Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, dred minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the Clearinghouse of
Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: back at it again a Saturday Saturday, Saturday Saturday addition
Speaker 1: of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and not David
Speaker 1: Gascon not here again. But we do this eight days
Speaker 1: a week, eight days a week, a spinoff of the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show, because clearly that is not enough audio content.
Speaker 1: So we are here for you when you have your
Speaker 1: honeydew list on the weekends, or you're working out, get
Speaker 1: a little exercise, getting on the treadmill, whatever brings you
Speaker 1: to the show. I know our guy moving man, Matt
Speaker 1: in Boston. He listens. He saves up the podcast when
Speaker 1: he's back home and Massachusetts. But then when he goes
Speaker 1: out on the road, he'll he'll have a full archive
Speaker 1: and he'll catch up. He'll he'll listen to old podcasts,
Speaker 1: which we like. We obviously, I mean, anytime you listen,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Now, before we get into it, cameo, cameo,
Speaker 1: cameo I did speaking of Moving Man, Matt. We did
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful cameo for Matt. He surprised his wife,
Speaker 1: who hates the show. His wife does not enjoy our
Speaker 1: little radio show because the Moving Man is obsessed, obsessed
Speaker 1: with the show and he's a big super fan and
Speaker 1: we man, we really appreciate that. But his wife's not
Speaker 1: as much a fan. And so he wanted a super
Speaker 1: rise his wife with a very nice trip, and so
Speaker 1: he he used cameo and then I I did a rant.
Speaker 1: It was on Valentine's Day for his wife, who I
Speaker 1: know hates me. And then at the end of it,
Speaker 1: the big surprise is we revealed the trip. So it
Speaker 1: was it was pretty good. And for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: you know Moving Man, Uh, he's the guy that has
Speaker 1: the mouth the roving Mallard Militia billboard on his on
Speaker 1: his truck on his truck there and uh, very very cool.
Speaker 1: And he's met him several times over the years, and
Speaker 1: so he is he's the guy. So we did a
Speaker 1: cameo last week if you would like your own cameo Cameo.
Speaker 1: Cameo Cameo, we were on their personalized video message. It's
Speaker 1: not free, um, but it's not that much. It's not
Speaker 1: that much. You can check that out on cameo dot com.
Speaker 1: So on this edition to the podcast, We've got Bow
Speaker 1: the show Who's in Here? Bow occasionally fills in for
Speaker 1: Cooper Loop. You were in the other night, although it
Speaker 1: was weird the other night, Bow, because you were not
Speaker 1: actually in the studio. You were at home, right, you
Speaker 1: were at home. Yeah, so things were a little wonky, right,
Speaker 1: things with a little wonky that. Yeah, No, it was different,
Speaker 1: but uh still a joy to listen and all that stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, bo, I appreciate that. Now you're gonna be
Speaker 1: singing because one of the your famous bits on our
Speaker 1: show was when you we had you sing a song
Speaker 1: parody and you really got into it. You really just
Speaker 1: embraced that role. I mean, I gotta start charging when
Speaker 1: I do that. It's it's not right that I do
Speaker 1: that for free. So I don't know, we'll see, we'll see, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I understand. Well, maybe we'll at the end, we'll have
Speaker 1: you do a little so on this podcast, We've got
Speaker 1: Mega Dittos, the Tribute. We also have Fake Famous Fake
Speaker 1: Famous and we will we'll get into that, and we
Speaker 1: have pop Quiz al right, so we have all of
Speaker 1: those things and we will form this edition of The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour, the Saturday edition of The Fifth Hour. Now
Speaker 1: I wanted to start. We touched on this yesterday with
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon and the impact of Rush Limball on the
Speaker 1: broadcasting business and the fact that we we all work
Speaker 1: under the same roof here at the Premier Networks, which
Speaker 1: is Fox Sports Radio is a part of the Premiere
Speaker 1: Networks on I Heart Media, and some of the biggest
Speaker 1: names in syndicated talk radio work at Premier. But the foundation,
Speaker 1: the bedrock of the company has been since I've been here,
Speaker 1: and before I was here, Rush Limball U, the conservative
Speaker 1: radio icon political pundit Rush Limbaugh, who died this week
Speaker 1: at the age of seventy after a fight with cancer.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to share a couple of stories about
Speaker 1: Rush uh And a lot of these are by proxy, um,
Speaker 1: but we've told it a few times. I to to
Speaker 1: kind of expand on where I'm at. He rushed at
Speaker 1: the show from his house in Florida. And he had
Speaker 1: worked in New York for a long time, but he
Speaker 1: was in Florida for many many years and occasionally he
Speaker 1: had a lot of money. You would travel around and
Speaker 1: live his best life. And uh, he would work out
Speaker 1: of the premier studios in Los Angeles when he would
Speaker 1: come through, and he the studio Rush used was this
Speaker 1: massive studio. Was its bigger than the Fox Sports Radio studie?
Speaker 1: It is probably it is um and it was just
Speaker 1: for Rush. It was just for Rush. And if you
Speaker 1: ever visit our shop, which I don't think you're allowed
Speaker 1: to do, but if you come in there and you
Speaker 1: go into the Fox Sports Radio studio, and then the
Speaker 1: first thing is if if you didn't come out of
Speaker 1: the the studio and you make a right turn, there's
Speaker 1: a very small hallway and then as you make a
Speaker 1: right turn out of there, and then you make a
Speaker 1: left turn and then there's a kind of a not
Speaker 1: really courtyard, but there's a couple of couches there and
Speaker 1: there's doors to different studios, and then across to the
Speaker 1: right was the Rush studio. And uh, some some memories
Speaker 1: of that. I remember when it was Rush week because
Speaker 1: Rush would usually come out for a couple of days
Speaker 1: or a week, and it was Rush week, and people
Speaker 1: would be running around all hours of the day and
Speaker 1: night there to make sure everything was perfect for Rush
Speaker 1: when he when he arrived. Me, this is the big
Speaker 1: star of the company. You would expect that, and they
Speaker 1: would roll out the red carpet, v I P. Status
Speaker 1: Um seeing the famous. If you're in radio and you're
Speaker 1: a radio nerd like me, the gold microphone that Rush
Speaker 1: used is a big deal. And he had his own
Speaker 1: private studio, which he didn't use all that much. It
Speaker 1: not like Rush was in Los Angeles all the time.
Speaker 1: He wasn't. He'd come out a few times a year,
Speaker 1: and nobody else had access to it. As I remember,
Speaker 1: and one of my my famous Rush stories, and it's
Speaker 1: more about me than it is about Rush, of course,
Speaker 1: is that one night Russia had been there and I
Speaker 1: was coming into the overnight show, and so I even
Speaker 1: Rushi had been there for a couple of days. It
Speaker 1: was a Friday. I was doing a Friday night overnight show,
Speaker 1: and Russia had left to go back to Florida or wherever,
Speaker 1: and for some reason they forgot to close and lock
Speaker 1: the door to his studio. I guess maybe they were
Speaker 1: cleaning it or something like that. And so I still
Speaker 1: remember it was like the middle of the night, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's like two or three in the morning.
Speaker 1: No one else is around, no one else, you know,
Speaker 1: weekend overnight. They're not cleaning. They don't clean on the weekends.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, I'm I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: in there. I want to see where the king works.
Speaker 1: I want to look at the king his throne. Of course,
Speaker 1: realizing that, you know, I'm not really allowed in there,
Speaker 1: one's supposed to be there, but I went over there.
Speaker 1: I just want to look. I wanted, you know, because
Speaker 1: this guy's the god of radio, one of the the
Speaker 1: icons of the business, and I wanted to in there.
Speaker 1: So I I went over there, and I just I
Speaker 1: didn't really, I just want to look in the studio
Speaker 1: and uh and see what it was all about and
Speaker 1: all that. And that is when I saw it and
Speaker 1: a little sparkle to it. What is it? And as
Speaker 1: your pronounced, uh, rush in the in the chair that
Speaker 1: he was doing the show from had left a pen
Speaker 1: behind uh and uh, so I went over there and uh,
Speaker 1: he had disguarded it. He didn't need the pen anymore,
Speaker 1: and that became my personal and I added this to
Speaker 1: my my Michigas is these pens. I am a big
Speaker 1: pen guy, and so I I have a Rush limball
Speaker 1: pen that he left behind, which I don't know that
Speaker 1: anyone realizes is his pen other than me. Uh me know,
Speaker 1: I've picked up pens from different people that have quasi
Speaker 1: celebrities that have worked at Fox Sports Radio and in
Speaker 1: the Premier Building over the years, whether it's my guy
Speaker 1: p O B who we've had on the podcast, Tony
Speaker 1: Bruno who we've had on J More We've gotta get
Speaker 1: J on the podcast, uh, and whatnot? But uh, Rush
Speaker 1: talent on Loan from God. Also, Mike Harmon brought up
Speaker 1: the the point of security and because Rush such a
Speaker 1: polarizing figure and a lot of whacka doodles outlooking to
Speaker 1: attack people who are on the other side politically, even
Speaker 1: you know years ago, it's gotten worse, but there would
Speaker 1: always be a lot of security and people with guns
Speaker 1: to make sure that nobody messed with with Rush back
Speaker 1: when he would visit the studio. And uh, the catch
Speaker 1: phrase I mentioned Talent on Loan from God? Half my
Speaker 1: brain tied behind my back just to make it fair,
Speaker 1: those kind of things. But when I was a young pop,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned this also in a pre vious episode,
Speaker 1: when I was a young pop, I wanted to learn
Speaker 1: as much as I could about people in the radio business.
Speaker 1: So my Mom's like, well, you gotta get some autobiographies,
Speaker 1: you gotta learn their stories and stuff. So I did.
Speaker 1: I got as many as I could. I read about
Speaker 1: the legends when I was younger in radio, Rush Limball,
Speaker 1: Howard Stern, Paul Harvey, people along those lines who were
Speaker 1: the big titans of the business, and I just wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of learn what made them tick. And Rush
Speaker 1: Limball and his experience really resonated. And I mentioned this
Speaker 1: the college dropout DJ Vagabond, DJ Journeyman d J I
Speaker 1: had a couple of names. He was Jeff Christy and
Speaker 1: Rusty Sharp, where his stage names as a top forty DJ,
Speaker 1: and he bounced around and then he got out of
Speaker 1: the radio business for a while. He got a job
Speaker 1: with Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals very briefly. But
Speaker 1: once radios in your blood, and I know this having
Speaker 1: been in radio. Once it's in your blood, it's hard
Speaker 1: to get out of it. It's hard to get out
Speaker 1: of the it's in your inner being. And so Rush
Speaker 1: eventually worked his way back to radio. He left the Royals.
Speaker 1: He was the promotions director, which gives out the the
Speaker 1: bobble heads and sets all that stuff up and that
Speaker 1: kind of crap. And who knows what they did in
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies. I have no idea, but I assume
Speaker 1: it's much of the same stuff. And so he left.
Speaker 1: He went to Sacramento and then eventually he worked his magic.
Speaker 1: It's it's It is a little similar to Phil Henry,
Speaker 1: although Phil as good as Phil Henry has been in broadcasting,
Speaker 1: did not reach the level that Rush reach. But but
Speaker 1: Phil Henry, you know, he went out kind of re
Speaker 1: He was a lifetime radio guy, and he just out
Speaker 1: of necessity, out of necessity. You know that that old
Speaker 1: line that the you know, the necessity is the mother
Speaker 1: of all invention, right, And so remember reading about the
Speaker 1: voices of Phil Henry. And he did that because he
Speaker 1: was at a small, crappy radio station that nobody was
Speaker 1: listening to, and nobody was calling, and he was by himself,
Speaker 1: and so in order to make it seem like there
Speaker 1: was a lot going on. He created all these characters
Speaker 1: and these evil alter egos and all that, and it
Speaker 1: worked out and he he had a very popular syndicated
Speaker 1: show for years and he's still still doing some stuff there.
Speaker 1: Phil Henry, but Rush, the Rush Limbough shows, I understand it.
Speaker 1: It it it just kind of organically happened after twenty
Speaker 1: years of being in the radio business and being a DJ,
Speaker 1: and it just kind of developed that. So rest in peace,
Speaker 1: Rush and uh tremendous impact. We'll see what happens to
Speaker 1: that type of radio, political talk radio. And there's other
Speaker 1: legends now and been able to meet some of them
Speaker 1: over the years here at Fox Sports Radio, Slash the
Speaker 1: premier networks. But Harmon was mentioning all the different big
Speaker 1: names that have come through the building over the years,
Speaker 1: and I was trying to think of and I don't
Speaker 1: want to a list here because I do not do
Speaker 1: list podcasting or radio, but just off the top of
Speaker 1: my head, some of the people that came through I
Speaker 1: remember seeing and I'm not a big music person, but
Speaker 1: NICKI six did a syndicated show for a while out
Speaker 1: of the building. But then I remember Slash with the
Speaker 1: distinctive trademark top hat and uh, it's a little lot
Speaker 1: when you pull up to work and uh, and Slash
Speaker 1: is walking around. Look at you know, there's an A
Speaker 1: T M in our building and he's going to get
Speaker 1: some cash out of the A T M. Uh. There
Speaker 1: used to be a country music show that was in
Speaker 1: the building and some of the big names. And I'm
Speaker 1: not a big country at that time. I wasn't a
Speaker 1: big country music. Right now, I actually like country music.
Speaker 1: I listened to it some of the old style, like
Speaker 1: the old stuff, not so much the new stuff. But
Speaker 1: Reba McIntyre was in their big star in country music.
Speaker 1: More recently, Steve Harvey had a chance to to see him.
Speaker 1: And back in the old days when we used to
Speaker 1: have these big Galla Christmas parties, Premier Networks Christmas parties,
Speaker 1: like they'd bring in all the heavyweights. Dr Laura with
Speaker 1: a big star. Dr Laura did her advice show during
Speaker 1: the day. Jim Rome would come in there, and Art Bell,
Speaker 1: the legendary Art Bell from Perempt, Nevada, And uh, you
Speaker 1: know still to this day the man that replaced Art Bell,
Speaker 1: George nor on Coast to Coast, is out of that building.
Speaker 1: And Steve Harvey his radio show. Remember the famous situation
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, Uh liked the color of the Mallamobile. We
Speaker 1: bonded in the parking lot at three thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: He walked in with his security guard and he pointed
Speaker 1: at the car. So I like the color of that car.
Speaker 1: He enjoyed the color of the Mallamobile. So those are
Speaker 1: some of my stories about about Rush and recall also
Speaker 1: before I get off his off this topic, I I
Speaker 1: I do remember the one time I was supposed to
Speaker 1: meet Russia Limbaugh my ball loss the late grade Andrew Ashwood,
Speaker 1: May he rest in peace. He he was a radio junkie,
Speaker 1: also program director, a big legend in the business, bigger
Speaker 1: than life. Uh, Andrew Ashwood is a programmer. And I
Speaker 1: had mentioned, Hey, I want to meet you know Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm gonna make that happen. Of course it
Speaker 1: was it was this weird deal. Even though Rush, you know,
Speaker 1: he listened, he was people that knew him, he was
Speaker 1: very great, you know, good person to people knew him.
Speaker 1: But if you didn't know him, he was kind of
Speaker 1: you know, anybody in in that genre. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of like, hey, you want to step
Speaker 1: on any toes, and certainly if you're in the company,
Speaker 1: you don't want to step on Russia's toes. But he's like, listen,
Speaker 1: here's when Russia's It was Rush Week. It was gonna
Speaker 1: Rush Week in l A. And Rush was doing his
Speaker 1: show from l A. So so listen, here's when he
Speaker 1: shows up. You know that you're gonna get dropped off
Speaker 1: by a car service, and so he's gonna walk in
Speaker 1: it this time, so we're gonna meet him. He's got
Speaker 1: a few minutes. But when he walks in, so I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so I happen to be there. I think this is
Speaker 1: when I was working with Chris Myers. I was doing
Speaker 1: like a midday show all right, first of all, so
Speaker 1: that I was doing that. So anyway, whatever, it was
Speaker 1: after our show, and Rush was gonna come in and
Speaker 1: and do do some of his programming. And so I
Speaker 1: guess he was recording something or something. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but anyway, so we were we were waiting around and Andrew,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like, all right, I'm gonna be there
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he got caught up, as I remember it,
Speaker 1: he got caught up in a meeting and by the
Speaker 1: time he got down two usher us and shepherd us
Speaker 1: over to meet Rush. Uh the meeting went long, and
Speaker 1: Russhi had already arrived and he was prepping for whatever
Speaker 1: he was doing, whatever he was recording. And uh so
Speaker 1: I missed it by probably five to ten minutes from
Speaker 1: from meeting meeting Rush face to face. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the way life works, all right. Uh it is the
Speaker 1: fifth hour, as you know. And I wanted to get
Speaker 1: through this. Fake Famous. Now this is a Mallard documentary review,
Speaker 1: that's right, a Mallard documentary review. Uh. Now, HBO has
Speaker 1: a new documentary I think came out a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, called Fake Famous. It premiered, I watched it online.
Speaker 1: It was actually recommended by Coop de Loop. And I'm
Speaker 1: a big documentary junkie anyway, and this was right in
Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. And so the premise of the documentary, if
Speaker 1: you did not hear us talk about it on the
Speaker 1: radio show, the premise was to show how ridunculously easy
Speaker 1: it is to manipulate minds in the world of social media,
Speaker 1: in that ecosystem, and how you can take someone who's
Speaker 1: a nobody, has no tangible skill and with the proper
Speaker 1: investment and the proper you know presentation. If you will,
Speaker 1: you can make them an online influence. So that was
Speaker 1: the premise. And this this guy that the guy behind it,
Speaker 1: I guess his old newspaper guy, and he he walked
Speaker 1: you through in the documentary exactly what happened. The goal
Speaker 1: was to take some random schmo with no online footprint
Speaker 1: of any stature and turn them into someone who has influence.
Speaker 1: And the way they did this, I guess I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give the whole damn thing away, but you know it's
Speaker 1: still worth a watch, still worth a watch, and if
Speaker 1: you if you don't want to hear, then you can
Speaker 1: turn off the podcast right now. What happened? So what
Speaker 1: happened is they they they had an audition. They brought
Speaker 1: people in that you know, l A just before the
Speaker 1: pandemic and there's auditions all the time. So they had
Speaker 1: like a casting call and they brought people in and
Speaker 1: they picked three ran them people. And these are people
Speaker 1: that don't working behind the scenes in l A. A A
Speaker 1: lot of people working odd jobs trying to make it
Speaker 1: in the entertainment, in in show business. And so the
Speaker 1: guy picked three people, a woman and two dudes, and
Speaker 1: they then went out and went to different websites and
Speaker 1: purchased a bunch of bots as followers, fake social media followers.
Speaker 1: And the guy said he started out, he spent like
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty bucks. He bought seven thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred followers and a bunch of likes on Instagram. And
Speaker 1: they they use this and then trying to start with
Speaker 1: a base and it it really is the takeaway a
Speaker 1: couple of take aways. One of them that I have
Speaker 1: right now is the band wagon effect, because what happened
Speaker 1: was they would buy these fake followers, and at least
Speaker 1: this is the way I interpret it. It's part of
Speaker 1: the bandwagon effect, which is a psychology psychological phenomenon. Right
Speaker 1: is the is the term, but it essentially is that
Speaker 1: people will do things when they they think it's cool.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll be more like if you start a restaurant,
Speaker 1: right if you start a new restaurant, um, the way
Speaker 1: to get people interested in one of the ways is
Speaker 1: to fill the restaurant with people who are your friends
Speaker 1: and family or have a line or you know. Same
Speaker 1: thing works when you're opening a store. The herd mentality
Speaker 1: group think, which is very big right now, politically group think,
Speaker 1: no individual opinions, and the bandwagon affect. Essentially, I can
Speaker 1: sum it up in one sentence is that most people
Speaker 1: are followers and they're not leaders, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: you see a group of people, you want to follow
Speaker 1: that group of people because you think there's something good there,
Speaker 1: there's something that's neat, and so you want to follow.
Speaker 1: And so the same thing applies in the social media world,
Speaker 1: where you know, you have a bunch of fake followers
Speaker 1: and then other people like, oh, this person must be important.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people following this person. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of comments on this particular post I stumbled upon.
Speaker 1: So I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna follow
Speaker 1: and uh, and there's hundreds of millions of these bots online.
Speaker 1: This is one of the things that and I had
Speaker 1: this epiphany a couple of years back that it is
Speaker 1: the matrix, right, that it is the matrix, this weird,
Speaker 1: weird world of social media and you know what Twitter
Speaker 1: is and all that, and uh, you know the algorithms,
Speaker 1: the Russian bots, the blue check marks, which I guess
Speaker 1: I'm part of, and the influences and all this and yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean and so so that's that's that's the world
Speaker 1: of social media. You don't know what's real or not.
Speaker 1: And so watching this and all the bots and and whatnot,
Speaker 1: now there were this documentary wasn't perfect. Some of the
Speaker 1: political stuff I could have done without, but you know,
Speaker 1: I knew who made it, and I knew that some
Speaker 1: of that stuff was gonna be in there. That's just
Speaker 1: part of it. I overlook that I tuned that out
Speaker 1: and I took away what I felt was the important
Speaker 1: part of this documentary fake famous and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they did point out that, you know, these these bought
Speaker 1: a counts. The social media companies, even though occasionally they'll
Speaker 1: try to get rid of the fake accounts, they actually
Speaker 1: don't really mind them because it makes it seem like
Speaker 1: there's more people on their platforms. It gives the false
Speaker 1: illusion that these are these are very popular and more
Speaker 1: popular than they are, and it grows engagement, which helps
Speaker 1: the price of the stock and all that. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: just to get back to the to the documentary, here
Speaker 1: they this guy kept buying followers until now the two
Speaker 1: guys didn't really work out, but the woman did and
Speaker 1: she got the two hundred fifty thousand followers, you know, slowly,
Speaker 1: because you can't do it overnight. You got to do
Speaker 1: it a week at a time, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of days a week, and you can add followers and
Speaker 1: then they The other part which was funny, is that
Speaker 1: to to help grow this woman's following in the documentary,
Speaker 1: they paid for some photo shoots. And you know, l
Speaker 1: A is such a fake place that there's a studio
Speaker 1: you can rent in l A that has a fake
Speaker 1: private jet to make it seem like you're on a
Speaker 1: private jet flying around. You can do that for fifty
Speaker 1: bucks an hour. You can rent a mansion for like
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars a day or an afternoon and take
Speaker 1: a bunch of photos looking like you're living as an aristocrat.
Speaker 1: And people do that, and a lot of social people,
Speaker 1: social media influencers do this kind of crap to make
Speaker 1: it seem, of course misleading. That's that's social media rights.
Speaker 1: The matrix make it seem like they're they're living these
Speaker 1: extravagant lives and lifestyles and all that stuff. And so
Speaker 1: it's really interesting look into that world. And eventually the
Speaker 1: woman who kept getting the fake followers, companies started giving
Speaker 1: her free crap jewelry and trips and you name it.
Speaker 1: And so it's a it's it's worth a watch there
Speaker 1: if you have a chance, if you're on social media,
Speaker 1: if you're not, I don't know how you can avoid
Speaker 1: being on social media at least one of the platforms there.
Speaker 1: And does she end up getting a bunch of people
Speaker 1: that sent her different items and some people's one of
Speaker 1: the other guys got workouts for free sunglasses, jewelry, all
Speaker 1: that just because of some fake bought follow followers on
Speaker 1: social media. So, and what's the old line Cisco and
Speaker 1: Ebert back in the day, man they rest in peace?
Speaker 1: Two thumbs up an outdated reference, by the way, Cisco
Speaker 1: Leeber two thumbs up for the documentary Fake Famous, Fake Famous?
Speaker 1: All right, Uh time now for pop Quiz And since
Speaker 1: a Gagon is too lazy to do the podcast again,
Speaker 1: this week we have Bow the show Bow. Would you
Speaker 1: like to be the person that I bounce off these
Speaker 1: questions too? And then you can answer? Or do you
Speaker 1: just want me to ask the questions to myself? I
Speaker 1: can answer That sounds like a sounds like a good time. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: so now the way pop Quiz works, both the show
Speaker 1: who's in for the gag on here this weekend. So
Speaker 1: the way this works, I I scour the internet to
Speaker 1: find interesting odd things and then I'll ask you, but
Speaker 1: I'm really asking the listener, and you can try to
Speaker 1: answer and then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: sound good? All right, So here we go. Uh. It
Speaker 1: seems that we throw away at least ten percent of
Speaker 1: this item every time we buy it, according to research.
Speaker 1: So what item that we almost all use about ten
Speaker 1: of it? We just throw it away? Ah? Paper towels,
Speaker 1: paper towels. No, how about toothpaste? Okay, yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you never get to the end of the tube. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well and then if you do, you look like a douche, right.
Speaker 1: I mean it's always that person, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like we've all we've all had that person. I had
Speaker 1: a roommate like that where you get to the end
Speaker 1: of two and they're just like rolling the tube trying
Speaker 1: to get that final Yeah, that's not good. Uh. Seventy
Speaker 1: of Americans say they prefer the fake stuff to the
Speaker 1: real stuff. But what are we talking about? So it's
Speaker 1: a it's a food item. But but Americans like the
Speaker 1: fake stuff as opposed to the real, the real McCoy.
Speaker 1: I want like some kind of cheese, like maybe cheesewetz
Speaker 1: or something. Um, this is something that Arnie Spaniard, if
Speaker 1: you know Arnie has, it's a product associated with Arnie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maple syrup. Well, the fake because the fake maple syrup
Speaker 1: has it's like just pure pure sugar, right, yeah, not
Speaker 1: the syrup that Arnie gets us every year for Christmas.
Speaker 1: If he remembers, Uh, I love that stuff that I use.
Speaker 1: I use that whole bottle. Yeah, well that's because it's
Speaker 1: in his backyard. He gets he's goes, he goes out
Speaker 1: in the backyard, puts it in the box, and then's
Speaker 1: all right, here's some maple syrup. The stinking genius, that
Speaker 1: stinking genius. All right. Next one it is we don't
Speaker 1: pop quizer. It's something quite small that many of us
Speaker 1: use nearly every day, and nearly every single one of
Speaker 1: them is made in a factory out west, a family
Speaker 1: factory out west. Oh God, I have no idea. All right,
Speaker 1: it's the you know those those plastic bread clips or tabs.
Speaker 1: Apparently there's a family in the West that has cornered
Speaker 1: the market on those. How great is that? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: would have I would have never guessed that. So that's
Speaker 1: a that's that's an interesting market to corner. But good
Speaker 1: for them. Well you can you can be rich making
Speaker 1: plastic brick clips if no one else is doing it, right, No,
Speaker 1: that's ingenious. Family, what a family? Yeah? Alright? Next one
Speaker 1: about fift bow of the show about of cars on
Speaker 1: the road. Are driving around with this problem with this problem?
Speaker 1: What is the problem? Well, I I might have this problem.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna something like a tire light on? No,
Speaker 1: that's actually a good one because we've all done that,
Speaker 1: like the low air pressure on the tire or something
Speaker 1: like that. But this is a cracked windshield. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not good. Yeah, Well when you get I've had
Speaker 1: I've had a few windshields replaced over the years, and
Speaker 1: usually what you do is you do a cost benefit
Speaker 1: analysis when you crack your windshield, you know what me like,
Speaker 1: You're you're like, okay, is it just gonna stay that
Speaker 1: size or is it gonna go bigger? You just sit
Speaker 1: and hope that it doesn't get bigger, and you check
Speaker 1: every single day. Yeah, you put like yeah, you put
Speaker 1: like what I would do is I put like a
Speaker 1: little piece of scotch tape right where the end of
Speaker 1: the crack is, because that's the way you can judge,
Speaker 1: like if it's growing or not. But but inevitably my
Speaker 1: experiences when you start driving, you know, it's the crack
Speaker 1: just by the you don't even realize that the bumps,
Speaker 1: just driving on the highway, you end up cracking the
Speaker 1: windshield more so, no way around it. All Right, four
Speaker 1: in ten people refuse to ever share this. It is
Speaker 1: food related. But this is something that people would never
Speaker 1: even consider sharing. Oh is it like a specific food
Speaker 1: item or just in general? It's a type of food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a type of food. Oh do do do? Sup?
Speaker 1: Do do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do Do do? No? Not? So,
Speaker 1: how about a sandwich? Take a bite of my sandwich? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You share? You share your sandwiches? Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: don't see the big deal obviously, like you know, things
Speaker 1: have changed in the last year in terms of that,
Speaker 1: but before that, I mean, I don't really have an
Speaker 1: issue with sharing a sandwich with someone. You know, just
Speaker 1: kind of have to be careful. But yeah, no, that's
Speaker 1: that's an interesting answer to me. You could strategically eat
Speaker 1: around where they ate and eventually you just be like here,
Speaker 1: you can finish this, but something like soup, I mean
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't get around that. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: turd in the punch bowl theory, right, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's hurt in the punch bowl. You know, it probably
Speaker 1: only ruins a small part of the soup, but it's
Speaker 1: in the entire pot of soup. So yeah, or punch
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, or the other option. If you're at
Speaker 1: a restaurant, you could like cut part of the sandwich off, right,
Speaker 1: if if you've got yeah, if you've got that E
Speaker 1: B G B thing going on, tear it in half,
Speaker 1: any any number of things. Yeah, alright. A new surveys
Speaker 1: is of people believe doing this activity is a good
Speaker 1: first date, but only seven percent of people like the
Speaker 1: idea in so it's gone up. What activity is it? Movies? No? No, man,
Speaker 1: but people hate like people hate movies because you can't.
Speaker 1: I love when I was dating. I love going to
Speaker 1: the movies because I didn't have to talk to anybody,
Speaker 1: but they usually you want to go somewhere you can
Speaker 1: talk about. This is karaoke, big, you're a big karaoke guy.
Speaker 1: Bo I know you love to say I do love karaoke, um,
Speaker 1: especially when you can have one or two drinks prior
Speaker 1: to uh doing karaoke. But yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think that would be very successful for first date unless
Speaker 1: you're really really confident in yourself. You got loosen up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Loosen up a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: liquid courage there. Yeah, absolutely all right. A new report
Speaker 1: claims if you're planning on you know, if you want
Speaker 1: someone to spend more money, like but you've got a
Speaker 1: house for sale, for example, if you want make you
Speaker 1: want to make people spend more money. This part regular
Speaker 1: smell is said to make people want to spend money
Speaker 1: more money than they normally would. What smell is it? Oh, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.
Speaker 1: Let's say like fresh linen, fresh linen. That's actually a
Speaker 1: good guess, fresh linen. You know it's a good smell. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's actually oranges, the smell of oranges. That's interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is interesting. I I like the smell of oranges.
Speaker 1: You know. I have actually on my desk here in
Speaker 1: the studio, the mobile studio I have my wife gave
Speaker 1: me because it's ourr Michig guess here, But it's a
Speaker 1: you know those oils, the essential oils, Yeah, essential if
Speaker 1: she gave me when it's an orange one. And I
Speaker 1: actually I don't even put it on anywhere. I just
Speaker 1: use it sometimes as smelling salts and all like like
Speaker 1: right now I'm smith, I'm sniffing it. But it sounds
Speaker 1: like I'm stiffing something off. But it's but just it's
Speaker 1: just orange and uh, yeah, he wakes you up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, Citess is a great scent. That's just
Speaker 1: uh when when you mentioned, like, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: sell something, something about fresh linen just always feel so
Speaker 1: comfortable and makes it feel like it'd be easier to
Speaker 1: spend money. But I can buy orange. Yeah, Now do
Speaker 1: you like I like the smell of gasoline? Do you
Speaker 1: like the smell of gasoline or Weirdly, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: not my least favorite thing. I don't you know, I
Speaker 1: don't seek it out, but if I do smell it,
Speaker 1: it's not like it bothers me or anything. I also
Speaker 1: like when you go to like a pet boys or
Speaker 1: an auto zone, the smell of auto parts. I like,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the smell of auto tires and my dad
Speaker 1: would take me to Auto Zone and stuff when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, So it always, uh brings back memories.
Speaker 1: I think that's part of it too, Like stuff that
Speaker 1: you smell can trigger old memories in your head. Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, nostalgia.
Speaker 1: Nostalgia go back to a time when you were you
Speaker 1: were a kid, you didn't have to have a job,
Speaker 1: you didn't have to go to school, or you went
Speaker 1: to school hardly at all, and all that stuff. The memories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and food dishes, right, suiting foods your your parents served
Speaker 1: you when you were a kid, and you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: and that brings back memories, man, jeez, alright. Moving on
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent. Thirty eight percent of people say they
Speaker 1: always go to the same place for this particular service.
Speaker 1: What is it it's gotta be you gotta be like
Speaker 1: gas or car services. No, it's actually a haircut. They
Speaker 1: have their favorite favorite barbershop and they go to the
Speaker 1: same barbershop. I'm not I'm not like that. First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't get my hair cut that off in anyway,
Speaker 1: but when I do, and I will tell you I
Speaker 1: I moved around a few times over the years, so
Speaker 1: I usually had my local go to barber. But if
Speaker 1: they were busy and couldn't take me or whatever, I
Speaker 1: just go to another barbershop. I didn't care, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't have this loyalty. And plus now
Speaker 1: when I when I lived in near Dodger Stadium in
Speaker 1: Lincoln Heights, there was this old guy, this old Italian
Speaker 1: guy who was like a legendary barber and he did
Speaker 1: a lot of like the police officers the l a
Speaker 1: p D. Because the l a p D training facility
Speaker 1: right near Dodger Stadium there, um. And so but anyway,
Speaker 1: I just happened to stumble into the place. And I
Speaker 1: love the guy because he never talked to me. He
Speaker 1: just cut my hair, you know. And some of these
Speaker 1: barber's bowl you go to and like I go, I
Speaker 1: just wanna get my hair cut. I don't want a
Speaker 1: small talk. I don't wanna, you know, go back and
Speaker 1: forth and all that, and a lot of the barbers
Speaker 1: love to talk. And this guy just just cut my
Speaker 1: hair and he said like three words to me, and
Speaker 1: that was it. And and but I but but it
Speaker 1: wasn't geographically desirable. So I stopped going there because I
Speaker 1: moved further away. And so that sounds that sounds like
Speaker 1: the dream. Uh I I I'm the same way, Like,
Speaker 1: I really don't want to talk that much with my barber.
Speaker 1: I don't mind pleasantries, but it would always bug me
Speaker 1: when they'd ask what I do for a living, And
Speaker 1: as soon as I say, oh, yeah, I'm in sports radio,
Speaker 1: it's just instantly like every single sports question under the sun,
Speaker 1: and I just want to get my hair cut. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's who's gonna who's gonna win the super Bowl? Or
Speaker 1: who's gonna win the NBA Finals or yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's always the small talk you get when people find
Speaker 1: out you work in sports rading. So my move would
Speaker 1: be like when they ask you, you you know I do sales,
Speaker 1: I do sales, and which is technically true, right, because
Speaker 1: really what we do in radio is fill the time
Speaker 1: between the commercials. So that's pretty much what we're here for,
Speaker 1: to fill the time between the commercials. All right. A
Speaker 1: couple more here on pop quiz. According to a new study,
Speaker 1: researchers say that to be on the safe side, you
Speaker 1: should eat this when it's less than twelve hours old,
Speaker 1: or it's not gonna be good for you. What is it?
Speaker 1: Oh god, no, no, no, no, No, that'd be tough,
Speaker 1: right from the cow to your mouth. Is it just
Speaker 1: some kind of baked good like a cake or pie
Speaker 1: or something. No, it's actually this is this is very
Speaker 1: appropriate for this week because it's Snowmageddon in the winter.
Speaker 1: Are texts snow snow? They they say, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: eat snow, it's gotta be fresh, powdered snow that has
Speaker 1: fallen within the last twelve hours. And don't eat the
Speaker 1: yellow snow. Don't eat the yellow snow. I love, I
Speaker 1: love going to the stone, but I don't live in
Speaker 1: the snow. If I lived in the snow, I don't
Speaker 1: think I would love going to the snow. But I
Speaker 1: always look forward to going to the snow. I have
Speaker 1: just wonderful, beautiful winter wonderland. You was you a snow
Speaker 1: guy bow or do you avoid this night? You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been up in the Angelis Crest Mountains
Speaker 1: a couple of times, and it lightly snows there, but
Speaker 1: I've been I've been to Colorado once and got some
Speaker 1: actual snow while I was there, so it was fun.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know if I could live in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well then you can make fun of people that don't
Speaker 1: live in snow. If you live in snow. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: our friends in Minnesota who love love to mock and
Speaker 1: ridicule the people that live in warm weather places, as
Speaker 1: they were having a field there, our buddies in Minnesota
Speaker 1: with it. What happened in Texas with the snow, the
Speaker 1: unexpected snow and people freaking out and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, when it comes to our phones, seventy of
Speaker 1: all of us are doing this more than ever. What
Speaker 1: is it? Texting? Not answering calls from unknown numbers? I
Speaker 1: never answered calls some unknown numbers. He listen, they want
Speaker 1: to want to call up, leave a message. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: check it, maybe I won't. But if I don't recognize
Speaker 1: the number, I'm not an answer. I'm out. There's somebody
Speaker 1: robo calls and all that. Yeah, all right, our last
Speaker 1: one of servers wish that their customers would stop doing
Speaker 1: this when they come and to eat. What is it? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: Do do do? Do? Do? I can only I can
Speaker 1: only think of my grandmother who would lift her hands
Speaker 1: up and snap her fingers to get their attention. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that, so snap the thing like annoying? Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh no, it's actually sitting together on the same side
Speaker 1: of the booth or the table. Why do they hate that? What?
Speaker 1: What is that? I'm trying to think of the logistics
Speaker 1: and why that would be Yeah, a problem that I
Speaker 1: don't see why that would be an issue, But maybe
Speaker 1: serving the food you gotta shove it past the first person.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But I don't work in that business.
Speaker 1: I don't work in the restaurant business, so I have
Speaker 1: no no concept of that. All right, well, both, thank you,
Speaker 1: and we've made it through the Saturday podcast and we
Speaker 1: have the Sunday mail Bag podcast. We have a big
Speaker 1: stack of juicy, wonderful questions and we will answer as
Speaker 1: many of those as we can possibly get through. Have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your Saturday, and we will catch
Speaker 1: you next time on the fifth thou