Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Here we are
Speaker 1: yet again, eight days a week, eight days a week.
Speaker 1: Welcome into the Saturday podcast, The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller.
Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed Friday's podcast. If you did not
Speaker 1: hear the Friday podcast, Bad Job by You, you can
Speaker 1: go back and listen to it. It's timeless, it's classical. Uh.
Speaker 1: Catching up with no Procer, who had a long run
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Oils and the Washington Bulls. He also
Speaker 1: was the first announcer for the Washington Nationals and has
Speaker 1: worked with a bunch of other teams. He called games
Speaker 1: for the New Jersey Nets and the Texas Rangers. Was
Speaker 1: in Hawaii and I enjoyed the conversation and I don't
Speaker 1: even know I learned something new about NFL films. From
Speaker 1: mel So if you want to hear that, go back
Speaker 1: and download the Friday podcast. But upward and onward we go.
Speaker 1: It is Saturday and no gascon, a gascon free weekend.
Speaker 1: A man with that kind of work ethic rest of
Speaker 1: the four oh five, not here, but in his place,
Speaker 1: a living, breathing Fox Sports Radio legend behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Occasionally this man pops up on the air. Occasionally it
Speaker 1: happens Big Mike is in the house in that the
Speaker 1: gascon chair. Hello, Big Mike. Hello, Barn Mellon knows a
Speaker 1: pretty nice central man. Feel like I should have some
Speaker 1: walk up music or something. Well, you're like in old
Speaker 1: tub I know you know, no no, and see guess
Speaker 1: I will play like applause and stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be that would be a nightmare. Now do
Speaker 1: do you live west of the four or five or
Speaker 1: east of the four or five? I live just east
Speaker 1: of the four or five, like literally a quarter of
Speaker 1: a mile east of the four or five. That's okay,
Speaker 1: you're east of the four or five, as long as
Speaker 1: you're not west of the four or five. Because I've bad,
Speaker 1: I've bad, you know, juju with the people that live
Speaker 1: west of the four or five, like Gascon, So there's
Speaker 1: a point. There's a point of you know, like a
Speaker 1: lion the sand here, Big Mike, west or east of
Speaker 1: the four or five, and as long as they're even
Speaker 1: a footstep away, Like I love Tito's tacos rightly. My
Speaker 1: favorite Tinos Tacos is literally against the four or five freeway.
Speaker 1: But it is east of the four oh five, so
Speaker 1: that's okay. Even though it's looking at it's right next
Speaker 1: to the freeway, but it's east of it, so it's
Speaker 1: all right too. Those is within walking distance from my house?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Is right? I'm jealous, man, I'd be
Speaker 1: eating it. Although full disclosure, when I first started going
Speaker 1: to Titos, I'm gonna date myself, but I could get
Speaker 1: like five tacos for ten bucks. Now those tacos with
Speaker 1: cheese like five bucks each. Almost oh yeah, but you
Speaker 1: don't have to pay cash anymore. They're taking credit cards now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was surprised by that because they had a straight
Speaker 1: cash business for like thirty forty years, you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they didn't pay their taxes, Big Mike,
Speaker 1: but there are workarounds when you get cash, you know,
Speaker 1: whether there are things you can do, whether or not
Speaker 1: you want to be honest or not. So yeah, for sure. Interesting.
Speaker 1: So how now, I just assume you've been at Fox
Speaker 1: Spirits Radio as long as I have. I know you haven't.
Speaker 1: I remember when you started, but you've been here forever.
Speaker 1: How many years have you been here now, Mike? At
Speaker 1: the company? Uh, starting two thousand four, so that's seventeen
Speaker 1: seventeen years. And of course you've been on so they
Speaker 1: laid me off No. Nine, So you've been consistently there
Speaker 1: longer than I have. I had a six month, twenty
Speaker 1: six day vacation, but you, technically, your seniority was wiped
Speaker 1: out at that point. Now I am technically senior to
Speaker 1: you as an employee here, yes, yes, but not that
Speaker 1: I don't like to relive that faithful day there at all.
Speaker 1: But you you know where all the barer the bodies
Speaker 1: are buried, Big Mike. Yes, you know all the secrets
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio past and present, and I'm not sharing,
Speaker 1: So don't try to get it out of me. You're not.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna? Are you gonna wry to tell all book,
Speaker 1: Big Mike? When you're done here? What happens in Sherman
Speaker 1: Oaks stays in Sherman Oaks. Oh no, we have big
Speaker 1: powerful microphones and we spew all of that. We spew
Speaker 1: all of that out into the ethos is what we do.
Speaker 1: But that. But anyway, on this podcast, we are going
Speaker 1: to have heavy magic. We've got just desserts and a
Speaker 1: staple on Saturday podcast pop Whiz Boy. Is that exciting?
Speaker 1: Tell me you're not. This is your dream come true,
Speaker 1: Big Mike. You weren't forced to come in and do this.
Speaker 1: You love you have great fun memories of me and
Speaker 1: you side by side in the heart the hallways the
Speaker 1: bowels of Fox Sports Radio back in the day. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I've been pestering Gascon for months now to try to
Speaker 1: let me have a shift in here and try and
Speaker 1: try to work for him so we can go, you know,
Speaker 1: do something and pretend he's busy. Yeah, we should get
Speaker 1: in on this. Yeah, well it's not that different, Gascon.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to the work ethic, he's you know,
Speaker 1: he check out from time to time as we as
Speaker 1: we punt out. Anyway, so Avy Magic, by hook or
Speaker 1: by crook, the wings of change have have finally swept
Speaker 1: through the social media platforms. I did it. I clicked
Speaker 1: the switch on Twitter at bra Cadabra hook just poke
Speaker 1: as pressed though I changed my avatar on Twitter. Now
Speaker 1: this might seem like nothing right, This might who the
Speaker 1: hell cares you know? It's a stupid avatar on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I get it, But it is absolutely something because I
Speaker 1: believe I didn't. I don't know the last time I changed.
Speaker 1: I think it's been at least four years. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think it's been longer than four years that I
Speaker 1: had the avatar that I had on Twitter. So why
Speaker 1: did I change? Well, I was considering, not that you
Speaker 1: really care, but I was considering making a change. I
Speaker 1: was like, contemplating making a change. But I'm not very photogenetic.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm ugly. I generally don't like any photos that
Speaker 1: are taken where I'm in the photo. That's usually a
Speaker 1: way for me to not like the photo is when
Speaker 1: my ugly mug is in the photo. So I looked
Speaker 1: at a couple of things. I was like, maybe about change.
Speaker 1: I didn't. And then I was re eating some tweets
Speaker 1: from and this actually happened on the air. If you
Speaker 1: listen to the Overnight show, you heard this. And I
Speaker 1: was reading tweets and this guy, E Rocker. I looked
Speaker 1: at his advantage, like, that's pretty cool. I'd like to get,
Speaker 1: you know, in my head, I'm thinking, boy, I'd like
Speaker 1: to get something like that. That's a good look at avatar.
Speaker 1: And it was a cartoon drawing of this guy's face
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm probably used to some app to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he did it, but I pointed
Speaker 1: out that I liked it, and I like, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: And then like the next day or maybe it was
Speaker 1: even that same night, I don't remember. It was either
Speaker 1: that night or the next day. Uh. He's sent over
Speaker 1: two of him. He had a red and a blue one,
Speaker 1: and it was like, I like that, and I, after
Speaker 1: contemplating it some more for a couple of days, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Let's make the let's make the jump.
Speaker 1: So I am the proud owner of a new cartoon avatar,
Speaker 1: which I will describe as if for those that can't
Speaker 1: see it, for our blind listeners. It is slick, it
Speaker 1: is stylish, it is in vogue, it is cutting ed,
Speaker 1: and as much as this can possibly be as an avatar,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm strutting down the catwalk and Uh.
Speaker 1: And and Big Mike, I'm doing a ciple pure weet
Speaker 1: is what I'm doing. I'm all about it. It looks great. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate it. And and so far, you know,
Speaker 1: so far positive reviews. Although we know the trolls are
Speaker 1: out there. We are aware the trolls are out there,
Speaker 1: and they are ready to attack there. They muddy the
Speaker 1: waters is what they do, one of them. I got
Speaker 1: to assume that Gascon's out there with a with a
Speaker 1: troll account that he's set up secondarily just so he can. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: thank you for confirming that, because I have long had
Speaker 1: these suspicion, and I have had a circumstantial evidence, anecdotal
Speaker 1: evidence that gagon has started several burner accounts, the most
Speaker 1: famous one the gag on account, which is a tribute
Speaker 1: to former Fox Sports radio host Mike North, one of
Speaker 1: the great mispronunciations of all time him, which really created
Speaker 1: a cottage industry. Uh, the gag on account, which I'm
Speaker 1: pretty confident David Gascon has something to do with that.
Speaker 1: And then any time I get a positive message from
Speaker 1: somebody on social media about Gascon, I do a double take.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty confident there that it's it's one of
Speaker 1: his burner accounts. I agree, you are absolutely right to
Speaker 1: be suspicious. Yeah. Now, so that's my Avatar story. That's
Speaker 1: that's the big news. They're big exciting. You know how
Speaker 1: exciting is my life, Big Mike? That changing in Avatar
Speaker 1: is something that I feel I need to talk about
Speaker 1: on the podcast. That's how pathetic I am. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I knew. I knew that. I've known you for a
Speaker 1: long time. But now, when I first met you, Big Mike,
Speaker 1: you always had like every weekend was you were a
Speaker 1: huge Carolina Panther fan, and you always were rocking the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panther gear. But now you're kind of like mid
Speaker 1: management guy. Now, now you've moved up in the company.
Speaker 1: So I'm not there during the day anymore. Not that
Speaker 1: I ever was really there during the day much, but so,
Speaker 1: Big Mike, now have you gone corporate? Do you do
Speaker 1: you have to dress business casual? Now? I have they
Speaker 1: put down the hammer of God from corporate on on
Speaker 1: the wardrobe? Are you still splitting the old Carolina Panther gear. Well, honestly,
Speaker 1: I am a dame game day gear wearing guy, So
Speaker 1: if it's not a game day, I'm not, but I
Speaker 1: will rock some Carolina Panthers scared for the upcoming draft
Speaker 1: on the twenty night. I will bust out at least
Speaker 1: a lid or something. Probably won't go in with a
Speaker 1: full jersey, uh, seeing as how you know, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some corporate big wigs in the building as usually happens.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I I still got plenty of it. It
Speaker 1: gives my wife and my daughter something to buy me
Speaker 1: for Christmas and my birthday. You know, no, I still
Speaker 1: yeah it Patz being like a tie beats a tie
Speaker 1: or something like that. About and why did you become
Speaker 1: a Carolina Panther fan? Again? I know you told me,
Speaker 1: But so I grew up a Rams fan. I'm in
Speaker 1: l A and uh, after how they did Eric Dickerson, um,
Speaker 1: and then they decided to move to St. Louis, I
Speaker 1: had enough. So what I did was, after nine four,
Speaker 1: I just started rooting against the Rams. And of course,
Speaker 1: as a Rams fan growing up, I was already rooting
Speaker 1: against the forty Niners pretty heavily. That did not change either.
Speaker 1: So when the Panthers came into the league, even though
Speaker 1: they were in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is like three
Speaker 1: hours from the East Coast. They were put in the
Speaker 1: NFC West, So I found myself rooting four of the
Speaker 1: Panthers four times a year because they played the Rams
Speaker 1: twice and they played the forty Niners twice. And then
Speaker 1: they picked up Kevin Green, who had been my favorite
Speaker 1: Rams player before I stopped being a Rams fan. He
Speaker 1: was then on the Panthers, and boom. It took me
Speaker 1: about two years to make the switch over sot SI.
Speaker 1: There when they went to the NFC Championship with cart
Speaker 1: Collins is when I jumped on board. Yeah, and I,
Speaker 1: like yourself, growing up in southern California, was a huge
Speaker 1: l a Ram fan and love the Eric Dickerson years.
Speaker 1: Even the Jim Everett was by the way, Jim Everett
Speaker 1: a Fox Sports radio listener, Big Mike, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a consumer of Fox Sports Radio. I've heard it
Speaker 1: through the grapevine. But uh yeah, I was furious and
Speaker 1: I I stopped following the Rams when they went to St.
Speaker 1: Louis two. But what I did is I just became
Speaker 1: a degenerate gambler and then I also went with the
Speaker 1: radio show. I just changed teams every year. I had
Speaker 1: the contest every year like I had the listeners vote.
Speaker 1: I never remember that. Yeah, yeah, And it was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun because I got to experience different fan
Speaker 1: you know, being a fan of the Patriots one year,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And then it turned ugly though, because at
Speaker 1: the end they were just picking whoever the worst team
Speaker 1: was gonna be, and it was like Cleveland when they
Speaker 1: were miserable, um, Jacksonville when they were unwatchable, you know.
Speaker 1: So so then, and I'm convinced Big Mike that they
Speaker 1: were like bots that hijack the vote because it made
Speaker 1: no sense. For years, people were like, Okay, it would
Speaker 1: be a good team that Benkin follow has a chance
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl. And then it turned on
Speaker 1: a dime and it became hey, let's try to screw
Speaker 1: Mallow over and have him have a miserable fan experience.
Speaker 1: And so eventually, when the Rams came back, I gave
Speaker 1: it up. Did you consider Big Mike as I did?
Speaker 1: I am now back on the Ram bandwagon. AlOH, I'm
Speaker 1: not as fully invested as I was when I was younger,
Speaker 1: and I still have my doubts. I think they could
Speaker 1: still leave again someday, but I'm back with the Rams.
Speaker 1: If you considered making the leap back, or you're too
Speaker 1: far invested in the Carolina Panthers at this point to
Speaker 1: make that jump. No, I'm definitely too far invested in
Speaker 1: the Panthers, but I will say that I would I
Speaker 1: would certainly not rule out a possible return to being
Speaker 1: a Rams fan now of it. They're back in l
Speaker 1: a obviously different ownership now than there was back then,
Speaker 1: so it's not totally off the table. And my you know,
Speaker 1: I don't despise them in the same way I did
Speaker 1: when they were in St. Louis, but I'd say highly
Speaker 1: doubtful that I'm ever going to get back on that wagon.
Speaker 1: So you're locked, you're locking your ways. But and as
Speaker 1: a Carolina Panther fan, Big Mike, are you mad enough
Speaker 1: to chew nails that they traded for Sam Donald? Is
Speaker 1: this something to, you know, infuriate you because he's not
Speaker 1: very good. I understand he's not very good, but he's
Speaker 1: not any worse than Teddy Bridgewater, or at the very least,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be worse than a rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: even if they were managed to trade up and get
Speaker 1: somebody who's really good. So at least for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: Let's put Sam Donald in. Let's see if all that
Speaker 1: potential that was wasted by bad management, bad coaching, and
Speaker 1: bad situations can possibly be rectified in Carolina. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it can. I'm not even saying I have high
Speaker 1: hopes that it will be. I'm just saying I'm I'm
Speaker 1: open to the possibilities, and I'm still hoping they pick
Speaker 1: up somebody in the draft to play quarterback. Yeah. Uh no,
Speaker 1: Big Mike, you know how I feel about potential, right.
Speaker 1: Potential means you haven't done anything. That's a great bill
Speaker 1: parselves quote. I remember, you haven't done anything yet. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing you you lose on potential and
Speaker 1: you win when guys actually play well. It's the what
Speaker 1: was my moment mantra my manchu is from Dusty Baker
Speaker 1: that a prospect is just a suspect until proven otherwise.
Speaker 1: All right, I want to point that out trying I'm
Speaker 1: trying to rain on your parade here, Big Well, I
Speaker 1: mean you're not raining on a parade, because I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not having a parade over here. I've I've got
Speaker 1: my fingers crossed and I'm just hoping there you go blind. Hope,
Speaker 1: I got you all right. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Easter. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as the Just Desserts are concerned, this being
Speaker 1: the Saturday podcast, we have a follow up, a fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Mallard follow up and things did boil
Speaker 1: over this week. Now, I had a bit of a
Speaker 1: waterloom moment. Now the previous episode of the Fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: I explained I had played this word game on my
Speaker 1: phone when I had a few minutes. Now and again,
Speaker 1: I didn't do it all the time, but usually before
Speaker 1: bad I would have some downtime and I played this
Speaker 1: word search game. Uh and and the game is advertised
Speaker 1: where you could get money, like you play a certain
Speaker 1: number of games, you can get like twenty bucks. I
Speaker 1: was like, fine, so I played in this game, and
Speaker 1: you know what, I liked the game, but you know,
Speaker 1: I was also motivated by the financial element, even tho
Speaker 1: it's twenty bucks. You know who cares in the big picture,
Speaker 1: But I was like, it's twenty bucks. I played the
Speaker 1: game get a one on him. So as you as
Speaker 1: you know, if you heard the other podcast, that I
Speaker 1: did this for a long time. And I got to
Speaker 1: nineteen dollars and ninety nine cents, and then it would
Speaker 1: not allow me to get that final cent that you
Speaker 1: couldn't cash out till you get to twenty dollars. So
Speaker 1: I got upset and I stopped playing the game. I
Speaker 1: ripped the game on the podcast. Here. Well, I finally
Speaker 1: had a waterloo moment. Here I made my first ever
Speaker 1: review in the app store, the Apple App Store, slamming
Speaker 1: the scammers that behind the game. Here, bitter and broken
Speaker 1: Benny about this game that I had played for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. Here the game called Word Relax, and
Speaker 1: you know, just turned out to be a bait and
Speaker 1: switch situation. And as I had said at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't have had a problem with it
Speaker 1: if they had not had the false advertising. Now I
Speaker 1: felt like I was bamboozled by the advertising. And right
Speaker 1: up until the point I got to nineteen dollars and
Speaker 1: nine cents in the game, it had been legitimate. I
Speaker 1: mean it wasn't it was. You know, they made it
Speaker 1: harder and harder to get more money, to play more
Speaker 1: and more games, hundreds of games to get even a cent.
Speaker 1: But I was like, okay, you know, I'm in for
Speaker 1: the battle. I'm in for the war of attrition. I'm
Speaker 1: not You're not gonna break my soul. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: beat me down. I Am going to figure this out,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna keep playing and I'm gonna get the center.
Speaker 1: When I got to nineteen dollars and ninety nine cents,
Speaker 1: it then became essentially infinity because they've always said you
Speaker 1: have to play X number of games to get the
Speaker 1: next dollar amount. Well, once you get to nineteen dollars
Speaker 1: nine cents they take that away. It becomes impossible. So
Speaker 1: then I started reading some of the other reviews and
Speaker 1: there were people that have played hundreds and hundreds and
Speaker 1: hundreds of games, all the levels and never got in
Speaker 1: that final penny. So it was total bullcrap. So right,
Speaker 1: I read this, and I became incensed, and I finally
Speaker 1: was motivated enough this week, I was provoked enough to
Speaker 1: go to the app store and give a one star review.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, all right, that might not mean
Speaker 1: much to you, but to me, that was therapeutic. You
Speaker 1: know what it was, Big Mike. It was retribution, is
Speaker 1: what it was. I was led astray, and I don't
Speaker 1: like if you're gonna advertise something. I'm big believer in this,
Speaker 1: you know, the truth in advertising. I think most people
Speaker 1: are like that. Yeah, I don't want to be scammed
Speaker 1: like that. And you have an avenue with which you
Speaker 1: can redress your issues, and you chose to do so
Speaker 1: well within your rights, and I'm glad it was cathartic
Speaker 1: for you, sir, like well from the bully pulpit, as
Speaker 1: you know, Big Mike. This is the bully pulpit. You're
Speaker 1: you're in the bully pulpit right now. Oh yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I can just I can just tell people what
Speaker 1: to do and make things happen, right, yeah, pretty much? Sweet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much absolutely. All right, now we have pop quiz.
Speaker 1: H Now, Big Mike, you're in the gascon chair, so
Speaker 1: you have to play the gascon role. I just want
Speaker 1: to make it clear that I did switch chairs. There
Speaker 1: are more than one chair in here, so I just
Speaker 1: don't want to be sitting in the same chair that
Speaker 1: guy was sitting in. Yeah, it's probably a stench. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be there. There's cooties or whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, so the pop quiz, now, this is just
Speaker 1: random stuff, Big Mike, that I found around the interweb
Speaker 1: that I thought was interesting. And then the way this
Speaker 1: will work you listening, you can attempt to answer, and
Speaker 1: then Big Mike can attempt to answer, and then we'll
Speaker 1: actually have the answer and you can see how you do.
Speaker 1: And it's just human nature, you know, life, life and times,
Speaker 1: the zeitgeist of our times, if you will. Um. So,
Speaker 1: the first thing I found here a new survey asked
Speaker 1: people to name the most important product in their life. Now,
Speaker 1: their phone and their car were the two most common
Speaker 1: answers as the most important products. And you don't think
Speaker 1: that's kind of obvious there you phone, you're on your
Speaker 1: phone all the time. The car? But what was number
Speaker 1: three was in this random survey of people most important
Speaker 1: products in your life? Phone? Car? Went into what do
Speaker 1: you think? Number three was? Oh, that's interesting question? Do
Speaker 1: do do? Do? Do Do? Can I think out louder? At
Speaker 1: the first thing? I said, well, you can think out loud,
Speaker 1: but I will need your final answer. Okay, So I'm
Speaker 1: it's a toss up between the television, a computer, and
Speaker 1: a bed television computer. So that's a three away. And
Speaker 1: I think I think with the with the use of
Speaker 1: phones and people think I am gonna go with and
Speaker 1: the cord cutting. I'm gonna go with a bed, A bed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: beds important. You need a bed. Uh, you need a
Speaker 1: good bed. I'm I'm getting good sleep like a sleep
Speaker 1: number bed important? Yes, uh no. But a refrigerator okay,
Speaker 1: refrigerator cold food is good. Yeah, well you can store
Speaker 1: your your food. And my refrigerators got a water thing
Speaker 1: on it that's get my water in my ice and
Speaker 1: and all that. I imagine living in the world before
Speaker 1: refrigerators and and toilets with plumbing. Oh my god, what
Speaker 1: a nightmare. What a nightmare. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. People did that for a long time. Alright,
Speaker 1: about forty of people say this is something they hate
Speaker 1: to do at home something, So four out of every
Speaker 1: ten people fleet this is something they hate to do
Speaker 1: at home at home, I hate to do at home.
Speaker 1: How about how about pinch one off? You know I
Speaker 1: always like to stink up somebody else's bathroom. That's a
Speaker 1: great answer. I like that. That's better than anything Gascon
Speaker 1: has ever come up with on this. That's right there.
Speaker 1: You've already trump Gascon. No, it involves something to do
Speaker 1: with food, not the other end where the food comes out.
Speaker 1: But they say that about people hate eating leftovers. Huh yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a big leftover guy. Are you bill left over?
Speaker 1: I think there are some there are some foods that
Speaker 1: actually do better on leftover. Well, pizza like pizzas neat food.
Speaker 1: I will. I will eat leftover pizza no matter what.
Speaker 1: But a lot of the other foods it's it's tough
Speaker 1: and I'm not like I'm boozing when it comes to
Speaker 1: eating food where I know it's easy to just to
Speaker 1: put in the microwave, but usually it tastes better. A
Speaker 1: lot of stuff is you put it in the oven
Speaker 1: and reheat it. But it's a pain in the ask
Speaker 1: to put in the oven. Like see, like a lot
Speaker 1: of things little like pasta and stuff, you put it
Speaker 1: in the microwave. It kind of tastes a little truly,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean, it's not it doesn't
Speaker 1: have the same consistency exactly what you mean. So what
Speaker 1: my wife and I did when we got married, as
Speaker 1: we registered for this like super sized toaster oven, which
Speaker 1: we use a lot for reheating food because, like you said,
Speaker 1: the microwave, everything turns into rubber. It's just not it's
Speaker 1: not right, and especially if you're talking about pizza man,
Speaker 1: stick that thing back in the oven, get that crushed
Speaker 1: up crispy again. And yeah, no, that's good. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: like I would eat leftover was more. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big left over guy, but I would eat it more.
Speaker 1: If the consistency of the I like the giant, big
Speaker 1: mic toaster, then that would look at a little patience
Speaker 1: that's all you need. Yeah, well, I used to my
Speaker 1: my father. I used to my dad. My mom passed
Speaker 1: my dad for years, you know, he know living, you know,
Speaker 1: he lived on his own and all that for a
Speaker 1: long time. And he he hated the stove. And I
Speaker 1: tried to tell him right up until the day dies,
Speaker 1: so listen, you gotta put stuff in the oven, dad,
Speaker 1: it tastes better. But he he had no patience, right,
Speaker 1: He did not want to sit there, and he's too
Speaker 1: much work to have to wait in time it out
Speaker 1: and all that, and he just you gotta preheat the oven.
Speaker 1: What a pain? And he asked that, well you know
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Oh yeah. Well. And one of the reasons,
Speaker 1: by the way, I have to admit that I'm I'm
Speaker 1: down with leftovers is because well, my wife's a personal chef,
Speaker 1: so when she makes food, I'm not gonna waste it. Like,
Speaker 1: I like how you worked that in there. Look at
Speaker 1: that you worked at it, like, yeah, that was smooth,
Speaker 1: very very smooth. There, you've done this before, alright, on average,
Speaker 1: you don't pop quiz here? On average? We all have
Speaker 1: nine of these, but never used three of them. Right,
Speaker 1: of nine of these, but never used three of them.
Speaker 1: This is like a quiz. It sounds more like a riddle. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: this is like the Wonderlick test that these draft picks
Speaker 1: you used to have. I don't know if they still
Speaker 1: do the one. We have nine of these, but we
Speaker 1: only have three. I'll give you a clue. Okay, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you go my man keys right now? You look at
Speaker 1: your key chain. I got a ton of keys on here.
Speaker 1: All right, let me go my head, all right, like
Speaker 1: holding us go through here? How many keys do I grab?
Speaker 1: The keys? Here? There? They are all right here with
Speaker 1: the keys I found alright, found mine. So I have
Speaker 1: my car keys, which I obviously use all the time.
Speaker 1: So there's two, uh, the wife's car that I have,
Speaker 1: and then I have the I have the house key
Speaker 1: right here, so I've got that. But then like, I
Speaker 1: have a bunch of other like smaller type keys, and
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really use I don't use these
Speaker 1: much at all, Like somebody, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: they go to. I've got I've got eleven. I've got one.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it goes to. Three of them.
Speaker 1: Our studio cues that I rarely ever use two car keys,
Speaker 1: one for mine, one for my wife's car. I got
Speaker 1: the bike lock key, and then house keys, so I
Speaker 1: have I'm using all of them mostly. I have thirteen
Speaker 1: keys on the Mallard key chain and I only use Yeah,
Speaker 1: I used three of them, so like ten of them,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't even know why I have them
Speaker 1: them around. I'm I'm like nine for eleven, you're nine
Speaker 1: for eleven. That's a good batty here. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: using my keys. That's beyond Tony Gwynn. That's a hall
Speaker 1: of fame. That's that's all the time. This is great
Speaker 1: key talk. This is what am I not on the
Speaker 1: pulse of the people here, Big Mike did people on
Speaker 1: a Saturday one to hear what they're screaming for, Ben,
Speaker 1: you gotta give them what they're screening for man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I give the customer, Give the customer what the customer
Speaker 1: wants and hot key talk very important. All right. The
Speaker 1: average person will turn this on and off four times day.
Speaker 1: What is it doing something that they will turn Yeah?
Speaker 1: Look at you, big Mike. You got that one right?
Speaker 1: Your car? Yeah, get up, you go to work, maybe
Speaker 1: go to lunch, you come back, you go home, whatever.
Speaker 1: So four times a day for the car. All right.
Speaker 1: Two percent of people have done this to their neighbor.
Speaker 1: What is it, uh, throwing some crap in their backyard? Well,
Speaker 1: it's you're actually close put put their trash in the
Speaker 1: neighbor's trash can. Okay, yeah, you've ever done that? Now
Speaker 1: if you've done it by mistake or intentionally, I've done
Speaker 1: it intentionally. Yeah. Yeah, that's a that's a that's a
Speaker 1: jerk move. I understand. Why is that a jerk move?
Speaker 1: They're just gonna come and take the trash away. I'm
Speaker 1: not a room in mine. You got plenty of room
Speaker 1: in yours. Etiquette, you know, it's trash etiquette. Whatever, stop
Speaker 1: me and then say, well you're big Mike. You're a
Speaker 1: burly guy. Man. People don't mess with your Big Mike
Speaker 1: you've got the intimidation factor, you do. I do have
Speaker 1: that a little bit, and you play that to you.
Speaker 1: You're like a teddy bear on the inside, but you
Speaker 1: you are from the outside, from the you know, dark alley.
Speaker 1: You see big Mike walking down a dark a dark alley.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this guy's gonna kick my ass. There you go,
Speaker 1: all right? The average person does this ten times a month?
Speaker 1: What is it? Brush their teeth? But last guess, likely
Speaker 1: ten times a month. Maybe brushes keeps consistency. Are you
Speaker 1: taking shot at some of the people that listen overnight
Speaker 1: that they only brush their teeth about ten times a month?
Speaker 1: Is that I would never do such a thing, never,
Speaker 1: because that would be inappropriate and shame on you. H.
Speaker 1: The The answer is forget a password. Forget a password
Speaker 1: that often, right, I never forget passwords. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like that the company makes you change the password every
Speaker 1: so often. That's the pain, the pain the behind because
Speaker 1: it's hard to come up with unique passwords. And I'm
Speaker 1: a little confused by this because I have I'm fully
Speaker 1: invested in the Apple, I have the iPhone and all that,
Speaker 1: and like all my passwords are pretty much safe. So
Speaker 1: but my issue is if that thing breaks, that member
Speaker 1: that memorizes all my password, I will be passwords. I'll
Speaker 1: be completely screwed. Well, yes, you're, you're It should all
Speaker 1: be in the cloud now, so well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But it's like an auto fill. But if like the
Speaker 1: cloud gets hacked or something, but all my passwords, like
Speaker 1: I don't remember any of them at this point, I
Speaker 1: don't have to remember them because anytime I put you know,
Speaker 1: put the phone out or whatever, their auto saves, so
Speaker 1: it just fills in and I don't have to ever
Speaker 1: change them unless they unless they get that mandate you
Speaker 1: gotta change your password because it's it's expired or whatever. Like, well,
Speaker 1: the thing that's killing me these days is the too
Speaker 1: authentication code. Oh yeah, yeah, crazy man. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: sticking in a six digit code. Yeah yeah, they yeah,
Speaker 1: they text you and that you've got twenty four hours
Speaker 1: and if you don't, it's a pain in the butt.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And I've heard that like passwords aren't even
Speaker 1: really all out effective, like they're they've tried to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to get rid of the passwords, like
Speaker 1: there's a different way you can do it, and some
Speaker 1: of the people are so programmed to have passwords, it's
Speaker 1: hard to get people to change once they've become set
Speaker 1: in their way. To be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Easterific, alright.
Speaker 1: According to a new survey of people say finding this
Speaker 1: in their dates car would greatly decrease the chances of
Speaker 1: a second date. Now you're married and married for a
Speaker 1: long time. I've been married now for a while. So
Speaker 1: what do you think this item is that if you
Speaker 1: found this in the car, you would be less likely
Speaker 1: to have a second date. Huh anything? Less likely to
Speaker 1: have a second date. If I found this, and it's
Speaker 1: something a lot of people have in their cars, it's
Speaker 1: pretty common. How about a rear view mirror deodorizer deodor
Speaker 1: rising fresh like one of those lu aw Hawaiians like
Speaker 1: the are you doing in your car that it stinks
Speaker 1: so bad you need to have? Well, the answer is
Speaker 1: actually something that would lead to that stink, eating fast
Speaker 1: food and having fast food containers in the you know,
Speaker 1: I see and I listen. I have guilty as charged,
Speaker 1: but I have had the occasional in and out burger
Speaker 1: cup in the back or you know, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the opposite. If I see that in the girls,
Speaker 1: I don't want a second, third, fourth date, Like do
Speaker 1: you think that would make her more attractive? And it
Speaker 1: will confirm that she's probably a cheap date. So that's
Speaker 1: helpful too. That is true. That is true. But I
Speaker 1: did have an epiphany when it came to the the
Speaker 1: fast food thing that when I go get gas, they
Speaker 1: have these things called trash cans, and so I was
Speaker 1: like that as a great all the gas is pumping,
Speaker 1: big Mike, this great opportunity to throw the trash away
Speaker 1: and clean the car. And like, I'll go, you were
Speaker 1: shopping on the weekend. I go like a Kia or
Speaker 1: something like that, and they got these massive trash cans
Speaker 1: right in front, and then it's great, trash hands are
Speaker 1: the key. I get it, all right, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't usually throw the trash away at at
Speaker 1: my house though, Like I don't usually clean the car
Speaker 1: out at the house. I do it while i'm multitask
Speaker 1: and I'm at the gas station or whatever, and then
Speaker 1: it's less trash you have to take out later and
Speaker 1: put on the curb. Yeah, exactly, exactly right, All right
Speaker 1: about sixty of households on one of these, but they
Speaker 1: often only use it a couple of times a year.
Speaker 1: A couple of times a year. A vacuum, Yes, we
Speaker 1: have the vacuum. That's about right. Um No, it's something
Speaker 1: uh with something about America, something Americana and American flag. Yes, yes, right,
Speaker 1: so July fourth, What other part of the year would
Speaker 1: you hoist out the American Flag memorial? There? Mooral there
Speaker 1: you go. Perfect, there's a couple of times a year.
Speaker 1: I have an American flag outside the Mallard mansion that
Speaker 1: we have. I just leave that out there. It's it's
Speaker 1: there all the all the time, pretty much because it's
Speaker 1: a pain to take down and put back up and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So we just leave it out there.
Speaker 1: And that a number of our neighbors have the American
Speaker 1: flag there, gotta at Costco. It's a Kirkland brand flag
Speaker 1: and it's it's well mate, it's held up. It's in
Speaker 1: the sunlight all the time, but it's held up pretty good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Kirkland's good stuff. Yeah, I love the Kirkland brand. Alright,
Speaker 1: any new will there a few more? In a new survey,
Speaker 1: roughly one in five adults say they don't like doing
Speaker 1: this common activity with their spouse. What do they not
Speaker 1: like doing? They do not like exercising with their spouse.
Speaker 1: That's actually a good one. I get that. But no,
Speaker 1: this is writing in a car with them? Wow, that's
Speaker 1: That'd be difficult to be in a marriage and not
Speaker 1: want to ride in the car with the other person.
Speaker 1: How would you? How did you pull that one off?
Speaker 1: That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. In fact,
Speaker 1: one of the pieces of advice I've been known to
Speaker 1: give over the years for people who are in a relationship.
Speaker 1: If you're really want to go to the next level,
Speaker 1: it's important that you take a road trip together to
Speaker 1: see if you can handle each other in the car
Speaker 1: and in a hotel. Specifically, you should go to Vegas
Speaker 1: so all the freakery comes out early and you know
Speaker 1: what you're dealing with before you make a long commitment
Speaker 1: to a relationship. But if you're in l A, you
Speaker 1: should go to Vegas. If you're in Maine, you probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't go to Vegas. That's a little too long in
Speaker 1: the car, right, I mean, I guess, I guess. Maybe
Speaker 1: you go down to Boston for the weekend. If you're
Speaker 1: in Maine. Well, if you're if you're in Florida, probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't go to Vegas. Probably shouldn't. Maybe I'm about a
Speaker 1: boat trip to the Bahamas if you like, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're in the South, you can go riverboat gambling,
Speaker 1: if you're Atlantic City, or you know, you got all
Speaker 1: kinds of places. Well those casinos everywhere, now, big Mike, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta go. You gotta go somewhere where the freakery
Speaker 1: is going to show up. Yeah, that so that you
Speaker 1: can identify it and then decide whether or not that's
Speaker 1: a freakery that you can live with. Well, that's your listen, like,
Speaker 1: because you all know, in a relationship, everyone has their
Speaker 1: best behavior. Nobody farts around each other when they're in
Speaker 1: a relationship with sirs. But then at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: you you let yourself go a little bit, and that's
Speaker 1: the point of demarcation where you determine whether or not
Speaker 1: this is good or not. Yeah, all right. In the
Speaker 1: mid nineteen fifties, this item sold over ten million units
Speaker 1: in its first full year of production. It is still
Speaker 1: available today. In fact, every grocery store you would go
Speaker 1: to you'll find this particular item. Uh huh, Night in
Speaker 1: mid nineteen fifties. This is a big breakthrough and people
Speaker 1: were like, this is amazing. It's gonna make my life
Speaker 1: so much easier. And you can still find these in
Speaker 1: grocery stores today. Yes, yes, Big Mike, you can find
Speaker 1: these in grocery stores today. For I was gonna come
Speaker 1: with the hula hoop, but they don't have hula hoops
Speaker 1: anymore in the grocery stores. No, they don't. They don't
Speaker 1: have And I think whoops came in the sixties, didn't
Speaker 1: they It was the fifties. The hula hoops started in
Speaker 1: the fifties. Maybe you're right. I don't know. I'm just guessing. Alright,
Speaker 1: so not a hula hoop. I'm gonna go with uh.
Speaker 1: Sliced bread. Sliced bread. Yeah, you know, when slice bread started,
Speaker 1: people didn't like it. They like to cut their own bread.
Speaker 1: They didn't like slice bread. They thought they were getting
Speaker 1: short change. But no, it's not slice bread. The correct answer.
Speaker 1: TV Dinners, those TV dinners. Sure. Back in my bachelor days,
Speaker 1: I partake in the Hungry Man brand of TV Dinners.
Speaker 1: That was a big connoisseur of that what's your favorite one?
Speaker 1: I liked the appropriate enough the chicken strip one because
Speaker 1: it was like a pound of food. You know, that
Speaker 1: was their marketing campaign upon the Only problem and they've
Speaker 1: never been able to figure this out with the TV dinners,
Speaker 1: is how ridiculously hot the dessert, right, the apple fitterally
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. It'll burn your in your lip? Yes, yes, like,
Speaker 1: and you know you eat that, I like most I
Speaker 1: ate it first, and it didn't it was and even
Speaker 1: if you ate it later, it was still so piping hot.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievably difficult too, and you burn your mouth
Speaker 1: and your gums in the whole. Meanwhile, the middle of
Speaker 1: the Salzburg steak is still frozen. Yes, exactly exactly, but
Speaker 1: yet still you know, partaking in the frozen tv ns.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so the nineteen fifties, there you go. Fun fact. Alright,
Speaker 1: we spend about fifty percent time doing this then we
Speaker 1: did twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, what do you
Speaker 1: think it is? Watching television? Uh? No? Making phone calls? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: another one on the technologies that's sort of fading a
Speaker 1: little bit. Although when I stay watching television, does does
Speaker 1: like streaming on your phone? Count? When I say that,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yes, it's it's a weird thing because
Speaker 1: it's like radio. A lot of people don't listen to
Speaker 1: an old school radio. They listened to us on I
Speaker 1: Heart podcasting like this, so but I still can I
Speaker 1: use I know radio is kind of like a taboo
Speaker 1: term now in the business. They're trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of the radio, take the radio out of radio. But
Speaker 1: I love I'm old school. I like their term radio.
Speaker 1: And even though I'm listening, I listened to all of
Speaker 1: a sudden fox ft radio on the I Heart stream
Speaker 1: or whatever, I still call it radio, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's not streaming. But that's just just me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's all text messaging. I remember when text messaging
Speaker 1: came around back in my day bick Mark Do Guy radio.
Speaker 1: But when a text message and came on, I used
Speaker 1: to like mock people like, oh, yeah, you're like a
Speaker 1: teenage girl sending text messages, you know, just call them up.
Speaker 1: But now and now I get very upset when people
Speaker 1: call me and don't text me. I'd rather just text
Speaker 1: yeah I'm agreement, or if you need to talk to me,
Speaker 1: shoot me a text before my phone rings so I
Speaker 1: know you're about to call me, or or let me
Speaker 1: at least say hey, call me in five minutes when
Speaker 1: I have and because I'm an old guy too, So
Speaker 1: when we were growing up, like they have them on
Speaker 1: Facebook or all the time, like do you remember your
Speaker 1: home phone number? Like, of course I do. I remember
Speaker 1: my original phone number. But kids today, man, no chance,
Speaker 1: because they never really remembered it in the first place.
Speaker 1: It was always just it's their phone. Yeah, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm right there with you and and put up.
Speaker 1: Maybe we we were around the same age and we
Speaker 1: spent hours on the phone, like it was like that
Speaker 1: was amazing to be you talked to your friends in
Speaker 1: the phone. Yeah. Well, my I had brothers and sister,
Speaker 1: so when we were teenagers and my folks broke down
Speaker 1: and got us a second line for the back of
Speaker 1: the house because we were on the phone all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And now you know, everyone's got their own phone, so
Speaker 1: they don't even use it. That's at least as a phone.
Speaker 1: They use it for everything else, all right, the last
Speaker 1: one here on popcust So three percent of people at
Speaker 1: meet they've broken down and cried in the last year
Speaker 1: over this what is it? And like as in two
Speaker 1: thousand twenty during like in the past year they've broken
Speaker 1: down and cried over. Uh. Yeah, we have like twenty
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's exactly Yeah, something that had
Speaker 1: you know, it's something that happens from time to time.
Speaker 1: And that's fast that it is. It is that Girl
Speaker 1: Scout Cookie season only comes once a year. What's the
Speaker 1: greatest Girl Scout cookie? Big Mike, big question. I am,
Speaker 1: I'm a tagline guy. I also like the tree falls,
Speaker 1: the short red ones, but the peanut butter patties are
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a I'm a purist, like the the thin mint.
Speaker 1: But I do love these lemon cookies. But there's two
Speaker 1: different types of the lemon cookie, at least here in
Speaker 1: southern California that they have, and I tend to side
Speaker 1: with the one that has the frosty. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: one I like behind that. Yeah, how many Girls Scout
Speaker 1: cookies have you bought over? There's probably thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: with the girls I can't even count, especially when my
Speaker 1: daughter was a Girl Scout. So yeah, well, you gotta
Speaker 1: take care of your daughter. You gotta help her out
Speaker 1: there so she gets all the perks of being a
Speaker 1: Girl Scout, all right, Last one, so is it the
Speaker 1: answer to those last one three percent of people admit
Speaker 1: they've broken down cried and last year over this the
Speaker 1: answer computer problems? Computer? Who the hell's crying over computer problems? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that seems a bit well, only about three percent of people,
Speaker 1: I think, but still even that seems high to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand, like the only way you would
Speaker 1: cry is if you were Remember years ago, I was
Speaker 1: at the press box of Dodgers State. One of the
Speaker 1: met Beat writers had a deadline and for you know,
Speaker 1: back when they had to get the deadline in for
Speaker 1: the print edition of the newspaper and on the East coast,
Speaker 1: And so he went to send his story on the
Speaker 1: Mets and instead of clicking send, somehow he deleted his
Speaker 1: entire story. And that, yeah, I mean, that guy had
Speaker 1: a legitimate and it was so funny because the other
Speaker 1: met Beat writers were pointing and laughing at him and
Speaker 1: goofing on him, and he was just I just I
Speaker 1: thought the guy was gonna have a heart attack, he
Speaker 1: was so upset. And that I get. But like general
Speaker 1: dated a stuff, like you know, it's frustrating when the
Speaker 1: WiFi is not working you can't get on the web.
Speaker 1: But you really cry about it, that's a bit much.
Speaker 1: I did lose a I did lose a paper in
Speaker 1: college on on my girlfriend's computer once. But fortunately those
Speaker 1: were the old days and I was only really just
Speaker 1: typing it on the computer, so I still had all
Speaker 1: my notes. But it still took me hours to like
Speaker 1: re type the thing off the notes. It was, but
Speaker 1: I still didn't cry. That's good. That's a good job
Speaker 1: by you. All Right, that's it. We'll put the baby
Speaker 1: to bed. Thank you. We have the mail Bag podcast
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Remember five stars. Make sure right a view
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Speaker 1: celebrate Big Mike Fox Sports Radio original in the Gascon chair. Anyway,
Speaker 1: have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.