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Speaker 1: his name, and he's been a staple beloved at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. And hopefully we'll continue for many more years,
Speaker 1: although I think you won't be there that long because
Speaker 1: you've got and I tell you all the time, you're
Speaker 1: gonna go off and do your own thing. You'll become
Speaker 1: the Ryan Seacrest of the anime world, Alex. That's my prediction.
Speaker 1: So I'll be working for you someday. I will be
Speaker 1: miserating with you for work at some point down the line.
Speaker 1: But we are back at it on the podcast here
Speaker 1: on a Sunday, Hope your weekend is going okay. Before
Speaker 1: we get to the mailbag, I want to do pop
Speaker 1: goals the culture. We were supposed to do it yesterday,
Speaker 1: but we got carried away. And so these are some
Speaker 1: stories that happened during the week, Alex, and then we
Speaker 1: just got to give a thought or two react to
Speaker 1: them kind of what we think about them. This Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg story has been getting some traction this week as
Speaker 1: he is getting ready for an MMA fight with Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: The two superpowers, the oligarchs of the Internet are going
Speaker 1: to get together, and Zuckerberg revealed that he eats four
Speaker 1: thousand calories four thousand calories a day to get ready
Speaker 1: for this, and he revealed his gigantic McDonald's order that
Speaker 1: I loved that. Zuckerberg's still he's still going for the
Speaker 1: McDonald's there, despite the fact that he's got more money
Speaker 1: than you can possibly spend lifetime. But yeah, he actually
Speaker 1: said this on the on the threads app he's he
Speaker 1: talked about his daily routine there and he has twenty nuggets,
Speaker 1: a quarter pounder large fries, and Oreo mcflurry apple pie
Speaker 1: and some side cheeseburgers for later. That's his workout routine.
Speaker 1: That must sound disgusting to you, right, Alex, the way
Speaker 1: you eat your Alex the vegan.
Speaker 2: That must oh god, yeah, I'm pretty sure one. I
Speaker 2: have a hard time believing that guy even eats that.
Speaker 2: I think that's all cloud. I think that is all
Speaker 2: just basically him saying that because promotion sponsorships, he owns partnerships.
Speaker 2: Who knows, Like, there is no way that guys any McDonald's,
Speaker 2: no absolute way.
Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you. Actually, I think this
Speaker 1: is bullshit.
Speaker 2: It is there's no way that guy's got probably five
Speaker 2: personal chefs just to make him tea.
Speaker 3: There's no way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that does it sounds like it might be. It's
Speaker 1: it sounds, in our opinion like say McDonald's commercial he's
Speaker 1: got some kind of sight.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it sounds like he's trying to make himself
Speaker 2: seem like the common folk, like the people who can
Speaker 2: only afford McDonald. So I'm with you. This is what
Speaker 2: I eat when I get ready for a fight. Yeah, bullshit, dude,
Speaker 2: ain't no way.
Speaker 1: He's relatable unless he's not. Well. Some people he's not.
Speaker 1: Some people say he's a lizard person. So that would
Speaker 1: mean he might not eat at all. Maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: eat anything. I don't know. He's also to get ready
Speaker 1: for this super fight with Elon Musk. He's apparently accord
Speaker 1: to the tabloids here. I read this in the tabloids,
Speaker 1: so very reliable. The tabloids in London say that Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg has built an octagon in back of the house there.
Speaker 1: It sounds when you say a backyard octagon, it sounds
Speaker 1: pretty crazy, right. He likely lives on a plantation, yes,
Speaker 1: like so it's like a little small part. But the
Speaker 1: table was like his wife's upset that he built this
Speaker 1: oca guy on the back. And I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: People have nothing else to complain about. I wouldn't doubt
Speaker 2: it either. This guy probably has a as you said,
Speaker 2: like he probably owns fifty acres just for his like
Speaker 2: country house, Like that's just his summer vacation house.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and he's he's a smart guy. But he
Speaker 1: also stored didn't he steal Facebook from two of them? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they say. You know, nice guys finished last.
Speaker 2: And that's what a lot of these guys do, is
Speaker 2: they steal other people's ideas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good news this week, Alex. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: saw this year. The world a much safer place now
Speaker 1: as incandescent bulbs. Light bulbs have been banned in the
Speaker 1: United Sto. So I think we can all sleep better now,
Speaker 1: we can all rest easy. The world has now been fixed.
Speaker 1: Those pesky incandescent light bulbs pioneered by a guy named
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison over one hundred years ago, and they are
Speaker 1: now gonzo gonzo. There's some new federal energy efficiency regulations
Speaker 1: that went into full effect earlier this week. And so
Speaker 1: these things, the rules actually go back to when Obama
Speaker 1: was the president, and now they've finally gotten around to
Speaker 1: getting rid of them. So do you want to jail
Speaker 1: for that? Like? What if? Can you imagine being in jail? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are you in for? Well? I had I got
Speaker 1: like a two dozen on the dark, two dozen incandescent
Speaker 1: light bulbs. The Feds found me, and now I'm in jail.
Speaker 3: So I would tell him that wasn't a very bright idea?
Speaker 1: Was it? Be here all day long?
Speaker 2: Alex the man the bet are you kidding me? They've
Speaker 2: banned light bulbs? But for what is it doing in
Speaker 2: killing people.
Speaker 1: Well, it's taking too much energy, and you can't be
Speaker 1: selfish and take all the energy.
Speaker 3: Oh stop it, Ben, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I'm not again certain certain rules and regulations, but I
Speaker 1: do think it's a bit hypocritical. I'll get in my
Speaker 1: high horse here. Oh please, the the wackos that believe
Speaker 1: if like we live in California, they got rid of.
Speaker 1: The thing that annoys me a lot lately is the
Speaker 1: plastic straw They went with the paper straw. You can't
Speaker 1: have plastic straws because you got to save the turtles
Speaker 1: or something like that. And I'm thinking for California does it,
Speaker 1: but most of the other states don't do it. And
Speaker 1: then like around the world. You think in China or India,
Speaker 1: they're concerned about plastic straws.
Speaker 3: Nope, probably not. Yeah, no, you know that's not doing anything.
Speaker 3: That's why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the same thing with the pollutions, Like, well,
Speaker 1: we're going to clean up. That's great, that's a very
Speaker 1: noble thing to get rid of the pollution. But if
Speaker 1: you think that's going to really make a dent, considering
Speaker 1: how big the planet is and how small America is
Speaker 1: in comparison to the other parts of the world. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you think in Pakistan they're like, wells worry
Speaker 1: about the different regulations with the anyway, it just always
Speaker 1: it always annoys me.
Speaker 3: So I just know I'm with you.
Speaker 2: How about we ban GMOs if we really want to
Speaker 2: make people healthier, why are we worried about light bulbs?
Speaker 2: Like that's what we're worried about light bulbs? Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: ban private planes.
Speaker 1: Imagine all the celebrities lose their lunch.
Speaker 2: And that's the that's the crap that gets me so much.
Speaker 2: As these celebrities on their high horse, but they took
Speaker 2: a private jet just to go down the street to tell.
Speaker 3: You about it. Get out of here, dude.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. You know. The funniest is when they have
Speaker 1: the global they get together in Europe, they have a
Speaker 1: global upbrings to fix the environment and they all fly
Speaker 1: in on private flat. It's so good, it's so incredible.
Speaker 1: It is so but it's like that thing during COVID, right,
Speaker 1: it's like rules for for the rules for the them,
Speaker 1: not for me, right, rules for me?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, rules for THEE but not for me or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 1: Something like that. Yeah, where it's like, yeah, you follow
Speaker 1: the rules, but I don't have to.
Speaker 2: Yes, Like I remember all that stuff, Like it's crazy
Speaker 2: that people haven't seen. Like it's not going to be
Speaker 2: a plastic straw or light bulb that's going to fix this.
Speaker 2: It's shit we have right now. It's the structure at hand. Okay,
Speaker 2: you want to stop pollution in the water, how about
Speaker 2: some freaking garbage and nets on those things that shoot
Speaker 2: out in the ocean.
Speaker 3: What are we doing here? Like, how is this not
Speaker 3: something more understanding? It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So like ten years ago, I was in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: one of the last times in Hawaii, I got married,
Speaker 1: and we were out on the ocean in Kawai and
Speaker 1: there were little pieces of plastic that were coming up
Speaker 1: to the beach. Deserted beach, beautiful beach, picturesque, amazing beach
Speaker 1: in Hawaii there and there was little pieces of plastic
Speaker 1: and I picked some of them up and they had
Speaker 1: Chinese writing on them that they was trash, that Nina
Speaker 1: that had floated through the Pacific and ended up landing
Speaker 1: on a beach, little particles. It wasn't even that I
Speaker 1: could see a little Chinese writing, but it looked I
Speaker 1: don't speak Chinese. I don't read Chinese, but it looked
Speaker 1: like Chinese letters on there. So, yeah, it's a small world.
Speaker 1: After I learned that at Disneyland, it's a small small well,
Speaker 1: it's a lot smaller. Yeah, I know it is. It's
Speaker 1: got kind of scary. Is called a small pop goes
Speaker 1: to the culture. How about this one, Cardi B. I said,
Speaker 1: you know you saw that, right, Cardi B. The microphone
Speaker 1: toss there, She got a fan through a drink at
Speaker 1: in Vegas and she chucked the microphone at the fan. Well,
Speaker 1: that microphone has now become a very important piece of
Speaker 1: entertainment memorabilia and it is being auctioned off on eBay
Speaker 1: and there is a massive amount of people that want
Speaker 1: to get their hands on that microphone. They're going to
Speaker 1: get the microphone that Cardi B tossed, and she is
Speaker 1: facing a battery charge as well for that. But you know,
Speaker 1: that was a pretty good throw. I was impressed. She's
Speaker 1: got some skills, Cardi B.
Speaker 2: So you saw the whole video bend where she was
Speaker 2: like literally saying like she's on stage, I'm hot, I
Speaker 2: need some water. She's like throw some water out. I mean,
Speaker 2: so people start throwing water at her, so then she
Speaker 2: gets upset. It's like you enabled this, Like, what are
Speaker 2: we doing here?
Speaker 1: You're supposed to leave that part out. You're not supposed to.
Speaker 3: It just blows my mind.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to leave that on the cutting room floor.
Speaker 1: The owner of the audio company that's applied the microphones
Speaker 1: listed the microphone on eBay after Yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a sure microphone of course, of course. And this thing
Speaker 1: still has a few days to go. I believe the auction. Oh,
Speaker 1: actually I think it ends. I think it ends tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Actually, wow, what's it at right now?
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's Tuesday. It's it's one hundred You do
Speaker 1: the one hundred thousand dollars at this point? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's gone up by it'll go up today.
Speaker 1: But yeah, for wow, that's wild. What do you what
Speaker 1: do you do with that? Do you use it? Use it? Right?
Speaker 1: It's a good look at microphone own. But my goodness, okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna been on that. They love the memory, but
Speaker 1: it's all about the memory. Bea so very very cool.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the mail bag. What do you say
Speaker 1: we have mail listener? Mail That means, ohio, it's he
Speaker 1: put a little song in there, Alex, and we love that.
Speaker 1: So the first email, this is actual messages. Email what
Speaker 1: are postings from listeners of this podcast. You can post
Speaker 1: a question on the Facebook page, which is Ben Malor's show.
Speaker 1: Usually on Tuesdays. I put something up and you can
Speaker 1: post a message and also email the podcast Real fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com. That's all letters, no numbers,
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we may
Speaker 1: use your question on the air. First one is Mike,
Speaker 1: who was in Twitter jail, also in Fullerton. He says, Ben,
Speaker 1: I want you to know your show is really helping
Speaker 1: me get through this dark time in my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike was banned from Twitter. His Twitter account was banned
Speaker 1: because he goofed on me, did like a joke about me,
Speaker 1: and they banned him. I says, hopefully it be I
Speaker 1: can be free to tweet as I please again soon,
Speaker 1: he says. Last week you brought up sneaking into the
Speaker 1: owners meetings at the Rich Carlton fifteen years ago, the
Speaker 1: NFL owners meetings. How did you manage to pull that off?
Speaker 1: You must have been only a teenager at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was, like, you know, I was in elementary school.
Speaker 1: That's how I did it. No, seriously, I was in
Speaker 1: elementary school and alex I just I was a cute
Speaker 1: little kid, and they don't they don't question cute little kids.
Speaker 1: I just walked right in unless unless I walked in
Speaker 1: kind of like I was supposed to be there, and
Speaker 1: I was able to circumvent the security and sit on
Speaker 1: these really expensive sofas at the Ritz Carlton because I
Speaker 1: was waiting to meet somebody who was there also, and
Speaker 1: I was around all of these robber barons of business
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you know, because that's when you own
Speaker 1: an NFL team. It's kind of like a piece of art.
Speaker 1: You do it because you've made a ton of money
Speaker 1: and you want to flex, You want to show off.
Speaker 1: You want to go to cocktail parties and have people
Speaker 1: who want to talk to you, because nobody wants to
Speaker 1: talk to the hedge fund guy. They want to talk
Speaker 1: to the owner of the Falcons or you know, like
Speaker 1: Arthur Blank, the guy that knows the Falcons was. He
Speaker 1: made his money at Home Depot and I love Home Depot.
Speaker 1: I go there a lot, but you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about Home Depot. You talk about the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Anyway, Yeah, Mike, I did get in there
Speaker 1: and sat around sow a bunch of people that I recognized,
Speaker 1: but I kind of kept to myself and it was
Speaker 1: a fond, fond memory. And he also wants to know
Speaker 1: if Alex, you have any stories of breaking into places,
Speaker 1: sneaking into places you should not have been. He says,
Speaker 1: He's all, ears, have you ever had that?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 2: So I've I've kind of had these things been where
Speaker 2: I just I act like I'm supposed to be there,
Speaker 2: so I'm there. And so I've gotten into concerts, I've
Speaker 2: gotten into probably places I shouldn't have that I don't
Speaker 2: even know what they were. Some places in Hollywood that
Speaker 2: kind of have like a black door entry and you
Speaker 2: kind of walk into a place You're like, Okay, this
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like a kind of place I want to
Speaker 2: go deeper into, almost like an eyes wide shut kind
Speaker 2: of a vibe. So it's it's interesting, like the amount
Speaker 2: of places I've gotten to just from the attributes of
Speaker 2: me meeting people and going to these different environments. The
Speaker 2: one that stands out the most to me is like,
Speaker 2: I went to this place in I think it was uh,
Speaker 2: we were in Texas. So we went out there for
Speaker 2: an anime event because we got invited. This was back
Speaker 2: from the old podcast I did before this one, which
Speaker 2: was the Weave Nation with my buddy, and so we
Speaker 2: went out there because there was this big event.
Speaker 3: It was basically this we've stop.
Speaker 2: These other big companies out there were putting together for
Speaker 2: this in Texas event to bring anime there. And this
Speaker 2: is like now, I think it was just when COVID starts,
Speaker 2: so twenty twenty. So we're in Texas and we got
Speaker 2: off the plane early and so we basically have some
Speaker 2: time to kill before we check into our hotel at
Speaker 2: the time. Right, so we're walking around and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you know this bend, so people don't walk
Speaker 2: around in Texas.
Speaker 3: Did you know this?
Speaker 1: Nobody walks in I thought nobody walks in La nobody
Speaker 1: walks in Texas.
Speaker 3: Well, it depends where you go.
Speaker 2: But I guess Texas is so spread wide because of
Speaker 2: its type of area that it's in in the region
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. There's no sidewalks, there's no like
Speaker 2: crossing signs for lights and stuff. Really it's there's nobody
Speaker 2: walking because one it's so hot and two there's so
Speaker 2: much space between stuff. It would take you forever to
Speaker 2: go from your house to like, let's just say, a
Speaker 2: Walmart or whatever it is. Right, So nobody walks, okay,
Speaker 2: which was crazy?
Speaker 1: What city were you? What city were you in in Texas?
Speaker 1: Was it? So? Where were we? Yes?
Speaker 3: We went out to Houston, okay.
Speaker 2: And so what was crazy about this whole thing though,
Speaker 2: is that when you go outside of the main city area,
Speaker 2: out to like more of like the industrial areas or
Speaker 2: more outside where all these businesses aren't just residentials, again,
Speaker 2: nobody really walks.
Speaker 3: So we're just chilling out there.
Speaker 2: We're kind of just doing whatever with our luggage and stuff,
Speaker 2: waiting to check into our hotel. And we're going through
Speaker 2: these areas and as we're walking around, everybody's staring at us.
Speaker 2: So we're like, all right, this is kind of weird,
Speaker 2: Like what's going on here? A freaking cop pulled up
Speaker 2: bed and was like, what are you boys doing out here?
Speaker 2: I was just walking like these people don't walk around here.
Speaker 1: Like do you? What do you?
Speaker 3: People don't walk? What does that mean? Because we have
Speaker 3: our big old luggage bed.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Yeah, Houston has no zoning laws. Did
Speaker 1: you know that was that That means you can build
Speaker 1: a strip club next to an elementary school.
Speaker 3: There's no way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they have no no zoning laws. You can
Speaker 1: do whatever you want there. That's probably one of the
Speaker 1: reasons they don't have sidewalks. I bet you in if
Speaker 1: you go to like Dallas or San Antonio, some of
Speaker 1: the other big cities, I bet you they have sidewalks.
Speaker 1: But Houston's a little quirky. When it comes.
Speaker 3: It was weird. But now you're speaking, go for it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was just I mean, you could have a
Speaker 1: chemical plant and then a grocery store right next door.
Speaker 1: They don't. I don't really care.
Speaker 2: Well, that would make sense because we went to this
Speaker 2: place just to buy a drink and show for a second.
Speaker 2: But there was this building next to it that was
Speaker 2: all blacked out, so we kind of I walked in.
Speaker 3: I was curious, you know.
Speaker 2: So I walk in and they're like the reception area
Speaker 2: was kind of quiet. It was all dark and had
Speaker 2: this weird kind of design to it. There's like this
Speaker 2: I don't even remember the name of the place, but
Speaker 2: it had this backwalkway in behind the door area and
Speaker 2: it almost looked like old Wooden, like kind of like
Speaker 2: you're in a Western movie, like the Door to Open
Speaker 2: it Up, but it's it was just a weird vibe
Speaker 2: and nobody was there, so I'm like, okay, So I
Speaker 2: keep walking and you go this back area and it
Speaker 2: looked like people were filming something like some kind of
Speaker 2: a shoot or a movie. And like I'm telling you, Ben,
Speaker 2: like when I got that vibe quick like, I felt
Speaker 2: I was in the wrong place. I booked it out
Speaker 2: of there because I didn't want to see what was
Speaker 2: going on. I didn't know what was going on, but
Speaker 2: the area itself felt weird. And as soon as I left,
Speaker 2: that's when I told you, I was like, what is
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 3: In this place?
Speaker 2: There's only a Walmart next door a coup Pul's over said,
Speaker 2: we can't walk anywhere. I don't even know what they're
Speaker 2: filming in there. It it hurts me out man.
Speaker 1: Use city slickers aren't allowed here. What's wrong with you
Speaker 1: out there?
Speaker 3: You California's out here?
Speaker 1: Huh h get rid of Well, everyone hates Californias. But
Speaker 1: next up al from fraud Protection at Disney World Rights
Speaker 1: and it says, is there any truth to the rumor
Speaker 1: that Ferg Dog was suspended from X because he attempted
Speaker 1: to sell an autographed Ben Mallor credit card that he
Speaker 1: found at an ice cream shop. Yeah, I lost my
Speaker 1: credit card. I was getting ice cream for some cousins
Speaker 1: of mine and I could not find my credit card.
Speaker 1: I believe I left it at an ice cream shop,
Speaker 1: and so that is what he's referred to. I think
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Ferg Dog did. Fred in Spring Texas
Speaker 1: speaking of Texas, Fred in Spring Texas rights in Big
Speaker 1: Fan of the podcast. He says, do you have any
Speaker 1: tips to writing out the current heat wave that is
Speaker 1: going on? That is from Fred any life hacks? I
Speaker 1: recommend strategic placing of fans, proper use of ice on
Speaker 1: the forehead. Great little trick, obviously cool now, I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of obvious stuff that everyone should know. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's about it. I'm a big fan of room air
Speaker 1: conditioners as opposed to actual like the entire house being
Speaker 1: air conditsent kind of like just having one room. I
Speaker 1: think it's better you save money that way, but also
Speaker 1: I think it's more efficient, more effective. Yes, Yes, any
Speaker 1: any hacks you've picked up Alex to avoid the heat
Speaker 1: of the summer here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'll give you one that will prevent heat stroke.
Speaker 2: Then this is a fun trick I've realized. So it's
Speaker 2: hard to order right now because everybody's getting very privy
Speaker 2: and savvy to a lot of these new life hacks
Speaker 2: and health hacks, especially because of TikTok.
Speaker 3: It's blowing them up.
Speaker 2: But there's a thing that's a type of salt ben
Speaker 2: It's called Celtic or Celtic whatever you want to pronounce it,
Speaker 2: Celtic Sea salt, and you can buy it online on Amazon.
Speaker 3: It's a blue bag.
Speaker 2: I carry it everywhere with me because the reason why
Speaker 2: this salt is so incredible is that the sodium levels
Speaker 2: alone are natural, so you don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 2: It's hand deriveted from the ocean. This type of salt
Speaker 2: in particular, when you put a pinch of it on
Speaker 2: your tongue and let it kind of dissolve into your
Speaker 2: mucous membrane, it opens your cells to let it know.
Speaker 2: It's like it literally triggers them to say it's time
Speaker 2: to hydrate. That's the hardest people. The thing people have
Speaker 2: is to hydrate their bodies because they're thinking just because
Speaker 2: I'm drinking a lot of water, I'm hydrated. But in factuality,
Speaker 2: if you have no gas tank to put gas in bend,
Speaker 2: I don't care how much gas you put in your car,
Speaker 2: Nothing's going to stay there for your engine. So you
Speaker 2: have to basically trick the cells to say it's time
Speaker 2: to store water. So if you put a pinch of
Speaker 2: it on your tongue before you drink water, or they
Speaker 2: recommend if you say you get like one of those
Speaker 2: big gallon of water bend, you get like a little
Speaker 2: bit of a tea spoon and put a teaspoon in there.
Speaker 2: If you drink that during the heat bend, you will
Speaker 2: never have a heat stroke.
Speaker 3: Never.
Speaker 1: Wow, look at you helping a f I also remember
Speaker 1: this just triggered a memory before TikTok, when I first
Speaker 1: started going out covering the Dodgers. They I remember talking
Speaker 1: to one of the clubhouse guys and because they were
Speaker 1: going to Saint Louis and Cincinnati, and back then the
Speaker 1: Cardinals and Reds played in these cookie cutter ballparks that
Speaker 1: had AstroTurf, and it was like one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five degrees on the turf. It was ridiculous, and so
Speaker 1: I was like, how did those guys handle the heat?
Speaker 1: And they said one of the tricks a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys do that they would drink coffee on a
Speaker 1: one hundred degree day with humidity and all that, and
Speaker 1: it actually supposedly is better for your body to I
Speaker 1: don't know how this works, but they told me. The
Speaker 1: guy's like, well, yeah, you actually cool your body more
Speaker 1: from drinking hot liquids as opposed to cold liquids.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or not, but that's
Speaker 1: what he told me, and I still remember it all
Speaker 1: these years later. So just google it, Just look it up.
Speaker 1: Maybe you'll find find the answer. Next up on the mailbag,
Speaker 1: we have John from Pendleton, South Carolina. He says, this
Speaker 1: is a sporto question, so I'll handle this. When he says,
Speaker 1: now that the Angels have kept Shohil Tani for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season and are in playoff, can don't
Speaker 1: you think they have checked all the marks to re
Speaker 1: sign him for the long term. I told my wife
Speaker 1: that if he signs with the Dodgers, Otani would be
Speaker 1: dead to me, and she thinks I'm being unreasonable. What
Speaker 1: say you? No, No, John, tell your wife that you're
Speaker 1: being a fan, You're being a real fan. That's how
Speaker 1: it works. Listen, you like Otani and you'd be okay
Speaker 1: with him if he went and played for the Giants
Speaker 1: or the Podres or the Diamondbacks, but you would not
Speaker 1: be okay with if you went to the Dodgers. I
Speaker 1: get it, Like if I'm a Clipper guy in basketball
Speaker 1: and if one of the players I like went to
Speaker 1: the Lakers, they'd been dead to me. I love Patrick Beverly,
Speaker 1: he was dead to me when he was a Laker
Speaker 1: now he's no longer a Laker. But it is not unreasonable.
Speaker 1: It is being a good fan. So I disagree with
Speaker 1: the wife. And as far as the checking all the
Speaker 1: boxes for Otani, the one thing they haven't checked is
Speaker 1: the billion dollar check. They haven't checked the billion dollar
Speaker 1: check that he's likely going to want and get and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Kevin in Kansas, that's right, Sin says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: as a podcasters who talk about their lives to tons
Speaker 1: and tons of listeners there, do any of the people
Speaker 1: you talk about ever get back to you and say, Hey,
Speaker 1: I heard you talking about me on your podcast. Kevin
Speaker 1: says he's recalling. Sorry I told Alex on the podcast
Speaker 1: about my wife having some friends over staying at the
Speaker 1: house free loading house guests. I told you that story.
Speaker 1: Sorry about He says, these are great relatable stories, but
Speaker 1: do any of your human subjects respond? Yeah, So I'll
Speaker 1: go first on this, Alex. Everyone. So I generally know
Speaker 1: who occasionally listens and who doesn't to the podcast. Have
Speaker 1: some pretty good intel on that. So I know certain
Speaker 1: stories cannot be told because that may come back to
Speaker 1: bite me in the ass. There are some people that
Speaker 1: are fifty to fifty that you may listen, but they
Speaker 1: probably listen once in a blue moon type situation. They
Speaker 1: don't listen all that much, And so I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: It's like Russian roulette with that, although I guess it's
Speaker 1: more not Russian roulette because that would be everything. Look,
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. It's like regular roulette, you know, And
Speaker 1: so I am. I've been pretty lucky. I have had
Speaker 1: in the past a couple of times where I've had
Speaker 1: people pull me aside and say, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: really like what you said about me, and I thought
Speaker 1: that was you. You didn't tell You didn't portray the story right,
Speaker 1: you didn't tell it the right way, and so they
Speaker 1: kind of dress you down a little bit. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, I've not had too much fire and brimstone.
Speaker 1: What about you, Alex, You do multiple podcasts, you talk
Speaker 1: about your life, you talk about you tips to people
Speaker 1: on how to be more positive, positivity and all that.
Speaker 1: Have you had people hit you back there the boomerang
Speaker 1: back in your face getting all upset.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is like, I've never been the
Speaker 2: type that really attacks people on a narrative that isn't deserving.
Speaker 2: So for example, like the re so what I did
Speaker 2: was on Anime Expo, which was here in LA. It
Speaker 2: was an absolute crap show, Like they destroyed their first
Speaker 2: day presentation because they oversell their tickets. They shove too
Speaker 2: many people into these convention centers and it's not only unhealthy,
Speaker 2: it's unsafe and it's almost to the extent where there
Speaker 2: could be major disaster if something was to go wrong.
Speaker 2: So I'm the kind of guy where I'll call bullshit
Speaker 2: out when I see it, and I stand strong behind
Speaker 2: it because I know what's right and wrong. So, especially
Speaker 2: with the anime takes Ben, I say some stuff about
Speaker 2: prominent shows that I get thousands of people commenting and
Speaker 2: saying like.
Speaker 4: You're stupid, you don't know anything, your takes your table,
Speaker 4: your opinions are trash. But then I'll meet them at
Speaker 4: these events and they say nothing but glowing things, like
Speaker 4: they're just like the Twitter fingers, you know. So I've
Speaker 4: never had an issue with anything I've ever said about anybody,
Speaker 4: and I never say anything that isn't true. So if
Speaker 4: I do meet somebody in person and they don't like
Speaker 4: what I say, I'll be like, well, is it is
Speaker 4: it falls?
Speaker 2: Did I say something that's not right? Well no, just
Speaker 2: well that's your emotions, you know, maybe check yourself, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Well that's usually the way.
Speaker 1: Because I've met some people that listened to the radio show.
Speaker 1: They're kind of gruff and a little belligerent, and they
Speaker 1: have that we call it keyboard courage. You got what
Speaker 1: you call it? Twitter fingers is what you call the
Speaker 1: same things fingers now very very cranky, uh, dissatisfied. But
Speaker 1: then when you meet him, they're usually.
Speaker 3: It was give me love always.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while you meet someone who's in
Speaker 1: a hole and then you're like.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, yeah, that's it's inevitable.
Speaker 1: But yeah, some miserable, condescending sour ball that you just
Speaker 1: happened to run across. H Next up is Mario and
Speaker 1: he says he's in Lancaster, California. He says, me and
Speaker 1: my friend have a debate. I want you guys to
Speaker 1: help settle it. What is this called? Now? You can't
Speaker 1: see this, OX, but he sent me a photo it is.
Speaker 1: He says, this is chili cheese FreeDOS. Uh, he says,
Speaker 1: I say it's chili cheese fritos. And he says, it's
Speaker 1: a Freedo bowl. What do you guys call it? Now?
Speaker 1: Let me describe. Let me describe the picture, OX. The
Speaker 1: picture of an original Freedo's bags. The bag is pulled
Speaker 1: halfway down so it's made it look like a little
Speaker 1: bit of a bowl. It is. It is covered with
Speaker 1: actual chili, like real chili bomb top of it. So
Speaker 1: my answer is, you're not gonna like this, Mario, You're
Speaker 1: not gonna like this because my answer is that's a freedable.
Speaker 1: I'm going freedoble. And here's why it's a freedoble. First
Speaker 1: of all, the people at Freedo's sell chili cheese friedos,
Speaker 1: and that's just FreeDOS with like powdered chili on it.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be you know, it's probably out chemicals
Speaker 1: or something like that, but it's powdered. It's powdered, uh,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, chili cheese. This looks like they made
Speaker 1: it into a bowl and then they put actual chili.
Speaker 1: So I'm going that's a that's a Freedo bowl. What's
Speaker 1: saying to Alex, what do you have you ever eaten fritos? Ah?
Speaker 2: Surely back when I still was just on my driver's permit, probaly,
Speaker 2: So what were the two options?
Speaker 3: Then there was the Freedo bowl, or.
Speaker 1: So our friends they guy that sent the question in
Speaker 1: from Lancaster, they're in high desert in California, said he
Speaker 1: says that he calls it chili cheese free dos, and
Speaker 1: then his friend said, that's a Freedo bowl.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going with the first one because that does
Speaker 2: sound like a chili cheese freeds because if you think
Speaker 2: about it, it is fridos itself. You fold the bag
Speaker 2: to the side and then you're putting on top of
Speaker 2: it some chili chili cheese. So to me, that's a
Speaker 2: kind of combination of the friedo chili cheese.
Speaker 1: It's a bad take. It's a bad take. I like it.
Speaker 1: I don't like your take. I just explained it to you. There.
Speaker 1: There is a product called chili cheese friedos.
Speaker 2: So is it chili cheese friedos with chili cheese on top?
Speaker 1: No, it's got the powder on top to make it
Speaker 1: seem give the illusion that it's got chili cheese on top.
Speaker 1: But it's just those are chili ches. Freedom's to me,
Speaker 1: ben okay, we will agree to disagree. This is in
Speaker 1: your wheelhouse? Is a TikToker. Fred in Woodland Hills, not
Speaker 1: far away from what we broadcast from in the San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley of LA says there's a TikToker that says
Speaker 1: that bee pollen helped her boobs grow. Do you guys
Speaker 1: think this is possible? I didn't see this. I'm not
Speaker 1: on TikTok, so I'll just take your word for it.
Speaker 1: I don't doubt the integrity that somebody did actually say
Speaker 1: say this on TikTok.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go down.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go no. I don't think just slobbering your
Speaker 1: chest with Manuka honey or be polly. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna do anything.
Speaker 3: I don't think so either.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what's funny is that, like I've seen
Speaker 2: some interesting stuff on TikTok, that one is probably one
Speaker 2: of the top ones that I'm fascinated in because I
Speaker 2: know this is true, man, that if you have an
Speaker 2: issue with pollen and having like sinus issues or allergies
Speaker 2: in spring seasons or stuff right when pollen's the pollen's
Speaker 2: blossoming and all that stuff, and try they say if
Speaker 2: you eat b pollen so like the actual like they
Speaker 2: make them into little grain size and stuff, you can
Speaker 2: buy it in a container. If you eat regional pollen
Speaker 2: from your area, it will help fight your allergies because
Speaker 2: you are getting the same thing in your body digested
Speaker 2: to build the antibody system the reaction to it, so
Speaker 2: it actually helps you with your seasonal issues that you have,
Speaker 2: which is crazy to me.
Speaker 1: That is that's interesting. Isn't the same concept? I've read
Speaker 1: this years ago and I don't know if it's still,
Speaker 1: but I read with peanut allergies, they see peanuts you
Speaker 1: have to be exposed early on to that, and if
Speaker 1: you're exposed to it. They don't think you'll you'll have
Speaker 1: the peanut allergies.
Speaker 3: So well, it's true because you have to think about it.
Speaker 2: Ben. Your body is literally a chemistry set. That's why,
Speaker 2: like with working out, I'm a big fitness head, if
Speaker 2: you do the same workouts for more than four months,
Speaker 2: you no longer gain muscle or anything because your body
Speaker 2: has now adapted to stop hurting itself. Your body is
Speaker 2: trying to stay alive, regardless of you. Inside your bod,
Speaker 2: it wants to stay alive, so it's trying to heal itself.
Speaker 2: That's why when we talked about it a little bit
Speaker 2: on the last podcast, is that Intermitte fasting. The reason
Speaker 2: why it's so good is it gives your time body
Speaker 2: to digest food and clean out the toxins as well.
Speaker 2: But if you're eating three meals a day, you can
Speaker 2: never stop it, so it's like there is benefit to it.
Speaker 2: So I believe your body can adjust to things and
Speaker 2: possibly if you rub a lot of pollen or pony
Speaker 2: on your boobs, maybe gives it more fat.
Speaker 1: I don't I would love that sounds like some kind
Speaker 1: of fetish bit, but I don't know. Orlando writes, and
Speaker 1: he says, that is my real name. He's in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Speaker 1: I've actually been to Hampton Roads, Virginia, was there last year.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Ben, what is your favorite game show moment?
Speaker 1: Mine at your expense was when Roberto and I believe
Speaker 1: it was Miguel on Fire they did all the password
Speaker 1: in Spanish and dominated, Yeah, I'm glad you liked that, Orlando,
Speaker 1: because that's called cheating. My favorite game show moments I've
Speaker 1: got I'll give you a two of them. I have many.
Speaker 1: I've been doing these stupid game shows for a long time.
Speaker 1: My favorite all time moment, I should think, give me
Speaker 1: the other moment first. I'll give you the other moment first.
Speaker 1: The other moment I loved. We had this kid caller
Speaker 1: years ago named Antonio from the Bay Area. Little kid
Speaker 1: probably maybe twelve thirteen years old, you know, a y
Speaker 1: young guy, and he called the show because it's during
Speaker 1: the summer, and he was a little sassy kid, a
Speaker 1: little spunky kid. And we had him play sports Jeopardy
Speaker 1: against Justin in Cincinnati, and this kid beat Justin. Justin's
Speaker 1: like this really back before he started smoking weed all
Speaker 1: the time, he was really good at sports trivia. Now
Speaker 1: he's just kind of lost it because he's in those
Speaker 1: other things. But this kid beat Justin, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure Justin did not throw the game. It was shocking.
Speaker 1: Were the shocking upsets in the history of radio game shows.
Speaker 1: And then the other one, which is the all time greatest.
Speaker 1: Our guy hollering James from Minnesota, fast Asleep. We had
Speaker 1: him play Factor not Factor fiction. It was too much
Speaker 1: or not enough, much or not enough. We had him
Speaker 1: play that game and if he snored, it went one way,
Speaker 1: and if he didn't snore, it was the other. He
Speaker 1: snored so much he actually won the game based on
Speaker 1: his snore cadence, which is the single greatest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever been a part of at Fox Sports Radio. It
Speaker 1: was a magical night. It was such a magical night,
Speaker 1: and so that's that to me. Orlando is the greatest
Speaker 1: moment on the game. Jonathan Game shows Jonathan and Delaware
Speaker 1: Rights and he says, your go to order at raising
Speaker 1: canes for me, it's a cane at Combo. They showed
Speaker 1: up in my town recently and I am hooked on them.
Speaker 1: You were one hundred percent right, It's great. Yeah, cover
Speaker 1: your ears there, Alex but I do like raising canes.
Speaker 1: It's a fried chicken joint chicken strips, and I go
Speaker 1: Caney at Combo. I don't eat there often, but when
Speaker 1: I do, I go Cannie at Combo, I go no
Speaker 1: Goals law extra fries, and then I get the bread
Speaker 1: toasted both sides, and I go lemonade. That's the move there.
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to wane off lemonade. And I was
Speaker 1: eating twenty cookies. I kept bringing cookies in because I
Speaker 1: kept breaking the cookies. And even though I'm doing the
Speaker 1: Internet fasting, I'm like, well, this is getting a lot
Speaker 1: of hand here. Yeah, yeah, I gotta stop. So I'm
Speaker 1: on a break from the baking. Benny the baker. I
Speaker 1: will bake when we have a Mallard meet and greet
Speaker 1: on August nineteenth, We're doing a meat with the fans,
Speaker 1: a meet and greet. But until then, I'm not doing anything,
Speaker 1: and I won't do anything after for a while.
Speaker 3: Good Man Clayton.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I've heard, though, Ben, real quick, because it
Speaker 2: sounds like you've been there. I heard that raising canes,
Speaker 2: if you don't get their sauce, it's not the same.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, but really the chicken Finger is a delivery
Speaker 1: vehicle for sauce. That's what the chicken finger is. You're
Speaker 1: You're really there. It's it's like Amazon delivery the product
Speaker 1: where it needs to go, and it's smart. Yeah. Clayton
Speaker 1: from Dodge City, right, So, and he says, what is
Speaker 1: your favorite small town in Nebraska? Oh? You ever been
Speaker 1: in Nebraska?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I haven't either, So how would I answer that question?
Speaker 2: Is my favorite Pittsburgh one. I went to Leechburg, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you like the Leechburg. My d Leechburg was dope.
Speaker 1: I like Pittsburgh. I thought Pittsburgh was cool. I like
Speaker 1: the whole area around, the whole by.
Speaker 2: The thing that trips me out, though, Ben, is that
Speaker 2: the weather changes in a hot second. Like it was
Speaker 2: eighty degrees we were out on the river kayaking, and
Speaker 2: then two hours later there's horns blazing in the distance
Speaker 2: because of a tornado warning and it's raining sideways. I
Speaker 2: was like, I don't know where I'm at, but this
Speaker 2: is tripping me out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's it is why I have some
Speaker 1: friends that live in Pittsburgh. Actually, we talked about one
Speaker 1: of them on the podcast. Here works for the Pirates
Speaker 1: baseball team, and it's so so cost to fish. He has,
Speaker 1: you know, one of my friends that has a house
Speaker 1: like overlooking the skyline at Pittsburgh in LA that would
Speaker 1: get you, like a one bedroom apartment pays for that
Speaker 1: house of Pittsburgh is pretty pretty pretty wild. Why don't
Speaker 1: we get out on the the last one? Jay from
Speaker 1: Vero Beach, which is in you know where Vera Beaches,
Speaker 1: alex It's in Florida, and that used the spring training
Speaker 1: home of the Dodgers. I actually spent a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks in Vero Beach back in the day when the
Speaker 1: Dodgers were in spring training. Anyway, they're not there anymore.
Speaker 1: They were they were training there when they were in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: even when they went moved to LA and then about eh,
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen years ago, they left there and said we're
Speaker 1: out of here. We're going to Arizona. But Jay writes
Speaker 1: and he says better viral video, guys, what did you
Speaker 1: like more the guy balancing a sofa on his head
Speaker 1: while riding a bike in New York or the Boston
Speaker 1: cop going down a kid slide on his stomach while
Speaker 1: looking like he was dying. Did you see these by
Speaker 1: the way out. Have you seen him? Yeah? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the Boston cop. And here's
Speaker 1: why that was so wild. The guy he did look
Speaker 1: like a corpse when he was on the slide. I
Speaker 1: just don't understand how that a why he did it.
Speaker 1: I don't know the backstory. B wouldn't you try to
Speaker 1: move and try to get back on your back so
Speaker 1: you can kind of see where you're going. It was
Speaker 1: very odd, and he was in full Boston police attire.
Speaker 1: That was wild to me. Like the guy balancing his
Speaker 1: sofa is like Ripley's believe it or not, that's like
Speaker 1: that's you'd see that in a circus or human human tricks,
Speaker 1: stupid human tricks or something like that. But my vote
Speaker 1: is for the cop going down the slide there in Boston.
Speaker 1: What about you, Alex, which way to you lean? It's
Speaker 1: very important issue. I'm glad Jay sent this in. Very
Speaker 1: important and it's a great one to end on.
Speaker 2: I would have to say the same thing as you,
Speaker 2: because I'm left with so many questions over that video,
Speaker 2: Like I don't understand, as you said, what.
Speaker 3: Was the build up, Like what is even the purpose?
Speaker 2: How is it that a guy that seems like he's
Speaker 2: in the middle of his shift that probably needs to
Speaker 2: answer some old ladies call because she fell and she's
Speaker 2: hitting her button.
Speaker 3: That's like, I can't get up.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this guy's doing, but I'm so
Speaker 2: locked in because it's like, is there more? Why is
Speaker 2: this even happening? Who is this guy? Is he alive?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is he doing some cosplay or something
Speaker 1: like that. He's not really a cop, he's just pretending
Speaker 1: to be a cop. I'll tell you next time I'm
Speaker 1: in Boston, I'm gonna find that slide. I think I
Speaker 1: know where it is. I think it's near City Hall,
Speaker 1: kind of the Commons Boston comments area. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to find that. I don't it's a kid's slide.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go down it got duplicated. You
Speaker 1: know who we should send on it is David Vasse.
Speaker 1: I'll because the Dodgers are going to be in Boston
Speaker 1: later this month to play the Red Sox, and he's
Speaker 1: the king of the slide. He's the guy that broke
Speaker 1: his wrist going down the slide in Milwauks with the
Speaker 1: Brewers mascot so yeah. Anyway, well, well thank you Jay.
Speaker 1: Those were very entertaining videos. Both those were outstanding. The
Speaker 1: guy that imagine that's your life skill. You were just
Speaker 1: able to balance the sofa on your head. That's your
Speaker 1: secret power. What a power. Anyway, and again, Alex, I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for being here all weekend. It's
Speaker 1: been great having you. We'll have you on again. I
Speaker 1: know Danny will probably be away many more times. Okay,
Speaker 1: the kid and all that. It's part of the deal.
Speaker 1: So we'll have you back and again. How can people
Speaker 1: find you if they didn't here yesterday's podcast. You're all
Speaker 1: over the place, You've got multiple podcasts. You're the anime superstar,
Speaker 1: so how can they track you down?
Speaker 2: Very simple? Just look up Anime Sempi podcast. You can
Speaker 2: find it on anything, TikTok, Instagram, any platform you can
Speaker 2: listen to podcasts. Or again, if you do want to
Speaker 2: have something that's a little bit more inspirational or have
Speaker 2: somebody basically be your shrink that you don't have to
Speaker 2: pay for, just look up the Shallow Oceans podcast.
Speaker 1: Check it out. Have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 1: I'll be back on the radio tonight as I kick
Speaker 1: off my work week. And you can hear me starting
Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock tonight in the west, two am in
Speaker 1: the East. I'll be on all night yapping about random
Speaker 1: things here in the other studio, the Fox Sports Radio studio.
Speaker 1: So I'll be back with that and have a wonderful
Speaker 1: USh day. We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 3: Thank you later, skater.
Speaker 1: Yeah,