July 18, 2021 • 44 mins
Ben and Ryan are back with another trip around the mailroom to answer listener questions as they remember the good old days.
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to it. It would help if they listen to it.
But it is Sunday and the mail bag and the
man who online is known as Ryan McBain, but to
us he's Ryan Smith, and he is back for the
Sunday mail back, very exciting Ryand you want to rip
Boston again like you did yesterday? How dare you? Yes?
I would love to, because Boston is just a ship hole. Yes,
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I said, guns blazing, baby, guns blazing. What if you
got offered a big time radio job in Boston and
they paid you like a ton of money, would you
move to Boston? I'd rather do a local radio show
in hell. Hell. Yes, you were all about burning those bridges, burning,
burn baby, burn out there you When you burn the bridges,
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it's easier to see the path in front of you
from the top rope, Ryan McBain, Yeah, there you go.
All right. I don't like it, Okay, I don't like
all right, it's fine, you don't have to like it.
I don't care those things I don't like either. Tom
is a fraud. You have BDS. You were suffering from BDS.
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Boston derangement syndrome. Stop stop, okay, anyway, listen, we we've
got a bunch of emails. I want to thank you guys.
You guys have done a great job. The email. It
was a little slow this week. I got concerned. I
post this on Wednesday and I looked and we only
had a few questions, and I was like, oh crap,
you know, I guess people don't like the mail bag. Um.
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But then it turned around and I went to the
email and we had a bunch of questions on email,
which was great. So that picked up the slack. But
if you like it, we'll keep it going. Now, if
we ever get to a point we don't have very
many questions, we just won't do the Sunday podcast. We'll
just end the Sunday podcast. We don't have to do
the Sunday podcast. This is a bonus podcast. This is
the eighth day of the week because I have a
radio show tonight, uh you know, Sunday and the Monday
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that we will do so and it's not necessary to
do the Sunday mail bag. I like doing it and
we usually get tons of questions. This week was a
little slow, So if you want to send a question.
You do not have to wait for me to prompt you.
You can send a question in any time if you're
listening right now and say, hey, I got a good
question for these these nim rods. Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com. Real fifth hour, that's f I F
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T H. That's how you spell fifth not with the
number five. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com and
ask ask us anyday. It's interesting. It's gotta be. It
can't be really time specific. It's got to be kind
of open ended, uh, interesting unique. If you want to
open up old old wounds like we did with with Ryan,
they're talking about Boston. He gets very upset by that.
You can do that. It's all fair game. And then again,
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I will post usually on Wednesday, unless we record the
podcast earlier than I'll do it on I'll do it
on maybe Tuesday, but at some point during the week.
So that is it. So let's answer these questions. Pierre
in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame,
or Muffett McGraw isn't trying now? Do you hate Springfield, Massachusetts,
which is at the other end of Massachusetts, which is
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far from Boston. Do you have Ryan a loathing for Springfield, Massachusetts. Okay,
let me explain to see the best way I can
if you were going to get the planet Earth and enema,
you'd stick the host right in Massachusetts. Wow. Wow, unbelievable.
You have had bad experiences with massholes. You have really
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had oh man, alright triggered anyway? Uh my my grandfather
from Springfield, mass So you're you're you're urinating on my family.
How dare you anyway? Uh? Pierre says Ben. It's pretty
obvious that Coop treasures the elusive check mark on Twitter.
Would it be possible for me to broker a deal
between you and your future neighbor, Mr West of the
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four oh five. I don't even know who that guy
is anymore. I propose that, in exchange for your services,
that I may help David obtain said check mark. Maybe
he could provide you with something that you covet say
the VPN who gets verified at FSR would enrage Coope
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more gascon or ned Flanders. Yeah, well you know who
Ned Flanders is locally? Locally yes, uh so, I would
think based on the politics of gascon versus the politics
of Coop, I'm guessing that Coop would be more upset
of gascon got got verified. I wonder Pierre's like a
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made man. He knows people at Twitter. But I would
love the VPN. I do cove at the VPN. I
need to get. Do you have a good VPN? H? No,
I don't. Unfortunately you don't. Do you have? Yeah? You do?
It opens up a whole new world. You can get
one on the dark web, So if you want to
go in the dark web you can. That's a great question. Unfortunately,
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yet again Mr West of the four oh five not here,
so he he can't answer. But I'm all four it.
I fully support it. I think it's a great idea
and if you know people and you can make that happen,
that would be great. Glenn in Chicago writes in the
Windy City, a regularly listening to the podcast. He says, Hey, Ben,
do you know why nine of baseball players are hitting
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a home run? When they're hitting After hitting home run,
look up and point up in the air as they
crossed the plate. Why has anybody not asked? Well, I
think that's kind of obvious. I think they're just they're
doing that because they believe that God help them hit
the home run like the higher power in the heavens
or they're sending a shout out to the heavens. Yeah,
how come we always think that heavens above us and
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not below us? What if it's what if it's the opposite?
What if we've been wrong the whole time? Here? Ryan,
third rail, ma may and it's the third rail. But
always laughing when someone says, oh, thank thank God for
this womenss and that, Yeah, okay, because God really cares
about your victory when people are dying all over the world.
That makes total sense. Yes, yes, I completely agree with you,
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and I've done many mailer monologues on that. But you know, now, Ryan,
I don't know if I can do that anymore because
you say anything that goes against group think and people
get so upset, Like I pointed out the Naomi Osaka hypocrisy,
and how you know she's anti media, but she's got
a Netflix documentary, magazine covers all. She's only anti media
when they ask questions she doesn't like, and so people
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get so upset and oh, how dare you and any
dissenting opinions people do not like? But I'm right there
with you. I'm pretty sure if there is a higher power,
and we'll all find out, hopefully someday one day or another.
But if there is, then I'm I'd like to think
that they're not worried about, you know, Joe Blow winning
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the Super Bowl or hitting a home run in a
baseball game, unless unless you're beating a Boston team, Okay come.
Glenn also says I remember Dion Sanders back in the
day doing this with the Reds, but it was after
his father passed away. He and it continued. So it
seems a bit annoying, and I feel it's it's done
only for style points. Well, style points are important. You've
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got to have the razmutaslin. You gotta when when I
was a young punk, I impersonated every baseball player. You
know that, that batting stance guy who actually met him
a few times, the batting stance guy on Twitters, guy's
own little niche he impersonated, His impersonates random baseball players.
Basis I used to do that when I was a kid.
There's not that many unique batting stances these days in baseball,
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at least I haven't noticed that many. But you gotta
stand out a little bit. You gotta stand out a
little bit. Uh, let's see here. Glenn also says, have
you thought about streaming your show or you know, podcast
asked live on Twitch more Militia interaction. Yeah, Glenn, that's
a great idea, but I don't own the show, and
uh if if it was a way to monetize it
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for me, I would be all for it. I don't
necessarily need to help the company make more money. They
make plenty of money. Uh So if we did our
own standalone thing, this is a under the I Heart umbrella.
So I don't think you unless they wanted us to
do it, but on our own I don't think we'd
be allowed to do it. There's a lot of bureaucracy,
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which I try to avoid the bureaucracy as much as
I can. I just try to stay in your lane.
Is my my mentor LaVar Ball taught me stay in
your life. That's what I do. That's what I did.
That's it. What else do we have? One more from
GLENNI says, since Gascon has been doing football games for Germany,
has he viewed any German porn? If so, what did
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he type in the searche third rail? That's the third
round my uh, Uh, yeah, what about you, Ryan, You
and any German in German porn. I don't watch porn.
I think it's very degrading. The men really not watch
the porn. Yeah, that's a lot. Your nose is girl.
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Pinocchio knows this girl right there. I know you're you're
on the porn side. You're saying, all right, let me
change it up a little bit and you kick on
the little flag for the different one of some of
those sites of the different flags you can click on
for Uh, it is interesting what certain parts of the
world are into and you can you can get a
kind of a feel for that depending on which flag
you click. And not that I've done that. I've heard
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from other people. I've not done that because I'm a professional.
I would not do that. Okay, dark web, There you go,
the dark web. Andy writes in from He says, near
Ben's Tommy's in Hoboville, Hollywood. Yeah, he's right there off
the one on one Freeway. I used to stop at
that Tommy's and get my my my triple cheeseburger and
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fries with chili cheese fries. Years was Tommy's in Hollywood,
those late night food runs. Anyway, I says. Back in
the day, I was This is from again Andy, He says,
I was a big sports talk radio junkie. I moved
from Philadelphia to Denver, to San Francisco, and then finally
to l A, Go West, young man. I consume so
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much Tony Bruno, Pete Franklin, Ralph Barbieri, and eventually Joe
and Duck, Joe McDonald and Doug Kricorian. Back in the
day that I I bleed jingles and drops when live
reads and the tyranny of ESPN radio spread like the
plague I treated, retreated two blogs, and later dived headfirst
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into the early world of podcasting. Nowadays, Andy says he
does not listen to live radio anymore. That's a shame.
I wouldn't have believed this a decade ago, he says.
I do digest our content is Big Ben's content daily
via the podcast, but not any other local or not
radio shows. Again, I can't believe this fact, he and
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then he says he gets to the crescendo. He says,
is local sports talk radio almost dead on terrestrial radio?
Is it even remotely relevant nationally? Is the loony axiom
of broadcasting not narrowcasting? Irrelevant today. Uh so I'll answer
that you have some other questions here. So the way
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I'll say sports radio, it depends on the market. It
depends on the market. And I again I'm gonna annoy
Mr McBain over there. But I having worked in Boston,
typically the top two radio stations are the top in
the top five are both sports talkers. W e I
and the Sports Hub in Boston are in the top five.
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Philadelphia also gets monster ratings in sports talk radio. Sports
talk radio in l A does not get huge numbers.
It just does not. It's never it's never gotten huge numbers. Ironically,
when I did it back in the nineties, he had
compared to the ratings that sports radio gets. Now, we
had huge ratings. But at the time they thought they
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were terrible ratings. But you know, twentysomething years later, looking back,
that was a massive number that we got compared to
what the shows today get. Um. But there's still a
large audience. But it it really is. Uh in in
in l A. It's more of a niche thing. And
but there's so many sports fans in l A. I
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know in in Minnesota it's k fan in Minnesota. My god,
that is a blowtorch. We have so much interaction and
so much feedback in Minnesota. So the point is it
really depends on the city. And there's some cities were
on we get no reaction. Nobody emails me, nobody posts
anything on Twitter, nobody calls in from the I mean,
I don't even know if we're on. Maybe they turned
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the transmitter off. I have no idea, So you know,
it's like but but there's other places that it's just
like I feel like sometimes we're just doing the local
Minnesota show. I could just talk about the Vikings and
the Twins and the Timberwolves and that's it, and we'd
have great feedback. And there's a lot of creative people,
funny people in Minnesota love sports talk radio. We do
very well in Houston, which is odd because all I
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do is rip the Stros and we get a lot
of feedback from I guess that's the Howard Stern thing,
you know, you know Howard Stern thing. Yes, yeah, Or
if if they hate you, they listen longer. They call
it the Howard Stern effect. They call it where people
that really hate you they listen longer than those who
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love you, just to make sure they don't miss any
opportunity to be outraged and offended. Well, I think in
l A. Part of the problem is there's so much
more to dude. You know, if you go to like
to like Minnesota, Like, what's western do in Minnesota's ten
thousand lakes? What are you talking about in the summer, les,
Let's go to Lake Minnetonka. I mean, you are you
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are attacking. The first rule is to not attack the
customer attack you. I'm just saying there's more to do
in l A than there is in Minnesota. That's all
I'm saying. I don't know. Listen, I'm I'm a pretty
simple guy, and you're you're like me. You don't leave
your house much, right other than go to work. Yeah,
we're I think we're similar in that regard. We're both introverts.
And so I would I could live in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
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I'd be fine. I don't leave my house that much.
I'd get a better steak. You know, there's probably a
nice barbecue place. If I was in Kansas City. I'd
love Kansas City because of the food. So I'd be fine.
And uh, And there are more than ten thousand likes.
There are eleven thousand, eight hundred and forty two lakes
of ten acres or more in Minnesota. How about that.
For a fact, if you ask the average person where
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would you rather live, Los Angeles or Minnesota, They're probably
gonna say l A. Yes, Minnesota, all right, I understand
because most people think will l A. You know, it's
seventy five degrees every day and all that. You also
have an infestation of homeless people overtaking southern California exactly
prove my point. It's so it's so good that even
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though almost want to live. No, no, it's so good,
the politicians and allow the homeless to defecate all over
the streets and take it's a hostile takeover. And the
politicians are so spineless and gutless that they don't do anything,
which is I think the job of a politician is
to make sure the community is clean and people are
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taking care of Listen. I feel bad you're homeless and
you're down on your luck, But I think there are
ways to handle it better than allowing them to drop
a ship on the sidewalk on Ventura Boulevard. How about that.
I mean, maybe it's a little bit of both. I mean, uh,
I'm not gonna say wrong, all right, listen, it's I
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remember I haven't gone to the studio a while. Even
in Sherman Oaks, that Sherman Oaks neighborhood, there are so
many rich people up the hill there, you know, bell
Airs right around the corner, and so many of those
mansions up in the hills above Sherman Oaks, and they
come down to go shopping and whatnot. And it is
insane how many and a lot of these homeless people.
Back in the old days were hidden and I'd see
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him at night, but now they're not even They're like, oh,
they got their tents out there everywhere. It's craziness. It's unbelievable. Yes,
there's a bunch of them by my house. I'm like, wow.
Times are rough, and seriously, it's it's very sad, and
it is said, I feel terrible, but there's gotta be
a better way to handle it, right, There's gotta be
a better way to handle it. A think about the
money that is wasted on bullshit by politicians and things
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that are not needed, and yet money could be reallocated
to help homeless people. But then the other problem is
that and you know, we've got homeless people that love
to be homeless. They don't want to have a house. Yeah,
and you ask the average homeless person, they rather be
homeless in l A. The Minnesota. Thank you, Well, there's
homeless in Minnesota. Yeah. But yeah, man, if you ask
someone who's in Minnesota, would they rather be living in
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l A and their homeless, that's like, yeah, l A.
I'm telling you l is a place to be. There's
a lot of homeless in Hawaii. But you know what
they used to do. I don't know if they still
do this. When I was in Hawaii, there was a
big story on the local news because I love watching
local TV news when I go to different cities because
it kind of it feels cool. You feel like you're
you're you're a local. And I remember that a big story.
There was like a big homeless problem in Honolulu. And
so what they were doing was offering one way tickets
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to anywhere in the continent of the United States to
the homeless to get him out of Hawaii. You can
flight anywhere they want, just to leave the Hali because
they figured they coming back, they ain't coming back, you
know that gonna swim back to Hawaii, Cuba. Was this castro,
this the beginning of like starface people out with the
Hell yeah, I don't think they're allowed to do that
anymore because the Wokesters, you know, the Wokesers, weren't allowed
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that to happen. Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia rights in
on the mail bag. He says, big bat, I really
enjoyed listening to the Talent Show this week with so
many good Militia members involved. If you did not hear
the Talent Show, go back and listen to what we
did the review on yesterday's podcast and yesterday's podcast. Anyway,
Jason says, do you think maybe we should do it
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twice a year, perhaps slip one in before Christmas? Yeah?
Yeah about that. I think once a year is the
right amount. We we do the awards, once a year
we do the Talent Show. These are some of the
big events. These are markers, right, These are things that
that we look forward to, and if you do it twice,
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it waters it down. I am gonna push back on that. Jeez,
I'm gonna push back on you. I said we could,
we could do it in December and then do it
again in July. But I think once a year is
the right amount um. But if if unch of people
wanted twice a year, we can do it. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox
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Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Okay, Who's Next?
Vall's fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, is next, he says Ben.
Since Half Pint has run a foul of the law,
will she be giving be given the Reggie Bush treatment?
All records are raised and all Benny's returned? And is
there any chance cooking with Roberto will be replaced with
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cooking with Half Pint since she has become a master chef? Well,
great questions, vaws Fann Jimmy uh, And we have no
integrity on the Ben Mallor Show. In terms of the
Benny's we will not ask for Half Pint to return
the award she won with beer drinking Brian at all.
In fact, it seems to be a requirement to be
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on the edge, to do like a tap dance on
the edge of civility, to be a celebrity caller to
the show. So now we love half Pint. She's obviously
had some interesting situations in her life. I have, thanks
to our lawyer friend Michael in New Jersey, I have
learned more about half Pint, and you could put her
(20:37):
in the desperado bandit category. Uh so she's she's had
a lot of activity with law enforcement and whatnot. What's happening.
But who am I. She's got a pretty big rap sheet,
you know, pretty rap sheet, so criminal history, I should say.
But we like her. She's nice to us, and we
don't really know her as that person. So it's the
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mad at a radio. That's a great thing. You We
don't know these people that call in and to be delinquents.
You could be running Fortune five hundred companies, or you
could be visiting the House of Corrections. Who knows. But
we will find out in another ten days or something
like that or less than that. Now, whether or not
she'll be spending a lot of time in the gulag,
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we will, we will see. Carlos in Houston writes and says,
what is the origin story on that clown, the Boston hater?
You had another Boston reference? Uh well, I'll start Carlos
with that. I said, you also have another question here
He says about Tammy and Montana. But the first one
the Boston hat sold this. This started years and years
ago in the early days of Fox Sports Radio UH
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and the Boston Hater he went by a different name.
He started calling us up and he just wanted to
bash the teams in Boston's kind of like McBain over.
Guy's a Yankee fan and all that. He lives in Florida.
Now the Boston Haters, so he but he used to
he used to call up, and then we determined that
he would only really call up after a certain he
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got older, and the only time he would really call
up was when the Bruins would get eliminated or the
Patriots would lose in the playoffs or not make the
playoffs with the Red Sox. And so he became the
Boston Hater and he would just call up. And what
he does Ryan as he calls up and does like
a two and a half minute speel where he just
dances on the grave of the Boston team and he says,
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it's a Boston Haters, you know, celebration or whatever he says,
and then he he goes to this whole list about
how the Red Sox are frauds. The Patriots are frauds,
the Celtics are frauds, like the whole thing. So that's
that's his stick, and we allow him to do that,
realizing we do pretty well in Boston. We have a
lot of listeners there and I have gotten some very
angry messages from our New England listeners towards the Boston Heater.
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And he also got me in some trouble because somebody
was so triggered because he took a shot. I don't
know if you know who Johnny Pesky is. Do you
know who Johnny Pesky is? An old baseball player. Yeah,
they the He was a Red Sox legend like it,
wasn't a great player, but he played for the Red
Sox and they named the foul poll at Finway Park
down the right field line is really close and Johnny
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Pesky would hit it quite a bit, so they named
it the Pesky Poll. He's allegend, like a local legend.
He's passed away a few years back. But anyway, the
Boston Hater just pissed all over Johnny Pesky. And you
know I had nothing to do with it. I just
allowed I allowed him on the air. Fine, but I
allow a lot of people on here and and some
some some guy in Boston has so upset that this
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guy on the local airwaves on the Red Sox station
at the time was trashing Johnny Pesky that he was
he demanded an apology. It was so ridiculous, it was
they was like talking about pulling the show. It was
so stupid. Someoney got triggered, exactly. That was a long
That was before it was cool to be triggered. That
was a long time ago. He also says, is Tammy
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and Montana she says, or Carlo says Tammy and Montana
must be loaded with cash helping out the Mallem militia. Well, no,
she's not loaded Tammy. I know a little bit about Tammy.
Tammy's is just a hard working woman. She's got a job.
You know, she's got a job. She's she just likes
to help people out. She likes to give back acts
of kindness, which better than me. I don't do that.
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So yeah, very kind Yeah, we Tammy has helped out
a lot of listeners. She stepped out flexis and hollering
James and also lately half pint and beer drinking Brian,
among others. We call her the mother Teresa of the
show because she does look out for some of our
more unique characters, and we have many, and so we
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we appreciate that. Uh. And then Carlos says, I demand
the whole song from Raz from the Talent Show. I
couldn't stop laughing. Well, Carlos, it's on YouTube. I know
you're off social media. Does YouTube count of social media?
And I don't know it? Does it does? Okay? Uh? Yeah,
well if you go on YouTube, raz Quit the band
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has his own YouTube channel and he put the tire
song up so you can listen to it, and you
should subscribe to his channel. Raz as a friend of
the show. He's a very talented, middle aged musician in Minnesota.
And I like the guy. He's good. He's new onto
the scene over the last year or so. Less than that,
we think he's pretty good. So ras Quit the band
and he said the song was about erectile dysfunction, not masturbation.
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It sounded like masturbation, so we had to dump it.
It was like an homage to Blair in Maine. That's
what it sounded like to me. Blair, who's famously said
he enjoys too self manipulate his his man man bits
and uh and all that third round, third round, Mama.
It's a podcast, mama. Anyway, r J in saying in
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Tonio the Alamo, do you hate San Antonio because text
Mex sucks? Text Mex blows? I mean, I don't know
anything about that. No, it's not it's not the proper
Mexican food. Anyway, r J in San Antonio says, you're
ten years old, what's on your agenda on a Saturday morning? Alright,
(26:08):
great question, r J. So ten year old Ben going
the way back machine here. First of all, I was
obsessed with baseball at age ten, played played baseball, was
convinced that I was gonna be in the big leagues. Uh.
And I would have been if it hadn't been for
those meddling other players that were better than me. But
this week in baseball, this Weekend Baseball, I recalled during
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the summer, This Weekend Baseball, which was then the lead
into the NBC Game of the Week. And man, was
that a big That was a big thing. And being
on the West coast, This Weekend Baseball, as I remember
it aired, it like nine or nine thirty in the morning,
and then we'd go into the NBC pregame and then
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be like a Tiger Blue Jay's game or a Yankee
game versus the Red Sox or something like that. And
I have very fond memories of that. But I really
love this Weekend Baseball with mel Allen twib notes around
the majors. The Cardinals are flying high in St. Louis, yea,
and all that straight A's in Oakland, all those corny,
(27:15):
hokey opens to this Weekend Baseball. Old you were doing that.
I was watching this Weekend Baseball and the Game of
the Week, but I was this. I also watched the
cartoons in my day, where like the Scooby Mystery fun House,
Yogi's Treasure, No, I watched it. I loved G I Joe.
There was a G I Joe cartoon, Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats,
(27:37):
remember the Galactic Guardians with Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Aquaman.
I think I'm a little older than you, but the
Green Lantern, the Flash. That was a cool show. Super Friends.
You mean, I don't think it was called that. I
think it was called something else. But yeah, I was like,
now it's the super Friends. There was like Super Superpowers
(27:58):
Team or some bullshit like that. I think it was
called I don't know, but yeah, it's the same thing.
I love that. And then they had at some point
the teenage Mutant Inter Turtle cartoon came out. But he
used to have like weird like Mr T. I remember
was part of a cartoon. I don't remember what it was.
I just remember seeing Mr T as a cartoon. It
was odd. I was a big fan of Mr T.
(28:19):
I love the A team. Also, I was called a
great show. It was a solid show man. They'll make
shows like that anymore, they don't, you know. Almost did
a radio show with Mr Mr t Our our boss.
This guy, Mike Thompson was running eleven fifty and eleven
fifty as a sports station, and he wanted to bring
in you know, figure it l a, you gotta bring
in some celebrity, and so he tried out, this is great,
(28:41):
this is in the kind of the the mid to
late nineties. He tried out Ericastrada better known as Poch
Poncerella from Chips and Mr t Uh and he brought
these guys in to try out to do a midday
It was gonna give a one hour show, one hour
(29:02):
talk show. Now keep in mind as a kid. You know,
I'm of the age. I liked Chips, I liked Eric Astrata.
I was gonna be a highway patrol officer because the Chips,
and I also loved the A Team in part because
of Mr T. So I would have had I was
doing the midday show and we would have followed those shows. Unfortunately,
the day that Mr T came in, I was not there.
(29:23):
I didn't get to meet him, and I also missed
out on Eric Astrata because I was on a remote
that day. And but they both came in an audition
and the boss ended up hiring Terry Bradshaw as the
host Lunch with Terry they called it, and he did
a one hour show. But they were in the running.
Was Eric Astrata and Mr T do a do a
(29:47):
talk show? What other cartoons did you like? They're back
in the day when we were ten years old. Mr
McBain Vultron Dobots. I'm taking you all back, baby, Yeah,
the old days, the good old days. Garfield. I loved Garfield.
(30:08):
I watched Garfield. Yeah that was solid. I think what
I'm sure there's some I'm missing here, But I was
a traditionalist also during the week they had the old school,
like the flint Stones and the Jet Sins and that
kind of crap. I was into that. The Smurfs, La
La La la, Inspector Gadget, Go Go Gadget. Come on,
(30:30):
that was a good show, Inspector Gadget. Yeah, that was
quality entertainment at the time. At the time, I don't know,
but now I don't think it would hold up now,
But go Go Gadget. Solid the Scooby Doo Gang. If
it wasn't for you meddling kids were I love. I
pulled like the mask off the guy at the very end,
and he's getting taken away. Solid, solid entertainment, all right.
(31:00):
Moving on on the mailbag, Moving on on the mailbag.
Who do we have Adrian in the Mile High City?
Says Ben and Blank were the other guy's not here.
I haven't written in a while because I've been studying
a lot for a water exam. I need to pass
for my job, he says. On Saturday, July three, he
passed the exam. Mazeltov, congratulations, good job by you. I
(31:23):
know it's very stressful a water exam. I wonder what
kind of work you do anyway, He says the Joey
Chestnutt Mallard monologue was accurate and funny. The man is
a freaking athlete. You're damn right, And I hope you
heard Adrian. Last week we had George say On, the
Master of Ceremonies, the commissioner of Major League Eating. It
was great to talk to him. I don't fun time
(31:43):
if to go look and see how that podcast did,
but it was. I had a good time. I don't
care if anybody liked it. I liked it. He says,
how many dogs and buns could West of the four
oh five guy put down? Well, he's not here. He's
not here, so I don't know. Uh. Back in the
old days, I could if I liked the dog. I'll
answer question. I could eat a fair amount, but not anywhere.
I couldn't eat seven or even five. I couldn't eat.
(32:08):
But but here's the question, what do you like on
your hot dog? Yeah, I I don't go too crazy
on the toppings. I will I do mustard, but I
will have catch still, Yes, I still, I will do
what I do. When I go to Costco and get
a dog at Costco, I'll go line of mustard, line
of catchup. Line of mustard, line of catch up. It's
(32:30):
like pinstriped the dog and I will add some onions occasionally.
I don't do relish, really, I don't do relish. Yes, yes,
I'm a comrade. Yeah about you? What Mr big shot
over there? What do you well? I stopped having catch
up when I was like eleven or twelve. You kind
of grow out of know. I'm not grown up. I
do sports radio. I talk about sports as a grown up.
(32:52):
I'm a middle aged man breaking down basketball games. Um,
you know, I go mustard onions and relish mustards mustard
and what kind of mustard you like? The deli mustard
or the regular yellow mustard? I know either or I
will tell you this. I met someone who puts mannise
on their hot dog, which is disgusting. You know, there's
(33:14):
a oh my god, I there's an NBA guy. What
was the guy that had the he owned like a
weird He played for the Washington Wizards a few years ago.
He just he retired a couple of years back, center
from Poland. I don't remember the guy's name, but I
was in the locker room before you guys had you
(33:35):
some interviews before a game, and they had their pregame
meal and he was eating hot dogs smothered in mayonnaise.
That's disgusting. And it was like a delight in Poland, yes,
and pulling us how they thought. Okay, if I ever
saw someone with mayonnaise on their hot dog, I smack
it out of their hand. That's what I would do.
It's the same thing. It's the same thing with these
idiots who put pineapple on their pizza. What the hell
(33:57):
are you doing? Or punching the mouth put pineapple on pizza? Alright,
the guy, I just the guy's name is Marcine gor Tot.
Remember Marcin gor Tott. Yes, yeah, he ate his hot
dogs with the mayonnaise all over smother than mayonnaise. And
it was discussed. It isst It was horrible. He was
an interesting cat though he had like there's he owned
(34:19):
a pet, some weird exotic pet. I forget what it
was right now off the top of my head. But anyway,
I didn't think i'd i'd be spending any time worried
about Martine Marcin gor Tot. But but here we are,
here we are. It's amazing. The magic of the podcast.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
(34:40):
I'm John Middlecoff and I host the Three and Out Podcast.
Do you like football? Do you like the NFL? Do
you like the NFL draft quarterbacks? Coaches? Well, I talked
about it all on the show. I used to work
for Andy Reid as a scout. Now I give you
my unfiltered and raw opinions on everything that goes on
the NFL. And you know we're talking college football because
(35:00):
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I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get
your podcast. Adrian says, I have the podcast version of
the benmal Show on frequently at her house. Will thank
you for that. I especially enjoy listening when Coop and
the Nocturnal Colonel get into a heated argument about the
Lakers and Clippers. Yeah, well that's more about Coop. Coop
(35:25):
cannot handle any It's like we had Derek Martin on
the other day, and Derek's like he even he he
played in the NBA, and he's like, well, it's ridiculous.
The Laker people who can't handle the Clippers and all that. Anyway,
Adrian says, uh. He at some point, you, Ben will
end one of your points with how about that? And
he says an example, the great Kawhi Leonard scored forty
(35:46):
two points last night against the Lakers. How about that? Uh?
I do do that. That's true as one of my
one of my my catchphrases. I guess I just my
default catchphrase. Anyway, he says. Now, when my wife and
I have a friendly argument about chores at home, Adrian says,
I'll end one of my points with how about that? Example?
(36:07):
I swept the floors and I took out the trash
this morning. How about that? Uh? And he says, are
our three kids have caught on and on this and
as soon as I dropped the how about that? One, two,
or all three of them will yo Ben Miller in
the house. Now that's honor. See, I'm honored right there.
That is outstanding it You You are doing a good
(36:28):
job raising your children. Those kids are gonna go on
and make tons of money and be very successful and
live happy lives. And they're gonna remember a stupid moron
on the radio that their dad enjoyed. And it was
they were forced to hear the rhetoric, the nonsense from
that dumb dumb on the radio. So that is a
(36:50):
good catch phrase. I usually go by something like, yeah, man,
you can put that in your pipe and smoke it
or something like that. Now that's not but the funny thing,
how about that? Is actually a tribute from This Weekend
Baseball Mel Allen, who hosted that show. When I was
a kid, he used to say that, and I guess
I just it was ingrained in my head as an adult,
(37:13):
and and for some reason I occasionally will throw out
how about that? But that was Mel Allen, who was
a Yankee broadcaster, you know, million years ago. He's been
dead for twenty five years or whatever it is, but
that was the That was one of his lines. And
I guess I've repurposed it. Is that what you say, Ryan,
you repurpose something? Is that? Uh no, No, it's really
(37:33):
he's dead, so it's not you're not still it's repurposing. Yeah,
you can still, Like when I listen, when I'm dead,
you can steal all my stuff. I'm not around. You
can do whatever you want, you know, have a field day, okay, yeah,
over your house, you know, taking out like couches, couches
and bears and beds and stuff like that. No no, no, no, no,
you can't have that, but the phrases, the phrases. Yeah, anyway,
(37:57):
Adrian says. Lastly, do you guys think Aaron Rodgers will
end up in Denver this fall? He'd be much needed,
a much needed breath of fresh mountain air around here.
That's from Adrian. I do not. I believe Green Bay
is so stubborn they will keep Aaron Rodgers. I did
do another Aaron Rodgers obligatory monologue the other day, and
we're reacting to Peyton Manning. How dumb is Peyton. I'm
(38:19):
still I'm still annoyed by Peyton Manning. Do you see
what he said? Ryan? I did a monologue on Peyton
Manning said that it's too late now for the Broncos
to acquire Aaron Rodgers because training camps about to start. Okay, Yeah,
And I pointed out if the Packers were dumb enough
to trade Aaron Rodgers to Denver, then what I would
if I if I was the Broncos And it was
(38:41):
like five minutes before the first game of the season
and Aaron Rodgers had to play the first three games
with his arm tied behind his back and blindfolded. I
would still rather have him than Drew Lock or Teddy Bridgewater.
How about that. I'm gonna speak this into existence. Aaron
Rodgers is going to the Raider is my friend. The
(39:03):
greatness of that, right, I did that for Adrian, But
I just did that anyway. Uh. Chris and Edmonton writes
in Beautiful Edmonton, Alberta, home of the Oilers, says, wouldn't
it just make more sense to merge Canada into the
US so we can get SEC coverage they're in Edmonton
(39:24):
and call the Clippers one of our own. It's a
great idea, Chris. Uh. And I I think of the
major Canadian cities as American I do, and then we
as Americans can say our native food poutine, and we
can we can embrace the great culture of Canada. Maple syrup.
(39:45):
There's this great debate debate, what is the better maple syrup?
Is it in you know, Vermont, New Hampshire, those places
there is in Canada? And so if Canada becomes part
of America, then we're good. But what you really only
need is the first like ninety miles from the US
(40:06):
border north of Canada, because that's where most of the
population of Canada lives within the US. Like it's within Uh,
I forget how many moles. It's only a few miles
of the U S border the population. I forget what
the exact number is. But I'd be cool with Toronto
and Vancouver and Montreal being part of the United States.
(40:31):
Any pushback on that, Oh, no pushback at all. I
would prefer if we actually would separate from like Massachusetts
and then bring Toronto something like that. How about that.
You know I'm not dead yet. You can't steal my
materials about job about you? Uh? Yeah, here it is.
Here's the fun It is estimated between s and of
(40:56):
the Canadian population lives within a hundred miles of the border.
And said because mostly because of climate, because it's very
the climate once you get up in the northern northern
part of Canada, it is nasty. So there you go,
of the US Canadian population within a hundred miles of
(41:17):
the US. I'm all for it. Edmonton, where do for
christ And Edmonton? Where do I sign? Where do I sign?
We'll get Edmonton, We'll get Winnipeg in there be great
Chad from Champagne, Illinois, hey writes, and he says, Hey, fellas,
what is the most interesting place you have been to?
How about the weirdest place? Yeah? I haven't done much
(41:39):
exotic weird stuff, have not. I love visiting different cities
that I had not been to that I heard a
lot about. I've traveled around the domestic US quite a bit.
I like also going off the beaten path, like when
I'm in New York visiting my brother and avoid the
tourist traps and just go around and check out, you know,
(42:00):
random random nonsense and uh and whatnot and uh. But
there's nothing. I wish I had a great answer. I'm
not exactly a globe trekker. I don't take a lot
of time off. My wife wishes I would. What about you?
I went to Europe when I was like sixteen, But
that's pretty much the most, like, I guess, exotic place
(42:23):
I've ever been to. I like, that's I mean, I'm
I'm pretty much like you. I got nothing on that one. Okay, alright.
Marco in the two oh nine says, when's the last
time you went somewhere uncomfortable? Anytime my wife takes me
out dancing? That would be the answer right there, boom,
very uncomfortable. Do not like that every time I come
to work? Pretty much? That's true. Also, yes, that's true.
(42:46):
It's it's very awkward to walk into a radio station. Now,
last one from John in Northern Colorado. He says in
a Doc Mike related question, do you employ the through
the fly over the top method? What? He says, I'll
admit to the over the top method to try to
avoid excessive fumbling. Yeah, yeah, I don't think that the
(43:07):
fly is do do? Does anyone really use the fly method? There?
I don't. I don't think that's a common Are we
talking about the thing I think we're talking about. Well, yeah,
you're going up to the urinal? What did you wait?
Hold us? What? I don't know. I just wanted to
make sure. Well, I don't know. I mean maybe he's
talking about getting a drink from like Doc, I don't
(43:30):
go through the fly. Uh there's something about Mary that movie.
That's why I don't do it. Oh yeah, you don't
want to? Yeah that oh man, the pain, the scream,
the agony, yes exactly of alright, anyway, that is it?
How can people fall you Ryan on Twitter? If they
wanna interact with you as you have been now the
regular host of the Fifth Hour for the last six episodes. Now, congratulations,
(43:54):
a lot of six episodes you have been with me.
I'm moving on up like the Jefferson's. Ryan McBain Twitch
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and Ryan McBain on Twitter, Twitter the Twitter Machine, tweet
tweet Absolutely, alright, wonderful. I have a great rest of
your day. We will be back. I will be in
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the Magic Radio Box Sunday night into Monday. The show
starts live on the West Coast at eleven pm. On
the East coast, it starts at the unholy hour of
two am, and we'll take you through the overnight hours together.
Have a great rest of your Sunday and we'll catch
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But it is Sunday and the mail bag and the
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Sunday mail back, very exciting Ryand you want to rip
Boston again like you did yesterday? How dare you? Yes?
I would love to, because Boston is just a ship hole. Yes,
(01:50):
I said, guns blazing, baby, guns blazing. What if you
got offered a big time radio job in Boston and
they paid you like a ton of money, would you
move to Boston? I'd rather do a local radio show
in hell. Hell. Yes, you were all about burning those bridges, burning,
burn baby, burn out there you When you burn the bridges,
(02:11):
it's easier to see the path in front of you
from the top rope, Ryan McBain, Yeah, there you go.
All right. I don't like it, Okay, I don't like
all right, it's fine, you don't have to like it.
I don't care those things I don't like either. Tom
is a fraud. You have BDS. You were suffering from BDS.
(02:36):
Boston derangement syndrome. Stop stop, okay, anyway, listen, we we've
got a bunch of emails. I want to thank you guys.
You guys have done a great job. The email. It
was a little slow this week. I got concerned. I
post this on Wednesday and I looked and we only
had a few questions, and I was like, oh crap,
you know, I guess people don't like the mail bag. Um.
(02:58):
But then it turned around and I went to the
email and we had a bunch of questions on email,
which was great. So that picked up the slack. But
if you like it, we'll keep it going. Now, if
we ever get to a point we don't have very
many questions, we just won't do the Sunday podcast. We'll
just end the Sunday podcast. We don't have to do
the Sunday podcast. This is a bonus podcast. This is
the eighth day of the week because I have a
radio show tonight, uh you know, Sunday and the Monday
(03:22):
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do the Sunday mail bag. I like doing it and
we usually get tons of questions. This week was a
little slow, So if you want to send a question.
You do not have to wait for me to prompt you.
You can send a question in any time if you're
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(03:44):
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ask ask us anyday. It's interesting. It's gotta be. It
can't be really time specific. It's got to be kind
of open ended, uh, interesting unique. If you want to
open up old old wounds like we did with with Ryan,
they're talking about Boston. He gets very upset by that.
You can do that. It's all fair game. And then again,
(04:05):
I will post usually on Wednesday, unless we record the
podcast earlier than I'll do it on I'll do it
on maybe Tuesday, but at some point during the week.
So that is it. So let's answer these questions. Pierre
in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame,
or Muffett McGraw isn't trying now? Do you hate Springfield, Massachusetts,
which is at the other end of Massachusetts, which is
(04:27):
far from Boston. Do you have Ryan a loathing for Springfield, Massachusetts. Okay,
let me explain to see the best way I can
if you were going to get the planet Earth and enema,
you'd stick the host right in Massachusetts. Wow. Wow, unbelievable.
You have had bad experiences with massholes. You have really
(04:48):
had oh man, alright triggered anyway? Uh my my grandfather
from Springfield, mass So you're you're you're urinating on my family.
How dare you anyway? Uh? Pierre says Ben. It's pretty
obvious that Coop treasures the elusive check mark on Twitter.
Would it be possible for me to broker a deal
between you and your future neighbor, Mr West of the
(05:11):
four oh five. I don't even know who that guy
is anymore. I propose that, in exchange for your services,
that I may help David obtain said check mark. Maybe
he could provide you with something that you covet say
the VPN who gets verified at FSR would enrage Coope
(05:32):
more gascon or ned Flanders. Yeah, well you know who
Ned Flanders is locally? Locally yes, uh so, I would
think based on the politics of gascon versus the politics
of Coop, I'm guessing that Coop would be more upset
of gascon got got verified. I wonder Pierre's like a
(05:56):
made man. He knows people at Twitter. But I would
love the VPN. I do cove at the VPN. I
need to get. Do you have a good VPN? H? No,
I don't. Unfortunately you don't. Do you have? Yeah? You do?
It opens up a whole new world. You can get
one on the dark web, So if you want to
go in the dark web you can. That's a great question. Unfortunately,
(06:18):
yet again Mr West of the four oh five not here,
so he he can't answer. But I'm all four it.
I fully support it. I think it's a great idea
and if you know people and you can make that happen,
that would be great. Glenn in Chicago writes in the
Windy City, a regularly listening to the podcast. He says, Hey, Ben,
do you know why nine of baseball players are hitting
(06:39):
a home run? When they're hitting After hitting home run,
look up and point up in the air as they
crossed the plate. Why has anybody not asked? Well, I
think that's kind of obvious. I think they're just they're
doing that because they believe that God help them hit
the home run like the higher power in the heavens
or they're sending a shout out to the heavens. Yeah,
how come we always think that heavens above us and
(07:01):
not below us? What if it's what if it's the opposite?
What if we've been wrong the whole time? Here? Ryan,
third rail, ma may and it's the third rail. But
always laughing when someone says, oh, thank thank God for
this womenss and that, Yeah, okay, because God really cares
about your victory when people are dying all over the world.
That makes total sense. Yes, yes, I completely agree with you,
(07:25):
and I've done many mailer monologues on that. But you know, now, Ryan,
I don't know if I can do that anymore because
you say anything that goes against group think and people
get so upset, Like I pointed out the Naomi Osaka hypocrisy,
and how you know she's anti media, but she's got
a Netflix documentary, magazine covers all. She's only anti media
when they ask questions she doesn't like, and so people
(07:45):
get so upset and oh, how dare you and any
dissenting opinions people do not like? But I'm right there
with you. I'm pretty sure if there is a higher power,
and we'll all find out, hopefully someday one day or another.
But if there is, then I'm I'd like to think
that they're not worried about, you know, Joe Blow winning
(08:06):
the Super Bowl or hitting a home run in a
baseball game, unless unless you're beating a Boston team, Okay come.
Glenn also says I remember Dion Sanders back in the
day doing this with the Reds, but it was after
his father passed away. He and it continued. So it
seems a bit annoying, and I feel it's it's done
only for style points. Well, style points are important. You've
(08:27):
got to have the razmutaslin. You gotta when when I
was a young punk, I impersonated every baseball player. You
know that, that batting stance guy who actually met him
a few times, the batting stance guy on Twitters, guy's
own little niche he impersonated, His impersonates random baseball players.
Basis I used to do that when I was a kid.
There's not that many unique batting stances these days in baseball,
(08:49):
at least I haven't noticed that many. But you gotta
stand out a little bit. You gotta stand out a
little bit. Uh, let's see here. Glenn also says, have
you thought about streaming your show or you know, podcast
asked live on Twitch more Militia interaction. Yeah, Glenn, that's
a great idea, but I don't own the show, and
uh if if it was a way to monetize it
(09:11):
for me, I would be all for it. I don't
necessarily need to help the company make more money. They
make plenty of money. Uh So if we did our
own standalone thing, this is a under the I Heart umbrella.
So I don't think you unless they wanted us to
do it, but on our own I don't think we'd
be allowed to do it. There's a lot of bureaucracy,
(09:32):
which I try to avoid the bureaucracy as much as
I can. I just try to stay in your lane.
Is my my mentor LaVar Ball taught me stay in
your life. That's what I do. That's what I did.
That's it. What else do we have? One more from
GLENNI says, since Gascon has been doing football games for Germany,
has he viewed any German porn? If so, what did
(09:53):
he type in the searche third rail? That's the third
round my uh, Uh, yeah, what about you, Ryan, You
and any German in German porn. I don't watch porn.
I think it's very degrading. The men really not watch
the porn. Yeah, that's a lot. Your nose is girl.
(10:14):
Pinocchio knows this girl right there. I know you're you're
on the porn side. You're saying, all right, let me
change it up a little bit and you kick on
the little flag for the different one of some of
those sites of the different flags you can click on
for Uh, it is interesting what certain parts of the
world are into and you can you can get a
kind of a feel for that depending on which flag
you click. And not that I've done that. I've heard
(10:35):
from other people. I've not done that because I'm a professional.
I would not do that. Okay, dark web, There you go,
the dark web. Andy writes in from He says, near
Ben's Tommy's in Hoboville, Hollywood. Yeah, he's right there off
the one on one Freeway. I used to stop at
that Tommy's and get my my my triple cheeseburger and
(10:57):
fries with chili cheese fries. Years was Tommy's in Hollywood,
those late night food runs. Anyway, I says. Back in
the day, I was This is from again Andy, He says,
I was a big sports talk radio junkie. I moved
from Philadelphia to Denver, to San Francisco, and then finally
to l A, Go West, young man. I consume so
(11:18):
much Tony Bruno, Pete Franklin, Ralph Barbieri, and eventually Joe
and Duck, Joe McDonald and Doug Kricorian. Back in the
day that I I bleed jingles and drops when live
reads and the tyranny of ESPN radio spread like the
plague I treated, retreated two blogs, and later dived headfirst
(11:41):
into the early world of podcasting. Nowadays, Andy says he
does not listen to live radio anymore. That's a shame.
I wouldn't have believed this a decade ago, he says.
I do digest our content is Big Ben's content daily
via the podcast, but not any other local or not
radio shows. Again, I can't believe this fact, he and
(12:03):
then he says he gets to the crescendo. He says,
is local sports talk radio almost dead on terrestrial radio?
Is it even remotely relevant nationally? Is the loony axiom
of broadcasting not narrowcasting? Irrelevant today. Uh so I'll answer
that you have some other questions here. So the way
(12:23):
I'll say sports radio, it depends on the market. It
depends on the market. And I again I'm gonna annoy
Mr McBain over there. But I having worked in Boston,
typically the top two radio stations are the top in
the top five are both sports talkers. W e I
and the Sports Hub in Boston are in the top five.
(12:45):
Philadelphia also gets monster ratings in sports talk radio. Sports
talk radio in l A does not get huge numbers.
It just does not. It's never it's never gotten huge numbers. Ironically,
when I did it back in the nineties, he had
compared to the ratings that sports radio gets. Now, we
had huge ratings. But at the time they thought they
(13:05):
were terrible ratings. But you know, twentysomething years later, looking back,
that was a massive number that we got compared to
what the shows today get. Um. But there's still a
large audience. But it it really is. Uh in in
in l A. It's more of a niche thing. And
but there's so many sports fans in l A. I
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know in in Minnesota it's k fan in Minnesota. My god,
that is a blowtorch. We have so much interaction and
so much feedback in Minnesota. So the point is it
really depends on the city. And there's some cities were
on we get no reaction. Nobody emails me, nobody posts
anything on Twitter, nobody calls in from the I mean,
I don't even know if we're on. Maybe they turned
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the transmitter off. I have no idea, So you know,
it's like but but there's other places that it's just
like I feel like sometimes we're just doing the local
Minnesota show. I could just talk about the Vikings and
the Twins and the Timberwolves and that's it, and we'd
have great feedback. And there's a lot of creative people,
funny people in Minnesota love sports talk radio. We do
very well in Houston, which is odd because all I
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do is rip the Stros and we get a lot
of feedback from I guess that's the Howard Stern thing,
you know, you know Howard Stern thing. Yes, yeah, Or
if if they hate you, they listen longer. They call
it the Howard Stern effect. They call it where people
that really hate you they listen longer than those who
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love you, just to make sure they don't miss any
opportunity to be outraged and offended. Well, I think in
l A. Part of the problem is there's so much
more to dude. You know, if you go to like
to like Minnesota, Like, what's western do in Minnesota's ten
thousand lakes? What are you talking about in the summer, les,
Let's go to Lake Minnetonka. I mean, you are you
(14:52):
are attacking. The first rule is to not attack the
customer attack you. I'm just saying there's more to do
in l A than there is in Minnesota. That's all
I'm saying. I don't know. Listen, I'm I'm a pretty
simple guy, and you're you're like me. You don't leave
your house much, right other than go to work. Yeah,
we're I think we're similar in that regard. We're both introverts.
And so I would I could live in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
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I'd be fine. I don't leave my house that much.
I'd get a better steak. You know, there's probably a
nice barbecue place. If I was in Kansas City. I'd
love Kansas City because of the food. So I'd be fine.
And uh, And there are more than ten thousand likes.
There are eleven thousand, eight hundred and forty two lakes
of ten acres or more in Minnesota. How about that.
For a fact, if you ask the average person where
(15:37):
would you rather live, Los Angeles or Minnesota, They're probably
gonna say l A. Yes, Minnesota, all right, I understand
because most people think will l A. You know, it's
seventy five degrees every day and all that. You also
have an infestation of homeless people overtaking southern California exactly
prove my point. It's so it's so good that even
(15:59):
though almost want to live. No, no, it's so good,
the politicians and allow the homeless to defecate all over
the streets and take it's a hostile takeover. And the
politicians are so spineless and gutless that they don't do anything,
which is I think the job of a politician is
to make sure the community is clean and people are
(16:21):
taking care of Listen. I feel bad you're homeless and
you're down on your luck, But I think there are
ways to handle it better than allowing them to drop
a ship on the sidewalk on Ventura Boulevard. How about that.
I mean, maybe it's a little bit of both. I mean, uh,
I'm not gonna say wrong, all right, listen, it's I
(16:41):
remember I haven't gone to the studio a while. Even
in Sherman Oaks, that Sherman Oaks neighborhood, there are so
many rich people up the hill there, you know, bell
Airs right around the corner, and so many of those
mansions up in the hills above Sherman Oaks, and they
come down to go shopping and whatnot. And it is
insane how many and a lot of these homeless people.
Back in the old days were hidden and I'd see
(17:01):
him at night, but now they're not even They're like, oh,
they got their tents out there everywhere. It's craziness. It's unbelievable. Yes,
there's a bunch of them by my house. I'm like, wow.
Times are rough, and seriously, it's it's very sad, and
it is said, I feel terrible, but there's gotta be
a better way to handle it, right, There's gotta be
a better way to handle it. A think about the
money that is wasted on bullshit by politicians and things
(17:24):
that are not needed, and yet money could be reallocated
to help homeless people. But then the other problem is
that and you know, we've got homeless people that love
to be homeless. They don't want to have a house. Yeah,
and you ask the average homeless person, they rather be
homeless in l A. The Minnesota. Thank you, Well, there's
homeless in Minnesota. Yeah. But yeah, man, if you ask
someone who's in Minnesota, would they rather be living in
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l A and their homeless, that's like, yeah, l A.
I'm telling you l is a place to be. There's
a lot of homeless in Hawaii. But you know what
they used to do. I don't know if they still
do this. When I was in Hawaii, there was a
big story on the local news because I love watching
local TV news when I go to different cities because
it kind of it feels cool. You feel like you're
you're you're a local. And I remember that a big story.
There was like a big homeless problem in Honolulu. And
so what they were doing was offering one way tickets
(18:08):
to anywhere in the continent of the United States to
the homeless to get him out of Hawaii. You can
flight anywhere they want, just to leave the Hali because
they figured they coming back, they ain't coming back, you
know that gonna swim back to Hawaii, Cuba. Was this castro,
this the beginning of like starface people out with the
Hell yeah, I don't think they're allowed to do that
anymore because the Wokesters, you know, the Wokesers, weren't allowed
(18:29):
that to happen. Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia rights in
on the mail bag. He says, big bat, I really
enjoyed listening to the Talent Show this week with so
many good Militia members involved. If you did not hear
the Talent Show, go back and listen to what we
did the review on yesterday's podcast and yesterday's podcast. Anyway,
Jason says, do you think maybe we should do it
(18:50):
twice a year, perhaps slip one in before Christmas? Yeah?
Yeah about that. I think once a year is the
right amount. We we do the awards, once a year
we do the Talent Show. These are some of the
big events. These are markers, right, These are things that
that we look forward to, and if you do it twice,
(19:12):
it waters it down. I am gonna push back on that. Jeez,
I'm gonna push back on you. I said we could,
we could do it in December and then do it
again in July. But I think once a year is
the right amount um. But if if unch of people
wanted twice a year, we can do it. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox
(19:35):
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Okay, Who's Next?
Vall's fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, is next, he says Ben.
Since Half Pint has run a foul of the law,
will she be giving be given the Reggie Bush treatment?
All records are raised and all Benny's returned? And is
there any chance cooking with Roberto will be replaced with
(19:55):
cooking with Half Pint since she has become a master chef? Well,
great questions, vaws Fann Jimmy uh, And we have no
integrity on the Ben Mallor Show. In terms of the
Benny's we will not ask for Half Pint to return
the award she won with beer drinking Brian at all.
In fact, it seems to be a requirement to be
(20:17):
on the edge, to do like a tap dance on
the edge of civility, to be a celebrity caller to
the show. So now we love half Pint. She's obviously
had some interesting situations in her life. I have, thanks
to our lawyer friend Michael in New Jersey, I have
learned more about half Pint, and you could put her
(20:37):
in the desperado bandit category. Uh so she's she's had
a lot of activity with law enforcement and whatnot. What's happening.
But who am I. She's got a pretty big rap sheet,
you know, pretty rap sheet, so criminal history, I should say.
But we like her. She's nice to us, and we
don't really know her as that person. So it's the
(20:59):
mad at a radio. That's a great thing. You We
don't know these people that call in and to be delinquents.
You could be running Fortune five hundred companies, or you
could be visiting the House of Corrections. Who knows. But
we will find out in another ten days or something
like that or less than that. Now, whether or not
she'll be spending a lot of time in the gulag,
(21:21):
we will, we will see. Carlos in Houston writes and says,
what is the origin story on that clown, the Boston hater?
You had another Boston reference? Uh well, I'll start Carlos
with that. I said, you also have another question here
He says about Tammy and Montana. But the first one
the Boston hat sold this. This started years and years
ago in the early days of Fox Sports Radio UH
(21:43):
and the Boston Hater he went by a different name.
He started calling us up and he just wanted to
bash the teams in Boston's kind of like McBain over.
Guy's a Yankee fan and all that. He lives in Florida.
Now the Boston Haters, so he but he used to
he used to call up, and then we determined that
he would only really call up after a certain he
(22:04):
got older, and the only time he would really call
up was when the Bruins would get eliminated or the
Patriots would lose in the playoffs or not make the
playoffs with the Red Sox. And so he became the
Boston Hater and he would just call up. And what
he does Ryan as he calls up and does like
a two and a half minute speel where he just
dances on the grave of the Boston team and he says,
(22:25):
it's a Boston Haters, you know, celebration or whatever he says,
and then he he goes to this whole list about
how the Red Sox are frauds. The Patriots are frauds,
the Celtics are frauds, like the whole thing. So that's
that's his stick, and we allow him to do that,
realizing we do pretty well in Boston. We have a
lot of listeners there and I have gotten some very
angry messages from our New England listeners towards the Boston Heater.
(22:49):
And he also got me in some trouble because somebody
was so triggered because he took a shot. I don't
know if you know who Johnny Pesky is. Do you
know who Johnny Pesky is? An old baseball player. Yeah,
they the He was a Red Sox legend like it,
wasn't a great player, but he played for the Red
Sox and they named the foul poll at Finway Park
down the right field line is really close and Johnny
(23:10):
Pesky would hit it quite a bit, so they named
it the Pesky Poll. He's allegend, like a local legend.
He's passed away a few years back. But anyway, the
Boston Hater just pissed all over Johnny Pesky. And you
know I had nothing to do with it. I just
allowed I allowed him on the air. Fine, but I
allow a lot of people on here and and some
some some guy in Boston has so upset that this
(23:30):
guy on the local airwaves on the Red Sox station
at the time was trashing Johnny Pesky that he was
he demanded an apology. It was so ridiculous, it was
they was like talking about pulling the show. It was
so stupid. Someoney got triggered, exactly. That was a long
That was before it was cool to be triggered. That
was a long time ago. He also says, is Tammy
(23:51):
and Montana she says, or Carlo says Tammy and Montana
must be loaded with cash helping out the Mallem militia. Well, no,
she's not loaded Tammy. I know a little bit about Tammy.
Tammy's is just a hard working woman. She's got a job.
You know, she's got a job. She's she just likes
to help people out. She likes to give back acts
of kindness, which better than me. I don't do that.
(24:13):
So yeah, very kind Yeah, we Tammy has helped out
a lot of listeners. She stepped out flexis and hollering
James and also lately half pint and beer drinking Brian,
among others. We call her the mother Teresa of the
show because she does look out for some of our
more unique characters, and we have many, and so we
(24:37):
we appreciate that. Uh. And then Carlos says, I demand
the whole song from Raz from the Talent Show. I
couldn't stop laughing. Well, Carlos, it's on YouTube. I know
you're off social media. Does YouTube count of social media?
And I don't know it? Does it does? Okay? Uh? Yeah,
well if you go on YouTube, raz Quit the band
(24:58):
has his own YouTube channel and he put the tire
song up so you can listen to it, and you
should subscribe to his channel. Raz as a friend of
the show. He's a very talented, middle aged musician in Minnesota.
And I like the guy. He's good. He's new onto
the scene over the last year or so. Less than that,
we think he's pretty good. So ras Quit the band
and he said the song was about erectile dysfunction, not masturbation.
(25:22):
It sounded like masturbation, so we had to dump it.
It was like an homage to Blair in Maine. That's
what it sounded like to me. Blair, who's famously said
he enjoys too self manipulate his his man man bits
and uh and all that third round, third round, Mama.
It's a podcast, mama. Anyway, r J in saying in
(25:45):
Tonio the Alamo, do you hate San Antonio because text
Mex sucks? Text Mex blows? I mean, I don't know
anything about that. No, it's not it's not the proper
Mexican food. Anyway, r J in San Antonio says, you're
ten years old, what's on your agenda on a Saturday morning? Alright,
(26:08):
great question, r J. So ten year old Ben going
the way back machine here. First of all, I was
obsessed with baseball at age ten, played played baseball, was
convinced that I was gonna be in the big leagues. Uh.
And I would have been if it hadn't been for
those meddling other players that were better than me. But
this week in baseball, this Weekend Baseball, I recalled during
(26:30):
the summer, This Weekend Baseball, which was then the lead
into the NBC Game of the Week. And man, was
that a big That was a big thing. And being
on the West coast, This Weekend Baseball, as I remember
it aired, it like nine or nine thirty in the morning,
and then we'd go into the NBC pregame and then
(26:53):
be like a Tiger Blue Jay's game or a Yankee
game versus the Red Sox or something like that. And
I have very fond memories of that. But I really
love this Weekend Baseball with mel Allen twib notes around
the majors. The Cardinals are flying high in St. Louis, yea,
and all that straight A's in Oakland, all those corny,
(27:15):
hokey opens to this Weekend Baseball. Old you were doing that.
I was watching this Weekend Baseball and the Game of
the Week, but I was this. I also watched the
cartoons in my day, where like the Scooby Mystery fun House,
Yogi's Treasure, No, I watched it. I loved G I Joe.
There was a G I Joe cartoon, Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats,
(27:37):
remember the Galactic Guardians with Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Aquaman.
I think I'm a little older than you, but the
Green Lantern, the Flash. That was a cool show. Super Friends.
You mean, I don't think it was called that. I
think it was called something else. But yeah, I was like,
now it's the super Friends. There was like Super Superpowers
(27:58):
Team or some bullshit like that. I think it was
called I don't know, but yeah, it's the same thing.
I love that. And then they had at some point
the teenage Mutant Inter Turtle cartoon came out. But he
used to have like weird like Mr T. I remember
was part of a cartoon. I don't remember what it was.
I just remember seeing Mr T as a cartoon. It
was odd. I was a big fan of Mr T.
(28:19):
I love the A team. Also, I was called a
great show. It was a solid show man. They'll make
shows like that anymore, they don't, you know. Almost did
a radio show with Mr Mr t Our our boss.
This guy, Mike Thompson was running eleven fifty and eleven
fifty as a sports station, and he wanted to bring
in you know, figure it l a, you gotta bring
in some celebrity, and so he tried out, this is great,
(28:41):
this is in the kind of the the mid to
late nineties. He tried out Ericastrada better known as Poch
Poncerella from Chips and Mr t Uh and he brought
these guys in to try out to do a midday
It was gonna give a one hour show, one hour
(29:02):
talk show. Now keep in mind as a kid. You know,
I'm of the age. I liked Chips, I liked Eric Astrata.
I was gonna be a highway patrol officer because the Chips,
and I also loved the A Team in part because
of Mr T. So I would have had I was
doing the midday show and we would have followed those shows. Unfortunately,
the day that Mr T came in, I was not there.
(29:23):
I didn't get to meet him, and I also missed
out on Eric Astrata because I was on a remote
that day. And but they both came in an audition
and the boss ended up hiring Terry Bradshaw as the
host Lunch with Terry they called it, and he did
a one hour show. But they were in the running.
Was Eric Astrata and Mr T do a do a
(29:47):
talk show? What other cartoons did you like? They're back
in the day when we were ten years old. Mr
McBain Vultron Dobots. I'm taking you all back, baby, Yeah,
the old days, the good old days. Garfield. I loved Garfield.
(30:08):
I watched Garfield. Yeah that was solid. I think what
I'm sure there's some I'm missing here, But I was
a traditionalist also during the week they had the old school,
like the flint Stones and the Jet Sins and that
kind of crap. I was into that. The Smurfs, La
La La la, Inspector Gadget, Go Go Gadget. Come on,
(30:30):
that was a good show, Inspector Gadget. Yeah, that was
quality entertainment at the time. At the time, I don't know,
but now I don't think it would hold up now,
But go Go Gadget. Solid the Scooby Doo Gang. If
it wasn't for you meddling kids were I love. I
pulled like the mask off the guy at the very end,
and he's getting taken away. Solid, solid entertainment, all right.
(31:00):
Moving on on the mailbag, Moving on on the mailbag.
Who do we have Adrian in the Mile High City?
Says Ben and Blank were the other guy's not here.
I haven't written in a while because I've been studying
a lot for a water exam. I need to pass
for my job, he says. On Saturday, July three, he
passed the exam. Mazeltov, congratulations, good job by you. I
(31:23):
know it's very stressful a water exam. I wonder what
kind of work you do anyway, He says the Joey
Chestnutt Mallard monologue was accurate and funny. The man is
a freaking athlete. You're damn right, And I hope you
heard Adrian. Last week we had George say On, the
Master of Ceremonies, the commissioner of Major League Eating. It
was great to talk to him. I don't fun time
(31:43):
if to go look and see how that podcast did,
but it was. I had a good time. I don't
care if anybody liked it. I liked it. He says,
how many dogs and buns could West of the four
oh five guy put down? Well, he's not here. He's
not here, so I don't know. Uh. Back in the
old days, I could if I liked the dog. I'll
answer question. I could eat a fair amount, but not anywhere.
I couldn't eat seven or even five. I couldn't eat.
(32:08):
But but here's the question, what do you like on
your hot dog? Yeah, I I don't go too crazy
on the toppings. I will I do mustard, but I
will have catch still, Yes, I still, I will do
what I do. When I go to Costco and get
a dog at Costco, I'll go line of mustard, line
of catchup. Line of mustard, line of catch up. It's
(32:30):
like pinstriped the dog and I will add some onions occasionally.
I don't do relish, really, I don't do relish. Yes, yes,
I'm a comrade. Yeah about you? What Mr big shot
over there? What do you well? I stopped having catch
up when I was like eleven or twelve. You kind
of grow out of know. I'm not grown up. I
do sports radio. I talk about sports as a grown up.
(32:52):
I'm a middle aged man breaking down basketball games. Um,
you know, I go mustard onions and relish mustards mustard
and what kind of mustard you like? The deli mustard
or the regular yellow mustard? I know either or I
will tell you this. I met someone who puts mannise
on their hot dog, which is disgusting. You know, there's
(33:14):
a oh my god, I there's an NBA guy. What
was the guy that had the he owned like a
weird He played for the Washington Wizards a few years ago.
He just he retired a couple of years back, center
from Poland. I don't remember the guy's name, but I
was in the locker room before you guys had you
(33:35):
some interviews before a game, and they had their pregame
meal and he was eating hot dogs smothered in mayonnaise.
That's disgusting. And it was like a delight in Poland, yes,
and pulling us how they thought. Okay, if I ever
saw someone with mayonnaise on their hot dog, I smack
it out of their hand. That's what I would do.
It's the same thing. It's the same thing with these
idiots who put pineapple on their pizza. What the hell
(33:57):
are you doing? Or punching the mouth put pineapple on pizza? Alright,
the guy, I just the guy's name is Marcine gor Tot.
Remember Marcin gor Tott. Yes, yeah, he ate his hot
dogs with the mayonnaise all over smother than mayonnaise. And
it was discussed. It isst It was horrible. He was
an interesting cat though he had like there's he owned
(34:19):
a pet, some weird exotic pet. I forget what it
was right now off the top of my head. But anyway,
I didn't think i'd i'd be spending any time worried
about Martine Marcin gor Tot. But but here we are,
here we are. It's amazing. The magic of the podcast.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
(34:40):
I'm John Middlecoff and I host the Three and Out Podcast.
Do you like football? Do you like the NFL? Do
you like the NFL draft quarterbacks? Coaches? Well, I talked
about it all on the show. I used to work
for Andy Reid as a scout. Now I give you
my unfiltered and raw opinions on everything that goes on
the NFL. And you know we're talking college football because
(35:00):
how important the draft is year round. Listen to the
Three and Out Podcast with me John Middlecom on the
I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get
your podcast. Adrian says, I have the podcast version of
the benmal Show on frequently at her house. Will thank
you for that. I especially enjoy listening when Coop and
the Nocturnal Colonel get into a heated argument about the
Lakers and Clippers. Yeah, well that's more about Coop. Coop
(35:25):
cannot handle any It's like we had Derek Martin on
the other day, and Derek's like he even he he
played in the NBA, and he's like, well, it's ridiculous.
The Laker people who can't handle the Clippers and all that. Anyway,
Adrian says, uh. He at some point, you, Ben will
end one of your points with how about that? And
he says an example, the great Kawhi Leonard scored forty
(35:46):
two points last night against the Lakers. How about that? Uh?
I do do that. That's true as one of my
one of my my catchphrases. I guess I just my
default catchphrase. Anyway, he says. Now, when my wife and
I have a friendly argument about chores at home, Adrian says,
I'll end one of my points with how about that? Example?
(36:07):
I swept the floors and I took out the trash
this morning. How about that? Uh? And he says, are
our three kids have caught on and on this and
as soon as I dropped the how about that? One, two,
or all three of them will yo Ben Miller in
the house. Now that's honor. See, I'm honored right there.
That is outstanding it You You are doing a good
(36:28):
job raising your children. Those kids are gonna go on
and make tons of money and be very successful and
live happy lives. And they're gonna remember a stupid moron
on the radio that their dad enjoyed. And it was
they were forced to hear the rhetoric, the nonsense from
that dumb dumb on the radio. So that is a
(36:50):
good catch phrase. I usually go by something like, yeah, man,
you can put that in your pipe and smoke it
or something like that. Now that's not but the funny thing,
how about that? Is actually a tribute from This Weekend
Baseball Mel Allen, who hosted that show. When I was
a kid, he used to say that, and I guess
I just it was ingrained in my head as an adult,
(37:13):
and and for some reason I occasionally will throw out
how about that? But that was Mel Allen, who was
a Yankee broadcaster, you know, million years ago. He's been
dead for twenty five years or whatever it is, but
that was the That was one of his lines. And
I guess I've repurposed it. Is that what you say, Ryan,
you repurpose something? Is that? Uh no, No, it's really
(37:33):
he's dead, so it's not you're not still it's repurposing. Yeah,
you can still, Like when I listen, when I'm dead,
you can steal all my stuff. I'm not around. You
can do whatever you want, you know, have a field day, okay, yeah,
over your house, you know, taking out like couches, couches
and bears and beds and stuff like that. No no, no, no, no,
you can't have that, but the phrases, the phrases. Yeah, anyway,
(37:57):
Adrian says. Lastly, do you guys think Aaron Rodgers will
end up in Denver this fall? He'd be much needed,
a much needed breath of fresh mountain air around here.
That's from Adrian. I do not. I believe Green Bay
is so stubborn they will keep Aaron Rodgers. I did
do another Aaron Rodgers obligatory monologue the other day, and
we're reacting to Peyton Manning. How dumb is Peyton. I'm
(38:19):
still I'm still annoyed by Peyton Manning. Do you see
what he said? Ryan? I did a monologue on Peyton
Manning said that it's too late now for the Broncos
to acquire Aaron Rodgers because training camps about to start. Okay, Yeah,
And I pointed out if the Packers were dumb enough
to trade Aaron Rodgers to Denver, then what I would
if I if I was the Broncos And it was
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like five minutes before the first game of the season
and Aaron Rodgers had to play the first three games
with his arm tied behind his back and blindfolded. I
would still rather have him than Drew Lock or Teddy Bridgewater.
How about that. I'm gonna speak this into existence. Aaron
Rodgers is going to the Raider is my friend. The
(39:03):
greatness of that, right, I did that for Adrian, But
I just did that anyway. Uh. Chris and Edmonton writes
in Beautiful Edmonton, Alberta, home of the Oilers, says, wouldn't
it just make more sense to merge Canada into the
US so we can get SEC coverage they're in Edmonton
(39:24):
and call the Clippers one of our own. It's a
great idea, Chris. Uh. And I I think of the
major Canadian cities as American I do, and then we
as Americans can say our native food poutine, and we
can we can embrace the great culture of Canada. Maple syrup.
(39:45):
There's this great debate debate, what is the better maple syrup?
Is it in you know, Vermont, New Hampshire, those places
there is in Canada? And so if Canada becomes part
of America, then we're good. But what you really only
need is the first like ninety miles from the US
(40:06):
border north of Canada, because that's where most of the
population of Canada lives within the US. Like it's within Uh,
I forget how many moles. It's only a few miles
of the U S border the population. I forget what
the exact number is. But I'd be cool with Toronto
and Vancouver and Montreal being part of the United States.
(40:31):
Any pushback on that, Oh, no pushback at all. I
would prefer if we actually would separate from like Massachusetts
and then bring Toronto something like that. How about that.
You know I'm not dead yet. You can't steal my
materials about job about you? Uh? Yeah, here it is.
Here's the fun It is estimated between s and of
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the Canadian population lives within a hundred miles of the border.
And said because mostly because of climate, because it's very
the climate once you get up in the northern northern
part of Canada, it is nasty. So there you go,
of the US Canadian population within a hundred miles of
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the US. I'm all for it. Edmonton, where do for
christ And Edmonton? Where do I sign? Where do I sign?
We'll get Edmonton, We'll get Winnipeg in there be great
Chad from Champagne, Illinois, hey writes, and he says, Hey, fellas,
what is the most interesting place you have been to?
How about the weirdest place? Yeah? I haven't done much
(41:39):
exotic weird stuff, have not. I love visiting different cities
that I had not been to that I heard a
lot about. I've traveled around the domestic US quite a bit.
I like also going off the beaten path, like when
I'm in New York visiting my brother and avoid the
tourist traps and just go around and check out, you know,
(42:00):
random random nonsense and uh and whatnot and uh. But
there's nothing. I wish I had a great answer. I'm
not exactly a globe trekker. I don't take a lot
of time off. My wife wishes I would. What about you?
I went to Europe when I was like sixteen, But
that's pretty much the most, like, I guess, exotic place
(42:23):
I've ever been to. I like, that's I mean, I'm
I'm pretty much like you. I got nothing on that one. Okay, alright.
Marco in the two oh nine says, when's the last
time you went somewhere uncomfortable? Anytime my wife takes me
out dancing? That would be the answer right there, boom,
very uncomfortable. Do not like that every time I come
to work? Pretty much? That's true. Also, yes, that's true.
(42:46):
It's it's very awkward to walk into a radio station. Now,
last one from John in Northern Colorado. He says in
a Doc Mike related question, do you employ the through
the fly over the top method? What? He says, I'll
admit to the over the top method to try to
avoid excessive fumbling. Yeah, yeah, I don't think that the
(43:07):
fly is do do? Does anyone really use the fly method? There?
I don't. I don't think that's a common Are we
talking about the thing I think we're talking about. Well, yeah,
you're going up to the urinal? What did you wait?
Hold us? What? I don't know. I just wanted to
make sure. Well, I don't know. I mean maybe he's
talking about getting a drink from like Doc, I don't
(43:30):
go through the fly. Uh there's something about Mary that movie.
That's why I don't do it. Oh yeah, you don't
want to? Yeah that oh man, the pain, the scream,
the agony, yes exactly of alright, anyway, that is it?
How can people fall you Ryan on Twitter? If they
wanna interact with you as you have been now the
regular host of the Fifth Hour for the last six episodes. Now, congratulations,
(43:54):
a lot of six episodes you have been with me.
I'm moving on up like the Jefferson's. Ryan McBain Twitch
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and Ryan McBain on Twitter, Twitter the Twitter Machine, tweet
tweet Absolutely, alright, wonderful. I have a great rest of
your day. We will be back. I will be in
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