Speaker 1: Kaboo. If you thought more hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse to clearing house of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does. We
Speaker 1: are eating the air everywhere. Happy Saturday, another day of podcasting,
Speaker 1: no days off, no days off, eight days a week.
Speaker 1: This would not be the eight day of the week
Speaker 1: that would be on Sunday, but it is Saturday, and
Speaker 1: we're glad to have you hanging out with us on
Speaker 1: just the lazy mead May type of day as we
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Speaker 1: out there. And stepping in across the point of demarcation
Speaker 1: from the west of the four oh five area, David
Speaker 1: gascon for his own n sound of AFFAFT for cretic embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I am I'd like to officially nominate myself as an
Speaker 1: expert now in Israeli and Palestinian affairs. Um, I have
Speaker 1: are we going third row? Have morphed Ben Mallory over
Speaker 1: the last year and a year and a half as
Speaker 1: here we go? This is this is you patting yourself
Speaker 1: on the back. Have sufferable douchetable I have. I have
Speaker 1: morped myself into an expert in Israelian Palestinian affairs. Check
Speaker 1: I'm also a virologist. Check, I'm also a constitutional scholar.
Speaker 1: I'm a c p A. I'm a political savant. Um,
Speaker 1: I know all the nuance that is what is happening
Speaker 1: in our world. I mean I have to fit in
Speaker 1: with everybody on social media these days. It is just
Speaker 1: I mean it's part of the course, right. I'm also
Speaker 1: in tune with the social activism and injustices across the world.
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, I'm an expert. But are you a woketivis? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not an activist, you're a woke to mcgrifter, Um
Speaker 1: everything in there. I'm a victim. Um, we gotta be
Speaker 1: a victim. Listen, there is big money in being a victim,
Speaker 1: and you get a lot of cloud being a victim,
Speaker 1: even if you're not a victim. Saying you're a victim,
Speaker 1: get you some cash. It does victims Now all jokes aside. Um,
Speaker 1: I am an excellent guest booker. Um, I'm relentless of
Speaker 1: my word strong, I'm noble, boyish, charm, I'm noble. You
Speaker 1: have twisted reasoning is what you have. That's what you
Speaker 1: suffer from you do. Earl was really good yesterday. I
Speaker 1: loved the Earl was great. We speak the same language,
Speaker 1: me and Earls at all. No, I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever met her. I mean maybe I
Speaker 1: was at the King's game. He was at somebody's big
Speaker 1: hockey fan. We didn't really get into that too much.
Speaker 1: But no, I loved I love talking to her. I mean,
Speaker 1: Earl were kind of close to the same age, and
Speaker 1: we saw our life experiences as kids similar. And he
Speaker 1: loved Jim Healy. That's my one of my inspirations to
Speaker 1: get in the radio. Do you think Jim Healy radio program?
Speaker 1: Do you think Jim would have worked today? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: he would have worked up until a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Now No, Now, oh you're fat shaming that guy for
Speaker 1: what he ate. Yeah, you played the pig sound effects
Speaker 1: when the you know, he did, and as Earle pointed out,
Speaker 1: I mean knew, he knew everybody. And I learned later
Speaker 1: on that, you know, Jim, a lot of his sources
Speaker 1: were the radio report orders that became my friends. That
Speaker 1: would be the eyes and ears in the press box
Speaker 1: and they'd take notes on what what foods were being
Speaker 1: served and you know what was going on, you know,
Speaker 1: the club house. And Jim he was great because the phrasing,
Speaker 1: the phrasing for you know what I'm doing homage again
Speaker 1: to Jim Healy who was an inspiration me and the
Speaker 1: radio guy. If you didn't hear yesterday's podcast in l
Speaker 1: A back in the day. But he'd say is it true,
Speaker 1: which is a great way of saying literally anything, And
Speaker 1: you're not saying it's true, it just could be true,
Speaker 1: Like you know, it's just it's like the plausible deniability.
Speaker 1: It's it's a weasel term. Is it true? Dateline Sunset Strip,
Speaker 1: Tommy little Sorta. Yeah, I remember when the sort of
Speaker 1: was selling spaghetti sauce and like a diet program at
Speaker 1: the same time it was he was selling pasta and
Speaker 1: a diet program and heally used to have a field
Speaker 1: day with that then. But yeah, fun members everone was wonderful.
Speaker 1: I gotta go out and see Arle do stand up.
Speaker 1: Now that stuff has opened up again, I gotta get
Speaker 1: out there. I got a lot of stuff going on
Speaker 1: right now behind the scenes at the old Mallard mansion,
Speaker 1: so I wan't be able to get out anytime, particularly soon,
Speaker 1: but I will. I put that on my list of
Speaker 1: things to do this summer. Like I see Earle at
Speaker 1: the at the comedy club. I love standup. I used
Speaker 1: to go to that. What's that place in Burbank. There's
Speaker 1: a comedy club there. I used to go to. It's
Speaker 1: a small one, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, but my wife
Speaker 1: we went there. The guy from MC Curb Your Enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: the Fat Guy. He used to do a gig there
Speaker 1: every Sunday night. I think he moved to actually to
Speaker 1: do a club in Hollywood now, and I used to love.
Speaker 1: We used to go out there. It was fun. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Jay Lennard would Jay Lennon would go to the her
Speaker 1: Most of Beach comedy Store. He didn't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he does, but on Sunday nights
Speaker 1: he would go there and roll out all of his
Speaker 1: content for the week. Um, I heard somebody told me
Speaker 1: that he's still making a killing on corporate gigs. Leno,
Speaker 1: is that true? You think he's it's this night show
Speaker 1: has been on the air. You know, Ty has been
Speaker 1: good in years, and uh, Kimmel's not Jimmy kim who's
Speaker 1: the Yeah, what's the guy from Jimmy? Yeah he's terrible. Um,
Speaker 1: but but Leno, I heard he's still got a lot
Speaker 1: of gigs. Where good for him if that's true, that
Speaker 1: he's making cash older there, I believe that. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: I watched Saturday Night Live last week congratulated because of
Speaker 1: you and didn't go the way I was hoping. Yeah, no, ship,
Speaker 1: it didn't go the way you're hoping. And uh, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm in the long game, not the short game, not
Speaker 1: in the know. Think of the macro, not the micro boy,
Speaker 1: and I don't be obsessed with it. I remember why
Speaker 1: I haven't watched that show in a long time. It just,
Speaker 1: I mean short, doing sketch comedies really fucking hard. But
Speaker 1: it was painfully bad and unfortunately. Yeah, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: not watched Saturday and I think I watched. The last
Speaker 1: one I watched was when they had I think Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy came back, remember to Hosted. I watched that one
Speaker 1: and I was not enthralled. I didn't think, boy, this
Speaker 1: is great. You know, this is wonderful. I need to
Speaker 1: keep watching this. Yeah, I think it might be an
Speaker 1: age thing too, I think, but I generally the comedy
Speaker 1: and you're supposed to at least occasionally dabble in the
Speaker 1: third rail. Yeah, we like dark comedy. And that was
Speaker 1: part of the reason why I wrought Earl on, Like
Speaker 1: Earl Earl gets after it and some of the ship
Speaker 1: that went on at the roast battles upstairs in the
Speaker 1: comedy store. No way you'd have someone videotaping any of that.
Speaker 1: But dudes got after guys and girls. And that's what
Speaker 1: I love about comedy. And nobody is safe, right, It's
Speaker 1: like it's like Game of Thrones, like everyone's expected to
Speaker 1: get their head cut off one time or another. And yeah,
Speaker 1: comedy is so careful now. I feel like you have
Speaker 1: all these boxes you can and you can't check off,
Speaker 1: which is unfortunate because it ruins the authenticity of what
Speaker 1: these guys are trying to do and what they write out.
Speaker 1: And hey, everyone gets offended or something. Nowadays, it's unfortunate. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. You know, it was tiptoeing around, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I just wanna I don't wanna offend anyone, you know,
Speaker 1: walking on eggshells and all that, which is, which is,
Speaker 1: which is annoying and um so, yeah, I I agree
Speaker 1: with you on that. And uh, I did not see
Speaker 1: the Elon Musk episode. I saw some clips online, but
Speaker 1: I did not. He was you could tell obviously he's uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: he's raw. But I appreciated it that and he got
Speaker 1: better as the show went along. I thought like his
Speaker 1: opening monologue was okay, but he warmed up, and I
Speaker 1: think the audience warmed up to him later on too.
Speaker 1: I just you you have those all all those reports
Speaker 1: prior to him going live with oh well, certain staffers
Speaker 1: are are now permitted to walk away if they don't
Speaker 1: want to work and work on the show with Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and all that bullshits. Oh yeah, the super woke,
Speaker 1: the snowflake Army. I'm gonna go back in their bunker
Speaker 1: and cut it off and suck the thumb in their
Speaker 1: safe space. The oversensitive eye babies that are out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty cool, but we do live in the
Speaker 1: age of the professionally offended class. You know that's so yeah,
Speaker 1: I am offended boy, say, how dare you shame on
Speaker 1: you that? Speaking of that, we will have an awesome
Speaker 1: guest next week on our Friday edition to speaking. Are
Speaker 1: you sure? No? No, I'm good man, I'm I'm good
Speaker 1: for seven full innings of shut out ball. Baby, I'm
Speaker 1: like Garrett Cole. All right, try to go nine innings.
Speaker 1: I try to go to nine. You go seven. I
Speaker 1: try to go nine. I'm old school. Did tape record
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in the eighth and ninth in
Speaker 1: things from when I here? So yeah, well, actually the shows.
Speaker 1: I don't know we're allowed to say this, but I
Speaker 1: have not done a live show since. That's true. Now, see,
Speaker 1: the CDC came out with a report on Thursday that
Speaker 1: said people that are vaccinated don't have to wear a
Speaker 1: mask anymore in outdoor and outdoor settings. So does that
Speaker 1: mean Ben mallad that you're lazy ass will drive to work? Now?
Speaker 1: Does that mean you will actually get up? I'm not vaccinated,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I can't kind of you know,
Speaker 1: have you been vaccinating? No? You have not, Well, why
Speaker 1: don't you get vaccinating because I'm young, I'm healthy, I'm
Speaker 1: strong and a good immune system. My FICO scores at
Speaker 1: eight oh seven. I think, by the way, can't you
Speaker 1: just say I'm not I'm vaccinated? And then how are
Speaker 1: they gonna like, what are they gonna do? Before you
Speaker 1: come into the store there, before you go to Trader Joe's,
Speaker 1: you gotta show you your car. How's that car like
Speaker 1: a driver's license? Yeah, how's that gonna work? Papers peppers? Seriously,
Speaker 1: how does that get enforced? I don't know how you
Speaker 1: would enforce that. Do you think we have to get
Speaker 1: a tattoo now? Like we have been vaccinated? We need
Speaker 1: to like they tried that in Germany already. That's a
Speaker 1: good idea. There's the things are at a premium these days,
Speaker 1: ben gas, lumber, food and bullets. Yes, yes, all the
Speaker 1: key things and in life, have you mixed those together?
Speaker 1: You get a really good time. All the good time
Speaker 1: bring all that side by side. So on this podcast,
Speaker 1: not that we've already started obviously, but we have how
Speaker 1: Low can You Go? And fakery frauds along with along
Speaker 1: with pop quiz and well you've got some other things
Speaker 1: as well. But when we start out with the How
Speaker 1: low can You Go? And I've been in the radio
Speaker 1: business a long time, I guess gan I've had I've
Speaker 1: had some interesting things happen. I've met some fascinating people,
Speaker 1: some people I didn't like, some feeble weaklings. But something
Speaker 1: happened this week that just blew my mind. Am I
Speaker 1: gonna name this gutless puke? But somebody, somebody I know,
Speaker 1: put a caller up the calling in the show, a
Speaker 1: planted caller to try to fish for a compliment. I am.
Speaker 1: I'm still shaking. I'm still stunned that someone would have
Speaker 1: the hutzpah to deputize, to contaminate, pollute a listener, to
Speaker 1: force them to call up and dance around for a compliment.
Speaker 1: It really bothered me. Why would someone do that? Do
Speaker 1: you think why would someone I'm not saying it's you,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you or not, I don't know,
Speaker 1: not naming the guilty party, but why do you think
Speaker 1: someone would reach out to a listener and plant them
Speaker 1: on the show. It certainly doesn't seem like you know
Speaker 1: the proper etiquette. Yeah, I can only assume that you're
Speaker 1: talking about Brian Finley. And if that's the case, I
Speaker 1: think it's for a couple of reasons. One is you
Speaker 1: don't acknowledge him a lot. You undermine him at times,
Speaker 1: You take unprovoked shots at him, his integrity, his work ethic.
Speaker 1: You kind of don't treat him the best that you could. Um.
Speaker 1: You dismissed them on numerous occasions. And I think that
Speaker 1: you know you we mentioned it we live do you
Speaker 1: think it's not Brian Finley? But how do you think like,
Speaker 1: how do you think this would work? Like? Like do
Speaker 1: you think the this? You know someone in radio barely,
Speaker 1: but someone in radio, like, how do you think this?
Speaker 1: Do you think that they just have these listeners numbers
Speaker 1: on their phone and they're like, Hey, I'd like to
Speaker 1: get Bend to compliment me. Well, I could call up
Speaker 1: and ask him this question and phrase it this way,
Speaker 1: and then he'll he'll have no no other answer than
Speaker 1: to compliment me. Exhausting much that life be. You know,
Speaker 1: the world that we live in is no longer six
Speaker 1: degrees of separation. It's more like three because of social media.
Speaker 1: And so you would agree with me that the only
Speaker 1: way that certain shows and certain platforms and certain personalities
Speaker 1: that are archaic um that have moved platforms from like
Speaker 1: terrestrial radio to something else. They need a little bit
Speaker 1: of a bump they needed, they need support, they need
Speaker 1: grassroots funding, they need grassroots marketing, and they can use
Speaker 1: anything at their disposal. And so I think you would
Speaker 1: actually agree with me that you're probably more encouraged by
Speaker 1: that person's resourcefulness and effort and and longstanding. Where thoughts
Speaker 1: you actually go out there and and have other people
Speaker 1: promote said products. I don't know. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I would use the word promote term, but I would
Speaker 1: just think, like, you know, this's just not how I'm wired.
Speaker 1: I fight my own battles. I don't deputize people to
Speaker 1: fight my battles there. But I would think, like, if
Speaker 1: you're someone that would reach out to a listener, a
Speaker 1: consumer of the Ben Mather Show, and you know someone
Speaker 1: that you you might know I would be aware of
Speaker 1: that doesn't normally call the show and then randomly calls
Speaker 1: up maybe hides behind the veil of social media, that
Speaker 1: that wouldn't stand out like a sore thumb. That's the
Speaker 1: first thing. Secondly, UH to think that in that mindset
Speaker 1: that this I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get a listener to call up and again fish for
Speaker 1: a compliment. You're as close to the stuff on the toilet,
Speaker 1: the back of the toilet and a rest stop on
Speaker 1: the Jersey Turnpike is what you are with that? You
Speaker 1: are rotten eggs. You smell like farts. About that? Not you,
Speaker 1: of course, I'm just in a general sense, not you.
Speaker 1: I would not It's not about you. I don't think
Speaker 1: I would surely hope it's not you. That would be
Speaker 1: very embarrassing if it was you. I think the most
Speaker 1: important thing part of this entire discussion is that whoever
Speaker 1: the individually you're referring to is. I think it's important
Speaker 1: to acknowledge the fact that he or she went directly
Speaker 1: to the consumer, not to like outside agencies and looking
Speaker 1: for all these handouts and looking for all these like
Speaker 1: back slabs and mailing marketing routines. It went right to
Speaker 1: the consumer because that is your direct source of consumption,
Speaker 1: is the consumer. And I applaud the effort. I actually
Speaker 1: commend whoever that might be. It's it's normal, it's important,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it should be lost in the
Speaker 1: fact that that you have people working hard behind the
Speaker 1: scenes um for you, UM and oftentimes it's lost on
Speaker 1: you because, as you said, you're your own man. You
Speaker 1: don't work with a producer. You don't like working with
Speaker 1: your executive producer. You don't like working with a technical
Speaker 1: director or an update anchor that rereads scripts from like
Speaker 1: seven hours ago. Um, you don't like doing things in
Speaker 1: a in a community session, and um you know it's unfortunate,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 1: you don't pick the people you work with. Um, they well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's really just a you know, moral thing.
Speaker 1: I was really used to fight my own different sixty years.
Speaker 1: Oh you learned? Oh are you admitting that you were
Speaker 1: the person I'm referring to? Did you just admit that
Speaker 1: I did not? I just said you're the way you
Speaker 1: phrase that sounded like you're that's an admission. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just acknowledging that you looked at a different time
Speaker 1: that you brought it up. But I will let the
Speaker 1: listener decide the defense. Rest. I think you've just incriminated
Speaker 1: yourself right there, guess Scot I believe you have you
Speaker 1: snotty nose, cry baby. If you have just you have
Speaker 1: just incriminated yourself, and you can hear it unless you
Speaker 1: first edit that out of the podcast. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't fish for compliments. There's actually a fine promo
Speaker 1: that's circulating across I Heart Media and Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: with you promoting yourself and me working on the far
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller. So I don't need any additional that
Speaker 1: was written for me. I didn't write that, and there
Speaker 1: was a gun to my head to read it. So
Speaker 1: water gun, well it, super soaker is a gun you
Speaker 1: can drown from a super soaker probably can't be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm paciffec. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: and the I Heart Radio app. All right, so we
Speaker 1: have fakery, frauds, we got We've got to get to that.
Speaker 1: So for a long time, my position on social media
Speaker 1: has been rather simple. I have said that social media
Speaker 1: is the matrix. Well, now I have empirical evidence data
Speaker 1: that that is that is correct, and that we are
Speaker 1: all being horn swoggled, bamboozled, and led astray, and that
Speaker 1: It really is a case of if you take the
Speaker 1: blue pill, the story ends your way, cup in your bed,
Speaker 1: you believe whatever you want to believe, right, That's what
Speaker 1: Morpheus said in in the Matrix. But if you take
Speaker 1: the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And we'll see
Speaker 1: how how deep in the rabbit hole we can go.
Speaker 1: And we're all hanging out, those of us that dabble
Speaker 1: in social media into wonderland that you really do not
Speaker 1: know what's real and what is fake. It's all the algorithms,
Speaker 1: the box and all that stuff. And I want to
Speaker 1: thank a big fan of the Fifth Hour podcast and
Speaker 1: also the Ben Mallory Show, our guy, Doug. Doug was
Speaker 1: a high for Luten executive in the tech industry back
Speaker 1: back and then I think he's retired now, but he
Speaker 1: lives in the Northwest. I don't wanta give exact location.
Speaker 1: I don't give me trouble um, not that I don't
Speaker 1: think he would get in trouble for this, but he
Speaker 1: send me this story out of the The Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal somewhat recently, and I wanted to bring up. I
Speaker 1: actually saved it for the podcast because it, of course
Speaker 1: is confirmation that I'm right. So there's this net neutrality
Speaker 1: battle going on, right, FCC net neutrality. There's a proposal,
Speaker 1: it's out there and the Federal Communications Commission, uh, whether
Speaker 1: or not they should roll back internet regulation. Right. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of red tape and and and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: we don't need to get into the minutia of that.
Speaker 1: But the reason this story is interesting and the reason
Speaker 1: I want to talk about it with you right now,
Speaker 1: and I think it's very important, is there were let's see,
Speaker 1: twenty two million comments, uh that were actually the wait,
Speaker 1: hold it made the math on the there's more than millions,
Speaker 1: all right, So i'll deal with you. Let's let's pull
Speaker 1: out the calculator and let's type away. All right. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there were a bunch of applies online about net neutrality
Speaker 1: with the FCC, and so the New York Attorney General's
Speaker 1: Office went and looked. I think there were twenty two
Speaker 1: million comments. All yeah, So I did have the number
Speaker 1: of twenty two million comments. I wrote some chicken scratch,
Speaker 1: I can't rewever. So two million comments, all right? These
Speaker 1: are the bullet points. Twenty two million comments out of
Speaker 1: the twenty two The New York Attorney General's Office went
Speaker 1: to find out, you know, what is real and what
Speaker 1: is not. What are these bots, what are the algorithms,
Speaker 1: what are the real actual human beings? And there's ways
Speaker 1: you can detect that. So, out of the twenty two
Speaker 1: million comments, what percentage of these comments were not legit?
Speaker 1: What percentage of these comments were total bullshit? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say nine percent of the comments were not. No, it's
Speaker 1: not that high, but you're not far off. Over eighty percent,
Speaker 1: over eighty percent of all public comments filed on net
Speaker 1: neutrality to the f c C were bullshit. They were
Speaker 1: they were bogus. Eighteen million fake comments. That's the number,
Speaker 1: eighteen million fake comments, more than eighty percent. There were
Speaker 1: only four million legit. About eight point five million of
Speaker 1: the fake comments to the f CC derived from a
Speaker 1: four point two million dollar camp paying paid for by
Speaker 1: someone named broad Band for America, an advocacy group. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about, these guests on these lobbyists.
Speaker 1: There are what I could right now. I could make
Speaker 1: a few phone calls. I could have three million followers.
Speaker 1: I'd rather somebody buy me followers, but I'm too cheap.
Speaker 1: But there are ways you can. You don't know what's
Speaker 1: legit and what's not. We have buddies of ours and radio.
Speaker 1: Remember this is a great story who overnight they went
Speaker 1: from like two thousand followers to like a hundred two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand followers in like two days because they had,
Speaker 1: you know, open up the bank account or they figured
Speaker 1: out a way to mess you know men and build
Speaker 1: these these body accounts you can make millions of Do
Speaker 1: remember that documentary I watched on HBO about you know,
Speaker 1: there was I think we talked about on this show. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was about making someone on Instagram celebrity and how
Speaker 1: you know you buy these followers and whatnot what goes
Speaker 1: into that. But that's mind buggling. More than eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the comments about net neutrality, we're ridiculous. And the
Speaker 1: reason that's important, let me tell you why that's important
Speaker 1: because these dopey politicians they're older than me. Most of
Speaker 1: these politicians, they don't understand. They must be real. This
Speaker 1: is what the electorate wants. But no, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: what advocacy groups and radicals what they pay for. And
Speaker 1: it it goes back to the matrix, right, you know,
Speaker 1: what is real and what is not real? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they use this or they use those tools to amplify
Speaker 1: and gaslight their audiences because they know that they have
Speaker 1: a a wing of whatever social media platform or news
Speaker 1: agency will get behind them and preach it as gospel.
Speaker 1: All right, don't don't forget that. We had a kid,
Speaker 1: a teenager and Nick Sadman who filed and want a
Speaker 1: massive lawsuit against CNN for what for what they thought
Speaker 1: was of him talking down the elderly man and in
Speaker 1: some corner some kind of racism and uh, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he gets this huge settlement because they
Speaker 1: distorted exactly what was going on there. It's the fucking
Speaker 1: world we live, and everything is is all manipulated, photos
Speaker 1: shopped edited, the videos down, the sound is down, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. It's all about manipulating your eyes and fucking
Speaker 1: with your feelings. That's all it is. It's a deep fake.
Speaker 1: We're all being it. We're all in a deep fake
Speaker 1: right now. I had I got into a pretty vocal
Speaker 1: argument last week with a colleague here at Fox. Doug All. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He he asked me during a segment, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was like a throwaway segment, but he asked me
Speaker 1: if I was vaccinated, and I said no, why And
Speaker 1: he said, well why not? And I said, well, I'm,
Speaker 1: you know, a middle aged guy. I'm in good health,
Speaker 1: my immune system strong. Um, well why do I need to?
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, for the greater good, like you
Speaker 1: need to be doing this and that. And I'm like, well, Doug,
Speaker 1: are you smoking? Are you drinking? Or you're getting sleep?
Speaker 1: Are you really in your stress? Are you traveling? Um?
Speaker 1: Are you working out? As your vitamin D levels high
Speaker 1: or they low? And it was just this whole thing
Speaker 1: about back and forth, back and forth, and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, like these vaccines are administered right now for
Speaker 1: emergency use only. They're not approved by the FDA. And
Speaker 1: he thought they were and I said, no, they're they're not.
Speaker 1: We went back and forth on that, and it's like
Speaker 1: God forbid you question anything. God forbid. I mean the
Speaker 1: box is a perfect example of it. Like you find
Speaker 1: out the route, and then you find out where the
Speaker 1: money is coming from, and then you find out the
Speaker 1: influence and someone's behind it because obviously they want to
Speaker 1: push one agenda or another. Well, and the other problem
Speaker 1: is how humans are wired. You want to be with
Speaker 1: the cool people, right, we all want to be with
Speaker 1: the cool people you don't want to be having a
Speaker 1: different opinion with it's out of the the main stream.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that becomes that becomes a problem. Right. You
Speaker 1: wanna you wanna be popular, you want to hang out
Speaker 1: with the cool kids and all that stuff, so that
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful though. I saw him employee who
Speaker 1: wrote a book. I think it was for Apple. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you read about this. He wrote a book,
Speaker 1: I think, and it was prior to getting hired at Apple,
Speaker 1: and someone complained to like there, I think it was
Speaker 1: like the chief people officer, and they fired the guy.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Yeah? I just well, as far
Speaker 1: as me, I haven't gotten the vaccine. I probably will
Speaker 1: get it, just you know, my wife wants me to
Speaker 1: get it. My brother had it. He seems to be
Speaker 1: doing all right, so I'll but my brother had the visor. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not against obviously vaccines. I just I think it's
Speaker 1: well now that now that they finally said, if you
Speaker 1: have the vaccine, you don't have to wear the mask
Speaker 1: and all that, right, how do you again, actually said,
Speaker 1: how do we How do I prove that? You know?
Speaker 1: And that's that sounds like just a bullshit thing. You
Speaker 1: can't actually enforce it unenforceable. And that's the thing. It's
Speaker 1: either one way or they or another. Like Gottlieb called
Speaker 1: me an anti vaccine, I'm like, how the funk are
Speaker 1: you getting off like this? On a national show he
Speaker 1: name called ad hominem attack exactly, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: told my parents to get the vaccine. I have one
Speaker 1: sister who's gotten the vaccine. How the fund gonna get
Speaker 1: off telling me that on the National show? I was
Speaker 1: but I I even if I eventually get to Bactale,
Speaker 1: I don't If you don't want to get it, I
Speaker 1: don't think you should be forced to get it. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but you are also at the same time, like,
Speaker 1: if I, you know, get something illness out of this
Speaker 1: and something happens, that's on me, right, it's on you
Speaker 1: if you don't get it. You were all grown ups
Speaker 1: here and you know you have to pay the pay
Speaker 1: the price exactly. That's wow. That's a great story, though,
Speaker 1: I um because I mean, two million comments, eighteen million bullshit.
Speaker 1: They went into detail and again thanks to dog who
Speaker 1: for this U and he knew this was right in
Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. This was a batting practice, fastball from Doug
Speaker 1: and I I thank him. So there's a Senator Rob
Speaker 1: Portman from Ohio. Fourteen thousand messages sent to this guy
Speaker 1: were fake, right, total bullshit. Uh and uh it's it's wild.
Speaker 1: So you can check that out. Was a Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal story, and they said that investigators found nine point
Speaker 1: three million comments supporting net neutrality used fictitious identities, most
Speaker 1: submitted by one California college student majoring in computer science.
Speaker 1: It's good, it's good. Do you think there's somebody in
Speaker 1: the mallam militia that we can get? Yeah? I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't think say I want bought fast but but
Speaker 1: or I certainly want to pay for them. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you can do it, boy, that'd be funny. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't be funny if I all of a sudden woke
Speaker 1: up and there's like, you know eight You know, I've
Speaker 1: been pretty solid around fifty thousand, give or take a
Speaker 1: gun up, gone down, whatever, I haven't really I pick
Speaker 1: up a few. I lose if we lost a lot
Speaker 1: when we uh during the because of the third Rail,
Speaker 1: ma man, some of the leftists, Yeah, they got upset
Speaker 1: with me, and the snowflakes get upset with they bailed chip.
Speaker 1: But but no, that's what I need. That's what I
Speaker 1: need in the mallam militia. I need a California college student,
Speaker 1: or New York or New Jersey or Massachusetts college student
Speaker 1: majoring in computer science to come up with nine point
Speaker 1: three millions or whatever. Let's say they said, this is
Speaker 1: a nineteen year old student was responsible for seven point
Speaker 1: seven million comments generated using websites that create names, he said,
Speaker 1: and physical addresses and email addresses. So there you go,
Speaker 1: as Paul Harvey would say, now you know the rest
Speaker 1: of the story. Remember that. Now. I just tell my
Speaker 1: wife this. You know, she loves reading. When we buy
Speaker 1: stuff on the internet, look at the reviews on Amazon
Speaker 1: or whatever, and see what you know people are saying
Speaker 1: and or Yelp to find restaurants. And I'm always like,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know that that's legit or not.
Speaker 1: I I am so cynical, oh ye of little faith
Speaker 1: that I'm like, well, is that the blue pill or
Speaker 1: is that the red pill? I think that's the red pill.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think we're going further down the
Speaker 1: rabbit hole on that one. Yeah, alright, what else? Something else?
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention before we get the pop quiz. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a somewhat recent poll from this came from
Speaker 1: the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and
Speaker 1: the Harris Pool and it revealed that six of Americans
Speaker 1: believe that cancel culture, you know, the the boycotting, pressuring,
Speaker 1: etcetera of people for their past or current verbal statements
Speaker 1: UH is a threat to their freedom. And seven agree
Speaker 1: that there is a problem of very importance, but no
Speaker 1: one's doing anything about it. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: it was a problem, but you know, everyone's kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's and on the side of the right, I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you supposed to do it? Though? Right? How
Speaker 1: do you stop? You can't really stop it. You can,
Speaker 1: but it comes with consequences, and there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of people that can do it with reckless abandoned or
Speaker 1: have either a safety net or do it with a parachute.
Speaker 1: Like like a guy like um, he's come on the show,
Speaker 1: Leo Terrell. He's he's a Democrat, he's a liberal, but
Speaker 1: he's called out ship that he completely disagrees with. But
Speaker 1: I think in today's world, because he's older and because
Speaker 1: he's an attorney, he can get away with a lot
Speaker 1: of those things, whereas if the individual is younger, and
Speaker 1: I also think if the individual is younger and white,
Speaker 1: no chance. Yeah. Well Leo, like but Leo gets called
Speaker 1: out to like you know, and I he he he's
Speaker 1: talked about this, but he's being canceled though. No. But
Speaker 1: when you're a black guy and you're you know, you're
Speaker 1: out out there, Oh, you shouldn't be doing that, you know, like, well,
Speaker 1: you come on ridiculous. Yeah, but I mean you can't
Speaker 1: have any you can't have any other thoughts other than
Speaker 1: the group thinking. I mean no, I mean, look at
Speaker 1: what's her name, J. K Rowling's right, Like, she's talked
Speaker 1: about sexual orientation and gender assignments, and god forbid you
Speaker 1: get all these fucking groups that try to cancel her.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, fuck you. That's let's get yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get do a little pop quiz here, then we
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. Getting the mail Bag podcast,
Speaker 1: which is my favorite podcast. I wonder what I love
Speaker 1: the mail Bag podcast. What what would you go a
Speaker 1: little slab knob nob? I don't know, it's it's you
Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna get it back. I just
Speaker 1: open up the letters. There's no need for a viscal
Speaker 1: reaction from you. It's you don't know. Maybe there'll be
Speaker 1: some nice people. Yeah, I know you. You're very friendly.
Speaker 1: I hear with some of the callers. Maybe they'll right
Speaker 1: friend of of a lot of colors. That's what I hear,
Speaker 1: all right, pop quiz things I found around the internet.
Speaker 1: I thought we're interesting, and we'll ask gascon, but we're
Speaker 1: really asking you, and here we go. According to a
Speaker 1: new survey, couples are both happier and more stable if
Speaker 1: the man in the relationship takes care of this specific
Speaker 1: household task what is it cleaning? Well, yes, but one
Speaker 1: specific bathroom. No, And that is why that I am
Speaker 1: in a happy relationship and a stable relationship. Guest gunt,
Speaker 1: I am the dishwasher, and I am not just a
Speaker 1: fucking dishwasher. I'm the greatest goddamn dishwasher you could possibly
Speaker 1: Because you buy paper play, it's still given that. No. No,
Speaker 1: I am an expert. I know that that dishwasher is
Speaker 1: not like the you know, some cartoon from back in
Speaker 1: the day where you put everything in there and it
Speaker 1: was covered with with pasta sauce and it just washes
Speaker 1: it off. No, you you have to properly wash off
Speaker 1: the dishes. Uh, and you have to scrub the dishes
Speaker 1: once in the sink. And then the dishwasher is the
Speaker 1: final nuclear option where it makes everything pure again. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually, I'm telling you when this radio thing
Speaker 1: in this podcast and I'm going into professional dishwashing. I
Speaker 1: want an industrial dishwasher, is what I want. You're laughing,
Speaker 1: but I I would be a really good dish washer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: A thirty nine billion dollars a year is spent on
Speaker 1: this in America, thirty nine billion. And if you don't
Speaker 1: do it this particular thing, you know, I spend the
Speaker 1: money on this, people get very upset. I was gonna
Speaker 1: say tires um. They get really upset um flu shots. No, No,
Speaker 1: the answer is tipping. Oh are you? Are you good tipper?
Speaker 1: I am an adequate tipper. I don't have to be
Speaker 1: a good tipper because no one knows who I am.
Speaker 1: But I'm an adequate tipper. So what I do is
Speaker 1: I have an app on my phone. I'm the guy
Speaker 1: that pulls up the do it. I do it salth
Speaker 1: is what I man. You're fucking lame. No, I do
Speaker 1: it looks like I'm sending a text message, but I'm
Speaker 1: actually putting the app on to see what the bill is.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna know for future reference. What is that?
Speaker 1: What do you What do you mean? That means if
Speaker 1: we're going out somewhere, I'm gonna look at you as
Speaker 1: you're doing your bullshit tipping? Why I just calculate if
Speaker 1: the server is good in fifteen or ten percent? Well,
Speaker 1: but then there's there's like, well is it before tax
Speaker 1: or after tax? Right? Grows? I do the growth? Some
Speaker 1: some people say, well, let's not include the tax, because
Speaker 1: that's the different. It's only about the price of the meal.
Speaker 1: Now do you pay cash or do you you card
Speaker 1: for tip? Well, like everyone else, most of it's just
Speaker 1: credit card. Just filling out the receipt. You're signing your
Speaker 1: name and so you have to put the dollar amount
Speaker 1: and that's it. Yeah. Uh, let's see your page down,
Speaker 1: page down. All right. It is sad, but more than
Speaker 1: fifty percent of Americans say that we have been We've
Speaker 1: not been able to do this in in a year.
Speaker 1: What is it? Hug our friends? No, actually make a
Speaker 1: new friend? Oh, no, new friend like fake friends on
Speaker 1: the internet, real real wife, I've met some new friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I hear. You want to name the friends? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I got a lot of them. I started
Speaker 1: using Clubhouse, got pretty active on there. It was bouncing
Speaker 1: around a bunch of the rooms, and met some fine
Speaker 1: people in the film and entertainment industry. Nobody, you know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, someone is that it's like a spinoff of
Speaker 1: Grinder Clubhouse Is that? No, No, it's it's a spinoff
Speaker 1: of like Lincoln. Okay, I got you. Yeah, we we
Speaker 1: have some friends that we met in Las Vegas. Yeah
Speaker 1: we did, that's true. We did. Look at you always
Speaker 1: negative Nancy with your bullshit tipping and your bullshit connectivity.
Speaker 1: Doom and gloom from Ben Mallory of people said they
Speaker 1: have not made a new friend a year. How many
Speaker 1: people do you think are actually good with that? Though? Yeah, mom,
Speaker 1: most people aren't that over social. So yeah, most people are. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're they're okay with six out of ten adults do
Speaker 1: this every day? What is it? God loved them for
Speaker 1: doing this? Loss? Now, listen to the radio. To the radio.
Speaker 1: Sixty percent of all adults, I'm according to a well,
Speaker 1: only when you're on nobody listens. According to a News survey.
Speaker 1: That's the According a new survey, thirty six percent of
Speaker 1: people admit they've lied to get out of doing this
Speaker 1: type of event. What is it light at doing this
Speaker 1: to get out of doing something? Um, going to a wedding? Correct?
Speaker 1: What's up? Look at that? I don't want to go
Speaker 1: to the wedding. Yeah, but then you still got to
Speaker 1: buy the gift. No, you don't funk that. There's actually
Speaker 1: a colleague here that invited us to or invited me
Speaker 1: to a wedding and I had to go take a
Speaker 1: trip to go to the wedding, and I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. And then I didn't
Speaker 1: buy a gift. Dude got div worsd within a year.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah? I was like, fucking thank god
Speaker 1: I didn't waste my time and money on that day.
Speaker 1: I think I was at that wedding. Actually I think
Speaker 1: that you were. I think I was. I was at
Speaker 1: a wedding. Someone I used to work with got married
Speaker 1: and who was it? Wow the person? But they got divorced.
Speaker 1: They're married again now, but they got divorced, and uh,
Speaker 1: it was a big wedding and bought a gift and
Speaker 1: the whole thing and took photos and didn't last. I
Speaker 1: went to Jonas's wedding. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Did I go to that one? On that one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were at that one? What the hell you're talking about?
Speaker 1: I was there. The buffet they did. Jonas was a rebel.
Speaker 1: They had a buffet when everyone's a noble face his
Speaker 1: brother's restaurant, and uh, pretty good. I like it was
Speaker 1: my kind of food. Yeah, for eight year old that
Speaker 1: it was right. I loved it. It was great. New
Speaker 1: survey asked mothers if they still do this or you know,
Speaker 1: take care of anything for their adult children. Of mothers
Speaker 1: said they still do this for their adult children. What
Speaker 1: is laundry? That's correct? Two for two? What's up? Look
Speaker 1: at that? Um yeah, my my mom. May she rest
Speaker 1: in peace, but she she did my laundry for for
Speaker 1: a long time. I'd like, drive my laundry. I was
Speaker 1: so so terrible. I take my laundry from l A,
Speaker 1: drive it down to Orange County through the laundry and
Speaker 1: then uh then head back. So yeah. Uh. A record
Speaker 1: price for this item, which is found in many kitchens,
Speaker 1: is sixty one hundred dollars. This in the kitchen, um
Speaker 1: an oven. No, a cookie jar? What you know those
Speaker 1: weird cookie jars that are shaped like cartoon heads and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yeah, what the wait? Sixty dollars? That
Speaker 1: is correct? Oh my gosh, yeah it didn't that one ful?
Speaker 1: That's awful, Yeah, exactly. According to a recent survey, the
Speaker 1: number one thing we do on our smart phones is text.
Speaker 1: What is number two? Look at porn? Well, for you,
Speaker 1: that is correct, but for the rest of us it's
Speaker 1: check email, which might be the same thing because you
Speaker 1: might be getting porn in your email from what I'm hearing,
Speaker 1: but I don't know's yeah, uh, let's hear. One third
Speaker 1: of adults claim they have never done this on social media.
Speaker 1: Looked at porn? Yeah? Someone now look up an X. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone does. I think they're lining the one third of line.
Speaker 1: How about that? Everyone's curious, right, whether you're successful, you
Speaker 1: want to look at the people that weren't successful, or
Speaker 1: if you're not successful, you're like, you're crue whatever happened
Speaker 1: to that that person is successful? That kind. Some psychologists
Speaker 1: say that this is the most revealing place they can
Speaker 1: look at to learn about a person, like look at
Speaker 1: their person or you mean, like to to look to
Speaker 1: learn about a person, like what you're made of, what
Speaker 1: you're all about? Who you are? Their car? No, you're
Speaker 1: junk drawer. Oh interesting? Do you have a drunk drawer?
Speaker 1: I? I I do, well, not right now, but like, is
Speaker 1: it a chaster or is it like it's just a
Speaker 1: drawer in a there's other drawers, but I have one
Speaker 1: particular drawer that the junk drawer, and I have that's
Speaker 1: where I keep my rubber bands, my superglue, old keys.
Speaker 1: That's some of the things that are in the junk drawer.
Speaker 1: I probably have some of those in there. I have
Speaker 1: some random flask you know what I what I should
Speaker 1: send out and and Earl would be impressed by this.
Speaker 1: I have a listener sent me this years ago. It's
Speaker 1: a Jim Healy ashtray and it's got all of Jim
Speaker 1: Healy's phrases on it. It's one of my most pride possessions,
Speaker 1: is it because it's I believe the only piece of
Speaker 1: Jim Heely memorabilia that was ever made. The radio guy
Speaker 1: and I hold onto this thing near and dear. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Is it white or is it clear with black print
Speaker 1: on it? No, it's white and it's got it's uh,
Speaker 1: it says, hold on us, let me turning the light.
Speaker 1: Here it says, and they said it was impossible. The
Speaker 1: world's first one half hour sports commentary Jim Healy k
Speaker 1: m PC. And then it has all the phrases that's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Thank you, Jim, Double take department. Is
Speaker 1: it true? It's my job, Bruce, and it goes through
Speaker 1: all those things say what Yeah, So I love that.
Speaker 1: Pretty cool, Pretty pretty cool. We gotta get out of here, guests,
Speaker 1: and we got the Mailback podcast coming up right around
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