Taking a Bow

Another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and some other guy, and we're back at it week two of this endeavor here because we point out on our overnight show that four hours are not enough. So we are literally in the air everywhere the vast power of my heart, the global reach, they tell me of podcasting. This podcast by I Heard weekly and this is our second week, as I just said there in the I

Heart podcast network. But it is available wherever you get it, your podcast, And the cool thing about it no charge. You don't have to pay for this, you know, as as some companies that have podcasts on a paywall, good luck on that, but not here. You can get the podcast you don't have to pay for it. Uh So I have a good time with that here's the menu for what we are serving up in. We're gonna call it Benny's Bistro this week because I don't really like

the word bistro, but it fits it. It's it's very nice with my name Benny. So anyway, we've got wager danger the voice, put put golf, it's in the bag a staple, and don't stick to sports, the tawdry taboo and bizarre stories of the week. And then we'll say a reave it there to Jay and that's how it's gonna go. We have alongside here because I have to carry him on my back. David Gascon, known as Gagon, known as absentee guy, tardy guy, and we got a lot of nick names with your guest. Listen, I gave

you an extra window to cord this session. And because as a lot of the listeners have proclaimed, they didn't like the sound of your voice last week. And well we'll we'll listen. We're gonna get to that. Stupid We're not there yet, Okay, we're gonna get to that. What do you want? I mean, if you want, I mean, we can go into this year and explain, and we have a certain window that we do the podcast, and there's a certain time frame because of the other show,

and they have to record this at a certain point. Uh, you know, we we can't be available all the time. And uh, somebody did not make themselves available. Well listen to open this thing up. You are still a five point o rating on the Apple iTunes podcast store, so you're still working at five point oh that your listeners have responded, they like me, they like the addition, they don't like you, And I think this thing is great. So far, I have not heard anyone. I've not heard

anyone say that you are you are great. I've heard words like unremarkable, you've read. I have heard words like unmemorable, heard words like mediocre that have been tossed around. I have not heard great, marvelous, wonderful, fantastic, any of those words. All right, well, yeah, you know it's a term I like to use sometimes in the malle of monologues. They're called the Ham and Egger, Right, Ham and Egger. I would put you in the Ham and Egger category. Right,

all right, that's fair, that's fair. But that go with you being disheveled, because people call you disheveled point blank. Well, you know, that's Arnie who's blind and old and should be in a retirement home somewhere playing shuffle board. My man, Arnie. That's it. But let's get to wage your danger. And now we had a bet. I don't think we talked about this on the original podcast that we did, but the Fifth Hour with Ben Madden, we had a bet on the Maiden Voyage how it would do, how the

downloads would go. And there was a great debate at the company because this is not a radio show. We we promoted it a little bit on the radio show, but we did not uh you know, we didn't go over the top and all that stuff. So we had a wager. Now who ended up winning the wager? There, Gascon I did. I won the wager And part of the reason why I want the wager was because you undercut your entire audience. That is incorrect. What I actually I feel like I won the wager. No, no, listen

to me. I feel like I want And then let me tell you why. Okay, because when I live my life the creed of my life, I do the code of the West, but I also have I believe in the blessing of low expectations, right, and I live my life with the philosophy if you expect nothing from anybody,

you are never disappointed. Like, so if I go in here and I'm like, well, you know, the the podcast, analytics, the algorithms, whatever you want to use, whatever a big word you want to use there, the metrics are not good, I'm like, well, you know, I'm not disappointed because I didn't think they would be very good. So put in

your pipe and smoke at Gascon. That is such scum because you undercut the entire audience saying you would not be happy and until you hit a threshold within a week, and we hit that threshold beyond that, in fact, in forty eight hours for downloads. Yeah, well, the people have to download it quick. I mean this stuff is I guess dated the fifth hour. We're gonna try to keep

not necessarily as dated. So but the benny versus the penny, I mean you have to download it Friday, you have to listen to it by you know, Saturday night or Sunday morning, because once the game's kick off, although some people have to go back and hear the brilliance of my picks, we will have the benny versus the penny here on a separate podcast, and I really should put that behind a paywall because they kind of gambling expertise

that I gave out last week. I mean, I don't want to say I'm God Gascon, but man, am I carrying some water here? I thought you were okay in your opening week. I thought, okay, yeah, I mean you made some rather cautious X. You took a lot of chalk cautious. No, I did not take a lot. You're lying, that's you're absolutely I was selective in the chalk. I

was not Chalky mcchalky. I was not. Now I want to point out, you know we I us I lost the wager, but again I believe I won the wager because again, if you if you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed. But we me not you. I didn't see your name mentioned in any of this. The radio trade papers. There's a bunch of these websites that are

industry websites. And I got sent an email from our boss and and we were critically acclaimed in these these reviews, renowned, applauded, hailed, admired. It was great. We're like the darlings of podcasting. Well, so you just said we, but you did not say me included in that press release. That's true. That's what I'm talking about, Me and the listener, not you. That's bullshit because you're not involved in that press release. I'm the backbone of this. See, you're trying to get me

to go down profanity highway. I know you're an asshole and a schmuck, alright, I understand that, but I'm not gonna go down that highway. I'm not. I'm looking. I'm looking at your metrics system right now for these podcasts, and they outflank and out rank your Monday through Friday spiel And that's four guys. That's four guys. Doctor Radio. Here is authentic. It's rock addic. This is this is beautiful. Beautiful. That's not an adjective that I would use. That's not

a word I would use. In fact, one of your other nick names, which I haven't mentioned, is the Lord of Mediocrity, which is your broadcasting style. It's very odd that you would use that broadcasting style, but you know it's whatever teach their own, all right. Moving on, So we have the voice. What is the voice about? Now? You reference this, of course jumping the gun. You have to teach you how to do podcasting. But some of

the complaints, so we asked for feedback. And when you ask for somebody, be careful what you asked for, right, So we asked for feedback, and some people that had come into the store here and did some shopping and bought some products, and they were reviewing the podcast from last week, and several people complained because of the sound of my voice. They say I sounded different, like I was sick during the podcast, like I had some uh some illness. So now I'm gonna explain this, and you

can rebuke this if you want. But there's a couple of things. Hey, we use a different studio for this podcast. This is not the same Fox Sports Radio studios we do the Ben Maller Show out of. We broadcast out of that the main studio there right there across the way from Steve Harvey. This is a different studio, so it's different. Equipment's still great equipment, it's a little different. And then the other thing here full transparity. Uh, we did the podcast last week. We recorded it during the

daylight hours, and I just rolled out of bed. I rolled out of bed, and I'm like, all right, let's pound this thing out. And you know, being the nocturnal Colonel Gascu, you don't know about this because you you can't handle the overnight. You don't have the grit for the overnight. But those of us to work overnight, you know, if this stuff during the day, it becomes problematic. So that that's my that's not excuse, that's my explanation to

what happened. That's bullshit, it's not He keeps saying the word bullshit. You stop bullshit. All your bullshit rolled out, some bullshit. You rolled out of bed and to record this podcast. You made little to no movement to hop on a microphone because me, I needed to drive ninety minutes out of my way just to come here and help you. It's like again to work with the legend.

I mean to have the opportunity to work with a beloved radio star of the overnight when of the world is sleeping an icon, right, I mean to get to have a chance to work there. You should have passion for that, you should have enthusiasm. I think I have a heart of gold to do this with you. You know how generous I am said do this. I saw this charity, I saw on the trades. I saw the fifth now with Ben Maller worked with blank nobody, Oh

it is that's you. That's how you're known in the industry. Though. That's I think it's appropriate. Now we should start this with your your fans. We should set up a go fund Me account for mellage, because not only do I do this for your show, but I had to do this for your damn Christmas party too. What what are you talking about? Because you lived out in your Arizona so I'm forced to drive all the way out there in the middle of the night, and you know, all

the way back. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, You're not forced to do that at all. No one would mind if you didn't show up. No one would complain. My wife would love if you didn't show up. She'd be like, oh, thank god, guess CON's not. She can't stand you. You know you're you're you bring us down. You've ridden your entire life on the struggle bus. That's how you operate there and uh listen, not until I got to your house for the Christmas party did

it look like a elementary school dance party. Half the room was filled with women on one side of the room and the other halfless men only talking to end. And then obviously I come in. Well, here's the thing. And I've tried to explain this. You know, we were way early. The holiday party is not for a couple of months. We're in September, still getting through October and November and through until December when it is. But the way this works here, all right, right, so I gotta

explain this to you, okay. So what we do is we have a bunch of radio people, people I work with, and since it's a transient business, everyone's I used to work with no longer work, said Fox anymore. So I bring these people back. I pull them out of thin air and their old radio friends. And then my wife, who works at a police station. She's a nine one one operator. She's got all her like police friends and

her other friends that she grew up with. Because I live kind of knew where she grew up, and so so all these people and they don't intermitt. There's a segregation. They don't intermingle. The parties don't get together. That's how it works. Unbelievable and I don't believe. And I go home smelling like a chimney. Because a chimney, Yeah, because you're damn fire pit outside has no it has no room for air, so everything that just gets blown right into the it's a fire pit that comes so it's

just smoking all of our faces. Sweet, it's just looking like we're in Vegas for twelve hours. You are so ungrateful. You are You are so ungrateful at David Jay gascon dot com. It's wow. You're like weed man, hippo. I might as well do this with weed man, hippi. I'm not you're a beggar. You are a beggar. How do I know? I don't know. I've been taking a drug to you. Maybe you're on drugs. You might be on dope.

I think you're on heroin. If you think, yeah, that you're gonna get paid out of this, I mean, my god, that's true. That's that's crazy man. I mean, Jesus takes it, takes some pride in your work. Okay, Yeah, it doesn't show you know, doesn't. I mean it doesn't show my my tire, my glamour shots, clamor shot. Yeah, your TV guy. You're I'm a radio guy, you're a TV guy. That's the different. See even though you pretend to do radio, you're really I think in your DNA, your television, your Hollywood,

your makeup production meetings or all that. Well, the idea is, if you can be good or great at radio, you can be good or mediocre at television. Well, television is the easier medium than radio. I would agree with you on that. It's much harder and I always enjoy And

this happened a lot over the years. They bring hardcore TV guys in to do radio, and oftentimes they just can't handle it because there's a different work ethic involved in radio, and you don't have seventeen producers telling you exactly what to say, and so those components do not normally translate if you don't have the grit and the guts. Now that I've been guys that have crossed over and do great, uh at both. But usually if you start out in TV and a cross over to radio, it

is not not good. You're not held in high esteem. I know that firsthand because I used to work with a host here that would have stacks of papers and it was an information on different guests. It was actually a show that was scripted out. Yeah, I mean that's but yeah, I mean, you shouldn't do that, but I mean it's not good at all, but it is good to be prepared. I know, you don't normally prepare for work gascon. You normally kind of go half ass and just say, well, mak it up as we go, we'll

add lib. That's what we'll do with no preparation at all, which is understandable. I mean, I understand you would do that. That's how you. You know, apparently we're taught you. We're going to say a raised right, you were going to say raised. I would never would never say such a such thing. Hell, you remember bringing the fire that comes with that? Oh really? Yeah, of course fire and brimstone. Yeah, exactly.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Alright, moving on, we have put putt golf here. Now what is put putt golf? So I got an invitation this week. I don't know how much of this I can say on this podcast. I haven't said this on the radio show, but I got an invitation from the big bosses at Fox. They're having a big event I was invited. It's a

golf like lunching dinner thing. I'm not sure if it's a lunching or dinner, but it's a golf thing and I probably like a late afternoon evening kind of lunch deal. And it's with some big power brokers that are partners in Fox Sports Radio. These are big people that help us out and keep us on the air, the people that we love that keep the sponsors on for the show. And they are the sponsors. So it's a it's a

golf kind of dinner lunch thing. So I was asked if I want to play golf, right, and I am undecided. All right, So I want to get to mallard militia thoughts on this because here's my my thoughts. Now, these are very important people that are going to be at this thing. These are big muckety MUCKs. Yeah. These are the people that if I if I don't impress them, I could be in some trouble here that kind of thing, you know what I'm saying. So so I know I'm

a beast at put put golf like miniature golf. I'm very good. I would dominate that, but I have not played a round of golf on a real course in at least ten years probably, and I have gone to the dry having range and hit some balls around at this driving range. So I'm my concern is, like I think will be fun as long as you don't know who you're gonna be golfing with. I don't know these people. These are strangers to me, so I don't really know them. And the thing about it is, I look at it

like this, there's two ways this and go. Like, if I go out there, I could play. I have no problem playing just being terrible, you know, and as long as they can have fun with it and joke around and all that. And but there's some golf guys that are hard ohs, that take it so serious and get so offended when you're terrible at golf. And I've played golf years ago. I played golf with guys like that, and it's a nightmare, you know, It's an absolute nightmare.

I'm going around there, it's you know, happy Gilmore running around. It's it's a it's a nightmare. So I'm undecided on how I should handle this. But that's my that's my dilemma. I have some time. It's not for a little while, so I have some time to decide whether I want to do it or not. As far as playing golf, I'm gonna be it the thing either way, but I'm

probably gonna play, But I I there's it's not undecided. Still, I think you'll get more out of this if you actually play, because is that way you're you're walking with the other members of the Fox that you are trying to suck up to. I'm not. I don't. I don't believe in trying to curry favors. These are people, though, that I have reverenced for. These are people that I admire. These are people that keep me employed. Uh, these are people that pay our bills here and keep the lights

on at Fox Sports Radio and all that. So these are very distinguished people. Know you're not normally around those people gas gun, but these are civilized, decent, eloquent people. Well, I think it's important that no matter what you do, whether you play or watch, that you show up and respectable attire. So the bigger question with all of this then, is are you going shorts or you going dockers and a polo shirt. Well, I do have some really good legs. I should be a male leg model down the catwalk.

That's what I should be. But I have a feeling I will be wearing pants. I think that is a pants event. I do work overnights, as you know, guest Gun, and so I do not see the sun a lot and a part vampire. I do not normally even leave the house while the sun is out. I don't normally do that at all. Your pasty white, you're like glue white, like your skin. Your vitamin D deficient. That's what you are. Vitamin D deficient. Well, yeah, well, here's here's the way

I will answer that, gas Gun. I get a lot of moonlight, is what I get. I am high on the moonlight. That is my nugget of wisdom for the day. That gives me a great idea. Why don't you show up? Weren't a kilt you kill? You can make a statement because even if you're shitty at golf, if you were kilt and you're still playing, they won't even notice what you're doing with the ball because this is a part

of your show, right, because you're all about misdirection. You're losing at one point, but you bring up something else outside of that that's gonna be perfect for you. It lines up perfectly with your stick. Yeah, I don't I do serious talk radio, gas scout, I don't know that I do Stickila. That's confusing me with other people spending a week during the summertime to bash my parking style

or my car. It's not serious radio. Well again, I consider that a public service announcement to help people out there. There's a lot of people that struggle to park. They didn't take driver's head. They failed drivers and in it they have an aversion on parking and uh, you know, listen. Unfortunately, whoever taught you how to drive, they did not teach you how to park. And I felt like to shame you, I had to give you some tough love. So I gave you some tough love. Clearly you did not respond

to the tough love. But that's that's your problem, alright. So you should be mortified by the that's embarrassing. You're grown ass man. You don't how to park. What time of the year is this, uh, this ordeal taking place? Is it in the fall? Is it in the winter? It is surround Halloween? I think I don't remember the date. I think it's around So I have a little time.

I'll have a month third or so. But I just it just popped in my head because I was I was asked this week whether I wanted to do I they have to schedule, they put me in the list or whatever. People golfing, so benus, I don't know. My golf clubs probably are not up to standard. These I think these rich guys that are big business moguls have these really expensive golf clubs and all that I'm gonna come out there with these rinky dinky golf clubs. I

don't know if that's gonna be good or not. Well, I'm looking for I mean, I'm checking my email right now. I do not see an invitation on there. If you could for that along, I think that would be important. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. They your your reputation procede you Okay, So they want to keep these people as sponsors. They want to keep these people happy at the company, and they know to encourage that, to curry that, they have

to not promote you. Well, we do know in this industry there's a lot of turnover, and so with that comes in new, young, fresh faces. And let's be honest, you're not really on the young side. I think this is important. Do you have someone in your corner that's going bad for you. I'm the perfect broker for you. Yeah, but here's the problem. You are. You're younger than me a little bit, I guess I believe not much. And then that's number one and then number two. The other

thing about it is, here's the problem with you. Guess I'm explaining very clearly here. You're not good. All right, that's the problem. You can be young, but you it's it's like the Miami Marlins. You're like the Miami Mars. The Miami mons have a young roster of baseball players, right, one of the youngest teams in baseball, maybe the youngest team in baseball. But spoiler alert, they suck at baseball. So just because you're young does not mean you're good.

You look at a veteran team that The Yankees have a lot of veteran players mixed with younger plays, a lot of older players. The Red Sox were a pretty old team last year they won the World So uh, in your face with Mace. Okay, I'm not really looking forward to this thing, but you will. You'll have to be on notice for yourself though, because you brought this up last week when we record our first edition, is that they'll probably be taking pictures. They'll have to take

pictures of you. So you must be on anet hour fast. Well I'm at the bare minimum. Well you know this as it is, uh this podcast dropping on Friday, I believe. And so I I have completed a seventy two hour fast. Yeah, that's that good. Seventy two hours? What did you do

to crack it? Well? The hardest thing about and and actually one of our guys, uh In and I, one of our great joke writers, had sent me an email Bill and Iowa Bill from Iowa and uh he's he said he enjoyed the fifth hour and he's his wife actually asked him about the inter minute fasting is a diet method and all that stuff, and he said he's heard us talk about it, but it has been great. Man.

I Now the hardest part you gotta train yourself. You gotta start out with those little baby thirteen hour fast. Do that for a couple of weeks, and then kind of it's kind of like weaning yourself off cigarettes, except you're weaning yourself into the fasting lifestyle. I'm like part of a cult now. Guess gun. So you start out with thirteen hours, then you crank it up to sixteen hours. Do that for a while, get used to that, and then you can make the leap to twenty hours. Now

I did that for a while. A while, I did the one meal a day about twenty hours. But you want to increase the weight loss, then you can crank it up and do like a forty eight hour when I do some of those, and then every once in a while I do like a seventy two hour thing. The cool thing about that is like I feel like I pretty much eat whatever I want after seventy two hours of not eating, So I mean I like to eat a lot when I eat, so not eating a

couple of days a week it balances everything out. It's worked very well, and my wife's even doing it now. I've brainwashed her. She's into it, so it's she doesn't do the long ones like that. But but once you get past like twenty hours, guess gun, it's not that bad. You spring a lot of water and they fill your stomach with water, you're good. And you guys have some funky hours to work with. Two so it makes it even more challenging to kind of get over the over

the initial hungry face. That's that's admirable. I do appreciate that. Well, look at that, you're being nice guests. Okay, I've done that before. I mean the longest I've ever fasted for was twenty three hours. I did that two weeks ago. So I definitely know. I feel more clear, I feel awake. Obviously I'm hungry, but you know, lived through it, and I need to lose you know, I don't people get upset when I say this, but like when I lost a lot of weight before, and I gained some weight back.

That's why I'm doing this diet thing. And I've lost a lot of the weight that I gained back. But when I lost the two plus pounds a couple of years ago, but a long time, it's probably been ten years or so. But I did not do the inter minute fasting. I ate like one meal a day, and uh, you know it was good. My wife feeds me a lot. You tries to feed me all the time, but I don't you know, when I was saying, I was single at the time, so I don't have anybody trying to

feed me. In fact, people are trying to stay away from me, so I don't have to worry about that. Um, but I still only I ate like a meal and I like crap. And but back in my big eating days, oh my god, I was gorging. Oh god, the good old days. And your voice was just so pinched and nasally when I'm starting radio when you're ten years old, that's what happened, all right, Moving on, it's the it's in the bag. It's in the bag. We have listener

questions that have been said. We asked listener feedback. This is our way to welcome in the Mala militia that guess gun despises that you cannot stand and all that stuff. It's not really true. It's more like Jonas Knox doesn't like the Malar militia. I just when I wake up in the morning, I get twenty notifications that the damn podcast is not uploaded properly, or that your audio doesn't sound right. Like, look, I'm not an engineer. You just

admitted that you roll out of bed. He recorded audios, so it sounds like you haven't even warmed yourself up. You're like an eighty one crown Victoria. Like these things just they're out of my control. But you get people the bitch and moan about the smallest littlest things, and they're for free. It's a free podcast. Yeah, but people, you don't understand this, and and and you misconstrue, and so I'll explain it here. You know, say it's free.

It is free, but it's people's times. You know, people time. The time is very vibuac and the most valuable currency we have is time. You only get limited amount of time. I'm all gonna die, right, So time is the most important thing. You're wasting people's time with the shoddy podcast. That's a mistake by you. That's a misread of the public by you. And I'm trying to explain here. The people are right. These people have jobs, they have lives,

they have families. I don't want to spend their time waiting for the podcast to be proper and all that. It's bad job by you. So you think they separate their time listening to you over family or work or anything else they can find satisfaction on. Well, you have to compartmentalize, is what you have to do. That's what you get a little time for the podcast, a little time for the family, a little time for work. Boom bam there you do you ever listen back to your show? No?

I cannot stand listening myself on the radio. I hated. I try to forget it. I try to pretend I don't actually do this. I do not. In fact, we used to when I did, like, um, I think it was a five or six hour show. Maybe it was a five hour sometimes it was six, but five hours years ago. Uh, they would replay an hour because they said, well, well do you have you do four or five? And then the sixth hour or the fifth hour will be replayed.

And I would sometimes turn on the radio like I was leaving the station, was like I had to turn it off. I was like, I can't listen because I noticed everything I get wrong, and then I was like, oh crap, I I nitpick everything. We'll see. The luxury of that is that there was no social media around when you're doing that, because people would then would literally lit you up. Nowadays they kind of just roll with

the punches. And obviously you have more gas in the tank because you're only you know, doing a show for three or four hours every night. Well it's four hours listening to You're a big fan, I know, that's just the four hours of talk radio. Network talk RADI you know, the grind of a network talk radio show. I do not think you do. This is a very grueling process here, very and it can be harmful to your long term health.

If I had to have had an ear ache the last several weeks, I've had an ear ache mainly because I have a bad ear and I swim. But putting headphones on is damaging my hearing. I am risking my health for you, the listener. I want you to know that because you blast the headphones in the Geico Fox Sports radio studios, that's you have hearings. And the reason I do that is because I've been in radio so long, and you know, you're a you're a young whipper snapper.

I don't know if you'll make it in the business or not. But if you stay in long enough gascon, you know what happens. It's the boiling frog effects. Slowly you turn up the headphones right and you're like, no big deal. It's kind of like if you put a frog in boiling water right, it'll jump out. But if you put it in cold water and slowly turn the

knob on the stove and heat the water. The frog is not gonna think that there's any kind of danger there and just will happily go along and swim around, do the froggy swim and all that, and then eventually we'll be cooked at death. Same thing with my headphones. All right, this is perfect then, because you're gonna have listeners that will send in questions to you. But we should also since Christmas is right around the corner, we should actually have the listeners come comprise a a Christmas

list for you. Lass Tree, Hearing aids um Sleep Number bed. You might need a little soup up on that. Well, No, I think I think what we need here. I I'm all for it, hair replacement, the whole thing. I'm all about it, man. And but we gotta get sponsored. I't gonna pay for it, but I'll I'm down with anything pretty much. Man, I'm down with it. This is perfectly. This is good. To contact our sales department and we need to listen. You can advertises. I don't know if

there are guys that listen to the show. I get some email from guys that work at big companies and stuff. You can pot you can adverage just on the podcast. You don't have to. I mean, the radio show is expensive to advertise on, and I don't think this is as expected. I don't know the ad rates, but it's uh, it's cheapest. Contact the I Heart Podcast Network people and you can you can be an advertising or they can reach out to us on the email. You can do

that to you, right, Yeah, they can do that. Yeah, we'll tell them, we'll direct them in the bureaucracy that we deal with. Who to go to. I don't even know who to go to to be honest, Well, of course I know who to go to. No, you don't, because they talked to everybody in this building. Well, you're there during the day. These people don't come in and we know too in the morning. They're not there when I'm there. What's your problem? It's not really my problem. I don't care. I'm fine. I get I get to

do what I I want to. Anyway, you're delaying the podcast, you schmuck. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, we must move on. It's time now for it's in the bag. These are listener questions. I already said this earlier, but guesscon distracted me with his nonsense, which I cannot cannot forgive him for. But anyway, are he Here's some listening questions, This one from Gary in Arizona.

He asked, how a this is great? I think this is a Kyler Murray fan. I guess, and you want to know why I think this is a Kyler Murray fan. Gary from Arizona asked how a hack like me got verified on Twitter? Um, all right, so here's the way I will answer this. Gay. First of all, thank you for listening. Hopefully you're downloaded the podcast and listening right now. Hack First, yeah, it sounds like my boss, but uh yeah, hey, it did actually take some ring. It's not easy to

get a verified account on Twitter. I was in a race, not that you care, Gary, but for the other like a good story. So I was in a race. This is back in the era of Fox Sports Radio. We had Pat O'Brien who was doing a show with Steve Hartman during the day. And uh, you know Pat O'Brien, who I I love Pat, but he's got the greatest

ego of anyone I've ever met in my life. All Right, but I love we we we would bust each other's chops and all that stuff p o b In fact, there's a drop I don't know if you can play it here on the podcast where Pat gave me this ringing endorsement which made it. You know, it was cool because he said it on the air about how he loves the show and all that stuff. But anyway, so I had a raise because Pat wasn't verified even though he had been at you know, all those tabloid shows

and CBS all those years. So I had a race with Pat O'Brien to to try to get verified when we worked there, and we were neck and neck and the great another one of our our former colleagues, Amy Van Dyken. I don't know if you were there when she worked there, the Olympic hero, the swimmer from back in the day. Uh, part of the alumni associations. Anyway, Amy, she knew some people at Twitter, and so she she gave me a contact and kind of helped me out a little bit. So I was able to contact the

person and then I worked it out. But I had to send my driver's license. Yeah, I pretty much had to like direct deposit everything into Twitter so they could prove. I had to prove who I was, and I was a big to do. It's like they have my all my information at Twitter, so I gotta be on my best behavior. That's different. See, if you're in Silicon Valley, it would probably be blue. You get a blue checkmark right away. It's if you live in that area and

you're all about you know, California. You know, as far as how we are a line New York California, we are predominantly blue. So if you're if you're ready going political there, that's the third rail, man, that's the third rail. Come on, my people that want the podcast with the politics, come on, man, get on top stand top. It's Silicon Valley, that's what we're all about, right, So if you're if you're blue in that nature, you get you get verified

off the jump man. Even people with a thousand followers get blue check marks. I'm not about it. You know. My my brother in law, my my wife's brother works in the tech industry and lives in the Bay Area and he, uh, it's ridiculous the housing market there and you can't gonna make a fortune to buy a house. Well, yeah, then you got to dodge the feces and the syringes there in the middle of the streets. So it's they have an app for that. Though they have an app

for that, they haven't happen for that. Yeah, there's a ship app. You a ship locating app. I'm serious. I'm not making this up. They have it in San Francisco. I forget the name of it, but I think it's got shipped in the name. And then you can either report where there's human feces on the street or you can look at it and look what other people are telling you to avoid because there's urinin feces from the gumbas. So this is like ways for ship, like the ways

app for now in traffic. Now you got one for feces. And what was the one you talked about last week in Chicago was a jackass Oh well that's a website. Yeah, I've used that for years. I mentioned that on the radio show. But it's I think it's called hey jackass dot com and all all it is is a website tracking shootings in Chicago. It's been around for probably close to ten years now. I learned about it several years back, and it's it's crazy. It's so much violence in Chicago.

It's a great city, a wonderful city, but it's le many people shooting each other. And they have a map and they it's crazy. I I have it up and I think the number of total homicides this year in Chicago. Uh, there have been almost three hundred and seventy people that have been been killed in the nineteen hundred and sixty seven people shot in Chicago. Crazy. Man, it's a little dark. Can't chill out, man, I mean, what are you doing here? Right? Well, I mean it's a podcast about a podcast, so yeah,

that's true. Alright, moving on, we have another question Reverend Ray Green, the Reverend Weed right so, and he says, what nationwide show do Cowboy John Brad from Windsor, Ontario, a k a. Cowboy John Bright originally call start calling on. I've been hearing him for years listening to the radio. He is the modern day Paul Harvey. Oh that's a great question, Ray, I do not. I know Cowboy a little bit, and we've were email buddies and we go back and forth and all that, but I am unaware

of where he originally started. I know cowboys getting up there in age. So I've heard him too. When I used to listen to radio before I got into the business, I heard Cowboy, I heard Dick and Dayton calling others. So I have a core core group of guys that are just professional radio callers that might as well be on the payroll. But I love these guys. He's call These guys call everybody, all the legends of radio. Not that I'm a legend, but they call all these people

and so so it's good. But but Cowboys is wild man. He's the fact that he doesn't use a computer like he He's told me, I don't know if I should say this on the podcast. I don't think he'll download it. But he has to go to the library to use He'll email me, but he has to go to the light. But he don't own a computer. Like all that stuffs in his head. He's like rain Man, it's fascinating you take this kind of Vegas. Wait, who's your best professional

caller then? Is it him, Pete and Pittsburgh or blind Scott. Well, the most consistently good is blind Scott Pete. When Pete's on top of his game, Pete's the greatest. Pete is the o G. He's a legend. Pete is very entertaining. The problem is he's a raging um boozer and he does other let's see, extracurricular activities that negatively impact his ability to perform as a caller. I'm not saying he's a dead beat, but he he does some things that

hurt him in terms of of quality. Cause. But when he's when he's on his game, Pete, I would say, is nob one. But but overall blind Scott's been because Doc Mike, who's uh, I guess he's retiring. He said this week on the show that he's retiring because it's got me seventy five ducksmen calling me since he was like fifty five. It's crazy craziness. Um. But anyway, so

I have to answer your question, Reverend Ray. I I don't know where where Cowboys started calling, but I know he has called pretty much everybody, especially the nighttime guys. I think he calls coast to coast sometimes. I've heard people say that over with George Nori and so I've I've heard him call these at least reports of him calling other shows. All right, moving on, it's the grab bag.

These are actual letters from actual listeners, Actual questions if you and we'll give you the email address at the end of this thing, not that you'll still be listening, and you can send it a question and and then the way this works on the podcast format, we want you and anything dated we're not going to read. So it's kind of an open ended generic question more likely

to get read on Uh, it's in the back. So Cowboy Killer, one of my regular guys p one guy Cowboy Killer, very active on social media during our show, gives me feedback. He says, what European or Asian country would you like to visit the most? And I guess this is for both me and guests Gon. Perfect for you because you are you are all about not taking a long flight. You are a pay the ass whenever

I've mentioned anything, even going to Vegas. When I propped this question to you during the summertime, you're all about making that six hour commute as opposed to a forty five minute flying line. Well, again, for you, it's a six hour commute, guest Gun. For me, it's about forty minutes, so it's not that big a deal. But I do

try to avoid flying long distances. I've had a job with NBC a few years back, and for about a year and a half every month I would fly to Connecticut from l and I take the Red Eye and uh and they all, you know, they gave me good accommodations, But it was the flying part. I don't like the unknown. You don't know who you're gonna sit to sit next to when you get on the plane. You don't know. If you don't have room in front of you, people

are gonna put their seat back. Everyone always puts their seat back right in my lap, so I've got their head on my lap. It's a nightmare. But I will eventually be forced against my will to go to Europe. I don't think I'll be going to Asia anytime soon. Although I wouldn't mind going to Asia. I think would be fascinating. It would be really fun. If I could just transport like I could, we could get William Shatner to beat me up to to these countries. I would.

I would. I'll be all about. I really like to see these places. But my wife, her family is from from Europe, and and so she's she's gonna want she wants to see the northern lights and all that stuff. So I think at some point we will have to partake in in that I met you. You've traveled, You've

been all over guests, Yeah, I've in the summertime. In fact, my one of my good friends who was a doctor, he was celebrating his fourtieth birthday and he lives in Dublin and as a doctor, he's traveling a little bit, but not so much outside of Europe. So we plan a trip. This is my second ever trip to Europe.

And for the first week I went by myself, but I went to London for two days, and then I went to Paris for three and then I met another buddy of ours in Amsterdam, so we were there for three days, and then all of us got together in Barcelona, Spain, and then we went to Porto, Portugal, which is the northern part of Portugal. And it was a fourteen day trip. I hopped on eight flights, five cities, I've countries. It

was awesome. And when I hear you tell that story, I think, uh, law d daw like elitist, you know, like highbrow. You know, why would have us? Because I hear those countries, I think stuffed shirt braggart, that kind of No, not at all. I think we were clip diving, we were kayaking, we were backpacking. Tom Brady, well, I know, but I mean I gotta enjoy life a little bit, right. Deshaun Watson did that during the summertime too, So there's a lot that me and Watson have in common. This

is certainly one of them. But I will say this shady activity off the field as weak. I had mentioned something to your your wife during the summertime about traveling, and I can talk today. Hey, listen, we're thinking about doing something in Japan next year. You know, summer games are going on in August of um. I have a certain benchmark, an age that I'm gonna be reaching in the summertime and always interesting. When you turned fifty, I

thought it would be appropriate to go to Japan. So Japan, yeah, I think Japan. What about China though, Man Shina? Think about I would love to if I, if I had no shame in my game, I go to China. You know, that's where they make all the counterfeit merchandise and all this stuff. I would just have a field they like, all right, I'll take seventeen jerseys, you know whatever, all these hats and all. That'd be great. You can have

them for pennies on the dollar. Would you would you live tweet or our periscope something with Lebron in the background, just the shout out to him as you go. You know, we we we gotta do something that the great Wall, right, you gotta do something like that, you know, And sure I'll be met at the airport by people just showering me in in praise. Would you like Tom Selleck and Mr Baseball? All right, moving on it, it is the grab. I got a couple other questions here, David writes in

didn't say where he's from. Please say where you're from so I can give you a shout out, because I'm sure there's more than one person named David that listened to show. You even have an idiot named David that claims to work on the show. But anyway, David says, just for the no ty of it, I would enjoy hearing you recite the list if you would be so kind of George Carlin's seven words you cannot say on

radio or television. So now, Gascon, I want you to to look at your your phone there So I am not gonna do this because I'm a respected member of the community and I will, I will go I think ship should be allowed, So I'll say shit. I don't mind the piss part. I don't mind that, but some of these I'm not gonna say. So I think ship should be allowed on the radio. I think it's ridiculous that we can't say. I have to say poop and diarrhea and all these other adjectives for poop for ship,

which annoys me. But do you want to you want to have the big reading there to appease David. Um, we can have piss. We have. I gave you the look at your phone, I gave you the list. Just read the list. Trying to be delicate with this. You know, our boss actually listen to this podcast now. He does coversions of it. And I think one of the things I first asked him about was the use of any kind of colorful language. He said, let's keep this somewhat decent.

Somewhat decent. Yeah, well, I've already said the word ship seven thousand times today. Some of them go to a higher degree, like there's a word in there, see you next Tuesday, which if you, well, you just gotta punt is what you gotta do. Man, Sometimes you gotta punt. You know, like up in the morning, I listened to the roosters, it goes cocka doodle do. Yeah, you know you're and you're a real sucker. Yeah yeah, you're too. Yeah. Well there's more of a well yeah, I hear you.

So we got those, We got the seven Deadly Sins of Radio. Look at you going soft discount. I thought you had balls. I thought you had macheese more I thought you had But this is your show, so I don't want to derail it in any kind of I don't care if they get upset. I don't have to do it anymore. I'm you know, I'm as good all right. Jim from Kentucky writes in Hello Jim, he says, this is our it's in the bag. So he says, how do the men on the show with significant others solve

the eats? Your old issue of where to eat or get take out? This is perfect our house, at our house, we play pick three. Uh. Jim from Kentucky says, uh. She picks three places. I eliminate one, so I at least I don't eat at the place that I can't stand. Then she decides the last two remaining. What what do you guys do that's a good question. Now, I guess you don't have to answer this because you don't have anybody that you have to deal with in this regard.

But my wife is pretty good about this kind of stuff. We don't we don't really we we kind of like the same stuff, or at least she puts up with the stuff I like. So she goes along with it and doesn't tell me she hates what we're eating. But uh, and we don't eat out that much. I we've gotten into cooking. But to answer your question, Jim, typically final say goes to her normally. That's that's normally how it goes. But I like your strategy. I pick three things a

good deal. That's a good I gotta bring that up. I might incorporate that into our our situation. Yet. Yeah, now I have done the options, Like I got a couple of options here and then you gotta pick. That's a good thing to do. So anyway, what about you guess, see, I invite what you didn't want to go there? But I did invite you to a great spot near our work. And it's not to too highbrow from no, I mean it was like it's a great bouge spot, and I

think it's what they call a target rich environment. So a lot of places, yeah, a lot of the places I like to go to just have a great ambiance. There's good scenery and usually guys are listening to this. That's what they want to see, right, Like, you're gonna be there with your significant other, great eat whatever is available, but you want to see whatever everything else that's around you, right, you want here's the Hooters. You're not going to Hooters

for the wings or the fries. You're going for the Hooters maybe like the chicken sandwich. But here's what I'll say. Guests going on that, Okay, uh, it's it's something I'm I'm more of a truck stop guy. You want to hang out with a bunch of aristocrats is what you want to do? You want to hang out with what? I'm fine hanging out just eating. To me, the one of the greatest meals I've ever had was it a truck stop in uh running the Arizona, California boards town

starts with a w uh, I forget. I was driving a spring training one year and I stopped off this It's like a flying j type thing, and I had the greatest chicken sandwich I've ever had. Okay, so good that anytime I drive to Arizona, I stopped at that truck stop and I love it. That to me is a steak at a fine steakhouse in Manhattan or Beverly

Hills or whatever. To me, that's extravagant. You come from a life of privilege, so for you, you you gotta hang out with ambiance and all the splendor and all that. I'm not like that. I'm a simple person. True. I'm from the South Bay of Los Angeles, and so anyone that knows South Bay, you listen. If you are on no no, let me if anybody that knows l A, if you are from a west of the four oh five freeway, you are an elitist. That is reality. You are money back. I'm south of a four oh five freeway.

Because you are west of the four or five freeway, that's that's crap. I'm south of the one ten freeway to that is a lie. So we got taco trucks in my area, plus Wilmington and Carson had the best Mexican food possible. You have taco trucks, yeah, I mean these are like, dude, I lived. I lived in Lincoln Heights. I lived, but I lived. I lived in Lincoln Heights, right there, right on the border with Cypress Park. All Right.

The first week I moved into that apartment, somebody got shot in the apartment or in the in the street, actually cross the street from the apartment, but still wild if it was in the apartment. I was on a date. One. I will have some so I don't want to them all here, but I have some amazing We should maybe do that next week, the the Lincoln Heights era, because apparently these people like these dumb stories. All right, Moving on walking Willie rights in. He says, when will we

see the first billion dollar athlete contract? That's a sporty question, gascon Um. But I don't think we're I don't. I don't think it's that far away. I we were at the four hundred million dollar level right now, and I know it's a big leap to go from four hundred million all the way up to a billion dollars. I realized that, I know that the arithmetic on that is crazy.

But I would say in the next twenty years, I think if I make it twenty years, I think i'll see it in my life and and uh so I think ten years from now you'll be at six D seven hundred million, and then another ten years will be a billion if they if things continue along the path they're going, we don't have a recession and the economy

goes to hell. I think you'll get some hot shot teenage phenom who probably hasn't even been born yet will become the first billion dollar athlete and be you know, be drafted signing with a lifetime contract for a billion dollars. How many years would that have to be though to make it? What's the math on that? You're a math guy, gascon, so what would the numbers be on that spot? I mean, I want someone to do it where it's Bobby Benilla style. They get some kind of signing bonus up for and

then just defer payment after that. Yeah, uh, let me do math. I'm just some Mallard math here, which is a version of math but not always correct. So let's let's say you got fifty million dollars a year, okay, over twenty years? What would that be? Uh? What's the math on that? Ah? That is what? Oh boy? I think that's a let's see here, Well, if you're doing a billion dollars for twenty years, that's four point one for how how many years? For twenty years? Four point

one million dollars a month a month? Yeah hm, so but at fifty million a year for twenty years, that works out to Again, I'm trying to think what with the the math here? My brain is not functioning properly. I blame you because it's really it is your podcast though, because we're on our we're keeping it real, man, that's we're keeping it real. I know you're not a real person. You're a phony, your TV guy and all that stuff that's not you understand. I think I'm right by the

way I think the math. I think that is um billion dollars. I think I think I'm right on that fifty billion dollars a year for twenty years would be uh now, maybe not not crap? Who cares? Figured out for yourself. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Don't ask you any damn math questions? You dare you walking? Willie?

How dare alright? Last question? You're in the grab bag. Then we'll get onto the don't stick to sports stories the week. But here it is from Rico in Denver, one of our more polarizing callers in the mile ized city. I get a kick out of Rico. I hope Rico calls the show more often. He annoys me and entertains me at the same time. So anyway, Rico says, if you had to pick one, uh, this is for me. He said for the Clippers, number one option is the

Clippers to win the NBA title. For them to win the NBA tale, you would have to a shower naked with Dwight Howard, be cut off the tip of your pinky cee, be four hundred pounds for a year, and d live with me Rico from Denver for six months. So those are the options. And this is my prizes. The Clippers win an NBA championship, and I am a a fine loyal supporter of the top team in the NBA according to the gambling market, the Los Angeles Clippers.

So here's the will answers. Now, I'm not really interested in showering naked with Dwight Howard. I'm good on that. Uh, cutting off the tip of my pinky. I don't think that would be a big deal. You don't really use the pinky finger, but I do type some I think that could be problematic. I do use the pinky a little bit there. Uh. The foreigner pound thing, I've already done that, so I could do that. That's easy. I've lived that life. I've lived the four hundred pound life.

I could do the foreigner pound life. Uh. And then well, I was over four hunder pounds by the way, Uh, and my biggest and I have no interest in living with rigo. So I guess if I had to pick, i'd I'd go back to being four hunderd pounds. I eat whatever I want. I'd be a big, fat scum and it would be wonderful. Yeah. But that's different though. You were four hundred plus pounds when you're what in your twenties. Uh yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, probably my

pretty much a whole decade of the tent. Yeah. So it's a lot hard to get that went off once you're I mean, you're in your age now, you're on the you know, you're close to social Security and pension, so retirement and you know, sixties sixty five it's it's tough, you know. I think you used proved earlier you're bad at math, so you've just proved again you're bad at math. But anyway, all right, moving on, So don't stick to sports.

You're listening to the Fifth Hour. I'm told I don't have to tell you what you're listening to because you already know it. But it is in the fifth Hour with Ben Maller and some other schmuck named David Gascon. So don't stick to sports stories of the week. This is the tawdry taboo in bizarre. What do we have here Gascon? This week? What are we diving into? A right?

First one, Benny, were vacationing in the d m Z two Australian citizens to set it take their blogging to the next level by doing something a little bit bold, and it wasn't something that was cheap, like buying bus tickets for their stops and then fly economy for their entire journey. Could you possibly guess what two bloggers from Australia wanted to do on a continental trip across well,

I think I I think I saw this. I think they thought they were going to be part of the Chamber of commerce, am I correct on that and my sort of you. Yeah, this couple decided they were gonna go from Asia to the U k. And they were going to drive the entire way and not fly, not not sail, but they were gonna drive. The only problem with this ben was that they had to go through Iran.

The news broke that these bloggers were arrested in Tehran and the journey fell a short because the cup said quote, they wanted to inspire anyone wanted to travel and also try to break the stigma around traveling to countries which get a bad rap in the media end quote. So it's believed that part of the reason they've been arrested

was because they want to document everything. So while they were documenting, they also flew drones all over the place in unauthorized areas and they've been detained for the last ten weeks in Tehran. Wow, this is this is absolutely brilliant. Here the level of stupidity, those people should be arrested, I mean just for stupid No, but they deserve to be a right. I agree with the people of Iran. I don't normally agree with Iran, but I agree with this.

I mean, what are you thinking like you think that's all fake, the stories about how they take care of their you know, how they rule with an iron fist, and you know, anythink that's all just internet chatter and it's not really. I mean, come on, what do you do? Why do you go to North Korea and run around there with an American flag and see what happens? Okay? I mean, seriously, how dumb do you have to be? I mean, I I don't feel bad. These people are idiots.

Like you know, I was in Iran, I would be scared out of my mind. I would be I wouldn't talk to anybody. I would just like, al right, I mind my own business. I'm not gonna mess with you. Don't mess with me. Let me just get on my way. And these idiots are out there with their phones and drones. What a bunch of morons, A bunch of a bunch of Mama Luke's erased in the stigma. One critique at the time, Ben, when you got married, did you in the misses? Do you guys get married in a secluded area?

Do you guys going on to the island somewhere? We did. We were in we were in Kawaii. The beautiful garden Island and we were off the beaten path. We were I have there's like a mile marker if you you fly to Kawaii and you land there and uh, I forget the name of the town there in Kauai, but anyway, you land there and you drive up like it's about four miles four or five miles north of the airport, but there's nothing around. It's just like a deserted beach.

It was pretty cool. So you guys had an intimate wedding right like, there's a the past her and a couple of witnesses and that was it, right, Yeah, that was it. It's called the lowping, I believe. I bring this up because I'm curious to how many listeners have how many female listeners have shitty friends. Because an unnamed bridesmaid posted a great story and read it and it made me happy. I'll never go through this bullshit with brides putting their friends through this. So check this out,

a woman says, and she's titled it. I feel like I'm being punished because I have cancer. So here's the skinney on this bend. This bride is making her bridesmaid by a wig for her wedding even though she doesn't want one, and on top of that, she can't even

afford it. And the bride also added to this, she told the bridesmaid that the makeup artist is gonna cost more for her, specifically because quote, she'll have to put more work in, extra work on you end quote those girls trying to get over obviously being diagnosed with cancer, surviving it, bald, has no hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes. Well, I mean, I mean you feel bad because it's you know, vanity, everyone's very vain. You're worried about your appearance. But but

you know, come on, it's also being unreasonable. You know, you've got a bad cut in light or whatever. What are your bride zilla? Now? I mean, what are we doing here? That's a it's ridiculous, is now? That's not my I like the this is such a kind of a ghoulish story there. And you would like a story about weddings, guess. But the one I liked about weddings we talked about on the radio show last week was the woman that showed up, the sister who showed up

to the wedding. I think it was on the East Coast, dressed up as t rex. Yeah, I mean that to me, that's uh, that's my favorite wedding story. I mean, we just said it's just unreasonable. I do recommend, I having briefly worked in television. They have a spray can of makeup they can they can put on you. I recommend getting that. It's just like a spray gun. It's pretty good. What is she gonna do for her bald head? She

got spray hair on her head? Uh? Well, you know what I saw you can get They can tattoo your head to make it look like you have a buzz cut, so you never have to worry about it. About that. I read this to be advertised on the end, and I I read the other day. I was like, this is unbelievable. They tattooed, like, you know, thousands of little dots on your head to make it seem like you

got a buzz cut. Yeah, but it's bad enough when you have women that draw on these eyebrows already, and we would get this West Coast, you get with these women that have like these thin eyebrows or the big bushy ones. Now it looked like someone took an ironing board to their eyebrows. It's ridiculous. All right, Well, what do we have next? What we got? Operator air ben Now, like, unlike you, I don't make a lot of money, Like my net worth isn't over three million dollars. But but

iagine if it was by mistake. And that's kind of what happened to this couple in Pennsylvania because one morning recently they checked their bank account and they actually found a hundred and twenty thousand dollars extra in their bank account. And it's because the tiller dropped that coin in their account by air and the couple went right to work after that. So check this out that they actually bought a Camper, a Chevy, a fucking race car. But they

weren't done yet. They actually, since they're upstanding people, Robert and Tiffany Williams distributed fifteen thousand dollars to some of their friends that needed the cash. In about seventeen days, they had spent one grand. Now, eventually the bait came with the tab and they said they needed to have it returned right away. The couple was hit with a seventy overdraft charge because before they had the money, they

had just as in their bank account. Since then, they've been slapped with three felony charges and receiving stolen property and using it. The husband said, all I'm gonna say is we took some bad legal advice from some people and it probably wasn't the best thing in the end. End quote. Yeah, I mean this is again, I mean, this is a stupid test. Like I don't consider myself the brightest person in the world, but I know that

the bank is gonna want their money. And if you spend their money, I mean, you know, come on, what do you do? They're gonna eventually find out. They might not find out right away, but eventually they're gonna do an accounting and say what happened to that money? And they're gonna figure out what happened to it? And and uh, you know again, what are you what are you thinking here? I mean, it's nice that they gave money their friends, and now what can they get the money back? How

how did that work? They spent Well, they spent a hundred thousand or whatever. They spent a hundred and seven thousand dollars D seven thousand, So how much of that can they get back? Well, the banker is f f D I N c ensured up to a hundred thousand dollars if it was someone's bank account, but it was a corporate account that was having the money transferred in and out. I gotta imagine the teller. It's probably fired at least, right, you think to this was a newbie.

If someone's like in probation, Would you ever work at a bank? I did work at a bank in my twenties. When I was working in real estate, I worked at the bank. Why didn't you stay at the bank then, because because I was in the real estate side of things and things are a bit shady. So there was quite a few class action lawsuits during that time when

I was working for the bank. So, but I think you love bankers hours, right, you're you're not you don't have the work ethics and you love that nine to five. I don't have to worry about radio bank. If I had the bank, I was like one to four, one to five even better? Yeah, right, a suit and tie and leave when everyone wanted to. Yeah. I mean these people that work at like banks or Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, and they have a very limited amount of work. But how great is that? And it's

lucrative too. I mean, I go from working in the real estate injury industry to working with you and this it's I mean, it's like driving a Ferrari to driving a Honda or something I would look if I My advice as a friend is to try to get back into banking. That's my advice. Why is that? You know you might be good at that. I'm just saying, you know, is it because I'm a people person? Relatable? I don't anyone likes you. Everyone hate to judging by the email

having a one positive review of you. Right, they cannot stand you, So I wouldn't say that. Right. What else do we have? He said? Don't stick to sports stories of the week because Giscon tries to turn this into instead of the Fifth Hour, the sixth Hour with Ben maller as, we'll just keep going here. Uh so, do we have anything else? Yeah? We got the rated X version of Workman's com and we brought up by traveling abroad.

So a married man actually died in a recent business trip to France, but his family might get a little something out of it. To the man died of a heart attack while having sex with a random woman, and now his family is claiming his company is responsible for

it by naming it as workplace at workplace accident. So what An appeals court judge had ruled this a few years ago that any employee on an assignment is entitled to their employers protection from the duration of their mission, whether it was by an accident or by a natural act of normal life. Family is now entitled to the benefits from both the state and his employer, which includes up to eight of his salary until he reaches retirement,

and then they get a share of his pension. So this man died, but he still give a little something back to his family for cheating on his wife and obviously his kids. Wow, what country was that in France? Oh man, it's pretty good that I didn't What what job is other than hooker? Is uh your job? Including he was having sex on on business time? He was an engineer for a railroad railroad company. Oh man, it's pretty no idea working on the railroad. You got to

go out and play bam bam, no idea. It's pretty good. Last one ben until death do us Part A nine? When one call was made after a woman by the name of Victoria for butt used some uh use some pliers to cut off a man's dick. I just actually said that. Victoria was charged with malicious castration and also kidnapping.

Now here's the jaw dropping part of all this. Ben she was the one that actually dialed nine one one, and she told the nine one one opera that she used the pliers because they were actually great for cutting roses. And then later she added that there was no serious bleeding because she couldn't get enough blood to make the sign of the cross or write the words center on him. Then police asked what the motive for this woman behind all this was, and she said that would be part

of the message against sinning against God and fornication. And then she later added that after the incident, she actually put a towel on her husband and told him he's gonna have to carry that message for the rest of his life. One year old man was then released from the montage and eventually his dick was put on ice. It's pretty good. Did they reattached the I don't know why the why are you asking me that? Well, you're the expert on penises, so I wanted to know if

they reattached the dick. That's what I would like to know. I mean, uh, what was it just the tip or was it the whole the full operation there full monty? Was it just the tip? Did you really just ask another? But there are different degrees to this. I mean, I think that would be the most important part. But we should have the listeners find this on Reddit, send it to you. What's your email address? Uh? The well, it is the fifth hour. Uh, just the fifth hour, the real,

real fifth our real fifth hour. There you go, real fifth hour at gmail dot com. You send your questions in. Uh, you can do that. And for ben uh for guess hunt for all that, I know you brought the story up. I didn't bring the story up because you brought it up. Clearly you're interested in the story. You like hearing about people having their penises cut off. Well, listen, I got a lot of direct messages last week and some emails from the listeners of the podcast. They enjoyed our stories.

I let them know that I was the architect of all of them, and they appreciated it. Uh. Yeah, that's that's fake. You're making that up. But that's fun. Okay, you can make it up. But again I listen. Well, we'll put the put the baby to bed. As I say, but contact us, promote the podcast. Tell your co workers, your friends, your enemies, your wife, your girlfriend, your mistress, personal assistant, whoever you work with, download our podcast or

at least subscribe because that helps us out. That helps out. All you have to do do is subscribe, even though they don't actually listen. We'd like you actually listen, but it helps a ton the numbers go up there. I want to make this the one of the top podcast on I heart UH and because that'll that'll annoy some people at work at the company and all that which we like. Uh And as always, you can reach out to us on a different social media channels as uh. Benn Mallard

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