WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Blinded Me with Gambling 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Cut Booms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.680 In the air andywhere the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:36.720 and Danny g As. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:42.360 We slide in to a Friday, a brand new weekend. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.800 Otherwise we wouldn't be here doing this podcast unless it 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.440 was a brand new weekend. But we're here again, hanging out, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.199 and we thank you for listening. We know today is 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.960 a very difficult day to pry away people to listen 0:00:54.040 --> 0:01:00.920 because it is day two of the Madness of March Tournament, 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.800 which if you're into gambling, or you like college of basketball, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.640 or maybe just like watching random sporting events all day, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.520 a lot of people take the Thursday and Friday off 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.720 the They say the two greatest days if you love 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:21.679 basketball and gambling, the two greatest days are these two 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.520 because there's games all day long from if we're on 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.640 the West coast from like nine in the morning all 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.480 the way up until ten o'clock at night, so it's 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.040 it's March madness. Are you into? 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:32.360 I'm not. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.760 I get to I'm watching these games. And then I 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.120 did a monologue last night about the tournament. But I'm 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:39.560 not really feeling and I don't. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:39.840 I don't. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.600 I'm not really feeling the tournament. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.360 I mean, it doesn't consume me. But as a big 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.000 sports fan, it's fun to follow along and see how 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.200 you do with all your guessing and small bit of 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.640 research you did. Like for two hours, I clicked on 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.960 all the air quote experts for each game and saw 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.120 the pros and cons of picking either side and who 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.840 the experts thought would win. And then of course you 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.840 got to go. You can't just go with all favorites, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.920 so you got to pick some Cinderella teams. And you 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.560 don't want to be a douche who has like a 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.600 number one versus number two up at the top versus 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.040 a one and a two again for the final four. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.480 Well that's how they get you, though, That's how they 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:22.600 get you can't pick all the favorites. You realize most years, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.160 if you pick the favorites, you will end up winning 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.960 like seventy of the bets. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:31.080 True, if there's always one Cinderella though, there's usually one 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.600 Cinderella team that gets somewhat deep into the tournament. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.680 Yeah, well, I hope you didn't bet on Nevada yesterday, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:38.520 as I did. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.160 I had two teams that already jacked up. I'm sure 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:42.760 you want to hear about my bracket right now. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.400 Yes, And one thing we love is people's brackets. It's 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.279 great radio. Absolutely. I had two podcasts. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.840 I had two losses on opening day of the tournament 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.680 BYU and Nevada. Yeah. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.440 Well, Nevada though, Steve Alford, the old Bruin forever is 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.640 going to be a Indiana hoosier or what for me? 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.480 But Steve Alford and Nevada one of the epic March 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:10.840 Madness choke jobs. Seventeen points man, seventeen point lead they lost. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.760 Yeah, at one point they had gone on like a 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.519 twenty four to four run, and I thought all money 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.480 on this one. Nope. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.040 Yeah, Now the big story of the week that trump 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.520 the tournament. Now, we don't do sporty here. This is 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.800 not a sporty podcast, But I don't think this is 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:35.160 actually sporty. This is like mafios so scambling. Ah, yes, 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.000 scandal is so good. I love Scan. I did not 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.800 expect to get a Dodger scandal. I was. It was 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.360 why I was sorting to Jason and Harmon when I 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.520 was They were leaving and I was coming into the 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.800 studio and they were like, are you gonna watch the 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.560 Dodger game? Are you gonna be up for the Dodger Oh, yeah, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.120 of course I'm gonna be up. It's after the show. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.880 I'm gonna I'm gonna check that out. And and then 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.680 we were like, well, what's gonna happen as well? I'm 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.560 sure somebody will get hurt by the time I get home. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.560 I didn't realize though, that it was Otani that would 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.000 be in upheaval right, that there would be this this 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.560 turbulence with Otani. But I will tell you this though, Dan, 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.240 I know, I did another monologue last night about it. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.080 I'm sure this will be I heard it. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.880 I heard it your Thursday in your Wednesday into Thursday show. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.359 I was all ears. I was listening. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:27.520 Yeah. And so the feeding frenzy that we've not gotten 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.760 that I don't feel like this is a full feeding frenzy. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.760 I had an interesting conversation with somebody in the media 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.120 who and by the way, this story is so crazy. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.839 I was getting people that work in news media that 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:45.240 were casual friends of mine that were sending me message 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.080 it was going on with Otani. You know anything about Altani? 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.280 What's going on? I was like, well, I don't really. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.360 I mean, everyone I know is in Korea with the 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.480 Dodgers this week, so I didn't really I'm not talking 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.000 to them on the phone while they're in Korea, so 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.320 I don't really know exactly what's going on. They're like, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:58.919 they're trying. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.400 To get tap on the podcast immediately. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:06.719 Yeah, and so so this is like a wide ranging 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.719 but the whole scandal element. People love scandals and people 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.000 it's funny because people, Ah, I don't like scandals. I 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.000 don't like but people love scandals. They take pleasure out 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.080 of it that there's somebody that is doing something. It's 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.159 not damn, somebody's in trouble, right, it's titillating, it's great 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.599 and all that. And then either way, either you're excited 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.200 because they get punished or you're happy because they got 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.680 away with it. But it it does work as a 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.240 nice distraction. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.400 Oh yeah, And I saw Padre fans all over social 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.720 media doing cartwheels and celebrating as if they did something awesome. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.720 Yeah. My favorite, though, is the Yankee fans and the 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.599 Giant fans and the Phillies and all these teams that 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.240 were sucking the toes like a high school kid in 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:57.600 Oklahoma for licking them for yam you know, for Yamamoto 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.960 and Oton. All these teams that wanted Oton right they were, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.600 and they they didn't get him, and they were caught 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.000 flat footed. And so now they're like, they're like celebrating 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.840 the possible demise of and he is lucky he's not 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.280 a football player because in football, although not even as 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.440 much lately, but remember there was that stretch where if 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.240 this happened and involved a football player, you would be 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.360 put on the commissioner's exemplst until we figure out what's 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.360 going on. But there's not even any talk of that. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:33.120 They're like, no, it's a it's an odd it's an 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:40.200 odd story considering uh, the magnitude of that that for 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.520 so long was the the ultimate final frontier with gambling. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.799 Of course most and I love gambling, but you can't 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.400 be having the people in the sport betting kind of 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.479 obvious here, even though baseball is fully in bed as 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:54.760 a gambling operation. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:59.800 So it's yeah. So I think there's an underlying topic here, 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.560 and that is why the hell is gambling not legal 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:04.880 in the state of California. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.160 Well, and I blamed the voters the other night because 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.600 this should have been legal. It is the casinos, the 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:17.760 Indian casinos in California blocked the legislation because we know 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.160 people are easily manipulated, and that's why there's so much 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.720 money in politics, because human beings are weak, and if 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.560 you spend enough money in advertising for a political either 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.160 pro or against something, you can get it passed. That's 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.200 why it's usually the person that has the most money 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:40.320 wins an election, not necessarily because that they're the greatest candidate, 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.760 but because they can brainwash people to vote a certain way. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.280 And the people behind the Native American Indian casinos in California, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.240 they wanted more control. This is what I was told. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.400 Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I was from I understand 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.520 they wanted more control of the California sports wagering market. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.280 And if that law had passed, it would have been 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.440 the big companies like DraftKings and fan duel that would 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:09.360 have had more more control than them, and so they're 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.240 they're going to have it pass, but they're gonna have 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.920 new legislation that will have them in control. It's all 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.200 it's about who's in control of the money. It's always 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.160 about the money. But that's the thing. If this had 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.560 been legal, Uh, it would have been a thinking. But 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.000 you know the whole point. Listen, it's like the whole 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.240 drug dealer thing. Right, if you go down to cvs 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.960 and buy drugs, everything's good, right, but yeah, you know, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.280 the neighborhood drug dealer. You can't be doing that, right, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.800 You can't, you know, because you gotta get you gotta 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:40.719 get tax money out of. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.800 It, exactly. You have to have a certificate that way 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.320 the money flows to the right people. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:50.160 If Otani and his guy paid taxes so our politicians 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.200 could waste that money, that's fine. But oh, you know, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.120 you can't just do it. It's not even a neighborhood bookie. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.199 No neighbor back in the day, I might have known 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.960 some guys that ran book in the neighborhood. And they're 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.600 not taking action at that level. They're not. They can't, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.720 they can't cover it. So you're telling millions of dollars. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:14.600 That's a high end. That's a bougie situation, right, That's 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:19.920 not your normal run of the mill situation. And the 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:25.520 sports writers though, the people that cover these the sports like, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.400 there's not a lot of street smarts, you know, they 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.640 just they This is one of my problems. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.800 With a ton of mo though. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.040 Oh yeah, yeah, they are the moral But the thing 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.920 that drives me nuts is they they just believe whatever 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.400 these these teams say, or in this case, the lawyers 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.400 who are being paid by oh toney. And I don't know, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.320 I don't know what's going on, but I do know 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.959 we're not getting the whole story. I do know that 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.800 that there's more, and the story has already changed, right, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.120 And I'm of the agent and I'm probably outdated now, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.400 but I'm of the age that you're supposed to assume 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:07.480 nothing in question everything. Now it is, it's backwards, it's 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:12.000 never questioned anything, and assume everything is right. You know, 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:17.839 there's no bad stuff going on, everything's great, and we'll 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.800 see what happens. But if Baseball doesn't pursue this, the 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:25.600 only way anything will come of it is if the 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:30.160 Feds go after Otani. By the letter of law, a 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.960 wire transfer that goes to pay off an illegal gambling 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.600 debt is punishable by up to two years in jail, 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:43.240 up to his weasel terminology. So that alone is a 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:48.400 federal violation. Now Otani's claiming that he didn't know that 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.440 he was unaware of the situation, But how do you 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.199 get someone to send a couple five hundred thousand dollars 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:56.679 checks or wire transfers? 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.120 Do you know what the actual crime is? Is it 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.040 wired transfer daring money to an illegal operation? 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.520 Uh? Yeah, Well, so there's the federal if you if 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.439 you knowingly, I don't even know if the word knowing these, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.200 it's a federal law that if you if you wire 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.480 transfer money, it's a heagh. They took down the mob, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:22.480 right though, you know, using wired transfers or whatever they 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.800 call it, going across state lines or whatever. And so 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.240 as I read it and as I understand it, it's 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.080 it's just if you knew you were sending money on 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.559 a wire that was going to be used to pay 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:39.720 off an illegal gambling situation, that is, you violated federal law, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.199 and it's it it's two years. But but who knows 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.920 if it's deeper than that, right, you know, this guy. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.320 Otani and this guy were tight for over a decade. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.240 I mean, it's hard to imagine that they didn't talk. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.920 Even if Otani wasn't betting, it's almost impossible to think 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.600 that he didn't know what was going on, Right, this 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.840 guy was justitting on big soccer. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.120 Games and soccer football college football. Let's just hope that 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:11.079 no MLB gambling was involved and there are no traces 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.320 of digital gambling slips with Well, they would use numbers, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:16.840 like you said on your monologue, right. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.640 Yeah, they don't use names. Well that's what they're supposed 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.360 to do. They don't use and because you know the names, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.800 people obviously can track down. But yeah, that would be much. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.000 I would say it would be bigger than Pete Rose. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.920 Yeah, I was going to say the name Pete Rose 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.280 was trending for two days. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.680 But I would say this would be bigger on the days. 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.960 You know. In let's go down the parallel dimension, Danny 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.400 in the Twilight Zone, multiple dimensions. There's a dimension where 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:49.319 al Tani was betting and he's starting for the Angels 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:55.760 against the Oakland Athletics, and the Angels are a big favorite, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.679 and you know, it just wasn't on that day, just 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.319 had a bad start pitch that well, and the A's 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.160 ended up somehow winning the game and all that. And 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.959 you know that you can have so much influence on 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.760 that as much as a quarterback. Right. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.960 No, I just don't even want to entertain that idea. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.720 I don't want to think he did any of that. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.640 Yeah, no, I don't either. I'd like to think that 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:30.520 this is this is nothing. But I don't believe attorneys. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.920 That's the problem. I mean, it's hard for me to 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:37.440 believe attorneys, you know what I'm saying, Like, just you 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.480 got to use some critical thinking, right, not just for 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.800 the sake of argument. You just gotta you know, sometimes 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.439 you have to be the lone voice out there. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.360 Well, there's there's so many examples throughout the history of 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.160 sports where players like Charles Barkley, like Michael Jordan love 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.640 to gamble, Alan Iverson and others. And the thing is what, 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.000 it's a thrill if you win, you're part of the action, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.400 a big part of it. With that kind of money, Well, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.800 let's just hope that a guy like Otani knew even 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.440 even if he did like to gamble. Hey, I don't 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.920 want to risk my career on something like this. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.640 Yeah, but it's it's one of those things, the addiction 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.960 of gambling. It's like it's hard to it's almost impossible 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.760 to stop, and they have every trick to keep you 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:29.800 to continue to gamble, and it's amazing the way it works. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.000 Than listen I do a TV show. Hopefully they'll be 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.160 back for year two. I don't know that hasn't been 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.320 determined yet. But about gambling, but like, you can't be 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.120 betting if you've already won the lottery, if you're guys 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.480 like even the I would say the interpreter, what was 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.280 he making three hundred four or five hundred thousand dollars 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:49.520 a year? 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.080 Five hundred thousand dollars a year? 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.920 If you're making five hundred thousand dollars where I come from, your. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.720 You are above middle class even in Los Angeles that 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:00.400 far hundred. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.880 You're doing well and you've got an easy job. You 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.160 don't have to hit the back door slider, the lollipop curve, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.440 you don't have to do any of that. You just 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.880 have to show up and and interpret, just repeat some 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.680 cliches from Otani. You get to travel on the team. Yeah, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.760 no elbows surgery required you're living the dream, right you're 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.560 and then this this pops up. And then there's the 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.280 other possibility that they were both involved in it. And 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.480 this guy is the old Chris Carter got to have 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.280 a fall guy. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.240 Yeah, And one of our listeners tweeted, he said, I 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.320 think the interpreter was gambling, racked up an insane amount 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.840 of debt, Otani stupidly and illegally covered him, and now 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.800 the lawyers are getting involved. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.600 Yeah, I know that's what that's kind of the story 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.440 that it's going around. But well, we'll see. It's gonna 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.280 be up to the Fed. So my position on this 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.880 is it's not major League Baseball will do nothing. They 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.880 will be the Ostridge and they'll bury their head in 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.440 the ground and be like I didn't see anything nothing, 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.760 you know, I didn't see anything. Move on nothing here, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.680 move on. It's the fifth art. How about it? Today 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.040 is National goof Off Day today? Do you you're a 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.239 goof off to that? It sounds yeah? It's also Bavarian, 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.640 uh Creep's day or no, what is it called crepe? 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.120 That's it crep crape. Yeah, that's how they say it 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.200 in France though. Yeah, so there's uh You've got that 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:34.840 International Seal Day, big big holiday, and it's National Donald Day, 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:41.880 so I have to celebrate every Donald, like Donald the Donald. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.640 Do you have A'donald duck don don? That's about the 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.960 only two Donald and Donal. The main reason I brought 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.200 this up today is because it's talk like William Shatner 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:55.800 Day today. Did you know that's a holiday? 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:57.160 That's stupid? 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.680 My guy shats spats with shats. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.640 We made everything sound dramatic. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.760 Today pays tribute to famous Canadian actor William Shatner, who 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.960 has gained worldwide appreciation because of his battles with the 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.320 mal Or militia back in the day. No, so yeah, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:23.840 it's an opportunity to pay tribute to his more memorable performances. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.280 And you just did an impersonation and so you kind 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.359 of get the whole the whole bit. So you go happy, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:36.080 talk like William Shatner Day. And that's just just great, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.600 just absolutely wonderful. Time out for. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.800 The word of the week, The word of the week. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.400 Are you ready for the word of the week. The 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:50.520 word of the week. All right, so the word this 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:57.720 week is mud slinging. Mud slinging is It's one word. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.280 Mud is slinging. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.360 Is a oh mud sling Does it have a dash? 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.199 No, No, it's all word. Okay, yeah, as I spell it, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.639 it's one word, So mud slinging, which is appropriate. The 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.960 last couple of weeks we've seen a lot of mud slinging. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.240 You could argue the Otani story with the gambling, there's 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.760 a lot of mud slinging involved in that. You could 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.879 claim that the case also Aaron Rodgers. A couple of 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.720 weeks ago, his name came up as a possible candidate 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:30.200 to run for the vice president's seat in the upcoming election, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:35.040 and immediately immediately people were just like all over Aaron 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.200 Rodgers and just trying to bury him with political dirt 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:44.639 and all this so mud slinging, which has been part 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:51.720 of the political spectrum since the days when politicians would 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:58.119 actually throw real mud. Well maybe maybe not that, but 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:03.639 but it goes back to ancient Latin and the origin 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.960 of mud slinging. It goes from a Latin saying which 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.600 translated means throw plenty of dirt and some of it 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:20.240 will surely stick. However, the rise in popularity did not 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:24.560 really take place until the nineteen hundreds, but still here 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.439 we are in twenty twenty four and that term is 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:34.120 still regularly used going back to the nineteen hundred and so, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:39.520 but it originated in Latin. And it just means you 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.400 throw plenty of dirt and some of it is sure 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.119 to sure to stick, which is great life advice. Right, 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.080 if you're a single guy and you're dating, you know, 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.000 you've got to make a lot of offers to people 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.560 for dates before somebody takes you up on it. Right, 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.560 And if you're that kind of goes where anything in life, 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.080 where it threw out a bunch of dpicts out there 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.360 and see where they land exactly exactly, well you know 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:05.800 about that, but you know a lot of Dick and 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.720 Dayton stuff. You know you could do that absolutely. Let's 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.240 we haven't done science in all I want to we 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.880 do scientifically, and there's a few. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.280 Science stories scientifical. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:34.919 Yeah, we'll get scientifical si science. I saw the stir. 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.119 We didn't talk about it on the Overnight show. I 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.359 don't know if it came up on a Coveno and Rich. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.600 But the science community was buzzing this week because there's 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:51.560 this exercise pill, which is they claim almost here. Now 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:56.080 that's weasel terminology, almost here, but they say that this 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:57.400 exercise pill is. 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.800 This supposed to be like ozembic but in a pill form. 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:05.280 Yeah. So the scientists from the Washington University School of 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:11.199 Medicine that's in Saint Louis, they have they've gotten pretty 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.399 close to creating a pill that would give you the 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.320 same health benefits as actually working out, and so you 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.800 wouldn't have to go to you wouldn't have to get 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.440 ten thousand steps, you wouldn't have to get regular physical activity, 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.080 and you wouldn't have to worry about any of that. 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:28.960 It's a little bit different then. This is more like 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:29.879 a magic pill. 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:36.240 Yeah. Yeah, so they say, you know, substituting physical and 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.880 mental health benefits of exercise with a pill. They say, 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:45.880 you know, it seems crazy, but they claim that this 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.280 is the They've got it. They're close to it, and 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:55.760 they can replace a lot of the exercise stuff. All exercise, 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.520 of course, you know, you get your metabolism going and 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:04.720 all that. But magic magic maybe in like when your 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.840 kids old, Danny and we're really old, like they'll just 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:11.880 you just take a pill. If you want to lose weight, 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.679 you take a pill. You want to exercise, take a pill, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.240 and and you're good. That's it, But they claim the 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:23.359 secret behind the exercise pill lies in the activation of 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:30.359 estrogen related receptors, proteins that play pivotal role in the 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:35.159 body's response to physical activity. So they've been spending a 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:39.080 number viewers on this research wise, and they claim they 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:44.600 have found the magic Goldilocks formula. I'm a doctor, and 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:51.159 it will provide similar results to h to exercise. I 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.040 guess that's good if you're you can't get around right, 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.320 if your legs gave out, or you're kind of old, 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.240 you're not mobile and you're gonna have to you know, 0:22:58.359 --> 0:22:59.200 sitting around. 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.240 While stuck a video studio all day. 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:06.080 I know I've been walking. I've been trying to get 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.119 some a little bit of steps at night. So sometimes 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:10.040 during the top of the hour I'll walk up and 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:13.399 down the hall, just back and forth because I'm a loser. 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.680 But I wouldn't used to walk around Sherman Oaks, California. 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:19.119 I did. Yeah, I didn't get shanked either, which I 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.680