1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: crackheads in the Ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of Hot 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now, back at it again on 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: a Saturday's Saturday's Saturday. It is another edition of The 9 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor as we are back at 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: it eight days a week. This is the Saturday Podcast. 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: And I don't know about you. I've done a lot 12 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: of these things. That conversation with Tommy john is in 13 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: my top five pantheon of things I did not expect now. 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: I was very excited to talk to Tommy, and I 15 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: enjoyed the conversation, and if you didn't hear it, I 16 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: do highly recommend going back. Because so often we have 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: people on who are guarded and afraid to say anything. 18 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: Tommy was the opposite. He said whatever was on his 19 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: mind and told the fact that he almost died of COVID. 20 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: A wild tale from baseball player Tommy Johns so I'm 21 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: still I'm still getting over that. I'm still you know, 22 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: I'm still enjoying the afterglow of that conversation. But the 23 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: podcast game does not end. The podcast machine does not end. 24 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: And this the Saturday Podcast, and we thank you for 25 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: hitting that subscribe button, giving us five stars and telling 26 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: a friend, telling a friend, what does that help us out? 27 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: And yet again it's it's like a hostile take over. Here. 28 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: Ryan Smith, better known as his wrestling name Ryan McBain 29 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: is writing shotgun. Are we still allowed to say that? 30 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: He's in the passenger seat here on the fifth Hour 31 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: with Ben Maller. So Mr McMahon, the number one Boston 32 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: fan that I know that works at Fox Sports Radio Boston, 33 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: can kiss my ass. Yes, yes, yes, and yes you 34 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: can still say shotgun. Okay good. That has not been 35 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: canceled yet. So you're writing shotgun I came, which is 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: a great reference, as you know, Ryan, because you're a 37 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: historian of words. That goes back to the stagecoach days, right, 38 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: that was the in the early days of travel in 39 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: the Old West. They had the person who was driving 40 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: the stage coach, who was holding onto the straps with 41 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: the horses, and then the person next to him was 42 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: the lookout in case some you know, some hostile attack 43 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: on the side of a dirt road somewhere, so they 44 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: had you. You were literally holding a shotgun sitting next 45 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: to the driver, and you had to obviously defend stage coach. Yes, 46 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm your protor. That's right, you are holding the weapon, 47 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: protecting us from evil people who from Boston, evil people 48 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: from Boston. Yes, here we go again, here we go. 49 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: All right, So on this podcast we'll see how much 50 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: of this we get too, because I have a lot 51 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: of things I wanted to rant about. I've got the eulogy, right, 52 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: the eulogy, the p it's a party foul, We've got that. 53 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: We have pop quiz and study, you know, let's get 54 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: scientifical that kind of stuff. So when we might get 55 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: some of that, depending on the time, Depending on the time. 56 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: You don't want a tight clock here unless we're not. 57 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: But I didn't want to spend some time at the 58 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: beginning of the Saturday podcast to acknowledge said it and 59 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: forget it. And if you've been a fan of a podcast, 60 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: we've been doing this for a while now, and we 61 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: we try to get people that touched my life in 62 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: one way or another, people I like in radio. Usually 63 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: we get a lot of radio nerds that come on here, uh, 64 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: and and athletes that I appreciate and whatnot. And with 65 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: that as the backdrop, one of the people that I 66 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: really wanted to get on the podcast that I tried. 67 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: I said, when I got this podcast, I gotta get 68 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: this guy on. I want to talk to this guy. 69 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: This guy's alleged he's a living legend, and I I 70 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 1: had it booked. It didn't happen. So we're talking about Uh, 71 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: the old gangster of infomercials has gone to salesman heaven, 72 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: Ron Pope Peel. Ron Pope. Now we mentioned this briefly 73 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: in the Overnight the other day, but Ron Popeel not 74 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: just an infommercial guy. The guy was an inventor. But 75 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,559 Speaker 1: he did become the face of infommercials and the as 76 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: seen on TV product line the Showtime Rotisserie, the Pocket Fisherman. 77 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: He passed away this week at age six. Apparently had 78 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: a brief medical emergency on Tuesday. And life is so fragile, 79 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: so fleeting at at all ages, but especially when you 80 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: get to that age. And then he passed away the 81 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: day after here in Los Angeles at Cedar Sinai where 82 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: a lot of the celebrity people go. That's the celebrity 83 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: hospital there in La La Land. And and so he 84 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: has known as the the the set in the forgett 85 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: It And so he's checked out. And I wanted to 86 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: give you the backstory if you missed those podcasts, kind 87 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: of give you the story here. So I love infomercials. 88 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: I've always been more of a night person. And when 89 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: I was a kid, there wasn't a lot to watch 90 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: late at night on television. A lot of reruns and 91 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: a lot of TV stations actually would like shut off 92 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: after a certain hour and just have nothing. And then 93 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: infomercials came and that was a big thing, and I 94 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: would watch quite a bit of infomercis. We didn't have 95 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: the interweb the way it is today now. When I 96 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: can't sleep, I'll just go on the Internet and I'll 97 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: fall into the matrix and I'm good. I can kill 98 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: hour after hour on YouTube. But that didn't exist, so 99 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: so I watched a lot of infommercials. It was very 100 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: influential on my childhood, which is bizarre to say, because 101 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: I didn't really buy much. I did buy one thing 102 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: I bought the They had car wax that you could 103 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: put on the car and you could light it on 104 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: fire and the car would not be burned. And this 105 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: was such an impressive infomercial to me that I bought 106 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: the car wax. And I was so excited because they 107 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: threw in all those extras and all that good stuff. 108 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: Um so I had. That's the only thing I bought. 109 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 1: But I watched so much of Ron Popel and the 110 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: Showtime Rotisserie was the most famous of the late night 111 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: infomercial sold a billion, a billion rotisserie cookers one billion, 112 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: and and just insane, just just insane. So and uh 113 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: and and he was the guy that is credited with 114 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: coming up with the most famous phrase in salesmanship. But wait, 115 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: there's more. But wait there's more. Is that not perfect? 116 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: But wait there's more. So so I attempted to book 117 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: Ron POPEO. I have followed him on Facebook for many years. 118 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: We are Facebook, Ron Popeel and myself, and so I 119 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: reached out on Facebook. I said, hey, Ron, I'm a 120 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: radio guy. I put myself up a little bit, put 121 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: my look at me. I'm so great. Uh. I do 122 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: a radio show and it's on four hundred stations and 123 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: it's on all over the world, you know, really pumping 124 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: it up, you know, really exaggerated, which is not exaggerate. 125 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm just pumping up. So Ron gets back to me 126 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: and said, listen to my publicist. Talk to my publicist. 127 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: We'll do it, okay. So I talked to the publicist 128 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: and then I play email tech with the publicist. We 129 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: go back and forth, very nice woman, and she's like, 130 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: what's where's the show going to be broadcast? You know, 131 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: how long is the inter We're gonna be all those who, what, where? When? Why? Questions? 132 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: So I'm okay, all right, you know, I answered all 133 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: the questions. We go through everything, um, and she says, okay, 134 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: I'll talk to Ron, just make sure he definitely wants 135 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: to do it, and we'll get back to So she 136 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: emails me back. She says, Ron really wants to do it. 137 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: He wants to know who you've had on in the past, though, 138 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: some of the names you've had on the past. So 139 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: I said, okay, no problem. So then at that time, 140 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: it was early in the fifth hour, and at that time, 141 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: the only names we had had on on We're like 142 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: Tony Bruno and Lenny Dikest. It was like that was it, 143 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: and radio's Tony Bruno and baseball's Lenny Dice. So I 144 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: wrote back and I said, well, we had Lenny Dikester 145 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: was part of the eighties six Mets, you know, it's 146 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: a wild character. And baseball we had Tony Bruno, the 147 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: guy started ESPN Radio, he started Fox Sports Radio pretty 148 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: much is the god of syndicated sports radio. We had 149 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: him on. You know, we're just starting the podcast, and 150 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: she says, okay, great, I'll go back to Iron and 151 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: then we'll come back to you and it should be 152 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: no problem. We'll book the podcasts. Yes, sure, no problem, 153 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: so I said. I wrote back and said, well Thursday. 154 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: You know, we do the normal to record the podcast 155 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: in the afternoon on Thursdays. There's good, no problem. So 156 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: she then I get no response right for a couple 157 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: of days, and I'm like, well, this is not good. 158 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:47,839 Speaker 1: This is not good. You know. She had been writing 159 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: back and then like the morning before we were supposed 160 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: to record the rom Pool Peel podcast, which I thought 161 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: was a tentative green light go in turn. Instead it 162 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: was like a yellow light, but it was actually more 163 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: of a red light. She writes back, she says, well, 164 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: after further review, uh, you know, run just you know, 165 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: he's got to spend time with his the grandkids, and 166 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: he's got he's got a house in Malibu. I think 167 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: it was that he had to go to and he 168 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: just doesn't have time to do it, so he can't 169 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: do it. She said, okay, great, so why don't we 170 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: do it next week. We can do it next week, 171 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: maybe he won't be as busy. And then she's she 172 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: realized I didn't get the message, you know, the kind 173 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: put down, and so then she just said, well, you know, 174 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 1: Ron just he didn't have enough big names on there, 175 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 1: so he didn't want to do it. And I was like, 176 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: all right, whatever. I was devastated, but you know, that's fun. 177 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: I mean the guy was in his his golden years 178 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: and that's that's his position. But it doesn't mean I'm 179 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: not a huge fan. A huge fan. I've read books. 180 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: Uh that's what a loser I am. I've read books 181 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: about informercial. I'm just fascinating. No, no, McBey, no, seriously, 182 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: you're laughing at me, Mr Big. But here's my position. 183 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: Like radio is, sales were in the sales business, right, 184 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: and really all of life is sales. You want people 185 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: to like you. You're selling your your personality, You're selling 186 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: you know, if your business, you're selling business. And they 187 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: have mastered all of these Jedi mind tricks in infomercials. 188 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: They really have, and I've I've been fascinated by it. 189 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: I was a kid, I had no business, I didn't 190 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: even have any money or a credit card, and I 191 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: would watch for hours these infomercials and be captivated. You 192 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: should have lined by the way. You should have said, yeah, 193 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: we had we had lots of big names on on 194 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: the pond. That's what you should have done. I know 195 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: on on hindsight. We used to have a producer I 196 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: will not say the name, uh, but famously would book 197 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: star baseball players and sometimes he would say he was 198 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: the Today Show or you know, because it was he 199 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: was doing. He was perusing a morning show and so 200 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, hey, it's so and so from 201 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: the Today Show. Can you come on? And then they'd 202 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: be like, Okay, sure, I think I know who the 203 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: producer is. You probably do know who the producer is. 204 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: You probably do no wire, I don't know is I 205 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: know it's morally not proper Ryan, I know it's morally not. 206 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's illegal to say that. I'm 207 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 1: not sure about the hell it is. The show does 208 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: take place in the morning, yeah, yeah, and you could 209 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: say that among the people on the show, that's what 210 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: we call it. You could say, that's the name that 211 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: we have for the show. So, uh, be sure to 212 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at 213 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: two am eastern pm Pacific. Anyway, just to wrap up, 214 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: I won't spend the whole thing on rom Po Peo, 215 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: but he did influence me a little bit and actually 216 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: a lot. And he had the whole Ronco line of products. 217 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: I mean this this was all kinds of crap that 218 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: has just filled landfills over the years, right, I mean 219 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: and for radio, now, this is something I did have, 220 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: but I didn't get it off an infomercial. My mom 221 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: bottle for me because she knew I was a fat 222 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: kid that wasn't gonna make it in sports. And I 223 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: wanted to be on radio. Mr microphone, Mr microphone. Uh 224 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: that was all you could hook up to the radio 225 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: and beyond the radio, and that mattered back in those days. Now, 226 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: of course, you go on YouTube, you know different there's 227 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: a stone age back then. But I was a big deal. 228 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: It's like the first karaoke machine. I had a MR microphone, 229 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: I did, I still have one that I'm a grown up. 230 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: I have a I'm a grown ass man. I have 231 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: a MR microphone, radio studio here um. And he had 232 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: the pocket Fisherman. You know what, any jokes didn't Saturday 233 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: Night Live in the old days. I think they did 234 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 1: jokes about the pocket Fisherman. Goofund on, Ron popeel Um. 235 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 1: I mean, there's all kinds of stuff. His his stuff 236 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: is in the Smithsonian's that's wild. So rest in peace, 237 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: Ron Popio in fullmercial god, who ended his life worth 238 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars two hundred million smackaroos. And I 239 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: know even in recent years from being Facebook friends with him, 240 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: that he would still hang out with the other big 241 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: stars of the infomercial world. Like there's this tight fraterning 242 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: there and I know it's table. I think this guy 243 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: has been banned by a lot of people. I off 244 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 1: photo of him with the my pillow guy saying with him, 245 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: I know you're a big fan Ryan, not at all, 246 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: not at I'm not a fan of him. Who do 247 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: you hate more than my pillow guy or Boston. Oh, 248 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: that's a good question. That's a selfie's choice, that's a 249 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: pick your poison. Yeah, I ain't. I guess, I guess 250 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: how to go with Boston? I guess, But let's put 251 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: you you really don't hate the my pillow guy as much. 252 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: That's pretty close close. So on a scale of one 253 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: to tend Ryan McBain, what how big a loser am 254 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: I that my hero, one of my heroes as a kid, 255 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: was a guy hawking products on infomercials. I wouldn't say 256 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 1: you're a loser at all. I would say that you're uh. 257 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: You just give a valuable lesson, and that lesson is 258 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: if you want that big interview, you gotta lie. Yes, 259 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: that is true. That's a teachable moment. That is correct 260 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: teachable moment. But all the tricks, and think out the 261 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: tricks that are used today in sales, like the feigning. 262 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: A small amount of one of the tricks that he 263 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: learned on the I think it was on the Jersey 264 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: shore at the boardwalk on Atlantic City is Ron Popeo 265 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: was out and he was before he became an informercial guy. 266 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: I remember reading a book about his his early life 267 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: and he would be out on the boardwalk. His father 268 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: was in the business, and he would get people walking 269 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: down the boardwalk and he'd have these over the top 270 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: sales pitches like a carnival barker, but you're selling a 271 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: pasta maker or something like that, you know. And and 272 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: then he he would have a crowd. He build a 273 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: crowd up, and then he would sell products. And then 274 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: before he sold all the products, he would he would 275 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: say we we ran out, and he'd keep the crowd. 276 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: So then the next time he started it over the 277 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: same bullshit, the bullshit, he would have a crowd. And 278 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: then he realized that other people, because human nature, and 279 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: this has been proven, when people see a line people 280 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: waiting for something, they think it's a more important They 281 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: they're curious, right, I guess the first thing would be curious. 282 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: Secondly they're like, what, well, this must be really good. 283 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: People are waiting online for this, and so it's he 284 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: channels human nature. And to this day, when you open 285 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: a restaurant, if you pay, you're not gonna have to pay. 286 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: But if you get a crowd of relatives and friends 287 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: to fill up the restaurant and make it seem like 288 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: it's really popular, people that would never eat at that 289 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: restaurant will come to the restaurant thinking, you know, there's 290 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: something amazing about that. There's a scientific name for it. 291 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: I don't remember it offhand here, I have to look 292 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: it up, but it's true. My my wife's the same way. 293 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: My wife, Well, we've got to go to that restaurant. 294 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: It's popular. I'm like, no, I'm the opposite. I'm like, 295 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: I'm an introvert like you McBain, and I want I 296 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: don't want to go anywhere near where it's popular. I 297 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: want I want to go where there's no one. I 298 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: want to go where they haven't served uh that meal 299 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: in two months. That's where I want to go, exactly 300 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: because you're seated quicker. Absolutely, I totally agree with you exactly, 301 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: all right, So, uh we have a pizza party. Foul 302 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: Tales from the Halfway House at the Mallard Mansion Tails 303 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: from the Halfway House at the Mallard Mansion. Now, as 304 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: you know, I dabble. I dabb only kitchen, and since 305 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: I am living in a temporary place with a rather 306 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: small kitchen, I would say this is the smallest kitchen 307 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: I've had since I lived in a little ship whole 308 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: apartment in Hollywood. It's very tiny. It's a little like 309 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: a small wrap around kind of corner, doesn't even go 310 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: through the whole corner of the room type of thing. 311 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: I bet your kitchens bigger than my entire apartment, no chance, 312 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: how big. You have a studio or a one bedroom. 313 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: I have a one bedroom. Well, yeah, you don't even 314 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: have If you don't, if you had a studio, then 315 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: you could make that argument. Studio apartments blow terrible. I 316 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: hate studio apartments. So you have a one bedroom, one bedroom, 317 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: one bath. Of course that's all you need. Now, if 318 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: you had no bath, you'd have a problem. If you 319 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: have no bath, you'd have an issue. That would be 320 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: a problem, slight problem. So it's a small, small kitch 321 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of stuff in boxes. And I'm 322 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: I'm not the first world problem. It's a good problem 323 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: to have them living the whole ball life. Fine, whatever 324 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: I signed up for in any event, get to the point, please. 325 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: So this week, in my haste to make the perfect 326 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: Mallard pizza, it's the one thing I still cook. Everything 327 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: else I got to eat out of a doggy bag 328 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: because I have to get It's the one thing I 329 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: can cook in this in this fugazy kitchen, I got 330 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: so the Mallard pizza, and I am very meticulous. I 331 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 1: am a person that follows the recipe exactly. But I 332 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: have made the Mallard brand pizza so often that it 333 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: has become second nature. I make it every week, normally 334 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: on Tuesday. That's pizza day. Don't eat on Monday, eat 335 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: break the fast with the Mallard pizza on Tuesday. Well, unfortunately, 336 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,959 Speaker 1: as I said, to my haste to make the perfect 337 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: Mallard pizza, I did not pay proper attention to detail 338 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: this week and this week different than all other weeks. 339 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: And so after rolling out the dough, putting the tomato 340 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: sauce on, spreading out the mazzarella, the spices, the Italian seasoning, 341 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: the pizza spices, the garlic, the onion, the bell pepper, 342 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: all that, so I get to the very end. My 343 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: my last touch on the pizza is I try to 344 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: make a big fat crust and I like to put 345 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: parmesan a cheese around the crust. You know, that sprinkle 346 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: sprinkle of parmesan cheese. And to me, that's that's a 347 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: nice touch. Yes, So I like that. That's my move. 348 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: So I go to the refrigerator. McBain, I grabbed the 349 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: parmer gan a cheese. I grabbed, I take it out 350 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: and i started sprinkling it around the pizza and I'm 351 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: about done, and much to my shock, I noticed that 352 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: the palm just didn't look right. Jesus Christ, Yeah, now, Keiman, 353 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 1: why Now? I did look in the bag of cheese, 354 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 1: and the top layer was fine. It was the proper color, 355 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 1: it was the proper texture of parmegana cheese. But as 356 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: I went underneath that top layer, there was some moldiness there. 357 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: And I had just covered the crust of my pizza 358 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 1: with moldy parmesan cheese. Well, you know, some people do 359 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 1: like penicillin on their pizza. Now at this point, we're 360 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: at a crossroads. What do you think I did at 361 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: this particular point. I know, damn well, you ate that pizza. 362 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: Damn right, absolutely correct. So so here's my move, right, 363 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 1: So I'm like, holy fuck, I mean, one am. I 364 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: I didn't have another thing at doll I didn't have 365 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 1: more tomato sauce. This was the one pie and I 366 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: was hungry. I hadn't eaten since Sunday and it was Tuesday. 367 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: So I gotta eat. And so so I'm like examining 368 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: the pie with my I'm getting right up with my 369 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: putting my nose in the in the dog, trying to 370 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: see the the moldy cheese. And so I went over 371 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: there and tried to remove. As they say in in gardening, 372 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: you removed the dead wood, right, you cut the dead 373 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: wood out. So I'm trying to remove the cheese, the 374 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: moldy cheese. I think I got about of the moldy 375 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: cheese out and then I just gave up. I figured, well, 376 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: of moldy cheese, I think I'll be okay, and I 377 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 1: and I cooked it and I ate it and I'm 378 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: still alive to talk about it. So it didn't kill me. 379 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: You can't eat moldy cheese, Yeah, because I think like 380 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: the heat. Wouldn't the heat like get rid of the bacteria? 381 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: Is that? Isn't that how it works? I hope you're right. 382 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: I don't know. I I assume that makes sense. That's 383 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: a logical way to look at it. Now, keep in mind, 384 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: I did have the Tennessee trots, but I get that. Yeah, 385 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: that's what they when you have dysentery, when you get 386 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 1: to run to the bathroom. It was this organ trail. Well, no, 387 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: that's an old that's like a civil war term. I think. Yeah, 388 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: uh no, I could say Mona Zuma's revenge. Has that 389 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: been canceled? I don't know. Drink the water. Yeah, it's 390 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: whenever I fast, since I had my gallbladder taken out, 391 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: whenever I fast for a long time, it doesn't matter 392 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: what I eat, I immediately have to make a run 393 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: for the commode. So I'm not sure if it was 394 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: the mold or it was just my gall bladder acting 395 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: up after I hadn't eaten in a while. So that 396 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: was my pizza party foul with the moldy moldy. Gee, 397 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 1: now here's the thing you called a foul. I think 398 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: it's a story of redemption because you mess up the pizza, 399 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: the nice Pizza Pa, and you fixed it and you 400 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: still ate it. So that's a story of redemption. Ben, Well, 401 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: thank you, you've you've just validated my position. I told 402 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: my wife that. She said, if you did that with 403 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: my pizza, you'd have to throw that out and start off. 404 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: I said, well, it's not your pizza. People don't appreciate 405 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: pizza Pa. That's what I'm saying, right, this is confirmation 406 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: that you can have a little mold on your pizza 407 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: and you're gonna be okay. You shouldn't be wasting food 408 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: during a global pandemic. Now, granted, like you might have 409 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: invented some type of COVID variant, but I'm just saying 410 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: the mold variant of the mold. Help centered is the 411 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: the people over at Delta? Are they upset? Like? Wait 412 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: a minute here, I mean, you assholes. At first it 413 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: was called the coronavirus, so you're ruined Corona beer. Now 414 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: it's the Delta variant, so you've screwed up the airline 415 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 1: bed job by you. You know, It's like, what's going on, 416 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: Let's get down to business. As long as it's not 417 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: the whiskey variant, I think I'm fine. I'm good. Whereas 418 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: there's nothing with the whiskey. Keep very open and shut, 419 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 1: keep the whiskey cabinet, the whiskey bottle clear of any damage. Yes, 420 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: I got you. Be sure to catch live editions of 421 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven 422 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart 423 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,239 Speaker 1: Radio app. Hey it's me Rob Parker. Check out my 424 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker for twenty two minutes 425 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: of piping hot baseball talk featuring the biggest names of 426 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: newsmakers in the sport. Whether you believe in analytics or 427 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 1: the eye test. We've got all the bases called New 428 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: Episodes drops every Thursday, So do yourself a favor and 429 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: listen to Inside the Partner with Rob Partner on the 430 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. 431 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: Let's get scientifical. Let's get scientifical. Do a few science 432 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,959 Speaker 1: stories here now. And this is a tribute. I used 433 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: to love the show called Bullshit. It was on HBO Showtime. 434 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 1: I forget. It was a penn and teller and they 435 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: examined random things and says this real or is it bullshit? 436 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: And a lot of science. I love reading studies, scientifical 437 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: studies from universities mostly, and I have learned over the 438 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: years that there's so many weasel words in this. You 439 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: really have to go over these things with a microscope 440 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: and use critical thinking. You can't believe every single study 441 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: because they throw a lot of weasel words out. Here's 442 00:23:54,800 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: a study that says testosterone levels don't drive success, do 443 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: not drive success? Uh, and this, this, this is good 444 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: news if you're not an alpha male obviously, because you 445 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: have a lot of tester testosterone a beta male. And 446 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: they say it does not drive success in men, and 447 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: they say much less important than previously claimed. Bullshit. Yeah, 448 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: I I tend to agree. I think this is bullshit. 449 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: I think this is the University of Bristol. They claim 450 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: it's a myth that testosterone levels drive success in life, 451 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: contradicting explain porn stars, well, well in that business, and 452 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 1: I would say athletics. I mean, your brother was a 453 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: pro basketball player, right, did he have an increased testosterone? Never, 454 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 1: that's a question I never asked him. Ben Well, I understand, 455 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: but just I mean, you know you're around, and you 456 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: know when they're they a little more testosterone. He's got 457 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: two kids, I mean, big stuff. Look at that. Look 458 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: at that going for it. Yeah. I don't believe that one. 459 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: I find that hard to believe. So I'm gonna choose 460 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: not to believe that. Here's a fun story about bees. 461 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: It's for the bees. It's the bee's knees. Bees, according 462 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: to science, get buzzed off caffeine just like human bees do, 463 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: and it makes them better. It makes them better. The 464 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: bees are better bees when they're out doing their thing. 465 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: This is why we have science. It's things like this. 466 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: It's things like this. Uh. This is according to Greenwich 467 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: University in southeast London. This is what they're doing in London. 468 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: The caffeine is like cocaine or something. Well, it says 469 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: a new study shows that bees also get a buzz 470 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: from caffeine. It helps them become more productive on the job, 471 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: more productive. I'm not a coffee drinker. I've never had 472 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: a cup of coffee in my life, and I'm at 473 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: the point now where I can't have a cup of 474 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: coffee because I like to tell people I haven't had 475 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, so I can't have a cup 476 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: of coffee. I do take caffeine supplements every once in 477 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: a while when I'm driving and I don't want to 478 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: fall asleep and die when I'm driving in a ditch 479 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: somewhere along the side of the road, but I generally 480 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: don't even do a lot of that. It's the same 481 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: thing though, Just drink some coffee. Yeah. Yeah, it's cheaper too, 482 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: if you get a bottle of caffeine supplements that Walmart 483 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: is somewhere it's very cheap for a bottle. A bottle 484 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 1: of caffeine supplements is as much as a one one 485 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: cup of Starbucks coffee and it'll last year, an entire 486 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: month or longer. Fun fact. Yeah, anyway, what does it say? 487 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: Let me go deeper into the study, says, scientists say 488 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 1: the the pollinator learns better so when nectar is laced 489 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,959 Speaker 1: with the pick me up of a caffeine, and they 490 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: go into a lot of scientifical minutia in this. But 491 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: the study was published in Current Biology found bumble bees 492 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: fed caffeine were better at remembering the smell of a 493 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: specific flower and the nectar inside. How the hell do 494 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 1: they know that? How do you feed a bee caffeine? 495 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: By the way, Oh, that's a good question, says let 496 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: me try to find it here. I think you're not 497 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: giving the coffee. No, no, uh, let's see here. Let's 498 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: just say, uh, I think it's in in some of 499 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: the flowers. I think I must I'm not reading this 500 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 1: right here, it's in here somewhere. Uh. This as many 501 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: stray towards neighboring wildflowers instead of the delicious summer fruit. 502 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 1: But those that have had the the caffeine. I enjoy it. Uh, 503 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: let's see here, what is it saying? La la la 504 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: la la la la. Yeah, yeah, that's a great question, right, 505 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 1: where is there natural caffeine? It doesn't it's not jumping 506 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 1: out to me here, and we don't have time to read. 507 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: It's a long study. And if I read the whole thing, 508 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: no one will be listening to the podcast. So uh, 509 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: they see they buy dozens or even hundreds of boxes 510 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: of commercial bumbees a year to boost crops. All right, 511 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: so this is something to help the farming farming community. 512 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: So I don't know, there's gotta be natural caffeine. Just 513 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,439 Speaker 1: google it, probably get the answer, quicker. Just google it. 514 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: There you go, says In test eighty six, previously untrained 515 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: bumblebees were divided into three groups. Two got either the 516 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:33,400 Speaker 1: strawberry odor or the caffeineated sugar solution, uh sugar solutional. 517 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: And also they gave them the calf. Wait a minute, 518 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: that's not It's cheating, isn't it. That's cheating anyway? They 519 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: they they said the ones with the caffeine did better. Boy, okay, 520 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: I didn't think we spent a lot of time on that. 521 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: We did a deadly spider venom. As we get scientifical, 522 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: deadly spider venom can help heart attack survivors recover. This 523 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: could be a live change and could being a weasel 524 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: word bullshit called bullshit on this. According to another study. 525 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: This is from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. 526 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: They say that the eight legged spiders friendly you know, 527 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: eight legged spider may turn out to be life savers. 528 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: The researchers report that venom from one particular type of 529 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: spider is the integral ingredient in a new life saving 530 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: treatment for heart attack victims who knew. The spider in question, 531 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: formerly known as the Frasier Island funnel Web spider, is 532 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: considered among the world's most deadly creepy crawler. And they 533 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: say that a molecule extracted from the spider's venom is 534 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: being used now to produce a new drug. That is 535 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: a new drug candidate capable of both preventing heart attack 536 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: damage and extending the life of donor art it's used 537 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: for organ transplant. Okay, let's just say it like that 538 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: this story is true. How in the world would they 539 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: figure that out? Well, I'm dumb, so I'm not the 540 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 1: person to ask. But there are people that are very smart. 541 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people. I'm an idiot. I 542 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: talk about sports for a living. I'm a moron. It's 543 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: a great question. And they say that this drug, the 544 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: new drug, actually blocks a death signal sent from the 545 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: heart during a heart attack. The death signal. That's called 546 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: that's what I'm reading it out of study. I'm reading 547 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: it out of the study. It's from the University of Queensland. 548 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: The death signal. Yeah, that's what it says right here. 549 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: So is that how it works, like when you have 550 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: a heart attack, that the heart sends a message of 551 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: the brand. All right, we're done, shut her off. That's it. 552 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: Good by everybody, We're out of here. Is that how 553 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: that works? The death signal. I'm gonna steal that. I'm 554 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: gonna use that. It makes no sense. No, I'm gonna 555 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: I am going to steal that and use that in 556 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: a future Mallon monologue. The death signal. It's like the 557 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: death star from Star Wars. I want to know what 558 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: type of drugs these doctors are on to figure that out? 559 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: You know what, man, You know we should try get 560 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: some spiders, man, and just to see what happens. Now, 561 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: here's the here's the thing, right, So I am of 562 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: the belief. Tell me if I'm crazy this. I believe 563 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: that all of the solutions to life problems are on 564 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: this planet. We just haven't found them. Like every illness, 565 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: I believe there is a cure for for that set 566 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: illness on this planet, but we haven't yet discovered it. 567 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 1: Am I crazy? Or am I on the path to salvation? 568 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: You are crazy and you're also correct? No, I can't 569 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: be both. You gotta pick. You can't. You can't stay 570 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: on the for the fans. Ryan, you gotta get off 571 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: the fence. Come on. I mean, I I agree with 572 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: what you're saying, but I mean you're also kind of insane, 573 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: which is fine. I don't think I am. I think 574 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: I'm I'm right. I think that with all the different 575 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: plants and all the things in the ocean, that we 576 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: have no idea what the hell is there? And it 577 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: doesn't mean we'll ever find the solutions to this, doesn't 578 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,479 Speaker 1: mean we'll ever find the answers, but they're there. I 579 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: really think they are there. I think everything we need 580 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: is right here on this planet. We just have to 581 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: find I'm becoming Benny Brightside, I'm becoming Mr Positive here. 582 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: Let's not put the cart in front of the horse. 583 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: Calm down, Calm down, All right, let's see what's next. 584 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: Here we go. Study finds that friends who behave badly 585 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: are easier to forgive than strangers. I'll go for it. 586 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: This is obviously real and we didn't need to study 587 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: to tell us that the reason you will forgive bad 588 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: behavior by friends is because us. Hello there, your friends. 589 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: You don't know a stranger from Tim Buck two, So 590 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: who can't? I mean, what are you gonna do? Right, 591 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: You're not gonna if you don't know somebody and they're 592 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: an asshole to you, you're not going to give them 593 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: the time of the day, right, Yeah? Like, I mean, 594 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: you run across some stranger, You're like, okay, what if 595 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: you guys a dick, I'm I'm out of here. But 596 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: if it's a friend, you're like, well, what did you 597 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: do that? You know? You're like, you figure out a solution. 598 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: Global Let's say there's a global collapse, global collapse. Oh 599 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: my god, there's a global collapse and a cataclysmic global collapse. 600 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: Where is the place that you need to be to 601 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: survive a cataclysmic global collapse. I'm talking about anywhere on 602 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: this little blue marble we call Earth. Well, I know 603 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: the place you're not supposed to be. Where would that be? 604 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: That would be Boston, Massachusetts, there you there, you well, 605 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: anywhere in the corridor to be fair, anywhere e c. Philly, 606 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: New York, Boston. I had a buddy of mine who 607 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: was a sportswriter who despised all the attention the Red 608 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: Sox and Yankees got, and he called that the axis 609 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,800 Speaker 1: of evil, the corridor. He was the access of evil 610 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: because everything in the country comes out of that region. Boston, 611 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: New York, Philly, Washington, d c uh to this day. Uh. 612 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:31,240 Speaker 1: The answer, though, Ryan is New Zealand. Why they're New Zealand, 613 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: they say tops the list because of their favorable island conditions. 614 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: They identified five places with favorable conditions to survive a 615 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: global cataclysmic event. New Zealand came out number one, followed 616 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: by Iceland, the u k. Tasmania, and Ireland. Okay, so 617 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: where's the last place wherever you are? Probably? Probably yeah, exactly, 618 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:15,760 Speaker 1: they say. Threats to society globally floodings, route pollution, pandemic, superbugs, wildfires, food, 619 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: loss severe financial crisis are all listened. There. The great 620 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: thing about these studies, let me tell you why these 621 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:26,280 Speaker 1: are great, because if there is a cataclysmic global collapse, 622 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,760 Speaker 1: no one's gonna go back to look at the studies 623 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: see if they're right or not. So it doesn't like 624 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: this is one of those things like, oh, whakay, that's important, 625 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,399 Speaker 1: but no one's gonna say that you got it right. 626 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: No one's gonna look it up down the line if 627 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: something terrible happens. So it's it's one of those bull 628 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:49,240 Speaker 1: crap story. Bull crap story. So here's an exciting story 629 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: from androids, from robots taking over the world, and I 630 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: am convinced at some point we will have the battle 631 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: the bots for real, like legitimate, big time robots. We'll 632 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: have robots playing sports mixed with human beings. It's going 633 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 1: to happen. Given enough time. We won't be around for it, 634 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 1: but it will happen. So two legged robots are becoming 635 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,319 Speaker 1: more and more popular science, trying to master the art 636 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 1: of walking like humans, making them look like humans. So 637 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: there's a robot called Casey with the Sea and it 638 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 1: has made history. It is completed a five k marathon 639 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: in fifty three minutes. Fifty three minutes. But the robot 640 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 1: they call it, she does it have she robot parts 641 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,000 Speaker 1: or he? All right? Anyway? Uh said she had to 642 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 1: stop twice after her computer overheated and she fell while 643 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 1: taking a corner too fast. Okay, so there is that. 644 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 1: And they say that the makers of this robot are 645 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 1: hoping to use it to deliver package is or work 646 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: in warehouses. Well, this has Amazon written all over it, 647 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,040 Speaker 1: doesn't He says, like Amazon, Hey, we don't have to 648 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: pay people, and we don't have to give them medical insurance, 649 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,560 Speaker 1: and we don't have to worry about them getting hurt 650 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: on the job or not being productive. I'll just have 651 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 1: a bunch of robots. Jeff Bezos saves more money so 652 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,279 Speaker 1: he can go into outer space. Again, if you had 653 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: f you money and you were the richest person in 654 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 1: the world, you'd probably do the same thing you're going. 655 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't want to do that, but I 656 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,560 Speaker 1: get it. Like if you just think about this, they 657 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 1: dude made so much money. He was bored to death. 658 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 1: He was like, you know what, I'm gonna go out 659 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 1: of space. Well, and it's really because these other the 660 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 1: other there's like two or three other rich dudes like that. 661 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 1: We're doing the same thing, right. Uh, what's the guy 662 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 1: from Tesla? What's that cat's name? I forget the guy's name, 663 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 1: but he he was going out of space. Elon Musk. Yeah, 664 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 1: I keep forgetting Elon must name. But he was going 665 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,040 Speaker 1: to space. He was doing some stuff in space. And 666 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,720 Speaker 1: then the guy from that airline, the rich I Virgin 667 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 1: Airlines that or something. Yes, yeah, Richard Branson's his name. 668 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: Look at you. You're connected, guy, I'm connected. And I 669 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: also say this, if you have so much money that 670 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:17,439 Speaker 1: you can go to outer space, you're not paying enough taxes. Now, 671 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,279 Speaker 1: come on, I am no, no, no, you should not 672 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,839 Speaker 1: pay a lot of taxes every If you have that 673 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: much money, you're not paying enough taxes. I'm sorry. That 674 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: is a fact. Put that on my tombstone. Listen. I 675 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I, like everyone else, I 676 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,720 Speaker 1: would think when it comes time to do the taxes, 677 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: you you find it. Either you do your taxes or 678 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 1: you find an accountant that will make you pay the 679 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,440 Speaker 1: least amount of taxes. Whether you're Bezos or Bezos or 680 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,919 Speaker 1: whatever his name or anybody, that's just how you want 681 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,959 Speaker 1: to pay it the full amount in taxes. Who wants 682 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 1: to pay the full amount of taxes if you could 683 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: not pay the full amountain taxes. So you're saying, oh, 684 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,799 Speaker 1: he has to pay more taxes, he might not be 685 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,560 Speaker 1: able to go out of space. Oh no, no, I 686 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,080 Speaker 1: I don't care whether it goes to outer space or not. 687 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 1: The most amazing thing about Bezos is that he is 688 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 1: stooping a woman that I know. That is that blows 689 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 1: me away that the richest man in the history of 690 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: the world, you know, at least in modern times, is 691 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 1: dating a woman that used to cover the Lakers for 692 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: Fox Sports West in Lauren Sanchez and I had dinner 693 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,440 Speaker 1: with her at Staples Center. Man, no, I'm not name shopping. 694 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,799 Speaker 1: It is amazing to me because I remember in the 695 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: locker room she covered the Lakers, like in the shack 696 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: Kobe days, the early days of Kobe and Shock was there. 697 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,319 Speaker 1: And I mean she's a very attractive woman. Yeah, I 698 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,479 Speaker 1: would imagine if I'm not gonna go there, never mind, 699 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: she's a lovely lady in my apologies tour, But the 700 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,879 Speaker 1: players and the Lakers were, I mean, they were giving 701 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:50,080 Speaker 1: her a lot of attention. You know what. I'm saying yeah, which, which, 702 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,799 Speaker 1: which goes back to my other point. What's proves that 703 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,920 Speaker 1: he's not paying enough taxes? To Bezos going out of space? 704 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 1: Didn't nobody's hot women pay more taxes. That's my point. 705 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: I respect people that try to pay as little as 706 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,240 Speaker 1: possible because I've tried to pay as little in tax Okay, okay, 707 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 1: but you're not You're you're not Jeff Bezos. No, but 708 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,279 Speaker 1: here's the thing you should you're you're directing your rage 709 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,360 Speaker 1: at the wrong people. The people you should be upset 710 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,160 Speaker 1: about are the politicians that allow that to be possible. Right, 711 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: if you are a rich enough person, you can make 712 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,359 Speaker 1: a deal and you can go to Congress and get 713 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:27,439 Speaker 1: laws change and get tax loopholes and go in there 714 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,360 Speaker 1: these things called lobbyists, and that's what the rich people do. 715 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,279 Speaker 1: And so that's really the problem. It's not it is, 716 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,960 Speaker 1: You're right, it is a problem. They always say like, oh, 717 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,840 Speaker 1: you know, if they don't pay a lot of taxes, 718 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,360 Speaker 1: it will trickle down and people will get more jobs 719 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,640 Speaker 1: and work more. No, these people will just go to 720 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: our space. That's where the money is going. Is not 721 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 1: going to the people. Yeah, well, I don't know. It's 722 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,759 Speaker 1: kind of Dooby I I was. I watched that on 723 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,680 Speaker 1: YouTube when when Bezos went out of space, and I 724 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,840 Speaker 1: was expecting like a lot more than I got so 725 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,479 Speaker 1: angry about this. I'm not really angry. I don't really 726 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:08,160 Speaker 1: care whatever. It's fine. You know, eventually they'll be regular flights. 727 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:09,920 Speaker 1: You'll go to l A X. All right, We're going 728 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,880 Speaker 1: to go up to outer space for ten minutes and 729 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,239 Speaker 1: then we'll come back. And the man is so rich. 730 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 1: He got married, divorced, lost a ship ton of money, 731 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,239 Speaker 1: and he's still the richest man in the world. That's 732 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,319 Speaker 1: all Richie is. Well. I say good for him. He 733 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: came up with something that society clearly loves and spends 734 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,920 Speaker 1: a shipload of money on. And I think we should 735 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 1: encourage more people to be the next Jeff Bezos and 736 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 1: come up with a product and that everyone needs and 737 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,680 Speaker 1: makes their life easier. And I think that's that should 738 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,960 Speaker 1: be encouraged. I think that you should want to be 739 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,600 Speaker 1: the next Bezos and create something and get the riches 740 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 1: of not Solomon, that's beyond the riches of Solomon. That's unbelievable, 741 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,680 Speaker 1: my god. All right, I think we've gone long on this. 742 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,680 Speaker 1: We should put the baby to bed. Unfortunately, the will 743 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,239 Speaker 1: will know we'll do no pop quiz will do that 744 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,879 Speaker 1: next week. And so Ryan, thank you? How can how 745 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,359 Speaker 1: can the masses follow you? Ryan McMahon, I knew you've 746 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: been doing a tremendous job, yeoman's work here over the 747 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,560 Speaker 1: last nth last month. I'm sure management will give you 748 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,120 Speaker 1: a big fat raise at some point. Yes, yeah, I'm 749 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,760 Speaker 1: sure Jeff Bezos will pay more taxes before that happens, 750 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: But I digress. You can find me on Twitter, Ryan 751 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,120 Speaker 1: McBain R Y A N M C B A I 752 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:31,799 Speaker 1: N and on Twitch Yes Twitch Ryan McBain on there 753 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,200 Speaker 1: as well, one of those twitch people yes with Twitters, 754 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: which is also owned by Jeff Bezoz. Yes, you're helping 755 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,800 Speaker 1: them out. You're you're helping the man out right there. Anyway, listen, 756 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,120 Speaker 1: have a great rest of your Saturday. We got the 757 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 1: mail bag right around the corner on Sunday. You can 758 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,600 Speaker 1: follow me on you know, the social media channels. Ben 759 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,680 Speaker 1: Maller on Twitter, Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox, the Facebook 760 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,840 Speaker 1: page Ben Mallers shown. If you did not hear the 761 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: Tommy John interview, you gotta go back and hear it 762 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,879 Speaker 1: from Friday and have a great rest of your day. 763 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:01,839 Speaker 1: Will catch you next time.