WEBVTT - Senseless Direction 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.080 a week was enough, 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 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.400 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.479 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.360 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:30.960 with Ben Maller starts right now, nine nine in the air, everywhere, 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.120 eight days a week, because a four hours a night 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.680 clearly not enough, and you have stumbled on blindly. The 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:44.360 Fifth Hour podcast a spinoff of the weekend weekday show. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.520 Here on the weekends, even on a Saturday, college football Saturday. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:53.519 In a rare and appropriate Saturday appearance by Mr West 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.760 of the four oh five, I can't say that a 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.760 month or two from now, but I can say it now. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:11.720 David Guest in the house, he hey, why why this week? 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.000 You have not been with us on Saturday and sometime, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.440 Guest Gun, you have a skewed the Saturday podcast. But 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.960 here you are here, you are pushing your way back 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.480 into the podcast studio. Here I am to save the 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:29.320 day right here that the busy time man. I got 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.520 like seven jobs and I just I think that a 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:38.000 round of applause is in order. I just finished my taxes, um, 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.640 so I think that you know you are paying your taxes, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.480 and you make enough money to paying my taxes. But 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.320 I'm getting something back, which is always nice, getting some 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.840 money to return to me a little while to do 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.120 my taxes and then get some nines and W two 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.600 is back from respective employers. But do you do that? 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.880 You actually do the taxes yourself. You don't hire an outs. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.000 I'd accountant to your taxes. You are the one who 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.440 is crunching the numbers. Is that accurate? Uh? What's a combination? 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.240 I I do a lot of the crunching of the numbers. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.079 And the reason why is because of all the all 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.760 the income that comes from non W two providers. So 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.280 a lot of these outlets they attending and hang me, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.280 you can write off a lot of things, or at 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.880 least some things. And so I gotta go through checklists 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:29.440 and I'm azations and you're used to in the old days, 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.640 Oh my god, it was wonderful when I traveled with 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.720 the Dodgers. I would go on the road, I go 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.200 into a cab and the cab driver would hand me 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.160 a stack of receipts. Now, I'm not saying that I 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.239 took advantage of this, but I do know some sports 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.680 writers that did take advantage of it on the road 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.640 and would just fill out endless taxi receipts and uh 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.600 it was, it was wonderful. Uh. Now you do, you travel, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.520 You get paid to travel much. You do a lot 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.960 of stuff locally. Guess gun right, because I don't want 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.720 I don't want you to be like an NBA official 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.600 from back in the day or an umpire on the 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.079 plane tickets. You gotta be careful on that. No, no, 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.600 I uh yeah, I mean it's all local here. But 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.880 I do have an app. I do have a couple 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.520 of apps that I use for for logging my mileage. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:18.760 I don't know if you use any of those at all, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.919 but I use one called the mile i Q and 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.920 that's obviously for driving to and from a location. For 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.399 it itemizes it too, so you can say like, hey, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.600 this is like for the gym, this is for personal 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.000 use like the grocery store, or it's for work. So 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.360 I I basically lay out all the places that I 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.360 work at and then um and then it logs in accordingly. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.920 So it's pretty nice. Yeah, So what I do is 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.480 I used to do that, but now I use I 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.400 have a thing that counts my steps. So I go 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.040 out of my bedroom, I turned left. I then go 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.480 down a hallway without a without a rail, It's like Mr. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.760 Toad's Wild Ride, and then make a right. I go 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.720 down the hall. Then I'm gont a fork in the road. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.960 I get to the fork in the road, fork in 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.320 the hall, and then turned right and then I'm in 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.360 the broadcast studio. So I count the steps. It's roughly 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.040 on a on a bad day, if I take really 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.280 small steps, I could get up to like forty five steps. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.600 So just going to my office there. So at the 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.760 end of the year, I do a cross benefit analysis 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.320 there on that, but I use an accountant. And the 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.680 reason that we do the Mallard family here is because 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.680 I am terrible at at math. And my parents when 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.680 I was in high school, they had the knock on 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.320 the door. You know what that means, gascon the knock 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.279 on the door. They got audited. Yeah, the I R 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.320 S knocked on the door and they the math. I'm 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.200 told on getting audited. It's even you know, it's worse 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.760 now than it was then. That they don't audit very 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.760 many people. But I I'm so paranoid about that. And 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.920 I remember my parents having to go through and they 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.320 kept files on everything. It was all over the house. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.359 May they rest in peace, but they had to track 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.719 down all of those files and it was such a 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.160 pain in the ascid. It was such a stressful situation 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.680 for my parents. Like, at least with an account And 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.760 I'm not saying I can't get it audited with an accountant, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.640 but when you have an account and say, okay, I'm 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.920 paying you figure it out right. You know, you know 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.440 I'm paying the money. You're the one that did the taxes. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.240 It's it's on you, and so it's it gives me 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.560 a little peace of mind at night. It gives me. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.680 And I also when they changed the tax code a 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:35.360 few years back and we ended up owing money because 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.200 we had the accountant, I guess it not we had 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.440 not done that properly, given the right paperwork to the accountant, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.599 and so we had to write a check to the 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.360 to the government, and that was It was terrible. But 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.640 I have been told over the years that you're actually 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:57.520 better off having to either either have it even or 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.880 have to write a small check to the government that 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.040 you keep the money and money in hand is better. Uh. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.800 Now that might have been bullshit, but I was told 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.200 by somebody that I believe knows this stuff, that you're 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.600 better off doing it that way. But I always feel better. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.880 I feel like I've won something, even though the people 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.560 that do the math will tell you that you have 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.279 not won anything. When you actually get a check back 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.080 from from the government that that you think you've done well, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.599 it's like a mind mind trick, like thinking you've done 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.240 well when when realistically it's the government that had your 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.400 money and is then paying the money back that you 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.400 overpaid for taxes. Yeah, with no uh no interest added 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.799 to it. I don't feel like it's a win anywhere, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.320 especially nowadays with the money that is being taken and 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:50.400 used for taxes. It's it's awful, it is. But just think, yes, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.480 your money is helping to give people free money that 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.920 don't have to do anything, so that's a good thing. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.760 But you get your you are like Robin Hood. You're 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.480 stealing from yourself to give to other people. It's a 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.720 it's a wonderful thing. What a world we live in here. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.880 Check and I again, I was raised I blame the 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.520 people that raised me that I was raised to work 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.600 hard and you get paid when you work hard, and 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.280 I did. If only my mom had taught me when 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.600 I was a little boy, Ben grow up and you know, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.600 if you don't really work hard and you don't have 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.400 a job, and you don't try to get a job, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.040 I'll just give you a thousand bucks a month. What 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:39.200 the hell? Why not? Maybe great, wonderful Los Angeles County. Yeah, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:45.040 I mean it's uh, who's your sugar daddy? L A County? Baby? 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:46.720 Is it? L A County? Is a l A City? 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.240 Which one? Is it? I forget it's it's I don't 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.400 I don't know. It's probably l A City because l 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.080 A County is a much larger, much larger operation, I 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.640 would think. But that's the West coast man, that's California. Yeah, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.200 so I love friends in the West, want California to 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.920 go out in the Pacific. But you know, I think 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.600 it's l A City, l A city giving giving a 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.240 thousand dollars a month to two thousand households for an 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:15.560 entire year, no questions asked. It's just as absolutely amazing. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.400 But you know, question, I'm not allowed to ask any questions, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.640 I work like a meal woman. I'll do is talk radio. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.880 Can you mean a few of these people that that 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.800 have real jobs? I have a crap, you know, an 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.160 easy job. But imagine the people that ust their ass, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.040 you know, and they're not making a ton of money. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.319 Although you can make pretty good money if you're a 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.360 handyman or a you know, working depending on what you 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.800 do in a factory. There are jobs that pay pretty well. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.560 But then you see the person over there is just 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.880 like eating ding dings all day in the cashing in 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.720 their checks. What's up with that? No motivation at all? 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:50.000 That's unbelievable. But I mean that that that is an 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:54.000 extension that's actually like a form of bribery in a sense, right, 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.240 like we'll pay you you just vote for us next 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.800 election term. Well, it's to me, it's not even it's 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:06.880 just it's you're encouraging bad behavior and you just what 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.800 are you doing? You know, a dollar there's an old 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.439 idiom and I'm gonna probably butcher it here, but it's 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.319 something about a dollar earned and the value of that, right, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:24.400 the value of but that everything with inflation now is insane, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.040 it's insane, and there's no there's no end in sight. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.439 And in my experience, once the prices go up, they 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:36.160 never go back down. It's not the reasons the prices 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.839 and say, okay, we're gonna lower the prices. And if 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.680 they do lower the prices, I've noticed this. One of 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.920 my favorite restaurants I go to not far from the 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.679 north Woods here, uh is this chicken fingerplace. And what 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.600 they did is they lowered the prices, but they gave 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:56.640 you smaller portions, so they it's a again a mind 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:02.000 mind mind hack where you think you're getting a good deal, 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.360 but in reality, what they've done is they've given themselves 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.720 more of a profit because they're giving you a smaller 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:13.800 amount of fries or whatever or you know, some side dish, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.480 and they're charging you a little less, but it's a 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.600 lot less than they were charging a lot more than 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:25.000 the product's worth. And um so you know it's it's insane, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.480 but there you go. So that is where we're at 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.960 the United States is the um you know, leadership role. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.800 And where we're at now we have taking center stage 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:41.760 by now issuing US passports with gender X on it. Now. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.160 Um so now we can you know, break up to 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.840 the men your X. What is that gender X. What 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:54.600 is that it's like for non binary, non identifying individuals? 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.400 Got you? All? Right? So now there are I don't 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.800 really travel much, guest, and you've been all over the world. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.080 I'm not. I've been Oceana, I've been to Hawaii. I've 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.000 I've been to Canada briefly. Uh, you know, I don't. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.120 I don't actually never been to Mexico. I've been, I've been. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.320 I've been to the border many times. I've not been 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.600 to Mexico. Um, explain, explain this to me, Like I'm 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.120 five years old here. So if if you have on 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.840 your US passport gender X and you go to a 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.040 country that believes in the birds and the bees and 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.240 the innies and the outies, Um, what happens? Like? How 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.679 does that work? What are they just blindly supposed to 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.520 honor that and no questions asked? Or I think you 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.640 would see what we got here? I think they would 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:52.760 just laugh. Okay, I'm curious. I'm sure that's I don't know. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.520 I don't know the rest of the world. There are 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.640 some grown ups in the rest of the world that realize, hey, 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.480 there's men and women and you can, you know, do 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.640 what you want with that but come on, is the 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.120 is the Party of Science really the party of science? 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.439 Or is it just a party of selective science? Because 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.439 that's what it sounds like. Science is always selective. Well, 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:17.320 now science is whatever fits your agenda and it works 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.400 both ways. Right, that works both ways? That you now 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.120 in politics, you just find a scientist. It's kind of 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.800 like doctor shopping. Wait, hold on, you don't find the scientists. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.960 You find the lobbyists. You know, but it's like, you know, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.880 if you keep going to enough doctors till you get 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.040 the opinion you want or I guess technically doctor shopping 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.840 is just going to get pills, like right, But no, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.600 I mean people do the same thing. You get diagnosed 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.760 with something, you're like, I don't think that's right, or 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.520 I don't want to have the treatment, and then you're 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.280 supposed to get a second opinion, and then you get 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.440 a third opinion. You go two out of three, and 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.000 then you're like, all right, well two out of three 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.760 is not good. That's that's try. Why don't we do 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.360 three out of five and then we'll do, you know, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.080 four out of seven, then we'll go five out of nine. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.480 If only in the early days when they designed the 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.400 infrastructure of American sport. I think was the New York Giants, 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.640 remember reading about this years ago. The guy that owned 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.360 the New York Giants came up with the seven game 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.120 best of seven format for the World Series and whatnot, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.280 which is the gold standard now for championship rounds in 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.880 team sports other than obviously football. But if what if 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.640 they said let's do five out of nine. I think 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.320 some of the early playoffs series we're five out of nine. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.600 It wasn't always four out of seven. H But but 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.520 I'm getting carried away here. But the point is you 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.040 can in science. It is. It used to be a 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.840 case of, well, here's the science. But science is always evolving. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.959 And that's that's one of the weird things about the 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:58.120 people that weaponized science. We talked a lot about how random, 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.760 you know, it's they call it in exact act science 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.959 is what they call it for a reason. It's imprecise, 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.680 it's inaccurate, uh, and it's it's always evolving, even things 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.040 that have been confirmed seemingly there are exceptions to the rule. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.080 That's a that's a whole different cannel worms, whole different 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.840 channel worms. But it's good though, I mean, well, I 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.000 have I have no problems with the challenge. I think 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:29.840 everything should be challenged and questioned. But everything Now if 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.360 you do do that, then you are labeled, and then 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.240 you are condemned, which is just amazing. But I mean 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.440 this is a definition by by definition, though, guests, science 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.000 consists of people who are in disagreement with each other. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.880 That is, is that not the but but but good disagreement? Yes, 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.320 I mean now you have I mean not now, but 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.640 you've had this in years past and decades and generations passed, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.040 like you know, the progressives of cal and u c 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.680 l a God forbids someone that's eve they're down the 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.720 middle of the road or right wing if they if 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.880 they if they want to talk on campus, they get condemned. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.240 Student bodies will will be up in you know, arms 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.160 and whatnot. You see irvines now, the same with a 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:18.880 couple of doctors there. It's pretty wild how this is 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.520 more polarizing now than ever. But this is obviously here 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.440 from the the the genesis of social media to we're 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.640 at now. But I mean, this has happened in previous days, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.080 but of course just more highlighted now because of where 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.120 we're at politically and and we're social media and television 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:39.280 platforms are out nowadays all about the ratings. Man. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.480 and they've determined the people that keep track of this 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.800 on human nature and what people respond to. And it's 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.200 like I remember when I was early on in my 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.200 career and people said, you're too negative, be more positive, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.760 and they should give me the list of positive talk 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.960 radio show hosts that have done well. Uh, and the 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.240 list is year Oh, it does not exist. Uh. And 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.240 it's the whole follow the science thing which we've had 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.480 shoved down our throats here over the last year and 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.360 a half, two years, whatever it's been. Now, follow the science, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.200 listen to the experts and all that. And then you 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.360 you take a couple of steps back and you're like, well, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.480 who are the experts? It's subjective, right, you do what 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.960 they tell you, but it's subjective. And that old line 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.000 is accurate. I heard somewhere along the way ten out 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.400 of ten scientists degree with whoever funded them so and 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.560 I got turned off. As you know, I love studies, 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.200 academic studies, and I read a lot of these things 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.040 and research done by some school in Australia, and we 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.560 we do a bit we haven't done in a while. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.200 On the Saturday podcast we get scientifical and we'll go 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.800 over some of the studies, and I don't do it 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.080 as much and I'm not into them as much because 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.840 you know, generally the it's it's one of those things 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.000 like a screenplay, right, or where there's a couple of 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.440 ways to write a story from a movie. You can 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.200 write a movie and then work your way through this 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.160 story and then get to the ending and then come 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.600 up with the ending, or you can write the ending 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.040 and then write the story. And a lot of the 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.359 science world now is you have the ending, and here's 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.760 how we're gonna get there. And you know, we're not 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.280 gonna get bogged down with whatever the science teach, you 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.040 know it leads us to we're gonna find a way 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.600 to twist it into what we know the people the 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.760 overlords want us to throw out, which is which is 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.560 annoying and all that. But but there you go, How 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.239 do we end up here? Guesco? How do we end 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.720 up in that situation? I don't wait, how do we 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.600 bring up this as a topic of conversation or how 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.960 do we as a society end up here? We started 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.400 talking about as sports and now we've ended up doing 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.399 a deep dive. I don't know. We haven't had many 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.600 people complain recently about staying on script, like stay in 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:01.439 your sports lanes. So I just feel like so I 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.159 feel like me being back here on a Saturday, I 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.960 must kind of ruffle the feathers a little bit and 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:14.320 mail to you, listen to you since I was ten 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.200 years old. But you said something I don't like. You know, 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:24.160 I can't lispinion. I no longer enjoy it's a it's 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.200 it's an opinion based show. I get paid to give opinions. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.960 I didn't get your talking points memo on what I 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.440 could say and not and uh, it's always fast. Well, 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.080 it's like that article that was published a few days 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.720 ago at the middle of the week was Sports Illustrated 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:45.399 basically condemning journalists that we're asking Mike Tomlin about his 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:54.240 desire want to go it's all race, yes, yes, the 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.080 extreme liberal members of the media. Anything involving uh, you know, 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.040 Mike Tomlin. Yeah, God for bid. We point out that 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.320 Carson Palmer, who's on one of the committees at USC 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.840 to come up with a coach, is the one that 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.120 tossed Tomlin's name out. Seems like a pretty credible source 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.000 that he just randomly tossed Mike Toma's name out. But 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.880 God forbid. Tomlin's above even being asked the question. He 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.920 pisces out gold, you know, liquid gold and ships gold bricks. 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.520 Mike Tomlin like, yeah, come on, uh, it's it's insane, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.280 it's a legitimate question to ask. And now I I 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:34.240 did a monologue prior to Tomlin coming out with his rant, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.119 which was wonderful. It's a great ramp by Mike Tomlin, 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.040 and pointed out, how why would you leave the one 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.439 job where you know you're not gonna be fired? Pete 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.800 Carroll could be fired in Seattle and have to go 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.560 back to USC with his tail between his legs. I 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.520 throughout the name Cliff Kingsbury. Right now, that's not looking 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.479 very good because the Cardinals are playing above their means. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.680 They're not that good. We'll come back to Earth, will 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.000 have a regression to the mean. But until that happen, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.320 bins Cliff Kingsbury. He's not gonna leave Arizona. But that's 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.119 a guy that USC had in the pipe in the 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:11.280 pipe a pipeline rather to replace Clay Healton. A couple 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:12.680 of years ago, he was there for like a week 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.760 and then he went to the NFL. So is it 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.800 wrong to ask him as the coach? It's not like 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:22.159 the Steelers as as great as they've been in the 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.199 regular season and no losing records and they've finished you know, 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.960 I think five hundred once or something like that. That's 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.840 Tomlin's resume. It's not like it's been a great playoff team. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.120 They've been a pretty easy out playoffs. They rolled over 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.920 and played dead against the Browns in the last Let's 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.359 let's calm down on that. What have you done for 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.560 me lately? And you are ultimately judged on the playoffs? Right? 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.280 I don't understand It's not you know what it is though, 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.200 is it's not like someone from the MAC no disrespect, 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.359 but it's not like someone from Bowling Green. It's not 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:53.080 like a reporter said, hey, would you be interested in 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.879 the Bowling Green position? Like hey, would you be interested 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.320 in becoming a Toledo Rocket like they said USC If 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.800 someone said, hey, would you be interested in the Alabama job? 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:07.240 If Nick Saban retired? Would that be an insult um? Well, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:11.000 it depends on how well. I didn't think anything Tomins 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.960 said was racist. He happened to name two or you're 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:15.880 playing the race card. But he named two coaches who 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.680 are white. So that's like, that's like the bat signal 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.040 to the to the liberals in the media, like wit 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.480 about it. He two coaches who happened to be white guys. 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:28.120 So let me write my column. And it's it's so 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.520 funny to those type of columns. And we've all done 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.639 it being in uh the radio business, but it's the 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.359 way you get to that column. It's like so and 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:44.000 so didn't actually say this, but you know, you know 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:49.520 you didn't have to. It's like, come on, yeah, it's whack. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.040 But I mean, there's plenty of coaches out there that 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.960 that get those offers, and and I think one would 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.120 be flattered. But I don't know. I asked Chris Broussard 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.240 and Rob Parker this during the middle of the week. 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:03.320 If you were in the position, or you can go 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:08.399 to a usc A, Clemson, Obama, you know, I don't know, Florida, 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.639 maybe Florida state where you run the entire show, like 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:16.080 you run the university and you never have to worry 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.040 about someone talking over you. Why wouldn't you do that? 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:21.439 Whereas if you're a head coach in the NFL. Not 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:23.359 to say Tomlin, but if you're a head coach in 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:26.160 the NFL, you're running the risk of a dude that's 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.440 making double the salary that you are as a player, 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:31.800 and he could just tell you to go shove it, 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.239 and you have nothing. You can't say anything about it 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.800 because ultimately you depend on him and he's the one 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:40.000