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The Fifth Hour: GONZO MAIL CALL · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kaboom if you thought four hours a day 1200 minutes
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  Speaker 1: a week was enough think again he's the last remnants
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  Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special the fifth hour
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  Speaker 1: with ben mallard starts right.
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  Speaker 2: Now In the air everywhere, the Fifth Hour with me,
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  Speaker 2: Ben Maller, and.
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  Speaker 3: A happy Sunday to you.
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  Speaker 2: NFL Week 9, the real Week 9, not the appetizer
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  Speaker 2: we had back on Thursday with that dud of a
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  Speaker 2: game where Jacksonville played the fifth-string quarterback of Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: We got real action today.
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  Speaker 2: In the NFL on this eighth day of November, but
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  Speaker 2: right now we have action. because we have the mailbag,
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  Speaker 2: and you know how we do things around these parts
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  Speaker 2: on the mailbag. We spin the wheel of Malheur Militia Legends,
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  Speaker 2: and we want big money. We don't want a whammy.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want a whammy, and we go round and
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  Speaker 2: round and round. And now, this week, a special treat
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  Speaker 2: on today's edition of the mailbag.
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  Speaker 3: We welcome in.
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  Speaker 2: And Ohio is going to get me in the mood
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  Speaker 2: here in a minute. But we welcome in the man
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Now, we have had a revolving door
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  Speaker 2: over the years on the Fifth Hour podcast. Years ago,
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  Speaker 2: we started this podcast. I think this is our seventh
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  Speaker 2: year doing the podcast. We had Gascon, who retired to Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Then we had Danny G, who we love Danny G,
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  Speaker 2: but he had to leave, couldn't handle the grind on
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. Then we had Bree, who was only part
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  Speaker 2: of the podcast for a very short amount of time.
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  Speaker 3: And then she bailed.
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  Speaker 2: And now in the big chair, our pal, he works
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  Speaker 2: at Fox Sports Radio behind the scenes. His name is Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Gonzalez. We call him Gonzo. And Ohio out. Get
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  Speaker 2: me in the mood.
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  Speaker 4: It's in the bag. Ben's Mailbag. Ben's Mailbag.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, welcome in, Gonzo. Good to have you.
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  Speaker 3: You are the one that puts this podcast up. Is
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  Speaker 3: that correct, Gonzo?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you could call it that way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you make sure the thing posts and all that
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  Speaker 2: stuff and do some meatball editing and all that.
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  Speaker 3: And how long have you been at Fox Sports? Let's
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  Speaker 3: get to know Gonzo. We're going to get to know you.
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  Speaker 3: Then we'll get to the mailbag. How long have you
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  Speaker 3: been at the company?
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, I started this year in March. So it's
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  Speaker 4: been how many months is that now? It's been five,
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  Speaker 4: six months.
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  Speaker 3: Something like that. March, April, May, June, July, August. No,
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  Speaker 3: more than that. It's November. That's a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. I mean, when I started, it was it
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  Speaker 4: was like crazy time. We had March Madness and everything
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  Speaker 4: in the NBA playoffs and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The cycle of life and all that. So you are
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  Speaker 2: from Southern California, but you went to school in Boston.
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  Speaker 3: Is that accurate? Am I correct so far?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Merrimack College, home of the Warriors. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: In Boston.
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  Speaker 4: But born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: How did you end up at Merrimack College? It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a far way to go from Southern California.
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  Speaker 4: So I was that kid in high school that was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I want the full college experience. So I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to go to CSUN or one of the schools close
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  Speaker 4: to home. I wanted the full college experience, but I
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  Speaker 4: didn't want to go to a big school. So I
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  Speaker 4: decided I want to go to a smaller school, preferably
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  Speaker 4: on the East Coast. And when I was applying to schools,
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  Speaker 4: I had teachers in high school from the New England area.
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  Speaker 4: And they said, hey, you're applying to schools in New York, Florida, Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: They're like, why not Massachusetts? Massachusetts is a great place
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  Speaker 4: for universities. There's so many great universities. I said, why
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  Speaker 4: would I want to go to Massachusetts? Long story short,
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  Speaker 4: they recommended Merrimack College, one of the many schools that
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  Speaker 4: they recommended. Went on a visit. It snowed in April
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  Speaker 4: on my visit. I fell in love with it. And
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  Speaker 4: it was the perfect, perfect place for me to be.
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  Speaker 2: But you came back. You didn't stay in the Boston area.
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  Speaker 2: You came back to California. So you only wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: you wanted the college experience of the weather and the school,
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  Speaker 2: but then you ended up moving.
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  Speaker 3: Back to SoCal. So yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: No, I love, I love Boston. We've done very well.
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  Speaker 2: I've done radio stuff in Boston locally in the past.
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  Speaker 2: And we have a lot of listeners there. We've done
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of events and stuff. Boston's great. It's great
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  Speaker 2: sports town, a wonderful sports town, great passion.
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  Speaker 3: And all that. All right, let's get to it. Here
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  Speaker 3: we go.
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  Speaker 2: First up on the mailbag, Reggie, our regular from Detroit,
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  Speaker 2: checks in. He says, Ben, are you going to be
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  Speaker 2: sad that floppy disks are going away? And he points
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  Speaker 2: out that the Federal Aviation Administration announced this week, I
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  Speaker 2: actually saw this, but they've been using 1980s technology, and
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  Speaker 2: they're finally, within the next couple of years, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to phase out floppy disk which is the whole thing's
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  Speaker 2: like fast like gonzo you're a younger guy do you
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  Speaker 2: even know what a floppy disk is are you familiar
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  Speaker 2: with the floppy disk do you know what.
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  Speaker 5: That i am not no yeah so like the archaic
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  Speaker 5: computers they they didn't have the memory capacity they have
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  Speaker 5: now and all that stuff but you you actually had
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  Speaker 5: to put a disk in like i want to play
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  Speaker 5: a video game or something like that it was on
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  Speaker 5: a floppy disk the early computers and And it was
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  Speaker 5: like when I was a kid, my dad was big
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  Speaker 5: into he worked around computers and stuff, early computers.
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  Speaker 2: And we had a bunch of floppy disks around the house.
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  Speaker 2: But we haven't used those.
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  Speaker 3: Things probably in 20 years at least.
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  Speaker 2: Floppy disks have not been used. But there are still
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  Speaker 2: this crazy. So the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, you
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  Speaker 2: go flying. There's a bunch of places around the country
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  Speaker 2: that still use floppy. In fact, I think there's.
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  Speaker 3: More than 400. That's not just a couple. More than
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  Speaker 3: 400 people or facilities use floppy.
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  Speaker 2: Disks from the 1980s. That's crazy. So I love that
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  Speaker 2: randomly there's this old technology that is still in use.
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  Speaker 2: And I know even when the FAA gets rid of
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  Speaker 2: floppy disks, there's probably somewhere in Ukraine or Russia.
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  Speaker 3: Where they're still using floppy disks. Yeah. There is that.
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  Speaker 2: Next up on the mailbag, Shane from Dallas writes in.
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  Speaker 2: He says, Ben, I love your show. I've tried to
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  Speaker 2: call in a few times recently and I have been
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  Speaker 2: left on hold. I hang up after 10 minutes. Do
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  Speaker 2: you have a call screen or frustrated? Please help. It's
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  Speaker 2: from Shane in Dallas. It is frustrating, Shane. I've And
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  Speaker 2: not to get into too much how we make the sausage,
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  Speaker 2: but I would encourage the people that are supposed to
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  Speaker 2: answer the phone to do their job. Unfortunately, they often
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  Speaker 2: do not. And when I'm there, you know, sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: do the show remotely, Shane. When I'm in studio, I'll
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  Speaker 2: normally try to knock the calls out, pick up the
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  Speaker 2: calls and things like that. But when I'm not there,
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you what happens. But it is frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad customer service. And I apologize, Shane. It has
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  Speaker 2: been a constant problem for years.
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  Speaker 3: I've tried to address it. I'm ignored.
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  Speaker 2: But I do believe if you call in, someone should
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  Speaker 2: answer the call and someone should screen you right away.
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  Speaker 2: You shouldn't have to wait 10 or more minutes. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame you, Shane. I do not blame you
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  Speaker 2: for hanging up. I would do the same thing. If
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  Speaker 2: I call into a radio show, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: sit around and wait for 10 minutes and then somebody
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  Speaker 2: will finally screen the call.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they don't. Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame you. for hanging up, but hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 2: address that. Of course, this has been a constant problem,
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  Speaker 2: so who the hell knows? But, Gonzo, when you were there,
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  Speaker 2: you screened the calls right away, Gonzo. You don't leave
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  Speaker 2: people on hold for 20 minutes, do you, right?
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  Speaker 3: Parker.
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  Speaker 4: Ben, Ben, let me tell you something. When I was
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  Speaker 4: prepping to do your show, okay, I was I was
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  Speaker 4: told you're going to do the Ben Maller show. And
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  Speaker 4: I was I was really excited. I was super amped
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  Speaker 4: up for it. I've been listening to you for years,
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  Speaker 4: you know, prior to me working at Fox. And everybody
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  Speaker 4: told me that had produced your show or worked on
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  Speaker 4: your show. They've told me. hey man, just be on
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  Speaker 4: top of the phones. You know, they get hectic. He
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  Speaker 4: likes to go to his callers and you got to
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  Speaker 4: be on top of it. So I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: let me be on my A game. Let me tell
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  Speaker 4: you something. When I've worked on your show, I busted
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  Speaker 4: my tail, making sure that every caller, I was getting
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  Speaker 4: every name. I was trying to do everything accurately. So
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  Speaker 4: that definitely was not on my part. Shane is talking about.
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  Speaker 3: No, Shane, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not naming any names here, Gonzo. No, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying anything at all, but I'm glad it's good to know.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got that work ethic. That's why I wanted
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  Speaker 3: you on the podcast, Gonzo. You're a hustler. What's your...
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  Speaker 3: end game on this.
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  Speaker 2: Now you got in there you're in radio now and
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  Speaker 2: obviously you're a young guy like down the line 10
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  Speaker 2: years from now five years from.
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  Speaker 3: Now what you want to be on the air you
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  Speaker 3: want to be a talk show host you want to
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  Speaker 3: be a program director you want to do a podcast
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  Speaker 3: your own way what do you we can do that
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  Speaker 3: now i guess i mean what's your goal.
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  Speaker 4: The ultimate goal for sure is to be on air
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  Speaker 4: and to be a host. I, I, I've fallen in
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  Speaker 4: love with sports. I've sports has been my passion and
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  Speaker 4: my love my entire life. So essentially, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: not to even gas you up too much, but I
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  Speaker 4: would love to be the next Ben Maler.
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  Speaker 3: That's, that's the goal.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you know, I would reach higher than that, but
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  Speaker 2: I certainly, I'm flattered Gonzo and you can do it. I,
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  Speaker 2: i started fox sports radio launched probably before you were
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  Speaker 2: alive uh god forbid but uh we we were there
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  Speaker 2: you know years and years ago we we we were
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  Speaker 2: the new network when we started espn radio was like
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  Speaker 2: the king of radio at the time and they dominated
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  Speaker 2: and then slowly but surely fox sports radio kept going
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  Speaker 2: and then we reached the peak of the mountain. But
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  Speaker 2: when I started, I was on the weekend, overnight. I
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  Speaker 2: was doing updates and things like that. The key to radio,
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  Speaker 2: I always tell people that are young in the business,
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  Speaker 2: it's not necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: How good you are.
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  Speaker 2: Normally people ahead of you will melt down and will
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  Speaker 2: clear the path. There were people that were way ahead
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  Speaker 2: of me when I started, and things got in the way.
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  Speaker 2: They got upset with how much money they were making,
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  Speaker 2: or they complained about this, and they gave up.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, you're going to make it. Next up, what
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  Speaker 3: do we got?
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  Speaker 2: Mailbag from Outback John and Joanna here in SoCal in
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  Speaker 2: the San Gabriel Valley. Says, hey, Big Ben and special guest,
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  Speaker 2: that's Gonzo. Where do you shop for household essentials? I
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  Speaker 2: used to be Target or Walmart for us, but now
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  Speaker 2: my wife, Joanna, is getting everything from.
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  Speaker 3: Water to toilet paper on Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay with it because it saves me time and
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  Speaker 2: eliminates unnecessary purchases.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I go shopping. I'm the shopper.
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  Speaker 2: In the house, John, I've talked about that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: mind going to the store. I like going to Costco.
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  Speaker 2: Normally Costco is that and Walmart typically are where we go.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the stuff we do buy now, my
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  Speaker 2: wife will just buy it. She does not like going
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  Speaker 2: to the store. She'll just buy stuff on Amazon. And
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  Speaker 2: then the toilet paper, the big stuff, the water, that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, I'll buy at Costco. So it's mostly
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  Speaker 2: Amazon stuff. Little Costco, like the knickknacks of the small stuff,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't want to deal with. We'll just buy
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon and all that. But Gonzo, you're a young lad.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have to do any shopping or are.
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  Speaker 3: You still able to have someone else do that for you?
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I do a little bit of shopping. Luckily,
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  Speaker 4: my girlfriend Maddie is phenomenal. We have our own place together.
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  Speaker 4: We have our apartment together and she is great at buying,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the essentials and everything. But yeah, we're absolutely
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  Speaker 4: like the big Costco. Like we got our memberships at Costco.
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  Speaker 4: We got the black card, you know, the whatever it is,
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  Speaker 4: the premium membership.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have that. It's like executive
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  Speaker 3: or something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the executive. So we got that. We were
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  Speaker 4: super stoked for that. And, you know, me going to Costco,
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  Speaker 4: I'm the typical dude just staring at the 90-inch TVs
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  Speaker 4: when we walk in there. But she's great at the, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I've got the list. Let's bang it out. Let's do everything. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but I've heard the Amazon thing. route is the way
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  Speaker 4: to go. I guess like getting laundry detergent, all, all
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  Speaker 4: those things, like it's cheaper on Amazon as opposed to
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  Speaker 4: like target or like the, the bigger stores. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but luckily my girlfriend Maddie does an amazing job at
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  Speaker 4: handling all that.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Good for Maddie.
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  Speaker 2: And did you meet her in college or did you
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  Speaker 2: know her out here before you went to college or
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  Speaker 2: after you went to college?
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  Speaker 3: That's the question. Inquiring minds would like to know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I actually met her in Massachusetts at Merrimack College.
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  Speaker 4: She is from the western part of Massachusetts. So not Boston,
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  Speaker 4: but I like to call her town the Fresno of Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: You know, for people in Southern California that would understand that.
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  Speaker 3: Where is she from? Like Worcester or from Springfield?
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  Speaker 4: Close to Springfield. Yeah, close to Springfield. She's from a
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  Speaker 4: small town called Southwick. So if you look at the
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  Speaker 4: state of Massachusetts, there's a little dip. in the state
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  Speaker 4: that leaks into Connecticut. That's called Southwick. And that is
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  Speaker 4: where she is from.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I've done, I spent a lot of time in Boston.
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  Speaker 2: I've not lived there, but I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time there. And we did an event this year, the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 2: We went to Worcester and met a bunch of listeners
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  Speaker 2: who live kind of out in that I do like
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  Speaker 2: the fact, though, that the people of Boston do not
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  Speaker 2: consider Connecticut part of New England.
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  Speaker 3: They consider that like a suburb of New York. It's
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool. There's mostly there's a point of demarcation
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of.
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  Speaker 2: Connecticut where it's like half Yankee fans, half Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: fans and all that.
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  Speaker 3: But you're. your girlfriend lived just north of there. So
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  Speaker 3: is she a sports fan or not a sports fan?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, not at all. And she's kind of had to
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  Speaker 4: adjust to the television constantly being on sports and I
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  Speaker 4: was going to games and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: But my wife is not into sports at all. She's not,
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  Speaker 2: she does not have the sports gene as I like
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 3: So it's, it's good.
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  Speaker 2: Cause I, when I'm at work, it's all about sports
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  Speaker 2: all the time. And so when I'm at home, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to, I still watch obviously the games and
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  Speaker 2: stuff and she'll, She'll watch stuff on her iPad or
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  Speaker 2: whatever while I'm watching some game on the TV, so
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  Speaker 2: it works out well. Anyway, thank you, John and Joanna,
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  Speaker 2: loyal minions of the show. Ryan writes in, and he says, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Maller and special guest, I've been away for a while,
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  Speaker 2: but I have been listening.
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  Speaker 3: I love the Maller Chronicles on Mexico City.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of a weird question, but a question
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you might enjoy because I know You
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  Speaker 2: like words, so do you call it.
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  Speaker 3: A sofa or a couch?
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  Speaker 2: Is there a difference? I've heard many people call it both,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure what the difference is. Is there
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  Speaker 2: any difference at all? Could it be a preference thing? Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: love the pod.
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  Speaker 3: That's our buddy Ryan C. from.
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  Speaker 2: From the Commonwealth, well, adjacent to the Commonwealth.
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  Speaker 3: He says, a sofa is, well, here's the thing, Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: So I looked this up.
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  Speaker 2: So a sofa is considered a more formal device or
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  Speaker 2: piece of furniture. It's defined by arms and upright seating.
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  Speaker 2: The couch is a more casual, softer device or, again,
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  Speaker 2: piece of furniture designed for lounging. So I guess I'm
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  Speaker 2: more of a couch guy, but it is an interchangeable word.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't really, but.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big, big couch guy. Love comfortable couches. And
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  Speaker 3: who doesn't? I don't know. I've never met anyone. Gonzo, right?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that a great thing? You come home from work,
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  Speaker 3: you had a.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Long day and you just want to relax and you
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: get that big, nice, comfortable couch and you just sit down,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: you lay down on it.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: It's wonderful. It's one of the great things about being alive,
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: isn't it?
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Coming home to the couch is the greatest feeling
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: in the world. It absolutely is. You have a TV
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: propped up to it. You get food, a beverage of
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: your choice.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the best.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I'm all about it. Who doesn't like it? But there
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: you go, Brian. So sofa, more formal. Now, I'm old, Gonzo.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: When I was a kid, my grandparents, it was my
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: dad's mom. And they had this really nice sofa in
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: the front living room, but it had plastic on it. Oh.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, what's the point?
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, I know, I guess that was their
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: generation before I was around. They wanted to make sure
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: everything was perfect and not damaged. So they would wrap
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: their furniture, their sofa in plastic.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: And like, why?
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Why? It's so, I know why, but it's dumb. You know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: I hope people don't do that anymore. I think that's,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: you know, dumb.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: It can't be the same feeling. Like, you know, I
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: guess I've never really sat on a couch or a sofa.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: I guess it's more of a sofa that's wrapped in plastic.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: It's more of like, you know, the upper echelon. But yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: I can't imagine it's the same feeling. Like when I
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: come home to lounge on the couch, it's to lounge.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I can't imagine what the plastic wrapped around it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's not. It's stupid. They don't want us
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: kids to mess up their sofa, but who cares? Buy
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: a new one.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: All right. A DJ from Ohio writes in. He says,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: have you ever been a bow and arrow guy? And
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: he points out that I guess there was a Premier
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: League soccer player who got stopped recently and was carrying
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: a bow and arrow or bow and arrows. And there
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: was a bunch of police showed up. This became some
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: story in Europe and all that. No, I've never been a...
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not Robin Hood DJ. I've never been a bow
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: and arrow guy.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, though, I had like a
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Nerf bow and arrow thing. Those things that stick to
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: the glass. The arrows.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: So I had that. But no, I'm not a bow
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: and arrow... You a bow and arrow guy, Gonzo? Into
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: any kind of weapons.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Uh, no, not bow and arrow.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I can't claim that I've ever shot one or, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I guess ever interacted with what I did have those,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: the ones that you're referring to, the, like the suction
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: cup ones where you kind of lick the end.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: It's suctions better.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I've had those.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Those are fun, man. When you're a kid, those are awesome. Absolutely.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Jay from Detroit writes in on the mailbag. He says,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Benny Radio and whoever. That's Gonzo. Say hi to Gonzo.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: He's helping on the podcast. He works at Fox Sports Radio. Benny,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: are you trapped by modern social media? I've heard you
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: talk about your love-hate relationship with social media. And then
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Jay sent this. There's a study that says adults don't
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: trust the Internet but feel trapped by modern life. the
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: great digital contradiction. The story says people don't trust the Internet,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: don't like how their information is collected, et cetera, yet
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: they continue on because they feel like modern life, you
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: have to be on social media. So, Jay, listen, I'm
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: not that deep into it. I just try to stay
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: away from a-holes, and there's a lot of trolls and a-holes.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I have learned a little bit behind the scenes how
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: it all works, and so I know... A lot of
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: what we're seeing is not real. It's manipulation. It's the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: easiest thing to manipulate social media with.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: As we like to point out, bot farms in Maldon. right?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: You don't even know what you're dealing with, whether it's
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: America or not. And it's fine. Listen, there are obviously
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: most people are on social media. It is a lot
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: of real people.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: But having seen how it works and also the fakeness
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: of People get all excited about how many followers people
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: have and.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: All that stuff. And it's very easy to manipulate those numbers.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: But I'm on there for work, Jay. If I didn't
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: have the show, I'd still be on there a little bit.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: It's not like I'm living in a cave somewhere. It's
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: not that at all.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But Gonzo, you're younger than me. You've grown up in
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: this world. This is probably all you know, right? Social media,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I would imagine, because of your age and all that stuff.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Pretty much your entire life, you've been online. Do you
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: feel trapped, Gonzo, by social media?
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Well, see, I think yes, in a way, because, you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I can't live without my phone. I can't live without
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: my iPad. Like, you know, it's difficult, but I don't
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: let it consume me too much where I understand, like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm a critical thinker, you know, what they
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: taught us in high school. And I grew up in
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: the age where all I did was at a young age,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I was outside every single day. And, you know, I
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: didn't have electronics that much. I didn't play video games.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: So I was outside every single day. So I understand
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: the older aspect, but you know, nowadays you, you need
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: the electronics. I get it. But yeah, I haven't let
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: it consume me too much and I haven't let it
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: take control of my life.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's good.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: You got out.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: When I was a kid, we, we didn't have the option.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: So we were running around. We I'm of the generation.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: We had to be back when the sun went down.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: That was like, you know, you had a stone age
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: back in the days. They didn't care about it. His
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: mom would be a plague come back when the sun
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: went When the sun goes down. But yeah, here's the thing, Jay. Yeah,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you are trapped. The thing that killed me when the
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: pandemic came around a few years ago, before that, you
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: used to pay with cash for stuff.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: There's hardly anywhere.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: You can use cash. It's almost all digital payments now.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: You can't just hand out.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Here's a $ 20 bill.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I'm going to buy a loaf of bread and whatever
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: at the grocery store. I guess that's a bad example
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: because you can't at the grocery store. But there's a
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: lot of places you can't use money And that bothers me.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: It's just all online and all that. Wayne from Utah
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: writes in on the mailbag.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: If you want to send a message for a future mailbag,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: send it care of realfifthouratgmail.com.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: That's realfifthouratgmail.com.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And make sure to put name and city if you
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: want credit, like Wayne says.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: From Utah. It's a big state. I'm going to assume
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: he's either in Salt Lake or St. George. There's only
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: a couple cities people actually live in.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Benny Radio, can you imagine a crime ring over cards?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: And then he says this guy in Texas got busted.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I guess a group of people in Texas got busted
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: this week for stealing.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, not stealing.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: They were using Pokemon cards and other sports trading cards
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: as winnings instead of cash.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was a gambling ring.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, so there you go. So there we go. So
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: it was a gambling ring in Texas. I wonder what
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the law... Well, obviously, they got arrested, so it must
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: be illegal. But it's not cash. It's trading cards, which
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you can sell for cash. So I wonder what that loophole,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I wonder if there's a loophole. There must not be
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: because they arrested these people. You into collecting cards at all, Gonzo?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: You a card guy at all? Memorabilia guy?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I used to be a huge baseball card collector. That's
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: kind of went away. I collected Yu-Gi-Oh when I was
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: like four or five years old, like in a little
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: bit of Pokemon, but no, nothing, nothing crazy like that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Those days are, those days are kind of gone for me.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I collected stuff when I was little. I had
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff, and I still have it. I'm old.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I still have a garage full of stuff that I
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: collected that I need to sell.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: The problem is, and thank you for the email, Wayne, but.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Gonzo, the problem I have, to make any real money
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: selling the cars, and I have some stuff that's worth
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: a decent amount of money, you have to get it rated.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And so you have to spend money, and then you
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: don't know for sure you're going to be able to
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: sell the stuff. Because it depends on the rating and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: what grade they give it and all that. And it's
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: quite the hustle. We did a story on this podcast
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago. There was a big robbery in
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Orange County because the main hub is in Orange County where.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: This place grades all the cards.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And so people from all over the world send their
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: trading cards in and their different memorabilia to have graded.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And then somebody, some desperados came over and stole a
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: truck full of stuff from the But I don't know
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the whole Pokemon thing. I guess there's a lot of
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: money in that now, but that's not my world.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: But I would be interested.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: If there are any lawyers, if you're not using money
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: and you're using cards, yeah, you're gambling, but you're not.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Using money, so... Obviously, there's something there. They got arrested.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Scotty on the pike with the Wicked Blue Commonwealth. Oh,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: in the Wicked Blue Commonwealth, Scotty says, Hiya, Ben. And
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I guess that's Gonzo. He says, do you have or
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: he says, do you or have you ever owned a motorcycle?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: If not, is it something you see yourself doing someday? Well, Scotty,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I'm a big guy. Big guys look weird on motorcycles.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: It looks really odd. I guess I'd have to get
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: one of those overs. I'm not a motorcycle guy, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: if I did get a motorcycle, I'd have to get
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: one of those giant-sized Harleys. Otherwise, I'd look ridiculous. Like,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: you see the fat guy on a motorcycle. Oh, my God,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: it's bad. It's a bad look.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: What about you, Gonzo?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: You're a young guy. Do you have a motorcycle? Do
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: you want to have a motorcycle someday?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I've had zero ambition.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: The closest thing I've ever had to a motorcycle was
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: like when I was a kid, eight years old on
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: my bike, I'd put a, I know back in the
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: day they used to put the baseball cards on the tire. We, uh,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: we did the, uh, the, the aluminum can, we'd crush
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: it and then put it on the tire. So it
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: made it sound like it was like a motorbike or
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: like a motorcycle. That's the closest I've ever got. I've
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: had zero, uh, you know, care to want to ride
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: one or own one.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not, um, motorcycle guy i'm a little jealous because
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: like motorcycle dudes look cooler i think they look cool
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: you know if you if you have a certain look
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: i'm just not that guy did now you're young did
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: you have an electric bike gonzo or did you have
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: a regular bike.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: No just a regular mongoose you know with the with
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: the pegs on the back tire front tire you know
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: that yeah no never had an electric bike but uh
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: to your point about the uh the guys look cooler
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: with the motorcycles you ever see that movie uh hall pass.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, a long time. Yeah, I don't– yeah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, Jason Sudeikis, Owen Wilson, they're walking into the bar,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: and he's carrying a helmet. Jason Sudeikis is carrying a helmet.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: And Owen Wilson is like, why are you carrying that helmet?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: You don't have a motorcycle.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: He's like, dude, chicks dig motorcycles.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Well, certain women– you know, the bad boy thing, right?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: It's like you think– I guess if you have a motorcycle,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: automatically you're considered a bad boy.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I'd have to check through a survey
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: with the women. Now, next up, Alf.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: By the way, those electric bikes might as well be motorcycles.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Let me just point that out right now, Gonzo. Those
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: electric bikes, I live in a city where all the kids,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: all the kids in high school have electric bikes.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: They're motorcycles. They go like 40 miles an hour. It's crazy.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: It's insanity.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: All right, Alf says from Ask Ben, which is totally
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: different than the mailbag, He says, greetings, Ben and guests.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: That's Gonzo.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Are you a one trip from the car to the
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: house when coming home from the grocery store kind of
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: a person?
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: That's from Alf.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: So he's talking about he's got a nice AI image
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: of Alf taking all the groceries in one trip.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: So here's the deal, Alf. I used to be one
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: trip in guy.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Now I've determined I like to get my steps in
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: every day. So if I take more trips, I get
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: more steps. So I don't.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Really mind taking a lot of trips. Back in the day, though,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I would put every bag.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Around my shoulders and my elbows. And it was like
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a sideshow or a circus show.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I was just doing my thing there. But what about now?
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: The other thing when I lived, I used to live
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: in Park La Brea, Gonzo, which is this giant park
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: apartment community in L.A. And when I lived over there,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: you had a parking garage. We had to walk like
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: half a mile to your apartment and then you had
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: to take an elevator up. It was a big pain.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: So I there were people that had these carts. You
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: could buy these metal carts to take stuff up. And
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I had one of those.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: When I was younger. I had a.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: A cart when I lived in the apartment over there,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: because it was so far to take all your crap
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and all that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: What about you, Gonzo?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: When you go to the store, you buy stuff, you
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: come back, you try to take everything in one trip,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: or are you a multi-trip guy?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Absolutely one trip only, and I don't care if it's
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: 10 bags, If it's 20, but I will do everything
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: in my power. Let's just get it done. And I'm
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: more of the efficient pace. I'm like, let's be efficient here.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Let's just get it done. And the competitive nature in
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: me is like, you can do one more bag. You
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: can do two more bags. Let's do it. So yeah,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: I like to do the heavy lifting. And you know what?
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Listening to your logic now, I'm like, oh, maybe the
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: steps thing. That's not a bad idea because we got
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: a long, long walk from our parking space to our apartment.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: So maybe that's a better idea. i like that you're.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: You know you're younger you don't have to worry about
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: it but but at some point you'll be like i
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: gotta get my steps in and then when you're at
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: that point gonzo then you move like okay i'll just
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: take one.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Bag at a time and that's it and uh that's
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: that's how it goes.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Uh quang uh from ho chi minh uh city vietnam
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: guaranteed human rights and he says ben Can you please
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: take a moment to revisit your Peter King story, particularly
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the part about him possibly needing a private bathroom to
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: change his clothes?
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: That's from Quang. What's the backstory there? Yeah, so real quick, Quang.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Years ago, I had a gig at NBC where I
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: was a contributor to this podcast. sports talk show, this
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: nightly TV show, which was like their version of SportsCenter,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: which didn't last very long, but I did it for
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: a year, and every month I'd fly back to Connecticut
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: from L.A., and I'd do like a week of shows
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: where I'd be on every night, and I was like their.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: This was great. We had Adrian Wojnarowski, Woj, who was there.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: We had a bunch of the big hockey guys. Some
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: of them have gone on to coach in the NHL.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: We had all these.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: so-called real experts and then my my ass was there
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: but peter king was a big guy at nbc at
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the time he was their nfl insider anyway i i
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: would get there it was at the old versus studio
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: in stanford connecticut so we got there i'd get dropped
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: off by the car service and i'd always get there
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: early because i had nothing else to do because i
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: didn't really have anybody there to hang out with in
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: connecticut so i'd get there early and.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Just hang out with the boys on the show.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: And we had production meetings and things like that. So
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: it seems a lot more busy than it is. But
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of downtime.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: A lot of downtime doing a TV thing. There's a
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: lot of people, and there's a lot of downtime.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: So I'd get there early, and I'd hang out in
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: the green room. And there was nothing going on because
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the games didn't start at night on the East Coast.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: They don't start until 7.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: On the West Coast, they start at 4.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: So I'd be there early kind of hanging out, whatever, bullcrapping,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: playing on my phone or my computer.
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  Speaker 3: And there was one... Well, actually, it was more than
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: one time, but there was one time in particular. We're
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: in there, and Peter King was in there. I was like, hey,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: what's going on, Peter? And whatever. And he had been
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: a guest. There was.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I forget the NBC show, but they were filming his
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: part of the show in our studio, and He was
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: going to be on multiple episodes. So what happened, Quang,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: is when you're on multiple episodes of a TV show,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: you've got to change.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Your wardrobe so people don't think you're just... It's like
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: one take.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: And so unlike when NBC had Michael Jordan on and
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: he wore the same thing this past NBA season. But anyway,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: so Peter, I had left the green room. I had
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: walked over to another part of the building and... And
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I walked back in, and Peter was in there, and
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: he decided I guess he didn't want to go to
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: the bathroom, and he was in his tighty-whities. He was changing.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And it was very awkward. Very awkward, Quang. And he
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: didn't seem too bothered by it. He seemed perfectly fine.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I would have wanted to run for the hills or whatever,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: but Peter seemed perfectly fine.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: He's retired now. I guess he's got a book. I
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: read this week that he's got some book out.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: So.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll have him on the podcast. I'm sure he'll
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: want to talk about that. Mike from Wisconsin writes in.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: He says, hey, Ben and whoever, that would be Gonzo,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: is this the perfect way to check out? He then
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: sends me the link to the 97-year-old guy.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Did you see this, Gonzo, this week?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: This 97-year-old dude went viral on his final day on
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: the planet yesterday. At his own birthday party, he was
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: dancing to Stand Alive by the Bee Gees and Drop Dead.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: And that's how he left this mortal world here. He
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: just liked that.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Wow. No, I did not see that. But I mean,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: I guess that's like perfect. That's like movie stuff. That's
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Hollywood stuff.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: That is. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And it makes for a good headstone because you go
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: to the graveyard and it's got the birth date and
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: the end date.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Obviously, the year is different, but the date, the same.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: So there's some synergy there. on the gravestone when you
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: die on your birthday.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: But there's really no good way to check out, Mike.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: I guess that's better than 97 is a great run.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Let's sign up for that right now.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: 97 for sure.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: What else do we have? Dave in Texas writes in.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: We'll do a couple more. Got to get out of here. Ben,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: love the pod.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Do you know anyone who has a Cybertruck? You might
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: want to ask what's going on with their cars.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw it.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I guess Elon Musk said this week that they're going
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: to stop production of the Cybertruck.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: They've had so many problems with it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: It's not selling that well, so they're ending it. I
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: don't know anyone, Dave, that has a Cybertruck. Well, personally,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: there are people that live.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: In the area.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I live in a very big Tesla area, and there
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: are people that have Cybertrucks. I've seen a lot of
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: them on the road. I didn't realize they had that
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: many problems. So I don't know what you want me
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to add. You ever been in a Cybertruck, Gonzo?
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: No, I haven't. I've seen them. I've kind of been
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: like 50-50 on them. I like them, but then I'm like,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: they're hideous, but then I kind of like them. I've
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: never been in one, but they're definitely interesting. I know
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: everybody has their opinions about them, but no, I've never
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: been in one.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: They look like me.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, we used to make these
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: soapbox racers out of wooden blocks, and they looked to
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: me like something I would have made when I was
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: in like third grade.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Like they look like the shape of them just looks
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: like I cut kind of whittled down a piece of wood.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: That's what they look like to me, but. I guess
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: they're not doing that well. What else do we have here?
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Blah, blah, blah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Will from Pennsylvania says, Ben, I know you're a big
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Stooge fan. Were you sad to see Paul Howard die?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know who Paul Howard was, Will. I
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: guess I'm not that big a Stooge fan. I guess
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Paul Howard, you don't even know who the Three Stooges are,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: do you?
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Are you familiar with the Three Stooges? Oh, are you
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: talking about Moe, Larry, and Curly? Yeah, look at you,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you big Stooges. How about that? All right.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Well, anyway, so I used to love the Stooges because
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, they used to be on
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: reruns all the time. Anyway, Will says this guy, Paul Howard,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: the son of Moe Howard of the Three Stooges, died
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: recently at age 91.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: And I did not know he was still alive, Will.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I'm sad, I guess. I didn't know.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: He was even with us, but 91. And then Will
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: says there's a nine-part docuseries. It's on YouTube called Hey Mo,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Hey Dad. He recommends if I haven't watched it, I
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: watch it. That seems like a lot. Nine episodes. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: hope they're short episodes. I don't know that I can
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: put up with... I hope it's not nine hours. If
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: it's like ten minutes each, I'm in. But if it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: an hour each, I'm I'm not in on that. All right,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I think we'll get out on that note. Thanks to everyone,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: and Mike in L.A., and Leo in Chicago, and Hank,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and all these other guys. We did not have time
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to get to your questions. But, Gonzo, you want to
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: promote anything? You want to promote your social media? How
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: can people find you? Do you have anything you want
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to let the people know about?
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: My ex handle Mike underscore Gonzo 34.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: There you go. Reach out. Make sure to follow, say
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: hi to Gonzo and thank you.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Have a great Sunday. Now the schedule this week. Just
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: to give you a heads up on that for the
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: radio show, this is a premium item. It's a Malheur
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Plus bonus for the Fifth Hour Podcast. And really, it's
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: a sign to make sure you listen to the entire
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: effing podcast because you guys will never really complain. So
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I have to visit my brother. My brother lives in Wisconsin.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: He treats Wisconsin like Dick and Dayton treats Ohio. My
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: brother does not leave the sovereign country of Wisconsin. So
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: in order to go to visit my brother, I have
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: to leave California and go to Wisconsin. So I will
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: be in the Midwest. I'll be in Chicago for a
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: couple of days and then I'll be in Wisconsin for
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: a couple of days and then back to L.A. However,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I'm only going to miss one show this week. Thursday
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: into Friday will not be on my post.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I'll be here every other night.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: In fact, I'll be doing a morning flight, which is
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: like a red eye. I'll be doing the show Wednesday
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: into Thursday, then running off to the airport, flying all
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: day on Thursday, literally across Northwest to the Midwest, all
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: over the place. And then I'll be in Chicago for
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: a day or two and then up to Wisconsin. And
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: then we'll have the podcast this weekend.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: So it'll be a normal podcast weekend this coming weekend. However.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: The radio show I have to miss because of travel
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: on Thursday. It's an all-day thing. It's not easy to
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: get to Appleton, Wisconsin.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: It is not. It's a little town up near Green Bay.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: It's the big city near Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Packers play. And when I say big city, that's just
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: because there's one hotel there.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: That's all. Anyway, thank you so much.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your Sunday, and we will
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: chat with you next time.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Bye-bye!
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye!