January 17, 2021 • 39 mins
The time away hasn't stopped the Maller Militia from living their life and in doing so, they still have plenty of things to get off their chest.
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we were joined again by west of the four oh
five David Gascon right over there here, I'm here, not
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to be confused with the District Attorney of Los Angeles,
that's a different guest. Would not allow criminals to run
scott free across this great wide world, or especially believe
in law and for it, you believe in the laws
and law and order and things like, Yeah, I didn't.
I do acknowledge that needs to be some retuning, some refining,
some recalibrating of of law enforcement practices. But nevertheless, uh yeah,
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I'm not down for any kind of anarchy or any
other bullshit that's happening in our world right now. Understandable,
understand So this is a mail bag. Yes, we haven't
done a mail bag in a while. We have not
answered the people's questions. There probably is not a lot
of people whining, complaining, bitching to an any other bullshit
that they do. So I'm happy about that. Oh no, no, no, no,
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there are plenty of people complaining and whining and all
of that. Yes, that never ends. Did I'm a pilot,
send you a note. Yes, actually he did. Good. Let
me let me get that up. Hold on a sake,
let me get that up. We haven't heard from him
in a long time. So now he did. He said
very nice. In fact, he sent um, I believe he
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sent something to that. I need to I need to
pick up my mail here. But I believe there is
something in the queue there for me and probably for you.
But I heard they moved the mail from where the
mail was. No, they didn't move the mail. Ben They
took all the mail and just put it on top
of a fucking table. He just said, go figure it out. Really,
that's all they did. Yeah, so this seemed like a
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good strategy. But I shouldn't criticize. I should not criticize.
It doesn't seem it seems right. It almost feels like
Christmas in a way, because you just have a table
that's just littered with mail and packages, and you're trying
to situate all of it and separate those from yours
and mine from his. So I'm a pilot. I don't
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know how much of this he wants me to read
on the air or not, but he sounded very nice.
Note a couple of nice notes. He had a trip
to Tahiti recently, and he says he says he knew
I liked Hawaiian. I got married in Hawaiian. I love Hawaiian.
I've never been to Tahiti. And so he sent me
some photos. They're gorgeous and uh, yeah, it's pretty cool
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there you go, and uh it flies a plane all
around the world there and whatnot. And he's got a
pretty good life. You got a couple of kids. He
just loved sports. He's flying all over the place there
and he sent a very nice note. I do appreciate it,
and it was cool because it was pretty awesome. He
sent a photo this will Anoi you gas go on.
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So it's from the cockpit and he's got his meal
in front of him, which has way too many vegetable
looks like salmon, looks like salmon. He's got a fruit.
I'd eat the watermelon, I think the I'd eat the
orange there. I don't know about the blueberries. A lot
of vegetables. He's heats a healthy life, this guy. It's good.
But he put a note it was really neat. It
touched me on the on the steering wheel for this
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big plane, Ben Mallard in the air everywhere. Come on, Yeah,
how cool is that? I had a big chech ire
cat smile on my face. I was like, that's pretty neat, man,
man's cool. That was awesome. So he didn't have your
name anywhere? Guy, I didn't see gascon anywhere I see
my name. I did not see Gascon. Have you ever
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been to Tehiti? Never? Never? I wonder what the length
of the flight is because Hawaii from l A to
Tona lou it's what five hours? Yeah, so it's longer
going than coming back because you're going against the jet
jet stream so but yeah, yeah, it's it's beauty. It
looks beautiful on the photos there. Did he send me
a night shot or was the daytime he said? He
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said a couple of plots. There was one as the
sun was setting, which was beautiful, and then he had
one gi of this resort. I guess that's where he
was staying there. And there's a couple of big pools
and little huts and then the water out in front
of it. It's just looks awesome, beautiful place. But I
have to get there at some point check it out.
So thanks to I'm a pilot. Very kind of you.
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We appreciate your your kindness, and I'm gonna have to
to get to the dude. I don't know how I'm
gonna pick up the mail though, because I always I
went to a certain spot, nails not there, and well,
you know, I could always rummage through that and take
a look and see, I'm good. You know, it's a
crime to open another persons to crime, and he was
gonna come after criminal. The good news is that Gascon
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will not punish you for that, so you don't have
to worry about it. Yeah, yeah, oh, don't don't have
to worry about it at all. The thing I do
miss with your mail is that annually you would always
get UM media vouchers or passes for Santa Anita. Yes, yes,
I loved going to Santa Anita. UM was awesome hang
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out day with the ponies, and they gave me every
year they would send me a v I P pass
parking everything, and I loved it. I haven't I missed
that too. I miss missed going out to the track
and it was always always a lot of fun. But
like this, that's not fund has been canceled. Yeah, we
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have mail you want mail. We got mail, all right,
we have this one was sent in actually was saying
in a while, I go, we'll use it now. This
is from j A k. Ozzy momentum, he says, a
mail bad question. What is your favorite body of water
and its location? For example, I got married on this
awesome beach here in southwestern Australia called meal Up Beach. Clarify,
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I'm not looking for riverpool beach. I'm talking about a
specific location, all right, so Ozzy momentum. For me, it
is in Kauai. When you land at the airport in Kauai,
you go north. There's only one highway there and between
the three and four mile marker there's a dirt road.
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You go down the dirt road. There's a lot of potholes.
You go to the end of the dirt road. There's
a little park. You park there and there is a
deserted beach with no human beings around. And it is
the most beautiful beach you have ever seen. Perfect weather,
the sands, wonderful, unfettered by ugly human beings for the
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most part. And that is my my favorite beach. And
that's actually the beach we got married on. So when
we go to Kauai back on a vacation. We always
and we've been there a few times and hopefully go
again soon. We we always go to that spot. You
guys have never been to the Bahamas? Right? No, never
been the Bahamas. I was supposed to go. Fox Sports
Radio sent everyone to the Bahamas for the Super Bowl
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years ago except me. What so, Yeah, they had that
big resort down there, they had a promotion, they were
a sponsor and they sent everyone went to the Bahamas
to Yeah, I I was not. I say everyone except me,
and they were like two other people that didn't go.
That's unreal. Yeah, I did not, did not make it
app what's your favorite body of water? I guess, and
specifically I think probably the Gulf of Mexico. My sister
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and her husband and the kids, they live in Tampa Bay,
and she took me to St. Petersburg and I mean,
you know this, The sand was white and you can
see your feet when you get into the water. It
was absolutely gorgeous. There's calm and peaceful, and I know
different seasons it's hurricane season and whatnot, and uh a
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little bit while down there, but yeah, it's it's absolutely gorgeous.
In that area. The thing about the beach I love,
I will. I don't usually go in the beach in
California because water is usually disgusting in l A, I
don't go in the water. Like, if I go to
the beach, I'll look at it, I'll walk, maybe I
put my feet in, but I won't like swim. But
if the water is clear, I mean you know what
I mean, Like Hawaii, places like that. Oh it's beautiful.
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I love it. Yeah. When I when I went to
to Europe a couple of years ago, there was these
little coves in Portugal where you can do cliff diving
off of and it was gorgeous. The only problem is
is that you could see to the bottom of the
you know, of the bed that you were in in
that lake or that river spot. The only problem is
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you couldn't gauge your depth. So when you jumped off
these cliffs, you didn't know. I mean, we went with
guys that were professional cliff jumpers and stuff. You let
the other guy go first. Yeah, that's exactly what he did.
So he's just like, hey, you're jumping here and in
this direction, don't go that way, and don't do anything else,
and so we did just that. The water was was
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obviously beautiful, cold as fuck, but it was pretty nice. Yeah, alright,
what else do we heavy here? Let's see? Uh? Any
menimny mo? Uh? This question? Who sent this one? In?
This is from Brian from Parts Unknown. He says, I
listened to the Fifth Hour, but when I asked Google
to play the last episode of the best of the
(10:14):
Ben Mallor Show, it always comes up the fifth Hour?
Is that right? I don't know. Uh interesting, there's no
big deal. But one time it played a song by
Michael Buble. What it seems odd to me? Kevin in
Kansas rites and he says, I teach high school English.
(10:34):
What were you like in high school with English? You
have a way with words, So I imagine you were
that way or did you realize that gift later on? Kevin,
much later on. I was not a good high school student.
I just kind of passed skated by in high school,
barely got out of high school. And be honest with you,
I just I was not into it. But as I've
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gotten older, I have the great thing about the Internet
as you can educate yourself, which is pretty cool, and
so I've always had a passion as an adult for words.
And I pointed out in the past that all we
have in radio and audio broadcasting is words we don't
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we can't show you anything we're not on camera. And
so I I learned. I've been inspired by certain people, Um,
Brian Wheeler, we've had on the podcast Wheels the voice
of the Trailblazers, a friend of mine, and he would
always use these big words. And Vince Scully would use
some words I've never heard of before watching dodging games
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grown up. And but just in general, it's like, you know,
if you you you can say the same thing but
using different words and it sounds a lot better. And
in some words that I just love. They're fun to say,
like hoodwinked or bamboozled or hornswoggled, like words like that.
I love those type of words. And skullduggery not a
word that's regularly is. You don't hear skullduggery all that much.
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But it's a fun word, and you know, you can
you can have a good time with that and all
those all those things. So but it in high school enough.
If you if you met me in high school, this
guy is an idiot. This guy's a dump dump. You know,
he doesn't pay attention at all, But so and I
was trying to learn something. As far as words, I'm
always looking around trying to find new words and things
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I haven't heard before. Phrases I love, uh, idioms, old
you know, proverbs, things like that, learning about those, the
history of some of those things. So it's pretty I
find it interesting. It's just happened. I've picked up. I'm
at in Elmira, New York, right city. Since is there
any tactful way to tell a receptionist coworker that their
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flagelence has become an issue? It honestly smells like a
horse has ship in the entryway, which I find to
be distracting, let alone disrespectful to the rest of the staff.
And then he he says, Matt, how about an anonymous
letter on the desk, a bottle of beano? Uh? Any
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suggestion would be appreciated, Sincerely, Matt in l Myra. All right,
So this is a tough one. You've got someone you
work with who stinks you have to be delicate with this.
You have to be right because you get in trouble.
I don't know if they have an HR department, what
would be the move here Gascon. I think I think
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you gotta lie. I think the approaches you. You lie
to that person and you basically say, hey, just a
heads up. I don't know what time you got here,
but I sprayed down this area, um, because it's been
kind of smells like just in this region of the
last couple of days. I don't know if you've noticed
it or not. Um, So I spread it down so
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I apologize if it stinks to you, if it just
has that kind of weird uh where it's sent. And
if I spread down later, I'm gonna do that too.
So that would be year solution to the yeah you lie,
you played dumb and you make her ask the questions
of like what does it smell like? Yeah? Uh? The
one thing I will say, and we've all done this
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at some point with with flagelence, you're trying to cover
it up with the spray. Yeah, it just makes it.
You still smell it. It just has a little bit
of a sugary smell, you know what I mean? Yeah?
All right, anyway, let's see you. Who else do we
have your any meny miney mo Jack in Greensboro and
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Carolina says, Hey, Ben, what is the most important piece
of advice that your father passed down to you. Well,
it's hard to summon up with just one piece of advice,
the fatherly wisdom that you pick up just being around
your dad or your mom. And uh, yeah, a lot,
a lot of a lot of interest things. My dad
had a tremendous knowledge. He was an engineer. He worked
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with computers when I was a kid. But this was
before computers are com uters today. This is when computers
were the size of a football field, and so he
helped develop programs and things where computers in the early
days before before they became the things that have overwhelmed us,
uh these days. And he had interesting No, he loved
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there's certain things that were just he was very passionate
about Mark Twain. He loved Mark Twain for some reason.
That was this guy, old Mark Twain quotes books about
Mark Twain, Ham Radio. Um, those are some of the things.
But I mean, as far as advice, it just kind
of like, you know, how to how to live and
be a good family guy, and be loyal and supportive
and all that. Those are things I learned from my
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my father just by observing. You know, my my mom
and dad were married forever and ever and ever, and
they had, you know, they didn't a good relationship. And
also I tould I've told the story before. You know,
both my parents are now gone and growing up. I
think it's really interesting now looking at the way the
world's gone. My mom was more liberal, my dad conservative.
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And they would talk about the issues of the day.
There's always something and they would duke it out and
they wouldn't agree, and but at the end of dinner
they would you hug it out. They're good. No problem
these days. So like you're at each other's next you
want to you want to kill each other. You can't
be in the same room. You can't have friends that
don't agree with your political idea. You know your political beliefs. So,
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I mean, those are some of the things. Uh, Corey
in Minnesota, is what's your favorite memory of your father? Again,
that's the tough to sum it up in one memory.
I I flashed back to some of the games. My
dad was not a huge sportsman. My mom was more
of a sportsman. But my dad knew I love sports,
and so I remember some of the games we went
to and he had gotten tickets, whether through work or
something I remember when I was a kid. The first
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NFL game I went to was a RAM game and
I was playing the forty Niners and this was Joe Montana,
you know, big deal in in in Bill Walsh and
all that. And I remember I was so excited, such
a nerd as a kid, because I even at that age,
I was like, maybe I'll be a broadcast to some day.
And I saw the Madden Cruiser parked out the big
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parked outside the Big A in Anaheim because Madden doesn't fly,
and he took the Madden Cruiser and it was like
a big deal. And I remember it was with my dad,
I went to the All Star Game. He got tickets
to the All Star Game in Anaheim in the late
eighties there, and it was funny because it was that
was a big All Star game at the time because
Bo Jackson was in the All Star Game Nike. He
had a big marketing campaign about about Bow. But we
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had terrible seats, but it didn't matter. We were in
the stadium and it was a big deal. And and
my dad was more excited though, because Ronald Reagan was
at the game in the press box. He did a
couple of innings on NBC for the I think it
was NBC for the All Star Game. They brought him in.
He was no longer president at nineteen nine, but they
brought him in. And I remember how exciting that was.
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And we were looking all the Secret Service people and
all that so and uh and I also remember I
was at an Angel game. They're playing the Tigers, and uh,
I was a little kid with my dad and some guy.
I tossed like a cigar cigarette thing over the upper
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you know, the deck above us, and landed on my leg.
I was wearing shorts and burned the ship out of
my legs, right, And um, I remember my dad taking
care of me and all that stuff. So, I mean,
there's some there's a bunch of those type of things.
But I will I will miss my old man for sure.
That's a that's a tough one. Enjoy you got your
parents still. I I've I've I've found out now I've
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joined a club, a club I didn't want to join.
But we're all going to join at some point if
we're lucky. Actually, where you outlive your parents and it's uh,
that's it sucks, but it's part of life. It's part
of life. Um, Pierre in Springfield right saying he's now
here we go. He says, did your father look down
on your association with Gagon? And he says, did your
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parents approved your decision to go into radio? And no,
my dad actually was impressed because Gagon's got credibility. Because
my dad loved the police and law enforcement, and he
actually volunteered with Ham Radio locally in the city he
lived in with the police department. He loved the police.
And so you know the fact that I could brag
that I worked with Gascon and his dad ran the
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l A p D. You know, you know, it was
a big shot. That was like a big deal. So
he loved that. And uh, my parents, No, my my
mom the good thing. I'm my mom and dad. They
just wanted me to do something I was passionate about
and to work hard at it. And they knew the
odds were against making it in radio. But my mom
was very supportive and my dad was you know, he
went along with it. He was good, you know, give
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it a shot. Um. And I remember when I was
making no money when I got hired at six ninety
in San Diego and I was a reporter and I
was making ship money. I could have worked at Jack
in the box and made more money, and I was
working everything, but I after the baseball strike in they
ended the season early. They came back and they I
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covered every game Dodgers and Angels for for the following season.
They had no days off, so I was at the
ballpark every day. And I even got sick because I
was going out there so much, so I could get
sick o to baseball games. But I was like, I
had no time off. I had like, no not even
one day a week, and I was making no money.
But they were very supportive. Both my parents were very
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very supportive, and they were proud of me. You know,
that's and that's all you want as a kid, right
you want your parents to be proud of you. And
you know my mom and dad, I mean they made
sure they always let me know that. Uh it was.
They were very pregnant. And you know, my mom would
listen to the overnight show. I was doing weekend overnights
and my mom, who was not in the best of health,
would stay up all night to listen to the show.
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She would change her schedule because she wanted to. And
whenever I went and I worked some when I first
started a Fox Sports radio, I was like the swing guy.
I would fill in, you know, different different parts of
the day parts and no matter when I was on
my own, always made sure to to listen to My
dad was very supportive and um he didn't look the
one disappointment. I think he wanted me to get a
ham radio license and I didn't. I didn't end up
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doing that, but he did love the fact that I
at least went into some kind of radio, so he
he appreciated that. Kevin in Rockford, Illinois rights and says
Mr Mallor and Mr Gascon David seems like he's a
He's pretty comfortable talking on the podcast and on the
radio doing updates. I think he does a good job.
Well is this your is this your? Wow? He says,
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does does a good job for a West of the
four oh five situation here? Uh, he says, you both
you will think, Ben, do you think Gascon could one
day have his own radio show? And David, is that
the route or route you would want to go? Well? Yeah,
sure Guesscon could have a radio show. And I don't
think that's what you want to do. I think you
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your dreams are play by play right, Your your goal
is to be the play by play voice of X
or Y or is he right? All right? Just to
be maybe a national guy like Kenny Albert. He does
everything he does football, basketball, hockey, boxing. I think he's
done Olympic events. To correct me if I'm wrong, I
don't know. If it's whatever, yea, yeah, surely. Yeah. So
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I'd love to be on on that kind of track. Um.
I love talk radio. I just think like, personality wise,
I think the way that that we are or I
am with you on this is drastically different than how
I am on Nashville Radio. I feel like, personality wise,
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I'd get fired or I'd get busted, or I'd get
reprimanded and it just wouldn't work. I like the I
like the the podcasting format allows to be a lot
more free and loose with language and how you communicate
and radio you're you're not in a box. Like That's
the lecture that you guys have here at Fox is
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that I've never heard of management tell a personality you
can't say this or don't be like that. Like Scott
and don Or are extremely extremely um comfortable and allowing
their all to be who they are. Yeah, I mean,
we're not It's not like what was that video that
popped on the internet like at CNN where they tell
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you what to say that day. You know, it's not
like that at all. We we have, uh, not totally unfettered,
but in comparison to a lot of people this, you know,
obviously they're they're very cool allowing us this. Last year.
Management's like they went to us like, listen, there's no
sports going on. We understand that we're sports radio show,
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but people want to hear you know, talk radio, So
just do good radio. Whatever you talk about. There's no
sports to talk about, but just a good radio. And
it was great advice and we do appreciate that because
I know I have some friends at work at competitors
who did not have that freedom, that had to continue
to just only talk about sports, and they wanted to
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pull their hair out and it was it was a nightmare.
But it is a daily grind. Man. You do a
daily show, guest scout it it can wear on you.
There's certain points where you're like you you don't want
to talk like I I love doing the show. Oh
and I it's my passion and I spend my entire
life dedicated to that. But there are some days I'm good,
I got nothing to say, I got no opinion about this,
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But you still gotta do the show. The show's gotta happen.
You've gotta you've got to find a way to make
it work. And and so you there's certain things you
have to do to kind of get yourself fired up
on days you're not into it. But it's like any job,
Like I think there's any job that you have just
gonna be days you're not into it. Even if you're
like a professional athlete playing in the NBA or the NFL,
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there's gonna sometime you're like, I really want to be here.
But you can get off on someone else's energy, like
if you're having a bad show, like Coop could do something,
or Roberto could do something, or any could say something
that that gets you in a groove or that gets
you inspired to do something else. Whereas if you're working
like solo, if you're you know, if it's just you
and a microphone, you know, if there's a day that
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you're flat, then you're dead man walking. Yeah, like I did,
the Boston shows I did was totally solo. They had
no no one right along as a support staff. And yeah,
I remember the one night I was on on EI
and there was a blizzard and the only people that
called in were driving snow trucks, snow plow trucks around.
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That was a tough one. I'm not gonna lie that was.
That was a tough night. That was. I was testing
my my skills there. I was. I was dragging out
certain things. And I remember the the w E I clock.
I don't know if it's the same now, but they
had the opening segment of the hour. It was like
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a twenty minute block, you know, and you're you're there
and you're by yourself and there's not a lot going
on and snowing, and you're like, oh crap. And I
was like, ohly crap, What am I gonna do? All right?
Seawan and Nashville rights and says when and how did
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you to meet? Also, I have tried to invite David
over to cook the t bone or you have. You know,
um gascon for governor has a nice ring to it.
For that ship whole state that you guys reside in
Shawan and Nashville. Uh say, well, how did I mean?
I met you at Fox Sports Radio guestcoun r. Yeah,
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I don't think I've met you before. Fox Sports Radio
No No. Came up to me one day and introduced yourself.
I did. I was larger than life, right, yeah, because
we had the same You worked in San Diego radio,
but a different era of San Diego radio than me. Yeah. Yeah,
younger than me. But I met you. I was filling
in for Eddie on an overnight and I didn't know
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who you were. And then and then all of a sudden,
like you started this is that you're pacing days, so
you take the break and then pace around the entire Yeah. Yeah,
I would walk around the building to get steps in. Yes,
you did that for years, right right. I had the
commercial breaks time to the second I knew exactly how
long I had to walk before I had to be
(27:01):
back on the air, you know. And this is during
the time when someone got stabbed down the street to like, yeah,
I know for for a pretty nice part of l A.
I guess it's just because we've been there for so long,
but there have been people killed and uh, you know,
people doing all kinds of wild things. And I and
(27:22):
I walked around in the middle of the night and
I saw things I couldn't believe, people like come crawling
out of the woodwork. It's wild and you don't see
any when you're there in Sherman Oaks. During the day,
you don't see any of that. It's beautiful. But then
at night it's like a whole different, different vibe, Like
the swamp creatures come out. It's wild. It's the night
of the Walking Dead pretty much. I knew all the
(27:44):
homeless people in the neighborhood that were sleeping around the
building and wave at him, See what's going on? How
you doing all that stuff? But that's how that's how
we met. We met at Fox Sports Radio and just
gonna introduced me and I was like, who's this loser?
And there you go, and then I introduced uh, well,
I was introduced to Tammy, and then all of a sudden,
you guys started getting all these goodies because of me,
(28:05):
thanks to Tammy. That's not a lie. Tammy was a
fan of the show Hunt. She predates guest Hunt. But
you know, yeah, I mean we really bonded, Dammy and
I yeah, really yeah. Do you want to expand on it? Yeah?
She got me, well, she got she got cooped too.
(28:28):
These awesome cupcakes. She got us cupcakes. I think she's
gotten us fat sALS once for my birthday. Well, she's
very kind, she is. She might or might not be
friends with a cake benefactor who got us these designer cakes.
I lost. I'd lost a hundred over a hundred, actually
two hundred pounds. I'd lost two hundred pounds, and then
(28:49):
I gained I getting a lot of it back by
eating these designer cakes for any birthday or just for whatever.
For giggles, these would show up and they were awesome.
They had such such wonderful memories of gaining all the
weight back to lose it again. Wonderful. Carlos and Bang Bang,
(29:10):
Houston writes, and he says, how often did he interact
with Losorta? And we talked a lot about that in
a previous episode, Carlos, But I I interacted interacted with
Tommy when he was managing the two and a half years,
the last two and a half years of his career,
every you know, every day at home when the Dodgers
were at home, and then once he left and was
(29:32):
the ambassador, I saw him a lot. He would hang
out in the press box a lot. He liked to
hang around the media. So I saw him quite a
bit and it was just like a hello, how you doing, Tommy,
what's going on Ben that kind of thing. I just
love the fact that sort of knew my name. That was,
as I said, Losorda and Vince Gully. When you're you're
you know, you're a made man. Um the memory. As
far as Loss, I don't his greatest memory, but the
(29:53):
last time I saw him. Um one of the last
time was eighteen. I was at Staples Center and I'm
walking through the streets of l A. And I walked
by this steak place in downtown l A. And waddling
out of the stake places Tommy losorder but hey Tommy,
and I went over there and I took a photo.
(30:13):
It's actually on on Twitter. It was and you know, Tommy,
he's getting frail a little bit, but he even remembered
me and said hello, and we took a photo and
it's a brief conversation and he got into a car
service that picked him up, and then I kept walking,
and I think that was the last time I actually
saw because he didn't, you know, he didn't go out
(30:34):
that much in nineteen didn't hang out in the press box,
it was hard for him to get you move around
as much, and uh and all that, but fond memories.
Fond memberis Jason and Rocky Mountain, Virginia says, glad you're back.
I was wondering when you were on vacation, did you
and the misses stay in a cabin or a lodge?
It seemed like you may have been up in the
woods for several days. Well, Jason, we would have, but
(30:58):
King Knewsome would not allow that, and the polot I
don't know if it's King Newson, might have been the
federal government, but they they have lodges in Sequoia, but
because of COVID they were not open, so we had
to stay at a hotel down the mountain, which sucked.
It was. It was all right, but you would have
been much cooler if we had been able to stay
(31:18):
in a lodge right there, because you know that we
even have to drive. It's paining the ask to drive
through the snow and that whole thing and put the
chains on and take them off. So that would have
been that would have been pretty pretty cool. We were
not allowed to do that though, but it was it
was fun. Skip does zip Skippy in Cleveland says, Uh, condolence.
(31:39):
He said, Secondly, did you ever get my Christmas card?
Or if no, I have not picked up the mail
and the mails I'm gonna pick up the mail. I
promise I'll get to it here. I can't promise that
it will be done already by the time you hear this,
but it's on my list of things to do. I
have a lot of other things, unfortunately, that I have
to take care of. Uh. And he says, I, I
feel as though the Browns were his Chiefs will be
(32:00):
an offensive shootout, and of course I'm picking the Browns
to win a squeaker. While I am certain you will
disagree with that. In Gallon's how much sobbing will Pete
and Pittsburgh do when that happens. I don't know how
much into sports Pete is anymore. Pete piece and old
school caller Pizza become very political last I heard. Uh.
(32:21):
I don't know, but yeah, yeah, I I miss Pete's calls.
I do. But would he care now? He'd probably just
say we're still the Pittsburgh Steeter is the greatest team
of them all. Blah blah blah blah blah. Eric and
Omaha is a very important question. He says, where is
the best place in Los Angeles to get some damn nachos?
I'm not a big nacho eater. I I like Taketo's
and crunchy gringo tacos. Where are the where's the top
(32:43):
nacho spot? Guest on in l A. Somewhere in East
l A, Lincoln Heights, somewhere over there, man Pico Rivera,
No anywhere. That's a good question. No, I don't know.
We have no answer. We have no healthy and I'm
sorry we failed you. Are you a fan of Cardian
set up fries? Yeah, I'm good with that. I mean,
(33:04):
I'm gonna go out of the way to get him,
but I'm good with that. Oh yeah, this is that
place you like. What was the breakfast burrito place you
were bragging about, Oh, fantastic cafe. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Um,
Ponchos in Manhattan Beach has some big gas nachos. There's
but there's multiple Poncho's locations, are there? Yeah, that's not
Ponchos is not a standalone location. There was a Pontos
I don't know if it's still around. In l A.
(33:24):
There was a Poncho no kidding, You didn't know that.
I had no I didn't know. I had no idea.
I just thought it was a standalone because the fucking
portions were just huge. You get a plate of of
enchiladas and it was like twenty bucks. Well now I
think there might be several with the same name Ponchos.
I don't know if it's the same because I've been
to a restaurant called Ponchos and they didn't have the
(33:46):
unbelievably large portions of food, So maybe it's a yeah,
a different Ponchos restaurant. How how big are we talking
like cheesecake factories? Yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean it's good.
It's really good. Ponco's restaurant. Yeah, in Manton Beach. Yeah,
like right off the pier ald on that Secon. Let
me look this place up here. Have you ever gone
to I know Jim Rome swears about this place grab
(34:06):
a Viney, But Javier is in Newport Beach. I have been.
I've been to a Jabyers. There's one in Vegas. Um
it's good but very Um. Yeah it is, but I'm
more of a like an El Coyote guy. That's good.
Prices have gone up though quite a bit over the years,
(34:27):
but it's it's a good restaurant there. They also have
the They have the Green Go Taco as well, which
is which is nice for me. I'll see you, Caleb
in Meadville, Pennsylvania, says big Man. I've heard you sing
the praises of raising canes chicken figures for a while. Now.
I was blown away to discover there was one in Youngstown, Ohio.
(34:49):
Is it worth the pilgrimage? Alright? So a couple of
things here, Caleb. First of all, what is your level
of joy for eating chicken figures? That's the most important thing.
If you are a chicken finger connoisseur, you love the sauce,
you love the whole meal, a traditional all American meal
of chicken fingers, fries, and a lemonade with Texas toast.
(35:13):
If you're passionate about that food, If that's a food
that resonates with you, uh, then absolutely. Now I have
driven to raise before Raisingknes opened up in my backyard.
I used to drive all over God's Greener to eat
raising canes. But I love the chicken pie, and I
was one of the most attractive things to me about
(35:34):
going to Vegas because they didn't have it in California
for a while. But I go to Vegas and they
were all over Vegas, so I'd go to hang out
there and I'd get my raising canes. I go to Vegas,
all those restaurants in Vegas, I'd beat in raising canes. Um,
So it really depends on that. But yeah, it's good,
But I mean, I don't know, I'd plan a whole
trip about it if that's I don't know how many
miles that is for you. But if it's it's not
(35:54):
too bad, chair, why not go and do something in
Youngstown and go have some chicken fingers and keep an
eye the Raising Kine's website because they're expanding new locations
all over a lot of a lot of expansion there.
So all right, uh, let's see here. Glenn in Carmichael,
California says, I feel like we've had this question before
since Ben, what baseball great from the past would you
(36:17):
wish you could have seen play? I've answered this, the
answer is not changed. Um, Babe Ruth, the legend of
the Bambino Babe Ruth, I want to see what all
the hypes about would be nice dolphin Mike says, I
work at a newspaper and it's like an unguarded fortress.
He says, if you get in the front door without
(36:40):
a key, fop, good luck getting in any other doors
without a key fop. Dolphin Mikes says, my question, why
was it so easy to get into the Capitol building
that has armed guards, better security, etcetera, etcetera. Well, I
can't answer that, Dolphin Mike. I I missed all that.
I was doing stuff my with my father and going
(37:02):
through stuff. I guess John, I think I I text you,
like we were you, you wouldn't sent me something or
believe that's how it went down. But says somebody, maybe
it wasn't. You sent me a text telling me what
had happened at the Capitol. But I had not. I
didn't watch it in real time or anything like that.
I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't
find out until after it because I was completely off
the grid when that happened. Have you've been to d C?
(37:27):
Have you've done time there in d C? Yeah? I
went to I had a call a game at Morgan
State and and I stayed in Baltimore and part of
the trip and we went was what we got to
go through d C for a day. I didn't spend
a lot of time there. But DC is fun, man,
there's there's a good vibe and it's a dirty slash
(37:48):
energetic vibe that you get almost rivals in New York
in d C. Yeah, but like this, there's a lot
of security, I would imagine right around. I've never been
to d C. I need to get there at some point.
I'd like to go and hang out. But there's a
lot everywhere you go, right because it's a target. No
if three years ago when I went there wasn't no
not at all. I mean, but it seems odd to me.
(38:10):
Maybe they just shouldn't. Maybe he didn't notice it about that. Yeah,
I mean they weren't front center like they are with
the National Guard these days. Yeah. So there's so there
you go, isn't there not advertising? They keep a low profile. Yeah, yeah,
where you go? All right, let's put the baby, but
anything else, guess on anything else you would like to
promote or yap about or just wine. No, we're good. No, subscribe, Yeah, subscribe,
(38:39):
help us out, tell people about the podcast, spread the gospel,
get the word out. There are these podcasts too long.
We can keep them short. You want to shorter. Some
people like a shorter podcast, some people like a longer podcast. Yeah,
so it really depends on what your your heart desires. There.
So I have a great Sunday again. We're gonna be
back to not if you're on the West coast at
(39:01):
eleven pm. If you're on the East coast two am
early Monday morning, in the middle of the night, yapping
about all the NFL playoff activity. So I have a
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If you're listening to us anytime from Sunday morning all
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and we'll be doing that tonight into the early morning
hours on Monday, two am Monday morning to six am,
and then, of course, as you know, Sunday night, eleven
pm in the west, two three three in the morning
we were joined again by west of the four oh
five David Gascon right over there here, I'm here, not
(01:31):
to be confused with the District Attorney of Los Angeles,
that's a different guest. Would not allow criminals to run
scott free across this great wide world, or especially believe
in law and for it, you believe in the laws
and law and order and things like, Yeah, I didn't.
I do acknowledge that needs to be some retuning, some refining,
some recalibrating of of law enforcement practices. But nevertheless, uh yeah,
(01:55):
I'm not down for any kind of anarchy or any
other bullshit that's happening in our world right now. Understandable,
understand So this is a mail bag. Yes, we haven't
done a mail bag in a while. We have not
answered the people's questions. There probably is not a lot
of people whining, complaining, bitching to an any other bullshit
that they do. So I'm happy about that. Oh no, no, no, no,
(02:17):
there are plenty of people complaining and whining and all
of that. Yes, that never ends. Did I'm a pilot,
send you a note. Yes, actually he did. Good. Let
me let me get that up. Hold on a sake,
let me get that up. We haven't heard from him
in a long time. So now he did. He said
very nice. In fact, he sent um, I believe he
(02:39):
sent something to that. I need to I need to
pick up my mail here. But I believe there is
something in the queue there for me and probably for you.
But I heard they moved the mail from where the
mail was. No, they didn't move the mail. Ben They
took all the mail and just put it on top
of a fucking table. He just said, go figure it out. Really,
that's all they did. Yeah, so this seemed like a
(03:02):
good strategy. But I shouldn't criticize. I should not criticize.
It doesn't seem it seems right. It almost feels like
Christmas in a way, because you just have a table
that's just littered with mail and packages, and you're trying
to situate all of it and separate those from yours
and mine from his. So I'm a pilot. I don't
(03:23):
know how much of this he wants me to read
on the air or not, but he sounded very nice.
Note a couple of nice notes. He had a trip
to Tahiti recently, and he says he says he knew
I liked Hawaiian. I got married in Hawaiian. I love Hawaiian.
I've never been to Tahiti. And so he sent me
some photos. They're gorgeous and uh, yeah, it's pretty cool
(03:43):
there you go, and uh it flies a plane all
around the world there and whatnot. And he's got a
pretty good life. You got a couple of kids. He
just loved sports. He's flying all over the place there
and he sent a very nice note. I do appreciate it,
and it was cool because it was pretty awesome. He
sent a photo this will Anoi you gas go on.
(04:03):
So it's from the cockpit and he's got his meal
in front of him, which has way too many vegetable
looks like salmon, looks like salmon. He's got a fruit.
I'd eat the watermelon, I think the I'd eat the
orange there. I don't know about the blueberries. A lot
of vegetables. He's heats a healthy life, this guy. It's good.
But he put a note it was really neat. It
touched me on the on the steering wheel for this
(04:26):
big plane, Ben Mallard in the air everywhere. Come on, Yeah,
how cool is that? I had a big chech ire
cat smile on my face. I was like, that's pretty neat, man,
man's cool. That was awesome. So he didn't have your
name anywhere? Guy, I didn't see gascon anywhere I see
my name. I did not see Gascon. Have you ever
(04:47):
been to Tehiti? Never? Never? I wonder what the length
of the flight is because Hawaii from l A to
Tona lou it's what five hours? Yeah, so it's longer
going than coming back because you're going against the jet
jet stream so but yeah, yeah, it's it's beauty. It
looks beautiful on the photos there. Did he send me
a night shot or was the daytime he said? He
(05:10):
said a couple of plots. There was one as the
sun was setting, which was beautiful, and then he had
one gi of this resort. I guess that's where he
was staying there. And there's a couple of big pools
and little huts and then the water out in front
of it. It's just looks awesome, beautiful place. But I
have to get there at some point check it out.
So thanks to I'm a pilot. Very kind of you.
(05:32):
We appreciate your your kindness, and I'm gonna have to
to get to the dude. I don't know how I'm
gonna pick up the mail though, because I always I
went to a certain spot, nails not there, and well,
you know, I could always rummage through that and take
a look and see, I'm good. You know, it's a
crime to open another persons to crime, and he was
gonna come after criminal. The good news is that Gascon
(05:54):
will not punish you for that, so you don't have
to worry about it. Yeah, yeah, oh, don't don't have
to worry about it at all. The thing I do
miss with your mail is that annually you would always
get UM media vouchers or passes for Santa Anita. Yes, yes,
I loved going to Santa Anita. UM was awesome hang
(06:16):
out day with the ponies, and they gave me every
year they would send me a v I P pass
parking everything, and I loved it. I haven't I missed
that too. I miss missed going out to the track
and it was always always a lot of fun. But
like this, that's not fund has been canceled. Yeah, we
(06:37):
have mail you want mail. We got mail, all right,
we have this one was sent in actually was saying
in a while, I go, we'll use it now. This
is from j A k. Ozzy momentum, he says, a
mail bad question. What is your favorite body of water
and its location? For example, I got married on this
awesome beach here in southwestern Australia called meal Up Beach. Clarify,
(07:02):
I'm not looking for riverpool beach. I'm talking about a
specific location, all right, so Ozzy momentum. For me, it
is in Kauai. When you land at the airport in Kauai,
you go north. There's only one highway there and between
the three and four mile marker there's a dirt road.
(07:22):
You go down the dirt road. There's a lot of potholes.
You go to the end of the dirt road. There's
a little park. You park there and there is a
deserted beach with no human beings around. And it is
the most beautiful beach you have ever seen. Perfect weather,
the sands, wonderful, unfettered by ugly human beings for the
(07:43):
most part. And that is my my favorite beach. And
that's actually the beach we got married on. So when
we go to Kauai back on a vacation. We always
and we've been there a few times and hopefully go
again soon. We we always go to that spot. You
guys have never been to the Bahamas? Right? No, never
been the Bahamas. I was supposed to go. Fox Sports
Radio sent everyone to the Bahamas for the Super Bowl
(08:04):
years ago except me. What so, Yeah, they had that
big resort down there, they had a promotion, they were
a sponsor and they sent everyone went to the Bahamas
to Yeah, I I was not. I say everyone except me,
and they were like two other people that didn't go.
That's unreal. Yeah, I did not, did not make it
app what's your favorite body of water? I guess, and
specifically I think probably the Gulf of Mexico. My sister
(08:27):
and her husband and the kids, they live in Tampa Bay,
and she took me to St. Petersburg and I mean,
you know this, The sand was white and you can
see your feet when you get into the water. It
was absolutely gorgeous. There's calm and peaceful, and I know
different seasons it's hurricane season and whatnot, and uh a
(08:50):
little bit while down there, but yeah, it's it's absolutely gorgeous.
In that area. The thing about the beach I love,
I will. I don't usually go in the beach in
California because water is usually disgusting in l A, I
don't go in the water. Like, if I go to
the beach, I'll look at it, I'll walk, maybe I
put my feet in, but I won't like swim. But
if the water is clear, I mean you know what
I mean, Like Hawaii, places like that. Oh it's beautiful.
(09:12):
I love it. Yeah. When I when I went to
to Europe a couple of years ago, there was these
little coves in Portugal where you can do cliff diving
off of and it was gorgeous. The only problem is
is that you could see to the bottom of the
you know, of the bed that you were in in
that lake or that river spot. The only problem is
(09:33):
you couldn't gauge your depth. So when you jumped off
these cliffs, you didn't know. I mean, we went with
guys that were professional cliff jumpers and stuff. You let
the other guy go first. Yeah, that's exactly what he did.
So he's just like, hey, you're jumping here and in
this direction, don't go that way, and don't do anything else,
and so we did just that. The water was was
(09:54):
obviously beautiful, cold as fuck, but it was pretty nice. Yeah, alright,
what else do we heavy here? Let's see? Uh? Any
menimny mo? Uh? This question? Who sent this one? In?
This is from Brian from Parts Unknown. He says, I
listened to the Fifth Hour, but when I asked Google
to play the last episode of the best of the
(10:14):
Ben Mallor Show, it always comes up the fifth Hour?
Is that right? I don't know. Uh interesting, there's no
big deal. But one time it played a song by
Michael Buble. What it seems odd to me? Kevin in
Kansas rites and he says, I teach high school English.
(10:34):
What were you like in high school with English? You
have a way with words, So I imagine you were
that way or did you realize that gift later on? Kevin,
much later on. I was not a good high school student.
I just kind of passed skated by in high school,
barely got out of high school. And be honest with you,
I just I was not into it. But as I've
(10:55):
gotten older, I have the great thing about the Internet
as you can educate yourself, which is pretty cool, and
so I've always had a passion as an adult for words.
And I pointed out in the past that all we
have in radio and audio broadcasting is words we don't
(11:15):
we can't show you anything we're not on camera. And
so I I learned. I've been inspired by certain people, Um,
Brian Wheeler, we've had on the podcast Wheels the voice
of the Trailblazers, a friend of mine, and he would
always use these big words. And Vince Scully would use
some words I've never heard of before watching dodging games
(11:36):
grown up. And but just in general, it's like, you know,
if you you you can say the same thing but
using different words and it sounds a lot better. And
in some words that I just love. They're fun to say,
like hoodwinked or bamboozled or hornswoggled, like words like that.
I love those type of words. And skullduggery not a
word that's regularly is. You don't hear skullduggery all that much.
(11:58):
But it's a fun word, and you know, you can
you can have a good time with that and all
those all those things. So but it in high school enough.
If you if you met me in high school, this
guy is an idiot. This guy's a dump dump. You know,
he doesn't pay attention at all, But so and I
was trying to learn something. As far as words, I'm
always looking around trying to find new words and things
(12:22):
I haven't heard before. Phrases I love, uh, idioms, old
you know, proverbs, things like that, learning about those, the
history of some of those things. So it's pretty I
find it interesting. It's just happened. I've picked up. I'm
at in Elmira, New York, right city. Since is there
any tactful way to tell a receptionist coworker that their
(12:45):
flagelence has become an issue? It honestly smells like a
horse has ship in the entryway, which I find to
be distracting, let alone disrespectful to the rest of the staff.
And then he he says, Matt, how about an anonymous
letter on the desk, a bottle of beano? Uh? Any
(13:06):
suggestion would be appreciated, Sincerely, Matt in l Myra. All right,
So this is a tough one. You've got someone you
work with who stinks you have to be delicate with this.
You have to be right because you get in trouble.
I don't know if they have an HR department, what
would be the move here Gascon. I think I think
(13:29):
you gotta lie. I think the approaches you. You lie
to that person and you basically say, hey, just a
heads up. I don't know what time you got here,
but I sprayed down this area, um, because it's been
kind of smells like just in this region of the
last couple of days. I don't know if you've noticed
it or not. Um, So I spread it down so
(13:50):
I apologize if it stinks to you, if it just
has that kind of weird uh where it's sent. And
if I spread down later, I'm gonna do that too.
So that would be year solution to the yeah you lie,
you played dumb and you make her ask the questions
of like what does it smell like? Yeah? Uh? The
one thing I will say, and we've all done this
(14:12):
at some point with with flagelence, you're trying to cover
it up with the spray. Yeah, it just makes it.
You still smell it. It just has a little bit
of a sugary smell, you know what I mean? Yeah?
All right, anyway, let's see you. Who else do we
have your any meny miney mo Jack in Greensboro and
(14:33):
Carolina says, Hey, Ben, what is the most important piece
of advice that your father passed down to you. Well,
it's hard to summon up with just one piece of advice,
the fatherly wisdom that you pick up just being around
your dad or your mom. And uh, yeah, a lot,
a lot of a lot of interest things. My dad
had a tremendous knowledge. He was an engineer. He worked
(14:55):
with computers when I was a kid. But this was
before computers are com uters today. This is when computers
were the size of a football field, and so he
helped develop programs and things where computers in the early
days before before they became the things that have overwhelmed us,
uh these days. And he had interesting No, he loved
(15:17):
there's certain things that were just he was very passionate
about Mark Twain. He loved Mark Twain for some reason.
That was this guy, old Mark Twain quotes books about
Mark Twain, Ham Radio. Um, those are some of the things.
But I mean, as far as advice, it just kind
of like, you know, how to how to live and
be a good family guy, and be loyal and supportive
and all that. Those are things I learned from my
(15:39):
my father just by observing. You know, my my mom
and dad were married forever and ever and ever, and
they had, you know, they didn't a good relationship. And
also I tould I've told the story before. You know,
both my parents are now gone and growing up. I
think it's really interesting now looking at the way the
world's gone. My mom was more liberal, my dad conservative.
(16:00):
And they would talk about the issues of the day.
There's always something and they would duke it out and
they wouldn't agree, and but at the end of dinner
they would you hug it out. They're good. No problem
these days. So like you're at each other's next you
want to you want to kill each other. You can't
be in the same room. You can't have friends that
don't agree with your political idea. You know your political beliefs. So,
(16:22):
I mean, those are some of the things. Uh, Corey
in Minnesota, is what's your favorite memory of your father? Again,
that's the tough to sum it up in one memory.
I I flashed back to some of the games. My
dad was not a huge sportsman. My mom was more
of a sportsman. But my dad knew I love sports,
and so I remember some of the games we went
to and he had gotten tickets, whether through work or
something I remember when I was a kid. The first
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NFL game I went to was a RAM game and
I was playing the forty Niners and this was Joe Montana,
you know, big deal in in in Bill Walsh and
all that. And I remember I was so excited, such
a nerd as a kid, because I even at that age,
I was like, maybe I'll be a broadcast to some day.
And I saw the Madden Cruiser parked out the big
(17:03):
parked outside the Big A in Anaheim because Madden doesn't fly,
and he took the Madden Cruiser and it was like
a big deal. And I remember it was with my dad,
I went to the All Star Game. He got tickets
to the All Star Game in Anaheim in the late
eighties there, and it was funny because it was that
was a big All Star game at the time because
Bo Jackson was in the All Star Game Nike. He
had a big marketing campaign about about Bow. But we
(17:26):
had terrible seats, but it didn't matter. We were in
the stadium and it was a big deal. And and
my dad was more excited though, because Ronald Reagan was
at the game in the press box. He did a
couple of innings on NBC for the I think it
was NBC for the All Star Game. They brought him in.
He was no longer president at nineteen nine, but they
brought him in. And I remember how exciting that was.
(17:46):
And we were looking all the Secret Service people and
all that so and uh and I also remember I
was at an Angel game. They're playing the Tigers, and uh,
I was a little kid with my dad and some guy.
I tossed like a cigar cigarette thing over the upper
(18:06):
you know, the deck above us, and landed on my leg.
I was wearing shorts and burned the ship out of
my legs, right, And um, I remember my dad taking
care of me and all that stuff. So, I mean,
there's some there's a bunch of those type of things.
But I will I will miss my old man for sure.
That's a that's a tough one. Enjoy you got your
parents still. I I've I've I've found out now I've
(18:27):
joined a club, a club I didn't want to join.
But we're all going to join at some point if
we're lucky. Actually, where you outlive your parents and it's uh,
that's it sucks, but it's part of life. It's part
of life. Um, Pierre in Springfield right saying he's now
here we go. He says, did your father look down
on your association with Gagon? And he says, did your
(18:48):
parents approved your decision to go into radio? And no,
my dad actually was impressed because Gagon's got credibility. Because
my dad loved the police and law enforcement, and he
actually volunteered with Ham Radio locally in the city he
lived in with the police department. He loved the police.
And so you know the fact that I could brag
that I worked with Gascon and his dad ran the
(19:10):
l A p D. You know, you know, it was
a big shot. That was like a big deal. So
he loved that. And uh, my parents, No, my my
mom the good thing. I'm my mom and dad. They
just wanted me to do something I was passionate about
and to work hard at it. And they knew the
odds were against making it in radio. But my mom
was very supportive and my dad was you know, he
went along with it. He was good, you know, give
(19:30):
it a shot. Um. And I remember when I was
making no money when I got hired at six ninety
in San Diego and I was a reporter and I
was making ship money. I could have worked at Jack
in the box and made more money, and I was
working everything, but I after the baseball strike in they
ended the season early. They came back and they I
(19:51):
covered every game Dodgers and Angels for for the following season.
They had no days off, so I was at the
ballpark every day. And I even got sick because I
was going out there so much, so I could get
sick o to baseball games. But I was like, I
had no time off. I had like, no not even
one day a week, and I was making no money.
But they were very supportive. Both my parents were very
(20:12):
very supportive, and they were proud of me. You know,
that's and that's all you want as a kid, right
you want your parents to be proud of you. And
you know my mom and dad, I mean they made
sure they always let me know that. Uh it was.
They were very pregnant. And you know, my mom would
listen to the overnight show. I was doing weekend overnights
and my mom, who was not in the best of health,
would stay up all night to listen to the show.
(20:33):
She would change her schedule because she wanted to. And
whenever I went and I worked some when I first
started a Fox Sports radio, I was like the swing guy.
I would fill in, you know, different different parts of
the day parts and no matter when I was on
my own, always made sure to to listen to My
dad was very supportive and um he didn't look the
one disappointment. I think he wanted me to get a
ham radio license and I didn't. I didn't end up
(20:56):
doing that, but he did love the fact that I
at least went into some kind of radio, so he
he appreciated that. Kevin in Rockford, Illinois rights and says
Mr Mallor and Mr Gascon David seems like he's a
He's pretty comfortable talking on the podcast and on the
radio doing updates. I think he does a good job.
Well is this your is this your? Wow? He says,
(21:19):
does does a good job for a West of the
four oh five situation here? Uh, he says, you both
you will think, Ben, do you think Gascon could one
day have his own radio show? And David, is that
the route or route you would want to go? Well? Yeah,
sure Guesscon could have a radio show. And I don't
think that's what you want to do. I think you
(21:39):
your dreams are play by play right, Your your goal
is to be the play by play voice of X
or Y or is he right? All right? Just to
be maybe a national guy like Kenny Albert. He does
everything he does football, basketball, hockey, boxing. I think he's
done Olympic events. To correct me if I'm wrong, I
don't know. If it's whatever, yea, yeah, surely. Yeah. So
(22:03):
I'd love to be on on that kind of track. Um.
I love talk radio. I just think like, personality wise,
I think the way that that we are or I
am with you on this is drastically different than how
I am on Nashville Radio. I feel like, personality wise,
(22:24):
I'd get fired or I'd get busted, or I'd get
reprimanded and it just wouldn't work. I like the I
like the the podcasting format allows to be a lot
more free and loose with language and how you communicate
and radio you're you're not in a box. Like That's
the lecture that you guys have here at Fox is
(22:45):
that I've never heard of management tell a personality you
can't say this or don't be like that. Like Scott
and don Or are extremely extremely um comfortable and allowing
their all to be who they are. Yeah, I mean,
we're not It's not like what was that video that
popped on the internet like at CNN where they tell
(23:06):
you what to say that day. You know, it's not
like that at all. We we have, uh, not totally unfettered,
but in comparison to a lot of people this, you know,
obviously they're they're very cool allowing us this. Last year.
Management's like they went to us like, listen, there's no
sports going on. We understand that we're sports radio show,
(23:26):
but people want to hear you know, talk radio, So
just do good radio. Whatever you talk about. There's no
sports to talk about, but just a good radio. And
it was great advice and we do appreciate that because
I know I have some friends at work at competitors
who did not have that freedom, that had to continue
to just only talk about sports, and they wanted to
(23:46):
pull their hair out and it was it was a nightmare.
But it is a daily grind. Man. You do a
daily show, guest scout it it can wear on you.
There's certain points where you're like you you don't want
to talk like I I love doing the show. Oh
and I it's my passion and I spend my entire
life dedicated to that. But there are some days I'm good,
I got nothing to say, I got no opinion about this,
(24:09):
But you still gotta do the show. The show's gotta happen.
You've gotta you've got to find a way to make
it work. And and so you there's certain things you
have to do to kind of get yourself fired up
on days you're not into it. But it's like any job,
Like I think there's any job that you have just
gonna be days you're not into it. Even if you're
like a professional athlete playing in the NBA or the NFL,
(24:29):
there's gonna sometime you're like, I really want to be here.
But you can get off on someone else's energy, like
if you're having a bad show, like Coop could do something,
or Roberto could do something, or any could say something
that that gets you in a groove or that gets
you inspired to do something else. Whereas if you're working
like solo, if you're you know, if it's just you
and a microphone, you know, if there's a day that
(24:51):
you're flat, then you're dead man walking. Yeah, like I did,
the Boston shows I did was totally solo. They had
no no one right along as a support staff. And yeah,
I remember the one night I was on on EI
and there was a blizzard and the only people that
called in were driving snow trucks, snow plow trucks around.
(25:14):
That was a tough one. I'm not gonna lie that was.
That was a tough night. That was. I was testing
my my skills there. I was. I was dragging out
certain things. And I remember the the w E I clock.
I don't know if it's the same now, but they
had the opening segment of the hour. It was like
(25:36):
a twenty minute block, you know, and you're you're there
and you're by yourself and there's not a lot going
on and snowing, and you're like, oh crap. And I
was like, ohly crap, What am I gonna do? All right?
Seawan and Nashville rights and says when and how did
(25:56):
you to meet? Also, I have tried to invite David
over to cook the t bone or you have. You know,
um gascon for governor has a nice ring to it.
For that ship whole state that you guys reside in
Shawan and Nashville. Uh say, well, how did I mean?
I met you at Fox Sports Radio guestcoun r. Yeah,
(26:18):
I don't think I've met you before. Fox Sports Radio
No No. Came up to me one day and introduced yourself.
I did. I was larger than life, right, yeah, because
we had the same You worked in San Diego radio,
but a different era of San Diego radio than me. Yeah. Yeah,
younger than me. But I met you. I was filling
in for Eddie on an overnight and I didn't know
(26:39):
who you were. And then and then all of a sudden,
like you started this is that you're pacing days, so
you take the break and then pace around the entire Yeah. Yeah,
I would walk around the building to get steps in. Yes,
you did that for years, right right. I had the
commercial breaks time to the second I knew exactly how
long I had to walk before I had to be
(27:01):
back on the air, you know. And this is during
the time when someone got stabbed down the street to like, yeah,
I know for for a pretty nice part of l A.
I guess it's just because we've been there for so long,
but there have been people killed and uh, you know,
people doing all kinds of wild things. And I and
(27:22):
I walked around in the middle of the night and
I saw things I couldn't believe, people like come crawling
out of the woodwork. It's wild and you don't see
any when you're there in Sherman Oaks. During the day,
you don't see any of that. It's beautiful. But then
at night it's like a whole different, different vibe, Like
the swamp creatures come out. It's wild. It's the night
of the Walking Dead pretty much. I knew all the
(27:44):
homeless people in the neighborhood that were sleeping around the
building and wave at him, See what's going on? How
you doing all that stuff? But that's how that's how
we met. We met at Fox Sports Radio and just
gonna introduced me and I was like, who's this loser?
And there you go, and then I introduced uh, well,
I was introduced to Tammy, and then all of a sudden,
you guys started getting all these goodies because of me,
(28:05):
thanks to Tammy. That's not a lie. Tammy was a
fan of the show Hunt. She predates guest Hunt. But
you know, yeah, I mean we really bonded, Dammy and
I yeah, really yeah. Do you want to expand on it? Yeah?
She got me, well, she got she got cooped too.
(28:28):
These awesome cupcakes. She got us cupcakes. I think she's
gotten us fat sALS once for my birthday. Well, she's
very kind, she is. She might or might not be
friends with a cake benefactor who got us these designer cakes.
I lost. I'd lost a hundred over a hundred, actually
two hundred pounds. I'd lost two hundred pounds, and then
(28:49):
I gained I getting a lot of it back by
eating these designer cakes for any birthday or just for whatever.
For giggles, these would show up and they were awesome.
They had such such wonderful memories of gaining all the
weight back to lose it again. Wonderful. Carlos and Bang Bang,
(29:10):
Houston writes, and he says, how often did he interact
with Losorta? And we talked a lot about that in
a previous episode, Carlos, But I I interacted interacted with
Tommy when he was managing the two and a half years,
the last two and a half years of his career,
every you know, every day at home when the Dodgers
were at home, and then once he left and was
(29:32):
the ambassador, I saw him a lot. He would hang
out in the press box a lot. He liked to
hang around the media. So I saw him quite a
bit and it was just like a hello, how you doing, Tommy,
what's going on Ben that kind of thing. I just
love the fact that sort of knew my name. That was,
as I said, Losorda and Vince Gully. When you're you're
you know, you're a made man. Um the memory. As
far as Loss, I don't his greatest memory, but the
(29:53):
last time I saw him. Um one of the last
time was eighteen. I was at Staples Center and I'm
walking through the streets of l A. And I walked
by this steak place in downtown l A. And waddling
out of the stake places Tommy losorder but hey Tommy,
and I went over there and I took a photo.
(30:13):
It's actually on on Twitter. It was and you know, Tommy,
he's getting frail a little bit, but he even remembered
me and said hello, and we took a photo and
it's a brief conversation and he got into a car
service that picked him up, and then I kept walking,
and I think that was the last time I actually
saw because he didn't, you know, he didn't go out
(30:34):
that much in nineteen didn't hang out in the press box,
it was hard for him to get you move around
as much, and uh and all that, but fond memories.
Fond memberis Jason and Rocky Mountain, Virginia says, glad you're back.
I was wondering when you were on vacation, did you
and the misses stay in a cabin or a lodge?
It seemed like you may have been up in the
woods for several days. Well, Jason, we would have, but
(30:58):
King Knewsome would not allow that, and the polot I
don't know if it's King Newson, might have been the
federal government, but they they have lodges in Sequoia, but
because of COVID they were not open, so we had
to stay at a hotel down the mountain, which sucked.
It was. It was all right, but you would have
been much cooler if we had been able to stay
(31:18):
in a lodge right there, because you know that we
even have to drive. It's paining the ask to drive
through the snow and that whole thing and put the
chains on and take them off. So that would have
been that would have been pretty pretty cool. We were
not allowed to do that though, but it was it
was fun. Skip does zip Skippy in Cleveland says, Uh, condolence.
(31:39):
He said, Secondly, did you ever get my Christmas card?
Or if no, I have not picked up the mail
and the mails I'm gonna pick up the mail. I
promise I'll get to it here. I can't promise that
it will be done already by the time you hear this,
but it's on my list of things to do. I
have a lot of other things, unfortunately, that I have
to take care of. Uh. And he says, I, I
feel as though the Browns were his Chiefs will be
(32:00):
an offensive shootout, and of course I'm picking the Browns
to win a squeaker. While I am certain you will
disagree with that. In Gallon's how much sobbing will Pete
and Pittsburgh do when that happens. I don't know how
much into sports Pete is anymore. Pete piece and old
school caller Pizza become very political last I heard. Uh.
(32:21):
I don't know, but yeah, yeah, I I miss Pete's calls.
I do. But would he care now? He'd probably just
say we're still the Pittsburgh Steeter is the greatest team
of them all. Blah blah blah blah blah. Eric and
Omaha is a very important question. He says, where is
the best place in Los Angeles to get some damn nachos?
I'm not a big nacho eater. I I like Taketo's
and crunchy gringo tacos. Where are the where's the top
(32:43):
nacho spot? Guest on in l A. Somewhere in East
l A, Lincoln Heights, somewhere over there, man Pico Rivera,
No anywhere. That's a good question. No, I don't know.
We have no answer. We have no healthy and I'm
sorry we failed you. Are you a fan of Cardian
set up fries? Yeah, I'm good with that. I mean,
(33:04):
I'm gonna go out of the way to get him,
but I'm good with that. Oh yeah, this is that
place you like. What was the breakfast burrito place you
were bragging about, Oh, fantastic cafe. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Um,
Ponchos in Manhattan Beach has some big gas nachos. There's
but there's multiple Poncho's locations, are there? Yeah, that's not
Ponchos is not a standalone location. There was a Pontos
I don't know if it's still around. In l A.
(33:24):
There was a Poncho no kidding, You didn't know that.
I had no I didn't know. I had no idea.
I just thought it was a standalone because the fucking
portions were just huge. You get a plate of of
enchiladas and it was like twenty bucks. Well now I
think there might be several with the same name Ponchos.
I don't know if it's the same because I've been
to a restaurant called Ponchos and they didn't have the
(33:46):
unbelievably large portions of food, So maybe it's a yeah,
a different Ponchos restaurant. How how big are we talking
like cheesecake factories? Yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean it's good.
It's really good. Ponco's restaurant. Yeah, in Manton Beach. Yeah,
like right off the pier ald on that Secon. Let
me look this place up here. Have you ever gone
to I know Jim Rome swears about this place grab
(34:06):
a Viney, But Javier is in Newport Beach. I have been.
I've been to a Jabyers. There's one in Vegas. Um
it's good but very Um. Yeah it is, but I'm
more of a like an El Coyote guy. That's good.
Prices have gone up though quite a bit over the years,
(34:27):
but it's it's a good restaurant there. They also have
the They have the Green Go Taco as well, which
is which is nice for me. I'll see you, Caleb
in Meadville, Pennsylvania, says big Man. I've heard you sing
the praises of raising canes chicken figures for a while. Now.
I was blown away to discover there was one in Youngstown, Ohio.
(34:49):
Is it worth the pilgrimage? Alright? So a couple of
things here, Caleb. First of all, what is your level
of joy for eating chicken figures? That's the most important thing.
If you are a chicken finger connoisseur, you love the sauce,
you love the whole meal, a traditional all American meal
of chicken fingers, fries, and a lemonade with Texas toast.
(35:13):
If you're passionate about that food, If that's a food
that resonates with you, uh, then absolutely. Now I have
driven to raise before Raisingknes opened up in my backyard.
I used to drive all over God's Greener to eat
raising canes. But I love the chicken pie, and I
was one of the most attractive things to me about
(35:34):
going to Vegas because they didn't have it in California
for a while. But I go to Vegas and they
were all over Vegas, so I'd go to hang out
there and I'd get my raising canes. I go to Vegas,
all those restaurants in Vegas, I'd beat in raising canes. Um,
So it really depends on that. But yeah, it's good,
But I mean, I don't know, I'd plan a whole
trip about it if that's I don't know how many
miles that is for you. But if it's it's not
(35:54):
too bad, chair, why not go and do something in
Youngstown and go have some chicken fingers and keep an
eye the Raising Kine's website because they're expanding new locations
all over a lot of a lot of expansion there.
So all right, uh, let's see here. Glenn in Carmichael,
California says, I feel like we've had this question before
since Ben, what baseball great from the past would you
(36:17):
wish you could have seen play? I've answered this, the
answer is not changed. Um, Babe Ruth, the legend of
the Bambino Babe Ruth, I want to see what all
the hypes about would be nice dolphin Mike says, I
work at a newspaper and it's like an unguarded fortress.
He says, if you get in the front door without
(36:40):
a key, fop, good luck getting in any other doors
without a key fop. Dolphin Mikes says, my question, why
was it so easy to get into the Capitol building
that has armed guards, better security, etcetera, etcetera. Well, I
can't answer that, Dolphin Mike. I I missed all that.
I was doing stuff my with my father and going
(37:02):
through stuff. I guess John, I think I I text you,
like we were you, you wouldn't sent me something or
believe that's how it went down. But says somebody, maybe
it wasn't. You sent me a text telling me what
had happened at the Capitol. But I had not. I
didn't watch it in real time or anything like that.
I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't
find out until after it because I was completely off
the grid when that happened. Have you've been to d C?
(37:27):
Have you've done time there in d C? Yeah? I
went to I had a call a game at Morgan
State and and I stayed in Baltimore and part of
the trip and we went was what we got to
go through d C for a day. I didn't spend
a lot of time there. But DC is fun, man,
there's there's a good vibe and it's a dirty slash
(37:48):
energetic vibe that you get almost rivals in New York
in d C. Yeah, but like this, there's a lot
of security, I would imagine right around. I've never been
to d C. I need to get there at some point.
I'd like to go and hang out. But there's a
lot everywhere you go, right because it's a target. No
if three years ago when I went there wasn't no
not at all. I mean, but it seems odd to me.
(38:10):
Maybe they just shouldn't. Maybe he didn't notice it about that. Yeah,
I mean they weren't front center like they are with
the National Guard these days. Yeah. So there's so there
you go, isn't there not advertising? They keep a low profile. Yeah, yeah,
where you go? All right, let's put the baby, but
anything else, guess on anything else you would like to
promote or yap about or just wine. No, we're good. No, subscribe, Yeah, subscribe,
(38:39):
help us out, tell people about the podcast, spread the gospel,
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We can keep them short. You want to shorter. Some
people like a shorter podcast, some people like a longer podcast. Yeah,
so it really depends on what your your heart desires. There.
So I have a great Sunday again. We're gonna be
back to not if you're on the West coast at
(39:01):
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early Monday morning, in the middle of the night, yapping
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