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- 0:00Speaker 1: Kabooms.
- 0:02Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
- 0:05Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
- 0:09Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sore fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Wow.
- 0:18Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
- 0:22Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
- 0:29Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me Ben
- 0:34Speaker 1: Mahler on an early Sunday, and not just your normal
- 0:40Speaker 1: early Sunday the afterglow or is that fire over there?
- 0:43Speaker 1: We'll explain before we get into that, though. Let's let's
- 0:47Speaker 1: have OHIOO get me in the mood, the great Ohiow,
- 0:51Speaker 1: It's in all right now. Every week we try to
- 1:07Speaker 1: have someone new on the podcast, one of our friends
- 1:11Speaker 1: in the Malard Militia. We have gone through the rolodex.
- 1:15Speaker 1: We have checked off big names like Justin and Cincinnati
- 1:20Speaker 1: and Robbie the Mariner, fin down the Line, Down the Line,
- 1:24Speaker 1: our friend in England, Terry in England, has been on
- 1:29Speaker 1: the podcast and others. And now we spin the magic
- 1:33Speaker 1: wheel round and round and round and around. Big Money,
- 1:35Speaker 1: Big Money, Big Money is stop and now making his
- 1:39Speaker 1: way his maiden voyage. On the fifth Hour mail Bag,
- 1:44Speaker 1: on this fourteenth day of June, we present j.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Scoom Ye baby in the House.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Well, I want you to I am very happy here
- 2:01Speaker 1: Jayscoop it is. I love your contributions over the years.
- 2:05Speaker 1: You've been so great. You brought brought us up to
- 2:07Speaker 1: Seattle for the great meet and greet we did before
- 2:09Speaker 1: the pandemic, but all the songs you've deputized other members
- 2:13Speaker 1: of the show, I know you and just Josh have
- 2:16Speaker 1: done a lot of cool stuff music wise, and the
- 2:20Speaker 1: Milkman more recently with the song for Lorena. So it's
- 2:24Speaker 1: been great having a part of the show all these years.
- 2:27Speaker 1: And your timing could not have been more perfect because
- 2:30Speaker 1: I had a couple of people lined up for the
- 2:32Speaker 1: podcast Jayscoop, and for whatever reason, I don't know, I
- 2:37Speaker 1: don't know what it was, because of the nick game,
- 2:39Speaker 1: and they were doing stuff, but people that said they
- 2:42Speaker 1: were gonna do it, and then I couldn't get a
- 2:45Speaker 1: hold of them, and then I was reaching out to
- 2:46Speaker 1: some other people and then and then you, randomly you
- 2:49Speaker 1: had popped up on my phone at about that time.
- 2:53Speaker 1: The timing could not have been better, Jayscoop, So I
- 2:57Speaker 1: thank you for reaching out.
- 2:59Speaker 3: I do the sign from the militia gods, you know, so.
- 3:03Speaker 1: You bail me out. Now, you used to live in Seattle.
- 3:06Speaker 1: You've lived in northern California for a little while. You
- 3:10Speaker 1: were from there, right, and you're back in that area?
- 3:12Speaker 1: Is that correct? Am I right on there?
- 3:14Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 3:14Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm from California and then you know, after high school, military,
- 3:19Speaker 4: after that kind of little bit of nomadic life. But yeah,
- 3:22Speaker 4: I was up in Washington there for about eight years
- 3:26Speaker 4: and now I'm back in Cali.
- 3:28Speaker 1: There you go. You had a little stopover in Ukraine, right,
- 3:31Speaker 1: you were there?
- 3:31Speaker 3: Yeah, Ukraine, Ukraine, the year and a half over there.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. All right, we have mail before we
- 3:38Speaker 1: get to the mailbag. The reason I said, well, things
- 3:40Speaker 1: are crazy and all that. The Knicks won the championship
- 3:43Speaker 1: on Saturday Night, and what I.
- 3:46Speaker 3: Was gonna watch that? You ruined it for me?
- 3:48Speaker 1: I know, I run all those that watch on demand.
- 3:51Speaker 1: You're screwed with. Yeah, the Knicks and I have mixed emotions.
- 3:56Speaker 1: I was hoping the Spurs would come back and win
- 3:59Speaker 1: this series because I could enjoy some shot in Freud.
- 4:01Speaker 1: I do have a lot of friends that are Knicks fans,
- 4:05Speaker 1: and so after the game, I was I was being polite, Jayscoop,
- 4:08Speaker 1: I wasn't a douche. I sent some text messages to
- 4:11Speaker 1: all my New York people. I told my brother, I said, listen,
- 4:15Speaker 1: you should probably stay in. He lives in the city.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I said, stay in unless you want to go get
- 4:19Speaker 1: a TV or destroy a car, then you can go outside.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Other than that, you know, just stay in your home
- 4:23Speaker 1: and you'll be fine. Nothing to worry about. One of
- 4:26Speaker 1: the all time great choke jobs. And I'm sure we'll
- 4:28Speaker 1: be ranting more about this on the Overnight Show on
- 4:31Speaker 1: Sunday night. In the Monday, the post more than the
- 4:34Speaker 1: autopsy on what happened in San Antonio. I did the math,
- 4:39Speaker 1: though I did some backup the Napkin mal math Jay
- 4:42Speaker 1: Scoop and the Spurs. If my math is correct, the
- 4:45Speaker 1: four games they lost collectively, they had seventy one points
- 4:50Speaker 1: total in leads. They had a twenty nine point lead
- 4:52Speaker 1: in the most famous game of the finals, they blew
- 4:55Speaker 1: a sixteen point lead in the game on Saturday night,
- 4:59Speaker 1: and the other two law they had a twelve point
- 5:01Speaker 1: lead and a fourteen point lead, and they blew all
- 5:05Speaker 1: of them in losing this series to the New York Knicks,
- 5:09Speaker 1: And so congratulations to the Knicks. I'd fire the coach
- 5:13Speaker 1: if I owned the Spurs, and I would get rid
- 5:16Speaker 1: of the dynamic, though I'd certainly get rid of darn Fox,
- 5:20Speaker 1: who sucked at a time you cannot suck in that game, well,
- 5:25Speaker 1: actually in multiple games, as he did. The joke is
- 5:28Speaker 1: he did provide Mike Brown a championship, his old coach
- 5:31Speaker 1: from the Sacramento Kings. It just he had to wear
- 5:34Speaker 1: a Spurs uniform and Mike Brown had to coach the Knicks,
- 5:37Speaker 1: and so there you go. But Dearren Fox three of
- 5:40Speaker 1: fifteen in the game last night, combine that with his
- 5:44Speaker 1: bonehead decision in the game they had a San Antonio
- 5:48Speaker 1: Blue a twenty nine point lead, where he had three options,
- 5:51Speaker 1: call a time out, reset, get fouled, dribble, get fouled,
- 5:56Speaker 1: or go to the basket and get blocked and then
- 5:59Speaker 1: give the Knicks the win. And he made the wrong
- 6:01Speaker 1: decision there. And how about Stefan Castle one of ten
- 6:06Speaker 1: from the floor, and he scored late in the fourth
- 6:08Speaker 1: quarter the Spurs back court in that game five last night,
- 6:14Speaker 1: the Spurs back court four of twenty five from the floor. Now,
- 6:20Speaker 1: I didn't play in the NBA, Jayscoop, I don't think
- 6:24Speaker 1: that's good. Am I being mean? Jay Scoop to say
- 6:27Speaker 1: that if you're starting backcourt in the NBA Finals takes
- 6:32Speaker 1: twenty five shots and makes four of them, you've done
- 6:35Speaker 1: something terribly wrong. My computer like brain tells me that
- 6:38Speaker 1: sixteen percent shooting.
- 6:40Speaker 4: Yikes, I mean, come on, sixteen percent shooting. You know
- 6:44Speaker 4: you got to consider it. The glass barely full. You
- 6:50Speaker 4: gotta be an optimist about this building.
- 6:53Speaker 1: That's is not half empty. The glass is completely empty
- 6:56Speaker 1: and it's in pieces. Right now, All right, let's get
- 6:58Speaker 1: to the mailback. First one up is from Richard in Michigan.
- 7:01Speaker 1: It's kind of a big state. He says, this is random,
- 7:04Speaker 1: it's a non sequitor, but we'll start with this because
- 7:06Speaker 1: it was the first one that came up. Richard says, Ben,
- 7:09Speaker 1: should they outlaw these self driving cars? And then he says,
- 7:14Speaker 1: there's apparently a thing where it's happening in the US,
- 7:17Speaker 1: but in China it became a big deal where Chinese
- 7:20Speaker 1: drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool the autopilot
- 7:26Speaker 1: safeguards on the Tesla's. So I've never had a Tesla.
- 7:29Speaker 1: I've only been in a Tesla one time. I don't
- 7:32Speaker 1: really know much about Tesla's other than I was told
- 7:37Speaker 1: that the autopilot in order for it to work, the
- 7:40Speaker 1: driver has to be sitting and paying attention. They like,
- 7:43Speaker 1: monitor your eyes and if you're moving too much or
- 7:47Speaker 1: you're sleeping, the autopilot will shut off. So if that's
- 7:51Speaker 1: the case, obviously this would be working around. I don't
- 7:54Speaker 1: think they're going to get rid of self so self
- 7:57Speaker 1: driving cars because of some knuckleheads fooling the Tesla safety guards.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Although that's pretty creative. It's like the people Jayscoop in
- 8:05Speaker 1: the carpool lane that put the dog in the back,
- 8:10Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that whole thing. Yeah, all right,
- 8:14Speaker 1: what is next on the mail bag? What do we
- 8:17Speaker 1: have here? Let's see, we've got Reggie from Detroit who
- 8:21Speaker 1: writes in and how about that back to back in
- 8:24Speaker 1: belly to belly from the state of Michigan. Reggie says,
- 8:28Speaker 1: Benny and friend that would be Jay Scoop, who's with me? Reggie.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Reggie says that what is this The authorities have removed
- 8:40Speaker 1: more than twenty seven thousand illegal streams in piracy crackdown,
- 8:48Speaker 1: Global Piracy Crackdown ahead of the World Cup. Ben Reggie says,
- 8:55Speaker 1: is this the end of the Russian websites? Have they
- 8:59Speaker 1: solved the piracy dilemma? That's from Reggie in Detroit. Yeah, yeah, Reggie.
- 9:05Speaker 1: So the way this works, it's kind of like a
- 9:08Speaker 1: game of whack them all. You cannot win. If you
- 9:11Speaker 1: take down twenty seven thousand of these websites, there will
- 9:15Speaker 1: be fifty four thousand that pop up tomorrow. So it's
- 9:21Speaker 1: a game you cannot win. The websites they make a
- 9:25Speaker 1: decent amount of money. I'm not sure how. I guess
- 9:26Speaker 1: advertising those pop up ads is how they would do it, obviously.
- 9:30Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a big number, twenty seven thousand illegal
- 9:34Speaker 1: streaming sites. That's a massive amount of piracy, and it
- 9:38Speaker 1: doesn't even scratch the surface. It's kind of like going
- 9:42Speaker 1: down to the beach, go down to Santa Monica or
- 9:45Speaker 1: whatever your favorite beach is, and you take a cup
- 9:47Speaker 1: of sand, a red party cup of sand off the
- 9:51Speaker 1: beach and then you wander away. You can't say, well,
- 9:54Speaker 1: I've cleared off the sand on the beach. Well, you know,
- 9:56Speaker 1: you took one cup of sand. That's how I don't
- 9:59Speaker 1: think realize how massive the piracy thing is. It's tremendous.
- 10:07Speaker 3: You'll have.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Jay Scoop. You would never take part in that, right,
- 10:10Speaker 1: that would be wrong to take part.
- 10:13Speaker 3: Oh, I would never do that.
- 10:14Speaker 4: But if I did, I would never forget the time
- 10:18Speaker 4: that I watched the whole NFL season on one of
- 10:22Speaker 4: those sites. And then and I know they did this
- 10:25Speaker 4: on purpose all the way that Super Bowl Aaron Rodgers
- 10:28Speaker 4: they won with the Packers on that day, boom, I
- 10:32Speaker 4: go to that site, FBI logo, they shut it down.
- 10:35Speaker 3: I was scrambling. I didn't know what to do. I
- 10:38Speaker 3: was so pissed. I don't know.
- 10:41Speaker 4: I think they did that on purpose that timing, but
- 10:43Speaker 4: I had to scramble with my father to find some
- 10:46Speaker 4: bar nearby that was, you know, playing the super Bowl.
- 10:49Speaker 4: But yeah, like you said, then next thing, you know,
- 10:52Speaker 4: you can find whatever the next site is.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember when they did that on
- 10:58Speaker 1: right for the Super Bowl, and there were people like
- 11:00Speaker 1: yourself who were freaking out. They're like, oh my god.
- 11:04Speaker 1: And yeah, within within a day or two, it was
- 11:08Speaker 1: back to normal out back John and Joanna write in
- 11:11Speaker 1: on the mail bag, Hey Big Ben and special guests
- 11:15Speaker 1: that would be Jay Scoop Ben. You have mentioned on
- 11:18Speaker 1: the radio show before that you don't listen to other
- 11:20Speaker 1: sports talk radio shows because you want your takes to
- 11:23Speaker 1: be completely yours and not influenced by the gas bags
- 11:26Speaker 1: and blowhards that are out there. There was another time
- 11:29Speaker 1: that you mentioned that although you enjoy music, you are
- 11:32Speaker 1: not an extreme music fan. That got us thinking out back.
- 11:37Speaker 1: John and Joanna said, we would love to know what
- 11:40Speaker 1: you do listen to in the car when traveling to
- 11:43Speaker 1: and from the north Woods when you have to go
- 11:45Speaker 1: into the FSR studios. Thank you always there you go. Yeah,
- 11:50Speaker 1: So I'll have some music on in the background. I've
- 11:54Speaker 1: pointed out before. It changes by the by the month.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Usually one month I'll switch it up and I'll put
- 12:02Speaker 1: on I like lately, anything from classical music to a
- 12:11Speaker 1: little Latin jazz, you name it. I'll switch it up
- 12:15Speaker 1: just to have something going on in the background. And
- 12:18Speaker 1: then I've got like a bunch of songs that I
- 12:20Speaker 1: do like. I don't really have the music gene per se,
- 12:24Speaker 1: but I have some songs that I've enjoyed, you know,
- 12:26Speaker 1: you pick them out from different years when you were younger. However,
- 12:30Speaker 1: I realized this, Jayscoop, and you're a music guy. You're
- 12:33Speaker 1: very talented, and I love the songs I love, but
- 12:36Speaker 1: I have to listen to them and then kind of
- 12:38Speaker 1: go away from them for a long time because I've
- 12:40Speaker 1: heard them so many times. Like you know what I mean,
- 12:42Speaker 1: If you keep listening to them over and over again,
- 12:44Speaker 1: at some point you can't hear them anymore. You're like,
- 12:47Speaker 1: that's enough. I got to take a break. And so
- 12:50Speaker 1: I'm at that point right now. And yeah, I don't
- 12:54Speaker 1: normally listen to other radio shows because I just want
- 12:58Speaker 1: to do my own own thing. And I pointed out
- 13:02Speaker 1: if you listen to other stuff, even by Osmosis Osmosis,
- 13:06Speaker 1: it just kind of seeps into your head and so
- 13:08Speaker 1: you might steal something from somebody and out. I don't
- 13:10Speaker 1: really want to do that. I love Jay Scoops music though,
- 13:14Speaker 1: big fan of the Jay Scoop tune.
- 13:17Speaker 4: But yeah, when when I'm when i'm recording that stuff,
- 13:20Speaker 4: by the time you guys play it like, I've heard
- 13:22Speaker 4: it a million times when I'm editing it, so for example,
- 13:27Speaker 4: even editing that love Boat version of the Queen of
- 13:31Speaker 4: Hearts thing.
- 13:33Speaker 3: That thing is.
- 13:33Speaker 4: Running through my head like all day long. I can't
- 13:37Speaker 4: get it out of there. So you know, I love
- 13:39Speaker 4: it to death. But by the time you guys hear
- 13:40Speaker 4: it for the first time, I've heard it a million times.
- 13:44Speaker 4: And then and then the other part is you're talking
- 13:47Speaker 4: about you know, people wanting to know what shows you,
- 13:51Speaker 4: the sports and whatnot you listen to.
- 13:54Speaker 1: You know.
- 13:54Speaker 4: I remember working at a market research place and I
- 13:57Speaker 4: had to be on the phones like for that eight
- 14:00Speaker 4: hours and the last thing I wanted to do after
- 14:03Speaker 4: I got home was get on the phone.
- 14:05Speaker 2: You know.
- 14:05Speaker 4: There was like a few people I saw that could
- 14:07Speaker 4: do it, but that was the last thing I wanted
- 14:09Speaker 4: to do after I spent eight hours doing it.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. And it's part of the problem
- 14:15Speaker 1: that I have is I talk for four hours a
- 14:19Speaker 1: night and I do a podcast on the weekend. So
- 14:21Speaker 1: when I'm not working, I just like to sit there
- 14:24Speaker 1: like a lug, just a big lug, and not really
- 14:28Speaker 1: talk to anybody. I just want to like chill out.
- 14:30Speaker 1: And that becomes problematic sometimes because, as you know, Jay Scoop,
- 14:35Speaker 1: a married man, you have to do certain things. There's
- 14:38Speaker 1: certain requirements on the weekends, and a lot of them
- 14:42Speaker 1: require social activity, and so you just kind of have
- 14:44Speaker 1: to roll with the punches. But thank you out back
- 14:47Speaker 1: John and Joanna a couple of staples of this podcast.
- 14:51Speaker 1: They've become staples of this podcast. Alf from the Coast
- 14:55Speaker 1: Right Since says Ben and friend Foody Fun two point zero.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Alf says, I don't know if this is real or bs,
- 15:03Speaker 1: but I recently saw that McDonald's is bringing back the
- 15:05Speaker 1: fried apple Pie nationwide for a two week run in
- 15:10Speaker 1: the US this month. Also, Ben, I'm not sure if
- 15:12Speaker 1: you paid off your teas from the other podcasts, but
- 15:17Speaker 1: the special feature Amazing Tale if not what you mentioned
- 15:21Speaker 1: to here. There you go, not Benny bad Finger, there
- 15:26Speaker 1: you go. I have my burned finger, which is actually
- 15:28Speaker 1: hurt more the last couple of days than it did
- 15:32Speaker 1: when I initially burned my finger putting it into the dishwasher.
- 15:37Speaker 1: So yeah, I would doubt the fried apple Pie thing
- 15:44Speaker 1: is real, because why would you do something for two
- 15:45Speaker 1: weeks that doesn't I mean, I haven't seen it, so
- 15:48Speaker 1: I don't know. Alf. There is a location in southern
- 15:52Speaker 1: California in Downey, California, which is like the original one.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Not the original McDonald's, but one of the early McDonald
- 16:00Speaker 1: and you can get the original fried apple pie at
- 16:04Speaker 1: that location, which I think is either one the only
- 16:08Speaker 1: or one of just a couple that you can get
- 16:10Speaker 1: the fried apple pie at. So uh yeah, the if
- 16:15Speaker 1: you're if you're an og and you love McDonald's, that
- 16:19Speaker 1: was the way to go. And uh as far as
- 16:23Speaker 1: the special feature of Amazing Tale, Alf, my brain is
- 16:27Speaker 1: so fried right now, I have no idea what you're
- 16:29Speaker 1: talking about. So we're just gonna move on. Quwang from
- 16:32Speaker 1: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, right since says guaranteed human. First off,
- 16:36Speaker 1: a group of pigeons is most commonly called a flock,
- 16:40Speaker 1: says Quang, depending on their special activity or setting. Groups
- 16:47Speaker 1: of pigeons are also called a kit when they're flying,
- 16:52Speaker 1: a loft, when resting or housed together, and not a herd.
- 16:59Speaker 1: This came up on the show, he says, Sorry, Lorena, yeah,
- 17:04Speaker 1: and so there you go. Sorry, sorry, but yeah, we
- 17:08Speaker 1: were wondering because on Colin Cowherd show, everything's the herd.
- 17:12Speaker 1: You know, it's the herd, you know, because his name
- 17:14Speaker 1: cow Herd and all that. Also, Quang says, has marcel
- 17:18Speaker 1: in Brooklyn ever been sworn in, you idiot. I don't
- 17:23Speaker 1: recall Marcel and Brooklyn being sworn in the show. I
- 17:28Speaker 1: believe he's at a higher level, and I don't think
- 17:30Speaker 1: either one of us, Jay Scoop has been able You've
- 17:32Speaker 1: been able to meet a lot of the fans of
- 17:34Speaker 1: the show. I have, I've met most of them. I
- 17:37Speaker 1: don't think I'll ever meet Marcel in Brooklyn. I don't
- 17:40Speaker 1: think that's going to happen.
- 17:42Speaker 3: So how cool would it be to meet Kwang?
- 17:45Speaker 4: Like he's one of my favorite people that contributes because
- 17:48Speaker 4: of how far away he is, you know, it just
- 17:50Speaker 4: boggles my mind that this show, you know, does that
- 17:54Speaker 4: connection that far away.
- 17:55Speaker 3: I love hearing when.
- 17:57Speaker 4: He he writes in or the rushing Kid or you know,
- 18:01Speaker 4: like where when was his name Audubon before before he
- 18:05Speaker 4: moved back to StAst side.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Of the auto bon yeah bottom, yeah, yeah, yeah, we
- 18:09Speaker 1: had that Ozzie was from Western Australia. Yeah, the part
- 18:13Speaker 1: of Australia no one lives and it's just it's just
- 18:17Speaker 1: kangaroos and there's not enough water to support life. And
- 18:19Speaker 1: he lives out there in the middle of nowhere. Uh yeah, well,
- 18:23Speaker 1: thank you kwang. I I'll let Lorena know she Yeah,
- 18:26Speaker 1: she screwed up. I'm sure she'll be very happy about that.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Ferg Dog writes in says Ferg Dog out early for
- 18:32Speaker 1: good behavior. In Fullerton. He says, hello, Ben, when is
- 18:37Speaker 1: the what's the last time either of you went to Yosemite?
- 18:42Speaker 1: I know that's a long trip for an for well,
- 18:46Speaker 1: I guess he thought, well, originally Andre was going to
- 18:50Speaker 1: be in here, so I guess it was for Andre.
- 18:52Speaker 1: But but you're here, Jay scoops. I you live not
- 18:55Speaker 1: too bad to drive where you are in northern California.
- 18:59Speaker 1: I when I go to a national park, I've never
- 19:02Speaker 1: been to Yosemite. I go to Sequoia. That's where I go,
- 19:06Speaker 1: which is kind of near King Kings Canyon, Sequoia, which
- 19:10Speaker 1: is Fresno adjacent. So that's typically the national park.
- 19:15Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, but you'll still get you know, you
- 19:17Speaker 4: still have some of those big redwoods or I think.
- 19:24Speaker 1: Yes, I don't think it's in Yosemite, right, said yosemities
- 19:27Speaker 1: further up? I think much further up.
- 19:29Speaker 3: It's got it's got something there. I don't I don't remember.
- 19:32Speaker 4: You know, they have like but nothing like what it
- 19:34Speaker 4: is where you were talking about.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Yeah, Sequoia. I love the giant forest. That's my favorite
- 19:39Speaker 1: spot that, like the huge Sequoia trees which are three
- 19:44Speaker 1: hundred years old. And Yosemiti's got you know, you know,
- 19:49Speaker 1: Yosemi's got giant everything there. But I have you I
- 19:53Speaker 1: guess you've never been, right, you've never been to Yosemite.
- 19:56Speaker 4: Oh no, I've been multiple times, and especially growing up.
- 20:00Speaker 4: When I was growing up, I was in that after
- 20:03Speaker 4: school program with the YMCA, and so during the summer
- 20:06Speaker 4: they would always take us out to places like Yosemite.
- 20:10Speaker 4: So so I did it growing up, and then as
- 20:12Speaker 4: an adult, you know, I've covered a lot more ground there.
- 20:16Speaker 4: Of course, you appreciate it more as an adult.
- 20:21Speaker 1: When you're a kid, You're like, what are we doing?
- 20:23Speaker 1: There's true cares, there's trees.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Come on, it's just like the last one.
- 20:28Speaker 4: By the way, Ferg Dog wrote in about that. I
- 20:31Speaker 4: think you said Ferg Dog did, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 20:34Speaker 4: Do you think he's gonna be like Mike Tyson? You
- 20:38Speaker 4: know Mike Tyson was like he was unstoppable. Yeah yeah,
- 20:41Speaker 4: that slip up with Buster Douglas. But when he went
- 20:45Speaker 4: to prison and then he came back out and it
- 20:47Speaker 4: was just it was never the same after that. Do
- 20:49Speaker 4: you think Ferg Dog's game was going to be affected
- 20:52Speaker 4: by his his his stint in the Gray Bar Hotel.
- 20:56Speaker 1: It's it's going to take time. As you know, Jay Scoop.
- 21:00Speaker 1: Once you've seen the things, the trauma that Ferg Dog
- 21:04Speaker 1: has seen being in Nyper Jail, it's a whole new
- 21:07Speaker 1: world and his whole perspective. I've noticed the edge is
- 21:11Speaker 1: not the same. That's a great take by you, Jayscoop.
- 21:13Speaker 1: The edge not quite the same since Ferg Dog was
- 21:17Speaker 1: released on furlough from Cyber Jail, so we will keep
- 21:21Speaker 1: an eye on that. He also said, can I borrow
- 21:23Speaker 1: the mal ormobile when I go? I think, what you know?
- 21:27Speaker 1: You should borrow borrow, hollering James borrow his his car
- 21:33Speaker 1: if he had Have you met hollering James, Jayscoop, I
- 21:36Speaker 1: know you've met most of the people here. Have you
- 21:38Speaker 1: met I have not.
- 21:40Speaker 4: I wanted to go up the Minnesota route. Of course
- 21:42Speaker 4: I would have gone up there and then across to Montana,
- 21:45Speaker 4: But yeah, I didn't get to go up that way.
- 21:48Speaker 4: And there's a pretty cool contingent of people up there.
- 21:51Speaker 4: In Minnesota.
- 21:51Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, Minnesota has been great to the show. They
- 21:54Speaker 1: love love their sports and that morning show that we're
- 21:58Speaker 1: the lead into the Power Trip Morning Show. I believe
- 22:01Speaker 1: it's called There in Minnesota. I was on as a
- 22:03Speaker 1: guest with the eighty Day Remote in Vegas at four
- 22:07Speaker 1: in the morning. I was there at four in the morning,
- 22:10Speaker 1: and the bar was packed at New York, New York
- 22:12Speaker 1: with Minnesota people drinking at four in the morning to
- 22:16Speaker 1: watch their radio show. Was awesome. I was so impressed,
- 22:19Speaker 1: Like Meat Sauce and the boys there on that morning show.
- 22:22Speaker 1: How popular they are. Barry from South Carolina, right center
- 22:26Speaker 1: the mail bag. He says, yo yo, ma, Benny. If
- 22:29Speaker 1: these weight loss drugs were available when you were in
- 22:31Speaker 1: your bigger days, do you think you would have used them?
- 22:35Speaker 1: It's a good question, Barry. I don't like taking a
- 22:40Speaker 1: lot of medication, and I've never liked taking a lot
- 22:43Speaker 1: of medications, so my knee jerk reaction would be say no. However,
- 22:48Speaker 1: at the same time, I look and say, well, if
- 22:52Speaker 1: I need to lose a lot of weight and it
- 22:53Speaker 1: was like the quickest way to do it, I'd say
- 22:55Speaker 1: it's fifty not even fifty to fifty. I'd say it's
- 22:59Speaker 1: like four forty sixty. Uh in the sixties, I wouldn't
- 23:03Speaker 1: do it. But I know tons, I don't know. I don't.
- 23:07Speaker 3: I don't think.
- 23:08Speaker 1: So, man, what what do you say at J. Scoop?
- 23:11Speaker 4: I think if somebody said, hey, then look, all you
- 23:13Speaker 4: gotta do is every like fourth skittle.
- 23:16Speaker 3: Isn't ozempic pill. You're not gonna put anyone.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Isn't like a needle thing or something like that. I
- 23:23Speaker 1: don't want to do a needle.
- 23:24Speaker 3: Don't you have to don't know.
- 23:26Speaker 1: I don't if it's an injection. Yeah, if it was
- 23:29Speaker 1: a pill, of course you take the pill, big deal,
- 23:33Speaker 1: you know, just have a as you said, have a
- 23:36Speaker 1: couple of skittles and have an ozempic or whatever. Uh
- 23:40Speaker 1: J T the wingman from uh near Knoxville, he said,
- 23:46Speaker 1: he says it's Severville, Tennessee. I keep mispronouncing this. J.
- 23:52Speaker 1: Scoop s E V I E R V I L
- 23:57Speaker 1: l E. I have no idea. He's told me before,
- 24:00Speaker 1: and I keep forgetting so always just saying you're not
- 24:02Speaker 1: sever sever I don't know Feaverville or something. I feel
- 24:07Speaker 1: like vill is right, says dear Ben and guest, JT
- 24:11Speaker 1: the Wingman says, as we are reaching the end of
- 24:15Speaker 1: the pro bouncy ball se well just ended the last
- 24:18Speaker 1: night and the NHL season. Do you believe that the
- 24:20Speaker 1: World Cup will take over the daily talk or will
- 24:24Speaker 1: it be just our annual quiet time with only baseball
- 24:30Speaker 1: for the middle of the summer. I know you did
- 24:32Speaker 1: the pick em for the World Cup, but can that
- 24:36Speaker 1: carry the monologue. Fortunately, we will have the mal or
- 24:39Speaker 1: Palooza to get us through the All Star break, but
- 24:42Speaker 1: since I know you pride yourself in quality monologues, the
- 24:46Speaker 1: material will be thin. That's from JT the Wingman. JT.
- 24:52Speaker 1: There's always stuff going on, and that the days of
- 24:55Speaker 1: you know, some days obviously are less than others, but
- 24:57Speaker 1: the days of nothing going on. I lived that life.
- 25:02Speaker 1: We lived it during the pandemic. That was more recently
- 25:05Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, when we were
- 25:07Speaker 1: all on lockdown. I think parts of California are still
- 25:11Speaker 1: on lockdown, and that's a different conversation. But anyway, listen,
- 25:14Speaker 1: there will be plenty of things to talk about. JT.
- 25:18Speaker 1: The World Cup. I'm getting the sense, unless there's a
- 25:21Speaker 1: big controversy, the only thing people really are into is
- 25:24Speaker 1: Team USA nashally and I'll play it. I'll play it
- 25:29Speaker 1: by year. If there's something really good going on, then
- 25:32Speaker 1: we'll be into it. And we have a bunch of
- 25:35Speaker 1: trade rumors with Giannis Adenta, Coombo and some of the
- 25:37Speaker 1: other big names in the NBA. They're going to be
- 25:40Speaker 1: changing teams. You've got the NBA Draft, so there's stuff
- 25:43Speaker 1: to talk about. There's another wave of NFL free agency,
- 25:47Speaker 1: and we're about a month away from the start of
- 25:50Speaker 1: NFL training camp, which is not necessarily great talk radio.
- 25:55Speaker 1: It gives us something to talk about, not great. Think
- 25:58Speaker 1: it's a little something different. So there's always something going on, and.
- 26:02Speaker 3: There's always marble racing.
- 26:04Speaker 4: I mean, come on, you can't say there it's gonna
- 26:07Speaker 4: be thin if I mean, if you listened during that
- 26:11Speaker 4: pandemic time you saw you saw Ben pull everything out
- 26:16Speaker 4: of that hat. I mean, if you can get through that,
- 26:20Speaker 4: I'm convinced you could get through anything.
- 26:22Speaker 3: Apocalypse, it doesn't matter.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. That was the ultimate because every year
- 26:27Speaker 1: in sports radio, most of the guys would take vacation
- 26:30Speaker 1: during the All Star break because there were two days
- 26:34Speaker 1: the day before the All Star Game of the day
- 26:36Speaker 1: after the All Star Game, when there really wasn't anything
- 26:38Speaker 1: going on, and so guys would take that vacation and
- 26:42Speaker 1: never have to worry about it. And then when the
- 26:44Speaker 1: pandemic happened, Yeah, we had no games from mid March
- 26:48Speaker 1: until I think it was I don't know exactly. I
- 26:53Speaker 1: think it was July. It was either late June or
- 26:58Speaker 1: early Joly. I'm gonna get it up right now. That
- 27:00Speaker 1: started dirty, but hold on.
- 27:02Speaker 4: And fun fact, that's when me and just Josh linked
- 27:07Speaker 4: up because prior to that I had been solo and
- 27:10Speaker 4: then there was like nothing going on, and we were like, hey,
- 27:13Speaker 4: let's start writing some songs about the pandemic. So like
- 27:16Speaker 4: our first like three songs in a row were all
- 27:19Speaker 4: about you know, pandemic, COVID and all that. And then
- 27:22Speaker 4: finally sports started back up and we started doing about
- 27:26Speaker 4: other things.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Wednesday, March eleventh, was the last NBA
- 27:31Speaker 1: NHL game Wednesday, March eleventh, twenty twenty. Pandemic happened that night,
- 27:37Speaker 1: and then no games until July twenty third. So from
- 27:42Speaker 1: March eleventh to July twenty third, Bupkus squad douche on
- 27:47Speaker 1: the sporting calendar and the show. We had more people listening,
- 27:50Speaker 1: which still blows me away. Jay Scoop's kind of embarrassing.
- 27:53Speaker 1: We had more people listening when there were no sports
- 27:55Speaker 1: than when there are sports. We had to higher audience
- 27:58Speaker 1: share on Fox Sports Radio during the pandemic that we've
- 28:01Speaker 1: ever had before or since. Pretty crazy. It's just we
- 28:06Speaker 1: do well, we do well, but it's not you know,
- 28:08Speaker 1: it's not like that.
- 28:09Speaker 4: But you're already you're already practicing that, you know, night in,
- 28:12Speaker 4: night out, with all the shenanigans and all that.
- 28:16Speaker 3: That's why I can't remember.
- 28:17Speaker 4: There was a call, maybe like a week ago, and
- 28:19Speaker 4: there's a caller who almost felt bad because he wanted
- 28:22Speaker 4: to talk about sports.
- 28:23Speaker 3: He's like, well, you guys don't really do that though
- 28:26Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 28:27Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, I know. And I point, you can
- 28:31Speaker 1: talk about whatever you want. Just be somewhat entertaining, Like
- 28:34Speaker 1: that's my that's my thing. It's like, just don't be
- 28:37Speaker 1: boring and all that. But it is true no matter
- 28:39Speaker 1: what I talk about. And I get a lot of
- 28:43Speaker 1: you know, I get a lot of flak for the
- 28:45Speaker 1: monologues and stuff like that, but I spent a lot
- 28:47Speaker 1: of time talking about the monologues and preparing for the monologues,
- 28:49Speaker 1: and then people call up and they don't want to
- 28:51Speaker 1: talk about anything I say, so it doesn't really matter anyway.
- 28:54Speaker 4: It's like Sporto whoopee Pie versus Goofy whoopee Pie exactly,
- 29:00Speaker 4: Goofy dominates.
- 29:01Speaker 1: That's pretty much Ryan f Ryan Sea writes in from Maine.
- 29:07Speaker 1: He says, I'm typing this email. He says, I'm going
- 29:09Speaker 1: to take a guess and say the mystery guest is
- 29:11Speaker 1: Terry from England. No boys, my question this week? Ryan says, Ben,
- 29:17Speaker 1: I know you're married. Is your wife forcing you to
- 29:19Speaker 1: watch Love Island? Or is it just mine? Ben? This
- 29:23Speaker 1: show is awful. It's trash and very addicting. If not
- 29:28Speaker 1: Love Island, what show does she put on that you
- 29:31Speaker 1: are forced to watch? That's from Ryan seas she puts
- 29:34Speaker 1: on a lot of old movies. My wife loves old
- 29:37Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe movies, like early Hollywood. Well that's not really
- 29:41Speaker 1: early middle Hollywood, when there were big giant productions and
- 29:46Speaker 1: everyone would all of a sudden break out into song
- 29:49Speaker 1: for no reason at all. It just starts singing, and
- 29:52Speaker 1: you're like, why is that person singing? I don't understand. Okay,
- 29:55Speaker 1: it's part of the movie, but it's dumb. Okay, just
- 29:58Speaker 1: watch it. Stupid that only so that goes on? Uh
- 30:01Speaker 1: and not Love Island. I usually I'm working and she'll
- 30:05Speaker 1: be watching something. I don't really pay attention to it.
- 30:08Speaker 1: There are some I call them Switzerland shows that we
- 30:12Speaker 1: watch that are usually like home improvement type shows, that
- 30:16Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's common ground. Yeah, I don't most
- 30:20Speaker 1: of the stuff she watches, I'm not. You know, that's
- 30:23Speaker 1: not my not my jam. Well what about you, Jay Scoop?
- 30:27Speaker 1: Any neutral ground shows you forced to watch stuff that
- 30:30Speaker 1: you don't want to watch? Or is your wife not
- 30:32Speaker 1: watch TV at all? No?
- 30:35Speaker 3: No, typically like films, normal films and stuff.
- 30:39Speaker 4: You know, when I when I'm solo, I hate to
- 30:43Speaker 4: admit it, but I'm a reality show freak or competition
- 30:47Speaker 4: show freak, either of those ones. Even when I had
- 30:51Speaker 4: a friend who was on one of those and he
- 30:53Speaker 4: gave me some of the you know, some of the
- 30:55Speaker 4: behind the curtain, you know, the stuff that's not true,
- 30:59Speaker 4: what is true, and that I just try to pretend
- 31:02Speaker 4: I never heard that and get entertained by that. But
- 31:05Speaker 4: but together, mostly you know, films and movies like good
- 31:11Speaker 4: big movies.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Gotcha, Yeah, the reality I learned that early on when
- 31:17Speaker 1: they first studio, they started doing those dating shows. What
- 31:20Speaker 1: was the early dating reality shows? God, I forget the
- 31:23Speaker 1: name of it, Like, oh well, I wasn't Roger lodge On.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Was it blind Dates?
- 31:27Speaker 3: Blind Date?
- 31:28Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I saw. I used to have to drive
- 31:31Speaker 1: through Hollywood to get to work, and when I lived
- 31:34Speaker 1: in that part of town, and i'd drive through and
- 31:37Speaker 1: they'd always be filming stuff on Hollywood Boulevard. And I
- 31:42Speaker 1: say always, I saw you. A few times a month
- 31:44Speaker 1: they'd be filming stuff. And I remember I was driving
- 31:47Speaker 1: down and they were filming this couple crossing the street
- 31:53Speaker 1: and then I guess they didn't get the right shot
- 31:55Speaker 1: because they had to film them again crossing crossing. It
- 31:59Speaker 1: was really funny watching this whole thing. I was stuck.
- 32:01Speaker 1: I was stuck in gridlock traffic, so I was watching
- 32:04Speaker 1: the whole deal and it was the same exact shot
- 32:06Speaker 1: because I guess, you know, you gotta gotta get it done, man,
- 32:10Speaker 1: you gotta multiple shots, multiple angles. I don't know what
- 32:13Speaker 1: that was all about.
- 32:14Speaker 3: But and they had that show Cheaters.
- 32:17Speaker 1: Oh yeah, remember that that was quality and entertainment too.
- 32:20Speaker 4: And then it wasn't dating but the newly game that
- 32:24Speaker 4: was pretty entertaining. They would get some some people in
- 32:26Speaker 4: trouble with some of those answers.
- 32:28Speaker 1: The old school yeah, Hollywood stars, the dating uh yeah,
- 32:34Speaker 1: they were they were all good. Lucky Tony writes in
- 32:37Speaker 1: from the Bay Area. He says, ben ead Dog's back,
- 32:41Speaker 1: f yeah, and here's why he should get two golden tickets. Firstly,
- 32:46Speaker 1: when I tried to give Dog my ticket, Coop refused
- 32:50Speaker 1: and made me go on the air and do it.
- 32:52Speaker 1: And after you told Dog, I bet Coop never told
- 32:55Speaker 1: him how they work. Secondly, I would only listen to
- 32:59Speaker 1: the podcast the hour I missed from lunch or the
- 33:03Speaker 1: hour I called in. But when E Dog started calling,
- 33:06Speaker 1: I listened all four hours because I don't want to
- 33:09Speaker 1: miss his calls from Lucky Tony. It was very kind
- 33:14Speaker 1: of you to endorse Lucky Tony. E Dog and E
- 33:18Speaker 1: dog goes way back, as you know, with Joe Dogg.
- 33:20Speaker 1: They were young kids. They would call me up on
- 33:23Speaker 1: the weekends back in the old days, and it was
- 33:25Speaker 1: Joe Dogg and E Dog and they never wanted to
- 33:28Speaker 1: talk about sports, just like now that is. I will
- 33:32Speaker 1: I will let if he calls this week, I will
- 33:35Speaker 1: let e dog know that he is beloved by Lucky
- 33:38Speaker 1: Tony Leo from Chicago Rights Since says Ben, do you
- 33:42Speaker 1: think this guy is going to get street cred in jail?
- 33:45Speaker 1: And he sent me a story here, Leo? A guy
- 33:47Speaker 1: from Texas has been sentenced to forty five years in
- 33:52Speaker 1: prison because he stole legos a corent Yeah cross country
- 33:58Speaker 1: lego theft ring. The guy said he still he stole.
- 34:02Speaker 1: According to Leo, the story sent me two hundred lego
- 34:05Speaker 1: sets across the country three hundred thousand dollars in retail theft.
- 34:11Speaker 1: How about that? Two hundred lego sets for three hundred thousand?
- 34:14Speaker 1: Is that right? Can that possibly be right?
- 34:17Speaker 3: Am I going to school for the wrong thing? Am I?
- 34:23Speaker 1: That's three hundred thousand for two? What what's the math
- 34:27Speaker 1: on that? Hold on, let me do some Let me
- 34:29Speaker 1: get my calculator out here, Jayscoop. I'm gonna see if
- 34:32Speaker 1: I can do some malor math. So three hundred thousand,
- 34:37Speaker 1: let's see, let's see here, and then divided by two
- 34:41Speaker 1: hundred and let's see here, that would be that would
- 34:47Speaker 1: be fifty. There's no way like fifteen hundred dollars a
- 34:49Speaker 1: Lego set. There's no chance.
- 34:52Speaker 3: No, yeah, I mean maybe if some famous celebrities somehow
- 34:56Speaker 3: add some connection to it.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Yeah, brune oh from Jersey, Right, since says Ben, do
- 35:02Speaker 1: you subscribe to mister Beast on YouTube? He just hit
- 35:06Speaker 1: five hundred million YouTube subscribers this week? No, I do
- 35:11Speaker 1: not subscribe to mister Beast. I've only seen mister Beast
- 35:14Speaker 1: when he pops up at NFL games and things like that.
- 35:18Speaker 1: I I don't really know anybody in my circle. I
- 35:22Speaker 1: guess I'm too old now that watches mister Beast.
- 35:26Speaker 3: I'm in your circle.
- 35:27Speaker 1: Ben, Okay, do you watch mister Beast?
- 35:29Speaker 3: I do, because guess what he does a competition?
- 35:33Speaker 1: All right?
- 35:34Speaker 4: That guy gives out money like like nothing. It's kind
- 35:38Speaker 4: of crazy. Like if you get anywhere near that guy,
- 35:40Speaker 4: it seems like you're gonna get at least one thousand
- 35:42Speaker 4: or ten thousand dollars.
- 35:43Speaker 1: I don't know, that's crazy, all right? Yeah, Well, then
- 35:45Speaker 1: you're my only person I know that watches You're it.
- 35:49Speaker 1: It's that's it, Bruno. I just found my guy, Jayscoop,
- 35:52Speaker 1: and that's that's all. Greg from the Valley, that's the
- 35:57Speaker 1: Valley of the Sun, says Ben, Are you gonna go
- 35:59Speaker 1: get some of that delicious garlic sauce from Papa John's
- 36:02Speaker 1: because Papa John's is now selling their famous garlic dipping
- 36:06Speaker 1: sauce in grocery stores. Greg, I'm not planning on going
- 36:12Speaker 1: out to buy garlic sauce from Papa John's. That's that's
- 36:17Speaker 1: not happening. I can make my own garlic. It's real,
- 36:21Speaker 1: real simple to make garlic sauce, Jay Scoop. You just
- 36:24Speaker 1: put like, got half a stick of butter in there
- 36:27Speaker 1: and some some garlic powder, and you can put real
- 36:31Speaker 1: garlic in there if you want, And within like five
- 36:34Speaker 1: minutes you got some garlic, you know, garlic dipping sauce.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Put some pepper in there if you want, not yourself,
- 36:40Speaker 1: or you just got to have a guy, and you're
- 36:42Speaker 1: my guy for the gar I'm yours for mister beasts
- 36:45Speaker 1: your mind for the garlic sauce. That's right, all right,
- 36:49Speaker 1: Well, we got a bunch more, but that's all we have
- 36:51Speaker 1: time for. As you know, podcasts is supposed to be
- 36:53Speaker 1: about thirty minutes. We've already gone over thirty minutes here, Jayscoop.
- 36:57Speaker 3: But you've already lost their attention.
- 36:59Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's all over.
- 37:01Speaker 4: It's all over, Didget Spinnerdget Spinner has taken over.
- 37:05Speaker 1: You didn't even get to the Jay who wanted to
- 37:08Speaker 1: know our thoughts on the There was a rumor at
- 37:10Speaker 1: the World Cup last week there was a Shakira body
- 37:13Speaker 1: double opening ceremonies.
- 37:16Speaker 3: So I uh, okay, so what that means that the
- 37:19Speaker 3: hips are lying?
- 37:21Speaker 1: On that note, I will be back tonight another week
- 37:25Speaker 1: of the Ben Mahler Show. Have a wonderful rest of
- 37:28Speaker 1: your Sunday, or if you're already later in the day,
- 37:31Speaker 1: Jay Scoop, you got anything you want to promote here,
- 37:33Speaker 1: Jay Scoop, anything at all.
- 37:36Speaker 3: I'll just promote the Mallard Palooza.
- 37:38Speaker 4: Man, it's coming, and I'm telling you somebody is going
- 37:42Speaker 4: to bring it and they're going to win it and
- 37:44Speaker 4: it's not going to be me and just Josh.
- 37:46Speaker 3: That's your tease, all right?
- 37:48Speaker 1: Fair enough? On that note, we'll talk to you next time.
- 37:50Speaker 1: As Dick and Dayton would say, bye bye, bye bye,