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December 12, 2024 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Red Sox level of excitement for landing Garret Crochet from the White Sox, Corbin Burnes closing in on a free agency deal, another edition of #AskBen, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And away we go. It's our number three of the
Original Recipe podcast on this Thursday, the twelfth day of December,
a day where later on a new episode of Benny
Versus the Penny will be recorded. We'll be on TV
tonight and work on that later today, but right now
it's our number three. And here in hour number three,

(00:21):
what's the Red Sox level of excitement? Red's like fan
level of excitement for getting Lefty Starter Garrett Crochet from
the White Sox the big trade, Big trade that came
down this week? Also does Corbin Burns make it tingle
in free agency? He has not signed yet, but he's
closing in on a deal, and Brian Cashman says again

(00:42):
he has no regrets. The Yankees would not budge on
giving Juan Soto a complimentary skybox at Yankee Stadium where
you're at. On this one. We'll get to all of
that and more right now here it is give it
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this hour from baseball, the Winter meetings have been going
on this week. The transaction wire burning up, Burn, Baby burn.
All the big money teams getting big money players except
one shutout Dateline Boston, always the bride'smaid, never the bride.

(02:25):
Several big moves they whiffed on. And now if you've
not heard the latest, they finally caught one that'll be
a player. If you did not hear, we learned the
Red Sox have acquired left handed pitcher Garrett Crochet, Yes,
late of the Chicago White Sox. Garrett Crochet goes from
the White Sox to the Red Sox. That's a change

(02:49):
in laundry, a change in laundry for him. The trade
announced on Wednesday for not one, not two, not three,
but four scratcher tickets and the four lottery tickets. There
Boston landed for that couple of minor league players. They
got what the pundits say is the top starting pitcher

(03:11):
that was available on the trade market. So they got him.
He's now going to Finway. Pak Crochet last year had
a marvelous statistical season in the White Sox rotation. He
had been in the bullpen. They moved him the rotation
last year and he was one of the bright spots

(03:32):
on the worst team in baseball, historically terrible team. In fact,
Garret Corochet's twenty five years old. Left handed, he was
dominant over one hundred and forty six innings. He had
two hundred and nine strikeouts and only thirty three walks.
Now that gives baseball scouts a chubby when they see
that kind of strikeout to walk ratio. That is orgasmic

(03:56):
to baseball scouts. Now, he never pitched in a big game.
Is when you play for the White Sox, the only
big games you play in is they're in the Cactus League.
Once the season begins. There are no big games. There
are no big games. They do not exist. They do
not exist. So let us discuss the question what is
the Red Sox fan level of excitement for getting left

(04:19):
handed starting pitcher Garrett Crochet in the big trade of
the day from the White Sox. So I've got taste buds,
crackling geese, and scruples, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a

(04:40):
delicious piece of Boston cream pie, which Garret Crochet can
go to the birthplace of the Boston cream Pie now
because we'll be playing for the Red Sox year around.
So my first thought here is on the surface, on
the surface, it's happy days are here again? Happy Days?
Or here again? After being totally stonewall the Red Sox

(05:02):
they want suppose they wanted one soda. I think that
was mostly a media driven store. I don't think they
actually came close to the offers made by the Mets
and the Yankees, but they were supposedly in on Jan Soto,
Max Freed who went to the Yankees, Nathan Valdi who said, Hey,
I pitched there and I don't want to go back.
I'm gonna go to the Rangers instead where I have
been pitching. So the Red Sox, they were out, they

(05:24):
were on the hunt, they were on the hunt. They
finally caught one. They caught a big one. They think
they caught a big one. And the move definitely is
a breath of fresh air. I will concede the move
is a breath of fresh air for the Red Sox. However,
on the Mallard report card, the only report card that
matters on these trades, the Mallor report card, the Red

(05:44):
Sox acquiring left handed starting pitcher Garrett Crochet from the
White Sox. They get a B plus they get to
be plus and the White Sox they get a C.
They get a C. So the reason I could not
give Boston in an a on this trade taste buds.
Taste buds, and let me expand on that, Garrett Crochet

(06:09):
left a bad taste in my mouth. And real baseball
offiician natos MOUs with his little shenanigans he pulled last
year at the trade deadline. If you flashed back in
the hot tup time machine to the mid season trade deadline,
Chicago was looking to unload Crochet. They knew that he
wasn't long for the team. By the time he's old,

(06:32):
the White Sox will be good. They're not gonna be
good anytime soon. And so they needed more players, and
so they traded Garrett Crochet.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Fine.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
I tried to trade him at the trade deadline, and
he said, no, I don't want to do that. Well,
he didn't say I wouldn't be traded. What he said
was I'm gonna use malfeasance. Malfeasance. What did he do?
It was crochet interference or malfeasance if you will. Through
his agent, he blocked any in all trades, saying that

(07:03):
he was unwilling to pitch in the postseason without signing
a contract extension, not doing it too many innings, not
gonna do it. You know what, That is dead. That
is a dead giveaway that you were lacking ambition, that
your motivation is sketchy. You are the antithesis of Kobe

(07:26):
Bryant's mantra back in the day that resting at the end,
not the middle, is what you're supposed to be doing.
So Crochet a poor man's blake. Snell. I'm not playing
unless I get mine. That's what he sounded alike. Right,
So good luck how's that gonna fly in Boston? Because
he hasn't signed an extension yet, and John Henry does

(07:48):
not like to sign pitchers to big money extensions. So
if the Red Sox somehow end up in contention and
they're coming down the stretch and Garrett Crochet says, ah,
you know, I don't feel like pitching.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
I'm worried. I want.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I want to save myself for the contract. That'll go well,
that'll go well. And as far as the White Sox
part of it, if you believe that every one of
those minor league players the White Sox god is going
to turn out to be good, you're a loser. The
fail rate on those is it's about buying a lottery tickets,
the same same thing as buying a lottery ticket and saying,

(08:24):
all right, I'm gonna win the big money here, big money,
big money, big money. No. No, maybe you get ten bucks,
maybe you get fifty bucks, something like that. That's about
it all right.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Secondly, we move now to mister Burns, not that mister Burns.
Some reports overnight that the mister Burns slash Corbin Burns
free agency pursuit being ratcheted up, and that one team,
one team said to have the edge, said to have

(08:53):
the edge head and shoulders above the others, to assign
a massive contract to Corbon Burns. That eam the San
Francisco Giants. They are in serious talks that have escalated,
Oh the drama, the human emotion overnight for the San
Francisco Higantes to acquire Corbin Burns on the free agent market.

(09:15):
Now he has not decided whether or not to take
that contract offer, but that they're supposedly the favorite at
this hour. Does Corbin Burns joining your team make it tingle?
Does it? Does it make you tingle?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
No, No, No, that's gonna be a no for me. Okay,
that's gonna be a no for me. Here's the thing
about Corbyn Burns. You look at what he has done,
and he was very good for the Milwaukee Brewers. Last
season was not his masterpiece in Baltimore. And if you
listen closely, you can hear the sound of crackling geese.
And that's a warning sign. Okay, it's warning sign. You

(09:53):
can choose to listen to them, or you can ignore
the sound of the geese. They're never wrong, they're never Now,
what are those warning sides? Corburon Burns. Mister Burns was
fine for the first four months of the baseball season
with Baltimore. Right, he's fine.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
It's one of the.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Top pitchers in the American League East. And in fact,
you look at the first four months, he had twenty
two starts at an ERA of below two and a
half outstanding, and then they had to play the rest
of the season. August came around and suddenly Corburn Burns
was burn Baby burn Burns was vaporized. There was nothing left.

(10:37):
He allowed twenty earned runs in twenty and two thirds
innings in his fourth starts in the calendar month of August,
and he didn't get all that much better after that.
Mister Burns his strikeout rate skidded to a career low
in twenty twenty four, continuing a downward slide, which is
what the analytical people look at and the nerds that

(11:01):
run these baseball teams. But Corman Burns, his strikeout rate
has gradually gone down, down, down, down, down, down down
since he won the Cy Young back in twenty twenty one,
which is generally speaking a pretty good indicator that things
are not going well. That's an ominous sign. Is it
a sign of things to come or is it just

(11:22):
the new normal?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Who knows? All right?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Now, final fuck, we circle back to the massive free
agent signing of the week, started the Winter Meetings, Juan
Soto going to the New York Metropolitans. Now, Brian Cashman
again for the second time this week, said he has
no regrets. Now what did he say? He has no regrets?

(11:45):
And this is regarding the fact that the Yankees were pigheaded,
very stubborn. They would not budget on giving Juan Soto
a complementary suite at Yankee Stadium. So where are you
at on this one? Brian Cashman again saying no regrets
regarding the Juan Soto suite. So I actually agree with

(12:07):
Brian Cashman on this one. I do. And it's it's
company policy. And I realized, if you're a big enough name,
policy changes. I get that. I work in radio. If
Colin Cowhard wants something, he'll get it. If I want
something it's not available, that's usually how that works, you know.
It's just I know my place in the pecking order.

(12:29):
That's how that. Companies are like that. But if you
didn't do it for Aaron Judge, if you're the Yankees,
and El Capitan, Derek Jeter. You wouldn't do it for him,
then why would you do it for Juan Soto. He's
not as good as those guys, so, you know, maybe
as good as Jeter, but not Aaron Judge. And the

(12:50):
thing is, you break this down, you ten ways to
you know where. And if I just want the record
to show, if Fox Sports Radio were give me my
next agreement seven hundred and sixty million dollars, I will
buy my own headphones, I will buy my own microphone, condom,
all those things. Jan Soda, though, you get that vibe,

(13:15):
he's got some Robinson Cano, don't you know?

Speaker 3 (13:18):
In him.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Robinson Cano took the big contract, went out to Seattle
and was never heard from again. And there's this entitled
approach that Juan Soda. Maybe it doesn't matter at all,
as people are convinced he's much older than he says
he is. I don't know whether that's true or not,
but this just has a lot of ingredients to be

(13:39):
a debacle for the Mets, a lot of ingredients. But
I generally agree with the Yankees. If you're getting paid
over seven hundred million dollars a year, you can pony
up a couple of bucks to pay for a skybox.
You can do. It's not going to bankrupt you. You'll
be okay. It is the Ben Mahler Show. If you

(13:59):
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(14:19):
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riddle of the day. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson revealed recently

(14:42):
that he prefers to wear blank again. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson,
surprisingly to many, revealed that he prefers to wear blank.
That is the malor riddle of the day. The answer
we'll get to it, and we will do it next.

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Bend the dope. I heard that, Bill, I heard that
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in the corner of the room with a dunce cap on. Time.
Now for the mallor riddle of the day, the mallor
riddle of the day. Here it is Ravend Starr. Quarterback
Lamar Jackson surprisingly revealed that he prefers to wear blank.

(17:21):
That is the malor riddle of the day. What is
the answer? Late Night drug tester says he likes to
wear socks that don't match. Socks that don't match. Who
else do we have a designer fingernail polish like Caleb
Williams a cheerleader outfit from Donkey Sausage. Who else do

(17:42):
we have? Ferk Dog said he likes to wear beads
like a certain chess player. Alf the Alien. Old piner
from Springfield, Mass says he prefers to wear Halloween costumes
year round. Pante hose guessed by Milkman Mike in Colorado.
He likes to wear the BUCkies T shirt. It's a

(18:07):
solid shirt. If only they actually sold that, that's outing.
Who else do we have? Page down see here? Steven
Meatball says that Lamar prefers to wear a high capacity
situation instead of a conventional jockstrap. He says. Jay Dot
in Utah writes and says Lamar Jackson prefers to wear

(18:28):
La purse Diddy skirt. He said, Okay, who else do
we wear? Here? Spanks? Spanks? Just by Chris in Kent, Washington.
Who else do we have? Page down? We'll skip over
that one. Manuel in Guardina says Lamar likes to wear
a Michael Jackson glove under center. The NFL games, JT

(18:53):
the wing Man says he prefers to wear Lamar Jackson
his Dorothy high heels in the locker room, a sports
sprawl under his jersey. Who else to have Wrangler jeans?
Guess by DJ spin Our Buddy Patrick in San Diego,
Tammy and Montana says he prefers to wear a onesie
a onesie? Who else? Viva los Vicki checks in from

(19:17):
Sin City, says Buenos ts been Malar. Riddle of the
day answer, Lamar Jackson likes to wear crocs. Swear crocs
women's undergarments. Guess by Pauli d that that is the answer.
Chris says he's in Kentucky. Lamar likes to wear his
Maga hat. For sure, that's not true, Tidy White, He's

(19:39):
guess by slug in Vegas. Who else you have? Gunner
says he likes to be like me and wear a
dress under his uniform or over it? Who else you have?
Page down? Slim Tim went with lingerie as his answer.
The Great Slim Tim proud cheesehead listening to the show,
all right, Rain, do you have an answer? It is

(20:02):
the mallor riddle of the day. Lamar Jackson, NFL two
time MVP, revealed that he prefers to wear blank a
waist trainer, Ben, a waist trainer? Is that the correct answer? No?
The correct answer. Lamar Jackson revealed that he prefers to
wear women's perfume.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
How does that make you feel, Ben?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, I'm not Lamar Jackson whatever he wants.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Do you like the smell of women's perfume?

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Well?

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I like it on women? Yeah? Yeah, usually it's usually
gonna go for it. I want to wear it.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
Give the idea that he's always surrounded by women.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, I don't. Women sometimes will wear like they like
the men's cologne. I have to smell the smell. I
don't know. They want to wear it though it's a
little different certain smells. So do we have audio on that?
Got yea, I said, somebody, we have audio on that.
Listen to La Mario. Let's explain. I think he's promoting something.
I think he was promoting some cologne or something like that.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
But okay, people might not notice about me, but I
rather prefer like girl perfume or.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Something like real.

Speaker 8 (21:16):
So that's what made me want to create something unisex.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
You know, under said it all about us man.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
You know, I was like, man, I just make a
female sometimes so you get something back in you know,
be in between.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, wonderful siful women sets.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
He probably dies how we be, you know, like a man.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
So that's my quarterback, right.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
I'm gonna need a bottle of that ben.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
You want some of that lorena? Yeah, it would just
be like Lamar go with the perfume. Much to be
honest as a woman, that Lamar is all about him.
He loves what you ladies wear. Yeah, man wants to
smell just like you. That's interesting. Uh, that's a word
you can use.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
Interesting.

Speaker 9 (22:01):
I mean I don't know if like this is you know,
because I'm a man, and I'm not talking about.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Are you about to go Marv Albert on us here?
And you don't even know that reference anymore?

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (22:12):
I don't think so. I mean look it up. It
was a controversy. He was wearing lingerie, oh like Oscar
de la Hoya.

Speaker 9 (22:24):
Yeah. No, I'm talking about more along the deodorant lines.
I think men's deodorant smells way better than women's deodorant.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
I just don't even like, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
It depends some some stuff dudes where it's pretty, smells disgusting,
you know, it depends everything. There's a million different smells
out there. So, yes, I got that, Like, that's.

Speaker 9 (22:54):
That's what I'm talking Yes, all the old spice ones
they smell great.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Do you guys call them flavors or no?

Speaker 5 (22:59):
No flavor man, you don't. You don't do flavors sentence.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Normally, what you do is you go to the store
and you just pick randomly.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Pick one out that. Oh yeah, no, that's what that's
what I do.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, absolutely, actually say what's the cheapest?

Speaker 9 (23:13):
All right, I'm in I take the caps off of them,
smell them right there in the aisle, spend that much
time on that.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
I need some sandalwood or.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Or are you guys a hard stick? Or do you
like the gel hard?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Come on?

Speaker 5 (23:31):
You almost did. Come on.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
You wanted to say coop, come on, you wanted to
go there.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
I do not like the gel kind.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah, I'm a traditionalist when it comes to the deer.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
The spray no, no, no, the spray no, the traditionally
white stick.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, the thing there, the thing you roll around there? Yeah,
that thing. Yeah. Let's go to the phones. It is
a newbie night. All the callers all the time. We'll
have ask Ben coming up, but say hello to Let's
see who do we have? Ben is in Upstate New York? Hello, Ben, welcome?
Is this a member of Bill's mafia calling in?

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Really?

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yes? You guys all vanished after the loss of the Rams.
I'm surprised you're calling in. Then they should have won
that game. Yeah, they didn't know they lost the Rams.
They give up forty four points. It's hard to say
you should have won when you give up forty four points.

(24:36):
Are we interrupting something?

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
I feel like I feel like you're you're busy doing something.
Are we bothering you?

Speaker 6 (24:42):
No?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
You sure? Are you just nervous. Yeah, I understand, I understand.
And how long you've been a member of Bill's mafia?
How far do you go back with.

Speaker 10 (24:53):
The bills I've been I've been saying for thirty years?

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Thirty years? How many times you yourself on fire? Never?
You've never let yourself on Have you ever jumped through
a table?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Now?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
You have not? Have you wanted to? Have you thought
maybe that would that would increase my standing in Bill's mafia?
I'd jumped through a table? Yeah? Yeah, all right? And
what are you doing? Awakenness? Are you at work or
something like that? Why you awake here? You should you
should be going to bed or something that.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Never tired?

Speaker 1 (25:34):
You were tired or you're not tired. You're not not tired. Okay, good,
that's good for us. You're not tired. Normally at four
thirty in the morning, people get tired. That's usually what happens.
People get tired there.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, all right, well, thank you thanks for calling bed.
I appreciate that. A man of brevity, all right, a
man after my own heart. He didn't have a lot,
that's fine, yeah, you know his head. The call was
going to go great. Next time you call Ben it'll
be much better. It's not your masterpiece, but you got
that first call out of.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
The way.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
It's coming. You know, the first time you do anything,
it's often a little messy, a little sloppy, doesn't go
as well as you imagine it would go, and.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Then hopefully you get a second.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah. Sometimes yeah, sometimes you don't say hello to Danny
who's in Boston? Hello, Danny, Welcome.

Speaker 10 (26:27):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (26:28):
Ben?

Speaker 10 (26:28):
I am a Fanny show.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (26:31):
I listened to you every day, and I'm out here
driving the trash truck around the blocks and I grabbed dumpsins.
I start at ten at night go until about eleven
o'clock the next day. So I listen to you all
the time.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh man, that's a long shift. That's a long time
driving the trash truck. Yeah. I've been doing it long time.

Speaker 10 (26:51):
Forty five and I've been doing it for like twenty
five years. Right out of high school. I've been doing it.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
You're probably making good money, right, trashmen make pretty good money,
don't they.

Speaker 10 (27:00):
I'm long days to make uh one hundred and fifty k.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
All right, by the way, Coop and Loraina are both
moving to Boston. They would like jobs to they would
like to join you to.

Speaker 10 (27:14):
I want to say, Loraina sounds like the sweetest person
on the planet. She really is. I am one of
her biggest.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Than Wow, Loraina, look at this. If you ever need
trash picked up in Boston, this guy Danny will make
a special delivery. You pick it up right there. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
now Danny, Okay, enough about her. Now more importantly, Daddy,
do you also watch Benny Versus the Penny on the weekends?
Are you able to watch them? God? Bless you? You're
a damn all right, Well, don't be upset with my picks.

(27:42):
But I try to give a good advice and then
weird crap happens. Danny, you know what it's like as
a gambler, right, you understand what happens?

Speaker 10 (27:49):
I know is bots too. Well, I gotta make Actually,
I called you, I don't call a show. Watch my
second time. The first time you remember I called you
a couple of years ago the famous name this is
My name is Dan DeVito, and I called you about
Tom Brady the puck.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Oh I do remember the DaVita? Yes, Dan, is this
Danny DeVito? Did you know? So we should coop send
out again. I know it's been a few years that
Danny DeVito is a listener to the show, and a
lot of people don't realize that he's, you know, Hollywood's
kind of tough. He's actually delivering trash around and picking

(28:26):
trash up in Boston and calling the show now that
is dedicated. Do you look anything? I think we asked
this before. You look nothing like the other Danny DeVito?

Speaker 10 (28:34):
Right, you, thank off for that. I mean, I like
the guy, but I look nothing like him.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, you're you're You're tall, You're good looking, You're handsome, right.

Speaker 10 (28:44):
Tall, But I am handsome.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
I think you're handsome. Very damn, I got you. All right, Well, very,
I'm glad you. I'm glad you called in. It's been
a while, Danny, and thank you for supporting all the
nonsense and all that. We're actually doing a new TV show.
Later today, we'll be recording the latest episode of Benny
Versus the Penny.

Speaker 10 (29:07):
Start calling him more. I gotta start calling him.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
I'm here every night, all right. Well, yeah, daddy, listen,
you want to be one of our new regular callers, Dan,
I mean, how great would that be to Danny de
Vito call the show?

Speaker 10 (29:22):
Show exactly. Yeah, all right, take care of yourself, all right.
And the other gentleman there, I forgot.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
His name, yah'd be Coop, Justin Cooper Cooper, all right,
be safe, all right, thank you. Danny is the look
of that guy. All that trash in Boston and Danny DeVito.
That's how big a town Boston is. Danny DeVito is
a trash man in Boston. Is Justin Cooper ticking up

(29:51):
the trash man alive?

Speaker 5 (29:53):
All right?

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Is the Ben Malors Show. And let's see when don't
we pause for the and we'll have a giant block,
a massive block of Ask Ben. Your questions are answers.
If you would like to send a question in use
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(30:15):
answers for the rest of the hour. It's a long time.
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Na
head out Ben.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
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(31:49):
to it we go. It's now time for time for
how wait as Twitter? Is your questions on Twitter? Now man,
it is asked man. Your questions are answers as we
spring into action for the rest of the hour. And
here we go over to the Kooper for the reading

(32:11):
of the questions. The reading of the questions on this
edition of Ask Ben.

Speaker 11 (32:18):
All right, JT. The Wingman would like to know. And
you know, I guess this is I JT. You know
I've seen him in four different states. Know that I
guess this could just be a question for your bodies.
Now at this point we don't need to.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
I've seen him, you know, I've read I've seen JT.
The Wingman, more than I've seen either one of my
brothers the last couple of years.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
You know that.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
I'm sorry. Yeah, he wants to know. Does FSR Does
the f SR.

Speaker 9 (32:39):
Building have squatty potties in the restrooms at the studios?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
No, no, they barely have toilet paper. They have that
thin toilet paper here where you have to use out
like a whole role. It's so bad, Like I know,
they're cheap and half ply. Oh, it's so bad. Everywhere
Every business is like that. But it's really stupid because
you just s end up using You go through more
toilet paper because people just go through it. That must
be so cheap to buy that kind of toilet paper,
right everyone, everywhere you go, every restaurant bathroom, every mall bathroom,

(33:07):
they have the cheapest quality toilet paper.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
I feel like squatty potties are meant for your home
and not for work business, because could you imagine our
guy trying to clean that in the men's bathroom, like discuss.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Well, you're supposed to put your feet on it. I
don't think you're supposed to proop on it.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Why do you think I demanded my own bathroom what
happens below.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
I know. Yes, this is how wonderful it is here
since Lorena got here. So we have about ninety nine
percent dudes, and there's like maybe three or four women
that work here. There's one toilet for the men and
there's one toilet for the four women. The ratio on
that is really bad.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
You weren't really bad, it wouldn't be a problem.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Really terrible. Bed just go out to go like the vegan,
go out to the bushes. That's what the vegan does.
He goes eats out there, goes to the bathroom out there.
It's a damn caveman, the vegan. All right, what's next?
Here to ask Ben? Your questions are answers. Semi would
like to know my femi. That's the number one Huber
East driver in Minnesota. Go ahead, what's the longest trip
you've driven solo? How long did it take you? Yeah, No,

(34:06):
we're really all that far. I've driven from LA to
San Francisco. I've driven to Phoenix from LA. I'm driven
from I drove from Philadelphia over to Pittsburgh, up the
Buffalo back down in New York. But I mean, I'd
like to drive across the country. But I knock on
wood here. I still I've kept the job longing if

(34:26):
I've ever losed my job, that's what I'm doing. But
I'd say probably eight nine hours that's about it. What
about you a long time the rain?

Speaker 7 (34:36):
I drive to Oregon all the time, all the time,
was all the time, like two to three times a
year to and fro.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Now, the amazing thing about going from California Oregon is
how effin big California even when you get to Sacramento,
it's so long. You're still aren't you like still five
hours away from the Oregon border even in Sacramento. This
is nuts.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
And then you got to go through the mountainous treacherous.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Area because you look at a map and Sacramento looks like,
well it's right near the northern part of California. No,
it's like another five hours to get psych Yeah exactly.

Speaker 7 (35:06):
That usually takes me twelve to thirteen hours if I
don't stop a lot.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Wait, how from LA to or in LA to where
my hometown is?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Really that's up? Okay, what about your coop?

Speaker 9 (35:19):
So as far as like Solo, it's probably just been
La to San Diego. I mean, the longest I've driven.
That's not period is from here to Portland.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
But I was here, So well, why are you guys
driving far distances by yourself in the car?

Speaker 10 (35:37):
No?

Speaker 5 (35:38):
I mean I've driven to Portland before, but I was
with my hey, my girlfriend at a couple of.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Years ago my cousin. My cousin lives in Phoenix. He
actually moved to Vegas, but he lived in Phoenix and
he got a very bad medical diagnosis. So I I
just spur the moment, woke up on a Friday and
I drove to Phoenix. I hung out with him for
two hours, got in the car and drove back to
LA just like that. That was a I was crazy.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
It was nuts.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
What's the next? Shit? What do we have here? It's
ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest of
the If you want to send a question in hashtag
ask Ben. If you like this bit, we do it
every week. And if you really like this bit, we
have a totally different bit which some people think is
the same as this on the Fifth Hour podcast on Sunday.
And if you hate the bit, we only do it
once a week. So who cares?

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Cowboy Killer would like to know.

Speaker 9 (36:24):
Is there anything you are constantly losing glasses, credit cards,
et cetera.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
No, I mean I've learned over the years, as I
guess this adulting. You put your phone, your your stuff down,
your keys down the same spot. Now, every once in
a while, my phone will disappear. But I got the
Apple Watch thing. I hit this button and check this
out just live on their hit this button and then

(36:52):
you hear I'll do it again here. Yeah, that alarm
goes out to let you know where your phone is.
How cool is that? Never since I got this, I've
never lost my phone. So nah, the worst is when
you can't find your keys. That's the worst. I've had
that happen a few times, but not in a while. Partially.
What about you about Rain, I have left my wallet,

(37:14):
dropped it in parking lots a few times.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, I'm gonna show you my wallet. This is This
is my wallet. That's not a wallet, and I drop
it all the time and I lose it's.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
A little bag. That's how a coin.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
I leave it somewhere all the time.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
And now this is a wallet of Lorena. I see
that that is That is a massive They call it
the Costanza wallet. It's an old reference.

Speaker 7 (37:37):
Mine's just a little jewelry bag, and I switch because
I have black ones and blue ones and.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Pink ones, and so I just switched in between. You
always lose them, all right?

Speaker 1 (37:46):
What about you? A guy have like old hotel keys?
I don't from hotels.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
I stayed at those.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yes, oh yeah, all right, I have a I have
a card from Keith who I met in Charleston, who
lives in the villages in Florida, but he's from Michigan,
and he gave his card and I still have it
in my wallet from the Charleston meet and greet. I
have that right. I have Andy Reid almost Andy Reid's card.
I have that right. What about you, Coop?

Speaker 5 (38:11):
I'm always losing the lighter uh and the remote?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, the remote gets lost a lot too. Not by
me because I put it back in the same spot.
The wife puts it all over the place. It's where's waldo?
Or you're getting hot you're getting colder, getting hotter.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
No, I am the problem when it comes to the remote.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
What is next to? Ask Ben? Your hey, that Looney
commercials on again? And him of the referee? All right,
what's next here? It's ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
All right, ferd dog wants to know what is Fergie?
What is the right amount of cologne slash perfume to
put on? So there's there's a couple of ways you
can do it. The way there's two ways I was taught.

(38:53):
One is you like sprayed two sprays and walk into it.
Another one is you spray your wrist, you rub the
other wrist, and then you rub the back of your neck.
That's how I was taught. One of those two ways.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
I like doing the like where you like sprayed above
your head and then you spin under it like Cinderella.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
But I get it in my eyeballs a lot like that.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, that kind of burns.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
So I've been doing it on my wrist and then.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
A full sprits on my wrist and I rub those together,
and then a full sprits on my neck.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
What about your cool?

Speaker 9 (39:25):
I rarely wear cologne, but if I were to, I
like the the two sprays and walk through method.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Walk through methods.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
When when Jerry was my producer back in the day,
there was a woman that worked across a lot I
think the statute of limitations is up, and Jerry recognized
her from the performed perfume she was wearing. She was
also apparently doing some dancing on the side, and Jerry
recognized the and knew that that was what he knew
her from that anyway, all right, what is next year?
To ask man? Your questions are answers.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
The King Rory would like to have you ever gone
streaking before?

Speaker 6 (40:00):
God?

Speaker 1 (40:00):
No, look at me, Come on please, no, Lorena, I'll
be a wrestled immediate.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
This morning, Ben, what's that my mailbox?

Speaker 5 (40:07):
This morning? You did?

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Really?

Speaker 1 (40:09):
The neighbors love you.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
You're a liar.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
There's always some old person walking around, and there's always
somebody out there walking.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
A dog, just trying to get some more, some more male.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, all right, cool fans, I guess I have really Yeah, No,
that's no chance. Zero chances are there is asked, Ben,
Your questions are answers. Get that squatty potty ready, No
boo
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