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August 23, 2026 • 41 mins

The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller sets sail into the murky waters of the Sunday Mailbag, with Robbie the Mariners Fan riding shotgun as the fellas swashbuckle their way through another hodgepodge of listener questions. On the menu: a Mike & Dogs invasion of the Ben Maller Show, the great Starbucks relocation mystery, Fake News, and the comedy stylings of Lucky Tony. Also, doggy diets, Piggly Wiggly problems, automobiles with enough miles to qualify for Social Security, and living that sweet lake life. The boys visit the top human zoo on the planet, activate the Marlins Man hotline, investigate why squids are apparently taking over the highways, and debate whether kids should actually get paid to attend school. Holy cannoli! Whatever happened to a gold star and a carton of chocolate milk? It's a grab bag of malarkey, mayhem, Maller Math, and listener-generated nonsense. No hocus-pocus, just focus!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cut boobs.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, 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.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor starts right now.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Malor,
and welcome in to the Sunday Extravaganza. It is the
twenty third day of August, one of the final Sundays
before the real NFL season begins. Not these fu gasey

(00:49):
exhibition games with your little sixty nine yard field goals
and all that. No, no, no, no no. The real
games begin in a few weeks and before we get
into it. Ohio, while get me in the mood. It's
bag all right, without further ado, we spun the wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Round and round and round and round.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Big money, big money, big money. Stop. Robbie the Mariner
fan is back.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hey everybody, how you doing.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Welcome in, Robbie. It's great to have you. Thanks for
doing the mail bag. I want you to know there
were efforts made for certain other people we will not
name them, that were unable of getting over the technical
speed bump. I didn't realize it was that technically savvy
to be on the Fifth Hour podcast, but apparently it is, Robbie,
So you've been able to figure it out. You're mister reliable,

(01:55):
You're mister dependable, and you're here. And before we get
into the mail bag, announced that there was over the
weekend a football fantasy draft which was tied to the show.
Is this accurate? Am I correct? Is it was this tied? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
So yeah, uh, there's there's the one I do that
I've done for like five years now and then since then,
I think, as so far as I'm aware, there's like
three other people that run him two and a Queen
rock sand shout out to her. She's such a fantasy
football addict. She was. She had a Mountain Williss draft

(02:32):
that I wasn't a part of at two PM and
then ours was it like two thirty, So she was
doing two drafts at the same time, which I'm pretty
sure is a sign of like a disease.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
But yeah, yeah, well a slight, slight addiction.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, may that mean you know, the addiction is a
disease that old infomercial.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well maybe not in a twelve step
maybe like a four step program, not a full twelve
step to get away from that. But yeah, you're Yeah,
we have a lot of messages coming in here. This
is the week before the big event Saturday, Las Vegas
at the Steakeout Bar and Grilled in her UNLV. We're
looking forward to that. You're gonna be there, right, Robie?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yep, yep, yep. Something terrible goes wrong?

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh no, no, you'll.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
But yeah, the hotel's book, flights booked, everything's I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, it'll be great. Hopefully mouthwash Mike shows up and
you can meet him and all the other characters that
are planning on attending, and it's gonna be pretty cool
to see everyone and have a good time and enjoy
the Vegas heat and then get back to reality. But
the first message up is from a listeners seth in Dallas.

(03:44):
These are actual messages by actual listeners. Would'd like to
send a messaging, you can send it care of Real
fifth Hour at gmail dot com. All letters, no numbers.
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Seth from Texas.
He's in Dallas, and he says, Hey, Ben, have you
ever been scammed by someone trying to book you as

(04:07):
a guest? Sas says on their podcast, and he sent
me a story Robbie. Apparently there is a group going
around that is attacking celebrities who are scamming celebrities by
fake podcast bookings, which is currently a thing. Scammers are
impersonating well known podcast hosts and inviting them, like celebrities, authors,

(04:32):
and entertainers, on what they think are legitimate shows. However,
the goal is obviously not to have them as a guest.
It is to steal money or to gain access to
their social media accounts so they can hack them and
then I guess send out gambling information. No, Seth, I
have not been scammed a knock on wood here. That

(04:53):
has not happened. And we pretty much stopped booking guests
on the podcast because I just don't have time for
I don't really have any to produce the podcast, so
it's pretty much it's just me running around, so I
just don't have the time to do it. Otherwise we
would get people on and so that's pretty much it.
But yeah, the ways you can get scammed. Now they

(05:15):
say this is AI generated and it's personalized because of
the way AI is these days. They claim a someone
who's a Broadway personality. I couldn't name one person who's
a Broadway personality. Somebody's a Broadway personality said they got
an invitation to appear on NICKI Glazer's podcast, and then
it turned out to be a scam. And then there's

(05:37):
a comedy guy. I don't know who these people are.
Supposedly they got scammed, but yeah, I've not had that set,
so hopefully that will not happen. I did do an
interview this week in Edmonton. My line dropped or I
don't know this afternoon guy in Edmonton. I've been on
his show a few times and it's pretty cool when

(05:58):
you're in the break before the show comes on. Got
commercials for the Edmonton Elks, which is one of the
teams Robbie that during the global wokeism pandemic when they
were changing team names, you know, we lost the Redskins
and the Cleveland Indians. We also lost the Edmonton Eskimos,
which was rest in peace Eskimos very offensive. I still

(06:19):
eat my Eskimo pie. I do. I'm a bad person,
but I do. I do enjoy my escable pie. So anyway,
so I know I've not been scammed by any fake
podcast people, but I'm sure that'll happen now that we've
mentioned it on the mail bag. So I cannot wait
for that to happen. I don't think I have enough
of a reach for that to really matter. Next up,
for Dog from Fullerton writes in with the Robbie the

(06:44):
Mariner appearance, Here, he says fer dog forget says Ben
and friend, that would be Robbie the Mariner fan Ben,
do you think there are possibly too many mics and
dogs contributing to the show with this is Actually he's
actually onto somebody. He says, with Mike, you've got Mike

(07:04):
the Leprechaun, Mike and Fullerton, Mike in New Hampshire, Mouthwash, Mike,
Michael and Tulsa, et cetera. And he says the dogs
are e Dog, ferg Dog, Sous's dog, and Joe Dog.
I think I left off like five more Mikes, he says.
Are we close to hitting any quotas? Or is there

(07:25):
more Mike and dogs? The Merrier wasn't that Mike and
the Mad Dog. Right, it was a fair show Mike
and the Mad Dog in New York until they hated
each other. Well, they actually hated each other most of
the time. Uh yeah, there's there are a lot of
news named Mike. I have noticed that. I really haven't
noticed the dog thing other than Ferg Dog and E Dog. Yeah.

(07:47):
I think we're good.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
There used to be a lot of Robs and Robbies
and Roberts. Now there's a couple. But like when I
first joined the show, there was like Robin belcher Town
and Robin Minnesota, and there was a bunch of Robs,
and it's definitely been overtaken by Mikes.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well you didn't say it right, Robbie, It's it's Robbie.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh yepow Yeah. Whatever happened to that guy that was?
I don't know why I remember this, but he was
the first Mallard Militia person to follow me on X.
But just shows how weird my memory is and how
that is odd.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I believe we lost him to the dreaded day shift. Okay,
we've lost many good Foot soldiers in the Mallard Militia
who have unfortunately ended up on the dreaded day shift.
We hate when that happens. Thank you, Ferg Dog. I
did not get a message from Ferg Dog last week.
We felt naked on the mailbag without dog right again.
We also didn't get a message from Reggie in Detroit

(08:42):
and Reggie's next up, back to back, in belly to belly,
Reggie's back this week. He says, hey been and whoever
does Moxie eat better than you? And then he says,
there's a story here where forty five percent of dog
owners say their pets eat higher quality meals than they
Nearly half of dog owners claim that their animals are

(09:04):
eating better than they are. No, Reggie, Moxie does not
eat better than me, although MAXI eats about as well
as me. Because often what happens, I end up making
too much food. My eyes are bigger than my stomach,
and so I'll end up making hearty meals. Robbie thinking
I could eat like I used to eat, and I
don't eat as much as I did back in the day,
so I end up making too much food. And if

(09:26):
I have a little left extra, rather than just throw
it away, I'll give it to Moxie so she'll eat
what I don't eat. But not eating better than me.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, I don't have any dogs, but I sympathize with
your with your making too much food and then realizing
I can't eat as much as I used to because
in between some changes medically and some changes with that
GLP one stuff. I still think when I go to
a fast free restaurant, like, I'll have a large this,

(09:56):
at a large that, and then I'll be like I could
have just gotten a small and none of that, and
I would be full and probably have twenty dollars more
than I do now.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
So yeah, no, no, it sucks, It sucks. Yeah. Yeah.
Once you've become a big man and you eat like
a big man the rest of your life, even if
you don't eat like you still are wired. I think
we're hardwired, Robbie to.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Be fast exactly.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's the way. Yeah, that's the way it is. Quang
from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, right sin he says, guaranteed human,
Big Ben and Blank. I came across an interesting BBC
News Round story about the phenomenon known as fake news
and how it can spread online. The article explains that

(10:39):
not everything you see a read on the interweb is
necessarily true, and it encourages people to stop think and
check the source before believing or sharing something, and he
says the question from Quang Big Ben. In your many
years of working in radio and dealing with sports rumors,
how often have you been how often have you seen

(11:00):
I was seeing a story take off that turned out
to be completely bogus? And have you ever been fooled
by one yourself? That's Quang from Ho Chim in Vietnam. Yeah.
Every once in a while, I'll get I'll get hornswaggle
by by something. It doesn't happen very often. The one
I got ripped on ripped on, I caught it midway through.

(11:23):
There was a story that was really good. It wasn't
a fake story. It was just like a thirty year
old story that somebody had repackaged is new and it
was an obscure story about the Cincinnati Bengals. And I
fell for it because it was a real story. It
just wasn't modern. And I do see that a lot online.
For engagement farming, people will bring back stories that were real,

(11:46):
but they're they're not real anymore. I mean they're they're
old stories and they'll bring them back and then they'll
get a lot of traction online, and I've had friends
of mine send me stories from people in the media
business and their bogus. There was a there was a
parody account. Actually the other day there was a parody
account that ripped Jeff Passing of ESBA. Oh.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I almost felt for that, Okay, yeah, you know yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
I had a couple of my buddies send this to
me like it's legitimate, like a legitimate thing, and it's like, well,
I don't think that's legit, and then I I usually
end up double and triple checking just to make getting
getting burned. It is hard, though, it's you know, there
were worse problems to have, but oftentimes something looks like

(12:31):
it's legit, it's got a lot of traction to it.
You're like, Okay, that's got to be legit, and then
you're like, bogus, bogus. It is easy to fall for
that stuff, though, No it is.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Everyone. Do you have like one friend in your group
that falls for it more than anyone else, because I
do so. In the shout out justin Cincinnati, hope he's
doing better. He's had a lot of health problems recently,
which is why it's kind of in zero dark thirty
on Twitter. But yeah, he of like my twelve Mala
militia guys that a lot. It's he's like three times
more than anyone else falls for the berry sports berry

(13:06):
type stuff.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
So yeah, yeah, the berry stuff's great. I love when
stuff I think is fake is real. That's that's true.
That happens a lot, Like there's stuff that I'll see
that that's not real, and then yeah, it turns out
to be totally legit, and you're like, oh man, that's
pretty pretty wild, pretty wild, all right. Next up Lucky

(13:28):
Tony from the Bay Area Rights, and he says, hey, Ben,
Tip of the Bears, cap to Alf the Alien, opiner
and fer dog. Lucky Tony says, why don't Raider fans
like their fat wives wearing Raider panties? Uh? Lucky Tony
then says, because it looks like a pirate sale? All right?

(13:49):
Come on now, oh geez, come on man, what's wrong
with you? How dare you? How about Big Daddy accusing
Lucky Tony having some kind of you know, fraud going
on with his phone calls? How about that one Robbie
we had that this week?

Speaker 3 (14:03):
You know, AI has gone too far when people are
like Oh, this guy can't be real, must be AI,
like just the fact that's your first instinct. Yeah, if
that makes any sense at all, It's just it's like
someone went in. I don't know if even AI is
powerful enough to kind of pretend to be Tony. He
maybe more of all the years I've listened, it has
to be at least ten. Now he's maybe the most

(14:26):
unique in terms of just like when he first started calling,
it was I was worried he's gonna end up on
like CNN for like, you know, something terrible. Then he's
kind of pivoted to now doing like these one liner
to He's he's replaced real talk in terms of you
don't know when he's gonna get dumped, but you know
he will get dumped almost every call.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
So yeah, yeah, Well the good thing about Too Lucky
Tony is he he's reinvented himself. He went from as
you said, talking about these deep dark nightmares of people,
and then he transitioned into poorn, star drops and really
naughty you know, graphic descriptions of things he would like

(15:07):
to do, where he toes the line he toes it's
pretty pretty good, all right. Next up, Dave from Seattle writes,
and he says, Ben, why did my city vote for socialism?
He then say about Starbucks spending what one hundred million
on Nashville. One hundred and twenty people out of work

(15:29):
in Seattle because of Starbucks relocating a bunch of jobs
to Nashville. Yeah, well you'll f around and find out, right,
I guess it's the thing, you know, you'll you know,
people try to warn you, you don't listen, and then
stuff happens, and then well that's on you. So you know,
next time you have an election, you vote for who

(15:50):
you think might not do that the next time. But yeah,
it's a tough situation. You know.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
The head of Starbucks now lives in Florida, so or
the FOURD the Schultzky and was a critical about him,
is he was kind of like one of those kind
of like he was very I want to be friends
with the liberals because the Hollywood types, and then when
he got to liberal, he just fled to Florida because
he has the money. And he's like, yeah, see you
guys later.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, yeah, if you have that kind of money, you
got to go to Florida.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, no, I know, but he's like he just left
the people that can't move with the socialism, and he's
just enjoying the sunshine.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm about a kid NFL insider about.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
I had for years, I had no idea until the
Rappaport fight with him, I had no I didn't correlate
the two, and I was like.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh, wow, the Starbucks in Indianapolis, right the hotel?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, yeah, the hotel I've been. Yeah, I've been right
by that one. That must have been quite the.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Scene, quite the Donnybrook you're back in the day. Yeah.
So I don't know what to tell you, Dave. I
don't live in Seattle. Hit my problem, but it sucks.
I'm sorry for the people that lost their jobs, and
that's too bad. Ian from Charleston wrights In we did
a Mallard meet and greet there a few years back.
My my niece lives in Charleston now she's out of school,

(17:05):
and Ian says, Ben and Blank you often mentioned Pigley
Wiggly on the show. Have you ever been to one?
And did you see they're closing more stores? A. I
have been to Pickley Wiggly because when you're in the South,
you got to do Southern things. So I did go
to Pickley Wiggily. Just love the porky pig logo on

(17:28):
the side. I didn't buy anything there, and I'm unaware
of what you're saying, you know, though, I do see
you send a link here that there's some stores closing.
They're not They're not doing well the market business. The
margins are very thin in the in the market in
the marketing game. So yeah, the bunch of closers closures

(17:49):
rather for Pickley Wiggly in places like what we got Alabama,
South Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma. So they have a unique
a claim the Courda story that you sent Ian, they
have a unique business structure Pickley Wiggly. The stores operate

(18:11):
under the Pickly Wiggly name, but are independently owned, enfranchised,
run by different families and operators. Okay, so they use
the Pigley Wiggly power is what. And I just love
that name. I love that name, and I like to
work that name in the monologues. I doig it's a
fun thing to say, Robbie Pickley Wiggly. It's a great name.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I wanted to buy a Pickley Wiggly shirt. I went
into a Pickley wiggly. They had shirts, but they did
not have the size that was needed. Robbie, you know
what that's like.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
You go in there, yes, yeah, well yeah, yeah yeah.
When you're a big guy, uh close, shopping isn't what
you gotta travel far and pardon upon but far and wide.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah, definitely far and definitely wide and yeah, yep, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
I wanted I wanted a hat too. I couldn't find
a hat that was big enough either. I gotta Yeah,
so you have a you have a large dome too,
So that's.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Why I think we have the same size.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yes, I'm size eight, so I don't know. You're right there.
Mike the lepre Kahn writes in on the Fifth Hour
mail bag. He says, Hi, Ben and mystery guest or guests,
what should Marcel do to avoid having a heart attack
in the near future, So, Mike the Leprecaun says, He says,

(19:28):
every time Mike the Leprechaun comes on with him, I
don't know what what does that mean, Mike the lepricunt,
I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
What do you. I just love that his emails are
as incoherent as his calls.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's nice. Yeah, And Mike is upset. He would like
to be in the mail bag, and he wants to
be part of the mail bag, and it's just logistically
it's a bit of a problem. So uh well, thank you,
Mike the Leprecaun. We look forward to your calling up.
I know you will on Monday. Ranting and raving. Mark
from Saint Louis writes it. He says, Hey, Ben, great
show as always. I have been listening since the since

(20:01):
the days before Danny g started working with you. Was
always curious when the power couple Jack and Leslie started
calling the show and how they became a fixture on
the award winning Factor Fiction. Hopefully they are fine, however,
I think we know better. It's from Mark in Saint Louis. Yeah,
I've not heard from Jack and Leslian some time. I

(20:23):
don't know what happened to them. I can only imagine
they were older and all that, and they started calling. Well,
Jack started calling, and then it became a family affair.
As I remember, Mark and Jack would go out to
the dog track. They had dog racing in Florida, and

(20:43):
God love Jack, you love Jack. Former federal judge getting
up early to go to the dog track. Watch the
not the ponies, the canines run around and then eventually
they outlawed dog racing became illegal in Florida. But Jack,
it's a tradition. He would get up early and call

(21:03):
the show and all that, so it just kind of
organically happened. And Leslie, God bless her. She became a
big part of the show also, like the grandma, the
Babushka of the show. And we always loved having them on.
And I love the fact that they every week, no
matter what they would be traveling, Leslie would be up
in Long Island to see the grandkids and she'd make

(21:26):
sure she called the show. Still like they didn't want
to miss it. They don't want to ever miss a
Thursday in morning on the show. They wanted to be
part of the show every Thursday, which was so so sweet,
so special. And I almost met them. I was visiting
my brother in New York. They were out on Long Island.
I was in the city. We were trying to figure
out logistically how to make it work and I only

(21:46):
had a limited window of time and it didn't work,
and I'm out. I did not get a chance to
meet Jack Lesley. I came real close and they wanted
to do it and they had like a gazillion grandkids
out on Long Island, and so it didn't happen. Uh,
hopefully we'll find out at some point what happened. I'd
like to think that, you know, somebody will reach out

(22:08):
that does happen where someone will unfortunately move on to
the other side or whatever, and then somebody a relative
will reach out and uh, kind of like what we
had with our friend in Denver who died as mom
reached out to me Big Sexy who had died in
a you know, a sudden heart attack situation, and his

(22:28):
mom made sure to let us know that he had
had passed and he was a big fan of the
show and stuff like that. So uh, nothing so far, Mark,
And thank you for listening all this time. I appreciate it. Oh,
if you I'm gonna I gotta go back to the
mail bag here because I wrote this down and then
I didn't put the name and if if you don't

(22:50):
see the name Robbie, people get very upset if you
don't see that.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, he didn't didn't sign their names. So it's a
little oh, it's like I mean, uh, click this year,
let's see what do we got here? Who sent this
one in?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I have no idea,
I have no the whole Let me try one more
thing here. You listen to our live coverage. It's the
mailbag Robby the Mariner fan. We'd like to alert all
the affiliates down the line. We're having some technical difficulties here.

(23:27):
I'll type this in. Let me see here all right, now,
I got now, I got here. We go. This is
from outback John and Joanna in the San Gabriel Valley,
and John says, my car recently turned one hundred thousand
miles old. She works like a dream. Our question our

(23:50):
questions are what is the highest mileage you have ever
had were gotten from a car, And if it's not
too personal, how many miles does the current Maladmobile have?
That is from our friends who make the Bloomin Onion
out back John and Joanna there in southern California. So

(24:10):
the Malormobile now, one of the cars has almost one
hundred and twenty thousand, the other has like one hundred
and fifty thousand on it. It's they're very well used.
I don't live anywhere near the radio station, and have
not lived near the radio station for some time, so
I'm putting anytime I go into the studio, it's over

(24:31):
one hundred miles and so wow, yeah, I knew.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
You had a community knows that much.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
It's not one way, I mean it's round, not two hundred.
I would be two hundred miles, Robbie.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, that's good. I've never been accused of being good
with maths.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
No, no, no, So it's yeah, it's it's over fifty
each way to get to the station, So it's over
one hundred miles a day, and then plus the other
driving that I do, so it's a lot of mileage.
And I just want to keep going until these things creak,
you know, croke, and then all go get something else
and that'll be that. I have started now at least
on road trips where I'll rent a car on the road,

(25:06):
not to add extra mouse, because I don't trust the cars.
I don't want to be out in the desert in
Arizona when it's one hundred that's thirty degrees or Nevada
and have my car breakdown. So that's the one concession
I've made. Other than that, it's keep on trucking. It's
keep on trucking, and that's it. Now. If somebody owns
a car dealership and wants to hook me up, I'm

(25:28):
all ears I'm all ears on that. You know, I
work something out there, The goat Man writes in that
Oh no, says dear Ben and the fat Kid, I
don't know who that is. Greeting exalutations from Iowa. In
case you didn't realize, I have had to take a
brief break from the show to attend to some personal matters.

(25:51):
But fear not, I will be back with you and
the militia overnights in no time. I come bearing two
pieces of interesting information. First and foremost, Robbie was invited
to play in a national fantasy football league. The draft
started at six pm out West. He drafted Fernando Mendoza.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
For That's a Lot.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Set his team to auto draft, and went to bed.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Hot parts slightly.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
How would you grade his draft performance if you drafted
for NANO, I did jesus.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
If I did. It was after like it was a
seventeen round. Drafted after the twelfth, I was quite tired,
and I went to bed and put it on auto drafts.
So there is a slight chance that somehow auto draft
took for Nano Mendoza.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
But uh no, you're denying the claim by the goat man.
You're claiming that I am.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Not to get all hart of fantasy on it, because
no one couts not fantasy. But I have always been
one of those guys that waits until just about everyone's
taken a QV before I take a QV because that's
why fantasy foot Also, in realistic the QB is not
nearly as important as the running backs.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
So yeah, I know you, yeah, fantasy and receivers that
can you know? Yeah, I hear, uh not that I'm
mister fantasy football, because I am certainly not mister fantasy football.
I did see though over the weekend. I guess we
can put to bed that Drew Aller as the savior
of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, is that what we're supposed

(27:25):
to do? What happened?

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I have not been paying attention to the preseason this year.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well he didn't. The Steelers somehow got shut out in
an extbout. Oh yes right, the Jets and Drew Aller. Well,
he returned to or Earth. He he had a passer
rating of below sixty two. Which I don't think is
good and average less than five yards attempt and completed
less than fifty percent of his passes against the Jets. Suck, Suck,

(27:54):
Suck goat man. Email continues. He says, lastly, a fun
story for you. I forgot where I read it, but
it's about a man who lives off of Costco samples
for eight months so he could save his money for gambling.
Insert Robbie and Food factoid here. Fantastically frugal or absolutely genius.
I thought that was a fake story. Wasn't that a
fake story? That was a fake story? Right? That was

(28:15):
a bogus story. That wasn't a real story. Didn't we
just talk?

Speaker 3 (28:18):
I believe it though, because so my dad. He's retired,
but he used to be a lawyer and he had
some interesting clients. And multiple clients of his over the
years would live off of Costco samples from out of
date Costco cards they found in dumpsters and would just
show up to the store and that's how they ate.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh okay, I thought that was fake. But I'm telling
you that when you go to Costco, they scan you.
You have to like scan it.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Well, this is years ago. That's why they are they
finally caught up to the scam? Probably because of that
news story. To be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Oh okay, yeah, I thought that was bogus, but hey,
why not? Man? I love costco samples and I'm the
guy you I don't really do that anymore, but I
used to go. I lived in an area where there
were three costcos and I'd go to all three during
the afternoon on Saturday and get samples, and I'd make
my way around until they got tired of me, and
then I'd move on to the next Costco. And then
I had three costcos. I'd eat my lunch right there

(29:15):
was perfect, all right? Next up we JT. The Wingman
somewhere in the Smoky Mountains. You're gonna see JT. The Wingman, Robbie, He's.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Gonna he was at the City one, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah he was there.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
One of the more energetic people I ever met. He
was like, yeah, he was great.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
So yeah, he's gonna be at the one in Vegas,
he says. And Hopper selection. As I was, as I
was walking this morning, watching the thunderstorm brewing over the
Smoky Mountains, I couldn't help but wonder when is the
last time that you went swimming in a lake? Wow?
I spend since I was a kid.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, I would say high school maybe.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah. I don't really have a lot of lakes I
go to, so I don't go in the ocean. I
don't I swim in the pool. That's about it. I'm
a pool guy anyway. JT says, I grew up a
bit spoiled by my grandparents had a cottage in Milwaukee Lake,
just west of Milwaukee, and I spent a lot of

(30:16):
weekends in summer swimming, playing croquet and charts lawn darts.
Great memories for me from JT the Wingman, He says,
there should be some items from mister Irrigation arriving with
me at the meet and greet next week. See you soon.
All right, how about that JTV the Wingman, He says,

(30:37):
somewhere again in these smoky, smoky mounts, the oh, there's
more lakes in Wisconsin than there are in Minnesota. There's
a fun fact for you.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
The Wisconsin Minnesota for like, I don't know why, but
you know, I feel like Minnesota's they almost imply they
have the most lakes.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well, I say, the Land of ten Thousand lakes. Wisconsin
has technically more lakes in Minnesota. They don't brag about it.
They're not as braggadocia they should.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
I think you could start a little rivalry.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Sure, A bill from Atlanta writes, and he says, ben,
I saw this on the news this week. How often
do you go to Venice Beach? Is it really that bad?
And then he I guess this story ran that. This
is from the New York Post. Venice Beach in Los
Angeles named the world's dirtiest beach in a new complaint

(31:29):
based ranking highlighted in the New York Post. There study
conducted analyzed travel websites two hundred beaches worldwide, tracking complaint
terms involving cleanliness, overcrowding, a noise. Venice Beach scored eighty
nine point seven out of one hundred, and that was

(31:50):
second behind why Key Key Beach, which scored one hundred,
although when you add in the cleanliness complaints, Venice is
number one, number one spot worldwide. Sixty percent of the
complaints involved poor cleanliness. Yeah, it's disgusting. Waikiki's disgusting. Also,

(32:12):
it's terrible. The thing about waiki Ki is I it
was last day when I got married. We flew in
there and we stopped. We spent a night because the
plane got diverted. It's a long story. We're supposed to
go to Kawahi. We stopped, spend the night, and you
walk around Waikiki, you might as well be in San
Francisco or LA or Seattle or Portland. It's all crackheads.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
And really I didn't know who. I didn't know there
was islands and why they did that.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Well, just Honolulu, that's it. It's the big city there,
the big ice scrapers and all that, and Waikiki Beach
is not bad, but just behind it's terrible. And I
haven't been to Venice Beach in years. The rule was
always I had friends or family that would come to
LA and you always do the tourist stuff, so you'd
take them to Venice Beach. And it's good people watching, Bill,

(32:58):
it's pretty unsafe if you don't know what you're doing.
It's a lot. There's a lot of shady characters down there.
The people watching is outstanding, though. It's it really is
like if you were to go to the San Diego
Zoo and just have human beings in the cages that
would be that Javon and Phoenix writes and he says,
dear Ben and guest, you often talk about Eddie Garcia.

(33:19):
What made him such a legendary person to work with
and why do you think those that have followed have
come up short?

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I just.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
What prompted you to also become more health conscious? That's
from Javon. Just things are getting a little out of control. Javon.
You know, you know when you know, and you know
when you have to cut back a little bit. Yeah.
I love Eddie. I mean, we just we were together
a long time. I just had lunch with Eddie. As
we talked about on the Saturday pod, we were together
on Friday. I did invite Eddie to come to Vegas.

(33:50):
He's unable to make it, unfortunately. I was hoping he
would be able to come out and hang out with us.
And he's got some hockey podcasts and hopefully we'll see
Eddie and here from Eddie again. And I know there's
a lot of upheaval and radio at all times, and
so who knows what's gonna happen with that. So but yeah,
I love working with that. He was great, you know,
he was the straight man and I get on my

(34:14):
nerves occasionally because he I like to have a good time.
Sometimes he got he was annoyed with my fun. But
we got along great and still a good friend of mine.
So that's it, I mean. And the other people, it's
just different, you know. And we don't have updates live.
It's all taped overnight, so there's no live people there. Uh,
what else do we have? Let's see, I can't read that.

(34:34):
Alf from a stadium near you rights in and says
greeting's been And Robbie, he says, I'm playing the odds.
You got to write, Alf, good jump good jump by you,
He says, Ben, How does one get into your contacts list?
In case there were on TV and in the general
vicinity of Marlin's Man also our fer Dog and Malard

(34:57):
Prop already and the aforementioned on tax list. Not that
I'm jealous, that's from Alf. No, I do have ways
to contact with both ferg Dog and Malprop guy. They
are not They do not have my phone number. They're
not in my contacts list. And Alf, if you ever

(35:17):
go to a Red Sash game and Marlon's Man is there,
send me a message and I'll connect you guys. Like,
I'm told by Sports with Coleman that Marlin's Man is
already going to be back in Baltimore sometime in September
and they're gonna be hanging out together. It's a friendship, Robbie,
Marlin's Man is now becoming buddies with this other guy

(35:40):
Sports with Coleman. So there's a friendship that happened because
of that meeting that took place the other day. How
about that one?

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Geez, Marlin's Man's connected when it comes to the media.
The only two podcasts I listen to yours and this
Barstool podcast part of my take, and he's like BFFs
with them, and he's BFFs with you. So it's kind
of crazy.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
He's friends with everybody. Yeah, I love we love marlins Man.
Good guy, good guy. I always look when I'm watching
the game, I'm like, where's marlins Man?

Speaker 3 (36:07):
You always do that too.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Actually, he rolls behind home play Where's Marlin's Man? Joey
from New York Rights and he said, can you imagine
the smell of this? And then he's got a story.
There were twenty tons of squid that overturned this week
on a road in Rhode island.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
That's happened in Oregon before actually too Ordeo's eels. But
I don't think either smell good and it? Yeah, that
I do.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
You're actually having to clean that up too? Oh wow,
I would have.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
And it probably with the way you know, bad events happen,
it probably wasn't like near a cleanup cruise. They had
to travel out there, and yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
What do you do with it? Well, you throw it,
but you know you still got to put it somewhere
to throw it away, just a big have a fish fry,
Just put it all on a pile and burn it
burn baby burn, all right? Bruno from Juror, He writes
in on the mail bag. He says, hey, Ben and Blank,
Detroit high school students can earn one hundred dollars a

(37:09):
week this year just for attending all their classes. It's
an exploratory program to try to get rid of chronic absenteeism.
Good idea or bad idea? How about should be unnecessary idea?
I was a terrible student, so I'm not the person
to ask about this. I hated going to school, man.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
I was like a five hit short up to school.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah, I could not stand it. I just didn't like
getting up early. I didn't like any of that. Although
I go by that Chris Rock thing, you shouldn't be
celebrated for doing what you're supposed to do, you know,
like you're kind of supposed to go to school, So
like should you really get rewarded for doing something that's
the baseline?

Speaker 4 (37:50):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
I don't think so. And where's that money coming from?
I think where's that money going to go? Well, yeah,
video games? And god only knows hopeful video games? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah yeah. What else we got? Let's see here.
I mean, there's a bunch we've We've gone kind of
long as it is. I think we can. We can

(38:10):
put the baby to bed right now. Robbie, thank you
so much. And you'll be at the thing on Saturdays.
You're gonna be out in Vegas. You can meet Robbie
the Mariner fan. Will you be signing autographs? And how
much for selfie's Robbie? How much to take a photo
with Robbie? What are we looking at? Thirty dollars a photo? Yeah? Yeah, sure, okay,
all right? Autographs that'll cost you one hundred dollars. And

(38:32):
Robbie is a advocate of Mallard Plus. Yes, Malard Plus.
He's got access to Mallardplus and all that.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
That's how I get paid for the mail bag, is
the free mil I get a free Mallar Plus subscription.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
When I was supposed to talk about that.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Two chance, thinking about subscribing to Mallards. On the shows,
someone tells me he's not a podcast listener because he
doesn't know how to do it. He's an old, old soul.
Yeah chance, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Did he ever verify his age? Because I can't tell.
He kind of sounds young, but he acts like he's old,
So you're old.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
So I think he's in his forties, but I'm not sure.
He could be older than that, could be young.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
He could be in his mid twenties. He's that's the
way he sounds.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
So yeah, he's got a he's divorced, I think, and
he's got good so I'm thinking at least thirties, but
who knows anyway. All right, well, Robbie, thank you so much,
and I'll be back tonight normal week. I am going
to be doing the show from Vegas, I believe, on
Thursday into Friday. But I'll be on the air, so
it doesn't matter. Where the show comes from. But I

(39:39):
will be there and have a great rest of your Sunday. Robbie.
You have your podcast that you've got later today here
on Sunday and you can yep put that and how
can people find you on there?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Uh, United States of Australia on YouTube. It'll be setting
stone for this for Yeah, today's nine pm Eastern time.
We're having a lazy night.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Select be interesting ladies.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Name yeah Ozzi. Ozzie knows some people in whatever entertainment
universe we do, and I'm sure it's just gonna be
a bunch of women make me feel odd so or uncomfortable,
you know. Justin and Dope man are gonna clip this.
This is great, okay, Well, you know women.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Making you feel odd? All right?

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Well, uncomfortable is when I met Bye.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Well, some people pay a lot of money for women
to feel make them feel odd. I don't know anyway.
All right, Well, thank you Robbie, have a great day
and you too, and we'll be back on the radio
tonight with a full week of the Ben Maler Show.
Don't forget Malor Meet and Greet coming up this Saturday
in Sin City at the Steakout Bar and grill right
near u NLV. We'll talk to you tonight. We'll see

(40:50):
you then. And as Dick and Dayton would say, bye bye,
oh boy, bye bye
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