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Speaker 1: air everywhere coast the coast, actually there's no coast to coast,
Speaker 1: it's border bordering beyond. As we alluviate the weekend away,
Speaker 1: the weekend does begin. This the Friday Podcast, a guest
Speaker 1: free podcast that David Gascon, who's in here, decided, you know,
Speaker 1: we do not need any kind of person to talk to.
Speaker 1: Usually on Fridays we bring somebody in here, Fred of ours.
Speaker 1: I guess we ran out of friends apparently, But we
Speaker 1: do this podcast eight days a week, as we said,
Speaker 1: in four hours or not enough. So guest Con as
Speaker 1: the executive producer of the Fifth Hour Podcast. So what's
Speaker 1: the kind of walking me through the mindset here because
Speaker 1: we know that content is king, just like Vince McMahon, right,
Speaker 1: that's the key. W W E stas content is king,
Speaker 1: right and all that stuff. So, uh, was this a
Speaker 1: bold calculated decision by you to say, you know, we've
Speaker 1: had a fair decent run of people that have come
Speaker 1: in here, so no more you need to put your
Speaker 1: foot down and say that's it. No, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was that. I just think it was an opportunity
Speaker 1: for us to, uh to mix up our our location
Speaker 1: like a good picture, right, you want to go inside
Speaker 1: and out, up and down the zone and then change
Speaker 1: speeds a little bit. And I think we can do that,
Speaker 1: especially since uh we got some wild times and wild times.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. It's just been
Speaker 1: more than the same. Every day is the same, Some
Speaker 1: crazy crap happens. The next day, another crazy thing happens.
Speaker 1: Half the people think they're right, the other half think
Speaker 1: they're right. Rince wash, repeat, but next But unlike in
Speaker 1: our lifetimes, this is the first time that we've experienced
Speaker 1: sports being canceled because athletes are canceling this. That's so
Speaker 1: that's something March. I've seen sports canceled twice this year.
Speaker 1: Let them lets I don't want to play, I'll go.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Don't play. It doesn't affect my life
Speaker 1: at all. In fact, I was telling I was telling
Speaker 1: you or somebody else here that when I prepare for
Speaker 1: the show and I'm getting ready, I'm looking for things
Speaker 1: to talk about. I usually we I want to watch
Speaker 1: the games and see if anything happens there that I
Speaker 1: feel like it's, you know, good talker on radio. But
Speaker 1: now if there's no games, I can get to put
Speaker 1: the baby to bed early. I'm good. I mean that
Speaker 1: makes my life actually easier, so I will actually have
Speaker 1: an easier time preparing for my job if they don't play.
Speaker 1: It's just fascinating a network. And I need you to
Speaker 1: explain this to me because and you know this being
Speaker 1: in a press box a Major League Baseball games, is
Speaker 1: that typically sports writers, when they write a story on
Speaker 1: the game of the day that they're at, they don't
Speaker 1: write when the game ends. They're writing it inning by
Speaker 1: inning or happening by happening, and then they make their
Speaker 1: conclusions and their final assessments and their final judgments after
Speaker 1: non innings is played. Why are we not doing that
Speaker 1: when it comes to the social unrest that we're having
Speaker 1: in today's world, like, why are we having jump to
Speaker 1: conclusion before information, before all the events, before all the
Speaker 1: questions are even answered, Because that is good for the ratings,
Speaker 1: it's good for social media. You know. The answer I
Speaker 1: don't multibillion dollar industries and teams that are ultimately gold
Speaker 1: number one is to take care of yourself and the
Speaker 1: bottom line. But in there, see, they have this neurosis
Speaker 1: and professional sports where they think that this is the
Speaker 1: path to salvation that they by by doing these actions
Speaker 1: here and preaching because there's one thing I know you
Speaker 1: want when you go watch a game, is you want
Speaker 1: to be preached to and be told that you're racist
Speaker 1: or you don't know what you know, you know what's
Speaker 1: going on. So, uh, these these leaks and they know
Speaker 1: they they have been mesmerized. My theory is they've been
Speaker 1: mesmerized first of all by social media, which, as we
Speaker 1: have talked about many times, is not reality, right, it's
Speaker 1: not reality. It's the matrix. But it's so almighty and
Speaker 1: all powerful in the eyes of these knitwits in positions
Speaker 1: of power and sports that they think that is the
Speaker 1: barometer and as we talked about several months ago, that
Speaker 1: study that came out this year from I think it
Speaker 1: was Pew that said that about ten of people on
Speaker 1: UH like a platform like Twitter, are responsible for eight
Speaker 1: of the content created by UH the adults in the
Speaker 1: U s. It's a very small percentage of people that
Speaker 1: are actually out there. So but that doesn't matter because
Speaker 1: the people that run these sports leagues and the pr people,
Speaker 1: UH My theory is they see the social media reaction,
Speaker 1: what's trading was not trending, and they shut it down.
Speaker 1: People just like this week the other day, the hockey
Speaker 1: played in basketball didn't play, and I, you know, I
Speaker 1: I liked it. I was watching the Bruins game. They
Speaker 1: got smoked, they got pig roasted by the It was
Speaker 1: like Hawaiian luau by the Tampa Bay Lightning, and I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, it's good to watch a game. These
Speaker 1: guys actually showed up to work. And then the mob
Speaker 1: on social media, I can't believe you played? How dare you?
Speaker 1: And so then, of course, because they reacted to the
Speaker 1: mob and thinking that there are you know, millions of
Speaker 1: people outraged that the hockey league was playing. Of course
Speaker 1: it's not true, and so they genuflected to the online mob.
Speaker 1: It is like the matrix, do you take the red
Speaker 1: pill or the blue pill pill? And just keeps going up.
Speaker 1: But that's that's why they're worried about social media cloud.
Speaker 1: They think they're right. The great thing about this and
Speaker 1: if you're if you're someone's like sitting on the outside,
Speaker 1: you're outside the ring and you're watching, You're like, wow,
Speaker 1: you're you're grading the fight, and you're like, wait a minute. Here,
Speaker 1: these guys think they're winning the fight and they're actually
Speaker 1: losing the fight, and they're not bright enough to figure
Speaker 1: out that that's not reality. And and the reason I
Speaker 1: say that, look at the ratings here, which is the
Speaker 1: ultimate report card, the health check right the thermometer on
Speaker 1: to see if you you've got an illness or something
Speaker 1: like that. And it's not going well. The ratings are
Speaker 1: continue to climb. The NBA's down since twelve is down,
Speaker 1: but just this year, since they came back and we
Speaker 1: were talking, oh man, my sports come back. Everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: be watching. I mean, this is gonna be amazing, right.
Speaker 1: People are so desperate for content. Uh, and we're mistaken.
Speaker 1: We were mistaken. It's incorec that's incorrect. I mean people
Speaker 1: have figured out, you know, they figured out they don't
Speaker 1: need it, or those that love it are like, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna watch it because I don't need the you know,
Speaker 1: repercussions of the social activists that have hijacked American sport.
Speaker 1: And the other thing about this guest guy, I'm getting
Speaker 1: long winded here. I'm doing like a monologue all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, but it's I'm just rambling. But here's the thing, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you walk out of this? Like what's at
Speaker 1: some point there will be an epiphany, there will be
Speaker 1: a come to Jesus moment, and the people that run
Speaker 1: sports gonna they're gonna crunch the numbers that being counters
Speaker 1: will get in and they will realize, holy fuck, what
Speaker 1: have we done? And then how do you get out
Speaker 1: of it? Like do you welcome back to military and
Speaker 1: the police and hugging is all? We were just kidding
Speaker 1: about all that, and but everything is good now, Like
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to be wide ranging and you know,
Speaker 1: multifaceted changes. They're gonna have to because it because of
Speaker 1: the damage that's being done right now in the landscape
Speaker 1: of professional and college sports. To some degree awesome, but
Speaker 1: mostly professional. You know what this makes me think of,
Speaker 1: to use an analogy, is it makes me think of
Speaker 1: of a gambler who's not really in tune with how
Speaker 1: to gamble or how to pick teams that just tails
Speaker 1: someone blindly. Because I do think some positives have come
Speaker 1: out of this here and stuff in terms of I
Speaker 1: think it was the Cults on Thursday registered every one
Speaker 1: on their team to vote. So I think those things
Speaker 1: are great. I think those things are important because obviously,
Speaker 1: when you don't have the majority of people in the
Speaker 1: United States voting in your general elections and your local elections,
Speaker 1: like that's a problem because, like you said, we've talked
Speaker 1: about this numerous times, like here in California, we got
Speaker 1: idiots that are voting to increase our taxes on gas,
Speaker 1: Like what the fund is wrong with people? But I've
Speaker 1: that's important. I think obviously it's important to get people involved. Well,
Speaker 1: but here's the thing on that even that is disingenuous.
Speaker 1: And see that's what that is, people's one thing. But
Speaker 1: the problem is is that now you're gonna have them
Speaker 1: tail a political alliance just because the way No, I
Speaker 1: mean that, that's why you know, I take all this
Speaker 1: with a grand sault. Yeah, you know, voting is great.
Speaker 1: Everyone should vote. It's wonderful. You should do it right,
Speaker 1: you know whatever we have a right to. You can't
Speaker 1: vote in every country and all that. I totally get
Speaker 1: you should vote, But it's disingenuous because when I see
Speaker 1: vote on the back of an NBA jersey, they're not
Speaker 1: They don't want you to vote for Donald Trump. They
Speaker 1: want you to vote for Joe Biden. They and they assume, See,
Speaker 1: this is the problem I had with it. They assume
Speaker 1: that this group think this kool aid think. If they
Speaker 1: tell people their fan based to vote, that they're just
Speaker 1: automatically gonna be blind sheep and lemmings and vote for
Speaker 1: who they want to vote for. So it's implo II
Speaker 1: that they get people to vote that no one would
Speaker 1: possibly vote for Donald Trump. It's pretty that part of it.
Speaker 1: I find amusing that they think, and maybe they're right.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're right. People are just dumb. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's as far as the gambling thing you were talking about,
Speaker 1: it's the term is a square. That's what they call
Speaker 1: in the gambling right in gambling world in Vegas. If
Speaker 1: you're a square, you're average. You're unsophisticated, and you pretty
Speaker 1: much make your decisions based on you're easily influenced by
Speaker 1: manipulation by the media or celebrities who tell you something, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna win this fight. Well he said
Speaker 1: he's gonna win the fight. I'm gonna better. Or you
Speaker 1: have a hunch, better, better, bunch, right, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And so the the bookmaker has the huge advantage. And
Speaker 1: and they love the square. They love the square because
Speaker 1: that's who you make your money on when you're running
Speaker 1: a sports book. Is the average, the low information a
Speaker 1: sports fan. But you know, they don't want if you're
Speaker 1: a sharp and you actually have the information. They hate
Speaker 1: people like that that actually have have the information and
Speaker 1: get get all the you know, the latest info and
Speaker 1: are fully educated and all. They don't like that. That's
Speaker 1: because that's real power. And that's the problem I have
Speaker 1: is that you can you can register as many people
Speaker 1: as you like, and I think that's really important. But
Speaker 1: the other thing is that if you want to take
Speaker 1: all of this an additional step forward is that not
Speaker 1: only the people obviously that are in this country that
Speaker 1: aren't working at the elite level like a professional athlete.
Speaker 1: But you gotta get the professional athletes educated too. And
Speaker 1: that's the other thing that's that's lost in all of
Speaker 1: this is that you can talk about, you know, voting
Speaker 1: for for one political party or another. You can vote
Speaker 1: for a governor, you can vote for a mayor, you
Speaker 1: can vote for a city councilman. But if you have
Speaker 1: no idea what's going on, and you're just blinding like
Speaker 1: going political alliance like right down red or right down blue,
Speaker 1: then and you're doing everybody a disservice. And it's sucking
Speaker 1: brutal because yeah, I mean, how many of these guys
Speaker 1: are are activated in that kind of a realm or
Speaker 1: or even educated that kind of capacity either, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't get guys that are are going
Speaker 1: to Duke and Notre Dame and all these major universities
Speaker 1: of Stanford to cal your USC that are like this
Speaker 1: on on this level. You know, like the reality is
Speaker 1: these guys have spent a year maybe two years in
Speaker 1: college and what are they doing. They're taking electives? You know. Well,
Speaker 1: ab I mean the other thing about that, see, that's
Speaker 1: always the Pandora's box, right, because get educated. Well, half
Speaker 1: the people think if you're voting one way, you're educated.
Speaker 1: The other half think, if you vote this way, you're educated.
Speaker 1: You know what he's like, what has educated me? And
Speaker 1: it means you vote for who I want you to
Speaker 1: vote for. You know, it's is which is? But But
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing about the manipulation is fascinating because
Speaker 1: it really just depends, I guess, on what you watch.
Speaker 1: I have a family member who watches CNN NonStop, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know I I'll go over or sometimes in the
Speaker 1: It's on all the time, and they react to everything,
Speaker 1: and I'm I just have to bite my tongue because
Speaker 1: I say, hey, there's a video on on the Internet
Speaker 1: that disproves what it was just said there on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I saw it the other day. I can't. You can't
Speaker 1: say that because they're they're totally brainwashed by what they're watching,
Speaker 1: the mesmerizing power of the boob tube. It's weird, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm I'm. I feel like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people, even people that we work with, are
Speaker 1: pretty much right down the middle. Like I, I don't
Speaker 1: vote on one alliance or the other. I kind of
Speaker 1: look at both ends of the spectrum and I go
Speaker 1: with what's best for me and then what's best for
Speaker 1: the community at the time. But yeah, I'm not stuck
Speaker 1: and I'm not aligned to anybody because the reality is
Speaker 1: these guys are all in it for themselves. And we
Speaker 1: have people that go into these political offices that are
Speaker 1: civil servants and then they come out wealthy as shit.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, that is the easiest path. That you
Speaker 1: don't make a lot as a politician, but you make
Speaker 1: your money once you're done in politics. Although I think
Speaker 1: some of these people, how long has Nancy Pelosi been
Speaker 1: in um DC politics? Yeah, so she must be making
Speaker 1: money as she's doing politics. And what was the uh
Speaker 1: I think we might have talked about it here. What
Speaker 1: was the story? Somewhere along the way, there was a
Speaker 1: guy that was, uh, like a secret service guy that
Speaker 1: flew around with the vice president. Remember this story. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I talked about it with you where
Speaker 1: I heard it, but there's a legendary story. This guy
Speaker 1: was like a secret service guy protecting either the vice
Speaker 1: president or some high ranking senators, and he just listened
Speaker 1: on the plane, the private planes when they were flying
Speaker 1: around and they would discuss, you know, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: build this big, massive you know, shopping center here, which
Speaker 1: will increase property values in this kind of the chef
Speaker 1: old part of town. You know, so and so we're
Speaker 1: gonna give approval on that. And so he then took
Speaker 1: that information and would invest and became like super wealthy
Speaker 1: based on just listening to politicians discussed what they were
Speaker 1: planning on doing, just having to have you know, his
Speaker 1: ears open on the plane, because that's how that's how
Speaker 1: much influence you as far as the economy is concerned,
Speaker 1: and they have on this. Yeah, insider trading right now? Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Speaker 1: just but now here's is it insider trading if it
Speaker 1: wasn't directed to you and you're stepping over here, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the whole. Yeah, I don't know. But see going
Speaker 1: back to to your original question about about guests as
Speaker 1: I think, yes, yes, no, I don't believe. I think
Speaker 1: I like having people. I like to hang out. We
Speaker 1: do the electric boogaloo and we hang out. We talked
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes. I think that's fun. I loved having
Speaker 1: all our my old radio friends like hacks On, Tony
Speaker 1: Bruno and Mike North and Lee and all these people
Speaker 1: come in here. I love that. Yeah, I guess I've
Speaker 1: run out Jerry Callahan, I've run out of radio friends apparently,
Speaker 1: although I did have somebody that I was thinking about
Speaker 1: getting on. But I think you can get a big
Speaker 1: name in here guests, gut you know, get a big
Speaker 1: podcast number. We get we get a really big name
Speaker 1: in here. The downloads to go through the roof man,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people are podcast snobs and only
Speaker 1: listen to interviews and they don't want to hear chatter.
Speaker 1: They don't want to hear conversation like this, but they
Speaker 1: want they do the hustle if they see a big
Speaker 1: name on a podcast. But well, if that was the case,
Speaker 1: then why don't you have guests on your on your
Speaker 1: radio show Money through Friday? Because I was told early
Speaker 1: on the the time and to call their driven show
Speaker 1: and as a programmer, director told me so, Pett, the
Speaker 1: reason I hired you is because you've you can do
Speaker 1: a show. You don't need guests. That's a crutch. I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, all right, whatever you say, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and I don't don't give you. I don't.
Speaker 1: I think guests are usually pretty bad. But I think
Speaker 1: on the podcast, I like once a week, I think
Speaker 1: it's all right, and people I like or whatever, I
Speaker 1: think it's a yeah. But but oftentimes my my problem,
Speaker 1: this was my issue when I did day parts, like
Speaker 1: during the day with guests, is I felt like a
Speaker 1: lot of them were so guarded, like the people that
Speaker 1: worked in sports, because they didn't want to say anything
Speaker 1: to upset anyone that it was just a waste of
Speaker 1: time you'd ask a question. I remember, for example, in
Speaker 1: the early days of Fox Sports Radio, I think it
Speaker 1: was about five years in, maybe a little later than that. Uh,
Speaker 1: we had Mike Montgomery on former yeah, but he was
Speaker 1: coaching the Golden State Warriors at the time and not
Speaker 1: we had him every week. And not only was Mike
Speaker 1: Montgomery on, he was terrible because the Warriors sucked, and
Speaker 1: you know, we were on a big station in San
Speaker 1: Francisco at the time and that was the Mike Montgomery
Speaker 1: Show to get NBA information. But he didn't want to
Speaker 1: say anything because you know, you don't want to get
Speaker 1: in trouble, and the team was terrible, so she couldn't
Speaker 1: talk about the team. So it just became an exercise
Speaker 1: in futility. Now, one guy that was really good, although
Speaker 1: not intentionally good, was Randy Moss. When Randy Moss played
Speaker 1: for the Raiders, he had a deal with Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: He did not talk to any other media the Randy
Speaker 1: Moss Show, which was on Chris Meyers Show, and I
Speaker 1: happened to be on that show for a stretch, and
Speaker 1: so we had Randy Moss on every week, and he
Speaker 1: he boycotted the media in the Bay Area. He was
Speaker 1: upset with some things that had been written, so he
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk to any of the local reporters in in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, in San Francisco and all that, right,
Speaker 1: So the only place he would talk was our show.
Speaker 1: And I figured out after a couple of weeks with
Speaker 1: Randy that he and we knew he wasn't happy. But
Speaker 1: if you asked him kind of a leading question, he
Speaker 1: would take de bait like, hey, you know, Randy, at
Speaker 1: the time, Michael vick was the big star for the Falcons, right,
Speaker 1: and they hey, Randy, you know you know what thinking
Speaker 1: about Michael Vick. You know, the Falcon's possibly going down,
Speaker 1: And he would he would he would answer, and that
Speaker 1: would create headlines because he would say, I love to
Speaker 1: play with Michael VICKO. So that's that kind of thing. Well,
Speaker 1: now that we're here, yes, we're here all united. What
Speaker 1: brings us together? The podcast, that's what brings us together.
Speaker 1: Amazing audio content. We do the hokey pokey. You put
Speaker 1: your right foot in, you take your right foot out,
Speaker 1: you put your right foot in, you shake it all about,
Speaker 1: you do the hokey poke Are you doing the hokey pokey?
Speaker 1: And you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I used to go to
Speaker 1: the the local skating rink and they with my cousins
Speaker 1: before they moved away the Isoplex and no I lived
Speaker 1: in Orange. I live in the OC behind the Orange Curtain.
Speaker 1: But I remember they used to do the hokey poke
Speaker 1: and I was a fat kid, and I didn't really
Speaker 1: know how to skate that well, so I'd fall down
Speaker 1: all the time and it was a big nightmare. So
Speaker 1: always dreaded when they said it's we're gonna do the
Speaker 1: hokey pokey. I always I tried to like waddle and
Speaker 1: skate away so I wouldn't have to be out on
Speaker 1: the rink when they were doing that, because I embarrassed myself.
Speaker 1: I want to embarrass myself, fat kid falling down trying
Speaker 1: to put his right foot out and I couldn't even
Speaker 1: stay in on my left foot. So what are you
Speaker 1: doing well? And now several years later and three hundred
Speaker 1: pounds shed, you can do that now, yes, and not
Speaker 1: eating and having you send me food porn while I'm
Speaker 1: not eating. So it's quite a friend over there. What
Speaker 1: were you getting to? You said, now that we're here,
Speaker 1: I interrupted you for the hokey pot No, it was
Speaker 1: a good segue because you mentioning our youth. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously we're not having a guest on today.
Speaker 1: But I figured I talked to you about something that
Speaker 1: happened to me. Oh, make it at all about you.
Speaker 1: West of the four or five is your box? I said,
Speaker 1: west of the four or five, So if you have
Speaker 1: your Bingo card out, check the box. No, it's I've
Speaker 1: not brought that up at all. By the way, I
Speaker 1: must acknowledge the fact that I heard a dirty rumor
Speaker 1: that you actually drove your lazy ass into work earlier
Speaker 1: this week. Yes, yes, ship, Yes, I did. I came
Speaker 1: in there uh air conditioning, yes, yes, yes, So let
Speaker 1: me explain what happened. So, uh, you know, I try
Speaker 1: to I believe in the David Letterman philosophy David Letterman.
Speaker 1: I was in line for Letterman's audience a couple of
Speaker 1: times in uh in New York back you know, back
Speaker 1: in the day before he became like Santa Claus when
Speaker 1: he's on TV and all that. So that was a
Speaker 1: big Letterman fan back from the you know, the early
Speaker 1: days of Letterman when he's on late night and so um.
Speaker 1: We were outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Times Square
Speaker 1: several times we got bumped from the audience, but I
Speaker 1: got close. You know, they kind of put you in
Speaker 1: the lobby and say you might you're in the stand
Speaker 1: by audience, you know, that kind of thing. Never actually
Speaker 1: got into the Letterman show, but I remember being in
Speaker 1: the lobby and how cold it was, right it was
Speaker 1: like the Arctic. I felt like an Eskimo, And so
Speaker 1: I try to recreate that the mal I mentioned because
Speaker 1: it's very hot where I live, and so I try
Speaker 1: to keep it cool. But but then I woke up
Speaker 1: and it was kind of warm, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it might be the air condition to shut off or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then wife went over checked it out, and uh no,
Speaker 1: completely off. Dun Skies so I'm like, okay, you know
Speaker 1: this is this is not good, but we'll get somebody out.
Speaker 1: We'll have it fixed. And so UH called the the
Speaker 1: neighborhood air conditioning guy. Very good, you know dude whose
Speaker 1: lives close to us and fixes air conditions. And he
Speaker 1: came over right away and let me work on this.
Speaker 1: And so he half an hour he worked on it,
Speaker 1: turned it on. Thing worked good to go. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, you know checks in the mail he left.
Speaker 1: I get back. I'm in watching an NBA game. Ifact
Speaker 1: the Clippers were playing the Mavericks. The game they scored
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty four points before they voted not to
Speaker 1: play anymore. Um, and so so I was I was
Speaker 1: watching and then I realized it's getting hot in here.
Speaker 1: It's getting hot in here, and then I was like,
Speaker 1: what the what the hell? So I walked over the
Speaker 1: air conditioner and I hit it broken again, but it
Speaker 1: was too late for the guy to come back. So
Speaker 1: then I'm like, okay, I got a couple of fans here.
Speaker 1: I'll go old school, you know. I got a fan
Speaker 1: behind me, I got a fan on the side. And
Speaker 1: then I'm like, wait a minute, I can't have the
Speaker 1: fans on what I'm doing the show because the microphone
Speaker 1: we'll pick up the noise it will sound like I'm
Speaker 1: in a hurricane Laura or something like that, right, So
Speaker 1: I can't do that. Some then I'm like, crap, what
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? It was like it was I
Speaker 1: opened the window and it was still hot, you know,
Speaker 1: the outside, and hadn't cooled down. But really, guess guy,
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to tell you. At the very last minute,
Speaker 1: I have a pretty long drive. So the last possible moment,
Speaker 1: the eleventh hour, I have to decide am I going
Speaker 1: or not? And I did it. I got in the
Speaker 1: automobile and I drove in to the hallowed I Heart
Speaker 1: Media Building, the home of the premier networks. Were legends
Speaker 1: like George Norry, Rush Limball when he comes to l
Speaker 1: A does his show, Sean Hannity people along those launch
Speaker 1: big stars. And I went in there and uh and
Speaker 1: did the show and survived. But I had to wear
Speaker 1: the mask and all these all these gayzy rules in
Speaker 1: the building and all that big pain of yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the same studio that that everyone else works at. I
Speaker 1: risked my life, guest, and I risked my life going
Speaker 1: in there working with the unwashed like yourself did, did
Speaker 1: your did your bosses tell you to stay at home?
Speaker 1: Because I know the biggest reason why you haven't been
Speaker 1: coming in is because your boss has told you to
Speaker 1: stay at home. Yes, well, I am following company guidelines.
Speaker 1: I know you don't, your rebel, your Maverick, not a
Speaker 1: Dallas Maverick. But you don't follow the guidelines of management.
Speaker 1: But I do. And so when they give me green light,
Speaker 1: go go back, I mean, boom done. But until then,
Speaker 1: the station wagon stays out the mallar you know, mallowmobile,
Speaker 1: the station wagon, all that stays right out there. And
Speaker 1: I know, but but I mean part of the thing
Speaker 1: I was like, you also made like a room air conditioner,
Speaker 1: you know, just for my my studio. You've been in
Speaker 1: my studio. So I built this thing for w E
Speaker 1: I when I was doing the show for Boss was
Speaker 1: gifted to you. No, No, I paid for everything. Everything
Speaker 1: here I built at me. I set it up in
Speaker 1: Jake Warner, the Great Stay Awake with Jake. He came
Speaker 1: in here, and you know I had done the wiring,
Speaker 1: but I had a couple of wires that were wrong.
Speaker 1: And so Stay Awake with Jake, my old guy. He
Speaker 1: came in here, former dodging engineer and he put all
Speaker 1: that together and now he was the engineer for the
Speaker 1: Kings and the Clippers, and uh so we were were good.
Speaker 1: Yeah now that but but it's very hot in here
Speaker 1: with it especially with all this radio equipment. So if
Speaker 1: the air conditions not on, it's uh, it's like you know,
Speaker 1: sitting in a in a sauna. Yeah, that's uh. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the I think I should get
Speaker 1: a gold star gas gun for coming in. Don't you
Speaker 1: think I should get a gold star for doing that?
Speaker 1: I mean I could have just said I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do the show. Uh. We we know people that
Speaker 1: would say I'm not doing the show. But right, if
Speaker 1: it's not perfect and uh, at least get you know,
Speaker 1: pat on the head or something like that. I give
Speaker 1: you a pat in the head. I don't want to
Speaker 1: pat your bald head. Well it's not bald, it's thinning.
Speaker 1: To see the hair I've got. I've got a version
Speaker 1: of like not I'm not full Costanza. I got a
Speaker 1: little bit of a call to sack going and maybe
Speaker 1: like a mix like I'm I'm morphing into what Benjamin
Speaker 1: Franklin looked like at the end, you know, like the
Speaker 1: older Benjamin Franklin. Have you seen the gots or somebody said,
Speaker 1: I think it was Roberto said, I have the Hogan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I got to hold you don't have the mustache.
Speaker 1: So that's the only thing if I want to can
Speaker 1: grow the mustache. Yeah, if you you know the drawings
Speaker 1: of Benjamin Franklin, I think I'm starting to look a
Speaker 1: little bit like that if my hair was longer, like
Speaker 1: a mix between Franklin and Hogan. But I don't care.
Speaker 1: I just wear hats and doesn't matter. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't care. That's fine. Now, you did tell a little
Speaker 1: bit of a white lie because your communes less than
Speaker 1: forty miles from your house too. That is incorrect. That
Speaker 1: is a falseho is a falsehood by guests earn and
Speaker 1: for for you to be spreading false information, you know
Speaker 1: what you are. The fake news media is what you are.
Speaker 1: Guess got how dare you? As you know I live
Speaker 1: in a super secret location many many miles away from
Speaker 1: the Geico Fox Sports radio studio. Well, for the record,
Speaker 1: your commute to the station is shorter than my commute
Speaker 1: to the station, and I don't have the luxury of
Speaker 1: working from home with ten thous dollars. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Let me hold, do we do? We have a little
Speaker 1: violent now so we can serenade. Guess God here, give
Speaker 1: him a merit badge, way to go, just solid job
Speaker 1: by you. Guess how do you do it? You're a
Speaker 1: such a warrior, such a warrior. I mean you're on
Speaker 1: the Mallard gravy train, so I mean you should show
Speaker 1: up to work. Come on, I've made you. What is
Speaker 1: the Mallard gravy train? Get me see celebrity status and
Speaker 1: some of the brightest, all these right, truck drivers, people
Speaker 1: that are hard working, people that live east of the
Speaker 1: four oh five, people stocking grocery stores and all that.
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, what's the other word I'm looking for
Speaker 1: with you? The well, no, you're you're not. You're not elite.
Speaker 1: The the high brow bull crap from you, right, the
Speaker 1: I'm so sophisticated, I'm elitist, Lodi Dah, that kind of crap.
Speaker 1: All right, you don't appreciate this, you don't appreciate this.
Speaker 1: But I am. I am welcoming. I'm like a greeter
Speaker 1: at Walmart. I'm shepherding your elitist snob, pompous ass, and
Speaker 1: I'm allowing you to hang and and and and be
Speaker 1: celebrated although you're actually hated by the blue collar worker. Really,
Speaker 1: the backbone of the country is manual labor. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not the people you hang out with, the white
Speaker 1: collar crowd. It is the working class morning, noon, and night.
Speaker 1: Those are the people that have their lunch pail the
Speaker 1: show up, just like I have my lunch pail when
Speaker 1: I do the show late at night. That's amazing because
Speaker 1: if we're talking about lunch pails and work and blue
Speaker 1: collar like I do most of the work on this
Speaker 1: podcast for Ben Maller, that isn't like the the editing
Speaker 1: of the booking, the audio, the commute, the stress that
Speaker 1: I have to endure. Well, this is like off days
Speaker 1: to just come in here for you yet service restaurant
Speaker 1: because you didn't want to drive down the street in
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills. All right. Yes, when you go to a
Speaker 1: Broadway show, yes on Broadway, Yes, you look at the marquis. Yes.
Speaker 1: And if the person's names above the marquis, that means
Speaker 1: that they are the star of the show. Yes, And
Speaker 1: if they are below the marquis. That means they are not.
Speaker 1: Now is your name above or below the mark? Let's
Speaker 1: do this little exercise. Go ahead, I'll wait. My name
Speaker 1: is not on the market at all. So that's even worse.
Speaker 1: It is even worse. That's even worse. It's just a
Speaker 1: testament to who you are as a leader and lack
Speaker 1: of team player. That's that's a little bit difference. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I should be committed because I know you're
Speaker 1: having a connection fit over there and west of the
Speaker 1: four oh five, and you're convincing and bitching and all that. Um.
Speaker 1: But before you continue having the outrage of a pamper
Speaker 1: toddler denied a toy, let me remind you that when
Speaker 1: we created this podcast back in the September, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been been about a year now. September I think
Speaker 1: September nine is the first day that we launched the Sucker. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when I was putting the podcast together with management,
Speaker 1: the great management at Fox Sports Radio and all that,
Speaker 1: I was putting all this together. Um, I recall, if
Speaker 1: I if I remember correctly, that you know, there were
Speaker 1: people lined up around the damn building, protesters they wanted
Speaker 1: to work on the on the show, and uh, and
Speaker 1: I picked you so I should actually, I mean listen,
Speaker 1: that's I could have gone with anyone, and I have this,
Speaker 1: you have this unreasonable anger. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 1: people that want to be a podcast producer and sidekick,
Speaker 1: and you're arrogantly, you know, just unappreciative, spoiled, pample, pampered
Speaker 1: the guy over there. It's a bad job by you.
Speaker 1: I'd like to be well. As as many people have
Speaker 1: pointed out on the email and whatnot, you were born
Speaker 1: on third base, and uh, you don't realize how you
Speaker 1: got there. Well, the the idea is there's no matter
Speaker 1: where you were born, whether it's at home plate and
Speaker 1: at first, second, earth, third, you still got a score.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. So people can get this defeat
Speaker 1: used to add it to oh you're holding me back.
Speaker 1: Oh man, the man's holding me down. That's holding me down.
Speaker 1: What was me? Yeah? I would never do that. You
Speaker 1: see the door over there. You're free to walk out
Speaker 1: at any point here, you are free to walk out,
Speaker 1: and this podcast will continue. It will be no implosion,
Speaker 1: none of that. I don't think you'll have fun. I
Speaker 1: don't think you'll have as much fun oh please, I'll
Speaker 1: get somebody east of the four oh five in here. Man.
Speaker 1: But you don't like working with you don't like working
Speaker 1: with yes guys? Oh? I love it? What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Love? I've never worked with a yes guy.
Speaker 1: I'd like to work with you. My dream is to
Speaker 1: wake up one day and have the the Bennett's slobbering
Speaker 1: all over me like Dan Patrick has the Dandys. We'll
Speaker 1: keep trying wicklick, suck, suck, just that's what it would
Speaker 1: be great, keep trying. Ryan's pretty pretty good for you.
Speaker 1: And then right Burtinger, Yeah, well, Burst Singer is great
Speaker 1: because he works hard, he gets his stuff done and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and he he really doesn't give a
Speaker 1: crap about anything else. You know, a lot of these
Speaker 1: people get worked up over everything, but he does not.
Speaker 1: Speaking of speaking of that, I need to get into
Speaker 1: this story because I think you'll appreciate this. Right. Um,
Speaker 1: When you were a kid, did you have tonsils removed? Yes?
Speaker 1: You did? Okay, wisdom teeth too. I don't know about
Speaker 1: the wisdom teeth. No, I don't remember. I remember having
Speaker 1: the ice cream when I had my tonsils out there.
Speaker 1: That was a big thing. That's good my mom sold
Speaker 1: me because I was very scared as a child I
Speaker 1: going to the hospital, and she said, don't worry, bet,
Speaker 1: and you can eat as much as you want. And
Speaker 1: you tell a fat kid he can eat as much
Speaker 1: ice cream as you want, and that your eyes just
Speaker 1: lighted up. That was the best thing my mom could
Speaker 1: have possibly said. Yeah. Well, the reason why I asked
Speaker 1: that and brought that up was this is that for
Speaker 1: the past six weeks, I've been I've been having headaches
Speaker 1: and and I never get headaches. And I got him
Speaker 1: in a centralized area and one of our coworkers here
Speaker 1: actually had a really traumatic experience with headaches that call
Speaker 1: under then. So yes, yes, So needless to say, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, a little alarmed, and you know, you go
Speaker 1: down the dark web of the internet and you start
Speaker 1: self medicating. It ain't good because you can never look
Speaker 1: at web md because you always you have A you
Speaker 1: have cancer, and be you're gonna die, yes, and usually
Speaker 1: it's B before A, but it doesn't matter. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's like, what did you tell if you have a
Speaker 1: cough all of a sudden, right, that's a problem. If
Speaker 1: you have a call for a headache, you've got COVID
Speaker 1: or or or you know, or something work. I mean,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean there's like these indicators, like the
Speaker 1: check engine light goes on. But so, so you had headaches.
Speaker 1: You didn't mention this. Thanks for you know, I thought
Speaker 1: we were friends. I guess we're not. I guess we
Speaker 1: are really enemies here. And you didn't say, hey, I
Speaker 1: got some headaches here. You know, I would of course
Speaker 1: told you just take a couple of adulains. Shut up.
Speaker 1: That's what I would have said. That's what happens. You're
Speaker 1: not in the market anyways. So I started having headaches.
Speaker 1: But exactly at the same time of having the headaches
Speaker 1: is my left ear started popping, like popping on the
Speaker 1: red like when you debored a plane or you're eating
Speaker 1: like a rice Crispy treat and it starts cracking. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what's happened to me. So I'm just like, fuck,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's in the one centralized area, my
Speaker 1: ears popping. It's been going on for six weeks, and
Speaker 1: the only time it wasn't around was either I want
Speaker 1: to woke up early in the morning or I wanted
Speaker 1: to exercise, And so you know, I went to like
Speaker 1: a neurologist, and he still couldn't figure it out. And
Speaker 1: then a couple of days ago, I went to an
Speaker 1: e n T and I told him a story about
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. My dad actually told an
Speaker 1: I n T, who couldn't diagnose me for something that
Speaker 1: was wrong with me, that I couldn't hear. And so
Speaker 1: the e n T like, what the hell are you
Speaker 1: talking about? And he said, well, Dave can't can't hear.
Speaker 1: He's not enunciating when he talks. So when I spoke,
Speaker 1: i'd mumbled my words, and sometimes I do it to
Speaker 1: this day. Yes I hear that, because you do you
Speaker 1: are mumbled. Yes, So sometimes I do that because when
Speaker 1: I was a child, I couldn't hear. So when I
Speaker 1: was like one or yeah, so when I was like
Speaker 1: one or two years old, my dad told the e
Speaker 1: n T. And the e n T was like, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: you know, you taught me something new. Layman taught me something.
Speaker 1: So he put tubes in my ears. And typically the
Speaker 1: ear tubes that you get as a kid last a
Speaker 1: couple of months, sometimes maybe like a year. Ben I
Speaker 1: went and saw an I n T a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago because I thought that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 1: I still had a tube in my ear and it
Speaker 1: was causing this. Come to find out, I have a
Speaker 1: tube still in my ear that's behind behind my ear drum.
Speaker 1: That's like causing this major. Yeah, this major. By the way.
Speaker 1: Guess fun fact this is we should change the name
Speaker 1: of the podcast to the Tube Podcast because I had
Speaker 1: as a child, I also had tubes in my ears.
Speaker 1: Yeah you had them both. Yes, My my right ear
Speaker 1: is my horrible ear. And um, that's the one that
Speaker 1: I probably will lose my hearing and at some point,
Speaker 1: but I've not been to the ear doctor in a
Speaker 1: low My wife wants me to go because I I
Speaker 1: can't go swimming if I put my head on. I
Speaker 1: do go swimming, but I put my head under the water,
Speaker 1: I have the whole I just get water just logged
Speaker 1: in there. It's brutal. My hearing in my right ear
Speaker 1: is so bad. How bad is you know? I usually
Speaker 1: when I go to bed, I have like ear plugs.
Speaker 1: I sleep during the day and there's noise and whatever,
Speaker 1: so I sleep with ear plugs in. Yeah, my hearing
Speaker 1: and my right ear is so bad. I don't need
Speaker 1: to put an ear plug that it's I have my
Speaker 1: own ear plug. So yeah, so what are they gonna do.
Speaker 1: They gonna operator on your chop open your ear there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So in a few days from now, I gotta go
Speaker 1: back to the specialist and he's got to go he's
Speaker 1: gonna do a local anesthesia, a little numbing of the
Speaker 1: ear drum, and then he's got to make an incision
Speaker 1: with a tool like I find cool to make an incision,
Speaker 1: not necessarily a like a knife for like a scalpular,
Speaker 1: but um, you'll have to make an incision and go
Speaker 1: behind the ear drum and then remove this. And I
Speaker 1: asked him what it looked like and he showed me
Speaker 1: it looked like a grain small micro trip chip And
Speaker 1: I'm like that. He's like, yeah, usually it gets flushed out.
Speaker 1: He's like, you're the second person in my career that
Speaker 1: has ever had this happened to him. He's the first
Speaker 1: person that had that person at the tube in the
Speaker 1: ear for like ninety nine months. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit different, Like how long have you
Speaker 1: had And I said since I was like one or two,
Speaker 1: so thirty eight years. Actually it's like forty eight years.
Speaker 1: But that's like getting your wisdom teeth that like seventy
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm seven years old. Here cut my
Speaker 1: wisdom teeth. Yeah, that's pretty wild. And so did they
Speaker 1: say that? You know, of course they'll probably say, well,
Speaker 1: here are the risk, but here you know you'll be
Speaker 1: able to everything will be great, right, you'll be able
Speaker 1: to hear everything, and you know you're hearing. Will they improve?
Speaker 1: I can put other tubes in there and no, no no,
Speaker 1: no other tubes. But obviously for me, that's the main
Speaker 1: concern is like, okay, if that discomfort and pain goes away,
Speaker 1: does the headache go away? Because like that's obviously prior
Speaker 1: to number one. So you riddle me this, batman. Yes,
Speaker 1: when you say you go into the the ear doctor there, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, was it the throat? Ear? What are they? Okay?
Speaker 1: How come they decide why not just ear doctor? How
Speaker 1: come they decided right, not only hear the throat? I
Speaker 1: guess it's all connected because yeah, okay, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm learning anyway. So um uh, when you say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is my concern when I go to the ear doctors,
Speaker 1: what do you do for liver? I work in radio, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have headphones on twenty five hours a week blasting
Speaker 1: in my ears. You and Tom are like infamous Tom Linney.
Speaker 1: You guys are infamous for just juicing up the microphone
Speaker 1: in the headsets. Well, the reason that I do that
Speaker 1: and the reason Luney does that is we've been in
Speaker 1: the business a long time, and the longer you're in radio,
Speaker 1: you to hear. The voice is a musical instrument, and
Speaker 1: you want to hear all of the music. It's like
Speaker 1: going to to to watch a classical to Boston Pops
Speaker 1: perform and you want to hear every instrument in the
Speaker 1: Boston Pops as they're doing the thing. And so it's
Speaker 1: the same same concept. But the longer we go, the
Speaker 1: harder it gets, and you know, you have to turn
Speaker 1: it up higher and higher and higher and higher, and
Speaker 1: it's uh, it sucks. It sucks that. But a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in radio that Rush Limb Boss had major
Speaker 1: issues with his his although that there might be some
Speaker 1: other reasons for that, but he's uh, he's had some
Speaker 1: issues there. I've known people in the business that have
Speaker 1: had all kinds of issues. I was I told my
Speaker 1: I told my wife, I remember we got my dad
Speaker 1: a hearing a couple of years ago at Costco. I
Speaker 1: say that we'll be back here in a few years.
Speaker 1: Off here, right back here, I'll get one of these
Speaker 1: bad boys. Now. Did you have you ever had your
Speaker 1: ears drained before? Uh? Yeah, when I was a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because when I had major issues, like I could not
Speaker 1: hear when I was a kid. You know, I was
Speaker 1: just like you know the signs of a kid. I
Speaker 1: bang your head on the wall and all that, and
Speaker 1: you can't really talk right. Yeah, I had all that
Speaker 1: crap when I was a kid. I diated this Italian
Speaker 1: girl back in the day and her mom straight from
Speaker 1: from Sicily, would have this this treatment that she would
Speaker 1: do as like a holistic treatment that she would perform
Speaker 1: to clean ears. And what you do is you lay
Speaker 1: on one side of your head and she'd stick this
Speaker 1: like it looked like a giant iceberg, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: it like a giant wick. She stuck this giant wick
Speaker 1: inside of your ear and then cut a hole around
Speaker 1: a styrofoam plastic plate, the starrofoam plate, and put the
Speaker 1: plate through the wick. And at the top of the wick,
Speaker 1: she'd light it on. Yeah yah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah. I didn't really. Yeah, my my wife is
Speaker 1: actually done. That's wich. That's a witch. That's a witch move.
Speaker 1: I don't think it actually works, but not always feel better.
Speaker 1: It does, man, because she took out so much on
Speaker 1: can both ears and so that was one of the
Speaker 1: things that my e n T and the neurologist told
Speaker 1: me that. He said, hey, man, you need to stop
Speaker 1: cleaning your ears with Q tips because yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: they your doctors hate that. You know what I learned
Speaker 1: little cheat code hydrogen peroxide. Yes, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: What the hell? Yeah, I I have here this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a right in my desk here because I have
Speaker 1: such a bad hearing. I have a bottle of I
Speaker 1: don't know why this is brown. Every bottle of hydrogen
Speaker 1: peroxide is brown. The great thing about this is this
Speaker 1: this stuff is so cheap hydrogen peroxide. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: I have a little eye dropper. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can see that here, right, I have an eye dropper.
Speaker 1: I thought we were on television, so no, no, I
Speaker 1: was doing like a YouTube video. I was holding it
Speaker 1: up see this right here. Yeah, So but any way, no, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll take after the show actually, and I'll lean my
Speaker 1: head to the side and put the hydrogen peroxide in
Speaker 1: and you can feel you probably just like me with
Speaker 1: terrible hearing, so you can feel the gunk being burned
Speaker 1: away in your ear. Yes, it's wild, it is wild.
Speaker 1: It is crazy. I had no idea I mean that,
Speaker 1: I mean just dries it out, so it sounds like
Speaker 1: popcorn right in my ear. It sounds like popcorn. You
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm at the movie theater and I'm
Speaker 1: getting buttered popcorn. It kind of reminds me of like
Speaker 1: when those on those YouTube videos or even like on Twitter,
Speaker 1: when those young kids, those infants can't hear their death
Speaker 1: and then they have the e n T come in
Speaker 1: with these new like earphones or earpieces and they hear
Speaker 1: for the first time. Their eyes like just bloon up,
Speaker 1: like for the first time they can can hear the world.
Speaker 1: And so that stuff is awesome. And sometimes they've got
Speaker 1: things now with the vision. I know, my man blind
Speaker 1: Scott there, he keeps telling me that it's close. They
Speaker 1: they've got that technology. They're gonna be able to bring
Speaker 1: people's visions back the ability to see how great would
Speaker 1: that be? That they'd be awesome? So that's that's exactly
Speaker 1: where I'm at it. It's um see, I'm just hopeful
Speaker 1: that you know, because I don't want to go down
Speaker 1: the road of an m R I, because m R
Speaker 1: I with it. So this is not gonna be like
Speaker 1: a meatball surgery and there's gonna be legit surgery. They're
Speaker 1: gonna well, it's outpatient surgeries. Just what like the procedural
Speaker 1: will take about twenty five minutes. That's not that long.
Speaker 1: How much could they funk up in twenty minutes? A lot?
Speaker 1: But let's see, the reason I was asking you that
Speaker 1: was because if you've ever had your ears drained from
Speaker 1: a doctor, you gotta be careful because if they use
Speaker 1: cold water to shoot it into your ear and drain
Speaker 1: it like you immediately go into vertigo. And for people
Speaker 1: that don't or they do eat before the visit, you
Speaker 1: can throw up. I've had that done where a doctor
Speaker 1: would shoot cold water to my ear and immediately I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna spin out of control and black out. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you had a recent hearing test where they see what
Speaker 1: you're hearing is in each year and all that he's
Speaker 1: gonna do that after him done. Okay, all right, So
Speaker 1: but i'd like, my hearing is so bad in my
Speaker 1: right year, I wonder what it is, like, how how
Speaker 1: much lower it is? Yeah? You know, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the hearing scale is. I know visions right,
Speaker 1: if you a perfect vision, I don't know what it
Speaker 1: isn't hearing but interesting. I'll probably wait till the year
Speaker 1: completely falls off and then I'll go in. It's usually
Speaker 1: how that works. You don't how about this? Don't do
Speaker 1: it in because everything that could go wrong this year
Speaker 1: has gone wrong. So well, you actually started this last year.
Speaker 1: You were ahead of your time gascon in was it
Speaker 1: October late October of last year when you cursed me?
Speaker 1: You jinxed me and sent me to the most painful
Speaker 1: operation you can have the gall bladder remove. Thank you
Speaker 1: for that, guest. I appreciate that very kind of you.
Speaker 1: The problem, Yeah, well there we are in hasn't gotten better? Uh? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well you you want to steal stuff from Target or
Speaker 1: other stores? It's great, it's been a really good year,
Speaker 1: so it's not. Why are you gonna be so selfish, gascount?
Speaker 1: If you're you're like burning down cities and committing crime.
Speaker 1: This has been a great year, right, Civil unrest if
Speaker 1: you're an anarchist, this is like your dream come true.
Speaker 1: It's like your wet dream if you're you're all about
Speaker 1: that life. Know what a world? It is pretty wild? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. May you, may you, it's it's like
Speaker 1: that old thing, may you live in interesting times, which
Speaker 1: was actually a curse, and we're living it out right
Speaker 1: now right, that phrase may you live in interesting times?
Speaker 1: Ex Actually I think it's a Chinese curse, which is
Speaker 1: a way of saying, no, you don't want to live
Speaker 1: in interesting times. You want to live in boring towns
Speaker 1: when nothing goes on. That's where you want to live,
Speaker 1: because everything's every day, it's every day something's on fire somewhere.
Speaker 1: So I know you wanted to write a book, but
Speaker 1: if you want to write a book about just this year,
Speaker 1: you can easily rip that off. You can go threee
Speaker 1: is on just oh yeah, but this this has been
Speaker 1: been wild and there will be tons of books and movies.
Speaker 1: You know, ten, fifteen, twenty years from now, kids and
Speaker 1: I haven't been born yet, are gonna be indoctrinated with
Speaker 1: movies about and oh the way, the country on the
Speaker 1: brink and ripping band aids off the scars know that
Speaker 1: kind of anyway. All right, Well, that should do it, right,
Speaker 1: guest on, We've just fully bloviated, and I didn't even
Speaker 1: get to the things I was planning on talking about.
Speaker 1: You just hijacked the whole thing yet again, it says,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I can talk about some of that
Speaker 1: other stuff tomorrow. Tomorrow. It's another day. Tomorrow is another day.
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