Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought more hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, 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 clearing house of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now that it does as we are
Speaker 1: back at it in the Magic Podcast Box, not to
Speaker 1: be confused with the Magic Radio Box, as it is
Speaker 1: a yet another edition of the Fifth Hours. You know
Speaker 1: by now because you're listening live. You can hear the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour wherever you get podcasts. It's available there. And
Speaker 1: we point out every week that the reason we do
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour is because four hours are not enough,
Speaker 1: but really it's just because management wants us to do
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller and the most
Speaker 1: popular man in the mallarw Militia these days, David Gascon.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you a guest on more people want
Speaker 1: to talk about your narcissistic ways than anything else. It
Speaker 1: is overwhelming. The questions I get about you and when
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fire your ass are fascinating. You can't fire
Speaker 1: somebody that's not getting paid. Well, you got some knee
Speaker 1: deep losers amongst the mallarw militia. You got some winners,
Speaker 1: you got some overachievers, and then you've got some bona fide.
Speaker 1: The word plankton plankton, Yeah, that's that's the word. That's
Speaker 1: a wonderful word if we can use that. Well, at
Speaker 1: least you finally figured out that I sound louder than you.
Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. That's a good thing. I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be louder than you. When I used to
Speaker 1: be an intern for Lee hack Saw Hamilton's in San Diego,
Speaker 1: and Hacksaw would take a lot of phone calls. He
Speaker 1: was the afternoon drive star, and they had a piece
Speaker 1: of equipment which is one of the great pieces of
Speaker 1: equipment all the time. We don't have it at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, where he would get into these fights with
Speaker 1: like a Raider fan or something like that. Right, they
Speaker 1: get into screaming matches, and hack Saw had at the
Speaker 1: old mighty six ninety he had like a gas pedal
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and if he really got into it
Speaker 1: and really got heated in in a conversation with the
Speaker 1: other caller. He would press his foot on the gas
Speaker 1: pedal and it would lower the volume of the caller
Speaker 1: so he could always scream over the call. It was
Speaker 1: a little magic trick that they had, and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was great, and uh, we don't have that. Like,
Speaker 1: all we can do when we get into a fight
Speaker 1: with a caller is I can like put him on hold.
Speaker 1: That that's about it, Because why I would need the
Speaker 1: engineer to be paying attention, which usually doesn't happen. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. So a good engineer will know, hey, let
Speaker 1: me fade this guy down a little bit, so, but
Speaker 1: that usually doesn't happen, and so I just kind of
Speaker 1: go with it. And that's that's how that worked. Well,
Speaker 1: fair enough, Why I would appreciate some of the positive
Speaker 1: tweets and messages that you get regarding me, all right,
Speaker 1: when I get them, I will put them on the ear.
Speaker 1: So far, I'm going page down here, page down, page down.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of he's irresponsible, h he's all responsible.
Speaker 1: You're the guy that showed have thirty forty minutes late
Speaker 1: to your own fucking podcast. No, no, no, forty five
Speaker 1: minutes late to your own podcast. Anything else? To do today,
Speaker 1: and I had to sit and wait for you for
Speaker 1: four We have nothing else going on. Let me let
Speaker 1: me tell you, Mr deep thinker over there. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: the podcast starts when Mallar shows up. Yeah, okay. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you would have done the podcast already and said, well,
Speaker 1: you're late. I'm just gonna start without you. But you
Speaker 1: didn't do that. You could have started without me and
Speaker 1: done the first thirty minutes and then I could have
Speaker 1: come in here and done the rest of it. But
Speaker 1: you had no contingency plan. That's a bad job by you.
Speaker 1: That shows you that the listeners are right here, that
Speaker 1: you were your responsible is a good A good podcaster says,
Speaker 1: all right, disaster preparedness, I am ready. Well, a ship
Speaker 1: does not set sail without its captain. So, uh so
Speaker 1: you're admitting I'm the captain. Well that's good. Finally, that's
Speaker 1: a baby step. You're admitting now that I am al capitan,
Speaker 1: and thank you for that. Well, we gotta give you
Speaker 1: at least some kind of accolades for the job not
Speaker 1: well done today. That's a fine job. It's a marvelous job.
Speaker 1: And I think I should win a purple heart because
Speaker 1: I've been ill all week and here I last week
Speaker 1: and then you come in here bitching about you gotta
Speaker 1: show some grit, you gotta show some persons. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm here, dumb, dumb. I am here doing the podcast
Speaker 1: making it sound beautiful, alright, is what I am doing here.
Speaker 1: I am putting bells and whistles on the podcast like
Speaker 1: the Houston Astros did during games. Is what I'm doing. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of bells, what do we got on the menu today?
Speaker 1: All right? We have the party planner, Sleepless in Seattle.
Speaker 1: We will also have finger food, study this, grab bad egg,
Speaker 1: and don't stick to sports stories of the week. Those
Speaker 1: are all things coming up here on this edition of
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour. That's on the menu. So we'll start
Speaker 1: with the party planning this big weekend. As you listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast, depending on when you listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: the idiocy, the ludicrousness will be taking place. It is
Speaker 1: going to be quite the hooting nanny. This weekend is
Speaker 1: the weekend of the annual Mallard Ugly Sweater Party, a
Speaker 1: much talked about event among the Mallard militia uh and
Speaker 1: it is created a mythical kind of cloud around this
Speaker 1: event with many former colleagues of Fox Sports Radio past
Speaker 1: and my radio career in the past, showing up for
Speaker 1: debauchery and excess, and uh, it's just going to be wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's just going to be absolutely great, and uh look
Speaker 1: forward to this this this weekend, GASCA. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of a trek going
Speaker 1: from where we are out in the west side of
Speaker 1: town to Arizona. But uh, last year was fun. Before
Speaker 1: that was pretty fun as well. I'm always curious to
Speaker 1: know who the straggler is. There's always that one guy
Speaker 1: that's late to the party and then stays obnoxiously late.
Speaker 1: You've had one guy in particular, former colleague here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that usually stays until the good morning of like one
Speaker 1: or two o'clock drinking. Well, you're talking about Arty is
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. You know you're afraid to name him.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to name already. He already is a
Speaker 1: great friend of mine. I've worked with him for years,
Speaker 1: not not a long time, but I worked in local radio.
Speaker 1: We already worked at Fox Sports Radio. He's over at
Speaker 1: NBC now, but he's a good friend and uh, let
Speaker 1: me Tex the life of the party once already shows up.
Speaker 1: He now already pre games. You know you're a professional
Speaker 1: party person when you pre game. I don't pre game,
Speaker 1: I don't he pre games. Yeah, I was. I was
Speaker 1: asking the better half of you what I should bring
Speaker 1: for for a cocktail for you, but she saidn't really
Speaker 1: have a You put it eloquently, she said, you have
Speaker 1: an appetite of a teenager and you have a palette
Speaker 1: of a teenager as well. So, um, yeah, I had
Speaker 1: some ideas of what I was gonna bring, and now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I guess regress back to something. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a simple man. I try to tell you that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a man of the people. This is
Speaker 1: a difference between you me and you. You're a narcissist,
Speaker 1: all right, everyone knows that. And you're kind of pompous,
Speaker 1: an arrogant West Side of l A kind of guy.
Speaker 1: You got that at dude. I'm I'm the working class guy.
Speaker 1: I am the blue collar, lunch pale guy. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a very simple man, is what I am. And
Speaker 1: I have simple needs and wants and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But you wouldn't understand that because you're with hanging out
Speaker 1: with intellectuals and all that stuff. But i I'm a
Speaker 1: factory worker, is what I am. I'm tough, minded, gritty,
Speaker 1: overachieving h and all that that. That's what I am.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not hanging out in some cubicle somewhere. Not.
Speaker 1: That kind of sounds like you're a an employee for
Speaker 1: Nikee and those sweatshops back in Asia making shoes for
Speaker 1: Lebron James and getting paid a dollar twenty five a day. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll see that's you right there, living up to your arrogant, pompous,
Speaker 1: obnoxious reputations. What you're doing a lot, how you put it,
Speaker 1: I mean just being you know, rolling the color up
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, showing that true passion the hard
Speaker 1: hat at the lunch. You gotta get some dirt under
Speaker 1: your fingernails. You gotta do. It's very important there. Whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this party, I wouldn't give me fun.
Speaker 1: So now you, I will say, if everyone that goes
Speaker 1: to the party, you treat this more like a dating
Speaker 1: event than anything. Most people are just going there having fun.
Speaker 1: But Gascon's on the prowl when he's at this party. Man,
Speaker 1: he's looking around, he's observing. He's seeing what's available and
Speaker 1: who's interested. And he's always he's rotating. He's going three
Speaker 1: hundred sixty degrees all over the room. I'd like to
Speaker 1: call it engaged. Part of the reason for that is
Speaker 1: because most of the people that we work with staying
Speaker 1: a little buttable or they don't really talk to anyone
Speaker 1: else outside of said bubble. And your wife's friends are
Speaker 1: in the same kind of nature as well. Married, kids,
Speaker 1: bad marriage, getting divorced, separated. They just talking about their problems.
Speaker 1: So I like to kind of circulate throughout the room,
Speaker 1: worked the room a little bit, Ben mel I know
Speaker 1: you didn't do that back in the day and your
Speaker 1: twenties and thirties or even your forties. Uh. Something I'd
Speaker 1: like to do, like to beat in and out of conversations,
Speaker 1: kind of see what's going on, say hi to everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, touch everybody at one time or another, as
Speaker 1: opposed to guys like Tom Loudy, who will show up
Speaker 1: and not say goodbye to anybody as he departs into
Speaker 1: the good night. Yeah. Well, well Looney believes in the
Speaker 1: and I think this is actually right. I've tried to
Speaker 1: convince my wife of this because what Looney does, is right.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very excited to see Looney. I've not seen
Speaker 1: Louney in a long time since he got whacked by
Speaker 1: the company, and uh, I love the guy him. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what the last time I saw him though, it's
Speaker 1: but that's that's a while ago. Oh yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't we We We text all the time, but
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, in physical presence, I don't see him.
Speaker 1: So but the great thing about Looney's when he shows up,
Speaker 1: it's like bell he like, he like has red carpet
Speaker 1: rolling out, you know, in a DJ like James Harden
Speaker 1: showing up to an NBA game and uh and what's
Speaker 1: everyone to say? Looney has arrived, you know, And it's
Speaker 1: like he has the you know in those movies about
Speaker 1: the King and they have this person announcing the King's
Speaker 1: about to arrive, and that's Looney when he shows up.
Speaker 1: And then when he leaves, you're like, hey, where's Looney?
Speaker 1: Did he didn't? You know? It never says goodbye to anybody.
Speaker 1: He just he just gets out. And that's the way
Speaker 1: to do it, because like when when I go to
Speaker 1: a family functions with my wife, it's it's an extra
Speaker 1: half hour of saying goodbye to everybody at the end.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's and I don't mind
Speaker 1: saying goodbye him, but it's like you have to tick
Speaker 1: about and it's like attacks on an extra half hour
Speaker 1: where we just like slid out the back door and
Speaker 1: be like, where did they go? I don't know where
Speaker 1: they wait? No one would mind. I think that's best
Speaker 1: executed too, in correct me if I'm wrong, But I
Speaker 1: think that you can execute that to perfection at weddings
Speaker 1: and at funerals, because you never really want to say
Speaker 1: goodbye anybody at a funeral, and usually at a wedding
Speaker 1: or wedding reception, having a couple of drinks, and usually
Speaker 1: after that it's whatever you may be doing if you
Speaker 1: gotta a partner with you. So those are two legit
Speaker 1: reasons to bow out of a of a festival. Uh
Speaker 1: if I might say, as opposed to a I don't
Speaker 1: want to say it's a company party because it's not.
Speaker 1: But uh no, it's not a company party. There will
Speaker 1: be no management people there, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about that. I know you don't like management, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about running in any of them,
Speaker 1: they will not be at the particular party, and I
Speaker 1: don't know who's gonna show up and say. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things, kind of like when I go out
Speaker 1: and meet and greet people when I do these stupid
Speaker 1: little Mallardmolitia events, because we invited a bunch of people,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. Usually it's the same people to
Speaker 1: show up every year, and there's like a couple of
Speaker 1: other people that will out of curiosity show up. But
Speaker 1: we invited a few new people this year, so we'll
Speaker 1: see who shows up. Marlin's Man was invited, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: he said some health problems, so he will not be attending.
Speaker 1: I thought that would be kind of funny if me
Speaker 1: and my buddy marlins Man hung out, you know, and
Speaker 1: everyone could take pictures of him and his Marlins jersey
Speaker 1: and it would be be good. But unfortunately can't make it,
Speaker 1: so that's not gonna happen. And uh yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the biggest celebrity I think will be Lee Kleine, the
Speaker 1: Prince of Dark, who will be making his yearly sojourn
Speaker 1: to show up and make offensive jokes to as many
Speaker 1: people as you make. But you appreciate you liked it.
Speaker 1: I do. I think Coop is the only guy that
Speaker 1: kind of treads that deep end of the pool on
Speaker 1: your show with the dark side of jokes, and so
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And uh, I look forward to a
Speaker 1: lengthy conversation with Lee because the last time we got
Speaker 1: together for tacos, you kind of you kind of broke
Speaker 1: up that party as we were getting uh knee deep
Speaker 1: into some fun with his his stories and some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that you guys used to do back in
Speaker 1: the day of Yeah. Oh yeah, me and Lee Man
Speaker 1: back in the old days. We can get away with
Speaker 1: bloody murder back then in the early days of radio,
Speaker 1: well early days for me of radio. But yeah, we
Speaker 1: we had a great time. We used to hang out.
Speaker 1: You know, the Clippers were terrible in the nineties and
Speaker 1: I covered the team for the mighty six nine and
Speaker 1: we would hang out at at the sports Arena. I'd
Speaker 1: get there like four in the you know, four three
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, and after games games within about ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: we do a post game and I just hang out
Speaker 1: in the parking lot. You know, we would play football
Speaker 1: or whatever, just kind of chill out and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: living the left, go get food or whatever, living the life,
Speaker 1: bachelor life and all that for for years with a
Speaker 1: morbid uh Clipper team. But as far as the party,
Speaker 1: just to put the ball on the party. We'll have
Speaker 1: the post game show next week. That'll be the postgame show.
Speaker 1: I know. Excited about that. And it's kind of like
Speaker 1: junior high school prom because my wife invites many more
Speaker 1: people than I invite because I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: get along with very many people, so my wife invites
Speaker 1: most of her you know, French. Everyone loves my wife.
Speaker 1: So it's like junior high school prom. There's like a
Speaker 1: or a Mike Tyson fight against France botha there's an
Speaker 1: outdated reference. There's like a point of demarcation and there's
Speaker 1: like a line and you can't cross the line. Don't
Speaker 1: cross the line, as they say, and then that's usually
Speaker 1: what happens, and everyone's kind of staring at each other
Speaker 1: and yeah, so that's that's where I coming. That's why
Speaker 1: I like circulating around the room because you don't know
Speaker 1: these people, and I think it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: You know, I talk the same We should know him
Speaker 1: because you've been coming every year and harassing them, so
Speaker 1: you should know them by now. Coming twice doesn't change
Speaker 1: that much, you know, I think it a little bit older,
Speaker 1: so you want to go a little younger. It's all good.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Wow. Alright,
Speaker 1: sleepless in Seattle. We have the proverbial and uh regular
Speaker 1: I went to the word I'm looking for here. Uh
Speaker 1: the demanded Mallard Militia meet and greet update, which is
Speaker 1: coming up later in December. This podcast is for super
Speaker 1: fans of the show, the top one percent of the
Speaker 1: Mallard Militias of our obligatory Mallard Man March updates coming
Speaker 1: at the end of December. Now, this is really for
Speaker 1: our guys in in Seattle, in the Seattle area, but
Speaker 1: it really could be anybody. People have been emailing me
Speaker 1: from Vancouver and uh, there's one guy has been listening
Speaker 1: for years in Vancouver who's thinking about driving down if
Speaker 1: you're anywhere in Washington State, if you you know, I
Speaker 1: don't recommend driving far, but some people said that they're
Speaker 1: thinking about making a weekend out of it and coming
Speaker 1: and hanging out in Seattle. I don't know how entertaining
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be, but it'd be nice to meet you
Speaker 1: if you do show up there. It's not a sanction event.
Speaker 1: This is not some event through KJR, the home of
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show in Seattle, or Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: They want nothing to do with it, so uh, and
Speaker 1: I don't blame them. So this is just me hanging
Speaker 1: out with the people, pressing the flesh, having a good time,
Speaker 1: telling stories and that kind of stuff. And we have
Speaker 1: our senior Mallard Militia Maller Man, March guy Jay Scoop,
Speaker 1: who's been working over time. He's already found a restaurant
Speaker 1: to hang out with everybody December. And I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to say the name of the restaurant yet
Speaker 1: because for for other reasons, but um, we know the name.
Speaker 1: It looks great. I looked at the menu, looks awesome.
Speaker 1: It's it's not that far away from the Seahawks Stadium there,
Speaker 1: so it's it's all everything's right next to each other
Speaker 1: there in Seattle. So it's that'll be on Saturday night
Speaker 1: about seven thirty in Seattle, me hanging out with like
Speaker 1: Jay Scoop and Christina Ed from Spokane. Maybe j J
Speaker 1: and Rent will show up, maybe Dre from Seattle will
Speaker 1: be there, and Lee from Seattle, some of the guys
Speaker 1: that have been supporting the show over the years. So
Speaker 1: we'll do that on on Saturday, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: hang out for a couple of hours, why not. And
Speaker 1: then on Sunday the twenty nine, at roughly ten thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning, guest on the Mallard Man March begins.
Speaker 1: And this is probably at least a one mile march
Speaker 1: through the rain soaked streets of Seattle, as we will
Speaker 1: lead our way with our fearless leader ed from Spokanan's bullhorn,
Speaker 1: a seeing slogans too. People to listen to the show,
Speaker 1: and we'll have signs and it's it's gonna be an
Speaker 1: amazing thing. It's it's it's really like a religious revival,
Speaker 1: is what it's going to be for the Mallary Militia.
Speaker 1: And so we're gonna march all the way down about
Speaker 1: a mile from some hotel in Seattle, all the way
Speaker 1: down to the stadium and then we'll go in and
Speaker 1: watch the game. I'm looking forward to it, especially because
Speaker 1: that game, if everything stays as is, that game could
Speaker 1: mean either a one or two seed in the NFC
Speaker 1: and of course home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's got the chance of being an awesome night.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you want more information on that,
Speaker 1: instead of contacting me, I'm gonna give you and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give out our friend Jay Scoop's information. Now you
Speaker 1: can contact me. I might or might not get back
Speaker 1: to you, but Jay Scoop says, hey, bring it on,
Speaker 1: send me messages. I'll tell everyone and he wants to
Speaker 1: show up anybody that emails me if I as questions, Uh,
Speaker 1: you can do that. It's uh Jesse j E S
Speaker 1: s E, c R e A N and that is
Speaker 1: the Twitter account at Jesse and then c R E
Speaker 1: A and Creane I believe this is the name. But
Speaker 1: you can message him and he has an email which
Speaker 1: is just Jesse dot cream at gmail dot com. And
Speaker 1: he said, hey, give that out if you want. If
Speaker 1: people want to kind of hang out, so we get
Speaker 1: an idea of how many people are planning on attending,
Speaker 1: as I think. I told Jay Scoop that I've done
Speaker 1: these things in Boston and Pittsburgh and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: in Buffalo and different random places Kansas City, and usually
Speaker 1: there's a lot more people that say they're gonna do it,
Speaker 1: and then when they actually have to show up, Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, my wife had me, I have I have
Speaker 1: someone I have to do or you know, crap happens.
Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens this week. I know we've
Speaker 1: got a number of people have already R s V pete.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun. And that's at the end
Speaker 1: of December again, December, December twenty nine, so we've got
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks roughly give or take a little
Speaker 1: less than that before this begins. Now, what are you
Speaker 1: flying up? Are you flying like Delta? You're United American?
Speaker 1: I know you're no, no, no, no no. When you
Speaker 1: fly to Seattle, you fly Alaska Airlines. That's that's the airline.
Speaker 1: That's a life hack from Jay Scoop. There. You you
Speaker 1: fly Alaskan Airlines because that is a hub of Alaskan
Speaker 1: airlines and there's tons of flights to choose from. Very
Speaker 1: bougie of you. I assume you're flying out of l
Speaker 1: A X so it's of course, yes, all right, very
Speaker 1: very bougie of you. Well, I mean that's the I'll
Speaker 1: be dry, mean seven hours to get to the airports,
Speaker 1: so and then I have to uh you know, it's
Speaker 1: a short flight from l A Seattle and then you're
Speaker 1: staying in downtown Seattle to right four star hotel. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm staying at a hotel not far from the stadium,
Speaker 1: so probably WiFi in there. Well, I'm assuming there'll be
Speaker 1: some WiFi. Mean that's remember, well you're not that you're
Speaker 1: not that savvy. But back in the old days, in
Speaker 1: the hotel game, back in the old days, they originally
Speaker 1: hotel signs to get people to stay there with say
Speaker 1: color television. Then then they shifted to HBO or cable television.
Speaker 1: Right now, a savvy hotel people don't care about television anymore.
Speaker 1: It's all about WiFi and free WiFi, right well, yeah,
Speaker 1: especially in Las Vegas, because in Las Vegas, for people
Speaker 1: that don't know, they charge you what's called a quote
Speaker 1: unquote resort fee, and it's usually anywhere from fifty dollars
Speaker 1: and that pays for the gym, which most people don't
Speaker 1: use when they go to Vegas. WiFi, the telephone, cable
Speaker 1: um and then I think housekeeping too. And then on
Speaker 1: top of that, they charge you for parking if you
Speaker 1: don't use the parking lot you drive out there. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's spots in Vegas that really jam you up. Now
Speaker 1: with that resort fee that they quote unquote use, well,
Speaker 1: they started charge. I love Vegas, but they started charging
Speaker 1: for parking. And you can blame the National Hockey League
Speaker 1: for that and that arena. When the Vegas Golden Night started,
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody that works at one of
Speaker 1: the casinos there and explained the whole thing out to
Speaker 1: me that the they were worried that, you know, to
Speaker 1: make money as a professional sports team, one of the
Speaker 1: big things you make money from his parking. And you know,
Speaker 1: in Vegas, if you want to go to the game,
Speaker 1: the arenas right behind the New York New York Hotel
Speaker 1: casino and you can just park anywhere and just walk over.
Speaker 1: You don't have to park any designated a lot for
Speaker 1: the arena. So they were very concerned about the fact
Speaker 1: that people were just gonna park at every hotel in
Speaker 1: Vegas and walk over and they didn't make no money
Speaker 1: from parking. Well, so they around the time the team started,
Speaker 1: they started putting charges at all the hotels in that
Speaker 1: area of the strip, like if you go to if
Speaker 1: you go to Old Vegas, which I like because it's
Speaker 1: that's where the degenerates really are free months pretty much
Speaker 1: parking there. There is some pay parking, but there's also
Speaker 1: some free parking, right, and so you so you got that,
Speaker 1: you got that awesome, So you got both things there.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, so that's the deal with that. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this. I want to see Christmas
Speaker 1: party will be fun. But then you go to the
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest to end the twenty nineteen football season with
Speaker 1: a Divisional round matchup with Seattle and obviously San Francisco.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm curious to
Speaker 1: how many people show up. Yeah, it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1: And I'm also fired up because of the game like this,
Speaker 1: I hope these guys don't don't funk it up. But
Speaker 1: I Seattle and in the forty nine that could be
Speaker 1: like the first playoff game, right because the winner would
Speaker 1: have a by receivably and the loser would have to
Speaker 1: start out next weekend the weekend after that on wild
Speaker 1: card weekends. So it uh, it cranks it up, It
Speaker 1: ratches it it up ratch and for all intents of purposes,
Speaker 1: that team will both teams will have at least ten
Speaker 1: wins already. San Francisco's gotta eleven. Things play out the
Speaker 1: way they are, you could go to Philadelphia or Dallas
Speaker 1: and there's no guarantee that those teams are at nine
Speaker 1: and seven. That could be eight and eight or seven
Speaker 1: and nine. Yeah, like, I mean, you should, you should
Speaker 1: be able to beat the wild card opponent. But it's
Speaker 1: every every extra game you play, you're you're putting more
Speaker 1: players at risk, and you're thinning the herd, as they say,
Speaker 1: and uh, the en dual injuries in the NFL are continuous,
Speaker 1: unrelenting and never ending. I think, right, yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific. Alright, finger Foods
Speaker 1: is next? And to go or not to go? And
Speaker 1: I received the invitation from our fine fearless leaders scotch
Speaker 1: up here. I I normally don't check my work email
Speaker 1: um because I just don't corporate email. I never check it.
Speaker 1: They have to email me to check my corporate email.
Speaker 1: In fact, I hadn't checked my email and so long
Speaker 1: my password expired, and it had been so long that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't even issue me a new There's like a
Speaker 1: website you go to to get a new password. But
Speaker 1: it had taken so long that they would not even
Speaker 1: give me a new password. So I had to email
Speaker 1: someone to get a new password. That's how long I
Speaker 1: had not logged into the company email system. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so they sent out these invitations to the holiday party,
Speaker 1: which used to be the gold standard. It was the
Speaker 1: the yardstick to all social events back in the day,
Speaker 1: the Premier Radio Networks Holiday party. Before you were around
Speaker 1: guess gun, Let me tell you something. We used to
Speaker 1: hang out at hotels in Beverly Hills and uh I
Speaker 1: remember we were we wed have it was like a
Speaker 1: black tie affair. We'd have amazing food and drinks and
Speaker 1: it was just awesome. And they'd fly in all the
Speaker 1: big Premiere radio hosts that in those days. Art Bell
Speaker 1: would be there, the legendary overnight host, uh Rush Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: dr Laura, the big radio star at that time, Matt
Speaker 1: Drudge had a show at the Premiere Networks. They flew
Speaker 1: him in and everyone just hanging out, drink and eat
Speaker 1: and be merry and get all dolled up and dressed
Speaker 1: up and sparing no expense. It was an amazing night.
Speaker 1: And uh, we can be celebrities like Bruce Willis. I
Speaker 1: remember one time we were at one of the hotels
Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills and Bruce Willis and a couple of
Speaker 1: other people, these old Hollywood stars were hanging out in
Speaker 1: the bar drinking um. And then that when we had
Speaker 1: the recession in uh like oh eight oh nine that area,
Speaker 1: I think it was oh eight. Uh that that was
Speaker 1: the end of it. Uh that was that was it.
Speaker 1: No more Galla parties and uh the balloon had popped.
Speaker 1: And that's also the time I said I'm not going
Speaker 1: to the holiday party anymore. That's it, because I have
Speaker 1: such fun memories of those parties. It's as some of
Speaker 1: the greatest social events I've been at. But I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about going this year to the Premier Radio Networks Holiday Party,
Speaker 1: which is a scaled down event. Yeah, it's a scale down.
Speaker 1: It's more like a happy hour type thing. Now it
Speaker 1: would be like the equivalent of going to a Ruth
Speaker 1: Chris or like a Mastro's. Any kind of any kind
Speaker 1: of steakhouse. And then and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you kick it all the way back and you go
Speaker 1: to out back. That's what the equivalent of this is. Well,
Speaker 1: out back is not bad, it's fine. I like the
Speaker 1: blooming onion again, compass, arrogant, elitist. I'm just comparing it
Speaker 1: so people get an idea how lavish these parties were
Speaker 1: that you went to. Yeah, they were amazing. You weren't
Speaker 1: the only one that told me about this. There were
Speaker 1: guys that would sing the praise of these holiday parties
Speaker 1: back in the day, like, oh, they were an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: You know, it was just unbelieve everyone. That was great
Speaker 1: for morale the company everyone. This is an amazing place
Speaker 1: to This is an amazing place to work, you know,
Speaker 1: with these amazing parties, and you need to meet all
Speaker 1: these big you know, you know, if you're a radio
Speaker 1: nerd like myself, to meet legends of radio. And uh,
Speaker 1: well that was by Jim Rome used to show up
Speaker 1: all the time too, that he was the big guest are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just the overall engagement right of a fellow employees
Speaker 1: that you don't necessary work with. I know, you don't
Speaker 1: taluch people on the fourth the third floor, because the
Speaker 1: hours don't permit that. So it's always nice to engage
Speaker 1: with those people that have an impact on your daily work.
Speaker 1: But now you can see exactly what they do, see
Speaker 1: them outside of their cubicle or their office and talk
Speaker 1: to him and get to know him a little bit
Speaker 1: and have a cocktailer too, and then be in your
Speaker 1: marry way. That's always nice. Like you said, it's good
Speaker 1: for company morale. Yeah, no it is, and so I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about showing up, but I don't know it's it's
Speaker 1: I gotta deal with rush hour. I mean, the positives
Speaker 1: are there's a good chance I'll get some face time
Speaker 1: with some very powerful, powerful people at the Premiere Radio
Speaker 1: Networks who are very nice, and I can I can
Speaker 1: suck up to them. Uh, they'll be free food, I'm
Speaker 1: told they'll be gifts. I like gifts. I like free food.
Speaker 1: The negatives are a very long drive in rush hour
Speaker 1: Los Angeles traffic, which I generally avoid because of the
Speaker 1: schedule that I have, and I would be as Shaquille
Speaker 1: O'Neal would say, I'd be spending my purse. I would
Speaker 1: be spending my personal time on company time, meaning those
Speaker 1: things the streams would cross. I don't know I'm saying
Speaker 1: that right, but but I'm not getting paid to attend,
Speaker 1: you know. It's just this is I choose to go,
Speaker 1: and it's uh, it's pro bono. So well, it's it's
Speaker 1: the equivalent of doing a podcast every Thursday. For it
Speaker 1: is exactly so what I It'll be a game time decision.
Speaker 1: I'm day to day on this. I'm today, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about going, you know, because it will be hot other
Speaker 1: than Popeye's grease. You know, I'm thinking about going. But
Speaker 1: but then I might decide. Now I think there's a
Speaker 1: polar vortex and I just don't want to get out
Speaker 1: of bed. Yeah, you're a very fair weather employee, colleague,
Speaker 1: depending on which were the winds blowing? What kind of moving? Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean fair weather. I don't know about that. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm loyal. I've worked at the company for twenty years.
Speaker 1: They got it rid of me. I didn't get rid
Speaker 1: of them. You know, I'm like my favorite infomercial of
Speaker 1: all time, Ron Popeil said it, and forget it, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, have me do the show, said it, forget it.
Speaker 1: I'll take no time off until December. I'll do every
Speaker 1: show I can unless they chop my gall bladder out
Speaker 1: of me and then I'll have to miss a week.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I'm good to go. I'm the
Speaker 1: showtime rotisseary of UH the radio world, right as Ron
Speaker 1: Popel said, said it and forget it. Well, you so,
Speaker 1: if you go to this company party, would you host
Speaker 1: your show at night? No? No, I would not. I
Speaker 1: would not. I would take a day. So I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about doing you forget it. All of a sudden, he's
Speaker 1: not going to host the show at night if he
Speaker 1: goes to the company party. Well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this, guest, come, but I have eleven there's
Speaker 1: eleven holiday days that I have cured over the course
Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen season. That means eleven days of
Speaker 1: me working on holidays when other people not working. UH.
Speaker 1: And I get to cash all my chips in, and
Speaker 1: I have to cash them in because if I don't
Speaker 1: cash my chips in, then I don't get to carry
Speaker 1: those over. So that would be a rookie mistake. I
Speaker 1: am not going to make a rookie mistake. You shouldn't.
Speaker 1: You would, but I'm not. No, I don't know what
Speaker 1: holidays are. I don't know what paid holidays are. I
Speaker 1: don't know what PTO is. Here we go, this is
Speaker 1: gonna get My violence is me playing the victim cars vitima,
Speaker 1: the victim. You have a persecution complex? What you have?
Speaker 1: Victim mentality? It's everyone's fall comfortable for some people. I
Speaker 1: can see this attitude. I can be times personal a
Speaker 1: year with that victim attitude, losers mentality, snowflake. Ye, the
Speaker 1: whole thing in California. Sid fits too. Yeah, you do
Speaker 1: fit in California. Everyone pitches about something and it's just
Speaker 1: it's out of control. Man. It just does not does
Speaker 1: not end well. Listen, if you go to the company party,
Speaker 1: I will be there. You are going to show up, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'll be here working. So while you are enjoying
Speaker 1: the lavish, extravagant spread of food and drink and prizes
Speaker 1: and giveaways, I'll be on the powerful Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: studio microphones. So yeah, well, maybe I'll stop buy and
Speaker 1: give you a little doggie bag of hot dogs, a
Speaker 1: little mini hot think whatever I can get it this boy.
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Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports
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Speaker 1: search f s R to listen live. I hear you.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on, and let's see what's next on
Speaker 1: the fifth hour here with Ben Mahler and guest count.
Speaker 1: Why don't we get to study this. This is where
Speaker 1: we determine is this true or is this not true?
Speaker 1: And we we try to answer really the polarizing questions
Speaker 1: that we we we will fix the time space continuum
Speaker 1: is what we're going to do with this, and we
Speaker 1: look forward to it. But we'll do study this. These
Speaker 1: are actual studies by actual people. And let's get this
Speaker 1: party started. Me just do a couple of things here
Speaker 1: over here, all right, Have you ever hurt been hurt
Speaker 1: by your phone? There's a new study out to find
Speaker 1: cell phone related injuries are on the rise. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been injured by your phone? Guess count? Never? I
Speaker 1: actually have, and uh, And I think I'm like most people.
Speaker 1: I think I'm like most people when it comes to this.
Speaker 1: And I'll explain what happens. So when I'm going to sleep,
Speaker 1: I'm usually already ready to zonk out when I'm going
Speaker 1: to sleep, right, so I'll have the phone. I'll be
Speaker 1: laying in bed and I'll have the phone in front
Speaker 1: of my face right and I will fall asleep sometimes
Speaker 1: and the phone will whack me, like right in the
Speaker 1: nose of the forehead. I consider that a phone related
Speaker 1: injury because it kind of zons me a little bit there.
Speaker 1: I don't know how else could you injure yourself with
Speaker 1: your phone other than that, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like dropping on your foot, Well, that's not gonna phone
Speaker 1: doesn't wait that much. It's not gonna hurt your foot,
Speaker 1: is it. No, But it's like anything else, like a
Speaker 1: like a bedpost or a door, like if you just
Speaker 1: walk into it on accident, you don't suspect you're gonna
Speaker 1: hit it, and it hits like a small toe or
Speaker 1: even a big tie that could be bruised, or the
Speaker 1: top of your foot just in a sweet spot. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: the only thing I've done, like I said, is the
Speaker 1: drop while you're sleeping. You know, you're falling asleep and
Speaker 1: you have the phone and you're like, oh man, what
Speaker 1: the heck is that all about? There? That's not cool,
Speaker 1: you know that, what if the whole thing is happened.
Speaker 1: But if you're sitting down and you dropping and falls
Speaker 1: on your nuts. Well, well, you shouldn't have your phone
Speaker 1: like in that area there where when you could hit
Speaker 1: your nuts unless you got you had supersized nuts or
Speaker 1: something like that. What do you got softball nuts? What
Speaker 1: are you? What are you doing here? Well, if you're
Speaker 1: hosting your show and maybe you're taking a selfie or
Speaker 1: taking a picture of the other studio, I don't take selfies.
Speaker 1: Well that's not that's a lie. That is a lie.
Speaker 1: But let's say you did, you had butter fingers and
Speaker 1: you dropped it. It's gonna happen. Yeah, weird things happen, Ben,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think I'm right. All right, here's uh, well,
Speaker 1: here's a new one. Speaking of phones on that theme
Speaker 1: here these are actual studies by actual universities and businesses.
Speaker 1: Study finds that percent of smartphone users are addicted. Sixty
Speaker 1: two complain of severe distraction that impacts their life from
Speaker 1: their from their phones. And they also this is a
Speaker 1: appropriate because they found that smartphones this explains you a lot, guest, gun,
Speaker 1: that smartphones encourage narcissism, even by non narcissistic people. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, no, no no. First of all, let me
Speaker 1: go on the record by saying that if you went
Speaker 1: to my Instagram page, I have hardly any pictures by
Speaker 1: myself any Like, I don't take selfies. If I take pictures,
Speaker 1: it's usually with food or alcohol or a scenic shot.
Speaker 1: When I go to Europe, I've taken some pictures with you,
Speaker 1: my colleagues that I call games with or stadium or
Speaker 1: arena or an ice drink. I do those things with
Speaker 1: with Instagram. So I realized that by saying you're not
Speaker 1: a narcissist, you sound like a narcis No. No No, that's
Speaker 1: like saying, do understand the way this sounds to the listen. No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, that's like saying, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a racist. But that's what that's saying. I don't say that,
Speaker 1: not a narcissist. There's nothing a part of me that's
Speaker 1: like me, me me, Like listen to me for four
Speaker 1: hours money through Friday on an overnight show. Me me me,
Speaker 1: me me, Like I'm just using an example, like if
Speaker 1: I needed four hours to to talk to the world.
Speaker 1: You know, So, have you stopped beating your girlfriend? Him? Rome?
Speaker 1: That's a reference to David Stir to Jim Row, that's
Speaker 1: really good. All right, thank you? Man, I'm here, be
Speaker 1: here all all day, all right, moving on here through
Speaker 1: three and four. People believe natural remedies like cannabis are
Speaker 1: actually safer than traditional medicines that like prescription medicine. Um
Speaker 1: and and this is now. This is because of I
Speaker 1: think a lot of media stuff. People have been been
Speaker 1: abusing prescription drugs. But I I think most of the
Speaker 1: time prescription modern medicine is better than than old remedies.
Speaker 1: I do do a lot of old remedy stuff with
Speaker 1: garlic and when I get sick and things like that.
Speaker 1: Then natural remedies, I do dabble in that, But I
Speaker 1: still when i'm really when I'm really screwed up, I
Speaker 1: need the traditional medicine. I'm not going to some faith
Speaker 1: healer to try to get my bad thing out of
Speaker 1: my body. I'm going to a doctor to chop it out,
Speaker 1: is what I'm doing. If you have a problem, throw
Speaker 1: it out. But but most people these days, they're all
Speaker 1: about that cannabis or some other kind of hokey pokey
Speaker 1: quackery they find on the internet and they buy into it.
Speaker 1: Like that's why Doc Mike is so successful in Chicago.
Speaker 1: He's been a quack doctor for years, and people, especially
Speaker 1: in Equador, they buy into it. They love it. I think,
Speaker 1: not the cannabis method, but I think a lot of
Speaker 1: this has to do with diet and exercise, more so
Speaker 1: the diet, just because of what people put in another
Speaker 1: body and what they don't. UM. We've talked about this
Speaker 1: a handful of times, like what we listened to while
Speaker 1: we're either in the gym or sitting in traffic. UM.
Speaker 1: I listened to a doctor's name is doctor Michael Gregor,
Speaker 1: and I put him on YouTube, and he's a nutritionist
Speaker 1: as well, and so he talks about how in the
Speaker 1: medical practice, the medical world, when people men and women
Speaker 1: go to medical school, they aren't taught much of anything,
Speaker 1: if at all, about the importance of nutrition. He says, like,
Speaker 1: I think it's like about an hour worth of curriculum
Speaker 1: that's that's put into nutrition, and everything else is about
Speaker 1: like fixing people, correcting injuries, like you said. But I
Speaker 1: think a lot of this just goes back to the
Speaker 1: nutritional aspect that if you're putting crap in your body,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get crap that comes out of it. And
Speaker 1: of course it's like a car, right you put oil
Speaker 1: into it, you let the oil sit for ten or
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand miles. You don't change it. All of a
Speaker 1: sudden you got a bad engine, a bad engine block
Speaker 1: and a car breaks down. So yeah, I go, well,
Speaker 1: I I would say, and I have some friends at
Speaker 1: work in the military, not military, in the medical industry,
Speaker 1: got the gym that I go to. That one of
Speaker 1: a few people I talked to at the gym, and
Speaker 1: he's even said, he's agreed that it's kind of a
Speaker 1: self fulfilling prophecy, because it's the conspiracy is if you
Speaker 1: teach people nutrition, you won't have as many sick people,
Speaker 1: you won't need as many doctors, right, And it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of like the argument, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: cure to you want to treat diseases, but not cure
Speaker 1: them because you know, think how much money would be
Speaker 1: lost if they could find a cure for cancer. Cancer. Now,
Speaker 1: the counter argument is the to that conspiracy is, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but whoever found the cure to cancer would be you know,
Speaker 1: it would make so much money and win all these awards,
Speaker 1: and they the schools after them and they live on forever.
Speaker 1: That's the counter argument. And then the other argument is that, well,
Speaker 1: there'll always be Humans will always be some disease because
Speaker 1: we're fallible, that will come along. You know, when they
Speaker 1: cure one disease, something else comes along. And all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And plus the other thing with like a cancer is
Speaker 1: there's like so many different versions of it. It's hard
Speaker 1: to say you can cure. They have a cure for
Speaker 1: certain parts of cancer, but I'm just using that as
Speaker 1: an example, but there's some that they have no no
Speaker 1: clue how to stop. Oh yeah, And it's like buying
Speaker 1: a car or put this in smaller form, like an
Speaker 1: Apple phone or a MacBook. You're usually buying one every
Speaker 1: four or five years, a MacPro or Mac or even
Speaker 1: an iPhone. People get a new cell phone almost every
Speaker 1: other year. And part of that because the battery on
Speaker 1: the phone or the charger or whatever it Maybe that's
Speaker 1: true or the technology they stopped. They the industry and
Speaker 1: they're brilliant to people that may It's like they do
Speaker 1: the same thing in television technology. They know, we gotta
Speaker 1: keep selling TVs, so let's change the TVs every few years,
Speaker 1: will change the TVs. And and in the people like Apple,
Speaker 1: I have an iPhone and I have to keep that
Speaker 1: thing charged seven because the battery is so low now,
Speaker 1: and I'm at the point I've had this thing for
Speaker 1: so long where I could like get a new battery.
Speaker 1: It's only like sixty bucks, but I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's gonna last that long. But I'm also at the
Speaker 1: point now where I'm like, well, I should just get
Speaker 1: a new phone, because you know, all these other phones
Speaker 1: are much better than mine. I I have phone aiming.
Speaker 1: When I pull my phone app pompous arrogant a holes
Speaker 1: are like, wow, you you're you're you're you're really must
Speaker 1: be poor because you have a shitty phone, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't think it's a shitty phone.
Speaker 1: It's a fine phone. But but anyway, so that is
Speaker 1: that is legit alright. Moving on here some other studies.
Speaker 1: These are actual studies from actual people who do these
Speaker 1: kind of things. Um, here's a a survey. What percentage
Speaker 1: of Americans do not trust other drivers on roads during
Speaker 1: the winter? Wow? Um, what percentage? Yes, percentage of American
Speaker 1: drivers that do not trust the other drivers on the
Speaker 1: road driving in the winter when it's rainy and snowy
Speaker 1: and nasty. And that is a decent guest. But you
Speaker 1: are wrong. Ninety one of American drivers do not trust
Speaker 1: other drivers. Now do you think this is this comes
Speaker 1: into play with not only the other but the people
Speaker 1: that are driving being distracted because they're using said cell phones.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I think you know that
Speaker 1: maybe is part of it, but I think just people.
Speaker 1: There's the weird thing when and I've driven in bad weather,
Speaker 1: although we don't live in a place with really bad weather,
Speaker 1: when I travel and driving places where the weather is
Speaker 1: all screwed up, like, the problem is like certain percentage
Speaker 1: of people drive crazier, like they're comic kazees, and then
Speaker 1: other people drive too slow. So you have this this
Speaker 1: weird the economy where you have some people that are
Speaker 1: driving like they're on the Autobahn even though it's snowing,
Speaker 1: and then you have other people that are overly concerned
Speaker 1: about like black ice or something like that, and they're
Speaker 1: driving slow, and so it's a it creates for a
Speaker 1: very odd and um sluggish commute. Have you ever driven
Speaker 1: uh down in Florida? Oh? Yeah, I've been in Florida
Speaker 1: a few times over the years. I bring that up
Speaker 1: because last year I went to go visit my sister
Speaker 1: and I drove from I drove from like the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay area, and I drove down to my me and
Speaker 1: I drove through Alligator Alley. Oh I've done that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I drove from I flew into Orlando and flew it,
Speaker 1: drove to Vero Beach, and then we drove down to
Speaker 1: Miami after that. Yeah, okay, so when I went to
Speaker 1: when I drove through Alligator Alley, I was in a
Speaker 1: rental car, like a little Honda, little beat up Honda.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many takes you get? I didn't get any,
Speaker 1: but ben a kid, you not. It was dumping so
Speaker 1: hard when it was sunny for the majority of the
Speaker 1: day that I had to stop and pull over on
Speaker 1: the shoulder because my windshield wipers could not push the
Speaker 1: water off the windshield. And I'm in a vehicle that
Speaker 1: doesn't handle well. It was old. It was like late nineties,
Speaker 1: and this thing was barely the windshiel wipers were barely moving.
Speaker 1: So I could not even justify driving at the speed limit,
Speaker 1: which was sixty five or seventy miles per hour. Had
Speaker 1: a tone that thing dad and pull over on the
Speaker 1: shoulder for a few minutes. And there, yeah, there were
Speaker 1: cars just you know, blazon on by and I couldn't
Speaker 1: do anything about it, just because I had never been
Speaker 1: in that kind of an environment before. I also drove
Speaker 1: in snow and Springfield, Missouri, and that was pretty challenging
Speaker 1: to just because I had never driven those kind of conditions.
Speaker 1: Um So, yeah, if you're a new being that kind
Speaker 1: of environment, yeah, you gotta tread lightly, no pun intended. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well I I had. I had something along those lines
Speaker 1: back in Buffalo. I was leaving a Bill's game in
Speaker 1: the Great Lakes up there in Buffalo, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: driving along on the New York Expressway going down to
Speaker 1: New York City, and it was nighttime. It was like
Speaker 1: that you know builds that played a game. They played
Speaker 1: the Titans. It was actually a night game. Uh go
Speaker 1: fit you a long time ago. Uh, And we're driving
Speaker 1: and it rained so much the cars in front of
Speaker 1: me stopped on the middle of the New York Expressway
Speaker 1: and so I had to stop. It was I don't
Speaker 1: know I was from the lake or whatever, but it
Speaker 1: was it was insanity. It was absolute insanity there. I've
Speaker 1: never seen I have never ever seen as much rain
Speaker 1: as I did that. It was like I felt like
Speaker 1: I was driving through a hurricane. You know, it was.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely nuts, is what it was. But that
Speaker 1: that was my My worst rain experience was in beautiful
Speaker 1: Buffalo from uh maybe the weather from Lake Ontario and
Speaker 1: Lake Erie got together or something like that, right, they
Speaker 1: all formed a super superstorm that Lake effect rain or
Speaker 1: whatever it was. It was wild. That's pretty good. How
Speaker 1: long did it take it to get to your destination? Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a long that's a long drive. Well, funnily, we
Speaker 1: we tried. We'll have to tell the story sometimes because
Speaker 1: I I spent a night homeless in Buffalo and um
Speaker 1: and that's part of the reason that we drove in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night to New York City. Um. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was a slight mistake by me. Uh,
Speaker 1: involving hotels and apps and phones and uh, the fact
Speaker 1: that you can't book a room and there's a you
Speaker 1: know after a time, and it was a big it
Speaker 1: was a big mess. I don't have time to get
Speaker 1: into it right now. You brought up the auto bun
Speaker 1: I did drive that two years ago. Really, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun. I made it. How fast did you
Speaker 1: go on the auto bunt? I went about sixty five.
Speaker 1: My my friend was scared shitless because he ran the
Speaker 1: car or van and we were going as a bachelor
Speaker 1: party slash wedding, So we were actually going from Berlin
Speaker 1: and making a trip down to Oschwitz and berken Out
Speaker 1: to go to the concentration cap So what are the
Speaker 1: what are the rules here on the Automa, Because are
Speaker 1: there any rules? I mean, you can drive however fast
Speaker 1: you want, but what happens to the slow people? No,
Speaker 1: they just get passed them by. It's nothing like you'd
Speaker 1: experienced here in Los Angeles. Like we're on you know,
Speaker 1: if we're on the four oh five freeway going north
Speaker 1: or south, there's usually four lanes and maybe a car pool.
Speaker 1: Or if we go on the ninety one of the ten,
Speaker 1: which goes east and west, there's about three or four lanes.
Speaker 1: Autoba was like ten lanes going you know, one side
Speaker 1: and the other and just open real estate, plenty of green.
Speaker 1: It was actually beautiful to drive. But yeah, sometimes when
Speaker 1: when ours are going slow, they get all the way
Speaker 1: over to the right and they'll sit behind trucks and
Speaker 1: then just go at their own speeds. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you can blow by anybody. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of tolls. That's pretty much it. But I gotta have
Speaker 1: enough change for the tolls, and that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: You don't have any stops though, so there's no off
Speaker 1: ramps or kind of pit stops you can make to
Speaker 1: go take a leak or to get something to eat. Wow,
Speaker 1: all right, there you go, do you have I have
Speaker 1: always talked about the auto bun, but I've never been it.
Speaker 1: Probably will never go to the auto bun. I don't
Speaker 1: believe I will ever be doing that. All right, here
Speaker 1: we go. Study finds that we now know they according
Speaker 1: to these people do the study, they believe they know
Speaker 1: who's to blame for fake news. Who's to blame for
Speaker 1: fake news? According to researchers from Ohio State University, they
Speaker 1: say that much fake news is created by people, can
Speaker 1: you know, people consuming news? Guess I'll just say social media.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of close. No, no, check this out.
Speaker 1: They they've determined that a lot of people get credible,
Speaker 1: legitimate statistics and information of the news on on a
Speaker 1: topic like a something involving Trump or something like that,
Speaker 1: and they misremember or you know, you know what. It's
Speaker 1: like that game telephone. It's that kind of the message
Speaker 1: gets twisted as you pass the message to more people,
Speaker 1: and that that people also mix in their biases, their
Speaker 1: personal biases, whether their Republicans or Democrats, and then so
Speaker 1: it creates this superstorm where they get legitimate information and
Speaker 1: then they twisted and morph it into fake news to
Speaker 1: fit their agenda. Yeah, it's like it's like if you
Speaker 1: or I. If it's like if you and I witnessed
Speaker 1: the crime or an accident and we had a police
Speaker 1: officer interview both of us, He's not gonna get the
Speaker 1: same answer from both of us because we were seeing
Speaker 1: it through a different lens, and so the same thing,
Speaker 1: the interpretation of what people are looking at. I was
Speaker 1: reading yesterday that only a third of Americans are actually
Speaker 1: watching the impeachment and worry. It's pretty fascinating. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: I've checked it out. I've I've watched it. Um, but
Speaker 1: I get a kick out. I like the political theory.
Speaker 1: It doesn't like raise my blood pressure something A lot
Speaker 1: of people like, Oh, I can't handle it it you know.
Speaker 1: So in fact, here's a here's a say eight out
Speaker 1: of ten Americans say politics are the biggest source of
Speaker 1: stress in their life. And I it's it's not it's
Speaker 1: I'm not stressed at all. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: they're I think both our parties are all fucked up.
Speaker 1: And then, uh, you know, I get a kick out
Speaker 1: of it. I actually enjoy the people that are triggered
Speaker 1: by Trump. I think it's pretty funny. I think it's amusing.
Speaker 1: And they, you know, they think the world's gonna come
Speaker 1: to an end and all that stuff. The world's not
Speaker 1: gonna come to an end. Even if Trump gets re
Speaker 1: elected in There'll be a new president soon enough, don't worry,
Speaker 1: and they'll and if you want them to change everything,
Speaker 1: they'll change everything, and then that'll be fun. Would you
Speaker 1: ever moved to Canada if a president gotta like that
Speaker 1: you didn't want to elect to? Of course not. I'm
Speaker 1: moved the Canada? Please? Are you kidding me? I'll moved
Speaker 1: to a tropical destination instead of Canada. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? All? Right? Time now for grab bag actual
Speaker 1: questions from actual listeners like yourself. First one comes from
Speaker 1: Let's do a sporty question from Brandon in bon Aqua, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that? Is that a real place?
Speaker 1: I don't know which do you think between the Braves
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills of the nineteen nineties the greatest
Speaker 1: team to underachieve during their prime years, So Buffalo four
Speaker 1: straight Super Bowls or the Atlanta Braves, who were the
Speaker 1: team of the nineties but only won one World Series. Now,
Speaker 1: the easy answer would be to say Buffalo, because Buffalo
Speaker 1: Brandon didn't win the Super Bowl with Jim Kelly and
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas and Andre Reid. But I'm gonna go with Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Atlanta had three Hall of Fame pictures, they had Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame position players, and the only one one World Series.
Speaker 1: And the reason I bring up Atlanta and it bothers
Speaker 1: me is because guy that one of the architects of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves in the nineteen nineties was a guy
Speaker 1: named Stan Casting. He is now an executive with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and he is trying to recreate the nineteen nineties Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves and it bothers the hell out of me. That's
Speaker 1: the Dodger model. The Dodger model is to be like
Speaker 1: the Bridge. They want to be in the playoffs every year.
Speaker 1: They think that they have this weird thing that the
Speaker 1: mindset over there is that we're gonna be like the
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties Atlanta Braves, but unlike them, we're gonna win
Speaker 1: multiple World Series. Well so far, guesscan how's that working out? Zero?
Speaker 1: And yeah, I will agree with you on that too.
Speaker 1: You can talk about Maddox, you talk about Smoltz, I
Speaker 1: mean to the best pictures in our lifetime. And Tom Glavin, yeah,
Speaker 1: the former hockey player turn baseball player. I mean those
Speaker 1: are dominant guys. Smalltile the starter at closer and then
Speaker 1: a starter again. And you forgot to mention Bobby Cox.
Speaker 1: So so you have Cox the manager BoNT Aqua, population
Speaker 1: five thousand, fourty four in Tennessee. So look at that
Speaker 1: Brandon bon Aqua, Tennessee. But he's the most famous person
Speaker 1: from bon Aqua, Tennessee. It could be Brandon Brandon might
Speaker 1: be the most famous person from bon Aqua, Tennessee. Well
Speaker 1: that is that is certainly uh, that is certainly your
Speaker 1: your Mallard Militia throwback. Right, that's the only person that's
Speaker 1: from bon Aqua. Yeah, I don't think I've ever ever
Speaker 1: gotten in a correspondence what part of Tennessee is that
Speaker 1: in that must be out in the sticks, right, must
Speaker 1: be out? Uh? Yeah, you don't know. You don't you
Speaker 1: know your Tennessee geography. I'm looking at the map. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's actually considered inside Hickman County. If you know
Speaker 1: what Hickman County. That doesn't do anything for me. Although
Speaker 1: I'm reading here, I just typed something into the Internet.
Speaker 1: It says country music legend Johnny Cash. Come on what
Speaker 1: he first thing that shows up on Google? He yeah,
Speaker 1: he used to. Well, when I'm supposed to go seven
Speaker 1: pages in, I mean, I don't have time for that,
Speaker 1: but he Johnny Cash used to own a Weam's old
Speaker 1: farmhouse for over three decades and the Storyteller's Museum, which
Speaker 1: converted from a general store and recording studio that Johnny
Speaker 1: Cash used as a place for local concerts. How about that.
Speaker 1: That's a landmark in Bonock. I love Johnny Kess to
Speaker 1: look at it as a connection. I'm connected to to Brandon,
Speaker 1: who's living around where Johnny Cash did his stuff. How cool?
Speaker 1: Is that? Very cool? All right? Emmanuel from Portugal rights
Speaker 1: and he's the big Jonas Knox guy. He says, should
Speaker 1: I leave everything behind in Portugal and live in the
Speaker 1: United States? Whereabouts in Portugal? He doesn't say just this Portugals.
Speaker 1: I went to port to Portugal in the summertime. Ben
Speaker 1: it was gorgeous, look at you bragging. It's on the
Speaker 1: northwest tip of of Portugal. Did some kayaking there, some
Speaker 1: cliff diving in a bunch of food, drink a ton
Speaker 1: of beer. People were nice. They're definitely different than here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Uh it is. Well, here's a I
Speaker 1: would say, Manuel, There's a lot of different places in
Speaker 1: the United States to live, and it really depends on
Speaker 1: if you want eladist Hollywood assholes. You can live in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You want pompous Wall Street dicks, you can
Speaker 1: live in New York. If you want nice normal people
Speaker 1: live in the flyover country. That's where most of those
Speaker 1: people are living. And uh, you know, on the coast
Speaker 1: is where the assholes and elitist like yescon live. Um.
Speaker 1: But if you want, you know, regular folks, you gotta
Speaker 1: go Inland. But yeah, I mean Portugal. I've never been
Speaker 1: to portgal but I've heard it's nice there. And that's
Speaker 1: a tough call, man, because all your families there and
Speaker 1: all your friends are there, You're gonna be homesick and
Speaker 1: all that. I'd give it a shot. Though I don't
Speaker 1: know how old the manual is, but you know, give
Speaker 1: it a shot for a couple of years if you
Speaker 1: can pull it off, and if you can, if you
Speaker 1: can afford it. That's the one thing that people come
Speaker 1: from the East coast to the West coast and they
Speaker 1: never want to leave Los Angeles. But there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people that migrate from Chicago or Kansas City
Speaker 1: or St. Louis and believe or not, they relocate to Scottsdale,
Speaker 1: Arizona and Scottsdale. They call that like the poor man's
Speaker 1: version of Newport Beach. But Scottsdale is a great city
Speaker 1: in Arizona, is a lot of fun. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of beautiful people there. The weather gets obviously a lot
Speaker 1: hotter during the summertime, triple digits, but there's things to
Speaker 1: do and so yeah, depending on your age, like you said, Ben,
Speaker 1: that might be a spot to relocate to as well. Well.
Speaker 1: Scottsdale in Vegas are like to you know how New
Speaker 1: York has like Miami Dade County in Miami, where like you,
Speaker 1: when you get to a certain age in New York,
Speaker 1: you relocate the Florida and it's the it's the other
Speaker 1: beer Borough of New York City, and then it peel
Speaker 1: a lot of people in l A. Although it's they've
Speaker 1: been going all over. It used to be Seattle was
Speaker 1: the hotspot for people from l A. Then it was
Speaker 1: it moved. It was Portland for a while, and I
Speaker 1: think Phoenix is still popular in Vegas, Idaho, Boise, Idaho,
Speaker 1: a lot of people were moving to Boise, Idoh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get a lot of California people that moved to Boise,
Speaker 1: Idaho now just because the taxes, Like you don't want
Speaker 1: to get crushed on state taxes here in California. Um,
Speaker 1: you get gas as usually a dollar to a are
Speaker 1: fifty more here and CALLI compared to like Texas or Florida,
Speaker 1: the Midwest somewhere. Yeah, it's it's not like you get
Speaker 1: a lot of benefits out that. The roads are still
Speaker 1: fucked up, and there's homeless people everywhere, you know, and
Speaker 1: I feel bad for the homeless people. But I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 1: all the money we pay for taxes, shouldn't they be
Speaker 1: able to solve the problem. But it's not. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things too. The other problem
Speaker 1: is it's a problem that creates another problem. Right, you
Speaker 1: solve one problem and then you create another problem because
Speaker 1: they've they've decided not to go that's the third round,
Speaker 1: my man. But they they've just talked about building all
Speaker 1: this housing in Los Angeles for the homeless. But what
Speaker 1: do you think that's gonna do? That The words gonna
Speaker 1: get out gas on and every other homeless person is
Speaker 1: gonna be like, you know what, I'm moving to l
Speaker 1: A because I get a house. Yeah. It perpetuates the problem.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it does, exactly. All right, moving on here,
Speaker 1: let's see here. John the jailer from Allantown, Pennsylvania says, Ben,
Speaker 1: are you pro or anti pigeons wearing a little cowboy hats? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you seen that guest of you in Vegas? This
Speaker 1: is amazing. I want to know how they pull this off. Now,
Speaker 1: every time I get near a pigeon, you know what
Speaker 1: they do? They fly away or they walk away. But
Speaker 1: somebody has been putting these little tiny cowboy hats on
Speaker 1: pigeons around Vegas, and the animal rights people are freaking out.
Speaker 1: They're like, hi, and we gotta get these things off itself. No,
Speaker 1: he said, you shouldn't do it, but it's hilarious. Uh
Speaker 1: to to see the little pigeons walking around, your fat
Speaker 1: pigeon with a with a hat on like a cowboy hat.
Speaker 1: Pretty good, you'd admit that, right guy? Percent All right,
Speaker 1: Who's who's next? Travis and Roseberg Oregon says is Roberto's
Speaker 1: Mexican doppler actually just a dartboard? Yes? Yes, yes, it
Speaker 1: is Tommy Lee in the Lothian, Maryland, Right since says
Speaker 1: a question for everyone. Casket or urn? Alright? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna burn you up? Are they gonna bury your
Speaker 1: ass in the ground. I'm a casket guy because I
Speaker 1: come from a family believes in burials. My wife's an
Speaker 1: urn woman. Um, she's about the urn. But I'll I'll
Speaker 1: be well, I guess I'll be surprised because I won't
Speaker 1: really know because I'll be dead. But I believe I
Speaker 1: will end up in a casket. I believe I'll maybe
Speaker 1: they'll put a bell in there because I wake up
Speaker 1: and then I can alert someone to come let me out.
Speaker 1: You know what if I what if I'm there for
Speaker 1: it and I drop in the ocean in your casket? Well,
Speaker 1: yeah you can do that too, you know, burial, let's
Speaker 1: sea there I can be fish food, so you can
Speaker 1: do that. Rego. By the way, what are you doing
Speaker 1: agether you're you're I think you're an urned guy. No,
Speaker 1: I'm probably a coffin guy guy just in case they
Speaker 1: can wake up. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. You know
Speaker 1: I'm in Plus, you know I'm I have his beautiful body.
Speaker 1: Why would I want to burn it up? I'd like
Speaker 1: I'd rather let it rot um, which is the traditional
Speaker 1: way to go. Rego from the Harbor Area says there
Speaker 1: hasn't been a fried chicken debate for a while. Where
Speaker 1: does Popeye's chicken sandwich rank on my list? It's number one?
Speaker 1: But also I haven't had raising canes yet. Well, werego.
Speaker 1: You've got to correct that problem. You've got to find
Speaker 1: raising canes because you're really uneducated on this. Now. I
Speaker 1: have not had the Popeyes chicken sandwich yet, so I'm
Speaker 1: uneducated on it. And I've tried to cut back a
Speaker 1: little bit on the fried food since they chopped my
Speaker 1: gall bladder out of me. But I will I will
Speaker 1: partake in the The Popeye chicken sandwich looks very good.
Speaker 1: Eddi's had it, says it's it's a solid sandwich. He
Speaker 1: really enjoys it a lot. But I've not had yet.
Speaker 1: I'm all about that raising Kanes action, so and I
Speaker 1: know Gascon doesn't need any of that, so you I
Speaker 1: can't even ask you man, I'm I'm down for for KFC.
Speaker 1: I haven't had raising canes. Uh do like Chicken fil A,
Speaker 1: But I'm all about fried food, man, were talking about it.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a fat guy trapped in the fat
Speaker 1: guy's body. Really, Yeah, I think I love fried food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but who doesn't. This is the great you put anting
Speaker 1: a deep friar to is good, but vegeta they should
Speaker 1: deep fried vegetables. I'd eat those. I've had some deep
Speaker 1: fried cauliflower before. Yeah, cauliflower sells smells so disgusting that
Speaker 1: I I'm I'm turned off by my wife would make
Speaker 1: just make massive amounts of cauliflower and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: what died in the house? Like why does something you're
Speaker 1: cooking a dead animal here? Or something like that. Jose
Speaker 1: from Repping Repping the nine five six area code says,
Speaker 1: does guests gan use regular eighty nine gas or ninety
Speaker 1: one Supreme? Ye? I'm not an idiot. I use nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. We this debate I've had with the Coop,
Speaker 1: the Loop and these uh, these some of these other
Speaker 1: idiots that the text in here about this is insane.
Speaker 1: Nine percent of cars do not need the higher grade gasoline.
Speaker 1: It is all a scam. I've had people that work
Speaker 1: in the fuel industry that have told me this that
Speaker 1: there's hardly any difference. Is sometimes there's no difference between
Speaker 1: the eighty nine and ninety one. It's all a scam
Speaker 1: to get you pay a little bit extra for pretty
Speaker 1: much the same damn product. And people are dumb. And
Speaker 1: I give people credit in the gas industry because they
Speaker 1: know human nature. People think if something is they're charging
Speaker 1: more for a product, that it's better. Right. It's like
Speaker 1: the reason people don't buy their wrapping paper at the
Speaker 1: nine cent store or Dollar General or the Dollar Tree.
Speaker 1: A lot of people buy their wrapping paper at like
Speaker 1: Target or one of those other stores. They charge more
Speaker 1: for the same damn thing, but they think they're getting
Speaker 1: It's this mental thing where we think we're getting a
Speaker 1: better product if they charge more. And I've I've studied
Speaker 1: marketing a little bit. I know a little bit about
Speaker 1: marketing just from books. I've read things on the Internet,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, gasoline is the same thing most
Speaker 1: most cars. It's a complete waste of money. But yet
Speaker 1: people buy the more expensive gas because they think they
Speaker 1: think while you're getting a better product, when they're not.
Speaker 1: So would you ever drive a car? I guess those
Speaker 1: onom efficient. I don't know the smart cars like a Tesla, right,
Speaker 1: like those cars like yeah, like I've had it. I
Speaker 1: had an electric car for a little bit. It died.
Speaker 1: I had to get rid of it. It It was a lemon.
Speaker 1: Yeah I had. I had a gas electric where you
Speaker 1: could plug it in. Yeah. In fact, if you come
Speaker 1: to the house, I have an electric plug in and
Speaker 1: but the car was a lemon and we didn't get
Speaker 1: I got a hybrid. Now I don't have a gas electric.
Speaker 1: I would love to get an electric car. I would
Speaker 1: love to get a Tesla. I can't afford a Tesla.
Speaker 1: And also I don't know how I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can trust it. I don't know how long they last.
Speaker 1: I want to if I spend money on a car,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever get a new car again.
Speaker 1: By the way, I think that's a scam. I learned
Speaker 1: I'm way too late that you should not get should
Speaker 1: not get a scam or should not should not be
Speaker 1: part of a scam. I mean, and get to get
Speaker 1: a new car. I think you get a pre owned car?
Speaker 1: Is the way to go? Lightly used pre owned car?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I might have to
Speaker 1: come around to that in a year or two. I'm
Speaker 1: over an hundred fifty thousand miles on a five year car.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I hear you. Apparently someone's spying on the
Speaker 1: podcast here. Let's see what's next year. Let's see page down,
Speaker 1: page down? Uh, Dan, and we got a bunch of
Speaker 1: me email about you? Dan and Kalamazoo Michigan says how
Speaker 1: much cocaine does Gagon do every weekend? Gescan you want
Speaker 1: to comment on that? I don't think I have enough
Speaker 1: energy to sound like I'm doing cocaine. Uh. Kohli is
Speaker 1: in round Rock, Texas, Home of the Express. He says,
Speaker 1: which Rodney Dangerfield movie character do you ben most likely resemble? Gascon?
Speaker 1: Probably never watched a danger Field movie in his life.
Speaker 1: He prefers Streisan movies. He's such a gentle for sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: you've ever watched the movie with Barbara Streisand in it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. But you know Rodney Dangerfield, I think
Speaker 1: can you name off any I mean out of the
Speaker 1: Caddy Shock? What other movies come to mind for you? Uh?
Speaker 1: Well the one he made it at the end, you know,
Speaker 1: back to back to School goes back, remember back this
Speaker 1: Bool and all that? Uh that was was that was
Speaker 1: one of his final big hits, right yeah, back in
Speaker 1: the nine eighties. I guess that was because he didn't
Speaker 1: I was in an elevator with Rodney Dangerfield Burbank what
Speaker 1: what do you? What do you? Uh? This is like
Speaker 1: you with with Steve Harvey, Like I was in a
Speaker 1: parking lot one time with No No No I. You
Speaker 1: guys worked together. That's why. Well no, I worked at
Speaker 1: the thirty four hundred Riverside Drive, which is now all
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers. It used to have. We had radio stations there,
Speaker 1: the I of the clear channel radio stations like Kiss
Speaker 1: FM and Kiss AM. We're in that building and that's
Speaker 1: where I worked for about eight eight nine years back
Speaker 1: in the late nineties early two thousand's kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: I worked there for a while. Anyway, I'm in and
Speaker 1: I get in the elevator. It's it's kind of like
Speaker 1: midday and uh, I look over and Rodney fucking danger
Speaker 1: Field is standing next to me in the elevator, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, holy fuck, you know, this is uh you know,
Speaker 1: this is an amazing, amazing thing, you know. I mean like,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a this is a legend Rodney
Speaker 1: Rodney Dangerfield and all that stuff, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it was only a couple of years before he died.
Speaker 1: But I guess he had his agency had been in that.
Speaker 1: I found out later his agency was in that building
Speaker 1: with some of his representation. Um, but I'm still upset.
Speaker 1: I I should have said something to him, and I
Speaker 1: had like stage fright and I didn't. I didn't say
Speaker 1: anything to to him, and I was like, that's my
Speaker 1: only shot, you know. I'm I was in an elevator
Speaker 1: with Spike Lee one time and uh so so Spike Lee.
Speaker 1: This is back when Pete Carroll was coaching USC and
Speaker 1: they had all the stars, you know where there was
Speaker 1: a big event in l A. And I get in
Speaker 1: the at the coliseum. There was one elevator and to
Speaker 1: go up to the press box. And I get the
Speaker 1: elevator and it's me Rick Fox and Spike Lee right,
Speaker 1: and Spike Lee, I am I am about seven times
Speaker 1: the size of Spike Lee, right, and he looked at
Speaker 1: me and looked like he was like kind of intimidated.
Speaker 1: But I got this kind of weird vibe from Spike
Speaker 1: Lee that is like this guy could kick my ass
Speaker 1: and this elevator, you know, when the door was closed
Speaker 1: and all this, it was weird. That's pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And uh I didn't say anything of them either. I
Speaker 1: think I might. I might have said hello or something
Speaker 1: like that, but it was like a brief kind of
Speaker 1: it was awkward because he they I think Spike expected
Speaker 1: to be in the elevator by himself, with just him
Speaker 1: and Rick Fox, and then I got in and it
Speaker 1: kind of fed up, fed up the whole thing. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe they were looking at your attire because uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were probably dressed the nines and you're probably dressed
Speaker 1: like a common man. Right. Well, No, I dressed any
Speaker 1: When I used to go those games, I had a
Speaker 1: decent outfit on. It was fine. I was an aid
Speaker 1: in an elevator once with Jerry Bruckheimer. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: were going from bottom floor all the way up to
Speaker 1: the top at Staples Center. Who was a King's game.
Speaker 1: Jerry Brockner was a huge hockey fan. So it was
Speaker 1: during the Stanley Cup playoffs a few years ago. I
Speaker 1: knew exactly who he was, and we had a great
Speaker 1: conversation for like ten minutes as people were coming on
Speaker 1: and coming off and just talking and ship and talking
Speaker 1: about the Kings and talking about hockey in general. Totally
Speaker 1: nice guy, like, just easy to todd to. Of course,
Speaker 1: it always helps when you try to engage in a
Speaker 1: conversation as opposed to standing in a corner and measuring
Speaker 1: people up there like a fraction of your size. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, well that's and I had. Uh well, I've
Speaker 1: told my my Adam Sandler. He walked into me because
Speaker 1: he he showed up to a Staples Center. It was
Speaker 1: a Knicks game, Nicks Knicks Lakers, and I'm walking to
Speaker 1: my seat and this guy with his head down, head
Speaker 1: first walks into me. Because Adam sander I give him
Speaker 1: credit because he he didn't come in through the the
Speaker 1: usual celebrity interests is Staples Center. He came in through
Speaker 1: the regular interests where the normal people come in. Um.
Speaker 1: But then he for some reason thought maybe if I
Speaker 1: just keep my head down, they won't realize, you know,
Speaker 1: it's Adam Sandler. Uh, and he so he didn't. He
Speaker 1: had a hat on, like a Jets hat on or
Speaker 1: something like that, and he walked right into me because
Speaker 1: he was trying. He didn't want anyone to see his face.
Speaker 1: So he had his head down and he wasn't even
Speaker 1: on his phone or anything like that. He just had
Speaker 1: his head down. And uh, you know, so all right,
Speaker 1: I don't know what other celebrities I've walked into. More questions,
Speaker 1: A few more questions for you. Here, we'll put the
Speaker 1: baby to bed. Uh, let's see here, any meany mighty mo?
Speaker 1: Brian from north Bridge, Massachusetts, Beautiful north Bridge, Massachusetts, God's
Speaker 1: Country says, how does Gascon still have a job? Whose
Speaker 1: desk is he under? And he says he's the guy.
Speaker 1: Also that outed real talk as John from Massoo. So
Speaker 1: that's Brian's good work there on the show. So, Gascon,
Speaker 1: how do you still have a job? Well, a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Um got a powerful voice a little bit
Speaker 1: better than yours. Here we go, Here we go, Here
Speaker 1: we go. I'm half your age, which he helps in
Speaker 1: this industry. I have an excellent work ethics. So if
Speaker 1: I was like a Madden card with rankings and ratings,
Speaker 1: you'd have work ethic as a ninety nine gritted out
Speaker 1: grit as anti um. I'm a huge sports fan, student
Speaker 1: of the game. Don't forget douche bag. No, no, no, no
Speaker 1: no one's ever called me a douche bag. And you
Speaker 1: can't get a hundred rating on any of these video games. Dumb, obnoxious, whatever, narcissistic,
Speaker 1: that is a hundred. Listen, pretends to be Superman. Well,
Speaker 1: we all do at certain times of the day, so
Speaker 1: it all depends when he's he pretends to be Superman,
Speaker 1: but when things don't go his way, he's a sniveling
Speaker 1: little child. To be fair, though, like you told me
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, I do make you feel young
Speaker 1: again because I have revitalized your your faith. I have
Speaker 1: never said that. That's a bull shit. We talked about
Speaker 1: this to open up that podcast, because you've wanted to
Speaker 1: do this for years. I never have. You could, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could have done it with I could have done
Speaker 1: it with the you know mouse. You know, I could
Speaker 1: have done it with her raccoon or something. I'll remember
Speaker 1: that next week. Yeah, all right, why don't we move on?
Speaker 1: Don't stick to sports stories the week? What do we
Speaker 1: have here guest on this week and the don't stick
Speaker 1: to sports stories of the week. I got all kinds
Speaker 1: of things go on. How about this? Well, all right,
Speaker 1: go back to your personal life then, real quick, how
Speaker 1: did you propose the misses? I proposed tour uh at
Speaker 1: the right right in downtown Los Angeles. Actually we're outside
Speaker 1: a famous theater in l A on Hope Street, and
Speaker 1: Uh I got down on my knee there and made
Speaker 1: the big proposal. And we went out to these stinking
Speaker 1: rows uh the Great Garlic Restaurant and had a nice
Speaker 1: meal and the rest is history. Well, okay, so you
Speaker 1: did that and then got married in Hawaii, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: we got We got married in Kawaii, the Garden Island
Speaker 1: on Poi Poo. If you when you go to the
Speaker 1: airport in Apoo and you drive north in Kauai on
Speaker 1: the one highway they have there in Quai between the
Speaker 1: mile three and mile four marker, there's a small dirt road.
Speaker 1: You take that dirt road and you'll need to have
Speaker 1: your car aligned if you If your car makes it
Speaker 1: a lot of potholes and bumps and whatnot. And then
Speaker 1: go to the end of it and there's this deserted
Speaker 1: stretch of beach and that is where that is where
Speaker 1: I got married. That's romantic. Well I bring that up
Speaker 1: because this this is like if your mirror side is great.
Speaker 1: But how about this an East Coaster, A guy in
Speaker 1: Erie County, New York, actually stage a proposal to his
Speaker 1: girlfriend by staging an actual robbery inside of a convenience store. Uh.
Speaker 1: Security footage actually captured the entire event where a man
Speaker 1: appears to be robbing the convenience store with a gun
Speaker 1: before leaving and then coming back in. He follows the
Speaker 1: store clerk and then gets down in front of his
Speaker 1: girlfriend who was there with him, and gets down on
Speaker 1: bend and knee and proposed to her, all on camera.
Speaker 1: Security footage though. Yeah, well that's good for the woman
Speaker 1: because she knows what the marriage is gonna be like
Speaker 1: in the future. You know what I'm saying, Like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna if things go bad, he's gonna start robbing banks.
Speaker 1: They'll just he'll choreograph everything, He'll he'll align everything up.
Speaker 1: That's that's how that goes. We we mentioned parking earlier.
Speaker 1: How about this. A third of hospitals in England right
Speaker 1: now put up car parking charges last year tolling over
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty four million euro, So you compute
Speaker 1: that in the US dollars, but two d four million
Speaker 1: dollar two million euro for people from people going to
Speaker 1: see sick people at hospital, yes, patients visitors. Well that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the thing here you gas on like
Speaker 1: season you do. I know you're gonna go with this, No,
Speaker 1: I don't do this. Well, well no, I'm I'm just
Speaker 1: saying they have like valet parking, and they have paid,
Speaker 1: like I like hospital, You shouldn't have to pay for
Speaker 1: parking in a hospital, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get. So there's valet parking at hospitals here and
Speaker 1: also at malls. Like there was a ninety nine cent
Speaker 1: store when I lived in Mid City, l A near
Speaker 1: the I lived near the Grove for for years before
Speaker 1: actually the grove was there, and then a couple of
Speaker 1: years after they built the grove. But I lived in
Speaker 1: an apartment over there, and there was a ninety nine
Speaker 1: cent store that in the afternoon, hand to god, had
Speaker 1: valet parking. I don't understand why you would need valet
Speaker 1: parking to go to a ninety nine cent store, and
Speaker 1: it was that was like the only store that was
Speaker 1: in that area, and they had guys with red valet
Speaker 1: vests that would park the cars. I mean it's like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? You know you're isn't god damn
Speaker 1: ninety nine cent store? You do not need the valet
Speaker 1: park anyway. Um, so that that's right. The whole parking
Speaker 1: thing is a night. I hate paying for parking, right,
Speaker 1: I would rather walk five miles than pay for parking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mean both we go from car too. Insects, how
Speaker 1: about this? Ben? Researchers in Mexico have identified a new
Speaker 1: species of spider, which I kid you not. The venomin
Speaker 1: said the spoder and the spider is capable of rotting
Speaker 1: human flesh. Have ever been spider? Yes? I have been
Speaker 1: been by spider like a bad bite. Like I'm talking
Speaker 1: about something that's like the size of like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like a thumbnail or like a nut. I mean it
Speaker 1: was never that bad. I mean, we have spiders that
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's got spiders. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: get rid of spiders. And there's I happen to live
Speaker 1: in an area a lot of trees around here, so
Speaker 1: there's a lot more bugs and all that critters and
Speaker 1: things like that. But yeah, no, I I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have any terrible spider bite. Like. Guy, we have
Speaker 1: brown recluse spiders around here. Those are pretty bad. What
Speaker 1: color are they are? They like black? Or they brown
Speaker 1: at all? Or you know they're like brown. They they
Speaker 1: were crawling around here. You see him, I'll show you some.
Speaker 1: When you come over, everyone will bite you. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what I want to have. Is So they just
Speaker 1: determined they they this sounds weird to me. Like this
Speaker 1: they just found out there's a spider that that rots
Speaker 1: human flesh. Yeah, it won't kill you. The venom itself
Speaker 1: will not kill you, but it will leave a scar.
Speaker 1: So at least you get to you a little up
Speaker 1: and up. So that's a good story to tell, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go from parking to that. Um, there was
Speaker 1: another story I wanted to get into. They gotta be
Speaker 1: brief on it since, uh, well it's no longer with
Speaker 1: us anymore since it was taken down. But did you
Speaker 1: hear about a man who farts? His farts are so
Speaker 1: deadly he actually kills mosquitoes within a six meter radius. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe that to be bullshit. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a real story. You think that's a legitimate story. I
Speaker 1: do not know, I don't. I mean, it's a funny
Speaker 1: story and I saw this story, but I yeah, that
Speaker 1: that has to be like parody that I think the
Speaker 1: reason that story was deleted was because that story is
Speaker 1: not true. That that's my theory on that. But it
Speaker 1: is a hilarious headline that a man's fart is so
Speaker 1: deadly that he would kill mosquitoes, right, And I think
Speaker 1: I think the story said that that they claimed that
Speaker 1: that people were trying to uh trying to package they
Speaker 1: were studying his his fart. But it came from the
Speaker 1: sun in the u K. Gone with the wind was
Speaker 1: the headline. And uh, the man who's deadly farts can
Speaker 1: kill mosquitoes hired to create mosquito repellent made from his
Speaker 1: intestinal gas. But yeah, I don't buy it. I think
Speaker 1: it's fake. I don't have a photo of the guy.
Speaker 1: He's a forty eight year old guy from Uganda in
Speaker 1: the in Africa, and he wears the same hat I wear.
Speaker 1: So you know, it seems like a good looking chapter.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. That's not bad. Yeah, why not? All right?
Speaker 1: That is uh, that is it for now. We all right,
Speaker 1: I know you've got a plenty of things to dip
Speaker 1: into Tonight's we'll stay away from the NFL stuff. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I know that you're not wanna pat yourself
Speaker 1: on the back, so I will pat you on the
Speaker 1: back for we we clip six figures podcasting downloads. We
Speaker 1: started this journey one end of September, beginning of October. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we published so week one of the football season,
Speaker 1: so fifteen weeks of this is week fifteen years four weeks. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we're past six digits. So we gotta thank everyone
Speaker 1: that's been listening, downloading, commenting, saying nice things about you
Speaker 1: and bad things about me. Uh, still participating because it's
Speaker 1: important to get that kind of momentum as we head
Speaker 1: in because I know, as you smooth at the company event,
Speaker 1: you've got some things on your on your block that
Speaker 1: need to be taking off of it. One includes uh,
Speaker 1: sponsored reads on a podcast. I know I would love
Speaker 1: to do commercial reads on this. I think I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good at commercial reads and I loved I love our
Speaker 1: responses with us is advertising when the advertising business? And
Speaker 1: why not spread the gospel about great products that we
Speaker 1: can we can sell. So it's it's been a good run.
Speaker 1: I mean we're not over yet. We're gonna keep doing
Speaker 1: the podcast. I guess although I'm taking some time off,
Speaker 1: they still do the podcast. I mean I'll probably still
Speaker 1: do it. I'll likely still do it. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I have some studio changes that are coming to also guests.
Speaker 1: Remote studio is changing a lot. Yeah, I mean, like
Speaker 1: I said last week's podcast, you have thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: worth of equipment and said your studio. And I was
Speaker 1: dealing with a small um handheld camcorder and a small
Speaker 1: microphone and a MacBook to record last week's edition or
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. So yeah, that's that's not true. That's
Speaker 1: the Ivory Towers, the ben mallor private studio. Well, you
Speaker 1: live in a fish bowl, and you like your your
Speaker 1: microphones are actually a Mr microphone and a baby monitor.
Speaker 1: You have those two things, and so anyway, we'll put
Speaker 1: the baby to bed, have great weekend, enjoy the football.
Speaker 1: This weekend. We'll be back on the and try the
Speaker 1: other podcast, which is just a herd oh football podcast
Speaker 1: picking NFL games. Uh, and tell a friend about this.
Speaker 1: Tell a friend. We get you know, one person, one
Speaker 1: of your friends listens, and everyone does that, we double
Speaker 1: our audience on the podcast. Just have them subscribe. I
Speaker 1: always tell you know that we used to do this
Speaker 1: on the radio, where if you have like elderly grandparents
Speaker 1: or whatever, and just have them or your parents are
Speaker 1: are a little older, get their smartphone and and subscribe
Speaker 1: for them, and we get credit for that. It's that's
Speaker 1: simple as that. Even if they don't listen all the time,
Speaker 1: we still get credit for it. All right, have a
Speaker 1: great weekend. We'll be back on the radio and the
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Speaker 1: the West on Sunday two am in the East, and
Speaker 1: we'll catch you next time.