Hour 3 – Political Hot Potato

President Trump wants to regulate NIL and the transfer portal, making it even messier.The Utah Mammoth is weirdly unsettling

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding do. It's our num berth three, our number three,
a political hot potato. And here in our number three,
President Trump has a plan. He's going to create a
federal commission to regulate college athletics. That's right, college athletics.

(00:22):
How does that vibe with you? Meaning nil? And the
transfer portal? Also, is Nick Saban the right person to
help shape the future of college sports? There's chatter that
Saban is going to be one of the lead figures
on this federal commission. And how does the new Utah
Mammoth nickname sound to your ears? It was officially named

(00:43):
the Mammoth. That news coming out in the last twenty
four hours talking about all of that and more. Right
now here it is full of hot air. It's our
number three.

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going to talk about that again here. We'll get back
to it later. With the Boston Celtics have done something
that has rarely happened in NBA history. They have gagged
back to back home games, flowing twenty point leads at
home championship pedigree. Is this a scheme from the Illuminati?
Is the New World Order deciding the Celtics can no

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longer win a championship again? That they won their one
championship and there's some kind of satanic conspiracy to stop
the Celtics or did they just suck at a time
he cannot suck. And speaking of sucking at a time
he cannot suck, the Denver Nuggets, what man that sweetheart
Nikola Jokic down by forty nine points at one point,
the Oklahoma City Thunder able to get that done in

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a large way. But our lead this hour is not
from those games. No, no, no, we go to Capitol Hill.
Things are about to get cranked up several notches for
college basketball and football players. If you have not heard
some interesting news bubbling up over the last twenty four
hours or so, we have learned at the President of

(03:32):
the United States, Donald Trump is going to create a
Presidential Commission for College Athletes. The first step, this is
the first step for what for the Feds to find
a answer, a solution to the wild wild West that
is going on in your college sports nil transfer portal.

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And the initial story came from Yahoo. Yeah. Yahoo. They
tell us that many of the big wigs, the big
cheese over there, the big ragou at college sports, have
been briefed by the White House. They've been given the
outline on the plant. It's been called a landmark decision

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even though it hasn't officially officially happened, it's going to
be one of those points in the history of college
sports that twenty thirty, forty fifty, sixty, seventy eighty years
from now, assuming we're all still here, we won't be
many of us, but they'll look back at this moment
and say, well, that was a big moment. Now, the
Blue Ribbon Panel, you know, I love a good blue

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ribbon panel. They're set to tackle the amount of player
movement in the portal, the transfer portal, the unregulated booster compensation,
how dare you pay and pay and pay and pay
and pay to the athletes? And also there is this
debate about the solution do you cross the Rubak on

(05:01):
and make the players employees. It's always been the sticking
point going back many many years, actually over one hundred years,
whether or not the players are employees or they're not.
And then there's also the concern that some have what
about the Olympic sports that no one cares about, that

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they these teams are moving all over the country in
conferences for football and basketball. But then the teams the
sports that aren't meat in potatoes sports, they also have
to travel across the country and that becomes a financial burden.
So that's an issue. Then you've got the fly in
the ointment, which is Title nine. And then there's even

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like revenue sharing. I mean, it's a big it's a
big turd burger. It's a big one. So then we've
got TV involved in. I mean, there's a bunch of stuff.
So let us discuss the question. We'll frame it this way.
President Trump, he has a plan to create a federal commission,

(06:03):
a federal commission to regulate college athletics. How does that
vibe with you? So I've got art Center, Crest and
wet socks, and we will combine all of these things
together and we will make them jumbo size. We're gonna
make them jumbo size, is what we're going to do,

(06:24):
all right. So my first thought here, this is obviously
a mess No that I need to say that, but
I will will begin with that. It's a messy situation.
It's a sloppy meal. It's a dog's lunch, is what
it is. Now. I have long advocated, I have long
supported the payment of players. I used to do rants

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and I know alf the Alien Opiner and some of
you guys that have been with me a long time
here on the show. You remember every college basketball tournament
and every college football like the old BCS days, I
would do the same rant about it. This is ridiculous.
It used to drive me insane how many times I
heard student athletes, student athletes, student athletes, shure and athlete,

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you know, and I know the history of that. And
then the whole point of that was to avoid having
to pay workers comp That's why they came up with
that term, and they used it, and so the system
was lopsided. It was lopsided in favor of the universities
for multiple generations. And now we've done a one eighty.

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And if you're halfway decent as a college football player
or a basketball player, you're getting a little bit of money.
And if you're really good, it's a gold rush. It's
boom times, is what it is. And so you have
this cacophony of issues that have popped up. The Nile payments,
the transfer portal, the conference realignment. You've got UCLA and

(07:53):
USC that are in a conference with Rutgers right in
New Jersey. You've got Maryland who's in a conference with
USC and UCLA. You also have the Bay area schools
that are in the Atlantic Coast conference. It's just absurd. Now,
the problem is this right Here's there's something needs to

(08:17):
be tweaked, but you're talking about it's an art center situation.
Politics in my life has mostly been the art of
making things worse, not better. When has Congress ever really
made things better? It has happened, but very rare, very rare.

(08:39):
You're more likely to see Haley's comment than you are
to see a good political decision. Political leaders always prioritize
their interest so even on this, like you said, well
that something needs to be done. But going back to
the beginning, like getting a political ran But the framers
of the constitution, they had a rallying when America was

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founded about no taxation without representation, and then they wanted
fewer laws and regulations and all that. And the country's
been around for two hundred and forty eight years and
now it's just wrapped in red tape. And expect the
same to happen for this, Like I'm sure at the
beginning they'll put some rules in and it won't be
that big a deal, and eventually they'll keep adding and adding.

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There'll be a new government agency that'll get rubber stamped here,
There'll be some commission that will lead to another commission,
and then down the rabbit hole and the flag is up, which,
to say, in a roundabout way, is just it's the
new bureaucracy. Is the old bureaucracy now? Second former Alabama
football coach Nick Saban that could not handle the changing landscape.

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The reason Nick Saban is no longer coaching at Alabama's
not his health. It's that he no longer wanted to
deal with the bull crap, so he got out. And
so Nick Saban is effected to co chair the President
Trump Commission. Alongside there's some business people here and some
other big wigs from college sports in the past. So

(10:13):
question is the old Alabama football coach Nick Saban? Is
Nick Saban the right person to help shape the future
of college sports? That seems like kind of a big deal.
So as much as I appreciate what Nick Saban did,
I'm gonna go know like he's not He's from the
old world, and there's gotta be some balance here. I

(10:37):
could see Sabin going in there and say, listen, I'm
Nick Saban, I'm a crest guy, and I'm gonna put
the toothpaste back in the tube. I'm the fixer. I'm
gonna come in here and it's gonna be just like
it was. Where to use the student athlete term. No
one's getting paid nobody. It's gonna be a drought. There'll
be no money left. And of course that's not gonna work.

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He'll die trying, you know, just make it how it
used to be, just like that old slogan from Cresh.
Look my no cavities, no keph, Good luck with that now.
Nick Saban has long expressed concerns with the name image
likeness deal that's turned this into essentially an arms race
in college football and basketball, more football than basketball. And

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remember he initially at Alabama thought it was ridonculous to
even have nil payments. He advocated for strict, draconian restrictions
on nil and so you'd assume that he'll be part
of a federal commission that will do the same thing. Now,
spoiler alert, there are so many lawyers in the United States.

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Nil is not going away. This is this has got
lawsuit after lawsuit. This has gone all the way to
the Supreme Court. Cause there's a lot of money to
be made. There's a lot of billable hours out there.
The question is how this commission can tiptoe around the

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land mines and come up with some guardrails that limit
transfers and limit if you transfer, you know, the payments,
what you have to lose, you have to pay money back,
like those kind of things. And whatever they do, there's
going to be seven or eight one hundred lawyers that
are ready to file the lawsuit. All right. Final five,

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we pivot away from college football to the riveting news
of a new team nickname dateline the Great Salt Lake.
After thirteen months of waiting a trademark battle Royale, there

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were eight hundred and fifty thousand online ballots cast multiple
rounds of voting. The Utah hockey team now has a
name forever and ever until the Wolkesters decide that name's offensive.
They will be the Utah Mammoth. The mammoth have arrived.

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That's right. The Utah Mammoth was revealed as the new
moniker for the NHL franchise corn of the team. They
chose the singular mammoth as opposed to mammis, so they'll
be the mammoth. And they say it symbolizes one team
all in and all of your tall. Okay, sure, that's

(13:35):
the ticket. The new team logo is the head of
a mammoth with the curved tusk of the mammoth. So,
how does the new Utah Mammoth nickname sound in your ears?
How does that sound in your ears? So it sounds
to me like wet socks or go you know, you
know when you have wet sox and that squishing sound

(13:57):
in the shoes. You know what I'm talking about. It
It's just feels feels weird. It sounds weird, the mammoth name, like,
I'm not gonna totally kill it. It's it's subtle. But
yet I find the name unsettling, as much as I
can find a team name from a team I don't
follow unsettling. I am happy that the Utah Mammoth are

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not named the Eagles, which I believe is the most
popular nickname in college sports. Eagles Tigers another very popular name,
or Bulldogs or Wildcats. So I'm happy about that. However,
I will, I will die on the mountain that it
should have been the Yeti. It should have been the
YETI period hard stop, and that would have been perfect.

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They were stonewalled by the US Patent and Trademark Office,
which rejected the application for the Utah Yeties. They claimed
there would be confusion because people are stupid, consumers are idiots,
according to the according to the people at the U.
Patton In Trademark Office, and that because of the Yetti
Coolers LLC, they have the trademark to make coolers and

(15:07):
drink wear and clothing and all that that there's no
way you can have a hockey team named the Yeti
and a cooler because the people buying the cooler would
think they're buying the hockey team, and the people buying
take us to the hockey team would think they're buying
a cooler. So that is a loss for you. And

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at some point they'll have to get rid of the mammoth,
because I'm sure there's you go back far enough, there's
some kind of connection people. I say, well, the mammoth
is gone, but they died from the mammoth, you know,
previous life forms on the planet. So that's a problem.
They could have worked something out. The other issue I have,
I don't know. I'm the only one. When I think
of mammoth, I don't think of the wooly Mammoth. I
think of the ski resort in the Sierra Nevadas in California.

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When I say, Hey, there's the Mammoth, I'm like, Oh,
who's going skiing? Who's going to Mammoth? That's what I
don't think of the Utah Man. I think of the Mammoth,
the ski resort in California. That's what I think. But
what do I know? Do the to the overnight show
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Riddle of the day. Much to the surprise of many,

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former NBA coach George Carl recently admitted that he's never
done blank, never done blank. That is the question. What
is the answer? See? Is anyone listing the hoy ployd
Does anyone know the answer? And what do we have?
Scrooge in Northern California says he's never done drugs on

(19:51):
a Sunday morning. Okay, uh, never answered a Mallard riddle
from clam Stevie Meeball says. George Carl admitted he's never
hung out with Brian Finley. I don't know who that is.
Bird Dog says never done the dirty bubble challenge? Interesting?
Who else? Jason says, forgiven Carmelo Anthony for all the

(20:14):
strife in Denver. Yeah, that was messy, not good. Gumby
Dave says never done his job, says Gumby Dave from Florida.
Chris and Kent, Washington says George Carl admitted that he's
never done the hokey pokey. Put your left foot in,
you take your left foot out, you put your right
foot in.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
All shake it all about.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Oh you've done the hockey pokey too. What else do
we have? Let's see page down. Andy in Line Lakes,
Minnesota says he's never hung out with Jerry Jones with
the Glory whole never happened. King Rory says that in Wisconsin,
never eaten a Pickleburger is the answer. Our buddy ol
just down the road from the pro Bouncy Ball Hall

(20:57):
of Fame there in Springfield, Mass says he's never had, never,
never been with a cougar from the zoo. I think
he meant from the zoo. I don't know what else.
Page down, Eileen writes in and says the answer to
the riddle is cougars are comed greatest commercial in the

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history of Fox Sports Radio. I will I will die
believing that someday George Carl never met Frank o'harris, guessed
by our friend Eileen. Who else? Page down, Lady Sideburn
says he never wore his undies inside of his trousers. Wow,
he was a commando man. Page down, Donkey Sausage says

(21:38):
something involving a monkey spanking of some kind. I'm not
sure what that courtesy flusher said, put maple syrup on
a waffle? Really? Mark from Queens versus Well, he's in
He's originally from Queens, He's in arling from Texas now
and he says free based cocaine. George Carl's never done

(22:00):
that page down whippets guessed by Fudgie in Boston used
the internet from Dante, that's his answer. Eke and Roseville,
Minnesota said, never ever done shots with Lorena ever? Interesting?
All right? I see that Keith Ocho texto clearly cheating.

(22:22):
What a schmock, bad job by him. JT. The Wingman says,
a selfie with the bronze fonds. I gotta find that statue.
I was on a plane with with him one time
back in the day, but anyway, I didn't get a photo. Anyway,
Let's see here at Tillo from Florida says George Carl
never ate the Gabba ghul, the Jersey Gabba gul. Yeah,

(22:44):
it's unfortunate. Lorena. Do you have anyswer? Boso said, By
the way, lose to the clipper. Screw you, Boso. Mark
in Santa Monica said, read a book? What say you, Lorena?

Speaker 4 (22:53):
I think he's never done his own laundry.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Really, he's always his mom doing interesting. No, that is
incorrect job that. Much to the surprise of many, former
NBA coach George Carl admitted that he's never done social media.
Even though he's gone viral multiple times, he says he's
never actually posted on social media. And you know why,

(23:17):
he's got a guy. He's got a guy. And when
you have a guy, you don't need to do it.
There's a lot of old old guy social media where
they don't do it. Magic Johnson, old guy doesn't do
social media. He's got a guy. There was this famous
newscaster who's been dead for a long time, but I
met him a few times. Larry King was a big

(23:38):
star back in the day. He was on social media.
I know it's only been like five sixty seven, eight
years whatever. I think he's been five. But anyway, Larry King,
he was on social media, didn't actually post it. How
much do you think you can get paid? I would
do that. I would be the posted guy. I could
be the posted guy. That seems like an easy job.
Posted guy, call me up, what do you want to post?

(24:01):
I'll post it. Done, I'll be the posted guy. How
much does the post this guy get paid? What's the
payment on that? That seems like an easy job. You
just sit there and wait for the old person to
call you, and then you're like, hey, I'll post it.
I'm the posted guy. I'd like some money because I'm
the posted guy. Okay, I'm just saying I'll score the phones.

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And let's say hello to fill More Mike in the
Bay Area. If this is the real Filmore Mike, Hello,
Fillmore Mike, what's up big there? He is? This is
the This is the authentic, not the fake Fillmore Mike.
This is the real deal. And he wants to talk hockey?
Is that correct? You want to talk hockey?

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Man? I don't want to. I mean you had you
had a topic about the Utah Mammage. That's kind of
trash been that's a black ass name. I don't know
what type of weed they smoking, but it's obviously great weed.
To come up with a name like U Tah mamigs
what you.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Think, Mike? Mike did YETI a better name? The Utah YETI?
Which is the name they wanted? That's the mammoth is
their second choice, the Yetti And there were people that
wanted the Utah Outlaws to be the name. Now, that
would be a funny name if they were called the Outlaws,
because when you think of outlaws, you think of people.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
In Utah blood.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
You know what I just thought of? And it's hell
of funny, because you guys are hell of funny. I
just want you to know that, Ben, you're you're your
co host. Right, she's a female, right, she just said.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
She identifies as a female. She does, idea, Loraina, is
that is that true, Lorena, you identify as a female.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Okay, she said, you know it's hella funny. Randomly she said,
she said, yeah, I like sausage. I swear to god,
I just bro I'll be tweaking late night. I just
heard that and I just peeped that. That was very funny,
and she kind of like, you know, that's that's female things.
But anyway, Ben, I think blood Steph Curry, Steph Curry hurt.

(25:53):
You think we got a chance being.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yes, absolutely, you have a chance. But they say he'll
be out a week. I'll bet the over. I bet
he's out more than a week. With the with the injury,
they'll they'll side on the side of caution. But yeah,
because Minnesota now, Minnesota talent talent wise is good enough
to beat the Warriors. But there's some issues there. I
gotta see how they bounce back. I think they'll win
the next game. I think it'll be one one I
think they'll win here tonight on Thursday Night. So but yeah,

(26:18):
the Warriors, they should still win the series.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Okay, Oh Ben, I just want to tell you man,
happy birthday, Brot Birthday for really real. And don't forget
the Bay Area got the best Chinese food.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
But all right, we're gonna I'm gonna meet you. Fillmore, My,
you gotta listen because at some point we're gonna go
visit Alame to Lou and his establishment. So you gotta
come by and say hello when we're up there. Okay,
I pull up, Okay, I can. That's just what I want. Well,
the rain is all in on that, Okay, I thank you, Phillmore,
Mike the Great Fillmore Mike, got bout that. I love

(26:53):
that guy, one of my top you know, not that
we rank callers though, you know, I love all my children,
but he's one of the better ones. The call is
show and the callers. Let's say hello to weed Man Hippie.
Speaking of legends, this guy. How many years has weed
Man Hippie been calling the show? It's been over a yeah,

(27:13):
it's going on. We man, You're you're you're great. Your
roommate's not there, so you're walking around naked. You're free
of you know, it's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
I'm watching the one Solvent show.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
You're well, it doesn't get any more relevant than the
Ed Sullivan show.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Like I just saw The Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, I hope they I hope it works out. The
Rolling Stones. I think they got a chance to make
it in music, and so they.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Mixed up to nothing.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
How about that? Yeah, how about you sound like Mel Allen.
That's a dead sports catch. How about that? Yeah, things
are going very well, I say, I say things are
going very well. But it's not like the Knicks have
played great for most of the games. They've really it's
really been on me. Yeah, mid third quarter to the
end of the game, but the first two and a

(28:07):
half quarter is not so good, not so impressive. Yeah. Yeah,
it's been been a wild which is and now it's
in the head of the Celtics, which becomes an issue.
Like even if even if Boston you figure they'll play
okay in Game three, even if they have a big lead,
it's in their mind that this is what this is

(28:27):
what the Celtics do. They they are a bunch of
choking dogs. Now, you know, it's not you know it's
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They need a basket to win the game. Here at
the end, the clock is running down. Listen, listen to
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was seven right wing three crossover foul line with four
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half percent of the time. So they're that's what. Well,
they're not guaranteed. They could still blow it, but they're
in good ship. Yeah, but yeah, exactly. All right. So
you you want you want to you want to get
back to the Ed Sullivan Show, don't you know you're
you're done? You got nothing you do? Come on admit it.

(30:40):
Oh yeah, we need jokes for tomorrow, that's right, lame jokes. Okay,
you tell them. I don't need to tell we men
weed Man. Hippie has his own sit. Weed Man has
his own segment on the show, and it's all jokes
and it's wonderful and all that. All right, well, thank
you we Man. I go back to you're at Sullivan

(31:00):
sh alright, all right, thank you weed Man. All right,
there you go where he goes. Only he know. Well,
I would like to to I'd like to tell you
something right now. I'm not gonna do some commercial. I'm
gonna complain. Is it true that Paul Pierce stole a

(31:21):
classic Mallard show bit? Is it true? Well, apparently you
see Paul Pierce. Apparently, I guess he's got some TV show.
He promised to if the Celtics lost Game two to
the Knicks. He said he would walk fifteen miles to

(31:43):
the studio barefoot. Chances that Paul Pierce walks fifteen miles
barefoot to go to a TV studio, I'm gonna I'm
gonna go. No chance. There's a better chance of me
paying off the bet that I made years ago when

(32:04):
Arizona the college basketball team lost blew a big lead
late against against the Illinois Fighting a Lini in the
NCAA tournament, and I said I would walk to Tucson.
And the boss at that time that the late great
Andrew Ashwood. I went to his office. I said, listen
to Andrew. I made a bet I'd like to do it.
He looked at me. I was very fat at the time.

(32:25):
He said, Ben, you're not going to make it. You
won't make it the riverside. You'll drop dead. I said,
I'd like to do it. And then he said, well,
let's look at how far that is. And then he said,
it's about give or take four hundred and fifty miles
from LA to Tucson if you follow Route ten hie
waigh ten. So it's about it's about four hundred and

(32:47):
fifty miles. So he said you walking. He thought maybe
I could walk like five miles, five miles a day.
So we were doing the math, right, we're trying to
do the math on that. And you know, Andrew, it
was one of the great radio men that I've dealt with.
So we're doing the math on that. So at five
miles a day, and then you say, well, how many

(33:09):
days is it going to take you to get there?
And the math on that is not good. So at
five miles a day, it would have taken me. I
think we worked out the number. It would have been
like I think it was like eighty something days or

(33:30):
something like eighty five days. It would have been like
three four months or something like that.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
So how many miles was it? Four hundred and fifty
So about eighty four to ninety days?

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, okay, yeah, about ninety day. Yeah. And then they said,
well we can make it a bit, you know, and
we get from publicity. And he said no, So I
thought I would die and probably was right, Probably was
correct on that.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Yeah, Paul Pierce. He showed the map of where have
the walk and it's by the studio. It would involve
going to the Pulvina Pass, so it would be quite
a hike. It wouldn't be like a flat walk would be.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, you'd be going up the hills and go by
the Getty Center. Yep, you'd go by the Getty by
the Ghetti.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Okay. Anyway, it is the Ben Mallor Show. As we
were working away through the overnight, tread ahead for the
rest of the hour, ask Ben your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour. We'll get to that
and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 1 (34:32):
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(35:18):
posted right after we get off the air. It's now
time for time.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Horry, honey, honey.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Wait, ask bad Twitter, Send us your questions on Twitter
now and no way we go. It's ask Ben. Your
questions are answers, put our rest dovey hour and now
the reader of the questions, but it will not sound
like he's reading. We say hello to lead a loc good.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
More than everybody a fitting first question for ask Ben
from mister Donkey Sausage.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Hi Donkey, Uh.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
When was the last time you went skiing or snowboarding?

Speaker 1 (35:57):
God, it's been it's been many years. I do it
like going the snow. The problem I have with the
snow and I can't get around this if somebody can
help me out. I was actually just having this conversation
with my wife. We love going to the snow. The
thing we don't like is snow tires or the chains.
Rather putting the chains on the tires. I hate that worse, right,
So yeah, so that's why I don't do more snow

(36:18):
stuff because of the chains.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah, I'll cancel a trip if I know I have
to put chains on. Not gonna have Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Like one of my favorite places to go in the
world is the Sequoia National the forest with the big
redwoods there in Sequoia, and I love going during the winter.
It's a winter wonderland. But it's just the chains are
such a nightmare. No, So what about you, Lorrain or
last time you went to the snow?

Speaker 4 (36:43):
I haven't skied or snowboarded in a long time, but
I've entertubed recently.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Okay, yeah, this year two and a half years ago. Okay,
that's so that's a long time. What about you lead
a lap.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Well, funny enough, I do gotta ask you some questions
about Sequoia off. Yeah, but last time was actually with Coop,
probably two years ago. We go to a big bear,
not mammoth, although mammoth is better, and that's when I
realized I was a lot better at snowboarding than Coop.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Oh really, okay, all right, take that Coop taking strays here?
All right, what's next? What do we have here? It's
ask Ben. Your questions are answers.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
From at Lady Sideburns. If you were forced to be
caged up for a year and with an animal at
the zoo, which animal would you choose?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Koala bear?

Speaker 3 (37:28):
H that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
All they do is they just they're high all the
time from the eucalyptus.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
They just kind of hang out like I'm hanging out
with the callers. You know, it's the same vibe. What
what about I would also if I wasn't gonna get
eaten or they're not gonna spit on me. The Komodo dragon,
which they have in San Diego, I was I saw
the Komodo dragon at the zoo. What about you, Lorena.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
You know, I'm a very cuddly person. I would want
something that would cuddle with me. So I'm probably gonna
choose a lion.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
You think they're.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
They're always there, always up on a mound with all
their lady lions, all like snuggled up together, looking all majestic.
So I think I could be of them.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
You're not a lion. They might eat they won't eat me, Okay.

Speaker 6 (38:09):
All right, yeah, I wonder I think it comes down
to the enclosure versus the animal, Like which enclosure would
you want to be stuck in for a year? Yeah,
Like the meerkats would be fun because you can kind
of hang out with the meerkats. They'll look out after you.
But otters are fun. I would go with the otters.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
That's what. Yeah, but they have land too.

Speaker 6 (38:26):
There you go with the fresh water otters, the not
the sea otters.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
The seals look kind of cool too, you know, they're
kind of chill.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Yeah, but then you'd be stuck in the water hang
out with the penguins.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
You could walk like a penguin side by second. All right,
what's next year? It's ask ben. Your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour. Ring On, Fine, how.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
About King Rory says, who would win in a fight
between a gorilla and one hundred Mallard militia members?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Okay, So we do have a criminal element in the
Malord militia. Okay, So there's some boys that bring weapons. Okay,
these guys they call in when they get out of
you know who you are. Boys.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
I don't think weapons.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
It's my I'm answering the question, Lorena. I'm just saying
I would take the prison wing of the Malard militia
and that gorilla has no chance.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Well, I know most of our militia has the IQ
of a peanuts, so it's.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Not about IQ. Okay, So you know what, George Washington,
you have to outsmart the gorilla. No, you don't. George
Washington was an idiot, but he's one of the famous
people in the history of the world.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
They don't die.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
You're a liar, you're a hater.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
You don all get smoked. It'd be done. Don't get
in that. Uh yeah, even if you had a year you.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
See this, This is the kind of disrespect of Malon.
You know what the New Boys and the Malad militia.
They think you're these two people think you're a bunch
of cowards. We'll get you a gorilla. See how they
think you're gutless? Puke?

Speaker 5 (39:51):
All right?

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Next?

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Uh, what is the best ice cream to get from
an ice cream truck? From bobbying in Florida? I know,
I know Lorraina's answer already.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yeah, Well my my answer that Bobby. Listen, the greatest
ice cream treat is the chocolate chip cookie sandwich with
two giant oversized soft chocolate chip cookies and it's vanilla
ice cream. That's all I need. I'm a basic beach
when it comes to that. What about you?

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Lorraina Lee thinks there would be a fudgetackle.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
But off of the ice cream trucks, I really like
the SpongeBob ones with the bubblegum eyeballs.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Come, what are you five years old?

Speaker 3 (40:25):
You fudge in the fridge?

Speaker 1 (40:28):
What about you?

Speaker 3 (40:28):
What about drumstick? Classic Drumstick?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
That's a good one. That was my No, that's like
the drumstick's good too. You got the nuts on top.
That's a good that's a good ice cream.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
You would like the nuts on top?

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Hey? That was on the air,