August 8, 2021 • 36 mins
More whining and complaining from the toothless.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific
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Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific
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(00:20):
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 clearinghouse of hot takes,
break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
(00:42):
Maller starts right now that it does in the air everywhere,
as we are back at it on a Sunday Sunday Sunday,
A mail bag kind of a day. Glad you have
found your way to the pod cast on the Sunday
as we wrap up the weekend with the mail Bag,
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always popular. I love the mail Bag. And again, if
you're new to the show, if you've just stumbled on
the podcast, maybe you're one of the radio listeners and
you've never heard the Fifth Hour podcast every Sunday. What
we do here is a version of Ask Ben that
we do during the week on Thursdays, Wednesday and the
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Thursday on the radio show we do ask Men. But
there on this we do the mail bag, which is
the same concept, just random questions and we add answers
many of them as we can in the course of
the mail bag. And that's how we roll and from
west of the four oh five, making it all the
way through the weekend. David, Uh say, it's it's gonna
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be here despite the fact that I had a wake
up early this morning. They call another game in Germany
which is going good. Thanks for asking um, but yeah,
I'm here now, and uh go from one thing to another.
It's nice And who do you call the games? Whether
you buy yourself when you're I actually had a Ben
(02:17):
Mallard moment last weekend. I was in the middle of
the first quarter with the Leipzig Kings, driving at the
twenty yard line of Berlin. All of a sudden, house
goes pitch black. Oh, the lights went out on the
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entire city. I had to drive to a friend's house
at six thirty of the morning, banging on the door
second callis game remotely. It was so tragic. But the
cool thing is is that the network that I do
it for, they have three broadcasters, so one's in English,
one is typically in German, and any other one's in
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the native tongue of the team, so Polo or Spanish
or another German. So yea um, but yeah, it was.
It was pretty bad. Standby, we have technical difficult technical
different awful sucks. I drove thell from I drove from
my house in Pedro to Long Beach in twelve minutes.
(03:21):
It was pretty awesome. I must have had I could
have gotten at least like five or six tickets. Yeah,
well you know that time. They're not really writing tickets
that time in the morning. No, no, yeah, you're good
to go, sleepy, drink up Starbucks. Well let's get into
the minil back. So, if you want to send a
message for a future edition of the mail Bag, obviously
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They can always if they want to have another email
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on a cameo and be easy. You could do that.
That's all about Ben Maller On can come on, get
me on there, dance and do a little top dance,
tap dancing, Mini Mallar monologue, the whole thing. Yeah, dreams
can come true. Your dreams can come true. Are you
want to punt on this edition of the mail Box?
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I feel like it's not a good weekend to talk.
I think this is a great, great opportunity. I football
ran around the corner. We should be talking about the
teach skin. I did. I did announce. I did announce
that you were back in Facebook post and that led
to a lot of vitriol. Uh. People were very upset
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and they did not have peace of mind. Did not
have peace of mind. The news that you were coming back,
and so I just I hope you're prepared. So these
are actual messages by actual listeners of the show. We
call it the mail bag. It's a jumbled up collection
of these messages and the tour the force of the podcast.
(05:27):
So the first one comes from Brian parts unknown. He says,
on the news of Gascon's return, can you please get
rid of him permanently? That was his response. James writes
and says, hey, Ben, sometimes sometimes some of Gascon's comments
were a little assholary. That was from James. Kevin says,
(05:49):
when finding out about Gascon's return, that sucks. That was
his quote. Eric with the case says, can I hear
the gagon drop? M hm? Eric, you can make Eric
happy if you want to play the gag on drop.
I could drop something on Eric if you'd like. Yeah. Interesting.
So those are the first four messages. I got a
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Tony in Oakland, he says, Ben, you finally got a loyal,
dedicated sidekick in Ryan McBain, and now you were forced
to work with that pompous West of the four of
five a hole. Does management hate you? Yes? Yes, they
said that show is going too good. Let's mess it up.
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That shows you know, Ryan's doing his thing. He's doing
pretty well there. So let's punt on that and bring
guests gone back. Yes, yeah, that's that's what happened. Absolutely,
that was the consultation. Mark in Ottawas is welcome back.
Gag on how was your maturnity leave? And what did
you and Brian Finley name the child? Anyone in Canada
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doesn't have to. Uh, I don't think anyone in Canada
has the right to talk about masculinity or here in
this this part of town. Ben, onwards and upwards we go,
Pino says, I hope we can get the truth on
why he abandoned you, Ben. What the hell? Pinot, don't
let him off the hook. His name is Pino, that's
what it says here, p I n o Pino? What
kind of funked up name is that? It's a great name?
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What's wrong with that? An original name? How many people
have you ever met named Pino? None? Yeah? Well there
you go. Finally a guy named Pino. Richard from Edowah,
Tennessee says, why in the fuck is that gas bag
coming back? Is he done in Germany? Are you done
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in Germany? No? I got five more weeks left and
then playoffs and championship game five more weeks. How many
freaking games are they playing in Germany? Twelve games? Twelve games? Crap? Wow, uh,
let's see here. I can't read that. Richard can't read that.
Richard says, uh, because I can't spe spelling. Some of
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these are terrible. It's that like from guy from Arizona
that can't spell you have such a such a just taste.
Relieve he's like sixty years old. They can't spell cat. Yeah,
all right, well you're you're you're like fifty years old
and you can't show up to work everywhere you pick
and choose your battle. Yeah. Uh, he says. What do
you big Ben think about the college football playoff expanding
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with Oklahoma and Texas coming to the SEC? I have
no issue with the college football is pretty much the
SEC and everyone else is like a backseat to the
Southeastern Conference Eastern Conference. So like this is the future
the future is going to be. They'll be like instead
of the big five power conferences, they'll be like the
Big three power conferences. You're gonna have like the Big ten,
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the SEC, and then some hybrid pack twelve Big twelve
combo and then that'll be it. The landscape has changed
in college college football, so that's I'm fine with that.
And and they're not the last teams that are gonna
join the SEC. There. I wouldn't be stunned at off Clemson.
I know the rumors were Clemson in Florida State, some
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other combination of Clemson somebody else joining the Southeastern Confers.
That's where the money is, that's where you want to be.
Those are the cool kids. Yeah, if you're if you're
on the wrong side of the tracks, you want to
live on that side of the track. So that's what's
gonna happen. But don't forget, with all due respects, since
you are a minor league baseball fan, you cannot discount
and disregard the MAC Tuesday Wednesday football randomly the maction. Baby,
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I'm all about the MAX, So I gotta give a
two thumbs up to the MAC. But yeah, I mean
just kind of goes to prove right that the whole
SCC is the most dominant conference has been manufactured by ESPN.
I mean, there's years that USC was smashing everybody in
the SEC, whether it was Arkansas, it was l S
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U and Auburn they got the better of and then
all of a sudden, these fake sanctions come down. They
throw the they throw the entire book at Southern cal
and then usc Is is left for dead. The SEC
rise is and now it's like full steam ahead Southern
Fried football. You gotta have that Southern front froom. Have
you been to an SEC game? Uh? No, I've never
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been to and have you No? No, it's it's a
bucket list thing. Be sure to catch live editions of
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I've been to Oklahoma. That's just I've been a Norman.
That was the craze. I was an Oklahoma Nebraska game
when that was still a big game. This was at
the end like Nebraska had just like somebody at quarterback. Now,
this is when Josh Hype was the quarterback in Oklahoma
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and that that first Bob Stoop steam the championship in
two thousand yeah, and then they gets smashed by USC
I think in the Orange Bowl the next year. Yeah,
but they won that they won that first year and
everyone's going crazy as chasing White at quarterback. I think, Man,
how was that? Was it? Funny? Norman? That was awesome? Yeah,
it was a great environment. It was. It was cool,
(11:15):
like the Nebraska fans cruising down and all their RVs
and all that, and that was a that what's his name?
The elite Corso and those clowns where they were doing
their college pregame show. So it was quite quite the scene.
That was the food good. Uh yeah, I mean they
treated us very well. I I remember being at this
the Switzer Center there the the practice facility, and um,
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they just rolled out the pr staff for Oklahoma, like
rolled out the red carpet. I was doing sidelines on
that game, and so they just whatever we needed. We
were hanging out. We had a meeting with Stoops raining too,
Barry Switzer who was there for some reason in the
hallway walking around and that was cool. What did you
do a day game or was it a night game?
For you? It was a day gay game, say on
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syndicated radio. And you know it was a good time,
although my mike, my handheld mike stopped working a problem. Yeah,
And we went to the radio station. I had to
do do a like a half hour college football show,
so we went to the radio station to record it.
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And the radio station it was like this small little
like uh, how would I describe it? It was like
a you know how you were in school and they'd
add extra classrooms in the back. It was like a
mobile home to thing. Yeah, it was like kind of
like that. Yeah, and then I'm behind it was the
actual transmitter. Yeah, and we we don't have that like
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radio stations in in l A. And radio what I'm
used to is, you know, the transmitters somewhere else like
in l A. There on a hill Mount Wilson is
where the transmitters are they because they boomed down into
the valley, but that was it's flat there. So to
put them right behind the radio station and then you're
on your way. Uh So, all right, Greg, and Iowa's
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is for gascon, gag on and gas can. How was
witness protection like? And how long until you return to
witness protection? Man? I was bored out of my mind.
I'll tell you what. I had three auditions with some networks.
I booked a national commercial, which was awesome. Um, I
started taking some finance classes, so I was busy. Then
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it wasn't bad at all. It was a vacation. You're
describing a vacation. I was bored. I like to be
out and about. I'm an extrovert. Is that is that true?
I'm an introvert, so I am the opposite of that?
All right? What is next year? On the mail back Kevin,
Kevin writes and says, is the only way you guys
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get a vacation over there is to do something to
get suspended on a company. Yeah, I mean vick shooting
constitutes paid time off. I don't get paid time off. Yeah, okay,
And you don't take vacation I don't. I don't. You
don't take holidays off either. So I believe in work.
I am a I am a worker. That's what I am.
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What is next year? Let's see any meny mighty mo,
let's see your page down? Page down? All right? This
is a travel log from Adrian in the Mile High City.
You've been away for a while, but Adrian took the
family to Disneyland and we were trying to get together
logistically it would not work. But he brought the kids
and the wife, everyone that came out to California from Denver,
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and we're hanging out and he's giving the Disneyland l
a report card, and so let me get right to it,
he says. The first thing my wife and I noticed,
he said, it was all the trash scattered alongside of
the highway, even the four oh five. Why so much garbage,
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Adrian asked, aren't there highway clean up cruise that can
help contain some of that? That was his first question. Uh,
he says. On our first day we were there, we
drove from Anaheim to Hollywood to see the Walk of Fame,
and as we approached the l a Hollywood area, we
could not believe all the homeless tents set up on
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the sides of the highway and the bridges. We thought
Denver was bad for homelessness. What a sad situation. He's
not kidding, he says. It was cool to see the
Walk of Fame and Hollywood. Adrian says, but the Hollywood
Boulevard area is a ship hole. I thought I was
in San Francisco for a minute because of the real
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piles of ship along the Walk of fame. Not sure
if they were piles of dogshit or human ship regardless
of the family, and I dodged all the landmines. Welcome
to l ah It, says the family. And I love
the in and out burn three times. Says that double
double no onion is something special. No, no, you get
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double double, but you get the grilled onions. Not no onion. No,
I don't get the raw onion, but I get the
grilled on You you gotta ask for that. Ask for
the grilled onions. Will put grilled onions on there, and
you gotta get the fries animal style. He says they're
building an in and out Burger in the city he
lives in, Colorado, and it should be completed in the
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coming months. He's excited about that, so that's that's good news.
He says that the kids love Disneyland and the Mickey
Mouse pretzel. That's a solid move by the kids. The
Mickey Mouse pretzel one of the great items. It's over
priced like everything else at disney Land, but that's a solid,
solid pretzel with the Mickey Mouse ears on uh. And
also the ice cream. The ice cream. I love that.
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What if you went to my favorite ice cream shop.
The gear of Delis is in Downtown Disney, not Downtown Disney,
it's in the California Adventure. That place is great, says
the wife. And I had to stop for a Mallard
dessert State. Oh yeah, there you go. This is the
next the chocolate chip cookie ice cream Sunday good. Yeah, right,
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keep breathing. Uh, And he talks about me and Ryan.
We were discussing Disneyland prices. It was expensive, but worth it,
he said. For the kids, especially at their ages, it's
a trip. We hope they'll always remember. Out of the
out of state prices for Disney and California Adventure. Two
parks in three days. Oh boy, two hundred thirty five
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dollars aged ten and over two d aged three to
nine bucks if you're below the age of ten. Man,
I thought the last time I was there was a
hundred dollars a ticket. Now it's fucking double that. Well,
that's out of California prices. They they're trying to discourage
people from out of California to come. Bad job, says.
Huntington Beach was great, Adrian said. Kids love putting their
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feet in the water. They had never seen the ocean before.
Couldn't we leave all the water. That's pretty cool. Orange County,
The o C says, the California Venture Cars ride was awesome.
The roller coaster style hills at the end were a
cool surprise. Kids loved it. Blah blah blah. Then he
named some of the restaurants he ate at and he
enjoyed the Embassy Sweets. I like the Embassy Sweets. I
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like to stay there. It's a nice hotel, good hotel, said,
wonderful breakfast spread every morning six to nine, he says,
the they'll stay there again. That's a shocker, having a
breakfast spread with the pandemic going on. COVID. Yeah. Lastly,
I made the mistake of filling up the rental car
for return at a Sinclair near l Ax Do you
(18:44):
want to take a guess? He paid four nine a
gallon for regular unleaded. That's the travel log from Adrian,
our buddy in the Mile High City. He had a
Mallard shirt on Gascon when he was at Disney. Lady
sent a photo along and had the Mallard name on it.
Custom made shirts. The job by Adrian Man, He's gonna
be back. That's cool. Enjoy La but more so Orange County. Yeah,
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it is I opening if you have not seen the
amount of just it looks like, um, like a third
world country in parts of l A right now, with
all the homeless people piled up on top of each
other on the side of the road there. It's craziness. Yeah,
it's brutal. It is as bad as I've ever seen it.
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I've never seen it worse than this. It's embarrassing, it is,
and the political people don't do anything. They make laws
to make it easier to have more people coming. I
feel bad for the homeless, but unfortunately a lot of
the homeless, it seems, are okay being homeless. I don't
really mind it, you know, as it's frustrating, frustrating problem.
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I think if you're homeless, there are places you can
go to get help and get a place to stay,
get your your feet back underneath you. Yeah, they're homeless shelters. Yeah,
well not just that. I mean there's program from homeless,
but a lot of from what I understand, maybe I'm wrong,
but from what I've been told, a lot of the
people just like they don't want they don't want to
have a job, they don't want to have responsibility. I
don't want to have any report to anybody. They love
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living on the streets. And there's also obviously the drug problem,
which is a big reason that that's the way it is. Yeah,
no family, no structure, also impacting uh Steve right, so,
and he says, what's the best advice you ever received
and who gave it to you? Hm, I don't know.
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I mean my mom gave me a lot of wisdom
over the years, and my grandfather and my dad, everyone
in my village gave me something. I often bring up
the Code of the West, So I guess that that
would be something that is the most You did not
learn the Code of the West, right, I guess when
you were a kid. You're not. That's not something that
(20:53):
I think learned. The best piece silence, best piece of
advice I ever got, well, and this in history, was
never say no to an opportunity. Um, you know I
I did hear a great quote by Steve Harvey wants.
He said, whatever someone thinks of you is none of
(21:14):
your business. Another one is, don't you don't have to
share your business with everybody? Yeah, if you share secrets,
they're no longer secrets. Yeahs I do try to tell him.
My wife loves to share every detail I try to
I have pointed out to her. I've been like, you know,
(21:35):
you don't really don't need to share everything. There's some
some things that are better left unsaid. She's the extrovert,
but he want talker. I'm like, I don't really, you know,
they don't need to know that, which is weird because
both of you talk for a living. But you're an introvert.
She's an extrovert. Well, no, because I don't like the
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way I live my life. I don't need to get
into everyone's personal business. Everyone. Every family has got drama.
Everyone's got stuff. They're not happy about our stuff that's
awkward and things like that and my that stuff. You
can deal with it on your own. I can deal
with my stuff. And we don't need to you know,
change exchange dirty laundry. We don't. We don't have a
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clothes line anymore. We have a dryer, clothes line clipper.
You know, I got you. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston, Texas,
says Man. I will be quitting the show to work
on my mental health. Maybe I'll get a documentary. Also,
how long will these athletes be using the mental health
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card as an excuse. That's from Carlos Well. As long
as it'll work, it's the perfect, perfect get out of
I didn't play good jail card, I didn't perform well.
It's like this, of course, much like when everyone cries racism,
it ruins when there's actual racism. When people mental health
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and there's not actual mental health, it's just you. You're
uncomfortable because you got booed. Then it's the same concept.
You've messed things though, Same with the me too movement. Yeah, yeah,
exactly uh same same Dar R R. Pierre in Springfield,
mass just down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall
of Fame or Muffett McGraw and the home of vaccine mandates.
(23:25):
This question may be irrelevant since you've already revealed that
Mr West of the four oh five is back from
time out, but here goes. I may have read in
the trade papers that Bella and Mrs Maller have been
tapped to replace the aforementioned Mr Gascon as executive producer
on Benny Versus the Penny for the upcoming NFL season. Ben,
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would you or your sidekick care to confirm or deny?
And secondly, has Mr Gascon provided you with the negative
COVID test in order to return to the podcast. That's
from Pierre in Springfield. I found this out. Did you
know that if you test for COVID and you come
up positive, you could actually have it show up on
(24:08):
a test nine to ten weeks later. Yeah. So apparently
the dead microbes in your in your nasal cavity stay
there for a long period of time and you can't
even irrigate it out, so they just stay there until
they eventually fall out. But people can get retested and
retested and it can continue to show up positive even
(24:30):
though you have no symptoms, no signs, and don't even
have it. Yeah, we have we have seen that, right,
we have seen that with the uh John Rohm, Right, yeah, man,
There's been a few people that have tested positive like
a week after they were tested negative and in the Yeah,
so we've seen athletes do that also. It's crazy. Someone's
(24:53):
making a fortune, Ben, Uh, there's a lot of people
making a fortune. Who's paying for these tests? Who's the
government's paying? No? I was told that's free, Well, yeah, free.
I was told our vaccines are free. Well, someone's paying
for it. But during is getting what like fifteen dollars,
and I think Fiser's shot his nineteen fifty pop. Yeah,
(25:15):
so I'm making some coin man. Yeah, money, money and
money out. You gotta buy that fightser stock in that.
I'm on I'm on Roku right now, I'm on Boeing,
I'm on Square, which is on fire. I'm doing well.
I've been doing a lot. I saw the robin Hood
went on the market and that the first day it
did not do well, and then it shot up like
(25:37):
thirty bucks or something like that within a couple of days. Yeah,
I did very well, Joe writes an Ak. The bread
Man in Pittsburgh. The bread Man in Pittsburgh, Yeah, this
guy's a legend. He's one of the original o G
callers the early days of the Mallee Militia. Is he
baked bread or does he make bread? Well, I don't.
He's not a bread man anymore, but he was when
he listened to the show. He was the bread man.
He delivered bread around pick I don't know that anyway.
(25:59):
He's says, he sent me a hat. I thank you
for that. I do appreciate it. Bread man, very kind
of you. And then he said yes, he says, maybe
I can come on the fifth hour sometime and shoot
the ship. There you go. So he's inviting himself on
the podcast and and bred Man would like to hang
out with it. So you know, on a ride along
you're gonna get great stories from police officers and firefighters.
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But do you think of bread man has good stories?
Mm hm m hmm. The debatable. I would say, like
the mailman, for sure, mailman has good stories. I would
bet car repair people surprisingly have good stories. I've heard.
I've talked to some of those guys in the past
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that have shared some pretty interesting offers that have been
made to them to get cars repaired or stripped down.
Pool cleaning people people that would clean pools. Uh. Yeah.
I don't know about a bread man though it's a
milk man. Maybe the milkman okay, but a bread man
in his part of town I think probably got some
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good juice. In what part? What are you talking about?
Like in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and like those parts of Pennsylvania.
Why would that be just because the city is so
lively if there's always ship going on, a stuff happening, yeah,
good or bad? Yeah, it depends what part of town.
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But bread Man, we will will put that on the
list of possibilities, possibilities to have the bread Man on.
He's all grown up now. I hung out with him,
Pete and Pittsburgh the dough Boy when I went to
Pittsburgh years ago and we met at Primani Brothers, the
twenty four hour location in the Steel District, and it
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was all I was like one in the morning. I
rolled in. I had driven from Philly and we drove across.
We got there much later than we thought. I didn't
realize how big it is in Pennsylvania, and uh drove
across the state and then we hung out a couple
of hours, spent a night in Pittsburgh and walked around
the ballparks there, the stadiums in downtown was beautiful, and
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continued on up to Buffalo. So wonderful, wonderful trip back.
I think we stopped the reason that we were late.
We stopped in Gettysburg along the way, and that messed
us up. That's great, though. Did you do that during
the day or did you do that at night? It
was in the evening as the you know, just it
was like that twilight period. It was pretty cool. We
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kind of latched on. There was a walking tour, and
we kind of overheard some of the they were saying
that they don't know exactly where President that Lincoln gave
the Gettysburg addressed, but they think it was here. And
then the bodies were down there, and then they were
like like describing what what was going on. So it's cool.
And the guy that was doing it looked like he
had fought in the Civil War. He was a very
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old guy, and he just got like he thought maybe
there was some kind of time warp and he was
he was there and he actually had been there at
the Civil Wars. Kevin in Kansas says, welcome back, David.
Finally a positive message for you, Ben and David. As
I get ready to go back to school, what are
some of the back to school rituals you remember? Was
(29:20):
it buying school supplies, getting new shoes? I remember it
was always a big deal. Get a new backpack. That
was always every big, big deal. Picking out the right
backpack because as a kid, you throw your backpack around.
I would destroy my backpack, but that was always the
big thing. Remember the backpack. Going out to get pencils
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and pens and erasers, notebooks for me. I remember the
lunch box too. That was when I was in elementary school,
those cool metal lunch boxes with the cartoon characters on them.
You gotta make sure you had a good haircut too.
You can't go day one with I didn't give a
shit a about that, but my mom, mom did. But
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I didn't give a crap about the haircut at all. Uh,
new shoes. I just remember the backpack, the lunchbox, and
my mom making this is trying to make it a
big deal to get me excited to go back to school.
But it didn't really work. Remember that it was it
was didn't really get me excited. Queen rocks in right soon,
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She says, Ben, did you let David come back because
the listenership was failing? Uh no, No, Actually the last quarter,
which you were not part of. Um, we we had
the highest listenership we've ever had for the pot and
you're welcome and uh and guess Gon was gone for
(30:45):
two weeks twelve No, you were gone for four four
shows I think, so, yes, not a lot in the
quarter you were. You were gone a while and uh yeah,
so the listenership is higher than ever. So I had
nothing to do with guests had all people love Ryan
McMahon except in Boston they hated him. Other than that,
they loved him. Fred in Spring Texas rights this. Did
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either of you play youth, high school or college sports?
If so, what sports, what position, etcetera. I played high
school football. I did actually play basketball for one year
in high school, so that's when they called me moneyball
mallar back in the day. But yeah, I was there.
(31:29):
I was the you know, you know six guy, six
man of the year uh in high school. And I
played football is on the offensive line, also played on
goal line defense. I was the guy they put in
the middle there to shove up and clog up the
middle so you couldn't run up the middle. And my
job was to take out the center and one of
the guards if I can, and that that was that
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was my my job. I played little league baseball, but
I never played high school baseball. Guest on you were
you were like Al Bundy of your high school was
a multi support authlete, played football, baseball, basketball, and hockey.
But I played baseball and football into college. But football's
sport number one. I should have played baseball. I'm left
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handed and I was a picture played first base um,
but I didn't have good control and then college football
wise that played tight end. Should have could have would have? Right,
you know, man, what could have been? What could have been?
What could have been? Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, she wrote
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a note very nice. She was in l A last
week and she wanted to, you know, do a meet
and Greek couldn't do it. Wasn't here long enough. I
didn't get an email about this. Yeah, she had nothing,
nothing to do with you, nothing to do with you. Well,
you've been going out of sight, out of mind. And
she pointed out she came to l A for two
days that she's in lives in Virginia, Richardond, Virginia's a
long trip to come from Richmond, Virginia l A for
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two days on the weekend. That's not normally a weekend trip. No, no, no, anyway,
she she put, this is a great story. So she uh,
she took the trip out because her her son had
the opportunity. Her son wants to work for it, wants
to be an animator and work for DreamWorks, and so
there was a an opportunity to to meet and network
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with one of the big movie producers and some of
the writers and animators for DreamWorks, and so they flew
out and went to this thing and she took her
kid out to meet the people from DreamWorks and apparently
it went pretty well. And uh so this is this
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was cool. That was very that was very nice. Man,
that's a kick. Ask mom, that's what I'm saying, right,
I mean, your kid wants to be working for DreamWorks
and you you fly three thousand miles or whatever it
is and just for a couple of days just to
get a little FaceTime. But apparently it worked. Like the person,
she said, was genuinely impressed and said that the kid
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could have a future. That is sucking awesome. Yeah, because
I know a lot of these networks like CBS does it,
and I think NBC they offer mentorship programs. They are
not internships for students and just you know, obviously young individuals. Yeah,
that was that was pretty cool. So she says she
will be back. She was upset because we last weekend
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the podcast was riveting. We did a bunch of favorite
restaurants in l like Tito's Tacos and the different places,
and unless she Jennifer was upset because by the time
she heard the podcast, she had had gone back to Richmond, Virginia.
But she will be back and she can eat it
all all those fine places and have a wonderful time.
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The last one from Greg in West St. Paul, Minnesota,
nice and says Ben and David. I was watching a
baseball game and the batter's helmet had some black stuff
on it. It looked like black tar. What is it
and what's the purpose of it? That's from Greg. I
feel like this could have been a Google. This could
have been a Google. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
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this didn't need to be sent, but I kind of answer.
It's obviously who was the player that had the most
pine tar? Remember George Brett's the one that comes to
my mind. Oh now that was on the bat. But
the helmet, Manny Ramirez a Manny on the back just
taking b G O is he did he have a lot?
I think Justin Turner had a lot because he'd get
his the back of his jersey would get dirty between
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the numbers. Well that was because of his bat. He
was from the pine tar from the bat. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but I'm talking about the helmet um the helmet. Yeah,
there's some guys that have had like just covered in
pine tar. Of course they do that because they can
rub their hand on the on the helmet and then
take some of the pine tar off and then on
their batting glove to hold the bats. Little cheek coat.
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I have pine tar on the microphone, so I have
a firm grip on the microphone. I do do not
want to drop the microp little gross. It's just how
I roll. That's how I operate here. I want to
point that out. All right, that's it. Well, we'll get
the heck out of here. Have a great rest of
your Sunday. If you're listening live on you know, live
to the podct to live where I live, but on
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the podcast on Sunday. I understand a lot of people
listen to this on Monday and Tuesday, and it's a
timeless podcast. It's a timeless podcast. Yeah, alright, I have
a great rest of the Sunday. We'll be back on
I will Sunday Night in the Monday as the NFL
takes center stage all the big moves of the weekend,
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and we'll have all of that for you on the
next Ben maur Show eleven PM Sunday Night in the West.
That is, of course, do the math on that that
is two am in the East on Monday morning. We'll
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A mail bag kind of a day. Glad you have
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many of them as we can in the course of
the mail bag. And that's how we roll and from
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way through the weekend. David, Uh say, it's it's gonna
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be here despite the fact that I had a wake
up early this morning. They call another game in Germany
which is going good. Thanks for asking um, but yeah,
I'm here now, and uh go from one thing to another.
It's nice And who do you call the games? Whether
you buy yourself when you're I actually had a Ben
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Mallard moment last weekend. I was in the middle of
the first quarter with the Leipzig Kings, driving at the
twenty yard line of Berlin. All of a sudden, house
goes pitch black. Oh, the lights went out on the
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entire city. I had to drive to a friend's house
at six thirty of the morning, banging on the door
second callis game remotely. It was so tragic. But the
cool thing is is that the network that I do
it for, they have three broadcasters, so one's in English,
one is typically in German, and any other one's in
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the native tongue of the team, so Polo or Spanish
or another German. So yea um, but yeah, it was.
It was pretty bad. Standby, we have technical difficult technical
different awful sucks. I drove thell from I drove from
my house in Pedro to Long Beach in twelve minutes.
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It was pretty awesome. I must have had I could
have gotten at least like five or six tickets. Yeah,
well you know that time. They're not really writing tickets
that time in the morning. No, no, yeah, you're good
to go, sleepy, drink up Starbucks. Well let's get into
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I feel like it's not a good weekend to talk.
I think this is a great, great opportunity. I football
ran around the corner. We should be talking about the
teach skin. I did. I did announce. I did announce
that you were back in Facebook post and that led
to a lot of vitriol. Uh. People were very upset
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and they did not have peace of mind. Did not
have peace of mind. The news that you were coming back,
and so I just I hope you're prepared. So these
are actual messages by actual listeners of the show. We
call it the mail bag. It's a jumbled up collection
of these messages and the tour the force of the podcast.
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So the first one comes from Brian parts unknown. He says,
on the news of Gascon's return, can you please get
rid of him permanently? That was his response. James writes
and says, hey, Ben, sometimes sometimes some of Gascon's comments
were a little assholary. That was from James. Kevin says,
(05:49):
when finding out about Gascon's return, that sucks. That was
his quote. Eric with the case says, can I hear
the gagon drop? M hm? Eric, you can make Eric
happy if you want to play the gag on drop.
I could drop something on Eric if you'd like. Yeah. Interesting.
So those are the first four messages. I got a
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Tony in Oakland, he says, Ben, you finally got a loyal,
dedicated sidekick in Ryan McBain, and now you were forced
to work with that pompous West of the four of
five a hole. Does management hate you? Yes? Yes, they
said that show is going too good. Let's mess it up.
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That shows you know, Ryan's doing his thing. He's doing
pretty well there. So let's punt on that and bring
guests gone back. Yes, yeah, that's that's what happened. Absolutely,
that was the consultation. Mark in Ottawas is welcome back.
Gag on how was your maturnity leave? And what did
you and Brian Finley name the child? Anyone in Canada
(06:52):
doesn't have to. Uh, I don't think anyone in Canada
has the right to talk about masculinity or here in
this this part of town. Ben, onwards and upwards we go,
Pino says, I hope we can get the truth on
why he abandoned you, Ben. What the hell? Pinot, don't
let him off the hook. His name is Pino, that's
what it says here, p I n o Pino? What
kind of funked up name is that? It's a great name?
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What's wrong with that? An original name? How many people
have you ever met named Pino? None? Yeah? Well there
you go. Finally a guy named Pino. Richard from Edowah,
Tennessee says, why in the fuck is that gas bag
coming back? Is he done in Germany? Are you done
(07:34):
in Germany? No? I got five more weeks left and
then playoffs and championship game five more weeks. How many
freaking games are they playing in Germany? Twelve games? Twelve games? Crap? Wow, uh,
let's see here. I can't read that. Richard can't read that.
Richard says, uh, because I can't spe spelling. Some of
(07:55):
these are terrible. It's that like from guy from Arizona
that can't spell you have such a such a just taste.
Relieve he's like sixty years old. They can't spell cat. Yeah,
all right, well you're you're you're like fifty years old
and you can't show up to work everywhere you pick
and choose your battle. Yeah. Uh, he says. What do
you big Ben think about the college football playoff expanding
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with Oklahoma and Texas coming to the SEC? I have
no issue with the college football is pretty much the
SEC and everyone else is like a backseat to the
Southeastern Conference Eastern Conference. So like this is the future
the future is going to be. They'll be like instead
of the big five power conferences, they'll be like the
Big three power conferences. You're gonna have like the Big ten,
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the SEC, and then some hybrid pack twelve Big twelve
combo and then that'll be it. The landscape has changed
in college college football, so that's I'm fine with that.
And and they're not the last teams that are gonna
join the SEC. There. I wouldn't be stunned at off Clemson.
I know the rumors were Clemson in Florida State, some
(09:03):
other combination of Clemson somebody else joining the Southeastern Confers.
That's where the money is, that's where you want to be.
Those are the cool kids. Yeah, if you're if you're
on the wrong side of the tracks, you want to
live on that side of the track. So that's what's
gonna happen. But don't forget, with all due respects, since
you are a minor league baseball fan, you cannot discount
and disregard the MAC Tuesday Wednesday football randomly the maction. Baby,
(09:26):
I'm all about the MAX, So I gotta give a
two thumbs up to the MAC. But yeah, I mean
just kind of goes to prove right that the whole
SCC is the most dominant conference has been manufactured by ESPN.
I mean, there's years that USC was smashing everybody in
the SEC, whether it was Arkansas, it was l S
(09:47):
U and Auburn they got the better of and then
all of a sudden, these fake sanctions come down. They
throw the they throw the entire book at Southern cal
and then usc Is is left for dead. The SEC
rise is and now it's like full steam ahead Southern
Fried football. You gotta have that Southern front froom. Have
you been to an SEC game? Uh? No, I've never
(10:10):
been to and have you No? No, it's it's a
bucket list thing. Be sure to catch live editions of
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I've been to Oklahoma. That's just I've been a Norman.
That was the craze. I was an Oklahoma Nebraska game
when that was still a big game. This was at
the end like Nebraska had just like somebody at quarterback. Now,
this is when Josh Hype was the quarterback in Oklahoma
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and that that first Bob Stoop steam the championship in
two thousand yeah, and then they gets smashed by USC
I think in the Orange Bowl the next year. Yeah,
but they won that they won that first year and
everyone's going crazy as chasing White at quarterback. I think, Man,
how was that? Was it? Funny? Norman? That was awesome? Yeah,
it was a great environment. It was. It was cool,
(11:15):
like the Nebraska fans cruising down and all their RVs
and all that, and that was a that what's his name?
The elite Corso and those clowns where they were doing
their college pregame show. So it was quite quite the scene.
That was the food good. Uh yeah, I mean they
treated us very well. I I remember being at this
the Switzer Center there the the practice facility, and um,
(11:40):
they just rolled out the pr staff for Oklahoma, like
rolled out the red carpet. I was doing sidelines on
that game, and so they just whatever we needed. We
were hanging out. We had a meeting with Stoops raining too,
Barry Switzer who was there for some reason in the
hallway walking around and that was cool. What did you
do a day game or was it a night game?
For you? It was a day gay game, say on
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syndicated radio. And you know it was a good time,
although my mike, my handheld mike stopped working a problem. Yeah,
And we went to the radio station. I had to
do do a like a half hour college football show,
so we went to the radio station to record it.
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And the radio station it was like this small little
like uh, how would I describe it? It was like
a you know how you were in school and they'd
add extra classrooms in the back. It was like a
mobile home to thing. Yeah, it was like kind of
like that. Yeah, and then I'm behind it was the
actual transmitter. Yeah, and we we don't have that like
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radio stations in in l A. And radio what I'm
used to is, you know, the transmitters somewhere else like
in l A. There on a hill Mount Wilson is
where the transmitters are they because they boomed down into
the valley, but that was it's flat there. So to
put them right behind the radio station and then you're
on your way. Uh So, all right, Greg, and Iowa's
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is for gascon, gag on and gas can. How was
witness protection like? And how long until you return to
witness protection? Man? I was bored out of my mind.
I'll tell you what. I had three auditions with some networks.
I booked a national commercial, which was awesome. Um, I
started taking some finance classes, so I was busy. Then
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it wasn't bad at all. It was a vacation. You're
describing a vacation. I was bored. I like to be
out and about. I'm an extrovert. Is that is that true?
I'm an introvert, so I am the opposite of that?
All right? What is next year? On the mail back Kevin,
Kevin writes and says, is the only way you guys
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get a vacation over there is to do something to
get suspended on a company. Yeah, I mean vick shooting
constitutes paid time off. I don't get paid time off. Yeah, okay,
And you don't take vacation I don't. I don't. You
don't take holidays off either. So I believe in work.
I am a I am a worker. That's what I am.
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What is next year? Let's see any meny mighty mo,
let's see your page down? Page down? All right? This
is a travel log from Adrian in the Mile High City.
You've been away for a while, but Adrian took the
family to Disneyland and we were trying to get together
logistically it would not work. But he brought the kids
and the wife, everyone that came out to California from Denver,
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and we're hanging out and he's giving the Disneyland l
a report card, and so let me get right to it,
he says. The first thing my wife and I noticed,
he said, it was all the trash scattered alongside of
the highway, even the four oh five. Why so much garbage,
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Adrian asked, aren't there highway clean up cruise that can
help contain some of that? That was his first question. Uh,
he says. On our first day we were there, we
drove from Anaheim to Hollywood to see the Walk of Fame,
and as we approached the l a Hollywood area, we
could not believe all the homeless tents set up on
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the sides of the highway and the bridges. We thought
Denver was bad for homelessness. What a sad situation. He's
not kidding, he says. It was cool to see the
Walk of Fame and Hollywood. Adrian says, but the Hollywood
Boulevard area is a ship hole. I thought I was
in San Francisco for a minute because of the real
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piles of ship along the Walk of fame. Not sure
if they were piles of dogshit or human ship regardless
of the family, and I dodged all the landmines. Welcome
to l ah It, says the family. And I love
the in and out burn three times. Says that double
double no onion is something special. No, no, you get
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double double, but you get the grilled onions. Not no onion. No,
I don't get the raw onion, but I get the
grilled on You you gotta ask for that. Ask for
the grilled onions. Will put grilled onions on there, and
you gotta get the fries animal style. He says they're
building an in and out Burger in the city he
lives in, Colorado, and it should be completed in the
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coming months. He's excited about that, so that's that's good news.
He says that the kids love Disneyland and the Mickey
Mouse pretzel. That's a solid move by the kids. The
Mickey Mouse pretzel one of the great items. It's over
priced like everything else at disney Land, but that's a solid,
solid pretzel with the Mickey Mouse ears on uh. And
also the ice cream. The ice cream. I love that.
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What if you went to my favorite ice cream shop.
The gear of Delis is in Downtown Disney, not Downtown Disney,
it's in the California Adventure. That place is great, says
the wife. And I had to stop for a Mallard
dessert State. Oh yeah, there you go. This is the
next the chocolate chip cookie ice cream Sunday good. Yeah, right,
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keep breathing. Uh, And he talks about me and Ryan.
We were discussing Disneyland prices. It was expensive, but worth it,
he said. For the kids, especially at their ages, it's
a trip. We hope they'll always remember. Out of the
out of state prices for Disney and California Adventure. Two
parks in three days. Oh boy, two hundred thirty five
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dollars aged ten and over two d aged three to
nine bucks if you're below the age of ten. Man,
I thought the last time I was there was a
hundred dollars a ticket. Now it's fucking double that. Well,
that's out of California prices. They they're trying to discourage
people from out of California to come. Bad job, says.
Huntington Beach was great, Adrian said. Kids love putting their
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feet in the water. They had never seen the ocean before.
Couldn't we leave all the water. That's pretty cool. Orange County,
The o C says, the California Venture Cars ride was awesome.
The roller coaster style hills at the end were a
cool surprise. Kids loved it. Blah blah blah. Then he
named some of the restaurants he ate at and he
enjoyed the Embassy Sweets. I like the Embassy Sweets. I
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like to stay there. It's a nice hotel, good hotel, said,
wonderful breakfast spread every morning six to nine, he says,
the they'll stay there again. That's a shocker, having a
breakfast spread with the pandemic going on. COVID. Yeah. Lastly,
I made the mistake of filling up the rental car
for return at a Sinclair near l Ax Do you
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want to take a guess? He paid four nine a
gallon for regular unleaded. That's the travel log from Adrian,
our buddy in the Mile High City. He had a
Mallard shirt on Gascon when he was at Disney. Lady
sent a photo along and had the Mallard name on it.
Custom made shirts. The job by Adrian Man, He's gonna
be back. That's cool. Enjoy La but more so Orange County. Yeah,
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it is I opening if you have not seen the
amount of just it looks like, um, like a third
world country in parts of l A right now, with
all the homeless people piled up on top of each
other on the side of the road there. It's craziness. Yeah,
it's brutal. It is as bad as I've ever seen it.
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I've never seen it worse than this. It's embarrassing, it is,
and the political people don't do anything. They make laws
to make it easier to have more people coming. I
feel bad for the homeless, but unfortunately a lot of
the homeless, it seems, are okay being homeless. I don't
really mind it, you know, as it's frustrating, frustrating problem.
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I think if you're homeless, there are places you can
go to get help and get a place to stay,
get your your feet back underneath you. Yeah, they're homeless shelters. Yeah,
well not just that. I mean there's program from homeless,
but a lot of from what I understand, maybe I'm wrong,
but from what I've been told, a lot of the
people just like they don't want they don't want to
have a job, they don't want to have responsibility. I
don't want to have any report to anybody. They love
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living on the streets. And there's also obviously the drug problem,
which is a big reason that that's the way it is. Yeah,
no family, no structure, also impacting uh Steve right, so,
and he says, what's the best advice you ever received
and who gave it to you? Hm, I don't know.
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I mean my mom gave me a lot of wisdom
over the years, and my grandfather and my dad, everyone
in my village gave me something. I often bring up
the Code of the West, So I guess that that
would be something that is the most You did not
learn the Code of the West, right, I guess when
you were a kid. You're not. That's not something that
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I think learned. The best piece silence, best piece of
advice I ever got, well, and this in history, was
never say no to an opportunity. Um, you know I
I did hear a great quote by Steve Harvey wants.
He said, whatever someone thinks of you is none of
(21:14):
your business. Another one is, don't you don't have to
share your business with everybody? Yeah, if you share secrets,
they're no longer secrets. Yeahs I do try to tell him.
My wife loves to share every detail I try to
I have pointed out to her. I've been like, you know,
(21:35):
you don't really don't need to share everything. There's some
some things that are better left unsaid. She's the extrovert,
but he want talker. I'm like, I don't really, you know,
they don't need to know that, which is weird because
both of you talk for a living. But you're an introvert.
She's an extrovert. Well, no, because I don't like the
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way I live my life. I don't need to get
into everyone's personal business. Everyone. Every family has got drama.
Everyone's got stuff. They're not happy about our stuff that's
awkward and things like that and my that stuff. You
can deal with it on your own. I can deal
with my stuff. And we don't need to you know,
change exchange dirty laundry. We don't. We don't have a
(22:18):
clothes line anymore. We have a dryer, clothes line clipper.
You know, I got you. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston, Texas,
says Man. I will be quitting the show to work
on my mental health. Maybe I'll get a documentary. Also,
how long will these athletes be using the mental health
(22:39):
card as an excuse. That's from Carlos Well. As long
as it'll work, it's the perfect, perfect get out of
I didn't play good jail card, I didn't perform well.
It's like this, of course, much like when everyone cries racism,
it ruins when there's actual racism. When people mental health
(23:01):
and there's not actual mental health, it's just you. You're
uncomfortable because you got booed. Then it's the same concept.
You've messed things though, Same with the me too movement. Yeah, yeah,
exactly uh same same Dar R R. Pierre in Springfield,
mass just down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall
of Fame or Muffett McGraw and the home of vaccine mandates.
(23:25):
This question may be irrelevant since you've already revealed that
Mr West of the four oh five is back from
time out, but here goes. I may have read in
the trade papers that Bella and Mrs Maller have been
tapped to replace the aforementioned Mr Gascon as executive producer
on Benny Versus the Penny for the upcoming NFL season. Ben,
(23:47):
would you or your sidekick care to confirm or deny?
And secondly, has Mr Gascon provided you with the negative
COVID test in order to return to the podcast. That's
from Pierre in Springfield. I found this out. Did you
know that if you test for COVID and you come
up positive, you could actually have it show up on
(24:08):
a test nine to ten weeks later. Yeah. So apparently
the dead microbes in your in your nasal cavity stay
there for a long period of time and you can't
even irrigate it out, so they just stay there until
they eventually fall out. But people can get retested and
retested and it can continue to show up positive even
(24:30):
though you have no symptoms, no signs, and don't even
have it. Yeah, we have we have seen that, right,
we have seen that with the uh John Rohm, Right, yeah, man,
There's been a few people that have tested positive like
a week after they were tested negative and in the Yeah,
so we've seen athletes do that also. It's crazy. Someone's
(24:53):
making a fortune, Ben, Uh, there's a lot of people
making a fortune. Who's paying for these tests? Who's the
government's paying? No? I was told that's free, Well, yeah, free.
I was told our vaccines are free. Well, someone's paying
for it. But during is getting what like fifteen dollars,
and I think Fiser's shot his nineteen fifty pop. Yeah,
(25:15):
so I'm making some coin man. Yeah, money, money and
money out. You gotta buy that fightser stock in that.
I'm on I'm on Roku right now, I'm on Boeing,
I'm on Square, which is on fire. I'm doing well.
I've been doing a lot. I saw the robin Hood
went on the market and that the first day it
did not do well, and then it shot up like
(25:37):
thirty bucks or something like that within a couple of days. Yeah,
I did very well, Joe writes an Ak. The bread
Man in Pittsburgh. The bread Man in Pittsburgh, Yeah, this
guy's a legend. He's one of the original o G
callers the early days of the Mallee Militia. Is he
baked bread or does he make bread? Well, I don't.
He's not a bread man anymore, but he was when
he listened to the show. He was the bread man.
He delivered bread around pick I don't know that anyway.
(25:59):
He's says, he sent me a hat. I thank you
for that. I do appreciate it. Bread man, very kind
of you. And then he said yes, he says, maybe
I can come on the fifth hour sometime and shoot
the ship. There you go. So he's inviting himself on
the podcast and and bred Man would like to hang
out with it. So you know, on a ride along
you're gonna get great stories from police officers and firefighters.
(26:22):
But do you think of bread man has good stories?
Mm hm m hmm. The debatable. I would say, like
the mailman, for sure, mailman has good stories. I would
bet car repair people surprisingly have good stories. I've heard.
I've talked to some of those guys in the past
(26:44):
that have shared some pretty interesting offers that have been
made to them to get cars repaired or stripped down.
Pool cleaning people people that would clean pools. Uh. Yeah.
I don't know about a bread man though it's a
milk man. Maybe the milkman okay, but a bread man
in his part of town I think probably got some
(27:06):
good juice. In what part? What are you talking about?
Like in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and like those parts of Pennsylvania.
Why would that be just because the city is so
lively if there's always ship going on, a stuff happening, yeah,
good or bad? Yeah, it depends what part of town.
(27:27):
But bread Man, we will will put that on the
list of possibilities, possibilities to have the bread Man on.
He's all grown up now. I hung out with him,
Pete and Pittsburgh the dough Boy when I went to
Pittsburgh years ago and we met at Primani Brothers, the
twenty four hour location in the Steel District, and it
(27:49):
was all I was like one in the morning. I
rolled in. I had driven from Philly and we drove across.
We got there much later than we thought. I didn't
realize how big it is in Pennsylvania, and uh drove
across the state and then we hung out a couple
of hours, spent a night in Pittsburgh and walked around
the ballparks there, the stadiums in downtown was beautiful, and
(28:12):
continued on up to Buffalo. So wonderful, wonderful trip back.
I think we stopped the reason that we were late.
We stopped in Gettysburg along the way, and that messed
us up. That's great, though. Did you do that during
the day or did you do that at night? It
was in the evening as the you know, just it
was like that twilight period. It was pretty cool. We
(28:34):
kind of latched on. There was a walking tour, and
we kind of overheard some of the they were saying
that they don't know exactly where President that Lincoln gave
the Gettysburg addressed, but they think it was here. And
then the bodies were down there, and then they were
like like describing what what was going on. So it's cool.
And the guy that was doing it looked like he
had fought in the Civil War. He was a very
(28:56):
old guy, and he just got like he thought maybe
there was some kind of time warp and he was
he was there and he actually had been there at
the Civil Wars. Kevin in Kansas says, welcome back, David.
Finally a positive message for you, Ben and David. As
I get ready to go back to school, what are
some of the back to school rituals you remember? Was
(29:20):
it buying school supplies, getting new shoes? I remember it
was always a big deal. Get a new backpack. That
was always every big, big deal. Picking out the right
backpack because as a kid, you throw your backpack around.
I would destroy my backpack, but that was always the
big thing. Remember the backpack. Going out to get pencils
(29:41):
and pens and erasers, notebooks for me. I remember the
lunch box too. That was when I was in elementary school,
those cool metal lunch boxes with the cartoon characters on them.
You gotta make sure you had a good haircut too.
You can't go day one with I didn't give a
shit a about that, but my mom, mom did. But
(30:02):
I didn't give a crap about the haircut at all. Uh,
new shoes. I just remember the backpack, the lunchbox, and
my mom making this is trying to make it a
big deal to get me excited to go back to school.
But it didn't really work. Remember that it was it
was didn't really get me excited. Queen rocks in right soon,
(30:24):
She says, Ben, did you let David come back because
the listenership was failing? Uh no, No, Actually the last quarter,
which you were not part of. Um, we we had
the highest listenership we've ever had for the pot and
you're welcome and uh and guess Gon was gone for
(30:45):
two weeks twelve No, you were gone for four four
shows I think, so, yes, not a lot in the
quarter you were. You were gone a while and uh yeah,
so the listenership is higher than ever. So I had
nothing to do with guests had all people love Ryan
McMahon except in Boston they hated him. Other than that,
they loved him. Fred in Spring Texas rights this. Did
(31:06):
either of you play youth, high school or college sports?
If so, what sports, what position, etcetera. I played high
school football. I did actually play basketball for one year
in high school, so that's when they called me moneyball
mallar back in the day. But yeah, I was there.
(31:29):
I was the you know, you know six guy, six
man of the year uh in high school. And I
played football is on the offensive line, also played on
goal line defense. I was the guy they put in
the middle there to shove up and clog up the
middle so you couldn't run up the middle. And my
job was to take out the center and one of
the guards if I can, and that that was that
(31:49):
was my my job. I played little league baseball, but
I never played high school baseball. Guest on you were
you were like Al Bundy of your high school was
a multi support authlete, played football, baseball, basketball, and hockey.
But I played baseball and football into college. But football's
sport number one. I should have played baseball. I'm left
(32:11):
handed and I was a picture played first base um,
but I didn't have good control and then college football
wise that played tight end. Should have could have would have? Right,
you know, man, what could have been? What could have been?
What could have been? Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, she wrote
(32:31):
a note very nice. She was in l A last
week and she wanted to, you know, do a meet
and Greek couldn't do it. Wasn't here long enough. I
didn't get an email about this. Yeah, she had nothing,
nothing to do with you, nothing to do with you. Well,
you've been going out of sight, out of mind. And
she pointed out she came to l A for two
days that she's in lives in Virginia, Richardond, Virginia's a
long trip to come from Richmond, Virginia l A for
(32:52):
two days on the weekend. That's not normally a weekend trip. No, no, no, anyway,
she she put, this is a great story. So she uh,
she took the trip out because her her son had
the opportunity. Her son wants to work for it, wants
to be an animator and work for DreamWorks, and so
there was a an opportunity to to meet and network
(33:16):
with one of the big movie producers and some of
the writers and animators for DreamWorks, and so they flew
out and went to this thing and she took her
kid out to meet the people from DreamWorks and apparently
it went pretty well. And uh so this is this
(33:37):
was cool. That was very that was very nice. Man,
that's a kick. Ask mom, that's what I'm saying, right,
I mean, your kid wants to be working for DreamWorks
and you you fly three thousand miles or whatever it
is and just for a couple of days just to
get a little FaceTime. But apparently it worked. Like the person,
she said, was genuinely impressed and said that the kid
(33:57):
could have a future. That is sucking awesome. Yeah, because
I know a lot of these networks like CBS does it,
and I think NBC they offer mentorship programs. They are
not internships for students and just you know, obviously young individuals. Yeah,
that was that was pretty cool. So she says she
will be back. She was upset because we last weekend
(34:19):
the podcast was riveting. We did a bunch of favorite
restaurants in l like Tito's Tacos and the different places,
and unless she Jennifer was upset because by the time
she heard the podcast, she had had gone back to Richmond, Virginia.
But she will be back and she can eat it
all all those fine places and have a wonderful time.
(34:39):
The last one from Greg in West St. Paul, Minnesota,
nice and says Ben and David. I was watching a
baseball game and the batter's helmet had some black stuff
on it. It looked like black tar. What is it
and what's the purpose of it? That's from Greg. I
feel like this could have been a Google. This could
have been a Google. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
(35:02):
this didn't need to be sent, but I kind of answer.
It's obviously who was the player that had the most
pine tar? Remember George Brett's the one that comes to
my mind. Oh now that was on the bat. But
the helmet, Manny Ramirez a Manny on the back just
taking b G O is he did he have a lot?
I think Justin Turner had a lot because he'd get
his the back of his jersey would get dirty between
(35:24):
the numbers. Well that was because of his bat. He
was from the pine tar from the bat. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but I'm talking about the helmet um the helmet. Yeah,
there's some guys that have had like just covered in
pine tar. Of course they do that because they can
rub their hand on the on the helmet and then
take some of the pine tar off and then on
their batting glove to hold the bats. Little cheek coat.
(35:47):
I have pine tar on the microphone, so I have
a firm grip on the microphone. I do do not
want to drop the microp little gross. It's just how
I roll. That's how I operate here. I want to
point that out. All right, that's it. Well, we'll get
the heck out of here. Have a great rest of
your Sunday. If you're listening live on you know, live
to the podct to live where I live, but on
(36:08):
the podcast on Sunday. I understand a lot of people
listen to this on Monday and Tuesday, and it's a
timeless podcast. It's a timeless podcast. Yeah, alright, I have
a great rest of the Sunday. We'll be back on
I will Sunday Night in the Monday as the NFL
takes center stage all the big moves of the weekend,
(36:30):
and we'll have all of that for you on the
next Ben maur Show eleven PM Sunday Night in the West.
That is, of course, do the math on that that
is two am in the East on Monday morning. We'll
catch you then
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