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Speaker 1: and all that good stuff, you can check that out
Speaker 1: at the end of the podcast. So you're gonna listen
Speaker 1: to the whole thing, right, So there you go. And
Speaker 1: as always, the man that attempts to upstage me, for
Speaker 1: better or worse, and he's yet to outshine me, but
Speaker 1: he keeps trying try to try to overshadow me at
Speaker 1: every turn. The man effectually known in the hallways of
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio as gag On. Shout out, Mike North,
Speaker 1: that would be David Guest. I don't try to overshadow
Speaker 1: you as much as you might believe, but at least
Speaker 1: I'm not shadow banning you, Ben Mallinger. So, um, it's
Speaker 1: been a really productive week for us. I just want
Speaker 1: to highlight a couple of things. Um wan was I
Speaker 1: an update that I wanted to let you know about.
Speaker 1: And also your your fans is at the Paco Scores
Speaker 1: now at seven, um we gore we go. Maybe you
Speaker 1: could talk to your brother about this. But I just
Speaker 1: finished my first ever script. I wrote a pilot about
Speaker 1: fifty two fifty three pages long. So that was that
Speaker 1: was tremendous. Did you go for a jog west of
Speaker 1: the four oh five where you live Gascon? You self
Speaker 1: centered schmuck? Did I did actually do that? You did
Speaker 1: look at that? Did you? Did you video it and
Speaker 1: point out that you're jogging? I went through a nice
Speaker 1: little circuit workout that I videoed, so I might have
Speaker 1: to put that onto uh, the Fox Sports Radio's YouTube account.
Speaker 1: You might have to do that, understand. And for those
Speaker 1: who don't know Gascon actually, and you know, he's a
Speaker 1: single guy. But someday maybe he'll get married. If that
Speaker 1: does happen, I whoever you marry Gascon, I will give
Speaker 1: her a speech about how to make guest scout happy.
Speaker 1: He requires excessive admiration. So if you that's really the
Speaker 1: way to Gascon's heart is excessive admiration is what it is.
Speaker 1: And he's got a grandiose sense of self importance and
Speaker 1: all that, and so you just have to you have
Speaker 1: to coddle him like a baby, you know, goodbye baby. Right.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny you mentioned that because I I'm doing
Speaker 1: a lot more reading now and during this quarantine, and
Speaker 1: so congratulations you taught yourself how to read mac patty
Speaker 1: whack nursery rhymes. What's your favorite nursery run? I finished
Speaker 1: a book London Bridge is Falling Down Down that I
Speaker 1: don't like that one anymore. But I finished a book
Speaker 1: called The Writer's Journey, And then I bought another book
Speaker 1: that's called The It's called how to win friends and
Speaker 1: influence people. Oh, I've read that. That's a great book. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that's a book you can actually use guests. That
Speaker 1: is like the most popular self help book ever. It's
Speaker 1: really wonderful. I I I use stuff from that book
Speaker 1: all the time. But we'll see. So I'm happy that
Speaker 1: you brought that up about the appreciation because it talks
Speaker 1: about things that people want or need in their life.
Speaker 1: It goes health and preservation of life, food, sleep, money,
Speaker 1: all the things that money will buy life in the
Speaker 1: hair after uh, sexual gratification, the well being of our children,
Speaker 1: and a feeling of importance. So I think that's important
Speaker 1: that if I do get married, that there is someone
Speaker 1: that wants to to put, you know, put a heavy
Speaker 1: emphasis on me as a human being. I mean, we
Speaker 1: need to have at least a episode where you personally
Speaker 1: ben Mallow, you say I'm gonna dedicate forty five minutes
Speaker 1: because four hours is not enough, and say I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: David Gascon for all that you do for this podcast.
Speaker 1: I think that would be important. I think that would
Speaker 1: be worthwhile. I think that would be tremendous. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll make a deal with you when pigs
Speaker 1: start flying. Okay, when that happens, and it could happen,
Speaker 1: right with Fukajima and the different nuclear stuff, it could happen.
Speaker 1: So when when pigs start flying? Um, let me know
Speaker 1: and I will. I will do an entire podcast. I
Speaker 1: know it's unlikely, but you know it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: like it can happen. You know anything's possible, right, you
Speaker 1: just manifested into reality, so it could happen. And then
Speaker 1: I will dedicate an entire podcast to licking your feet. Okay,
Speaker 1: I will lick your toes. I'll suck your toes, is
Speaker 1: what I'll do. The bigger question is when did you
Speaker 1: get this book? And why didn't you share it with
Speaker 1: anybody else? Oh? It was way before I ever met you.
Speaker 1: It was a long time ago, and I had heard
Speaker 1: about it. I don't know who told me, whether it
Speaker 1: was maybe it was Looney or somebody told me about it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, I'm always interested
Speaker 1: in what makes people tick and stuff like that and
Speaker 1: curious about people, so I was let me check this out.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that is uh, that's you know
Speaker 1: that book was written in what the nineteen thirties or
Speaker 1: twenties or something like that. It's an old Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of revisions, but by Dale Carnegie and he
Speaker 1: was born great Dale Carnegie born in eight Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you figure eighteen eighty eight. That book probably came out
Speaker 1: like the nineteen thirties or so right around there. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty cool one of the lines, and
Speaker 1: it is. It's residentated with me. The sweetest sound is
Speaker 1: the the sound of your name that we all the
Speaker 1: most important sound. We love to hear somebody say our name.
Speaker 1: It is so true, it is absolutely true. So that's great.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I bought two books. I bought that one
Speaker 1: and then I bought a Steve Martin book called Born
Speaker 1: Standing Up. So the comedian, the former Disneyland Magic Shop guy,
Speaker 1: Steve Martin. It's funny. He's good. Yeah, alright, very good guest.
Speaker 1: Look at you. So what do you have? We don't
Speaker 1: stick to sports bizarre stories of the week. And we've
Speaker 1: got a big mail bag. I got a sore shoulder
Speaker 1: from the mail bag is what I've got here. Now,
Speaker 1: did you have any uh, did you have any return
Speaker 1: fire from the last handful of episodes that you went
Speaker 1: Third Rail top turn buckle, like, oh, you want me
Speaker 1: to read an email? I'm just curious if you got
Speaker 1: any kind of Oh I got Yeah, I got one
Speaker 1: the other day from the radio show, which I guess
Speaker 1: ties into this. You know, I'll read it on This
Speaker 1: is just a sample. I'm gonna be a little sample
Speaker 1: of like what a day in the life with me,
Speaker 1: my experience? All right, and I don't want again, I'll
Speaker 1: give you a steven and And this is just an example.
Speaker 1: It's it's one random email that I I was sent
Speaker 1: and I would like to share it with you, and
Speaker 1: then well we can react and we want We don't
Speaker 1: have to react and whatnot, but if you want to,
Speaker 1: we can do that. Let me let me put it
Speaker 1: up here. Hold s here, let me type this in
Speaker 1: real quick. This is a full fledged email, not a
Speaker 1: d M on Twitter or on Facebook. Right, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is an actual This is an actual email. And
Speaker 1: the guy was very upset with me complaining and all
Speaker 1: I hear it is this headlined idiot. I found it
Speaker 1: all right. This is after I did a monologue about
Speaker 1: it being excited that Major League Baseball was going to
Speaker 1: come back the other night on the radio. So I
Speaker 1: got this email you. It's the headlined idiot, You goddamn jackass, stupid,
Speaker 1: mother fucking idiot. But that writes like poetry because you
Speaker 1: really get my attention when you set an email like that,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Yeah, you goddamn jackass, stupid, motherfucking idiot
Speaker 1: the email began. If you would pull your fucking head
Speaker 1: out of your ass, you'd realize that the pandemic is
Speaker 1: not on the decline, but rather on the incline. Do
Speaker 1: you not realize that the US had an all time
Speaker 1: highest day of deaths related to the COVID nineteen since
Speaker 1: it was first diagnosed at early February, and Seattle we
Speaker 1: have a record high of three thousand deaths on Monday's
Speaker 1: May one. Maybe if more idiots like you would understand
Speaker 1: the seriousness of this crap, things might get better. And
Speaker 1: that's it. So that's just a small and that's just
Speaker 1: the one of many that I get here. Little little appetizer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little appetizers, little h was it picking a blanket?
Speaker 1: Lit'll taking a blanket for you there to get your
Speaker 1: started there. So we talked in a previous podcast, and
Speaker 1: you can go back and hear that we went full
Speaker 1: third rail we jumped into a big pit of acid. Uh,
Speaker 1: we did it. And I mentioned the story and I'll
Speaker 1: bring it up again, but you go back and do
Speaker 1: the podcast. The story in the Wall Street Journal that
Speaker 1: talked about Project Fear, and that is that person. I
Speaker 1: don't know who this person is. I don't know the
Speaker 1: real name they used of email where they probably it's
Speaker 1: not the real email. It's a fake name obviously on
Speaker 1: the email. But uh, they are, they are right, They're
Speaker 1: right in the wheelhouse for that story. They they things
Speaker 1: have changed a little bit, the numbers have changed. They've
Speaker 1: made their mind up, and um, they can't wrap their
Speaker 1: head around the fact that people are always going to
Speaker 1: get sick. You know, I don't wanna go down this
Speaker 1: rabbit hole again, guesscan. But the the issue is not
Speaker 1: people getting the coronavirus. The issue is people dying from
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. People get sick all the time, they don't
Speaker 1: die and uh, and for the vast majority of people,
Speaker 1: it is going to be an illness and it's you know,
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, I think it was what's
Speaker 1: the number that have it? They don't even realize they haven't.
Speaker 1: I saw that number. I don't remember that number is
Speaker 1: but it's a high number. UM. So hey, listen, this
Speaker 1: guy disagrees he's buying into the media, the fearmongering going
Speaker 1: on in the media, and you know, good, I recommend
Speaker 1: buying a therapy dog or something because you're gonna need it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm I'm good here. So yeah, be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Well, we go
Speaker 1: from from that little taste uh in the mailbag to
Speaker 1: not stick in to sports. And on a previous episode,
Speaker 1: you had mentioned that your wife has an itch to
Speaker 1: to travel a little bit. And I was actually thinking
Speaker 1: about this earlier when I was putting these things together,
Speaker 1: like where you would be perfect to travel to and
Speaker 1: where your wife would be perfect to travel too. And
Speaker 1: I think I think those forces combine actually led to
Speaker 1: our first story, UM, because I think your your wife
Speaker 1: would absolutely love answered um for the nature and for
Speaker 1: the experimentation of um, you know, the edibles and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I think she went she would like that. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that, but she's also got family in that area,
Speaker 1: so she would probably like that. All right, Well perfect.
Speaker 1: So this is for you guys, especially because um, you
Speaker 1: and I have talked a lot about like the dining
Speaker 1: and you know what we can't eat what we we
Speaker 1: can't eat right now, especially some of the local restaurants.
Speaker 1: A Dutch restaurant has come up with an idea of
Speaker 1: how they can kind of class up the joint at
Speaker 1: their restaurant. Um, they're creating small glass cabins built for
Speaker 1: two or three people that creates like a intimate cocoon
Speaker 1: on this public patio. So there's there's a little river
Speaker 1: bed that's right next to the restaurant, but they have
Speaker 1: these little cocoons that are right on top of that.
Speaker 1: So you'd have waiters that come in with gloves and
Speaker 1: face shields, but they provide like longboards for for dishes
Speaker 1: and glasses and things of that nature. It to UH
Speaker 1: to make sure you limit the physical contact between yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And unfortunately we're on the audio platform not the video platform,
Speaker 1: where the there's no physical way we can show you.
Speaker 1: But I recommend looking up duck. I think the headline
Speaker 1: is like Dutch restaurant trial trials glass booths for dining
Speaker 1: amid coronavirus. This is one of those things, like you
Speaker 1: you wonder if it's like Rod Sterling and the Twilight Zone,
Speaker 1: you're traveling through another dimension. That was my first thought,
Speaker 1: you know, I dimension not only of site and sound,
Speaker 1: but of mind, a journey into a wondrous land where
Speaker 1: boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead,
Speaker 1: your next stop, the Twilight Zone. Like I'm telling you something.
Speaker 1: Guess if if five years ago, if fucking last year,
Speaker 1: ten years ago, twenty years ago, if I if I
Speaker 1: had made a Saturday Night Live parody video, like one
Speaker 1: of those commercials they sometimes do on Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 1: and I had said, Hey, let's make a restaurant and
Speaker 1: have the people in little glass Boosts having their meal
Speaker 1: on the this beautiful body of water in Amsterdam. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, we'll make a gag about it. And
Speaker 1: people would laugh their ass off, They say, who the
Speaker 1: hell would do that? Unless unless you did this when
Speaker 1: it was on the Simpsons. Oh yeah, you can do
Speaker 1: the Simpsons to you can do the Simpsons like predicts
Speaker 1: Ship in the future, and it's eerily similar to what
Speaker 1: they have on their cartoons. But I will send defense
Speaker 1: of this story then is that the red light district
Speaker 1: is exactly like this. You go, oh, you you've been
Speaker 1: with a prostitute. No, but I've locked the red light district.
Speaker 1: And so all of these women are in these little
Speaker 1: glass or they're like these little phone booths. Well, I've
Speaker 1: seen photos of it. I've never been there, but I've
Speaker 1: seen yeah. Photo. It's it's like they're zoo animals in
Speaker 1: the cage or something, when they're all exotic looking. You
Speaker 1: gotta go to Amsterdam, you would have. I think you
Speaker 1: guys would have so much fun there, like the way
Speaker 1: that you can. I mean, just nightlife is fun, but drinking,
Speaker 1: the eating, the walking around, the bikes, the museums art.
Speaker 1: I think you would have an awesome time in Amsterdam.
Speaker 1: I'd be open to going as it was a long
Speaker 1: flight though at least they speak English. They're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty well. When I arrived there, I was
Speaker 1: meeting up with a buddy of mine who's flying in
Speaker 1: from Croatia. He got off the train that was inside
Speaker 1: the airport and bet, I kid you not like you're
Speaker 1: talking about people dressed the nines like their Sunday best
Speaker 1: to go to church. The military and the law enforcement there.
Speaker 1: They were bootstrapped. You're talking about like eight k's or
Speaker 1: M four's pistols on the hips, on the ankles, men
Speaker 1: and women. They were all locked and loaded inside these
Speaker 1: airport terminals. It was wild. I was like, where the
Speaker 1: funk am? I? Yeah? I thought it was like in
Speaker 1: a lockdown prison, but that wasn't the case. But they're uber,
Speaker 1: uber careful, careful what they're secured. There. Have you been
Speaker 1: to Dubai? No, I haven't been in Dubai. It are
Speaker 1: you planning on gonna? Are you gonna go to Dubai? Uh? No?
Speaker 1: I don't have Rob. You know, Rob Parker was supposed
Speaker 1: to go. Rob Parker was supposed to go to Dubai
Speaker 1: and St. Petersburg this summer. Oh and I got canceled. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I've seen the photos of Dubai and it's like
Speaker 1: ridiculously clean, and they have so much money, the oil money,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe not now because of what's going on,
Speaker 1: the oil market has gone on the toilet, but they,
Speaker 1: like the police, have Lamborghinis and stuff like that, and man,
Speaker 1: it's wow, it's just absolutely crazy. Uh. Story number two,
Speaker 1: how about this? Since we are quick on the trigger
Speaker 1: finger with social media. Twitter right now is experimenting with
Speaker 1: a feature, and it's not the editing button. Unfortunately. Um,
Speaker 1: they have what's called a wrong think program that's being
Speaker 1: implemented right now. So Twitter's official support counts said, when
Speaker 1: things get heated, you may say things you don't mean.
Speaker 1: It's so what they're doing is they're basically putting in
Speaker 1: this program that will help you revise a reply to
Speaker 1: any kind of tweets. Um, that's fascinating because I think
Speaker 1: you're your followers could be a good test subject on this.
Speaker 1: But they're labeling it as hashtag wrong think, and obviously
Speaker 1: it's trying to push people away from negative comments or
Speaker 1: cussing or making threats like and the stuff that you know,
Speaker 1: guys in Cincinnati do to other people, you know, when
Speaker 1: you're stuck at home and quarantine because you've got the
Speaker 1: COVID and things like that. So cheap shot there justin
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati. But come down, come down, cowboy. It's okay.
Speaker 1: It's Twitter. See your therapist at the end of the podcast.
Speaker 1: You'll be fine. But it's Twitter. It's Twitter's way of
Speaker 1: of controlling what you say, how you respond, and how
Speaker 1: you act on social media. Yeah, I mean, they're not alone.
Speaker 1: There's other platforms like Facebooks has been famously shutting people
Speaker 1: up and blocking people. YouTube has been taking videos off
Speaker 1: that they don't you know, they don't agree with and stuff,
Speaker 1: and this is you know, it's we've opened Pandora's box.
Speaker 1: I guess that's my first thought. You know, you opened
Speaker 1: Pandora's box. And I have a rather odd perspective on
Speaker 1: on this kind of thing, and it's not very popular,
Speaker 1: but I think all fake news should be legal. I
Speaker 1: think it's up to the consumer to determine out what's
Speaker 1: real and what's fake. It's up to you. I think
Speaker 1: fake news has always been around. I know it's become
Speaker 1: a big thing because Donald Trump's president and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and he would he's used the term fake news, and
Speaker 1: so anything he uses becomes a big talking point, and
Speaker 1: people in the old media, the established media, can't stand
Speaker 1: it and they go nuts and all this stuff and
Speaker 1: say have hissy fits and all that. But I I
Speaker 1: really believe that you should be allowed to give anything
Speaker 1: as news, and then it is up to the consumer
Speaker 1: to determine whether or not it is real or not.
Speaker 1: Who's the gatekeeper that decides what's real. It's like it's
Speaker 1: tomato tomato, right, you know, it's like what you say,
Speaker 1: I might not think it's real news. I might think
Speaker 1: it's fake news, and vice versa. So why not just
Speaker 1: let it all out there and let the consumer, let
Speaker 1: the mare get decide what's real and what's not real.
Speaker 1: Why is that such an outrageous position? When I bring
Speaker 1: this up to people that are of a I don't know,
Speaker 1: they're on the other team, if you will, they're like,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? How dare you? You know? You
Speaker 1: you know? We have to we have to eliminate this really,
Speaker 1: So you're basically saying that that people are so stupid
Speaker 1: that they can't determine whether something's real or bullshit. Like, really,
Speaker 1: come on, yeh, We're all wired with the ability to determine.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like risk assessment. Right when you cross
Speaker 1: the street, Are you gonna get hit by an eighteen wheeler?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna make it across the street when you
Speaker 1: go out to to have a meal, Are you gonna
Speaker 1: choke on the fetecchini alfredo? You know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Someone thinking and processing the information. It goes back to
Speaker 1: I think you've mentioned this on several of your shows,
Speaker 1: but on a on a smaller scale of the word
Speaker 1: best for marketing terms. Oh yes, that's right, the weasel
Speaker 1: words best. Yes, you know, you know, you don't think
Speaker 1: about it. But when you mean best, that just means
Speaker 1: just as good as Yeah, the legal definition of the
Speaker 1: This blew me away when I first heard this years ago,
Speaker 1: and I still repeat it to this day. The legal
Speaker 1: definition of the term best is as good as all
Speaker 1: the other things in that category. Right, so best actually
Speaker 1: means average. Best means average. But the it's one of
Speaker 1: those earworms where people hear the term best, they don't
Speaker 1: hear it as average. They hear it as better than
Speaker 1: all the rest. Crazy good. We go from well, I
Speaker 1: guess this is interesting because we go from that to this.
Speaker 1: UM Professor Neil Ferguson. He was in the news earlier
Speaker 1: this week, and I don't know if you know this
Speaker 1: or at all, but the Telegraph reported at first he's
Speaker 1: the one that actually advised Forrest Johnson to lockdown Great Britain. UM.
Speaker 1: He resigned from his government advisory position after it was
Speaker 1: revealed that he broke social distancing rules to go meet
Speaker 1: a married lover. Yeah, yeah, I saw this Uh. Two thoughts.
Speaker 1: First of all, I think this is great news because
Speaker 1: that must mean that it's it's better. Now we can
Speaker 1: all go out and stoop whoever whoever we want the
Speaker 1: pandemics over. If the guy that started the lockdown is
Speaker 1: out getting laid on the side, then I think that's
Speaker 1: good news for everyone. And the second thing is what
Speaker 1: a fucking hypocrite this guy is? And uh, this is
Speaker 1: the people were taking advice from this guy. That's the
Speaker 1: guy that led all the whole world shutting down that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's fasten to see how he pulled this off
Speaker 1: because the woman lives with her husband and they have children,
Speaker 1: so it's not like this is just uh well, the
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty on that is pretty high. Yes, especially
Speaker 1: in the UK. Especially in the UK, they just thinking
Speaker 1: cameras everywhere, and uh have cameras everywhere here too. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know that, well maybe not here.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1: This is great news for you. Um, I haven't gone
Speaker 1: down the rat it sold just yet, but you have
Speaker 1: Joe exoc is coming to a big screen near you,
Speaker 1: Nicolas Cage is playing the role of you. Hear that,
Speaker 1: I'm clapping. It'll be on it. It'll be on Netflix,
Speaker 1: a docuseries about the Tiger King and Yours Truly. Nicolas
Speaker 1: Cage will be the star of that. Are you a
Speaker 1: big Nicolas Cage fan? Um? I was a fan of
Speaker 1: early Nicholas Cage. I don't know about the later. Like
Speaker 1: Nicolas Cage, he was one of the biggest guys in
Speaker 1: Hollywood for a few years, right and then and then
Speaker 1: direct the video guy. He's he's become over the but
Speaker 1: the years. But yeah, I was a fan of Nicolas
Speaker 1: Cage with some of those early movies. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what was I guess his signature was.
Speaker 1: Was it Leaving Las Vegas? Was that the one that's
Speaker 1: one of my favorites? Leaving Las Vegas? Face Off with
Speaker 1: Drawn John Travolta, The Rock with Sean Connery and Ed
Speaker 1: Harris was good. Connery was I was okay. Malkovitch was
Speaker 1: in that one too. Um. I think I used him
Speaker 1: in a monologue a while back. Nickolas Cage is a
Speaker 1: star that was like a washed up star. Oh no way, really? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like he's washed up compared to what he had been.
Speaker 1: He was in, wasn't he like he was in like
Speaker 1: Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Like he he peaked in
Speaker 1: like the eighties, early nineties. No, he peaked late nineties.
Speaker 1: You think con Air in the late nineties he peaked, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he did. I think the last dud of him, well,
Speaker 1: like gone in sixty seconds, wasn't that bad? But yeah,
Speaker 1: he had that run Gone sixty seconds, the rock face Off,
Speaker 1: like those were all mid nineties. I think Raising Arizona
Speaker 1: was another one, right, Yeah, Yeah, that was a good movie.
Speaker 1: I should watch that again. I haven't watched that a
Speaker 1: lot of time, I think. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't some of those movies you mentioned that I didn't
Speaker 1: even see. So I didn't see the Rock you didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the rock I saw Leaving Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I saw the Arizona one. I think I saw National Treasure,
Speaker 1: although don't remember it, but Raising Arizona is the one
Speaker 1: I remember most, and Leaving Las Vegas. Those two. So
Speaker 1: you didn't watch Faceoffs? Uh? No, I didn't watch Faceoffs
Speaker 1: probably my favorite. Speaking of Tiger King, did you don't
Speaker 1: not to steal your your thunder. Did you see the
Speaker 1: news out of Oklahoma? The Tiger King Zoo, the famous
Speaker 1: Tiger King Zoo, has reopened. They are benefiting from the Netflix.
Speaker 1: They're finally cashing in here. Massive crowds, massive crowds have
Speaker 1: made the pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to hang
Speaker 1: out at the world's largest big cat park, made famous
Speaker 1: by Joe Exotic, who's now in jail. And yeah, the
Speaker 1: photos are pretty wild man, and the tabloids went had
Speaker 1: a field day with this that they opened up. The
Speaker 1: shutdown had come to an end in Oklahoma, and the
Speaker 1: wind would Oklahoma off the beaten path and people lined up,
Speaker 1: end up. They're trying to follow the guidelines, but it
Speaker 1: didn't look like many people were following the suggested protocols.
Speaker 1: There they were, they were enjoying themselves lining up to
Speaker 1: pet the tiger and all that take pictures with the tiger. Disgusting. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of jail, how about this one here in California.
Speaker 1: Glenn Dora police arrested a man a few days ago
Speaker 1: and released him. Uh they did this not once twice,
Speaker 1: but three times. This guy actually was arrested for allegedly
Speaker 1: stealing cars and other property three different times, been the
Speaker 1: same fucking day. And then they blamed California's news zero
Speaker 1: bail policy for their inability to keep the suspect behind bars.
Speaker 1: But it happened in April. Um But yeah, getting pot
Speaker 1: multiple times for some some hainas crimes, Well, this reminds
Speaker 1: me of what happened in New York. Remember then the
Speaker 1: guy rob a bank or he got he committed some crime,
Speaker 1: he got out and then went out and robbed a
Speaker 1: bank or something in New York. And uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean listen, I don't my wife works in law enforcement
Speaker 1: or your dad is was a legend in law enforcement.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is a problem, and there's
Speaker 1: gotta be a balance, right. I do think too many
Speaker 1: people go to jail. I do believe that, and that
Speaker 1: there's people that are in jail that don't need to
Speaker 1: be in jail. But at the same time, you've got
Speaker 1: to strike the right balance. You got a thread a
Speaker 1: needle here. You can't be letting people out three times
Speaker 1: to commit crime. You should have to to stay in
Speaker 1: there for a while. What the best part, Ben he
Speaker 1: was arrested three times within a twelve hour period. Zero
Speaker 1: bail policy. There you go the zero bail policy that
Speaker 1: is outstanding. It's like it's like fishing, right, catch and release.
Speaker 1: It's the same concept in the fish. You don't wanna
Speaker 1: do you want to kill him just you know you
Speaker 1: can get him again. And well, what was that? Was it? Chris?
Speaker 1: Somebody called when it was maybe a Sean the hood
Speaker 1: guy who said, back in the day, and this might
Speaker 1: cut close to home, but like if he said that,
Speaker 1: sometimes he'd get in trouble with the police and they'd
Speaker 1: release him, but they'd drop him off in like enemy
Speaker 1: gang territory. Yeah, and then he'd have to fend for himself,
Speaker 1: wearing the wrong colors. And within those days without cell phones,
Speaker 1: it's pretty wild story. And then somebody in Philadelphia, a
Speaker 1: guy and one of our listeners in Philly who listens.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you listen to the podcast, but
Speaker 1: he listens to the radio show. He said, when he
Speaker 1: in his younger days, he was um criminal uh and uh,
Speaker 1: and he in the Patti wagon in Philadelphia. When he'd
Speaker 1: get arrested. They would make it like Mr. Toad's wild Ride,
Speaker 1: but there was no seatbelts and he would they would
Speaker 1: bounce the people on the back from side to side
Speaker 1: because they'd make turns at a you know, wide angle,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing with like with two
Speaker 1: wheels and uh, and then they you'd be bruised from
Speaker 1: driving around the pattiwagon. And then they would also drop
Speaker 1: you off off in a neighborhood where you didn't know anybody.
Speaker 1: And this is back in the days when you didn't
Speaker 1: have a phone to get any communication. So yeah, about that.
Speaker 1: That's wild. That is pretty cool. Wild. That's uh kind
Speaker 1: of reminds if you saw this movie, but it reminds
Speaker 1: me of Die Hard three with a Vengeance. Okay, so
Speaker 1: Bruce Willis, who plays John McClain, he has to play
Speaker 1: a game with Simon says, with a terrorist, and this
Speaker 1: terrorist says, okay, you need to go into Harlem nearly
Speaker 1: butt naked, and you have to wear a sign over
Speaker 1: your body that says, uh, I hate black people, but
Speaker 1: in more of a vulgar language. So he had to
Speaker 1: walk the streets of Harlem with a sign on that
Speaker 1: says that. Samuel L. Jackson comes in. He's like titled
Speaker 1: the Samaritan. But he comes in and rescues him and
Speaker 1: he's like, are you having a good day, sir? It's
Speaker 1: so good if it sounds exactly like that, so crazy man,
Speaker 1: and you know so, but you should gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: do something. It's it's it's ridiculous. Do you look at
Speaker 1: like certain judges that have you know, everyone's got their
Speaker 1: own agenda, their power hungry. The the woman in Texas
Speaker 1: that opened up her salon and she ended up going
Speaker 1: to jail because the judge demanded that she get down
Speaker 1: on her knee and kiss his boat. And she wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that. You know, by the way, you know that
Speaker 1: woman actually went I went to high school with that woman,
Speaker 1: did you know that? Yeah? I get a buddy of
Speaker 1: mine who lives in Dallas, and he's given me the
Speaker 1: whole story and my freshman and sophomore year of high school.
Speaker 1: She small Orange County and yeah, sure enough, she under
Speaker 1: her maiden name, not the name. She got married and
Speaker 1: moved to Texas, but she grew up in the same
Speaker 1: neighborhood I grew up in. How crazy is that? It's
Speaker 1: a small world, after all, It's a small small world.
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Speaker 1: here Speaking of world, if we go above this world
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, SpaceX, NASA, and Tom Cruise right now are
Speaker 1: working on a production that would potentially take place in
Speaker 1: outer space. What could possibly go wrong? Gasco? What could
Speaker 1: possibly go wrong with this? I'm down for it though.
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise does the majority of his stunts. I mean,
Speaker 1: in fact, in the new top Gun that's supposed to
Speaker 1: be coming out, he's actually the one that's flying some
Speaker 1: of these fighter pilots. Are these fighter jets? Um? I
Speaker 1: know he flew in the original Top Gun. He was
Speaker 1: flying those at four teens. He does a lot of
Speaker 1: his own stuff, So this is an actor that pushes
Speaker 1: it to the limit. Man, what if he dies though, Like,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be an amazing end of Tom Cruise's life
Speaker 1: if he died in space to film a cheeseball movie, right,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be amazing? Yeah? What I would like to
Speaker 1: go to space if if I felt it was reasonably safe.
Speaker 1: You know, you always do the cost benefit analysis. I
Speaker 1: think it just overwhelming though, to be in there and
Speaker 1: to look at the planet and and then find out
Speaker 1: it's actually flat, like kybe Irvan said a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. That would really be a shocker. You talking
Speaker 1: about a plot twist, guest guts. You get up there
Speaker 1: and you're like, whoa, it's flat? What happened? It's not
Speaker 1: a marble, it's a square. The question is could you
Speaker 1: take the g force? Could you take that shot of Well,
Speaker 1: they'd have to take me up on the vomit comment,
Speaker 1: which is a real thing, and figure out how to
Speaker 1: handle that. That would be you got to know people,
Speaker 1: but they will take civilians up on the vomit common
Speaker 1: if you know people. I don't know anybody. So would
Speaker 1: you would you go on the vomit comment? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: zero g s and all that, Huh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: For the Hyatts man, I gravity as a I mean,
Speaker 1: I hate flying as an is. But well I don't
Speaker 1: like flying either. But mainly I don't like flying because
Speaker 1: I don't usually fit in planes. Maybe mainly well, for
Speaker 1: a while it's just too fat. Now I've lost weight,
Speaker 1: so I fit in the plane. But the knees I
Speaker 1: haven't been able to chop my legs off. So if
Speaker 1: I if I chopped my knees off, actually a little
Speaker 1: bit above the knee. I think I'll be fine flying
Speaker 1: sit in an emergency row. You wanna have to worry
Speaker 1: about that? Then it doesn't recline. You know, what about
Speaker 1: what about skydiving? Would you do that? No? No interest?
Speaker 1: What about bungee? No? No injury sailing, parasailing? Maybe I
Speaker 1: think that's you got more of a chance of being
Speaker 1: okay on that as opposed to if the bungee decides
Speaker 1: to that's the day it's gonna break. Then you're done.
Speaker 1: And the obviously the skydiving, he goes without saying the
Speaker 1: parachute did not open. And that was the end of
Speaker 1: Ben Maller. Yeah, yeah, Betty bright side, Benny Splat, that
Speaker 1: would be my nickname, Benny Splat. Here lies perly Benny
Speaker 1: in pieces, so you can get a piece, a souvenir
Speaker 1: piece of Mallard right there. All right, So that's what
Speaker 1: we got for this week's edition of Don't Stick to Sports.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's get to the mail bag. Thank
Speaker 1: you all for sending in questions. And I got an
Speaker 1: email and this really resonated with me because guesscon, you
Speaker 1: are not on Facebook. You are against Facebook. You don't
Speaker 1: like that platform. You feel like it's it's not for
Speaker 1: you for for reasons that you can get into if
Speaker 1: you want or not. But so you're not on there.
Speaker 1: And I got an email from somebody said, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: not on Facebook, but I want to send a question,
Speaker 1: and so I said, you know, what, what are we
Speaker 1: doing here? We have an email address for the show,
Speaker 1: So send your question. If you're not a Facebook person
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, whether it's political or you just think
Speaker 1: it's for old people and you don't want to be
Speaker 1: on there, go to the Real Fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com, Real the Real fifth Hour at gmail dot
Speaker 1: com and put question or mail bag, either one of
Speaker 1: those questions or a bag in the headline, and then
Speaker 1: that'll let me know and we'll we'll sort through all
Speaker 1: the other mail and we'll go to that for the questions,
Speaker 1: because we have some that came from the email back
Speaker 1: this week, and we have others from Facebook, okay, and
Speaker 1: we'll try to go through as many of these as
Speaker 1: we can. And so let's get into it. As Marcel,
Speaker 1: the reigning Caller of the Year and the Mallet Militia
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn, who famously said, when confronted with an accusation
Speaker 1: from Real Talk that Real Talk wanted to kick his ass,
Speaker 1: and Marcel shouted blocked, blocked, blocked. Wonderful Mason the Millennial
Speaker 1: rites in from the Bay Area. Mason is a big
Speaker 1: Mallew militia guy over the last couple of years. He's
Speaker 1: twenty one years old. He says, I love the politics.
Speaker 1: Last weekend, he says, how about that? And then he says,
Speaker 1: will you ever realize that the people sending in hate
Speaker 1: just hope to get it read on the air for
Speaker 1: causing a ruckus and and being a drama queen? That's
Speaker 1: the question. Well, Mason, Yeah, obviously there's a percentage of
Speaker 1: people that do try to hit my buttons, and of
Speaker 1: course I never fall for this. I never let people
Speaker 1: hit my buttons unless I hit. I allow them to
Speaker 1: do that all the time. So certainly that is a factor.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to disagree with that. I'm gonna push back, though, Mason,
Speaker 1: because I know a lot of these people who have
Speaker 1: been sending me these coronavirus related emails. I think this
Speaker 1: is legit. I don't think it's a stick to try
Speaker 1: to get red on the air because I don't read
Speaker 1: more like never make the air. It's just I just
Speaker 1: complained about the email that I get, so, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: an element to that, but I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: huge element. I think the one pushback is I don't
Speaker 1: feel like we were being political. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I don't, well, but this has become political, right. If
Speaker 1: you if you want the lockdown to continue, your Democrat.
Speaker 1: If you don't want the lockdown to continue, your Republican,
Speaker 1: which I believe is bullshit. My friend who lives in Dallas,
Speaker 1: who I just referenced earlier, there is a huge liberal,
Speaker 1: like the biggest like liberal guy I know, like he
Speaker 1: despises Trump and everything, but he wants the lockdown to end.
Speaker 1: He's on the side of the lockdown, you know, ending
Speaker 1: and getting back on Texas is starting to open up
Speaker 1: and all that. And he also showed up, by the way,
Speaker 1: my friend who's a huge liberal guy, showed up to
Speaker 1: the rally for the woman from the Salon. They had
Speaker 1: a support rally in Dallas, which she's become like a
Speaker 1: poster girl for the Republican Party for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and he showed up as uh, you know, a flaming
Speaker 1: the liberal guy. He showed up there to hang on.
Speaker 1: How about that? That's pretty awesome. Yeah, I don't Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's political. I just think that we're
Speaker 1: just talking about what's out there, and people are experiencing
Speaker 1: the same things too, so we're kind of either echoing
Speaker 1: that or providing new or different information. Alright, Paris in Nashville,
Speaker 1: Now about this guy. This guy's another guy hustling. These
Speaker 1: young guys are hustling. I love to hear story. That's
Speaker 1: how I was when I was at age. Man, I
Speaker 1: was hustling, had multiple jobs, working my ass with no girlfriends.
Speaker 1: But I had multiple jobs, working my ass up. Going
Speaker 1: to school, Paris as a small business owner, competitive gamer,
Speaker 1: he says, And he's in school for his pH d
Speaker 1: in economics. This guy going places. This is a guy
Speaker 1: that will be begging for for jobs someday. This guy Paris,
Speaker 1: So he's this podcast question. If you lost your job
Speaker 1: and had to pick one illegal occupation as your next
Speaker 1: line of work, what would it be? Would it be pimp? Drug, kingpin, assassin?
Speaker 1: We want to know, says Paris from Nashville. Paris, first
Speaker 1: of all, thank you for listening, and it sounds like
Speaker 1: you've got a good grasp of life there and you're
Speaker 1: you're taking life by the horns. I appreciate that. Um,
Speaker 1: but I would say, and I changed my answer Originally
Speaker 1: I would say, like pimp, you know, because why not.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pamper. Come on, pimp daddy, right.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go drug kingpin because of Tarzan and
Speaker 1: the documentary in the previous podcast couple of podcasts ago
Speaker 1: we did regarding Tarzan, that Russian sub guy. What a
Speaker 1: life that guy was living. So I'm gonna go Russian
Speaker 1: drug kingpin. Yeah, would you like to add on it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta go that way too. We uh, we have
Speaker 1: plenty of women are our lives, so I think being
Speaker 1: a pimp was goes against that. I've only got one. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you have beyond that, you have nieces and
Speaker 1: because whatnot? So sleeping with him? Yes? Um that And yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a hit man at all. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't have a license to kill. But you're not bloodthirsty,
Speaker 1: you know, no, not at all. But you like sports
Speaker 1: but not blood sports. Yeah exactly. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: being a kingpin. Plus, I mean you can get any
Speaker 1: kind of drug for anybody. We've spent hours in Vegas
Speaker 1: and you know, when we get to Vegas, people are
Speaker 1: like feeding for something wrong, right, Like it's not alcohol,
Speaker 1: it's everything else that's a step above that. That often
Speaker 1: is the case. Curt for Earth Rights, and he says,
Speaker 1: the next time someone asked you, what's ups on with
Speaker 1: all of the above, there you go anyway. He says,
Speaker 1: it's much different answer than the sky that's random. Kurt
Speaker 1: also says, tell your lethargic sidekick, David J. Gascon he
Speaker 1: parks a vehicle the way blind Scott takes a selfie.
Speaker 1: All right, I've just passed that on Kurt Gascon. He
Speaker 1: wanted you to know that. Did you Did you take
Speaker 1: Blind Scott out of the penny box yet? Uh? No?
Speaker 1: I mean he's for what which violation? He said? Multiple violation? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has gone rogue, he's gone off the reservation. Um no,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's allowed to call in and all that.
Speaker 1: But I know Tammy's very upset with him and still
Speaker 1: upset with him, and I hope they can work things out.
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, they don't have to be friends,
Speaker 1: you can just ignore. I just wish people would ignore
Speaker 1: these these guys like blind Scott because I'll go back
Speaker 1: to what Mason the Millennial said. I do agree with
Speaker 1: Mason when he comes to like blind Scott. Blind Scott
Speaker 1: loves the attention. He loves the fact that people hate
Speaker 1: his guts. And he's just some blind dude living on
Speaker 1: the cape and he's got people that are sending nasty
Speaker 1: things out on the Internet about I mean, like, this
Speaker 1: is like a big power rush for him. And then
Speaker 1: you're feeding it by going if you just ignore him,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll do something else. We'll get back to his
Speaker 1: normal stickla and and all that. Don't exactly right. Don't
Speaker 1: feed the seagulls at the beach because you'll be overwhelmed
Speaker 1: with birds. John the jailer from alan Town, Pennsylvania, Right,
Speaker 1: So he says, Ben, how is your kitchen renovation coming?
Speaker 1: I have been using plywood countertops due to the shutdown,
Speaker 1: the install has been rescheduled for That's a great question, John.
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate in the respect that about nine seven
Speaker 1: percent of the renovation of the Mallard Mansion kitchen got
Speaker 1: done and we just got the countertop installed right before
Speaker 1: this all went to hell in a handbasket. So I
Speaker 1: got lucky on that. But the contractor we had fucked
Speaker 1: up the power supply in the kitchen. So you know
Speaker 1: the plugs around the kitchen. Uh, he fucked up three
Speaker 1: of them, I believe at least two of them, and
Speaker 1: we we have not been able to get those fixed.
Speaker 1: So we have limited power in the kitchen. So like
Speaker 1: the stove at the Mallard mansion, we have an extension
Speaker 1: cord to use the stove that goes from another room,
Speaker 1: like the dining room, over into the kitchen because that's
Speaker 1: the only way we can power up the stove. Otherwise
Speaker 1: we would not be able to cook. But that but
Speaker 1: unfortunately everything else is working. So how's the cooking? Cooking
Speaker 1: is fucking great? Cheese steak. We made the most amazing
Speaker 1: chicken palm, restaurant quality chicken palm amazing. Uh, go down
Speaker 1: the list and it's great homemade chalkolate chip cookies. It's
Speaker 1: been wonderful. Yeah. I did invite you over, but social distancing,
Speaker 1: so sorry, cannot do it there. I hope you understand. Uh.
Speaker 1: But John and Jailer, good luck to you with the installation.
Speaker 1: Hoping that goes well. Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia, give
Speaker 1: me the one moment in your life you would go
Speaker 1: back to change if there is one, assuming you had
Speaker 1: a hot tub time machine. Well, very good point there, Jason.
Speaker 1: We gotta go back in the way back machine. Is
Speaker 1: there a point in your life that you would change something.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any right now. I feel like
Speaker 1: we're all a product of our life experience. I think
Speaker 1: if there's one thing I could tell myself when I
Speaker 1: was younger, you know, calm down, don't be as paranoid,
Speaker 1: don't have the uh, the neurosis about being fired every day.
Speaker 1: I've been fired now multiple times. It's not that bad.
Speaker 1: You can get another job, you know, on radio and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I was so concerned. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm gonna lose my job. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be a work in radio. For like the first
Speaker 1: ten years of my career, every day I'd go in
Speaker 1: thinking I was gonna be fired. I blame Howard Friedman,
Speaker 1: the old program right there at the Mighty, because he
Speaker 1: would fire people every year or so it seemed, and
Speaker 1: they on vacation and they never come back. So I
Speaker 1: was I was always paranoid about this. That's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I don't take a lot of vacation. But
Speaker 1: there's not any other like ah ha moment where I'd say, oh,
Speaker 1: I really wish. I mean, there's embarrassing things that have happened.
Speaker 1: I shipped my pants and I at work. That was embarrassing.
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's any way I could really
Speaker 1: get around that because I had my goal bladder taken out.
Speaker 1: What about you, gascon Man, There's a there's a couple
Speaker 1: of stick out to me still due to this day.
Speaker 1: One of them I wear it on my my shoulder.
Speaker 1: Um So, I I tore my road tator cuff my
Speaker 1: senior year of high school in a in a championship
Speaker 1: football game Albundy Pulk High School, right and the the
Speaker 1: orthopic surgeon didn't know that I tore it until like
Speaker 1: five or six months down the road. Um So, I
Speaker 1: had surgery before I went into college. But instead of
Speaker 1: going to a regular university, I went to a junior
Speaker 1: college in Torrance, and I recovered and got back to
Speaker 1: playing football. And my sophomore year, I thought I was
Speaker 1: gonna have a great year, like I was fully healthy,
Speaker 1: in great shape. Um And I started getting offers to
Speaker 1: to D one universities. I went to You went to
Speaker 1: saddle Back, I went to El Camino and those two
Speaker 1: schools like our moment for recruiting. Yeah, and so I
Speaker 1: remember like it was yesterday. Well, that's where they would
Speaker 1: put players to stash them that needed some work on
Speaker 1: their education before they could be eligible to play, like
Speaker 1: a Division one school. All the time they would. It's
Speaker 1: like the farm system, like hi a for for teams
Speaker 1: they do. That's how That's how Howie Longs kid ended
Speaker 1: up at saddleback that he played with the Bears, Kyle
Speaker 1: Long I think it was his name, one of the
Speaker 1: one along brothers. We went there because he needed a
Speaker 1: place to go for a year to hide out before
Speaker 1: he could go to the real school. He was gonna go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly it. So my sophomore year, I was like
Speaker 1: the team captain. I was in great shape. And then
Speaker 1: we had a scrimmage against U C. L a Um,
Speaker 1: like a seven on seven scrimmage, and there were scouts
Speaker 1: that were out there looking at all of us, like
Speaker 1: evaluating talent on what not. And my quarterback had thrown
Speaker 1: me a post and I had beat the free safety
Speaker 1: over the top and I dove I aired out to
Speaker 1: make an attempt on the catch on this long ball,
Speaker 1: no reason I fucking should have done it. I landed
Speaker 1: on my surgically repaired shoulder toward the road tator cuff again,
Speaker 1: and my playing days are over, and like it wiped
Speaker 1: out any chance to get a full ride to a
Speaker 1: major university. And I feel like that in itself kind
Speaker 1: of took me away from everything else that I wanted
Speaker 1: to do, like sportscasting, like like playing at the D
Speaker 1: one level. Yeah, like I'm I'm six ft one and
Speaker 1: when I played, I was two thirty um, but like
Speaker 1: I had the mentality to play at the D one level,
Speaker 1: like the guys that we played against, scrimmaged against, and
Speaker 1: and compete against. I know I could have been at
Speaker 1: that level, and I think it wasn't for me trying
Speaker 1: to impress the coaches or the scolets that were out there.
Speaker 1: I think I had a great sophomore year. I think
Speaker 1: it would have gotten a D one university in a
Speaker 1: full ride, and I potentially could have gone somewhere with it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and of course you're referring to the fact
Speaker 1: you are a sportscaster, but the easiest path to becoming
Speaker 1: a sportscaster to be an ext jock. Uh the they
Speaker 1: will hire you to put you on TV, they'll put
Speaker 1: makeup on you, they'll give you radio shows, and you
Speaker 1: don't even have to speak English, and they will give
Speaker 1: you these jobs, great jobs, high paying jobs, with no experience,
Speaker 1: just the jock ocracy. You could have been part of
Speaker 1: the jock ocracy, but you got hurt, and when sucked
Speaker 1: it up by getting hurt. If you hadn't gotten hurt,
Speaker 1: you would have had a much better life. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I have, I still have this day. But I had
Speaker 1: this great escape, like I needed to get away from
Speaker 1: football and get away from sports because I felt like
Speaker 1: like I mentally, I felt like my body let me
Speaker 1: down or I let my body down, and so I
Speaker 1: needed to escape from the game. And so like I
Speaker 1: got in the sales and got in the like real estate,
Speaker 1: and it was just too too drunk on making money
Speaker 1: as opposed to chasing this Like you did this when
Speaker 1: you were in eighteen, nineteen twenty years old. I started
Speaker 1: was nineteen as an intern, just turned nineteen. So you're
Speaker 1: a kid, and he took you a while to build
Speaker 1: that book and to get on air and to be
Speaker 1: full time and to be a host. Or me, I
Speaker 1: didn't start my career until I left all my personal things,
Speaker 1: like I left a six figure job, I left a
Speaker 1: longtime girlfriend, I went back to school, and then I
Speaker 1: worked for you know, six ninety but the time was
Speaker 1: thirteen sixty. I was working a part time job ten
Speaker 1: dollars an hour as a board op and that was
Speaker 1: in two thousand and twelve. So that's a lot of
Speaker 1: money for San Diego radio guest. And you were making
Speaker 1: big money, dude, Like it's so you made more than
Speaker 1: I made when I worked there. I'll tell you that, man,
Speaker 1: I was making ship money, dude, Like I just you know,
Speaker 1: like that that like one that one act I think
Speaker 1: just had this huge ripple and I, you know, I
Speaker 1: have a fucking massive scar on my shoulder and I still,
Speaker 1: you know this day, I still fucking wear it. And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, So yeah, all right, Well it's a sad
Speaker 1: cautionary tale from Davidson. We stay in Virginia doing a
Speaker 1: grab bag. These are actual email questions or these are
Speaker 1: from Facebook. We go from Rocky Mount, Virginia. We drive
Speaker 1: about two hundred miles down the road there on I
Speaker 1: one to Fort Royal, Virginia. And this is from Matt.
Speaker 1: Matt says would you take sports coming back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: no more Costco samples ever, or would you wait till
Speaker 1: August for both to come back from that? I know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say, You'll wait till August. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would wait till August. Um. Personally I would wait for August. Professionally,
Speaker 1: I would have to give up Costco samples because I
Speaker 1: we work in the advertising business, and the advertising business
Speaker 1: is gone to hell, so we need advertising to come back.
Speaker 1: And the good news is once this is officially on
Speaker 1: the down slope the ad once stuff gets opened up,
Speaker 1: the ad market will come right back. And because people
Speaker 1: are gonna try, businesses are gonna spend a lot of
Speaker 1: money on advertising just try and get us to go
Speaker 1: to their stores and to go out and mingle and
Speaker 1: go to restaurants and all that stuff. So that's good news.
Speaker 1: So professionally I need it. But yeah, I missed my
Speaker 1: my Costco samples. I go to Costco, I gotta wear
Speaker 1: gloves of mask. I feel like I'm going to rob
Speaker 1: a bank and I don't even get my samples. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's helped out with the diet and you're you're
Speaker 1: eating habits. I guess I don't know, I used to
Speaker 1: love going on the weekends and just grazing Costco and
Speaker 1: fighting senior citizens for that little hot dog or that
Speaker 1: mini taco or whatever. I love that. Travis, when parts
Speaker 1: Unknown rights back, says, if sports never came back, would
Speaker 1: your show be more third rail topics or would you
Speaker 1: move on to something completely different? I fully expect the
Speaker 1: world to get back to a semblance of normal fairly soon.
Speaker 1: Well so so do I, Travis. Thank you. Well, if
Speaker 1: sports never come back, I won't have a job. I'll
Speaker 1: be unemployed. Fox Sports Radio will not exist. The network,
Speaker 1: as much as I love it, and I've worked through
Speaker 1: my pretty much most of my adult life, They're not
Speaker 1: gonna have a sports network if there's no sports. So
Speaker 1: what was the last time you did a four hour
Speaker 1: straight sports show? Two thousand one? Oh god? Never? Well maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know maybe When I first started, I was like sport,
Speaker 1: oh Ben, you know, and then I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I canna be yeah. Yeah. That that is
Speaker 1: one thing that I The only complaint I have really
Speaker 1: now is there's not the quantity, but there's still stuff
Speaker 1: every day that I've yet to have a day where
Speaker 1: I start to get ready for the show, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking for things to talk about, where I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: sh it, there's nothing to talk about. I got you know,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do here? And uh And we've
Speaker 1: been able to try. I know you hate everything new
Speaker 1: that I try and you don't like it, but a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff has been very popular. Cowboys power
Speaker 1: Our critically acclaimed. People loved it. They want an encore.
Speaker 1: We had Alex Tisher. I know you hate your co workers,
Speaker 1: but Alex Tisher, who I like a lot other than
Speaker 1: the fact he's a vegan. We did ask a Vegan
Speaker 1: for most of an hour, did a monologue. We did
Speaker 1: ask a Vegan, and and he was fun. People loved him.
Speaker 1: Tisher was great, and so yeah, it was it was
Speaker 1: a good time. Yeah. Some of the stuff I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with. I don't know about that. You
Speaker 1: complain all the things, I mean, text messages, so you're
Speaker 1: lazy about lazy radio, auto pilot radio. But I disagree.
Speaker 1: When I'm gonna do a power our with Blair from
Speaker 1: from Maine, alright, alright, that takes laser like focus, that
Speaker 1: takes dedication. I don't know which Blair is gonna show up.
Speaker 1: I love Blair. I've met Blair. I met him in
Speaker 1: Boston at an event back in April of last year,
Speaker 1: and big fan, big fan of Blair. But sometimes Blair
Speaker 1: calls up and is a angry drunk. Sometimes he's sporty Blair.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's sweet Blair. And you don't know which one's
Speaker 1: gonna call up. You have no idea, So I and
Speaker 1: I don't, and we're gonna do a power our. Maybe
Speaker 1: one segment will be angry Blair, then the next one
Speaker 1: he'll be sporty Blair, and then the final one he
Speaker 1: will be nice, sweet Blair. It's a very diverse portfolio
Speaker 1: that you'll have, at least for sixty minutes, touching all
Speaker 1: the bases, touching all the bases. All right, let's see here?
Speaker 1: What is next, Kyle? But just go back to Travis,
Speaker 1: Like listen. If there were no sports, I would obviously
Speaker 1: have to I need to put food on the table.
Speaker 1: I would shift over. I think I do guy talk,
Speaker 1: which I kind of used to do back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I guess maybe I still do. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I think that would be fine. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I want to go full full political radio guy.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm I don't think I'm interested in
Speaker 1: that at this point. Maybe down the line I might be,
Speaker 1: but I'm not. I'm not there right now. Kyle in
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Kyle Clark, he wants his full name. On
Speaker 1: the radio from San Antonio says, do you and your
Speaker 1: your your guys prefer red salsa or are you adventurous
Speaker 1: enough to try the green? And he talks about he
Speaker 1: ordered a niche a lot of plate in Albuquerque when
Speaker 1: he was fourteen or fifteen years old. He says, I
Speaker 1: will spare you the nasty details of the results of
Speaker 1: that particular meal. I don't know, but I think I
Speaker 1: gotta say Roberto's probably green. Do you think Robertos? I
Speaker 1: think Roberto, Yeah, because yeah, because Roberto's down with the spicy.
Speaker 1: I like the spicy two. I used to get only
Speaker 1: red salsa. The you have green saucea repulse me. And
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago I had an epiphany and
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, let me try something a
Speaker 1: little different here, let me test my palate. And I
Speaker 1: bought salsa Verde. That stuff is like crack, That salsa Verdict.
Speaker 1: I love it, and I've crossed over now. I still
Speaker 1: occasionally eat the red sauce, so the spicy with the
Speaker 1: peppers in it. But I like the salsa Verdi. I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a fan. Have you had you your salsa verdi? Guy?
Speaker 1: Are you a red sauce so? I I am. I'm both.
Speaker 1: The one thing I don't do. I don't know why
Speaker 1: you're a switch hitter. Yeah, I mean do you because
Speaker 1: you like breakfast burritos? Do you ever put salsa? Now?
Speaker 1: My wife likes breakfast bris I don't eat breakfast. Um like,
Speaker 1: you don't have any kind of a breakfast burrito. I
Speaker 1: don't eat. I eat one meal a day. There's no
Speaker 1: point eating a breakfast burrito. I don't eat. If I
Speaker 1: was gonna eat breakfast, i'd eat pancakes. I'd eat french toast,
Speaker 1: side of hash browns piled up pretty high. That's that's
Speaker 1: the stuff I would eat. That's good. I'm in the
Speaker 1: middle of the faster now, so this is all making
Speaker 1: me very hungry. It's uh, well, I'm in the middle
Speaker 1: of a fest too. Well. You didn't say that, so
Speaker 1: it was assuming year area. I haven't eaten since yesterday,
Speaker 1: it's just been almost twenty four hours. But that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to eat shortly after we get done here
Speaker 1: because my wife is gonna force me. Alright, Kentucky j Wrights,
Speaker 1: and he says it, would you rather be the owner
Speaker 1: of a chain of Raising Knes or stick with sports talk?
Speaker 1: It's a tough choice. Financially, you would make more money
Speaker 1: owning a chain of Raising Kanes restaurants. Yeah, it's Raising Kanes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd go Raising Kings. Although I don't know that those
Speaker 1: are privately owned. I think they're still owned by the corporation.
Speaker 1: But I would like to buy some if I if
Speaker 1: I could get in on that Raising Kanes. Ethan in
Speaker 1: acron Ohio writes in Ethan big fan. He's been a
Speaker 1: super fan over the last couple of weeks. He came
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, dropped from the heavens, and has regaled
Speaker 1: us with great content. Ethan says a bed there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of caller Shenanigans lately. Have you ever had
Speaker 1: an incident where a caller calls in impersonating another caller
Speaker 1: all the time, Ethan. Now, some do it, obviously, like
Speaker 1: the Auzzy guy, who is an amazing voice artist, the
Speaker 1: Ausi guy with these impersonations. But I have had Pete
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I've had blind Scott has pulled this crap
Speaker 1: Real Talk has tried to pull this stuff, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I have had guys attempt Usually I'm pretty good at
Speaker 1: figuring out because I I listened to voices because it's
Speaker 1: all I have, and so I'm pretty good at But yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely it's happened. I remember producing for your show, and
Speaker 1: that dork from Cincinnati would call him like multiple times
Speaker 1: during the week and try to impersonate other people, like
Speaker 1: just to just to call in and hear my reaction
Speaker 1: and then be on the air with you. Yeah, pretty sad.
Speaker 1: So really upset with the guy from Cincinnati this week.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on. Did he send you a nasty
Speaker 1: message or something like that? Not at all? Are you
Speaker 1: sure about that? I want you want to you want
Speaker 1: to talk to the the classes see what's going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's anything worthwhile, but there's nuts. I just want to
Speaker 1: check here. I hope everything everything's all right. I'm talking
Speaker 1: you can talk um and you haven't ripped Chris in Houston.
Speaker 1: Usually you're upset with him, You've been okay with him. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's irrelevant, he's not getting much airtime
Speaker 1: anyway on your show, so he hasn't called up as
Speaker 1: much for this last week. He's he's working hard, though.
Speaker 1: Do you ever get worried that he's getting how he
Speaker 1: has gotten sick at all? Because he works with a
Speaker 1: law of traffic, right, there's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: come in and out for what he does. He's working
Speaker 1: there when no one's in the store. He's stocking the shelves.
Speaker 1: I thought he was working like daytime with Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's working over now. He says, he's gone by the
Speaker 1: time the customers come in. So, uh, Crystal in Washington state,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if she's in Seattle or not. Anytime anybody
Speaker 1: says hey, you're from Washington, they always immediately say assumed Seattle.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Crystal says, have you checked out the plan?
Speaker 1: The pandemic documentary? The hidden agenda behind COVID nineteen? Very interesting?
Speaker 1: I'm not Kristo. Have you seen that documentary? I've I've
Speaker 1: watched it. Yeah, what do you think it Is it
Speaker 1: worth my time? Is it eight and minutes long? Um?
Speaker 1: You have to go and Reddit to go watch it.
Speaker 1: Now it's been scrubbed from the YouTube. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: those doctors in Bakersfield doctors. Yes, so um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a doctor on there. So I send me a link.
Speaker 1: Esc maybe I'll watch it this weekend. I don't know, Okay,
Speaker 1: next weekend or whatever. Uh. Dave from Dayton says, what
Speaker 1: were your favorite TV shows of all time? All right, Dave,
Speaker 1: Now right now, my favorite TV show is Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: I used to love the Sopranos. I've been rewatching the
Speaker 1: Sopranos back in the day, so I think, like I
Speaker 1: like Cheers. I like to spin off of Cheers, Frasier.
Speaker 1: Of course. I love w k RP and Cincinnati. I
Speaker 1: was a big fan of that. That's a There were
Speaker 1: a couple of versions of that show. They brought it
Speaker 1: back from the dead. But then when I was younger,
Speaker 1: like I watched really cheeseball nineteen seventies, eighties UM shows
Speaker 1: like Chips which it was Ponceorello and those guys. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a show called Emergency that was about paramedics
Speaker 1: and I love that show. And there was a show
Speaker 1: called Swat that I used to watch, and the A
Speaker 1: Team was a Big eight team guy as well. So
Speaker 1: those are some of the shows and a bunch of cartoons,
Speaker 1: what about you, guess Yeah, I think cartoons easy. When
Speaker 1: Transformers that was number one. Um, but shows you I
Speaker 1: mean I've watched The Wonder Years, Mr Belvedere, Mr Pelvidere.
Speaker 1: There you go, shout out Bob you yeah, Growing Pains. Um,
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of the law enforcement shows that
Speaker 1: you were onto. Law and Order was a favorite of mine.
Speaker 1: Oh I gotta, I gotta also mentioned Hunter Hunter. Yes,
Speaker 1: shout out Fred Dryer, who I know you're a big
Speaker 1: fan of and you keep asking me to get him
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Calm down. Um, yeah, so you haven't
Speaker 1: watched The Wire yet, but that was a really good show. Um. So,
Speaker 1: I mean I've watched a lot of stuff now that
Speaker 1: everyone watches, but Homeland was really good. That just wrapped up.
Speaker 1: Um on USA Network, I watched Mr Robot and Suits.
Speaker 1: Those are pretty solid. You forgot one. You had this
Speaker 1: one that you left out, which we both agree on.
Speaker 1: This Weekend Baseball, Oh yeah, that was always a good
Speaker 1: twib notes around the Majors. The Cardinals are flying high
Speaker 1: in St. Louis. Yeah, it was a legend. It what
Speaker 1: a legend. It wasn't an actual show, but it was
Speaker 1: on VHS. Don Cherry was a part of these these
Speaker 1: hockey videos called rock'em sock'em Hockey, and those are really good.
Speaker 1: Um Oh. Also professional wrestling with Mean Gene Okerlan Hey
Speaker 1: kids were coming to the Anaheim Convention Center on January first.
Speaker 1: Come see Haul Colgan and other wrestling stars. You know.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's got man. Oh the good old days.
Speaker 1: Night Rider was good too. I watched that rider. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I like night Rider. Tis a lot of shows you've
Speaker 1: opened up Pandora's box you. David Sergio from Lancaster, California says,
Speaker 1: is meatless? Is a meatless meatball still a meat ball?
Speaker 1: It tastes like it. Do you eat meatless food? Gascan?
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of the meatless products that are
Speaker 1: the plant based meats? Yeah? Isn't Al Gore behind one
Speaker 1: of those big companies? Isn't he in a big investor
Speaker 1: in one of them? Probably? Yeah? You till you him
Speaker 1: to Bill Gates or what. I'm not into the I
Speaker 1: don't mind not eating meat per se, like in stuff
Speaker 1: that tastes like meat, but to me it should be healthy. Yes,
Speaker 1: And a lot of that stuff is not healthy, so
Speaker 1: it's not good at all. All right, let's do some
Speaker 1: more here, a couple more real quick. Uh, let's se
Speaker 1: Stino I believe it was his name from New Hampshire
Speaker 1: says they been on your deathbed and your last breath.
Speaker 1: Would you admit you were too hard on ranch dressing?
Speaker 1: Uh no, I will never admit that. Nick and Omas says,
Speaker 1: have you ever fallen asleep on the job or had
Speaker 1: a co worker who did? I did overnights. I had
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour fitness Nick and Almas says, I
Speaker 1: used to take fifteen minute naps on the floor of
Speaker 1: the kids club. Yes, I've never fall asleep. Nick on
Speaker 1: the air, but I had one of my update guys
Speaker 1: fell asleep and was snoring during his update, and he
Speaker 1: had fallen asleep. He turned his mic on right before
Speaker 1: the update and literally fell asleep, like in the ten
Speaker 1: seconds silence at the top of the hour break, and
Speaker 1: we we thought he was dead and we had to go.
Speaker 1: We thought, oh my god, he's died in the update
Speaker 1: news room, and then they had to go in there
Speaker 1: and like wake him up, bang on the window and
Speaker 1: all that to get him to wake up. And the
Speaker 1: funny thing is he woke up and then just started
Speaker 1: doing the update like like nothing had happened, which was
Speaker 1: which was right, Carlos and Houston says for the gag
Speaker 1: on why why do you get so triggered when when
Speaker 1: Ben says, Chris and Houston and Ben, have you talked
Speaker 1: to Russef? Russef got laid off, right, Yeah, he got
Speaker 1: let go by the w I did talk to him,
Speaker 1: my I I sent my condolences. Russef was very positive.
Speaker 1: We corresponded when he first got let go. I have
Speaker 1: not followed up on that. Some have said we should
Speaker 1: get him on the podcast. I think he's on the
Speaker 1: download now because he's gonna get another deal. I believe
Speaker 1: he got a big payout from the w w E.
Speaker 1: But the rumor is he's gonna he's already got something
Speaker 1: else lined up. So I think he's got to kind
Speaker 1: of keep it on the download till he announces that.
Speaker 1: So there you go. All right. We had other questions,
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