August 2, 2026 • 50 mins
It’s that time again. For reasons science still can’t explain, you people keep showing up for the Mailbag. Robbie the Mariners Fan rides shotgun as we cannonball into a supersized cereal bowl of randomness. On the menu: constellations, baseball card scam artists, pet peeves, Roomba contraband, human trees, creative traffic-ticket excuses, fighting dogs, why prediction markets are under siege, density altitude, permanent stick-on tattoos, Flock cameras, and the legendary Maller Hopper. It's a buffet of bewilderment with absolutely no educational value guaranteed—yet somehow, you'll probably make it to the end anyway.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me Ben
Malor and it is the Sunday Pod the second day
of August, the first Sunday Pod in August. It's amazing
how that works. And without further ado, no bs, ohio Aal,
get me in the mood.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's in.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Congratulations again ohio Al and Dick and Dayton winning the
vote of the people, by the people, for the people
in the mal of Palooza that we had a little
while back. So we had split wins. Marcel won the
vote of the judges and ohio Al and Dick and
Dayton won, which was great because that was actually back
in Kentucky where we did the meet and greet there
(01:30):
and the people who heard it thought that was great.
And now a lot of other people got to hear it,
so that was kind of cool. Now we spin the
wheel on the side host the number two chair on
the mail bag a volunteer position. It's like a volunteer
fire department. We spin the wheel round and around. Big money,
big money, big money. Stop, and I present Robbie the
(01:56):
Mariner fan back again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hello Robbie, Hello Ben, what does everybody. I'm glad to
be back. It's been a bit.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Hopefully everythingles smoothly and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And it Congratulations. We decided, Robbie, we had a big
meeting the staff here at the Fifth Hour podcast and
we decided, in honor of the Seattle Mariners winning a
championship this week, we thought you should come on here
and do the mailback. So congratulations. I hope you had
a good time at the parade.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, it was great. There were so many people. It
was just it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And next year the Mariners are going to have a promotion.
They're gonna they're gonna have the day we beat the
Dodger bobblehead. That'll be yes, So that'll be that'll be
exciting and uh yeah, just just absolutely great. Meg got
I watched the Mariager I said this on the air.
I think I was watching the Mariner feet of the
broadcast and it was oh boy, it was and Dave
(02:48):
Valley was a good player, yeah years ago. But my god,
he's just spewing cliches like dude.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, I know it might be a unpopular opinion.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I actually like really like Goldsmith or gold However, the
play by play guy I think is really good. His uh,
his compete, the people they pair him with leave something
to be desired on a nightly basis, and it's always
easy to you know, punch at the the uh, the
playoff player, the color commentary, and that's that's become a
(03:17):
thing for Americ fans. But it's kind of deserved. It's
it's it's a long it's a far cry from back
in the days of when it was either Rick Riz
or Dave nee House doing the game.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So oh yeah, Dave Neehouse the goat, the goat back.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, Rick Riz isn't far behind you. Yeah, of fame
one day too.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is he still doing what? He's retired now, this is
his last.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Year, so he's kind of you know, he doesn't do
every game and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
He so okay, yeah, I got you get out the
right bread and bustard Grandma. Its great.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do without
that saying anymore. Because he he carried that tradition on
from Dave knee House. He does that same call for
Grand Slams. It's going to be sad next year if
there ever is a Grand Slam with how about our.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I know it's the press. It's like doing play by
play on a funeral. Here comes to you. They gotta
dig that hole, get the body in there. Come on now.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh, it's wild to zero lead to zero deficit feels
insurmountable at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's just so sad and it's it's crazy, Robber. I
think I've said this to you before. But like when
I remember the Seattle Mariners when I was younger at
the Kingdome. They always had great offense. The pitching was
a little walky most of the time. I have like
one or two pitchers. The rest of them you could,
you know, get a bunch of runs again. So it is,
(04:39):
it is a tough spot. Most of the younger broadcasts,
like I it's there's not a lot of guys that
are that good.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
U you know, we don't They all go to like
the same school and learn the same way, and so
it's very formulaic at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Like, yeah, that's another problem, Like there's no originality.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, that's what is the issue with me?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Is the original Back in the old days, it was
when sports was a mom and pop operation, they you know,
they'd allow Harry Carey to get hammered on the air.
They didn't. Now it's so corporate you have to say
anything mildly offensive. You know, it's like, my god, what
are you doing? And it's not even about being offensive,
it's just being entertaining. Yeah, exactly, if you're entertaining, he was, Oh,
(05:21):
you're trying to make it all about you. Well, so
you're trying to get people to watch if the team's terrible, Like,
you know, come on, I think of all. I don't know,
if you watch a lot of these other broadcasts. The
guy inside he goes really good. Uh, I forget his name, but.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think the Mets. The Mets guys are the best.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But that's just they're on early in the day on
the West coast for us because they play on the
East Coast. So I watch a lot of Mets baseball.
They when the Mets suck, they will they don't hide it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, they're good like the Mets. I don't mind the
Giants broadcasters that they're old dudes, uh Padres. I don't
mind some. I just mute most of them. I just
the Twins used to have good broadcasters. I don't know
what those guys are boring anyway. All right, well we
have questions, Robbie, so let's jump right into the mail bag.
(06:10):
First up is my man Reggie from Detroit. He says, Hey,
Benny and whoever, and you please explain to those of
us that send email to the podcast how you decide
who's in the co host chair of the podcast. It
seems rather random, whether it's Robbie, Breed, Nostradinas, Justin or
whoever you had last week. Do you use the mallor
(06:33):
hopper from the world, No, Reggie, I do not use
the malor hopper. It is I don't know. Should we
tell people how we make the susch age? Well, I
really have no rhyme or reason with this. Like I
record the mail bag at certain times, and it's an
ad on them, you know what I mean, Robbie's an
add on item. It's not it's not set in soon.
(06:53):
I do not want to have a set time to
do the mail bag. So normally what happens is it
just depends on my sked. Like when I can do
the mail bag, then what happens is I don't want
to have someone. I can't lock someone in to say, hey,
be avail. It's not like a delivery of a sofa
where you have to be available all day. I don't
want to do that to someone. So like what happens
(07:15):
is I say, Okay, I'm going to do the mail bag,
and then I'm gonna I'm going to reach out to
people I want to talk to, and whoever responds first
gets to do the mail bag. That's about it. It's
not I don't maybe I should plan it out, Reggie,
I don't know, but I'm Robbie's been great. He's been
available more than anybody. So availability is the key. You've
(07:38):
got to be available otherwise, you know. Come on, yep,
all right, let's see. Thanks Reggie for that wonderful question
to start our Carl from Michigan somewhere in Michigan rights
and he says, Ben, I know you've complained in the
past about this setup. How is this lawsuit going to
change the sports collectible industry? And he sent me the story.
(07:58):
I'm assuming you've seen it. Rob the PSA, the Authoritator group.
We talked about this actually with you. I think you
were on when we talked about this.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I believe, I know we've talked cards.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I don't know if we specifically talked the new lassit
against PSA.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But we haven't talked about this. But I've complained that
I have a lot of cards, some of them I
think are worth some money. However, in order to get
any real money, you have to send them in to
this outfit, this PSA group, and then they have to
grade it. And then if you get a good grade,
like on a scale of one to ten, then you
can actually if it's like a nine or a ten,
(08:33):
you can get some real such a racket.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah, So this especially the part where you have to
like you pay like a base fee, but then at
the card they value it, They're like, oh no, this
card is really expensive. Then you have to pay them
again for the same card.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's like it's a sliding scale. It's great.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It is. So the lawsuit is for like a lot,
isn't like a class action thing, but I saw like
a lot of money. They argue that the according to
the complaint, PSA built its reputation by promising collectors that
its grades are based on standardized expert evaluations. Lawsuit claims
(09:12):
that is misleading. It is subjective by I appeal, rather
than consistent grading standards. So yeah, we'll see if they
win or not. So carl to answer your question, A,
they have to win, and even if they do win,
you know, will this actually change anything. Well, they've had
such a racket, as you said, Robbie, for so long.
(09:34):
There's two groups. PSA is the big one though, that's
the big and this is all a byproduct of when
I was a kid and people were ripping off people
right and left with the counterfeit memorabilian merchandise cards and
all that. So that led to the birth of PSA
and the other group that does it. So I don't
know much about it other than I just read we'll see.
(09:57):
I hope it would change it. There's got to be
a different way to do it. There's so many, Charli,
there's so many the scam artists, Charlie Charlton's is that
what I'm saying? Something like that?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I don't know, yeah, something like that. Now I'm kind
of confused. No one how to pronounce it. Two but
Eli kind of skated by with some fake memorabilia Eli
Manning a couple of years ago too. It's even though
PSA they when they launched it was this claim to
like we're going to bring like you know, we're gonna
put a good reputation behind this kind of industry that
(10:29):
has a batter reputation. Doesn't seem like it's helped all
that much. There's still quite a few scams.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, for sure. Sure. Leo from Chicago right center the
fifth Hour mail bag. You want to email the mail bag,
it's real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. Make sure to put your
name in city if you want credit. Otherwise with just
goof on you. Leo says, Hey, Ben, have you ever
been bumped from a flight? He says that there was
a flight this week in Vegas where it was one
(10:55):
hundred and fourteen degrees this week in Vegas, and they
had fifty passers. They had to get off the plane
otherwise the aircraft could not take off safely. Oh boy,
they offered people. I did actually see this Leo, they
offered people a bunch of money, like they offered They
always start out travel vouchers for five hundred and then
(11:17):
they go up to like I think they offered fifteen
hundred dollars travel vouchers and then it went up. There's
one story I read that said that somebody got six
thousand dollars over six thousand dollars in flight vouchers and
a bunch of frequent flyer miles and all that. I
(11:37):
have been bumped off a couple of flights, Leo, over
the years. The trip to Hawaii to get married, we
got bumped, well, we got bumped off the flight and
then got upgraded to first class on the following flight.
I don't mind. If I have time, I would lock.
Can you imagine six thousand dollars in travel vouchers? Are
(11:58):
you kidding me? I'd sit, I'd sleep at the airport
for six dollars in travel vouchers. You ever been bumped
from a fight? You know, travel that much, right, Robbie, I.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Mean no, But I've had my fair share of horror
stories going, but never been bumped. I've have had to
spend the night in Denver airport and I was stuck
on the tarmac in Vegas a couple of years ago
for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
In the plane.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
We were about to take off and this dust storm
hit and so we couldn't go back to the airport
and we couldn't go take off, So we were just
stuck like on the strip, the strip, just sitting there
with no AC for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah. I had a similar experience, not in Vegas. I
was in Chicago at O'Hare and there was a lightning storm.
We had taxied from the gate to take off. Apparently
there were too many planes ahead of us and the
storm came in. You know, the weather in Chicago could be.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened to us, only it was
in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah. Yeah, so we we were stuck on the plane
for more than three hours. They actually changed there's a
there's a limit on how long they have to give
you something if you're on the plane over a certain
amount of time. That changed a few years ago, But
back then they rap and that must have been the
slowest moving storm because I mean insane like this so stupid.
(13:12):
That is wild though, that the planes can't take off
if it's too hot. There's a it's called density altitude
extremely hot air less dense. It reduces the lift and
the aircraft performance, especially when it was hotter, higher elevation location.
So there you go, you're fun fact about the heat
(13:34):
and the well. You'd rather take a travel aboutcher than
have the opposite happen, obviously, Yeah, al from the pond
or pound rather for the pound, right pond pound, he says.
A happy Sunday, Ben, and spin the wheel of co
host the co hosts that would be Robbie the Miriner fan. Ben,
do you know if Luigi was a mutt? Or do
(13:56):
you have contact with Luigi's current family or he living
on the streets of South Beach? Yeah, so I haven't
I know where Luigi's living. I don't really have any
contact with Luigi at this point. Luigi was not a mutt.
Luigi was a full French bulldog and the biggest troublemaker,
(14:18):
just an absolute devil dog. Luigi love Luigi, very sweet
but conniving, very Luigi, always up to trouble, always up
to no good. And yeah, I mean Moxie's the com
my dog. Moxie now is ridiculously calm with Luigi though,
it was a nightmare. It was like it was like
(14:40):
a hex was put on on Moxie.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You'd need an exorcist or something like.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Luigi was the hype man and he'd hype her up
and then so they'd team up together. He somehow got
her all worked up into a lather to attack. So yeah,
In fact, my niece she's afraid to see Moxie because
she was she was a little girl and she saw
Moxie and Moxie like attacked. Oh wow, I gotta play,
(15:07):
not like biting, but just like one and yeah. So
but Moxie just sleeps the whole time. Now, that's so,
that's all Moxie does. Uh So Yeah, anyway, thanks Solf.
Out Back John and Joanna right in fifth hour Mailbags,
Big Ben in special guest. That's Robbie the Merinith, the
Legendary of Robbie celebrating the Mariners Championship. This week. When
(15:27):
Joanna and I go out to eat, it's out back
John and Joanna, we always sit across from each other,
however not but not, but however, if we go out
to eat with others, we will sit next to each other.
We have to position ourselves appropriately, as I am right
handed and she is a lefty. Our question this week
(15:47):
is do you and missus Mahler do the same when
it's just two of you, or do you have to
do the same when dining with others. I don't think
about it that much. I do know when we go
out alone, you know those some restaurants have half a
booth and then chairs. So I'd rather sit on the
booth and she would too. So we'll sit. We'll sit
(16:07):
next to each other if it's half a booth, if
it's not. If it's the same, we'll sit across from
each other. And as far as I don't even notice,
like we're both right handed, so I don't really logistics
on that. I don't really worry about like that part
of it. So anyway, Caleb from so Cow rights into
the mailbag. He says, Ben, are you worried that roombas
(16:28):
are going to be banned from the United States? The
government is banning all robot vacuum cleaners entering the country. No,
I don't have a room bus, so why would I care? Caleb?
I don't. I don't. I saw the headline. Do you
see anything about this, Robbie, I have.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Not this is we got a room by at one
point and it just seems like it's more pain than
just doing it ourselves.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So I don't think we used it much.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Don't you have to have a flat like if it's
got to be completely flat a room but can't go
over bumps, can't go upstairs? Yeah, so if.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You and we have stairs, So it was just like,
might as well just do it ourselves?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, we do too. We have. And it's annoying too,
because every room so I don't know what they call it,
but there's like stare at you know, go up like
one one step to another room and then down a step,
and it's like, ah, yeah, yeah, all right, what else
do we have? JT? The Wingman writes in from Parts Unknown, Tennessee.
(17:28):
I'm glad you changed to that JT. Thank you because
I still don't know how to pronounce your JT. Will
get the Mallard Meet and Greet August twenty ninth, so nice,
twenty seven days. You'll be there, right, rocket yep.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yep, great rockets. Rooms booked, the plane, tickets booked, everything's
book Have.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You bought your tickets to the meet and greet because
that'll cost you seven hundred dollars to.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Get shout out weed Man back when he.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Was like, yeah, remember that Benny and the weed Man.
We were gonna rent out. What do you want? Which
hotel that do you want to want?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't remember which one.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Caesar's Palace I forget, but he he's like, yeah, well charge.
I was like five hundred dollars a ticket or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I remember when he said that.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
When he started with five, I thought he was going
to say like five or fifty dollars. When he said
five hundred, my jaw hit the floor. And then the
best part of that entire story was you were like
yelling and I'm like, no one's gonna pay. He's like,
don't worry, no one will be turned away if they.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Don't have the money. Well, then why are you charging
that much to get with it?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Was?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
It was one of the better one of the more
iconic times in Malar history, show history.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The genius of weed Man. I don't know if you
heard the yesterday's podcast, but I called him up. I
tried to get him free food for his birthday. I figured, Hey,
this is your day to go out and Bud restaurants
offer free food. So I told the story because when
I was younger, I did that. One of my birthdays.
I went out, I went to Danny, I got the
free you know breakfast. I went to McDonald's. They would
(18:47):
give you like an ice cream coat. Like that was
years ago many so I do that. I did that.
I thought, well, this would be great. You know, We'n's
got no money. He's begging Purrito to send him burritos,
and so I said, why not we man and so
so I'm on the phone with him and I'm like,
all right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
He said, oh, you.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Know, I love That's a great idea. Thanks Ben. And
then he said where should I go? So I'm like,
all right, restaurants that offer free stuff for your birth
There I typed in. All these restaurants come up. So
I'm like, okay, this is great. So I'm like, well,
there's Starbucks everywhere, so I'll click on Starbucks. See what
you get. He said, well, you get a little small,
like a small like a dessert or something like that.
I said fine, and then he said, oh, you got
(19:25):
to sign up for the rewards thing last night. And
then every restaurant I went to, they all I did
not find one that just said show your ID and
free whatever. And weed man doesn't know how to use
the internet, Like he just on YouTube watching old episodes
(19:45):
of Johnny Carson and he doesn't know email. I've sent
up an email address. I Coop has set up an
email address, and he always forgets the password, doesn't check it.
He lost his used to be on Twitter, on face Book,
he lost his password, and he's so lazy he doesn't
even bother to find a new password. You know what
(20:06):
I mean. It's wild.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, there is shocking some of the people that I've
become friends with in Marlosia. The tech level, the tech
competence level is slapping shout out, goat man in a
justin Cincinnati. I'm sure they're happy I'm shouting out there
complete lack of technological ability.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But it's true, shots fired. Like I'm not I can't
program a computer, but I know my way around. I
know the basics, like have had to learn the basics
of how to.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Do like you could recover a lost password if you
had to. That's challenging for certain people apparently.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well even my work email, which I never checked because
the first thing they get rid of you have email.
When you're fired is your work email, So I learned
in nine January twentieth of nine, I learned a very
valuable lesson that you should not use that work email
for any important things because as soon as get let yo,
you need to check those things, and it's gone. So
(20:59):
I did get locked out of the work. I had
to do some training stuff for work, and then I
couldn't get in there, and then I emailed the boss.
Of course he didn't write back right away, so then
I was able to figure it out on my own.
It must have been a glitch because I typed. I
kept typing the same password. Anyway, JT writes, and he says,
as the world continues to turn, and I reflect on
this week's buck moon, I can't help but wonder what
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your favorite constellation might be. My dad would love. My
dad loved getting the telescope out and looking up at
the heavens and looking at the different constellations and all that.
And the last few years of my dad's life, this
was pretty cool, and you can still do this. He
(21:44):
loved to go out and look at the space station.
When there's a website, NASA has the International Space Station,
and you can go out of your house and see
it floating over you. They tell you when it's going
to go over your house. Pretty cool, actually, and I
I used to do that. My dad would would run
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out to go do it, and it would be pretty
pretty cool. U constellation. I don't know what you what
is your favorite? Who knows? I used to I used
to know them all back in the days, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Was it the Little Dipper that's the only one I remember?
Or was it the Big Dipper?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I believe it was the Big Dipper?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, okay, well I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well it was who came up with the name of them,
like a long time ago. They've been around. They haven't
changed the names. No, none of those constellations have been canceled,
he says. I know the Fifth Hour podcast does not
include our friendly astrologer Andrea, but I am sure a
(22:48):
real night owl like you must check out the stars
from time to time. Personally, I have always been a
fan of Orion, as it's very easy to find in
the north Northern hemisphere and like your favorite DJ once
said many times, keep your feet on the ground and
keep reaching for the doors. Late great Casey Casein. Yeah,
(23:10):
so I do have fun. I have my dad's tell
us dope. He didn't take it with him, so I
haven't used it. But it's it's here somewhere burry from
South Carolina right sin yo yo mob any but not
for long. I will be free from the gestapo hoa
very soon. Well that's great. Yeah, never Robbie, when you
(23:32):
go get your own place, Robbie, no hoa, stay away
from the HOA. Do not a. Do what you have
to do. No hoa.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We have a modified HOA at the moment where I live,
it's a historical landmark house and those are pains as
it can be. So I don't I don't know why
anyone would voluntarily do an hoa because the horror stories
sound awful.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's terrible, terrible anyway, he says, you love to say
What's in the box. However, have you seen the Netflix
show What's in the Box? It's pretty lame. I have
not have you seen that show?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I haven't even heard of it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
What's in Let me? Let me? Let me look here?
Is this like just a YouTube thing where it's on Netflix? Though?
What's in the Box? Uh la la la, it's a
Netflix series. It's anyone's game, but only one duo can
leave with the super box. The jaw dropping twists and turns.
(24:35):
This sounds Oh it's hosted. I recognize that guy. Yeah,
who's let's see here o Neil Patrick Harris. There you go.
You have to players have to answer trivia to win
spectacular hidden prizes. But can they keep them from the competition? Yeah,
I'm good, all right, I don't need that Greenlok's that.
(24:57):
I know. It looks like they only did one season,
six uppisodes. That's it. Those game shows. That's the life. Though.
If you're I know, entertainment's not what it was when
I was growing up, and it's just you know, do
ten minute videos on YouTube and you're rich and all that.
That's great, good for you, But I remember the the
game show thing is the way to remember these old guys.
(25:20):
I'm gonna date myself. But this guy named Stu Nahan
was a famous sportscaster in La Silver Tips. Stu was
his nickname because he loved to free load. And Stu
was a local TV sports guy. And there was a
weather guy. This is at NBC back you know, forty
years ago, fifty years ago, and so Stu had the
weather guy and Stu were buddies, and the weather guys say, hey,
(25:43):
I got this thing. This I was offered this game
show and Stu's like, ah, nah, you shouldn't take that though,
you know, those things come and go. News people need
their news, you know, and the weather they need the weather.
Weather always important. So anyway, the guy ended up taking
the job and his name was Pat Sajack and it
(26:06):
was like the easiest gig in the world. He lived
in Maryland or something like that, and he'd fly out
to la and he would do a few episodes or
a bunch of episodes of the Wheel of Fortune and
then fly back and it was great. And you do
the news back in those days, you had to do
like five newscasts a day and it was a big panow.
So it was a lot of work to actually do
(26:27):
the news back in the day. Anyway, thank you for that, Barry.
I will not be watching What's in the Box? Alf
from the Pound. Did I do this one? I think
I did this one? Didn't we do this?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We did this one? All right? Yes, that job by me?
All right? Scott from northern Kentucky. Remember you met Scott
right at the Mallar.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Meet and greet there, he believe, so, yes, he.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And his wife were there. He's from southern California, Ben,
What are some of your pet peeves? For example, I
can't stand when people say irregardless. Drives me crazy. Also
when I go to the drive up ATM and those
those rare occasions I need cash and a person ahead
of me gets out of the car at the drive
up ATM. That's some scott in northern Kentucky. So I'll
(27:09):
give you a few. I have a bunch of pet peeves.
I'll give you a few of them. When I'm trying
to get into and out of the store and I
just want to get my groceries and get home, and
the babushka in front of me, who has no friends
or family, her kids don't call her anymore. She holds
up the grocery line for twenty minutes talking to the
(27:29):
teller drives me nuts. Just get your lettuce and tomatoes
and get the hell out of there. Leave us alone.
I'm sorry that you have no one to talk to.
That's very sad to me. But you're ruining my day.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm also annoyed.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I'm also annoyed, Robbie. When I go to Trader Joe's
and they don't have self checkout, and I have to
go to a checkout stand because I just I love
the self checkout. Now, I don't steal stuff like a
lot of you idiots. That's why they're getting rid of
self checkout. But I would love to just go and
do self checkout. Trader Jo's doesn't have that. I also
am very annoyed by people when you're driving and they
(28:05):
don't use their turn signals when they're changing lanes. Are
you that, Like, if you're gonna be an a hole,
fine cut me off. Just at least be polite about
it with your exactly, just like, just signal your changing lanes.
And if you're that lazy, you shouldn't have your driver's license.
You know any pet peeves Robbie that you have.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, people that needlessly say the word right in the middle,
beginning and end in every sentence drives me insane.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
That is that is your nightmare? Yeah, I have done that.
I've been guilty of that at times. I don't do
it very often.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
It's not no, I've never noticed it with you. But
there's people that are like news journalists that will say
it so often. It's it just sounds like a fifth
grader talking.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Let's see, well that you are supposed to relate to people,
so you have to kind of dumb it down, Robbie.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I guess that's true. Maybe maybe I've looked at it
wrong this entire time.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You have to relate to everyone. Quieting from Ho Chi
Minh Vietnam rights and he says, hey, Big Ben. On
the Monday, July twenty seventh Original Recipe podcast, you mentioned
that NFL media insiders were sitting around playing Tiddleywinks while
waiting for the green light to break the Kyle Shanahan
(29:19):
car accident start. I have a feeling you intentionally slipped
in the little faux paw just to see if I
was paying attention. So thanks for the laugh. Could you
ask weed Man Hippie if he ever sold Tiddleywinks in
the New York Store, which is, of course a game.
I'll try to remember that Quang weed Man will be
(29:41):
on Monday into Tuesday unless he forgets to show up.
And Quang is really interested in me having this macaroni
and cheese pizza thing we talked about in a previous
episode of The Mail back does sound very good. Yeah,
so he's trying to coordinate. He's like calling people from
(30:02):
what I heard, so I don't can email them back.
I don't know. I mean, yeah, I'd like to try
I'd like to try it. I schedule wise, it's only
available on Sundays, so which is today, by the way,
So anyway, Scott from Florida writes in he says, hey,
big Ben and friend growing up, my best friend had
(30:23):
an excuse as the at the ready. At the ready,
Scott says, if he was pulled over for speeding, Sorry, officer,
I'm just trying to get to my SAT tutor. I'm sorry.
How does that stack up versus going to see dead
grandma and grandpa? Is that true? I read that? Is
(30:44):
that accurate that Tony's grandparents aren't even alive? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I heard that they weren't alive.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
So that's awkward. Yeah, do you have a better story
if the mallamobiles pulled over? No, Scott, I can't get
out of tickets. The only I'm convinced the only people
get like Lorraina gets out of the ticket, like hot
would get out of things. A guy can't get out
of a ticket. How do you get everything? I got
pulled over. I've been pulled over many times, but a
(31:11):
few years ago I've told the story. Before I got
pulled over. I was on my way to work, and
the cop they always asked where you going? What are
you in such a hurry, you know when he get
pulled over? Well, I'm going to the going to This
time I could actually say it. I was was going
to the radio station. Oh really, what do you do?
What do you do? Well, I'm a talk shows? Oh
this is great. Uh yeah, what what station? I said?
(31:34):
I didn't say Fox Sports Radio. I said the local
station because I figured he probably might know the station,
so I said, oh really, uh and uh and then
he he he asked if I knew Petros. He didn't
care about my she didn't even know who know who
I was. So if I was Petros, I would have
(31:54):
gotten out of the ticket. If I was the p
I would have gotten the ticket. But yeah, I don't.
I don't have anything. I have been pulled over where
they thought I was drunk and I'm not drunk, and
they get really depressed because that's like a big cops
get drunk drivers. That's like they get awards for that
and oh really, Yeah, if you get the most drunk drivers,
you get rewarded and whatever prizes. So anyway, yeah, any
(32:21):
go to Robbie, you get pulled off.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I have gotten out of a ticket when I was
with my brother, but it was just because I think
he realized he had. He said, we turned eighty feet.
You're supposed to apparently at all in the town I
live in, if you blinker, you have to wait a
hundred feet before you turn, and we only did the
eighty And I asked how he could prove that in court.
(32:45):
He almost, I heard a mutter, that's a good point,
and so he just gave us a warning and so
let us go. So because it was like the middle
of the night. And yeah, but no, I don't have
any good excuse. I would probably just say not guilty
because the cops usually they pre existing conflicts and so
they wouldn't be able to show.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Up to the actual court case and you get off anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, they hate having to go to court because they
have to go to court on their days off usually exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I learned that from my dad, who may or may
not have been a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So aha, see there's good legal advice right there. Yeah,
unsolicited legal advice ferg Dog, and Fullerton writes in he says, Hey,
Ben and friend of Ben, I really enjoyed the last
week's mail bag with Jerry Coleman. After having a true
professional like him on, It's going to be very hard
to go back to amateurs like Robbie the Marriory. Maybe
(33:33):
ad help if Friends of the Show all took ASU's
influencer program. Yeah, is there a rivalry? Do we have
a rivalry between ferg Dog and Robbie the Mariner fan
or is he just trying to be like Justin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
First it was Justin and then it was goat Man,
and then Goatman and ferg Dog. I feel like started collaborating,
and Goatman's been buusy with work and life stuff lately,
so he hasn't been listening line as much, and Fergug
has taken a ton and run with it lately in
terms of trolling me.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
So did the see I guess.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, it says I'm interested in the free chairs you
talked about in last week's episode of the show. I
don't believe you ever said how many you picked up?
Is the pink color growing on you. We picked up
four chairs, four dining room chairs that are now pink.
It is not growing on me. It's not for me.
(34:30):
I don't really care. It's just a chair. I'm not
going to get worked up into a lather about a chair.
There are things to get worked up about. Robbie, Yep,
this is not one of those things. You got to
pick your spots. I'm going to get worked up. I
get worked up over was it Kyle Shanahan's funky arrest?
I get worked up over that, Robbie that it worked
up too. Not this. There's some funny something's going on.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Something's odd.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
And if I can't fee, well, there's no reasonable explanation
for what's going on. So I'm glad you haven't let
it go. Like literally every other news station that never
even I would say they let it go, but they
never really seemed interested to begin with.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
It's so odd.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Eleven Day Gap won't release the video, won't release the video.
So if Chanahan said I did it, I'm the I
was the bad guy, So what's wrong? Why not? You
can cover up the other ladies and nobody exactly it
looks like And if it just makes no sense, and
you know, there's all kinds of conspiracies that was he
(35:33):
alone in the car? Was there something else going on?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Oh, I didn't tactor that in. That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, maybe that could be something. You know, I'm not
saying that, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm just I was gonna say something about.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I was probably say the same thing you were going
to say.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It starts with an R. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Well all right, anyway, so who knows what else do
we have? Chris from the Jersey Shore rights in the middle.
He says, you think this is good police workmen, and
then he's sent in his part of New.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I guess it's not.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Actually he's in the Jersey Shore, but in somewhere in
New Jersey near New York City. Cop dressed up as
a bush on the side of the road to catch
distracted drivers on their phones, and the New Jersey cop
ended up. They get they caught seventy distracted drivers on
(36:28):
their phone, which that's like shooting fish in the barrel.
Yeah you can't. We're all guilty of peeking down at
some point or another. We've all done it. The bad
offenders though, my god and I have noticed in the
modern era. Rob this is another pet peeve, even though
I'm guilty of it too, is when you're at a
(36:49):
red light and it turns and there's always like a
two minute lag because everyone's on their phone. Yeah, like
the signal, which in some ways makes it safer. No
one's blowing through the signal because they're waiting right.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Unintended, Like everyone not following the law makes it safeer.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's kind of ironic, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah, no one's jumping the signal because they want to
get through. They're like, they got to put their phone down.
They were texting there whoever? The video of that, like
that cop thing, And obviously my wife works at a
police station in Lines, but the cop thing is like,
that's how you know there's nothing going on in that town.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
There's no god of murder, gotta go, no a guy
in Boca.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
No, there is literally nothing going on. So let's just
find things to do. Is That's what that strikes me?
As we find things to do. So that's this is
a good idea and it is pretty funny when you
see it. Ricky from New York rights in that's rather
a big state. I'm assuming upstate, he says, Benny and
(37:53):
whoever that would be robby the Marina fan is my
state going to kill the prediction market? And the hope
not New York suing Calshi for thirty six billion. You
hear about this thirty six billion. They want to shut
down the prediction market. They claim they're running an illegal
(38:15):
gambling operation. Yeah, Goshi, which is really just them wanting
a cut of the most exactly. That's what this is, like, Yeah,
you're not paying us, and they're the moment.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
This Originally when DraftKings and FANDUL first started getting into gambling,
wasn't it like Virginia was like, oh, we got to
take down these these mobile gaming operators or not like
video game but you know, sports books. And then they
ended up just partnering and getting a cut of every transaction.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
So that's probably what's going to end up happening.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Usually that's what happened. It is fascinating to me because
in the People's Republic of California where I live, a
couple of years ago, there was a ballot measure to
legalize sports wagering and it was backed by Draft Kings
and fan Duel, the big gambling companies and it didn't
pass because the Native American groups that owned the casinos
(39:12):
in California said well, we're you know, we're we want
our cut. You know, they wanted to control This is
what I was told you who know the way I
heard it was the casinos. The Native American casino said well, no,
we want to control the market. And so it was
supposed to go back on the ballot and then I
think this was around pandemic time. It never went back
(39:33):
on the ballot. But here in California now because of
the prediction market, it just all of a sudden, there
were no laws changed, there was nothing, no legislation. They
just started taking bets. And so now like DraftKings is
in California, but they have to call it it's like
a loophole. I don't know all the legalese. Obviously, it's
(39:54):
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Yeah, it's kind of confusing how it's a loophole, But
I do you know, it seems like they've both klshi
DraftKings and poly Market have known there was going to
be some waterloose level a lawsuit at some point, and
so they've been gearing up for it knowing at some
point someone's going to challenge them on.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
This this loop hole.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
So I think they probably have the best lawyers prepared.
It's going to be an epic battle courtroom wise.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
You know, the people winning will be the lawyers. They
will exactly billable hours exactly. Denny from Nebraska. He says
it's his first email to the podcast. He says, Ben,
I read on social media that a growing number of
job applicants are hiding prompt injections in their resume to
trick AI screeners into ranking them as qualified candidates. Is
(40:44):
this fair or foul? What do you think? Thanks for
the podcast, Denny from a small town in Nebraska. Thank you, Dan.
I'm gonna imagine you as a farmer on a tractor
with overalls and a straw hat. That's in my head.
So okay, so let's break this down here, Robbie. So
this AI, I guess companies are using AI to screen
(41:05):
resumes and these people are putting you know, how they
can put special, hidden, hidden writing in there, like they
had professor back east that tricked people. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
So I'm going to rule this is fair. If you're
using AI screeners instead of humans to reveal job applications,
(41:25):
then all's fair and love. In job applications.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
And applying for a job, it's kind of like a
warrick this point. I agree with you on the completely.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, that's that's on you. Nick from San Diego says,
did you see the fight video in my fine city?
How did you score this amateur boxing match? Things? My
answer off the air, that's from Nick. Oh, this is
the video, Robbie. I'm sure you saw this, maybe not
Mission Beach. A couple of guys fighting right on the
water there on a path. They were walking their dogs.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Oh yeah, I did see this last night.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
And the dogs start fighting each other too. It's a
human dispute. It turns into a canine fight. And anyway,
Nick says, the guy in the black tank top continued
to strike and engage while the other guy was trying
to separate the dogs. And then he wants to know
(42:19):
my thoughts. Well, look, it violates the sports. There's a
lot of rules in sports, right in boxing. It's safety, fairness, sportsmanship,
you know, those kind of things. And this is more
than a warning. If I'm the judge in there, that
is a certainly it's a point deduction for the guy
that kept punching possible disqualification. And I'm happy to report
(42:43):
my dog Moxie would not engage in a fight. Moxie
would just play down and you know, put a tongue
out and that's it. Take a nap. So that's why
the dogs. That was one of the dogs was like
a shepherd type dog, large dog, and then there was
a smaller dog I don't know, like a mutt's. That's
a loyal dog. A dog will fight for you. Yeah,
(43:04):
loyal dog that is. That's outstanding. See what else I mean?
I've got a few more here, Boo, what do we
have time for? Leo from Chicago, all right city says man.
I know this is not a sports podcast or a
political podcast. I don't know what this story falls into.
(43:24):
I read that flock cameras there are one hundred and
twenty thousand of these things with automatic license plate readers
in forty nine states, and that in one California city
they got the license plate wrong seventy one percent of
the time. Where do you stand on these flock cameras?
(43:48):
Thanks Leo from Chicago. Yeah, so I don't, like I thought,
I don't want to live in a police state. Robbi,
you know what I'm saying. You know what I mean,
there is a balance between safety and tyranny, and you
shouldn't have I feel like it's too much.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
I feel, well, have you ever seen those videos of
when like someone doesn't cross the street properly and China
and all of a sudden horde of drones will just
like start flashing out them to make everyone aware that
they didn't do it correctly. I pray we don't get
to a point like that, but you never know. The
flock cameras do seem to be getting closer and closer
to the just having drones in the sky at all times.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Yeah, it's a little, a little much, and it's one
of those things that's as I understand, it started out
with good intentions, Like you know, kids get kidnapped. You know,
we're trying to find cars, we have the license plate,
we can't find the cars, so we'll just leave cameras
up and then when these people drive by, we'll get
the camera and we'll save the kid and that'll be that. Okay. Well,
(44:50):
now we have one hundred and twenty thousand cameras in
forty nine of the fifty six. I wonder which state
doesn't have them. I don't know. It's got to be
some state Texas.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
It's it seems it seems like a state where they
I don't know, who knows.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Let me see. Oh you uh hold, I'm gonna try
this right now here. You talk for a minute, roun.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
It's either going to be a small state or a
very libertarian leaning state. So it might just be a
state that doesn't have enough funding or people. So I
could see it being like South Dakota or something.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Let's see, only state without flock cameras. Uh, I don't.
Of course I didn't.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Nothing came up. Let me let me Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Would be shocked if it wasn't in all fifty at
this point.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Yeah, probably probably, Well, and don't I don't know how
it works because somebody's gotta paid for it.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Is it the company? How do they make money? How
would the company make money if they installed?
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Are they get a cut on the tickets paid?
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Like if you're oh.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, they did that with the red light cameras. They
then the judge in LA ruled they're illegal or that
you can't actually write tickets. Oh here we go. The
only state. According to flock Safety, the only state that
does not operate currently is Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
Oh that makes well, my theory kind of worked.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
It a small state.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
But why there's not a lot of cars, and parts
of Honolulu there's a lot of cars. Honolulu is a
ton of cars. So what else do we have? Uh,
all right, Mike, we'll get out of this. Mike from Wisconsin,
says Benny an insert name here, that's Robbie the Mariner fan.
I know you're not a tattoo guy, but let's do
(46:38):
this shark tank style. Would you invest in this? Uh?
This company? And so there's a London buy According to Mike,
there's a London biotech startup called cipher x c I
p h e er might be pronouncing that wrong, which
has created permanent stick on tattoos using mike groscopic micro
(47:01):
needles instead of a traditional tattoo gun. The tattoo comes
on a small adhesive patch that applied to the skin
for about fifteen minutes. You using this special applicator, you
will have a permanent tattoo. The micro needles are less
than one millimeter long and deposit pigment just beneath the skin.
(47:24):
No bleeding, no lengthy healing process. Right now, the tattoos
are limited to small, black, pre made designs like stars,
heard skulls, you know, like the kind of stuff girls
get on a girl's trip to Miami or something like that. Yeah, so, Mike,
I would I if I was doing Shark Tank, like
(47:44):
if I was one of the you know, the wealthy
investors and somebody came in and made an elevator pitch
on this, Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
I would.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
I would do it.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Yeah, if you if you market it, or if you
have it in the right place, like you said, like
a Miami especially since they're small, so it sounds like
they might not be that expensive. But if I was
a tattoo artist, this sounds kind of scary. This sounds
like something that can eventually put you put them all
out of business because it takes the worst part of
the tat well, for some people, the thought of the
(48:17):
tattoo process is what prohibits some people from ever getting
a tattoo.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
So yeah, for sure, for sure, All right, well on
that we will get out of here. Anything you want
to promote, Robbie, you have your own YouTube show that
you have, right, yep.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
And I want to try to promote a little bit
better than last time because the Ausie guy heard it
and tore me a new one. He said, I didn't
do a very good job promoting it, which is fair.
So it's Sunday mornings or evenings. We're still but usually
Sunday mornings nine thirty am Eastern on YouTube, United States
of Australia, and we talk about a lot of washed
(48:53):
up comedians such as Stuttering John, Howard Stern, stuff like that,
and then I kind of do my own stuff at
the end where I just talk sports.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Is Stuttering John still doing a podcast what he was doing?
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yes, he is, and he's suing and getting sued and
so he kind of break all that down.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
So all right, yeah, check that out. It's a mustlessen podcast.
It's right there, neck and neck with Joe Rogan's podcast,
most downloads all over the place there, And you were
actually I think you got a complaint. Mister Beast is
worried about you and ougimo down his YouTube fame there.
I still have never watched anything mister Beasts.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Me neither.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
I don't understand, Like I've seen more eyeshow speed stuff
throughouts mosses than I have mister Beasts, and mister Beast
is like supposedly the most famous person alive, but I've
never seen anything he's done.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
I'm the same way. I have seen a lot more
of I show speed than mister Beast. And yet everyone says,
mister Beast is where it's at. Who the hell's why?
I don't.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
It comes up in conversation like, hey, what's going on
with mister Beast? Do you ever watch me? Didn't come on,
but I still have never seen if he was in
the room with me, I wouldn't know who he was,
just like a regular white dude, I wouldn't know.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
He does look like the most average dude ever. I
don't know if that's part of a peel or what,
but I who knows.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Anyway, have a great rest of your stundy full week
for me, no days off, no scheduled days off, so
I'll be in the audio box the sweatshop that rocks
there all week long, So be safe. Thank you for listening,
we love you, and thanks to Robbie and bye bye
bye bye
Kabooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me Ben
Malor and it is the Sunday Pod the second day
of August, the first Sunday Pod in August. It's amazing
how that works. And without further ado, no bs, ohio Aal,
get me in the mood.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's in.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Congratulations again ohio Al and Dick and Dayton winning the
vote of the people, by the people, for the people
in the mal of Palooza that we had a little
while back. So we had split wins. Marcel won the
vote of the judges and ohio Al and Dick and
Dayton won, which was great because that was actually back
in Kentucky where we did the meet and greet there
(01:30):
and the people who heard it thought that was great.
And now a lot of other people got to hear it,
so that was kind of cool. Now we spin the
wheel on the side host the number two chair on
the mail bag a volunteer position. It's like a volunteer
fire department. We spin the wheel round and around. Big money,
big money, big money. Stop, and I present Robbie the
(01:56):
Mariner fan back again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hello Robbie, Hello Ben, what does everybody. I'm glad to
be back. It's been a bit.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Hopefully everythingles smoothly and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And it Congratulations. We decided, Robbie, we had a big
meeting the staff here at the Fifth Hour podcast and
we decided, in honor of the Seattle Mariners winning a
championship this week, we thought you should come on here
and do the mailback. So congratulations. I hope you had
a good time at the parade.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, it was great. There were so many people. It
was just it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And next year the Mariners are going to have a promotion.
They're gonna they're gonna have the day we beat the
Dodger bobblehead. That'll be yes, So that'll be that'll be
exciting and uh yeah, just just absolutely great. Meg got
I watched the Mariager I said this on the air.
I think I was watching the Mariner feet of the
broadcast and it was oh boy, it was and Dave
(02:48):
Valley was a good player, yeah years ago. But my god,
he's just spewing cliches like dude.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, I know it might be a unpopular opinion.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I actually like really like Goldsmith or gold However, the
play by play guy I think is really good. His uh,
his compete, the people they pair him with leave something
to be desired on a nightly basis, and it's always
easy to you know, punch at the the uh, the
playoff player, the color commentary, and that's that's become a
(03:17):
thing for Americ fans. But it's kind of deserved. It's
it's it's a long it's a far cry from back
in the days of when it was either Rick Riz
or Dave nee House doing the game.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So oh yeah, Dave Neehouse the goat, the goat back.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, Rick Riz isn't far behind you. Yeah, of fame
one day too.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is he still doing what? He's retired now, this is
his last.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Year, so he's kind of you know, he doesn't do
every game and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
He so okay, yeah, I got you get out the
right bread and bustard Grandma. Its great.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do without
that saying anymore. Because he he carried that tradition on
from Dave knee House. He does that same call for
Grand Slams. It's going to be sad next year if
there ever is a Grand Slam with how about our.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I know it's the press. It's like doing play by
play on a funeral. Here comes to you. They gotta
dig that hole, get the body in there. Come on now.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh, it's wild to zero lead to zero deficit feels
insurmountable at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's just so sad and it's it's crazy, Robber. I
think I've said this to you before. But like when
I remember the Seattle Mariners when I was younger at
the Kingdome. They always had great offense. The pitching was
a little walky most of the time. I have like
one or two pitchers. The rest of them you could,
you know, get a bunch of runs again. So it is,
(04:39):
it is a tough spot. Most of the younger broadcasts,
like I it's there's not a lot of guys that
are that good.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
U you know, we don't They all go to like
the same school and learn the same way, and so
it's very formulaic at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Like, yeah, that's another problem, Like there's no originality.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, that's what is the issue with me?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Is the original Back in the old days, it was
when sports was a mom and pop operation, they you know,
they'd allow Harry Carey to get hammered on the air.
They didn't. Now it's so corporate you have to say
anything mildly offensive. You know, it's like, my god, what
are you doing? And it's not even about being offensive,
it's just being entertaining. Yeah, exactly, if you're entertaining, he was, Oh,
(05:21):
you're trying to make it all about you. Well, so
you're trying to get people to watch if the team's terrible, Like,
you know, come on, I think of all. I don't know,
if you watch a lot of these other broadcasts. The
guy inside he goes really good. Uh, I forget his name, but.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think the Mets. The Mets guys are the best.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But that's just they're on early in the day on
the West coast for us because they play on the
East Coast. So I watch a lot of Mets baseball.
They when the Mets suck, they will they don't hide it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, they're good like the Mets. I don't mind the
Giants broadcasters that they're old dudes, uh Padres. I don't
mind some. I just mute most of them. I just
the Twins used to have good broadcasters. I don't know
what those guys are boring anyway. All right, well we
have questions, Robbie, so let's jump right into the mail bag.
(06:10):
First up is my man Reggie from Detroit. He says, Hey,
Benny and whoever, and you please explain to those of
us that send email to the podcast how you decide
who's in the co host chair of the podcast. It
seems rather random, whether it's Robbie, Breed, Nostradinas, Justin or
whoever you had last week. Do you use the mallor
(06:33):
hopper from the world, No, Reggie, I do not use
the malor hopper. It is I don't know. Should we
tell people how we make the susch age? Well, I
really have no rhyme or reason with this. Like I
record the mail bag at certain times, and it's an
ad on them, you know what I mean, Robbie's an
add on item. It's not it's not set in soon.
(06:53):
I do not want to have a set time to
do the mail bag. So normally what happens is it
just depends on my sked. Like when I can do
the mail bag, then what happens is I don't want
to have someone. I can't lock someone in to say, hey,
be avail. It's not like a delivery of a sofa
where you have to be available all day. I don't
want to do that to someone. So like what happens
(07:15):
is I say, Okay, I'm going to do the mail bag,
and then I'm gonna I'm going to reach out to
people I want to talk to, and whoever responds first
gets to do the mail bag. That's about it. It's
not I don't maybe I should plan it out, Reggie,
I don't know, but I'm Robbie's been great. He's been
available more than anybody. So availability is the key. You've
(07:38):
got to be available otherwise, you know. Come on, yep,
all right, let's see. Thanks Reggie for that wonderful question
to start our Carl from Michigan somewhere in Michigan rights
and he says, Ben, I know you've complained in the
past about this setup. How is this lawsuit going to
change the sports collectible industry? And he sent me the story.
(07:58):
I'm assuming you've seen it. Rob the PSA, the Authoritator group.
We talked about this actually with you. I think you
were on when we talked about this.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I believe, I know we've talked cards.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I don't know if we specifically talked the new lassit
against PSA.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But we haven't talked about this. But I've complained that
I have a lot of cards, some of them I
think are worth some money. However, in order to get
any real money, you have to send them in to
this outfit, this PSA group, and then they have to
grade it. And then if you get a good grade,
like on a scale of one to ten, then you
can actually if it's like a nine or a ten,
(08:33):
you can get some real such a racket.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah, So this especially the part where you have to
like you pay like a base fee, but then at
the card they value it, They're like, oh no, this
card is really expensive. Then you have to pay them
again for the same card.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's like it's a sliding scale. It's great.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It is. So the lawsuit is for like a lot,
isn't like a class action thing, but I saw like
a lot of money. They argue that the according to
the complaint, PSA built its reputation by promising collectors that
its grades are based on standardized expert evaluations. Lawsuit claims
(09:12):
that is misleading. It is subjective by I appeal, rather
than consistent grading standards. So yeah, we'll see if they
win or not. So carl to answer your question, A,
they have to win, and even if they do win,
you know, will this actually change anything. Well, they've had
such a racket, as you said, Robbie, for so long.
(09:34):
There's two groups. PSA is the big one though, that's
the big and this is all a byproduct of when
I was a kid and people were ripping off people
right and left with the counterfeit memorabilian merchandise cards and
all that. So that led to the birth of PSA
and the other group that does it. So I don't
know much about it other than I just read we'll see.
(09:57):
I hope it would change it. There's got to be
a different way to do it. There's so many, Charli,
there's so many the scam artists, Charlie Charlton's is that
what I'm saying? Something like that?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I don't know, yeah, something like that. Now I'm kind
of confused. No one how to pronounce it. Two but
Eli kind of skated by with some fake memorabilia Eli
Manning a couple of years ago too. It's even though
PSA they when they launched it was this claim to
like we're going to bring like you know, we're gonna
put a good reputation behind this kind of industry that
(10:29):
has a batter reputation. Doesn't seem like it's helped all
that much. There's still quite a few scams.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, for sure. Sure. Leo from Chicago right center the
fifth Hour mail bag. You want to email the mail bag,
it's real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. Make sure to put your
name in city if you want credit. Otherwise with just
goof on you. Leo says, Hey, Ben, have you ever
been bumped from a flight? He says that there was
a flight this week in Vegas where it was one
(10:55):
hundred and fourteen degrees this week in Vegas, and they
had fifty passers. They had to get off the plane
otherwise the aircraft could not take off safely. Oh boy,
they offered people. I did actually see this Leo, they
offered people a bunch of money, like they offered They
always start out travel vouchers for five hundred and then
(11:17):
they go up to like I think they offered fifteen
hundred dollars travel vouchers and then it went up. There's
one story I read that said that somebody got six
thousand dollars over six thousand dollars in flight vouchers and
a bunch of frequent flyer miles and all that. I
(11:37):
have been bumped off a couple of flights, Leo, over
the years. The trip to Hawaii to get married, we
got bumped, well, we got bumped off the flight and
then got upgraded to first class on the following flight.
I don't mind. If I have time, I would lock.
Can you imagine six thousand dollars in travel vouchers? Are
(11:58):
you kidding me? I'd sit, I'd sleep at the airport
for six dollars in travel vouchers. You ever been bumped
from a fight? You know, travel that much, right, Robbie, I.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Mean no, But I've had my fair share of horror
stories going, but never been bumped. I've have had to
spend the night in Denver airport and I was stuck
on the tarmac in Vegas a couple of years ago
for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
In the plane.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
We were about to take off and this dust storm
hit and so we couldn't go back to the airport
and we couldn't go take off, So we were just
stuck like on the strip, the strip, just sitting there
with no AC for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah. I had a similar experience, not in Vegas. I
was in Chicago at O'Hare and there was a lightning storm.
We had taxied from the gate to take off. Apparently
there were too many planes ahead of us and the
storm came in. You know, the weather in Chicago could be.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened to us, only it was
in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah. Yeah, so we we were stuck on the plane
for more than three hours. They actually changed there's a
there's a limit on how long they have to give
you something if you're on the plane over a certain
amount of time. That changed a few years ago, But
back then they rap and that must have been the
slowest moving storm because I mean insane like this so stupid.
(13:12):
That is wild though, that the planes can't take off
if it's too hot. There's a it's called density altitude
extremely hot air less dense. It reduces the lift and
the aircraft performance, especially when it was hotter, higher elevation location.
So there you go, you're fun fact about the heat
(13:34):
and the well. You'd rather take a travel aboutcher than
have the opposite happen, obviously, Yeah, al from the pond
or pound rather for the pound, right pond pound, he says.
A happy Sunday, Ben, and spin the wheel of co
host the co hosts that would be Robbie the Miriner fan. Ben,
do you know if Luigi was a mutt? Or do
(13:56):
you have contact with Luigi's current family or he living
on the streets of South Beach? Yeah, so I haven't
I know where Luigi's living. I don't really have any
contact with Luigi at this point. Luigi was not a mutt.
Luigi was a full French bulldog and the biggest troublemaker,
(14:18):
just an absolute devil dog. Luigi love Luigi, very sweet
but conniving, very Luigi, always up to trouble, always up
to no good. And yeah, I mean Moxie's the com
my dog. Moxie now is ridiculously calm with Luigi though,
it was a nightmare. It was like it was like
(14:40):
a hex was put on on Moxie.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You'd need an exorcist or something like.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Luigi was the hype man and he'd hype her up
and then so they'd team up together. He somehow got
her all worked up into a lather to attack. So yeah,
In fact, my niece she's afraid to see Moxie because
she was she was a little girl and she saw
Moxie and Moxie like attacked. Oh wow, I gotta play,
(15:07):
not like biting, but just like one and yeah. So
but Moxie just sleeps the whole time. Now, that's so,
that's all Moxie does. Uh So Yeah, anyway, thanks Solf.
Out Back John and Joanna right in fifth hour Mailbags,
Big Ben in special guest. That's Robbie the Merinith, the
Legendary of Robbie celebrating the Mariners Championship. This week. When
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Joanna and I go out to eat, it's out back
John and Joanna, we always sit across from each other,
however not but not, but however, if we go out
to eat with others, we will sit next to each other.
We have to position ourselves appropriately, as I am right
handed and she is a lefty. Our question this week
(15:47):
is do you and missus Mahler do the same when
it's just two of you, or do you have to
do the same when dining with others. I don't think
about it that much. I do know when we go
out alone, you know those some restaurants have half a
booth and then chairs. So I'd rather sit on the
booth and she would too. So we'll sit. We'll sit
(16:07):
next to each other if it's half a booth, if
it's not. If it's the same, we'll sit across from
each other. And as far as I don't even notice,
like we're both right handed, so I don't really logistics
on that. I don't really worry about like that part
of it. So anyway, Caleb from so Cow rights into
the mailbag. He says, Ben, are you worried that roombas
(16:28):
are going to be banned from the United States? The
government is banning all robot vacuum cleaners entering the country. No,
I don't have a room bus, so why would I care? Caleb?
I don't. I don't. I saw the headline. Do you
see anything about this, Robbie, I have.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Not this is we got a room by at one
point and it just seems like it's more pain than
just doing it ourselves.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So I don't think we used it much.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Don't you have to have a flat like if it's
got to be completely flat a room but can't go
over bumps, can't go upstairs? Yeah, so if.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You and we have stairs, So it was just like,
might as well just do it ourselves?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, we do too. We have. And it's annoying too,
because every room so I don't know what they call it,
but there's like stare at you know, go up like
one one step to another room and then down a step,
and it's like, ah, yeah, yeah, all right, what else
do we have? JT? The Wingman writes in from Parts Unknown, Tennessee.
(17:28):
I'm glad you changed to that JT. Thank you because
I still don't know how to pronounce your JT. Will
get the Mallard Meet and Greet August twenty ninth, so nice,
twenty seven days. You'll be there, right, rocket yep.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yep, great rockets. Rooms booked, the plane, tickets booked, everything's
book Have.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You bought your tickets to the meet and greet because
that'll cost you seven hundred dollars to.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Get shout out weed Man back when he.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Was like, yeah, remember that Benny and the weed Man.
We were gonna rent out. What do you want? Which
hotel that do you want to want?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't remember which one.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Caesar's Palace I forget, but he he's like, yeah, well charge.
I was like five hundred dollars a ticket or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I remember when he said that.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
When he started with five, I thought he was going
to say like five or fifty dollars. When he said
five hundred, my jaw hit the floor. And then the
best part of that entire story was you were like
yelling and I'm like, no one's gonna pay. He's like,
don't worry, no one will be turned away if they.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Don't have the money. Well, then why are you charging
that much to get with it?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Was?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
It was one of the better one of the more
iconic times in Malar history, show history.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The genius of weed Man. I don't know if you
heard the yesterday's podcast, but I called him up. I
tried to get him free food for his birthday. I figured, Hey,
this is your day to go out and Bud restaurants
offer free food. So I told the story because when
I was younger, I did that. One of my birthdays.
I went out, I went to Danny, I got the
free you know breakfast. I went to McDonald's. They would
(18:47):
give you like an ice cream coat. Like that was
years ago many so I do that. I did that.
I thought, well, this would be great. You know, We'n's
got no money. He's begging Purrito to send him burritos,
and so I said, why not we man and so
so I'm on the phone with him and I'm like,
all right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
He said, oh, you.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Know, I love That's a great idea. Thanks Ben. And
then he said where should I go? So I'm like,
all right, restaurants that offer free stuff for your birth
There I typed in. All these restaurants come up. So
I'm like, okay, this is great. So I'm like, well,
there's Starbucks everywhere, so I'll click on Starbucks. See what
you get. He said, well, you get a little small,
like a small like a dessert or something like that.
I said fine, and then he said, oh, you got
(19:25):
to sign up for the rewards thing last night. And
then every restaurant I went to, they all I did
not find one that just said show your ID and
free whatever. And weed man doesn't know how to use
the internet, Like he just on YouTube watching old episodes
(19:45):
of Johnny Carson and he doesn't know email. I've sent
up an email address. I Coop has set up an
email address, and he always forgets the password, doesn't check it.
He lost his used to be on Twitter, on face Book,
he lost his password, and he's so lazy he doesn't
even bother to find a new password. You know what
(20:06):
I mean. It's wild.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, there is shocking some of the people that I've
become friends with in Marlosia. The tech level, the tech
competence level is slapping shout out, goat man in a
justin Cincinnati. I'm sure they're happy I'm shouting out there
complete lack of technological ability.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But it's true, shots fired. Like I'm not I can't
program a computer, but I know my way around. I
know the basics, like have had to learn the basics
of how to.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Do like you could recover a lost password if you
had to. That's challenging for certain people apparently.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well even my work email, which I never checked because
the first thing they get rid of you have email.
When you're fired is your work email, So I learned
in nine January twentieth of nine, I learned a very
valuable lesson that you should not use that work email
for any important things because as soon as get let yo,
you need to check those things, and it's gone. So
(20:59):
I did get locked out of the work. I had
to do some training stuff for work, and then I
couldn't get in there, and then I emailed the boss.
Of course he didn't write back right away, so then
I was able to figure it out on my own.
It must have been a glitch because I typed. I
kept typing the same password. Anyway, JT writes, and he says,
as the world continues to turn, and I reflect on
this week's buck moon, I can't help but wonder what
(21:23):
your favorite constellation might be. My dad would love. My
dad loved getting the telescope out and looking up at
the heavens and looking at the different constellations and all that.
And the last few years of my dad's life, this
was pretty cool, and you can still do this. He
(21:44):
loved to go out and look at the space station.
When there's a website, NASA has the International Space Station,
and you can go out of your house and see
it floating over you. They tell you when it's going
to go over your house. Pretty cool, actually, and I
I used to do that. My dad would would run
(22:06):
out to go do it, and it would be pretty
pretty cool. U constellation. I don't know what you what
is your favorite? Who knows? I used to I used
to know them all back in the days, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Was it the Little Dipper that's the only one I remember?
Or was it the Big Dipper?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I believe it was the Big Dipper?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, okay, well I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well it was who came up with the name of them,
like a long time ago. They've been around. They haven't
changed the names. No, none of those constellations have been canceled,
he says. I know the Fifth Hour podcast does not
include our friendly astrologer Andrea, but I am sure a
(22:48):
real night owl like you must check out the stars
from time to time. Personally, I have always been a
fan of Orion, as it's very easy to find in
the north Northern hemisphere and like your favorite DJ once
said many times, keep your feet on the ground and
keep reaching for the doors. Late great Casey Casein. Yeah,
(23:10):
so I do have fun. I have my dad's tell
us dope. He didn't take it with him, so I
haven't used it. But it's it's here somewhere burry from
South Carolina right sin yo yo mob any but not
for long. I will be free from the gestapo hoa
very soon. Well that's great. Yeah, never Robbie, when you
(23:32):
go get your own place, Robbie, no hoa, stay away
from the HOA. Do not a. Do what you have
to do. No hoa.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We have a modified HOA at the moment where I live,
it's a historical landmark house and those are pains as
it can be. So I don't I don't know why
anyone would voluntarily do an hoa because the horror stories
sound awful.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's terrible, terrible anyway, he says, you love to say
What's in the box. However, have you seen the Netflix
show What's in the Box? It's pretty lame. I have
not have you seen that show?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I haven't even heard of it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
What's in Let me? Let me? Let me look here?
Is this like just a YouTube thing where it's on Netflix? Though?
What's in the Box? Uh la la la, it's a
Netflix series. It's anyone's game, but only one duo can
leave with the super box. The jaw dropping twists and turns.
(24:35):
This sounds Oh it's hosted. I recognize that guy. Yeah,
who's let's see here o Neil Patrick Harris. There you go.
You have to players have to answer trivia to win
spectacular hidden prizes. But can they keep them from the competition? Yeah,
I'm good, all right, I don't need that Greenlok's that.
(24:57):
I know. It looks like they only did one season,
six uppisodes. That's it. Those game shows. That's the life. Though.
If you're I know, entertainment's not what it was when
I was growing up, and it's just you know, do
ten minute videos on YouTube and you're rich and all that.
That's great, good for you, But I remember the the
game show thing is the way to remember these old guys.
(25:20):
I'm gonna date myself. But this guy named Stu Nahan
was a famous sportscaster in La Silver Tips. Stu was
his nickname because he loved to free load. And Stu
was a local TV sports guy. And there was a
weather guy. This is at NBC back you know, forty
years ago, fifty years ago, and so Stu had the
weather guy and Stu were buddies, and the weather guys say, hey,
(25:43):
I got this thing. This I was offered this game
show and Stu's like, ah, nah, you shouldn't take that though,
you know, those things come and go. News people need
their news, you know, and the weather they need the weather.
Weather always important. So anyway, the guy ended up taking
the job and his name was Pat Sajack and it
(26:06):
was like the easiest gig in the world. He lived
in Maryland or something like that, and he'd fly out
to la and he would do a few episodes or
a bunch of episodes of the Wheel of Fortune and
then fly back and it was great. And you do
the news back in those days, you had to do
like five newscasts a day and it was a big panow.
So it was a lot of work to actually do
(26:27):
the news back in the day. Anyway, thank you for that, Barry.
I will not be watching What's in the Box? Alf
from the Pound. Did I do this one? I think
I did this one? Didn't we do this?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We did this one? All right? Yes, that job by me?
All right? Scott from northern Kentucky. Remember you met Scott
right at the Mallar.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Meet and greet there, he believe, so, yes, he.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And his wife were there. He's from southern California, Ben,
What are some of your pet peeves? For example, I
can't stand when people say irregardless. Drives me crazy. Also
when I go to the drive up ATM and those
those rare occasions I need cash and a person ahead
of me gets out of the car at the drive
up ATM. That's some scott in northern Kentucky. So I'll
(27:09):
give you a few. I have a bunch of pet peeves.
I'll give you a few of them. When I'm trying
to get into and out of the store and I
just want to get my groceries and get home, and
the babushka in front of me, who has no friends
or family, her kids don't call her anymore. She holds
up the grocery line for twenty minutes talking to the
(27:29):
teller drives me nuts. Just get your lettuce and tomatoes
and get the hell out of there. Leave us alone.
I'm sorry that you have no one to talk to.
That's very sad to me. But you're ruining my day.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm also annoyed.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I'm also annoyed, Robbie. When I go to Trader Joe's
and they don't have self checkout, and I have to
go to a checkout stand because I just I love
the self checkout. Now, I don't steal stuff like a
lot of you idiots. That's why they're getting rid of
self checkout. But I would love to just go and
do self checkout. Trader Jo's doesn't have that. I also
am very annoyed by people when you're driving and they
(28:05):
don't use their turn signals when they're changing lanes. Are
you that, Like, if you're gonna be an a hole,
fine cut me off. Just at least be polite about
it with your exactly, just like, just signal your changing lanes.
And if you're that lazy, you shouldn't have your driver's license.
You know any pet peeves Robbie that you have.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, people that needlessly say the word right in the middle,
beginning and end in every sentence drives me insane.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
That is that is your nightmare? Yeah, I have done that.
I've been guilty of that at times. I don't do
it very often.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
It's not no, I've never noticed it with you. But
there's people that are like news journalists that will say
it so often. It's it just sounds like a fifth
grader talking.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Let's see, well that you are supposed to relate to people,
so you have to kind of dumb it down, Robbie.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I guess that's true. Maybe maybe I've looked at it
wrong this entire time.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You have to relate to everyone. Quieting from Ho Chi
Minh Vietnam rights and he says, hey, Big Ben. On
the Monday, July twenty seventh Original Recipe podcast, you mentioned
that NFL media insiders were sitting around playing Tiddleywinks while
waiting for the green light to break the Kyle Shanahan
(29:19):
car accident start. I have a feeling you intentionally slipped
in the little faux paw just to see if I
was paying attention. So thanks for the laugh. Could you
ask weed Man Hippie if he ever sold Tiddleywinks in
the New York Store, which is, of course a game.
I'll try to remember that Quang weed Man will be
(29:41):
on Monday into Tuesday unless he forgets to show up.
And Quang is really interested in me having this macaroni
and cheese pizza thing we talked about in a previous
episode of The Mail back does sound very good. Yeah,
so he's trying to coordinate. He's like calling people from
(30:02):
what I heard, so I don't can email them back.
I don't know. I mean, yeah, I'd like to try
I'd like to try it. I schedule wise, it's only
available on Sundays, so which is today, by the way,
So anyway, Scott from Florida writes in he says, hey,
big Ben and friend growing up, my best friend had
(30:23):
an excuse as the at the ready. At the ready,
Scott says, if he was pulled over for speeding, Sorry, officer,
I'm just trying to get to my SAT tutor. I'm sorry.
How does that stack up versus going to see dead
grandma and grandpa? Is that true? I read that? Is
(30:44):
that accurate that Tony's grandparents aren't even alive? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I heard that they weren't alive.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
So that's awkward. Yeah, do you have a better story
if the mallamobiles pulled over? No, Scott, I can't get
out of tickets. The only I'm convinced the only people
get like Lorraina gets out of the ticket, like hot
would get out of things. A guy can't get out
of a ticket. How do you get everything? I got
pulled over. I've been pulled over many times, but a
(31:11):
few years ago I've told the story. Before I got
pulled over. I was on my way to work, and
the cop they always asked where you going? What are
you in such a hurry, you know when he get
pulled over? Well, I'm going to the going to This
time I could actually say it. I was was going
to the radio station. Oh really, what do you do?
What do you do? Well, I'm a talk shows? Oh
this is great. Uh yeah, what what station? I said?
(31:34):
I didn't say Fox Sports Radio. I said the local
station because I figured he probably might know the station,
so I said, oh really, uh and uh and then
he he he asked if I knew Petros. He didn't
care about my she didn't even know who know who
I was. So if I was Petros, I would have
(31:54):
gotten out of the ticket. If I was the p
I would have gotten the ticket. But yeah, I don't.
I don't have anything. I have been pulled over where
they thought I was drunk and I'm not drunk, and
they get really depressed because that's like a big cops
get drunk drivers. That's like they get awards for that
and oh really, Yeah, if you get the most drunk drivers,
you get rewarded and whatever prizes. So anyway, yeah, any
(32:21):
go to Robbie, you get pulled off.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I have gotten out of a ticket when I was
with my brother, but it was just because I think
he realized he had. He said, we turned eighty feet.
You're supposed to apparently at all in the town I
live in, if you blinker, you have to wait a
hundred feet before you turn, and we only did the
eighty And I asked how he could prove that in court.
(32:45):
He almost, I heard a mutter, that's a good point,
and so he just gave us a warning and so
let us go. So because it was like the middle
of the night. And yeah, but no, I don't have
any good excuse. I would probably just say not guilty
because the cops usually they pre existing conflicts and so
they wouldn't be able to show.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Up to the actual court case and you get off anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, they hate having to go to court because they
have to go to court on their days off usually exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I learned that from my dad, who may or may
not have been a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So aha, see there's good legal advice right there. Yeah,
unsolicited legal advice ferg Dog, and Fullerton writes in he says, Hey,
Ben and friend of Ben, I really enjoyed the last
week's mail bag with Jerry Coleman. After having a true
professional like him on, It's going to be very hard
to go back to amateurs like Robbie the Marriory. Maybe
(33:33):
ad help if Friends of the Show all took ASU's
influencer program. Yeah, is there a rivalry? Do we have
a rivalry between ferg Dog and Robbie the Mariner fan
or is he just trying to be like Justin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
First it was Justin and then it was goat Man,
and then Goatman and ferg Dog. I feel like started collaborating,
and Goatman's been buusy with work and life stuff lately,
so he hasn't been listening line as much, and Fergug
has taken a ton and run with it lately in
terms of trolling me.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
So did the see I guess.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, it says I'm interested in the free chairs you
talked about in last week's episode of the show. I
don't believe you ever said how many you picked up?
Is the pink color growing on you. We picked up
four chairs, four dining room chairs that are now pink.
It is not growing on me. It's not for me.
(34:30):
I don't really care. It's just a chair. I'm not
going to get worked up into a lather about a chair.
There are things to get worked up about. Robbie, Yep,
this is not one of those things. You got to
pick your spots. I'm going to get worked up. I
get worked up over was it Kyle Shanahan's funky arrest?
I get worked up over that, Robbie that it worked
up too. Not this. There's some funny something's going on.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Something's odd.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
And if I can't fee, well, there's no reasonable explanation
for what's going on. So I'm glad you haven't let
it go. Like literally every other news station that never
even I would say they let it go, but they
never really seemed interested to begin with.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
It's so odd.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Eleven Day Gap won't release the video, won't release the video.
So if Chanahan said I did it, I'm the I
was the bad guy, So what's wrong? Why not? You
can cover up the other ladies and nobody exactly it
looks like And if it just makes no sense, and
you know, there's all kinds of conspiracies that was he
(35:33):
alone in the car? Was there something else going on?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Oh, I didn't tactor that in. That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, maybe that could be something. You know, I'm not
saying that, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm just I was gonna say something about.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I was probably say the same thing you were going
to say.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It starts with an R. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Well all right, anyway, so who knows what else do
we have? Chris from the Jersey Shore rights in the middle.
He says, you think this is good police workmen, and
then he's sent in his part of New.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I guess it's not.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Actually he's in the Jersey Shore, but in somewhere in
New Jersey near New York City. Cop dressed up as
a bush on the side of the road to catch
distracted drivers on their phones, and the New Jersey cop
ended up. They get they caught seventy distracted drivers on
(36:28):
their phone, which that's like shooting fish in the barrel.
Yeah you can't. We're all guilty of peeking down at
some point or another. We've all done it. The bad
offenders though, my god and I have noticed in the
modern era. Rob this is another pet peeve, even though
I'm guilty of it too, is when you're at a
(36:49):
red light and it turns and there's always like a
two minute lag because everyone's on their phone. Yeah, like
the signal, which in some ways makes it safer. No
one's blowing through the signal because they're waiting right.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Unintended, Like everyone not following the law makes it safeer.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's kind of ironic, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah, no one's jumping the signal because they want to
get through. They're like, they got to put their phone down.
They were texting there whoever? The video of that, like
that cop thing, And obviously my wife works at a
police station in Lines, but the cop thing is like,
that's how you know there's nothing going on in that town.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
There's no god of murder, gotta go, no a guy
in Boca.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
No, there is literally nothing going on. So let's just
find things to do. Is That's what that strikes me?
As we find things to do. So that's this is
a good idea and it is pretty funny when you
see it. Ricky from New York rights in that's rather
a big state. I'm assuming upstate, he says, Benny and
(37:53):
whoever that would be robby the Marina fan is my
state going to kill the prediction market? And the hope
not New York suing Calshi for thirty six billion. You
hear about this thirty six billion. They want to shut
down the prediction market. They claim they're running an illegal
(38:15):
gambling operation. Yeah, Goshi, which is really just them wanting
a cut of the most exactly. That's what this is, like, Yeah,
you're not paying us, and they're the moment.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
This Originally when DraftKings and FANDUL first started getting into gambling,
wasn't it like Virginia was like, oh, we got to
take down these these mobile gaming operators or not like
video game but you know, sports books. And then they
ended up just partnering and getting a cut of every transaction.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
So that's probably what's going to end up happening.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Usually that's what happened. It is fascinating to me because
in the People's Republic of California where I live, a
couple of years ago, there was a ballot measure to
legalize sports wagering and it was backed by Draft Kings
and fan Duel, the big gambling companies and it didn't
pass because the Native American groups that owned the casinos
(39:12):
in California said well, we're you know, we're we want
our cut. You know, they wanted to control This is
what I was told you who know the way I
heard it was the casinos. The Native American casino said well, no,
we want to control the market. And so it was
supposed to go back on the ballot and then I
think this was around pandemic time. It never went back
(39:33):
on the ballot. But here in California now because of
the prediction market, it just all of a sudden, there
were no laws changed, there was nothing, no legislation. They
just started taking bets. And so now like DraftKings is
in California, but they have to call it it's like
a loophole. I don't know all the legalese. Obviously, it's
(39:54):
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Yeah, it's kind of confusing how it's a loophole, But
I do you know, it seems like they've both klshi
DraftKings and poly Market have known there was going to
be some waterloose level a lawsuit at some point, and
so they've been gearing up for it knowing at some
point someone's going to challenge them on.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
This this loop hole.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
So I think they probably have the best lawyers prepared.
It's going to be an epic battle courtroom wise.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
You know, the people winning will be the lawyers. They
will exactly billable hours exactly. Denny from Nebraska. He says
it's his first email to the podcast. He says, Ben,
I read on social media that a growing number of
job applicants are hiding prompt injections in their resume to
trick AI screeners into ranking them as qualified candidates. Is
(40:44):
this fair or foul? What do you think? Thanks for
the podcast, Denny from a small town in Nebraska. Thank you, Dan.
I'm gonna imagine you as a farmer on a tractor
with overalls and a straw hat. That's in my head.
So okay, so let's break this down here, Robbie. So
this AI, I guess companies are using AI to screen
(41:05):
resumes and these people are putting you know, how they
can put special, hidden, hidden writing in there, like they
had professor back east that tricked people. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
So I'm going to rule this is fair. If you're
using AI screeners instead of humans to reveal job applications,
(41:25):
then all's fair and love. In job applications.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
And applying for a job, it's kind of like a
warrick this point. I agree with you on the completely.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, that's that's on you. Nick from San Diego says,
did you see the fight video in my fine city?
How did you score this amateur boxing match? Things? My
answer off the air, that's from Nick. Oh, this is
the video, Robbie. I'm sure you saw this, maybe not
Mission Beach. A couple of guys fighting right on the
water there on a path. They were walking their dogs.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Oh yeah, I did see this last night.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
And the dogs start fighting each other too. It's a
human dispute. It turns into a canine fight. And anyway,
Nick says, the guy in the black tank top continued
to strike and engage while the other guy was trying
to separate the dogs. And then he wants to know
(42:19):
my thoughts. Well, look, it violates the sports. There's a
lot of rules in sports, right in boxing. It's safety, fairness, sportsmanship,
you know, those kind of things. And this is more
than a warning. If I'm the judge in there, that
is a certainly it's a point deduction for the guy
that kept punching possible disqualification. And I'm happy to report
(42:43):
my dog Moxie would not engage in a fight. Moxie
would just play down and you know, put a tongue
out and that's it. Take a nap. So that's why
the dogs. That was one of the dogs was like
a shepherd type dog, large dog, and then there was
a smaller dog I don't know, like a mutt's. That's
a loyal dog. A dog will fight for you. Yeah,
(43:04):
loyal dog that is. That's outstanding. See what else I mean?
I've got a few more here, Boo, what do we
have time for? Leo from Chicago, all right city says man.
I know this is not a sports podcast or a
political podcast. I don't know what this story falls into.
(43:24):
I read that flock cameras there are one hundred and
twenty thousand of these things with automatic license plate readers
in forty nine states, and that in one California city
they got the license plate wrong seventy one percent of
the time. Where do you stand on these flock cameras?
(43:48):
Thanks Leo from Chicago. Yeah, so I don't, like I thought,
I don't want to live in a police state. Robbi,
you know what I'm saying. You know what I mean,
there is a balance between safety and tyranny, and you
shouldn't have I feel like it's too much.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
I feel, well, have you ever seen those videos of
when like someone doesn't cross the street properly and China
and all of a sudden horde of drones will just
like start flashing out them to make everyone aware that
they didn't do it correctly. I pray we don't get
to a point like that, but you never know. The
flock cameras do seem to be getting closer and closer
to the just having drones in the sky at all times.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Yeah, it's a little, a little much, and it's one
of those things that's as I understand, it started out
with good intentions, Like you know, kids get kidnapped. You know,
we're trying to find cars, we have the license plate,
we can't find the cars, so we'll just leave cameras
up and then when these people drive by, we'll get
the camera and we'll save the kid and that'll be that. Okay. Well,
(44:50):
now we have one hundred and twenty thousand cameras in
forty nine of the fifty six. I wonder which state
doesn't have them. I don't know. It's got to be
some state Texas.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
It's it seems it seems like a state where they
I don't know, who knows.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Let me see. Oh you uh hold, I'm gonna try
this right now here. You talk for a minute, roun.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
It's either going to be a small state or a
very libertarian leaning state. So it might just be a
state that doesn't have enough funding or people. So I
could see it being like South Dakota or something.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Let's see, only state without flock cameras. Uh, I don't.
Of course I didn't.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Nothing came up. Let me let me Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Would be shocked if it wasn't in all fifty at
this point.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Yeah, probably probably, Well, and don't I don't know how
it works because somebody's gotta paid for it.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Is it the company? How do they make money? How
would the company make money if they installed?
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Are they get a cut on the tickets paid?
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Like if you're oh.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, they did that with the red light cameras. They
then the judge in LA ruled they're illegal or that
you can't actually write tickets. Oh here we go. The
only state. According to flock Safety, the only state that
does not operate currently is Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
Oh that makes well, my theory kind of worked.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
It a small state.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
But why there's not a lot of cars, and parts
of Honolulu there's a lot of cars. Honolulu is a
ton of cars. So what else do we have? Uh,
all right, Mike, we'll get out of this. Mike from Wisconsin,
says Benny an insert name here, that's Robbie the Mariner fan.
I know you're not a tattoo guy, but let's do
(46:38):
this shark tank style. Would you invest in this? Uh?
This company? And so there's a London buy According to Mike,
there's a London biotech startup called cipher x c I
p h e er might be pronouncing that wrong, which
has created permanent stick on tattoos using mike groscopic micro
(47:01):
needles instead of a traditional tattoo gun. The tattoo comes
on a small adhesive patch that applied to the skin
for about fifteen minutes. You using this special applicator, you
will have a permanent tattoo. The micro needles are less
than one millimeter long and deposit pigment just beneath the skin.
(47:24):
No bleeding, no lengthy healing process. Right now, the tattoos
are limited to small, black, pre made designs like stars,
heard skulls, you know, like the kind of stuff girls
get on a girl's trip to Miami or something like that. Yeah, so, Mike,
I would I if I was doing Shark Tank, like
(47:44):
if I was one of the you know, the wealthy
investors and somebody came in and made an elevator pitch
on this, Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
I would.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
I would do it.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Yeah, if you if you market it, or if you
have it in the right place, like you said, like
a Miami especially since they're small, so it sounds like
they might not be that expensive. But if I was
a tattoo artist, this sounds kind of scary. This sounds
like something that can eventually put you put them all
out of business because it takes the worst part of
the tat well, for some people, the thought of the
(48:17):
tattoo process is what prohibits some people from ever getting
a tattoo.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
So yeah, for sure, for sure, All right, well on
that we will get out of here. Anything you want
to promote, Robbie, you have your own YouTube show that
you have, right, yep.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
And I want to try to promote a little bit
better than last time because the Ausie guy heard it
and tore me a new one. He said, I didn't
do a very good job promoting it, which is fair.
So it's Sunday mornings or evenings. We're still but usually
Sunday mornings nine thirty am Eastern on YouTube, United States
of Australia, and we talk about a lot of washed
(48:53):
up comedians such as Stuttering John, Howard Stern, stuff like that,
and then I kind of do my own stuff at
the end where I just talk sports.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Is Stuttering John still doing a podcast what he was doing?
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yes, he is, and he's suing and getting sued and
so he kind of break all that down.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
So all right, yeah, check that out. It's a mustlessen podcast.
It's right there, neck and neck with Joe Rogan's podcast,
most downloads all over the place there, And you were
actually I think you got a complaint. Mister Beast is
worried about you and ougimo down his YouTube fame there.
I still have never watched anything mister Beasts.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Me neither.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
I don't understand, Like I've seen more eyeshow speed stuff
throughouts mosses than I have mister Beasts, and mister Beast
is like supposedly the most famous person alive, but I've
never seen anything he's done.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
I'm the same way. I have seen a lot more
of I show speed than mister Beast. And yet everyone says,
mister Beast is where it's at. Who the hell's why?
I don't.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
It comes up in conversation like, hey, what's going on
with mister Beast? Do you ever watch me? Didn't come on,
but I still have never seen if he was in
the room with me, I wouldn't know who he was,
just like a regular white dude, I wouldn't know.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
He does look like the most average dude ever. I
don't know if that's part of a peel or what,
but I who knows.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Anyway, have a great rest of your stundy full week
for me, no days off, no scheduled days off, so
I'll be in the audio box the sweatshop that rocks
there all week long, So be safe. Thank you for listening,
we love you, and thanks to Robbie and bye bye
bye bye
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Ben Maller
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