Speaker 1: If you thought more 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
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Speaker 1: free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: starts right now. That it does, and we are in
Speaker 1: the air everywhere, the avast power of my heart, the
Speaker 1: global reach of podcasting here, and we are back at
Speaker 1: it because we learned this last week that four hours
Speaker 1: or not enough. Of course last week it was zero hours.
Speaker 1: We're not enough, but we are back at it. Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and David Gascon not to be confused with this
Speaker 1: alter ego Gagon, which was given to him by the
Speaker 1: great Mike North, one of the great nicknames in radio history.
Speaker 1: That we are about these days. Mike North. I think
Speaker 1: he's back on the air in Chicago. Actually does he.
Speaker 1: I think he's got a weekend show in Chicago. He does.
Speaker 1: He's like he's got his tentacles are all over the place.
Speaker 1: Doctor are not Doc? I called him? Mike? You know, Mike,
Speaker 1: I think Chicago The first knee jerk reaction is Doc
Speaker 1: Mike actually was just I told you before we started
Speaker 1: doing this podcast that I just got a call from
Speaker 1: Doc Mike in Chicago who's convinced he's my personal doctor
Speaker 1: and he wants to give me some It's like he
Speaker 1: works for Kaiser or something. He wants to give me
Speaker 1: some care. But how many how many listeners have your
Speaker 1: telephone number? Uh, that's a good question. We had. Well,
Speaker 1: Doc Mike's had it for the longest. Uh, there were
Speaker 1: a couple of other listeners, but Doc's the one that's
Speaker 1: the most abusive. Doc's the one that really, uh just
Speaker 1: calls me every weekn Uh, none stuff there we were.
Speaker 1: I think there's two other people I've given the number two,
Speaker 1: but they were actually well actually, now we were a
Speaker 1: friend in Maine who I met in Boston. Now she
Speaker 1: I didn't actually give her my number, her and her
Speaker 1: her guy Paul there. I didn't give her my number,
Speaker 1: but I she was gonna send me. This is a funny.
Speaker 1: It was a great scams here guest gut. So She's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you, Um, I'm gonna send you this,
Speaker 1: uh this hat from from Maine. The minor league team
Speaker 1: right in Maine. And so I'm like, all right, whatever. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so I had to take a picture of my
Speaker 1: my business card which they gave me years ago, to
Speaker 1: to show her that hey, this is uh you know,
Speaker 1: this is important whatever, this is the address, send it here.
Speaker 1: And so she said, let me just take a picture
Speaker 1: of it. And then uh, it turns out, of course
Speaker 1: she got a photo of my my number and uh
Speaker 1: occasionally will send me a text message. So I get
Speaker 1: that's the most recent one. But that was not an
Speaker 1: intentional act. That was not an intentional act. Since I
Speaker 1: do this this podcast for for free, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I'd be willing to share that telephone number. I wanna
Speaker 1: give that number out. Go ahead, guest. I have a
Speaker 1: great lawyer. I have a really good lawyer, So I
Speaker 1: would like to give you if you can, that would
Speaker 1: be great. Yeah, I think that would be that would
Speaker 1: be wonderful. I need a little bit of extra money
Speaker 1: in the pockets, and uh, yeah, I think that'd be uh,
Speaker 1: I think that'd be great. For a good time. Call
Speaker 1: This number available eleven PM till five am. Ah. Alright, alright, anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: so we gotta get with on with the show here,
Speaker 1: you're distracting me. We have the menu today, We've got
Speaker 1: you have lots of gall We've got that mellow yellow tomato,
Speaker 1: tomato elementary. It's the diet stupid, spanning the globe. Study this,
Speaker 1: it's in the bag. As we're listener questions and don't
Speaker 1: stick to sports stories of the week. So we have
Speaker 1: all those, we will throw them all together. We'll make
Speaker 1: some babaose. Alright, we're gonna start with this. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna begin with it's all about me, Gascon. You love
Speaker 1: this type of broadcasting, do you not. It's uh, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different than eulogy radio. You have different forms.
Speaker 1: Some of it you are you are bombastic. A couple
Speaker 1: of days ago it was a great rout with the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros. Other times it's frankly just ejaculation radio because
Speaker 1: you have listeners that come on and profess their love
Speaker 1: to you. What's wrong with that? It's disgusting. And then
Speaker 1: you have and then you have staff members that just
Speaker 1: foam at the mouth because of you, which is a
Speaker 1: little annoying to um. But yes, it's just foaming, well,
Speaker 1: angry in anger, foaming the mouth. But no, no, no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Like Brian Finley loves you, he adores you. He's the exceptional.
Speaker 1: Brian Finley is like a Bennett. But Finley is like
Speaker 1: the one of the only Benett's that's in the building.
Speaker 1: Like everyone else is like, screw this guy's terrible, Get
Speaker 1: somebody else in there. I don't think that's true, especially
Speaker 1: when you're gone for a couple of days, like you
Speaker 1: took a week off for vacation purposes, just like, Yes,
Speaker 1: I booked myself at a four day four and a
Speaker 1: half days at a bed in bath in a hospital. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I did. Hashtag sleep number bed four
Speaker 1: nights at a hospital of your choice, unplanned, Yes, vacation. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's good to know that I had the sick time.
Speaker 1: I did not know that. Yeah, continue, I'm listen. It
Speaker 1: was it was a little empty of a feeling for
Speaker 1: you being gone for a week. Uh. I was actually
Speaker 1: a little shocked when I knew something was up, because
Speaker 1: I sent you a acid amount of Textas that usually
Speaker 1: will respond, you'll respond accordingly with a wow, or what
Speaker 1: the hell you're sending me? Or this is disgusting. But
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I got a text from another
Speaker 1: number that I didn't recognize and it was your better
Speaker 1: half and I was like, oh Ship, something's up. Halfway
Speaker 1: through the text message, I realized, oh Ship, something's up.
Speaker 1: And then I had the news broken to me and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, jokes aside. I hope this
Speaker 1: guy's all right. Very very odd for you to do
Speaker 1: jokes aside. So anyway, I got a lot of email.
Speaker 1: I told people on the radio show that I would
Speaker 1: spend more time here on the podcast talking about it
Speaker 1: for those that are interested. If you're not in, said, boy,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be one hell of a boring podcast.
Speaker 1: My god, is this going to be terrible if you
Speaker 1: don't care about this. But so as you know, we
Speaker 1: we didn't do the podcast last week. I did have
Speaker 1: the doctor's note if I can show you that gascon
Speaker 1: if you want, and uh, I did get rushed by
Speaker 1: my wife there to the emergency room on Friday. This
Speaker 1: was November one. But to give you the backstory, so,
Speaker 1: I I had started feeling like shit the previous Sunday.
Speaker 1: I I felt pain like it was it was not good.
Speaker 1: I was on my way to actually Staplesenter. I was
Speaker 1: at a Laker Hornets game. Sitting in the near the
Speaker 1: Pearly gates there watching that game on a on a
Speaker 1: Sunday night, and I I figured it was acid reflux.
Speaker 1: So I self diagnosed myself. I wanted the internet and
Speaker 1: went to a couple of sites and I put my
Speaker 1: symptoms in and uh and I and they put it
Speaker 1: all there. Whatever. So I treated it with my amish cure.
Speaker 1: It didn't get better this time. It didn't get better. Uh.
Speaker 1: It stayed bad but manageable. For several days. I the
Speaker 1: pain was continuing, and I did the show. Here's what
Speaker 1: the day I should win like some kind of award here.
Speaker 1: I did the show every night for five nights, withering
Speaker 1: in pain, right, And then on Thursday into Friday, I
Speaker 1: did the show normally or somewhat normals Halloween, you know,
Speaker 1: in the November one. I then went to the gym.
Speaker 1: I've been working out all week. I did my workout.
Speaker 1: I was still in pain. And then I got home
Speaker 1: and actually started feeling a little better. And then around
Speaker 1: the time I went to bed, we attempted to go
Speaker 1: to bed. It's like seven in the mornings, maybe eight
Speaker 1: in the morning. Uh, and I just could not. It
Speaker 1: got worse. I couldn't get comfortable, and it was this
Speaker 1: throbbing like pain in my chest area. But it kind
Speaker 1: of felt like acid reflects to me, but it was
Speaker 1: it was pure agony. So anyway, here's how I ended
Speaker 1: up going to the hospital. So I attempted to go
Speaker 1: to bed at approximately seven in the morning, all right.
Speaker 1: I then twisted and turned. I took showers and bass,
Speaker 1: I drank magical potions. My wife cooked up until six
Speaker 1: o'clock at night. I did not sleep on Friday. I
Speaker 1: was up from all four when I went when I
Speaker 1: woke up on Thursday ironically to do this podcast until
Speaker 1: Friday night at six, and I couldn't go to sleep
Speaker 1: then because I I I just was terrible. My wife
Speaker 1: got medicine, I drank water. I did everything I could
Speaker 1: to feel better, and after twelve hours I got taken
Speaker 1: to the emergency room and I end up staying there
Speaker 1: for from Friday night till Tuesday afternoon. And in that
Speaker 1: time I had my gall bladder removed. That was Sunday
Speaker 1: during the late television window, so I did not get
Speaker 1: to watch well Baker Mayfield. Uh so that was I
Speaker 1: had a better day than him. As the year that
Speaker 1: joke goes. But but this is typically a pretty routine
Speaker 1: medical procedure. That's the other thing. Guess gun. It is
Speaker 1: typically an in and out thing. But I hadlications. That's
Speaker 1: why I had to stay longer. And you know other
Speaker 1: people have this, they're out the same day. But because
Speaker 1: my gall bladder was such a such a mess that
Speaker 1: it was pretty much just a collection of gall stones
Speaker 1: loosely hanging together and ready to fall apart and wreck
Speaker 1: havoc on the enters of my body, they considered actually
Speaker 1: a second medical procedure. That's one of the reasons they
Speaker 1: didn't operate the first time, because I still I had
Speaker 1: gall stones, they thought messing around, so they were gonna
Speaker 1: a procedure before the other procedure. Uh. And there was
Speaker 1: a team of doctors trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: fix all this. And it makes you feel very good.
Speaker 1: It makes you feel very good. But that's that's the
Speaker 1: backstory on how this all down. Well, and you want
Speaker 1: to medal for this, which is I want a purple heart.
Speaker 1: It's a little mind boggling because I saw you that
Speaker 1: Sunday night and I actually offered to go to Whole
Speaker 1: Food to get you some probiotics or some tons. You said, no,
Speaker 1: well that wouldn't have worked. Stupid, I know, but I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just saying, oh, yeah, says the guy that
Speaker 1: way in a week after self diagnosing him having gall stones,
Speaker 1: which I I has been, my wife said that it's
Speaker 1: been compared one of her friends. Uh as, it's compared
Speaker 1: to like the paint agony of childbirth, but worse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like kidney stones. But your wife also recommended that
Speaker 1: you went to the doctor a week prior to you
Speaker 1: actually go into the er room. So the fact that
Speaker 1: you want to medal because two people recommended a little
Speaker 1: bit of a remedy and you ignored both. Well, in fairness,
Speaker 1: my wife always recommends going to the doctor, So it's
Speaker 1: not that's her default. You'll go with the doctor. Check
Speaker 1: it out. Why. I think her occupation has something to
Speaker 1: do with it. She does work in trauma. Possibly that
Speaker 1: could be the case. Alright, So moving out, we got
Speaker 1: mellow yellow tomato. Tomato. This is continuing. It's all about
Speaker 1: my gall bladder. I'm not done with the gall black.
Speaker 1: I know I was gonna ask you, do you have
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Speaker 1: Radio app search f s R to listen live. Uh
Speaker 1: we'll get to that, all right. So there were two
Speaker 1: times during all of this medical malady that I thought
Speaker 1: I was actually in some peril. All right, now, Normally
Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, come on, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: fine no matter what. But when now, when my wife
Speaker 1: dragged me to the emergency room and they started to
Speaker 1: examine me, this is the first moment that I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: oh shit, this is this is not good. The e
Speaker 1: R doctor said I was turning jaundice. That for those
Speaker 1: that don't know, that means you're you're the whites of
Speaker 1: your eyes and the skin start turning yellow. Yeah. Uh
Speaker 1: and uh. And I had a flashback because one might
Speaker 1: my mom passed away a number of years ago from
Speaker 1: from cancer and she she had I remember when she
Speaker 1: started getting worse her skin, she started turning jaundice at
Speaker 1: the end before she passed away, And uh, it freaked
Speaker 1: me out. I was like, oh, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: I said much, but on the inside, I'm like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: Like this is uh I was. I was like wow,
Speaker 1: and but apparently it's common when you have extreme gall
Speaker 1: stones like I had, and you do go an entire
Speaker 1: a week without treating them. Um, And so that that
Speaker 1: freaked me out. And the other thing that freaked me
Speaker 1: out was the nurses and the doctors. They wanted me.
Speaker 1: They wanted me to pee into a cup like I
Speaker 1: was an NFL player doing steroids, and they wanted me
Speaker 1: to know, to examine my urine and all that stuff. So, um,
Speaker 1: which is what you have to do in any of
Speaker 1: these situations. So and my, my, my, my urine. Guest,
Speaker 1: you're very fascinated. It's been a little darker than normal,
Speaker 1: which is apparently a sign that your body is screwed
Speaker 1: and dehydrated. Yeah, but on that Saturday night, now I
Speaker 1: was alone more on this for a few hours. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing more dangerous than when you're alone. Your mind
Speaker 1: plays the mind tricks on you, especially in the hospital.
Speaker 1: And that was the day the time change happened. So
Speaker 1: at an extra hour that night in the hospital, which
Speaker 1: is even better. So I piste into the cup and
Speaker 1: I turned on the light and it looked handed god
Speaker 1: like tomato juice. I was urinating V eight and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, my wife had gone home because she couldn't
Speaker 1: spend the night because the hospital had rules. Uh, so
Speaker 1: she couldn't stay. I was all alone, and my mind
Speaker 1: started playing, you know, walking away. I went on the
Speaker 1: phone and I looked up you know what happens when
Speaker 1: your urine looks like tomato juice? You know? Uh that
Speaker 1: was a mistake. And after I read a few things
Speaker 1: on the internet, I was convinced I was gonna die.
Speaker 1: And then around if it was. It was late at night,
Speaker 1: but my mother in law, who's she had text me
Speaker 1: to see how I was doing. She's a very very
Speaker 1: she's had a big careers. E ar nurse in l
Speaker 1: A and uh we get along good. And she she
Speaker 1: texted me and I was like, well, my I tried
Speaker 1: texting my wife, but she was sleeping, so I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: it looked like blood, but you know she she was
Speaker 1: freaking out too. But then it turned out that it
Speaker 1: was apparently other crap that was looked like blood but
Speaker 1: was not as bad as blood. I do you know
Speaker 1: what Billy Reuben is, guest gun Uh yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: either until this, but apparently there the Billy Ruben levels
Speaker 1: uh in your body from your gall bladder. If you
Speaker 1: have excessive billy Ruben in your system that causes this
Speaker 1: to happen. And so it's supposed to be for the
Speaker 1: average human being, it's supposed to be below one. My
Speaker 1: billy reuben was almost nine. Oh my god. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a bad situation. But hey, I learned what. I
Speaker 1: don't need it, and I don't think I do. I
Speaker 1: have the billy Reuben still. I don't think I do
Speaker 1: because I don't have my gall bladder anymore. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like billy Reuben is a yellowish substance made during the
Speaker 1: body's normal process of breaking down red blood cells. There
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, so that's that that The billy Reuben
Speaker 1: level was through the roof, and they messed with everything,
Speaker 1: like the whole thing, and I'm like, oh man, it's brutal, alright,
Speaker 1: that we've got elementary. Also, you're listening to the fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: but you know that already, the elementary part. So I
Speaker 1: spent four nights and not the brad guest gun four
Speaker 1: nights and a part of a fifth day at the hospital.
Speaker 1: And this is not the vacation I needed or I wanted.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice though, that for the first time in
Speaker 1: my life since I was in elementary school or junior
Speaker 1: high school. Time slowed down like it's slowed down when
Speaker 1: I was in the hospital. I flashed back when I
Speaker 1: was in Northwood Elementary School and in the o C.
Speaker 1: And I would watch the clock slowly tick forward and
Speaker 1: and and plus. As I said, I had the good
Speaker 1: fortune of spending the extra hour in the infirmary and
Speaker 1: all that. I mean, it was. It was crazy this
Speaker 1: and that. Everyone says the same thing. You cannot sleep
Speaker 1: in hospitals. I noticed that they took my vitals, Uh,
Speaker 1: they messed with my had and I v gon and
Speaker 1: or they take my blood one of those things every
Speaker 1: hour at least at night and then but during the
Speaker 1: day it didn't seem to happen as often. The main problem, though,
Speaker 1: is I did not have a private room. I had
Speaker 1: a shared experience guest, older, younger, all older men, three
Speaker 1: older men. I had roommates. Now, you know, I think
Speaker 1: about I was there long enough. Three different people came
Speaker 1: and left the hospital. Well I was there, that's a
Speaker 1: good sign. Yeah. And now there were two guys that
Speaker 1: had knee replacement operations. The other guy, who actually was
Speaker 1: the nicest of the guys was he had an anal fisher.
Speaker 1: He tore his anal spincter about that. He had a
Speaker 1: good attitude about got The guy was upset because he's
Speaker 1: a Raider fan, and he said that he had a
Speaker 1: big party plan for the Raiders game that day against
Speaker 1: I think they're playing the Lions. And he and he
Speaker 1: had all his food he had bought and all this
Speaker 1: stuff for this party, all these guys, you know, he's
Speaker 1: a Mexican guys. All these guys are coming to my house,
Speaker 1: you know, and he blew the old ring. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he was like, he had a very good attitude
Speaker 1: about He was, you know, smiling and we're talking back
Speaker 1: and forth. The the other guys. Yeah, not that so
Speaker 1: much much older than me, that all these guys are
Speaker 1: older than me. But the other guys were really older
Speaker 1: than me. And it was, Yeah, it's just weird because
Speaker 1: you're you're not antisocial, but you're an introvert. So for
Speaker 1: you to want somebody around or or critique the people
Speaker 1: that are around you because they're not nice or not talkative,
Speaker 1: it's a little it's a little bit of a mix bag,
Speaker 1: don't you think, Well, I'm not looking to have a wonderful,
Speaker 1: heart felt conversation. I just want someone that's not a dick.
Speaker 1: That's that's all. Or not, you know, it doesn't snore.
Speaker 1: I mean I couldn't sleep because I had my ear
Speaker 1: you know, I had my ear plugs, but they really work.
Speaker 1: And then they had, you know, people snoring and farting,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's wonder It's like sleeping next to hollering. James. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like being on a retreat or like
Speaker 1: on a boy scout trip or something like that. And
Speaker 1: they were back in the day. I just a bunch
Speaker 1: of punks in a in a bunk bed. Now, were
Speaker 1: you thinking of any monologues while you were just laying
Speaker 1: bedridden that was going through your mind outside of dying? Said,
Speaker 1: I was trying to keep track of what was going
Speaker 1: on in sports. I did see like the Kauhi Leonard
Speaker 1: load management. I said, that would have been great. I
Speaker 1: could have done like a two hours on load management
Speaker 1: if I had been on there because he missed a
Speaker 1: thing it's like the fourth game of the year or
Speaker 1: something like that. That would have been good. And there
Speaker 1: were a couple of things I was like, I wish
Speaker 1: I had been you know, but the other times I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't really care about that. You know,
Speaker 1: I got, I got my own problems. But what kind
Speaker 1: of drugs did you take? Uh? Yeah, well we'll get
Speaker 1: to that. Uh. They gave me a bunch of ivs.
Speaker 1: I took morphine. Morphine actually when I got to the
Speaker 1: hospital and give me morphine. That actually helped pass the
Speaker 1: gall stone because it opens up the tubes in your
Speaker 1: body there. And I thank God for the morphine because
Speaker 1: otherwise they would have had to have a second medical
Speaker 1: procedure and that would have they would have knocked me
Speaker 1: out twice and not cut me open. That correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. But I know on kidney stones they
Speaker 1: can they can shoot it with a laser. Can they
Speaker 1: do that with with gall stones or no? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I I don't know, but uh, I want
Speaker 1: to address on the email I got. I gotta ask
Speaker 1: a lot of questions, a lot of questions people. Some jackasses.
Speaker 1: I think they're your your friends against We're like, it's
Speaker 1: your diet man suits you you you this intermitted Fasting
Speaker 1: said something too, something about your past. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well well so anyway, so these smarty pants, okay, uh,
Speaker 1: these smarty pants who seemed to believe that my inner
Speaker 1: minute fasting is to blame for all this. That is
Speaker 1: fake news. That is fake news. I talked to the
Speaker 1: doctor before and after the operation they gotta cut me up,
Speaker 1: and he said the diet, that part of the diet
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Uh. This was a case
Speaker 1: of my you know, the chickens coming home to roost.
Speaker 1: And I owe you from when I was in my
Speaker 1: twenties and my early thirties and I ate ship. Every night.
Speaker 1: I would be at Dodger Stadium eating ballpark food, or
Speaker 1: I'd go to Tommy's for chili cheese fries in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night, or go pick up a ten
Speaker 1: pack of tacos on the way home from some fast
Speaker 1: food joy. I mean, that's that's where this came from.
Speaker 1: It did not happen since I got married. Actually, I've
Speaker 1: eaten better. I still only great, but I've eaten a
Speaker 1: lot better than when I was single and I was
Speaker 1: a bachelor and I would just eat whatever ship I
Speaker 1: could get my hands on. It was cheap, I didn't care.
Speaker 1: It was quantity over quality and all this stuff. So
Speaker 1: but this is this is all about my bad eating
Speaker 1: habits when I was younger. It's paid me back in
Speaker 1: spades here. And uh, I've often said at some point
Speaker 1: that this will happen. I didn't think it would happen yet.
Speaker 1: I thought I'd get a few more years before this
Speaker 1: this stuff started happen. Well, yeah, and of course it's
Speaker 1: better to happen now when you're when you're up and
Speaker 1: healthy relatively speaking, and you're exercising and you're always working,
Speaker 1: as opposed to later on your years, where yeah, something
Speaker 1: like this could be a severe medical emergency and then
Speaker 1: you're tapped out your six under. Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: can it doesn't happen at all, but you can die
Speaker 1: from the gall Black people have died from this, if
Speaker 1: you know. So. Fortunately, obviously, I guess I think I'm
Speaker 1: still here alive. I don't know, maybe I'm in a
Speaker 1: parallel universe here. I had no idea that just did
Speaker 1: the mrs take any good selfies? She took a couple
Speaker 1: of pictures of me, and I looked like death warmed over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the hospital, but then those are not for public consumptions,
Speaker 1: So unfortunately told her, I said, no photos. I don't
Speaker 1: need people to see me in here. I'm good, you know,
Speaker 1: because I I know any photo of me in the
Speaker 1: hospital would have resulted in seven thousand memes, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't need that ship because they would have
Speaker 1: continued forever. I was probic a little bit. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you were. I'm sure you be sure to catch
Speaker 1: live editions of The Ben Meller Show week days at
Speaker 1: two a m. Eastern. Now the good news there is
Speaker 1: a positive. There's two positives that came out all this. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll put we'll end my goal talk here, but there's
Speaker 1: two things that are very positive. I already started to
Speaker 1: resume my INTERNI minute fasting. Uh. And one of the
Speaker 1: great things about this is I set what I believe
Speaker 1: is an unbreakable record for fasting. Okay, because I was.
Speaker 1: I was on a fast when I got taken inter
Speaker 1: minute fast. When I got taken to the emergency room,
Speaker 1: I had not eaten since Thursday, Halloween night, and it
Speaker 1: was Friday, November one, So I didn't eatn in about
Speaker 1: a day over a day. Uh. And I go to
Speaker 1: the emergency room and then they wouldn't let me eat
Speaker 1: or drink water because I they at any moment I
Speaker 1: was gonna be taken into the operating room, so you
Speaker 1: can't have food or water. So and then they didn't
Speaker 1: want to operate because there were complications with my gall
Speaker 1: stones and that's why I was in the hospital for song.
Speaker 1: So so anyway, I ended up going ninety hours in
Speaker 1: seven minutes. I think I sent you a screen shot,
Speaker 1: guess gun. Ninety hours in seven minutes between between meals,
Speaker 1: and for much of that I didn't even have what
Speaker 1: normally I just drink a lot of water, So it's
Speaker 1: not that big a deal. I had my stomach is full.
Speaker 1: But I went ninety hours and seven minutes without eating food.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. And uh, were you thinking about food
Speaker 1: though at all? Uh? No, I always not. At the beginning,
Speaker 1: I wasn't because I was in pain, I wasn't thinking
Speaker 1: about it. And then at the end, I was just
Speaker 1: trying to get out of the hospital, so I wasn't
Speaker 1: really thinking about it. I was. I was worried about
Speaker 1: the surgery and all that, but um, I was less
Speaker 1: than six hours away from four full days without eating
Speaker 1: my own personal hunger strike guest gon and then the
Speaker 1: other thing that I'm so happy about it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I should put this in my book when I write
Speaker 1: my book some day is from the moment I went
Speaker 1: into the hospital to the moment I came out of
Speaker 1: But four days I lost eight pounds. I lost eight pounds.
Speaker 1: How great is that? Eight pounds in four days gone?
Speaker 1: You lost your gall bladder. Well, that doesn't weigh eight pounds.
Speaker 1: The gall bladdersn't weigh that well with you. You never know,
Speaker 1: you didn't say. He did say, it's the spades of
Speaker 1: your of your bad days in your twenties and your
Speaker 1: early thirties. So yeah, you never know. Uh, you know.
Speaker 1: I was not that bad. But to answer your other question,
Speaker 1: I did not get an offer to take the gall
Speaker 1: bladder because it was really not a gall bladder anymore.
Speaker 1: It was just a collection of gall stones. It was
Speaker 1: like a be taking a cup of sand from the beach. Uh.
Speaker 1: I want to ninety plus hours on a fast. That's
Speaker 1: pretty damn good, especially when your bedridden, tune you have
Speaker 1: nothing else to do. Um, But what a lonely feeling
Speaker 1: to you for a while, you said, because the misses
Speaker 1: was out and so you're by your lonesome, and just
Speaker 1: as you said, self medicate and self diagnosed. That's a
Speaker 1: dangerous feeling, especially when when something serious like this is
Speaker 1: not like your tonsils or your pendix or a broken
Speaker 1: bone or a bust attendant. This is your gall bladders.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, I I felt bad for you. I
Speaker 1: felt now you were sending me messages. Why did you
Speaker 1: do the show from the hospital. Well, things like that.
Speaker 1: That's compelling radio, though, that's compelling that people live to
Speaker 1: see things like that. You don't do. You don't do
Speaker 1: blissful radio. Money through Friday day positive, Well it might
Speaker 1: be positive, but it's train wreck radio that that people
Speaker 1: love to see a good car crash. And this is
Speaker 1: exactly what it was. This is this is Buster, your
Speaker 1: Douglas versus Mike Tyson, like you kind of sweet shot
Speaker 1: to the chin and you're down. Yeah, you were down
Speaker 1: for the mighty Casey struck out. But at least you
Speaker 1: have another at bat. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app. Alright, moving on, guest, I'm very positive
Speaker 1: to thank you for that very kind spanning the globe,
Speaker 1: spanning we will be thrill of victory, the agony of
Speaker 1: defeat human drama of athletic competition. So I will be
Speaker 1: doing something I've not done all the time. I will
Speaker 1: be pretending to be a TV person because of you, Gascon,
Speaker 1: You've dragged me into your dark underbelly. On Friday night.
Speaker 1: Depending on when you hear this podcast, we might have
Speaker 1: already done this. But Friday night, I will put on
Speaker 1: my Kendall outfit and I will do a little TV action, Right, Gascon?
Speaker 1: What are we doing at high school football game? Is
Speaker 1: that correct? You're You're gonna be suited and booted to
Speaker 1: the fullest. And as you would say, it's on Fox,
Speaker 1: see you better watch? Yeah right? Yeah, well of course
Speaker 1: you know, and who loves high school football in me?
Speaker 1: And I'm like that guy that used to work at
Speaker 1: the six nineties John Kintera back into the coach, the
Speaker 1: coach mr high school Football. But yeah, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. So it's a high school playoff game, not
Speaker 1: just a regular season game. It's a playoff games. And
Speaker 1: it's two of the best teams in southern California and
Speaker 1: one of members of the Trinity League and the other
Speaker 1: ones out of Corona Centennial High School, which has usually
Speaker 1: had some top prospects go to the college and then
Speaker 1: to the National Football League. Yeah, so I was doing
Speaker 1: my show prep. I know you don't do a show
Speaker 1: prep for the game, but I saw Vontes Berfect went
Speaker 1: to Centennial back in the day. But you didn't know
Speaker 1: that them in and then j Jay Sarah they're in,
Speaker 1: Like that's the I didn't even know that conference. That's
Speaker 1: the toughest. The Trinity Conference, he called the Modern Day
Speaker 1: and all those Catholic schools in Orange County that recruit players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like, that's more competitive than the Pack twelve. It is.
Speaker 1: In fact, some Modern Day has got Bryce Young, who's
Speaker 1: the quarterback transferring or he's not transferring. He was. He
Speaker 1: was committed to USC de committed from there. He's going
Speaker 1: to Alabama. And then also Satan John Bosco has a
Speaker 1: quarterback they're getting moving to Clemson after this year. His
Speaker 1: name is dj wang La Le six five to Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a dual sport athlete to baseball and football, so
Speaker 1: he's going to Clemson. But be these offensive linemen for
Speaker 1: all these schools are like two eighty two nine pounds.
Speaker 1: Seems that way when I played back. Yeah, but these
Speaker 1: guys have muscle and it can move and have agility athleticism.
Speaker 1: So it's this receiver for centennials apparently total study. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Gary Bryant, Bryant is going Where is he going? USC
Speaker 1: or somewhere like they's getting recruited by everybody too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I called the game of his back in like Week
Speaker 1: four against Liberty from Las Vegas. Dude caught four touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in the first half. Yeah, that's pretty good. Listen,
Speaker 1: and I will give you a piece of advice, since
Speaker 1: we're going from your domain to mine, stay in your
Speaker 1: later and do your John. I'm gonna be like Ron Santo,
Speaker 1: you know when he the late Ron Santo, when he
Speaker 1: would talk over the play by I've consulted with my
Speaker 1: my counsel on this, Tom Looney, who has told me to.
Speaker 1: So we used to talk about this years ago when
Speaker 1: I did the Blitz Looney on Sundays and we'd interview
Speaker 1: all these play by play guys and commentators for Fox,
Speaker 1: and we always said, well we could do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty simple, no big deal, you know. And
Speaker 1: and so so Looney I told him I was texting
Speaker 1: the other day, I said, you know, guesscon is gonna
Speaker 1: be I'm doing some high school game on Friday night,
Speaker 1: and guess Gon's giving me the rap and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and you know, give me the what's going on or
Speaker 1: or Looney. Uh he was telling me he was gonna
Speaker 1: so anyway. Uh, Loony's like, all right, you got both
Speaker 1: teams got played hard, you know, bring your a game,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's give me all these cliches that
Speaker 1: I gotta work out, these generic football terms that I
Speaker 1: have to throw out there. Half time adjustments, nothing's changed
Speaker 1: more in my I will use that line. Guess got
Speaker 1: nothing's changed more in my life time than halftime adjustments
Speaker 1: that will be said when we start the second half.
Speaker 1: My style Gascon will be a mix of John Madden
Speaker 1: early Madden, Tony Romo, I'll mix him and there Paul McGuire,
Speaker 1: a forgotten broadcast ABC. Yeah. Uh, and I'll mix that
Speaker 1: with like Homer Simpson. All right, I'll mix that with
Speaker 1: Homer Simpson. So, and people can actually watch this. They
Speaker 1: have to pay for it, guests, No, it's free charge.
Speaker 1: It's on the Fox Sports Go app. So, so if
Speaker 1: you're outside r l A or even in l A,
Speaker 1: you can watch this on the app. You can check
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, and so here's the kicker on, well,
Speaker 1: how do you get to the game, because people are stupid?
Speaker 1: How can you find it? On? You go to the
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Go app. You're simple. You just sign up
Speaker 1: for that's it, Yeah, Fox Sports Go. And then at
Speaker 1: the top usually there's a magnifying glass or a search
Speaker 1: icon and you just type in either centennial or J Sarah.
Speaker 1: So it's J and then s E R R A.
Speaker 1: It's one word, but it's Jay Sarah, so it'll pop up.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing too. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're aware of this, is that depending on how the
Speaker 1: game goes, like production wise, competit of nature and on stuff,
Speaker 1: it could be like the NFL and the Sunday NFL
Speaker 1: Pass were certain games they'll go from CBS or Fox
Speaker 1: and they get flexed. They get flexed to the nightcap. Well,
Speaker 1: if our game is good, we'll get flexed out and
Speaker 1: we'll be on Fox Sports West or Fox Sports Prime Ticket.
Speaker 1: How about that? Great? You know I was on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Prime Ticket years ago when Steve Mason and John
Speaker 1: Ireland's morning show was simulcast and I hosted that show
Speaker 1: one day and also guest Gone Before Your Time. I
Speaker 1: was a regular contributor in an Evergreen TV program where
Speaker 1: we we looked back at great moments in sports and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and that aired on Fox Sports Network
Speaker 1: for like six years or something like that as filler programming.
Speaker 1: They have nothing else, which is what that reminds me.
Speaker 1: You also, with all those personalities that you're bringing in,
Speaker 1: you're also gonna bring in the flavor of Bruce Arians too, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am planning on wearing the Arians cap. That is
Speaker 1: my plan because otherwise that people will just goof on
Speaker 1: my hairline. I've me and Lebron have the same hairline,
Speaker 1: so I think I'm going to do that. That's my plan.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this Gascon. It'll make me seem
Speaker 1: like I'm more of an expert, you know, I'll do that.
Speaker 1: I might even leave my glasses on. I probably won't.
Speaker 1: I have very self conscious about that, but but it'll
Speaker 1: make me seem more educated. Who is the who was
Speaker 1: the skipper for the Miami Marlins or the Florida Marlins
Speaker 1: at the time when they won the world Seriously, Jack McKinnon, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jack mckinn, I'm sure you should have a instead of
Speaker 1: a pocket square, you should have a cigar in your
Speaker 1: breastpo Yes, that would be really really good. I'm all
Speaker 1: about the Well, I am excited. Guesscon I hopefully we
Speaker 1: can destroy this. It's high school football. How could I
Speaker 1: destroy it? I've you know, it's very simple. And see,
Speaker 1: unlike you bringing me here, I'm bringing you there and
Speaker 1: getting you paid. Well, I have not gotten a check yet,
Speaker 1: and we don't know that I will actually get a check.
Speaker 1: And I have done gigs where people have promised me
Speaker 1: money and I haven't gotten the money. So until I
Speaker 1: actually get a deposit of money into my bank account,
Speaker 1: I will not congratulate you and thank you at all. Okay,
Speaker 1: because i've heard Hey, oh I don't I never got
Speaker 1: your information. We can't pay you that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I've gotten that. I'm happy that you got the permission
Speaker 1: slip in the wifey, I was a little I was
Speaker 1: a little apprehensive about asking since you were bedridden for
Speaker 1: a couple of days. But happy that now she's excited.
Speaker 1: She's I think she's planning on attending also, like doing
Speaker 1: stats or something like that. She knows nothing about stats,
Speaker 1: but pretend she's in charge of the stats. Well, fair enough, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm happy you guys are coming along. It'll be a
Speaker 1: short trip for you from coming from Arizona too, So
Speaker 1: you're all good. Yeah. I was worried because when you
Speaker 1: said there, you said, hey, there's some game. I don't
Speaker 1: know which game it is. We don't know the game yet.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking you're gonna have me driving out to like
Speaker 1: Big Bear, Santa barber or something like that would have
Speaker 1: been a great weekend for the wife. Well, they paid
Speaker 1: for the hotel room, it would do really Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would have been damn. Why couldn't we do a game
Speaker 1: in Santa Barbara? And now you want for a hotel?
Speaker 1: I work in radio and I don't to pay for
Speaker 1: anything in radio. What are you talking about? Wow? Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on study this? Are you ready for studying this?
Speaker 1: These your actual studies by actual mostly universities, and they
Speaker 1: take a look at some of the more interesting things
Speaker 1: in life. I get a kick out of these things.
Speaker 1: I know most of them are bullshit. So the way
Speaker 1: this works is will give the study and then we
Speaker 1: will decide whether or not we believe it or we
Speaker 1: don't believe it, whether or not it's bullshit or it's legit.
Speaker 1: And the first study up here involves basic human rights.
Speaker 1: All right, this comes out of England and there's a
Speaker 1: study done. According to this new study that internet access
Speaker 1: is such a vital part of the human experience that
Speaker 1: it is right there with food and shelter. It should
Speaker 1: be a basic human right, according to a study published
Speaker 1: by the University of Birmingham in England. How about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is study and this person that they determined if
Speaker 1: only a certain percentage of the world's population has access
Speaker 1: to the Internet, well others, particularly those in developing nations,
Speaker 1: do not. It undermines these people's basic human rights, an
Speaker 1: ability to live a minimal decent minimally decent live. Well,
Speaker 1: shout out globalists. Yeah, I have to come on. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love the Internet, but at times I wonder what
Speaker 1: my life would be like without it. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: it would be better, more positive. Yes, I I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have to log into Twitter and say, hey, asshole,
Speaker 1: fuck you. The astros are great. I don't worry about that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? Hashtag blessed. Uh here's a
Speaker 1: selfie with me waking up in the morning and I
Speaker 1: just poured myself a coffee. Life is great. Plus, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, spoiler alert. Most people on the internet are
Speaker 1: not trying to become better people. They're trying to post
Speaker 1: selfies of their ass to get a boyfriend on on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm complaining about that, but yeah, they're trying
Speaker 1: to get paid exactly. So I mean, come on, now,
Speaker 1: what what are we doing here? Right? It's it's it's ridiculous. Anyway,
Speaker 1: what else do we have it? Study? This? These our
Speaker 1: actual studies as songs for the heart. Listening to instrumental
Speaker 1: music while driving eases cardiac stress? Do we believe this
Speaker 1: or we do not believe this? Um? I think I
Speaker 1: believe it, because, well, what do you listen to when
Speaker 1: you go to the gym? I usually have the the TV.
Speaker 1: I watched TV more than I don't usually listen to music.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the TV. What do you what do you
Speaker 1: listen to when you drive from Arizona to the studio
Speaker 1: h Hodgepodge of podcast radio And then I'll listen to
Speaker 1: some some music from time to time. Also I'll mix
Speaker 1: it in, but it's just you know whatever. I've got
Speaker 1: some songs on my phone usually listen to those off
Speaker 1: I'll go on like Amazon Music because my wife's got
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime, and I'll put something in there. I'm always
Speaker 1: curious to what people listen to when they're in the car,
Speaker 1: especially here in l A or maybe New York. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those guys were all listened to like
Speaker 1: fast music, Like I'll listen to house or trance or
Speaker 1: something like that when I'm driving and it makes me
Speaker 1: go faster obviously, or I listened to believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Like movie soundtracks. I like movies soundtracks too, because your
Speaker 1: life becomes the movie. Yeah, your life becomes away. So
Speaker 1: like when you play like classical music and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: like because in movies when they when they have the
Speaker 1: background music, it's often just classical. There's no vote, no
Speaker 1: words or anything like. Yeah. Absolutely, So when I'm in
Speaker 1: the gym, if I need to get in and out,
Speaker 1: I listened to Batman Begins. I'll listen to that sound track.
Speaker 1: You know in some of those streaming services they have whatever.
Speaker 1: John william John Williams has put out almost all of
Speaker 1: that stuff, right, Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer's got the yeah
Speaker 1: so that I don't listen to Star Wars, but Top Gun,
Speaker 1: the Rocky sound tracks, those are all good back in
Speaker 1: the day. Right, yeah, oh yeah, those are great. It's
Speaker 1: all listen to that stuff depending and then if when
Speaker 1: you slow things down, I'll listen to a show down track,
Speaker 1: just because the music mixture is a little bit different.
Speaker 1: So I got a big blend though of music like
Speaker 1: alternative rock. And look at you patting yourself on the
Speaker 1: back with a humble brag about how you listen to
Speaker 1: all kinds of music. Well, I just tried to have
Speaker 1: a different environments than a man. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: listen to podcast at the time. I gotta diagnose what
Speaker 1: you're sucking up on on this podcast. So alright, A
Speaker 1: lot of people, by the way, last week thought you
Speaker 1: fucked up because at the end you put all these
Speaker 1: bloopers on and people didn't know what they were and
Speaker 1: they were like, wow, this is amateur hour. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you said, and I quote, you gotta make sure you
Speaker 1: explain this to our audience because they're a bunch of idiots.
Speaker 1: End quote. I did did you explain it to the audience?
Speaker 1: Are you playing open saying he it's blooper time? But
Speaker 1: I think it's better that way that they don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. This is what's all about Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I love the emails. You know, guess going he left
Speaker 1: up the podcast man just gonna screwed it up. He
Speaker 1: left all your bloopers in it. Okay, it was pretty
Speaker 1: damn funny. Alright, I blame the yoga pants. Well who
Speaker 1: I don't know any man that doesn't love yoga pants.
Speaker 1: But apparently this is right, isn't. This comes out of
Speaker 1: Portland or in Portland State University. You find that pollutants
Speaker 1: known as micro plastics are being detected in oysters and
Speaker 1: razors razor clams along the Oregon coast, and they've determined
Speaker 1: this is great. Yoga pants are for fox sake, I know, right,
Speaker 1: Come on, these people should be kicked out forget anyway,
Speaker 1: kick him out of the country. The researchers claimed that
Speaker 1: yoga pants, please jackets, and other sweat absorbing clothes frequently
Speaker 1: warned by Pacific Northwesterners, are contributing to the local plastic problem. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't plan on going to Portland, Oregon anytime soon,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you this much. If you are a
Speaker 1: male or even a female, if you're wearing yoga pants,
Speaker 1: it's usually in spots like l A, Orange County New York, Boston, UM, Florida,
Speaker 1: like down South Beach, Tampa. Maybe, I mean, yeah, that
Speaker 1: that does that does a body good. Well, it does
Speaker 1: a body good when it's the right body. But I
Speaker 1: think we've all seen situations where does not necessary you know,
Speaker 1: not necessary. You know what I'm saying. Well, whatever makes
Speaker 1: a woman feel sexy. Yeah, but you know you gotta Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are limits, There are limits, there are, but you
Speaker 1: know what, fuck it. Who cares you want it all for?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I think it's one of the great inventions
Speaker 1: right up there with the remote control and power. Yes,
Speaker 1: yoga pants, one of the great inventions at right time. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we have virtual pain, virtual competition. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: this is great, so real injuries. Sports medicine, the according
Speaker 1: to study, has to adapt to the dangers all wait
Speaker 1: for it, E sports, yes, E sports. Coding to new study,
Speaker 1: researchers say that excessive numbers of hours E sports athletes
Speaker 1: typically spend practicing is taking a physical toll on them
Speaker 1: carpal tunnel, resulting in a variety of physical, psychological and
Speaker 1: uh met a ball like ailments. I can believe that.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, so they're going through the whole thing here. Tournaments. Uh,
Speaker 1: these things sell out and whatnot, and there big crowds,
Speaker 1: very popular in the you know, people watching this stuff,
Speaker 1: they love it. Were you a gamer back in the day, Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I played like Duck Hunt, I mean that was
Speaker 1: my Yeah, I played games. But these games are out
Speaker 1: of but three. They said, the average e gamer, the
Speaker 1: pro gamer plays three to ten hours every day, three
Speaker 1: or ten hours every day, and they average five hundred
Speaker 1: and six hundred in game action minutes per minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that. When I went to San Diego State,
Speaker 1: we would spend about six seven hours a night playing
Speaker 1: video games. But which was actually ingenious too, because the
Speaker 1: more time we spent playing video games, the less time
Speaker 1: we spent in the bar wasting money. So we would
Speaker 1: play games all night and then around eleven or eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: after done playing video games and maybe some dominoes, then
Speaker 1: we'd go to the club or then we'd go to
Speaker 1: the bar. And usually that time it's the best time
Speaker 1: because you get the stragglers. You go when they come out,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's like the inter and out service,
Speaker 1: so you're set up. Yeah, it's pretty good, especially have
Speaker 1: no standards, so you're good. Well, I have standards, it's
Speaker 1: just that they're different levels at different times to day.
Speaker 1: I understand. I mean you're closing time a four becomes
Speaker 1: an eight. Well yeah, but in something California, usually four
Speaker 1: here is usually like a ten in you know, like
Speaker 1: Illinois or Iowa. Yeah, people listening in Iowa in Illinois stupid?
Speaker 1: Who cares? They care? Yeah, but they know they know
Speaker 1: what I saw when I was in Indianapolis years ago.
Speaker 1: You just busted on women that wear yoga pants that
Speaker 1: might not need to wear those. Well, yeah, but that
Speaker 1: could be in anywhere. That could be in Miami or
Speaker 1: l A or anywhere then, not to be just Iowa.
Speaker 1: But I was in Indiana, Indiana, and they were beautiful
Speaker 1: women in Indiana years Like I was walking, I just
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. This is crazy or yeah, Bloomington, No,
Speaker 1: it is in Indianapolis. And there were a bunch of
Speaker 1: colleges in Indianapolis. But I was like I, I you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I've never been there before. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what to expect us. I could be a bunch of
Speaker 1: ugly people, but there they were good looking people. Did
Speaker 1: you meet anybody, Uh No, of course not. I did not. I.
Speaker 1: I did eat the most expensive meal I've ever eaten.
Speaker 1: That was when the Lakers and Pacers played in the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. We went to Stay No St. Elmo's Steakhouse
Speaker 1: and my friend I had the surf and turf, but
Speaker 1: I had to had a big steak. I even really
Speaker 1: like steak that much, but I I this thing was
Speaker 1: it was. The meal was almost like a grand It
Speaker 1: was crazy. So how did you funk up the steak?
Speaker 1: Did you put sauce on it? Oh? Catch up, pepper,
Speaker 1: catching you a one steak, sauce, catchup? Whatever I could do?
Speaker 1: Well done? Yah? Yeah. Yeah. It's always great when you're
Speaker 1: going to a high end steak joint and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you burn it? Burn and baby burn. They really
Speaker 1: like that. They love that. You can't get enough of
Speaker 1: that big the big fans of that. You should try it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's embarrassing, all right. Uh. This one came from
Speaker 1: our friend in Iowa. Let me see here, we have
Speaker 1: give the proper credit, because if we don't give the
Speaker 1: proper predit gask on, people get very upset here. And
Speaker 1: they Bill in Iowa set this one in. He wanted
Speaker 1: us to talk about this and I love that guys
Speaker 1: are now feeding his content for the fifth hour. Uh
Speaker 1: it's like having a producer and uh it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here's the study and it's about sleep. And
Speaker 1: this is by something I should use during a sleep
Speaker 1: number commercial, but I'm not. I'm using it here and
Speaker 1: uh it's like, I guess a warning sign to me
Speaker 1: is people who sleep for fewer than five hours a
Speaker 1: night have significantly shorter telomeres than those who get an
Speaker 1: adequate seven hours of sleep. That's according to a new study.
Speaker 1: Apparently this causes problems if you don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of telemore's telomeres. I think I'm saying that right. And
Speaker 1: uh so they've done a bunch of research showing how
Speaker 1: consumers sleep trackers can shine a light on the cost
Speaker 1: of not getting enough sleep. Now I do not get
Speaker 1: enough sleep, probably five nights a week, and then two
Speaker 1: nights I get plenty of sleep. I don't think it matters,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's the life of doing overnight radio and
Speaker 1: having stuff to do during the day. Are you is
Speaker 1: your room straight black or do you have blinds that
Speaker 1: have a little crack? No? No, no, no. We One
Speaker 1: thing I've invested in is I have two layers of
Speaker 1: blackout curtains. I have a window tint on the windows.
Speaker 1: I have hotel high end, hotel level darkness. When I'm sleep,
Speaker 1: I do. And that's one thing I'm very proud of.
Speaker 1: It's like a dungeon in there. And it's the only
Speaker 1: because I go to bed the sun's and when i'm
Speaker 1: in I'm in near Vegas, apparently it's really hot. It's
Speaker 1: boiling hot. So yeah, but it's also the fact that
Speaker 1: you don't go to bed till like eight or nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: When you get off at three, Well, I go to
Speaker 1: the gym uh and then wind down after the gym,
Speaker 1: and I have some responsibilities that I have to do,
Speaker 1: and then once that's done, I go to bed. You
Speaker 1: have a very stressful life. It's self imposed stress. No,
Speaker 1: it's all right. I mean I'm not. It's fine. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't feel higher or anyway. When I do these
Speaker 1: stupid podcasts, I feel tired because I get even less
Speaker 1: sleep to get up to do this. Dude, these once
Speaker 1: a fucking a week. Yeah, but that's a very busy,
Speaker 1: very busy day, all right. I mean, you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: send me over the edge. You remember last week you
Speaker 1: sent me to the hospital gascon people pointing out that,
Speaker 1: and they probed into the podcast and you asked me
Speaker 1: about about you ever had an operation and I said, no,
Speaker 1: I've never had a major operation. And uh, today two
Speaker 1: days later chopping me open. Thank you gas Well you
Speaker 1: got a war wound. Now it feels so weird. They
Speaker 1: glued me back. They took the stitches or the staples
Speaker 1: out and they put glue in there. So I'm literally
Speaker 1: glued together. That is amazing. And you have the stitches
Speaker 1: removed to you, right, or they took they took the
Speaker 1: stitches out on the other cuts. But they cut me
Speaker 1: open four times, four places to do the gall stone thing.
Speaker 1: But the one in the top is the big one.
Speaker 1: They really ripped my skin apart on that one. Listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta promised me this. Then the next time you
Speaker 1: go to the hospital for something, can you at least
Speaker 1: bring me along for some play by play when you
Speaker 1: play by calling oscarpy Next year, I will do your
Speaker 1: play by play. We'll just think big guest. Once this
Speaker 1: Friday night high school football game goes well, like we'll
Speaker 1: be partners next year, right, I mean we'll be doing
Speaker 1: this every week? How great will that be? Come on?
Speaker 1: And if I move up to a higher rank, God
Speaker 1: forbid if I have to use any of this work
Speaker 1: as a real Alright, moving on, it's in the bag.
Speaker 1: These are listener messages posted on our Facebook page Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard Show every Thursday mornings during the week. I post
Speaker 1: I say, hey, we're probably gonna be doing the podcast later.
Speaker 1: Send some questions in, and listeners have done that. The
Speaker 1: first one comes from Dan and Kalamazoo. Now Calamazoo's in
Speaker 1: my top ten city nameless with beaver Dam and Punk
Speaker 1: Sitani and Rancho Kucamonga and in those places, So I
Speaker 1: like Calamazoo. Dan and Kalamazoo writes, and he says, what
Speaker 1: is the longest you've got? This is appropriate? What is
Speaker 1: the longest you've gone without sleep? He says, He says,
Speaker 1: gag on too. I guess, well, I don't have an
Speaker 1: exact number of hours, Dan, but I do know the
Speaker 1: longest I went with sleep is when I again for work.
Speaker 1: I was working at the NBC Sports Network years ago,
Speaker 1: and and they fly me out one week a month
Speaker 1: to Stanford, Connecticut from l A. And I at that
Speaker 1: time I was doing the weekend overnight show. So I
Speaker 1: did the weekend overnight show on a Saturday into a Sunday. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then I did the Blitz on Sunday afternoon. So
Speaker 1: I didn't get much talking about two hours of sleep
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, got up to do the Blitz and
Speaker 1: then I rushed to l a X to take a
Speaker 1: red eye into JFK. And then they took a car
Speaker 1: service drove me to Connecticut to do the thing. And
Speaker 1: but the problem was on Monday, we had production meetings.
Speaker 1: Pretty much as soon as I got to to the
Speaker 1: that area, I had to go to a production meeting
Speaker 1: for that night show. So I did not sleep, and uh,
Speaker 1: I could not, and so I'm amazed I did not
Speaker 1: fall asleep like Mike Francesa on on television. But I went,
Speaker 1: I would say roughly by time I finally went to sleep.
Speaker 1: I remember one of the times I didn't even go
Speaker 1: to sleep that night because I had a room near
Speaker 1: an elevator, and then the elevator kept waking me up.
Speaker 1: But I would say I went probably about sixty hours,
Speaker 1: but not sixty over fifty, certainly over fifty hours without sleep.
Speaker 1: What about you, Gasca, Well, I've had a couple of them,
Speaker 1: but they're mostly Vegas benders, drug related. I understand. I
Speaker 1: went thirty two hours twice in Vegas for a bachelor party. Um,
Speaker 1: I actually went twenty eight hours at Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: and uh, and I got rated out by a colleague
Speaker 1: here too for doing that. I oddly enough, I worked
Speaker 1: a day shift at Fox, went to UC rivers side
Speaker 1: to call a basketball game that night, and then Dan
Speaker 1: Bayer had called me up because, um, oddly enough, timing wise, uh,
Speaker 1: Eddie and his wife. Eddie's wife had a medical emergency
Speaker 1: and so he had a go to the hospital. And
Speaker 1: so Dan and asked me to fill in for for Eddie,
Speaker 1: and so I filled it on your show. And the
Speaker 1: show schedule is different from yours because yours a four
Speaker 1: hour slot. Well, I have to work two shifts, so
Speaker 1: it's two shows, which is nine hours. So at a
Speaker 1: daytime to get my little make it, my little violin
Speaker 1: out at a daytime shift, I'll call the basketball game.
Speaker 1: Came back here, and then the morning anchor she comes
Speaker 1: in a little later than normal, which you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing, like an hour early. She comes in like
Speaker 1: just before you need to be on air. I had
Speaker 1: to stay around the entire time. And when I got
Speaker 1: off at six am, traffic had built up in downtown
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and on the west side of town. SAW
Speaker 1: was stuck an hour traffic getting back home, and so
Speaker 1: I didn't fall asleep until like nine or ten. So
Speaker 1: I was a full like twenty eight hours. By the
Speaker 1: by the way, I just had an epiphany guest on
Speaker 1: that I the longest I stayed away. It just happened
Speaker 1: in April when I got flown back to do the
Speaker 1: Boston w e I Show, and I had a listener
Speaker 1: part and I had no time. I was doing two shows.
Speaker 1: I was doing the night show in Boston, the overnight show,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I love Boston. I was one of
Speaker 1: my favorite cities. I love going around. Is a lot
Speaker 1: to you know, check out history in Boston. And I
Speaker 1: was there all week and I all I did was
Speaker 1: go to from the hotel room to UH to UH
Speaker 1: the radio station. And I was like, what the hell, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, this is a great city.
Speaker 1: So I had an evening, like a late afternoon flight
Speaker 1: on Friday, but I did the overnight show Friday night,
Speaker 1: you know, Thursday night and Friday morning and then I
Speaker 1: just said, you know what, screw it, I'm gonna stay awake.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go walk around Boston. And it was kind
Speaker 1: of a chilly morning in April, and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: walk around. So I I did. I stayed awake, and
Speaker 1: then I thought I was gonna be able to sleep
Speaker 1: on the flight. I couldn't sleep on the flight. I
Speaker 1: was too jammed in the flight. I couldn't fall asleep.
Speaker 1: So I stayed awake. That was I think that was
Speaker 1: probably the longest I stayed away. By the time I
Speaker 1: finally got to sleep late at night Friday in l
Speaker 1: a uh, that was probably well over fifty hours. But
Speaker 1: see Boston and New York. You can do that. Like
Speaker 1: I take red Eyes to New York. And part of
Speaker 1: the reason for that is when I arrive in New
Speaker 1: York with it's LaGuardia or JFK, I have Flint Newark once.
Speaker 1: People don't like New Ork, no, not at all, but
Speaker 1: you feel juiced up when you land in New York.
Speaker 1: There's just something about that city that never sleeps. You're
Speaker 1: just you were just juiced up. You can just do whatever,
Speaker 1: and obviously you can walk around and eat and drink
Speaker 1: whatever at any time of the day. Of course out
Speaker 1: here in the West Coast. You can do that in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. But yeah, it's a good reason. Boston's a
Speaker 1: really fun city to be in. No matter. I love
Speaker 1: Boston and they've been very good to me. The people
Speaker 1: of Boston been cool and uh, we have the same attitude.
Speaker 1: We're all assholes, so they're called they call them massholes,
Speaker 1: but I'm just an assholes. Oh yeah, to do it.
Speaker 1: I love their attitude. Do you still like them after
Speaker 1: they fired you? They didn't fired me. I was forced
Speaker 1: to leave, idiot because we are shows now on the
Speaker 1: Sports Hub and amazingly, they will not let us work
Speaker 1: on both radio stations in Boston. There's apparently compete clause
Speaker 1: in these contracts that are beyond my pay grade and
Speaker 1: all that. But but but yeah, the people of Boston
Speaker 1: pretty pretty. I love to find when I did that
Speaker 1: the Red Sox postgame, Uh that two years I was
Speaker 1: doing it, and the Red Sox would be like a
Speaker 1: streak of like nine wins in twelve games and people
Speaker 1: would be like that, dad fucking good trade. Jackie Bradley,
Speaker 1: that guy can't be had. Dual m vps that year.
Speaker 1: J d. Martinez and Mookie Batts. Yeah, they did that
Speaker 1: when he won the World Series. Apparently they were who
Speaker 1: knows if they were begging on drums like the Astros.
Speaker 1: I'm sure those videos will likely come out at some point.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they were doing, but the But anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, moving on, it is in the bag. Will
Speaker 1: do a few more of these, and I know we
Speaker 1: also have for your dancing and dining pleasure we have.
Speaker 1: Don't stick to sports. Glenn says, when since when is
Speaker 1: weed Man hippie allowed back on the show? Well, Glenn,
Speaker 1: real quick for that, you missed the show when I
Speaker 1: came back from the hospital. While I was in the hospital,
Speaker 1: weed Man apologized. He sent me an email apologizing for
Speaker 1: his actions. But is this was this apology coming because
Speaker 1: he felt like he was giving you last rights? Probably,
Speaker 1: but he apologized and then he's like he for well,
Speaker 1: I have unlike you, I have empathy. But he apologized.
Speaker 1: I was like, I have to do with anything. I
Speaker 1: don't know. He's been listening the whole time. Anyway, he
Speaker 1: just doesn't call in and it's killing him. They're not
Speaker 1: call in. But did you did you have an epiphany? Though?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like you should start abolishing some callers,
Speaker 1: like like Chris and Houston, like that guy should never
Speaker 1: be allowed to call your show again after he tucktailed
Speaker 1: and ran from the World Series. Yeah, and like Chris is,
Speaker 1: so he's such a cool a drinker. Like this Astro
Speaker 1: scandal came out this week. There was a video that
Speaker 1: popped up of them blatantly banging a trash can when
Speaker 1: there was a breaking ball, and uh, it was like, yeah, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: and so I put the video Chris says, oh it
Speaker 1: was edited video. You can't even hear it, and then
Speaker 1: hand the god guest And there's like seven hundred videos
Speaker 1: that are out now in different games in including the
Speaker 1: World Series, of the Astros either using banging a trash
Speaker 1: can or or a whistle. It's hilarious. Chris like, well,
Speaker 1: I was editing. It was one time. I don't think
Speaker 1: that you know, they didn't do it in the World
Speaker 1: the World Series. Even Cooper Loop was like, but there's
Speaker 1: no video of them in the World Series doing it.
Speaker 1: Then the next day the video showed up. There you go, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Can we be a party to a class actual lawsuit?
Speaker 1: Gasc on for for get get some money out of that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get some things happening in social media, Like
Speaker 1: social media is gonna find out the World Series in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen was should be played under protest
Speaker 1: because the Astros cheated, And somehow, some way Twitter is
Speaker 1: gonna find out who really killed Jeffrey Epstein. Well, they're trying.
Speaker 1: I got a prediction somebody's gonna put video out saying
Speaker 1: that the Dodgers also cheated in the World Series. That's
Speaker 1: my prediction that that someone will come up with some
Speaker 1: video of something and clinch to the Dodgers were doing
Speaker 1: it too. Uh. Well, maybe I'm wrong, but I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that somebody in the Astros organization is gonna
Speaker 1: try to come back with that. Let's see Derek the
Speaker 1: E sports guy in Boston from Boston's in l A. Now,
Speaker 1: this guy is a big E sports star. What kind
Speaker 1: of game is playing? I forget the name of the game.
Speaker 1: But he works. He They moved him to l A
Speaker 1: to work in a house and just practice his craft
Speaker 1: of playing video games. I've been trying. He's a young guy.
Speaker 1: How great is this? This guy said he's making more
Speaker 1: money than both of us combined. He's like a teenager
Speaker 1: guy or his early twenties. What it made me feel
Speaker 1: better about myself anyway, says He says, do you consider
Speaker 1: do you guys consider professional video games as a sport? Uh?
Speaker 1: If not? Why I do not think of it as
Speaker 1: a sport because I think generally I think of it
Speaker 1: as you have to have some physical act. It's mentally challenging,
Speaker 1: but I don't consider it, Like my traditional definition of
Speaker 1: sport is an activity involving physical exertion. What do you
Speaker 1: think golf is a sport? I didn't until I played
Speaker 1: the other day and I felt pain all over my
Speaker 1: body when we got back the next day. Do you
Speaker 1: think IndyCar or NASCAR drivers are athletes? No, not really,
Speaker 1: But the skill I mean, see, that's what there's gotta
Speaker 1: be like a It's it's different because to me, sport
Speaker 1: is physical recreations, physical activity. These things I feel are
Speaker 1: mostly mental. Now. It is if you're in a NASCAR
Speaker 1: in a stock car and you're going around for five
Speaker 1: hours in a circle, it is a wear and tear
Speaker 1: in your body more than east A sports all about
Speaker 1: the mental part. You have to have laser like focusing.
Speaker 1: They've gotta be doing those, hopefully not those opiates handation.
Speaker 1: I think east sports, I think they're athletes. It's like poker,
Speaker 1: it's like chess, it's like being in a car. Like
Speaker 1: you're using your mind, you're using some physicals. I'm an athlete.
Speaker 1: I drive to work. I'm an athlete. By your definition,
Speaker 1: I'm an athlete. Doing this is mentally challenging. I have
Speaker 1: to think of the next word I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: so that is also, I'm an athlete when I'm doing
Speaker 1: I'm a broadcast athlete. So you think like something you
Speaker 1: think a c P as an athlete, Well, you're a definition. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a physical activity in a competitive nature. Driving is competitive.
Speaker 1: Talk radio's competitive. Podcasting is competitive. Well you're married. Do
Speaker 1: you think you're an athlete because you have sex? Uh? Yes,
Speaker 1: Well my wife's more of an athlete than I am. Yes,
Speaker 1: but ump bump, all right, Uh, moving on. You're just
Speaker 1: saying that, guest because you want to be a play
Speaker 1: by play guy for the sports I know I you
Speaker 1: aw ulterior motives. I know what you're up. Well we
Speaker 1: can do this together, though, Yeah, i'd be I would
Speaker 1: totally do that. I would totally be up the sports
Speaker 1: play by play guy would be fun a good time.
Speaker 1: And it's funny you say that. I actually met someone
Speaker 1: like high ranking in the East sports world a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. He came to one of my high
Speaker 1: school games for Fox. It turned out his dad. I
Speaker 1: didn't know this until I found out through a couple
Speaker 1: of buddies that were there. His dad was one of
Speaker 1: the original creators of Monday Night Football. Wow. Really, Yes,
Speaker 1: what was his dad's name? I can tell you that
Speaker 1: off here. Yeah, I can tell you that. You know,
Speaker 1: in my early days, and since we're name dropping, when
Speaker 1: I worked, a name dropped while you were trying to
Speaker 1: you were there's a humble brad. You'd admit it was
Speaker 1: a humble brad. I didn't. I didn't. You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't get anything. Yeah, but you were looking for some
Speaker 1: credit for that, you know, you you were doing. You
Speaker 1: didn't fully open up the can of worms, but you
Speaker 1: were looking for some credit. Always. No. But when I
Speaker 1: first started in radio in San Diego, it was Steve
Speaker 1: Hartman was doing a show with Chet Forte, who was
Speaker 1: the Monday Night Football like I think it was the
Speaker 1: director of producer of Monday Night Football. And uh, it
Speaker 1: was like the highest paid TV executive and then lost
Speaker 1: everything gambling, lost everything gambling on sports. It all went away.
Speaker 1: And he was like a college basketball player in New
Speaker 1: York back in the day and a good guy, nice guy.
Speaker 1: I passed away a few years back. But anyway, uh,
Speaker 1: here's one Oh. This is from Iowa Sam in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: by the way of Iowa City, I like one of
Speaker 1: our colleagues, and a question. He says, any foods that
Speaker 1: you are prohibited from eating now that your gallbladder has
Speaker 1: been removed. That's actually a good question, Iowa Sam, and
Speaker 1: thank you for listening and to appreciate your work for
Speaker 1: the company. You're jolly good. But but no, I I
Speaker 1: wasn't really given any restrictions. I was told that now
Speaker 1: that I don't have my gall bladder, let when I
Speaker 1: eat spicy foods, which I have not done yet, or
Speaker 1: really greasy foods, It's gonna be a poop fest right away.
Speaker 1: I'll be on the shifter within like half an hour.
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon has had this happen to him. He had
Speaker 1: his gall bladder out, although it was not as messed
Speaker 1: up as mind, and he has said that that is
Speaker 1: the case that you eat greasy food. It's a problem,
Speaker 1: so I have. I've tried to change my diet a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh, we'll see if I stick to it.
Speaker 1: More rice, chicken, that kind of stuff, not spicy. I
Speaker 1: used to eat tacos and burritos all the time and
Speaker 1: nacho losing. I'm not gonna do that as much, but
Speaker 1: I still I'm not. I'm gonna live my life. I'm
Speaker 1: still occasionally on the weekends when I don't even eat
Speaker 1: much during the week guest gone. So on the weekends,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna have a nice meal, maybe on a
Speaker 1: Saturday or a Friday or something like that, and then
Speaker 1: that's it. I well, don't forget. You actually owe me
Speaker 1: a Philly cheese steak too, so um, I'll be a
Speaker 1: part of you know what, Philly cheese steak. You you're
Speaker 1: so worried about your girlish figure, you don't eat any
Speaker 1: of that. Man. I've been I've been working out really
Speaker 1: hard recently. I've been trending pretty hard, running miles, and
Speaker 1: I've decreased my one mile run from like eleven minutes
Speaker 1: and some change down to et I'm really proud of myself.
Speaker 1: Let me give you some Reese's pieces here you want something,
Speaker 1: I could use some. I've been fastened today and if oh,
Speaker 1: there you bragging about your fast, I'm fasting too. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna out fast you. I'm not eating today when
Speaker 1: we're recording this on a Thursday. The next meal I
Speaker 1: have will be after that high school football game on
Speaker 1: Friday night. How about that? Yeah, I hope your wife
Speaker 1: doesn't take us summer shitty. She better not. I'll be
Speaker 1: eating a lot of food that particular nights. But to
Speaker 1: be fair, i'bout raising canes. We go to Canes, they're
Speaker 1: open late. You wanta go to Keynes, but you can't
Speaker 1: have greasy food though I can't. I can't. I'll just
Speaker 1: go to the toilet. Boom done. Listen, you just got
Speaker 1: out of the icy you. I'm not gonna The first
Speaker 1: thing I'm not gonna do is take you to a
Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta live. I'm I'm working, although I
Speaker 1: haven't been able to go back to the gym yet.
Speaker 1: They told me I had to wait because they glued
Speaker 1: me back together until Monday. Well that sucks because I do.
Speaker 1: Even though I'm not Adonis and I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: a Mr. Universe, I do enjoy the working out. I
Speaker 1: do enjoy. Can you have I guess that's the thing too.
Speaker 1: Can you have protein shakes? Because the protein usually probably
Speaker 1: goes right through right? I don't. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: have not. I don't have pro I have like veggie
Speaker 1: and my wife will throw some like a fruit smoothie
Speaker 1: Gabe kapler or something like the Greenies. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a great way to eat vegetables and not realize you're
Speaker 1: eating vegetables masket with like oranges or you know, some
Speaker 1: kind of fruit rais or something like that. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: Michael in Ohio rights and he says, do we do
Speaker 1: we as members of the mallem Militia make you and
Speaker 1: the crew better people? Or do you ever feel a
Speaker 1: bit bitter with some of the shenanigans that some people,
Speaker 1: uh in the radio audience put out to us. From Michael,
Speaker 1: I'd like to answer that for you. The Mallard Militia
Speaker 1: makes the staff uh double think about themselves, like rethink
Speaker 1: their life, re evaluate where they're going in life, the
Speaker 1: repurpose of life. That's exactly what they not. Most people
Speaker 1: that have a spine and a backbone don't feel that way.
Speaker 1: The Mallew Militia. Let me evangelize film Momentbut this Mallew Militia,
Speaker 1: all right, they are watch dogs for the Ben Mallow Show. Okay,
Speaker 1: they are, and they they they stay focused, they stay grounded,
Speaker 1: most of them, not all of them. And they monitor,
Speaker 1: they monitor the spinning match that is sports talk radio.
Speaker 1: And they if anyone the key thing of being in
Speaker 1: the Malamlitias, when anyone bespirches my good name, they have
Speaker 1: to let me know about it and defend the the
Speaker 1: honor of the Ben Maller Show and the people that
Speaker 1: work on the Ben Mallier And they are relentless people
Speaker 1: are ruthless. That ruthless, which I love. They they're such
Speaker 1: super fans of the show that they go over the top.
Speaker 1: It's they're gonna have a rally in Seattle in December,
Speaker 1: late December. Ed in Spokane and Christina are behind it.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be like holding signs and bullhorns shouting
Speaker 1: my name outside the Seahawks game. How cool is that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're rabid dogs. Not them, but the Mallar Militia
Speaker 1: is a whole. They're like rabid dogs that anything is
Speaker 1: out of out of whack they come barking. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: way I will answer the question, though, Michael in Ohio
Speaker 1: is I love the Malamlicia. They've been great, very supportive,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as they don't cross the line
Speaker 1: where they end up getting arrested and uh, fan of
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show arrested for pooping in the streets.
Speaker 1: I don't need that, you know, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I'm good. Uh. Let's see. Uh oh,
Speaker 1: Richard said, I don't have a question, but I just
Speaker 1: sending you guys love from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Those nice Wisconsin people.
Speaker 1: So you got you got Wisconsin, you got Kalamazoo, Seattle,
Speaker 1: We're all Derek the sports guy from Boston, We're all
Speaker 1: over the place. Let's see, here's one. How much money
Speaker 1: would it take for you to spend one whole winter
Speaker 1: in Canada where temperatures can reach minus for this from
Speaker 1: Mark the load management expert listening to us in Ottawa. Well, see,
Speaker 1: that's got to depend on where you're at, because if
Speaker 1: you're up north, like in Edmonton, then you're probably asking
Speaker 1: for a little bit more than and let's say, if
Speaker 1: you were in Vancouver or Calgary or Winnipeg, or Toronto
Speaker 1: or Toronto. Toronto is awesome though, like you'll warm yourself
Speaker 1: no matter what. In Montreal, Yeah, I mean the way
Speaker 1: I look at it. I've I have been offered jobs
Speaker 1: in Boston, you know I can't. I have been because
Speaker 1: of my life situation. I couldn't take them. But I
Speaker 1: would live in Boston, where it gets pretty nasty in
Speaker 1: the winter time. I think I could be fine. I
Speaker 1: don't go out much anyway, you know, I think I'd
Speaker 1: be all right as long as I had a nice heater. Uh.
Speaker 1: Look at people live in Minnesota. They've got tunnels and
Speaker 1: stuff in Minnesota. They live their life fine that the
Speaker 1: weather is very harsh there. Uh, And so I think
Speaker 1: it would be fine. I would. I wouldn't have a
Speaker 1: problem with it as long as that WiFi because it's
Speaker 1: a it's a right of life. And a food shelter
Speaker 1: and a heater. You live anywhere, who cares. I've been
Speaker 1: several people have recommended that I visit Canada. Uh. They
Speaker 1: say Vancouver, the Vancouver Islands, Toronto, Montreal, and they also
Speaker 1: said even as a non sports event, they recommend they
Speaker 1: highly recommend going to the Calgary Stampede. Yeah, they say
Speaker 1: millionaires and billionaires like these oil tycoons go there like
Speaker 1: once a year. In fact, when I went to grad
Speaker 1: school in Boston, I had two classmates. They were both
Speaker 1: bartenders down in Florida. They would get flown to the
Speaker 1: Calgary Stampede and clear ten grand in a weekend. Wow,
Speaker 1: pretty good. But they said, there's nothing like the ten
Speaker 1: grand in the year on this podcast. That would be nice. Listen,
Speaker 1: you might make more money tagging along with me on
Speaker 1: on some television. Well you just wait. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: blown away by the amount of sports cliche goodness does
Speaker 1: that I provide. It is going to be amazing. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a life changing experience. I I you, I
Speaker 1: don't know who you worked with. I'm sure you worked
Speaker 1: with some former players or whatever. Any house, Reggie, So
Speaker 1: you just asked who I've worked with? Name dropper Gascon.
Speaker 1: But listen, you're connected to some TV executives, so you
Speaker 1: gotta understand Gascon. I I know every cliche in football.
Speaker 1: I have been doing this for a very long time.
Speaker 1: You know, from ground in pound to dink and dunk
Speaker 1: uh to remedial passing game. You know anything Northwest, southeast whatever.
Speaker 1: I got all the terms. I got all the terms
Speaker 1: and much like mostly Defense, mad At Dart, Defense, Cents Store, Defense,
Speaker 1: you name, and I got their kids. You can't just
Speaker 1: destroy them, though, on come on, please, they're not watching that.
Speaker 1: Come on, they're playing video games. They're not gonna watch that.
Speaker 1: Although I can't use I can't use my line gas
Speaker 1: and I can't say that's a trap game because this
Speaker 1: is a playoff game. So I can't Centennial's gotta watch
Speaker 1: you out this is a trap game. No, it's a
Speaker 1: playoff game. And I don't think you can use lunch
Speaker 1: pails and hard hats. Why not because none of them
Speaker 1: are like social workers and they don't know what lunch
Speaker 1: pails are anymore. Wow, Wow, unbelievable. Can I Can I
Speaker 1: say that Jay Sarah might be tanking for a higher
Speaker 1: draft pick and I say that, but see, you're connected
Speaker 1: to some TV executives, so I would I would strongly
Speaker 1: encourage you to send this out after we're done. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna love me. They're not gonna watch Do
Speaker 1: you think I'm gonna get TV executive to watch this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You think they're gonna hire me? Then to do like
Speaker 1: you replace Colin's Worth at Sunday Night Football. No, but
Speaker 1: they might hire me for something. And now we know
Speaker 1: why I got Now we know why I got the
Speaker 1: invite into the stupid high school football games. Much like radio,
Speaker 1: ward is the leadman's medium television as a broadcasting team.
Speaker 1: It's not my medium either as a one. It's the
Speaker 1: color analyst. This medium that's your so once again, television
Speaker 1: to radio, radio to TV. No. No, the thing about TVs,
Speaker 1: I don't have to say that much because it's just
Speaker 1: you got pictures. So I I can be I can
Speaker 1: take a quarter off and just be like I had
Speaker 1: nothing to say. That's it, you know, and who would
Speaker 1: know because they're watching the game. How great? Is that great?
Speaker 1: So you mail it in on podcasts like you did
Speaker 1: last week and they're gonna tank this game? Well no,
Speaker 1: I mean occasionally say, now I'll do the instant replay
Speaker 1: because I I learned from Madden when I was a kid. Boom, bam,
Speaker 1: see you hit that whole bam, just like that. I
Speaker 1: like the quarterbacks name though, for is it for Centennial
Speaker 1: or oh no, for Jay Sarah? What's his name again?
Speaker 1: General Booty? General Booty. I hope this guy wins the
Speaker 1: Heisman something. How great would it be to have General Booty.
Speaker 1: That is a great name, that is one of the top.
Speaker 1: When when you, or somebody I think it was you
Speaker 1: sent me the depth chart for this game and I
Speaker 1: looked at that, I said, hell, look, guesscon's funny. He's
Speaker 1: sending in the funny names here to goof with me.
Speaker 1: He wanted me to say the quarterbacks named General Booty
Speaker 1: on the air. And then I looked it up and
Speaker 1: the kids like, he's legit, his dad played college football
Speaker 1: or I believe, and he's the John David Booty. This
Speaker 1: goes I think this goes right to the food chain.
Speaker 1: Amongst the best names in quarterback history. That goes like
Speaker 1: it's comparison to Major Apple White from Texas. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: one of the great sports names. Now, I think the
Speaker 1: greatest sports name of all time is Chubby Cox, which
Speaker 1: is which is Kobe Bryant's uncle. But fair Hooker was
Speaker 1: a great name for the Cleveland Browns back in the day.
Speaker 1: And everyone wants a fair hooker. Everyone wants a fair
Speaker 1: hooker for sure. Uh yeah, I'm happy that that doing
Speaker 1: a high school game has brought your maturity level down
Speaker 1: to a teenager. It's it's fascinating. That's it's great. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm here. All right, moving on. I think that's enough.
Speaker 1: I didn't get all the question. I'm sorry Biglou and
Speaker 1: some of you other guys, but we gotta move on.
Speaker 1: Guestcown we're doing. This is like a two hour, not
Speaker 1: the fifth hour. It's the sixth hour here. Well, you
Speaker 1: had what you had a week off of work. That's
Speaker 1: good point. That is a good point. So it's actually
Speaker 1: not that bad. You just you know, that's I understand. Uh,
Speaker 1: don't take stick to sports stories a week that is
Speaker 1: your domain. Yeah, we had Where were we going first?
Speaker 1: I guess we can go to You mentioned Indianapolis earlier,
Speaker 1: but this three Indiana Supreme Court judges were declared uh
Speaker 1: uh constituted judicial misconduct because they had a night on
Speaker 1: the town. Three judges were traveling throughout Indianapolis. They actually
Speaker 1: had to go to a conference. After a night of drinking.
Speaker 1: Three judges went to White Castle because of near a
Speaker 1: gentleman's club. Well sure, why not? Those White Castle burgers
Speaker 1: is delicious. In the middle of the night, late night affair,
Speaker 1: these judges got into an altercation in the parking lot
Speaker 1: with the driver and passenger of an suv H. One
Speaker 1: of them raised the middle finger, another one got out,
Speaker 1: a gun was pulled out. Obviously all caught on camera
Speaker 1: because you're gonna parking lot next to a restaurant. These
Speaker 1: guys front and stars. So they've been suspended, but they
Speaker 1: will return to work later on. So all right, So
Speaker 1: and and there one of them was wounded. Is out.
Speaker 1: Two of the judges were actually wounded. They got shot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got shot. One of them went to an emergency surgery. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's required to stay in in the hospital for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Uh. They were obviously both in toxic
Speaker 1: are the ones that were shot? Uh? Wow, these judges, man,
Speaker 1: I wonder if I've been to that. I've been to
Speaker 1: some white castles in Indianapolis. I wonder if I've been
Speaker 1: to that one. In fact, that one the time last
Speaker 1: time was in Indianapolis. We we flew we had a
Speaker 1: we had a morning flight, like a six am flight,
Speaker 1: So we stayed up all night that night and we
Speaker 1: just ate White Castle burgers. And when I got back
Speaker 1: to l A, I could still when I went to
Speaker 1: the bathroom, it smelled like white Castle. I ate white
Speaker 1: castle in Newark, New Jersey. Congratulations, awful. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's as bad as what a burger in Arizona,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty freaking bad. You know, it's a white
Speaker 1: castle in the in Vegas? Is there? It's the closest
Speaker 1: one to l A. I believe there's a white castle
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Yet we are due for a Vegas trip
Speaker 1: by the way. Uh yeah, maybe you can cut something
Speaker 1: else out of my body by that and that'll be
Speaker 1: that'll be wonderful. Wow, are you still complaining? That was
Speaker 1: a week ago? Yeah, but you you were responsible for that.
Speaker 1: What's necess we go to Mile High City? Um, the
Speaker 1: city of Denver has gotta pay out somebody for a
Speaker 1: little wrongdoing. Um. Would you ever pose in front of
Speaker 1: a camera naked? Uh? No, of course, what if I
Speaker 1: gave you money, I would know it would have to
Speaker 1: be a ridiculous amount of right. How about this? The
Speaker 1: city of Denver has agreed to pay United Airlines pilot
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars because he was actually arrested after
Speaker 1: standing naked in front of his hotel room window and
Speaker 1: in Denver International Airport. Oh he was arrested the airport. No, No,
Speaker 1: at New there was the Denver International Airport. Hotel there
Speaker 1: was one was connected to it. Did he think the
Speaker 1: window was like tinted or something like that. He was
Speaker 1: on the tenth floor and he was opening up the curtains,
Speaker 1: not suspecting anyone could see him from that high up.
Speaker 1: He was butt naked. Uh, he was arrested, obviously a
Speaker 1: wrongful arrest. Uh, look up plasts of the curtains. Arrested, detained,
Speaker 1: and now the city Denvers pay him three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: How about that three? Yeah? Yeah, So like somebody had
Speaker 1: to call and say, hey, there's a naked man there. Whatever?
Speaker 1: Who called? That's a bad person? What are you? What's
Speaker 1: the blur? Unless he was, you know, enjoying himself there.
Speaker 1: What are you doing walking around naked? Who cares? But
Speaker 1: even if he was, he was the own hotel room.
Speaker 1: I know. Well, that's like this whole thing in you know,
Speaker 1: New York. Remember remember a rod got caught in uh,
Speaker 1: you know, taking a dump in his condo and in
Speaker 1: the in the right. Yeah, because people do that all
Speaker 1: the time in New York. They people in high rises
Speaker 1: think that they're you know that no one's looking at them,
Speaker 1: and there's there's a bunch of pervs out there that
Speaker 1: were their binoculars and cameras. They are taking photos and
Speaker 1: other buildings across from where they live. It's the whole
Speaker 1: cottage industry. Has that ever happened to you in the misses? While? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, cuddling at a hotel? Uh? No, Well she
Speaker 1: would be okay with it, but I closed the blinds
Speaker 1: and all that. The wife, he's down for voyeurism, slightly slightly.
Speaker 1: She's so much. She's got such a better personality than you.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I agree with you on that. All right?
Speaker 1: What's next? Year? Stone six? To stick to sports? The
Speaker 1: extended version here the fifth. McLaren's got a new car. Ben.
Speaker 1: This one's a little bit trickier. Uh. We couldn't afford it.
Speaker 1: It costs one point seven million dollars. It's it's a supercar.
Speaker 1: Check this out though, no roof and no windshield. The
Speaker 1: windshield that is actually made of air. Have you heard
Speaker 1: such a thing? No? Never? Yeah, So the options that
Speaker 1: you have, why would I? Yeah, I'm sure that works
Speaker 1: really well. Uh, no windshield and and and then you
Speaker 1: get a rock that hits you right in the face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. Geniuses and a carly want a car without
Speaker 1: a windshield? Someone, that's probably I mean you're driving that
Speaker 1: through where Calabasas, Malibu, Newport Beach. Uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: all it's it's insane. It's uh yeah, I mean you're
Speaker 1: probably not. You're probably driving like engated communities and all that.
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, I've seen a picture of it. It's
Speaker 1: called the McLaren Elva, and it is jet black leather seats.
Speaker 1: It is apple gorgeous, eight and four horsepower with a
Speaker 1: V eight engine in it. Yeah, it can. It can
Speaker 1: go from zero to sixty and three seconds or less.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I just give me a Nissan Ultima. I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm all right. You know, your car's ugly, fucking ugly green.
Speaker 1: People are actually commenting on your color, like there's some
Speaker 1: that's a pretty decent color. I said, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's an ugly color. How about this one. What's the
Speaker 1: most you've ever paid for a steak? Well, I told
Speaker 1: you earlier in in Indian Apples. I forget how much
Speaker 1: my personal said for it. Yeah, yeah, of course, I say, Well, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know. Out back, I had a
Speaker 1: steak in a blooming onion. I don't know, seventy eight
Speaker 1: bucks or something like that. I Uh. In Vegas, Wolfgang
Speaker 1: Puck owns a restaurant in between the Venetian and the Palazzo.
Speaker 1: It's called Cut and from my my Buddies thirtieth birthday,
Speaker 1: we celebrated by taking him to Vegas. He also that
Speaker 1: same weekend he got accepted to medical school, so he
Speaker 1: was going up Heseas. For that. We went to Cut
Speaker 1: and we ordered Japanese wagon steak, three different cuts of
Speaker 1: it and seven ounces, twenty five dollars ben. It was
Speaker 1: the best piece of steak I've ever had. It's like
Speaker 1: it wasn't until the bill came. Who cares. It's like
Speaker 1: only you're but you're still frugal with your money, Like
Speaker 1: there's no reason to joy a little bit. It was
Speaker 1: a special occasion. You're in Vegas, you can splurge a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh. I. I bring that up because I
Speaker 1: can't even go out to dinner with you because I
Speaker 1: feel like you're gonna order the most expensive. You're the
Speaker 1: dick that orders the most expensive, okay, or the record
Speaker 1: The last time we did go to dinner. It was
Speaker 1: your idea. We went to the west side of town.
Speaker 1: We went to a bougie Mexican spot. That was not
Speaker 1: my idea, that was yours. Yeah, but I I ordered
Speaker 1: here's the move. I actually ordered less food than I
Speaker 1: wanted because I knew how expensive it was, and I
Speaker 1: ordered the smallish dish amongst us four. I paid for
Speaker 1: that meal, by the way, So you don't get it.
Speaker 1: My beard was more than the tacos. I maade, Well,
Speaker 1: you should have gotten a ticket because you parked illegally.
Speaker 1: And I saved you that money because we told you
Speaker 1: you got to move the car. Otherwise you would have
Speaker 1: gotten a ticket. So I really I paid you even
Speaker 1: more money. It's like an extra hundred bucks on a
Speaker 1: parking take. Well, how about this. There's a Japanese chef
Speaker 1: forty two years of age. Um. He owns a restaurant
Speaker 1: called the Butcher's Kitchen. Restaurant that sounds like my kind
Speaker 1: of place, The Butcher's Kitchen. He's got a wagoose style
Speaker 1: sandwich ben his trademark eighty five dollars for a save.
Speaker 1: How big is Sam? But it's the size of your arm. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's not big at all. But it's it's probably
Speaker 1: the size of your fist and you don't have a
Speaker 1: big fast my headphones came out, Yes, guy, and I apologize,
Speaker 1: But what did you say. I wasn't listening, was like
Speaker 1: the size of your fist, the size of your fist.
Speaker 1: I definitely do not need the do not need that
Speaker 1: my life at all. Yeah. So yeah, last one, and
Speaker 1: this is a personal story. So last week, for all
Speaker 1: intensive purposes, you were you felt like you were pushed
Speaker 1: through the brink of annihilation. Correct. There were a couple
Speaker 1: of points where I thought that I was in really bad,
Speaker 1: bad shape. Yes, I had a incident that was making
Speaker 1: me feel the same way. Uh. So I went to
Speaker 1: an event and on the west side of town. Did
Speaker 1: you watch some of your work and you started feeling nausea? No? No,
Speaker 1: So it's for a clothing line. They wanted me and
Speaker 1: a couple other guys to work at this gym called
Speaker 1: the dog Pound um in West Hollywood, our senior halls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. That for an outdated reference. So we
Speaker 1: have the clothing line. Came out with a pose work
Speaker 1: at a tire. We worked out, was a great night.
Speaker 1: Had some Mexican food after and I'm driving on the
Speaker 1: one Tent South going home ben Usually at that time
Speaker 1: of the day, people weren't usually drunk driving, but it
Speaker 1: was around eight or nine o'clock and I noticed this
Speaker 1: car in front of me, and he was going in
Speaker 1: and out of lanes. Well, he actually drove somebody off
Speaker 1: the road. And I'm a huge honker, but in this instance,
Speaker 1: I wasn't honking. I was flashing my brightes because I
Speaker 1: figured like either he wasn't paying attention or he was intoxicated,
Speaker 1: so he needed to obviously drive in the middle of
Speaker 1: the lane. Well, this dude jammed on his brakes, got
Speaker 1: next to me, and then as soon as I passed
Speaker 1: him by, he got behind me and started flashing his
Speaker 1: brights and so, NATCHI uh get a little hot that
Speaker 1: someone's trying to show me up. I'm on the road.
Speaker 1: I jammed on my brakes, start flashing my brakes. He
Speaker 1: pulls up alongside me, and passenger window rolls down and
Speaker 1: outcomes this little black piece of metal, and so I
Speaker 1: hit the brakes and I was like, holy sh it.
Speaker 1: So one Tent South when it exits into the Harbor
Speaker 1: area San Pedro, if you exit one street called Channel
Speaker 1: the Harbor division of the L A p D S
Speaker 1: right there. I knew it, so I jammed on the
Speaker 1: brakes and as soon as he starts hitting the brakes
Speaker 1: to pull it next to me, I hit the gas
Speaker 1: and his window rolls down all the way and he
Speaker 1: points out a fucking gun. It was a straight gun.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a big one. It was probably smaller than
Speaker 1: a glock, so I don't know what it was, but alertly,
Speaker 1: I went right off onto the next off ramp. Now
Speaker 1: are you are you like China duck? Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: have to duck. Yeah, side ducked, but I kept my
Speaker 1: I knew exactly where I was going, so I knew
Speaker 1: the road really well. So as soon as I got off,
Speaker 1: I made the U turn. He didn't follow me because
Speaker 1: he had to go to the next exit, which was
Speaker 1: Gaffy Street. But part of the reason when people say
Speaker 1: you're going to Pedro, like that's where the ghetto meets
Speaker 1: the sea, and yeah, I was like a fast and
Speaker 1: furious movies. Yeah, I wasn't scared, but the adrenaline level
Speaker 1: of shot up really quick. And then not until like
Speaker 1: ten fifteen minutes after I realized, oh, funk. Someone pulled
Speaker 1: a gun out on me as well, I've never had
Speaker 1: that happened. I've never had a gun pulled on me.
Speaker 1: So can you've you've beaten me? Congratulations. I have had
Speaker 1: driving overnight when I come home from the show. I've
Speaker 1: had three times a wrong way driver was coming at me,
Speaker 1: and that is that's scary, but not as I don't
Speaker 1: think as scary as a gun. Yeah, would make a
Speaker 1: scary as a gun. See, since we've started this podcast,
Speaker 1: we've had a windshield blown out, We've had you get
Speaker 1: hit in a parking lot, burned my tongue eating pizza,
Speaker 1: bit my tongue, and I had a lisp like Lou
Speaker 1: Holtz for a week. Yeah, you've gone to the infirmary
Speaker 1: with your gall stones and I've had a gun flown
Speaker 1: at me. So so things are going well, it's uh,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get Vin Diesel in here and Dwayne Johnson
Speaker 1: for you. We'll interview them about that. I think we
Speaker 1: we can't get Paul Walker unfortunately, he's not available. Like, like,
Speaker 1: what would make you feel like you're okay to throw
Speaker 1: that line out there? Like the guy fucking died in
Speaker 1: a car accident a few years, but he burned in
Speaker 1: a car accident. I don't know how. I don't understand
Speaker 1: six years man, at the time, five years is in?
Speaker 1: After five years, it's open season. By the way, if
Speaker 1: I died last week, you would have done a stand
Speaker 1: up act about me, I mean, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: It would have called your wife and I would have asked, Hey,
Speaker 1: was I in the will? Yeah? Yeah, exactly right? Is that?
Speaker 1: Are you done? I don't know why you would have
Speaker 1: felt good to throw a Paul Walker reference out there. Well,
Speaker 1: I talked about Fast in The Furious and that was
Speaker 1: his his vehicle. Actually, that wasn't his vehicle. He was
Speaker 1: a different vehicle that he was in when he wasn't
Speaker 1: he in a Ferrari? I don't remember. I don't. I
Speaker 1: remember the night that he died. Everyone was freaking out,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember the details much about it. I also,
Speaker 1: was it like that comedian Kevin Hart that he almost
Speaker 1: died on a car accident like last year? Right? That's right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or maybe earlier? Here? Was it? Mel Gibson too? Yeah? Yes,
Speaker 1: dangerous man? Yeah? What what end this podcast on? On
Speaker 1: a great note? I think it's a great freaking note.
Speaker 1: Litten to reference Paul Walker. Fast. I didn't know you
Speaker 1: were such a fanboy of Paul Walker. My god, it
Speaker 1: could have been gonna you're gonna do a heartfelt tribute
Speaker 1: right now? What are you gonna do here? You get
Speaker 1: out of the hospital and all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: just Spry's day, Like I'm making pop culture references alright,
Speaker 1: Fast and the Furious that how many movies do they make?
Speaker 1: Seven movies or something, that they're still going Fast eight
Speaker 1: was out, and then uh, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham
Speaker 1: had their own. Uh so I'm what I'm doing is
Speaker 1: going I'm going pop culture pop culture mount a right,
Speaker 1: Van Diesel I mentioned him, Dwayne Johnson, what about Eric Holder?
Speaker 1: And Fast and Furious? I'm good? Are we done? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Guess good? And we'll have eno if you don't. If
Speaker 1: I haven't already listened to Benny Versus De Penny, this
Speaker 1: podcast comes out first, the one you're listening to, but
Speaker 1: then we will have Betty Versus the Penny back picking
Speaker 1: NFL games every game against the spread for a week eleven.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Don't forget if you're hearing us
Speaker 1: on Friday during the day I'll be I'll be doing
Speaker 1: a high school game with Gascon on television, and how
Speaker 1: can people watch it? Again, Gascon, you're not even listening.
Speaker 1: It's the Prep Zone, the Fox Go app. You can
Speaker 1: check that out. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you on the radio health permitting, Sunday night into Monday
Speaker 1: two am in the East. We'll talk about all those
Speaker 1: big NFL games.