Speaker 1: Have you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough? I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: starts right now. That it does, and we are in
Speaker 1: the air everywhere the vast power of I Heart the
Speaker 1: global reach of podcasting, as we are everywhere. You can
Speaker 1: download the podcast her weekly. Even when my tongue is
Speaker 1: all mangled. I am such a glutton for punishment coming
Speaker 1: in here, especially having to work with David Gascon. I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, what a nightmare. But it's all part of
Speaker 1: the I Heart podcast network. Available wherever you get your podcast,
Speaker 1: you can hear this show, and I'd like to give
Speaker 1: you the menu. I I'm told you don't need to
Speaker 1: do this in a podcast, but what the hell now? Normally,
Speaker 1: if this was a successful podcast, I would be reading
Speaker 1: like Joe Rogan, like seven minutes of commercials. Uh, there
Speaker 1: are no commercials. I'm reading right now, zero zippo bub kiss.
Speaker 1: That's a bad job by you by a damn commercial anyway.
Speaker 1: On the menu today we have the Apology Tour Wordy
Speaker 1: study this because I love that, and also we will
Speaker 1: have It's in the bag. Your your questions are answers,
Speaker 1: and don't stick the sports bizarre jumbalayah of craziness from
Speaker 1: around the world and none of them really sports stories.
Speaker 1: You You will be enthralled with this show, unless you're not.
Speaker 1: I have been told by someone on Twitter that the
Speaker 1: fifth Hour with Ben Maller is like a Norman Rockwell
Speaker 1: painting from back in the old days. It's like apple
Speaker 1: pie and baseball. It's all of those things. And Gascon,
Speaker 1: are you awake? Guy? I gotta carry this show, are
Speaker 1: you there? Gascon? I think that's a huge compliment to
Speaker 1: to me right, because that I have to carry you
Speaker 1: on my back. Even when my tongue is all messed up. Still,
Speaker 1: you're playing itself way too much. No, I'm not. I
Speaker 1: am not. I should send out a photo of my
Speaker 1: throbbing tongue, which he is, uh is in a great
Speaker 1: amount of But you can literally see the agony, all right,
Speaker 1: and then you will you will suddenly change you too.
Speaker 1: So has the Mrs put you on the injured reserve list.
Speaker 1: Then that's the bigger question. Well, she has tried to
Speaker 1: and I have pushed back. I actually did feel better.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem, Gascon and I have a great medical
Speaker 1: background from years of practicing medicine on radio and helping athletes,
Speaker 1: sanitize athletes, clean them up, fixed athletes and all that.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, so I I typically the way it
Speaker 1: goes is I'll feel better during the day because I'm
Speaker 1: not talking, uh, and I'll do the usual bells and
Speaker 1: whistles the stuff too. They treat it the injury when
Speaker 1: you bite your tongue really bad. But then the problem
Speaker 1: is I I go in and do the show, and
Speaker 1: then by the second segment of the overnight show, Uh,
Speaker 1: it is uh freaking brutal, man, it is. Uh So
Speaker 1: it's it's basically rinse, wash, repeat, and so I just
Speaker 1: have to batten down the hatches. Now. I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: this weekend, where you know, this podcast was being aired,
Speaker 1: that wall that's going on, I will I will have
Speaker 1: no longer the pain there. But it's quite the new
Speaker 1: hookie what I've developed. I don't know the origin of
Speaker 1: the story. What did you do to bite it? Onto
Speaker 1: your tongue pretty hard. Well, thanks for listening to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm usually a week. I appreciate that. Very very loyal,
Speaker 1: very supportive. Thank you. Uh well, you know, a Sunday,
Speaker 1: my wife was working and I made a pizza. I
Speaker 1: like to make pizza on Sunday watching football because that's
Speaker 1: a man's food, pizza, pizza and football. And so I
Speaker 1: made the pie and just like normal, nothing spectacular. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are a few issues actually making the pie because
Speaker 1: the pizza stuck to the pan, which is a pain
Speaker 1: in the ass. But but anyway, Um, I got it
Speaker 1: done and I cut the pizza. I made it from scratch,
Speaker 1: cut it up, put a couple of pieces on my plate,
Speaker 1: went sat down to watch. Uh. This was like the
Speaker 1: early part of the late TV window. So I had
Speaker 1: the Rams game on. I had the Cardinals Seahawks. Um.
Speaker 1: I was flipping around to a couple of different games.
Speaker 1: I forgot what there were a couple other ones. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Minshew Mania Gardner, Minshew who I keep calling Gary for
Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know why. But but b anyway,
Speaker 1: so I'm sitting down and eat the pizza and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I by it into the pizza and fine,
Speaker 1: second by uh, and then I made a miscalculation and uh,
Speaker 1: I was in deep water. My tongue was in it
Speaker 1: just got bitten really bad. And yeah, I figured, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. I mean, I mean kind of
Speaker 1: woos is upset with a bitten tongue. But I have
Speaker 1: the only job that you can have where if you
Speaker 1: have an injured tongue, it's a problem. All two, you're
Speaker 1: also married, so needs come into play. So clearly that's
Speaker 1: why I was curious if your wife put you on
Speaker 1: the injured reserve list, because right now you're you're not
Speaker 1: doing too much. You can't slug as as much as
Speaker 1: you possible. I mean, I'm in the injury a tent.
Speaker 1: Somebody pointed out that I sound occasionally like little Holds
Speaker 1: because there's a little bit of a list there. But
Speaker 1: it's not my fault, So I don't feel shame in that.
Speaker 1: I don't have any real vanity about that because it's
Speaker 1: an injury. Are you purposely trying to derail the product
Speaker 1: the podcast? Because every week it sounds like your voice
Speaker 1: is just it when you first kick it off, and
Speaker 1: now you have this element. These are like different things
Speaker 1: that I have to overcome to promote this podcast, which
Speaker 1: is there. There is no promotion. You do nothing, There
Speaker 1: is absolutely nothing. And I know you have the gag
Speaker 1: on parody account that you've run, but other than that,
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we talking about here? Yeah? My
Speaker 1: goal is to sabotage this every week? How can I
Speaker 1: f up the podcast? How can I how can I
Speaker 1: ship all over the pocket? That is my goal every week? Okay?
Speaker 1: And how am I doing? Right? Then? I think it's
Speaker 1: kind of fair, right because you're because your colleagues torpedo
Speaker 1: your show money through Friday, and so now you torpedo
Speaker 1: your own podcast. Well, I learned. I learned how to
Speaker 1: destroy a radio show from years of being a witness
Speaker 1: to the radio show being destroyed, and so I figured
Speaker 1: out why not right not go the other way? Speaking
Speaker 1: of which, we gotta put this out there, but I
Speaker 1: want to ask you, before asking any of the listeners
Speaker 1: on this, when are we gonna have our first guest?
Speaker 1: And in what kind of capacit? See we'll he or
Speaker 1: she be on the show. We're gonna get a sports figure,
Speaker 1: a coach, a political junkie, and entertainer, Like, where are
Speaker 1: we going with this? Next? Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Alright, so here's the way I
Speaker 1: look at this now. I know that the podcast game,
Speaker 1: a lot of it is dependent on people love interviews,
Speaker 1: they love hearing famous people. There's a lot of celebrity worshiping.
Speaker 1: All that. I get it. I'm not much different. I
Speaker 1: when I listened to a certain podcasts that are in
Speaker 1: my rotation, and if I see a guest I recognize,
Speaker 1: I will be more likely to download that episode of
Speaker 1: the podcast. I I understand that, but that a couple
Speaker 1: of things. It's not what we normally do. But I
Speaker 1: I like, I don't mind doing the interviews here. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I think it would be good. This is the
Speaker 1: perfect format, So I I I'd like to bring on
Speaker 1: some people, like a wide range of people. The problem
Speaker 1: is gas on. Second thing here is you know you
Speaker 1: don't like production meeting, You're You're like the laziest guy
Speaker 1: in the West. It's talking about content throughout the entire
Speaker 1: week that you actually use on your radio show. You
Speaker 1: use words and Texas I send you with your opening monologue. Yes, correct,
Speaker 1: you don't even give me credit for that. What do
Speaker 1: you want me? You think that you're you're being I'm
Speaker 1: not admiring you. You don't know. Yes, No, okay, listen
Speaker 1: to me, gas okay, uh, this show this inside radio,
Speaker 1: or in this case, inside podcasting. So I roll into
Speaker 1: the studio three hours of sleep, right, three hours of sleep.
Speaker 1: I rolled into this, this studio that we do the
Speaker 1: podcast from, and gas on. No, Hey, what are we
Speaker 1: talking about today? None of that's totally amateur and it
Speaker 1: just wants to turn the mics on and start talking,
Speaker 1: talking and figure it out as we go. What I'm
Speaker 1: on a minor league operation that I have to work
Speaker 1: the budget podcasting for a budget show, right, wow, unbelief? No,
Speaker 1: and no, hey, how's your tongue? None of that, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's up with that? Because one, I'm talking to you
Speaker 1: for the next couple of hours too. I'm gonna see
Speaker 1: you later on today. Three maybe not, I'll be here
Speaker 1: calling sick. You're not gonna call him sick, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, calling sick during the dog days of summer.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna call him. I'll change my ways here.
Speaker 1: Maybe I will be pressured and bullied calling, and you've
Speaker 1: got enough guys on your staff that take time off
Speaker 1: during football season. I don't think you're going to I
Speaker 1: know Eddie's going to Uh it's a shot at Eddie.
Speaker 1: By the way, Eddie's going to Chicago. They'll miss some
Speaker 1: shows didn't go to two years ago. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: went to here up a couple years ago. But now
Speaker 1: he's also he's going to Chicago for a Charger Bears game,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to have him meet Doc Mike. Connie's
Speaker 1: piecing Chicago and Doc's got his friend Frankie. You've never
Speaker 1: met Doc Mike. No, you gotta meet Doc. If you
Speaker 1: go to Chicago, you gotta meet this guy. Uh. What
Speaker 1: an unbelievable character. I met him one time for a
Speaker 1: few hours in Kansas City, and he is he didn't
Speaker 1: even know what a podcast is, so we can rip
Speaker 1: the ship out of him. But uh, he is bizarro world.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love the guy. He's quite a character.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'd love him if I live
Speaker 1: next door to him, but I don't live next door
Speaker 1: to him. And uh, he's done some of the most
Speaker 1: ridiculous stuff I'm any Mallard militia person, Doc Mike, who's
Speaker 1: been with me longer than like of the people that
Speaker 1: that call the show and whatnot, the characters on the show.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean going to Michael Vick, going to
Speaker 1: Leavenworth Prison to interview Michael. Yeah, yeah, when he was
Speaker 1: in jail, and and he called me up outside Leavenworth
Speaker 1: Prison for like four nights in a row, and he
Speaker 1: kept going in thinking he was gonna talk to Michael
Speaker 1: Vick and and they kept denying him because Vick didn't
Speaker 1: know who the you know, who the hell he was
Speaker 1: or whatever. So, uh, that was great. The goat head
Speaker 1: thing he called up as he was dropping off a
Speaker 1: goat head at at Wrigley Field multiple times, the Curse
Speaker 1: of the Billy Goat and all that, and occasionally that
Speaker 1: made national news. And uh, one of the funniest was
Speaker 1: the old mayor of Chicago, Rama Manuel. Uh, this guy
Speaker 1: after it was Cubs opening day and Doc Mike such
Speaker 1: a whacker doodle. He shows up to Wrigley and he
Speaker 1: drops the goat head off the Cubs offices in a box, right,
Speaker 1: so the secretary of the Cubs takes the goat head. No,
Speaker 1: it was a goat head because he didn't open the box.
Speaker 1: It was for the owner of the Cubs. And then
Speaker 1: somebody in the Cub's office and opened the box and surprise, surprise, surprise. Wait.
Speaker 1: Rob Emmanuel, the mayor of Chicago at the time, he
Speaker 1: got up on the microphone and he looked right in
Speaker 1: the camera and he said that the city of Chicago,
Speaker 1: we'll use all police resources to find out who did this.
Speaker 1: All right, we are, We're gonna spare no expense. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a paraphrasing, and uh, and I was just laughing.
Speaker 1: I said, I can play the voicemail as he did
Speaker 1: it if you want, so let's do it. And even
Speaker 1: Doc was like, oh, the police don't care. I think
Speaker 1: he's stupid. They don't, they don't care. And they didn't
Speaker 1: they never never bothered. That's like what they did with
Speaker 1: Jesse smallertt. This is something straight out that movie Seven.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that movie? Uh? I don't think I have.
Speaker 1: Seven was with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman and Kevin
Speaker 1: Spacey and Kevin Spacey is just a serial killer and
Speaker 1: one of his final acts as he kills uh brad
Speaker 1: Pitt's wife. He was a detective at the time, David Mills,
Speaker 1: and he chops off her head, puts it in a
Speaker 1: box and they go out in the middle of nowhere
Speaker 1: here in California, like out in the desert, and he
Speaker 1: opens up the box and sees it as his wife's
Speaker 1: head and she was on top that she was pregnant too.
Speaker 1: So it's wonderful. This is great. That's a great movie.
Speaker 1: Solid movie. It sounds like a Is that a kids movie? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: a Disney movie PG. Yes. It's available on Disney also online.
Speaker 1: You can download it anytime. Bambi's mom. He cut the
Speaker 1: head off. It's a great that's a great move. Man,
Speaker 1: Like I gotta meet Doc Mike. Now, don't you think
Speaker 1: like Walt Disney was a sick bastard? I mean, all
Speaker 1: these moms dying in movies. Who wants their mom to die?
Speaker 1: I meanyone loves her mom, right, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: how many movies? How many movies do you have a
Speaker 1: girl or a woman dying though back from the dead. Well,
Speaker 1: the traditional Hollywood story Damsel in distress and all that
Speaker 1: you know, and the Shining Night, uh, the night writing
Speaker 1: in and all that. I mean, there's only there's only
Speaker 1: a few different storylines. I mean, that's the odd thing
Speaker 1: about somebody the movie business told me, explain to the
Speaker 1: this to me many many years ago, and he was
Speaker 1: absolutely right that there's only I don't know that. I
Speaker 1: don't have to look up. I wrote down what they were,
Speaker 1: but there's only a few different stories that are used
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. And and that's it. I mean, uh, and
Speaker 1: so it's it's odd the way that people write. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's not somebody to talk about here, I guess. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you watch a lot of HBO or
Speaker 1: Showtime shows? Uh? Not a lot. I mean I I
Speaker 1: loved some of the stuff on HBO, but I don't
Speaker 1: I don't have a DVR right now, so I don't
Speaker 1: record a lot of stuff. So it's pretty much I
Speaker 1: have to be up watching. We have HBO on demand,
Speaker 1: so I guess I can watch stuff on there. You
Speaker 1: HBO goes. Somebody has to tell me something that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta watch that. Well, okay, So season one of
Speaker 1: True Detective was fantastic with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
Speaker 1: Another show that's fantas Asset that's ending at the start
Speaker 1: of next year's Homeland, Claire Danes is in that she's
Speaker 1: just she's diabolical, but she's uh, she's fantastic. A lot
Speaker 1: of that show is just based on current events of
Speaker 1: today's political atmosphere, so you see a lot of crossover.
Speaker 1: But those two shows come to my mind just immediately
Speaker 1: to the the jump out. There obviously a lot different from
Speaker 1: what we see in the regular landscape of CBS and
Speaker 1: Fox and NBC with the regular programming money through Friday. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I liked a lot of stuff and
Speaker 1: this they try different things and whatnot. But I mean, now,
Speaker 1: with like YouTube, anybody can put pretty good content out
Speaker 1: and people can get The problem is getting an audience,
Speaker 1: but anybody can do it. But anyway, all right, let's
Speaker 1: get on with the show. What oh yeah, be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Well, are we
Speaker 1: done with the production meeting? Is a highly combustible situation.
Speaker 1: What's that? So we're done with our production meeting now,
Speaker 1: so we can move forward. And so let's uh, let's
Speaker 1: push on Dick, all right, the apology tour and uh,
Speaker 1: and this is We're starting with this only because it's
Speaker 1: plausibly sporty. And I'm told that I need to mention
Speaker 1: a little sports occasionally, because I think we told our
Speaker 1: bosses it would be a little bit about sports, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty much anything we want. I think it's a podcast. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and and the numbers tell me that some people
Speaker 1: are actually listening, not many, but some. Anyway, the apology tour?
Speaker 1: Who did it better? I mentioned this on the overnight program.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins on his radio show on CAFAN in Minnesota
Speaker 1: apologize publicly to Adam feeling essentially for being bad at
Speaker 1: his job right and and being as exciting as a
Speaker 1: pancake with no syrup. And so anyway, Cousins apologizing all
Speaker 1: this stuff. Uh, And well, I like accountability, and I
Speaker 1: did a rant about accountability and all that this was
Speaker 1: so ridiculous. Uh, this apology by by Cousins. He does
Speaker 1: this all the time. He apologizes all the time, and
Speaker 1: then he goes out and vomits all over the field,
Speaker 1: and then he comes back and apologize it again. And
Speaker 1: occasion will have a good game, he won't apologize, and
Speaker 1: they'll come back and have a crappy game and ship
Speaker 1: all over the fifty yard line and then he will announce,
Speaker 1: you know, it's no big deal whatever, I'm sorry about it.
Speaker 1: So we had that, and then behind door number two
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. Now this I I had not seen
Speaker 1: this one. This is a wild story. So the Baltimore Orioles,
Speaker 1: who are not only a baseball team, they are an embarrassment,
Speaker 1: all right. They aren't even close to being a competitive
Speaker 1: baseball team. They are out in the back waters of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. I cannot emphasize that enough. They are
Speaker 1: so far away from even sniffing, even sniffing wild card content,
Speaker 1: and it's it's ridiculous. But the Orioles this week, in
Speaker 1: a tremendous plot twist for fan appreciation, these seven people
Speaker 1: that go to Orio games, uh, and the season ticket
Speaker 1: holders are getting No it's not not all of them.
Speaker 1: They're getting hand written thank you notes saying things like
Speaker 1: thank you and hang in there. How crazy is this?
Speaker 1: I don't know, But you know what I recommend that
Speaker 1: what we do after this podcast is over is I
Speaker 1: can go to Right Aid or a thrifty store and
Speaker 1: buy a bunch of thank you cards and we should
Speaker 1: get the listeners addresses, and you should write thank you
Speaker 1: cards for your tongue. I think that would be amazing
Speaker 1: than I should get sympathy cards for having to work
Speaker 1: with you. I think that would be my condolences on
Speaker 1: the loss of your quality broadcasting career. So you could
Speaker 1: just imagine that if you're a fan, would you rather
Speaker 1: go to an Orioles baseball game or go to a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football game. That's the same. It's an you know,
Speaker 1: it's uh either way, you're losing. It's a selfie's choice.
Speaker 1: There's no good choice in that. But but the the
Speaker 1: Oriel thing. I got questions about this, right, were these
Speaker 1: actually written by the Oriole players? Because it the story
Speaker 1: made it it seemed like some of these came from
Speaker 1: Oriole players, Like was this punishment like rememb when you
Speaker 1: were a kid and you got sent to detention in
Speaker 1: elementary school or junior high and you had to you
Speaker 1: had to write out things as punishment. Is that whether
Speaker 1: the Oriels did or did they actually hire a firm
Speaker 1: that does this and outsource it and hire someone to
Speaker 1: write all these notes make it seem like it came
Speaker 1: from the players, because who would really know Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it could be something like this. I don't know, if
Speaker 1: you when you were younger and you went to elementary
Speaker 1: school or even high school, if you're if your parents
Speaker 1: would buy scripts or they'd have to do some kind
Speaker 1: of service with your elementary high school, like community service
Speaker 1: for them as opposed to making a donation. What if
Speaker 1: it's like this or the oriole players are actually writing
Speaker 1: these notes and then in turn they don't have to
Speaker 1: do any additional community service work. Yeah, so this the sins,
Speaker 1: the sins of being bad at baseball that is overlooked
Speaker 1: as long as you write the note games back of
Speaker 1: first place they finished this year. If I was Peter Angelos,
Speaker 1: I would have just had Chris Davis. I would have
Speaker 1: had him just write all the notes and none of
Speaker 1: the other players would have had to write the notes
Speaker 1: because he's the only one making any real money in
Speaker 1: Baltimore and he is horseshit and has been that way
Speaker 1: ever since he signed a contract. Yeah, but if you're Davis,
Speaker 1: do you just hire a bunch of interns and have
Speaker 1: him write something out that's legible. I mean, you just
Speaker 1: sign your John Hancock on the bottom of it. So anyway,
Speaker 1: just to wrap up the apology thing. So I would
Speaker 1: give the the edge here to none other than the Orioles.
Speaker 1: If if and this is a key caveat here in
Speaker 1: a qualifier, if the Oriole players actually were forced to
Speaker 1: really write out, uh these these photos or not photos,
Speaker 1: these letters. If that's the case, then that's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's better than what cousins did. Anybody can go on
Speaker 1: the radio show and and apologize. He keeps going down
Speaker 1: that rabbit hole. It's like he's living in Alice in Wonderland.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get out of it, man. Anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: wordy Now. I used to do this bit on the
Speaker 1: Overnight show. I got rid of it, and some people
Speaker 1: are saying, why don't you do it anymore? I'll do
Speaker 1: it here. It's the fifth hour. I always say the
Speaker 1: fifth hours for the crap we don't get to during
Speaker 1: the week. Uh and it's you know, leftovers with gascon
Speaker 1: but wordy word of the week. All right, now, I've
Speaker 1: read this the other day, and I was unaware of this.
Speaker 1: There is a term that is regularly used by people
Speaker 1: like myself sportscasters that is an homage to Michael Vick's
Speaker 1: favorite sport, dog fighting. It has become part of our language.
Speaker 1: Did you know this, guest, Like, for example, this weekend,
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins are fifteen and a half point underdogs
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, right, I mean that's a big point spread. Yes,
Speaker 1: so they are the underdog. Right. That term underdog comes
Speaker 1: from the language of dog fights. Did you know that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The term underdogs start originally was used in in the
Speaker 1: lexicon in the late nineteenth century, and it was related
Speaker 1: to dog fights and what would happen in those fights.
Speaker 1: They would obviously put two dogs, and two dogs would
Speaker 1: attack each other, and whoever lost, whichever dog was declared
Speaker 1: the loser was termed the underdog because they were under
Speaker 1: the other dog who was eating them, and the winner
Speaker 1: was called what was called top dog. So both those
Speaker 1: terms underdog and top dog are a tribute to the
Speaker 1: dog fight era back in the late nineteenth century in
Speaker 1: the United States. I thought that was interesting. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been to a dog fight? I have not. I've
Speaker 1: I've seen when when the Michael Vick stuff was going on,
Speaker 1: I went on YouTube and it was the early days
Speaker 1: of YouTube, and I remember watching some dog fights from
Speaker 1: like the Philippines or somewhere like that. I forget where.
Speaker 1: But they might have been Mexico. It might have been Mexico,
Speaker 1: but I I watched I've never been at one of person.
Speaker 1: You probably run a dog fighting win in your backyard.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine? Could you? Absolutely? I could imagine you
Speaker 1: doing it? Would you Have you ever been to a bullfight?
Speaker 1: How would I be to a bullfight? I've never been
Speaker 1: to Europe? How would I go to a bull I
Speaker 1: do a bullshit fight every night on the radio. I
Speaker 1: know that your nickname is bullshit? Oh man? Would you
Speaker 1: ever condone any kind of any kind of fighting, whether
Speaker 1: it's a dog, a cock fight, whatever it may be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not I mean I'm not I the
Speaker 1: animals and all that stuff, but I'm not against. I
Speaker 1: mean I wouldn't go out of my way for it,
Speaker 1: but if it was presented to me, I mean I
Speaker 1: would check it out out of curiosity and all that.
Speaker 1: But the running of the bulls, why why have you
Speaker 1: not done that? Guess? Why have you not run with
Speaker 1: the bulls? And I'm actually I've actually considered that. I
Speaker 1: wanted to do that a handful of years ago in
Speaker 1: uh in Spain, but I didn't get to do it.
Speaker 1: And just standing in front of the bull and see
Speaker 1: what happens. I had just tab as screw loose and
Speaker 1: stand in front the bull and see what happened. I see,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I'm gonna blow a hamstring while I'm trying
Speaker 1: to run, and then as soon as I do, it's
Speaker 1: just Gord, Gord Gordon. Then game over. But what a
Speaker 1: way to go out. It actually happens in the middle
Speaker 1: of July too, so it could like that tough enough,
Speaker 1: and you gotta be like that woman at the was
Speaker 1: the bronxoo or I think you might have been Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: You see that story this week? I did, actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I sent it to you. Yeah, the woman
Speaker 1: standing in the lions dead literally and like airing the
Speaker 1: lion to eat her for lunch or like a snack.
Speaker 1: And you should be more like that. That's a tough woman. Crazy,
Speaker 1: but she's got brawn, not brains, but she got braun.
Speaker 1: Oh man, how much do you have to be paid?
Speaker 1: Or do? The running? The bull has been well number one?
Speaker 1: I don't run. I I fast walk on the treadmill,
Speaker 1: like what you do in the gym. I do a
Speaker 1: lot of cardio on the well. I mean I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm running. I'm more like a jog than a run.
Speaker 1: But you've been in your thousand steps at night, I
Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, I have well more than ten thousand,
Speaker 1: way over ten thousand. I mean, I'm in these competitions
Speaker 1: are this, uh this app with my fitness device, and
Speaker 1: so I'm very competitive and I it's a bad thing
Speaker 1: because I walk a lot more than I should because
Speaker 1: I whoever at the end of the week gets the
Speaker 1: most steps, he just declared the winner, and so I
Speaker 1: want to win. And uh, it's so stupid, it's so dumb.
Speaker 1: And I'm in there with like people that run fitness
Speaker 1: classes and some of these contests, and what am I doing? Well,
Speaker 1: I sit on my ass for four hours a night
Speaker 1: and spit out nonsense with a broken tongue, and they're
Speaker 1: out there in cardio doing cardio every day for work.
Speaker 1: That's exactly that's exactly why you should be competing, alright,
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Speaker 1: And I'm told you don't need to say that, but
Speaker 1: what the hell study this bring on the meats? An
Speaker 1: international group of researchers, not just America but around the
Speaker 1: world has discovered that decreasing red meat consumption, which I've
Speaker 1: been told pretty much the last twenty years does not
Speaker 1: does not improve health. As it turns out, our current
Speaker 1: processed and unprocessed red meat consumption levels are actually, apparently,
Speaker 1: according to study, just fine. The brand new study says
Speaker 1: the average American man knows after actually that's not the one.
Speaker 1: This is about the red meat one. But I will
Speaker 1: I will say that was that was what would call
Speaker 1: screw up, but i'd be added out in the podcast. Yes, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right anyway, alright, so so study this u as
Speaker 1: far as the red meat thing. So essentially the we're fine,
Speaker 1: eat as much meat as you're eating right now. Uh Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know, first of all, if this is true
Speaker 1: or not. I mean, who knows, right, this could be
Speaker 1: a complete nonsense and it could be debunked. But I've
Speaker 1: always lived my life I love these studies that you know,
Speaker 1: that's why we do this segment study this, and and
Speaker 1: I learned. I look for these things because I find
Speaker 1: them interesting. But these things change, Like one year there
Speaker 1: will be a study won't drink coffee, you don't kill you,
Speaker 1: and then five years later a different independent study think
Speaker 1: tank will say no, no, you gotta drink a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee a day. You'll live until you're ninety five
Speaker 1: years old, and you'll be perfectly healthy. You'll have you know,
Speaker 1: wonderful blood and all that stuff. So, uh, nobody knows anything.
Speaker 1: It is essentially my position on this guess gut, so
Speaker 1: pretty much do what you want within reason, right within reason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been like that with what alcohol. We've been like
Speaker 1: that with eggs, I know as eggs and then egg
Speaker 1: whites for the longest time talking about the impact of cholesterol,
Speaker 1: talking about that with wine. I mean, steak has to
Speaker 1: be Do you eat steak a lot or at least chicken? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: I eat I don't eat a couple of meals during
Speaker 1: the week, and usually one of them is uh, well,
Speaker 1: both of them actually are somewhat meat related. So I
Speaker 1: that's pretty much my entire diet. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: really eat that much, and so I try to get
Speaker 1: as much protein or whatever as I can when I
Speaker 1: eat so. But but again, I mean I I lived
Speaker 1: my life by the philosophy. Nobody knows anything. I also
Speaker 1: think it was a movie years ago, in the early
Speaker 1: two thousand's, I believe, I don't. I don't think I
Speaker 1: saw the movie, but I remember seeing the headlines saying
Speaker 1: I use that line all the time. I didn't believe
Speaker 1: they made a movie about it. But see, your consumption
Speaker 1: of meat has come down tremendously over the last ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen years when you were living on the West Side, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know what do you refer to, because you
Speaker 1: said you would eat a ton of fast food. Oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: well yeah, I don't think I was referring to. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I thought you were making some
Speaker 1: kind of a joke about something. I don't know. But
Speaker 1: but you love Tito's. You loved a couple other places
Speaker 1: that we would that we would go to, and you
Speaker 1: just said you were like four hundred pounds. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I would eat, you know, three meals a day
Speaker 1: and they were all fast food, and I'd hit seven
Speaker 1: eleven for some snacks and have my Mr. Big gulp
Speaker 1: and all that crap. And so yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: have cut down my food consumption a lot and uh
Speaker 1: so that has absolutely uh happened. And then you know
Speaker 1: the real kicker, like, I'm doing this in part because
Speaker 1: I want to lose weight. Uh and I think I've
Speaker 1: lost a lot doing this. The other thing, the reason
Speaker 1: I'm doing this intermitute fasting is because I read online
Speaker 1: that it will help reverse some of the bad effects
Speaker 1: from being you know, big fatass all these years. So
Speaker 1: I'll see if that actually happens. If not, I will
Speaker 1: write a book saying essentially, fuck uh these uh these uh,
Speaker 1: these interminute fasting situations and all that. But you also
Speaker 1: your big boned you're tall, right, you're what five six six?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, something like that. So I mean, you need
Speaker 1: all the help you can get with the intermittent fasting
Speaker 1: because it adds to some clarity. It cleans up your diet,
Speaker 1: which is well they say that after sixteen hours your
Speaker 1: body goes into cautosis. I believe, and so you'll lose weight. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know that could again be bullshit, but I read it,
Speaker 1: and I believe it. Because I read something, I believe it,
Speaker 1: and uh and it actually has proven true for me.
Speaker 1: I'm true for me. It's not some kind of fish story.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of people are like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to live my life and not not eat
Speaker 1: every every five hours or whatever, And what kind of
Speaker 1: life is that? I I don't disagree. I trust me.
Speaker 1: I love eating. I love but yeah, I blame the
Speaker 1: aging process. Also, well, yeah, you're on the other side
Speaker 1: of fifty you have you'd have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot we're looking forward to. Can
Speaker 1: we do special edition of the Fire fifth that with
Speaker 1: Ben Miller post colonoscopy? That's what we should do post colonoscopy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be great. Why don't I give you a colonoscopy?
Speaker 1: How about that, guys con Yeah, that would be a
Speaker 1: boondoggle in it. Yeah like that. I take my sweet time. Also,
Speaker 1: by the way, I do that. Bring Doc Mike over
Speaker 1: to the lest side, Ben Miller, Color, get the Gay Together.
Speaker 1: I'll be coming up in the six dollar with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller coming to a podcast near you. Another study, a
Speaker 1: new study says that the average American man knows after
Speaker 1: seven months of dating if his partner is the one bush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. I I knew pretty much right away. I
Speaker 1: I was like, when I met my wife, I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: she's beautiful, She's out of my league. What am I
Speaker 1: doing here? So I was like, I wonder if there's
Speaker 1: a chance. I wonder if I got a shot here,
Speaker 1: and uh, and it worked out. But I I knew
Speaker 1: pretty much within like, uh, you know, an hour and
Speaker 1: a half or two hours or whatever. Uh, well, maybe
Speaker 1: the second date, because because the first date, if it
Speaker 1: goes well. Uh. This is my experience when I was dating.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'd have good first dates and then the second
Speaker 1: one would go to hell, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And so you gotta get a couple of dates in
Speaker 1: until you're til you're like, oh, this person seems pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But the other problem with dating is everyone puts up
Speaker 1: a bullshit front at the beginning. You know, everyone's phony,
Speaker 1: everyone's fake. No one farts around each other, everyone's clean.
Speaker 1: You know, no one leaves their trash around. So you
Speaker 1: have to be with someone a little bit to find
Speaker 1: all their you know, the normal things that we all
Speaker 1: do that we're all a bunch of pigs, and so
Speaker 1: that takes a little time. But I don't think it's
Speaker 1: seven months, but you guys go, Apparently itst your entire
Speaker 1: life because you haven't found anybody that's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Team shot. No, I could identify right away if she's
Speaker 1: a keeper or not. I'm sure. I'm sure the miss
Speaker 1: has probably had a weight things out with you real
Speaker 1: quick to see where you'd be out. Where did you
Speaker 1: take her on your first date? By the way, we
Speaker 1: were in Pasadena, and we were she and she used
Speaker 1: bait and switch on me because I had agreed we
Speaker 1: were gonna go see a movie, because I loved going
Speaker 1: on dates movies because I didn't have to talk about
Speaker 1: You don't have to talk at all. You don't have
Speaker 1: to see her talk to her. Unbelievable, and as an introvert,
Speaker 1: I love that. Because I don't have to talk, I
Speaker 1: can say I'm on a date and I'm watching the
Speaker 1: movie and popcorn. I mean, that's a great date. It's
Speaker 1: kind of an interol thing to do. If you want
Speaker 1: to get to know somebody, let's go on a date
Speaker 1: and go to a movie. Apparently that's why I didn't
Speaker 1: work out, but everyway, So I met her at the
Speaker 1: movie theater in Pasady and Oldtown Pasady right there in
Speaker 1: Colorado Boulevard and that shopping mall there. I met her
Speaker 1: there and then, uh, she said, why don't we go
Speaker 1: get something to eat or whatever? I forget, maybe she
Speaker 1: showed up a little late or I showed up late.
Speaker 1: In the movie it already kind of started. So we
Speaker 1: went to get something to eat at a bar right
Speaker 1: across the way there, and uh, and we never actually
Speaker 1: saw the movie. We just kind of hung out and
Speaker 1: uh and I remember what movie it was, but we
Speaker 1: talked and it went well. So she forced it to
Speaker 1: talk because you two have completely different like a beer
Speaker 1: or something, a couple of beers or whatever, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly. And then how long did you guys date
Speaker 1: until you dropped the knee? Uh? Not that long. I
Speaker 1: mean it was probably uh maybe seven six seven months
Speaker 1: or something that maybe I don't know the exact timeline,
Speaker 1: but it was not like it wasn't even a year.
Speaker 1: There were all there were mitigating factors that were reason
Speaker 1: part of that. But I mean we kind of expedited
Speaker 1: the process for some reason. By but yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we heard it up. So that's impressive. I remember going
Speaker 1: on a date with this woman in San Diego and
Speaker 1: it was after she got over a relationship after I
Speaker 1: was getting over a relationship, and she was smoking hot
Speaker 1: and she was a friend of a friend, so I
Speaker 1: went on a date with her. We went to dinner
Speaker 1: and had a casual conversation and left it at that,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Okay, you know, she lives in San Diego.
Speaker 1: I live in l a long distance. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hasshole to get down there.
Speaker 1: I got invited the next time to hang out with
Speaker 1: her for her thirtieth birthday, and Ben, I kid you not.
Speaker 1: She didn't get into one. She got into two and
Speaker 1: then three fist fights that night on her thirtieth birthday. Ben,
Speaker 1: she was throwing haymakers, she was throwing bottles of champagne.
Speaker 1: Her talk came off twice when we were in a club.
Speaker 1: It was all out chaos. I had to drive home
Speaker 1: from San Diego at like three in the morning, and
Speaker 1: I could not get the hell out of there fast enough.
Speaker 1: So you learn that she is a Mr Hyde drunk. Right,
Speaker 1: There was like four kinds of people that drink. There's
Speaker 1: the hemingway doesn't change anything. The Mary Poppins gets actually
Speaker 1: happier and nicer, and I love you the nutty professor
Speaker 1: that becomes more social if you're like an introvert like me.
Speaker 1: And then there's Mr Hyde who is hostile and wants
Speaker 1: to fight everyone after they become intoxicated. And you met
Speaker 1: this woman and she was like that, Oh yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I've gone through a gamut of those where they'll either fight,
Speaker 1: they'll pass out because they drank too much, they'll throw
Speaker 1: up all of themselves. Yeah. I didd a girl one
Speaker 1: time that was the bar fur and that was really
Speaker 1: I mean, that was disgusting. I mean that was I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if she was just she had one
Speaker 1: hand she had scotch, the other hand she had whiskey,
Speaker 1: and the third hand she had bourbon. But my god,
Speaker 1: brutal see. And I felt I felt so annoyed that
Speaker 1: she actually did this to me that I stayed. I
Speaker 1: kept hanging out with her on a regular basis, just
Speaker 1: to hang out with her when she got hammered. And
Speaker 1: every time she did get hammered and threw up, I
Speaker 1: take cell phone pictures of her and send it to
Speaker 1: her the next day. Yeah, so I'd be like she'd
Speaker 1: asked the you know, the rhetorical question, like how bad
Speaker 1: was it that said, once you go check yourself phone
Speaker 1: and then bang, all of a sudden, She's like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe you just did that, you know, face on
Speaker 1: the toilet seat, barfing, Harris covered in vomit. It was great.
Speaker 1: Well you should be like Warner Wolf. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the video tape, all right, study this, what's next. Stanford
Speaker 1: researchers estimate that if you haven't tried sushi by the
Speaker 1: time you're thirty nine years old, there is a ninety
Speaker 1: five percent chance you never will. And I agree with
Speaker 1: this because I have never tried sushi, and I have
Speaker 1: no planes at all to try sushi, So I think
Speaker 1: this is true at least for me. Are you a
Speaker 1: fish guy though? Uh? No? I When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: my mom fed me diet of tuna, fish sandwiches and
Speaker 1: fish sticks and salmon. But no, as an adult, I
Speaker 1: hate it all right, too much of it as a kid.
Speaker 1: So you don't need salmon, you don't need shark, you
Speaker 1: don't need lobsters. No, no, no, I I am What
Speaker 1: is the term for someone that doesn't partake in seafood?
Speaker 1: Is there a term for that? I know? If you
Speaker 1: only eat seafood, it's a pesketarian, right, they call it that,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what the opposite term would be. Carnivore.
Speaker 1: I don't know carnivore. Yeah, there you go. But but no,
Speaker 1: I I I think this is trueman because no, sushi
Speaker 1: seems to be something that you would do when you were,
Speaker 1: you know, in your twenties or college or I think
Speaker 1: it's more eating. Yeah, it's more of a dating entree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and some people are part of the sushi colt and
Speaker 1: I to each their own, but it's not for me.
Speaker 1: It's like the whole coffee thing. I don't drink coffee.
Speaker 1: I I don't need to. And I'm at the point
Speaker 1: now where why would I drink coffee? Because it's a
Speaker 1: conversation starter. I go to parties and I'm I've never
Speaker 1: had a cup of coffee. People like, what what? What
Speaker 1: kind of asshole are you? You don't like talking to people?
Speaker 1: So it's usually goes hat in hand, right, Well, I
Speaker 1: have to have something to talk about, though, you always
Speaker 1: have something to talk about. Not really. A recent study
Speaker 1: that surveyed more than adult Americans found that seventy seven
Speaker 1: percent of people always you have tips to restaurant servers
Speaker 1: that means almost don't. But the number they say drops
Speaker 1: with food delivery people dramatically, with people like you know,
Speaker 1: the Uber eats and the and whatnot, and also the
Speaker 1: taxi drivers as well, and and and uh and Uber.
Speaker 1: I think it goes with the shaming. If if you
Speaker 1: can see the person that's providing a service, then you're
Speaker 1: more often than not gonna leave a tip. Both Uber
Speaker 1: and Lift you don't see the driver after they drop
Speaker 1: you off, so you're you don't have You're not compelled,
Speaker 1: you're not looking at them. They're not looking at you
Speaker 1: looking for that extra tip. I'll say this much to you.
Speaker 1: Ben going to San Francisco and I eat in the city,
Speaker 1: I don't tip anymore, you know, because San Francisco is
Speaker 1: one of those cities that charges a percentage of your
Speaker 1: bill as a tax, and they do that in order
Speaker 1: to pay for your waiters and waitresses, so they they
Speaker 1: circumvent the wage that they provide for their employers by
Speaker 1: having you pay it through a tip and attacks. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah, Now, when you're in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: you also shipped on the street like the locals. No,
Speaker 1: I avoid I avoid the ship and I avoid the
Speaker 1: syringes because they say, went in Rome, do as the
Speaker 1: Romans do. Win in San Francisco. If they're all shipping
Speaker 1: and there's species all over the street, you might as
Speaker 1: well join the party, right, that's the proper decorum in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Trigger a lot of people in the Bay
Speaker 1: Area if you talk like that anymore, now they know
Speaker 1: they've got a problem. Man. And then my, my guys
Speaker 1: that we got a lot of Bay Area listeners. We
Speaker 1: do very well in San Francisco and that region, and
Speaker 1: people are they like the frankness, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people agree, they like these politicians are just
Speaker 1: a bunch of assholes. This is a ship hole all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. It's a beautiful city, sans this go
Speaker 1: but what are you doing? It's just as bad here
Speaker 1: in l Tho too. Oh, it's so, it's terrible in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles too. It's horrible. But I don't think they're
Speaker 1: shifting on the streets as much. But maybe they are.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I have no idea. Deep
Speaker 1: next week, what's that deep dive? Next week we'll do
Speaker 1: a full in depth investigation. We'll go out to skin roll,
Speaker 1: we'll do the podcast from skin Roll all Right. A
Speaker 1: new study says blank has the slowest speed when it
Speaker 1: comes to drive through service. Who do you think it is?
Speaker 1: Gascon slowest fast food restaurant for service? Um, I'd say well,
Speaker 1: i'd say McDonald's. No, McDonald's is known for being pretty quick.
Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. There's someone to choose
Speaker 1: for him. But yeah, I was gonna say McDonald's just
Speaker 1: because they're so busy. I think that's the only one
Speaker 1: you have in your head. That's what you said, McDonald's
Speaker 1: according to this According to study, the answer is Chick
Speaker 1: fil A. That Chick fil A is the slowest at
Speaker 1: giving you your food and when you're in the fast
Speaker 1: food dry through lane corn this new study, they found
Speaker 1: out the Chick fil A has the slowest lines, with
Speaker 1: an average time of about five minutes in twenty three seconds.
Speaker 1: I can live with that, but see the Chick fil
Speaker 1: A's that I've been to don't have drive throughs, and
Speaker 1: the other ones that are like in San Bergino and Corona,
Speaker 1: they have the dual drive throughs where you have two tellers,
Speaker 1: you have two ways to order, and so you get
Speaker 1: double the traffic, but they get you in and out.
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty much like in and out, in
Speaker 1: and out next to our studio. It usually has a
Speaker 1: line that's a quarter of a mile deep, especially like
Speaker 1: at nine ten o'clock at night. Those lines are long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I've been in that line at the
Speaker 1: in and out in the in the valley there, and
Speaker 1: it is exhausting at times. I mean it is all
Speaker 1: the way out to the street. Yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's punishment, is what it is. But but
Speaker 1: here's my theory. As a veteran of eating fast food,
Speaker 1: I'll give you some frankness here, But I used to
Speaker 1: eat it all the time. And my note, I learned
Speaker 1: that if you go in rush hour, it's gonna go quicker. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you're a nighttime eater, if you make a food
Speaker 1: you run. One of my listeners in the Bay Area there,
Speaker 1: Marcus in Oakland. He was on the air earlier this
Speaker 1: week guest Gone, and in the middle of our conversation
Speaker 1: was ordering some burritos at Taco Bell because he was
Speaker 1: had he had the munchies. But if you go after,
Speaker 1: say like midnight, one of these overnight drive throughs, you're
Speaker 1: going to have to wait because the food is not prepared,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take him time to cook the food. They
Speaker 1: gotta find some spit to put in the food. Uh,
Speaker 1: and so it becomes a problematic. That's my theory. I'm
Speaker 1: good with that. And I'll give you a pro tip too.
Speaker 1: If you ever eat fast food, and you do eat
Speaker 1: in your car, especially in and out, leave the wrappers
Speaker 1: and the packages in your car overnight because the aroma
Speaker 1: from in and out is fantastic when you get in
Speaker 1: your car first thing in the morning. Wow, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with that? All right? Like this gasoline? Also, you're like, actually,
Speaker 1: I do like, I do like. I actually like it too.
Speaker 1: All right? Now, Uh, what do you feed? Do you
Speaker 1: have a dog or a cat? No, you're not an
Speaker 1: animal person, right? No. I used to have a dog,
Speaker 1: but no, not anymore. The dog died and needs to
Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah. But there's a study out that says
Speaker 1: dog owners are paying three percent more to buy organic
Speaker 1: and vegan dog foods. What kind of asshole? I mean
Speaker 1: you deserve to pay three more? It's a it's a dog, okay.
Speaker 1: The dog will eat anything and will lick anything. What
Speaker 1: are you doing? Right? The dog doesn't know what organic
Speaker 1: and vegan is and all this. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: you're trying to do the right thing. You want the
Speaker 1: dog to live forever, but spoiler alert, doesn't matter. Dog
Speaker 1: got a lifespan, maybe to live an extra year or two.
Speaker 1: But it's ridiculous. Yeah, my sister feeds her dogs shred
Speaker 1: a chicken. She just makes it like she does with
Speaker 1: her dinner and then just cuts it all up and
Speaker 1: feeds the dogs that way. But organic, no, sir, no
Speaker 1: chance in hell. Now do you allow when you had
Speaker 1: the dog, maybe your sister does this? Do you allow
Speaker 1: the dog to lick the plate when you're done with
Speaker 1: the plate? No? Never, I never did this until I
Speaker 1: met my wife. My wife is a big advocate of
Speaker 1: dog looking plates, and so it's now become a tradition
Speaker 1: in the Mallard mansion where we get done with the meal.
Speaker 1: If we don't finish everything, we let the dog get
Speaker 1: to let the leftovers and lick the plate. All right, Now,
Speaker 1: that makes sense because there's a drop on your show
Speaker 1: where you say that dogs lick that whole plate. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So so that's what I uh, that's what we do here.
Speaker 1: And we have a very nice dishwasher uh, we didn't
Speaker 1: go cheap on that, and so we make sure that
Speaker 1: thing is is in extreme heat to get all those
Speaker 1: dog germs off the plate and all that stuff. I
Speaker 1: watched it twice. I watched those plates. I'm the dishwasher
Speaker 1: in the house, yeah, I and I washed those plates twice.
Speaker 1: I've never heard someone rave about their home appliances as
Speaker 1: much as you have dishwasher, barbecue, refrigerators. Like, I get it. Man,
Speaker 1: Like I'm a very suburban man. When I live at
Speaker 1: the city. I didn't even have a refrigerator. You're very
Speaker 1: you're very upper class. We get a white collar Ben mallain.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, one final thing in this portion of
Speaker 1: the podcast. Here the study this portion which is my
Speaker 1: favorite part of the podcast. But is that I read this.
Speaker 1: It's not really a study, but it's a scientifical They
Speaker 1: say that every year blank tons of moose roadkill are
Speaker 1: salvaged in Alaska and eaten. How many tons of moose
Speaker 1: roadkill per year did they scoop up off the streets
Speaker 1: in Alaska? Did you say tons tons, ten tons? No,
Speaker 1: according to the study or the research, rather a hundred
Speaker 1: of somebody a hundred and ten tons moose road kill.
Speaker 1: How much does the average moose weigh? They must weigh
Speaker 1: a ton, right, I mean not not literally a ton,
Speaker 1: but close to a ton. They must live a weigh
Speaker 1: How many pounds eating a moose is a big fat
Speaker 1: moose and Alaskan moose, they say, an average mail ways
Speaker 1: anywhere from about eight hundred forty hundred pounds. Well there
Speaker 1: you go, all right, there you go. So you know
Speaker 1: you have hundred and figure how many moose die on
Speaker 1: the road, and uh, that's good, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: Well it's not it's not moose shit, it's moose dead,
Speaker 1: moose flesh. Yeah, but can you always thought of that
Speaker 1: that the cliche is like below the Mason Dixon line,
Speaker 1: you know, somewhere in the dirty South they're eating road kill.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the cliche and all that. But in Alaska,
Speaker 1: which it can't get much more further north than Alaska,
Speaker 1: and they're eating eating road kills. So a hundred and
Speaker 1: ten tons hundred and ten point two tons to moose
Speaker 1: road kill approximately are salvaged from Alaskan roads to be eaten.
Speaker 1: That's just quick math. That's over two twenty thousand pounds.
Speaker 1: That is unreal. That can't be right. That must be.
Speaker 1: That must be wrong. I guess the bigger question is, now,
Speaker 1: what do they do with it after? I don't have
Speaker 1: to fact check that I read that, But that must
Speaker 1: not be. That seems like too much, doesn't it. I
Speaker 1: know Alaska is a very large place, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, it's in the bag. These are actual questions
Speaker 1: by actual listeners. Are you ready for this? Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: The questions better than last week, slightly slightly better these
Speaker 1: I think these all came from Facebook and the email.
Speaker 1: You can send a question in, but no one's doing that.
Speaker 1: Uh Matt, the Bears fan Matt writes in, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what city he's in. He didn't say, but
Speaker 1: where was your first radio job and how long did
Speaker 1: you work there? That's a that's the question. Uh well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Matt. I get asked this some time to
Speaker 1: time now. The first radio job that I had was unpaid.
Speaker 1: I was worked at the college radio station at Saddleback
Speaker 1: College k s b R, and we kept you jazz
Speaker 1: commercial free in South Orange County, and we played bosh
Speaker 1: a cruising for a bruising, and we had Brantford Marsalis
Speaker 1: and all these jazz, smooth jazz performers back in those
Speaker 1: days that we would play. But my first paying job
Speaker 1: in radio was at the mighty six ninety in San Diego.
Speaker 1: I started as an intern. I was an intern for
Speaker 1: a few months and they hired me. And I started
Speaker 1: out as a guy that would get I would do
Speaker 1: UH production. I did that. I was an engineer, a
Speaker 1: board op as they call it in the radio jargon UH.
Speaker 1: And then I got hired as a reporter and I
Speaker 1: lasted at the mighty six ninety from UH, I forget
Speaker 1: the exactly I think it was three three years. UM.
Speaker 1: I was there, and then I got transferred to a
Speaker 1: station from San Diego to Los Angeles, and then I
Speaker 1: was at that station, and then eventually I came to
Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio. But that was my first paying gig.
Speaker 1: So I lasted about three years, but technically I didn't
Speaker 1: get fired. I just moved on to another thing. And
Speaker 1: I've always had like side side work. What about you
Speaker 1: gag on first radio gig. It's funny you say that
Speaker 1: because my first radio gig was actually at the same
Speaker 1: studio that you were at, but it was relabeled as
Speaker 1: Extra Sports thirteen sixty now My circumstances were different because
Speaker 1: I got at grad school and then I was doing
Speaker 1: post graduate work in Los Angeles, all unpaid. And then
Speaker 1: my first job a year later was that thirteen sixty
Speaker 1: and just like you, I was a board op. They
Speaker 1: hired me as a board op, working part time ten
Speaker 1: dollars an hour, twenty nine hours a week, so ben
Speaker 1: I didn't leave the house. I had no cable, so
Speaker 1: I would stay in the station all day and all night,
Speaker 1: watching sports and keeping up with with the Joneses. I
Speaker 1: would stay there all day and all night. And then
Speaker 1: I finally got some on air opportunity six months into
Speaker 1: the job. And then I won't forget this, but it
Speaker 1: was my thirteen month there at my heart down San Diego,
Speaker 1: and I got this huge letter from the general manager
Speaker 1: of the building. Her name is Melissa Forrest. I think
Speaker 1: she's still down there, and she said, congratulations, someone vouched
Speaker 1: for you for for raise. We appreciate your efforts, we
Speaker 1: appreciate your performance, or to give you a raise. It
Speaker 1: was a whopping ten percent raise. It went from ten
Speaker 1: dollars to eleven in bed. I was working my ass
Speaker 1: off all day, all night. The station said they had
Speaker 1: no money, which was total bullshit. And then twenty months
Speaker 1: from this day I started, I got moved up here
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles and started working for Fox Sports Radios.
Speaker 1: The rest is a nightmare. Well it was. It was
Speaker 1: a brutal start, man, it was. It was wild. My
Speaker 1: first on air opportunity, believe it or not, I was
Speaker 1: the game day host of the San Diego State Aztecs.
Speaker 1: I was doing a game on Christmas. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: doing a game for Christmas and Ben the exact play
Speaker 1: that happened when I hit the air was Raheem More
Speaker 1: getting burned by Joe Flacco over the top and the
Speaker 1: a f C Divisual round when the Broncos lost at
Speaker 1: home with the Baltimore Ravens. I could not remember. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was because we actually had televisions in our studio
Speaker 1: and like yours, and I was watching that play as
Speaker 1: I was on radio, and it was unbelievable as a
Speaker 1: surreal moment. I also, we we both have ties to
Speaker 1: San Diego State. One of my first board op jobs
Speaker 1: was San Diego State men's basketball, and I ran the
Speaker 1: board for the Aztecs and uh and they they they farmed.
Speaker 1: The ASTECX was so bad in those days, they farmed
Speaker 1: the game out to Cogo in San Diego, so I
Speaker 1: was technically working for Cogo, even though I was in
Speaker 1: the mighty six ninety It was a sister station and
Speaker 1: all that. And I I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: it here because I'm gonna get bogged down. But I
Speaker 1: had the single worst performance ever by a radio engineer. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's amazing that I've still worked in the business.
Speaker 1: It was I destroyed a college basketball radio broadcast. Uh.
Speaker 1: I'll have to remind me down the line. We'll do
Speaker 1: a whole podcast dedicated to our funk ups. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: do that. Yes, we can do that, definitely. Alright, Moving
Speaker 1: on Chris and Hagerstown, Maryland says, how much list radio
Speaker 1: are you planning on the fifth hour? Gascon on? That'st
Speaker 1: your department, Go listen. We don't do list radio. The
Speaker 1: list radio is set for the opening monologues of certain
Speaker 1: shows Monday through Friday between eleven and three o'clock Pacific,
Speaker 1: and that's usually when we we cook up a couple
Speaker 1: of different things. We make it into a nice stew,
Speaker 1: or put a little topping on on a pizza, uh,
Speaker 1: or put it in bake a pie. Pepper can do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Now the list thing that you're you of course are
Speaker 1: the Godfather list, but it does work, Like Cowhard does
Speaker 1: that stick a lot. But yeah, I mean, but I
Speaker 1: I know why they do it because and I was
Speaker 1: telling you know, it's like the story this week we
Speaker 1: talked about on the radio show about Alan Iverson is
Speaker 1: all upset because he was not on on the list
Speaker 1: of Bleacher Report had their top fifty NBA players or whatever,
Speaker 1: and he was all upset. And and I always get
Speaker 1: a kick out of that because the whole reason to
Speaker 1: make a list is to create controversy. It's it's artificially
Speaker 1: creating contrived outrage. That's why you do a list. And
Speaker 1: so Cowherd's a master this a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: in radio. That's their stick. It's not my stick, but
Speaker 1: it's a lot of their stick and the and it
Speaker 1: plays well because I don't know, it's we're all wired
Speaker 1: the same way. But but people get frustrated and annoyed
Speaker 1: if they see a list and they don't agree with
Speaker 1: the list, and they have to correct the list. And uh,
Speaker 1: and so if I was good at this, I would
Speaker 1: not steer away from list but I usually I usually do.
Speaker 1: My plan originally was to have list radio with you,
Speaker 1: but on in the podcast, a segment of nothing but list,
Speaker 1: but you have pushed back on that. That's a bad
Speaker 1: job by you. Do you think we could get away
Speaker 1: with that for one segment. We can do maybe twenty
Speaker 1: or thirty minutes and just straight list radio. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we could absolutely do that. Top five NFL coaches right now,
Speaker 1: go Belt Jackson one, who's totally yeah, we can do.
Speaker 1: We can do Kyle Shanahan, we can do Sean McVeigh,
Speaker 1: we can do Pete Carroll, we can do Uh, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna say Jason Garrett. You can say Sean Hardmall
Speaker 1: always has good teams on their right, Sean Sean Payton. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's more about Drew Brees to me. But ye, Sean Payton,
Speaker 1: he annoys me. I'm annoyed by him. He bitched so
Speaker 1: much after the NFC Championship game. He's on my ship.
Speaker 1: They got fucked. That's why he's bitching about lost the game.
Speaker 1: A bunch of freaking cowards, the New Orleans Saints. What
Speaker 1: a gutless football team. They deserve to lose. Keep your
Speaker 1: composure asshole. It was a tie game, all right, It
Speaker 1: was a tie game. And uh and the actually at
Speaker 1: that point they had a three point lead, right, I
Speaker 1: believe they had a three point lead, but it would
Speaker 1: have been first down and goal to go, and said,
Speaker 1: you have a great defense. You're at home and everyone's
Speaker 1: eating gumbo and jambalaya and all that stuff, having a
Speaker 1: wonderful time. No one can go in there and that
Speaker 1: pit of vipers in New Orleans and come out of winner.
Speaker 1: And you play like a bunch of weaklings and allow
Speaker 1: the Rams and Jared Golf, Jared fucking Golf to go
Speaker 1: down the field and get in the field goal range.
Speaker 1: And then in the overtime, your Hall of fame quarterback
Speaker 1: decides to puke all over the field, throws in interception
Speaker 1: like a pile of gelatinous goo, and uh, and the
Speaker 1: Rams go down and win the game. You deserve to
Speaker 1: lose that game, Sean Payton, screw you. Well, there you go.
Speaker 1: There's your top five lists to NFL coaches here in Alright.
Speaker 1: Shane in Australia writes in uh, we have an international
Speaker 1: reach on this podcast. She has a long time Mattler
Speaker 1: Militia guy. Uh. He says, is it okay to drink
Speaker 1: for three days straight with your mates without speaking to
Speaker 1: your misses in that time? All right, what do you
Speaker 1: want to go first? On this gascon? So you just
Speaker 1: go on a bender for three days and don't talk
Speaker 1: to your your lady fri it loud or not allowed?
Speaker 1: I think it's allowed as long as you're texting. Does
Speaker 1: that still count as talking to your mate or no?
Speaker 1: In the modern world, that does count as talked. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if you're if you're going three days without talking
Speaker 1: to her, you better have a pretty damn good excuse,
Speaker 1: like you're blacked out drunk, or you got a side
Speaker 1: piece that you need to give attention to you for
Speaker 1: three days and you can just tell her you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I lost my phone, my phone was stolen, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: I couldn't communicate with you. You better have a damn
Speaker 1: good excuse otherwise, Yeah, it's not. You can't justify that
Speaker 1: well in America. But maybe in Australia or Europe or
Speaker 1: somewhere else in the world you can get away with it.
Speaker 1: But my experience in America is you cannot get away
Speaker 1: with it yet that you will have hell to pay
Speaker 1: and it will be people that are very upset with you,
Speaker 1: and it'll be it'll just it'll be a pin in
Speaker 1: the ass. So why bother? Right, Well, when you go
Speaker 1: on trips and it's only guys, how frequently do you
Speaker 1: talk to the missus? I'll check out, whether once a
Speaker 1: day or whatever, maybe text her occasionally, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's not all the time. I mean, and I don't
Speaker 1: even go on guy trips much anymore. I don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I just stay home. That's pretty much what I do.
Speaker 1: That's my whole body. That's a pretty ballsy plan. That'll
Speaker 1: go three days drinking on a binge and not taught
Speaker 1: your your girl, I like that. You you better be
Speaker 1: rico suave in the bedroom to get away with that one, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're loaded, if you're great in the sack, you
Speaker 1: can get away with those certain things. So if you're not,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna be shot. She'd probably cheating on you anyway.
Speaker 1: So all right now, Matt from Fort Royal, Virginia, You
Speaker 1: ever been to Fort Royal, Virginia. No, I've never been
Speaker 1: to Virginia. Great place on God's being Earth And Matt says,
Speaker 1: can you teach gag on how to park. So guests,
Speaker 1: we should do this on the podcast. I can actually
Speaker 1: teach you how to park. You don't know how to park?
Speaker 1: Your terrible, your an embarrassment. Listen from that wants me
Speaker 1: to help you. Are you willing to take my help?
Speaker 1: I will teach you how to park. Well, we can't
Speaker 1: use your car to be teaching me how to park
Speaker 1: because your car is small. You have a lot of
Speaker 1: blind spots. Um your right spots would make it hard
Speaker 1: to park, wouldn't it. Yeah, exactly, So we can't use
Speaker 1: your car. We can use my car. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a high performance sports utility vehicle. You have no blind
Speaker 1: You're hurting the environment over warming and all that. And
Speaker 1: you know, you get some of those people that are fanaticals.
Speaker 1: That's right. No, I'm a great driver. I'm probably one
Speaker 1: of the best drivers I know. Just because well, you
Speaker 1: don't know many people. I know a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Not really, I know a lot of the same people
Speaker 1: you know. I know you do a lot of those
Speaker 1: people that are high up in the food chain, the executives,
Speaker 1: you don't know them at all. Do you think you
Speaker 1: know them? But you don't know? There is a divide
Speaker 1: you know, separate and divide between me and you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what your nickname is, the bad Apple. That's
Speaker 1: your nickname. If I get that reputation, it's lights out,
Speaker 1: all right. So I guess Matt the answers he does
Speaker 1: not want help parking Colin the Electrician. I don't know
Speaker 1: where Collins is. He didn't say what city he's in.
Speaker 1: But do you think that the NFL should just do
Speaker 1: away with the reviewable past interference penalties already? Uh? Colin
Speaker 1: obviously does he think he's a waste of time? Uh?
Speaker 1: And whatnot? This is a sporty question, but I put
Speaker 1: it in here. Uh yeah, I am. I'm not for
Speaker 1: the current the new setup, the reviewable pass interference penalties,
Speaker 1: because my experience the first four weeks of the NFL
Speaker 1: season is almost never do they actually overturn the call.
Speaker 1: Like so, my theory on this is that the officials
Speaker 1: are pushing back, fighting back against the machine of the NFL,
Speaker 1: and only like one percent are going to be overturned.
Speaker 1: The most egregious pass interference penalties night this is it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, it's a waste of time. We're not going
Speaker 1: to overturn the call. Don't do it. Even though it
Speaker 1: is technically reviewable, it's not worth your time. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. I'm on the same page.
Speaker 1: It's like reviewing balls and strikes in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: I mean, umpires miscalls all the time. Same thing with
Speaker 1: fouls in the NBA. Every play in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: you can call a penalty for something with it's holding
Speaker 1: passenger ferents for offense, passenger ferents for defense. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of blowing calls for rough in the pastor that
Speaker 1: are called against certain teams and they're going after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think there's just way too much in terms of
Speaker 1: instant replay. It's using today's game. Obviously, it's it's drummed
Speaker 1: up for controversy. It helps for ratings when we're talking
Speaker 1: about this on a Monday or Tuesday. I want to
Speaker 1: get rid of it. Yeah, I don't like it. I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's I know we talked about a lot
Speaker 1: of these controversies on radio shows and podcasts and whatnot,
Speaker 1: but it's it does annoy me, and unfortunately I turned around.
Speaker 1: I'll just go to a different game. When they go
Speaker 1: to replay, I'm like, I don't really care that much,
Speaker 1: I'll go to another game. But it is, it is annoying.
Speaker 1: It is the fifth hour, it's in the bag. Do
Speaker 1: we have any more here? Let's see. Daniel had an
Speaker 1: interesting idea. Daniel works at Walt Disney World, and he said,
Speaker 1: should the NFL have just one week, say after week eight,
Speaker 1: where the entire NFL goes on hiatus rather than have
Speaker 1: teams stagger their bye weeks after three weeks and over
Speaker 1: the next like what eight weeks or something like that
Speaker 1: by weeks. But um, well, the way I would answer it,
Speaker 1: I think that's actually not a bad idea. But the
Speaker 1: NFL wants to have content every week. They make a
Speaker 1: deal with television, so I don't think they'll actually do that.
Speaker 1: But it's not it's not wild. I mean everyone would
Speaker 1: have the same No one would have an advantage because
Speaker 1: right now, if you have your bye week like late
Speaker 1: in the year, traditionally you want to have it as
Speaker 1: late as you can because that gets you refreshed for
Speaker 1: the home stretch. Right Yeah, But I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: have I wouldn't want to be a team that has
Speaker 1: to play because you get a lot of teams that
Speaker 1: play Thursday night in football, and then they have their
Speaker 1: bye week following it, or they had the bye week
Speaker 1: before their Thursday night football affair, so they have a
Speaker 1: little bit more leniency on the days oft and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But like you mentioned, CBS, Fox, ESPN, NFL network, that's
Speaker 1: their that's their money maker for the entire calendar year.
Speaker 1: The highest television ratings come into play during the fall.
Speaker 1: That's the National Football League, that's the NFL. The NFL
Speaker 1: then ten times again Sunday night football for NBC. It's huge.
Speaker 1: There's no way you'd want to cut that off for
Speaker 1: one week to have them all go dark because frankly,
Speaker 1: the college product isn't as good or it's nowhere close
Speaker 1: to what the National Football League provides. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I mean's it's serious. Sounds fine, But I don't think Daniel,
Speaker 1: there's a chance. Plus, yeah, we play fantasy football. Would
Speaker 1: you want to go dark for a week playing fantasy football?
Speaker 1: I go dark every week? What are you talking about? Talking?
Speaker 1: What dark? Dark? Humor? Whatever? What do you think? Pervert?
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, don't stick the sports. This is your
Speaker 1: department gascon here. One more thing, this is actually not
Speaker 1: a sports story. I hate the one more thing I
Speaker 1: read this this weekend. Again, this might be bullshit, but
Speaker 1: I read that at the Alien Telescope Array or Allen
Speaker 1: Telescope Array, California alien uh Astromer's ut. I can't even talk,
Speaker 1: uh the the uh astronomers, I guess is what they
Speaker 1: call it? That the term I think that's the term. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this this uh this telescope in California. They have champagne
Speaker 1: with them at all times in the refrigerator. Why is
Speaker 1: that gascon In case they find a new star and
Speaker 1: they could name it, No, in case they find alien life,
Speaker 1: they have a bottle of champagne in the fridge to
Speaker 1: pop the bottle of champagne to celebrate that they found Martians.
Speaker 1: Now what do they do do they do like a post? Uh?
Speaker 1: They do uh an night party at Area fifty one,
Speaker 1: the place that we can't go to after in celebration
Speaker 1: and talk to the guys and our military. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: they should go to Prorompt, Nevada, where Art Bell used
Speaker 1: to work from overnight on the coast to coast, because
Speaker 1: that's I always think of aliens. I think a Prorompt Nevada.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to your stories of the week.
Speaker 1: What do you have. Let's do this. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been body shamed before? Oh? Yeah, I've been a fat person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your body shamed all the time when I was when
Speaker 1: I was younger. People, you know, even now, people are
Speaker 1: assholes and say nasty things and that this is how
Speaker 1: it works and that that's how they were raised by
Speaker 1: their parents. Know that's true. We'll check this out. A
Speaker 1: Texas woman found out that she was being body shamed
Speaker 1: online by a potential employer. The company it's a startup
Speaker 1: company named kick Ass Masterminds and the woman's names Emily Chow.
Speaker 1: What happened was she actually applied for an internship at
Speaker 1: the company and actually a couple of other companies as well.
Speaker 1: But what they did after following her account on Instagram,
Speaker 1: they screen captured a couple of pictures and one particular
Speaker 1: where she was in a bikini, and they posted it
Speaker 1: inside their company portal, saying, hey, you know, if you
Speaker 1: want to apply for a job, it's best and it's
Speaker 1: in your best interest that if you're looking to do
Speaker 1: something like this, don't have all your social media out
Speaker 1: there's to your potential employers can look at that stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh so they were using her as an example. Or uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not the way to go. But that's
Speaker 1: not the worst. I thought you were gonna say something.
Speaker 1: So they were she fat or something? No, she was.
Speaker 1: She was actually really attractive. She's in fantastic shape. Who
Speaker 1: the hell cares, especially especially for a marketing company. Right,
Speaker 1: there's there's only a handful of things that men look
Speaker 1: at online and that come to marketing and it plays right.
Speaker 1: She's not an ugly duckling or something like that. And
Speaker 1: she doesn't look like Joseph Merrick who Joseph meerkas, but
Speaker 1: she's the elephant man. She doesn't look like the elephant
Speaker 1: woman Josephine Merrick. Then uh the soh hell? Hell the
Speaker 1: hell cares? Get over Yeah, speaking of way getting over it.
Speaker 1: A teacher in Florida was was down in her luck
Speaker 1: and in fact that the cost of living for her
Speaker 1: in Florida was pretty hard, so she actually turned herself
Speaker 1: to a sugar daddy's website. Um, ben, if you were
Speaker 1: a woman, yes, would you go to a sugar daddy website? No?
Speaker 1: You wouldn't know. I would probably do it because there's
Speaker 1: there's a great value in that and and pretty much
Speaker 1: you can make a lot of money doing it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but why would you want to be caught because you
Speaker 1: could do this stuff online on your own and there's
Speaker 1: so many different platforms. So that just prostitution. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really, I mean, all this is prostitution. I mean
Speaker 1: just just it's just saying in a different way, we're
Speaker 1: all paying for sex right one way or another, of
Speaker 1: course we are. Yeah. So so what happened with this
Speaker 1: this particular teacher, Yeah, a teacher, and so she obviously
Speaker 1: joined this website to supplement her income as a preschool teacher.
Speaker 1: That's the worst part about it. But then she started
Speaker 1: going on dates, and then when she would go to
Speaker 1: school to take her kids to school, she began to
Speaker 1: see the guys that she would go on dates on
Speaker 1: at certain schools when she would drop off her kids. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's how old is she? She looks like she's in
Speaker 1: her mid thirties, all right, So maybe she was in
Speaker 1: her late twenties or something like that when she did this. Maybe.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's tough. I mean, they say you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to ship where you eat, right, isn't that what
Speaker 1: they say there? And all that? And uh, well yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's uh I know she's probably some nice
Speaker 1: candlelight dinners there and and had a wonderful time romantic
Speaker 1: songs and all that and lovey dovey, but stuff I
Speaker 1: always had When I was dating. Most of my dates
Speaker 1: did not go well, and I was always worried that
Speaker 1: I would like run into one of these people. You know,
Speaker 1: I had this paranoia when I go out that I
Speaker 1: like running to someone I had dated. And it never
Speaker 1: never happened, at least I don't want to call it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna run in a former dates in
Speaker 1: the movie theater? You can't see the other ones? Wow?
Speaker 1: Really slobbering idiot? Uh No, No, I would go other
Speaker 1: places occasionally, but you never And I usually dated people
Speaker 1: that were far away from where I lived. That was intentional.
Speaker 1: Plus I lived in the hood and I didn't just
Speaker 1: it was hard to meet people in the hood that
Speaker 1: you wanted to hang out with that were you a
Speaker 1: serial dater? Like, did you date all the time? No? No,
Speaker 1: it was hard to get dates. And when you're fat,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get dates. Women don't give you the
Speaker 1: time of day, so it's difficult. And plus I worked
Speaker 1: in radio man for years. Those years I was dating heavily.
Speaker 1: I was working overnight weekend radio, and imagine talking to
Speaker 1: some someone online or something like that, and you're you're
Speaker 1: trying to go out with him, and you said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm available every day except Friday night and Saturday night.
Speaker 1: I'm not available to nights. I mean, what woman wouldn't
Speaker 1: jump at the opportunity to it wouldn't be persuaded to
Speaker 1: to date a guy who's not available the two most
Speaker 1: popular nights of the week. Yeah, I got that problem
Speaker 1: right now. Anyways, you can follow me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: David J. Gascon And he was trying to get a date.
Speaker 1: Don Juan over there, Prince Charming. Swipe right, swipe right,
Speaker 1: yes man, plenty of fish right, Ben we Go from
Speaker 1: Florida to Dallas were the wife of a seventy two
Speaker 1: year old man in Dallas was charged with a fatal
Speaker 1: shooting of someone that he thought was a burglar. And
Speaker 1: he contacted the lawyers. He called one and whatnot. This
Speaker 1: guy was charged with murder after shooting somebody that he
Speaker 1: thought was a burglar. Bonn was said of a hundred
Speaker 1: fifty thou dollars. According to the reports, the perpetrator came
Speaker 1: into the apartment building. He was shot killed, and the
Speaker 1: man that shot him after he was done, he went
Speaker 1: right back to bed. Well that's the definition of cold bloody.
Speaker 1: So that the guy's body was still in the Yes,
Speaker 1: was he dreaming? Was he like sleep walking when he
Speaker 1: did this? No, he just said, well, wa Florida to Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: You know they're the gun laws and what people are
Speaker 1: a little gun happy? None in a little star state.
Speaker 1: I know that's the cliche. But wouldn't like being a
Speaker 1: human being. Uh, I mean I'm not against guns and
Speaker 1: all that, and maybe that's not popular to say. I'm
Speaker 1: not anti gun. I think there should be some some
Speaker 1: restrictions on it. I don't think you should be like
Speaker 1: the old West. But uh, fine with the right to
Speaker 1: bear arms and all that. But my my god, here,
Speaker 1: I mean there are If I killed somebody, I would
Speaker 1: have such guilt and such even if it was even
Speaker 1: it was necessary, I would still be like I took
Speaker 1: a life. I mean that would be I would feel horrible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of which, you remember Ray carew Right, Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was behind the uh the murder of his wife.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, that's right. I bring that up because this
Speaker 1: this woman in Florida. Her name is Jesse Lopez. She
Speaker 1: was facing she was in jail. She was facing fill
Speaker 1: any charges of operating an unsanctioned weight loss clinic. And
Speaker 1: then while she was in prison, she started talking to
Speaker 1: a couple of cellmates and put a head out her
Speaker 1: husband at the time, and she got cot wash. She
Speaker 1: was doing that. She was a part of, like this
Speaker 1: huge money laundering scheme. But they had officials and obviously
Speaker 1: undercover informants that were in there, and she was corresponding
Speaker 1: with a undercover police officer, going back and forth about
Speaker 1: putting a hit on her husband, making some phone calls
Speaker 1: through the communications that she gets on her one time
Speaker 1: phone calls and whatnot. But she was planning this from
Speaker 1: behind the prison wall. Yes, a dumb bitch. I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, here gascon Uh. This is an asset test
Speaker 1: with stupidity, I mean common sense, common sense. That is
Speaker 1: profound ignorance, and that woman deserved get caught and deserved
Speaker 1: whatever punishment she's gonna get from this. I mean, Mike,
Speaker 1: I know you're not in your right mind when you're like,
Speaker 1: let's put a hit out on someone, but still, this
Speaker 1: is beyond ridiculous. Year last one are you paper plastic?
Speaker 1: I am plastic, more of a plat Yeah, so am
Speaker 1: I I bring that up because the city of brotherly Love,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is making a little bit of history right now,
Speaker 1: the first major US city right now in the United
Speaker 1: States to actually ban cashless stores. Now, there's a new
Speaker 1: bill that's out. It's supposed to go into effect and
Speaker 1: during the summertime, but it was delayed, so now it's
Speaker 1: gonna take part here in a couple of days. But basically,
Speaker 1: the bill prevents most retail locations from refusing to take cash. Now.
Speaker 1: It does not include parking garages, internet transactions, and hillsale
Speaker 1: clubs that operate on membership models, but it prevents them
Speaker 1: from charging people who use cash at a higher price
Speaker 1: than those who use cards. Now, people might think about, well,
Speaker 1: what does that all mean. It's simple. If you go
Speaker 1: to a gas station right now, just for example, I
Speaker 1: bought gas today, was four dollars a gallon, But if
Speaker 1: you if I use my credit card, it's four ten.
Speaker 1: So if I go cash, it's four dollars. If I
Speaker 1: go with a credit card, it's four ten. So really
Speaker 1: I thought it was cheaper than with cash. I thought, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it is. What you said, but okay I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it is cheaper, so they want to say they
Speaker 1: want your quality. I will tell you that, you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you want to budget, I started budgeting
Speaker 1: about a year ago to try to get out of
Speaker 1: debt and pay off some stuff that I have built up,
Speaker 1: the great debt that I've built up in my life
Speaker 1: with my wife's as well. In on this. But any
Speaker 1: book you read, any advice from like Dave Ramsey and
Speaker 1: those type of people, they tell you that envelopes cash envelopes.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to put put cash for your budget every
Speaker 1: week in an envelope and not spend any more than
Speaker 1: that budget, and you will actually get out of debt
Speaker 1: faster that way. So even when I used credit cards
Speaker 1: a lot because it's just easier than going to the
Speaker 1: bank and getting cash and all that, I I understand.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, listen, it's uh and it's kind of
Speaker 1: ridiculous the way they set it up where you get
Speaker 1: charge is more one way than the other, and all
Speaker 1: that stuff you don't. You don't sock away every every
Speaker 1: pay period for your four oh one can Uh, yes,
Speaker 1: you max out your four oh one. K man, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: With you. No, listen, you're taking some bad advice from
Speaker 1: a a dentist that used to work here, television dentist.
Speaker 1: Television dentists, by the way, during this podcast sent me
Speaker 1: several text messages. I want you to know, he was
Speaker 1: texting me. Yeah, were they in sexual nature or were
Speaker 1: they No? No, he He listens to local radio in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and then comments on the radio like when
Speaker 1: stuff happens that it's just ridiculous. You'll tell me that.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I heard this on the radio. And
Speaker 1: so and so said this. It's all people we we
Speaker 1: know and people we work with over the year. It
Speaker 1: was he critiquing their language or the way that they spoke,
Speaker 1: or even the words that they used in a report.
Speaker 1: He's he's known for that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: he's a dick. Yeah. I mean he does all that
Speaker 1: stuff absolutely. So yeah. Anyway, all right, so is that
Speaker 1: it put the ball on, the baby on the package
Speaker 1: or whatever? He yes, put baby to bed and all
Speaker 1: those cliches blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Al right, Uh. There it is the fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Mallard. Thank you. If you love the podcast, boy,
Speaker 1: you really love it. If you're still listening, uh, just
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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Mallory. Have a great weekend. Hopefully
Speaker 1: my tongue will actually heal by the time I get
Speaker 1: back on the radio. If not, I might actually have
Speaker 1: to take a sick day, which would be embarrassing. Uh
Speaker 1: next week. But have a great weekend and thank you.