Speaker 1: If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to 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 our global domination,
Speaker 1: at least we hope of the podcast world, the I
Speaker 1: Heeart family of podcast You can hear The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: every week. You know that already, so you've downloaded it.
Speaker 1: And here we are Tedda with this weekend's edition of
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and David Gascon. Now
Speaker 1: we will have a lot to talk about today. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: it's going to be very interesting to see if we
Speaker 1: can pull this one off. There's some behind the scenes
Speaker 1: maneuvering which you don't need to know about. I was
Speaker 1: told by a program director early in my radio career,
Speaker 1: they don't need to know how you make the hot dogs,
Speaker 1: because no one will eat the hot dogs. But we
Speaker 1: we have some some technical technical issues, as they say,
Speaker 1: But we are here for you, and you don't really
Speaker 1: care about that, and we'll probably edit all that out
Speaker 1: of the podcast anyway, so don't matter. So it'll sound smooth,
Speaker 1: it'll sound clean. But on this edition of the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller, we have Golden Mike Worthy only
Speaker 1: in Burbank. We have an extended study this. We also
Speaker 1: have an extended a segment where you send in questions.
Speaker 1: It's like a rip off of ass Bend. And then
Speaker 1: we also have don't stick to sports. That's a quite
Speaker 1: the menu guess on for today's podcast. We'll see if
Speaker 1: we can actually pull it off, and I think we can,
Speaker 1: especially because I'm loud, proud, and uh in charge and
Speaker 1: you feel like you are fully recuperated from your gall
Speaker 1: bladder misapp well mostly, although my my latest issue is
Speaker 1: that the wound is here healing and I it's at
Speaker 1: the point now where I want to scratch. I want
Speaker 1: to pull this like the wound, the top of the
Speaker 1: wound off me. So you have the stitches that were
Speaker 1: yanked out, But did any of them were in the
Speaker 1: stitches dissolvable stitches? Uh? No, though they were not. They
Speaker 1: they took a bunch of staples in one part of
Speaker 1: my chest and then I had little. The other ones
Speaker 1: are not that big a deal. They are a little, little, small,
Speaker 1: minor incisions, and that those don't bother me. But the
Speaker 1: main one, I just want to take my fingernails and
Speaker 1: pull the scab off. I think it would feel so good. Well,
Speaker 1: don't forget whatever you do this time around with post
Speaker 1: surgery habits. We get to live stream or colonoscopy next year,
Speaker 1: so we're all looking forward to that. Yeah, well that'll
Speaker 1: be It'll be exciting and annual tradition. Ben Maller in
Speaker 1: the I see you, thank you well only working with you,
Speaker 1: and I want to point out I will win some
Speaker 1: kind of award from I Heart Media for coming in
Speaker 1: a day early to do this podcast, because we typically
Speaker 1: record on a certain day, but Gascon decided that he
Speaker 1: had to book something during that window, the holy window.
Speaker 1: The Goldilocks own the podcasting. I love how you take
Speaker 1: shots at some of the broadcasting efforts that I have
Speaker 1: and they don't line up with your with your genre,
Speaker 1: so it is all about me. But I I you
Speaker 1: know Howard Stern wouldn't do this, Colin Cowhard wouldn't do this.
Speaker 1: But here I am. I am able to change my schedule,
Speaker 1: the flexibility, the adaptability that I have to do this.
Speaker 1: Guest guy, I again, Uh, you'll be buying me a
Speaker 1: meal to make up for the inconvenience you have provided me.
Speaker 1: When I look forward to that. Speaking of a meal,
Speaker 1: I'm happy. Well, now we'll get to that. We get
Speaker 1: to that. Don't get ahead of us. All right, let's
Speaker 1: start with the Golden Mic. Everyone wants to know. Guess gun,
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to know. What was it like? Magical Television,
Speaker 1: the podcast Duo United on Camera, the Fox Sports Go app.
Speaker 1: It was an amazingly competitive high school football playoff game
Speaker 1: in southern California with Jay, Sarah and Centennial. And we
Speaker 1: had it last day. We were there out in the
Speaker 1: i E. Just near Riverside calling that game, and I
Speaker 1: guess I thought it went pretty well. The game was terrible,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a pathetically bad game, and but
Speaker 1: I had fun. Yeah. I think in honor of a
Speaker 1: great gymnast, Simone Biles, I think we stuck the landing.
Speaker 1: I think most importantly, if anyone's curious, we did the
Speaker 1: open on one take and one take only, right, which
Speaker 1: is important. I will say. With the open, though, you
Speaker 1: look like you were swimming in your attire. And why
Speaker 1: I was because I have my all my closer from
Speaker 1: when I was like a lot fatter. So I don't
Speaker 1: have any skinny clothes and I won't buy them because
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to lose weight and closer expensive. And
Speaker 1: also I figure my wife's always oh, let school by clothes.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well no, because like last time I lost
Speaker 1: a lot of weight, I bought some new clothes. Then
Speaker 1: I gained the weight back, but I had gotten rid
Speaker 1: of my old close. Well, don't get don't pile the
Speaker 1: weight back on, dummy. Well no, I don't plan on
Speaker 1: piling the weight back on. I didn't plan on piling
Speaker 1: the weight back on when I lost the weight initially.
Speaker 1: But most people lose a lot of weight, they gained
Speaker 1: chunk of it back, and that's what happened to me.
Speaker 1: But now I've lost most not most, but a lot
Speaker 1: of what I had gained back. Yeah, And just to
Speaker 1: tell the audience of how boogie you are, you actually
Speaker 1: shoot up to the game with a stylist and a
Speaker 1: makeup artist, which is bullshit. I did not. I had
Speaker 1: my posse with me. I had the mouther posse that
Speaker 1: was keeping me a company there and follow me around.
Speaker 1: And I'm very happy to report to the militia behind
Speaker 1: the scenes that Gascon almost got his car towed at
Speaker 1: the high school football game, but was able to talk
Speaker 1: the rent a cop to not tow his car in
Speaker 1: a heated conversation. This is what I showed up to.
Speaker 1: I go there, I park, and Gascon is like nose
Speaker 1: to nose with his rent a cop who's ready to
Speaker 1: throw down. And you know you call, call the police
Speaker 1: in there, call a tow truck and have Gascon's car
Speaker 1: tot away again. Parking, gas guy, he parking is the
Speaker 1: devil for you. Well, he asked what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what are you doing here? He's like
Speaker 1: who are you? And I'm I said, I'm David. Who
Speaker 1: are you? Why are you parking here? And I said,
Speaker 1: well because I was told to park here, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna park here. And they said, well, I don't know
Speaker 1: who you are. I was like, I don't know who
Speaker 1: you are either, What do you want? And then I
Speaker 1: told him I work eventually worked for Fox. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: you didn't say that, and I said, well you didn't ask,
Speaker 1: but he went on his way. You did escalate the
Speaker 1: situation though I probably did. But the fact that he
Speaker 1: didn't know what was going on with somebody else that
Speaker 1: he works with allowed us to park there. It was
Speaker 1: a little aggravating. Well, I was just happy. I felt
Speaker 1: like I won the day because they didn't have to
Speaker 1: pay for parking. The fact that they charged your welcome
Speaker 1: high school football game, You're welcome, he's fascinating. Charge of
Speaker 1: the gate for people to enter, they charge for food,
Speaker 1: and I did. I did something for you, Ben that
Speaker 1: you have never done for me. I got you free parking.
Speaker 1: I got you compensated for your work. I want to
Speaker 1: tell you the people that run the Fox Sports go
Speaker 1: out for that company, they have not sent a check it.
Speaker 1: I do not have any compensations, so it is just
Speaker 1: hearsay that I am going to end up getting paid.
Speaker 1: There is no actual factual check that has arrived yet
Speaker 1: with the dollar amount said to be paid to me
Speaker 1: for that broadcast. For the record, you need to fill
Speaker 1: out of W nine and an invoice, and if you're
Speaker 1: not too lazy to do that and email it back
Speaker 1: to the people that I directed them to, un that
Speaker 1: will happen. I never got an email with the w
Speaker 1: nine form to fill out. It's online. You could just
Speaker 1: go to www dot gov dot com. I'm I needed
Speaker 1: handed to me. That's how I operate. I needed That's
Speaker 1: how you want to You want to script handed to
Speaker 1: you so you can what I want to be like you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I know that whole opening you scripted it out. Man.
Speaker 1: You had it all right there on a teleprompter. I mean,
Speaker 1: who do use a teleprompter for a live sports But
Speaker 1: we did not have a gas Gard. You're like Obama.
Speaker 1: We could teleprompter reading off the prompter. No, no, your
Speaker 1: nicknames prompter. That's your new nickname prompter gas Yeah, prompter.
Speaker 1: That's how you do it. Man. I will uh, I
Speaker 1: will acknowledge the fact that the the hat and the
Speaker 1: black and blue checkered plaid uh coat, we're dashing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that. Like if I if I you know,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the future. Who knows. But if I
Speaker 1: do more of that stuff anywhere, I would like to
Speaker 1: get more. I want to channel my inner. The late
Speaker 1: Craig Sager and we talked about it. We kidded around
Speaker 1: about that last week and Don Cherry the outrageous outfits
Speaker 1: on television. I think that's the way to go. I
Speaker 1: want to point out though, that we promised I was
Speaker 1: not allowed to do the colowns were slide. We wanted
Speaker 1: to do the colwns were slide. I had practiced the
Speaker 1: colin worst slide. I had practiced the kind of lean
Speaker 1: in and smile goofy um. But the setup would not
Speaker 1: allow that. The way the cameras were set up, and
Speaker 1: the way the chair, the chair didn't roll like Collinsworth
Speaker 1: has a chair that rolls in the press box. We
Speaker 1: we had these little stools that we were sitting on,
Speaker 1: so I I could not like move the stool over
Speaker 1: and slide it. Even though there was that nice fake
Speaker 1: grass there, that plastic grass that they had at high
Speaker 1: school State. That was the only distippointing part of the night.
Speaker 1: That and you could not show if your your football socks.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I had a special football socks because I'm
Speaker 1: a baller, and I had those on. And my pants
Speaker 1: are so baggy you couldn't even rock them up so
Speaker 1: we could take a picture of it. Well, I could have,
Speaker 1: if somebody had asked, I would have pulled the pants
Speaker 1: because it looked like you were wearing pajamas. Those things
Speaker 1: are so big and baggy. Wow, thank you for that,
Speaker 1: I mean my vanity. I really appreciate that. But you're
Speaker 1: like the equivalent of the Josh Baskins in uh in
Speaker 1: Big when the kid turns to Tom Hanks and Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks Hanks turns young again and he's got that giant
Speaker 1: suit on. That was you. Well, I have turned young again,
Speaker 1: so you feel young. Let's go through the list you have. Yes,
Speaker 1: you had two thousand nineteen. You have bit your tongue
Speaker 1: making a pizza. That's right, burned and bit my tongue.
Speaker 1: Don't get that. That is correct? Car hit. Yes, just
Speaker 1: you got the matamobile back you were you were makeup
Speaker 1: to a prep game high school games. Had been to
Speaker 1: a high school game since I was in high school.
Speaker 1: Probably hadn't done a TV game like that. I got
Speaker 1: a TV at NBC years ago, but I that was
Speaker 1: a studio show. I had not done like a since
Speaker 1: I was at saddle Back College. I think was the
Speaker 1: last time I did a sporting of it on television.
Speaker 1: Like that's good, Yeah, it's it's been been a long
Speaker 1: time now. The letter grade, um, I would I see,
Speaker 1: I feel like you get like an A minus. I
Speaker 1: would give myself like a B plus. But my mate,
Speaker 1: see you do this all the time, like this is
Speaker 1: your you love hanging out of high schools and stuff
Speaker 1: like you're a creeper, you're hanging out of high schools
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So so I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: This was new to me and you kind of knew
Speaker 1: the formatics of getting information. That was the hard to me.
Speaker 1: That was the worst because there was not a lot
Speaker 1: of this high school football. Yeah, you'd have to really
Speaker 1: appreciate what I do for research. Not really, I don't
Speaker 1: appreciate it, but I'm just saying that I I don't
Speaker 1: I went when I when I do, uh, And in
Speaker 1: the show, I I feel like I know everything. Are
Speaker 1: most things about the teams we talked about. In pro
Speaker 1: pro sports and big time college sports, the information is accessible.
Speaker 1: There was no information in place because a teenagers, you know,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be a lot of information about these guys
Speaker 1: playing high school football. So that part kind of was like, uh.
Speaker 1: And I did as much as I could define information.
Speaker 1: And the coaches were very nice and they were cool
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but does help. You had a
Speaker 1: former NFL player as one of the head coaches. Which
Speaker 1: is great in Pat Harlow. Yeah, Pat Harlow was very nice.
Speaker 1: This team lost fifty six to nothing. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they that come to Jesus. Moment for me that night
Speaker 1: was as soon as I mentioned the word of the
Speaker 1: name general booty, because then you went on this, let's
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden, name off Chubby Cox. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fair Dick, and you on a fair hooker, not fair Dick,
Speaker 1: Fair Dicks. That's a that's a basketball player. Fair hooker
Speaker 1: is a football wasn't Pole? Also, we didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: think I mentioned Dick Pole. That's a good one. Dick
Speaker 1: Paul the old pitching coach, Rusty Kohn's many people pronounced
Speaker 1: it rusty you know what, But uh yeah, I could
Speaker 1: have done that. Also, you did that for me during
Speaker 1: a high school game. That that's amazing. Well, I I
Speaker 1: know you'll you'll get the ratings and all that because
Speaker 1: it was on the Fox Sports go Up. One thing
Speaker 1: about the Internet is you have the analytics on exactly
Speaker 1: how many people are watching. But I'd be I'd love
Speaker 1: to know. This is one of the great acid test
Speaker 1: guests on here. This high school football game, which is
Speaker 1: a Golden Mic worthy event, is that if we actually
Speaker 1: had anyone watching in the fourth quarter, that is amazing,
Speaker 1: because I mean it was it was the game was
Speaker 1: over at halftime, the game was probably over at the
Speaker 1: end of the first quarter. And uh. But for anyone
Speaker 1: to tune in on a Friday night for a high
Speaker 1: school football game, you know, and you know there were
Speaker 1: people on the mall like this, like an ascid test
Speaker 1: for the mallam lish like your p one. Just by
Speaker 1: downloading this podcast, you're at a higher level, right because
Speaker 1: I mean, listen the year go out of your way.
Speaker 1: It's not the radio show. It's different, so I have
Speaker 1: to download it. So you're at a different level just
Speaker 1: downloading this. But then to spend your very valuable Friday
Speaker 1: night watching a high school football game, where chances are
Speaker 1: you don't have no interest at all, because you even
Speaker 1: you need Southern California, any of you're in Southern California.
Speaker 1: You didn't go to those high school So who do
Speaker 1: the f cares? And uh? And in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and I was very proud, ye when I act Gascon,
Speaker 1: I'm tired when I Gascon when they put the graphic
Speaker 1: up and it said, asked Ben, we didn't we did
Speaker 1: a rogue hostile takeover of the high school football broadcast
Speaker 1: on the Fox Sports Go app and they we did
Speaker 1: ask Ben, we did a few questions in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: That was great. That warmed my heart. You're you're welcome.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. You're you're welcome. Otherwise I think you well,
Speaker 1: remember I told you, I said, otherwise I'm going to
Speaker 1: just leave. Remember I said, because it's fifty six to nothing,
Speaker 1: I have things to do and no one's watching. So
Speaker 1: but but fortunately, and that's the other things. Unlike these
Speaker 1: other guys. You know Joe Buck, when he does a
Speaker 1: game and it's like twenty eight to nothing at halftime,
Speaker 1: Joe Buck gives seven different ways the other team can
Speaker 1: come back. I said, the game's over. I mean we
Speaker 1: pretty much. I didn't. I didn't dance around and say, Hey,
Speaker 1: this so and so is gonna come back. No, I
Speaker 1: the game. So there's a lot of language that's used
Speaker 1: for pregame, postgame, and even in game analysis and commentary.
Speaker 1: But the thing that you hit the nail right on
Speaker 1: the head is one of the top players for j
Speaker 1: Sarah was out and you sit in the open, Well
Speaker 1: that sucks. Yeah, yeah, I got that from sports cliche
Speaker 1: dot com. I got that from sports sa dot com.
Speaker 1: That's where I learned that from. But but yeah, you
Speaker 1: got sports you got sports cliche dot com open during
Speaker 1: the game on my laptop. By the way, no bad
Speaker 1: job by Centennial High School. No workable WiFi for the
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Go crew, so I had to use my
Speaker 1: cell phone data or data to connect, which was kind
Speaker 1: of an annoyance, but that that did happen. So but anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. It was fun, had a good time.
Speaker 1: You're very good gas go on. I don't want to
Speaker 1: give you too many compliments. You already have a big ego. Uh.
Speaker 1: People were asking me on email, you're gonna do this again?
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know. That's up to guess Gone,
Speaker 1: that's up to what kind of muscle he has. I
Speaker 1: also would like to point out to those that think
Speaker 1: I should do in every high school game, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do every high school game. I don't. My
Speaker 1: wife would kill me if I did that every week
Speaker 1: because I already worked five nights a week. I don't
Speaker 1: see your five nights a week. So if I did
Speaker 1: that on every Friday, I would probably have to get
Speaker 1: a divorce. So I don't want to do it, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind doing it, like every once in a while,
Speaker 1: like maybe once a month or something like that. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind doing that, but that's out of my control.
Speaker 1: But it was fun. I had a good time. It
Speaker 1: was a good time. It was an opportunity for your
Speaker 1: wife to see you out of your own element and
Speaker 1: into a different broadcast medium. Broadcast medium because you're, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're in a in a studio here at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, so there's not really an opportunity for her
Speaker 1: to come in and see you what you do. And
Speaker 1: when you're over at NBC, when you're on the East Coast,
Speaker 1: she couldn't go out there to see you. So this
Speaker 1: is a little bit different of a flavor. And as
Speaker 1: she said, it got you out of your comfort zone.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, I know it did. It did give
Speaker 1: me out of my comfort zone. And the cool thing
Speaker 1: about and I know I remember this when I was
Speaker 1: doing stuff in college, doing games on local cable television
Speaker 1: back when that was a thing before the internet took
Speaker 1: over and all that. But back in college, I was like,
Speaker 1: when the only time you do a sporting event on TV,
Speaker 1: the only time you're really on TV is the open
Speaker 1: and like at the end of the beginning of the
Speaker 1: next quarter, you know when you put you on camera. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: just like radio, you know you're not on camera, so
Speaker 1: don't matter. You can just say whatever you want and
Speaker 1: you know there's photos, but you can talk. I had
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun guests on with the replace,
Speaker 1: like recapping the play I I felt like mad I
Speaker 1: gave some boom bams. I gave some of those in
Speaker 1: the replay game. I had a fun time with that.
Speaker 1: That was good and I didn't step on you. I
Speaker 1: got some grades from from my from my dad, you
Speaker 1: know he's he's big in your old man watched the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gives some feedback and says, you guys had really
Speaker 1: good chemistry. I'm not surprised. Um, I think you should be. Uh,
Speaker 1: you should be the number two on his overnight show
Speaker 1: Money through Friday. Now you we've already tell your pops
Speaker 1: that you do not do overnights. You you're you cannot
Speaker 1: your body cannot handle the overnight lifestyle, the grind. We
Speaker 1: we overnight people are a special breed and yeah, not
Speaker 1: sober well, I don't know about that. The people that
Speaker 1: call up many of them are not sober, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, they're asleep, they're asleep, Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: the people that call are usually asleep. And then you've
Speaker 1: got that little pussy willow Chris from Houston. So that
Speaker 1: guy's been out of control. Man. I had an epiphany
Speaker 1: the other day. We we've been battling about the Astros
Speaker 1: for the last like ten days or whatever that since
Speaker 1: that story came out in the Athletic. My theory is
Speaker 1: that Chris is he's just being a troll that he
Speaker 1: doesn't really believe. He said earlier this week that there's
Speaker 1: no evidence against the Astros, no credible evidence against He
Speaker 1: asked us, there's hundreds of videos, there's a whistleblower who
Speaker 1: said what happened. The Commissioner of Baseball is pretty much,
Speaker 1: you know, beating around the bush about what exactly happened. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's no evidence. I think he's just doing that because
Speaker 1: he gets a rise out of me. I think that's
Speaker 1: what's going on with that whack of doodle. That's the
Speaker 1: only deflection he has right now. Because the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: got slapped around on Week eleven by the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: So he's got nothing else to chewing. Well, he's got
Speaker 1: the Rockets. You've got the rockets. It's early in the season.
Speaker 1: He can't talk about the Rockets for the NBA, And
Speaker 1: well you can't according to the ratings. No one's watching
Speaker 1: the NBA. I mean, I feel bad, like I I
Speaker 1: like talking mixing in some NBA with my football, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I feel I feel like I shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: It's because no one's watching these games. Like they're getting
Speaker 1: ratings that are there. They're going down to the level
Speaker 1: where it's like less than a million people watching a
Speaker 1: TNT game that was that almost never happened. And that's
Speaker 1: why Sunday Night I told you, or at least I
Speaker 1: asked you if you can do an opening monologue of
Speaker 1: Jay Sarah and Centennial and how that game wrapped up,
Speaker 1: but you refused to do so. So well, I put
Speaker 1: that in the sixth Hour with Ben Maller, This X
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and Blind Scott, that podcast, very
Speaker 1: popular podcast we had, So you had people from the UK,
Speaker 1: from New Zealand, from Australia, anywhere else outside of the
Speaker 1: United States, Canada. We had. Yeah, well these people I
Speaker 1: don't know how many of them actually watched. I had
Speaker 1: people R s v P like, say, how I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch him? So and so we had people that were
Speaker 1: apparently unable to watch because the Fox Sports Go app
Speaker 1: is only available in certain places. That's true. I sent
Speaker 1: it to I sent to Terry, and Terry's in the
Speaker 1: UK and Terry in England. Yeah, yeah, he can't access
Speaker 1: that stuff. So I sent him a link to it
Speaker 1: and he used the VPN access the UH club stream.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, no, no, it was cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: Terry's a big he's a super fan. Plus he's got
Speaker 1: a time zone advantage and all that. It's much. This
Speaker 1: was not an overnight. They didn't play the high school
Speaker 1: game to accommodate me. If it had accommodated me, it
Speaker 1: would have been much later than the kickoff because I
Speaker 1: had to deal with something I don't normally deal with,
Speaker 1: rush hour Los Angeles traffic to get out to that
Speaker 1: high school football game. And I'm so happy I work
Speaker 1: overnights and don't have to deal with that. What an nightmare?
Speaker 1: What an effing nightmare it is. I played pea soup
Speaker 1: or letter. I played the letter game with the and
Speaker 1: the number game with the It was like Bingo with
Speaker 1: the freeways. That's well, did you have any big, big lifters,
Speaker 1: big swingers that were watching this game? Any TV example? Well,
Speaker 1: I know my friends Sports with Coleman had sent a
Speaker 1: link to Kenny Albert from from Fox to watch the game.
Speaker 1: Kenny as always lives in a hotel room because he's
Speaker 1: does a game every night. He's in a different city,
Speaker 1: whether it's hockey, basketball, or football. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Kenny actually watched, but he he had a link, he
Speaker 1: had an option to watch. And then other than that,
Speaker 1: you know, there are some super p ones that work
Speaker 1: in the big powerful positions and meet I don't know
Speaker 1: how many of them actually watched. They did they, that's
Speaker 1: just put it. They didn't offer me a contract after
Speaker 1: the game. They didn't send me an email saying hey,
Speaker 1: we'd love to hire you. You're wonderful. Did they ask
Speaker 1: for my contact information? They don't know who you are?
Speaker 1: They they do not know who you are. I'm sorry there,
Speaker 1: who's that? Who's that? What's that? What's his name? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to do as much as I could to
Speaker 1: publicize my myself because half the game was spent plugging
Speaker 1: your show I know, yeah, I was very I was
Speaker 1: very happy. You know, sometimes people aren't very generous. But
Speaker 1: you probably figured since it's like, you know, thirty five nothing,
Speaker 1: maybe we should just help out and promote something here.
Speaker 1: Uh But and before I forget, I want to get
Speaker 1: onto it only in Burbank. We'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a minute. But I would like to point out that
Speaker 1: after the gate, we were already out in the I E.
Speaker 1: So we went deep in the I E. We went
Speaker 1: into the land that gave us Kawhi Leonard Riverside, and
Speaker 1: I hadn't been to Riverside in a long time. Is
Speaker 1: there actually a river in Riverside, South California? It's probably
Speaker 1: dried up, Okay, because I've never seen an actual river.
Speaker 1: And if your town's name Riverside, there must be a majestic,
Speaker 1: beautiful river. There was none I did not see. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we were hanging out in Riverside. We went to the
Speaker 1: cheesecake factory in Riverside. A fine okay, very nice people
Speaker 1: there at the cheesecake factory in Riverside. And I paid
Speaker 1: for the meal. You paid. I paid for the meal
Speaker 1: you paid off a bet. You got your little cheese
Speaker 1: steak cheese steak, and you devoured that. You were like
Speaker 1: you had you you hadn't eaten in days. That's what
Speaker 1: happens when one of us actually says that they're gonna
Speaker 1: fast and ends up fasting sheets and eats at twelve
Speaker 1: o'clock in the middle of the day. Yeah. Well, one
Speaker 1: of us is married and their wife dragged them to
Speaker 1: a family lunch with the in laws to have a
Speaker 1: nice meal, and I was forced. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just have a glass of water and I'll
Speaker 1: have some nice conversation. No, you're eating, so I had
Speaker 1: to eat, and I gave you some great apple cake
Speaker 1: as well. When oh my god, that apple cake was amazing.
Speaker 1: We talked about that in the game if you watched it,
Speaker 1: but that you gotta get more of that. Man, you
Speaker 1: gotta sell that stuff, is what you gotta do. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's in that, but that's amazing, that apple cake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I think that kind of rivals and anything that
Speaker 1: Tammy has gotten us throughout the years because that that
Speaker 1: dessert was fan plastic. Well, Tammy's looked U up. You know.
Speaker 1: I had a listener send me a whole bag of
Speaker 1: Cadbury eggs I love Cadbury eggs. Those are wonderful. And
Speaker 1: he's gotten us tarts though and cakes. Oh yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: Tammy had a hook up at this bakery in l A,
Speaker 1: her friends and it's not unfortunately it's not around anymore,
Speaker 1: but they that's the bakery made these amazing cakes back
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, probably why I gained all
Speaker 1: my weight back. We had like a camel cake. Remember
Speaker 1: I did a rant about Adrian Peterson having a camel
Speaker 1: at his birthday party, his thirtieth birthday party, and they
Speaker 1: and she had a cake design with a camel. They
Speaker 1: had to chuck the condor recreation, which was amazing. These
Speaker 1: were works of art, these cakes. And I hope that
Speaker 1: whoever was behind the woman behind that bakery, I hope
Speaker 1: she's doing okay because she's really talented like that. She's
Speaker 1: a really good baker. She should be doing stuff making
Speaker 1: money doing that. That reminds me. Since you love documentary
Speaker 1: so much and we're talking about baking and cooking, you
Speaker 1: need to go on Amazon Prime and watched this documentary
Speaker 1: called Charged Charge. I will leave it at that, but
Speaker 1: you watch it, and if anyone's watched it on Amazon Prime,
Speaker 1: don't spoil it for Ben. Please do not, But it
Speaker 1: is a documentary that as soon as you start watching again,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like, what the funk am I watching?
Speaker 1: But you will know right now I'm watching, I'm going through.
Speaker 1: I love the toys that made us. I just watched
Speaker 1: the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode, which was fascinating. I
Speaker 1: love it. And I'm told that Amazon Prime. I think
Speaker 1: we've talked about this last week somewhere I don't know,
Speaker 1: was here the radio show that a comedian who's a fan. Uh,
Speaker 1: he said that all of the ken Burns documentaries are
Speaker 1: available now on Amazon Prime, and so there's like he
Speaker 1: did one about country music, which is actually more of
Speaker 1: a thing about radio and stuff like that. So I
Speaker 1: am looking forward to getting some of that. But I
Speaker 1: don't have a lot time doing these high school football
Speaker 1: games in the weekend, Guestcott, I did not my My
Speaker 1: documentary watching time went way down because Friday nights I
Speaker 1: usually watch a lot of them, sit around and watch
Speaker 1: a documentary and go do a game and get a
Speaker 1: fifty six and nothing game. I have to I didn't
Speaker 1: actually get paid as much because I would you rather
Speaker 1: do a podcast, and I get paid for that. Well,
Speaker 1: I would never do a podcast. I don't get paid
Speaker 1: for a guest on unless I would. I would never
Speaker 1: do that unless I would do a podcast and not
Speaker 1: get paid a cent on the TV. I'm happy to
Speaker 1: report that. Is that right? We're on Apple TV A
Speaker 1: shout out my homeboys on Apple TV. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: That is good. But we're everywhere, man, We're everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: like that Johnny cash Long everywhere man. Yeah, I've been everywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm on the Dusty win a muck a Road. You're
Speaker 1: a married man. I don't think you want to admit
Speaker 1: that from a national international men like that. But uh,
Speaker 1: there is actually a win a Muckle Road, do you
Speaker 1: know that? That's a famous line and the Johnny cash
Speaker 1: Long it's outside Vegas. And I told my wife next time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Vegas over the the gap might
Speaker 1: take some time off at the end of the year
Speaker 1: and I might might head to Vegas. And I said,
Speaker 1: we gotta. I'm gonna go outside Vegas and go to
Speaker 1: win a Muckle Road just to take a photo with
Speaker 1: the win a Muckle Road. That's what my move's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna eat some chicken fingers with it. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I'm all about the chicken fingers. Man, Why not?
Speaker 1: That's good. I haven't had I had. I had chicken
Speaker 1: fingers with you. It was fine. It was a good meal.
Speaker 1: They were the mist has had a salad. I had
Speaker 1: a California cheesesteak. We had a lot of bread with
Speaker 1: a lot of bread. I devoured the bread. You did
Speaker 1: you love? I love the break. I had no alcohol.
Speaker 1: You should be happy. Yeah, but I want to point out,
Speaker 1: since I had to pay for your meal that it
Speaker 1: actually cut down on how much I made doing the
Speaker 1: high school football game, even though I haven't made anything.
Speaker 1: You paid off the bat. You paid off the bat.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what moving on. Get anything else you want
Speaker 1: to add before we move on. From people that actually
Speaker 1: listened or watched, sestulated, or appeared to we got very
Speaker 1: little fat shaming, which was awesome. Hateful comments. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of comments about my hat. People were fascinated.
Speaker 1: Some said I pulled it off. Other people said I
Speaker 1: should just let my bald head be shown on television.
Speaker 1: So there was that at which was pretty good. And
Speaker 1: again for those of you that have been emailing me,
Speaker 1: I don't know that will ever happen again. It might
Speaker 1: happen again, I don't know, but it's that's up to
Speaker 1: the powers that be, all right, So moving on from that, uh,
Speaker 1: only in burb Bank, Only in bird Bank. So on Saturday,
Speaker 1: the day after our high school game, updating my life.
Speaker 1: My dad is a huge fan of Dennis Praeger, my
Speaker 1: old man, Dennis. So, Dennis Praeger had a documentary that
Speaker 1: came out and it was actually playing in movie theaters,
Speaker 1: but it was very select movie theaters, and it was
Speaker 1: a limited release, and I didn't know how long it
Speaker 1: was going to be in theaters. I didn't have that information.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, I felt like, you know, let me
Speaker 1: do a solid from my old man. Let me let
Speaker 1: me do a solid from my old man. So why don't, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, why don't we go out and and I'll
Speaker 1: take him to see the movie. The problem was it
Speaker 1: was only playing in Burbank, right, only in burb Bank.
Speaker 1: But my dad, who never leaves the Orange County area
Speaker 1: where he lives the o C. Because you know, he's
Speaker 1: old and he doesn't like leaving the o C. He
Speaker 1: very rarely comes up here, et cetera. So so anyway, uh,
Speaker 1: I convinced him to drive to the Mallard mansion, the
Speaker 1: second Mallard mansion. He lives at the original O. G.
Speaker 1: Mallard Mansion. And so he showed up and I drove
Speaker 1: him the rest of the way to Burbank. And it
Speaker 1: was no safe spaces with the documentary. It was Dennis
Speaker 1: Praeger and it was Adam Corolla's documentary. It was about
Speaker 1: the college campuses now and there's anything you don't agree with,
Speaker 1: you want banned from college campuses. And it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I liked the documentary. I thought it was good. My
Speaker 1: dad enjoyed it. He was happy to get out of
Speaker 1: the house and he was really happy. I bought him
Speaker 1: popcorn and paid for the movie. He was very happy
Speaker 1: about that. He enjoyed that very much. Uh. So fine,
Speaker 1: you know, we watched the watch the documentary, did our
Speaker 1: thing and all that and uh and and then so
Speaker 1: we watched it. We had our we had our fun.
Speaker 1: And then afterwards we're walking back the little street fair
Speaker 1: and Burbank, walking around doing that, you know and all that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I go to the parking garage to leave
Speaker 1: the parking garage, and as I am leaving the parking garage.
Speaker 1: I'm stuck in traffic. There was a lot of traffic
Speaker 1: in the parking garage, and hand the god. Driving past
Speaker 1: me in a blue Beamer was Adam Carolla, who had
Speaker 1: been apparently the next showing. Adam was going to give
Speaker 1: a speel about the documentary, but I can't. I went
Speaker 1: to the early showing because that was the only one
Speaker 1: I could make because I had some other plans and
Speaker 1: all that. But yeah, I mean that only happens in Burbank,
Speaker 1: where you can see a documentary where someone is in
Speaker 1: the documentary, and then you know two people, you know,
Speaker 1: semi famous people, and then as you're leaving the parking garage,
Speaker 1: you see the person that was in the documentary. It
Speaker 1: was it's crazy man. The documentary. Yeah, the documentary was
Speaker 1: pretty good. I enjoyed it. You know, I well part
Speaker 1: of it I agree with. I think it's ridiculous. You know,
Speaker 1: my I grew up with disagreement, and I'm fine with disagreement.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with disagreement, and I think it's
Speaker 1: ridiculous the way people react. We had that stupid Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley story earlier this week where someone was told the
Speaker 1: joke by Barkley and tried to make herself the story.
Speaker 1: And these things just annoyed me, So I was I
Speaker 1: did enjoy it. I thought I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: You should check it out. Yes, I think it's still playing, actually,
Speaker 1: if you have a chance. I know you're very busy
Speaker 1: with these high school games, but I commute all around
Speaker 1: the southern California area, so that includes traving Arizona to
Speaker 1: go to go see your ass and certain holiday parties now,
Speaker 1: and uh, I could do that if it's in Burbank,
Speaker 1: It's it's not too far away from our Geico Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio studios, but I can I can certainly do that.
Speaker 1: It's uh, I'm surprised that it's not in many more theaters,
Speaker 1: but it might be now. But I didn't want to
Speaker 1: take the chance because sometimes these things, these documentaries. My wife,
Speaker 1: by the way, doesn't like to watch documentaries in the theater.
Speaker 1: She thinks that it's only for blockbuster movies. You should
Speaker 1: only watch documentaries like a Netflix or Amazon Prime. So
Speaker 1: she she wasn't. She had a baby shower to go
Speaker 1: through anyway, so she she wasn't that into it. Be
Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
Speaker 1: weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. But moving on,
Speaker 1: study this guest. And that's right, everything's working in our
Speaker 1: gast gard and we can move on to study this.
Speaker 1: I know you're excited. Yes, yes, of course, all right,
Speaker 1: these are actual studies and the way this works. I
Speaker 1: love these studies. And we determine on the fifth hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller whether these studies are legit or their bullshit.
Speaker 1: All right, we believe them or not. Now, the first
Speaker 1: study is all about dirty tech. Now, they said tens
Speaker 1: of millions of people carry their smartphones with them obviously everywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have a smart phone, you know
Speaker 1: you're you're going into the bathroom, you're going to the shower,
Speaker 1: you're going to make love, You've got the smartphone right
Speaker 1: next to you. Right, we all do it. And so
Speaker 1: here's the thing, um there, the phone is exposed to
Speaker 1: whatever bacteria we are exposed to, like, and we most
Speaker 1: of us wash our hands, right, yeah, most of us do.
Speaker 1: Ye quoting a new survey of Americans and they're cleaning habits.
Speaker 1: How many what percent give your percentage, what percentage of
Speaker 1: people have never cleaned their phone? What percentage of Americans
Speaker 1: have never cleaned their phone? I'm gonna, I mean, you
Speaker 1: just ruined it. It's not eighty four percent, because you
Speaker 1: gotta remember, people have to admit to it. A lot
Speaker 1: of people want to admit to not cleaning their phone.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, you ruined the bit. That's okay.
Speaker 1: One in four, one in four people have never cleaned
Speaker 1: their phone. One in four, all right, And they say
Speaker 1: they broke it down by gender. It said more than
Speaker 1: one in four men in have never cleaned their phone.
Speaker 1: It's like that one in five women have actually admitted
Speaker 1: to not washing their phone at all. And as far
Speaker 1: as how dirty phones can get, according to this study,
Speaker 1: the researchers estimate that a regularly used smartphone you're out
Speaker 1: and about, hustle and bustle of the big city, uh,
Speaker 1: that has never been cleaned has more bacteria, they say,
Speaker 1: than the entire household bathroom that you are holding in
Speaker 1: your hand. If you never clean your phone, you might
Speaker 1: you're holding a toilet in your hand. Yeah, and think
Speaker 1: about this, because not only are you holding your phone,
Speaker 1: but also your earbuds, which I doubt there's a high
Speaker 1: percente of people that clean their earbuds. The ear wax.
Speaker 1: The earbuds get dirty no matter where you put them,
Speaker 1: if you put them down, if you put them in
Speaker 1: a bag, you put them in your glove compartment box,
Speaker 1: those get dirty. Most people. I eventually guess a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't wash their hands for some reason after
Speaker 1: they use the restroom, after they relieve themselves or have sex,
Speaker 1: or eat food or ay that stuff you included. Yea,
Speaker 1: by the way, by the way, Uh the I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go on a rant about headphones, like these expensive headphones.
Speaker 1: Yeah for the earbuds. No, I I can't game, I can't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get it. I know it's cool,
Speaker 1: you're hip like that. I don't know. I'll go to
Speaker 1: the dollar tree or whatever get headphones. I don't need that.
Speaker 1: But and I have nice headphones for radio. But I'm
Speaker 1: a professional broadcaster, possibly a professional broadcast, but really earbuds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're one of those old folks that has to
Speaker 1: hold your phone to your head when you drive in
Speaker 1: your car. Right? Uh? No, what do you have hands
Speaker 1: free in your car? Yes? You do? Cars like thirty
Speaker 1: years old, is it not the thirty years old paint
Speaker 1: job is it's not? Dare you? Well? Most people have
Speaker 1: hands free So if you can be hands free and
Speaker 1: not to worry about cables and cords and a lot
Speaker 1: of stuffhen you're working out or walking or or at work,
Speaker 1: then why not. It's a combination. I couldn't use it
Speaker 1: because I lose it. That's my problem. I drop it
Speaker 1: and fall in my ear. I'd step on it and break.
Speaker 1: I used to have a bluetooth back in the day.
Speaker 1: Of course you did. Did you have your right your
Speaker 1: right pant like folded up to wow, like the fubu
Speaker 1: attire Ben Mallard and fubo. Oh. Anyway, just to finish this,
Speaker 1: I'm moving on. I'm ignoring you. Uh. Here's the various
Speaker 1: forms of bacteria, disease, strep, staff and eat cole I.
Speaker 1: All could be on your phone. So eat cole I
Speaker 1: on my phone. Yes, you especially probably the places you
Speaker 1: go and the people you hang out with. I would
Speaker 1: go with some fine people. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I I hang out with some wonderful people. It's not
Speaker 1: what I hear. I do notice, though, when you go
Speaker 1: hang out with these certain people, you suddenly stop returning
Speaker 1: my text I I guess it's easy to figure out
Speaker 1: when you hang out with these certain people, suddenly you
Speaker 1: don't get back to me. Uh, it's a giveaway. It's
Speaker 1: a dead giveaway because normally you're whenever I text you,
Speaker 1: you will get back to me, like within a second,
Speaker 1: because you have no life. But occasionally you have a
Speaker 1: life and you don't get back. That's that's the spice
Speaker 1: of life, right. You gotta have a little bit of
Speaker 1: riding the life. That's exactly what I have. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. So essentially you're whoever you hang out
Speaker 1: with there. These people do not allow you access to
Speaker 1: your phone. That's not true. I am a an accommodating
Speaker 1: person when it comes to text messages and phone calls.
Speaker 1: But I tried to keep myself on the subject or
Speaker 1: the individuals that I'm hanging outlet and not stuck to
Speaker 1: my phone because I am like the majority of the
Speaker 1: people in the United States. I can't get rid of
Speaker 1: my phone, and so I got issues with it. So
Speaker 1: it's like glued to my hip. So it's nice to
Speaker 1: unplug an escape for for a short period of time. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: next study sports hyperbole are you dismissing what I do
Speaker 1: with my phone? Because I don't believe you. All Right,
Speaker 1: sports hyperbole hyping up one team or athlete over another. Now,
Speaker 1: we know that it's good for the box off, it's
Speaker 1: it's good for sports radio, it's good for television ratings
Speaker 1: and professional sports. But a new study done by Duke
Speaker 1: University claims that if the players on the other side
Speaker 1: of the field pay two much attention to all the
Speaker 1: hype and all the noise, it will negatively affect their performance.
Speaker 1: About that. They studied tennis matches and over five million
Speaker 1: online chess matches and they determine this research. I think
Speaker 1: this is I think this is bullshit. Uh, those are
Speaker 1: two isolated one. It's an individual sport. I would imagine
Speaker 1: if use golf in that same kind of testing it
Speaker 1: it probably similar. Well, my experience as a gambler, and
Speaker 1: we do Benny versus the Penny, which will be up later,
Speaker 1: but my experience as a gambler is typically a lot
Speaker 1: of hype affects the people you're hyping. See the Cleveland Brown,
Speaker 1: see Baker Mayfield, and these people start buying into the
Speaker 1: hype that their God's gift to whatever sport, and they
Speaker 1: whether they don't put the work in or they just
Speaker 1: let it get to their head. Um. That's my experience
Speaker 1: that it actually hurts more the people that are being
Speaker 1: hyped up than the other team. I would think as
Speaker 1: a competitor, if you're on the other team, you would
Speaker 1: love the opportunity to bring them down a couple of
Speaker 1: notches right when you love that. Of course, the underdog
Speaker 1: rolls something. Even the Patriots kind of revelent at times,
Speaker 1: and that's what you want to have. Do you gamble
Speaker 1: on tennis, by the way, oh god no, I do
Speaker 1: no football and tennis a little bit of baseball. But
Speaker 1: if you can gamble on tennis, you don't have as
Speaker 1: many outlying factors that go into the results of the match,
Speaker 1: which is beautiful. Well that's because you live near the
Speaker 1: Pacific Oceans. I don't further you get away from because
Speaker 1: that's tennis people. You live near tennis people up in
Speaker 1: the one per centers and all that with the tennis people.
Speaker 1: I'm out here with the working man. I'm a blue
Speaker 1: collar guy. Blue collar people aren't tennis people. That's not
Speaker 1: We're not. We aren't. I speak for all blue collar people, definitely,
Speaker 1: not all right, Moving on robotic jousting. About this one.
Speaker 1: This is again kind of tied with the last story.
Speaker 1: It's a different study. This is from Carnegie Mellon University
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Try ash, talk hurts even when it comes
Speaker 1: from a robot. How about that? Uh? The study from
Speaker 1: Carnegie Mellett determined and demonstrated that disparaging words can fluster
Speaker 1: an opponent no matter who or what utters them. That's right.
Speaker 1: Quoting a new study, humanoid robot Pepper mocked and taunted
Speaker 1: game players, admiring zingers like administering rather zingers like I
Speaker 1: have to say, you are a terrible player, and over
Speaker 1: the course of the game you're playing has become confused.
Speaker 1: And they claimed that this did work and it did
Speaker 1: cause the other person to perform more poorly. I forget
Speaker 1: what country it is. I think it might be China.
Speaker 1: But did you know they are manufacturing robotic men to
Speaker 1: act as boyfriends and husbands? Now for women, well, I
Speaker 1: know they have robotic women androids that men enjoy, maybe
Speaker 1: not as girlfriend wife, but doing other things with yes,
Speaker 1: like what cooking? Yeah? Remember during the Olympics in was
Speaker 1: it Russia, they had brothels with androids. Remember that you
Speaker 1: go in and which makes you wonder it's not a person.
Speaker 1: It looks like a person. But is that is that cheating?
Speaker 1: You're in a dungeon somewhere with an android? Is that cheating?
Speaker 1: Isn't cheating? If you don't finish? Wow, well you would
Speaker 1: know more about you know more about that. But I
Speaker 1: I finished what I start. That's what I usually too soon.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern even pm Pacific. Moving on genetics of veggies. Genetics
Speaker 1: of veggies. Now, I love this story and I will
Speaker 1: use this story. I will put this in my back pocket.
Speaker 1: And uh and this is from the University of Kentucky
Speaker 1: School of Medicine and Lexington. Uh says, if you've never
Speaker 1: been able to enjoy the tay east of vegetables like
Speaker 1: broccoli or Brussels sprouts, uh, and you can't understand how
Speaker 1: other people actually do enjoy the taste. It turns out
Speaker 1: that you may be going through an issue that you
Speaker 1: have different taste buds when you bite into a fork
Speaker 1: full of veggies. According to a new study. And I
Speaker 1: think I have this it's preliminary research, but they said
Speaker 1: it's a certain percentage of people carry a specific gene
Speaker 1: that makes certain foods like broccoli, Brussels spouts, and vegetables
Speaker 1: in general. Um, most of these heart healthy vegetables taste
Speaker 1: bitter and they don't want to eat it because it
Speaker 1: doesn't taste right. Yeah, but don't Well, my taste buds
Speaker 1: evolved throughout the years. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: hated squash, I hated Brussels sprouts, I hated broccoli, I
Speaker 1: hated peas. And now I eat all that stuff I eat,
Speaker 1: I eat none of it. I still have the diet
Speaker 1: of a nine year old. That's what I still have,
Speaker 1: and I'm proud of that. And they say that those
Speaker 1: carrying this taste gene are much more likely to have
Speaker 1: a harder time incorporating obviously vegetables into their diet. They
Speaker 1: say it impacts roughly twenty five of the public suffer
Speaker 1: from this gene mutation, if you will. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that works out for alcohol too, because my my palate
Speaker 1: for alcohol has changed over the last ten or fifteen years.
Speaker 1: You love the booze now, but I went from I
Speaker 1: guess beer when I was younger than red Bull and
Speaker 1: vodka to Bombay, sapphire and tonic, and now I'm on
Speaker 1: a whiskey and scotch. Yeah, well, you just like it's
Speaker 1: for social reason you like to taste about who likes
Speaker 1: to taste of alcohol? Yeah, certain things are just good, man,
Speaker 1: I enjoy them. Wine's tasty. Saki is really good. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that when we go to Japan next year. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: when we get paid by the Chamber of Commerce in Japan,
Speaker 1: which will be after I get paid to go to
Speaker 1: New Zealand and hang out with our friends in New
Speaker 1: Zealand and all that. All right, more of these studies.
Speaker 1: It's a study. This this portion of the podcast asked
Speaker 1: brought to you by nobody a shark food. All right,
Speaker 1: shark food scientists are testing shark bite proof wetsuit material.
Speaker 1: It's made from fabrics that incorporate ultra high molecular weight
Speaker 1: polythene fibers, whatever that is. I think I butchered that
Speaker 1: one of those words. But they claim it's it's early
Speaker 1: in the research that this will reduce the amount of
Speaker 1: bleeding when you get beaten by that great white shark
Speaker 1: when you're swimming out in the ocean. It's great, It's
Speaker 1: exactly what I want to have. How would you like
Speaker 1: to be one of the people that test it? Though?
Speaker 1: Don't you have to have this on and have a
Speaker 1: shark bite you don't find out whether or not it works. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know how else would you test it. I
Speaker 1: guess you could put it on robots and have things
Speaker 1: bite down, but it's not the same. You could have
Speaker 1: different cutting cutting a tire and cutting hardware to rip
Speaker 1: up the attire. Two right rocks, scissors, knives, um, what
Speaker 1: else can you have? I don't know, some teeth from
Speaker 1: an animal, put it in a wood chip. Oh you
Speaker 1: could do that? Yeah, alright. The last one money matters,
Speaker 1: all right? Money for you? Uh. This is actually something
Speaker 1: we talked about the other day at our our meal
Speaker 1: and riverside husbands are not stressed out there the least
Speaker 1: stressed I not know, not stressed out, but the least
Speaker 1: stressed out when their wives earn up to of the
Speaker 1: household income, meaning that the wives are carrying their weight
Speaker 1: and providing some some money. So it's not all the
Speaker 1: guy of coming with the income and all that. But
Speaker 1: the study indicated that these men become increasingly uncomfortable as
Speaker 1: the amount of money their wives make their spouses make
Speaker 1: when their wives wages rise beyond the threshold, the guys
Speaker 1: become most stressed out when they are entirely economically dependent
Speaker 1: on their their wife. I can see that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can believe that. Do you have any friends that that
Speaker 1: married up? Though? Do you have any friends that? Yes,
Speaker 1: I there's a guy I've worked with in radio that
Speaker 1: that married his His wife makes uh more money than
Speaker 1: him and and all that. So I I think there's
Speaker 1: other people too, but that's the one, one guy in particular.
Speaker 1: But but this is a thing, man, you see. I
Speaker 1: I love that my wife works and all that. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind if she made more way, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, because I I'm always paranoid working in radio
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm gonna get stabbed in the back
Speaker 1: and the song and dance is gonna come to an end.
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's like casino. You get the bats
Speaker 1: in the corn fields and then your game over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's insurance. You're like, I, I can
Speaker 1: just live off her for a while if I have
Speaker 1: to bury my head in the sand and uh and
Speaker 1: and all that. There's a sense of attractiveness when when
Speaker 1: a female we're opposite sex, is not only pulling their
Speaker 1: own weight but also making more too. I think it's
Speaker 1: attractive when a woman is just, uh, I bet you
Speaker 1: hustling and making money and earning it. Yeah, why not,
Speaker 1: especially if they're using their potential. I think that's huge. Now,
Speaker 1: what if what if a woman said to you, guess gun,
Speaker 1: I make so much money, i'd and I want you
Speaker 1: to go do these little high school football games. I
Speaker 1: don't want that, See I I had that in my twenties.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I think I Yeah, there's always like that
Speaker 1: one that you probably should have married or probably should
Speaker 1: have had. And uh yeah, in my twenties, before I
Speaker 1: got into sportscasting, even though I wanted to do it,
Speaker 1: I was in real estate. But I was dating someone
Speaker 1: for a long period of time. She was really wealthy,
Speaker 1: was connected to some some prominent people, and I had
Speaker 1: a set life and I elected to leave the career,
Speaker 1: leave the woman of the relationship. And then I went
Speaker 1: back to grad school. And then yeah, I started working
Speaker 1: for I had radio part time, working making ten dollars
Speaker 1: an hour. How about that? The rest is history? Guess
Speaker 1: the rest is it. You're living the dream. Make more
Speaker 1: working with Jack in the box, But you're living the dream.
Speaker 1: I could be an in and Out manager making a
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five thousand dollars. Yeah. Although I this guy
Speaker 1: at the gym that worked for In and Out for
Speaker 1: years and then not I love in and Out. But
Speaker 1: his story He worked there for years and he claimed
Speaker 1: once he got to a certain point where his salary
Speaker 1: got ridiculously high, he got whacked. So I guess it
Speaker 1: happens even in the fast food game. That usually happens
Speaker 1: in radio. You're you're fine as long as you make
Speaker 1: a certain amount of money. But if you go over
Speaker 1: that threshold, uh, you got problems. That's why I've tried
Speaker 1: to diverse the portfolio into radio and TV and digital
Speaker 1: and even podcasting. So 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.
Speaker 1: It's in the bag. These are listener messages. This is
Speaker 1: a rip off of Ask Ben. Your questions are answers,
Speaker 1: and here it is in the bag. Dave from Medford, Oregon. Right,
Speaker 1: so he says what was the first poster in your bedroom,
Speaker 1: first poster in your bedroom that you remember. I probably
Speaker 1: had some superhero poster, Dave. But the first sports poster
Speaker 1: I remember had I Reggie Jackson poster, the old Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame slugger from back in the day, Angel Yankee, well,
Speaker 1: Mr October, I think it was with the Angels at
Speaker 1: that point. But I I had a Reggie Jackson what
Speaker 1: about you guess? And you probably like the teenage mutant
Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles. Maybe Power Rangers cartoon was a transformer poster
Speaker 1: like probably Optimist, Optimist Prime or in jazz um or
Speaker 1: for professional athletes. I probably had a John Elway poster
Speaker 1: or two. I got a lot of Denver Bronco attire,
Speaker 1: like Elway's helmet, autograph authentic, a jersey of throwback one
Speaker 1: that's been signed. Well, I like to throwback Broncho helmet,
Speaker 1: which is better than the current Bronco helmets are good.
Speaker 1: I gott have been Scully jersey, like on a Dodger jersey,
Speaker 1: just a Scully in the back of We're not we're
Speaker 1: not asking. I don't think Dave's asking for your memory,
Speaker 1: your commercial pastor kind of free lance. I don't have
Speaker 1: to go buy his rules. Wow, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I have to get into a pissing match.
Speaker 1: I have baseballs from the World Series. You want those?
Speaker 1: I got those. I hope it's not from two thousand seventeen.
Speaker 1: It's actually I don't know. I was from the game
Speaker 1: they won. Anyway, all right, All night Mike from Tucson,
Speaker 1: Arizona rights And he says, with the holidays coming up,
Speaker 1: what's an appropriate gift to get your girlfriend if you've
Speaker 1: been dating less than a year? And how much do
Speaker 1: I spend on her lingerie? Baby? I'm all good about
Speaker 1: lingerie for a woman? Yes, well, we would love the line.
Speaker 1: I think the lingeriate does more for the woman than
Speaker 1: the man. I believe. I think anytime if she's lingre
Speaker 1: is good. Um. Some some bottoms for pajamas are always
Speaker 1: good with a nice sweater, depending on the state that
Speaker 1: you live in, I know East Coast, if you do.
Speaker 1: Some ugs are great. Gloves of course are great. Beanies
Speaker 1: are good. Lotion is fantastic for women. Um, anything else
Speaker 1: dating advice you need? Ben or yes see, my advice
Speaker 1: would be all night Mike. You're supposed to ake up
Speaker 1: with your girlfriend, but now before the holidays, before Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and Christmas, because then it gets awkward. And then you
Speaker 1: probably should stay broken up until mid February and then
Speaker 1: get back together with mid February because that's when that's
Speaker 1: when Valentine's Day. So you want to avoid Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: So you've got to get through Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: So you should be single from late November. Dump your
Speaker 1: girlfriend just before Thanksgiving. That way you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about meeting the family and meeting her family, so
Speaker 1: you avoid that. You dodge that bullet. Then you dodge Christmas,
Speaker 1: and then in January you got football playoffs. You don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about your girlfriend taking your attention from you.
Speaker 1: And then in February you've got Valentine's Day. So you
Speaker 1: wait the day after Valentine's Days and I know I
Speaker 1: was thinking about you, and then you get back together.
Speaker 1: Boom done, we'll see it. Here's the luxury, though, is
Speaker 1: that if you've been dieting her for a long period
Speaker 1: of time, then you could be on the outs because
Speaker 1: once the New Year's Eve hits, she'll be thinking New
Speaker 1: Year knew me, and you'll be on the move if
Speaker 1: you have not proposed to her anytime soon. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. But most people's New Year's resolutions, they like,
Speaker 1: three days later, they're back to doing what they said
Speaker 1: they wouldn't. I could safely say I've been a part
Speaker 1: of that statistics, so I I can. I can pledge
Speaker 1: to uh, maybe holding on a little too long before
Speaker 1: you get announced it. So I love that you had
Speaker 1: a whole list of things to get your girlfriend. You've
Speaker 1: clearly had a lot of girlfriends over the years. I
Speaker 1: know how to treat women. I know how to take
Speaker 1: care of about that. Women take care of me. I'll
Speaker 1: take care of them. Nothing wrong with that, alright, dude,
Speaker 1: no lifetime contracts for you though you've not agreed to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you want for me? I want nothing. I
Speaker 1: want nothing at all. I could be I could be
Speaker 1: designated as Mr right now, just not Mr Wright. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Mark in Ottawa writes and says, if you had to
Speaker 1: choose one of these food items to eat for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life, which one would it be? And
Speaker 1: he lists three things here Mark in Ottawa, he says, hamburger,
Speaker 1: hot dog, or pizza. Now to me, this is easy.
Speaker 1: I you love list radio guests, guys, this is this
Speaker 1: is great, um, and you to put hot dog number three. Yes,
Speaker 1: now I don't I like a hot dog, but I
Speaker 1: can't be eating hot dogs the rest of my life,
Speaker 1: so that's number three. I put Hamburger at number two.
Speaker 1: Pizza's number one because there's so many different ways you
Speaker 1: can have a pizza with the toppings on top as
Speaker 1: you choose. So if you're only gonna eat one food
Speaker 1: oem of the rest of your life, you choose pizza
Speaker 1: because you can make amazing combinations of toppings and so
Speaker 1: it's kind of like you're eating other things on top
Speaker 1: of the pizza. That's true, and I agree with that list,
Speaker 1: especially because we have the great cities of Chicago and
Speaker 1: New York, so those pizzas are good. Out here in California,
Speaker 1: ours there a little bit different. We have Kirkland brand pizza,
Speaker 1: which is wonderful. We got got Mexican pizza to New
Speaker 1: York pizzas overrated. Chicago pizza is pretty good, but New
Speaker 1: York pizzas overrated. Boston's actually got some good piece of
Speaker 1: pizza places, which is surprising, as would you consider a
Speaker 1: cal Zone pizza or Now I do not know. I
Speaker 1: do not, just like I don't consider a taco a sandwich.
Speaker 1: I know, all right, but yeah, I'll go with that
Speaker 1: list too, because yeah, pizza's rep there. You can have
Speaker 1: anything think crust deep, dish long and uh greasy, or
Speaker 1: the New York style. But whatever, I'm going to have
Speaker 1: veggies on top, barbecue chicken, you can do that. You
Speaker 1: can do the meat whatever you want, Hawaiian style. I
Speaker 1: know you like the meat. I know you like the
Speaker 1: meat based kind of guy. Yeah. Jason from Parts Unknown says,
Speaker 1: what's Gascon's favorite list? All right, go ahead, guest girl,
Speaker 1: favorite list? Uh, I don't have a favorite list? Mean
Speaker 1: favorite lists? You do list radio. You're the o g
Speaker 1: Old Gangster of list radio. No, your colleague Calin Caliherd
Speaker 1: actually does that television format, and that kind of leads
Speaker 1: you into what you do for the night. For your monologue,
Speaker 1: you take whatever soundbites he generates, and then you you
Speaker 1: leave that into your opening monologue. So it is a
Speaker 1: travesty of justice in sports radio. But I just pretty
Speaker 1: much steal all of my material from Colin Coward. It's
Speaker 1: a luxury of everything podcast that so you kind of
Speaker 1: go back and it's great. I don't do any prep.
Speaker 1: I just watched Cowherd show. I scribble down a couple
Speaker 1: of notes, and then I just roll in here and
Speaker 1: let it rip. That's how I do it. Yeah, going
Speaker 1: to do it. The most nauseous lists of all time
Speaker 1: got to be the top ten UH teams of all
Speaker 1: time or the top ten quarterbacks of all time. No,
Speaker 1: you're wrong, top ten defense. We are heading in. Next
Speaker 1: week is Thanksgiving, and I don't know if we're gonna
Speaker 1: do a podcast. Are we doing a podcast next week?
Speaker 1: I thought we were supposed to do it at a
Speaker 1: designated fire station. I have a buddy of mine, Patrick
Speaker 1: in Norwalk station twenty. I think it is we can
Speaker 1: maybe go over there, but I don't know if logistically
Speaker 1: that will work out. But I would like to point
Speaker 1: out that we are heading in and we'll maybe we'll
Speaker 1: do a segment on this Holiday sports radio what to
Speaker 1: look forward to on Holiday Sports Radio. I do this
Speaker 1: rant on radio, but the podcast guys need to hear
Speaker 1: it also, and there's certain things you hear Thanksgiving week
Speaker 1: and Christmas week, and it's a checklist to determine whether
Speaker 1: you're talk show host is prepared or is just doing
Speaker 1: layup line radio, mailing it in baby like Manny Machado
Speaker 1: in the World series mailing it in baby. So anyway,
Speaker 1: all right? Mark in New Hampshire says, why is gas
Speaker 1: can such a funk up? That's a good question to
Speaker 1: find up. He did not define funk then he's a
Speaker 1: funk up. Okay, very nice way to treat a listener there.
Speaker 1: He's in New Hampshire. Man, come on the guys. A
Speaker 1: p One Sean and Oceanside says, what's your favorite type
Speaker 1: of pie to indulge in for the holidays. It's a
Speaker 1: good question. It's good kind of pie. I'm always banana
Speaker 1: cream pie. I once I crossed over to banana cream pie.
Speaker 1: It's always number one. But I love a nice apple
Speaker 1: pie a la mode with a scoop of a vanell
Speaker 1: ice cream on top. Obviously, traditionally Thanksgivings more about the
Speaker 1: pumpkin pie. You feel more like Thanksgiving with the pumpkin pile.
Speaker 1: I don't usually celebrate Thanksgiving anymore, so I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have much pumpkin pie. But but but you have that.
Speaker 1: But my my big two banana cream apple anything else?
Speaker 1: Uh so, my my grandmother Martha, God rest her soul.
Speaker 1: She's uh. She was a Mexican woman and it was
Speaker 1: all about Molley's, Enchilada's, Cassadilla's during the holidays. But for
Speaker 1: some reason, Ben she would make this absolutely amazing apricot
Speaker 1: pie and we never had it warm. She would always
Speaker 1: have it like cold, almost getting out of the freezer.
Speaker 1: But she would douse it with with sugar and it
Speaker 1: was amazing. It was one of the best pies I've
Speaker 1: ever had. I like strawberry pie, I like Boston cream pie,
Speaker 1: but apricot pie straight from when I was a kid
Speaker 1: with my grandmother, it was dynamite. Well that's nostalgia, that's
Speaker 1: pure nostalgia. What's wrong with that? It's fine, But I've said,
Speaker 1: if you didn't have that when you were a kid,
Speaker 1: you'd probably be as a grown up, you'd like I
Speaker 1: had as a as a grown up. You ever had
Speaker 1: prune pie? No, never gives you the runs. I don't
Speaker 1: like apple. Everything gives you the runs. Now it doesn't count.
Speaker 1: You can't digest anything. No, Actually that's the problem, man.
Speaker 1: I everyone told me I can't. I've had more constipation.
Speaker 1: Guess I know you're curious about that than I have.
Speaker 1: I wish I had the other problem. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is great, I can eat whatever I wanted to
Speaker 1: run right through me. It hasn't happened. For fox sake,
Speaker 1: I know. I'm like in the one percent of people
Speaker 1: that had their gallbladder ripped out and I don't hasn't
Speaker 1: really affected anything. I don't think you should be trying
Speaker 1: it on a regular basis, though, for a couple of
Speaker 1: different reasons. One is to remain out of the hospital. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's true. Yeah on the weekends. Like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: in the middle of a fast right now. I'm going
Speaker 1: doing a forty probably forty five hour fast. I did.
Speaker 1: I did a fifty four hour fast. Did eat from
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon until was it Tuesday night? Earlier this week?
Speaker 1: So you're what are you signing for? You're losing a
Speaker 1: lot of weight. I'm happy for you. Thank you, man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and I love doing it. I don't
Speaker 1: mind not eating as long as I get my water,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. I don't It's not for everybody, I get it.
Speaker 1: Not for everybody. Yeah, all right, let's move on. We
Speaker 1: have Jose repping the nine five six. I think that's
Speaker 1: in like Laredo, Texas. I believe the nine five six, Brownsville, Texas.
Speaker 1: If I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. But from THEE says,
Speaker 1: with the holidays coming up, guys, will you or gag
Speaker 1: on Ben be doing any Black Friday shopping? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I will not. Now. Um, my wife and I what
Speaker 1: we usually had done for like a holiday gift is
Speaker 1: we would buy something for the mall or mansion. We'd
Speaker 1: buy like a new very adult, grown up, boring thing
Speaker 1: to do. We buy like a new microwave or dishwasher
Speaker 1: or something like that. But we're trying to save some money,
Speaker 1: so I don't think we'll be buying anything. Although that
Speaker 1: is the best day to buy television, Black Friday, you're
Speaker 1: gonna if you need a new television, you gotta be
Speaker 1: out there sprinting at the door of Walmart when they opened.
Speaker 1: Although Black Friday didn't even start on Friday anymore. Guest,
Speaker 1: it doesn't start like it starts like like Thanksgiving morning
Speaker 1: or even before that. These Black Friday deals, But in
Speaker 1: today's in today's digital age, aren't you usually shopping on
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime now? Yeah? But some stores have only in
Speaker 1: store deals, like you have to go pick up the
Speaker 1: item in in the store, so they have that. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm kind of Ship's Creek too because most of my
Speaker 1: family is all female. So yeah, that's tough when you
Speaker 1: have all women. Yeah, I got a bunch of sisters,
Speaker 1: and mom's got a bunch of sisters. Isn't a bunch
Speaker 1: of nieces, no nephews. It's tough. It's tough sledding for me.
Speaker 1: And then all the all the all your female listeners,
Speaker 1: and I gotta give gifts for two and so it's
Speaker 1: it's a challenge, you know, the listener host relationship. You
Speaker 1: don't actually have to give gifts to women just because
Speaker 1: women listen to show and very few women listen to
Speaker 1: sports radio. Uh, you don't have to give every woman
Speaker 1: who lives in a jerkwater town a gift. You don't
Speaker 1: have to do it. But when your listeners specifically listen
Speaker 1: to your show, for me, it's a it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different. That doesn't happen. We know that that's not true.
Speaker 1: All right, more, well, a lot of questions. I want
Speaker 1: to get to most of these we can. Uh. This
Speaker 1: is from Big Oh listening to the podcast in Columbus, Ohio,
Speaker 1: home of the Ohio State University says if the moon
Speaker 1: was made out of spare ribs, would you eat it? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the spare rib not anti spare rib. But if it
Speaker 1: was made out of chicken fingers, big oh, I would devoured.
Speaker 1: If it was made out like a cheeseburger or a
Speaker 1: Philly cheese steak, I'm all about that action, boss. I
Speaker 1: don't think I would devour a moon made out of
Speaker 1: spare ribs. What about you guess baby back ribs for sure?
Speaker 1: Maybe back maybe back baby back baby backgrounds. Whatever was
Speaker 1: made out of a bloom and onion, would you eat that? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: From out back, Absolutely, as long as this sauce was
Speaker 1: in the middle of the moon. Got into the man
Speaker 1: all right. Ja from Kentucky Rights and says, Ben, if
Speaker 1: you were banned from radio or talking about sports in general,
Speaker 1: where do you see yourself working tomorrow? Okay, I would
Speaker 1: do traffic updates shout out. Uh. I would work for
Speaker 1: the traffic bureau. No, I don't know. I I've always
Speaker 1: I've thought about being in real estate. I think you
Speaker 1: can make a lot of money if you're good at it,
Speaker 1: and I think that would be fun. I could have
Speaker 1: some fun. I know some people I've worked with in
Speaker 1: radio that have gone into real estate. Re member John Fricky,
Speaker 1: who's talk shows, he used to work at Fox. He's
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. He's he does radio, but he also sells
Speaker 1: real estate in the side. Yeah, that's what I did
Speaker 1: before I got into this racket. People have said I
Speaker 1: should become a lawyer. Now, Uh, there's a lot of lawyers.
Speaker 1: Most of them don't make any money. You gotta pay
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars just to take the bar exam out
Speaker 1: here in California. But most people passed the bar. No,
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't. They do. Sixty thousand people a
Speaker 1: year become lawyer. But it's not in the first try,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So you're spending a grand just
Speaker 1: to take the bar exam, you'll probably fail it on
Speaker 1: your first try. It's not gonna failure like you. You
Speaker 1: don't have any faith in me. You are such a
Speaker 1: faith in you. You even said you keep all your
Speaker 1: old rejection. I have a box from in my childhood
Speaker 1: bedroom made my mom rest in peace. She never threw
Speaker 1: it out, and it has a box of rejection letters
Speaker 1: from radio stations that Ted told me I wasn't good
Speaker 1: enough to work at the radio there you go. See.
Speaker 1: One of those was w e I, which I've worked
Speaker 1: for twice. You got fired from twice. I've worked for
Speaker 1: them twice. Uh. The station in Seattle KJR we're on.
Speaker 1: I've been on there for years. Uh. Several other stations
Speaker 1: around the country that I wanted to work at they
Speaker 1: would never hire me, and they've now, of course hired me,
Speaker 1: So screw you. It's amazing how how much you can
Speaker 1: really pat yourself on the back during a podcast. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely kind of like talking about how many gifts you
Speaker 1: buy people like that during your podcast. How great you
Speaker 1: are with women? You know that kind of thing. I
Speaker 1: caught it your female listeners. You comment in the mail
Speaker 1: female Okay, I don't know if you know this, but
Speaker 1: sports radios about the dudes, all right, it's all about
Speaker 1: to do. It's entertainment radio. That really is that what
Speaker 1: this is? Yeah, we don't really talk about sports much.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've mentioned anything sports related. Uh, sports
Speaker 1: with Coleman, that's what we mentioned. Yeah, we did mention
Speaker 1: sports with moment. All right, Um, more more questions. What
Speaker 1: would you do, guest if you were banned from from well,
Speaker 1: you're not kind of barely in radio, but if you
Speaker 1: were banned from it, yeah, I'd probably try to do
Speaker 1: a podcast. You do a podcast or did you try
Speaker 1: to get paid for the podcast? You just do it
Speaker 1: for free like pro bono? I would. I would definitely
Speaker 1: get paid for it. So I hope definitely made that
Speaker 1: app In real estate is always an option. PR is
Speaker 1: an option, Yeah, PR. Firefighter could be an option. Getting
Speaker 1: too old for that? You almost know. I'm in a
Speaker 1: great shape, though, what's wrong with you? As Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I can. I can bench press a buick maybe like
Speaker 1: looking for guys like you have to be firefighters? You know, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's what I hear. John shots, Well, you've already done that.
Speaker 1: How embarrassing is that? Maybe it's embarrassing you had a
Speaker 1: woman put makeup on you for a high school football
Speaker 1: game last week? A global broadcast on the Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Go app, which is available globally. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: that's Internet. That's not just local Yoko cable television like
Speaker 1: I used to do back in the day. That's big
Speaker 1: time every man, woman and child, all watching right there
Speaker 1: on a mission to watch watch that. That's longest steps anyway,
Speaker 1: what was it. John from Parts Unknow says, will you
Speaker 1: vote for Andrew Yang for President Ben? He'll give you
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars extra every month and your wife too.
Speaker 1: That's an extra twe four thousand dollars a year. That's
Speaker 1: from from well listen, I Andrew Yank. I don't hate
Speaker 1: the guy. Seems like a cool guy and all that,
Speaker 1: but I can't vote for any of these politicians, any
Speaker 1: of the Democrats that are promising to give you everything,
Speaker 1: because I grew up learning there is no free lunch
Speaker 1: that that's gonna come from somebody. They're gonna raise your taxes,
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna screw some people over to get
Speaker 1: that money. So it's not like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're a magician and Abraca dab as a politician. Here's
Speaker 1: an extra thousand dollars a month. That money's got to
Speaker 1: come somewhere, from somewhere, and so that's my problem. I
Speaker 1: feel like you've got to earn your money. I don't
Speaker 1: like being given things in general unless I earn them,
Speaker 1: and so I I will not. But I do enjoy
Speaker 1: him on TV. Is a good interview. He's a slick talker.
Speaker 1: I think he's a nice guy, but I would I
Speaker 1: disagree with him. Isn't he doing that though? Because he
Speaker 1: thinks that all these jobs are gonna go away anyway
Speaker 1: and it'll be all robots, and so you need to
Speaker 1: get paid by the government and everything's automation sooner or later,
Speaker 1: all right? Blake in Miami says what menu items differentiate
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving dinner from a Christmas dinner? Turkey? Well, I
Speaker 1: do hanukah, so I don't. I don't know. But what
Speaker 1: you don't do Christmas? Well we have yeah now because
Speaker 1: he's I got married, But before that I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: Was growing up obviously I didn't do it. But there's
Speaker 1: a grown up. I put even Christmas lights up and
Speaker 1: uh we have hanakah lights also both. Um we mix
Speaker 1: and matcht but um what differentia? So I would assume
Speaker 1: like the stuffing? Do you have stuffing on Christmas? You
Speaker 1: don't know? So the stuffing? Do you have yams on Christmas?
Speaker 1: All right? So yams? Turkey? You don't have turkey on Christmas?
Speaker 1: But do you have ham? Have ham? Yeah? Some roast
Speaker 1: beef when I have a brisket, wouldn't that be a
Speaker 1: good Christmas dinner. Brisket be solid. You canna get up
Speaker 1: a couple of mins if you gotta learn how to cook.
Speaker 1: Though you don't learn how to I know how to cook.
Speaker 1: I'm a fine cook. I cook a lot. No. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I chopped the chicken. I do the whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have. You know, my new thing is that I've
Speaker 1: changed my diet. I used to eat a lot of meat.
Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to eat more chicken because apparently it's
Speaker 1: better for you. But the only way I can eat
Speaker 1: grilled chicken, which is I used to just fried chicken.
Speaker 1: The only way I can eat grilled chicken is I
Speaker 1: have to cut it up into little bite sized pieces. Right,
Speaker 1: So I get these chicken breasts, I pound the chicken
Speaker 1: breast with a hammer, and then I get I have
Speaker 1: a kitchen scissors, and I have to cut it into
Speaker 1: like little pieces, and then I can eat grilled chicken
Speaker 1: because if not, I can't eat it. I find it repulsive.
Speaker 1: You are so bougie. But I know I do it myself.
Speaker 1: It's not like other people do it. I I know
Speaker 1: this is my neurosis. And I eat my grilled chicken
Speaker 1: that way, and you won't go to a fine steakhouse,
Speaker 1: but you'll chop up poultry and chew it into small,
Speaker 1: little bite sized size. That is embarrassing. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's good. I hope my Heart Network like cancels this podcast.
Speaker 1: That well, I would that would be devastating to my
Speaker 1: bank account. It would help you out because you have
Speaker 1: more time to do whatever nonsense you're doing. Might be
Speaker 1: a soccer game somewhere you can broadcast. R J writes,
Speaker 1: and he says he's in parts unknown. Uh, he says, Uh,
Speaker 1: what are y'all's Thanksgiving plans for this year? Well, I
Speaker 1: will be doing radio, r J. I have I worked
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving most years, but I will be in student's
Speaker 1: big football Day, Big football Day, and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: down on Thanksgiving, so I will I will be partaking
Speaker 1: in the gift of sports talk radio. That's what I'll
Speaker 1: be doing. Yeah, I will be I'll be stuck doing
Speaker 1: sports talk radio middle of the day, so we've got
Speaker 1: the morning games, afternoon and evening time. And I got
Speaker 1: my family is spread out, so part of them are
Speaker 1: in Canada, other parts are in Alabama, Florida, Texas. I
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to go to New York, but I'm
Speaker 1: stuck in in southern California for Yeah, you're stuck in
Speaker 1: southern California weather sandals. I gonna work it all right.
Speaker 1: One more real quick Derek from Derek the Chef from Auckland,
Speaker 1: New Zealand. Listen to the podcast. This is actually one
Speaker 1: of these good questions. Would you rather your parents or
Speaker 1: your wife be able to read your thoughts? Good question?
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna go my parents. I'm gonna tell you why,
Speaker 1: because my wife would analyze every thought I had. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's a deep thinker and intellectual and in that department,
Speaker 1: so she would like examine everything. She'd give me therapy.
Speaker 1: My dad wouldn't pay any attention to my thoughts. My
Speaker 1: mom's you know, she's gone, unfortunately, but my dad would
Speaker 1: not would not. He wouldn't even tend it's to have
Speaker 1: been a second concerned about my thoughts. The real reason
Speaker 1: is because your wife is a ballbuster too, so she
Speaker 1: would absolutely crush you if she could read some of
Speaker 1: the thoughts that you uh swirling around the domes. We
Speaker 1: gotta put the baby to bed, guests, gun, so we'll dude,
Speaker 1: don't stick to sports stories. That would give me a
Speaker 1: couple of these stories here, and because you came in
Speaker 1: late here, we have to put the baby to bed.
Speaker 1: But these are stories that aren't about sports. Chuss this
Speaker 1: whole podcast apparently it's not about sports. But what do
Speaker 1: we have today? How about this one? A civil jury
Speaker 1: has awarded fifty eight million dollars to ten Planoffs who
Speaker 1: actually sued a donation facility Biological Resource Center in Arizona
Speaker 1: because basically what they were doing was that they would
Speaker 1: take these It was kind of what that story that
Speaker 1: we talked about think before this UH podcast launched. But
Speaker 1: this company basically sold corpses UH and they used it
Speaker 1: for experimental purposes without the family's consent, so remem remember that.
Speaker 1: But the bodies the corpses were used for testing against
Speaker 1: I E. D. S. Yes, Yeah, that was the mom
Speaker 1: got blown up, Yes, without permission. So that was pretty
Speaker 1: damn good. I don't know if you remember that. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of months ago, as yeah, you
Speaker 1: love that story. You kept sending me that story. That
Speaker 1: was like your favorite story. You hate moms, you like
Speaker 1: moms being blown up apparently had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: that whatsoever. I thought it was just appropriate that someone
Speaker 1: was getting the getting hammered for using bodies as anything
Speaker 1: else than cremating. Or you're putting six ft underres some
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. Um. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw the video, usually you are well. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's you or your wife. It's all about four
Speaker 1: years of But in Arkansas, police officer is suspended for
Speaker 1: dancing naked in a nightclub. Read about that. Uh no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I assume it's a dude. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't normally go out of I know you like
Speaker 1: to see men dance naked, but I normally don't go
Speaker 1: out of my way. I don't cozy up to that
Speaker 1: like you do. I I really don't discriminate between the
Speaker 1: mail or female dancing. They're all in compassing, especially when
Speaker 1: they're naked. I would. I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: That thing flying around in the air, you like that?
Speaker 1: Uh huh. You gotta get the hell out here because
Speaker 1: that mean that's it? Yes, it's like it's like Prom
Speaker 1: nine for you. It's cut short, alright, finished ear well,
Speaker 1: h very disappointing, gascing on, just like your prom date.
Speaker 1: All right, very nice, uh sweetest honey and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you very much. There it is another
Speaker 1: edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben malloy. Don't forget
Speaker 1: to download the Benny Versus the Penny podcast, which possibly
Speaker 1: will be made available for your dancing and dining pleasure
Speaker 1: a little bit later. Have a great weekend. We'll be
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