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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
- 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 sol fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.
- 0:16Speaker 3: In the penthouse.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Wow.
- 0:18Speaker 2: It's the clearinghouse 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: Maller on a Sunday mail bag kind of a day.
- 0:38Speaker 1: It is the thirty first day of May, the final
- 0:41Speaker 1: edition of the Fifth Hour podcast for the month of May.
- 0:45Speaker 1: We flip the calendar later on and we'll be back
- 0:48Speaker 1: tonight on the radio, and we'll be on right into
- 0:51Speaker 1: June and without further ado though. Let's welcome in now.
- 0:55Speaker 1: We we have to have Ohio al get us in
- 0:57Speaker 1: the mood and then we'll be good to go. So
- 0:59Speaker 1: Ohio now one of the stars of the great Newport,
- 1:03Speaker 1: Kentucky slash Cincinnati meet and greet. Get me in the mood. Ohio. Ow.
- 1:08Speaker 1: It's all right man. With that, we promoted this all weekend.
- 1:26Speaker 1: We're going heavyweight again. The first regular to reappear on
- 1:32Speaker 1: the mail Bag podcast. You know him, you love him?
- 1:36Speaker 1: Robbie the Murder Fan.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Hey, what's up Ben?
- 1:40Speaker 1: Hello Robbie. Any opening thoughts for Robbie, anything you want
- 1:43Speaker 1: to share with the class here.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Well, I was thinking back in the SINCEI meetup. It
- 1:47Speaker 3: is kind of funny that, as far as we know,
- 1:49Speaker 3: the first time Dick and Dayton ever left the Sovereign
- 1:52Speaker 3: sty of Ohio was to go to a Cincinnati meetup,
- 1:55Speaker 3: which happened to be in Newport, Kentucky. So that's kind
- 1:57Speaker 3: of ironic in a way.
- 1:58Speaker 1: And I am honored. Dixon has been around a long time.
- 2:01Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident the way he's reacted that was one
- 2:05Speaker 1: of the top five days in Dick and Dayton's life.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was Friday when the called it was it?
- 2:13Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was Friday. Yeah I think so.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he still talked about it, like, not as
- 2:20Speaker 3: creepy as the way hollering James talks about when he
- 2:23Speaker 3: met you, but it's the same effects, you know, one
- 2:25Speaker 3: of the great nights of their life.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm flattered that that is the way that they
- 2:30Speaker 1: look at it. As you said, with with hollering James,
- 2:34Speaker 1: who I don't think has any idea what a podcast is,
- 2:37Speaker 1: so there's no chance, no, there's no chance of him
- 2:39Speaker 1: ever hearing this. Yeah, when James calls up, it's like, well,
- 2:44Speaker 1: you know that that was good. You remember when you
- 2:45Speaker 1: came over to my table and you got to come back?
- 2:48Speaker 3: You know that.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Well, the only reason I went to his table, Robbie,
- 2:51Speaker 1: is because he couldn't leave the table. He was like
- 2:53Speaker 1: wedged in the table.
- 2:54Speaker 3: So, oh my god.
- 2:55Speaker 1: I had to go over to see him and listen.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I had fun. James a good guy and we love
- 3:00Speaker 1: James and all that. Anyway, all right with that, And
- 3:03Speaker 1: people have been emailing me saying, well, when's the next meeting, Robbie.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I did the Ohio one with you in Queen Rox
- 3:11Speaker 1: and Justin and then like two weeks later I was
- 3:13Speaker 1: in Boston and I had to do three in a
- 3:16Speaker 1: row with my Leprechaun. I need several months to recover, Yeah,
- 3:21Speaker 1: I am. I am not the most social individual. I
- 3:25Speaker 1: need some time to get my mojo back before I
- 3:28Speaker 1: go back and do another meet. But we will do
- 3:30Speaker 1: some towards the end of the summer. I don't think
- 3:32Speaker 1: anything's gonna happen in June, maybe July, late July and
- 3:36Speaker 1: August will do something, but nothing now.
- 3:38Speaker 3: So yeah, I can't imagine you. I can't imagine me
- 3:42Speaker 3: doing all those meet and greets because even when I
- 3:44Speaker 3: was looking forward to Cincinnati one, but even I kind
- 3:46Speaker 3: of had to, you know, hight myself up the day
- 3:49Speaker 3: of because it's just traveling there and then meeting all
- 3:52Speaker 3: these people you've never met before. It's it was anxiety
- 3:55Speaker 3: inducing it for me. Even at first, I imagine three
- 3:58Speaker 3: days in Boston that right after since he meet up,
- 4:00Speaker 3: you must have been exhausted.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Well no, well I want to it was not that,
- 4:04Speaker 1: But then I had the leperkn It was only supposed
- 4:06Speaker 1: to be two days. The WU Sox game got rained out, yeah, Saturday,
- 4:10Speaker 1: so it was gonna be Friday and Saturday, Okay, back
- 4:12Speaker 1: to back. No, because then he threw in on Sunday
- 4:16Speaker 1: because it was nice. The WU Socks, the Triple A
- 4:18Speaker 1: team of the Red Sox, invited us back out, so
- 4:20Speaker 1: I got to throw out the first pitch, which was great.
- 4:23Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun doing that. But then
- 4:24Speaker 1: I had to hang out with my buddy the Leprechaun,
- 4:27Speaker 1: and then there were some other fans of the show
- 4:29Speaker 1: that were there, which was cool. It was great to
- 4:30Speaker 1: meet them, and it was just awkward for me because
- 4:33Speaker 1: I was like, I figured, Okay, I get through Saturday.
- 4:35Speaker 1: We're good and and then I went and I had
- 4:39Speaker 1: to socialize more in New York because we drove down
- 4:41Speaker 1: to visit my brothers. So anyway, now I'm complaining. I feel
- 4:43Speaker 1: like I'm complaining, but a little bit. Let's get to
- 4:46Speaker 1: the mailbag. The first one up is Barry from Bluffed
- 4:50Speaker 1: in South Carolina. I guess that's right next to Charleston.
- 4:54Speaker 1: I don't think he's moved yet. He says, yo yo
- 4:57Speaker 1: yo ma Benny or yo yo ma Ben. It seems
- 5:01Speaker 1: like Mike the Leprechaun and Blind Scott have become more unhinged.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Uh you think, how do you see your radio relationship
- 5:09Speaker 1: with these two eventually ending? Will it be like real
- 5:12Speaker 1: talk or something else? There you go, And he also says,
- 5:17Speaker 1: ps is it me or does two percent chance sound
- 5:21Speaker 1: like Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, well that was the call on.
- 5:26Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 5:28Speaker 1: I like that nickname though. Two percent Chances? Yeah yeah, yeah,
- 5:31Speaker 1: that's not bad. So I think we're on. I wanted
- 5:36Speaker 1: to say we were on good terms with Blind Scott
- 5:38Speaker 1: and then he went whack a doodle on Fridays.
- 5:42Speaker 3: He's sent me over two hundred and fifty DMS in
- 5:44Speaker 3: the last two days and I've never replied to you a
- 5:46Speaker 3: deal with him in my entire life.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Well, I blocked him, and I think he still sends
- 5:53Speaker 1: me email, but I blocked him after I think it
- 5:56Speaker 1: was the seventy seventh death threat that he sent me.
- 5:58Speaker 3: Oh geez, well, I haven't gotten any knows that I've seen.
- 6:01Speaker 3: So the thing is he sent so many messages there
- 6:03Speaker 3: could be death threats in there that I just blazed over.
- 6:05Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, what he'll do. And he realized
- 6:08Speaker 1: that I stopped opening his email, so he just put
- 6:12Speaker 1: what he really wanted to say in the headline on
- 6:14Speaker 1: the which I got to give him credit. Yeah that's
- 6:19Speaker 1: pretty smart. I mean, he knew, he knew that he
- 6:21Speaker 1: just has nothing, nothing going on. But I told the
- 6:25Speaker 1: story on the podcast. But when he we were outside
- 6:27Speaker 1: the bakery in Boston and he came walking down the
- 6:30Speaker 1: street and it was like it was like Willy Wonka
- 6:34Speaker 1: at the chocolate factory, that scene with the cobble street
- 6:37Speaker 1: and all that. Yeah, it was pretty wild. So yeah, Scott,
- 6:41Speaker 1: I would say that's going to end poorly, although I
- 6:45Speaker 1: hope not. I'm optimistic. I've known Scott a long time.
- 6:48Speaker 1: I knew him he still had a little vision, you know,
- 6:50Speaker 1: and it's been you know, followed him obviously, he's been
- 6:53Speaker 1: through a lot of bull crap in life and hopefully
- 6:56Speaker 1: being settled down for him and Mike the Leprechaun. He's
- 6:59Speaker 1: so over the top. I don't, I don't. I really
- 7:01Speaker 1: have no idea how these things are going to end.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll be around for a long time and no
- 7:07Speaker 1: one's gonna do anything whack a doodle and all that.
- 7:10Speaker 1: So anyway, moving on from that, Rob the goat Man, right, Oh,
- 7:18Speaker 1: have you ever met the goat Man? Have you?
- 7:20Speaker 3: No, that's gotta be on the I would be shocked
- 7:24Speaker 3: if within like the next two years, I haven't met him.
- 7:26Speaker 1: But where does he I don't even know where he lives.
- 7:29Speaker 3: He lived in des Moines, like the outskirts des Moines,
- 7:32Speaker 3: so yeah, and I do have remnants of like distant
- 7:36Speaker 3: family that live in Iowa, so I could I might
- 7:40Speaker 3: go see him sometimes.
- 7:42Speaker 1: What does he work or it just like harasses you online?
- 7:46Speaker 1: Is that.
- 7:48Speaker 3: His job is a great mystery to everyone that knows him.
- 7:51Speaker 3: He won't tell us. He just says it's he can't
- 7:55Speaker 3: talk about it.
- 7:56Speaker 1: So wouldn't that be funny if he's like the mayor
- 7:58Speaker 1: of the town or something like that.
- 7:59Speaker 3: Yeah, that, or he's like a CIA agent or something.
- 8:03Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, you'd be surprised. I've had some
- 8:07Speaker 1: interesting people that have reached out to me. Says, you know,
- 8:09Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about what I do for
- 8:10Speaker 1: a living, but in they're like some high ranking.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Yeah I could see that.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Yeah rather uh anyway, Rob, he says, hey, Ben, goat man.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Here there have been there has hasn't been a good
- 8:23Speaker 1: time during sports radio talk to get your thoughts on
- 8:27Speaker 1: the age of disclosure with UAP, yeah and other phenomena.
- 8:33Speaker 1: I personally have seen many things in my life that
- 8:37Speaker 1: have blown my mind and changed the way I look
- 8:40Speaker 1: at life in the world, things from up in the
- 8:43Speaker 1: sky and things that have come out of the water.
- 8:47Speaker 1: I'd love to hear your opinion more in depth, as
- 8:50Speaker 1: well as you explain to your grossly obese mill back
- 8:56Speaker 1: that these things are real.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:00Speaker 3: We so we text a lot and we've gone back
- 9:02Speaker 3: and forth on this whole age disclosure, and my whole
- 9:06Speaker 3: view on it is that it's much more likely they
- 9:08Speaker 3: come from the sea than the sky. But either way,
- 9:12Speaker 3: don't hit me up until I see bodies. I need
- 9:15Speaker 3: HD photos the bodies and then I'll believe it.
- 9:18Speaker 1: So I haven't read all of the UAP stuff. I've
- 9:21Speaker 1: seen some of the headlines. We have some email that
- 9:24Speaker 1: we'll get to later on from people who ask questions
- 9:26Speaker 1: about some of that stuff. I think we talked about
- 9:29Speaker 1: it last time you were on the pod, Robbie Berner Fan.
- 9:33Speaker 1: I do think most of these come from the ocean.
- 9:35Speaker 1: I'm not naive to think that they might come from
- 9:38Speaker 1: outer space and then land in the ocean. Most of
- 9:41Speaker 1: the planet is ocean like. That's you know, we're a
- 9:45Speaker 1: very small percentage of land. It's mostly just water. So
- 9:48Speaker 1: if you're from the outside looking down, whatever kind of
- 9:51Speaker 1: goblin you are, you'd see mostly water and so that's,
- 9:55Speaker 1: you know, that's where you would hide out. And there's
- 9:57Speaker 1: a lot of the ocean that hasn't not most of it,
- 10:01Speaker 1: but a lot of it hasn't been explored, and some
- 10:04Speaker 1: of it can never be explored with technology we have
- 10:06Speaker 1: because it's so far down and the crevices at the
- 10:10Speaker 1: very bottom. I mean, you can't he can't even get
- 10:11Speaker 1: to it. So, uh, I did You'll get a kick
- 10:16Speaker 1: out of as robbish, so and and so maybe the
- 10:18Speaker 1: goat man I was. I was texting a buddy and
- 10:21Speaker 1: I was really into this, like this is like he's
- 10:23Speaker 1: doesn't even listen to my show The Coast to Coast George,
- 10:26Speaker 1: noriy Goblins. The whole thing. And his theory is that
- 10:30Speaker 1: the stuffed animals and the movies about aliens were actually
- 10:36Speaker 1: even though they were tossed out as you know fiction
- 10:39Speaker 1: and all that, it's actually those are the real aliens.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Like e T was a real alien. They you know,
- 10:44Speaker 1: it's based that it was actually based on a true story.
- 10:47Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know.
- 10:49Speaker 1: And then and then so who knows.
- 10:51Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, isn't there something called like predictive programming
- 10:53Speaker 3: and something that like the government's in with the c I,
- 10:56Speaker 3: the government's in with Hollywood and they put these movies
- 10:58Speaker 3: out to kind of ease the transition for when the
- 11:02Speaker 3: aliens eventually are confirmed, where you're like, well, we've seen
- 11:05Speaker 3: these movies for all these decades, so you know what
- 11:08Speaker 3: I mean. It's yeah, yeah, that's shocking I.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Guess, well, wouldn't it be amazing if they like, by
- 11:14Speaker 1: the way, here you know, here we are, and it's
- 11:16Speaker 1: like that at the White House, President Trump and on
- 11:18Speaker 1: one side he's got et on the other side of
- 11:20Speaker 1: you know, every alien movie, you know whatever, you they're
- 11:25Speaker 1: all lined up. By the way, these are all documentaries,
- 11:28Speaker 1: even though they were presented as well, you know, in
- 11:30Speaker 1: movies that were just for whatever anyway, all right, but
- 11:33Speaker 1: it is fascinating, Yes, almost as fascinating as your abuse.
- 11:39Speaker 1: If my guy, Robbie the Marinder fan, every night you
- 11:41Speaker 1: knew not miss an opportunity, Marcus in San Antonio writes
- 11:45Speaker 1: in he says, dear big men and Robbie the Marinder Fan,
- 11:49Speaker 1: I know the mail bag is not meant to be
- 11:51Speaker 1: a sporty podcast, but you know what that means, Robbie.
- 11:54Speaker 1: But due to the playoff run the Spurs have been on,
- 11:59Speaker 1: I found myself watching more basketball in the last four
- 12:03Speaker 1: weeks than I have in the last four years. Now,
- 12:05Speaker 1: since you watch the games so most of us don't
- 12:09Speaker 1: have to, he says. I'm sure. Marcus says that you've
- 12:13Speaker 1: you've seen the San Antonio Nuns representing San Antonio last
- 12:17Speaker 1: couple of games at home. This has brought a lot
- 12:21Speaker 1: of attention to their nonprofit organization, which I consider a
- 12:24Speaker 1: good thing. My question is, does Ben Mahlor represent or
- 12:29Speaker 1: support any organizations your listeners could donate to. That's from
- 12:32Speaker 1: Marcus in San Antonio. So this is the part Robbie
- 12:35Speaker 1: where I go on my rant. You want to do
- 12:41Speaker 1: it for me, Robbie, go ahead, do it.
- 12:43Speaker 3: You know I was. I don't want to steal the
- 12:47Speaker 3: words out of your mouth, but I definitely agree with them.
- 12:49Speaker 3: I would say to the mount Cherries that actually, don't
- 12:53Speaker 3: just use all that money for overhead is very low
- 12:55Speaker 3: and you don't really know what you're donating to the
- 13:00Speaker 3: stand up. I don't some of those MLB charities, like
- 13:03Speaker 3: when they auction off stuff for breast cancer, it's for awareness,
- 13:07Speaker 3: not the actual cancer research. And it's just kind of
- 13:10Speaker 3: you even you don't even know how much of that
- 13:12Speaker 3: so called awareness money's actually going to the awareness charities.
- 13:16Speaker 1: It's a whole yeah, yeah, yeah, And my I was
- 13:20Speaker 1: raised of the mindset that charity should be seen but
- 13:23Speaker 1: not heard. I had to I have over the years.
- 13:27Speaker 1: We we used to do a contest on the show
- 13:30Speaker 1: where we'd say, hey, it's the Super Bowls a month
- 13:33Speaker 1: away or two weeks away. Let's come up with some
- 13:34Speaker 1: prop bets. And then there was a contest one of
- 13:37Speaker 1: the offshore books had and we actually won, and they donated,
- 13:41Speaker 1: you know, a couple hundred dollars or was like five
- 13:43Speaker 1: hundred dollars each time to to charity. And then we
- 13:46Speaker 1: got to pick the charity. And I've ranted about this
- 13:49Speaker 1: because I did spend a lot of time my mom.
- 13:52Speaker 1: I lost my mom to cancer. My dad had all
- 13:54Speaker 1: kinds of crap happened to him through his life, so
- 13:56Speaker 1: and cancer has affected my family a ton. So I
- 13:59Speaker 1: tried to find, as you were referencing, Robbie, uh, the
- 14:02Speaker 1: charities that actually give the highest percentage actual research, because
- 14:08Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure most of us are aware of cancer. Yes,
- 14:14Speaker 1: Lance Armstrong, that little weasel, Lance Armstrong, his charity. I
- 14:17Speaker 1: remember reading about that back in the dance. I remember it.
- 14:21Speaker 1: You know, he was he got tons of those. Remember
- 14:23Speaker 1: I don't if you you're younger much young to me, Robbie,
- 14:26Speaker 1: But they had those little wristband things.
- 14:27Speaker 3: I was six years old, I had one. I remember that.
- 14:30Speaker 1: I was all in the Yeah, yeah, I mean it
- 14:32Speaker 1: was you felt really good wearing those old yellow risks.
- 14:35Speaker 3: Until you found out he was the world's biggest douchebag.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Well, yeah, until you found out he was. It was
- 14:40Speaker 1: so Lance could have his you know, third private plane exactly.
- 14:43Speaker 1: And anyway, so yeah, I just say you should obviously
- 14:47Speaker 1: donate the charity. I was just raised not to really
- 14:50Speaker 1: promote that because and you can blame my parents for this.
- 14:53Speaker 1: They're not around, so they won't really really fight back.
- 14:56Speaker 1: But you know, if you give anonymously uh, guarantees that
- 15:01Speaker 1: your motives are not are purely altruistic and you're you're
- 15:05Speaker 1: not trying to do it just to get attention, you know. Yeah,
- 15:10Speaker 1: I don't know if I should say that. There's a guy,
- 15:13Speaker 1: uh that used to play for the Dodgers that has
- 15:16Speaker 1: some problems, right, and so the Dodgers keep him on
- 15:19Speaker 1: the payroll every.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Year, you know what. I saw an article about this guy.
- 15:22Speaker 3: I don't know if you want to say his name, but.
- 15:24Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, yeah Andrew Tolls, yep, and uh, you
- 15:29Speaker 4: know he he was kind of a fringe major league
- 15:32Speaker 4: guy and he's had a lot of problems mental, mental
- 15:35Speaker 4: health wise, and I totally love that the Dodgers do this.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I would appreciate if they'd maybe skip a year without
- 15:41Speaker 1: sending out a press release to the media. Let everyone know,
- 15:44Speaker 1: you know, just you know, just me though, that's just me.
- 15:47Speaker 1: I I see it, and I just roll my eyes. Robbie,
- 15:50Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, now, you know, you know, it's
- 15:52Speaker 1: nice that you're doing this, but I feel like every
- 15:54Speaker 1: year you send out the same release or you give
- 15:57Speaker 1: the old Lincoln a nod to the beat writers. Let's
- 16:00Speaker 1: put that in the the article.
- 16:02Speaker 3: It's like, come on, it does seem like this time
- 16:04Speaker 3: every year, when there's a slow news day it gets
- 16:07Speaker 3: sent out.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Yes, oh yeah, it's a good good timing and they
- 16:11Speaker 1: always get everyone just like, that's wonderful, that's great, you know,
- 16:14Speaker 1: and it's very humble of you to do that. I'm like, well,
- 16:17Speaker 1: that's not really anyway. Alf the Alien Opiner. I met Alf,
- 16:23Speaker 1: Robbie the Great Alf. What a cool one.
- 16:25Speaker 3: I'm jealous that that was. Yeah. I want to meet
- 16:28Speaker 3: him some day. I don't know if I will. That's
- 16:30Speaker 3: very far away from Oregon the box, but yeah, that
- 16:34Speaker 3: must have been fun.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Yeah, great. I met him and his wife and and
- 16:37Speaker 1: it's great because Alf's just like me and you. We're
- 16:40Speaker 1: all a bunch of introverts. And so there we are
- 16:42Speaker 1: hanging out and Alf has not missed a show in years,
- 16:46Speaker 1: and even when I filled in, I used to do
- 16:49Speaker 1: fill in stuff and he'd always find out when and
- 16:52Speaker 1: he'd be there and it was really cool, cool meeting
- 16:55Speaker 1: him and whatnot. Anyway, Alf from the tattoo parlor says, Ben,
- 16:59Speaker 1: I need your help. I'm trying to talk Ferg Dog
- 17:02Speaker 1: off the ledge here. He's hell bent on getting a
- 17:05Speaker 1: full blown Ben Maler show tramp stamp, and I'm telling
- 17:11Speaker 1: him that he should get a face tattoo. What say you?
- 17:17Speaker 1: I'm good, you know, I'm good on the tattoo thing.
- 17:20Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I think the only person that hasn't
- 17:22Speaker 3: gone completely off the deep end that has a face
- 17:25Speaker 3: tattoo was probably posting alone. And even he's kind of
- 17:27Speaker 3: out there, so you know.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, no, Rob Robbie. Alf says that that
- 17:33Speaker 1: that Ferg Dog is going to get a tramp stamp
- 17:35Speaker 1: of my face right on the lower back.
- 17:37Speaker 3: That, well, yeah, that what is worth? Just put Ben
- 17:42Speaker 3: Mallard logo on the face or a tramp stamp of
- 17:45Speaker 3: your face on? Yeah, yeah, you.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Know, and you know when I was a kid, Robbie,
- 17:50Speaker 1: the goal was to have like a beautiful woman get
- 17:52Speaker 1: my name tattooed. Not I'm just saying anyway, all right,
- 17:59Speaker 1: I'm man. Oh this is also mouth. He sent this
- 18:02Speaker 1: story here. I want to get our thoughts on this.
- 18:04Speaker 1: A man who tried to pull off a stunt where
- 18:07Speaker 1: he ate chicken nuggets. This is in Ohio at Cedar Point,
- 18:11Speaker 1: that famous there. Yeah, yeah, you've been there. So this guy,
- 18:15Speaker 1: I guess he's a YouTuber and he ate McDonald's nuggets
- 18:20Speaker 1: on the roller coaster to go viral and at work.
- 18:25Speaker 1: He was able to eat seven of the ten nuggets
- 18:27Speaker 1: while on the coaster and then ended up getting banned
- 18:32Speaker 1: for life from six Flags. Yeah yeah, they interviewed him.
- 18:38Speaker 1: He said, I had no idea that eating a ten
- 18:40Speaker 1: piece chicken nugget on a road would be a national headline.
- 18:44Speaker 1: But here we are. That's a good line. Alan Ferrell
- 18:51Speaker 1: is his name. So I didn't I haven't seen the video.
- 18:55Speaker 1: There's a link. I guess I can click on it
- 18:57Speaker 1: and watch it. And so this is like, at what
- 19:00Speaker 1: point do you become a YouTuber? Anybody, I'm a YouTuber.
- 19:05Speaker 1: We're all YouTubers like, yeah, it's just back in the
- 19:08Speaker 1: old days when I was a kid, you know, Robbie,
- 19:09Speaker 1: it was like, hey, let's here's somebody trying to get attention.
- 19:13Speaker 1: But now it's YouTuber. You know, a YouTuber does so
- 19:16Speaker 1: and so and all that. Reggie from Detroit. By the way, Reggie,
- 19:22Speaker 1: you said that no women would call, and the very
- 19:24Speaker 1: last minute that young lady from Connecticut called up and
- 19:29Speaker 1: your face Reggie on Newbie Night anyway, Ben, He says,
- 19:34Speaker 1: would you want to hear what Moxie has to say?
- 19:36Speaker 1: And he sent me a story here, Reggie of a
- 19:39Speaker 1: company out of China. They claim they have invented an
- 19:44Speaker 1: AI caller that can translate your pets barks with ninety
- 19:49Speaker 1: five percent accuracy. That's the story. This is out of
- 19:55Speaker 1: the Daily Mail in London. So take that for I
- 19:58Speaker 1: love the Daily Mail. I it's a lot of it's fiction. Yeah,
- 20:04Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, so Reggie, the way I would
- 20:07Speaker 1: answer this, this is hilarious. So this is one of
- 20:10Speaker 1: to me and in my opinion, you can't sue me, Robbie.
- 20:12Speaker 1: From my opinion, right, no one can sue you for
- 20:14Speaker 1: your opinion, at least for now. So this sounds to
- 20:20Speaker 1: me like one of the great scamps, because how would
- 20:22Speaker 1: anyone I could say, your dog's just wipe your ass?
- 20:26Speaker 1: Who's gonna say no? You know, I mean, there's no
- 20:29Speaker 1: way to confirm or not that whatever. You could literally
- 20:31Speaker 1: say anything that your dog, what your dog meant?
- 20:34Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
- 20:35Speaker 1: And yeah, how's anyone gonna push back on it? What
- 20:38Speaker 1: a hustle? This is next level? And of course everyone
- 20:43Speaker 1: that I love Moxie, I hang out with Moxie more
- 20:45Speaker 1: than anybody because Moxie's like just lazy and laysing my
- 20:48Speaker 1: lap on it. However, like you know, it's like, yeah,
- 20:53Speaker 1: you want to hear what they have to say, but
- 20:54Speaker 1: there's no way to know. We don't know that any
- 20:57Speaker 1: studies have been done to try to decipher bar or
- 21:01Speaker 1: purrs from cats or whatever. So that's good, though, I
- 21:05Speaker 1: wonder how much they're charging for that. It's called petty
- 21:08Speaker 1: Chat pe Tti chat. They say it uses advanced AI
- 21:15Speaker 1: deliver ninety four point six percent real time translation accuracy.
- 21:21Speaker 1: You can trust my fat iss all right, thank you, Reggie.
- 21:25Speaker 1: I'm going to pass on that. Drew from Boston writes
- 21:28Speaker 1: in he says Boston adjacent. He says, have you ever
- 21:32Speaker 1: seen any mysterious silver spheres in the sky? And I
- 21:37Speaker 1: guess this is another one of those UFO stories. Here
- 21:40Speaker 1: new evidence of a secret invasion by these mysterious silver
- 21:44Speaker 1: thingma jigs in the sky. I did years ago, way
- 21:49Speaker 1: before drones. I was I don't want to say hiking.
- 21:53Speaker 1: I was more walking than hiking in the woods around
- 21:56Speaker 1: La and I did see some black speeds objects. It
- 22:03Speaker 1: was very odd and they were they were high in
- 22:05Speaker 1: the sky, but not that high in this guy and
- 22:07Speaker 1: they were kind of floating around and they didn't make
- 22:09Speaker 1: any noise. It was it wasn't drones because there were
- 22:12Speaker 1: no drones yet, and I don't know what those were.
- 22:14Speaker 1: That that's the weirdest thing that I've one. I don't
- 22:17Speaker 1: say the weirdest. I've seen some other weird stuff, but
- 22:19Speaker 1: that that's the one I remember right now. So yeah,
- 22:24Speaker 1: I guess with the previous conversation Robbie with the goat man,
- 22:28Speaker 1: you have not seen any anything that would lead me.
- 22:31Speaker 3: I mean one I thought I saw or but then
- 22:33Speaker 3: I found out like six months later that one of
- 22:36Speaker 3: our neighbors had gotten fined for flying drones around. So
- 22:40Speaker 3: I'm going to chalk that up to that. Though. My
- 22:42Speaker 3: dad he grew up and anchored Alaska and he's in
- 22:45Speaker 3: his sixties, so that was back with Alaska was like
- 22:48Speaker 3: still the last Frontier, you know what I mean. And
- 22:51Speaker 3: he claims he doesn't know what he saw, but he
- 22:54Speaker 3: to this days kind of still freaked out when he
- 22:56Speaker 3: tries to describe what he saw as a kid in
- 22:59Speaker 3: the woods when he was hiking when he shouldn't have been,
- 23:02Speaker 3: like late at night. And yeah, so there's that story.
- 23:05Speaker 3: I guess there you go.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam guaranteed human rights in
- 23:12Speaker 1: He wanted me to share a story that I teased
- 23:15Speaker 1: on the original recipe version of the radio show. And
- 23:20Speaker 1: he said, you mentioned you didn't have enough time to
- 23:24Speaker 1: wax loquacious on it. Could you do it here on
- 23:26Speaker 1: the podcast? So and could you please tell the story now,
- 23:31Speaker 1: along with a complete rundown of your nicknames? So he wants,
- 23:37Speaker 1: he wants all. That's a lot. That's a big request.
- 23:40Speaker 3: From It's like a Costco order sized email right there.
- 23:43Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well it is a podcast. So the story
- 23:47Speaker 1: that I didn't have time to tell back when I
- 23:50Speaker 1: covered the Dodgers on a regular basis, and I went
- 23:53Speaker 1: to the games literally every day for about fifteen years
- 23:56Speaker 1: twenty years. I didn't miss a Dodger game at home anyway,
- 23:59Speaker 1: and I went to a lot of road game so
- 24:00Speaker 1: I was around. Of course, they ever won like they
- 24:02Speaker 1: are now they were when I was around the team
- 24:06Speaker 1: I got. I used to get to the ballpark like
- 24:09Speaker 1: two thirty three o'clock in the afternoon. I got there early. Wait,
- 24:11Speaker 1: the game started seven to thirty back then, so i'd
- 24:13Speaker 1: get there real early. And I went to Dodger Stadium
- 24:18Speaker 1: or like in normal and got into the media entrance
- 24:22Speaker 1: in the parking lot. You had to drive all the
- 24:24Speaker 1: way around the parking lot. They were playing the Angels,
- 24:27Speaker 1: and it was one of the early years of Interleague
- 24:29Speaker 1: Baseball and driving, and I get stuck. There's like this
- 24:34Speaker 1: one lane road you got to take in the afternoon.
- 24:37Speaker 1: They closed the other lane all the way around to
- 24:39Speaker 1: get to where you need to go to get into
- 24:40Speaker 1: the stadium. So I'm behind this car that is just
- 24:45Speaker 1: driving about as slow the speed limit. I don't I
- 24:49Speaker 1: don't even know what the speed limit is at Dodger Stadium.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Generally speaking, though, back in those days, there's no radar guns,
- 24:56Speaker 1: and the stadium's not really even open when you're allowed in,
- 24:58Speaker 1: so you can drive as fast as you want. And
- 25:01Speaker 1: this person was driving it must have been like twenty
- 25:04Speaker 1: miles an hour and I couldn't get around him. So
- 25:07Speaker 1: I'm getting pissed off, you know. I'm I'm like, this
- 25:10Speaker 1: is really annoying me. I'm wasting my time here. This
- 25:13Speaker 1: is the stadium's empty, there's no one there, and I'm trying.
- 25:16Speaker 1: I tried to get around the guy, and the guy
- 25:18Speaker 1: kind of leaned in a little bit and kind of
- 25:20Speaker 1: blocked me. And I'm getting I'm getting angrier, and I'm
- 25:23Speaker 1: getting worked up to the ladder and We're going along
- 25:28Speaker 1: and I finally got a spot I could get around
- 25:31Speaker 1: this guy. And I look over and I'm gonna give
- 25:34Speaker 1: him the bird. Robbie. I'm like, I'm pitching. And I
- 25:37Speaker 1: look over and it is, hand to God, Sparky Anderson,
- 25:43Speaker 1: the old manager of the He had done some he
- 25:46Speaker 1: was doing some broadcasting for the Angels, and Sparky I
- 25:50Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. I was like, I was like, I
- 25:52Speaker 1: was getting I had road rage at Sparky Anderson, who's
- 25:55Speaker 1: a baseball legend. I don't know if the people today
- 25:57Speaker 1: know who he is because he's been gone for a while.
- 25:59Speaker 1: But he's one of those guys too. And I said
- 26:03Speaker 1: this when I was a kid and he was managing
- 26:05Speaker 1: like the he managed the Reds, the big Red machine
- 26:08Speaker 1: of the seventies and they managed the Hikers. And Sparky's
- 26:11Speaker 1: one of those guys that looked really old when he
- 26:14Speaker 1: was like forty. Yeah, and so it's one of those
- 26:17Speaker 1: cool things. Well it's it's it's a double edged sword
- 26:20Speaker 1: because it's it's bad and it's good. It's bad that
- 26:22Speaker 1: you aged really old, and you look amazingly old at forty. However,
- 26:30Speaker 1: then it's like you stopped aging, you know, like the
- 26:33Speaker 1: rest of life, you're just the old guy. But you've
- 26:35Speaker 1: been the old guy for a long time and so
- 26:37Speaker 1: you don't really look like you've aged at all. So
- 26:40Speaker 1: that's my that's my Sparky Anderson story. I had a
- 26:43Speaker 1: road rage with Sparky Anderson, and I didn't actually give
- 26:47Speaker 1: him the bird because I saw I recognize it's hard
- 26:49Speaker 1: not to recognize him. I did a very distinctive look
- 26:53Speaker 1: to him. And there's some great Sparky Anderson quotes that
- 26:56Speaker 1: he gave over the years. I've always been fair with
- 26:58Speaker 1: the FN writers and all those things. As far as
- 27:00Speaker 1: the nicknames, I know, Robbie, you love the nicknames. I
- 27:02Speaker 1: have been called, among other things, the Spinmaster of misinformation,
- 27:06Speaker 1: the banning Broadcaster, the Beethoven of bs, Benny Bingo, Curmudgeon
- 27:11Speaker 1: of commentary, Chasm of sarcasm, the Tzar of Zany, the
- 27:14Speaker 1: dark Knight of weak night sports radio, the Mogul of mischief, Benny,
- 27:17Speaker 1: the Brazen King of zing, money ball Maller Benny, the Bopper,
- 27:22Speaker 1: Facetius Fox, Sultan of insulting, the Shaman of schodenfreude, sensitive sniffer,
- 27:29Speaker 1: jumping Jack of wisecrack, in Sight of overnight medicine, Man
- 27:33Speaker 1: Mallard Naybob of negativity, Sage of outrage, the Pinnacle of cynical,
- 27:39Speaker 1: Prince of preposterous, Professor of propaganda, Hazar of hyperbole, the
- 27:44Speaker 1: floating turd of the spoken word, and the mad Hatter
- 27:48Speaker 1: of sports chatter. And that's only part of my nicknames, Robby,
- 27:52Speaker 1: you know that there's more. But wait, there's more. I
- 27:55Speaker 1: have been called the Bear. There will be a quiz
- 27:58Speaker 1: on this. I have been called the bear in the balderdash,
- 28:01Speaker 1: Big gall bladder. BENI is the Menace, Benny beat Down,
- 28:06Speaker 1: Captain knee Jerk, Duke of the north Woods, General of Degenerates,
- 28:10Speaker 1: Tycoon of T's, Master of Disaster, the Hustler of Philipbuster,
- 28:15Speaker 1: night Light of night Life, Pummeler of Producers, Benny bright Side,
- 28:20Speaker 1: Manatee of Insanity, Marconi Maller, Moneyline, Mallard, Masshole, Malarrested Piece,
- 28:25Speaker 1: mass Whole, Mickey, Emissary of Embellishment, Weeknight, Windbag, Wizard of Wacky,
- 28:30Speaker 1: Slayer of Naysayer's Grand Goober of gab All, the Dark
- 28:34Speaker 1: of Dark, Tower of Babylon, Honest Adonis. It's almost done,
- 28:38Speaker 1: I promise. Senator of Sarcasm, Nocturnal Colonel, the Underdog of Monologue,
- 28:44Speaker 1: and the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. So those
- 28:48Speaker 1: are my nicknames, and now I'm gonna take a nap.
- 28:54Speaker 1: Yeah that's uh.
- 28:56Speaker 3: My top three. If I would be Pinnacles, Ccle, Nocturnal Colonel,
- 29:01Speaker 3: and the Slippery Oh jeez, now I'm.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Well, no, it's it's the Holy Pope of the Slippery.
- 29:08Speaker 3: Yeah, there we go. But we had a cat that
- 29:10Speaker 3: would always just only be up at night, so wea
- 29:13Speaker 3: one of his nicknames is Colonel after the Nocturnal Colonel
- 29:17Speaker 3: of your show.
- 29:17Speaker 1: So oh nice, that's cool, like Beethoven of BS. I
- 29:22Speaker 1: think it's just just outstanding.
- 29:24Speaker 3: That is a good one, pretty good.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Combining classic music and the bull crap that we do here.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Thank you Kwang Hunter from parts on No Rights, and
- 29:36Speaker 1: he says Ben the betting favorite has emerged to be
- 29:40Speaker 1: the cover be the cover boy of Madden NFL twenty seven,
- 29:45Speaker 1: and it is Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is the favorite.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Would you support Caleb Hunter? What do I care?
- 29:56Speaker 3: I don't.
- 29:57Speaker 1: I mean, what am I supposed to do? Isn't there
- 30:01Speaker 1: still the Matt who was on the who was on
- 30:03Speaker 1: cover last year was the Eagles guy? Uh? Yeah, yeah,
- 30:06Speaker 1: and they didn't do so well, right.
- 30:08Speaker 3: Sweet cover with the old the retro Eagles union. But no, yeah,
- 30:13Speaker 3: he just had an average year. I don't think he
- 30:15Speaker 3: got a catastrophic injury, So I guess that's a win
- 30:17Speaker 3: for him considering some of the years people have been
- 30:20Speaker 3: on the Matten cover.
- 30:21Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I'm sure we'll talk about it when
- 30:25Speaker 1: they announce it. The Caleb Williams thing, and so fine,
- 30:29Speaker 1: I I'm not the biggest Caleb Williams fan. I'm sure
- 30:32Speaker 1: Robbie probably loves Caleb Williams.
- 30:34Speaker 3: No, I don't, Oh, you don't, okay, I was a
- 30:36Speaker 3: Jade Daniels fan going into that draft.
- 30:38Speaker 1: So can you give him your legs? He might need
- 30:41Speaker 1: your legs? Yeah, I know, not going so well there
- 30:44Speaker 1: for for your guy looking like RG three to two
- 30:47Speaker 1: point zero.
- 30:47Speaker 3: There, he hasn't had any act well, no, he probably
- 30:50Speaker 3: has actually yeah, yeah.
- 30:53Speaker 1: All right. Uh, next one is from Kyle, and Kyle
- 31:00Speaker 1: did not this two in a row. They don't sign
- 31:03Speaker 1: there where they're from. Is it that hard? Is it hard,
- 31:06Speaker 1: Robbie to put the city you're from or even make
- 31:08Speaker 1: it up? How am I going to know?
- 31:09Speaker 3: I just make it up for you pick.
- 31:12Speaker 1: A different city every week for as far as so
- 31:13Speaker 1: much as I care. I care anyway, says uh benh
- 31:19Speaker 1: When will a school be called the blue octopus is
- 31:23Speaker 1: their mascot? And he's he sent me the store here,
- 31:27Speaker 1: says A single octopus collected nearly a mile deep near
- 31:31Speaker 1: the Galapagos Islands has been identified as a new species,
- 31:36Speaker 1: and I'm not going to even try to pronounce the
- 31:37Speaker 1: name of it. However, this is very small enough small
- 31:41Speaker 1: to fit in the palm of your hand. And it
- 31:43Speaker 1: is vivid blue. It's a blue octopus. And uh yeah,
- 31:49Speaker 1: I think we have enough teams called the Wildcats and
- 31:52Speaker 1: the Bulldogs, and I love Bulldogs. But we have enough teams.
- 31:55Speaker 1: Why not change it up. I think every team Robbie
- 31:57Speaker 1: should have a unique nickname.
- 32:00Speaker 3: Yeah, Or if we can't get a team named octopus,
- 32:03Speaker 3: why not an mm A fighter have their nickname because
- 32:06Speaker 3: it seems like every other MMA fighter's nickname is pitbull
- 32:09Speaker 3: and that's gotten really cliched too. As the UFC fan,
- 32:12Speaker 3: every other dude's name is pitbull. So why would you like, uh,
- 32:16Speaker 3: you know, octopus or something.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Well, I just realized why you would, Yeah, octopus because
- 32:23Speaker 1: if you shorten that's all right. Uh. On that note,
- 32:39Speaker 1: Steve in Texas, that's a big state, Steve. Uh he
- 32:43Speaker 1: writes it, he says, Ben, Ben and Robbie. Uh does
- 32:48Speaker 1: this prove that Barry Bonds, Roger Clemons and Sammy Soshi
- 32:51Speaker 1: should be in all of fame? And I guess they
- 32:53Speaker 1: had the h what is this thing called the Steroid
- 32:57Speaker 1: Olympics or whatever they're calling.
- 32:58Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Yeah, so they had these games where athletes could take
- 33:03Speaker 1: as many drugs and steroids as they want. And it
- 33:07Speaker 1: turns out that the people who organized it said they
- 33:09Speaker 1: were gonna get all kinds of world records and all
- 33:11Speaker 1: this stuff, and dozens of athletes head to head and
- 33:15Speaker 1: there were some athletes that I guess were not on stereois.
- 33:17Speaker 1: I didn't watch any of this. There were some athletes
- 33:19Speaker 1: not on sterogy, and I guess several of the events
- 33:22Speaker 1: were won by people that did not use steroids.
- 33:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard. I heard it was the giant to
- 33:28Speaker 3: baffle and like only one world record was broken and
- 33:31Speaker 3: they were predicting like all these records would fall and.
- 33:34Speaker 1: A well, and anyway, I see. My point has always been,
- 33:38Speaker 1: I was if you had listened to me back in
- 33:40Speaker 1: those years. We used to have this guy Seth Everett,
- 33:42Speaker 1: who was like a big baseball you know, insider at MLB,
- 33:44Speaker 1: and he'd always call up and rant and rave and
- 33:47Speaker 1: they drive me nuts because I always ripped the steroid guys.
- 33:50Speaker 1: These guys weasels. Never I'm never getting all of him.
- 33:53Speaker 1: None of these guys are getting Hall of Fame. And
- 33:55Speaker 1: I have done a one eighty on that as I've
- 33:56Speaker 1: gotten older, because I've seen guys who I am nice
- 34:00Speaker 1: percent sure did steroids who are in the Hall of Fame.
- 34:03Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait a minute, I'm almost one hundred
- 34:06Speaker 1: percent sure that this guy did sterois. He's in the
- 34:08Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And that guy did Sterois, he's in
- 34:09Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. But we can't put Bonds in.
- 34:11Speaker 1: And Bonds was a dick. I spent a lot of
- 34:13Speaker 1: time that Giants played the Dodgers three times a year
- 34:16Speaker 1: when I was covering the Dodgers, and I spent a
- 34:18Speaker 1: lot of time waiting for Barry Bonds. And there were
- 34:20Speaker 1: times he would say, Hey, I'll be right back, and
- 34:23Speaker 1: I'd be waiting there for forty minutes, and he never
- 34:25Speaker 1: came back. He snuck out the back of the visiting
- 34:27Speaker 1: clubhouse at Dodgers name. So it's not like I'm a
- 34:29Speaker 1: Barry Bonds fan. He was a dick. He should be
- 34:31Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, and Clemens and Sosa and
- 34:34Speaker 1: Maguire and like all those guys should be in in
- 34:37Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. And so it doesn't matter what
- 34:39Speaker 1: happened at the Peed Olympics and all that. It doesn't
- 34:43Speaker 1: really move the needle for me. So anyway, I haven't
- 34:48Speaker 1: heard too much. I guess the big steroid story this
- 34:50Speaker 1: year is Fernando to tease, Who's.
- 34:53Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with part of what you said on
- 34:57Speaker 3: your monologue. He's hitting the balls hard, but it doesn't
- 35:03Speaker 3: really matter how hard you hit the ball if it's
- 35:05Speaker 3: straight to the ground. But I don't know who knows
- 35:07Speaker 3: what to believe with the analytics.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Yeah, like people, it's like a religion.
- 35:12Speaker 3: The analytics.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, Like you can't go against the religion.
- 35:16Speaker 1: It's like that guy plays for the Giants. What he's
- 35:19Speaker 1: bounced around. When I'm thinking of the guy's name, he's
- 35:21Speaker 1: a like a three hundred hitter every year, slap hitter.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Oh Luise rise yeah, Rise yeah rise guy, so Luisa Rise.
- 35:28Speaker 1: Like people, people who are married to analytics and it's
- 35:30Speaker 1: the rich religion. They're like, oh my god, this is
- 35:32Speaker 1: like this guy sucks because of the analytics. And I'm like, Okay,
- 35:36Speaker 1: he doesn't hit the ball hard, he doesn't have great
- 35:38Speaker 1: exit velo, he's batting three hundred. You know there's a
- 35:42Speaker 1: place for a guy like that in the major leagues.
- 35:45Speaker 3: No, yeah, you're right. If this was the seventies, he
- 35:48Speaker 3: would have generational waltz by now, like not saying he doesn't,
- 35:51Speaker 3: but like, what did he sign like a one year
- 35:54Speaker 3: five we know our contract with the Giants. That's he
- 35:56Speaker 3: would just if you put today's payment like today finances
- 36:00Speaker 3: in nineteen seventies baseball, he would have like a salary
- 36:04Speaker 3: quintuple that.
- 36:07Speaker 1: Yeah, because yeah, for sure, I mean there was a
- 36:09Speaker 1: guy Rod Carew didn't have a lot of power. It's
- 36:13Speaker 1: kind of a slap of course he had like three
- 36:15Speaker 1: thousand hits or whatever, but still he is a great
- 36:18Speaker 1: power guy and he made a decent amount of money.
- 36:22Speaker 1: L L. Hudson from Utah Rights and says, Ben, do
- 36:25Speaker 1: you have you think this SNL skit was based on
- 36:28Speaker 1: a true story? And then he sent me a link
- 36:33Speaker 1: says new DNA analysis of mysterious conehead mummies fuels alien
- 36:39Speaker 1: origin theories. So this is kind of tied into what
- 36:42Speaker 1: we talked about earlier. Yeah, there was a famous skit
- 36:46Speaker 1: before you Were Alive, Robbie on Saturday Night Live. There
- 36:48Speaker 1: was this guy named dan Ackroyd and they played the
- 36:50Speaker 1: Coneheads and it's on YouTube. So I guess that kind
- 36:55Speaker 1: of goes back to what we were talking about, Like,
- 36:57Speaker 1: what if my buddy, one of my friends is convinced
- 36:59Speaker 1: that like all these alien movies, they're all based on
- 37:02Speaker 1: real aliens and they just connected it together and all that.
- 37:06Speaker 1: So if that were the case, if that was the
- 37:08Speaker 1: way you want to go, then yeah, they're real.
- 37:11Speaker 3: Cone Yeah, that's the one thing that would still be
- 37:13Speaker 3: erth show. I don't think people would freak out if
- 37:15Speaker 3: the president just came out, So, yeah, aliens are real.
- 37:18Speaker 3: The one thing that would still be earth shattering is
- 37:20Speaker 3: if it was like's if aliens date back to the
- 37:24Speaker 3: beginnings of time and that they're somehow involved in our
- 37:28Speaker 3: growth as a spec sas you know what I mean.
- 37:30Speaker 3: So that would yeah, that would if.
- 37:32Speaker 1: There were the puppets and they're the puppet masters, that.
- 37:35Speaker 3: Kind of yeah, because that would kind of tear it
- 37:38Speaker 3: the fibers of a lot of religions and that would
- 37:41Speaker 3: cause a little bit of a headache. Would we have
- 37:43Speaker 3: to run?
- 37:44Speaker 1: Would we have to run and get toilet paper and
- 37:46Speaker 1: bottle of water? Again?
- 37:48Speaker 3: What is of all things toilet paper?
- 37:50Speaker 1: Always with the Yeah, So the way it is out
- 37:54Speaker 1: back John and Joanna in southern California, I gotta go
- 37:59Speaker 1: visit John. He's he's at the outback there and he's
- 38:01Speaker 1: got the I gotta get the Bloomin Onion. I'll go
- 38:03Speaker 1: in the Bloomin Onion hang out. We'll talk some ball,
- 38:07Speaker 1: he says. Hey, big Ben and Robbie the Marinder fan,
- 38:10Speaker 1: he says, or special guests. Sorry for the back to
- 38:14Speaker 1: back to back to back to back to back to back.
- 38:16Speaker 1: I'm just gonna use this one. Out Back, John, he says,
- 38:18Speaker 1: I heard you talking the other day about Mike Tyson's
- 38:21Speaker 1: punch Out game on the old school Nintendo. I cannot
- 38:25Speaker 1: tell you how many hours or days I spent playing
- 38:28Speaker 1: that game. I never got past Macho Man and only
- 38:32Speaker 1: got to him a few times because I could barely
- 38:35Speaker 1: beat Sandman. I believe the code to go straight to
- 38:39Speaker 1: Tyson was zero zero seven three seven three five nine
- 38:43Speaker 1: sixty three got the outback, John remembered it. Johanne's probably
- 38:49Speaker 1: rolling her eyes, this loser I'm married to. Anyway, I
- 38:52Speaker 1: punched that code in more times than Roger Goodell said.
- 38:55Speaker 1: There were people at the NFL Draft, but um bump,
- 38:58Speaker 1: I got smoked every time. So our question is, did
- 39:01Speaker 1: you ever beat Mike Tyson in the video game? As
- 39:03Speaker 1: I remember, out Back John, I also had the code.
- 39:06Speaker 1: I think everyone had the code when around my age,
- 39:09Speaker 1: and I did beat Mike Tyson. And the thing that
- 39:13Speaker 1: pissed me off I was alone. We didn't have cell
- 39:17Speaker 1: phone cameras in those days because it was the Stone age,
- 39:19Speaker 1: so I have no way of verifying. And it pissed
- 39:22Speaker 1: me off because every time there were people in the
- 39:24Speaker 1: house where I would, you know, you bring your mom in,
- 39:26Speaker 1: Hey mom, I you know, it's like proud mommy, your
- 39:29Speaker 1: my mom be so proud of you. You know, not
- 39:31Speaker 1: that you got straight a's, you made a good living
- 39:33Speaker 1: for yourself. No, no, you beat Mike Tyson. That's what matters.
- 39:36Speaker 1: And the one time that I did is I remember
- 39:39Speaker 1: I was alone at home, and I didn't get a
- 39:43Speaker 1: photo of the thing, So that sucked. Let's see here
- 39:47Speaker 1: junior super fan Caleb eleven years old. Eleven, he's in
- 39:54Speaker 1: the minor league system. He's in the pipeline, he said,
- 39:57Speaker 1: Dad Dominic sent this and he took a picture a
- 40:00Speaker 1: letter written by Caleb, so hello Caleb. He emailed to
- 40:04Speaker 1: bust my chops, Robbie. He wanted to bust my chops
- 40:08Speaker 1: and my terrible NBA predictions regarding the Knickerbockers and the
- 40:13Speaker 1: Cavaliers and He also this is great. I love this, Caleb.
- 40:17Speaker 1: You're firing me up here. He ripped me for ripping
- 40:20Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns. And he says he wants another mallor
- 40:24Speaker 1: meet and greet in Minnesota. I love Minnesota. I'd love
- 40:28Speaker 1: to come back. It's expensive to travel these places anyway.
- 40:32Speaker 1: He also he sent a joke about weed Man, which
- 40:37Speaker 1: is pretty good. I'll have to save that for Are
- 40:40Speaker 1: you allowed to listen to lame jokes? Anyway? Very funny.
- 40:44Speaker 1: He's glad you liked the show there, Caleb. He also drew,
- 40:49Speaker 1: I can't show you this, Robbie, because you know it's audio.
- 40:52Speaker 1: Caleb's eleven years old. He drew a cartoon of me
- 40:57Speaker 1: and I've got my glasses on my hat and I'm
- 41:00Speaker 1: talking into a microphone and this is let me tell
- 41:03Speaker 1: you something, Caleb. This should be hanging at the Louver.
- 41:06Speaker 1: You don't even know what the Louver is, probably because
- 41:07Speaker 1: you're eleven, But tell you ask your dad. I'll ask
- 41:10Speaker 1: your you know some your your relatives there. The Louve
- 41:13Speaker 1: is this very famous art museum in Perie, or the
- 41:16Speaker 1: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, somewhere like that.
- 41:19Speaker 1: That's that's all. That's awesome. So thank you, Caleb. I'm
- 41:21Speaker 1: glad that you're eleven and already busting my chops. That
- 41:24Speaker 1: means a lot.
- 41:26Speaker 3: The next generation will be all right, I guess. Yeah.
- 41:28Speaker 1: We got to have the pipeline, Robbie, right, we got
- 41:30Speaker 1: to have the next wave of sports radio.
- 41:32Speaker 3: Just make sure you end up being a good not
- 41:34Speaker 3: a suspects, you know exactly?
- 41:36Speaker 1: Well, yah, yeah, Pray prospect is a suspect until Yeah,
- 41:41Speaker 1: that's from Dusty Baker, Adam from Malibou. How about that,
- 41:46Speaker 1: bougie Maliboo, How you're doing it? Says Ben? Did you
- 41:49Speaker 1: ever eat at fud Ruckers? I was a huge fan.
- 41:53Speaker 1: I saw this story in the New York Post this
- 41:54Speaker 1: week and I was sad. And the story in the
- 41:58Speaker 1: Post this week said that fud Rutgers at one point
- 42:01Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties they had five hundred locations and
- 42:06Speaker 1: now they're down to forty four. They're calling it a
- 42:09Speaker 1: blockbuster of the burger world, although there's only like one
- 42:13Speaker 1: blockbus Isn't is that still open in organ? Isn't There
- 42:16Speaker 1: wasn't there a blockbuster video an organ today close?
- 42:18Speaker 3: There was one left and Bend I don't know if
- 42:20Speaker 3: it's still is open or not.
- 42:22Speaker 1: So have you ever been there? Did you ever know?
- 42:24Speaker 3: That's about two hours away? I think, Okay, there used
- 42:27Speaker 3: to be one in my town, but there wasn't every town.
- 42:30Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, but.
- 42:31Speaker 1: You're like, you're not of the age where like blockbusters
- 42:35Speaker 1: don't really mean that much to you, right because you're younger.
- 42:37Speaker 3: So, I mean, there was a time we're going to
- 42:41Speaker 3: get a movie for the weekend was a big deal.
- 42:43Speaker 3: So I guess the tail end of the glory days
- 42:47Speaker 3: of a rental stores.
- 42:50Speaker 1: So yeah, it was always frustrating because you'd go to Blockbuster.
- 42:54Speaker 1: Everyone made this mad dash on Friday to get the
- 42:56Speaker 1: hot movie. You didn't get there early enough, you know,
- 43:00Speaker 1: it's just a complete waste of time. And then some
- 43:01Speaker 1: people would leave the boxes on the shelf because remember
- 43:05Speaker 1: the whole thing had they had the boxes and you
- 43:06Speaker 1: had to take it up to the front. Oh yeah,
- 43:09Speaker 1: Sometimes they'd be empty and you'd be like, what the hell,
- 43:12Speaker 1: what is up with that? La la la la? All right?
- 43:16Speaker 1: Next up is Tim from Parts Unknown. He says, Ben,
- 43:20Speaker 1: are you excited that Vladimir Putin is going to create immortality?
- 43:25Speaker 3: Oh? I heard about this Okay, yeah, so you know this.
- 43:28Speaker 1: So the headline on this story Putin investing and the
- 43:32Speaker 1: Russians are investing twenty six billion dollars in longevity, and
- 43:39Speaker 1: among the things here, twenty six billion dollars state funded
- 43:44Speaker 1: anti aging longevity program. I feel like this should be
- 43:48Speaker 1: a bipartisan issue. Robbie shouldn't.
- 43:50Speaker 3: Yeah, although I don't think he wants everyone to live forever,
- 43:53Speaker 3: just tim Ah, You're.
- 43:55Speaker 1: Probably not wrong. Among the items, the Kremlin is working
- 43:59Speaker 1: on three D bioprinting of organs and tissues, growing human
- 44:05Speaker 1: organs in genetically modified mini pigs, extreme cryotherapy, gene therapy
- 44:13Speaker 1: to slow down aging, and the goal of full human
- 44:18Speaker 1: organ replacement capability by twenty thirty. And Putin's daughter is
- 44:25Speaker 1: the one running this program for the Russians. So uh yeah,
- 44:31Speaker 1: it's it's one of those weird things, like I don't
- 44:34Speaker 1: even know it's that weird. I think we're designed to
- 44:36Speaker 1: only live a certain period of time and we want
- 44:40Speaker 1: to live forever. If everyone else is not able to
- 44:43Speaker 1: come with you on the ride, you know, it's a weird.
- 44:46Speaker 3: Well, even that one like influencer guy who claims he
- 44:49Speaker 3: wants to live forever when they asked him, do you
- 44:52Speaker 3: really think you can live forever? And I think his
- 44:55Speaker 3: last names like Johnson or something. He's like, well, I
- 44:57Speaker 3: I qualify living forever as like two hundre fifty years,
- 45:00Speaker 3: so that's not forever anyway. It's like there's a I
- 45:03Speaker 3: don't think no matter how like we would have to
- 45:06Speaker 3: become fully what cyborg to live forever because eventually the
- 45:10Speaker 3: skin's going to decay. I just I don't see any
- 45:13Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, though Putin has talked about it before
- 45:16Speaker 3: he got caught in that hot mic in China talking
- 45:18Speaker 3: to z GM peak about how he might need a
- 45:23Speaker 3: some of his prisoners to donate stuff to him.
- 45:25Speaker 1: So yeah, well, imagine what that's gonna look like, though
- 45:29Speaker 1: it was conceivable you could you could have you know,
- 45:33Speaker 1: a new heart growing in a little mini pig. Oh
- 45:36Speaker 1: your your left knee can be from a cow somewhere
- 45:39Speaker 1: or something like that. Imagine what that's gonna look like though,
- 45:42Speaker 1: after you know, one hundred and thirty years or forty
- 45:45Speaker 1: years and you got all these new parts in you end,
- 45:46Speaker 1: you know, just like you.
- 45:48Speaker 3: Like Richard Nixon's brains yarn Future Round maybe or something.
- 45:51Speaker 1: Hey, but Ted Williams could come back and save the
- 45:53Speaker 1: Red Sox.
- 45:54Speaker 3: Exactly, they need a hitter. So who knows?
- 45:57Speaker 1: Come on, Teddy, come back. Mark, and Florida writes in
- 46:01Speaker 1: he says, Ben, what good would the apocalypse detector do
- 46:08Speaker 1: to the common man? And then he sent me this story, Robbie.
- 46:12Speaker 1: There's a new website that is tracking all of the billionaires,
- 46:17Speaker 1: the robber barons of society. The website they're claiming the
- 46:22Speaker 1: goal is a apocalypse early warning system, and they claim
- 46:27Speaker 1: that the richest people in society will know when there's
- 46:32Speaker 1: going to be some kind of apocalyptic like nuclear war
- 46:35Speaker 1: or something like that, and that they'll all leave wherever
- 46:39Speaker 1: they are and then that'll be a sign for the
- 46:41Speaker 1: rest of society. Okay, there's going to be some kind
- 46:45Speaker 1: of cataclysmic event or something like that. But I agree
- 46:49Speaker 1: with this guy, Mark, even if you knew that, like,
- 46:51Speaker 1: what are you going to do? You don't have a
- 46:53Speaker 1: private plane.
- 46:54Speaker 3: Yeah, and even the rich people, like, if it's a
- 46:56Speaker 3: big enough nuclear cataclysmic event, then the whole nuclear winner
- 47:00Speaker 3: thing goes in a play. And there's a certain point
- 47:03Speaker 3: doesn't matter how rich you are, if you're screwed. If
- 47:06Speaker 3: you're screwed, like if just a big enough cataclysmic event.
- 47:09Speaker 1: But yeah, exactly one from so Cal writes in on
- 47:13Speaker 1: the mailbag, Thank you one. He says, Ben, what's your
- 47:17Speaker 1: take on the Pope's Holy War with AI?
- 47:23Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 47:23Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I actually didn't see this. I just
- 47:27Speaker 1: reading he Samuel clip like a paragraph of it says
- 47:32Speaker 1: the backlash is growing the Catholic Church and the Pope
- 47:36Speaker 1: coming out against artificial intelligence. Yeah. I look at this
- 47:43Speaker 1: stuff like pretty much everything in moderation, even moderation, as
- 47:48Speaker 1: the line goes, in moderation. So it's it's not perfect,
- 47:53Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of like replay in sports. Do
- 47:58Speaker 1: you have to get everything perfect? Does everything have to
- 48:01Speaker 1: be right?
- 48:01Speaker 2: Like?
- 48:01Speaker 1: At what point does it not work for society? And
- 48:07Speaker 1: there's that point where you cross the rubicon and you're like, like,
- 48:11Speaker 1: what are we doing here? You know? So I it's
- 48:16Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting in the next few years to
- 48:18Speaker 1: see how this all. Yeah, and I feel bad. A
- 48:21Speaker 1: lot of people gonna lose their jobs, people that want,
- 48:22Speaker 1: you know, spent their lives, getting educating, getting trained at skills,
- 48:25Speaker 1: and they're gonna lose their job. And I understand things changed.
- 48:29Speaker 1: At one point people made their living with horses, and
- 48:32Speaker 1: then I'm now there's cars, and then uh, you know,
- 48:35Speaker 1: at one point, even in my lifetime, we had we
- 48:38Speaker 1: had typewriters, and computers were like these giant things. And
- 48:42Speaker 1: now everyone's got a computer in their phone. And so
- 48:44Speaker 1: I understand that part of it. It just and and
- 48:48Speaker 1: and also you've got a factor in a lot of
- 48:50Speaker 1: these stories about doom and gloom are not one hundred
- 48:54Speaker 1: percent accurate. For example, there was a story Ray Ray
- 48:58Speaker 1: or ray or Ray or whatever his name is he
- 49:01Speaker 1: sent where Dominoes had partnered with a robotics company to
- 49:06Speaker 1: streamline their pizza like an AI company. And this AI company,
- 49:11Speaker 1: which actually is in Seattle, is startup. They raised a
- 49:15Speaker 1: bunch of venture capital and they now have shut down
- 49:19Speaker 1: and they had domino So it's not always going to
- 49:21Speaker 1: be perfect. It's not all.
- 49:24Speaker 3: And you also got to think of all the when
- 49:27Speaker 3: people are saying, oh, this this is going to replace
- 49:29Speaker 3: people they're talking to these companies because companies here like,
- 49:32Speaker 3: oh that's a good thing. But the people that are
- 49:34Speaker 3: talking like selling it are the people that own stakes
- 49:37Speaker 3: in these AI companies. They're trying to hype it up.
- 49:39Speaker 3: So who knows if the kind of the top end
- 49:42Speaker 3: predictions will even come true on that way.
- 49:46Speaker 1: So well yeah, and also you got a factor in,
- 49:49Speaker 1: like a society's got to decide, you know, do you
- 49:53Speaker 1: want to hear like my business in broadcasting. Do you
- 49:59Speaker 1: want to have a human being on the other side
- 50:03Speaker 1: or do you not care if it's just a computer?
- 50:06Speaker 1: And you have to decide. I'm a little concerned because
- 50:10Speaker 1: we've already seen this. I think we might have talked
- 50:12Speaker 1: about this. I know I've talked about it on the podcast.
- 50:14Speaker 1: I don't know if you were here or not. Robbie,
- 50:15Speaker 1: where there's people that have made very curvaceous fake women
- 50:21Speaker 1: on AI and they they've made money on Instagram and
- 50:27Speaker 1: TikTok and things like that, and so there's obviously some
- 50:31Speaker 1: horn dogs that are just sending their money in for
- 50:34Speaker 1: you know, fake women. At least give it to real women,
- 50:36Speaker 1: you know, I mean, come on, boys, what are you doing?
- 50:42Speaker 1: So that stuff's a little scary that they don't really care,
- 50:45Speaker 1: although that's like adult content. So we'll get out. We've
- 50:50Speaker 1: been gone way long, but so much fun. Amazing yet again,
- 50:53Speaker 1: the man, the myth, the legend, Robbie the Mariner fan,
- 50:57Speaker 1: You're so good at this, Robbie, it's crazy. You want
- 50:59Speaker 1: to promote anything. You have a podcast you do, right,
- 51:01Speaker 1: you want to promote that?
- 51:02Speaker 3: Yeah, Sunday mornings right in early nine thirty am Eastern
- 51:07Speaker 3: United States of Australia. It's a live YouTube show, that's
- 51:11Speaker 3: about it.
- 51:12Speaker 1: What time is it for your buddy in Australia.
- 51:15Speaker 3: Oh, it's it's like eleven pm at night, ten pm
- 51:18Speaker 3: a night.
- 51:19Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
- 51:20Speaker 3: So I think he gets a riend of it than
- 51:23Speaker 3: I do because I have to be up at like
- 51:25Speaker 3: I usually wake up at five am to kind of
- 51:27Speaker 3: make sure it go over my He does like half
- 51:30Speaker 3: the show of like his content, and I do have
- 51:33Speaker 3: to show my content, and so I want to be
- 51:35Speaker 3: prepared and everything. And yeah, it's Sunday mornings are rough,
- 51:39Speaker 3: but I'm not complaining.
- 51:40Speaker 1: So does it? Do you just stay up all night?
- 51:43Speaker 1: I know you're a socialite there in Oregon, Robbie. Do
- 51:45Speaker 1: you just.
- 51:48Speaker 3: I try to get a little bit of sleep, but
- 51:50Speaker 3: it's it's hard.
- 51:52Speaker 1: I got you all right on that note, I will
- 51:53Speaker 1: be back tonight and no days off, no scheduled days
- 51:58Speaker 1: off this week from the radio show, so I will
- 52:00Speaker 1: be there every single night bloviating this week and we'll
- 52:06Speaker 1: catch you then have a great rest of your Sunday.
- 52:10Speaker 1: And it was wonderful Robbie, thank you so much, and
- 52:12Speaker 1: we'll talk to you as Dick and Date would say
- 52:14Speaker 1: bye bye. We'll talk to you next time. Bye.
- 52:16Speaker 3: Felation.