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July 10, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Deion Sanders grumbling about needing a salary cap in college football, Deion failing to address his health status, Falcons QB Michael Penix Jr. saying that making the playoffs would be a successful season, #AskBen, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laca.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our birth three, our number three, and we go
to prime time.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
That's right, prime time.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Dion Sanders grumbling at Colorado about college football.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Needing a salary cap. How does that sound to you?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Also, what do you make of Deon Sanders failing to
address his health status, didn't want to talk about it?
And which side of the aisle do you fall on?
In the NFL with quarterback Michael Pennex Junior saying that
making the playoffs that's all you have to do to
have a successful season. If you're the Falcons, not winning
the Super Bowl, not getting to the NFC Championship Game,

(00:42):
just waltz through the regular season, get in the playoffs
and that's all you have to do. We'll talk about
that and more right now, give it up for our
number three. It's all about the cap. Yeah, no, it's seriously,
I'm not making that up.

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Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'd be so our lead this.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hour is from college football, that's right, but it's really
just to talk about Dion Sanders.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
College football is the vehicle that we're using to get
to talk about Deon Sanders. So he is the coach
at Colorado, and he didn't jump to the Cowboys, he
didn't go to the NFL, he didn't leave Colorado, even
though his kids are gone. But Deon Sanders is now
publicly advocating on the big stage that there must be.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
A cap, a salary cap. We need the.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Cap that's not cap, the cap is not cap. Well,
the cap is cap, but that's right anyway. So Dionna's
claiming that it would even the playing field, the competitive
landscape in college football.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Did you did you see this at all?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
All right, So you're speaking at Big twelve media days,
never miss him. Sanders, who's now entering his third season
already at Colorado, He said that collegiate football is hurt
by the unregulated system that they have, player movement, the portal,
the finances. He said, I wish there was a cap.

(03:26):
Sanders said, it was a coaches round table, like the
top of the line players make this, and if you're
not that type of guy, you know you're not going
to make that.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's what the NFL does.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Sanders went on to say the problem is you got
guys that are not that darn good. But he could
go to another school and they give him a half
million dollars. Can't compete with that, went on, complained Sanders
pointed out that the college football playoff, he said, will
be the same teams that will make the field because

(04:01):
they have stronger financial portfolios. Corded Dion, So, let us
discuss the question, Dion Sanders grumbling, grumbling, about needing a
salary cap in college football? So how does that one?
How does that sound to you? So I've got Vineyard, Average,

(04:24):
Joe's and Saucy.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
And we will connect everything together here.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're going to make some rocky Mountain oysters, which I
famously ate when I lost a bet evolving the Clippers
and the Nuggets years ago. So, first of all, a
Dion Sanders. When I saw the quotes I heard the audio,
Dion sounds like he knows he's drowning and he would
like someone to toss him a floating He would like

(04:51):
a lifeline, like he can't keep up with the big
bad Southeastern Conference, in the Big Ten, And no matter
how much Razzle dazzled Dion, ha, it's not enough. So
can we all play the fun sized violin for Dion?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Boo freaking who?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Right now, Sanders is admitting that you can't keep up.
He's getting out muscled, and rather than just find a
way to get it done grind a little harder, Dion
has now decided I'm gonna take door number two. I
am going to belly ache, I am going to complain,
I am going to grumble. You see, Dion is visiting

(05:31):
the vineyards. And it's not prime time, it's prime wine time.
He's whining. He's whining. Now, my position is.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Going to surprise might not surprise you, but I believe
it will soar.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Cap in general is a dumb thing, and it is
a pathetic attempt to level the playing field that's never
been level and will never be level. College football doesn't
want it to be level. You see, the power brokers
of college football bring in a huge audience, and they

(06:07):
don't want those teams to be marginalized. Every team, every school,
every coach. They already have a budget anyway, right And
the big schools like Georgia, Ohio State, Alabama, Michigan used
to be when they had a Harboraugh, Notre Dame. These
schools are spending like drunken sales. We all agree on
that every man won't a child. They're spending like they're

(06:30):
you know, on shore on leave because they can't. And
they got the cash, they got the clout, they got
the cojones, they got all that.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
And they're doing very well.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
And the boosters, the donors, the TV money, all that stuff.
They got it right up the old wazoo, if you
know what I mean. And so they're using it.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Good for them, and you know what, that's the game.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
That's the game. That's the game, my man, that's the game.
Now keep in mind that Deon Sanders is being paid
ten point.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Eight million dollars a year by Colorado. Good for him.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
He's the fourth highest paid coach in all of college football.
And he's acting like the salary camp is this magic
placebo that's gonna fix everything, and Colorado is going to
go on a run of championships and they just get
the they get.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
The cap in there.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Polye Pollice, I say, listen, all right, they're not eating
ramen noodles at the at the Colorado Football get together's
there in Boulder. The naked truth is this a salary
cap is not about fairness.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's about control. The SEC and the Big ten are
not going to sit there and.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Let some bureaucrat, pencil pushing nerd tell them how to
spend their money on football. They will find loopholes, they'll
find back channels, and they'll go.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Back to shady booster deals with envelopes of cash under
the table.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
And yeah, then Colorado and other schools tampering.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
It's a tampering violation. Okay, prove it. Prove it.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
So Dion, of all people, he knows this. You think
Dion got some of those envelopes at Florida State.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
I don't know. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
The funny thing about this to me is we did
some monologues in the past that Dion had said repeatedly
he didn't want the NFL life, he didn't want to
coach in the NFL, and he just didn't want anything
to do with that. He's been saying that for many,
many years. Of course he has to say that because
many think he's going to go to the NFL. He's

(08:39):
coaching college football, and yet now he wants college to
copy the NFL. Really, I thought you didn't want to
coach in the NFL, but you want in that regard,
you want college football to be a total copy, a
carbon copy of the NFL world.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Secondly, more prime time, more prime time chatter. So Colorado
coach Deon Sanders, he's been away for a while, sounds everywhere.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I guess our editors didn't put it in.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
But Deon Sanders wants to focus on next season. He
does not want to talk about his health issues, does
not and that was the number one question heading into
Big twelve media days, as Deon Sanders missed part of
the spring and part of the early summer and all
that with the Colorado football team because of some kind

(09:34):
of mystery medical issue, but nobody really knows what it was.
And so Deon Sanders he did not divulge what happened.
He said, Hey, I'm already back back to normal and
return to Boulder, you know all that, and prepare for
the new year. So what did you make of Dion

(09:58):
Sanders failing to dress his health?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Can you health status?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
And the people that were concerned about Deon Sanders' health
and all that. So this was, as they say in tennis,
an unforced error is what this was. Now Deon Sanders
does not owe us his medical records as I.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Will do you on that. So satiny, However, when you
are the face of a.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Major college football program and you all of a sudden
vanish from the public life for months. We're talking about
from April until July, right and you're missing. You don't
show up to the football camps, you don't make appearances,
you skip out even the wedding of.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
The Heisman winning Colorado player, the guy with Jacksonville Hunter.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
He didn't show up to that because, hey, listen, people
are gonna ask questions. And the thing about this is
that Dion he knew that question was coming.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
He absolutely knew that question was coming.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
He's very media savvy, and yet when the moment arrived,
he went.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Average Joe's coach.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Prime said, I'm gonna go dodgeball instead of disclosure. I'm
going dodgeball. Bull junk is what he called it. He
called it bull junk. That was his word. He loves
that word. He says that word a lot. Rather than cursing.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
He says bull jump.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Not no comment. He didn't say that. He didn't say
I'll address that later. Not even a denial.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
He didn't even.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Come up with some kind of bogus story. He didn't
spin it. He just wouldn't talk about it. He was
just dismissive and played the blame the media card, which
was it was weird.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
It was like vintage primetime charismatic quotable. And then he
was evasive. However, when the man.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
That made college football at Colorado relevant again for the
first time in his generation, when he was trying to
be real and he refuses to acknowledge refuses to acknowledge
the Komodo dragon in the room. It's fair to wonder
what the hell else is going on here? He wouldn't

(12:10):
even go there, So that either means.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
There's something really bad, something messed.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Up going on, or whatever is going on was bad
and he doesn't want anyone to know about it.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
And yeah, final thought, we pivot now to the NFL.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
We go, Why we get to parse the words? Get
to parse the words of a quarterback who said he's
not trying.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
To win the Super Bowl? Say what?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, So the NFL training camps are going to be
opening up in the next week. Rookies will start reporting
the chargers of the first team. I think on I
want to say on Sunday, I think that's right.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
But it's coming up. It's coming up in the next
the next few days. So in Atlanta, I don't know
if you heard this or not.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Maybe not so the Falcons quarterback Michael Pennix Junior talking
about what would make a good season in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, rather than me tell you what he said, let's
go to the audio tape. Here we go.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
It's a successful season for the Atlanta FL because of
my dependings the postseason. Oh guy in the postseason seeing
like a dirty bird and as like all the little highlights.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
And fans and it's like, man like a year rocking
whenever we win this. So like, I definitely want to
get back to that, you know when when win a
football game. So he can have a city turnament.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
All right, that was I guess on a podcast somewhere
with a nice music bed playing. But make the postseason,
make the make the playoffs is what will make it
a successful season. So let's break it down. So which
side of the isle? Which side of the aisle do
you fall on? You've got Michael Pennix Jr. Saying that
just making the postseason will make a successful season with

(13:58):
the Falcons.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
So I'm gonna go first, and then you can chime
in if you want.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I am on the side of Herm as in former
Jets coach Herm Edwards. You play to win the game, now,
Pennex sounds like Fox Sports Radio alumni member Jim Mora playoffs.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I just hope we can win another game.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
He didn't go Super Bowl, didn't mention an NFC title game,
didn't mention winning a playoff game. The standard is the standard,
and the standard in Atlanta as well.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Win a play you know, I'm win a play game.
Just make the play.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
That is the line that has been drawn. And this
is the new face of the dirty Birds, all right,
walking into the huddle making the declaration, are playing boys.
I just want to tread water. I want to swim anywhere.
Just want to tread water. Doesn't that sound absurd? And

(14:54):
that sound like a small market type mentality, not a
not a big time ment died.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
It's like, I just want to.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Setting the barlow, setting the bar low? How low can
you go?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
How low? I hate it? Who's just to throw away comment? Well, yeah, okay,
I don't like it. Tennix was getting saucy.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Now, I'm not talking about barbecue sauce or honey mustard sauce.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I am talking weak sauce.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
That is, I want to soften expectations.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
And it's like, don't expect too much from me, don't
do it. Let me kind of ease into this. No,
it's not how this works. It's not how any of
this works.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
You don't have that long you got it, maybe a
year or two at the possibly more than that if
you're lucky, but you're not guaranteed to be the quarterback,
and then you're just kind of lolly gugging around. You're
supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here
talking about the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Playoffs.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
You're supposed to elevate the team. You're supposed to have
the standard. Hey, we're gonna win the super Bowl. When
you think of the Falcons in the postseason, you think
of that fateful day years ago when the Atlanta Falcons gagged,
they literally died on television against the Patriots in the
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The malor riddle of the day here. It is NASCAR legend.
Dale Earnhardt Junior Buggety bugget and bugget and Bugget says
he once learned blank because of a fan. All because
of a fan. That is the riddle. What is the answer? Uh,
let's see here, Josh in Nebraska, the Bears fan, says

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Dale Earnhard Jr.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Went out and learned the chicken dance for a fan.
Chicken dance answer? Who else do we have page down?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Let's see here, learned how to hold the sausage from Scrooge.

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Let's see, I can't read that.

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Uh Ferg Dog, Ferg Dog actually kind of got close
to getting it right, not quite.

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You were in the same ballow.

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Mike the Leprechaun from Boston, who got me in trouble
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to do with some kind of musical instrument. Milkman Mike
in Colorado says he learned how to snore like hollering.
James King Roy says how to smoke darkey sausage says

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used chopsticks. Keith Ocho Texto from Houston says he went
out and learned the lyrics to f the police because
of a fan.

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I can't read that. Who else do we have page down?
Let's see here?

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I learned uh blah blah blah blah blah from Steve.

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Yes, Ben, I think that he learned sign language because
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Do you think he learned sign language because of the fan?

Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (22:49):
Really?

Speaker 9 (22:51):
Really?

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Why would you? Why would you do that? That's that's
what Eddie used to do that.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
I want to learn sign language so I can speak
to the people.

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You can't.

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Oh my god, you're not supposed to get it ready,
you ruined the bit. Dale Hearnard Jr. Once learned sign
language so we.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Can communicate with a fan who was hearing impaired.

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Now I actually know sign language. Did you know that
I actually know sign There's only one one word I know.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
I learned when I was in junior high school.

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I learned that one where I can say it's universal
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But that's my thing. Yeah, that's my language.

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My daughter knew sign language when she was a baby. Really,
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Okay, very well, that's cool.

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like star search, it's like any reality show. It's amazing
what we do here. Unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (26:29):
Hey, anything I could be like in a game show
where I can be like on that Lallapalooza.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Well, it's not Lallapalooza. First of all, it's that's straight,
that's trademark. It's malord Palooza.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Is what is malor?

Speaker 8 (26:50):
You weren't once a Lalla Land? But we can lay
out here, Yes.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
I mean La La Land right now.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
But anyway, Yeah, do you have a skill, James? Would
you like to participate in the Mallard Palooza?

Speaker 8 (27:02):
What is your talentop with my francholical voice? Excuse the name?

Speaker 10 (27:12):
All right, Look, I had been gone for a couple
of weeks. I forgot what you sound like. You're not
gonna get past me again.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Okay, So James, let's try to figure out how would
that work? And you, I'm gonna give everyone that's on the.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Mallet Palooza up to ninety seconds. I'll give you a
bonus time if you're good.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
If you sucked, I'll cut you off after thirty. If
you sucked, I'll cut you out after third.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
So what would be your act? Are you just gonna
do some different voices? I here's here's here's holler and James,
if I call from the South, then you do like
a redneck voice. And here's James. If I call from
you know, the Northeast, and you do like an annoying
New York voice, you know, and you just pick regions
and do the like you can do the goofy cliche
Texas accent. You can just pick different regions and pick

(27:58):
the accent.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
Yeah, I could. I can try. Give me an opportunity.
I'm willing to try.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Okay, all right, I got I gotta move on. You're
boring me. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Let's go to Let's go to Andrea the astrology Insider,
the astrology Lady. She's in the Bay Area right now.
There is a massive cosmic event. If you look up
to the heavens Our astrology Insider will now break it down.
Nobody else has this content.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Breaking news, breaking news from the astrology Insider.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yes, how are you?

Speaker 10 (28:31):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (28:33):
If I was any better, I would not be asked
that question. But I am Andrew. What do we have here?

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Well, you had a couple of gremlins and it's like, well,
I got to put in a call. It must be
the moon. We got the full moon. It's full at
one point thirty seven pm, and it's called the full
buck moon because that's when the deers are growing their antlers.
It's also according to the Farmer's ALMANACX that we know
and love, so the full blessing moon. So full moon's corn.

(29:05):
You know a lot of structure and you know some gremlins,
so we got to go with the flow Sun and cancer,
full moon and Capricorn. But you know, full moons are
more emotional, they're more intense, so it's just good to
be aware. I always say, you feel a two degrees
well two days before the day of and two days after,

(29:26):
so technically it's full July ten at one thirty seven pm.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
So that's today. That's today. Today's today's today. Here.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yes, that's why I wanted to do my due diligence
and put in a call and let you know it
must be the moon.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, okay, Well that's very exciting air. And so it
makes for better talk radio because people are a little
a little more out there on the spectrum and good radio.
So yeah, yeah, very good. Well, thank you, Andrea, and
that people can reach you at Virgo in service on
X and you you will send out randomly because you're
the Astrology Insider, So you will send out random factoids

(30:06):
about astrology.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Right, and newsletters?

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, you name it, I can do it, outstanding. You
doing that four times a year? Right?

Speaker 10 (30:14):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Four times? I think?

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah, we got the solstice equinox and then sometimes you know,
the New year and so on. So yeah, just so
you know, Mercury is going to be retrograding July seventeenth,
but we got a little time. It's in retro shade now,
but I'll be sure to be calling in and informing
the Mala militia some des and dotes.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
All right, well, very good, keep us updated there.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Thank you, Andrea the Astrology Insider checking in giving us
the inside skinny.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Take that Adam Schefter, take that Chalms or shams or whatever. Yeah,
that's what we got.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Andrew is in Bakersfield, California. We thought he had retired
from the show, but he's back. Hello Andrew, Hello Ben,
how are you?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Man?

Speaker 2 (31:05):
If I had a dollar for every time somebody asked
me how I'm doing, i'd have about twelve dollars.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
Well, I'd like to draw some attention. When Clinton Kershaw
was going for three thousand strikeouts, he had he needed
three strikeouts in the game, and he had two strikeouts,
he wasn't getting them and the ball was hit to
Freddie Freeman and he just a routine play, ran over
to first and covered first, doing what he does his

(31:36):
whole career. And if you think it's a simple play,
just think back to the World Series when the Yankees choked.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
Okay, and then Mattie.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
What do you what are you getting at, Andrew? This
is you're talking about a random play that was a weekend.

Speaker 9 (31:53):
Well, and then Max Munsey put his body.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
On the line.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yes, he almost died that day. They almost started digging
a hole for Max Monthsey. It was very sad.

Speaker 9 (32:03):
Well, I thought it was good.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
So it well, Max, he actually had Max actually had
meatball surgery on the field.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
They set up a triage and they treated him right there.
He almost lost his leg.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
What is meatball trioge you've never heard my god?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh my god.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
That's the same as just triage, all right, no meat
you never heard of me?

Speaker 6 (32:26):
Is that where you have three different types of meatballs?
Like you have an Italian home style?

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Oh my god, tariokey, Oh good, A good choice?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (32:37):
On the battlefield?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Just yeah, look it up. It's obviously on the back.

Speaker 9 (32:42):
Yes, all right, all right, I'll see you sin okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Go away, all right, I well pause for they that
went well, okay, wonderful, full moon, full moon.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Ask Ben hashtag ask Ben for the rest of the hour, for.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
The rest of the hour, get that your questions, our
answers for the rest of the hour.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
We get to that. We'll do it next.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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In the iHeart app always pop up at the top
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Speaker 10 (34:24):
Twitter.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
This is your questions on Twitter now and now No,
of course it's X but you know you know what
I mean, So it is ask ban.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Your questions are answers a sampling as we are yet
again on the pulse of the North American people and
globally as well. And now over to Justin for the
reading of the questions.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
All right, Ben Perito would like to know have any
of you let loose in Tijuana in your party days?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Uh no, no.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
I I was real close to it in San Diego
and I worked down there years ago, but I haven't
spent spent much time in Tijuana, although I did hear
some amazing tales about certain shows involving animals you'd see
at a zoo.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Lorena.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
I don't know if it was Tijuana. I think it
was wherever Papa's and beer is. But I definitely had
enough margaritas to fall asleep on the way back.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
Across the border.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Was it was?

Speaker 1 (35:23):
It just across the word aus. Tijuana was like right
across the Yeah, it was literally.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
Just right across the way. I was probably in Tijuana.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
You were in Tijuana for sure. Cool.

Speaker 7 (35:33):
I have driven through Tijuana. I have never stopped in Tijuana.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Where were you going?

Speaker 10 (35:38):
I was going to Via di Guadaloupe. It is the
wine country of Mexico.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Ooh oh, okay, very good.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I know that surfer Todd the comedian, he likes going
to Baja California. Surf great surfing down here. Just gotta
have money to pay off the federal allies in the cartel.
All right, let's see what is next year?

Speaker 1 (35:57):
What do we have?

Speaker 10 (35:58):
What is ferd Dog would like to know higher, Hi, Fergie,
is there anything that you no longer eat after it
made you throw up or you almost choked on it?

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yes, Rocky Mountain oysters. That was disgusting.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I don't eat that, and I'm sure there's some other things,
but that's the first thing that popped in my head.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
That Bible video from years ago. What about you have
a rada.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
Oh my gosh, nacho cheese jerritos. What Yeah, I got
sick on those one time when I was camping when
I was little, and they just don't taste the same.
Ever since, they always remind me of vomit.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Now whenever I eat them, I got food poisoning.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
I went to the Crazy Chicken and they didn't cook
the chicken right one time.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
But no, I haven't really been back there since that happened. Cool.

Speaker 10 (36:47):
So when I was a kid, and I don't think
it was related to the food at all, and I
don't know what happened, but I threw up eating a
sugar donut, and for at least ten fifteen years I
did not eat any sugar donuts.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
But now I'm back on the sugar donut game.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
At what point did you cross back over?

Speaker 7 (37:08):
That was probably late late teenage years.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Okay, yeah, I got you, all right? What is next? Here?

Speaker 2 (37:15):
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Speaker 7 (37:43):
What's next, donkey sausage? Hi, Donkey would like to know
for everybody bed or couch for a nap.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Yeah, I'm definitely a team couch, some team sofa, you know,
settle in there, get the pillow and you kind of
lean on your side, get the TV on. Definitely, definitely.
I feel like when you go to bed, it's got
to be for the full night, not just.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
For a nap. What about you of a rain, I
am team bed ben bad answer, You lose, you get
nothing that's wrong. Cool.

Speaker 10 (38:19):
So it really depends if I am super tired because
I got like very little sleep the night before, then
I might go for a serious nap, an ultra nap,
And in that case I will go to the bed,
but just for your regular run of the mill naps,
couch all the way.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Normally Friday, I gotta I record like podcasts on Friday,
and so I usually by the end of that I'm
just like gassed and I'll lay down and take a
I won't realize about Fallsey.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
What's next? What do we ever? Is ask Ben? Your
questions are answers.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
The King Rory would like to know hiking best brand
of bottled water.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
I think they're all the same.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I don't really I don't care whatever whatever is in
that side Kirkland I use. I guess we mostly in
the house we have Kirkland brand water, which is fine.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
So I just used that.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
I don't I don't really taste. I don't taste the difference.
If I taste something in the water, it sucks. What
about you, Lorraina.

Speaker 7 (39:16):
You know it's not about just taste.

Speaker 6 (39:17):
It's about the bottle. I'm a big fan. I'm a
big fan of smart water, and I love the suction
top that it has.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
You like, just squirt it your mouth.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Why don't you just use the funny you buy a
bottle and then just fill it up with tap water.

Speaker 6 (39:32):
Ew That is one of these California tapwater.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
That is one of the biggest waste bottled water. One
of the great hustles of all time is convincing.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
People to buy bottled water. Unless you're in Flint, Michigan. Okay,
all right, uh, Coop.

Speaker 7 (39:48):
I have Kirkland at home. But I do enjoy a
nice Fiji water or yeah, smart water is good as well.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
All right, quickly, what's next? What are we at here?
We got.

Speaker 10 (40:02):
We've got a question from Have you ever? Freddie wants
to know have you ever broken a bone before?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Nothing major? Just like a finger and toes at Lorena?

Speaker 3 (40:10):
No?

Speaker 10 (40:10):
Never, Oh your due, Coop, Nope, not a single one,
no wow one team, no break team, no break
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