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Speaker 1: again from West of the four oh five the man
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Speaker 1: There's a pressing question that has been served from from
Speaker 1: me to to you that we need to acknowledge on
Speaker 1: the air right now on the fifth hour. Oh is
Speaker 1: that right? What would that be? Um? Based on everything
Speaker 1: that's gone on in and how the impact of your
Speaker 1: show has gone from radio to now radio and digital. Um,
Speaker 1: do I qualify for a Benny because I think I'd
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Speaker 1: Be careful what you ask for. Wait, careful what you
Speaker 1: ask why just say it? Be careful what you asked for?
Speaker 1: Why there's different categories to the Benny's okay, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know you do have a reputation as being overbearing,
Speaker 1: overbearing to who, to the listener, pretentious, you know, and
Speaker 1: then those are You've taken some pot shots at the
Speaker 1: Malla militia, so the Malamussa can fight back. But I
Speaker 1: mean you are eligible, you sure me, eligible to win
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Speaker 1: you know. I'm just I'm saying, be careful, all right,
Speaker 1: because you think the Malamlitia is gonna shepherd you in. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's not quite how it works. You have people part
Speaker 1: of the militia that actually call Fox Sports Radio to
Speaker 1: enquire about personal things about me. Oh is that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you got fucking losers in Ohio or Cincinnati for
Speaker 1: to be more specific, that call to inquire about personal
Speaker 1: things about me. Oh, I see, I got not that
Speaker 1: that bothers you, you're yeah, you know, Oh yeah, of
Speaker 1: course it bothers me. It bothers you, Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you can write a book, then on it. You
Speaker 1: should write a book about you think it would sell.
Speaker 1: You're trying to write a book. I have tried to
Speaker 1: write a book. I'm still actually in the process of that.
Speaker 1: I'm currently a waiting word on a project that might
Speaker 1: or might not happen. Right, I'm not optimistic about it,
Speaker 1: but you never know. It's out there, it's in the ethos,
Speaker 1: so maybe it will happen. Your energy, right, you put
Speaker 1: that out there into the into the world, and now
Speaker 1: you're waiting for any books you think we could sell? Though,
Speaker 1: if I wrote a book, how many books could we sell?
Speaker 1: I don't think. Yeah, of course what you say it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But you know, the people that are making
Speaker 1: the book, it matters to them. It would be irresponsible
Speaker 1: not write the book and two people by the damn book.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm curious. I got some decent stories to tell.
Speaker 1: You have what close to fifty five thousand Twitter followers.
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Speaker 1: real measurement because there's a lot of Russian bots and
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Speaker 1: number of people follow me on there. I think it's
Speaker 1: you can sell enough, and especially if you've got some
Speaker 1: friends in New York that are in the media, they
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Speaker 1: Man of the people. Ben mallor They're ba is entertaining
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Speaker 1: fifth hour without me is like taking a dump without
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Speaker 1: Ben for that prominent Benny as top producer for the
Speaker 1: Ben Miller Show. Yeah, I noticed that you're think the
Speaker 1: what's the term for that? Cherry picking? I think that's
Speaker 1: the term here. You're you're kind of overlooking some some
Speaker 1: things here, you know. I'm just there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things to get to have. We have a short amount
Speaker 1: of time, and I don't want to take up too
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Speaker 1: I think is you know, a lie biomission is still
Speaker 1: a lie. You know, a live biomission is still a lie.
Speaker 1: I want to point that out there. Yeah, alright, Uh, Actually,
Speaker 1: before we get to the mailbag, there's a couple of
Speaker 1: stories we didn't get to yesterday that I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up here because I thought they were interesting. They're
Speaker 1: kind of food related stories here science stories. Did you
Speaker 1: see this week? This did not get a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: but US regulators have okayed genetically modified pig for food
Speaker 1: and drugs. Yeah, so you get a pig made in
Speaker 1: the lab and you can have your your bake. I
Speaker 1: wonder if that's kosher if it's made made in the lab.
Speaker 1: So so here in the United States were modifying pigs,
Speaker 1: and in China they're they're genetically modifying soldiers. Oh well,
Speaker 1: to eat their own, you know, to each their own.
Speaker 1: And how are they eating them in China? Like we're
Speaker 1: eating the pigs now, they're still sticking the bats. All right,
Speaker 1: All right, here's another odd food story that I saw
Speaker 1: the other day and I'm like, whoa, wow, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: So there's a guy in London, a researcher in London
Speaker 1: whose life's goal here is to turn blank into food
Speaker 1: ship well kind of Uh, he's a in London. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get a million, millions and millions of chicken
Speaker 1: feathers and turn that into food. Yeah, guys, the thirty
Speaker 1: years old he's originally from Thailand, but he's in London
Speaker 1: and he is seeking funding to continue as research into
Speaker 1: how to best convert the nutrient components found in chicken
Speaker 1: feathers into a powder that can be transformed into a lean,
Speaker 1: protein rich source of edible food. Just chicken feathers, they say,
Speaker 1: contain protein. And if you're able to serve this protein
Speaker 1: to others in the world, the demand from everyone will
Speaker 1: help reduced waste. That's great. Now, I hope what if
Speaker 1: he does come up with this and he does serve it.
Speaker 1: I hope he serves those chicken feathers warm and hot
Speaker 1: and appropriate. Is that? Is that how you're supposed to
Speaker 1: do well? I mean, I know some people don't serve
Speaker 1: their chicken warm that they're gatherings, but it's fine. So
Speaker 1: when the restaurant opens, the food is served. When the
Speaker 1: restaurants closed, if you come get a meal, you get
Speaker 1: what youever you get. That is going to change the
Speaker 1: the phrase though, that one of the great slogans I
Speaker 1: used this sometimes you can't you can't make chicken salad
Speaker 1: out of chicken feathers. Well maybe you can, you, maybe
Speaker 1: you can. We might have to revisit that, right, we
Speaker 1: have to say, wait a minute, here, hold honest hold, honestly,
Speaker 1: are you gonna incorporate something different into your diet in oh? Oh,
Speaker 1: I see where you're going with that. No, I'm asking
Speaker 1: you strategically speaking, since you mentioned your labs the other
Speaker 1: day that were good, that were fantastic, you said, so,
Speaker 1: are you gonna do anything else to up your game? Now? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not planning on it. I mean if if you know,
Speaker 1: I try to eat a little healthier from time to time,
Speaker 1: and I don't eat much during the week anyway, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, other than adding more meals
Speaker 1: to my routine. Uh, yeah, I don't know what you get.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, if you went one day where
Speaker 1: you went strictly green or you went strictly fruit. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I love fruit. I could eat tons of fruit. Who
Speaker 1: doesn't like that? No, of course, I've just seen the
Speaker 1: world's oldest rice patties were discovered in China dating back
Speaker 1: of six thousand three years. It's pretty good. That's old.
Speaker 1: That's an old rice. Man, What do you think what
Speaker 1: do you think can live longer that rice? Patty or
Speaker 1: a cheeseburger from McDonald's. Um, french fries from McDonald's. Have
Speaker 1: french fries from from McDonald's. Good. Uh, that's uh, that
Speaker 1: is the okay, Sorry, let's get to the mail bag.
Speaker 1: People would like to ask questions. We have their questions.
Speaker 1: Michael from Newton Falls Rights and he says, what will
Speaker 1: you remember most about sports in the year. I think
Speaker 1: I already know the answer, the Dodgers winning the World Series.
Speaker 1: But if there's anything else I would be happy to hear. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot. Listen, this is gonna be a very
Speaker 1: memorable year. And this is something we're gonna reference from
Speaker 1: years and you know, years and years down the line. Obviously,
Speaker 1: for me personally in my little world, the Dodgers winning,
Speaker 1: the Clippers getting Kauai and then slipping on the banana
Speaker 1: appeal um in the playoffs against the Nuggets. Uh, the
Speaker 1: night we had to wear the paper bag on my
Speaker 1: head and how embarrassing that was. Uh, The bubble, the
Speaker 1: NBA bubble, the virtual NFL shrapp and really just in general.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm painting with a broad brush here, But
Speaker 1: the hundred and thirty four days without sports sports radio Armageddon,
Speaker 1: and we have lived through sports radio Armageddon, and we
Speaker 1: kept cranking out new content in the podcast. And and
Speaker 1: also remember this kind of patting ourselves on the back here,
Speaker 1: but we had the highest listenership in the history of
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio with no sports. Most people in the here,
Speaker 1: I've been been here for twenty years at Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: and this was the most listened to year we've ever had.
Speaker 1: And it makes no sense because there were no sports,
Speaker 1: and people weren't driving n P exactly. Most people listen
Speaker 1: to audio content in their car and and all that.
Speaker 1: And then also remember sports being hijacked by politics. I
Speaker 1: remember that. I mean, those are all things, you know,
Speaker 1: they're general statements, but those are all part of what
Speaker 1: I will remember from the year. Especially I think that
Speaker 1: was sports related. The perfect one to three combination of
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert touching the microphones, not not really caring too
Speaker 1: much about COVID, and then and then the entire arena
Speaker 1: gets shut down in Salt Lake City. That that whole
Speaker 1: night was like like you were living in a movie.
Speaker 1: It was a horror movie because you had the report
Speaker 1: came out that Tom Hanks America is but loved Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks and his wife attested positive for the COVID and
Speaker 1: they were canceling games and you didn't know what was
Speaker 1: gonna come next, and it was like one thing after another.
Speaker 1: It was piling up. It was wild, wild night, wild night.
Speaker 1: All right. Matt from Dallas Fort Worth right, Sin says,
Speaker 1: if you could do the broadcast for any Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball team not named the Dodgers, which would you choose?
Speaker 1: And would you do radio or television? Inquiring minds would
Speaker 1: like to know, all right, well, thank you, mack. Well,
Speaker 1: the the one that popped a boy, like the Red
Speaker 1: Sox or the Yankees. You'd like to be in a
Speaker 1: big market with a loyal, passionate fan base. And as
Speaker 1: far as like the radio, TV think, it really depends
Speaker 1: on my financial situation because TV people get paid more money.
Speaker 1: They're better people than us because they have makeup on
Speaker 1: So that's one thing. But radio, to me, that the
Speaker 1: art of broadcasting baseball on the radio, when it's done
Speaker 1: properly is awesome. So it's I would go with I
Speaker 1: would go radio because it's more inclined to tell stories.
Speaker 1: It's more about telling stories when you're doing a game
Speaker 1: and you worked the pitches in and that kind of
Speaker 1: But you did radio Gascon for a team that went
Speaker 1: bankrupt there in Bakersfield, California, the Bakersfield Blaze. May they
Speaker 1: rest in peace. And in fact, during this whole COVID,
Speaker 1: I actually did the final three game road trip for Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: who was the defending two thousand nineteen World Series champs.
Speaker 1: College baseball. You did, Yeah, they came out in here
Speaker 1: and they did. They had a three game tournament series
Speaker 1: with usc U c l A, and then TCU also
Speaker 1: came to town. So I called their series that weekend
Speaker 1: before everything is shut down. Look at you. It was
Speaker 1: it weird because you didn't know who any of the
Speaker 1: people were. No, I was doing my homework. I did
Speaker 1: my research, and there was a bunch of guys that
Speaker 1: did know. On the flip side, to answer your question
Speaker 1: with that, I'm surprised you didn't say Wrigley, Like Wrigley
Speaker 1: would be a great spot two to call a game,
Speaker 1: especially for radio. Yeah, yeah, but I've I've done some
Speaker 1: work on the Red Sox, like postgame stuff when I
Speaker 1: was doing this stuff for w E I, and that
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. The people would. I just
Speaker 1: love the fact that even no matter where you are,
Speaker 1: I did Dodgers talk years ago, and when the Dodgers won,
Speaker 1: nobody seemed that interested. When they lost, the sky was falling.
Speaker 1: The same thing happened with the Red Sox, like when
Speaker 1: they won La la la la la, nobody cared and
Speaker 1: they lost. Fire this guy fire, that guy traded this guy.
Speaker 1: It's the same same concept was in play, all right,
Speaker 1: Stopper and all of Branch. I think that's in Mississippi,
Speaker 1: but it might be in Texas right soon. And maybe
Speaker 1: that's just a made uptown he says, is oodles and
Speaker 1: of noodles as good as Marcel says it is not
Speaker 1: too sure of his judgment. I'm just saying, well, Stopper,
Speaker 1: keep in mind that Marcel, We'll eat whatever Uncle Dynamite
Speaker 1: gives him. That's the beauty of food picks with mars
Speaker 1: l and Uncle Dynamite comes over to the puce there
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn and drops off a crate of oodles and
Speaker 1: noodles which you can get for like seventy five cents,
Speaker 1: and uh, that's your meals for the next week. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and occasionally I'll get some Kennedy fried chicken. I'll get
Speaker 1: some of that. Um. But yeah, a cup of noodles, right,
Speaker 1: it's the same same Thing's fine. I don't know that
Speaker 1: you want to have that for dinner every night. Kevin
Speaker 1: in Kansas writes, and he says, I enjoyed your photos
Speaker 1: of your recent bookstore trip. Yeah, I went to the
Speaker 1: world's last bookstore, last great bookstore, whatever it's called. And uh,
Speaker 1: I was wondering, he says, about your book reading habits.
Speaker 1: What are your go to genres? And do you make
Speaker 1: time daily for pleasure reading? Um, and so a bunch
Speaker 1: of questions like that. But but Kevin, I guessed to
Speaker 1: answer my wife's all about fiction. I'm nonfiction guy. Um.
Speaker 1: And as far as like the genre, I like to
Speaker 1: learn my Mischion gossays, I'm into words. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like learning the history of words. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: weird thing I have. I've tried always trying to expand
Speaker 1: my vocabulary. So I like those books that kind of
Speaker 1: go into the linguistic parts of the history of language
Speaker 1: and how certain phrases became mainstream and how know words misspelled,
Speaker 1: like a salon in America became saloon because they misspelled
Speaker 1: the word salon. People that came over from Europe wanted
Speaker 1: it to be like salon, but they didn't know how
Speaker 1: to spell it, so they called it with an extra oh,
Speaker 1: and it became saloon. Like a little little crap like that,
Speaker 1: which is uh, which I gotta kick out of. And
Speaker 1: then I like learning about people that are successful, how
Speaker 1: they became successful, and what they did and those kind
Speaker 1: of things. So that's usually the kind of books that
Speaker 1: I go for. And as far as do I have
Speaker 1: pleasure reading, I don't during the week. On the weekends
Speaker 1: sometimes I will be able to to let go, but
Speaker 1: not during the week because pretty pretty tight schedule, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, with this radunculous stuff that we've got
Speaker 1: calling and getting the monologues ready and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: so it takes a long time. Derek in Auckland, New
Speaker 1: Zealand rights and he says, what is your best My
Speaker 1: co workers are crazy story, Derek Beautiful, Auckland, New zeal
Speaker 1: I think we've told this before. This is before you
Speaker 1: David but we had an editor back in the days
Speaker 1: when they only had one editor or two editors, and
Speaker 1: this guy was worked so much he just walked off
Speaker 1: the job in the middle of a shift. He just quit.
Speaker 1: He quit. He left the company. And not only did
Speaker 1: leave become he didn't tell anybody. They were worried that
Speaker 1: he had a medical emergency or he had some kind
Speaker 1: of issue here, and they tried calling him. He didn't
Speaker 1: answer his phone. They contacted the police. I remember that
Speaker 1: movie Falling Down. We just have like the breakdown Michael Douglas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Michael Douglass falling Down. Yeah. Yeah. So this guy just
Speaker 1: kind of like lost it and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't handle this anymore. And the stress and everything,
Speaker 1: and and then finally, after the police reached out to
Speaker 1: try to get a hold of him, he called hold
Speaker 1: up and said, stop trying to contact me. I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I'm not working. But that's the
Speaker 1: My co workers are crazy, craziest. I've seen some fights
Speaker 1: that have happened at radio stations, things along those lines.
Speaker 1: But who doesn't fight from time to time at work?
Speaker 1: You know, we got a company mandate or not a company,
Speaker 1: We got a network mandate that remember in two thousand
Speaker 1: sixteen that we could not talk politics after the like,
Speaker 1: we had a major meltdown here at the network after
Speaker 1: Trump was was elected president. That was a major, a
Speaker 1: major meddal with like half the building building here, oh
Speaker 1: like everything else. Half the people were happy and half
Speaker 1: the people were like, oh my god, this is the worst. No.
Speaker 1: But the people that were happy, we were happy. But
Speaker 1: the people that weren't happy actually went on air to
Speaker 1: voice their displeasure and take up airtime to voice that displeasure.
Speaker 1: They use the sports radio airwaves as the bully pulpit
Speaker 1: for their political belief which is always what you want
Speaker 1: to hear, always what you want to hear, unless it's not.
Speaker 1: Who else we have? J In Maine says, how did
Speaker 1: Big Bend meet Mrs Mallard? Well, thank you Jay for
Speaker 1: that question. I was doing some online dating and uh,
Speaker 1: we connected online long long ago, and I went on
Speaker 1: a date at a was supposed to go see a
Speaker 1: movie and we ended up going to a restaurant near
Speaker 1: the movie theater and just kind of talked and hung out,
Speaker 1: and uh, the one thing led to another and look
Speaker 1: at me now here all these years later. Introvert sets
Speaker 1: up a date to go to a movie theater to
Speaker 1: not talk, and then ends up actually talking with I
Speaker 1: guess my wife? She says he's not an extrovert, but
Speaker 1: what's half either way? Your wife? He says he's not.
Speaker 1: Carlos in Houston writes In says, what you would you
Speaker 1: guys take on those Paul clowns in a tag team
Speaker 1: match and win? Would you guys do it for free?
Speaker 1: I would love to punch Jake Paul. That'd be That'd
Speaker 1: be good. Unload on Jake Baul. I'd have to get
Speaker 1: my my weight back up so I could really give
Speaker 1: a Molly whopper to uh him. But yeah, what a
Speaker 1: bunch of losers. Those two guys are, my god, think
Speaker 1: about that's the reason to hate the Internet, That the
Speaker 1: Internet made those two guys celebrities. I guess I guess
Speaker 1: they're celebrities. I don't know, all right, I says, not
Speaker 1: that Stevo from Florida right soon says, I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: said it before, but I'll officially ask, do you were
Speaker 1: gag on like the dance with Mary Jane? If not,
Speaker 1: why al right, guess gan you like the sticky icky
Speaker 1: fan of that? No I'm not either, um. And as
Speaker 1: to why, I don't know, I just never got into it.
Speaker 1: I guess the fact that I I my my mom,
Speaker 1: and you know, she would don't smoke anything. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm back, and when I was in high school was
Speaker 1: mostly that's how you consume. The weed was just smoked. Um.
Speaker 1: But I don't have a problem with people that smoke you.
Speaker 1: I don't care and do whatever you want. I don't care.
Speaker 1: In fact, when I'll tell you a funny thing about
Speaker 1: when that's funny. But when my mom was really sick
Speaker 1: and she was kind of near the end of her life,
Speaker 1: and she was in a lot of pain, a lot
Speaker 1: of pain that the cancer had just taken out uh,
Speaker 1: the joy of life. And I was reading online about
Speaker 1: how weed help people in that condition feel better and
Speaker 1: you know, they could enjoy the final days of their life.
Speaker 1: And I tried to convince my mom, who had taught
Speaker 1: me always not to smoke weed, to do the weed.
Speaker 1: She didn't do it. She didn't end up doing it,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I really wanted to do it
Speaker 1: because he was. I mean, she was just in so
Speaker 1: much pain and agony, and I was like, this could help.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, didn't work out anyway? Who else you have?
Speaker 1: Matt from Alabama sometimes I've never heard of, says, can
Speaker 1: I get weed Man Hippie's number? I'm heading out that
Speaker 1: way in May. Look at this and guy wants to
Speaker 1: hang out. Matt wants to hang out with weed Man
Speaker 1: Hippie wild. Now, normally I would not ever give out
Speaker 1: a phone number, and I probably shouldn't do it here,
Speaker 1: but I will direct you where to get weed Man
Speaker 1: Hippi's phone number. Okay. I'm gonna direct you where to
Speaker 1: get weed Man Hippie's phone number, okay, because he gives
Speaker 1: it out on his Twitter page. So if you go
Speaker 1: to weed Man Hippie with a y, weed Man Hippie
Speaker 1: with a y right in his profile, it that is
Speaker 1: his actual phone number. Yeah, he should call me. He
Speaker 1: puts his number on his Twitter profile. Yeah, who does that?
Speaker 1: That's his Obama phone. But you can you can contact
Speaker 1: But by the way, when I said Obama during the
Speaker 1: middle of Alection period this year, people were getting upset
Speaker 1: because I said Obama phone. But that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It's he's got an Obama but you've got a government phone.
Speaker 1: That was Obama's program. People get upset about the darndest
Speaker 1: thing they do. There you go, people get upset on
Speaker 1: people get up set on YouTube when we do benny
Speaker 1: versus a penny because they accused me of making myself
Speaker 1: look better than you, like I have any control over
Speaker 1: your internet camera background and audio. Well, that is true.
Speaker 1: That is a conspiracy. Last seven tweets sent out by
Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie please pay pal me money at weed
Speaker 1: Man Hippy at gmail dot com. I'm penniless and starving.
Speaker 1: That is all the way from December eleven up until now,
Speaker 1: every every tweet. But you want to hang out with
Speaker 1: this guy? Really, Matt, you want to hang out with
Speaker 1: that guy? I mean, my good. That's another great story
Speaker 1: and show history. We we hooked weed Man. Weed Man
Speaker 1: was kicked out of his home and he was homeless
Speaker 1: and he needed a place to stay, and a listener
Speaker 1: offered to bring weed Man in as a house guest.
Speaker 1: And then weed Man said I had him kidnapped. Yeah, wonderful,
Speaker 1: pretty wild, all right, Kevin in Rockford? Right, so says
Speaker 1: Mr Mallard and Mr Gascon. How how polite, how respectful?
Speaker 1: One to the apocalypse is over my wife and kids
Speaker 1: and I will be taking another vacation to California. We
Speaker 1: really enjoyed staying in the Palm Springs area. We can
Speaker 1: hit both San Diego one day in l A the
Speaker 1: next and have a few days relaxing at the hotel.
Speaker 1: What are some fun family friendly things to do in
Speaker 1: l A around October? Last time we toured l A,
Speaker 1: we kept getting caught up in tourist traps. Kevin says,
Speaker 1: I like the like the Spider Man in Hollywood wanting
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks for taking a picture with my kid. I
Speaker 1: want to avoid that kind of stuff. Recommendations please, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Kevin, if you really want the full Hollywood and
Speaker 1: Highland experience, which it sounds like you got on Hollywood Boulevard, Um,
Speaker 1: when things open up, there's a cat, there's a food court,
Speaker 1: a top Hollywood and Highland. I used to live in
Speaker 1: l A, in in that part of l A in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I used to go there sometimes get like a Philly
Speaker 1: chiefe steak that will fully cheese steakstand. So you go
Speaker 1: there and all those guys dressed up as the different
Speaker 1: characters are sitting up there smoking and they have their
Speaker 1: uniform their costumes on and they take their heads off,
Speaker 1: so you see like there's Mickey Mouse eating some orange
Speaker 1: chicken um um, and he's got the hell the head
Speaker 1: of Mickey Mouse on the table, and he's got a
Speaker 1: cigarette in his mouth, and he's got a plate and foot.
Speaker 1: It's the most depressing, uh place, It's it's wild man.
Speaker 1: But as far as to answer your question, like, what
Speaker 1: are some unique places that are not the tourist traps um,
Speaker 1: I think just like Griffith Park, which I don't think
Speaker 1: is a tourist trap. I don't know. There's there's some
Speaker 1: cool little unique things that are part of l A history.
Speaker 1: The old l A Zoo which is still there, the
Speaker 1: original l A Zoo. You can go walk through it
Speaker 1: kind of buried off the beaten path. And they have
Speaker 1: the bat Cave, which was the the original Batman TV
Speaker 1: show and they filmed the lot of TV shows. That's
Speaker 1: buried in the bowels of Griffith Park. And there's also
Speaker 1: some hiking trails you can get um and you know,
Speaker 1: you could do the Hollywood Sign but if you walk,
Speaker 1: you can actually walk up over the Hollywood Sign and
Speaker 1: look down upon it, which is which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Oh what else, guess if you can come so you
Speaker 1: can come west of the four or five. Here we
Speaker 1: go and you can make your way to tarran It's
Speaker 1: a resort in Palace purities Um. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: trails that you can actually walk from the resort down
Speaker 1: to the water, which is fantastic. So if you want
Speaker 1: to take the kids down. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: have a pet, but obviously traveling here a little bit
Speaker 1: different with pets. But the kids who enjoy it and
Speaker 1: uh and you and the misses can get a little
Speaker 1: R and R. There's a couple of pools there, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of restaurants, and then you can make your
Speaker 1: way around the bend and you can go from tarran
Speaker 1: Era Resort to sam Pedro. You got the Crian bell
Speaker 1: that's down there. You can visit that if you like. Um.
Speaker 1: If you go to San Diego, Sea World is always
Speaker 1: a popular that's a tourist trap. Guest. Here's what you're
Speaker 1: doing Old town San Diego. I was just gonna say that,
Speaker 1: you go to old town San Diego, great Mexico, wonderful
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurants there, great vibe, um, big Fan, Big Fan,
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite spots in San Diego. And
Speaker 1: then if you just want to like, you know, bring
Speaker 1: your kids out drinking. Oh, okay, San Diego. He's got
Speaker 1: to remember this because we mentioned old town. You have
Speaker 1: to go to a spot called the Hash House. Doll
Speaker 1: that Hash House and go go h have you been
Speaker 1: in that's in Vegas, but it's started in San Diego. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's all it's there. There's a few location. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They give you massive portions of food, yes, like stacks
Speaker 1: of stacks of pancakes. It's like one pancake, but it's
Speaker 1: is huge. The drinks are great, everything is It looks
Speaker 1: like an optical illusion. Objects appear bigger than they actually are.
Speaker 1: But they are that big, that's what. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: the only west of the four or five place I
Speaker 1: would advise you to go is Catalina Island. Boy, it
Speaker 1: is beautiful. You spend it a little day trip there.
Speaker 1: It's an our boat ride. You're out on the boat
Speaker 1: in the Pacific. You go out to Catalana Island there
Speaker 1: and you can lay on the beach. That got a
Speaker 1: little you know, it's a very small town. The thing
Speaker 1: of shops there, a little restaurants. What a beautiful wonderful
Speaker 1: What about the Getty Museum They had a Getty museum free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody got paid for parking something us. But that's a
Speaker 1: beautiful place. Yeah. There's some some hidden hidden museums around, uh,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles that are not Hollywood Boulevard and all that.
Speaker 1: And the other thing which is kind of cool, um,
Speaker 1: which is you know, it's it's Hollywood touristy related, but
Speaker 1: it's unique is you can find the houses where they
Speaker 1: film movies and just kind of go around and check
Speaker 1: some of those. You know what I'm saying, right the
Speaker 1: Steve's Secret. Yeah. Uh, butot I used to take when
Speaker 1: I was dating back in the day. I would take
Speaker 1: people to the Brady Bunchhouse because at the Brady Bunchhouse
Speaker 1: was right near where I worked. It was cool. Check
Speaker 1: out the Brady Bunch House. Not quite as cool anymore
Speaker 1: because that shows like dated. But uh, and then food wise, Kevin,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to Tino's Tacos and Langer's Deli. Gotta
Speaker 1: hit those. It's the Langers Deli. Come on. We make
Speaker 1: sure you put them in bulletproof vest and give them shotguns.
Speaker 1: But you can go there and hang out and get
Speaker 1: any kind of contraband you want right across the street. Um,
Speaker 1: it's one of the great pits of America. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that guy David Gascon loves it because that is sodom
Speaker 1: and gomra. That is what he wants all the l
Speaker 1: a to be. Like, uh again, any kind of street drug,
Speaker 1: you want, any kind of fake idea, you want, any
Speaker 1: kind of debauchery, It's all right there for you right
Speaker 1: across the street. But Langer's Deli is great, top deli
Speaker 1: in the West Coast, top Deli better than the New
Speaker 1: York Deli's. Tito's Tacos is a is a ridoncrously good place.
Speaker 1: So there are a couple of places. Alright, what's next,
Speaker 1: who do we have? Emmett in Washington says, what's worse
Speaker 1: the cheating astros or gag on producing the fifth Hour
Speaker 1: parte from Emmett? That's a tough one, kind of askhole
Speaker 1: rights to that. Emmett in Washington, what a loser? Linda
Speaker 1: from Omaha rights and she says, I don't have a question.
Speaker 1: Just the warmest wishes to all for a very merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Well, thank you, Lynn, we
Speaker 1: appreciate Murray in Saskatoon rights and he says about a
Speaker 1: month ago. I asked a question, and you said you
Speaker 1: didn't think Saskatoon was an actual place. Well, I am
Speaker 1: here to say that was a bad job by you,
Speaker 1: Murray says. And I attached the screenshot here it is
Speaker 1: of my location has proof that it really does exist.
Speaker 1: My question is that what is you when you're right
Speaker 1: hand is getting a workout on a busy sports weekend?
Speaker 1: Do you ever switch to your left hand? Very funny, Murray.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Saskatoon. So I looked it up.
Speaker 1: Saskatoon is three hundred seventeen miles from the American border.
Speaker 1: In Canada. The closest state to drive to if you
Speaker 1: were to drive down from Saskatoon is North Dakota. So
Speaker 1: you drive down from Saskatoon and the weather looks to
Speaker 1: be very much like like Minnesota weather. It's it's freezing,
Speaker 1: freezing in Saskatoon, a fine city in Canada, which is
Speaker 1: even worse because it looks like it's right in the
Speaker 1: middle of either going to Edmonton, Calgary or Winnipeg. So
Speaker 1: if you're one of those fans that the jets the
Speaker 1: flames of the oilers, you're you're fucked. The the forecast.
Speaker 1: Here are some of the temperatures. On Friday, the high
Speaker 1: end Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada was one degree. Now it is
Speaker 1: warming up into the thirties. And then next week it's
Speaker 1: next Wednesday's coming Wednesday. It's gonna be high of four degrees,
Speaker 1: low of one degree. Boy, that's a lot of range.
Speaker 1: That is a lot of range. And they get the
Speaker 1: snow and the whole thing. So they have that beautiful
Speaker 1: Saskatoon Here's wonderful during the summer. But even during the winter.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can skate on a pond there, right, yes,
Speaker 1: I would imagine. Why not. Let's see your else we
Speaker 1: have r J and San Antonio says, what will you
Speaker 1: guys be doing on January one? No plans any New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, plans guest recovering from a hangover? Okay, Chef
Speaker 1: Scott Actually January one, yes, we'll be doing Benny versus
Speaker 1: the Penny. Oh boy, what a way to kick off
Speaker 1: the new year. Chef's Chef Scott in Orleans, right, so,
Speaker 1: and he says, hey, Ben and David, great job. The
Speaker 1: last few weeks, I was worried that Gag Gay Gone
Speaker 1: would quit. He sounded so frustrated. A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I am so glad he got it out of his system.
Speaker 1: The show wouldn't be the same without you, bro. Not
Speaker 1: that it wouldn't be better, it just wouldn't be the same.
Speaker 1: It's very carefully crafted. Yeah, Scott says, so I've I've
Speaker 1: got a Christmas story. He says it's a lesson, so
Speaker 1: he wants to He's not really a question. He wants
Speaker 1: to give a lesson, which I think is a good lesson,
Speaker 1: he says. When he was about ten years old before
Speaker 1: he became the legendary Chef Scott of NAWS, when he
Speaker 1: was just a snot nosed punk ten year old kid
Speaker 1: in the nineties, he says, the most notable thing, A
Speaker 1: notable thing I asked for was a Sony Walkman top
Speaker 1: of the line with external microphone, cassette, radio, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I remember those were big when they came out, and
Speaker 1: you were cool if you had one of those. That
Speaker 1: was the gadget to get. Anyway, Chef Scott says, I
Speaker 1: knew my mom had to get it for me, So
Speaker 1: I went up to the attic every night for a
Speaker 1: week and I found it. All of my unwrapped presence,
Speaker 1: I played with them. This ten year old kid playing
Speaker 1: with all his Christmas presents before Christmas always put him back.
Speaker 1: He says, before morning, come actual Christmas morning, it was
Speaker 1: the worst Christmas ever because I knew exactly what I
Speaker 1: was getting and he had obviously played with everything. Uh says.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, I learned my lesson. Chef Scott says
Speaker 1: that the anticipation and excitement of the unknown is the
Speaker 1: best feeling. And he says, did you guys ever do
Speaker 1: something stupid during honak or failed Christmas present? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to your story, Chef Scott, because you bring
Speaker 1: up a great point. It's one of the weird things
Speaker 1: about life and the dating game, all right, dating, the anticipation,
Speaker 1: like when you're dating someone knew, the anticipation of the
Speaker 1: hooking up part is often better than the reality, right.
Speaker 1: You know. There's a lot of things like the like
Speaker 1: your whatever, your dream job is, getting your dream job,
Speaker 1: like the reality of it having to do it is different.
Speaker 1: But the anticipation, I I that's a great point by
Speaker 1: Chef Scott. That's a key part of this like it
Speaker 1: and the term is as far as toys and stuff,
Speaker 1: it's buyer's remorse. Right, You're like, Oh, I really need
Speaker 1: to get item X, and then you get item X
Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh did I spend too much
Speaker 1: money on it? Do I really need? It? Is as
Speaker 1: good as I thought it was gonna be, you know
Speaker 1: that'll Yeah, it's not the greatest question, but I wanted
Speaker 1: it to be Christmas related. Happy Holidays, guys, Love you
Speaker 1: and a hearty Paul Harvey good day. Yeah, alright, Chris
Speaker 1: in ma Cocota, Iowa writes in he says, hey, only
Speaker 1: three hours west of Chicago. Sorry for the length, shortened
Speaker 1: as needed, all right, says the recent pandemic highlights the obtusive, disconnected,
Speaker 1: and even outright contempt for fans that players have had
Speaker 1: for fans. Looking at you, n b A, he says,
Speaker 1: As salaries continue to grow, I see this getting worse.
Speaker 1: It will be harder and harder for average Joe's to
Speaker 1: connect to the games and billion dollar athletes and all
Speaker 1: this stuff while paying twenty five dollar beers five hundred
Speaker 1: dollar tickets. Question is how soon before we see the
Speaker 1: first billion dollar contract and in what sport will it be?
Speaker 1: This is from Chris in my Cocota, Iowa. Well, we
Speaker 1: we're in the age. If you look at the gold
Speaker 1: standard right now is the Patrick Mahomes contract. Mahomes is
Speaker 1: five hundred million if he gets at all ten years,
Speaker 1: five millions. What's trout fo Yeah, that's not five Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike Trout. Let me get up Mike Trout here. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. What is Mike trout contract is forever contract
Speaker 1: with the ages four twenty six, twelve years four six,
Speaker 1: Mahomes ten years, five hundred over five hundred so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But to be fair, Chris, this long ago players became unrelatable.
Speaker 1: You know, there there was a time when guys had
Speaker 1: to get jobs in the offseason, that the butcher shop
Speaker 1: are picking up trash that served in war make ends meet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had to fly fighter jets in the war. Those
Speaker 1: days are long gone. He also says, how do we
Speaker 1: reconcile everything we hear about how wonderful John Wooden is
Speaker 1: with the fact that Sam Gilbert sent him the best players.
Speaker 1: If wooden't was in North Dakota, nobody would have heard
Speaker 1: of him. Yeah. Well, most most people don't know that
Speaker 1: part of John Wooden, the legend, the Wizard of Westwood
Speaker 1: and all that. But yeah, that's one of the legendary
Speaker 1: stories in Los Angeles sports lord Sam Gilbert, who was
Speaker 1: I think he was a construction guy as I remember,
Speaker 1: and he had some dealings in the car business. But
Speaker 1: he is a north torrious figure. He was. He was
Speaker 1: the big booster that helped pay all those star use
Speaker 1: A players to go play for John wood Well, really,
Speaker 1: when you think about it, wouldn't had that whole pyramid
Speaker 1: of success. He had the you know the twenty five
Speaker 1: common behaviors of successful people. The the creed is the
Speaker 1: big one, right, the seven things to do um, be
Speaker 1: true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece.
Speaker 1: That was his most famous quote. Drink deeply from good books,
Speaker 1: especially the Bible, make friends, make friendship of fine art,
Speaker 1: build a shelter against a rainy day, Pray for guidance
Speaker 1: and count and give thanks for your blessings every day.
Speaker 1: Those are the seven things in the creed John Wooden's
Speaker 1: creed um. But it doesn't say anywhere in there not
Speaker 1: to take bribes from Sam Gilbert, Right, I think it
Speaker 1: says that anywhere. Yeah, you think anybody in college sports,
Speaker 1: like you think Nick Saban doesn't have a guy at
Speaker 1: Alabama who might be helping him out a little bit,
Speaker 1: or you know I'm saying. I mean I maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe not, maybe it's all ethical. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a cynic. I tend to think that's not the case.
Speaker 1: I think that's something something else going. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see who else do we have doing the mail bag?
Speaker 1: Mail bag, mailbag, mail bag. Eric from Chula Vista, San
Speaker 1: Diego Way says, Ben Guesscon, what gifts are you hoping
Speaker 1: to get for Christmas? Hank? What luxury west of the
Speaker 1: four or five? Trinkets for Gascon? As far as I'm me,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good. I don't really needed. I'm at the
Speaker 1: point I've been much have whatever I needed. I need something,
Speaker 1: I'll go out and get it. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: anything I really need. I'm okay. That's boring. How boring
Speaker 1: an answer is that? That's not that's not the kind
Speaker 1: of answer you want, But that's the answer. What do
Speaker 1: you need? You probably need a lot of stuff. You're
Speaker 1: West of the four or five, you're booge your loddie dog.
Speaker 1: I need some socks, socks. Yeah, I need some socks,
Speaker 1: and you're old man socks. I need some walking shoes
Speaker 1: I've had. I've had a couple of shoot pairs of
Speaker 1: shoes that I've used and beat up during my some trips,
Speaker 1: and uh, they're running on on the um. How many
Speaker 1: you have walking shoes? You have running shoes? How many
Speaker 1: other shoes do you have? Dress shoes? Dress shoes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then sandals. That's about it. But but the shoes
Speaker 1: that I have now are the shoes that I wore
Speaker 1: when I went to Europe two years ago, and they're
Speaker 1: just beat the funk up. Yeah. By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: a pilot road in. He's he sent an email, but
Speaker 1: he didn't really have a question. He he did say
Speaker 1: he's thinking about becoming a hat benefactor. Oh, don't do it.
Speaker 1: He's thinking about doing it. Oh you don't want to hat?
Speaker 1: I do want to have, Okay, so why why you Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not panhandling for I'm not panhandling for a hat either,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I mean he wants to send one. That's fine.
Speaker 1: You trash of every chance you can get. Because he
Speaker 1: showers me with praise. I think he's just he's just
Speaker 1: entertaining you. I think he knows he's not entertaining. I
Speaker 1: just acknowledge the fact that he's, uh, he's an upstanding citizen.
Speaker 1: He's you know, white collar. He works hard, he works
Speaker 1: with the blue collar mentality, but still and delivers the
Speaker 1: first class service. All right, and wrote a great story
Speaker 1: for us about going to China. I think you missed
Speaker 1: the spot right there, you know, get that over there
Speaker 1: a little bit. Speaking of which, didn't you get that
Speaker 1: that blow job from justin Cincinnati yet? Oh no, he
Speaker 1: has not paid that off. And I'd like him to
Speaker 1: pass that on to somebody else. But you can do
Speaker 1: that on cameo. Yeah, Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia, right,
Speaker 1: and says, hey, Ben, if you had to work with
Speaker 1: a co host for one year per management on radio,
Speaker 1: options are gag on Real Talk, beer drinking Brian, Doc
Speaker 1: Mike or Justin in Cincinnati. Who you're picking? Who are
Speaker 1: you picking? Uh? Well, with all due respect to the
Speaker 1: people I'm with right now here on this podcast, I
Speaker 1: would say Doc Mike. He is so loony tunes that
Speaker 1: it would be fascinating to get inside deeper, to the
Speaker 1: to the neurosis of Doc Mike. It would be like
Speaker 1: getting into a taxi in Mexico. Yeah, it's Mr Toad's
Speaker 1: Wild Ride. It's all those things you don't know. You're
Speaker 1: just like, I can't believe this guy said that. Doc,
Speaker 1: isn't he just found out this week the Chargers moved
Speaker 1: from San Diego? He was, what anymore? Mind you? This
Speaker 1: is a guy who's been calling sports radio since before
Speaker 1: I was alive, and you're telling me that the Chargers
Speaker 1: because I guess he said before Vietnam he was in
Speaker 1: San Diego and and the Chargers, and I guess he
Speaker 1: has fun memories of that. So like, uh, you know, Doc,
Speaker 1: They've they've been in Los Angeles for one of four
Speaker 1: years at least. I think it's how long has it
Speaker 1: been now they moved from San Diego? I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think has been four years. Rivers was here when
Speaker 1: when they moved. It's here for two years? Yeah, those
Speaker 1: risky Chargers. All right, we have time for one more here.
Speaker 1: Let's see who do we have? Glenn from a sacrament
Speaker 1: who says, why have the Pac twelve football and basketball
Speaker 1: schools fallen off a cliff? It's one of the great
Speaker 1: mysteries of life. But it's not actually not that a mystery.
Speaker 1: They just you got incompetent. It would appear in competent leadership,
Speaker 1: and it's the Peter principal. Like the the intellectuals who
Speaker 1: run these schools, they don't really put an importance on sports,
Speaker 1: even though they make a ton of money on it.
Speaker 1: And they've got this guy who's a nice guy. I've
Speaker 1: met him, Larry Scott. I don't think he knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing. Um, he's a he's ah. He came from
Speaker 1: the world of women's tennants and now he's running the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve and he's been there for a long time.
Speaker 1: And it's it is the Peter principle. You rise up
Speaker 1: to your highest level of incompetence and you stay there.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much what this guy has done. He's
Speaker 1: been with the PAC twelve. I think it's been over
Speaker 1: ca years now. Then they are an afterthought, and that
Speaker 1: in the first decade of the two thousands they were
Speaker 1: a big time player with USC had some really amazing teams,
Speaker 1: Oregon had some really good football teams and a few
Speaker 1: other schools popped up on the radar in the PAC
Speaker 1: PAC ten then and they became the PAC twelve. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, that guy, Well, I mean, Mike, God, what
Speaker 1: are you doing and and nobody just continues on. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no buzz on the Pack twelve. The schools um
Speaker 1: it's it's a self fulfilling prophecy. They don't they don't
Speaker 1: prioritize prioritize it, which is not the word I'm looking for,
Speaker 1: but they don't put an effort an emphasis on it.
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm trying to say. Yeah, the television
Speaker 1: contract with the Pac twelve network included sucks. And then
Speaker 1: you look at the coaching like you see like coaching
Speaker 1: basketball and football is not there, it hasn't been there recently.
Speaker 1: And then with Arizona all they have a Sean Miller
Speaker 1: like he's had some good teams, but they've been out
Speaker 1: recruited by San Diego State, and san Diego State's actually
Speaker 1: beat in ust l A on numerous occasions in college basketball,
Speaker 1: not Arizona, but they've met deep into the n c
Speaker 1: Double A Tournament. But it's it's rather out of want.
Speaker 1: A team from the Mountain West Conference is better than
Speaker 1: you in college basketball, but that's where we're at right now.
Speaker 1: That conference is embarrassing, which is unfortunate. Yeah, although as
Speaker 1: a fixer up, as a fixer up, not bad, right,
Speaker 1: not bad as a fixer up, pretty good. I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you go in there, You're like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can kind of restore some things and be the
Speaker 1: conquering hero. But will they actually ever get off there
Speaker 1: took it is and change things around? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: You do not think no, Like you said, there's no
Speaker 1: emphasis on it. Like the SCC, it is. It is
Speaker 1: loud and proud, and they have pride in what they
Speaker 1: do football, basketball, baseball across the board. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing with the Big Ten, except they go into the
Speaker 1: Olympic sports as a well all right, uh, I did
Speaker 1: find another question here Glenn in Chicago. I just checked
Speaker 1: the email bag. I guy go in in in the
Speaker 1: Windy City, right, So he says, who ran faster to
Speaker 1: the bathroom? Lamar Poops Jackson or you Ben mallor I
Speaker 1: click listen. I I had full jets going. I was
Speaker 1: like I was going turbo, time to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I was speedy. Gonzalez on my way about him, but
Speaker 1: he didn't seem like he was doing the tight took
Speaker 1: his thing where he was holding the cheeks and he
Speaker 1: was trying to walk fast. But he didn't run. I
Speaker 1: think it might have been because he didn't want to
Speaker 1: slip on the concrete there as he was making his
Speaker 1: way through the bowels of the stadium in Cleveland to
Speaker 1: go to the powder room. And but yeah, I was
Speaker 1: driving on the Autobahn. I was. I mean, I was
Speaker 1: desperately trying to get there, and I was. I was
Speaker 1: so happy and then so sad right away because I
Speaker 1: thought I had made it. I felt like I had
Speaker 1: made it, that my scamper was worth it. I had
Speaker 1: galloped and I had made it, and I was there
Speaker 1: and then tedda surprise, surprise, surprise, Uh did not did
Speaker 1: not quite make or anything else to add, yes, because
Speaker 1: we were can put the baby to bed here, anything
Speaker 1: else you want to throw in there on top, anything
Speaker 1: special that we missed. That's it. If you are down
Speaker 1: on this early on Sunday or even the middle of
Speaker 1: the day, you can catch the rest of the picks
Speaker 1: for Ben on Benny Versus the Penny on YouTube and
Speaker 1: then out of course the Monday night selection to Monday,
Speaker 1: Monday Monday. That's all the pish and be safe, listen.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys, been a great year.
Speaker 1: You've been very supportive of the crap that we put
Speaker 1: out here and what I put out and I'm not deserving,
Speaker 1: but I do appreciate it, and thank you and upward
Speaker 1: and onward in one and like I said, we might
Speaker 1: pop up. We didn't do Benny Versus the Penny, so
Speaker 1: we're not completely going away. I'm gonna let my wife
Speaker 1: know about that. Any of us of the play still
Speaker 1: um and so I'm excited about that. That means what
Speaker 1: Christmas is it? When is the date on this Christmas? Right?
Speaker 1: We'll be on Christmas? Or are we doing on Christmas?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We might have to do it on
Speaker 1: on the Saturday. All right, well, I think there's games
Speaker 1: on Saturday. But we'll figure it out. We'll let you know,
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Speaker 1: Stay healthy, and uh, hopefully we'll have a much better
Speaker 1: and we'll at least have a few years before the
Speaker 1: next global pandemic. Ruins are quality of life. But to
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Speaker 1: good things. And we'll catch you on the on the
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