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Speaker 1: um my positions are strong right now. I just leave
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Speaker 1: did not go that well as we're doing the podcast.
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Speaker 1: long game. On man, you're not in the short game.
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Speaker 1: the position of them in right now. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you have a mirror in your house, you might
Speaker 1: want to look at the mirror because you change your
Speaker 1: perspective on investing. Yeah, I'm just saying, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do need a haircut drifting along a little bit there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, let me point out that, Um, you might
Speaker 1: think that doesn't matter who the hell cares. And I've
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Speaker 1: I would agree with you, like it's just that you
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Speaker 1: some fine art from Ostrich Aunt, who was just an
Speaker 1: amazingly talented artist, just an amazingly talented artist. And he
Speaker 1: draws his little cartoon drawings and he's you think of
Speaker 1: the greats? Do you think of Michael Angelo, Van Gold, Rembrand, Matisse,
Speaker 1: Da Vinci and Austro chant No, he's he's this guy
Speaker 1: is great, more like a Vermier. Maybe one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: I quote this guy lies Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol had
Speaker 1: had a great line and anything, uh and everything can
Speaker 1: be art, Anything and everything could be art, and uh,
Speaker 1: and that's good. And one of his other quotes was
Speaker 1: life is just a series of images that change as
Speaker 1: they repeat themselves. But that's Austro chance. So anyway, first
Speaker 1: question comes from John the Jailer and Allan Town, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: He says, bent the Costco food sample warres have returned.
Speaker 1: Have you been able to bartake John? This is a
Speaker 1: great question. I was just at Costco the other day.
Speaker 1: I go to Costco at least once a week, sometimes
Speaker 1: twice a week. Uh. The answer is no, because in
Speaker 1: California it's the biggest teas in the world. What they've
Speaker 1: done at the local Costco where I live. They do
Speaker 1: have the sample workers back at Costco, but they don't
Speaker 1: actually have the samples. They sit at the same tables
Speaker 1: they used to give out the good East the stuff
Speaker 1: back in the day, and they sit there and they
Speaker 1: have like if they're That was in the Costco a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, as I said, and they had
Speaker 1: a they were trying to get the granola bars, trying
Speaker 1: to get people to buy granola bars. So they had
Speaker 1: the woman who had the woman was sitting there and
Speaker 1: she had the Costco sample outfit on and she was
Speaker 1: at a little table, and then she had a granola bar,
Speaker 1: and then there was a plastic container over the granola bar,
Speaker 1: so you could observe the granola bar, but you could
Speaker 1: not actually eat a sample of said granola bar. So
Speaker 1: it's bull crap. It's absolute bull crap, is what it is.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I don't know that's because a
Speaker 1: king New summer or whatever, but you can't they're not
Speaker 1: actually handing out the samples. Now, when they do, I'll
Speaker 1: do the hokey pokey. I'll put my right foot in,
Speaker 1: I'll take my right foot out, you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I'll put my right hand in, I'll take my Yeah.
Speaker 1: But they don't have that right So don't point that.
Speaker 1: You don't go to Costco because you're west of the
Speaker 1: four oh five. So you go there for gas, whole
Speaker 1: foods probably, I would imagine you Whole Foods is really
Speaker 1: taxing on a paycheck. Yeah, I I have a relative
Speaker 1: of my in law is one of them live over Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: west of the four or five. I did go to
Speaker 1: the Costco in I think it's in Torrance, and there's
Speaker 1: like a car wash. Yep, there's a car wash there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right next never I've never seen I've never seen a
Speaker 1: costco with the car wash. We do things a little
Speaker 1: bit differently West of the four or five better, bigger, sexy, better,
Speaker 1: more efficient, just your standard car wash. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was any better than any other car wash. They
Speaker 1: had a car cost effective. Yeah, something sweet about being
Speaker 1: west of the four or five. All right, Chris and
Speaker 1: Iowa writes in He's got a couple of points he
Speaker 1: wants to make. Chris says the Sunday podcast was missing
Speaker 1: the beginning, there was no intro and in the middle
Speaker 1: of a question, so I guess something happened in the
Speaker 1: middle of a question. This is Chris and Ila just
Speaker 1: complaining in again, touch up on that kind of a
Speaker 1: customer service, a weekly tradition from Chris and Ila. What
Speaker 1: can I bitch about to the Chris and Ila. So
Speaker 1: you're saying there's no customer satisfaction guarantee for the fifth
Speaker 1: hour podcast? Is that what you're saying? No, I mean
Speaker 1: any guarantees. So guess saying go fund yourself. There you go,
Speaker 1: very nice. Do not be a discerning customer at all? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I guess Gon does not like that. It's a willer
Speaker 1: Coaster of Life. That is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller,
Speaker 1: Chris and Iowa says music on or off during sex?
Speaker 1: He says he votes no, and Chris, of course, it
Speaker 1: depends on where you are in life. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: on a certain point in my life, I didn't care
Speaker 1: if there was music, if there was an opera playing.
Speaker 1: It was just getting getting a little bit of action.
Speaker 1: There was all that. But I don't think back. But
Speaker 1: sometimes some music in the backgrounds. Fine, doesn't it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really have I don't hate it
Speaker 1: needed but anyway, Jeff from Clarksville, Indiana, just across the
Speaker 1: Ohio River from Louisville, says, what is the absolute best
Speaker 1: prank you have ever pulled on someone? And who was? Oh? Man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm trying to think what I could say that. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, the statue of limitations is run out, but
Speaker 1: the one that mean it's kind of a cheese ball.
Speaker 1: One we used to do before the internet really blew
Speaker 1: up was every April fools Day. It was usually the
Speaker 1: start of baseball right around April fools Day, and there
Speaker 1: was a buddy of mine who I would fool every year.
Speaker 1: I would take an old AP story about a trade,
Speaker 1: and then I would change the words around the teams
Speaker 1: and the players so it looked like an official AP
Speaker 1: wire story, and I would just I would send an
Speaker 1: email to my my friends, did you see this? I
Speaker 1: cut I don't worry, I copied and pasted it for you.
Speaker 1: And it was some big trade and the dummy would
Speaker 1: he would fall for it, like every like two out
Speaker 1: of three years he fell for the same thing. And
Speaker 1: then there's the other standard standard pranks that you would
Speaker 1: do back in in high school and all that. Um,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I don't think there's anything outside the norm.
Speaker 1: What about you guess I'm big prankster. No, I mean
Speaker 1: I was, but there's nothing I can disclose here. It's
Speaker 1: just it's not reliability reasons. Yeah. Yeah, it was very immature. Alright,
Speaker 1: Big Mike, not the Big Mike that works at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports trade. This is a different Big Mic, not to
Speaker 1: be confused with our Big Mike. Big Mike in Courtland,
Speaker 1: New York, and he says, in the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: the price of gasoline has gone up nearly thirty cents.
Speaker 1: I wonder why how is it in California? Is awful
Speaker 1: it's hovering towards four dollars right now. It's anywhere between
Speaker 1: three fifty and three eight spots I've seen. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's brutal. It's we call that the Biden effect is
Speaker 1: what we call that. But California, it's hard to really
Speaker 1: get a read on this because we pay isn't it
Speaker 1: like a dollar fifty right? In taxes per gallon? How
Speaker 1: much is it per gallon onto? It's it's it used
Speaker 1: to be fifty cents. I think it's closer to a
Speaker 1: dollar now in gas tax federal and local gas tax
Speaker 1: in California. So the same gas that you would get
Speaker 1: in Texas, for Oklahoma, for you know, two dollars and
Speaker 1: ten cents in California, as you pointed out, would be
Speaker 1: three dollars. And you know something. So it's but fear
Speaker 1: not the minimum wage will be praised and that will
Speaker 1: still be applicable for people in New York and in California.
Speaker 1: Is it wrong to point out that we should try
Speaker 1: to get people to not work for the medimu to
Speaker 1: uh that that is the floor. You don't want to
Speaker 1: be the floor. You want to be on the ceiling.
Speaker 1: You want to be at the floor. You want to
Speaker 1: strive to be closer to the ceiling. And is that?
Speaker 1: Why did? Why is that so bad? Why are you
Speaker 1: the bad person if you say that? I don't know
Speaker 1: the world we live in. H yeah, Oh, people get triggered.
Speaker 1: Do you see the other day? Um, what's the the
Speaker 1: guy that the investment guy? Jim Kramer? No, not Jim Kramer. Um,
Speaker 1: he does a radio show. Trying to think of the
Speaker 1: guy's name, and it's like how to save money for retirement?
Speaker 1: Not Charles Paine, No, No, he's Um, what's the guy's name?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the Dave Ramsey. That's Dave Ramsey.
Speaker 1: So Dave Ramsey. The other day he went on a
Speaker 1: rant on TV and he said he didn't believe in
Speaker 1: the stimulus check. He didn't care whether it was like
Speaker 1: six d um and he didn't give a change your life,
Speaker 1: he says. He says, if that did change your life,
Speaker 1: you were pretty much screwed anyway. That is what he was.
Speaker 1: But which is the same argument about the minimum wage? Right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're you know, I understand you start out, maybe
Speaker 1: you're doing the minimum wage, but at some point you've
Speaker 1: got to find a way to get above that. And
Speaker 1: that was like Ramsey was just getting destroyed, right, he
Speaker 1: was just getting destroyed for debunking debunking the stimulus check.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, I actually read a couple of articles that said,
Speaker 1: if you really wanted to be true to inflation, the
Speaker 1: minimum wage should actually be twenty four dollars in this country. Well,
Speaker 1: there was a guy the other day that had a
Speaker 1: good point, and it shouldn't The minimum wage should not
Speaker 1: be the same. Forget where I saw this, but it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be the same in New York and California as
Speaker 1: he is in Oklahoma's cheaper to live in Oklahoma, right,
Speaker 1: seper live in Kansas than it is in California should
Speaker 1: be higher in California, New York and lower in those places. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't get it, but I mean throw her at
Speaker 1: right now on my own. Well, man, we gotta treat
Speaker 1: everyone the same even though they don't pay the same taxes,
Speaker 1: you know, and think, come on, it's ridiculous anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you for that big Mike Kevin in Kansas, right,
Speaker 1: since says Mr Mallard and Mr Gasca, thank you for
Speaker 1: the three weekly fifth hour podcast. How about this guy
Speaker 1: Kevin's appreciative. Yeah, he's appreciative. My idea continue. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, he says. I listened to them, and as
Speaker 1: I do some long runs on the weekends working out,
Speaker 1: how about that, keep running. Breathe breathe in, breathe out,
Speaker 1: breathe in, breathe out. Kevi At. Another question is, don't
Speaker 1: slack Kevin? Run harder, you jackass, run harder. And as
Speaker 1: he's running on a trail concrete, sand or grass, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say he's in Kansas, it's cold, he's on a redmill.
Speaker 1: How about that. I'm gonna say he's on a track,
Speaker 1: like one of those wood chip trails and tracks. Well,
Speaker 1: it could be like that guy Mark the Walker in
Speaker 1: Rochester who's out every morning at like three in the
Speaker 1: morning in ten degree weather with snow walking around Rochester
Speaker 1: for some reason, I don't know why, but he does
Speaker 1: it and walking we go or whatever. He says. Its
Speaker 1: trademark guy. But this is listen to this sucking up.
Speaker 1: I think this Kevin in Kansas is actually you. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's you or your dad or your you know,
Speaker 1: one of your relatives there, because Kevin says, not only
Speaker 1: is your chemistry perfect for the format. I'm always learning something.
Speaker 1: How did you match up this partnership, he says. Was
Speaker 1: it a try out of forced pairing that worked or
Speaker 1: just blind good luck? He says, keep up the great shows. Well, Kevin,
Speaker 1: that's tremendous, tremendous sucking up. I I mean, you just
Speaker 1: gave me a bubble bath, is what you did, and
Speaker 1: may any and a petty and I thank you for that.
Speaker 1: But we were forced. It's a forced marriage, forced marriage
Speaker 1: by management and uh gascon trying to get out of
Speaker 1: the marriage. As you know, he's missed a lot of
Speaker 1: time on the podcast. As you know, he does not
Speaker 1: like doing the podcast, but we we drag him in
Speaker 1: here occasionally to do the podcast. We do. Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1: That's how that your partnership began. Forced marriage. We brought
Speaker 1: the old guy from the terrestrial radio world into the
Speaker 1: digital frame and now here. Shot Gun wedding, shotgun wedding.
Speaker 1: Have you been to any of those like in shotgun weddings? Yeah,
Speaker 1: any of those or even um uh you know, like
Speaker 1: could he get um on the tip of my tongue
Speaker 1: when you go to like Vegas just on driven by them? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when they have the little wedding parlors or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've sure been by those, have I had?
Speaker 1: You know, I did not. I I eloped. I went
Speaker 1: to Hawaii away from everyone, on a deserted beach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you didn't. I mean, can you consider your wedding
Speaker 1: in a lope because you had you know, you had
Speaker 1: you guys were both dressed up. Well yeah, but we
Speaker 1: were dressed up and we had a person. We had
Speaker 1: the person doing the wedding, uh, you know, reading the vow,
Speaker 1: you know, having us go through the ceremony, and then
Speaker 1: we had a camera person that was it. Who is
Speaker 1: your witness? The camera person? Because we did we didn't
Speaker 1: know anybody. I mean, we were you know, I've never
Speaker 1: I've been to Kwai when I was a kid, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know anybody and on the Garden Island. I
Speaker 1: love Kauai. Okay, if it wasn't so far away from
Speaker 1: I just moved there. So great. It's good man, paradise, Man,
Speaker 1: it's paradise. What a beautiful place. So when you got there, though,
Speaker 1: did you have to fly into Honolulu and then take
Speaker 1: a small plane over? How did that work? Well? No,
Speaker 1: they have direct flights into Kauai but we got we
Speaker 1: were offered a deal. We got bumped. So we did
Speaker 1: actually fly into Honolulu and then go to Poi poo. Uh.
Speaker 1: We we took the flight over there because uh, they
Speaker 1: gave us some funny money for future flight. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I was like, we all had to wait a couple
Speaker 1: extra hours. So we just like sat at L A
Speaker 1: X and waited and you know whatever, read our phones
Speaker 1: and made a made a extra money. I always back
Speaker 1: when planes were full all the time, I loved getting bumped,
Speaker 1: bumpitty bump. I loved it because you get a little
Speaker 1: extra phony money future trips. It's the way to do
Speaker 1: it unless you really have to be somewhere. All right,
Speaker 1: Charlie in Memphis and he says, uh, what the hell
Speaker 1: do you mean by salad days? He says, what the
Speaker 1: hell do you mean by salad days? Since I'm not
Speaker 1: a degenerate gambler, how does plus or minus one fifty
Speaker 1: or any other number equate to the percentage of odds?
Speaker 1: All right, so you've got two things here, and well
Speaker 1: I'll hold your hand and I'll walk you through these
Speaker 1: two things. Now, as far as the salad days, that
Speaker 1: is actually showing how smart I am I'm when I
Speaker 1: use the term salladays. That is a Shakespearean expression. Salad
Speaker 1: days goes back to Shakespeare, and it's from one of
Speaker 1: Shakespeare's places. It means a younger point in your life. Uh,
Speaker 1: innocence in discretion, Uh, those type of things. Uh. You
Speaker 1: know like Tom Brady, you would say his salad days
Speaker 1: were with the Patriots even though he just won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but his glory days were were a few
Speaker 1: years ago. So that it's just another way. It's a
Speaker 1: cute way of saying you were better then. You know
Speaker 1: my salad days when I was doing local mid days
Speaker 1: in l A. That is, you know that those are
Speaker 1: my salad days. Yeah, not working with you. As far
Speaker 1: as the odds are concerned, well, plus minus the way
Speaker 1: this works, I'll give you the Simpleton version as I
Speaker 1: know it. So minus would be the favorite, right minus me.
Speaker 1: So like if I if it was minus one fifty,
Speaker 1: that would imply there's a sixty percent chance that something's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, that a team is gonna win the game.
Speaker 1: So and then the underdog is the plus. So if
Speaker 1: it's plus one fifty, that implies that there's only a
Speaker 1: forty percent chance. So that's that's how that works. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can go as high as you want. You know,
Speaker 1: you can go. If it's plus three thousand, that would
Speaker 1: mean there's only a three percent chance, and obviously if
Speaker 1: it's minus three thousand, there's almost a ninety seven percent
Speaker 1: chance of something happening. Well, again, that's the those are
Speaker 1: the implied odds. And obviously they set the line the casino,
Speaker 1: the sports book. They just want equal money. They don't
Speaker 1: care who wins. They want to win and the way
Speaker 1: they win. They set the opening line. It's the gambling
Speaker 1: public that actually establishes the final line, and if you
Speaker 1: bet too much on either side, they'll adjust the line
Speaker 1: to try to get people to bet the other way.
Speaker 1: And then don't forget for the gambling purposes, if it's
Speaker 1: minus one fifty, you have to bet a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars to win one hundred dollars. And if you
Speaker 1: bet one hundred dollars and it's plus one fifty and
Speaker 1: you win, you get paid out a hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think that's quite the If
Speaker 1: you bet a hundred, yeah, well you have to, you
Speaker 1: would win a hundred dollar bet the payout, you would
Speaker 1: win sixty six you bet if you bet a minus
Speaker 1: one fifty, right, if you bet a hundred dollars on
Speaker 1: a minus one fifty, you would win. The payout would
Speaker 1: be a hundred and sixty six point six seven, So
Speaker 1: you would win sixty six dollars and sixty seven. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But what what I'm saying is you'd have to bet a
Speaker 1: hundred fifty dollars to win a hundred dollars. Uh, no,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? I don't think you're right. Yes,
Speaker 1: if it's minus one fifty, you have to bet, you
Speaker 1: have to bet a hundred fifty dollars to win a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Yes, yes, you're wrong. I'm not wrong, all right.
Speaker 1: And what was the other question? Was that I think
Speaker 1: those are both all right? Uh? Let's see here. I
Speaker 1: think this is car those in Houston. I think I
Speaker 1: didn't write down the name bad job by me. Maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't put the name in here with me. I
Speaker 1: didn't put it in there. Uh, he says, Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: have you heard any news about Oh, this is not
Speaker 1: from Cross, it from somebody else. Have you heard of
Speaker 1: any news about what ballparks may have fans of this season.
Speaker 1: If so, any potential news of a possible Stros booing trip, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. You know, Baseball starting here soon,
Speaker 1: spring training starting, and I have not seen the list
Speaker 1: of who's in and who's out. I would like to
Speaker 1: think that if even New York is going to allow
Speaker 1: fans at games, they announced this week the King of
Speaker 1: New York that they're going to allow the Dictator. There's
Speaker 1: gonna allow ten percent attendants and sporting events in those cities.
Speaker 1: So I'd hope that the Yankees and Mets will have
Speaker 1: some fans. I would assume that Texas they could have
Speaker 1: had fans last year, but Baseball did not allow it.
Speaker 1: So I would assume that Houston and and also the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers will have have fans. The teams in Florida,
Speaker 1: who generally don't have fans, will have fans. I would
Speaker 1: think anywhere below the Mason Dixon line you're gonna have
Speaker 1: some level of fans, which is like the Astros. You
Speaker 1: go down the list there the teams in the South
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds combat. But I haven't planned a booing trip.
Speaker 1: I'd like to do that. That would be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. How about the renovated Dodgers Stadium for the
Speaker 1: season and no fans have been allowed in Dodgers state.
Speaker 1: And they spent a ton of money redoing the outfield,
Speaker 1: the pavilions at Dodger Stadium and no fans allowed in.
Speaker 1: They did that for the All Star Game, which they
Speaker 1: didn't have. Likes Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts rights and says,
Speaker 1: can you pay off your teas regarding your dust up
Speaker 1: with t o Also have you had any other memorable
Speaker 1: confrontations with in the past while interviewing celebrities. Of course, Uh,
Speaker 1: we've gone through some of those. I had. There was
Speaker 1: a baseball player named Tony Phillips that wanted to fight me.
Speaker 1: He was playing for the Angels they were collapsing in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties, and I asked him questions he didn't like.
Speaker 1: He wanted to punch me. There there was a famous
Speaker 1: NBA player from years gone by, Benoit Benjamin, who also
Speaker 1: wanted to punch me. Matt Williams, the former San Francisco
Speaker 1: Giant third basement He was playing for the Diamondbacks of
Speaker 1: the time. He got into it with me. Todd Hunley,
Speaker 1: former met catcher, he was playing for the Dodgers. He
Speaker 1: got upset with me. But the ship, the one with
Speaker 1: t O, was actually at a Clippers game on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: This is when t O was suspended from the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: He was he was in the doghouse in philadelph Remember
Speaker 1: that was the whole working out on the front lawn
Speaker 1: if you're old enough to remember that he was. He
Speaker 1: was working out and doing interviews and it was very
Speaker 1: odd and awkward. Well after that, he came to l
Speaker 1: A and he was at a Clipper game and they
Speaker 1: were playing, I believe, the Atlanta Hawks on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: And so I was doing a show with Chris Smiers
Speaker 1: at the time on Fox Sports Radio, and I attempted
Speaker 1: to very politely go up to t O and ask
Speaker 1: him to come on the radio show as a guest,
Speaker 1: because I thought he would have been a good guest.
Speaker 1: He was in the news a lot. We were talking
Speaker 1: about him every day anyway, and t O was a
Speaker 1: complete douche nozzle and then proceeded to yell at me
Speaker 1: and tell me to contact his publicist. And I remembers
Speaker 1: like pointing out, well, why why would I need to
Speaker 1: talk to your publicist. I'm right your face to face here.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're belly to belly. What's the I mean,
Speaker 1: why do I need to talk to somebody else? Can't
Speaker 1: you take care of your own business? And uh, he
Speaker 1: didn't appreciate that, and and then that was it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my TEO story. Emmett, the blind Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington, said,
Speaker 1: why does Gagon hate recording the Fifth Hour podcast? All right,
Speaker 1: you want to answer that? Blind Emmett, blind Sea kind
Speaker 1: of a comment is that? What kind of a question
Speaker 1: is that? I think it's a good question. It's a
Speaker 1: question that people want to know. I mean this, you
Speaker 1: come in here, that people were giving back. It's an
Speaker 1: act of public service when you get paid a lot
Speaker 1: for this, which I think is the answer to the question.
Speaker 1: But come in here and uh, you know you're giving
Speaker 1: back to the world. You're making people like that guy
Speaker 1: in Kansas, right, the guy running around there Kevin and Kands,
Speaker 1: you're making him feel better. That's different. Though he appreciates it,
Speaker 1: I get the sense that certain people don't appreciate it
Speaker 1: at all. There's always a certain percentage of assholes. Would
Speaker 1: people actually appreciate the podcast versus do not appreciate the
Speaker 1: fact that we're coming in here extra and that I'm
Speaker 1: getting no sleep on day to come in and record
Speaker 1: the podcast when I'm supposed to be resting. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's one of these things that people
Speaker 1: just take for granted. Yeah, Like it's I think it's
Speaker 1: one of the things that you just think happens. Like
Speaker 1: you think, you know, some people just show up. And
Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time getting ready for the
Speaker 1: show and not bragging or whatever. But it's you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people think you just roll in there
Speaker 1: and talk about sports and there's no preparation and all that,
Speaker 1: or you come in and do the podcast, and so
Speaker 1: this is like it's just kind of there. It's kind
Speaker 1: of it's it's one of the things. And I said this,
Speaker 1: and I talked to Rob Parker's class at USC. I said,
Speaker 1: the thing about radio and broadcasting is it's once it
Speaker 1: becomes ingrained in your life, it's part of your routine,
Speaker 1: but you don't appreciate, right, It's like you just expected
Speaker 1: to be there when you need it, like you know what,
Speaker 1: and then like you know, your fans, your fan of
Speaker 1: the show, you listen to it, you know it's there.
Speaker 1: You might not listen every day, and some days you
Speaker 1: probably don't listen. But if you wanted to listen, you
Speaker 1: know it's there, but you don't know what goes into it.
Speaker 1: Not that we're like changing the world and reinventing the
Speaker 1: wheel here, we're not. It's not a new mouse trap.
Speaker 1: It's the same mouse trap. I am it also asked
Speaker 1: he's the blind Stak fan from Olympia, Washington, and he says,
Speaker 1: if you could have a Mallard burrito, what would be
Speaker 1: in it? Oh, I'd like a Mala burrito. It would
Speaker 1: be a big, oversized burrito. Massive and uh, well, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty simple with the burrito. And now remember the chef
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. He did not respond, by the way,
Speaker 1: when he asked what ingredients we would put in the
Speaker 1: food dish, he did not respond, So I don't think
Speaker 1: he liked the increase. But the Mallar burrito obviously be um,
Speaker 1: you know, a meat based burrito with a lot of cheese.
Speaker 1: I'd I'd have garlic, bell peppers, a lot of bell
Speaker 1: peppers in there, some spicy hot salsa. Uh, a little rice,
Speaker 1: not too much rice, because I don't one of the
Speaker 1: problems with the rice and the burrito. Rice is so cheap,
Speaker 1: they often put too much rice in there. There's not
Speaker 1: a it's there's a proper ratio when you have rice
Speaker 1: and the burrito. And my experiences often they put way
Speaker 1: too much rice in the burrito and there's not enough
Speaker 1: meat in the burrito. So but that's that's it. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much. You know, a really hot spicy salsa.
Speaker 1: Um a meat or chicken. I do chicken. I do chicken. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then you you have the cheese, you have the
Speaker 1: the bell pepper, the garlic, and I think that would
Speaker 1: be a wonderful, wonderful burrito. Sounds good. What would the
Speaker 1: gascon Barrie, you love burrito. You eat those breakfast burritos,
Speaker 1: that's your right, Yeah, I think I would go. I'd
Speaker 1: go mixed meat. So I do chicken and Carna soda
Speaker 1: for sure. Mixed meat. Is that a mismatch? Is that
Speaker 1: Marcel and Brooklyn? Miss? I mean, they got a bunch
Speaker 1: of places that do mixed meat. So I'll surprise you
Speaker 1: didn't say like carnetas'd be like more of a port guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because when you get oh, Fred Witch
Speaker 1: mccad um, tetos tetos. Yeah, you go, don't you go
Speaker 1: carnitas or you go chicken. They don't have no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I just eat the taco I don't know. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: mystery meat. Whatever is the shredded beef. That's what it is,
Speaker 1: like beef. Yeah, they can't go roll with sauce, of
Speaker 1: course I like that and then probably throw some some bacon,
Speaker 1: some sausage, and maybe some eggs in it. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: burrito is better than your burrito. Hey man, we're in California.
Speaker 1: We can't go wrong. We can't go wrong with Mexican
Speaker 1: food in southern California, all right. Jeff from Clarksville, Indiana,
Speaker 1: across the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, says he's back again.
Speaker 1: He says a favorite cartoon as a child, Transformers Anything
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning, that was a big deal. And
Speaker 1: as an adult looking back on it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the day you could sleep and as
Speaker 1: a kid, but Saturday morning cartoons a lot of juice.
Speaker 1: We're awesome, We're amazing. But I you know, I think
Speaker 1: the cartoons were like the flint Stones, the Jetsons during
Speaker 1: the week, like Tom and Jerry cartoons, the Looney Tunes
Speaker 1: with the road Winner and the Coyote, and like, uh,
Speaker 1: who's the guy the red the redhead with the gun
Speaker 1: in the Looney Tunes they got they took the gun
Speaker 1: away from him now because everyone's woke. Yeah, I forget
Speaker 1: the character, but like those and then like Fat Fat
Speaker 1: Albert on the weekends we saw some of that. Um
Speaker 1: the superhero cartoons, g I Joe, I loved iled all those.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, but I guess you say
Speaker 1: only two Jetson's Flintstones. I watched those a lot. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ah right, what else do we have here? Ramon in
Speaker 1: Virginia Beach? Right? Since this, do you think the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl was rigged? I know you're not a conspiracy theorist,
Speaker 1: but if you were, uh, well, listen, I I've said
Speaker 1: this on the show Ramon that I'm nine no, but
Speaker 1: I leave a five percent window open. It's one of
Speaker 1: the things I often bring up as a conversation I
Speaker 1: had with High Tower from the Police Academy movies. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he had played with the Baltimore Colts. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Bubba Smith, better known as High Tower from the
Speaker 1: Police Academy trilogies, and he swore that that was a
Speaker 1: fixed that he lost the Super Bowl to Joe Namath
Speaker 1: in Bowl three. He was nineteen sixty nine, right around
Speaker 1: the nineteen Yeah, so anyway, he claimed it was fixed,
Speaker 1: and and other other people Dwight Smith, who played with
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and had a bunch of interceptions in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl just this last ten days or so, said
Speaker 1: that's the same thing. The only thing gives me reason, well,
Speaker 1: not the only thing. The main reason I don't believe
Speaker 1: a hundred percent or you know, I'm only at five
Speaker 1: percent is I just think it would have gotten out more,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like people can't keep secrets.
Speaker 1: People can't keep see especially in the age of social media.
Speaker 1: Although you can censor stuff on social media, so I
Speaker 1: guess there's ways around it. Um anyway, I just keep
Speaker 1: it going here. Who else do we get a few
Speaker 1: more rapid fire? Rat tat tat here, rat tat that,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Right, since it's been your choice sports talk, morning drive, afternoon,
Speaker 1: second shift or overnight or TV, all of it pay
Speaker 1: the same two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year. Well,
Speaker 1: all things beings. I love doing overnight sports radio, um,
Speaker 1: and so I would probably keep doing that. But TV,
Speaker 1: you do like a half hour TV you get paid
Speaker 1: the same, so cost benefit, analysis and effort into it.
Speaker 1: And TV there's like seventeen producers for everything that you
Speaker 1: do in the TV world. So I'd go for quality
Speaker 1: of life. I'd go. TV Mark in Ottawa says, would
Speaker 1: you drink an entire bottle of ranch dressing to guarantee
Speaker 1: the Clippers winning the championship this season? No, I will
Speaker 1: not drink the devil's blood market will not happen, but
Speaker 1: the Clippers will win the championship, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Day from Mill Valley, California. This question for Ben and Gascon.
Speaker 1: Do you ever get approached on the street by Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour podcast groupies wanted to get to know you a
Speaker 1: little bit better? Well, Gascon, I understand does have relations
Speaker 1: with groupies from the podcast. Nothing wrong with that. I
Speaker 1: do not. I do not. I have been occasionally recognized,
Speaker 1: which is odd because how could you recognize someone from
Speaker 1: the radio, especially you, because you've had like three or
Speaker 1: four different bodies in your lifetime. Yes, yes, I actually want.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Tito's Tacos. One time I was at Tito's tacos.
Speaker 1: You should go there every week, twice a week. I
Speaker 1: still go there twice a week, and I lived closer.
Speaker 1: I love that place. That's the holy land of the
Speaker 1: crunchy taco. But that guy and I was like, I
Speaker 1: was online and the guy you Bett Maller, I was like,
Speaker 1: that was awkward. Yeah, I'm here, I'm ordering seventeen tacos. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's me. I'm about to be a big fat, large ass.
Speaker 1: That's me. Welcome in, Yes, all right? Chris in any Town,
Speaker 1: Iowa says, what's your record for predicting Super bowls? Now?
Speaker 1: After failing so badly this year? Chris, guess which finger
Speaker 1: I'm holding up? Chris number one? Nober r J and
Speaker 1: San Antonio says, what is your go to song or
Speaker 1: what was your go to song during high school? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It wasn't really. I wasn't like into I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think I had a song when I was in
Speaker 1: high school. So I'm in the music now. But I've
Speaker 1: I've said I have a weird relationship with music. I
Speaker 1: like it, but I'm not like a music snob, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I like upbeat stuff, but
Speaker 1: then I'll when i'm working, I listened to when I'm
Speaker 1: preparing for the show. I often have classical music on
Speaker 1: just because it's kind of calming and I get stressed out.
Speaker 1: So what about you, guest, gun An he go to music.
Speaker 1: But the Beatles were big when you were in high school, right,
Speaker 1: and I really didn't have any go too, but you know,
Speaker 1: Drolling Stones were popular, I think. I think during football season,
Speaker 1: I was always thunderstruck, right, like pregame rituals. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we lived in a good time though, Like you know,
Speaker 1: Pearl Jam was great, Metallica, Sound Garden, Green Day, Um, Nirvana,
Speaker 1: Like those bands are fucking great. Remember when they came
Speaker 1: out with those uh Stadium Jams CDs. That was like
Speaker 1: it was the jock rock, right, yeah, jock rock and
Speaker 1: they had all of this. It's like a big deal.
Speaker 1: They had all the songs that you would hear at
Speaker 1: stadiums and arenas, and I was like, you were like
Speaker 1: every high school played that as uh for years. Like
Speaker 1: we're gonna play the same music you would get when
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan runs out and is introduced before Chicago Bulls games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's it. We'll put the baby to bed.
Speaker 1: Thank you. All we appreciate. I'll be back on the
Speaker 1: radio tonight. It is presidents that which means Eddie will
Speaker 1: not be in shocker. I don't know who else is
Speaker 1: gonna be with me, but I'll be working and I
Speaker 1: will be honoring my favorite president. You know what my
Speaker 1: favorite president is, I'm gonna say. I'm actually gonna say
Speaker 1: it's George Washington. No, it's a bad job by you.
Speaker 1: Why listen Over the years here I I have said
Speaker 1: the same president year after year, William Howard tag the
Speaker 1: fattest president of them all. You're no longer fat there,
Speaker 1: I know, but I still am. I I feel fat,
Speaker 1: I sell it, and my my inner soul is fat.
Speaker 1: There's only been five presidents that have been obese according
Speaker 1: to that and equated b M. I yeah, there's only
Speaker 1: been five. Uh now this is I don't know if
Speaker 1: Trump qualifies, but this is as a few years ago
Speaker 1: was Taft Cleveland, McKinley, H. Taylor, and Teddy Roosevelt, and
Speaker 1: they said Clinton was over right, he was overweight, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't like obese according to that. So if you
Speaker 1: look at the history of fat presidents, and who doesn't
Speaker 1: want to do that? William Howard Taft was over three
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, and the legendary story is that he got
Speaker 1: stuck in the bathtub at the at the White House.
Speaker 1: Just must be quite embarrassing your buck naked in the
Speaker 1: in the bathtub. There there you go. But I heard
Speaker 1: he was able to dance, you know he could. He
Speaker 1: could do the the you know what on the day
Speaker 1: us for he can shake his ass there the fox trot. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, listen, have a great rest of your day.
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