Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, hundred 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 in the air everywhere
Speaker 1: as we bloviate, even on the weekends. Here the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller, and we are back at it
Speaker 1: again on a Saturday. I hope you heard the Friday podcast.
Speaker 1: Tim Donnie, Yeah, Tim Donnie, it was good to talk
Speaker 1: to him, the former NBA referee who was betting on
Speaker 1: NBA games that he was working and uh man, it
Speaker 1: was an interesting conversation. Were joined by yet again David
Speaker 1: Gascon this weekend, resting before all hand by critics for
Speaker 1: whose appearance on the show this week. There's a there's
Speaker 1: a lot of vitry on social media. It's fascinating how
Speaker 1: many assholes are on Twitter and then when they call
Speaker 1: into your show, they're just gas on, what's up, man,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? That's not that's not what I'm
Speaker 1: here man. You were condemned, you were criticized, chestis lamb basted,
Speaker 1: hell fire and damnation to guests, Scott. They burned you
Speaker 1: in effigy. Guest they tried. I mean half those people
Speaker 1: are like half my size. The other half would never
Speaker 1: say that ship to my face. You were a human piniata.
Speaker 1: That's what you were. Clear active disrespect the caller of
Speaker 1: the year, the back to back call of the year,
Speaker 1: and you threw a brick. Blind Scott is probably your
Speaker 1: best collar. And he'd even call in you had Marcel on.
Speaker 1: That's because you were here. He didn't. He didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk to you. He'd rather be waterboarded. Blind stop.
Speaker 1: By the way, Blind Scott is trying to get me
Speaker 1: to go to Boston just to go to a Red
Speaker 1: Sox game on April twenty. He's like, hey, April, they
Speaker 1: play on the April. No, I think it's the date
Speaker 1: that's important to him. He loves the wheat, so that's why.
Speaker 1: And he's like flying to Boston, you know, like it's
Speaker 1: you know, easy just to fly into Boston from from
Speaker 1: l A, no big deal and go to a Red
Speaker 1: Sox game and all that, and let's do this and
Speaker 1: he's he's emailed. He's like, yeah, yeah, we got other listeners.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you know, I heard the flights
Speaker 1: are really cheap. Though I heard the flights are really cheap,
Speaker 1: so but I don't think I'm gonna make it, but
Speaker 1: I'll look. I mean, I love Boston, so yeah, prob
Speaker 1: is still usually in April, it's still kind of nasty.
Speaker 1: The weather doesn't really get that great until May. Now,
Speaker 1: if you do go to logan before you depart, are
Speaker 1: you going to put on social media? Twitter and Instagram?
Speaker 1: A You're gonna put a vaccine card? Like, hey, congratulations,
Speaker 1: I got a vaccine card. You're gonna flaunt a vaccine
Speaker 1: card like some people are doing. And I I haven't
Speaker 1: gotten the vaccine on eligible for for ye and I
Speaker 1: guess I'm too young. But that that donut thing point,
Speaker 1: that's free donuts? What's that about? What I mean free donuts?
Speaker 1: You mentioned this the other day? You get free donuts
Speaker 1: every day? Or when I mentioned that too in the area,
Speaker 1: like talking to me like I had a third TI
Speaker 1: or something. I was shocked you to hear about it,
Speaker 1: because yeah, I saw the headline, but I didn't really
Speaker 1: like I didn't really read the story as I really care.
Speaker 1: I mean, I like, there's a local donut shop that
Speaker 1: I like, donut Man much better, right, like the locals
Speaker 1: as supposed to exactly exactly. Yeah, So they're incentivizing people
Speaker 1: that if you get the vaccine you show your card
Speaker 1: or certification of it, that they give you one free
Speaker 1: donut every day for the year as perfect. So you
Speaker 1: can you can. You don't even have to get the vaccine.
Speaker 1: You can just get a fake card that says you
Speaker 1: have it. They're just a little cardboard cards. It's like
Speaker 1: a credit card or something. So behind the curtains, there's
Speaker 1: a favorite spot you like to go to in downtown
Speaker 1: Los Angeles for pstrami and it's Avarado Street. Um. Back
Speaker 1: in the day, we us, you know, kids that wanted
Speaker 1: to get fake I d s. We would go onto
Speaker 1: that street for a fake I d uh. So what
Speaker 1: do we do nowadays? We go down to Alvarado for
Speaker 1: for fake COVID certificates. Is that what we're doing? Well? No,
Speaker 1: so you're you're referring to Langer's Delia. MacArthur Park is
Speaker 1: right across the street, which is a beautiful park until
Speaker 1: you actually look at the miscreants that are that are
Speaker 1: in the park and then you're like, holy crap, what
Speaker 1: I can't believe that that is going on. They're just brutal.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, you would have to go down there.
Speaker 1: I guess I was, you know, growing up in the
Speaker 1: o C. Back in the day, I went to a
Speaker 1: meat market called uh there was a place in Santa
Speaker 1: Anna called Melody Meats and in the back there was
Speaker 1: you know, it was a typical butcher shop. They had,
Speaker 1: you know, the different cuts of meat and all that.
Speaker 1: But you've going to back and it was like this
Speaker 1: back room as I remember it, and uh like a
Speaker 1: little desk and there was a it was like a computer.
Speaker 1: But this is before everyone had computers. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you can get a an I D just whatever name
Speaker 1: you wanted. They'd put that on there. Whatever your birthday
Speaker 1: you needed was right there available, good to go. So man,
Speaker 1: that was where I went. Those are always I'm more
Speaker 1: a fan of those. But when you go to Boston,
Speaker 1: Duncan Donuts is to go to um but of course
Speaker 1: they're just dunking now. They got rid of the donuts.
Speaker 1: But you have some some spots in Boston you'd like
Speaker 1: to go to anyway, just the mom and pop shops. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a few you know, pizza places and whatnot that
Speaker 1: sant Tarpio's and East Boston that I got my guy
Speaker 1: Vinnie Vinny recommended when he met him. Vinie and the
Speaker 1: family over there at sant Tarpio's And there's a Boba's
Speaker 1: Bakery is great on the North End. When when you
Speaker 1: connected me with Blind Scott and he took me through
Speaker 1: a seven or eight mile tour of Boston. He took
Speaker 1: me to North End and I just remember that one
Speaker 1: runaway on North End was pastries after pastries after it
Speaker 1: just I just felt like I was thinking about the
Speaker 1: North End. The North End of the Boston is. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's great. It's you know, the old part of Boston.
Speaker 1: And you feel like, at least I did. I was
Speaker 1: on like Main Street at Disneyland. It doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: that's a real city because the streets so small and
Speaker 1: the buildings are all close to each other and all that.
Speaker 1: But then you have the older people just standing outside
Speaker 1: with a cup of coffee, maybe a cigarette, just loungeing,
Speaker 1: like not even warning about the days um schedule. It's eclectic,
Speaker 1: eclectic group. You also have like the uh the meat
Speaker 1: Head construction guys, and they're kind of mulling about, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't really know what they've got going on,
Speaker 1: but they're kind of mulling about and all that. So
Speaker 1: so you have that uh as as well. But I
Speaker 1: don't believe I'll get to Boston this this time. We
Speaker 1: have some other trips. When I start traveling again, I
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to get to Minnesota. Gotta find
Speaker 1: a way to get to Cincinnati. There's also a rumor
Speaker 1: that I'll be making a Florida sojourn later this year.
Speaker 1: That there's a trip, a family trip. So I like
Speaker 1: to make family trips, work trips and have like you know,
Speaker 1: if I go to a place and I have an
Speaker 1: extra day hang out and meet I know you don't
Speaker 1: like the unwashed gascon, but I enjoy hanging out with
Speaker 1: the evil doers and the malle militia. I have. What's
Speaker 1: that I said, I have family that lives in Florida.
Speaker 1: On my apologies to you, I don't know why do
Speaker 1: you move to Florida. You should go to Florida's cheaper
Speaker 1: to live there, Taxes are better, the weather is not great,
Speaker 1: but it's all right. I'm looking at the job market
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, why didn't you go to China like
Speaker 1: I read to China that job by you know, I
Speaker 1: would have been I would have been patient zero. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: apparently it's not that big deal with economy, and China
Speaker 1: keeps going up up in a way despite the United States. Yes,
Speaker 1: shut it down, shut it down, shut it down, shut
Speaker 1: it down anyway. All right, So on this edition of
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour we have Desperados, bug eyed and pop quiz.
Speaker 1: It's not exciting content. Are you not fired up for
Speaker 1: this content? I'm a little bit more fired up for
Speaker 1: this content than the last couple of nights on the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. The show was
Speaker 1: a wonderful show, was great my part. Anyway, you obviously
Speaker 1: had some issues there, a little shot that you went
Speaker 1: to the NHL basket of fun, and I am willing
Speaker 1: to go to a scandal at any moment. I was
Speaker 1: getting crap though, because they just the listeners now expect me,
Speaker 1: the p ones, expect me to only talk about quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and or coaches in the NFL and uh and nothing else.
Speaker 1: And so when I when I go off the reservation.
Speaker 1: It upsets me, like you believe that Megan Rapino story,
Speaker 1: it was a great story. He got he got on
Speaker 1: the podium and lied, and and we had proved a
Speaker 1: federal judge had already ruled the women. Actually he got
Speaker 1: paid more than the men soccer players. And there she
Speaker 1: all there she is saying her lady parts cost her
Speaker 1: money and all that, and people just repeat the lie
Speaker 1: over and over as we had. We had a caller
Speaker 1: on her bullshit. And and in the story with Tim Peel,
Speaker 1: the hockey referee, was great because it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: always the cover ups, like well the NHL, the headlines
Speaker 1: were the NHL fired the guy. They didn't fire the guy.
Speaker 1: They didn't say they fired the guy. He just he
Speaker 1: was gonna retire anyway. They gave him the retirement early.
Speaker 1: They said, go away, that's it, you're done a month early.
Speaker 1: He was gonna retire a month from now, as it was. Well,
Speaker 1: the best part is is that you know someone like
Speaker 1: Mega Rapino is going to be insulated and she will
Speaker 1: be protected because God forbid if you if you do
Speaker 1: criticize her or attack her for what she has falsely
Speaker 1: said and stated from the White House, your misogynistic. The
Speaker 1: women are always right unless they accused of Shaun Watson
Speaker 1: of being a pervert. And then many people think that
Speaker 1: the women are lying and that's all you know that
Speaker 1: that's a whole different cant of this has to take
Speaker 1: you to your show into week one of the season. Right,
Speaker 1: this is gonna we're gonna ride this out, ride it,
Speaker 1: ride it, ride it good, right good. But every day,
Speaker 1: every day there'll be some other Jane Doe coming forward
Speaker 1: and some nugget of information that guy Tony Buzzby is
Speaker 1: a master man he is, that this has been orchestrated
Speaker 1: where he's just a leak, leak, leak. Every day, here's
Speaker 1: another wrinkle, and it just goes on and on and
Speaker 1: on and on. I mean, the first thing I thought
Speaker 1: of was Darren Sharper when all this stuff came down.
Speaker 1: And obviously they're different circumstances because he was drugging women
Speaker 1: and and traveling across state borders. But you know who
Speaker 1: the funk brings in him a series from out of state. Well,
Speaker 1: even if you were like DeShawn Watson, thing unravels because
Speaker 1: even he said, okay, you know he needed a massage.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you settle, you know, outside of team facility, Like,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you say, okay, why don't we settle on one
Speaker 1: masseus and we'll just use that masseus and that'll be
Speaker 1: the massus that we use, or maybe even two. I
Speaker 1: could give you three, but sixteen it's I mean, the numbers,
Speaker 1: the volume of accusers here. It paints the picture that
Speaker 1: there was other stuff going on. And I go back
Speaker 1: to the conspiracy that that we're hearing that one of
Speaker 1: the theories the cabal has come up with here, that
Speaker 1: is that this was all code language that uh, to
Speaker 1: to stay a step ahead of the law, you can't
Speaker 1: say I'm going to see a professional working woman. You
Speaker 1: instead say I'm getting a massage, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just happened to end up where the massage ended up
Speaker 1: with my salami going places it wasn't supposed to go originally.
Speaker 1: So here. So here's the thing. If you are Watson's attorney,
Speaker 1: you have to play that's out a couple of different ways.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you be inclined to go on the attack and
Speaker 1: start talking to these women. You can obviously talk to them,
Speaker 1: but you could meet with their attorneys and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we can pay you a certain dollar amount if you'd like,
Speaker 1: but we're also gonna put the FBI on you because
Speaker 1: if you've been doing this with our client, that you've
Speaker 1: been doing with other men, and that means you're typically
Speaker 1: getting paid in cash, which means the I R. S
Speaker 1: Is gonna be straight up your ass now to look
Speaker 1: at what kind of assets you do have and if
Speaker 1: your liquid, they're gonna find that cash. If you're not,
Speaker 1: we want to see deposits on your account. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't argue, well, there's no paper trail, so
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? You know, no paper trail.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you're the attorney for Deshaun Watson, yea.
Speaker 1: Based on what we know, and there's obviously stuff we
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe there's more to the story that will
Speaker 1: come out that will change everything dramatically. At this moment,
Speaker 1: you go into damage control mode. You cut your losses,
Speaker 1: and Deshaun is gonna based on what I've seen here,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to admit he was, you know, a
Speaker 1: serial massage perv um, but it was all consentual. His
Speaker 1: the argument, he's gonna have to make hething criminal happened here.
Speaker 1: He's just a a single guy, and uh, he liked
Speaker 1: getting his rocks off with different massage people. He liked
Speaker 1: to meet random women on Instagram and get a massage.
Speaker 1: And and you know, these were professional women. They knew
Speaker 1: what they were getting into. This is what they do
Speaker 1: for a living. And that's it. That's gonna make him
Speaker 1: look like a creep. But it's it's that's to me,
Speaker 1: that's the outcome. What else is the defense? You can't
Speaker 1: say he didn't do it if there's a paper trail,
Speaker 1: a digital paper trail on Instagram that carves you up
Speaker 1: and you know, paints the picture that this ain't all
Speaker 1: made up. You're meeting random, strange women. I'm guessing they're
Speaker 1: all attractive women. I would think, right, at least he
Speaker 1: found attractive, I would imagine, right, yeah, thatwise, why would
Speaker 1: he click on their profiles and say, hey, I need
Speaker 1: a massage. So here's the other question I was gonna
Speaker 1: opposed to you. How do you play this out? If
Speaker 1: you're DeShawn Watson's significant other? Do you go the Aaron
Speaker 1: Hernande's wife route where you just stay in this no
Speaker 1: matter what, through trial, through conviction, and through that payday
Speaker 1: because he's not married. So I don't I don't think that.
Speaker 1: I think that's just a breakup situation unless the woman
Speaker 1: is just you know, some women that you know guys
Speaker 1: are like this too, was power hungry. You know, you
Speaker 1: know you're with a jock, and the jock sniffers, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's a star quarterback, well right now, he's That would
Speaker 1: be disinformation because he's not a star quarterback. Because he's
Speaker 1: not a quarterback. Uh, he's not gonna be playing anytime
Speaker 1: soon in the NFL. So there are a lot of
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tentacles to this. You don't think
Speaker 1: he plays Week one, No, no, this week one in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think he's suspended because this isn't gonna
Speaker 1: be over by then. Uh. And even if he, let's
Speaker 1: say that he does reach an n D a non
Speaker 1: disclosure agreement with these women and we still get suspended.
Speaker 1: They suspended Roethlisberger and Zeke Elliott, and there were you know,
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger had a couple of situations where he was with
Speaker 1: the Berbert and Zeke had one and the Zeke evidence.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of monologues about that. We did
Speaker 1: several monologues the evidence actually indicated that Zeke should not
Speaker 1: have been suspen ended, and they still suspended him. So
Speaker 1: good luck. He's not gonna play in week one. And
Speaker 1: it is fun though, to look back at those comments
Speaker 1: coming from Deshaun Watson's camp about how the Texans were
Speaker 1: dysfunctional and they were the bad guys. He's going and uh,
Speaker 1: playing touchy feely with every massage therapist he can get
Speaker 1: his hands on. Yeah. Remember I think it was just
Speaker 1: after the season ended. He had posted something on Instagram
Speaker 1: or Twitter about getting away from everything and he was
Speaker 1: on a boat with his with his girlfriend. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: he got away from those massage therapists. Yeah, jeez man,
Speaker 1: that man the masseuse is that now that the back
Speaker 1: to the conspiracy theory. Part of the conspiracy theory was
Speaker 1: the reason that he didn't pay the full amount is
Speaker 1: because these were professional women. He knew he didn't have
Speaker 1: to pay them. Yeah, so what are they gonna do.
Speaker 1: They can't go to the police because their professionals is
Speaker 1: what they do. And he you know, and he's the
Speaker 1: star quarterback and there's nobody you know, they're just random
Speaker 1: women he finds on on Instagram's fascinating we'll see if
Speaker 1: that actually is what happened. So I got a couple
Speaker 1: of things. I got Desperado. This is a video game
Speaker 1: blues story. Now. I have mentioned in the past that
Speaker 1: my michigas Uh, there's a word game that I have
Speaker 1: been playing for like the last literally the last year,
Speaker 1: probably a year and a half. And the reason I'm
Speaker 1: paying playing that game, and the reason I've played that
Speaker 1: game so much is it claimed that if you played
Speaker 1: X number of games, they would they would pay you
Speaker 1: money right to cash out, uh, And they give you
Speaker 1: like a gift card, Amazon gift card or PayPal PayPal
Speaker 1: you money, but you have to get to twenty dollars right.
Speaker 1: So every every game you know you played, you rack
Speaker 1: up some more credit, and you play like two hundred games,
Speaker 1: you get a penny, right. So early on they give
Speaker 1: you a lot of money so you'll play more. So
Speaker 1: I've been playing this game for a year and a half.
Speaker 1: To get I was like, I'm gonna get to the
Speaker 1: twenty box, I'm gonna cash out and move on to
Speaker 1: the next game. So the further along I got in
Speaker 1: the scam, and I've now discovered it's a scam. The
Speaker 1: further along I got the less money they gave. Like
Speaker 1: originally it was like twenty cents for you know, fifty
Speaker 1: games or whatever it was. And then as I got
Speaker 1: closer and closer to pay dirt, it became play a
Speaker 1: hundred and eighties something games and then we'll give you
Speaker 1: one cent. So I'm like, okay, you're not gonna wear
Speaker 1: me down. And they probably figured most people quit, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna wear me down. Um, So it turns out
Speaker 1: I got to nineteen dollars and nine nine cents and
Speaker 1: I have now been hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hoodwinked, and let astray.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna name the game here. People at the
Speaker 1: game is called word relax. Do not play the game.
Speaker 1: Do not play the game. In my opinion, it's a scam.
Speaker 1: It is a scam. The game world relaxed. And so
Speaker 1: what happened was, um, there's a on the on the game.
Speaker 1: There's a little like money symbol on the front of
Speaker 1: the game, so you click on it and it would
Speaker 1: give you your balance. It would tell you how much
Speaker 1: money you've earned. But again you have to get to
Speaker 1: twenty dollars to cash out. So I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: my phone right now, this word game it's nine. Now
Speaker 1: here's where the scam is. So up until you get
Speaker 1: to nineteen dollars and ninety nine cents, it would tell
Speaker 1: you you have to play X number of games to
Speaker 1: get the next payout. Right, so if you were at
Speaker 1: like nineteen dollars and ten cents, you gotta play two games,
Speaker 1: you'll get another cent or whatever. They don't tell you
Speaker 1: how much you're gonna get, but they'll tell you get something. Well,
Speaker 1: as soon as I got to nineteen dollars and ninety
Speaker 1: nine cents, what do you think disappeared? Gascon. Yes, the
Speaker 1: total number that you need to play to get the
Speaker 1: next payout, which you know, I thought, well, maybe that's
Speaker 1: just a mistake and I could play two hundred more
Speaker 1: games and they'll get the money. So I did a
Speaker 1: little dude religion said little research, which I wish I
Speaker 1: had done earlier. I went to the app store and
Speaker 1: I started snooping around and apparently, um, I am in
Speaker 1: line with other idiots and other suckers that have been
Speaker 1: played and scammed by these people, because there's a whole
Speaker 1: list of people that posted on the reviews in the
Speaker 1: the app store there that Sam the same thing happened
Speaker 1: to them. The first thing I see when I Google
Speaker 1: is it says you'll never get any money. I'm at
Speaker 1: level four oh one and I have seventeen dollars and
Speaker 1: twenty cents. I've decided to play this game and see
Speaker 1: how long it takes. But you don't make any real No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a scam, and I have I'm at
Speaker 1: level six thousand and one and thirteen. I have played
Speaker 1: over six thousand of these games to get to the
Speaker 1: twenty dollar point, and I'm on the I'm right near
Speaker 1: the finish line, and now they've they've pulled the rug
Speaker 1: underneath me out from underneath. The silver lining is you're
Speaker 1: you're now flush with with great vocabulary? Yes, it does,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. Here's the other thing though, all right, Uh
Speaker 1: would I be better off this way? Am I better
Speaker 1: off this way? Where I got to nineteen dollars nine
Speaker 1: cents and now I know I will not get to
Speaker 1: the twenty dollars. I've wasted a year and of my time.
Speaker 1: Or would I have been better off getting to the
Speaker 1: twenty dollars and then having them not pay it off
Speaker 1: because I've heard they've done that too. There's some people
Speaker 1: that posted on the app store, well I did get
Speaker 1: to the twenty dollars, but they never sent me the money.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be at because you're efforting, you still continue
Speaker 1: to play. I'm just polarized by how you got duped
Speaker 1: into this. This is not the first time you've had
Speaker 1: Tom Looney take you down a dark path in in
Speaker 1: real estate and blind Scott with stocks, and now you've
Speaker 1: done this to this. I'm too trusting, trusting, and I
Speaker 1: talked to you last week about Cathy Wood and her
Speaker 1: investments with with ARC and you said, we're not tailing her,
Speaker 1: We're not telling anybody in the stock market. We're above
Speaker 1: all that. We need to go off the beating bath.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, because that's because a blind Scott take advice.
Speaker 1: Some blind Scott, you know, like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You didn't know what he's you know, come on, what,
Speaker 1: I can't believe you. I'm here to help. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: trying to to help you with with investments. Week. Here's
Speaker 1: a guy I played a ton of games six thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, So this guy's played six hundred and something
Speaker 1: more games than I played. He says he's been at
Speaker 1: nine earned for five hundred nineties seven games. Oh good, Oh,
Speaker 1: what a bunch of scam artists. How does how does
Speaker 1: Apple and these these phone companies allow that game in
Speaker 1: their app store? How do they allow that? How do
Speaker 1: they allow that? They advertised that you can make some money. Um,
Speaker 1: they have, they have, they have a president taking off
Speaker 1: those talking taking off those social media apps, and not that.
Speaker 1: That's that's unbelievable. Yeah, that is, that is outstanding. I
Speaker 1: guess the bigger question is is why are you hunting
Speaker 1: for twenty on an app like that? Well, no, I
Speaker 1: like playing word games. I thought, well why not, you know,
Speaker 1: killed two birds with one stone. I like money, and
Speaker 1: I figured twenty bucks, I can buy some cheap stocks
Speaker 1: that pay divid ends and maybe they'll go up and
Speaker 1: I'll make a little extra money. Money makes money, and
Speaker 1: I end up getting hustle. Why not play some words
Speaker 1: scramble with a friend and start gambling on words? I
Speaker 1: like my Occasionally I have an extra five ten minutes here,
Speaker 1: I'll play before I go to bed. I'll play, you know,
Speaker 1: on the weekends I'm sitting around doing nothing at the
Speaker 1: beach or whatever, and play the games. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: A bunch of a bunch of hustlers got sucks. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm really piste off about it because I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's these unsavory characters behind these video games. Uh you
Speaker 1: know it's it's the den of iniquity is what it
Speaker 1: is here, the criminal activity. I'm sorry, all right? And
Speaker 1: then I also have bug eyed. I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: bug eyed here. Guess go on. So this week I
Speaker 1: noticed there were some scratches on my bifocals that I
Speaker 1: needed to upgrade that. So I I'm fine, whatever. I
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten new eyeglasses in a while, so the uh,
Speaker 1: the wife set up an appointment to get to last.
Speaker 1: I wanted to keep the frames and change the lenses, right,
Speaker 1: because that was the part that was scratched. The frames
Speaker 1: are expensive, so she calls up the optometrist and sets
Speaker 1: up an appointment. So the plan was to keep the frames,
Speaker 1: as I said, replaced lens. So over the phone, the
Speaker 1: people at the optometrist office looked up my prescription and
Speaker 1: quoted my wife. I think it was like a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five dollars for new lenses. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: that seems reasonable. That seems fair that seems good. I mean, uh.
Speaker 1: And so I show up to the appointment to drop
Speaker 1: off my glass. Now the eye doctors so freaked out
Speaker 1: by the COVID that they locked the door. You have
Speaker 1: to call them to let them know that you're there.
Speaker 1: So I called them. Then I had to sit behind
Speaker 1: a plexiglass and have my temperature taken before they would
Speaker 1: allow me into the to the eye eyes. They're they're
Speaker 1: taking every possible precaution imaginable for the COVID. So I'd like, fine, whatever.
Speaker 1: So then I I sit down and uh, I right away,
Speaker 1: my like a red flag went up because they said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna have to sign a waiver because
Speaker 1: maybe we'll break the frames of your glasses. And so
Speaker 1: that got my dander up. But I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I understand. I mean, they just want to
Speaker 1: cover themselves liability. Fine, uh, and I assume they do
Speaker 1: this all the time, There'll be no problem. So then
Speaker 1: they looked at my glasses. They looked at my chart,
Speaker 1: and they then told me that I mean, they did
Speaker 1: the math and they wrote it down and they said
Speaker 1: that they changed the quote. They said that actually the
Speaker 1: price for the glasses just the lenses, not the frames
Speaker 1: was almost four hundred dollars. So again I'm quoted at one.
Speaker 1: They come back with four hundred dollars. So after I after,
Speaker 1: I ended up getting up from the floor. There be
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Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Realizing, hey, this
Speaker 1: is bait and switch here. They tell you one price
Speaker 1: on the phone, you get there, I I go bug
Speaker 1: eyed and I'm thinking, you know what, Yeah, I need
Speaker 1: I need new glasses, new pair of specs and all that,
Speaker 1: but I don't need four hundred dollars worth of glasses.
Speaker 1: And I got up, I said thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: I've changed my mind, and I walked out and I left.
Speaker 1: So I'll be hitting up a Costco for some Kirkland
Speaker 1: brand glasses next time I need I glasses. You know,
Speaker 1: try to give you know, local optometrist, local eye doctor,
Speaker 1: and opportunity for your business. And they they attempt to
Speaker 1: scam you for an extra two hundred bucks. How often
Speaker 1: do you get your eyes checked anyway? Uh? Usually every year.
Speaker 1: I didn't get them checked last year because of the COVID,
Speaker 1: but usually every year. When how often do you get
Speaker 1: your How often do you get a physical? I never?
Speaker 1: I used to never get physical. I've had a couple
Speaker 1: of physicals now in recent years. Yeah, well I used
Speaker 1: to never get them. You don't get an annual physical, no, No,
Speaker 1: I never did until recently I did. I had sematical
Speaker 1: had the gold gladder because of that stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I know my physical. Remember last year I told you
Speaker 1: around Halloween time, I thought I had diabetes because I
Speaker 1: had passed out from eating too much candy. So I
Speaker 1: had I went and had blood work done and had
Speaker 1: you know, the physical, and they were like amazed because
Speaker 1: of my They claim because of my diet that a
Speaker 1: lot of my my numbers had been proved. So just
Speaker 1: last time I had a physical. It's crazy to think
Speaker 1: because you've worked with guys like Steve de seger, Um
Speaker 1: Lee Kleine, Prince of Darkness, Tony Bruno, these people, even
Speaker 1: some of your listeners, they have seen you through four
Speaker 1: different versions of you, like the big, the small, the skinny,
Speaker 1: the gall bladder, the no gall bladder. You've got the transformation.
Speaker 1: I was the more of the obese for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I lost a lot of weight. Then I gained a
Speaker 1: fair amount of the weight back, and now I've lost it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I've as my my guy Jerry Callahan in Boston,
Speaker 1: the radio guy says, we've had him on the podcast
Speaker 1: The Yo Yo Dieter. But I'm pretty pretty good where
Speaker 1: I'm at. I think I've maintained where I i've been.
Speaker 1: Not that you see me every day, guess, but I
Speaker 1: have maintained my lifestyle here, and I think I'm not
Speaker 1: gaining weight. I'm still losing a little bit, and but
Speaker 1: I'm managing it pretty well. I think that the most
Speaker 1: dramatic photos I've seen of you are actually during the
Speaker 1: holiday season. You're Santa Claus photos. Oh, yes, you don't
Speaker 1: fill out anywhere, you know, I'm no longer a good
Speaker 1: Santa Clause like that belt has to be actually tightened
Speaker 1: a little bit more to go through. Now it's like, hey, mom,
Speaker 1: why did Santa Claus lose weight? Oh, there's a hunger strike.
Speaker 1: You went on a hunger strike and that's what Yeah,
Speaker 1: Santa Claus doing cardio now all right. Uh oh, speaking
Speaker 1: of Lee bought up Lee client. I got a call
Speaker 1: from the Prince of Darkness. We were reminiscing because of
Speaker 1: the passing of Elgin Baylor. We both had some great
Speaker 1: stories about Elgin in his days as the Clipper executive
Speaker 1: and Lee was really really pretty good friends with Elgin,
Speaker 1: and through my relationship with Lee, I spent some time
Speaker 1: uh in the shadows around the Clips and with Elgin.
Speaker 1: Lee was the Clipper talk host post game host for
Speaker 1: a while. And right, yeah, the morbid sports right now,
Speaker 1: the Masoleum back in the day, and we we would
Speaker 1: always before the draft of the put the lottery, Elgin
Speaker 1: would come out and uh he always said like the
Speaker 1: same four or five things, because what else you gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know about the player they're gonna get. You know,
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna help the team, and the future is
Speaker 1: bright and all this stuff. And but the funniest night
Speaker 1: I referenced this, I didn't really tell the story properly.
Speaker 1: Maybe should get lead back on the podcast to tell
Speaker 1: the story. But the night in Phoenix before Game seven
Speaker 1: of the Clippers Sons playoff series and like oh five
Speaker 1: or oh six, something like that. This is the Elton
Speaker 1: Brand vintage Corey mcgetty vintage of the Clippers. And uh,
Speaker 1: we we were there in Phoenix, were standing in Phoenix
Speaker 1: because we were there to cover Game seven and uh
Speaker 1: we drove. Actually the funny there's there's some very funny
Speaker 1: parts of that story. We me and Lee drove from
Speaker 1: l a to Phoenix for Game seven. Uh. And uh
Speaker 1: we we get there to the to the hotel and
Speaker 1: the Clipper bus shows up right we got there before
Speaker 1: the Clippers got there, and the first person off the
Speaker 1: Clipper bus was Clipper Daryl. We're like, what what the hell?
Speaker 1: And apparently Darryll had gone to the airport to l
Speaker 1: a X to wish the guy's good luck as they left,
Speaker 1: and they said, hey, Wan want to come with us,
Speaker 1: and so they put Clipper Darryl on the team plane.
Speaker 1: Was he suited up to Yeah, he had the full
Speaker 1: Clipper fan gear on the whole thing. And he came
Speaker 1: off and he saw us and We're like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. But we we were riding the elevator
Speaker 1: at the Ritz Carlton in Scottsdale where they they were staying.
Speaker 1: And uh, I will not reveal the name of the person,
Speaker 1: but we we, but there was an associate, a guy
Speaker 1: that worked for the Clippers who a low level guy
Speaker 1: that was in the elevator and was going to Donald
Speaker 1: Sterling's private v I P floor at the very top
Speaker 1: of the rich Carlton. Uh. This is like we're heads
Speaker 1: of state, stay dignitaries and my Michael Jordan. To get
Speaker 1: the entire floor, you have a special car to get
Speaker 1: access to it. The so he say, you want you guys,
Speaker 1: wanna you wanna get somebody eat? Uh, you know I
Speaker 1: got I'll take you up to the v I P
Speaker 1: thing I got access to. So of course, you know,
Speaker 1: of course we want to check it out. So we
Speaker 1: go up there and the guy invites us out and
Speaker 1: there's like this whole wall of uh like shellfish, high
Speaker 1: end seafood buffet and uh, all for one one person,
Speaker 1: Donald Sterling, and he's walking around in his pajamas and
Speaker 1: all this stuff and uh but Elgin was up there,
Speaker 1: Elgin Baylor and his wife and so we go over
Speaker 1: there and and Lee starts striking up a conversation with
Speaker 1: Elgin and then like Sterling his name came up, and
Speaker 1: Lee starts like trashing Donald Sterling to to Elgin right
Speaker 1: if whatever the issue wasn't the day. I don't remember what,
Speaker 1: but he's like ripping him, and like Lee is facing
Speaker 1: Elgin and his wife are sitting on the couch and
Speaker 1: I'm standing next to Lee. Lee's face racing the wall
Speaker 1: and the couch. Elgin looking out can see the main
Speaker 1: area of this luxury suite where people are, you know,
Speaker 1: the courtyard if you it's a big it's hard to
Speaker 1: describe it. There was a main room and then there
Speaker 1: were a couple of side rooms. It was. It was
Speaker 1: a V I P luxury penthouse. And so he's he's
Speaker 1: looking out and Lee is telling his BS story about
Speaker 1: about about Sterling, and Elgin's wife starts doing the kill
Speaker 1: sign because she saw Sterling and and then Elgin realizes
Speaker 1: and Elgin is like trying to do that. It was
Speaker 1: so fun and we didn't know why they were doing that.
Speaker 1: It was, as I remember it, it was very very
Speaker 1: amusing there. It was very amusing. We have pop quiz.
Speaker 1: You want to do a little bit of pop quiz?
Speaker 1: All right? Here we go. Pop quizzies are things I
Speaker 1: found scouring the internet, and we do that every Saturday.
Speaker 1: We call it pop quiz because I like oddball, weird
Speaker 1: things and they find them interesting. Well, any of this
Speaker 1: include a Kamala Harris Bill Clinton Convention on Women's empowerment.
Speaker 1: That's all you, that's all you, my man. I know
Speaker 1: you're on that Kamala bandwack. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: interrupt the President in waiting, right, President in waiting? Someone
Speaker 1: said the actual president right now? Who knows. I'll circle
Speaker 1: back to that. How about that? Is that what you said?
Speaker 1: The White House? I'll circle back to that, all right.
Speaker 1: In viewers watched nearly nineties seven billion minutes of the
Speaker 1: television program Friends, which classic TV show came in next
Speaker 1: with just over fifty eight billion minutes watched in Friends
Speaker 1: was number one? What was number two? I think, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it was either one of these two.
Speaker 1: I think it's I Love Lucy, I Love Lucy, okay,
Speaker 1: or or Mash two? Oh damn for two? Would you
Speaker 1: like to try again, Star Trek, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Uh no, No, we don't have a Missmash or mixed
Speaker 1: match or whatever. Blair says. This is a nineteen sixties
Speaker 1: TV show. Man, Do do Do Do? Do? Do? Not
Speaker 1: gonna dragnet is? Do do Do Do Do Do Do
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Doo Doo doo doo doo doo. Nope. Uh.
Speaker 1: It featured Ron Howard, Don Nots and a guy by
Speaker 1: the name of Andy Taylor better known as Andy Griffith
Speaker 1: Andy Griffith Show. I totally thought it was I Love Lucy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never got into the Andy Griffith Show. I watched
Speaker 1: I Love Lucy when I was a kid. A little
Speaker 1: bit of mash. Explain that to me, because this is
Speaker 1: the streaming numbers right er was watched, So I would
Speaker 1: think these are older people that love the Andy. Is
Speaker 1: there a younger generation that's fallen in love with Maybury?
Speaker 1: And I am my fa getting something here? Am I? Am?
Speaker 1: I missing something about this? But what about Well maybe
Speaker 1: because those shows are also on other channels to like
Speaker 1: c W or some of those other cable channels that
Speaker 1: are are partnered with, are they subsidiarias of like a
Speaker 1: CBS or an NBC or a Fox. Is that possible?
Speaker 1: I get I don't know. It doesn't get in the
Speaker 1: specifics here, but that's uh. Andy Griffith, you think Friends
Speaker 1: and Andy Riffis show if you had to bring back
Speaker 1: Seinfeld Cheers, you think all the great shows that have
Speaker 1: been on over the years. But if you had to
Speaker 1: bring back a show from the eighties, what would you
Speaker 1: bring back? Because I was always like a Mr. Belvedere,
Speaker 1: the Golden years, growing pines, I like Cheers, I like Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like those cheesy early eighties, late seventies. Yeah. Um
Speaker 1: like Chips with Pontorella. They try to bring that back.
Speaker 1: It was a disaster. There's a TV show called Emergency,
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah? I like writers night right, All Night
Speaker 1: Writer is a good one. Michael Knight, Magna p i
Speaker 1: um not bad. Watch the Magnum p. I remember Fantasy Island,
Speaker 1: the Plane, the Plane, Bosley Blade, oh Man, good Man,
Speaker 1: good classic TV. Al Right about people say they never
Speaker 1: do this while driving, while thirty say they do this
Speaker 1: all the time, texting. No, this is something I do
Speaker 1: when I'm driving. Um, I don't text while driving, guest,
Speaker 1: because I've done p s as on that. You should
Speaker 1: not do that. Flush flash your teeth. No use cruise control. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we live pretty far away from work, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I love cruise control. My wife hates cruise control. Well,
Speaker 1: you said you specifically said it at seventy nine, don't you. Yes,
Speaker 1: because I was told by a highway patrol officer that
Speaker 1: as long as you're seventy nine are under, I will
Speaker 1: not write a ticket. It's eighty and above you can
Speaker 1: get a ticket. And ever since then, I have not
Speaker 1: gotten a ticket for going. I can go seventy nine.
Speaker 1: That's my limit. I'm good and I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about getting a ticket. At least I haven't got
Speaker 1: a ticket doing that. So that's what I do. Uh.
Speaker 1: New report says the average person is four times more
Speaker 1: likely to buy this on Sunday Sunday Sunday than any
Speaker 1: other day of the week. What are they buying? It's
Speaker 1: kind of become part of American culture to do this
Speaker 1: on Sunday Americana alcohol kiss cony. Have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of blue laws? Guess god, have you heard of blue laws? No?
Speaker 1: What are blue laws? You don't know what blue laws are?
Speaker 1: What are blue laws? And your dad ran the l
Speaker 1: A p D. You've never heard of blue laws? No,
Speaker 1: it's essentially they ban they prohibit the sale of alcohol
Speaker 1: on on on Sunday. So yeah, there you go. Utah
Speaker 1: obviously is uh yeah, like all over the Bible Belt,
Speaker 1: which is like twenty one states are actually in the
Speaker 1: Bible Belt. Did you know that there's actually twenty one
Speaker 1: states that the people think of the Bible Belt only
Speaker 1: as below the Mason Dixon line. But I actually was
Speaker 1: explained this years ago by a program director because we
Speaker 1: know in case they we'll get in trouble, will step
Speaker 1: on some toes for people on the Bible Belt with
Speaker 1: with content and but the traditional Bible Belt is like Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Uh, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Oklahoma, that part. But you also have parts
Speaker 1: of Florida, like the the Panhandle of Florida right there.
Speaker 1: They call it the Redneck Riviera. Um, you've got parts
Speaker 1: of that. There's parts of Iowa, parts of Indiana, parts
Speaker 1: of Kansas, obviously, Utah, uh, parts of New Mexico, parts
Speaker 1: of Ohio is a ton and they're not all just
Speaker 1: buried down in the south. They're spread out. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of it put like that blue laws. I've only
Speaker 1: heard of it as a Sunday law. You've never Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I I've always known about the blue I'm more educated
Speaker 1: and new gift guns want to pay. I'm just a
Speaker 1: bad Catholic. That's a bad job by you. I thought
Speaker 1: you of all people with the blue laws, and you'd
Speaker 1: be all over that. It was one of the jokes
Speaker 1: about playing. The Jazz to this day will not play
Speaker 1: games on Sunday. Uh say sometimes in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: don't even think they do it in the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you know the jokers. You go to Salt Lake
Speaker 1: on the weekend, you gotta drink milk. Well, Sandy Kofax
Speaker 1: didn't pitching a World Series game because it was on
Speaker 1: a Sunday. Well it was. It was because of the
Speaker 1: Jewish holiday. It wasn't because yeah, it just happened to
Speaker 1: be on a on a Sunday. Anyway, all right, here
Speaker 1: we go. What's next year? Any me? Any money? Mo? Uh?
Speaker 1: The the I mean, answer the question. I think I
Speaker 1: answered the question. You were still got so distracted by
Speaker 1: your answer. Yeah. The thing people buy more on Sunday
Speaker 1: than any other day of the week. Breakfast, you know,
Speaker 1: Sunday breakfast brunch type of thing. That's a tradition. That
Speaker 1: that's a tradition in America. Yeah, all right. A new
Speaker 1: survey asked people to name their favorite things inside their home.
Speaker 1: The bed. It was the most common answer what was
Speaker 1: numbered two? We're Americans, I'd probably say it's some bullshit
Speaker 1: like a TV. No, not the coffee maker. No, not
Speaker 1: the coffee do um. Refrigerator, yes, refrigerator. Now do you
Speaker 1: have is your refrigerator two doors or do you have
Speaker 1: a top at the bottom for your freezer? Um, we've
Speaker 1: got a massive refrigerator here. It's two doors up top
Speaker 1: and then two drawers down low. It actually, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: got water. The ice thing hasn't worked in the like
Speaker 1: a couple of years. It actually looks better than it
Speaker 1: actually functions. The refrigerator. Uh. The the company that made
Speaker 1: the refrigerator, let's just say they're better at making television
Speaker 1: than you are refrigerators. No, I'm not not very good
Speaker 1: at that. Nearly one out of ten weddings this year
Speaker 1: will feature this. What is it? A um? Ah, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say Mariachi band? Mariachi. It's pretty random.
Speaker 1: Uh No. The correct answer A pet? Jesus pet, you're
Speaker 1: not married, Guestcan you know you could meet somebody and
Speaker 1: then you want to get married, and then you gotta
Speaker 1: walk down the aisle with fighter Never happened. You get
Speaker 1: annoyed when you go to restaurants and people people bring
Speaker 1: their their pets in. Um. The thing that annoys me
Speaker 1: is when I know it's bullshit. You know, you can
Speaker 1: kind of tell when they're actually required. I get it.
Speaker 1: If you need uh, you know you're you need a
Speaker 1: traditional service dog, I get it, But you can tell
Speaker 1: there's that Usually it's an old to stereotypes like I'm
Speaker 1: a middle aged older woman lonely and she's got her
Speaker 1: SHIPSU as her emotional support dog, which you know is
Speaker 1: not really what the laws are designed for. But she's
Speaker 1: carrying the thing around. Yeah, uh, what else do you? All? Right?
Speaker 1: A new survey asked adults to name something they miss
Speaker 1: about their childhood. This was the most common answer, What
Speaker 1: is it? Cartoons? Not school holidays? Now, see, isn't that
Speaker 1: great when you're a kid, Like the excitement spring break
Speaker 1: or you know, long holiday weekend because of some fugazy
Speaker 1: teacher in service day or California every day is a
Speaker 1: holiday kids. Kids aren't allowed to go to school these days,
Speaker 1: So I know I would do so well in this
Speaker 1: zoom school. I can lay in bed and seven percent
Speaker 1: of adults say they sleep with this What is it?
Speaker 1: Minor only got her guest gun a m. How about
Speaker 1: a radio. I wish it was more than seven percent.
Speaker 1: That's not the answer. It's got to be more than
Speaker 1: seven percent. Radio on in the background. Great thing, go
Speaker 1: to sleep, radio on in the background. This is actually
Speaker 1: something I think you do. Guess you sleep with this,
Speaker 1: That's what I hear. I think it was justin and
Speaker 1: Cincinnati that said this what a bottle? A bottle? No,
Speaker 1: a stuffed animal? Stuffy? Don't you have stuff? Were those?
Speaker 1: Did you ever own or have any of those beanie
Speaker 1: bears back in the days? I they were a little
Speaker 1: after my my heyday of my youth, but I did
Speaker 1: have some that were given to me, like I I
Speaker 1: got it going to Dodger Angel games as giveaways because
Speaker 1: those are there was a frenzy on those being super
Speaker 1: expensive to write on the resale market. They were getting
Speaker 1: priced at like three or four or five dollars a pop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that would be the fat right. It was fat
Speaker 1: not a trend. There's a big, big difference there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just short lived. But you know the cabbage Patch dolls,
Speaker 1: fidget spinner spinner, remember that was a couple of years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just remember that because we were talking last week
Speaker 1: I think about baseball cards and selling or getting them
Speaker 1: priced out, and what would you depart with them? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see if those n f t s,
Speaker 1: those non fungible tokens are a short term situation or
Speaker 1: they Jack Dorrisey sold his first one for I think
Speaker 1: two and a half million dollars. These guys all there's
Speaker 1: a term they use on Wall Street that all these
Speaker 1: celebrities must be all saying to each other, get that
Speaker 1: dumb money, right, I mean, you get that dumb money
Speaker 1: as fast as you can get it, And that's that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. There's a lot of dumb money out there.
Speaker 1: Os and their money are soon parted or something like that,
Speaker 1: all right. A new survey asked people to name something
Speaker 1: they keep in their junk drawers. Rubber bands was the
Speaker 1: most common answer. What was number Do paper clips? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would have thought paper clips too, But no birthday candles?
Speaker 1: Birthday candles? Yeah? Why the funk would you hold on
Speaker 1: to birthday can? I don't know why? Well, hold on?
Speaker 1: Do you keep old Christmas bags just for repackaging? I
Speaker 1: tried to, but the wife attempts to get rid of
Speaker 1: of all people she does. Yeah, what what do you
Speaker 1: mean of all people, Because she's the hippie, she's the recycler,
Speaker 1: she's all about recycling the world. Yeah, but the clutter
Speaker 1: and all that. And I listen, I learned from going
Speaker 1: through my parents house it's probably better to get rid
Speaker 1: of the stuff. Now, wait till you die and somebody
Speaker 1: else has to get rid of it. You know. It's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it seems like but you're not taking any
Speaker 1: of the crap with you anyway, so you might as
Speaker 1: well get rid of it now. I just think for
Speaker 1: repackaging purposes that would make sense. Right, Someone gives you
Speaker 1: a bag, something in a bag, and you just keep
Speaker 1: it for your gifts. Now, what do you do about
Speaker 1: like cards? When you get an actual like a Hallmark card,
Speaker 1: you hold onto those? Oddly enough, I keep my cards
Speaker 1: for long time. Yeah I do too. Yea, all right, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see your page down, page down, page down. About
Speaker 1: twenty of us admit to having one of these, even
Speaker 1: though it probably doesn't work, and we know it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: but we still admit to having a BlackBerry. Now, a
Speaker 1: good luck charm, a good luck check, a token. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you I'm like that. I got a few things
Speaker 1: that I keep, the trinkets that I hold on to
Speaker 1: for for good luck. Do you have a good luck number?
Speaker 1: Not really a number per se? What about you? I
Speaker 1: usually kept my football number eighty four and it was
Speaker 1: uh was a fan of number seven with with John
Speaker 1: Ellie growing up, So probably why I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: playing craps. Right, sevens and elevens rose the payouts. Did
Speaker 1: you you win money at craps? Yeah, I'm good at craps,
Speaker 1: craps and black So really I don't really know how
Speaker 1: to play craps. My experience with craps, though, it is
Speaker 1: just I'm just piggyback. I'm a piggyback guy. I go
Speaker 1: to the table, see who's hot, and just whatever that
Speaker 1: bet is boom. Well, I think the fun thing about
Speaker 1: craps is that if you put money on on the
Speaker 1: past line is you can you can put money to
Speaker 1: back that up after and you could put four times
Speaker 1: the dollar amount. Some tables it's five times the dollar amount,
Speaker 1: so you can really balloon your your money up and
Speaker 1: then obviously people fading the table. What's the most you
Speaker 1: wanted craps? But so did you have to fill out
Speaker 1: then the no, No, it took a long time to
Speaker 1: get to that dollar amount because I don't I don't
Speaker 1: fade the table, but I play what's called it don't
Speaker 1: come line at times, and so it's actually, ah, that's
Speaker 1: actually a rule to Shaun Watson. Should happen anyway, go ahead,
Speaker 1: it's all about But yeah, sometimes if there's a cold table,
Speaker 1: you want to fade the shooters, and so I'll bet
Speaker 1: that or I'll play against the number that doesn't get rolled.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it takes a while to build up that
Speaker 1: kind of bankroll. I had a buddy of mine that
Speaker 1: was down to his last fifteen dollars on a craps
Speaker 1: table and at the hard Rock Cafe or hard Rock
Speaker 1: Cafe Harrod Casino, and within twenty minutes he was up
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. It took him just a blink of
Speaker 1: an eye. But it comes and goes that fast if
Speaker 1: you start playing every single option on that board. So well,
Speaker 1: the thing too, like you if you're gambling, you wanna
Speaker 1: win enough but not go to where they give you
Speaker 1: the tax form to fill up. Yeah, there's that fine
Speaker 1: line at the casino where you wanna you know, you
Speaker 1: want to go a certain way, but you want to
Speaker 1: win some money, but obviously you don't want to go
Speaker 1: over the number because then you got pay. Not that
Speaker 1: people would ever be, you know, doctoring their taxes because
Speaker 1: that would be wrong. But at least it gives you
Speaker 1: the freedom to move some things around. But you're susceptible
Speaker 1: at slots for that when you're playing on the table
Speaker 1: as you're not because if you're playing for a specific
Speaker 1: amount of time, they can rate you depending on your action,
Speaker 1: but they don't know the total count of money going
Speaker 1: in and going out all the time. Yeah, and there's
Speaker 1: some tricks you can do as far as kind of
Speaker 1: when you win a certain amount, you know, pull it back,
Speaker 1: lower your bed and all those kind of things that
Speaker 1: they're just basic, basic things. Yeah, that's the mistake most
Speaker 1: people make with gaming money management. That's uh, that's why
Speaker 1: we've taken our money from the casinos into the stock market. Yes,
Speaker 1: buckle say, I've taxed me anyway. So my guy in
Speaker 1: Baltimore is trying to get me to get bitcoin. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want any bitcoins. No, it's a fifty thousand,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go to a hundred thousand. You know, he's
Speaker 1: convinced it's gonna go to a hundred thousands, so he's
Speaker 1: desperately trying to He said, just put a couple of
Speaker 1: hundred bucks and you'll make you double your money. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like a cult man, a bitcoin thing. Do you
Speaker 1: have any Bitcoin? I do not. I think it bullshit
Speaker 1: a few times that I'm a pilot about some of
Speaker 1: the investments with the airlines because Boeing has been and
Speaker 1: no pun intended, but up and down over the last
Speaker 1: year year and a half. But they were they were
Speaker 1: getting their ass handed to them back in Yeah. So
Speaker 1: the assumption they talked about playing the stock market, the
Speaker 1: assumption for the simpleton is now that commerce is starting
Speaker 1: to resume and by the end of the year, hopefully
Speaker 1: things will be back to somewhat normal. Uh and hopefully
Speaker 1: sooner than that that people will start traveling and so
Speaker 1: by stock in the different airlines and the hospitality hospitality
Speaker 1: hotels and whatnot. And we'll see if that actually happens.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah, I believe it when it when it
Speaker 1: takes place. Of couple say their first important discussion after
Speaker 1: getting married was about blank kids. No, who's doing the laundry? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was doing the laundry. I'm pretty easy. I throw
Speaker 1: everything I have into one load. Doesn't matter if it's
Speaker 1: colored or if it was you know, whites, temperature and
Speaker 1: cold water. I'm gonna go man, all right, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. I I do the dishes. The wife usually
Speaker 1: does a laundry, but she she waits for like laundry
Speaker 1: day and does it, and I like more if I
Speaker 1: if I do the laundry, I'll do it occasionally, you know,
Speaker 1: I just do it whenever. You know. I can see
Speaker 1: more as a paper plate kind of guy anyway, So me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little gamesmanship. Nah, I I washed. I watched the plates.
Speaker 1: I'm a great dishwasher. That's my future to tell you
Speaker 1: some of this radio thing when they start listening to
Speaker 1: the show and realizing it sucks, I'm moving over to
Speaker 1: the dishwashing game. I'm in very cathartic of you to
Speaker 1: wash dishes and watch splints. Yeah, when it comes to dinner,
Speaker 1: eighteen percent of people say they never do this. What
Speaker 1: is it? Tip? Now? Watch TV during dinner? M I
Speaker 1: watched TV during dinner quite a bit. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a problem with it. What's wrong with that? What last one?
Speaker 1: What in six people say they forgot to do this
Speaker 1: on a or they forget to do this rather on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. Rush their teeth. No drink water. Drink water,
Speaker 1: makes sense? What's up with that? All right, that's it.
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