August 29, 2021 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
If you thought four 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
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the Everywhere back at it
again as we are behind the red hot microphones of
the Fifth Hour the I Heart Podcast Studio, and it
is one of my favorite parts of the weekend. The
mail Bag. The mail Bag, of course, if you you're
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new to the podcast, it's a spinoff, spinoff of the
Overnight Show. You can hear that five nights a week
on over four hundred radio stations on Fox Sports Radio
in all of its amaze using superpowers, that amazing radio
show heard all over the place. American Forces Network you
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can hear it on there as well, heard on a
FN hundred and sixty countries, more than a hundred and
fifty ships. That's the other American Forces Network. But this
this podcast globally as well, because of the power of
podcasting and a chance for the first time since the
Fifth Hour podcast began. Now, normally what would happen on
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a normal podcast weekend if you heard the Friday podcast
great conversation with Anthony Gargano radio savant and an old
newspaper guy, and you go back and hear that, And
we did that on Friday. We had on Saturday the
Life and Times of Mallard, an update on my plastic
obsession and also my contracting ability and the old world
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medicine that I use with Ryan McBain writing Shotgun, but
for the first time ever on the Sunday Mailbag after
doing two podcasts where McBain was was with me for both.
He did not speak on the Friday podcast, but he
was there. We now change it up and unfortunately, much
to my dismay, and making his way in west of
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the four oh five playing in the entire time it
is team sound effect, David Guscott, who got a lot
of it on my plate, playing true, playing truant absentee.
Is um only a partial day for you. We're not
able to do the full podcast weekend working a couple
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of paying jobs. So how to step up to the
plate calling international hockey. I know you appreciate my my work, ethic,
my ambition, and I'm sure that you will not I
put your nose up to any of my work and
where I'm getting into. So thanks. Well listen. I do
the podcast with who wants to be here? You obviously
do not want to be most of it. And Ryan
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McBain was great. I can't wait until management names him
the full time sidekick on the podcast I look forward to.
Could you imagine if it would be fun? It'd be great.
We have so much fun. You said you're gonna love
it at the end of the year. Anyway people would
love it because I never said that, said I'm gonna
stop at the end of the year. No, no, no,
no no, you're confused. You're confused, not confused, No, no, no.
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The podcast is taking off now now it's just starting
to take off. I can't leave a podcast when it's
taking off. I need some rewards. Then I needed rewards
out of this. It's all about you. It's about man,
It's not about you. Know you're not. You make it
seem like you just event you could even show up
for the first two podcasts of the weekends. The reason
we bothered. You're ashamed to be here. I was busy.
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I was getting paid to do other work. People listen
to this podcast that international hockey broadcast? No one, no
one's watching. You're listening to that? Are you? What? Are you?
What's wrong with you? Gonna go where the audiences know?
You go where the audiences and the audience is not there? Well,
the packagers broadcasting the twenties six different countries across the
world and then includes h thirteen of them, and you
know it could be broadcast. No one's listening to it.
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I mean, it doesn't matter Discover for the guy that
doesn't overnight show, Yes, a thousands affiliates, because nobody's listening
at that time. People are listen. If I have a
few people on each station listening, that's more than they're
listening to your Maybe your dad or mom was listening,
I mean maybe they were. No one else is watching
or listening to that crap. You gotta be kidding me.
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I mean, at least admit it. Admit no one's watching
or consuming that. Nobody wants that. They don't spend a
lot of money. Nobody's craving that. Yeah, yeah, no one's
listening to that. Live content is king This is not
live live content. No one's No one is going out
of their way to search for an international hot day.
The day that do you think otherwise, you're delusion. The
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day that you applaud my efforts or my work will
be the day that I I roll over in my
I was praising. Ryan McBain showed up a smile and
his face every to get to work. You only blow
some men here and not all of them. But he
was exactly Listen, I respect people that work hard, that
show up and they do they get jobs they get
take an advantage of I respect those people and the
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code of the West, right, take pride in your work,
finish what you start, and do what has to be done.
And Ryan McBain follows the code of the West. He does,
he does. You don't take pride in your work, you
don't finish what you start. All that, uh so he does.
You know the point like like Durrell Revas, You know,
I go from one alan to the other with the
with the highest bidder for my performances and my efforts.
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You're a whore, Yeah, horse get paid. Okay, you're a whore.
I hope you don't get a you know, your back
doesn't get burned there anyway, all right, here we go.
Let's get to the mail bag. And these are actual
questions sent in by actual people from the Mallard militia.
Well you're laying on your back there, you're anyway, all right,
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So you can email the questions Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
or send them via Facebook. Every Tuesday, were moved it
up to two day now by popular demand. Tuesday we
put out a little bit of field, a little bit
of a field. Uh. And you can be part of
the fun there on Tuesday. You can mail something here too,
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which we've had female listen. Yes, we have people send
random things in the mail. Have you had any hats recently? Uh? Yeah,
I got in Colorado since some someth in So I
do appreciate that. Anyway, all right, let's get to it.
Neil Neil from the Real Miami writes in he said,
by the Facebook pages Ben Mallor's show on Facebook, follow
us on there and you can post every Tuesday. I'll
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say hey, I need questions. I'll beg for questions and
then you can help us out. And some weeks we
get more questions than others Now. Neil from the real Miami,
right since says Big Ben Mazelto on the new remodeled
place and Joy, it's not done yet. As we said
in the previous previous podcast. Uh he says, a big
fan of you using mitzvah the word mitzvah during the show.
Thanks for doing all of us a mitzvah and watching
(06:54):
the woke sports like the NBA and reporting back to
us much more entertaining to hear your hot take. Curious
to hear what's the most memorable mitzvah anyone has done
for you or you have done for someone else career
related The same question for my favorite Caped Crusaders sidekick,
(07:15):
See he left that genera because he didn't know who
was going to be in here. But to answer a question, Neil,
the thing that the person that helped me out the
most well, I had a buddy of mine that was
doing some television and needed someone to debate them on
TV and asked if I would do an audition at
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NBC and that turned into a almost a year of
television back and forth to Connecticut from California, and so
that was that was a pretty cool mits but that
somebody did for me And try to help out a
lot of people give them solid life career advice on
usually people young guys in the radio business that have questions.
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Though I'll help him. I there anything specific. I don't
know any specific pops up at the top there what
about you gag on? Uh. Nick Davis is a guy
that used to work for ESPN and it was in
San Diego. He became the executive producer of Fox Sports West. Um.
I was doing some stuff digitally for ESPN and I
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had pitched him the idea about continuing coverage for for
soccer here in the south Land, and uh, he put
me on TV. It was like the first time, but
it was live TV, like no live to tape. It
was all live and would do it live? Do it live?
And I hate to do it live. I hated doing
stand ups. The truck broke down, so there was no
replace that. I do everything fucking live. And uh yeah,
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he throw me into the wolves. You didn't have to
do it, but he did, got the opportunity, and uh,
you know here, I am alright. Uh. The email continues
from Neil in Miami, the real Miami says I have
a I have to call you out on something. He says,
I recall a few months back you and guests on
I said you were working on something new for the show,
like a new segment or something. And what happened? Was
(09:07):
it your side lover Ryan McBain taking over for a month,
I hope not maybe bring the to be or not
to be back? That was fun? Please update, uh? And uh.
So yeah, we've had conversations with some very powerful people
in the media landscape. Uh. And those conversations, let me
give you an example here of how these things normally go. Uh.
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There's feelers that are made, we get a response, first
of all, and then we secondly have a meeting, and
the meeting generally goes very well. The people who are
in a position of power tell us how great everything
is and how much they love the content, and they
play plan on hoping doing something with us. Uh. And
then the third thing that happens is they send us
a very nice, well written with good punctuation letter of rejection. Uh.
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And this happens pretty much every time. So so at
one point I think we were close to something we
thought and then we got the dreaded rejected letter, and
so that's likely what that was. I don't remember specifically, Neil,
I feel like I'm Chris Davis right now. Yeah. Well
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Chris Davis got paid though, he's gonna see see you
walked right into that. But you're about as productive as
Chris Davis the last couple of years. I would at
least take that run season though. Man, do some do
some steroids? Man, I don't know. We've we've we've looked
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far and wide. Yeah we have, Uh, yes, we have.
We we We've cast a wide net and the fish
aren't swimming through the net. Neil says, as a mitzvah
for the fans, please keep the canned audience for Gascon.
It's become a staple of the show and the sound
of it means laughs up ahead. No, it does not
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mean that at all. Does not mean that at all. Uh.
He also says, ps another good guest last Friday Fun
conversation with Andrew the Chef. Since you both are top chefs,
at least among radio gas bags, what is your secret
spice ingredient in cooking? Mine is? Uh? Car domon? Is
that am I saying there? Right? Regarding your ask on
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new Guest, how about your lovely wife get her view
on your rise to stardom? Share embarrassing stories and you
are hiding. You are hiding from all of it. And
he and several others requested Larry Elder, we get Larry
Elder on the podcast. I would love to get Larry
Open on the podcast. I don't know if it will
work out logistically. I mean, I'd love to get Larry on.
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Larry is gonna be the new governor of California in
a few a few months here, I hope. So he's
got this in the bag. Larry Elder is gonna win.
I don't know. I don't know about California recalling Gavin
Newsom to bring in a black white supremacist, the first
ever black wife, La Times baby, Late Times, Linden Chard,
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enemy of the people, politically aligned there Larry Elder. Now,
Larry is great, and I do get a kick out
of the election commercials. I think that's I'm using that
I heard the keep Gavin Newsom that you know, if
you change governors, you know California is going to be
in people are gonna be dying from COVID and all that.
(12:24):
There's a really trying to scare you into that that's
not gonna work. I hate to tell people it's not
gonna work. People are already dying. And if they're not dying,
there on the streets homeless. Yeah, what about all the
people shifting on Ventura Boulevard? What about that anyway? Uh?
Tammy in Montana right, since she says, exceptional, fantastic, unequal.
That is the fifth Hour podcast with Ben Maller and
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David Gascon. Yes, fun fact, there you go. Uh, let's
see here, any meany mighty mo? Pick a? What what
is next on this email? Hold on a sec here,
She says, I feel I need to clarify a few
things for senior citizen Helen. Turn your hearing aids up. Woman.
(13:07):
David does not get paid for the podcast. He donates
this time. Well, he does get paid, but not much
energy and gas to drive in and work with Ben
on the podcast. David, along with Ben, makes sacrifices for
the podcast, something that Helen has no idea how to do.
Helen says he has no talent. David is part of
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the crew of prime time shows on fs ARE. Obviously
management is aware of David's down about Tammy's big Fan.
I wonder why, I wonder why Tammy loves it so much?
Big Fan aware of David's town's preparation and work ethic
because they wouldn't schedule him in these time slots. Ben,
I have to I have a use for the Tomahawks stake.
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Give it to Helen to plug her cavernous pie hole.
Uh uh uh, Jesus geez, what are you? And Tammy Man?
What's going on? What's going on with that? She's good,
She's a fantastic woman. She's younger, better looking, nicer, sounds better.
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Uh huh successful? All right, all right, let's see here. Uh.
Next one from all Queen Roxanne Queen Russ another another
guest on fan Girl Ben and David Roxanne here heard
Helen and Stood's ridiculous email last week. I'm wondering if
they are willing to give their real names so we
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can do a public search of them like they did
to David. It's like they just discovered the search bar,
because I've found people who brag about themselves with no
proof are usually lying. Queen Roxanne says, I don't think
they're wealthy. Wealthy people are classy and they don't have
to brag. And why does Helen spend so much time
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at the gross restore? Thinking of David seems a little creepy,
Queen Roxanne rites, So a litule advice if they don't
want to give up who they are, finding public information
on the internet isn't hard, and using it against people,
especially bringing family into it is stupid. You call yourself old.
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But they seem to be acting pretty childish to me.
And if you're going to go out, if you're out
of your way to insult someone, make them good insults.
We can at least laugh at Also both of you, Uh,
this is a non secword. What are your thoughts on
the broncos naming Teddy Bridgewater? All right, we didn't need that,
Queen Roxanne, We did not leave that at the end.
(15:41):
We're gonna leave that one. And look by the side
of the road there you've got Queen Rocks and and
and also Tammy attack dog mode here. Well, now the
rebuttal from Helen. Now the rebuttal from Helen. Boy friend
of mine, not friend of guess, gn Benjamin, This is Helen.
Did David Gascon just cancel culture his global broadcasting career?
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Helen writes with a question mark, As you know. During
the opening moments of last Sunday's table talk show, David
Gascon referred to me as a c I'm disappointed Stu
is angry, and she wrote that in all caps. That
means she's angry. David, that means she's angry. She wrote
in all caps, I'm disappointed, Stuart is angry. It's big
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email continues for most of us, occasional salty language cursing
is a harmless way to be bad. However, that powerful
C term remains the most obscene, offensive and misogynistic word
there is and has no place on any platform, even
on the Fifth Hour podcast. Telling writes for David and
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weak misogynist men like him without game, a woman in
genitals like mind pose a potent source of evil? What
what is it with threatened men like Gascon still using
body parts as a way to describe attractive, powerful and
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successful women like me that they hate? Uh? And then
that's Helen. She also finishes up by saying, Ben, we
are loyal supporters of you. Thank you, thank you the
good sports talk manch that you are. But here's the
key part. She's writing in all caps now, but I
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demand a sincere on air apology from David during the
Sunday Mailback podcast. Signed Helen and Stu from Palmetto Bay, Florida. David,
the flora is yours there. Would you like to offer
a again, a sincere on air apology. No, I mean
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I didn't call her cute, if that's what she was
referring to the giant sea. You listen, no one's told
her to punt, no one's no one's intimidated by Helen.
Like nobody. Nobody's thinking about Helen right now you're listening.
Everyone's thinking about Helen because we just read an email
from Helen. Nobody is a very small small you know
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who's thinking about Helen Queen, Roxanne, Tammy and Montana And
I'm not thinking about Helen said emails about Helen. It
was just mindless response, mindless jealous of the fame of Helen.
Boy and Stu. My friends, my friends should go hang
out with them. I will and maybe they'll invite me over.
You need to bring a walking up, bring a walker,
(18:39):
we can light the Hanaker candles. It could happen. Yeah,
I don't know. I assume have no idea. I think
they what they call what the terminology when they said
you're a good sports talk mate, that's a that's a
that's a tell to tell they're playing up to you
because you're they might have been. I don't know, I
have no idea, so you would not apology. You're you're
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you're not gonna apologize. You're declining the opportunity to Apologisten.
If someone's gonna take a shot at me, then they're
gonna get fired back. And if you don't like it,
then stay the funk out of the ring. Yeah. Simple.
If you're gonna act like something, you're gonna get treated
like something. Wow. What about the customers? Always right? What
(19:23):
about customer service? I'm not getting paid from these customers. Okay,
well technically you are not. Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, this
is radio, remember you told me this. As long as
the commercials are being played on live radio, that's all
that matters. Well, I learned from this guy, this guy
(19:43):
named John Sterling, who taught me in a class. He
said the most important thing is to sell the soap,
sell the soapst thing. So as long as we sell
the soap, and we got a lot of soap to sell.
To be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Maller Show week days at two Ami Stern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah,
(20:06):
Pierre in Springfield rights in, alright, uh, He says, I'm
writing you from beyond the grave based on some Mallard
math regarding David's tweet about hot dogs shortening one's life.
I traveled daily on highways that consist mostly of only
two lanes. Why do Nutt Nicks insist on driving below
(20:26):
the speed limit in the passing fast lane? Well, Pierre,
I've actually studied this, and I occasionally will drive out
in the open roads far far from the Mallard mansion.
And the reason based on years and years of empirical data,
and I don't need to vent diagram for this. Their assholes,
that's why. All right. They're absolute assholes, and that's why
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they do that. And there's no other reason they would
do that. There's no other reason. They're just complete a holes.
So good luck at it. Yeah, those roads out in
Massachusetts and those old school roads, that is not that easy,
all right, David mill Valley writes in He says, Hey, Ben,
I'm trying to make sense of the various pick um segments.
(21:08):
You and the crew will rattle off a bunch of names,
and you invariably y I'll hurry up. Uh. There seems
to be a lot of tension and excitement, but no climax,
so to speak. It's frustrating, to say the least. I'm
scratching my head trying to figure out what the heck
is going on. Please explain it to me like I'm
a five year old. Okay, so very simple here, Dave.
First of all, the daily pick hum games, which we
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do at the end of the first hour, the last
block of the first hour, originated when daily Fantasy draft
Kings and fan Duel became very popular. We wanted to
embrace that, so we said, let's make a daily segment.
We were all very competitive on the show, so it's
a competitive segment of time. Normally, we squeeze it in.
We horse we uh, we horse shoe it in. Is
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that a term horseshoe? Is that the term leave? Anyway,
We we squeeze it in at the very end of
the hour. Typically we only have a minute or less
to get it in, and so it involves me, Eddie,
Roberto and Coop picking players. Inevitably, what happens is, even
though we're on a very tight network clock, we're running
into a brick wall. Cooper Loop cannot his mind does
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not work fast, and so I have to scream and
him hurry up because if he doesn't get his pick
we can't move on to the next person. We run
out of time and then it's a disaster. And the
reason you don't get your climax, you're like Bob Kraft
or Deshaun Watson looking for your climax. But the reason
you don't get your climaxes because we go to the break,
but the next day we don't sit there and obsessed
(22:34):
with who won, But whoever goes first the next day
was the winner of the pick up. There are some
that keep the standings of the pick um. Some of
the p ones over the years have kept the standing
see who has the top record on the pick them
And so that's that's the origins of the MLB, NBA, NFL,
p G A put um, the you know any of
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the pick hum games that we play. So that is it. Adrian.
The more you know Adrian in the Mile High City,
says Ben and Gascon, it was cool to hear Ben
and Jake chop it up about old radio shows on
Jake's podcast. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed that, thank you
it was I was flattered to be asked to be
on the Jake Warner podcast and he will be helping
to put together the new podcast studio, which should be
(23:19):
up and running next week. If all goes right, we'll
be up and running next week. This one might be
more of a Doc Mike question, not a piss related question.
But have either of you had Portillo's Italian beef sandwich?
How about the lemon cake? I think Portillo's is more
of a Midwestern restaurant chain. We don't have it in Colorado. Anyway.
(23:40):
We had some family from the Chicago visit US this
weekend and they bought brought a Portillo's lemon cake. I'm
not much of a for lemon desserts, but this cake
was delicious. Have either of you tried it? Um? I'm not. Uh,
I'm not, but I can't tell you that. I looked
up this place. That's the Chicago restaurant. They do have
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one in southern California and it's self Beef Sandwiches in Chicago,
hot Dogs in Chicago with the chain. I'm thinking about
going and checking it out. It's in near knots Berry Farm.
Wayne of Park. Yeah, I'm thinking about going over there
and having a beef sandwich. Are you a lemon? I
(24:25):
do like lemon. My wife does not enjoy the lemon
as much as I like the lemon. I enjoy lemon.
You interesting, Yeah, I like lemon, lemon, lime, lemon meringue
made right is good. Back to the sandwich, the keys,
the bread right like it has to be. It's all
about the bread man, I think so right, like if
you if you can't be just drunk on bread like
(24:48):
it has to be like a good balance and it
has to be warm. It can't be like too toasty,
I think right. Uh yeah, I do not like toasted
bread on my sandwich. I don't I like uh like
a soft generally bread. Yeah. Yeah, so that is the
deal on that. But that that place does look good,
(25:09):
and you know, most people than flying to Chicago places
to go. Maybe I can go pick them up for
us in what a vista or whatever that's at and
then media but a park and then meets you and tested, oh,
we can go to the Yeah. They the piece of
place that are are in our new friend friend the
chef chef owns yeah, uh, he says. My wife and
(25:31):
I were at the brass Armadillo antique Mall this week
hunting for treasures. She likes to decorate her house with
a vintage style. They have some really cool old sports
member of video there to do. Either of you go
antique sports member beauty of shopping. Yes, yes, Agrie, my
wife is similar to your wife, it sounds like. And
since we moved, and we've been planning to move pretty
(25:53):
much all of this year, we have hit a bunch
of random, random stores around southern California here antique tiak
stores and yeah, I've been doing all that. There's a
great store in downtown that I highly recommend if you're
into that kind of thing. And it's called Old Good Things.
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It's on Grand Avenue right near the what freeway is
that the ten Freeway, And it is awesome. Old Good
Things is the name of the story. They have a
bunch like they have like a Starbucks signing there. They've
had like phone booth, a lot of movie props, old
(26:39):
movie props that they have and there it's pretty awesome.
And uh, that's that's pretty neat. It's a ship hole
of a neighborhood though it's really bad. Like it's it's
downtown l A is not not good, but if you
can survive getting in there, it's the way to go.
He says, also Agian. If voice of le Broncos Dave
Logan does not work out for the Friday Interview podcast,
(27:01):
how about another guy from the Am Dial two times
super Bowl champ number ninety one, Big Alfred Williams. That
dude has monster hands. He says he works at k O.
I don't think that will work there because he's on
when we record the podcast. Normally we'd have to at
a different time. What about Dave Logan? We can't get
Logan on? I love yeah, I love to get I'm
(27:23):
gonna get it. Are you gonna get a Teddy Bridgewater
Jersey now that he's the quarterback man. They've got a
lot of good pieces on that team. On the quarterback
situation sucks M yeah, yeah. Well it's it's like it's
like cement cement mix, right, Wasn't that what they say
about cement mix, Like, uh, it's it's pretty much useless
(27:43):
without water. And now there's a concrete mix. I think
it's concrete mix, but it's the same thing. It's unfortunate. Yeah,
therefore I have the yeah, no, I don't think they are.
They have a very soft schedule and you can win
against bad teams with Teddy Bridgewater. But the division promised
us celing the ceiling is is I like the Broncos.
I think the Broncos are the same. To me, it's
(28:05):
the Chiefs over here and the Raiders, Broncos and Chargers
are all in the other pile. Yeah. But see the
problem is is if if the Chargers actually stay somewhat healthy,
they're gonna get They're gonna get wins. They're stay I know,
but don't they never stay out. Nobody in football stays.
So they went fort into one season magically long ago. Yeah,
(28:27):
long ago. And as my friend Dick Stockton told me,
that tells you what has happened on what's going to happen. Yeah,
Barry from Nashville says, yo yo mo, Benny. Now that
you have lost a bunch of weight, what do you
like the best about the weight loss and what do
you miss most about the big eating days? Well yo
(28:47):
yo ma, Well that was your phrase for me, which
I love, Barry. Let me answer the question, Bearry. So
the thing that I love is I no longer have
the anxiety when I go to a restaurant and the
seat me in a booth because I could fit into
a booth. I love that. I don't stress as much
about flying anymore. I'm still too tall for planes, but
at least I don't have to have the seed extender,
(29:09):
which is always awkward, Always that awkward conversation you try
to talk to the flight attendant and then they kind
of slip you of the seed extender and everyone's looking
at you, like, what do you do? What do you do?
What do you need? That? That's always a pain in
the ass. And so I don't have to worry about that.
The thing that I miss is just a good, hearty meal.
I can't eat as much as I used to eat,
which sucks. My eyeballs are still the same as when
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I was humongous, but I am unable to eat the
large quantity of food that I was able to eat
back in the back in the day. So so that sucks. Uh.
And he says good for Gascon for giving the double
bird to the volunteer gig. So he supports that as
a fan. Matt in La Mesa, California says, Ben, I
(29:52):
have been thinking, and I commend you for being a
Clipper fan. I actually like the Clippers myself. I also,
like you hate the Lakers and can't stand their fan base. However,
if you're the man of the people, how in the
living hell can you be a Dodgers fan, Dodger fans
or Laker fans in baseball form? Can you please explain yourself? Yeah,
(30:12):
I o exilate myself. So when I became a Dodger fan,
it was because my mom. My mom loves Sandy ko Fax,
the Jewish Messiah of baseball, of love sports, and so
she watched co Fax when she was growing up, and
she liked the Dodgers. And then I ended up liking
the Dodgers. And then I ended up working for the
Dodgers briefly, did some Dodger talk for them, and so
(30:33):
I know a lot of people that work for the team.
And when I became a Dodger fan, though, the fan
base was not like it is now, like the Dodger
fan base is insane to the membrane, it was a
lot different. It's changed over the years. It's become as
passionate as like the Red Sox fan base, the Steelers,
the Packers. You think of some of the teams the
(30:53):
cowboys that have national falling like the Dodgers. Remember when
I was working for the radio broadcast and we'd go
to New York and there'd be some like old dudes
outside the hotel in Manhattan that we're Brooklyn Dodger fans
that were there, and that was about it. Now the
Dodgers go on the road and there's hundreds thousands of
fans that are there to support the Team's pretty well
(31:14):
wild and crazy. Uh. He says. Also, I actually witnessed
the greatest moment in baseball history in person. The date
was May seven, sixteen. Can you guess what significant event
happened in baseball that day? He says. That was the
day that Bartolo Cologne hit his one and only home run.
I was in San Diego. The rarity of that home
run will forever live in infamy. Just keep up with
(31:36):
good work, f Al Touve and David never leave. I
can't stand your fill ins a right there, that's a
male support right there. How do you how does it
feel a little awkward? R? J r. J Writes in
uh from San Antonio says, where you punished for anything
as a kid? If so, what did you do and
(31:56):
what was your punishment. Yeah, I got the belt uh
one time, and that was it. I all I needed
was the belt. My dad gave him the belt, and
then I was I was scared straight after that. I
I don't remember exactly what led to that. It was
probably a series of events. So there is there is
that last one. Uh, this is some Colin in Denver says,
(32:18):
I love you, always have also love your partner, George Gascon.
I started. I started listening to you on FSR when
I would run out of my car or run out
to my car at night, whenever I needed an escape
from my high school girlfriend being at my house. How
about that? Good for him? So about eleven years now,
(32:38):
good for him. I was all growing up now, all
growing up. I've always been curious about these food items
named after you. I'm taking a trip to the barbecue
capital of the world next month, Kansas City, and I'll
be driving straight through the state. I need to know
the places you've said there's a place here around Denver,
Kansas City, and Lawrence, Kansas. I want to eat all
(33:00):
three and send you pictures. Are the places open, Yes,
they are open, Colin, real quick in Kansas City. It's
actually in Liberty, Missouri, which is not far away from
the Chiefs and the Royals Complex. It's the Landing Eateryan Pub.
Landing Eater in Pub. It's the Ben Mallard chicken fingers,
big large portion chicken tenders fried to perfection, mound of fries,
(33:22):
mound of friest they actually had. There was a different
location originally, but it's now at the Landing Eateryan Pub
in Kansas City. The sports Book Bar and Grill. There's
a couple of locations in Denver. In Greenwood Village is
one location. There's a second location and that's the Mallard
breaded chicken sandwich hand battered chicken breast tossed with red
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red Hot sauce Frank's Red Hot sauce that I got
some vegetables on there. You don't have to get that
cheddar cheese. That's pretty cool. And then the last food
item is the famous Flamingo Club the bird that is
a ballet if you know what I'm saying there, Colin.
And that's in Lawrence, Kansas, US say, Premier Gentleman's Club
in Lawrence, legendary place. It's the Mouller Fowler a mouthwatering
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chicken Sandwich, and so those are the three locations. And
let me let me know because I know that our
our guy in Boston has been consuming the He's done
the full cycle a couple of times, moving Man Matt,
but a very few other people have. Anyway, we'll leave
it there. Add some other people that send email in
I'm sorry we did not get to your email, but
thank you. Try again next week. Thanks to Paris who
(34:30):
sent in a dog bad breath. He found something on
the internet to make dogs have better breath, so a
mouthwash for dogs, which is kind of cool. Anything to
promote guest on or just us about us, share the podcast,
tell a friend about the podcast, and again, if you
want to recommend somebody for the podcast, you can email
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the podcast. A lot of Larry Elder guests were gonna
try to get Larry Elder on Real Fifth Hour at
gmail dot com. I love Larry is your radio guy,
your radio guy, and I would like to ask him
what it feels as a as a black guy to
be accused of being kkkman. I've gotten some of that
as a Jewish guy, and it's it's very odd when
you when this happens. When I want to get his perspective,
(35:14):
so we'll try to get him on anyway, have a
great rest of your sunny I'll be back on the
Magic Radio Box tonight tonight eleven pm in the West
on Sunday, and that would be two am in the
East on Monday. We'll catch you then, mahallow aloha, goodbye.
If you thought four 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
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the Everywhere back at it
again as we are behind the red hot microphones of
the Fifth Hour the I Heart Podcast Studio, and it
is one of my favorite parts of the weekend. The
mail Bag. The mail Bag, of course, if you you're
(00:46):
new to the podcast, it's a spinoff, spinoff of the
Overnight Show. You can hear that five nights a week
on over four hundred radio stations on Fox Sports Radio
in all of its amaze using superpowers, that amazing radio
show heard all over the place. American Forces Network you
(01:07):
can hear it on there as well, heard on a
FN hundred and sixty countries, more than a hundred and
fifty ships. That's the other American Forces Network. But this
this podcast globally as well, because of the power of
podcasting and a chance for the first time since the
Fifth Hour podcast began. Now, normally what would happen on
(01:29):
a normal podcast weekend if you heard the Friday podcast
great conversation with Anthony Gargano radio savant and an old
newspaper guy, and you go back and hear that, And
we did that on Friday. We had on Saturday the
Life and Times of Mallard, an update on my plastic
obsession and also my contracting ability and the old world
(01:52):
medicine that I use with Ryan McBain writing Shotgun, but
for the first time ever on the Sunday Mailbag after
doing two podcasts where McBain was was with me for both.
He did not speak on the Friday podcast, but he
was there. We now change it up and unfortunately, much
to my dismay, and making his way in west of
(02:12):
the four oh five playing in the entire time it
is team sound effect, David Guscott, who got a lot
of it on my plate, playing true, playing truant absentee.
Is um only a partial day for you. We're not
able to do the full podcast weekend working a couple
(02:35):
of paying jobs. So how to step up to the
plate calling international hockey. I know you appreciate my my work, ethic,
my ambition, and I'm sure that you will not I
put your nose up to any of my work and
where I'm getting into. So thanks. Well listen. I do
the podcast with who wants to be here? You obviously
do not want to be most of it. And Ryan
(02:58):
McBain was great. I can't wait until management names him
the full time sidekick on the podcast I look forward to.
Could you imagine if it would be fun? It'd be great.
We have so much fun. You said you're gonna love
it at the end of the year. Anyway people would
love it because I never said that, said I'm gonna
stop at the end of the year. No, no, no,
no no, you're confused. You're confused, not confused, No, no, no.
(03:20):
The podcast is taking off now now it's just starting
to take off. I can't leave a podcast when it's
taking off. I need some rewards. Then I needed rewards
out of this. It's all about you. It's about man,
It's not about you. Know you're not. You make it
seem like you just event you could even show up
for the first two podcasts of the weekends. The reason
we bothered. You're ashamed to be here. I was busy.
(03:41):
I was getting paid to do other work. People listen
to this podcast that international hockey broadcast? No one, no
one's watching. You're listening to that? Are you? What? Are you?
What's wrong with you? Gonna go where the audiences know?
You go where the audiences and the audience is not there? Well,
the packagers broadcasting the twenties six different countries across the
world and then includes h thirteen of them, and you
know it could be broadcast. No one's listening to it.
(04:02):
I mean, it doesn't matter Discover for the guy that
doesn't overnight show, Yes, a thousands affiliates, because nobody's listening
at that time. People are listen. If I have a
few people on each station listening, that's more than they're
listening to your Maybe your dad or mom was listening,
I mean maybe they were. No one else is watching
or listening to that crap. You gotta be kidding me.
(04:23):
I mean, at least admit it. Admit no one's watching
or consuming that. Nobody wants that. They don't spend a
lot of money. Nobody's craving that. Yeah, yeah, no one's
listening to that. Live content is king This is not
live live content. No one's No one is going out
of their way to search for an international hot day.
The day that do you think otherwise, you're delusion. The
(04:44):
day that you applaud my efforts or my work will
be the day that I I roll over in my
I was praising. Ryan McBain showed up a smile and
his face every to get to work. You only blow
some men here and not all of them. But he
was exactly Listen, I respect people that work hard, that
show up and they do they get jobs they get
take an advantage of I respect those people and the
(05:07):
code of the West, right, take pride in your work,
finish what you start, and do what has to be done.
And Ryan McBain follows the code of the West. He does,
he does. You don't take pride in your work, you
don't finish what you start. All that, uh so he does.
You know the point like like Durrell Revas, You know,
I go from one alan to the other with the
with the highest bidder for my performances and my efforts.
(05:30):
You're a whore, Yeah, horse get paid. Okay, you're a whore.
I hope you don't get a you know, your back
doesn't get burned there anyway, all right, here we go.
Let's get to the mail bag. And these are actual
questions sent in by actual people from the Mallard militia.
Well you're laying on your back there, you're anyway, all right,
(05:50):
So you can email the questions Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
or send them via Facebook. Every Tuesday, were moved it
up to two day now by popular demand. Tuesday we
put out a little bit of field, a little bit
of a field. Uh. And you can be part of
the fun there on Tuesday. You can mail something here too,
(06:10):
which we've had female listen. Yes, we have people send
random things in the mail. Have you had any hats recently? Uh? Yeah,
I got in Colorado since some someth in So I
do appreciate that. Anyway, all right, let's get to it.
Neil Neil from the Real Miami writes in he said,
by the Facebook pages Ben Mallor's show on Facebook, follow
us on there and you can post every Tuesday. I'll
(06:32):
say hey, I need questions. I'll beg for questions and
then you can help us out. And some weeks we
get more questions than others Now. Neil from the real Miami,
right since says Big Ben Mazelto on the new remodeled
place and Joy, it's not done yet. As we said
in the previous previous podcast. Uh he says, a big
fan of you using mitzvah the word mitzvah during the show.
Thanks for doing all of us a mitzvah and watching
(06:54):
the woke sports like the NBA and reporting back to
us much more entertaining to hear your hot take. Curious
to hear what's the most memorable mitzvah anyone has done
for you or you have done for someone else career
related The same question for my favorite Caped Crusaders sidekick,
(07:15):
See he left that genera because he didn't know who
was going to be in here. But to answer a question, Neil,
the thing that the person that helped me out the
most well, I had a buddy of mine that was
doing some television and needed someone to debate them on
TV and asked if I would do an audition at
(07:37):
NBC and that turned into a almost a year of
television back and forth to Connecticut from California, and so
that was that was a pretty cool mits but that
somebody did for me And try to help out a
lot of people give them solid life career advice on
usually people young guys in the radio business that have questions.
(07:59):
Though I'll help him. I there anything specific. I don't
know any specific pops up at the top there what
about you gag on? Uh. Nick Davis is a guy
that used to work for ESPN and it was in
San Diego. He became the executive producer of Fox Sports West. Um.
I was doing some stuff digitally for ESPN and I
(08:21):
had pitched him the idea about continuing coverage for for
soccer here in the south Land, and uh, he put
me on TV. It was like the first time, but
it was live TV, like no live to tape. It
was all live and would do it live? Do it live?
And I hate to do it live. I hated doing
stand ups. The truck broke down, so there was no
replace that. I do everything fucking live. And uh yeah,
(08:44):
he throw me into the wolves. You didn't have to
do it, but he did, got the opportunity, and uh,
you know here, I am alright. Uh. The email continues
from Neil in Miami, the real Miami says I have
a I have to call you out on something. He says,
I recall a few months back you and guests on
I said you were working on something new for the show,
like a new segment or something. And what happened? Was
(09:07):
it your side lover Ryan McBain taking over for a month,
I hope not maybe bring the to be or not
to be back? That was fun? Please update, uh? And uh.
So yeah, we've had conversations with some very powerful people
in the media landscape. Uh. And those conversations, let me
give you an example here of how these things normally go. Uh.
(09:30):
There's feelers that are made, we get a response, first
of all, and then we secondly have a meeting, and
the meeting generally goes very well. The people who are
in a position of power tell us how great everything
is and how much they love the content, and they
play plan on hoping doing something with us. Uh. And
then the third thing that happens is they send us
a very nice, well written with good punctuation letter of rejection. Uh.
(09:55):
And this happens pretty much every time. So so at
one point I think we were close to something we
thought and then we got the dreaded rejected letter, and
so that's likely what that was. I don't remember specifically, Neil,
I feel like I'm Chris Davis right now. Yeah. Well
(10:15):
Chris Davis got paid though, he's gonna see see you
walked right into that. But you're about as productive as
Chris Davis the last couple of years. I would at
least take that run season though. Man, do some do
some steroids? Man, I don't know. We've we've we've looked
(10:35):
far and wide. Yeah we have, Uh, yes, we have.
We we We've cast a wide net and the fish
aren't swimming through the net. Neil says, as a mitzvah
for the fans, please keep the canned audience for Gascon.
It's become a staple of the show and the sound
of it means laughs up ahead. No, it does not
(10:57):
mean that at all. Does not mean that at all. Uh.
He also says, ps another good guest last Friday Fun
conversation with Andrew the Chef. Since you both are top chefs,
at least among radio gas bags, what is your secret
spice ingredient in cooking? Mine is? Uh? Car domon? Is
that am I saying there? Right? Regarding your ask on
(11:21):
new Guest, how about your lovely wife get her view
on your rise to stardom? Share embarrassing stories and you
are hiding. You are hiding from all of it. And
he and several others requested Larry Elder, we get Larry
Elder on the podcast. I would love to get Larry
Open on the podcast. I don't know if it will
work out logistically. I mean, I'd love to get Larry on.
(11:42):
Larry is gonna be the new governor of California in
a few a few months here, I hope. So he's
got this in the bag. Larry Elder is gonna win.
I don't know. I don't know about California recalling Gavin
Newsom to bring in a black white supremacist, the first
ever black wife, La Times baby, Late Times, Linden Chard,
(12:03):
enemy of the people, politically aligned there Larry Elder. Now,
Larry is great, and I do get a kick out
of the election commercials. I think that's I'm using that
I heard the keep Gavin Newsom that you know, if
you change governors, you know California is going to be
in people are gonna be dying from COVID and all that.
(12:24):
There's a really trying to scare you into that that's
not gonna work. I hate to tell people it's not
gonna work. People are already dying. And if they're not dying,
there on the streets homeless. Yeah, what about all the
people shifting on Ventura Boulevard? What about that anyway? Uh?
Tammy in Montana right, since she says, exceptional, fantastic, unequal.
That is the fifth Hour podcast with Ben Maller and
(12:46):
David Gascon. Yes, fun fact, there you go. Uh, let's
see here, any meany mighty mo? Pick a? What what
is next on this email? Hold on a sec here,
She says, I feel I need to clarify a few
things for senior citizen Helen. Turn your hearing aids up. Woman.
(13:07):
David does not get paid for the podcast. He donates
this time. Well, he does get paid, but not much
energy and gas to drive in and work with Ben
on the podcast. David, along with Ben, makes sacrifices for
the podcast, something that Helen has no idea how to do.
Helen says he has no talent. David is part of
(13:28):
the crew of prime time shows on fs ARE. Obviously
management is aware of David's down about Tammy's big Fan.
I wonder why, I wonder why Tammy loves it so much?
Big Fan aware of David's town's preparation and work ethic
because they wouldn't schedule him in these time slots. Ben,
I have to I have a use for the Tomahawks stake.
(13:49):
Give it to Helen to plug her cavernous pie hole.
Uh uh uh, Jesus geez, what are you? And Tammy Man?
What's going on? What's going on with that? She's good,
She's a fantastic woman. She's younger, better looking, nicer, sounds better.
(14:15):
Uh huh successful? All right, all right, let's see here. Uh.
Next one from all Queen Roxanne Queen Russ another another
guest on fan Girl Ben and David Roxanne here heard
Helen and Stood's ridiculous email last week. I'm wondering if
they are willing to give their real names so we
(14:35):
can do a public search of them like they did
to David. It's like they just discovered the search bar,
because I've found people who brag about themselves with no
proof are usually lying. Queen Roxanne says, I don't think
they're wealthy. Wealthy people are classy and they don't have
to brag. And why does Helen spend so much time
(14:59):
at the gross restore? Thinking of David seems a little creepy,
Queen Roxanne rites, So a litule advice if they don't
want to give up who they are, finding public information
on the internet isn't hard, and using it against people,
especially bringing family into it is stupid. You call yourself old.
(15:19):
But they seem to be acting pretty childish to me.
And if you're going to go out, if you're out
of your way to insult someone, make them good insults.
We can at least laugh at Also both of you, Uh,
this is a non secword. What are your thoughts on
the broncos naming Teddy Bridgewater? All right, we didn't need that,
Queen Roxanne, We did not leave that at the end.
(15:41):
We're gonna leave that one. And look by the side
of the road there you've got Queen Rocks and and
and also Tammy attack dog mode here. Well, now the
rebuttal from Helen. Now the rebuttal from Helen. Boy friend
of mine, not friend of guess, gn Benjamin, This is Helen.
Did David Gascon just cancel culture his global broadcasting career?
(16:07):
Helen writes with a question mark, As you know. During
the opening moments of last Sunday's table talk show, David
Gascon referred to me as a c I'm disappointed Stu
is angry, and she wrote that in all caps. That
means she's angry. David, that means she's angry. She wrote
in all caps, I'm disappointed, Stuart is angry. It's big
(16:31):
email continues for most of us, occasional salty language cursing
is a harmless way to be bad. However, that powerful
C term remains the most obscene, offensive and misogynistic word
there is and has no place on any platform, even
on the Fifth Hour podcast. Telling writes for David and
(16:55):
weak misogynist men like him without game, a woman in
genitals like mind pose a potent source of evil? What
what is it with threatened men like Gascon still using
body parts as a way to describe attractive, powerful and
(17:15):
successful women like me that they hate? Uh? And then
that's Helen. She also finishes up by saying, Ben, we
are loyal supporters of you. Thank you, thank you the
good sports talk manch that you are. But here's the
key part. She's writing in all caps now, but I
(17:35):
demand a sincere on air apology from David during the
Sunday Mailback podcast. Signed Helen and Stu from Palmetto Bay, Florida. David,
the flora is yours there. Would you like to offer
a again, a sincere on air apology. No, I mean
(17:56):
I didn't call her cute, if that's what she was
referring to the giant sea. You listen, no one's told
her to punt, no one's no one's intimidated by Helen.
Like nobody. Nobody's thinking about Helen right now you're listening.
Everyone's thinking about Helen because we just read an email
from Helen. Nobody is a very small small you know
(18:17):
who's thinking about Helen Queen, Roxanne, Tammy and Montana And
I'm not thinking about Helen said emails about Helen. It
was just mindless response, mindless jealous of the fame of Helen.
Boy and Stu. My friends, my friends should go hang
out with them. I will and maybe they'll invite me over.
You need to bring a walking up, bring a walker,
(18:39):
we can light the Hanaker candles. It could happen. Yeah,
I don't know. I assume have no idea. I think
they what they call what the terminology when they said
you're a good sports talk mate, that's a that's a
that's a tell to tell they're playing up to you
because you're they might have been. I don't know, I
have no idea, so you would not apology. You're you're
(19:01):
you're not gonna apologize. You're declining the opportunity to Apologisten.
If someone's gonna take a shot at me, then they're
gonna get fired back. And if you don't like it,
then stay the funk out of the ring. Yeah. Simple.
If you're gonna act like something, you're gonna get treated
like something. Wow. What about the customers? Always right? What
(19:23):
about customer service? I'm not getting paid from these customers. Okay,
well technically you are not. Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, this
is radio, remember you told me this. As long as
the commercials are being played on live radio, that's all
that matters. Well, I learned from this guy, this guy
(19:43):
named John Sterling, who taught me in a class. He
said the most important thing is to sell the soap,
sell the soapst thing. So as long as we sell
the soap, and we got a lot of soap to sell.
To be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Maller Show week days at two Ami Stern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah,
(20:06):
Pierre in Springfield rights in, alright, uh, He says, I'm
writing you from beyond the grave based on some Mallard
math regarding David's tweet about hot dogs shortening one's life.
I traveled daily on highways that consist mostly of only
two lanes. Why do Nutt Nicks insist on driving below
(20:26):
the speed limit in the passing fast lane? Well, Pierre,
I've actually studied this, and I occasionally will drive out
in the open roads far far from the Mallard mansion.
And the reason based on years and years of empirical data,
and I don't need to vent diagram for this. Their assholes,
that's why. All right. They're absolute assholes, and that's why
(20:46):
they do that. And there's no other reason they would
do that. There's no other reason. They're just complete a holes.
So good luck at it. Yeah, those roads out in
Massachusetts and those old school roads, that is not that easy,
all right, David mill Valley writes in He says, Hey, Ben,
I'm trying to make sense of the various pick um segments.
(21:08):
You and the crew will rattle off a bunch of names,
and you invariably y I'll hurry up. Uh. There seems
to be a lot of tension and excitement, but no climax,
so to speak. It's frustrating, to say the least. I'm
scratching my head trying to figure out what the heck
is going on. Please explain it to me like I'm
a five year old. Okay, so very simple here, Dave.
First of all, the daily pick hum games, which we
(21:31):
do at the end of the first hour, the last
block of the first hour, originated when daily Fantasy draft
Kings and fan Duel became very popular. We wanted to
embrace that, so we said, let's make a daily segment.
We were all very competitive on the show, so it's
a competitive segment of time. Normally, we squeeze it in.
We horse we uh, we horse shoe it in. Is
(21:52):
that a term horseshoe? Is that the term leave? Anyway,
We we squeeze it in at the very end of
the hour. Typically we only have a minute or less
to get it in, and so it involves me, Eddie,
Roberto and Coop picking players. Inevitably, what happens is, even
though we're on a very tight network clock, we're running
into a brick wall. Cooper Loop cannot his mind does
(22:13):
not work fast, and so I have to scream and
him hurry up because if he doesn't get his pick
we can't move on to the next person. We run
out of time and then it's a disaster. And the
reason you don't get your climax, you're like Bob Kraft
or Deshaun Watson looking for your climax. But the reason
you don't get your climaxes because we go to the break,
but the next day we don't sit there and obsessed
(22:34):
with who won, But whoever goes first the next day
was the winner of the pick up. There are some
that keep the standings of the pick um. Some of
the p ones over the years have kept the standing
see who has the top record on the pick them
And so that's that's the origins of the MLB, NBA, NFL,
p G A put um, the you know any of
(22:56):
the pick hum games that we play. So that is it. Adrian.
The more you know Adrian in the Mile High City,
says Ben and Gascon, it was cool to hear Ben
and Jake chop it up about old radio shows on
Jake's podcast. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed that, thank you
it was I was flattered to be asked to be
on the Jake Warner podcast and he will be helping
to put together the new podcast studio, which should be
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up and running next week. If all goes right, we'll
be up and running next week. This one might be
more of a Doc Mike question, not a piss related question.
But have either of you had Portillo's Italian beef sandwich?
How about the lemon cake? I think Portillo's is more
of a Midwestern restaurant chain. We don't have it in Colorado. Anyway.
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We had some family from the Chicago visit US this
weekend and they bought brought a Portillo's lemon cake. I'm
not much of a for lemon desserts, but this cake
was delicious. Have either of you tried it? Um? I'm not. Uh,
I'm not, but I can't tell you that. I looked
up this place. That's the Chicago restaurant. They do have
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one in southern California and it's self Beef Sandwiches in Chicago,
hot Dogs in Chicago with the chain. I'm thinking about
going and checking it out. It's in near knots Berry Farm.
Wayne of Park. Yeah, I'm thinking about going over there
and having a beef sandwich. Are you a lemon? I
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do like lemon. My wife does not enjoy the lemon
as much as I like the lemon. I enjoy lemon.
You interesting, Yeah, I like lemon, lemon, lime, lemon meringue
made right is good. Back to the sandwich, the keys,
the bread right like it has to be. It's all
about the bread man, I think so right, like if
you if you can't be just drunk on bread like
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it has to be like a good balance and it
has to be warm. It can't be like too toasty,
I think right. Uh yeah, I do not like toasted
bread on my sandwich. I don't I like uh like
a soft generally bread. Yeah. Yeah, so that is the
deal on that. But that that place does look good,
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and you know, most people than flying to Chicago places
to go. Maybe I can go pick them up for
us in what a vista or whatever that's at and
then media but a park and then meets you and tested, oh,
we can go to the Yeah. They the piece of
place that are are in our new friend friend the
chef chef owns yeah, uh, he says. My wife and
(25:31):
I were at the brass Armadillo antique Mall this week
hunting for treasures. She likes to decorate her house with
a vintage style. They have some really cool old sports
member of video there to do. Either of you go
antique sports member beauty of shopping. Yes, yes, Agrie, my
wife is similar to your wife, it sounds like. And
since we moved, and we've been planning to move pretty
(25:53):
much all of this year, we have hit a bunch
of random, random stores around southern California here antique tiak
stores and yeah, I've been doing all that. There's a
great store in downtown that I highly recommend if you're
into that kind of thing. And it's called Old Good Things.
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It's on Grand Avenue right near the what freeway is
that the ten Freeway, And it is awesome. Old Good
Things is the name of the story. They have a
bunch like they have like a Starbucks signing there. They've
had like phone booth, a lot of movie props, old
(26:39):
movie props that they have and there it's pretty awesome.
And uh, that's that's pretty neat. It's a ship hole
of a neighborhood though it's really bad. Like it's it's
downtown l A is not not good, but if you
can survive getting in there, it's the way to go.
He says, also Agian. If voice of le Broncos Dave
Logan does not work out for the Friday Interview podcast,
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how about another guy from the Am Dial two times
super Bowl champ number ninety one, Big Alfred Williams. That
dude has monster hands. He says he works at k O.
I don't think that will work there because he's on
when we record the podcast. Normally we'd have to at
a different time. What about Dave Logan? We can't get
Logan on? I love yeah, I love to get I'm
(27:23):
gonna get it. Are you gonna get a Teddy Bridgewater
Jersey now that he's the quarterback man. They've got a
lot of good pieces on that team. On the quarterback
situation sucks M yeah, yeah. Well it's it's like it's
like cement cement mix, right, Wasn't that what they say
about cement mix, Like, uh, it's it's pretty much useless
(27:43):
without water. And now there's a concrete mix. I think
it's concrete mix, but it's the same thing. It's unfortunate. Yeah,
therefore I have the yeah, no, I don't think they are.
They have a very soft schedule and you can win
against bad teams with Teddy Bridgewater. But the division promised
us celing the ceiling is is I like the Broncos.
I think the Broncos are the same. To me, it's
(28:05):
the Chiefs over here and the Raiders, Broncos and Chargers
are all in the other pile. Yeah. But see the
problem is is if if the Chargers actually stay somewhat healthy,
they're gonna get They're gonna get wins. They're stay I know,
but don't they never stay out. Nobody in football stays.
So they went fort into one season magically long ago. Yeah,
(28:27):
long ago. And as my friend Dick Stockton told me,
that tells you what has happened on what's going to happen. Yeah,
Barry from Nashville says, yo yo mo, Benny. Now that
you have lost a bunch of weight, what do you
like the best about the weight loss and what do
you miss most about the big eating days? Well yo
(28:47):
yo ma, Well that was your phrase for me, which
I love, Barry. Let me answer the question, Bearry. So
the thing that I love is I no longer have
the anxiety when I go to a restaurant and the
seat me in a booth because I could fit into
a booth. I love that. I don't stress as much
about flying anymore. I'm still too tall for planes, but
at least I don't have to have the seed extender,
(29:09):
which is always awkward, Always that awkward conversation you try
to talk to the flight attendant and then they kind
of slip you of the seed extender and everyone's looking
at you, like, what do you do? What do you do?
What do you need? That? That's always a pain in
the ass. And so I don't have to worry about that.
The thing that I miss is just a good, hearty meal.
I can't eat as much as I used to eat,
which sucks. My eyeballs are still the same as when
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I was humongous, but I am unable to eat the
large quantity of food that I was able to eat
back in the back in the day. So so that sucks. Uh.
And he says good for Gascon for giving the double
bird to the volunteer gig. So he supports that as
a fan. Matt in La Mesa, California says, Ben, I
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have been thinking, and I commend you for being a
Clipper fan. I actually like the Clippers myself. I also,
like you hate the Lakers and can't stand their fan base. However,
if you're the man of the people, how in the
living hell can you be a Dodgers fan, Dodger fans
or Laker fans in baseball form? Can you please explain yourself? Yeah,
(30:12):
I o exilate myself. So when I became a Dodger fan,
it was because my mom. My mom loves Sandy ko Fax,
the Jewish Messiah of baseball, of love sports, and so
she watched co Fax when she was growing up, and
she liked the Dodgers. And then I ended up liking
the Dodgers. And then I ended up working for the
Dodgers briefly, did some Dodger talk for them, and so
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I know a lot of people that work for the team.
And when I became a Dodger fan, though, the fan
base was not like it is now, like the Dodger
fan base is insane to the membrane, it was a
lot different. It's changed over the years. It's become as
passionate as like the Red Sox fan base, the Steelers,
the Packers. You think of some of the teams the
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cowboys that have national falling like the Dodgers. Remember when
I was working for the radio broadcast and we'd go
to New York and there'd be some like old dudes
outside the hotel in Manhattan that we're Brooklyn Dodger fans
that were there, and that was about it. Now the
Dodgers go on the road and there's hundreds thousands of
fans that are there to support the Team's pretty well
(31:14):
wild and crazy. Uh. He says. Also, I actually witnessed
the greatest moment in baseball history in person. The date
was May seven, sixteen. Can you guess what significant event
happened in baseball that day? He says. That was the
day that Bartolo Cologne hit his one and only home run.
I was in San Diego. The rarity of that home
run will forever live in infamy. Just keep up with
(31:36):
good work, f Al Touve and David never leave. I
can't stand your fill ins a right there, that's a
male support right there. How do you how does it
feel a little awkward? R? J r. J Writes in
uh from San Antonio says, where you punished for anything
as a kid? If so, what did you do and
(31:56):
what was your punishment. Yeah, I got the belt uh
one time, and that was it. I all I needed
was the belt. My dad gave him the belt, and
then I was I was scared straight after that. I
I don't remember exactly what led to that. It was
probably a series of events. So there is there is
that last one. Uh, this is some Colin in Denver says,
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I love you, always have also love your partner, George Gascon.
I started. I started listening to you on FSR when
I would run out of my car or run out
to my car at night, whenever I needed an escape
from my high school girlfriend being at my house. How
about that? Good for him? So about eleven years now,
(32:38):
good for him. I was all growing up now, all
growing up. I've always been curious about these food items
named after you. I'm taking a trip to the barbecue
capital of the world next month, Kansas City, and I'll
be driving straight through the state. I need to know
the places you've said there's a place here around Denver,
Kansas City, and Lawrence, Kansas. I want to eat all
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three and send you pictures. Are the places open, Yes,
they are open, Colin, real quick in Kansas City. It's
actually in Liberty, Missouri, which is not far away from
the Chiefs and the Royals Complex. It's the Landing Eateryan Pub.
Landing Eater in Pub. It's the Ben Mallard chicken fingers,
big large portion chicken tenders fried to perfection, mound of fries,
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mound of friest they actually had. There was a different
location originally, but it's now at the Landing Eateryan Pub
in Kansas City. The sports Book Bar and Grill. There's
a couple of locations in Denver. In Greenwood Village is
one location. There's a second location and that's the Mallard
breaded chicken sandwich hand battered chicken breast tossed with red
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red Hot sauce Frank's Red Hot sauce that I got
some vegetables on there. You don't have to get that
cheddar cheese. That's pretty cool. And then the last food
item is the famous Flamingo Club the bird that is
a ballet if you know what I'm saying there, Colin.
And that's in Lawrence, Kansas, US say, Premier Gentleman's Club
in Lawrence, legendary place. It's the Mouller Fowler a mouthwatering
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chicken Sandwich, and so those are the three locations. And
let me let me know because I know that our
our guy in Boston has been consuming the He's done
the full cycle a couple of times, moving Man Matt,
but a very few other people have. Anyway, we'll leave
it there. Add some other people that send email in
I'm sorry we did not get to your email, but
thank you. Try again next week. Thanks to Paris who
(34:30):
sent in a dog bad breath. He found something on
the internet to make dogs have better breath, so a
mouthwash for dogs, which is kind of cool. Anything to
promote guest on or just us about us, share the podcast,
tell a friend about the podcast, and again, if you
want to recommend somebody for the podcast, you can email
(34:52):
the podcast. A lot of Larry Elder guests were gonna
try to get Larry Elder on Real Fifth Hour at
gmail dot com. I love Larry is your radio guy,
your radio guy, and I would like to ask him
what it feels as a as a black guy to
be accused of being kkkman. I've gotten some of that
as a Jewish guy, and it's it's very odd when
you when this happens. When I want to get his perspective,
(35:14):
so we'll try to get him on anyway, have a
great rest of your sunny I'll be back on the
Magic Radio Box tonight tonight eleven pm in the West
on Sunday, and that would be two am in the
East on Monday. We'll catch you then, mahallow aloha, goodbye.
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