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Speaker 1: that does help. It seems so ridiculous that a podcast
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Speaker 1: of these podcasts look at that crap, and that is
Speaker 1: one of the variables. They look at how many positive
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Speaker 1: you can write a little review and say how great
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Speaker 1: It's it's all available to you. And right over there
Speaker 1: there he is David Gascon and making his way to Uh. Really,
Speaker 1: I saw some I saw I forget who it was.
Speaker 1: I saw some asshole complaining about fans that are actually
Speaker 1: applauding me when I come into the STI yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, Yes, idiot was com planning about that, right, Well,
Speaker 1: don't don't ruin, don't spoil the lead, my man, don't
Speaker 1: spoil a lead. So you know what I gotta say
Speaker 1: to people like that, go after yourself. You know how
Speaker 1: how how how do she? That sounds? Yes? For you?
Speaker 1: People like bitch about like six seven, eight seconds worth
Speaker 1: of material? Well, it's annoying. You're such a self centered,
Speaker 1: sniveling little child over there. You're so vain, so vain
Speaker 1: podcasting and radio And I was taught by a friend
Speaker 1: who was taught by another friend that radio and podcasting.
Speaker 1: You make it all about yourself. It's all about me, me, me, me,
Speaker 1: splash water. No, yes, yes, don't be a douche. Don't
Speaker 1: be a douche novel listen to me. It is obviously
Speaker 1: about you, right because your people are listening to you.
Speaker 1: But you can't sound like an asshole. Who wants to
Speaker 1: listen to an asshole? Well, nobody wants to listen to what?
Speaker 1: So you sound like a ragamuffin, is what you sound like? Well,
Speaker 1: people do listen to a lot of assholes. They listen
Speaker 1: to them be there because they want to hear something
Speaker 1: controversial or they want to have the I got your moment.
Speaker 1: So so your goal is to be an asshole. You're
Speaker 1: admitting your sprinkles to the clown, the asshole. No, no,
Speaker 1: I uh no, I don't think so. All right, I
Speaker 1: hope not. Yeah. I agree with the person from Massachusetts
Speaker 1: that you're just it's it's shrewd dumbness, is it's well,
Speaker 1: it's it's also selfish. It's very selfish. It's extreme selfishness
Speaker 1: because there's no there's no sound bites that are played
Speaker 1: for me, you know, Latida, Mr Elitis, Let me make
Speaker 1: myself better. I mean, this material is of Ben Mallard
Speaker 1: talking what's wrong with that? You got a problem with that?
Speaker 1: You got a problem with that. You're insufferable. It is
Speaker 1: what you are. If you're insufferable, I am not even
Speaker 1: on the Marquee. As you pointed out so kind in
Speaker 1: your's a day's path. You have to earn that. You
Speaker 1: have to earn to be on the Marquee. I think
Speaker 1: it's appropriate that I can get a nice little introduction
Speaker 1: from the people on the outside and as I walk in,
Speaker 1: and I think we roll with that so well on
Speaker 1: this podcast. You are they You're the supporting actor who
Speaker 1: ruins the entire movie. You know, you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: the sidekick that takes away from the leading actor, the
Speaker 1: headline of the big name, the mega star that's on
Speaker 1: the drawing card. Uh, and you do the things to
Speaker 1: be the just say not. You're not just a cog
Speaker 1: in the machine. You're the cog that breaks the machine.
Speaker 1: I would consider myself more of the antagonist than the
Speaker 1: that I would say, like the coastre um, they're the
Speaker 1: supporting actor. But you know, to each of own, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: as a point out, you know, we have there's certain
Speaker 1: roles here. You have the principal character, you have the
Speaker 1: supporting actor, you have the character act. Yes, and he
Speaker 1: would be the heel who thinks he's the leading actor,
Speaker 1: the headliner. Uh, and then you just bring down the movie.
Speaker 1: It could be like the anti hero. Could I be
Speaker 1: like that? We should make it like a movie. We
Speaker 1: should make this podcast like like you know how they
Speaker 1: say for movie reviews, it's not a film, it's an experience.
Speaker 1: It's not a podcast, it's an experience. We couldn't do that.
Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about doing that on how about
Speaker 1: this one? How about the Fifth Hour with Ben Mather,
Speaker 1: the rare sequel that surpasses the original. There's only like
Speaker 1: ten or ten or twelve ways they review movies, right,
Speaker 1: feel good movie of the year. You know that your
Speaker 1: funniest movie since blank. You're a part of a couple
Speaker 1: of unions. Do you get to review anything from Hollywood? Yes?
Speaker 1: Well I was part of AFTRA which became SAG and
Speaker 1: so I do pay a little money and they send
Speaker 1: us every year. This is the main reason I do
Speaker 1: it is because my wife loves to watch these videos
Speaker 1: the movies, because I don't. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: they send out. You'd think they'd send good movies out,
Speaker 1: but it's all these artsy FARTSI movies you're part of,
Speaker 1: aren't you? In SAG too, you're part of sag right,
Speaker 1: talk about that right now. You don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about that. It's all about you. Your name is okay, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. That's right. I'm I'm the main attraction.
Speaker 1: You are the attraction. You're learning, you're learning finally, thank god.
Speaker 1: Films too. Right, Yeah, there's a lot of artsy movies.
Speaker 1: Like if if I have to read a movie because
Speaker 1: they're speaking at a foreign language, I don't understand. I'm
Speaker 1: not watching it. It's not it's not movies on tape.
Speaker 1: I'm not watching. That's not fair. There's some really good
Speaker 1: movies that are in subtitle. I'm sure there are. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do a Waesom though. It's not for me.
Speaker 1: There for people like you. I don't want to watch them.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I want. I want to go
Speaker 1: to a movie. I get a bucket of popcorn, I
Speaker 1: get some kind of candy. I combine the sugar, the salt,
Speaker 1: combine those things together, and if it's got butter, you
Speaker 1: know if the fat and all that, I combine all
Speaker 1: these things again and I want to just I want
Speaker 1: to let lose. I want to watch. I don't want
Speaker 1: to read. I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to have my face locked on the bottom of
Speaker 1: the screen. So I see the dialogue. Who wants that?
Speaker 1: I want to be able to relax and its kind
Speaker 1: of be entertained. It's called entertainment. Do you like the Matrix?
Speaker 1: I do. I only saw the first one, but I
Speaker 1: quoted all the time, and yeah, there's some great lines
Speaker 1: in that. Everyone quotes the Matrix, the red Pill of
Speaker 1: the Blue Pill. I bring that up because there was
Speaker 1: a night that me and a couple of good friends
Speaker 1: were supposed to go watch one of the new Star
Speaker 1: Wars movies and we couldn't watch it. So there was
Speaker 1: another movie that was just random and were like, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be either a really good movie or be
Speaker 1: a really shitty movie. Let's just go buy a ticket
Speaker 1: and watch it. And we went to watch it. Turned
Speaker 1: out the movie was in subtitles. It was called The
Speaker 1: Raid Ben. It was the best movie I've ever watched
Speaker 1: that included martial arts, like the choreographed Yeah, well, keep
Speaker 1: in mind, though, guests on part part of the reason
Speaker 1: you enjoyed that so much is before the movie you
Speaker 1: were sniffing glue. That's part of the reason you enjoyed
Speaker 1: it because I wanted to go see a Star Wars movie.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, when I would go to the movies,
Speaker 1: all right, Mama mallor would drop us off. We would
Speaker 1: pay for the first movie when the theater open up.
Speaker 1: Usually it was about a noon start, first movies about noon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we would stay till like ten o'clock at night watching movies.
Speaker 1: And o'clock at night that was the latest, and usually
Speaker 1: it was like seven, but sometimes we'd go to ten.
Speaker 1: We just all day. We just bounced the theater the theater,
Speaker 1: la la la, la, la la la, and they didn't care.
Speaker 1: We bought popcorn things like that. It's pretty remarkable. It's
Speaker 1: great that was in the pre internet days. Now you
Speaker 1: don't need to do that. Back then, we very little
Speaker 1: entertainment back in my day. Guess god, a long time ago,
Speaker 1: not that long ago. What's on the uh? What's today?
Speaker 1: All right? So today on this podcast we have pop
Speaker 1: quiz and we also have a riveting mail bag. All right,
Speaker 1: so should we go mail bag first. Yeah, Ma, because
Speaker 1: I got a couple of mail bag questions for you.
Speaker 1: You do how do you? How did you get mail
Speaker 1: bag questions? Because you don't have access to the email.
Speaker 1: People reached out in a different way. The first one
Speaker 1: is from I'm a Pilot. No, that's I'm a pilot
Speaker 1: was really good last week? He wasn't great questions terble
Speaker 1: failed to to uh to consider some good compliments to me. Um.
Speaker 1: This one's from Gretchen and she says, yeah, everything is
Speaker 1: Pergretchan Carlson. No, Gretchen Willets will Yeah, how did she
Speaker 1: contact you? Oh, they'll tell you a second if you
Speaker 1: let me finish. She says, every thing on the podcast
Speaker 1: sounds perfect now that King David has fixed the sound.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'll be sure to post some more additional
Speaker 1: constructive complaints if anything is screwed up. As always, Mallard's
Speaker 1: god uh Simona, I think that's his name, he says,
Speaker 1: must listen Sunday podcast. Look forward to hearing your great
Speaker 1: takes Daily funny five stars. Good job, David Gascon. Those
Speaker 1: are great. It's a good way to start. It was
Speaker 1: even real. Are you just like making stuff up now?
Speaker 1: You are such a losier making up people's names. If
Speaker 1: you would actually pay attention to the audience, you would
Speaker 1: know that people give reviews on Apple iTunes. Oh, those
Speaker 1: are from Apple iTunes. They're just you know, hold check,
Speaker 1: hold on. What do you mean you're gonna check? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna confirm. What's wrong? Why would you have a problem
Speaker 1: with me confirming if they're there, they're there, I'll find them.
Speaker 1: You can't take my word as gospel. That is inconsiderable.
Speaker 1: You're wasting time, You're wasting value. Did email us to you,
Speaker 1: to us and the questions? I'd appreciate it if you
Speaker 1: uh focused on that as opposed to what people are
Speaker 1: saying on Apple iTunes. Oh oh because, oh I see,
Speaker 1: so you don't want me to do uh okay, work
Speaker 1: Kyle and no cow all right. A huge fan of
Speaker 1: the show. But your last two pots have been messed up.
Speaker 1: Audio noticeable, Mike cutting out, court issues. Also guests con
Speaker 1: was on FSR on Saturdays. Audio was messed up. Check
Speaker 1: your equipment. Otherwise, keep up the great content. Now, who's
Speaker 1: in charge of the sound of it? You are, guests,
Speaker 1: you were in charge. You're in charge of the audio.
Speaker 1: People were complaining about Peter Brown the other day, and
Speaker 1: I said, guest guard, does he sound okay? Doesn't sound
Speaker 1: good to me? You said he sounds fine, and I said,
Speaker 1: his phone sucks and there's nothing we can do about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so anyways, not your ten tho dollars worth of equipment
Speaker 1: at your studios. So here's a guy I like the pair. Hello,
Speaker 1: guys like the show Longtime five plus? Do you're listening
Speaker 1: to you? Ben? Thank you? Initially I was boycotting the
Speaker 1: podcast the fifth hour, and after I subscribed, I couldn't
Speaker 1: stop listening to the podcast. There you go. Ben and
Speaker 1: David are like, all right, you don't have to read
Speaker 1: that part, but other way around, keep doing it. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't have to complete exactly what he said. That
Speaker 1: part wasn't important, all right, is it? Berg Berg? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, Burger Ba, we're the bad ones. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The cast great, except for the burn steak and catch up.
Speaker 1: Endorsements may go to podcasts while I'm owing the grass.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good, all right. Well, we've had a good
Speaker 1: amount of podcast reviews, but we need more there. I
Speaker 1: know the number of people that listen to the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I know the number of people have made reviews,
Speaker 1: it's about point one percent less than that, I would
Speaker 1: say of the people that we have on the regular.
Speaker 1: Let's in the podcast over the weekend. So um, do
Speaker 1: it take a chance yourself, and this one's easier to
Speaker 1: listen to than your money through Friday because we can
Speaker 1: you know, cuss, bring up bullshit stories and guess on
Speaker 1: a little bit different. So well, the overnight shows fine,
Speaker 1: reacting to the news the day and as Peter Brown said,
Speaker 1: how difficult that is when there's no news and you've
Speaker 1: got to make it up. The great Peter Brown radio
Speaker 1: legend giving me the ultimate compliment. Yeah he didn't. He
Speaker 1: didn't know that. I'm in your ear or in your
Speaker 1: cell phone, providing you with great content while your show.
Speaker 1: We'll find out how great the show is on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We'll find out how great the show is on it now?
Speaker 1: Is that Wednesday? Tuesday? And Wednesday or Wednesday and the Thursday?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't you don't even know? See
Speaker 1: you now? Are you gonna be able to stay up?
Speaker 1: Am I gonna have to send you over a bottle
Speaker 1: of no does here? How's that gonna work? Am I gonna?
Speaker 1: You know? What I've got these stay awake pills on
Speaker 1: my desk. You wanted me to send those over to
Speaker 1: you so you can stay awake and I fall asleep
Speaker 1: by the last hour of the show. Is that what
Speaker 1: happens usually? Well, some people that come in there, they
Speaker 1: can I've had I've had engineers, board ops fill in
Speaker 1: and their their eyes. You can see their eyes. It's
Speaker 1: like a cartoon, like an old Looney Tunes cartoon where
Speaker 1: their eyes get heavy. You know. It's like and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting across, you know, back in the old days when
Speaker 1: we were at the radio stations, I'm sitting across and
Speaker 1: it's like I'm watching the guy slowly fall into sleep
Speaker 1: land and I can't do anything. That was that was
Speaker 1: Jake or Frank ever like that with you? Oh no,
Speaker 1: those guys are professionals, the late great Frank and Jake
Speaker 1: was always professional. But I you understand when I was
Speaker 1: doing the weekend overnights in the early days of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, they were going nobody wanted to work. Nobody
Speaker 1: still wants to work weekend overnight just the worst shift
Speaker 1: in radio. Who wants to do that? You give up
Speaker 1: your Friday Saturday, make ship money? Uh? You know, and
Speaker 1: you're talking to a bunch of losers usually you think
Speaker 1: the people that call in anyway, and so you're like,
Speaker 1: what am I doing? And uh, but yeah, they would
Speaker 1: bring guys in and we had we had some horrible
Speaker 1: jeers with the one guy we had. There was the
Speaker 1: two that stand out. The one guy that had worked
Speaker 1: in television, but apparently TV equipment is different than radioquipment
Speaker 1: because he missed one time an entire top of the hour.
Speaker 1: He said the system, he couldn't figure out the system,
Speaker 1: so he had to keep going and we ended up
Speaker 1: I ended up doing like an hour and a half
Speaker 1: of commercial free radio, mind you, on a syndicated platform
Speaker 1: with you know, three and fifty radio stations who didn't
Speaker 1: get to play commercials granted it was the middle of
Speaker 1: the night because this guy couldn't figure it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what we call a lot of make goods. Yes,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. And then the other one I had was
Speaker 1: what were many bad ones, But the one I remember
Speaker 1: right now is the guy who really didn't like sports
Speaker 1: but needed the job and also apparently didn't like sitting
Speaker 1: at the board and would sit in the back and
Speaker 1: play back. In those days, the video games. The phones
Speaker 1: didn't have the games. This is how long ago this
Speaker 1: was in with Fox Sports Radio. Now you can play
Speaker 1: the games on your phone. You stay right at the
Speaker 1: board and pretend like you're listening. He was act the
Speaker 1: on the other computer behind and he was playing Yahoo.
Speaker 1: Yah who had all these games? And he was playing
Speaker 1: these games on Yahoo and was not even where he
Speaker 1: was supposed to be maiming maiming the the ship. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. All right, here's some other questions here.
Speaker 1: This is the mail bag. If you want to send
Speaker 1: questions in. There's two ways to do it. To submit questions,
Speaker 1: you can either go on Facebook, this is where most
Speaker 1: of the questions come from. Uh at Ben Maller Show
Speaker 1: on Facebook or Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. If you want
Speaker 1: your message private, uh you can send that in now.
Speaker 1: Blind Scott emailed and he says he got the email
Speaker 1: from men, which is great. He says, can you talk
Speaker 1: about where everybody's listening from on the podcast, like look
Speaker 1: at the geography map. I love it when they do that. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: Blind Scott. One of the reasons that we have people
Speaker 1: say hey, name and city on the questions in the
Speaker 1: mail bag is so that gives us an idea where
Speaker 1: people are listening. Now, we do have the analytics. I
Speaker 1: have the analytics of my social media, some of the
Speaker 1: social media pages and the breakdown by gender and by location, location, location, location.
Speaker 1: I can give some of that out. All right, that's
Speaker 1: my information. I can give that out. Do you want
Speaker 1: me to give that out? Yeah, if you want. I
Speaker 1: got it for the podcast and I got it for
Speaker 1: the YouTube. Let me see, I gotta click a couple
Speaker 1: of buttons here. Why don't you give the podcast stuff
Speaker 1: and then I'll I'll give the social media So for
Speaker 1: Benny versus the penny. Demographics wise, we got nine percent male,
Speaker 1: two percent female. Um we have I think it's nine
Speaker 1: United States, five percent in Europe and then five percent
Speaker 1: in Canada only five percent and Ken, Yeah, it's up
Speaker 1: with our Canadian brothers and sisters, and it's like a
Speaker 1: bad job by them. It's like Toronto, Vancouver and Vancouver
Speaker 1: and Nova Scotia. I think it was. Uh. I think
Speaker 1: those are the three main cities that we're not exactly
Speaker 1: killing it in Montreal. No, I don't know. Why what
Speaker 1: do you get do they listen to Fox? Sports radio
Speaker 1: in Montreal. We've been on We've been on there, but
Speaker 1: it's it's bilingual, right is French and English there Montreal? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What other numbers? You get? Anything else? I got? I
Speaker 1: got gender breakdown? You want my social media? What percentage
Speaker 1: men versus women do think it is? I'm gonna say, actually,
Speaker 1: I think you're pretty good. I'll say seventy two to
Speaker 1: According to the information I have, the Mallard Militia online audience,
Speaker 1: ninety three point seven percent men repulsive six point three
Speaker 1: percent women recorded this. Some of the cities we do
Speaker 1: very well in, at least online. We've got Los Angeles, Hello, Louisville, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Cana City, Nashville, Tennessee, in San Antonio. Right now, I
Speaker 1: don't see Boston on there. What happened? Boston was always
Speaker 1: on the top. I guess I've lost the Boston audience.
Speaker 1: I guess because of you. You've chased away the Bostonians.
Speaker 1: Boston was always in the top five. Boston is not
Speaker 1: in the top five. Right Well, there's a reason why
Speaker 1: w E I fired you? So I mean that they
Speaker 1: didn't fire me. My show got picked up by the
Speaker 1: Sports Hub, which right now is the number one station
Speaker 1: in the Boston market. As far as countries, We've got
Speaker 1: United States, which is obviously the bulk of it, Canada,
Speaker 1: New Zealand, I've still got my New Zealand. Guys, Australia,
Speaker 1: I dominate Oceania, I do I dominated Oceania, and then
Speaker 1: the other. The only other country that's listed here. You
Speaker 1: want to take a guess, this is explain this one
Speaker 1: to me, guest. Uh taking some random country. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say India. Uh No, the country of Ghana in Africa,
Speaker 1: the Republic of Ghana, because I couldn't even say it.
Speaker 1: That's in West Africa. I think, man, how what's the
Speaker 1: what's the total on that? It's like point two percent,
Speaker 1: But still it's it's on the list. It made the list.
Speaker 1: Why would why would you be listening in the Republic
Speaker 1: of of Ghana or Ghana or whatever it is. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's that's random. See here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: you have l A, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Vegas, San Diego, Dallas,
Speaker 1: in Portland. That's the top. All those are the top ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's odd that it's not the same as on the
Speaker 1: online stuff, but it changes every week, like these these
Speaker 1: numbers are it's just this week and the numbers change.
Speaker 1: And yeah, plus you have people that are using like
Speaker 1: incognito or a VPN, they won't be able to pick
Speaker 1: it up identify proximity, but not city per se. So
Speaker 1: and then I have the breakdown by age, and I
Speaker 1: want you to know we are killing it in the
Speaker 1: prime advertising demographics. So what do you was it? Thirty
Speaker 1: five to forty four. Thirty five to forty four is
Speaker 1: the biggest group of the mallam Milsia online, followed by
Speaker 1: forty five to fifty four and then twenty five to
Speaker 1: thirty four. But that's all and the that's all key
Speaker 1: to forty four is the bulk of the audience. And
Speaker 1: then just behind its four and we got we got
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys in the between fifty five and
Speaker 1: sixty four. They're big fans of the show. This the
Speaker 1: over sixty five. I have next to no one who's
Speaker 1: between thirteen and seventeen, So anybody who's under the age
Speaker 1: of eighteen not gonna listen to this crap. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I have a few we have a few guys a
Speaker 1: younger branch eighteen to twenty four college age it's just
Speaker 1: starting their working careers that are fans of the show,
Speaker 1: and see we that's the number that's important because we
Speaker 1: gotta get those guys to listen when they say go
Speaker 1: older and they get into the prime demo. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so that's those similar We spent way too much time
Speaker 1: on that. Yes, yeah, thank you blind Scott, all right.
Speaker 1: He He also says, uh, he's wondering if you ever
Speaker 1: got your kitchen finished, Ben being remodeled after the flood.
Speaker 1: You never followed up on that. Well, the kitchen is
Speaker 1: not completely done yet because of the pandemic. The person
Speaker 1: we had hired to finish the kitchen he finished the
Speaker 1: It's a functional kitchen. It works, but there's no like
Speaker 1: the small stuff. Uh there's no handles on the doors.
Speaker 1: That kind of stuff needs another coat of paint. Um,
Speaker 1: but we haven't finished it. Finished it, but it's like
Speaker 1: the minor stuff. Rick from San Ramon right, So, and
Speaker 1: he says, holy smokes, I'm sure Pat O'Brian is a
Speaker 1: swell guy, but that interview was painful to listen to
Speaker 1: this guy taking a shot. I felt bad for you
Speaker 1: and gascon. My guess is that he had a head's
Speaker 1: up on when the interview was gonna take place. He
Speaker 1: probably could have eaten the burrito before or after. I
Speaker 1: guess that's why you get paid the big bucks. Well, listen.
Speaker 1: That is a fair point and a fair criticism Pat.
Speaker 1: I did message Pat. We were texting. I said, hey, Pat,
Speaker 1: can you do the podcast? This is when we record
Speaker 1: the podcast. He said, sure, Ben, I'd love to do
Speaker 1: the podcast. And it just happened to be at the time.
Speaker 1: Pat wanted a burrito, and Pat's burrito Trump's the podcast,
Speaker 1: so he tried to multitask and eat the burrito while
Speaker 1: we were doing the podcast. Not the first time that's happened.
Speaker 1: I interviewed Kareem abdul Jabbar, the all time leading score
Speaker 1: in NBA history, Cream Abdul Jabbar, and he just happened
Speaker 1: to be when he was eating lunch, and he didn't
Speaker 1: stop eating lunch, and he would answer questions Kareem and
Speaker 1: you could hear him chewing on whatever he was eating.
Speaker 1: So it happened. Kentucky, Tay and Kentucky j Right by
Speaker 1: the way, I haven't gotten that package there from Scottsville, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Did I wonder if they sent it? Uh Sports Market
Speaker 1: aside Tay and j from Kentucky saying if you uprooted
Speaker 1: from California, could you see you and your wife living
Speaker 1: out in the country, saying, Kentucky. If so, would you
Speaker 1: have a little Mallard farm endless bull nuts for consumption?
Speaker 1: Turn off your phone? What the hell? What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: I could see stay focused, stay locked in. I can
Speaker 1: see you like in North or South Dakota. Um, I
Speaker 1: could probably see you in Colorado too. Colorado. You gotta
Speaker 1: learn how to hunt. Though they have these things called
Speaker 1: grocery stores, you don't really have to and they've already
Speaker 1: hunted for you. It's amazing. It's an amazing concept. It's
Speaker 1: a hobby. I would love to at some point to
Speaker 1: get out into the Neverland area there, having my own
Speaker 1: Neverland ranch like Michael Jackson, but no like you, be
Speaker 1: uh be nice. I My brother lives in New York
Speaker 1: and every once in a while he fasty He you know,
Speaker 1: New York's very expensive, obviously, it's it's filthy, the crimes terrible,
Speaker 1: the politics are horrible, and he thinks about leaving right
Speaker 1: so I can go somewhere. He could live like a king.
Speaker 1: If you moved to like West Virginia. He could, he
Speaker 1: could own all of like the middle part of West
Speaker 1: Virginia could be his. But and I've not. I've not
Speaker 1: spent time in Kentucky. So I've been to the airport,
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Cincinnati International Airport there, but I have not
Speaker 1: spent much time there. Ron, Yes, I mention the food
Speaker 1: there is probably fucking amazing too. Yeah, what's my kind
Speaker 1: of food? Not you're a kind of food. I would
Speaker 1: just show down, man. I spent I spent a week
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and I ate so much fucking fried food.
Speaker 1: But it was all the wish. That's good. Ron from
Speaker 1: Minnesota's has been his guest. Got really the king of
Speaker 1: douchebags in real life? Yes, yes, that is from Ron
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Well that's a fan of the show, right,
Speaker 1: the idiot, never write the show again. Never you're acting
Speaker 1: like a toolbag. Calm down, calm listen. I just need
Speaker 1: him for sixty seconds. That's it, just to download goodbye
Speaker 1: al right. Next one from our friend in Fresno, Rick
Speaker 1: Hardo and Cardo says, what are the words you can't
Speaker 1: say on radio? On the radio, on the radio, I
Speaker 1: was surprised that you can say bitch on the radio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can say bitch. You can say ass. Now, the
Speaker 1: way radio works, not to give you too much inside radio,
Speaker 1: but the way it typically works is at night when
Speaker 1: when I'm on. It's called the safe harbor, and the
Speaker 1: safe harbor means that the younger people are not listening.
Speaker 1: It's it's unrealistic that kids are listening to a radio show.
Speaker 1: It's after ten o'clock at night until I think it's
Speaker 1: like six in the morning. Uh. And so you know
Speaker 1: a little more for you them there and a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are a certain age will bring up
Speaker 1: the George Carlin seven Dirty Words bit, one of the
Speaker 1: great comedy bits of all time from the seventies, where
Speaker 1: he did a comedy rant about the seven words you
Speaker 1: can never say on television. Do you remember what those
Speaker 1: words are? Guests? G No, But the other thing too?
Speaker 1: Do you want me to give you the words they were? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I was gonna say. You also can't use the
Speaker 1: body lead of fluid thing either, like you can't say
Speaker 1: that he was piste on or you know, you can't
Speaker 1: even say that, Yeah, you're not you're not allowed. You
Speaker 1: can say piste off, but you can't say piste off,
Speaker 1: which is the people coming up with the rules, right,
Speaker 1: the obscenity police and what are you doing? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? I mean, what are the seven words anyway? Uh?
Speaker 1: George Carlin? Bit Carlin's seven words were ship, piss, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker,
Speaker 1: and tits. But it's more than that. It's more than that, right,
Speaker 1: It's there's certain phrases you can't say. There's I would
Speaker 1: say now, um, the other F word that's a cigarette
Speaker 1: in England. You can't say that, right, Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: say that one. I mean there's stuff I would never
Speaker 1: say anyway, But there's things that you used to be
Speaker 1: able to say that you can't say now. Yeah. It's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're tied down. Yeah. Well it's like we
Speaker 1: talked about with the Great Peter Brown radio Legend Friday podcast.
Speaker 1: If you missed it, Peters, like, I can't do this now.
Speaker 1: I could sense it true, called the principal's office the
Speaker 1: indecent seat place. He was so right about that, Like
Speaker 1: you do this job for long en if you get
Speaker 1: a radio show and after a while you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: my goal is just make it through. So I don't
Speaker 1: get the email of the text he I'd like to
Speaker 1: have a word with you after the show, which is
Speaker 1: even worse because on the other side of that you
Speaker 1: get guys that just stop. They talk strictly in platitudes,
Speaker 1: and then they're canonized like wait a minute, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: are you talking about you have no substance to your ship? Yeah,
Speaker 1: say nothing interesting, and you just kind of coast along,
Speaker 1: and there was like, oh, what a great host, what
Speaker 1: a wonderful host, hall of I've always been fascinated by
Speaker 1: that because they just I call him like the genetic
Speaker 1: generic brand talk shows that's never interesting, never I guess
Speaker 1: would say never boring, but never interesting. Just that kind
Speaker 1: of plays it down the middle, right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the road, never takes any chances, and and that
Speaker 1: that person can have a very long career, very long. Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on here, who do we have a sue from
Speaker 1: Round Rock Texas suit. You're part of the six percent,
Speaker 1: so congratulations here in the six percent, have any athletes
Speaker 1: called the show to defend themselves over comments or criticism
Speaker 1: you made of them on the air? Uh, well, sue,
Speaker 1: not really calling into the radio show. I have had
Speaker 1: some confrontations in locker rooms with athletes who did not
Speaker 1: appreciate what I said. I've also had some awkward moments
Speaker 1: face to face. I used to destroy Cordell Stewart of
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early day as and then
Speaker 1: I goofed on him and I ended up getting a sign.
Speaker 1: This was like the two thousand two Pro Bowl, and
Speaker 1: I got a sign to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: and so Cordell happened to make the team as a
Speaker 1: like replacement guy. And I'm interviewing Cordell at a little
Speaker 1: card table in the end zone at Aloha Stadium there,
Speaker 1: and it was it was a little nicy. And then
Speaker 1: I also remember, oh man, what was the guy's name?
Speaker 1: He was the coach of the Jets. And then he
Speaker 1: went to Virginia's. Remember the remember the coach al Grow?
Speaker 1: I was all Grow, I think was the guy's name.
Speaker 1: Type No, No, not that old Jesus Christ al Grow.
Speaker 1: Though he was the head coach at Virginia in the
Speaker 1: first part of the two thousand he coached the Jets.
Speaker 1: He was a Belichick guy. But anyway, I used to
Speaker 1: kill all Grow all the time. And uh, but the
Speaker 1: funny thing about that, I guess it's not really directly
Speaker 1: related to what you said, so, but it's it's indirectly related.
Speaker 1: So we add Al Grow. They booked al Grow as
Speaker 1: a guest at Virginia pulled some upset what you know,
Speaker 1: this is a long time ago. Virginia pulled some upsets.
Speaker 1: We had Al on after the show and Al proceeds
Speaker 1: to say how much he loved me doing the show.
Speaker 1: And then I realized that Al would listen the last
Speaker 1: hour or whatever on his way to the football facility,
Speaker 1: and he didn't hear the times I was ripping him,
Speaker 1: so he never heard me criticizing him. He only heard
Speaker 1: the show the last hour when you know I didn't.
Speaker 1: His name never came up, So that was weird. That
Speaker 1: was awkward. You know who else used to listen to
Speaker 1: sports radio? Bill Belichick? How about that Bill Belichick? When
Speaker 1: he was insistent for parcels with the Jets, he'd get
Speaker 1: up early to go to the Jets facility, and he
Speaker 1: became a listener to Joe Boningo, who was doing the
Speaker 1: overnights at w f A N. And I met Joe
Speaker 1: years ago at a Mets game in New York, and
Speaker 1: Joe told me the whole story like they became pen pals,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and his overnight guy because Belichick listened to
Speaker 1: him on the way to the silly and they became friends.
Speaker 1: And they're still friends. They still they still talk to
Speaker 1: each other. From what I understand lest I heard, that's
Speaker 1: pretty wild. Yeah. Who else do we have here? Let's
Speaker 1: see page down John the jailer, Allantown, Pa, Ben and Gyascott.
Speaker 1: If you win a lottery jackpot, would you take the
Speaker 1: lumps some or the annuity payments? You want to go
Speaker 1: first on this guest? Yeah, I gotta go to lumps some.
Speaker 1: There's nothing. Nothing's promised. Tomorrow is not promised. Does it?
Speaker 1: Does it transfer to your family if you if you
Speaker 1: take the annuity if you die, does it go to
Speaker 1: your loved ones? That's a good question. I don't know,
Speaker 1: unless maybe if you set it up in a trust.
Speaker 1: But oh that's good. Yeah, the trust is Did you
Speaker 1: have a trust? I don't. My trust is the way
Speaker 1: to go. We talked about doing it, but we've we've
Speaker 1: not We've not done it. That's the way. Then you
Speaker 1: can have a trust fund man. That'd be big. Protect
Speaker 1: the assets man. The way to do it doesn't cost
Speaker 1: that much act I haven't done I have talked about
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get burned by that. I haven't done it.
Speaker 1: But I should do it, would do it? Uh So
Speaker 1: I think you take the one time cash payout unless
Speaker 1: you're in really good health and you're planning on being
Speaker 1: in the house and not leaving the house and taking
Speaker 1: any chances and making I'd be so paranoid. But I
Speaker 1: gotta you know, I can't. I gotta stay alive. I
Speaker 1: gotta you know, I gotta make all this money. And
Speaker 1: but I think money in hand, right, don't they say?
Speaker 1: Financial people say take the money because money today, the
Speaker 1: value of money goes down year by year. So the
Speaker 1: value of your winnings will if you take the full amount,
Speaker 1: will actually be less than taking the lump some payoff, right. Yeah. Plus,
Speaker 1: I mean you could put that money. You could take
Speaker 1: all that money in one lump some buy stock and
Speaker 1: diversify your portfolio real estate, stock, mutual funds. I want
Speaker 1: you to know, I just got a message I get
Speaker 1: on my app here that I got a dividend fourteen
Speaker 1: cents fourteen cent dividend from Boom from one of the
Speaker 1: mutual funds that I invested in. What do you what
Speaker 1: do you? What do you? What? Are you mocking me?
Speaker 1: I'm not. I feel like you are. I feel like
Speaker 1: you are a fourteen cents It's fine. I guess well,
Speaker 1: it's I don't have a big position on that stock.
Speaker 1: I don't how's your how's your position? And Apple? And Tesla?
Speaker 1: Do you want me to let me look here? Hold?
Speaker 1: It's like as the markets are closed on the weekend. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna check as as what it was,
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, you know, let me see here. I'm
Speaker 1: actually yeah, I'm ahead on Apple. I'm ahead on it.
Speaker 1: It went down. It's kind of stabilized though. There was
Speaker 1: that big spike after the split, which my guy, I
Speaker 1: told you, one of my financial guys, said, you gotta
Speaker 1: sell it. You buy it before the split and then
Speaker 1: you sell it after, and a lot of people did that.
Speaker 1: But it's still Apples a good company. It's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why. That's why I had to send out a
Speaker 1: personal letter to one of the fans. I'm a pilot
Speaker 1: because the airline industry just getting decimated over the last
Speaker 1: couple of days with with layoffs and furloughs and potentially
Speaker 1: Moren's you're the one that's saying to buy airline stock
Speaker 1: because it's gonna bounce back, And isn't that you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying these for long plays, not for a
Speaker 1: short term. Well yeah, and I did make I invested
Speaker 1: in some gambling companies. One of the ones I invested
Speaker 1: in hostile take it William Hill. Did you see that
Speaker 1: William Hill? Caesar's. Caesar's is gonna apparently buy William Hill.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I read that online. That's a good that's
Speaker 1: a good play. Right. I didn't plan on that. I
Speaker 1: didn't plan on that, but I have a pretty big
Speaker 1: position on William Hill. And uh if Caesar's is worth
Speaker 1: more than much more than William Hill, right, yes, hold on,
Speaker 1: see let me type in that's a good job. I see.
Speaker 1: I I looked at draft Kings and oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's like way more so. How does it work? Does
Speaker 1: it immediately just become Caesar's or does it get I
Speaker 1: think they send out um, I think they well for
Speaker 1: the employees, you mean it for you? For me? I
Speaker 1: don't care about the employees. I care about me. That's
Speaker 1: a good question. Yeah, Caesar's to buy William Hill for
Speaker 1: three point seven billion, good Wow, three point seven billion
Speaker 1: US casino operators. Caesar's Entertainment agreed back on Wednesday to
Speaker 1: buy the British based gaming group William Hill. Wow. Now
Speaker 1: what do they do though in Vegas? Because some of
Speaker 1: the hotels that don't have their own sports book used
Speaker 1: the William Hill and they're not Caesar's properties. So what
Speaker 1: are they gonna do? I wonder if they're gonna use
Speaker 1: the William Hill brand. It'd be interesting. See. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the big news. I haven't heard you'd be this
Speaker 1: excited about that something like this a long time. Wow?
Speaker 1: Why because I usually when I I I bought the
Speaker 1: weed stocks that blind Scott gave me, and let me
Speaker 1: let me check what the value of that is. Right now,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, he's hold on a second page,
Speaker 1: down page. Yeah. It uh was originally about fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: of share. It's now less than five. It's less than five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, blind Scott. Never take financial advice from a
Speaker 1: blind guy. There you go, don't don't do it. I'm
Speaker 1: more questions, more questions. Eric in Binghamton, right Sin says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: being that you work in l A, how often do
Speaker 1: you see people that have been butchered by plastic surgery.
Speaker 1: I find them terrifying. Also, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: enhancing one's self? All right, Eric, So, first of all, yes,
Speaker 1: I obviously I have seen a lot. I live east
Speaker 1: of the farm. Most of these people live west of
Speaker 1: the four or five, So guest Scout is just surrounded
Speaker 1: by them, the beach bunnies that need that it will
Speaker 1: talk and pinsion, you know all that. So you've about that,
Speaker 1: and uh, it is it's very weird. Especially I feel
Speaker 1: bad for the women that get so much botox they
Speaker 1: can no longer smile, you know, like the it's just
Speaker 1: and their their forehead looks all puffy and it's just
Speaker 1: it's bad. It's bad. But as far as like enhancement,
Speaker 1: my theory has always been that if it's an operation
Speaker 1: that's too far, I feels like a pill or something
Speaker 1: like that. Can you know, we sell a lot of
Speaker 1: those pills, those blue pills on the radio. That's fine,
Speaker 1: But if you have to go and have an operation,
Speaker 1: like every time you go under anesthesia, there's a chance
Speaker 1: you're not coming back, so try to limit that, all right?
Speaker 1: Is that sound advice? Guess? Is that that's great advice?
Speaker 1: I went, I had to go visit a friend for
Speaker 1: some prescription medicine the other day. And she works at
Speaker 1: a prestigious hospital here in Los Angeles, and she was
Speaker 1: talking to uh, an account representative that was looking to,
Speaker 1: you know, set up a partnership with you know, pharmaceutical
Speaker 1: sales and stuff like that. And this woman had glasses on,
Speaker 1: but I thought she had gotten in a fight. And
Speaker 1: so when she introduced herself, we were about six to
Speaker 1: ten ft away from each other and we had a
Speaker 1: casual conversation. She went off and I was talking to
Speaker 1: my friend. I said, what was what was wrong with her?
Speaker 1: Like it looked like she got him a fight. She said, yeah,
Speaker 1: she had something wrong with her botox surgery two days ago.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, she's she's keeping everyone at arms length distance. Yeah, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna get old. I know, vanity is a
Speaker 1: tenant of human nature, and we all want to look
Speaker 1: good and you look good, you feel good and all
Speaker 1: that ship. But we're all gonna get old. And you know,
Speaker 1: I wish I had more hair, but it went away.
Speaker 1: Nothing I could do. It's blame my parents and my
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, who decides what who you're what what
Speaker 1: hair you have is your mom's dad mom's. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I should blame my my uncle from Springfield, Mass or
Speaker 1: my uncle my grandfather from spring Old, Mass and blame him.
Speaker 1: And at least he gave me some Yiddish I can
Speaker 1: say on the radio. So that's where I learned my
Speaker 1: Yiddish from my grandfather who apparently didn't have hair. And
Speaker 1: now that I think about it, he always had a
Speaker 1: hat on when I was a kid, so he Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's amazing how much work people do out here.
Speaker 1: In my next life, I want to be a plastic
Speaker 1: surgeon because these dudes are making money hand over fist.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And l A town like l A, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. And in l A Miami, New York, who
Speaker 1: everyone's so vain, the starlets are vain. True. Would you
Speaker 1: ever consider doing botox? No? I don't. I'm ugly anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't need botox. Do you know the six Characteristics
Speaker 1: of Human nature? Based This is a study that was
Speaker 1: done a few years ago. This is based on a
Speaker 1: study of human action. The six characteristics of human nature?
Speaker 1: You want to go six to one or one to six,
Speaker 1: six to one, six to one, vanity? Right? We according
Speaker 1: to this that we all consider ourselves superior to others
Speaker 1: in many ways in terms of intelligence, personality, appearance, wealth,
Speaker 1: and so on. So we're vain, all right. Number five
Speaker 1: is ignorance. That is the fact that we make decisions
Speaker 1: based on incomplete information. We don't know everything on a subject,
Speaker 1: for example politics, people make opinions based on ignorance. They
Speaker 1: don't have all of the information, but they they have
Speaker 1: a team and you know, get the point, all right.
Speaker 1: Number four self interests. We primarily act from our point
Speaker 1: of view, selfishness, self centered. It's a part of the
Speaker 1: survival mechanism. Right, you have to act for yourself, inshies,
Speaker 1: you have to keep yourself alive. Number three ambition. This
Speaker 1: is something you're lacking in striving to improve the quality
Speaker 1: of our lives, make things better, make make it better
Speaker 1: for your kids. Right, how often new parents say that
Speaker 1: I want the world be better for my kids. It's
Speaker 1: odd that every parent has Almost every parent who's been
Speaker 1: around has said that, and yet say how funked up
Speaker 1: the world is? I don't get. It's like politicians saying
Speaker 1: in the world's terrible, vote for me, and you know
Speaker 1: it's okay, every pole I'm gonna stop up until now.
Speaker 1: At least I'll give the Democrats credit because they don't
Speaker 1: really care about crime. They're okay with it. But for
Speaker 1: my entire life, it was like, hey, I'm gonna solve crime,
Speaker 1: you know, Republicans and Democrats. Uh, what else? We have
Speaker 1: greed agreed a large pieces of cake? Right, if you
Speaker 1: have a choice. It's like, it's like that thing with
Speaker 1: fast food restaurants. Remember people said, oh, the fast food restaurants,
Speaker 1: these supersized cups and all this is bad. So they
Speaker 1: gave healthier options. Almost no one chooses the healthier options
Speaker 1: because you want the biggest, you can get the most
Speaker 1: for your money. You want the supersized fries. You don't
Speaker 1: want the small fries. You want the large drink. Not
Speaker 1: that McDonald's had that. Remember they had the thing where
Speaker 1: you can get any sized drink for one dollar. How
Speaker 1: many people are going in there? I think the small cup.
Speaker 1: I don't want the large cup. Alright. Number one, the
Speaker 1: number one characteristic of human nature laziness. You look for
Speaker 1: the easy road out, You look for the easiest way
Speaker 1: to accomplish something. There you go, alright, moving on, let's
Speaker 1: see here, page down, page down, mark from the I e.
Speaker 1: Are the Jets the Raiders of the East, or are
Speaker 1: the Raiders the Jets of the West. Well, how about
Speaker 1: right now, Mark, you have to say the Broncos. I
Speaker 1: know that's a good cheap shot at the Raiders, but
Speaker 1: see the Broncos. Pierre from Springfield says, Ben, who did
Speaker 1: you replace on the weekday overnight shift when you switched
Speaker 1: over from the weekends. I'm becoming more and more forgetful
Speaker 1: every day. I vaguely remember Tim Ryan and George Sadano. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe let me think here, and then yeah, it
Speaker 1: was JT. I believe it was just Saddonal left he
Speaker 1: got some TV job somewhere, and then Ryan had been gone.
Speaker 1: I think JT was doing it. And then I got replaced.
Speaker 1: You know who replaced me? When I got let going
Speaker 1: on nine No. A taped the Sports Soup A tape show, Yeah,
Speaker 1: tape show overnight, which was just highlights of the day
Speaker 1: that they edited together, the Sports Soup. I got replaced
Speaker 1: by tape. Yeah. Embarrassing. I don't thoughtful, Mike writes in
Speaker 1: He says, why is it, Ben? And that every team
Speaker 1: you like chokes on the big one. That's bull crap. Thoughtful, Mike,
Speaker 1: that's not true. That is not true. Carlos and Houston,
Speaker 1: How long did it take you to get into radio
Speaker 1: as a weekday guy? Uh? Surprisingly not long. I worked
Speaker 1: in San Diego at the mighty six ninety in the
Speaker 1: early nineties. I was a reporter for three and a
Speaker 1: half year. I started as an engineer board op, did
Speaker 1: a little produce, see not much, mostly on the field
Speaker 1: as a reporter, and then they opened a station in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I got transferred to the l A station
Speaker 1: from San Diego, and it was within four years. Within
Speaker 1: four years, I got my first hosting hosting year. I
Speaker 1: just start on the weekends and then I got a
Speaker 1: weekday show by like year five. I don't think I
Speaker 1: actually was actually sooner than that. I think it was
Speaker 1: like year It was the end of year three, year three,
Speaker 1: just before year four. Valls fan, Jimmy Vaalster, I help
Speaker 1: you feel better, Valls fan, Jimmy send an email. He's
Speaker 1: having all kinds of some issues there in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: He says, who would you rather see won a championship?
Speaker 1: At first? The ass Strows or the Lakers? Pick one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no good answer. There's no good outcome here.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, would you rather be taken out and
Speaker 1: burned alive or would you rather be taken out at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the ocean and had not have enough
Speaker 1: air to breathe? Uh, the outcome is gonna be the same.
Speaker 1: The outcome is gonna be saying. Now, I will tell
Speaker 1: you that I'm surrounded by many more annoying Laker historians,
Speaker 1: but I'm two out the NBA. Now, I'm not really
Speaker 1: into that. I moved its baseball. I'm in the baseball playoffs.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's watching these NBA finals games, so
Speaker 1: at least no one will see them if they if
Speaker 1: the Lakers do end up winning the title. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: see who else? Do we have your page down? Keith
Speaker 1: and Norkhaw says, if the two of you would agree,
Speaker 1: would you be open to a the two would agree,
Speaker 1: would be open to a verbal octagon? Trump and Biden
Speaker 1: say yes. If if President Trump, who we know he
Speaker 1: has the hotline because he calls Clay Travis all the time.
Speaker 1: If Trump and Biden I want to come on the show,
Speaker 1: We'd love to put him on. No Sleepy Joe versus
Speaker 1: the Donald How great would that be? Be tremendous? Let
Speaker 1: him go at it, And unlike the moderator of the
Speaker 1: debate last week, I'll gloves off go at it that.
Speaker 1: That's the last round of the verbal octagon. You're both
Speaker 1: in there. It's a steelcage deathmat. So steel catch deathmatch.
Speaker 1: Bobby from mend in Michigan rights and he says, Ben,
Speaker 1: can you openly admit that Donald Trump is the reason
Speaker 1: for the Big Ten playing football this year? Uh? Sort
Speaker 1: of follow up here, he says, what do you think
Speaker 1: was more of a disaster the debate the other night
Speaker 1: or the Clippers season? Asking for a friend, he says
Speaker 1: he loved Vinny del Negro. Uh. So he asked a
Speaker 1: lot of things. First of all, I didn't think the
Speaker 1: debate was horrible. I love how people get all worked up.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't like that debate. That debate was fine.
Speaker 1: He went back and forth. They were talking over each other.
Speaker 1: It was not the worst thing in the world. People
Speaker 1: are making seem like it's the worst thing, or it's
Speaker 1: just another thing to complain about. People love to complain. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the Clippers was a bigger disaster by far. It
Speaker 1: was ridiculous and did Donald Trump? Is he responsible for
Speaker 1: the Big Tent? No, Uh, he's not. He's not the
Speaker 1: reason the Big tents, but he helped. But the reason
Speaker 1: the Big Ten's playing is because of money, because they
Speaker 1: looked at how much they were gonna lose with their
Speaker 1: television partners, and TV is really the one calling the
Speaker 1: shots on this, don't kid yourself. And plus they realized
Speaker 1: how small the Big Ten would look when you look
Speaker 1: at the Southeastern Conference playing and the a c C playing,
Speaker 1: and the Big Ten likes to think of themselves on
Speaker 1: that level as the SEC. They're not, but it would
Speaker 1: have been really a disaster if they had not been
Speaker 1: able to pull off the season there. So who else
Speaker 1: do we have here? See page down, Page down? Can't
Speaker 1: read that one? On the air, Christian with Cocota, Iowa,
Speaker 1: which is near Dubuque, Iowa. How is the Penny cam
Speaker 1: coming along? If the Penny could talk, it would be disappointed?
Speaker 1: It is the co host of Penny versus the Penny
Speaker 1: and get zero camera time. I think the Penny doesn't exist,
Speaker 1: just a sound effect proved me wrong. Well, guess gun,
Speaker 1: this is up to you here. Why do we not
Speaker 1: have the Penny? Well? As you know, Ben, you can't
Speaker 1: prove uh, you can't prove something false. You can't prove
Speaker 1: a negative to be to be inaccurate. So we don't
Speaker 1: have well, you have so many cameras, and the cameras
Speaker 1: are focused on you myself, and that's about it. So
Speaker 1: I think what you should say, gass On here is
Speaker 1: you should admit that really what this is about is
Speaker 1: any camera time the penny got would be less camera
Speaker 1: time for you. Well, be less camera time for both
Speaker 1: of us. So I don't care. I don't like being
Speaker 1: on camera. I'm in radio. I went to radio for
Speaker 1: a reason. I do not like being You just started
Speaker 1: bragging about your fucking mic flag banner because it covers
Speaker 1: up dummy my face. It's you can see less of
Speaker 1: me because I put the mic right in front of
Speaker 1: my fat face when I'm talking. You have a giant head.
Speaker 1: Nothing's covering that thing up that's coming up part of
Speaker 1: my head coming up like part of my nose or
Speaker 1: whatever your neck. That mic flight's good looking in it's good.
Speaker 1: That's a sharp mic flag. It's alright, that is a
Speaker 1: good looking fucking mike. FLO have to overplay this solid pops.
Speaker 1: It's got the wild Factor, it's got the razmatasks, it's
Speaker 1: got it. It's got too much wide in it, Chris
Speaker 1: and the Cocoa, Iowa writes, and he says, this is
Speaker 1: another question from Chris. Would you accept porn hub as
Speaker 1: a sponsor if the price was right for the penny bit?
Speaker 1: Of course, guest Scott, we would not turn down porn hub,
Speaker 1: would we know? No, we'd love porn hubs. One thing
Speaker 1: about porn and men and women both. You know, women
Speaker 1: like to pretend like they don't look at the I
Speaker 1: think they look at it too. I think everyone's occasionally
Speaker 1: might not watch a lot, maybe you only watch it occasionally,
Speaker 1: but everyone's checking that stuff out, the views on those websites.
Speaker 1: Remember I used to know a guy that ran part
Speaker 1: of ESPN's website, and he was, Hey, you know, we're
Speaker 1: very popular, but we're not porn popular. You know, It's
Speaker 1: like that's a different level. That is a different level
Speaker 1: of popularity. Pierre from Springfield, Right, Since this is what
Speaker 1: happened to the guig Fox Sports Radio Studios, please tell
Speaker 1: us that Geico was triggered by Real Talks Live commercial
Speaker 1: read prior to asking you his salacious spider Man question. Uh, no, Pierre, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I mean Geico is still a big advertiser. I just
Speaker 1: recorded some Geicoqueen commercials for Geico which will be playing
Speaker 1: and probably are playing right now on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: But no, I mean we've added Farmers al right, first
Speaker 1: a word from Farmers. We've added that as a sponsor,
Speaker 1: and so the sponsors move around. And the one thing
Speaker 1: about the advertising game is that companies will buy spots
Speaker 1: for a certain period of time and then their ad
Speaker 1: budget changes and they'll stop, and then they won't pay
Speaker 1: for the ads, so we don't do the ads. And
Speaker 1: for example, like Sleep Number, a Sleep Number big advertiser.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're not to my knowledge, I don't think
Speaker 1: that they've ad add by right now, but they'll be
Speaker 1: back and then we'll be able to do Sleep Number
Speaker 1: commercials and all that. So it's cyclical, right, cyclical? Isn't
Speaker 1: that how that go? Cyclical? Seasonal? Seasonal? There you go
Speaker 1: seasonal exactly. I think that's good for the mail. But
Speaker 1: I want to do a few of these these wonderful
Speaker 1: pop quiz questions. Sure, all right, Uh, these are questions
Speaker 1: I find scouring the internet. I will ask as gun.
Speaker 1: Now I will also ask you and see if you
Speaker 1: get it right, you can play along with the bit alright.
Speaker 1: So on average, Americans eat a hundred and sixty pounds
Speaker 1: of this every year. French fries. That's a good guess.
Speaker 1: But no, oh what pizza? No peanuts. It is a
Speaker 1: renewable resource. Um, renewable resource, well kind of, it's a commodity.
Speaker 1: Oh you're you're drowning a corn? Oh corn, that's whack
Speaker 1: corns and everything. Though, my mom that she rest in
Speaker 1: peace at a corn allergy she picked up later in
Speaker 1: her life. What a pain in the ass. Everything's got
Speaker 1: corn in it. Everything. She couldn't even eat a little
Speaker 1: piece of corn without being, you know, having a reaction.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. She didn't have it until she got older though,
Speaker 1: so it's weird. It's like, how do you not pick
Speaker 1: that up earlier? You know? So if you have it anyway.
Speaker 1: A new report says the average child does this roughly
Speaker 1: six times every single day. What is it a child?
Speaker 1: A child pick their nose. Now, if you're a nose picker,
Speaker 1: you're doing it more than six times a day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a nose picker. I love picking my nose.
Speaker 1: Are you still a nose picker. No, no, not. I
Speaker 1: bite my fingers though, my fingernails. You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: do that. It's not supposed to be finger looking good.
Speaker 1: But I do it. I'm a rebel in the age
Speaker 1: of Corona. I still bite my fingernails. Do you a
Speaker 1: nervous wreck? Do you bite your fingernails after you visit
Speaker 1: the park? No? I try not to, not trying to
Speaker 1: wait what it paid off? Say I'm bored six times
Speaker 1: they kiss I'm bored. The crime of the century for
Speaker 1: a child to be bored. Can't be bored. Despite all
Speaker 1: the TV ads and there have been tough and radio ads,
Speaker 1: fewer than ten percent of households have tried this service.
Speaker 1: Oh um, this has been a big advertiser for us
Speaker 1: over the years. Not now, but it's been a lot
Speaker 1: of that. There was a lot of money that came
Speaker 1: into this, this business startup money, right, gambling? No, those
Speaker 1: meal kits, oh yeah, I remember that. Hey, all the
Speaker 1: food you have to make it yourself and it will
Speaker 1: give you instructions. They're healthy meals, and yeah, I did
Speaker 1: that for a while. There's a couple of spots near
Speaker 1: our work that would do that mill prep. They were great,
Speaker 1: but they went out of business. Oh yeah, because not
Speaker 1: enough people did it. Yeah, that's the problem. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is people often like to portion size. They
Speaker 1: want their own, They want to decide what they want
Speaker 1: to eat, you know what I mean. They want to
Speaker 1: all right. The first location of this now national popular
Speaker 1: casual food chain was originally called Open Kettle. Oh fuck,
Speaker 1: um it is not. Oh fuck you want the location, No,
Speaker 1: I want the name of what it is now originally
Speaker 1: called Open Kettle, but it's now known by a different name,
Speaker 1: and name has been known for for years with Denny's
Speaker 1: No Duncan Donuts. Duncan a staple on the News Coast Boston,
Speaker 1: every other corner in parts of Boston, Duncan Dun't. I
Speaker 1: wonder how many are actually inside Logan Airport Duncan Donuts.
Speaker 1: Like you know in l A. There's Starbucks everywhere Duncan Donuts,
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of Starbucks in Boston last time
Speaker 1: I was there. But the Duncan Donuts, my godwhere It's insanity.
Speaker 1: Before before Hurricane, the two top selling items at Walmart
Speaker 1: traditionally have been beer and this snack, the snack um
Speaker 1: beef jerky, little beef jerkey is it beef jerky pop tarts?
Speaker 1: Beer and pop pop tarts make sense two reasons. Number one,
Speaker 1: they're cheap. Number two, you can eat it whether it's
Speaker 1: cold or whether it's warm. The problem is, though, with
Speaker 1: pop tarts, is there's only two in a packet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you buy boxes of them, Yeah, but what is the
Speaker 1: boxes only hold six? Right'll go to buy a case
Speaker 1: at wom I don't know by as many as you want.
Speaker 1: But it's a good food because you can. It's it's
Speaker 1: ready made, it's got sugar all over, it's covered in sugar.
Speaker 1: I used to love pop tarts. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: was a pop tart guy. Pop tarts is still good.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a pop tart in years. I used
Speaker 1: to love him. I haven't had. That was my breakfast
Speaker 1: pop and my mom got me off the I used
Speaker 1: to eat the cereal which was like little chocolate chip
Speaker 1: cookies in the in the bowl. And then I had
Speaker 1: the one that was just little cinnamon rolls in the
Speaker 1: bowl and I love those. And then eventually I moved
Speaker 1: over to pop tarts. All right, pop quiz will do
Speaker 1: a couple more. A new survey says that people have
Speaker 1: a habit of doing this before taking a bite of
Speaker 1: their food. What do they do? Coffer sneeze? No, they
Speaker 1: salt the food. I'm not a salter. Are you a salter? No?
Speaker 1: I used to be with French fries. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: do that, but not anymore. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm good.
Speaker 1: Actually I put salt on steak back in the day.
Speaker 1: It's not good for you, the sodium. Yeah, well salt.
Speaker 1: You can put salt on a steak. You put sugar
Speaker 1: on a steak? No, no, no, little sugar on the
Speaker 1: I think that that's a will pop to it. My, my, my,
Speaker 1: really fat days. I would marinate chicken breasts with karyaki
Speaker 1: sauce and salt the funk out of it. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the taryaki steak is pretty good. They I get occasionally
Speaker 1: go out to the restaurant. All right. This eighties movie
Speaker 1: theme was a one hit wonder for its composer, who
Speaker 1: never had another song in the top one hundred mm
Speaker 1: hmm making eighties movies. This hit, Oh man, do do
Speaker 1: do do do do do do do Do Do Do
Speaker 1: Do do do doo to drive No, it was Chariots
Speaker 1: of Fire. Remember the song from Chariots of Fire. Evangelists
Speaker 1: only watched that movie. Want you don't need to watch
Speaker 1: it again. It's like, it's not gonna change. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna change. Several countries host national championships for how far
Speaker 1: someone can throw this common item that you likely have
Speaker 1: right now on your possession. Ah, shoe, no cell phone?
Speaker 1: How far can you throw a phone? Of women and
Speaker 1: about a third of dudes bring this with them when
Speaker 1: they travel, gems, god, uh no, a pillow. It's always weird.
Speaker 1: I remember traveling a lot, going at airports. You're sitting
Speaker 1: at O'Hare airport, right, you're waiting to change planes, and
Speaker 1: you see this like these usually like teenagers walking through
Speaker 1: and they're holding pillows. So dramatic, right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What are you telling you know they have pillows at
Speaker 1: these hotels you stay. It's amazing shocking. I need a
Speaker 1: pillow to sleep at my airport. Yeah, well exactly, because
Speaker 1: not only they need it on the plane, but then
Speaker 1: then you know they're taking it wherever they're going and
Speaker 1: they're gonna alright. Of men only do this on the weekends,
Speaker 1: watch their car, call their mom. Oh, how often you
Speaker 1: talk to Mama Gasco. I talked to her almost every
Speaker 1: other day. Yeah, I was in every day. I'm a
Speaker 1: mom's boy. I wish I could call my mom. I
Speaker 1: would talk about them every single day. I loved it.
Speaker 1: But I know weekend stuff. But that's how I roll.
Speaker 1: I'm a better person, guess clearly. Oh what else do
Speaker 1: we have? All Right? Guys say that this is one
Speaker 1: of their fondest memories growing up. What is it? Going
Speaker 1: their first athletic event? No shaving, shaving for the first time. No, no, ship.
Speaker 1: That's like a sign of manhood. That's like a rite
Speaker 1: of passage. That's like, hey, I'm a man, I know
Speaker 1: how to shave. Now that's a big deal. No, not one.
Speaker 1: Let's all cracked out to me. Let me tell you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because then you realize, for the rest of your fucking life,
Speaker 1: you gotta deal with that. And you gotta buy razor
Speaker 1: blades that cost twenty five dollars a pack and they
Speaker 1: give you like four of them. Yeah that's a scam. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I give the razor blade community credit because what they
Speaker 1: have done is they've modeled it after the the cell phone. Right.
Speaker 1: The key to business is to get monthly payments, and
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of these these razor companies like hey,
Speaker 1: you know spend pay us. You know, ten dollars a month,
Speaker 1: will send you razors every month, dollar shaped club. The
Speaker 1: razors cost about anything to make those razors like two bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: straight profit man. Good for them, Good for them. It
Speaker 1: is convenient getting that stuff sent to your house and
Speaker 1: not having to go to the store and buy them.
Speaker 1: Of men, I think this makes them more attractive, but
Speaker 1: only of women agree. What is it cologne? No, this
Speaker 1: is something you actually have Gascon muscles. You don't have that.
Speaker 1: An ear ring. You don't like to talk about that.
Speaker 1: I know you take it off when you get photo.
Speaker 1: But Gascon has an earring. He has a pirate hearring.
Speaker 1: What was it like late eighties orly nineties, There was
Speaker 1: like that phase where guys would get ear rings. T
Speaker 1: O right, remember t O was a big guy, had
Speaker 1: the t O earring thing going like Patrick Dempsey do
Speaker 1: that and license to drive? An ear ring? Is either
Speaker 1: one to blame is who started that? Somebody had to
Speaker 1: start that. Michael Jackson, I don't know. Almost one in
Speaker 1: four men refused to day they one and if she
Speaker 1: has a blank if she had as she has a kid.
Speaker 1: Uh no, it's probably higher than that. For that, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I'd go the actual actually answer is twin sister. Oh wow, wow,
Speaker 1: what a four? Yeah, why would that be? I don't
Speaker 1: know that I would because of the switch you would want.
Speaker 1: I'll see you perverted though your your mind why you
Speaker 1: would want a twin sister is different than the mind
Speaker 1: of the the guys like these guys are probably like
Speaker 1: oh no, because it's because you don't know if you
Speaker 1: have the good twin or the bad twin, right, it
Speaker 1: isn't usually when you have twins ones the good one
Speaker 1: ones the bad one. But if it doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: then defer to the other one. I'm sure. Sure, little
Speaker 1: they go on. I wonder if that's like the same
Speaker 1: way with women like the Morris brothers in the end,
Speaker 1: remember the Morrise guys would try to look exactly like
Speaker 1: each other. They have the same tattoos, Markieff and Marcus Morris,
Speaker 1: who both ended up playing in l A. All right,
Speaker 1: I think that's good. Guess you got places to go
Speaker 1: and things to do and things like that. Yes, all right,
Speaker 1: very good. Well, thank you all again for supporting the
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Speaker 1: it's it smells just like a decomposing corpse. The fifth hour,
Speaker 1: what was what I was referring to was your your
Speaker 1: backdrop and the the nice couches and tables that you
Speaker 1: have in your in your living room that you do
Speaker 1: this from. Well you know, as you know, guess Scott,
Speaker 1: I I can change that up from from week to week,
Speaker 1: so you never know what we'll pop up on that.
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