April 11, 2021 • 46 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of
the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
pill poppers in the penthouse to clearing house of hot takes,
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and filipbuster. Your podcast needs your audio content needs now
eight days a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show.
And here we are together again on a Sunday, the
(00:46):
Sunday Podcast, which has done very well, very well, despite
the fact we don't really promote it and I generally
forget to send out even tweets on on Sunday promoting
people to download or post it on the Facebook pitch
to download the pot Kiss, But the numbers have been
very good for this. We thank you for that. And
you put up with the nonsense, the David Gascon bullcrap
(01:08):
that you have to put up with every week, so
we do appreciate that. From West to the four oh five,
who's here? Uh? And we we have the mailbag. These
are actual questions by actual listeners, and we do this
rapid fire machine gun Mallar style where we're gonna go
through the questions as quickly as we can. If you
want to submit a question for a future edition of
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the mail bag, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday is the day hump Day.
Normally in the morning. Sometimes I forget, but normally in
the morning. On the Facebook page, which you should be
uh following, liking whatever Ben Maller show on Facebook, I'll
send a link out. I'll say, hey, listen, I'll send
a post post your question here, or you can send
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your question via email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. So there's
a couple of way is a couple of ways that
you can interact to be part of the mail back
and that we do. We do appreciate it. So all right, uh,
let's get right into it here. These are again actual
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questions by actual listeners. Tres in Texas Rights and he says,
have you considered a website for the show complete with
merchandise like T shirt stickers, downloads of the shows songs,
et cetera. It could have archives of the greatest hits
and misses. And you could dabble again in the gossip
(02:33):
stuff without full time pressure. Maybe a chat form for
militia to go at it from time to time. There
you go. Uh. He says, you are a big enough
commodity and the time waster wouldn't be appreciated by shift
workers truckers at truck stops when not with lot lizards
and insomniacs. Tres says Tress, this is not a terrible idea.
(02:58):
And I have played around with the concept of doing
something back on. It was starting a website. I don't
have Ben Mallard dot com anymore, but starting starting a
website and doing something with the show. But the merchandise
thing I have dabbled in that. I had a listener
that made some T shirts and wanted to sell them,
and I helped out. I know people always complain. In fact,
(03:21):
I still have some old T shirts. I was going
through some stuff with all that happened this year with
me personally, and I went through some old T shirts
and I might attempt to put those on the market
and sell some of those. But I would be willing
to make stuff if there was a an interest in it,
like if somebody wanted a Mallard militia had or a
T shirt would actually be into it. Yeah, but there's
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like that sweet spot with pricing where if it's too
high people complain. If it's too low, it's like, well
it's not good quality. So I tried to make good
quality stuff and then people were very upset and they
were complaining and saying, I can't believe how expensive this is,
and I like, well, it's not that expensive. The shirt
will last forever anyway. All right. Brian in north Bridge,
(04:07):
Massachusetts rights and he says, how is Gascon still employed?
It's a great question. I don't know. I don't even
know if he's on this podcast. He's been very quiet
so far. I think you'd have to contact the management
at Fox Sports Radio to figure that out. I was
just waiting for a proper introduction. Has been well, I
said your name? What I mean? What more needs to
be said? I don't know, chump in. How about again,
(04:29):
this is another example why you're bad. Here's the reactive
and the proactive. Be proactive? How about that proactive? Waiting
me properly introduced? What do you need me to give
you a BackRub? Would be dice? What do you want
the Deshaun Watson treatment. I'm sorry it's haunting here with
this toe. Jeez, nothing wrong with that. Just so, how
(04:51):
are you employed guests? And explained to Brian because he
can't figure it out. Many of us can't figure it out.
How is someone like you imput you clearly lead management astray? Yes, yes, yes,
I was. I was actually brought in by your former boss,
Bruce Gilbert Um. Bruce did not every higher. It was
great by Bruce, and he made some mistakes. Everyone not
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everyone was great, but not everyone was bad. Um came
from San Diego, worked my way up and obviously you're
at the national levels opposed to in little old San Diego.
So go from market seventeen to market number two. I
would consider that a considerable mark up. Well, it's actually
the number one radio market. There's a myth that New
York is number one, but it's actually Los Angeles. More
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people listen to the radio in Los Angeles to New York,
and want to be precise, that would be the number
one audio publisher in the entire world. I heart media,
So if you want to try to one up me,
that is the one up. But I still I'm old,
so I still use the term radio. I know the
industry is trying to digital world. Have brought you into
the digital The industry is trying to get rid of
the word radio. You've heard, you know, audio instead of radio,
(05:57):
and I'm like radio the die just did that last
last week. The Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. Yeah, they
no longer have radio. It's audio. No longer radio audio.
That's uh, you know, teach their own. It's not my
my thing. I don't know, but somebody clearly thought that
was a good idea anyway. Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts rights
(06:22):
in home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where
you can see Muffett McGraw in the Pro Basketball Hall
of Fame. So he writes in Ben, have you ever
had second thoughts about signing a contract? I've listened to
you for your entire ride at Fox Sports Radio, but
lately I fear for your health. In the past, Gagon
put the hex on your gallbladder, and more recently, I
(06:46):
feel like you're one shift away from throwing your back
out carrying the dead weight that is fill in producers
and update guys. I think that you may need to
start self medicating prior to the show to prevent a
heart attack while dealing with some of these buffoons. This
guy writes you every week with sausage in his mouth.
(07:10):
It's just like Ben Mallar Salami every day, all day tweeting,
telling you just the way I look at this. There
were no lies detect unbelievable. There were no lies detectable.
I mean, first of all, people move up and they
move on. You really outcast a lot of people. You
don't appreciate their work until they go on to uh
do it? Who have I not appreciated Bob Gara. I
(07:32):
appreciated Bob. He couldn't handle the overnight. It wasn't for him,
just like you. You couldn't handle the over. I don't
want to work eight nine hours overnight when h you
know there's nothing in the news world going again, you
do not You're not relatable. Understand you're not. Some people
have the the IT factor and other people don't. You
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don't have the IT factor. You know, working you don't
understand in syndicated radio, you want to be the overnight guy.
I'm we're on more affiliates than the daytime. That's as
a host, not as an update anchor. Now, But if
you work on a show, you want to be on
a show that's actually hurt. We have more radio affiliates
than anyone because of the time that we're on. I
guess it's not because we're great, but it's the time
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that we're on. So if you're doing syndicate, if you're
doing a daytime show, you want to be on the
morning or the afternoon. But if you're in syndicated radio,
you want to be on at night or overnight because
that's where the that's where the listenership, the potential listenership
is through the roof because you're on more radio station. Yeah,
but if I'm gonna be an anchor, why would I
want to be an overnight anchor when I could just
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repeat and replay updates like some of the other guys
you work with. Well listen, I mean, there there is
that approach, man. I've never understood that. I've I've questioned
why certain people just repeat the same update over and
over again. It doesn't make sense to me. I I
think there's a craft. And when I started, there was
a guide book that was handed out in the early
days of Fox Sports Radio called rewriting your updates and
(08:57):
adding new material and it. It's fascinating because there's so
much stuff that goes on overnight that drops while we're
on the show, and uh, a lot of times that stuff,
you know, it's just repeating the same, the same scores
over and over. You're not really doing the legwork to
try to go out and find the stories that they're there.
But listen, a lot of a lot of the people
(09:19):
do that throughout the day too. There's just to give
the same scores and they don't put put any kind
of gumption into finding what's going on out. Thankfully, I'm
not one of those people. What I hear, you hear wrong?
Guilt by association, game, guilt by association. Pierre says, did
you mention something about feeding a content kitty? Yes, that's
(09:42):
what I put on Facebook Pier the content kitty, Dan
and Durham writes, and he says, I had someone steal
my don't tread on me flag and pull It's okay,
though I'm feeling unified. On another note, do you guys
know how much about low voltage elect trick devices? Well,
(10:04):
first of all, I wonder if you caught that person
on camera, that'd be a good question to ask. Well,
he's not here. I can't ask him the question, I know,
but he's gonna email you next week. So Dan, let
us know if you caught that person or if you
saw them on camera. Still your your material, alright? Next one,
Patricia's is the mail back. Patricia writes in from Vegas,
(10:24):
originally from Rhode Island. Yeah, she She's moved all the
way across the country, but still a Mallard Militia card
carrying Mallew Militia. Remember, Patricia says, why do I hear
some parts of this show is prerecorded? When I listened
to a couple of other shows, I can tell the
last hours just a repeat of an earlier hour. Well, Patricia,
(10:46):
that you don't want to know how they make the
hot dogs? Patricia, all right, I don't get that either,
but they don't ask me. Uh, stay in your lane.
But I believe radio should be live. A lot of
these shows are actually taped, you know, every where in
the industry. Now it's a I don't get it, but
we do a live show I have done in the past.
I used to do a five hour show on the weekend,
(11:09):
and they wanted a six hour show. So what they
did with they would take one of the hours and
replay it in the sixth hour. So I would do
five live, unique hours, and then the sixth hour would
be a repeat. But yeah, I mean there's some guys
that do three hour shows and the whole thing is
on tape. I don't I don't get it, but you know,
to each their own. I guess it's interesting you picked
(11:31):
it up at your six I bet most listeners don't
even figure. They can't figure that out. But usually the
tell is if you're a call in show and you
no longer take calls, it's because you've been recorded. That's
usually the one of the dead giveaway, Dad giveaway. Anyway, Well,
I remember Rick D's the radio legend. He used to
(11:53):
record the beginning of his morning show in l A
Kiss FM one h two point seven Kiss F s
f M. Yeah, and he approached me in the hallway
and he give me some sage advice. Now, I don't
do this because I don't record the show. It's all live.
I figured, you know what, that's the whole point of
doing a show overnight. You're you gotta be there and
(12:14):
talking to people that are working odd jobs and whatnot. Anyway, uh,
Jee's told me to listen, you're gonna tape something. Leave
the mistakes in, he said, because the people that listen,
don't they hear a mistake, they think, well, it can't
be on tape, because you know, why would you use
it was taped, It would clean up the mistake. Pretty
good advice. It's pretty good advice. He gave me my
(12:36):
largest tip. When I worked in the restaurant industry. I
worked for Petro's papadick as his dad at his Greek
restaurant in San Pedro papadickas Taverna and USC's football team,
the Marching Band, And that same night Rick D's came
in and I waited on him and gave me a
hundred dollar tip. I'll never forget it. I told you
(12:56):
get out of radio. Don't I'm ever going yet out
of radio? Uh vahed in New Orleans. Right. So, he says,
if you were a famous athlete, this is for both
of you, what most likely would have brought you down?
Would it be drugs? Alcohol? Uh? He says, ladies, social
(13:18):
media or blank man. That's tough. Well, you would be alcohol,
drugs and ladies. It would be like all three. They'd
be like trifecta. There little Dennis Rodman action, the Worm. Yeah,
I don't. I don't know that any of those would
take me down. Per se. I don't really do the drugs,
the alcohol moderation. I'm married. If I was single, I
(13:44):
could be the ladies, but I'm not not a single
guy now, so yeah, I don't know. Maybe social media
take me down. Yeah, I think maybe alcohol for me,
just the parting, going out and then thinking you can
re cover. You know, the recovery from a hangover is
a lot easier in your twenties than in your thirties.
(14:06):
And uh, you go in Vegas and that's part of
being a professional ball player though. You gotta have the
ability to compartmentalize. You play your sport. But then after
you know, it's it's like having a mullet. It's uh,
you know, it's business in the front, party in the back.
Thank you, sage advice by me, Thank you, he also says.
(14:30):
But he says all bars in New Orleans were closed
from Thursday, uh to says February eleven to ash Wednesday,
So says no, Marty gras R. Sorry. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
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two am eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch
live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the I Heart Radio al Al Ohio. Al rights, and
he says, Ben, why do you always say any meani
mighty mo pick a caller by the name instead of
(15:11):
by the toe like the old saying actually goes well,
a couple of reasons for that, Al, he says, But
he said, you're afraid of offending flexus, the six toe
drag queen. No, I'm not afraid of offending Flexus the
six toe drag queen at all. I don't don't worry
about that at all. When I'm doing that. That is
actually I'll let you in on a little inside radio here, Ohio,
(15:33):
al and only for you. When I say any meany
miny mo pick a caller by the name. That is
a time fill because my callboard is not reset and
that is a cue to cooper loop to wake up
and actually send the calls over. So that's a time kill.
And I say any meanimnum will pick a caller by
(15:56):
their name, because I have a list of names in
front of me, not a list of toes anyway, Uh,
let's see here. And ohio All also says, what the
fund does Marcel mean when he says mixed match in
food picks? This makes no sense to me. The Marcel
calls are getting very stale. By the way, ohio All says,
(16:18):
I think he is hoping to get a job at
FSR or something with his announcing bits. Uh. Yeah, there's
likely some truth in that. And back in Marcel the
back of Marcel's head, he believes that he is actually
how is he has a job? I think he thinks
right now he has a job. He calls in every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. It's part of his routine. He's got
(16:38):
a whole bunch of stations he calls into around the country.
But that's the beauty of Marcel. Mixed match is his way.
And a listener actually pointed this out to us. When
he had said mixed match, that was a sign of
you got it right, You had got whatever the food
pick was, you had gotten right. But then somebody I believe,
pointed out to him that he was doing this and
(17:00):
he stopped doing it for a while. I think he's
back doing it though, so I I can't figure, uh
what is next here? Let's see any meaning money. I
did not write down the name. This person did not
say their names, so I don't know who said this,
but somebody wrote in said Ben, well to you, what
makes a good baseball hat? Please discuss the best type
(17:20):
of crown, high or low brim, shaped or flat, fit,
adjustable or fitted, label, price tag on and off? All right,
so I'm not I don't leave the label like the
price tag on. I don't do that. I enjoy a
good fitted hat that fits properly more than the adjustable.
(17:43):
The reason I that is most of the adjustable hats
I have a very large head, very large head, and
most of the adjustable hats it just doesn't work. It
just doesn't work the adjustable hat. And because my head
is too big, and so the fitted hat obviously would
fit would fit perfectly. So that that is the That
(18:07):
is the key. As far as the other stuff, I
I like the I don't like the flat bill. I
don't like that. I like I like it shaped a
little bit. I think it looks better that way. It's
more aesthetically pleasing. Um. So those are some of the
things I look for in a hat. Anything guess scaring
(18:27):
that you look for in a hat. I'm just I'm
a fan of it being fitted and and shaped. Of course,
the color is everything too. So that's why I'm a
fan more of minor league teams than I am of
the proteins in Major League Baseball. I don't think a
lot of them have a good look. Dodgers Yankees, yes,
but I'm not really a fan of I like that
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Brooklyn Dodgers. The bet be for Benny, be for Brooklyn,
one of the same. Pretty good, right, come on all
about Benny alright, So listener, who I did not say
your name? You know who you are. I thank you,
but you gotta I tell you guys every week, name
in city, name in city before you send the message.
Mark from Waverley, Iowa. Right, since says how many hats
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are you wearing in your current rotation? Great question, Mark,
I have. I try to rotate two weeks of hats
at a time, So in my rotation right now, I
have the Oregon State Beaver cap, the Fox Sports Radio
Cab Saddleback College cap. Uh. There's a couple of minor
league hats that are in here. The Iowa Hawkeyes hat
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has gotten a lot of play in the rotation, and
I've been very lucky. I've got a good percentage of
hats that have come in recently. I love this m
hat that I'm a pilot sent in Smooth. It's a
minor league baseball hat, and that that's pretty good. The
Montgomery Biscuits hat, I think, I think that's the team.
(19:52):
So yeah, man, those are some of them. But I
usually I try to have a ten hats in a
two week rotation and then I change you up, like
every month. I'll try to mix in some new hats,
and then I have seasonal hats. Usually during football season Sundays,
I always wear the NFL shield hat Sundays. In the Monday,
that's my go to hat. So there is a method
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to the madness. Mark, Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia right,
since it's besides the wrestler formerly known as RUSSEV. Have
either of you met any wrestlers? Yes, Jason, I have.
I I've told the story a few times over the years.
But I was a celebrity manager at a w w
E event many many years ago, and we were promoting
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the event through the radio station. They wanted some publicity,
so they said all right. I was doing the Ben
and Dave show with this guy damed Dave Smith, and
we went out there and we were celebrity managers. I
was the manager of the Headshrinkers, and I remember being
in the locker room was very exciting. I was a
huge wrestling fan growing up, and we were in the
locker room because we were the next to last event,
(20:59):
the next to last event, so we had to wait
through the undercard, and I met George the Animal Steel
passed away, and Viscera, who also passed away. So the
two guys that I met, we were, you know, my
old legends, and George the Animal Steel, an all time great,
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and russef uh you know not russef Viscera I believe
was the name there, but yeah, he he had. Actually
the funny thing was that Visra the wrestler he had,
he was on the match like before us, and he
broke he's He was a massively large human being and
he broke the ropes and so everything got delayed for
(21:43):
like forty five minutes as a crew came in to
try to fix the ring because he had just destroyed it.
And I mean this guy was like five pounds. He
was like six nine pounds and he wore he wore
these contact lenses to make his eyes look like demon dies.
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And I'll never forget I was. We were in the
locker room and everyone's complaining. All the other wrestlers were
complaining because they're like, oh, man, we want They wanted
to get their thing over with and go and enjoy
their night, and they had to wait for for Viscera,
who I think changed his name to something else later on.
He passed away a number of years ago. But um
so he comes waddling in to the locker room and
all the other wrestlers are sitting around piste off and he's,
(22:27):
you know, shaking his head. I'm sorry, guys, I didn't
mean to do it. I was hilarious. It was a
fun Maybe have you met any wrestlers Gagu I met
back in the day. I met Andre the Giant, And
oddly enough it was in Vegas, and that same weekend
trip that I was in Vegas, I saw Andre the Giant.
I also saw Jaws, the character who played Jaws and
(22:48):
Moon Raker. Yeah. Now when you met Andre the Giant,
did you like meet him? Meet him? Were just kind
of like casually, Hey, hi, Yeah, it was a casual
hey hi, Like there was a bunch of people that
were were next to him, so we were at the MGM.
Oddly enough, when I was younger, I went to a
w WF event at the Anaheim Convention Center. And this
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is like in the Haull Cogen days, that year of wrestling,
and I I was such a loser that I was
more excited to see mean Gene Okerland. And I had
a Mean Gene Oakland action figure with him holding the microphone,
wearing the tuxedo and all that. And I still I
remember I saw him. I got that. I waited for
the wrestlers to come out, and Mean Gene came out
(23:28):
and he was wearing like a track suit because you know,
he didn't have to wear his tuxedo and all that.
I fondly remember that. I also fondly remember getting morbidly
obese on those WWF ice cream bars. Man with those things,
damn with the outstanding well made product, A well made
(23:49):
product for sure. All right, who is next here? John
the jailer from Alan Town p A. Says Ben and
gascon some per soonalities behind the microphone work until they die.
Do you have an exit? Strategy or will you will
I be listening to my grandchildren's lame jokes about Lizzo. Yeah,
(24:11):
very funny, John. Uh. I don't really have an extras strategy.
I love the job. I'd like to do the job
in one form or another. I'll stay at Fox Sports
Radio for for a good amount of time, but I
mean there's other places to work eventually down the line
if this doesn't work out. But I don't see myself
ever completely getting out of it. I could see myself
(24:32):
as I get older, just doing shows occasionally on the
weekends and part of the time like the grind, uh
per se, the audio grind will be something I would
want to do forever and ever. But a couple of
days a week, keep your fastball up, keep keep yourself
in the game, keep some skin in the game. So
I'd be okay with that. It's like being a head
(24:54):
football coach, right, you're hired to get fired. Yeah, I mean,
but it's like a football coach. You still end up
like it's a consultant or somewhere. You know, these old
coaches still work somewhere and they still do something. I know,
it's completely advantaged. It's true. Old guard entertainment realm is
you get a lot of folks that circulate in and
then out and then in back again. Well, once it's
hard to get in. And that's the problem with these
(25:16):
entertainment jobs. It's hard to get one. But then when
you get one, you don't want to give it up.
You want to keep it, and then when you lose it,
you want another one. Ken in Toledo writes, and he says,
Ben and David, do either of you have one of
those black stone outdoor flat top griddles? Ben if yes,
what you cook the now freezer burn tomahawks. Thak, I
(25:42):
don't know what you're talking about. It's talking about your laziness,
your incompetence. Actually, I don't have a griddle. I got
a And you saw this guest on when you came
over to the Malory mansion with him. I have a
grittle top that I put on my barbecue that turns
it into a griddle. Yeah, what do we have? Had
we have? We made fahitas and then you brought some
(26:04):
carniasad over that. That's right. But we had had chicken
fahitas and some beef fahitas, and then you brought the
carne man cooked that up Joe in Richmond, Virginia, right,
since says, have you all gotten the COVID vaccine? Why
or why not? Guest guard, I think we've talked about this.
(26:26):
Have you got the COVID vaccine? I have not. I'm
a little low on the totem pole in terms of
people that qualify initially for it, but I know that.
I think it's April fifteenth or sixteenth that Joe Biden
had announced that everyone will be eligible for it. I'm
actually waiting, though, to see which one turns out to
be the most effective, because they've talked in isitue it
(26:48):
was Maderna fires are not so much than Johnson and
Johnson has been on the come lately, and part of
the reason for that that's only one shot. With Johnson
and Johnson, you might need a booster shot every year,
but one shot as opposed to double the dose as
you'd get from a DIRNA advisor. So no, I have
not yet. Yeah, I haven't gotten the vaccine either. I
I've heard we actually could get it, guess because we
(27:10):
are technically frontline workers, believe it or not, thanks to
the Martial Act. But I have not, and uh, I
will get it at some point. I'm not rushing to
get it either, but my wife got it, and a
lot of my relatives have purchased it, not purchased pay
for it. But my brother is getting it. So I'm
(27:33):
waiting to see I said this last week, but I'm
waiting to see how he does with it, and then
if everything's good with him, then I have the same DNA,
so I have no should have no problems. I know
this is a little dark, but did you hear what
FEMA is doing this year with funerals? No? No, what
are they doing? So FEMA is actually they are refunding
reimbursing people up to nine thousand dollars for funeral costs
(27:57):
for individuals that have died due to COVID from Tony
twenty two where we're at now, and I think it's
up to thirty five thousand if it's multiple people in
a family paying back the money. Yeah, I'm like, Unfortunately
Dad did not die from COVID, so I don't I'm
not eligible to get to nine thousand. Yeah, but if
you said that he had COVID at the time of
his death, even if he died from you know, a
(28:19):
car accident, you'd qualify you get some of that money. Uh.
Dave from Mill Valley Rights and says, is there a
way to find the podcast of last year's Talent Show?
I would love to be able to hear the full
version of more? Uh yeah, we were a fan of
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the Talent Show, right. It's very lazy radio. It's like
the Power Hour edition to the Ben Mallory Show. Just
very kick up my feet again, this lacks my feet
an example of why all from j to the Brick
and Tom Looney piled it in for big fan of
the Brick House. Clearly that big fan. Uh uh No, listen,
(29:03):
you have to find the date. I don't off the
top of my head, I don't know the date of
the Talent Show, but we did it. I believe we
did it earlier. I want to say we did the
Talent Show. I think it was in April or May
of I have to go back through my notes and
(29:25):
and check. But yeah, if you find the date, it's
very easy to find the podcast. All the podcasts are
podcasts are archives, so you just have to find find
the date. But I don't have it right now off
the top of my head. Here, I don't remember the
exact date. I'm not rain Man, I'm not Cowboy and
windsor right know the exact date of balls. Fan Jimmy
says he's from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says Ben and Mr West
(29:48):
of the four oh five. As a youth playing sports,
what was the biggest thrill of victory for you in
the agony of defeat? I think we've been over this before.
I feel like we've answered these questions before, this question before. Yes,
So I don't know. I mean, go back and hear
the old podcast bat You Up by You. Wow, what
a jerk. I don't want to repeat old material. Big
(30:09):
Mike from Courtland, New York rites in the Crown City.
He says, it appears that mobile sports betting is coming
to the Great state of New York. Yeah, what are
your thoughts on legalized sports betting expanding across the US?
Good or bed? It's not good or bad. It's great.
The word is great. First of all, I'm a gambler,
so for me, you're asking the wrong guy the question
(30:30):
if you're looking for a negative answer. Uh. Secondly, there
are gonna be people. They're gonna lose money and will
not be able to manage their money and we'll get
carried away. But it's the same as alcohol, right, alcohol
is legal. There's a certain persentie of people that drink
too much and get in the car, accidents and problems happen,
things like that. But gambling, I think, I think it's
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a it's a cool thing. I think if you have
disposable income, a little bit extra money, rather than buy
a lottery ticket or a bunch of lottery tickets, put
a couple of bucks down on a game, you're gonna
watch the game anyway. I think it's a wonderful thing,
and it should have been legal years ago. And adults
have the decision to make whether or not they want
to make a better or not. If it's not for you,
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don't do it. Other people want to do it. Good
for them to each their own. I'm gonna push back
and say that it's a bad thing. The reason why
is because I think there was something great about going
to Las Vegas. You had to, you know, to save
up money, and you had to allocate certain funds for
a weekend or a couple of days in Las Vegas.
(31:31):
And you don't do that anymore. You don't need to
do that. And then on top of that if you
do know this. If you're a gambler when you go
to Vegas, if you're betting on the slots, craps, you know, poker, blackjack,
whatever it is, certain tables will give you action and
they'll give you comps like drinks, food rooms, things of
that nature. Or if you're gambling on sports right now
(31:53):
on a mobile ap, you get no comps. You might
get an initial match play you put in a hundred
dollars will match you up to a hundred dollars and
something that nature. But outside of that, there's no real
incentive outside of just comparing books. When you're online, yes,
and you realize that there's really no there's nothing called
the free lunch. Like you even though you you think
you're getting free drinks and all that, you're actually not,
(32:14):
Like those are built into the cost of everything. Well,
I I understand that, but if you're winning, I mean
you're getting something for free, are you not? Yeah, but
you're not. Nobody wins, right. You know, going in the
casino is great because you know going in the odds
are against you that you're going to lose, but you
still enjoy it. It's like recreational. It's entertainment, of course,
(32:37):
But who goes into a casino thinking I'm gonna make money.
I'm gonna make a ton of money. I'm gonna come
out here with more money, a bigger pile of money
than when I came in here. Poker players and people
that are typically gambling on crops, I mean, those are
the two games and black jack that are close that
you get fifty odds at least crap craps some blackjack
that you get odds to the house. It's not accurate
(32:58):
to Vegas is gonna be fine. People are still gonna
go to Vegas, the gambling mecca and all that. It's
not gonna kill Vegas. I mean, the sports betting has
been legal in a lot of states for a while.
It's not like Vegas is is falling off the face
of those casinos though they know all the tricks, man,
I mean, they don't no clocks, no windows, and those
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Vegas casinos and they're all designed like a maze. It's
it's fascinating. I read a book about that years ago,
about how they design casinos and why they do the
things they do and all that, and it's, uh, it's
pretty pretty interesting. The mental tricks that they put on
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people to get them to gamble. But gambling is like
a reverse a t M machine. You put money in
and you don't get a lot of money back. So anyway,
what else do we have to see? Page down here?
Page down mark in Ottawa? Right, So, and he says,
how do you come up with the Mallard monologue? Connect
three words? So we've got pink lemonade, barbecue cover and
(34:03):
Jens saki and we're going to combine all these things
together and make some baba ganooche. Well, there is a
method to the madness mark, but it's really random. I
go I'll find something that I want to talk about
in a monologue, and you know, I'll jot down some
some bullet points and then I'll be like, no, I
(34:23):
try to figure out a way to tie everything together.
So um, it's not like I go in and say, well,
I gotta use you know this, that or the other thing.
It's kind of organically happens. But some some days are
easier than others. Some days it's like they have anything
unique here. But blind blind Emmett the Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington,
(34:48):
leading the race for blind Caller of the year he's
up for the Beny. He says, if you guys could
travel anywhere in the world, where would it be? You
ask this question too blind? Emmett did not him, but
I think someone asked very popular question. Yeah, I think
we already answered that. We we already got like New
(35:08):
Zealand or Australia. Yeah, I said, toky Europe or Mars
or Bangladesh. I've been watching these vloggers, these video travel
guys on YouTube, and there's one of these guys went
to Afghanistan and was traveling, you know, like recently, like
a couple of months ago, went to Afghanistan, was one
(35:29):
and around went to North Korea years ago on a trip. Crazy.
I know the w w E does a great job
of honoring the military, and they go out to the
Middle East. Did they go to Afghanistan? I think they've
gone well, I know they've gone a Baghdad. I don't
know if they've gone to Afghanistan. It's pretty wild. And
this guy was like in a Taliban controlled city and
(35:50):
just wander around, damn like white dude from Arizona, like
sticking out like a sore thumb exactly. Uh. Stevens Swanton
Ohio says, do you guys get along outside of work,
watch games together, cook out? No, not at all. We
don't get along together at all. We don't go together. No, not,
None of that happened geographically undesirable. Ricardo from Fresno right
(36:16):
See says Ben. How much of a feminist is David Gascon? Well?
The late Rush Limbaugh would call him a feminazi is
what he would call the gascon he is? He we
call him at at work, we call him the Rapino
of Fox Sports. Rod Yes, actually looks like Megan Rapino
a little bit too, Not that that's bad. She's a
(36:36):
lovely lady. In my apologies doing purple hair, Chris and
Iowa writes, since is what is the Mallard maneuver for
getting out of the doghouse with the wife? Currently in
that situation? Right now? Chris is having some some issues there. Chris,
I'm I'm pretty lucky. I don't get in the doghouse
very often, but normally my wife's pretty chill. I just apologize,
(36:59):
And I've learned as a married man that you often
have to apologize for things that don't deserve an apology,
but you still have to Apologie. So I wish I
had more to tell you. Gascon's got nothing on this
because he's I recommend you cook and you clean. Well,
what if you already do that and do better? I
(37:20):
doubt he cooks and cleans. I'm a dishwasher. I occasionally
do some of the laundry. Uh, you know, I know
how to cook. I learned how to cook a couple
of years back. So yeah, it's work in progress for
your husband of the year. My god, there's the things
you could do. Flowers, cook, clean, wash the sheets, make
the bed. Eric and Omaha rights and says, is there
(37:44):
an athlete you despise growing up and ended up meeting
them later in life and they ended up being friends? Well,
I wouldn't say friends, and I wouldn't say someone I,
you know, dealt with growing up. But when I was younger,
I had heard some terrible stories. There's two people that
I'm want to name here, and this is off the
(38:04):
top of mind. I mean there's probably others that I'm
forgetting that I'll kick myself and say, boy, I wish
I had brought that person up if I think about this.
But but Eric, Mike Milbury and Mike Keenan a couple
of hockey coaches, and I Mike Keenan in particular. I
had covered hockey a little bit early in my career
at six ninety and Keenan would come in with the
(38:25):
various teams and he was such an asshole, such a dick,
and you know, really short and give you the death stare,
kind of like the Belichick stuff. And Milbury. I had
heard some horrific stories about Mike Milbury, the old Boston
Bruin from back in the day. And then I worked
at NBC for a year and would travel back every
month to Stanford, Connecticut, and we'd all hang out on
(38:49):
the set, and then after we we wrapped up the
taping of the show, we would go hang out at
the hotel bar and those guys would fly into Connecticut
also and stay at the time they were they were
wonderful guys. I have very fun memberis of Mike Keenan
telling me how he was approached by a Russian aristocrat
(39:09):
aristocrat to go coach hockey and Russia and then proceeded
to try to convince Mike Milbury to go join him
and coach a team in Russia. And Mike Milbury was like,
I don't know, and then he Keenan told him how
much money he got paid, and then all of a sudden,
Milbury perked up. He's like, oh, maybe I don't think
he ever did, but those those guys were pretty cool.
(39:30):
And Mike Milbury told me the famous one of the
great stories in NHL history when he beat up a
fan at Madison Square guard right around Christmas, got into
a Donny Brook in the crowd a Bruins Rangers game.
It's one of the great stories in hockey history. And
he gave me the play by play from his perspective
(39:50):
what happened, and you know, he was like, hey, I
just wanted he was around Christmas. I want to get
back and see my mom, you know, and this guy
you know, grabbed something and then one thing lent to
another and William Bam, here we go. Interesting anybody for
you against Tommy Losorda sorta you thought Losorda was I
thought I thought Losorda was a really nice guy, and
(40:12):
then I met him in person. He was a fucking asshole.
And he actually he actually is an asshole too. He
was supposed to speak at one of my sisters graduation
or commencement events and apparently he had too much to
drink the night before, two hungover, didn't show up the
(40:32):
next day, and this is in Louisiana. Bailed on them
at an uncle that he was supposed to speak to
an event at an event for for my uncle bailed
on that he's a dick. Not rest of soul, but
he's a fucking asshole speaking of the dead. I didn't
have that experience. I will tell you that my experience
(40:53):
with a sorta he did have multiple personalities. I think
most people have multiple And there there was the public
the sort of in front of the cameras, and then privately.
You know, you can't be like that all the time.
But I I you know, he was nice and he
would always ask me how I was doing, and it
will sort of like me. I think in part because
I started covering the Dodgers. I was nineteen years old.
(41:14):
He was he only had a couple of years left
as the manager of the team. But I was one
of the last of the regulars at Dodger Stadium that
was covering him as a reporter. So I think that
he uh like that. But I'm glad that he treated
it like an asshole. That's good. I like Losorda Moore.
Now hearing that story, well he's gone. Well, I know,
(41:36):
maybe he'll come back to haunt you. Maybe that'll be
the case. Uh. Kathleen writes and says, hey, Benny Jet,
have you ever done any stand up comedy? I noticed
that you put the same techniques to good use as
stand up comedians. Kathleen, listen, it's open mic night every
night on the Ben Mallo Show. What are you talking about? No,
(41:56):
I've never done stand up comedy. I've never really considered
doing end up comedy, although, you know, if there's money
to be made. Joe Rogan owning, he he opened a
new comedy club. He's not open yet, but in Austin, Texas.
Go down the little stand up in Austin. Come on,
what do you say? See that house? Rogan bot in Austin. Home?
(42:18):
My god. I don't know. Good for him, living like
a king. He got out of California. Job by him? Man. Uh.
John in Corona, for some reason, says, are you best
friends with the hot dog vendors at Petco Park? No?
I actually haven't been to Petco Park in a while.
Adrian in the mile I said he actually said this
a while ago, but I don't think we got to
(42:39):
this last week, he said. He and his family returned.
He lives in Obviously the Colorado returned from Midland, Texas.
They want on a trip to Midland, Texas to visit
family and whatnot. And he points out here the key
part of this message. He says, while in Texas, I
finally got to try the famous raising canes chicken fingers
(43:01):
at the Midland restaurant. I walked up to the counter
and I asked for the Ben Mallard Special Adrians. The
young lady behind the counter looked at me funny and
didn't know what I was talking about, and then I
had to explain to her. Adrian says that I wanted
the Keniak Combo no Coast law, extra fries, the Texas
toast on both sides, and a large lemonade. Adrian says
(43:26):
the meal was delicious and I will eat there again.
He also points out this is this is also interesting.
During his drive from Denver to Midland, Texas, the speed limit,
he says, is mostly seventy five miles an hour, so
he says he said his cruise control to seventy nine
miles an hour per the Ben Mallard show recommendation that
we always talked about, and he made it there and
(43:48):
back with no speeding tickets. It's pretty good. There. You good?
All right? He also wants us to talk to Alan
and Roach, he said, would be a great Friday interview
for the podcast Good Idea. Do you know who Alan Roaches? Yeah? Why?
I wonder what the fascination behind Alan Roaches? Though? Well?
(44:12):
Who is Alan Roach? Do you know what he does? Yeah?
He is a public address announcer. I know that. Yeah,
he's the Denver Broncos. You're a Bronco fanboy, He's the
Denver Broncos public address announcer. He's also the voice of
the train that runs inside Denver International Airport and he
works at k o A and Denver, a legendary, uh
(44:32):
legendary radio station. Does he do the trainer? Does he
do the actual airport like I thought he did the
I don't know. According to Adrian, he says, when's the
last time you were the Denver Airport? It's been it's
been a few years. It's been seven or eight year.
It's depressing seven or eight years. Yeah, I know what
l a xual. They have celebrities doing a lot of
(44:52):
the stuff which is I find annoying? I find annoying. Alright,
guess I apparently have things to go. I don't know
what things to do, if things to you know, I
don't know why. I don't know what you have to do.
I have no idea. But that's my weekend. You have
a lot of things on the plate for the weekend,
and you're rushing me through this. And there's so many
other questions we didn't get to in the mail bag.
You know, none of them have been addressed to me,
(45:13):
So who cares? Wow, all right, we'll be back on
I will be back on the radio, and I'm sure
guesscout will probably miss a podcast or two coming up here.
But I will be back on the radio tonight Sunday
in the Monday eleven p m. Sunday Night in the
West two AM in the East with four hours of
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who's here? Uh? And we we have the mailbag. These
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you can interact to be part of the mail back
and that we do. We do appreciate it. So all right, uh,
let's get right into it here. These are again actual
(02:13):
questions by actual listeners. Tres in Texas Rights and he says,
have you considered a website for the show complete with
merchandise like T shirt stickers, downloads of the shows songs,
et cetera. It could have archives of the greatest hits
and misses. And you could dabble again in the gossip
(02:33):
stuff without full time pressure. Maybe a chat form for
militia to go at it from time to time. There
you go. Uh. He says, you are a big enough
commodity and the time waster wouldn't be appreciated by shift
workers truckers at truck stops when not with lot lizards
and insomniacs. Tres says Tress, this is not a terrible idea.
(02:58):
And I have played around with the concept of doing
something back on. It was starting a website. I don't
have Ben Mallard dot com anymore, but starting starting a
website and doing something with the show. But the merchandise
thing I have dabbled in that. I had a listener
that made some T shirts and wanted to sell them,
and I helped out. I know people always complain. In fact,
(03:21):
I still have some old T shirts. I was going
through some stuff with all that happened this year with
me personally, and I went through some old T shirts
and I might attempt to put those on the market
and sell some of those. But I would be willing
to make stuff if there was a an interest in it,
like if somebody wanted a Mallard militia had or a
T shirt would actually be into it. Yeah, but there's
(03:44):
like that sweet spot with pricing where if it's too
high people complain. If it's too low, it's like, well
it's not good quality. So I tried to make good
quality stuff and then people were very upset and they
were complaining and saying, I can't believe how expensive this is,
and I like, well, it's not that expensive. The shirt
will last forever anyway. All right. Brian in north Bridge,
(04:07):
Massachusetts rights and he says, how is Gascon still employed?
It's a great question. I don't know. I don't even
know if he's on this podcast. He's been very quiet
so far. I think you'd have to contact the management
at Fox Sports Radio to figure that out. I was
just waiting for a proper introduction. Has been well, I
said your name? What I mean? What more needs to
be said? I don't know, chump in. How about again,
(04:29):
this is another example why you're bad. Here's the reactive
and the proactive. Be proactive? How about that proactive? Waiting
me properly introduced? What do you need me to give
you a BackRub? Would be dice? What do you want
the Deshaun Watson treatment. I'm sorry it's haunting here with
this toe. Jeez, nothing wrong with that. Just so, how
(04:51):
are you employed guests? And explained to Brian because he
can't figure it out. Many of us can't figure it out.
How is someone like you imput you clearly lead management astray? Yes, yes, yes,
I was. I was actually brought in by your former boss,
Bruce Gilbert Um. Bruce did not every higher. It was
great by Bruce, and he made some mistakes. Everyone not
(05:12):
everyone was great, but not everyone was bad. Um came
from San Diego, worked my way up and obviously you're
at the national levels opposed to in little old San Diego.
So go from market seventeen to market number two. I
would consider that a considerable mark up. Well, it's actually
the number one radio market. There's a myth that New
York is number one, but it's actually Los Angeles. More
(05:34):
people listen to the radio in Los Angeles to New York,
and want to be precise, that would be the number
one audio publisher in the entire world. I heart media,
So if you want to try to one up me,
that is the one up. But I still I'm old,
so I still use the term radio. I know the
industry is trying to digital world. Have brought you into
the digital The industry is trying to get rid of
the word radio. You've heard, you know, audio instead of radio,
(05:57):
and I'm like radio the die just did that last
last week. The Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. Yeah, they
no longer have radio. It's audio. No longer radio audio.
That's uh, you know, teach their own. It's not my
my thing. I don't know, but somebody clearly thought that
was a good idea anyway. Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts rights
(06:22):
in home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where
you can see Muffett McGraw in the Pro Basketball Hall
of Fame. So he writes in Ben, have you ever
had second thoughts about signing a contract? I've listened to
you for your entire ride at Fox Sports Radio, but
lately I fear for your health. In the past, Gagon
put the hex on your gallbladder, and more recently, I
(06:46):
feel like you're one shift away from throwing your back
out carrying the dead weight that is fill in producers
and update guys. I think that you may need to
start self medicating prior to the show to prevent a
heart attack while dealing with some of these buffoons. This
guy writes you every week with sausage in his mouth.
(07:10):
It's just like Ben Mallar Salami every day, all day tweeting,
telling you just the way I look at this. There
were no lies detect unbelievable. There were no lies detectable.
I mean, first of all, people move up and they
move on. You really outcast a lot of people. You
don't appreciate their work until they go on to uh
do it? Who have I not appreciated Bob Gara. I
(07:32):
appreciated Bob. He couldn't handle the overnight. It wasn't for him,
just like you. You couldn't handle the over. I don't
want to work eight nine hours overnight when h you
know there's nothing in the news world going again, you
do not You're not relatable. Understand you're not. Some people
have the the IT factor and other people don't. You
(07:53):
don't have the IT factor. You know, working you don't
understand in syndicated radio, you want to be the overnight guy.
I'm we're on more affiliates than the daytime. That's as
a host, not as an update anchor. Now, But if
you work on a show, you want to be on
a show that's actually hurt. We have more radio affiliates
than anyone because of the time that we're on. I
guess it's not because we're great, but it's the time
(08:14):
that we're on. So if you're doing syndicate, if you're
doing a daytime show, you want to be on the
morning or the afternoon. But if you're in syndicated radio,
you want to be on at night or overnight because
that's where the that's where the listenership, the potential listenership
is through the roof because you're on more radio station. Yeah,
but if I'm gonna be an anchor, why would I
want to be an overnight anchor when I could just
(08:35):
repeat and replay updates like some of the other guys
you work with. Well listen, I mean, there there is
that approach, man. I've never understood that. I've I've questioned
why certain people just repeat the same update over and
over again. It doesn't make sense to me. I I
think there's a craft. And when I started, there was
a guide book that was handed out in the early
days of Fox Sports Radio called rewriting your updates and
(08:57):
adding new material and it. It's fascinating because there's so
much stuff that goes on overnight that drops while we're
on the show, and uh, a lot of times that stuff,
you know, it's just repeating the same, the same scores
over and over. You're not really doing the legwork to
try to go out and find the stories that they're there.
But listen, a lot of a lot of the people
(09:19):
do that throughout the day too. There's just to give
the same scores and they don't put put any kind
of gumption into finding what's going on out. Thankfully, I'm
not one of those people. What I hear, you hear wrong?
Guilt by association, game, guilt by association. Pierre says, did
you mention something about feeding a content kitty? Yes, that's
(09:42):
what I put on Facebook Pier the content kitty, Dan
and Durham writes, and he says, I had someone steal
my don't tread on me flag and pull It's okay,
though I'm feeling unified. On another note, do you guys
know how much about low voltage elect trick devices? Well,
(10:04):
first of all, I wonder if you caught that person
on camera, that'd be a good question to ask. Well,
he's not here. I can't ask him the question, I know,
but he's gonna email you next week. So Dan, let
us know if you caught that person or if you
saw them on camera. Still your your material, alright? Next one,
Patricia's is the mail back. Patricia writes in from Vegas,
(10:24):
originally from Rhode Island. Yeah, she She's moved all the
way across the country, but still a Mallard Militia card
carrying Mallew Militia. Remember, Patricia says, why do I hear
some parts of this show is prerecorded? When I listened
to a couple of other shows, I can tell the
last hours just a repeat of an earlier hour. Well, Patricia,
(10:46):
that you don't want to know how they make the
hot dogs? Patricia, all right, I don't get that either,
but they don't ask me. Uh, stay in your lane.
But I believe radio should be live. A lot of
these shows are actually taped, you know, every where in
the industry. Now it's a I don't get it, but
we do a live show I have done in the past.
I used to do a five hour show on the weekend,
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and they wanted a six hour show. So what they
did with they would take one of the hours and
replay it in the sixth hour. So I would do
five live, unique hours, and then the sixth hour would
be a repeat. But yeah, I mean there's some guys
that do three hour shows and the whole thing is
on tape. I don't I don't get it, but you know,
to each their own. I guess it's interesting you picked
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it up at your six I bet most listeners don't
even figure. They can't figure that out. But usually the
tell is if you're a call in show and you
no longer take calls, it's because you've been recorded. That's
usually the one of the dead giveaway, Dad giveaway. Anyway, Well,
I remember Rick D's the radio legend. He used to
(11:53):
record the beginning of his morning show in l A
Kiss FM one h two point seven Kiss F s
f M. Yeah, and he approached me in the hallway
and he give me some sage advice. Now, I don't
do this because I don't record the show. It's all live.
I figured, you know what, that's the whole point of
doing a show overnight. You're you gotta be there and
(12:14):
talking to people that are working odd jobs and whatnot. Anyway, uh,
Jee's told me to listen, you're gonna tape something. Leave
the mistakes in, he said, because the people that listen,
don't they hear a mistake, they think, well, it can't
be on tape, because you know, why would you use
it was taped, It would clean up the mistake. Pretty
good advice. It's pretty good advice. He gave me my
(12:36):
largest tip. When I worked in the restaurant industry. I
worked for Petro's papadick as his dad at his Greek
restaurant in San Pedro papadickas Taverna and USC's football team,
the Marching Band, And that same night Rick D's came
in and I waited on him and gave me a
hundred dollar tip. I'll never forget it. I told you
(12:56):
get out of radio. Don't I'm ever going yet out
of radio? Uh vahed in New Orleans. Right. So, he says,
if you were a famous athlete, this is for both
of you, what most likely would have brought you down?
Would it be drugs? Alcohol? Uh? He says, ladies, social
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media or blank man. That's tough. Well, you would be alcohol,
drugs and ladies. It would be like all three. They'd
be like trifecta. There little Dennis Rodman action, the Worm. Yeah,
I don't. I don't know that any of those would
take me down. Per se. I don't really do the drugs,
the alcohol moderation. I'm married. If I was single, I
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could be the ladies, but I'm not not a single
guy now, so yeah, I don't know. Maybe social media
take me down. Yeah, I think maybe alcohol for me,
just the parting, going out and then thinking you can
re cover. You know, the recovery from a hangover is
a lot easier in your twenties than in your thirties.
(14:06):
And uh, you go in Vegas and that's part of
being a professional ball player though. You gotta have the
ability to compartmentalize. You play your sport. But then after
you know, it's it's like having a mullet. It's uh,
you know, it's business in the front, party in the back.
Thank you, sage advice by me, Thank you, he also says.
(14:30):
But he says all bars in New Orleans were closed
from Thursday, uh to says February eleven to ash Wednesday,
So says no, Marty gras R. Sorry. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
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two am eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch
live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the I Heart Radio al Al Ohio. Al rights, and
he says, Ben, why do you always say any meani
mighty mo pick a caller by the name instead of
(15:11):
by the toe like the old saying actually goes well,
a couple of reasons for that, Al, he says, But
he said, you're afraid of offending flexus, the six toe
drag queen. No, I'm not afraid of offending Flexus the
six toe drag queen at all. I don't don't worry
about that at all. When I'm doing that. That is
actually I'll let you in on a little inside radio here, Ohio,
(15:33):
al and only for you. When I say any meany
miny mo pick a caller by the name. That is
a time fill because my callboard is not reset and
that is a cue to cooper loop to wake up
and actually send the calls over. So that's a time kill.
And I say any meanimnum will pick a caller by
(15:56):
their name, because I have a list of names in
front of me, not a list of toes anyway, Uh,
let's see here. And ohio All also says, what the
fund does Marcel mean when he says mixed match in
food picks? This makes no sense to me. The Marcel
calls are getting very stale. By the way, ohio All says,
(16:18):
I think he is hoping to get a job at
FSR or something with his announcing bits. Uh. Yeah, there's
likely some truth in that. And back in Marcel the
back of Marcel's head, he believes that he is actually
how is he has a job? I think he thinks
right now he has a job. He calls in every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. It's part of his routine. He's got
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a whole bunch of stations he calls into around the country.
But that's the beauty of Marcel. Mixed match is his way.
And a listener actually pointed this out to us. When
he had said mixed match, that was a sign of
you got it right, You had got whatever the food
pick was, you had gotten right. But then somebody I believe,
pointed out to him that he was doing this and
(17:00):
he stopped doing it for a while. I think he's
back doing it though, so I I can't figure, uh
what is next here? Let's see any meaning money. I
did not write down the name. This person did not
say their names, so I don't know who said this,
but somebody wrote in said Ben, well to you, what
makes a good baseball hat? Please discuss the best type
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of crown, high or low brim, shaped or flat, fit,
adjustable or fitted, label, price tag on and off? All right,
so I'm not I don't leave the label like the
price tag on. I don't do that. I enjoy a
good fitted hat that fits properly more than the adjustable.
(17:43):
The reason I that is most of the adjustable hats
I have a very large head, very large head, and
most of the adjustable hats it just doesn't work. It
just doesn't work the adjustable hat. And because my head
is too big, and so the fitted hat obviously would
fit would fit perfectly. So that that is the That
(18:07):
is the key. As far as the other stuff, I
I like the I don't like the flat bill. I
don't like that. I like I like it shaped a
little bit. I think it looks better that way. It's
more aesthetically pleasing. Um. So those are some of the
things I look for in a hat. Anything guess scaring
(18:27):
that you look for in a hat. I'm just I'm
a fan of it being fitted and and shaped. Of course,
the color is everything too. So that's why I'm a
fan more of minor league teams than I am of
the proteins in Major League Baseball. I don't think a
lot of them have a good look. Dodgers Yankees, yes,
but I'm not really a fan of I like that
(18:49):
Brooklyn Dodgers. The bet be for Benny, be for Brooklyn,
one of the same. Pretty good, right, come on all
about Benny alright, So listener, who I did not say
your name? You know who you are. I thank you,
but you gotta I tell you guys every week, name
in city, name in city before you send the message.
Mark from Waverley, Iowa. Right, since says how many hats
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are you wearing in your current rotation? Great question, Mark,
I have. I try to rotate two weeks of hats
at a time, So in my rotation right now, I
have the Oregon State Beaver cap, the Fox Sports Radio
Cab Saddleback College cap. Uh. There's a couple of minor
league hats that are in here. The Iowa Hawkeyes hat
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has gotten a lot of play in the rotation, and
I've been very lucky. I've got a good percentage of
hats that have come in recently. I love this m
hat that I'm a pilot sent in Smooth. It's a
minor league baseball hat, and that that's pretty good. The
Montgomery Biscuits hat, I think, I think that's the team.
(19:52):
So yeah, man, those are some of them. But I
usually I try to have a ten hats in a
two week rotation and then I change you up, like
every month. I'll try to mix in some new hats,
and then I have seasonal hats. Usually during football season Sundays,
I always wear the NFL shield hat Sundays. In the Monday,
that's my go to hat. So there is a method
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to the madness. Mark, Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia right,
since it's besides the wrestler formerly known as RUSSEV. Have
either of you met any wrestlers? Yes, Jason, I have.
I I've told the story a few times over the years.
But I was a celebrity manager at a w w
E event many many years ago, and we were promoting
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the event through the radio station. They wanted some publicity,
so they said all right. I was doing the Ben
and Dave show with this guy damed Dave Smith, and
we went out there and we were celebrity managers. I
was the manager of the Headshrinkers, and I remember being
in the locker room was very exciting. I was a
huge wrestling fan growing up, and we were in the
locker room because we were the next to last event,
(20:59):
the next to last event, so we had to wait
through the undercard, and I met George the Animal Steel
passed away, and Viscera, who also passed away. So the
two guys that I met, we were, you know, my
old legends, and George the Animal Steel, an all time great,
(21:20):
and russef uh you know not russef Viscera I believe
was the name there, but yeah, he he had. Actually
the funny thing was that Visra the wrestler he had,
he was on the match like before us, and he
broke he's He was a massively large human being and
he broke the ropes and so everything got delayed for
(21:43):
like forty five minutes as a crew came in to
try to fix the ring because he had just destroyed it.
And I mean this guy was like five pounds. He
was like six nine pounds and he wore he wore
these contact lenses to make his eyes look like demon dies.
(22:04):
And I'll never forget I was. We were in the
locker room and everyone's complaining. All the other wrestlers were
complaining because they're like, oh, man, we want They wanted
to get their thing over with and go and enjoy
their night, and they had to wait for for Viscera,
who I think changed his name to something else later on.
He passed away a number of years ago. But um
so he comes waddling in to the locker room and
all the other wrestlers are sitting around piste off and he's,
(22:27):
you know, shaking his head. I'm sorry, guys, I didn't
mean to do it. I was hilarious. It was a
fun Maybe have you met any wrestlers Gagu I met
back in the day. I met Andre the Giant, And
oddly enough it was in Vegas, and that same weekend
trip that I was in Vegas, I saw Andre the Giant.
I also saw Jaws, the character who played Jaws and
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Moon Raker. Yeah. Now when you met Andre the Giant,
did you like meet him? Meet him? Were just kind
of like casually, Hey, hi, Yeah, it was a casual
hey hi, Like there was a bunch of people that
were were next to him, so we were at the MGM.
Oddly enough, when I was younger, I went to a
w WF event at the Anaheim Convention Center. And this
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is like in the Haull Cogen days, that year of wrestling,
and I I was such a loser that I was
more excited to see mean Gene Okerland. And I had
a Mean Gene Oakland action figure with him holding the microphone,
wearing the tuxedo and all that. And I still I
remember I saw him. I got that. I waited for
the wrestlers to come out, and Mean Gene came out
(23:28):
and he was wearing like a track suit because you know,
he didn't have to wear his tuxedo and all that.
I fondly remember that. I also fondly remember getting morbidly
obese on those WWF ice cream bars. Man with those things,
damn with the outstanding well made product, A well made
(23:49):
product for sure. All right, who is next here? John
the jailer from Alan Town p A. Says Ben and
gascon some per soonalities behind the microphone work until they die.
Do you have an exit? Strategy or will you will
I be listening to my grandchildren's lame jokes about Lizzo. Yeah,
(24:11):
very funny, John. Uh. I don't really have an extras strategy.
I love the job. I'd like to do the job
in one form or another. I'll stay at Fox Sports
Radio for for a good amount of time, but I
mean there's other places to work eventually down the line
if this doesn't work out. But I don't see myself
ever completely getting out of it. I could see myself
(24:32):
as I get older, just doing shows occasionally on the
weekends and part of the time like the grind, uh
per se, the audio grind will be something I would
want to do forever and ever. But a couple of
days a week, keep your fastball up, keep keep yourself
in the game, keep some skin in the game. So
I'd be okay with that. It's like being a head
(24:54):
football coach, right, you're hired to get fired. Yeah, I mean,
but it's like a football coach. You still end up
like it's a consultant or somewhere. You know, these old
coaches still work somewhere and they still do something. I know,
it's completely advantaged. It's true. Old guard entertainment realm is
you get a lot of folks that circulate in and
then out and then in back again. Well, once it's
hard to get in. And that's the problem with these
(25:16):
entertainment jobs. It's hard to get one. But then when
you get one, you don't want to give it up.
You want to keep it, and then when you lose it,
you want another one. Ken in Toledo writes, and he says,
Ben and David, do either of you have one of
those black stone outdoor flat top griddles? Ben if yes,
what you cook the now freezer burn tomahawks. Thak, I
(25:42):
don't know what you're talking about. It's talking about your laziness,
your incompetence. Actually, I don't have a griddle. I got
a And you saw this guest on when you came
over to the Malory mansion with him. I have a
grittle top that I put on my barbecue that turns
it into a griddle. Yeah, what do we have? Had
we have? We made fahitas and then you brought some
(26:04):
carniasad over that. That's right. But we had had chicken
fahitas and some beef fahitas, and then you brought the
carne man cooked that up Joe in Richmond, Virginia, right,
since says, have you all gotten the COVID vaccine? Why
or why not? Guest guard, I think we've talked about this.
(26:26):
Have you got the COVID vaccine? I have not. I'm
a little low on the totem pole in terms of
people that qualify initially for it, but I know that.
I think it's April fifteenth or sixteenth that Joe Biden
had announced that everyone will be eligible for it. I'm
actually waiting, though, to see which one turns out to
be the most effective, because they've talked in isitue it
(26:48):
was Maderna fires are not so much than Johnson and
Johnson has been on the come lately, and part of
the reason for that that's only one shot. With Johnson
and Johnson, you might need a booster shot every year,
but one shot as opposed to double the dose as
you'd get from a DIRNA advisor. So no, I have
not yet. Yeah, I haven't gotten the vaccine either. I
I've heard we actually could get it, guess because we
(27:10):
are technically frontline workers, believe it or not, thanks to
the Martial Act. But I have not, and uh, I
will get it at some point. I'm not rushing to
get it either, but my wife got it, and a
lot of my relatives have purchased it, not purchased pay
for it. But my brother is getting it. So I'm
(27:33):
waiting to see I said this last week, but I'm
waiting to see how he does with it, and then
if everything's good with him, then I have the same DNA,
so I have no should have no problems. I know
this is a little dark, but did you hear what
FEMA is doing this year with funerals? No? No, what
are they doing? So FEMA is actually they are refunding
reimbursing people up to nine thousand dollars for funeral costs
(27:57):
for individuals that have died due to COVID from Tony
twenty two where we're at now, and I think it's
up to thirty five thousand if it's multiple people in
a family paying back the money. Yeah, I'm like, Unfortunately
Dad did not die from COVID, so I don't I'm
not eligible to get to nine thousand. Yeah, but if
you said that he had COVID at the time of
his death, even if he died from you know, a
(28:19):
car accident, you'd qualify you get some of that money. Uh.
Dave from Mill Valley Rights and says, is there a
way to find the podcast of last year's Talent Show?
I would love to be able to hear the full
version of more? Uh yeah, we were a fan of
(28:39):
the Talent Show, right. It's very lazy radio. It's like
the Power Hour edition to the Ben Mallory Show. Just
very kick up my feet again, this lacks my feet
an example of why all from j to the Brick
and Tom Looney piled it in for big fan of
the Brick House. Clearly that big fan. Uh uh No, listen,
(29:03):
you have to find the date. I don't off the
top of my head, I don't know the date of
the Talent Show, but we did it. I believe we
did it earlier. I want to say we did the
Talent Show. I think it was in April or May
of I have to go back through my notes and
(29:25):
and check. But yeah, if you find the date, it's
very easy to find the podcast. All the podcasts are
podcasts are archives, so you just have to find find
the date. But I don't have it right now off
the top of my head. Here, I don't remember the
exact date. I'm not rain Man, I'm not Cowboy and
windsor right know the exact date of balls. Fan Jimmy
says he's from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says Ben and Mr West
(29:48):
of the four oh five. As a youth playing sports,
what was the biggest thrill of victory for you in
the agony of defeat? I think we've been over this before.
I feel like we've answered these questions before, this question before. Yes,
So I don't know. I mean, go back and hear
the old podcast bat You Up by You. Wow, what
a jerk. I don't want to repeat old material. Big
(30:09):
Mike from Courtland, New York rites in the Crown City.
He says, it appears that mobile sports betting is coming
to the Great state of New York. Yeah, what are
your thoughts on legalized sports betting expanding across the US?
Good or bed? It's not good or bad. It's great.
The word is great. First of all, I'm a gambler,
so for me, you're asking the wrong guy the question
(30:30):
if you're looking for a negative answer. Uh. Secondly, there
are gonna be people. They're gonna lose money and will
not be able to manage their money and we'll get
carried away. But it's the same as alcohol, right, alcohol
is legal. There's a certain persentie of people that drink
too much and get in the car, accidents and problems happen,
things like that. But gambling, I think, I think it's
(30:51):
a it's a cool thing. I think if you have
disposable income, a little bit extra money, rather than buy
a lottery ticket or a bunch of lottery tickets, put
a couple of bucks down on a game, you're gonna
watch the game anyway. I think it's a wonderful thing,
and it should have been legal years ago. And adults
have the decision to make whether or not they want
to make a better or not. If it's not for you,
(31:11):
don't do it. Other people want to do it. Good
for them to each their own. I'm gonna push back
and say that it's a bad thing. The reason why
is because I think there was something great about going
to Las Vegas. You had to, you know, to save
up money, and you had to allocate certain funds for
a weekend or a couple of days in Las Vegas.
(31:31):
And you don't do that anymore. You don't need to
do that. And then on top of that if you
do know this. If you're a gambler when you go
to Vegas, if you're betting on the slots, craps, you know, poker, blackjack,
whatever it is, certain tables will give you action and
they'll give you comps like drinks, food rooms, things of
that nature. Or if you're gambling on sports right now
(31:53):
on a mobile ap, you get no comps. You might
get an initial match play you put in a hundred
dollars will match you up to a hundred dollars and
something that nature. But outside of that, there's no real
incentive outside of just comparing books. When you're online, yes,
and you realize that there's really no there's nothing called
the free lunch. Like you even though you you think
you're getting free drinks and all that, you're actually not,
(32:14):
Like those are built into the cost of everything. Well,
I I understand that, but if you're winning, I mean
you're getting something for free, are you not? Yeah, but
you're not. Nobody wins, right. You know, going in the
casino is great because you know going in the odds
are against you that you're going to lose, but you
still enjoy it. It's like recreational. It's entertainment, of course,
(32:37):
But who goes into a casino thinking I'm gonna make money.
I'm gonna make a ton of money. I'm gonna come
out here with more money, a bigger pile of money
than when I came in here. Poker players and people
that are typically gambling on crops, I mean, those are
the two games and black jack that are close that
you get fifty odds at least crap craps some blackjack
that you get odds to the house. It's not accurate
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to Vegas is gonna be fine. People are still gonna
go to Vegas, the gambling mecca and all that. It's
not gonna kill Vegas. I mean, the sports betting has
been legal in a lot of states for a while.
It's not like Vegas is is falling off the face
of those casinos though they know all the tricks, man,
I mean, they don't no clocks, no windows, and those
(33:19):
Vegas casinos and they're all designed like a maze. It's
it's fascinating. I read a book about that years ago,
about how they design casinos and why they do the
things they do and all that, and it's, uh, it's
pretty pretty interesting. The mental tricks that they put on
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people to get them to gamble. But gambling is like
a reverse a t M machine. You put money in
and you don't get a lot of money back. So anyway,
what else do we have to see? Page down here?
Page down mark in Ottawa? Right, So, and he says,
how do you come up with the Mallard monologue? Connect
three words? So we've got pink lemonade, barbecue cover and
(34:03):
Jens saki and we're going to combine all these things
together and make some baba ganooche. Well, there is a
method to the madness mark, but it's really random. I
go I'll find something that I want to talk about
in a monologue, and you know, I'll jot down some
some bullet points and then I'll be like, no, I
(34:23):
try to figure out a way to tie everything together.
So um, it's not like I go in and say, well,
I gotta use you know this, that or the other thing.
It's kind of organically happens. But some some days are
easier than others. Some days it's like they have anything
unique here. But blind blind Emmett the Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington,
(34:48):
leading the race for blind Caller of the year he's
up for the Beny. He says, if you guys could
travel anywhere in the world, where would it be? You
ask this question too blind? Emmett did not him, but
I think someone asked very popular question. Yeah, I think
we already answered that. We we already got like New
(35:08):
Zealand or Australia. Yeah, I said, toky Europe or Mars
or Bangladesh. I've been watching these vloggers, these video travel
guys on YouTube, and there's one of these guys went
to Afghanistan and was traveling, you know, like recently, like
a couple of months ago, went to Afghanistan, was one
(35:29):
and around went to North Korea years ago on a trip. Crazy.
I know the w w E does a great job
of honoring the military, and they go out to the
Middle East. Did they go to Afghanistan? I think they've
gone well, I know they've gone a Baghdad. I don't
know if they've gone to Afghanistan. It's pretty wild. And
this guy was like in a Taliban controlled city and
(35:50):
just wander around, damn like white dude from Arizona, like
sticking out like a sore thumb exactly. Uh. Stevens Swanton
Ohio says, do you guys get along outside of work,
watch games together, cook out? No, not at all. We
don't get along together at all. We don't go together. No, not,
None of that happened geographically undesirable. Ricardo from Fresno right
(36:16):
See says Ben. How much of a feminist is David Gascon? Well?
The late Rush Limbaugh would call him a feminazi is
what he would call the gascon he is? He we
call him at at work, we call him the Rapino
of Fox Sports. Rod Yes, actually looks like Megan Rapino
a little bit too, Not that that's bad. She's a
(36:36):
lovely lady. In my apologies doing purple hair, Chris and
Iowa writes, since is what is the Mallard maneuver for
getting out of the doghouse with the wife? Currently in
that situation? Right now? Chris is having some some issues there. Chris,
I'm I'm pretty lucky. I don't get in the doghouse
very often, but normally my wife's pretty chill. I just apologize,
(36:59):
And I've learned as a married man that you often
have to apologize for things that don't deserve an apology,
but you still have to Apologie. So I wish I
had more to tell you. Gascon's got nothing on this
because he's I recommend you cook and you clean. Well,
what if you already do that and do better? I
(37:20):
doubt he cooks and cleans. I'm a dishwasher. I occasionally
do some of the laundry. Uh, you know, I know
how to cook. I learned how to cook a couple
of years back. So yeah, it's work in progress for
your husband of the year. My god, there's the things
you could do. Flowers, cook, clean, wash the sheets, make
the bed. Eric and Omaha rights and says, is there
(37:44):
an athlete you despise growing up and ended up meeting
them later in life and they ended up being friends? Well,
I wouldn't say friends, and I wouldn't say someone I,
you know, dealt with growing up. But when I was younger,
I had heard some terrible stories. There's two people that
I'm want to name here, and this is off the
(38:04):
top of mind. I mean there's probably others that I'm
forgetting that I'll kick myself and say, boy, I wish
I had brought that person up if I think about this.
But but Eric, Mike Milbury and Mike Keenan a couple
of hockey coaches, and I Mike Keenan in particular. I
had covered hockey a little bit early in my career
at six ninety and Keenan would come in with the
(38:25):
various teams and he was such an asshole, such a dick,
and you know, really short and give you the death stare,
kind of like the Belichick stuff. And Milbury. I had
heard some horrific stories about Mike Milbury, the old Boston
Bruin from back in the day. And then I worked
at NBC for a year and would travel back every
month to Stanford, Connecticut, and we'd all hang out on
(38:49):
the set, and then after we we wrapped up the
taping of the show, we would go hang out at
the hotel bar and those guys would fly into Connecticut
also and stay at the time they were they were
wonderful guys. I have very fun memberis of Mike Keenan
telling me how he was approached by a Russian aristocrat
(39:09):
aristocrat to go coach hockey and Russia and then proceeded
to try to convince Mike Milbury to go join him
and coach a team in Russia. And Mike Milbury was like,
I don't know, and then he Keenan told him how
much money he got paid, and then all of a sudden,
Milbury perked up. He's like, oh, maybe I don't think
he ever did, but those those guys were pretty cool.
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And Mike Milbury told me the famous one of the
great stories in NHL history when he beat up a
fan at Madison Square guard right around Christmas, got into
a Donny Brook in the crowd a Bruins Rangers game.
It's one of the great stories in hockey history. And
he gave me the play by play from his perspective
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what happened, and you know, he was like, hey, I
just wanted he was around Christmas. I want to get
back and see my mom, you know, and this guy
you know, grabbed something and then one thing lent to
another and William Bam, here we go. Interesting anybody for
you against Tommy Losorda sorta you thought Losorda was I
thought I thought Losorda was a really nice guy, and
(40:12):
then I met him in person. He was a fucking asshole.
And he actually he actually is an asshole too. He
was supposed to speak at one of my sisters graduation
or commencement events and apparently he had too much to
drink the night before, two hungover, didn't show up the
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next day, and this is in Louisiana. Bailed on them
at an uncle that he was supposed to speak to
an event at an event for for my uncle bailed
on that he's a dick. Not rest of soul, but
he's a fucking asshole speaking of the dead. I didn't
have that experience. I will tell you that my experience
(40:53):
with a sorta he did have multiple personalities. I think
most people have multiple And there there was the public
the sort of in front of the cameras, and then privately.
You know, you can't be like that all the time.
But I I you know, he was nice and he
would always ask me how I was doing, and it
will sort of like me. I think in part because
I started covering the Dodgers. I was nineteen years old.
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He was he only had a couple of years left
as the manager of the team. But I was one
of the last of the regulars at Dodger Stadium that
was covering him as a reporter. So I think that
he uh like that. But I'm glad that he treated
it like an asshole. That's good. I like Losorda Moore.
Now hearing that story, well he's gone. Well, I know,
(41:36):
maybe he'll come back to haunt you. Maybe that'll be
the case. Uh. Kathleen writes and says, hey, Benny Jet,
have you ever done any stand up comedy? I noticed
that you put the same techniques to good use as
stand up comedians. Kathleen, listen, it's open mic night every
night on the Ben Mallo Show. What are you talking about? No,
(41:56):
I've never done stand up comedy. I've never really considered
doing end up comedy, although, you know, if there's money
to be made. Joe Rogan owning, he he opened a
new comedy club. He's not open yet, but in Austin, Texas.
Go down the little stand up in Austin. Come on,
what do you say? See that house? Rogan bot in Austin. Home?
(42:18):
My god. I don't know. Good for him, living like
a king. He got out of California. Job by him? Man. Uh.
John in Corona, for some reason, says, are you best
friends with the hot dog vendors at Petco Park? No?
I actually haven't been to Petco Park in a while.
Adrian in the mile I said he actually said this
a while ago, but I don't think we got to
(42:39):
this last week, he said. He and his family returned.
He lives in Obviously the Colorado returned from Midland, Texas.
They want on a trip to Midland, Texas to visit
family and whatnot. And he points out here the key
part of this message. He says, while in Texas, I
finally got to try the famous raising canes chicken fingers
(43:01):
at the Midland restaurant. I walked up to the counter
and I asked for the Ben Mallard Special Adrians. The
young lady behind the counter looked at me funny and
didn't know what I was talking about, and then I
had to explain to her. Adrian says that I wanted
the Keniak Combo no Coast law, extra fries, the Texas
toast on both sides, and a large lemonade. Adrian says
(43:26):
the meal was delicious and I will eat there again.
He also points out this is this is also interesting.
During his drive from Denver to Midland, Texas, the speed limit,
he says, is mostly seventy five miles an hour, so
he says he said his cruise control to seventy nine
miles an hour per the Ben Mallard show recommendation that
we always talked about, and he made it there and
(43:48):
back with no speeding tickets. It's pretty good. There. You good?
All right? He also wants us to talk to Alan
and Roach, he said, would be a great Friday interview
for the podcast Good Idea. Do you know who Alan Roaches? Yeah? Why?
I wonder what the fascination behind Alan Roaches? Though? Well?
(44:12):
Who is Alan Roach? Do you know what he does? Yeah?
He is a public address announcer. I know that. Yeah,
he's the Denver Broncos. You're a Bronco fanboy, He's the
Denver Broncos public address announcer. He's also the voice of
the train that runs inside Denver International Airport and he
works at k o A and Denver, a legendary, uh
(44:32):
legendary radio station. Does he do the trainer? Does he
do the actual airport like I thought he did the
I don't know. According to Adrian, he says, when's the
last time you were the Denver Airport? It's been it's
been a few years. It's been seven or eight year.
It's depressing seven or eight years. Yeah, I know what
l a xual. They have celebrities doing a lot of
(44:52):
the stuff which is I find annoying? I find annoying. Alright,
guess I apparently have things to go. I don't know
what things to do, if things to you know, I
don't know why. I don't know what you have to do.
I have no idea. But that's my weekend. You have
a lot of things on the plate for the weekend,
and you're rushing me through this. And there's so many
other questions we didn't get to in the mail bag.
You know, none of them have been addressed to me,
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So who cares? Wow, all right, we'll be back on
I will be back on the radio, and I'm sure
guesscout will probably miss a podcast or two coming up here.
But I will be back on the radio tonight Sunday
in the Monday eleven p m. Sunday Night in the
West two AM in the East with four hours of
original audio content. Will be recapping the Masters and everything
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else that happened the good, the bad, the ugly from
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