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Speaker 1: And we are going to have some fun today. We
Speaker 1: are joined west of the four oh five back on
Speaker 1: a Saturday. David Gascon is right over there. I am here,
Speaker 1: I am here, and um are you limping a little
Speaker 1: bit after what has transpired over the last week, week
Speaker 1: and a half span with your with your l A clippers,
Speaker 1: because wow, well I mean again, you know we're doing
Speaker 1: this on a Saturday. I we we don't know what
Speaker 1: happened on Friday night, so it's kind of tough to
Speaker 1: break that down. I think I'm looking forward to a
Speaker 1: game seven. Uh though, I'm pretty impressive performance by Kauai
Speaker 1: in game game six. I'm sure you watch that, right,
Speaker 1: Paul George and the People's team there and well, it's
Speaker 1: like we record this on a Thursday, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: they played very well on a Friday night. Well, it's
Speaker 1: like a m C. I am all in on the
Speaker 1: Clippers in the game six. Now you're a Laker historian,
Speaker 1: you're west of the four oh five. You support the
Speaker 1: elitist Lakers. The one person enters the late. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Lakers. What a great season they had, let me
Speaker 1: tell you, very impressive. They're that performance against the Sun's
Speaker 1: I think Lebron still walking. I don't know, maybe he's
Speaker 1: walking back to l A. I don't know. Look, gives
Speaker 1: him time to work on movies, now, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's really what the ultimate goal is. To bring
Speaker 1: it enough help and support and as soon as they
Speaker 1: break down, you just pull the rip chord and you
Speaker 1: are off into the entertainment. Realm. Yeah, he is stopping
Speaker 1: stopping away. Uh, clearly clearly stopping away anyway. On the
Speaker 1: podcast this week, we've got Boom too, Benny pop Quiz,
Speaker 1: and I also have some random scientific we'll get scientifical
Speaker 1: if you will. Some things that I came across that
Speaker 1: we're intriguing. At least I found him intriguing scouring the web.
Speaker 1: You know what intriguing is the mail? Um the mail
Speaker 1: It feels like Santa Claus weekly comes into Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio because well, I know, but I go in and
Speaker 1: out of the mail room on a weekly basis, and
Speaker 1: I can't believe the amount of mail boxes, envelopes, goodies
Speaker 1: that your fans send you. Well, you don't know. You
Speaker 1: don't know what is in the malight, I do not.
Speaker 1: You don't know unless you open the mail, which is
Speaker 1: a federal crime to open the mail. You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to open another person's federal crime, so you shouln't do that.
Speaker 1: So you don't know what's in there. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what's in there until I opened the box and
Speaker 1: I see what's in the box. So and I don't
Speaker 1: even we don't even really have a mail room. The
Speaker 1: mail room was moved. Yes, well it was moved for us,
Speaker 1: but they have a general mail room on the fifth floor,
Speaker 1: so I have to navigate up there and then look
Speaker 1: into some cubby holes and at times, at times you
Speaker 1: have boxes that have been sent to you by fans
Speaker 1: and it's like, wait a minute, this has been up
Speaker 1: here for how long before they actually bring it down
Speaker 1: in the lobby for us. Well, that's the problem with
Speaker 1: the mail service. That's what people. I can email from people, Hey,
Speaker 1: I sent you something, and I'm like, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I don't know where it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could try to find it, but it
Speaker 1: is unfortunate. But I do eventually get everything. It just might.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't send anything perishable. No, I would not send
Speaker 1: anything that will expire or anything like that. And I
Speaker 1: certainly wouldn't send any animal parts like Doc Mike assumed
Speaker 1: with the bloody goathhead and all that stuff. I would
Speaker 1: avoid that because for a while in the early days
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio, this goes back to probably two
Speaker 1: thousand four, two thousand five, you know, the network had
Speaker 1: been on the air for like four or five years.
Speaker 1: But Doc Mike would he would send goathheads. And one time,
Speaker 1: one time they thought they thought they had a like
Speaker 1: a body part, like a human body part, because it
Speaker 1: was like blood coming out of the box. And they stopped.
Speaker 1: They put a stop on my mail at the company.
Speaker 1: They would not take my mail anymore because of Doc.
Speaker 1: And then so I told Doc, as said, listen, they're
Speaker 1: not taking mail for me, will you. You You know you're
Speaker 1: an asshole. You've screwed this up for me. He said,
Speaker 1: don't worry. So then everything he sends to this day
Speaker 1: and Doc sends me a lot of parapherne you're in
Speaker 1: books and crap like that, and everything had he writes,
Speaker 1: no animal parts, no goat head, no blood on the
Speaker 1: outside of the package in large black you know inc
Speaker 1: on the side of the box. There. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a whole I have a whole wing here of like
Speaker 1: Doc Mike crap I have. He's run for president since
Speaker 1: every election since twenty twelve, sixteen and now twenty uh
Speaker 1: he has run and I am his vice presidential Kennedy.
Speaker 1: But he actually has presidential election style photos taken like
Speaker 1: campaign posters. He makes these campaign posters and he always
Speaker 1: sends me some every year. It's not now I know
Speaker 1: that you've had You've had a listener send you a
Speaker 1: cooler with with frozen meat before. Yes, so our guy
Speaker 1: in Boston, that's the greatest. That he hooks me up
Speaker 1: with the Finway Monster Dog, the greatest hot dog of
Speaker 1: all time, only available in the local Boston area. And uh,
Speaker 1: this guy fil Man, he's the hot dog benefactor. He
Speaker 1: always hooks me up. The problem with that is a
Speaker 1: few times, you know, he's gone out and got the
Speaker 1: hot dogs and then by the time they got down
Speaker 1: to me, they were lukewarm, and it's not well. I
Speaker 1: I bring that up because I'm curious if Doc Mike
Speaker 1: has ever gone that route of disguising mail and maybe
Speaker 1: having packaged or cooled off urine in a bottle. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's very he would never say that because the urine
Speaker 1: is very valuable the doc. It's it's it's gold, it's
Speaker 1: liquid gold, and he would never never do that. So
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean he's he's not centering a urine
Speaker 1: the mail, but he has sent me a lot of
Speaker 1: urine themed items paraphernalia. Yeah, it was seven of books
Speaker 1: on on Yourin. We actually had one of the authors
Speaker 1: on that doc booked for this show we had and
Speaker 1: the guy cursed and it was a it was a
Speaker 1: hot mess that doc working hard to produce the radio show.
Speaker 1: So tremendous, tremendous, tremendous tumentus. But yeah, I do think
Speaker 1: that the people have sent stuff. I appreciate it, and
Speaker 1: I've got to go through everything to the inventory and
Speaker 1: all that, but it's, uh, it is much appreciate it
Speaker 1: and I do eventually get it. I want you to
Speaker 1: know I do get it. There's a big lag time though,
Speaker 1: because you know the mail. Um, it's like a snail.
Speaker 1: We have a snail in there and it's kind of
Speaker 1: like it goes along and it does this thing. So
Speaker 1: I've got boomed to Benny. And this is another thing.
Speaker 1: I listen. I got several messages from people on the
Speaker 1: social media and emails from people, Hey I saw this,
Speaker 1: and uh it is true. So I give you the
Speaker 1: rest of the story. So there is a documentary series
Speaker 1: on Vice TV called The Dark Side. Apparently they do
Speaker 1: this for a number of topics, The Dark Side. It's
Speaker 1: like their own franchise documentary franchise advice, and you know
Speaker 1: they claim in their in their propaganda that they explore
Speaker 1: the underbellies of the world's many, you know, prefer left
Speaker 1: in the shadows. And so the latest one that's out
Speaker 1: now is The Dark Side of Football and it's you know,
Speaker 1: no holds barred approach to looking at the NFL. And
Speaker 1: one of the episodes of the Air and I think
Speaker 1: it was episode three was on all Right, and I
Speaker 1: am in that episode. I uh did a number of
Speaker 1: different I don't know how to frame me. You do
Speaker 1: these these documentary shows. They sit you in a chair
Speaker 1: and then they ask you questions for for a while.
Speaker 1: So I'm told I'm gonna be in some other episodes.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, the Vice TV, uh, and
Speaker 1: it's on the internet. Some of it's on the internet.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the Raider episode yet on the internet.
Speaker 1: I have not seen that. I've not seen the episode.
Speaker 1: And even if I could see the episode, I don't
Speaker 1: think I would watch the episode because it's Uh. I
Speaker 1: don't like listening to myself on the radio, and I
Speaker 1: definitely don't like looking at myself on TV. But it
Speaker 1: hadn't done really any real TV stuff, like any and
Speaker 1: like this kind of thing since uh, the INBC Sports
Speaker 1: Network back in the day. But we uh to tell
Speaker 1: you how that works. These things work. We we taped
Speaker 1: for like several hours. This goes back to December, and
Speaker 1: they'll probably only use like a total of thirty seconds
Speaker 1: if I'm lucky, But it was like three hours. We
Speaker 1: had a lunch break, and I mean it was the
Speaker 1: whole the whole deal, and the producers and the directors.
Speaker 1: They reached out to me, uh back in like November
Speaker 1: of last year, and one of the guys worked on
Speaker 1: the Best Damn Sports Show period, one of the he
Speaker 1: was one of the producer guys and I and and
Speaker 1: he was like he knew, I knew some people have
Speaker 1: worked on that show, so we we kind of knew
Speaker 1: the same people and that kind of stuff. Chris Rose,
Speaker 1: Tom Looney, No, I weren't the guy was on. He
Speaker 1: was behind the scene, but yeah, I Rose and Looney
Speaker 1: and those guys who worked at Fox Sports Radio back
Speaker 1: in the day. And so we filmed that like the
Speaker 1: first week in December, and it was taped at the
Speaker 1: lobby of the Culver Hotel in Culver You've ever been
Speaker 1: to the Culver Hotel in Culver City? Is it the
Speaker 1: one that's on the corner And it's really, really nice
Speaker 1: when you walk in, it's a it's a weird shape.
Speaker 1: It it looks like a building from New York. It's
Speaker 1: an old Hollywood landmark. In fact, it is a historical landmark.
Speaker 1: It's a National Historical landmark. This hotel. It's been around
Speaker 1: since the early days of Hollywood. It's pretty cool. I
Speaker 1: was walking around there and it's like a it's not
Speaker 1: really a triangle, but it's kind of you know, it's
Speaker 1: like a weird shape of the building. And they built
Speaker 1: like a movie theater around it. But the movie studios
Speaker 1: right across the way. It's still still there from the
Speaker 1: old days. But that is that hotel is most famous
Speaker 1: because back in the nineteen thirties, when they were filming
Speaker 1: The Wizard of Oz, the Munchkins stayed at that hotel.
Speaker 1: It was just down the street from the MGM studios,
Speaker 1: and so they put up all these little people at
Speaker 1: the Culvert Hotel in the late nineteen thirties. And the
Speaker 1: legend is that they were so cheap at the movie
Speaker 1: studio that they literally would put three little people in
Speaker 1: a bed because they were so tiny, and that way
Speaker 1: they could. Because it's not a big hotel, there's only
Speaker 1: like it's like less than fifty rooms in the hotel.
Speaker 1: It's a small building. And so to monetize space, they
Speaker 1: would lay three I don't know what used to call
Speaker 1: them midgets. I don't know what do you call him now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the political people, little people a politicularly,
Speaker 1: all right. So they lay him on the bed, three
Speaker 1: of them, and they could they could get him, and
Speaker 1: they were a hundred and twenty four I wrote it down.
Speaker 1: A hundred and twenty four little actors were filmed. And
Speaker 1: not only is it hilarious to think that while they
Speaker 1: were filming The Wizard about's one of the great movies
Speaker 1: you know, think about all time. I quoted many people quoted.
Speaker 1: It's one of those you've got to see. It's like
Speaker 1: a write of passage at some point, even though it's
Speaker 1: a million years ago, from the nineteen thirties. Uh. But
Speaker 1: so they lay the little people down on the bed
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Hundred and twenty four actors, and
Speaker 1: it was apparently like Sodom and Gomorrah, like they had,
Speaker 1: you know, a little men and wait a minute and
Speaker 1: all that, and they were getting drunk and having wild parties.
Speaker 1: They had filmed during the day and then at night
Speaker 1: at the Culvert Hotel, they would just go insane. And
Speaker 1: the legend also is that the studio would they use
Speaker 1: underground tunnels to the shuttle the the actors, the munchkins
Speaker 1: underneath in the bowels of the hotel across the street
Speaker 1: to the MGM studios, so they would be undetected, so
Speaker 1: people wouldn't know what was going on about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's an interesting hotel. That's what you did the
Speaker 1: documentary and like it goes. I mean the big names
Speaker 1: in the old days of Holly Clark, Gable, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Greta Garbo, people like that. Um, Charlie Chaplin supposedly owned
Speaker 1: that hotel. And the legend is, although I don't think
Speaker 1: it's true, as he sold the hotel, he he lost
Speaker 1: the poker game and he is something with the pot
Speaker 1: game where they sold the hotel that John Wayne for
Speaker 1: one dollar or something like that. And so there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of stories about it. But it's a it's a
Speaker 1: pretty cool old Hollywood place. And so anyway, I you're
Speaker 1: interested in seeing the dark side, and I did see
Speaker 1: the first episode, which I was not in. It's well done.
Speaker 1: It's a good you like a good sports documentary The
Speaker 1: Dark Side of Football, and we'll see they talked about
Speaker 1: the Raiders on the in that episode. I know there's
Speaker 1: some I don't want to give it away, but there's
Speaker 1: some on you know, violent hits and the concussions and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, and the Eagles, the Cowboys, uh,
Speaker 1: you know some of the other stuff that we talked about.
Speaker 1: I have the book. I have not read it yet though,
Speaker 1: but The Dark Side it was I'm curious, what did
Speaker 1: they so when this is broken down in each episode
Speaker 1: sixty minutes in length or thirty minutes, So they're doing
Speaker 1: it like a short version with with an entire series
Speaker 1: or is it? No, the episode I saw was like
Speaker 1: an hour, like an hour deal I guess about with
Speaker 1: commercials or whatever, it's a little less. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that seems like the full the full manti there they're
Speaker 1: not cutting corners and maybe they were working on this
Speaker 1: for like a year and a half. Actually well no,
Speaker 1: not a year. But it was like during COVID the
Speaker 1: guys were traveling around and interviewing people, so you have
Speaker 1: to sign all these COVID disclosures and whatnot. I'll be
Speaker 1: curious why, I mean, why won't you watch it though,
Speaker 1: because editors, it's a making break with editors don't make
Speaker 1: it look good. They'll make you look bad. Yeah. No's
Speaker 1: I mean that's the whole thing with the documentary. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't see it because then I'll
Speaker 1: like be like I look fat or I look ugly,
Speaker 1: or you know I didn't wear that, or you know,
Speaker 1: why did I say that? I should have said this.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to do that. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I might check out a screenshot. I might, I'll take
Speaker 1: like a photo. Well, you're gonna have the same thing
Speaker 1: for you. I mean, I know Rob Parker did it
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know he does, and he's on TV
Speaker 1: all the time. I sends that stuff to us all
Speaker 1: the time. You're gonna have a handful of listeners are
Speaker 1: doing this anyway for you. They're gonna face is too
Speaker 1: shiny right here. Well. The funny thing about that is
Speaker 1: when I finished the shoot back in December, They're like, well,
Speaker 1: this should come out around the super Bowl. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, the Super Bowls in February early February.
Speaker 1: They wanted to do it like, you know, either promoted
Speaker 1: the beginning and then drop it right after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I was like, and it never happened. So I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe it got scrapped or something like that, maybe because
Speaker 1: I didn't hear from him. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe they never did the show. And then, um, here
Speaker 1: we are in June, and you know, February, not March,
Speaker 1: not April, not May, but we're in June, so five
Speaker 1: essentially five months later, and uh, and there it is.
Speaker 1: But I had actually forgotten about I figured they just
Speaker 1: scrapped in and that was it. But people pointing out
Speaker 1: they did not scrap So there you go. Can I share?
Speaker 1: Can I share a football? Um? Can I share a
Speaker 1: football story with you? Then? Um, I was. I was
Speaker 1: fortunate and lucky. I've I've been on a little bit
Speaker 1: of a kick thanks to what we've done in the markets,
Speaker 1: whether it's crypto or or obviously the New York Stock
Speaker 1: Exchange been up quite a while. At six six thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning, seven thirty in the morning, and um,
Speaker 1: I got a call a few days ago from this
Speaker 1: this digital company overseas that's based in Hamburg, Germany, and
Speaker 1: they contacted me because they needed, or they do need
Speaker 1: a handful of announcers to commentate on the new European
Speaker 1: Football League. So yesterday, No, not yesterday, the day before
Speaker 1: I did a test I did a test game for
Speaker 1: them and featured the Hamburg Sea Devils, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty interesting. It was a inter squad American
Speaker 1: style football. Yeah, American football they have so they have
Speaker 1: NFL rules except for overtime over time, they'll go to college.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, Yeah, it's a lot of the
Speaker 1: guys that were playing at the Division one level, whether
Speaker 1: it's FBS the FCS, and a lot of these dudes
Speaker 1: that play that in German leagues before or still play
Speaker 1: in German leagues. So yeah, it's pretty interesting. I was like, fine,
Speaker 1: you know, like you go through the you go through
Speaker 1: the roster and you're looking for the Johnson's, the Smiths,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you get those German
Speaker 1: last names and you're like, wait a minute, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a little challenging. Yeah, and are you gonna
Speaker 1: travel to Germany and no, no, So they're doing everything online. Um.
Speaker 1: The kicker on this, which is kind of unique, is
Speaker 1: that the European Football League is generating sixty players on
Speaker 1: each roster. You can only have ten foreign players and
Speaker 1: you can only have four Americans. So they want to
Speaker 1: keep it where it's centrics to centric to the state
Speaker 1: or the state the country that you're in. So right
Speaker 1: now it's comprised of Germany, Poland and Spain, and you
Speaker 1: can only have those players in that country or from
Speaker 1: that country playing those teams that want that. That's what
Speaker 1: most like I know in basketball. I've talked to guys
Speaker 1: that have played overseas and they have limits on how
Speaker 1: many Americans can play in like basketball, internationally, a lot
Speaker 1: of the countries have limits on that. You can only
Speaker 1: have one or two I forget the number is. But
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine they tried that in America? Well, you can
Speaker 1: only have one foreign player on your team, and then
Speaker 1: after that you're not a lot. Oh my god, the
Speaker 1: locarate would go nuts. They would lose their mind to crap.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Yeah, well you have a quota and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, reached our quota and that's it. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine if they did that for Major League Baseball? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: as far as like the Dominican Republic, American countries, ship
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays would be in a whole lot of time.
Speaker 1: It would be in the world of hurt. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it isn't you look at the US versus the world.
Speaker 1: I mean that a lot of the other places. That's
Speaker 1: I think I heard in the Mexican League, Mexican League baseball,
Speaker 1: they have a limit on how many US players you
Speaker 1: can have. I don't know that. Somebody told me that
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 1: So do you know that then for like the Japanese
Speaker 1: or Korean leagues? Is that the case? I believe that
Speaker 1: to be the case. Also, Yeah, I think we can
Speaker 1: double check it. But I know in basketball, I've I've
Speaker 1: worked with some guys that played basketball in different countries
Speaker 1: and they were limits on how many Americans I could
Speaker 1: play in that country. And I think in in Japanese baseball, yeah,
Speaker 1: that you can only have a couple of per team.
Speaker 1: That you've got to have mostly players from the Homeland.
Speaker 1: That's But as far as the broadcasting thing, like see
Speaker 1: now because of the COVID, this is one of the
Speaker 1: things like if you're an up start league, you're not
Speaker 1: going to actually have the broadcasters travel to wherever you are,
Speaker 1: right if you can save money now you can. People
Speaker 1: have been hypnotized and mesmerized and they don't really know
Speaker 1: where the broadcasters are, and so you could call games
Speaker 1: from your living room and you don't have to travel
Speaker 1: to Germany and need a sausage. You know, Germany Schnitzelman,
Speaker 1: the German press man. Yes. And the one lucture that
Speaker 1: we had with this game to which I loved they
Speaker 1: probably didn't was that they had two cameras but hot mics,
Speaker 1: and so that the mics were down there field level
Speaker 1: and you could just hear English speaking head coaches, a
Speaker 1: couple of them, more American dropping f bombs left and right,
Speaker 1: blown tackles, missed the simits, staying out of their lanes
Speaker 1: on kickoff and kickoff return. So it was awesome. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it would lay out just so I can hear the
Speaker 1: hot mics. It's really good. So and you're doing this
Speaker 1: in English, you don't speak Germans, you're doing this in English,
Speaker 1: and this is being broadcast where is this supposed to
Speaker 1: be broadcast? When you start doing it, it'll be broadcasted
Speaker 1: on a company's platform called Spock TV s p A
Speaker 1: l K TV. Yeah, so they do. They do a
Speaker 1: bunch of different sports. Have been trying to work with
Speaker 1: them for for a while and they do a lot
Speaker 1: of basketball, baseball. Um, I think they do polo, tennis, boxing,
Speaker 1: They do a handful of things. But where they are
Speaker 1: They an international company or they so they're they're based
Speaker 1: in Germany and but they've had people working in Germany, Australia,
Speaker 1: I think New Zealand and different parts of the UK.
Speaker 1: So do they pay well, Uh, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: even gotten into that. I gotta clear the first turtle
Speaker 1: man thing. I just want to make sure you get
Speaker 1: your money. I don't want to, you know, be upset
Speaker 1: about that. So they should that should you should say hey,
Speaker 1: how much am I getting? And I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: it this is unless I get X amount of dollars
Speaker 1: or whatever. Well, I it's it's interesting because of the
Speaker 1: sense that their head coaches and the commission have openly
Speaker 1: said that their idea for this league is not to
Speaker 1: make it a standalone. They want to make it as
Speaker 1: a transition link to the National Football League. I know
Speaker 1: that that's a huge leap, especially because you gotta think
Speaker 1: big man big, you know. They want to make this
Speaker 1: like the NFL Europe, right, yeah, yeah, well I remember
Speaker 1: the NFL Europe. It seemed like a good idea. But
Speaker 1: I remember people just used to complain that I didn't
Speaker 1: know who any of the right which is. But it's
Speaker 1: so dumbfounding to me because I love watching the MAC.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people do, but I'll watch
Speaker 1: that ship on Tuesdays and Wednesday nights. And outside of
Speaker 1: Jordan Patterson that played running back for Buffalo and scored
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns in the game last season, most people don't
Speaker 1: know who these cats are. But it's football. Well. I
Speaker 1: love the guys. And when you go to Vegas or
Speaker 1: anywhere now they have sports books, you go in there
Speaker 1: and there's always that one guy that's like the MAC guy.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, he bets on the Mac. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. Then there's the everyone's chasing Hawaii, but there's
Speaker 1: that person that studies Hawaii. They're kind of you know,
Speaker 1: that's their thing, you know, the Hawaii Warriors, the Rainbow
Speaker 1: Warriors and all that. Yeah, plus to the last game
Speaker 1: of the night. So if you're chasing an action from
Speaker 1: a blown pack twelve game at ten o'clock, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would argue that the sports books make more money from
Speaker 1: Hawaii than many of the schools in the Power five
Speaker 1: conferences because that that's the drain everything goes through at
Speaker 1: the end. You're trying to get your money back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I feel like it's amplified now because the continuance
Speaker 1: and I guess innovation of live betting too, right, Like
Speaker 1: you're not you're not waiting for a second half spread anymore. Now,
Speaker 1: you're waiting for the television time outs to come in. Yeah. Boy,
Speaker 1: that's a dangerous one, the live betting man, because you
Speaker 1: can bet on everything and it's I mean, jeez, that
Speaker 1: is a slippery slope, man. That's a death by a
Speaker 1: thousand paper cuts is what that is? Or a thousand
Speaker 1: you know, as was it R. J. Bell called pizza
Speaker 1: money bets. But you make enough pizza money bets and
Speaker 1: you got nothing. Yeah, you you lose enough pizza money
Speaker 1: bets and you will feel that, Yeah, that is not good. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know do you, because I know you go
Speaker 1: to bed usually around eight or nine o'clock after your show, right, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I usually go to bed between right around eight to nine,
Speaker 1: depending on the day. On Thursday, CNR not CNN. Fox
Speaker 1: Business on Thursday had the CEO and president of Fubo
Speaker 1: TV on Yeah, and he talked about how it was
Speaker 1: being treated as a meme stock for for some odd reason.
Speaker 1: But they have and obviously for those that don't know,
Speaker 1: they could check it out. But I think you talk
Speaker 1: about a loaded gun with live betting. Fobo TV is
Speaker 1: gonna have where if you're watching let's say, like the
Speaker 1: Colts in the Charge Years, they're gonna have a menu
Speaker 1: that's up there and available for you to live bet
Speaker 1: or place bets on other games at the flick of
Speaker 1: a switch on your television channel or just on a
Speaker 1: on a touch screen. So yeah, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1: I think there's that novelty of going to Vegas, Like
Speaker 1: we could hop in a car and go four hours
Speaker 1: to Vegas in a car or a forty five minute
Speaker 1: of flight, But fuck dealing bets from your house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful. I mean to me, the way
Speaker 1: this would work, you know, and that's you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people obviously get swept up in this
Speaker 1: and lose everything. But you gotta be careful. But you
Speaker 1: can say that about any any vice, like people drink
Speaker 1: too much? Does that mean we should ban alcohol? They
Speaker 1: tried that prohibition. It didn't work. People people will do
Speaker 1: to anything to excess, but everything in moderation. But to me,
Speaker 1: the whole the way it would work in the perfect world.
Speaker 1: You know, let's say, uh, on a Friday night, it
Speaker 1: worked all week, there's a game or a sun day afternoon,
Speaker 1: and you want to put a couple of bucks down,
Speaker 1: you know, and then but you go crazy. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's But when you go to Vegas, you have
Speaker 1: a dollar amount set aside that you're you're seeing yourself.
Speaker 1: I can lose this much, right, Yeah, that's my donation,
Speaker 1: that's my tax, and I paid to the casino. That's
Speaker 1: the real that's the real resort fee. But they charge
Speaker 1: you a bullshit resort for resort fee. What do I
Speaker 1: think people are going there and not gambling? Why the
Speaker 1: funk would you go to Vegas and not gable? Part
Speaker 1: of the resort fee for thirty five dollars is the
Speaker 1: gym and the telephone and the wifire internet access in
Speaker 1: your room, Like the funk is using that exactly. Well,
Speaker 1: the WiFi I get, but it doesn't cost thirty five
Speaker 1: dollars per person for the WiFi, and nobody uses the
Speaker 1: hotel gyms. It's a completely empty Yeah, the waste of
Speaker 1: time use your phone at the at the casino tables anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, wife bull ship, they get away with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that resort for you. It's like, we'll just put that
Speaker 1: in the price of the room because you're afraid to
Speaker 1: do it, so you tack it on at the end
Speaker 1: and you go there. You're like, well, I'm getting a
Speaker 1: great deal at hotel and you know, forty bucks a
Speaker 1: night with a seventy dollar resort fee, you know whatever
Speaker 1: it is. It's like so stupid, and don't forget you
Speaker 1: need to pay for parking, right Yeah, well yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's why I got all those credit cards. I guess.
Speaker 1: I heard they got rid of that though with the
Speaker 1: COVID they were so desperate to get people to come back.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they brought the parking the charge parking back,
Speaker 1: but I had heard they got rid of that because
Speaker 1: I'd bet a Vegas and in a while since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: But the last time I was in Vegas you had
Speaker 1: to pay parking. But I heard they got rid of
Speaker 1: that because they were trying to encourage people to go
Speaker 1: back to the casino. It's funny you bring that up.
Speaker 1: I just noticed on Delta's website a few days ago
Speaker 1: that they did away with cancelation charges. So if you
Speaker 1: booked a flight out of l A to go to
Speaker 1: New York, let's say on Sunday, and you can't go anymore,
Speaker 1: you can cancel, not cancel, but you get a flight
Speaker 1: credit now into your account. You got a voucher before
Speaker 1: they would charge you I think at least seventy five
Speaker 1: dollars to cancel or change it. And then they would
Speaker 1: they would charge you the difference on an upcoming flight.
Speaker 1: And why did they Because they could. That's why they could.
Speaker 1: And all the other you know, the nuisance fees, like
Speaker 1: the baggage fees and all that stuff. It's but I
Speaker 1: did did learn a lesson when I traveled some in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, actually before that, Like you know, you don't
Speaker 1: pay for a bag to be checked in. What you
Speaker 1: do is you try to put it in the overhead
Speaker 1: they'll be out of space, and then they'll check it
Speaker 1: in for you for free. Yeah, so that's the move.
Speaker 1: You don't actually pay for it in advance because they'll
Speaker 1: just do it, and that way you don't have to
Speaker 1: pay for now you will when you travel, especially when
Speaker 1: you went to Boston, did you either bring a jacket
Speaker 1: or a sweater? Uh? Yeah, I had to bring a
Speaker 1: couple of jackets. I mean, it wasn't freezing, but it was,
Speaker 1: you know, still April and ball spin. It's not particularly warm.
Speaker 1: So that's what I did, or that's why I do.
Speaker 1: I'll bring a huge jacket, usually like a winter coat,
Speaker 1: and I'll bring it with my bag. If my bag
Speaker 1: is too big, I'll try to put it up on
Speaker 1: the upper bend compartment, but if I can't, I'll put
Speaker 1: it underneath my seat, but put my jacket over it.
Speaker 1: And since it's black, you can't really see the dimensions
Speaker 1: of the bag. Yeah, I don't when you walk on
Speaker 1: the plane, though, don't they normally I can't see what's
Speaker 1: going on. They assumed I'm gonna put it in the
Speaker 1: overhead bit. Okay, Yeah, so you're saying the flight attendants
Speaker 1: aren't very punctual with what there like, like checking everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not a student, especially since the intent or I
Speaker 1: moved my legs around a little bit doesn't look like
Speaker 1: I'm crammed. I'll spread spread out a little bit. And
Speaker 1: my big, my big fat days back in the day
Speaker 1: when I would fly in the seatbelt didn't particularly fit well.
Speaker 1: I was. There were a few flights I was able
Speaker 1: to pretend like I had the seatbelt on and I didn't.
Speaker 1: That's what you do, well, I would. I would put
Speaker 1: my arms on my lap right where the middle of
Speaker 1: the seatbelt was, and I hold my hand over it
Speaker 1: to make it seem like it was together. But it
Speaker 1: was what it wasn't and uh And very rarely did
Speaker 1: I have any issue with him saying, what can I
Speaker 1: see the full you know, the clicking of the seabelt.
Speaker 1: They assumed that it was connected and it wasn't always
Speaker 1: the case. It's better than them tugging on it, right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's good. All right. We have a few
Speaker 1: scientifical stories here, and this one's crazy. So a new
Speaker 1: study out found that nearly half of Americans say they
Speaker 1: are convinced dinosaurs still exist in some remote corner of
Speaker 1: the world. How crazy is that? Uh? And uh, but
Speaker 1: wait there's more. Four in ten people survey think that
Speaker 1: the prehistoric creatures existed between two thousand and ten thousand
Speaker 1: years ago, rather than between sixties six and two thirty
Speaker 1: million years ago, which is what science says. And what
Speaker 1: in five even think the dinosaur population only went extinct
Speaker 1: a hundred years That like, in nineteen twenty one, there
Speaker 1: were dinosaurs sours roaming around while Babe Ruth was playing
Speaker 1: for the Yankees. Just after World War One, we have
Speaker 1: dinosaurs roam in the world. Imagine they would They would
Speaker 1: weaponize the dinosaurs, put like bazookas on him and ship
Speaker 1: like that. Fifty percent also believed all dinosaurs only lived
Speaker 1: in Africa and North America, unaware that these are you know,
Speaker 1: these creatures were everywhere, And despite their being a thousand
Speaker 1: different species of dinosaur, the typical adult can name only
Speaker 1: how many dinosaurs four that's right for, with the most
Speaker 1: popular dinosaur being the t rex. Yeah, Tyronosaurus rex most recognizable.
Speaker 1: That's the the o G of the dinosaur, and that's
Speaker 1: the king. That's great. Though nearly half of Americans say
Speaker 1: they're convinced the dinosaurs still exists somewhere here's the correct
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park. That's the Jurassic Park thing, right, So why
Speaker 1: don't we think that was a documentary or something. Dr
Speaker 1: Grant and obviously the the other ones in amusement park.
Speaker 1: I we don't explore the the ocean enough do We
Speaker 1: were really fascinated with without our space, which is understandable.
Speaker 1: But what about the deep sea, the deep blue sea.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's probably all kinds of crap living down
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the ocean that we have no idea.
Speaker 1: There could be a whole different That's one of the
Speaker 1: theories on the UFOs, that they're actually creatures that live
Speaker 1: in the ocean that we don't know about. There's some
Speaker 1: kind of alien alien it'll be on the planet, but
Speaker 1: deep in the bowels and the monsters out there. Like
Speaker 1: they say that dinosaurs are gone, but I look at
Speaker 1: a blue whale, I think that's that's a that's a dinosaur,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that To me, that's a dinosaur. Man
Speaker 1: or the the Komodo dragon. Yeah, to me, it looks
Speaker 1: like a little dinosaur. Looks like yeah, alright. A new
Speaker 1: study finds one in two Americans in a relationship admit
Speaker 1: that their current partner is the worst sex they've ever had.
Speaker 1: How about that? I believe it? What are they doing? Well,
Speaker 1: you just get used to it and now it's just
Speaker 1: all about getting on and getting off. So it's like
Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies. Once you eat the same chocolate chip
Speaker 1: cookie every day, you tire of the chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 1: But you can't use an example of me. I'm a
Speaker 1: chocolate fiend. I don't know about that. You're not you're
Speaker 1: not married. Uh. Let's see, so you think that's more
Speaker 1: for men or more for women? I bet, I bet
Speaker 1: it's actually equal. You think so? I think both are like,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of over it another. Let's see here
Speaker 1: a quarter to this, they said people getting injured during
Speaker 1: the hay key pankey. Seven percent said it happened in
Speaker 1: the shower, so be careful slipping the shower. Say they
Speaker 1: hurt themselves while trying the wheelbarrow. But that there you go,
Speaker 1: talking about manual labor. Uh, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, all right? Uh?
Speaker 1: What one in five people have actually banned a board
Speaker 1: game for causing problems on game night. One of those
Speaker 1: who brought down the apparently the one that caused the
Speaker 1: most problems was Monopoly, Monopoly or scrabble, and Monopoly has
Speaker 1: been banned at the most place. According to a recent
Speaker 1: survey of US residents say their game night with friends
Speaker 1: or family members are often or always disrupted by competitive
Speaker 1: or unfriendly behavior. And they say that said that people
Speaker 1: that they would quit the game because they're losing. That
Speaker 1: you can't do that. That's what Lebron did when he
Speaker 1: walked off. I'm losing, so I'm gonna go to the
Speaker 1: locker room and I'm gonna get a treatment. And the
Speaker 1: guys that sucked my toes will say I was good
Speaker 1: in treatment and I wasn't just being a bad sport. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Someone accusing another player of cheating also popular, and two
Speaker 1: or more players getting into an argument. So those are
Speaker 1: all reasons you have back. You have to admit Monopoly lags.
Speaker 1: It just wears you down. Uh yeah, I used to
Speaker 1: like it when I was a kid, but I remember
Speaker 1: my parents are like a little long. It wouldn't end,
Speaker 1: you know, I just go on for too long. And Scrabble,
Speaker 1: Chest Checkers, Umish checkers, Go Fish my favorite. I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a god fish fiend and machine both fish love spades.
Speaker 1: Did you play spades as a kid. I played recently
Speaker 1: and not recently. A couple years I started playing Old Maid.
Speaker 1: That's a good game. That is a good game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like Old underraate. It sounds like an old you know,
Speaker 1: old grandmother's play Old Maid. But it's a good game.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've you've noticed this when you've
Speaker 1: gone in Vegas. But do you know that some of
Speaker 1: the casinos have War? Uh No, I don't really. At Paris,
Speaker 1: I played it. You can play the dealer heads up
Speaker 1: in War, and I didn't. I broke even, but I
Speaker 1: just it was pretty intense. He's going to run and
Speaker 1: then you get your ass kicked. You're gonna run and
Speaker 1: get beat again. Yeah, talking about the ebbs and flows,
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, all right, a few we have a
Speaker 1: limited time, so we do a few pop quiz questions.
Speaker 1: A new report claims the best time to buy one
Speaker 1: of these is more than two months before you plan
Speaker 1: to use it. What is it? Oh? Um, can't be
Speaker 1: a house, a refrigerator, a car, I will say, I
Speaker 1: will say, um, a barbecue a barbecue? All right? Uh No,
Speaker 1: it's a plane ticket to get the best deal you're
Speaker 1: supposed to buy it. I think it's a hundred days
Speaker 1: or something. Not in a hundreds, maybe less than that,
Speaker 1: maybe seventies something days. I think it is the number
Speaker 1: before you use a plane ticket, all right. In a
Speaker 1: new survey, almost six of people say when they eat
Speaker 1: this particular food, they wish they were alone. They would
Speaker 1: rather be alone than have other people around a banana banana?
Speaker 1: Uh no, although this can be served with a banana.
Speaker 1: This particular food ice cream, Yeah, ice cream. I could
Speaker 1: eat a carton of ice cream by myself with a
Speaker 1: spoon to sit down. You're like the trope of the
Speaker 1: lonely person. Actually your woman sitting on the couch eating
Speaker 1: the slop when it comes to ice cream. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like my ice cream, but I don't know if I
Speaker 1: like it that much. According to any of women at it,
Speaker 1: they get suspicious whenever they're significant of the other. Does
Speaker 1: this What are they doing? Locks his phone? Uh no,
Speaker 1: that's a good one, but no, the answer is sending
Speaker 1: them flowers. What Yeah, because they think that they might
Speaker 1: have cheated on him. That's why they send them flowers.
Speaker 1: No good deed goes unpunished, I guess, so, no good
Speaker 1: deed goes unpunished. Clue. Uh. Men are twice as likely
Speaker 1: as women to say they are really good at this sex.
Speaker 1: Uh No, parallel parking parks, well, I think you know
Speaker 1: where I stand on that. That's pretty pretty prolific in
Speaker 1: that area. Proved yourself. There's some photos on the internet
Speaker 1: if you want to. Yeah, precision driving, Ben Malley, Yes, yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here of homeowners admit this is something they
Speaker 1: haven't done for some time, even though they know they
Speaker 1: really should clean the Uh clean they on top of
Speaker 1: the roof roof. No, it is something cleaning, obviously, something
Speaker 1: you should clean the bathroom. No, you know that that
Speaker 1: lint filter thing on the dryer. Yeah, you don't do
Speaker 1: it after every run? Oh I do. My wife does,
Speaker 1: and she she she has the laundry. I I usually
Speaker 1: do the dishes and she does a lot of laundry,
Speaker 1: but I'll do the laundry occasionally. And I did the
Speaker 1: laundry earlier this week, and I I always checked the
Speaker 1: lint thing before I do put the dryer on. So
Speaker 1: I pulled out the lint thing and it was like
Speaker 1: a bowling ball of lint that I put all. It
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. I'm surprised that things didn't light on fire,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know I had done the laundry in
Speaker 1: a while. I was like, hey, you know what are
Speaker 1: you doing? Yeah? Yeah, I check it occasionally. Yeah, has
Speaker 1: so much link it was. It was insane, insane, all right.
Speaker 1: No matter where you work, I don't care whether you
Speaker 1: work at a radio station, a you know, you're a
Speaker 1: truck driver, you work in a hospital or a church.
Speaker 1: No matter where you work, chances are you do this
Speaker 1: about fifty five times a week. M hmmm. Fifty five
Speaker 1: times a week. Yeah, go to the bathroom? Uh no,
Speaker 1: might I think that would be a lot, about fifty
Speaker 1: five times in a week. I don't do the math
Speaker 1: on that. On the bathroom five days a week? That's uh?
Speaker 1: Is that eleven and a half times? I think you'd
Speaker 1: lose your job if you went to the bathroom. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Uh. The answer is do curse. Curse. You're
Speaker 1: gonna curse fifty five times no matter what you do.
Speaker 1: And in radio you can't curse on the air, but
Speaker 1: you can't curse off the years free to do that.
Speaker 1: Eleven people say they are still at their current job
Speaker 1: because their boss allows them to do this. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Work remotely. Uh no, I know it's coming late. Be
Speaker 1: tardying doesn't matter. They don't care, alright. Last one, we're
Speaker 1: up against it here. Percentage of people under the age
Speaker 1: of thirty that use their phone in the bathroom, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. I'm gonna say of people under the age
Speaker 1: of thirty use their phone in the bathroom. But the
Speaker 1: answer is ship while they're sitting there dropping some logs,
Speaker 1: are on their phone, playing around. It's got to be
Speaker 1: high too, though, I come on to me, what else
Speaker 1: you gonna read a book? I guess you could do that,
Speaker 1: But what happened to they remember? Like the old school,
Speaker 1: you'd have the tal rack and then underneath you'd also
Speaker 1: have the magazines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well you
Speaker 1: go to the Vegas hotel, some of the high end hotels,
Speaker 1: they have the guy there with the we talked about
Speaker 1: this before. I hate that, you know, the guy sitting
Speaker 1: there with the the the breath, the breath mail and
Speaker 1: they got the cologns And I hate that, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: then you're in there going to the bathroom. Here's everything.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta let one rip. He'll hear you know.
Speaker 1: It's very awkward, very awkward. Anyway, that's it. Have a
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