WEBVTT - Life's Observation Deck 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.400 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.080 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.360 Hot takes break free for something special. The fifth Hour 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.920 with Ben Maller starts right now for us, though here 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:31.520 it is we are back at it again, another fresh 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.000 hot out of the digital oven. Addition of the fifth 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.440 hour of the I Heart podcast Network, available wherever you 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.400 get your podcast. You've already figured that out, so I 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.879 don't need to tell you about the global reach of podcasting. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.160 And we're timeless. This is audio art that you could 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.159 listen to at any point. Although I'm told that this 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.279 podcast is dated because we talked about things that are 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.120 kind of going on right now, but we try not 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.280 to put any time stamp on it. And it's it's 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.520 myself and back again. I thought he would be gone, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.480 but David Gascon the Narcissist is in the building. Back 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.199 in the building. With a rate of return of thirty 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.920 one and a half percent, a FICO score of eight 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.880 hundred uh, six ft one pounds. I am here loud 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.880 and proud of and your douchebag scores through the roof 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.640 as well. So congratulations on that, you dumbo hitter man. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.920 Good shot by you, right, I mean, listen, the clown 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.560 Prince of the podcast has returned here for cuckoo for 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.000 cocoa puff. So, uh, listen what we're gonna talk about. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:39.240 Let's just get to them. I want to, I don't 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.080 want to. I don't wanna be s here, I don't 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.120 want to be. I'll get right to it, all right. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.760 So we've got brush with Doom. We've got that hands 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:54.080 and knees master class grab bag. That's actual questions from 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.280 actual listeners. We've got some good ones this week. And 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.920 study this, study this, We've got that also, and don't 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.920 stick to sports. Do you understand you comprehend all these things? Guessing? Yeah, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.920 I heard you a couple of nights ago cheating on 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.240 the segment you were doing a little study this over 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.280 the last hours. So it was a little disturbed by that. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:15.760 But it's fine. I mean, you can use some of 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.080 that bullshit on your radio show. It's fine. Why I 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.360 had no idea you were you were so protective of 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.320 the podcast that you wanted me to not use any 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.920 of those. I have so many sometimes I don't I 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.839 don't have time to get to them all here. Well, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.760 that's fine. I'm trying to slander me. No, I'm not 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.680 trying to slander you. I'm just stating facts. It's it's fine. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.600 We're knee deep in in the political realm of impeachment, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.880 so I'm not gonna slander you. I'm not gonna accuse you. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.440 I'm not gonna to fame you in any way. So 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.000 we're good, man. I'm just pointing out the obvious. What 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.480 you did on your show is for the show. It's 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.919 not for the podcast. I like to have you compartmentalized 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.720 and keep one thing to that side and another thing 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.680 to this side. Yeah, well, you did run into me 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.360 when you don't work very much at the building when 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.839 I'm there. But you you know you because you're you 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.640 can't handle the overnight hours. But you walked in one 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:09.520 time this week and you were you were, I guess 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.880 upset with me for doing a whole week of death 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:17.400 Radio regarding Kobe Bryant's demise last weekend. You were very upset, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.839 so I thought we should on this podcast, do some 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.240 maccabre more death talk? Right, Well, this is an entire 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.880 month's worth the podcast that we do death talk on. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.240 it's I think it's good. I mentioned that there was 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.720 a study. I mentioned this. I was talking about Kobe 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.240 and people love spreading bad news and it's part of 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:43.200 human nature. It's a it's very primal that from the 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.880 early stages of the brain. It's a survival instinct that 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.480 people don't pay attention to good news. They pay attention 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.800 to bad news because it could threaten there existence and 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.960 I could throw you know what I'm saying. So it's 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.480 a little odd though, consider the fact that you're your 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:05.880 better half is full of optimism and life and glee 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.880 and good fortune, and yet you are the contrarian to that. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.839 It's a little odd, don't you think. Uh No, well, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.840 my wife's the exceptional rule. I believe I am in 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.239 the majority, and I have years and years of data 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.279 that I have collected from doing the show that I do, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.120 that I know, and I've done very fortunate. I have 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.000 done the postgame show. Here's a humble brag for the 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.280 Dodgers years ago and the Red Sox a couple of 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.680 years ago, and it didn't matter whether you were in 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.360 Boston or l A. When the Red Sox or Dodgers won, 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.960 there weren't as many people that were interested in calling 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.960 up to talk about the game. But when the Red 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.400 Sox or Dodgers were going through a tough patch, everyone 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.760 was had an answer, Everyone had a solution. Everyone wanted 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.680 to give you their ten cents. It's just human nature. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.280 That's how people are not fair enough. But now are you? Now? 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.200 Are you doing this from the I Heart Radio studios 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.800 in your backyard? You that she doing this from South Beach, Florida, 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.480 because I know that. Yeah, I'm actually at Radio Row. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.680 We're gonna have Joe Montana is gonna tell you sell 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.000 you some sketchers coming up that'll be in the later 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.960 part of the podcast. And I think I'll be sending 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.440 out some photos of my steak dinners. I haven't sent 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.039 any of those out, so I've got to do some 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.040 of that. And you should check out the view from 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.680 my hotel room. It's unbelievable. Gas gun. Doesn't it sound good? 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.760 It sounds and it sounds good here I'm I'm in 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.159 the the special Remote Radio Row studio and uh I 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.000 only came down for the podcast. I'm not allowed to 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.280 do the show there, but from the podcast perspective, that's 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.960 why I'm here, so fair enough. Now, have you finished 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.760 watching the Aaron Hernana's documentary since I know you have 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.560 all this? I did? I did. I watched it last weekend. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.680 Like I said, I was, I I finished it and 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.800 I enjoyed it. They did a very good job. It 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.440 was well made. Whoever made that for Netflix? A solid job, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:56.520 wonderfully produced in the production value, and a let up 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:02.880 individual one Aaron her name days they were and I 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.520 liked what one of the former Patriot players said that, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.560 you know, it's part of the documentary. It was like 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.599 they were making excuses for Aaron Hernandez going around and 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.560 being a murderer. And one of the guys, one of 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.760 his former teammates, said, now that's a cop out, and 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.480 I thought that that was where I'm at. You know, yeah, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.840 bad things happened to you and it sucks, but you know, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.719 there's you can't be on the I'm gonna get back 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.479 and retaliate by killing people or you know, shooting in 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.320 the cars. It's not how a civilized world works. And 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.280 can you know the matter, everyone everyone who's committed to crime. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.719 Everyone has become, you know, a murderer or something like that. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.200 They've had a bad break along the way, right, you 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:45.880 know what I'm saying, There's been a couple of things 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.520 like that, but that doesn't mean they don't go to 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.200 jail or whatever happens. So, well, you know what, you 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.440 know what happens when someone spilled a drink on you. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:54.880 You pull out your nine and all of a sudden 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.680 you empty the clip. Wow, I see, Well that's the Patriot. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.960 Well I see Aaron Hernandez was gonna Patriot best air 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.599 in Hernandez. Way, Yeah, don't don't. Don't bring that in 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.200 with Kronkowski and Brady. Sorry, al right, so let's get 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.280 to brush with do and it ties into the Kobe 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.000 Bryant story. The helicopter crashed last weekend. So Kylie Jenner, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.760 h you know who Kylie Jenner is. She's she's like 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.280 a million billion dollar model because she's tied in with 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.720 the Kardashians. She's got that Kardashian DNA and she posted 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.480 the other day that she was a frequent flyer, a 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:34.480 frequent flyer in the helicopter that Kobe Bryant crashed in Alkay. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.480 So that was the the statement there that she she 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.080 took the helicopter quite a bit there and did that. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:42.880 So I wanted to talk about it now. I have 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.600 you ever been in a helicopter? No, I've I've never 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.520 been in a helicopter. I think the closest thing that 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.360 has been resembled to a helicopter for me has been 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.840 one of those little prop planes which scared the ship 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.080 out of me. Part of my French and some people 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.280 like the foul language. You want a prop plane like 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.920 one of those like spin the spin, the propeller type. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.200 Do I took h I would not get on. I 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.080 don't think. I don't think I'm allowed to get on 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.480 one of those. I think I'm too big. Probably the weather. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.400 The weather was so bad too. I was a recruiting 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.680 trip for football. I went from UH. I went from 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.760 Seattle to Pullman, Washington. I was at a camp at 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.720 Washington State and it was really weird. I a buddy 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.440 of mine and I were at the airport and we 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.080 had paid for some food, but I didn't have a 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.120 lot of money, and at the time I took a 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.640 little bit more from the UH from the pizza hut 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.760 stand than I paid for, and I had it on 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.680 my person. I had it on top of a bag, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.520 but the clerk didn't see all of that, so I 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.839 only paid for a portion of it. Went on to 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.920 the flight. And this flight, I kid you not Ben, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.960 It was like Magic Mountain. There was a roller coaster 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.400 going up and down, up and down sideways to sideways, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.319 and I thought in my head, I'll ship this is 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:03.920 karma for stealing that pizza. Payback, payback. Yeah, I've never 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.559 been on a prop plane like that. I've never been 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.520 flying in a helicopter. When I was a kid, I 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.040 grew up near what used to be the El Toro 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.439 Marine Base and the Tusted Marine Base in Orange County. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.800 I was like sandwiched between these and I we used 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.920 to see the Blue Angels practicing and it was I 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.520 have great memories of that being around military basis that 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.800 neither one exists anymore. But I remember going to the 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.480 open house at the military base and it was like 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.000 a big deal. You know. We got to go and 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.840 my my parents, like my mom was, oh, you can 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.760 run through the tanks and you can run through the helicopters. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.680 And in those days, they led us like we could go. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.800 They had an open house. You could like literally sit 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.719 in a in a in a goddamn tank or or 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.680 a military helicopter was wild and the planes, you know, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.560 it was it was just crazy. I don't think they 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.920 do that anymore. Maybe they do, I don't know, um. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.040 But anyway, so I was in a helicop. I never 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.080 flew in it. And then the other question I had 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.440 regarding as Kylie Jenner's story is, of course made it 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.080 all about her, you know the fact that she flew 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.400 in the helicopter. Uh, and her had her it, I 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.880 guess in the helicopter. But have you ever had a 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.640 similar situation like that where you had a brush with tragedy? 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.200 And I've told the story a few times over the years, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.760 but I have had that happened to me, and it 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.640 is very surreal when you experienced something like that. Now, 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.600 I had the same experience a lot of people had, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.920 um but it involved September eleven and and back in. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.920 If you haven't heard the story, if you're you're new 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.560 to the show, I've told it a few times over 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.840 the years. But in late August of about two weeks 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.400 before the event, it took place in September eleventh, the 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.720 hijacking and the attack on New York and the Pentagon 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.800 and all that. I was visiting my my older brother 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.680 who's lived in New York for years. It was me, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.840 my younger brother who's who was living in California at 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.640 the time, now losing Wisconsin, and my older brother. Uh, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.200 and we were on like a brother's trip, you know. Uh, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.839 me and my my younger brother. We were just like 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.760 hanging out with my older brother and you know, showing 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.360 it. He He was showing us around all that I've been 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.240 to New York before, my younger brother hadn't. So they 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.200 we were going to all the tourist traps in New York. Um, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.439 and uh, we're going all you know, the Statue of 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.800 Liberty and all that, and you know, the all the 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.280 all the things standard New York City sightseeing. And it 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.280 was late August. Now, if you've ever been in New York, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.480 you live in New York. In late August. It's muggy, nasty. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.960 The humidity level is through the roof, the stupidity level 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.720 is through the roof. And but of course I'm cheap. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.960 I'm also very fat at this time, much fatter than 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.840 I am now. And we were walking around New York. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.160 I'm covered in sweat, right, and I'm just covering its way. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.000 So anyway, long story short, we make it to the 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.800 South Tower of the World Trade Center to visit the 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.160 observation deck, which is a top. If you remember the 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.920 World Trade the original World Trade Center, it was a 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:50.040 top that South tower. So we're in the lobby. It's 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:55.360 about if I remember, and you know, memories fleeting. But 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.080 as I remember, it was about four or four fifteen 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:04.160 something along those lines, and the observation that closed at 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.880 five o'clock and it was very expensive to go up 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:12.960 to the observation deck in the South Tower. So and this, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.880 this is one thing on my deathbed, I assume I 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.920 will remember this. I I said, I'm not doing it. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.760 I said, no, that's a waste of money. And I 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.319 remember we walked out of the South Tower of the 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.640 World Trade Center, and you know, and we were right 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.199 between the North and the South Tower, that little courtyard area, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.360 and I looked up to the heavens and these massive 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.160 buildings that looked like they went all the way into 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.319 outer space when you stood at the ground at the 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.320 World Trade Center. And I said to my brothers, I said, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.720 these things aren't going anywhere. Next time we're in New York, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.240 we'll just go to the observation deck. And two weeks later, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.440 those buildings vanished in on September eleven, and it it's 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.600 just crazy. My mom was so freaked out for several reasons, 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.640 like everyone was, but the fact she she could not 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.120 get over the fact that we were there. And then 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.760 there were media reports at the time that said that 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:07.080 the terrorists had done some dry runs around, some scouting 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.760 trips around the towers the time we were visiting, right 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.120 around you know those not probably not the afternoon time, 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.840 but they were there, uh in New York doing some 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.720 scouting at the World Trade Center around that time. But 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.760 I did learn a valuable lesson and it's even if 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.400 you have limited time and it's expensive, take advantage of it. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.719 I was in Boston on another trip and I was 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.360 at the Kennedy Museum, the Kennedy Presidential Museum in Boston, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.880 which I think is on Boston University's campus, like right 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.720 there anyway, so it was same situation. It was like 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.000 it was like half an hour till the place closed, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.400 and it was the only day we had to go there, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.280 and I paid the money. I ran through the Kennedy 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.240 Presidential Museum in about half an hour because they kick 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.000 you out at five o'clock. Uh and uh and so 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.960 I learned my lesson there. That did not push stuff 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.080 off if you you say it's gonna be there, because 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.679 stuff isn't there forever. But that was my my brush 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:05.679 with doom if you will. Now, I guess on that 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.480 point too, when you talk about taking advantage of what's 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.400 available to you, like, why doesn't that like why doesn't 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.760 that jump start your interest of traveling abroad? Because that 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.040 certainly did for me. We had this conversation last week 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.600 about visiting asch Fitz and Broken Now and the concentration camps, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.520 Like I think that's so instrumental. Just see, especially you 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.720 because you're Jewish, like to take that stuff in face 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.160 to face as opposed to like what you see online 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.720 or what you're reading a book through school. I mean, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.200 I did this last year through a buddy of mine 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.040 turned forty and he lives in Ireland. So I want 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.560 to go meet up with him, but he's a doctor, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.200 and another buddy of mine he had to go. He 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.000 went to go visit family in Croatia. So I hate 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.440 flying um and going obviously to Europe is not something 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.480 I wanted to do alone, but I did it anyway. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.040 So I flew into London, I chewed that up for 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.640 a day, then took a flight down a pair and 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.040 I went wire to wire for three days in Paris. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.720 I think the one thing I did regret was I 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.840 assumed that the Louver was going to be open from 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.240 morning until like eight or nine o'clock at night, and 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.520 I got there about three o'clock in the afternoon and 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.240 it closed at six. So I spent three hours inside 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.000 the louver. But Austin God Been, I could have spent 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.280 all day and all night in that place, just to 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.480 soak it all up and see all the art and 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.680 all the creativity and all the work, and just to 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.640 have the enjoyment of seeing that stuff, whether it's in 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.560 Paris or in Amsterdam, or you know, we went to 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.400 Spain port. I'm just saying, like, those are the things 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.120 that if you mentioned that I love traveling in the 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.080 United States, I've been to twenty two states so far 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.600 out of the fifty. But I enjoy it specially because 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.280 you get to I like, I like traveling around the 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:55.200 United States. My main disdain with international travel is I 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.720 feel like a lot of countries are not designed for 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.600 people my size. I'm very tall. I uh you know. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.200 I I've lost a lot of weight, but I'm still 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.120 a big guy. And I do not want to travel. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.080 First of all, the plane travels a nightmare. But I 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.320 don't want to spend money and go on vacation and 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.920 then have a very I'm reluctant to do it because 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.200 I think it's gonna be very uncomfortable for me. I 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.240 won't fit in cars, i won't fit in the beds 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.600 um and I'm not even like the size of an 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.880 NBA player. Now. I know there's ways you can do it, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.560 and you spend more money and you get a bigger 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.680 bed and all that stuff, but I just seems like 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.760 a big inconvenience, and I despise going somewhere and feeling 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.040 like I am Andre the Giant, uh you know, compared 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.400 to everybody else. I don't want to. I don't want 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.080 to experience that. I mean, who needs You're not a 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.160 victim here? And when you go to you're not saying 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.280 I'm a victim. I'm just telling you why. I am 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.720 unwilling and I loathe going to there's some European countries 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.960 where that's not the case. But I I am resistant 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.360 because I believe that I will find the ones that 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.200 are averse to people my size. Here's the thing is that, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.320 and I think anyone can be contest to attest to this, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.960 is that when go to Europe or even in Japan, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.439 you're doing a lot of walking anyway, or if you 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.200 get on a train or any of those trolleys. I mean, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:09.840 you can do that stuff no matter where you go. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.119 Size doesn't matter, and most of the time it's always 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.840 enjoyable to walk to those pop You say that because 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.440 you are of the size where you fit in everything. No, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.639 I'm six one to twenty. It's not not here we go. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.200 What do you is is like the old Dan Patrick 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.280 show ring a bell for your height and waight. No, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.399 but it's not what I mean what you are the 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.880 ultimate narcissist. Let me give my height and weight. I'm 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.000 not a small guy. Some my nose. I'm not a 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.199 small guy. I got problems when I get onto a 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.239 plane or when I walk through No, you don't, of 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.760 course I do. I'm six six or whatever I am. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:42.760 I get on a plane, what are you worried about 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.359 someone hitting me with sniper fire from a rooftop because 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.600 you're so much bigger than I'm not worried about that. 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.000 I'm worried about having to, you know, decapitate the lower 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:52.919 part of my legs so I fit in the plane, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.360 or or getting into one of those taxi cabs and uh, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.320 you know an Amsterdam or something like that, I'll be 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.280 able to fit. Okay, So Amsterdam you can bike everywhere 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.359 you go, and you can get on the ferries that 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.160 take you across some of the canals, so that's easy 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.159 for you. Walk around town where they're going through like 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.080 the Red Light District, or even through like some many 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.680 other business areas, so that's not a problem. Same thing 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.520 with Spain, same thing with Portugal. London. You got the 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.320 you got the train, you can go through the underground. Um. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.480 I haven't been in Italy yet, but do come on, man, 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.280 those are just excuses the reality. I've studied it a 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.320 little bit the Internet. They people have said similar things. Anyway, 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.160 Maybe if you go if you're flying internationally, don't forget 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.800 you're usually flying on like a seven seventies seven and 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.120 those air busses. Those things are spacious and you can 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.920 always sit one of the emergency level seats too, so 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.120 you're gonna have plenty of leg room. I get it, 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:49.080 But pony it up many easy for you to say 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.760 it up, easy for you to say, Yes, I'm saying 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.680 pony it up to an overnight radio host that works 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:59.120 four hours at night for Monday through Friday. Yes, you're right. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.159 I show up one minute before the show, and I 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.840 do no show prep. That is acting. That is absolutely 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.160 You've been in the industry for what twenty years, I'd say, 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.040 i'd seem to say with the mansions that you have 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.960 not mansion um and the uh, the exhorbitan amount of 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.000 money you spend on your kitchens. Now, let me tell 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.359 you something, a gag on. I have one house that 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.400 I bought on the advice of my real estate guy 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.919 who's now a TV dentist, that is still underwater. My 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.760 other house, I haven't had a kitchen in a month. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.439 I'm getting fat again because all I can do is 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.720 eat out when I eat, and it's it's terrible. I 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.080 I love home cooked meals and I haven't had one 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.159 in a month because I have no kitchen sink and 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.560 no kitchen countertop. It's a It's a freaking nightmare, is 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.280 what it is. Listen, you gotta do this stuff while 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.720 you're young, and you're saying I'm young. Thank you very much. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:47.960 I appreciate you saying I'm young. I appreciate you for 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.360 do you hit your midlife crisis? You need to experience 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.080 the finer things when I try. I'll tell you what. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.639 When I turned forty, I will think about here about that. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.560 When I turned forty, I will think about doing this. 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.080 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.280 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.680 on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:07.960