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someone who's the anti Gascon. Ryan Smith, the professional, well former wrestler. Were you a professional or amateur wrestler? I mean, I guess you could say professional, but it was Andy. I really call it like professional when you say professional, it's like, oh, it's your wrestlem w E. No, No, I didn't say did you think that you were going to wrestle? Did you have aspirations of wrestling in the w W at one point when I was younger, Yes,

but Payne will usually change your mind about about most things. Yeah, and I know you. We we had you on before and you said you did wrestle with some guys that didn't make it right. You were around some guys that that went pretty high. Yeah, John Cena and Samilla Joe. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, if I've heard of him, Yeah, that's pretty good. All right, Well we have the mail bag, and so let's get right into it here. We like this. This is un unsullied

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future podcast. You can send it anytime. You can email right now here on Sunday, and then we'll possibly use it for next Sunday. If we use it on this podcast, well something's gone terribly wrong, all right, So Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, the home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, where Muffett McGraw isn't shrine, Pierre says, Benjamin, what is it going to take for you to finally dump the pro bouncy ball? Your clippers, while seemingly trending upward, continue to

disappoint you. Today's modern NBA player is a mere shell of the past mentality, and they hide behind their agents and keyboards. Reporters continue to lop softball questions in postgame interviews, and yet it says if you kick their dogs or assaulted their grandparents, Pierre says, I guess the same could be said for most pro athletes in many major sports, but there is still a safe haven. Bend. I know you're a hockey guy at heart, dumped the basketball and

joined Eddie and Dave on the dark side. That's from Pierre. Well, here's the problem here. First of all, I do, as you know, Pierre, a radio show five nights a week. I need content. We do broadcasting, not narrowcasting. So I I like basketball list there are there things that annoy me about the NBA. Do I roll my eyes at Lebron James? Yes, But at the same time, I'm a sports talk show host. It's a sport. It's it's sport.

It's a major US sports So no, and I do watch hockey, but typically hockey it's become more of a niche sport. So I'll do an occasional, rare and appropriate hockey monologue. Are you a hockey fan? Right? Okay, okay? What is this hockey that you speak of? Uh? This reminds me of that sketch on Saturday Night Live when we have the black guy down there talking about hockey and he was like, you know what to say about hockey? Uh? Let's get ready for for that hockey. Could I could

name you one hockey player I know nothing about hockey. Well, you know, like the greatest hockey player of all time, right, you could name that guy is when Gretzky. Uh yes, now he's actually coming back on TV. He's gonna be terrible as a hockey commentator, but he will be on television. So there is that. You have that too to look forward to. But you know, I had a great time. I like going to the King's games back in the day, and I was I actually covered hockey when I started radio.

How about that. I had never been to a hockey game. And then I got hired at six ninety in San Diego and they wanted me to cover the Kings and the Mighty Ducks in addition to to basketball. So I got a crash course on hockey from from doing that. And the hockey players. Of all the athletes, the hockey players like the most obliging to interviews. I mean they'll sit there and just they love being interviewed because they're not often interviews. Yeah. The worst are baseball players. Baseball

players are the biggest assholes. Oh my god, they are such schmucks. The baseball players all right. Anyway, Moving Man Matt all over the country based in Boston, but he travels all over the country the highways and by ways. The moving Billboard is back. He says, what's the best Matherd tribute you have received from a militia member? Uh? And he says, obviously the rolling billboard is. But you don't have to say, well, no, no, let's listen. As

you know, Moving Man Matt. I'm an introvert, but I went out of my way to hang out with you privately at a truck stop in Ontario. Yeah, I drove out. He was in town in southern California and he parked his his moving truck over at a truck stop off the ten in southern California in Ontario, and I drove. I drove out there because he has the Mallard Militia on the back of his his brig swait. So let me get this straight. You met strange man late at night and what it was during the day. But I

didn't meet him. I did meet him. It makes it all the bay. Yeah, and I didn't. I didn't see any lot lizards. Was in the bathroom somewhere or I did not meet him in the bathroom. I did not, but was he cap his foot? The funny the funny calmed down, Calm down, cowboy. He's a happily married man, So funny. The funny thing. The funny thing about this was that so the truck stop is designed for these massive you know, eighteen wheelers and all that. So he tells me where to go to where the big rigs are.

And you know how those gates that go up and down, you know, to get into a parking garage. Well, the the gate bar was so high up that it was designed for big rigs. I'm in a commuter, I'm in a regular car, a midsized automobile, and I just drove underneath it and without a problem. It was that high up. My entire car fit under the thing. I didn't even have to worry about it. So but but then I went and you know, we we talked for a little

bit and he it was it was very cool. I hadn't met him in the past, though, right, So it's not like I've never met him. He had shown up at the event we did in Boston. He came down, and so I had met him before. But no, no, I would have been happy. I would have been happy at the I love truck stop food. I do. I could live the truck driver at life. It's very unhealthy, it's fattening, it's bad for you. I could eat that food, absolutely could anyway. Greg and Iowa writes, but but yeah,

moving man, Matt. Just to answer your question, the billboards great, the chicken fingers, the Mallard Fowler, the Mallard chicken sandwich, all these food dishes, the the Mallard drink. I mean, these are all great honors. These are all great tributes. So you know you want to rank them. The food dishes are are awesome in in Denver and in Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas, in all these places. So it's pretty pretty cool. Uh. And we had other ones in Syracuse.

That's no longer around Michigan. So and I'm open, I'm open. We don't have a Mallard Burger. There's not a Mallard burger. I'm open to a Mallet burger. What would to him? What would be in the Mallard burger? All right, So the Mallard burger would be a combination of things you'd have. It would be a cheeseburger double meat, double cheese. You'd put grilled onions and onion straws on there. You'd have

like it would be like a barbecue based burger. You'd have a nice, solid, sweet barbecue saw some more of a sweet barbecue fan, uh than anything else. I just pile on the young No lettuce, no vegetables other than garlic. You can put some garlic on good with that, And I think that keep it simple. I think just keep it simple. Let's it. What about you and your burger? If you had a Ryan McBain burger, Oh, oh yeah, it would be okay, it would be a double bacon,

macaroni and cheese burger. Oh mac and cheese. I don't think I've had mac and cheese in the burgen. It was amazing. I was a um. I was shocked how good it was. The best burger I ever had, Mac and cheese. The secret to the great burger? Who knew? Have you ever been to Pittsburgh PERMANI brothers in Pittsburgh? Ever been there? No? S okay, so is this legendary if you ever go to Pittsburgh, it's this legendary spot in Pittsburgh. And there's one in the Steel District. That.

I don't know if it still is. It was open twenty four hours, but I went in there like one in the morning, and they just put everything. It's sandwiches, but they put everything on the sandwich, like the fries, like the whole thing. It's like the Pittsburgh way to eat a sandwich, and that it's really it's pretty good. I didn't think I was gonna like it because they put a lot of lettuce and tomatoes and other crap on there, but I I enjoy it pretty good. That's why.

I don't know. I don't know why that popped in my head. But you said mac and cheese, and that's like something they would do, or they just put everything on top. Alright, Greg and iowas says Ben and Guestcott, he's not here. You don't have to address Gasco, have either of you? I guess this is for you Ryan. Have either of you tried a smoker for cooking a brisket ribs or pulled pork, or have the both of

you just had other people's barbecue. Well, I actually owned a smoker, Greg, I. I moved and I gifted the smoker to someone I work with who does a cooking segment every week, but I really didn't use it. And the reason I didn't use it is because I typically don't spend that much time playing a meal. And to properly use a cooker or a slow cooker a smoker, you have to plan it out. You gotta leave it in there for many, many hours to get the proper taste. And I just I don't plan it out that far

an event, so I'm not a good smoker person. It does taste much better, I agree with you, and I wish I had that in me. But I I watched some of these YouTube cooking shows because I wanna improve my ability in the kitchen, and I try to learn from these people, and some of these these cooking channels I watch, like you want to make a pastrami sandwich. A week before, you gotta do this, that and the other thing, and then two days before you gotta do this, Like no, no, If I want a pastrami sandwich, I

want to eat it within an hour. Yes, thank you. Everybody thinks they're freaking uh some grade a chef, you know, just just just give it to me. Now, You're not Gordon Ramsey, That's what I'm saying. I I'm right there now. I don't mind, you know, cooking a meal if it takes about an hour, anything over that, I'm out. I can make a pizza, it doesn't take that long. You know that you do have to let the dough rise a little bit if you make the dough from scratch.

But aside from that, like I am about an hour, I can cook a chicken dish. I can cook a Philly cheese steak that cooks pretty quick because the ribby, the thin cut ribby, cooks really fast. Um. But I don't need to spend eight hours in a smoker. So they ask your question, Greg, I have I had a smoker. I have attempted to use the smoker, but I'm not cut out for the smoker. I'm not Valls fan. Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, far from the Rocky Mountains, says Big Ben.

When you move into your new house, where you continue with the ugly Christmas, ugly sweater Christmas party whatever? Uh? And is the guest list going to grow shorter since you have a brand new house. Well, it's a renovated house, so it will be like a new house. But I yea, I have not thought about the Ugly Sweater Party. We have to assume that the renovation gets done when it's supposed to get done. But we are bringing back the Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. It is returning, so that is

going to happen. And I have not thought about the list of invites and all that. I can tell you that some people violated the bubble of trust and will not be invited. There are a few people that were invited in the past that violated my my, my really my inner circle, and so they will not be brought back. But other people will be. And so we'll see. It's a little further away where I'm moving, even further than where I live before. So we'll see if people want

to make the sojourn to the Ugly Sweater Party. Violated your trust? How well? You know, if I let you in my house, I don't need you tweeting out information about my house. You know what, I understand that's messed up? Agree, Yeah, yeah, I don't need that. I mean, it's it's a party. You can talk about the party, but you don't need to give out specific information because that's my personal business. And I'm letting you into my space and I want to I want to punch you if you do that.

So you're kind of like Derek Jeter. Leave your phones there, ladies. Yeah, I mean it's it's I totally get Derek Jeeter. I I should have a little basket where you can put your phone in. And uh yeah, I mean there's some of the stuff that people send out about and it's like, listen, you really have to give personal information out. You can't post something on Instagram or Twitter without giving out personal information. I mean, anyway, uh, let's see who else you have.

Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia's is guys from the All Star Game coming up. I was wanting about your thoughts about the political reason to move the game to Colorado even though their election laws are stricter than Georgia, and are you looking forward to watching the game. So, first of all, yeah, in Baseball totally screwed the pooch on

this one. They went full woke and they it's one thing, it's like, we're gonna move the game because we're upset about the laws in Georgia, But then you move to a state that has the same and what many people think are are you know, more draconian laws? I we can debate that that's that's a third roll, the third rail. But yeah, Rob Manford totally left up, and I am I gonna watch the All Star Game. Yeah, I like baseball. I'm gonna watch the All Star Game, so of course

I'm gonna watch the game. Plus I got to do a show after the All Star Game, so I'll be looking for content from the All Star Game. So of course, Jason, I'm gonna watch the watch the All Star Game. Although I'm already getting annoyed because when somebody gets too hyped up, it bothers me and then I start hating them. And there's been way too much hype about show. Hey, Otani, I I am already annoyed. You know what I'm saying? Ryan, Like, I get it. He's good, he's a picture, he's a hitter,

he's unique. No one else is doing that and no one, no one else has even really tried it since Babe Ruth. But hold off a little bit. This is not God's gift to humanity. Okay. I'm sick and tired of people telling me, oh, man, he might hit sixty home runs. No,

he's not going to do that. It's a long season people. Yeah, there's this thing called the slump that typically right around the All Star Right, I'll make a prediction with your run, okays, As you know, I'm a distant relative of the great uh Nostre Damas and friend of Nostrada's uh in See. He lives in Seattle, So I expect the All Star Game is this Tuesday. So by mid August, Otani will have like a stretch of twenty games with like one home run er no home run, some some ridiculous slump.

And someone will write a story, probably behind a paywall on the Athletic, saying that it is because of the home run derby, is because of the stress of the All Star Game that Otani went to slump. How about that call my shot? I'm shooting my shot right now, all right, what do you think it makes sense? Yeah? And that has been debunked. The myth that if you're in the home run derby you will then struggle after that, that has been debunked. But still it it continues. People

write the storts an easy story to right. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Fred from Spring Texas writes, and he says, hey, Ben, why does your audience applaud wildly when you introduced David but nary a clap when you come to the show when you come on here. Well there's a simple solution and reason for that. Uh and again we can we can

be honest here, unvarnished truth, unmodified by anyone. But the reason that is is because the guy west of the four oh five he hits this button right and uh and in in the crowd goes wild. It's all about him. He's got this ego wall right where he say this is button, it's a you know what. You know what an ego wall is? By the way, Ryan, you ever heard that term before? Yeah, it's people flaunt the people

they know, photos of you shaking hands or whatever with people. Well, gascon on radio, we can't have a ego wall because radio there's no we're podcasting, there's no photo. So in his way of getting around that, his work around is

the canned sound effect. Can't can't. I got in trouble when I was doing local radio because I used to when I first did the radio with the Ben and Dave Show, the original Benn and Dave Show with this guy named Dave Smith and and we had this replay machine, sound effects machine, and I every time I made a joke that I thought was funny, even if it wasn't funny, I would hit the laugh track and the program direct This guy named Bo Bennett came into the studio in

the middle of the show and physically ripped the machine out of the studio because I had played it so much. He was he was so annoyed that he literally ripped the thing he had unplugged and he put it over his shoulder like it was a sack of potatoes and h and walk. It was really funny. It's really funny back in the back in the day. Um, what is actually Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia? Beautiful Richard, Virginia says, She says, Ben, how far in advance will you announce your meet and greet,

your Mallard meet and greet dates and locations? And will you coordinate it to be on your non fasting days. I hope to meet you this year. Well, very nice, Jennifer. I have nothing planned at this time. My My first objective is to move again. And so I'm kind of in a holding pattern, like I'm circling the airport and I'm waiting to land, so I'm waiting for that to happen. So that's the main main event right now. But there there have been some people that have reached out about

doing doing meetings. I would like to do one before the end of the year, UH and certainly before the weather turns nasty in places like Richmond, Virginia, UH and other places, but nothing has been confirmed him. I do need to go to the Upper Midwest to visit my brother at some point, who's in Wisconsin, so I don't know if we'll do it in Wisconsin. I got family out of visit in Michigan, so maybe we'll do something

in Michigan. UH. And obviously we got a lot of listeners in Minnesota, so I and I've talked for years about going to Cincinnati. So those are some of the places. And then if I just happen to travel somewhere and it's not one of those places and I can sneak away from the family and hang out with some listeners, all I'll do that. But I will let you know, Jennifer, I promise and we will promote as much as I'm

physically allowed to promote. Certainly on the podcast year on the fifth hour, we have a little more wiggle room to promote that. Ryan, will you make making any appearances? Ryan, any meet and greets with your fans? Will it be in a truck stop? That's the question? How dare you are so taken about? See I? Do you think Colin Cowherd would go to a truck stop to meet a listener? Do you think he would do that? I'm not touching that one, all right? How about Dan Patrick? You think

Dan Patrick's can go down into a truck stop in Connecticut? No, I am the man of the people run. That's what I'm saying that I don't mind going down there and hanging out with the people. Yeah, nobody tapped their toes. Nothing wrong with that, man, Nothing wrong with that. You live your life, living my best life, and then it'll be over. No, don't remember anyway? All right? Kyrie in Okay See writes In says, my wife hates the show but loves that you read the email every weekend and

asked me to ask me to play it for her. Wow, it's a good move by your wife that she despises the show that I am scumb to her, that I take away the time you're listening Kyrie to me is the time you're supposed to be canoodling with your wife, and instead I am an enemy combatant to your wife. I know how she looks at this. I'm an enemy of the people. I'm an enemy of the sanctity of the mayor age because I am providing marginal audio content and for some reason you are addicted. So I thank

her for putting up with that. He does say, though, Kyrie here that he says, maybe you are you guys are growing on her. So that could be good and bad. That could be like a fungus, or that could be that could be like hair growing long. Uh. Anyway, all right, he said hello to David Gaffigan, but Gaffigan is not here. Uh. And anyway, here's the question. The question is this, Uh, he says. My question is what is your favorite and least favorite chore or honeydew that you have to do

at your house? Alright, so there's two things I like. I like doing the dishes. I'm a I'm a great dishwasher. When I finally lose my radio job, I would become a dishwasher. I used to want to work at Costco and push shopping cars. But I think I'm really really good at dishwashing, and if I had the ability to have a professional, big dishwasher boy, that would make it next level. Al right, And not to be pompous or anything like that, but I'm seriously I'm a very good dishwasher.

I like doing laundry, but I don't like putting clothes away. So if I could just wash the clothes and dry the clothes, I'm really good at that. But putting the clothes back it's I like my clothes, I know how to put back, but my wife I have no idea, like like women's clothing. I didn't grow up with sisters. I don't know where anything goes. I am completely just like whoaly crap. So those are a couple of things. And then don't really vacuum. We have like tile type floors,

so there's no one need to really really vacuum. I don't mind washing the car, but it takes a long time to do it right, so that's a pain in the ant. What about you Ryan putting the clothes away after you wash them. I hate doing that, Yes, Uh. Also dusting. I hate dusting. Yeah, dusting sucks. But when you don't dust. And I know this because my my pops when he passed away, he hadn't dusted since my mom passed away, and there were dust was caked all

over stuff all over the house. It was disgusting like they were dust little brutal got it. Occasionally, you gotta dust. I'm just saying that, I'm just saying, all right, big this is from Neil, he says, big Man. He's in Miami or Miami as we all call it a K Magic cities in m I A magic cities. By the way, Palmetto Bay is a no fly zone for real Miamians and Gasconians west of the four oh five. Yeah, there's this couple Ryan to get you cut up to speed

on this circle back. So there's this couple in Palmetto Bay, very nice couple from New York there, typical retired couple in Florida living in Palmetto Bay. And they looked up Gascon and they determined that Gascon would be willing to do nudity in acting. He'd be willing to be nude on camera, and so they called him on it and he got very upset and offended. So he takes shots at Palmetto Bay and uh yeah, he says, uh, it

is a nest of its own. This is neil no own with wealthy people with boats and multi car garages. Look at that. Yeah, the boat, see the boats. One of those things where if you have a boat, you're considered wealthy, but if you live on a boat, you're likely not considered wealthy. The same thing like a motor home. R. If you have a motor home, people think you have a lot of money, but if you live in the motor home, you're poor. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. Though.

It also there's a lot of things in life like that, like a like a watch, Like there's really expensive watches, and then there's watches that you have because you don't have a smartphone that tells you the time, because you can't afford a smartphone and you don't have a phone and you need to tell time, and you have like a cheap Cassio watch from seven there's that kind of watch. Yeah, I mean, or or you know people that sleep in a car bed, fine, but if you're sleep in your car, yeah,

you're probably poor. Yeah, yeah, that's there. You go. You're all right, all right anyway. Uh see, Neil says, congratulations on the new house. Blah blah blah. I wish you can give any blessings. Thank you, Neil Mallard Mansion two point oh. He says he recently moved to a new place. He's got a new condo on June three, and his company decided to throw in a white flag and closed down. So he's been busy getting his place tidy to uh to a more livable standard, and looking for a new gig. Well,

I'm sorry to hear that, Neil. That's uh, it's too bad. Just taking care of this eight month old that doesn't want to sleep at night, the one you did a cameo for. Maybe she will will be another listener of yours, what we hope, Although eight months old, I don't think you can comprehend the magic of words talk radio. That's why Neil says he has been missing in action. I know, we're very concerned. We wonder what happened. We when you guys go and email us and check in, we're like, oh,

we lost that listener. That listeners gone, or maybe that listener died or something horrible happened. Anyway, get into the question here, all right, Uh let's see here. Uh, here we go. Question number one. Career wise, what are you and the handsome Gascon's favorite years He's and he's not handsome favorite years after two decades in radio, I e. When you first started versus messy middle years or like now late when you are killing it and you have

a lot of listeners and all that stuff. People know who are uh well, listen. When I started, I didn't know for sure that I was gonna make it my career, and so that was that was nerve racking. I made no money. It was horrible, but I have great memories.

It's odd. At the time, I did not like it, but looking back on it, I have very on memories of being single and going to games every night, and you know, hanging out with with guys after games and drinking until three in the morning and going to Tommy's and eating chili cheeseburgers and being four d fifty five hundred pounds whatever. I was at my fattest and just living my best life. And but I'm very happy where I am now. So I don't know where are you

at in your career. There, you're you're you're you're a young chap there. I'm not that I'm not that young. But when I first started out, I had more energy and it was just it was more enjoyable because, uh, I was with around people my age. I was working with Petros. It was crazy. We we had so much fun. We had had no idea what the hell are you doing? But it was fun. Yeah, yeah, I do miss that.

You know, the radio in the nineties was so much different than radio in twenties, like the freedom we had, the geme, the laughs we could do, and because of cancel culture and the Wokers and you know, the Wocer Roddy and all that, I mean, we can't we can't, we can't do we we are unable to do the things that we were able to do twenty you know something years ago. On the radio, over twenty years went

closer to twenty five years. And that's annoying because I think people are still pretty much the same, but everyone's so paranoid about this, that and the other things. So that that So I did enjoy the freedom that we had back in those days. But I'm very comfortable where I am, very very happy with where I am must be because you're a big baller. Now, I don't know about that big ball of shot caller. Its rims on the Impala at you. You're like George Shafe freestyle and rappids. Yeah,

that's what you're doing. I like that guy, George Shae. By the way, I like that kid that Major League eating We had him on a Friday. If you didn't hear that podcast, go back and hear the podcast. It's pretty good. Uh. Let's see here. He says, I had to look for a new gig. Neil Uh and the two I found in my area are working at UH. He's at Northridge north of l A and Santa Rosa

north of San Francisco. He says, I'm coming from a reasonable place Miami, where rational working class moderates are embraced. So struggling with leftist California life, the idea that all that stuff, He says, would you still move to California today? Knowing what you know? Now? You just bought a new home, So maybe I got my answer any advice? Uh? Well, no,

I mean I'm pretty much locked in here. I've I've been offered radio jobs in different cities around the country, and if I wasn't married, I probably would have taken them at some point. But but now my wife's very she loves California and her family's all here, and I don't. My family is all over the place, so I'm likely not going anywhere. But uh, you know your your money. I don't know about Miami. Miami's pretty pricey, although not

quite California price because it's Florida. But there's there's there's nice places in California. I mean the politics. I don't agree with the politics, the way the states run. I think it's a joke with the homeless, not not taking care of the homeless pop problem, and just so, it is a poorly run state, as you said, but there aren't places that are. It's beautiful geography wise, it's a

wonderful place. The weather is great. Um and there there are people that push back on the morons that are running the state in Sacramento and the politics and all that. Uh so to answer, because it's all all I know. I've lived in California pretty much my entire life. I've visited a lot of places. I've spent time limited time in different places, and I've i've I think I could live pretty much anywhere. I think there's nice places anywhere,

and there's crappy places anywhere. Um, but you just have to you have if you move to California, Neil, You're you're gonna have to try to change the hearts, minds and souls of some of the the moonbats in the in California. Luck. Yeah, and it's not gonna work. But you know, hey, hey, they were able to recall Gavin Newsome, King Gavin who shut the entire state down. So that's that's actually a good sign. I think that's a good thing.

Dave in Mill Valley rights in in California. He says, could we take up a collection to buy Cowboy, John bradd and windsor a new cordless phone or is the omnipresent static considered an essential part of his stick. I'm asking for a friend. Well, Dave, great question. Cowboys the

longest tenured caller on Fox Sports Radio. He goes back to the early days of the network and when we didn't have anyone calling Fox Sports Radio and we were on like four radio stations, and it was Brotal and they're like, oh my god, uh and Cowboy found us and he's never stopped calling. Ever since, he continues to call the show and to this day goes on and on and on and on, and we're we're great for

a fact, but yeah, it's part of the ambience. Is part of the charm of of Cowboy is the fact that his phone sounds like it was purchased with a magazine subscription. It sounds like that. Uh, and you cowboys, he's getting up there. He was a middle aged guy when he started calling the show, and we've been doing this a long time, so he's he's getting a little up there in age. And he's also one of his

nicknames is the handsome hoarder. So that phone is probably buried in a pile of newspapers or or some other nonsense. So well, we we grandfather cowboy in, is what I'm trying to say, We grandfather cowboy in. Ed from Lewiston, Maine, writes and he says, hey, Ben, I have been in and out of homeless territory, mostly by choice, and he says he loves camping, trying to regain access to Twitter.

I just want to say, how about those clippers? And then he says to the Laker Championships one in Minnesota, really count well. Listen, ed, that's low hanging fruit. That's batting practice fastball. That's a layup line, that's t ball. Listen. Of course, the Laker championships do not count for the l A Lakers. They count for the Mini Apples. That's

a Minneapolis championship, just like I don't count. I'm a Dodger fan, and I don't count the Brooklyn Dodgers championships because the dot to me, I'm an l A Dodger fan. I'm not a Brooklyn Dodger fan. I do wear the Brooklyn Dodger hat because I like to be, because it's my name starts with the beat, so it's all about me. But but no, you know, any any educated sports fan

will tell you. And this is why another thing Laker historians don't like when you point this out, that they're still trailing the Celtics in the championship scoreboard, because every Celtic championship was one as the Boston Celtics, not the Fort Wayne Celtics or the Portland's Main Celtics or the Hartford, Connecticut Celtics. They were all one as the Boston Celtics.

The Lakers can't say that because those are minutes. If you look at the old photos George Mike in with you know many applis in the short abbreviation of Minneapolis on his jersey. It's my hot take right there. Thank you. I appreciate that you agree. I know you agree. Well, I mean I'm also a Raiders fans, so I mean, I don't care where the Raiders win their titles. I'm claiming them. But the difference is the Raiders are a

Vagamon team. But but still, you leave the Raiders championships in l A stay in l A. The ones in Oakland stay there, and if they ever win in Vegas, that'll be the Vegas championship. Chris in marraccaa, Iowa's just Ben, can you please explain how or why minor league teams change affiliates with Major League Baseball teams. What goes into the decision? Well, Chris, the answer here is rather simple. As I know, and I have some friends that work

in minor league baseball. I have some people I know over the years that have worked for major league teams, and it's very simple. It's what we all learned these kids. It's all about the money. It's all about the money. Um A lot of it is geography based. How close are you to the big league team. That that became

a big thing a number of years ago. It used to be minor league teams would be all over the place, and you can have a you know, team in Miami and their minor league the Triple A affiliate would be in Vegas, which has I think Miami. I think the Marlins did have that at one point, so that change. They want to have the teams geographically close to the

mother the mother ship. Also the facilities. The contracts come up every few years, and if the minor league operators don't keep their facilities up, then the big league team will move somewhere else. Also talk about the money. If they get a better deal, if somebody gives them a sweetheart deal from a different city and offers them all kinds of incentives and whatnot to move their affiliation, then they'll do it. So it's it's who money and who's

money hungry and what what can they get? But it sucks, man. I love minor league baseball. We We've done a lot of ants at minor league baseball games. I know the coll League was trimmed. They got rid of the team in Lancaster. A couple of the teams are gone in the coll League, and I know a bunch of other minor league teams went out of business and it sucks, and I don't know that they're ever gonna come back. I hope they will. I think they were able to

make money. Not much, but they made a little bit of money. But it's it's terrible. Kevin in Kansas right so, and he says, Hey, Ben, I've enjoyed listening to you while I run, while I mow yards, and now while I fly about that he's flying. Thanks for making everything so interesting and fun. Are either of you are looking forward to flying again? I wouldn't say I'm looking forward to it, Kevin, but the idea of going somewhere far

away sounds pretty cool. Like I've never really enjoyed flying unless I have a whole road to myself and I can stretch out because normally i'm the flights are full. You're jammed in um so, so yeah, I'm looking forward to have you flown Ryan. Since this this whole COVID thing started, two things, two things I'm not too crazy about doing because of COVID on this not ready yet. One is flying and two is going to the movie theater.

Not quite there yet. Really, they say that the flying they recycle the air, they take air from the outside, so it's actually not dangerous to fly. Uh, it's not quite there yet. I'm gonna get there eventually, but I just movies. You're kind of far away from everybody. Here's the thing we've all seen when they started opening up the country and letting people back into games. People don't know how to act, throwing things that players, spitting on players.

I'm afraid if I go to a movie theater, you're these idiots coming in here. They haven't been around people, they have no home training, and they're gonna start acting like idiots because they haven't been around people for a while. What movie You're going to a movie theater with Caveman? What what are you doing here? May poor crazy man? Come on, people are gonna be people. They're they're yeah, knuckled draggers. That's where you all are. Come on, you

know what, brains. I wanted to go to the theater tomorrow to see Black Widow, I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna watch it at home. Okay. I don't trust people right now now come on, I gotta live your life, my man. You gotta live your life, all right, Okay, you live your life. I live mine. I am living my life. I'm fine. I am doing all kinds of stuff, not leaving my house much. But I when I do leave my there you go. Well. Not because I'm but

I'm an introvert, That's why. No. But I'm not worried about somebody spitting loogie on me or throwing you know, throwing something at me when I go to the movies. I'm not. Because you're a big guy too. They don't mess with guys like us, little people. They mess with regular sized people. You're an intimidating person. I'm an intimidating person kind of because in my size people don't mess with us. People are crazy, all right. And also also you might get caught in the cross fire. You never know,

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a missic mythical character. The one that comes to mind is Medusa, right, like a male Medusa. He looks like he has a bunch of nickels in his cheeks. Yeah, and he's got like hair plugs. He's got that going for him. That's not his natural hair. It's got When you look at Gascon, you there's gonna be like these venomous snakes that are gonna look at you from the hair, right, And if Gascon looks you in the eye, you turned to stone. The whole the whole thing turns to stone.

It's really bad. He's got this like Grimace, this this frown. It's really bad. Yeah, he does like Yeah, he's one of his next acting gigs will be when they make the new McDonald land's commercial and they can put they can put Grimace in there. So that's absolutely, absolutely true. Tom and Florida says, not a question. But I was listening to Clay Travis show this week and he had Megan Kelly. Don't she used the term wocarati and the

third rail. Maybe she's a Mallard Militia listener. Well, Tom fag I highly doubt Megan Kelly's listening to the show. I will not take credit for the wocarati that has been used by others, but I will take credit for the third rail because that term. We've been using that term. I've been using that term for fifteen years, twenty years. Our boss at Fox Sports Radio, Don Martin. That is a Don Martin, one of our management people at Fox.

He that is his term. And when you're in a meeting with him and you talk about the show and certain topics that you discuss, he will say, and this is an exact quote. I'm not exaggerating in any way. This is our boss, Don Martin. That's the third rail on my amp. That's the third rail. That's exactly how

he sounds. And that's when you talk about a political issue or some you know, wild controversy because people get so upset and take things so personally about an opinion they don't agree with and they get all worked up into a lather. And so that's the the third rail. So that that is something we've been using for a long time. But but thank you, Tom. I'm glad. If Megan Kelly is a listener, that's right, you'd be surprised. We have a lot of a lot of people that

listen that shocked me. That actually enjoy. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the Meghan Kelly. Not Megan Kelly fan. You didn't enjoy she had she was famous when during the election and Trump took shots at her. Remember that was the Great Debate and she was the debate m C and all that. Didn't she have views on black face? And like, uh, you know what, stop talking. Not a not a fan of her. What she's doing. She's doing a podcast and I don't even know what she's doing

these days. I don't know. I have no idea. I don't think she's back on TV. Is she I wouldn't know. I couldn't tell you. I could not tell you. Not a fan, so he or she was, you would not not be a fan anyway. All right, that is it. We'll put the baby to bed. As they like to say, I don't know who they are. But have a great rest of your Sunday. We'll be back and remember the Talent Show. This is a big week on The Mallard Show because we have the Talent Show Monday into Tuesday,

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