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everywhere bluviating your Sunday away another mail bag. We do this eight days a week because four hours a night are not enough, clearly, and we thank you for finding I hope you enjoyed the Travelog podcast on Saturday, the Squirrel Whisper and some hot German football talk from Gas. We got so long winded on that we did not have time to get to pop Quiz or Scientifical. But West of the four five guests on is back again for the Sunday. No need for the crowd. Thank you.

But you're with I'm a pilot putting us on blast last week. And since you love to you know, live in the kitchen and I'm doing German football, European football, what about this schnitzel? Yeah? What if you make your own schnitzel. The German food I love is the pretzel. Yeah, I don't know about the schnitzel. Man, that would be, although I do like that it's a thin slice of meat. As you know, I I cannot eat meat unless it's thinly sliced and it's crusted and it's pounded, which is good. Yeah,

I mean I could, I could do schnitzel. I make my chicken like that, right. I don't want meat. I don't know about that, but schnitzel's wonderful because it's fried. It's thinly sliced, breaded and fried, and you can never have enough of it. Yeah. So I is there a certain kind of meat you're supposed to put in the schnitzel or it can be any kind of I don't know rules. Yeah, I don't know. It's a good question. Yeah, I'm sure we'll get blasted for it. Now. I have

some bad news with the mail bag. Bad news really well, it's bad for some and it's good for others. The fact that we're doing the mail bag earlier than we normally do the mail bag. No no, no, no, no no. Um. I'd like, are we doing this by the way early for next week. Also is that the is that the plan here is that No, we're not okay, but it has to do with you know, the following days and the following weeks. Um, I needed to point you to your your cell phone right now because there's there's this

text message you're going to receive with some interesting notes. Um. What you'll see on that said text message, Ben will be podcast download numbers from last week's episodes where you purposely told your audience last Saturday to tank the Friday show. No, I didn't tell them, and I had the audio proof from that. Well, I have no way of verifying whether we're not going through a stage sanctioned audit. This thing is all upright, and if you look at that, it'll

see and listen, four thousand more downloads Saturday. I think it's not it's less than four thousands. It's less than four thousand. And we open up the mail bag and all the people upset complaining where were you been? Why weren't you there? We had to listen to some you know, some guy from the Broncos and guesscon where were you? You want to go through those emails and we here's the problem. We have the Mailbag does does very well, although this this past week not as well. The audio

was not great on the mail Bag. That's year fault on that. But but yeah, more here's the thing on audio content. More people listen on Friday, less people listen it on Saturday and Sunday. It's just the way it is. People are out doing things on Saturday and Sunday. On Friday, people are more willing to listen to the podcast. But if I was really if I was really motivating, that

was a throwaway line at the end of the podcast. No. No, if I was trying to make a statement, I would have began the podcast by saying, you know, listen to me. Don't listen to it. But what's the point of doing on a Saturday. If people are already going to listen to the podcast on a Friday, and you know it would have been on Friday. You should have been the one saying, don't listen to bet on Saturday. Listen to me on Friday. That would have been more effective. It

was just a joke. Guest, you are so sensitive, you are such a delicate little flower, because I mean, how dare you? I was it was a joke. I was, I was having fun at the end of a podcast. If my motivation was to get people to listen this podcast on Saturday, on this obviously Sunday podcast, but the Saturday podcast instead of the Friday podcast, it would have been ridiculous to do it at the very end of

the Saturday podcast. And I'm happy you brought that up because I haven't seen a big man like you on roller skates in a long time, and now that you're on roller skates, I will let you. Since I am a caretaker of the said podcast, I carefully edited those carefully crafted jokes out of the podcast, right right to that head. And no idea that right? Is that right? Is that right? You asshole? You piece of shit? Is that correct? Fuck you? Wow? Snowed under yet again? Cast

your eyes on Judas right over there. My god, the podcast is recorded live to air, live to air, and your phony but that is a traitorous act, all right? How dare you betrayal? You get By the way, there were people pissed, you know they were. They were more upset I missed the radio show, but then the podcast also, Oh my god, how could you miss the podcast? You're supposed to jump in with both feet on the podcast. Every podcast would like when you had your gallbladder removed

and people are piste off the ear. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in the hospital having major surgery because I gall bladder was all messed up because I waited wait too long and they were busting my balls at work. You didn't exactly run over to see me. By the way, guests gun you know over. They want to point that out. You know you were not forbidden, you know, uh alright. Anyway,

we have the mail bag. These are actual questions sent in by actual listeners like yourself, submitted via Facebook on the Facebook page Ben mall Or Show or Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and oh wait we go. First mail bag question comes from I'm a pilot in parts of now and he says hello from sunny Tel Aviv. I guess we know where he is then It's probably mid eighties, perfect weather and a stark difference to my previous Sydney

Prisons day. Because before I get into that, I just want to say congrats Bend on the home sale. Well, thank you for that. I'm a pilot it has been several months in the making on that. He says, I will try to keep this compact as possible. So he gives us the travel log, the I'm a pilot travel log, which is all he doesn't fly around, he says. So the flight to Sydney, he claims his fourteen to fifteen hours.

It's the same to Tel Aviv. So he goes to Sydney first and globally, I'm a pilot still dealing with all the COVID protocols and all that. He says. The had a COVID test prior to departure. Flight goes south of Hawaii around the equator. He mentions the Christmas Island some other island I've never heard of, since there's this area called the I t z Z, the inner Tropical conversion Zone. Have you ever heard of that the tropical I haven't either, He says. It's where the north and

south trade winds meet. Usually it's pretty gnarly storms up to fifty thousand plus feet, bumpy ride, et cetera. Gotta weave through all that and head up or head on down towards Pago Pago on the way to Sydney. Arrive early morning, sit for thirty minutes to deep plane because we are now in the New South Wales and they will only process what arrival at a time due to COVID. According to I'm a pilot, lot of red tape, a

lot of bureaucracy us. So they deep plane, he says, has to wait in a hall for one hour, so the plane is landed, half an hour on the plane hour way eating for someone in full hasmat suit. They come get you, says security, then escorted you to process for arrival instructions. He says, there were nurses there and there were mean ones that would take your temperature, criticize the mask wearing procedures that they were doing. Uh and uh,

he said, given instructions how to properly wear masks. Told we were not allowed to leave the hotel room, handed them papers one of five sheets of paper with passport, name, arrival and departure information. I'm a pilot, and say said, walked fifty feet, handed the papers a two sheet too with info, signed something. He's giving every detail. By the way, guests gun here. He's very detailed, orient saying I'm not going anywhere, so he had to sign off these not

going anywhere. He was escorted to the passport an immigration area where there were you know, sheet number three clear customs. Then have to take another COVID test. Just took one sixteen hours ago, he says, so he's taking another one. I'm a pilot, says as he traveling around the globe. Here the globe trekker. Give the door hallway, where to we find out where we will be staying. There's two hotels. Government selects, no choice. You don't gonna choose which hotel

you stay at. The door opens. Pilots get on one bus. Flight attendants. I guess they're segregated. They go on another bus going to the same location. Though that's odd, so it says, going to the same location. Uh. The email continues. He says, at a hotel, police escorted in two at a time. The same has met people with z papers, questions, temperature check shown, room number, escorted to another office. Shown paper. I have to show the paper with the number room

we're on. It punches the elevator button as apparently if if I'm a pilot, says, if I touched it, the world would end. Yeah, it's a little a little too much. Email continues. He says, get off on the floor. And yet another police officer in a Hasma and a Hasmat person, show the paper with the room number and they let you in. Can only open the door to retrieve food that is brought at a scheduled time. This sounds like China. Ship, This doesn't sound Where is this done? He's in? Where

was he here? Sydney right, sounds like it sounds like China. Uh so, he says, only able to retrieve the food that has brought in his schedule. Times, no selection. Once you hear a knock, wait thirty seconds, put on a mask and open get food. Immediately closed the door, he says. Fun times food was met. The worst part, I'm a pilot, says, was in the morning. I just wanted some eggs, Nope, corn flakes and something that resembled apple strudel. I don't

have a problem with apple strudal. I'm a pilot. I kind of like the apple strutal. If it's hot, though it's really hot, that's the problem. Uh it's it's great. So I I have coffee and bite into the thinking Biden is thinking apple strudal. It was actually some curry meat pastry. Holy ship, that's disgusting. Can't wait to go home process all repeats on way back, says, Sydney sucks. Sydney Australia sucks. They just use our archaic British rules and make them more jacked up so they can call

it their own. So then he goes to Tel Aviv gives us the story on that just takes off over Canada. So they fly over from tell Aviv. From Sydney, they fly to get to tell Aviv. They take off over Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Cypress, Israel. Only thing is you have have You have to call, he says, tel Aviv Airspace early to get permission to enter. Usually the handoff is from each center. But Turkey and Israel don't talk to each other, of course, not even

though they're right near each other. So you have to do that. Land get off. Everything is a process. Automatic scan the passport head out easy, he said. And they just lifted the mask wearing mandates. In Israel, everything is open. Anything happening is towards Palestines border. Nothing happening in Tel Aviv except sun and fun. And he says, uh, He's I'm a pilot, two very different places, vastly different experiences. But can get the Ben Maller and Gascon show anywhere shalom,

He says, I'm at. I feel like we need to do one dedicated episode for him, just something. He calmed down. I know you want to suck the toe. He's in transit to some of these foreign lands. Just draconian, just awful. I get it. I just listen. I I like I'm a pilot. He's been a hat benefactor. He's been very kind and supported the show for some reason. He claims to like you a little too much. But no one's perfect.

Patricia writes in from Lost Wages, Nevada and says, what exactly is so important that Mr West of the four oh five cannot be there on the regular podcast. I'm asking for a friend. Oh my gosh, you want to answer Patricia's question? Vegas? You no, alright? Uh, Patricia, he is rejecting. Well, I think he's a legitimate question. Mess messes up my schedule, messes up the listeners schedule. What messes up my schedule too? Very rude? I agree by you. It's Rick from San Ramon who says that collapse on

part of the jazz the other day. It's like last week now it was epic. I said, I'm not a Clipper fan, but that was a gutsy performance by your team, Rick says Sands Kauai. Good luck to your boys the rest of the way. PS Clay's back next year and the Dubs are gonna make a move on an impact veteran in free agency, court Rick, the West will belong to the Dubs one last time before the greatest shooter on the planet retires. There you go. So I did. I did win steak dinner backing your team when they

were down O two. You're welcome, welcome. It's all right. Have you cashed that in yet? I'm gonna wait on that. But I did take my shots at George Rice stir and uh yeah, he will not spare any expanse on that. That's that's gonna be a nice steak dinner. Good. Yes, you got your shots? Huh? I did? I did down oh two and they came back, got on their horse and won it. It's last job, Fred from Spring Texas, right, since, says are you and gascon dog or cat people? I'm

I'm a dog person. You're a squirrel person. Well, I'm a squirrel person. I'm I like to feed the ducks and the geese at the park. I'm like an old guy. I just I like to feed animals. Now, you watch documentaries, Do you ever watch like nature shows, andything like that? Yes, I do. I like those that use drone footage and show, you know, different parts of the world forests. They go into the forest, or they'll go to the really arctic parts of the world. Or there was a documentary was

on Netflix a while ago about the oceans. Yeah, I like those. Well, the reason why I ask is because his question says, are you dog or cat? I've been watching a lot of Instagram videos now of these guys. Those are beautiful, bodacious women. Those aren't dogs and cats. Are there are these guys? Now? I'm not not now, but like there's guys out there that are are hanging around like huging, rolling around the dirt or the grass,

the wildlife with lions and tigers sometimes wolves. I just I mean, it's it's crazy to see, you know, two d plus pound animals and these guys that just have no regard for anything else. These are wild animals obviously that they're able to uh to bondle with. That's pretty fascinating. Well, never underestimate the power of cloud chasing, trying to get your fifteen minutes of fame, the unnecessary drama. No, these

guys like take care of these these lions. And really, I thought you were telling me there were people on instant the way you made it seem like there were people trying to get people to like them on Instagram. No, no, no, these guys were like legit trainers and so they yeah, they well, they've always been that. I remember when I was a kid, I remember seeing videos, like actual VHS videos of I think it's in Malaysia. There have been families there that have had pet allega eaters or you

know whatever. Yeah, and so that that's like the family pet. You have a dog I have, maybe you're a cat person, maybe you have a chicken or a pig, and they have a pet alligator. That's time to go to bed. Make sure you put the alligator in the bed. I mean, come on, that's crazy, nuts, right, yeah, alligator. Eric and Olmaha says jeans khakis or sweatpants. Uh, sweatpants, sweatpants jeans, Lee writes in From the Valley of the Sun. He says hamburger or pizza and uh, fun gag on. He says,

did you spell any of that right? A couple of he got that one. A couple of words messed up there. That's hamburger pizza. That's tough, A well made burger. Yeah, pizzas to me multidimensional. You get the toppings change on the topics on a burger change too. But I'll go pizza and you can have cold pizza. You can't have a cold burger, That's true. You gotta eat it fresh. Blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan and Olympia Washington says, have

you guys thought about getting the great John Ramos? On the fifth hour podcast Our Our Mexican Philip rivers, Wow, I got a lot of kids. Man, What what's wrong with that? Man? Is your family? Man? Wrong with that? Ramos is an l a radio ledge, It's not an amateur. Now. I was bragging to John Ramos when I moved to the Halfway House, and I had to deal with John and the the engineering staff, Curious and the other guys

on the engineering side. I had to get the studio set up, of course I had to do it myself, uh, and and move everything and make sure everything was still connected. The way it was supposed to be connected. As you know, I'm an expert my FCC. I had my FCC license when I worked at the college station back in the day. Anyway, so I'm talking to Ramos and I'm like, see, I'm like, you know, an amateur engineer just like you, and I know I'm a professional engineer. Let you take that subtle

shot at him. No, that was not my intention. That was not my intention to take a subtle shot at him. I was merely pointing out that I was proud of myself that we actually got this to work, even though I had to do a week back at the mother Ship and and all that. But I'd love this. It's up to me, blind Emmett. I would put many of the support staff the meat and potatoes of a Fox Sports radio. I would happily put these people on. In fact, we are going to have at some point ask a

Vegan will be on the podcast. Alex Tisher will be on the podcast. I promised him a podcast experience. Now, he said, he promised major downloads because he has connected in the anime world and he's a very popular figure in that world. And he promised me if we put Alex tysher On, engineer for Jason and Mike Harmon and Rob Parker and Broussard Chris Broussard that he said major downloads,

we'll go platinum if we put that. Bring up? Does that mean with to bring on like Gavin and Iowa, Sam and some of the other guys that, Yeah, I seen these are these are I know you're west of the four or five. These people are below you, but I'm fine these guys, I'll put them on you. You don't know who could be a rock star. And now some of them might be boring and horrible, but you

have to leave room for that. And and these are people that they're not totally anonymous because like blind Emmett, he loves all the behind the scenes people of Fox Sports Radio. He'll send messages to me and put so and so only don the board op or whatever put them on. Yeah. Interesting Valls. Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says, Ben, I saw you feeding the squirrels, and they must like peanuts.

What would you have done if they would have run up both your legs and went after your own nuts? I think you know what I would have done. I would have gotten to a defensive fight or flight pasture posture. Rather. Jimmy from Favorale that it was one of the cooler things that I'm feeding the squirrels. We mentioned it yesterday on the Saturday podcast. But it was pretty cool, guest scout.

It reminded me of when I went to Catalina and they have a lover's cove on Catalian Island off the coast of l A. And you're not supposed to do this, and I should not say this in the radio, but I have heard rumors that if you feed the fish frozen corn or frozen peas, they will jump out of the water to get the frozen corn and the frozen piece. It's unbelievable. It's like you're the fish whisper. Pretty cool, Pretty cool. And I said that I had the same

experience with the squirrels and it's it's pretty neat. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Ben ned Flanders hosting your show, Roberto no show. What the f year drinking Brian half pint could have ran it? Bad

decision on your part. The fund is that I don't know, I don't know who sent that, but that's a bad person right there. I didn't even I don't think they put their name here. I don't know what happened. WHOA, Yeah, what's the email address? I know that was on Facebook. I think that was on the Facebook. Yeah, it's kind of helter skelter. At the last minute, I was like looking for questions. Vick says, are you guys unable to get your podcast on Alexa? Are we not on Alexa? Guess?

Are you by the way that that last email that the justist jointed one that was all over the place, that came from Brandon. Yeah, we're like fifty six different platforms, not enough gascon whatever is convenient to that particular listener. I'm just saying, and this this guy Vick wants ALEXA. I don't. I don't know the difference. I don't use a light. Do you use Alexa? I don't use I've

never used Alexa. Have you ever dated a girl named Alexa? No? No, just a one nighter Pierre from Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you can see Muffett McGraw in the Pro Basketball of Fame, says, any chance that your executive producer gets you a housewarming steak and uh, you know, chow down on some warm raising canes at the Ugly Sweater party. Now that you him and Mr Oakley Doakley are going to be neighbors on the elite side of the four or five. No, I will.

I will not be living west of the four oh five. Want to be very clear on that. I will have a humble abode which will be worked on starting right now. Actually they're doing somebstructional structural work and my wife's very excited. We get to pick out all the flooring and it's like a brand new place. Are you doing wood or are you doing carpet? No, we're not, definitely not carpet. We're not doing would We're doing the would look tile, which is wonderful. It'll last. I'll be dead for a

hundred years. This tile will still be good and it's easy to clean. I love it, and it looks like wood, but it's better. It'll last Because I had a flood as you know your father helped me out. Thank you for that. At the old Matherler mansion, point's hard to say it's the old Maler mansion, but we had we had a pipe burst and the floors got flooded and because of the wood we had lamb in it. Actually it all got destroyed and we had to get it replaced. But with tile, the tile part we didn't have to

get replaced. Way to go. So with your flooring, what color you're gonna have it? Are you gonna have it as like an oak color or smoke gray? Like? What are you gonna kind of like a smoky wood kind of color? Although that is that subject to change that. The flooring is the last thing they do because they don't want to destroy it. So we still have some time to pick out different flooring, but we have settled on what we think will be the floor so we'll

see it. I'm excited. I' be looking forward to seeing when it's all when it's all done, but it's gonna be a couple of months before before it's done. Uh, let's see here, Ozzy momentum. Right, since the's any chance you get JT the Brick on your podcast, Guy's a legend. Reckon it make a great radio cheers. What are you doing? What are you? What are you doing? What do you that's that's interesting. I haven't heard of j TS name using a long time. No, I think he's working at

mad Dog Radio. I think he's True and Nights and mad Dog Radio and he got a podcast with Looney. Now. I don't really know JT that well. We've worked at the same place a long time. Um, but yeah, I mean j I knew like, uh, you know, nothing against JT. I'm sure he's fine, all that nice guy, but I really didn't know him that well. I knew Mike north Bore and some of the other guys that we've had on Tony Bruno, guys like that. I never really knew JT that well. But I wouldn't be opposed to put

him on the podcast. And he's been in radio a long time and and shoot the ship. He's a radio guy, So if he wants to do it, we can book him one of these weeks. Chris and Marraccada, Iowa, did I say that right? He says. When Casey case Um did the countdown, did he have to sit through commercials or were they added later a voice tracked everything. Yeah, everything was recorded. The commercials were added in later, So yeah, he did not sit there, just like Ryan Seacrest, I

think does the Countdown show now. I think he's still doing it. And Steve Harvey the same thing too, right with those morning shows, Harvey will do his show. I don't think we're allowed to say, but occasionally he will voice track. How about that? I don't know. I don't want to give any secrets out how we make the hot dogs, but a lot of those. You'd be shocked how many big time radio shows are not actually live.

Let's just put it that way. And it's really great because a lot of guys in radio can just record their show and they don't take calls, so it's not time sensitive. I can't get away with that guestcount. I've totally left up on my show. I take I don't take a lot of calls, A couple of calls an hour usually unless I go crazy and we should do a Newbie night at some point. But um, I don't normally take too many calls, but I take enough where if I don't take calls, you can tell something something

some uh. Chris also says I'm in hearing ads on your radio show for the Fifth Hour podcast? Did you pay for them? If you were? You were you given an employee discount? No, and I didn't pay for any ads. Now I Heart Media, which is the parent company, and Fox Sports Radio is a partnership with Fox Sports and I Heart, but I Heart is the radio company, and so they have really made a big push on podcasting,

thus the Fifth Hour podcast. And so they've been promoting not only our podcast, but a bunch of other podcasts on terrestrial radio to try to get people. I know, the Will Ferrell podcast has gotten a lot of the Anchorman podcast. I think it is. That's got a lot of promotion, a lot of promotion for that. Uh, this is a different Chris in Iowa. He says, are you better at withstanding extreme heat or extreme cold? I imagine you so cal Softi's handle heat better. Um, I'll go first.

Yeah to me. The the the heat, I'm I'm more used to because I I've lived in recent years, I've lived in an area got pretty hot, and I don't mind going on vacation to spending a weekend in Palm Springs where it gets to a hundred and ten or Vegas where it's a hundred and twenty although you're inside most of the time. I've spent too much time in cold weather. When I have spent time in cold weather, it has been horrific. But you just bundle up. It's

it's not it's not that bad. But the end result though, guess gun, regardless of whether you're in hot weather or cold weather, if you have a burn or a frost bite, it's the same effect on the body. How about that cold weather warm weather? Again, I'm I think I'm a hockey guy, so I think I'm more cold. My engine runs up anyway, and um yeah, I do well and cold. Now. The kicker, though, you know this is the wind. Cold is fine, but then you get the fucking wind, and

it's a game over. Like the Chicago the Chicago wind. That wind in Philadelphia the wind is fine, but well they call it the windy city because of the politicians, not because the wind. That's true. Point that out. But man, yeah, I like the cold. I don't mind it at all. Yeah, he says a guy that's surrounded by a bunch of heaters and all that. When you live west of the four or five, how cold does it get out of fifty occasionally there possibly, Yeah, sometimes I was the blankets.

It's gonna get the fifty not you know, last weekend I was actually at the beach. It was a little overcast, a little little foggy, but God, just great scenery. Alright, moving man, Matt, Right, just why do you just run around over that? And I feel like run out of things to say. I feel like a moving man, Matt writes in he says, who wins a tag team matchup Ben and moving Man versus Gascon and Roberto. Um, if I get Roberto some tequila, we wentn't buy a mile.

You have no chance. You understand the places that moving Man Matt has been, the people he has seen, the things he has done, you would be pumpled. I wouldn't even have to do anything. I would just be observing. I could Moving Man Matt is such a tough guy. Okay, I've met this guy. I could get a lawn chair and and sit down and with a big bucket of popcorn,

and he could take both Gascon and Roberto down. Like now, if this was young, Roberto would be a problem because Roberto was one of the scoundrels at the pavilion at Dodger Stadium and typical Raider fan back in his younger he's mellowed out. He's a family man. He's a far other, so he's he's happy, Go lucky, Roberto, that's the guy that you're matched up with. But Moving Man, Matt Man, this guy's it. He's a monster. He's an inner monster

when he wants to be supporting the Mallar Militia. Great. Absolutely, and a minute, Kevin. By the way, Moving Man, Matt's upset. You didn't say something stupid because normally you say something stupid. He's upset by that. Um Kevin in Kansas is Ben and David. Thank you for the excellent podcast or Friday shows are particularly insightful, and some of that comes from the insightful questions you have for your guests. Both of you are sharp with questions. Have you always been that

good or is it something you learned through practice and mentorship? Well, that's tremendous sucking up, Kevin, I appreciate that tremendous. Uh No, no, it's trial and error for me. I know I was terrible when I first started in radio. It was horrifically bad. But the good thing about working weekend overnights for all those years is no one was listening, and I had a blank canvas to try stuff and figure out what worked. And I'm also a believer in that ten thousand hour thing.

I think there's some truth in that. The more you do something repetition and you get to a certain point, you master a skill. But you really can't master you gotta keep adding on too. What about you guess? Yeah, I finally I get in more trouble with longer questions shorter questions, the easier it is. And then that's the key. That's the key. You don't want the fifteen part question. You hear that a lot at the White House when

they're interviewing the president, whoever the president is. The reporters are such intellectual assholes that they asked seven different questions and one question because they only get one chance to ask a question. And as a result of that, the person who's answering the question, ay, they have time to think about what they're gonna say and and be they will.

They will answer the most benign of the questions. So if you give someone a quick question and they will not have time to think of an answer, that's the key to asking questions. It's not how long ago, it's it's asking a quick question, and why are you such an asshole? You need to ask open, open ended questions as opposed to close questions. Yeah, no, yes, no questions. You can't do that. It's very important basics. These are things you're supposed to learn in a journalism class. The

open questions are what, how? Why? Yeah, not the You'll notice this a lot, especially in today's world. Can you talk about this? Can you talking about what happened here? That's not a question. No, but you could rephrase that and uh, why did this happen? Or how did this happen? All right? What happened? So president? But I see you fellow asleep the other day? What happened? Just like that? Right? Go down the list? All right? What do we have here?

Mark in Ottawa? Right, said Marks? A big fan of hers? He says, Ben, speaking of Mr West of the four oh five? Would you take the over under on David being with four and five different blanks? Yeah, you're not on Facebook. You can't see the question. No, I cannot let me send this to you here. I am deathly afraid of the Montreal Canadians potentially getting back to the Staling Cup Final. You're afraid of that. They should be curst after what they did the Kings in n Yeah,

I just sent you the question. Check that out there. I see what you want to answer that. M it's kind of interesting. Mark from Otta. Well, Mark's got a lot of time on his hands. You know, when you're when you're north of the border in Canada and you can't even go outside to pick up your trash or go get some groceries, and you're stuck in that ship hold of a country, you come up with questions like that. Guscon's getting more agitated. He's as mad as a hornet

right now. Mark watching the bang Bush alright. Email from Danny This will be the last one. Danny from South Florida, He says, Hey, Ben, Danny from South Florida. Here, Avid listener. I was curious. We seem to be alike wearing the longer swim trunks and shorts to the beach. Do you have to go to the do do you have go to beach attire? Or does it very based on the outside weather. Also, does Ben Simmons know if he's allowed to use the basket in the fourth quarter? Three shots

in seven games. Thank you, Danny. He asked the hard question. Yeah, he asked the sports question. Yeah. I've talked a lot about Ben Simmons the last week of the radio, so I don't know if I want to rehash any of that content. But it's good for radio. Ben Simmons is good for radio. I'll say that. But yeah, Danny, being a rather pasty vampire of the nights, I don't get a lot of sun. I'm an indoor creature. I'm up nocturnal, the nocturnal colonel. I'm up all night. So when I

go to the beach, I do burn easily. I do burn easily. So there's a lot of suntan lotion. And I usually wear a swim shirt, and I like baggy swim trunks. I've often said, I'm not kidding, I would. I want to cover up as much as possible. I want to wear them if I could a burka on the beach. So that that's my thing. Long swim trunks. I wear the swim shirt and all that. So that's my I go to. But Danny, you're in South Florida. You're in paradise there in South Florida, so you're you're

out and about it's eighty degrees every day. There absolutely correct gascon if you're curious. I didn't ask this, but he wears the banana hammock when he goes to the beach. That's is my board. Shirts are great, but I got great legs. I do not skip leg day. Um perfectly. H I guess I could say proportioned you want to take a bow? I could if you like me to, I can. I can do that. We learned from our favorite couple there in South Florida that you like to

oh Grandma's. They're the ones the post tapers every day and every night and uh wow, retirees, what a what a losing? Sorry, I don't I don't burn Helen. You're you're talking about Helen and stew in Palmetto Bay and they didn't even send a question in let me suck this week the typewriter broke down. Yeah, just because they point out your shortcomings. They have the courage, the intentional fortitude, their keyboard, point out your mistakes. When you f up,

they point that out. I like Helen and Stud. I'm gonna giving them a golden ticket. Tat I just did, I just did. I'll have that edited out of the podcast. Oh my god, you think that when after or before they send the emails to you, that they're rolling eachron around each other and like in these wheelchairs up and down the streets of South Florida. I mean, don't you want to live like Stu and Helen and be able to live in a nice area of Florida and enjoy

your life? No, they're they're young, hip and cool age is just a number numb school. You're such a mama, Luke. You know they don't live west of the four oh five. But I'd rather live in Palmetto Bay than west of the four oh five. How about that? Numbers four oh five douches. I'm happy to report our podcast is up a hundred and one percent over the last ninety days. Is that right? It's pretty phenomenal. Well, I have heard from people at the company that our podcast has done

very well, this podcast in my radio show podcast. I don't know if that's shockingly well. But I'm not supposed to know that, guest, because then I have, you know, I have to negotiate a new deal, and if I bring this up, then I'll be like, well, no, no,

that's not true. You know, all that, listen. I'm happy that you brought that up, because when you are negotiating a brand new deal, I just I'm just gonna remember who's you know driving into the to the party, and just you let them know that, you know, I drive myself and just transported you know someone else's. How am I related to you? I mean systems are not related. Is that good or bad? Though? That both of your shows have not diminished in in return, downloads and listenership

despite a pandemic. Yeah, well, I'm still blown away. It's one of the coolest things. And I've been doing this a long time, and there's been a lot of crazy things that have happened. But the fact that Fox Sports Radio, a place I have worked for over twenty years of my life, pretty much my entire adult life has been spent at Fox Sports Radio. We had more listeners with

no sports than with sports. It's shocking, wild listen. I would like to thank the people running the other networks were doing such a terrible job programming that Fox Sports Radio's programming is so much better than the apparently, judging by the ratings, were the number one. It's shocking when I got into this, when Fox Sports radio started, ESPN Radio was the dominator. It was all about ESPN Radio. They were the number one network and they're not anymore.

Fox Sports Radio is the pre eminent network for sports programming. It's a great testimonial to the people that work on on the radio, behind the scenes, people in management, everyone. It's crazy to think that this place is I don't think of it that way, but that it's the most listened to sports network. It's it's just nuts. Who knew? No, I mean, that's you know. Part of it's the The digital numbers have just accentuated the show. And then I you know, happy to report that you helping you get

into the digital world. You're gonna make this all about you. It's been one of those things. It's my little baby, and sometimes they shed a tear when I see you blossom into this big media muggle. It's a great sight to see, you know. It's like you want to do a pirouete on the catwalk and turn back around, come back to the rest of us here. Oh my god. Yes, it's these are wild numbers. It's it's really cool to

see the engagement with people out there. So no, it's great and I've always had a little bit of an advantage being the overnight guy, because most people only work overnights for a select amount of time and then go

back to the day, the dreaded day shift. And the cool thing is I've been able to convince some of my my people that are are fans of the show that they can still listen during the day even if it's like the way I look at it, even though I'm doing the overnight show, we're pretty much just recording a podcast for the next day, and there's a lot

of people. You look at the downloads on the radio show, and there's a lot of people that are listening to us in morning drive on the on the overnight show and just listening when they get in their cars in the morning on the way to work. It's pretty cool. Yeah, well, it's need to see that to be accurate. Though your show is not crafted in such a black and white kind of format where you're just like, you're just hard oh sports all the time. You're allowed to go off

the beaten path a bit. I don't know what you're talking about. You're a lot to be colorful, That's what I'm trying to say. I got to use all the colors in the range. Yes, some guys don't do that. Some guys are just like black, red, whitey blue. I'm out, I hear you. Don't you have some German game to do or something like going messing up my schedule? Hut, there's there you anyway? All right? Listen? Thank you again. Tell a friend. We can double the podcast audience. I

say this, I mean it. If everyone listening, I'm talking about you and the other person over there. If we can all get one person to listen, just one person to listen, to download the podcast. I don't care about your grandma, your grandpa. I don't care if it's your kid that doesn't care about sports. As long as they subscribe to the podcast, we get a little bit of credit automatically downloads. But we thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting the podcast. Have a great rest

of your Sunday. We'll be back inside the Magic Radio Box with a new week of fresh content on the Ben Maller Radio Show at eleven o'clock Pacific on Sunday night, two am in the West. On Monday, in the middle of the night early in the morning, We'll catch you. Then be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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