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Speaker 1: of this studio at a certain time because they turned
Speaker 1: into a pumpkin. The carriage literally turns into a pumpkin.
Speaker 1: That's a more right. So the twenty nineteen twenty NBA season, Wow,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, man, that's that's crazy. NBA season kicks off
Speaker 1: next week Tuesday, Clippers and Lakers, a game. I will
Speaker 1: be in attendance add at the clip Joint. And there's
Speaker 1: all kinds of controversy. It's been a big topic on
Speaker 1: the radio show overnight, Lebron James, Steve kerg Greg Popovich,
Speaker 1: all of them suddenly being being unable to speak of
Speaker 1: what's going on in China. Well, Darryl moorey the Rockets
Speaker 1: GM has now become a symbol of hope for the
Speaker 1: people of Hong Hong because of that tweet, and it's
Speaker 1: just why not Lebron James On the other side, you've
Speaker 1: got good versus evil In the eyes of many, Lebron
Speaker 1: has been vilified and some calling him the Hanoi Jane
Speaker 1: of the NBA for spewing what many people deemed pro
Speaker 1: Chinese rhetoric. Uh. We talked about that on the radio
Speaker 1: show and Lebron um making himself the victim here cozying
Speaker 1: up to a dictorial, oppressive communist government in the People's
Speaker 1: Republic of China. Um. So that's that's the back story.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how you would have missed
Speaker 1: the back story. We can't assume you're aware of everything.
Speaker 1: And then we have this new development regarding Darryl Moore,
Speaker 1: a couple of new developments. That's why we call it
Speaker 1: that tomorra, a cyber attack, wild story. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you get the wall Street Journal or not, but
Speaker 1: I somebody had forwarded me in this story. It's it's
Speaker 1: nuts from this week and Darryl Morey was the target
Speaker 1: of a coordinated harassment campaign by the Chinese state government
Speaker 1: and it was all on Twitter, and it played out
Speaker 1: in real time on that fateful day. And when on
Speaker 1: October four, Darryl Morey sent that tweet out which was
Speaker 1: supportive of the people of Hong Kong. In the twelve
Speaker 1: hours after that tweet, all right, uh, Darryl Morey the
Speaker 1: Rockets GM, his Twitter account was flooded with amazing, endless
Speaker 1: comments of pro Chinese rhetoric and it was like over
Speaker 1: more than sixteen thousand times and twelve hours. And some
Speaker 1: of these analytical types from Forensic Research Labs analyze this
Speaker 1: and they they said, based on their analysis that of
Speaker 1: these comments over others like almost two undred thousand comments,
Speaker 1: but twenty two thousand or rather came from accounts that
Speaker 1: have no followers at some point that last week. That
Speaker 1: that means these people likely started these accounts just to
Speaker 1: attack Terrell Morey. We're from accounts that had fewer than
Speaker 1: thirteen followers. And uh, and if you don't know how
Speaker 1: the Twitter game works if you're not on Twitter. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of box there's a lot of dummy
Speaker 1: accounts on there, and you know, the numbers are inflated
Speaker 1: on how many people are actually really using the platform.
Speaker 1: But the other thing you're the way the story is
Speaker 1: being reported is that this was a direct assault from
Speaker 1: the Chinese government. Meaning the way they break this down
Speaker 1: the troll mobs, it was an orchestrated activity by the
Speaker 1: people who run me accounts. It wasn't it wasn't just
Speaker 1: a bunch of bots, it was actually people in China.
Speaker 1: They believe that we're doing this. That one of the
Speaker 1: one of the people I in this Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: story guests and it was quoted said, I am not
Speaker 1: saying this is a state affiliated operation, but the guy
Speaker 1: says he's done this for professionally, says I've only seen
Speaker 1: so many brand new accounts used at one time when
Speaker 1: it was a state affiliated operations. So that's just like,
Speaker 1: how does that work just the the Chinese government? Do
Speaker 1: they you know, hit a button and then the mob attacks.
Speaker 1: Is it like like in the old days you blow
Speaker 1: into the bugle um propaganda wise? How do you actually
Speaker 1: input this with having people how do you pay out
Speaker 1: these people? Or do you pay out these people? I
Speaker 1: think that's the bigger question. It's like turnstile if you're
Speaker 1: because you not only have to activate an account, but
Speaker 1: then obviously you're putting in a password and then you're
Speaker 1: typing up the step. Now, the luxury is with Twitter
Speaker 1: is you can have multiple accounts on your same profile.
Speaker 1: So I know that you have some shadow accounts that
Speaker 1: you used to pack yourself on the back during your
Speaker 1: you know, eleven o'clock to three three am show. So
Speaker 1: when you just lied, do you have just lied on
Speaker 1: the podcast? You have just lied on the podcast. You
Speaker 1: can go from one account to another and then you
Speaker 1: just light somebody up, so around the clock we go.
Speaker 1: I would imagine you get someone in foreign intelligence, and
Speaker 1: you probably get some of the military that's gonna hop
Speaker 1: on it and start activating accounts and start sending stuff
Speaker 1: out to Darryl Moore. This is amazing. When you first
Speaker 1: told me this story, I was I was perplexed because
Speaker 1: of how short of a window that is to generate
Speaker 1: that kind of volume as astronomical. Be sure to catch
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Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, um a couple of other things.
Speaker 1: It is crazy. I mean, I don't know troll mob,
Speaker 1: but the Twitter is actually banned in China, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing about. And I have talk to some
Speaker 1: people over the years that have gone to China and
Speaker 1: they tell me that it's very odd the Chinese people
Speaker 1: because many of them use the websites we use, even
Speaker 1: though they're banned in China. How do they do that?
Speaker 1: They use a VPN, VPN, they use a VPN and
Speaker 1: it'spparently like the Chinese government even somebody told me the
Speaker 1: Chinese government even sells these like they're fully aware. They
Speaker 1: are fully aware, but they're making money on it so
Speaker 1: they don't really care. And and so it's this odd
Speaker 1: thing where you know, all these things are banned, but
Speaker 1: you know you can do them. So it's it's another
Speaker 1: thing now. So this is full disclosure though, but this
Speaker 1: is the second time that something has come up in
Speaker 1: a country and in a regional part of the world
Speaker 1: that you have advised me to go take a job.
Speaker 1: In two years ago, you said I should go to Bluefield,
Speaker 1: West Virginia for a job that would have paid two
Speaker 1: or twelve dollars an hour. And last year you told
Speaker 1: me to take a job in China as a correspondent
Speaker 1: for a local agency, a news agency. Next next year,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you to take a job in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: or Syria or Iran. Yes, not North Korea. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't think you're good enough for North Korea. I don't
Speaker 1: think you are. Yeah, uh, this, I was trying to
Speaker 1: help you out. I wanted you to experience poverty. You
Speaker 1: chose not to experience poverty. I think you would be
Speaker 1: a great propaganda guy for a communist government. You would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a loaded subject that it is loaded for you,
Speaker 1: but not for me. I'm gonna I don't know that
Speaker 1: I'll ever go to China, probably after my last couple
Speaker 1: of monologues on the radio. I'll not be allowed in China. Um,
Speaker 1: because as soon as you hit the tarmac, don't they
Speaker 1: take pictures of you? They take video images of you
Speaker 1: and and isolate your face. And I think they do all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, that's what they say. And
Speaker 1: then on the internet, in the dark Web, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was just to finish up on this come and
Speaker 1: move on. But the Adam Silver, the commissioned the NBA,
Speaker 1: spoke this week and he waxed poetic about the fallout.
Speaker 1: He admitted that the NBA has been hurt financially, said
Speaker 1: he had no you know, the people of China asked
Speaker 1: the Chinese government asked the NBA to fire Darryl Morey
Speaker 1: and uh and the NBA obviously hasn't done that, at
Speaker 1: least at this particular moment. Adam Silver says, the losses
Speaker 1: have already been substantial. Our games are not back on
Speaker 1: the air in China, he said, and we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens next. Now, somebody I know that works in the
Speaker 1: NBA told me that this is going to destroy future
Speaker 1: salary cap numbers. That there's so much it's not the
Speaker 1: most money, but so much money that comes from China
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to downgrade future salary cap numbers
Speaker 1: for teams because of revenues being down if China doesn't
Speaker 1: capitulate with the NBA, which would affect you know, these
Speaker 1: teams that have these super Max contracts they've given out to,
Speaker 1: like the Rockets have James Harden and Russell Westbrook. Ironically,
Speaker 1: Darryl Morey's team UM as an example, so and then
Speaker 1: the other the other, just to put the final touch
Speaker 1: on this. What happens next, Like the NBA is hoping
Speaker 1: this will just go away. People will move on once
Speaker 1: the season starts next week. People will just be excited
Speaker 1: about that. Uh. And they're trying to work as liaisons
Speaker 1: with the Chinese government to kind of massage their shoulders
Speaker 1: and make them feel okay with But at the same
Speaker 1: time they have to they have to. They can't cross
Speaker 1: the line here in America. UM. And so it's a mess.
Speaker 1: And the protests are going to continue. My theory on this,
Speaker 1: the obviously are gonna stop. That will at some point.
Speaker 1: If you look at the history be bloodshed, a lot
Speaker 1: of bloodshed involving these protesters in Hong Kong. Um. There
Speaker 1: is a point of demarcation for the Chinese government. People
Speaker 1: are gonna be sent to prison camps. Uh. They already are.
Speaker 1: And Lebron James can say he don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about this, but it's gonna follow him around. He is
Speaker 1: now a symbol for the communist Chinese government, at least
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the people of Hong Kong. Whether
Speaker 1: that's fair or not. And I listen. I understand I've
Speaker 1: taken shots at Lebron, okay, but I know that a
Speaker 1: lot of this is just piling on. People have been
Speaker 1: waiting for Lebron to step in it, and now he's
Speaker 1: stepped in it, and so people are are dancing on
Speaker 1: his grave. But he does deserve it in this respect.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on, we give props now, we won't
Speaker 1: do too many, but I love these prop bets for
Speaker 1: the NBA season. Here, I've got a few of them.
Speaker 1: Gascon uh, And you can bet the l A Clippers
Speaker 1: will win the NBA Championship. You get plus four ten
Speaker 1: or you can take the field at minus five fifteen.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, the Clippers have the top odds to
Speaker 1: win the NBA Championship. So would you rather take the
Speaker 1: Clippers or the field? I think with those numbers, I
Speaker 1: would probably be compelled to take the Clippers. See that's
Speaker 1: the that's why you're wrong. I would go the other way.
Speaker 1: And I and I love the Clippers, and I'm man,
Speaker 1: I hope they're good as everyone says. It bothers me
Speaker 1: that everyone's licking and um, you know, doing all that
Speaker 1: with the clips and giving them a bubble bass I'm
Speaker 1: not used to that, um, used to them being the
Speaker 1: punching bag. I believe they'll have a very good team.
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll be great during the regular season
Speaker 1: because Paul George is gonna be out. Um. But if
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, if I'm right that he is the modern
Speaker 1: Dame Michael Jordan's defensively and offensively combined both better. Probably
Speaker 1: defensively than Jordan. Jordan was good, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: not quite as good offensively as Jordan. But in that area, Um,
Speaker 1: the Clippers will be amazing in the playoffs. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've always been of the position you bet
Speaker 1: on the field and the reason you do that well,
Speaker 1: obviously have more chances? Can you have more bullets in
Speaker 1: the chamber? With these other NBAS thirty NBA teams, you
Speaker 1: get twenty nine even though really there's only about seven
Speaker 1: or eight if you win the championship. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's two. But the other thing is, I hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but knock on would this doesn't have me happened.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's say Kauai gets hurt or George
Speaker 1: gets hurt later in the year, the Clippers aren't winning
Speaker 1: a championship if either one of those things happened. So um,
Speaker 1: so you have that operatorny. I mean, I would do
Speaker 1: that with every team. And you can do the same
Speaker 1: thing with the Lakers. The Lakers are plus four sixty
Speaker 1: five um, the fields minus six thirty. I would do
Speaker 1: the same thing, same concept. Lebron could get hurt. He
Speaker 1: got hurt last year. Anthony Davis is a walking injury.
Speaker 1: He's like the operation game um with all the injuries.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a suckers bet and that's just
Speaker 1: my my position. Now, another like spinoff bet on this,
Speaker 1: which I thought was interesting, is a California team winning
Speaker 1: a championship at plus one thirty five. The field winning
Speaker 1: the NBA Championship is minus one fifty five. I would
Speaker 1: actually consider betting on a California team because you get
Speaker 1: the Lakers and Clippers in that, and you get Golden State.
Speaker 1: Assuming Clay Thompson does the back for the playoffs. That's
Speaker 1: three of the roughly eight teams that could win the championship.
Speaker 1: That's value. I believe you're getting some value in that
Speaker 1: you do. But here's the thing, and this is not
Speaker 1: a hot take, but I'm of the opinion that with
Speaker 1: Golden State and the injuries that they have and also
Speaker 1: the fact that they lost Kevin Durant, I see them
Speaker 1: as a bottom tier team in the Western Conference, like seven,
Speaker 1: eight seed or potentially missing the playoffs. I think it
Speaker 1: goes that low. Yeah, I don't. I think they'll win
Speaker 1: enough against the ship bag teams in the NBA. They's
Speaker 1: just the horrible teams that I think they will find
Speaker 1: a way to be in the middle probably lower there.
Speaker 1: Not gonna be a top four seed, but I think
Speaker 1: they can be in that five six range, not seven
Speaker 1: or eight. I think they'll be in the fives. It
Speaker 1: still means you've got to go on the road, um
Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs. But that's that's interesting
Speaker 1: to discuss. Now you can do that with every team.
Speaker 1: My my answer as far as the overall teams, they
Speaker 1: just take take the field some of the player or
Speaker 1: team props in general. Um, this is interesting here Clippers
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs or not make the playoffs. Um.
Speaker 1: And and this is something when you might bet a
Speaker 1: little bit, just again based on the theory that players
Speaker 1: will get hurt and they might not make the playoffs
Speaker 1: because it's so close in the Western Conference. But you
Speaker 1: gotta think with this much talent, they're gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I mean they might not win, but they're gonna make
Speaker 1: the playoffs for them. And then you get some value
Speaker 1: that the Phoenix Suns to make the playoffs are plus
Speaker 1: one thousand, which is they have no chance. They have
Speaker 1: no chance. All right? Um, moving on? How about this
Speaker 1: Janie ident to Coombo, the Greek freak will win the
Speaker 1: regular season m v P or take the field? I
Speaker 1: gotta go. I gotta go with taking the field on
Speaker 1: this one. He won it last year. I think it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where it's much like Lebron and
Speaker 1: previous m VP winners, is that people feel that it
Speaker 1: gets a little bit over too saturated. Plus the fact
Speaker 1: that he's not in the major major media market. You
Speaker 1: have Kawhile Leonard Kawai going from the Eastern Conference the
Speaker 1: Western Conference. If he has a monster's season, he is
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I think that ESPN, T and T
Speaker 1: will elevate him. Lebron James is coming back, obviously, Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis in l A. I think there's too much firepower,
Speaker 1: and then who knows, Steph Curry could go off not
Speaker 1: saying that he will, but that's the one that's stop, period, stop.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is the guy here because if the Warriors
Speaker 1: are a middle seed in the West, Curry is gonna
Speaker 1: have to average like thirty five points a game. And
Speaker 1: we know he's like, he's like Clayton Kershaw. There's regular
Speaker 1: season Curry and there's playoff Curry, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's like Cody Bellinger, who you know, in the regular
Speaker 1: season it's all his home runs and then in the
Speaker 1: postseason they throw sliders low and away and he goes
Speaker 1: fishing all the time, hit hand home runs. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it Curries plus five five, you could take
Speaker 1: the field of minus seven fifty. That would be one.
Speaker 1: Although he's also injury prone. But if any of these props,
Speaker 1: I would take him as the as the m v
Speaker 1: p UM for sure. How about this Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: He's a rookie, all right, Zion Williamson will win the
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year minus one ninety the field plus
Speaker 1: one sixty five. Wow. I would actually take Zion Williamson
Speaker 1: even though he could get hurt because historically guess Guard
Speaker 1: and I have studied this because I'm a degenerate. The
Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the NBA draft. It seems
Speaker 1: like the number one or two pick or three pick
Speaker 1: has won the m v P pretty much every year.
Speaker 1: Very rarely does a pick outside of that win the
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven p m. Pacific. Outside of your shoddy voice, I
Speaker 1: like the selection because you also go into the season.
Speaker 1: Was Zion Although he is a top pick, he's not
Speaker 1: going to a bear cupboard. I mean a Lonzo ball
Speaker 1: is there, Brandon ingram Is The ball is not that good.
Speaker 1: I know, well, okay, he's not a good shooter. His
Speaker 1: room always looks like he's glazed over. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on with him exactly, but I'm saying he's
Speaker 1: not He's not playing with a bunch of scrubs. It's
Speaker 1: not like he's in Phoenix right now. It's not like
Speaker 1: he's in Sacramento. It's not like he's in Memphis. So
Speaker 1: he's got personal around him. And plus, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the way that he has been elevated when he played
Speaker 1: at Duke, that's gonna carry on over the media market
Speaker 1: there in New Orleans. We're gonna try to wrap around him, obviously,
Speaker 1: propel him and make that market somewhat relevant, especially in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference and a down season for Golden State.
Speaker 1: They need to prop somebody else up. Want to do
Speaker 1: it with the top pick in the NBA draft from
Speaker 1: this year, Yeah, I think you gotta go with Zion,
Speaker 1: although I you know the other name here obviously, the
Speaker 1: second thing, John Moran, who I loved in college and
Speaker 1: the tournament. But I think Zion's got so much behind
Speaker 1: him and the NBA needs him to be a star
Speaker 1: of the next generation here, so he would really have
Speaker 1: to be out of whack to not win the award.
Speaker 1: All right, Moving on, ry for Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood.
Speaker 1: So there's a rumor in the building, Gas Guy, that
Speaker 1: you have been cast or are about to be cast
Speaker 1: in a whoa whoa in a movie. Uh if somebody
Speaker 1: said you have gone la la land, is that correct? No,
Speaker 1: I've had I've had a couple of recent auditions for
Speaker 1: some some projects, some feature films and or some shows.
Speaker 1: And um, a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that you know what I do here at
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio or what I do for Fox Sports West.
Speaker 1: Those type of roles have come up as an announcer,
Speaker 1: as a kind of journalist, reporter, journalists, Yeah, things, so
Speaker 1: those things cars advertising into what it's Hollywood. Of course
Speaker 1: it is um but those things have carried over obviously.
Speaker 1: And uh, I've been in contention for a couple of
Speaker 1: gigs and it's uh, it's air tight right now, say
Speaker 1: that much. But something could happen the next couple of
Speaker 1: weeks where I could just completely abandon this podcast never
Speaker 1: to return again, that I would not see you. The
Speaker 1: only thing is is that if I had been in
Speaker 1: this podcast that I have to have someone fill in
Speaker 1: for me, I think i'd have like Ralph Irvin do
Speaker 1: it or have I think that's probably the one guy.
Speaker 1: You don't have anyone else that would actually want to
Speaker 1: contribute to the show or participate or actually work on it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's true. None of the other people want to work
Speaker 1: on it because they don't want to get up early
Speaker 1: and have to work extra. And I don't blame them,
Speaker 1: but you have what you have a guy that fills
Speaker 1: in for Eddie and you actually ball wash him worse
Speaker 1: than he ball washes you, Brian Fenley. I think it's
Speaker 1: like one of those annoying things that you here on
Speaker 1: radio outside of your callers that call in drunk, cracked out,
Speaker 1: it passed out. Whatever. You fond over the kid. You
Speaker 1: know what you are. You're a national radio host for
Speaker 1: four hours a night, and you drool all over this kid. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but you're sounding
Speaker 1: like the green eyed monster jealous. He is not something
Speaker 1: that is becoming. It is not uh, and I do
Speaker 1: not appreciate your cynicism. Brian Finley is uber talented. Uh.
Speaker 1: He is a tremendous radio broadcaster. I think you're jealous
Speaker 1: that he is so good, he is so young and
Speaker 1: so good that you feel like a dumb dumb compared
Speaker 1: to him. And you're also bothered that, unlike you, who
Speaker 1: wants my affection, I have tremendous respect for Finley. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy said the term reverse cow girl on the
Speaker 1: radio and I got dumped. He did get dumped. He
Speaker 1: reverse cow girl during a game. What game was it?
Speaker 1: Was it the Braves or the Cowboys? Was it somebody? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't remember what game, but it was. We were
Speaker 1: all like it was one of those things that we
Speaker 1: weren't really listening, and then he said it and we
Speaker 1: were like, oh my god, I can't. But that's the
Speaker 1: great thing about Finley, as he was nicknamed Fentanol Finley,
Speaker 1: we call him the buckaroo. But he he's got this
Speaker 1: very smooth, professional delivery, and then he works in these
Speaker 1: disgusting terms. Uh you want to try that sometimes? No,
Speaker 1: you see, he's he's knocking this off of your old
Speaker 1: pal um Tom Looney theatrical words to to give a
Speaker 1: description on a game. Luny sent me a message this week.
Speaker 1: He was sitting courtside at a Laker exhibition game, and
Speaker 1: did you see what he had? I don't think you
Speaker 1: saw what he had said to me, bough he know saying,
Speaker 1: you know, if you had only been nicer to a
Speaker 1: former producer, you would have also been getting courtside sheets
Speaker 1: to lag because because because I got used to work
Speaker 1: at our company, who I did not get along with
Speaker 1: because I thought he was very lazy and bad at
Speaker 1: his job, and it bothers me. I like people that
Speaker 1: work hard. I respect people that work hard people that
Speaker 1: don't work hard. I spent on um and this guy
Speaker 1: was lazy, and you know, I would drink it works,
Speaker 1: you know, allegedly and and whatnot. So it just was
Speaker 1: just a bad apple and and so I pushed back
Speaker 1: with him a couple of times. And uh, anyway, the
Speaker 1: guy's the guy's really good at sucking about. I'll give
Speaker 1: him credit. He is good at lick lick lick. And
Speaker 1: so he got a job where he's connected and can
Speaker 1: get like courtside seats and stuff like that. But uh,
Speaker 1: but I'm good. I like sitting near the pearly gates
Speaker 1: when I go to basketball game, so I like sitting
Speaker 1: closer to God. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I will say this much. If you ever see me
Speaker 1: in a purple suit with a gold tie on, I
Speaker 1: would love for you just to run me over with
Speaker 1: your car. Like, yeah, you would ever wear that ship
Speaker 1: in public? Yeah? I I responded to Looney, and I said, no,
Speaker 1: you didn't get your Laker girls outfit. You know, they
Speaker 1: didn't come in on Amazon. I mean, my god. This
Speaker 1: was the poor man's version of Clipper Darryl. Like Clipper
Speaker 1: Darryl is decked out in Clipper attire, and it looks awesome,
Speaker 1: especially when he has the full suit on pants jacket,
Speaker 1: shirt and tie. Looney went with the Lakers version of it,
Speaker 1: and it looked like someone shot him up with a
Speaker 1: paintball gun. Yeah you did it, did not? You know?
Speaker 1: He plays his all muscled, routed out or whatever, and
Speaker 1: it just looks as an odd look. He's this guy's
Speaker 1: like a meathead and then he's got this purple It's
Speaker 1: like Barney the Dinosaur worked out, you know. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: so you get the gig in Hollywood. Um, and I
Speaker 1: hope you do because I don't want to work with you.
Speaker 1: That would be need the money. You need the money.
Speaker 1: You're a sellout. I'm gonna sell out to whoever writes
Speaker 1: me the biggest check or a check for that matter.
Speaker 1: How about they check? All right? So I want you
Speaker 1: to quit the podcast now, even if this is a
Speaker 1: big show and I don't know what show it is,
Speaker 1: and I don't really watch much TV or movies or much.
Speaker 1: I watched documentaries because I'm old. But I need a
Speaker 1: gig as an extra, I'll take it. I would take
Speaker 1: your job as a my my my dream. I when
Speaker 1: I worked at the w E, I Jerry Callahan, Well,
Speaker 1: I like he's a great radio guy there. He got
Speaker 1: fired though because of a protester. Um. But but anyway,
Speaker 1: Jerry Callahan and that morning show was very popular in Boston,
Speaker 1: and they put him in that show in a couple
Speaker 1: of movies, like you know those scenes where they come
Speaker 1: back and there's like a radio or something broadcast and
Speaker 1: it would be his show. Very nice, and I thought,
Speaker 1: how cool would that be if somebody does a movie
Speaker 1: and puts our you know that somebody's listening to our
Speaker 1: show while they're going to bed or something like that
Speaker 1: and they can't sleep because they're on drugs. Now with
Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio, do you know who Elvis Durant is.
Speaker 1: I've heard the name. I believe he is a very
Speaker 1: important person at the company because I have that is
Speaker 1: a name that I don't know, but I have heard
Speaker 1: many times. Okay, So Elvis Durant is an FM host
Speaker 1: and he's based out of New York with I Heart Media.
Speaker 1: And it's funny you mentioned that because if you watch
Speaker 1: and go back to Die Heart three, Diehard with a Vengeance,
Speaker 1: there's a part in that where there's a radio show
Speaker 1: that's that's calling in or having a calling guests talking
Speaker 1: about a bomb that's planet in the middle of a
Speaker 1: school and Elvis Durant is the host of that show. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be great. I gotta that's on my bucket list.
Speaker 1: I'd like to have that happen before my fledgling career
Speaker 1: comes to an end. So how about this that if
Speaker 1: if something out of sheer luck happens to me and
Speaker 1: cross my fingers. But you don't want is you don't
Speaker 1: want a background roll. You want an under five roll,
Speaker 1: because an under five roll means that you actually get
Speaker 1: airtime or a background You could be on the lot
Speaker 1: for twelve hours and get paid like a hundred fifty
Speaker 1: bucks or two hundred bucks. So yeah, I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I don't know how about crap works. I've never done that.
Speaker 1: I've never been to a TV show taping. I've been
Speaker 1: my my friend from Dallas, my buddy comes out every
Speaker 1: year and he always goes to the studios to watch
Speaker 1: the TV shows big tape and he invites me, and
Speaker 1: I've been online with him a couple of times. We
Speaker 1: got bumped. Um, I've never actually been. I I got
Speaker 1: bumped years ago in New York when I want to
Speaker 1: go see the David Letterman show. I was in line
Speaker 1: online for Letterman, and I got bumped from that. I've
Speaker 1: been to the Tonight show. I got bumped from that,
Speaker 1: So I guess maybe it's me. I just get bumped.
Speaker 1: What would you rather do? I fly first class either
Speaker 1: to the East Coast or two Europe, or be on
Speaker 1: a show as a background actor. Oh well, man, I
Speaker 1: get paid for the background actor and you get a
Speaker 1: hundred fifty bucks. He says. Well, like, let's say we
Speaker 1: could put you in Game of Thrones as someone that
Speaker 1: was fighting someone in that fantasy flick. Um. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean like an iconic movie or something like where people
Speaker 1: are gonna go back and watch, you know, for years,
Speaker 1: like The Godfather Too or something like that. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: first class air travel very expense. I can put you
Speaker 1: in Casino, right, that's a great movie. Yeah, alright, moving on?
Speaker 1: What good luck with the gig. I hope you get
Speaker 1: it and I never have to see you for our sake. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: good luck on that, and knock yourself out, all right,
Speaker 1: study this, that's right, study this. These are actual stories.
Speaker 1: I love these studies. And are you competitive? Gas Gown?
Speaker 1: Are you a competitive person? Yeah? Yeah, I've been playing
Speaker 1: sports my entire life. A couple of years in college
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, probably probably a drug. Competitive people are
Speaker 1: more prone to drug consumption, according to it a new
Speaker 1: study that has confirmed there is a very strong correlation
Speaker 1: between personalities characterized as a competitive and consumption of illegal
Speaker 1: substances such as cocaine, cannabis, and hallucinogenics. None does that
Speaker 1: count for caffeine. I know it's not illegal, but I
Speaker 1: do not see that on the list of banned illegal substance.
Speaker 1: I've I've been in the nature of consuming a lot
Speaker 1: of energy drinks in my time. Is how what you
Speaker 1: call that stuff? Energy drink? When I went into college,
Speaker 1: I um, it was kind of like a monkey see
Speaker 1: monkey do. But obviously with McGuire and uh Sosa the
Speaker 1: home run chase and whatnot. My first year in college
Speaker 1: I was actually taking I was stacking creatine and Andrew Stein,
Speaker 1: which was obviously a banned substance now, but at that
Speaker 1: time I was I was a taking I guess you
Speaker 1: could consider performance enhancing drugs. It was like Shan Sharp
Speaker 1: was in commercials and Bill Romanowski all all those guys
Speaker 1: had something underneath the uh, underneath the drawer and or
Speaker 1: in the drawer, and um, yeah, you know, well, I
Speaker 1: I consider myself a somewhat competitive person. But I I
Speaker 1: I have no real desire to do the coke or
Speaker 1: the any of that stuff. But yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: that would actually work with your wife probably would have
Speaker 1: a problem with that. Something tells me, being a married
Speaker 1: man fifty years of age out here, not to cocaine
Speaker 1: closer to well, no, because you can't go back in time.
Speaker 1: You can only go forward, So you can't go back
Speaker 1: in time. I have created a machine, the Hot Tough
Speaker 1: Time Machine. I can go back in time. If you
Speaker 1: want to see someone that's on cocaine, you can come
Speaker 1: to Manhattan Beach, or go down to Newport Beach on
Speaker 1: a Friday or Saturday night, or your house. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. Yeah, just uh yeah, it's just sugar all
Speaker 1: over the place. Yeah, you can do that. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been to a party where they do the cocaine? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I went to. Uh. I went to a music festival
Speaker 1: in Miami in the mid two early two thousand's and UM,
Speaker 1: a couple of colleagues that I worked with at the time,
Speaker 1: we walked into this monster hotel room. It was a
Speaker 1: sweet right on the water near the Belvedere Hotel in Miami,
Speaker 1: and I kid you not, it was it was like
Speaker 1: something out of a movie. There was coke, there are pills,
Speaker 1: there's marijuana, there was alcohol. There was everything that you
Speaker 1: could imagine. And I walked right the hell out. I
Speaker 1: was like, holy shit, this is like waiting for someone
Speaker 1: from the federal from the FBI to come in here
Speaker 1: at the e A and just pop everybody and hook
Speaker 1: him and book him. So well I was, I was
Speaker 1: at I've only been at one party like that. It
Speaker 1: was in the Hollywood Hills. I was invited to a
Speaker 1: party and uh, I was so out of my element. Man.
Speaker 1: They was like, you know they talk about those hills
Speaker 1: talking in Hollywood. And it was this big match in
Speaker 1: with just a beautiful showcase pool and they had a
Speaker 1: view of the skyline of Los Angeles. It was just
Speaker 1: amazing and uh and then everyone was hammered. And then
Speaker 1: they had like piles of all kinds of party drugs
Speaker 1: and people were snorting and I was just like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's so uncomfortable. It was. It was crazy, man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just I always thought, well, that's just what they
Speaker 1: do in the movies, it doesn't actually happen. But it
Speaker 1: did actually happen. All right? Moving on, study, This a
Speaker 1: a new study. How about this, you got kids? A
Speaker 1: new study found that ninety five percent of baby food
Speaker 1: contains lead, seventy three percent contains arsenic, and thirty two
Speaker 1: percent contained mercury. We're all gonna die, We're all gonna
Speaker 1: till our kids. Well do you think that's a reason
Speaker 1: why a lot of women now are breastfeeding their kids
Speaker 1: until they're two three years of age? Well? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean if you can do it, you know you would.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, my mom breast fed me when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. What about your your mom? Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: But baby food formula, that's I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: people drink dr pepper and I've read that there's there's
Speaker 1: some ingredients in there that caused cancer right away. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I drank a lot of Dr Pepper back in the day.
Speaker 1: I mean so, But the other argument is, like everything
Speaker 1: you consume in some way or another's gonna get you.
Speaker 1: But we know the big three are like lead, arsenic,
Speaker 1: and mercury. Those are like those aren't on the spectrum.
Speaker 1: They are the spectrum. You've forgotten. Number four global warming,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's gonna get us. Too, so no, it's
Speaker 1: climate change. I changed it to climate change. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: how's the fasting going? Uh, it's it's going. It's not bad.
Speaker 1: And I made it. I was sick this week, so
Speaker 1: I didn't have an appetite, so I made it seventy
Speaker 1: six hours. I eat on Sunday and then I ate
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. Um, Sunday afternoon and Wednesday night. I
Speaker 1: made seventies six hours, where I think it's a new
Speaker 1: good for the longest stretch without eating. But I just
Speaker 1: had like chicken broth, which doesn't count as food. It's
Speaker 1: not an actual food. I had some of that. But
Speaker 1: I'm on a nineteen hours and forty three minutes as
Speaker 1: we speak. I got an app. It's called Life Fasting.
Speaker 1: It's an app that can track your metabolism depending on
Speaker 1: when you fast, how long you fast, weight, body mass index,
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards. So it's actually challenging because I
Speaker 1: work at hard hours and then I exercise, and then
Speaker 1: I gotta do this ship with you, so it's it's
Speaker 1: really a lot on my plate. So I, um, you know,
Speaker 1: i'd expect the encouragement for me to come along sometime
Speaker 1: soon in their in future. Well, you're the same asshole
Speaker 1: that sends me food pictures when I'm in the middle
Speaker 1: of a fast of a delicious, juicy cheeseburger or whatever.
Speaker 1: I mean. I mean, I mean, you really are an
Speaker 1: asshole that you might as well move to North Korea.
Speaker 1: We said you couldn't work there, but you might as
Speaker 1: well move there. That's what Instagram is for. It's for
Speaker 1: bikini models, food and workout videos, I think, and destination
Speaker 1: put pictures too, so I know you're not on there,
Speaker 1: but yeah, all right, it is Uh, study this, what's next?
Speaker 1: What we got? Study? Study says less educated men most
Speaker 1: likely to make or take wives last name after marriage. Wow.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they get I guess they just
Speaker 1: looked at your degree or whatever. Well, you're not married yet, guest,
Speaker 1: you might never be. But if you do get married, Guest, ken,
Speaker 1: I think you're the kind of guy I would take
Speaker 1: your wife's last name. Why would I? I got a
Speaker 1: Bacher's and a master's degree. I work in radio, plenty
Speaker 1: of son, Yeah exactly, we're in radio. That's the first
Speaker 1: thing that people ask me as soon as I tell him,
Speaker 1: and I have a master's, Like, why the why the
Speaker 1: hell are you working in radio. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't have a grade response after that. I just
Speaker 1: just shake my head and put it down. And and
Speaker 1: not What would you do if your wife said you
Speaker 1: need to have her last name instead of yours? Does
Speaker 1: she have your last name? Yeah? I mean she does.
Speaker 1: I'm it's awkward for me that she has my last name.
Speaker 1: I feel weird about it. It's very odd to me.
Speaker 1: It's like very grown up, and it's like there's a
Speaker 1: responsibility in that and all and h it is. It
Speaker 1: is crazy. It's one of those traditions that has continued
Speaker 1: in in the marriage. Would you've would you have felt
Speaker 1: a little upset or annoyed that she wanted to hyphenate
Speaker 1: it or just keep her own? Yeah, you know, probably
Speaker 1: I would have. You know, I feel like that's part
Speaker 1: of the that's part of the gig, you know. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's what you sign up for. You know, you kind
Speaker 1: of have to change your name. I don't know if
Speaker 1: people some people don't have to do that. Like, you're
Speaker 1: not asking a lot. You give him a ring, no
Speaker 1: matter what dollar amount that is. Can I get a
Speaker 1: little something back a name? Please? Yeah? I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's true. And I mean, plus these you know, I
Speaker 1: have friends, you know, women that are married and they
Speaker 1: change their name but on Facebook and they still use
Speaker 1: their old name, you know, because that's how people know them.
Speaker 1: So the reason for that, they're probably doing something else
Speaker 1: on the side. That might be true too. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've had no idea, all right. New study finds that
Speaker 1: despite the rise of villains in Hollywood movies, most movie
Speaker 1: goers still prefer the heroes with morals. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I agree with that. I think that the trend
Speaker 1: of having the anti hero is more compelling for a
Speaker 1: storyline for me and I think for a lot of
Speaker 1: people than it is just the traditional hero. I know
Speaker 1: that we're over saturated with Dwayne Johnson the Rock in
Speaker 1: his movies, but he is because he's in everything and
Speaker 1: he's just there for he's guys. But he never like,
Speaker 1: he's never on the immoral side of things. He's always
Speaker 1: that guy. He's always the good guy. But I prefer
Speaker 1: someone that's got the dark side that eventually sees the
Speaker 1: light they suffered through it. I know you haven't. Did
Speaker 1: you see that movie seven Back in the Day with
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt, Kevin space c, Morgan Freeman. No, alright, never mind. Um.
Speaker 1: Most recently true detective shows on on Showtime. Um, those
Speaker 1: were good Wody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey. They had a dark side,
Speaker 1: each of them. They were the anti heroes. There were cops,
Speaker 1: Dan louise Yanna. Um. I prefer those shows. I don't
Speaker 1: know if about you, but I prefer watching a hero
Speaker 1: dig themselves in deep and then pull themselves out to
Speaker 1: recover and obviously get to the finish line with a
Speaker 1: great ending. Uh. Well, we we've talked about this. There's
Speaker 1: only seven stories that Hollywood and books use, right, rags
Speaker 1: to riches, study rise, riches to to rags where you're rich,
Speaker 1: you lose everything, tragedy, which is usually like a Disney
Speaker 1: movie and the mom dies. Uh. The study your fall
Speaker 1: would be that the man and a hole, Right, that's
Speaker 1: the fall rise, You fall down, but you get out
Speaker 1: of the hole. Um, batman. And then there's like there's
Speaker 1: the rise and fall, which is always just talking about Cinderella.
Speaker 1: That's always the Cinderella story. Then you have rise fall rise,
Speaker 1: where you in the course of a TV show or movie,
Speaker 1: you start out great, you suck and you get back
Speaker 1: on your feet and then you have fall rise, uh fall,
Speaker 1: which is the opposite where you get some success. That's
Speaker 1: like Brewster's Millions, Right, remember that movie? Are you a
Speaker 1: big Bond guy? Uh? No? I I watched some of
Speaker 1: the early one I was kid. I watched The Bond.
Speaker 1: I've not seen a Bond movie in a million years,
Speaker 1: but I like the the idea of James Bond agent
Speaker 1: double O seven. Yeah. I also say because one of
Speaker 1: the rarer movies with Bond, George Lazenbie was the start
Speaker 1: of it. His only flick on Her Majesty's Secret Service,
Speaker 1: That one ends with tragedy because he gets married at
Speaker 1: the end of that movie and then his wife gets
Speaker 1: murdered at the end. Yeah, that's just the way it
Speaker 1: closes out. So yeah, Hi, real quick, I gotta do
Speaker 1: a couple more. I want to move this on, study this,
Speaker 1: check this out, guess and we joke around this on
Speaker 1: the radio show. There's a drop that Roberto plays all
Speaker 1: the time. I was talking Color asked about Phil Niekro
Speaker 1: and Joe Nikro, and I said something that I do
Speaker 1: We're not recall saying, I can't repeat it right now,
Speaker 1: but anyway, so he plays it all the time. Is
Speaker 1: a funny drop and all this stuff. Well, it turns out,
Speaker 1: according to a study, phrases like you all look the
Speaker 1: same to me or I can't tell any of them
Speaker 1: apart uh. People think of those as racial stereotypes and
Speaker 1: obviously prejudice and all that stuff. But quote a news
Speaker 1: study turns out that we are really hardwired to have
Speaker 1: a more difficult time distinguishing the facial characteristics of individuals
Speaker 1: from a different race than our own. It's quoted a
Speaker 1: study done by the University of California, Riverside. They say
Speaker 1: our brains are inherently inclined to either process or not
Speaker 1: process facial characteristics based on race. So it turns out, yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be a racial stereotype, but it's actually part
Speaker 1: of the DNA for people, and you don't for the
Speaker 1: other races. How crazy is that? That's interesting? Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not like that, but I will say this much, with
Speaker 1: regards to facial recognition and whatnot, I'm terrible with age.
Speaker 1: I can't guess someone's age anymore. If they tell me
Speaker 1: that they're they're forty, I just believe them. But if
Speaker 1: someone says, hey, how old do you think I am?
Speaker 1: I'm god awful with that, no matter if it's a
Speaker 1: male or female. Well, I've told you guess. I think
Speaker 1: everyone's a on my age, even kids. I think they're
Speaker 1: all around with even like five years of my age.
Speaker 1: I just I just assume I lived my life. I
Speaker 1: I see really old people, I think, well you probably
Speaker 1: have you know, simmer, we'reund my age, you know. And
Speaker 1: I see really young people. I'm like, okay, you're probably
Speaker 1: close to my age. And I have no no concept
Speaker 1: of that at all. You know the people I wait,
Speaker 1: Brian Finley brought he bring up up again. He's a
Speaker 1: young guy and uh, you know, he says he grew
Speaker 1: up listening to to me on the radio or whatever.
Speaker 1: I I I mean, I think if he's like my age,
Speaker 1: he's not. It's crazy. No, I know he could he
Speaker 1: could be your son, you know. I could only be
Speaker 1: still like all right, anyway, it is a study. This
Speaker 1: should we move? I got a couple of all them.
Speaker 1: How about you ever eat late at night? I don't
Speaker 1: do this anymore. You do all the time. New study
Speaker 1: says the top food to eat before bed as a
Speaker 1: snack is blank. What do you think? Chocolate nope? French
Speaker 1: fries nope? I would rather have French fries in this pizza.
Speaker 1: No tottage cheese. Wow, how disgusting is that. I don't
Speaker 1: imagine getting a big spoonful of cottage cheese before you
Speaker 1: could have What do you eat cottage cheese with? Though? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Like if you have a dig I don't eat cottage cheese.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like cottage. I'll have it with
Speaker 1: if I have, like steak and rice soft some cottage cheese.
Speaker 1: But I only get hungry late at night when I'm
Speaker 1: not drinking, which is every other night, or it's late
Speaker 1: after work. I'll get out of here at like an
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock or twelve and I'll go to Jack in
Speaker 1: the box, but or in and out. But cottage cheese. Yeah,
Speaker 1: My cottage cheese is like a cousin of ranch dressing
Speaker 1: in blue cheese. So I I I'm good, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: real quick. A new study that looked at the hundred
Speaker 1: largest US states to find the greenest cities in the
Speaker 1: in the least green cities and the top three. Now
Speaker 1: these are obvious San Francisco, San Diego, and Irvine, California,
Speaker 1: where I grew up, But I like the bottom three.
Speaker 1: What do you think the according to the top one
Speaker 1: u s states or cities rabbits um the least green
Speaker 1: city in America, the one that is the renegade, the
Speaker 1: one that doesn't put up with any of these gayzy
Speaker 1: environmental activists and just says go go Pound saying we don't.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do our own thing. Um can say Dallas,
Speaker 1: not Dallas. I gotta go red states here, I think.
Speaker 1: So how about Norman, Oklahoma? Not not Norman, Oklahoma. There's
Speaker 1: let me just give you the bottom three. I'll give
Speaker 1: you the bottom number nine eight to lead Ohio, a
Speaker 1: right number on the least environmental friendly green states. You've
Speaker 1: got none other than Corpus Christi, Texas. I've never been there.
Speaker 1: You've been in Corpus Christy. No, but in the next
Speaker 1: of the border. Uh. And then you have number one
Speaker 1: hundred Baton Rouvee, Louisiana, the capital of Louisiana is just
Speaker 1: number were number zero on this list, if you will,
Speaker 1: as the worst of the worst. And in this same
Speaker 1: study they say that the worst the worst air quality
Speaker 1: index in in these cities. Congratulations in Riverside, San Bernardino County, California,
Speaker 1: not far away from where we live. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: horrible out there. I used to date someone that lived
Speaker 1: out there, and I remember commuting every time to go
Speaker 1: see her off the fifteen freeway. And it's a kick
Speaker 1: in the nuts. Because the freeway goes east and west.
Speaker 1: There's always a sign that says beaches or cities, and
Speaker 1: I in my mind, I'm always like heaven or Hell,
Speaker 1: and usually that was pointing towards her in Hell. So yeah,
Speaker 1: River said, sucks. It's the ringing endorsement the Chamber of
Speaker 1: Commerce Riverside, California, and listening to this would be surprised
Speaker 1: that they don't. I'm very big in the I E. Man,
Speaker 1: they love me. Those are my peeps of the So
Speaker 1: I just want to be one more. I got so
Speaker 1: many of these stupid things. Uh. The kids these days,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh you kids these days? You know? Hear
Speaker 1: people say that from time to time. Uh, there is
Speaker 1: study out and says people's tendency to believe kids these
Speaker 1: days are deficient relative to those of previous generations. Like
Speaker 1: you think the generation before you, UM or after you, rather,
Speaker 1: it's not as good as your generation. UM. This has
Speaker 1: been apparently going on for like a hundred years according
Speaker 1: to the to the study, if not longer when when
Speaker 1: observing current children, we are wired to compare our biased
Speaker 1: memory to the present and decline appears. So essentially, put
Speaker 1: that in layman's terms, um, we think we're better than
Speaker 1: the people that follow us, you know. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's more of an age thing to Um. When you
Speaker 1: look at someone that's older, you think either they are younger.
Speaker 1: You think that you just have the advantage of them
Speaker 1: based on experience and education and what you've gone through. UM.
Speaker 1: I know I look at younger people, especially uh, teenagers
Speaker 1: and younger kids, and I don't think that I'm better
Speaker 1: than them in the sense or that I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: more successful, But I I'm always fearful for them for
Speaker 1: some reason, like like they don't know what they're getting into,
Speaker 1: or they're not going to be educated enough, or they're
Speaker 1: not gonna have enough good quality exposure things like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, I just I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: have any of those things. I'm like, well, they'll figure out.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all figured it out, right. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what the hell I was doing in life, and
Speaker 1: figure it out. I mean, that's how life works. You
Speaker 1: gotta figure it out trial and error. Um, that's the
Speaker 1: only way to do it. Man, you're gonna screw up
Speaker 1: a bunch of life. That's part of being human, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go through it. And you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose some you know, get some bad grades. You're gonna
Speaker 1: lose a job. I've lost a bunch of jobs, and
Speaker 1: you just gotta keep going. Yeah, fair enough anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: So that's that in the bag. These are we'll do
Speaker 1: a few of these. They got a bunch of these questions.
Speaker 1: These are actual questions by actual listeners. This these all
Speaker 1: came from Facebook. Um, we have email address. But when
Speaker 1: we mentioned that guest gone, the whistleblower is has access,
Speaker 1: people stopped emailing us. Why would they do that? I
Speaker 1: blame you. I think that was a reactionary thing. People.
Speaker 1: You know you're an enemy of the state, right. I'm reliable.
Speaker 1: People like to communicate reliable. You were half an hour
Speaker 1: late to today's podcast. I was fifteen minutes late, and
Speaker 1: your fucking connection is not working, so we had I
Speaker 1: did not touch a damn thing, schmuckla, I did not
Speaker 1: I know, I know you dingle Berry in the back
Speaker 1: This is from will in Triangle, Virginia. You ever been
Speaker 1: Triangle Virginia, never been in Virginia, But you could have
Speaker 1: lived not far away over in West Virginia. But you
Speaker 1: chose not to take my advice. By job by you.
Speaker 1: Thank God. Anyway, says hey man. If you got a
Speaker 1: phone call from the Dodgers to be their new GM,
Speaker 1: what should happen? Would you? Would you? Would you look to?
Speaker 1: What would you look to? Do you have so much talent?
Speaker 1: Do you it through right it out? Or would you
Speaker 1: trade Clayton Kershaw who you called satan Well, technically, will
Speaker 1: I call him the devil? I didn't say the word
Speaker 1: satan um, but I could have, and they made that
Speaker 1: a promo, which I don't know that how you feel
Speaker 1: about that. It was a very emotional, visceral response when
Speaker 1: I called him the devil. At the moment, I felt
Speaker 1: he was the devil um. But yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: gotta trade him. I mean, it's just it's, you know,
Speaker 1: let him go somewhere else. I don't care if he
Speaker 1: wins the World Series somewhere else, that's fine, and Pitch
Speaker 1: is great. It's just not happening with the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: just to to do the same thing over and over again.
Speaker 1: It's just it's wasting this era. Um, he single handedly
Speaker 1: has played a role in now you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of playoff runs that have ended because of his incompetence.
Speaker 1: And I realized, he's not trying to suck, but he's sucking,
Speaker 1: and so something should be done on that. I would
Speaker 1: absolutely trade him. And and you know the thing is,
Speaker 1: these guys, Howie Kendrick wasn't that good as a Dodger.
Speaker 1: He goes to the Nationals, guy's getting big hits in
Speaker 1: the plays. He is such a random things, you know,
Speaker 1: as the cookie crumbles in the baseball playoffs, which makes
Speaker 1: it all the more frustrating. But if the randomness never
Speaker 1: seems to go your way, that's telling you something. Yeah.
Speaker 1: On top of that, they gave him a Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: type of extension. You know, in his last two years,
Speaker 1: he got forty eight and a half million dollars. Kershaw
Speaker 1: has two years remaining on this current deal and he's
Speaker 1: gonna get paid sixty two million dollars. Yeah, he's gotta
Speaker 1: go that. We call that in radio, a golden parachute,
Speaker 1: that's what we call that. And he actually was successful
Speaker 1: during the regular season, which blew me away, and they
Speaker 1: won a lot of his games in the regular season.
Speaker 1: But again, he's exposed. All these guys get exposed in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's a different style of game, and we
Speaker 1: can piss and mot about it, but that's the way
Speaker 1: it is, and you gotta do better. Yeah. Well, it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate because it's Kershaw, it's Bellinger, it's everybody outside of
Speaker 1: of Justin Turner and Max Munsey. That seems like the
Speaker 1: last couple of years are delivering. Kevin in Rumford, Maine, right, So,
Speaker 1: he says, should the Red Sox resigned Rick Porcello, he
Speaker 1: wants to stay in Boston, but it would it would
Speaker 1: have to be a discount price. Uh. He's an innings eater,
Speaker 1: stays healthy. Some bad years, he'll bounce, he bounces back,
Speaker 1: uh he he and it has a really good career overall.
Speaker 1: Kevin sounds like you're a Porcelo fan. I believe the
Speaker 1: Red Sox are gonna move on now. They don't even
Speaker 1: have a GM so who God only knows, but they've
Speaker 1: got to get some younger guys on that that rotation.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty old pitching staff. Um or middle aged
Speaker 1: to old with David Price who is now out of
Speaker 1: his prime and Chris Sale who was a disaster last year. Um,
Speaker 1: they've got to sign some other guys, you know. And
Speaker 1: I don't think the Red Sox are gonna spend two
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars on Strasburg or uh or Derek Cole,
Speaker 1: but you know, they gotta get somebody else in there.
Speaker 1: I don't think Porcelos the the anties. I'm if I'm
Speaker 1: a Red Sox guy and I'm in the front office,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, we'll let him go. Well. The
Speaker 1: other thing two is don't forget is they need to
Speaker 1: offer some money to Mookie Betts if they want to
Speaker 1: keep them. It sounds like they're not going to keep them. JD.
Speaker 1: Martinez is gonna be there again this year, so they
Speaker 1: have a lot of holes to fill. The fact that
Speaker 1: they could not get off the map at all this
Speaker 1: year though after the World Series from last season, that's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a surprise. Yeah, I know what
Speaker 1: I did the local radio in Boston. We did some
Speaker 1: monologues on Mookie Bets. This has been a lingering story
Speaker 1: here and there's a lot of people in Boston that
Speaker 1: think he's not fully in love with playing for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox, and he is totally willing to be a
Speaker 1: baseball renegade and and you know, soldier of fortune and
Speaker 1: all those words, and go play for anybody for the
Speaker 1: highest bidder, but typically the Red Sox. I've said this
Speaker 1: for years, the Red Sox, Yankees, the Dodgers. You cannot
Speaker 1: say you don't want to play for those teams because
Speaker 1: they're the ones that have all the money. So if
Speaker 1: you want to get a loaded contract, you gotta be
Speaker 1: open to playing in those you know, in l A,
Speaker 1: New York or boss And and just as a competitor,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that gets gets the juices flowing, like if
Speaker 1: you're in l A or Boston, in New York, maybe
Speaker 1: San Francisco. But outside of that, those are the major
Speaker 1: markets St. Louis, Chicago, the Cubbies. But I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what you want to be. He's gonna be what the
Speaker 1: modern day version of Durell Reavius when he was with
Speaker 1: the Patriots. That's what they say. But to get the
Speaker 1: real money in baseball, you sign on ten year contracts.
Speaker 1: So it's like really just changed teams one time and
Speaker 1: you're there like Bryce Harper in Philadelphia for thirteen years.
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Speaker 1: moving on, Mark in Ottawa says your favorite mom cook
Speaker 1: dish growing up? Um, all right, Now here's my theory
Speaker 1: on this, Mark, Um, this is whatever your mom. Your
Speaker 1: mom could be the worst cook in the world, but
Speaker 1: you have no point of reference as a kid. So
Speaker 1: what were your mom makes is you'reant a reminisce about
Speaker 1: that time in your life and you think, well, I
Speaker 1: was you know, I was eight years old, I had
Speaker 1: no worries in the I played video games all the
Speaker 1: time or whatever, and I was what a great point
Speaker 1: in my life. So whatever that is, it's gonna bring
Speaker 1: back memories of your youth and all that. So but
Speaker 1: for me, I recall, you know, I remember I would
Speaker 1: be a little on the weather that that mats of
Speaker 1: ball soup my mom would make. I love that. That
Speaker 1: was amazed that that was awesome. I love that. And
Speaker 1: but even suddenly, I mean I'm clearly a lot of
Speaker 1: regular stuff. Your mac and cheese and things like that
Speaker 1: and spaghetti or whatever. But it's just something about Mom's
Speaker 1: touch that is is magically anything for you Gascon Growing up,
Speaker 1: I think my mom was really good at beef stroking
Speaker 1: off and enchilada's. She was money. She is money with that.
Speaker 1: Like any time that we have big family parties and
Speaker 1: we need to do something in a hurry, she just
Speaker 1: quick with the Mexican food, tacos, enchiladas, tostada's. Uh My
Speaker 1: sister her her kids, my niece says they love that
Speaker 1: stuff too, So yeah, yeah, that's cool. But my mom
Speaker 1: also made this cranberry chicken which I loved. I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of that, and a little rice on
Speaker 1: the side that was Man, was that good stuff. But
Speaker 1: then she also made stuff I hated, like lentil soup
Speaker 1: which was disgusting, and um yeah, I mean there were
Speaker 1: some some other things I didn't like, but you know
Speaker 1: he blocked those out. You remember the good things, not
Speaker 1: the bad things. Moving on Matteo in Penfield, New York. Right, so,
Speaker 1: and he says, if you could own any exotic animals
Speaker 1: a pet, what animal would you pick? I think I
Speaker 1: got asked this on asked bend this week. I said, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe not this specific question, Matteo, but I would take
Speaker 1: an alligator. How cool would it be to have an
Speaker 1: as long as it didn't eat you like an alligator.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be cool? But what would you do with
Speaker 1: the alligator? You couldn't pimp it out? You know? Well,
Speaker 1: hen what was that? A guy in Indonesia years ago
Speaker 1: was like, had a pet alligator and raised it from
Speaker 1: birth and slept with the alligator, and his kids played
Speaker 1: with the alligator. Remember that, I do. It was like
Speaker 1: a seven foot long alligator, man wild man alligator. I
Speaker 1: can't see with an alligator. I can see you more
Speaker 1: with like um, like an elephant in elephant. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I do love the elephant. The rhino hippo. I love
Speaker 1: the fat animal, just like I love the fat coach
Speaker 1: and sports the fat athlete. Uh, there's something about that.
Speaker 1: I love, you know, rhinos skin, big fat rhino and
Speaker 1: I don't know how fast the hippo is and all
Speaker 1: that I can I can see you. Yeah, that's right
Speaker 1: up your alley. What about a koala bear, Well, that's
Speaker 1: more Eddie's that's more Eddie speed, you know, that's more
Speaker 1: his his situation. You see Eddie more of like a
Speaker 1: like a penguin. Penguin. Yeah, that's about right with Eddie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Eddie, like you know, are you are you saying
Speaker 1: he's like the what was the character band from China him?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the bear, um, the Disney Bear,
Speaker 1: Winnie the Pool the Poo. Yeah, banned from China. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Winning the Pool got banned from China because the Chinese.
Speaker 1: They the people, I guess, the people that hated the
Speaker 1: leader of China. China used, he's Winnie they put aside
Speaker 1: by side. They said he looked like Winnie the Pooh,
Speaker 1: and so China said, all right, you want to play
Speaker 1: that game, well, band Winnie the Pooh? Can they pained him? Uh?
Speaker 1: How about which of the which of the Big Five?
Speaker 1: I already said, right, Rhino, I'd go Rhino. But of
Speaker 1: the Big five, the African Big five? Like you know
Speaker 1: what that is? Lyon African elephant, cape, buffalo, leopard, and Rhino.
Speaker 1: Which of those would you want to have? Like, a
Speaker 1: lion would be pretty cool to get, like women for
Speaker 1: you because you're single, you know, and the women would be, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a tough guy, he's got a lion. I think
Speaker 1: a rhino would be Ryan would be great. You're stealing
Speaker 1: my answer, schmuck, that was my answer. But you can't
Speaker 1: have a rhino. I picked a rhino. But a rhino
Speaker 1: is like driving the original Hummer. Like not think the
Speaker 1: H one or the H two. But if you have
Speaker 1: an original Hummer and you you pimp that thing out
Speaker 1: here in l a or or New York or wherever
Speaker 1: he may be, like that is that's American steel right now.
Speaker 1: That's a Cadillac. The rhinos a Cadillan. Yes, it's Cadillac.
Speaker 1: It's a big thick or Um. What's the car? The
Speaker 1: Lincoln Continental? Oh my god, I love the Some day
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a Lincoln Continental. I I had one
Speaker 1: as a rental car in Cleveland years ago, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to Uncle Buck. I didn't want to give
Speaker 1: it back. That was the most comfortable seat I've ever had.
Speaker 1: An an an honorable bill was a Lincoln Continental. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was like sitting on my sofa driving. It was
Speaker 1: so good. It was I still wish I wish I
Speaker 1: could have stolen that car. It was that good a car, um,
Speaker 1: but it gets terrible gas mileage. And I you know
Speaker 1: I live inside. You know, I live in Siberia, so
Speaker 1: I can't I can't have that. Big. Lou rights in
Speaker 1: from the LBC says, is the sleep number bed good
Speaker 1: for making whoopee? I get asked this a lot, Lou.
Speaker 1: I know you're a big stud with the ladies. Uh so, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only advice I would give you is you've got
Speaker 1: to have the bed set at a hundred, which is
Speaker 1: the firmest setting on the sleep number bed. If you
Speaker 1: try to to to do the making love with the
Speaker 1: bed down, it does not go as well. Um, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of odd movements that are gonna happen to
Speaker 1: you that you do not need to have happened in
Speaker 1: that situation. That could cause you to pull a muscle
Speaker 1: or something like that. So as long as you keep
Speaker 1: the bed all the way up the full max, you're fine.
Speaker 1: I will remember that when I go to your house
Speaker 1: for the Christmas party. Wow, yeah, I know that's your
Speaker 1: You know some people go on tender you go to
Speaker 1: the holiday parties. What you do? I know that's how
Speaker 1: you doing. Make sure it's set to a hundred. All right?
Speaker 1: John the jailer from a prison near you, right, so
Speaker 1: he says Ben and also gagon. He says, what are
Speaker 1: you going to be for Halloween? Uh? And he says
Speaker 1: a bonus question, what's your favorite candy? Says I know
Speaker 1: you've talked about this before, but I love a good
Speaker 1: candy breakdown. Well, John, I'm a grown ass man. I
Speaker 1: will not be anything for Halloween. Although my wife we
Speaker 1: were talking about what I would be, and I think
Speaker 1: we decided if I do dress up, if we get
Speaker 1: invited to another holiday party, I would be a Costco
Speaker 1: sample person. I would I would wear the uniform of
Speaker 1: the foot soldiers of Costco who don't even work for Costco.
Speaker 1: They they sub let it um, but I would. I
Speaker 1: would do something like that. And that's that's like a
Speaker 1: red tray, blue apron um. And then you've got like
Speaker 1: a hair net and then that that's what that? What?
Speaker 1: What about? You guess? Kart? I a buddy of mine
Speaker 1: a few years ago as a gift, got me an
Speaker 1: authentic kilt and I haven't cracked it open yet. I
Speaker 1: haven't worn it yet, but I have a full kill
Speaker 1: with like the the shirt as well, like the longsleeve shirt,
Speaker 1: the socks. I might rock it this year. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't dress up for Halloween though, I'm just like you.
Speaker 1: I have not dressed up for Halloween since Salas in
Speaker 1: my early twenties. Well I have, but that's are being married.
Speaker 1: My wife likes to dress up, and so every once
Speaker 1: in a while I get dragged bill holiday party and
Speaker 1: to now here, I am the clown. Look at me.
Speaker 1: I'm the trained seal. I will dance stands. As far
Speaker 1: as candy, I'm a traditionalist. I grew up with the
Speaker 1: Baby Ruth Butterfinger. Uh. Those are the big two for me. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then I rotate. I love peanut M and M's.
Speaker 1: That's a solid one. Um. The sticker bars a traditional one,
Speaker 1: the big powerful candies. I've always been a supporter of those.
Speaker 1: Reese's Peanut butter Cup can't go wrong. Problem is you
Speaker 1: don't get a lot there. There's a very small the
Speaker 1: Reese's Peanut butter Cup. Um, but they're they're pretty good. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a chocolate guy. My My wife's all
Speaker 1: about the the other stuff, not the you know, like
Speaker 1: the jelly beans and that kind of stuff. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: found out your wife does not like chocolate. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: I like the chocolate. She does not like the chocolate
Speaker 1: so much, but I don't mind the other stuff. But
Speaker 1: it's I'm if I had to choose, it would be
Speaker 1: like chocolate, Like you know, I'll go basic. I'll go
Speaker 1: like a chocolate Hershe's bar with almonds, that's solid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. I'm anything with waivers. So if you get
Speaker 1: me like a kick Cat, I'm good with that. As
Speaker 1: you mentioned Reese's pieces, Um, if you want to go
Speaker 1: off the beaten path, I do like Snickers, but the
Speaker 1: Snickers ice cream bars are fucking delicious. Those are really good.
Speaker 1: Nasty Crunch was a favorite of mine back in the day.
Speaker 1: Um those are yeah, those are the ones. I'm on
Speaker 1: part with you Eminem's as well. Um, peanut butter, Um,
Speaker 1: anything with peanut butter and it hits a spot. So yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Jose writes in from Parts Unknown, He says,
Speaker 1: if you and Gagon would have to get a tattoo,
Speaker 1: what would it be? Uh? Well, Jose, uh you know,
Speaker 1: gun to my head, you gotta get a tattoo. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess I'd get my wife's name to suck up
Speaker 1: to her. But now I don't. I don't know I
Speaker 1: would get a tatt I don't have any interest with
Speaker 1: you can get a tattoo. The reason I want to
Speaker 1: get a tattoos because I I changed my mind. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to get something
Speaker 1: and then ten years from now say, oh crap. And
Speaker 1: plus it's hard. You gotta spend a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I talked to people that have friends that have tattoos,
Speaker 1: and from I understand, you have to do tattoo maintenance,
Speaker 1: which I never I never knew that was a thing
Speaker 1: until a few years ago. Like you, you get a
Speaker 1: lot of money. These things cost a couple of grand
Speaker 1: I was talking to Alex Tisher, one of the engineers
Speaker 1: at Fox, and he just got his first tattoo and
Speaker 1: he wanted to get a sleeve tattoo. He's just gonna
Speaker 1: cost him like three grand or something like that, and
Speaker 1: then he's got to spend money every year to keep
Speaker 1: it maintained. Yeah, not worth it at all. That's like,
Speaker 1: that's like a lifetime commitment. Man. Yeah, if I were
Speaker 1: to get a tattoo, would be something from my youth,
Speaker 1: and I think something that could be timeless. Um, I
Speaker 1: think you should appreciate this. I don't know, your brother
Speaker 1: or something like that. I would probably get either an
Speaker 1: autobot or a Decepticon logo Decepticon. Yeah, autobots are Decepticons
Speaker 1: from Transformers. So now you can get you're gonna get
Speaker 1: it like on your forehead, or you're gonna get it.
Speaker 1: You tookis so no one sees it, even women. Uh,
Speaker 1: I probably have to go arm you arm or arm
Speaker 1: or leg maybe I don't know. Yeah, all right, here's
Speaker 1: one for you. Only gag On, Chris writes in from
Speaker 1: Parts Unknown. He says, gag On, how disappointed is your
Speaker 1: father and you he saved lives with the l a
Speaker 1: p D for you to do radio. Yeah, that's it's
Speaker 1: a good question you think about your dad was like
Speaker 1: a hero man. Your dad's like a big star in
Speaker 1: the l a p D. Now look at you. The
Speaker 1: males that my family were law enforcement and the females
Speaker 1: were teachers. And I'm the only idiot that got into
Speaker 1: two media. So I don't know. I'd have to ask
Speaker 1: him that one day. But my relationship with my dad
Speaker 1: is very on the surface. It's not a lot of
Speaker 1: like deep stuff unless we're talking sports or to get
Speaker 1: into the law or in a politics that does your
Speaker 1: dad listen to this or no, I don't think so,
Speaker 1: I probably Yeah, I don't blame him. He has, He's
Speaker 1: asked a couple of times about it, though. Um, he's
Speaker 1: asked how you're doing, how we're doing well. You first
Speaker 1: thing me first. You put me on the phone with
Speaker 1: your dad one time, and I was, I, I hate
Speaker 1: when the third person comes in the conversation, you know,
Speaker 1: And I was very awkward. I feel terrible. Your dad
Speaker 1: probably thinks I'm an asshole or schmuck. And I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to give that first impression, but I was just
Speaker 1: I was kind of blindsided by the whole situation, and
Speaker 1: I I was, Uh, I choked. I flop swed is
Speaker 1: what I had. It's funny because we're coming from a
Speaker 1: Dodger game, so it's only fitting that you were choking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad, I was coming from a Dodger like Kershaw.
Speaker 1: That was like, it was like Clayton Kershaw pretty much.
Speaker 1: I think the only time he feels disappointed that I'm
Speaker 1: in radio is when you assholes butcher our last name.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, you have some fucking respect,
Speaker 1: but I can't expect that. Um yeah, but well that
Speaker 1: and when he sees how much money you make. He's
Speaker 1: probably like, wait a minute, you know I was ran
Speaker 1: the L A P. D Man, I got a pension.
Speaker 1: You got nothing. Listen, if I had some different bloodlines
Speaker 1: were with being an entertainment and probably a different story.
Speaker 1: Well I'm the same way. Listen. My dad was in radio,
Speaker 1: but Ham radio. You don't make any money in Ham radio.
Speaker 1: It's a hobby. And my dad was so annoyed. I
Speaker 1: never got into Ham radio. Uh as a kid, and
Speaker 1: and then but he's proud of the fact I'm in
Speaker 1: radio now. But you know he anyway, But yeah, if
Speaker 1: he had been like a DJ. You know there was
Speaker 1: a guy that used to work at Fox who's whose
Speaker 1: dad was a famous l A morning radio guy, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know he had so much access to the business
Speaker 1: at a young age because of that. Steve Hartman. Steve Hartman, No,
Speaker 1: not Steve harm Do you have time for a couple more?
Speaker 1: Should we just move on to don't stick with sports?
Speaker 1: I don't have the clock here and have a lot
Speaker 1: of time. We're we're up against it, all right, let's
Speaker 1: don't stick to sports. What do we got? How about
Speaker 1: this one? For twenty years, this guy named Austin Davis, um,
Speaker 1: his meal of choice, you're in, you're out, not at
Speaker 1: at ten times was he would eat vel vetta shells
Speaker 1: and chess. Mac and cheese was his velvetta. Yeah, vel vetta.
Speaker 1: Are you a mac and cheese type of guy? I
Speaker 1: do like mac and cheese, but I don't normally like
Speaker 1: stuff tossed in my mac and cheese. I like just
Speaker 1: the mac and cheese. I know some people like, um my,
Speaker 1: my father in law loves like ham thrown into the
Speaker 1: mac and cheese and stuff like. That's his favorite meal.
Speaker 1: He just had a birthday. They serve that. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm a traditionalist with the mac and cheese. I just
Speaker 1: like the mac and the cheese, and I do like
Speaker 1: it a lot. I my wife makes a great mac
Speaker 1: and cheese sheet, like a twice baked my mac and cheese,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. She didn't make it that often because
Speaker 1: it's very fattening, and you know, I'm very health conscious
Speaker 1: when I got my girlish figure. But she makes that's
Speaker 1: an amazing meal that she makes. But but yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: down with the mac and cheese, although I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: down with it for seventeen years. I mean, the poor
Speaker 1: guy's got some condition. But man, if you imagine what's
Speaker 1: like people that live off of like Big Max or
Speaker 1: cheese burgers for McDonald's, Like those are burgers that just
Speaker 1: don't deteriorate. You can have them like laying out here
Speaker 1: in the studio for five years and coople eat it
Speaker 1: on that fifth year and it's because still the same condition. Right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the McDonald's french fries do not deteriorate. So if only
Speaker 1: we could be made out of the materials they make
Speaker 1: McDonald's French fries. God, how great would life be? Right?
Speaker 1: Be fantastic? But how about this? Uh, I know you're
Speaker 1: a frequent visitor of Costco. What about Walmart? Do you
Speaker 1: ever go to Walmart? I do go to Walmart. I
Speaker 1: have been to Walmart. I go there, not as often
Speaker 1: as Costco, but they're cheap and I like it. My
Speaker 1: wife hates Walmart. She would want she wants me to
Speaker 1: go to Walmart. In said of verse. She hates the
Speaker 1: vibe in Walmart. She's a negative energy in Walmart. I
Speaker 1: don't mind. I like the way. These are my people,
Speaker 1: these are my listeners. The profession your wife is in
Speaker 1: has negative energy. What the hell is she talking about? No,
Speaker 1: she's you know, she's a hippie. My wife, she she
Speaker 1: likes the certain environments and all that. Why I bring
Speaker 1: this up because a woman at a Walmart in Mexico
Speaker 1: City was accused of shoplifting. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: heard about this, but, uh, she went beyond the norm
Speaker 1: to prove that she was innocent in the middle of
Speaker 1: the store. She actually literally put down her stuff and
Speaker 1: stripped naked in the middle of the supermarket in front
Speaker 1: of security, uh, the guards that were their cameras, obviously customers,
Speaker 1: to prove her innocence, and obviously was captured on video
Speaker 1: and and repeat, I saw this. This is in Mexico City, right, Um.
Speaker 1: And a couple of thoughts. Number one, I feel like
Speaker 1: this is not the first time she's done this, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like I feel like somewhere and
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, or maybe she was abused
Speaker 1: as a kid or something. Maybe not, Maybe she's just
Speaker 1: that's how she is. But I feel like she's done
Speaker 1: this before, maybe like a party or something. She just fine,
Speaker 1: you want, I'll strip, I don't care. And then the
Speaker 1: other thing is she didn't like leave her underwear on
Speaker 1: guest gun. She took everything off, brawn and panties on.
Speaker 1: She took the whole thing off. Perhaps wild she's walking
Speaker 1: totally naked through Walmart. Would you watch that? Would I would?
Speaker 1: I if I was in Walmart? Of course? What if
Speaker 1: you're with the misses? I would pretend like I wasn't watching,
Speaker 1: but she would expect me to watch her else she'd
Speaker 1: probably be upset. What are you? What are you? What's
Speaker 1: going on? I can see your wife taking a selfie
Speaker 1: with her. Oh yeah, my wife would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. For the works nuts, I gotta
Speaker 1: find out what she's all about. That's really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you've lost a ton of money in the
Speaker 1: stock market. Yes, I have my financial advisor's blind Scott,
Speaker 1: who told me to buy a weed stock, which has
Speaker 1: lost over fifty percent of its value since I purchased.
Speaker 1: No way, are you kidding? Yeah, Well, what happened was
Speaker 1: the vaping um. They were invested in vaping, and the
Speaker 1: government has started to ban vaping or whatever state by state,
Speaker 1: and so it's affected their market share, and uh, that
Speaker 1: was a big part of their business model. So I've
Speaker 1: been getting screwed because of the vaping thing. Well, how
Speaker 1: about this. There's a guy that was on Reddit. Uh.
Speaker 1: He goes by the name of Eddie Choi, and he
Speaker 1: was not in tune with the stock market. In fact,
Speaker 1: was a novice when it comes to trading and buying
Speaker 1: and selling and whatnot. But he had picked it up
Speaker 1: because of some some experts that were on there that
Speaker 1: were given some some fruitful advice, and Choi had actually
Speaker 1: acknowledged that he was a pretty risk loving person. Uh.
Speaker 1: So what he was doing recently was he was observing
Speaker 1: of roque. It's a streaming service obviously that people can
Speaker 1: watch material on um. He put in an initial investment
Speaker 1: on roku for a put, which is basically shorting the stock. Uh.
Speaker 1: Seven sixty six dollars been turned into fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and some change overnight. It was a gain of six
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty it was. It was a gain of
Speaker 1: sixty Yeah, I mean I think the number he made.
Speaker 1: I thought it was more than that. I thought it
Speaker 1: was like over a hundred thousand dollars. What is Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, but it's his initial investment just one time
Speaker 1: was fifty thousands. Okay, So I got a couple of
Speaker 1: thoughts in this. First of all, I think it's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happy for the guy. This is everyone's
Speaker 1: dream that plays with the Wall Street game. You wanna,
Speaker 1: you know, want to hit it big. Everyone tries to
Speaker 1: do this, nobody really does. The other thing is it's
Speaker 1: much like these prop bets or these or these seven
Speaker 1: team parlays, where every once in a while, some dopel
Speaker 1: hit a sevent team parlay or that guy that out
Speaker 1: on the St. Louis Blues when they were the worst
Speaker 1: team in hockey in January and they won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: Like every once in a while that happens. And it's
Speaker 1: good for gambling. It's good for the gambling business because
Speaker 1: people you know that, you know, people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm I believe I'm gonna be the next person to
Speaker 1: do that, and they these are sucker beds, okay. And
Speaker 1: so I think the same thing. Wall Street wants you
Speaker 1: to see stuff like this because they know that it's
Speaker 1: not gonna work out for you most of the time.
Speaker 1: It's not. But risk a little bit, try to win
Speaker 1: a lot. That's what everyone would like to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's two trades, as you mentioned, were over a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. He closed out at just under a
Speaker 1: hundred eight thousand dollars on two transactions. That's nuts. Could
Speaker 1: you imagine doing that? Have you come close to hitting
Speaker 1: a monster parlay? Oh? Yeah, yeah? Years ago I had
Speaker 1: the I was about. I was getting like an eight
Speaker 1: team parlay. And the one that I lost I still remember.
Speaker 1: It was Will Clark with the St. Louis Cardinals at
Speaker 1: the end of his career, the Cardinals against the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves in a he he he went off at a
Speaker 1: big game and I lost, and I have I already
Speaker 1: hated Will Clark because he was a star with the Giants,
Speaker 1: but I hated him even more after that. Man, I was,
Speaker 1: I was like, he's a bomb, He's no good the
Speaker 1: guy h I went nuts in the playoff game and
Speaker 1: it was brotal That's unbelievable. I've never gotten a run
Speaker 1: like that. I didn't in Vegas like ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Um I won thirt hands in a row playing blackjack
Speaker 1: and uh, I crushed the had a room that was
Speaker 1: coned to me at the Venetian Um cleared out. It
Speaker 1: was like a thirty two. I think it was my
Speaker 1: buddy from New York was watching me do this, and
Speaker 1: he was a big spender and he thought he could
Speaker 1: do the same thing. He put down ten grand after
Speaker 1: I was done and lost it all on fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Well, I have often, well not often,
Speaker 1: but occasionally, my strategy with roulette. I have a fail
Speaker 1: proof plan for roulette. However it has failed me. Um.
Speaker 1: It's a problem, and it involves, you know, either betting
Speaker 1: red or black repetitively and doubling your bet each time.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a big bank roll to do it.
Speaker 1: But in theory you have it's not quite fifty fifty
Speaker 1: because you've got some of those green spots on the
Speaker 1: on the roulette wheel, you know, the zero and the
Speaker 1: double zero. But it's almost fifty fifty, right, And and
Speaker 1: so the odds are that if you bet ten of hands, um,
Speaker 1: you're going to get to a point where you end
Speaker 1: up getting what you've been on a red, green or
Speaker 1: otter even Um. But I have noticed on espending on
Speaker 1: video roulette you can go like seven or eight times
Speaker 1: without going the other way. And uh, it makes you
Speaker 1: wonder if things are you know, rigged. You know, well,
Speaker 1: if you want to make some money in Vegas, you
Speaker 1: should bring me along and we can hit the craps
Speaker 1: table and I get to you. I'd love to do that.
Speaker 1: We should go to Vegas sometime. I I have occasionally
Speaker 1: in the past. I was at a Tyson fight, usually
Speaker 1: going Vegas, and uh, and there was a some guy
Speaker 1: the crap. Everyone's going crazy when somebody's hot in craps,
Speaker 1: you know, people go nuts in the casino and uh
Speaker 1: and and so I I just started copying whatever he
Speaker 1: was doing. And uh and I won, you know, And
Speaker 1: and I think that's all you have to do. You
Speaker 1: find the person that's winning and you just follow them
Speaker 1: and just keep going. You love it. That's the way
Speaker 1: to go. I I have a specific strategy and uh,
Speaker 1: it's a patient approach. You can't drink a lot. You
Speaker 1: have to be very very cautious what you do. Um,
Speaker 1: but you actually go the other way against a lot
Speaker 1: of the people are shooting and throwing. Yeah, so you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't take the you take the adder all before
Speaker 1: you go out there. If you're you're hyper focused and
Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, I'm pretty much locked in. You know
Speaker 1: what it is. You get the oxygen that's pumped in
Speaker 1: the casinos, the lights that are bright there's no clocks.
Speaker 1: You can on your cell phones, so there's no distractions
Speaker 1: at all. Um, but plenty of I candies, so everyone's
Speaker 1: looking to see if you're stacking chips. There you go.
Speaker 1: So that's what we got. That's what we got for
Speaker 1: the stories. Alright, very good and have a great weekend.
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