April 26, 2020 • 43 mins
No reason to stick to sports so Ben and his progressive wingman get back to work. They dip into the mailbag to see what you, the listener, want to whine and complain about before a new week hits us during a quarantine. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and post a review of the podcast whenever you get the chance.
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guest Gard known as I was gonna call you something
else but gag. He's on his guy gone. What yours?
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Very conny to properly introduce me saying that loud and
proud gas con Have you sent Doc Mike any money
for coming up with your nickname? Have you sent him
any kid? Doc Mike? I was no Mike. I got
my Mike's mixed up. That's a bad job by me,
the great Mike North, Chicago radio legend, one of my
heroes in radio, Mike North, fearless, that guy fearless prepared
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called me by the right name, and uh was promptly
left Fox Sports Radio a couple of weeks after that.
The that was the funniest when I first heard the
gag on Drop, Oh my god, that was hilarious. Was
it really like, can you take me through that please?
So let's romanticize. I loved you. I was a lead
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in for Mike North and Andy Furman when they did
the Morning Show, and I love both those guys because Furman's,
you know, a classic radio guy, you know, paranoid like
everybody else, and and it's it was great. I've I
met them. It came out, did some shows from l
A and we got to hang out with them, and
it was really good. Guys. Love hanging out with like
lifetime radio guys. You know, we all have the same
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wartz that we have to deal with. But my favorite
part of that show was like during the breaks when
the producer would be like hey, you know, they tell
like Andy, hey, Andy, you messed that, or they tell
Doc They're like, Doc, you messed up something or not
Doc uh Mike North I came on and call him
Doc Mike. But because you know, I hear Chicago, I
think Doc Mike. But there was a Mike. He messed
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something up and then Mike would get excited when they
tell Andy that he messed up. He loved was the
greatest thing in the world. But but those guys were
were wild man, just absolutely crazy. And uh, Mike's doing
well local Chicago radio now and and he's still on
Fox Sports Radio and he still does stuff in Cincinnati,
so they're still doing their things, so that's good. Yeah,
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Jonas was the producer for them for a little while,
and he used to tell me some great stories with
those guys when obviously behind the scenes, off the microphone
type of stuff. And yeah, half the ship that they
set off the air would would get them fired to me,
but it was it was wonderful. It was some of
the some of the rants that they would go on
were hilarious. And every once in a while, like they
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would say something on the air, they would let one
slip past the goaltender and be like, oha, wait a minute,
called into the principal's office. There that's a problem that's
a bad job. So coming up on today's edition of
the podcast, we have a we did pop quiz yesterday,
we did study this yesterday. Today we have the inbox.
But before we get to the inbox, we begin with
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don't stick to sports. These are the bizarro stories of
the week. What is on the menu? Hear Gaestcard, this
is your playground. What's on the menu? Well, I think
the first thing we need to acknowledge is that month
to date, band we're up nine in total downloads. That
is absolutely amazing, pretty good. How awesome is that? That
is good? Of course we're doing two extra shows a week,
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so at the point that we might be. But even
during the NFL season, we didn't see this kind of
outreach downloads. Wild man, I'm I'm I'm getting it. You
know the radio show. More people are listening now than ever.
They're watching you too. It's amazing. I think I think that.
I think it's such. I think it's like it's fascinating
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that you're putting yourself out there. I really encouraged by
the uh, the type of nature that you've gone about this.
They're showing my masculinity you're doing you have got a
lot of cestosterone. Yeah, I have. And I like to
show people that you're machismo, that the real extrovert coming
into this. Now you're progressive, you have that vision. That's uh,
it's fascinating. Um, other stick you'd like to to spit
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out of your mouth. There's your routine over or you've
got more rhetoric. I got more rhetoric. But how about this,
Um Minneapolis, Minnesota. You've you've visited there right, only the
airport a few times, only the air But I need
to go out. I need to go I was planning
on going to Minnesota this year. I was gonna do Minnesota,
do a Millard meet and greet in the Twin Cities.
We had Vegas this weekend. We were supposed to be
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in Vegas hanging out with Queen rocks In and some
of the other big stars Robin Vegas and yeah, I
think Jay Scoop was gonna come down from Seattle, some
of the big stars of the mall um wish We're
gonna unite and have an NFL draft party. Yeah that sucks.
That did not happen obviously, so but yeah, I gotta
get to Minnesota hang out. We had so many great
listeners in Minnesota that are big fans of the show.
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But I have not done much traveling around Minnesota. What
what do we need to know about Minnia. The reason
why I bring that up is because of this. A
man led police in a high speed chase on the
Indiana Toll Road, reportedly because he said he thought troopers
wanted to race him. This is last night or a
couple of nights ago, excuse me, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Man
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found himself. He went to jail for not stopping when
Indiana State troopers were on pursuit of him. And uh,
it happened to the guys from Minnesota, but this happened
in Indiana. Yeah, okay, so uh it's happened right around
nine ten o'clock at night too. And he was he
was not toxicated. But he basically went from the crossover,
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uh near the ninety six mile marker on the Indiana
Toll Road and police observed him in his Mustang. He
was driving a hundred and twenty miles per hour on
the understate. You're going seventy miles, bro, that's the maximum
speed limits. So what's the fastest you've driven in late
night hours? There? I will acknowledge a hundred and sixteen. Yeah.
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I once I get over, like ve, I started freaking
out because I'm like, if one thing fucking goes wrong here, yeah,
it's lights out, parties over, you're dead. Um. We just
saw that with that NFL player right that died. He
was speeding, they said, and that led to oh yeah,
was it to Various Jackson? Uh to Various? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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exactly exactly. Um I drove. I think the speed that
was in with that was an old school Honda prelude.
I don't know if you remember those cars, but had
our next girl from back in the day that owned
one before, um, I would have been smoke and uh yeah,
I hit the accelerator a little too hard. But anyways, Yeah,
can you imagine you're having a hundred twenty miles per
hour on an interstate I can imagine thinking, hey, there's
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nobody around. But that was at nine o'clock at night, right, Yeah,
one thing like in the middle of the night, But
what the heck, what's going on? Yeah? Pretty nice thing
about this though, is he was pretty elusive with what
he was doing. Um they were pursuing him, and he
also was able to avoid not only the pursuit, but
those stop sticks that assisted troopers. Um. They had him
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set up on the on the interstate and he was
able to turn off a couple of different times and
then get back on the road. So um, little Bonnie
and Cloude action, that's pretty nice. Wow, that's wow. Man,
that's good. That's a good thing to tell the police.
Those you know, I thought you just guys want to race,
you know, fust this thin could go by, not wait
to do it? Um. I know some of your listeners
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get a little loose with their lips on the radio
with you all the time. How many of them are
pretty active on social media too? Uh well, a lot
of these guys get blocked. They have to change accounts
and all that stuff. It's it's an endless struggle most
of them. All right. Well, New York Daily Post is
reporting a new study that's out there that Daily Post
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or the Daily News. No New York Post. I thought
you said, you said Daily Post you can find sorry
New York Post. Um, they have a new study out
that's that's been prevalent with the coronavirus, that's sexting as
skyrocketed with the stay at home orders in place, right
now so not only sexting, but also tweets um for
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dudes looking for for nudes and also guys that are
shipping off crank pis to to the females. Reportedly, the
study has it it's an increase of two and it's
gonna three hundred and eighty four percent from the beginning
of March to where we're at in April right now?
Is that right? But that look at that way to go?
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How about that? Everybody? You got nothing else to do?
So send the photos around? Why not? That makes sense? Now?
When you're when that in porn consumption must be through
the roof on the Porner website. Have they gone I don't.
I haven't looked recently, guest, and you look at that
stuff all the time at porn. Have they gone to
coronavirus theme porn where the women are wearing masks and
all that? Yet? Not? Yeah, that's that's gonna be a
(09:32):
new S and M category. And but I'm sure they'll
come to, uh, to a porn studio near you we live,
because when we got a couple got a couple of
cities here that are known for a Chatsworth is one right? Uh? Well, yeah,
Chatsworth is thenecca. That's the Vegas is the gambling mecca.
Chatsworth is the porno mecca. That's where I think they
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still all live in either Chatsworth or adjacent to Chatsworth. Yeah. Yeah,
they still do a lot of that. So and you
you worked in porn for several years. That's how you
got your start in media. You were a porn actor
for many years from porn, went from I went from
porn to sports talk radio very similar exactly. Be sure
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to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app. How about this.
A man in Louisiana is a little piste off because
he received the stimulus check. Ben. It's not for the
reason you think. He was mad that he had not
received the full amount, so he set his mom's shed
(10:41):
on fire. It seems reasonable. Man. Yeah, one year old
man was so mad last week that he lit his
mother's shed on fire. That's according to Louisiana Oppoe State Police.
Uh saying that so special. Shoutout this time of the
year when you need your taxpayer dollars. Coming back to
(11:02):
you and you say it's not enough. I need a
little bit more. Mom, Mom, where am I at? That's
not unhinge at all. That's I think most normal rational
people be like, hey, you know, that's like, what was
that movie Stepbrothers. That's like something that would happen in
that movie Stepbrothers and another Stepbrothers. Move by the way,
you've been watching You've been watching what the Sopranos? Yeah,
(11:22):
that's been my thing here, going back through the Sopranos
and catching up on those shows and watching documentaries that's
mostly would have been doing. Yeah, fair enough. Um, how
about this here in Los Angeles, a former pharmacy technician
has been charged with stealing antimillaria tablets. Really yeah, it's
the city of Torrance. It's right next to me in
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the South Bay. He was charging two filony counts. Probably
know the second degree burglary, No, I don't. I looked.
Everyone works to the four or five knows, everyone wants
to the four or five us all hang out together,
you little bougie parties and all that stuff. I'd like
to call that Manhattan Beach. You know Ata Monica, I know,
I know Marina del Ray, I know the whole thing
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at all, Venice, Beverly Hills, nothing, Malibu, Malibu boo. Yeah,
the guys stole more than Laguda Beach, the Lagoda Beaches
not what a you're talking about? The west of the
four oh five. It's southeast there, your dad. It's still
west of the four. Four or five ends in Irvine,
and Lagoda Beach is just west of where the four
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or five in. Wow. The four or five is shaped
like an s. You can get there's an off ramp
you get off of. Yeah, but that's off the four
oh five, So screw you. Anyways, this guy stole more
than seven hundred tablets of cloroquinn um a few days ago.
Obviously was pot for that. I thought he could get
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away with it. He thought he was. It was a
perfect crime. He tried anyway at um. The total value
of those tablets nearly seven thousand dollars. So he's facing
a maximum four years and four months in jail. I
hope he enjoys that. I hope he enjoys that. Good luck.
They're like, there's a black market for that, like you
have to sell. I used to have a friend in
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San Diego that would get viagra from his doctor and
sell it to people for twenty five dollars a pill.
Is that dollars a fucking pill? Yes? Wow, believable. I
mean the whatever people take, like any kind of narcotic
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that's labeled on the you know you need the prescription
for people will pay a healthy amount. Viagra dolls. I
get you something you need it. I'm good? Are you well?
I know you? I know you have a lot though,
I mean you use it every every weekend. You got
plenty there. Yeah, and I never leave the city of
Los Angeles. Um are you? Are you? Are you armed?
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I am armed and dangerous. I got guns, I got diflects.
These are guns I got right here. I bring that
up because of this there's um there's new artificial intelligence
that's out there by a professor up in northern California,
was a graduate of cal Berkeley UM. The device, which
(14:16):
was in the m I T Technology Technology Review, actually
has artificial intelligence that can monitor people's movements when they're
out on the streets and detect that they're keeping in
close are far enough proximity? Do the coronavirus outbreak? This
is George orwell night for big brother Big brothers watching you?
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How you dealing with that. I don't care this, and
you know what, it doesn't bother me. I don't as
long as they don't like arrest me. That would be
uh that. You know, I don't like fascism and all that.
But there you go. Well it's just your your civil
liberties been. I mean, you don't want me looked upon? No,
I don't want to be looking of course, nobody wants
to be looked upon. Who wants to be looked upon?
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Nobody wants to be looked upon. It's obvious. I just
saw the story A man has eating six hundred cheese
steaks in the last two years and the coronavirus is
not stopping him. What was the last time you had
a cheese steak? Well, I had a homemade cheese steak
which was fucking amazing, and I probably will make one
neither today or in the next couple of days. I
love the cheese steak. It is the number one sandwich.
(15:24):
It is the most great. I mean that guy Fats,
it was Fats in Philly. Is he the guy that
ate the six hundred cheese steaks? This guy's fifty seven
years old and he lives in Philadelphia, though, right that's
if you live in Philadelphia. When in Rome, act like
a Rome, do as the Romans. When in Philadelphia, do
as the Philadelphias. And I agree. If you live in
the Delaware Valley you eat five hundred seventy eight cheese steaks,
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why not, that's Philadelphia. You You're not really having a
proper Philly Chase steak where you're at in the I am.
I I have. I'll tell you why. Because I get
the bread. I go there's a smart and Final market
that has the rolls from Philadelphia. I get the authentic
pro bolone cheese. I get the thin, thin sliced ribby,
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and then I chop up the onions and the bell
peppers and all that and then mix it all together. Yeah,
you can't tell me. I don't know. I've been to
Philadelphia and eating the real thing. I've eaten the authentic
cheese steaks, so I know what the real cheese steak
taste like, and I can make a good knockoff version
of the cheese steaks. Cooking is not that good. I
want to point out the gut what's wrong. That's gonna
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be deleted on the podcast. Right. My cooking is great.
I've actually gone to the cheese steak place, and I've
watched how they make the cheese like. I've looked at
like I have the same. I even bought. This is
how in the cheese steak. I got a griddle. I
bought a griddle. I put on the barbecue and I
got the same You know that flipper, that pie flipper thing.
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I got that. That's how they make the cheese steak,
and that's how they chop up the ribbon I got.
I got the same tools. I'm qualified. Once this radio
doesn't work out anymore, I could make cheesesteaks for a living.
I would trust Blind Scott on a phone call more
than I trust you cooking. I don't start with that
guy that he just spanned my inbox this week. I don't.
I don't want to talk about him. A nightmare. That
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guy has turned out to be the last week. He
needs to snap out of that quick. I got a
lot of uh I since the purge, there's a lot
of people that really sucked up to you. They're now
coming to to the good side here, and uh I
just want to let them know that I'm a good,
capable shoulder of the cry on. So if you need
any talking through and Ben's being mean to you. You
come over, make sure to give you a following. Another
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night in shining armor there, David Gascon, all right, night
and shining on the damsel in distress yet again, what
a hero. I don't think you have any damsels? Do
many beautiful damsels, and apparently they're all in distress. According
to you, they're all in distress. That's what we got
for not sticking to sports. All right, let's go to
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the mail bag. These are actual questions from actual listeners.
Will get right into it. We will not waste any time.
No lollygaggy, no grab bass. This is from Matt in Mansfield, Texas.
He says, Guys, I'm getting used to seeing and hearing
people in the media broadcast from separate places rather than
being in a studio together. Do you think that this
will continue post shutdown? And to what extent? So from
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Matt in Mansfields, Texas. Well, that's a great question, Matt,
and I know there's some people in radio that I've
dealt with that are very concerned that this is going
to become the new permanent, not the new normal, just
the new permanent. I am optimistic that it's not going
to be like this. I got like that. As I
said in an earlier episode, I would like to do
the show occasionally from home, even when things get back
(18:41):
to normal, but I still would rather go into the
radio station. And I got into radio to go into
the radio station. But I do think that some broadcast
companies will say, hey, we can save money. Costs a
lot of money to put those TV studios together. It
was a lot of money for the radio studios, the
infrastructure and all that stuff. And if you can sit
save that by not having the people actually go there
(19:02):
and still have the product. A lot of people who
are frugal trying to cut corners will be like, hey,
that's the way to do it. We can save some money. Now,
there are hosts of Fox Sports Rael that do come
into the student to do their show. Why have you not, Well,
I'm glad you have. Scott Shapiro told me that under
the California guidelines and the federal guidelines and all that
(19:22):
stuff that they the I Heart Media Mandate was for
most of their talent to work from home. And I
was on the list of important integral talent essential that
needed to work from home. And I don't know what's
going on with the other guys. I you can ask
them if you want, I can give you their phone numbers.
I don't know who you're referring to, but if you
want to talk to any of them and you know,
say why are you coming into work? And you're free
(19:44):
to do that. But uh, that that's my situation. I
was asked by management to not come in for an
extended period until this is done, and so I'm following
instructions not to answer Matt's question too. A lot of
college networks actually do this, are ready, they've been doing
it for several years, Like the Pac twelve and the
Big ten do it where they'll have their home operations
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taking place at their network sites. They'll have different edit
base for producers and graphics and a director and a
producer that all camp out there, and sometimes they'll even
have the broadcasters in those same edit bays, and all
they'll do is they'll take an internet feed from the
actual campus with two or three videographers or static cameras,
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and then that's how they broadcast the games. So yeah,
when you think about condensing and having these things brought
down a little bit, it makes sense. On to certain degrees.
But yeah, like you said, Ben, it's just something intimate
and great about being in the studio where you can
actually like work with everybody in here. I know you
don't like to work with everybody that you work with,
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but being here in the same building and just adds
a little bit different of an element as opposed to
working at home on your backside with most most people,
those that watched like television news, you want to see
the anchors side by side on the set, you know,
that's what. You don't want to see them in their kitchen,
in their living room and all that. Alright, Mike from Boston, Right, guys,
(21:14):
why did the Pilgrims have buckles on their hats? Then? Um,
I guess they probably had extra buckles and they thought
it was like a fashion statement. They're like, hey, why
not be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
All of my hat and my buckle on my pants
(21:36):
match Angel writes. It says, Sir Benjamin, what is your
favorite way to gamble your money away in the casino?
Not including sports wagering? Well, I've mentioned that I like
playing Roulette. I know people say, oh, you shouldn't play
roulette the odds or against you, but I like roulette.
I have a system that has done pretty well for me,
although it only works at the tables. It doesn't work
(21:56):
on video roulette. UM, so I've done pretty well with that,
and I've I've occasionally followed around the craps table and
you know, following somebody quote unquote and air quotes gets hot. Uh,
and I'll follow them around and you know, piggyback their bets,
ride their coat tails for a little bit. But that's
(22:17):
pretty much and not mostly a sports book guy. What
about you? Guess? Yeah, I'm craps in blackjack. If I
want to be patient, I always go to craps. But
that's because I don't play the traditional way. UM. I
don't want to say I fade the table, but I'll play.
There's certain spots on the table you can play where
the percentages are awfully low, like four's and tens. So
(22:40):
I'll play the no tens and no fours. I don't
know if you've ever done that before, if you know
what that has been, but that's the Uh, that's the
one staple of the game that I will play more
often than not. So you bet against the four and
the ten. Yeah, so what happens is the payout is
extremely low. It's it's one to two. The odds are
one to two, so I have to lay fifty dollars
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to win, and I don't lose money unless someone rolls
a four. But I don't win money unless someone rolls
a seven. So if the point is the six and
someone rolls a seven, everyone craps out, but I win.
But if it's the but if it's the opening role
and I'm on a No. Four or No. Ten, someone
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rolls a seven, everybody in the table wins and then
includes me too. But it's very, very slow. Well, we
do a tutorial podcast on how to win it, craps. Yeah,
we can do that whenever we go back, if we're
allowed to. Well, they say Vegas is gonna be opening
up soon. Alright, I think sin will be opened up
and find out with the mayor. Al right. Carlos in
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Houston says, hey, Ben, what's the origin story of Angry Bill?
And he's he really into beast reality. Carlos, A great question.
I don't know. I don't know Angry Bill in real
life He's just a character that calls the show. He
lives in Jacksonville's him Nutley, New Jersey. And he really
became known in the Mallard Militia a couple of years
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back when there were people getting drilled. It was like
a shooting gallery at baseball games, and this became a
big story, and then they were debating whether to put
nets up or not. And I was in the anti
net category at that. You know, just pay attention. You're
not gonna have had baseball games for a hundred years.
It's relatively safe considering all the people that go to
baseball games. It's not like a shooting gallery. And so
(24:26):
I did a monologue about that, and Angry Bill, who
was just Bill, called up and so what about a
nine year old girl? You know that whole thing, And
so that led to the legend of Angry Bill, the
lunatic that screams in the radio. And he we know,
he got busted for bank robbery at one point, so
(24:46):
he's got that on his resume. And I don't know
that he actually is into b steality. I don't know
many people who are actually into b steality would promote
the fact that they're into be stiality. I think that
would be something that you just kid about but not
actually do. But I'd like to think that he doesn't
do it, but I don't so. Uh. Next one from
Richard in Texas, Ben, is it possible to have j
Moore fill in when you have a night off? Al Right?
(25:09):
First of all, I don't take nights off. That's number one.
Number two, JA no longer works at the company, so
and he hasn't worked at the company for years. So
I'm I'm gonna go x nay on the j r
mo A. I think that you just take the last
letter and then put at the beginning of the world.
That's pig Latin, right, Yeah, so it would be Jay's
(25:31):
name would be h y j r MO I think
would be his name and pig lab But but no,
I like that you like J and I like j J. J.
J was nice when he worked at the company. We
got along pretty good, and people said we had a
similar style our styles of radio. But I don't know
what JA is up to these days. Uh, Checky writes,
(25:51):
and he says, Ben, can you please replace gascon or
make him be interesting or knowledgeable in future editions of
the fifth That's from from Shacky. Well, Shacky, that's a
great question. We have been trying to make gas Got
interesting or at least knowledgeable, and so far we have failed.
We have failed, but we will still fight the good fight,
(26:12):
and we we hope you know it's not we haven't
completely given up. We haven't completely given up. I'm just
here from my good looks. Is that what it is?
I don't know why are you here? I'm not sure.
A couple of reasons. I mean, one is uh, I
inspired you to do this podcasts last year. I motivated
(26:34):
you to this podcast last year. I don't know. You
didn't inspire me. What happened was I was working at
w e I in Boston. I was I was doing shows.
I was double dipping, double doing the w e I thing.
And then what happened to the magic of radio network
(26:54):
radio the Ben Maller Show, which was not on a
big station of the Boston market. We were actually on
a political station on the AM dial that nobody even
knew we were on. We got shifted to five, the
Sports Hub, which is a blowtorch of a station. Unfortunately,
it is a rival, a blood rival of w e
I and the Boston Radio wars and so I can't
(27:16):
I couldn't still work at w e I, and I
wanted to do something in addition to the radio show,
and so that led to the podcast. Well, I like
that you're taking credit for the fact that I lost
the w e I gig, not that I got fired.
I got removed because they couldn't keep me on. I
was on a competing station. It's not entirely accurate because
we were talking about doing Benny Versus the Penny on
a podcast edition only as opposed to on your shell. So, um, yeah,
(27:41):
that's a lie. Why would you lie to people like that.
I'm not lying at all. There's no lie at all.
There's no lie at all talking about removing Benny versus
the Penny so you wouldn't be broken up with the
commercial breaks. So now that's that's part of it, but
that's not the main driving force behind that's true. Um,
moy Is is from den Verses. Hey Ben, as a
(28:03):
proud man, what hurts more to you? And gag on
a saying paying off a bet or saying sorry, all right,
well I've always paid off my bets number one, as
you know, a Moyses, I always pay off my bets.
When I lose a bet, I pay off. That's when
when you gamble, that's part of gambling. You lose a bet,
you gotta pay off the bet. That's how it works, uh,
saying sorry? I think in a public setting, I've often
(28:26):
done rants about this with public figures. When you apologize,
it just is a bad situation, it really is. You know,
in in individual one on one deals, then you should
absolutely apologize, right, you should absolutely apologize for bad behavior.
Right as an adult, you know, and you're you're taught
(28:47):
that that you know your apology, you acknowledge the mistake
and you atoned for it and all that stuff. But
when you're a public figure, the rules are different. It's
a bad idea because the normal rules of social behavior
or do not carry over to that particular world. Because
when you apologize, then there's seven thousand other people. So
(29:07):
you should have done this also, and you should apologize
for this, and it never ends. So I'm gonna go apology.
What about you? Guess? I hate paying off bets. I
hate losing. You lose a lot, No, I don't. I
think the worst bet that I had to pay off
was the one that I had with the with the
colleague of ours. Brian No, we had bet on the
Super Bowl a few years ago, Patriots and Seahawks, and
(29:27):
he is an absolute ball washing double fisting of Russell Wilson.
He's he loves that guy. And oddly enough, he took
the Patriots to win that Super Bowl. And I said,
you know, and I'll take Russell Wilson in the Seattle Seahawks.
And you know, we bet like a hundred fifty bucks
and I losing that fucking pick in the end zone
and it it's burned with me ever since. So probably
(29:52):
the worst bet that I had to pay off. Fox
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he says, who's the one person in your industry right
now that you would like to baby powder slap? And
(30:13):
he says, by the way, mine is gag On, that's
the one I would like to for the way he parks,
that's from Johnny. Well, that's a great answer, David Gagan,
is a fine answer. I think everyone in the business
would like to just bitch slap, David Gascon, and I
think that is I always said baby powder slap. I'm sorry,
and there's no one be able to get away with that.
Though it's different like you could say that like on
Twitter or through like an email, like you can get
(30:35):
away with it there, you can't get away with it
in person, especially the media hacks out here. You'd probably
tired halfway putting through the baby patter on your hand
little and trying to wind up for a slap. Wow,
are you are you done here? Are you well? I'm
still you're still going? Sorry? Yeah, calm down, you know,
everything will be okay. I was channeling my inner blind Scott. Yeah. Oh,
(30:57):
let's see here. What's next? Answer the question who would
you want to who would you want to slap? It's
inappropriate if I answer that question. Oh, you're such a
soft still working in the business. You're not really working,
so you can answer it, you know. Kevin writes, since
there is a question for gag on, do you wear leggings?
I do wear leggings exactly. We're leggings when I play hockey,
(31:22):
leggings I wear. First of all, I'm considerate because I
wear leggings when I play hockey because my leg pads.
All right, we don't need the whole song a day
you were legs Okay, he has to pads will move
all over the place, and where leggings when I trained
because I swept like a bastard. All right, lou from
the LBC rights and he says, when this pandemic is over,
(31:43):
will you be taking a family trip together to Europe?
Uh no, No, I'm gonna go to Europe at some point,
but I got to get another job that pays a
little more money. Here we go, Here we go, before
that happens. So tiny tiny violin on sad you're using again.
You're using mine with your A thief in the night
(32:03):
is what you are. You're using my trademark material, smallest violin.
I've been using that line for years. Bad job by you.
I can't I can't take a trip to Europe because
I don't have the job that allows me to work
from home save money on gas and haircuts and everything else.
But it's fine, Well no, I'm saving money and listen,
I but I you know, year, I'm worried. I'm not
(32:26):
gonna fit in cars in the hotel. You walk everywhere
you're not in cars. Who cares? Get a bus, get
a bus pass, get a ticket. I don't know because
of the corona, man, I might get cooties from someone
I don't know. Mack, you know, I'm sorry. I was
flashing back to like when I'm reading I was seeing
on the news. All right. Uh, here's when Darryl in
Nevada says, will you now be a Buccaneer fan that
(32:49):
Tom Brady and Gronk are in Tampa. Uh, Darryl, No,
I'm not gonna be a Bucketeer fan. However, I would
love an old school nineteen seventies Buccketeer hat with that
orange logo with the the knife the knife in the
mouth there. I love that logo size eight by the way,
if you want to send out the Fox Sports radio.
But but no, I will not be a buckety fan.
(33:09):
But we will talk about the Bucketeers. They will become
one of the glamour teams. So Tampa moves up the
pecking order of the NFL and they become one of
the teams that we're gonna talk about until Brady gets
hurt and Gronk gets hurt. But they will move up
the list absolutely. Ja in Scottsville, Kentucky. He's listening to
the podcast he writes in he says, if you could
only be stuck with one style of music, between rap
(33:32):
or death metal, what would you choose death? Yeah, I'm
going death metal. Yeah, I'm going death metal. Also give
me the death metal. IFEK, that's easy. I don't think
that's hard at all. Uh. Bennett forced to abandon the
Dodgers for another team, Who would you be choosing? Jay
also asked, well, yeah, I like the Red Sox also
from my time doing Boston radio. But I'm a Dodger
(33:53):
guy at my heart, and I like the Red Sox
a little bit, but mostly the Dodgers. Uh. Let's see
truck driver Joe for um. The Pocono's right. So he says,
if you had twenty four hours to be in be
any kind of animal in the world, what would you
be and why? That's a good question. That's a fascinating
question by trucker Joe. I like that. These are the
(34:14):
kind of questions I would like to get more of
a good job by you, trucker Joe. Um. All right,
so I got to I got two choice number one
the you know what, the largest animal in the world
is guess are you aware of this? The largest living,
breathing animal in the world on planet Earth? You know
what it is to be a whale? Right? Uh? Yeah,
it's a blue whale. The blue whale is the largest animal.
(34:36):
Wouldn't it be kind of cool to be swimming free
in the ocean and go anyway? I guess. I guess
you only have to worry about those nets. But how
don't do they catch blue whales? I don't know, harpoon
a blue whale? But these things are massive, right, the
blue whale is insanely used to be that animal and
to travel around, and then the other one would just
be like a lion, right, that would be pretty cool
(34:57):
to walk around and have that everyone shipping of pants
all the other animals in the animal kingdom, or or
a rhino to have that rhinos get any of those
big what about you guess? Well, one of them was
gonna be whale. So if it's not a whale, I'd
say a shark. How about a colossal squid? Would you
like to be a colossal square? If I were to
be in the water, to be a shark, But if
follows on surface or an air, I'd be a bald eagle.
(35:19):
Another one will be alligator. All right, wouldn't you like
a gator? A lot of fear factor around gators, at
least for humans. Yeah, but you can't carry, you can't
cover a lot of ground. Yeah, and you have those
little alligator arms too, like alligator arms murder. Here we go,
here we go. Point that out and just take a
shot at a harmless, successful rookie quarterback. It's fine, not
very good. He fell apart. The league found out his
(35:42):
ability at the end of the year. He didn't play
well the last five weeks. Look up the numbers. Uh,
he was very poor at the last of five weeks
or so. All right, Uh, here's another one. Didn't I
get the name on this wire? People in the sports
media constantly mixing their metaphors. It's firing not clicking on
all sudden ers. So this guy is triggered by metaphors
(36:03):
being messed up. Well, yeah, let me let me explain
something to you. First of all, you shouldn't care. You're
your little anal retentive if you care about this kind
of stuff. Secondly, it's just word salad. All these idiots,
these blow hards, gas bags like myself, all try to
be cute. We all are saying the same thing and
we're just trying to say it differently to stand out.
That's essentially what we're all doing, right, We're all saying
(36:23):
the same ship all day long. We're just trying to
repackage it and put bells and whistles on it. That's
essentially what our job is, right. I mean, we don't
have a lot of hosts that do listener color Power
hours and just check out. You're so jealous, you do
not you don't want to share the shine. You don't
want to share the shine. You don't want to share
(36:45):
the glory, the glory with other people. You're so selfish.
You are so selfish, you schmuck. All right, our friend
Tom from Folks and Tom's a funny guy. I like
this guy Tom. He's a Charger fan. And I was
born in Fullerton. Did you know that, guest gun I
was born popped out of my mom's womb at hospital
in Fullerton. About that anyway? Uh, this person Tom writes
(37:07):
and says best food ever eating at a sporting event.
All right, this is easy, and I hate doing it
because it's the hated hegantes. But the first time garlic
fries became a thing for me was at a Giant's
game and I think that was I might have been
even a candlestick. He was either a candlesticker. It was
the first week of the new ballpark which they opened up.
(37:28):
But I love that. And then I've said this for years,
the greatest hot dog I've ever had is the Finway
Monster Dog. The Finway Monster Dog is the perfect cot dog.
I remember I was at a cold night. It was
a Red Sox Blue Jay's game at Finway, and I
was I happen to have access to get around. Family
were on the Green Monster and it was a cold
(37:48):
night and I had that Monster Dog. My god, was
that great greatest hot dog I've ever had? What about you, Gas?
What did you have on the monster Dog? Uh, it's
not like a mustard and little catchup? Yeah, that's it.
You're it's a great hot dog. It's it's Oh, it's amazing.
I can't believe it's my list. You can have your
(38:09):
own list. It's my list though, all right, you do
you won't even answer. You such a pussy willow. Jason says,
I have an interest in listening to a verbal octagon
between Justin and Cincinnati and Curly sue Justin Cooper? Who
would win? Man, Well, listen, Coop. Now Coop would win,
And I'll tell you why because Cooper has the ultimate
(38:32):
gatekeeper power and he would just mute Justin and Cincinnati,
So Coop would win. That that's not even close. Uh,
let's hear Major Matthew says, reporting live in Miami's listening
to the podcast in Miami says home of the metaphysically
sports analysis. Uh weed man hippie says, Uh. Question social
distancing in the concession stand and bathroom policies are blank?
(38:58):
Will the fans stop doing the wave? He wants to know?
All right, Now, here's the thing. I think it will
definitely be some adjustments. I was reading a story this
week about that. Maybe I'll do a monologue next week
about it. Where they're talking about you know, limiting. You know,
you come in the arena, you only go to your seat.
You can't go anywhere other than your seat, which seems
(39:20):
what if somebody has to take a ship? You know,
that seems like a problem. Um, and you know, different
little things like that. The other thing I think about,
when until this gets settled down, if you do allow
fans back. One of the traditions going to a ballgame
is you get like a bag of peanuts and then
they pass it down the road. I don't think that
will be happening anytime soon. I think that will will
in that tradition, just as long as they don't get
(39:43):
rid of those those peanut vendors though, because some of
those guys have rifle arms. Is that right? Yeah? I
mean when you're go to Dodger Stadium, there's like the
older guys, like fifty sixty years old that can still
chuck it up a couple of rows and get guns.
Let me say, and I forget the guy's name, Frank
and l I knows. The guy's name was Buddies with
a guy that worked at Dodger Stadium and Staples Center.
(40:05):
He passed away last year. Great fucking guy he worked
at like he was at like Ebbittsfield in Brooklyn, and
he had told me stories that was just wonderful his
whole life, like hawking peanuts and nachos and all that stuff.
And those guys have great stories to tell from being
at the ballpark and stuff, you know, interacting with the
fans and all that and I met a guy when
(40:27):
I was in Boston. Thats uh. He worked at Finway.
He worked at Finway for like forty or fifty years
or something like that. And you know, older guy living
out in mccape and with his wife who was a
big fan of the show and forced him to listen
to the show, and and uh, and he was telling
me stories about you know, back in the eighties at
Fenway with Conseco and some of the crazy stuff even
before that. So it was I love hearing those old stories. Great,
(40:50):
all right, you want us to put the baby to bed?
Is that what you're you're wanting wanting us to do? Here?
Guess not a want. But I'm getting checked out of
my domin here. Good. So there was a positive message,
so I don't have to the positive message from Patricia
in Vegas, who's a fan girl of yours, so I
don't need to read read at least. Well, no, you
said we were up against it. It's fine. You can
give her my number and email address. Here we go,
(41:11):
dirty dog you Yeah, she says, how did you end
up with David Gascon as your partner for the podcast?
She's a big fan. I volunteered. No, Well, management just
put us together. It was not money because management knows
what my name is. Let alone very important to the company.
You're essential. That's what you're still going into the studio.
(41:32):
You're essential. It's not essential. Matt and Rochester, New York says, Hey, So,
if you were granted the ability to be the goat
of an obscure sport such as curling, corn hole, et cetera,
what sport would you pick? I know what you would pick.
I'm gonna say, let's see. Uh all, yeah, you guess
what go ahead. It'd be acts throwing. No, although that
(41:54):
would be good. Like that would be that is machiesmo
cutting down trees and stuff like that. That's pretty good.
I would go major league eating, though it'd be like
Joey chestnot. Come on, it's too easy. No, it's not easy.
You try to eat seven thousand tacos in ten minutes.
You can't do it. No, I'm easy for you, like
you ate your entire life. Not anymore, though I've been
(42:14):
I eat like twice during the week. It's not it's
not the same man. Back in the old days, I could,
I could do it, but yeah, cutting down would would
be uh you know those power lumber competitions pretty good. Well,
not only those, but you get certain guys that throw
those little um they throw the little axes, a little
pick axes that they throw a targets now yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's pretty good too. Yeah. All right, listen, that is it.
(42:35):
Thank you, another weekend in the books. Were back on
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depending on when you're listening to this podcast. Two am
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(01:05):
Very conny to properly introduce me saying that loud and
proud gas con Have you sent Doc Mike any money
for coming up with your nickname? Have you sent him
any kid? Doc Mike? I was no Mike. I got
my Mike's mixed up. That's a bad job by me,
the great Mike North, Chicago radio legend, one of my
heroes in radio, Mike North, fearless, that guy fearless prepared
(01:30):
called me by the right name, and uh was promptly
left Fox Sports Radio a couple of weeks after that.
The that was the funniest when I first heard the
gag on Drop, Oh my god, that was hilarious. Was
it really like, can you take me through that please?
So let's romanticize. I loved you. I was a lead
(01:51):
in for Mike North and Andy Furman when they did
the Morning Show, and I love both those guys because Furman's,
you know, a classic radio guy, you know, paranoid like
everybody else, and and it's it was great. I've I
met them. It came out, did some shows from l
A and we got to hang out with them, and
it was really good. Guys. Love hanging out with like
lifetime radio guys. You know, we all have the same
(02:12):
wartz that we have to deal with. But my favorite
part of that show was like during the breaks when
the producer would be like hey, you know, they tell
like Andy, hey, Andy, you messed that, or they tell
Doc They're like, Doc, you messed up something or not
Doc uh Mike North I came on and call him
Doc Mike. But because you know, I hear Chicago, I
think Doc Mike. But there was a Mike. He messed
(02:33):
something up and then Mike would get excited when they
tell Andy that he messed up. He loved was the
greatest thing in the world. But but those guys were
were wild man, just absolutely crazy. And uh, Mike's doing
well local Chicago radio now and and he's still on
Fox Sports Radio and he still does stuff in Cincinnati,
so they're still doing their things, so that's good. Yeah,
(02:55):
Jonas was the producer for them for a little while,
and he used to tell me some great stories with
those guys when obviously behind the scenes, off the microphone
type of stuff. And yeah, half the ship that they
set off the air would would get them fired to me,
but it was it was wonderful. It was some of
the some of the rants that they would go on
were hilarious. And every once in a while, like they
(03:17):
would say something on the air, they would let one
slip past the goaltender and be like, oha, wait a minute,
called into the principal's office. There that's a problem that's
a bad job. So coming up on today's edition of
the podcast, we have a we did pop quiz yesterday,
we did study this yesterday. Today we have the inbox.
But before we get to the inbox, we begin with
(03:40):
don't stick to sports. These are the bizarro stories of
the week. What is on the menu? Hear Gaestcard, this
is your playground. What's on the menu? Well, I think
the first thing we need to acknowledge is that month
to date, band we're up nine in total downloads. That
is absolutely amazing, pretty good. How awesome is that? That
is good? Of course we're doing two extra shows a week,
(04:01):
so at the point that we might be. But even
during the NFL season, we didn't see this kind of
outreach downloads. Wild man, I'm I'm I'm getting it. You
know the radio show. More people are listening now than ever.
They're watching you too. It's amazing. I think I think that.
I think it's such. I think it's like it's fascinating
(04:21):
that you're putting yourself out there. I really encouraged by
the uh, the type of nature that you've gone about this.
They're showing my masculinity you're doing you have got a
lot of cestosterone. Yeah, I have. And I like to
show people that you're machismo, that the real extrovert coming
into this. Now you're progressive, you have that vision. That's uh,
it's fascinating. Um, other stick you'd like to to spit
(04:45):
out of your mouth. There's your routine over or you've
got more rhetoric. I got more rhetoric. But how about this,
Um Minneapolis, Minnesota. You've you've visited there right, only the
airport a few times, only the air But I need
to go out. I need to go I was planning
on going to Minnesota this year. I was gonna do Minnesota,
do a Millard meet and greet in the Twin Cities.
We had Vegas this weekend. We were supposed to be
(05:06):
in Vegas hanging out with Queen rocks In and some
of the other big stars Robin Vegas and yeah, I
think Jay Scoop was gonna come down from Seattle, some
of the big stars of the mall um wish We're
gonna unite and have an NFL draft party. Yeah that sucks.
That did not happen obviously, so but yeah, I gotta
get to Minnesota hang out. We had so many great
listeners in Minnesota that are big fans of the show.
(05:27):
But I have not done much traveling around Minnesota. What
what do we need to know about Minnia. The reason
why I bring that up is because of this. A
man led police in a high speed chase on the
Indiana Toll Road, reportedly because he said he thought troopers
wanted to race him. This is last night or a
couple of nights ago, excuse me, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Man
(05:48):
found himself. He went to jail for not stopping when
Indiana State troopers were on pursuit of him. And uh,
it happened to the guys from Minnesota, but this happened
in Indiana. Yeah, okay, so uh it's happened right around
nine ten o'clock at night too. And he was he
was not toxicated. But he basically went from the crossover,
(06:10):
uh near the ninety six mile marker on the Indiana
Toll Road and police observed him in his Mustang. He
was driving a hundred and twenty miles per hour on
the understate. You're going seventy miles, bro, that's the maximum
speed limits. So what's the fastest you've driven in late
night hours? There? I will acknowledge a hundred and sixteen. Yeah.
(06:35):
I once I get over, like ve, I started freaking
out because I'm like, if one thing fucking goes wrong here, yeah,
it's lights out, parties over, you're dead. Um. We just
saw that with that NFL player right that died. He
was speeding, they said, and that led to oh yeah,
was it to Various Jackson? Uh to Various? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(06:58):
exactly exactly. Um I drove. I think the speed that
was in with that was an old school Honda prelude.
I don't know if you remember those cars, but had
our next girl from back in the day that owned
one before, um, I would have been smoke and uh yeah,
I hit the accelerator a little too hard. But anyways, Yeah,
can you imagine you're having a hundred twenty miles per
hour on an interstate I can imagine thinking, hey, there's
(07:22):
nobody around. But that was at nine o'clock at night, right, Yeah,
one thing like in the middle of the night, But
what the heck, what's going on? Yeah? Pretty nice thing
about this though, is he was pretty elusive with what
he was doing. Um they were pursuing him, and he
also was able to avoid not only the pursuit, but
those stop sticks that assisted troopers. Um. They had him
(07:43):
set up on the on the interstate and he was
able to turn off a couple of different times and
then get back on the road. So um, little Bonnie
and Cloude action, that's pretty nice. Wow, that's wow. Man,
that's good. That's a good thing to tell the police.
Those you know, I thought you just guys want to race,
you know, fust this thin could go by, not wait
to do it? Um. I know some of your listeners
(08:04):
get a little loose with their lips on the radio
with you all the time. How many of them are
pretty active on social media too? Uh well, a lot
of these guys get blocked. They have to change accounts
and all that stuff. It's it's an endless struggle most
of them. All right. Well, New York Daily Post is
reporting a new study that's out there that Daily Post
(08:26):
or the Daily News. No New York Post. I thought
you said, you said Daily Post you can find sorry
New York Post. Um, they have a new study out
that's that's been prevalent with the coronavirus, that's sexting as
skyrocketed with the stay at home orders in place, right
now so not only sexting, but also tweets um for
(08:48):
dudes looking for for nudes and also guys that are
shipping off crank pis to to the females. Reportedly, the
study has it it's an increase of two and it's
gonna three hundred and eighty four percent from the beginning
of March to where we're at in April right now?
Is that right? But that look at that way to go?
(09:09):
How about that? Everybody? You got nothing else to do?
So send the photos around? Why not? That makes sense? Now?
When you're when that in porn consumption must be through
the roof on the Porner website. Have they gone I don't.
I haven't looked recently, guest, and you look at that
stuff all the time at porn. Have they gone to
coronavirus theme porn where the women are wearing masks and
all that? Yet? Not? Yeah, that's that's gonna be a
(09:32):
new S and M category. And but I'm sure they'll
come to, uh, to a porn studio near you we live,
because when we got a couple got a couple of
cities here that are known for a Chatsworth is one right? Uh? Well, yeah,
Chatsworth is thenecca. That's the Vegas is the gambling mecca.
Chatsworth is the porno mecca. That's where I think they
(09:55):
still all live in either Chatsworth or adjacent to Chatsworth. Yeah. Yeah,
they still do a lot of that. So and you
you worked in porn for several years. That's how you
got your start in media. You were a porn actor
for many years from porn, went from I went from
porn to sports talk radio very similar exactly. Be sure
(10:19):
to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app. How about this.
A man in Louisiana is a little piste off because
he received the stimulus check. Ben. It's not for the
reason you think. He was mad that he had not
received the full amount, so he set his mom's shed
(10:41):
on fire. It seems reasonable. Man. Yeah, one year old
man was so mad last week that he lit his
mother's shed on fire. That's according to Louisiana Oppoe State Police.
Uh saying that so special. Shoutout this time of the
year when you need your taxpayer dollars. Coming back to
(11:02):
you and you say it's not enough. I need a
little bit more. Mom, Mom, where am I at? That's
not unhinge at all. That's I think most normal rational
people be like, hey, you know, that's like, what was
that movie Stepbrothers. That's like something that would happen in
that movie Stepbrothers and another Stepbrothers. Move by the way,
you've been watching You've been watching what the Sopranos? Yeah,
(11:22):
that's been my thing here, going back through the Sopranos
and catching up on those shows and watching documentaries that's
mostly would have been doing. Yeah, fair enough. Um, how
about this here in Los Angeles, a former pharmacy technician
has been charged with stealing antimillaria tablets. Really yeah, it's
the city of Torrance. It's right next to me in
(11:43):
the South Bay. He was charging two filony counts. Probably
know the second degree burglary, No, I don't. I looked.
Everyone works to the four or five knows, everyone wants
to the four or five us all hang out together,
you little bougie parties and all that stuff. I'd like
to call that Manhattan Beach. You know Ata Monica, I know,
I know Marina del Ray, I know the whole thing
(12:03):
at all, Venice, Beverly Hills, nothing, Malibu, Malibu boo. Yeah,
the guys stole more than Laguda Beach, the Lagoda Beaches
not what a you're talking about? The west of the
four oh five. It's southeast there, your dad. It's still
west of the four. Four or five ends in Irvine,
and Lagoda Beach is just west of where the four
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or five in. Wow. The four or five is shaped
like an s. You can get there's an off ramp
you get off of. Yeah, but that's off the four
oh five, So screw you. Anyways, this guy stole more
than seven hundred tablets of cloroquinn um a few days ago.
Obviously was pot for that. I thought he could get
(12:47):
away with it. He thought he was. It was a
perfect crime. He tried anyway at um. The total value
of those tablets nearly seven thousand dollars. So he's facing
a maximum four years and four months in jail. I
hope he enjoys that. I hope he enjoys that. Good luck.
They're like, there's a black market for that, like you
have to sell. I used to have a friend in
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San Diego that would get viagra from his doctor and
sell it to people for twenty five dollars a pill.
Is that dollars a fucking pill? Yes? Wow, believable. I
mean the whatever people take, like any kind of narcotic
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that's labeled on the you know you need the prescription
for people will pay a healthy amount. Viagra dolls. I
get you something you need it. I'm good? Are you well?
I know you? I know you have a lot though,
I mean you use it every every weekend. You got
plenty there. Yeah, and I never leave the city of
Los Angeles. Um are you? Are you? Are you armed?
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I am armed and dangerous. I got guns, I got diflects.
These are guns I got right here. I bring that
up because of this there's um there's new artificial intelligence
that's out there by a professor up in northern California,
was a graduate of cal Berkeley UM. The device, which
(14:16):
was in the m I T Technology Technology Review, actually
has artificial intelligence that can monitor people's movements when they're
out on the streets and detect that they're keeping in
close are far enough proximity? Do the coronavirus outbreak? This
is George orwell night for big brother Big brothers watching you?
(14:40):
How you dealing with that. I don't care this, and
you know what, it doesn't bother me. I don't as
long as they don't like arrest me. That would be
uh that. You know, I don't like fascism and all that.
But there you go. Well it's just your your civil
liberties been. I mean, you don't want me looked upon? No,
I don't want to be looking of course, nobody wants
to be looked upon. Who wants to be looked upon?
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Nobody wants to be looked upon. It's obvious. I just
saw the story A man has eating six hundred cheese
steaks in the last two years and the coronavirus is
not stopping him. What was the last time you had
a cheese steak? Well, I had a homemade cheese steak
which was fucking amazing, and I probably will make one
neither today or in the next couple of days. I
love the cheese steak. It is the number one sandwich.
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It is the most great. I mean that guy Fats,
it was Fats in Philly. Is he the guy that
ate the six hundred cheese steaks? This guy's fifty seven
years old and he lives in Philadelphia, though, right that's
if you live in Philadelphia. When in Rome, act like
a Rome, do as the Romans. When in Philadelphia, do
as the Philadelphias. And I agree. If you live in
the Delaware Valley you eat five hundred seventy eight cheese steaks,
(15:48):
why not, that's Philadelphia. You You're not really having a
proper Philly Chase steak where you're at in the I am.
I I have. I'll tell you why. Because I get
the bread. I go there's a smart and Final market
that has the rolls from Philadelphia. I get the authentic
pro bolone cheese. I get the thin, thin sliced ribby,
(16:08):
and then I chop up the onions and the bell
peppers and all that and then mix it all together. Yeah,
you can't tell me. I don't know. I've been to
Philadelphia and eating the real thing. I've eaten the authentic
cheese steaks, so I know what the real cheese steak
taste like, and I can make a good knockoff version
of the cheese steaks. Cooking is not that good. I
want to point out the gut what's wrong. That's gonna
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be deleted on the podcast. Right. My cooking is great.
I've actually gone to the cheese steak place, and I've
watched how they make the cheese like. I've looked at
like I have the same. I even bought. This is
how in the cheese steak. I got a griddle. I
bought a griddle. I put on the barbecue and I
got the same You know that flipper, that pie flipper thing.
(16:53):
I got that. That's how they make the cheese steak,
and that's how they chop up the ribbon I got.
I got the same tools. I'm qualified. Once this radio
doesn't work out anymore, I could make cheesesteaks for a living.
I would trust Blind Scott on a phone call more
than I trust you cooking. I don't start with that
guy that he just spanned my inbox this week. I don't.
I don't want to talk about him. A nightmare. That
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guy has turned out to be the last week. He
needs to snap out of that quick. I got a
lot of uh I since the purge, there's a lot
of people that really sucked up to you. They're now
coming to to the good side here, and uh I
just want to let them know that I'm a good,
capable shoulder of the cry on. So if you need
any talking through and Ben's being mean to you. You
come over, make sure to give you a following. Another
(17:37):
night in shining armor there, David Gascon, all right, night
and shining on the damsel in distress yet again, what
a hero. I don't think you have any damsels? Do
many beautiful damsels, and apparently they're all in distress. According
to you, they're all in distress. That's what we got
for not sticking to sports. All right, let's go to
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the mail bag. These are actual questions from actual listeners.
Will get right into it. We will not waste any time.
No lollygaggy, no grab bass. This is from Matt in Mansfield, Texas.
He says, Guys, I'm getting used to seeing and hearing
people in the media broadcast from separate places rather than
being in a studio together. Do you think that this
will continue post shutdown? And to what extent? So from
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Matt in Mansfields, Texas. Well, that's a great question, Matt,
and I know there's some people in radio that I've
dealt with that are very concerned that this is going
to become the new permanent, not the new normal, just
the new permanent. I am optimistic that it's not going
to be like this. I got like that. As I
said in an earlier episode, I would like to do
the show occasionally from home, even when things get back
(18:41):
to normal, but I still would rather go into the
radio station. And I got into radio to go into
the radio station. But I do think that some broadcast
companies will say, hey, we can save money. Costs a
lot of money to put those TV studios together. It
was a lot of money for the radio studios, the
infrastructure and all that stuff. And if you can sit
save that by not having the people actually go there
(19:02):
and still have the product. A lot of people who
are frugal trying to cut corners will be like, hey,
that's the way to do it. We can save some money. Now,
there are hosts of Fox Sports Rael that do come
into the student to do their show. Why have you not, Well,
I'm glad you have. Scott Shapiro told me that under
the California guidelines and the federal guidelines and all that
(19:22):
stuff that they the I Heart Media Mandate was for
most of their talent to work from home. And I
was on the list of important integral talent essential that
needed to work from home. And I don't know what's
going on with the other guys. I you can ask
them if you want, I can give you their phone numbers.
I don't know who you're referring to, but if you
want to talk to any of them and you know,
say why are you coming into work? And you're free
(19:44):
to do that. But uh, that that's my situation. I
was asked by management to not come in for an
extended period until this is done, and so I'm following
instructions not to answer Matt's question too. A lot of
college networks actually do this, are ready, they've been doing
it for several years, Like the Pac twelve and the
Big ten do it where they'll have their home operations
(20:07):
taking place at their network sites. They'll have different edit
base for producers and graphics and a director and a
producer that all camp out there, and sometimes they'll even
have the broadcasters in those same edit bays, and all
they'll do is they'll take an internet feed from the
actual campus with two or three videographers or static cameras,
(20:30):
and then that's how they broadcast the games. So yeah,
when you think about condensing and having these things brought
down a little bit, it makes sense. On to certain degrees.
But yeah, like you said, Ben, it's just something intimate
and great about being in the studio where you can
actually like work with everybody in here. I know you
don't like to work with everybody that you work with,
(20:50):
but being here in the same building and just adds
a little bit different of an element as opposed to
working at home on your backside with most most people,
those that watched like television news, you want to see
the anchors side by side on the set, you know,
that's what. You don't want to see them in their kitchen,
in their living room and all that. Alright, Mike from Boston, Right, guys,
(21:14):
why did the Pilgrims have buckles on their hats? Then? Um,
I guess they probably had extra buckles and they thought
it was like a fashion statement. They're like, hey, why
not be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
All of my hat and my buckle on my pants
(21:36):
match Angel writes. It says, Sir Benjamin, what is your
favorite way to gamble your money away in the casino?
Not including sports wagering? Well, I've mentioned that I like
playing Roulette. I know people say, oh, you shouldn't play
roulette the odds or against you, but I like roulette.
I have a system that has done pretty well for me,
although it only works at the tables. It doesn't work
(21:56):
on video roulette. UM, so I've done pretty well with that,
and I've I've occasionally followed around the craps table and
you know, following somebody quote unquote and air quotes gets hot. Uh,
and I'll follow them around and you know, piggyback their bets,
ride their coat tails for a little bit. But that's
(22:17):
pretty much and not mostly a sports book guy. What
about you? Guess? Yeah, I'm craps in blackjack. If I
want to be patient, I always go to craps. But
that's because I don't play the traditional way. UM. I
don't want to say I fade the table, but I'll play.
There's certain spots on the table you can play where
the percentages are awfully low, like four's and tens. So
(22:40):
I'll play the no tens and no fours. I don't
know if you've ever done that before, if you know
what that has been, but that's the Uh, that's the
one staple of the game that I will play more
often than not. So you bet against the four and
the ten. Yeah, so what happens is the payout is
extremely low. It's it's one to two. The odds are
one to two, so I have to lay fifty dollars
(23:00):
to win, and I don't lose money unless someone rolls
a four. But I don't win money unless someone rolls
a seven. So if the point is the six and
someone rolls a seven, everyone craps out, but I win.
But if it's the but if it's the opening role
and I'm on a No. Four or No. Ten, someone
(23:22):
rolls a seven, everybody in the table wins and then
includes me too. But it's very, very slow. Well, we
do a tutorial podcast on how to win it, craps. Yeah,
we can do that whenever we go back, if we're
allowed to. Well, they say Vegas is gonna be opening
up soon. Alright, I think sin will be opened up
and find out with the mayor. Al right. Carlos in
(23:44):
Houston says, hey, Ben, what's the origin story of Angry Bill?
And he's he really into beast reality. Carlos, A great question.
I don't know. I don't know Angry Bill in real
life He's just a character that calls the show. He
lives in Jacksonville's him Nutley, New Jersey. And he really
became known in the Mallard Militia a couple of years
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back when there were people getting drilled. It was like
a shooting gallery at baseball games, and this became a
big story, and then they were debating whether to put
nets up or not. And I was in the anti
net category at that. You know, just pay attention. You're
not gonna have had baseball games for a hundred years.
It's relatively safe considering all the people that go to
baseball games. It's not like a shooting gallery. And so
(24:26):
I did a monologue about that, and Angry Bill, who
was just Bill, called up and so what about a
nine year old girl? You know that whole thing, And
so that led to the legend of Angry Bill, the
lunatic that screams in the radio. And he we know,
he got busted for bank robbery at one point, so
(24:46):
he's got that on his resume. And I don't know
that he actually is into b steality. I don't know
many people who are actually into b steality would promote
the fact that they're into be stiality. I think that
would be something that you just kid about but not
actually do. But I'd like to think that he doesn't
do it, but I don't so. Uh. Next one from
Richard in Texas, Ben, is it possible to have j
Moore fill in when you have a night off? Al Right?
(25:09):
First of all, I don't take nights off. That's number one.
Number two, JA no longer works at the company, so
and he hasn't worked at the company for years. So
I'm I'm gonna go x nay on the j r
mo A. I think that you just take the last
letter and then put at the beginning of the world.
That's pig Latin, right, Yeah, so it would be Jay's
(25:31):
name would be h y j r MO I think
would be his name and pig lab But but no,
I like that you like J and I like j J. J.
J was nice when he worked at the company. We
got along pretty good, and people said we had a
similar style our styles of radio. But I don't know
what JA is up to these days. Uh, Checky writes,
(25:51):
and he says, Ben, can you please replace gascon or
make him be interesting or knowledgeable in future editions of
the fifth That's from from Shacky. Well, Shacky, that's a
great question. We have been trying to make gas Got
interesting or at least knowledgeable, and so far we have failed.
We have failed, but we will still fight the good fight,
(26:12):
and we we hope you know it's not we haven't
completely given up. We haven't completely given up. I'm just
here from my good looks. Is that what it is?
I don't know why are you here? I'm not sure.
A couple of reasons. I mean, one is uh, I
inspired you to do this podcasts last year. I motivated
(26:34):
you to this podcast last year. I don't know. You
didn't inspire me. What happened was I was working at
w e I in Boston. I was I was doing shows.
I was double dipping, double doing the w e I thing.
And then what happened to the magic of radio network
(26:54):
radio the Ben Maller Show, which was not on a
big station of the Boston market. We were actually on
a political station on the AM dial that nobody even
knew we were on. We got shifted to five, the
Sports Hub, which is a blowtorch of a station. Unfortunately,
it is a rival, a blood rival of w e
I and the Boston Radio wars and so I can't
(27:16):
I couldn't still work at w e I, and I
wanted to do something in addition to the radio show,
and so that led to the podcast. Well, I like
that you're taking credit for the fact that I lost
the w e I gig, not that I got fired.
I got removed because they couldn't keep me on. I
was on a competing station. It's not entirely accurate because
we were talking about doing Benny Versus the Penny on
a podcast edition only as opposed to on your shell. So, um, yeah,
(27:41):
that's a lie. Why would you lie to people like that.
I'm not lying at all. There's no lie at all.
There's no lie at all talking about removing Benny versus
the Penny so you wouldn't be broken up with the
commercial breaks. So now that's that's part of it, but
that's not the main driving force behind that's true. Um,
moy Is is from den Verses. Hey Ben, as a
(28:03):
proud man, what hurts more to you? And gag on
a saying paying off a bet or saying sorry, all right,
well I've always paid off my bets number one, as
you know, a Moyses, I always pay off my bets.
When I lose a bet, I pay off. That's when
when you gamble, that's part of gambling. You lose a bet,
you gotta pay off the bet. That's how it works, uh,
saying sorry? I think in a public setting, I've often
(28:26):
done rants about this with public figures. When you apologize,
it just is a bad situation, it really is. You know,
in in individual one on one deals, then you should
absolutely apologize, right, you should absolutely apologize for bad behavior.
Right as an adult, you know, and you're you're taught
(28:47):
that that you know your apology, you acknowledge the mistake
and you atoned for it and all that stuff. But
when you're a public figure, the rules are different. It's
a bad idea because the normal rules of social behavior
or do not carry over to that particular world. Because
when you apologize, then there's seven thousand other people. So
(29:07):
you should have done this also, and you should apologize
for this, and it never ends. So I'm gonna go apology.
What about you? Guess? I hate paying off bets. I
hate losing. You lose a lot, No, I don't. I
think the worst bet that I had to pay off
was the one that I had with the with the
colleague of ours. Brian No, we had bet on the
Super Bowl a few years ago, Patriots and Seahawks, and
(29:27):
he is an absolute ball washing double fisting of Russell Wilson.
He's he loves that guy. And oddly enough, he took
the Patriots to win that Super Bowl. And I said,
you know, and I'll take Russell Wilson in the Seattle Seahawks.
And you know, we bet like a hundred fifty bucks
and I losing that fucking pick in the end zone
and it it's burned with me ever since. So probably
(29:52):
the worst bet that I had to pay off. Fox
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s R to listen live. All right, Johnny writes, and
he says, who's the one person in your industry right
now that you would like to baby powder slap? And
(30:13):
he says, by the way, mine is gag On, that's
the one I would like to for the way he parks,
that's from Johnny. Well, that's a great answer, David Gagan,
is a fine answer. I think everyone in the business
would like to just bitch slap, David Gascon, and I
think that is I always said baby powder slap. I'm sorry,
and there's no one be able to get away with that.
Though it's different like you could say that like on
Twitter or through like an email, like you can get
(30:35):
away with it there, you can't get away with it
in person, especially the media hacks out here. You'd probably
tired halfway putting through the baby patter on your hand
little and trying to wind up for a slap. Wow,
are you are you done here? Are you well? I'm
still you're still going? Sorry? Yeah, calm down, you know,
everything will be okay. I was channeling my inner blind Scott. Yeah. Oh,
(30:57):
let's see here. What's next? Answer the question who would
you want to who would you want to slap? It's
inappropriate if I answer that question. Oh, you're such a
soft still working in the business. You're not really working,
so you can answer it, you know. Kevin writes, since
there is a question for gag on, do you wear leggings?
I do wear leggings exactly. We're leggings when I play hockey,
(31:22):
leggings I wear. First of all, I'm considerate because I
wear leggings when I play hockey because my leg pads.
All right, we don't need the whole song a day
you were legs Okay, he has to pads will move
all over the place, and where leggings when I trained
because I swept like a bastard. All right, lou from
the LBC rights and he says, when this pandemic is over,
(31:43):
will you be taking a family trip together to Europe?
Uh no, No, I'm gonna go to Europe at some point,
but I got to get another job that pays a
little more money. Here we go, Here we go, before
that happens. So tiny tiny violin on sad you're using again.
You're using mine with your A thief in the night
(32:03):
is what you are. You're using my trademark material, smallest violin.
I've been using that line for years. Bad job by you.
I can't I can't take a trip to Europe because
I don't have the job that allows me to work
from home save money on gas and haircuts and everything else.
But it's fine, Well no, I'm saving money and listen,
I but I you know, year, I'm worried. I'm not
(32:26):
gonna fit in cars in the hotel. You walk everywhere
you're not in cars. Who cares? Get a bus, get
a bus pass, get a ticket. I don't know because
of the corona, man, I might get cooties from someone
I don't know. Mack, you know, I'm sorry. I was
flashing back to like when I'm reading I was seeing
on the news. All right. Uh, here's when Darryl in
Nevada says, will you now be a Buccaneer fan that
(32:49):
Tom Brady and Gronk are in Tampa. Uh, Darryl, No,
I'm not gonna be a Bucketeer fan. However, I would
love an old school nineteen seventies Buccketeer hat with that
orange logo with the the knife the knife in the
mouth there. I love that logo size eight by the way,
if you want to send out the Fox Sports radio.
But but no, I will not be a buckety fan.
(33:09):
But we will talk about the Bucketeers. They will become
one of the glamour teams. So Tampa moves up the
pecking order of the NFL and they become one of
the teams that we're gonna talk about until Brady gets
hurt and Gronk gets hurt. But they will move up
the list absolutely. Ja in Scottsville, Kentucky. He's listening to
the podcast he writes in he says, if you could
only be stuck with one style of music, between rap
(33:32):
or death metal, what would you choose death? Yeah, I'm
going death metal. Yeah, I'm going death metal. Also give
me the death metal. IFEK, that's easy. I don't think
that's hard at all. Uh. Bennett forced to abandon the
Dodgers for another team, Who would you be choosing? Jay
also asked, well, yeah, I like the Red Sox also
from my time doing Boston radio. But I'm a Dodger
(33:53):
guy at my heart, and I like the Red Sox
a little bit, but mostly the Dodgers. Uh. Let's see
truck driver Joe for um. The Pocono's right. So he says,
if you had twenty four hours to be in be
any kind of animal in the world, what would you
be and why? That's a good question. That's a fascinating
question by trucker Joe. I like that. These are the
(34:14):
kind of questions I would like to get more of
a good job by you, trucker Joe. Um. All right,
so I got to I got two choice number one
the you know what, the largest animal in the world
is guess are you aware of this? The largest living,
breathing animal in the world on planet Earth? You know
what it is to be a whale? Right? Uh? Yeah,
it's a blue whale. The blue whale is the largest animal.
(34:36):
Wouldn't it be kind of cool to be swimming free
in the ocean and go anyway? I guess. I guess
you only have to worry about those nets. But how
don't do they catch blue whales? I don't know, harpoon
a blue whale? But these things are massive, right, the
blue whale is insanely used to be that animal and
to travel around, and then the other one would just
be like a lion, right, that would be pretty cool
(34:57):
to walk around and have that everyone shipping of pants
all the other animals in the animal kingdom, or or
a rhino to have that rhinos get any of those
big what about you guess? Well, one of them was
gonna be whale. So if it's not a whale, I'd
say a shark. How about a colossal squid? Would you
like to be a colossal square? If I were to
be in the water, to be a shark, But if
follows on surface or an air, I'd be a bald eagle.
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Another one will be alligator. All right, wouldn't you like
a gator? A lot of fear factor around gators, at
least for humans. Yeah, but you can't carry, you can't
cover a lot of ground. Yeah, and you have those
little alligator arms too, like alligator arms murder. Here we go,
here we go. Point that out and just take a
shot at a harmless, successful rookie quarterback. It's fine, not
very good. He fell apart. The league found out his
(35:42):
ability at the end of the year. He didn't play
well the last five weeks. Look up the numbers. Uh,
he was very poor at the last of five weeks
or so. All right, Uh, here's another one. Didn't I
get the name on this wire? People in the sports
media constantly mixing their metaphors. It's firing not clicking on
all sudden ers. So this guy is triggered by metaphors
(36:03):
being messed up. Well, yeah, let me let me explain
something to you. First of all, you shouldn't care. You're
your little anal retentive if you care about this kind
of stuff. Secondly, it's just word salad. All these idiots,
these blow hards, gas bags like myself, all try to
be cute. We all are saying the same thing and
we're just trying to say it differently to stand out.
That's essentially what we're all doing, right, We're all saying
(36:23):
the same ship all day long. We're just trying to
repackage it and put bells and whistles on it. That's
essentially what our job is, right. I mean, we don't
have a lot of hosts that do listener color Power
hours and just check out. You're so jealous, you do
not you don't want to share the shine. You don't
want to share the shine. You don't want to share
(36:45):
the glory, the glory with other people. You're so selfish.
You are so selfish, you schmuck. All right, our friend
Tom from Folks and Tom's a funny guy. I like
this guy Tom. He's a Charger fan. And I was
born in Fullerton. Did you know that, guest gun I
was born popped out of my mom's womb at hospital
in Fullerton. About that anyway? Uh, this person Tom writes
(37:07):
and says best food ever eating at a sporting event.
All right, this is easy, and I hate doing it
because it's the hated hegantes. But the first time garlic
fries became a thing for me was at a Giant's
game and I think that was I might have been
even a candlestick. He was either a candlesticker. It was
the first week of the new ballpark which they opened up.
(37:28):
But I love that. And then I've said this for years,
the greatest hot dog I've ever had is the Finway
Monster Dog. The Finway Monster Dog is the perfect cot dog.
I remember I was at a cold night. It was
a Red Sox Blue Jay's game at Finway, and I
was I happen to have access to get around. Family
were on the Green Monster and it was a cold
(37:48):
night and I had that Monster Dog. My god, was
that great greatest hot dog I've ever had? What about you, Gas?
What did you have on the monster Dog? Uh, it's
not like a mustard and little catchup? Yeah, that's it.
You're it's a great hot dog. It's it's Oh, it's amazing.
I can't believe it's my list. You can have your
(38:09):
own list. It's my list though, all right, you do
you won't even answer. You such a pussy willow. Jason says,
I have an interest in listening to a verbal octagon
between Justin and Cincinnati and Curly sue Justin Cooper? Who
would win? Man, Well, listen, Coop. Now Coop would win,
And I'll tell you why because Cooper has the ultimate
(38:32):
gatekeeper power and he would just mute Justin and Cincinnati,
So Coop would win. That that's not even close. Uh,
let's hear Major Matthew says, reporting live in Miami's listening
to the podcast in Miami says home of the metaphysically
sports analysis. Uh weed man hippie says, Uh. Question social
distancing in the concession stand and bathroom policies are blank?
(38:58):
Will the fans stop doing the wave? He wants to know?
All right, Now, here's the thing. I think it will
definitely be some adjustments. I was reading a story this
week about that. Maybe I'll do a monologue next week
about it. Where they're talking about you know, limiting. You know,
you come in the arena, you only go to your seat.
You can't go anywhere other than your seat, which seems
(39:20):
what if somebody has to take a ship? You know,
that seems like a problem. Um, and you know, different
little things like that. The other thing I think about,
when until this gets settled down, if you do allow
fans back. One of the traditions going to a ballgame
is you get like a bag of peanuts and then
they pass it down the road. I don't think that
will be happening anytime soon. I think that will will
in that tradition, just as long as they don't get
(39:43):
rid of those those peanut vendors though, because some of
those guys have rifle arms. Is that right? Yeah? I
mean when you're go to Dodger Stadium, there's like the
older guys, like fifty sixty years old that can still
chuck it up a couple of rows and get guns.
Let me say, and I forget the guy's name, Frank
and l I knows. The guy's name was Buddies with
a guy that worked at Dodger Stadium and Staples Center.
(40:05):
He passed away last year. Great fucking guy he worked
at like he was at like Ebbittsfield in Brooklyn, and
he had told me stories that was just wonderful his
whole life, like hawking peanuts and nachos and all that stuff.
And those guys have great stories to tell from being
at the ballpark and stuff, you know, interacting with the
fans and all that and I met a guy when
(40:27):
I was in Boston. Thats uh. He worked at Finway.
He worked at Finway for like forty or fifty years
or something like that. And you know, older guy living
out in mccape and with his wife who was a
big fan of the show and forced him to listen
to the show, and and uh, and he was telling
me stories about you know, back in the eighties at
Fenway with Conseco and some of the crazy stuff even
before that. So it was I love hearing those old stories. Great,
(40:50):
all right, you want us to put the baby to bed?
Is that what you're you're wanting wanting us to do? Here?
Guess not a want. But I'm getting checked out of
my domin here. Good. So there was a positive message,
so I don't have to the positive message from Patricia
in Vegas, who's a fan girl of yours, so I
don't need to read read at least. Well, no, you
said we were up against it. It's fine. You can
give her my number and email address. Here we go,
(41:11):
dirty dog you Yeah, she says, how did you end
up with David Gascon as your partner for the podcast?
She's a big fan. I volunteered. No, Well, management just
put us together. It was not money because management knows
what my name is. Let alone very important to the company.
You're essential. That's what you're still going into the studio.
(41:32):
You're essential. It's not essential. Matt and Rochester, New York says, Hey, So,
if you were granted the ability to be the goat
of an obscure sport such as curling, corn hole, et cetera,
what sport would you pick? I know what you would pick.
I'm gonna say, let's see. Uh all, yeah, you guess
what go ahead. It'd be acts throwing. No, although that
(41:54):
would be good. Like that would be that is machiesmo
cutting down trees and stuff like that. That's pretty good.
I would go major league eating, though it'd be like
Joey chestnot. Come on, it's too easy. No, it's not easy.
You try to eat seven thousand tacos in ten minutes.
You can't do it. No, I'm easy for you, like
you ate your entire life. Not anymore, though I've been
(42:14):
I eat like twice during the week. It's not it's
not the same man. Back in the old days, I could,
I could do it, but yeah, cutting down would would
be uh you know those power lumber competitions pretty good. Well,
not only those, but you get certain guys that throw
those little um they throw the little axes, a little
pick axes that they throw a targets now yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's pretty good too. Yeah. All right, listen, that is it.
(42:35):
Thank you, another weekend in the books. Were back on
the radio recapping the NFL Draft tonight Sunday night into Monday,
depending on when you're listening to this podcast. Two am
in the East, eleven pm in the West, and we
will have just for guests, we're gonna have a power hour,
which I know you're excited about. Follow me on Twitter
at Ben Maller, Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox Facebook, Ben
(43:00):
Aler a Show. And you can follow Gagon as well. Yeah,
at David J. Gascon on Twitter and at Dave Gascon
on Instagram. And that's just J not J A y right, correct, alright,
just a letter J. All right. Listen, have a great day,
stay healthy, Thanks for downloading the podcast, Tell a friend,
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