July 19, 2026 • 45 mins
It’s never a lazy Sunday on the Fifth Hour Podcast. Ben Maller is joined by Fox Sports Radio’s Briana Muro for a bippity-boppity edition of the popular Mail Bag. Benny explains how Cuba influenced the daiquiri, uncovers the stolen valor of the ice cream cone, and reveals Albert Einstein’s surprising appreciation for the human tongue—all before diving into questions from P1s and superfans across the globe. The duo tackles everything from SpaceX’s stock crash, Dwight Howard’s classic buffoonery, and the Tom Brady slap controversy to Best in Show comedy, Howard Stern’s one-day workweek, soccer propaganda, Porta-Potty Commandos, Hooters, and an ice cream shop owner making money by betting on the weather. It’s a rollicking ride through the weird, wild, and wonderfully random. Eavesdrop on the magical, mystical journey as your Sunday serving of radio comfort food is ready to enjoy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air ever rewhere the fifth Hour with me
Ben Malor, and it is time to dive into the
mail bag and not waste any time.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
But we will actually waste time, but we'll at least
play the official imaging. And that means the man, the myth,
the legend, the great Ohio Aw get me in the
mood for the Sunday mail Bag.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
It's mail bag, all right, and we spin the wheel
on the mail bag right now?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Who will be running shotgun.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
On the mail bag on this eighteenth day of July?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Actually, wait, no, it's the nineteenth. It's the nineteenth day
of July.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
That would be none other then Fox Sports Radio's own
Briannamiro right there in the big chair.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hello, Brie, Hey, Hi.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
So happy to be here it is Happy Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Is National Dakery Day today.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Oh my gosh, really you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Ever had a dakery? You enjoy the dakery.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
My first Dakrie was a Daker ice ice cream flavor
at Baskin Robbins and I was like eight years old.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
So that was my first zackery.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Family, give you um. Did not have any rum attitude.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
No, the probably not probably not, but the flavor though,
so I mean, yeah, alcoholic already over here at eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
There you go getting started early.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Dacri has if you don't know rum, lime, juice, and sugar.
Although there's a bunch of different varieties of dakrin now.
And here's the fun factory, invented supposedly in eighteen ninety
eight by Jennings Stockton. Doesn't that sound like a fake name?
Jennings Stockton Cox?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Who was he?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
He was a miner, like an engineer in mining, and
he named it after this local mining village in Cuba.
There's apparently a place in Cuba called Dakri Cuba.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And there you go. The it's National Dakri day to day,
so enjoy that. It's National ice cream day to day
as well.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Ooh, okay, see the hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, And this is a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I learned from Tom Looney years ago that the ice
cream cone was in ed in Saint Louis. Saint Louis, Missouri.
Somebody named Charles E. Minches of Saint Louis created invented
the ice cream cone in nineteen.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh four at the World's Fair in Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He filled a pastry cone with two scoops of ice cream.
And there is controversy though, and we love it because Brie.
There's a claim that a Italian man from New York
City had already filed a patent for the ice cream
cone a couple months before the World's Fair.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So there's debate whether this guy stole stolen idea, stolen
valor for the ice cream cone.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
And back in those days they didn't have the Internet.
There was really no way to document crap like that.
So the guy, supposedly this other guy in New York,
the Italian guy, was selling ice cream cones in eighteen
ninety six, which is eight years befo for the World's Fair.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
In Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So that so who knows who knows? And it is,
by the way, this is another interesting fun fact. On
National ice Cream Day, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the month
of July nineteen eighty four. He said, July is National
ice Cream Month. And he said the third Sunday in
the month, which is today, is National ice Cream Day.
(04:25):
So that came from the White House. Wow official official.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And but wait, there's more.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It is stick your tongue out Day today or stick
out your tongue Day today.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So there you.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Can celebrate by sticking your tongue out and enjoy yourself.
And there are eight I jotted this down there. It's
in my notes app here. There are eight different muscle
in the tongue and speech pronunciation, all that stuff. The
key and according to the Guinness World Book of Records,
(05:02):
a gentleman in twenty twelve from Selena's, California. You ever
been to Selena's, California, good farming town.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I am not. I've driven past it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I stopped at a target in selenas one time. There
you go to the bathroom. So I stopped at Tarry.
It was Nick and Selenas Hey.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
According to Guinness, he has the world's longest tongue insert jokey.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Three point nine seven inches long. Oh my god, that
seems problematically.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Just a time.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
That's a lot of ice cream, and you're gonna insert no,
I'm good, I'm god, I'm got all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Here's another fun fact.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
The tongue has two thousand to eight thousand taste buds.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
How about that. That's a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
However, the older you get, the less taste you have.
You lose a certain number of taste buds every year,
the long that you go.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
So do you know where a lot of the major
ones are throughout the tip of your tongue?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
H I learned that in biology.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh, look at you, a smarty pant.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I think so, But I don't know. I know, I'm
doubting myself. I'm like, why did I know that? But
I'm gonna guess that that's right.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
And let me tell you the smartest man many think
to live on the planet, or one of the smartest
people live on the planet, Albert Einstein. That famous photo
of him sticking his tongue out not photoshop Albert Einstein.
The legend of Albert Einstein is that he loved to
stick his tongue out whenever someone was taking his picture,
just to bust balls and all that he'd stick his
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tongue out, and it is claimed that the tongue being
stuck out is not rude, except in parts of New
Zealand where oh yeah, there's a part of New Zealand
where they do a chant and they stick their tongue out,
so it's disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So if you're ever in New Zealand now that you
want to do that? What else have in today? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Winston Churchhill and used the two finger V for victory
sign in nineteen forty Can you do the V thing?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Like I'm gonna say, I think it's like the peace
thing that's like the Instagram girls like that post like it.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
You know, they stick out their tongue and they do
the peace thing. That's like a Tombo count.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You're combined. Well, now did Churchill do the two finger?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I guess you did do the not the forefinger, because
you know you can't do the four finger where you
separate it right, you can do that, but yeah, the
two finger thing the piece, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Or victory? He did for victory and what else?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Samuel Colt invented the revolver in eighteen fourteen, supposedly on
this day, not the day before, not the day after
this day.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Anyway, this is massive.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Next up on or actually the first question on the
mail bag as we've futched around. Leo from Chicago, right so,
and he says, Benny, I love the malord Palooza this week,
some really talented listeners overnight. I also enjoy listening to
the Bennies every year. However, I think the show needs
another anchor. Would you be open to doing something else,
(08:07):
like a return of the Spelling Bee.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
To the show? Thanks, I'll take my answer off the air, Leo.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yes, it's a podcast, Leo, it's not on the air, dummy,
I'm kidding. Uh yeah, I think we're good on the
Spelling Bee. I did do the Spelling Bee for a while, Brie,
and it was a disaster.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Why tell me why. I think it would be so fun.
I want to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well, I'd love to have you a part of it,
because you're.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Not a spell Here's the problem, all right, we do
this bit like every week with Lorrain and the Queen
of Hearts and I say, hashtag Queen of Hearts. These
dopes don't know how to spell Queen of Hearts? How
hard is that? And I was trying to get the
Mallard Palooza thing trending. I was like, hey, hashtag mallar Paloosa.
These guys can't even spell Paloosa. I don't even think
they can spell Mallard. So in theory, Leo, it's a
(08:55):
great idea. I would be open if somebody wants to
send suggestions in. There's only so many bits you can
do on radio because we're limited. I've tried pretty much
everything over the years, and I've got a formula that
kind of works, but I am more than open to
trying some other things. I don't think the spelling bees
where it's at, just because we've done that and it
(09:16):
was a little tough.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I'm really happy that the book comes back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah. You know what I love is the hopper.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
We brought the hopper back, and I need to use
the hopper more. I'm going to find reasons to use
the hopper. So if anyone has suggestions on how we
can use the hopper, I'm all about the hopper.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I love the hopper, Bree, I'm a hopper guy. I
love it.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
What's the hopper?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The hopper is during the World Cup.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
It's like the NBA Draft lottery, a bingo thing. And
with numbered balls in it, and we assigned in alphabetical
order a number for every team and the World Cup,
and then we you know, did the lot and who
each person got a numbered ball and then they got
(10:03):
that team.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I got version of the lottery. Draft lottery is what
that is? So?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh how fun?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It's great, right, all right? Rick in Omaha writes, and
he has been. I spent some money on space x stock.
It's not going well, am I doomed?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You you should never I don't know why you're asking me,
by the way, a podcast about I don't even know
what this is about at this point, but we're not
giving financial advice.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
H space X.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I saw they lost like a trillion dollars in value
since the I I p O came out and peaked
and all that. I think they'll be okay. Actually I
could be completely wrong about this. I think they'll be fine.
It's gonna take a while, though, you gotta you're gonna
have to be in it for a while. I don't
see the scenario where they completely go out of business.
(10:53):
I think they'll be okay, and they'll there'll be some
big deals. These things go up and down, and uh,
it's not looking good if you bought at the peak.
I even I actually bought full disclosure. I did buy
some a little spacextion. It's not it's not doing well,
but I don't really worry. I futz around with it.
I don't go too big in that Wall Street stuff.
(11:13):
I I'll play around on my phone a little bit
and buy certain things, but I.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm not really worried.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I think, yeah, I'm the kind of guy that'll buy
stuff and hold on to it for a while.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So if you're willing to do that, you know, chances
are you're going to be okay.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
It lost a trillion one trillion dollars in value in
a month, a trillion.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So it opened it one hundred and fifty a share,
and then it went up to like one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Eighty or something like that. I think it's down to
like one hundred.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I don't know what it's at today, but the other
day it was like one hundred and thirty a share.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
One hundred and thirty one.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, yeah, So it went way up and then it's
gone below. It's like basically twenty dollars below where it
was when it opens. So it's not doing great.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
It's a trillion. I'm just I'm focused on the trillion
in part.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Definitely got a trillion, don't you breathe him on? You're loaded?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
No, no, no, I'm no. No, I'm a billionaire. I'm
not a trillionaire.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You live near the ocean, you're west, so that means.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
That means I'm a billionaire. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Me and Gascon back in the day, we know, we
had this conversation. You're with four or five. You're in
good shape. You're in good shape. All right, let's see here,
what do we got next?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Up on the mail bag, Kwang from Ho Chi Minh,
Vietnam guaranteed human rights in he says, in honor of
Tampa Bay buccaneer play by play announcer Gene Deckerhoff, who
I believe is retired.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't think Jean's doing it anymore. Oh no, thank you,
I think he retired. He who became famous for his
signature call uh fire. That fire contins thirty six years
in the broadcast booth and Kwang says, did you know
that in traditional military English, the plor for cannon is
(13:01):
actually cannon, not cannon's okay. Also, on a previous episode
of the original Recipe podcast. You mentioned that you had
some Dwight Howard stories that you couldn't get into at
the time. Can you give them? Can you give us
the details here on the podcast that's quaying from Ho
Gi Me in Vietnam, guaranteed human.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, so's there's a couple. I'll give you the one.
I'll give you one right now.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So Dwight Howard when he was playing for the Lakers,
they brought him in and I think it was Steve Nash, yes,
and it was a just a poop show. They were
no good. Nash was washed Sorry, Briy, I know you
worshiped Steve Nash. You have an alter to Steve Nash.
He was washed up. Dwight Howard didn't play all that well.
It was not good. I enjoyed it a lot because
(13:50):
I always loved the tears of Laker historians.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Anyway, that was back in the days.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I was out at those games all the time, and
I was hanging out in the locker rooms and stuff,
and Dwight was not hand link things very well. The
team sucked. He wasn't living up to expectations. And Dwight
made the mistake of watching a lot of sports TV
he loved the show with stephen A.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Smith and Skip Bayless.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And those guys just teed off on the Lakers because
they that's all they talk about, like the Lakers, cowboys,
you know, the same things every day. So they were
ripping Dwight Hower. And Dwight came in all MOPy and
TJ Simers, who the late great TJ Simers. It was
in the media, you know group that I was standing with,
(14:36):
and TJ asked Dwight what was going on. He brought
up the fact that there were some lies told about
him or something along the I forget exactly what he said,
but it was he was not happy with stephen A
and Skip Bayless. And it was the funniest thing ever
because Dwight's all depressed, He's all mopey. This is a
couple of hours before a Laker game, and TJ Simers
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then's TJ.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He was, He didn't really beat around the bush.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
He then gave a lecture or a sermon to Dwight
Howard about the birds and the bees. He's like, listen, Dwight,
I've worked at the ESPN. That show has hardly anyone
watching it. In comparison, he was trying to explain how
few people actually watch the show in comparison how many
people there are that are sports fans and you know whatever,
and Dwight was having none of it. Dwight was convinced,
(15:26):
like everyone watches that show.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It was it was really hilarious.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And TJ who was on Around the Horn, he wasn't
on there long. He was on that show briefly, which
has also been canceled, but it was. It was pretty
funny that Dwight, who had like an MVP award under
his belt and had all these all star appearances, and
he was just beaten and broken because of some debate
between Steve and A and Skip Bayliss. So that was
(15:53):
the basis of the story. Mike from Wisconsin writes in
he says, Ben, Tom Brady and Logan Paul got into
it at Fanatics Fest and Brady slapped Jake Paul across
the face on stage. Was this real or scripted? I say,
(16:14):
I say it was fake. My brother says it's real.
May may you help us out? This is Mike, Mike
from Wisconsin. So, uh yeah, I mean there's breed. Did
you saw this right?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I as, yeah, Let's put us the hit was real?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It was also script It was not it was fake
in terms of it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It wasn't an organic ball made. And I don't know
what they're up to.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
There's all kinds of rumors like Brady's loved professional wrestling,
and he's talked about how you like to participate in
the WWE match. So this could be the setup for
a w WE storyline between Paul and Brady. That's possible.
Like Brady's Brady's around my age. I just think he's
(17:00):
he's a little younger than I am, but I just
think he's bored.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
So why could he be bored?
Speaker 7 (17:04):
You're a part owner of an NFL team, You're an announcer,
Like what else?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You get to do whatever you want all the time?
Like what what do you want it?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Why do you have to get involved in every part
of like entertainment, Like what he's going to come out
with a single? Next he's going to go on tour
with Leangelo Ball, Like what are we going to do here?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Good high?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Well no, but he's he's bored in the standpoint, there's
no big events, there's no competition. You know, he just
does the TV stuff and he just kind of spews
cliches and empty platitudes.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
When he does these NFL games.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
But if he was in a wrestling match like that
would be that would be a big And if I'm
not a cop as you know, Brie, but I believe
what if that was real? Doesn't that meet the legal definition?
Like what Brady did to Jake Paul, Like, does that
not meet the legal definition of assault and or battery?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
It was Logan Paul, right, Logan Paul.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Logan Yeah, Logan Paul is the Paul was the boxer.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I get you know, all those Paul brothers, I don't know.
I can't till one from the other. They're all annoying.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
But but the point is is that not assault and
or battery literal? It would be up to Logan Paul
whether he wanted to pursue charges and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So yeah, it was not authentic.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
And Karl Anthony Towns had to hold him back. Also,
like how ridiculous can that be? We need to sell
to be like wearing a I was showing a picture
of like wearing like a Logan Paul shirt that's going
to be coming up next or something stupid like that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah, Like Karl Anthony Towns will be the manager, the celebrity.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
The Paul Hayman walking down.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I missed the days for big heavyweight fights when they'd
have the day before news conference and there'd always be
some kind of staged fight and it was such you
knew it was bull crack.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know, it's like they were really trying to sell
the fight. Connor McGregor is.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
A master at that these days, and he didn't fight
very often.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
What else Kevin and Kansas right since, says dear Ben
and guest mel Brooks recently turned one hundred years old,
and Blazing Saddles who was named the greatest comedy film
of all time? That got me thinking about best comedy films,
and he says, I can put south Park and Airplane up.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There was there a south Park movie? I know the
TV show. Was there a movie south Park movie?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
There might have been. I never got into it.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Then he says, what are your best in quotes comedies
of all time? Yeah, so I'll go first. I love
My favorite type of comedy is like Curb your Enthusiasm
with Larry David. I don't obviously agree with everything Larry's into,
but I love that style of comedy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Movies. Best in Show. Do you ever see Best in
Showbrea Dog? I saw that.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
You gotta watch that. You gotta watch that. It's old now,
but it's hilarious. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Best in shows great. I like comedies.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
They're all old, dude, I'm gonna like I mean, Kevin,
I'm gonna age myself. But I like The Naked Gun,
my cousin Vinnie, these old movies like that.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
There's a mel Brooks movie which is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
It was a parody of Star Star Wars called Spaceballs hilarious.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Okay, I've seen that. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
And I like, uh, the Naked Gun was good.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Old school with Vince Vaughan and those guys, and you
know that kind of stuff. What about you, what are
your favorite comedies? You're younger than me, you're hip, or
you're a woman, what are your favorite comedies?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Go ahead, come on, chop chop.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I love The Jerk with Steve Martin.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
That's a great one.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
And I oh and Rock sand I love Steve Martin.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I think Steve Martin's like really good like comedy in regards.
And then White Chicks is my also favorite, one of
my favorite comedies ever.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, the White Chicks.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Yeah, Steve Martin.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I told the story the other day, Like the famous
Steve Martin. You know he worked at Disneyland when he
lived steven.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Garden Grove, not far away from us here. What else
do we have about?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Wally from Syracuse says Ben, I've been joining your show
for years. You're one of what I call one of
the last of the originals in radio.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Please never change, So.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I'll try not to until they fired me, Wally, then
I'll change anyway, he says. To my questions or question,
what did you think about Howard Stern comming back to
one show per week and also getting rid of a
long time a bunch of longtime staffers this week. I
want to get your perspective as a radio guy. Thanks
Wally from Syracuse. Yeah, I don't It's not my business.
(21:53):
I don't work on that show. I don't know that.
One of the great claims the fame is when I
got whacked from Fox Sports Radio and nine and Stern
talked about me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
On the show, which was cool.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Oh really, yeah, Well, Pete and Pittsburgh called up and
dropped my name and so they you know, they talked.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It was cool.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It was great because I had a bunch of relatives
breed that aren't sports fans. They don't get sports, and
they listened. They used to listen to Thurn all the time,
so they heard my name and they were like, oh
my god, my phone.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Blew up after that. It was awesome. That was pretty cool. Sport. Yeah,
it was great, But you know, it sucks. I mean,
there's a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The thing that blows me away, Wally is how many
people work on that show.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It just kills me.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I read in the Sun, the London Sun, I think
it was in London. They said that the Stern Show
has about ninety staff members for what's ninety for one show?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
And we don't even have ninety employees.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Well, I know, I'm I'm thinking, like I you know,
I don't want brag or anything, but I do like
I do four hours and I pretty much produced the
show and put everything, you know, and it's much as
possible in terms of the content, the monologues and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I do all that stuff like four hours.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
And like ninety people ninety what are you doing? That's
like a government waste and all.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's wild.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
So as far as the one show, like Stern's old,
I don't know how how old is Howard Stern. It's
gotta be like, is he in his seventy Yeah, he's
seventy two week, I'll bet you and I have no
inside information.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I'll bet you.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Stern probably when serious XM said, Hey, Howard, do we
want to your deal's coming up.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
We want to keep you in. Howd's like, I don't
really want to do this.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, come on, please, Howard. We want to keep you.
We'll pay a lot of money. Okay, I know you're paid,
but I don't need the money. I just don't want
to do it. And then and Howard's probably like, oh,
I'll just have around. I'll do one show a week. Week.
There's no way they'll agree to that. Why would they
agree to that. That's a bad deal. They agreed to it.
So like one show a week is like one it's
everyone's you know, I've been talking to some of my
radio buddies. You know, I have friends that I text
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all the time. We're in the business, different parts of
the country, and they were all like, wait a minute,
that's what I want you know, instead of a day.
The whole point of this, and Howard knows better than
anybody because he you know, he's was at one point
the king of all radio is that the thing that
makes it what it is is that it's radio is about.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Showing up every day and being there. It's like having
your sofa.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Like your sofa when you go to your house, if
you have a sofa, your sofa is not only there
on Wednesdays, It's there every day of.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The week, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Like it's it's not like you get to said, Okay,
well I don't have my sofa because it's Thursday.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Like radio, you're supposed to be there. It's appointment listening.
It's just part of what all this stuff is. And
I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Know, Like I hey, if I if I'm lucky enough
to make it, you know, in my seventies and my eighties,
I hope I am, and all that that would be great.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And U I mean the dream would be one day
a week.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I like, I see these guys that do two hour shows,
three hour shows, I'm like, my god, that would be amazing.
Like the grind is the four hours. That's the grind
and having to do it every day, but good for hours.
He can get with it. I I was a huge
Hour Stern fan growing up. I listened to a show
all the time and one of the people that influenced
me early on. I haven't heard much of him. I
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don't have serious exam I did hear him a few times.
They've had trials and whatnot. It doesn't seem like he's
the same guy he was when I grew up. But
we all changed, so that's what happens.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
And you know, that's what I hear. Like his style
has completely changed, his bellie. It's just it's just not
the same.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well he's he was always the guy that was the
renegade that didn't want to be friends with the celebrities.
Now he doesn't want to offend the celebrities. It seems like,
you know, it's it's for those that remember that when
he had his fastball and his curveball, and he had
a knuckle curve, and he had a breaking ball, and
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he had a split finger pitch. And now he's thrown
sloppable from from what I understand.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
So, but ninety people pree for one show. What do
you do?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
How do you how do you do a show that's
like a whole production.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I get having a few people to do bits. Does
Howard just show up and they have everything planned out
for him?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
That'd be great.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
What's the point? He's just a mouth? He's at that
point exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Stanley from somewhere in North Carolina writes, and he says, Ben,
does this story prove that teamwork is overrated? You've often
ranted about chemistry being nonsense and all that.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't know if I've.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Said exactly that, Stanley, but there was a story he
sent me here that neuroscientists found that teamwork a teamwork paradox.
They say that highly synchronized brains perform worse at complex
asks to a some science journal thing. Sure, Stanley, I'm
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not reading all that, Stanley, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We'll just agree, we'll agree.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Wan from San Diego rights and he says, Ben, I
heard your rant this week about the World Cup and
the MLS and all that, and I.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Agree with you.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
However, he says, here in San Diego, the president of
our MLS team is convinced that the MLS will benefit
long term from youth soccer. Apparently kids are lining up
because of the World Cup. Breed that they're forcing their
parents to sign them up for youth soccer. And the
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guy that runs Wan sent me a story here. The
guy that runs the team in San Diego said that
this will create a foundation for the MLS for years
to come, lifelong fandom of the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And my position is the same one.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
This is uh bullshoy as they say at Russia. Yeah,
I grew up playing soccer. Everyone around my age played soccer.
You know how many people around my age love soccer?
Very few, and I think that's pretty much every generation.
It's a great sport to play when you're a kid
because you just run around, you don't really know what's
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going on, and you're doing cardio kinda and there's always
you know, the fat kid like me standing there and
then that's it. So it's fun to play as a kid.
Usually when you get to the age of like thirteen
or fourteen or even younger, did you just move on?
Did you play soccer when you were a little girl, grie,
Were you a scery?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
No?
Speaker 7 (28:43):
I didn't, but I had friends that did. But yeah,
as soon as we left like high school, nobody cared
about soccer like they played through high school and I
don't really have friends that watched it either, Like I don't.
I don't have anybody in my life that's like a
soccer fan and just my entire life, So I don't.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
I think they use it as like a ploy, like
a marketing ploy, right, like look at oh my God
because of the World Cup, look at numbers like you
should get your kid involved, and d d DA because
of number.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
You know, it's all it's all baloney. I feel like
it could be.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, it's just I call it the long con, the
big con, cause we're talking about at least fifty years
of soccer propaganda that this is going to be the
defining moment.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And I gues at some point it's just the boy
that cracked wolf right. It's just, you know, we don't
believe you.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Charlie from Florida writes in he says ben Don Lemon
said people are asking him to run for president. Can
you tell me one person asking him to run for president? Charlie,
I think you've emailed the wrong show. This is not
a political show. That sounds to me like a straw
man from Don. But I don't know, I don't, you know,
I don't even know what he's he's doing a podcast
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or something.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Probably don't he's going. So I came out.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Charlie on don Lemon out back John and Joanna in
the San Gabriel Valley right and they say, hey, big
Ben and special guest, we want to take time to
thank everyone that has helped fill in on the Sunday Mailbag.
Danny g had some very big shoes to fill, but Robbie,
the Mariner fan and Brie have been awesome, among others.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Thanks to all of them. Look at that Bri.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
You're getting some from John and Joanna, says our question
this week, have you ever reached out to Manuel in
Guardina to co host the mail bag? A recent answer
to the twelve year old Michael Jordan Riddle of the
Day and the way you cleaned it up was hysterical.
An R rated mail bag would be classic. That's from
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John and Joanna.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, I'd be open.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
It's to me, it's always a scheduling thing, and it's
always that's always the problem.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Like I've had people reach out. I was close to
getting Rob and the three two one on the podcast,
and then his schedule did in the ligne with my.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Schedule and our buddy in the Commonwealth out on Cape
Cod We reached out to to Andre and we were
gonna ga him on and then that didn't work out,
and so, uh, it's pretty much who's available.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Robbie's been great. Obviously bre works on the show, so
she's usually available, So it's just kind of rotating everybody in. Yeah,
but i'd absolutely live. Manuel and Guardina would like to
do it. I'll ask him and we'll see if we
can connect.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
That would be so fun. Oh my god, that would
be a blast.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, he's o g man, He's he's great. Love love Morkestown,
long Shortman port of l A. Lucky Tony writes, and
he says.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Big Ben, Lucky Tony's in the Bay Area, says fun
fact for the p Ones. My Dingling is a novelty
song record recorded innineteen fifty two by Dave Bartholomew and
covered by Chuck Berry in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's all the of the day.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, So Lucky Tony called up and saying before the
Malor Palooza, the dingling song, which we were confused by.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
But he's now, is that like a real song or
did he come up with it?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You know he's saying it's a Dave Bartholomew song. He
might be lying about this, but I don't think he's lying.
Nineteen fifty two Dave Bartholomew song and the great Chuck Berry,
he said, did a cover.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
On it in nineteen seventy two. You're the music. You're
the music, ri right. You go to concerts all the time.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
You love I love concerts, but not from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well, she not, neither have I. I wasn't alloted.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Well, Frankie Valley is still performing. I don't know how
they stand him up?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
There is that right? Oh?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, one is he's a little up there.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Very Manelow in Vegas. Oh, gotta see what's that? Is it?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Resorts World in Vegas. I was at Resorts World I
don't know why, for something, and Barry Manilow was performing
that night. This is a couple of years ago. The
crowd was awesome. It was it was wheelchairs and walkers
and fricking great. I loved it. The babushkas I.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Was like, this is great. I didn't hear him, I was.
I was at the hotel. I didn't see the show.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Oh, but we were lined up to get into and
I was.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Like, what are like, what is this? Did?
Speaker 4 (33:35):
They did leisure World take over the hotel and it
was it was so great. I was like, can you imagine,
like what would the equivalent be years from now? Like
the I don't think this generation is going to have that,
Like I feel like there's more people that think they're
famous but real fame other than Taylor Swift and a
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few others.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Oh Barn Joni, Yeah, but a bunch of hes old too. No,
But I'm talking about like the young.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Oh our generation. Oh like my okay, youngish, you're you know.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Even younger than my generation.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Like I don't think are we are we going to
have young people who become old if they're lucky and
then go out and see, you know, here's the Chicks
talk star from twenty twenty three who's now performing at
the you know, Caesar's Palace in Vegas and twenty ninety
or something like that, you know.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Because I don't know like young singers, like I think
Justin Herbert's girlfriend is a singer, and I.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Have no idea who she is. Oh, I've never heard
a song.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
I don't know anything, but they say that she's like
a really big star like singer, never heard of her?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Not this week.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
The story this week was that she isn't her last
name like Kobe beer beer beer, yeah, yeah, yeah beer,
they said. The joke was that the tickets to her concert.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Tour were selling for less than the beer. That was
that bad.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Mike, Mike from Kansas City, Right, Sinney says, did you
hear about the porta potty commando incident here in town?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yes, Mike, I did. Do you see this, Bree the guy?
Oh you didn't see that? How did you miss it?
Speaker 4 (35:09):
This guy got trapped inside the bottle porta potty he
was And this story got even crazier, so the fire
department had to come out there and get this guy out.
He was stuck underneath a porta potty and the firefighters
are like he was like, the guy was not listening.
The guy was like, the firefighters like, put your head
(35:30):
through the you know the thing and get out. Uh,
And the guy responded, I can't, dumb fuh he responded,
And then the firefighters responded, I'm the dumb f You're
stuck in a urinal, which I thought they were upset
with a firefighter.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well, you shouldn't say that you're a fire fighter. Well,
you dude, the guys, the guy deserved to be ripped.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
If he's stuck in a that is one of the
that's gonna be the biggest nightmare.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Do you imagine?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Like, and there's video of it. They had to spray
them all viral hose when he got out.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Oh my god, oh my god, how do you even
recover after that?
Speaker 6 (36:11):
That's like, that's oh my god, that's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Guy, this is how we do so.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
The guy claims that he climbed into the underneath part
of the porta potty to try to retrieve a bottle
of mountain dew that he dropped.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
How much is a bottle of mountain dew? Three bucks?
Four bucks? Maybe?
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Oh my god, not worth that. That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't care if you're dirt poor. Wow. This is
this was a viral thing. This video of it, you
can check it out. That I love that.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
They're like, well, this highlights the dangers of climbing into
a porta potty.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Who would even think? Never?
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Never?
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Even if I like if I have like a beautiful
like engagement ring from like I love Tiffany, right, like
even like in a beautiful engagement ring from like Tiffany,
I would I've done?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Oh well, I lost. It's over game.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Over all the insurance.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Yeah, oh my god, I'm gonna throw up from that.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
That sounds horrible, all right, John from Phil do a
few more. John from Philly rights in. He says Ben
will Hooters be replacing Applebee's for family fund now? And
John sent that we talked about this John a few
months ago.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But the guy that runs Hooters now.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
They're out of bankruptcy, and he said they're going to
return to their roots. He emphasized food, hospitality and community
environment involvement rather and said that Hooters is going to
be the go to restaurant for families and kids.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Got CEO there. He said that the brand had become
over sexualized.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
And it was a little boys club, all that stuff,
and it's called exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Good luck, good luck on that.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
I love Hooters. I'd be so happy if he came back.
I love those I love that sauce. I've ordered that
sauce online. Really, I yeah, I truly love that sauce.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I'm upset with Hooters. And here's a couple of reasons.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
I used to hang out at the one in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
When I leve La all the time. You know that
part of La I would go over there, had great nights.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
I've told the story on this podcast. Me and Artie,
We're hanging out my old boardop and Tony Bruno would
come home. We had a great time fucking shop. It
was wonderful memories. And then I'm also upset because we
had a deal and I believe the statue limitations ran
on and so we had a deal years ago with
the Hooters Hotel in Vegas. Oh my god, We're going
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to fly into Vegas every every week during the NFL season,
me and Looney to do our show from the hotel.
And then about ten days before the NFL season, they
pulled out of the deal Hooters because the company was
about to go bankrupt and they couldn't pay the freight.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
So I'm still bitter about that. That would have been awesome,
That would be so much fun. My god. A couple more.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Hudson from Pasadena writes and he says, Ben, should you
start betting on the weather?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Do you see this guy, this ice cream shop guy
in La here? No? Yeah, so this guy, he's an
ice cream shop. He runs an ice cream shop and
somewhere in la I think downtown, and he's been using
the prediction market calshie to hedge against slow sales, like
if the weather ever gets cold or rainy. The guy says,
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in the ice cream business, whenever the temperatures fall below
seventy degree they lose about twenty percent of their business
based on the weather. So he got this idea. This
guy's name Jason, he said, let me hedge, And so
he's been betting just twenty dollars a day on weather
related prediction.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Deals, which I didn't even know you could do.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
And he spends time studying the meteorological report, the climate
data from scientists, he analyzes it, and then he makes
his way here twenty dollars a day. He generates about
fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Per month from this. Do you imagine get an extra
fifteen hundred dollars a month?
Speaker 7 (40:16):
Just like what are you betting on? Like it's going
to be over seventy degrees today?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Per under? So it's smart.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
And here's why, because if he bets, I assume he's
just betting under, and then if it goes over, he
makes more than twenty dollars because the business doesn't go down.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
Oh, I know, I got it.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Okay, he's etching, so fifteen hundred dollars per month he
makes on average, He said that covers forty three percent
of his monthly rent. His monthly rent is thirty five
hundred dollars a month, and he risks six.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Hundred dollars per month on the market. He said. The
biggest win he's gotten is eight hundred dollars in one day.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, I tell you I'm not opposed to looking into this.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
No, I don't blame it. No, I actually agree. I
mean it's better than like selling like seat picks or
something online.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
I'd rather do that.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
I don't have any I don't have it. I can't
really sell anything like that online making any money. Why
you know what?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Then?
Speaker 6 (41:22):
You you know what? I I doubt that. I think
you know you?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, I could not.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Keith in the suburbs of Seattle. I love that, he
wrote here, non woke part of Seattle.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Thank you. I needed to know that.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
He says, do you think that our fine city will
be saved by teenage mutant raccoons? Uh? He he claims here,
Uh yeah, this is another one of those viral Internet stories.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Bree, you guys love to sendy. So there was a
raccoon that went.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Viral named Jimothy, and up, this is a mutant raccoon.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
It's got a short the thing.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
It's got short spine syndrome, and it's very odd looking.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
There's some now I'm looking at it, okay me look yeah,
so oh no, that doesn't look like a raccoon at all.
He looks like he's been like smush, She's like a
video game character.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
What's wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (42:26):
He has a short spine syndrome. It's a I'm sad,
actually a birth defect. But the internet thinks he might
have like from radiation or something like that. Or that
would be a good movie. You should write that. Keith,
I'll get you, Keith, I'm gonna get you. And no stradinis.
You guys can write how great would that be?
Speaker 6 (42:47):
A breathe Jimothy though, what the hell? I can't you
either jim or or Timothy pick one.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
That's a dumb name. I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
Changed the name, yeah, change the name please.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
It's got a as you saw, round body short so
it's very compact.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
The humpty dumpty of a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Uh, yeah, that'd be cool. Hey teenage mutant Ninja turtles.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
The guy that came up with that, everyone said was ridiculous,
and then it became a big thing.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
It's still a big thing.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
I just went to the pizza pop up in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I did how long did you have to wait? Online?
Speaker 6 (43:22):
About an hour and ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
You waited an hour ten minutes. Did you buy two?
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Let me tell you. That wasn't part.
Speaker 7 (43:28):
That wasn't my idea for a day. But I went
with Adam Oslin and Kevin Figures of yes, yes, of
course of FNA on Fox Sports Radio. So yeah, we
did it as like a like all and then Kevin
brought his son and so it was really fun. Pizza
was good. The ranch is green, so that was interesting,
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but very small. But yeah, they tried to really squeeze
you in.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
It was about an hour.
Speaker 7 (43:55):
You're waiting for people to like stand up and you're
kind of like lurching around.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
It's uh, it wasn't a but it was cool.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
It was.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
It was an experience, for sure. I won't do it again,
but it was an experience.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Did you buy a T shirt?
Speaker 6 (44:09):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
A hat, nothing, no more.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
No I sent you know.
Speaker 7 (44:13):
I didn't spend any money, but I spent an hour
of my life that I'll never get back.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
But it's okay. I had good company.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Make sure to point out, Brie, that is the most important.
That is our time. Time valuable thing that we have
in our lives is our time. That's it. That's literally, yeah,
it is. You don't know, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:32):
I mean there's other stuff, but I think we've gone
way too long anyway, So we'll end.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
It there, Uh, Brie.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Anything you want to promote here, Bri, any appearance is
coming up, Any comedy gigs, any speeches, ted talks, anything
at all you would like to promote. No.
Speaker 7 (44:48):
I am recovering from from a really annoying case of
laryngitis slash bronchitis. So I'm learning low for for about
a week and then maybe I'll be back.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
All right, we'll take yourself. Thank you so much. Have
a great I will, by the way, the schedule this week.
I am here tonight and I'll be in most of
the week. I'm not in on Thursday to Friday. Have
some stuff I have to take care of. I'll let
you know more about that. Depending on what happens. But
I will be in four of the five days this
week scheduled day. So anything crazy happens, like the Kawhi
(45:23):
Leonard news or anything like that happens and I'm not there.
This is scheduled way in advance. It has been for
this particular date, has been scheduled for a couple of months,
so it's not like it's like a sudden situation. So
I will just putting that out there for Alf and
Fergdog and malar Prop guy.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
And all those guys.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
But I will be in most of the week, just
not at the end of the week. So act accordingly.
Have a great rest.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Of your Sunday and we'll talk to you tonight.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
As Dick and Date would say, bye bye, bye bye
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air ever rewhere the fifth Hour with me
Ben Malor, and it is time to dive into the
mail bag and not waste any time.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
But we will actually waste time, but we'll at least
play the official imaging. And that means the man, the myth,
the legend, the great Ohio Aw get me in the
mood for the Sunday mail Bag.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
It's mail bag, all right, and we spin the wheel
on the mail bag right now?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Who will be running shotgun.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
On the mail bag on this eighteenth day of July?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Actually, wait, no, it's the nineteenth. It's the nineteenth day
of July.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
That would be none other then Fox Sports Radio's own
Briannamiro right there in the big chair.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hello, Brie, Hey, Hi.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
So happy to be here it is Happy Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Is National Dakery Day today.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Oh my gosh, really you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Ever had a dakery? You enjoy the dakery.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
My first Dakrie was a Daker ice ice cream flavor
at Baskin Robbins and I was like eight years old.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
So that was my first zackery.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Family, give you um. Did not have any rum attitude.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
No, the probably not probably not, but the flavor though,
so I mean, yeah, alcoholic already over here at eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
There you go getting started early.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Dacri has if you don't know rum, lime, juice, and sugar.
Although there's a bunch of different varieties of dakrin now.
And here's the fun factory, invented supposedly in eighteen ninety
eight by Jennings Stockton. Doesn't that sound like a fake name?
Jennings Stockton Cox?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Who was he?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
He was a miner, like an engineer in mining, and
he named it after this local mining village in Cuba.
There's apparently a place in Cuba called Dakri Cuba.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And there you go. The it's National Dakri day to day,
so enjoy that. It's National ice cream day to day
as well.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Ooh, okay, see the hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, And this is a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I learned from Tom Looney years ago that the ice
cream cone was in ed in Saint Louis. Saint Louis, Missouri.
Somebody named Charles E. Minches of Saint Louis created invented
the ice cream cone in nineteen.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh four at the World's Fair in Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He filled a pastry cone with two scoops of ice cream.
And there is controversy though, and we love it because Brie.
There's a claim that a Italian man from New York
City had already filed a patent for the ice cream
cone a couple months before the World's Fair.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So there's debate whether this guy stole stolen idea, stolen
valor for the ice cream cone.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
And back in those days they didn't have the Internet.
There was really no way to document crap like that.
So the guy, supposedly this other guy in New York,
the Italian guy, was selling ice cream cones in eighteen
ninety six, which is eight years befo for the World's Fair.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
In Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So that so who knows who knows? And it is,
by the way, this is another interesting fun fact. On
National ice Cream Day, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the month
of July nineteen eighty four. He said, July is National
ice Cream Month. And he said the third Sunday in
the month, which is today, is National ice Cream Day.
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So that came from the White House. Wow official official.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And but wait, there's more.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It is stick your tongue out Day today or stick
out your tongue Day today.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So there you.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Can celebrate by sticking your tongue out and enjoy yourself.
And there are eight I jotted this down there. It's
in my notes app here. There are eight different muscle
in the tongue and speech pronunciation, all that stuff. The
key and according to the Guinness World Book of Records,
(05:02):
a gentleman in twenty twelve from Selena's, California. You ever
been to Selena's, California, good farming town.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I am not. I've driven past it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I stopped at a target in selenas one time. There
you go to the bathroom. So I stopped at Tarry.
It was Nick and Selenas Hey.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
According to Guinness, he has the world's longest tongue insert jokey.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Three point nine seven inches long. Oh my god, that
seems problematically.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Just a time.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
That's a lot of ice cream, and you're gonna insert no,
I'm good, I'm god, I'm got all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Here's another fun fact.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
The tongue has two thousand to eight thousand taste buds.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
How about that. That's a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
However, the older you get, the less taste you have.
You lose a certain number of taste buds every year,
the long that you go.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
So do you know where a lot of the major
ones are throughout the tip of your tongue?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
H I learned that in biology.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh, look at you, a smarty pant.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I think so, But I don't know. I know, I'm
doubting myself. I'm like, why did I know that? But
I'm gonna guess that that's right.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
And let me tell you the smartest man many think
to live on the planet, or one of the smartest
people live on the planet, Albert Einstein. That famous photo
of him sticking his tongue out not photoshop Albert Einstein.
The legend of Albert Einstein is that he loved to
stick his tongue out whenever someone was taking his picture,
just to bust balls and all that he'd stick his
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tongue out, and it is claimed that the tongue being
stuck out is not rude, except in parts of New
Zealand where oh yeah, there's a part of New Zealand
where they do a chant and they stick their tongue out,
so it's disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So if you're ever in New Zealand now that you
want to do that? What else have in today? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Winston Churchhill and used the two finger V for victory
sign in nineteen forty Can you do the V thing?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Like I'm gonna say, I think it's like the peace
thing that's like the Instagram girls like that post like it.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
You know, they stick out their tongue and they do
the peace thing. That's like a Tombo count.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You're combined. Well, now did Churchill do the two finger?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I guess you did do the not the forefinger, because
you know you can't do the four finger where you
separate it right, you can do that, but yeah, the
two finger thing the piece, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Or victory? He did for victory and what else?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Samuel Colt invented the revolver in eighteen fourteen, supposedly on
this day, not the day before, not the day after
this day.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Anyway, this is massive.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Next up on or actually the first question on the
mail bag as we've futched around. Leo from Chicago, right so,
and he says, Benny, I love the malord Palooza this week,
some really talented listeners overnight. I also enjoy listening to
the Bennies every year. However, I think the show needs
another anchor. Would you be open to doing something else,
(08:07):
like a return of the Spelling Bee.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
To the show? Thanks, I'll take my answer off the air, Leo.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yes, it's a podcast, Leo, it's not on the air, dummy,
I'm kidding. Uh yeah, I think we're good on the
Spelling Bee. I did do the Spelling Bee for a while, Brie,
and it was a disaster.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Why tell me why. I think it would be so fun.
I want to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well, I'd love to have you a part of it,
because you're.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Not a spell Here's the problem, all right, we do
this bit like every week with Lorrain and the Queen
of Hearts and I say, hashtag Queen of Hearts. These
dopes don't know how to spell Queen of Hearts? How
hard is that? And I was trying to get the
Mallard Palooza thing trending. I was like, hey, hashtag mallar Paloosa.
These guys can't even spell Paloosa. I don't even think
they can spell Mallard. So in theory, Leo, it's a
(08:55):
great idea. I would be open if somebody wants to
send suggestions in. There's only so many bits you can
do on radio because we're limited. I've tried pretty much
everything over the years, and I've got a formula that
kind of works, but I am more than open to
trying some other things. I don't think the spelling bees
where it's at, just because we've done that and it
(09:16):
was a little tough.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I'm really happy that the book comes back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah. You know what I love is the hopper.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
We brought the hopper back, and I need to use
the hopper more. I'm going to find reasons to use
the hopper. So if anyone has suggestions on how we
can use the hopper, I'm all about the hopper.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I love the hopper, Bree, I'm a hopper guy. I
love it.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
What's the hopper?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The hopper is during the World Cup.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
It's like the NBA Draft lottery, a bingo thing. And
with numbered balls in it, and we assigned in alphabetical
order a number for every team and the World Cup,
and then we you know, did the lot and who
each person got a numbered ball and then they got
(10:03):
that team.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I got version of the lottery. Draft lottery is what
that is? So?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh how fun?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It's great, right, all right? Rick in Omaha writes, and
he has been. I spent some money on space x stock.
It's not going well, am I doomed?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You you should never I don't know why you're asking me,
by the way, a podcast about I don't even know
what this is about at this point, but we're not
giving financial advice.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
H space X.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I saw they lost like a trillion dollars in value
since the I I p O came out and peaked
and all that. I think they'll be okay. Actually I
could be completely wrong about this. I think they'll be fine.
It's gonna take a while, though, you gotta you're gonna
have to be in it for a while. I don't
see the scenario where they completely go out of business.
(10:53):
I think they'll be okay, and they'll there'll be some
big deals. These things go up and down, and uh,
it's not looking good if you bought at the peak.
I even I actually bought full disclosure. I did buy
some a little spacextion. It's not it's not doing well,
but I don't really worry. I futz around with it.
I don't go too big in that Wall Street stuff.
(11:13):
I I'll play around on my phone a little bit
and buy certain things, but I.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm not really worried.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I think, yeah, I'm the kind of guy that'll buy
stuff and hold on to it for a while.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So if you're willing to do that, you know, chances
are you're going to be okay.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
It lost a trillion one trillion dollars in value in
a month, a trillion.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So it opened it one hundred and fifty a share,
and then it went up to like one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Eighty or something like that. I think it's down to
like one hundred.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I don't know what it's at today, but the other
day it was like one hundred and thirty a share.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
One hundred and thirty one.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, yeah, So it went way up and then it's
gone below. It's like basically twenty dollars below where it
was when it opens. So it's not doing great.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
It's a trillion. I'm just I'm focused on the trillion
in part.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Definitely got a trillion, don't you breathe him on? You're loaded?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
No, no, no, I'm no. No, I'm a billionaire. I'm
not a trillionaire.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You live near the ocean, you're west, so that means.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
That means I'm a billionaire. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Me and Gascon back in the day, we know, we
had this conversation. You're with four or five. You're in
good shape. You're in good shape. All right, let's see here,
what do we got next?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Up on the mail bag, Kwang from Ho Chi Minh,
Vietnam guaranteed human rights in he says, in honor of
Tampa Bay buccaneer play by play announcer Gene Deckerhoff, who
I believe is retired.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't think Jean's doing it anymore. Oh no, thank you,
I think he retired. He who became famous for his
signature call uh fire. That fire contins thirty six years
in the broadcast booth and Kwang says, did you know
that in traditional military English, the plor for cannon is
(13:01):
actually cannon, not cannon's okay. Also, on a previous episode
of the original Recipe podcast. You mentioned that you had
some Dwight Howard stories that you couldn't get into at
the time. Can you give them? Can you give us
the details here on the podcast that's quaying from Ho
Gi Me in Vietnam, guaranteed human.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, so's there's a couple. I'll give you the one.
I'll give you one right now.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So Dwight Howard when he was playing for the Lakers,
they brought him in and I think it was Steve Nash, yes,
and it was a just a poop show. They were
no good. Nash was washed Sorry, Briy, I know you
worshiped Steve Nash. You have an alter to Steve Nash.
He was washed up. Dwight Howard didn't play all that well.
It was not good. I enjoyed it a lot because
(13:50):
I always loved the tears of Laker historians.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Anyway, that was back in the days.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I was out at those games all the time, and
I was hanging out in the locker rooms and stuff,
and Dwight was not hand link things very well. The
team sucked. He wasn't living up to expectations. And Dwight
made the mistake of watching a lot of sports TV
he loved the show with stephen A.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Smith and Skip Bayless.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And those guys just teed off on the Lakers because
they that's all they talk about, like the Lakers, cowboys,
you know, the same things every day. So they were
ripping Dwight Hower. And Dwight came in all MOPy and
TJ Simers, who the late great TJ Simers. It was
in the media, you know group that I was standing with,
(14:36):
and TJ asked Dwight what was going on. He brought
up the fact that there were some lies told about
him or something along the I forget exactly what he said,
but it was he was not happy with stephen A
and Skip Bayless. And it was the funniest thing ever
because Dwight's all depressed, He's all mopey. This is a
couple of hours before a Laker game, and TJ Simers
(14:58):
then's TJ.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He was, He didn't really beat around the bush.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
He then gave a lecture or a sermon to Dwight
Howard about the birds and the bees. He's like, listen, Dwight,
I've worked at the ESPN. That show has hardly anyone
watching it. In comparison, he was trying to explain how
few people actually watch the show in comparison how many
people there are that are sports fans and you know whatever,
and Dwight was having none of it. Dwight was convinced,
(15:26):
like everyone watches that show.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It was it was really hilarious.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And TJ who was on Around the Horn, he wasn't
on there long. He was on that show briefly, which
has also been canceled, but it was. It was pretty
funny that Dwight, who had like an MVP award under
his belt and had all these all star appearances, and
he was just beaten and broken because of some debate
between Steve and A and Skip Bayliss. So that was
(15:53):
the basis of the story. Mike from Wisconsin writes in
he says, Ben, Tom Brady and Logan Paul got into
it at Fanatics Fest and Brady slapped Jake Paul across
the face on stage. Was this real or scripted? I say,
(16:14):
I say it was fake. My brother says it's real.
May may you help us out? This is Mike, Mike
from Wisconsin. So, uh yeah, I mean there's breed. Did
you saw this right?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I as, yeah, Let's put us the hit was real?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It was also script It was not it was fake
in terms of it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It wasn't an organic ball made. And I don't know
what they're up to.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
There's all kinds of rumors like Brady's loved professional wrestling,
and he's talked about how you like to participate in
the WWE match. So this could be the setup for
a w WE storyline between Paul and Brady. That's possible.
Like Brady's Brady's around my age. I just think he's
(17:00):
he's a little younger than I am, but I just
think he's bored.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
So why could he be bored?
Speaker 7 (17:04):
You're a part owner of an NFL team, You're an announcer,
Like what else?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You get to do whatever you want all the time?
Like what what do you want it?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Why do you have to get involved in every part
of like entertainment, Like what he's going to come out
with a single? Next he's going to go on tour
with Leangelo Ball, Like what are we going to do here?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Good high?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Well no, but he's he's bored in the standpoint, there's
no big events, there's no competition. You know, he just
does the TV stuff and he just kind of spews
cliches and empty platitudes.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
When he does these NFL games.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
But if he was in a wrestling match like that
would be that would be a big And if I'm
not a cop as you know, Brie, but I believe
what if that was real? Doesn't that meet the legal definition?
Like what Brady did to Jake Paul, Like, does that
not meet the legal definition of assault and or battery?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
It was Logan Paul, right, Logan Paul.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Logan Yeah, Logan Paul is the Paul was the boxer.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I get you know, all those Paul brothers, I don't know.
I can't till one from the other. They're all annoying.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
But but the point is is that not assault and
or battery literal? It would be up to Logan Paul
whether he wanted to pursue charges and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So yeah, it was not authentic.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
And Karl Anthony Towns had to hold him back. Also,
like how ridiculous can that be? We need to sell
to be like wearing a I was showing a picture
of like wearing like a Logan Paul shirt that's going
to be coming up next or something stupid like that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah, Like Karl Anthony Towns will be the manager, the celebrity.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
The Paul Hayman walking down.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I missed the days for big heavyweight fights when they'd
have the day before news conference and there'd always be
some kind of staged fight and it was such you
knew it was bull crack.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know, it's like they were really trying to sell
the fight. Connor McGregor is.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
A master at that these days, and he didn't fight
very often.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
What else Kevin and Kansas right since, says dear Ben
and guest mel Brooks recently turned one hundred years old,
and Blazing Saddles who was named the greatest comedy film
of all time? That got me thinking about best comedy films,
and he says, I can put south Park and Airplane up.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There was there a south Park movie? I know the
TV show. Was there a movie south Park movie?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
There might have been. I never got into it.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Then he says, what are your best in quotes comedies
of all time? Yeah, so I'll go first. I love
My favorite type of comedy is like Curb your Enthusiasm
with Larry David. I don't obviously agree with everything Larry's into,
but I love that style of comedy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Movies. Best in Show. Do you ever see Best in
Showbrea Dog? I saw that.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
You gotta watch that. You gotta watch that. It's old now,
but it's hilarious. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Best in shows great. I like comedies.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
They're all old, dude, I'm gonna like I mean, Kevin,
I'm gonna age myself. But I like The Naked Gun,
my cousin Vinnie, these old movies like that.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
There's a mel Brooks movie which is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
It was a parody of Star Star Wars called Spaceballs hilarious.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Okay, I've seen that. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
And I like, uh, the Naked Gun was good.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Old school with Vince Vaughan and those guys, and you
know that kind of stuff. What about you, what are
your favorite comedies? You're younger than me, you're hip, or
you're a woman, what are your favorite comedies?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Go ahead, come on, chop chop.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I love The Jerk with Steve Martin.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
That's a great one.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
And I oh and Rock sand I love Steve Martin.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I think Steve Martin's like really good like comedy in regards.
And then White Chicks is my also favorite, one of
my favorite comedies ever.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, the White Chicks.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Yeah, Steve Martin.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I told the story the other day, Like the famous
Steve Martin. You know he worked at Disneyland when he
lived steven.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Garden Grove, not far away from us here. What else
do we have about?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Wally from Syracuse says Ben, I've been joining your show
for years. You're one of what I call one of
the last of the originals in radio.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Please never change, So.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I'll try not to until they fired me, Wally, then
I'll change anyway, he says. To my questions or question,
what did you think about Howard Stern comming back to
one show per week and also getting rid of a
long time a bunch of longtime staffers this week. I
want to get your perspective as a radio guy. Thanks
Wally from Syracuse. Yeah, I don't It's not my business.
(21:53):
I don't work on that show. I don't know that.
One of the great claims the fame is when I
got whacked from Fox Sports Radio and nine and Stern
talked about me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
On the show, which was cool.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Oh really, yeah, Well, Pete and Pittsburgh called up and
dropped my name and so they you know, they talked.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It was cool.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It was great because I had a bunch of relatives
breed that aren't sports fans. They don't get sports, and
they listened. They used to listen to Thurn all the time,
so they heard my name and they were like, oh
my god, my phone.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Blew up after that. It was awesome. That was pretty cool. Sport. Yeah,
it was great, But you know, it sucks. I mean,
there's a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The thing that blows me away, Wally is how many
people work on that show.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It just kills me.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I read in the Sun, the London Sun, I think
it was in London. They said that the Stern Show
has about ninety staff members for what's ninety for one show?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
And we don't even have ninety employees.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Well, I know, I'm I'm thinking, like I you know,
I don't want brag or anything, but I do like
I do four hours and I pretty much produced the
show and put everything, you know, and it's much as
possible in terms of the content, the monologues and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I do all that stuff like four hours.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
And like ninety people ninety what are you doing? That's
like a government waste and all.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's wild.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
So as far as the one show, like Stern's old,
I don't know how how old is Howard Stern. It's
gotta be like, is he in his seventy Yeah, he's
seventy two week, I'll bet you and I have no
inside information.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I'll bet you.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Stern probably when serious XM said, Hey, Howard, do we
want to your deal's coming up.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
We want to keep you in. Howd's like, I don't
really want to do this.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, come on, please, Howard. We want to keep you.
We'll pay a lot of money. Okay, I know you're paid,
but I don't need the money. I just don't want
to do it. And then and Howard's probably like, oh,
I'll just have around. I'll do one show a week. Week.
There's no way they'll agree to that. Why would they
agree to that. That's a bad deal. They agreed to it.
So like one show a week is like one it's
everyone's you know, I've been talking to some of my
radio buddies. You know, I have friends that I text
(23:57):
all the time. We're in the business, different parts of
the country, and they were all like, wait a minute,
that's what I want you know, instead of a day.
The whole point of this, and Howard knows better than
anybody because he you know, he's was at one point
the king of all radio is that the thing that
makes it what it is is that it's radio is about.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Showing up every day and being there. It's like having
your sofa.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Like your sofa when you go to your house, if
you have a sofa, your sofa is not only there
on Wednesdays, It's there every day of.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The week, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Like it's it's not like you get to said, Okay,
well I don't have my sofa because it's Thursday.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Like radio, you're supposed to be there. It's appointment listening.
It's just part of what all this stuff is. And
I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Know, Like I hey, if I if I'm lucky enough
to make it, you know, in my seventies and my eighties,
I hope I am, and all that that would be great.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And U I mean the dream would be one day
a week.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I like, I see these guys that do two hour shows,
three hour shows, I'm like, my god, that would be amazing.
Like the grind is the four hours. That's the grind
and having to do it every day, but good for hours.
He can get with it. I I was a huge
Hour Stern fan growing up. I listened to a show
all the time and one of the people that influenced
me early on. I haven't heard much of him. I
(25:18):
don't have serious exam I did hear him a few times.
They've had trials and whatnot. It doesn't seem like he's
the same guy he was when I grew up. But
we all changed, so that's what happens.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
And you know, that's what I hear. Like his style
has completely changed, his bellie. It's just it's just not
the same.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well he's he was always the guy that was the
renegade that didn't want to be friends with the celebrities.
Now he doesn't want to offend the celebrities. It seems like,
you know, it's it's for those that remember that when
he had his fastball and his curveball, and he had
a knuckle curve, and he had a breaking ball, and
(25:57):
he had a split finger pitch. And now he's thrown
sloppable from from what I understand.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
So, but ninety people pree for one show. What do
you do?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
How do you how do you do a show that's
like a whole production.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I get having a few people to do bits. Does
Howard just show up and they have everything planned out
for him?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
That'd be great.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
What's the point? He's just a mouth? He's at that
point exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Stanley from somewhere in North Carolina writes, and he says, Ben,
does this story prove that teamwork is overrated? You've often
ranted about chemistry being nonsense and all that.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't know if I've.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Said exactly that, Stanley, but there was a story he
sent me here that neuroscientists found that teamwork a teamwork paradox.
They say that highly synchronized brains perform worse at complex
asks to a some science journal thing. Sure, Stanley, I'm
(27:09):
not reading all that, Stanley, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We'll just agree, we'll agree.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Wan from San Diego rights and he says, Ben, I
heard your rant this week about the World Cup and
the MLS and all that, and I.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Agree with you.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
However, he says, here in San Diego, the president of
our MLS team is convinced that the MLS will benefit
long term from youth soccer. Apparently kids are lining up
because of the World Cup. Breed that they're forcing their
parents to sign them up for youth soccer. And the
(27:44):
guy that runs Wan sent me a story here. The
guy that runs the team in San Diego said that
this will create a foundation for the MLS for years
to come, lifelong fandom of the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And my position is the same one.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
This is uh bullshoy as they say at Russia. Yeah,
I grew up playing soccer. Everyone around my age played soccer.
You know how many people around my age love soccer?
Very few, and I think that's pretty much every generation.
It's a great sport to play when you're a kid
because you just run around, you don't really know what's
(28:22):
going on, and you're doing cardio kinda and there's always
you know, the fat kid like me standing there and
then that's it. So it's fun to play as a kid.
Usually when you get to the age of like thirteen
or fourteen or even younger, did you just move on?
Did you play soccer when you were a little girl, grie,
Were you a scery?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
No?
Speaker 7 (28:43):
I didn't, but I had friends that did. But yeah,
as soon as we left like high school, nobody cared
about soccer like they played through high school and I
don't really have friends that watched it either, Like I don't.
I don't have anybody in my life that's like a
soccer fan and just my entire life, So I don't.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
I think they use it as like a ploy, like
a marketing ploy, right, like look at oh my God
because of the World Cup, look at numbers like you
should get your kid involved, and d d DA because
of number.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
You know, it's all it's all baloney. I feel like
it could be.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, it's just I call it the long con, the
big con, cause we're talking about at least fifty years
of soccer propaganda that this is going to be the
defining moment.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And I gues at some point it's just the boy
that cracked wolf right. It's just, you know, we don't
believe you.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Charlie from Florida writes in he says ben Don Lemon
said people are asking him to run for president. Can
you tell me one person asking him to run for president? Charlie,
I think you've emailed the wrong show. This is not
a political show. That sounds to me like a straw
man from Don. But I don't know, I don't, you know,
I don't even know what he's he's doing a podcast
(29:59):
or something.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Probably don't he's going. So I came out.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Charlie on don Lemon out back John and Joanna in
the San Gabriel Valley right and they say, hey, big
Ben and special guest, we want to take time to
thank everyone that has helped fill in on the Sunday Mailbag.
Danny g had some very big shoes to fill, but Robbie,
the Mariner fan and Brie have been awesome, among others.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Thanks to all of them. Look at that Bri.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
You're getting some from John and Joanna, says our question
this week, have you ever reached out to Manuel in
Guardina to co host the mail bag? A recent answer
to the twelve year old Michael Jordan Riddle of the
Day and the way you cleaned it up was hysterical.
An R rated mail bag would be classic. That's from
(30:47):
John and Joanna.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, I'd be open.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
It's to me, it's always a scheduling thing, and it's
always that's always the problem.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Like I've had people reach out. I was close to
getting Rob and the three two one on the podcast,
and then his schedule did in the ligne with my.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Schedule and our buddy in the Commonwealth out on Cape
Cod We reached out to to Andre and we were
gonna ga him on and then that didn't work out,
and so, uh, it's pretty much who's available.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Robbie's been great. Obviously bre works on the show, so
she's usually available, So it's just kind of rotating everybody in. Yeah,
but i'd absolutely live. Manuel and Guardina would like to
do it. I'll ask him and we'll see if we
can connect.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
That would be so fun. Oh my god, that would
be a blast.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, he's o g man, He's he's great. Love love Morkestown,
long Shortman port of l A. Lucky Tony writes, and
he says.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Big Ben, Lucky Tony's in the Bay Area, says fun
fact for the p Ones. My Dingling is a novelty
song record recorded innineteen fifty two by Dave Bartholomew and
covered by Chuck Berry in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's all the of the day.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, So Lucky Tony called up and saying before the
Malor Palooza, the dingling song, which we were confused by.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
But he's now, is that like a real song or
did he come up with it?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You know he's saying it's a Dave Bartholomew song. He
might be lying about this, but I don't think he's lying.
Nineteen fifty two Dave Bartholomew song and the great Chuck Berry,
he said, did a cover.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
On it in nineteen seventy two. You're the music. You're
the music, ri right. You go to concerts all the time.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
You love I love concerts, but not from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well, she not, neither have I. I wasn't alloted.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Well, Frankie Valley is still performing. I don't know how
they stand him up?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
There is that right? Oh?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, one is he's a little up there.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Very Manelow in Vegas. Oh, gotta see what's that? Is it?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Resorts World in Vegas. I was at Resorts World I
don't know why, for something, and Barry Manilow was performing
that night. This is a couple of years ago. The
crowd was awesome. It was it was wheelchairs and walkers
and fricking great. I loved it. The babushkas I.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Was like, this is great. I didn't hear him, I was.
I was at the hotel. I didn't see the show.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Oh, but we were lined up to get into and
I was.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Like, what are like, what is this? Did?
Speaker 4 (33:35):
They did leisure World take over the hotel and it
was it was so great. I was like, can you imagine,
like what would the equivalent be years from now? Like
the I don't think this generation is going to have that,
Like I feel like there's more people that think they're
famous but real fame other than Taylor Swift and a
(33:56):
few others.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Oh Barn Joni, Yeah, but a bunch of hes old too. No,
But I'm talking about like the young.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Oh our generation. Oh like my okay, youngish, you're you know.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Even younger than my generation.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Like I don't think are we are we going to
have young people who become old if they're lucky and
then go out and see, you know, here's the Chicks
talk star from twenty twenty three who's now performing at
the you know, Caesar's Palace in Vegas and twenty ninety
or something like that, you know.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Because I don't know like young singers, like I think
Justin Herbert's girlfriend is a singer, and I.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Have no idea who she is. Oh, I've never heard
a song.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
I don't know anything, but they say that she's like
a really big star like singer, never heard of her?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Not this week.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
The story this week was that she isn't her last
name like Kobe beer beer beer, yeah, yeah, yeah beer,
they said. The joke was that the tickets to her concert.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Tour were selling for less than the beer. That was
that bad.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Mike, Mike from Kansas City, Right, Sinney says, did you
hear about the porta potty commando incident here in town?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yes, Mike, I did. Do you see this, Bree the guy?
Oh you didn't see that? How did you miss it?
Speaker 4 (35:09):
This guy got trapped inside the bottle porta potty he
was And this story got even crazier, so the fire
department had to come out there and get this guy out.
He was stuck underneath a porta potty and the firefighters
are like he was like, the guy was not listening.
The guy was like, the firefighters like, put your head
(35:30):
through the you know the thing and get out. Uh,
And the guy responded, I can't, dumb fuh he responded,
And then the firefighters responded, I'm the dumb f You're
stuck in a urinal, which I thought they were upset
with a firefighter.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well, you shouldn't say that you're a fire fighter. Well,
you dude, the guys, the guy deserved to be ripped.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
If he's stuck in a that is one of the
that's gonna be the biggest nightmare.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Do you imagine?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Like, and there's video of it. They had to spray
them all viral hose when he got out.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Oh my god, oh my god, how do you even
recover after that?
Speaker 6 (36:11):
That's like, that's oh my god, that's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Guy, this is how we do so.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
The guy claims that he climbed into the underneath part
of the porta potty to try to retrieve a bottle
of mountain dew that he dropped.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
How much is a bottle of mountain dew? Three bucks?
Four bucks? Maybe?
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Oh my god, not worth that. That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't care if you're dirt poor. Wow. This is
this was a viral thing. This video of it, you
can check it out. That I love that.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
They're like, well, this highlights the dangers of climbing into
a porta potty.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Who would even think? Never?
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Never?
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Even if I like if I have like a beautiful
like engagement ring from like I love Tiffany, right, like
even like in a beautiful engagement ring from like Tiffany,
I would I've done?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Oh well, I lost. It's over game.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Over all the insurance.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Yeah, oh my god, I'm gonna throw up from that.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
That sounds horrible, all right, John from Phil do a
few more. John from Philly rights in. He says Ben
will Hooters be replacing Applebee's for family fund now? And
John sent that we talked about this John a few
months ago.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But the guy that runs Hooters now.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
They're out of bankruptcy, and he said they're going to
return to their roots. He emphasized food, hospitality and community
environment involvement rather and said that Hooters is going to
be the go to restaurant for families and kids.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Got CEO there. He said that the brand had become
over sexualized.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
And it was a little boys club, all that stuff,
and it's called exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Good luck, good luck on that.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
I love Hooters. I'd be so happy if he came back.
I love those I love that sauce. I've ordered that
sauce online. Really, I yeah, I truly love that sauce.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I'm upset with Hooters. And here's a couple of reasons.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
I used to hang out at the one in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
When I leve La all the time. You know that
part of La I would go over there, had great nights.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
I've told the story on this podcast. Me and Artie,
We're hanging out my old boardop and Tony Bruno would
come home. We had a great time fucking shop. It
was wonderful memories. And then I'm also upset because we
had a deal and I believe the statue limitations ran
on and so we had a deal years ago with
the Hooters Hotel in Vegas. Oh my god, We're going
(38:40):
to fly into Vegas every every week during the NFL season,
me and Looney to do our show from the hotel.
And then about ten days before the NFL season, they
pulled out of the deal Hooters because the company was
about to go bankrupt and they couldn't pay the freight.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
So I'm still bitter about that. That would have been awesome,
That would be so much fun. My god. A couple more.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Hudson from Pasadena writes and he says, Ben, should you
start betting on the weather?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Do you see this guy, this ice cream shop guy
in La here? No? Yeah, so this guy, he's an
ice cream shop. He runs an ice cream shop and
somewhere in la I think downtown, and he's been using
the prediction market calshie to hedge against slow sales, like
if the weather ever gets cold or rainy. The guy says,
(39:32):
in the ice cream business, whenever the temperatures fall below
seventy degree they lose about twenty percent of their business
based on the weather. So he got this idea. This
guy's name Jason, he said, let me hedge, And so
he's been betting just twenty dollars a day on weather
related prediction.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Deals, which I didn't even know you could do.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
And he spends time studying the meteorological report, the climate
data from scientists, he analyzes it, and then he makes
his way here twenty dollars a day. He generates about
fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Per month from this. Do you imagine get an extra
fifteen hundred dollars a month?
Speaker 7 (40:16):
Just like what are you betting on? Like it's going
to be over seventy degrees today?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Per under? So it's smart.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
And here's why, because if he bets, I assume he's
just betting under, and then if it goes over, he
makes more than twenty dollars because the business doesn't go down.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
Oh, I know, I got it.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Okay, he's etching, so fifteen hundred dollars per month he
makes on average, He said that covers forty three percent
of his monthly rent. His monthly rent is thirty five
hundred dollars a month, and he risks six.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Hundred dollars per month on the market. He said. The
biggest win he's gotten is eight hundred dollars in one day.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, I tell you I'm not opposed to looking into this.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
No, I don't blame it. No, I actually agree. I
mean it's better than like selling like seat picks or
something online.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
I'd rather do that.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
I don't have any I don't have it. I can't
really sell anything like that online making any money. Why
you know what?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Then?
Speaker 6 (41:22):
You you know what? I I doubt that. I think
you know you?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, I could not.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Keith in the suburbs of Seattle. I love that, he
wrote here, non woke part of Seattle.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Thank you. I needed to know that.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
He says, do you think that our fine city will
be saved by teenage mutant raccoons? Uh? He he claims here,
Uh yeah, this is another one of those viral Internet stories.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Bree, you guys love to sendy. So there was a
raccoon that went.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Viral named Jimothy, and up, this is a mutant raccoon.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
It's got a short the thing.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
It's got short spine syndrome, and it's very odd looking.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
There's some now I'm looking at it, okay me look yeah,
so oh no, that doesn't look like a raccoon at all.
He looks like he's been like smush, She's like a
video game character.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
What's wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (42:26):
He has a short spine syndrome. It's a I'm sad,
actually a birth defect. But the internet thinks he might
have like from radiation or something like that. Or that
would be a good movie. You should write that. Keith,
I'll get you, Keith, I'm gonna get you. And no stradinis.
You guys can write how great would that be?
Speaker 6 (42:47):
A breathe Jimothy though, what the hell? I can't you
either jim or or Timothy pick one.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
That's a dumb name. I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
Changed the name, yeah, change the name please.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
It's got a as you saw, round body short so
it's very compact.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
The humpty dumpty of a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Uh, yeah, that'd be cool. Hey teenage mutant Ninja turtles.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
The guy that came up with that, everyone said was ridiculous,
and then it became a big thing.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
It's still a big thing.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
I just went to the pizza pop up in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I did how long did you have to wait? Online?
Speaker 6 (43:22):
About an hour and ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
You waited an hour ten minutes. Did you buy two?
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Let me tell you. That wasn't part.
Speaker 7 (43:28):
That wasn't my idea for a day. But I went
with Adam Oslin and Kevin Figures of yes, yes, of
course of FNA on Fox Sports Radio. So yeah, we
did it as like a like all and then Kevin
brought his son and so it was really fun. Pizza
was good. The ranch is green, so that was interesting,
(43:51):
but very small. But yeah, they tried to really squeeze
you in.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
It was about an hour.
Speaker 7 (43:55):
You're waiting for people to like stand up and you're
kind of like lurching around.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
It's uh, it wasn't a but it was cool.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
It was.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
It was an experience, for sure. I won't do it again,
but it was an experience.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Did you buy a T shirt?
Speaker 6 (44:09):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
A hat, nothing, no more.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
No I sent you know.
Speaker 7 (44:13):
I didn't spend any money, but I spent an hour
of my life that I'll never get back.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
But it's okay. I had good company.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Make sure to point out, Brie, that is the most important.
That is our time. Time valuable thing that we have
in our lives is our time. That's it. That's literally, yeah,
it is. You don't know, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:32):
I mean there's other stuff, but I think we've gone
way too long anyway, So we'll end.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
It there, Uh, Brie.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Anything you want to promote here, Bri, any appearance is
coming up, Any comedy gigs, any speeches, ted talks, anything
at all you would like to promote. No.
Speaker 7 (44:48):
I am recovering from from a really annoying case of
laryngitis slash bronchitis. So I'm learning low for for about
a week and then maybe I'll be back.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
All right, we'll take yourself. Thank you so much. Have
a great I will, by the way, the schedule this week.
I am here tonight and I'll be in most of
the week. I'm not in on Thursday to Friday. Have
some stuff I have to take care of. I'll let
you know more about that. Depending on what happens. But
I will be in four of the five days this
week scheduled day. So anything crazy happens, like the Kawhi
(45:23):
Leonard news or anything like that happens and I'm not there.
This is scheduled way in advance. It has been for
this particular date, has been scheduled for a couple of months,
so it's not like it's like a sudden situation. So
I will just putting that out there for Alf and
Fergdog and malar Prop guy.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
And all those guys.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
But I will be in most of the week, just
not at the end of the week. So act accordingly.
Have a great rest.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Of your Sunday and we'll talk to you tonight.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
As Dick and Date would say, bye bye, bye bye
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