Speaker 1: If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mallarck starts right now. That it does. I hope you're
Speaker 1: having a great day today and have a wonderful weekend
Speaker 1: whenever you consume this podcast, as it is continuing on
Speaker 1: apparently doing very well, although I have not seen any
Speaker 1: of that in my my check, but it's doing very well.
Speaker 1: It's the fifth Hour with Ben mal That would be
Speaker 1: me talking in the third person and David Gascon Because
Speaker 1: four hours of a network radio show are not enough.
Speaker 1: We are in the air everywhere, literally the vast power
Speaker 1: of the I Heart Podcast Network, the global reach of podcasting,
Speaker 1: and you can hear this if you're new to the podcast,
Speaker 1: every if you like it, we're here every week, and
Speaker 1: if you don't like it, we're only here once a week,
Speaker 1: So it doesn't really matter. On the I Heart Podcast network,
Speaker 1: where they have like big podcast stars, like all the
Speaker 1: big names in the podcast game are on this I
Speaker 1: Heart podcast network, which you probably already know by now.
Speaker 1: Uh and it's this show is also available anyway, It's
Speaker 1: not just I heeart. Some people say, uh. I get
Speaker 1: a lot of people who complain about Apple uh and
Speaker 1: say that they're not big fans of Apple. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I usually tweet out the link to the Apple page
Speaker 1: because there's a place to review the show. But it's
Speaker 1: wherever you can get your podcast. You can hear this show.
Speaker 1: At least that's what they tell me. I haven't followed
Speaker 1: up on that, but but anyway, now, Gascon, are you there? Gascon?
Speaker 1: Wake up? Gas Guy. I gotta I gotta carry this show.
Speaker 1: It's been a tough couple of weeks for you, man.
Speaker 1: I really feel bad for you as a as a colleague.
Speaker 1: You have gone through some troubling times physically, emotionally mentally.
Speaker 1: You recovered from a mangled tongue and now that's right,
Speaker 1: and you come into a new week with a butchered
Speaker 1: team and then NLS Division well you, much like Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 1: I have become pretty good at doing monologues after a team.
Speaker 1: I care about vomits all over the field. So I
Speaker 1: I have had so much experience between the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: the Clippers and the Rams in recent years. It is
Speaker 1: the Golden Age. I'm in the gold n for for suck,
Speaker 1: for ship, and uh, I really wish we had been
Speaker 1: doing the podcast earlier this week after the Dodging game,
Speaker 1: I left Dodger Stadium guests Gun went in there and
Speaker 1: it was a totally ship show and all everyone's bad,
Speaker 1: a whole astro fans are busting my balls. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone's had. You don't even care about the Dodgers. They
Speaker 1: just love my agony, all right, And uh, I wish
Speaker 1: I could have cursed. I would have. That would have
Speaker 1: been one of the great profanity laced monologues of all time.
Speaker 1: I could call that guy's a motherfucker, and that guy's
Speaker 1: a piece of shit and asshole and all these words
Speaker 1: were not supposed to say. You know. The first thing
Speaker 1: that came to my mind was not that it was
Speaker 1: a great movie, but Major League two. When Charlie Sheen,
Speaker 1: who was Rickey Vaughn in that movie, faces off with
Speaker 1: Jack Parkman, and Parkman's got his timing down and he
Speaker 1: knows his fastball as shit, I texted you just before
Speaker 1: Kershaw came out of the bullpen, and I said, you
Speaker 1: want to see what managerial suicide is. Watch until the
Speaker 1: same thing to my dad, and sure ship it was
Speaker 1: a half an inning later, though, back to back Jack's
Speaker 1: Ball Games series. Well, and listen, make Kershaw. I know
Speaker 1: he's not trying to be this bad, but he has
Speaker 1: vamboozled the Dodgers for so many years, and they resigned
Speaker 1: the guy every one million dollars for the next two years.
Speaker 1: And and now you know the other thing that annoys
Speaker 1: me to really talk about these assholes that are Dad
Speaker 1: defending Kershaw, blaming Dave Roberts for all this noticing I
Speaker 1: believe Dave Roberts is as culpability and he should be
Speaker 1: held accountable because I don't think he's done a very
Speaker 1: good job here in the postseason with his decisions, with
Speaker 1: all this talent, this overwhelming talent. I get there's a
Speaker 1: lot of eye rolls watching Dave Roberts managed the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: but well, you should have just left Kershaw on for
Speaker 1: one batter thirty one million dollar guy, thirty one million
Speaker 1: dollar guy, Hall of Fame picture, and he's a one
Speaker 1: third of an inning one out guy and then you
Speaker 1: can't bring him back. I mean, what are you doing.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but the eye popping stat that you
Speaker 1: threw out during your show was seven eleven seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's nuts, man. I I trade his ass.
Speaker 1: I said this right after the game, and I've had
Speaker 1: some time since then to calm down. I would trade him.
Speaker 1: You gotta get rid of him. He just it's it
Speaker 1: rubs off on all the This suck rubs off on
Speaker 1: all the other players, and these young guys who were
Speaker 1: supposedly all blue chip players from the Die Jeers, and
Speaker 1: these guys are all a bunch of choke artists in
Speaker 1: these games for the most part. I mean Max Munsey,
Speaker 1: who's not even a minor league guy from the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: He came from the Athletics. He's actually been a clutch player,
Speaker 1: Justin Turner, not a Dodger minor league guy. Also, is
Speaker 1: there a coincidence? Did they treat they must coach these
Speaker 1: guys in the minor leagues? All right, you are only
Speaker 1: good until the end of the regular sty Once October started,
Speaker 1: he like turned into a pumpkin. Uh. I know, you're
Speaker 1: not a big laker. Guy. But this made me think
Speaker 1: it's an understatement. But this made me think of the
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings in the early two thousand's. The Dodgers are
Speaker 1: made for a hundred sixty two game regular season, much
Speaker 1: like the Sacramento Kings are during the regular season, but
Speaker 1: when it came to postseason time, they could not nut
Speaker 1: up against the Lakers. Came down to something that might
Speaker 1: be true now, it wasn't true in I mean, they
Speaker 1: had that and they they vomited that away. But Bellinger
Speaker 1: wasn't even good in that series. Though against the House.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been good in the playoffs his entire career.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so embarrassing when he wins the m
Speaker 1: v P Award and he had no home runs, no
Speaker 1: r b I s in the National League Divisional Series.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be ridiculous. But anyway, we gotta get on
Speaker 1: with the show. This hooting Nanny in Benny's kitchen. We
Speaker 1: will have hanging with the elites. I will have that.
Speaker 1: That's an exclusive thing on this show. I opening study
Speaker 1: this which I love. Agony of defeat. That's a new thing,
Speaker 1: and it's in the bag in our panic word tonight
Speaker 1: or today for all of our listeners as hornswoggle. All right,
Speaker 1: I got you, and uh and also I don't stick
Speaker 1: to sports. That's guest CON's baby. He'll put the baby
Speaker 1: to bed with that. But we begin on this podcast
Speaker 1: with hanging with the Elites. Now, I have been asked
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about my night with Marlin's Man,
Speaker 1: Game two of the National League Divisional Series at Chavez
Speaker 1: RAVI in sitting in the fourth row. I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of questions from people that are curious super fans
Speaker 1: of the show. They want to know more about this,
Speaker 1: How did this happened? What's what was Marlin's man like? Uh,
Speaker 1: they want to know about him, his life and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. So I believe we spent a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: I don't spent too long, is but we can reveal
Speaker 1: some exclusive details. No other podcast has this. Eddie. No, Eddie,
Speaker 1: that's a bad job. I'd beat Well, you kind of
Speaker 1: sound like Eddie. No, you do what? You look like him?
Speaker 1: All right, So now here's the shut up guest gun
Speaker 1: who cares about your name? All right? Anyway, I'll call
Speaker 1: you Eddie if I want to call you Eddie. But uh,
Speaker 1: we we have some some details here, so I'd like
Speaker 1: to share some of these. No one else has these,
Speaker 1: no other party Joe Rogan doesn't have this. No nobody
Speaker 1: all right and not at all. So now Marlin's Man,
Speaker 1: I mentioned on the little bit, he he actually invited me.
Speaker 1: I sat with him one time before a Dodgy Yankee game.
Speaker 1: But I only did that, like in the fifth inting,
Speaker 1: uh and uh. He is a fan of the show.
Speaker 1: He listens not all the time, but he's up late
Speaker 1: in Miami where he lives, and he is a consumer
Speaker 1: of the of the radio show. He likes the what
Speaker 1: we do here, and so that that's pretty cool that
Speaker 1: he's a Mallard militia guy. And we talked about it.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is we would talk about in the air.
Speaker 1: And the reason I mentioned I called you Eddie's because
Speaker 1: I had I was gonna in my head. I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention Eddie because when I first started talking about
Speaker 1: Marlin's Man, his real name is Lawrence Levy. When I
Speaker 1: first started talking to Lawrence about Lawrence on the air,
Speaker 1: and I said how much I revered him, and I
Speaker 1: love that this guy was, you know, just a rich
Speaker 1: guy going to games, living the dream you know every
Speaker 1: sports fans dream. He's doing it, hustling, going traveling, going
Speaker 1: to airports and all this stuff. And Eddie just trashed
Speaker 1: the guy. I hates the guy. So it was this
Speaker 1: awkward situation where I'm praising him and he's a listener
Speaker 1: and Eddie's just killing him and uh but fortunately he
Speaker 1: didn't hold that against uh against So I sat in
Speaker 1: the dugout squeez he ever sat in the dugout sweets
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. I actually sent sat there Back in
Speaker 1: my twenties. I was working for City Group and it
Speaker 1: was like thirty years ago. I know, they had that
Speaker 1: titled company had given me some comp seats and it
Speaker 1: was it's all you can eat, all you can drink,
Speaker 1: and then includes alcohol. You were in a boogie spot. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was wild. I mean it was first
Speaker 1: class all the way. Big celebrities. I don't know who
Speaker 1: most of these stars are now in Hollywood, but I
Speaker 1: recognized old people like Mary Hart, Magic Johnson and Scott
Speaker 1: Boris and people like that. But there were a bunch
Speaker 1: of other people that were people were oh did you
Speaker 1: see that, Pert. That's a typical Hollywood bullshit, you know.
Speaker 1: I look at that. But you know it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you want a great start to compliment this Monday. Monday
Speaker 1: I go to go see my orthodonist and he's he's
Speaker 1: a great guy in the South Bay area. The first
Speaker 1: thing he says to me, not talking about me, not
Speaker 1: talking about my grill, he says, how the hell did
Speaker 1: Ben Maller score seats behind home plate? Listen to yours?
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden he just starts talking to you.
Speaker 1: You guys are BF But I said, said, man, dude,
Speaker 1: he lived that. He lead us good life. You've got
Speaker 1: that white collar. Uh clearly. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m.
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Now, I do have a story this.
Speaker 1: This is the exclusive part of this here. Gas got
Speaker 1: so the way this works here, you know, you get
Speaker 1: a front row seat at the baseball game. And like
Speaker 1: a lot of these ballparks, the Yankees do this have
Speaker 1: My my cousin went to a Yankee game. You pretty
Speaker 1: much just ate seafood the entire time and didn't even
Speaker 1: watch the Yankee game. Not big sports fan. She had
Speaker 1: seats behind Home played. Her company gave her the seats,
Speaker 1: so the Dougouts Sweet section at Diger Stadium. They have
Speaker 1: all this all you can eat food, but it's like
Speaker 1: high quality. You know, usually you go to a buffet
Speaker 1: and dog food. You know, it's chicken feet that they
Speaker 1: serve you. But they have all the finest foods and
Speaker 1: meats and all this stuff. It was overwhelming. It was
Speaker 1: all of my senses were overwhelmed by this. There's a
Speaker 1: guy with the chef's hat cutting prime rib, spare ribs
Speaker 1: over here, gigantic shrimp and other seafood over there. They
Speaker 1: had a an Asian themed booth. They had a Mexican
Speaker 1: food over there, and it was just overwhelming. So I
Speaker 1: grabbed it. Now that markin but you know it's it's
Speaker 1: Marlin's Man's saved the seat for me to sit right
Speaker 1: next to him. So I, me and Lawrence are gonna
Speaker 1: sit together. We're gonna have uh, you know, a dinner
Speaker 1: in bullshit. So I grabbed a plate and I went
Speaker 1: on a food scavenger hunt. I passed over the prime rib,
Speaker 1: I walked past the short ribs. I dodged like a
Speaker 1: good running back. I was able to dodge the tackler.
Speaker 1: That was the the Asian food, and uh and and
Speaker 1: all the rest. And then I saw this line of
Speaker 1: kids and and uh it was the burger station. They
Speaker 1: had burgers and fries as field as high as the
Speaker 1: sky to the heavens right. And I saw this. My
Speaker 1: eyes lit up. I said, who doesn't like a hamburger?
Speaker 1: Who does not enjoy a hamburger and French fries? So
Speaker 1: I loaded up my plate and then I probably went back.
Speaker 1: I got a drink. I went back. I sat next
Speaker 1: to Lawrence marlins Man. He takes one look at my plate,
Speaker 1: guest on hand to God. He says, what is that
Speaker 1: he's looking at? What are you getting? Hamburger? Is fine?
Speaker 1: Rip over there? And I paid for this ticket and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and so he uh he shamed me, which
Speaker 1: I don't blame him, because I I picked the cheapest
Speaker 1: item on the menu where all the eight year olds
Speaker 1: were eating, and uh, I picked the burgers and fries.
Speaker 1: But he said to go get some better food. So
Speaker 1: I had. I did actually get some higher class food,
Speaker 1: not that I enjoyed it, but I did it because
Speaker 1: I had to get banged for your buck and all that.
Speaker 1: Why couldn't you do that later on the ball game,
Speaker 1: like in the fifth or sixth inning. Well, because I
Speaker 1: didn't want to leave the seat, like I only left
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom and that was it. Like
Speaker 1: I I stayed in that seat pretty much the entire game.
Speaker 1: I think I left twice to go to the bathroom
Speaker 1: and that was it. But it's your time. When Kurt
Speaker 1: Suzuki got hit in the face a good time, well
Speaker 1: that was not that. That was That was the other game.
Speaker 1: That was. That was not I was at that game
Speaker 1: in the press box and what But but to give
Speaker 1: you some follow up on this guest gun, I signed autographs,
Speaker 1: I took photos. I posed for pictures with people, all
Speaker 1: because hanging out with Marlin's man, just being around Marlins man.
Speaker 1: And you know, when I meet people who don't know me,
Speaker 1: I don't say, hey, I'm mr. Radio guy. I don't
Speaker 1: promote the show that way. I'm I'm I'm an introvert.
Speaker 1: We don't do that. I'm not wired that way. I'm
Speaker 1: not a self promoter, which is odd because on the
Speaker 1: radio people said I'm a self promoter all the time,
Speaker 1: but in person, I don't actually promote that way. I
Speaker 1: think you know you're a douche when you did that.
Speaker 1: But marlins Man is like, hey, this guy's on the radio.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean to give me the whole rap.
Speaker 1: He's like my PR guy. And so all these people
Speaker 1: that are meeting marlins Man, some of them are like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's meet out, let's get his I signed to Dodger jerseys.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's unbelievable. No, I hope those aren't the
Speaker 1: jerseys that we saw after Game five when Dodger fans
Speaker 1: are running over on at Chavez Riena's there. I did
Speaker 1: see that. That was well, that's a that's a new
Speaker 1: level because you can wash the jersey after you read
Speaker 1: it over so you don't ruin it, but so you
Speaker 1: can keep it. But it looks you show your disdain,
Speaker 1: right you you show how annoyed you are, uh and
Speaker 1: all that. So that's that's not not bad. But Marl's man,
Speaker 1: where does he rank now on your listener power rankings?
Speaker 1: That guy he's there with Doc Mike. I gotta put
Speaker 1: blind Scott up there always because he's are are blind listener?
Speaker 1: I mean there's a core four at any one time
Speaker 1: in the Mallet militia. The hierarchy of the mallet militia.
Speaker 1: But even I don't meet a lot of the fans
Speaker 1: of the show. I wish I could meet more, but
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't let me out of the box
Speaker 1: very often. But I would say, you know, Doc Mike,
Speaker 1: because he drove all the way in Chicago to Kansas City,
Speaker 1: hang out with me. Uh. This guy, although he doesn't,
Speaker 1: he's not calling right now. I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: to him. This guy David in Florida, winter Park, Florida,
Speaker 1: he's got to be up there. He drove all away
Speaker 1: from Winter Park, Florida, Boston. Uh. And our guy in Toronto,
Speaker 1: and Michael in Toronto who drove from Toronto. The ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys that is that is tremendous there
Speaker 1: to do that, to go above and blind. Scott obviously
Speaker 1: been very loyal over the years. He's up there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so there's there's a there's a group. But
Speaker 1: marlins Man as far as because he's loaded, I mean,
Speaker 1: I a lot of these guys. I don't blame people,
Speaker 1: you know, and most people aren't loaded. Marlins Man is
Speaker 1: a very successful lawyer. He's got a law firm that
Speaker 1: does to law firms. I mean this is very well
Speaker 1: and good for him. He's I don't look down upon
Speaker 1: people's success. I'm happy for him. And he gives back
Speaker 1: him all that stuff. He charter his own flight or
Speaker 1: does he take commercial airlines? No, I mean he's uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know all of it, but he um like this.
Speaker 1: This past week, he had told me that I he
Speaker 1: wasn't sure if he was gonna come to the Dodger game.
Speaker 1: He end up sitting next to a beautiful model that's
Speaker 1: a friend of his instead of me, which I don't
Speaker 1: blame before at all, but but he told me, like
Speaker 1: he said, you know, I'm gonna He had to do
Speaker 1: some business in Miami, so he couldn't go to any
Speaker 1: games Monday or Tuesday. And then he said, you know,
Speaker 1: I might go Wednesday if there's a game five. And
Speaker 1: he wasn't sure whether he was gonna go to Atlanta
Speaker 1: or Los Angeles. And then he decided to come, uh
Speaker 1: to to l A. And and but he decided like
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, I just I'm gonna go to the game.
Speaker 1: And you know how expensive a flight is. At the
Speaker 1: last minute, you call an airline or go to the
Speaker 1: website and you want to buy a ticket, the last minute. Typically, uh,
Speaker 1: not a good deal. All right, we gotta move on.
Speaker 1: I opening this is a real quick so guest on
Speaker 1: last week, me and the wife. All right, we're going
Speaker 1: on to El Coyote. Were my favorite Mexican restaurants. You've
Speaker 1: been there with me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I MA. I
Speaker 1: mocked the fact that I was there and you were
Speaker 1: not there, because I love El Coyote. I'm bet in
Speaker 1: l A. If you're in l A, you gotta love
Speaker 1: l Kind. I still right near there, and that was
Speaker 1: my spot, and I've raised the prices a lot, but
Speaker 1: I still love the food. Um, and I'll go there
Speaker 1: very often. So I'm I'm on my way to this
Speaker 1: El Coyote Mexican restaurant right on Beverly there in l A.
Speaker 1: And we're stopped at a red light. We were, I remember,
Speaker 1: we're Vermont and Beverly, and we pulled up to a
Speaker 1: red light and I see this this poor old man
Speaker 1: pushing a shopping card. He looked so disheveled, right and broke,
Speaker 1: and I remember turning to my wife and saying that
Speaker 1: I was how bad I felt for the guy. And
Speaker 1: then as he got in front of the car, I
Speaker 1: noticed that he was holding rather limply in his hand
Speaker 1: a smartphone that was bigger and better and newer than me.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, this is homelessness in twenty nine and
Speaker 1: this guy and it was unbelievable. The guy I guess
Speaker 1: got his phone was like twice the size. Oh mind,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's un I mean I in l A.
Speaker 1: I know this is a problem in San Francisco where
Speaker 1: people are pooping on the street and it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: the Third World, Sodom and gomorrow. But in l A
Speaker 1: it's ten city. Man, It's unreal. All the politicians in
Speaker 1: l A are are completely clueless. They don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. It's all over the place too, it is.
Speaker 1: It is rampant in downtown Los Angeles. It's kind of
Speaker 1: near us in Studio City, Sherman Oaks. That and the
Speaker 1: thing that where we are in Sherman Oaks, which is
Speaker 1: a very wealthy part of Los Angeles because a lot
Speaker 1: of money, a lot of Hollywood people live in the
Speaker 1: Hills of bel Air, is just up the road, not
Speaker 1: far from where we are we do the show from.
Speaker 1: And uh, you're right, man, I see it more than
Speaker 1: anybody because I'm leaving there, you know, in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, and I'm seeing poor people, you know,
Speaker 1: just laying all over the street. You're allowed to lay
Speaker 1: on the street in they all see. It's like the
Speaker 1: streets rolled up. In the morning when people go to work,
Speaker 1: it's like it's wild. It's like the overnight. I wonder
Speaker 1: how many of those people are aware of of of
Speaker 1: what's what's going on while they're sleeping. Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: An iPhone ten rocking it. That's so good. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I wish I had taken a photo because it was
Speaker 1: this guy. He's pushing a shopping cart and he's just
Speaker 1: that's probably all of his life's possessions right there, and
Speaker 1: he's he's got like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and
Speaker 1: he's he's holding this phone. It makes my phone. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Well, you know, when I lived in San
Speaker 1: Diego and working for Extra Sports thirteen sixty, the local
Speaker 1: NBC down there, their affiliate actually did a great story
Speaker 1: because in Mission Valley they have two malls. They have
Speaker 1: the Mission Valley Mall and then the Fashion Valley Mall. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to be a Fashion Valley mall, so so
Speaker 1: you know, exactly what I'm talking about. There's a main
Speaker 1: street called Friar's Road, and what they did was they
Speaker 1: used to do some special investigative reporters sending them out
Speaker 1: there and they would monitor panhandlers throughout the day. People
Speaker 1: that you just described, they would monitor them because they
Speaker 1: were out in front of the Fashion Valley mall off
Speaker 1: of Friar's Road. I remember distinctly one woman was tailed
Speaker 1: at the start of the day until the end. They
Speaker 1: followed her all the way to her mansion in Lahoya. Well.
Speaker 1: I remember John Stossel, who's uh, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's still working the news guy. He did an amazing
Speaker 1: story on one of those news programs years Honestly, I
Speaker 1: remember watching this and he he went out and pretended
Speaker 1: to be homeless and painhandled the New York City on
Speaker 1: subway stations. And I don't you know, I'm obviously I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna get the number of wrong guess hunt, but
Speaker 1: I believe he made like at least five dollars or
Speaker 1: something like that and one day just payanhandling and talking
Speaker 1: about orangeager right there. I'll tell you I would consider
Speaker 1: that as a career change. And that's it's a little contressing.
Speaker 1: But can I do that for this podcast? Well, I
Speaker 1: get to do it first. I get to do it first.
Speaker 1: I think we're in the same financial boat. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we are. We are. I'm not. I'm not. I haven't
Speaker 1: got a dime for this. I'm doing this out of mind.
Speaker 1: This is my pro bono act of goodwill. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern pm Pacific. All right, let's move on to study this.
Speaker 1: We've got to keep the train moving. Study this. These
Speaker 1: are actual studies. Now I have this obsession. I used
Speaker 1: to use these on the show, but I figured the
Speaker 1: podcast is a better form where we can actually spend
Speaker 1: some time. And Plus, when I work with Eddie heats
Speaker 1: some of these things. He just doesn't want to deal with.
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to talk about him. Gascon has
Speaker 1: no shame. He'll talk about anything. He doesn't care about that.
Speaker 1: Um So, anyway, these are actual studies. Out here's one.
Speaker 1: Humans they say have a salamander likability to regrow damaged cartilage.
Speaker 1: According to a study. They say the findings could open
Speaker 1: the door to new treatments for joint injuries and diseases
Speaker 1: about that, Well, have you had have you ever had
Speaker 1: major surgery? Um? Not as an adult. I had some
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. But I'm not all right.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of curious just because I need some of
Speaker 1: that good stuff. I've had a torn roadtator cup that's
Speaker 1: been damaged twice. I've had a deviated septum. I've had
Speaker 1: surgery on for corrective reasons. I need some help, man,
Speaker 1: I need some need you got. You've got some loaded listeners.
Speaker 1: You got an attorney and that's high powered. You've got
Speaker 1: a dock, well not really a dock, but you've got
Speaker 1: a dock, Mike. You got a blind guy. We need
Speaker 1: a we need someone from Germany, we need someone overseas
Speaker 1: that is that delves into the pharmaceutical side of of
Speaker 1: of this industry. Well, I think what you're really saying
Speaker 1: is you want someone from Frankenstein's lab to come in.
Speaker 1: What about the guy or institute? There? You go, very nice, Um,
Speaker 1: but no, I mean. The study was published on Wednesday
Speaker 1: in the Journal of Science Advances, and it found that
Speaker 1: cartilage and human joints can repair itself through a process
Speaker 1: similar to that used by creatures such as salamanders and zebrafish.
Speaker 1: And how about that we're in we have something in
Speaker 1: common with the zebrafish and the salamander. Uh and they
Speaker 1: can read those can know the zebra fish can barely
Speaker 1: regenerate limbs, according to this. This is from Duke Health.
Speaker 1: Duke Health has this, so keep an eye and that,
Speaker 1: of course we'll probably all be dead by the time
Speaker 1: they figure out how humans can regrow things. But they
Speaker 1: say that it can happen. I guess in theory, why not.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we regrow our fingernails and our hair
Speaker 1: keeps growing unless well, and it's for me for a while.
Speaker 1: And you brought it up last week with your tongue.
Speaker 1: Your your mouth and your eyes are too of the
Speaker 1: quickest body parts to heal and recover it at a
Speaker 1: faster rate than anything else on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And that was a bad week, man, the tongue week.
Speaker 1: That was idiot of a pizza so hard that they
Speaker 1: put a debt in their mouth. Let me take something, smuck,
Speaker 1: you schmuck hole that I make a great pizza, alright,
Speaker 1: the Mallard homemade pie is a wonderful thing. And then
Speaker 1: you made your wife go get you some kind of
Speaker 1: some kind of special honey. What then was that? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't know. No, No, let me tell something. My
Speaker 1: wife is a hippie. No, she's a godsend for you
Speaker 1: that she might, well she is at gods, but but
Speaker 1: she's also a hippie. Okay. She any kind of alternative medicine,
Speaker 1: special vitamins, so whatever, yogi's yoga, meditation, any of that.
Speaker 1: You know, she's all about that, right, and and and
Speaker 1: meditation and fruit smoothies and the all of I don't
Speaker 1: even know what manuka honey is. Manuka, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what it is either. She put it all over
Speaker 1: my tongue, she said, he is, this will make it better.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm surprised she didn't bring in some ayahuasca
Speaker 1: or something like that. This is what Joe Rogan uses
Speaker 1: have some of the here's some magic mushrooms, knock yourself out,
Speaker 1: but you know, just some some manuke honey. Al right,
Speaker 1: Next up, study This rejection is good for the soul,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to your career. This according to
Speaker 1: a new study that rejection is actually a positive thing.
Speaker 1: So and this is a Harvard Business Review study in
Speaker 1: the United States and they determined that getting denied from
Speaker 1: that job you were aiming for may actually help be
Speaker 1: helpful to your career overall. Now I'll go for I A.
Speaker 1: I completely agree with this. I for years, and it's
Speaker 1: it's back at my my, my mom's, my my late
Speaker 1: mom's house, my dad's house. Now. Um and I have
Speaker 1: a shoe box because it's how old I am. I
Speaker 1: have a shoe box of rejection letters from kJ R
Speaker 1: and Seattle, The Score in Chicago, w i P in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: w e I and Boston, all these big sports stations
Speaker 1: that I was convinced right out of college I was
Speaker 1: gonna work for. They all sent me. I sent tapeson
Speaker 1: they all sent me rejection letters, said I wasn't good
Speaker 1: enough and all that. And I used that. I that
Speaker 1: fueled me as I, oh, screw these assholes. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: prove these schmucks wrong. I'm gonna I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 1: And I that did drive me. And but here's the
Speaker 1: other problem, guest, gun, I think today we that you
Speaker 1: were programmed to society for younger people. No, no one
Speaker 1: should bully you, no one should reject you. I think
Speaker 1: that's wrong. I think you get better people out of rejection,
Speaker 1: and not that anyone wants to be bullied, but it's
Speaker 1: also part of the growing up process in life. I
Speaker 1: think it's a heightened sense of motivation too. I think
Speaker 1: of it about this in the athletic perspective too, because
Speaker 1: I played multiple sports growing up, and in the high school.
Speaker 1: My freshman year, I didn't see the field at all
Speaker 1: when I played ball, and then I hit a gross
Speaker 1: spurt my sophomore year, and before you knew it, I
Speaker 1: don't even played JV football anymore. I played varsity football,
Speaker 1: was a three year letterman. That motivated me, and then
Speaker 1: I played ball in college. Is the same thing in
Speaker 1: this industry. I was in sales in my twenties and
Speaker 1: I heard rejection every single damn day. But had I
Speaker 1: not experienced that then to where I'm at now, I
Speaker 1: don't think i'd last. I mean because different, it's different
Speaker 1: today in terms of rejection. I know you used to
Speaker 1: get rejection letters, but today people just get ghosted or
Speaker 1: they'll just say we don't have anything open or available
Speaker 1: right now for you. So the rejection is still the same,
Speaker 1: it's just the words and the message are a little
Speaker 1: bit different nowadays. But yeah, I'm not. I'm piggybacking off
Speaker 1: of that. I think that is great obviously for you,
Speaker 1: that's great for your chin, that's great obviously for your
Speaker 1: immediate future. And then beyond that, you gotta throw in
Speaker 1: so you learn, you generate some rhino skin. You gotta
Speaker 1: have in life. People are gonna shoot on you. You
Speaker 1: gotta have rhino skin. I try to tell people, you know,
Speaker 1: young people that all the time. And I talked to
Speaker 1: them young people like I'm old, but anyway are you?
Speaker 1: Are you? And I guess how many times do we
Speaker 1: hear athletes? You know? Doing the Overnight show, we play
Speaker 1: sound of of different people and and they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: nobody thought we could do this. You know, everyone bet
Speaker 1: against us, you know. Oh, and they love that. They
Speaker 1: they're fueled by what they perceive as usually as contrived rejection.
Speaker 1: Right now, let me ask you on the other side
Speaker 1: of this, though, do you feel I don't want to
Speaker 1: say lost, but do you feel like you lose your
Speaker 1: edge when you you're on top of the mountain, like
Speaker 1: when you get compliments and people are patting you on
Speaker 1: the back and telling you how good you are and
Speaker 1: everything is going right, do you feel like you lose
Speaker 1: your edge as a competitors, as someone in the industry. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I I'm not floating on an air biscuit. You
Speaker 1: know when I get these compliments. In fact, it's like
Speaker 1: the same I got. A lot of people are like this.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not alone. But you know, people have
Speaker 1: been pretty nice to me. The Malamouish has been pretty supportive.
Speaker 1: They like to bust my balls, but they're pretty kind
Speaker 1: and I pretty much block all that out. It's just
Speaker 1: a few handful of assholes that send me you suck,
Speaker 1: You're fucking terrible. You know, I remember those people. You know,
Speaker 1: those are the people I'm like, what a dick this
Speaker 1: person is? Arizona media, Houston media right now? I mean
Speaker 1: those those are just fanball ways and all that that.
Speaker 1: You know. I love these little small towns that these
Speaker 1: aren't small towns, but they're they're reacting like small town
Speaker 1: They have a minor league mindset. There the tribalism. You
Speaker 1: can talk one of our stars, Oh dare you? Alright?
Speaker 1: Moving on? Study this a couple more. How about this
Speaker 1: is I laughed my ass off when I saw this
Speaker 1: is more of a visual story than an audio story.
Speaker 1: But of course it's it's me. So we're doing this here.
Speaker 1: But have you seen the photo of the cow was
Speaker 1: zebra stripes? Have you seen this? No, tell me about it.
Speaker 1: It's going around. So apparently, according to a new study, painting,
Speaker 1: painting zebra stripes on cattle discourages flies from biting. And
Speaker 1: it seems, according to the research that the stripes. Painting
Speaker 1: white stripes on cattle apparently confuses the flies. They're so
Speaker 1: dumb their motion detector system and they avoid flies from
Speaker 1: from biting them. Do a new study published online, this
Speaker 1: Japanese researcher has painted zebra style stripe. Who's the guy said,
Speaker 1: let's put some zebra stripes on the on the cow?
Speaker 1: Were most people laugh at this anyway? So they painted
Speaker 1: zebra style stripes on the cow. Biting flies bothered them
Speaker 1: half as much as when the cows did not have stripes.
Speaker 1: And so the ideas that stripes a centment may confuse
Speaker 1: the insects, that their system of motion there and uh
Speaker 1: and that's that's crazy. What would you rather do in
Speaker 1: Japan paint cows with stripes or be in charge of
Speaker 1: some of the sex stores that they have to test
Speaker 1: drive some of the equipment for men and for women
Speaker 1: that they gotta produce. Yeah, well I'll do the cows.
Speaker 1: You can do the sex stor well you know it's
Speaker 1: a tea right. Uh. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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Speaker 1: Al Right, moving on, it is study is here's a
Speaker 1: fun one. Here's a survey that says the average American
Speaker 1: hasn't made a new friend in five years. About that
Speaker 1: five years that no new friends. I believe that we're
Speaker 1: so stuck in the digital realm that people do not
Speaker 1: know how to communicate outside their little box of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
Speaker 1: LinkedIn or whatever it is. People have a hard times.
Speaker 1: Let me look at you. For example, you're an introvert.
Speaker 1: You don't like going out. You're screwed over the weekend
Speaker 1: because you don't want to go to your wife's Halloween
Speaker 1: party and you're gonna be forced to engage and start
Speaker 1: talking to people. Or if she brought me, I'd be
Speaker 1: the bell of the ball man. I'd be liked brow.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's my wife is scheduled. Not only the uh,
Speaker 1: I guess the hallowing part. I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: still going to that. But but with her parents are
Speaker 1: having birthdays like milestone birthdays, and so I gotta go
Speaker 1: one day it's with your dad and you know they're divorced,
Speaker 1: and so I have to go with the mom the
Speaker 1: next day and it's you know, the whole thing, the
Speaker 1: party weekend. But you know, I gotta tell you though,
Speaker 1: I even though I'm on the internet all the time,
Speaker 1: I don't go out very much. I I've made friends,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're real friends, and I don't
Speaker 1: know like they really I feel like I have a
Speaker 1: lot of work friends, and I you know, people I
Speaker 1: loved when I worked with them, and then when they don't,
Speaker 1: I don't work with them. There's no reason to be
Speaker 1: friends like forced friends, you know, when you work with
Speaker 1: somebody and then and then after that. Um, you know
Speaker 1: part ways. Do we have any outgoing people that we
Speaker 1: work with in the building at at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: I feel like we don't, even though everyone's a part
Speaker 1: of the media. Oh well yeah. The only introver, the
Speaker 1: extrovert we had was Looney but they blew him out
Speaker 1: of there. Um. Last year, So I yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not there during the day. You're a daytime guy.
Speaker 1: You're an elitist all day an all day But I yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. Not no one off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, um Jason's the vegan Alex tysher thinking
Speaker 1: him more. I think him as a people person, engineer,
Speaker 1: he's a gamer, he's a car guy. So yeah, he
Speaker 1: he seems like a nice guy. He always talking to
Speaker 1: people like he's he's not shy or anything like that.
Speaker 1: A couple of Mores survey says just three in ten
Speaker 1: millennials actually see themselves owning a home. Many wish they
Speaker 1: could take a break without risking their position, blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But they say, according to this, three
Speaker 1: out of ten millennials uh believe they can will never
Speaker 1: own a home. Well, that goes hat in hand with
Speaker 1: how they perceive the workplace environment to be, Like, they
Speaker 1: don't want to be there around the clock seven or
Speaker 1: nine to five. They want to have a comfortable work environment.
Speaker 1: And because that they don't max it on their income,
Speaker 1: they don't max out on the time that they stay
Speaker 1: in the office, and obviously, depending on their situation, they
Speaker 1: might not propel to a higher standard in terms of incomes.
Speaker 1: So I can see that, yes, at the bar higher
Speaker 1: than that though, I mean plus, I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: fortunate enough where your family has a house, will probably
Speaker 1: at least inherit the house something. When they're all dead right,
Speaker 1: Millennials are in their twenties or early thirties, so they're
Speaker 1: not the parents are I think they're now? Haven't we
Speaker 1: moved on to gen Z? I think the I know
Speaker 1: in college now, the high the basketball and football blue
Speaker 1: not top notch recruits are gen Z now, so we
Speaker 1: were past. The millennials are old news, man. You guys
Speaker 1: are old news. All let's move on the agony of
Speaker 1: defeat now. In honor of David Gascon, who loves list radio,
Speaker 1: these are the five most painful nights I've had in
Speaker 1: sports radio in recent years and probably all time. Um,
Speaker 1: number five, I'm gonna put the Dodgers losing to the
Speaker 1: Red Sox in the World Series, all right, that's number
Speaker 1: five on my list because I was working on w
Speaker 1: e I and Boston at the time, on the Red
Speaker 1: Sox flagship radio station, and I had to do celebratory
Speaker 1: Red Sox rob Radio and I like the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: but I like the Dodgers more and uh. And the
Speaker 1: night of the parade, I had to go on after
Speaker 1: everyone had been out having their party in Boston to
Speaker 1: celebrate the demise, I had to go on the radio
Speaker 1: and do a few hours a raise. I would I
Speaker 1: would put that number five. Number four the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Clippers Vanishing Act against the Rockets Chris Paul, Blake Griffin.
Speaker 1: I was at that game. Clippers had a thirteen point
Speaker 1: league going to the fourth quarter. They win their onto
Speaker 1: the Western Finals. The Rockets then outscored the Clippers forty
Speaker 1: to fifteen. You know many points James Harden had in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of that game, one zero. Josh Smith
Speaker 1: and Corey Brewer strubs outscored the Clippers. But those two
Speaker 1: guys alone, Chris Paul mistake filled mess. Blake Griffin show
Speaker 1: cartists and uh and I came in there and it
Speaker 1: was in Uh, what a what a ship show? That
Speaker 1: was all right? Number three the teen Super Bowl again,
Speaker 1: same concept as Red Sox and Dodgers doing local Boston
Speaker 1: radio at the time, and I had to cover the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl from both sides. My friends in the hub
Speaker 1: there were killing me right, and the Rams offense of
Speaker 1: course also killed me by not showing up, so that
Speaker 1: that was that was brutal. I'm still getting shipped from
Speaker 1: Patriot fans. And number two, I'm gonna put the twenty
Speaker 1: nine n LDS number two. That moves ahead of the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, the Clippers and the World Series. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: were superior this year and just about every category against
Speaker 1: the Nationals, and then they go out there and play
Speaker 1: like a bunch of stumble bombs and it would complete
Speaker 1: boondoggle in this and it's embarrassing. Clayton Kershaw and Joe
Speaker 1: Kelly suck they take extra doses. A suck A j
Speaker 1: Pollock done to me? Corey Seeger, you close your eyes,
Speaker 1: you might hit the ball because you can't hit it
Speaker 1: when your eyes are open. Will Smith uh done with him?
Speaker 1: Cory Cody Bellinger over rady and beaten by a former Dodger,
Speaker 1: Howie Kendrick. That's the guy that hits the game winning
Speaker 1: Grand Slam that you can't muster any kind of offense.
Speaker 1: Howie Kendrick is the executioner of the Dodgers. Really, I
Speaker 1: can make the argument that claim Kershaw was the execution
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers. Well he tied. Yeah, the game was tied,
Speaker 1: but he still had a chance to win the game.
Speaker 1: They still had an opportunity in the game. Kendrick was
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers for two years. The first year I
Speaker 1: remember he played pretty well. The second year he batted
Speaker 1: like two fifty or something like that. He wasn't very good. Well,
Speaker 1: he wasn't great in this series. Defensively, he gave the
Speaker 1: Dodgers a couple of runs and so in Game five,
Speaker 1: a little bit of revenge alright. And number one, I
Speaker 1: think we all know what Number one is. The most
Speaker 1: painful nights of radio for me is list radio brought
Speaker 1: to by David Gascon seventeen World Series, A thirty four
Speaker 1: thirty four tie, Game seven, I know you were a
Speaker 1: Game seven, also very similar to the Atlanta Cardinal Games,
Speaker 1: Game five where the game was over in the first inning.
Speaker 1: Uh you Darvish who blew chunks had a reversal of fortune.
Speaker 1: And but not only that, I mean Game two Kenley
Speaker 1: Jansen giving up the home run to Marwin Gonzalez. Game five,
Speaker 1: Kershaw had multiple four run leads Dodgers lad for nothing.
Speaker 1: Then seven four he gave both of those leads up.
Speaker 1: So really, as we said, the Dodgers in that year
Speaker 1: had to win six out of the games because they
Speaker 1: gave away two of them, actually win six out of
Speaker 1: eight because they gave two of them away, and there's
Speaker 1: only seven. So yeah, it doesn't doesn't work so well.
Speaker 1: All right, in the bag, we keep the train moving
Speaker 1: gascon in the bag. These are listener questions, actual listeners
Speaker 1: to the podcast who have sent these things, and these
Speaker 1: come from our Facebook page. My my show face facebook
Speaker 1: page is Ben Maller's show. There you can be part
Speaker 1: of it. Will do a few of these. We have
Speaker 1: some sport oh questions. R J and several other people say,
Speaker 1: will you be drowning your sorrows away from the Dodge
Speaker 1: just this weekend? And what is your go to drink
Speaker 1: for it? Well, I'm not a big boozer, r J.
Speaker 1: I'm going to a couple of parties, so I might
Speaker 1: have a drink, depending if I think we're having a
Speaker 1: party here so at the Mallard mansion, so I think
Speaker 1: I'll definitely do that then. But uh, my favorite drink
Speaker 1: is the biggest woosh drink in the world. I love
Speaker 1: root beer beer. It's high alcohol content, it doesn't taste
Speaker 1: like alcohol. You can a lot of sugar. You get
Speaker 1: diabetes from drinking it. But I I love that stuff.
Speaker 1: I every holiday party, I load up my refrigerator with
Speaker 1: that root beer beer. I can't get enough of that stuff.
Speaker 1: What about you, guess? I what's your favorite drink of choice?
Speaker 1: Favorite drink of choice? I like to drink whiskey or scotch.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite because I don't drink a lot of it,
Speaker 1: and it's usually pretty pricey, so it does the damage
Speaker 1: in a minimal amount of time. There's also a beer
Speaker 1: that my sister introduced me to out of St. Petersburg, Florida.
Speaker 1: It's called High and it's a pale ale and it
Speaker 1: tastes delicious. I think it's eight point five percent but
Speaker 1: super strong. You have a couple of those and you're
Speaker 1: good for the night. Well, this isn't the holy trinity
Speaker 1: of booze, Scotch, whiskey, and bourbon. Isn't that like the
Speaker 1: holy trinity of the booze the world? I think? So?
Speaker 1: All right? Moving on Gregg Wrights and he says, so,
Speaker 1: why do your team's always choke in the playoffs? Ben?
Speaker 1: Is it? The Bill Miller factor. Yes, yes, that is it.
Speaker 1: Frankly speaking, that is why they are all a bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, a bunch of guys shipping bricks in
Speaker 1: big games. Yes, clearly. All right, the only one time
Speaker 1: I want to write off into this. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: how how unbearable I would be if one of these
Speaker 1: idiots actually won a championship? Oh my god? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just need to get hot, like the Chicago you
Speaker 1: got the black Hawks, and you have the Cubbies, or
Speaker 1: or Philadelphia or Boston. Imagine if you lived in Boston,
Speaker 1: if you were a Boston guy with the Celtics of
Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Bruins, you'd be sweeping the board.
Speaker 1: All you need. You need a hockey team, need a
Speaker 1: tennis player, you need a boxer. You need all those
Speaker 1: guys to crumble at the same time too. That'd be
Speaker 1: perfect for you, all right, Jan writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers replaced David Roberts, this is a sport question.
Speaker 1: Who are the candidates to replace him? All right? Couple
Speaker 1: of things. First of all, if I ran the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: Roberts has done. He's out of here. Fire his ass.
Speaker 1: I see you later, goodbye. Like, you go manage somebody else,
Speaker 1: go manage the Mets. Have a good time. But I
Speaker 1: do not believe Roberts is gonna be fired. Now. If
Speaker 1: he was fired, it depends on what the Dodgers do
Speaker 1: with Andrew Friedman, whose contract is up. I know this
Speaker 1: report saying that all this will work itself out or
Speaker 1: something that say won't work itself out. But you can't
Speaker 1: be unprepared, right art of War sun Zoo, Right, you
Speaker 1: gotta be prepared at all times. So if you really
Speaker 1: want to go away from from Roberts, the problem is
Speaker 1: they have an analytically based front office, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: want to hire a robot. They're gonna want to hire
Speaker 1: somebody who just follows instructions blindly and Lemming, Lemming going
Speaker 1: over the cliff um and so like, if you want
Speaker 1: to appease the old school Dodger fan. I brought this
Speaker 1: up the other night in the Overnight Show. I said,
Speaker 1: bring in Mike Soshan. Yeah, you know when when Sosia
Speaker 1: had good players in Anaheim, that those teams often succeeded
Speaker 1: in the place. I only only one in one World series,
Speaker 1: but they were as I recall, teams, he got the
Speaker 1: most out of that that roster with the Angels, and
Speaker 1: when he had bad players, obviously you are a product
Speaker 1: of what you have, and they were not very good,
Speaker 1: but he played putting. Those teams played like an NL
Speaker 1: team though they played small ball, they actually ran, They
Speaker 1: went hit and run running hit, They squeezed, So he'd
Speaker 1: be perfect for the Dodger, especially the National League side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's just the basics of of coaching, right.
Speaker 1: The always say the key to coaching is to find
Speaker 1: out what your players weaknesses are and and then making
Speaker 1: sure how to hide them. And Dave Roberts for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's not him, maybe it's the computer, but
Speaker 1: he has not been sick, sccessful. He doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: understand that Kershaw can't pitch in these certain pressure spots,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't hide him. You know, you you've got
Speaker 1: to put that is part of you. Gotta put players
Speaker 1: in position to succeed, find their comfort zone. Clayton Kershaw's
Speaker 1: comfort zone is the Cactus League. That's his comfort zone,
Speaker 1: not the regular season. Um, But anyway, I'm moving on
Speaker 1: Michael uh. He he has another herd of questions. I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you agree with my point of view
Speaker 1: that the Colorado Rockies should have trade Nolan Erinado after
Speaker 1: he choked in last year's playoffs against the Brewers. And
Speaker 1: it's the same thing he says with the Broncos. He's
Speaker 1: obviously Colorado guy. I think they should trade Vaughan Miller
Speaker 1: and get a couple of first round picks and start
Speaker 1: over again. That is from Michael. I'm gonna push back
Speaker 1: on this, Uh, Michael, Nolan Arronado is a probably the
Speaker 1: top third basement baseball. I don't know, he's better than that.
Speaker 1: Guy's a stud um. But I don't this whole revolving
Speaker 1: psyche goal of we'll just start over. I hate that.
Speaker 1: Who wants that? Who wants the start over? Nobody wants that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is just the nightmares what that is.
Speaker 1: So I say no to that. But you are a
Speaker 1: Bronco fan, guess gn so von Miller gone, you keep
Speaker 1: him and get rid of him. I don't know why
Speaker 1: you'd want to trade him, especially because where they sit
Speaker 1: right now, picking up their first win against the Chargers,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a contention for a top five pick anyway.
Speaker 1: And if you have to bookend guys like von Miller
Speaker 1: and Bradley Chubb. I have the biggest problem for the
Speaker 1: Broncos so far as they've been out coached, and they're
Speaker 1: out coaching a week one against the Raiders and John Gruden.
Speaker 1: They they took Chubb and von Miller at that ball game.
Speaker 1: But if you don't in the National Football League, you
Speaker 1: need three things. You need a quarterback, you need a
Speaker 1: left tackle, and needed pass rushers. That's exactly what the
Speaker 1: Broncos have. They have no damn quarterback, they have no
Speaker 1: damn left tackle. Their offensive line is trash. I don't
Speaker 1: know why you would trade away a guy who's a
Speaker 1: potential Hall of Famer. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: It's hard because it's like the trade for these draft picks,
Speaker 1: and most draft picks don't turn out to be players
Speaker 1: that are as good as von Miller, right, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? So so you're you're you're going you
Speaker 1: might get quantity, but you're not gonna get quality. Most
Speaker 1: like he might get a starter, but you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get an all Pro type player, which von Miller has
Speaker 1: the ability to be and has been. And they vested
Speaker 1: so much you know, don't forget he had drug problems
Speaker 1: early on in his career. He had all kinds of
Speaker 1: character issues, and they've worked that shut out, and now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's a super Bowl winner. He's
Speaker 1: an m v P in the super Bowl. There's no
Speaker 1: way I would trade this guy. It's not like he's
Speaker 1: on the on the back back side of his career.
Speaker 1: He's in the prime of his career. I agree, all right,
Speaker 1: Matt in no Cal or nor call, he says, nor
Speaker 1: Cal is experiencing planned power shutdowns. What would you guys
Speaker 1: do in a prolonged blackout situation? Why? I What I
Speaker 1: would do is I try to find a mall and
Speaker 1: go to like a Starbucks or something like that and
Speaker 1: use the WiFi. Piggyback to wife, I I need to
Speaker 1: have WiFi. I need to have my phone charged that
Speaker 1: that would be a uh a nightmare without without the WiFi.
Speaker 1: But this sucks. I mean, I'm I'm fascinated. I said
Speaker 1: this the other day, but are you telling me they
Speaker 1: figured out that most of these forest fires in California
Speaker 1: that have been going on since my entire life that
Speaker 1: are caused by power lines. That seems to be what
Speaker 1: they're saying. That seems to be what they're saying here.
Speaker 1: But what would you do? Guests on and they how
Speaker 1: we're shutdown? I think the much like you. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to a Starbucks, but I'd probably go to my
Speaker 1: car first to make sure that my cell phone has charged,
Speaker 1: and then, depending on how long it is or what
Speaker 1: time of the day it is, it either go to
Speaker 1: sleep or go to the gym. Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: I My wife got me one of these these battery
Speaker 1: backup things that are awesome. Have you got for your phone?
Speaker 1: Where you can you take it with you and charge
Speaker 1: your phone anywhere in the middle of the desert. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cool, man. I like that we have old school
Speaker 1: versions of the iPhone. That's probably why she got it
Speaker 1: for you. I know I need one to you my
Speaker 1: battery doesn't fill up capacity anymore. Yeah, it's pretty bad,
Speaker 1: all right, Big Big Lou rights and he says, you
Speaker 1: and Gagon are given money to begin a minor league
Speaker 1: baseball team, think Lou from the LBC. What city would
Speaker 1: it be in and would Gagon be the announcer? All right,
Speaker 1: of course I would torture Gagon. I would make him
Speaker 1: be the announcer. But if I could put a minor
Speaker 1: league baseball team anywhere, I would bring back professional baseball
Speaker 1: to Honolulu. Wouldn't that be great? Honolulu had uh for
Speaker 1: for a while. I don't know how many years it was,
Speaker 1: but they had a Triple A baseball team in in Honolulu,
Speaker 1: and I magine you wouldn't want to be called up
Speaker 1: to the Major League. The Hawaiian Islanders twenty seven seasons
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty one to nine seven. They were an affiliated
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Athletics, and they played in a Loja
Speaker 1: Stadium in uh In, Hawaii. The University of Hawaii plays
Speaker 1: their games. But I would bring back the Hawaiian Islanders.
Speaker 1: That's what I would just say. I live in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: and you know, because minor league ballparks do so many
Speaker 1: wild things, and much like spring training, I would build
Speaker 1: my minor league facility at near Fort Leavenworth. I'd haven't
Speaker 1: connected to the prison. I talked about a home field advantage, bend.
Speaker 1: I would just have all those convicts in the right
Speaker 1: field left field pavilions just summoning batters every time they
Speaker 1: come up. That well you know you should do is
Speaker 1: you know the phrase out and left field comes from baseball,
Speaker 1: and it comes from Wrigley Field the end of the
Speaker 1: background because apparently in the old Cubs ballpark there was
Speaker 1: a mental hospital down the street from the ballpark, and
Speaker 1: the guy playing left field on a quiet day when
Speaker 1: the crowd wasn't making noise, could hear people screaming from
Speaker 1: behind left the left field wall and the mental hospital
Speaker 1: because they were having issues. And so the term out
Speaker 1: in left field came from that. It's a baseball It
Speaker 1: started with baseball in the mental hospital in chicag Go
Speaker 1: behind whatever the cup ballpark was at the time. Let's
Speaker 1: get to don't stick to sports stories of the week. Here,
Speaker 1: what do we have? This is your baby, this is
Speaker 1: your department? All right? How about this? Bend? What not? Roll?
Speaker 1: Tide roll. I don't know if you saw this at all,
Speaker 1: but in Paducah, Kentucky, police are actually looking for a
Speaker 1: suspect of man check this out. Had to uh, you
Speaker 1: need a little bit of money. So naturally he goes
Speaker 1: to a motel and decides to rob the motel. Tricky
Speaker 1: part is on all of this he's wearing Alabama attire.
Speaker 1: He's wearing an Alabama beanie and he also brings in
Speaker 1: a bag to rob this woman at her front desk.
Speaker 1: The woman just starts throwing this dude money, and naturally,
Speaker 1: as he wants to, he's packing all the money in
Speaker 1: the kicker part in all of this bend while he's
Speaker 1: doing this, as he puts his own handgun on top
Speaker 1: of the desk, and then he bends over to pick
Speaker 1: up the drop money. The woman obviously sees this and
Speaker 1: grabs the gun and points it right back into him,
Speaker 1: and he goes fling outside the motel. He never to
Speaker 1: return them. But what a fool man? What did g
Speaker 1: I just think they caught him? By the way, I
Speaker 1: have an update. They caught this guy's twenty six years
Speaker 1: old Corey Phillips from West Paduca, Kentucky. And uh, you
Speaker 1: guys see his mug shot. Little having a bad hair
Speaker 1: Day's having a bad hair day. It would would have
Speaker 1: worked out, they say. In the guy's car, the police
Speaker 1: found an Apple computer that had been reported stolen from
Speaker 1: the burglary, and white T shirt like the one apparently
Speaker 1: found the robbery scene. All that, well, that's even worse though,
Speaker 1: because even if you have a Mac, much like your phone,
Speaker 1: you can have a locator on it. So, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: You're right. I mean, what's the point of stealing the phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna find it and he's letting track
Speaker 1: it down. You're an idiot. And I mean if you
Speaker 1: do that. And the other thing here with this guy
Speaker 1: is he's he was showing proper etict right, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to you're not been down with a gun, You're supposed
Speaker 1: to put the gun on the table, right, and that
Speaker 1: he's supposed to do. So he was doing proper gun safety. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just give him a pass on that, alright. I was
Speaker 1: next speaking of this, we go down to Florida with
Speaker 1: a low hanging fruit. A man was reportedly arrested just
Speaker 1: a few days ago after he tried getting an alligator drunk. Dude,
Speaker 1: twenty seven years of age, he tried feeding an alligator
Speaker 1: some beer. I guess what happened. The alligator actually bit him. Uh.
Speaker 1: Wildlife Conservative Conservation Commission actually reported on this guy was
Speaker 1: arrested obviously for animal endangerment. Uh. They caught the game
Speaker 1: the gator, though was on camera that more of that
Speaker 1: footage was available for him, but he had consumed a
Speaker 1: couple of beers throughout the day. Decided to give an
Speaker 1: alligator a couple of beers as well. Caught on tape
Speaker 1: and again more from Florida. So he this guy had
Speaker 1: his arm bitten, right, and that's what I understand. And
Speaker 1: he so he was bleeding. Yeah. Well, now, unfortunately it
Speaker 1: was a small alligator. Right when it was a big gator,
Speaker 1: he'd be dead. Yeah, it was a small but he was.
Speaker 1: You can't imagine, you know, I've spent some time in Florida,
Speaker 1: but I haven't spent that much time in Florida. Like
Speaker 1: when you imagine going outside and this like alligators walking.
Speaker 1: These are dinosaurs. These are little dinosaurs living amongst human beings.
Speaker 1: It's wild to me, it's wild. And you just see
Speaker 1: the what's that big galligator in South Carolina? I think
Speaker 1: it is that that wanders around the course. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, sixteen feet long or some ridiculous thing like that.
Speaker 1: That happy Gilmore. It's uh, it's crazy. Man. Florida continues
Speaker 1: to be a stay. You always give me problems because
Speaker 1: I love Florida man stories. I love the Florida Man,
Speaker 1: the Florida man stories. You want to you don't feel
Speaker 1: better about your life, you go with the Florida Man
Speaker 1: stories because they are they are classical stories. They're wonderful stories,
Speaker 1: and they very rarely these Florida Man stories disappoint Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've never let you down. How about this? We go
Speaker 1: from uh, we go from Florida to UH to Michigan. Now.
Speaker 1: I think it was a year maybe two years ago
Speaker 1: when we had that tide pod challenge for kids. Do
Speaker 1: you remember that. I do recall that. Yeah, that's so
Speaker 1: you had to you had to bite into a tight
Speaker 1: pot or something like that. Yes, well, we we've taken
Speaker 1: the next step as a progressive society. Now, Um, a
Speaker 1: twelve year old boy is actually recovering from second degree
Speaker 1: burns after he set himself on fire. They do this
Speaker 1: now as part of a burning challenge. Where was this?
Speaker 1: What was this in it? Yes? And so these kids
Speaker 1: will be caught on YouTube or or even the demo
Speaker 1: where they basically get themselves put on fire. They pour
Speaker 1: flammable liquid like rubbing alcohol or other kind of flammable
Speaker 1: liquids on themselves and they ignite after and obviously see
Speaker 1: how long they can they can survive. And one kid
Speaker 1: obviously was caught on tape on YouTube and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: second degree burns. How about that? Did the kid at
Speaker 1: least he had a lot of follows on YouTube? Did he?
Speaker 1: Did he win the fire challenge? If you're gonna get
Speaker 1: burned up and live the rest of your life with
Speaker 1: burns all over your body, I hope you hope you
Speaker 1: were successful? Wow? I mean we're all we were all
Speaker 1: like that. We were like twelve years old, a bunch
Speaker 1: of idiots. But I mean, seriously, what a world? Even
Speaker 1: I as a twelve year old like I I it
Speaker 1: was a little gun shy with the fire. How about this?
Speaker 1: The next sounds, we're gonna pour gasoline on our heads
Speaker 1: and we're gonna put a match on top and see
Speaker 1: what happens? What could go wrong? Oh? What the world?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, you gonna be better than that? All right?
Speaker 1: What else we got? Have you heard about this? The
Speaker 1: you know, a touchdown Jesus obviously in South Bend for
Speaker 1: the nore Dame fighting Irish Nike Irmack's nineties sevens are
Speaker 1: named Team Jesus Shoes. They're manufactured by a Brooklyn based company.
Speaker 1: Right now, um they're getting sold for a monstorious price
Speaker 1: of three thousand dollars and they were actually sold recently
Speaker 1: within minutes. When a shoe was blasted, it was filled
Speaker 1: with reportedly holy water. That was a holy water edition
Speaker 1: of shoe. So some some dope bought a shoe because
Speaker 1: they said there was holy water in it. Really, where
Speaker 1: did the holy water come from? Was it? Did? Did
Speaker 1: Jesus drop down pour the water into the shoe there
Speaker 1: along with his talking donkey and the talking snake and
Speaker 1: the sun staying still in the sky. I mean, come on, well,
Speaker 1: with any luck that water turns into wine. Yeah? Right, Well,
Speaker 1: and really that in the Bible, right, isn't that? That's
Speaker 1: the original fire challenge man walking into a furnace, right,
Speaker 1: not getting hurt, that's the original fire challenge. To a blaze, Betty?
Speaker 1: Last one? How about this one? Stafford, Virginia. We've we've
Speaker 1: heard stories probably the last couple of years about Chick
Speaker 1: fil A employees doing marvelous things and heroic things, oftentimes
Speaker 1: besides giving us great chicken sandwiches. But a woman, uh,
Speaker 1: she dropped her phone and she could not I in
Speaker 1: a parking lot and it turned out and actually fell
Speaker 1: into a storm drain. So a Chick fil a employee
Speaker 1: actually opened up a man cover and dropped himself into
Speaker 1: it to recover her cell phone. It was all caught
Speaker 1: on footage as well documented on Facebook. Um but more
Speaker 1: from Chick fil A obviously doing uh doing a lot
Speaker 1: for humanity. All right, So she drops this, how is
Speaker 1: the thing? I wasn't listening? How is the thing opened? Like?
Speaker 1: Why would how she? How do you drop what? It
Speaker 1: wasn't the man cover? It was actually a storm drain,
Speaker 1: but Chick fil a employee opened up a storm drain
Speaker 1: or the man. I have a story like this. I
Speaker 1: have a story about this. Actually years ago, before I
Speaker 1: got married. I was dating my wife and I was
Speaker 1: at her house and I parked right in front of
Speaker 1: the house there she was living in. And I got
Speaker 1: out of the car and it was right near one
Speaker 1: of those gutters you know that goes down to the
Speaker 1: storm drain. And somehow I was tired because I had worked,
Speaker 1: you know, crazy hours doing the website at the time.
Speaker 1: Mike key my keys fell into the storms, right and uh,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know. I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I couldn't get in there, you know, I can't fit
Speaker 1: down there and all that. So we my wife, of course,
Speaker 1: she's very smart, so she figured out that you can
Speaker 1: call the city and they will come out. But I
Speaker 1: had to wait. I had to stay there that night
Speaker 1: because they wouldn't come out till the next day to
Speaker 1: get the keys out. That reminds me great point of
Speaker 1: bringing up your wife. She says that you owe your
Speaker 1: listeners an apology because last week's edition you had mentioned
Speaker 1: the dating scene with her and that you proposed within
Speaker 1: seven months. She actually said it took about three and
Speaker 1: a half to four years for you find a propose
Speaker 1: to hers. So she was like, hey, you're gonna ship
Speaker 1: he get off the pot, like one of these two
Speaker 1: things needs to happen, and you find. As I told
Speaker 1: my wife, I am a storyteller, and I that is
Speaker 1: what's the better story, getting married or waiting? You know,
Speaker 1: four years to get married at three years to get married?
Speaker 1: On time? Man? What think about women? My wife's no
Speaker 1: difference that they remember these dates, you know they we
Speaker 1: they remember like next year in January or early I
Speaker 1: think it's late January. I will be like our ninth
Speaker 1: or ninth anniversary. I think is something like that. But
Speaker 1: she she always like she's counting down to the days.
Speaker 1: She remembers all this and h and I always I
Speaker 1: always bust her balls by pointing out that I originally
Speaker 1: tried to date her earlier and she blew me off
Speaker 1: for Richard, so we could have been together even longer,
Speaker 1: but she wouldn't give me the time of it, which
Speaker 1: I don't blame her for at the beginning, and then
Speaker 1: eventually she she came around. I guess, so I guess.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that was fun gas gun and then
Speaker 1: we'll do the hard old gambling show. We have that
Speaker 1: straight ahead here as well. But how we have a
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