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the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, back at it yet again, a Saturday Saturday extravaganza, eight days a week, eight days a week. Is we are building castles in

the sky unless we're not. And we thank you for supporting the podcast, telling a friend about the podcast, all that good stuff, even if it doesn't tickle your fancy, even if it doesn't do that, but this Saturday podcast, and we will get into the question many people have now we had Rob Parker on Friday, and we think Rob the world Travels of Rob Parker, Clobe Trekker, just traveling around the United States all all summer, getting as caught up on his travel log and also a hardy

baseball conversation. There's very few people that you can talk baseball with like Rob Parker, old baseball beat guy, and there's not many of those left because most of the radio guys are like, I don't want to talk about baseball, blah blah blah blah blah. But let's get to the Komodo dragon in the room. We traveled now to Indonesia, and unfortunately we thought we had gotten rid of him. But like a cockroach, he is back. West of the four oh five word huckle down, Grettle Dost running on field.

I am up, I am operational, I'm alive and I am well. I am far from being on fumes, Ben Maller. But I did make my return to this, to this little box that is a a radio studio, um, and it's it's gonna be back. And actually, how concerned are you that you have upset many fans of the podcasts that are troubled by your return that we're gleeful enjoy that you had been replaced by the great Ryan McBain,

who did a wonderful job before it. Seemingly the last seven months while he was here is just dominating the podcast other than his hatred for Boston. Yeah, well I am. I'm paying in the butt. I really don't have much to say for those that are upset that I've returned. I mean, you have you have listened to the first sixty seconds of this podcast. That's all I give a shit about. Um, So you have been You've been hooked, line and sinkred, and so here we are. So we

continue this journey together like we have two years ago. Yeah, you know, I feel like the journey though. If you were to do a side by side analysis of who's been on the podcast more than the other person, it's a it's a team. I think I am. I am way ahead. I believe you have to be. You're you're on the marquee. This figure you get paid more. Um, you do all the work. Yeah, you get paid a lot more than we could compare. If you want to be honest, you get paid off the podcast. So listen.

I gotta, I gotta. I was out of commission for a couple of weeks and I didn't receive a fucking text S O S smoke signal message in a bottle phone call, leve letter note email from you or your wife? What the fund is wrong with you people? What's wrong with you? Two? Well, let me explain, Um, what do we psychics over here? Uh? You have a you know this is you're the boy that cred wolf David. Let me tell you why? All right? So first of all, let's be honest. I mean, you're not very reliable. You

miss a lot of shows for whatever reason. You know, you got a high school softball game, you gotta know, you got a German football game that no one's watching. You gotta go, I understand. So you got these other gigs, all right. So when I get the schedule and it says you're not on the schedule, I just assume the

position that, okay, he must have another gig. So I'll just you know again, it's I go back to the to the code of the West, right, you just you do your job, do your job, and so I don't think it's like whatever, you know, I just do my thing. And uh and and follow that mantra and Ryan was in here. We had a great time. Did I tell you he did a really good job? Did I tell you how great he was? A lot of people in the Twitter universe of send me direct messages saying, how

wonderful of a job he did. Yeah, it's really that. No, no, no, no, that's wrong. It is the the show philosophy, and you don't really fee to this, but it's the train keeps moving. It's it's next man up, do your job. No days off, those are all. Those are all the philosophy doesn't necessarily constitute as full steam ahead. That just means that it moves forward, so pace role like you're overnight show. Yeah,

let me let me just point out so. So then many listeners felt this was a blessing of this guy. So I I got to schedule a week after week, No gas guy. At no point, no point, did you or management or anyone re shout to me for the first three weeks. That's not true. That said, there's actually a company email that you have been on that I looked at and failed. Well, I do not look at

company emails. I stopped that. Let me tell you why. Okay, I got whacked by this company in twenty oh nine, the first thing they do when they fire your ass is shut off your company email. So what is the point of using company email If the moment you need it most, when you've lost your job, they shut it off. Why would I sign up for that? Management has been receptive, they know my position on company Management's the only way that I pushed back, and that, to me, that is

a bridge too far. I don't believe in using company email because I know eventually it'll get rid of me again and then I won't have access to the email. So what's the point of that. So I don't check company email. Do not check company emails. So that's you know that. You know that I do not believe in that, and that's not something it's against my religion. Okay, So I don't check coming email. Nobody called me, you didn't text me, you didn't do a courtesy call. Hey, you

know you're my you're my partner in the podcast. You know we have this this thing here we're trying to build. I can't be here because of blank none of that. I had to find out second hand, two three weeks down the line from a source what was going on. And so once I found out, I pretended to be concerned, and I reached out in a series of text messages and phone calls. And you know I do not like making phone calls. And I did and I did, and you're such you're such a weirdo. Simple text, Hey, I

have blank and I can't be on the podcast. I texted you the first week and I said, hey, I am out tomorrow. I'm gonna be unavailable. Yes, that's that does not mean that I have blank or blank. It just means I'm unavailable, like, hey, I have something else going on work wise, I'm not available. What happened, if someone what happened, if someone significant to me passed away, then here's what you need to go. And I've had listen, I've had a bunch of people die around me. It sucks,

but you know what I do. I said, Hey, so and so die, I can't be there. That's how that works, very simple, very simple. Fixed. I tell enough and enough is. I'm not going to be there, doesn't matter what the reason is for. Okay, that's fine, and listen, you're you're cool to do that, but don't expect any sympathy. Don't expect any empathy. Why not, because that's not how you get empathy when you say, hey, so and so happened

to me. That's when you get empathy. What about sympathy, Uh, sympathy, Well, that would be if like somebody died but nobody nobody died. It doesn't have to be like a mortal wound. I mean, it could be, Uh, give me something less severe. What do you Simone Biles? Here? You're walking away? I mean, listen, we all have ringside seats to this. Some of us want to, you know, be in the ring. Some of us want to be out and back and doing their thing.

Do whatever I mean you do. Recall when you did call me, you started yelling at me like why weren't you here today? Why weren't you here last week? Well, yes I did, because I just want to know if we you know, you were coming back or not, because that the information I had at that time was has there ever been a point in the time that I've worked at Fox and worked with you that would come across your your vision and say, man, this guy is disloyal, Like this is the type of guy that would just

abandon me randomly. Well, yes, for three weeks ago you were not there and with all the complaining you assumed you've threatened to leave a million times, so I figured, finally it didn't. That's it. You didn't have the intestinal fortitude. It's you took off in a building that has a bunch of lazy people come to funk. Odd. Okay, I'm just telling you my situation, and you want empathy and sympathy. I thought sympathy do better. I thought you just again,

you have to let someone know what's going on. I you like to mind your p's and ques or whatever, and I do something similar. That's fine. You have told me once on many occasions never to talk on the phone in the company studios. Well, listen, you can talk on your phone, but those but no, I I generally do not have private conversations. There was an incident years ago that we don't need to get into right now. That um, it was an eye opening experience. It was

an eye opening experience. And let's just say, in general, from what I've read, anywhere you work, big brother is always listening. That's all I will say. That's all I will say. Big brother is always kind of monitoring what you're saying. You know, this is a general rule of thumps. Yes, So with that being said, did you did you miss me?

I only miss you when McBain was killing my Boston listenership, when he was destroying the Boston and New England area where we do very well and I have many big p ones that are all over that region, and he was giving some scandalous talk about Boston. So other than that, it was good. We had some hearty conversations. They're back and forth, a respectful, classy, professional, loyal no complaining, no

complaining by McBaine. It was like so odd to work with someone that didn't complain about this, that or the other thing. Uh and really settling in. I felt like we got in the Goldilocks zone there for for a bit and then all of a sudden, here you are coming back boom to ruin the party. You're the interloper, you're the outsider. Can you introduce yourself to the listeners guest on? Can you let everyone know who you are? I've been in contact with the ladies, so oh you have?

Is that right? Yeah? You know, so you only deal with the ladies. What about the dudes? Her blind Scott spit him on Tirade as a late and uh well, blind blind Scots like Helter skelter like he's doesn't call for months at a time, and then for like a week, he'll call every night, screaming into the phone, shouting about the boys at the seven eleven on the North End that listen every night, and he's like trying to impress them.

And then he disappears, and then he'll send me a flurry of emails about some legal situation he's involved in, and I was like, I don't know, it's it's weird because you're like, I don't know. I don't talk about this on the air. And then but he'll give me like all of his information, like I don't need to be in his business. I'm I'm flat that he trust me so much to give me all of his legal

information like lawyer emails and things like that. But it's it's none of my business, and I generally try to stay around, you know, stay out of that, see, And that's exactly what I try to do. I tried to leave that information out for you because it's technically none of your business. So that's true, loading your plate with just frivolous content for you, because like you said, it

was a half hearted call. You didn't care anyway, So why divulge information if you're just gonna go Well, that's true, and listen, I I thank you for that. You just don't complain that you didn't get sympathy, because to get sympathy there's an exchange here, there's a give and take. Right kinder than you. She quo my wife. You didn't tell my wife either. He didn't tell her what was going on. He didn't know. She's doing this lame thing now where she's sealed off all of her Instagram comments.

When she posts stories which are fucking hilarious, oftentimes you're not a lot of comment on said story. So you yeah, it's kind of odd, but she's probably getting blown up for the militia. Uh yeah, I don't. I don't know. I have not Uh you know, I don't go on Instagram all that much and I don't really check Twitter other than for work when I'm on the show, so she's not on there anyway, So I don't know what's

going on. Well, you've had a lot of things to to chew on the last three or four weeks, as did I missed. I'm a pilot. I know he's been sitting pictures traveling around the world and Uh, he didn't miss you at all. He's going, I got a question for you when you got well, I know you, when you got your gallbladder removed. Your doctor was he was amazed by I think a couple of things like your cholesterol level. He was just shocked by. Right, Uh, well

I don't. I don't. I don't. I didn't have high cholesterol. Yeah, there was a couple of things. He said that we're just like, wait a minute, should be way off the charts and you're not. Uh, yeah, yeah, I know. I I was in Uh, I was in really good ship. I had. I had mentioned I had to scare around Halloween where I thought I had diabetes because I it

was dizzy, and uh, you know, I looked. Of course, everyone goes on web MD and you look for what do you have, and you're you're dying of something, you know, and you and I connected the dots and I said, well that it's probably diabetes. And so I went and I got a blood I got my full blood work, and yeah, I turned out it was just had overdosed on sugar. One night after you know, I got a big bag of candy and ate the whole damn thing.

And so I messed myself up for a night. But other than that, yeah, that that I had really I had improved my numbers across the boards. So they were very very happy about that. They were asking me what I had done that. It's always nice when the doctor asked you what you had done to improve your health. And I was like, well, i've done anything other than

just not eat so fast. That's it? Well, I asked, because I was able to get full blood work done last week, and the the rains that you want to be in with with vitamin D. I believe it's between twenty two and fifty that's the range you want to be at. And I get my test back and my doctor says, what are you doing in my vitamin D levels at? Which is bad because if it goes over a hundred, becomes extremely toxic and against bloodstream. So so

you were overdoing. I was overdosing on vitamin G. You really wanted a healthy Yeah, it's in the whole nine yards um. Oddly enough, though, there was a climate my

testosterone too, but I didn't know this. I was listening to a podcast a very constraal controversial figurehead, but he had interviewed a doctor and this doctor had said that there's been a one percent decrease in men's testosterone since nineteen and studies going back to when we were in World War Two, there was actually service officers that tested out and they had to their their testosterone level reached

two thousand, five hundred. So it's amazing where we were to where we're at now because they say the range for healthy men are age is between like two forty and an eight hundred or eight eighty. So you really just did this to brag about your Oh no, no, he really just did this to brag. Oh no, I mean it's it's not where I wanted to be. But my cholesterol level is not good. Uma my experience when I go to the doctors, I am I gonna I'm gonna live for a few more days or I'm gonna die.

You know, that's pretty much my question. If he says you're good, and that's it. I don't really go into the specific Well, I just try to make it my goal to only see my doctor once a year, and that's for your annual free physical and so he does comprehensive blood work and I think it's important. Man, I I don't know. I mean especially you, because you had a drastic change in wait. So I think that's you know, it's like you I've had. I've had that looked at.

And uh, I am a little uncomfortable the last um a couple of months. Now, I guess because cost goes open that's why. Well, no, no, but I love I love it. He Actually I would regretting the Costco samples coming back because it's not the same. But it's better because they give you a little doggie bags and so I can I can go through and hoard the doggie bags and then eat them whenever I want at my convenience. I don't have to eat them right away. And I what I do is I go in my move now

I went last weekend. I'll be back probably today on the Saturday. Here I'll go in and I I go in there and I have my pockets empty other than my wallet and my keys on one on one side, but the other and I just fill it with all the bags. I just go around, round and round, and they don't even seem as upset. They used to. The old ladies at Costco used to get upset when I

would take a lot of samples before. But now there's still a lot of people that are skittish about taking the scamps the samples, right, little sc and so so the move you know, they don't care as much because they just want to get rid of the samples. They don't care who takes the samples. And so yeah, I'll take as many as I want. So let's let's get to the is you're move thal with the samples? Are are you a first first morning kind of guy or

is it the middle of the day with the samples? Well, I still sleep weird hours on the weekend, so I usually to me, I go the worst time you can go to Costco, which is around noon or one o'clock in the afternoon, which is just terrible because that's prime time. That's you still have the people that got up early that are you know, lagging going to the store. But then the people that got you know, want to go late or not late. But in the middle of the day,

it's like prime time. But that's also the sweet spot for Costco samples. Okay, you wanted to get like pastries or any kind of baked goods in the morning, And I have not noticed as many hot dish items at Costco because they The whole strategy now is to hand these things out in bag. So it's a lot of processed foods, chips, granola bars. I've noticed a lot of

dried fruits, trail mix, that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's not as I mean the old days with the cheese steak and the mini corn dogs and the tacos, and those days are not back yet. We're not fully back. 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. 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.

So I have to tell a story. This is a story that I've not told before. I saved it for the podcast. It is the Doggie Blues. It is the Doggie Blues, and it's the kind of a tale. And I don't want to oversell this, but you might want to buckle it all right, this being the fifth Hour with Ben Mallard Global Exclusive. So I had a pretty big scare at the Mallard mansion in recent days. So it is as I said, it's a story that I have not talked about on the radio show, even though

it happened during the radio show. And I'll explain in a couple of minutes, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story. So the end of last week, I'm doing the Friday's show. It's going swimmingly, a lot of belly laughs, having a grand time, nothing out of sorts. And if you were listening to that show, you didn't hear anything awkward at all on the air. Off the air, there was a crisis that was going on, and I'm not exaggerating that. So I'm in the home studio with

meticulous laser like focus. I'm doing my thing. The show's flying by. We're doing the show. That's the way we want to do the show. And then in the final hour, hour four, with about forty minutes left in the show, my wife who's working during the day now and I'm working at Nice, so she's sleeping while I'm on. So the wife there wakes you. She knocks on the door. She had woken up, and she says, hey, we we've had an emergency. And I said, oh my god, what happened?

And our beloved family dog had been bitten by a coyote in the backyard of the halfway house here. So I come out of the studio and my wife, of course freaking out. My dog Bella's covered in blood. The coyote had bitten her on like I used to try to grab her over the top and like carry her away. She's a small dog, and she had blood in her mouth like it was a bit. I mean, it's everywhere, and she couldn't walk, she was shaking. I mean, we thought she that was it, and we lights out for

our dog, Bella. And so my wife then attempts to find a seven By the way, Bella's barking in the background or if you can hear that, but she she must be. It must be she's alive, obviously because she's barking. But my wife attempted to find a seven emergency pet

hospital while I finished the show. And it took lots of effort, uh to compartmentalize my situation, because you know, the show must go on, as they say, And so I was able to finish the show, and still we could not find a pet Every pet hospital in this area was filled where I'm living now, and so I then joined the pursuit with my wife in the mission to get Bella treatment right. And and finally we found a place in uh in South Pasadena that could help us. And so we got in the car and now you

know I was driving. We got in the malimibile Bella covered in blood, wrapped in a in a towel. My wife was holding her, and we set dattled into that clinic and the doctors took her. They had an exam, and we were expecting the worst, thinking they were they were going to have to put her to sleep. And the doctor called us back in about twenty minutes and said she barely avoided needing to go under. She could be saved, but there's always a butt. It was gonna

cost a shipload of of money. And so what I did, I dusted off my wallet and we we emptied out our wallet. There my wallet, her wallet, my wife's, and we had belly go under an emergency doggie surgery and it was so bad. They had to put a drain in her to drain the damaged goo that was inside of her, and a bunch of stitches, and she has a cone, you know, the doggy cone that you've gotten on that so and when she came back, she was

as drugged up as Jed who fled and uh. But she has made a dramatic comeback, and I'm happy to report that she's back to being the same loving pooch that she had been before. And so, as Paul Harvey would say, you uh, you now are about to know

the rest of the story. So the reason I didn't say anything on the air was because I didn't want to give the curse of the ben Bino di Bella, So I kept my mouth shut until she was out of the w and she did come home a zombie dog, not walking, not eating, not drinking, and those are generally signs that you're about to die. When an animal does not human or animal does not eat or drink, you're you're not long for the world. Both my mom and dad before they passed, they stopped eating and and uh

and drinking. So but fortunately Bella pulled through and is on the comeback trail now annoying me and barking, barking quite a bit, which is unfortunately she does not normally bark. She does not normally do this. That's something that she normally normally, she's not a barker. How long was the procedure. I don't know how long she was under the knife, but it was on a Friday, and she was in there pretty much all all day. She had the operation.

Then they let her out with a bunch of drugs, like drugged her and let her out, and we had to keep an eye on her and put her in a dog crate carrier around where we went and all that stuff was the miss crying. We were all pretty pretty much. I mean, she was, yeah, because she had seen she went out to see the dog. You go out to get the dog, dog, went out to go to the bathroom, You come back, and it's like whoa.

And another thing we had this call it Regina from Minnesota on that Friday show a few minutes before this happened to Bella, and she was telling a story about how she was in her backyard in Minnesota screaming profanity at coyotes who were trying to mess with her dog. And then, you know, thousands of miles away here it happened to to my dog man. Good times. Bella looked mangled though, or did she just look like she had

a chunk taken out of her? Uh? No, she was, she was messed up, and there was there was thick red blood flowing down from her her side, and it was it was not a pretty picture. I was like, I was like, I couldn't I was like, what the hell, I just I'm doing the show. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I was like, what the hell happened? And um, it took me a little while the process exactly what I was seeing, because it didn't make you know, it

didn't make a lot of sense. Yeah, I've never had I've heard people have their dogs attacked by a coyote, but I've never you know, it never happened to me, and I never thought, well, you know, just assuming it will not happen to you. And where I'm living, at least for now, I'm moving in a couple of weeks. But where I'm living is closer to the coyote country. There's more coyotes around here, and we learned that less in the hardaway unfortunately, flag someone down in the South

Pasadena though. That's and as you know, South Pasadena, little bougie, Yeah, little bougie, not not a well you don't love you love South Pasadena. You know Pasadena proper there's some real crappy parts of Pasadena. Okay. I have a relative that lives and just north of Pasadena and Alta Dina. Oh my gosh, that is an absolute eyesore. That is a and there's some beautiful houses and stuff, but there's so much. I used to go to a gym in that area and I right near John Muir High School and had

my car broken into. And there's crime. They talked to the guy, the Jim is crime there all the time? Well, Glendale's right there. And then of course you got south Pasadena. You go right to a Chavez Ravine. So yeah, just down the road from Dodger Stadium. That's not far away, far away at all. Uh. So that's the tale of the Doggy Blues. She's on the comeback trail Bella and she's annoying me right now by barking. So she sounds like a parrot. Yeah, it does not have a very

strong bark. It's it's like a clown horn that bark. Yeah. Anyway, we have pop quiz. Will do some of that pop quiz right now here we go and uh we begin with this. A new survey finds support for a vaccine mandate is highest in this eight Which state you think it is? Oh? Um, it's not Ohio or Florida. Yeah, I'm gonna say it is. Actually, I'm gonna sait it's Illinois. No, incorrect, it's in Then it's in the northeast, Maine, Delaware, No,

New Hampshire, Vermont. No, you're gonna go through all Massachusetts? Yes? Really Massachusetts? Yeah? What the fuck? You have the most support for the vaccine in Massachusetts. They love it. Wow, that's interesting. Are you for Are you for a vaccine vaccine mandate? No? I don't think there should be a mandate. I got the vaccine, but I don't think it should be a mandate for it. I don't know. If you want to do it, don't do it. I don't. It's

your business. I don't care. It doesn't affect me. A new survey found the favorite flavor during summer is this? What is it? Mint and chocolate chip? Favorite flavor? I don't know. Um, it's not ice cream flavors, this flavor. Yeah, it's kind of like, why would you constituents flavor? Then? Well, anything can be flavors. Come on, what do you think? Use your brain? Summer? What do you think? What do you think summer? What do you think? I think summer?

Thinks beach and sun um and what else? Hot day? Yeah? Um, coconut. Now the answer is lemonade. Lemonade is the answer? Interesting? All right? What's next year? Seventy five of consumers say they'll spend more money with retailers if they can do this with them during the holiday season. What is it? Oh? Se,

that's a high number? Can do seven? Ever? Sent a consumers say they'll actually spend more money at a retailer if they can do this with them during the holiday See easy this think about you use your head human relations. I mean I would say, get discounted items during the holiday season. Uh No, it's actually message with them. What's up with that? I don't I don't want to message with the people I shop at the stores I shop at. That's bizarre, right, so bizarre, so bizarre. All right. This

has been voted as the biggest waste of money. What is it in your life? This will be the biggest waste of money? Would you No? No, it's something that people do who are in law by Oh, I have a wedding, Yeah, big wedding, big wedding, biggest waste of money that one can have. Oh my gosh, that's why listen I am, I'm not in. I did not have a big medding wedding. I looped. I went to Hawaii on a deserted beach in Kawaii and right near the between the mile three and mile four marker when you

leave the airport in Poipoo, and that was it. I I got married. There was no one around, no big, no big to do, and so I'm ahead of the game on that. One reminds me of a tragic story. A few days ago, I went to go visit a buddy of mine and see it a long time good friend, and um I was meeting his fiance for the first time. So I said, Hey, I'm gonna come over. Let's do dinner. We'll make some some dinner and then we'll just chop it up, talk and drink. And so I bought over,

brought over some steaks. We're cooking up some tuna too. Ben. It was my first time in like a long time cooking on a barbecue. Girl and my buddies flame on that barbecue turned into a massive fire. I had steaks on this girl for like four minutes. They were as black as you like them. I could not believe. No, that's so embarrassed. I'm gonna I'm disinvited from the wedding. It was really an embarrassing moment. I thought about you when I was doing that. No, you're not. Are you

divorced or you you've never been married. If you're gonna get married at some point, you're gonna have a big wedding, or you're gonna have a big, gallow wedding. There we're gonna find a wife. Yeah, how's that going. No, your wife hasn't introduced me to und of her friends. She's tried that in the past, she hasn't. Yeah, she is the part of you. Probably you don't go these holiday parties. You get up late, and you get to them late, and all the people leave by the time you get there,

and you get cold food and you complain. What's the idea that you don't go to the club early, You go to the club late, so then you pick up all the stragglers. Yeah, how's that working out? I used to work out really well? Yeah, not anymore, alreight. A recent survey reveals the average person does this about sixteen times a day. What is it touches their face. Noah, they curse asshole sixteen times a day, they swear, and we can't do that, not for the time we're on

the radio. Otherwise we can curse. That's what happens of Americans admit they will never or that they never learned how to do this. Not that they will never, but they have never learned how to do this. Uh ty, their shoes not swim. Swim. If you're not around a lake or a river or the beach, which seems like most people are within driving distance and one of those things, then what's the point. That's true? But yeah, the dog

is barking. By the way, with the dog is barking, gas gun, it better to be barking than six ft under. That is true. That is true. It is although the dog is not barked at any point up until recently. Now the dog is all of a sudden, very very upset, the worst possible time, the worst possible time. Anyway, I think that's Are we good on this? Guess? I think we're good on this. We're good, Yeah, alright, anyway, listen, have a wonderful rest of your Saturday. The Sunday Mail

by I Hope Gascon. You have your your has mat suit on because you are You are not very popular with the Mallard militia. Very people upset that you're back. A lot of my inbox with comments about you, be smirching you, and upset with me for allowing you back. So that's the tone of the email. But well, we'll go through it. We'll work our way through it on the Sunday podcast. Have a great rest your Saturday. We will catch you there. Okay, okay,