Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now that it does in a hello
Speaker 1: to you. Whenever you listen to the podcast, the odd
Speaker 1: think about podcast as you can listen to the morning,
Speaker 1: you can listen to the afternoon, the evening. I think
Speaker 1: you figured that out by now. But welcome in as
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Speaker 1: not constrained by the Federal Communications Commission. No no, no no.
Speaker 1: We can say fuck on the podcast. Yes we can.
Speaker 1: Occasionally we do, but I try not to do that
Speaker 1: because here's the problem. All right, I'm trying to limit
Speaker 1: my prof and I'm gonna explain during the podcast why
Speaker 1: I'm trying to limit my profanity. I had an epiphany
Speaker 1: before I was doing this, and so I will explain
Speaker 1: coming up. Even though I began by saying fuck, I
Speaker 1: will explain why I'm trying to limit my profanity. And uh,
Speaker 1: it is the fifth Hour with Ben Mallory and and
Speaker 1: because four hours or not enough in the Overnight show,
Speaker 1: four hours and not enough. And this is eight days
Speaker 1: a week, that's right now. Because of the pandemic, we
Speaker 1: started cranking out more podcast than the salt mines here
Speaker 1: of my heart. And so we do this podcast for
Speaker 1: you Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just like that. Rat tat
Speaker 1: tat is how it works. You figure that out. The
Speaker 1: subscribe be part of it and uh and all that
Speaker 1: and for better or worse, yet again, the people that
Speaker 1: run this company have put me with David gascon offetually
Speaker 1: known in the followays have you ever come to Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, He's known as gat On. It's been a
Speaker 1: rather peculiar week for me. Ben. It's oh, yeah, you
Speaker 1: want to share your life story here with us? You
Speaker 1: want to yeah, you know Uma. Earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: I was actually pleasantly surprised by a couple of alarming
Speaker 1: compliments by you. Um, and then I took my act
Speaker 1: to social media and I was blindsided by your better half,
Speaker 1: your your wife took a swipe and a shot at me,
Speaker 1: and so weird paradigm that's going on right now. I'm
Speaker 1: not really comfortable with all this, but uh, that's where
Speaker 1: I mat and where we're at as I just want
Speaker 1: to point out for the deep state people, the conspiracy
Speaker 1: people that believe that there's some funny business going on,
Speaker 1: that Gascon didn't even make it to the two minute
Speaker 1: thirty second mark in the podcast without mentioning my wife's name,
Speaker 1: so that that will of course feed. That's like jet
Speaker 1: fuel for the conspiracy here a gascon. So thank you
Speaker 1: for throwing red meat into the lines. Then I do
Speaker 1: appreciate ate that. Very helpful, very helpful. To be perfectly transparent.
Speaker 1: You were actually on a show that I was on
Speaker 1: earlier in the week with Rob Parker and Chris Brossard,
Speaker 1: and Rob Parker brought up your wife, So that is true.
Speaker 1: That was equally awkward. That was equally awkward as well.
Speaker 1: And I my wife loves it because she's getting all
Speaker 1: this attention to get big head and all that. You know,
Speaker 1: I said, you gotta be you gotta keep level headed.
Speaker 1: You know you can't. You know, I don't just because
Speaker 1: these guys are big fans you can't. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta be on the even keel. You know, I'm the
Speaker 1: man of the people. You gotta be the woman of
Speaker 1: the people. You can't be like this elitist, snobbish west
Speaker 1: of the four oh five type of additive because I'll
Speaker 1: go deranged if that happens. I I don't want to
Speaker 1: become unhinged or anything like that. But yeah, you actually
Speaker 1: did help me out. You and it was shocked because
Speaker 1: you tipped me off to what was my favorite story
Speaker 1: of the week. Yeah. I got a text from guest guy.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, do you see this thing with Blake Snell?
Speaker 1: As like, you know, I don't watch twitch, and uh,
Speaker 1: sure enough, he sent me. He sent me the story
Speaker 1: and I looked there. I had did some research on it,
Speaker 1: added some stuff to it, and we put a monologue together.
Speaker 1: That was my favorite monologue of the week because I
Speaker 1: love talking about the senseless whack job, you know, I
Speaker 1: just love it, the the nonsense and and just Blake
Speaker 1: Snell is everything to hate about professional athletes. And I
Speaker 1: love sports, and I have friends that are ex athletes
Speaker 1: and I get along with them, but that is like
Speaker 1: the the ultimate asshole donkey. Uh, Mama, Luke, you can
Speaker 1: possibly have. And so I wish nothing but bad things
Speaker 1: to Blake Snell because he's just an idiot. Everyone's taking
Speaker 1: pay cuts, got you guys still gonna make over a
Speaker 1: million dollars and he's sitting there bitching and complaining. It's
Speaker 1: just out all control, is what it is. So I
Speaker 1: did that's a that's a good job by you. You know,
Speaker 1: it's you know, Coop sends me like seven or eight
Speaker 1: stories a day, and I based my monologues around those,
Speaker 1: unless he doesn't. So I wanted to give you the
Speaker 1: proper credit on the I was a little hesitant because
Speaker 1: it's stun because you actually you had You are the
Speaker 1: probably only person I know on planet Earth that actually
Speaker 1: had the audacity to open up a show with a
Speaker 1: Blake Snell monologue and you did that. Correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. I think you did this two years ago
Speaker 1: just before the All Star break. Yeah, I did, I remember,
Speaker 1: because you were very upset with me and you complained.
Speaker 1: Is that I can't believe it. You're you know, you
Speaker 1: should be reprimanded by management. What are you doing a
Speaker 1: Blake Snell? You know, he's just like complaining none stop,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah. At one point I think the we
Speaker 1: were talking about um Blake Snell or I think it
Speaker 1: was baseball. It was I did one last year was
Speaker 1: like Blake Snell or Chris Sale, like who's gonna who?
Speaker 1: Who had the more concerning perform or something, and I
Speaker 1: ranted more about Blake Snell and I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: at that time, I was like, hey, I would like
Speaker 1: to Dodgers to get this guy, you because he had
Speaker 1: a bad start. But I think these guys been a
Speaker 1: pretty good picture and he's a pretty good picture. It's
Speaker 1: just a dick, um, you know. That's it. Uh and
Speaker 1: uh And now I don't want the Dodgers to get
Speaker 1: him at all. I want nothing to do with Blakes now. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean those are the kind of stories
Speaker 1: that are just they don't happen that often. And fortunately
Speaker 1: this is a pandemic that we had time to fully
Speaker 1: invest in it. And uh and I saved it. I
Speaker 1: saved it for the last hour. You know. We went
Speaker 1: on that big new affiliate in Dallas, which I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about. I told the story on the air, but
Speaker 1: we're on the ticket now, the major station in Dallas,
Speaker 1: and I tried to get a job at the Ticket
Speaker 1: when I was in my younger days, when I was
Speaker 1: first starting out, I was actually working for Hacks on
Speaker 1: San Diego, and I had sent the tape out, you know,
Speaker 1: that's how you did it, a cassette tape and a
Speaker 1: resume or what. I don't resume because I hadn't done anything.
Speaker 1: And so I sent it out to all these radio
Speaker 1: stations and they rejected me. And I had they were
Speaker 1: in the box somewhere, and I gotta go down my
Speaker 1: dad's house. I kept a shoe box filled with rejection
Speaker 1: letters from from like w e I kJ R in Seattle,
Speaker 1: k n b R in San Francisco, the Ticket in Dallas,
Speaker 1: the Score in Chicago, and all these big sports stations
Speaker 1: that would not even dare hire me. And uh w
Speaker 1: f A N was on that list, w I P
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and all I just like I assumed, I
Speaker 1: just walked into like a top fifteen market, you know,
Speaker 1: with no problem, and didn't happen. But it's great. The
Speaker 1: Tickets a wonderful brand, if you will, in sports talk,
Speaker 1: very loyal following, and so it's exciting to be on
Speaker 1: a big new radio station and U and the timing
Speaker 1: is perfect. And I say that because of this you
Speaker 1: hear this a lot, especially since you know you do
Speaker 1: vo stuff. Is that at times people can oddly enough,
Speaker 1: people can hear you smile. And I think for the
Speaker 1: first time in quite a while, under this quarantine, I
Speaker 1: actually heard you smile via Sweet. And it was earlier
Speaker 1: in the week with the Deshaun Watson fiasco, and it
Speaker 1: was like you were like a pig and slop. You
Speaker 1: were so giddy about this Deshaun Watson fiasco. I just like,
Speaker 1: this is this is butter on the bread baby. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well yes, and me and DeShawn have sparred in the
Speaker 1: past and uh and all that, and I know he's worshiped.
Speaker 1: But I always get a kick out of these guys
Speaker 1: that are insufferable big stars that just are thin skinned
Speaker 1: and can't deal with people you know, on social media
Speaker 1: or people in the media and all this. But Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: he lied, He got caught lying, and then he tried
Speaker 1: to get his way out of it. He had the
Speaker 1: people around him, his confidence. He was like, well, no,
Speaker 1: everyone loves before the draft, Okay, I guarantee you if
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson this involved Gottlieb because Gottlieb. It was reacting
Speaker 1: to a common Gottlieb made on Fox. But um, but
Speaker 1: my point is this, like if if he hey, he
Speaker 1: he had realized and and remembered Deshaun Watson that he
Speaker 1: had and he was he was talking about black quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: he implied the Chicago Bears or like the KKK essentially,
Speaker 1: and that's what the story was. And then you know,
Speaker 1: the woke Twitter all got a you know, their panties
Speaker 1: in a bunch and they were all upset and so uh.
Speaker 1: They had the marching morons who were like running around
Speaker 1: just unloading on the Chicago Bears. We're not having black
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and they didn't want to even talk to Deshaun Watson. Well,
Speaker 1: then there's audio of Deshaun Watson talking about it on
Speaker 1: the Dan Patrick Show. And then they go back and
Speaker 1: look at some of the reports and they were like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, the Bears, GM and coach were at
Speaker 1: Clemson's pro day to watch Deshaun Watson work out. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute here, uh, And they were like one of
Speaker 1: only four teams to send both their coach and GM,
Speaker 1: which would lead one to believe that they were there
Speaker 1: to see Deshaun Watson and to consider contemplate drafting Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: So his story completely unraveled as it turns out. And uh,
Speaker 1: and so you know, he was caught red handed and
Speaker 1: I took full advantage, full advantage of unloading on the ragamuffin.
Speaker 1: And uh and I did. And did you have any
Speaker 1: media personalized come at you, like any reporters, anchors or
Speaker 1: writers at all? Because you go through Gottlieb's timeline and
Speaker 1: you had people from ESPN, people from CBS, and they
Speaker 1: looked like a lot of former colleagues and they just
Speaker 1: obviously want to get their body shots and and you're like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. Be sure to catch live editions of
Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app. You're talking about before the other part
Speaker 1: came out right when the initial you talking about the
Speaker 1: initial thing before? Sean, Yeah, I mean because listen ESPN
Speaker 1: and particular I got friends that were there, Jack sniffers.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the test, you know, Yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: you do it. You have sniff all the athletes ship
Speaker 1: and just love it. And uh, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of these people, so I listen. My my position, uh
Speaker 1: is yeah, I did see some of it. And as
Speaker 1: far as me being attacked by by media people, I
Speaker 1: have been assaulted by like a lot of like local
Speaker 1: small time you know, your town small time, the media
Speaker 1: small time when they're like, uh, ambassadors to the team.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like I I've gotten into it with
Speaker 1: sports writers in Cleveland and Phoenix for good reason, a
Speaker 1: couple of other locations and uh yeah, I mean listen,
Speaker 1: it's all the just slabber slabber slabber lick lick lick.
Speaker 1: They want to give these athletes a manny and a
Speaker 1: petty and it's it's disturbing, but it goes on all
Speaker 1: the time, and you know, it's like whatever, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's ridiculous, is what it is. But it is
Speaker 1: the way it is. And you know, I choose not
Speaker 1: to do that kind of radio where you just give
Speaker 1: guys bubble baths. I know you do that something you
Speaker 1: like to give a little neck massage to the guys.
Speaker 1: Want to be fair though, you know this like when
Speaker 1: you work for a local or regional affiliate or a team,
Speaker 1: a lot of your advertising dollars are pushed towards that product,
Speaker 1: and so you can't be lightning a fire to your
Speaker 1: own feet for the sake of just having a hot
Speaker 1: take out there, or you know, for all intents of
Speaker 1: purposes a legit sincere take. Well, that's true, but you
Speaker 1: also don't need to give them a Swedish massage. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a balance there, And it seems like a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys are just you know, they love the nuts,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But it's slurp slip slip slip, slip,
Speaker 1: slip slip slip, slurp slip. But it's odd, right because
Speaker 1: you wake up every day around two or three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the afternoon and your your Twitter account is just
Speaker 1: guys giving you a tongue bath. It's not It's not. No,
Speaker 1: that's not true at all. I think so like guys
Speaker 1: are I know, the attack dogs are out the attack poodles.
Speaker 1: I got attacked by the attack poodles this week. Why
Speaker 1: I tweeted out a story from there was a Yahoo's
Speaker 1: story which actually they picked up from some other news
Speaker 1: site because Yahoo just aggregates a lot most of their stuff.
Speaker 1: So but it was about the state of Florida and
Speaker 1: Georgia reopening, and how the coronavirus cases had gone down
Speaker 1: even though they reopened. And so this was a tremendously
Speaker 1: exciting piece of information because, as I pointed out, when
Speaker 1: the announcement came down first for Georgia back in late April,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's only a couple of weeks back,
Speaker 1: and they had said, hey, we're going to reopen, and uh,
Speaker 1: I watched the news, and I went on the internet
Speaker 1: and went to the websites, the mainstream news media, and
Speaker 1: they had experts on that said, this is going to
Speaker 1: be terrible. Uh, this is going to be horrific that
Speaker 1: people are gonna, you know, die, and the the tremendously
Speaker 1: in the coronavirus raid is gonna go through the roof
Speaker 1: and blood on the hands of the politicians in Georgia,
Speaker 1: blood on the hands of the politicians in Florida. Now
Speaker 1: keep in mind, at they opened up Georgia, there were
Speaker 1: still a bunch of restrictions in place. It's not like
Speaker 1: they completely opened it up and said all right, everyone
Speaker 1: run a muck and everything's the way it was. There
Speaker 1: were restrictions on how many people can go into the businesses,
Speaker 1: and things like that. Um, and yet the mainstream media
Speaker 1: is like just oh yeah, this is gonna be doom
Speaker 1: and glowm and all this stuff. So I treated out
Speaker 1: the story. It said, Hey, this and this is this
Speaker 1: is great news. The uh, the numbers are going down,
Speaker 1: and I think we should all celebrate this this. You know,
Speaker 1: we're all in this together and this is wonderful. So
Speaker 1: what do you think happened? Guests on to the attack poodles?
Speaker 1: What do you think the attack Poodles did to me?
Speaker 1: I think they were probably calling you insensitive, uh your
Speaker 1: far right wing? Oh yeah, yeah. They were comparing me
Speaker 1: to Alex Jones that very similar, tweeting out a story
Speaker 1: from Yahoo and uh, you know, going full Alex Jones.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not an Alex Jones guy, but
Speaker 1: I don't think you should be banned the way he's
Speaker 1: been banned. I think it's ridiculous that because you people
Speaker 1: don't like what he says, he's not allowed to say it.
Speaker 1: To me, that's very Unamerican, Like I think I I
Speaker 1: My problem is I give people the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people don't like what I say
Speaker 1: and just don't listen. You know don't. But but by powering,
Speaker 1: whether it's Alex Jones or anybody in the media, by powering,
Speaker 1: by empowering them, and by admitting, oh, I'm so offended
Speaker 1: by what you're saying, you're actually giving them more power.
Speaker 1: And these idiots don't realize. It's like there are people
Speaker 1: that say stuff all the time like that's bullshit this
Speaker 1: you know that this guy's an idiot or whatever, and
Speaker 1: I don't pay attention to him. But it's like people
Speaker 1: lost that skill somewhere along the way, you know, And
Speaker 1: I don't know why, and but you know, somewhere along
Speaker 1: the way, and it's like stick. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I learned sticks and stones may break your bones, but
Speaker 1: names will never harm you. Somewhere we lost that. Well.
Speaker 1: I think social media allowed people to lose it on
Speaker 1: their own accord, because you're so quick to respond that
Speaker 1: how often. I'm a little bit different in this regard that.
Speaker 1: You know, even if something I don't agree with or
Speaker 1: I think it's just straight bs, like you said, I
Speaker 1: like to at least listen to it. I mean, I
Speaker 1: listened to all kinds of things, guilty information overload, but
Speaker 1: I like to at least listen to people, like their perspective,
Speaker 1: their context, how they're actually viewing these things. I like
Speaker 1: to do that, and for me, especially in this situation,
Speaker 1: we got friends all across the country. So different states
Speaker 1: have different governors, they have different doctors that are working
Speaker 1: in different hospitals, and so you gotta get the lay
Speaker 1: of the land. You know. Here in Los Angeles, I
Speaker 1: get friends at work at us A Medical Center in
Speaker 1: Westwood and Santa Monica down in Torrance, and they're telling
Speaker 1: me things they are drastically different than friends that are
Speaker 1: in Orange County at different hospitals out there. So yeahs you.
Speaker 1: I've told the story for I was growing up. My
Speaker 1: my dad conservative, my mom miss you rest in peace,
Speaker 1: a liberal, and I as a little kid when I
Speaker 1: was eating my salmon patties with my mac and cheese
Speaker 1: as a little Betty, and that's the last time I
Speaker 1: eat fish was salmon pat as my mom would make
Speaker 1: and with the onions on top, and uh, and I
Speaker 1: like the onions because they were burned up. And my
Speaker 1: mom and dad would debate about the political news of
Speaker 1: the day, and I'd get my mom's side to get
Speaker 1: my dad's side, and I just listen to everything that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I watched all this stuff and you know
Speaker 1: a lot. That's another skill, like just being able to
Speaker 1: consume all sides without oh my god, my my new michigas.
Speaker 1: And this is really a problem once you Once you
Speaker 1: go down this rabbit hole, what I'm about to tell you,
Speaker 1: there's no going back. Um, so be careful. I'm putting
Speaker 1: a disclaimer on this. But when I'm watching the news,
Speaker 1: I say that near quotes, I look for the weasel words,
Speaker 1: and then I just I'm incited. Uh you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like I'm like, oh, I got ways of
Speaker 1: ways wide, you know, and I there's there's so overwhelming,
Speaker 1: They're so overwhelming here, Uh could may might maybe po possibly,
Speaker 1: you know, all of these things, all of these things
Speaker 1: are just that's how the news is done without weasel words.
Speaker 1: You cannot have the news. I'm convinced you cannot have
Speaker 1: the news without projections. That's essentially what you're doing. All
Speaker 1: the world shut down because of projections, not because of facts,
Speaker 1: because of projections, which is amazing to me. And and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, let's take the position. That's good, that's
Speaker 1: the right thing to you. And I don't totally disagree
Speaker 1: with that that that is the proper thing. If people
Speaker 1: tell you a bunch of people are gonna die, you
Speaker 1: have to do this or other people gonna die. That's
Speaker 1: completely reasonable for politicians to do it. But then when
Speaker 1: the data comes back and tells you the opposite, that
Speaker 1: it's not nearly as bad as the initial reports out
Speaker 1: of Wuhan, China, then you have to say, Okay, who
Speaker 1: needs to be quarantined here? Clearly, if you're someone of
Speaker 1: a certain age and you have pre existing conditions and
Speaker 1: you've got these problems, I feel you've got to continue
Speaker 1: the quarantine. But if you look at the numbers for
Speaker 1: people that are younger and people that are you know,
Speaker 1: at a certain age, without the pre existing conditions and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, you have a better chance of crossing
Speaker 1: the streets several times getting hit by a bus than
Speaker 1: dying of the coronavirus. But yet you tell people that
Speaker 1: and you're oh my god, you're You're just such an asshole.
Speaker 1: I can't listen to you anymore. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, does it Does it make you nervous? When
Speaker 1: you're always on a tight rope, uh, hanging from the
Speaker 1: third rail? You have I think like in some way
Speaker 1: as that we we've pushed you towards that. But well, no, no,
Speaker 1: I was, I was. I don't. I'm not like people
Speaker 1: are starting to think like I'm this political guy. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm really not. I I just am very I'm very
Speaker 1: concerned that my life's work is gonna go away here
Speaker 1: because of this, uh, this pandemic. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a big part of it.
Speaker 1: And if I thought that everyone was gonna die, I
Speaker 1: would be like, Okay, you know what, well, well this
Speaker 1: is the right thing to do. But this is the
Speaker 1: wrong thing to do. And I because I worked a
Speaker 1: long time in radio, I think the show is going
Speaker 1: pretty well. But I'm telling you, if the global recession
Speaker 1: kicks in and the country stays mostly shut down, I'll
Speaker 1: eventually lose my job. It's going to happen, um, and
Speaker 1: so I'd like to avoid that. I like my job.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've gotten a pretty good place at it.
Speaker 1: I have friends of mine that have already lost their jobs. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I just think it's unnecessary. If if I felt
Speaker 1: it was necessary, that would be different. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's necessary. I think it's irrational. I think what's happening
Speaker 1: now because of the science that's out there which is encouraging,
Speaker 1: and to have reckless disregard to that science that you know,
Speaker 1: to what is the new truth, is just very upsetting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, you you mentioned it with your life's work.
Speaker 1: It's not just you, like people that are listening and
Speaker 1: have listened. I mean you think about it as a
Speaker 1: micro or a macro. People that are our age or
Speaker 1: a little bit older, a little bit younger, that have
Speaker 1: been fortunate with income and resources, they're also losing their
Speaker 1: life's work and it's gonna take a long time to recover,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned. So yeah, yeah, I mean it depends
Speaker 1: how older. I guess if you're you're you know, of
Speaker 1: a certain age, it's not a matter to If you're
Speaker 1: in your twenties, would be fine, but if you're a
Speaker 1: little older, Um, you know, the clock is a ticking.
Speaker 1: You know, there's only a limited shelf life we all
Speaker 1: have here, and the damage by the time it's repaired,
Speaker 1: you'll someone else will be reaping the benefits of the
Speaker 1: damage that it's taking place right now. And it's like
Speaker 1: that doc I tweeted out a link to the doctor
Speaker 1: from Stanford, which is a very conservative school. As you know,
Speaker 1: guess got a lot of great conservatives have come out
Speaker 1: of Stanford. Be sure to catch live editions of the
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so this doctor from Stanfords like given this whole
Speaker 1: He's given all these numbers about how you know, every
Speaker 1: month in America there's a hundred and fifty thousand people
Speaker 1: that get diagnosed with cancer, and the death rate from cancer,
Speaker 1: depending on what kind of cancer, is much earth than
Speaker 1: the numbers from the coronavirus. But yet these people, many
Speaker 1: of them are not being screened for cancer, so they're
Speaker 1: walking around. We've got a bunch of people wandering around
Speaker 1: that have cancer but haven't been told they have it,
Speaker 1: to treat it, to try to get on top of it,
Speaker 1: because many the good news is a lot of cancers.
Speaker 1: If you find it early enough, you can you can
Speaker 1: CounterPunch it and you've got your odds are pretty good.
Speaker 1: But if you don't, you know, that's a death sentence.
Speaker 1: And so it's just frustrating. You see that. You think
Speaker 1: about the poverty side of it, um and it's it's
Speaker 1: just so upsetting when you look at all that and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, this guy's a Stanford doctor, but
Speaker 1: you know, we totally people just dismiss him and whatever
Speaker 1: Dr Fauci says is the end all be all, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's just very upsetting because and the other
Speaker 1: thing too, with the back to the Georgia Florida thing
Speaker 1: that I tweeted out the story to that link, which
Speaker 1: I thought was great, like this is wonderful. Um, the
Speaker 1: wait two weeks crowd got very upset with me. You
Speaker 1: know what, the wait two weeks a crowd is guest gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're the ones that are pretty much telling you to
Speaker 1: wait an additional two weeks add for the first flattening
Speaker 1: of the curve. Yeah, it was you know, kick the
Speaker 1: I call it to kick the can down the road
Speaker 1: crowd because the then they're also must be honest here.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are cheering for you to die if
Speaker 1: you live in Georgia and Florida. These are the people
Speaker 1: that would like to see you in the ground. They
Speaker 1: weren't you dead, and they will celebrate. They will celebrate
Speaker 1: a win in that case, which it seems very odd
Speaker 1: to me that you would cheer for that. Um, but
Speaker 1: it certainly appears that that argument. And see the funny
Speaker 1: things they say, wait two weeks and then people will say, well,
Speaker 1: Florida has only been open for like nine ten days.
Speaker 1: See it got you, got you Gotti. And then I
Speaker 1: pointed out Gasca, Well George has been open for twenty days.
Speaker 1: She said two weeks. It's been twenty days, which I believe,
Speaker 1: and I'm using mallory math. That's over. That's over two weeks, right,
Speaker 1: twenty days. You have almost three weeks. Now it's now
Speaker 1: it is, as we're doing this in real time, it's
Speaker 1: been twenty twenty one days. So um, and we just
Speaker 1: keep moving the goalposts as they say. Right, it's like,
Speaker 1: well it didn't happen, but it's gonna happen. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you right now. Alright, hundred years from now, someone
Speaker 1: will write a story that everyone living right now died
Speaker 1: from the coronavirus because we're all gonna be dead a
Speaker 1: hundred years from now. So you know, there you go.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's unfortunate. But you know, we highlighted this
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, that this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a red versus blue thing, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: right versus wrong. And you get people on social media,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter where they're at, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're practicing doctors and practicing attorneys, and
Speaker 1: you know, they know about federal law and case law,
Speaker 1: and they know about being an epidemiologist or a virologist
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. And everyone's got their own opinion,
Speaker 1: which is great. But you know, I remember, just back
Speaker 1: of the day, the only person I ever saw really
Speaker 1: on news that could bat less than five hundred and
Speaker 1: still keep their job was a weather girl or weather guy.
Speaker 1: And now you carry that over to where we're at
Speaker 1: now with the models, and there have been people that
Speaker 1: have been way off the mark, some that have blown
Speaker 1: the estimates far far away from where they are now,
Speaker 1: and some that have underestimated it. And like, where's the
Speaker 1: accountability for any of that, because you know, everyone's trying
Speaker 1: to point the finger at somebody else when you know
Speaker 1: we have the capability, like we do depending on what
Speaker 1: states you are, to look at your mayor, look at
Speaker 1: your surrounding mayors, and then look at the governor as
Speaker 1: opposed to, well, we need federal this, we need federal
Speaker 1: of that, which obviously is good for a crutch. At
Speaker 1: the same time, like you should work from the inside
Speaker 1: out because every state is different, and we've fallen victim
Speaker 1: unfortunately as a nation, to looking at what happened in
Speaker 1: New York and taking that as a general for what
Speaker 1: is happening in you know, Montana or South Dakota, or
Speaker 1: Florida or California or Arizona. It's a massive state. Anyone's
Speaker 1: ever flown from the East coast to the west coast
Speaker 1: is like, unbelievably how large the United States is. It's
Speaker 1: amazing and it's awesome. It's what it is, wonderful, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. And it's so different geographically when you know,
Speaker 1: you go to Iowa as opposed to New York City
Speaker 1: or Boston, or you know, you go to the out
Speaker 1: in the you know, Idaho, or even like a big
Speaker 1: state like Texas where there's parts of it that are
Speaker 1: very rural and out in the middle of nowhere, out
Speaker 1: in West Texas, and then you've got these big metropolis
Speaker 1: is in Dallas and Houston and San Antonio places like that,
Speaker 1: and it's like, I think there's one answer to everything.
Speaker 1: These people are convinced that there's one answer, and it's
Speaker 1: just getting not see here. This was the question I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask, and I'm glad you brought it up.
Speaker 1: If if we were to like take a pragmatic approach
Speaker 1: to this, let's say you went from Benny brightside Um
Speaker 1: to Governor Benny, how would you approach this from a
Speaker 1: professional standpoint, because like here in California, Gavin Newsum doesn't
Speaker 1: want to have fans in the stand which is understandable,
Speaker 1: but he also doesn't expect sports to be back anytime soon.
Speaker 1: Where you have Governor Ronda Santis in Florida, Governor Doocey
Speaker 1: in Arizona, they want to bring sports in. But there's
Speaker 1: been speculation and a lot of people have been talking
Speaker 1: about once the fall to winter comes those seasons that
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a second wave of the coronavirus. So
Speaker 1: if that's the case, like you know obviously what the
Speaker 1: NFL season, It runs from September to January, and they
Speaker 1: get the Super Bowl early in February. That's during this season,
Speaker 1: the fall in the winter season. Same thing with college
Speaker 1: basketball in the NBA and the NHL seasons. So what
Speaker 1: do you do because we're not going to get a
Speaker 1: vaccine anytime soon. How do you actually manage this and
Speaker 1: at the same time allow these guys and the women
Speaker 1: and the men that are in the front office is
Speaker 1: to still take a reasonable pay cut and make a
Speaker 1: salary for themselves in their family. All right, So the
Speaker 1: first thing I do is I I base my reaction
Speaker 1: on the actual numbers. So the numbers are encouraging, and
Speaker 1: so I would base it on that. And and essentially
Speaker 1: what you do is what they've often done. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this in the past. If I'm the governor of California,
Speaker 1: here's what I say. I say, listen, uh, if you
Speaker 1: are over the age of sixty five, then you have
Speaker 1: to take extra precautions. If you have a pre existing condition,
Speaker 1: then I'll list them. You know, if you have diabetes,
Speaker 1: if you have you know, some kind of heart issue
Speaker 1: or something long issue, whatever it might be. I'll go
Speaker 1: through the list and I'll say, all right, if you're
Speaker 1: on this list, if you have a pre existing condition,
Speaker 1: then you also have to take different actions than the rest. Now,
Speaker 1: you should still be cautious, right, I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: go out there and you're totally just a wild banshee
Speaker 1: running running a muck and all that. But you you
Speaker 1: will open up stories, you put limits on it and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and kind of slowly work it back up. But you
Speaker 1: don't do what California is doing when they're talking about
Speaker 1: three more months of of this nonsense. I saw that
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan's talking about leaving California now after some of
Speaker 1: the other people have said that, And we'll see if
Speaker 1: any of them actually do. But yeah, that that would
Speaker 1: be the first thing I would do. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. We're gonna do what they've done in
Speaker 1: the past in America and globally, and we will protect
Speaker 1: the people that are most at risk. But we are
Speaker 1: not going to shut down the economy. The economy will
Speaker 1: go on. People need to work, people have to make
Speaker 1: money to pay their bills. We're not gonna make everyone
Speaker 1: dependent on the government getting an unemployment check. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna make it like that. And then you move forward,
Speaker 1: and then if if the science changes and it turns
Speaker 1: out that there's some new information, you adjust at that
Speaker 1: particular point. But you don't shut down society based on,
Speaker 1: as you said, a weather report. And I actually wanted
Speaker 1: to bring that up because it reminds me of a
Speaker 1: book I read years ago about infommercials. How does this
Speaker 1: relate to infommercial So I read a book and they
Speaker 1: were talking about the early days before television, you know,
Speaker 1: and people would go around the original Uh, the original
Speaker 1: infomercial was the state fair where pitchman or the boardwalk
Speaker 1: where pitchmen would go out, and uh, they were like
Speaker 1: snake oil sales And I remember reading about the Kickapoo
Speaker 1: Indian Medical Company. You ever heard about the Kickapoo Indian
Speaker 1: Medical Company. They toward the country, They went to boardwalk,
Speaker 1: street fairs, county. You know. Country fairs were the sticks.
Speaker 1: They're all over the place. And these Kickapoo Indian Medical
Speaker 1: Company people promised all these local yokels at the boardwalk,
Speaker 1: the street fair, the county fair, that they would cure
Speaker 1: whatever was wrong with them. All right, you're sick, we
Speaker 1: gotta cure for that. Yeah, it hasn't rained. We gotta
Speaker 1: cure for that. They would go up on stage and
Speaker 1: they would strangle rattlesnakes on stage to use as an elixir, right,
Speaker 1: and they then sold it to the crowd. That's actually
Speaker 1: where the term snake oil salesman comes from. Is the
Speaker 1: Kickapoo Indian Medical Company. But the reason I bring this
Speaker 1: up is because once people bought the stuff and it
Speaker 1: didn't work, they were already gone. They were onto the
Speaker 1: next town and people were left holding the snake oil.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's it's almost the same situation here with
Speaker 1: the science. And you come out and say, oh my god,
Speaker 1: the dudes, that clock's been moved up. You know, everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna die. We're all gonna die. And then doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: and nobody goes back and says, hey, dummy, why did
Speaker 1: you do that? You you were completely wrong. And then
Speaker 1: the other thing that annoys me is when when people
Speaker 1: do go back, they said, well, you know he was right.
Speaker 1: He was that was the right thing to say. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, you know you got a side
Speaker 1: on caution. I mean, come up, glad, that is the idea, right.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I got to I've not used the Kickapoo
Speaker 1: Indian Medical Company ever, so I'm glad I finally got that.
Speaker 1: I was in the back of my head. I'm that
Speaker 1: I head. Then that's good right out. So I mean,
Speaker 1: but that's the idea, right, I Mean, we have people
Speaker 1: that are in different specialties, so if you are a doctor,
Speaker 1: you're you're natural. You're more inclined to err on the
Speaker 1: set of caution as opposed to being aggressive or the
Speaker 1: hipocritic oath. Right, you have to protect and right in
Speaker 1: the hippocratic oath, and all I have to look out
Speaker 1: for people and their best interest in all that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, And so I this stems back to you know,
Speaker 1: I had a great conversation with a friend a few
Speaker 1: days ago about this particular topic. Because professional athletes are
Speaker 1: one thing, whether it's Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA,
Speaker 1: h L, whatever it may be. But if you're talking
Speaker 1: about college athletics, then what do you do Because you
Speaker 1: have the twenty three you see schools here in California
Speaker 1: that are being closed off of the fall, and then
Speaker 1: you have the state schools, which are obviously an additional
Speaker 1: elements to school. But if these guys can't play, or
Speaker 1: if there's a thought that fall is gonna be no
Speaker 1: football but spring will be, you still need time to
Speaker 1: get these guys in a camp. You need time to
Speaker 1: get them into shape, and that doesn't include what's going
Speaker 1: on right now and into the summertime. So if you
Speaker 1: think you can get them into shape by spring, I
Speaker 1: think you get another thing coming, especially if you think
Speaker 1: there's a second wave coming. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: you know this what happens with all the prep athletes
Speaker 1: that are seniors, Because we've seen plenty of dudes, whether
Speaker 1: it's football or baseball that are dudes as soon as
Speaker 1: they get into the Division one program and they play
Speaker 1: right away. So what do you do for them to
Speaker 1: get them acquimant to the D one level? Like do
Speaker 1: you do you allow these kids to transfer out of state?
Speaker 1: And do you allow the the colleges to bring in
Speaker 1: other talent from other universities that can't play? Like, how
Speaker 1: do you amend that Fox Sports Radio has the best
Speaker 1: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our
Speaker 1: shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I saw something about this that is
Speaker 1: loosely related with the college world, and I just can't
Speaker 1: see the Pack twelve happening. It really depends. It does
Speaker 1: depend if you're in the like below the Mason Dixon line.
Speaker 1: I guess you're in pretty good shape there because they
Speaker 1: are not gonna cancel Southern Fried football that is that
Speaker 1: is gonna happen. SEC commissioner said it, and now the
Speaker 1: SEC as well, Big twelve, big ten like and like,
Speaker 1: you know, I know, people say, wow, that's just you know,
Speaker 1: those are a bunch of rednecks. Those are a bunch
Speaker 1: of hicks and hay seeds and all like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: say that if you want. But there there. They think
Speaker 1: that's important. They believe it's going to be done safely,
Speaker 1: and they'll do it. But I do feel terrible for
Speaker 1: like you think about the trickle down that this is
Speaker 1: gonna have. You know, I said, well, it's not that
Speaker 1: important because it's only sports. But we're sports people. We
Speaker 1: like sports, and I do feel bad. You know. I
Speaker 1: remember how excited I was in high school when I
Speaker 1: had delusions of grandeur that I was gonna get offers,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's a big fat offensive linement. I
Speaker 1: was gonna get offers to go play college ball somewhere.
Speaker 1: You know all that, And you think about that dream
Speaker 1: you have when you're a player and you're you get
Speaker 1: to that senior year and you're like on the cusp
Speaker 1: of your dreams coming true and you're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: get to the NFL. If you're a high school football
Speaker 1: player and you're you're top player, and then like, how
Speaker 1: do you recruit? I guess they already have an idea
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, but like decisions on where
Speaker 1: to go. It's it's so that the convoluted in it's
Speaker 1: it's the water is so muddy and murky right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's if college football guys, you know, you said, will
Speaker 1: allow them to transfer, but then they're like, well, no,
Speaker 1: it's amateurism. But at least the n c A is
Speaker 1: starting to get away with that. But yeah, if I
Speaker 1: had the option, if you were a player at say
Speaker 1: U c. L A, and you were a fringe NFL
Speaker 1: guy where meaning that that you're you're on the watch
Speaker 1: list for the NFL, but you're not considered a guarantee
Speaker 1: to be drafted. It really depends on how you play
Speaker 1: your senior year. Then how can you possibly even consider
Speaker 1: staying at a school like U c l A. If
Speaker 1: your dreams to play in the NFL you would have
Speaker 1: to go out in some rustic town somewhere and uh
Speaker 1: and and figure out how to play. It's and then
Speaker 1: you I saw the story the other day that they
Speaker 1: were talking about and like the SEC, because they might
Speaker 1: not even know the SEC is gonna play. They might
Speaker 1: not be enough schools or maybe the Big tens. Some
Speaker 1: schools won't play. So having home and home like Alabama
Speaker 1: Auburn would play a home and home situation. It seems
Speaker 1: it seems so unlike football in college football, but they're
Speaker 1: saying that that actually is on the table just to
Speaker 1: get enough games in. Yeah, at least the fortunate thing
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about like basketball and baseball players, if
Speaker 1: they can't find a home here, I mean we you
Speaker 1: brought it up during your shows, they can go to
Speaker 1: Korea and play baseball out there, and they could possibly
Speaker 1: play basketball in Europe. So there's avenues if they can't
Speaker 1: find anything here domestically, is they can go somewhere else
Speaker 1: in the the other side of the world. That is true.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to get before we get out of
Speaker 1: this podcast, not that we're getting out anytime soon. I
Speaker 1: did want to tell this story, which is a great
Speaker 1: podcast story. Um and it's it's headline, get out of Jail,
Speaker 1: Free to get out of Jail read card. Alright, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell the stories. It's storytime now, I have
Speaker 1: you know we often do that bit. I honor the
Speaker 1: the old uh, the old tabloid in Boston, the Naked City.
Speaker 1: We we say, you know, the Naked City never sleeps,
Speaker 1: that we have more tales from the Naked City here
Speaker 1: where the name's Gascon are being omitted or changed to
Speaker 1: protect the guilty. Okay, right. So I get this email
Speaker 1: in the email bag the other day and and this
Speaker 1: I'm do this separate. We'll have another podcast later this
Speaker 1: weekend which will be just your questions. And I know
Speaker 1: that I'll be riveting, but this is a standalone situation.
Speaker 1: So I get this email and I'm like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a long email, and um, you know, usually I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you. If I get a long email,
Speaker 1: I don't read it because I don't have time. I mean,
Speaker 1: give me a paragraph, someone up in a couple of sentences,
Speaker 1: I'm good. But when you start giving me war in
Speaker 1: Peace and the Endless Story, I'm out. I just don't
Speaker 1: have time. I don't know, I just don't have the
Speaker 1: attention for it. So I get this email and here's
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you most of the email. I left
Speaker 1: some stuff out. Uh. And then so the email we'll
Speaker 1: call this person. Um, we'll call him Billy Bob. Before
Speaker 1: you read it, Can I ask you what time of
Speaker 1: the day it was that, you know? I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what time. I think I got it when
Speaker 1: I woke up, so I didn't even look at the
Speaker 1: time stamp. But but here it is, all right. So
Speaker 1: it says my wife and I and my daughter's twelve
Speaker 1: and nine went to Costco and the Trader Joe's. I
Speaker 1: don't know where this person lives, Billy Bob, but they
Speaker 1: went to a Costco and a Trader Joe's. I guess
Speaker 1: last sunday I got the email you of this. I
Speaker 1: guess last weekend. My nine year old has asthma. Her
Speaker 1: doctor said she shouldn't wear a mask, and at Costco,
Speaker 1: the people at Costco didn't care. But we got a
Speaker 1: bunch of dirty looks. You know. He's guy's got how
Speaker 1: cute is a nine year old girl? You can't get
Speaker 1: more instant the nine year old girl? And uh, and
Speaker 1: so the people are looking weird at her, and this
Speaker 1: guy's like, I don't give a fuck, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's is in the same shopping center, he said,
Speaker 1: So I guess I give something away. Uh, And so
Speaker 1: we go over there. The employees didn't care. But as
Speaker 1: we are walking around the story, this roughly sixty year
Speaker 1: old something lady comes up to my nine year old daughter.
Speaker 1: The guy says, puts her finger in my daughter's face
Speaker 1: and says, you're a murderer. Right there. So, the guy says,
Speaker 1: his wife and his daughter were walking about ten feet
Speaker 1: ahead of me. So I immediately screamed at the woman.
Speaker 1: The guy said, back the funk off, bitch, don't fucking
Speaker 1: worry about my kid. Yeah, so she goes she could
Speaker 1: kill me. The woman said to the guy, and I said,
Speaker 1: that's the plan. We are using our kids to kill
Speaker 1: people who can't find their own fucking business. Which is
Speaker 1: actually a pretty good line, right, not not a d
Speaker 1: escalation line. That's not something they would tell you if
Speaker 1: you were a crisis counselor. But it probably felt pretty
Speaker 1: good to say that, right, that's what you were thinking,
Speaker 1: he said, what he was thinking, no filter. Uh. So
Speaker 1: the story continues. He says, Now her husband comes over
Speaker 1: and hits me with his cart. I turned to him,
Speaker 1: I said, don't do that again, bitch, And he does
Speaker 1: it again, and I take his hat, ripped it and
Speaker 1: threw on threw it on top of the shelves here,
Speaker 1: and this is where he gets really off the tracks.
Speaker 1: The guy says he dumped the guy's card over. How
Speaker 1: about that? All right? So at this particular time, he says,
Speaker 1: a couple of employees came over and started holding his
Speaker 1: arms back, and nobody was holding the other guy, and
Speaker 1: and he the other The older guy then comes at him,
Speaker 1: takes his glasses all he he takes his glasses off
Speaker 1: and takes a week like swing, like I tried to
Speaker 1: punch the guy and he ended up kicking his glasses
Speaker 1: out of his hand. And you know, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of detail. I don't know how much of the
Speaker 1: detail we need to give out. But anyway, says his
Speaker 1: wife was in line, and so he said, I go
Speaker 1: out to my truck. He says, I'm sitting there. The
Speaker 1: old guy then sees me in my truck. What do
Speaker 1: you think the old guy does right there? Out of
Speaker 1: the store. Now, the old guy comes over and parks
Speaker 1: his car behind this guy because they're like, wait, this
Speaker 1: guy knocked my card over and I'm upset. So he
Speaker 1: parks behind the guy. So the guy can't leave and
Speaker 1: then uh, and then calls the cops. He said, and
Speaker 1: the police are on the way. So so this is
Speaker 1: where the story affects us guest gun. So this guy,
Speaker 1: he's sitting in a car and he's just gotten into
Speaker 1: a dispute with a random stranger to defend the honor
Speaker 1: of his family. And he says he had the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour podcast on the cops show up. He says, I
Speaker 1: tell the officer I'm armed. I told him where my
Speaker 1: gun was. So another officer is inside watching the security footage.
Speaker 1: The cop stands by this guy and and they're listening
Speaker 1: to the Fifth Hour to get there that this is
Speaker 1: a communal experience here, and he says. The guy says,
Speaker 1: he's sitting in his truck here. The guy's like probably
Speaker 1: shipping his pants, is gonna get arrested. And the cops like,
Speaker 1: who who's that and they and the guy says, that's
Speaker 1: Ben Maller I. So then he says he told this
Speaker 1: police officer about the show, like the radio show in
Speaker 1: addition to the Fifth Hour podcast. The guy whall the
Speaker 1: police officer in uniform, you know, with the gun the
Speaker 1: whole thing, pulls out his phone and subscribes on the
Speaker 1: spot to the podcast. How cool is this guy? That's
Speaker 1: the kind of police officer you want. Uh, And so
Speaker 1: they started talking sports, you know, like that's how men
Speaker 1: do it, you talk sports and all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: then the other officer comes out of the store, and
Speaker 1: so he's made friends with the first one. The guy
Speaker 1: in the truck says, so the old guy wanted to
Speaker 1: press charges a right, so he's like, oh funk, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna you know, this is terrible. The cops then went back.
Speaker 1: They had watched the video and they noticed that he
Speaker 1: hit him with the cart first, you know. So so
Speaker 1: either they both went to jail, both got in trouble,
Speaker 1: or nobody got in trouble, right, that's the way the
Speaker 1: law works. So so the old guy didn't want to
Speaker 1: go to jail or get in trouble, so for the fight,
Speaker 1: so that was it. You know, he was pissed and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and uh that we had the guy
Speaker 1: had ruined all the cart and all that. So in
Speaker 1: the meantime, the story continues, guests guts a long story.
Speaker 1: So the guy in the truck says, we are still
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast, and the cop is like, I
Speaker 1: like this, Ben Malley, Yeah, what I was praising me,
Speaker 1: singing my praiser very nice, that we're not we don't
Speaker 1: kiss athletes, asking all stuff. So so they come in,
Speaker 1: they say that the store is pressing charges right that
Speaker 1: the and the the police officer, who is listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast, handcuffs this guy and said, he whispers to him,
Speaker 1: don't worry about this. He tells his wife to meet
Speaker 1: the police officer behind the store, and they go back
Speaker 1: there behind the store, and the officer said that they
Speaker 1: never logged anything, and the manager of the store didn't
Speaker 1: ask for a police report, so this never happened. So
Speaker 1: so the guy was able to go home because in
Speaker 1: part of the podcast that this guy was a fan
Speaker 1: of the podcast, so that I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1: I assume that this is such detail. I believe this
Speaker 1: to be a true story. But we're gonna call this
Speaker 1: guy Billy Bob, and I'm very proud of the fact
Speaker 1: he's been a Mallard militiaman sinceleven. So we're protecting the
Speaker 1: guiltiest identity here in the Naked City. But that is
Speaker 1: that is a nice I know, it's not nice if
Speaker 1: you're the other side. The sixty year old guy and
Speaker 1: all that. But you can't be going around and telling
Speaker 1: nine year old kids you're a murderer, all right, what
Speaker 1: the funk are we doing? Seriously? I mean, that is ridiculous. Now,
Speaker 1: I would not have probably escalated the situation. I would
Speaker 1: have thought all of the things Billy Bob said. I
Speaker 1: would have thought all of those things. But that is
Speaker 1: that is igniter is what that is, right, and you
Speaker 1: you I usually try I try to avoid confrontation in
Speaker 1: public as much as I can. But this guy, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. You know. It's It's a wild story,
Speaker 1: is what it is. But I I loved reading that,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to share that that's a great story.
Speaker 1: I'd probably go batshit crazy though someone came up to
Speaker 1: my kid and called them a murderer, I don't care
Speaker 1: about what the hell it is. Yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 1: then you know, obviously you don't. You don't comment. You
Speaker 1: escalated when you explain what this guy did. But but
Speaker 1: thank you for the story, Billy Bob and whoever that
Speaker 1: police officer is. Listen, you know who you are. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say your name, but send me an email
Speaker 1: if you can't. I'd like to. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Cool. What can we do for this guy?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Get him a lifetime supply of of nothing? Yeah? Life,
Speaker 1: Do you want a lifetime suply nothing? Where the show
Speaker 1: that gives you nothing? We have no budget here. You
Speaker 1: want a round trip to nowhere? You can follow social
Speaker 1: distancing guidelines because no one's there. Uh and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and that is void. As soon as nowhere, Oklahoma gets
Speaker 1: an airport, that will suddenly that that will that will expire.
Speaker 1: How far away is that from from like Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: or anywhere else in Oklahoma? It is a rural what's
Speaker 1: the term unuhincorporated part of Oklahoma. I have a buddy
Speaker 1: from high school when I best friends in high school.
Speaker 1: To hang out with this guy and eat peanut butter
Speaker 1: and jelly sandwich was this guy every day. He moved
Speaker 1: to a very small town in Oklahoma. And I reconnected
Speaker 1: with the guy a couple of years ago on Facebook,
Speaker 1: and he hates when he moved there. He loves it.
Speaker 1: He loved it when he moved there because it's obviously
Speaker 1: a lot cheaper than that, but you get you make
Speaker 1: less money also, and he would like to leave there
Speaker 1: and go back to the big city. But once you
Speaker 1: make the less money, you can't save up as much.
Speaker 1: You need a lot to move somewhere else. So it's
Speaker 1: a it's an awkward, awkward situation. So I think that
Speaker 1: would be good. Are we good? That's a that's a
Speaker 1: great story. I'm actually happy that you you didn't delete
Speaker 1: it as soon as you saw how long it was.
Speaker 1: That's a fantastic story. So I did consider de leating it,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, well, I started reading it,
Speaker 1: and then it captivated me, and I was like, I
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Speaker 1: as I kept reading the email, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is I gotta put this on the air. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only thing would have been better is if he
Speaker 1: had if he had actually taken a selfie with the cops. Uh.
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