WEBVTT - Think of the Children 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.440 Boom. If you thought more hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.120 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.959 break free for something special, Fit with Ben Maller starts 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.880 right now. It takes a village. That village is the 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:34.520 Mallard Militia. And we are in the air everywhere, back 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.800 at it on a Sunday podcast, and we hope all 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.640 is well in your world, and we do think it 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.519 can't be that bad. 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You're not like a 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.920 certain quarterback has been accused of in You're like a 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.720 pig in slop with that. Well listen, I mean, I'm 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.800 glad he blocked me. He couldn't could be perverted with me. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.360 He blocked me. You know, I stood up for women, Gascoon, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.400 these women, these masseusas, because I was ahead of the 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.760 game on that. I was onto that quarterback that this 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.040 guy is a little creepy. You are probably about a 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.200 hundred miles away from me and nowhere near me in 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.760 terms of phones and connectivity online. But I could see 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.400 and feel the smile on your face from ear to ear. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:30.280 It was just magical for you. Well, you know, you 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.239 hate to see when certain things happened to people that 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:39.080 you know, just the downfall boy, perfect people. Well, everyone 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.160 loves a good comeback story. Now to Shaun Watson can 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.680 have a good comeback story, right, it might be all 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.480 maybe it's all made up, Gastcount. I've heard people. People 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.120 have emailed me, so it's all made up, And maybe 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.560 it is. You know that I do believe in due 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.040 process and that you are have a chance to defend yourself. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.000 And these are not criminal matters at this point to 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.919 my knowledge. These are all civil matters. And it does 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.400 put the NFL and an interesting pickle because generally when 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.840 it comes to civil cases, they do not do not 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.840 suspend people. Well, and this will be a fascinating case 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.359 because you know exactly where this is heading because a 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:19.160 white owner in Robert Craft was accused of some misdoings 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.000 in Florida, and now a black quarterback in Houston is 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.440 accused of some things that are similar. Yeah, so you're 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.480 saying they have to not punish Deshaun Watson because he 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.760 did the Bob Kraft thing, and that's yeah. Yeah, I'll 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.200 be curious to see how this thing all plays. But 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.360 the NFL did send I mean they did set a precedent. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.600 The NFL did set the president and that was actually 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.800 a criminal matter, though that was not a civil matter. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.680 That was a criminal matter, right right, And this and 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.680 this isn't just some tailback or some strong safety that's 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.200 had a couple of good seasons. This is a This 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.480 is one of their their prominent figureheads as a quarterback 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.600 in the league. It's a quarterback driven league, and this 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.600 guy is one of their shot caller. So you know 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:07.360 he's he's under the spotlight for for bad reasons. It's unfortunate. Oh, 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.240 it's unfortunate. If he didn't do it. If he did it, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.880 it's not unfortunate at all. No, no, but this just 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.520 this proves why the National Football League is a three 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.520 sixty five day a year conversation. This story just right 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.880 up the yin yang. This story will not stop. I mean, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.200 every day. It's a broken faucet. Drip drip, drip, drip, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.640 rip rip rip rip rip rip rip rip rip. I 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.680 love a good scandal, and I love a good But 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.880 if you're DeShawn Watson and you're in his position, are 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.159 you heading right to the bank and saying, let me 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.560 scratch a check and get this thing over with yeah 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.200 it hasn't. That horse left the barn at this point 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.600 he had the opportunity. And that's that initial post by 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.440 Deshaun Watson. If this goes the way it's it's headed 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.480 this right now. If this doesn't make it, you turn 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:55.640 this story. Yeah, that quote will haunt DeShawn Watson. Yeah, right, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.159 he came out and you know, it seemed like the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.080 proper thing to say it was one lawsuit, you know, massage, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.800 and it didn't seem that bad, you know, not great, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.000 but there are worse things that he has since been 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:13.000 accused of, Deshaun Watson. And and you know, it goes 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.640 back to we've talked about this a lot with apologies, 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:21.080 right they say you should never apologize as a public figure. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.000 Right now, Why should you never apologize as a public figure, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.279 because once you apologize, then other people say, well, wait 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.080 a minute, you should apologize for this. It opens up 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.360 Pandora's box. Right. It's it's odd too because you know 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.039 interpersonal relationship like you know friends, or you know, you 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:48.600 know your your wife or your if your woman, your husband, whatever. Um, yeah, 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.440 it's great to apologize, but as a public figure, when 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:58.880 you apologize, it they creates more stories, and then you 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.160 need to issue more apologies. And it's like Deshaun Watson 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.680 coming out saying, you know, I've always treated women properly. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.240 Now there's a whole you know, a whole line of 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.000 women around the building that are like, no, you didn't, Yeah, 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.440 you know, and all you and all you needs one 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.640 for him to say I've never all he needs one 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.279 yeah and eighty And then when you apologize, also, eighty 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.839 percent of the people don't believe the apology, right, they 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.800 don't think you're being sincere, or they think you're doing 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.400 it because you got caught. And then like the other 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.880 don't give a crap. So what are you really accomplishing? 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.400 Not much? And but that now that wasn't really an 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.080 apology by Deshaun Watson, but it was more of a 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.960 like he was a defense. He was defending, but that 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.440 it is not, you know, true, it was a shakedown 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.320 and all that, well, it was a shakedown. It's a 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.200 hell of a shakedown. Is one of the great shakedowns 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.400 of our time. Yeah, I mean, just think too. When 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.880 the season ended and the contract talks were happening with 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.440 with ownership, with the general manager ear and with a 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.440 head coach, wasn't he tweeting or posting Instagram photos with 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:11.600 his his significant other on a boat. Yeah, this will 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.320 take you. This will take us until until kickoff in 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:23.200 week one. Well it will unless the Shawn plays ball 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.200 ponies up the money. Yeah right. I mean, these are 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.800 civil matters. You can make a civil case go away 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.760 out of court, hush hush settlement. That's it. I scratch 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.119 your back, you scratch my back, the mortification dies down, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.760 that's it. Uh. And uh, of course it's got to 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.320 be a secret financial agreement, which stays secret unless you're 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.920 Donald Trump, and then it's no longer secret. Uh. And 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.600 then then that becomes public public record. And now do 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:55.080 you think he wants out of Houston? Now? Yeah, he'd 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.280 like to be traded to the orchids of Asia day Spot. 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.640 There's nowhere to hide, man, there's nowhere to hide. Yeah. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.960 It's it is wild though, man, you know, I don't 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.760 know what's true or not. Even he will have a 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.480 chance to defend himself if these things actually go through 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.640 the legal channels. But it is just the preponderance of 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.800 the evidence for Deshaun Watson's in a civil suit. It's 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:24.840 only it's only it's not beyond a reasonable doubt. And 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.280 that's the problem because he was contacting these ladies, according 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.960 to the lawsuits on Instagram, was sliding into d M s. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:36.199 You know, just normal random women who are massage therapists 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.800 and hey like a massage. And that's that's that was code. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.320 That was we said the other night. It was code 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.319 language for I'd like to screw, But he didn't say that. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.800 And when you when you open yourself up to discovery, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:55.200 everything's on the table, text messages, cell phone conversations, Instagram, post, Twitter, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.080 d M, like, everything's out there. So yeah, he's he's 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.559 as sensible to all of us. Now if Discovery comes 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.360 into play for a civil suit, yeah, he's he's got 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.160 some explaining to do. He's in. He's in the pickle jar. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.200 He's in the pickle jar. Is what he's in because 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:14.000 of his pickle He's in the pickle jar. What happened? Well, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.679 I'll be here all day, all right? We have mail back? 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.280 Do you want mail back? 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Ben, 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.679 seeing that your co workers barely listen to your show, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.720 it's safe to say that they don't listen to this podcast. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.960 That being set, Pierre writes in who are some of 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:34.480 your fellow co workers that you enjoyed working with the most? 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:44.199 K K, Marcel, Julio Looney, Danny g People like, uh, well, yeah, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:45.960 there's a lot of people that have enjoyed working with 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.400 it are no longer with Fox Sports Radio. I had 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.640 a really good relationship with Looney. We've had him on 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.600 the podcast. The was that the lowest rated podcast we've 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:58.240 had guest one that the whole woke that woke stuff 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.760 didn't really work from Looney Tunes. But I love Luny's 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.360 my favorite liberal friend. And we get along. We we 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.080 go back and forth fighting about the news of the day. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.920 There even now, you know, Luoni will randomly send me 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.199 a zillion text message, isn't an all CounterPunch, And we'll 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.480 go back and forth. And I love KK and Greg 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.200 Bergman and so many people. Turk Stevens, who I worked with, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.480 the old update guy from back in the days now 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.800 a gym teacher for many many years and had a 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.240 fond memory, fond memories with him. But yeah, there's a 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.319 lot of good people. Julio. I spent many a night 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.080 when when you know, single days with Julio Flores as 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.640 my producer, and we would get off the show and 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.800 we'd go over to Denny's in Sherman Oaks there and 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.480 watch the people come in that we're up all night, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.120 the some of them working ladies of the night, the 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.079 pimps that would come in there, and it was wild, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.080 wild and crazy, so fond memories of all those people. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.240 God Greg in Iowa. Right, So he says, I work 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:05.840 in a place that coats and fabricates coded and raw rebar. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.320 How well do either of you think you could shake 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.320 out a bundle of rebar? Now? Have you seen this? 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.720 He sent a video, but I didn't send this to you, 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.640 guess gun. But the the rebar? You know what rebar is, right, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.480 you're familiar with Could you could you? Could you do 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.320 this with rebar? There's there's no chance, right, there's that's 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:32.880 a skill that that I I do not possess. And 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.360 I'm pretty sure you growing up west of the four 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.840 oh five, do not have that skill. I need video 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:41.880 and I need to see all right, hold on a second, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.920 I'll get you the video. My god, hear me. Let 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.959 me copy this and see if it'll I'll send it 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.360 to you right now. We're doing this live on the 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.040 podcast you listen to our live live coverage, live coverage. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.240 We'd like to alert all the affiliates down the line 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.040 here that we are doing this. We can we can 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.680 do this like a certain media or news outlet were 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.360 I'm I'm working on the rebar and it's just a 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.240 tight shot of me doing that, and then behind scenes 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.120 footage is like there's other guys that are obviously working 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.480 on it to help me, help me along the way, right, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.480 Like that that weather reporter that said that he was 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.000 he was on a boat or he was like knee 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.560 deep in weather or in a in a flood and 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.360 there's someone walking by and he was it was only 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.480 up to his ankles. Really yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.760 about the presentation, not reality. It's it's illusion. All of 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.120 it is illusion. All right, So I sent it to you. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.280 Yeah there's no chance. Oh yeah, you can't do that. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.920 Oh yeah, I could definitely. You know what this is 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.000 that you could not do. You know what this is, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.439 Ben Mallory, This is this is heavy ropes. These are 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.160 heavy ropes that are used in the gym. Absolutely I 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.480 can do this. Oh yeah, put me out there hard 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.240 talk talk you can't walk the walk in the chance guarantee. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.319 I can definitely do that. Put money on it. Um, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.080 how are we gonna get rebar? Who who do we know? 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:06.240 Anybody around you? B bar? That we can citical crap side. Yeah, 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.000 it's every ten feet in Wilm Carson. I mean my God, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.360 anywhere anywhere you go there boom done. Problem solved all right. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.920 Russell Russell in Kansas says, can you find anyone else 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.000 to do the podcast with? I'm over Gagon and his 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:32.280 pompous ways. I almost think locally docally do might be better. Wow. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:38.360 As a shocker who wrote that Russell and Kansas, I've 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:43.440 never heard of her? Wow? Really? Yeah? This is he 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.200 thinks that Brian Finley, it was a stage five clinger, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.720 would be better than you. Russell Russell's an idiot. Be 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.240 sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.560 week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.640 Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Be 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.160 short to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.480 weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific. The answer is, I 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.760 can find people who do the podcast when Gascon takes 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.320 off every of the week, then they can find people 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:17.560 into the podcast. Stay tuned. R J in Sane and Tonio. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.400 He says, do y'all believe in the paranormal? And if 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.400 you do, have you had any experience? I feel like 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.440 we've been asked this question before r J on this podcast, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.680 or at least maybe on the radio. But yeah, we 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.160 both we both think there's something out there the paranormal. Yeah, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:41.760 advanced civilizations absolutely, because everything on this planet came from 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.520 somebody somewhere else, right, Everything kind of bounces around and 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.880 all that, So it would be logical to think somewhere 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.480 out in the cosmos there are I don't know if 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.760 it's a parallel universe or different dimensions, but ever you 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.920 want to describe it. But yeah, and I have seen 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.800 There's one thing I saw that that in the days 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:04.080 with were drones, I saw these like five uh orbs, 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.240 They were orbs. I was on a hike in l 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.960 A and I saw some orbs that I I've never 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.080 seen before or since that I'm convinced for something from 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.840 another world. But I don't know. You always try to 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.000 take pictures and video and they never come out right. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.760 Chris and Iowa writes, and he says, what have you 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.120 set up a pre order waiting list for the book 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.040 you want to write and you charge people five to 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.280 ten dollars to be on it. Would that motivate you 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.360 to start writing it? Then you take the book and 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.960 all the Mallard Militia pre orders to the publishers and bam, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.480 done deal. Chris says, or the money could help you 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.880 self published the book and you can add a bit 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.400 to the show once a month. How's the damn book 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.240 coming along? Accountability and he says he will put his 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.200 the first ten dollars in. Chris, that's a great idea, Um, 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.800 and that's obviously something I will consider. I am in talks. Um. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.200 This a very slow process, very long process. But I 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.800 have been in talks with someone who is interested in 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:11.840 helping with that project and is in negotiations with a 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.919 couple of the publishing houses. So UM, it's really a 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.560 case of once that is green lighted. If that gets 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.480 green lighted, then it will go. If not, the self 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.720 publishing thing is an option that's on the table. But 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.439 my experience with the Mallamstia and I love the Mallem Militia, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.639 but in the past tried to hawk T shirts and 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.800 things like that. Um, when money is involved, the Mallem 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:39.080 Militia generally kind of clams up a little bit. But 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.400 but I'm glad Chris, you're willing to spend spend the money, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.479 so I appreciate that. Let's see, uh, let's see page 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.800 down here, page down this is from I'm a pilot. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.119 I'm a I believe this is from I'm a part Yes, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.240 it is all right. Uh, he says, Uh, what is 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:03.320 your take on NBA top shot crypto collectibles, this fad? 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.200 And why would anyone pay for something that anyone can 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:12.040 easily view on YouTube and other media? Do you either, 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.399 either of you guys? Uh? Seeing that this being trying 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.480 to to duplicate this rather as the NBA. Do you 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.200 think we're gonna gonna duplicate this like crypto? He's saying, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.480 And will this die on the line in a few 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.840 years or boom? I need your hot take. Well, he's 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.800 talking about non fungible tokens. Is what these things are 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.639 called n f t s. We have discussed this. I 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.919 did a monologue about it. Thanks for listening. I'm a 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.679 pilot through the monologue at him pointing it out. I 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.119 love I'm a pie. I wear that hat. That's a 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:47.040 good looking hattie, got me that m hat solid. But no, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.280 I I am. I guess I'm a pilot kind of 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.360 around our age, I believe so. I think we're all 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.120 of the same age, we all grew up the same way. 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.399 You think this is bullshit? Um, and I do. I 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.320 keep in mind, I thought bitcoin is bullshit. It's not. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.399 I'll take the l on that, but it just doesn't 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:10.400 make any sense. It's why own something that you don't 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.280 really own? You? To me, it would make sense if 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:19.880 you bought a highlight and every time ESPN, Fox, NBC, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.320 or CBS played the highlight you got paid five cents. 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.960 That would make sense to me. Just pictures right when 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.480 you have to. When you use pictures that are copyrighted, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.600 those are protected. So yeah, yeah, I used to. When 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.200 I worked with Yahoo, I had access and also Fox 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.440 Sports dot Com I had access to the Getty Images 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:45.439 amazing greatest. The Getty Images are just outstanding. But the 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:50.720 subscription prices large, very very expensive, and there's tears to it, 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.159 like I only had access to a small part of it. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.920 But their work is amazing. And yeah, so to answer 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.840 your question, I'm a pilot. Yeah, if it was like that, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.840 I mean it, but it just doesn't make sense to me. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.320 And I think there's I don't understand. I know it's 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:10.720 a to me, it's a fad, But if a fat 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.160 sticks around long enough, uh, it becomes a trend and 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.120 then we're we're good to go. But it's not It's 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.040 not for me, so all right, I'm a pilot. Also 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.920 says that's a Dallas guy. It is tough seeing Jerry 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:28.680 Jones willing to die on his Dak Prescott terrible contract mountains. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.800 Have we reached the pinnacle of contract money, especially after 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.800 such a downturn in revenue over the last year in 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.959 every sport? And he says, it's not about Patrick Maholmes, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:45.680 Dak Prescott, Mike Trout, Garrett cole, A Mookie Bets, Janice 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.760 Adent to Coombo and all that. And he says, are 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.800 we really in a society now where someone is worth 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:59.280 more than the gross domestic product of a country? And 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.159 then he needs He says, there's a to vollu? Is 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.480 that the name of it? A small I put a 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.400 question mark at the end of it. A small country 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.119 in the in the Pacific, about halfway between Hawaii and 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:16.360 Australia and has a gross domestic product of forty seven million. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.400 Where do you see the endpoint? Or will we ever 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:26.000 see a hundred million a year athlete? Haven't salaries gotten 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.960 a bit out of hand? Well, inflation comes into play. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:33.520 Everything constable the way I look at it, I'm a pilot. 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.840 I don't I don't have a I don't like it, 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:38.359 but I don't have a problem with it because I 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:40.280 don't want someone putting a cap on how much I 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.600 can make. And the sports leagues are making money so 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.919 they can afford to pay Mahomes and Dak Prescott. And 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:49.479 you know, the argument can be made, as much as 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.760 I despise Lebron James, to the value of that business, 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.359 Lebron James should be paid a hundred million dollars a 0:21:55.440 --> 0:22:00.600 year in terms of value added to that professional operation. 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:05.760 So there there at some point you would assume there's 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:11.719 going to be a waterloo moment. It clearly is not 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.000 the pandemic. It's not the pandemic. These these are just 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:17.760 television shows. You've got to look at professional sports as 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.200 television shows. Fans are not important. We're not We love 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.680 sports and all that, and I'll watch it till the 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:27.280 day I die. But we learned during the apocalypse of 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:32.320 the show goes on without any fans in the stadiums 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:36.320 and the arenas and the ballparks. It's all about TV revenue. 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.399 They could afford to pay everyone. They lost money, they 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:41.879 didn't make as much money because that's that's extra gravy. 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.320 That's extra frosting on the cake, the the hot dogs, 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.680 the peanuts, the nachos, the tickets and and all that. 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.600 But everything else, the TV money, the merchandise, they all 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:57.520 got that. So anyway, I bet I'm a pilot flying 0:22:57.520 --> 0:22:59.280 all over the place. He must see some amazing like 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:03.439 i've there's other islands out between us, the US and Hawaii, right, 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.199 aren't there some places out there in the middle. I 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:12.400 wonder if he's been a Guam's been to Guama. No, never, 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:14.760 but I'd be I'd be fastened to see if there 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:17.720 was a chance to jump on ourn extra seat, that 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:19.800 he might have a one. Here we go, he jump 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:22.760 on seven, seven and seven on the weed man. You 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:26.800 can get your hand out. Your hand out. Now, every 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:30.320 piloting is a copilot. You know that's fine. My guy, 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:33.439 Victor Brick, the Great Victor Brick Jacob's l a radio legend, 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.320