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Speaker 1: night are clearly not enough, clearly not enough. And this
Speaker 1: is the Sunday mail Bag podcast. We have some things
Speaker 1: to get to before the Mailbag joined from West of
Speaker 1: the four oh five. Yeah, David Gascon has come over here,
Speaker 1: happy to report that our podcast is not halted by
Speaker 1: these Securities and Exchange Commission either. So that's a positive spin.
Speaker 1: Just think how much influence we can manipulate the market.
Speaker 1: If we give out stock advice here. We'll have Sprinkles
Speaker 1: the clown going and buying stock here because of our advice.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to bring it up to Catherine, but
Speaker 1: I know you know exactly what's going on, especially in
Speaker 1: the gambling world. This ship happens all the time with Sharp's.
Speaker 1: You know Sharp's will will shell out money to some
Speaker 1: of their you know, some of their little plebs to
Speaker 1: go bet on a line, swing it one way, and
Speaker 1: they'll come right back over the top and swing it
Speaker 1: another way. Yeah. Well, the big money moves the market.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing too. In the in the wall
Speaker 1: Street with day trading is essentially sports bits, sports betting,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. And so I had heard from
Speaker 1: people that last March, when sports were shut down for
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty four days, there were no live
Speaker 1: team sports in America. If you're a sports gambler and
Speaker 1: that's how you get your dopamine fix, you couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: And so a large percentage of sports gamblers who were
Speaker 1: addicted to it and had a better game every night,
Speaker 1: a game of day people or more, they moved over
Speaker 1: to Wall Street to day trading. And so that's that
Speaker 1: kind of you know, loosely related to where we're at today.
Speaker 1: But the it's a great story that you know, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a movie. They're gonna make a movie about
Speaker 1: the Wolf of Wall Streets. One of the better movies
Speaker 1: I've seen over the last fifteen years or so. It's
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the hell out. That was a good it's
Speaker 1: a great movie. I mean, for me, it's it's totally
Speaker 1: relatable because I was a part of the housing market
Speaker 1: crisis in the two thousand seven, two thousand eight, two
Speaker 1: thousand nine period. And I mean, I hate to say it,
Speaker 1: but that's what they were all about. I mean, these
Speaker 1: these mortgage backed securities banned, like we were told when
Speaker 1: I was working for City Group, I was told that
Speaker 1: we needed to to refinance a bunch of mortgages. And
Speaker 1: typically when you're an escrow it takes you anywhere from
Speaker 1: like thirty to sixty days to close on a house,
Speaker 1: sometimes ninety if it's under construction. But if you're trying
Speaker 1: to refinance your property, it's anywhere from still thirty to
Speaker 1: forty five days. And they're so severe on the underwriting
Speaker 1: guidelines that underwriters won't pass you unless you're over or
Speaker 1: above clearance on their checklist. But when I was with
Speaker 1: City all of these were streamlined, so you went from
Speaker 1: thirty to forty five days of processing to ten or fifteen,
Speaker 1: which is fucking absurd. But the whole point of it
Speaker 1: was is that they wanted to have all of these
Speaker 1: mortgages that were on their books refinanced so they could
Speaker 1: sell them immediately on the secondary market. And then all
Speaker 1: they did after that was just layoff and terminate everybody
Speaker 1: in their mortgage lending department, or the majority of it.
Speaker 1: And the reason why was that they want to get
Speaker 1: out of the industry because a lot of the mortgages,
Speaker 1: mortgages that did did sell or two people with stated
Speaker 1: income stated assets no documents, no verification. All you gotta
Speaker 1: do is show up and prove that you have like
Speaker 1: a seven score, and we give you an interest rate
Speaker 1: and a loan that was like three or four or
Speaker 1: five percent, and you had like a loan to value
Speaker 1: which was like at ninety, which is fucking absurd, you know,
Speaker 1: like so so, but I was doing that. It's it's
Speaker 1: so essentially with the volatility of the stockment. Just invest
Speaker 1: in soybeans, you know, just go by soybeans. They can't
Speaker 1: go wrong with soybeans. But it's fascinating because we will
Speaker 1: bail out the mortgage back securities, will bail out the
Speaker 1: real estate industry, will bail out the automotive industry, the
Speaker 1: airline industry, the banking institutions, automotive industry, but we won't
Speaker 1: bail out the common folk. Here's your six dollar check
Speaker 1: that you got like twelve months after this whole fucking
Speaker 1: thing went down. It's fucking appalling, but it's it's typical, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's what you'd expect. But my favorite part of
Speaker 1: it is and I think that if I was writing
Speaker 1: the screenplay for this movie about the game Stop situation,
Speaker 1: it would be a story of all these greedy Wall
Speaker 1: Street people like, hey, let's these daily apps will be great.
Speaker 1: We'll get more dumb money, right, more dumb money, and
Speaker 1: we'll be able to take their money. That's what they
Speaker 1: were excited about when Robin Hood and these things came around.
Speaker 1: The It's kind of like, you know, we we talk
Speaker 1: about gambling, and you mentioned the sharps in the gambling world, right,
Speaker 1: the bookie, the sports book fears the sharp. They don't
Speaker 1: like the sharps because those are people that have all
Speaker 1: the inside information, you know, like edge fun people, like
Speaker 1: hedge fun people. They can't stand them. But the square,
Speaker 1: which would be what the day trader is, the Robin
Speaker 1: Hood user, the you know, the they just kind of
Speaker 1: go off a hunch or something they they read on
Speaker 1: the internet for example, that they consider them unsophisticated financial people,
Speaker 1: and so they want they want those people. They want
Speaker 1: because dumb money, right, they want the dumb money. Um.
Speaker 1: And so the movie would be all these greedy Wall
Speaker 1: Street people so excited because these daily apps, and then
Speaker 1: it blows up in their face and it's this thing
Speaker 1: shoots to the moon. Right. That's that's the story. I mean,
Speaker 1: get I don't know if Dicapriole, do it in Jonah
Speaker 1: Hill and McConaughey and all those that were in Wolf
Speaker 1: of Wall Street. But call him up. See what you
Speaker 1: got there, See what you got. There's a good story.
Speaker 1: There's a solid story right there. Greed is good, Michael Douglas,
Speaker 1: so good. It's um, it's it's great because you know,
Speaker 1: this thing is not going to be a short term
Speaker 1: fixed Like as soon as they release the Hounds with
Speaker 1: robin Hood and some of these other uh digital platforms
Speaker 1: or the apps that allow you for trading, these guys
Speaker 1: are gonna they're gonna release the cracking. I think these
Speaker 1: guys will continue to trade no matter if it's a
Speaker 1: MC or game Stop or or Nokia whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna push those things to the limit.
Speaker 1: And I I am a customer of robin Hood. I
Speaker 1: have the app on my phone. I think you do too, also,
Speaker 1: guest Gun, I think it's a great product. But what
Speaker 1: they did by taking these not allowing you to buy
Speaker 1: game Stop and those others, I think that is horrific
Speaker 1: for their business and there is going to be a
Speaker 1: price to pay. You just can't do that, especially when
Speaker 1: Kather mentioned the I p O that they're supposed to
Speaker 1: release here in the coming weeks. Yeah, I mean, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? And I you know you've heard rumors
Speaker 1: they got pressured by certain people. But still you gotta
Speaker 1: think it's like people who are on that you have
Speaker 1: to be of a certain age, you have to be
Speaker 1: an adult, you know. And you know they were like,
Speaker 1: I don't an abundance of caution. This is my my
Speaker 1: problem with abundance of caution. When you play the stock market,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the risk versus reard. Yeah, some people
Speaker 1: and I'm sure some people even with what happened and
Speaker 1: taking it off and all that, it's the risk versus
Speaker 1: the reward. You're going to lose money, right, And and
Speaker 1: when you invest that, what's the warning they always give
Speaker 1: that past results do not guarantee future outcomes, right, they
Speaker 1: always say that. And so you know, if somebody ends
Speaker 1: up a hemorrhage in cash on the robin Hood map
Speaker 1: because they didn't sell at the right time, that's on them.
Speaker 1: You can't this this name I call it, I guess
Speaker 1: nanny state, Right, isn't that the term where you're just
Speaker 1: trying to overly protect people? You know, if you're in
Speaker 1: the stock market game. You gotta get fully in the mud, right,
Speaker 1: and nobody's forced to buy, whether it's game stop or
Speaker 1: bed bath and beyond. The companies that people choose to
Speaker 1: do it think they're gonna get a big return on
Speaker 1: the capitol and all that. That's fine and and hopefully
Speaker 1: it works for them. But if it doesn't, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the way the game is. You don't change the
Speaker 1: rules of the game. And that's what they did. They
Speaker 1: changed and moved the goal posts, and you can't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I bad job by them. You know, you've
Speaker 1: got a problem when you have independence, Democrats and Republicans
Speaker 1: on the same side for a cause. Yeah, well, with
Speaker 1: everything that we got on in this country, how great
Speaker 1: is it? The thing that united the Donald Trump Republican
Speaker 1: and the Joe Biden Democrat would be the Wall Street
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Ah, the irony? Al Right, pop quiz, pop quiz?
Speaker 1: You want Popca got the mail back? A lot, a
Speaker 1: lot of mail backs. We'll do a little bit of
Speaker 1: pop quiz. Alright. Ten percent of football fans will end
Speaker 1: up doing this in the next couple of weeks to
Speaker 1: get ready for the big game. What is it um
Speaker 1: shot for alcohol? No, it is, Well, it's more than
Speaker 1: ten percent that will shop for alcohol. But this is
Speaker 1: something that doesn't involve shopping. Hmm um by a by
Speaker 1: the sports team apparel. Yes, buy it new jersey. This
Speaker 1: is known as the band wag Ner effect, coined by
Speaker 1: Blair and Main. That's I gotta look good for the game.
Speaker 1: I'm a casual fan. I'm gonna go buy my new
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes or Tom Brady jersey and ra rati. It's
Speaker 1: not bad. I would have guessed just buying any kind
Speaker 1: of alcohol because it's almost like Valentine's Day when you
Speaker 1: buy You never buy roses the day or two before,
Speaker 1: because it's usually through the roof. Uh. The same thing
Speaker 1: with with alcohol and food and all kinds of other drinks.
Speaker 1: They usually well gouge you a little bit, especially the
Speaker 1: day before the game or the day of. Well, my
Speaker 1: move was always to buy the candy and the flowers
Speaker 1: the day after that was my So anyway it's on sale,
Speaker 1: everything's half off after that, all right. Diamonds are the
Speaker 1: hardest gem on earth. What is the second hardest. Everyone
Speaker 1: knows about diamonds like the hardest gym and what about
Speaker 1: the second hardest, Um, how about a ruby da na
Speaker 1: na ning ning. That is right, sapphire slash rubies are
Speaker 1: the second hardest gym on the planet. I like him.
Speaker 1: I like sapphires. You're a fan of the sapphire. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you when you went shopping for your your wife's
Speaker 1: wedding ring, Um, Like, what was your approach? Were you like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get anything. I don't know anything about rings.
Speaker 1: I Uh, she actually had picked out something she thought
Speaker 1: was good. Then I consulted with my mom and uh
Speaker 1: it was. It was a team effort. And my mom
Speaker 1: was very like, get a ring. You know. She was
Speaker 1: like she just happy I was with someone after all
Speaker 1: those years of bachelorhood. Uh So, anyway, we've all heard
Speaker 1: of it, but only one in five of us have
Speaker 1: actually eaten this dish. What is it? Um? Do sardines? Caviar?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say caviar? Caviar? You're west of the
Speaker 1: four or five. I'm sure you've had caviar. No, I
Speaker 1: want to come on, you've had it. Don't lie. That
Speaker 1: doesn't look a lie. You A lot of things don't
Speaker 1: look appetizing, but I bet you Patty you're you're not
Speaker 1: telling the truth. If I had it, but now it's pricey,
Speaker 1: it's expensive, it's it's a delicacy, right, Yeah, have you
Speaker 1: had it? Of course? Not? Of course why would I.
Speaker 1: I don't. I eat like a child. I eat chicken, fingers,
Speaker 1: chese steak, and cheeseburgers. That's my diet, all right. Uh.
Speaker 1: In a new survey, seventy of men say they have
Speaker 1: this in their car or truck at all times. What
Speaker 1: is it? Um? Seven out of ten? Um flashlight? It?
Speaker 1: No cologne or after shape. I don't have after shape,
Speaker 1: but I guess the same. Yeah, I know I have
Speaker 1: this in the car. You don't have cologne or some
Speaker 1: kind of like the odoran type stuff in your car? No.
Speaker 1: The only thing I have my car is the you
Speaker 1: know these, the the gum toothpicks. Yeah, yeah, No, No, No,
Speaker 1: I always have because you know, I'm a sweater and
Speaker 1: during the summertime, and if I start sweating, I am
Speaker 1: going somewhere and I don't have time to go take
Speaker 1: a shower, spray on some cologne or something like that
Speaker 1: to cover up the smell. Did not that's bad? Do
Speaker 1: you have bad hygiene? No? I always smell roses. It's
Speaker 1: all good. That's a lie, alright. One in six of
Speaker 1: us will spend a hundred and forty nine dollars on
Speaker 1: this this year and not happy about it. Game stop
Speaker 1: stock yars on average um shoes. No a speeding ticket,
Speaker 1: speeding ticket, hundred speeding ticket. When's the last time again? Well,
Speaker 1: you probably have ways of getting out of speeding tickets,
Speaker 1: but was the last time that somebody attempted to give
Speaker 1: you a speeding ticket? Three weeks ago? Three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and you didn't tell us the story? Beat job by
Speaker 1: your Where were you? Four oh five? There you go?
Speaker 1: Four oh five? Speed? How fast are you going? You know?
Speaker 1: I was I was told I've used this before on
Speaker 1: the podcast, but for new people. I was pulled over
Speaker 1: one time by a California Highway Patrol officer who gave
Speaker 1: me what I believe is the greatest advice I've ever
Speaker 1: gotten from someone in law enforcement. And he told me
Speaker 1: that you can speed, but you can't go over seven.
Speaker 1: He won't even it's not worth his time to write
Speaker 1: a ticket if someone's going below seven. Seventy nine or
Speaker 1: below is his threshold. If you're eighty or above, and
Speaker 1: he sees you, you have a higher chance to being
Speaker 1: pulled over. So from that, from that day forward, I
Speaker 1: have driven. I've said my thing. At seventy nine, I
Speaker 1: have not been pulled over. And it's years. It has
Speaker 1: been years, and I will drive seventy nine, you know,
Speaker 1: when the highways are open and all that, and I've
Speaker 1: not gotten pulled over. Now that might just be a
Speaker 1: California thing, or maybe I'm just lucky. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I never go past seventy. I got lucky, I um
Speaker 1: because you said, you know, let me hold on, let
Speaker 1: me call my dad and see what's No. No, I
Speaker 1: didn't get lucky. I didn't get lucky in that regard.
Speaker 1: I got lucky because it was on a Saturday during
Speaker 1: college football season. So I had my cell phone on
Speaker 1: the dash with a speedometer is with the ESPN app open,
Speaker 1: and this woman cut me off. She went from the
Speaker 1: car pool lane into the fast lane. So when she
Speaker 1: cut me off, I went into the car pool lane
Speaker 1: and then sped up and then cut her off. And
Speaker 1: then that's when I got popped. So I had three
Speaker 1: dingers right there. I was you're driving the car pool lane,
Speaker 1: but you that's a big that's like two thousand dollar
Speaker 1: thing cell phone on and speeding the trifactor. He didn't
Speaker 1: see the cell phone though, so he didn't see the stuff.
Speaker 1: And did he end up? He didn't write you a ticket?
Speaker 1: Or he did? Right? He didn't. He did. Don't sound
Speaker 1: so excited? What the fun is wrong with you? Well,
Speaker 1: how often are you driving the car pooling? I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I was literally in that car pool lane
Speaker 1: for less than a quarter of a mile. Well, because
Speaker 1: I'll tell you because a guy I used to work
Speaker 1: with who I did an NFL show with on Sundays
Speaker 1: and gave me some terrible real estate advice always drives
Speaker 1: in the car pooling. Is that the guy that takes
Speaker 1: steroids by himself drives in the car pool later? Right?
Speaker 1: And you know I said, what are you doing? You
Speaker 1: know you shouldn't do that. It's for people, And he
Speaker 1: said no, it saves him time. And he's done it
Speaker 1: for years and he's only gotten like two tickets and
Speaker 1: he's done it for like twenty years. Yeah, so he's
Speaker 1: like he does a cost benefit analysis. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know I save all the time I save, you know,
Speaker 1: worth it? Do you know? In other parts of California,
Speaker 1: you can actually there are open and closed times of
Speaker 1: when you could drive in the car pool lane. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in northern California. I've seen that, and I've not seen
Speaker 1: that in southern California. That's that's a good job by
Speaker 1: by No Cal, but So Cal bad job by then.
Speaker 1: I think they do that in Arizona as well. Correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember doing
Speaker 1: that when I was in Scottsdale and in Phoenix they'd
Speaker 1: had the high occupancy vehicle lane and it was only
Speaker 1: for specific times. It's pretty much pointless in my opinion,
Speaker 1: to have the car poolane going twenty four hours a
Speaker 1: day because I drive when no one's on the road,
Speaker 1: usually other than a few big rigs. And you know,
Speaker 1: just what's the point? You know, what's the point? Stupid?
Speaker 1: All right? It is estimated to two percent of women
Speaker 1: will do this in the first five years of marriage.
Speaker 1: What is it, have sex with you, uh, lose their
Speaker 1: wedding ring. Okay, that's actually pretty low, is it? I think?
Speaker 1: So that's that's pretty good. Well, how do you lose
Speaker 1: if you're wearing it all the time, you don't take
Speaker 1: it off? How do you But if you take it
Speaker 1: off a new shower. Yeah, but don't you just put
Speaker 1: it right next to the shower and then you get
Speaker 1: out of the shower, use the towel and then it's
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah. But what happens if you hit it
Speaker 1: and goes into the sink. Well, you have a stopper
Speaker 1: so it doesn't go all the way down the drain.
Speaker 1: And I agree, but it happens. I just think it's
Speaker 1: like people like on the on the sofa or something
Speaker 1: like these, like their hands, I don't know, they're digging
Speaker 1: for the remote and it comes off or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nineteent of women have eaten this exclusively in order to
Speaker 1: lose weight. What is it? Saltine crackers? No? Um? Baby food?
Speaker 1: Do you much? I want to lose a couple of pounds.
Speaker 1: Let me get some Gerber baby food and see? Uh?
Speaker 1: Can I get the peas like the peas of the squash? Geez?
Speaker 1: I've heard stories of older people that don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of money buying dog food because it's cheaper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one, all right. The the average parents
Speaker 1: stops doing this when their child is eight years old.
Speaker 1: What is it? Um? Tangle their shoes? No, um reading
Speaker 1: to them before bed bedtime story. The fun stops when
Speaker 1: you're about eight years old old. I love, I have
Speaker 1: fun members of my mom reading these stories when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Boy, that was fun. All right. Of
Speaker 1: people would like to change this about their vehicle? What
Speaker 1: is it? The color? Not the size of the gas tank?
Speaker 1: All right? All right? Scientists are working on a way
Speaker 1: to create a version of this item that many people
Speaker 1: enjoyed daily by using watermelon and sunflower seeds. Are gonna
Speaker 1: create a version of this product. Wait say this again?
Speaker 1: All right? So the science community are working to create
Speaker 1: a version of an item that many people enjoyed day
Speaker 1: a lie, and they're gonna use watermelon and sunflower seeds
Speaker 1: to do it. Man, I am, it's something you've probably
Speaker 1: had today? How about that? Um, don't I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: It's something my wife loves and I've never had coffee. Oh, coffee,
Speaker 1: watermelon sunflower seed coffee. Interesting. How's that gonna work? I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll find out doing this for about eighty
Speaker 1: minutes a day, they say, whoever they are, it helps
Speaker 1: you maintain good mental health. Meditating now, listening to music. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can believe that yeah, I do that. I have
Speaker 1: great mental health because I clearly listened to a lot
Speaker 1: what I'm getting ready for for for work, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find stuff to talk about. I have um
Speaker 1: mozart or some classical bull crap on the background just so,
Speaker 1: just so I have a little music. That way, I
Speaker 1: don't get distracted by anything other than that. It's pretty
Speaker 1: and take you for a classical guy. That's cool though. Well,
Speaker 1: if I hear lyrics, I might listen to it, but no,
Speaker 1: like sometimes I'll do some jazz, little jazz, classical, just
Speaker 1: background stuff. Got I'm not really paying attention to it.
Speaker 1: But all this is good. According to a brand new survey,
Speaker 1: this was the numbber one comfort food that got us
Speaker 1: through the pandemic last year. I have two guesses. Um.
Speaker 1: My first guess is ice cream. Ice cream is a
Speaker 1: great guess. That is wrong. My second guest is French
Speaker 1: fries solid again wrong again? Is it pizza? No, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't involve cheese. Uh, tacos cassadas grilled cheese. It's good, man,
Speaker 1: it's good. Two slashes of bread and you you had
Speaker 1: some cheese? Now did you? Did you go the old
Speaker 1: school way of putting the butter on top two and
Speaker 1: flipping it over on the side. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: My wife is the greatest cooker of grilled cheese. Now
Speaker 1: I don't have I haven't even the grilled cheese, but
Speaker 1: she from her in a while because you know, it's
Speaker 1: not the healthiest thing. But she's slobbers butter both sides
Speaker 1: of the bread. Cheese on top, cheese on top the
Speaker 1: secret cheat code. So not only you get the gooey
Speaker 1: cheese in the middle on the grilled cheese, but you
Speaker 1: get an extra shot of cheese on top and bottom.
Speaker 1: And it is wonderful good. My grandma back in the
Speaker 1: day when she would do quesadillas, she would layer the
Speaker 1: top of the tortilla with butter, like wrap that thing
Speaker 1: around and then put the cheese and sprinkle it all
Speaker 1: over and then flip it over, put more butter on top.
Speaker 1: So good, are you salivating right now? My my grandma
Speaker 1: really she hit some good spots. She the sparse side
Speaker 1: of the family. She was really really good. They did
Speaker 1: to Molly as well, Casada as well, and then oddly
Speaker 1: enough aprilcot pies. She was fucking amazing. Yeah. Well, as
Speaker 1: a as a kid, you know you finally remember the things,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you know, listen again. We we've talked about
Speaker 1: the keys, the cooking and all that and what you
Speaker 1: need there and it's the proper mix of sugar, salt,
Speaker 1: and fat. Those are the key ingredients. And that's pretty
Speaker 1: much all these restaurants. They spend so much money trying
Speaker 1: to come up with the right just there's that Goldilocks zone.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it before, but it's I'm fascinated by that.
Speaker 1: There's this ratio. It's called the bliss point. And every
Speaker 1: every new item, like you know, Armies comes out with
Speaker 1: a new roast beef sandwich. They're trying to get that
Speaker 1: bliss point. And because it's irresistible and you gotta, you
Speaker 1: gotta come back. But I see, I fast a lot.
Speaker 1: So for me, the best, the best hung hunger is
Speaker 1: is a is a tremendous spice. You know, because you're hungry,
Speaker 1: you'll everything tastes better. That's true. Everything has been all right.
Speaker 1: Time Now for the mail bag. These are actual listener
Speaker 1: questions by actual listeners like yourself, submitted via the show
Speaker 1: Facebook page, Ben Mallers Show or via email, Real Ben
Speaker 1: Real Fifth Hour, Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: First question from Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of a
Speaker 1: pro basketball Hall of Fame or just the basketball Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Now that we have a new regime in
Speaker 1: power in Washington that may or may not have better
Speaker 1: relations with China? Was gag on absent last week because
Speaker 1: he was interviewing for that job in China that you
Speaker 1: recommended him for. Alright, guess guns is for you? No,
Speaker 1: I was not. Are you sure about that, because I'm
Speaker 1: hearing differing reports on that. Listen, I'm interviewing at a
Speaker 1: bunch of different places, but not in China. So interesting. Yes,
Speaker 1: so you're looking to leave the podcast, I'm looking to Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at upgrade my my paycheck. No, so I'm
Speaker 1: want to create your own little personal stimulus. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: in some ways, yes, Okay, I think you'd agree. We're
Speaker 1: all trying to create our own positive stimulus certain times
Speaker 1: of the day. Okay, So you're denying again, Pierre. You
Speaker 1: might want to fact check that. Um, see if he's
Speaker 1: telling the truth, because would he admit, Pierre, that he
Speaker 1: was talking to the people of China, Yes, but I
Speaker 1: would not do that. He was not catch me dead,
Speaker 1: all right, chef Scott from La Orleans, the byou writes
Speaker 1: in and the very nice things to say. I left
Speaker 1: that out, of course, because I don't I'm not an
Speaker 1: elitist like you. I don't need to pat myself on
Speaker 1: the back. But he was very kind. No, he's talking
Speaker 1: about me, all right, Yeah, just buttering me up like
Speaker 1: a biscuit with compliment. So if I were to design,
Speaker 1: if I were to designed a Mallard special food entree,
Speaker 1: a chef Scott from New Orleans rights in, what would
Speaker 1: your top three meats, top two vegetables, and top two
Speaker 1: starches beat? Well, I know now, he says that no
Speaker 1: fried chicken would be allowed. He wants me to think
Speaker 1: outside the box. But I know you like to keep
Speaker 1: things simple, he says. Although I am experienced and trained
Speaker 1: as a friend chef specializing in fine dining, my favorite
Speaker 1: kind of food is comfort food. Now you're speaking my language.
Speaker 1: Now I know exactly what you choose for your meat.
Speaker 1: You would choose pastrami and carnea sada. No, let me
Speaker 1: tell you. I'm gonna give you the list here. So
Speaker 1: I love pastrami is on there. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a number one, but like ribby, thin cut ribby amazing.
Speaker 1: And I like chicken, so chicken, rebby pastrami, some combination
Speaker 1: of that. And as far as the veggies, Chef Scott,
Speaker 1: I love the garlic. That's a vegetable, So I love
Speaker 1: the guard I love bell pepper. Some chilies, uh corns
Speaker 1: a vegetable, right, So I like corn. Get you more
Speaker 1: than two onions? Yeah, I like onions, garlic, bell pepper.
Speaker 1: Those would be the big three because that's when I
Speaker 1: do the Mallard pizza. And what's like starches at but
Speaker 1: potatoes pastas at? What all those starches? Yeah? Rice? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How about rice? Potatoes? About that I could do? I
Speaker 1: mean any of those three potatoes occasionally, don't hate them.
Speaker 1: Not my favorite, but don't hate. Yeah. So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's the list. I can't wait to see what Chef
Speaker 1: Scott comes up with. Although it sounds like he's a
Speaker 1: high end connoisseur at a I imagine him working at
Speaker 1: this like Boogie restaurant. So what you're trying to say
Speaker 1: is you would not sit down in his restaurant like
Speaker 1: I would. No, no, no. If he has addition named
Speaker 1: after me, I'm in you know, I'll go to the
Speaker 1: French Quarter. I'll do it absolutely, I'll hang out there.
Speaker 1: I'll go to Paddlebrian's. Now'll send Paddlebran to photos. See. Look, Pat,
Speaker 1: I'm at your restaurant and road. Somebody else did in
Speaker 1: paddle Brian and all that stuff. Yeah, pick up that
Speaker 1: name he just dropped. There's a famous dummy. There's a
Speaker 1: famous restaurant there. I know you've you've probably been to
Speaker 1: Marty Grand all that, but that's famous. You've never been
Speaker 1: to Marty Gars h huh, bad job. I'm surprised you
Speaker 1: haven't gone down there throwing beads around and all that.
Speaker 1: I've been to. Uh, I've been to a La Vista
Speaker 1: on the campus of you see Santa Barbara for Halloween.
Speaker 1: Does that count? It's a little crazy in Santa Barbara,
Speaker 1: a little bit. San Diego Steak is a little crazy too.
Speaker 1: It was yeah, all right. Stephen Boston right since says
Speaker 1: there's not really questions, more of a statement, says Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and his aging wife made the perfect plan for retirement.
Speaker 1: Clock is ticking, So get the Florida no state tax,
Speaker 1: easy coach, brilliant and no more. Bill Steve from Boston says, well,
Speaker 1: The main part of that was no more Bill. I
Speaker 1: think that's the do you want to get away from Belichick?
Speaker 1: And he got what he wanted and now he's laughing
Speaker 1: and it will be a week of bashing Belichick. The
Speaker 1: Super Bowl hype wheep hYP hype week coming up. David
Speaker 1: in Simpsonville, South Carolina. He says, when they rehired you
Speaker 1: after laying you off, that was in twenty nine, what
Speaker 1: did they tell you? He says, the economy was better,
Speaker 1: or they made a stupid mistake, or they needed you back.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember now. They originally hired me back
Speaker 1: to do weekends. I had been doing the weekday overnight
Speaker 1: show and they hired me back to do the weekend show.
Speaker 1: So it was a demotion. But yeah, they they told
Speaker 1: me some bull crap about how you know, they didn't
Speaker 1: want to let me go, and it was like they
Speaker 1: told me, it was like the last I was I
Speaker 1: was on the list to be let go, and then
Speaker 1: I was off the list, and then they put me
Speaker 1: back on and it was a mistake. And yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't really mention the economy, but they just said that
Speaker 1: they they had erred and they were wondered if I
Speaker 1: wanted to come back, and I was actually at that time,
Speaker 1: I was in negotiations with the people at satellite radio
Speaker 1: and I was talking to a station in Boston, and
Speaker 1: so I had a couple of a couple of spinning plates.
Speaker 1: But I was like, all right, I knew the people,
Speaker 1: obviously Fox Sports Radio. I was like, I liked it there.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, I'll go back. Darryl
Speaker 1: in Elko, Nevada says, I failed to see what Marcel
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn brings to the show. It's time for him
Speaker 1: to go. Well, Darrel, listen, um. Marcel is a acquired taste.
Speaker 1: I get that he's not for everybody, but I like
Speaker 1: mars and I think the show is good for Marcel.
Speaker 1: Not that we're here to help Marcel out, but Marcell
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot going on. He lives in a
Speaker 1: crappy apartment in the projects in Brooklyn, and so the
Speaker 1: highlight from Marcel, one of the highlights of his week
Speaker 1: is calling into the show. And I feel like we
Speaker 1: have created a niche from marself. When Marcel used to
Speaker 1: call up and we didn't do food picks, it was
Speaker 1: it was a little painful at times, a little painful
Speaker 1: of times and all that. But this this food thing
Speaker 1: is good. And Marcel says stuff that he doesn't realize
Speaker 1: is funny. That is funny. And you know, listen when
Speaker 1: we welcome everyone into the Mallard Moist and Marcell's I
Speaker 1: think he means well, he's a good a good guy,
Speaker 1: so I'm not getting rid of him. But we don't
Speaker 1: force him to call. It's like he's on the payroll,
Speaker 1: so he could stop calling it any time. John the
Speaker 1: jailer from Alan Town, p A. Calls and he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and gascon. My Christmas gift for my wife was
Speaker 1: a flop. What do you suggest for Valentine's Day? To
Speaker 1: get me out of the doghouse? Man, this is all
Speaker 1: your domain. I am terrible at getting gifts. I I know,
Speaker 1: a nice card and and all that I can do,
Speaker 1: and the the candies, the flowers, the usual tropes of
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Doesn't it depend on what this guy's wife
Speaker 1: is into. I we don't know anything about her. I
Speaker 1: think her hobbies are and all that I think it's.
Speaker 1: I think you're a safe bet would be to stack
Speaker 1: your gifts, like just do it one year, or you
Speaker 1: get something for her in the morning, the middle of
Speaker 1: the day and nighttime, and then cap it off with
Speaker 1: like a dessert or like some sweets something like that,
Speaker 1: like chocolate. Never go wrong with that. What about like
Speaker 1: um massage type thing, like a day spot type but
Speaker 1: you're in right now, Yeah, but they're they're in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: which is kind of you. You'd be going with some
Speaker 1: candles and some incense. You could do that. That's always good.
Speaker 1: Maybe some body lotion always handy. You could do is
Speaker 1: Airline tickets are ridiculously cheek right cheap right now. You
Speaker 1: could buy tickets somewhere playing a little weekend getaway somewhere
Speaker 1: that you would not normally be able to afford to
Speaker 1: go to because things are so cheap right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you can inquire about heading up to h to Newport,
Speaker 1: heading up to Rhode Island up there, the the big
Speaker 1: mansions that are up there in Rhode is looking at
Speaker 1: you trying to show off your East Coast and geographical knowledge,
Speaker 1: or going to Boston. Why not than that? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think wryn to go up to Maine and keep
Speaker 1: going kind of cool too, though. How about the Nova
Speaker 1: Scotia You can go even first, actually not this time
Speaker 1: of the year and concentrate. Yeah, okay, uh, Carlos in
Speaker 1: buying buying Houston, Texas? Right, since says Ben, will the
Speaker 1: Negro drop finally go away? Since the brothers have passed away? Also,
Speaker 1: when are the Benny's alright? First of all, let me
Speaker 1: address the Phil and Joe Nekro drop. I think it's
Speaker 1: a funny drop. I liked it on the show. We
Speaker 1: had to stop playing on the show because of the
Speaker 1: local ROTI what I mean by that is every time
Speaker 1: we played this ever since things went wacky in the
Speaker 1: world and every was trying to cancel everyone else. The
Speaker 1: the average radio consumer does not listen to everything that
Speaker 1: we say. Right, Listening is an art form, it's a
Speaker 1: talk radio and all that stuff. But but listening is
Speaker 1: often a bit of a problem. And you know, we
Speaker 1: we only have it's like one percent of listeners that
Speaker 1: will actually contribute content to the show, and most people
Speaker 1: will not. They're just casual listeners and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And the problem that we ran into here is both
Speaker 1: it's like two worlds meeting. You have the wocalati going
Speaker 1: around and trying to cancel everybody, and then you had
Speaker 1: people who don't listen right, who have bad hearing right
Speaker 1: hearing impaired. And I mean hearing. I don't mean they're
Speaker 1: actually hearing impaired. I mean just studies have pointed out.
Speaker 1: Being in the radio business, I pay attention to this
Speaker 1: stuff that the person listening to a radio show will
Speaker 1: only remember about twenty maybe even less than that, of
Speaker 1: the things they listen to it the most. It's like,
Speaker 1: which means of the content is in one ear and
Speaker 1: out the other, right, and and so the other thing
Speaker 1: we have is that words only convey It's like less
Speaker 1: than ten percent of what you're trying to say. The
Speaker 1: other ninety percent is communicated by facial expressions. Now we
Speaker 1: can't do tone of voice, and I try to use tone.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the point of this, Carlos is every time
Speaker 1: we played the Phil and Joe nicro drop, someone would
Speaker 1: inevitably email me or post something on social media. I
Speaker 1: can't believe in you would say that you're racist? How
Speaker 1: dare you at all? I can't want to contact Fox
Speaker 1: manage written get you off the air? What are you
Speaker 1: in the k K K? And I'm like, well, no,
Speaker 1: it's the name is Nikro, that's the last name. Phil
Speaker 1: and Anyways, I I just I was tired of it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1: It's funny, but it's not worthy. So you can blame
Speaker 1: the wocarati who and people that are bad at hearing
Speaker 1: as why we had to change that up. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: the answer. Chris in Maracca to Iowa writes In says,
Speaker 1: now that you've been married a while, whom of your
Speaker 1: wife's who Who on your wife's side do you like
Speaker 1: most or least? Does your wife get along with your
Speaker 1: brother's dish on the drama? Chris says, well, I don't
Speaker 1: know that it would be prudent for me to do that.
Speaker 1: The wife is a listener of the podcast. Occasionally she
Speaker 1: listens to the podcast, so I don't know if that
Speaker 1: would be helpful to name names here. But no, honestly,
Speaker 1: I get along with everyone. My wife's family is great.
Speaker 1: I was concerned, you know, you hear stories from friends
Speaker 1: about all these in laws. Man, what a freaking nightmare.
Speaker 1: But I love them. They're great. I'm very close with
Speaker 1: her sister. I'm not close with my wife's brother he
Speaker 1: lives out of the area, but her parents are great,
Speaker 1: and both of them wonderful people, very kind and nice,
Speaker 1: and so I'm very lucky in that regard. Are They've
Speaker 1: taken me in and we we spent a lot of time,
Speaker 1: especially during the summer because my father in law has
Speaker 1: a pool and it gets hot, and so we go
Speaker 1: there quite a bit. And the only person that I
Speaker 1: have an issue there was like a friend of the
Speaker 1: family that I had a rhubarb with. But that's about it.
Speaker 1: That's about it. But the actual like blood relatives and
Speaker 1: all that people are in the family, in the inner circle,
Speaker 1: get along with all of them, get along with all
Speaker 1: of them. I am it. The blind Seahawk fan from
Speaker 1: Olympius says, what are your actual thoughts on Brian Finley?
Speaker 1: I don't have any thoughts on it. Why do you
Speaker 1: think I spend my time obsessing over Brian Finley? Gascon
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you have a lot of thoughts
Speaker 1: about Brian Finley. What do you mean, Well, you're jealous
Speaker 1: of the attention he's gut here through the grape vine,
Speaker 1: that you're jealous of the attention that he gets, and
Speaker 1: that he's the go to fill in guy when and
Speaker 1: he's not around, well he fills in. Because I don't
Speaker 1: want to someone I'm here, Well, you're hearing a red
Speaker 1: horse his mouth. That's not what I'm here. I don't
Speaker 1: want that drag of a schedule. Yeah, okay, interesting, Greg
Speaker 1: in written Washington writes in We're very big. In written Washington,
Speaker 1: we are Uh, he says, Ben, what can you tell
Speaker 1: me about Shane Waldron? You know who Shane Waldron is? Guest,
Speaker 1: you know who the hell's that? That is? The new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinated or the Seattle Shawks. Who was the was
Speaker 1: he the quality control coach or something like that of
Speaker 1: offense for the Rams. I've never even heard of the guy.
Speaker 1: And I'm a Ram fan, and I can assure you Greg,
Speaker 1: he was not hired because Pete Carroll thinks he's going
Speaker 1: to reinvent the wheel. He was hired Shane Waldron because
Speaker 1: he's young, he's cheap, and he will follow the orders
Speaker 1: of Pete Carroll. So that's that's the end of that.
Speaker 1: But but good luck, good luck on that. And if
Speaker 1: Seattle has a good offense next year, he'll get credit.
Speaker 1: If not, they'll blame him. He's a he's a necessary
Speaker 1: useful idiot, as they say Kevin from Rockford Dale. And
Speaker 1: all right, so says Mr Mallor and Mr whoever is
Speaker 1: filling in this week. I guarantee you that are fat,
Speaker 1: poor excuse for a governor is worse than the king
Speaker 1: running your state. That stuff. Have you seen our new
Speaker 1: police reform bill? He says, it's absolutely terrible. Uh, he
Speaker 1: complains about that, and then he wanted to get a
Speaker 1: hold of my boss to complain about somebody we work
Speaker 1: with here. He's he doesn't name him. I don't know
Speaker 1: who this could be. Anybody, says a colleague who repeats
Speaker 1: himself at least fifty times every show. Um, and he says,
Speaker 1: so you don't, Rob and Chris don't, yeh, Jason and
Speaker 1: Mike don't. Okay, who else repeats themselves? So if we're
Speaker 1: talking money through Friday, Jonas doesn't, r J doesn't. So
Speaker 1: these guys do four hours or original content and do
Speaker 1: not repeat things they Yeah, I've done, Okay, all right, good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who he's referred to,
Speaker 1: but he's, uh, he's very upset and you some some
Speaker 1: terrible words there, and uh, yeah, anyway, he says he
Speaker 1: will not name names, but just no, he is a
Speaker 1: little fat piece of blank there you go all right,
Speaker 1: I don't know who that could be. All right, pieces
Speaker 1: of ship here. It's radio mash kidding, so simple, it's
Speaker 1: the radio show. It's not that hard. Dave in Mill Valley,
Speaker 1: California rights in. By the way. As far as the
Speaker 1: police reform, uh yeah, the pendulum will swing back, you know.
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be half. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be blood on the hands of these people because they're
Speaker 1: gonna send out their psychologists for domestic situations and unfortunately
Speaker 1: a morbid prediction to gascon. Some of them are gonna
Speaker 1: get killed, They're gonna get shot, and they're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: we're not going we need police. So then what do
Speaker 1: you do? You know? Good luck, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be that's gonna be what leads
Speaker 1: to the change. It shouldn't be that way. People with
Speaker 1: common sense would know that's gonna be the result. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna inevitably happen. And then you're gonna get the case, well,
Speaker 1: we need the police and so but you would agree
Speaker 1: that we get the world we deserve, like we get
Speaker 1: in the world I want. Yeah, but we get as
Speaker 1: a whole, we get exactly what we deserve. Well, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of dumb people that don't don't think things
Speaker 1: through as far as Actually, I had a conversation with
Speaker 1: the buddy of mine other day who's who's in law enforcement,
Speaker 1: and I said, here and here in l A they
Speaker 1: voted out Jackie Lacey, who's a woman check, minority check, homegrown,
Speaker 1: juicy l a grad check. And she's also a Democrat
Speaker 1: chack check check. And you know why they voted her
Speaker 1: out because she was not far left enough and they
Speaker 1: voted in an old white guy. So identity politics only
Speaker 1: work if you're drinking the kool aid. Jackie Lazy didn't
Speaker 1: drink the kool aid, so it didn't matter if she
Speaker 1: met all of the boxes that they love. She she
Speaker 1: was useless to them because she didn't think the group
Speaker 1: think that they think right wonderful, God forbid. She had
Speaker 1: try to uphold the law and protect law enforced. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, man, I get I am. I live
Speaker 1: in you know, technically l A County. I am considering
Speaker 1: relocating out of l A County because it's this unfortunately
Speaker 1: share the name with that guy. Uh, but man who
Speaker 1: gets recalled first the hammer Newsom, because Newsom, because it's
Speaker 1: already the wheels are already. No. But but George, George
Speaker 1: can get recalled after ninety days. Yeah, how many signals?
Speaker 1: Who do you have to get on that for news
Speaker 1: you need? I think it's one point seven I believe
Speaker 1: it is. Have you signed that petition? Yeah? I have
Speaker 1: all Yeah, Well I haven't. I put my information on
Speaker 1: the website. I think I have to sign something else.
Speaker 1: But I mean on it. I want Gavin Newsom kicked
Speaker 1: out of office, and I would love every second of it.
Speaker 1: And I hope he goes to that French laundry and
Speaker 1: eats a bowl of pasta and chokes on it. I
Speaker 1: believe he would only be the second governor ever in
Speaker 1: twenty three attempts to be recalled from the state of California.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, not die, just choke. You know, eat
Speaker 1: pasta sometimes and it kind of goes down the wrong way,
Speaker 1: you know, just so for the people that take things literally. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a little awkward bite into the pasta. Yes, alright. Uh. Else,
Speaker 1: we have Michael from Newtown Newton Township rather, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's in Michigan. I think there's a couple
Speaker 1: of Newton townships. He might be in Pennsylvania. I think
Speaker 1: there's more than that. But anyway, he says he's been
Speaker 1: listening for ten or more years. How about that good job.
Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome. Good job by you. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of time, a lot of times that
Speaker 1: there's a there's a great quote which I have stolen
Speaker 1: from from Hawk Carrolson and when he retired as the
Speaker 1: White Sox broadcaster, I do homages UH to Hawk Carrelson
Speaker 1: because I gotta kick out. I'm watching White Sox games
Speaker 1: on w g N back in the day, and you
Speaker 1: know you can put it on the board. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: I'll do that sometimes. But Hawk Harrelson said something, and
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing here, that when you take a man's money,
Speaker 1: you take a man's money, but when you take a
Speaker 1: man's time, you take part of their life. And that
Speaker 1: that is I believe that. I mean that, you know,
Speaker 1: and when you listen to UH show and you give
Speaker 1: ten years of your life at least part of five
Speaker 1: days a week or whatever it is, to listen, that's
Speaker 1: that's meaning. That's more meaningful than money. I try to
Speaker 1: teach you that games and you're you're very money. You
Speaker 1: take my time. You take my time. Now, I try,
Speaker 1: I try to explain you the podcast. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: not all about monetary things. It's about giving back book
Speaker 1: and like someone that's getting paid well off of it,
Speaker 1: not getting paid well, not getting paid well at all. No,
Speaker 1: not at all. I beg to differ. Oh, you can
Speaker 1: beg the different all you want. Put that up the
Speaker 1: old you know what I got the minets, I got
Speaker 1: three seeds, all right. Anyway, um, this guy Michael says,
Speaker 1: if you had won power Ball or Mega millions slash
Speaker 1: billions with the recent drawings, would you have continued your
Speaker 1: sports talk show. I think you would have. You know,
Speaker 1: my life perspective has changed a lot recently because it
Speaker 1: would happened with my parents. So I don't know that
Speaker 1: I would. I would like to think I'm a worker,
Speaker 1: so it's just I'm kind of wired that way, so
Speaker 1: I would say yes, because it's not like a real job.
Speaker 1: But I have been slapped in the face with how
Speaker 1: short all this is. So I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I as of before the beginning of one, I
Speaker 1: would have said, absolutely, I'm gonna keep working no matter what.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I don't know. I think you would have.
Speaker 1: I think you might have jumped platforms, but I still
Speaker 1: think you would have. Yeah. Uh, Pete rights in from
Speaker 1: parts and on. He says, where do I find Iowa
Speaker 1: Sam these days? I misses Iowa Insider news. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my fucking god. He as I heard i was
Speaker 1: Sam still works with the company. I talked to him
Speaker 1: the other day. I don't know what what is he referencing? Well,
Speaker 1: because because Jonas on his shows on Saturdays with with
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks and myself and lead the lab, you know,
Speaker 1: Jonas is forced name dropping. By the way, well, how
Speaker 1: to pick any of those up? These are co workers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know who they are. Um,
Speaker 1: Jonas is forced to never heard of them. Jonas is
Speaker 1: forced to dedicate a segment to Iowa Sam so he
Speaker 1: can give us all the news and information in the
Speaker 1: world of sports out of the state of Iowa. It's
Speaker 1: dreadful fucking radio. Yeah, it's awful. Iowa sucks. How do
Speaker 1: you really feel cool al right outside the state of Iowa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just a it's it's eight minutes of painful
Speaker 1: Iowa talk. I had a lot of friends from Iowa.
Speaker 1: I was not the biggest state in the world. But
Speaker 1: I've met people over the years from Iowa and they're
Speaker 1: always like, I'm not I'm stereotyping. It's a good stereotypes
Speaker 1: of people. Don't mind it. This seems like generally good people.
Speaker 1: Like I've not I've not met an asshole from from Iowa.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they exist. I'm sure there's a lot of
Speaker 1: big assholes from Iowa, but I've not met them. I mean,
Speaker 1: the people I've met have been like really cool people,
Speaker 1: normal people that kind of get life and uh yeah so.
Speaker 1: And also Minnesota, I've yet to meet an a whole
Speaker 1: from Minnesota. Like everyone I've dealt with, whether it be
Speaker 1: virtually on the radio or in person in my life experience,
Speaker 1: have been some of the nicest people. I genuinely, I
Speaker 1: feel genuinely good people. Maybe it's an act, but yeah,
Speaker 1: some of the people that follow you from Minnesota are
Speaker 1: kind of knobs. Well, I save the worst for last year.
Speaker 1: Were gonna wrap up the mailbag on this one, Adrian
Speaker 1: in the Mile High City. I hope you're prepared for
Speaker 1: this guest, Deshaun Watson, because you're about to get a
Speaker 1: tongue bath. He says, once again, I gotta give credit
Speaker 1: words due tell the west of the four oh five
Speaker 1: guy to stick around. Yeah. Then he proceeds to assault Kevin,
Speaker 1: saying that Kevin was terrible. He was very upset. He
Speaker 1: said he sucked at a time you cannot suck the
Speaker 1: pop quiz portion of last Saturday's podcast. Yeah, Kevin was
Speaker 1: not fully engaged in the podcast on Saturday. That is true.
Speaker 1: Probably because you don't. It's probably because you intimidate a
Speaker 1: lot of the young uns here. You're blaming me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're I gave him airtime on a on a
Speaker 1: big podcast. It's a little intimidating to give him airtime.
Speaker 1: It's a little intimidating. It's a young, spry one. Am
Speaker 1: I supposed to massage his shoulders? Maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: be a little welcoming into the into the friend Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta jump into the frying pan. No, you don't
Speaker 1: just sliding. You gotta jump in the I get it.
Speaker 1: You gotta do a belly whopper into the deep end.
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't put your toe in the kiddie pool. No,
Speaker 1: you go into the deep end. You swim with a shark.
Speaker 1: This is a different generation. You you can't you can't
Speaker 1: lather them up with with sandpaper. You have to caress
Speaker 1: them and kind of guide them into the into the
Speaker 1: wide world. And you know, he might be the case.
Speaker 1: So I think you're you're doing two things. You're attacking
Speaker 1: me and him. No, no, no, that's good. I accomplished
Speaker 1: two things on that I I do appreciate. But it's
Speaker 1: also his fault because he's soft. I do appreciate tough love.
Speaker 1: I come from the school of hard knocks. But you know,
Speaker 1: this generation is a little bit different, man. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Well just keep in mind though every generation says the
Speaker 1: generations below them are soft and weak and all that,
Speaker 1: and Kevin's generation ten fifteen years from now will say
Speaker 1: whoever follows them, the next generation is also weak and soft.
Speaker 1: It is the circle of life. It is the circle
Speaker 1: of life. And I learned this at a very young
Speaker 1: age when I started covering the NBA in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: and the players who played in the seventies and the
Speaker 1: eighties said how soft and weak the players in the
Speaker 1: nineties were, And they wore baggy shorts and they were,
Speaker 1: you know, gangsters. And how weak that was, and they
Speaker 1: would rip these NBA players, and then those NBA players
Speaker 1: in the nineties ripped the players in the two thousands,
Speaker 1: and then the players in the two thousands ripped the
Speaker 1: players in the next generation. And uh and so it
Speaker 1: goes on. Yeah, but don't you think, like our parents
Speaker 1: generation is probably the most important and or the strongest, toughest,
Speaker 1: name you know, generation in our countries. I don't know, Well,
Speaker 1: the greatest generation, they say, was the World War two generation,
Speaker 1: but there's some parents generation. Yeah, well baby boomers, right,
Speaker 1: is that what you're talking and the baby the baby
Speaker 1: boomers a great generation. Tremendous change that took place in
Speaker 1: their in their salad days in the United States, and
Speaker 1: they were big part of that with civil rights and
Speaker 1: you know, wood stock and all the other things that
Speaker 1: they were a part of in that time. But you'd
Speaker 1: like to think every who's the worst generation? And you say,
Speaker 1: who's the greatest? Who's the generation? What is the worst?
Speaker 1: Is it? What's going on right now with cancel culture?
Speaker 1: And it has to be something. It feels that I
Speaker 1: know that's a myomic, myopic view, but it's certainly it
Speaker 1: feels like that in the moment. Maybe it's just a
Speaker 1: prisoner of the moment thing and it's not as bad.
Speaker 1: But well, I just think about all these unimportant things
Speaker 1: that are that are generally insignificant that are being made,
Speaker 1: you know, canceling people over irrelevant things. Uh, it's for
Speaker 1: political reasons? Is this ridiculous? People are getting squeezed out
Speaker 1: of social media because they have different opinions. And then
Speaker 1: if you have a different opinion that doesn't go your way,
Speaker 1: then you're labeled as something like you're you're labeled as
Speaker 1: as a xenophobe, as racist, as misogynistic, as like an
Speaker 1: all left or an all right, like you're labeled, you're
Speaker 1: labeled in some category because of your stance or because
Speaker 1: of your opinion. That's yeah, that's what it comes down.
Speaker 1: Like the what's the latest guy recently been trying to
Speaker 1: cancel the mike My Pillow guy, mich Lindell. Mind, I
Speaker 1: did see he pointed out, which I thought was, I know,
Speaker 1: people like to rip that guy, and he's he's an
Speaker 1: easy target for some. But I I saw his interview
Speaker 1: with Tucker Carlson and he went on a rant about
Speaker 1: um hit groups. He said bots and trolls was I
Speaker 1: think the quote that he used and say, what was
Speaker 1: going on? Didn't they see that? That's the issue we
Speaker 1: talked about. There's a lot of that like that, you know, cyborgs,
Speaker 1: trolls and bots and all that that you don't know
Speaker 1: what's real and what's not real. And it's, uh, it's
Speaker 1: a wild time, man, it's a wild time. I'm good
Speaker 1: with it. I'm good with the I'm good with labeling
Speaker 1: this generation maybe the worst or at least this time frame,
Speaker 1: because you still have a lot of older people that
Speaker 1: are still trying to cancel people as well. And it
Speaker 1: depends on how it's though, right, like who writes the history,
Speaker 1: because you could also spin it. This is the greatest
Speaker 1: time we started judging people not by their merit, but
Speaker 1: by how they were born. You know, this is the
Speaker 1: greatest thing in the world. Everything we went against, everything
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King strived for. Uh, yeah, it's it's tremendous.
Speaker 1: Someone with high moral authority is gonna tell me how
Speaker 1: good this generation was. Yeah, it's it's a pissing match
Speaker 1: that I have. I have the moral high ground and
Speaker 1: you don't, right, And uh, it's that it's the greatest
Speaker 1: quote by Martin Luther King, who you know, were me
Speaker 1: and you were we were a little a partner age,
Speaker 1: but we grew up, you know, when we learned about
Speaker 1: civil rights, and with Martin Luther King and his quote
Speaker 1: about you know, he wanted to live in the day
Speaker 1: where you are judged by the not by the color
Speaker 1: of your skin, but by the content of your of
Speaker 1: your character. And now the federal government wants you to
Speaker 1: be judged by the color of your skin. It's fascinating,
Speaker 1: it is outstandingly ridiculous. But but here we are, it's
Speaker 1: like the it's like the microcosm of how we are.
Speaker 1: Sports fans work where it's all tribal ism, like you're
Speaker 1: you're a Bruins fan or a Trojans fan, or you're
Speaker 1: a Lakers fan or Clippers fan. But now it's now
Speaker 1: it's an everyday life. It's really read because the way
Speaker 1: my parents taught me was to you know, kind of
Speaker 1: follow that much for you know, judge. You don't just
Speaker 1: judge people based on how they, you know, look to
Speaker 1: You judge them by how they treat you. So I
Speaker 1: have I've met complete schmucks who are white, black, Mexican you,
Speaker 1: I mean, you go down in the list, and I've
Speaker 1: been really good people. But I judge those people based
Speaker 1: on my interactions with them, not based on, you know,
Speaker 1: just how their appearances. But I guess I'm outdated now.
Speaker 1: I'm the old guy. All I need to have the
Speaker 1: John DECI is what I need to have a parent.
Speaker 1: I need to have these preconceived notions and things like that,
Speaker 1: because that's what you know, that's the that's the way
Speaker 1: it is now. I question for because when you judge
Speaker 1: these people, do you automatically go back into their Twitter
Speaker 1: history to see what tweets they had from fifteen years ago?
Speaker 1: Of course, no interest in that. Who cares. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of wasted time. Life is short. Who cares? Seriously,
Speaker 1: get off your ass and do something. Go out, You
Speaker 1: go out and look at birds. She's like, yeah, look
Speaker 1: at birds. All right, we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: Look at out. This is the longest on the weekend
Speaker 1: this podcast. How did that happen? God? All right, let's
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