May 16, 2021 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
If you thought more hours a day dred minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
break free for something special, to fit hour with Ben
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. We are
back at Mailbag Mailbag Podcast eight days a week. This
will be the eighth day of the week, the Sunday Podcast,
And I'm not gonna spend any time small talking. We
need to get right into the questions. I want to
get as many of these questions on as possible. I
(00:45):
got some nasty messages from people I spend time posting
a question and you didn't read it because gascon said
to cut the pot. Rest of the four five. They're
very insecure. Run right into my introduction that the little
bow for me, a little genuine flight. As we were
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in the high end of the Palace of Fox reliability,
the taj Mahal of podcasting over here, as we hang out,
what's up with Vegas Man? I got Vegas, I got
some cops. I got some rooms. I need to want
to go to Vegas. You're Jones and to go to Vegas. Yeah,
JONESP for something, dude, it's been a long past time. Yeah,
(01:28):
I have not. I'm not done the Vegas thing. I
got in, but I think I went right before the
world should. The end of twenty nineteen, I went to
Vegas Christmas Holiday. Had a good time there. Ate that
deep this Chicago pizza there And in Vegas? Where did
you stay? Did you stay off the strip? No? I
think I stayed at the MGM. That's where I stayed. Yeah,
(01:48):
got you. Usually I stay somewhere or whatever the cheapest
hotel I can get unless I can get a comp,
and I'm obviously we'll take I'll say anywhere with this
a comp. I'm I'm open to that. But we you know,
we've got some some friends in the Mall and Blush
that are very high up there power. I'm not. I'm
not kidding here. One of our key guys like runs
the club scene in Vegas. I think I've aged out.
(02:11):
But if you want to go Gascon, I know guys,
you haven't v I p treatment now because you can
go in there now. And people just know like you're
not some old guys just trying to wrestle up on
some chicks. They'll just look at you be like, Okay,
that dude's got money. What's he doing in here? Because
you're not an extrovert. So when you're in there, people
will just know that you've got a bank roll. That's yeah.
(02:34):
But one of the more awkward things we don't have
time to get into it now is I did go
many years ago to the pool club. Now that was
that was why I think it was at the MGM.
Actually everyone's boozing in the pool there, and that was
That was pretty crazy. Love is pretty pretty wild. Alright,
let's get to the mail bag here. Remember cameo dot
(02:57):
com you want a personalized video monologue, will do that
for you. It's not free, but it's not much. Guest
CON's on there as well, yes, and just cons him
say nice things. I just concluded a nice cameo video
for you that you failed to look at after a
week until I showed you it. And well, it's hard
to watch something when I don't get it, um, but
I did. And then I want to think Mallard prop
(03:18):
guy who spam he put an eighteen minute video. Eighteen minutes. Yeah,
that was outstanding. Man. He didn't get paid for that,
but that was that was great. Well, you know what
I mean. Do you acknowledge that, because I don't think
I got paid for mine either. I did a great
video for you. Right in the middle of all I'm
doing cameos for free, three or four minutes in length.
(03:39):
In the middle of that, Mallard prop guying a video montage. Um,
you're fishing for a compliment again. I thought it was great.
I thought was tremendous. It was a happy birthday to you. Well,
I liked it. Your part I didn't like that much,
but the rest of it was good. Yeah, all right.
I hear the mail back questions. First one from David
in Simpsonville, South Carolina. He says, I'm your hat guy, Ben. Okay,
(04:01):
He says, I've listened to you and David for a
pretty long time. Your hat size is an eight, David
is seven and three Ace Is that correct? He says,
I have a nice University of Maryland hat because you
like M and B on your hats. Uh and uh.
I have a nice Denver Broncos hat for David. Nice.
He says, I've been looking, but I can't find the truth.
(04:22):
Who is older and how old are are you? Please
say so to get these great hats. He says. Also, Ben,
I know you don't mean to, but you always refer
to your better half as the wife. David says, this
is rude to her, and you sound like an old man.
If you're security for security purposes. If you can't say
(04:45):
her name, just say Mr m and or Mrs M.
I think he said he said Mr m and or
ms Mrs M. Just a little kind advice from a
retired security contractor and consultant there, Simpsons, South Carolina. Yeah. Interesting,
Well I do call the wife a wife, um, but
(05:08):
I could call her the mrs. Call her Mrs Maller, right,
I just thought, Mrs Maller is my mom though, you know,
the apple of your eye, Yes, the jewel of my life,
the love of your life, the cream in your coffee,
the straw that stirs the drink, the thing that keeps
my clock moving right there. Uh well, thank you David
(05:31):
for the the hats there. You appreciate that. And I
don't have a University of Maryland hat, but it's got
an M on it. I'll rock the Maryland Hat go
tirps alright, this one is from in in New Mexico.
He says, Hey, Big Ben and Gascon, I was wondering
if you would ever do a home and home series
(05:51):
with Fox Sports Radio alumnus Steve Zaban, especially with all
the Aaron Rodgers drama. And he broadcast out of Milwaukee
on a station there nightties seven point three the Game
and does his own podcast, The Zabe Cast, he says,
and as a nostalgic play to the glory days of
Fox Sports Radio to have two titans of those bygone
(06:12):
days hook up again from Ian in New Mexico. Yes,
Zabe is a friend and I have We've tried to
work out logistics. Abe's reached out to me several times
to go on his podcast and the Zabe Cast, and
I would love to do it. The problem is our schedules.
We have complete opposite schedule, Like when I could do
(06:35):
the podcast, he's doing the radio show and can't record
his podcast. When he can record the podcast, I'm sleeping.
So there We've not been able to line everything up.
But Zabe was the morning guy at Fox Sports Radio
for a long time out of d C, and guys
Hustle's got multiple radio shows and podcast and he's working hard. Uh.
(07:00):
He says, By the way, Ian's the guy that's spreading
the show to the younger generation. As I remember, I
think we told the sort of Michael in New Mexico
called up. He's the boyfriend of Ian's daughter. Oh and
because of Ian, he hooked up. This guy's at college
kid in Los Cruces and he's a fan of the show.
(07:20):
So thank you, Ian. That's exactly what we need. We
need more guys like you. Ian. You've gone above and
beyond the call of duty. That's good. You chastised me
yesterday about doing something like that, didn't you. I don't.
I don't recollect where and I don't recollect at all.
Appreciate it. Ian. Thanks. Neil from Miami is one of
(07:43):
my guys. I love this guy good. He says, you
have the Mallard militia, which I have been a part
of since you were doing weekends. I don't recall a
full blown militia at the time, but now, since you
introduced me to the eight hundred credit score west of
the four oh five, Mr, you know set than I
can't help but want to be part of gag Gascon Gang,
(08:05):
he says. I know I'm I'm a pilot, is the
captive of the gang, but I am in the rank somewhere.
So my question is is it possible to have dual
citizenship with a passport in Mallard Militia and Gascon Gang?
Do I need to choose? Also, what is the appropriate
name for the Gascon Gang? He says. And I do
(08:27):
listen to the best of podcast of your weeknight show,
but you your cast forgets who is the boss of
the show of the last few years. Well, maybe Roberto
still has love for you, but Eddie and Coope are
straight haters. According to Neil in Miami, guess no one
likes the boss. So that was his first He has
(08:47):
a second question, but yeah, I mean, here's the thing.
The Gascon Gang doesn't really exist. It's a figment of
some people's imagination. It's like saying at Vatican City is
gonna take down China in a battle. The Malla Militia
is the monster. It's the the eight pound gorilla and
(09:12):
the Gascon Gangs and aunt that's pretty much what that is.
I think we can do it as a little bit
of an old school tale of David versus Goliath. How
about that it would be like that only word that
David only beat Goliath in the Bible, but the rest
of the time, no, in real life, the big guy wins.
That's that's how that works. Uh so and uh, yeah,
(09:35):
there's no gascon gang at all. Who else do we
have you? It's one more from from Neal, he says.
Second question, Uh, is this character haze call from Minnesota
who makes six thousand dollars a week, three thousand dollars
a year washing bodies. What is the oddest job of
your Mallem Militia member. I am a biomedical engineer myself
(09:59):
in the artificial heartspace. Well that's pretty cool. So now
you gotta put Neil with I'm a pilot. Like those
are two upper class warden, brilliant people. I like Neil now,
oh that's typical Western farm You like him because he
(10:20):
said he's a biomedical engine he's he's an achiever. I
like he's a fan of the Mallar Militia. It's what
he is. Yeah, he's a winner. Uh. The honest job
of a Mallar Militia member. Well, we've had a lot
of people that have embomb bodies that have worked at cemeteries,
the undertakers very popular, firefighters, police officers, people that make donuts,
(10:44):
truck drivers. Those are the normal jobs CPS. Remember one
of the oddest jobs we had was a guy that
called me up on the Ohio River and he was
on a tug boat. And yeah, it was like it
just seemed like really cool. He's on a tug boat
and cruising around. We've had people that are on those
big tanker ships that go across the Pacific. Oh nuts.
(11:06):
Have you ever had anyone that worked in the lighthouse. Yeah,
we've had back in the Northeast, there was a caller
that claimed he worked at the lighthouse. That's a pretty
pretty obscure. We've had some somewhere when we've had farmers,
pig farmers. You know a lot of farmers out there
that do that. That kind of thinks. Any politicians or
(11:26):
government officials, Yeah, you know. There's actually some that follow
me on Twitter that are very liberal politicians, which is
pretty funny, pretty funny, but they're fans. They were fans
of the show. Um. In fact, there's one guy that's
on see I forget his name. Actually, I wish I
have to go through and find it. But he's on
CNN a lot, and he was he was a young
(11:49):
politician and he was a fan of the show, and
he's he's gone on and moved up the ranks in
politics and so so there is that. Uh, let's see
who's next. Jose in matt Stachusetts says, Hey, lord, Ben,
I have a question for you. Kirk Minihan said, radio
is dead. Do you think he's right or crazy? Uh?
(12:11):
He's not. He's not crazy, but he's not right. How
about that? Uh? And you know Kirk obviously as his
reasons the radio business, he got burned out on it
and it burned out on him, and you know his
style of radio. A lot of radio stations are like
too afraid to deal with that because he's you know,
he's out there on the edge and got huge ratings
(12:32):
Kirk did at w e I. But you know, there's
his story is a cautionary. Jerry Callahan talked about that
and what happened to Kirk and Jerry when they had
the number one radio show in Boston and they got
canceled and all that stuff. He says, I used to
listen to Giant Road games on the radio as a
kid because they were not on TV, and I used
(12:53):
to listen to you on w E. I and Kirk
and Callahan and Dino. They have a great lineup. Been
fired everyone that was good? Well, I agree with you
the w E. I did fire everyone that was good
because I'm on that list. He said, I only listen
to your last hour, the last hour of your show
on the Sports Hub. I listened to the rest of
the show on the podcast. Can you put your songs
(13:16):
on YouTube? I love I love the show. There can't
do that? Yeah, I don't. I don't massive mandate about that. Yeah,
I don't think we're allowed to put content on the
on the YouTube. Unfortunately, you can. You can record it
off the podcast though the music the tunes, you can
record that off the podcast. And plus like raz Quit
(13:38):
the band and Jay Scoop, like these guys make their
songs available. It's not like and we don't own those songs,
that it's their material. They allow us to use it
and we thank them for that. But yeah, if you
want Jose to find that stuff, you can. You can. Certainly,
it's not that hard to do. Carlos and Bang Bang Houston,
Texas has been is that I'm a pilot guy, a
(14:02):
real person or is that a Burger account because he
knows how to lick gascon's a hole. Will you be
doing your show how you used to when you would
bring in Eddie right after your monologue for reaction? He says,
And uh, well, we changed the format and the clock changed.
(14:23):
That's the main reason we changed that, Carlos. We were,
you know, we're supposed to technically break within a certain window,
and when Eddie would come on, we wouldn't shoot the
ship and we blow through the clock, and then I'd
get in trouble and I'm trying to avoid getting called
into the principal's office. So that's the main reason we
don't bring Eddie in after the monologue. Plus Eddie doesn't
listen to the monologues anyway, So what was the what's
(14:43):
the point? You'd be one thing if he was taking
notes and say, well you said this and I don't
agree with that, But it never really went that way.
It was like, okay, you'd hear like the last five
minutes of it, he says. And I remember you and
Danny g had a little beef because he took a
picture with that perfect Deshaun w Watson. Uh, did you
guys settle you all differences? Well, I think the fact
(15:03):
that Sean Watson has been proven as a pervert, at
least in the court of public opinion, I think that
that's a that's a big one. But yeah, I don't
have any beef with Danny. You know, I don't really
see Danny these days, so but yeah, Danny was very
nice called me on my birthday. Was very kind of
him to do that. So be sure to catch live
editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions
(15:26):
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. Have you ever ordered prime rib well
done at a nice restaurants from Glenn and Carmichael? Do
you even like prime rib? Yeah, it's not. It's not
my favorite. Um, but when I order meat at a restaurant,
(15:47):
I do get it well done. Yeah, And then I
get what everyone gets when they order their food well done.
I get shamed. I get the the waiter after I
placed the order, we'll go back to the kitchen and
then back five minutes later, Are you sure you want
this steak? Well done? Um? Yeah? And then but but
the chef says, it tastes better if you cook it,
you know. Okay, it happens all the time. Um, but
(16:11):
that not that I eat steaks all the time. Mike
in Arizona says, the first toilet paper last year. Now
gas shortages in When will people learn that their own
panic buying creates the shortage? Um? Well, Mike, that's just
that's human nature, right, That's never gonna gonna change. And
it's it's fueled by social media. It's you know, you've
(16:36):
got you've got a bunch of people that are seeing
this stuff and they're like, holy crap, you know what,
I can't believe this that and the other thing. And uh,
it's that fight or flight thing, right you gotta you know,
it's like I I gotta, I gotta get all the
toilet paper. I won't be able to wipe my ass
and on and oh my, it's people. They're all wired
(16:58):
the same way. Yeah. People people do that. I bet
you ran out. You went out and bought gas this week,
right gas? You probably did. No, I did not, you
did not. I did not know oddly enough, the date
that the Colonial pipeline was shut down. I actually filled
my tank up that prior night. So yeah, I was
gonna go, but I do have family in that region
(17:18):
of the country, and uh, you know, they're freaking out
a little bit because they got families and work and
commitments and things like that. Like they their blue collar
they actually have to drive to work. They're not at
home in their big house and king size bed to
do radio shows. And she's like sleep number bed. Disgusting
ons what that is? Also, I think what's going on here?
(17:40):
Uh you have the fight or flight. Uh, you have that, Mike,
and you also have the reptilian part of the brain,
right the primal part of the brain there. That's like, Okay,
I have to survive for our species and self preservation.
So let me get gas because I need to drive somewhere.
Fred in Texas says, why won't you eat gas tomahawks steak? Well,
(18:01):
I was, actually Fred, I was actually gonna eat the
tomahawks steak, But now that you emailed me that question,
I'm no longer going to eat the steaks because every
time somebody asked me to eat the steak, I then
delay eating the steak. I don't want to be I
don't want to I don't want to be bullied into
eating the steaks. You should just throw it out. I'm
not gonna throw it out. It's wrapped in plastic. It's
burned in the free it's not burned at all. It's fine.
(18:22):
It's it's been longer than a year. It's over. It's
aged beef. It's aged beef. Your aged beef. That's a
that's a piece of well cut steak that is now defecated.
Things to you. Your aged broccoli is what you are.
Ted writes and says, hey, bet, I've emailed you before.
I love the show mostly listen live because I still
(18:42):
enjoy live radio, but love the podcast as well. Question
for whenever the next mail bag is, which is today?
What if a picter has a perfect game through nine
does he lose a perfect game if he goes into
the tenth because of the dumb the dumbest fucking rule ever.
I know I can look at up, but I'd rather
ask you. With all the early no hitters you never
(19:05):
know obviously no care about hitting for average anymore. I'm
only a couple of years older than you, but you
would think I was eighty years old when it comes
to sports. But whatever. Yeah, well baseball has all these
fuga rules, as you know, with the no hit or
the Madison bumb Gardener. Well it's uh not no no
(19:27):
hitter because it was only seven innings, but there are
only a lot to play seven innings, which makes no sense, Tad.
And yeah, if you have a perfect game and you
go to the tenth inning and then you give up
a walk or hit, you no longer have a perfect game.
But if you do finish the perfect game, that counts
as a perfect game. But the problem with baseball is
the the three true outcomes. That is that's going to
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lead to more no hitters, and it's also gonna lead
to the designated hitter going back to the to the
National League. But the three true outcomes where you're not
even trying to just get a bay, he's hit, home run, walk,
and striker backing. Mar d go go, I'm backing my day.
What was the what was the greatest game you ever
saw pitched? Well, I've seen no hitters, so I guess
(20:13):
probably one of those. My favorite, I guess or best
game I've ever witness pitched was the one world Series
Jack Morrison Game seven. Oh, yeah, that was a legendary performance.
He was, man. I was in an elevator with Jack Morris.
Cool guy. Uh he was. I didn't recognize it because
he had gray hair and it was at Dodger Stadiums
(20:34):
during the World Series and he was broadcasting on radio.
But yeah, he was a nice guy. Yeah. And it
was funny because it was he was in the elevator
with me, and there was fans in there, and like
nobody nobody knew who, you know, they didn't know, but
their baseball fans. That's a historic name, Jack Morris. Yeah.
I mean I was too young. I was too young,
but I do appreciate that. I mean when her Schizer
was just blowing people away when he set the record
(20:57):
for scoreless uh. And then he was dominant with the
bat too. In the Major League Baseball postseason two. He
was so good that sees that. Obviously, the Dodgers were
just remarkable winning the whole thing, but he was so
locked in. Um. I wish I was a little bit
older and enjoy all of it. But he was a man.
I wish I was alive. Yeah. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts,
(21:21):
the home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame Pierre
a k A deep throat wow, he says, Ben and
gas can if you were able to bend Uncle Rob's ear,
which if not at all of the uh gazzy rule
changes recently added a baseball which would you abolish? Well,
(21:43):
that's easy. Ghost Runner, No ghost runner a broka that
that's so stupid. The ghost runner thing in X ratings
is so stupid. It's so dumb. It is so contrived,
so forced, so wrong. Question though, because the seventh and
the seven ending doubleheaders are a joke too, Well, that's
like at a travel league baseballs with that. But the
(22:06):
ghost runner thing, I mean, it would be dumb enough,
first of all to recommend that and then secondly to
actually put it in Major League Baseball. The same guy
that did nothing to the Houston Astros in two thousand seventeen. Yeah,
he's the same guy. Gutless jellyfish, spineless jellyfish. Pierre also says,
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do you think we are headed towards robot umpires and
ten minute instant replays that they still get wrong? Well,
I do not believe we're gonna get the robot umpires
anytime soon, because we still need the human element. I
I want human umpires. I like that we can rant
(22:49):
about how bad Angel Hernandez is her country, Joe West.
It's not supposed to be perfect, right, It's not supposed
to be perfect. And there was the time I hear
Guesscan where you know, part of pitching and being successful
was knowing each umpire's individual strikes on that every umpire
had their own strikes on that some umpires called the
(23:11):
pitch on the outside, more some called the pitch on
the inside, and you really had to study the umpires.
There was an art to it. So if everything's the same,
then is that better? I mean gambling lines nowadays, if
if people notice, is not always predicated on just the
starting pitchers of the lineups. It's also predicated on the umpire.
Certain umpires have games that go over the total, some
(23:35):
go under a lot, and yeah, you have those strike
zones where these umpires are completely liberal and other ones
that are completely conservative and they go knees to letters
and that's it. I'm right there with you. I love
the art of knowing the entire nuance of the game,
especially when you're pitching, because you know, most guys live
on the outside corner. They don't go up and end.
They don't attack hitters, and you gotta worry about an
(23:56):
umpire too. So well, and the other thing too about
the umpires as uh, you know, as I recalled, I
read about this on the internet. I was not alive, guest,
come back in the days where the umpires had different
strike zones. I heard that the players didn't mind it
as long as that strike zone was consistent, meaning if
you were a high strike caller, then you call that
consistently and you don't change in the middle of the game.
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And that's perfectly acceptable, perfectly fine etiquette. But if you
if you're all over the place, that becomes a problem.
I think my favorite display of awful umpiring was that game.
I forget what game it was. It was with LaVarne
Hernandez when he was Eric Gregg. It was l Yes,
get San Francis. Yes he called pitches a mile off
(24:40):
the So was it against the Braves? I think it
might have been against the Bridge It was though it
was the nl c S. And I know that because
I went to the World Series that year. The Marlins
played the Indians yea, and I got to the World
Series and they were still Everyone was still talking to you,
believe because Van Ernando was pitching in one of the games.
(25:01):
I was out of the World Series, and they're like,
I wonder if Eric Greig's gonna, you know, influence the
home plate umpire, Like, you know, the whole thing was.
It was wild. I don't think he was an official.
I don't know he was an umpire in that particular
World Series, but he had done that. I just love it.
The pitches were not only a mile off the plate,
but when he rang dudes up it was emphatic. Yeah,
he was having a bad day. Eric was having a
(25:24):
bad day. Andy writes and says, the beautiful harmony of
hate serenade delivered to the Astros at Yankee stayed in
along with the European Super League Manchester protest, causing a
match postponement. Is there any chance that sports returns to
a time more akin to the nineteen seventies, with fan
(25:45):
behavior turning more real, rebellious and consequence, He says, I'm old.
Andy says, I grew up a huge fan of the
broad Street Bully Flyers teams in the nineteen seventies and
glorious here. Indeed, can it ever get back? Can never?
Get better again, or as sports tied to the almighty
coin and if ever, you know, he's never gonna change back.
(26:09):
That's and he was right near the Tommy's over in
Hollywood where he used to hang out in the parking
lot at three in the morning and eat Nacho cheese
fries and triple Tommy's cheeseburgers board and I love those days.
Uh well, Tommy here or Andy I called him Tommy.
Uh yeah, I don't see it going back because because
these things, uh these sports operations are are woke. Society's
(26:31):
woke right now. They want to fit in with society.
And so every sport you get rid of fighting in hockey,
anything that is not with the main stream, there's no
place for it in sports because you're you're appealing to
the broad society of the power brokers, the elites, and
this is what the elites want. And so the sports
(26:53):
leagues are part of the elites. They're they're multibillion dollar businesses,
so they're in they're in lockstep with that. So I
don't see it in bed in bed uh dunk in Illinois.
Right since the mail bag, he says, Ben, who was
the worst person that you ever had to interview and
who have you hated working with the most? Well, I
(27:13):
think you know who I've hated working with the most
of the podcast every week. Uh and uh who did
I you know? And there's a lot of athletes that
were douchebacks. Barry Bonds back in the day was was
really Uh he was a ball of ball, the fruit
bowl of fruit. Rather. Um, don't think who else? I
(27:34):
mean there were some guys that were just dicks and
didn't want to I didn't want to do it. I
mean you pretty much all household names would you've heard
of over the years that were were terrible? Uh, just
hard ask guys. But the Bonds was the one that
popped up into my head. And there's some other random
baseball players that people I forgot about. John the jailer says,
(27:54):
do you do the receipt checkers at Costco actually count
all the items in the cart or is it just
a scare tactic to prevent shoplifting? Great question, John, I
was at Costco the other day and I did have
to do the walk there. You wait in line, they
have to look at they scan your receipt there and
then they put that little highlighter on the receipt to
prove that they looked at the receipt when you walk
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out of the store. Uh and yeah, I do not
believe they're actually uh, you know, counting all the items
in the cart. I don't believe that at all. I
do believe it is more of a theft prevention measure.
I was also told by somebody at Costco that they
do that to make sure you won't overcharged, which is bullshit.
(28:36):
I think that's bullshit, But I have heard that that
that's one of the theory. Well, well, we just want
to make sure you won't overcharge for any apps, like
the people that door know the price of every item
at Costco. Yeah, give me a break. We Um, this
is not fit for mailbag, But we do have some
breaking news that I'll have to share with you now
(28:57):
that we can share to the masses next week. Um you,
myself and a colleague went went Hollywood bound a few
days ago, and UM, we get certain things which are
called callbacks, and that basically means you've you've covered and
you've basically leaped over the first line of defense. And UM,
(29:21):
I got some correspondence speaking of the mail bag that
um we were um we were liked by many. Oh really, yes,
it's just the thing. We can't talk about that. Uh really,
it's just good. So here we go. I can certainly. Okay,
(29:44):
I think you're sending cryptic messages in the middle of
a mail bag podcast. It's fitting. It's an email, right, So,
well I didn't get I'm looking at I didn't get
the email. How come you got the email? Well because
I was the only one that's attached to it, because
it's an agent things so interesting? Um oh okay, all right,
(30:08):
look at you. I can tell I can tell when
certain things percolat in your mind. Interesting. Okay, I thought
it was something else, but I see that. Okay, yeah, okay,
is there a check associated with because my time is money?
I know, I know we'll find out. Tb D looks
(30:29):
like you're gonna have to get pretty creative on that. Yes, my,
oh my, oh my. Joe and Darcy in Florida right
and says, hey, would you ever consider something similar to
what Jim Rome did back in the day with your
tour stops are with his tour stops? I could totally
(30:50):
see it working with simultaneously recording the fifth Hour podcast. Plus,
since you are a citizen to the people's Republic of California.
It would probably be good for you to travel to
a state like Florida that actually has freedom and reasonable
a reasonable governor. Uh. By the way, a coda of
a cat despite Darcy's insistence, uh that he doesn't. Uh,
(31:13):
here you go. I'm not sure about that last part.
But Joe and Darcy, thank you for the message there. Well,
we've done some some version some version of the not
tour stop. But I have gone out, pressed the flesh,
met the people, much to the dismay of David Gascon.
I've had Mallard, we call him Mallard, Meat and great
(31:34):
Joe and Darcy. I've done them in Boston. We've done
them in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, New York. We've done them
a couple of them in Boston, in southern California. I
did want in bakekers Field at the minor league ballpark
in Bakersfield. And I have met listeners sporadically, but those
(31:58):
are some of the bigger ones we and we were
going to continue that in and everything got to lay.
But I would like to to get out and hit
the road again. Absolutely. I'd love to come to Florida
and hang out. I'm all about it absolutely alright. Blind
Seahawk fan Emmett in Olympia says, this is for both
of you. What was the craziest sporting event you've attended? Uh, well,
(32:25):
m and I. I was at the Fernando Tatis two
Grand Slams and Game Park. Uh yeah, I was at
that game. I was at Game seven of a World
Series then went to extra innings. That was pretty wild.
I've been at NBA Finals, unfortunately with the Lakers, but
I've been at those games. Those were pretty crazy. I
was at a game. One of the memories I have
(32:46):
was a random game that that was an Angels Indians
game back when the Indians had these really good teams
in that era in the nineties where they got to
the World Series and they had Albert bell And and
Kenny Loft then and Manny Ramires, these big stars. Jim
Tomay and some dude at the Big A climbed up
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the foul pool and I don't just mean a little bit,
I mean almost all the way to the top of
the foul pool and the game has stopped, and like
there's fifty thou people at the Big A or whatever.
At the time forty people, and they didn't know what
the hell to do. All right, are you gonna climb
up after him? What are you gonna do? Can you
(33:30):
play the game with the guy up there? What if
the guy falls? Forty people are gonna watch this guy
fall apart and die. It's a weird situation. But eventually
they coached him down and he slid down the foul pool.
Do let's say you can't shoot him down bean bags either, Well,
back in those days you probably could. Um, that was
pretty wild. Yeah, I went to that one. I've got
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him a bunch of Kings games. I think the wildest
one was probably Game six of the Campbell Conference Finals
between the Kings and the Toronto Maple Leaves, when Gretzky
scored a hat trick. He had he had high stick somebody,
Carrie Frasier was the official. He didn't see it. Like
five minutes later. Gretzky wins in a overtime and then
they go back to map Leaf Gardens and beat the
(34:13):
maple Leaves in game seven. Um, gret scared. No. Gretzky
had the hat trick in game seven, but he scored
the game winnering game six. UM. We were at fucking
Game seven the World Series when you Darvis decided to
throw up on himself. We're there cheating. We were there
for that. By the way, Murray and Saskatoon asked a
(34:34):
similar question. He said, just about Dodger Stadium. He says
he loves Murray and Saskatoon loves Dodger Stadium. Said, well,
your best memories there at Dodger Stadium, Well, that was
a bad memory that the seventeen World Series. I would
say my top memory is when I cranked a ball
it should have been a dinger and and hit off
the wall. And I play any media baseball games shagging
(34:55):
balls out in the outfield. And I would also say
ball night at Dodger same last ball night they ever
gave out the baseballs before the game when there was
a controversial called Dodger Cardinal game. Losorda is managing and
he comes out, waddles out of the dugout. He starts
arguing with the umpire. He then kind of raises his
(35:16):
arms into you know, he gets the fans going and
it starts raining down baseball. It was surreal. It was
from the top deck. People were chucking those baseballs down
the field. And that game ended up being forfeited, and
uh it was. It was wild. That's crazy. Charlie in
Memphis says, since you won't answer real questions, I'll do
(35:38):
the chicken shit thing everyone else does. What's your favorite color?
City and food? Well, Charlie, I'm gonna answer one question
from each customer. So for you, Charlie, my favorite color
is the color of red, because that's the color of
your face. You loser because you're enraged and you can't
deal with the fact that your questions blow. And that's
why your questions don't get on the air, Charlie, because
(36:00):
we do have an editing process. So do a better job, Charlie,
and ask better questions. How about that? Lee, and Phoenix writes,
and he says, the avatar your avatar from your avatar
from the question did least spell his name right? Yes?
The avatar from Twitter is great? When are you going
(36:21):
to change the one on Facebook? Also? How how about
a verbal octagon? How did the verbal octagon start? He says,
it was really was it really Pete versus the World?
The first one? Uh, Lee, I'm trying to remember. It
was the first verbal octagon. Pete was involved in it.
And you know, Pete was one of the forefathers of
the Octagon. He was one of the ones that encouraged
(36:43):
at Pete's one of the great callers. Pete in Pittsburgh
on the early days of my run at Fox Sports Radio,
and he had a beef. Who was his rival? Was
it MotorCity Mike. I'm trying to remember. We had a
MotorCity Mike in Detroit. He was a character. There was
this guy in spoken spokene, Gary, and uh forget who
(37:10):
exactly was, but they would go back and forth, and
we did have the Octagon Lee. And I don't know
that I'll be changing my Facebook avatar anytime soon, because, uh,
the the only reason I changed the Twitter one is
because a listener, the e Rocker, he I complimented him
on his avatar, which is the same style as mine,
(37:30):
and he said, I got you one and he made
me an avatars. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool.
Cartoon avacar avatar. Jeremy in Vermont says, what was the
first documentary you watched that got you interested in them?
You know, I remember a specific documentary. I know when
I was a kid, I used to partake, used to
(37:50):
partake in uh, you know, in school, they showed like
science documentaries. I remember there was one about a group
that would go across the oceans, you know, and they'd
spend weeks out at sea and they things they saw
and what it was like. And it was a really
well done documentary and it like, that's pretty cool. But
I've always been more of a non fiction than a
(38:12):
fiction guy. I've always been like, when I read books
and stuff, I'd rather read nonfiction than fiction. So that's
part of it as well. Valls fan Jimmy said from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says,
for both of you, have you ever been pulled over
and given a sobriety test? Yeah? Yeah, I have to. Yeah,
I got kind of wild. I was super fucking nervous
(38:34):
about this one. I got pulled over down near qual
Calm Stadium. I was living in San Diego at the time,
and um, I lived in this apartment complex called Padre Gardens,
which was right next to a bar. Well I went
to go pick up some buddies. I was like, they're
designated driver. I did admittedly drink during the day, but
(38:55):
this is like into the night. This is like ten
or eleven o'clock at night. So I was into the
night with Tony Brunner. Yeah, there we go. But I
was sober, and I had worn sandals and just sweats
and a T shirt, so I had you know, I
wasn't where. I wasn't going out, but I rolled a
red light. So I got to a red light, but
I was making a right hand turn. But you're supposed
(39:17):
to stop, obviously, but there's nobody on the streets, so
I just rolled it. Cops pulled me over, put me
in a parking lot, and I wasn't with one cop bend.
Three other squad cars came and so there was like
eight cops that were there. And I had to do
a sobriety test and I was cold because it was freezing.
It was freezing that night, and I was pretty nervous
(39:38):
because of all these cops that were on me, and
so I had to go through like a full blown
sobriety test, like counting numbers, touching my nose, looking up
and walking a straight line and um and yeah. The
officer was like, Okay, you're free to go. I was like, wow,
you guys, did you drop any names or anything like that?
(39:58):
I did not know was fine. I I got pulled
over actually out in the San Fernando Valley there. I
was on a date and it was a first date actually,
and we were driving back from where we had gone out,
and I was on the one oh one free were
actually not out near Woodland Hills, out in that area
(40:19):
and a little past where the Fox Sports radio studios are.
I got pulled over and I had to do the
walk of shame. And I hadn't been drinking at all. Uh,
he said, I was driving radically. Oh boy. But it
was very awkward because my the the date stayed in
the car and then I had to obviously get out
and do the whole names weird. But I wasn't drunk
(40:41):
and I was able to walk in a straight line,
So that was that was good. What else do we
have here? Uh, let's see, you can't read that. The
Moses from Colorado Springs says Ben, if you and your
crew also, Dave, if you if you wanted to trade
someone out, have you got were in the movie Best
of the Best? Could you and your team take out
(41:04):
the opposite team? What does that mean? Guess? Can you
can you translate that? I'm trying to I think there's
a great question there, but I don't really know what
the great question is. The if I remember correctly, that
movie the Best of the Best. Have you ever seen
that movie? I don't remember it, so probably not. Okay,
(41:24):
If I remember correctly, the Best of the Best was
in martial Arts movie and Jeames Earl Jones was in
it and he was basically their their karate teacher or coach.
And there was like four or five guys and they
had a fight against you know, a bunch of Olympians
and the last team was the koreans Um. But yeah,
(41:46):
the first two got destroyed and the second, the third
and fourth ones came across and survived. It was a
really shitty movie. But I watched it. Yeah, that's what
it was, the best of the best. I can't really can't. Yeah,
you would never watched this movie. Yeah, it's not my
not my wheelhouse. Uh. Mike from Fort Wayne. Last One.
Mike from Fort Wayne says, when Trevor Bauer has found
(42:09):
guilty of doctoring the baseball to increase his spin rate,
are you going to be hard on him like you
are about the Astros for cheating? Well, Mike, Uh, First
of all, Trevor Bauer is not gonna be found guilty
of anything. Baseball has been taking the balls out of
play all season long, examining them and all that. Nothing's
(42:29):
gonna come out of that for Trevor Bauer. So I
don't buy there's anything to that. But even if there is,
even if you know about Bauer pretty much laid out
what he was doing. He said Baseball wasn't checking for it.
So he did, uh kind of give the blow by
blow tail of the tape on how to do it.
But it is not when you when you look at
(42:50):
like a war tribunal, what the Astros did is capital murder.
What Trevor Bauer when you're accusing him of, Mike U,
is a misdemeanor in comparison to what the Astros did. Right,
So high crimes and misdemeanors. Uh, the Astros high crime, uh,
felony and bower misdemeanor. Does that answer your question? Mike?
(43:15):
All right, we gotta get out of here, guestcon right,
We've got places to go, things to do, people see, yes,
money to make, money to make We'll see, okay, like
big money, big money, big money, big money, more than
we make on the podcast. Al Right, Well, that's not much.
Two dollars would be more than we make on the fight.
Have a great rest your Sunday. We'll be back on
(43:36):
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(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. We are
back at Mailbag Mailbag Podcast eight days a week. This
will be the eighth day of the week, the Sunday Podcast,
And I'm not gonna spend any time small talking. We
need to get right into the questions. I want to
get as many of these questions on as possible. I
(00:45):
got some nasty messages from people I spend time posting
a question and you didn't read it because gascon said
to cut the pot. Rest of the four five. They're
very insecure. Run right into my introduction that the little
bow for me, a little genuine flight. As we were
(01:06):
in the high end of the Palace of Fox reliability,
the taj Mahal of podcasting over here, as we hang out,
what's up with Vegas Man? I got Vegas, I got
some cops. I got some rooms. I need to want
to go to Vegas. You're Jones and to go to Vegas. Yeah,
JONESP for something, dude, it's been a long past time. Yeah,
(01:28):
I have not. I'm not done the Vegas thing. I
got in, but I think I went right before the
world should. The end of twenty nineteen, I went to
Vegas Christmas Holiday. Had a good time there. Ate that
deep this Chicago pizza there And in Vegas? Where did
you stay? Did you stay off the strip? No? I
think I stayed at the MGM. That's where I stayed. Yeah,
(01:48):
got you. Usually I stay somewhere or whatever the cheapest
hotel I can get unless I can get a comp,
and I'm obviously we'll take I'll say anywhere with this
a comp. I'm I'm open to that. But we you know,
we've got some some friends in the Mall and Blush
that are very high up there power. I'm not. I'm
not kidding here. One of our key guys like runs
the club scene in Vegas. I think I've aged out.
(02:11):
But if you want to go Gascon, I know guys,
you haven't v I p treatment now because you can
go in there now. And people just know like you're
not some old guys just trying to wrestle up on
some chicks. They'll just look at you be like, Okay,
that dude's got money. What's he doing in here? Because
you're not an extrovert. So when you're in there, people
will just know that you've got a bank roll. That's yeah.
(02:34):
But one of the more awkward things we don't have
time to get into it now is I did go
many years ago to the pool club. Now that was
that was why I think it was at the MGM.
Actually everyone's boozing in the pool there, and that was
That was pretty crazy. Love is pretty pretty wild. Alright,
let's get to the mail bag here. Remember cameo dot
(02:57):
com you want a personalized video monologue, will do that
for you. It's not free, but it's not much. Guest
CON's on there as well, yes, and just cons him
say nice things. I just concluded a nice cameo video
for you that you failed to look at after a
week until I showed you it. And well, it's hard
to watch something when I don't get it, um, but
I did. And then I want to think Mallard prop
(03:18):
guy who spam he put an eighteen minute video. Eighteen minutes. Yeah,
that was outstanding. Man. He didn't get paid for that,
but that was that was great. Well, you know what
I mean. Do you acknowledge that, because I don't think
I got paid for mine either. I did a great
video for you. Right in the middle of all I'm
doing cameos for free, three or four minutes in length.
(03:39):
In the middle of that, Mallard prop guying a video montage. Um,
you're fishing for a compliment again. I thought it was great.
I thought was tremendous. It was a happy birthday to you. Well,
I liked it. Your part I didn't like that much,
but the rest of it was good. Yeah, all right.
I hear the mail back questions. First one from David
in Simpsonville, South Carolina. He says, I'm your hat guy, Ben. Okay,
(04:01):
He says, I've listened to you and David for a
pretty long time. Your hat size is an eight, David
is seven and three Ace Is that correct? He says,
I have a nice University of Maryland hat because you
like M and B on your hats. Uh and uh.
I have a nice Denver Broncos hat for David. Nice.
He says, I've been looking, but I can't find the truth.
(04:22):
Who is older and how old are are you? Please
say so to get these great hats. He says. Also, Ben,
I know you don't mean to, but you always refer
to your better half as the wife. David says, this
is rude to her, and you sound like an old man.
If you're security for security purposes. If you can't say
(04:45):
her name, just say Mr m and or Mrs M.
I think he said he said Mr m and or
ms Mrs M. Just a little kind advice from a
retired security contractor and consultant there, Simpsons, South Carolina. Yeah. Interesting,
Well I do call the wife a wife, um, but
(05:08):
I could call her the mrs. Call her Mrs Maller, right,
I just thought, Mrs Maller is my mom though, you know,
the apple of your eye, Yes, the jewel of my life,
the love of your life, the cream in your coffee,
the straw that stirs the drink, the thing that keeps
my clock moving right there. Uh well, thank you David
(05:31):
for the the hats there. You appreciate that. And I
don't have a University of Maryland hat, but it's got
an M on it. I'll rock the Maryland Hat go
tirps alright, this one is from in in New Mexico.
He says, Hey, Big Ben and Gascon, I was wondering
if you would ever do a home and home series
(05:51):
with Fox Sports Radio alumnus Steve Zaban, especially with all
the Aaron Rodgers drama. And he broadcast out of Milwaukee
on a station there nightties seven point three the Game
and does his own podcast, The Zabe Cast, he says,
and as a nostalgic play to the glory days of
Fox Sports Radio to have two titans of those bygone
(06:12):
days hook up again from Ian in New Mexico. Yes,
Zabe is a friend and I have We've tried to
work out logistics. Abe's reached out to me several times
to go on his podcast and the Zabe Cast, and
I would love to do it. The problem is our schedules.
We have complete opposite schedule, Like when I could do
(06:35):
the podcast, he's doing the radio show and can't record
his podcast. When he can record the podcast, I'm sleeping.
So there We've not been able to line everything up.
But Zabe was the morning guy at Fox Sports Radio
for a long time out of d C, and guys
Hustle's got multiple radio shows and podcast and he's working hard. Uh.
(07:00):
He says, By the way, Ian's the guy that's spreading
the show to the younger generation. As I remember, I
think we told the sort of Michael in New Mexico
called up. He's the boyfriend of Ian's daughter. Oh and
because of Ian, he hooked up. This guy's at college
kid in Los Cruces and he's a fan of the show.
(07:20):
So thank you, Ian. That's exactly what we need. We
need more guys like you. Ian. You've gone above and
beyond the call of duty. That's good. You chastised me
yesterday about doing something like that, didn't you. I don't.
I don't recollect where and I don't recollect at all.
Appreciate it. Ian. Thanks. Neil from Miami is one of
(07:43):
my guys. I love this guy good. He says, you
have the Mallard militia, which I have been a part
of since you were doing weekends. I don't recall a
full blown militia at the time, but now, since you
introduced me to the eight hundred credit score west of
the four oh five, Mr, you know set than I
can't help but want to be part of gag Gascon Gang,
(08:05):
he says. I know I'm I'm a pilot, is the
captive of the gang, but I am in the rank somewhere.
So my question is is it possible to have dual
citizenship with a passport in Mallard Militia and Gascon Gang?
Do I need to choose? Also, what is the appropriate
name for the Gascon Gang? He says. And I do
(08:27):
listen to the best of podcast of your weeknight show,
but you your cast forgets who is the boss of
the show of the last few years. Well, maybe Roberto
still has love for you, but Eddie and Coope are
straight haters. According to Neil in Miami, guess no one
likes the boss. So that was his first He has
(08:47):
a second question, but yeah, I mean, here's the thing.
The Gascon Gang doesn't really exist. It's a figment of
some people's imagination. It's like saying at Vatican City is
gonna take down China in a battle. The Malla Militia
is the monster. It's the the eight pound gorilla and
(09:12):
the Gascon Gangs and aunt that's pretty much what that is.
I think we can do it as a little bit
of an old school tale of David versus Goliath. How
about that it would be like that only word that
David only beat Goliath in the Bible, but the rest
of the time, no, in real life, the big guy wins.
That's that's how that works. Uh so and uh, yeah,
(09:35):
there's no gascon gang at all. Who else do we
have you? It's one more from from Neal, he says.
Second question, Uh, is this character haze call from Minnesota
who makes six thousand dollars a week, three thousand dollars
a year washing bodies. What is the oddest job of
your Mallem Militia member. I am a biomedical engineer myself
(09:59):
in the artificial heartspace. Well that's pretty cool. So now
you gotta put Neil with I'm a pilot. Like those
are two upper class warden, brilliant people. I like Neil now,
oh that's typical Western farm You like him because he
(10:20):
said he's a biomedical engine he's he's an achiever. I
like he's a fan of the Mallar Militia. It's what
he is. Yeah, he's a winner. Uh. The honest job
of a Mallar Militia member. Well, we've had a lot
of people that have embomb bodies that have worked at cemeteries,
the undertakers very popular, firefighters, police officers, people that make donuts,
(10:44):
truck drivers. Those are the normal jobs CPS. Remember one
of the oddest jobs we had was a guy that
called me up on the Ohio River and he was
on a tug boat. And yeah, it was like it
just seemed like really cool. He's on a tug boat
and cruising around. We've had people that are on those
big tanker ships that go across the Pacific. Oh nuts.
(11:06):
Have you ever had anyone that worked in the lighthouse. Yeah,
we've had back in the Northeast, there was a caller
that claimed he worked at the lighthouse. That's a pretty
pretty obscure. We've had some somewhere when we've had farmers,
pig farmers. You know a lot of farmers out there
that do that. That kind of thinks. Any politicians or
(11:26):
government officials, Yeah, you know. There's actually some that follow
me on Twitter that are very liberal politicians, which is
pretty funny, pretty funny, but they're fans. They were fans
of the show. Um. In fact, there's one guy that's
on see I forget his name. Actually, I wish I
have to go through and find it. But he's on
CNN a lot, and he was he was a young
(11:49):
politician and he was a fan of the show, and
he's he's gone on and moved up the ranks in
politics and so so there is that. Uh, let's see
who's next. Jose in matt Stachusetts says, Hey, lord, Ben,
I have a question for you. Kirk Minihan said, radio
is dead. Do you think he's right or crazy? Uh?
(12:11):
He's not. He's not crazy, but he's not right. How
about that? Uh? And you know Kirk obviously as his
reasons the radio business, he got burned out on it
and it burned out on him, and you know his
style of radio. A lot of radio stations are like
too afraid to deal with that because he's you know,
he's out there on the edge and got huge ratings
(12:32):
Kirk did at w e I. But you know, there's
his story is a cautionary. Jerry Callahan talked about that
and what happened to Kirk and Jerry when they had
the number one radio show in Boston and they got
canceled and all that stuff. He says, I used to
listen to Giant Road games on the radio as a
kid because they were not on TV, and I used
(12:53):
to listen to you on w E. I and Kirk
and Callahan and Dino. They have a great lineup. Been
fired everyone that was good? Well, I agree with you
the w E. I did fire everyone that was good
because I'm on that list. He said, I only listen
to your last hour, the last hour of your show
on the Sports Hub. I listened to the rest of
the show on the podcast. Can you put your songs
(13:16):
on YouTube? I love I love the show. There can't
do that? Yeah, I don't. I don't massive mandate about that. Yeah,
I don't think we're allowed to put content on the
on the YouTube. Unfortunately, you can. You can record it
off the podcast though the music the tunes, you can
record that off the podcast. And plus like raz Quit
(13:38):
the band and Jay Scoop, like these guys make their
songs available. It's not like and we don't own those songs,
that it's their material. They allow us to use it
and we thank them for that. But yeah, if you
want Jose to find that stuff, you can. You can. Certainly,
it's not that hard to do. Carlos and Bang Bang Houston,
Texas has been is that I'm a pilot guy, a
(14:02):
real person or is that a Burger account because he
knows how to lick gascon's a hole. Will you be
doing your show how you used to when you would
bring in Eddie right after your monologue for reaction? He says,
And uh, well, we changed the format and the clock changed.
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That's the main reason we changed that, Carlos. We were,
you know, we're supposed to technically break within a certain window,
and when Eddie would come on, we wouldn't shoot the
ship and we blow through the clock, and then I'd
get in trouble and I'm trying to avoid getting called
into the principal's office. So that's the main reason we
don't bring Eddie in after the monologue. Plus Eddie doesn't
listen to the monologues anyway, So what was the what's
(14:43):
the point? You'd be one thing if he was taking
notes and say, well you said this and I don't
agree with that, But it never really went that way.
It was like, okay, you'd hear like the last five
minutes of it, he says. And I remember you and
Danny g had a little beef because he took a
picture with that perfect Deshaun w Watson. Uh, did you
guys settle you all differences? Well, I think the fact
(15:03):
that Sean Watson has been proven as a pervert, at
least in the court of public opinion, I think that
that's a that's a big one. But yeah, I don't
have any beef with Danny. You know, I don't really
see Danny these days, so but yeah, Danny was very
nice called me on my birthday. Was very kind of
him to do that. So be sure to catch live
editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions
(15:26):
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. Have you ever ordered prime rib well
done at a nice restaurants from Glenn and Carmichael? Do
you even like prime rib? Yeah, it's not. It's not
my favorite. Um, but when I order meat at a restaurant,
(15:47):
I do get it well done. Yeah, And then I
get what everyone gets when they order their food well done.
I get shamed. I get the the waiter after I
placed the order, we'll go back to the kitchen and
then back five minutes later, Are you sure you want
this steak? Well done? Um? Yeah? And then but but
the chef says, it tastes better if you cook it,
you know. Okay, it happens all the time. Um, but
(16:11):
that not that I eat steaks all the time. Mike
in Arizona says, the first toilet paper last year. Now
gas shortages in When will people learn that their own
panic buying creates the shortage? Um? Well, Mike, that's just
that's human nature, right, That's never gonna gonna change. And
it's it's fueled by social media. It's you know, you've
(16:36):
got you've got a bunch of people that are seeing
this stuff and they're like, holy crap, you know what,
I can't believe this that and the other thing. And uh,
it's that fight or flight thing, right you gotta you know,
it's like I I gotta, I gotta get all the
toilet paper. I won't be able to wipe my ass
and on and oh my, it's people. They're all wired
(16:58):
the same way. Yeah. People people do that. I bet
you ran out. You went out and bought gas this week,
right gas? You probably did. No, I did not, you
did not. I did not know oddly enough, the date
that the Colonial pipeline was shut down. I actually filled
my tank up that prior night. So yeah, I was
gonna go, but I do have family in that region
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of the country, and uh, you know, they're freaking out
a little bit because they got families and work and
commitments and things like that. Like they their blue collar
they actually have to drive to work. They're not at
home in their big house and king size bed to
do radio shows. And she's like sleep number bed. Disgusting
ons what that is? Also, I think what's going on here?
(17:40):
Uh you have the fight or flight. Uh, you have that, Mike,
and you also have the reptilian part of the brain,
right the primal part of the brain there. That's like, Okay,
I have to survive for our species and self preservation.
So let me get gas because I need to drive somewhere.
Fred in Texas says, why won't you eat gas tomahawks steak? Well,
(18:01):
I was, actually Fred, I was actually gonna eat the
tomahawks steak, But now that you emailed me that question,
I'm no longer going to eat the steaks because every
time somebody asked me to eat the steak, I then
delay eating the steak. I don't want to be I
don't want to I don't want to be bullied into
eating the steaks. You should just throw it out. I'm
not gonna throw it out. It's wrapped in plastic. It's
burned in the free it's not burned at all. It's fine.
(18:22):
It's it's been longer than a year. It's over. It's
aged beef. It's aged beef. Your aged beef. That's a
that's a piece of well cut steak that is now defecated.
Things to you. Your aged broccoli is what you are.
Ted writes and says, hey, bet, I've emailed you before.
I love the show mostly listen live because I still
(18:42):
enjoy live radio, but love the podcast as well. Question
for whenever the next mail bag is, which is today?
What if a picter has a perfect game through nine
does he lose a perfect game if he goes into
the tenth because of the dumb the dumbest fucking rule ever.
I know I can look at up, but I'd rather
ask you. With all the early no hitters you never
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know obviously no care about hitting for average anymore. I'm
only a couple of years older than you, but you
would think I was eighty years old when it comes
to sports. But whatever. Yeah, well baseball has all these
fuga rules, as you know, with the no hit or
the Madison bumb Gardener. Well it's uh not no no
(19:27):
hitter because it was only seven innings, but there are
only a lot to play seven innings, which makes no sense, Tad.
And yeah, if you have a perfect game and you
go to the tenth inning and then you give up
a walk or hit, you no longer have a perfect game.
But if you do finish the perfect game, that counts
as a perfect game. But the problem with baseball is
the the three true outcomes. That is that's going to
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lead to more no hitters, and it's also gonna lead
to the designated hitter going back to the to the
National League. But the three true outcomes where you're not
even trying to just get a bay, he's hit, home run, walk,
and striker backing. Mar d go go, I'm backing my day.
What was the what was the greatest game you ever
saw pitched? Well, I've seen no hitters, so I guess
(20:13):
probably one of those. My favorite, I guess or best
game I've ever witness pitched was the one world Series
Jack Morrison Game seven. Oh, yeah, that was a legendary performance.
He was, man. I was in an elevator with Jack Morris.
Cool guy. Uh he was. I didn't recognize it because
he had gray hair and it was at Dodger Stadiums
(20:34):
during the World Series and he was broadcasting on radio.
But yeah, he was a nice guy. Yeah. And it
was funny because it was he was in the elevator
with me, and there was fans in there, and like
nobody nobody knew who, you know, they didn't know, but
their baseball fans. That's a historic name, Jack Morris. Yeah.
I mean I was too young. I was too young,
but I do appreciate that. I mean when her Schizer
was just blowing people away when he set the record
(20:57):
for scoreless uh. And then he was dominant with the
bat too. In the Major League Baseball postseason two. He
was so good that sees that. Obviously, the Dodgers were
just remarkable winning the whole thing, but he was so
locked in. Um. I wish I was a little bit
older and enjoy all of it. But he was a man.
I wish I was alive. Yeah. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts,
(21:21):
the home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame Pierre
a k A deep throat wow, he says, Ben and
gas can if you were able to bend Uncle Rob's ear,
which if not at all of the uh gazzy rule
changes recently added a baseball which would you abolish? Well,
(21:43):
that's easy. Ghost Runner, No ghost runner a broka that
that's so stupid. The ghost runner thing in X ratings
is so stupid. It's so dumb. It is so contrived,
so forced, so wrong. Question though, because the seventh and
the seven ending doubleheaders are a joke too, Well, that's
like at a travel league baseballs with that. But the
(22:06):
ghost runner thing, I mean, it would be dumb enough,
first of all to recommend that and then secondly to
actually put it in Major League Baseball. The same guy
that did nothing to the Houston Astros in two thousand seventeen. Yeah,
he's the same guy. Gutless jellyfish, spineless jellyfish. Pierre also says,
(22:26):
do you think we are headed towards robot umpires and
ten minute instant replays that they still get wrong? Well,
I do not believe we're gonna get the robot umpires
anytime soon, because we still need the human element. I
I want human umpires. I like that we can rant
(22:49):
about how bad Angel Hernandez is her country, Joe West.
It's not supposed to be perfect, right, It's not supposed
to be perfect. And there was the time I hear
Guesscan where you know, part of pitching and being successful
was knowing each umpire's individual strikes on that every umpire
had their own strikes on that some umpires called the
(23:11):
pitch on the outside, more some called the pitch on
the inside, and you really had to study the umpires.
There was an art to it. So if everything's the same,
then is that better? I mean gambling lines nowadays, if
if people notice, is not always predicated on just the
starting pitchers of the lineups. It's also predicated on the umpire.
Certain umpires have games that go over the total, some
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go under a lot, and yeah, you have those strike
zones where these umpires are completely liberal and other ones
that are completely conservative and they go knees to letters
and that's it. I'm right there with you. I love
the art of knowing the entire nuance of the game,
especially when you're pitching, because you know, most guys live
on the outside corner. They don't go up and end.
They don't attack hitters, and you gotta worry about an
(23:56):
umpire too. So well, and the other thing too about
the umpires as uh, you know, as I recalled, I
read about this on the internet. I was not alive, guest,
come back in the days where the umpires had different
strike zones. I heard that the players didn't mind it
as long as that strike zone was consistent, meaning if
you were a high strike caller, then you call that
consistently and you don't change in the middle of the game.
(24:19):
And that's perfectly acceptable, perfectly fine etiquette. But if you
if you're all over the place, that becomes a problem.
I think my favorite display of awful umpiring was that game.
I forget what game it was. It was with LaVarne
Hernandez when he was Eric Gregg. It was l Yes,
get San Francis. Yes he called pitches a mile off
(24:40):
the So was it against the Braves? I think it
might have been against the Bridge It was though it
was the nl c S. And I know that because
I went to the World Series that year. The Marlins
played the Indians yea, and I got to the World
Series and they were still Everyone was still talking to you,
believe because Van Ernando was pitching in one of the games.
(25:01):
I was out of the World Series, and they're like,
I wonder if Eric Greig's gonna, you know, influence the
home plate umpire, Like, you know, the whole thing was.
It was wild. I don't think he was an official.
I don't know he was an umpire in that particular
World Series, but he had done that. I just love it.
The pitches were not only a mile off the plate,
but when he rang dudes up it was emphatic. Yeah,
he was having a bad day. Eric was having a
(25:24):
bad day. Andy writes and says, the beautiful harmony of
hate serenade delivered to the Astros at Yankee stayed in
along with the European Super League Manchester protest, causing a
match postponement. Is there any chance that sports returns to
a time more akin to the nineteen seventies, with fan
(25:45):
behavior turning more real, rebellious and consequence, He says, I'm old.
Andy says, I grew up a huge fan of the
broad Street Bully Flyers teams in the nineteen seventies and
glorious here. Indeed, can it ever get back? Can never?
Get better again, or as sports tied to the almighty
coin and if ever, you know, he's never gonna change back.
(26:09):
That's and he was right near the Tommy's over in
Hollywood where he used to hang out in the parking
lot at three in the morning and eat Nacho cheese
fries and triple Tommy's cheeseburgers board and I love those days.
Uh well, Tommy here or Andy I called him Tommy.
Uh yeah, I don't see it going back because because
these things, uh these sports operations are are woke. Society's
(26:31):
woke right now. They want to fit in with society.
And so every sport you get rid of fighting in hockey,
anything that is not with the main stream, there's no
place for it in sports because you're you're appealing to
the broad society of the power brokers, the elites, and
this is what the elites want. And so the sports
(26:53):
leagues are part of the elites. They're they're multibillion dollar businesses,
so they're in they're in lockstep with that. So I
don't see it in bed in bed uh dunk in Illinois.
Right since the mail bag, he says, Ben, who was
the worst person that you ever had to interview and
who have you hated working with the most? Well, I
(27:13):
think you know who I've hated working with the most
of the podcast every week. Uh and uh who did
I you know? And there's a lot of athletes that
were douchebacks. Barry Bonds back in the day was was
really Uh he was a ball of ball, the fruit
bowl of fruit. Rather. Um, don't think who else? I
(27:34):
mean there were some guys that were just dicks and
didn't want to I didn't want to do it. I
mean you pretty much all household names would you've heard
of over the years that were were terrible? Uh, just
hard ask guys. But the Bonds was the one that
popped up into my head. And there's some other random
baseball players that people I forgot about. John the jailer says,
(27:54):
do you do the receipt checkers at Costco actually count
all the items in the cart or is it just
a scare tactic to prevent shoplifting? Great question, John, I
was at Costco the other day and I did have
to do the walk there. You wait in line, they
have to look at they scan your receipt there and
then they put that little highlighter on the receipt to
prove that they looked at the receipt when you walk
(28:14):
out of the store. Uh and yeah, I do not
believe they're actually uh, you know, counting all the items
in the cart. I don't believe that at all. I
do believe it is more of a theft prevention measure.
I was also told by somebody at Costco that they
do that to make sure you won't overcharged, which is bullshit.
(28:36):
I think that's bullshit, But I have heard that that
that's one of the theory. Well, well, we just want
to make sure you won't overcharge for any apps, like
the people that door know the price of every item
at Costco. Yeah, give me a break. We Um, this
is not fit for mailbag, But we do have some
breaking news that I'll have to share with you now
(28:57):
that we can share to the masses next week. Um you,
myself and a colleague went went Hollywood bound a few
days ago, and UM, we get certain things which are
called callbacks, and that basically means you've you've covered and
you've basically leaped over the first line of defense. And UM,
(29:21):
I got some correspondence speaking of the mail bag that
um we were um we were liked by many. Oh really, yes,
it's just the thing. We can't talk about that. Uh really,
it's just good. So here we go. I can certainly. Okay,
(29:44):
I think you're sending cryptic messages in the middle of
a mail bag podcast. It's fitting. It's an email, right, So,
well I didn't get I'm looking at I didn't get
the email. How come you got the email? Well because
I was the only one that's attached to it, because
it's an agent things so interesting? Um oh okay, all right,
(30:08):
look at you. I can tell I can tell when
certain things percolat in your mind. Interesting. Okay, I thought
it was something else, but I see that. Okay, yeah, okay,
is there a check associated with because my time is money?
I know, I know we'll find out. Tb D looks
(30:29):
like you're gonna have to get pretty creative on that. Yes, my,
oh my, oh my. Joe and Darcy in Florida right
and says, hey, would you ever consider something similar to
what Jim Rome did back in the day with your
tour stops are with his tour stops? I could totally
(30:50):
see it working with simultaneously recording the fifth Hour podcast. Plus,
since you are a citizen to the people's Republic of California.
It would probably be good for you to travel to
a state like Florida that actually has freedom and reasonable
a reasonable governor. Uh. By the way, a coda of
a cat despite Darcy's insistence, uh that he doesn't. Uh,
(31:13):
here you go. I'm not sure about that last part.
But Joe and Darcy, thank you for the message there. Well,
we've done some some version some version of the not
tour stop. But I have gone out, pressed the flesh,
met the people, much to the dismay of David Gascon.
I've had Mallard, we call him Mallard, Meat and great
(31:34):
Joe and Darcy. I've done them in Boston. We've done
them in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, New York. We've done them
a couple of them in Boston, in southern California. I
did want in bakekers Field at the minor league ballpark
in Bakersfield. And I have met listeners sporadically, but those
(31:58):
are some of the bigger ones we and we were
going to continue that in and everything got to lay.
But I would like to to get out and hit
the road again. Absolutely. I'd love to come to Florida
and hang out. I'm all about it absolutely alright. Blind
Seahawk fan Emmett in Olympia says, this is for both
of you. What was the craziest sporting event you've attended? Uh, well,
(32:25):
m and I. I was at the Fernando Tatis two
Grand Slams and Game Park. Uh yeah, I was at
that game. I was at Game seven of a World
Series then went to extra innings. That was pretty wild.
I've been at NBA Finals, unfortunately with the Lakers, but
I've been at those games. Those were pretty crazy. I
was at a game. One of the memories I have
(32:46):
was a random game that that was an Angels Indians
game back when the Indians had these really good teams
in that era in the nineties where they got to
the World Series and they had Albert bell And and
Kenny Loft then and Manny Ramires, these big stars. Jim
Tomay and some dude at the Big A climbed up
(33:09):
the foul pool and I don't just mean a little bit,
I mean almost all the way to the top of
the foul pool and the game has stopped, and like
there's fifty thou people at the Big A or whatever.
At the time forty people, and they didn't know what
the hell to do. All right, are you gonna climb
up after him? What are you gonna do? Can you
(33:30):
play the game with the guy up there? What if
the guy falls? Forty people are gonna watch this guy
fall apart and die. It's a weird situation. But eventually
they coached him down and he slid down the foul pool.
Do let's say you can't shoot him down bean bags either, Well,
back in those days you probably could. Um, that was
pretty wild. Yeah, I went to that one. I've got
(33:52):
him a bunch of Kings games. I think the wildest
one was probably Game six of the Campbell Conference Finals
between the Kings and the Toronto Maple Leaves, when Gretzky
scored a hat trick. He had he had high stick somebody,
Carrie Frasier was the official. He didn't see it. Like
five minutes later. Gretzky wins in a overtime and then
they go back to map Leaf Gardens and beat the
(34:13):
maple Leaves in game seven. Um, gret scared. No. Gretzky
had the hat trick in game seven, but he scored
the game winnering game six. UM. We were at fucking
Game seven the World Series when you Darvis decided to
throw up on himself. We're there cheating. We were there
for that. By the way, Murray and Saskatoon asked a
(34:34):
similar question. He said, just about Dodger Stadium. He says
he loves Murray and Saskatoon loves Dodger Stadium. Said, well,
your best memories there at Dodger Stadium, Well, that was
a bad memory that the seventeen World Series. I would
say my top memory is when I cranked a ball
it should have been a dinger and and hit off
the wall. And I play any media baseball games shagging
(34:55):
balls out in the outfield. And I would also say
ball night at Dodger same last ball night they ever
gave out the baseballs before the game when there was
a controversial called Dodger Cardinal game. Losorda is managing and
he comes out, waddles out of the dugout. He starts
arguing with the umpire. He then kind of raises his
(35:16):
arms into you know, he gets the fans going and
it starts raining down baseball. It was surreal. It was
from the top deck. People were chucking those baseballs down
the field. And that game ended up being forfeited, and
uh it was. It was wild. That's crazy. Charlie in
Memphis says, since you won't answer real questions, I'll do
(35:38):
the chicken shit thing everyone else does. What's your favorite color?
City and food? Well, Charlie, I'm gonna answer one question
from each customer. So for you, Charlie, my favorite color
is the color of red, because that's the color of
your face. You loser because you're enraged and you can't
deal with the fact that your questions blow. And that's
why your questions don't get on the air, Charlie, because
(36:00):
we do have an editing process. So do a better job, Charlie,
and ask better questions. How about that? Lee, and Phoenix writes,
and he says, the avatar your avatar from your avatar
from the question did least spell his name right? Yes?
The avatar from Twitter is great? When are you going
(36:21):
to change the one on Facebook? Also? How how about
a verbal octagon? How did the verbal octagon start? He says,
it was really was it really Pete versus the World?
The first one? Uh, Lee, I'm trying to remember. It
was the first verbal octagon. Pete was involved in it.
And you know, Pete was one of the forefathers of
the Octagon. He was one of the ones that encouraged
(36:43):
at Pete's one of the great callers. Pete in Pittsburgh
on the early days of my run at Fox Sports Radio,
and he had a beef. Who was his rival? Was
it MotorCity Mike. I'm trying to remember. We had a
MotorCity Mike in Detroit. He was a character. There was
this guy in spoken spokene, Gary, and uh forget who
(37:10):
exactly was, but they would go back and forth, and
we did have the Octagon Lee. And I don't know
that I'll be changing my Facebook avatar anytime soon, because, uh,
the the only reason I changed the Twitter one is
because a listener, the e Rocker, he I complimented him
on his avatar, which is the same style as mine,
(37:30):
and he said, I got you one and he made
me an avatars. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool.
Cartoon avacar avatar. Jeremy in Vermont says, what was the
first documentary you watched that got you interested in them?
You know, I remember a specific documentary. I know when
I was a kid, I used to partake, used to
(37:50):
partake in uh, you know, in school, they showed like
science documentaries. I remember there was one about a group
that would go across the oceans, you know, and they'd
spend weeks out at sea and they things they saw
and what it was like. And it was a really
well done documentary and it like, that's pretty cool. But
I've always been more of a non fiction than a
(38:12):
fiction guy. I've always been like, when I read books
and stuff, I'd rather read nonfiction than fiction. So that's
part of it as well. Valls fan Jimmy said from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says,
for both of you, have you ever been pulled over
and given a sobriety test? Yeah? Yeah, I have to. Yeah,
I got kind of wild. I was super fucking nervous
(38:34):
about this one. I got pulled over down near qual
Calm Stadium. I was living in San Diego at the time,
and um, I lived in this apartment complex called Padre Gardens,
which was right next to a bar. Well I went
to go pick up some buddies. I was like, they're
designated driver. I did admittedly drink during the day, but
(38:55):
this is like into the night. This is like ten
or eleven o'clock at night. So I was into the
night with Tony Brunner. Yeah, there we go. But I
was sober, and I had worn sandals and just sweats
and a T shirt, so I had you know, I
wasn't where. I wasn't going out, but I rolled a
red light. So I got to a red light, but
I was making a right hand turn. But you're supposed
(39:17):
to stop, obviously, but there's nobody on the streets, so
I just rolled it. Cops pulled me over, put me
in a parking lot, and I wasn't with one cop bend.
Three other squad cars came and so there was like
eight cops that were there. And I had to do
a sobriety test and I was cold because it was freezing.
It was freezing that night, and I was pretty nervous
(39:38):
because of all these cops that were on me, and
so I had to go through like a full blown
sobriety test, like counting numbers, touching my nose, looking up
and walking a straight line and um and yeah. The
officer was like, Okay, you're free to go. I was like, wow,
you guys, did you drop any names or anything like that?
(39:58):
I did not know was fine. I I got pulled
over actually out in the San Fernando Valley there. I
was on a date and it was a first date actually,
and we were driving back from where we had gone out,
and I was on the one oh one free were
actually not out near Woodland Hills, out in that area
(40:19):
and a little past where the Fox Sports radio studios are.
I got pulled over and I had to do the
walk of shame. And I hadn't been drinking at all. Uh,
he said, I was driving radically. Oh boy. But it
was very awkward because my the the date stayed in
the car and then I had to obviously get out
and do the whole names weird. But I wasn't drunk
(40:41):
and I was able to walk in a straight line,
So that was that was good. What else do we
have here? Uh, let's see, you can't read that. The
Moses from Colorado Springs says Ben, if you and your
crew also, Dave, if you if you wanted to trade
someone out, have you got were in the movie Best
of the Best? Could you and your team take out
(41:04):
the opposite team? What does that mean? Guess? Can you
can you translate that? I'm trying to I think there's
a great question there, but I don't really know what
the great question is. The if I remember correctly, that
movie the Best of the Best. Have you ever seen
that movie? I don't remember it, so probably not. Okay,
(41:24):
If I remember correctly, the Best of the Best was
in martial Arts movie and Jeames Earl Jones was in
it and he was basically their their karate teacher or coach.
And there was like four or five guys and they
had a fight against you know, a bunch of Olympians
and the last team was the koreans Um. But yeah,
(41:46):
the first two got destroyed and the second, the third
and fourth ones came across and survived. It was a
really shitty movie. But I watched it. Yeah, that's what
it was, the best of the best. I can't really can't. Yeah,
you would never watched this movie. Yeah, it's not my
not my wheelhouse. Uh. Mike from Fort Wayne. Last One.
Mike from Fort Wayne says, when Trevor Bauer has found
(42:09):
guilty of doctoring the baseball to increase his spin rate,
are you going to be hard on him like you
are about the Astros for cheating? Well, Mike, Uh, First
of all, Trevor Bauer is not gonna be found guilty
of anything. Baseball has been taking the balls out of
play all season long, examining them and all that. Nothing's
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gonna come out of that for Trevor Bauer. So I
don't buy there's anything to that. But even if there is,
even if you know about Bauer pretty much laid out
what he was doing. He said Baseball wasn't checking for it.
So he did, uh kind of give the blow by
blow tail of the tape on how to do it.
But it is not when you when you look at
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like a war tribunal, what the Astros did is capital murder.
What Trevor Bauer when you're accusing him of, Mike U,
is a misdemeanor in comparison to what the Astros did. Right,
So high crimes and misdemeanors. Uh, the Astros high crime, uh,
felony and bower misdemeanor. Does that answer your question? Mike?
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All right, we gotta get out of here, guestcon right,
We've got places to go, things to do, people see, yes,
money to make, money to make We'll see, okay, like
big money, big money, big money, big money, more than
we make on the podcast. Al Right, Well, that's not much.
Two dollars would be more than we make on the fight.
Have a great rest your Sunday. We'll be back on
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