Speaker 1: Boom bo. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House
Speaker 1: of Hot Takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does
Speaker 1: is we are in the air everywhere the vast power
Speaker 1: of podcasting. That's right, podcasting. We just blow viate here
Speaker 1: for like an hour round an hour and it's very simple,
Speaker 1: very simple to do. Uh. And then either like it
Speaker 1: or you don't like it or whatever. But that's how
Speaker 1: it works. And yet again, as we do this eight
Speaker 1: days a week, NonStop, never ending Friday, this are Saturday show,
Speaker 1: and then we have Sunday as well. Right over there,
Speaker 1: the biggest narcissist I know west of the four oh
Speaker 1: five is in his d n A not a man
Speaker 1: of the people, David Gesco. Right. Uh. I like the introduction,
Speaker 1: and I got some great news for you, Ben, and
Speaker 1: also for our listeners out there. Oh really, Well, I'll
Speaker 1: be the judge of whether it's great news or not,
Speaker 1: you drama queens. All right, Well, if anyone's listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast today, which is on a Saturday and when
Speaker 1: we launch it, uh, that means that we're making our
Speaker 1: way towards a new week. And that also means that
Speaker 1: the Mayan calendar is also wrong. Uh their reports last
Speaker 1: week that the Mayan calendar was off track a little
Speaker 1: bit by eight years, and in fact they had predicted
Speaker 1: now that this week the world would end. So if
Speaker 1: we're making our way towards a new week now, we're
Speaker 1: fishy beyond the Mayan calendar curse if you will, about
Speaker 1: the world coming to an end, even though it feels
Speaker 1: like at certain times of the day, especially out here,
Speaker 1: it is it is conceivable that we are doing this
Speaker 1: podcast and the entire world has come to an end.
Speaker 1: So why are we fucking doing this if the world's
Speaker 1: over now? Because I feel like we're wasting our time
Speaker 1: because no one will hear this. Everyone's dead, So what's
Speaker 1: the point of doing a podcast if no one's alive
Speaker 1: to hear well? Because ultimately, it's like it's like when
Speaker 1: you erase an email or your race a sex message,
Speaker 1: you know, for sex and the wife or whatever and
Speaker 1: whether you're deleted or not, it's out there in the universe.
Speaker 1: So we are leaving our spirit from beyond the grave.
Speaker 1: We're leaving our voices out there for anybody that might
Speaker 1: not be here but on another planet listened to us.
Speaker 1: So um our message can still be heard somehow somewhere, like,
Speaker 1: we're not alone. You've said this thousands of time. I
Speaker 1: don't believe we're alone. I think it would be ridiculous
Speaker 1: to think that we're alone. And who knows what's I
Speaker 1: don't know whether they other creatures can hear. I don't
Speaker 1: if they have, they're just like us. I guess, although
Speaker 1: I do the parallel parallel universe, not to wrap our
Speaker 1: head around that and go down that rabbit hole. But
Speaker 1: I dude, put some style like if the universe goes
Speaker 1: on forever and there's no end to it, because how
Speaker 1: could there be an end to it? Right, just you
Speaker 1: wrap your head around it. So if it goes along
Speaker 1: far enough and there's all these different galaxies to infinity
Speaker 1: and beyond, then it would make sense that there's probably
Speaker 1: multiple planets just like Earth with human like creatures on
Speaker 1: them out there that will never get in contact with
Speaker 1: will never know and I think that's that seems it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like I'm I'm smoking bass salts when I
Speaker 1: say that. Yeah. Well, anyway, so if if we're still here,
Speaker 1: if you're hearing this, you've survived the end of the world.
Speaker 1: That doesn't guarantee we have, but maybe they have not
Speaker 1: fallen yet exactly all right, So coming up on today's podcast,
Speaker 1: got a little Florida Man may Florida Maya and Florida My.
Speaker 1: We have that. We also have study and survey, this
Speaker 1: tribute to Penn and Teller, homage, the Penn and Teller reeler, bullshit,
Speaker 1: and a lot of pop quiz. My favorite part of
Speaker 1: the show is the pop quiz. Before you give us
Speaker 1: our our meals for the day, Ben Um, we go
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Speaker 1: So Ben Maller on Fox, on Instagram, on the Facebook
Speaker 1: page Ben Mallard Show. It's Ben Mallard Show. And it's
Speaker 1: been very eye opening here Gascon recent. I know we'll
Speaker 1: get into it a a little bit before we get into
Speaker 1: the meat and potatoes of the podcast. The the eye
Speaker 1: opening experience of the last couple of weeks doing radio,
Speaker 1: which is really coming into political radio and learning certain
Speaker 1: percentages of the audience get triggered by every fucking thing
Speaker 1: you say. It's just an eye opening experience, But how
Speaker 1: can people reach you? Guests um, that makes me think
Speaker 1: of press your luck that that game back in the day.
Speaker 1: No wammy, no wammy stop um Twitter at David Jay Gascon,
Speaker 1: Instagram at Dave Gascon and then cameo as well. I
Speaker 1: am at David Jay Gascon. I I do have a
Speaker 1: question since you brought that up, and it's it's nice
Speaker 1: that that you've seen incoming bogies while you been hosting
Speaker 1: Money through Friday. Do you think the audience would be
Speaker 1: interested and us going from just strictly podcast audio version
Speaker 1: to to a YouTube channel. That's a good question. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it would be an interesting interesting question.
Speaker 1: My my horse sense tells me they would because it's
Speaker 1: that doesn't cost them anything and they can then some
Speaker 1: people like to stare at the at the animal in
Speaker 1: the cave, so which I'm always surprised by. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you wanna, and we can certainly set
Speaker 1: that up. I as you know Gascon, because the company mandated.
Speaker 1: Did I have a studio here that has lighting and
Speaker 1: I have the all the camera equipment and all that
Speaker 1: stuff that you would need to do that. Although there
Speaker 1: is one technical thing my microphone is not hooked up
Speaker 1: to the camera that I use it's I might have
Speaker 1: to work out logistically that, but we could really work
Speaker 1: that stuff out YouTube. It would be good to get
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel because I think you can actually make
Speaker 1: money at that, right, there's actually something you can make
Speaker 1: some cash at. Yeah. The other thing too, is that
Speaker 1: we'll be able to track what people like, love or
Speaker 1: hate when they listen to our topics. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: when we have this kind of a platform the podcasting world,
Speaker 1: we're running anywhere from forty to sixty five seventy minutes.
Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes we're flying blind with the way
Speaker 1: that people receive our information. That you could download the
Speaker 1: podcast and it's good for sixty seconds, we get credit
Speaker 1: for that, but we don't know how long people are
Speaker 1: actually listening to it. It's it's like your show, right,
Speaker 1: you have four hours a day, but you don't know
Speaker 1: how long people are listening to you to your show.
Speaker 1: So youtubeoud give us a better idea of what people
Speaker 1: like to listen to, what they enjoy, and then on
Speaker 1: top of that, they can actually comment in real time
Speaker 1: with the topics of the day. So so that would
Speaker 1: mean I'd have to put clothes on. I can't. You
Speaker 1: can just go to the top only, or you could
Speaker 1: go from top. You can go robe. You can go bathrobe.
Speaker 1: And yeah you can go like Rick Rude style, you know,
Speaker 1: ravishing Rick Rude. You just wear like a pinker or
Speaker 1: white robe with a couple of sandals on. You'd be
Speaker 1: you'd be good. Maybe a cigar, you can be like
Speaker 1: the Bruce Arians. You got like a cigar and your
Speaker 1: hat too. Yeah, yeah, well I'm sure why not people
Speaker 1: want that? Reach out to us, let us know whether
Speaker 1: you want that or not. And I why you would
Speaker 1: not like? Why you? So? I know I don't want
Speaker 1: the video, and I don't like anyone's gonna say that.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's a I realized. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to mention though. The last couple of weeks have
Speaker 1: been eye opening, and uh, you know, the most benign comments,
Speaker 1: the most benign comments, and people just go crazy, They
Speaker 1: just go nuts. Like for example, I did a monologue
Speaker 1: the other night about I was actually celebrating the fact
Speaker 1: that Dan Snyder, the Redskins owner, who's not a very
Speaker 1: good owner. His team sucks every year. But the the
Speaker 1: one person that has not bowed down and submitted to
Speaker 1: the cancel culture is Dan Snyder. People have been trying
Speaker 1: to cancel the Redskins name for years, and he just
Speaker 1: tells him to go pound Sam with the rubber mount
Speaker 1: is what he tells him. And there's something refreshing about
Speaker 1: that that that's that's as close to an alpha male
Speaker 1: as we have these days where everyone else is just
Speaker 1: bowing down on issuing multiple apologies and it's just pathetic.
Speaker 1: So I did a monologue about Dan Snyder and I
Speaker 1: mentioned one other I think was one other person that
Speaker 1: also has survived cancel culture that I that recently took place.
Speaker 1: That was Tucker Carlson of Fox News. They tried to
Speaker 1: cancel him, uh and he had the highest rated show
Speaker 1: on cable television uh and it was like the number
Speaker 1: one show. So I mentioned this just as an example
Speaker 1: of well, there's other people too, not many, but here's
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. They tried to get rid of him and
Speaker 1: he had the number one show. And the backlash from
Speaker 1: some members of the listening audiences like, oh, they're sending
Speaker 1: me all these stories about how Fox News lost all
Speaker 1: their you know, are advertisers for Tucker Carlson. So then
Speaker 1: I then responded because I thought, well, that's that's actually incorrect.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of the liberal media is running
Speaker 1: with that, but uh, Fox News pointed out that all
Speaker 1: those national ads and the revenue from Tucker Carlson show,
Speaker 1: we're moved to other shows. So the net is no
Speaker 1: net loss and they haven't lost any revenue, which is
Speaker 1: really what matters. Right, do you lose revenue? Do you
Speaker 1: not lose revenue? And again, and we talked about with
Speaker 1: Mike North yesterday, say what you want about Fox News
Speaker 1: and you don't like it, and you think it's horrible whatever,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't meet your agenda, your political agenda, and
Speaker 1: you think since they don't line up with you, they
Speaker 1: should be banned. Right, at least they got balls over there.
Speaker 1: At least the people that run Fox News have balls
Speaker 1: and defend their employees and have some backbone and say, well, no,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get rid of this guy Carlson because
Speaker 1: the two percent on Twitter one, I'm gone, We're not
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Just something refreshing about, But I got
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of shipped for it. Guess we're
Speaker 1: very upset. It's it's beautiful. Right. We have freedom of speech,
Speaker 1: but not freedom of thought, like God forbid you have
Speaker 1: any kind of sent in the public opinion, or at
Speaker 1: least the loudest opinion. It's not the public opinion, but
Speaker 1: it's the loudest opinion, because I'll be very curious as
Speaker 1: see how things turn out when we get to November,
Speaker 1: not just for the uh, not just for the White
Speaker 1: House and the presidency, but how things will be trickling
Speaker 1: on down with with the local voting too, because you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter which way your your sway to the right,
Speaker 1: to the left, right down the middle, but there's things
Speaker 1: that people need to address and that just that doesn't
Speaker 1: go just for what's going on with law enforcement, but
Speaker 1: we're talking about the way that cities are structured, how
Speaker 1: they're budgeted, how they're allocating funds. And it's a cumbent
Speaker 1: upon us as individuals and as voters to actually use
Speaker 1: our voice, use our power, and to make sound decisions
Speaker 1: without using just the emotion behind what's in front of
Speaker 1: us because of social media or because of the news
Speaker 1: that sensationalizes certain things, but actually doing a hardcore research.
Speaker 1: You can attest to this because on shows as a
Speaker 1: sportscaster or even as a as a commentator, we're often
Speaker 1: required to look at information from players from games from
Speaker 1: history to tell the story about what's going on right now,
Speaker 1: and that same thing as applicable to what's going on
Speaker 1: with our politicians. And if people want to hold people accountable,
Speaker 1: what better way than to research for yourself, as opposed
Speaker 1: to letting an athlete or a fucking celebrity or some
Speaker 1: shock shock tell you exactly what you should think. Be
Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show
Speaker 1: weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that's something that I'm very happy. In my
Speaker 1: younger days, I certainly was swayed by celebrity, you know,
Speaker 1: and the big big names and all that. I was
Speaker 1: no different. But at some point I had an epiphany.
Speaker 1: I said, who the funk are these people? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't need to listen to because somebody's good at
Speaker 1: singing a song or throwing a little ball around that
Speaker 1: their opinion matter. I mean, it's so it's so backwards.
Speaker 1: But but yet the studies indicate that many people are
Speaker 1: just rubes and they just blindly follow because someone's good
Speaker 1: at throwing a football. I need to know what he
Speaker 1: thinks about politics, and they go down that. But I've
Speaker 1: I've always been and you you can tell someone who
Speaker 1: is afraid of the other side when you say, all right,
Speaker 1: I believe the free market. And this is always how
Speaker 1: I felt. The free market should decide what is acceptable
Speaker 1: and what's not acceptable. And people are like, no, some
Speaker 1: people know. And I always say, the consumers should decide
Speaker 1: by their wallet and their spending habits, what is a
Speaker 1: good business and it isn't a good business. And while
Speaker 1: many people push back on that, that still is the
Speaker 1: way of the world. For example, Colin Kaepernick did his kneeling.
Speaker 1: We talked about that with Mike North quite a bit
Speaker 1: yesterday on the podcast, and and it turned out the
Speaker 1: free market determined they didn't like that. The ratings went down.
Speaker 1: There were there was vitriol and the stadiums with people
Speaker 1: throwing raspberries at Kaepernick and getting upset with the players
Speaker 1: that were protesting during work. I got very upset, got
Speaker 1: very upset. Uh, And so that affected the bottom line
Speaker 1: that the people spoke, the customers spoke, and that's what
Speaker 1: should happen. And I tend to think the same thing
Speaker 1: is gonna happen later this season when everyone's taken and
Speaker 1: it's gonna even more ridiculous when everyone's doing it. Uh,
Speaker 1: and and you're gonna get similar reactions some people that
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna see it's up to the NFL
Speaker 1: whether they want to risk the holy grail of television
Speaker 1: ratings and lose that and and have that in Ironman
Speaker 1: at NFL stadiums, which doesn't have to be that way,
Speaker 1: where you know, most people go to a game just
Speaker 1: to get out of the racket for a couple of
Speaker 1: hours and they don't need to be preached to and
Speaker 1: given a sermon on what they're supposed to believe and
Speaker 1: and all that. So, uh, that's that's gonna be very
Speaker 1: interesting to see. But I'm I'm a free market person.
Speaker 1: I think if you're afraid of the free market, it's
Speaker 1: because you know you're on the wrong side. You're afraid.
Speaker 1: You don't want people to be adults and judge for themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kinda. I kind of go with the Vegas model.
Speaker 1: Vegas model of thinking that if everybody's going one way,
Speaker 1: it's just like Vegas, you gotta go the other way,
Speaker 1: you know. Benny versus the perfect example, right with the public. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you always want to bet whatever the public mindset is.
Speaker 1: You never want to bet on the public. You want
Speaker 1: to bet on the wise guys. You don't want to
Speaker 1: bet on the majority in that absolutely. Yeah. Now I
Speaker 1: know earlier this week you had opened up a show
Speaker 1: on a monologue with Chubba Hubbard of the Oklahoma state
Speaker 1: tailback Ubba, that's right, cancel culture, the king of the
Speaker 1: Cancel culture are there in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He got his
Speaker 1: coach to bow down and kiss his boat. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't agree with with the way that he attacked
Speaker 1: Mike Gundy, but I will say in in his defense
Speaker 1: or even as a college athlete goes, especially with football
Speaker 1: and some basketball and baseball players. As I think, and
Speaker 1: this is just my opinion, but I think that athletes
Speaker 1: like him. I mean, he is a Heisman Trophy candidate
Speaker 1: coming up this season. He's gonna be a great professional
Speaker 1: player too. He's a great running back. But I think
Speaker 1: these guys should take a stand, and I think it'd
Speaker 1: be It would It would do so much for college athletics.
Speaker 1: It would just imagine, Ben, take me through this, but
Speaker 1: imagine one day if you had USC and Notre Dame
Speaker 1: whether it was in South Benner at the Colisseum on
Speaker 1: primetime television, or you had Ohio State in Michigan playing
Speaker 1: in the Big House primetime television. They got to the
Speaker 1: fifty yard line for the coin toss. After all these
Speaker 1: warm ups are done, the bands on the field, they
Speaker 1: come off, and then all of a sudden, they all
Speaker 1: walk off. Players don't play, players don't play at all,
Speaker 1: and they finally take a stand against the n C
Speaker 1: Double A and they say, pay us what we fucking
Speaker 1: bring you guys as administrators, as in a university, because
Speaker 1: you guys are taking our likeness, selling it and becoming
Speaker 1: fat cats off of it, and we're getting nothing like
Speaker 1: one percent of one percent of the population becomes a
Speaker 1: professional athlete. And these guys that doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, a quarterback, and offensive line and a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. They may or may not experience that. They
Speaker 1: may or may not get drafted. And some of them
Speaker 1: are undrafted free agents that never see a cent because
Speaker 1: of what they did in the college game. Now I
Speaker 1: know that they get free education. I completely understand that,
Speaker 1: but you have administrators, athletic directors, boosters, some of these
Speaker 1: people that don't put in the work physically, and they
Speaker 1: don't put in the weight training as well, and they
Speaker 1: get to reap a lot of the rewards of these
Speaker 1: athletes who are, like you've said, indentured servants. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it is. I've always thought it was ridiculous
Speaker 1: when I've been to big sporting events and I was
Speaker 1: around USC in the heyday with Pete Carroll when they
Speaker 1: were the greatest team in college football for several the
Speaker 1: most exciting team in college football with Reggie Push, and
Speaker 1: it was I'm going on, I'm like this, I've been
Speaker 1: to NFL games that didn't have as much juice. I've
Speaker 1: been to NFL games I didn't have the buzz and
Speaker 1: the excitement and the crowd was into it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm looking around, like what the hell are we doing here?
Speaker 1: And same thing with big college basketball games. You're You're
Speaker 1: like Duke in North Carolina and these big powerhouse teams,
Speaker 1: You're like, what the hell is going on? But I
Speaker 1: like that you are recommending now the full Mayhem chaos
Speaker 1: and anarchy plan. Well, I don't you want the full
Speaker 1: collapse of these are? Are? Are you? Just? Is your point?
Speaker 1: Maybe your point is that these guys are willing to
Speaker 1: get upset over a T shirt. But what they could
Speaker 1: really change that really wouldn't matter. Cares what fucking cable
Speaker 1: channel Mike Dundee watches a big fucking deal. Uh, But
Speaker 1: the real anarchy would be the uprising would be if
Speaker 1: the big stars before like a Saturday night Alabama game
Speaker 1: against l s U, said fuck you were not playing.
Speaker 1: That would that would actually get You're right, it would
Speaker 1: absolutely that kind of descent from the orthodoxy of college
Speaker 1: sports would completely be chaotic and wild and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's not because I'm I'm believing and straight anarchy.
Speaker 1: But you think about this is that you get so
Speaker 1: much the top tier talent across the country, and they
Speaker 1: come from broken families, they come from inner cities, and
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of support that other people might.
Speaker 1: And so if you get these guys, not only that
Speaker 1: would they be able to try to take care of themselves,
Speaker 1: but they'd be able to take care of the same
Speaker 1: guys that were in their shoes or would be in
Speaker 1: their shoes ten fifteen years down the road. Because you
Speaker 1: think about kids in the l entry school level of
Speaker 1: the high school level, they're just waiting for a break,
Speaker 1: or they need a break to get out of their
Speaker 1: economic status, and they use their athletics skills, their god
Speaker 1: given talent to get to the higher level and sometimes
Speaker 1: potentially become professional athletes. But I think you're you're. The
Speaker 1: one flaw in your argument is the fact that human
Speaker 1: nature is this I want mine. Sure, that's just basically
Speaker 1: so that's the same problem the the NFL. You can
Speaker 1: make the same argument the NFL players if they took
Speaker 1: a stand and not take a knee, but took a
Speaker 1: stand against the NFL, the league itself, there would be
Speaker 1: major change, and they would they would improve, But they don't.
Speaker 1: They no one's looking out for No one cares about
Speaker 1: what happened before them, right the old guard, and nobody
Speaker 1: cares about what's coming up after them. They want their
Speaker 1: share of the pie. Right. But as I get, I
Speaker 1: understand human nature and and and I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 1: You you've got to get what you can get. But
Speaker 1: it would be in a perfect world you'd be like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's take a stay and then every the greater, good
Speaker 1: for everyone. But I think, but see, here's the thing though,
Speaker 1: and this is why I'll push back on. That is
Speaker 1: because when you're an university, you have the educational foundation
Speaker 1: at least support to guide you where you want to
Speaker 1: be as an adult. When you're a pop singer or
Speaker 1: a gymnast or someone that's playing like the sports, you're
Speaker 1: getting all this money at sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years of age.
Speaker 1: You don't know how the fund to spend it. You
Speaker 1: know how to allocate it, you know how to save it,
Speaker 1: you don't know how to build on it. But if
Speaker 1: you're a college football player or a college basketball player,
Speaker 1: you should be given the academic guidance, whether it's from
Speaker 1: a counselor or professor, to say, hey, you're getting this
Speaker 1: money now as a collegiate athlete, let me show you
Speaker 1: the ways to not only build on it, but to
Speaker 1: protect yourself and to make long term investments, so not
Speaker 1: only securing yourself but also securing your family fifteen thirty
Speaker 1: years down the road. I think that would be a
Speaker 1: genuine cause were an athlete like Hubbard or anybody else
Speaker 1: to then take a stand in a in a big situation.
Speaker 1: Because the television contract has been the academic process, the
Speaker 1: administration process to apply for these schools. A lot of
Speaker 1: these people are paying hand over fist for tuition and
Speaker 1: when they get out of school, they're fucking six figures
Speaker 1: in debt, whether it's law school, medical school, or just
Speaker 1: getting a general b A. Yeah, you know, it's well,
Speaker 1: we've gone down a rabbit hole, so we'll get back
Speaker 1: to that. I didn't want to get to the Meat
Speaker 1: and Potatoes podcast now that we've killed about half the podcast.
Speaker 1: Um so, not that I'm judging. Be sure to catch
Speaker 1: live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
Speaker 1: am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So let's do some Florida man.
Speaker 1: These are interesting. These are actual stories from actual people
Speaker 1: that live in Florida. Because of the disclosure laws, we
Speaker 1: get crazy stories. Crazy people live everywhere, but in Florida
Speaker 1: were allowed to learn about them because of the the
Speaker 1: way the laws are there. So uh so, this guy
Speaker 1: in in in Tampa Bay. Guy from Tampa Bay is
Speaker 1: looking for a frisbee, right and he's he's trying to
Speaker 1: find his frisbee. He had lost his frisbee, so he
Speaker 1: goes into a little body of water to find his
Speaker 1: his frisbee. He gets bitten in the face by an alligator.
Speaker 1: Florida Man gets bitten in the face by an alligator.
Speaker 1: Wildlife officials are still searching for the alligator as of
Speaker 1: the other day here. But the guy got bitten directly
Speaker 1: in the face and he didn't even it must have
Speaker 1: been a small gator because he's used around. The guy
Speaker 1: named Travis was in Waiste deep water in Taylor Lake
Speaker 1: in the Tampa area. Uh. This was last Friday at
Speaker 1: around five in the morning. So he's trying to find
Speaker 1: his frisbee, all right, looking for the first frisbee, and
Speaker 1: the gator bites him in the face. He then uses
Speaker 1: his left hand to pry himself free and as a result,
Speaker 1: of course, what do you think happened? His hand is
Speaker 1: all sliced up from the gator teeth. Uh, and his
Speaker 1: face is all sliced up, and he was transported. But
Speaker 1: he is expected to make a recovery. He's not. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna die, and so they're they're trying to find
Speaker 1: the gator. I I there was a guy in the
Speaker 1: Dodgers when I did Dodger Talk named Bruce Avon, generic
Speaker 1: outfielder from Florida. Not not a very good guy. I'm
Speaker 1: not a good guy, not a very good player, but
Speaker 1: Bruce Avon had wrestled alligators. He told me that he
Speaker 1: had been growing up in Florida. He had actually wrestled alligators.
Speaker 1: Random generic outfielder. He didn't have a great you know,
Speaker 1: running baseball, but he played for a couple of different teams.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. Uh so that's that's our
Speaker 1: first Florida man story. We also have another Florida man story.
Speaker 1: That Florida man was arrested for allegedly shooting a cyclist
Speaker 1: in the head with a crossbow. What the fuck? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How about that one? That and the gun kills you.
Speaker 1: The bullet kills you, but from a pain standpoint, because
Speaker 1: not think the crossbow going in but also getting it
Speaker 1: out right. Yes, holy fuck yeah, I'm looking at the photo.
Speaker 1: He looks like the kind of guy that would shoot
Speaker 1: a crossboat at someone's head. Fort Walton Beach, Florida guy
Speaker 1: arrested this week and he's alleged to have shot a
Speaker 1: cyclist in the head with a crossbow. Forty two year
Speaker 1: old guy charged with aggregated battery with a deadly weapon,
Speaker 1: firing a deadly weapon into a moving vehicle and the
Speaker 1: victim was riding his bike at the time and the
Speaker 1: alleged incident took place and and later obviously was taken
Speaker 1: to the hospital with is serious head injury. So they're
Speaker 1: investing is not much more to it than that? So
Speaker 1: it took something straight out of The Walking Dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a little fun, I'll speaking of that. This this
Speaker 1: is the Apocalypse, You're the Apocalypse. Another Florida Man story.
Speaker 1: Florida man with a machete tattoo has been accused of, yes,
Speaker 1: wait for it, using a machete to attack another man.
Speaker 1: So Florida Man alive and well, so you have crossbows
Speaker 1: and you have machetes. And my favorite part is this
Speaker 1: guy under his left eye. You gotta google it, look
Speaker 1: up the photos on Twitter. Uh, this guy has a
Speaker 1: tattoo of a machete under his eye and he's accused
Speaker 1: of using machete to attack another guy twenty five year ago. Now,
Speaker 1: how about by the time you reached twenty five, you're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is a good life choice. Let
Speaker 1: me get a machete and I'm gonna put that runner
Speaker 1: right under my eye. What could possibly go wrong? What
Speaker 1: could possibly go wrong? Jeez, craziness. Imagine setting up a
Speaker 1: bumble or tender account with that face. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: certain certain cult of women that probably would you know,
Speaker 1: the bad boy crowd of the ladies would like, I
Speaker 1: like that guy's a rebel. Yeah. Uh. Florida man behind
Speaker 1: bars after he became violent at an outdoor church service,
Speaker 1: knocking the pastor and other church course to the ground.
Speaker 1: Why he thought the service was too loud. Wow, can
Speaker 1: you imagine the the neurosis, the psychosis that's going on.
Speaker 1: This This just just wonderful. So then he also of
Speaker 1: course resisted arrest and uh he positioned his hands to
Speaker 1: avoid handcuffs and started swinging his legs and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: he was yelling rape and I can't breathe to the
Speaker 1: to the police officers who attempted to take him into
Speaker 1: into custody. Uh, so there you go, good luck on that.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, here's a fun one, guest. This is right
Speaker 1: up your alley. A fifty eight year old Florida man
Speaker 1: has been arrested for purchasing, eating soiled underwear. Yes, and
Speaker 1: shockingly enough, he's also of course into the child porn
Speaker 1: so he has been been busted for that. But the
Speaker 1: soiled underwear a part buying it, and then how do
Speaker 1: they know he ate like, did it come out the
Speaker 1: other end? Like this sounds like a this sounds like
Speaker 1: attacked him event for you and Coop right, like you
Speaker 1: shoot your pants before you go on the air. And
Speaker 1: then Cooper actually eats it because of a bat or
Speaker 1: a dare, Like, didn't he do that with vassoline? Be
Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
Speaker 1: week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: he's done that with When Jay Moore worked at our place,
Speaker 1: he left hot dogs, yeah, and cooperated an old hot dog.
Speaker 1: And the listener came by and we were doing the
Speaker 1: vassoline challenge because I had read online that the guy
Speaker 1: that invented vassoline he had died a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: but he every day had a scoop a spoonful of vasoline.
Speaker 1: You know that that spoonful of sugar makes the medicine
Speaker 1: go down. Yeah, this guy was a spoonful of vasoline.
Speaker 1: And so we said, I can't believe you can eat it,
Speaker 1: and then Coops like, yeah, give me enough money, I'll
Speaker 1: do it. And then and then he did. So, where
Speaker 1: is the soiled underwear that you took back home to
Speaker 1: the Mallard mansion. After you shouted your pants, it's back
Speaker 1: in my rotation. I'm glad you asked. I washed it
Speaker 1: seven times and I got all the ship out of it,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna I'm saving the environment. I didn't
Speaker 1: throw away that underwhere else? At least you didn't done it. Well,
Speaker 1: I know you'd like him, all right, This got to
Speaker 1: study survey, this homage dependent teller. Well, this kind of
Speaker 1: relates to something we had mentioned earlier. This weekend. Researchers
Speaker 1: behind a new study estimate that there are almost forty
Speaker 1: million alien civilization. The estimate there could be thirty six
Speaker 1: other alien civilizations or more. That's just in the Milky
Speaker 1: Way galaxy that we all share here alone. So thirty
Speaker 1: six they claiming this is mostly I I would say,
Speaker 1: even though I believe there are other alien life forms,
Speaker 1: I don't think that scientists at this time having a
Speaker 1: grasp of what they're talking about. So I think that
Speaker 1: I believe ultimately this will be proven true at some
Speaker 1: point in humanity, assuming we don't all die this weekend.
Speaker 1: Uh that you know, the thirty six and that seems
Speaker 1: scratching my head at that one. Where do you think
Speaker 1: that we rate on the intelligence scale. You know, I'd
Speaker 1: like to think we're at the low end. But what
Speaker 1: if we're at the high end. What if we are
Speaker 1: the most advanced civilization? What if this is as good
Speaker 1: as it gets? Think about that that we're all fighting
Speaker 1: with each other, we're burning down, billing buildings, pillaging, we
Speaker 1: all have to wear masks when we go to stores.
Speaker 1: Shaming you for your clothing, yeah, shaming you for what
Speaker 1: you wear and all that, and uh, and that's where
Speaker 1: we're at. And what if we're the most advanced What
Speaker 1: if there's no one more than and and are there
Speaker 1: other planets that have cancel culture like this where I
Speaker 1: don't like that? I'm I'm offended. I'm offended. You most
Speaker 1: tonsil Anyway, moving on, all right. Uh, here's a new
Speaker 1: survey out that talks about exercising, and out of five adults,
Speaker 1: how many of those five adults admit that they have
Speaker 1: lied about working out? They've claimed they worked out, but
Speaker 1: they did not actually work out, thus lying, and they've
Speaker 1: admitted to it. I gotta say, hi, I think that's
Speaker 1: eight percent, four and five. Well, that's what the answer
Speaker 1: actually should be. But the answer here is only one
Speaker 1: out of fun, right, I agree, right, you you wanna.
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like the mindset of social media,
Speaker 1: where you know you're trying to present yourself in a
Speaker 1: light that's not actually real, right, you're trying and so people, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I work, I work, now, I do. Actually I've called
Speaker 1: you while I am out doing my my nonsense there,
Speaker 1: So I I do do it every day very religiously.
Speaker 1: Uh do an hour hour and a half a day.
Speaker 1: I used to go on the treadmill and do that,
Speaker 1: but the gym. Fuck the gym. So I go these
Speaker 1: long wandering rants who are just walking around the neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: I'm jealous. I'm on the deal right now. So how
Speaker 1: are you on the deal? Um? So, I think I
Speaker 1: was talking about this last week, but I was running
Speaker 1: on the board walking beaches in hermos and Manhattan Beach
Speaker 1: like West of the four or five. But typically when
Speaker 1: I trained, now, at least when I run outside, I
Speaker 1: wore a weighted vest twenty five pound vests and um,
Speaker 1: are you the guy that goes into the sauna and
Speaker 1: it was like the big puffy suit, No, seven layers
Speaker 1: are closed. Well no, I did have friends that would
Speaker 1: do that there were wet suits to cut weight when
Speaker 1: they're wrestling, like they would have to cut weight, so
Speaker 1: they'd wear multiple wet suits at a time and then
Speaker 1: sit in the sauna for like fifteen twenty minutes to
Speaker 1: try to get that excess weight off. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: I have I have what they call jumpers knee, and
Speaker 1: so both my Patel attendants are really really banged up
Speaker 1: and sword It hurts to stretch out my legs now
Speaker 1: hamstrings and quads because like I've been putting a inditional
Speaker 1: weight on on my knees. And my sister, who has
Speaker 1: a PhD um in in physical science and whatnot, had
Speaker 1: told me and talked to me about the impact of
Speaker 1: of what we put on our bodies when we run
Speaker 1: just running naturally, and then she's like done of her
Speaker 1: fucking wear a weighted vest again when you're running on
Speaker 1: the beach, doesn't matter if it's on concrete or on
Speaker 1: the sand, but you're putting so much force on your
Speaker 1: on your body outside of your regular body weight. You
Speaker 1: can't afford to do that otherwise you'll have chronic injuries
Speaker 1: when you're like in your forties, fifties, sixties or seventies.
Speaker 1: So so what about those legendary stories about like Jerry
Speaker 1: Rice running the steps in Santa Monica and running around
Speaker 1: the beach and all that and having all those bull No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that. I mean, I'm putting added
Speaker 1: weight on. So I think if you're conditioning your body right,
Speaker 1: if you have strong quads and hamstrings and and those
Speaker 1: things supporting the joint, you're gonna be in good shape.
Speaker 1: But over the period of time, like the wear and
Speaker 1: hair in your body is just gonna it's gonna eventually
Speaker 1: get to you. So I gotta scale that thing back
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Roll the back, Roll the back now,
Speaker 1: Roll the back now. Because I always assumed, like the
Speaker 1: people I've seen teams workout, athletes work out, they often
Speaker 1: put weights on they're working out because it makes you
Speaker 1: in theory, it makes you faster when you don't have
Speaker 1: the weights on. Yeah, we'll see. My sister is talking
Speaker 1: to me about this. She says. One of the worst
Speaker 1: things that our US military does, especially the guys down
Speaker 1: in Coronado, down in San Diego, when they trails. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the butt's training to become Navy's seals is that you're
Speaker 1: wearing all this package. You're apparently wearing everything around your waist,
Speaker 1: You're wearing it around your your your legs and then
Speaker 1: of course your boots. It's not great for stability, you know,
Speaker 1: the the high impact of running and you have no
Speaker 1: absorption from the soles in your shoes which are obviously boots,
Speaker 1: and so impacks your joints. Like obviously, the course of time,
Speaker 1: you can get used to it, but still it has
Speaker 1: long term ramifications on you as opposed to just an
Speaker 1: acute injury that you sustained right away. So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: getting old sucks. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
Speaker 1: talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows
Speaker 1: at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the alternative also sucks. No guess gut, so you've got
Speaker 1: that as well. Right, moving on with studying serving this
Speaker 1: the dishonest truth. This kind of relates to what we
Speaker 1: talked about earlier with the exercising thing. Uh. Study says
Speaker 1: people lie to appear more honest. And I actually buy this,
Speaker 1: you know, the the white lie, the harmless I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that is actually spot on. You know, people
Speaker 1: lie all the time anyway, but in this regard. I
Speaker 1: buy it. I absolutely buy it. Right the dishonest truth,
Speaker 1: which is the headline on this, it makes it makes sense,
Speaker 1: right if you feel guilty about, you know, getting a
Speaker 1: big break, you know, getting getting something given to you. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're like, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: should say I don't know if I should talk about
Speaker 1: you change the narrative. You know what I mean, Understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I, by that does that also
Speaker 1: count not necessary lying, but just not telling the truth period,
Speaker 1: as opposed to lying, just not saying a lie by
Speaker 1: omission you're talking about h I have to read the
Speaker 1: whole I only read the first paragraph here, tod did
Speaker 1: you do that? Now? Did you do that? On dates?
Speaker 1: Did I lie? Yeah? Did you? Did you? Did you
Speaker 1: lie to your mrs? Before you guys get married? I know,
Speaker 1: I was like vague. I did not. When I was dating.
Speaker 1: I didn't like to tell the woman that I was
Speaker 1: in radio. Not that I'm embarrassed by it, but I
Speaker 1: made so much ship money and at that time not anymore.
Speaker 1: But at that time a lot of people thought if
Speaker 1: you were the guy on the radio, you were making
Speaker 1: a killing, And so I didn't want to date someone
Speaker 1: where they thought I was rich and I was living
Speaker 1: in the slums, you know, the shitty little apartment in
Speaker 1: Hollywood for most of that time. And uh, I had
Speaker 1: no money, and I I got I was like getting
Speaker 1: food at games. I used to have free media food
Speaker 1: and that's where I would eat. And I would say,
Speaker 1: I would save my fucking money. And so I was
Speaker 1: I was always conscious about that. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: tell people the way what I did because they would
Speaker 1: have the wrong impression and they think I had more
Speaker 1: money and all that, and so I thought, I'll just
Speaker 1: avoid that. So so I didn't want And the other
Speaker 1: thing is I didn't want them to you know somebody
Speaker 1: that you don't want to date someone just because they
Speaker 1: think that's a cool job or something like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I don't want that either. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where I was. Uh see, moving on, let's see here.
Speaker 1: Oh he's kind of cool. Engineers have created the first
Speaker 1: ever underwater WiFi system. Yeah, so now when they go
Speaker 1: do deep dives in the out in the middle of
Speaker 1: the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean wherever they will, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to have like live streaming video while they're
Speaker 1: down at the bottom of the ocean looking around. That's
Speaker 1: pretty neat, that is. I mean, I can't get good
Speaker 1: cell phone reception where I'm at sometimes, but yeah, let's
Speaker 1: having in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: speaking of the ocean, what's on the menu? Scientists surprised
Speaker 1: by the diets of great white sharks the first ever
Speaker 1: detailed study then in Australia on the diet of great
Speaker 1: white sharks, and it blows away the popular movie perception
Speaker 1: of the fish swimming looking you know, the shark fin
Speaker 1: over the water looking to eat human blood. They determined
Speaker 1: that most of the sharks diet they feed at the seabed,
Speaker 1: not at the top. They actually most of the ship
Speaker 1: they eat is at the bottom of the ocean, meaning
Speaker 1: that that Hollywood image, the Hollywood trope of the shark
Speaker 1: hunting with a dorsal fin out of the water is
Speaker 1: likely bullshit. So there you go. Uh, you are more
Speaker 1: likely to grant request if they are poking into your
Speaker 1: right ear rather than your left. How about that one?
Speaker 1: Did you know that? It's a fun fact. My wife
Speaker 1: actually gave me that function. That's good. I will remember
Speaker 1: that going on dates now as I make the approach
Speaker 1: the right here. Yeah, there you go. A new study
Speaker 1: shows that sevent people would rather watch a new movie
Speaker 1: at home. I think this is bullshit. I think this
Speaker 1: is bullshit because I guess I'm old, but I like
Speaker 1: something special about my my aunt I used to call
Speaker 1: going to the show. You know, going to the show
Speaker 1: and sitting there, get a big bucket of popcorn. You
Speaker 1: can't replicate that at home. Yeah, no, I'm you're not old.
Speaker 1: This is this is like going to a concert, or
Speaker 1: this is like going to an athletic event. You there's
Speaker 1: nothing like going and sing it in the box office.
Speaker 1: You get the trailers, you get the food, you get
Speaker 1: the snacks, and you get the big picture. No fucking way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's it's like the sports. One of the things
Speaker 1: that attracts us to sports is the enterg g in
Speaker 1: the building. And we've all been even if it's just
Speaker 1: that little league or high school, the crowd going wild,
Speaker 1: that communal being part of that and feeding off the engine.
Speaker 1: So it's so wonderful. It's like you feel alive when
Speaker 1: you're a big sporting event and everyone's chairing or bowing
Speaker 1: and all that, and it's great. It's wonderful. So it's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons we love sports and Plus movie
Speaker 1: theaters now most of them have the reclining leather seats
Speaker 1: you can order from your seat as well, and the
Speaker 1: audio has gotten so much better that the surrounds sound
Speaker 1: really comes in great. Yeah. I mean, I love trailers,
Speaker 1: so I always try to get their little watch the trailers,
Speaker 1: but there's nothing you'll duplicate their. Plus, it's not like
Speaker 1: it's overpriced. I can understand if you're going to a
Speaker 1: game and you want to pay eighteen or twenty dollars
Speaker 1: for one beer that's twelve or sixteen ounces. But go
Speaker 1: to a movie theater. You can sneak in some snacks
Speaker 1: if you want to, but for the most part, it's
Speaker 1: moderately priced. I'm gonna push back on the moderately right.
Speaker 1: So my thing is I sneak in the candy. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank god, myam married. Now my wife get a big
Speaker 1: bag called the purse and just put the candy in there,
Speaker 1: and then I'll buy the popcorn. Um, that's my guilty pleasure.
Speaker 1: Big bucket of popcorn, big giant bucket of popcorn. That's
Speaker 1: my guilty pleasure. Now with with popcorn band, do you
Speaker 1: actually have them layer it? And what I mean by that,
Speaker 1: it's like they'll they'll pour in some popcorn, layer it
Speaker 1: with butter, add more popcorn, layer it with butter, and
Speaker 1: then top it off and then layer it with butter. Again.
Speaker 1: I don't go that far, but I what I will
Speaker 1: try to recreate that myself. I've never had the hoods
Speaker 1: but to ask them to do that. So what I
Speaker 1: will I will do is I will get the bucket.
Speaker 1: I will then move it around a little bit to
Speaker 1: put buck butter down further to the bottom, you know,
Speaker 1: move the popcorn to the side and kind of shake
Speaker 1: it up a little bit. So I have done that.
Speaker 1: Uh well, good news. You know. The war on football,
Speaker 1: which I guess is taking a break because of the apocalypse.
Speaker 1: But it's not just football, it's also rugby. Researchers in
Speaker 1: the UK say that playing three rugby matches can damage
Speaker 1: the brain. They went further, they said, there is no
Speaker 1: longer any debate that even jolts can cause subtle changes
Speaker 1: to the human brain. Yeah. There, but the same thing,
Speaker 1: the same thing is applicable for you in a car
Speaker 1: crash or if you get whiplash like that. Jars the
Speaker 1: brain and also the just kids growing up, falling, learning
Speaker 1: how to walk, concussions, and it's just part of part
Speaker 1: of the human experiencing on. Yeah, people of higher status
Speaker 1: are more likely to think that those who disagree with
Speaker 1: them are stupid or biased, according to a new study,
Speaker 1: even when they're higher status is the result of random
Speaker 1: process or dumb luck, if you will. That's the echo
Speaker 1: chamber that they surround themselves in. What do you expect? Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: so we're at a point. Now, we're at a crossroads. Now.
Speaker 1: I promised pop Quiz. I love pop Quiz. I feel
Speaker 1: like we'd be rushed through pop Quiz. So I feel
Speaker 1: like if we bump pop Quiz to the other podcast,
Speaker 1: we'll have more time for pop Quiz, and then I'll
Speaker 1: be happier about that. Yeah, we're not. We're not on
Speaker 1: the streets of me orc. There's no bumper to bumper
Speaker 1: traffic that we're trying to fight our way through from
Speaker 1: Florida Upper Manhattan, so we can we can skirt our
Speaker 1: way and wait for for things to uh on wine
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That's fine, all right, so we will. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I promised false advertising. Bad job by me, A bad
Speaker 1: job by me. But we did get twenty minutes of
Speaker 1: Gascon regaling us with stories that expect storytime with Gascon.
Speaker 1: That's your way, that's your descent, that's your disobedience, there's
Speaker 1: your civil disobedience. Was it storytelling? You have? You have
Speaker 1: light and disregard to the plan. Would you rather have
Speaker 1: me cut you off at the knees like what happens
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday? Now I get enough of that during
Speaker 1: the week. I don't need to be under under, undermined
Speaker 1: and sucker punched by my people anymore than I am already.
Speaker 1: So please how they are? You? All right? Listen, have
Speaker 1: a wonderful rest your Saturday. Remember if you missed it
Speaker 1: at the beginning, I don't know how you could have
Speaker 1: Cameo Cameo Cameo or Cameo whores. I would love to
Speaker 1: if you're big fan, make a video for you. It's
Speaker 1: kind of cool, something different, and uh, just you know,
Speaker 1: tell us what you want. We're happy to do it.
Speaker 1: Cameo Ben Maller And then Guestcon has joined the Cult
Speaker 1: of Cameo. He's on there as well. And uh, let's
Speaker 1: see who will get more cameos this weekend? Me or
Speaker 1: you I'll going with me. Thank you. I appreciate that.
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