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Speaker 1: And yet again I am joined by David gagon A
Speaker 1: k A. David Gascon's right over there. He's in a
Speaker 1: he's in a surly mood today. And I don't know
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about that or not Gascon.
Speaker 1: But you're not in a great mood right now, probably not,
Speaker 1: so let's get on with it. No, that means he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to talk about See, that's his way of
Speaker 1: saying that he does not want to talk about the situation.
Speaker 1: Is that correct, that's correct. I didn't miss you the
Speaker 1: other day, so happy birthday to you. Thank you. It
Speaker 1: was very nice for you to call me. I appreciated
Speaker 1: that and text me unless you didn't do any of
Speaker 1: that stuff, so I you know either way. But what
Speaker 1: we are work friends, as we say, right, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: when you're work friends, you don't actually have to be
Speaker 1: real friends. You can just be like work friends. And
Speaker 1: this is kind of how it goes. So we have
Speaker 1: it's my birthday. It's my birthday. We have the key,
Speaker 1: we return, and some other surprises along the way, but
Speaker 1: we'll start with, of course me, because why not. It
Speaker 1: is my birthday week. And I was very honored. Uh
Speaker 1: not you, Gascon. You did not take the time to
Speaker 1: reach out, but many people did, and thank you very kindly.
Speaker 1: People I have not heard from from my past. A
Speaker 1: couple of big radio executives reached out to me that
Speaker 1: I used to work with back in the day. That
Speaker 1: was cool to hear from them, and a number of
Speaker 1: big fans, old listeners of the show that had had
Speaker 1: not reached out in many years. We actually had a
Speaker 1: call on the air the other night from Chris. It
Speaker 1: was Kristen, the stripper from Houston that used to call
Speaker 1: up back like ten eleven, twelve years ago and and
Speaker 1: that whole thing. So that was cool to hear from
Speaker 1: from her. She used to do bits on the show
Speaker 1: and then retired stripper. And it's one of those it's
Speaker 1: like that's a gig. That's a gig you have like
Speaker 1: for the it stays with you, right Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you can be a former stripper, but you still have
Speaker 1: that in your head. You go from what's stripping to
Speaker 1: pull dancing to porn? Is that what the uh progression is?
Speaker 1: Or do you go the other way around? I think
Speaker 1: what usually happens is it's a stripper and then you're
Speaker 1: not making enough money and so you become a prostitute.
Speaker 1: Isn't that usually how that goes? And then then you
Speaker 1: can get into porn. You want to branch out if
Speaker 1: you want to, you know, go on the the up
Speaker 1: and up. Yeah, I don't know, but uh, yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean in Texas everything's bigger, so I can imagine the
Speaker 1: tits are a little bigger too, right, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean you you've been a connoisseur of the ballet
Speaker 1: over the year's guest gun, Right you spent a few bucks. No,
Speaker 1: not really, I'm not a fan of it. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't get the whole I don't get the whole
Speaker 1: idea of being teased for an hour or two hours.
Speaker 1: Why you gotta pay for bottles of alcohol and pay
Speaker 1: for addition and pay for a couple of drinks. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you. I in my younger days, when no
Speaker 1: women would would ever be in the same room with me,
Speaker 1: I did attend a number of ballets, and I was
Speaker 1: a regular in my twenties. I was at the ballet
Speaker 1: quite often. In fact, I was paid by the radio
Speaker 1: station to go to some of those location. How great
Speaker 1: is that back in the in the nineties they would
Speaker 1: pay us to go do shows from the back of
Speaker 1: a strip club, which was, you know, a restaurant they
Speaker 1: had put back there. I told the story a few
Speaker 1: times over the years, but the one of the big
Speaker 1: strip clubs in the San Fernando Valley they're back in
Speaker 1: the day. They decided to have some extra property, extra
Speaker 1: space on the property, so that like, we're gonna open
Speaker 1: up a sports bar, but we're gonna try to get
Speaker 1: kids and families to come in, and then we'll spend
Speaker 1: some money on radio advertising, which is very nice. And
Speaker 1: then they paid for us to go do some live
Speaker 1: shows to get people to come into the restaurant. But
Speaker 1: you had to walk past the front of the strip
Speaker 1: club to get to the restaurant. So amazingly, a lot
Speaker 1: of families, a lot of moms objected to that, and
Speaker 1: so in it up being mostly the strippers on break,
Speaker 1: we're hanging out in the restaurant trying to get away
Speaker 1: from the creepy guys in the club and all that.
Speaker 1: The other thing I will tell you from my life
Speaker 1: experience here, going to a strip club as a mere
Speaker 1: civilian and going to the strip club with professional athletes
Speaker 1: is a much different experience, all right, a much different experience,
Speaker 1: and that needs to be said. You know, people wonder
Speaker 1: why would a guy like James Harden go to the
Speaker 1: strip club all the time in Houston. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a legend. They've retired his number at the ballet there
Speaker 1: in Houston from the Rockets there James Harden. Well, the reason,
Speaker 1: all right, first of all is when you go in
Speaker 1: as a regular person. I think most of us have
Speaker 1: done that as guys, get some point gun into the
Speaker 1: ballet um. You know, you buy a drink, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole thing you gotta. They're all kind of working
Speaker 1: a little bit to get lab dances or whatever. By
Speaker 1: when you go in with professional athletes, the the strippers
Speaker 1: have this radar. I don't know how they have it,
Speaker 1: but they find out right away that there's there's a
Speaker 1: big they call him in Vegas, they call him Wales,
Speaker 1: and uh, somebody was some cash in there. And I
Speaker 1: back in the days when I was doing stuff with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, occasionally we would go out and the guys
Speaker 1: would let me tag along when there shenanigans. And because
Speaker 1: I was harmless at that time, I was on the
Speaker 1: on the payroll as a lapdog pr guying the the
Speaker 1: Dodger talk show, and so we would go out and uh,
Speaker 1: it was unbelievable, man. I I remember one of my
Speaker 1: most amazing nights was in New York at a strip
Speaker 1: club called Tens, which I don't even know is still
Speaker 1: in New York City anymore. But went there with a
Speaker 1: bunch of Dodger guys and pretty much that place was open. Um.
Speaker 1: We got back to the hotel, the sun was coming up,
Speaker 1: and that there was a there was a damn day
Speaker 1: game at at Chase Stadium. There's back when Mets playing
Speaker 1: in Shade Stadium. So it was a day game at
Speaker 1: Shay Right. And so the guys I hung out with
Speaker 1: were mostly the relief pictures. They liked me, they bonded
Speaker 1: for some reason, I bonded with these guys. So it
Speaker 1: was it was like but not like the big closer guy.
Speaker 1: It was like the set up guys, the long guys,
Speaker 1: you know those guys. So so I'm hanging out with
Speaker 1: those guys and i get back to the hotel, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm a young guy, but I'm a big fat guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not in great condition and all that. I'm certainly
Speaker 1: not used to that. I lived a sheltered life in
Speaker 1: Orange County. This was like an eye opening experience to me,
Speaker 1: and I've never been in that circle. So I get
Speaker 1: back to the hotel and you know, Son's coming up
Speaker 1: over Manhattan, you know, the Midtown right over the Grand
Speaker 1: Hyatt there, Grand Central Station. So we get back to
Speaker 1: the hotel, Sons coming up. I'm like, holy fuck, there's
Speaker 1: a day game at Shay. I mean, what these guys
Speaker 1: aren't gonna be able to pitch? You know, these guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm gonna be able to survive.
Speaker 1: I I get like, you know, three hours of sleep,
Speaker 1: and then I had to go out get on the
Speaker 1: so whatever going on the game, and so anyway, long
Speaker 1: story short, I end up going out to the ballpark. Whatever.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that bad. But these guys, two or two
Speaker 1: of the guys that believe I think it might be
Speaker 1: in three, but it was two for sure, pitched in
Speaker 1: that game and pitched perfectly. It was unbelievable. I never
Speaker 1: said any like it. I mean, I thought, there's no
Speaker 1: way if I if I had been a degenerate night
Speaker 1: access to like a lot of money, I would have
Speaker 1: bet anything against these guys because they there's no way,
Speaker 1: how can you possibly perform at that level after spending
Speaker 1: all night you know, at the at the at the club.
Speaker 1: But they were able to do it. And David Wells didn't.
Speaker 1: He throw a perfect game for the Yankees with a
Speaker 1: massive hangover too, like back in. Yeah, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the legendary story, right. And then the famous there was
Speaker 1: the picture for the Pirates that he was on LSD, Right,
Speaker 1: that's the other famous story that always gets repeated. And
Speaker 1: he was seeing all kinds of stuff, all kinds of
Speaker 1: odd stuff. So what did you do for your birthday? Then?
Speaker 1: What kind of dances did you get? Uh? Are you
Speaker 1: talking about like that back then? I mean I'm talking
Speaker 1: about earlier in the week. What kind of dances there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was something well, I don't know, I mean I
Speaker 1: got I did a zoom call because that's what you
Speaker 1: do in quarantine. When you have a birthday, Well your birthday.
Speaker 1: You share a birthday with O. J. Simpson and Tom Hanks,
Speaker 1: Oh Jay, I share a birthday with Bernie made Off.
Speaker 1: So who's who's got the worst celebrity tag along on
Speaker 1: their birthday? Bernie made Off or O J? Bernie didn't
Speaker 1: kill anybody, although several people committed suicide because of Bernie
Speaker 1: O J? Chop Chop? And who else is in my
Speaker 1: birth I got Jerry Seinfeld. That's pretty good. That's not
Speaker 1: a bad one, right, So I felt not big anymore,
Speaker 1: But he was the number one comedian comedian guy back
Speaker 1: in the day. Uh, there was a list of people
Speaker 1: that were nothing. It's just just fascinating pod gist. Who else?
Speaker 1: Oh the Mets TV guy who's very good, Gary Cohen. Oh,
Speaker 1: yeah's birthday as well. I like him. He's he's solid,
Speaker 1: He's rock solid. And so how old did you turn?
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. I just
Speaker 1: turned twenty nine, so I'm almost thirties, So twenty nine
Speaker 1: years old where I am right now? So I will
Speaker 1: stay there for a while. Yeah, I'll say that you're
Speaker 1: not aging great then if that's the case. But you
Speaker 1: know what, there's still plenty of years ahead for you.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure it was just an oversight by you
Speaker 1: too to not send the the birthday message. There, we
Speaker 1: considered it. You probably thought about it, you know, but
Speaker 1: I think the problem, you know, a full disclosure, The
Speaker 1: reason Guesstcon did not send the message is because he
Speaker 1: doesn't listen to the show because he's not a fan.
Speaker 1: So he don't listen to the radio show. Because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of birthday references on the show. And then secondly,
Speaker 1: the other problem with Gascon, and this is maybe the
Speaker 1: big your issue is he's not on Facebook. And if
Speaker 1: you're on I'm like bad at Facebook because I don't
Speaker 1: go on there every day, and I go on there sporadically.
Speaker 1: I'll get in there and I'll try to catch up
Speaker 1: on what my old friends are doing now and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But if you if they have all the
Speaker 1: birthday mess just like I know when people's birthdays are
Speaker 1: only from Facebook, you're not on there, so you have
Speaker 1: no way of knowing when birthdays are. I don't really care.
Speaker 1: I can. I guess I could sell myself out. But
Speaker 1: I did get a notification on LinkedIn that it was
Speaker 1: your birthday and you chose not to Well, I think
Speaker 1: it's more appropriate to to call people or to talk
Speaker 1: to them face to face and give them a birthday
Speaker 1: shot out and not really texting. UM. And since I
Speaker 1: don't talk to you outside of when you decided to
Speaker 1: call because you won't pick up your phone, that's not
Speaker 1: I thought this is the most appropriate time to wish
Speaker 1: you happy birthday. Yes, I I go into Frankenstein's lab
Speaker 1: to get ready for the show I have. I know
Speaker 1: this is weird. You have like laser like folkus. I
Speaker 1: I follow Coughlin clock alright when you get to little
Speaker 1: early and follow that and then um locked in. I
Speaker 1: wanna locked in. I'm gonna I want to do a
Speaker 1: good show. I want to be prepared. The degree of
Speaker 1: difficulties gone up during the pandemic. There's not as much
Speaker 1: to choose from. The options are limited, so you have
Speaker 1: to to make as Bill Parcel said, chicken salad, chicken
Speaker 1: ship and so it takes a lot of effort to
Speaker 1: do that, and I know you would understand, and doing
Speaker 1: some of the steaks being raised, then that means more
Speaker 1: color driven power hour is correct, So the amount of
Speaker 1: prep you have to do is decrease quite a bit. Well,
Speaker 1: I know that you're trying to be funny over there,
Speaker 1: and you do. You do not find the power hours appealingly,
Speaker 1: but the listeners love them. They can't get enough of them.
Speaker 1: In fact, next week, Cowboy John Brad from Windsor on tear.
Speaker 1: This guy has been calling talk radio since the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 1: very provocative and he will be on to tell us
Speaker 1: some rip roaring stories about the old days, calling radio
Speaker 1: shows and it will be intoxicating, guest. And I know
Speaker 1: you're kind of a creature of habit. We're all creatures
Speaker 1: of habit. But you don't ever think outside the box.
Speaker 1: And so some of us have to think outside the box.
Speaker 1: And for example, the other night, we had a very
Speaker 1: successful event. We brought back live sports amazingly to radio boxing,
Speaker 1: the verbal Octagon, the Thriller in the Malarilla Blind Scott
Speaker 1: versus the Mallar Militia and overlooked, underappreciated radio event and
Speaker 1: it was amazing. People absolutely loved it. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how we can repeat that, but it was an
Speaker 1: amazing situation and we're so excited again, Guess. And there's
Speaker 1: the difference between the follower and the leader, right, the
Speaker 1: alpha dog and the omega. You're more of an omega.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a pioneer. I'm more of an innovator. I'
Speaker 1: more of an architect. An originator is what I am.
Speaker 1: I will acknowledge and apply your efforts for doing a
Speaker 1: lot more digitally, your your video monologues or fantastic. I'm
Speaker 1: happy that you've actually gotten to not only first Gear,
Speaker 1: but now second gear with the digital platforms. So being
Speaker 1: the pioneer that you are, I know that it's about
Speaker 1: three sixty five days. Uh late, but butter late than
Speaker 1: never is is Ben Mally and so here we are
Speaker 1: with a new day. It's like it's like a television audition,
Speaker 1: is what it is, unless it's not. But uh now
Speaker 1: it is cool. See. I figure it's good promotion. Any
Speaker 1: promotions good promotion, but people actually are I was a
Speaker 1: little concerned when I first start, was gonna want to
Speaker 1: look at my fat face on the video. But people
Speaker 1: have been downloading, and they've been watching it on the
Speaker 1: different platforms, and thousands and thousands of people that watch that.
Speaker 1: That's why it's kind of cool. I I've been I
Speaker 1: know you don't like this either, because you don't like
Speaker 1: the little person you're in the leadist you West of
Speaker 1: the four oh five. This is gonna be groundbreaking for you.
Speaker 1: But I try. I'm trying to mix in some some
Speaker 1: different hats to to give a tribute to because thousands
Speaker 1: of people are watching these stupid videos. I wore a
Speaker 1: hat for Ed from Spokane. He has a gardening business
Speaker 1: there and he gave me one of his hats when
Speaker 1: I was in Seattle, so I I wore that there,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I was. I was gonna wear
Speaker 1: a hat from my wife's she works at a police station,
Speaker 1: but she advised me not to. She's a little concerned
Speaker 1: about the Mallard malicious stockers, so uh and I understand that,
Speaker 1: but I but I would like to wear like maybe
Speaker 1: your dad has an old l apd hat or something
Speaker 1: like that, Like i'd wear that or something. You know,
Speaker 1: I represent whatever, So I'm open. You said your hat
Speaker 1: size is on an eighth though, or an eight in
Speaker 1: a quarter. That's an eight. It's so it's a big head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a big melon. It's giant. Joe McDonald, the late
Speaker 1: great Joe McDonald, a radio legend in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 1: a colleague of mine called me melon Head. That was
Speaker 1: my nickname. He called me melon Head back in the day,
Speaker 1: and we had some some battles. We patched things up
Speaker 1: though before he passed away, but we had we had
Speaker 1: a few battles over the years, but we good name.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of battles of people that
Speaker 1: you don't agree with and I can't understand their side
Speaker 1: of things or don't listen. So it's good to see
Speaker 1: you patch things up before he went and took the
Speaker 1: dirt nap. So that's good. I'm happy for you. So
Speaker 1: do you feel better now? I mean dirt nap? I
Speaker 1: mean that's you know, that's what it is. That's fine.
Speaker 1: So do you feel do you feel older? Do you
Speaker 1: feel younger? Do you feel the same now that you've
Speaker 1: you've christened the new five? Oh? No, I feel the
Speaker 1: five of you. Thought I wasn't listening. I usually don't,
Speaker 1: but schmuck. Wow. You I such a douche che right there,
Speaker 1: David Gascon. I'm gonna teach you. You're you're my disciple,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to teach you here, but of course
Speaker 1: not anywhere near fifty and that I can't even see
Speaker 1: it on the horizon, can't even see it on the horizon,
Speaker 1: and feel no different. I feel no different at all.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the zoom thing. I got a surprise and
Speaker 1: this actually ties into the pandemic. So I get on
Speaker 1: the zoom to talk to my brothers, and everyone moved
Speaker 1: out of California. And I don't blame them. I mean, please,
Speaker 1: I would too if I could, but I can't right now.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so the my my brother I got one
Speaker 1: brother who lives in New York, in New York City,
Speaker 1: and I got another brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin. And
Speaker 1: you know, I never see him, especially now because what's
Speaker 1: going on. Maybe once a year I'll see my brother
Speaker 1: from New York. And I haven't seen my brother from
Speaker 1: Wisconsin in several years. And so yeah, we do zoom
Speaker 1: chat catch up and my brother from New York gets on,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking he's got you know those filters on
Speaker 1: Instagram and the kind of where you can put different
Speaker 1: faces on, you know what I'm talking about. So I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 1: my brother's got a filter on because he's bald, right,
Speaker 1: my bald brother. And I'm like, what the hell I said,
Speaker 1: take the filter off? You know, What's what's going on there?
Speaker 1: I think my phone's acting up and turns out his hair.
Speaker 1: He was so tired of not being able to get
Speaker 1: a haircut because all the barbershops are closed because the
Speaker 1: politicians that he he just shaved his head. He just
Speaker 1: shaved all the hair off. He was his hair was
Speaker 1: growing too long. He got tired of it. It was
Speaker 1: annoying him, and so he just trim, trim and guy
Speaker 1: rid of all of it. Who did it? Did his
Speaker 1: Mrs Doudery dude himself? Uh? No, was it was him
Speaker 1: and his his daughter's helped him. The wife not a fan.
Speaker 1: His his bride not a fan of the bald look
Speaker 1: of my my older brother. Now does that mean that
Speaker 1: you're gonna do something like that? You know, I have
Speaker 1: weird I don't have a lot up top, but I
Speaker 1: have a lot on the sides, which doesn't It's not
Speaker 1: a good look. I'm a baseball hat guy. I have
Speaker 1: thought about it, but I I don't look good now.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine I would look good bald. And then
Speaker 1: I've heard different stories about when you shave your your
Speaker 1: head and get rid of all your hair, like it
Speaker 1: grows back. Strange, lead doesn't go back the same, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm concerned about that. What kind of weird ship
Speaker 1: would happen if I did get rid of all that?
Speaker 1: And then there's like maintenance, Like I have a my
Speaker 1: buddy in Dallas, uh, my old elementary school buddy that
Speaker 1: I still talk to you, which with the I R S.
Speaker 1: So I hate him because it actually I rs. We
Speaker 1: still get along, litle bit. And uh he shaved his
Speaker 1: head years ago because he's you know, he's losing this
Speaker 1: hair a little bit, so he's just shaved it. But
Speaker 1: then there's like a lot of maintenance you don't even
Speaker 1: realize because I'm not in the cult of being bald,
Speaker 1: where you shave your head. But there's like a lot
Speaker 1: of maintens. You gotta like every day, you gotta be
Speaker 1: on it. You gotta like put product on it to
Speaker 1: shine it up a little bit. Like there's it's like
Speaker 1: polishing a bowling ball. There's a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: goes into it that we don't even know about. Well, well,
Speaker 1: thankfully you're in quarantine right now, so it's not like
Speaker 1: you're gonna go see the masses. So you can you
Speaker 1: try a couple of things. And if you my my plan, listen,
Speaker 1: my plan was, I was just gonna I was gonna
Speaker 1: not shave my beard at all, you know, not shaved
Speaker 1: in that whole thing. And then look whatever, who cares,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll show you my bohemian endencies, my quirkiness, whatever.
Speaker 1: And but then I started the company asked me to
Speaker 1: do these video things, and I'm like, wow, if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be on camera, I mean, that's that crap. Last forever,
Speaker 1: and so I don't want to look like a disheveled mess.
Speaker 1: So I gotta at least take care of my appearance
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um. So that's why. But if if
Speaker 1: I didn't do the video stuff, I would not have
Speaker 1: shaved at all, and I would just whatever. Who cares
Speaker 1: to be doing the show in my underwear? I don't care,
Speaker 1: but that's not how it works, and you don't do
Speaker 1: the show in your underwear. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Well, I mean you've you've seen
Speaker 1: the videos there, man, I'm wearing a tuxedo one day,
Speaker 1: I've got a five thousand dollars suit I got from
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills the next and just rest in the nines,
Speaker 1: not early looking at the attire. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I saw that you were on there, and so I
Speaker 1: thought it was appropriate to a plot you in your efforts.
Speaker 1: So baby, I appreciate that. I know you are again
Speaker 1: just an order nary guy. You're just the foot soldier
Speaker 1: and all that and do the predictable thing. But I
Speaker 1: occasionally I can show you some of my um free
Speaker 1: spirited signe on. We say, was it avant garde? Right?
Speaker 1: Isn't that how they say it? Yes? You tell me,
Speaker 1: since you are the you're the king of style right
Speaker 1: now unless I am in vogue is what I am,
Speaker 1: and people are very jealous of that. You always look
Speaker 1: for the overnight guy. I'm on the catwalk there, walking
Speaker 1: down the runway and doing a pirouet is what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: So I see I know all the fashion terminology, guess,
Speaker 1: And you don't think I do. But I know the
Speaker 1: fashion terminology. So I could have gone into fashion. I
Speaker 1: chose not to go into fashion. I chose to go
Speaker 1: into overnight sports radio doing God's work, right, I guess?
Speaker 1: How is how is the work that you're doing now
Speaker 1: at home compared to being here in the studio. Have
Speaker 1: you noticed a major difference at all? Are now? I
Speaker 1: don't like this shows any different, Like I think it's
Speaker 1: the same because I never saw Eddie. I've never been
Speaker 1: in the same room with Eddie for the whole time
Speaker 1: we worked together. Because the update room is the news
Speaker 1: rooms around the corner at the studios, it's not like
Speaker 1: we see each other, so it's no different. I'm just
Speaker 1: my studios. Further, away than uh than it used to be.
Speaker 1: But I do missed going in. You know, I love
Speaker 1: going to the radio station and the whole the vibe,
Speaker 1: the energy which I was listening. Uh. I won't get
Speaker 1: into why, but I heard a little Gottlieb show earlier
Speaker 1: in the week and John Ramos was talking on the
Speaker 1: air and he had his mask on. He was all muffled,
Speaker 1: you know, he was it was what's going on with
Speaker 1: And it was like it was like Ramos, you know,
Speaker 1: I understand being a little paranoid, but I mean you
Speaker 1: you got to wear the mask. I mean, what's going
Speaker 1: on with that? Yeah, that's a little on. We've had
Speaker 1: some guys on the weekends to the same thing. I
Speaker 1: am not paranoid, right, I mean, am I wrong on
Speaker 1: that thing? That's a little paranoid that you're just by talking,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get that and a microphone. That's that's really
Speaker 1: get todd. We at that point should I be concerned? Here?
Speaker 1: We all it's at end times. Yeah, we've had hosts
Speaker 1: that have actually been on the air with masks on. Yes,
Speaker 1: the name names right now, name name Steve Hartman, Steve
Speaker 1: Hartmant would never do that. Steve would never suppress his
Speaker 1: own voice. That's a good point. Steve loves. The only
Speaker 1: person that loves to hear Steve Hartman more than Steve
Speaker 1: Hartman is Steve Hartman. Yeah, yeah, Steve would never do that,
Speaker 1: but no, but yeah, there's it seems to be a
Speaker 1: fashion forul pause though, So you don't want to name names.
Speaker 1: You're afraid to name names, So you don't want to
Speaker 1: do that, even though I'm assuming the people listening to this,
Speaker 1: who listened to Fox Sports Radio all the time, they
Speaker 1: big super fans of the network would know just by listening,
Speaker 1: you can tell when someone's wearing a mask, they sound different.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, and there's a reason for me
Speaker 1: to rat anybody out, that's uh, you know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. We live in the state right now where
Speaker 1: we have to wrap people out. We're just walking down
Speaker 1: the street or going to the beach or going to
Speaker 1: the park. But you know, I'm not gonna be a
Speaker 1: part of that. I'm gonna be bigger than that. I
Speaker 1: went on a rant about Gavin Newsom, the Weasley governor
Speaker 1: of the state of California. My wife, Yeah, King Newsome,
Speaker 1: it's the People's Republic of California. And I think he's
Speaker 1: taking his talking points from the leaders in China. But uh,
Speaker 1: as I said, I told my wife, I said, listen,
Speaker 1: you know what, what's the fucking point of living in California.
Speaker 1: We pay outrageous taxes here, taxation with terrible representation, and
Speaker 1: they have the fucking balls to shut down the beaches.
Speaker 1: I mean, we might as well live in Nebraska or
Speaker 1: Iowa or Kansas, right. I mean the advantage you have
Speaker 1: one of them is the obviously the weather in California,
Speaker 1: but also the ability to go to the beach. It's
Speaker 1: the whole fucking West Coast pretty much as California. And
Speaker 1: this weasel, uh, this Weasley governor California High Hope gets
Speaker 1: thrown out of office. Gavin Newsom, what a schmuck. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy, it's a total power play. Now, it's a
Speaker 1: total power play. What's going on now? You're on the
Speaker 1: third rail? My man. I'm sorry, I just upset me.
Speaker 1: My man. You I blame you. You started this. No,
Speaker 1: I would just say I want to wrap people out.
Speaker 1: And did you get any pushback for going on a
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom ramp by the way, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just did it. I haven't done it on the show,
Speaker 1: and I are you talking about with my wife? No, No,
Speaker 1: on the radio. I didn't do it on the radio.
Speaker 1: I just didn't. I just at home. I didn't. When
Speaker 1: I was looking at I watched the news for like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes because that's all I can handle. And then
Speaker 1: you know, I saw the headline, Gavin Newsom plans to
Speaker 1: shut down all the beaches in California. I saw the
Speaker 1: headline the other day as we're recording the podcast, and
Speaker 1: and so I was like, what the funk is this?
Speaker 1: I can social distance. I wear you your dopey little
Speaker 1: mask and all the gloves and all that ship. But
Speaker 1: if I want to go to the beach, I'll sit
Speaker 1: on the beach. Fuck you. That's what I have to say. Now,
Speaker 1: deep think he will? Do you think he'll shut because
Speaker 1: he's gonna shut down the beaches and parks? Do you
Speaker 1: think he's gonna shut down the Airport's? I mean because
Speaker 1: that would be appropriate, right? I mean, if you're talking
Speaker 1: about social distancing, like we're talking about airplanes and people
Speaker 1: that are well within six feet from each other sitting
Speaker 1: on an airplane coming into Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, l
Speaker 1: a long beach like that would make sense, right at
Speaker 1: a local airport. Well, no one's flying now anyway. People
Speaker 1: are still flying. No, it's not hardly anyone. They I
Speaker 1: think they've lost like ninety five percent of their their business,
Speaker 1: the airplane people. But I listen. I hope I'm wrong
Speaker 1: about a sense that we're getting to a tipping point
Speaker 1: here that people are they've reached the end and is
Speaker 1: people have gone a little too far and uh, and
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to roll back some of these restrictions.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna have to. And if you don't, um,
Speaker 1: well you're gonna have to deal with what happens. And
Speaker 1: I I hope it doesn't get nasty. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people I hear this from from fans that
Speaker 1: listen to the show, that are just they're over the
Speaker 1: top at this point. They're like, you know, this is enough?
Speaker 1: Enough is enough. It's an inflammatory situation. Yeah, it gets
Speaker 1: even worse now on social media that I've seen. I've
Speaker 1: seen doctors in Baker's field that have published YouTube videos
Speaker 1: that have now been deleted. I know that that is
Speaker 1: that also, I saw that that is unbelievable, Like if
Speaker 1: you don't agree with the group think you get. It's
Speaker 1: like when I used to watch the History Channel and they,
Speaker 1: you know, Joseph Stalin would would make people that were
Speaker 1: enemies of the state vanish, like get rid of all
Speaker 1: the photos. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's like there's this
Speaker 1: retaliation if you do not go and these you talk
Speaker 1: about those doctors in Bakersfield and uh, and I saw
Speaker 1: that the video that was like a TV news report.
Speaker 1: The TV station in Bakersfield interviewed them, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and they gave some numbers and they went through all
Speaker 1: of it, which of course infuriated the politicians because they
Speaker 1: don't correlate with what they had been saying. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's almost like I did a rant the other
Speaker 1: day guests Gun about I know you don't listen to
Speaker 1: the show, but it was about mel Kuyper and the draft,
Speaker 1: the mock crafts and how you know the top mock
Speaker 1: draft guy was Peter King, who got about thirty of
Speaker 1: the picks right right. Everyone else is like or less
Speaker 1: of the picks. And it's kind of like one of
Speaker 1: these things where like they make these bold they go
Speaker 1: off projections on what's gonna happen. And I know there's
Speaker 1: obviously a different situation with the coronavirus, but my entire life,
Speaker 1: every time there's been some kind of medical thing, they
Speaker 1: always have the most outrageous charts that talk about how
Speaker 1: terrible things are going to be. And they never end
Speaker 1: up like that. It never ends up like that, and
Speaker 1: they never get called on it. It's it's in few rating,
Speaker 1: it's it's irritating and it's maddening at the same time.
Speaker 1: And and then of course they have the self fulfilling prophecy,
Speaker 1: were like, well, see distance and that's why it worked?
Speaker 1: How that fund? Do you know that? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, it's it's a correlation causation anyway,
Speaker 1: getting me carried away, that's a bad job by you, guests.
Speaker 1: Gun Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup
Speaker 1: in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox
Speaker 1: sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio
Speaker 1: app search f s R to listen live. I think
Speaker 1: it's an important conversation to have, though, don't you think,
Speaker 1: I mean, especially in this day and age that we're at,
Speaker 1: because you know, people are listening to us. Podcast numbers
Speaker 1: are up all across the board, and people are listening
Speaker 1: in different parts of the country. So I think a
Speaker 1: great test for us, at least here since we're in California,
Speaker 1: is we're gonna see what happens in New York, and
Speaker 1: we're also gonna see what happens in Florida. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see what happens in Texas. I think what the sports
Speaker 1: and the way it is right now, I thought for
Speaker 1: the most part that this would be depending on the
Speaker 1: league itself, I thought it would be a Red versus
Speaker 1: Blue push. Red will probably be aggressive on how they
Speaker 1: open up the states and Blues will be passive. I
Speaker 1: just think that's the way it's gonna be, and obviously
Speaker 1: for different reasons. Yeah, I know people are shocked, and
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of messages from people that are
Speaker 1: email people that are like, what's going on now? You've
Speaker 1: always been a panic peddler on the radio about sports,
Speaker 1: but now you're not, you know, and I'm I'm not.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people out there that
Speaker 1: have fatalist thinking, um and uh, and I get that,
Speaker 1: I understand that, but you know, it's the how many
Speaker 1: people have said, well, wait two weeks and then see
Speaker 1: what happens. You know, the hospitals will be overwhelmed and
Speaker 1: in these states that have opened up. Okay, well wait
Speaker 1: two weeks, and what happens if they're not overwhelmed? What
Speaker 1: do you do then? Right? What do you do with
Speaker 1: that particular point anyway? All right, real quick? I do
Speaker 1: you use Amazon a lot? Uh? Like Amazon? You talk
Speaker 1: about buying crap on Yeah? Yeah, of course I bring
Speaker 1: that up right now because of what you had just mentioned.
Speaker 1: I trying to re put a review in for a
Speaker 1: couple of products that I've purchased, um like digital products
Speaker 1: like camera equipment, tripods and things of that nature. I
Speaker 1: kid you not been. I have only made one review
Speaker 1: in my entire time while on Amazon, and I've only
Speaker 1: made inquiries on products like where they've been manufactured. I
Speaker 1: I think I told you this about a month ago,
Speaker 1: like I'm not going to buy anything that's Chinese made.
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna do it. So I had sent
Speaker 1: inquiries out to different companies on Amazon, like where their
Speaker 1: products were manufactured from all of my comments the one comment,
Speaker 1: but my ability to even put reviews in for anything
Speaker 1: that I've purchased in the past been completely disbanded. I
Speaker 1: can't comment or review on anything. I can't rate it,
Speaker 1: I can't review it. It's mind boggling. And that's for
Speaker 1: two accounts that I have. I have two different accounts
Speaker 1: for two different emails, and Amazon is not allowed me
Speaker 1: to do any of that stuff on there. Now. It
Speaker 1: really is, you know, and I know people, and I've
Speaker 1: always heard from these people all the government's out to
Speaker 1: get you and all this stuff. They're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: silence you. You know, these these guys, and I always
Speaker 1: laughed at them. But in this case, that YouTube video
Speaker 1: for the Bakersfield doctors that got raised is really outrageous.
Speaker 1: Um and and the the thing about it, and and
Speaker 1: then what you said, just because you want to know
Speaker 1: what stuff was made in China. Of course Amazon, if
Speaker 1: they didn't sell stuff made in China, they would not
Speaker 1: have Amazon. I mean, it's kind of they just assume
Speaker 1: everything's made in China based on on that. But I'm
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not like you. I'm not making a
Speaker 1: stand and not buying stuff from China. I'd rather buy
Speaker 1: stuff from America. But I don't. I don't approach it
Speaker 1: that way. But it's, uh, it's it's crazy that the
Speaker 1: censorship that is legitimate. I mean it's legitimate. Is not
Speaker 1: people you know, you know, going around all paranoid. This
Speaker 1: is we have proof, we have tangible proof that the
Speaker 1: big tech companies are doing and they are The thing
Speaker 1: about I was gonna get to and I it slipped
Speaker 1: my head. But why not? Is the real pity when
Speaker 1: you talk about um, the politicians like there's no checks
Speaker 1: and balances on these these like YouTube pulling a video
Speaker 1: from the doctors in Baker's field because it agrees with
Speaker 1: the government's position. So who the hell and d C
Speaker 1: is gonna stand up and say, let's call in the
Speaker 1: YouTube and say what the hell are you doing? Because
Speaker 1: they in the eyes of the government, the politicians are
Speaker 1: on the side of the their side, so why would
Speaker 1: they do anything to call them out and make them accountable. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: especially because most of the tech comes from California. I
Speaker 1: mean you're looking, you're looking at Silicon Valley, so that
Speaker 1: it's the land of the intouchable, especially wild though. I
Speaker 1: mean I always you know, I'm not a big science guy.
Speaker 1: I like these studies and will do that in another podcast.
Speaker 1: But you look around and you're like, well, what you
Speaker 1: know it's like science has always been it's an imperfect thing, right,
Speaker 1: it's in evolving. Science is always evolving, and not everyone's right, right,
Speaker 1: And you know, right, you look at some of the
Speaker 1: big discoveries and science, and people still try to prove
Speaker 1: them wrong. Albert Einstein, Right, people still something maybe Einstein
Speaker 1: missed something, you know, that kind of thing. But yet
Speaker 1: in these cases of the pandemic, there's one set of
Speaker 1: facts and that's it. You can't have anything else. And
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's really annoying. And the good thing
Speaker 1: is if you have a different opinion or if you
Speaker 1: have different information, you get to be labeled as a
Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist. Well yeah, that's the way. That's the way
Speaker 1: to silence you. Right, there's two ways people get silence
Speaker 1: to say, well, you're just a conspiracy guy. Oh you're
Speaker 1: you're a Trump guy. They say that, right, like to
Speaker 1: dismiss you. That's that's the counter argument, which is a skill.
Speaker 1: I think one of those documentaries you had me watch
Speaker 1: guest and I think it was the c i A.
Speaker 1: Came up with that to discredit, right, wasn't they They
Speaker 1: were the ones that came up with that technique to
Speaker 1: discredit the other side. It's um, which which argument technique
Speaker 1: is that poisoning the well? Or is it shoot a messenger?
Speaker 1: But it's got to be both, right, both Right, there
Speaker 1: you go, it's both a little bit of both. It's
Speaker 1: poisoning the well, shoot the messenger, and uh, if you
Speaker 1: want to just look at the argument techniques. I mean,
Speaker 1: all these are played out in in these conversations. But
Speaker 1: I love I love the fact that we have the
Speaker 1: ability through technology to correspond and to publish, to talk,
Speaker 1: to argue all these things with people. I am all
Speaker 1: open for it. Like I don't. I don't believe in
Speaker 1: cancel culture. I don't believe in censoring. I believe in
Speaker 1: free speech. But it's absolutely appalling to me that when
Speaker 1: we get on social media platforms with it's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, God forbid, somebody higher up the
Speaker 1: food chain does not like what's published. Then it gets
Speaker 1: removed without a shadow of it down and then there's
Speaker 1: no penalties either. That goes the other way too for
Speaker 1: the media. I mean, we look at ourselves. Obviously we're
Speaker 1: just sports junkies. It's a little bit different. But you
Speaker 1: get reporters that are out there that have free range
Speaker 1: to produce, promote right, whatever the funk they want, and
Speaker 1: they have no repercussions for whatever they publish. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: might get that, might get drilled by social media, they
Speaker 1: might get drilled by one party or the other. But
Speaker 1: still there's there's They're flying with plenty of parachutes and
Speaker 1: a cushion ground to fall on. Uh yeah, listen, I
Speaker 1: I agree with you, but you know everyone's biased, and
Speaker 1: I don't really care. I grew up in a Household've
Speaker 1: told the story before, and you know, I was My
Speaker 1: mom was a liberal, my dad was a conservative, and
Speaker 1: you know, so growing up in my household, there would
Speaker 1: be tremendous debates at the dinner table. They always talked
Speaker 1: about whatever was going on in politics of the day.
Speaker 1: And that's how I grew up. And I grew up
Speaker 1: with the back and forth. And I know we're in
Speaker 1: an area now where you can't have dissenting voices and
Speaker 1: all that, and it bothers me because I didn't grow
Speaker 1: up like that. And I don't really care. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have friends that I totally disagree with their position,
Speaker 1: but I don't care. I'm a big deal. We're not
Speaker 1: in we're not in positions of power to change anything.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I have my position, you
Speaker 1: have your position. We can all get along. It's fine,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people do not agree with that,
Speaker 1: and they don't want to associate with people that have.
Speaker 1: You only want that same argument, you know, the same
Speaker 1: group think on your side. But this is like professional
Speaker 1: sports in such a way that professional athletes, whether it's
Speaker 1: an illegal shot to the head or an illegal check,
Speaker 1: whatever it be, throwing at a batter up and in,
Speaker 1: they get suspended for a day, they get suspended for
Speaker 1: five games, they get find the whole nine yards? What
Speaker 1: they What do players not like? They don't want they
Speaker 1: don't like losing money and to the note and like
Speaker 1: not playing games. Well, that's the same thing for us. Now,
Speaker 1: don't forget. People are obviously losing jobs, they're being furlough,
Speaker 1: they're being laid off, they're being fired, and their civil
Speaker 1: liberties are being stripped from the ability to go out,
Speaker 1: the ability to walk down the street, the ability to
Speaker 1: go to the park, go to the beach, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. Like, one by one you start getting these
Speaker 1: people piste off. It doesn't matter the state that they're in.
Speaker 1: They're gonna start pushing back. And you know, it's unfortunate
Speaker 1: that where we're at right now because obviously, in this
Speaker 1: day and age, with the technology that we have in
Speaker 1: the medicine, this thing, like you said, is evolving, and
Speaker 1: I hope to god it's it's remedied suited rather than later.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well I kept hearing June, June, June, which
Speaker 1: is still a month away, right, We're still a month
Speaker 1: away from from June. So and that doesn't mean June one.
Speaker 1: That could be June fifteenth or something like that. So um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, obviously, I I want people to
Speaker 1: be healthy. I I looked at the data, have looked
Speaker 1: at the information. I do not believe we're at the
Speaker 1: point where they, you know, Dr Faucin, those guys were
Speaker 1: saying originally, I think they were way off on their
Speaker 1: their data. And I know, well it's because people are
Speaker 1: social distancing. Okay, well, I can wear your little mask
Speaker 1: if you want, but you can open things up. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna it's not gonna end it stop anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: So real quick, just to wrap up, you got boy
Speaker 1: that we got sucked down a rabbit hole on that one. Ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I blame you. It was not on the rundown by Joby.
Speaker 1: So now I'm gonna have Can I send you the
Speaker 1: nasty emails I get from people that are very upset
Speaker 1: by this conversation? Can I send that to you if
Speaker 1: you can. I'm being probably tagged on it from a
Speaker 1: couple of guys. I'm sure. The guy I'll get is
Speaker 1: I love your show, but I can no longer listen.
Speaker 1: I love that. That one's good. That's that's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite. You're totally wrong on this, and let me
Speaker 1: tell you why you're not. Yes, yes, and then they'll
Speaker 1: give me a bunch of propaganda from the government. That's
Speaker 1: usually how that goes. It's normally how that goes. Um,
Speaker 1: So I just too real quick. I wrap up the
Speaker 1: birthday week big thanks to the wife. She spoiled me
Speaker 1: some driving all over the place. You can't go any restaurants,
Speaker 1: but she drove to my favorite Italian placed, Palermo's over
Speaker 1: there in East Hollywood and picked up some pizza rosa
Speaker 1: and brought that home and that was great. So I
Speaker 1: love that place, and I've been there in a long
Speaker 1: time because everything's closed up and they're just doing take
Speaker 1: out whatever, so that was cool. I had my Raising
Speaker 1: Canes this week, which I love, of course, and that
Speaker 1: was great, and some other some other restaurants. I'm still fasting,
Speaker 1: but I'm not fasting as long. And I would do
Speaker 1: normally eight hour fast during the week. Depending on the day,
Speaker 1: I needed to forty eight hour plus fast than one
Speaker 1: four hour thing. But um, this is uh, you know,
Speaker 1: this is like seventeen hours. I'm doing like seventeen, which
Speaker 1: I think is fine. I think seventeen is fine for
Speaker 1: the birthday week. And then I get back my schedule
Speaker 1: and I mentioned the key we returned. I had briefly
Speaker 1: brought this up on the radio show, but I got
Speaker 1: a phone call from my my friend Darcy Waldergrave, who
Speaker 1: I used to be on with every week in New
Speaker 1: Zealand on Radio Sport and they closed up Radio Sport
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic. He completely shut it down. So
Speaker 1: I said, hey, how are you doing everything all right?
Speaker 1: And we had a brief conversation and Darcy mentioned that
Speaker 1: while Radio Sport is dead and buried and they're not
Speaker 1: going to bring it back, it does sound like we
Speaker 1: could be reunited. And he said he's got a new
Speaker 1: show that he's doing here on a big news talk
Speaker 1: station in Auckland, New Zealand, is huge blow towards station.
Speaker 1: And though we are in talks, guest gun for me
Speaker 1: to be the international correspondent for his station. What's that?
Speaker 1: Mostly sports, but whatever is going on in the US
Speaker 1: pop culture. We can can do that. Any any idea
Speaker 1: when that would be agin? I don't know. He just
Speaker 1: called me the other day. He said he was working
Speaker 1: some stuff out and he would get back to me,
Speaker 1: and I think he will. The fact that he called
Speaker 1: me and I tried calling him back though, because I
Speaker 1: was he called me like right at the end of
Speaker 1: We Don't Break, but one of the pauses that we
Speaker 1: took during the show, so he called me like like
Speaker 1: a minute. I said, hey, I got a minute. I'll
Speaker 1: call you back. So I called him back and like
Speaker 1: for some reason the call wouldn't go through, but he
Speaker 1: was able to call me. I don't know. It's it's
Speaker 1: pretty far to get to New Zealand from from where
Speaker 1: we are. But but anyway, all right, so we put
Speaker 1: the baby to bed, Yes, guests, we put the baby
Speaker 1: to bed. Listen, thank you, appreciate you for downloading it.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll stay away from the third rail. We'll try
Speaker 1: not to do that in future podcast. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's a good event, all right, it's good event. It
Speaker 1: feels nice to do that every once in a while. Um,
Speaker 1: we all have cabin fever and so we can complain wine, bitch, moan, belly, ate,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Have a great day today and we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time here on the fifth hour.