Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 1: don't need to tell you about the global reach of podcasting.
Speaker 1: And we're timeless. This is audio art that you could
Speaker 1: listen to at any point. Although I'm told that this
Speaker 1: podcast is dated because we talked about things that are
Speaker 1: kind of going on right now, but we try not
Speaker 1: to put any time stamp on it. And it's it's
Speaker 1: myself and back again. I thought he would be gone,
Speaker 1: but David Gascon the Narcissist is in the building. Back
Speaker 1: in the building. With a rate of return of thirty
Speaker 1: one and a half percent, a FICO score of eight
Speaker 1: hundred uh, six ft one pounds. I am here loud
Speaker 1: and proud of and your douchebag scores through the roof
Speaker 1: as well. So congratulations on that, you dumbo hitter man.
Speaker 1: Good shot by you, right, I mean, listen, the clown
Speaker 1: Prince of the podcast has returned here for cuckoo for
Speaker 1: cocoa puff. So, uh, listen what we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1: Let's just get to them. I want to, I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't wanna be s here, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be. I'll get right to it, all right.
Speaker 1: So we've got brush with Doom. We've got that hands
Speaker 1: and knees master class grab bag. That's actual questions from
Speaker 1: actual listeners. We've got some good ones this week. And
Speaker 1: study this, study this, We've got that also, and don't
Speaker 1: stick to sports. Do you understand you comprehend all these things? Guessing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard you a couple of nights ago cheating on
Speaker 1: the segment you were doing a little study this over
Speaker 1: the last hours. So it was a little disturbed by that.
Speaker 1: But it's fine. I mean, you can use some of
Speaker 1: that bullshit on your radio show. It's fine. Why I
Speaker 1: had no idea you were you were so protective of
Speaker 1: the podcast that you wanted me to not use any
Speaker 1: of those. I have so many sometimes I don't I
Speaker 1: don't have time to get to them all here. Well,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I'm trying to slander me. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to slander you. I'm just stating facts. It's it's fine.
Speaker 1: We're knee deep in in the political realm of impeachment,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna slander you. I'm not gonna accuse you.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna to fame you in any way. So
Speaker 1: we're good, man. I'm just pointing out the obvious. What
Speaker 1: you did on your show is for the show. It's
Speaker 1: not for the podcast. I like to have you compartmentalized
Speaker 1: and keep one thing to that side and another thing
Speaker 1: to this side. Yeah, well, you did run into me
Speaker 1: when you don't work very much at the building when
Speaker 1: I'm there. But you you know you because you're you
Speaker 1: can't handle the overnight hours. But you walked in one
Speaker 1: time this week and you were you were, I guess
Speaker 1: upset with me for doing a whole week of death
Speaker 1: Radio regarding Kobe Bryant's demise last weekend. You were very upset,
Speaker 1: so I thought we should on this podcast, do some
Speaker 1: maccabre more death talk? Right, Well, this is an entire
Speaker 1: month's worth the podcast that we do death talk on. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's good. I mentioned that there was
Speaker 1: a study. I mentioned this. I was talking about Kobe
Speaker 1: and people love spreading bad news and it's part of
Speaker 1: human nature. It's a it's very primal that from the
Speaker 1: early stages of the brain. It's a survival instinct that
Speaker 1: people don't pay attention to good news. They pay attention
Speaker 1: to bad news because it could threaten there existence and
Speaker 1: I could throw you know what I'm saying. So it's
Speaker 1: a little odd though, consider the fact that you're your
Speaker 1: better half is full of optimism and life and glee
Speaker 1: and good fortune, and yet you are the contrarian to that.
Speaker 1: It's a little odd, don't you think. Uh No, well,
Speaker 1: my wife's the exceptional rule. I believe I am in
Speaker 1: the majority, and I have years and years of data
Speaker 1: that I have collected from doing the show that I do,
Speaker 1: that I know, and I've done very fortunate. I have
Speaker 1: done the postgame show. Here's a humble brag for the
Speaker 1: Dodgers years ago and the Red Sox a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, and it didn't matter whether you were in
Speaker 1: Boston or l A. When the Red Sox or Dodgers won,
Speaker 1: there weren't as many people that were interested in calling
Speaker 1: up to talk about the game. But when the Red
Speaker 1: Sox or Dodgers were going through a tough patch, everyone
Speaker 1: was had an answer, Everyone had a solution. Everyone wanted
Speaker 1: to give you their ten cents. It's just human nature.
Speaker 1: That's how people are not fair enough. But now are you? Now?
Speaker 1: Are you doing this from the I Heart Radio studios
Speaker 1: in your backyard? You that she doing this from South Beach, Florida,
Speaker 1: because I know that. Yeah, I'm actually at Radio Row.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Joe Montana is gonna tell you sell
Speaker 1: you some sketchers coming up that'll be in the later
Speaker 1: part of the podcast. And I think I'll be sending
Speaker 1: out some photos of my steak dinners. I haven't sent
Speaker 1: any of those out, so I've got to do some
Speaker 1: of that. And you should check out the view from
Speaker 1: my hotel room. It's unbelievable. Gas gun. Doesn't it sound good?
Speaker 1: It sounds and it sounds good here I'm I'm in
Speaker 1: the the special Remote Radio Row studio and uh I
Speaker 1: only came down for the podcast. I'm not allowed to
Speaker 1: do the show there, but from the podcast perspective, that's
Speaker 1: why I'm here, so fair enough. Now, have you finished
Speaker 1: watching the Aaron Hernana's documentary since I know you have
Speaker 1: all this? I did? I did. I watched it last weekend.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I was, I I finished it and
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. They did a very good job. It
Speaker 1: was well made. Whoever made that for Netflix? A solid job,
Speaker 1: wonderfully produced in the production value, and a let up
Speaker 1: individual one Aaron her name days they were and I
Speaker 1: liked what one of the former Patriot players said that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's part of the documentary. It was like
Speaker 1: they were making excuses for Aaron Hernandez going around and
Speaker 1: being a murderer. And one of the guys, one of
Speaker 1: his former teammates, said, now that's a cop out, and
Speaker 1: I thought that that was where I'm at. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: bad things happened to you and it sucks, but you know,
Speaker 1: there's you can't be on the I'm gonna get back
Speaker 1: and retaliate by killing people or you know, shooting in
Speaker 1: the cars. It's not how a civilized world works. And
Speaker 1: can you know the matter, everyone everyone who's committed to crime.
Speaker 1: Everyone has become, you know, a murderer or something like that.
Speaker 1: They've had a bad break along the way, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, There's been a couple of things
Speaker 1: like that, but that doesn't mean they don't go to
Speaker 1: jail or whatever happens. So, well, you know what, you
Speaker 1: know what happens when someone spilled a drink on you.
Speaker 1: You pull out your nine and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you empty the clip. Wow, I see, Well that's the Patriot.
Speaker 1: Well I see Aaron Hernandez was gonna Patriot best air
Speaker 1: in Hernandez. Way, Yeah, don't don't. Don't bring that in
Speaker 1: with Kronkowski and Brady. Sorry, al right, so let's get
Speaker 1: to brush with do and it ties into the Kobe
Speaker 1: Bryant story. The helicopter crashed last weekend. So Kylie Jenner,
Speaker 1: h you know who Kylie Jenner is. She's she's like
Speaker 1: a million billion dollar model because she's tied in with
Speaker 1: the Kardashians. She's got that Kardashian DNA and she posted
Speaker 1: the other day that she was a frequent flyer, a
Speaker 1: frequent flyer in the helicopter that Kobe Bryant crashed in Alkay.
Speaker 1: So that was the the statement there that she she
Speaker 1: took the helicopter quite a bit there and did that.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk about it now. I have
Speaker 1: you ever been in a helicopter? No, I've I've never
Speaker 1: been in a helicopter. I think the closest thing that
Speaker 1: has been resembled to a helicopter for me has been
Speaker 1: one of those little prop planes which scared the ship
Speaker 1: out of me. Part of my French and some people
Speaker 1: like the foul language. You want a prop plane like
Speaker 1: one of those like spin the spin, the propeller type.
Speaker 1: Do I took h I would not get on. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think I'm allowed to get on
Speaker 1: one of those. I think I'm too big. Probably the weather.
Speaker 1: The weather was so bad too. I was a recruiting
Speaker 1: trip for football. I went from UH. I went from
Speaker 1: Seattle to Pullman, Washington. I was at a camp at
Speaker 1: Washington State and it was really weird. I a buddy
Speaker 1: of mine and I were at the airport and we
Speaker 1: had paid for some food, but I didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of money, and at the time I took a
Speaker 1: little bit more from the UH from the pizza hut
Speaker 1: stand than I paid for, and I had it on
Speaker 1: my person. I had it on top of a bag,
Speaker 1: but the clerk didn't see all of that, so I
Speaker 1: only paid for a portion of it. Went on to
Speaker 1: the flight. And this flight, I kid you not Ben,
Speaker 1: It was like Magic Mountain. There was a roller coaster
Speaker 1: going up and down, up and down sideways to sideways,
Speaker 1: and I thought in my head, I'll ship this is
Speaker 1: karma for stealing that pizza. Payback, payback. Yeah, I've never
Speaker 1: been on a prop plane like that. I've never been
Speaker 1: flying in a helicopter. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: grew up near what used to be the El Toro
Speaker 1: Marine Base and the Tusted Marine Base in Orange County.
Speaker 1: I was like sandwiched between these and I we used
Speaker 1: to see the Blue Angels practicing and it was I
Speaker 1: have great memories of that being around military basis that
Speaker 1: neither one exists anymore. But I remember going to the
Speaker 1: open house at the military base and it was like
Speaker 1: a big deal. You know. We got to go and
Speaker 1: my my parents, like my mom was, oh, you can
Speaker 1: run through the tanks and you can run through the helicopters.
Speaker 1: And in those days, they led us like we could go.
Speaker 1: They had an open house. You could like literally sit
Speaker 1: in a in a in a goddamn tank or or
Speaker 1: a military helicopter was wild and the planes, you know,
Speaker 1: it was it was just crazy. I don't think they
Speaker 1: do that anymore. Maybe they do, I don't know, um.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I was in a helicop. I never
Speaker 1: flew in it. And then the other question I had
Speaker 1: regarding as Kylie Jenner's story is, of course made it
Speaker 1: all about her, you know the fact that she flew
Speaker 1: in the helicopter. Uh, and her had her it, I
Speaker 1: guess in the helicopter. But have you ever had a
Speaker 1: similar situation like that where you had a brush with tragedy?
Speaker 1: And I've told the story a few times over the years,
Speaker 1: but I have had that happened to me, and it
Speaker 1: is very surreal when you experienced something like that. Now,
Speaker 1: I had the same experience a lot of people had,
Speaker 1: um but it involved September eleven and and back in.
Speaker 1: If you haven't heard the story, if you're you're new
Speaker 1: to the show, I've told it a few times over
Speaker 1: the years. But in late August of about two weeks
Speaker 1: before the event, it took place in September eleventh, the
Speaker 1: hijacking and the attack on New York and the Pentagon
Speaker 1: and all that. I was visiting my my older brother
Speaker 1: who's lived in New York for years. It was me,
Speaker 1: my younger brother who's who was living in California at
Speaker 1: the time, now losing Wisconsin, and my older brother. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we were on like a brother's trip, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: me and my my younger brother. We were just like
Speaker 1: hanging out with my older brother and you know, showing
Speaker 1: it. He He was showing us around all that I've been
Speaker 1: to New York before, my younger brother hadn't. So they
Speaker 1: we were going to all the tourist traps in New York. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're going all you know, the Statue of
Speaker 1: Liberty and all that, and you know, the all the
Speaker 1: all the things standard New York City sightseeing. And it
Speaker 1: was late August. Now, if you've ever been in New York,
Speaker 1: you live in New York. In late August. It's muggy, nasty.
Speaker 1: The humidity level is through the roof, the stupidity level
Speaker 1: is through the roof. And but of course I'm cheap.
Speaker 1: I'm also very fat at this time, much fatter than
Speaker 1: I am now. And we were walking around New York.
Speaker 1: I'm covered in sweat, right, and I'm just covering its way.
Speaker 1: So anyway, long story short, we make it to the
Speaker 1: South Tower of the World Trade Center to visit the
Speaker 1: observation deck, which is a top. If you remember the
Speaker 1: World Trade the original World Trade Center, it was a
Speaker 1: top that South tower. So we're in the lobby. It's
Speaker 1: about if I remember, and you know, memories fleeting. But
Speaker 1: as I remember, it was about four or four fifteen
Speaker 1: something along those lines, and the observation that closed at
Speaker 1: five o'clock and it was very expensive to go up
Speaker 1: to the observation deck in the South Tower. So and this,
Speaker 1: this is one thing on my deathbed, I assume I
Speaker 1: will remember this. I I said, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: I said, no, that's a waste of money. And I
Speaker 1: remember we walked out of the South Tower of the
Speaker 1: World Trade Center, and you know, and we were right
Speaker 1: between the North and the South Tower, that little courtyard area,
Speaker 1: and I looked up to the heavens and these massive
Speaker 1: buildings that looked like they went all the way into
Speaker 1: outer space when you stood at the ground at the
Speaker 1: World Trade Center. And I said to my brothers, I said,
Speaker 1: these things aren't going anywhere. Next time we're in New York,
Speaker 1: we'll just go to the observation deck. And two weeks later,
Speaker 1: those buildings vanished in on September eleven, and it it's
Speaker 1: just crazy. My mom was so freaked out for several reasons,
Speaker 1: like everyone was, but the fact she she could not
Speaker 1: get over the fact that we were there. And then
Speaker 1: there were media reports at the time that said that
Speaker 1: the terrorists had done some dry runs around, some scouting
Speaker 1: trips around the towers the time we were visiting, right
Speaker 1: around you know those not probably not the afternoon time,
Speaker 1: but they were there, uh in New York doing some
Speaker 1: scouting at the World Trade Center around that time. But
Speaker 1: I did learn a valuable lesson and it's even if
Speaker 1: you have limited time and it's expensive, take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: I was in Boston on another trip and I was
Speaker 1: at the Kennedy Museum, the Kennedy Presidential Museum in Boston,
Speaker 1: which I think is on Boston University's campus, like right
Speaker 1: there anyway, so it was same situation. It was like
Speaker 1: it was like half an hour till the place closed,
Speaker 1: and it was the only day we had to go there,
Speaker 1: and I paid the money. I ran through the Kennedy
Speaker 1: Presidential Museum in about half an hour because they kick
Speaker 1: you out at five o'clock. Uh and uh and so
Speaker 1: I learned my lesson there. That did not push stuff
Speaker 1: off if you you say it's gonna be there, because
Speaker 1: stuff isn't there forever. But that was my my brush
Speaker 1: with doom if you will. Now, I guess on that
Speaker 1: point too, when you talk about taking advantage of what's
Speaker 1: available to you, like, why doesn't that like why doesn't
Speaker 1: that jump start your interest of traveling abroad? Because that
Speaker 1: certainly did for me. We had this conversation last week
Speaker 1: about visiting asch Fitz and Broken Now and the concentration camps,
Speaker 1: Like I think that's so instrumental. Just see, especially you
Speaker 1: because you're Jewish, like to take that stuff in face
Speaker 1: to face as opposed to like what you see online
Speaker 1: or what you're reading a book through school. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did this last year through a buddy of mine
Speaker 1: turned forty and he lives in Ireland. So I want
Speaker 1: to go meet up with him, but he's a doctor,
Speaker 1: and another buddy of mine he had to go. He
Speaker 1: went to go visit family in Croatia. So I hate
Speaker 1: flying um and going obviously to Europe is not something
Speaker 1: I wanted to do alone, but I did it anyway.
Speaker 1: So I flew into London, I chewed that up for
Speaker 1: a day, then took a flight down a pair and
Speaker 1: I went wire to wire for three days in Paris.
Speaker 1: I think the one thing I did regret was I
Speaker 1: assumed that the Louver was going to be open from
Speaker 1: morning until like eight or nine o'clock at night, and
Speaker 1: I got there about three o'clock in the afternoon and
Speaker 1: it closed at six. So I spent three hours inside
Speaker 1: the louver. But Austin God Been, I could have spent
Speaker 1: all day and all night in that place, just to
Speaker 1: soak it all up and see all the art and
Speaker 1: all the creativity and all the work, and just to
Speaker 1: have the enjoyment of seeing that stuff, whether it's in
Speaker 1: Paris or in Amsterdam, or you know, we went to
Speaker 1: Spain port. I'm just saying, like, those are the things
Speaker 1: that if you mentioned that I love traveling in the
Speaker 1: United States, I've been to twenty two states so far
Speaker 1: out of the fifty. But I enjoy it specially because
Speaker 1: you get to I like, I like traveling around the
Speaker 1: United States. My main disdain with international travel is I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of countries are not designed for
Speaker 1: people my size. I'm very tall. I uh you know.
Speaker 1: I I've lost a lot of weight, but I'm still
Speaker 1: a big guy. And I do not want to travel.
Speaker 1: First of all, the plane travels a nightmare. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to spend money and go on vacation and
Speaker 1: then have a very I'm reluctant to do it because
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be very uncomfortable for me. I
Speaker 1: won't fit in cars, i won't fit in the beds
Speaker 1: um and I'm not even like the size of an
Speaker 1: NBA player. Now. I know there's ways you can do it,
Speaker 1: and you spend more money and you get a bigger
Speaker 1: bed and all that stuff, but I just seems like
Speaker 1: a big inconvenience, and I despise going somewhere and feeling
Speaker 1: like I am Andre the Giant, uh you know, compared
Speaker 1: to everybody else. I don't want to. I don't want
Speaker 1: to experience that. I mean, who needs You're not a
Speaker 1: victim here? And when you go to you're not saying
Speaker 1: I'm a victim. I'm just telling you why. I am
Speaker 1: unwilling and I loathe going to there's some European countries
Speaker 1: where that's not the case. But I I am resistant
Speaker 1: because I believe that I will find the ones that
Speaker 1: are averse to people my size. Here's the thing is that,
Speaker 1: and I think anyone can be contest to attest to this,
Speaker 1: is that when go to Europe or even in Japan,
Speaker 1: you're doing a lot of walking anyway, or if you
Speaker 1: get on a train or any of those trolleys. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can do that stuff no matter where you go.
Speaker 1: Size doesn't matter, and most of the time it's always
Speaker 1: enjoyable to walk to those pop You say that because
Speaker 1: you are of the size where you fit in everything. No,
Speaker 1: I'm six one to twenty. It's not not here we go.
Speaker 1: What do you is is like the old Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: show ring a bell for your height and waight. No,
Speaker 1: but it's not what I mean what you are the
Speaker 1: ultimate narcissist. Let me give my height and weight. I'm
Speaker 1: not a small guy. Some my nose. I'm not a
Speaker 1: small guy. I got problems when I get onto a
Speaker 1: plane or when I walk through No, you don't, of
Speaker 1: course I do. I'm six six or whatever I am.
Speaker 1: I get on a plane, what are you worried about
Speaker 1: someone hitting me with sniper fire from a rooftop because
Speaker 1: you're so much bigger than I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about having to, you know, decapitate the lower
Speaker 1: part of my legs so I fit in the plane,
Speaker 1: or or getting into one of those taxi cabs and uh,
Speaker 1: you know an Amsterdam or something like that, I'll be
Speaker 1: able to fit. Okay, So Amsterdam you can bike everywhere
Speaker 1: you go, and you can get on the ferries that
Speaker 1: take you across some of the canals, so that's easy
Speaker 1: for you. Walk around town where they're going through like
Speaker 1: the Red Light District, or even through like some many
Speaker 1: other business areas, so that's not a problem. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Spain, same thing with Portugal. London. You got the
Speaker 1: you got the train, you can go through the underground. Um.
Speaker 1: I haven't been in Italy yet, but do come on, man,
Speaker 1: those are just excuses the reality. I've studied it a
Speaker 1: little bit the Internet. They people have said similar things. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Maybe if you go if you're flying internationally, don't forget
Speaker 1: you're usually flying on like a seven seventies seven and
Speaker 1: those air busses. Those things are spacious and you can
Speaker 1: always sit one of the emergency level seats too, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have plenty of leg room. I get it,
Speaker 1: But pony it up many easy for you to say
Speaker 1: it up, easy for you to say, Yes, I'm saying
Speaker 1: pony it up to an overnight radio host that works
Speaker 1: four hours at night for Monday through Friday. Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1: I show up one minute before the show, and I
Speaker 1: do no show prep. That is acting. That is absolutely
Speaker 1: You've been in the industry for what twenty years, I'd say,
Speaker 1: i'd seem to say with the mansions that you have
Speaker 1: not mansion um and the uh, the exhorbitan amount of
Speaker 1: money you spend on your kitchens. Now, let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, a gag on. I have one house that
Speaker 1: I bought on the advice of my real estate guy
Speaker 1: who's now a TV dentist, that is still underwater. My
Speaker 1: other house, I haven't had a kitchen in a month.
Speaker 1: I'm getting fat again because all I can do is
Speaker 1: eat out when I eat, and it's it's terrible. I
Speaker 1: I love home cooked meals and I haven't had one
Speaker 1: in a month because I have no kitchen sink and
Speaker 1: no kitchen countertop. It's a It's a freaking nightmare, is
Speaker 1: what it is. Listen, you gotta do this stuff while
Speaker 1: you're young, and you're saying I'm young. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you saying I'm young. I appreciate you for
Speaker 1: do you hit your midlife crisis? You need to experience
Speaker 1: the finer things when I try. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: When I turned forty, I will think about here about that.
Speaker 1: When I turned forty, I will think about doing this.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app.
Speaker 1: Hands and Knees Gas. We gotta move on because I
Speaker 1: want to get to a lot of good emails, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to it at some point here. So uh Now,
Speaker 1: the p Ones tell me they like to hear about
Speaker 1: my life, and I don't tell too many stories on
Speaker 1: the radio about just my personal business. But I feel
Speaker 1: like this as we talked about the fifth hours, for
Speaker 1: the super fans of the show, the p ones that
Speaker 1: love the show, and our senior members of the Mallard Militia,
Speaker 1: you're at a different level if you listen to the
Speaker 1: fifth hour. So with that as the preference, I was
Speaker 1: doing some shopping over last weekend and running some errands
Speaker 1: with the wife. Me and the wife, we made hand
Speaker 1: to god sixteen stops in one day. I felt like
Speaker 1: a Lance the bus driver type character. We were. We
Speaker 1: were stopping so often. Now, one of the stops was
Speaker 1: at Walmart. All right, now, my wife hates Walmart. You
Speaker 1: can't stand I don't. I don't mind wall I like,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't care. I like a deal. I'm
Speaker 1: value guys, so I don't mind the freaks and geeks
Speaker 1: that go to Walmart. I'm okay with my wife. She's
Speaker 1: she'll go to a store. She'd be like, I don't
Speaker 1: like the vibe. Oh I don't even notice. I don't
Speaker 1: even notice that. I just want the how much is
Speaker 1: the product? And I'm very simple that way. I'm a
Speaker 1: direct line, straightforward, you guy. My wife she's gonna have
Speaker 1: the proper lighting and all that stuff. And anyway, So
Speaker 1: we parked the car at Walmart. We run into the story,
Speaker 1: had to pick up one thing. I got to the
Speaker 1: entrance of Walmart where they have the shopping carts, and
Speaker 1: I I from time to time, will do a little
Speaker 1: test where I'll say, all right, I got three things
Speaker 1: with me pretty much all times. I got wallet, phone, keys,
Speaker 1: and I'm so paranoid about losing one of those things
Speaker 1: even while I'm walking. I will just it's second nature.
Speaker 1: Now we'll I'll try to feel Do I have my wallet, yes?
Speaker 1: Do I have my phone? Yes? Do I have my keys? So,
Speaker 1: because I left my phone one time years ago in
Speaker 1: in the roof of my car in the big A
Speaker 1: I was covering an Angels game and the and uh
Speaker 1: and it was I lost. I was really piste off
Speaker 1: about the whole thing. Anyway, So I'm in the shopping
Speaker 1: car area. Uh. And I reached for my wallet, got
Speaker 1: it boom done. Reached from my keys, boom, got it done.
Speaker 1: Reached for the phone. No phone, uh, no phone? Oh
Speaker 1: my god. I start freaking out. So I figured why
Speaker 1: I must have left it in the car, because I
Speaker 1: knew I had the phone in the car. So I
Speaker 1: went back to I saw. I told my wife is
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. I gotta get my phone. I
Speaker 1: go back to the car. I spent about five minutes
Speaker 1: trying to find the phone. Couldn't find the phone. I
Speaker 1: couldn't find the goddamn phone. Uh. My wife was then summoned.
Speaker 1: I went back to grab the wife and I said, well,
Speaker 1: maybe you know another set of eyeballs. You could probably
Speaker 1: find it. You know, you got better eyesight than me anyway,
Speaker 1: so you could probably find it. And I couldn't find it.
Speaker 1: She couldn't find it. So then I start freaking out.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, man, our kitchens destroyed. I don't want to
Speaker 1: drop a thousand dollars on a new iPhone. And plus
Speaker 1: I was like, where the where the hell did it go?
Speaker 1: Did it? Just it doesn't vanish right a phone? It
Speaker 1: does not vanish. I don't think somebody came down from
Speaker 1: a different dimension and stole my phone. Saw. I then
Speaker 1: get on my hands and knees, thinking maybe it fell
Speaker 1: under the car while I was getting out of the car.
Speaker 1: And so I start digging around trying to reach under
Speaker 1: the car and see it's dark, it's night. I don't
Speaker 1: have a flashlight. No luck. So then my wife's like,
Speaker 1: she said, well, you're on here in this app, you know,
Speaker 1: fine phone app. I don't know if you have that,
Speaker 1: but so we track, we can keep track of each other,
Speaker 1: spy on each other. So my wife looks at them.
Speaker 1: She didn't usually use it, but she looks at the
Speaker 1: fine phone app and it says that the phone is
Speaker 1: right where the car, so it must be in the phone.
Speaker 1: And this this made it even more. This increased the
Speaker 1: degree of anxiety even higher, like it made no sense.
Speaker 1: We had two adults looking through the car trying to
Speaker 1: find the phone. Couldn't find the phone. I'm on my
Speaker 1: hands and knees, I'm looking under the car. I couldn't
Speaker 1: find it. So then I had an idea. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna retrace my steps back to the store, because I
Speaker 1: may I must have dropped it either in the street
Speaker 1: or somewhere. And I, of course, to to make it
Speaker 1: into the Walmart, I walked right through a bunch of
Speaker 1: like trees and bushes, you know, that was the direct route.
Speaker 1: And so I grabbed my wife's phone. I'm using the
Speaker 1: flashlight on her phone. I retracked my steps. Nothing uh, nothing,
Speaker 1: all right, And I walk all the way and then
Speaker 1: I turned back around and I'm going to the car,
Speaker 1: and then boom, I found the phone laying face down
Speaker 1: between two bushes in the dark of night in the
Speaker 1: parking lot of the Walmart. And I felt like I
Speaker 1: had one the sweep sweet the clearing, how sweepsteaks. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd want a lottery or something like that. And your
Speaker 1: phone is black too, right, it is. Once you go black,
Speaker 1: you never go back. That's a black phone, bet on black,
Speaker 1: whatever cliche you want to use. But yeah, black phone
Speaker 1: and so and it was the last place I looked.
Speaker 1: But I love that. That's one of my favorite phrases
Speaker 1: that humans use. It's the last place you look because
Speaker 1: you wouldn't keep looking if you you know, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, not gonna keep looking for if you
Speaker 1: found it. Yeah, that's exactly it. But why would you
Speaker 1: drop your phone in a bush? Anyway? Well, it was unintentional.
Speaker 1: I must have been going so fast. I'm like a
Speaker 1: hedgehog or something like that, and I just happened to
Speaker 1: drop the phone. There's nothing that you do is fast. Alright,
Speaker 1: Moving on the master class gas Gun. Now you don't
Speaker 1: know this. I don't think I've told you this, but
Speaker 1: I have been dropping wisdom on the next generation, this
Speaker 1: gen z. These guys love the wisdom of the mallemmolition.
Speaker 1: And I like giving back. I like giving back to
Speaker 1: people that want to work in radio or podcasting or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I wish I could have interns, and I I
Speaker 1: wanted to address that. So I've gotten a lot of
Speaker 1: requests over the last few years since I've been doing
Speaker 1: the overnight show during the week that people want to
Speaker 1: intern from, like specifically for our show, and I am flattered. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I'll explain it a minute why that is not allowed.
Speaker 1: And I'd also like to teach when no one will
Speaker 1: hire me to to radio. I think it would be
Speaker 1: fun if they still have professors teach radio. I think,
Speaker 1: and and and the cool thing is I don't have
Speaker 1: like a formal education. I'm I'm educated on the streets,
Speaker 1: gas go on. I learned on the streets. But I
Speaker 1: would love and I think I'm qualified because I've I've
Speaker 1: done this long enough for I could teach a class
Speaker 1: on on radio talk radio or something like that. Because
Speaker 1: if you do it for like is it ten years
Speaker 1: or fifteen years or twenty years, how many years do
Speaker 1: you have to do it before you're allowed to teach
Speaker 1: a class ten years you're tenured. Yeah, I've done it
Speaker 1: for longer than that, So I'm I would be allowed
Speaker 1: to teach a class at at a college where I
Speaker 1: think it would be a lot of fun. You're pretty old,
Speaker 1: guess on your micros on when you said that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I like helping young broadcasters. Uh, any advice you need,
Speaker 1: I'm here to help. You can email me. Just put
Speaker 1: in the headline what you're looking for. And it's been
Speaker 1: really cool the last couple of weeks here, last month
Speaker 1: or so, I have heard from a number of college
Speaker 1: age a little older than that that are trying to
Speaker 1: break into the business and it's it's cool and I
Speaker 1: would love to have the access. Like when I was
Speaker 1: younger trying to reach these guys, it was very difficult
Speaker 1: to get ahold of them. You had to send a
Speaker 1: fax or call somebody, and you couldn't just email them. Um.
Speaker 1: But I I'm asked all the time from people to
Speaker 1: be interns. I have not had an intern in eleven years.
Speaker 1: The last intern I had was in twenty nine. I
Speaker 1: am the Bill Clinton of Fox Poetry. I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to have interns Gascon. Hopefully it's not because you're misusing
Speaker 1: a cigar. Yeah, I know I did not misuse a cigar,
Speaker 1: but it has been explained to me by the powers
Speaker 1: that be that it is not that I couldn't have
Speaker 1: interns if I had a different shift. But it's because
Speaker 1: of the hours, and it's not the safest neighborhood. I know,
Speaker 1: you're not there at night gascon, but where we do
Speaker 1: the show from. While there's a lot of rich people
Speaker 1: that live up in the hill, the Hollywood crowd where
Speaker 1: we are, um, it's all over l A. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of vagrants and creatures of the night prowling. It's
Speaker 1: become a bit of a shanty town at night, and
Speaker 1: so it's not that safe. And it's been that way
Speaker 1: for a number of years. When we leave, I've seen,
Speaker 1: you know, unbelieve I've seen people shooting up drugs and
Speaker 1: things like that, and the in the street, down the
Speaker 1: street and sleeping on the street. It's crazy leaving work.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for some of these people, but some
Speaker 1: of the people I think are just scum anyway. So
Speaker 1: that's the reason. Because of liability, Well, I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to have an apprentice because they they were concerned about
Speaker 1: the apprentice walking to their car after like you know,
Speaker 1: midnight or one or two in the morning or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, now, full disclosure, I'm actually one of
Speaker 1: those occupants that when I started here with Fox, Um,
Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to actually park in the same complex
Speaker 1: as you guys. Yeah. I was given a key card
Speaker 1: to park down the street in the Sherman Oaks Galleria, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: park in a mall and good to walk through. I
Speaker 1: I used to park there when the early is I
Speaker 1: was not allowed to park in the me That was
Speaker 1: like a rite of passage when you got the main
Speaker 1: parking lot that meant you to arrive. Oh no, I
Speaker 1: had to actually leave the company and then come back
Speaker 1: and lie that I had parking key. Um, and then
Speaker 1: I was given one to park here in this structure
Speaker 1: at at Fox. So I'm glad that you didn't admit
Speaker 1: that you lied on the podcast. That's good and we
Speaker 1: do what we can, right, let me just make things happen.
Speaker 1: So anyway, but yeah, and my schedule was always overnight,
Speaker 1: so I was here, you know, during your hours, the
Speaker 1: overnight decrepit hours where you see all kinds of people
Speaker 1: at all walks of life walking through here. So I
Speaker 1: know all about it. Man, It's uh, I understand now.
Speaker 1: So if you have students or people that want to
Speaker 1: get into the industry, I must caution everybody because you
Speaker 1: will have to give them advice on the craft itself,
Speaker 1: but it won't be about the other things that surround
Speaker 1: this craft like networking and social No no, no, no
Speaker 1: much much much of your brand. Much of my advice,
Speaker 1: guest gun is about networking. Oh, be sure to catch
Speaker 1: live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. It is it's
Speaker 1: about I. I've told these guys some version of Most
Speaker 1: of these jobs are not given to the good people.
Speaker 1: Most of these jobs are not given to the most
Speaker 1: talented talksro host Um. Most of these jobs are either
Speaker 1: because you have clout because you're an athlete, or you
Speaker 1: used to be a sportswriter or you you know, a
Speaker 1: comedian or something like that. Um, that's you know, it's
Speaker 1: very you have to really go above and beyond to
Speaker 1: make it when you're just a radio guy, and it's
Speaker 1: it makes it much more difficult. But they're all ways
Speaker 1: around it, like networking, getting in schmoozing like it's it's
Speaker 1: it's copy was doing. And I would like to point
Speaker 1: out Esca that my coaching intern Tree, I have a
Speaker 1: better coaching intern try than Bill Belichick back when I
Speaker 1: used to have interns. A. Rashmar Kazi, the lead. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's a lead columnist, but he's a
Speaker 1: columnist at the l A. Times. Was my intern when
Speaker 1: he was in a high school kid. He used to
Speaker 1: play soccer in the hallways. Now he's a columnist at
Speaker 1: the Times. Just work at ESPN. Jamie A. Pody, who's
Speaker 1: a big TV sports personality in Philadelphia, she worked as
Speaker 1: an intern at our place. Uh. There's also some others
Speaker 1: that have gone on and become program directors. I know
Speaker 1: multiple program directors of powerful sports talk radio stations that
Speaker 1: intern for me, um and UH. One in particular three
Speaker 1: thousand miles. This person traveled moved for a couple of
Speaker 1: months to be an intern. Um so, but nobody now
Speaker 1: because I've not been allowed to have any for years.
Speaker 1: So what happened? If there's a waiver, gas, could we
Speaker 1: could we have the intern sign away their life a
Speaker 1: waiver or at lease like you're going into of a
Speaker 1: gym or you're driving a car, like you need to
Speaker 1: sign a waiver earlier. Yeah, you know how you have
Speaker 1: to sign a waiver when you have a surgery or
Speaker 1: something like that. You have to sign a waiver or
Speaker 1: whatever you know, yeah, liability release. As I go under
Speaker 1: the knife with the anesthesiologists coming in saying are you okay?
Speaker 1: This might kill you? Yeah? Yeah, exactly, Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1: So what happened? Now? What happens? Would you consider me
Speaker 1: under your tree when I leave what? I what? I
Speaker 1: consider you what under your tree? The tree um only
Speaker 1: if you do well, only if you do If you
Speaker 1: don't do well, I will not consider you under my
Speaker 1: under my coaching tree. I'm not anyway, Let's move on.
Speaker 1: I got I got a lot of good questions here
Speaker 1: from these are actual questions from actual listeners called the
Speaker 1: grab Bag, an account with the name Alexander on Facebook
Speaker 1: rights and from parts unknown. Please explain the following, Ben,
Speaker 1: what does the board has held mean? When you're doing
Speaker 1: to pick them? And when you win? At asked Ben,
Speaker 1: you say, put it on the board. Uh is this
Speaker 1: the same board that you have that that has been
Speaker 1: held or is this the held board something you're putting
Speaker 1: it on? Alright, So, first of all, Alexander, when I
Speaker 1: say the board has held, when we're doing the pick them,
Speaker 1: I jot down a list of who I believe the
Speaker 1: top players are in the NBA for that night. So
Speaker 1: I have a board much like a draft board, where
Speaker 1: I have ranked one, two, three, four, or five, six, seven, eight.
Speaker 1: And so when we get through the first couple of picks,
Speaker 1: when I say the board has hell, that means that
Speaker 1: the other idiots on the show are picking the players
Speaker 1: that I would have picked if I had had the
Speaker 1: number one pick. That that's the value I put on
Speaker 1: each player. So when I say the board is hell,
Speaker 1: that means my personal draft board is the way I
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be. I'm the mel kiper
Speaker 1: of the the pick up. That's what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: as far as put it on the board when I
Speaker 1: win a game, which I went all the time, as
Speaker 1: you know, Alexander. That is a direct tribute on homage
Speaker 1: to Hawk Harrelson, the former Chicago White Sox broadcast I
Speaker 1: used to watch on on the satellite when I was younger.
Speaker 1: I used to watch the White Sox games when he
Speaker 1: did it, did the games with Tom Pashark, and I
Speaker 1: always gotta kick it. What a homer. I'm not even
Speaker 1: a White Sox fan. I got no skin in the game,
Speaker 1: but I always got to kick out of Hawk Harrelson
Speaker 1: when you know, somebody would hit a home run and
Speaker 1: he'd scream put it on the board. Uh and uh
Speaker 1: oh when I think he did that when they won also,
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's just my way to to celebrate Carrolson,
Speaker 1: just like when I say, and I talk about about football,
Speaker 1: matriculate the ball down the field. That is an homage
Speaker 1: to Hank Stram, who I was a football coach but
Speaker 1: also a broadcaster. So the answers to those questions and
Speaker 1: he and you use some of the uh, the whack
Speaker 1: or the bump or the boom during our tell Me
Speaker 1: broadcast in twenty nineteen. That's right, that was my tribute
Speaker 1: to John mad John, that's right, that was my John
Speaker 1: Madden tribute. I thought that would be good because Madden
Speaker 1: had it was very popular and people like that. People
Speaker 1: like sound effects. They like this randomly, you know, doing
Speaker 1: sound effects. They enjoy that. Yeah, people gotta love affair
Speaker 1: with your drops, at least some of them. But I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't play any drops. I don't other people play
Speaker 1: the drops. I don't hit any any sound effects on
Speaker 1: the show. I have nothing to Eddie hit some Roberto
Speaker 1: hit some uh. People hate the bell. I don't control it,
Speaker 1: you know, and who knew that people hated the bell
Speaker 1: so much? Well, because it's used on a regular occurrence.
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Speaker 1: from Colorado is a podcast listener. He writes in he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and David, do you guys smuggle your own candy
Speaker 1: into a movie theater? H Now, John, And this is
Speaker 1: come on, I mean this is a this is low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit. Of course I do, all right. I could
Speaker 1: teach a class on this. Also. I mean I will
Speaker 1: buy the popcorn. I'm a sucker. I I spend ten
Speaker 1: bucks for fifty cents of colonels and butter. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to candy, my move. I go to the
Speaker 1: dollar store, the Dollar Tree store, which we have here
Speaker 1: in l A and I buy my candy. I spend
Speaker 1: you know, three bucks on candy, and then I get
Speaker 1: shorts or or, depending on the year, time of the year,
Speaker 1: summertime shorts. If not it's a wintertime, I get a
Speaker 1: jacket with big pockets and uh, and I smuggle the
Speaker 1: candyon and and my my smuggling game has really improved
Speaker 1: that he since I got married. Yeah, Eddie, you called
Speaker 1: me Eddie? Did I call you Eddie? Yes? Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's all I'm sure we'll edit that out of the podcast, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, so yeah, alright, so sorryway Gaston, whatever you
Speaker 1: look like Eddie? Alright, yeah you sound like him too,
Speaker 1: sorry Gascon. So my smuggling of candy game and answer
Speaker 1: this guy John in Colorado's question, is improved when I
Speaker 1: got married because women have an advantage over men. Nope, boom,
Speaker 1: it is a bag to bring candy into the movie theater.
Speaker 1: That is why women have purses. I'm convinced it's not
Speaker 1: to hold their makeup keys wallet. No, it is to
Speaker 1: sneak handy in to this show. That's why they do it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I absolutely it's you know, you're a sucker
Speaker 1: if you pay seven not seven. It's like five bucks
Speaker 1: for a candy at the movies, and it's a dollar
Speaker 1: at the dollar store. Why would you not sneak it in?
Speaker 1: Yeah I did the same thing. Um, I did it
Speaker 1: back in the day. But yeah, so my go to
Speaker 1: was always it always has and red vines and Eminem's
Speaker 1: um peanut Eminem's the go to, and red vines of course,
Speaker 1: so those are the go too. I'm not popcorns, okay,
Speaker 1: I always go with the nachos for some reason. I
Speaker 1: just lays a sucker for for tortilla chips and and
Speaker 1: some nacho cheese just before the movie starts. Of course, nowadays,
Speaker 1: I guess the last Star Wars and the damn credits
Speaker 1: were thirty minutes long, so usually you gotta buy at
Speaker 1: least enough canny gets you through the credits, because by
Speaker 1: the time the movie starts you could be tapped out.
Speaker 1: So I'm always good with candy too, But you gut
Speaker 1: sneak you and jack and see always that way to go.
Speaker 1: You've got a female of course, purse bra whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. And sometimes if you want the back pocket.
Speaker 1: You don't get too many people that are looking at
Speaker 1: your back pocket, especially if you have something that's long
Speaker 1: enough that your shirt will cover and if you drape
Speaker 1: it on down. So that's not well my with the movies.
Speaker 1: We we know, I've mentioned this. The three most important
Speaker 1: food groups are you know what they are? Uh? In
Speaker 1: a movie theater? No? No, and just in general. The
Speaker 1: three things if you have these the proper amount of
Speaker 1: these ingredients, you will sell whatever food dish you're trying
Speaker 1: to sell. Sugar, Yep, sugar is one of them. Two
Speaker 1: more salt and grease. I don't know pretty much. It's salt, sugar,
Speaker 1: and fat. Okay, that's some combination, like for example, I
Speaker 1: like peanut Eminem's also, I'm you know, I'll dabble in
Speaker 1: some well, I try to get a little healthier. So
Speaker 1: I've I've moved on because I'm I feel like this
Speaker 1: is less unhealthy. I'll eat like chocolate almonds, you know,
Speaker 1: dark chocolate covered almonds. Who's your goat too? Because I
Speaker 1: feel like it's it's it's it's a sweet, but it's
Speaker 1: not as bad as like Eminem's. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? What about like Nestly Crunch? I like Nestly
Speaker 1: i I but I love the combination of the candy,
Speaker 1: like the chocolate and the and the salt, the sugar
Speaker 1: from the candy and the salt from the popcorn Snickers
Speaker 1: Man Snickers that go too as well. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: um so. But that's but and you know the movies business,
Speaker 1: nine of the revenue is from popcorn sales. Did you
Speaker 1: know that ninety percent of the money that they make
Speaker 1: at a movie theater is because of the popcorn? Now,
Speaker 1: are you one of those guys that has to buy
Speaker 1: a big drink or do you just go back? Well,
Speaker 1: I used to. I used to get the super gulp
Speaker 1: whatever and all that. I loved it. But now I
Speaker 1: just drink water because that's empty calories and I'm getting
Speaker 1: I'm already eating ship, you know, with the butter and
Speaker 1: the popcorn and the candy and all that crap. So
Speaker 1: unless you're unless you're seeing rainbows and unicorns, you probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing that. That reminds us, since we're talking
Speaker 1: about all this good stuff, you still owe me a
Speaker 1: set of tacos. That's a lie. So we made a
Speaker 1: bet on the other podcast. That's a legit bet on
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. You took one team, I took the other.
Speaker 1: You gotta hear the fifth hour Benny versus the Penny Podcast,
Speaker 1: and we have a bet and uh and a trip
Speaker 1: to the Ponies. A trip to the Ponies is on
Speaker 1: the line the killing grounds, as they say. All right, Frank,
Speaker 1: Frank the chef Tank from Medway, Massachusetts. Frank's a big fan.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, we have made enough babba ganoche. Can
Speaker 1: we make some hot and sour soup or some pineapple
Speaker 1: have a narrow salsa or my choice. Frank's secret slaw.
Speaker 1: That's from Frank. Well, Frank, if you are an actual chef,
Speaker 1: here's my advice. Now, I'm not gonna tell you to
Speaker 1: do this, but if you really want a food dish
Speaker 1: to be mentioned, you can slide my name in, Frank, right,
Speaker 1: slide my name in. We we we'll get to that
Speaker 1: in a minute here on the questions. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: can change it up. I I am not against it.
Speaker 1: I always say bobba ganos because it's a funny word
Speaker 1: to say, and people smile when they hear the word
Speaker 1: bobba ganouge because half the people don't know what babba
Speaker 1: ganush is, and the people that do know bobba ganuche,
Speaker 1: they probably like it, and so they're like, hey, this
Speaker 1: brings back a memory of when I was a kid
Speaker 1: eating babba ganouge. All. So that's why I say baba ganosh.
Speaker 1: It's just for comedy reasons. There's no real other reason
Speaker 1: to do it, obviously. Let's see here, Ken in Toledo says,
Speaker 1: what was your first car? Uh? Well, I had a Valari.
Speaker 1: Uh my grandfather's car, Grandpa Jack, May he rest in peace.
Speaker 1: It was his whole car. I love that car. I
Speaker 1: like the smell of it. He had the musty smell
Speaker 1: in the car. The seats were padded and big, and
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved those old cars because they
Speaker 1: were like they put sofas in those things. That's why
Speaker 1: someday I want my dream car is not a Porsche
Speaker 1: or Lamborghini. It's a Lincoln town Car. Because a Lincoln
Speaker 1: Town Car you feel like you're driving around sitting on
Speaker 1: a sofa. I had one as a rental car years ago,
Speaker 1: and I've always said, when I get money and I'm older,
Speaker 1: That'll be my my middlelife crisis car or my retirement car.
Speaker 1: Lincoln ca it just is wonderful. Yeah, it's like what
Speaker 1: ray Leota drove and Goodfellas, right, those just those big
Speaker 1: old buicks those Yeah, I love that, love those things.
Speaker 1: My first car was a nineteen one Ford Crown Victoria.
Speaker 1: And obviously as my dad being a cop he was,
Speaker 1: he was driving those things around anyway. As the he did.
Speaker 1: He buy one on the auction sailor. Was you did
Speaker 1: you get one for free or something like that. This
Speaker 1: is just the family cars. So I went from from
Speaker 1: one kid to to five of us. And my dad
Speaker 1: is a huge driver. I don't know what your dad
Speaker 1: was like or is like, but my dad would drive
Speaker 1: cars into the ground. So he's got an old Ford
Speaker 1: Explorer that is now um in his possession. Ben The
Speaker 1: car has over three hundred thousand miles on it, and
Speaker 1: a single car that he has owned and then he's
Speaker 1: passed down to us. I have successfully driven those cars
Speaker 1: into the ground before they blew up or I blew
Speaker 1: them up. So the eight one Crown Victoria, which was
Speaker 1: the hand me down from my sister to me to
Speaker 1: my other sisters. UM, I successfully demolished that car, thankfully.
Speaker 1: But uh, but yeah, that was my first car. It
Speaker 1: was a tank Man. So people have tried to screw
Speaker 1: with me in high school. Uh, try pushing me around
Speaker 1: with their cars or whatever. I just gotten their way,
Speaker 1: whether it was by force of nature or just by
Speaker 1: shooting stuff out of my car, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a thing of beauty. That's pretty cool. Uh. Kid also
Speaker 1: says I think he's in Toledo, Ohio. He says, I
Speaker 1: think you've spent so many years finding ways around cursing
Speaker 1: on radio, Hearing you curse on the podcast sounds forced
Speaker 1: and unnatural. Yeah, I agree. Now I hear this a lot,
Speaker 1: which and I there's two things I want to say
Speaker 1: about this. A. I don't believe this is true. I
Speaker 1: have used profanity for years in my personal life. I
Speaker 1: talk like a sailor quite a bit. I don't use periods.
Speaker 1: I use fucking ship instead of periods all the time
Speaker 1: when I'm not on the radio. There is some truth
Speaker 1: to the fact that I have made a life of
Speaker 1: trying to find ways to say bad words that aren't
Speaker 1: actually bad words. They'll get me in the Principle's office.
Speaker 1: That is true. But I think the main issue I
Speaker 1: get a lot of people would say this that listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast when I curse, is that you're not
Speaker 1: used to be cursing, right, because if you've listened for
Speaker 1: any period of time, I don't curse on the radio.
Speaker 1: So when you hear this, it's like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: it sounds like the radio, but this idiots ton fucking there,
Speaker 1: what's up with that? And so it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: So I think it's more about you than it is me,
Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, people, just because
Speaker 1: you're on the radio so much that people aren't used
Speaker 1: to using that kind of foul language, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden it's it's, uh, it's a different nature. Right
Speaker 1: when you grew up, did your parents ever curse around you?
Speaker 1: Very rarely, very rarely? Would they curse around me when
Speaker 1: I was I was younger, didn't happen much, but everyone
Speaker 1: was everyone let it rip. So you're you're kind of
Speaker 1: like the You're the father figure of many people and
Speaker 1: in so many ways. And so when they when they
Speaker 1: hear you go off the off the third rail, are
Speaker 1: use some foul language. It's a little different, so it
Speaker 1: rubs them the wrong lay all right, Uh, Stacy, She says,
Speaker 1: I have to tell you this, but I live in
Speaker 1: Ottawa in Canada, and I listened to you at night
Speaker 1: when I can't sleep. I love your show. Oh and uh,
Speaker 1: everyone with you very thank you. She's talking about me,
Speaker 1: She said, this, check us out. This this this is the
Speaker 1: part I wanted to get to. She says, I fell
Speaker 1: asleep one night with you on the air, and I
Speaker 1: had a dream I was in l a visiting you.
Speaker 1: She just a thought i'd share this. Uh my husband
Speaker 1: thinks I'm crazy. Stacy said, well, no, you're not crazy, Stacy.
Speaker 1: Now this is the only say I've read a study
Speaker 1: about this gascon Like, whatever you do before you go
Speaker 1: to sleep likely will pop up in a dream. Like
Speaker 1: if you had I don't know, orange chicken or Beijing
Speaker 1: beef for dinner, you'll somehow work in. Maybe it won't
Speaker 1: be that meal particularly, but to be a Chinese food
Speaker 1: or or you know, you know what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 1: weird how that was. But whatever you did, chances are
Speaker 1: right before the hours before you went to sleep will
Speaker 1: pop up in your dream. So I don't think that's
Speaker 1: unusual at all. And you're welcome to come visit a
Speaker 1: Stacy if you want. We have people come in and
Speaker 1: hang out with us, and you typically have to bring food.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you can stop by for an hour or
Speaker 1: something like that and see how we do the show.
Speaker 1: If you're in l A, you're more than welcome. Well
Speaker 1: that's a nice little holiday, right you're going from Ottawa
Speaker 1: to to Los Angeles. But you gotta go during the
Speaker 1: good time of the year. You can't, you know, in
Speaker 1: the winter. You go in the winter in Ottawa and
Speaker 1: it's not too bad in l A. All right, here's
Speaker 1: one from Ethan in Detroit. If you guys were in
Speaker 1: charge of punishing the astros, what would you do. I've
Speaker 1: suggested starting them at Owen forty. Are not allowing them
Speaker 1: to wear pants for the duration of the season. Ethan says,
Speaker 1: that's pretty funny. Ethan, I've given this advice on a podcast.
Speaker 1: I did a model, not a podcast of the radiers.
Speaker 1: So I did a podcast, not I kept saying podcast.
Speaker 1: I did a monologue about this topic. Even my advice
Speaker 1: is that the astros their punishment is they have to
Speaker 1: fly commercial Okay, they don't get charted flights, and they
Speaker 1: stay at like one star hotels on the road, and
Speaker 1: their meal money goes down to twenty dollars a day
Speaker 1: instead of a hundred and fifty or whatever it is
Speaker 1: a day. Uh So, the creature comforts of life I
Speaker 1: would take away from the Astros. That's what I would
Speaker 1: do for me. I would have gone a complete I
Speaker 1: would have gone scorched earth. I would have used UM.
Speaker 1: I would have used the ability to cast these players
Speaker 1: and given them immunity for testimony on who started it,
Speaker 1: who executed it, and then once I gathered all the
Speaker 1: credible evidence, I would have pulled the rug underneath all
Speaker 1: of these guys. I would have banned Alex Cora, A J. Hinch,
Speaker 1: and every single player that partaked in this. I would
Speaker 1: have banned them for life in the game of baseball.
Speaker 1: And I would have stripped the Astros of draft picks
Speaker 1: for at least one year and find them a million.
Speaker 1: They did take away draft picks for more than one year,
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm just telling you what I would
Speaker 1: have done. I would have find them, but I would
Speaker 1: have banned all these players for life, not even close. Well,
Speaker 1: And the thing that annoyed me is a lot of
Speaker 1: these people who are in the tank for baseball, the
Speaker 1: baseball writers, who are just essentially pr people from Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, they say, well, it's too difficult to suspend
Speaker 1: an entire roster. It's it's you know, it's it's problematic
Speaker 1: because these players are all over baseball farm system. Though,
Speaker 1: that's what I say, and you can you don't have
Speaker 1: to spend them all at the same time, you can
Speaker 1: have rolling suspensions if you don't suspend them for the
Speaker 1: entire year. It's not that perplexing. I don't think this
Speaker 1: is open heart surgery or brain surgery. Uh yeah? Is
Speaker 1: Is it convoluted? Absolutely, it's absolutely compluted. But to say
Speaker 1: it's too difficult, it's too hard. Fuck you figure it out. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a candle worms that got opened up by
Speaker 1: the Astros. You didn't open it up, they open it up.
Speaker 1: It is complicated, but that's why you get paid the
Speaker 1: big bucks. You know what's compl You know what's difficult
Speaker 1: is attaining the most wins that season in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball and then not only winning it all, or at
Speaker 1: least getting to the World Series, but then winning it all.
Speaker 1: That's difficult, old, and that's what the Dodgers are robbed from.
Speaker 1: They they they were the best team in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball that season, and they were great in the postseason,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they ran into a
Speaker 1: brick wall in Houston for three games and got absolutely tattooed.
Speaker 1: I have no remorse if anyone got banned for the
Speaker 1: Game of life. But guys appeal all the times. So
Speaker 1: if you suspended a guy or a couple of guys
Speaker 1: for eighty games, you know they're gonna appeal. So if
Speaker 1: you had ruling suspensions, you know, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: But players don't care about the finds as much as
Speaker 1: they care about losing the games. And if you if
Speaker 1: you ban them for life, then obviously that'll hit them
Speaker 1: where no one else has hit them before. Because otherwise
Speaker 1: you mentioned this too, there's no detriment to what they did.
Speaker 1: They're getting paid, they got their rings, are getting celebrated,
Speaker 1: they'll be mortalized in Houston Astro's history forever. Um. No,
Speaker 1: that's redundant, but still there. There's no deficit to what
Speaker 1: they did, and it's unfortunate because that now obviously hinders
Speaker 1: the careers of so many guys for the Dodgers, for
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Where else was impacted by the Houston Astros runs. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've ranted a lot about that. I would have done
Speaker 1: more this week, but you know, unfortunately the Kobe story
Speaker 1: has swallowed up a lot of those Mallard monologues. I
Speaker 1: didn't do one the other night though, about Dusty Baker,
Speaker 1: and we did one about Clayton Kershaw and all that.
Speaker 1: But I like how Ethan's thinking that would be funny
Speaker 1: if they're not allowed to wear pants for the entire season.
Speaker 1: Then it come out there in the banana hammock. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Dupre in Houston, via New Orleans, says Ben.
Speaker 1: Does Fox Sports Radio use Andy Furman and Arnie Spaniard
Speaker 1: to train up up and coming up personalities like as
Speaker 1: a mentor? I don't know, Dupree, I I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is that the case? So they that they're using the
Speaker 1: old grizzled veterans. Uh, but I hate to learn radio
Speaker 1: from Arnie Andy. I would be good, But Arnie, come
Speaker 1: on the stinking genies. No, this place to cut throat. No. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not trying to help the everyone's out for them.
Speaker 1: It's radio. Everyone stabs everyone in the back. That's how
Speaker 1: the business works, all right. Tony who lives in northern Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Right since this question, have you ever been ice fishing
Speaker 1: or on a snowmobile? If not, would you part of
Speaker 1: our winter activities in northern Minnesota? He says, here is
Speaker 1: we just had the world's largest ice fishing tournament here
Speaker 1: in Goal on Goal Lake, over ten thousand people ice
Speaker 1: fishing like a small city on ice. And he sent
Speaker 1: some photos which doesn't really do justice here on radio
Speaker 1: or podcasting, but this is pretty cool. Uh. To answer
Speaker 1: your question, No, I have not been ice fishing. I
Speaker 1: have not been on a snowmobile. That would be pretty
Speaker 1: neat though. If I ever end up my travels take
Speaker 1: me to northern Minnesota. That would be fun, just to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I did it as an experience. But I've only been
Speaker 1: in the snow a limited amount of time. Like traveling
Speaker 1: in you know, wintertime in Boston or Connecticut or New York.
Speaker 1: I've been in snow there in l A. I can
Speaker 1: go to the mountains above l A and go to
Speaker 1: the snow, but I haven't done much. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been ice fishing or on a snowmobile? No? Never? But
Speaker 1: you know what, Um, I wor size thirteen shoes and
Speaker 1: I have ice hockey gear. Why don't we put some
Speaker 1: skates on you and you can wear my goal equipment.
Speaker 1: You can go play some pot hockey up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That'd be kind of cool. All right, you buy the
Speaker 1: plane ticket, boom. We gotta get to Minnesota. We gotta
Speaker 1: get to Minnesota at some point. We have so many
Speaker 1: listeners in that state, in the Twin Cities and all
Speaker 1: over the place. Man, And they're good people, good people.
Speaker 1: Top five market, right in terms of Fox, and I
Speaker 1: heard like, well, we we do very well there in
Speaker 1: the ratings, and we do very well with interaction, like
Speaker 1: people are very interactive. You know, some cities we do
Speaker 1: well in the ratings, but people don't actually interact, which
Speaker 1: is bizarre to me. I don't understand, like why the
Speaker 1: numbers are good. We have a fair amount of listeners,
Speaker 1: but they don't really interact that much. It seems odd
Speaker 1: to me. But I would say Boston, Minnesota, Seattle, Uh, Houston,
Speaker 1: we do pretty well in ironically on the Astros flagship
Speaker 1: ringing station seven ninety in Houston. What about five seventy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: usually during baseball season we get more of that because
Speaker 1: the Dodger station we do alright on on in l
Speaker 1: a on five seventy. Movie Man Matt from Boston, right,
Speaker 1: since says, uh, currently in Denver, and that being said,
Speaker 1: a two part question in the spirit of moving man
Speaker 1: match Mallard food hat trick. Yeah, he's going to complete
Speaker 1: the Mallard hat trick of eating the three Mallard branded
Speaker 1: food dishes in the same week. It has never been
Speaker 1: done before. This is historic, he says. If you could
Speaker 1: have any food dish named after you. What would it be, Well, Matt,
Speaker 1: my dream was always to have chicken fingers named after me.
Speaker 1: I have that in Kansas City. The Mallard Fowler is
Speaker 1: an amazing gift. I love that. I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 1: And also the Mallard chicken sandwich in in Denver is wonderful.
Speaker 1: I guess the next frontier would be like a big
Speaker 1: cheeseburger or a Philly cheese steak. I'd really like that.
Speaker 1: I had a pizza named after me, the Mallard Pizza
Speaker 1: in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a couple of years, which
Speaker 1: is no longer on the menu at that restaurant in
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather's Old Snopping Grounds. But but yeah, because I
Speaker 1: I love these these people, that the guys and the
Speaker 1: women that run these mom and pop restaurants. It's it's
Speaker 1: a tremendous honor. Like I never win awards. I never
Speaker 1: win any awards at all, But I feel like this
Speaker 1: is cooler than winning some dopey radio award. Knowing that
Speaker 1: people that go out to have a nice meal in
Speaker 1: Kansas City or Lawrence, Kansas or Denver and they have
Speaker 1: the option of eating a mall or meal. I love that.
Speaker 1: Uh so, but yeah, it's the big three. Next on
Speaker 1: my list would be like a big fat, greasy cheeseburger
Speaker 1: um with with my toppings that I pick on. That
Speaker 1: a Philly cheese steak. I had the mau zone which
Speaker 1: was kind of like a cheese steak in Syracuse, but
Speaker 1: they changed that restaurant changed hands. Uh And then I'd
Speaker 1: like to get another pizza on the menu. It would
Speaker 1: also be nice if run like UM that I can
Speaker 1: actually go to all the time would do it, you know,
Speaker 1: that would be that would be cool. And then and
Speaker 1: moving man Matt also says, why has guess Gun still
Speaker 1: on the podcast? Fuck gas guard, That's what he says.
Speaker 1: So why are you still on the pod? You well,
Speaker 1: because one you need me um to moving Matt, Matt
Speaker 1: needs me um. And three, as you mentioned, I do
Speaker 1: a lot of these things for the greater goods. It's
Speaker 1: all pro bono work. So alright, Colin and Denver writes
Speaker 1: us a terrible answer, and we give you funk about
Speaker 1: your answer. Colin and Denver writes and says, which illicit
Speaker 1: drug that you've never done before? Have you all always
Speaker 1: been curious about Colin In Denver? Any drug you've been
Speaker 1: Don jonesing to do gastchut. No, not at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm very paranoid about you know, I'll be
Speaker 1: the guy that does a line of coke and dies
Speaker 1: the first time, you know, I'll be the one percent
Speaker 1: or whatever that has that happen. So I'm paranoid about that.
Speaker 1: I blame my mom for for putting that into me.
Speaker 1: And then I guess if there was one I'm curious
Speaker 1: about that I don't think would kill me, it's that
Speaker 1: crap that Joe Rogan always talks about that I Alaska. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like maybe I would try that in the Amazon or
Speaker 1: something like that, but even that I probably would avoid.
Speaker 1: You need a shoper on with you anyway before you
Speaker 1: can take any of that, is that right? Yeah? Like
Speaker 1: they go through like a day of prep to tell
Speaker 1: you exactly how it's gonna go down, and you actually
Speaker 1: have a guy that's that's with you throughout the entire
Speaker 1: process because you go through like the meditation and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I'm not a good meditator. Now. No, when
Speaker 1: you had your your gallbladder removed, were you on any
Speaker 1: kind of pain meds like codeine or I only right
Speaker 1: after the surgery. They gave me a baggy of pain pills,
Speaker 1: but I did not. I did not take them when
Speaker 1: I went in. What was it? What's the pain medication
Speaker 1: that starts with an M A. I thinking of morphine? Morphine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gave me morphine and that actually I had a
Speaker 1: gold stone stuck in where a place it wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to be, and they gave me the morphine and it, Man,
Speaker 1: is that crap amazing? Within about ten minutes, that goal
Speaker 1: gold stone had passed Because it opens up your your insights,
Speaker 1: It makes everything wider and allows stuff to pass through.
Speaker 1: It was wild. Man. These doctors are what an amazing
Speaker 1: thing they've come. Like you imagine we're so so lucky.
Speaker 1: Imagine it's gonna be like a hundred years from now
Speaker 1: or two hundred years from now with medicine, the ship
Speaker 1: that these people have figured out. And you think about
Speaker 1: like the original medicine was like tartar sauce. You know
Speaker 1: in America or the early days of American people thought
Speaker 1: tartar sauce had healing powers. That's what we're at a
Speaker 1: fork in the road, guest, Scout. I know you have
Speaker 1: things to do. We can do study this which I promoted.
Speaker 1: We can do don't stick to sports, or we could
Speaker 1: say goodbye. We can say goodbye. All right, who's studied this? Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see. Here is your actual studies by actual people. Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's one that resonates with me. And we determine whether
Speaker 1: these are real or bull shit? Real or bullshit. This
Speaker 1: is a tribute to the Pet and Teller show, which
Speaker 1: was called bullshit back in the day. But here it
Speaker 1: is that American households waste nearly blank of their food.
Speaker 1: Nearly blank of their food. I'll give you the answer.
Speaker 1: This is from a Penn State University study. All right, well,
Speaker 1: I'll give me the number. According to the Penn State
Speaker 1: research they said that in America here American households, the
Speaker 1: value of the waste is estimated at two hundred forty
Speaker 1: billion annually. When divided among the American households, that's an
Speaker 1: average of one thousand, eight hundred and sixty six dollars
Speaker 1: being wasted per household on a yearly basis. I think
Speaker 1: it's higher than that. Now, this is one of the
Speaker 1: things I don't have many disagrees with my wife, but
Speaker 1: one of the things I disagree with she will go
Speaker 1: through the refrigerator and the cabinet sporadically and just throw
Speaker 1: out food that is kind of not where it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. And my argument is always just because they
Speaker 1: have a date on the package doesn't mean the food
Speaker 1: is not still good, you know, And and why don't
Speaker 1: we do a little taste and and see if it's
Speaker 1: still good or not. But she's like, no, no, it
Speaker 1: says it's past the expiration date. We gotta throw that away.
Speaker 1: It's not good for your health. And um, I I
Speaker 1: disagree because I know there's old people and people you know,
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of money that eat this stuff
Speaker 1: when it's expired. They don't die, you know. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I I am. I'm not really like that. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't eat a lot of dairy. Actually, I don't eat
Speaker 1: any dairy anymore. So that's the only thing that really
Speaker 1: was conscious about when it came to labels. Everything else.
Speaker 1: Fruit obviously you can identify that, but outside of that, no,
Speaker 1: I think dairy is the only thing to be worried about.
Speaker 1: If you have a bag of potato chips and it's
Speaker 1: like the potato chips expire on the janu and it's
Speaker 1: you know, February seven. Or you know what, what about
Speaker 1: you really concerned you're gonna die from meeting the bag
Speaker 1: of potato chips? No, but what about like poultry and
Speaker 1: meats and things like that. Well, meats, I would agree
Speaker 1: with like meats, but you can do the smell test
Speaker 1: on that, the eyeball test weird color. Plus, if you
Speaker 1: cook it enough, it doesn't matter anyway. If you burn
Speaker 1: the ship out of it, it doesn't matter. You know
Speaker 1: you're gonna burn out anything that's wrong there anyway. Uh,
Speaker 1: these are actual studies by actual people. Here's one in
Speaker 1: the modern family. On average, how much does your typical
Speaker 1: parents spend face to face with their kids per week?
Speaker 1: How many hours face to face does the average parents
Speaker 1: spend with their kid? Oh, I guess it depends on
Speaker 1: the age of the kid. Um under the age of eighteen.
Speaker 1: They said, Oh, on a week, Um, I'll say eighteen hours. Nope,
Speaker 1: not even close. The number is five, just five hours
Speaker 1: of ace to FaceTime parents spend with their kids per week.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. And they did this survey done,
Speaker 1: you know, a face to face meetings and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: they they have all this kind of data and all
Speaker 1: they spit out. Here's a lot of b s here,
Speaker 1: But nearly half of the survey parents said they only
Speaker 1: talked to the kids from maximum four hours each week.
Speaker 1: Fifty four percent said they would love to spend more
Speaker 1: time with their children. But to rectify this problem over
Speaker 1: parents have taken to an active interest in their activities
Speaker 1: and whatnot, but they say it doesn't matter. It's like
Speaker 1: about five hours a week. About five hours that was
Speaker 1: that because the kids are just playing video games and
Speaker 1: they're not into it, or parents are just tired after
Speaker 1: work and they don't have time for it, and combination
Speaker 1: of both. People are stuck on their cell phones too,
Speaker 1: whether it's a parent or a child, so they're either
Speaker 1: watching something or playing on an app. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: people are the adults at least working too much. So
Speaker 1: it is the sign of the time. So I give
Speaker 1: my parents credit. I got a lot of face time
Speaker 1: with mom and dad, one more mom than dad when
Speaker 1: I was growing up. But my mom made it a
Speaker 1: priority and she worked her ass off, but she made
Speaker 1: sure that always give us some some face time there
Speaker 1: and a lot of it as as I remember. Although
Speaker 1: I also spent a lot of time like throwing a
Speaker 1: tennis ball against the garage door, thinking I was going
Speaker 1: to play shortstop for the Dodgers, so I had that
Speaker 1: going on as well. Wow, I didn't work out. Your
Speaker 1: arm is horrible. Wow. I had great range though back
Speaker 1: in my day I could. I was like Auzie Smith
Speaker 1: running out to short stop. You're chuck knob Block, You're
Speaker 1: fucking range. Sucked man in Bakersfield. You needed a cut
Speaker 1: off man. Just get that ball to home play. I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember breakers Field. It was a great night we
Speaker 1: had there. It looked like urinated my pants because of
Speaker 1: the broken cooling machine that you put out there. A
Speaker 1: good job by you. Our last last study I have here.
Speaker 1: There's a study here that you know that story that
Speaker 1: comes out ever a year about sex trafficking surging during
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Apparently it's bullshit. University of Minutes Soda
Speaker 1: Twin Cities examined the evidence on this subject for the
Speaker 1: eighteen Super Bowl. They discovered that this belief is false.
Speaker 1: It's fake news and has largely become so widely believed
Speaker 1: due to inaccurate reporting from news outfits. So the researchers
Speaker 1: brought their findings to local outlets in Minnesota. They resulted
Speaker 1: in nearly seventy of local news stories on the topic
Speaker 1: U trafficking ahead of twenty eighteen Super Bowl blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: la ilegals here in BS. But they said, bottom line,
Speaker 1: it's not true. It's not it doesn't it's not surging.
Speaker 1: It's not like taking an uber and surge pricing. I
Speaker 1: call bullshit on that one. And I think the reason
Speaker 1: why I do that is because much like gambling, you
Speaker 1: know this is that whatever is accounted for on the
Speaker 1: books in the gambling world, uh, people usually say it's
Speaker 1: double on the black market. And so I think it's
Speaker 1: the same thing with with these studies and human trafficking
Speaker 1: because now but I think the argument is like it
Speaker 1: is gonna be new, um, new people that are brought
Speaker 1: mostly women are in sex trafficking. But women that are
Speaker 1: brought into the game or is it just the same
Speaker 1: people there. It's moving pieces on a chessboard, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, I think their argument is it's
Speaker 1: not new people, it's the same people that are. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the strippers go to Vegas for the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl because they know or a big fight, you know,
Speaker 1: the big fight in Vegas because they know there's going
Speaker 1: to be uh an increased. That's where the people are going,
Speaker 1: where the people are right, right? Yeah, I don't don't.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. All right, that's all the studies
Speaker 1: we have time for. Do you we want to do
Speaker 1: any don't stick to sports? Are you good? I think
Speaker 1: we're good, aren't we? I don't know. Well, you're the
Speaker 1: one that has somewhere to go. I have nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: I've got nothing to do, so I have to work.
Speaker 1: So that's the other thing. I mean, one of us
Speaker 1: call that work. You call that work? How about this one?
Speaker 1: How is Miami? By the way, you're having a good
Speaker 1: time in Miami. I didn't get an invite. I'm not
Speaker 1: part of you didn't No, I'm not part of the
Speaker 1: cool Oh man, you must have had a great steak
Speaker 1: dinner the other night. It was wonderful. I want you
Speaker 1: to tweet about it. Why don't you put it on
Speaker 1: your Instagram account? Right? Why don't you put on your
Speaker 1: Facebook account? Yeah? I think I think I'm good. Who
Speaker 1: paid for the flight? Was it was it Jay Scoop?
Speaker 1: Or is he only do that to see you? I'm
Speaker 1: not supposed to talk about that. Why not I'm not
Speaker 1: supposed to all of a sudden now being shy, bashfulle Betty.
Speaker 1: They call me bashfulle Betty. I do need a fair
Speaker 1: for all your fanboys, bootlookers, listeners, all those guys looking
Speaker 1: for rubbing elbows. Uh. We need to be rated. We
Speaker 1: need to have reviews, we need to have downloads. The
Speaker 1: one minute right, all we need is one minute. You
Speaker 1: can be the one minute man. You'll be a hero. Normally,
Speaker 1: when you're a one minute man, you're not a hero.
Speaker 1: But in this case, one minute man hero. Right, what
Speaker 1: are you, don Lemon, all of a sudden, just talking
Speaker 1: down to your listeners. No, I'm saying your nickname touch
Speaker 1: somebod used to date you was the one minute man's.
Speaker 1: But for you, it's okay. One minute. We're good, guest,
Speaker 1: gun sixty seconds. It could be the best sixty seconds
Speaker 1: of your life. Yeah, all right, listen, have a great
Speaker 1: We can enjoy the super Bowl. Try the other podcast.
Speaker 1: A lot of fun exotic prop bets in that podcast,
Speaker 1: and be safe, eat a lot of food. As we
Speaker 1: said on the other podcast, no calories count. On Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday, and we will be back on the Magic
Speaker 1: Radio Box following the super Bowl festivities, so have a
Speaker 1: great We can thank