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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air andywhere the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 3: and Danny g As.
Speaker 1: We slide in to a Friday, a brand new weekend.
Speaker 1: Otherwise we wouldn't be here doing this podcast unless it
Speaker 1: was a brand new weekend. But we're here again, hanging out,
Speaker 1: and we thank you for listening. We know today is
Speaker 1: a very difficult day to pry away people to listen
Speaker 1: because it is day two of the Madness of March Tournament,
Speaker 1: which if you're into gambling, or you like college of basketball,
Speaker 1: or maybe just like watching random sporting events all day,
Speaker 1: a lot of people take the Thursday and Friday off
Speaker 1: the They say the two greatest days if you love
Speaker 1: basketball and gambling, the two greatest days are these two
Speaker 1: because there's games all day long from if we're on
Speaker 1: the West coast from like nine in the morning all
Speaker 1: the way up until ten o'clock at night, so it's
Speaker 1: it's March madness. Are you into?
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I get to I'm watching these games. And then I
Speaker 1: did a monologue last night about the tournament. But I'm
Speaker 1: not really feeling and I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not really feeling the tournament.
Speaker 4: I mean, it doesn't consume me. But as a big
Speaker 4: sports fan, it's fun to follow along and see how
Speaker 4: you do with all your guessing and small bit of
Speaker 4: research you did. Like for two hours, I clicked on
Speaker 4: all the air quote experts for each game and saw
Speaker 4: the pros and cons of picking either side and who
Speaker 4: the experts thought would win. And then of course you
Speaker 4: got to go. You can't just go with all favorites,
Speaker 4: so you got to pick some Cinderella teams. And you
Speaker 4: don't want to be a douche who has like a
Speaker 4: number one versus number two up at the top versus
Speaker 4: a one and a two again for the final four.
Speaker 1: Well that's how they get you, though, That's how they
Speaker 1: get you can't pick all the favorites. You realize most years,
Speaker 1: if you pick the favorites, you will end up winning
Speaker 1: like seventy of the bets.
Speaker 4: True, if there's always one Cinderella though, there's usually one
Speaker 4: Cinderella team that gets somewhat deep into the tournament.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I hope you didn't bet on Nevada yesterday,
Speaker 1: as I did.
Speaker 4: I had two teams that already jacked up. I'm sure
Speaker 4: you want to hear about my bracket right now.
Speaker 1: Yes, And one thing we love is people's brackets. It's
Speaker 1: great radio. Absolutely. I had two podcasts.
Speaker 4: I had two losses on opening day of the tournament
Speaker 4: BYU and Nevada. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, Nevada though, Steve Alford, the old Bruin forever is
Speaker 1: going to be a Indiana hoosier or what for me?
Speaker 1: But Steve Alford and Nevada one of the epic March
Speaker 1: Madness choke jobs. Seventeen points man, seventeen point lead they lost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at one point they had gone on like a
Speaker 4: twenty four to four run, and I thought all money
Speaker 4: on this one. Nope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now the big story of the week that trump
Speaker 1: the tournament. Now, we don't do sporty here. This is
Speaker 1: not a sporty podcast, But I don't think this is
Speaker 1: actually sporty. This is like mafios so scambling. Ah, yes,
Speaker 1: scandal is so good. I love Scan. I did not
Speaker 1: expect to get a Dodger scandal. I was. It was
Speaker 1: why I was sorting to Jason and Harmon when I
Speaker 1: was They were leaving and I was coming into the
Speaker 1: studio and they were like, are you gonna watch the
Speaker 1: Dodger game? Are you gonna be up for the Dodger Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I'm gonna be up. It's after the show.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna check that out. And and then
Speaker 1: we were like, well, what's gonna happen as well? I'm
Speaker 1: sure somebody will get hurt by the time I get home.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize though, that it was Otani that would
Speaker 1: be in upheaval right, that there would be this this
Speaker 1: turbulence with Otani. But I will tell you this though, Dan,
Speaker 1: I know, I did another monologue last night about it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure this will be I heard it.
Speaker 4: I heard it your Thursday in your Wednesday into Thursday show.
Speaker 4: I was all ears. I was listening.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so the feeding frenzy that we've not gotten
Speaker 1: that I don't feel like this is a full feeding frenzy.
Speaker 1: I had an interesting conversation with somebody in the media
Speaker 1: who and by the way, this story is so crazy.
Speaker 1: I was getting people that work in news media that
Speaker 1: were casual friends of mine that were sending me message
Speaker 1: it was going on with Otani. You know anything about Altani?
Speaker 1: What's going on? I was like, well, I don't really.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone I know is in Korea with the
Speaker 1: Dodgers this week, so I didn't really I'm not talking
Speaker 1: to them on the phone while they're in Korea, so
Speaker 1: I don't really know exactly what's going on. They're like,
Speaker 1: they're trying.
Speaker 4: To get tap on the podcast immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so so this is like a wide ranging
Speaker 1: but the whole scandal element. People love scandals and people
Speaker 1: it's funny because people, Ah, I don't like scandals. I
Speaker 1: don't like but people love scandals. They take pleasure out
Speaker 1: of it that there's somebody that is doing something. It's
Speaker 1: not damn, somebody's in trouble, right, it's titillating, it's great
Speaker 1: and all that. And then either way, either you're excited
Speaker 1: because they get punished or you're happy because they got
Speaker 1: away with it. But it it does work as a
Speaker 1: nice distraction.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And I saw Padre fans all over social
Speaker 4: media doing cartwheels and celebrating as if they did something awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My favorite, though, is the Yankee fans and the
Speaker 1: Giant fans and the Phillies and all these teams that
Speaker 1: were sucking the toes like a high school kid in
Speaker 1: Oklahoma for licking them for yam you know, for Yamamoto
Speaker 1: and Oton. All these teams that wanted Oton right they were,
Speaker 1: and they they didn't get him, and they were caught
Speaker 1: flat footed. And so now they're like, they're like celebrating
Speaker 1: the possible demise of and he is lucky he's not
Speaker 1: a football player because in football, although not even as
Speaker 1: much lately, but remember there was that stretch where if
Speaker 1: this happened and involved a football player, you would be
Speaker 1: put on the commissioner's exemplst until we figure out what's
Speaker 1: going on. But there's not even any talk of that.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, it's a it's an odd it's an
Speaker 1: odd story considering uh, the magnitude of that that for
Speaker 1: so long was the the ultimate final frontier with gambling.
Speaker 1: Of course most and I love gambling, but you can't
Speaker 1: be having the people in the sport betting kind of
Speaker 1: obvious here, even though baseball is fully in bed as
Speaker 1: a gambling operation.
Speaker 4: So it's yeah. So I think there's an underlying topic here,
Speaker 4: and that is why the hell is gambling not legal
Speaker 4: in the state of California.
Speaker 1: Well, and I blamed the voters the other night because
Speaker 1: this should have been legal. It is the casinos, the
Speaker 1: Indian casinos in California blocked the legislation because we know
Speaker 1: people are easily manipulated, and that's why there's so much
Speaker 1: money in politics, because human beings are weak, and if
Speaker 1: you spend enough money in advertising for a political either
Speaker 1: pro or against something, you can get it passed. That's
Speaker 1: why it's usually the person that has the most money
Speaker 1: wins an election, not necessarily because that they're the greatest candidate,
Speaker 1: but because they can brainwash people to vote a certain way.
Speaker 1: And the people behind the Native American Indian casinos in California,
Speaker 1: they wanted more control. This is what I was told.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I was from I understand
Speaker 1: they wanted more control of the California sports wagering market.
Speaker 1: And if that law had passed, it would have been
Speaker 1: the big companies like DraftKings and fan duel that would
Speaker 1: have had more more control than them, and so they're
Speaker 1: they're going to have it pass, but they're gonna have
Speaker 1: new legislation that will have them in control. It's all
Speaker 1: it's about who's in control of the money. It's always
Speaker 1: about the money. But that's the thing. If this had
Speaker 1: been legal, Uh, it would have been a thinking. But
Speaker 1: you know the whole point. Listen, it's like the whole
Speaker 1: drug dealer thing. Right, if you go down to cvs
Speaker 1: and buy drugs, everything's good, right, but yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the neighborhood drug dealer. You can't be doing that, right,
Speaker 1: You can't, you know, because you gotta get you gotta
Speaker 1: get tax money out of.
Speaker 4: It, exactly. You have to have a certificate that way
Speaker 4: the money flows to the right people.
Speaker 1: If Otani and his guy paid taxes so our politicians
Speaker 1: could waste that money, that's fine. But oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't just do it. It's not even a neighborhood bookie.
Speaker 1: No neighbor back in the day, I might have known
Speaker 1: some guys that ran book in the neighborhood. And they're
Speaker 1: not taking action at that level. They're not. They can't,
Speaker 1: they can't cover it. So you're telling millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a high end. That's a bougie situation, right, That's
Speaker 1: not your normal run of the mill situation. And the
Speaker 1: sports writers though, the people that cover these the sports like,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of street smarts, you know, they
Speaker 1: just they This is one of my problems.
Speaker 4: With a ton of mo though.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, they are the moral But the thing
Speaker 1: that drives me nuts is they they just believe whatever
Speaker 1: these these teams say, or in this case, the lawyers
Speaker 1: who are being paid by oh toney. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but I do know
Speaker 1: we're not getting the whole story. I do know that
Speaker 1: that there's more, and the story has already changed, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm of the agent and I'm probably outdated now,
Speaker 1: but I'm of the age that you're supposed to assume
Speaker 1: nothing in question everything. Now it is, it's backwards, it's
Speaker 1: never questioned anything, and assume everything is right. You know,
Speaker 1: there's no bad stuff going on, everything's great, and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. But if Baseball doesn't pursue this, the
Speaker 1: only way anything will come of it is if the
Speaker 1: Feds go after Otani. By the letter of law, a
Speaker 1: wire transfer that goes to pay off an illegal gambling
Speaker 1: debt is punishable by up to two years in jail,
Speaker 1: up to his weasel terminology. So that alone is a
Speaker 1: federal violation. Now Otani's claiming that he didn't know that
Speaker 1: he was unaware of the situation, But how do you
Speaker 1: get someone to send a couple five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: checks or wire transfers?
Speaker 4: Do you know what the actual crime is? Is it
Speaker 4: wired transfer daring money to an illegal operation?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, Well, so there's the federal if you if
Speaker 1: you knowingly, I don't even know if the word knowing these,
Speaker 1: it's a federal law that if you if you wire
Speaker 1: transfer money, it's a heagh. They took down the mob,
Speaker 1: right though, you know, using wired transfers or whatever they
Speaker 1: call it, going across state lines or whatever. And so
Speaker 1: as I read it and as I understand it, it's
Speaker 1: it's just if you knew you were sending money on
Speaker 1: a wire that was going to be used to pay
Speaker 1: off an illegal gambling situation, that is, you violated federal law,
Speaker 1: and it's it it's two years. But but who knows
Speaker 1: if it's deeper than that, right, you know, this guy.
Speaker 1: Otani and this guy were tight for over a decade.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to imagine that they didn't talk.
Speaker 1: Even if Otani wasn't betting, it's almost impossible to think
Speaker 1: that he didn't know what was going on, Right, this
Speaker 1: guy was justitting on big soccer.
Speaker 4: Games and soccer football college football. Let's just hope that
Speaker 4: no MLB gambling was involved and there are no traces
Speaker 4: of digital gambling slips with Well, they would use numbers,
Speaker 4: like you said on your monologue, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't use names. Well that's what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. They don't use and because you know the names,
Speaker 1: people obviously can track down. But yeah, that would be much.
Speaker 1: I would say it would be bigger than Pete Rose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to say the name Pete Rose
Speaker 4: was trending for two days.
Speaker 1: But I would say this would be bigger on the days.
Speaker 1: You know. In let's go down the parallel dimension, Danny
Speaker 1: in the Twilight Zone, multiple dimensions. There's a dimension where
Speaker 1: al Tani was betting and he's starting for the Angels
Speaker 1: against the Oakland Athletics, and the Angels are a big favorite,
Speaker 1: and you know, it just wasn't on that day, just
Speaker 1: had a bad start pitch that well, and the A's
Speaker 1: ended up somehow winning the game and all that. And
Speaker 1: you know that you can have so much influence on
Speaker 1: that as much as a quarterback. Right.
Speaker 4: No, I just don't even want to entertain that idea.
Speaker 4: I don't want to think he did any of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't either. I'd like to think that
Speaker 1: this is this is nothing. But I don't believe attorneys.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. I mean, it's hard for me to
Speaker 1: believe attorneys, you know what I'm saying, Like, just you
Speaker 1: got to use some critical thinking, right, not just for
Speaker 1: the sake of argument. You just gotta you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to be the lone voice out there.
Speaker 4: Well, there's there's so many examples throughout the history of
Speaker 4: sports where players like Charles Barkley, like Michael Jordan love
Speaker 4: to gamble, Alan Iverson and others. And the thing is what,
Speaker 4: it's a thrill if you win, you're part of the action,
Speaker 4: a big part of it. With that kind of money, Well,
Speaker 4: let's just hope that a guy like Otani knew even
Speaker 4: even if he did like to gamble. Hey, I don't
Speaker 4: want to risk my career on something like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's one of those things, the addiction
Speaker 1: of gambling. It's like it's hard to it's almost impossible
Speaker 1: to stop, and they have every trick to keep you
Speaker 1: to continue to gamble, and it's amazing the way it works.
Speaker 1: Than listen I do a TV show. Hopefully they'll be
Speaker 1: back for year two. I don't know that hasn't been
Speaker 1: determined yet. But about gambling, but like, you can't be
Speaker 1: betting if you've already won the lottery, if you're guys
Speaker 1: like even the I would say the interpreter, what was
Speaker 1: he making three hundred four or five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year?
Speaker 4: Five hundred thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 1: If you're making five hundred thousand dollars where I come from, your.
Speaker 4: You are above middle class even in Los Angeles that
Speaker 4: far hundred.
Speaker 1: You're doing well and you've got an easy job. You
Speaker 1: don't have to hit the back door slider, the lollipop curve,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do any of that. You just
Speaker 1: have to show up and and interpret, just repeat some
Speaker 1: cliches from Otani. You get to travel on the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no elbows surgery required you're living the dream, right you're
Speaker 1: and then this this pops up. And then there's the
Speaker 1: other possibility that they were both involved in it. And
Speaker 1: this guy is the old Chris Carter got to have
Speaker 1: a fall guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And one of our listeners tweeted, he said, I
Speaker 4: think the interpreter was gambling, racked up an insane amount
Speaker 4: of debt, Otani stupidly and illegally covered him, and now
Speaker 4: the lawyers are getting involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that's what that's kind of the story
Speaker 1: that it's going around. But well, we'll see. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be up to the Fed. So my position on this
Speaker 1: is it's not major League Baseball will do nothing. They
Speaker 1: will be the Ostridge and they'll bury their head in
Speaker 1: the ground and be like I didn't see anything nothing,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't see anything. Move on nothing here,
Speaker 1: move on. It's the fifth art. How about it? Today
Speaker 1: is National goof Off Day today? Do you you're a
Speaker 1: goof off to that? It sounds yeah? It's also Bavarian,
Speaker 1: uh Creep's day or no, what is it called crepe?
Speaker 1: That's it crep crape. Yeah, that's how they say it
Speaker 1: in France though. Yeah, so there's uh You've got that
Speaker 1: International Seal Day, big big holiday, and it's National Donald Day,
Speaker 1: so I have to celebrate every Donald, like Donald the Donald.
Speaker 1: Do you have A'donald duck don don? That's about the
Speaker 1: only two Donald and Donal. The main reason I brought
Speaker 1: this up today is because it's talk like William Shatner
Speaker 1: Day today. Did you know that's a holiday?
Speaker 4: That's stupid?
Speaker 1: My guy shats spats with shats.
Speaker 4: We made everything sound dramatic.
Speaker 1: Today pays tribute to famous Canadian actor William Shatner, who
Speaker 1: has gained worldwide appreciation because of his battles with the
Speaker 1: mal Or militia back in the day. No, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity to pay tribute to his more memorable performances.
Speaker 1: And you just did an impersonation and so you kind
Speaker 1: of get the whole the whole bit. So you go happy,
Speaker 1: talk like William Shatner Day. And that's just just great,
Speaker 1: just absolutely wonderful. Time out for.
Speaker 3: The word of the week, The word of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the word of the week. The
Speaker 1: word of the week. All right, so the word this
Speaker 1: week is mud slinging. Mud slinging is It's one word.
Speaker 1: Mud is slinging.
Speaker 4: Is a oh mud sling Does it have a dash?
Speaker 1: No, No, it's all word. Okay, yeah, as I spell it,
Speaker 1: it's one word, So mud slinging, which is appropriate. The
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks we've seen a lot of mud slinging.
Speaker 1: You could argue the Otani story with the gambling, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of mud slinging involved in that. You could
Speaker 1: claim that the case also Aaron Rodgers. A couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, his name came up as a possible candidate
Speaker 1: to run for the vice president's seat in the upcoming election,
Speaker 1: and immediately immediately people were just like all over Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and just trying to bury him with political dirt
Speaker 1: and all this so mud slinging, which has been part
Speaker 1: of the political spectrum since the days when politicians would
Speaker 1: actually throw real mud. Well maybe maybe not that, but
Speaker 1: but it goes back to ancient Latin and the origin
Speaker 1: of mud slinging. It goes from a Latin saying which
Speaker 1: translated means throw plenty of dirt and some of it
Speaker 1: will surely stick. However, the rise in popularity did not
Speaker 1: really take place until the nineteen hundreds, but still here
Speaker 1: we are in twenty twenty four and that term is
Speaker 1: still regularly used going back to the nineteen hundred and so,
Speaker 1: but it originated in Latin. And it just means you
Speaker 1: throw plenty of dirt and some of it is sure
Speaker 1: to sure to stick, which is great life advice. Right,
Speaker 1: if you're a single guy and you're dating, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got to make a lot of offers to people
Speaker 1: for dates before somebody takes you up on it. Right,
Speaker 1: And if you're that kind of goes where anything in life,
Speaker 1: where it threw out a bunch of dpicts out there
Speaker 1: and see where they land exactly exactly, well you know
Speaker 1: about that, but you know a lot of Dick and
Speaker 1: Dayton stuff. You know you could do that absolutely. Let's
Speaker 1: we haven't done science in all I want to we
Speaker 1: do scientifically, and there's a few.
Speaker 4: Science stories scientifical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get scientifical si science. I saw the stir.
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about it on the Overnight show. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it came up on a Coveno and Rich.
Speaker 1: But the science community was buzzing this week because there's
Speaker 1: this exercise pill, which is they claim almost here. Now
Speaker 1: that's weasel terminology, almost here, but they say that this
Speaker 1: exercise pill is.
Speaker 4: This supposed to be like ozembic but in a pill form.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the scientists from the Washington University School of
Speaker 1: Medicine that's in Saint Louis, they have they've gotten pretty
Speaker 1: close to creating a pill that would give you the
Speaker 1: same health benefits as actually working out, and so you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to go to you wouldn't have to get
Speaker 1: ten thousand steps, you wouldn't have to get regular physical activity,
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't have to worry about any of that.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit different then. This is more like
Speaker 4: a magic pill.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so they say, you know, substituting physical and
Speaker 1: mental health benefits of exercise with a pill. They say,
Speaker 1: you know, it seems crazy, but they claim that this
Speaker 1: is the They've got it. They're close to it, and
Speaker 1: they can replace a lot of the exercise stuff. All exercise,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, you get your metabolism going and
Speaker 1: all that. But magic magic maybe in like when your
Speaker 1: kids old, Danny and we're really old, like they'll just
Speaker 1: you just take a pill. If you want to lose weight,
Speaker 1: you take a pill. You want to exercise, take a pill,
Speaker 1: and and you're good. That's it, But they claim the
Speaker 1: secret behind the exercise pill lies in the activation of
Speaker 1: estrogen related receptors, proteins that play pivotal role in the
Speaker 1: body's response to physical activity. So they've been spending a
Speaker 1: number viewers on this research wise, and they claim they
Speaker 1: have found the magic Goldilocks formula. I'm a doctor, and
Speaker 1: it will provide similar results to h to exercise. I
Speaker 1: guess that's good if you're you can't get around right,
Speaker 1: if your legs gave out, or you're kind of old,
Speaker 1: you're not mobile and you're gonna have to you know,
Speaker 1: sitting around.
Speaker 4: While stuck a video studio all day.
Speaker 1: I know I've been walking. I've been trying to get
Speaker 1: some a little bit of steps at night. So sometimes
Speaker 1: during the top of the hour I'll walk up and
Speaker 1: down the hall, just back and forth because I'm a loser.
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't used to walk around Sherman Oaks, California.
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I didn't get shanked either, which I
Speaker 1: think i'd get shanked. I think I think these days
Speaker 1: that would not not go. Yeah, But I've starting to
Speaker 1: doing a little bit of that movement because I was
Speaker 1: just like I sitting there and I didn't leave the
Speaker 1: studio for four hours. I usually get there an hour
Speaker 1: before the show, so it was like five hours just
Speaker 1: like sitting around. And so I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't I don't go around the building. I knew
Speaker 1: exactly how long I had to time it. I could
Speaker 1: walk around the building and then that took about about
Speaker 1: five minutes. Usually the top of the hour paused like
Speaker 1: six six and a half minutes, seven minutes, something like that.
Speaker 1: So it was that kind of thing. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I've been getting that extra spats pill. What are
Speaker 1: the side effings like that ozembic? Aren't there a lot
Speaker 1: of people having issues with thozampic right now?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you puke your guts out. There's just lots
Speaker 4: of issues as far as feeling sick to your stomach.
Speaker 1: And is it one of those deals also where if
Speaker 1: you get off of it, you'll just gain all the
Speaker 1: way back, so you have to be on it for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. Is that kind of thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you need to also be working out, and
Speaker 4: a lot of people can't work out while they're on
Speaker 4: that drug because they feel nauseous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, wonderful, but that's a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of medication and the conspiracy theorist to me would say
Speaker 1: that's why or that's what the drug companies want, right,
Speaker 1: The secret is to get You don't want to cure people,
Speaker 1: You want to give them medicine they need for the
Speaker 1: rest of their life because you've got built in built
Speaker 1: in customers. Just like every business, we've done stories. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that was when you were with me,
Speaker 1: it might've been before, but we've done stories. The key
Speaker 1: to business monthly payments. If you cell phone companies, my god,
Speaker 1: everyone's got to have a cell phone. You all got
Speaker 1: to have a smartphone. You pay yourself, sell bill every month,
Speaker 1: but ye's guaranteed revenue, yeah, month after month.
Speaker 4: Remember Willie Wonka, he was inventing the everlasting gobstopper. Put
Speaker 4: everybody out of business because the only need one.
Speaker 1: We should have like a podcast club. Remember Oprah had
Speaker 1: the book club back in the day when she was big. Oprah,
Speaker 1: well she was, she's always been big. But before she
Speaker 1: was big, she was already big, but then famous. Well
Speaker 1: well yeah, but no, she had like the book of
Speaker 1: the month. And if you can get people to do
Speaker 1: something regularly and make it a habit, you filthy rich,
Speaker 1: filthy rich. It's like I just read a story this week.
Speaker 1: I know it's off off the topic of conversation, but
Speaker 1: the story about streaming and how insane to the membrane
Speaker 1: it is now that streaming households court of the data
Speaker 1: are now ending sixty one dollars per month on four services.
Speaker 1: Sixty one bucks a month for streaming, which now, my
Speaker 1: cable bill was. I got rid of cable years ago.
Speaker 1: My cable bill was really insane because I had all
Speaker 1: the sports packages and I was before Eddie told me
Speaker 1: about the Russian websites. But this was like I think
Speaker 1: my cable bill was like one hundred and fifty bucks
Speaker 1: a month or something like that. It was ridiculous. But
Speaker 1: sixty one bucks a month and you're getting four streaming services,
Speaker 1: and you know this is going to end up. This
Speaker 1: will end up eventually. It'll be within a year or two,
Speaker 1: it's going to be one hundred bucks a month. Like
Speaker 1: that's where it's it's just going to be. The people
Speaker 1: think they were getting a deal, and they were getting
Speaker 1: a deal for a while, but eventually it's just gonna
Speaker 1: be the same as cable. You're paying the same amount
Speaker 1: of money. I don't even know. I don't even want
Speaker 1: to know how many any streaming services I have at
Speaker 1: the mallor mansion, because I don't watch any of them.
Speaker 1: I don't I watch YouTube stuff that is free, and
Speaker 1: then I have you know, I've heard there are these
Speaker 1: websites you can watch any sporting event you want. You know,
Speaker 1: I've heard about this. I would ever be wrong to
Speaker 1: use those, Danny.
Speaker 4: From our be inappropriate from our hoa. We have cable
Speaker 4: every month, Otherwise we wouldn't pay for it. Used to
Speaker 4: be Time Warner, now it's Spectrum. We wouldn't pay for
Speaker 4: that otherwise. So we have that if we want to
Speaker 4: watch live TV, which comes in handy for watching all
Speaker 4: the games. But as far as streaming services, all the
Speaker 4: ones we have, out of all the ones we have,
Speaker 4: we only really watch three of them, and that's Netflix,
Speaker 4: Apple TV, and HBO Max.
Speaker 1: Yeah my wife has I know, she well, Netflix, she's
Speaker 1: got Apple TV plus who I think.
Speaker 4: We let our Hulu go. Yeah, it seemed like a waste.
Speaker 1: The one she doesn't have is the Disney one, which
Speaker 1: gets that's problematic when when the nieces and nephews come
Speaker 1: over to the house.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, how do you watch the Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1: They want to watch the Disney stuff and we don't.
Speaker 1: That's the one we don't have. Well that's the one
Speaker 1: I want. Well, we don't have that. We have everyone else,
Speaker 1: you know, watch the cartoons over you. No, no, I
Speaker 1: want that, you know. And it was funny because my
Speaker 1: my cousin was in town, stayed the whole week with
Speaker 1: his six year old son, and his kid just watched
Speaker 1: the most disgusting YouTube shorts, you know, those short little
Speaker 1: clips on YouTube. Yeah, my god, what a freaking what
Speaker 1: a poop show? That is my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what our thirteen year old girl watches. We
Speaker 4: are all getting dumber just being in the room.
Speaker 1: We are, We are getting dumber, my god, idiot. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Why you know, I had
Speaker 1: a few more signs before we get out a little
Speaker 1: bit of time.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you don't want to end on a dumb note.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely not, definitely not. How about this one. According
Speaker 1: to a new scientific study, americans skip brushing their teeth
Speaker 1: five times a week. Yeah, five times a week.
Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but I can't sleep comfortably
Speaker 4: if I have not brushed my teeth.
Speaker 1: That's part of my routine. I typically am a tooth.
Speaker 1: It's teeth, toothbrush. It's teeth.
Speaker 4: It should be teeth brush. It's very odd for CoA
Speaker 4: it's toothbrush because he has one tooth.
Speaker 1: He's got that cute one big baby.
Speaker 4: He's actually got two at the bottom that are through
Speaker 4: and six more coming in right now on the way. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so much fun. Yeah, double up the benadryl.
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, not a good time when everything's growing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel doesn't feel that good.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Well, this is a political study third rail on my head.
Speaker 1: It's a third A new study out says, we've got
Speaker 1: the two leading candidates careful, you got Joe Biden and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and they're really old. So what are the
Speaker 1: actual odds either one of them will still be alive
Speaker 1: by the time the twenty twenty nine end of their
Speaker 1: election or end of their the next term of presidency
Speaker 1: comes comes around. So there was a study on most
Speaker 1: Americans believe President Biden, at age eighty one, is way
Speaker 1: too old to serve another term. Not as many, but
Speaker 1: still a fair amount believe that Donald Trump, who's seventy seven,
Speaker 1: is too old to be president. So they they crunched
Speaker 1: the numbers, and they based this on percentages of your
Speaker 1: life expectancy and whatnot. And they went back hundreds of
Speaker 1: years to track mortality and all this trying to come
Speaker 1: up with the the odds, and the crunched the numbers,
Speaker 1: and they were bragging them out this thing and all that,
Speaker 1: and they went through the death rates of this, that
Speaker 1: and the other thing. So they claim that Biden, both
Speaker 1: Trump and Biden. We'll go with Biden. Biden has a
Speaker 1: ninety two point nine percent probability of surviving at least
Speaker 1: to age eighty two, which is like another year. But
Speaker 1: the odds go down. According to the calculations of this study,
Speaker 1: they say there is a sixty three point three percent
Speaker 1: probability that Biden will survive another five years. So that's
Speaker 1: that opens up a thirty seven percent chance he will not,
Speaker 1: but that he'll make it to eighty six. There is
Speaker 1: a seventy three point six percent probability that Trump will
Speaker 1: survive to at least age eighty two. When's the last
Speaker 1: time a president passed away in office? Was it an assassin?
Speaker 1: Was it Kennedy? Was he the last one? Was he?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 1: So everyone else, Well, we had Nixon, but he didn't die.
Speaker 1: He just got kicked out right.
Speaker 4: That was Yeah, it was sort of a death.
Speaker 1: So Kennedy was the last. That was the last.
Speaker 4: Just a political death.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He had that famous like the finger thing where
Speaker 1: you're like wave, very very odd. Anyway, what else do
Speaker 1: we have in these scientifical world?
Speaker 4: Uh, let's here, I checked it. You're right by the way.
Speaker 4: John F. Kennedy last president to die in office, But.
Speaker 1: There was a stretch where a number of presidents in
Speaker 1: the early part of America died in office.
Speaker 4: Roosevelt died in office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hasn't happened, hasn't happened in a while, happened
Speaker 1: a while. Here's the study that says, and we get
Speaker 1: these studies every so often, loneliness is worse for your
Speaker 1: long term health than obesity, alcoholism, and smoking fifteen cigarettes
Speaker 1: a day. Claim being lonely, So you're better off smoking
Speaker 1: fifteen cigarettes a day or being an alcohol I find
Speaker 1: that hard to believe.
Speaker 4: The fifteen cigarettes will help you extra help you be lonely.
Speaker 4: Ain't nobody gonna want to be around you?
Speaker 1: You're not kidding? All right? Well that's enough, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out of that and then going on it's
Speaker 1: Friday today. I am done with the radio show. We
Speaker 1: did that this morning and look watching the tournament. But
Speaker 1: you've got more work coming up today.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it's gonna be a fun Friday show on
Speaker 4: the Covino and Rich though with weekend Hobnobbin and we're
Speaker 4: going to give out some of our stainless steel water bottles,
Speaker 4: our swiggies and watch and keep the listeners updated on
Speaker 4: the March Madness game. So should be a fun Friday
Speaker 4: from two to four pm on the West Side, and
Speaker 4: that's five to seven pm in Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let me point out that's a great item.
Speaker 1: I know somebody that hooked me up with one of
Speaker 1: those Covino and Rich water bottles one. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: a few people, you know. I might I might have
Speaker 1: embezzled it out of somebody, But pretty good. Anyway, have
Speaker 1: a great day today, enjoyed the tournament. Thank you. We
Speaker 1: have new podcast all weekend long at the Mailbag on
Speaker 1: Sunday tomorrow, tales from behind the Microphone that you'll only
Speaker 1: hear on this podcast. So have a great day and
Speaker 1: we'll get you tomorrow later.
Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder. I gotta go,