Full Transcript for Hour 3 - Back With the Pack

to NC State, this time as coach, head coach, with the contract expected to be approved on Friday. That would be tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. I don't know if you saw this or not. Perhaps. Now, remember, we talked about Phillip Rivers and Russell Wilson. and that they had both interviewed for the job. But Phillip Rivers appears to have gotten the job, the Wolfpack legend replacing Dave Doran, who despite having a long run, there were only a couple of memorable moments. I think he was there for almost 20 years, Dave Doran, the old coach. So Phillip Rivers, who has as much college football coaching experience as you have and I have, congratulations. Rivers spent six seasons coaching Alabama high school football. You know what this means? Our buddy in Orlando is qualified to get a head coaching job. 00:04:50 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:04:51 Speaker 1: Well, the other part of this, which is the real reason that Phillip Rivers is heading to NC State, his son Gunner, Gunner Rivers, is committed to NC State. So it's the family business, the family business, similar to Deion Sanders and his kid, which is a good jumping-off point, so let us discuss. The question, is Phillip Rivers to NC State another Deion Sanders experiment minus the sunglasses and the social media circus and all that? We'll exchange the sunglasses and the bling-bling for the bolo tie. All right, so my take, I've got Microsoft Flight Simulator, Minneapolis Daycare Centers, and Luxury Condo. And we will combine all of these things together, and we are going to swim against the tide. We're going to swim against the tide. This is not swimming against the tide. To answer the question, though, is Philip Rivers to NC State another Deion Sanders experiment? Yeah, I'm nodding my head yes. I believe that is the case. College football is in this weird spot. We're in the age of the celebrity coach, the ex-Jock celebrity coach, Deion Sanders. The gig there in Colorado after being at Jackson State. You've got Michael Vick, Marshall Falk, among others that have gotten some of these jobs. And Phillip Rivers is the latest example. Now, I'm from the old country. I was raised where you had to pay your dues. You had to work your way up. That you had to have an apprenticeship and you had to learn along the way. Apparently, that is for suckers, capital S, suckers. Same thing, by the way, in the radio business. You had to work your way up and you had to do that. Now, not so much. So they have, congratulations, they have devalued the coaching profession like a used mattress at a garage sale. Nobody really wants a used mattress at a garage sale. It smells like urine. It's disgusting. It's moldy and all that. The thing that is fascinating about this is the X's and O's have been shoved into the trunk. It doesn't matter. Like that was the most important part of coaching was the X's and O's. The head coach is now the keynote speaker in college football. He's the telethon pitchman, the Labor Day telethon guy. He's

got to be the maestro or maestro of the fundraiser, the NIL salesman, walking billboard, all that stuff. The Wolfpack is buying the name on the marquee, and they're hoping there's football, good football there, and this guy will figure out how to coach. He'll fake it till he makes it, Phillip Rivers. Now, you can spin... This story, any way you want. But North Carolina State has hired a guy with zero college experience. And it's kind of like, hey, I'm over here at JetBlue, and I'm going to hire a guy to fly a Boeing 747 because he's really good at Microsoft Flight Simulator, so I'm going to put him in the cockpit and see how that goes. Well, no, that's not how it works. College football used to be about blocking and tackling back in the old days. Now it's about branding and banking. That is what it's about. Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. All right, furthermore, so deeper in to the business of what used to be called amateur athletics. That was always Fugazi. So college football is getting a massive makeover. You may have seen this in the last couple weeks. The playoffs will be doubled to 24 teams. The top 24 teams will qualify for the playoffs. And the first eight will get buys, first-round buys, 16 campus games. This also means that the Southeastern Conference, the Big Ten, the ACC, and the Big 12 are saying, bye-bye, they're decommissioning conference championship games, which have been terrible. They've been bad, these conference championship games. It never made any sense to me. Never made any sense, these conference championship games. They're finally getting rid of it. So that part's a positive. So now entering the chat is the Mizzou head football coach, Eli Drinkwitz, he has come out with a statement here. He wonders why the conferences in college football even exist at all anymore with the coast-to-coast travel. It's kind of ridiculous. Like when USC has to play or Rutgers or Stanford has to go on the road and they have to play NC State. It's like, well, what are we doing here? This is kind of ridiculous. Anyway, so the head coach at Mizzou is like, this is ridiculous with the coast-to-coast travel, the scheduling, the rivalries are disappearing, which is a problem. So Drinkwits, the coach, argues that college football is sacrificing tradition and regional identity for playoff expansion issues. and obviously trying to get that TV money. Here's the question. So you've got that Missouri coach, Eli Drinkwitz, who thinks that with the new world order in college athletics that we should just get rid of– what he's implying is we should get rid of conferences. Why do college football power brokers want to keep these conferences? Because you really haven't heard a lot of talk other than this guy saying we should get rid of conferences. So Eli, the Mizzou coach, is asking the right question. Trinkowitz is asking the right question, but he's about 20 years late to the crime scene. It's a cold case at this point. It's a cold case. The body of college football tradition has already been burned and it's in an unmarked grave. And so why would you keep conferences for the same reason that we need like Ticketmaster and those secondary ticket places, right? Somebody has to collect convenience fees to for doing absolutely nothing that is convenient. And that's just the way. It's like resort fees. How stupid is that, right? I'm going to get access to the newspaper and the gym, which no one uses at these hotels and all that. The Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference in particular are no longer athletic conferences. They are like Spectrum, offering bundle deals. You get the TV, the Internet, and the mobile, and your home phone services. In this case, you get your TV contract with ESPN. You have your secondary contract with Fox or vice versa. Somehow, the conference championship game is disappearing, but the conference commissioner survives. Make it make sense. It's kind of like canceling the wedding ceremony. Hey, I was going to get married. I canceled the wedding. But I'm going to keep the wedding planner on salary just in case I might get married again. I'm going to keep the wedding. Well, no, you're not getting married, dummy. You don't need a wedding planner if you're not getting married. So we need Nick Shirley. We've got to bring him in, that YouTuber, to investigate college football's bureaucracy. How many no-show jobs are there? Forget about those Minneapolis daycare centers from months back. Follow the money to the conference headquarters here. But really, the conferences exist so these schools can bundle their TV contracts. What you would think, though, is you'd have a crossover where you don't need the conferences. You could get the big-time players. You could have a supreme television contract where you take the teams, Ohio State, Alabama, schools along those lines that have big followings, and throw them all into one bundle. and just have the networks bid on that bundle. All right, last thing. To the baseball general manager meetings, which have been going on recently, and someone named Nick Kral, I believe is his name, K-R-A-L-L. He's the president of the Cincinnati Reds. He says that his baseball team has not discussed trading L.A. De La Cruz this offseason, but... He conveniently refused to rule out anything, including the trade of Elie de la Cruz. So here's the question. Is the face of the franchise, Cincinnati Red Star Elie de la Cruz, secretly on the trading block? 00:13:57 Speaker 3: So. 00:13:59 Speaker 1: Ding to the dong. Ding dong. 00:14:03 Speaker 4: If L.A. 00:14:03 Speaker 1: De La Cruz is not on the trading block, why did not why didn't the president of Cincinnati Reds just say he's not available? This isn't that hard. It's not a Supreme Court confirmation hearing. So instead, the guy running the Reds gave us the old never say never routine. You never say never. That is a dog whistle. 00:14:26 Speaker 5: Arf, arf, arf. 00:14:27 Speaker 1: Dog whistle. So loud,

every general manager from Flushing to Chavez Ravine perked up like a German shepherd at a canine academy, all excited. It's the baseball equivalent. What the Reds are doing of telling your wife you're not looking for another woman. You're just not ruling out. You may have some really spicy conversations with random women. That's it. The Reds turned their franchise player at this point, based on what I've been hearing. He's like a luxury condominium, luxury condo, not officially listed anywhere. not officially on the real estate websites, just entertaining serious offers only. So the Reds continue to run a baseball version of Sotheby's where they suck and draft, and then when players, a couple of them will get good, and then they'll repackage them. So it's like, step right up, come to Sotheby's Auction House. Museum quality, L.A. De La Cruz. Do I hear five, five suspects and a suitcase of cash? Is that what I hear? Meanwhile, in the end, I do feel bad for the Cincinnati fans. They get a double-decker bologna sandwich, you know, just full of nonsense. 00:16:02 Speaker 6: Well, I love music. I don't know about you. 00:16:05 Speaker 1: I am a big fan of random music. 00:16:08 Speaker 6: That's what I like. 00:16:09 Speaker 7: The gremlins have attacked. 00:16:10 Speaker 6: The gremlins have attacked. 00:16:12 Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. 00:16:15 Speaker 7: But it is the A Block, and as they say, the show must go on. Now, that's not a good thing when they say the show must go on, because if you die on stage, they just walk over your body. 00:16:26 Speaker 6: They say, that's it. 00:16:27 Speaker 1: You're done. 00:16:28 Speaker 7: And we're going to keep doing the show. 00:16:29 Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 00:16:39 Speaker 8: Stugatz here, pleased to be hosting college football with Stugatz and the Bear. We do it two times a week, every Monday, every single Friday throughout the college football season. You can expect a little bit of this. Will Stein, the head coach at Kentucky, joins us. Open bar at a wedding, ordering a Shirley Temple. 00:16:56 Speaker 1: Will or will not? 00:16:56 Speaker 5: No. 00:16:57 Speaker 1: Will not. Ketchup on steak. 00:16:59 Speaker 2: Will or will not? 00:17:01 Speaker 1: Will or will not? Will not. 00:17:04 Speaker 6: Thank you. 00:17:04 Speaker 1: A little bit of this. 00:17:06 Speaker 8: Rhys Davis, host of College Game Day, is with us now. 00:17:08 Speaker 5: And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich. 00:17:14 Speaker 1: Right, because you can't say Jockovich. 00:17:16 Speaker 8: If you do, you know the blowback you're going to get from the American audience. 00:17:19 Speaker 1: Right. And a whole lot of this. 00:17:26 Speaker 8: Listen to college football with Stugatz and the Bear on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 00:17:38 Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we continue on here further and further into the. 00:17:48 Speaker 1: Of the overnight, and we were blindsided by a convoy of gremlins, so we must give out the Malheur Riddle of the day right now. I thought we lost you forever. 00:17:59 Speaker 6: Oh, no. 00:18:00 Speaker 1: I was almost killed by the gremlins, but I fought them back. I used a machete, and I attacked the gremlins, and I killed them. So they will not return. They should not come back. But if you would like to answer the Malheur Riddle, here it is. 1980s tennis star, Steffi Graf's brother, is reportedly hiding from police in blank. Again, famous tennis star from the 80s and the 90s, Steffi Graf. Her brother, apparently down on his luck, is hiding from police in blank. That is the riddle of the day. If you would like to be part of the live show, you are more than welcome to do that. You should also know that It's week 10 in the NFL. It's here. The 49ers versus the Cowboys. Sunday's America's Game of the Week. Streaming live on Fox 1. Miss it live. You're just watching a highlight. Catch every play as it happens. 00:18:52 Speaker 5: 49ers. 00:18:53 Speaker 1: Cowboys live on Fox 1. On this show, 877-99 on Fox. Don't leave me hanging on that. Also, we have the X Machine. At Ben Maller on X.com. At Ben Maller on X, hashtag AskBenAndFriends. Lorena is here. You can say hello to her at FSR Tech Queen. 00:19:17 Speaker 5: I'm here. 00:19:18 Speaker 1: And Koopa Loop at A Bronco Fan. That's A Bronco Fan. Your comments can and will be used against you in the court of sports radio, so please act accordingly. Again, the riddle of the day, the old tennis star from– 30, 40 years ago. Steffi Graf, her brother, is popping up here. He's in some trouble. He's hiding from the cops in blank. So that is the riddle of the day. And we'll give you the answer. We'll give people a few minutes to figure out the answer, and then we'll give the answer at some point. But there's nothing that the listeners love more than when the gremlins attack. Literally, it's orgasmic. when that happens. They're so happy when that happens. Let's go to the phones, and I think he's back in San Diego. He had moved over to Mexico, but I think he's back in San Diego now. Ryan in San Diego. Hello, Ryan. 00:20:13 Speaker 6: Welcome. 00:20:15 Speaker 3: Hey, Ben. 00:20:16 Speaker 9: Yeah, they threw me out. I got caught as an illegal alien in Mexico. And back home in San Diego, I just had a neck surgery. But I promise, I'm like. 00:20:31 Speaker 4: Blind Scott, I will not use foul language with the stuff I'm taking. 00:20:36 Speaker 1: It does sound like you're heavily medicated. I need a rant. 00:20:40 Speaker 4: I need to get this out. 00:20:45 Speaker 9: The Rams are very good. Here's my conspiracy theory, first of all. 00:20:53 Speaker 10: McVay wants to be the first coach to have a quarterback throw. 00:20:59 Speaker 9: Over 100 times Unlike Baker

Mayfield, what do you do? Go 0 for 4. 00:21:06 Speaker 1: And they won? 0 for 3, but yeah, close. 00:21:09 Speaker 9: Yeah, blah, blah, blah. But you saw, I think our problems started on draft night. 00:21:16 Speaker 10: Not using the 13th pick on a positional player. And look, Stafford has been garbage all year. 00:21:27 Speaker 9: Overthrowing receivers. He's not the quarterback from last year, I can tell you that. 00:21:36 Speaker 1: No, he's not. It is odd, though. It is odd, though, because the Rams, I would agree with you. They're losing within the margins, though. They're losing special teams. How many games? They lost at least two games on special teams they've lost. And, you know, the overall nerd numbers, like the nerds will say the Rams aren't that bad. They're like number four in defensive EPA. That's really good. Offensively, they're number five in that nerd statistic. It doesn't matter, though, because they're five and four. That is unacceptable. That is embarrassing. Everyone should have embarrassment over there. They should pie on their face. Every loser over there. They're all losers. 00:22:14 Speaker 9: We can't put teams away. Example, Denver this year, Seattle last year. You're up 14 points, and that's when you cut the snake's head off. We keep teams in games. I'll say this, and I'll end it with this. 00:22:34 Speaker 4: Somebody's not coming back next year. It's either McVay or it's Ethel's pitch, GM. I'm telling you, that's my conspiracy theory. 00:22:43 Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right. I would say McVay will be back. Stafford will not be back next year, and they'll have to figure that out, who they want to play quarterback. But we'll see. All right, feel better. There's Ryan. The man just had neck surgery, and he had to get that take. That was a very important take for Ryan to get out, and he got that take out. Let's go now. Cashing a golden ticket. Oh, Canada. We say hello to Peter in Ottawa. Hello, Peter. 00:23:11 Speaker 8: Welcome. 00:23:15 Speaker 1: There he is right there, the great Peter. 00:23:18 Speaker 3: I'm calling to let you know that I'm so excited about Fox 1 and the Game of the Week. 00:23:25 Speaker 1: Is that right? Well, let me tell you something. Let me quiz you right now. It is NFL Week 10 is here, 49ers-Cowboys. It's Sunday's America's Game of the Week streaming live on Fox 1. Now, if you miss it live, Peter, what does that mean? 00:23:42 Speaker 3: Oh, that means you're only watching the highlights, buddy. 00:23:45 Speaker 1: Now look at you. You want to do the rest of the copy? Do you have it memorized? 00:23:50 Speaker 3: The rest of the copy after that? Fox One, you could stream it live on Fox or somewhere. 00:23:58 Speaker 1: No, no, it's catch every play as it happens. 49ers Cowboys live on Fox One. Isn't that exciting? 00:24:06 Speaker 3: It is, it is. And then the reason I wanted to cash the golden ticket is I feel bad for your Blue Bombers. They lost last weekend. 00:24:14 Speaker

1: Well, they were big underdogs, as you know, and they were not expected to compete in that game. But they still have the greatest name in the CFL. Well, there you go. 00:24:23 Speaker 3: And the Lions lost, and I know you like their second team, eh? 00:24:27 Speaker 1: Well, that's right. It was my little quality time. 00:24:30 Speaker 7: There in British Columbia. 00:24:31 Speaker 1: In Vancouver, that's right. Yeah, yeah. I had a really nice time over there. Got to get to Ottawa at some point, Peter. We got to come meet you in Ottawa. We'll have to get there at some point. I do think Winnipeg, by the way. 00:24:43 Speaker 3: It would be awesome with the capital of Canada. Okay. 00:24:46 Speaker 1: All right. I'm down with that. Winnipeg covered the spread, I think, by the way. I believe they covered the spread. 00:24:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a close game. They kept it close, yes. 00:24:55 Speaker 1: All right. So you bet on the Blue Bombers. 00:24:57 Speaker 3: I didn't get to watch that game because, well, it was, yeah, on Saturday, and I'm busy on those days. 00:25:02 Speaker 1: But I'll be watching the Niners. 00:25:04 Speaker 5: Socializing? 00:25:05 Speaker 1: What were you doing? Your party animal? Your social butterfly? That's what you're doing? 00:25:08 Speaker 3: Something like that. 00:25:09 Speaker 6: Yes, Ben. 00:25:11 Speaker 1: All right. 00:25:12 Speaker 6: All right. 00:25:12 Speaker 1: Well, call anytime. You're more than welcome. We love when you call in. You know that. 00:25:16 Speaker 3: You got it. Okay, Benjamin, have a great night. 00:25:18 Speaker 1: All right. Thank you. There's our friend Peter from Ottawa checking in. Peter the Great. Well, I don't know. Great Peter is, but it's always nice when Peter calls in and he's got the good pipes. Good pipes. All right, let's keep it going. Oh, let me pay off the... I should pay this off. I mean, what's the point of doing it if you don't pay it off? This is a Mallor riddle of the day. Old tennis star Steffi Graf. Her brother is reportedly hiding from police in blank. What does that mean? All right, let's find out here. Let's go, Paige, Dan. We go to the X Machine, and we have Ask Ben coming up. And let's see here. What do we got? The Cheesecake Factory from Larry in Nashville. Hiding from the cops in the Fox Sports Radio studios. JT the Wingman says, hiding under a white sheet like a ghost underneath Doug Gottlieb's podium. That's from King Rory. What else do we have? Page down. The Louvre from Dante. That's his answer. Mike the Leprechaun says that Steffi Graf's brother is hiding under the bar where the Patriots and Lions are playing in Munich. In Munich at a bar there. She Shed from Donkey Sausage. Appleton, Wisconsin from Alf the Alien O'Piner. That's his answer. Alf saying Gremlins. Yeah, there's a good, that's a photograph of the Gremlins attacking. That's it. And Kay Benz was wondering if Wrong Button Bob was involved. I don't think Wrong Button Bob was involved. All

right, that's enough. Lorena, I saw the Breadman, by the way, our buddy the Breadman, a legend from back in the day. All right, what's the answer? Lorena? 00:27:16 Speaker 2: I think he was hiding in Aruba. 00:27:19 Speaker 1: All right, is that correct? That's incorrect. Apparently, according to the gossip pages, Steffi Graf, the old tennis player, her brother was hiding from police, or still is hiding from police, in the tunnels underneath Las Vegas. Not bad. 00:27:39 Speaker 2: Yeah! 00:27:44 Speaker 1: I walked by those tunnels. Yeah, much better there. There's a whole sub-world underneath Vegas. And the last time we were there for the meet and greet, we stayed at a hotel where one of the exits to the tunnel system was. And it's, like, crazy. It's like a whole subspecies living underneath Vegas. And it's wild. But there's the same thing, actually, in L.A., too. There's, like, a whole subtunnel system. There's, like, people living there that don't see the light of day, just hanging out down there. So we'll see what happens with. Steffi Graf's brother. I do not advise going. I guess the cops are like, we're not going in there. We'll wait for you to come out. That's it. We'll just wait for you to come out, and we'll knock it out. All right, let's go back to the calls. We have Ask Ben coming up in a little bit. Let's say hello to Scotty on the Pike. Hello, Scotty on the Pike. 00:28:41 Speaker 2: Welcome. 00:28:41 Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox. 00:28:45 Speaker 6: Hiya, Ben. How are ya? 00:28:47 Speaker 1: Scotty, if I was any better, I'd be a May, but not Drake May, because he's not good. 00:28:53 Speaker 6: Hey, I'm not going to lie. I got a little baba ganoush in my southern hemisphere yesterday when you blocked Blind Scott. That was awesome. And you did it live. That was excellent. 00:29:01 Speaker 1: You're welcome. Well, he really earned it. I think you'd agree, Scotty, I gave him a lot of leeway. He's threatened to kill me at least 20 times over the years, and sent me some horrific things in the email. So I think he earned it. I think he earned it. I keep giving him chances, but he, unfortunately, does not honor the chances. 00:29:19 Speaker 6: He's a very tolerable man. 00:29:21 Speaker 1: That's right. 00:29:22 Speaker 9: Very long leash. 00:29:22 Speaker 1: Exactly. 00:29:23 Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. I'm going to apologize for my tape delay take here, but yesterday was the NFL trade deadline. I tried to call in, but it was so busy because it is the Ben Malishow, which is wicked piss. So you had a lot of calls. I cannot believe the Patriots didn't do anything with Both receivers out. Both running backs out. They couldn't find something off the trash heap. I mean, we're dealing with DeMario Douglas. And I like Pop. I think Pop's a good above-average number three. He can get a little separation here. He's not a burner, but he's serviceable. Gary's still out on F and Chisholm, the third. I mean, he's had a couple of nice little catches there, but I don't know what he's going to do. So, like, what are they going to do? Is it Ramondre Stevenson's out? Travion Henderson's out? 00:30:15 Speaker 3: A.J. 00:30:16 Speaker 1: Brown? 00:30:16 Speaker 6: We all know that that's just not going to work. 00:30:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the issue here, as you said, Ramondre Stevenson's out, but I think their feeling is just like it– They're good enough. They believe they're good enough. It's just Drake May's got this thing, and he's got the yips or whatever you want to call it, and they're not going anywhere unless Drake May figures it out. There's a lot of empty statistics. They're in the same boat the Rams are in. They have the same record as the Rams. They're the same situation where they're just kind of blah. There's not a lot going on. going on i mean the numbers are not terrible but the eyeball test as you know scotty we're big we're old guys we're eyeball test guys they don't pass the eyeball test the numbers can be fine right they know you can say well i got a top 10 you know offense and you know epa and all the defensive numbers are not great but the offensive numbers are actually good but the offensive numbers who cares because most of those drives end up with turnovers fumbles or interceptions so i listen i agree i agree with you as a fan i i want to see my team go out make a move And it sucks when you don't make it. You don't have to make a splash, but do something. Do something to say, hey, we're going to improve the team. And they obviously had chances. There were plenty of teams that were willing to make trades. There were a lot of trades, but the Patriots didn't do anything. The Rams didn't do anything. All right, Scotty. Anything else, my man? 00:31:37 Speaker 6: All right. 00:31:38 Speaker 1: Thank you, Scotty. The great Scotty on the pike. who was a celebrity on the mailbag. We have Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers for the rest of the hour. We'll get to that. We will do it next. 00:31:52 Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. 00:31:57 Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we continue on, Ask Ben moments away. You can take the Ben Maller Show with you wherever life takes you. Traveling. Going somewhere out in the boondocks. If you have internet access, you can get in the iHeartRadio app. Hear the Ben Maller Show. Become a P1. Have the Ben Maller Show podcast as your preset one. You can have the Fifth Hour Podcast preset two. And Fox Sports Radio preset three. And you can hear the live show on the FSR channel. So check that out. iHeartRadio app. It's now time for... 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by our friends at Fox 1. NFL Week 10 is here. The 49ers Cowboys. Sunday's America's Game of the Week, as Peter in Ottawa knows. Streaming live on Fox 1. Miss it live. You're just watching a highlight. Catch every play as it happens. 49ers Cowboys live on Fox 1. It's Ask Ben and Friends, the reading of the questions that will make your ear tickle. The Koopa Loop. 00:33:17 Speaker 2: All right, Ben, we're going to start off with this question from JT the Wingman. 00:33:20 Speaker 1: Hi, JT the Wingman. 00:33:22 Speaker 2: Now, I like this question, but there's a visual aid with this question. You might not need it if you remember elementary school. But JT the Wingman wants to know, what is your favorite type of cloud? Do you remember your clouds? 00:33:40 Speaker 1: I don't remember my clouds. 00:33:42 Speaker 2: No, I don't. My favorite is the cumulonimbus. It's the big, fluffy one. Yeah, I love those ones. Those are the ones that take up most of the sky. 00:33:49 Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Cumulonimbus. How many different clouds are there? 00:33:53 Speaker 2: Well, according to this cloud types flow chart that JT posted along with his question, there's six, seven, eight, nine, ten different types of clouds. What's the thin one that looks like cotton candy? That one is Cirrus. 00:34:10 Speaker 9: Cirrus. 00:34:11 Speaker 1: There's only 10 types of clouds. That's it? Yeah. I thought there would be more than 10. I don't have it in front of me, so I don't know. What's yours, Cool? 00:34:21 Speaker 2: Same as Lorena, the Cumulonimbus. Those are the storm clouds. They're cool. 00:34:25 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:34:25 Speaker 5: Okay. 00:34:26 Speaker 2: All right. 00:34:27 Speaker 1: I'll make it nice. I'll sit there and lay down and look at the clouds. I haven't done that in a while. What's next? It's Ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour. 00:34:36 Speaker 2: All right. This is a question from Alf the Alien O'Piner. 00:34:39 Speaker 1: Hi, Alf. 00:34:41 Speaker 2: This is more up your alley, Ben, because this is a little bit before my time. 00:34:46 Speaker 1: Wow. So you're taking a shot at me. Thank you for that. I appreciate you taking a shot at me. That's good. 00:34:50 Speaker 2: Alf wants to know, which is the better Julius, orange or strawberry? 00:34:57 Speaker 1: Listen, Orange Julius is by far, it's not even close, by far the king. I don't even know what it is. What kind of question is that? That's a terrible question. 00:35:06 Speaker 2: I like the Triple Berry Julius. 00:35:09 Speaker 1: I'm an OG. I like the purity of Orange Julius. I don't need the other stuff. Next, Cooper. 00:35:16 Speaker 2: I've never had these. I don't know. They're like frosted. 00:35:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, the mall back in the day, there should be these things called malls that you'd go to and you could get them there. All right, what's next? What do we got? 00:35:27 Speaker 2: Georgia Boy would like to know. 00:35:29 Speaker 1: Georgia Boy. 00:35:30 Speaker 2: I believe this could be for any of us. If you could trade a current bad caller to bring back a past caller, who would it be? 00:35:39 Speaker 1: All right, so I have to get rid of one caller now, and I can bring back another caller. 00:35:43 Speaker 6: Yes. 00:35:43 Speaker 1: Because I'd get Blind Scott, and then I'd get Jeannie and Medford back. 00:35:47 Speaker 2: Easy. 00:35:48 Speaker 1: Easy peasy lemon squeezy. No problem. Who else could I get rid of here? Well, some of these guys have stopped calling the show, so they've left the program. I want to get... Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay and beer-drinking Brian back also. That would be good. I'd have to sacrifice a couple of those. Lorena, who would you like to get rid of to bring back an old caller? You don't even know the old caller. I don't know. 00:36:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not educated. 00:36:13 Speaker 1: All right, Coop. What about you, Coop? 00:36:15 Speaker 2: I would trade E-Dog for Jeannie and Medford. Can I just trade the leprechaun and not pick someone from the past? 00:36:27 Speaker 1: You could get rid of E-Dawg. Steve in Manhattan, a lot of these guys just call. They don't actually listen. They're not actually listeners. I don't mind getting rid of the guys that are professional callers because they just call other shows. It doesn't really matter. They're not fans of the show. They don't listen to what we do. They just happen to call it. All right, what is next? What do we got? 00:36:45 Speaker 2: All right, the King Rory wants to know, which of the Lay's holiday theme chips sound most delectable to you? They are cheddar scalloped style potatoes... Roasted holiday turkey or maple bacon? 00:37:01 Speaker 1: I'll go number two. I'm going to go the number two. Holiday turkey? Yeah, I'll go that. 00:37:06 Speaker 2: This is hard. I'm going to go maple bacon. All right. Wow. I think the scallop-style potatoes sound best to me. The cheddar ones. 00:37:13 Speaker 10: All right. 00:37:14 Speaker 1: All three different answers here. What kind of spices they came up with in a laboratory somewhere. What's next? What do we got? It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers. Good to see the bread man up early. Classic photo I took. We were all much younger. All right. What do we got? 00:37:27 Speaker 2: Ferg Dog wants to know, do you listen to the commercials during the break like we do? 00:37:32 Speaker 1: You know, I hear them. I'll usually be walking around the building. I have all. We hear promos. We don't get the commercials. We hear, like, the promos. Yeah, yeah. So I have all the promos memorized. 00:37:43 Speaker 6: I do. 00:37:43 Speaker 1: Lorena? 00:37:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a fun fact that everywhere that you're listening has different commercials. We're not listening to the same ones. 00:37:51 Speaker 1: But I have to listen to them. You have to. 00:37:54 Speaker 3: You have to. 00:37:55 Speaker 5: It's your job. 00:37:55 Speaker 1: I have to. That's right.