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Speaker 1: right over there he's he's actually wearing clothes today, David Gascon,
Speaker 1: Are you clopping for yourself? What a duck. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Man Um shaved off most of the beard, got a haircut.
Speaker 1: I have this great stash that I must brag about
Speaker 1: because I really don't grow a mustache too well. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's majestic, it's beautiful. It's everything that you thought it
Speaker 1: would be, and it is. It's not really like you
Speaker 1: to be narcissistic, and I agree. I agree, it's rare
Speaker 1: for you. It's out of your comfort zone. I know
Speaker 1: you're pretty self deprecating. That's usually how you. I just
Speaker 1: finished another book and it made me think about you. Um.
Speaker 1: It's a book by Steve Steve Martin, the comedian, and
Speaker 1: it's called Born Standing Up and the opening chapter, on
Speaker 1: one of his lines says that stand up comedy on
Speaker 1: a stage by yourself is the egos last stand. And
Speaker 1: I thought, like, damn, that's just like ben like the
Speaker 1: environment that you're in right now. You're almost like a
Speaker 1: pinata at times, or you have been over the last week,
Speaker 1: week and a half. You're you're taking on you're taking
Speaker 1: on water random fire from I'm Coming Bogie's and you
Speaker 1: learn also friendly fire, friendly fire, which we will address you.
Speaker 1: I've been attacked by my own staff that don't agree
Speaker 1: with my beliefs, and uh it's wild, you know. I
Speaker 1: I was really just kind of just my head was spinning.
Speaker 1: I was like, how did I end up on a
Speaker 1: spot like I listened to these other shows sometimes and
Speaker 1: they're the people they work with are like so supportive
Speaker 1: and they really try to make them sound great and
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, how the how the fund did I
Speaker 1: end up in a position where my own staff is
Speaker 1: attacking me and then celebrating it. It is wild and
Speaker 1: getting away with it. It is just insanity. It's like
Speaker 1: what Vince Kelly said at the end of Game six.
Speaker 1: Your staff is alive and they are well and clearly
Speaker 1: don't mind me. You know, they don't think anything of it.
Speaker 1: I I was suddenly like, I'm trying to put myself
Speaker 1: how I relate to that? When I remember when I
Speaker 1: was early in the business, and you know, I was
Speaker 1: so worried about, um, you know, being being looked at
Speaker 1: the right way, being accountable and trying to do the
Speaker 1: right thing, you know, and trying to you know, pump
Speaker 1: up if I was. I did produce some radio shows
Speaker 1: early on, and I was a sidekick, and I always
Speaker 1: always tried to see how could I help the host
Speaker 1: sound better. Um, now some of the people I work
Speaker 1: with are trying to make me sound worse when she's uh,
Speaker 1: it's bad enough, you've got to fight the callers. They're
Speaker 1: idiots that call up, But then then you gotta fight
Speaker 1: the people you work with. It's uh, it's insane. It
Speaker 1: was a very interesting, eye opening experience, but not not somebody.
Speaker 1: You know. I've kidded around a lot about the Bennetts,
Speaker 1: and I've talked about you know, like the Dan Dan
Speaker 1: Patricks surrounded by people that just lick and just you know,
Speaker 1: give them bubble bass and all that. I don't really
Speaker 1: need that. I'm not really looking for that. But I'm
Speaker 1: also not looking to be attacked while I'm while I'm
Speaker 1: doing my job. I don't don't need that either. But
Speaker 1: but but so be it. So I actually wanted to
Speaker 1: talk kind of about that because I did get into
Speaker 1: a battle with one of the people I work with
Speaker 1: about the the cancel culture which is out there, and
Speaker 1: I just I think it's ridiculous that to me, the
Speaker 1: there's so many bad parts to cancel culture. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll start with this here on the podcast. Uh, from
Speaker 1: the fact that there's no conversation, right, it just destroys conversation.
Speaker 1: If you cancel someone you don't agree with, you don't
Speaker 1: have it back and forth. And and again, maybe it's
Speaker 1: just a byproduct of how I was raised. And I've
Speaker 1: told the story. My mom was liberal, my dad conservative,
Speaker 1: and they would debate the issues of the day at
Speaker 1: the dinner dinner table. And by the way, my mom
Speaker 1: would often win because my dad would let me and
Speaker 1: my mom went, but they would they would go back
Speaker 1: and forth, and then it was fine, we just go
Speaker 1: watch TV or whatever, and that was it. And and
Speaker 1: so they heard the other side, they disagreed, and then
Speaker 1: that was it. And now, uh, there's no there's no
Speaker 1: empathy at all for that right. That is gone. And
Speaker 1: people only want to be unchallenged. And they believe. The
Speaker 1: other thing is they think they have the im moral
Speaker 1: high ground on everything. And uh, and I don't agree
Speaker 1: with that. I don't agree with, you know, tearing down
Speaker 1: statues and getting rid of um things in general. I
Speaker 1: just think and certainly people more than I debate certain
Speaker 1: symbols and things like that. Um, But to cancel a
Speaker 1: human being because they take a particular viewpoint, And how
Speaker 1: can society succeed, at least a society you would want
Speaker 1: to live in. I mean, certainly there are countries where
Speaker 1: that is the the way that they do things. That's
Speaker 1: not a place I would want to live. That's not
Speaker 1: a place I would even want to visit. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, I know, the whole free speech thing in
Speaker 1: the first Amendment covers only speech against the government. But
Speaker 1: I mean, and I think we're on the same page
Speaker 1: on this guest gun, that we're reading out of the
Speaker 1: same playbook, that you should have the freedom to express
Speaker 1: opinions that are not the same. I mean I personally,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how you feel about this, but
Speaker 1: I don't like talking to people that always agree with
Speaker 1: everything I say. And part of the reason for that
Speaker 1: is just education wise, opinion wise, no individuals the same
Speaker 1: as another, So I always I'm always looking to hear
Speaker 1: or gain insight, or to get a better understanding of
Speaker 1: what the other person sees, feels, thanks or is looking towards.
Speaker 1: And my biggest concern now is that you have individuals
Speaker 1: and not naming anyone specifically, but people that are tweeting
Speaker 1: out things from their own personal accounts or a Facebook
Speaker 1: account or a webcast or whatever it may be, and
Speaker 1: god forbid, it's different from whatever their company views. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, they're getting fired and the
Speaker 1: people are getting terminated because they have their own personal
Speaker 1: opinions on their own personal platforms. And then you get
Speaker 1: the mob that comes after you, or it comes after
Speaker 1: the employer, and then you're chopped at the knees, and
Speaker 1: so I am fascinated by it. But I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: because a lot of this, and I think the majority
Speaker 1: of people will agree with me on this, is that
Speaker 1: this is all based on emotion. Where do you get
Speaker 1: not a lot of information, but you get people pressing
Speaker 1: at you with emotional hot topics that are so inflammatory
Speaker 1: that people are so quick to respond, And it's instant.
Speaker 1: It's instant, and it's never about processing it and diagnosing
Speaker 1: what the actual facts or what the story is behind
Speaker 1: everything that's going on to the forefront. Well, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's the word is discourse, right, you should have some discourse.
Speaker 1: You should invite that in your life. That's a life
Speaker 1: well lived. You hear different, then you decide right, And
Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't be so bullheaded that you can't change
Speaker 1: your mind on things. That's not what I'm I'm saying
Speaker 1: at all, but that is what's going on. Right, You've
Speaker 1: made your mind up, you're on your team. You know,
Speaker 1: it's you're on this side of the aisle or you're
Speaker 1: on that side of the aisle. But when you stop
Speaker 1: talking to people that disagree with you, there's no room
Speaker 1: for growth. When you start, you just shut them down
Speaker 1: and you're like society in general, right there needs to
Speaker 1: be you know, people talk about diversity, that's a big
Speaker 1: term these days, but intellectual diversity um is also something
Speaker 1: that leads to society getting better, not worse, at least
Speaker 1: the way I see it through my eyes. And you
Speaker 1: might disagree with that you're listening, but it's just it's one.
Speaker 1: It's the echo chamber. What I've experienced over the last
Speaker 1: well a few weeks, probably longer than that even, but
Speaker 1: it's been highlight in the last couple of weeks is
Speaker 1: the the divided echo chamber, where it's everything is distorted.
Speaker 1: I think that's the way to to say it. Everything
Speaker 1: is kind of distorted right now. And uh, it's just
Speaker 1: it is. It's poison. Cancel culture to me is poison.
Speaker 1: And I got attacked because I this Confederate flag. I'm
Speaker 1: not from the South. I don't know anyone that owns
Speaker 1: a Confederate flag, but I do know people from the South,
Speaker 1: and some of them are not. They're not all racist.
Speaker 1: Everyone with a brad a brush the same. There there
Speaker 1: are people that believe that that's just you know, southern,
Speaker 1: southern pride or whatever. That's their their thing. Not to me.
Speaker 1: They're not coming at it as a racist. They that's
Speaker 1: just the roots of the South. And you know who
Speaker 1: the hell cares if you If you think that's a
Speaker 1: racist signal, well, okay, anytime someone puts that up, then
Speaker 1: you can say that's a racist over the or they've
Speaker 1: got the flag up. But to cancel. The other thing
Speaker 1: too about the cancel culture is once you cancel something,
Speaker 1: it in many ways becomes more valuable, right or people
Speaker 1: look to it they're like, well, you're canceling it. But
Speaker 1: just in general, I mean that's a that's a sidebar,
Speaker 1: but just in general. Um, it's when you a race
Speaker 1: history or you know it, uh, and you're doomed often
Speaker 1: to repeat it. Right. I believe that to be true.
Speaker 1: I believe that to be true. And you you end
Speaker 1: up as a culture eating yourself alive when that takes place,
Speaker 1: and it's beginning to happen, I mean, the uh, the
Speaker 1: Civil War was was a long time ago, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago. And the conversation, you know, I've
Speaker 1: been to Gettysburg. I was at the museum at Gettysburg,
Speaker 1: and and and are they are we gonna get rid
Speaker 1: of those two because the reminders of what happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: how far do you go? Where's the line that that
Speaker 1: is drawn? And who's drawing the line on that stuff?
Speaker 1: Yea was the question I was gonna ask you is
Speaker 1: when is enough going to be enough? And it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you're a right winger, a left winger, somewhere
Speaker 1: in between, because eventually it's like a virus and eventually
Speaker 1: it'll eat everything up and eat it alive. And that's
Speaker 1: the part that we're living in right now. You can
Speaker 1: go to anything you've been to get his bird, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, But the most powering moment for me, taking
Speaker 1: from a textbook and saw in real life, was going
Speaker 1: to the concentration camps. You can go and you can
Speaker 1: talk about so many different things with world history, U
Speaker 1: S history, whatever it may be. But aschwitzen Berken, now
Speaker 1: there was nothing like it, but to think that you
Speaker 1: have to get away from it or rid it because
Speaker 1: of its past, Like there are the lumps that you
Speaker 1: take and you don't wipe it away. You use it
Speaker 1: to build on. It's like a scar that obviously you
Speaker 1: will never be fully healed, but you use it as
Speaker 1: a reminder of what was and what is now. And
Speaker 1: so like going back to Colin Kaepernick, I think of
Speaker 1: it as as vegetables were. You know back in the
Speaker 1: day when I was a kid, I hated vegetables, But
Speaker 1: you learn to like it or you literally least have
Speaker 1: it because it's it's good for you. It's healthy for you.
Speaker 1: So his protests, while I might not have liked it,
Speaker 1: I completely understand and I was totally acceptable of it.
Speaker 1: Now it was a little bit different where I felt
Speaker 1: like his message was misconstrued when all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's wearing socks that that you know, dignified cops as
Speaker 1: being pigs, or Fidel Castro's shirt, like, I feel like
Speaker 1: the message after that was just it was watered down
Speaker 1: and deluded. Where his original intent was one thing and
Speaker 1: it was strong and powerful. But then when you piggyback
Speaker 1: off of that with different messages about cops in general,
Speaker 1: a sweeping statement, or communists in a foreign land, I
Speaker 1: think that, really, I think it waters down your original message.
Speaker 1: But going back to him, you know, with what he
Speaker 1: did initially with San Francisco, HAD had absolutely zero problem
Speaker 1: with it. I had zero problems with what people were
Speaker 1: doing with the Women's March or the marches for for
Speaker 1: George Floyd, whether it's in d C. Or New York
Speaker 1: or or Minneapolis. But then when it turns physical, and
Speaker 1: then it turns into where you're just trashing these cities,
Speaker 1: trashing and shooting at cops or civilians because you want
Speaker 1: to have a right to protest. I think that really
Speaker 1: escapes from what your original intent should have been or was.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, giving statues in general. You know,
Speaker 1: you can say, well, no one should get a statue
Speaker 1: because really, when you peel back the onion on statues,
Speaker 1: no one is pure. And it's like the centers in
Speaker 1: the Saints, right, people are part saint and part center,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and there's in what's offensive. The
Speaker 1: one person might not be offensive to the next person.
Speaker 1: So depending on how you know, small minded or narrow minded,
Speaker 1: myopic you are, if you will, you might think something
Speaker 1: is it's like tomato, tomato, potato, potato, right, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: for one person, this is horrible whatever whatever issue it is,
Speaker 1: and the other person's like, I don't even care. I
Speaker 1: don't put any value in that. So it really depends
Speaker 1: on who's defining it. And as far as like my
Speaker 1: my experience, one of my my good friends who worked
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio, who is I consider a radical
Speaker 1: extremist for the Liberal party is Tom Looney, um, and
Speaker 1: he's outspoken, right, and he I think he likes a
Speaker 1: lot of the descent that is happening right now. But
Speaker 1: we we talk and we uh, we go by. We
Speaker 1: text a lot these days. We go back and forth,
Speaker 1: and uh, I love Loon. I think Loon is great.
Speaker 1: I love working with him, and I think he feels
Speaker 1: the same way about me. But uh, but you know,
Speaker 1: we don't agree about that. But is that that is allowed?
Speaker 1: But I guess in the society as a whole, you
Speaker 1: can't do it. You have to cancel it. And it
Speaker 1: really goes back to something we used to mock a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, guests on the micro aggression crowd.
Speaker 1: This is a byproduct of that, right, this is the
Speaker 1: byproduct of the triggered snowflake hipster. It's what it is, right,
Speaker 1: because you you need to be safe right, Different opinions
Speaker 1: don't make you feel safe. They they they challenge your beliefs,
Speaker 1: and so therefore you have to get rid of them
Speaker 1: because you need to go back to your safe space.
Speaker 1: You need trigger warnings. It's the continually offended mob, which
Speaker 1: is big given power, which is from where I said,
Speaker 1: not a good thing. Apparently other people seem to enjoy
Speaker 1: it because the mob is running unchecked with with their pitchforks,
Speaker 1: their cyber pitchforks and their cyber torches, and they're going
Speaker 1: around That actually leads us into a story. I mentioned
Speaker 1: this with Jerry Callahan on yesterday's podcast. I usually wanted
Speaker 1: to get into it more on what kind of bullshit
Speaker 1: Twitter actually is. You know, now, I'm on Twitter and
Speaker 1: I've I've been attacked a few times, but I've I've
Speaker 1: tried to cut back the last a few weeks on
Speaker 1: how much I'm on Twitter because I don't really I
Speaker 1: don't put as much value into as you used to.
Speaker 1: It's I had it's been an eye opening experience here
Speaker 1: the last last couple of weeks. But did you see
Speaker 1: that Pew study on the actual impact of Twitter? Did
Speaker 1: you see this guest going a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: And I know you highlighted up with Jerry yesterday. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: so this is very interesting. So there were results of
Speaker 1: the there's a Pew study that found that this is wild.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this with Jerry. Maybe you didn't pay attention
Speaker 1: to it because most people don't pay attention to everything.
Speaker 1: We say. So, uh, the top ten percent of people
Speaker 1: that are on Twitter, the top ten percent of users tweeters,
Speaker 1: if you will, are responsible for eighty percent of the
Speaker 1: content created in the United States by adults. Now think
Speaker 1: about that. Think about that. First of all, you break
Speaker 1: down the numbers, right, you peel everything back. You're like, okay,
Speaker 1: so not everyone's on Twitter. The people that are on Twitter,
Speaker 1: most of them aren't that active. Some people check it
Speaker 1: maybe once a week, if that, maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: times a month total um. And the other thing about this,
Speaker 1: which was interesting from the Pew studies that the Twitter
Speaker 1: user is much younger than the average US adult and
Speaker 1: more likely to be democratic, according to the Pew study,
Speaker 1: And so the takeaway from that, the only logical takeaway
Speaker 1: from that would be that a reaction that goes viral
Speaker 1: on Twitter, whether it be something you agree with or
Speaker 1: something you don't agree with does not actually represent the
Speaker 1: sentiment of the general population in the United States. But
Speaker 1: yet major companies who are covering their buttocks every day
Speaker 1: because of a Twitter mob. They treat this like the
Speaker 1: Holy Grail. They treat this like the Gospel. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's really one of those things where
Speaker 1: you look at your just your head spinning. Here and again,
Speaker 1: I gotta highlight that this Pew study showed that a
Speaker 1: very small fraction of people on Twitter are actually responsible
Speaker 1: for four out of every five tweets. And I was
Speaker 1: talking to a buddy mine and radio uh that that's
Speaker 1: in you know, somewhere I'm gonna say where I don't
Speaker 1: get to get in trouble. But we were talking back
Speaker 1: and forth, and he brought up a point that that
Speaker 1: there's so many bots on Twitter that it's conceivable that
Speaker 1: a couple of people with access to the bot army,
Speaker 1: would you know, they're they're leading the continually offensive mob
Speaker 1: and all that they could literally get someone canceled with
Speaker 1: just a couple of people. But it makes it seem
Speaker 1: right perception versus reality. The perception is there's thousands of
Speaker 1: people that are upset with celebrity X. But in reality,
Speaker 1: it's three people that have mastered the algorithms of Twitter
Speaker 1: and know how to send an army of bots to
Speaker 1: attack and then sure enough, like the Breakfast Cereal Snap
Speaker 1: Crackle Pop, goes the celebrity and they're dead. There, They're
Speaker 1: they're ended. It's it's so so ridunculous. But it's the
Speaker 1: thing about Twitter. And I've used this analogy on the
Speaker 1: radio show and I think it applies here. It's it's
Speaker 1: not the you know, the legend becomes the fact that one.
Speaker 1: This is more the tinker Bell effect, which is a
Speaker 1: similar thing. Right, if enough people believe hard enough that
Speaker 1: the Twitter mob is exists and they're real, they do right.
Speaker 1: And but yet you look at the actual research which
Speaker 1: looks at this and says it's bullshit. Of the content
Speaker 1: comes from ten percent of the people. But yet no, no,
Speaker 1: it's real. It's it's the tinker Bell effect because it
Speaker 1: must be real because enough people believe the mob is really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this kind of leads me to what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: Whether it's for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: or news outlets around the globe, there's no accountability. So
Speaker 1: if you provide any kind of content, any information outside
Speaker 1: of of being suit for liabel like, there's no there's
Speaker 1: no pushback, there's no accountabilities, So you can say or
Speaker 1: or publish whatever kind of information you want and people
Speaker 1: will eat it up. And obviously there's no age requirement
Speaker 1: for for Twitter and the social media accounts, so when
Speaker 1: you come on there, you are easily influenced if you're
Speaker 1: believe in one thing or another, or if you are
Speaker 1: a young person that just doesn't have that kind of
Speaker 1: background or education and you don't know any better, so
Speaker 1: you fall into that state where there's as of now,
Speaker 1: there's one point three billion Twitter accounts that are out
Speaker 1: there in the world out of seven and a half
Speaker 1: eight billion people in this world. So yeah, it's is he.
Speaker 1: But when you think about the way that influencers work
Speaker 1: and the way that advertising dollars work and the money
Speaker 1: that's involved, people are making so much money on Instagram
Speaker 1: and on Twitter and on YouTube that they will tell
Speaker 1: the company line to better themselves and until something deadly
Speaker 1: or or diabolical happens to that individual, do they care.
Speaker 1: The answer is more often not know. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: the it's it's like I remember when I was in college,
Speaker 1: not that I paid much attention it saddleback, but I
Speaker 1: remember at a professor that talked about television and how
Speaker 1: it's able to manipulate the mind, you know, and and
Speaker 1: the same many of those same things are involved in
Speaker 1: social media. When you get on social media on your
Speaker 1: phone and you think this is the real world, you
Speaker 1: think this is a representation of the real world. Is not.
Speaker 1: And it's also kind of like a little bit like
Speaker 1: how you know, how the casinos do it where you
Speaker 1: hear the sounds of the slot machines and the jackpots
Speaker 1: and it kind of sucks you into gamble more at
Speaker 1: the casino and they don't put clocks in the casino
Speaker 1: and they do all these little mine mine tricks that
Speaker 1: gets you to stay in the casino longer and gamble. Well,
Speaker 1: social media does that too, with the the everyone wants
Speaker 1: to get clout on social media who's on there, and
Speaker 1: so your notifications on Twitter, right, Actually that's a big thing,
Speaker 1: you know, and you get a message on your phone,
Speaker 1: you've got notifications that you go back to look it's
Speaker 1: like you go back and check out your notifications and
Speaker 1: all that, and it's it is really able to manipulate
Speaker 1: the deal there. But anyway, all right, so just to
Speaker 1: kind of wrap up this part of the conversation, the
Speaker 1: mob attacks it is again perception, as I said, verse
Speaker 1: all right, the you think the entire country it was
Speaker 1: attacking Drew Brees for example, And I got a lot
Speaker 1: of people like, why are why does Drew Bries apologizing?
Speaker 1: The feedback I got from it, I feel like there's
Speaker 1: a silent group of people out there that actually still
Speaker 1: have common sense and still get what the world's really
Speaker 1: about here and are open to dialogue and whatnot. But
Speaker 1: they've they've been marginalized and they've been pushed aside. And
Speaker 1: we'll see how many of those people are out there,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out in the coming months and
Speaker 1: as the Year of the Apocalypse continues. But just a
Speaker 1: small group of extremists that have figured out the algorithms
Speaker 1: can coordinate an attack, a cyber mob attack against an individual,
Speaker 1: and the companies haven't figured out that it might be bullshit.
Speaker 1: It might be bullshit, and it's crazy. I'm fascinating to
Speaker 1: By the way, that the the environment that we're in
Speaker 1: right now, because I think it's low hanging fruit, much
Speaker 1: like football. Right Like, if you are in sports, I
Speaker 1: think you'd with me that most people will gravitate towards
Speaker 1: football as broadcasters because it's the easiest sport for you
Speaker 1: to comment on, not necessarily basketball, not necessarily baseball, and
Speaker 1: not hockeys. Certainly football is that the immediate gratification you
Speaker 1: get seventeen weeks plus postseason, or college football the same thing,
Speaker 1: like eleven twelve weeks and then bowl games. But everybody
Speaker 1: likes football compared to the other sports. And I feel
Speaker 1: like in this environment, it is so easy to attack,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter who it is. You know, people
Speaker 1: attacked people attack Trump, people attacked Obama, people attacked Bush
Speaker 1: before that and before that was Clinton whatnot. But I
Speaker 1: think it's so easy to go all the way up
Speaker 1: high to the food chain in our government. But people
Speaker 1: fail to recognize, Hey, why don't you deal with what
Speaker 1: you got in your own backyard, your representatives in your
Speaker 1: local area, your mayors, your governors, the Senator. Like there's
Speaker 1: just so many people, especially to state like California or
Speaker 1: Texas or New York or Florida, that you need to
Speaker 1: look at, like the elected officials in your area first
Speaker 1: before you think about going all the way up, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that you can take care
Speaker 1: of at a municipal level as opposed to going at
Speaker 1: a federal level. And I think that gets lost in
Speaker 1: the general public. Well, it's not it's not sexy. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean right, I mean, your local city
Speaker 1: council person isn't sexy. Your local mayor isn't sexy until
Speaker 1: your mayor decides to let a police station burn. In Minnesota,
Speaker 1: how that fund did that guy get elected mayor? My god,
Speaker 1: Mike and all those the city council people get rid
Speaker 1: of the police and I mean, it's unbelievable these people
Speaker 1: got voted in the office. I mean, I I have
Speaker 1: a lot, we have a lot of fans of the
Speaker 1: show in Minnesota where it seemed like just wonderful, reasonable
Speaker 1: people like how the hell does that slip past the goaltender? Me?
Speaker 1: How how does that get through? I just it's amazing
Speaker 1: that that could happen. And you look at some of
Speaker 1: the stuff, you know, I love Seattle too, was in
Speaker 1: Seattle last year. It's a it's a really cool city.
Speaker 1: It's I love the vibe and Seattle. But I mean
Speaker 1: you allow your city to be taken over, to have
Speaker 1: a to have a sovereign a few blocks of the city.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just you try to you
Speaker 1: try to think about that as a rational person. You're like,
Speaker 1: it just it's it's nuts. Yeah, it's man, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you just you hope obviously cooler heads will prevail. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, everyone's gonna be accountable for their
Speaker 1: own actions, right, Like, I don't need or want someone
Speaker 1: talking down at me or telling me like this is
Speaker 1: what you gotta do, or you should act like this,
Speaker 1: or you should feel like that, or you need to
Speaker 1: do this, or you need to do that. Take care
Speaker 1: of your fucking own business before everybody else. Well, that's
Speaker 1: that's a big part of the part. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: really late. You've hit the nail on the head there,
Speaker 1: because the reality is I think that's the big thing.
Speaker 1: Everyone there's like playing the victim. People love to be
Speaker 1: the victim, whatever the circumstances. I'm the victim, right, I'm
Speaker 1: the victim. I you know that. There's like that gets
Speaker 1: you cloud being a victim. You know, I'm not that
Speaker 1: old like thing. Maybe I am now, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I was not raised that way where you know
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I was raised as as I
Speaker 1: think you were similarly. Guests gun that you be accountable
Speaker 1: for your actions, right, and you do, like I always
Speaker 1: bring up the Code of the West quite a bit,
Speaker 1: you know, And uh, and that's that's an important thing
Speaker 1: that you know, you leave live each day with courage,
Speaker 1: you take pride in your work, You finish what you start,
Speaker 1: you do what has to be done right. You get
Speaker 1: those kind of of tenements in the in the code away,
Speaker 1: which I think is a good way to live your life.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, no, I'm the victim. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not in control of my life. These evil people
Speaker 1: are leading me astray. And uh, such a defeatist attitude.
Speaker 1: It is such a defeatist attitude. It's it is. I
Speaker 1: think the one thing that I was fortunate to have
Speaker 1: growing up and and even becoming an adult was that
Speaker 1: the luxury of playing athletic sports like at the at
Speaker 1: the college level, you know, high school, the whole whole
Speaker 1: nine yards. But I was taught two things like one
Speaker 1: you need to take care of yourself and too, if
Speaker 1: you're not picking up the slack, you're either one gonna
Speaker 1: get replaced or two you're gonna get your ass kicked.
Speaker 1: So like I became a better athlete by being smaller
Speaker 1: and not as strong and getting my ass kicked until
Speaker 1: I learned to get myself up, train harder, workout harder,
Speaker 1: and become smarter at how I was applying my craft
Speaker 1: and at the college level too, Like I, there was
Speaker 1: countless times I'd go into a game strap up and
Speaker 1: I'd see some dude as a defensive tackle ben and
Speaker 1: the guys like six ft two, six ft three calves
Speaker 1: bigger than my arms to eight two ninety, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my fucking ass ruined right now. And
Speaker 1: then I'd out working with better technique. And you know,
Speaker 1: in a game like football or baseball or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter your skin color, your sexual orientation, your creed,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, because the word board tells tells the tale,
Speaker 1: and whether you have eleven guys on the field at
Speaker 1: once or not, Like that's the That's the luxury I
Speaker 1: had because it didn't matter where we're from or what
Speaker 1: we did. We all came together for the same common goal,
Speaker 1: and that was to win and beat the ship out
Speaker 1: of somebody else in the process. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally.
Speaker 1: Uh that's and it's when you peel everything back to
Speaker 1: the bedrock of sports, right, that's what it is. Right.
Speaker 1: They always talk about the people who love sports, talking
Speaker 1: about the what's the word I'm thinking of here? Uh? Boys, see,
Speaker 1: it's it's weird. We're recording this podcast early in the day,
Speaker 1: which is which is uh, which is odd for me
Speaker 1: to be be away, but but no, the the assimilation
Speaker 1: that takes place and the fact that it's a meritocracy,
Speaker 1: that's the word. I was like, it's a meritocracy, right
Speaker 1: that it doesn't really matter your background if you're from
Speaker 1: the good part of town or the bad, like you
Speaker 1: being west of the four oh five me from east
Speaker 1: of the four oh you know, it's it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: you have the same common goal and you fight for
Speaker 1: that and that's just the way it is. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's but it's wild though because even here, like most
Speaker 1: people don't know this, but here locally, I know you're aware,
Speaker 1: but like some of the powerhouse high schools in the
Speaker 1: area that bring out some of the best talent in
Speaker 1: all of college football. Our modern day St. John Bosco,
Speaker 1: Orange Lutheran UM schools in the Orange County or in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. But they have kids that if they don't
Speaker 1: see time right away, they fucking transferred to another high school.
Speaker 1: Like we're talking about high school kids that are acting
Speaker 1: like free agents to go to another high school. And
Speaker 1: then when you get to college, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: if you get no plane time, then what do you do.
Speaker 1: You fucking transfer out again, Like there's no there's no
Speaker 1: accountability to use you an individual to outperform and outwork somebody.
Speaker 1: You just go somewhere else where you can see greener grass.
Speaker 1: Hopefully be sure to catch live editions of the Ben
Speaker 1: Maller Show weeks Pacific. Yeah, it's take the easy road,
Speaker 1: Take the easier road. And I remember we were doing
Speaker 1: that high school football game, wasn't there one one of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks had been like three high schools or something
Speaker 1: like that, and it's like, jeez school, yeah yeah. And
Speaker 1: the other I want to go back to the Twitter
Speaker 1: attack thing because the other thing that that Pew study
Speaker 1: determined was that even in the eye of the storm,
Speaker 1: the storm doesn't last very long, Like the news cycle
Speaker 1: isn't even twenty four hours, like because a day later,
Speaker 1: the mob has moved on to the to the next target. Right,
Speaker 1: they shift their focus. They don't stay on a target
Speaker 1: for more than than a day or so. And the
Speaker 1: Keyboard Warriors, if you just you know, show some rhino
Speaker 1: skin and defend, if you're an advertiser, a big media company,
Speaker 1: defend your people, defend your your employee, then you're being
Speaker 1: better situation. But that that is also people. They get stampeded, right,
Speaker 1: that's what happened. So so when when you had that,
Speaker 1: when you had that kind of discourse on the air
Speaker 1: earlier this week with Coop, Yeah, like what did you like?
Speaker 1: What sets you off? Or I guess what set him off?
Speaker 1: Like why was there such a big conflict outside of well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's because I again, I was raised where
Speaker 1: you don't cancel stuff you don't like Coop then thought
Speaker 1: he was raised. He likes he wants to cancel everything,
Speaker 1: and he's totally in lockstep with the current online community
Speaker 1: of you know, everything's racist, get rid of everything and
Speaker 1: and all that. And so we were talking about the
Speaker 1: NASCAR store and I was like well, I think it
Speaker 1: was Brad Keslowski who came out and made some comments.
Speaker 1: He's like, listen, I don't I don't really care about
Speaker 1: the flag and I don't uh it's not important to
Speaker 1: me or whatever. And I don't I don't honor the FO,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it should be you know, outlawed
Speaker 1: or whatever, because it's some people that feel differently about
Speaker 1: it and they're not racist or whatever. It's something along those.
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing a lot of this, but so I agree
Speaker 1: with Brad Kislowski. Um. And then Coop got all the
Speaker 1: set and then of course he he blindside of me
Speaker 1: because I was taught I wasn't talking to him, and
Speaker 1: he chimed in and he started getting into this and
Speaker 1: then uh talking with the liberal talking points and all that.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh so he's, oh, what about what about?
Speaker 1: You know? He always and there's a phrase that I
Speaker 1: brought up on the air, because you know, when you've
Speaker 1: lost the argument when you go to the Nazi to
Speaker 1: the Hitler cart and and now he he went right
Speaker 1: to to that situation. Goodwins law. Um. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know what Goodwin's law is, it's the first person
Speaker 1: that in a conversation, if conversation goes long enough, the
Speaker 1: theory is that someone will bring up either Hitler or
Speaker 1: the Nazis, and whoever brings that up has lost the argument, right,
Speaker 1: and you can't respect that person because they have to
Speaker 1: resort to the worst mass murdering dictator in the history
Speaker 1: of the world, which means you have no better argument
Speaker 1: than that. Right, you have no better argument than that.
Speaker 1: Once you have a comparison to a Nazi or Hitler,
Speaker 1: the debate is done. Right if if you've mentioned either
Speaker 1: Hitler or the Nazis, you have automatically lost whatever conversation
Speaker 1: you're having. I mean, that's just that's it. So it's
Speaker 1: called Goodwin's law and it's uh coop violet it. But
Speaker 1: ye honest, I don't agree that. Obviously NASCAR did it.
Speaker 1: I wonder if NASCAR is going to actually feel a
Speaker 1: hit on that and how are they going to enforce it? Though.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing, because people wear in the South,
Speaker 1: there are people that wear the Confederate flag on shirts
Speaker 1: and hats. Are they gonna band shirts and hats that
Speaker 1: have the Confederate flag? And I imagine a scenario when
Speaker 1: things get back to normal, and there's tailgating, which is
Speaker 1: a big part of the NASCAR exp variance is to
Speaker 1: go out there. It's a three day event and you're
Speaker 1: just out there drinking beer all day and barbecuing, and
Speaker 1: then you go watch the race. What are they gonna
Speaker 1: do if somebody raises up a Confederate flag above their
Speaker 1: RV at Talladega? Is NASCAR gonna actually enforce that? Is
Speaker 1: actually police able to enforce that? And what happens? You know,
Speaker 1: if you want to go down the rabbit hole? Um,
Speaker 1: you know the cliche of the redneck NASCAR fan is
Speaker 1: that they've got guns, right, so are you're gonna then
Speaker 1: you see some guy go to his pickup truck get
Speaker 1: a shotgun out, and then you gonna have a confrontation
Speaker 1: because of that. Is that where we're gonna get? I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's wild. I know earlier this week they
Speaker 1: had a race in Martinsville and that was right after
Speaker 1: NASCAR declared no more Confederate flags. But I saw a
Speaker 1: viewership was up on FS one. I think it was
Speaker 1: like a hundred three or a hundred four percent. So
Speaker 1: I wonder how the the viewership will be because don't
Speaker 1: forget you mentioned NASCAR, but this is gonna carry over
Speaker 1: to the National football like and college football too, no
Speaker 1: matter what your stances on it or not, like you're
Speaker 1: gonna have more protests or you're gonna have more people
Speaker 1: do things if the national anthem still played before kickoff.
Speaker 1: And so I'm fascinated by that. I do think it's
Speaker 1: really challenging. I'm surprised you guys did this, but I
Speaker 1: think it's really a difficult spot for you and Coope
Speaker 1: and Roberto and added to be on on the show
Speaker 1: because you have your blocks of time. You gotta get
Speaker 1: in and get the hell out. So it's not like
Speaker 1: you can have too much nuanced conversation because then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you gonna pivot go somewhere else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we well, you know, the monologues I do.
Speaker 1: I can do ten twelve minutes probably, and then I
Speaker 1: sometimes I go longer than that when I'm not supposed to.
Speaker 1: But that's supposed to be like ten twelve, thirteen minutes
Speaker 1: at the most. And then the rest of the show
Speaker 1: is just a lot of like a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: on this, couple of minutes on that, onto the next thing,
Speaker 1: and just keep it it's like a juggling. You gotta
Speaker 1: keep it, keep it juggling, all right. So let's move
Speaker 1: on from Yes, there's other things. Uh, we've got studying
Speaker 1: survey of this, we have that. We also have pop quiz,
Speaker 1: which I like. We're getting a little along in the
Speaker 1: in the tooth on this one. Let's go do why
Speaker 1: don't we do to Twitter? I'll go back to Twitter
Speaker 1: because they did you see this? They are testing a
Speaker 1: new feature that will recommend reading an article before sharing it.
Speaker 1: It's according to a statement made by the company. The
Speaker 1: feature is being tested on Android devices right now and
Speaker 1: will prompt users asking if they'd like to open the
Speaker 1: article before they share it if you haven't opened the
Speaker 1: article on Twitter, that's a good idea. I like it
Speaker 1: because it sends you to a third party. The only
Speaker 1: reason I wouldn't like it is more on than not.
Speaker 1: When you get articles from a news publication now, you're
Speaker 1: either required to register for their for their article and
Speaker 1: for their site, or you have to pay a subscription cost,
Speaker 1: which the paywall. Yeah, the paywall pall. It gives you
Speaker 1: like a quick paragraph or two and then it cuts
Speaker 1: you off. I'm not downing well. I like the idea
Speaker 1: of it. I think the idea of it is good
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of people that just comment and
Speaker 1: just see the headline and then they react to it,
Speaker 1: and then they have a hot take and then they
Speaker 1: you know, that's how it goes. But the other thing
Speaker 1: is that that is what social media is about, right,
Speaker 1: overreacting two things that you don't need to overreact to
Speaker 1: based on one sentence. That's the whole concept of Twitter. Right.
Speaker 1: They limited at a hundred eight characters. Well, if you
Speaker 1: really wanted more dialogue, wouldn't you allow more than a characters?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be true? Right, because otherwise you're limiting the dialogue.
Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, study and survey these batteries. These
Speaker 1: are actual studies, real or bullshit. We determine tribute a
Speaker 1: homage dependent teller batteries charged by humidity. Water vapor emerges
Speaker 1: as a strong source of renewable energy. So they're they're
Speaker 1: claiming that just by water vapor they can turn that
Speaker 1: into to electricity. Uh. Now, you think based on the planet,
Speaker 1: most of the planet is water. If you could turn
Speaker 1: salt water into energy, then we're good to go. Right,
Speaker 1: We're set up. We're this would be a wonderful thing,
Speaker 1: which true. But the other, the other factor is that
Speaker 1: how much how much time and effort does it take
Speaker 1: to do that? Because I know, uh, there's a group
Speaker 1: out of Israel that was trying to figure out and
Speaker 1: they did figure out a way to turn salt water
Speaker 1: into drinkable water. But the amount of time and the
Speaker 1: amount of money that it costs, they haven't been able
Speaker 1: to get that down low enough where it makes sense
Speaker 1: on a long wide basis. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the humidity in this. Is this your sneaky
Speaker 1: way of bringing in Florida man, since this is probably
Speaker 1: working great in Florida. You know, I didn't see too
Speaker 1: many Florida man stories. I only saw I saw a
Speaker 1: couple of them. There was we were the two. The
Speaker 1: two that I saw. I saw it was a Florida
Speaker 1: politician who was running for county commissioner. He a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago had been charged with running a brothel
Speaker 1: and he but now he gets he got through all
Speaker 1: his legal troubles, so now he wants his job back
Speaker 1: as a politician. That's a Florida man. Uh. The other
Speaker 1: Florida man story I saw was a guy facing felony
Speaker 1: charges because police claim that he let a twelve year
Speaker 1: old girl drive his SUV and told her to speed
Speaker 1: because he said to the police he wanted to be
Speaker 1: a cool father. Now, the funniest part about the story, guestscan,
Speaker 1: is this person was not the father. He was not
Speaker 1: the dad of the twelve year old girl. So so
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's that. Those are my two Florida Man
Speaker 1: stories for the week, right there. How about this? H
Speaker 1: what out of out of five people? So, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll do the percentage it's based on five people. How
Speaker 1: many out of five people have ended a relationship because
Speaker 1: of a partner's bathroom habits? Um, I guess I'll go
Speaker 1: to Uh it's it's less than that. It's one. One
Speaker 1: out of five people, according to this survey, have actually
Speaker 1: any day relationship with someone they were sleeping with because
Speaker 1: their partner. I guess what would bad bathroom p on
Speaker 1: the toilet? That would be one, right? What's hair everywhere
Speaker 1: from a female? Yeah? Yeah, you could leave makeup all
Speaker 1: over the place. Uh sure, yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: really require much of my my bathroom. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: I've the Mallard mansion does it have dual sinks, is
Speaker 1: it or is it a one? I wanted that when
Speaker 1: we moved in here. I told sorry with my wife.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, listen, you know we need double
Speaker 1: vanity sinks. Uh no, we have no no vanity sinks
Speaker 1: in here. And I've got like one one bathroom that's
Speaker 1: that's mine, and then uh that's you know, well you've
Speaker 1: got so you've got to vanity rooms. Because I see
Speaker 1: that you have a nicely decorated studio. Now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's just yeah, you can come in with
Speaker 1: a Honda and all of a sudden you're driving around
Speaker 1: acendes in your studio, which is bullshit. You got a bunker,
Speaker 1: that hunker and bunker and the studio guests gun and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be here for a while. I think I
Speaker 1: might just stay here. At this point, an attacked by
Speaker 1: my staff, I might not go fat. I'll just stay here.
Speaker 1: It's it's my safe place. Guess what it is like.
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about that, all right, more
Speaker 1: studies here. Smile for your stomach. Study out says happiness.
Speaker 1: May that's a weezel word. May guard against deadly gut infections.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I buy this, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess if you're happy in general, that is that
Speaker 1: that seems like a good place to be in, right,
Speaker 1: you get if you're not happy, you could really be
Speaker 1: sick to your stomach. I guess it is the lesson
Speaker 1: of that, yeah, because it leads to stress, it leads
Speaker 1: to ulcers, and obviously, when those things happen to you,
Speaker 1: you could be stress eating, stress, drinking, stress smoking, like
Speaker 1: whatever your bad vices are. That that obviously I think
Speaker 1: comes to the forefront. And then uh, you kick the
Speaker 1: can down the road and those habits become something more
Speaker 1: deadly for you. I believe. Whatever said I last weekend,
Speaker 1: when I us on a couple of shows at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, I had a moment like that where you're listening,
Speaker 1: you're a part of two shows that are running for
Speaker 1: seven hours, eight hours out of the day, and then
Speaker 1: you're watching the news. It's like a giant hangover or
Speaker 1: like just a bad nightmare because all the information you're
Speaker 1: hearing and seeing and watching is all dark. Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. You
Speaker 1: do need to get your mind as I go with
Speaker 1: these these walks now, because I'm not going back to
Speaker 1: the gym because Funk the gym and all their restrictions.
Speaker 1: It's just not for me. It's not open twenty four
Speaker 1: hours anymore. I'm done, I'm out. You're not getting my
Speaker 1: money anymore. Go pound sand with a rubber mallet. You're
Speaker 1: not getting a dollar of my money. I'll just walk
Speaker 1: around in a hundred degree weather. I don't care. But
Speaker 1: when I'm walking around, I got y'all have some tunes
Speaker 1: on or whatever, and it's kind uh it's like my
Speaker 1: my therapy. I'll get out there, let my mind get
Speaker 1: away from all the madness of the world that's going
Speaker 1: on right now. So alright, uh, the dating game. This,
Speaker 1: I feel like we've gotten a version of this study
Speaker 1: multiple times since we started study this, and this one
Speaker 1: says that playing hard to get really works. A new
Speaker 1: study confirming that guest on that if you're for both
Speaker 1: both sexes is usually it's the woman that's supposed to
Speaker 1: play hard to get right the cat and mouse game,
Speaker 1: but even for men that women often like that also
Speaker 1: that if a guy kind of plays hard to get
Speaker 1: the ladies like that as well. Yeah, I wonder how
Speaker 1: much that's in in play right now with COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: and the coronavirus. I have heard stories of guys going
Speaker 1: to these protests to pick up ladies. So that's uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that works or not. I don't
Speaker 1: know how successful that is, but I have heard from
Speaker 1: friends that they've gone out there with the sole intention
Speaker 1: of trying to find a girlfriend. Yeah, it's like it's
Speaker 1: like wedding cry shows, right, there was a part in
Speaker 1: wedding crashers were Will Ferrell would crash a funeral. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, sure, you're going to this and emotions are high.
Speaker 1: He was a legend. He taught He taught Vince Vaughan
Speaker 1: and the other guy there to how to how to
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, that's pretty good. Sure, all right. Here's
Speaker 1: another study outs as a majority of office workers think
Speaker 1: that artificial intelligence could that's a weasel word, replaced them
Speaker 1: within five years. Five years they could be replaced by
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. Now, I think intelligence. I think that's bullshit
Speaker 1: because I have read stories from people that work in
Speaker 1: the minutia of artificial intelligence, and there are limitations they have.
Speaker 1: There's they've they've reached a certain point with it, but
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to get over the hump, if
Speaker 1: you will. And until they're able to get over the hump,
Speaker 1: then I don't think that that is reality. I think
Speaker 1: that's more fear based than not reality based. I I've
Speaker 1: heard from from p upon the voiceover industry that that's
Speaker 1: exactly where they're going. That it's easier to take any
Speaker 1: kind of voice an archive it, and then digitize it
Speaker 1: into a way that it can be adjusted to any
Speaker 1: kind of script that you want for the future. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I guess you could do that with radio than if
Speaker 1: you want, you can take that to the next level. Well,
Speaker 1: but there's no games of note to report on. I
Speaker 1: see what you did there. How about this study? Artificial
Speaker 1: brains need sleep? Also, what the funk is this? Neutral
Speaker 1: networks that become unstable after continuous periods of self learning
Speaker 1: will return to stability, scientists have discovered after exposed to
Speaker 1: sleep sleep like states, according to a new study, suggesting
Speaker 1: that even artificial brains would need to nap occasionally. That's
Speaker 1: one of the interesting things about sleep like everyone sleeps.
Speaker 1: Some people need more sleep than other people, But scientists
Speaker 1: don't really know why I human beings need to sleep. Well,
Speaker 1: part of it's the recovery. If your if your body itself,
Speaker 1: that's when muscles regenerate, that's when your cells regenerate. That
Speaker 1: you're talking about your skin, your hair, your stress levels,
Speaker 1: and people getting that's not a consensus though in the
Speaker 1: science community. That's that's one theory on why people need sleep.
Speaker 1: But why couldn't your body do that while you're doing
Speaker 1: other things? Right? You know, it's like it's like fish
Speaker 1: still swim while they're sleeping, you know what I mean? Right,
Speaker 1: they shut their brain off and and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Why don't humans do that? You can shut your brain
Speaker 1: off for a little bit. And of course on social
Speaker 1: media people do shut their brains off. Does happen? So
Speaker 1: I want to get to pop quizzer. I don't get along,
Speaker 1: and this all right? We will get through pop quiz um.
Speaker 1: We'll ask guescon questions. And the way this works, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to play along, supposed to play along here it
Speaker 1: is pop quiz. According to a new survey of Americans
Speaker 1: say they now feel rusty while doing this because he
Speaker 1: stayed home over the past few months. The stay at
Speaker 1: home orders the pandemic. I guess it's kind of easy.
Speaker 1: I should have missed this one. What is driving that
Speaker 1: is correct, guest Gun. Yes, that many people haven't driven
Speaker 1: that much. I have not driven that much, guest Gun.
Speaker 1: As you know, I'm very Boogie's Mallar mansion. The newly
Speaker 1: decorated radio studio here, which looks people think I'm at work.
Speaker 1: I've hadden people saying you must be back at work.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I mean, I'm not back at the office.
Speaker 1: I'm working every night, but I'm not back at the office.
Speaker 1: I got Bella right next to me when I'm doing
Speaker 1: the show, and she's great. She doesn't bark. Occasionally she
Speaker 1: paused at me because she needs me to open the
Speaker 1: door so she can go out and take a whiz.
Speaker 1: But other than that she's good. Yeah, I've been driving
Speaker 1: every day. Good luck on that. But I've been driving
Speaker 1: successfully to the beaches, to her, most Manhattan, everything west
Speaker 1: of the par five. And he just walked to the
Speaker 1: beach or west of the four five. I don't want
Speaker 1: to drive through like Torrance and and Loan. You don't
Speaker 1: want to when the unwashed, the peons live right. You
Speaker 1: don't want to hang out with those people, the common
Speaker 1: may it's a little bit different of a scene until
Speaker 1: you get to Redondo or Hermosa Beach. But man, I
Speaker 1: could not believe, like running on the boardwalk, how many
Speaker 1: restaurants and bars were wide open, and people that were
Speaker 1: older than that's like fifties, sixties, seven years old out
Speaker 1: on the bars, having beers, having Dakiri's, having Martini's like
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards, and and eating too. They were
Speaker 1: just they were having a good time. So I went
Speaker 1: to a restaurant for the first time last week's Apocalypse
Speaker 1: with my dad, had a little Mexican food. It was
Speaker 1: people were in mask, the people that worked their war mask.
Speaker 1: But it was other than the social distancing where you're
Speaker 1: at every other table. It was it was fine, it
Speaker 1: was good, nice. It was you know, I'm an every man.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a regular guy. I'm not I hang out
Speaker 1: with the riff raft, i hang out with the vermin.
Speaker 1: You do not, you you stay away from them. You're
Speaker 1: You're an elitist, that's what you are. You had dinner
Speaker 1: with your dad in the city of Newport Beach, save it.
Speaker 1: I was not in Newport, it was. It was actually
Speaker 1: in toused Him. Oh yeah, it's very blue collar. That's
Speaker 1: the hood. Yeah, when you're from Irvine, that's the hood. Absolutely, yeah. Alright.
Speaker 1: A new report says towels are the number one thing
Speaker 1: people look or took home from hotels in the United
Speaker 1: States over the last calendar year. What was number two?
Speaker 1: Number two? Behind the towels, I'd say, like the shampoo
Speaker 1: or the conditioner in the soap. Now you would think that,
Speaker 1: and I thought that also. I thought maybe like a
Speaker 1: pillow or something ridiculous like that. But this is even
Speaker 1: more ridiculous. The number two things that people took from
Speaker 1: the hotel. No batteries from the remote control. How fucking
Speaker 1: cheap can people be where they steal the batteries out
Speaker 1: of the remote control? You gotta be a fucking loser
Speaker 1: to do that, right, Yes, there's a lot of losers
Speaker 1: out there, guess gun, there's a lot of hungry puppies
Speaker 1: that are like, that's what I need right there. And
Speaker 1: more often than not, does that even fit your own
Speaker 1: remote control? Or does it fit a flashlight that you're using?
Speaker 1: Probably not well defending it's double a or triple A
Speaker 1: batteries are pretty much all over the place. Now that's standards, so,
Speaker 1: but but just the whole, like the mindset that neurosis
Speaker 1: were like, Okay, these are some bodies. They weren't even
Speaker 1: noticed they're gone, which is actually probably true because if
Speaker 1: you go to a hotel, like if you clean, if
Speaker 1: you're somebody that cleans hotel rooms, are you taught to
Speaker 1: check to see if the batteries are still there? Of
Speaker 1: course not. You're like, no, they're gonna be there. What
Speaker 1: are we doing? All right? Pop quiz? More pop quiz.
Speaker 1: Here in England there's uh an appreciation society dedicated to
Speaker 1: something you might see along your travels. What is it
Speaker 1: you've been to England? You should get this guy? I
Speaker 1: guess God, come on, can you repeat this one more time?
Speaker 1: So in in England they have a an actual appreciation
Speaker 1: society fully dedicated to something that you would see when
Speaker 1: you're driving around. But it's it's related to travels. Can't
Speaker 1: be an airport, Um, how could you want to go
Speaker 1: with the airport? I guess now you're wrong. It's roundabouts
Speaker 1: all right? Yeah, not a lot of roundabouts in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It's more like Boston has a few, the East part
Speaker 1: of Boston and Indianapolis. They got a lot of roundabouts
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. The LBC. Yeah, they don't hang out in
Speaker 1: the LBC much, you know, I do like I like
Speaker 1: that Rainbow Harbor. I think they torched that though. They
Speaker 1: I think the pillaging of the Rainbow Harbor they torched
Speaker 1: everything along. Yeah, it's pretty much all gone there. I
Speaker 1: guess something to go to Long Beach anymore. It's been canceled,
Speaker 1: all right, whether at home or at work. Slightly more
Speaker 1: women than men do this every day. Uh use the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Well not all people have to use the bathroom, guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: but more women than men. Uh No. It is drink coffee.
Speaker 1: Drink coffee, so go to us. My wife's addicted to
Speaker 1: the to the coffee, to the crack. I'm not a
Speaker 1: not a coffee guy. I've been through that before. You
Speaker 1: like the coffee, you're about the coffee. No, have an
Speaker 1: espresso occasionally, but I usually drink energy drinks. All right.
Speaker 1: A new survey is this pop Quist. New survey says
Speaker 1: the average American does this about twenty two times a day.
Speaker 1: What do they do? It's something in your house or
Speaker 1: are you. I guess you could do this at work too,
Speaker 1: but I think of this more of something something you
Speaker 1: would do it at the house. Go say, check your
Speaker 1: cell phone. Open the refrigerator, that's right, Open the refrigerator.
Speaker 1: I do I do not open I don't eat much
Speaker 1: these days, but I do not open the refrigerator twenty
Speaker 1: two times of day. Maybe open it twice. And um,
Speaker 1: the the ice with us like ice machine and the
Speaker 1: refrigerator that broke like seven months ago and we just
Speaker 1: never got it fixed. So we have to make the
Speaker 1: ice with ice trays and like ice water because you
Speaker 1: actually burn calories when you're innk ice water because your
Speaker 1: body has to warm up the water whatever. So I
Speaker 1: drink ice water, and then so I have to like
Speaker 1: I'm always changing out the ice to get new ice,
Speaker 1: you know, and the big big things. That's the only
Speaker 1: time I'm really in the refrigerator. Twenty two times. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of fucking time. What are you fucking looking for?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are you eating twenty two times a
Speaker 1: day ice cream? Maybe? Well, I guess, I guess. How
Speaker 1: about three times a day you got to open the
Speaker 1: refrigerator to get food out, and then you gotta open
Speaker 1: it again to put it back. So that's six What
Speaker 1: what are the other sixteen times? Dessert? All right, so
Speaker 1: that's eight desserts. Eight do you dessert after breakfast, lunch,
Speaker 1: and dinner? Um, if you're buying uh, if you're buying groceries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but most people do that once a week. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot. I got you all right?
Speaker 1: Here we go pop quiz. About ten percent of people
Speaker 1: say that this is their number one, number one pet
Speaker 1: peeve at the gross restore. And this is also my
Speaker 1: pet peeve at the grocery store. So I'm in this
Speaker 1: ten percent group. Guests get The people that go into
Speaker 1: the fifteen items are less line and they have more
Speaker 1: than fifteen. Uh. That is annoying, but that is not
Speaker 1: what this is. This is the overly chatty clerk. When
Speaker 1: I put my groceries down on that little revolving belt thing,
Speaker 1: I want to get the funk out of there. I
Speaker 1: you don't care about my life. I don't really care
Speaker 1: that much about you. I'm good. Can we move on?
Speaker 1: And then the other problem I have with that is
Speaker 1: it's not even so much me because I'll kind of
Speaker 1: blow off people that are like that if I'm not
Speaker 1: in the mood to have small talk, which I'm usually not.
Speaker 1: Only occasionally do I like small talk. Um. The thing
Speaker 1: that I really hate is you get that you know,
Speaker 1: I use the Hollywood trope, you know, the kind of
Speaker 1: like lonely older woman who doesn't have anybody to talk to,
Speaker 1: who that is her social event talking to the grocery
Speaker 1: clerk and a simple process of just checking out turns
Speaker 1: into a half hour conversation and you're like, I just
Speaker 1: want to get out of there, leave me, please, just
Speaker 1: scan the items, put the credit card in and we're done. Well,
Speaker 1: to be fair, are they losing any time and getting
Speaker 1: that stuff done while talking to you? Well, yes, because
Speaker 1: they're going. I feel like they go slower because they
Speaker 1: want they want to enjoy the conversation, and you know,
Speaker 1: do it on your own time, have a private conversation
Speaker 1: on your own time. Get a Facebook page, go on
Speaker 1: there and knock yourself out chit chat all right. Would
Speaker 1: you support a four day work week, guest, gun, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would. I actually used to work four days a
Speaker 1: week back in the day. I'm doing sales at worked
Speaker 1: ten hour days. I loved it. Yeah, my wife working
Speaker 1: at she does three days one week, four days the next,
Speaker 1: so she's got that kind of set up. And there
Speaker 1: was a new survey out this is eighty two of
Speaker 1: employed Americans. I think this is a good idea. I
Speaker 1: had that when I did weekends. I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then I did one floating day during the week.
Speaker 1: When in the early days of Fox Sports Race, I
Speaker 1: had like a four day week, and I liked, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind the five day thing, but
Speaker 1: you know, I've got I mean four hours, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of time that goes into preparing for the show,
Speaker 1: so it's not just four hours. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: you could just show up and or I could tape
Speaker 1: it or whatever. Some people do that, but I like
Speaker 1: doing it live. Yeah, I would love to. I mean, ideally,
Speaker 1: I'd love to be calling four games a week, especially
Speaker 1: if it's baseball or something, and that we're calling five games.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of charts. Though. Man, you played by
Speaker 1: play guys with all your fucking stats and all that
Speaker 1: his body work, Well it is, but I mean it's
Speaker 1: no different from what you do if your shows every night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's busy. Body work till I admit that. But at
Speaker 1: least I try to entertain myself by you know, I
Speaker 1: like I'll like quote Aristotle or you know something or
Speaker 1: John D. Rockefeller or some ship like that. When I
Speaker 1: just try to dress it up for my for my
Speaker 1: own entertainment, because as I've said before, well I love
Speaker 1: doing sports radio, and it's fun and it's great. Oftentimes
Speaker 1: we're talking about the same bullshit every day. Like when
Speaker 1: I say, here, here's a little clue. Because the people
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast are the big p ones of
Speaker 1: the show. So when I do a monologue and I
Speaker 1: say the obligatory, like I lately i've been doing the
Speaker 1: obligatory major League Baseball labor negotiations, that means I am
Speaker 1: fucking tired of talking about it. But it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's the job. We got to talk about it. It's
Speaker 1: the story of the day, so we have to talk
Speaker 1: about it. So like you know, these things, when I
Speaker 1: when I work in the obligatory, that is my way.
Speaker 1: It's my silent protest of saying I wish I wasn't
Speaker 1: talking about this, but I gotta talk about it because
Speaker 1: that's the big story in sports. So I'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's like my you know, seven thousand Lebron James monologues,
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck? Who cares about this fucking guy?
Speaker 1: And then we keep talking about him because he gets
Speaker 1: ratings and that's he's in the news, and you know,
Speaker 1: the peasants like hearing about Lebron James. I guess the
Speaker 1: Holy Polo. I love him, So we just gotta keep
Speaker 1: talking about those kind of thing. You sound very emotionally
Speaker 1: charged right now. I don't don't know why I got
Speaker 1: worked up by that, but it's been interesting. It's been
Speaker 1: interesting here. Maybe vacation. Maybe you do need to take someone.
Speaker 1: I have two unpaid weeks of vacation that I can
Speaker 1: take here at any point if I want. So I
Speaker 1: got that to look forward to, which is which is good? Eddie.
Speaker 1: Eddie's taking one next week, by the way, So that's
Speaker 1: kind of odd. Doesn't he usually do that during football season?
Speaker 1: He said, during the NFL draft or or a football season.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I said this. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I said that this one or the other podcast
Speaker 1: we did, but I this all kind of running together, guests, Uh,
Speaker 1: But I don't think I'm gonna take the full two
Speaker 1: weeks I think I'll take like a long weekend maybe
Speaker 1: and uh like do the old we call that the
Speaker 1: chuck booms back in the day, whe you take a
Speaker 1: Friday and a Monday off and then you're kind of
Speaker 1: that's it. You get along four day weekend. I think
Speaker 1: that would be pretty cool. That is, that would be cool.
Speaker 1: I wonder what it's like to have a vacation time. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, try to be successful, maybe get to a point.
Speaker 1: Can can end up getting that, you know, get my
Speaker 1: own studio. Have fruit fed to me every night? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I have a harem. People around me that feed me grapes.
Speaker 1: That's right, just like the Hollywood movies exactly. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do one more pop quiz. I know we're getting boy,
Speaker 1: we're probably really over where we need to be. But
Speaker 1: here it is. According to a recent survey, twenty percent
Speaker 1: of new college graduates say they still enjoy this, which
Speaker 1: is associated with childhood, almost every week. Oh fuckle, I
Speaker 1: guess cartoons. It's not a bad guess. Uh not not right, though,
Speaker 1: of new college graduates say they still enjoy drinking a
Speaker 1: juice box like a child, drinking a juice box. Get
Speaker 1: lunchboxes Capri Sun count. I would assume it would count.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't it come down for Capri Son sounds good?
Speaker 1: So you're in. You're not a recent college graduate. Actually
Speaker 1: graduated from Northeastern in two thousand eleven. Please that's a
Speaker 1: decade ago. Man. Come on, all right, that's it. Hey,
Speaker 1: follow us on social media. We got another podcast on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll have the mail bag and don't stick to sports
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Speaker 1: I have a great day today. We'll catch you next time.