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If 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.120 you want to know how to get Ahold of Us 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.119 and all that good stuff, you can check that out 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.200 at the end of the podcast. So you're gonna listen 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:13.800 to the whole thing, right, So there you go. And 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.679 as always, the man that attempts to upstage me, for 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.200 better or worse, and he's yet to outshine me, but 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.360 he keeps trying try to try to overshadow me at 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.480 every turn. The man effectually known in the hallways of 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.720 Fox Sports Radio as gag On. Shout out, Mike North, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.560 that would be David Guest. I don't try to overshadow 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.440 you as much as you might believe, but at least 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.400 I'm not shadow banning you, Ben Mallinger. So, um, it's 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.720 been a really productive week for us. I just want 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.400 to highlight a couple of things. Um wan was I 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.880 an update that I wanted to let you know about. 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.520 And also your your fans is at the Paco Scores 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:56.720 now at seven, um we gore we go. Maybe you 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.760 could talk to your brother about this. But I just 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.840 finished my first ever script. I wrote a pilot about 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.680 fifty two fifty three pages long. So that was that 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.240 was tremendous. Did you go for a jog west of 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.640 the four oh five where you live Gascon? You self 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.880 centered schmuck? Did I did actually do that? You did 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.440 look at that? Did you? Did you video it and 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.799 point out that you're jogging? I went through a nice 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.080 little circuit workout that I videoed, so I might have 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.480 to put that onto uh, the Fox Sports Radio's YouTube account. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.919 You might have to do that, understand. And for those 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.560 who don't know Gascon actually, and you know, he's a 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.840 single guy. But someday maybe he'll get married. If that 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.919 does happen, I whoever you marry Gascon, I will give 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.560 her a speech about how to make guest scout happy. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.920 He requires excessive admiration. So if you that's really the 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.800 way to Gascon's heart is excessive admiration is what it is. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.679 And he's got a grandiose sense of self importance and 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.520 all that, and so you just have to you have 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.440 to coddle him like a baby, you know, goodbye baby. Right. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.000 It's it's funny you mentioned that because I I'm doing 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.080 a lot more reading now and during this quarantine, and 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.800 so congratulations you taught yourself how to read mac patty 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.120 whack nursery rhymes. What's your favorite nursery run? I finished 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.400 a book London Bridge is Falling Down Down that I 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.840 don't like that one anymore. But I finished a book 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.520 called The Writer's Journey, And then I bought another book 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.480 that's called The It's called how to win friends and 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.440 influence people. Oh, I've read that. That's a great book. Yes, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.200 so that's a book you can actually use guests. That 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.679 is like the most popular self help book ever. It's 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.440 really wonderful. I I I use stuff from that book 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.880 all the time. But we'll see. So I'm happy that 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.120 you brought that up about the appreciation because it talks 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.480 about things that people want or need in their life. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.000 It goes health and preservation of life, food, sleep, money, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.960 all the things that money will buy life in the 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.720 hair after uh, sexual gratification, the well being of our children, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.320 and a feeling of importance. So I think that's important 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.440 that if I do get married, that there is someone 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.360 that wants to to put, you know, put a heavy 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.120 emphasis on me as a human being. I mean, we 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.400 need to have at least a episode where you personally 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.960 ben Mallow, you say I'm gonna dedicate forty five minutes 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.120 because four hours is not enough, and say I appreciate you, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.760 David Gascon for all that you do for this podcast. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.880 I think that would be important. I think that would 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.600 be worthwhile. I think that would be tremendous. Yeah, um, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.520 all right, I'll make a deal with you when pigs 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.599 start flying. Okay, when that happens, and it could happen, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.839 right with Fukajima and the different nuclear stuff, it could happen. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.720 So when when pigs start flying? Um, let me know 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.120 and I will. I will do an entire podcast. I 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.880 know it's unlikely, but you know it's not. It's not 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.760 like it can happen. You know anything's possible, right, you 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.240 just manifested into reality, so it could happen. And then 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.560 I will dedicate an entire podcast to licking your feet. Okay, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.200 I will lick your toes. I'll suck your toes, is 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.080 what I'll do. The bigger question is when did you 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.919 get this book? And why didn't you share it with 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.279 anybody else? Oh? It was way before I ever met you. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.840 It was a long time ago, and I had heard 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.960 about it. I don't know who told me, whether it 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.200 was maybe it was Looney or somebody told me about it, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.320 and I was like, you know what, I'm always interested 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.080 in what makes people tick and stuff like that and 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.599 curious about people, so I was let me check this out. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.400 I was like, wow, that is uh, that's you know 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.120 that book was written in what the nineteen thirties or 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.320 twenties or something like that. It's an old Yeah, there's 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.039 a couple of revisions, but by Dale Carnegie and he 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.479 was born great Dale Carnegie born in eight Yeah, so 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.839 you figure eighteen eighty eight. That book probably came out 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.160 like the nineteen thirties or so right around there. And yeah, yeah, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.040 it's it's it's pretty cool one of the lines, and 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.000 it is. It's residentated with me. The sweetest sound is 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.560 the the sound of your name that we all the 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.159 most important sound. We love to hear somebody say our name. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.200 It is so true, it is absolutely true. So that's great. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.120 So yeah, I bought two books. I bought that one 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.640 and then I bought a Steve Martin book called Born 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:22.880 Standing Up. So the comedian, the former Disneyland Magic Shop guy, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:28.000 Steve Martin. It's funny. He's good. Yeah, alright, very good guest. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:29.960 Look at you. So what do you have? We don't 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.400 stick to sports bizarre stories of the week. And we've 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.760 got a big mail bag. I got a sore shoulder 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.839 from the mail bag is what I've got here. Now, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.880 did you have any uh, did you have any return 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.159 fire from the last handful of episodes that you went 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.720 Third Rail top turn buckle, like, oh, you want me 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.920 to read an email? I'm just curious if you got 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.240 any kind of Oh I got Yeah, I got one 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.040 the other day from the radio show, which I guess 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.080 ties into this. You know, I'll read it on This 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.760 is just a sample. I'm gonna be a little sample 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.120 of like what a day in the life with me, 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.800 my experience? All right, and I don't want again, I'll 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.880 give you a steven and And this is just an example. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.960 It's it's one random email that I I was sent 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.080 and I would like to share it with you, and 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.440 then well we can react and we want We don't 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.000 have to react and whatnot, but if you want to, 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:24.520 we can do that. Let me let me put it 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.920 up here. Hold s here, let me type this in 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.920 real quick. This is a full fledged email, not a 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.080 d M on Twitter or on Facebook. Right, ah, yeah, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.240 this is an actual This is an actual email. And 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.320 the guy was very upset with me complaining and all 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.200 I hear it is this headlined idiot. I found it 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.600 all right. This is after I did a monologue about 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.800 it being excited that Major League Baseball was going to 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.880 come back the other night on the radio. So I 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:56.280 got this email you. It's the headlined idiot, You goddamn jackass, stupid, 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.720 mother fucking idiot. But that writes like poetry because you 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.600 really get my attention when you set an email like that, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:07.080 that's pretty good. Yeah, you goddamn jackass, stupid, motherfucking idiot 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.400 the email began. If you would pull your fucking head 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:15.000 out of your ass, you'd realize that the pandemic is 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.080 not on the decline, but rather on the incline. Do 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.600 you not realize that the US had an all time 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.800 highest day of deaths related to the COVID nineteen since 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.120 it was first diagnosed at early February, and Seattle we 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.559 have a record high of three thousand deaths on Monday's 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.239 May one. Maybe if more idiots like you would understand 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.920 the seriousness of this crap, things might get better. And 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.720 that's it. So that's just a small and that's just 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:51.920 the one of many that I get here. Little little appetizer, Yeah, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.720 a little appetizers, little h was it picking a blanket? 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.400 Lit'll taking a blanket for you there to get your 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.200 started there. So we talked in a previous podcast, and 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.040 you can go back and hear that we went full 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:07.880 third rail we jumped into a big pit of acid. Uh, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.959 we did it. And I mentioned the story and I'll 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.000 bring it up again, but you go back and do 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.599 the podcast. The story in the Wall Street Journal that 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.120 talked about Project Fear, and that is that person. I 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:18.520 don't know who this person is. I don't know the 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.480 real name they used of email where they probably it's 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.000 not the real email. It's a fake name obviously on 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:27.600 the email. But uh, they are, they are right, They're 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.400 right in the wheelhouse for that story. They they things 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.959 have changed a little bit, the numbers have changed. They've 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.520 made their mind up, and um, they can't wrap their 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.280 head around the fact that people are always going to 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.440 get sick. You know, I don't wanna go down this 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.840 rabbit hole again, guesscan. But the the issue is not 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.240 people getting the coronavirus. The issue is people dying from 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.600 the coronavirus. People get sick all the time, they don't 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.400 die and uh, and for the vast majority of people, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.280 it is going to be an illness and it's you know, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:57.959 for a lot of people, I think it was what's 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.880 the number that have it? They don't even realize they haven't. 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:01.679 I saw that number. I don't remember that number is 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.840 but it's a high number. UM. So hey, listen, this 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.079 guy disagrees he's buying into the media, the fearmongering going 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.119 on in the media, and you know, good, I recommend 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.319 buying a therapy dog or something because you're gonna need it. Okay, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.960 I'm fine, I'm I'm good here. So yeah, be sure 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.680 to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.280 at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.880 Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Well, we go 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.880 from from that little taste uh in the mailbag to 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.240 not stick in to sports. And on a previous episode, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.040 you had mentioned that your wife has an itch to 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.199 to travel a little bit. And I was actually thinking 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.000 about this earlier when I was putting these things together, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.520 like where you would be perfect to travel to and 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.920 where your wife would be perfect to travel too. And 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.080 I think I think those forces combine actually led to 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.959 our first story, UM, because I think your your wife 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.480 would absolutely love answered um for the nature and for 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:07.640 the experimentation of um, you know, the edibles and whatnot. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.440 I think she went she would like that. I don't 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.640 know about that, but she's also got family in that area, 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.080 so she would probably like that. All right, Well perfect. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.960 So this is for you guys, especially because um, you 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.800 and I have talked a lot about like the dining 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.880 and you know what we can't eat what we we 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.520 can't eat right now, especially some of the local restaurants. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.120 A Dutch restaurant has come up with an idea of 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.480 how they can kind of class up the joint at 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:38.840 their restaurant. Um, they're creating small glass cabins built for 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.559 two or three people that creates like a intimate cocoon 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.319 on this public patio. So there's there's a little river 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.240 bed that's right next to the restaurant, but they have 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.600 these little cocoons that are right on top of that. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.600 So you'd have waiters that come in with gloves and 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.200 face shields, but they provide like longboards for for dishes 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.920 and glasses and things of that nature. It to UH 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.040 to make sure you limit the physical contact between yeah. Yeah, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:08.240 And unfortunately we're on the audio platform not the video platform, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.640 where the there's no physical way we can show you. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.559 But I recommend looking up duck. I think the headline 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.720 is like Dutch restaurant trial trials glass booths for dining 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.120 amid coronavirus. This is one of those things, like you 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.880 you wonder if it's like Rod Sterling and the Twilight Zone, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.360 you're traveling through another dimension. That was my first thought, 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.640 you know, I dimension not only of site and sound, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.640 but of mind, a journey into a wondrous land where 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.960 boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.480 your next stop, the Twilight Zone. Like I'm telling you something. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.600 Guess if if five years ago, if fucking last year, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.000 ten years ago, twenty years ago, if I if I 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.600 had made a Saturday Night Live parody video, like one 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.040 of those commercials they sometimes do on Saturday Night Live, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.120 and I had said, Hey, let's make a restaurant and 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.400 have the people in little glass Boosts having their meal 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.520 on the this beautiful body of water in Amsterdam. Uh. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.880 And you know, we'll make a gag about it. And 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.880 people would laugh their ass off, They say, who the 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.560 hell would do that? Unless unless you did this when 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.280 it was on the Simpsons. Oh yeah, you can do 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.960 the Simpsons to you can do the Simpsons like predicts 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.760 Ship in the future, and it's eerily similar to what 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.760 they have on their cartoons. But I will send defense 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.679 of this story then is that the red light district 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.040 is exactly like this. You go, oh, you you've been 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.840 with a prostitute. No, but I've locked the red light district. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.240 And so all of these women are in these little 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.160 glass or they're like these little phone booths. Well, I've 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.960 seen photos of it. I've never been there, but I've 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.719 seen yeah. Photo. It's it's like they're zoo animals in 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.280 the cage or something, when they're all exotic looking. You 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.839 gotta go to Amsterdam, you would have. I think you 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.000 guys would have so much fun there, like the way 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.760 that you can. I mean, just nightlife is fun, but drinking, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.360 the eating, the walking around, the bikes, the museums art. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.600 I think you would have an awesome time in Amsterdam. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:09.800 I'd be open to going as it was a long 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:14.480 flight though at least they speak English. They're right, Yeah, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.880 it was pretty well. When I arrived there, I was 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.560 meeting up with a buddy of mine who's flying in 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.560 from Croatia. He got off the train that was inside 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.640 the airport and bet, I kid you not like you're 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.200 talking about people dressed the nines like their Sunday best 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:33.640 to go to church. The military and the law enforcement there. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.040 They were bootstrapped. You're talking about like eight k's or 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.320 M four's pistols on the hips, on the ankles, men 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.080 and women. They were all locked and loaded inside these 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.560 airport terminals. It was wild. I was like, where the 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.080 funk am? I? Yeah? I thought it was like in 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.000 a lockdown prison, but that wasn't the case. But they're uber, 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.200 uber careful, careful what they're secured. There. Have you been 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.120 to Dubai? No, I haven't been in Dubai. It are 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.560 you planning on gonna? Are you gonna go to Dubai? Uh? No? 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.080 I don't have Rob. You know, Rob Parker was supposed 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.040 to go. Rob Parker was supposed to go to Dubai 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:12.040 and St. Petersburg this summer. Oh and I got canceled. Yeah. Yeah. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.880 So I've seen the photos of Dubai and it's like 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:21.200 ridiculously clean, and they have so much money, the oil money, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.920 I guess maybe not now because of what's going on, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.640 the oil market has gone on the toilet, but they, 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.920 like the police, have Lamborghinis and stuff like that, and man, 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.440 it's wow, it's just absolutely crazy. Uh. Story number two, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.000 how about this? Since we are quick on the trigger 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.960 finger with social media. Twitter right now is experimenting with 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.960 a feature, and it's not the editing button. Unfortunately. Um, 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:50.600 they have what's called a wrong think program that's being 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:55.600 implemented right now. So Twitter's official support counts said, when 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.840 things get heated, you may say things you don't mean. 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.320 It's so what they're doing is they're basically putting in 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.280 this program that will help you revise a reply to 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.560 any kind of tweets. Um, that's fascinating because I think 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:15.120 you're your followers could be a good test subject on this. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.280 But they're labeling it as hashtag wrong think, and obviously 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.640 it's trying to push people away from negative comments or 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.800 cussing or making threats like and the stuff that you know, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.600 guys in Cincinnati do to other people, you know, when 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.400 you're stuck at home and quarantine because you've got the 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.400 COVID and things like that. So cheap shot there justin 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:41.240 and Cincinnati. But come down, come down, cowboy. It's okay. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.200 It's Twitter. See your therapist at the end of the podcast. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.720 You'll be fine. But it's Twitter. It's Twitter's way of 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.400 of controlling what you say, how you respond, and how 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.600 you act on social media. Yeah, I mean, they're not alone. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.960 There's other platforms like Facebooks has been famously shutting people 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.480 up and blocking people. YouTube has been taking videos off 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.920 that they don't you know, they don't agree with and stuff, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.240 and this is you know, it's we've opened Pandora's box. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.800 I guess that's my first thought. You know, you opened 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.159 Pandora's box. And I have a rather odd perspective on 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.240 on this kind of thing, and it's not very popular, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.560 but I think all fake news should be legal. I 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.760 think it's up to the consumer to determine out what's 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.680 real and what's fake. It's up to you. I think 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.080 fake news has always been around. I know it's become 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.520 a big thing because Donald Trump's president and all that stuff, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.080 and he would he's used the term fake news, and 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.320 so anything he uses becomes a big talking point, and 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.200 people in the old media, the established media, can't stand 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.800 it and they go nuts and all this stuff and 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.679 say have hissy fits and all that. But I I 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.240 really believe that you should be allowed to give anything 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.560 as news, and then it is up to the consumer 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.320 to determine whether or not it is real or not. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.160 Who's the gatekeeper that decides what's real. It's like it's 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.640 tomato tomato, right, you know, it's like what you say, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.080 I might not think it's real news. I might think 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.080 it's fake news, and vice versa. So why not just 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.680 let it all out there and let the consumer, let 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.040 the mare get decide what's real and what's not real. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.640 Why is that such an outrageous position? When I bring 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.600 this up to people that are of a I don't know, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.159 they're on the other team, if you will, they're like, 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.640 what's wrong with you? How dare you? You know? You 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.240 you know? We have to we have to eliminate this really, 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.280 So you're basically saying that that people are so stupid 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.080 that they can't determine whether something's real or bullshit. Like, really, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.679 come on, yeh, We're all wired with the ability to determine. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.200 You know. It's like risk assessment. Right when you cross 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.840 the street, Are you gonna get hit by an eighteen wheeler? 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.119 Are you gonna make it across the street when you 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.280 go out to to have a meal, Are you gonna 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.119 choke on the fetecchini alfredo? You know that kind of stuff. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.080 Someone thinking and processing the information. It goes back to 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.960 I think you've mentioned this on several of your shows, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.119 but on a on a smaller scale of the word 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.320 best for marketing terms. Oh yes, that's right, the weasel 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.159 words best. Yes, you know, you know, you don't think 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.359 about it. But when you mean best, that just means 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.159 just as good as Yeah, the legal definition of the 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.280 This blew me away when I first heard this years ago, 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.520 and I still repeat it to this day. The legal 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.640 definition of the term best is as good as all 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.360 the other things in that category. Right, so best actually 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.879 means average. Best means average. But the it's one of 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.200 those earworms where people hear the term best, they don't 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.920 hear it as average. They hear it as better than 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:30.960 all the rest. Crazy good. We go from well, I 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.840 guess this is interesting because we go from that to this. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.960 UM Professor Neil Ferguson. He was in the news earlier 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:39.600 this week, and I don't know if you know this 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.600 or at all, but the Telegraph reported at first he's 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:49.760 the one that actually advised Forrest Johnson to lockdown Great Britain. UM. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.560 He resigned from his government advisory position after it was 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.840 revealed that he broke social distancing rules to go meet 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.760 a married lover. Yeah, yeah, I saw this Uh. Two thoughts. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.800 First of all, I think this is great news because 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.359 that must mean that it's it's better. Now we can 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.639 all go out and stoop whoever whoever we want the 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.040 pandemics over. If the guy that started the lockdown is 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.440 out getting laid on the side, then I think that's 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.199 good news for everyone. And the second thing is what 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.040 a fucking hypocrite this guy is? And uh, this is 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.639 the people were taking advice from this guy. That's the 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.840 guy that led all the whole world shutting down that guy. Yeah, 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.440 it's it's fasten to see how he pulled this off 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.760 because the woman lives with her husband and they have children, 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.080 so it's not like this is just uh well, the 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:40.440 degree of difficulty on that is pretty high. Yes, especially 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.960 in the UK. Especially in the UK, they just thinking 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.440 cameras everywhere, and uh have cameras everywhere here too. I 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.080 don't know if you know that, well maybe not here. 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.520 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.720 Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.440 This is great news for you. Um, I haven't gone 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.520 down the rat it sold just yet, but you have 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.359 Joe exoc is coming to a big screen near you, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:09.840 Nicolas Cage is playing the role of you. Hear that, 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.960 I'm clapping. It'll be on it. It'll be on Netflix, 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.520 a docuseries about the Tiger King and Yours Truly. Nicolas 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.560 Cage will be the star of that. Are you a 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.879 big Nicolas Cage fan? Um? I was a fan of 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.080 early Nicholas Cage. I don't know about the later. Like 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.600 Nicolas Cage, he was one of the biggest guys in 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.520 Hollywood for a few years, right and then and then 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.520