Speaker 1: If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, the Clearinghouse of Hot takes,
Speaker 1: break Free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now. That it does, and no coronavirus
Speaker 1: pandemic is gonna stop a podcast. I mean, please, I
Speaker 1: know where the crossroads apparently in the sporting world, but
Speaker 1: it has been a wild week. It has really been
Speaker 1: Mr Toad's wild right. But we are here to enlighten you.
Speaker 1: And we figured since there are no sports going on,
Speaker 1: uh and it will not be going on, we we
Speaker 1: can in this podcast. Let's be honest. We were ahead
Speaker 1: of the curb on this because we have not really
Speaker 1: talked much sports ever since this thing launched, other than
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny, where we were breakdown NFL games.
Speaker 1: So we we've now we we were ahead of the
Speaker 1: turning point of society where everything's on hold, it appears
Speaker 1: for at least a month, and everyone's walking on eggshells
Speaker 1: right now. Trying to figure out what to do, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do something a little different on this podcast. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the the illness is not caused. Yes, gone to call
Speaker 1: in sick. He is still here, fully operational, Ben Maller, Yes,
Speaker 1: fully operational. We were we were immunized, right, I mean
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I went down to you right
Speaker 1: when we bust this thing open in September. Well, we're
Speaker 1: not really any think about it. We're not real. We
Speaker 1: live in the magic radio box or podcast box, so
Speaker 1: we're not really real. People, were just figments of your
Speaker 1: imagination as a listener. So we really have nothing to
Speaker 1: worry about, nothing to worry But but my goodness, guest,
Speaker 1: gun I used to have nightmares when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: you know, in the business I started when I was nineteen,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I would have like these what
Speaker 1: what happens if there was no sports? And um, what
Speaker 1: would I talk about? And uh, and here we go.
Speaker 1: We will find out over the next month what is
Speaker 1: going to happen? Hoot thickens. How is this any different though,
Speaker 1: from when we get into the dog days of summer
Speaker 1: or there's only Major League Baseball going on? Well, it's
Speaker 1: much different. I'll tell you why. Number one, we are
Speaker 1: looking ahead. There's there's other drama involved with you know,
Speaker 1: plots in the story about in summer in June, for example,
Speaker 1: which everyone bitches about in sports radio, the industrial complex
Speaker 1: of sports radio. They complain about June. But in June,
Speaker 1: we're about a month away from training camp. We're about
Speaker 1: a month away. There's that second wave of free agency
Speaker 1: in the NFL, which carries the conversation. You also have
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft to the finals, have ended the drafts
Speaker 1: right around that time. Then you're looking ahead to be
Speaker 1: a free agency. Like I used to have a program
Speaker 1: director and we would go over the sports count. It's
Speaker 1: like everything is kind of choreographed, like through thirtain certain
Speaker 1: periods of the year. Now, yeah, there's not as much
Speaker 1: meat on the bone. It's like getting in June. It's
Speaker 1: like getting a chicken wing where there's just a little
Speaker 1: bit of meat on the bone. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I I guess it's the The comp would be if
Speaker 1: you look at this like real estate. Number two, the
Speaker 1: comp would be nine eleven. And I was on the
Speaker 1: radio back then and we did shows and Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio kept moving on. But the sports world in September
Speaker 1: of one, there was no NFL. For a brief period
Speaker 1: of time, there was no um Major League Baseball. But
Speaker 1: it didn't I don't think it didn't last a month.
Speaker 1: I think it was maybe a week or a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, and then everything kind of moved back. But this,
Speaker 1: this appears, by all indications we're getting as we were
Speaker 1: recording this podcast, it looks like it's going at last
Speaker 1: at least a month now. Now for the sake of
Speaker 1: the for the sake of continuity, Ben, since you have
Speaker 1: you had developed a certain NFL book them uh topic
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the calendar year in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, will we have anything or will you have
Speaker 1: anything that showcase with an NBA quarantine book them? You know,
Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about since the n c A tournament.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should give this out right now,
Speaker 1: and maybe by the time you hear this, I will
Speaker 1: have already used this on the radio. Probably not, but
Speaker 1: I was thinking about doing a bracket of deadly plagues,
Speaker 1: right like where where would the coronavirus? Would it be
Speaker 1: a one seed or a two seed? We don't know.
Speaker 1: I would say it's probably like a ten seed right now.
Speaker 1: The coronavirus um you gotta put as your number one seeds.
Speaker 1: The bubonic play, that's gotta be number one. UM, Spanish
Speaker 1: flu famous, that's always a good one. Typhoid fever um,
Speaker 1: you could put that on there. Uh, you know, any
Speaker 1: scarlet fever, black plague would be a number one seed.
Speaker 1: I would think H one N one, Yes, a sars ebowl. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some of the more modern how about West Nile where
Speaker 1: does what the hell do you do with the West
Speaker 1: Nile virus? Where do you put the West now by?
Speaker 1: What about the African swine fever? What do you do
Speaker 1: with that? What about hepatitis? That's a good one, that
Speaker 1: is a that is I mean, so listen, I mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot if you if I would have put
Speaker 1: this together, I mean, you go down the list there.
Speaker 1: What about just the momps? You know? Does that smallpox?
Speaker 1: Basic smallpox? Uh, there's a lot that has to go
Speaker 1: into this. I gotta go in and meet with people.
Speaker 1: And because you know, not every pandemic is the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not all equal. So so you put it at
Speaker 1: high as ten. But consider the fact of how our
Speaker 1: n C double A brackets typically are you wouldn't slot
Speaker 1: the one virus as a twelve. You would have put
Speaker 1: it as a live dog anywhere I would put it
Speaker 1: in as a ten. Yes, um, because people have moved
Speaker 1: past the stage of reasonability. So you gotta when you
Speaker 1: put the bracket together, guess on the deadly plagues bracket,
Speaker 1: and you've got a really factor in uh public perception.
Speaker 1: It's like it's kind of like how the Lakers every
Speaker 1: year when they have a decent team or the favorites
Speaker 1: to win the championship, not out of Vegas, not necessarily
Speaker 1: because the Lakers are actually going to win, but it's
Speaker 1: because of liability. And there's a lot of dummies that
Speaker 1: like the Lakers that bet in Vegas on the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So it's a way to cover themselves in case the
Speaker 1: Lakers end up winning. And so when you put the
Speaker 1: bracket together, you have to factor in. Listen, if I
Speaker 1: if I put the coronavirus is a ten and then
Speaker 1: I have malaria as a twelve, well you know I'm
Speaker 1: covering myself because malaria is not as popular as the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: More people are gonna bet on the coronavirus because that's
Speaker 1: what's going on right now so, and then at the
Speaker 1: you know, at the bottom, you can go to like
Speaker 1: the very regional biblical plagues, the swarms of locusts right
Speaker 1: from the Bible. You can put that in there. Boom done,
Speaker 1: And they still have swarms of locust though. That's crazy
Speaker 1: to me that we still have in certain parts of
Speaker 1: the country swarms of locusts. So the Spanish flu was
Speaker 1: originally what nineteen eighteen, right, it was the influenza epidemic. Uh,
Speaker 1: that sounds right true eighteen and nineteen nineteen. So I
Speaker 1: gotta put you in the spot. I hate doing this,
Speaker 1: but if we have all these one seeds or twos
Speaker 1: or threes, where is our sixteen? Where is the the
Speaker 1: umbc the defeated Virginia two years ago? Like we're well,
Speaker 1: I guess sixteen would be like a basic common cold.
Speaker 1: That would be a sixteen, which is not a daily
Speaker 1: but people do, I I guess occasionally from the cold
Speaker 1: if you've got pre existing health conditions. So I would
Speaker 1: put you know, because the cold. Nobody gets worried when
Speaker 1: they have the cold. Who the hell cares about the cold?
Speaker 1: You gotta maybe a day off. I just sucked some
Speaker 1: garlic and I'm good. You know, That's how I do it.
Speaker 1: So if we went back in reverse, then you'd probably
Speaker 1: go cold and then pneumonia right at Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's not a bad call on that. You know, I
Speaker 1: really have to look down when you get down. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if we have sixteen seats. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if we would have that. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: also what do you do? I know this is not
Speaker 1: technically a deadly plague, but if you drink enough of it,
Speaker 1: it is. How about what do you do with the
Speaker 1: water in Flint, Michigan? Is that is that a live
Speaker 1: like a nine? A nine seed? Is that higher than
Speaker 1: the coronavirus? Because you got to think about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're drinking. You need water to survive, um, so you know,
Speaker 1: and then what about the classical HIV which was a
Speaker 1: very very big and and still people get HIV. It's
Speaker 1: although Magic Johnson's got it and he's is healthier than anybody. Um,
Speaker 1: And so yeah, well, like when you think about this
Speaker 1: at night, how much of an asshole do you got
Speaker 1: to be to think about this? Just on the moments
Speaker 1: of cancelation with the n C Double A Tournament and
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball being postponed and the anhel suspending their season.
Speaker 1: Like how Like what level of of asshole are we
Speaker 1: for talking about this? Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app. Um. Well, I'm trying to kill time
Speaker 1: on a podcast, and I'm also planning on doing this.
Speaker 1: I'm planning to doing this on the radio at some
Speaker 1: point if I haven't already done it. But no, because
Speaker 1: this listen. Uh, desperate times call for desperate measures. Now,
Speaker 1: I believe that you hack radio is over the holidays,
Speaker 1: and I've been a great advocate against hack radio, but
Speaker 1: my position is evolving here, guess gun. Let me tell you, okay,
Speaker 1: because the reason I argue against hack radio and you know,
Speaker 1: Christmas or Thanksgiving is because spoiler alert, their ship going on.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go down to that level. It's
Speaker 1: just a sign of being lazy, right, It's a sign
Speaker 1: of being lazy. I'm not saying you can always have
Speaker 1: to break new ground, but there's stuff going on. I
Speaker 1: just gotta dig a little deeper. Now. I will argue
Speaker 1: that for the next month that I might have to
Speaker 1: do you when your guests gon radio list radio, you know,
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore Radio. Who are your top four football coaches
Speaker 1: of all time? Belichick's number one? You put Lombardi too?
Speaker 1: What about Bill Walsh? A legend from the forty niners?
Speaker 1: What do you do with you know? Do you look
Speaker 1: at the Dolphins and the success they had Parcels under Shula? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Parcels didn't win enough though, right if we didn't win
Speaker 1: the big one enough? Yeah? What do you do? What
Speaker 1: do you how about any read great regular season coach?
Speaker 1: Where does he rank? But we can't do that to
Speaker 1: the listeners. And I think that the fortunate thing for
Speaker 1: you is that you have a base that doesn't overreact.
Speaker 1: I think you have a meat and potato based audience
Speaker 1: that's built in. Like if you don't need a lot
Speaker 1: of dressing or sour kroud or onion, well, well well
Speaker 1: we will the show will go on, so we will
Speaker 1: find things to talk about it. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: will be really micro analyzing and putting random comments made
Speaker 1: by athletes on Instagram and Twitter, and we will put
Speaker 1: those under the microscope and we will then do entire
Speaker 1: monologues about a random tweet from from someone. So I
Speaker 1: have a feeling will get a lot of that. But
Speaker 1: but is there is there anything that tops the image? Now,
Speaker 1: like Rudy Gobert touching microphones before getting sick. Well, he
Speaker 1: was trying to be funny, and you know, no good
Speaker 1: deed goes unpunished, and he thought he was funny. He
Speaker 1: didn't think he was Uh, you know, who cares? You know,
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be the jokes or see, there's nothing
Speaker 1: to worry about here and there you go, Wow, well
Speaker 1: we're not killing time here, Ben, So what's on the
Speaker 1: menut today? All right? So this is going to be
Speaker 1: the first of what could become a regular feature on
Speaker 1: their show. I love documentaries, can't get enough of documentary.
Speaker 1: So for the first time in the history of The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and that other guy, guess gone,
Speaker 1: we will have a Cisco and Ebert stat's old school
Speaker 1: that's before your time, guest, before my time. I watched
Speaker 1: clips on YouTube, but a Cisco and Ebert type of review,
Speaker 1: which do you know Cisco and Libert was the inspiration
Speaker 1: for Pardon the Interruption. Yes, they positioned that show as
Speaker 1: a homage to Cisco and Ebert because Michael Wilbon from Chicago,
Speaker 1: and those guys were Chicago guys. But uh so we'll
Speaker 1: review a movie. We'll we'll go I'm to dig deep here.
Speaker 1: I I gave Gascon a homework assignment. I told you
Speaker 1: to watch the movie. I watched it twice, actually, well
Speaker 1: three times, really part of it for a third time.
Speaker 1: I very rarely do this. Uh it's I mean, I
Speaker 1: really have to like something for me to watch it
Speaker 1: three times. So that's gonna most of what it's gonna
Speaker 1: be about. Well, we'll get a grab bag in actual
Speaker 1: questions by actual listeners. We gotta study this and don't
Speaker 1: stick to sports if Gascon's got anything there. Um so,
Speaker 1: so we'll get right into it. Yes, yes, of course.
Speaker 1: All right, so we we begin the name of the movie,
Speaker 1: which I guess is kind of important. It is supersize
Speaker 1: me too, Holy Chicken. And the cool thing about this
Speaker 1: you don't have to go to the movie theater because
Speaker 1: nobody can. Everyone's in quarantine. It's free. It's on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I hooked up I got a cable, I hook up
Speaker 1: my my phone to my television, and I watched this
Speaker 1: thing like I was in theater mode and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: It's a film by Morgan Spurlock, the man behind the
Speaker 1: original Supersize Me Too. And the plot it's a documentary.
Speaker 1: But the plot is this guy who was you know
Speaker 1: big I hate fast food. You know this is terrible
Speaker 1: and honestly, well, now he's decided to open his own
Speaker 1: fast food chicken joint and and uh so, so he
Speaker 1: goes to Columbus, Ohio, the test they say, the test
Speaker 1: market capital of America. Now, when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: gascon Peoria, Illinois was the test market capital of America.
Speaker 1: I guess it's moved now to Columbus, Ohio. Well, it's
Speaker 1: one of the second I think it's ranked either one
Speaker 1: or two now in the middle of America, the Midwest
Speaker 1: countries or Midwest cities in the United States. So it
Speaker 1: makes sense you either Columbus, Ohio is ranked number two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's either one or two. Right now, what what ranking
Speaker 1: are you looking at in terms of population and growth? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got Chicago. I think you have Chicago Columbus and
Speaker 1: you might swap those orders, and then I believe you
Speaker 1: go down to Charlotte. Charlotte's not in the Midwest. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about cities itself, like mid market cities. What
Speaker 1: about Nashville, I don't know. It's a good question. Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas where all the woke people live. No, they're here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I'm so so sick and tired of
Speaker 1: woke people. Why we got l A. We have San Francisco,
Speaker 1: we have New York, we have uh, Portland. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get away from the super woke people that
Speaker 1: are offended by everything in practice virtue signaling. I just
Speaker 1: need a break. I just enough. So we got Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: that's in there, Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, Growing, I don't know
Speaker 1: about that, Traverse City, Michigan. Indie. Yeah, Indie's cool. I've
Speaker 1: been to India. That's a hiptown. I like Indie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm down for Columbo, though I've never been to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Columbus. I don't think I've ever been.
Speaker 1: I've been in Ohio a few times, but I've never
Speaker 1: been to Columbus. H alright, So so anyway, the documentary
Speaker 1: it focuses in on Big Chicken. Did you know there
Speaker 1: was such a thing as Big Chicken? I did not,
Speaker 1: but it makes sense now that I saw it. Uh,
Speaker 1: This is crazy, the numbers, and you should never give
Speaker 1: too many numbers out on an audio broadcast because people
Speaker 1: aren't taking notes and they can't visualize the numbers. But
Speaker 1: just imagine here that there are over twenty billion chickens
Speaker 1: around the globe. There's more than three chickens for every
Speaker 1: human on Earth. I learned that from the documentary, which
Speaker 1: I guess makes sense right when you think about you know,
Speaker 1: chickens kind of a small bird, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of there's a lot of people, but people are bigger
Speaker 1: and they take up more space. The most farmed animal
Speaker 1: on the planning the chicken. Now, with piggy backing off
Speaker 1: of that number one bill and chicken sandwiches are eaten
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, well, they say that Wendy's, McDonald's and
Speaker 1: chick fil A go through about one point four billion
Speaker 1: pounds of chicken per year. That's three point seven million
Speaker 1: per day, forty three pounds of chicken per second. They
Speaker 1: getcord to this documentary that people are eating now full
Speaker 1: disclosure of the band. When when we when we eat
Speaker 1: fat like we eat like fat asses. And let's say
Speaker 1: the places that we go to McDonald's, Jack in the box,
Speaker 1: Burger King, Wendy's, Chick fil A, Karls Jr. Raising Kanes.
Speaker 1: How many of those places you actually eat chicken sandwiches at.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm more of a chicken strip guy, but
Speaker 1: I'm still eating chicken. I when I used to go
Speaker 1: to Windy's back in the day, I love the Windy's
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich. I've almost never got burgers at Wendy's. I
Speaker 1: always got the chicken sandwich at Windy's, the fried chicken sandwich,
Speaker 1: and I got a side of nuggets and I got
Speaker 1: it upsized. And I love that. My wife loves Chick
Speaker 1: fil A. The families all about the Chick fil A.
Speaker 1: But I'm you know, I'm fine. It's not terrible, but
Speaker 1: it's not as good as raising canes. Wow, not see.
Speaker 1: I I only eat burgers at in and Out or
Speaker 1: Carls Jr. But if you go to McDonald's, chicken, McNuggets,
Speaker 1: Chick fil A spicy chicken sandwich. If I go to
Speaker 1: Jack in the Box, it's always two tacos and two
Speaker 1: chicken sandwiches, and it's like five bucks, so it's pretty
Speaker 1: well prized. Such a pig, I am. I'm fat. When
Speaker 1: I watched this bed. I had two thoughts, I want
Speaker 1: to eat and don't want to throw up. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: wife when we were watching it, she's like, I forced
Speaker 1: her to watch it, and she was into it. She
Speaker 1: was and and she's like, I guess we're not eating
Speaker 1: chicken anymore. I'm know I'm eating chicken. I mean not,
Speaker 1: you mean I don't know. I'm so I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: stop my eating my chicken. Um, but it's crazy. We're
Speaker 1: more likely to eat chicken than we are beef. Now,
Speaker 1: chicken overtook beef a couple of years ago, according to this.
Speaker 1: This the movie supersize me too now because this all
Speaker 1: was intertwined, so peopill know this when they start watching it.
Speaker 1: But the way that the marketing worked was fantastic. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into that. But the marketing is unbelieving.
Speaker 1: But the way that they mentioned that with the chicken
Speaker 1: supplanting beef, well that that thing that goes just into
Speaker 1: the way that it's prepared right cooked and and exact people,
Speaker 1: the chicken sandwich has become the new the new burger,
Speaker 1: and it's it's the number one sandwich in America. And
Speaker 1: we'll get to that. But but wait, there's more numbers.
Speaker 1: Guesscot I have more numbers. I scribbled down some more
Speaker 1: numbers and numbers. Uh, there are nine plus billion. They
Speaker 1: call them the Ross cross large double breasted chicken. Right,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I've never heard of this. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard of this? I'm not really in the poultry business,
Speaker 1: but this is the fastest growing broiler chicken hatch each year.
Speaker 1: Did you did you see the numbers on this? This
Speaker 1: stood out for me too. Yeah, these are bread for
Speaker 1: the meat obviously, because you know in the poultry game.
Speaker 1: But six weeks after they hatch, they are ready to
Speaker 1: be sent to the slaughter house and go to the
Speaker 1: dinner table. Six weeks lifespan of six weeks. I I
Speaker 1: could not believe the process from start to finish about
Speaker 1: how Morgan actually developed his his own little farm with
Speaker 1: an Alabama Right, he went to Alabama. Yeah, the creator
Speaker 1: was in Alabama. He actually drove up for the for
Speaker 1: the grand opening. And the monopoly that's amongst the Chicken
Speaker 1: and Tyson Chicken in particular, it really controls the market.
Speaker 1: Well that's big chicken. Yeah, that's big chicken. But but
Speaker 1: just to follow up here on the the Ross crosses, large,
Speaker 1: double breasted, fastest growing brother chicken. Um. They say, seventy years.
Speaker 1: They've been researching this for seventy years. Let's do the
Speaker 1: math on the what are we looking at nineteen fifty roughly? Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty good math. And they they're they're bragging about the research.
Speaker 1: It's selective breeding. And from originally when they started this
Speaker 1: seventy years ago, it took between sixteen and twenty weeks
Speaker 1: for a chicken to be big enough to go to
Speaker 1: to make a chicken sandwich, and it's down to six weeks.
Speaker 1: Every year they take a day off the breeding at
Speaker 1: the time it takes. So, I mean, given enough time,
Speaker 1: are we looking at a chicken being hatched and then
Speaker 1: a week later it's ready to go to the slaughterhouse.
Speaker 1: That's dangerous and and the most profitable chickens to be
Speaker 1: had are the males. That's right, baby, half about let's
Speaker 1: hear it for the boys. Come on, ladies, sorry bad
Speaker 1: yet by you. Chicks and females are are obviously low
Speaker 1: on the totem pole of the slaughter Males the top
Speaker 1: dog and the most profitable. Yes, and this is this
Speaker 1: is crazy. You just see that they had a little graphy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't give everything away, but I don't care. I mean,
Speaker 1: most people are gonna watch it, but you should watch it.
Speaker 1: If you watch it, I don't think this is any
Speaker 1: giving too much away. Who cares? Um. So they said,
Speaker 1: if a human being, a child was born and grew
Speaker 1: at the same rate as the modern day broiler chicken,
Speaker 1: a two month old baby it's sixty days in the life,
Speaker 1: would weigh six hundred and sixty pounds. That's a fat baby.
Speaker 1: That was a fat baby. But it's plus plus minus
Speaker 1: the fake grill marks on the baby, right yeah, oh yeah, well, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: But the ninety plus percent of consumers are going for
Speaker 1: the fried or crispy aversion rather than the grilled. And
Speaker 1: uh and and it's really interesting, And I love that
Speaker 1: I won't getting in the marketing stuff because I this
Speaker 1: is right in my wheelhouse. And I have ranted about
Speaker 1: weasel words and sports and advertising for years. I remember
Speaker 1: when I had an epiphany and I read in a
Speaker 1: book that the term best was it was a wet term,
Speaker 1: and that just set me off on a course in
Speaker 1: my life where I then wanted to learn about weasel
Speaker 1: words because, uh, in the advertising there were lawsuits about
Speaker 1: you know this place, this, you know Pastrami Shack will
Speaker 1: just use that as an example, said they had the
Speaker 1: best post Tommy sandwich in the world. Um, and then
Speaker 1: so somebody's sued and all that, and they determined that
Speaker 1: the legal definition and advertising for the term best is
Speaker 1: as good as everything else in that category. Meaning you
Speaker 1: can have seventeen thousand mom and pop sandwich shops that
Speaker 1: all have the world's best sandwich. And I just blew
Speaker 1: me away. That's stuck with me and I when seeing
Speaker 1: the marketing weasels take over in this documentary, this new
Speaker 1: Morgan Spurlock documentary, I guess we came out last year,
Speaker 1: but I just saw it's free on YouTube. Now. Um,
Speaker 1: the health halo, that was a good one that Now,
Speaker 1: this is what marketing people do, is they have associated
Speaker 1: as certain terms, asociated with certain products that are only
Speaker 1: there to make you feel healthier. I mean, they call
Speaker 1: it the health halo. Shouldn't we do that in sports radio?
Speaker 1: Shouldn't we do terms that make us seem more you know,
Speaker 1: on the ball and yeah, but how many guys have
Speaker 1: that kind of diversity with their language. That's the other
Speaker 1: thing too, It's almost like real estate. Ben You know this,
Speaker 1: like you can't have the old terminology as you can't
Speaker 1: have a mansion in a ghetto, and you can't have
Speaker 1: a ghetto surrounded by mansion. So this kind of goes
Speaker 1: back to your point about the unhealthiest food is surrounded
Speaker 1: by all this green. They do it not only in
Speaker 1: the food itself, but in the ambiance of all the
Speaker 1: venues like McDonald's, a Chick fil A, a Burger King,
Speaker 1: like the wall, the writing on the cup, everything. There's
Speaker 1: these little mind tricks that they've figured out by studying
Speaker 1: human nature. And but the some of the examples they
Speaker 1: used in the documentary, they use terms like friends, natural,
Speaker 1: hand crafted, artisan, free range, free range, homemade, that's that's
Speaker 1: also one. And crispy not friede Yeah, frieda has evolved.
Speaker 1: You gotta get it right here, guests Friday evolved to
Speaker 1: crispy Yeah. And I didn't even notice because I'd always
Speaker 1: say when I would go to Wendy's back in my
Speaker 1: big eaten days, and I'd get the chicken sandwich combo,
Speaker 1: I like the fried chicken sandwich combo, and I was
Speaker 1: that upsized, and I want some fried chicken nuggets. But
Speaker 1: now it's crispy. At some point I was not paying
Speaker 1: attention and I failed, I failed society and it became crispy.
Speaker 1: How about this natural natural, all natural farm to table.
Speaker 1: That's a big one, right, better for you means nothing.
Speaker 1: None of those terms mean anything. Hormone free, hormoard freeze
Speaker 1: another one, hordmoorde freeze another one. Then they also explained
Speaker 1: the difference between natural or organic, because most people think
Speaker 1: now is organic and that's not the case at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and they make organic. But this was very
Speaker 1: eye opening for my wife who, unfortunately, and she's admitted
Speaker 1: to it, when she goes to the store, she sees
Speaker 1: terms like fresh natural, farm to table and gets very
Speaker 1: excited and wants to buy those products because they usually
Speaker 1: they she assumes you assume the position that they're better
Speaker 1: for you. I get it. Um. But then they talked
Speaker 1: about younger people who look for quality and gredience. They
Speaker 1: want transparency, they said, and you know what are the
Speaker 1: additives of preservatives? And you mentioned free range or cage tree,
Speaker 1: which was a big part of the documentary. But to
Speaker 1: can continue this train of thought, marketing, weasels we have
Speaker 1: deceptive advertising. All natural they claim, and this was this,
Speaker 1: This really stuck out to me in this documentary. The
Speaker 1: most misleading claim in the poultry meat business is all
Speaker 1: natural because, as you said, the average person thinks it's
Speaker 1: organic and it's not. Did you see this is this
Speaker 1: is so Weasley. This is like one of the great
Speaker 1: Weasley things I've ever ever watched or heard about. All
Speaker 1: natural a court of the United States Department of Agriculture
Speaker 1: means minimally processed, no artificial ingredients. But here's the key part.
Speaker 1: It only means what happens after the animal has been killed.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with how the animals raised. Now,
Speaker 1: that is outstanding. And by law they say you cannot
Speaker 1: add hormones to paltry, so it's impossible. But yet they
Speaker 1: still claim no added hormones. They're not allowed to add hormones.
Speaker 1: And one of the things, because people might be asking,
Speaker 1: how is this even possible? How do they get around this? Well,
Speaker 1: Morgan actually discovers and through Q and A that the U.
Speaker 1: S d A they don't have enough money to be
Speaker 1: testing these animals for any kind of hormones, so they
Speaker 1: just believe it from from the suppliers, from the farmers,
Speaker 1: and it's called the honor system because they're doing the
Speaker 1: honor system with the food. The honor system. Think about
Speaker 1: does the honor system ever work? My dad when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, my my old man would he was
Speaker 1: his parents smoked, all my grandparents smoked, and my my
Speaker 1: dad was like also against smoking when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: and he would go in these rants about smoke. They
Speaker 1: used to have vending machines selling cigarettes and then you know,
Speaker 1: based on the honor system, and he would just those
Speaker 1: two nagers, they don't want honor the honor system. They're
Speaker 1: buying those cigarettes. You know you're going Nobody honors the
Speaker 1: honor system. Who honors the honor system? Nobody? Ex quick question,
Speaker 1: was that the most eye popping thing for you? Or
Speaker 1: was it the free rage quote unquote patio. Well, that
Speaker 1: was also great. That that was good, but the fact
Speaker 1: that you know these miss leading I mean, you cannot
Speaker 1: add hormones, but yet they brag about no added hormones.
Speaker 1: Yeah you can't, You're not allowed to do it. The
Speaker 1: cage free thing was good though, that is another misleading thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: Meat chickens in the United States have never been raised
Speaker 1: in cages. So when you say cage free that's another
Speaker 1: one of those things. It's you know you it's not true.
Speaker 1: It's never been true. Uh, and then humanly raised. Be
Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
Speaker 1: weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. Did
Speaker 1: you see they said that the people that make the
Speaker 1: chicken are allowed to determine what that means. I think
Speaker 1: it goes back to the part where they were mentioning
Speaker 1: where you have the farm itself, but you can't have
Speaker 1: the chicks. And then eventually chickens outside for long period
Speaker 1: of time, either because the temperatures are so hot, these
Speaker 1: chickens will die from a heart attack because how fast
Speaker 1: they grow. Yeah. And in the documentary, if watch this
Speaker 1: and you know, God knows you should. Uh. The cage
Speaker 1: free thing was was great and free range that was
Speaker 1: a big part of this. And they actually had the
Speaker 1: area which was just like what is it a couple
Speaker 1: of feet its feet, it's like a chick paddock. It
Speaker 1: was like a patio. It was like a chicken chicken
Speaker 1: patio to go ahead and see the sun and uh.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about that, as they determined even
Speaker 1: if the chickens don't actually choose to go outside. If
Speaker 1: they have the option of going outside, it counts as
Speaker 1: free range, right is that? Is that right? Free range?
Speaker 1: And uh in the U s d A. Again, they
Speaker 1: will if you vouch for the safety of the food,
Speaker 1: they will just rubber stamp. Was just And the other
Speaker 1: thing that was great, you know, following the weasel mantra,
Speaker 1: which we're talking about right now, is the fact that
Speaker 1: they said in the documentary that a lot of these terms,
Speaker 1: these very woke terms such as free range, GMO, free
Speaker 1: gamely raised, these came from protesters. These were the activists
Speaker 1: against the chicken industry, and the Chicken is just like, funk, damn,
Speaker 1: we'll just copy their terms, and they did. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mean, these these people that were running around, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to change the chicken business. The chickens is like, oh,
Speaker 1: fuck it, we won't change it anything were We'll just
Speaker 1: you know, we'll just use these terms. Now. I did
Speaker 1: come to a realization. I didn't know this from from
Speaker 1: the dock until they showed it. But I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that Chick fil A has a lot of msg and
Speaker 1: their sandwiches, Well, that's the key to get people. It's
Speaker 1: a way to get people hooked on food. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the sugar, right, that's pretty much that that's your that's
Speaker 1: your fix for keep craving. Yeah exactly. Um, well, wouldn't
Speaker 1: mean if you were, like, you know, a young mom
Speaker 1: and you wanted your kids hooked on your food, just
Speaker 1: put msg in your food at home, you can your
Speaker 1: kid will never leave home. Kid will be like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, or your dad. I don't care mom or
Speaker 1: dad even crazy. Now, getting away from just this for
Speaker 1: a second, has there ever been a food or drink
Speaker 1: that you've ever been addicted to? And? Oh god you
Speaker 1: I was a soda attict, man. I would go to
Speaker 1: seven eleven, get the super giant big golf, I fill
Speaker 1: it up. I drink about half of it in the
Speaker 1: seven eleven, and then I'd go back fill it up
Speaker 1: again before I checked out of the seven eleven. I
Speaker 1: love soda. I I believe a lot of my obesity
Speaker 1: came from drinking soda. Yeah, the sugary. I loved it. Man,
Speaker 1: It's empty calories. And you know now that I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, angry middle age loser. I look back at
Speaker 1: that and think about some of the the amazingly poor
Speaker 1: life choices I made, uh in the food department? What
Speaker 1: about you, guests? Do you think I was worse or
Speaker 1: better off because I went down the road of energy drinks.
Speaker 1: So when I was like twenty or twenty one, our
Speaker 1: whole thing was go to Vegas in order red Bull Vodkas,
Speaker 1: so you can stay up all day, all night for
Speaker 1: four to forty hours. And I've been on edgy drinks
Speaker 1: ever since. That that can kill you quicker because you
Speaker 1: can have a heart attack. Yeah, yeah, And I didn't win.
Speaker 1: It's a long term thing. When you drink soda, you
Speaker 1: get the illnesses as you age. Now and that's the
Speaker 1: other thing too, is because I didn't know this, but
Speaker 1: some of the Instagram accounts that I follow, a couple
Speaker 1: of the guys are or heavy into life changing experiences,
Speaker 1: like guys that have been big and now are leaned
Speaker 1: out or whatever. But they'll do like five to ten
Speaker 1: minute testimonials, and what they do is they diagram the
Speaker 1: ingredients on energy drinks and say okay, like for Bang
Speaker 1: Bang is an example where it shows that there's no
Speaker 1: sodium and there's no sugar, and they label it, they
Speaker 1: advertise it. There's creating all this other stuff B C
Speaker 1: A S. And then you read the fine label and
Speaker 1: then there's other ingredients in there that are actually sugars,
Speaker 1: but you don't see it because it's so fun in
Speaker 1: print that you ignore it because you see the other
Speaker 1: things that pop out at you when you know, with
Speaker 1: the naked eye. So yeah, I've been like that with
Speaker 1: Bang with five, our Energy, with Red Bulls, with rock stars,
Speaker 1: like all those drakes. I'm guilty as charged. I never
Speaker 1: got into it. And I remember when Red Bull kind
Speaker 1: of came on the scene and I was working in
Speaker 1: radio at the time and they were giving the radio station.
Speaker 1: I worked at a lot of free product as a
Speaker 1: way to get the people on the radio to use it.
Speaker 1: And I mean whenever you wanted a Red Bull, there
Speaker 1: was like cases of it down the hall. And I
Speaker 1: never really got into it too much, but there were
Speaker 1: people that were completely addicted to the Red Bull. They
Speaker 1: did not get enough of it. I mean Vegas for me,
Speaker 1: that's what it was like early two thousand's. It was
Speaker 1: red Bull and vodka and the lounger a club and
Speaker 1: they stayed up all day. You stayed up all night
Speaker 1: and then you eventually crashed, but it was after your
Speaker 1: weekend extravaganzas. So, yeah, it was really bad, and obviously,
Speaker 1: looking back at it now, it's pretty reckless. But that's
Speaker 1: what you do in your twenty one or twenty two yep.
Speaker 1: So continuing on with the documentary, though, I I love
Speaker 1: words and I like to I feel like I'm self educated.
Speaker 1: I didn't really didn't pay attention in school, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I've learned more since I got out of
Speaker 1: school than I learned in school, because I try to
Speaker 1: learn a different word too every day and try to
Speaker 1: figure out if they're they're too long to pronounce, if
Speaker 1: I could use them in my lexicon. I did not
Speaker 1: know of the word boucolic. Were you aware of the
Speaker 1: word bucolic? You know what that means? They used it
Speaker 1: in the documentary, So I went to the Google and
Speaker 1: I looked it up. I went to the interweb and
Speaker 1: they because they talked about this boucolic, I think I'm
Speaker 1: pronouncing it correct. Maybe I'm not. Uh, this boucolic notion
Speaker 1: that what goes on on the farm in America is
Speaker 1: just like when you grew up and you have those
Speaker 1: little farm toys and all that. But boucolic means relating
Speaker 1: to the pleasant aspects of the countryside or country life.
Speaker 1: Now it's kind of like another and a synonym for
Speaker 1: that would be like rusted. Okay, so does this correspond
Speaker 1: to the Wendy's barn that's in their logo? Was that
Speaker 1: what it was? I'm not I don't remember that part
Speaker 1: of it, but there was some marketing guy that was
Speaker 1: pretty good, and he was like talking about how um
Speaker 1: essentially the people have this idea of what farming is
Speaker 1: like because when they were kids playing with little toys,
Speaker 1: you know, when you see and I had the same toys,
Speaker 1: and you probably did, we all did you know I
Speaker 1: had the little farm set with your tractor and your
Speaker 1: barn and your cow and your check in and all
Speaker 1: that stuff and uh and then the other thing which
Speaker 1: and I have repeated this a couple of times this week,
Speaker 1: and it is true. And I learned this a while
Speaker 1: ago about human nature that people do not take in
Speaker 1: stuff through fact. They take in stuff through stories. And
Speaker 1: this is problematic with the coronavirus, for example, because you
Speaker 1: have the facts and you have the story, and the
Speaker 1: stories are really scaring the ship out of everyone. The
Speaker 1: facts for most people not that bad, but people are
Speaker 1: hearing and learning and and consuming like a sponge the stories,
Speaker 1: and they're not going with the facts, and that becomes problematic.
Speaker 1: Now when you've traveled across the United States been have
Speaker 1: you ever gone with a city where it was freezing
Speaker 1: cold that you had to wear ear and hand mits?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, I absolutely have been to several cities
Speaker 1: like that. So that was one of the funnier parts
Speaker 1: of this documentary. It's early on, it's probably about twenty
Speaker 1: or thirty minutes in, but what Morgan does is he
Speaker 1: bounces between every fast food restaurant, and when he went
Speaker 1: to Burger King to order a chicken chicken sandwich, he
Speaker 1: actually took one bite of it and the entire chicken
Speaker 1: filet the patty was hollow, so he fingered it with that.
Speaker 1: He put three fingers through it. It looked like many
Speaker 1: mits Mark tape. Yeah, it's pretty much. It's like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that is that's exactly what we eat, right,
Speaker 1: just empty. Yeah, and yeah, it was pretty I you know,
Speaker 1: no no knocking Burger King, but I've had that same experience.
Speaker 1: I used to go with the Burger King chicken sandwich,
Speaker 1: which is elongated. The Burger King chicken sandwich long geting
Speaker 1: because my grandfather, may he rest in peace, loved Burger King.
Speaker 1: He loved Pizza Hut and Burger King with his two
Speaker 1: favorite restaurants. So we go out with Grandpa. He was
Speaker 1: the Yiddish guy from Massachusetts, and we go out with him,
Speaker 1: and he he spoke Yiddish. I learned the Yiddish words
Speaker 1: from him. But we'd go to like Burger King and
Speaker 1: he'd get like a whopper burned up through the grill twice.
Speaker 1: That's where I learned to love my my love of
Speaker 1: overcooked foods. And then Pizza Hut too, And I remember
Speaker 1: him taking napkins with Pizza Hut pizza back years ago
Speaker 1: and as a kid, and sucking the the grease and
Speaker 1: and going through like a whole, like seventeen napkins to
Speaker 1: get all the oil and grease off the very top
Speaker 1: of the chick of the pizza man. But and the
Speaker 1: other thing, did you see? The part that stood out
Speaker 1: to me too, is that that every company has to
Speaker 1: have a story. You have to have an advertising campaign
Speaker 1: which is a story. You can't just say, hey, my
Speaker 1: food is better. You have to tell them why your
Speaker 1: food is better. You've gonna weave a good tail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But that's where these marketing directors and executives and content
Speaker 1: creators come in, and it is absolutely fascinating just to
Speaker 1: see how they can awind those words, Like you mentioned
Speaker 1: the language that's around that, because those words will pop
Speaker 1: up at you and because you think, well, because you've
Speaker 1: never seen it before, never used in that kind of
Speaker 1: a sphere. It gives you like that warm, comforting feeling
Speaker 1: along with the colors and the atmosphere of the building
Speaker 1: themselves that you order in. Oh and then the packaging, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the packaging is a good one with that. But essentially
Speaker 1: big takeaway is that we're we're all guinea pigs and
Speaker 1: the food companies are counting on us to follow human
Speaker 1: behavior to increase their sale. I mean they even said
Speaker 1: in there, they said listen. Uh. The companies do market research,
Speaker 1: which obvious everyone in business does market research, but you
Speaker 1: they determine if people buy more food because there's salads
Speaker 1: on the menu. They put salads on the menu even
Speaker 1: if and I think they said in part of this
Speaker 1: maybe I maybe I just imagine this that they have
Speaker 1: the salads on the menu, but they don't really sell
Speaker 1: that they'll they'll put like two healthy items wrapped around
Speaker 1: a crispy chicken sandwich, and people will buy the crispy
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich somehow thinking because it's surrounded by to a nice,
Speaker 1: supposedly healthy items that they're okay. Well, the amazing thing
Speaker 1: is that that market research, I think that's all goes
Speaker 1: all the way back up to the top of the
Speaker 1: food chain. No pun intended, but of the way that
Speaker 1: Tyson manipulates the market where they pay out on a
Speaker 1: tournament scale. It's a rig system. That's wild. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is a wold, but I like this whole thing blew
Speaker 1: me away. Like the mark I keep going to the
Speaker 1: marketing stuff and then I didn't know about anything about
Speaker 1: the rig system. I didn't know what the hell Big
Speaker 1: Chicken was. I had no idea what that was. Um,
Speaker 1: but just the whole, the whole thing that the free
Speaker 1: range part which we reference where the U. S d
Speaker 1: A allows you to use free range as long as
Speaker 1: the chickens have access to the outdoors, but they don't
Speaker 1: have to, you know, use it. It's just the whole
Speaker 1: thing is just ridiculous. It's just craziness. The greenwashing, I
Speaker 1: think it was the term they used the food industry
Speaker 1: because consumers, they determined, want to feel like the businesses
Speaker 1: are being honest, and then you know you can trust
Speaker 1: the businesses. But it's still junk food. It's just repackaged
Speaker 1: junk food with a green label line a different way.
Speaker 1: But let's get into the rig system, because you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a big part of this, and I
Speaker 1: feel bad. We have a lot of farmers that listen
Speaker 1: to the show, guys that get up early on the
Speaker 1: farm and and listen to the overnight show, which is
Speaker 1: I guess in morning show for them, and you know,
Speaker 1: getting up for the sunrises. Yeah, I mean this was brutal, man.
Speaker 1: This is what a bunch of scumbags. I mean, I
Speaker 1: gotta use a word bigger than Mama Luke and dingle Berry.
Speaker 1: How about assholes? How about that? Is that a good one?
Speaker 1: Greedy ass mothers? Yeah, so big chicken. They have farmers
Speaker 1: competing against other farmers. It's not an equal playing field,
Speaker 1: and there have been some lawsuits. As you said, there's
Speaker 1: a tournament system, so they claim it's a merit based competition,
Speaker 1: but they pick farmer against other farmer, you know, grower, etcetera.
Speaker 1: And and you're ranked. It's like, you know, how you
Speaker 1: have the power rankings every week when we used to
Speaker 1: have sports in America and they have power rankings every
Speaker 1: week and all that and uh, and they weigh how
Speaker 1: much you know, you ranked on how much the birds
Speaker 1: weigh and how much they eat and how many chickens
Speaker 1: survive and goes by and it goes I think it's
Speaker 1: one through eleven. That's how it was ranked between farmers
Speaker 1: that were uh supplying them, and they have a set amount.
Speaker 1: It's the big pot. And then if you have the
Speaker 1: most successful chickens, that's great, you get the most money.
Speaker 1: If not, and on the surface, what's wrong with that, right,
Speaker 1: that's capitalism, because hey, if you do well, you should
Speaker 1: get more. The problem is, they explained in the documentary,
Speaker 1: is that Big Chicken dictates everything. So it's not a
Speaker 1: level playing field. Like they determine what birds you get,
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to feed them, and if you end
Speaker 1: up getting a bunch of sick birds, doesn't matter. Right,
Speaker 1: they send you a bunch of female chickens that don't
Speaker 1: grow as fast as male chickens. Uh, fuck you, you're screwed.
Speaker 1: And then it's on top of that the racket even
Speaker 1: gets amplified because the way that like let's say, for example,
Speaker 1: I'm Tyson and you're a farmer, well to keep yourself
Speaker 1: in business, then I could sell to you a heater
Speaker 1: or a water pump or something else that puts you
Speaker 1: more in hock, and so you're more in debt while
Speaker 1: trying to keep yourself afloat. At the same time, you're
Speaker 1: barely making ends meet because your chicks don't grow at
Speaker 1: the level of other competing farmers. Yeah, they they said
Speaker 1: in in the documentary. Obviously this is one side of
Speaker 1: the story. Big Chicken didn't respond. But the goal is
Speaker 1: to control these farmers, right. They want to get them
Speaker 1: just above the water or just a little bit below
Speaker 1: the water. And it's like a control mechanism to keep
Speaker 1: everyone under the thumb. And so they stay in lockstep
Speaker 1: with Big Chicken. This is crazy. This is absolutely absolutely
Speaker 1: nuts um. And it's like a legal way, as they
Speaker 1: said in there, from from stealing from people. It was like,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with just you know, you're based on how
Speaker 1: many chickens you you get paid per chicken should be equal?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? And and and the process doesn't
Speaker 1: change every month So if you and I were competing farmers,
Speaker 1: but if your way to grow the chickens was exactly
Speaker 1: the same month in and month out, something changes and
Speaker 1: or god forbid, if you speak up against Big Chicken,
Speaker 1: then you also get a demerit too. Oh yeah, they
Speaker 1: were that one of the guys that the guy in
Speaker 1: the documentary h he worked with Morgan Sport Spurlock. He
Speaker 1: Um pointed out that he had been blackballed, ostracized, whatever
Speaker 1: term you want to use there because of that. But
Speaker 1: it's it's just nuts. And again, as you pointed out,
Speaker 1: we talked about it here. They dictate everything, so it's
Speaker 1: really nothing changes other than them, the Big Chicken people,
Speaker 1: and then you're you're fucked, all right. So time down
Speaker 1: for the final Mallard film review scale of one to ten.
Speaker 1: Now ten. I love these documentaries. I think one of
Speaker 1: the great documentaries I've seen in recent years it's been
Speaker 1: a couple of years was Get Me Roger Stone. I
Speaker 1: recommended that to you guess. Remember, yeah, that's a ten. Uh,
Speaker 1: this documentary one to ten. I'm gonna give this a ten. Also,
Speaker 1: I believe this was a tent. I watched it multiple times.
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, we're doing a whole podcast about this.
Speaker 1: So on the Mallard scale of enjoyment, I put this
Speaker 1: as a tent. I learned new marketing terms I didn't
Speaker 1: know about. I learned about how farmers are getting fucked over.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about that. I love the whole advertising
Speaker 1: human nature thing. I'm fascinated by how we're all wired
Speaker 1: and and how people don't even realize that they're being
Speaker 1: horn and winked hoodwinked rather than horne swaggle and all this.
Speaker 1: I I think it's great. So again, the movie is
Speaker 1: supersized me too, Holy Chicken by Morgan Spurlock. It is
Speaker 1: absolutely free on YouTube. Last I checked, it's like an
Speaker 1: hour and forty five minutes and I give it a ten.
Speaker 1: Guest gone, do you have a desk? On film score?
Speaker 1: I think, unlike the Aaron hernana'z documentary that we talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about, this one is up there for
Speaker 1: so many reasons. I think the biggest one is it
Speaker 1: encompasses everything, and you as a consumer or you as
Speaker 1: a business owner, can relate to it in any kind
Speaker 1: of market that you're in. And I think Morgen was
Speaker 1: extremely thorough on this when he did his market research.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like he went to one ad agency. He
Speaker 1: went some multiple ad agencies. He went to his competitors.
Speaker 1: And the best part Ben I think was he actually
Speaker 1: went to his biggest critics too, because he made several
Speaker 1: phone calls the chicken industry and executives that were like, hey,
Speaker 1: are you the guy that did the documentary and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am. I'm also a farmer too, and you know,
Speaker 1: they obviously would avoid him ditches, phone calls, never return anything.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was great from start to finish.
Speaker 1: Just the process alone would wake you up to how
Speaker 1: chickens are obviously produced, and then bread if you will,
Speaker 1: and then the finalized product. It was fun. So what's
Speaker 1: your one to ten? Yeah, alright, alright, but you are
Speaker 1: batting a thousand two for two on the recommendations with
Speaker 1: these uh these documentaries that I watch a lot of
Speaker 1: shitty documentaries, but when I see a good one, it's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell everybody now. I want to tell everyone
Speaker 1: in the village I found a good documentary and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of like that mcmillions thing, which
Speaker 1: I think is also a ten. And I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: the final episode this weekend from h b O. That's
Speaker 1: also a wonderful documentary, but a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: ship and and the fact that I stumbled upon this
Speaker 1: one on YouTube of all places, that that was like
Speaker 1: craziness but so but just the final is The final
Speaker 1: takeaway though, is like I'm am I gonna stop eating chicken. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop eating chicken. I'm not the only
Speaker 1: thing that will really changed about this. I feel bad
Speaker 1: for farmers. I don't know how I can help farmers.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you have an idea and how I can
Speaker 1: help a farmer, that would be good. And then next
Speaker 1: time might go to a restaurant, I will notice all
Speaker 1: the subtle terms that I really haven't paid any attention
Speaker 1: to in the marketing, you know, all these little free
Speaker 1: range and all natural, the health halo um because that
Speaker 1: that that health halo thing, just that they kept referencing that.
Speaker 1: That blew me. So that's how this will affect Now.
Speaker 1: Do you think he was taunting the market when he
Speaker 1: because his menu actually had halos on certain food products too.
Speaker 1: Do you think it looks like the angel's hat, the
Speaker 1: old angel's hat with the halo on the side, that's
Speaker 1: pretty damn good man. What provoked you to watch that? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Because it's an hour and forty minutes. Yeah, that's long.
Speaker 1: You know, every Friday, when I get done with the
Speaker 1: gym and I come home, I'm like, I always try
Speaker 1: to watch a documentary at least one during the weekend,
Speaker 1: and like, I've watched most of the stuff on Netflix.
Speaker 1: So I was surfing around and I just stumbled upon
Speaker 1: on this out of I don't know how the hell
Speaker 1: it came up on my my computer, but I I'm
Speaker 1: always like Friday, I spend maybe twenty thirty minutes trying
Speaker 1: to find something to watch that night. Uh, and this
Speaker 1: just this happened and it was great, and so watch
Speaker 1: if you're in the documentaries, tell me if you agree
Speaker 1: with the film review here. And we might have to
Speaker 1: do this every week now, guests, I might have to
Speaker 1: find until until things get back to normal, whatever the
Speaker 1: funk normal is in the sports world, we might have
Speaker 1: to get back to that, all right. So for engagement
Speaker 1: purposes then, because obviously getting Roger Stone was politics, this
Speaker 1: is for food. So what kind of genre would we
Speaker 1: go through next with the documentary we've done murder? I
Speaker 1: guess or sports, and um, yeah, you know, there was
Speaker 1: one a couple of years ago. It was on Netflix
Speaker 1: about a music producer that was also a ten DR dre. No. No,
Speaker 1: it was about this like guy this uh, this random
Speaker 1: guy who had been associated with all these great music
Speaker 1: who had moved to Hawaii. I don't even remember the
Speaker 1: name of it now. I wish I did, because I'd
Speaker 1: have you watch it, and then I'd watch it again,
Speaker 1: and then we'd killed a podcast next week. If anybody knows,
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm not giving out a lot of details.
Speaker 1: But he he it was a film, big, big movie,
Speaker 1: not movie, a big music mogul and had a very
Speaker 1: interesting life in Hollywood, worked with all these big music acts,
Speaker 1: was connected to like everybody in the business. And then
Speaker 1: he moved to Hawaii and he hung out and smoked
Speaker 1: weed with Willie Nelson and Don Nelson and uh and
Speaker 1: all that and in Maui And um, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It was on Netflix a few years ago. I got
Speaker 1: look at it up. Then that's pretty good. I don't
Speaker 1: remember the name though, grab Bag you want grab bag?
Speaker 1: Is it Quincy? No, that's not the name of it. Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me let me check hold a second
Speaker 1: to me, what you say Quincy, Yeah, Quincy documentary. No,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me see Travis Scott Homecoming. It's beyond
Speaker 1: say Quincy was one. No, it's not Quincy's about Quincy Jones, right, No,
Speaker 1: it's not that this is like an old white Jewish guy,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh so that's what that was about. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: the podcast, like yourself. Eric and Olmaha rights and he says,
Speaker 1: how much should we blame the ass trows for everything
Speaker 1: that has happened in the sports world so far this year?
Speaker 1: I say sixties percent? Astros thirty seven percent, Rob Manford
Speaker 1: three percent. China From Eric and Olmaha, I'm gonna blame
Speaker 1: the person in Wuhan, China that decided to have some
Speaker 1: nice bat That's That's what I'm gonna blame. How about that?
Speaker 1: You know, crazy man, It's definitely crazy. I'll loope. From
Speaker 1: Mischian Penadera Pendejo have you ever heard of that in California?
Speaker 1: P e n d e j O. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: what pendejo is. Alright, anyway, uh, he writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: I can't be the only one that thinks Chris Carter
Speaker 1: looks like the California Raisin. Feel free to discuss. He
Speaker 1: sent a photo which obviously I can't show you right here.
Speaker 1: Um but uh, he I gotta tell you not uh
Speaker 1: not a bad reference. He does look like to me
Speaker 1: the California Raising. Chris Carter, who knew, oh yeah, formerly
Speaker 1: about pass on briefly, briefly event for this one. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he's doing these days. I don't know
Speaker 1: it's got going on. By the way, that guy from
Speaker 1: Mission Viejo, where I used to hang out with the
Speaker 1: Saddleback College, which is right there, sandwiched right around between
Speaker 1: Rancho Santa Margherite. On one side, you had Laguna Hills,
Speaker 1: Forest Lake Forces right there. Go a little further south,
Speaker 1: you've got over near the ocean. You had Laguda Beach,
Speaker 1: San Clementa beautiful Dana points down there. Awesome. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a well, yeah, it's why of course you go to
Speaker 1: college in a white collar place. But I'm from the
Speaker 1: mean streets of Irvine, California, and I lived on the
Speaker 1: north part of town, the bad part of town, the
Speaker 1: wrong side of the tracks. Where I lived, it's a
Speaker 1: very different a lot of tough track housing. When I
Speaker 1: was growing up there, I had a lot of strip
Speaker 1: malls I had to deal with. It was a big problem.
Speaker 1: I survived. The right Jason from Tampa right since is
Speaker 1: My question is if you had to be quarantined in
Speaker 1: the Fox studios because of this uh coronavirus, would you
Speaker 1: be with? Who would you be? Without your these four
Speaker 1: options Eddie Cooper, Loop, Roberto or that snake gascon you
Speaker 1: know it would be me? No way, of course it
Speaker 1: would be no. No, You'd be annoying, and you don't
Speaker 1: know how to park. And I can't imagine your bedroom
Speaker 1: like your bathroom and bedroom habits. You'll probably fart all
Speaker 1: the time. He's disgusting. Uh So No, I'd probably go
Speaker 1: with Roberto because he'd cook, you know, cooking with Roberto
Speaker 1: that we know he does a segment dummy called Cooking
Speaker 1: with Roberto, and he likes to cook. If we're quarantine
Speaker 1: here in the studio, we have no goddamn grill We
Speaker 1: have nothing in here except for you cooking the microwave. Mom,
Speaker 1: you're gonna reheat frozen food. You're not gonna cook anything,
Speaker 1: just nuke it. Just that's not cooking. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: my dad. When my dad is cooking, he puts everything
Speaker 1: in the microwave. So what happens if Roberto starts drinking?
Speaker 1: Then oh, that would be a problem exactly. It would
Speaker 1: have to be a dry quarantine. Yeah, but like Coop
Speaker 1: would just smoke weed, that would give me a headache.
Speaker 1: Eddie would want to talk about hockey or wouldn't talk
Speaker 1: at all. So I don't think that would be any fun,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, yeah, I'd go with Roberta. That would
Speaker 1: be my guy Jason and Rocky Mountain Virginia rights. And
Speaker 1: he says, hey, guys, did any of you ever make
Speaker 1: a game winning play in sports? A little league, high school, college, whatever?
Speaker 1: And if you did, what was your celebration that particular day. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll go first. Uh No. My claim to
Speaker 1: fame and youth sports was I hit one of the
Speaker 1: longest home runs in the history of Northwood Little League.
Speaker 1: That was at the time. I was told the same
Speaker 1: distance like Mark McGuire, hit. I had a metal bat,
Speaker 1: I was tremendously fat and all this stuff and made
Speaker 1: contact on the sweet spot. And they estimate that that
Speaker 1: ball I hit when I was like thirteen years old,
Speaker 1: went four hundred and fifty feet and you know how
Speaker 1: they have the little league fence and all that, it
Speaker 1: was like twice the fence. It was insane. Um, but
Speaker 1: that's my claim defend. But it was not a game
Speaker 1: winning home run or anything like that. It was just
Speaker 1: the most memorable youth sports moment I had. What about you, gas, Well,
Speaker 1: my senior year, UM, I played at a small Catholic
Speaker 1: school down San Pedro, but our field was not on campus.
Speaker 1: It was actually on the coast near Piso del Mars.
Speaker 1: So if you're familiar with like palas FTEs and rolling hills,
Speaker 1: it's west of the four oh five for those of
Speaker 1: you that in California, west of the four oh five.
Speaker 1: If you looked up Teran A Resort or Trump National
Speaker 1: down in PV, that's kind of where my baseball diamond was. Anyways,
Speaker 1: a couple of days prior to our first round playoff game,
Speaker 1: my grandfather had died and he's a huge baseball guy.
Speaker 1: He's he's like you, uh see just raw with baseball,
Speaker 1: just talks about it all the time. Well, we're in
Speaker 1: a playoff game, but so is my sister. She was
Speaker 1: playing softball at the There's a driving range down in
Speaker 1: San Pedro, the l APD does their target practice set
Speaker 1: and there's connected a softball field. So my dad, who
Speaker 1: was working at the time, was driving back and forth
Speaker 1: between our two games, which was about like ten miles apart. Anyways,
Speaker 1: we played a school from up here called Campbell Hall
Speaker 1: and I led the ball game off in the second
Speaker 1: inning with a solo home run. We bust the gates
Speaker 1: wide open. Ben it was seven and nothing into the
Speaker 1: seventh inning. High school ball ends in seven innings. Well,
Speaker 1: the opposing team came back off of a couple of
Speaker 1: areas and they tied it seven. Seven into the into
Speaker 1: the bottom of the seventh, we were retired. So we
Speaker 1: go to extra innings, and at that point in the
Speaker 1: ball game, I was one for one of the ball
Speaker 1: game with a solo home run in two walks. I
Speaker 1: come up in the bottom of the eighth inning ONLM
Speaker 1: on deck and the guy ahead of me hits the
Speaker 1: shot off the center field wall, just misses hitting a
Speaker 1: home run, and I come up next, and they bring
Speaker 1: in a relief picture and supposedly this guy was their
Speaker 1: their ace, like their closes or whatever. And my coach says,
Speaker 1: just look for something to hit on the ground and
Speaker 1: beat it out and and we'll try to get runners
Speaker 1: at the corners. First pitch, I saw Ben I hit
Speaker 1: the ship out of this ball at to dead center field,
Speaker 1: and how our field was was positioned, it goes over
Speaker 1: the cliff. So my ball went right into the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1: It was wild. And as I'm rounding first base, just
Speaker 1: like the natural where he hits the light stand in
Speaker 1: and it blows up and almost there was a blow up.
Speaker 1: So as I'm rounding first base, I'm like sandly loud,
Speaker 1: I'm like, get out of here, get out of here,
Speaker 1: like talking ship. One of the guys on my team
Speaker 1: who had struck out in the previous at bat started
Speaker 1: talking ship to the picture. They collide at the mound
Speaker 1: and there's a bench just clearing brawl. As I'm rounding
Speaker 1: second base, so I come around third, I touched home
Speaker 1: plate and I stood there because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: get into the brawl and get ejected. Right. Best part
Speaker 1: about this Ben was that there was an l a
Speaker 1: judge who was behind home plate and he videotaped everything.
Speaker 1: So when the game ended, the umpires wanted to throw
Speaker 1: a couple of our guys out and throw me out
Speaker 1: for saying that I started the altercation. The umpires go
Speaker 1: to the judge and as soon as the judge goes
Speaker 1: the umpire is my dad comes in from the parking
Speaker 1: lot and he's like, what's going on? And the judge
Speaker 1: was like, your kid hit a home run off my kid,
Speaker 1: da da da da da. The umpires reviewed the tape,
Speaker 1: they called at a game winning home run. Ball game
Speaker 1: was over and that's how it ended. So my grandmother
Speaker 1: told me, she's like, I thought your grandfather carried that
Speaker 1: ball out. It was pretty awesome. It was so, but
Speaker 1: it was fun. You sounded just like Al Bundy in
Speaker 1: the last few minutes here from back. One of us
Speaker 1: children of high school. One of us is really long
Speaker 1: witted for the majority of the time, and some of
Speaker 1: us are not. So I had to get in my
Speaker 1: airtime like I'm coming up for some air right now.
Speaker 1: So I turn it back over to you. Listen if
Speaker 1: you want to come on Ben Mather's Show. Over the
Speaker 1: next month and do an entire hour of radio now,
Speaker 1: because that'll give Ralph an idea of coming in your funds.
Speaker 1: That's the last thing you need at this moment. Apocalypse,
Speaker 1: Ralph Irvin, I'll choose apocalypse. That is, uh, all right,
Speaker 1: we're doing grab bag. These are actual questions by actual
Speaker 1: listeners like yourself. What else do we have here? Let's
Speaker 1: see this from Mike and Japan, He says, Will Commissioner
Speaker 1: Rob Manford finally bend over and give it to the extros?
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, now he doesn't have to. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's like, hey, you have the ultimate trump card,
Speaker 1: excused the coronavirus. I can't do anything because of the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna be using that as you gotta have a
Speaker 1: fall guy. I gotta have a fall guy. Let's see
Speaker 1: who else do we have this? He and Joe in
Speaker 1: Mount Laurel, Pennsylvania says, Ben and David, your bravery is
Speaker 1: unmatched in sports talk radio history doing this podcast in
Speaker 1: the coronavirus pandemic. Well, thank you, Joe. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Very kind of you to say that. And we are
Speaker 1: risking our lives here. We are risking. You see that
Speaker 1: email they send out, Management sent out they are putting
Speaker 1: precautions in at our our facility there, our colleague Rob
Speaker 1: Parker has been quarantined. Is that right? Yes? Not today
Speaker 1: when I walked it in the studio because I'd asked,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of guys here that have
Speaker 1: wives and kids, and so I was curious because of
Speaker 1: the travel with a lot of our hosts on boats
Speaker 1: on flights, like, hey, is there any kind of precautionary
Speaker 1: measures that we're taking? And I found out Parker's quarantined. Well,
Speaker 1: he was on a boat for a week or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then he flew to the East coast, like he
Speaker 1: flew up to like New York I think it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So on Lockdown, h yeah, And it's a no no
Speaker 1: in studio guests. It's gonna really hurt our shows. No
Speaker 1: no in studio guests. I guess that's unfortunate. John rights
Speaker 1: and he says, in this time of the coronavirus, should
Speaker 1: we replace the handshake with a the fish bump, be
Speaker 1: the elbow tap or see jazz hands? What is jazz hands? Jazz? Well,
Speaker 1: if you if you look up the game winning goal
Speaker 1: that Alec Martinis scored against the New York Rangers in
Speaker 1: Game five of the Stanley Cup Final. Jazz hands like,
Speaker 1: he threw up his gloves and he started shaking his hands, like, okay,
Speaker 1: you shake your fingers, Kenny. That's not that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I would do? Would air? I
Speaker 1: do the air high five. I do that with Roberto
Speaker 1: because I practice good hijia, I do the air high five.
Speaker 1: Why can't we just be like McGuire and Conseco backsh brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bash brothers go for harm checks. That'd be good. That's
Speaker 1: very masculine. You know we we we're big masculine people.
Speaker 1: A new in Orange Owensboro, Kentucky who regularly sends questions
Speaker 1: in I don't think he's missed a week. Uh. And
Speaker 1: he says, first and he's clearly been drinking here because
Speaker 1: he says, I want to say uh. He says this
Speaker 1: is for gascon. He says, I thought most of the
Speaker 1: Malamoshia find you very annoying. I like the energy, he says. Uh.
Speaker 1: He seems to enjoy your your stories, which tells me
Speaker 1: he's not a discerning customer. New it's a bad job
Speaker 1: by you. Uh, he says. I have the question for
Speaker 1: you is what's it what's it like being the son
Speaker 1: of a cop, he says, And what does your family
Speaker 1: think of the coronavirus? Well, being a son of a
Speaker 1: cop early on was brutal because my dad he just
Speaker 1: like he was always stirring with me, always serious, and
Speaker 1: I always walked on eggshells. He just because my dad
Speaker 1: had the voice, the mustache and the eyes where he
Speaker 1: would just beat you down, like to this day, your
Speaker 1: dad has like the ultimate police mustache. Yes, like Jeff Kent,
Speaker 1: Tom Selleck. My dad's like right there. So you should
Speaker 1: be able to grow that same musket. No, I can't.
Speaker 1: He's really he's got the skills, man, He's uh right, Ben.
Speaker 1: My senior year, we did I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys did at your high school, but we did a
Speaker 1: formal in the fall and then homecoming as well, I
Speaker 1: mean prom in the spring. My best friend calling his mom.
Speaker 1: She let's just say she liked the party a little bit.
Speaker 1: She was a flight attendant. She has had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun own a house like on the far side
Speaker 1: of Sampedro, like close to where Eddie lives. She lived
Speaker 1: in a cul de sac well, the night of our prom,
Speaker 1: we had a bunch of people that were getting together
Speaker 1: when school got out. My dad had gotten word of
Speaker 1: it that my buddy Collins mom was going to have
Speaker 1: a party there alcohol obviously, no parents or whatever. My
Speaker 1: dad rolled up in an undercover police car in the
Speaker 1: cul de Sac and had that entire blocks lights shut off,
Speaker 1: like the street lights shut off. So I had friends
Speaker 1: that were rolling up to this house with packs of
Speaker 1: beer like six pack, twelve pack, twenty four pack, and
Speaker 1: my dad was sitting in the cul de Sac and
Speaker 1: just shaming these people and they had to pour all
Speaker 1: their drinks out and leave. I rolled up in a
Speaker 1: van with my friends and as soon as I saw
Speaker 1: the car said turned around and we went around. We
Speaker 1: went to another house party and like had fun the
Speaker 1: entire night. So I got away with it, but I
Speaker 1: got you know, I got pages that night throughout the
Speaker 1: nights saying, hey, your dad sucked up our prom party.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, he funked up your prom party.
Speaker 1: He didn't sunk up mine, but yeah, they were probably
Speaker 1: pissed in your dad. What the fu? Yeah, yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 1: My dad was a cop, though my mom was a teacher,
Speaker 1: so you know I had it hard. Yeah. As far
Speaker 1: as the coronavirus, I don't think you're any different anybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will tell you that my wife works
Speaker 1: at a police station and so and she comes home
Speaker 1: obviously and we're hanging out and stuff. So I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 1: if anybody at the precinct she works at, she's a
Speaker 1: nine one one operator. But if anyone gets the coronavirus,
Speaker 1: then then I get it. Yeah, right, She's gonna get it,
Speaker 1: and then I'll get it and then we're off to
Speaker 1: the races. Now, have you done any kind of countermeasures
Speaker 1: at this time? I know you had that picture on
Speaker 1: Instagram with the toilet paper and paper towels, but have
Speaker 1: you done anything else like Still, I'm still going to
Speaker 1: the gym. My wife wishes I wouldn't go to the
Speaker 1: gym until this is all settled down, but I feel
Speaker 1: like it's good from my immune system, and I'm paranoid
Speaker 1: but losing, you know, getting weight. Well. To two quick
Speaker 1: things that I did for my sisters and for my
Speaker 1: mom and dad was I bought um little packet. They're
Speaker 1: called drip drop, and it's powder which is based inly
Speaker 1: like a like an ivy pack um that's really good
Speaker 1: for rehydration. And then also bought some power beats uh
Speaker 1: that's good for your heart, your blood circulation and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So I bought a lot of the other health products
Speaker 1: that people should be getting that probably don't because they're
Speaker 1: too much, too busy stocking up on the toilet paper,
Speaker 1: you know. And again I'm I'm really I wish I
Speaker 1: was more concerned. Maybe I should be. Maybe I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the coronavirus because I'm not that concerned. Like, but
Speaker 1: I've read a lot of the facts. I haven't read
Speaker 1: the stories. I've read the facts and the facts unless
Speaker 1: they're complete bullshit, and maybe they are, you know, deep
Speaker 1: state conspiracy. There's a lot of people peddling panic and
Speaker 1: it reminds me to a degree, and maybe this will
Speaker 1: be proven correct. All these people, these doomsday prophecies that
Speaker 1: people are spreading from the science community will be proven correct,
Speaker 1: and you know, this will wipe out the you know,
Speaker 1: general population, and this will be terrible and many of
Speaker 1: us are going to die and all that stuff, or
Speaker 1: it's going to be like back in year two thousand.
Speaker 1: I remember, in the lead up to it was y
Speaker 1: two k and there were people respected people in the
Speaker 1: science community that we're getting on radio and television talking
Speaker 1: about how they you know, you better bunker down by
Speaker 1: the same thing, by water, by toilet paper, because everything's
Speaker 1: gonna shut down. Once we flipped from the year two
Speaker 1: thousand and uh, nothing fucking happened. Nothing happened. Now again,
Speaker 1: that's different. This is a pandemic. Um, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: But but it's a pandemic. It's not an apocalypse. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't cause the markets to tank like this. But people,
Speaker 1: it's being fueled by social media. It's like dry brush
Speaker 1: and you throw some lighter fluid and lighting on fire.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna go pretty far. It's gonna go
Speaker 1: pretty far. See what else do we have about Kevin writes.
Speaker 1: He says, I moved to Norway. I can now listen
Speaker 1: to your entire show. Uh in the mornings. You're on
Speaker 1: an Oslo, Norway in the morning, the capital. Look at
Speaker 1: that and I loved you on Radio Sports in New
Speaker 1: Zealand when he lived in New Zealand. He's from the US.
Speaker 1: He says he likes listening to the show. In the
Speaker 1: podcast A Slice of Home in a Crazy World, all Right, well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Kevin, that's cool. That's pretty neat. Like Mike
Speaker 1: from Cleveland rights in just heard a sketcher's commercial. When
Speaker 1: did Tony Romo become an NFL legend when he dropped
Speaker 1: the snap? Was that we become you're a dick? Uh?
Speaker 1: I like, I like Romo, but anything for a commercial.
Speaker 1: Jordan and Seattle rights and says, Ben, what do you
Speaker 1: think of the state of sportsmanship? And you sports referees
Speaker 1: are in deep shortage due to the lack of sportsmanship
Speaker 1: in this country, is what he says. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I I believe in showmanship in bravado when you get
Speaker 1: to the professional ranks. But yeah, when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: these are life lessons, right, You're supposed to follow certain guidelines.
Speaker 1: The parents. Man, you go to these youth sporting it's
Speaker 1: a parents have just completely unhinged. Maybe every call, every
Speaker 1: officials out to get him and all that. I I
Speaker 1: I was very briefly in a y s o referee
Speaker 1: because I wanted the uniform and uh and I was
Speaker 1: a soccer referee when I was like a teenager. You
Speaker 1: could do it, and it was at the bocle. I
Speaker 1: think I'd be a pretty good umpire, though I think
Speaker 1: I'd be pretty I'd be like the old umpire died
Speaker 1: years ago. Durwood Meryll, great turning point. I when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I used to go to Angel games
Speaker 1: all the time at liut To Orange County, and I
Speaker 1: would sneak down in like the seventh inning, right behind
Speaker 1: the dugouts, and Drwood Meryll, I am convinced, pointed at
Speaker 1: me like seven times in a row. He like stared
Speaker 1: at me and point strike. It's pretty good. And and
Speaker 1: here I am, all these years later, I still have
Speaker 1: this very vivid memory of of that. So all right,
Speaker 1: what do email do you have? Go ahead? What do I? God?
Speaker 1: I got you said you had some How about the
Speaker 1: high how about the highway patrol guy that loves the show,
Speaker 1: he likes me, doesn't like you. That's your That's our
Speaker 1: first c HP, right, Yes, that's our first c HP.
Speaker 1: Because we were talking about what we're talking about last week.
Speaker 1: I told you why I need a c HP guy
Speaker 1: to vouch for me because I get like pulled over,
Speaker 1: you know, because like this with your wife. Because your
Speaker 1: wife has the get out of Yeah she's got get
Speaker 1: out of jail free. But I need like a good
Speaker 1: c HP guy to help me out, and I asked him.
Speaker 1: I think I jokingly said, hey, maybe you can send
Speaker 1: me a business card or something like that. But I
Speaker 1: don't think you responded. Our good friend, more so mine
Speaker 1: than yours. But I'm a pilot, you got you have
Speaker 1: been all over this guy. Let let it go. We've
Speaker 1: been we've been talking, we've been communicating. I think this
Speaker 1: is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. You gotta be
Speaker 1: kidding me. Why are you being frustrated because you're it's
Speaker 1: obvious what you're doing. What am I doing? You're like,
Speaker 1: you know, I've I've known you. You're making a move
Speaker 1: out of certain women have this in their playbook. You're
Speaker 1: an opportunity. You know, You're the woman that goes in
Speaker 1: the bar and scans the room and tries to determine
Speaker 1: who's got the most power or influence. And That's where
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. So I'm trying to do this with
Speaker 1: the pilot. You're saying, is it a coincidence, guest, that
Speaker 1: since you started flirting with the pilot that the travel
Speaker 1: industry has gone in the shiitter. No, it's it's not
Speaker 1: that right. I mean, there are these things unrelated. Are
Speaker 1: these events unrelated or are they related the curse of
Speaker 1: gascon Uh. You know, for years, for the last fifty years,
Speaker 1: if you had friend a friend that was a pirate pilot,
Speaker 1: you've been pretty good shape. You've been pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: Now they're canceling all kinds of flights. No one wants
Speaker 1: to travel anywhere. They're they're traveling to Petree dishes and uh.
Speaker 1: And now now you've become friends with the pilot. I
Speaker 1: just think, logerhead, I'm I'm bonding, That's what I'm doing. Anyways,
Speaker 1: he was reverting back to our our conversation last week
Speaker 1: about baseball cards and collect a bulls, and he wanted
Speaker 1: to know what he should do because he has a
Speaker 1: box of cards that includes like Cecil Fielder, Ben McDonald,
Speaker 1: the Ricky Jordan's. Uh. But he has all these cards
Speaker 1: and he has nothing to do with him now because
Speaker 1: the value has decreased so much on him. What do
Speaker 1: you think he should do with him? All Right, So
Speaker 1: I'm in the same position. I'm I believe around the
Speaker 1: same age as I'm a pilot. So I've lived the
Speaker 1: same life. I invested in Ken Griffe Jr. Upper Deck
Speaker 1: rookie cards. I invested in Billy Ripkin fuck face on
Speaker 1: the end of the bat cards I had. All of
Speaker 1: those had the reverse negative Dale Murphy card that was
Speaker 1: worth a lot of money. And so I I have
Speaker 1: at my my my dad's house. My dad complains all
Speaker 1: the time, you got all these baseball cards, you want them.
Speaker 1: I'll drive him to your house, you know. And I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 1: we'll just leave him there. We'll just leave him there. Um,
Speaker 1: but you gotta go through. There's probably some stuff that's
Speaker 1: worth money, Like I have. The most valuable cards I
Speaker 1: have are the Michael Jordan's second year card, which I
Speaker 1: don't know how much it's worth now. It was worth
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Last I checked, No, basketball cards
Speaker 1: were not very popular at all. Um. I don't think
Speaker 1: it was upper deck it was I had. I had
Speaker 1: like a Bill Walton rookie card, and uh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: outside a few of them. But that was just dumb luck.
Speaker 1: Like I just bought a couple of boxes of basketball
Speaker 1: cards and they weren't really popular. Baseball cards were popular.
Speaker 1: Basketball cards weren't popular. Football cards weren't really popular. Was
Speaker 1: only baseball it was popular. But as far as what
Speaker 1: you should do with it. I would go through and
Speaker 1: try to figure out if there anything is worth something.
Speaker 1: I bet you that you have something's worth some money.
Speaker 1: Sell that and then the rest of it. You can
Speaker 1: dig a hole in your backyard with a shovel, put
Speaker 1: it all in the hole in like a time capsule,
Speaker 1: and then cover the dirt and then uh say your
Speaker 1: final prayers. Put it in a will. That's what you
Speaker 1: should do. Well, you can make if you really want
Speaker 1: to give it away. You can go to like a
Speaker 1: card show and say hey, I got this, or try
Speaker 1: putting on an eBay and say, you know, for two bucks,
Speaker 1: i'll'll be an entire card collection. You know, something like that.
Speaker 1: Somebody might buy it. Not bad. How about this Jay Scoop,
Speaker 1: He has a question for both of us. Great j Scoop,
Speaker 1: winner of the back to back Talent show from Seattle, Washington,
Speaker 1: Great City Seattle. I love Seattle. Good dude, he says,
Speaker 1: I'm slowly approaching the release of my band's debut album
Speaker 1: and a road tour. It's probably gonna be canceled, but
Speaker 1: I realized that our band name kind of sucks. At
Speaker 1: least it's not good enough. Right now, is the best
Speaker 1: time to make a change before too long. Needs something
Speaker 1: catchy but not dumb and inspires a fun logo and
Speaker 1: T shirt designs. If you had to pick a band name,
Speaker 1: what would it be. I'll go first and I'll see
Speaker 1: Emerald Hayes would be a good Emerald Hayes. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's a band already named Emerald has. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. I'm not big enough. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll have to look that up. You have to look
Speaker 1: that up. Well, he needs something that has to do
Speaker 1: with muscle, don't you. I mean you want to show
Speaker 1: that you're strong and powerful. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Day Is it really a strong name? Or well, I'm okay,
Speaker 1: Emerald Hands. That's a cannabis company. Uh, well, it would
Speaker 1: be a good band name. I was trying to think here,
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat. How about Mortal Kombat the bad with the band?
Speaker 1: Would that work? We're gonna do with the can instead
Speaker 1: of a see Or how about Crack Commandos? Would that
Speaker 1: be good? Like the eight Team back into Day the
Speaker 1: Crack Commando. You're defecating on the idea of giving Jay
Speaker 1: Scoop's band a name, But no, I'm I want to
Speaker 1: see Jay Scoop do very well. I would be No,
Speaker 1: I would be so happy if Jay Scoop moved up
Speaker 1: to like ruse F level and became like that band
Speaker 1: just took off and became massively big and and then
Speaker 1: I could brag that my friends that I knew Jay
Speaker 1: Scoop before he became this almighty, all powerful music mogul opportunitists.
Speaker 1: That would be be great. Well, no, I don't. That's
Speaker 1: not like Russef does anything for me, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing really going on. He's a fan of
Speaker 1: the show and he still listens. He's a good human
Speaker 1: being because he likes the Clippers, you know, and all
Speaker 1: that band. Don't they have a band name Generators on
Speaker 1: the internet. Don't they have that? Probably? Don't be lazy.
Speaker 1: You were just boasting about your improv skills like two
Speaker 1: days ago, and all of a sudden you have nothing
Speaker 1: in the time. How about how about how about a
Speaker 1: band called status Quo? Would that be good? No, you
Speaker 1: don't like status Quo? That doesn't work, that's not lame.
Speaker 1: How about Bridge to Nowhere? That'd be good. Right, Bridge
Speaker 1: to Nowhere that's actually pretty good. That's not bad. Bridge
Speaker 1: to nowhere. You know it's I don't know. You could
Speaker 1: do that. You could do um. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: that political to pork barrel pork barrel spending? How about
Speaker 1: just pork barrel spending? Is your name of your band? Man?
Speaker 1: I don't know. How about white whale? No? No, two.
Speaker 1: People search for the white whale the entire lives. They
Speaker 1: never see the white whale. Yeah, they might think it's
Speaker 1: discrimination against other kind of whales or fat people maybe,
Speaker 1: and calling people fat uninclusive term. How about law of
Speaker 1: karma as a name of a band? Would that be good?
Speaker 1: Law of karma? I got cause and effect that? No, No,
Speaker 1: you don't like cause and effect. I like your original
Speaker 1: one better? All right? Anything else you got there, buddy?
Speaker 1: Any other band names you want to come up with here? No? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think I was looking at emails. Terry sent
Speaker 1: to an email to me, just you know, patting me
Speaker 1: on the back. I thought it was a good job
Speaker 1: by him. Terry's get the coronavirus. Shut up? He must.
Speaker 1: Are you getting mad that some of your listeners are
Speaker 1: actually applauding me? Well, they say there's a certain percentage
Speaker 1: of society that just completely gets brainwashed by anything, and
Speaker 1: so you're getting those people, those very few people that
Speaker 1: are not discerning customers of audio content, and they're falling
Speaker 1: for you. I am I am the I'm Vegas here,
Speaker 1: you're the you're the joke public, and I'm Vegas. That's right.
Speaker 1: I am the man of the people. You are correct,
Speaker 1: You're finally getting it here. I am the working class
Speaker 1: people's talk shows. You got the sharps that come my way,
Speaker 1: and you get the you get the lively chalk that
Speaker 1: goes your way. So I'll go back to the coronavirus briefly.
Speaker 1: So the business I work in sports radio. I've been
Speaker 1: texting some friends of mine and we were trying to determine, like,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen next in our business because we're worried
Speaker 1: about ourselves. Do the ratings go up? Do we have
Speaker 1: more people listing in the next month, even though there's
Speaker 1: no sports going on because of a curiosity, be boredom
Speaker 1: and you need something to do to entertain yourself. I mean,
Speaker 1: is that possibly? Or are we just talking to ourselves here?
Speaker 1: Are we? You know, I'd be better off going out
Speaker 1: and talking into a garden hose. More people would hear me.
Speaker 1: Every show is different. But like your show is that
Speaker 1: dynamic show where you get other ones are straight like
Speaker 1: talk at you radio. So I think every show is
Speaker 1: different because you listen to a lot across the United States.
Speaker 1: There's certain shows and hosts that only talk at you.
Speaker 1: Others are more of like a morning style, free flowing
Speaker 1: type of environment. Yours doesn't like that. Yeah, and as
Speaker 1: long as commerce continues, Like I'm assuming that the truck
Speaker 1: drivers are a lot of truck drivers that drive around
Speaker 1: having to deliver toilet paper at the stores and ship
Speaker 1: like that. So they have to be up driving all
Speaker 1: night and all that. So we got them. That's a
Speaker 1: captive audience. Yeah. The guys in prison, they can't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: Law enforcement enforcement still has to work, yeah, public servants, firefighter, um,
Speaker 1: government officials. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, So I think, well, I
Speaker 1: think we'll be okay. And uh, the other thing that
Speaker 1: it's it's really goes back to what we were talking
Speaker 1: about earlier with human nature. UM. I know from from
Speaker 1: the past scandal, death pandemic that it's human nature at
Speaker 1: a primal level. You actually listen more people want to hear,
Speaker 1: they want to consume this communal experience, and since you
Speaker 1: can't actually get together in public in a lot of
Speaker 1: these places where the coronavirus is raged on, it's a
Speaker 1: way to get everyone together without actually touching each other
Speaker 1: and being in the same room and listen to the radio,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. Yeah, you know what I
Speaker 1: called the first round the Big West Conference Tournament on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night inside the Pyramid and long Beach. My condolences,
Speaker 1: humble Brad gascon but Ben, it was an empty gym.
Speaker 1: And the best part was is my radio call actually
Speaker 1: bled into the ESPN calls. It's pretty awesome. That is good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember when the White Sox played the Orioles five
Speaker 1: years ago and they had no fans and the broadcasters
Speaker 1: were they were they started talking in a golf voice
Speaker 1: because they realized the players on the field could hear
Speaker 1: everything they were saying from the press box because there's
Speaker 1: no there was no crowd noise to drown out what
Speaker 1: the broadcasters are saying. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's pretty wild, man.
Speaker 1: We have some study this. You want a little study
Speaker 1: this real you your former executive producer, Robert Gara has
Speaker 1: has just told me to get the funk out of here.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah? Fuck him. Let's do study this
Speaker 1: all right. Let's see here. What what percentage of workers
Speaker 1: are too intimidated to tell their boss about problems? I'd say,
Speaker 1: I'd say hi, I'd probably not that high, but high
Speaker 1: sixty of employees say they are too intimidate to tell
Speaker 1: their boss about problems. I would say I'm in that category,
Speaker 1: but not because I'm intimidated by my boss. My bosses
Speaker 1: are pretty cool. But I've experienced in my professional career
Speaker 1: that out of sight, out of mind is not a
Speaker 1: bad thing. That once you get on the radar of
Speaker 1: your boss, then they start snooping around. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You know, they don't really think much about
Speaker 1: the overnight show. But if I start saying, hey, I
Speaker 1: got a problem with you know so and so, then
Speaker 1: they start snooping around and it creates other problems. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean it's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why you brought me on during the summer
Speaker 1: of night to be your producer, because you need some helps.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that I felt bad for you. Toss
Speaker 1: a dog a bone, you don't feel what percentage of
Speaker 1: Americans claim they watch television with their pet. Fuck um
Speaker 1: women with cats, I'd say, I don't know. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: it's forty six percent. This is bullshit. Pets don't watch television,
Speaker 1: they all um. I have my my dog Bella, Bye
Speaker 1: bye Carbella m When we're watching TV at the house,
Speaker 1: and Bella will be in the room hanging out bellows
Speaker 1: like staring at us, waiting us for for us to
Speaker 1: eat something and drop food, not staring at the TV.
Speaker 1: So I guess technically in the room but not really
Speaker 1: watching the the TV. Alright. New studies reveals how many
Speaker 1: years does it take to reach best friends status? Two? No,
Speaker 1: you're wrong, four years? Who study says four years you
Speaker 1: become a best friend. So that means you're not anywhere.
Speaker 1: You cannot be my best friend. Cannot be my best friend. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here. A new study shows a veanism is
Speaker 1: up by three in the US. Nine point seven million
Speaker 1: Americans now claim to be plant based if they watch
Speaker 1: superci to. I might believe that, yeah, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're healthy. That's like another like my dad eats
Speaker 1: vegetarian burgers all the time, and it's filled with ship
Speaker 1: filled with chemicals. You can put the vegetarian burgers. You
Speaker 1: put that MSG in their boom. You're good, right, sprinkle
Speaker 1: that on everything. I get a dash of MSG with
Speaker 1: my fries, please, Yeah, exactly all right. New survey revealed
Speaker 1: what percentage of Americans claim they have thrown out their
Speaker 1: partners stuff after a heated argument. Oh man, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go low with this. I'll go like so you think, yes,
Speaker 1: all right, it is low, but it's it's a little
Speaker 1: lower than that. That's a real douchebag move to throw
Speaker 1: somebody's stuff out. I mean, that's that's psychotic. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've never done that, have you. No? I've kept some
Speaker 1: stuff too, but little souvenirs, trinkets. Yeah, I got you,
Speaker 1: all right. A new survey says half of all Americans
Speaker 1: would rather pay somebody to do this for them instead
Speaker 1: of doing it themselves. Clean their house, no laundrey, no
Speaker 1: one more. Guess, wash their car? Yes, how about that
Speaker 1: gas car? Wash their car? Yeah. I don't mind watching
Speaker 1: my car. I just feel like the process takes too long.
Speaker 1: We should expedite the process of washing the car because
Speaker 1: I like to do it right. You know, I want
Speaker 1: to watch the inside the outside. I'm a big watch
Speaker 1: the inside guy. All right, last study this and it's
Speaker 1: about art. Check this out. According to new research, in
Speaker 1: twenty three million American adults took an art class or
Speaker 1: art lessons. That is more than the total number of
Speaker 1: people that attended an NFL game that year. So the
Speaker 1: art community is braggadocious here, guesscon that art is. I
Speaker 1: would like to think that art is bigger than the NFL.
Speaker 1: Right is because because the art classes are year round,
Speaker 1: art lessons are year around. The NFL plays in the
Speaker 1: only one game a week, and they play only part
Speaker 1: of the year, of course, and of course now they
Speaker 1: might not play at all. Yeah. XFL announced that they
Speaker 1: canceled their suspended their season too. So XFL, NHL, NBA,
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, college athletics. Can I get a raise
Speaker 1: to my bosses because I I I still got four
Speaker 1: hours whether they're playing or not. You know, maybe I
Speaker 1: should only do two hours. You just do two hours.
Speaker 1: The best thing with this pandemic going on right now, Ben,
Speaker 1: is all you got is me. That's the best thing
Speaker 1: about it. I got nothing. I got nothing. Now you
Speaker 1: you got your you get your trusty sidekick, you got
Speaker 1: that pistol, you got that Uh that was snapper in
Speaker 1: your corner. So you're a lot of water gun. That
Speaker 1: is what I get. You're a water gun? What you are?
Speaker 1: What's that? I said? Bullshit? You do? Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what you are. You're like going to combat on one
Speaker 1: side has hand grenades and my side has bean bags.
Speaker 1: You're a bean bag, is what you are. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm like the I'm like white Earb's peacemaker. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I am. Like a little court from Colt forty
Speaker 1: five action for you. Yeah, anyways, all right, we'll put
Speaker 1: the baby to bed. Yes, yes, all right, listen, be safe.
Speaker 1: We gotta be followed on Instagram, Twitter, Yeah, yeah, follow
Speaker 1: me on Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox, on in Instagram.
Speaker 1: I need to get my followers up. Ben Mallard on Fox.
Speaker 1: On Instagram, uh, and on Twitter Ben Maller. And on
Speaker 1: Facebook It's Ben Maller Show. Yes. So I've got three
Speaker 1: different names for each platform, which is really not what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. I just realized that. I just
Speaker 1: realized that every platform has a different name. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: all right, And you're on their gag on right. The
Speaker 1: gag on Instagram is at Dave Gascont gag on Twitter
Speaker 1: is at David J. Gascon Uh. And I don't use
Speaker 1: Facebook because I'm not a nerd. So yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't want to relate to your
Speaker 1: your old grandpa, grandma, uncle's aunts, cousins. I actually used
Speaker 1: the telephone. I texted him, I call him. I don't
Speaker 1: use the telephone. You could get the coronavirus using your phone.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, have a great weekend. Get be safe boy.
Speaker 1: If you really wanna, you want to tune into a
Speaker 1: car wreck, listen to some sports radio over the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. It is going to be amazing. I
Speaker 1: am going to go deep in my bagg of tricks.
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, I'm gonna do every hack thing
Speaker 1: to fill time you can possibly want. But anyway, have
Speaker 1: good weeken. We'll talk to you next time. Thanks,