Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, hundred minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse to clearinghouse, some hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now that it does, and a happy
Speaker 1: holiday too. You know, technically this is supposed to not happen,
Speaker 1: This podcast, this week is not supposed to happen. But
Speaker 1: here we are showing you the grit, the commitment. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to teach David Gascon here that you can't have
Speaker 1: work ethic. You don't have to check out, you can
Speaker 1: actually prepare and even when you're on vacation, you don't
Speaker 1: have to mail it in. And so that's why we
Speaker 1: are here. And as you know by now, because you're
Speaker 1: already listening, this podcast is available. We were in the
Speaker 1: air everywhere, but really everywhere, you know, the radio. We
Speaker 1: are limited to the affiliates that pick up the show,
Speaker 1: but on the overnight. But here the vast power of
Speaker 1: my heart, the global reach of podcasting and we have
Speaker 1: listeners that claim to be listening all over the world,
Speaker 1: so you can hear this every week at about this
Speaker 1: time when we stop and we start downloading. Of course,
Speaker 1: the show starts when you downloaded, but it goes up
Speaker 1: on the web on Friday afternoon in the East, Friday
Speaker 1: morning the West, and it's available on the I Heart
Speaker 1: Podcast networking wherever you get your podcast. And the slogan
Speaker 1: because you've gotta have a hokey slogan is because four
Speaker 1: hours are not enough. But again, we're here to teach
Speaker 1: you a lesson. David gascon that we're not going through
Speaker 1: the motions. Uh, there's no flake tendencies here. I don't
Speaker 1: cut corners. I don't believe in shoddy work. I don't
Speaker 1: do that. Uh, and so so that's why we're here.
Speaker 1: I know you've always been kind of a guy. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm in the fast lane. I'm putting pedal of the metal.
Speaker 1: You're in cruise control. Yeah, there's nothing nothing cruised in
Speaker 1: my control right now. I'd kind of unwrapping some neutrogena
Speaker 1: face wipes. I had to do some some stuff on
Speaker 1: a studio set. Oh that's right, I guess. Yeah, your
Speaker 1: nicknames the Hollywood narcissist is David Gascon here. You know
Speaker 1: you bitched and moaned last week for good reason. Plained now,
Speaker 1: you were a couple of minutes late. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: so so horrible. Couple would be too maybe four? You
Speaker 1: were actually thirty five minutes late to your own podcast. Well,
Speaker 1: I would like you to know that you are. You
Speaker 1: were fifty eight minutes late, okay, which is exhausting to me. Uh,
Speaker 1: it is draining to me to sit around for fifty
Speaker 1: eight minutes. And wait, you're just killing the podcast. You're
Speaker 1: punishing everyone involved, all the many people that are part
Speaker 1: of the podcast. How dare you know there's only two
Speaker 1: people that are part of this podcast, you and myself.
Speaker 1: So well, no, there's an army of produce ers and editors.
Speaker 1: I'm your producer. You're preoccupied with yourself. I yeah, I
Speaker 1: produced this, I edit this, I do all the write
Speaker 1: ups for this. I launched it, all right. I want
Speaker 1: to add on the record because of course you probably
Speaker 1: you produced the fish Bowl podcast, the worst moment in
Speaker 1: the history of video, and you were behind that. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you put your name on it, which
Speaker 1: is good. Well, I'll own it. Just because we try
Speaker 1: to do something a little bit different, since we will
Speaker 1: do something different as well, so it's oh, is that right,
Speaker 1: we're doing something different. You are stripped to some of
Speaker 1: your thousand dollar pieces of equipment there at the Ben
Speaker 1: Malley Studio, So that's right. This is actually the last
Speaker 1: podcast in the remote studio, which I have used to
Speaker 1: work at great radio stations like w e I in
Speaker 1: Boston and uh in some other places along the way
Speaker 1: where I have popped up on the radio because we
Speaker 1: are out with the old technology and next time we
Speaker 1: are in with the new technology. And I have a
Speaker 1: dedicated right now. If you're I'll give you a little
Speaker 1: inside radio. So it's an I S d N line,
Speaker 1: which is I always when I grew up in radio,
Speaker 1: I always knew about I S D and I always
Speaker 1: want to have an I S d N set up.
Speaker 1: So I have that. But it's old technology and the
Speaker 1: radio business has switched over to a different technology, which
Speaker 1: is not a hardline based thing. It's a digital connection.
Speaker 1: And um, they're forcing me to the company's forcing me
Speaker 1: to change, so I have to switch. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: they're forcing an old guy to learn some new tricks.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing, so you know, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: You know when I first got into radio, guest and
Speaker 1: they had cart machines and I learned how to edit
Speaker 1: audio this, Uh, I got my my thumbs bloody literally
Speaker 1: working in radio because we had these things called razor blades.
Speaker 1: Imagine imagine going to work and having razor blades all
Speaker 1: over the stuff. They're just asking you to kill yourself.
Speaker 1: And they had razor blades all over the place. And
Speaker 1: it was the slice, real, the real tape. It's like
Speaker 1: some of your your fan boys that use those in
Speaker 1: the morning time before they in their day. So you
Speaker 1: know already you know, I know the Mallem militia there.
Speaker 1: They hate you. Uh And because they know that you
Speaker 1: don't have any ambition, You have no aspirations, you don't
Speaker 1: have the strong desire to do or to achieve something,
Speaker 1: and that bothers them, it should and nothing nothing says
Speaker 1: ambition like coming into with studio on days off to
Speaker 1: come That's right, Like I am right here doing as
Speaker 1: I shipped and and sit and piss in three hours
Speaker 1: worth the traffic up and down. Well you sit in
Speaker 1: traffic because guesscan is I went to an audition. All right,
Speaker 1: he went to a Hollywood audition. I mean, what I
Speaker 1: should do radio in Sheboygan, because nobody in Sheboygan's going
Speaker 1: to an audition and is an hour late to where
Speaker 1: their work responsibility. Well, to be fair, the distance between
Speaker 1: the studio that I did my audition at and the
Speaker 1: Fox its radio studios, the distance is actually only eleven miles,
Speaker 1: but the commune was forty five minutes. Well, that's called
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. That's how it works. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: nightmare when you mix the homeless with the traffic that
Speaker 1: everyone you can't afford anything. It's a wonderful place to live,
Speaker 1: you know it, kind of. But the weather is good.
Speaker 1: The weather is good. And this was a fraction of
Speaker 1: the distance it actually took me to get from my
Speaker 1: house to your stupid Christmas party. So we'll get to
Speaker 1: the Christmas party I have. You have a lot of
Speaker 1: hutspu for some of the stuff that you pulled around
Speaker 1: the Christmas What do you mean we will We will
Speaker 1: get to that. I know you want to talk about that,
Speaker 1: but we have other things that we must get to
Speaker 1: on this you robust your podcast, glorious trip to Seattle. Uh,
Speaker 1: your big pike the bonus at the end of bonus,
Speaker 1: I'm might getting any any they might give me, like
Speaker 1: a hungry, hungry hippos. If I want you to know,
Speaker 1: by the way, that as we are recording this podcast,
Speaker 1: because Gascon is such a diva and such a mama luke,
Speaker 1: I am missing the I Heart Media Premier Networks Christmas
Speaker 1: party that I had planned on attending that I was
Speaker 1: scheduled to attend because Gascon needs to he only would
Speaker 1: be available at this time. So here I am. Well,
Speaker 1: let's just clarify this for other people that aren't. Aren't
Speaker 1: stuck on your tit? Uh you are? You are also
Speaker 1: skipping the Christmas party so you can attend a game tonight,
Speaker 1: an l A Clippers game. Well, that's the people's team,
Speaker 1: and I have been invited by a very powerful person
Speaker 1: to attend the game, so I will be there, that
Speaker 1: is correct. I will be sitting in a very nice seat, uh,
Speaker 1: and I will be hanging out watching. Well hopefully Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard plays. I don't know if he's gonna play because
Speaker 1: he might have load management. He's a bit of a
Speaker 1: lightweight when it comes to that. But assuming he plays,
Speaker 1: but uh, I will absolutely be hanging out there because
Speaker 1: it's my vacation, is what it is. How dare you well?
Speaker 1: Tip off time at Staples Center seven thirty And I
Speaker 1: know you love to mingle and socialize with the the journalists,
Speaker 1: the TV people, the radio people, So I expect you
Speaker 1: to be there at Staples around four thirty five o'clock. Um,
Speaker 1: so that actually I will. I will be there. And
Speaker 1: the reason I will be there is because people love
Speaker 1: to tell me stuff and then I get to repeat
Speaker 1: it on the radio without giving them credit. And I
Speaker 1: have insider sources. Do people have loose lips? I'll teach
Speaker 1: you that something. No, I know firsthand that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that I tell you that you actually
Speaker 1: use for your opening monologue. Yeah, you know is growing, Pinocchio,
Speaker 1: your nose is growing. How are we no balls, no guts,
Speaker 1: no spine? That's the guest gun mantra. How are we
Speaker 1: ending this podcast in? Because? Uh, because we've been through
Speaker 1: a lot the last two or three months, you almost dying,
Speaker 1: my car, getting vanalized, your car, getting tapped a little bit. Uh? Yes,
Speaker 1: how are we putting a bow on this thing? Well,
Speaker 1: you'll just have to keep listening. And you'll find out.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing So what we have we have the
Speaker 1: bistro here, Benny's Bistro, this weekend, the podcast. We've got
Speaker 1: beyond guard Mallard's meal plan. We also have proper etiquette,
Speaker 1: study this grab bag and don't stick to sports. Stop. Actually,
Speaker 1: before I get to all that, I have an added
Speaker 1: bonus here. Do you know that I through? You know
Speaker 1: that Kevin Bacon, like six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Why
Speaker 1: have a game six degrees through? Marlin's Man and my
Speaker 1: guy marlins Man sat five seats away from the President
Speaker 1: of the United States, Donald J. Trump at the Army
Speaker 1: Navy game. He sent me a bunch of photos. It
Speaker 1: was unreal. He's sitting imagine going to a football game
Speaker 1: and Marlin's Man, my guy in Miami, Lawrence. He told
Speaker 1: me that he did not know, he just got the
Speaker 1: ticket or whatever. And and oh, by the way, here's
Speaker 1: the President of the United States, like literally five seats over,
Speaker 1: five ten seats over from marlins Man. He took all
Speaker 1: these photos. It was it was crazy. I mean, to
Speaker 1: be that close to up any president, That's one of
Speaker 1: the things I've met a lot of these athletes, but
Speaker 1: I've never been around any president, and I always would
Speaker 1: like to do that at some point, but that that
Speaker 1: was crazy, And then I was like, wow, it's pretty
Speaker 1: cool marlins Man. He then invited me to next year's
Speaker 1: Army Navy game. Yeah, invited me the next So I I,
Speaker 1: I it's a legit offer. Marlins Man doesn't do bogus offer.
Speaker 1: So I there's a chance. I've never been to an
Speaker 1: Army Navy game. I'd be kind of fun. Next year
Speaker 1: it's in New Jersey at the Meadowlands, and I might
Speaker 1: I might go. I might be able to go, which
Speaker 1: will be a lot of fun. What do you mean
Speaker 1: you might go like this Trump? No, pun intend this.
Speaker 1: Trump's going to Seattle in weeks seventeen. Well, no, I'm
Speaker 1: excited about Seattle, which is December. And if you have
Speaker 1: not R s v P. If you haven't and you're
Speaker 1: listening in Seattle, will tell you about that in a minute.
Speaker 1: But just think about this for second. Ben, if you
Speaker 1: go next year to that game and you actually even
Speaker 1: get close to Trump, you will be around the first
Speaker 1: ever president of the United States that has been impeached,
Speaker 1: not once, but twice. I know. I was, yeah, he
Speaker 1: he has a very good chance of being impeached twice,
Speaker 1: which is, uh, that would be great. I think at
Speaker 1: this point, if you're Trump, you want to get obviously reelected,
Speaker 1: but you would like to be impeached again, because you know,
Speaker 1: it's one thing to be impeached one time, but to
Speaker 1: be impeached twice, you know, you know that that is
Speaker 1: an unbreakable record. We're talking about unbreakable records in sports,
Speaker 1: but in politics, that would be an absolute unbreakable record.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Marlin's man, it was really cool. He's sitting
Speaker 1: right there and there's a photo of like Trump walking
Speaker 1: right by him, and he told me the Secret Service
Speaker 1: coverage was intense, and apparently some of those hard oh
Speaker 1: secret Service guys didn't know who Marlin's Man was. They
Speaker 1: don't know the more because you know, when you're around
Speaker 1: the president, everyone gets screened and all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: it was now, if I do go to the Army
Speaker 1: Navy game, do I support the Army or the Navy?
Speaker 1: I have a lot of Marine friends. I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of Army friends, So I thought the Marines
Speaker 1: support the Navy. Isn't that how it works? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you gotta be like the commander in chief, you support
Speaker 1: one for the first half and the other for the
Speaker 1: second half, unless, of course, you do it where they're ranked,
Speaker 1: then it's different. I think you you gotta support whoever
Speaker 1: has ranked in the ball game. Because Navy was ranked
Speaker 1: this year. Army had a great year last year and
Speaker 1: they were ranked in the top twenty five, So I
Speaker 1: think it's all. And by the way, guess marlins Man
Speaker 1: and not the name drop here, but my buddy marlins
Speaker 1: Man invited me to his holiday party in Miami, and uh,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately he sent it just a week before the party.
Speaker 1: It's a little tough to change your schedule around for that.
Speaker 1: But uh, he has a casino. This is great. You
Speaker 1: want to hear how crazy this guy marlins Man is.
Speaker 1: So he's got a casino style holiday party he's throwing
Speaker 1: for his friends and people he works with and stuff.
Speaker 1: And uh, I I made the it. I got an
Speaker 1: invite and it's a it's an Ocean's thirteen movie casino party. Right.
Speaker 1: So they have all these tables and whatnot. And you know,
Speaker 1: where do you get card tables? We could probably rent
Speaker 1: them or something like that. Um, but these are the
Speaker 1: actual Oceans thirteen movie tables where Brad Pitt and George
Speaker 1: Clooney played. He found them on the internet and bought them.
Speaker 1: He bought the actual tables from the Oceans thirty. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you do with them after you use
Speaker 1: them for the party. I guess he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: do these parties every year. But it's uh crazy man,
Speaker 1: absolutely crazy, all right. Anyway, Um, moving on from that,
Speaker 1: I'm living the good life Marlin's Man, my friend Lawrence,
Speaker 1: but beyond guard now Christmas and New Year's sports radio.
Speaker 1: And I am partly to blame for this because I
Speaker 1: have a lot of comp days that I gotta get through.
Speaker 1: Here there's a lot of fill in. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say they're all hacks. A lot of them are hacks
Speaker 1: who poison and sully the airwaves of radio stations all
Speaker 1: over the country. And I consider this the primer, the
Speaker 1: handbook on what to listen to and signs signs that
Speaker 1: your favorite talk show host is mailing in or your
Speaker 1: fill in favorite talk show host is mailing in. Now,
Speaker 1: we have two different versions here to look out for,
Speaker 1: guest on the Christmas version. Um, And before I even
Speaker 1: get to the Christmas version, I heard something unprecedented on
Speaker 1: our radio station. I will not name the guilty party
Speaker 1: here because I don't want to step on any toes.
Speaker 1: But somebody this week, all right, did this kind of
Speaker 1: radio for the impeachment of Donald Trump. Somebody did a
Speaker 1: topic of who in sports should be impeached? Was their topic?
Speaker 1: How great is that? How great is that? Guest guy?
Speaker 1: I heard about that heard that? Yeah? Yeah, that's that's outstanding.
Speaker 1: I mean that is that is dabbling deep in the
Speaker 1: Christmas Handbook of lazy radio outstanding. But can I veer
Speaker 1: out the beaten path with this for just a second,
Speaker 1: because you are are I guess you can say famous
Speaker 1: or infamous for Benny versus the Penny, which is a
Speaker 1: season long spectacle where you go against a coin and
Speaker 1: you pick against the spread for all NFL games. But
Speaker 1: if you're gonna use any of that kind of conversation
Speaker 1: in a radio show, couldn't she use some of the
Speaker 1: lines that are out there right now? Because there's some
Speaker 1: lines that have been placed by Vegas on the impeachment process.
Speaker 1: So so you want to gamble on the impeachment and all? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we could we I don't have that in
Speaker 1: front of me, but Yeah. I love that. You can
Speaker 1: bet on anything. I get props on awards and all
Speaker 1: kinds of nonsense. Yeah, it's good. I saw one of them,
Speaker 1: what's which basically said, uh, the over undertotal on Republicans
Speaker 1: that would vote for impeachment. It was the list that
Speaker 1: a one and a half and half. This is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Well what there was one? Well, how many demogos? Is
Speaker 1: one Democrat that voted against it, but he became a Republican,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really count, right, No, there were two
Speaker 1: that were voted against it and one that just called present,
Speaker 1: and that was Gabbard, which is the ultimate lazy way
Speaker 1: to approach it, right, Like, I'm not going to pick
Speaker 1: a side. I'm just gonna say I was there. For instance,
Speaker 1: will the Senate vote to remove President Trump from office? Yes,
Speaker 1: is plus two thousand and Noah's minus five thousand as
Speaker 1: of now as of now. Yeah, that's well, that's pretty good. Well,
Speaker 1: the math is because of the way the Senate. You know,
Speaker 1: this is not a political show, guest coun but the
Speaker 1: way the Senate is set up, it would you know,
Speaker 1: there'd have to be a couple of senators that get
Speaker 1: drugged or something like that that changed their position. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so the Christmas version of lazy Holiday radio. Um. Some
Speaker 1: of these topics, now these are just a version of
Speaker 1: some versions of there. There's a few different spinoffs on this.
Speaker 1: But who's been naughty and who's been nice? In sports?
Speaker 1: That's always you get that at least once during the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. What do you get you know, blank,
Speaker 1: what do you get Lebron for Christmas? Or you know,
Speaker 1: what do you get Bill Belichick for Christmas? You know
Speaker 1: I get him on offense? Get get Lebron James the
Speaker 1: Fountain of Youth? You know, some nonsense like that. What
Speaker 1: is under your favorite athletes Christmas tree? Right? That's that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: What do you know? It's kind of what do you get? Gifts?
Speaker 1: And all that? Who gets a lump of coal? Which
Speaker 1: is a spinoff of the previous question, who in sports
Speaker 1: do you invite the Christmas dinner? Dead or alive? Yeah,
Speaker 1: debt or alive? That's right. Here's one that kind of
Speaker 1: relatively new here. Christmas Draft, which is great. Right, you
Speaker 1: have a big board and you say, oh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the number one pick. Do you go with the
Speaker 1: gifts the Christmas tree? What about the stockings, what about
Speaker 1: the family dinner? About Santa? You gotta put Santa number one?
Speaker 1: How about reindeer? Maybe reindeer Christmas carols? Church, you know
Speaker 1: and be you know, you can be the the virtue signaling.
Speaker 1: What about church Christmas music? You can put that up there.
Speaker 1: All different versions of the Christmas draft. Now you can
Speaker 1: do the Honeker draft, which would be like a potato lot,
Speaker 1: you know, pancakes lot, because you can do the minora,
Speaker 1: You could do the dradol and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's the same damn concept. It all sucks. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's awful, and it doesn't go on for a segment
Speaker 1: or two. It usually goes on for the three or
Speaker 1: four hours at the hoasts are on that show. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the thing that's most frustrating, and I've I've been
Speaker 1: on shows when I got early in my career, I
Speaker 1: was with hardos that did this kind of radio. And
Speaker 1: the thing that's the most frustrating is that the listeners
Speaker 1: respond to this. They love it, They love playing the
Speaker 1: little dopey games. That's why it keeps going on. It's
Speaker 1: a self licking ice cream cone, right, They these people
Speaker 1: do it, and then the you know. The audience responds,
Speaker 1: and how about this new Year's version? Alright, new year's
Speaker 1: spinoff version. Tell me your new Year's sports resolution. Right,
Speaker 1: always the case, Um, who needs to spend more time
Speaker 1: with family? Uh, it's ay, k, lose your job in
Speaker 1: the new year, right, it's the way to say, lose
Speaker 1: your job for football coaches, tell me in sports? Who
Speaker 1: needs to work out more? You know, because they're out
Speaker 1: of shape? You know that. That's how that goes. Who
Speaker 1: needs to quit well, you know, too much weed or
Speaker 1: whatever you get. There's different spinoffs on that, but it's
Speaker 1: the same concept. And it's all I find it nauseating
Speaker 1: and all that and lightweight radio and lack of daisical
Speaker 1: and lacklust. There's one that you're missing and it's it's
Speaker 1: actually it's been a trend over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't catch it. But um, you'll have
Speaker 1: hosts that come on and say is that a bowl
Speaker 1: game or not? And then they'll run through at least
Speaker 1: two or three segments worth of bowl games during the
Speaker 1: college football season and give out the names of the sponsors,
Speaker 1: you know, the Tostita, Fiesta bull or whatnot. And they'll
Speaker 1: go through all forty bowl games to blow through a
Speaker 1: couple of segments and say, hey, listeners, is this a
Speaker 1: segment based on college football? Is this a bowl game
Speaker 1: or not? Wow, I've not heard that, but that is wonderful.
Speaker 1: That is a tremendously bad radio And yeah, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: you even heard that one. I have not well, I
Speaker 1: try not to listen to bad radio, but I know
Speaker 1: you like that roo. I'm stuck on it, so I
Speaker 1: am fatigued when I hear that. I I feel guilty,
Speaker 1: like I feel like this is my profession. You know.
Speaker 1: The radio. I I've always thoughts like an art form.
Speaker 1: It's an audio art form, and it's like watching were
Speaker 1: listening to people fingerpaint. When you hear this kind of radio,
Speaker 1: it's not good, all right, I think, I think, Ben,
Speaker 1: I mean, on your point, I think the two hardest
Speaker 1: ways to be entertaining is one in theater actually on
Speaker 1: a stage, and to talk radio, because yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know about I've never done theater, but I know i've
Speaker 1: done televisions. I always find television a lot easier because
Speaker 1: to tell you exactly what to say, and it's it's
Speaker 1: all kind of land out produced. You got a bunch
Speaker 1: of produce sus in your ear telling you what to
Speaker 1: do and all that stuff. So yeah, I think, and
Speaker 1: you see it when TV people go into radio, they
Speaker 1: can't handle the stickle up in. You know, some of
Speaker 1: them can, but a lot of them just they're not.
Speaker 1: It's they're in over their head and they find it
Speaker 1: just horrific. It's murderous. I need to tease, I need
Speaker 1: a lead, I need the monologue and in stats, and
Speaker 1: you got a twenty minute block, the B block, and
Speaker 1: you have to fill it and there can be no
Speaker 1: dead air and it has to be entertaining and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Al Right, be sure to catch
Speaker 1: live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
Speaker 1: a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: and the I Heart Radio app. So the Mallard Meal Plan. Now,
Speaker 1: several people recently have asked me about the mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: of Mallard food dishes. And I don't talk about this enough.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have been honored. I don't get any
Speaker 1: awards in radio. I'll never win a Mark Cony, I'll
Speaker 1: never win any of those things I do an overnight show.
Speaker 1: Very few people who are in the main stream of
Speaker 1: the radio business. Who the hell in it you need
Speaker 1: to submit that's why you need to submit your material
Speaker 1: or have someone dude on your behalf. That's just lazy.
Speaker 1: Well whatever, but I'm sure Coop will get right on that.
Speaker 1: So the Mallard meal plan, now these this is the
Speaker 1: one honor that I have really gotten over the years.
Speaker 1: I have been regaled with food dishes named after me,
Speaker 1: Which how great is it you go out to have
Speaker 1: a nice meal and you see my name on the menu.
Speaker 1: How wonderful is that? What a wonderful thing. And so
Speaker 1: I wanted to remind you. If you are new to
Speaker 1: the show and you're like you're a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show for whatever dumb reason, thank you number one
Speaker 1: and number two. If you're in any of these areas,
Speaker 1: I would love for you to try a Mallard food dish. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't prepare the dish, but my name's on it.
Speaker 1: Now the big one. They're all big. But at the
Speaker 1: Landing Eateryan Pub, which is in the Kansas City area
Speaker 1: in Liberty, Missouri, that is the home guessn of Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard's chicken Finger basket. It is a large portion of
Speaker 1: chicken tenders fried to perfect, piled on a mound of
Speaker 1: French fries. Does that not sound like heaven? It does.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what time of the day it is,
Speaker 1: if it's after a hangover, or during a hangover, or
Speaker 1: even like when you're in the middle of drinking, it
Speaker 1: sounds like a perfect dish. Yeah, even for vegetarians and vegans,
Speaker 1: they want those chicken figures. The chicken figures have been
Speaker 1: on that menu at two different Kansas City area restaurants
Speaker 1: over the years. The Landing, by the way, it's just
Speaker 1: a couple of miles away from Kaufman and Arrowheads Stadium,
Speaker 1: that that sports complex with the Royals in Chief's Place,
Speaker 1: So it's it's pretty cool. That's the Landing eaterrean pub.
Speaker 1: It's in Liberty, Missouri, and if you go in there,
Speaker 1: my name right there is on the menu. You can
Speaker 1: have the Bend Mather chicken figures. So if you're listening
Speaker 1: on six ten Sports in that area in Kansas City
Speaker 1: to the podcast, you can can check it out. The
Speaker 1: second restaurant is in the Denver area, and it's actually
Speaker 1: at two different restaurants in the Denver area, but the
Speaker 1: main one is in Greenwood Village. It's the sports Book
Speaker 1: Bar and Ill, and they have honored us with Mallard's
Speaker 1: breaded chicken sandwich. Now you go to Denver Gascon, right,
Speaker 1: why have you not had the Mallard's breaded chicken sand
Speaker 1: Because the last time I was in the Mile High
Speaker 1: City I did not know you. Oh well, that's good, dude.
Speaker 1: I guess it's been a while then, and you still
Speaker 1: don't really know me. But Mallard's breaded chicken sandwich Gascon
Speaker 1: hand battered chicken breast tossed in Frank's Red Hot sauce
Speaker 1: with lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese. Now I I get
Speaker 1: it without the tomato and without the lettuce, just the
Speaker 1: cheddar cheese on top. But here's a fun fact. Years ago.
Speaker 1: Now you're a Broncos fan, which is you know, God
Speaker 1: love you, um. But but years ago, there was a
Speaker 1: Broncos player that was eating at the sports Book Bar
Speaker 1: and Grill, having some pops and apparently they had a
Speaker 1: little too much fun and ended up hiding in some
Speaker 1: mulch outside the restaurant got arrested. It was a Brandon Marshall.
Speaker 1: Uh No, it was like a defensive back or something
Speaker 1: like that. Dude. Yeah, it was like a group of
Speaker 1: broncho players and some guy got arrested after going to
Speaker 1: the restaurant. Maybe they had a bad reaction to the
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich. I mean, having some ranch with it might
Speaker 1: do that. Uh. Now, where where else we have we
Speaker 1: have the fla This is probably the one for you
Speaker 1: guests on the famous Flamingo Club a k a. The
Speaker 1: Bird in Lawrence, Kansas, just down the road from that
Speaker 1: famous field house where Kansas has produced so many great
Speaker 1: basketball players over the years. Um. Yeah, yeah, it's in Lawrence, Kansas,
Speaker 1: nice college town. It is the premier ballet for a
Speaker 1: gentlemen there in the only place in North America you
Speaker 1: will find the Mallard Fowler. About that, the Mallard Fowler. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a mouth watering chicken sandwich. So it is
Speaker 1: just just absolutely the wonderful. Where is this at? That
Speaker 1: is at the ballet, the Flaming the famous Flamingo Clubs,
Speaker 1: the Birds, Trip Club. It's a gentleman's clubs. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think when I want to go to a strip club,
Speaker 1: I go to Lawrence, Kansas. That's exactly where I want
Speaker 1: to go and have your There are beautiful farmers daughters
Speaker 1: there that are just trying to enjoy themselves, paying for
Speaker 1: medical school in Lawrence, Kansas. What they're doing. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you were such a snob coast guy. There are beautiful
Speaker 1: people all over the world. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this, and all over the United States everywhere, they're
Speaker 1: beautiful people. I've traveled around the world, so I've got
Speaker 1: to see a lot of people, a lot of women
Speaker 1: in Europe. Not all in l a or New York,
Speaker 1: you idiot. Okay, in Boston. There's some Indianapolis beautiful people.
Speaker 1: When I was in Indianapolis. Uh, you know, all over
Speaker 1: the place, there's just maybe not as many of them,
Speaker 1: but there's still a lot of you know, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine the grade being too high on the fine women.
Speaker 1: The Flamingo Club, well I don't care about that, but
Speaker 1: the Mallary it is actually highly rated. But the Mallard
Speaker 1: Fowler is a tent all right. Uh. And if you
Speaker 1: live near any of the city so Lawrence, Kansas, you
Speaker 1: got Kansas City, Missouri, and the Denver, Colorado area, you
Speaker 1: can have a Mallard food dish. We used to have
Speaker 1: food dishes in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We had a pizza
Speaker 1: named after some Grand Rapids, Michigan. We had in UH
Speaker 1: in New York in Syracuse, the originator was the the
Speaker 1: mal Zone, which is like a cow zone, but it
Speaker 1: was the mal Zone. We had that for years and
Speaker 1: that restaurant changed hands. Unfortunately it went away, and we
Speaker 1: I think had a dish in Boston or that the
Speaker 1: guy behind the restaurant that opened a barbecue place, he
Speaker 1: kind of vanished. So I don't really even know much
Speaker 1: about that. And UH and by the way, guess and
Speaker 1: if you're interested, if you run a mom and pop
Speaker 1: type restaurant and you want to add a Mallard brand
Speaker 1: dish to the restaurant, we're all four it. Contact us.
Speaker 1: We have other states. We'd like to get one, like
Speaker 1: in every state, or you know, as much as we
Speaker 1: can because we've got three states, we have forty seven
Speaker 1: states available for a Mallard Food Day and we'll promote
Speaker 1: it and it'll be you know, we have fans everywhere
Speaker 1: that can travel and can go and have enjoyed the dish.
Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone's eating all three of these.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have eaten at the
Speaker 1: Landing Eatery and Pub in in Kansas City area, and
Speaker 1: also the Flamingo Club because those are close. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a short drive between Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas
Speaker 1: there right next to each other. But yeah, and in
Speaker 1: Denver is not that for it. So it is possible
Speaker 1: you could do all three, but probably nobody's done it yet.
Speaker 1: I think we need something in California. We need something
Speaker 1: in l A or San Diego or no. I mean,
Speaker 1: why would people do that? I do Seattle. I want
Speaker 1: somebody could do it before next week. I'll be in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Uh of the month. Do it in Seattle? Man boom done. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a big fan of that,
Speaker 1: especially because it's a big city. I like the smaller cities.
Speaker 1: Do something smaller. Yeah, what about like a Norman, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I've been in Norman, Oklahoma. I would be fine. I
Speaker 1: love Norman, Oklahoma. Well, I like Okla on the city
Speaker 1: which is right next door about like Billings, Montana, Montana.
Speaker 1: Like on the I'd be all about it and listen
Speaker 1: if they want, you know, some like old saloon or
Speaker 1: something like that. Guests, what about like saloons? I know
Speaker 1: that you're drunk. What about Blue Finn? Was it Blue Finn,
Speaker 1: West Virginia? The the albatross of cities in the United
Speaker 1: States that you try to send me to. Why again?
Speaker 1: That would you would have been in a better place? Um,
Speaker 1: if you had gone there, you would have been the
Speaker 1: we we like. There's a famous sportscaster and l I called,
Speaker 1: you know, Jim Hill, who's been on television since the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties and looks exactly the same as when I
Speaker 1: was a child on television. You could have been the
Speaker 1: gym Hill of small town, West Virginia. But you chose
Speaker 1: not to do that. That's a bad job by doesn't
Speaker 1: sound great anyways? Well, yeah, but when everyone else is
Speaker 1: making three dollars an hour, you reach everything's relative, Everything's relative, right, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: proper etiquette. All right, we'll dive into the holiday party.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the holiday party. We had the Mallard
Speaker 1: sweater party in a minute. But I have a bone
Speaker 1: to pick with David Gascon. Okay, be sure to catch
Speaker 1: live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
Speaker 1: am Eastern Pacific. Uh. You know what you're like a
Speaker 1: Neanderthal raised by wolves. He realized this right like, it's
Speaker 1: more of like a bull in a china shop. You
Speaker 1: have no decorum. You have no decorum. We had the
Speaker 1: Ugly Sweater party this past week, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: that in a minute. We had pretty nice turnout, people
Speaker 1: that are friends of mine and radio and my wife,
Speaker 1: all of her work friends. She has more popular than me.
Speaker 1: Everyone was there mingling, drinking, eating, having a wonderful time.
Speaker 1: There were no fights. There were a few drunkards, you know,
Speaker 1: old stories around the camp fire was the way I
Speaker 1: would describe this year's version of the holiday party. And
Speaker 1: then following the holiday party this week it worked. You
Speaker 1: acted like a douce. Do you realize the crime that
Speaker 1: you are now on? Try out four gast? No, that
Speaker 1: concerned the fact that the Christmas party was on Saturday
Speaker 1: and I haven't worked with you or even talked to
Speaker 1: you since today, which is six days later. Well that's
Speaker 1: not technically true. We were ships passing in the night
Speaker 1: and you don't even you're so tone death you you are.
Speaker 1: There's a breach of the korum with you. Your etiquette
Speaker 1: is very poor. All right, let me let me explain
Speaker 1: here is because apparently you were raised by wolves, you
Speaker 1: did not learn good manners. So in a brief crossing
Speaker 1: of the guard. There I was walking in, you were
Speaker 1: walking out of the I Heart Media building there the
Speaker 1: Premier Network Studio center, and I'm walking in, you're walking out,
Speaker 1: and you asked a co worker. You asked me in
Speaker 1: front of a co worker why they were not invited
Speaker 1: to the holiday. No, no no, no, I gotta you talk
Speaker 1: about no no, no no. Let's say no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no you did? You did? You schmuck? Gonna clarify how
Speaker 1: rude is this in front of you? Talk about a
Speaker 1: loaded question? You put me in a very difficult situation
Speaker 1: because you don't know social norm you don't know decency,
Speaker 1: you don't have good taste. That's a bad job by
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, let me clarify why I did that,
Speaker 1: because you're a no, that's why you did. Let me
Speaker 1: be frank with you, because no one within the company
Speaker 1: is gonna listen to this, so it won't that's true.
Speaker 1: Do not lit matter. But there was an individual there
Speaker 1: at your party that has the same name as someone
Speaker 1: that we work with, and I introduced you to the conversation.
Speaker 1: I said, Ben, you actually missed so and so, And
Speaker 1: what I wanted to tell you was you miss so
Speaker 1: and so, because just twenty minutes ago I had to
Speaker 1: wake him up because he was passed out drunk in
Speaker 1: the studio. But I couldn't say that because he was
Speaker 1: right there. He's like, don't tell him, don't tell him,
Speaker 1: don't tell up. So I said, hey, you know you're not.
Speaker 1: You said, why didn't you invite? It was me on
Speaker 1: a pivot because the luxury of me doing live TV
Speaker 1: and live radio is I can improv like this, like
Speaker 1: I don't have improv you. No, no, you screwed up pivoted.
Speaker 1: I pivoted from one individual with the same name to
Speaker 1: another individual. Yeah so, uh no, that is not No,
Speaker 1: you did not do it. Prov of course it did.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I brought that up is because
Speaker 1: the first individual, you're gonna get into the Christmas party.
Speaker 1: But I made a pivot because that guy was embarrassed
Speaker 1: that I was gonna bring up and air out his
Speaker 1: dirty laundry while he was just ship faced drunk at work,
Speaker 1: passed out just ten minutes before. Can't imagine that anyone
Speaker 1: would be would be drunk at work, that would be
Speaker 1: that would be inappropriate I do not believe you. I
Speaker 1: was put in a very awkward situation that was that's
Speaker 1: never happened to me, and uh, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: even know. I don't even remember who I invited. There
Speaker 1: were some people that sent me messages after the holiday party, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I couldn't make it, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I thought I I forge and I invited that person.
Speaker 1: So why do you care? Then? Well, because I want
Speaker 1: to invite everybody. I want to be all inclusive like people.
Speaker 1: I like that particular person I like. I like that,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know he was a drunkard, But I
Speaker 1: like that person. Here's the thing, though, It's like a wedding, right,
Speaker 1: It's like you and your wife getting married in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: You invite everyone on their mother and if they show up,
Speaker 1: then great. They paid five six hundred dollars for a
Speaker 1: flight plus two three fours for a hotel room. You
Speaker 1: live in fucking butt funck Egypt, Arizona. Let's really think
Speaker 1: people drive. I drove fifty miles from my house to
Speaker 1: come to your party. The other the other thing here,
Speaker 1: you know, we spent uh probably a c note on
Speaker 1: on this dumb party and all that. I mean we
Speaker 1: we we dropped a lot of money on this thing,
Speaker 1: food and all that stuff. Me, no, not you so
Speaker 1: And then you have the hutzpah. You have the unmitigated
Speaker 1: gall Okay, I don't have my gall bladder, but you
Speaker 1: have the unmitigated gall to complain about the food situation.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really which I found with you talked about
Speaker 1: this no fiasco here. You showed up two hours late
Speaker 1: to a party and then complained the food was not
Speaker 1: fresh out of the oven ninety minutes Yeah, ninety minutes late.
Speaker 1: The food was piping hot when the party started, and
Speaker 1: you show up. Your disaster is what you are. Well.
Speaker 1: I was put under the spotlight to get my impression
Speaker 1: of the raising canes that you'd bought, and it was
Speaker 1: my first ever experience, and I must say it was wonderful.
Speaker 1: It was disappointed. We had two trays of the delicious
Speaker 1: raising canes chicken fingers that catered the mallard Ugly Sweater party. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was wonderful. Everyone loved us. Everyone loved the food.
Speaker 1: They were like, wow, this is great, this is so awesome. Orgasms.
Speaker 1: They were so excited about the chicken fingers. But not
Speaker 1: you not the the oppressor over there, Uh, the absolute
Speaker 1: dick David Gascon. None on if I'm gonna drive that
Speaker 1: far out of my way to go to a party,
Speaker 1: I was expecting a little flameg yon, the seafood platters,
Speaker 1: some more dirt, chocolate chip cookies that I slaved over.
Speaker 1: I baked myself those homemade chocolate chip cookies. We had
Speaker 1: a nacho bar that was amazing, you know, my wife
Speaker 1: put together. It was awesome with all this stuff. And
Speaker 1: of course you then complain you ship all over our parades.
Speaker 1: What you did, David Gascon, Mr glamor shot guy over there,
Speaker 1: David Guest. They asked for my opinion on raising canes,
Speaker 1: and I told him I wasn't impressed. Next year, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get you a bag of dog food. I'll just
Speaker 1: take some from from Bella and then you can enjoy that, right,
Speaker 1: you can enjoy the dog food because that's what you deserve.
Speaker 1: You deserve dog food. You know the number. There's this
Speaker 1: thing that I one of the mantras that I follow,
Speaker 1: other than the Code of the West, is there's there's
Speaker 1: ten things that take no talent and will give you
Speaker 1: a hundred sent respect, effort and there are things like
Speaker 1: being prepared, doing extra, being coachable or teachable or whatever,
Speaker 1: having passion, right, attitude, energy, body language, effort, work ethic.
Speaker 1: Number one is being on time. Yeah, number one, you
Speaker 1: are ninety minutes late, ninety minutes late. Uh and by
Speaker 1: the way, you fail many of those things, the ten
Speaker 1: things that take no talent. I have great on time,
Speaker 1: on time I have. I have a great energy, enthusiasm
Speaker 1: for life, I have passion with what I do, have
Speaker 1: a lot of work ethic. You can plain all the time.
Speaker 1: You your effort is lacking with the fish Bowl podcast,
Speaker 1: you're very bad, body language, low energy. I don't like
Speaker 1: your attitude, you're lacking passion, you're not coachable, and you
Speaker 1: don't do extra. I don't know if you're prepared. I
Speaker 1: think you're prepared. You can plain about people that prepared
Speaker 1: because they make you look bad. Well, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think there's an element of being overproduced and underproduced,
Speaker 1: and I'm like right in the middle of that. I'm
Speaker 1: on time by the clock for the clock demand. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of those things where it's appropriate for
Speaker 1: someone like myself being in the City of Angels, that
Speaker 1: I show up on time, I deliver a plus quality
Speaker 1: content and uh, time and time again, I deliver and
Speaker 1: that unless you don't listen. We're in Los Angeles. There
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity for everyone to show up to a party,
Speaker 1: but it's more about being fashionably late as opposed to
Speaker 1: on time, because you never want to be the first
Speaker 1: guy at a party, and he never want to be
Speaker 1: the last guy. And for me, I definitely was not
Speaker 1: either of those categories. So I think it's perfect, especially
Speaker 1: because you know it's all about making an entrance. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind though the people there was like one person
Speaker 1: that came after you. In that particular person did not
Speaker 1: complain about the food. In fact, eight extra food. Well
Speaker 1: that's different. He's got a different palate than I do.
Speaker 1: I mean. Plus, when I walked in, anyway, you were
Speaker 1: sitting next to the firepit with Brian Fenley on your lap,
Speaker 1: so like my other lap dog two lap dog ni. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we had a great time. Steve, the great Steve Fodderman,
Speaker 1: news man over at CBS, was there. He was regaling
Speaker 1: us with stories. Finly made his first appearance. Uh, there
Speaker 1: was one person that did not invite it invited themselves.
Speaker 1: How about that who was it should I say the
Speaker 1: name of the person on the on the course. Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1: I had forgotten I would have invited him, but I said,
Speaker 1: I forget who I didn't invite Iowa Sam. The worst
Speaker 1: part is that he was the best dress guy. There
Speaker 1: many dress pretty. He was dressed festive and he had
Speaker 1: lights on. He had a good sweater, he had a
Speaker 1: he had a scarf on. He also had I don't
Speaker 1: know though, beanie, but he had like a you know,
Speaker 1: dearer antlers or whatever, and he was rocking it. He
Speaker 1: should have won a prize. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: people that want prizes that did not deserve it. I
Speaker 1: was Sam showed out well. I always Sam should have
Speaker 1: gotten more applause. He did not get enough applause to
Speaker 1: win an award. You hate to do it, but people
Speaker 1: did not cheer for him. It was all a popularity concast.
Speaker 1: It was all admit it was a little uncomfortable for
Speaker 1: me for the first two hours because I had grabble
Speaker 1: Leeklin and I know you were boxed. You were boxing
Speaker 1: in the corner and some of the people were like,
Speaker 1: we should give guests on a purple heart. He's taking
Speaker 1: one from the team. Man. You know, he's taking one
Speaker 1: for the team here because you you were cornered and
Speaker 1: you kept Lee away from everyone else. Everyone else could
Speaker 1: sit back and relax, and then you were just getting
Speaker 1: grilled like a c bass over there by Leeline Well.
Speaker 1: I it was a self inflicted wound because what I
Speaker 1: was trying to do, and it was a boomerang effect.
Speaker 1: But I was trying to do this while he was
Speaker 1: making the approach towards you. I brought the impeachment and
Speaker 1: everything's going on with the United States and the government.
Speaker 1: And as soon as I did that, then he started
Speaker 1: pushing me into said corner with We were talking about everything.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the Cuban missile crisis, we were
Speaker 1: talking about sputneck, we were talking about the Negro leagues
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball prior to that. We're talking about Alabama, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Alabama and USC segregation, Uh black ops. We're talking about UFOs.
Speaker 1: And then Rob Parker walked in and it led me
Speaker 1: right into it because I was like, hey, Rob, you
Speaker 1: just got back from Antarctica and lead up right into
Speaker 1: that and he's like, hey, do you know where did
Speaker 1: you fly next to the area where they don't allow
Speaker 1: commercial airlines to fly over because the black ops are
Speaker 1: they're drilling holes in the bottom of the South Pole.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So I tried provoking all of this
Speaker 1: in front of you, in front of the entire congregation
Speaker 1: and the back film. Does Lee know that Rob's part
Speaker 1: of the illuminati? He's no, he's not. Sole Lee had
Speaker 1: his tinfoil hat on, and uh, yeah, you gotta know
Speaker 1: your audience there. I mean, that is wild. That is
Speaker 1: pretty good man. Yeah. At one point he asked me,
Speaker 1: He's like, do you give a shit about anything I'm
Speaker 1: saying right now? Oh, he realized that you don't. He
Speaker 1: realized at some point he picked up on your body
Speaker 1: language that you were you were shocked. You were you
Speaker 1: were gobsmacked by what was going on here. I'm us
Speaker 1: through to him, and they see eyeballs from like you
Speaker 1: and Coop and Eddie. Well, Roburrow's eyes were on the
Speaker 1: back of his head, but everybody else was kind of
Speaker 1: like looking at me. What the hell is going on
Speaker 1: with cots kind in the back of it. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: there are at some point we'll have to do our
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. I learned radio I did something years ago.
Speaker 1: I I think I read this somewhere. There are four
Speaker 1: main types of conspiracy theories that get repackaged, and I
Speaker 1: don't have it here, and I'll have to get to that.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do that in a future podcast. If somebody
Speaker 1: reminds me a moving on gas on study, This real
Speaker 1: or bullshit? Now? These are studies and surveys we examine
Speaker 1: and determine whether or not we believe this or not.
Speaker 1: All right, here's what hey, fatty is the headline, and
Speaker 1: this if America does not collectively adopt healthier eating habits,
Speaker 1: they say that over a half of the nation will
Speaker 1: be obese by twenty thirty and ten years. According to
Speaker 1: a new study out, they say even worse, one in
Speaker 1: four Americans will be severely obese with a body mass
Speaker 1: index over thirty five. I believe that. I believe it.
Speaker 1: But I believe also that we need to change the
Speaker 1: body mass index rating. I think that is bullshit. Uh,
Speaker 1: everyone's supposed to be skin and bones there and you
Speaker 1: have to adjust with the times. I think that if
Speaker 1: they change. Now. I'm not saying you should be a
Speaker 1: total fatass, but I would be. I am. I've lost
Speaker 1: a lot of weight and I feel like I'm in
Speaker 1: a pretty good spot right now. But I would probably
Speaker 1: have to lose another sixty pounds to be within the
Speaker 1: proper body mass index that they require. So it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: in my opinion. You're what six five? Uh six five
Speaker 1: six six depending if straight yet. Yeah, so I'm six
Speaker 1: one two and looking at the body mass index chart,
Speaker 1: I'm considered on the borderline of obese, like my which
Speaker 1: is That's what I'm saying. It's so dumb my ideal
Speaker 1: body weight, I guess it's like four. So for you
Speaker 1: six ft five would imagine it's what like to ten? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. And so my argument is, like, I
Speaker 1: think the people that made these are the same people
Speaker 1: that cast Hollywood movies where every every woman has to
Speaker 1: be ninety pounds, you know in a movie. And it's
Speaker 1: like skeletor or something like that. Put this together so
Speaker 1: uh funk that I hate it. Screw them with the
Speaker 1: body mass index. Alright, moving on waste of money. This
Speaker 1: happens every year. There's a new study that found out
Speaker 1: that people tend to abandon their getting in shape for
Speaker 1: the New Year resolution by January se al. Right, now,
Speaker 1: I this is not bullshit. I go to a gym,
Speaker 1: and I see it every year. It is as reliable
Speaker 1: as the swallows returning to Capistrano and punk Satani Phil
Speaker 1: It's like clockwork. In early January, a bunch of people
Speaker 1: that got subscriptions to the gym show up and they
Speaker 1: they're there. The gym is packed. When I go early
Speaker 1: in the morning. Um, they they're all working out. And
Speaker 1: then around I don't know if it's January seventie, but
Speaker 1: sometime around the Super Bowl they're all gone, right, all
Speaker 1: the new people are gone. That's it. Uh, see you later.
Speaker 1: All those gym memberships. What a racket the gym. They
Speaker 1: know that most of these people that sign up will
Speaker 1: never actually use the gym. Yeah, wonderful. It's a that's
Speaker 1: even not as bad. But when people buy the home
Speaker 1: equipment like a peloton or free weights and dumbbells and
Speaker 1: those things that just it collects dust. And because you
Speaker 1: have in your own confines of your house or property,
Speaker 1: you think you're more inclined to use it. But that's
Speaker 1: not the case. That's why I always recommend buying a
Speaker 1: gym membership and doing it where you're semi close to
Speaker 1: where you live, too, because at least you have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to leave the house, get in and get out
Speaker 1: as opposed to having to drive a long distance or
Speaker 1: having the comfort of your own home, or it's collecting dust.
Speaker 1: But I believe one thousand percent. Now you work at
Speaker 1: a gym which you have people staping off literal elimination.
Speaker 1: So for your gym, it's a little bit different. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? What are you what are you
Speaker 1: cryptically saying here? Gag on the people that you work
Speaker 1: out with. They're old people. They're trying to stay up
Speaker 1: off death, so they're gonna work out no matter what.
Speaker 1: Body in motion stays in motion. Get older and you
Speaker 1: stop working out, you don't move as well. So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is is that, Jim, I think it's more
Speaker 1: you're gonna have more people that stay true to the
Speaker 1: working out. Well, there are like good looking young people
Speaker 1: that work out, but they don't work out. When I
Speaker 1: work out, I guess I'm gonna have to work out
Speaker 1: at a different time, so I'll be there. I'll see
Speaker 1: some different people. But when yeah, when I'm there, it's
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of people drinking Grandpa and grandma juice.
Speaker 1: You come down to my gym down in Torrance, the
Speaker 1: South Bay crossed the four oh five, I don't cross.
Speaker 1: At the Christmas party, you and your wife are both
Speaker 1: bitching to me about going down to like Busy Bees
Speaker 1: and Street in San Pedro and having I go. I
Speaker 1: go there want for Thanksgiving because my in laws live
Speaker 1: right down the street from the Busy Beast, so that's
Speaker 1: why I go there. But that's not even open on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: So I've never had a Busy Beast sandwich. Everyone says
Speaker 1: it's amazing, but I've not had one that's good. And
Speaker 1: come down and go get a workout, and then you
Speaker 1: can go get a sandwich. How about that? All right?
Speaker 1: Next up on study, this watching television makes viewers more
Speaker 1: likely to prefer wait for it, thinner female bodies, putting
Speaker 1: to a new study, I don't believe this. This is
Speaker 1: bullshit because I grew up watching more television than anyone.
Speaker 1: I had no friends, No one would hang out with me.
Speaker 1: My friend was the boob tube. And I enjoy a nice,
Speaker 1: curvacious woman more than a skinny I find like skinny women.
Speaker 1: I want to make them like some fete chini Alfredo
Speaker 1: or something like that to fatten them up. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying they're too skinny. And I've been around
Speaker 1: occasionally in events some of these these actresses that are
Speaker 1: I used to call them actors, now whatever. But the
Speaker 1: women that are these movies, they're so petite and so
Speaker 1: small it's unbelievable. They're like, it's out of control. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta agree with you, especially because considering the fact
Speaker 1: that I don't know if you have a get at
Speaker 1: jail free card, but if I did, I would put
Speaker 1: Summer Hike. I'd put Sofia Virgara. I put those two
Speaker 1: women at the top of the food chain. They're full
Speaker 1: figured women. Well, I don't know, comp compared to everyone
Speaker 1: else in Hollywood, there full figured women. I think full
Speaker 1: figured women might argue that there's not they're not really
Speaker 1: full figured. But but yeah, no, I enjoy a nice
Speaker 1: curvy road. I don't need the straight road. I like
Speaker 1: the curvy. Yeah. Absolutely, Man, that's unfortunate. I call that bullshit,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up, the work flirt. Apparently there's a
Speaker 1: new study out to suggests office flirting could help employees
Speaker 1: feel less stressed. So, guestcon you've gotta start flirting with
Speaker 1: your co workers because you're very stressed. We have We
Speaker 1: have two female is that we work with, do we YEA?
Speaker 1: I what? Who do I know one of them? Who's
Speaker 1: the other one? One's an editor and one's a Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know the editor, and we don't talk to
Speaker 1: somebody upstairs. I wouldn't in today's climate. Are you fucking
Speaker 1: kidding me? I know this is just you're just asking
Speaker 1: for hr because the only way this works is if
Speaker 1: the other person's receptive. They're not receptive, you're screwed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the woman can just unload on you even
Speaker 1: even if you're not ship could get misconstrued taking the
Speaker 1: wrong way, and then up the food chain it goes
Speaker 1: and before no, you're bouncing your ass. Yeah, but to
Speaker 1: be fair, and we work in an odd, mostly male business.
Speaker 1: Well on the radio said and on the on air
Speaker 1: like broadcast. But I'm saying like a lot of people
Speaker 1: find love in the office and all that stuff. They
Speaker 1: find their partner at work. I mean that happens all
Speaker 1: the time. What was your first job when you were eighteen?
Speaker 1: I worked at my my parents mailing service, and I
Speaker 1: had some other odd jobs before of that, but uh,
Speaker 1: that was the the gig I drove around. I put
Speaker 1: bulk mail together and I went to post offices and
Speaker 1: what and I was a very exciting job. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there was no U. I had a newspaper deliverything when
Speaker 1: I was younger, and then I got into radio. I
Speaker 1: got a radio when I was nineteen years old. Radio
Speaker 1: ever since. I brought that up because I was talking
Speaker 1: to a good friend of mine on the East Coast,
Speaker 1: special kind of Felix, and we both had sales jobs
Speaker 1: when we were younger, like eighteen nineteen years old. But
Speaker 1: the sales jobs when you're a kid, they really get
Speaker 1: the juices flowing. But I, yeah, I met the women
Speaker 1: that I dated at the time all through sales. I
Speaker 1: worked at Petros Papada because his dad's restaurant in San
Speaker 1: Pedro name dropper. And then I worked at a health
Speaker 1: club for like four years when I was going to college.
Speaker 1: And that was the best part because you talk about
Speaker 1: flirting on the job site, and I was doing that
Speaker 1: and you didn't have to do anything. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you should probably work out this area or this area.
Speaker 1: I've heard stories. I've had friends that have worked in
Speaker 1: the restaurant business, and apparently it's like orgies going on
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. There are a lot of those restaurants
Speaker 1: with managers and waiters and waiters and okay, it was
Speaker 1: all men that worked at Petrus's dad's restaurants. So and
Speaker 1: there's no fucking it was a five star restaurant. There's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that, guess you no, I know, but
Speaker 1: he threatened me, he said, you need to learn how
Speaker 1: to sing Happy Birthday in Greek by next week or
Speaker 1: you're fucking fired. Really, And that was a week end
Speaker 1: of the job. And he's good friends with his dad,
Speaker 1: is is good friends with my dad, and so how
Speaker 1: that show went, Damn, my dad was just gonna do it. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I talked about your first job. It's jumped off the
Speaker 1: day because down your down, your throat, just giving you
Speaker 1: the business, like do the ship right, you know when
Speaker 1: they break glass. It was a Greek restaurant, so you're
Speaker 1: breaking glass and and singing and you get the ballerinas
Speaker 1: and not the balleries, the belly dancers and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It was My first ever tip was a hundred dollar
Speaker 1: tip from an old DJ at Kiss FM, Rick D's.
Speaker 1: Oh I knew, I knew Rick I worked with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Rick was great, oh man, wonderful back well yeah, actually
Speaker 1: gave me some great advice. And Rick was like the
Speaker 1: nicest guy. He was a big star in l A
Speaker 1: Radio and he had a TV show and all that.
Speaker 1: Very nice man Rick D's And when he was the
Speaker 1: big morning star Kiss FM, I was doing local radio
Speaker 1: and l A Kiss A M and d S. I
Speaker 1: guess we can say it now because he's not really
Speaker 1: doing much these days, but he used to record the
Speaker 1: first hour or two hours of his show after his
Speaker 1: morning show, so he I was doing a midday show
Speaker 1: and D's would still be hanging out when I got
Speaker 1: in and he come down, you know, and he asked
Speaker 1: us how we were doing. And we make some small
Speaker 1: talk with the great Rick D's and he told me
Speaker 1: two things, two pieces of advice in radio. Because I
Speaker 1: was doing um a duet with Dave the Ben and
Speaker 1: Dave Show. He said, listen, he said, the key to
Speaker 1: along career in radio, you've got to be able to
Speaker 1: perform on your own. You can't. You know, it's great
Speaker 1: to have people that you work with, but most radio
Speaker 1: stations aren't gonna hire a duo. You have to be
Speaker 1: able to hide, you be able to do your own act. Right.
Speaker 1: So he told me that Uh, and that was that
Speaker 1: was good advice. And then he also told me, when
Speaker 1: you're pre recording a segment of radio, make mistakes, but
Speaker 1: don't edit them out, you know, when you make mistakes,
Speaker 1: because he said, and he knew this because these was
Speaker 1: the master of this. He said, when you make a
Speaker 1: mistake that the listener doesn't think it's recorded because they
Speaker 1: assume you'd edit it out in post production. So they
Speaker 1: how how smart is that? Right? It's true. If I'm
Speaker 1: listening and I hear somebody on the radio make a mistake,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I mean that must be live, but no,
Speaker 1: it's it could be on recorded, you know, DVR. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Good advice. I just solid advice, and I just passed
Speaker 1: it on to a new generation of blowhards and gas backs.
Speaker 1: Here's a new survey that finds the average American gets
Speaker 1: into blank arguments during the holiday travel. So, when you're
Speaker 1: traveling over the holidays, how many arguments will you get
Speaker 1: into with your family, friends, the people at the airport,
Speaker 1: the people at the uber, all of those people ten
Speaker 1: close twelve, they say, twelve arguments during holiday travel? And uh,
Speaker 1: are you an arguer? Do you argue when you travel?
Speaker 1: And whatnot do you complain? And I think it just
Speaker 1: depends on who we're talking about. With family, maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit more inclined if someone is doing something stupid
Speaker 1: or whatever. But with people, especially in the transportation industry
Speaker 1: like T s A and flight attendants and people of
Speaker 1: those nature, I don't because part of the thing is
Speaker 1: you work on holidays. I work on holidays. These people
Speaker 1: work on holidays and they want to be with their family,
Speaker 1: like they don't want to be at work unless they
Speaker 1: don't have families that are close by. So I tend
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more lenient with that. Plus
Speaker 1: it's just I got pretty good patients, So I try
Speaker 1: not to be as dramatic as other people are, especially
Speaker 1: because you don't want to be that guy or that
Speaker 1: girl that stands out amongst a big crowd just being
Speaker 1: a fucking asshole. So this is where I should tell
Speaker 1: the story. With Lee Kleine, we were traveling together to
Speaker 1: a Clipper playoff game years ago, It's probably about twelve
Speaker 1: years ago, and we were at Sky Harbor Airport in
Speaker 1: Phoenix and Lee had a rental car. He had schedule
Speaker 1: with the rental car, so we go into the rental
Speaker 1: car booth and Lee starts telling jokes to the person
Speaker 1: in the rental car with a person at the rental
Speaker 1: car place did not want to deal with Lee's bullshit
Speaker 1: so started sniking, you know, going back back at Lee,
Speaker 1: and it turned into an argument where they were like
Speaker 1: yelling at each other, right, and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: And so the person at the rental car place said,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to rent you with the car. Um,
Speaker 1: you're a rude customer. I'm not going to rent you
Speaker 1: the car. And so hand to god. Lee, apparently he
Speaker 1: had had this happen to him before. He then walked
Speaker 1: out of the car rental booth, walked about ten feet
Speaker 1: over to another car rental booth, and had a second
Speaker 1: reservation just in case he had a problem with the
Speaker 1: first reservation, and then got the car. He was on
Speaker 1: his best behavior at the next rental car place and
Speaker 1: he got the car with some other Joe schmo. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good backup plan for being an asshole. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're a schmuck, you have to have a backup plan,
Speaker 1: all right. In light of Star Wars Rise of Skywalker,
Speaker 1: this study was sent to me. What percentage of Americans
Speaker 1: say they read movie reviews before watching a movie, and
Speaker 1: what percentage read movie reviews after watching the movie? While
Speaker 1: what percentage never read movie reviews? So break up the
Speaker 1: pie chart. Okay, so before the movie, I would say
Speaker 1: twelve percent, alright, you think twelve percent before the movie,
Speaker 1: all right? After the movie alright? And then not at all?
Speaker 1: I would say, I don't know that that all adds
Speaker 1: up to the right. You're off on some of that,
Speaker 1: But the answer gascon, you're wrong. Forty three percent of
Speaker 1: Americans say they read movie reviews before watching a movie.
Speaker 1: Alrightcent say they read the movie review after watching the movie.
Speaker 1: What's the point of that? Twenty nine percent never read
Speaker 1: movie reviews at all. It's almost now, I don't read
Speaker 1: the movie reviews because I don't know the person that's
Speaker 1: making the reviews. Taste, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I have a special taste in movies, and I know
Speaker 1: what I like, I know what I enjoy, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that this other person that's the same thing.
Speaker 1: So like and a lot of times the critically acclaimed
Speaker 1: movies I think are just horrible, right, I think they
Speaker 1: blow and they're a waste of my time. And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't need to see a musical or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But these things are often celebrated by the people that
Speaker 1: review movies. Are you a trailer guy? Do you like
Speaker 1: going to the movies and watching the trailers before the
Speaker 1: previews of of upcoming movies? But the movie you can't
Speaker 1: avoid it because they get thirty minutes of trailer. Like
Speaker 1: I'm good with like two or three trailers, but after that,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm done. I'm like, this is horrible. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they make him pretty good and they kind
Speaker 1: of get they suck you in and all that. I
Speaker 1: got sucked into that Mr. Rogers movie with Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: and and the trailer was bullshit compared to how the
Speaker 1: movie actually was. Now I heard and correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, But I heard you're watching a new documentary
Speaker 1: called Don't Funk with Cats? Is that true? Uh? No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. Uh my wife was watching that. I watched that.
Speaker 1: I heard from a bird that you were watching it,
Speaker 1: and no, no, I did not watch it. I have
Speaker 1: not seen that one. I'll be watching a lot of
Speaker 1: documentaries and anybody wants to recommend the documentary, send me
Speaker 1: a message on social media. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: time for the next couple of weeks. Here to watch documentaries,
Speaker 1: a lot of well I'll be you know in Seattle
Speaker 1: for some of them. The most caring city in Americas,
Speaker 1: according to a study done by wallet hub, the most caring.
Speaker 1: So they have the top five here. How many of
Speaker 1: the top five most carrying cities can you name? Austin, Texas, Uh,
Speaker 1: not on the list, Nashville, Tennessee see here, not on
Speaker 1: the list, oh Man, Iowa. Not on the list. Over three,
Speaker 1: Little Arkansas not on the list. Over four, you gotta
Speaker 1: get one of them. Come on. San Diego, California, not
Speaker 1: on the list, Orange County not on the list. This
Speaker 1: is why you're This is why you suck at this. Okay?
Speaker 1: How about St. Petersburg, Florida, not on the list? Uh?
Speaker 1: Number five, Fort Lautado not on the list. Number five, Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: minister come on, Number four, Lincoln, Nebraska, Number three, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: Number two, Madison, Wisconsin and the number one most carrying
Speaker 1: city in America according to this new study. Virginia Beach,
Speaker 1: Virginia now a spinoff. Because you know, anybody can talk
Speaker 1: about the positive, I like the negat announcer. And this
Speaker 1: study also looked at the cities in the United States
Speaker 1: where the lowest percentage of income donated to charity per capita. Right,
Speaker 1: but these are the cities that don't give the charity. Alright,
Speaker 1: how many of these can you names? All right? So
Speaker 1: we go. Chicago not on the list, l A not
Speaker 1: on the list, New York, New York City, not on
Speaker 1: the list, San Francisco not on the list, Dallas not
Speaker 1: on the list, Miami terrible of this game, not on
Speaker 1: the list. One of them is obvious, Gasco. These people
Speaker 1: are known as heathens and schmucks and assholes. Boston, Uh,
Speaker 1: that is on the list. Boston is on the list.
Speaker 1: That's not the city I was thinking of. I I
Speaker 1: was thinking of the other city that's known for that.
Speaker 1: Oh man, uh Philadelphia, Yes, Philadelphia, That's what I was
Speaker 1: thinking of. You have Philadelphia. Check this out. So Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: San Diego, and Boston fied for sixty eight as the
Speaker 1: least charitable. The next on the list number this is
Speaker 1: number seventy three Pittsburgh. So Pittsburgh is the This is fine,
Speaker 1: both the most caring and the least charitable. How can
Speaker 1: you be both? Um? Number seventy four, Number seventy three,
Speaker 1: rather than the list that was seventy two. I guess
Speaker 1: number seventy three was Sacramento. Sacramento, California, the state capital
Speaker 1: and the worst of the worst, the least charitable based
Speaker 1: on percentage of income done or No. I've been to
Speaker 1: this city though, Buffalo, New York. Hello Buffalo, man, that's odd.
Speaker 1: Those are some of the you wouldn't really want to
Speaker 1: go to many of those cities, but outside of San Diego.
Speaker 1: But I've been to Philly, into San Diego. I've been
Speaker 1: to Boston, I've been to Pittsburgh, I've been a sacrament
Speaker 1: I've been. I've been all five of those cities. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I've been to every one of those cities.
Speaker 1: Fit like a glove. Yeah, Well, charity starts at home,
Speaker 1: you know. And and you know what I always say
Speaker 1: about charity guests, gar And I know you like to
Speaker 1: brag about everything and all that. That's how you work.
Speaker 1: But true charity should be anonymous. I say this all
Speaker 1: the time, and is my belief. The value of a
Speaker 1: charity donation is reduced when you're like J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: running around trying to take a bow and get praise.
Speaker 1: Uh and I feel the same way about these NFL
Speaker 1: players that make a big deal about when they do charity.
Speaker 1: I to me, it's Sully's the charity and giving anonymously
Speaker 1: guarantees the donor's modems are truly altruistic. And do you
Speaker 1: donate to charity? Yes, we donate to charity every year,
Speaker 1: but I don't talk about I don't promote it. We
Speaker 1: we do not talk about the charity that we do.
Speaker 1: I donate close to the Salvation Army every year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason I do that is because I
Speaker 1: is it as a motivation tool for myself that when
Speaker 1: I lose weight and the clothes look like parachutes on me,
Speaker 1: then I could give them away and it's good motivation
Speaker 1: and reminder. Yeah. My my problem with that is my
Speaker 1: um my wife, like, I'm a yo yo dieter. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll lose a lot of weight, I'll gain it back,
Speaker 1: lose it again, and all this stuff, and so I'm
Speaker 1: I'm always paranoid. I always telling my wife, you're holding
Speaker 1: onto those fat clothes because I might go off the wagon,
Speaker 1: you know I might. I might say, well, I might
Speaker 1: go on the food wagon, the gravy training rack, you
Speaker 1: know wagon and all that stuff. So I always get
Speaker 1: paranoid about that. But it is better to get rid
Speaker 1: of this stuff. You're right, that's what you should do.
Speaker 1: That way you're motivated and not have to spend a
Speaker 1: grand unclothes because you're a fatass again. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think the beautiful thing now that I know you in
Speaker 1: your present state as opposed to in your beef your state,
Speaker 1: is that you don't have to worry about that because
Speaker 1: I can remind you if you're getting a little heavy
Speaker 1: around the face and chest and chin and waste on stuff,
Speaker 1: have no shame in that. All right, moving on, grab bag.
Speaker 1: These are actual questions by actual listeners. Lee in the
Speaker 1: Value of the Sun leaves a longtime mallew Militia. Guy,
Speaker 1: you went to a Cardinals game holding up a mallar Yeah,
Speaker 1: guy has yeah, wow, Wow, what an asshole? What an asshole?
Speaker 1: No wonder the malle millish as. I like you, Lee,
Speaker 1: although I don't like this question. He says, now that
Speaker 1: your net worth went up three million dollars according to Google.
Speaker 1: Check this out, guest Lee and in the Phoenix googled
Speaker 1: me now in the past, Google said my net worth
Speaker 1: was three million dollars. I have now apparently. I guess
Speaker 1: those investments in bitcoin are paying off. I'm now up
Speaker 1: to a six million dollars in net worth's according to Google.
Speaker 1: I type in Ben Mallard and as soon as they
Speaker 1: do that, it finishes the rest of it for me
Speaker 1: and puts in net worth. Yeah that's amazing. Wow, six
Speaker 1: million dollars they got change that picture though? For you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I was when I was fat. You have every
Speaker 1: You have a lot of hair your head in that picture.
Speaker 1: Well I have a lot of hair, I do know.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Now I just typed it in on on bing.
Speaker 1: It says four point five million dollars, So I'm only
Speaker 1: worth four but that's still a million and a half more.
Speaker 1: Let me go to Google hol a sec. They love
Speaker 1: that they have your birth side in there. Very important.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, six million dollars. Celebrity Uh is it celebs
Speaker 1: trending now dot com? Can we talk that into reality?
Speaker 1: Can we make that reality? I'd be very happy with
Speaker 1: a net worth of six million dollars. Yeah. If that's
Speaker 1: the case, that means we're actually or you're making some
Speaker 1: money on this podcast, which means you need to cop
Speaker 1: up some coin, so quit being a cheap Bestard listen.
Speaker 1: I and talked to the boss this week and I
Speaker 1: did some specs specs spots for the podcast that could
Speaker 1: be popping up in and that would be a little
Speaker 1: bit of money, let's see. Alright. Uh so you're Stephen
Speaker 1: writes in from so Cally says, who's gonna win the
Speaker 1: NFC West? And are you really going to Seattle for
Speaker 1: that last game? Yes? Uh Stephen, everything's booked. I got
Speaker 1: a hotel room, I got a plane ticket. I'll be
Speaker 1: in Seattle December and that's a Saturday, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a Mallard get together that night, Saturday night. Contact
Speaker 1: Jay Scoop on Twitter or email me if you want
Speaker 1: more information on that. But we want every man, woman
Speaker 1: and child who can make it in the Seattle area
Speaker 1: or Washington State, or in Oregon or up in in
Speaker 1: British Columbia, uh, Idaho, reasonable driving distance. Uh. We we
Speaker 1: would love to see you there and and and hang
Speaker 1: out and have a great time. But I will be there.
Speaker 1: And as far as who's gonna win the NFC West,
Speaker 1: I know it's not gonna be the Rams. The forty
Speaker 1: Niners are the more talented team, but they've lost to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: So I would say the forty Niners will win the
Speaker 1: NFC West. But I'm gonna be in Seattle, So go Seahawks, right,
Speaker 1: I gotta win in Rome. Act like a Roman's on
Speaker 1: the time breaker right now? So alright, here's the guy
Speaker 1: that writes since is if Fox offered to double your
Speaker 1: salary but you had to move to an eleven AM
Speaker 1: to three pm time slot, would you do it? It
Speaker 1: would mean giving up your title of being the king
Speaker 1: of late nights. Uh, well, they have to do more
Speaker 1: than double my salary. But yeah, everyone's got a price,
Speaker 1: so I mean. Emmanuel from Portugal says, is it better
Speaker 1: to eat first and cry after? Or cry before and
Speaker 1: eat after? I think it's better to cry before and
Speaker 1: eat after. You know, if you're gonna eat and your cry,
Speaker 1: you might have a reversal of fortune and stuff. Who
Speaker 1: wants to do that? You know? I like to eat
Speaker 1: before and after after. You you're a crier. I just
Speaker 1: you know, when I feel guilty about something, I'll like
Speaker 1: it before or after in between, not more than either.
Speaker 1: All right, Jonathan writes, and he says, is Stevie Wonder
Speaker 1: really blind? Shaquille O'Neil's latest encounter seems to once again
Speaker 1: debunk blindness. I've heard the same thing, Jonathan. I've heard
Speaker 1: about Stevie Wonders car collection. I've heard about the televisions
Speaker 1: that he's got at his house. I've heard about that.
Speaker 1: Now there is a guy that we work with that
Speaker 1: has worked with Stevie Wonder. Do you know who that is? Guest? Yes,
Speaker 1: Bobo on the radio knows Stevie Wonder, and he swears
Speaker 1: he's worked on the Steve Harvey Show and Stevie Wonder
Speaker 1: has been on there before, and he swears that Stevie
Speaker 1: Wonder is blind. I'm skeptical. This would be one of
Speaker 1: the great scams of all time. Can you imagine when
Speaker 1: he dies at his eulogy if they say, by the way,
Speaker 1: Stevie could see this entire time, you morons, That dude
Speaker 1: vision just eagle eye. Yeah? Would that not be wonderful?
Speaker 1: Would that that would be just great? All right? Brian says,
Speaker 1: whose desk does Gagon go under to keep his job? David,
Speaker 1: you want to answer that Brian's a fucking idiot? All right?
Speaker 1: Than that? Very nice? Raymond asked. He asked a good question.
Speaker 1: If you buy yourself a Christmas president, it should you
Speaker 1: still wrap it? Well, technically it's already wrapped if you're
Speaker 1: usually buying something anyway, right, Well, I guess, but you know,
Speaker 1: some people buy themselves. My wife actually, I think, has
Speaker 1: done that in the past, like you, s'll buy herself
Speaker 1: something and kind of wrap it so it's under the
Speaker 1: tree or whatever. But yeah, it's what's a waste of
Speaker 1: wrapping paper? Do a gift bag or something like and
Speaker 1: and by the way, by your wrapping paper, your gift
Speaker 1: cards like Dollar General, the Dollar Tree Store, whatever, you're
Speaker 1: your story? Why waste money on wrapping papers? Who reads
Speaker 1: newspapers anymore? I read newspapers online. I don't have an
Speaker 1: actual newspaper. Do you get an actual newspaper? All right?
Speaker 1: Jose rights and says, what's Gaggon's kind of woman? We
Speaker 1: just talked about this full figured ideal? He says, any
Speaker 1: anything that walks and talks. Yeah, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know where is he from? Again, I'm not sure where
Speaker 1: Jose's from. What, it doesn't matter. Five ft nine Burnett
Speaker 1: usually my strike range. That's your full figured you gotta have.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like skinny women. I like women
Speaker 1: that are curby. Yeah, I do too. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want that somebody's always eating and throwing up. You know,
Speaker 1: somebody enjoys a nice meal. Like interdependent women too. I
Speaker 1: don't like women that are dependent man or that's because
Speaker 1: you're cheap. You don't want to pay for stuff. No,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate the hustle, you know. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do too. I think it's I think it's that's
Speaker 1: part of the reason why. Like when I went to
Speaker 1: your Christmas party, I talked to two people the entire time,
Speaker 1: Lee and your wife, because there's nobody else. That's nobody
Speaker 1: else wanted. Nobody else wanted to talk to you. That's
Speaker 1: not true. We're like the bell of the ball. We
Speaker 1: stood out amongst everyone else. I was just sitting down.
Speaker 1: I was holding court around the campfire, holding with your
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Speaker 1: good stuff. This one. Actually, I think Cooper to appreciate Chuck,
Speaker 1: Bonnie well, he's a talk show host in Colorado. He
Speaker 1: co hosts a show with his wife. Well, yesterday he
Speaker 1: laughed as he came back from a break and introduced
Speaker 1: a segment that said the never ending impeachment of Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and he said quote, you know you wish for a
Speaker 1: nice school shooting end quote, and then his wife immediately
Speaker 1: cut him off. And that's like, no, no, no, we
Speaker 1: didn't say that. We didn't say that. Don't call us.
Speaker 1: Chuck didn't say that. So basically, so they said they
Speaker 1: said it, and what happened They try to retract no
Speaker 1: dumb button show guy dump then dumping. So we got
Speaker 1: the dumb button here. I think, what is it? Forty
Speaker 1: five seconds in total length? Um, I don't know how
Speaker 1: long it is, but you're never supposed to say how
Speaker 1: long it is because that that's the top trade secret
Speaker 1: in radio, how much dump time you have. No, but
Speaker 1: we have multiple dumb buttons though, yeah, we do have
Speaker 1: multiple dump buttons. We every studio years ago when Janet
Speaker 1: Jackson showed her boobies and the company freaked out because
Speaker 1: they were talking about finding the every every station that
Speaker 1: broadcast Janet Jackson's tits was gonna have to pay a
Speaker 1: fine and and it was a nightmare, right, So everyone
Speaker 1: in broadcasting was freaking out. So they put these game
Speaker 1: show style buzzers in the studios. It's like press your luck,
Speaker 1: the old game show, and it's so funny. You go
Speaker 1: in there and it's it says dumping. It's a black box,
Speaker 1: it's got dumped the little button called dump on it
Speaker 1: and it flashes when you dump something. It's it's quite amazing.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I mean you can't. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the third rail, my man. No, you can't be joking
Speaker 1: around about school shootings. I mean even I, uh, come on,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? But I don't think that person
Speaker 1: should be fired. I think they should be should be
Speaker 1: slapped and suspended and all that because they were trying
Speaker 1: to be funny. But that's a bad job by them, producer.
Speaker 1: Not paying attention, that's unfortunate. How about that happens all
Speaker 1: the time, man, that happens all it's people are paying attention.
Speaker 1: And I'll be you know, I I say stuff sometimes
Speaker 1: and in half an hour later somebody else will say,
Speaker 1: what about this? I'm like, I talked about that, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty minutes agore an hour ago. All right,
Speaker 1: what's not about this? Hackers broke into the Epilepsy Foundation's
Speaker 1: Twitter feed last month and they actually posted images of
Speaker 1: flashing or strobing lights to cause, you know, to cause
Speaker 1: obviously seizures to people that have epilepsy. Uh. The attacks
Speaker 1: were deliberate, so the feed on the Epilepsy Foundations Twitter
Speaker 1: feed was just nothing but flashing and strobing lights for
Speaker 1: a time period that most people with those disorders, uh
Speaker 1: could obviously notice it before the organization eventually pull them down. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What a ragamuffin, what kind of what kind of lunatic?
Speaker 1: I know, they're just trying to get their jollies off.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, but you talk about the marching moron society?
Speaker 1: I mean really, I mean, who the hell funk I mean,
Speaker 1: leave the fucking people alone. Okay, they got their own issues. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's stupid vermin. How about this? Children at a Vienna
Speaker 1: State Opera Ballet Academy were allegedly encouraged to smoke to
Speaker 1: control their weight. Alright, but we we know people. Does
Speaker 1: that work? By the way, Yeah, you know, I'll say
Speaker 1: I won't say the name, but back in the day,
Speaker 1: when I was in grade school and in high school,
Speaker 1: there was a girl that was right around my age,
Speaker 1: not in the same class, but right around my age,
Speaker 1: and she was by far the most attractive girl that
Speaker 1: we went to school with. And we're talking about grade
Speaker 1: school to high school and into college. She was absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1: My problem was, is she wait a lot. She gets
Speaker 1: into college and I think like her junior senior year,
Speaker 1: she went strictly to smoking cigarettes and eating saltine crackers,
Speaker 1: and she lost a shipload of weight, like a bulletload
Speaker 1: of weight, and everyone was trying to hook up with her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she's gorgeous, like you, you could just hell, but
Speaker 1: that's exactly what she did. And so so tobacco tobacco, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so tobacco is the thing, right, that's you get a
Speaker 1: lot tobacco, you don't want to eat or whatever, But
Speaker 1: why not just do intermittent fasting and just train your
Speaker 1: body like I've done here. We can go forty eight
Speaker 1: hours without eating or something like that, because people splurs
Speaker 1: the after that fast like I go. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: can explore if you don't. If you go two days
Speaker 1: without eating and then eat, and then go two days
Speaker 1: without eating, you can eat a lot in between the
Speaker 1: two days, which is what I do. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: the purpose is not to overload. It's not to binge eat,
Speaker 1: it's not to binge drink. It's too intermittent. But but but
Speaker 1: by I've done this for about a year and I
Speaker 1: feel like, even when I eat a lot, I don't
Speaker 1: need as much as I used to because my appetite
Speaker 1: is not as much as it used to be a lot.
Speaker 1: To be fair, everyone's bodies are a little bit different. So, well,
Speaker 1: that's true, it's accurate, all right, Well, so there's good
Speaker 1: luck to this. There was a dance school, yeah in Vienna.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, it's parents also have to sign off
Speaker 1: on that. Right as you're you're twelve year old comes
Speaker 1: home smoking some Marlborough's, you have to be like, what's
Speaker 1: going on here? Are they vaping? Now? I guess that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the new trend right now Marlborough or you know, uh,
Speaker 1: whatever else they have as far as cigarettes go, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, that's it's dangerous. But that's what
Speaker 1: we got. We're on a on a truncated timetable. As
Speaker 1: we close. That's because you were fifty eight minutes late.
Speaker 1: That's why we we would have more but you're fifty
Speaker 1: is like, well, I thank you, Gascon. I want to
Speaker 1: wish you the listener, a wonderful Christmas, a happy Hanukkah,
Speaker 1: and if you don't celebrate anything, if you're a Jehovah's witness,
Speaker 1: just have a really good day. Just have a really
Speaker 1: good day and enjoy all the holiday fistubbies. Now, there
Speaker 1: would be no podcast. Next week next there was no podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm planning on not doing a podcast. The week after
Speaker 1: we might have a podcast, although I will still be
Speaker 1: on vacation, but I do need to test out the
Speaker 1: new piece of equipment. So uh, we might have the
Speaker 1: podcast the following we that's that would be the thirty first,
Speaker 1: so to be January first or second. I might not
Speaker 1: be around to kick off and we won't have the podcast.
Speaker 1: Or we'll get somebody else to sit in with you
Speaker 1: who's actually good. You know, somebody who's not a maggot,
Speaker 1: and we'll get them to come in here and get
Speaker 1: a non mosquito. Uh, you're gonna use that on a
Speaker 1: podcast sometime in the inter future. I guess someone that
Speaker 1: doesn't cause us to get itchy and scratchy when we
Speaker 1: hear their voices, but Anyway, you guys have been great
Speaker 1: this year. It's been fun. We just launched this podcast
Speaker 1: at the start of football season and the downloads have
Speaker 1: been through the room. You guys have been great. The
Speaker 1: audience continues to grow. Tell your friends about it, Tell
Speaker 1: your enemies at these holiday parties. Hey, you know a
Speaker 1: good podcast you should be listening to, which is this
Speaker 1: podcast and the radio podcast. But have a great, wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful end of twenty nineteen and we will catch you
Speaker 1: in twenty in the Magic Radio Box. Thank you.