Hour 3 - Making Adjustments

Ben Maller talks about MLB making some adjustments to the new rule changes before the start of the season, why MLB is worried about ball boys & girls, #AskBen, and much more!

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Hello and welcome. It's our nime Ber three, hour three
of our radio program, and here we are talking phase ball.
We're less than a week away from opening day and
the new baseball seasons almost here, games that matter. But
what is your big takeaway from the announcement that Major

(00:22):
League Baseball is tweaking the new time management rules, the
pace of play rules. Why is Major League Baseball worried
about ball boys and ball girls? That's part of the
new regulations. And where do you see this Major League
Baseball clock story going once we get to opening day? Well,

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lead this hour coming from baseball. You smell that it's
not me. It's day. It's almost here. We're less than
a week away from the start of the baseball season,
and as advertised, put me in coach. I'm ready to play.

(02:10):
The bozos at Baseball are indeed making some alterations. They're
tweaking with the rulebook. You might remember any previous episode
of the show, we had talked about this being a possibility,
and it is now reality. Did you hear the diets?
Have you heard the details? Maybe not? Maybe not? Well,

(02:33):
if you have a sense of adventure, I think we'll
go into this right now. So we have learned the
Commissioner's Office of Professional Baseball said he not one, not two,
not three. How about a four page memo, a four
page memo to all members of the cartel outlining tweaks
to Baseball's new playing rules. The pitch clock, that the shift,

(02:58):
the band on the shift is now a thing. If
you've not watched any spring training, and a bunch of
other stuff. That is a big part of the sauce
that Baseball is making for this twenty twenty three season. Now,
this stuff's all going to remain in place, but they
have had a seven prong adjustment. Seven things are being adjusted,

(03:23):
we are told. The biggest change is regarding how challenges
to shift violations work. So right now the shift is illegal,
it remains illegal, but the hitting team now cannot attempt
to catch a fielder who was not part of the
play violating the rule. Is this would be the equivalent

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to use a football analogy, and he actually do see
this in football, like it's it's the other side of
the field that let's say the ball is hit to
the right side of the field, but there's a position
player who was not involved the play, maybe an outfielder
for example, but they were not where they were supposed
to be. They were irrelevant to the play. Baseball has said,

(04:09):
even if they were not where they were supposed to
be and they were in the wrong position violating the
integrity of the shift rule, you cannot cannot punish that
team for that violation. The union signed off on that. Now.
Earlier this week, the Players Association called a pow Wow.
They had to get together at a big meeting and

(04:32):
I'm not sure who brought the food, but they had
a big meeting with league officials. Might have been on zoom,
and they complained. They belliate about a gaggle of things.
For instance, do youve me an example here? The players
are upset they want extra time given when a player
has to extt extra effort, when they have to use
extra effort. So they even talked about ball boys and

(04:52):
ball girls the league office did players complained about that.
More on that in a minute. There's a lot to
unpack the this one, So let us discuss the question
what is your takeaway? Your big takeaway here from the
Major League Baseball Commissioner's Office tweaking of the pace of

(05:13):
play rules. So I've got Alan Thick weaponized and Dante's Inferno,
and we will put all of these things together and
we're gonna make some goulash will battered and bruised Googleosh
is what we're gonna make. So Number one reading the

(05:39):
memo was my good mitzvah for you. That's that was
my good mits for the day for you. I read
this so you would not have to I promise that
not only am I one of the few people that
read this. Nine of Major League baseball players are not
going to consume all of those words. In fact, I

(06:02):
know for a fact it's probably closer to one hundred
percent because I've seen it back in the old days
when I spent a lot of time around ballparks and
I was fortunate enough to be in that environment, and
occasionally I would have to be in the clubhouse prior
to games, and in those Major League Baseball clubhouses, every
big league clubhouse they have a wall. Usually it's right

(06:23):
near the walkway to get down to the field, and
on that that wall, there's a special wall where they
put memos. It's for league memos from the Commissioner's office
and from the Union. And all of my years being
in that environment, the only people, hand to god, the
only people I recall paying any attention to those memorandos

(06:47):
were the beat writers. That was it. I don't ever
recall a player ever reading one of those memos, and
I anticipate the same is going on with this latest
lengthy proclamation from Rob Manford that you're gonna get that meme.
I ain't reading all that I'm happy for you or
sorry that it happened either way, I ain't reading it,

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and I experienced dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea from the line by
line analysis. But my conclusion, my conclusion from the question
being asked, what's the big takeaway from Major League Baseball
adjusting the rules? My conclusion is this is like the
old nineteen nineties sitcom starring the late great Alan Thick,

(07:32):
growing Pains. Major League Baseball is signing a whole bunch
of trouble up for the season, which I'm fine with
because it's good for business. Right, But they're essentially singing
right now a nursery rhyme to the players, rock goodbye baby.
Right there. They're trying to calm them down, trying to
calm the anxiety, get them to go to sleep. The

(07:54):
most amusing part, the gripes from the players all have
one thing in common. Right for the most part, the
complaints of the players over the pace of play rules
are them admitting they are not in peak athletic shape.
Let me explain, all right, this is a case of

(08:15):
Major League Baseball's players telling us that they're not athletes
without telling us they're not athletes. They want bonus time
added meeting the clock doesn't start for a little extra
time on literally any play that involves hustle, and there
aren't very many of those in baseball. For example, a

(08:37):
picture covering first or third base. You gotta hustle, gotta
get extra time. The players, say, catcher ending the inning,
Say the catchers at bat, and they hit the ball
into a double play and they're out, and then they
want more time. My favorite, though, is an outfielder. Let's
say you're out in the center field in Arlington and

(09:00):
you've got to sprint back in and you're supposed to
lead off the next half inning. Well, they're saying if
an outfield has to run from all the way out
there in the outfield and the boondocks, that they need
more time. God forbid. They could run in there and
still be able to bat, they might be out of breath.
You have to stop the game. This would be akin

(09:23):
to us doing what we do for a living here
being hornswoggled by some lunatic callers and demanding that extra
commercials get played because I'm so shaken up by the
morons that occasionally call the show. But the show goes
on now. Page two. The other thing that caught my
attention here and the one that has some legs, and

(09:44):
several of you pointed this out to me before I
got into the meat of it. The Mallard prop guy
also one of those that got into this. But the
part that stood out here in this memorandum from Baseball
involves the supports that specifically ball boys and ball girls. Now,

(10:04):
this is one you're gonna have to buckle up for.
If you have not heard, let me get you caught
up to speed here. So they have added a new
layer to the rules. Part of that seven prong change.
They've added leniency, they said, for situations where a bat
boy or bat girl has a long run, yet again
a long run to get back to their position. Bat

(10:26):
boys and back girls now must meet with the visiting
team before each series to discuss preferences, equipment, preferences, and
Major League Baseball. They say in this that they plan
to monitor the performance of said bat boys and bad
girls throughout the twenty twenty three season. The league might
actually ask for a bat boy to be replaced if

(10:50):
they're not fast enough at grabbing said bat. Now, why
is baseball so worried about bat girls and bat boys?
I'll tell you because Rob Manford or man fraud. He
is fully aware. He knows that teams in baseball, like
the Astros blatantly cheat. He knows that because he helped

(11:13):
run interference for them after the twenty seventeen scandal came out.
So what Rob Manford in a rare case of actually
doing something that's out of his character. The commissioner is
trying to be proactive. Under the rules that were in place,
you could take home field advantage to the next level. Now,

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how do we know this? How do we know that
the rules that had been in place you could take
home field advantae of the next level. It has already happened.
For example, we are told that in a random Grape
Route League game between the Twins and the Tigers, a
Minnesota Twins bat boy in Florida leisurely took a leisurely
john out to collect equipment from a guy that hit

(11:57):
a double for Detroit, and he did not get back
off the field promptly, and as a result, the next batter,
Hobby bayaz the X Cup. Hobby Bias is with the Tigers.
Now he's he's pretty much out of big league baseball
playing for the Tigers. But Hobby Baiez had an automatic
strike called on him because the bat boy did not

(12:19):
leave the field quick enough. So the way this would word,
he's getting obvious bat boys could be used and by
the way, they still could be used to weaponize. They
could be weaponized in this how would you do that?
So let me give you a scenario, late game, say
eighth or ninth inning, high pressure situation. You send the

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large ass bat boy or girl out to get some
shin guard and they take a long time to get back,
and the umpire then gives the hitter extra bonus time,
extra bonus time as a result, circumventing the pace of
game procedures. All right, final point, So where do you

(13:03):
see this Major League Baseball clock story going? And I
have not changed my original position on this, that I
have been empowered that I will be validated. We are
headed to Dante's inferno. We are looking forward to the
baseball season for multiple reasons. We're not going to talk

(13:24):
about it all that much on the show because we
usually wait till late in the year to talk about it.
If something pops up, we'll talk about. But the feeling
out process, the feeling out process for these new rules
is going to be out bonanza. Even people that hate
talking about baseball and sports radio will be compelled to
talk about it. Typically, major League baseball is a dead
topic in these parts. It's whatever NFL star took a

(13:48):
bowel movement, We talk about that, and whether they flush
with their left hand or the right hand, did they wipe,
did they use a boudet? I mean whatever, whatever things
get up and then so we avoid baseball. But this
is going to open up a whole new world, right,
a whole new world. Why two words bickering ball players.

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Spring training is laid back the regular season. While it's
not as intense as the postseason, it's a different animal.
And when teams start losing outs during games as a
result of the clock or not being quicken off into
the batter's box or the pitcher not throwing the pitch
quick enough, that is when the rubber meets the road.

(14:30):
You don't need me to tell you that we will
be there. We'll have a big bucket of popcorn, big
giant bucket of popcorn will be there for the dumpster fire.
It will be a pyrotechnic show for the ages. We
saw a preview of this the other day in Florida.
Aaron Boone, the Yankee manager, and Luis Severino unloaded on

(14:56):
what they called a stupid clock violation that resulted in
a walk that was given. They were upset that the
clock should not have started when it started, so they
were complaining about that. And that is just a preview
of coming attractions. Mark my words, I'm never wrong about
this stuff. We are on a collision course and it
is going to be great. It is going to be

(15:18):
wonderful because you're going to see teams lose games like
has never happened in the history of baseball because of
a clock. It's guaranteed. That's fertilizer, says Cam over and over.
That is fertilized. Cannot wait, cannot wait? All right, it

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it is. We'll go back to the well one more
time with that Tom Brady story. Jezelle Bunchen has confirmed
that she did did provide Tom Brady with spiritual support
in the form of blank while Tom Brady was playing
in the NFL. Again, Jesseelle Bunchen, the woman from the

(16:43):
Catwalk Jeselle bunch In the world's most Famous model, confirming
that she did indeed provide former NFL quarterback Tom Brady
with spiritual support in the form of blank. That is
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Riddle of the day. And here is the Mallar Riddle
of the day. Gizelle Bunch confirming that she did provide

(18:19):
former NFL star Tom Brady with spiritual support in the
form of Blank while he was playing for the Patriots
and the Buccaneers. That is the question. What's the answer
Donkey Sausage says a new puppy is the correct answer.
Who else do we have? Real John the Pie Guy
says Giselle provided him with infused cannabis joints and the

(18:43):
Robert Kraft treatment. Furg Dog in Sokal says in the
form of meat loaf, Mondays and pork chop Fridays. Phades down,
phades down, Jay Dot. Our friend from Utah says Gisselle
bunch and gave Tom Brady a male enhancer for spiritual support.

(19:05):
The Sawman says, a couple goat yoga sessions. That's what happened.
Who else do we have? Jeff and Tulsa's probably right,
but I don't know what you're want to say that.
Who else do we have? Page down? A late night
drug tester says she got help from the Holy Pope
of the Slippery Slope. Well, thank you for that. Johnny
Ray says that Gizelle made sure Tom had a jar

(19:28):
full of leeches to suck the devil out of you.
Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? Matt
the Warrior rator ayes Fan says Jizlle provided Tom Brady
spiritual support in the form of getting his butt chin
fixed with plastic surgery. He says, deflated balls guessed by grits,

(19:49):
and Rob in Vegas says, some kind of activity a
rodent does is the answer. I can't read that on
the air. Let's see j D and Casey says, a
brand new hummer. Absolutely. Stevie Meatball says a form of

(20:10):
a sex toy they use in Buffalo is the answer.
The grill sergeant writes and says, real answer has got
to be a head of lettuce. Head of lettuce, he says.
He also points out he works in a union shop
and we have a memo board. I can't count, he says,

(20:30):
I can't count. Rather on one hand, how many of
those memos I've read with fingers left over? A plus
plus plus. On the Mallard Monologue, Alfie aleonal Piner says,
the answer is an enchanted spell over? Or do you
have an answer, Eddie? Please? Yes, she gave him a
lifetime supply of newsletters from Andrea. Oh, Andrea, of course

(20:54):
she'll be on here in a second. I know the
correct answer. Joe Bunch and confirming that she did give
Tom Rady spiritual support in the form of a homeopathic
floral pasz in onyx protection stone and a statue of
a Hindu deity Guynisha. I believe it's how it's pronounced.

(21:17):
There you go. So all that a stone, a statue
and a floral arrangement. That's quite the quite the setup.
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(22:02):
is the time of year n Cuba a tournament which
will resume here coming up, But it's also the time
of year where you see the coaching moves that we're
talking about, Rick Patino and those types of things. Uh,
there was a move where Notre Dame has hired a
new coach they have, They have picked up Micah Shrewberry
from Penn State. Is Shrewberry? I know I'm a bad

(22:26):
talk showscause I did not watch Penn State basket. He's
leaving Penn State for for Notre Dame. So you're new
head hoops coach for the fighting Irish Mica Shrewsberry. I
didn't put an s on there. It's Shrewsberry, shrew not Shrewsberry.
Shrewsberry any relation to Bob Tewksberry who used to be
it could be a distant relative. Who knows all those

(22:48):
Tewksberrys are the same or what Shrewsbury is that Shrewsberry racist? Well,
I don't know, I don't know. That could be better
than Mike Bray. I don't know. Some job, no, no,
he's doing. He didn't get the job. He was up
for the South Florida job, but I heard I heard
he's gonna do the TV instead. Those that can't coach

(23:11):
do TV. Isn't that how that works? Well, you know
it's not a bad gig if he can get it.
What's the equivalent of that in radio? Those that can't? Oh,
that's right, podcasting. There you go. Help Boom done. Another
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the phones and we'll say hello to Andrea, the Benny
Award winning Andrea in Berkeley, These sports sorcers, the astrologer.
If you will, Hello Andrea, welcome, Yes, hello, Ban. How

(23:54):
are you Andrew? So? How do you own homeopathic floral pass,
a onyx protection stone and a statue of a Hindu
deity Ganesha Oh Genesia. I knew I was close. Yeah, yeah, no,
this is great. Thanks for telling me about the article, Ben,

(24:14):
I didn't even know about it, and I went on
Vanity Fair and I saw the article and it's quite fascinating. Gizelle,
where's the paragraph. Oh, this is why they called me
a witch. I guess m Let's see if you want
to call me a witch because I love astrology, I
love crystals, I pray, I believe in the power of nature.

(24:36):
Then go ahead, and I think I told you a
colleague of mine in Massachusetts is Gizelle's astrologer, so she's
totally into astrology. And hey, nothing wrong you did say.
She says she's not a witch, though she said that
right right. I mean, she's, you know, talking about the
power of nature and you know what works for her.
And she says, you know, she doesn't believe in fairy tales.

(24:58):
No one's going to come and save you. Don't give
your power away to other people. I mean, she's having
a midlife crisis. She's July twentieth, nineteen eighty, and she's
really just stepping into her own power more. And she's
a reintuitive. I mean she's a cancer with a Scorpio moon,
so you know, she's quite psychic in her own right
and ambitious with Capricorn rising. And then Tom Brady August third,

(25:21):
nineteen seventy seven, he's a Leo with Ari's moon, so
very fiery, pretty boy, Libra rising, venus and cancer, and
you know that was a connection they had. And you know,
a midlife crisis, you know your review, you revitalize your
life path. And she's moving ahead with her life. She

(25:43):
had another article in Vanity Fair band a while ago. Right,
this is like another article. Well, yeah, that's she's a
big deal in fashion and that's the fashion Bible, and
so that's that is correct there, Andreas. So all right,
well you you and her have a lot in come.
I know you and Jill would get along very well. Yes,
I think we would. And if she needs another astrology

(26:05):
were besides my friend and colleague, I'm availsable. All right.
So if anybody knows Giselle, let her know that, and Andrew,
you'll be willing to go to Florida and meet with her. Yes, well,
you know if she pays for it. If she pays
for it. I'm not much of a traveler. But oh,
you don't travel really? Are you like John? Are you
like the old John Madden? You only go on buses? No,
I wouldn't say that. I do. Doom, oh zoom, Okay,

(26:27):
I got you. Well that's the way for thee of today.
I got you. Well, thank you a very nice information, Andrea. There,
and you can catch her on Twitter virgo in service
and she speaks the same language as Giselle. Vote you
fee me sent this one in? How about Jose Canseco.

(26:48):
So there was a story in the tabloids yesterday that
Jose Canseco his daughter, who's I guess become famous. I
don't know. She ends up in a lot of these things,
these tabloids, and so jose Canseco's daughter, Josie said that
jose Can Saco her dad blew all of the family money.
Guy saw that. Yere right, So did you see what

(27:12):
Canseco is doing now? Jafeemei sent this to me. I
guess he's promoting this on Twitter. He's selling authentic signed syringes,
he says to me, from the Godfather of steroids, and
he's not kidding. He has a link here you can
buy a Jose Canseco autographed Serene. Do you want to

(27:36):
take a guess how much he's charging for these? The
answer is ninety nine dollars each. Ninety nine bucks for
a Jose Canseco syringe. Merry Christmas, Ben, Thank you, Eddie.
That's just what I wanted. You talk about the perfect
stocking style. That and a phone call from Jed who

(27:59):
fled are the two things. Hello, Jed, are you there? Jed?
Justin's last forts skills are poor, but I gotta said
Bens of the forest. Who could any heterosexual mail to
know the phrase? In jended Forrest, you've done, you've done.
You used to know that when you're younger, you've done
so many drugs you forgot. And Justin lives in the
enchanted florest. Okay, he he should know better because that's

(28:23):
where he lives. I figured out. I figured out. I
metaphorically you old fire who want to look the floorst
because literally you're a flamer at the gay bar in
jended Forrest. Yeah, all right, thank you, Jack. What did
these guys speak? This stuff makes the air? I don't know.
Are they that stupid? They just, you know, want on
the podcast. I guess I guess they wanted on the podcast.
But I mean, what are you doing, Jed? I mean,

(28:44):
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Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Mallers Now time four time
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Now wait we go, it's ask your question, our answers.
The gloves are off. It's been and friends for the
rest of the hour. Cool, what do we have? It's

(30:10):
ask bend time? All right, We're gonna start off with
um I'm gonna start off with a question from calligan Tim.
I think it's how it's pronounced. But I'm gonna kind
of change his question around just a little bit. Oh,
you're editing, you're not supposed You told me you can't
do that. Cool, if you said you're not allowed to

(30:31):
do that, I'm gonna I'm gonna make the the question better.
He says, Okay. His question says, do you like bills
that are automatically withdrawn from your bank account? So I
was gonna say, like, do you guys? I feel like
who doesn't? But direct deposit is that you're not direct
deposit that because that's putting money into your bank account,
like the automatic debit from your bank account. But uh

(30:54):
do I guess the better question? Do you any of
you have bills that aren't automatically like that you have
to still pay old school? Uh? No, I think there
was the place I used to live, we had one
of the one of the like the water bill or
somebody we had to we had to do it separately.
But no, I everything's everything's done that way. It's like
you don't even know you're losing your money. You don't

(31:14):
know when you're making your money. What about you, Eddie. No,
actually I still pay several bills each month, but I
do it online. I don't actually like send a check
in in an envelope or something. Why Eddie, why do you?
I don't know? I just I just like knowing, like
how much it is every month, whether you know, Instead
of just I understand that I don't know, I just

(31:37):
I would rather know what, look at it every month
and make sure nothing seems irregular. I guess it's that depressing.
But if it's if it is irregular, you can contact
them and spend seven eight hours on hold. Yeah, send
them twelve emails, and then eventually they'll correct the problem.
It's not much. It's like four or five things, you know.
It takes a couple of seconds of the bill. I'm
like Katie, Yeah, I got like three or four bills,

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play on a pay online when the time comes. All right,
Cooba Loop, we're doing hot bill talk. We're doing personal
finance talking. Now you've tuned into the ben mall or see.
I used to be like Eddie because I do like
to see everything and I like to keep track and
make sure there's no change in the bills. But I
forgot way too many times to pay bills, and I

(32:21):
just realized that I'm the type of person that cannot
do that because I would get late fees. And so
now all of my bills are automatic, except except my
gardener does not have any sort of like digital payment
or anything, so I still have to write a check
for him and mail it to him. I wonder why
he doesn't have any We have to do that for

(32:42):
our dog. Groomer comes to our house and grooms a dog.
But that you have it on a set schedule. Every month,
the dog rumor comes I think every not every month,
it's maybe every six weeks like that. Yeah, okay, I
guess is it one of those mobile now gets a
ricka as often as I do? All right, what do

(33:05):
we have here? What's next? It's ask ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. The sawman
wants to know for everybody's I say. He says, it
is said that women take the hotter showers and baths.
Is this true with you and your wives slash fiance? Uh?
I don't, I don't know. I don't know how I

(33:27):
it depends on the situation. I don't really know how
hot the shower she takes and all that, but I'm
kind of medium temperature. Usually the problem is the like
the bath, you got to get really hot because it
cools down relatively quick, so you can't if you go
cool in the bath, it's a problem. What about you, Eddie,
We have lived in our house I think for around

(33:47):
twelve years, congratulates. I don't think we've ever used the
bathtub other than to like if the dog gets into
something and you got to kind of like wash, you know,
clean the dogs. Never take a bath, I have not.
I can't all the last time I took a bath
a nice bubble bath. You've never had a bubble bath
in your adult life? No, actually, I have not had
a bubble bath in my adult life. Bad job by you,

(34:10):
I think. I think probably I take the hotter showers
than my wif. Okay, all right, uh what about you, Roberto?
My wife definitely lives the water hotter than I do. Definitely.
All right, we're talking water now, Cooper Loop, Um, No,
I am definitely. I definitely take the hotter showers. She

(34:31):
always comments and that i'd leave the water is like
scorching and turns my back red. But the hotter, the better.
Yeah for me, I got you? All right? What is
next year? I like a boiling cauldron? What do we
have here? Cooper Loop? All right? Furg Dog wants to know. Hi, Fergie,
make sure Brian Finley's tucked in. Go ahead, He says.

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Do you find the sound of wind chimes relaxing or annoying?
Would it bother you if a neighbor had a bunch
of them? So yes, it would bother me, first of all,
if a neighbor had a bunch of them. Secondly, if
I'm walking somewhere and they're off in the distance, not
near where I live, I think they're kind of cool,
but not too many of them, like like one. It's like,
it's all right. It reminds me when I was a

(35:15):
kid in my grandparents had one of those things in
the backyard, so it kind of flashes me back to them.
What about you, Eddie? I think generally speaking, I would
not want my neighbors to have them. We live in
a very windy area, so that would be probably really annoying.
So I'm gonna say no on the wind chimes, all right, Roberto,
definitely no on the wind chimes. They're annoying. Let's ask

(35:36):
Ben Coopa loop. I have the same exact answer as you, Ben.
If I'm just like, if I'm traveling somewhere walking around
and I hear them, I'm like, oh that's nice, but
I would not want my neighbor to have them. No, God, No,
you don't want to close to home. You want to
down the street and around the block and a couple
of miles down that street. What's next? It's asked Ben.
Your questions are answer so the rest of the hour,

(35:57):
these are actual questions by actual listeners. You can send
your question in using hashtag ask Ben. If you like
this segment, we do it every single Thursday at this time.
If he don't like it, we only do it once
a week. So who the hell cares? What do we have? Cool?
Late night drug tester wants to know do you have
any magnets decorating your refrigerator? No? No, there are no

(36:19):
magnets at the Mallard mansion, although my mom may she
restues back in the old days and we had so
many magnets. I get those schedule magnets and I used
to bring those home and she put those on there
and we had to. But no, for some reason, we've
not done the magnet thing here at the new Mallard mansion.
What about you, Eddy, a lot of magnets there. You
got those little team logo magnets. H. No, even though

(36:40):
our refrigerator is like chrome looking, apparently it's plastic because
gets one lot stick. That makes it impossible. Yea, even
if we wanted him, we couldn't have him. Yeah, all right,
what about you Roberto? Definitely, yeah, on the side of
the fridge. And they don't stick on the front of
the fridge the doors, but on the side, yes, plenty

(37:01):
of You think they the people that make refrigerators change
that because they all used to be like that where
you could stick magnets on them. And I still got
some old magnet schedules there from the Dodges. I don't
know why I still home there. Oh what years? What
vintage twenty sixteen. I don't know why. It's very valuable. Yeah,
I don't know why. Um. I'm like you, Ben, I

(37:24):
grew up in a house where my mom had just
like every inch of the fridge covered in magnets. Yeah,
and I have zero magnets on my fridge, but that's
because I used to have like my old fridge I
had a magnet on there and it scratched the front
of the fridge. So now I am no magnets allowed
on the fridge. But we do have magnets on the

(37:45):
microwaves from Paris and Italys classic were you don't have
to brag. You now you're bragging. Now you're like humble brag.
What is next year? What do we have? We get
a magnet from everywhere that we go. Yeah, little magnets. Yeah,
to get one of those little license plate keychain things. No,
just the magnets, that's our thing. But we're running out
of room on the microwave, so I don't I don't

(38:06):
know what we're gonna do your microwave? All right, what's
what's next? Milkman, Mike? This is this is just for
you Ben? Oh? Really? What he says for Ben? Who
is your favorite Disney princess, the one who lives Well,
I'll have to talk. What is what is next year?

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What do we have? You're not gonna answer, Eddie answered.
He wanted to answer. He likes princess talk, Eddie does
he enjoys He enjoys hot princess talk. We've had it before. Really, Yeah, No,
we don't do that. It's a high brow. We do
male sports radio. We're hot. A lot of testosterone on
this show, Eddie Haeriel, Yeah,