change it. And I think it's like thirteen

minutes long or something like that. So anytime he like tries to listen to that song or talk about that song, and just I can't do it. Yeah, that's that's my thing. I think, the repetitive stuff. Um, I'm out of all right? Who is next? Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia, r J and San Antonio. They both have similar questions about the coldest weather we've ever been in. Uh, this is for both me and Gagon. But Gagon again too lazy to show up this week, so I will I will go first.

I have spent time in weather around below ten degrees below ten degrees. I don't remember the exact temperature, but it was on the East Coast. It was in Connecticut. My trips back to Connecticut, I was doing stuff with NBC or AT when I was listening my brother and my relatives in New York. But I haven't usually gone back when in the winter. Normally I would go back in the summer where it's just humid and kind of nasty.

But I've only I've only spent maybe my life around a week in that really terrible weather total probably and then actually be fair like around here in the hills. I've gone up to the National parks around here where it does get to that temperature, but never like minus thirty wind show, I've never been in that, But I I do believe both the show that cold is cold, like once you get to a certain point of cold,

I don't think it gets much worse than that. That's my belief any I think I think the most the coldest weather I've ever been in was like November in Chicago, So I want to say it was like eight degrees or something like that at night. But yeah, there's a certain threshold where it's just like it's cold and there's nothing that's really going to change that. All right, moving on Ramon from Virginia Beach, right, since says, do you consider Russi lumb would be the greatest talk show host

of all time? The goat? If not who is well? Russia is on that big board uh, certainly for political radio, because he pretty much created the genre of modern political talk radio, which both obviously conservatives have copied Rush, but liberal talk show hosts have used the Rush format just with different rhetoric. So it's it's similar in that regard. But yeah, Rush, Howard Stern the legends for me overnight it was Art Bell, the late grade Art Bell, uh,

the king of overnight radio. And George Norry has done a good job as a competitor, uh, you know, going head to head with him, uh, in in that particular space. And then something like who else are the forefathers of modern radio? A lot of people saying sports radio is Mike and the mad Dog at w f INN in New York. Gym Rome had a lot for me. It's, uh,

you know other people. There's different people, but Russia is on that that big board for his contributions obviously too to radio Kevin in Rockford, Illinois, right since is my wife and I are driving to Tampa, Florida from Rockford this coming weekend. It's gonna be a long trip, so you best believe I will have the Mallard Show on tap.

Good job by you, and and he he points out that His wife is not a big sports fan, but according to Kevin, I told her that you had the voice combination of Jesus and Frank Sinatra and could take the virginity of non sports listeners across the country. She's still not convinced. So how how do I go about listening to your show on on our road trip without getting bitched at more so for the way back, because we will already be there by the time this podcast

is available. Yeah, well, those are those are great points by Kevin. Good job by you. And what would be the way to sell the show? I'm I'm not I'm not totally sure how to do that. I do know from other listeners experiences and whatnot that I don't know this is a compliment or not, But I have been told that some people listen to the show and don't even like sports, but they like the show for some reason.

I get that, and I get that. I don't know how that could be like because it's I mean, the monologues are about sports, right, and the rest of the show we kind of goof around, but it's a nod. It's another thing, and I like some people will just be lonely and call up and I know they don't listen to the show. You can tell you know it was called they want someone to talk to and I happen to be the person on at four in the morning, and so they'll call up and you can tell they're

not really sports people and all that we get. I get calls all the time on different shows that I'm producing that are asking, uh, if this is the Ben Mallor show. So, I mean, you know, you're a you're a shoulder for them to cry on, or you don't hear for them to tom I'm a radio shrink man. Actually, the funny thing is I I don't know that management agrees with this. I don't think they find it funny,

but I find it amusing. Some of the calls I like the most are when people call up AND's like, I'm having a problem with my girlfriend or um, I having a problem with my boss and they asked me that Dopy Overnight sports guy for advice. I was going to kick out of that. I was like, those are funds. A couple of months ago, or maybe maybe longer than that, there was that guy that called in about his pet, Bobcat. You remember that, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that

was a wild you were that you were in that night. Yeah, that's not sports at all, but that's uh, that's good radio. Yeah, our buddy from North Hollywood with his pet Bobcat. Yeah, and that started as a sports call. Remember, he wanted to talk about sports, and then somehow it morphed into this thing with the the cat and he didn't want to talk about it, and then we got him to talk about it, and uh yeah that was that was

wild and uh man, oh man, oh man. The the Bobcat call Pinto was the guy's Pinto and he's working nights now so he's not able to call. He hasn't been able to call in a while. But Pinto and the Bobcat he was out about. There's a little a cub bobcat there and the uh as it has domesticated it until the podcasts aren't that big, until the Bobcat decides that it's hungry and eats the face of the Bobcat or eats the face of of Pinto. Alright, last one,

last one. Here we go Tom from St. Augustine, Florida. Right, since says, how come you and Gagon don't YouTube the podcast like Benny versus the Penny. The production was high quality by the end of the season, and you got that fancy ass background. Would be cool to watch YouTube bullshit, thank you? Uh well, Tom, there's a couple of reasons we don't do that. The podcast. Uh you know, there's financial reasons. We would put it on YouTube to make money,

but this podcast is property of my Heart Media. We do it under that umbrella, so I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want us to sell the podcast the YouTube video. And then we want people to download the the show via I Heart or Apple or wherever you get your podcast from. And so if we were put a platform up on YouTube, which I'm I'm not against, if there was some money in it, but that would take away from the downloads. And ultimately we get judged and compensated

based on how many people download the podcast. And if nobody downloads it, we are doing this pro bono for free. Uh people downloaded, we will make a little bit of money. We're not getting rich on it at all, and so it's we're really about getting the downloads. I have considered doing a different YouTube show we did Benny versus the Penny, and there's some gambling possibilities that we've kicked around and some other things that we've kicked around, and so we'll

we'll see what the futuroals. All right, Well, thank you Tom, Thank you everyone that email. If we didn't get your email, it either sucked or it didn't have time to get to it. You'd be the judge of that. Do better next week. And if you want to ask a question for a future edition of the if our podcast mailbag, there's two ways you can do it. Usually Wednesdays in the morning we post on the Facebook page of the show Facebook page Ben Maller Show. There's a link. You

can ask your question there in the public square. Or you want to keep your question private and some people do, like I'm a pilot, you can go on the Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com and send your question and both the show. Thank you very much, my man. Good job by you. It was a pleasure to be here anytime, anytime you survived three days of podcasting, three days of podcasting. Congratulations,

there's a gold star. All right, we'll be back tonight on the radio breaking down all the big NFL gossip and speculation, the news of the day, the news of the weekend of the world of sports, the Ben Maller Show, which will be on at eleven p m. Sunday night in the West, two a m. Monday morning in the East, and we'll take you all the way until six am in the yapping, yapping and blabbing and barking and bloviating and all of that. So we'll talk to you then and see you bye bye