Speaker 1: Have you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough? I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break Free for something Special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: starts right now today. We are back in another year
Speaker 1: of podcasting somewhere, our first full year on the standalone
Speaker 1: podcast where we can say fucking asshole and ship in
Speaker 1: all the words we can't say on the radio. Uh
Speaker 1: So we're excited about that. Well, I'm excited about that. Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have bets on whether or not
Speaker 1: David Gascon will make it through the whole year. I
Speaker 1: am betting on him not making it through the entire year,
Speaker 1: but he is starting the year. I believe by the
Speaker 1: end of we will have a new podcast sidekick, producer,
Speaker 1: a guy. But that's my prediction. What he is here
Speaker 1: for now and we do this show because management wants
Speaker 1: us to do this show. But four hours or not enough.
Speaker 1: Right we are in the air everywhere, as I like
Speaker 1: to say, and really with the vast power of My
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Speaker 1: your podcast, and tell your friend, tell a friend, tell
Speaker 1: a friend, word of mouth advertising five stars on the podcast,
Speaker 1: give us a review, a positive review. Boy, that would
Speaker 1: help us out a lot. That would be really cool.
Speaker 1: And I'd like to you know, I never want to
Speaker 1: win awards, but I would like to try to win
Speaker 1: one this year because that would annoy people. That would
Speaker 1: annoy people in management if this podcast actually ends up winning.
Speaker 1: Is an award winning podcast, and I don't think there's
Speaker 1: that much competition in the podcast game in terms of
Speaker 1: actually there's a lot of podcasts, but there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of crappy ones. So I'd like to try to
Speaker 1: be one of the good ones. We might have to
Speaker 1: wait till Gascott leaves to win an award, but well,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm looking forward to this guest guy. This
Speaker 1: one anyway will be good. And how annoyed would you
Speaker 1: be if you actually ended up winning an award for
Speaker 1: this podcast with me on it, Well, it would be
Speaker 1: nice to to rub it in the face of management.
Speaker 1: That would be be good. But yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: would be disapprotabobuld be mostly me. Of course if I
Speaker 1: we win, it would be I mean. Just looking at
Speaker 1: Apple iTunes right now, another great gem by Ben and
Speaker 1: David came for the Mallard State, for the gascond These
Speaker 1: are just amazingly high glowing reviews. Now, can you read
Speaker 1: the ones that aren't from your dad and your mom? No?
Speaker 1: I can. Jascon is a breath of fresh air. That's
Speaker 1: your Gascon is great, marvelous and fair. Making all this
Speaker 1: up here, you're making all yourself. This is Marconi Award
Speaker 1: winning Stop. This is really good. You want me to
Speaker 1: read the ones I'm getting for? You know, I don't
Speaker 1: get really care about that. You know you only care
Speaker 1: about the I care about this. This is positive podcasting
Speaker 1: courtesy of Apple Itune. Guess God must have photos of someone,
Speaker 1: photos of them frolicking with farm animals? Uh? Guess gun
Speaker 1: does he? What? What color kneepads does he wear? About that?
Speaker 1: One of the odds of me lasting throughout this season,
Speaker 1: one of the betting odds on me staying and going.
Speaker 1: All right, So now I I have thought about this,
Speaker 1: and you are the boy that cries wolf. You're you're
Speaker 1: one of these people that's never happy, You're never satisfied,
Speaker 1: you always want more, and all that stuff like this
Speaker 1: hard working. Yeah, those are all those things. You can
Speaker 1: plain a lot and all that. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: we all know that Thard is gascon. That's how you operate.
Speaker 1: But as far as the actual real world odds, I
Speaker 1: think you talk the talk, but you don't often walk
Speaker 1: to walk in terms like because you've been telling me
Speaker 1: for like how many months have you been telling me
Speaker 1: I'm out of here, I'm done, I'm leaving, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna stay here, and you're back. So you got a
Speaker 1: factor that in plus, are you hirable? You know, could
Speaker 1: you get a better job with someone want to hire
Speaker 1: you for a better job. That's an open question. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: it's not an open question. That's a that's a pretty
Speaker 1: easy question to answer. That's a that's a open, closed question,
Speaker 1: Ben Mallory. That's yes or no, and yes. All right.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna set the odds at minus one ninety
Speaker 1: that you are gone. That's good, all right. That's a
Speaker 1: sixty five percent chance the implied odds on that that
Speaker 1: you're out of here. That's good. That means if I
Speaker 1: am out of here, that means them up to bigger
Speaker 1: and better things. Well maybe not. You're leaving away on
Speaker 1: a podcast. You might get that memo. I got compensation
Speaker 1: in these tough economical times. It's called pro bono work.
Speaker 1: Is you're laying the foundation to a magical thing. I've
Speaker 1: tried to tell you that you don't understand that concept.
Speaker 1: So you admit that I'm a man of the community,
Speaker 1: a man of the people. No, because you all you
Speaker 1: do is complain about it. Well, there's things that aren't
Speaker 1: have to snuff, and you pointed out you you're No,
Speaker 1: You're no different than Russell Wilson, who every time he
Speaker 1: visits a sick kid has to put a photo on Twitter.
Speaker 1: God for he visits a sick kid and doesn't put
Speaker 1: a photo on Twitter. There's nothing wrong. It's almost like
Speaker 1: he does it to put photos on Twitter. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Well, there's nothing wrong with that. It
Speaker 1: would be a little bit different if I had a
Speaker 1: there's something wrong with that. It's kind of it's kind
Speaker 1: of like Kobe and an Eye and they're talking over
Speaker 1: each other. Nobody's listening to. But it's like Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1: I I goofed on Kobe a lot. But Kobe was
Speaker 1: very modest. He visited children's hospitals all the time. But
Speaker 1: you heard from nurses and people that worked at the hospital.
Speaker 1: You didn't hear from Kobe because he didn't do the
Speaker 1: whole photo thing. That's what are you trying to say.
Speaker 1: I am saying you are looking for attention. You are
Speaker 1: whining and complaining and all that. Industry. It is all
Speaker 1: about attention, Ben mallary. It's all about talent. It's all
Speaker 1: about talent. It's people in the room. Look at me,
Speaker 1: Listen to me. I need twenty four to fifty hours
Speaker 1: worth of content every week so people can listen to me.
Speaker 1: Pat me on the back side, fly me up to Seattle.
Speaker 1: Pay for my child. You're so jealous, you are so
Speaker 1: lick my toes. I'm peanut butter, you're jelly is how
Speaker 1: this is gonna work? Okay, which is ironic because your
Speaker 1: your nickname around Fox is the jellyfish. No, actually, people
Speaker 1: people call me around here the white boy version of
Speaker 1: dk metcalf. Uh really so uh not really committed, but
Speaker 1: just getting by on athletic ability. But you don't know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna actually make it. You occasionally play well,
Speaker 1: but not consistently. I got it. Okay, good, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: a star in the making. Ben Maller, Well, yeah, you've
Speaker 1: been saying that, but you know, look at me. I
Speaker 1: was called a rising star and I'm forced to work
Speaker 1: with you. You're You're buried into the uh to the moonlight.
Speaker 1: So that's unfortunate. But you know what, I bring you
Speaker 1: out of that darkness into the daylight. And that's why
Speaker 1: we have the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. Well, we
Speaker 1: have the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller because I am
Speaker 1: doing the show. No, we have the Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Benn Mallor because I talked and bugged are our vice
Speaker 1: president of programming, Scott Sapiro, and I said, hey, we'd
Speaker 1: like to launch the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard. Can
Speaker 1: we make this happen? Can we talk to the up
Speaker 1: and the ups at I Heart Radio. They gave me
Speaker 1: the green light and I finally encourage you to do it.
Speaker 1: Get off your fucking ass, roll out of bed and
Speaker 1: start doing something. So now we made content in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and now here is to a brand new year and
Speaker 1: a brand new you. Lethargic, Ben Maller turns over a
Speaker 1: new leaf. Well, I mean that's a nice revisionist history.
Speaker 1: Look at what happened here. The reality is, though, that
Speaker 1: I chose. I was asked by the company to do this,
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, I would like to do it,
Speaker 1: and here we are. That's not true. You don't do
Speaker 1: anything unless it benefits you and you get paid for it.
Speaker 1: It benefits me because if the company wants me to
Speaker 1: do something and I do it, they keep me gamefully employed.
Speaker 1: That's how it works. Stupid, But you're not getting paid
Speaker 1: for this. So how are you gonna be employed by
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. You're wasting time. Here
Speaker 1: we have the you're worried about time. I am worried
Speaker 1: about that. We have Betty's Bistro. We've got the Great Flood.
Speaker 1: Here's the menu, the Great Flood. Lawyer up the stern message,
Speaker 1: study this the grab bag and don't stick to sports.
Speaker 1: We'll start out with the Great Flood. Now, I have
Speaker 1: not talked about this on the radio, but I've been
Speaker 1: I've been experiencing a homeowners nightmare at the Mallard Mansion. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've listened to me over these you know that
Speaker 1: the original Mallard Mansion which is still underwater, but now
Speaker 1: the second Mallard Mansion is also underwater. I have been
Speaker 1: dealing with a flood in the walls of the Mallard Mansion.
Speaker 1: I'm talking mold I'm talking extreme water damage. So let
Speaker 1: me tell you what happened here. We we had a
Speaker 1: leak in front of the refrigerator, so we called a
Speaker 1: refrigerator repairman to come look at it, and he examined
Speaker 1: every part of the refrigerator. Said, no, nothing's it's working fine.
Speaker 1: So you might have a leak in the wall. So
Speaker 1: we we contacted the insurance. They came out, they looked
Speaker 1: at everything, and indeed there was We had a plumber,
Speaker 1: first of all, come out and there was a leak
Speaker 1: in the wall between the kitchen and my my living
Speaker 1: room at the like a galley kitchen, and behind it
Speaker 1: is the is the living the living rooms and so um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: there was a leak there and his cost literally thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars of damage. The water not started, it got
Speaker 1: so I leaked out of the wall in the little
Speaker 1: crack in the wall, but it went under the flooring
Speaker 1: that I have in the living room that all got
Speaker 1: soaked and has to be replaced. The dry wall has
Speaker 1: to be replaced, the kitchen, even the kitchen sink, like
Speaker 1: under the kitchen sink around the dishwasher area, that all
Speaker 1: got destroyed. So they're gonna have to do demo on
Speaker 1: my house. While I'm living in the house. While all
Speaker 1: this is going on, I'll be trying to sleep because
Speaker 1: I do an overnight radio show, and they'll be chopping
Speaker 1: down dry wall and ripping out the refrigerator and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. And uh, we're not gonna have a kitchen
Speaker 1: for like a month because of the mold and the
Speaker 1: gallons of water that went everywhere. That's my life, guest gone,
Speaker 1: the hell I've been living here. You want you want
Speaker 1: a violin, I'm playing the world. Can you play a violins?
Speaker 1: You don't know how to play a violin. You're not
Speaker 1: watching enough to play a violin for you. It's just
Speaker 1: one note you know, you gotta look at the silver
Speaker 1: lining in this is that because you want to have
Speaker 1: access to the kitchen, that means your dumbass won't burn
Speaker 1: your tongue eating a shitty pizza. This is the best
Speaker 1: part of this entire story is you will not be
Speaker 1: anywhere near a kitchen. Well, you're you're wrong. Um, that's
Speaker 1: not the best. But first of all, I I sent
Speaker 1: you a message to the other day. How many hours
Speaker 1: did I go between food? Yeah, it was fifty four
Speaker 1: hours I went food. That's called photoshop. This is not
Speaker 1: called photoshop. I took a screenshot of my iPhone five
Speaker 1: s and send it to you because you you were
Speaker 1: trying to be braggadocious about how you had gone on
Speaker 1: twenty five hours. I've lost nine pounds since the month
Speaker 1: of December. You should give me a pat on the bag.
Speaker 1: I'm getting stronger, I'm getting leaner. You're such a narcissist.
Speaker 1: You are such a goddamn narcissist, is what. You're not
Speaker 1: the one complaining on a podcast about my hardship in life,
Speaker 1: about my my kitchen. Your house has been a praise
Speaker 1: for over a million and a half dollars and now
Speaker 1: you're bitching on a podcast about it. My house is
Speaker 1: not worth a million dollars. That's that's false. That's a lie.
Speaker 1: That's another guess on lie. Uh, let's see. If you
Speaker 1: want to email the podcast at real fifth hour, I
Speaker 1: can give you the praise value for Ben Maller's house.
Speaker 1: Oh you want people to email us again? I thought
Speaker 1: you'd think that would be cool for anybody to want.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's powerful that likes this show. And I have
Speaker 1: a very powerful audience guest, and I don't talk about
Speaker 1: those people, but TV TV big shots, sportscasting, big shots,
Speaker 1: moguls of business people that are big Mallard militia fans.
Speaker 1: But on the down low, do not send any email
Speaker 1: there that is private because Gascon, the scrooge, the narcissist, uh,
Speaker 1: the spoiled brat over there, the conceited one, he will
Speaker 1: see those emails. Well we can. I can type it
Speaker 1: in on zillo if you'd like screen cap ship put
Speaker 1: it on social media, Instagram, Twitter, that would be nice
Speaker 1: to put my my house on social media. Fucking car
Speaker 1: on social media. I didn't put your goddamn license plate
Speaker 1: on social media, and I got that's a lie, I'll
Speaker 1: bet you tacos. I didn't know you cannot see your
Speaker 1: license plate in that photo. I've already lost two rounds
Speaker 1: of tacos to me, so I will not be in
Speaker 1: your die. Know you know you would not win that one.
Speaker 1: So anyway, my favorite start of my favorite part of
Speaker 1: the story, guest, And you say your favorite part is
Speaker 1: that I won't eat burned pizza. My favorite part is
Speaker 1: the scumbag insurance company that I am having to deal
Speaker 1: with here. Um, I would like you to guess how
Speaker 1: much of the damage the insurance company. I pay a
Speaker 1: lot of money every month for homeowners insurance. How much
Speaker 1: are they covering from all of this damage? The flooring
Speaker 1: has to be replaced, the dry wall, uh, they have
Speaker 1: to do some work removing mold inside the walls, uh
Speaker 1: in two rooms in my house. So how much of
Speaker 1: this is the insurance gonna cover? So I won't go
Speaker 1: a dollar amount, I'll go percentage. And I'll say, so
Speaker 1: you leave forty five percent now, I would is not
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, it's it's essentially dollar for dollar
Speaker 1: they are covering zero. They are not paying a goddamn
Speaker 1: sent to cover the damage. And I would like to say,
Speaker 1: right now, if you own a home. Homeowners insurance is
Speaker 1: a total fucking scam. It is a goddamn scam and
Speaker 1: it's bullshit. And I am so sick and tired of
Speaker 1: this crap, which is what we've been nearling with. My
Speaker 1: wife's been taking care of a lot of it, but
Speaker 1: I've been hearing on what's been going on here and
Speaker 1: they so the insurance check this out. They claim that
Speaker 1: since the leak at the Mallard mansion lasted for more
Speaker 1: than thirty days, they don't have to pay any money,
Speaker 1: not a fucking cent because this one over thirty days.
Speaker 1: And the insurance says that we have a deal, it's
Speaker 1: in the contract. How can they prove that it was
Speaker 1: more than thirty days. Well, they claim because of the
Speaker 1: damage done to the flooring and inside the walls. They
Speaker 1: say it's our responsibility to take care of our home.
Speaker 1: Apparently what's in the goddamn walls were I mean, what
Speaker 1: a hustle, you know, pop goes Louise. Also, they got
Speaker 1: forensic insurance claimers that are trying to knock you off. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what happened. So the leak was in the wall
Speaker 1: and we didn't know about it. And then as soon
Speaker 1: as it started leaking out of the wall. You know,
Speaker 1: when you noticed there's a leak, because I don't know,
Speaker 1: how are you supposed to know what's in the fucking walls.
Speaker 1: So once the water came out, we were alerted to it.
Speaker 1: We're in like ten days. We contacted the insurance and
Speaker 1: these assholes who I hope all burden. Hell uh, they said, well, sorry,
Speaker 1: apparently it had been leaking in the walls undetected. Because again,
Speaker 1: I guess we have to cut our drywall down and
Speaker 1: leave we have Maybe I just didn't even replace the drywall.
Speaker 1: We'll just have all the pipes exposed. That way, if
Speaker 1: something breaks, we can we can report it right away
Speaker 1: to the insurance. Well, you know you have. You've lived
Speaker 1: a charmed life with sycophans and lap dogs and boot liquors.
Speaker 1: This is one of the rare times that you should
Speaker 1: call up your dogs to come defend you. What insurance
Speaker 1: company is this? It is safe Co Insurance is the
Speaker 1: name of the insurance company that is the one, right
Speaker 1: what I have relationships with people at Safeco Insurance? You do?
Speaker 1: I do? Really one thousand percent honest to go? Are
Speaker 1: you the reason that they are not covering any of this. No,
Speaker 1: but do you know what I could be your white Knight.
Speaker 1: I could be the well, if you are my white
Speaker 1: Knight guest scout, I will buy you tacos after tacos
Speaker 1: after talking that damage or you can uh, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: It has been a nightmare here, and I apparently this
Speaker 1: goes on all the time with insurance companies that that
Speaker 1: what judge, what courtroom determined that it's the homeowner's responsibility. Now,
Speaker 1: I wonder if I would maybe I'll call Bill Handle
Speaker 1: handling them the law and see if I have a
Speaker 1: case here. But I looked up on the internet. Apparently
Speaker 1: this kind of thing happens all the time with homeowners
Speaker 1: where there's leaks in the wall and it goes undetected
Speaker 1: and then the insurance company claims, what it's not our fault?
Speaker 1: You know, it is amazing that that that that their
Speaker 1: lawyers were able to convince some court somewhere. How is
Speaker 1: that fair? How are you supposed to know if there's
Speaker 1: a leak in the wall when there's dry wall and
Speaker 1: you can't see in there. That's unbelievable. But it's an
Speaker 1: amazing scam, is what their villains. Their villains is what
Speaker 1: they are. I feel I feel sorry for you. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like your mansion one of two has just
Speaker 1: gone snap crackle pop it has. I remember there's a
Speaker 1: movie Tom Early, Tom Hanks movie called The Money Pit,
Speaker 1: and there's a classic, very good movie, you know, million
Speaker 1: it's old, dated now, but they bought a house. They
Speaker 1: were all excited, this big mansion and they had to
Speaker 1: do some work to fix it up, and everything fell apart.
Speaker 1: And it feels like everything the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: it feels like everyone's dying and uh, and everything's falling
Speaker 1: apart like this. It's it's raining down fire, it's you know,
Speaker 1: one of those rough stretches. But I'm sure it'll be
Speaker 1: temporary and then we'll get back to reality. But that
Speaker 1: was a real kick in the nuts. So if anybody
Speaker 1: in the Ala Musha, uh, if you want to contact me,
Speaker 1: if you're you're in the Los Angeles area or between
Speaker 1: l A and Vegas and you you want to, you know,
Speaker 1: do do a solid for me with the drywall or
Speaker 1: the well. No, I'm just I'm throwing it out there, guests,
Speaker 1: because I need some help here. You know, I'll pay,
Speaker 1: but I mean, if you give me a deal and
Speaker 1: make me a better deal than I could get somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Let's talk, you know, let's talk. I got I need
Speaker 1: a I need a flooring guy or a woman. Do
Speaker 1: a lot of women do Floria mostly guys. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I need like I'm thinking about, like a tile floor expert. Plumbing.
Speaker 1: I would need that. The plumbing has already been repaired.
Speaker 1: We paid for that. That was only a few hundred dollars. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: that was the cheapest part of all of this. And
Speaker 1: also like a drywall person, someone good with the drywall. Uh,
Speaker 1: we've got the demo. The demo is going to take
Speaker 1: place here, so we need the other stuff. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: if I can smuggle and finagle away to get you
Speaker 1: some money from the insurance company, what do I get
Speaker 1: out of this? Wow? So you're trying now, what percentage
Speaker 1: are we looking at here? Well, I mean something is
Speaker 1: better than zero? So well, something he's better than zero.
Speaker 1: I don't know what do you want? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think if I can get you fift covered. If
Speaker 1: I can get you covered, I will need to during
Speaker 1: the month of July, the baseball season, I need a
Speaker 1: co host with you for a week. The overnight show. Yes,
Speaker 1: do you expect to be paid for this? No? Okay, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: as long as you don't want to be paid, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can hang out. Sure, not not hang out, I
Speaker 1: said co host, Well, you know you hang out with
Speaker 1: you during that show. I'm not gonna add a fucking four.
Speaker 1: I said. You want to be the fifth wheel? Is
Speaker 1: what you'd like, I'll be riding shotgun? All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a deal. You get me fift on this claim.
Speaker 1: You make some phone calls there and one week in
Speaker 1: the summertime it is side by side mano a mano radio. Now,
Speaker 1: the unfortunate thing is I gotta do all the legworks.
Speaker 1: Since you mentioned your wife is handling most of this,
Speaker 1: so I need to contact her because you don't know
Speaker 1: what's up from down. Well, I do know what's up,
Speaker 1: but my wife knows. I. I do not handle these
Speaker 1: situations involving loss of great money very well. I do not.
Speaker 1: I admit that that's one of my flaws. I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons for that, and my psychologist
Speaker 1: that tells me because I work in radio and I'm paranoid.
Speaker 1: When I started in radio, everyone lost their job and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't afford this. I'm gonna lose my job,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing. So but unfortunately, I think
Speaker 1: everything will be okay. But you're gonna help out and
Speaker 1: make it better than okay, because otherwise I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to take out a loan to pay for all this
Speaker 1: good We're not thousands and thousands of dollars, it's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the only good thing is at least you
Speaker 1: have a lot of equit in your home, so that
Speaker 1: home equity, you'll be able to write off a portion
Speaker 1: of it. So yeah, I guess the one thing you
Speaker 1: could do if you don't save the day like a
Speaker 1: night and shining armor. Guess gun, Uh, the one thing
Speaker 1: you could do here is you could claim a catastrophe
Speaker 1: on your insurance. I think Trump didn't take that out,
Speaker 1: so you can still get a little money back. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. I want I want
Speaker 1: the insurance to do I pay every month for the insurance.
Speaker 1: I'd like them to do their fucking job. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is tough too, because your FICO score isn't as
Speaker 1: good as mine either. So here we got, as a
Speaker 1: humble brag, the narcissist part. The pretentious one, right, taking
Speaker 1: because I was in banking when I was in my
Speaker 1: young twenties, and so my young twenties, Pico is at
Speaker 1: a blistering eight hundred, while yours is that like a
Speaker 1: here's the deal. You try to appeal to the white
Speaker 1: collar work. Of course, that's where the I appeal to
Speaker 1: the blue collar factory work, or the truck driver, the
Speaker 1: security guard, the people that are out there salt of
Speaker 1: the earth, the people driving eighteen wheelers, working in warehouses.
Speaker 1: I'm their guy, I'm their champion. You are trying to
Speaker 1: get people that don't even listen to podcast, those those
Speaker 1: rich fat cats to listen. Well, you're usually those are
Speaker 1: the ones writing the check, and that's priority number one.
Speaker 1: How's that working out with you? Wow, it's it's no,
Speaker 1: it's to be determined, to be determined. Were in progress? Anyway?
Speaker 1: That's my story about the Mallard flood. And well, I
Speaker 1: guess stay tuned. That's a good, good cliffhanger, will guess.
Speaker 1: Get on, who talks a good game be able to
Speaker 1: pull out some kind of agreement with the insurance company.
Speaker 1: We will find out. This is amazing. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: we talked about you never having to be admitted to
Speaker 1: the hospital for a major surgery. Then it happened, and
Speaker 1: and now we're looking for for me to be your
Speaker 1: your white Night again again. Cape Crusader. Now you were
Speaker 1: the grim reaper in that instance. You you were the
Speaker 1: one that created my gallbladder malfunctioning by bringing it up.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves a hell, and I was just that I
Speaker 1: was playing to the rout and I did so accordingly.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am easternm Pacific. Alright, moving on,
Speaker 1: we have a stern message. I mentioned everyone seems like
Speaker 1: they're dying here. I've had some friends people I worked
Speaker 1: with that have died in January, which which sucks. And
Speaker 1: my buddy Alex Russo, radio guy in l A died
Speaker 1: and you gotta go to his funeral next week, and
Speaker 1: you know which, I guess is better to go to
Speaker 1: the funeral than be the one at the funeral who's
Speaker 1: in the box. But but anyway, Uh, David Stern, longtime
Speaker 1: NBA commissioner, he passed away while I was on hiatus,
Speaker 1: and I didn't get a chance. I was gonna do
Speaker 1: a six line tribute but with the football playoffs going on,
Speaker 1: I just I didn't think it would work. And in
Speaker 1: radio it's all about what's going on right now, and
Speaker 1: the Stern story is a little bit old. But I
Speaker 1: thought the podcast we could talk about David Stern. Now,
Speaker 1: I actually have a couple of David Stern stories that
Speaker 1: I have interviewed him a few times over the years. Now.
Speaker 1: One of them does not have involve me, but involves
Speaker 1: a story that I was told about David Stern. The
Speaker 1: other one directly involves me. So I've got two David Sterns,
Speaker 1: and now listen. Stern was not perfect. The biggest mistake
Speaker 1: David Stern made was allowing that slick oil baron to
Speaker 1: take the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma. That was horrific. But
Speaker 1: Stern did a lot of really cool things when he
Speaker 1: was the commissioner of the NBA. It was very good
Speaker 1: for many, many people who made a lot of money
Speaker 1: playing professional basketball. He marketed the stars, not the teams.
Speaker 1: It wasn't go see the Lakers, it was go see
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. It wasn't see the Celtics, it was Larry Bird.
Speaker 1: It was Michael Jordan's versus Dominique Wilkins, that was the
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of that was Stern and
Speaker 1: how much of that was some marketing person, but he
Speaker 1: was the commissioner, so he gets some level of credit
Speaker 1: for that. So my David Sterns stories. He passed away
Speaker 1: into brain hemorrhage, never recovered, uh, and he died over
Speaker 1: the holiday break. So my guy Rob, who's he was
Speaker 1: an old Clipper PR guy didn't work for the team anymore,
Speaker 1: but he worked for the team for years. I knew
Speaker 1: him when he was an intern. He rose up was
Speaker 1: a PR executive with the team. So he told a
Speaker 1: story to me about amazing meet and great so so
Speaker 1: he you know, it's the PR guy. Occasionally have to
Speaker 1: go to league meetings. And he was at an event
Speaker 1: with David Stern and this is probably about ten years ago,
Speaker 1: maybe a little less than ten years ago, and Stern
Speaker 1: it was making small talk and said, hey, how long
Speaker 1: have you worked for for Donald Sterling, who at the
Speaker 1: time was the Clippers owner. And my friends said, what,
Speaker 1: I've worked for them for seventeen years. And David Stern
Speaker 1: told my the guy that I know here, he said, Jesus,
Speaker 1: you're like a fucking prisoner of war. How about that
Speaker 1: commissioner of the NBA. Oh man, that great, that's pretty
Speaker 1: damn good. That's that New York nonsense, that New York
Speaker 1: stuff from from Stern there the New Yorker and then
Speaker 1: came out. Then I had my own personal dealings with
Speaker 1: David So now I interviewed him a few times, but
Speaker 1: this involves not an interview. Way back. Hard to believe
Speaker 1: it's been twenty years, but the two thousand NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are playing the Pacers, and I happened to
Speaker 1: be working at an l A radio station that sent
Speaker 1: me to Indianapolis to cover the NBA Finals. So I
Speaker 1: was in Indianapolis. There was a day off between games
Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, and the NBA had a media
Speaker 1: Welcome to Indianapolis, Welcome to the Hoosier State Party, which
Speaker 1: was really just an example of freeloading, right, guestc on,
Speaker 1: you know, freeloading and all that. I don't know about it.
Speaker 1: H So I was invited. I showed up. They had
Speaker 1: free food in Booze. I remember that was when that
Speaker 1: hard lemonade had kind of hit the market, and I
Speaker 1: drank so much of that hard lemonade. Mike's hard lemonade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like new. That was like a new product,
Speaker 1: as I remember at the time, and they had so
Speaker 1: much of it, and oh my god, I got so
Speaker 1: wasted on that. I didn't have to drive or anything
Speaker 1: like that. It was down the street from the hotel.
Speaker 1: But anyway, during that event, they had like a mini
Speaker 1: arcade with a bunch of video games like NBA Jam
Speaker 1: and whatnot. So I was playing NBA Jam against my
Speaker 1: friend David not you guest gun, but David Denholme, David
Speaker 1: Denhome who's now the play by play guy for the
Speaker 1: l A f C. He's gone on and done some
Speaker 1: good things there. So so but we were working together
Speaker 1: and UH and and hanging out and we went to
Speaker 1: UH a minor league baseball game in Indianapolis, a game
Speaker 1: the Indians, I think. I don't know if they're called
Speaker 1: that anymore. Um whatever they're called now, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so was there hanging out playing this video
Speaker 1: game and we were really getting into the game. It's
Speaker 1: an arcade game to give, you know, it's the old
Speaker 1: arcade set up. So I'm going against him and we
Speaker 1: are like going back and forth. We're screaming in each
Speaker 1: other because it's like a one point game, and some
Speaker 1: of the other media people started gravitating behind where we
Speaker 1: were playing the game because of like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on here? Why is this so exciting? So
Speaker 1: we had an audience and one of the people in
Speaker 1: the audience that came up was was David Stern, the
Speaker 1: commissioner of the NBA, who asked he kind of he
Speaker 1: was like, what teams are you playing with? And I
Speaker 1: was playing with the Los Angeles Clippers and my friend
Speaker 1: David uh he was playing with the Toronto Raptors, And
Speaker 1: hand to god, David Sterns, why are you playing with
Speaker 1: those teams? All about the money man? How great is
Speaker 1: that man? That? It's really good? That is hilarious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought your favorite David Sterns story would have been
Speaker 1: the one where he nixed the Lakers Chris Paul trade. Well,
Speaker 1: that was just good commissioner work, is what that was.
Speaker 1: That's what any commissioner would have done that because it
Speaker 1: was an illegal trade by the Lakers. They were trying
Speaker 1: to trade a guy that had a cocaine problem lamar
Speaker 1: Odom to get a star player, and Chris Paul the
Speaker 1: Clippers gave me a better offer to New Orleans than
Speaker 1: the Lakers did. Things so, but unfortunately Rich Paul and
Speaker 1: Lebron James were not part of the Lakers, or else
Speaker 1: Chris Paul would have gone to the Lakers. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's a great story though, playing an arcade game with
Speaker 1: David Stern over your shoulder or not under your shoulder,
Speaker 1: under your elbow, but yeah, exactly, And then the line
Speaker 1: he had like why are you playing with those teams?
Speaker 1: You know? And then what do you know? I mean what?
Speaker 1: Ten fifteen years later, Raptors win an NBA title, beating
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, and now the Clippers are in
Speaker 1: the hunt to win their first I know. And he's dead,
Speaker 1: but rest in peace. David Stern. Interesting character, interesting character
Speaker 1: and a better commissioner than Adam Silver. Now is he gonna?
Speaker 1: You know? I want to point out before I'm done
Speaker 1: with the Sterns. David Stern he knew what a disease,
Speaker 1: what a robonic plague load management was and tried to
Speaker 1: stop load management. He tried to stop it, and Adam
Speaker 1: Silver is like, oh no, I want that load management
Speaker 1: and it's been bad for NBA. All these players seemingly
Speaker 1: Pussy Willows, Zion Williamson, the latest number one pick on
Speaker 1: a minute restriction hasn't played yet. It's it's all absurd. Now.
Speaker 1: The big question is will he'd be a better commissioner
Speaker 1: than Rob Manfred of Major League Baseball? Well, that is
Speaker 1: to be determined here, depending on what Rob Manford does
Speaker 1: and what Major League Baseball does. And adjudicating the great
Speaker 1: cheating scandal that we have been dealing with here with
Speaker 1: the Astros and the Red Sox and the Dodges winning
Speaker 1: back to back championship, Now do you think this is
Speaker 1: back to back scandals or is this one concurrent scandal
Speaker 1: like you have the the tampering, the espionage, and then
Speaker 1: of course the cheating with the Astros and the Red
Speaker 1: Sox of video replay. All right, so, first of all,
Speaker 1: I believe that these are obviously are tied together, the
Speaker 1: tentacles of the Astros. The common denominator is Alex Cora,
Speaker 1: who was either the leader or was the follower of
Speaker 1: a j hinge in Houston, and he goes to Boston.
Speaker 1: And they didn't do exactly the same thing. They did
Speaker 1: a more modest version, a less obvious version. Because everything
Speaker 1: in Texas has to be bigger than the Commonwealth of Boston,
Speaker 1: you know, New England and all that stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Red Sox had a historically great year.
Speaker 1: They they were overwhelmingly good, and now we have come
Speaker 1: to learn that they were. One of the reasons for
Speaker 1: that is that they were cheating. Back to back years,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers were stimated and we think what could have been,
Speaker 1: maybe what should have been thanks to some some cheating
Speaker 1: scandals in Houston and in Boston. All right, So as
Speaker 1: far as modern technology, now this is our maiden voyage
Speaker 1: in a new studio setup. Now I have the remote
Speaker 1: Geico Fox Sports radio studios that I work out of,
Speaker 1: which these are the same studios I did radio for
Speaker 1: w e I in Boston. But I'm gonna go inside
Speaker 1: radio for you. So if you're in radio, oh you'll
Speaker 1: appreciate this. If not, just bear with me. So I
Speaker 1: had a setup with I s d N, which is
Speaker 1: a high powered broadcast phone line expensive, well not as
Speaker 1: expensive as it used to be, but it is expensive
Speaker 1: as like a monthly fee for it and all that.
Speaker 1: So I had been using that to broadcast all of
Speaker 1: these different shows that I do in the the overnight shows,
Speaker 1: in the main studio. But these other shows I do,
Speaker 1: these secondary shows I do from this studio, and I
Speaker 1: do appearances on radio shows or whatever. I use this studio.
Speaker 1: So I used I SDN, but the company decided we
Speaker 1: have to get rid of I SDN because it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of outdated technology. The phone company doesn't want to
Speaker 1: pay for it anymore. They don't want to they don't
Speaker 1: want to, you know, use the technology. So I had
Speaker 1: to switch over to a Comrex set up. And I
Speaker 1: was very concerned about this because it's an Internet based
Speaker 1: situation and I had a piece of equipment I to
Speaker 1: install it. I installed it myself, but there were a
Speaker 1: couple of glitches. It wasn't working perfectly. So I had
Speaker 1: a team of engineers from I Heeart Media that had
Speaker 1: to work on this and to to put all this together.
Speaker 1: You know, Curis and Fred and God love Fred. On
Speaker 1: his vacation. This is how important I am to Fred
Speaker 1: in the engineering department. Fred came to the Mallard mansion
Speaker 1: on his vacation to make sure that the glitch was
Speaker 1: out of the the Magic Radio Boxer podcasting box. How
Speaker 1: cool is that? Yeah, it's not every day that we
Speaker 1: can have an engineer trek all the way to your
Speaker 1: house to set up an entire studio for you. You know,
Speaker 1: microphone une no no, no no. I set up the
Speaker 1: microphone mixer connectivity and I P line. I'd like you
Speaker 1: to know. With no engineering background, although I was a technical,
Speaker 1: I was a board op when I started radio. I
Speaker 1: was a terrible board op. But I don't know a
Speaker 1: lot about how to wire a radio station. But I
Speaker 1: was able to put together about eight five of this podcast.
Speaker 1: We had Stay Awake with Jake Jake Warner, who helped
Speaker 1: finish off the rest of it. But I did most
Speaker 1: of the work here on the podcast putting the studio
Speaker 1: together that I have here. So it's not that good.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's not like the studio that Steve
Speaker 1: Harvey has at home, or Rush Limbaugh has in his
Speaker 1: house but it's you know, it's fine, or Jim Rome
Speaker 1: has it his house but it's okay. Yeah. Full disclaimer
Speaker 1: for those out there that know about this. You and
Speaker 1: Jake went to Ikea and bought a shitty black desk
Speaker 1: and that's what you're using. That's a lot. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: This is the same desk I I I love this desk,
Speaker 1: and you can't find this desk very many places. I
Speaker 1: have like a corner desk. It's wonderful and it is
Speaker 1: actually what I had at the original Mallard mansion. It's
Speaker 1: I had to glue it together and I had to
Speaker 1: use like screws to screw it back together. But it's
Speaker 1: it's still holding up. It's painful, it's not Why is
Speaker 1: it painful? Well, it's painful to look at. It's just
Speaker 1: not really professional. But you have an engineer that comes
Speaker 1: out and it's a wonderfully Look, it's a great desk,
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's the equivalent of your car
Speaker 1: in your house. It's fine, it's suitable. Are you yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm done. You're flooded mansion. Alright? Moving on, we
Speaker 1: have study this Is it real or is it bullshit? Uh?
Speaker 1: The study this game here and these are actual studies.
Speaker 1: We determine whether we believe them or not. First one
Speaker 1: headline on this from Joy to Triumph. Study finds music
Speaker 1: evokes thirteen key emotions it lose in you, you know,
Speaker 1: listeners of of the music. The emotions amusement, joy, eroticism, beauty, relaxation, sadness, dreaminess, triumph, anxiety, scariness, annoyance, defiance,
Speaker 1: and energizing. Yeah, I believe that, Yeah, Mike, I My
Speaker 1: my relationship with music is a I I listened to it,
Speaker 1: not as much as most people because I but after
Speaker 1: the show on the way home, I usually listened. I
Speaker 1: have a long drive and I usually put some music
Speaker 1: on while I'm driving. But it really is the soundtrack
Speaker 1: I always, I've said, the soundtrack of your life. Like,
Speaker 1: if you play classical music, I feel like I'm in
Speaker 1: a movie. You know that that music that the instrumental stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, I'm in the I'm a movie. I'm
Speaker 1: in you know, Martin Scorsese movie or something like that,
Speaker 1: and there's music in the background. Yeah. Not. But what
Speaker 1: do you listen to when you go to the gym? Uh?
Speaker 1: Usually I watch the news channels like Fox News, CNN,
Speaker 1: those channels, uh, and I either goof on them or
Speaker 1: agree with them. All right, So I will dip my
Speaker 1: toes into this. Since you have no backbone on this
Speaker 1: at all, what do you talk? I listened to music
Speaker 1: all the time. So if congratulations, you want a cookie?
Speaker 1: So if I'm in the gym, it brings out different emotions.
Speaker 1: Than me, like anxiety, endurance, happiness. It's euphoric in some ways,
Speaker 1: especially if you're working out hard, which you I know
Speaker 1: you don't do if you're driving same thing too, because
Speaker 1: unlike you, I have a much longer drive to get
Speaker 1: to work, especially when I have to slept up here
Speaker 1: two hours before I am regularly scheduled. So oftentimes, like that,
Speaker 1: the anxiety will kick up a little bit on that element. Um.
Speaker 1: I like listen to it when I drive home after
Speaker 1: a long day's worth of work. Here with you guys,
Speaker 1: especially when your radio shows covered up on M five
Speaker 1: seven l A Sports, so I can listen to music
Speaker 1: you like listening to, like Lizzo, you know, Big Lizzo guy,
Speaker 1: like you really liked when you tworked in that thong.
Speaker 1: He thought that was good. I tell you, I listened
Speaker 1: to like a lot of soundtracks I listened to, well,
Speaker 1: I listened to some of that, to the movie soundtracks
Speaker 1: like that what's that guy, Williams? What's the guy's name?
Speaker 1: The big the great conductor of all that movie? No,
Speaker 1: not Hans Zimmer, you idiot. What what's the guy's name?
Speaker 1: His last name? This he created? Like the Star Wars
Speaker 1: theme and uh, you don't even know the guy's name.
Speaker 1: John Williams is the guy's name, John. I just came
Speaker 1: to be John Williams, not Hank Williams. John Williams is
Speaker 1: almost ninety years old. I think this guy is an
Speaker 1: American hero. The music this guy that fee Indiana Jones,
Speaker 1: Star Wars, the soundtracks, Jaws that he has come up with,
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park, e t These are a classical movies back
Speaker 1: before Hollywood just made remakes and superhero movies. That's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that means you should be at least a little excited
Speaker 1: for one Top Gun two comes out. No, because I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna gonna make it a chick flick. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just like they ruin these things. So no,
Speaker 1: the new Star Wars is like that, Well exactly, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They're like, well, they know the movie
Speaker 1: business versus all they're overly politically correct. Me. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with having rom coms for the ladies and for the
Speaker 1: do you know, the gay guys and for the for
Speaker 1: the the masculine hardcore men. You can have a Manze movie,
Speaker 1: but they don't do that anymore. Yeah, it's unfortunately everyone
Speaker 1: the studio will never sign off on that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Who right, now, you're correct, it's the world we live
Speaker 1: in now, all right? Next up globalization. The average modern
Speaker 1: family spans over blank miles according to a survey average family.
Speaker 1: How many miles does the average family span? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say thirty eight thirty eight miles? Boy, are you bad
Speaker 1: at this? According to the study, the average modern family
Speaker 1: spans over two thousand miles about that coast to coast. Well,
Speaker 1: we both your your family. You have family in Florida,
Speaker 1: right that you grew up with live in Florida. But
Speaker 1: you know, being from San Pedro, most people don't leave Pedro,
Speaker 1: and if they do, they leave to go to like
Speaker 1: Long Beach or Torrance or Yeah. Well that's true, but
Speaker 1: I grew up in Orange County and most people don't
Speaker 1: leave that. And I have a brother in Appleton, Wisconsin
Speaker 1: in New York City and both have been gone for
Speaker 1: some time. Yeah, well, so I'm separated by about three
Speaker 1: thousand miles. You're about three thousand miles from someone you
Speaker 1: grew up with. Yeah, that's true. But they say because
Speaker 1: of all the video chatting and the messaging services, people
Speaker 1: are more open to leaving because they can still communicate
Speaker 1: with their loved ones wherever they are in in the planet.
Speaker 1: That they can still it feels like you're still there
Speaker 1: because you can still talk to your your immediate family
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Yeah, which is which is fascinating,
Speaker 1: because that's why I like to travel so much. As
Speaker 1: you have the ability to communicate Skype and all these
Speaker 1: other apps that you can use at any given time.
Speaker 1: Skype and of course you know FaceTime and a lot
Speaker 1: of other craps. So that's I'm surprised you haven't moved
Speaker 1: from where you're at, But you know you're threatening to
Speaker 1: go to Boston and New York, and you know, I've had,
Speaker 1: you know, over the years, I've had several offers to
Speaker 1: do radio locally in other cities. I had a couple
Speaker 1: offers to do radio in Boston, but and I would
Speaker 1: have loved it. Unfortunately, these damn radio stations I became
Speaker 1: popular after I got married. It's harder to move, Guston
Speaker 1: when you get married, that you can move anywhere. You
Speaker 1: don't have a wife or anything like that. You don't
Speaker 1: have anything to worry about a family and all that.
Speaker 1: So I I'm in a position when I wanted these
Speaker 1: jobs in other cities, other markets. I wasn't offered the
Speaker 1: jobs now that I can't really freely move around. I
Speaker 1: have a good job now anyway. I'm not like I'm
Speaker 1: looking to leave, but I I'm amused that I have
Speaker 1: been offered these jobs now that I'm not really able
Speaker 1: to take them. Um. Now, if I lose my job,
Speaker 1: I will of course then have to relocate. But until then,
Speaker 1: uh no. So even if I can land you a
Speaker 1: TV job in Boston or New York, you're gonna say
Speaker 1: no to it. Well, it depends how long the contra
Speaker 1: I am open, because I might be one of those
Speaker 1: people that communicate via Skype and all that over two
Speaker 1: thousand miles or whatever. I mean, Yeah, everyone's got their price.
Speaker 1: I learned that the remember the book The Magic Christian,
Speaker 1: which was a terrible movie, but they talked about that.
Speaker 1: You know, anybody will do anything if the price is right. Baby.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Alright,
Speaker 1: next up, we have another study. People with a lazy
Speaker 1: lifestyle have an ape like heart about that. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call bullshit. You think this is bullshit here? All right,
Speaker 1: let me give you the details and then we can debate.
Speaker 1: This study comes out of the Boston area and they
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, obviously health and all. It is
Speaker 1: a new study that confirms the human heart evolved over
Speaker 1: time for endurance endurance, slowly becoming less ape like in
Speaker 1: reference to the you know, the original ancestors of human beings.
Speaker 1: But because of this, the human heart is intended for
Speaker 1: endurance activities. Those who live a mostly sedentary lifestyle, according
Speaker 1: to this I'm reading verbatim here are at a much
Speaker 1: greater risk of developing heart disease. So they're and they're
Speaker 1: using the term your your heart is more ape like
Speaker 1: if you neglect your physical activity. All right, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna recant, and uh, I'm gonna recall my my comment.
Speaker 1: But you said it was bullshit. Now you're trying to
Speaker 1: take it back. Yeah, I gotta walk that back. By
Speaker 1: the way. That reminds me. So either way, mane uh,
Speaker 1: I go to the gym. I know you don't believe that,
Speaker 1: but so at one point my heart was like a
Speaker 1: chimpanzee's hard but now I don't think it is. I'd
Speaker 1: like to think it's not. But they said that chimpanzees
Speaker 1: largely sustained themselves on life through short bursts of energy climbing,
Speaker 1: only putting their hearts to work for short periods of time,
Speaker 1: and so it's accepted that that's how you know, in
Speaker 1: in the evolution, humans have obviously changed. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: spoil this a little bit, but did you watch the
Speaker 1: documentary I recommended called Game Changers on Netflix? No, I
Speaker 1: I recommend you to do that. But it's fascinating. You're
Speaker 1: mentioned the human heart because there's a couple of spots
Speaker 1: in it that talks about our ability to fight off
Speaker 1: infection and fight off disease, uh, dementia, all timers, things
Speaker 1: of that nature. But it talks about the number one
Speaker 1: killer for us men, stress and heart disease. And they
Speaker 1: do all kinds of fastening and measurements with men that
Speaker 1: are are younger than us, that are are amateur or
Speaker 1: even professional athletes. It talks about what you put in
Speaker 1: your body in terms of fuel or lack thereof, and
Speaker 1: how we feel lethargic before we go work out because
Speaker 1: of what we eat. How we feel before we go
Speaker 1: to bed because of what we eat. So I won't
Speaker 1: spoil it too much, but I'll say this much. Uh,
Speaker 1: it impacts us so much about what we put in
Speaker 1: our body when it comes to our activities in the
Speaker 1: sack all of that to get the fucking is that
Speaker 1: what you're getting A well, it's it's blood flow, it's
Speaker 1: overall blood flow. And it talks about the way that
Speaker 1: we consume meat like chicken, steak, fish, and how our
Speaker 1: body just becomes inflamed and because that it leads to
Speaker 1: blood poor blood circulation in our heart or actually ends
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, recoury over muscles. You're watching like
Speaker 1: vegan propaganda is what you're doing. I'm watching what. No,
Speaker 1: I wasn't watching who Now? I love documentaries. I watched
Speaker 1: them all the time. Anybody knows a good documentary, please
Speaker 1: send it to me on a weekend. I just sent
Speaker 1: that to you, and you didn't even watch it. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not the weekend. I I only I watched sports NonStop.
Speaker 1: I have a four hour show every goddamn night that
Speaker 1: I have to do. I have to watch these these
Speaker 1: games on the weekends. I'll watch games, but I won't
Speaker 1: pay his close attention. If I'm not on the radio
Speaker 1: that night. All right, We'll find that I don't have
Speaker 1: to take notes on a game on a Friday or
Speaker 1: Saturday most of the time that this weekend I will
Speaker 1: because you know, the games on Saturday. I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: talk about over the weekend on the Sunday show. All right, well.
Speaker 1: Game Changers is a documentary that was hosted by a
Speaker 1: former UFC fighter. His name is James Wilkes, and Wilkes
Speaker 1: was a UFC fighter, but he also trained special forces
Speaker 1: in combat tactics. And so what he did was he
Speaker 1: went he had to recover from two torn a c
Speaker 1: l s left and right knees, and so he went
Speaker 1: across the world interviewing people, doctors, athletes, former athletes about
Speaker 1: their exercise, diet, nutrition, and on stuff. So it breaks
Speaker 1: down their type of recovery and what they did when
Speaker 1: they changed their diet from meat based and plant based.
Speaker 1: And there was even some bigger dudes that were in there.
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of them as well, and he
Speaker 1: just talked about the way that his body responded when
Speaker 1: he cleaned up his diet. So listen, diet's important, but
Speaker 1: I I think genetic and genetics, and you know that's
Speaker 1: it's all plays a role. Like you could have the
Speaker 1: greatest diet and work out all the time, but if
Speaker 1: you have bad genetics, you're fucked. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, but some people are just predisposed, unfortunately to
Speaker 1: really bad illnesses because they went in the wrong d
Speaker 1: NA the wrong line when they were checking into the planet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but doctors and hospitals are there to help you recover cover,
Speaker 1: not to keep you healthy. Then that comes from the
Speaker 1: food that we put in our body. Well, no, the
Speaker 1: the hospitals need sick people, they need you know. It's
Speaker 1: like I guess I'm going full on tin tinfoil hat guy.
Speaker 1: But it's the same argument. Like the oil companies. You
Speaker 1: could probably run a car fine with that. You know
Speaker 1: the conspiracy there about water. You can run a car
Speaker 1: on water, But the oil companies want their money and
Speaker 1: they want that there are the I I read a
Speaker 1: story this week that the people in Australia, I think
Speaker 1: it is they're coming up with a battery for an
Speaker 1: electric car that goes six miles on one charge. If
Speaker 1: that happens, I'm in on that. I'm I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get I don't care how much it costs. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: buy that because the gas is absurd. Yeah, it's really.
Speaker 1: But the point like hospitals, you know, they don't want
Speaker 1: to cure, they want a treatment, because if you have
Speaker 1: a cure, who's gonna go visit the doctor if you're
Speaker 1: not sick. Hence why you should eat better. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what this documentary is all about. I eat better
Speaker 1: intermittent fasting, dude, I'm telling you man, that's the way
Speaker 1: to go. You also have your body has a chance
Speaker 1: to burn fat. And you know you don't need to
Speaker 1: eat every day. I didn't say that, but you didn't
Speaker 1: make sure you eat well when you do eat once
Speaker 1: every eighteen two hours. I eat a nice hearty meal.
Speaker 1: I eat a nice hearty meal. I'm moving on. We
Speaker 1: had a couple more here. Uh workaholic? Now, how many
Speaker 1: out of ten adults on average, how many cannot stop
Speaker 1: working no matter where they are? What percentage of the
Speaker 1: adults cannot stop working North America? H This study was
Speaker 1: done in London, so you have to factor that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say no, they say a staggering they claim of people.
Speaker 1: They said Overall, almost half of those surveys said they
Speaker 1: enjoy their work, but six said they hate their habit
Speaker 1: of consistently focusing on their job. Only three percent said
Speaker 1: they actually leave their office each day when their shift
Speaker 1: is supposed to end. So I listen. I I am,
Speaker 1: fortunately am one of these people. I'm always thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know what, would this be something I could talk
Speaker 1: about on the radio. And I'm always observing, So I
Speaker 1: I wish I wasn't like that. I know, I've worked
Speaker 1: with people who are very lazy and show up, you know,
Speaker 1: right before the show and things like that don't have
Speaker 1: any real work ethic. I kind of wish I was
Speaker 1: like that from time to time because my life would
Speaker 1: be a lot more easier. And then you know, obsessing
Speaker 1: over every every second of a radio show. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm wired that way where I'm always trying
Speaker 1: to gain an advantage and I'm always trying to find
Speaker 1: something that will help me and it and I know
Speaker 1: it annoys my wife when I'm like on a going
Speaker 1: out to dinner on a Saturday night and I'm looking
Speaker 1: at my phone to see the score of some NBA
Speaker 1: games to see if there's something crazy that happens in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. You you actually, I I
Speaker 1: can understand from her perspective because you did leave her
Speaker 1: to go to the Pacific Northwest on vacation without her.
Speaker 1: That's a work assignment. That is a meet the people
Speaker 1: of the great people of Seattle, Salt of the Earth, Bartley.
Speaker 1: I like Seattle. I might have to live there someday.
Speaker 1: That's a good city. I like Jay Scoop. You like
Speaker 1: j J Scoops cool JJ from Renting. I mean, all
Speaker 1: those guys are robbing the Mariner fan. I go down
Speaker 1: the list. No stradinas the trash talker, the joke writer
Speaker 1: from Tacoma was there. I mean, all these guys were cool.
Speaker 1: They're all good guy. Well, I'll go to Jay Scoop
Speaker 1: for the time being. He's say hello to you or something. Then, no,
Speaker 1: it must have been nice to you say hello. Any
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna spend the thousands of dollars that he
Speaker 1: did on you stop, hundreds of thousands of You got
Speaker 1: a plane ticket, You've got a hotel, you've got transportation,
Speaker 1: you got dinners. All right, we gotta we gotta, we
Speaker 1: gotta move on, all right, diddy up all right, Uh,
Speaker 1: children involved in organized sports less likely to have emotional
Speaker 1: difficulties turn your according to a study. I'm gonna believe
Speaker 1: that you're gonna leave that. What was that ding that
Speaker 1: we heard? I don't know those those your did you know?
Speaker 1: That's your technical producer Robert Gara on the other side, Alright,
Speaker 1: hitting buttons. I hope he knows that this is going
Speaker 1: out on the podcast. We do call him wrong button
Speaker 1: Bob for a reason. Yeah, we do call him wrong
Speaker 1: button Bob for a reason. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: acknowledged that, but he was giving me a one finger salute.
Speaker 1: So hopefully it's a bad job by wrong by you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's just a doting dad. I'm wrong button Bob.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for him. He finally got off your
Speaker 1: cancer show and has MAO made something of his career.
Speaker 1: He's got a got a child, the spawn of Bob Gara,
Speaker 1: and he's got a massive house too, which is even better.
Speaker 1: Wrong button girl whatever her name is. Yeah, so any uh,
Speaker 1: bad job by him. He should have put his daughter
Speaker 1: on like it's a small world after all, this flash
Speaker 1: Mountain at Disneyland. But did not do that, did not
Speaker 1: do this but he says his wife, I guess had
Speaker 1: the final say on all Yeah. But as far as
Speaker 1: this study that you have children involved in organized sports
Speaker 1: less likely to have emotional difficulties, I believe that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean one of the cool things about sports,
Speaker 1: when done right, is you are taught a little bit
Speaker 1: of toughness. Right, You taught a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: how to handle losing and and that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: and things that go bad when you play sports. So
Speaker 1: I I totally get that, yeah, grit, how to be resilient,
Speaker 1: how to get up, how to respond, how to be
Speaker 1: a pro. Yeah, all right, I got one more. And
Speaker 1: I know we've gone way along on this portion of
Speaker 1: the show, but I think I feel like these are good, um,
Speaker 1: and so when they're good, you gotta do them. I
Speaker 1: saw this one and I thought of you. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: all right. News study says an average woman's dress size
Speaker 1: has increased supermodels waste have continued to shrink because of
Speaker 1: people like you. Guess guy, I'm not shallow. I told
Speaker 1: you already. I like women that are full figured. You
Speaker 1: live near the Pacific Ocean between the four oh five
Speaker 1: Freeway the Pacific Ocean. Listen you're a stone's throw away
Speaker 1: from the Pacific Ocean. I've told you there's a point
Speaker 1: of demarcation in l A when you're west of the
Speaker 1: four oh five and east of the four oh five. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's an elitist, pompous, arrogant asshole continuent. Not everyone, but
Speaker 1: most people west of the four oh five. Listen, you're
Speaker 1: like the Chicago Faithful. You can actually watch a Dodger
Speaker 1: game from the view of your backyard into Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 1: So don't give me that bullshit, Like that's the kind
Speaker 1: of when where I live before, I could do that
Speaker 1: where I live now, not soone. I don't care. I'm
Speaker 1: not shallow, And I think that studies bullshit. All right,
Speaker 1: Well you can think it's bullshit. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: bullshit because it's your women are getting more plump, and
Speaker 1: the modeling industry they continue to make them skinnier and
Speaker 1: all that. And do you think that could be because
Speaker 1: of surgery where women are getting uh, breast augmentation or
Speaker 1: LiPo section, because even lipos section, you're removing fat, but
Speaker 1: the fat cells need to be replaced somewhere else us. Well, Listen,
Speaker 1: I I like a crevations. Woman. I know you don't,
Speaker 1: but but I do. And I don't see why they
Speaker 1: can't put a bunch of you know, women that have
Speaker 1: like an hourglass type body or whatever. I don't see
Speaker 1: why they can't do that at these fashion shows. I
Speaker 1: don't understand. I don't know how that works. Anyway, There
Speaker 1: it is. Those are the study. Is you want some
Speaker 1: grab bad questions? Do we have time for a few
Speaker 1: grab bad questions? All right, let's see where shall we
Speaker 1: go with this? These are actual questions by actual listeners
Speaker 1: the show. From our Facebook page, Dan in Kalamazoo says,
Speaker 1: did gag on poison Cooper? Loop? Uh? He wants to know,
Speaker 1: did you poison Justin Cooper? There? Are you the reason
Speaker 1: he's missed so much time? Here in he's missed work? Wow? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I no one's awake during your show.
Speaker 1: There's like a handful of people across the United States
Speaker 1: that are awake. So I had no idea that he's out.
Speaker 1: How long has he been out for a while? Well,
Speaker 1: it's it longer than you. You were out for seventeen days.
Speaker 1: That's a lie. Eighteen days. Sorry, you're I I missed
Speaker 1: to two weeks of radio. It's a long time in
Speaker 1: this industry. Really, you're like, I did a podcast during
Speaker 1: that time. What's that? You're like? Eddy two point oh?
Speaker 1: I didn't go to Australia. I didn't go on for
Speaker 1: like a month. I didn't do that, and I went
Speaker 1: to Seattle to meet listeners. You went to Seattle, You
Speaker 1: went to Baja? Um where else did you go? You
Speaker 1: were gone? I know that in Vegas had some deep
Speaker 1: dish pizza. The first time I had Chicago deep dish
Speaker 1: pizza in Vegas. Giar Donald's wonderful. Do you ever been
Speaker 1: to g R. Donald? I went to gior Donald's in Chicago, Yes,
Speaker 1: and it's an amazing I didn't think I was gonna
Speaker 1: like it because as I looked at the pictures, I
Speaker 1: was tomato sauce at the top. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: But all they did is like they flipped the cheese
Speaker 1: and the toppings and they put the tomato sauce on top.
Speaker 1: Did you get meat, lovers, orhere'd you get? No? I
Speaker 1: got a garlic onion, green pepper um pezz. The mallard,
Speaker 1: which reminds me to a restaurant week in l A
Speaker 1: starts in a couple of weeks. So I did tell
Speaker 1: your wife. I made a recommendation that we should hit
Speaker 1: up a couple of places. I'll make a deal with you,
Speaker 1: all right, if you get some money for my insurance,
Speaker 1: can't you do it that fast? I will go with
Speaker 1: you to l a food week or whatever the funk
Speaker 1: that is. I will do it. That doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: a great like I have to. I have to fish
Speaker 1: out money for you for your broken house in order
Speaker 1: to dine with you. Yes. Well, here's the thing. We
Speaker 1: have different palettes. I'm more of a truck stop guy,
Speaker 1: the greasy spoon, the hole in the wall. You are
Speaker 1: like the bougie, high end two dollars steak guy. You're
Speaker 1: that guy. I'm not that guy. I'm not give me
Speaker 1: a cheese steak with rearby thinly cut and pro bolone
Speaker 1: cheese and onions and peppers. I'm good. Yeah. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: more about Japanese wago seven ounces. It's it's perfect, finally cut.
Speaker 1: But come on, man, I lived, I would, I would eat,
Speaker 1: but I'm not eating. Like what's that new that that
Speaker 1: new trendy thing that's in l A. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of these. Uh, it's a fast food Asian fish place
Speaker 1: where Pokey. Is that what they call it? Asian fusion? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not my I lived in San Diego for like
Speaker 1: seven or eight years, and I had California burritos all
Speaker 1: day and all night. Someone give me that ship, right?
Speaker 1: Can we do some quickly? Can we do some more
Speaker 1: here and go quickly and not spent eight million minutes
Speaker 1: on anyway? Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia says, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the next Mallard Man march being at
Speaker 1: the super Bowl led by weed Man and Gascon is
Speaker 1: not invited? Fuck you listen if it's if it's Marlin's Man, yes,
Speaker 1: if it's a weed Man, no, Yeah. Well, I have
Speaker 1: some friends in Miami. I would love to do Miami,
Speaker 1: although I don't know that I want to hang out
Speaker 1: with with weed Man. I've been to Miami before. It's
Speaker 1: been a long time since I been in Miami. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of listeners in Miami, which we do
Speaker 1: pretty well there. You know why we do well in Miami.
Speaker 1: A lot of old people that can't sleep, that have insomnia.
Speaker 1: Have you live in Miami that retired? I get emails
Speaker 1: from these guys and and mostly. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: any women that email me, but they they you know,
Speaker 1: guys that lived in like New York or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: they moved to the other borough of New York, Miami,
Speaker 1: and then they can't sleep and they're like, I gotta
Speaker 1: listen to a little sports talk, and then uh, we're
Speaker 1: on Florida and Arizona for you. Yeah, Arizona is a
Speaker 1: lot of Arizona is the retirees from like Chicago and
Speaker 1: the Upper Midwest. They a lot of people go to
Speaker 1: Arizona from from there. All right. Next up, Carlos in
Speaker 1: Houston says, when is your next minor league baseball appearance? Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for asking, Carlos. I actually have been in contact
Speaker 1: with a minor league team about doing an appearance this
Speaker 1: summer and it you know, I'll let you know if
Speaker 1: it happens. But I think something will happen in that department.
Speaker 1: I know. Guess Scott and you were talking about doing
Speaker 1: something at a horse track Santa Anita, Del Mar or
Speaker 1: Del Mar. I'd be all about that. That would be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to do a meet and greet.
Speaker 1: We gotta have enough time so people can travel and
Speaker 1: hang out and be part of it. But I think
Speaker 1: that would be fun, Joshua writes, and he says, how
Speaker 1: do you find Marcel in Brooklyn? Funny or entertaining? News flash?
Speaker 1: He ain't. I love the rest of the show. Well, Joshua,
Speaker 1: let me tell you first of all, um, it's a
Speaker 1: call in radio show. Now. I've tried to help Marcel
Speaker 1: become a character. I like Marcella. Marcel means well, he
Speaker 1: thinks he's Edward R. Murrow breaking news. And I love
Speaker 1: the guy. The guy. You know, he's not living a
Speaker 1: great life. He lives in the projects in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 1: he's eating oodles and noodles. He doesn't get out of
Speaker 1: his house very much. And one are the joys he
Speaker 1: gets is is the radio show. And so I'm all about,
Speaker 1: all right, what else do we? I got a couple
Speaker 1: more here. During your most recent Mallard Man Mars, this
Speaker 1: is from Neil and Van Hoover to the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1: Did you make a pilgrimage to the Mallard Temple Synagogue
Speaker 1: Church of All Good Things by Kirkland, the Costco headquarters. Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't, although I will admit when I drove to
Speaker 1: the airport, I took a flight out of the airport,
Speaker 1: which is a small airport north of Seattle, and I
Speaker 1: saw the sign for Kirkland and I got a little excited.
Speaker 1: I got it. I was a little aroused. I was
Speaker 1: a little aroused. I was very excited. I love Costco.
Speaker 1: I gotta I could get a tour of Costco. Man,
Speaker 1: I'd be all about it. He friggle, motherfuck, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Nothing? Continue? Yeah, But but as far
Speaker 1: as the you know, the other way was the Marcel question.
Speaker 1: Here's another Marcel question. Who would win a fight? Eddie
Speaker 1: or Marcel draw? They both knock each other out, They
Speaker 1: just kind of stare at each other. That was from
Speaker 1: Brian and Chesapeake, Virginia. Kevin and San Diego says, who
Speaker 1: wins a fight between San Diego radio legends John Cantara
Speaker 1: and Lee hack Saw. Hamilton's now at least like four
Speaker 1: ft eleven. Yeah, but he's feisty. Pack Saw has got
Speaker 1: some mean meanness in him. And I worked with Hax.
Speaker 1: I love Cantara the coach, but he's he's a Mr.
Speaker 1: Soft He's a nice guy. Hacks All will rip your
Speaker 1: heart out, all right, you know, with some of the
Speaker 1: things he said back in the day on the radio
Speaker 1: to raider fans and whatnot. He doesn't take any ship hacksaw.
Speaker 1: Lou from the LBC says, when is the last time
Speaker 1: you were caught watching or looking at inappropriate material TV
Speaker 1: or online? By who? And what was the material? Yes?
Speaker 1: I caught you watching something inappropriate? Why why why would
Speaker 1: you come to me? Well, because you watch your inappropriate
Speaker 1: if you have, you have your glamour shots. You're on grinder,
Speaker 1: you watch all kinds of weird stuff. No, the glamour
Speaker 1: shots are are for the public. I needed your wife's
Speaker 1: approval on him too. All right, here's all, he says.
Speaker 1: You don't have the balls to answer the question, Lou,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what happened. It happened at work. Uh,
Speaker 1: And you know, here's your appropriate stuff every day or work. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You know, we have showcase studios right
Speaker 1: there at the corner of Sapulvan Inventura in l A.
Speaker 1: And we have TV so you can watch inside the
Speaker 1: studio from the street and all this stuff. And oh
Speaker 1: this has happened more recently, but a long time ago.
Speaker 1: I had a female producer, Miranda Marina Lover her wonderful woman,
Speaker 1: she's a mom now, she's married, growing up, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So Miranda was my producer and she had just started
Speaker 1: on the show, and my engineer at the time, he
Speaker 1: liked skin a Max and he, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: control the TVs. You know, I didn't doing a radio show.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the TVs. I don't really care
Speaker 1: what's on the t V because there's nothing on overnights
Speaker 1: that other than infommercials that I would be interested in.
Speaker 1: So this guy with a female that I we didn't
Speaker 1: know at the time. She's a cool old woman, she's
Speaker 1: down with every whatever, but we didn't know that. And
Speaker 1: he's new and he's watching like Skinner Max porn movies
Speaker 1: on like two of the four TVs, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: you might want to turn that off, and he left
Speaker 1: them on. That was that was awkward. Yeah, one of
Speaker 1: your technical directors actually does that on the regular here
Speaker 1: in the studios. And really I've caught him numerous times,
Speaker 1: one of my guys. Yeah, not Roberto either, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's not I don't I don't know. I don't usually
Speaker 1: pay attention to the TVs because I'm you know, talking,
Speaker 1: But anyway, I don't six to sports. I know. Oh
Speaker 1: I just got apparently gotta put the baby to bed.
Speaker 1: You want to do a couple of these, No, we're
Speaker 1: gonna put the baby in the bed. All right, Well
Speaker 1: you're out of the show, then don't six. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: if you want to do it, you can do a
Speaker 1: couple of stories quick. Let's we've taken too much time.
Speaker 1: Your old executive producer, Robert Garris kicking me out, wrong button.
Speaker 1: He's the best producer that we have on the network.
Speaker 1: And I can't there's a couches over there. Why can't
Speaker 1: you just sit on the couch in the room right
Speaker 1: next because are good? Like Rob Parker has a v
Speaker 1: I P that he needs to interview. So Parker, Robert,
Speaker 1: anything but you because you're over by the way. Man,
Speaker 1: I got a message to Rob now, Rob. I love
Speaker 1: Rob park Yes, I'm a big fan of Rob Pocks. Great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well traveled Rober. But his whole schickla is to attack
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, right, and he's despised and Boston, Yes, but
Speaker 1: I heard him on his show. He's like Brady should retire. No,
Speaker 1: you want Brady to continue, so you continue to use
Speaker 1: him as a punching bag. Don't have him retire, then
Speaker 1: he's no longer a punching bag. He moves to Lebron
Speaker 1: James after that, that's true. Well he, me and Rob
Speaker 1: have a lot of the same tendencies. Although I don't
Speaker 1: rip Brady, I ripped Lebron and Rob's nice. You're a
Speaker 1: fucking asshole. Wow, alright, go to hell, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Try the other podcast, Benny Versus the Penny. We'll catch
Speaker 1: you next time and Sayonara