Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day dred
Speaker 1: minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house
Speaker 1: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does,
Speaker 1: and we are back at it in the Magic Podcast
Speaker 1: Shop here as we are in the air everywhere the
Speaker 1: vast power of my heart, the global reach of podcasting,
Speaker 1: and thank you for choosing us to listen to. We
Speaker 1: appreciate it. A lot of audio options and we're glad
Speaker 1: you have chosen to stumble into the Fifth Hour and
Speaker 1: myself Bennell with the man that does not know how
Speaker 1: to park in a normal way David Gascon And wow,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that, you know, I'm I'm only one
Speaker 1: of the two people in this party that's been driving
Speaker 1: and parking and actually showed up to work every day,
Speaker 1: and so uh yeah, and I appreciate the eloquent introduction
Speaker 1: done now, Well, you don't need to pat yourself on
Speaker 1: the back. I am following company guidelines. I am following
Speaker 1: what my bosses have told me to do. And I
Speaker 1: want you to know that I did have some traffic
Speaker 1: making my way to the studio in a previous show
Speaker 1: because I Bella was laying in the hallway, so I
Speaker 1: had to I had to jump over Bella to get
Speaker 1: in here. You're like, easy, You're lucky you don't drink.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you could. You can really do some
Speaker 1: damage if you trip over her. That's A's a little dog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's the size of an ee walk. She's smaller than
Speaker 1: an e walk. Uh, yeah, she was. She fell asleep
Speaker 1: though she was bored the other night with my monologues.
Speaker 1: And I looked over and she was like, I see,
Speaker 1: I texted you before you started that shell and I said,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be hammock Radio by Ben Maller and
Speaker 1: sure ship your dog passes out while you're doing a monologue.
Speaker 1: Well keep in mind, though, Guesstcon, you're very uncomfortable with originality.
Speaker 1: That's not originals and uh and all that. That was
Speaker 1: one of the more Now this Gascon was upset because
Speaker 1: we did the Sour Hour where people called up and
Speaker 1: just bitched and complained invented about things that were going
Speaker 1: on in life. What you don't understand, I'm gonna teach
Speaker 1: you about radio guests gone that kind of stuff. People
Speaker 1: loved all right. The people could not get enough of that.
Speaker 1: We spilled that into a second hour. It was magical.
Speaker 1: So that you're wrong, You're just completely wrong. I don't
Speaker 1: know if people love that. People have been watching the
Speaker 1: news seven and they've been watching all the negative pub
Speaker 1: social media, why do they need an hour strictly for
Speaker 1: that on your show? Because it's you don't understand this,
Speaker 1: because you know you don't. You live in a bubble,
Speaker 1: your West of the four oh five guy. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that listen to the radio that
Speaker 1: are by themselves, and people who don't have any family around.
Speaker 1: They're boxed in their apartments and they they're just they
Speaker 1: feel like the world has been boxed off for them.
Speaker 1: And if you give them the opportunity and they're alone,
Speaker 1: they're scared to get on the radio and complain and vent.
Speaker 1: It's it's therapeutic, it's empowering. People love it. They can't
Speaker 1: get enough of it. You don't understand. You think everyone's
Speaker 1: got a bunch of family around a bunch of friends,
Speaker 1: and it's not like that for a lot of people. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, life has led them astray and they're
Speaker 1: by themselves and they the only friends they have. Or
Speaker 1: the radio. Wait a minute, they have the radio, they
Speaker 1: have social media, they have a telephone, Like, why not
Speaker 1: pick up the phone or call somebody or send a
Speaker 1: text message? Send you the hell? Are you gonna call
Speaker 1: guests on at three o'clock in the fucking morning? All right?
Speaker 1: When I'm on, who you gonna call? First of all,
Speaker 1: I'm awake during that time. Second? Loser? Wait, I mean
Speaker 1: I'm a loser. So you're calling your own listeners losers
Speaker 1: because they're also wake at that time. I'm calling you
Speaker 1: a loser is what I call. You're a loser. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not usually working. I'm usually cutting up sound for
Speaker 1: your show, trying to make your podcast better. By the way,
Speaker 1: I got some great news for you, and I have
Speaker 1: a wonderful idea that I have not disclosed for you
Speaker 1: just yet with this podcast. A right, Well, don't wait,
Speaker 1: are you teasing that? Are you gonna pay off the
Speaker 1: tease right now? I will wait. I will wait, because
Speaker 1: you have some things on the menu as well. I
Speaker 1: do have some things on the menu. So we've got
Speaker 1: the Kiwi Pink Slip, the Lenny Review, and we'll get
Speaker 1: to that. We might get some other stuff as well
Speaker 1: along the way, but we've definitely got those stories to
Speaker 1: get to. So I'll start with the Kiwi Pink Slip
Speaker 1: and I have been impacted by the coronavirus. The economy
Speaker 1: has started to affect me here and if you've followed
Speaker 1: the show, you know that. In addition to doing the
Speaker 1: radio show for Fox in this podcast for years, I
Speaker 1: have been, believe it or not, an international radio correspondent
Speaker 1: for Radio Sport out of Auckland, New Zealand, which is
Speaker 1: a national network. New Zealand is not a huge country,
Speaker 1: but it is on all over New Zealand and they
Speaker 1: talk about things like cricket and soccer and things like that.
Speaker 1: But they have me on once a week and I
Speaker 1: have been doing this for about a decade going on,
Speaker 1: making weekly appearances talking in US sports because they get
Speaker 1: the US sports games football and basketball, mostly not so
Speaker 1: much baseball, but they get those games on television in
Speaker 1: New Zealand and so I had become over the years,
Speaker 1: I was a staple with Darcy walder Grave, who was
Speaker 1: a big radio personality in New Zealand. He did a
Speaker 1: morning show. I started on his morning show as a correspondent,
Speaker 1: and then he moved to afternoon drive a number of
Speaker 1: years ago, and I went on with Darcy in afternoon Drive.
Speaker 1: And we become pen pals, We become friends. We text
Speaker 1: each other. Uh. Just a radio guy. And I love
Speaker 1: the fact that we can tell, you know, trade stories
Speaker 1: about what radio is like in New Zealand. And he
Speaker 1: he'll tell me his stories and I'll tell him the
Speaker 1: struggles that I have here doing a radio in the
Speaker 1: United States. And so we shoot the ship a lot,
Speaker 1: and on and off the air, and on and off
Speaker 1: the air, and uh and and so it turns out
Speaker 1: that I got a phone call. Yeah, I was out
Speaker 1: for a walk. Actually, I was taking my walk around
Speaker 1: the neighborhood and Darcy says, I got some bad news
Speaker 1: for us. I said, okay, I'm ready for the bad news.
Speaker 1: What's the bad news? And he said that they were
Speaker 1: shutting down the entire network that radio Sport, which had
Speaker 1: been on the air for like twenty years in New Zealand,
Speaker 1: and they were they were going off the air. And
Speaker 1: he didn't have a lot of information. Um he just
Speaker 1: told me that there's no guarantee it comes back once
Speaker 1: the uh everything's done and we get back to normal
Speaker 1: life in the world. So he didn't know about that.
Speaker 1: There's no guarantee it'll ever come back and uh so,
Speaker 1: So I lost that gig and they paid me a
Speaker 1: little bit of money every week to go on there.
Speaker 1: But I I really feel bad for the people that
Speaker 1: I'd become friends with obviously wore out of work. Darcy
Speaker 1: said he'll be okay because he's saved up an f
Speaker 1: you fund, which is important. Most people haven't done that.
Speaker 1: Um so, so, yeah, I lost the gig in New Zealand,
Speaker 1: won't be calling into them anymore and I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: they will be able to bring that back once all
Speaker 1: of this madness in the world that comes to an end.
Speaker 1: That's unfortunate. Now did you or have you during your
Speaker 1: time your relationship with Darcy, have you ever watched more
Speaker 1: sports down Under? Like well it's Australian rules basketball, um
Speaker 1: or rugby or maybe some Australian soccer anything like that.
Speaker 1: Have you have you dipped your toes and tell God no,
Speaker 1: the only thing that's annoyed me. Is I have been
Speaker 1: preempted at several times because of cricket. And I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything about cricket before I started doing this, And
Speaker 1: the cricket is a big sport there, and these games
Speaker 1: will sometimes they go like three to seven days. You'll
Speaker 1: have a cricket match that will go three to seven days.
Speaker 1: There's no clock. People complain about baseball, but imagine being
Speaker 1: handcuffed by cricket. My god, I'd rather be drugged, handcuffed
Speaker 1: and gagged and I have to sit through seven days
Speaker 1: of cricket. But U But yeah, so you know it's
Speaker 1: and we have a lot of listeners. You know that
Speaker 1: our show, the Overnight Show, was picked up at night
Speaker 1: on Radio Sport in New Zealand. We've got a cult
Speaker 1: following in that Country's hopefully you guys can still listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast if if you're hearing it now, and
Speaker 1: you can hear the radio show on I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: And it's not just that. Now, I have our buddy
Speaker 1: Art Martinez AREDI Martinez, who had been working at the
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Radio network. They shut down that network here
Speaker 1: in the United States. They went out of business this
Speaker 1: week and that's it. They're done, no more NBC Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: and so he lost his job. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: though I've never told this story before, but years ago,
Speaker 1: when my deal was up at Fox, I had had
Speaker 1: some conversations they were interested in the Mala brand over
Speaker 1: there at the Peacock Radio Network and uh they had
Speaker 1: reached out to me about possibly doing some stuff with them.
Speaker 1: And fortunately it never got that serious because Fox ended
Speaker 1: up keeping the show obviously, and I'm still hearing, very
Speaker 1: happy to be here, but they they were flirting with
Speaker 1: me a while back doing the old mating dance, and
Speaker 1: I am so happy that I did not did not
Speaker 1: end up making that that option. I didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: really have that option to make. It was building towards that,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy that didn't work out for obvious reason.
Speaker 1: But it does suck for the my friends and radio
Speaker 1: that I've known for years that are that are out
Speaker 1: of work there. It reminds me of a story when
Speaker 1: I returned home from from Bakersfield after a six month
Speaker 1: tour with the Mariners High affiliate, and I had an
Speaker 1: offer that was sort of on the table from this UH,
Speaker 1: this recruiter who was doing work overseas and uh it
Speaker 1: was actually a state run news channel. Uh, and the
Speaker 1: People's Republic of China. And I remember you encouraging me
Speaker 1: to take this job. I did, I did. I told
Speaker 1: you to go to China. I told you to move
Speaker 1: to China. Why didn't you move to China? You could
Speaker 1: have been right in the front lines of media coverage
Speaker 1: in China. Yeah, I could have been on the firing squad.
Speaker 1: Could you have a man the choices we do and
Speaker 1: do not make? That would have been quite a moment.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I survived. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: and the I Heart Radio app. Isn't it? It's the
Speaker 1: old philosophy about life, right. Life is just the product
Speaker 1: of the decisions you make right every every day. The
Speaker 1: decisions you make leads to the ultimate outcome of your life.
Speaker 1: You make the good decisions, and you don't even know
Speaker 1: at the time, Like, who the hell? Who knows? You think?
Speaker 1: Nobody could have predicted three months ago that we'd be
Speaker 1: in the position we're in right now, right, you know?
Speaker 1: And so the same people now seem to think they
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen three months from not you
Speaker 1: don't know, right and speaking and speaking of which, since
Speaker 1: we've we've had a bump in in certain things across
Speaker 1: the platforms, I think it's a good reminder to tell
Speaker 1: folks that listen to this podcast or listen to your
Speaker 1: show is the first thing that I would recommend to
Speaker 1: do from a financial sense, is to call your credit
Speaker 1: card companies, call your home lender, and call anyone that
Speaker 1: you have an equity line set up with. Because credit
Speaker 1: card companies right now are offering either zero percent a
Speaker 1: p R or they're not charging any finance fees for
Speaker 1: the months of of March to April, not April to May.
Speaker 1: So uh, those are good things to point out right now.
Speaker 1: And if you have a situation, whether you're a homeowner
Speaker 1: or you're renting, I would talk to the people upstairs
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be in a position they're willing to
Speaker 1: negotiate with you because you have what they want and
Speaker 1: that's the money, it's not the property itself. So these
Speaker 1: are trying times for everybody. Obviously, it feel bad for
Speaker 1: for you losing your gig down down Under, but there's
Speaker 1: actually some good news Ben, because we had just gotten
Speaker 1: word earlier this week about the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: malle a lot with some other podcasts are on the
Speaker 1: I Heart platform. But month to date, for the month
Speaker 1: of March, we were up sixty seven percent, Wow, sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent compared to the month of February. And over
Speaker 1: the last sixty days we're actually up thirty nine percent
Speaker 1: from from where we were prior to that. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good reasons for that, and I
Speaker 1: think part of it's the overall health of Ben Mallory.
Speaker 1: You don't have any kidney stones or gall stones. Uh,
Speaker 1: you don't have a burnt mouth, You're not sick anymore.
Speaker 1: You're not losing your phone at Costco anymore. You're not
Speaker 1: getting backed into by cars in the parking lot of
Speaker 1: cost Nothing bad can happen if you don't love you
Speaker 1: leave your house, and right, I mean we're gonna where
Speaker 1: everyone's generally, you really have to have some bad luck
Speaker 1: if you injure yourself just staying at home all day. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're doing it now. Part of the reason why I
Speaker 1: brought up those numbers is I have a good idea
Speaker 1: and I think it's a great one for us that
Speaker 1: we should execute in the in the month of April
Speaker 1: is because just yesterday we had a good conversation, especially
Speaker 1: you with the great Prince of Darkness, League Kline, and
Speaker 1: I think in the month of April we should do
Speaker 1: something a little bit different for the audience where UM,
Speaker 1: I pick either a date or sport or one particular
Speaker 1: athlete in your lifetime that you can reflect about, and
Speaker 1: we can do this in a short form version fifteen
Speaker 1: and twenty minutes and to be an isolated event. So
Speaker 1: if we were to start this for the month of April,
Speaker 1: one player in particular I want you to talk and
Speaker 1: reflect about would be Jonathan Broxton. So I do other
Speaker 1: random it is. It is random, but there are some
Speaker 1: great moments, especially because we got worried earlier this week
Speaker 1: that the Dodgers are back on television. UM, you and
Speaker 1: Lead talked about a ton of things, mostly Clipper related,
Speaker 1: but they're athletes and they're players, and there's dates that
Speaker 1: come to mind for everybody, and especially in the sports world.
Speaker 1: I think if you had a chance to point about
Speaker 1: that person or that event for fifteen or twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of the background stuff that you know,
Speaker 1: you as a fan can elaborate on just because the
Speaker 1: anguish or the excitement that you had or do still
Speaker 1: have about that particular person. So I think that'd be
Speaker 1: a good treat, just a little bit of an appetizer
Speaker 1: before we get to the main course with everyone else
Speaker 1: that we bring. So we can add that to the
Speaker 1: two future editions of the show. But you know, Broxton.
Speaker 1: The first thing I remember about Jonathan Broxton, my memory
Speaker 1: of him as a Dodger was that home run he
Speaker 1: gave up in the against the Philadelphia Philist Stairs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: was at I was at that game in the auxiliary
Speaker 1: press box, and I think that ball is still sailing
Speaker 1: around the world. I believe it is. It's like a
Speaker 1: comet at this point. That ball was hit so so
Speaker 1: fucking far by Matt Stairs. It was unbelievable. Uh that,
Speaker 1: And I remember Broxton just being morbidly obese. He was
Speaker 1: like three pounds, some massive human being. Jonathan Broxton, he
Speaker 1: was huge. I was hoping he'd maybe recapture a little
Speaker 1: bit of his glory when he went to Cincinnati, but
Speaker 1: after Matt Stairs just destroyed him, Oh that was it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was never he was and he had been a
Speaker 1: dominant pitcher for the Dodgers the first few years he
Speaker 1: was there, Uh, the relief guy, their closer. He was
Speaker 1: e r a s that were ridiculously low and he
Speaker 1: was a dominant picture. But he never trusted him. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like it was one of these guys. He had
Speaker 1: great numbers, but then it seemed like in big spots
Speaker 1: he would puke all over the mound. And and I
Speaker 1: recall that, and he bounced around after he left the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: he went from team the team, the team, and he
Speaker 1: played for four other teams. He's not even that he
Speaker 1: should still be pitching, but he was so bad and
Speaker 1: he's out of baseball. I think he's you're like thirty
Speaker 1: five now and he's not not pitching at less. Well,
Speaker 1: no one's pitching anywhere right now because what's going on.
Speaker 1: But he's he's been out of baseball for a couple
Speaker 1: of years. I believe he's done skis at this particular point.
Speaker 1: That ball was absolutely crushed. I I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: ball hit that hard since Mark McGuire did that back
Speaker 1: in Dodger Stadium in the in the Glory days. Were
Speaker 1: hit one out of the stadium, but man, he fucking
Speaker 1: tattooed Broxton in that game. And that was the That
Speaker 1: was the m the Dodgers. Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Uh And and because of that, you talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, decisions or and this wasn't really a decision,
Speaker 1: like it was a poor decision, but it was an incident.
Speaker 1: Like Jonathan Broxton's career went to ship after that home run.
Speaker 1: And Matt Stairs is for the rest of his life
Speaker 1: Philadelphia sports legend. Like my guy Fats in Philly and
Speaker 1: all you guys in Philly, this guy's because of that
Speaker 1: Pinship home run, that two run moonshot at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: That that and and for those who don't recall, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers would have been even up to two in the NLCS.
Speaker 1: It was. It was Game four and because the Stairs
Speaker 1: at that home run and some other things happened, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers lost the Phillies one. They were they were up
Speaker 1: three oh of. The series was pretty much over, and
Speaker 1: it did turn out to be over. But Matt Stairs,
Speaker 1: I believe he was doing some television work for the
Speaker 1: Phillies and uh he I know he's beloved there because
Speaker 1: of that home run, and he didn't play for the
Speaker 1: Phillies all that much. He There's another guy, Matt Stairs.
Speaker 1: I remember him mostly with the with the Oakland Athletics,
Speaker 1: but he played with a bunch of different teams. He
Speaker 1: bounced all over the place. But in Philadelphia, man he is,
Speaker 1: He's all about it and they love him. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like it was like Stairs, Daniel Murphy. There were
Speaker 1: just certain guys during the Dodgers run of the last
Speaker 1: handful of years that have picked them apart. Like Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy was batting four hundred. I think in a couple
Speaker 1: of series against the Dodgers, Matt Stairs ruined them. And
Speaker 1: then of course you know what happened with Houston too.
Speaker 1: But they're just guys in particular that really lit up
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and in crunch time situations. I gotta tell you, though,
Speaker 1: I liked Matt Stairs, although no, I don't like what
Speaker 1: he did to the Dodgers, but I remember when he
Speaker 1: was a young player. Um, he came up with Montreal
Speaker 1: and he played somewhere else. But I remember him in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties with Oakland and they came in. I
Speaker 1: was covering the Angels and he came in there and
Speaker 1: he remember I was in the a's dugout, and he
Speaker 1: walked into the dugout and he looked out at the
Speaker 1: field at the Big A and he just like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so excited. He had never been there before
Speaker 1: at that point, and he was like so excited, like
Speaker 1: he like he was like like a kid. Like it's
Speaker 1: it's the same reaction like I would have if I
Speaker 1: was a kid walking into a ballpark, or any of
Speaker 1: us would have for the first time. How cool was
Speaker 1: It was just neat to see that because it was
Speaker 1: like it was humanizing. You know, a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys are complete douchebags and they're just you know whatever.
Speaker 1: But he was like he really was appreciative of the moment,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. That's what I mean. That's
Speaker 1: what minor league players talk about. Is the show, right,
Speaker 1: Like you always think, well, what's the show? Like the
Speaker 1: show is is major league Baseball. It's like when you
Speaker 1: get between the lines, that shock and you are in
Speaker 1: a major league facility, not not rookie ball. I'm not
Speaker 1: a double A facility, not somewhere in the sticks. But man, like,
Speaker 1: when you get to the show, it's I mean, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're playing in Oakland or Pittsburgh where
Speaker 1: it's an empty yard like when you're there, that's that's it.
Speaker 1: That's that's real. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, man, it's and and
Speaker 1: then way these the baseball stadiums in the major leagues,
Speaker 1: it's it's the taj Mahall. It's insane, like there's no
Speaker 1: There used to be some some shiphole stadiums that were
Speaker 1: terrible and disgusting, you know, like Sha Stadium, Comiskey, Wrigley Field,
Speaker 1: even before they renovated Wrigley Field was just the visiting
Speaker 1: locker room. You had to walk like a stair maze
Speaker 1: to get to the locker room. You have to walk
Speaker 1: through a little catwalk where the fans were below you,
Speaker 1: and it was wild. And it's not like that from
Speaker 1: what I understand anymore. They've admitted much better. Um So
Speaker 1: everywhere is first class. All the way they they they
Speaker 1: say clubhouse, it's really like at a five star golf resort,
Speaker 1: and you know, like you're at a golf resort in
Speaker 1: the locker room and the way it's set up and
Speaker 1: all that. Um Now, I wanted to bring up the
Speaker 1: Lenny Dikestra interview from last week. Alright, so, uh, now
Speaker 1: we both had the same idea. After we had talked
Speaker 1: to him, I thought Lenny was great man. Was he entertaining?
Speaker 1: You told some wonderful stories, wild and crazy. It was
Speaker 1: classic Lenny Dikestra. So I figured, hey, we get some
Speaker 1: publicity out of this, right because Lenny said what I
Speaker 1: felt were several newsworthy things. We didn't get any though,
Speaker 1: gasco now and I found out why. I reached out
Speaker 1: to some of my friends who work in the mainstream
Speaker 1: media at big newspapers, and they almost all said the
Speaker 1: same thing, some version of the same thing. They essentially
Speaker 1: said that they are ignoring Lenny. It's like the Boy
Speaker 1: that Cried Wolf. That Lenny has done and said so
Speaker 1: many outrageous things over his last few years since he's
Speaker 1: had some legal problems that they've just decided to stop
Speaker 1: covering and they stopped reporting his amazing declarations and all that.
Speaker 1: So it sucks. But I felt like the fact that
Speaker 1: he said he was gonna get pardoned by Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. And some of the stories
Speaker 1: he said about Barry Bonds and I thought all of
Speaker 1: that was fascinating. But it's only only for our ears, apparently,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there were a lot of
Speaker 1: people that did respond via social media though, enjoying the
Speaker 1: stories or saying like he's batshit crazy. Um, there's quite
Speaker 1: a few that that echered my sentiments about how the
Speaker 1: fund does he live that long? You know, he's fifty seven. Now, well,
Speaker 1: that's a great point because I remember the joke not
Speaker 1: so much with Lenny, but years ago the joke was,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of a sick mccob joke was like, wow,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike Tyson is not gonna make it to
Speaker 1: forty or or Darryl Strawberry or Dwight Gooden, you know,
Speaker 1: the guys that were just going for it back in
Speaker 1: the day with the coke and all that, just living
Speaker 1: life to a life of excess. And here we are
Speaker 1: in these games. Mike Tyson is a mellow guy. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's got he's got cats, but they're kitty cats,
Speaker 1: not not big tigers and big cats. And and he's
Speaker 1: living a tranquil life and doing yoga and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And Darryl Strawberry is a like a preacher in St. Louis.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a man of God. Now, Dwight Gooden
Speaker 1: still crazy. Dwight Gooden is still doing wild stuff and
Speaker 1: getting arrested and living life on the edge, but he's
Speaker 1: still around. And then you got Lenny Distre, who was
Speaker 1: like the party boy from the Phillies and the Mets,
Speaker 1: and it seems like he's doing better. Actually thought Lenny
Speaker 1: sounded better than I was expecting, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: because last I had heard Lenny, he was not doing good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I when I had to look at some
Speaker 1: some background stuff going on Google, you just see pictures
Speaker 1: of him, and the first thing I thought was, man,
Speaker 1: he looks like he's seventy, not fifty seven. He just
Speaker 1: looked banged up and worn and like an old glove.
Speaker 1: And yeah, he Well, that's what over indulgence will do, right,
Speaker 1: you live live in the fast lane. It's uh. Burning
Speaker 1: the candle at both ends eventually catches up to Yeah,
Speaker 1: him and I think Lawrence Taylor, those are the two
Speaker 1: guys that really worked it from both sides of the candle,
Speaker 1: and they have maxed down on what they've done on
Speaker 1: and off the field. So colorful men, I will say
Speaker 1: that much. Because they got a decorated past of accomplishment,
Speaker 1: and of course some some infamous moments. To be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So now we
Speaker 1: can do some study this if you want gascon you
Speaker 1: are you were going to tell some you were saving something.
Speaker 1: Weren't you saving something that you wanted to rant about
Speaker 1: right now before we get to the other stuff. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I mean that was that? Was it earlier? What I
Speaker 1: what I thought when you mentioned yeah, because that was
Speaker 1: it you were teasing that. Well, yeah, I think it's important,
Speaker 1: right because sixty seven percent in in a month, that's
Speaker 1: that's huge. You should be happy about that. No, I'm
Speaker 1: glad people are enjoying the show. I what's the point
Speaker 1: of doing if nobody's gonna listen to what I can
Speaker 1: just you know, sit in the room and not spend
Speaker 1: all this time doing this nonsense. Why I know. But
Speaker 1: we've had more people than have participated in it, and
Speaker 1: I think that it's I think it's a good cause,
Speaker 1: right Like that's you you said a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago that we want to run and gown with with
Speaker 1: the big people that are are here at Fox. At
Speaker 1: my heart in you know, we're putting the town. We're
Speaker 1: putting the work, and that's paying off a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean not monetarily, but of course. But it's a
Speaker 1: funnel rama. It's the funnel rama. Guest. It's not about
Speaker 1: the money man, it's not about that. Listen. Well, we're
Speaker 1: just killing time. We got nothing else to do, right,
Speaker 1: come on, you got nothing else going on? What do
Speaker 1: you got going on? You watched The Animal Kingdom on
Speaker 1: TV or something like that. What do you got going on? So?
Speaker 1: I have been busy. I've been reading a lot more.
Speaker 1: I'm actually writing a pilot as we speak. Um. I
Speaker 1: have a makeshift little workout in my backyard, a medicine ball,
Speaker 1: a heavyweight ball, two dumbbells, a heavy rope, and some
Speaker 1: jump rope. So it's actually you said too, but you've
Speaker 1: actually got three dumbells when you include your that's not
Speaker 1: I mean you could save that for your your overnight
Speaker 1: show with the lightweights and drunks and methodics. So um,
Speaker 1: but yes, I'm doing my best to exercise and maintain
Speaker 1: some kind of a semblance. Um, but we need to
Speaker 1: get back to work as a country man. I was
Speaker 1: watching a couple of days ago on Fox on Big
Speaker 1: Big Fox Um Laura Ingram had a doctor on. His
Speaker 1: name is Steven Smith. He was a I think he's
Speaker 1: an infectious disease specialist, and he was on. He was
Speaker 1: talking about the chloroquine, the hydroxy chloroquin and saying that
Speaker 1: that was a game changer in his and his thoughts
Speaker 1: about how he's been treating people, and his patients haven't
Speaker 1: been intubated, so they're not having the you know, basically
Speaker 1: the entire was I guess a pipe like a windpipe
Speaker 1: broken through with their with their throat all the way
Speaker 1: down to help them breathe. And he thinks that with
Speaker 1: the way that they've been treating people that this can
Speaker 1: help obviously push people from being an impatient to an
Speaker 1: outpatient with obviously proper medical care. But I mean, Matt,
Speaker 1: New York has been hit so hard and say with
Speaker 1: New Jersey, I think we're doing a pretty good job
Speaker 1: here in California so far. Yeah, you know, I I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that the doom and gloom crowd will not be
Speaker 1: proven correct. You know that they're not. Oftentimes they're wrong.
Speaker 1: These these bold declarations that are that are being made,
Speaker 1: But that drug turns out to be the one that
Speaker 1: that can put a stop to this or at least
Speaker 1: treat the people so they don't die. I mean that
Speaker 1: that would be a wonderful thing obviously, and that would
Speaker 1: that would get us back. But there there is a point.
Speaker 1: It's an odd thing. You know, there's fine balance. You
Speaker 1: know that that you have to at some point you
Speaker 1: gotta get back or else there's nothing to get back to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and and so you have to you have to.
Speaker 1: People say that's cold, and that's not right. You can't
Speaker 1: say that, but that's just the reality of the world.
Speaker 1: You at some point you have to make a decision
Speaker 1: where we have to get commerce back or else there's
Speaker 1: there's just gonna be people dying from from not having
Speaker 1: jobs and not being able to pay for anything. Everyone
Speaker 1: be it's just gonna be brutal. Yeah, because it all compounds, right,
Speaker 1: because if you're not if you're at home, you're not exercising,
Speaker 1: probably you're probably not eating well, you're either smoking or
Speaker 1: drinking or doing both. You're going batch it crazy because
Speaker 1: you're stuck at home and pretty much into quarantine. There's
Speaker 1: no engagement with people, like you can't go out and interact,
Speaker 1: you can't go to a bar or restaurants. So I
Speaker 1: just think for your inner self, you need that. You
Speaker 1: need to get out and scream a little bit, right.
Speaker 1: I mean I blitz right down the four oh five
Speaker 1: and the one Tin Freeway. But man, this is like
Speaker 1: one of those times where I wish there actually was
Speaker 1: traffic because I I need that normal stay. I need
Speaker 1: the engagement. And we can do as much as we
Speaker 1: can on the podcast and you you on your radio show,
Speaker 1: but without having that kind of connectivity with sports and
Speaker 1: movies and shows and a lot of stuff. There's yeah,
Speaker 1: we need it all, man, and then we need to
Speaker 1: back as soon as possible. So it's a it's a huge,
Speaker 1: huge accomplishment about what the you know, people in the
Speaker 1: medical field, doctors and nurses and surgeons and people in
Speaker 1: the ICU are doing right now, because yeah, those are
Speaker 1: our heroes right now, and those are on the front lines.
Speaker 1: It's not I mean, our military can only do so much,
Speaker 1: but right now, it's it's the people that are in
Speaker 1: their sc ups right now doing all the heavy lifting
Speaker 1: for us. Yeah. Absolutely. And the other thing too about
Speaker 1: that is, you know we've seen in Italy and I
Speaker 1: guess parts of America now medical students that normally would
Speaker 1: have to spend years before they get to the front
Speaker 1: lines are now being put into the front lines because
Speaker 1: desperate times call for desperate measure, right, as that old
Speaker 1: old saying goes. And I'm hopeful that what you referred
Speaker 1: to as far as the uh, the situation with the
Speaker 1: the drug that they think might be a breakthrough that
Speaker 1: help treat the coronavirus, that that they they're not gonna
Speaker 1: gonna wait a year, that whatever it takes right that
Speaker 1: you need to have some uh you know, expediting of
Speaker 1: the process or process right You've you you can't just
Speaker 1: sit back and wait for a year. You're gonna if
Speaker 1: this is working, then keep giving it to people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely so in the meantime, I still would encourage a
Speaker 1: lot of people that we've had a few but when
Speaker 1: you listen to the podcast, make sure to rate us, subscribe,
Speaker 1: download it, and then give us five stars. But we
Speaker 1: always listen or always read the reviews on it, so
Speaker 1: there's something we can tweak or something we can improve
Speaker 1: on or do something different. We're all ears. It's not
Speaker 1: like we have just a proper format that we follow,
Speaker 1: you know, nine to five on a schedule. So yes,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of improv on the podcast, and though
Speaker 1: we're we're open if you want to hear us talk
Speaker 1: to somebody in particular that maybe you know that we know,
Speaker 1: or you'd just like to hear that you think would
Speaker 1: be good. I know justin in Cincinnati and some other
Speaker 1: people have actually been reaching out to try to get
Speaker 1: certain people on the podcast. So it's uh, yeah, so
Speaker 1: le's good. We're open to that. Absolutely. Have we Have
Speaker 1: you had any adult adult actresses hit you up to
Speaker 1: get a little air time? Uh? No, No. The only
Speaker 1: people in the porn industry have been guys that were
Speaker 1: friends of the show. Yeah, I've I've told the story before,
Speaker 1: but I've had several adult male obviously porn stars who
Speaker 1: who were big Mallard Militia guys. Yeah. In fact, the
Speaker 1: great Seymour Butts, one of the great porn guys. He's
Speaker 1: been open up about it and all that he's I
Speaker 1: don't think he's I don't know if he's working right now,
Speaker 1: still in the business, but he he was a big
Speaker 1: fan of the show. And there was a couple of
Speaker 1: guys back that are out of the adult industry that
Speaker 1: we're big, big fans back in the day, and they
Speaker 1: would tell me like they were. They would be up
Speaker 1: at night editing their hard work, and uh, they would
Speaker 1: be listening to the show. So it's rather interesting what
Speaker 1: they were doing while they were listening to the show.
Speaker 1: But you know what, teach their own why not? Oh
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, all right, let's do a little study
Speaker 1: this and then we'll put the the baby to bed,
Speaker 1: as they say. So a new study several several listeners
Speaker 1: sent this to me. They they were like, hey, did
Speaker 1: you see this, mallor because it relates to Doc Mike
Speaker 1: and what he thinks is the treatment for all of
Speaker 1: life sells. But a new study sets that, uh, astronauts
Speaker 1: in you know, they got out of space in the future,
Speaker 1: that their urine, their pp uh could end up creating
Speaker 1: moon concrete. They could use their own urine to build
Speaker 1: big structures on on the moon. About that they could
Speaker 1: make a base on the moon with their own urine
Speaker 1: and make the concrete from the moon dirt. How about that?
Speaker 1: So what do they do with their fecal manner? I
Speaker 1: guess they can. They can make some bricks out of that. Also,
Speaker 1: why not I don't know, I didn't see that part
Speaker 1: of the story, but I did that. People are very
Speaker 1: excited to think that your urine is so powerful that
Speaker 1: it could be used to create like concrete, you know,
Speaker 1: our special magical urine. What would cause you, like, how
Speaker 1: many days into the wilderness would you have to be
Speaker 1: in before you drink your own piss? That's a good question.
Speaker 1: At some point you go to survival mode, right, So
Speaker 1: if you really want to, if you love life and
Speaker 1: you still want to live and you're not ready to
Speaker 1: check out, then you would do it. It's just like
Speaker 1: remember the movie the plane crash where they started eating
Speaker 1: the people. I mean, you never think you'll get to
Speaker 1: that point, but you're only a couple of decisions away
Speaker 1: or bad things happening to you from But I'd really
Speaker 1: have to be out. I mean, I have no interest,
Speaker 1: and you're you're more of the kind of a freak
Speaker 1: than I am. Gastcon You probably occasionally drink your own urine,
Speaker 1: you know, have many calls for a time. I might
Speaker 1: have to do it, And it's all about surviving, right
Speaker 1: all right. A new study out this week shows that
Speaker 1: alcohol sales up fifty five cent fifty five and people
Speaker 1: following the shelter in place orders, but they are doing it,
Speaker 1: and I've noticed this. Now. I always have a lot
Speaker 1: of drunks that caught me up on the overnight, but
Speaker 1: it has been a special breed that has called up
Speaker 1: here in recent days on my show. So I I
Speaker 1: have my own scientific data, guesscont I don't need some
Speaker 1: study to tell me that alcohol consumption is up. I
Speaker 1: think it's up, like seven is what I think. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's beer, it's whiskey, it's a fireball, you name it.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is that people can't get enough of it. Man,
Speaker 1: it's out of control. I'm a part of the statistic
Speaker 1: because I have ordered wine and and scotch for certain friends.
Speaker 1: A couple of buddies that are married. I've gotten them
Speaker 1: wine because their attorneys and they're stuck at home. And
Speaker 1: a couple other buddies that are always on the go
Speaker 1: because they're in sales. Our sales people. They go a
Speaker 1: little bit harder with their with their toys, whether it's
Speaker 1: alcohol or extracurricular drugs. Uh So, yeah, I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: part of the stats that I have got them little
Speaker 1: little gifts of of alcohol. But you've got to maintain somehow, right, Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not. I have not gone to that extreme,
Speaker 1: but I can't really because I still have to work.
Speaker 1: So I think if I was all schnocker on the radio,
Speaker 1: that would be um, it might be better. I don't
Speaker 1: know ifrobably get in trouble for it, so I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a good idea. But I'm one of the
Speaker 1: few people that is not just boozing, just on the
Speaker 1: booze cruise and just going for it. And I think
Speaker 1: next week I'm gonna do an hour, the Drunk Hour
Speaker 1: and only have people call up that are completely slashed,
Speaker 1: and we'll just we'll just play a game with the
Speaker 1: drunk people, because you know, when someone's completely hammered. Every
Speaker 1: drunk caller I've ever had, if you ask them, I
Speaker 1: do this bit where I asked him to blow into
Speaker 1: the phone. Right. We pretend like we have a breathalyzer
Speaker 1: test to determine how drunk they are, and if you're drunk,
Speaker 1: every drunk does it. They might complain about it, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it, and uh it's it's a good indicator.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty funny, all right. New survey out says
Speaker 1: that influencers have shown engagement has been spiking in recent
Speaker 1: weeks on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and whatnot that I won't
Speaker 1: use TikTok uh definitely will not use that for several reasons.
Speaker 1: But I believe in what the influencers, and this is
Speaker 1: a great time for us too, especially if we could
Speaker 1: put some stuff out there that people can engage on
Speaker 1: on Instagram, because you think about it, right now, people
Speaker 1: want to advice and a couple of things. First of all,
Speaker 1: they want some advice on how to work out or
Speaker 1: what to do when they're at home. Second of all,
Speaker 1: I would imagine there's probably an uptick in people showcasing
Speaker 1: how they cook. I know I'm one of them. I
Speaker 1: was teaching you and rich Ornberger earlier than you are
Speaker 1: such a narcissist. Wait wait, you can't you just say
Speaker 1: thank you for supplying me with some excellent No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, I'm trying to help you out. I want
Speaker 1: you to be more likeable, you know, be a man
Speaker 1: of the people. I know you're west of the four
Speaker 1: or five. When we live west of the four or five,
Speaker 1: it's hard to be relatable to the common man. But
Speaker 1: the common man does not send out photos of what
Speaker 1: they cook and brag about how long they fast. The
Speaker 1: douchebag sends that out, not that dosten I faster this week?
Speaker 1: For I think it was like over sixty hours. Did
Speaker 1: I post on social media that I fasted? I did not.
Speaker 1: I didn't even send you. I couldn't. I could have
Speaker 1: sent you a photo of the screen on my phone.
Speaker 1: I didn't do it because I didn't want to be
Speaker 1: called a douche bag. Well, I'm sorry that you feel
Speaker 1: that way. You're the same asshole. It takes pictures of
Speaker 1: my car and the way that I parked because it's
Speaker 1: an inconvenience for you to lock an extra ten feet
Speaker 1: for the studio. Because you're you're, you're, you're completely an ignoramus,
Speaker 1: all right when it comes to parking, you are a
Speaker 1: stumble bum. And I am shaming you because I believe
Speaker 1: you will be scared straight by the Mallar militia. And
Speaker 1: you will be scared straight by the Mallew militia, and
Speaker 1: I want and the circle back to the original topic
Speaker 1: at hand. For for everyone out there, I made a
Speaker 1: man's meal. It was a filet wrapped in bacon, three strips,
Speaker 1: some potatoes, and a couple of green beans. And I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say who told me that you don't actually
Speaker 1: you didn't actually make that. You don't know how to
Speaker 1: cook what I've heard, No, you heard wrong. I've heard
Speaker 1: you don't know how to cook. I d all my cooking.
Speaker 1: I don't burn my mouth, I don't burn my pizza.
Speaker 1: I do my steak about medium to medium. Well, now
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about starting a YouTube cooking channel. That's how
Speaker 1: good a cook I am. And I couldn't make a
Speaker 1: YouTube cooking channel. You already have a functioning kitchen. How
Speaker 1: the funk are you gonna have a YouTube cooking channel?
Speaker 1: The kitchen is like done, but considering what's going on
Speaker 1: in the world, it will never actually be finished. I'm
Speaker 1: convinced that this will just be nine percent done and
Speaker 1: then the last five percent will never actually be finished.
Speaker 1: Like the power that's out in part of the kitchen
Speaker 1: will never be repaired because we can't have anyone come
Speaker 1: over because of what's going on, uh and all that.
Speaker 1: But no, wouldn't that be We should start a YouTube
Speaker 1: cooking channel. And I'll bet you my videos when I'm
Speaker 1: making that Mallard pizza pie or those Mallard chicken strips
Speaker 1: or or any of the other dishes that I prepare.
Speaker 1: People would love that. Oh my god, it would be
Speaker 1: a cooking sensation on the YouTube. You have a lot
Speaker 1: of sick of fans, That's why they would love it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't you can ship into a fucking oven and
Speaker 1: your fans with loving man. That was the greatest ship
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Please don't wipe, please, please please? Can
Speaker 1: I have your soiled underwear from work? Hashtag blessed? Yeah? Alright,
Speaker 1: calm down, calm down. Like Sprinkles the Clown over there,
Speaker 1: Lenny's old friend. We didn't We should have brought that.
Speaker 1: I remember Sprinkles the Clown and Lenny doing the dumpster dive,
Speaker 1: and remember that back in the day. Next time we
Speaker 1: have Lenny on, we'll have to ask him about Sprinkles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: after he's pardoned from Trump and yes, the whole thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 1: search f s R to listen live. Al Right, how
Speaker 1: about this. Here's a depressing story. New York restaurants lost
Speaker 1: at least two billion dollars in sales the first twenty
Speaker 1: two days of the month of March. That according to
Speaker 1: a survey of business in the state of New York.
Speaker 1: And it's not any different anywhere else. Even this is
Speaker 1: the same in every big city and pretty much everywhere
Speaker 1: that has been locked down. You're looking at these kind
Speaker 1: of losses like what we talked about earlier, and the
Speaker 1: fact you've got to get back working, right, you get
Speaker 1: back out there and work now. I will I will
Speaker 1: say for where we're at. I don't know about you
Speaker 1: in your area, but where we work in Sherman Oaks
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, a lot of the establishments have kept
Speaker 1: It's almost like Valentine's Day where they have kept business open.
Speaker 1: But they actually have their own specific menu. So it's
Speaker 1: not like they're gonna go from appetizers to a main
Speaker 1: course to desert or whatever. But they have streamlined a
Speaker 1: menu for for picking up, especially like in Sherman Oaks
Speaker 1: in the studio. City makes it easy, so we popped
Speaker 1: in and out of the studio. We can place an
Speaker 1: order and you can either get it to go on
Speaker 1: your own or have someone else pick it up, like
Speaker 1: for door Dash or whatever. But at least some of
Speaker 1: the places here in l a they've kept it open,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's gonna be a brutal shot to New York.
Speaker 1: How is your brothers surviving out there by the way, Um,
Speaker 1: he's doing okay. You know, they're they're cooped up in
Speaker 1: their apartment obviously, so they don't have like a backyard
Speaker 1: to go out and wander around, and so they've been
Speaker 1: trying to go out and walk. I really feel bad
Speaker 1: for my nieces though. I mean my one, my older niece,
Speaker 1: she's a senior in high school. This is our last
Speaker 1: year in high school, and this is how she ends
Speaker 1: her high school career. You know, he's always a big deal.
Speaker 1: You don't get any of the fun things that you
Speaker 1: would normally get at the end of high school, you know,
Speaker 1: especially like she's social. I'm not I didn't really mind it.
Speaker 1: I hated high school, but but she liked it. And
Speaker 1: she's getting ready to go to college. And that's the
Speaker 1: other thing. Like she's going to college next I guess
Speaker 1: later this year now in South Carolina, Charleston, And who
Speaker 1: knows if that's gonna happen, right, I mean, is this
Speaker 1: we're gonna start next school year? Is this still gonna
Speaker 1: be going on? And she gonna have to do online
Speaker 1: classes and uh, but my brother seems to be doing
Speaker 1: pretty well. They're all in good health. Last we check
Speaker 1: knock on wood and but they're wandering around and they're
Speaker 1: right in the belly of the beast there in New
Speaker 1: York City where it's been brutal. And since we have downtime,
Speaker 1: that that means we should be pressing on with our
Speaker 1: ambitions of of doing television work. Yes, I mean we
Speaker 1: should be networking and reaching out to people and and
Speaker 1: pitching stuff. But it seems like I have been doing
Speaker 1: that and you've just I'm not. I really haven't been
Speaker 1: reaching out to anybody because I just feel like no one,
Speaker 1: no one's hiring anybody right now, no one, that none
Speaker 1: of this stuff is gonna happen right now. So what
Speaker 1: are we doing. You're casting a line, You're casting a
Speaker 1: line for future. Not I feel and I feel guilty
Speaker 1: though so many of my friends are losing their jobs.
Speaker 1: I think, am I really gonna be talking about you
Speaker 1: just lost a job a couple of days ago. I
Speaker 1: know I did lose one of my jobs, So I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: do you feel bad for me? I've lost a couple
Speaker 1: of jobs, so far and not really feel bad for
Speaker 1: Should I feel bad for you? I think so, because
Speaker 1: it all, it all ties into you. I mean, but
Speaker 1: you'll get your jobs back, like your jobs are you
Speaker 1: do play by play? Like that will come back. There
Speaker 1: will be games in and they will hire you to
Speaker 1: play by play. They can't really hire you to do
Speaker 1: play by play. What are you gonna do play by play?
Speaker 1: On marketing? My cooking, My cooking is great. I can
Speaker 1: do some play by playing. You're cooking. Let me do
Speaker 1: a couple more quick ones because I want to get
Speaker 1: these in because I I put these things together, so
Speaker 1: I don't want to waste my hard work preparing these.
Speaker 1: A new survey suggested that more than half of concert
Speaker 1: attendees in the United States might that's a weasel word,
Speaker 1: might not buy tickets for a considerable period after the
Speaker 1: current coronavirus restrictions are lifted. So they're concerned this is
Speaker 1: going to destroy the live venue business model with concerts
Speaker 1: and comedy and all that, that people are not going
Speaker 1: to go out. And I think this is a legitimate concern.
Speaker 1: I only this is bullshit because a certain number of people,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's rightfully so, have been scared beyond belief
Speaker 1: because of this, and so it's gonna take a decent
Speaker 1: amount of time for people to be willing to go
Speaker 1: out and experience these things and not be scared out
Speaker 1: of their minds. I will admit to you and to
Speaker 1: those listening, I was hesitant about going to concerts or
Speaker 1: these big public events after the Las Vegas shooting, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean the Las Vegas shooting. I've had people that
Speaker 1: were actually there that were impacted by it, um, but
Speaker 1: I was really really apprehensive about going to any kind
Speaker 1: of large event, whether it's for sports or for music.
Speaker 1: And I love going to Staples obviously for you know,
Speaker 1: Kings and Lakers and Clippers or whatever, and Hollywood Bowls
Speaker 1: right next to us too for music events and concerts.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I can't imagine that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's fortunate though, if you wanted to ben there's some
Speaker 1: great deals online if you want to buy flights, and
Speaker 1: most of the major airlines if you book like for
Speaker 1: for example, like Jet Blue and a couple of their airlines.
Speaker 1: If you purchase a ticket right now, I think they'll
Speaker 1: give you a refund or a credit with any costs
Speaker 1: if you buy anything from now until timber five. So
Speaker 1: you know, if you have any thoughts that this could
Speaker 1: turn or it could actually correct itself and there's deals
Speaker 1: to be had. Yeah, it depends on your level of
Speaker 1: daredevil this right, if I guess if you got a antibody, yeah,
Speaker 1: well that or if you have like a good mask,
Speaker 1: you know, I imagine that's the other thing when we
Speaker 1: start flying again, when people start flying, isn't everyone gonna
Speaker 1: be wearing masks and gloves and all that when they fly? Now?
Speaker 1: Is that going to become the new normal for a
Speaker 1: while when people start flying again? I think so? Like,
Speaker 1: do you do you in the misses wear masks when
Speaker 1: you guys knocked the boots in the bed? Um? That's
Speaker 1: kind of a personal question. I'm sorry, it's a personal podcast.
Speaker 1: I think my wife actually wants me to wear a mask.
Speaker 1: You would prefer that I wear a mask? So yeah,
Speaker 1: Like Freddy Krueger, this now, this is this is something
Speaker 1: that I've noticed in my life. A new survey shows
Speaker 1: that many Americans have reacted to the current events in
Speaker 1: the world today, the uncertainty brought on by the current pandemic,
Speaker 1: by buying blank or thinking about buying blank. What do
Speaker 1: you think guest gun, A gun that is correct. I
Speaker 1: when I walk around my neighborhood, and I guess I
Speaker 1: live in an interesting part of town because there's a
Speaker 1: several gun stores that are kind of around here, and uh,
Speaker 1: and there's been lines every day and a hand to
Speaker 1: God every day since this started. I have seen a
Speaker 1: line of three or four, mostly men, but occasionally women
Speaker 1: in line outside the gun shop. And um, I don't
Speaker 1: I mean you. I'm assuming you you have a gear,
Speaker 1: you're from a police family, guest gun, so you're armed
Speaker 1: and ready and all that. I I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I've always kind of been against it, but I I'm
Speaker 1: not anti gun, but I don't know if I feel
Speaker 1: like there's more risk and harming someone from misuse of
Speaker 1: the gun than actually defending yourself. But it's an option people.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are doing it these days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a gun store next to where we'd
Speaker 1: go for Tito's Tacos that had a bunch of publicity
Speaker 1: on them because they actually had to close down temporarily
Speaker 1: because of the l a counter sheriff order saying that
Speaker 1: they weren't allowed to sell weapons. And then that was
Speaker 1: quickly reversed within a twenty four hour period. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, I'm all four protecting yourself, especially in
Speaker 1: this day and age. And if a quarantine goes on
Speaker 1: any longer. I mean we're in the month of April
Speaker 1: right now, but it could bleed into May or June.
Speaker 1: And if people do, people aren't working and people are
Speaker 1: shure on things. I mean, we lived through the l
Speaker 1: A Riots, and you know, it was mad chaos in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties, and store owners had to protect themselves.
Speaker 1: Homeowners need to protect themselves. And I'm all for self defense,
Speaker 1: especially the time that we're living in right now. And
Speaker 1: like you said, I've seen men and women alike trying
Speaker 1: to turn buy arms. So they're the gun business is
Speaker 1: booming right now, all right, A couple of quick one
Speaker 1: to her. Uh, more men than women are distracted by
Speaker 1: this while driving. What distracts more men than women while driving? Uh?
Speaker 1: Normally I'd say racks, but i'd say cell phone, cell phone? Uh, no, billboards, billboards.
Speaker 1: Apparently the dudes pay more attention to the billboards than
Speaker 1: the ladies. So there's always that one billboard in downtown
Speaker 1: Los Angeles with that orchestra, And so I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember this, but when you're driving the one
Speaker 1: Tin Freeway towards Dodger Stadium, UM, there's the orchestra on
Speaker 1: the on the east side of the one Tin Freeway,
Speaker 1: and it's like five or six musicians that are looking
Speaker 1: at you, and as you drive, they're still looking at you,
Speaker 1: and as you drive past them, they're still looking at you.
Speaker 1: So I've always been distracted by that billboard. That's the
Speaker 1: one that does it for you. You know, if you're distracted,
Speaker 1: why billboards? You should go to Santa Barbara. There's no
Speaker 1: billboards in Santa Barbara. It's against the city ordinance. They
Speaker 1: are not allowed to have billboards. I love Santa Barbara.
Speaker 1: I've not been there in a long time. I can't
Speaker 1: go there now either, But Santa Barbara is a wonderful place, right,
Speaker 1: beautiful Santa Barbara. They had two great places to eat,
Speaker 1: Woodstock Pizza and free Birds, which was Mexican food. It
Speaker 1: was it was actually a really good version of what
Speaker 1: Chipotle is supposed to be. But those two spots with
Speaker 1: the hotspots, when I go to Santa Barbara, alright, last
Speaker 1: one I've got here in this hodgepodge of study, this.
Speaker 1: They say, the average person has thirteen of these what
Speaker 1: are they? Gas thirteen? How about thirteen pairs of shoes?
Speaker 1: Uh no, that's a lot of shoes for people. That
Speaker 1: The answer, gascon is secrets. Each person has an average
Speaker 1: of thirteen secrets? Can they are keeping from the rest
Speaker 1: of us? Can you tell me? Can you tell me
Speaker 1: a secret? Or two? Um? No, no, because then they
Speaker 1: wouldn't be secrets. Well, it's not how it works. If
Speaker 1: I tell you the secret, it's no longer a secret.
Speaker 1: But we can we can skew that average down a
Speaker 1: little bit. You tell me a secret, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: off air. Yeah, okay, I'll take you off here too.
Speaker 1: How about that? All right, that is it. We'll put
Speaker 1: the baby to bed. Listen, be safe, stay healthy, Thank you,
Speaker 1: tell your friends about the podcast, keep those downloads coming
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Speaker 1: is what it's Ben Maller on Fox, Ben Maller on Fox.
Speaker 1: I'm on Facebook Ben Maller Show, and I'm on Twitter.
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Speaker 1: Or if you don't know how to spell that, that's
Speaker 1: a bad job by you. Yeah. I'm on Twitter at
Speaker 1: David J. Gascon and then on Instagram at Dave Gascon.
Speaker 1: And that's J just the letter J, not J A Y. Right,
Speaker 1: but my my full middle name is j Y. Yes,
Speaker 1: but really yeah, but that's like Homer J. Simpson, Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of. My My dad's middle name is is Javier,
Speaker 1: after my grandfather, so my mom didn't want me to
Speaker 1: carry that same. My mom didn't want me to be
Speaker 1: a junior, so she liked to have my middle name
Speaker 1: is j Y. Which is it? Flies fun fact about
Speaker 1: David guests a secret in a trivia question. It's a secret.
Speaker 1: It's a family secret. I know it's amazing. Alright, listen,
Speaker 1: have a great weekend what's left of it, and we'll
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