Speaker 1: If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the
Speaker 1: old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads
Speaker 1: in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich pill
Speaker 1: poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot takes
Speaker 1: Break Free for Something Special Hour with Ben Maller starts
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Speaker 1: by David Gascon from West of the four oh five
Speaker 1: making his way in. I am I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Unlike most of the guys were in Dodger Blue, I
Speaker 1: am not on the injured list. Yeah, well, can you
Speaker 1: play defense? And can you actually you know, have some
Speaker 1: balls on the mound as a relief pitcher, because if
Speaker 1: you could do those things, the Dodgers could use. But
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of that right now. I
Speaker 1: it just it's it's pretty wild. Hell, they blew a
Speaker 1: seven one lead to the San Diego Padres and that
Speaker 1: kind of just was the ignition for this tailspin that
Speaker 1: they have been in. Holy sh it. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: mean they're they're a joke right now. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: listen Andrew Freedman, boy, wonder there the executive everything came
Speaker 1: up great the last couple of years with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: The players he picked up that were auxiliary players, but
Speaker 1: the secondary actors suck. And the guys that he brought
Speaker 1: in there, they got rid of some old stalwarts that
Speaker 1: we were fine with. I didn't need, I didn't need
Speaker 1: buyas out of the bulpen again, right, I was good
Speaker 1: changing things up, But the guys they brought in sucked.
Speaker 1: And uh, and they've been bad. And they got rid
Speaker 1: of Jack Peterson and Kei k Hernandez and guys like that.
Speaker 1: And you figure you can get some outfielders will be
Speaker 1: able to hit, and guys that can play the position defensively.
Speaker 1: And these guys have been terrible. I mean, the backup
Speaker 1: guys have been absolutely dreadful. Yeah, and just imagine if
Speaker 1: they because they were pondering resunning Justin Turner, where the
Speaker 1: funk would they be without him? And he's batting over three,
Speaker 1: He's one of the he's one of the best defenders
Speaker 1: on that lineup right now. So they'd be in a
Speaker 1: world to hurt right now. And then Cody Bellinger's obviously out,
Speaker 1: but I'm missing his three or four strikeouts the game
Speaker 1: per night. Yeah, and they're they're like, well, they're injured,
Speaker 1: they'll be all right and all that stuff, and maybe
Speaker 1: they will be all right. So the season goes on forever.
Speaker 1: It's not a sixty game season. But at this point,
Speaker 1: my hot take Gascon on the Dodgers is that Andrew Freedman,
Speaker 1: who had the might, has touched the golden touch. Right,
Speaker 1: even by accident, he was picking up good place. He
Speaker 1: had this uncanny ability as backup players, but now here
Speaker 1: in one he's got the sadom touch. You know what,
Speaker 1: the sadom touches, gas Gun. That would be the opposite
Speaker 1: of the mightas touch, right, you know, Mightas touched everything
Speaker 1: you touch. Turns to gold. With the sadom touch everything
Speaker 1: you touch turns to ship. And that's what's going on
Speaker 1: right now with the Dodgers, right that's take Now, have
Speaker 1: you done have you done anything that would rival a
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershoven monologue? No, not yet, not yet. That would
Speaker 1: be a premature situation. But I'm getting closer and closer.
Speaker 1: And if this spills into another week and we'll see
Speaker 1: how things go. Obviously we're recording this podcast at the
Speaker 1: previous day, but we'll we'll see what happens. But I
Speaker 1: am I am considering. I've gotten emails from some Dodger
Speaker 1: lap dogs like myself here, who are demanding that I
Speaker 1: put the hypnotic suggestion into Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman
Speaker 1: shake it up a little bit, because I always believe,
Speaker 1: and this is my philosophy on sports radio panic and
Speaker 1: then ask questions. I believe it's panic at the disco
Speaker 1: all the time. That's what I believe. Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: It's fitting because we had Steve Hartman on yesterday with
Speaker 1: us that he's one of the rare guys along with yourself,
Speaker 1: that actually go after the l A teams in this
Speaker 1: market where you know, unlike unlike San Diego or San Francisco,
Speaker 1: or maybe like Colorado or Arizona, you don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of that on the West coast, more so Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: New York and Boston, like those the only markets in Chicago.
Speaker 1: We will actually attack those teams and not suck up
Speaker 1: to management players the organizations as a whole. Well that's
Speaker 1: one of Listen, I love l A and all that,
Speaker 1: but there's too many people out here that are just
Speaker 1: you know, la la la la la, everything will be fine,
Speaker 1: don't worry about anything. And I'm I'm I'm the opposite,
Speaker 1: which is one of the reasons actually the show has
Speaker 1: done so well in Boss. And I'm very cynical when
Speaker 1: I know I've been able to I've been offered radio
Speaker 1: jobs in Boston whatnot, because I kind of have that
Speaker 1: mindset even though I didn't grow up there and I
Speaker 1: grew up here and all that stuff. But I I'm
Speaker 1: always convinced whoever you hire is the wrong higher, whoever
Speaker 1: you draft the wrong player. Uh. And the coaches whatever
Speaker 1: plays they call incorrect right and uh. And even when
Speaker 1: you're playing well, you're always waiting for the other shooter
Speaker 1: drop right you're always you're always waiting and you know
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. And even like it was, I love
Speaker 1: the Clippers. I believe the Clippers are gonna win the championship,
Speaker 1: but I understand that, you know, the Paul George playoff
Speaker 1: p thing is problematic. However, However, I heard the same
Speaker 1: crap with Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers won the championship.
Speaker 1: So and heard things about David Price when he was
Speaker 1: with the Red Sox and they won. So a lot
Speaker 1: of bullcrap. It doesn't really mean anything. Oh, this guy
Speaker 1: I can't win, and then he wins, and then they
Speaker 1: move on to the next guy. It's like a moving
Speaker 1: it's like a whack a mole. You move on to
Speaker 1: the next target. Well, we're a few months away from
Speaker 1: the NFL c isn't getting underway, but I could hardly
Speaker 1: wait for that one a week where you're just having
Speaker 1: a great day and then all of a sudden, Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford throws three picks and costs the Rams a game. No,
Speaker 1: and I don't see that in my crystal ball. You
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. It's let's go back now. I
Speaker 1: remember a conversation we had before the NFL Draft with
Speaker 1: a certain talker host in Houston who said, remember this,
Speaker 1: John Salisbury. He said that he has in Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: as a m v P nvy P Canada, as a
Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback, former star commentator on ESPN. Sean Salisbury,
Speaker 1: that's we can't see an ugly face of Stafford though. Well, no,
Speaker 1: everyone has a bad game, Listen, I mean no, No
Speaker 1: one's gonna play sixteen perfect games. I'm sure Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: will have a game where he comes out and pukes
Speaker 1: all over the logo at the fifty yard line. It's
Speaker 1: going to happen. But if it happens consistently, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: If it happens once in a while, once every you know,
Speaker 1: five games or something like that, Okay, that's an acceptable
Speaker 1: what's within the margin of error? I mean, hell, hell,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has ship games, Peyton Manning had crap games,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has terrible games, Breeze has had bad moments.
Speaker 1: That's that's what happens. So anyway, all right, I got
Speaker 1: postal perfection, gluttony, glory. We also have speed trading and
Speaker 1: pop quiz. There's a lot to get to. Let's go
Speaker 1: rat a tat tat gascon rat a tat tat all
Speaker 1: right now, postal perfection. Over last weekend, while you were
Speaker 1: enjoying the podcast, I made the pilgrimage to the hollowed
Speaker 1: hallways of the Fox Sports Radio studios in Sherman Oaks, California,
Speaker 1: right there in La La Land, the San Fernando Valley,
Speaker 1: right on the corner of Ventura and s Pulvita, some
Speaker 1: high end real estate there the I Heart Media building
Speaker 1: home in the Premier Networks. And I traveled there and
Speaker 1: made my journey to pick up my listener mail, my
Speaker 1: listener mail. Now I've been bad about this. I've not
Speaker 1: done this in many months. Bad job by me. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cooper Loop said, hey, you idiot, there's tons of mail here.
Speaker 1: You probably should come pick it up. And I said
Speaker 1: I should, I should, and I didn't and I didn't
Speaker 1: and I didn't and uh, I just want to thank
Speaker 1: that malle Musha, the listeners of the Overnight Show, not
Speaker 1: this show. They the people on the podcast, not so much,
Speaker 1: but the Overnight show man or the very kind, generous,
Speaker 1: loving people. And I walked in there. I walk in
Speaker 1: the building. I turned, I walked down a little bit
Speaker 1: of a hall. There's a drinking fountain, and then turn right,
Speaker 1: turn right, turn right, and then walked down past the
Speaker 1: blue kitchen and then there's a table on the other
Speaker 1: side there. And it was and I'm not exaggerating here,
Speaker 1: it was as high as the heavens. Uh. And and
Speaker 1: it was filled with with all kinds of things, letters, boxes,
Speaker 1: you name it there and it's uh, it's great. I
Speaker 1: have not even been able to sort through everything. I
Speaker 1: did want to take them all. I think Rachel and
Speaker 1: Mono Bello sent a large, massive box of candy, which
Speaker 1: I think I need to share because if I eat
Speaker 1: the whole thing, I'll be five hundred pounds again. But
Speaker 1: I I thank her for that very kind And uh.
Speaker 1: The hat collection is expanding here Gascon, so I will
Speaker 1: have some new hatch to wear courtesy of p ones
Speaker 1: in the Mallard militia were taking care of their gas bag.
Speaker 1: Are they form fitting hats? Are the adjustables? Well, I
Speaker 1: haven't gone through all the hats, and I'll give you
Speaker 1: the hat breakdown once I go through all that. But
Speaker 1: I just want to I want to thank you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys don't have to send me anything, obviously, but
Speaker 1: I do, thank you, and it's very kind. And I
Speaker 1: love these unique hats. Uh, that's that's my thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've said I want to I support the police. I
Speaker 1: know that's taboo, but if you if your police officer.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of police that listen to the
Speaker 1: show overnight, any police had I will wear and represent
Speaker 1: your your department loud and proud and minor league baseball.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this in the previous episode, guest.
Speaker 1: We we both like kind of the obscure. I like
Speaker 1: obscure college hats and I like minor league baseball hats.
Speaker 1: Those are probably my favorite right now. And I I
Speaker 1: wore the RAM hat the other day and I still
Speaker 1: you know, I'll rep my teams there and I have
Speaker 1: a tribute to my Boston sojourn in radio. I'll wear
Speaker 1: some of the Boston hats. But other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's mostly minor league college stuff. That's good and it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's spicy, and the best part about it is
Speaker 1: people will look at your hat, stare at it and
Speaker 1: not know who the funk that hat has to do with,
Speaker 1: which is great. You don't know where the city is,
Speaker 1: what the team is, and they usually have some pretty
Speaker 1: good nicknames too. So and also I have learned what
Speaker 1: the college thing. When you wear like weird colleges or
Speaker 1: colleges that aren't in your area, you get a lot
Speaker 1: of people that want to start a conversation with you.
Speaker 1: Because I remember I had a Wyoming University of Wyoming. Uh.
Speaker 1: I used to go to the gym and I'd wear
Speaker 1: this sweatshirt and it had Wyoming Cowboys logo. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I got it like at Ross Dress for
Speaker 1: Less or something like that. I gotta, but it was
Speaker 1: every time I wore that thing, somebody come up here,
Speaker 1: are you from Wyoming? Uh? Yeah? Like no, I've never
Speaker 1: been to Why. I've flown over Wyoming a few times,
Speaker 1: but that's about it. I used to know a guy
Speaker 1: that Steve Stillwell, that worked in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I've
Speaker 1: had callers from Wyoming, but I don't I don't actually
Speaker 1: don't actually have any experience in Wyoming. Here. It's what
Speaker 1: national is it? Yellow Stone is in Wyoming. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I guess there's a reason to go to Wyoming Yellowstone.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think we'll need a vaccine passport
Speaker 1: to go to Yellowstone. So no, you don't think we'll
Speaker 1: need that. No, I don't think about that. Yeah I
Speaker 1: think so. But to go to Dodger Stadium, you might,
Speaker 1: you might, well you might, or you might be segregated
Speaker 1: like you are at at a couple of ballparks in
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah. Yeah, segregation is back Joe Biden's America
Speaker 1: right there. It's a cheap shotcast scout. All right, we
Speaker 1: have gluttony glory, as my grandfather would say, what a causer.
Speaker 1: All right, So our lead, our lead right now in
Speaker 1: this portion of the fifth Hour comes from an epic
Speaker 1: birthday weekend food run last Saturday. Now I mentioned I
Speaker 1: had gone to pick up the mail, but prior to that,
Speaker 1: all right, prior to that, when this was while you
Speaker 1: had tarnished my name, my good Remember during my podcast
Speaker 1: we're recording, and you I called you a piece of ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you called me a piece of ship. You remember what
Speaker 1: you said? You called me a piece of shit on
Speaker 1: my birthday. And I'm gonna remember on your birthday. You
Speaker 1: don't even remember you have the same birthday as O. J. Simpson.
Speaker 1: Of course I remember that. That's that's how I know
Speaker 1: your birthday because you and o J. Which is great
Speaker 1: because your dad she's very famous with o J and
Speaker 1: all that. But anyway, so yeah, on your birthday, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call up and say, David Gascon piece of shit.
Speaker 1: Uh that is going to happen. That is going to happen.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so just get to the point, please. So
Speaker 1: first of all, I decided I need to over indulge.
Speaker 1: I need to have a throwback, and I believe I
Speaker 1: had the perfect food day in l A, authentic l A,
Speaker 1: the best dining you can get. Now. I started out
Speaker 1: across the street from MacArthur Park. You know, it's across
Speaker 1: the street from MacArthur Park. Nothing good, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Now that's an historic park. You know MacArthur Park has
Speaker 1: been around since the eighteen eighties. Did you know that
Speaker 1: eighteen eighties? Early it's one of the first things. It
Speaker 1: was swamp land. It's one of the first things they built.
Speaker 1: And I've heard the story from historians in the real
Speaker 1: authentic this point that in the early days of l
Speaker 1: A it was all swamp land, and some investors came
Speaker 1: in and they that was actually the the prime part
Speaker 1: of l A. They tore up the swamp and they
Speaker 1: built this massive lake which was like a reservoir for
Speaker 1: the water supply in southern California. And then they built
Speaker 1: all these hotels around it to get tourists to come
Speaker 1: to California. And it worked and and and it worked.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, uh, and by the way, it's named
Speaker 1: after General Douglas MacArthur. Do you know that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: named after General. It had a different name. I know
Speaker 1: a lot about MacArthur Park. And it's also a total shipthole.
Speaker 1: I know that. Uh. If you want prostitution, drug dealing, shootouts,
Speaker 1: homeless pissing, and shipping like it's a third world country,
Speaker 1: it is literally sodom and gomorrah at MacArthur Park in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It is unbelievable. But anyway, it's by the way,
Speaker 1: before I forget, I'm gonna get to the point here.
Speaker 1: But do you know the legendary story that I've heard
Speaker 1: for years about MacArthur Park that the lake that they
Speaker 1: have there, they've drained it a few times. You know,
Speaker 1: when they've drained it, what they found bodies, bodies, guns,
Speaker 1: all kinds of amazing things that were just tossed into lake.
Speaker 1: Wonderful um. But regardless. On the other side of the
Speaker 1: street is what I call the Theona Pastrami, the Pantheon
Speaker 1: at Lanyard's Delhi all right, now, that was the first
Speaker 1: stop on the Mallard food tour. I ordered the number
Speaker 1: ten on a kaiser or ride, depending on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't go there every week. I go there,
Speaker 1: you know, once in a while. It's pretty expensive. But
Speaker 1: I I got kaiser number ten on a kaiser with
Speaker 1: the Russian dressing and all that, and the fries and
Speaker 1: a large side of fries. They're pretty good, and it's
Speaker 1: the nectar of the gods. But it wasn't open. Even
Speaker 1: though a lot of restaurants in l A are now open,
Speaker 1: they weren't open. I had to get I had to
Speaker 1: eat in my car. So I parked right across the
Speaker 1: street from MacArthur Park and watched all the all the
Speaker 1: nonsense that was taking place there, and I had my
Speaker 1: windows up and we were eating from the Pantheona Pastrami.
Speaker 1: So we then traveled to uh right near skid Row.
Speaker 1: Of course, all of l A now is skid Row.
Speaker 1: It used to be just a few blocks in downtown
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, but now all of l A is kid Row,
Speaker 1: and I found a really cool spot. My wife she's
Speaker 1: into going to like kind of junk antique stores and
Speaker 1: finding hidden gems. So it just play called Old Good Things.
Speaker 1: You ever been to Old Good Things? No? No, but
Speaker 1: I know exactly where this is going. So no, I mean, no,
Speaker 1: you don't know. I mean it's a it's a cool place.
Speaker 1: I know. They're all kinds of like it's a mitch
Speaker 1: mash of old props from movies, signs, uh, and they
Speaker 1: pretty much just put all this stuff together. They had like,
Speaker 1: if you want to buy a Starbucks sign for your
Speaker 1: house to decorate, they have it. They had a Seize
Speaker 1: candy sign you could buy. They had these big lights
Speaker 1: from the movie, you know, old movie sets back in
Speaker 1: the day and all that. It's essentially a place where
Speaker 1: if you're an interior designer, you would go to find unique,
Speaker 1: quirky stuff that you can charge a fortune for that
Speaker 1: you don't pay a fortune for. All Right, So we
Speaker 1: were we were there and I and my wife wanted
Speaker 1: to buy a bunch of stuff, and I convinced her.
Speaker 1: I said, listen, let's uh, let's let's hit the brakes
Speaker 1: on that let's wait and see if we can find
Speaker 1: something better. Just make sure you really want this, you know,
Speaker 1: so she did, but I have a feeling we'll be
Speaker 1: back there. You can buy a phone booth if you want,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's just a weird, weird ship
Speaker 1: that you probably wouldn't want or need. But if you
Speaker 1: want to like decorate something weird, you can find weird stuff. So, um,
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I can admit it was pretty cool walking
Speaker 1: around it was. It was pretty much overwhelmed. They had
Speaker 1: like a pink elephant and like, it's like all this
Speaker 1: weird ship. So with with that revelation, with what you
Speaker 1: guys did on that that wonderful day where you're having
Speaker 1: I'm not done, by the way, I'm not done. It's
Speaker 1: just the middle part of the day, I know. But
Speaker 1: where does all the photos and the gallery sent from
Speaker 1: your your wife E's Instagram account, Where does that come from? Then?
Speaker 1: Because it looks like you guys had bought a healthy
Speaker 1: amount of ornaments and old school artifacts. Uh, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what. I don't really, I don't check out Instagram
Speaker 1: very much. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to.
Speaker 1: But my wife does put a lot of photos off
Speaker 1: of random, random stuff. But now, I mean we bought
Speaker 1: a few things over the last week, but nothing that
Speaker 1: I remember that was that crazy. I mean every post signal,
Speaker 1: the signal we had was that was pretty crazy. We've
Speaker 1: got a traffic signal. Everything he doesn't need a traffic signal,
Speaker 1: but everything that she's posted online, I think like, no way,
Speaker 1: better prove that, No way that better purchase. No. No,
Speaker 1: you know, um, I am pretty frugal and uh, a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff like you don't really need it, you
Speaker 1: can't really take it with you, and so what are
Speaker 1: you doing? But all right, so you did this at
Speaker 1: what time? Did you have Langers at? Exactly? I had
Speaker 1: langers at like one thirty, had lunch breakfast. No, I
Speaker 1: don't need practice. I was fasting, so and I broke
Speaker 1: the fast at Langers. And then I went to downtown,
Speaker 1: did a little shopping there, went out to Burbank. Burt
Speaker 1: Bank had been there in awhile bur Bang and walked
Speaker 1: around there some stores, and bur Bank went out to
Speaker 1: beautiful Sherman Oaks to pick up my mail. I text
Speaker 1: you to see if you were there. You said, no,
Speaker 1: of course not, I'm not here. Why would I be here,
Speaker 1: you texted like a Saturday night at seven o'clock. Well,
Speaker 1: that's when I went there. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific. So anyway, I've picked up the mail,
Speaker 1: and then we traveled down. It was very uncomfortable on
Speaker 1: the four oh five. I tried to stay on the
Speaker 1: east side of the four oh five. Traveled down the
Speaker 1: four oh five. They're past the Getty Center and U C.
Speaker 1: L A and that the cemetery, and we made our
Speaker 1: way to Culver City because we then had, by my choice,
Speaker 1: our dinner at what I call now Langer's is the
Speaker 1: pant on a postromy but Tito's is the Temple of Tacos.
Speaker 1: Tito's Tacos the home of the Gringo Taco just at
Speaker 1: the edge of the it's like the end of the
Speaker 1: flat Earth. Kyrie Irving would say, it's right against the
Speaker 1: four oh five freeway. Literally across the street is the
Speaker 1: freeway from Tito's Tacos the home of my friend, the
Speaker 1: lake Great Alex Russo said, the Gringo taco and it's
Speaker 1: this crunchy taco with neon orange cheese on top, and
Speaker 1: he's amazing. My wife hates it. I love it. She
Speaker 1: hate it. She doesn't like it. She hates it. She
Speaker 1: puts up with it, but she doesn't like it. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: didn't think it's very good. She's crazy. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: no one's perfect, but that's insane. It's blasphemy. I tell
Speaker 1: her that you should be crucified for saying that. How
Speaker 1: dare you? But she puts up with it, and so
Speaker 1: they were not having people eat it, Tito. So we
Speaker 1: had to take it to a park over there in
Speaker 1: Culver City, right near what movie studios? Over there? There's
Speaker 1: a little park that we went to. And is that
Speaker 1: that's That's not Warner Brothers? What is over there? Is that? Parents?
Speaker 1: Which lot is over in Culver City? I thought it's
Speaker 1: I thought it was Warner Brothers. Is it Warner Bros?
Speaker 1: I thought Warner Brothers was out in Burbank? That's I
Speaker 1: think they have two lots of that also, Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: I thought there was two the one off of like,
Speaker 1: was it Burbank Boulevard? Well, I know when I worked
Speaker 1: in Burbank, they in to Lucca Lake, they had the
Speaker 1: one big lot right there. Oh you know what, maybe
Speaker 1: it is Paramount. Yeah, I don't think it's a Warner Brother.
Speaker 1: I think that's a Paramount because it's like I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it might be Sony. I think it's a Sony.
Speaker 1: Is it Sony? I don't know. No, Well, I know
Speaker 1: there's doesn't matter who cares look it up, google it,
Speaker 1: just go any I had a wonderful culinary day. I
Speaker 1: flashed back to my fat days, and it was wonderful.
Speaker 1: It was great. The greatest astronomy can get better than
Speaker 1: the New York pistronomy. Langer's deadly. I warned you if
Speaker 1: you're listening in California here, if you're traveling californ to
Speaker 1: be careful. It's bad neighborhood. They have a lot. You
Speaker 1: can parking down the street and walk in and get
Speaker 1: your your take out order, but it's a ship. Neighborhood's
Speaker 1: so bad. They close at four o'clock because you don't
Speaker 1: want to be there after four o'clock. And and and
Speaker 1: that's that's how that operates. And then Tito's is good.
Speaker 1: There's usually a line and they didn't have neither one
Speaker 1: of the restaurants allowed you to eat there, so I
Speaker 1: had to take the food somewhere else. And so what's
Speaker 1: the speed? What's the speed? Trading? Thing about? What? What
Speaker 1: are we? Where are we going here? Gascott? What are
Speaker 1: we doing? So we've been kind of knee deep in
Speaker 1: in everything that is um investment trading, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got some people that have sent us a few
Speaker 1: things on cryptocurrency. I I have yet to put my
Speaker 1: toes into that. Oh I have, and I've done very
Speaker 1: well by the way, the Mallard militia coming through Bigley
Speaker 1: helping out. I'm not gonna name the crypto, but has
Speaker 1: well because I don't want to jinks and I don't
Speaker 1: have the crystal the banbano on it. But it has
Speaker 1: gone up, up, up and away. It's been tremendous, I
Speaker 1: guess on this this particular currency that and I want
Speaker 1: to thank Clay actually because he's the one that said, hey,
Speaker 1: you should probably probably purchase you know this crypto X
Speaker 1: will call it, and I was like, I don't know
Speaker 1: about that, and it's so cheap, it's so wonderful, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna do it, and I just put
Speaker 1: I put a few bucks down, and yeah, it's one
Speaker 1: of those things. You put a few bucks down, you
Speaker 1: get a bunch of it, and I just like forgot
Speaker 1: about it, and then all of a sudden, it's got
Speaker 1: a lot of attention this week, and have I do
Speaker 1: have a feeling it's gonna skyrocket after Saturday Night Live airs,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying, got you guys have
Speaker 1: a certain celebrity host that's gonna be on there that
Speaker 1: will likely do some bits about about this particular crypto currency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well a few hours from now, then let's we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. I'm not saying you should buy it or
Speaker 1: not buy it. I'm just don't do what you want.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling because of publicity that it'll
Speaker 1: it'll jump up a little bit. You make a little money,
Speaker 1: it's fair enough. Well, I I have a I have
Speaker 1: a relative of a cousin of mine who's who's a
Speaker 1: hard oh, but he's a good dude. He's uh, he's intelligent,
Speaker 1: and he's a financial advisor for high net worth clients.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he's he's he likes to refrain
Speaker 1: to himself as the refer to himself, excuse me as
Speaker 1: like the general zod of of investing, where he wants
Speaker 1: to make everyone bend the knee if you will. And
Speaker 1: so he he texted me randomly a few days ago
Speaker 1: and said, I need you to get on this stock.
Speaker 1: And I said, Yo, I'm in the middle of traffic
Speaker 1: right now. I'm I'm driving to work. I'm on the
Speaker 1: four oh five freeway right now. He said, you've got
Speaker 1: ten minutes before the market closes. Just push buttons and
Speaker 1: get it done. And um lo and behold. You know,
Speaker 1: we do a wild things when we're either at a
Speaker 1: sporting event, on the toilet, maybe getting ready for the shower,
Speaker 1: in bed after you kick out the misses for the night.
Speaker 1: I was, I was day trading on the flour oh
Speaker 1: Fire Freeway. That is a first for me. And I
Speaker 1: think you're supposed to admit that, gisk and I think
Speaker 1: that's illegally you should not have. Well, then you have
Speaker 1: that dip ship, that moron in Ohio that can go
Speaker 1: rat on me into the l A p D. How
Speaker 1: about that? But like as a you know, it's really
Speaker 1: my soul here. I must give a public service announcements,
Speaker 1: you know. Doing the overnight showed to a lot of
Speaker 1: p S A S. Yes, they'll see you before you
Speaker 1: see them. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Which is oddly enough,
Speaker 1: Just before that happened, I was at a crosswalk ready
Speaker 1: to get onto the one ten Freeway and the L
Speaker 1: A P. D. Harbor Division. I didn't have my seatbelt on.
Speaker 1: I was looking at the stocks, and a police officer
Speaker 1: rolled up right to my right side and nothing happened.
Speaker 1: Oh I really keep going there? Yeah, it was pretty well.
Speaker 1: Then obviously put on my seatbelt and proceed to look
Speaker 1: at some stocks to make some trades. So that's the
Speaker 1: world we're living right now. But I thought about I
Speaker 1: thought about you. I was like, oh, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: little day trading as I'm on my way. Did it
Speaker 1: work out that the stock? It did? It did? Why
Speaker 1: didn't What about your friend Ben? Why didn't you say, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: you should probably get you Why didn't you pass it?
Speaker 1: Pass it on? How about that? I don't want to
Speaker 1: jink sit, you know, I didn't want to jink sit
Speaker 1: and share it with you. Just said that five minutes ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's me though, that's not you. You're not wired like me.
Speaker 1: You're not like me. I'm We're different. You've never been
Speaker 1: bashed in the past about sharing information. How there you?
Speaker 1: That's true? How curled up for your toes when I
Speaker 1: started asking Steve Hartman about him and Don Martin's relationship.
Speaker 1: Third rail? That's a third rail? How there you dare?
Speaker 1: Don't go there? That's you have to admit that the
Speaker 1: reason why you love radio and your radio nerd is
Speaker 1: because there's so much drama and so many good stories
Speaker 1: off the air with radio personalities. Yeah, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: it's great. I mean it's stuff that happens off the
Speaker 1: air that often never makes it on the air. Is
Speaker 1: tremus outstanding, wonderful all that? Yeah, it's great, absolutely, no
Speaker 1: question about it. Would you ever consider day trading once
Speaker 1: you're when you're on the four or five free away again? Well,
Speaker 1: let's say, if if I were to come into a
Speaker 1: lot of money, if something were to break right gas
Speaker 1: on and there would be the richest of Solomon at
Speaker 1: my doorstep, I would be a very active day trader.
Speaker 1: But making overnight radio money. Yeah, so what with your
Speaker 1: with all your birthday gifts and all the mail that
Speaker 1: you got the other day when you came into the studio.
Speaker 1: There were two things that that we were sent to
Speaker 1: me through inquiries of mine that I needed to pass
Speaker 1: along to you. Was one, did Ben cook the steak yet?
Speaker 1: And I said, unequivocally no, no, you don't know that
Speaker 1: to be true enough, showed me a picture of it.
Speaker 1: You would have. You would have been praised. I don't
Speaker 1: rag about my eating. And then two I was asked, hey,
Speaker 1: did Ben acknowledge the the cameo video and the other
Speaker 1: video that you produced for him for his birthday card?
Speaker 1: So no, I'm still waiting for that thank you. I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting for that hug, that handshake, that toe tap.
Speaker 1: What do you? What do you? What are you talking?
Speaker 1: I didn't get a cameo birthday card I got. I
Speaker 1: did get a cameo from a listener, but it was
Speaker 1: not a birthday card. That's not that's a lie. That
Speaker 1: is a lie. I made two of them, I mean
Speaker 1: one of them for birthday for the show, and another
Speaker 1: one on a cameo video I sent to you. I
Speaker 1: did not get the video handed out. I did not
Speaker 1: get it. I did not see either one of those videos. Really, Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about here. Really, I'm
Speaker 1: not I would have. Why would I not talk about it? If?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a talk show host. I talked about
Speaker 1: things that happened because it's from me, That's why. Who
Speaker 1: sent it? How did you send it? You send it to?
Speaker 1: Somebody else? Said no? Someone else said did because it
Speaker 1: was a listener from Montana. Oh you know, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I'll have to I'll have to check,
Speaker 1: and I must have. I don't know if it went
Speaker 1: to my spam folder or whatnot. I don't know. Wow,
Speaker 1: that sucks. Well, I'm still my birthday post week. I
Speaker 1: can still celebrate my birthday. Well, no, you're your doppelganger.
Speaker 1: Count scent Or created a giant m video montage of
Speaker 1: people that were saying happy birthday to you. Really, Yes,
Speaker 1: you didn't see that either? No, No, I did not. No,
Speaker 1: I swear I I'd like to see it. It sounds wonderful,
Speaker 1: it sounds very very kind. Yeah, it was like a
Speaker 1: five or six minute long video. I can't believe that
Speaker 1: I did not. I didn't, no one, I don't recall
Speaker 1: getting any email. Uh, and I I scanned my emails.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't check it prime I remember checking it
Speaker 1: on my birthday. I don't. It's weird, that's fascinating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that sucks. I feel bad. I mean, people went
Speaker 1: out of the way to to make a video and
Speaker 1: I did not acknowledge the video jet by me. I
Speaker 1: did not get the video though. That's crazy. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I apologize. I would. I'll have to actually applied. It's
Speaker 1: not five minutes long. It's eighteen minutes long. Eighteen minutes there.
Speaker 1: Now I see it, Okay, I see it. Hold not
Speaker 1: say you got a lot of people happy birthday, dined.
Speaker 1: I did not know. I didn't know. Well, I what
Speaker 1: a what a loser? I am? So I was mentioning
Speaker 1: this to you last week or the week of your birthday,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, what do you say? I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're saying. All right, that makes sense now,
Speaker 1: all right? Wow, unbelievable happens with your introvert? You and
Speaker 1: your an introvert. You don't give a ship, you don't
Speaker 1: talk or you don't ask a questions. Well, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: I did you know? People did send me a few
Speaker 1: things via email and I didn't acknowledge that the people
Speaker 1: that did that. But wow, all right, well I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to have to watch it. I can't watch it
Speaker 1: right now, but thank you. Oh man, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Wheel of birthday Cake. I like that, the Wheel of
Speaker 1: birthday Care. There wasn't truckload of of listeners. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was a ton of people from the militia that wished
Speaker 1: you a happy birthday. Of view, No, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: had no idea. I'm here it is, you know where.
Speaker 1: It was a week after my birthday and I'm just
Speaker 1: learning about it right now. This is kind of fitting.
Speaker 1: I mean, you had a you had a steak in
Speaker 1: your friger or roof. Calm down, calm down, and members
Speaker 1: on ice. I see how it goes. I'm not putting
Speaker 1: them on ice. I didn't see it, i'd seen it.
Speaker 1: How can I comment on something I hadn't seen. I
Speaker 1: thought you were just pulling my chain or something like that.
Speaker 1: I thought you were busting my balls about some video.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was real. I thought it was
Speaker 1: I honestly, I thought you were tagged in it. I
Speaker 1: had just assumed, or I assumed your producer would have
Speaker 1: put it on air for you. Oh well, wow, you're
Speaker 1: taking a shot. All right, we gotta get the pop
Speaker 1: quizz and I got the mailbag. We'll be doing on Sunday,
Speaker 1: So pop quiz. Here a few pop quiz questions. A
Speaker 1: new survey asked people to name a possession that they
Speaker 1: have too many of these were the most common answer.
Speaker 1: What are they? Watches? No, something to do with your
Speaker 1: feet mm hmm, sandals? Uh, that would be socks. That
Speaker 1: would be socks. I don't have enough. I keep losing them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people have tons. You just you have
Speaker 1: the sock like basket or whatever, So you have all that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Nearly sevent of American adults say it is their dream
Speaker 1: to do this someday. What is it? Travel the world? Uh? No, right,
Speaker 1: their autobiography? Right, their autobiography. People have asked me about that,
Speaker 1: I have. I love to write a book. I don't
Speaker 1: know that's my dream to do it. I don't know
Speaker 1: that's my dream. You're too young. I'm too young to
Speaker 1: write a book. Yeah, no, I'm I too young. You're
Speaker 1: too young to write an autobiography. Oh well I could
Speaker 1: write a book though. Yeah, I'm just saying auto biography
Speaker 1: too young? How old do you have to be to
Speaker 1: write an autobiography. I think you should be like in
Speaker 1: your seventies, because then you'd have what if you don't
Speaker 1: make it to your seven? You know everyone makes it
Speaker 1: to their seven. Let's can we not put the curse
Speaker 1: of the bembino on yourself. I'm just saying, I listen,
Speaker 1: both my parents are dead. I don't know who knows
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen, but you know you gotta do it.
Speaker 1: Do it, strike while the iron is hot. What. I'm
Speaker 1: a realist, man, I'm a realist who knows it's just
Speaker 1: a dark cloud over you. I get a dark cloud
Speaker 1: over me. You said I shouldn't write an autobiography, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, well why not? No, you're too young. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you got way too many things. I got
Speaker 1: a bunch of story. I got twenty years of radio
Speaker 1: that I could talk about. Listen, how about this, We'll
Speaker 1: we'll read, We'll revisit this in in six months, how
Speaker 1: about that? Just in case? All right, let's see what
Speaker 1: else there have? One in twelve people say they're embarrassed
Speaker 1: to admit they can't do this? What is it? Um?
Speaker 1: So people, I'll say, tie shoes blow a bubble with
Speaker 1: gum one in twelve people? When you first started blowing that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you start doing it with um gum from a
Speaker 1: baseball pack? Or was it big league chew? Oh? I
Speaker 1: was a big big league chew guy because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be just like the players, and I pretended it
Speaker 1: was like chewing tobacco. And I got a big giant
Speaker 1: ball and yeah, the whole thing. Uh. But I'm able
Speaker 1: to blow a bubble. Not I'm not an epic historic
Speaker 1: bubble blower, but I'm all right. On average, about fourteen
Speaker 1: of these are made for every American every year. Fourteen
Speaker 1: of these, yes, fourteen? Um? Uh do do do? Do?
Speaker 1: Don zippers? No, zippity dude does zippity day? The average woman,
Speaker 1: where's these? Seventeen times before washing them? What is it?
Speaker 1: A bra? No pajamas? Oh that's fucking dirty, dirty dirty dirty? Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody you know who's around when you're in your pajamas,
Speaker 1: you know, come up dirty in your pajamas. Uh. Women
Speaker 1: can usually do this in six days, but it takes
Speaker 1: us men ten days to do it on average. Commit
Speaker 1: to a date, No, it's actually the opposite to break
Speaker 1: up with someone. No ship, Yeah, it wasn't that Because
Speaker 1: the trope is that women have somebody else already lined up.
Speaker 1: Right when they're ready to break up with the guy,
Speaker 1: they were already scouting out, scouring the market for somebody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: plus the tinks, it's a little bit longer for us
Speaker 1: to make the women break up with us, and guys
Speaker 1: usually don't have they very rarely do they have someone
Speaker 1: else lined up. Women usually have somebody warmed up there.
Speaker 1: You could always have someone warming up with the pen
Speaker 1: ben Wow, Dave Roberts. Only about of people say they
Speaker 1: can do this extremely well, about SI say they can't
Speaker 1: do it at all. Now I can do this, but
Speaker 1: I cannot do it extremely well. I'm very mediocre at whistle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Whistle. Now, my grandfather Phil Jackson with
Speaker 1: the do you go Phil Jackson with the two pinkies
Speaker 1: and yeah, no, no, I don't do that. But my
Speaker 1: grandfather was a great whistler. I was I'm only able
Speaker 1: to whistle blowing air in, not out. That's the lode,
Speaker 1: and which it's the ability to whistle along the length
Speaker 1: of the whistle. You know. I was like, she asked me,
Speaker 1: can you whistle? That's good I'm a better whistler than you.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to rate the podcast, you can go.
Speaker 1: You want to know why this is a Saturday podcast
Speaker 1: and no one's listening to this crap? Right there, there's
Speaker 1: an example two men whistling, whistling the day away, right, literally,
Speaker 1: whist whistling the day away, all right. A new study
Speaker 1: shows that listening to this for eight to ten minutes
Speaker 1: a day will brighten your mood. Um gospel music? Uh no,
Speaker 1: how about birds singing? Birds sing? Can you get that
Speaker 1: on the music apps on your phone? Birds singing? Is
Speaker 1: that on YouTube? I'm sure? Well, I'm sure on you
Speaker 1: you can get anything on YouTube. New survey asked dog
Speaker 1: owners to name their biggest pet peeves. People said this
Speaker 1: top their list. Most annoying thing that people do. Um,
Speaker 1: not picking up their dogs. Shit. Now when a stranger
Speaker 1: pets their dogs, don't touch fight? Oh what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Leave fighto alone? I always ask, Yeah, this is one
Speaker 1: of our biggest regrets from high school? What is it?
Speaker 1: The women we did? I see your hairstyle? Well, your
Speaker 1: hair looked. Oh it's so bad, terrible. Almost all of
Speaker 1: us have this in our homes, but only use it.
Speaker 1: What is it scale no dental floss, get that dental
Speaker 1: flow floss. I'm an epic floster. I'm a really good floster.
Speaker 1: I'm a talented filosoper. I go those a little, those
Speaker 1: little flosters, I use those things off. Yeah, the toothpick flosters.
Speaker 1: Those these are wonderful. Have him in my car triggers
Speaker 1: my wife's mesophonia, which is so high. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't get how you practicing your hygiene would would trigger her.
Speaker 1: But whatever, that's what I'm saying. I'm listen. I'm practicing
Speaker 1: good dental hygiene. I floss more than doctors recommend. Okay,
Speaker 1: give me a break. Of public teachers have this in common.
Speaker 1: What is it? They don't want to go back to work. Well,
Speaker 1: that's true, but also they have a second job, second
Speaker 1: job outside of teaching, a little side hustle. What's going on?
Speaker 1: All right? Last last one here? And when it comes
Speaker 1: to our house. Four of homeowners have this in common.
Speaker 1: They don't know where the electrical boxes or the switchbox.
Speaker 1: Uh no is actually uh the They think their house
Speaker 1: is haunted. Oh no, but that let just do all right,
Speaker 1: that's it, We're done, We're out of here. Cameo dot com.
Speaker 1: By the way, want a personal video message, Have a
Speaker 1: great rest your Saturday. Get the mail bag on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We will catch you then. Be sure to catch live
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