Speaker 1: Boom. If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free or something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does. We
Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere with the Fifth Hour with me,
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard and David Gas gone back again. Now. We
Speaker 1: started this podcast back before the football season with the
Speaker 1: intention of having Benny Versus the Penny as the highlight
Speaker 1: of the podcast, and that's exactly what happened. We had
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny almost all the way through the
Speaker 1: football season until my gall bladder went caput and we
Speaker 1: had to miss a week. But other than that we
Speaker 1: had everything cover. We had the super Bowl last week,
Speaker 1: and then this was just an extra bonus podcast. But
Speaker 1: now that football season is over, uh todah. The only
Speaker 1: sensible thing, the only reasonable thing, would be to either
Speaker 1: stop doing the podcast altogether or just continue along doing
Speaker 1: the grab Ass podcast. So here we are doing the
Speaker 1: grab ass podcast yet again, because we gotta keep those
Speaker 1: podcast numbers up. And and according to gag On, there
Speaker 1: were more people actually at at points during the year
Speaker 1: listening to this then the other podcast, which was the
Speaker 1: main one we were doing. Well, that's that's been the case,
Speaker 1: and that was true and uh, and I want several
Speaker 1: bets because of that. So I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: actually been the case. Guess you could be doctoring the numbers.
Speaker 1: I have no verification. I need a second source. I'm
Speaker 1: like the Associated Press. No, well, I'm I'm usually good
Speaker 1: with numbers. I am a numbers driven guy, especially in
Speaker 1: this competitive world of podcasting and radio. And so I've
Speaker 1: I've sent you a couple of snapshots of of your
Speaker 1: actual show podcast numbers. Uh, these podcast numbers and where
Speaker 1: we've been from September all the way down to February.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, Unfortunately I don't really pay attention when
Speaker 1: you send me stuff because I'm not usually logical and um,
Speaker 1: so I don't really look at that. But but thank
Speaker 1: you for trying to send me that stuff. I appreciate that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's ever a complaint about production and
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, I guess we can throw
Speaker 1: it right back at you. But I think the point
Speaker 1: I would say here about the podcast and and also
Speaker 1: the radio show podcast is the numbers are relatively consistent.
Speaker 1: It's growing the audience, Like the there's a solid base.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much the Donald Trump of podcasting because like
Speaker 1: Trump's got a solid base, but you've gotta get a
Speaker 1: few extra people if he wants to win the election,
Speaker 1: you know again and all that stuff. You it's not
Speaker 1: about winning the popular vote. It's about winning the electoral
Speaker 1: college to get validation on so you don't have to
Speaker 1: have the popular vote because the popular vote. To get
Speaker 1: the most listenings to a podcast will be honest, you
Speaker 1: you need advertising, you need people promoting it. We have
Speaker 1: none of that. There's no advertising budget for this, right no. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's word of mouth, and it's very difficult to
Speaker 1: get people a to take your advice and tell other
Speaker 1: people about the podcast, which I I say every podcast.
Speaker 1: Do I not say every podcast? Get somebody else to
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. I said, every podcast, Yeah, mom, dad,
Speaker 1: brother's sister, or a kid, and listen for about sixty
Speaker 1: seconds that they like it. Gray If they don't, at
Speaker 1: least keep it on for a minute and then they're done,
Speaker 1: So grandparents whatever, and uh, and you know there's you
Speaker 1: do that number one. Number two. The problem is if
Speaker 1: you you get people to actually do it, if you're listening,
Speaker 1: actually tell somebody, then the other people actually have to
Speaker 1: listen to it, and they actually have to take your advice.
Speaker 1: And that's where it gets complex. That's where it gets thorny,
Speaker 1: because it's one thing to get somebody to do it,
Speaker 1: and I hear from people, Hey, I told my mom
Speaker 1: you should you should know you should listen to the podcast,
Speaker 1: or I told my grandpa, my uncle or my aunt
Speaker 1: or whatever. But then how do you know they're actually
Speaker 1: doing it? That's my problem. Well, you have you have
Speaker 1: close to a hundred thousand followers on your Twitter account.
Speaker 1: Of each of those followers could at least listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast one time, would be in great shape. We
Speaker 1: can and week out. Yeah, but a lot of those
Speaker 1: are fake. I have a lot of like a porn
Speaker 1: bots because I tweet in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: and the only people on Twitter are there's a few
Speaker 1: of us that are up all night, and then we
Speaker 1: have a lot of porn bots. So I'm very popular
Speaker 1: with porn bots and Russian bots and North Korean bots,
Speaker 1: any kind of bot. It's bought tastic, which I think
Speaker 1: is also the name of the podcast bot Tastic. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe since you are the Donald Trump of sports talk radio,
Speaker 1: you should kinda align with the d n C and
Speaker 1: then maybe they can help you out with any kind
Speaker 1: of push towards uh some doctored numbers and whatnot. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm Trump, I give speech, and then you're Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: tearing it up behind me. That's what you're essentially, That's
Speaker 1: how that works, right, Very disappointing by you. Bad job
Speaker 1: by you. Yeah, I'm drunk, and I was looking for
Speaker 1: ways to to test drive your speech and to tear
Speaker 1: it up for the actual speecher is over with. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's me. Yeah. Well, judging by the reaction
Speaker 1: from the mallamost As far as what's coming up on
Speaker 1: this edition the I'm Gonna call the Lean and Mean
Speaker 1: edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and David Gascon,
Speaker 1: which is available on the iHeart podcast network, you probably
Speaker 1: are listening on that. I think most of our listeners
Speaker 1: are on the I heart podcast network, but also available
Speaker 1: on the the Apples downloads the app Store. They're on Apple,
Speaker 1: you can download that their podcast section and pretty much
Speaker 1: wherever you can find find podcasts. And this is not
Speaker 1: technically a Fox Sports Radio property right because it's even
Speaker 1: though it's part of that family, it's it's through I Heart.
Speaker 1: It's the I Heart podcast network now as I heard,
Speaker 1: own it or do you own it? Uh? No, I
Speaker 1: don't own anything. I don't even own my house. You know.
Speaker 1: People say, well, you bought a house. That's a big thing.
Speaker 1: I said, No, the bank owns the house until I
Speaker 1: pay the house off. The bank owns the house. And
Speaker 1: then even when I pay the house off, and I
Speaker 1: have the actual paperwork saying I own the house. If
Speaker 1: you don't pay property taxes, guess what, you don't own
Speaker 1: the house. So you're always going to have to pay somebody.
Speaker 1: You don't really own anything. We're just renting all of
Speaker 1: this stuff and then when we die, we have to
Speaker 1: give it back. That's my deep thought of the week
Speaker 1: right there. Boom, Well, do you have anyone that's uh
Speaker 1: that's gonna take over anything that you may give away
Speaker 1: once you depart this great land? Not you. You're getting nothing.
Speaker 1: You are getting absolutely nothing. Zippo and bump caisses what
Speaker 1: you're getting just the same thing you're getting for the podcast.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's kind of like what I get here
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio too. So you get what you deserve, guests,
Speaker 1: you get what you really not getting what I put
Speaker 1: into it, that's for sure. Well, you're not really putting
Speaker 1: that much into more than everybody does here. That's that's
Speaker 1: safe to say. I don't know. It's human nature to
Speaker 1: try to be as lazy as possible. I've determined that
Speaker 1: from years and years of working with human nature, are
Speaker 1: working with people who I believe our humans, who I
Speaker 1: believe our humans, that laziness is the number one characteristic
Speaker 1: of human beings. And negativity too, right, Uh No, I
Speaker 1: mean people people respond to negative stuff. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's one of the top I know, greed is
Speaker 1: a big one. Everyone's out looking for their own self interests. Primarily.
Speaker 1: People like to talk about how they want to give
Speaker 1: back and all that, but it's usually you're looking out
Speaker 1: for your from your own point of view. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like giving away to charity, Well, you're getting that tax
Speaker 1: benefit of giving away to charity since you make or
Speaker 1: if you're J. J. Watt. You get the social clout
Speaker 1: from being Mr charity Man, and you can be seen
Speaker 1: as mother Teresa and all that. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: you were you were heartbroken and your your younger days.
Speaker 1: Is that accurate to say, uh, well, what what's your
Speaker 1: definition of heartbroken? What do you just sound scarred? You
Speaker 1: sound like you were troubled as a as a youth
Speaker 1: or a teenager or no, no, no, no no, I'm
Speaker 1: not some female broke your heart and you just haven't
Speaker 1: recovered yet. Well listen, I the dating game is a
Speaker 1: zero sum game. That is true. But I know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm no different than any other dope that had some
Speaker 1: bumps along the road and all that stuff. But I've
Speaker 1: studied human beings because we're in the human being business,
Speaker 1: guess gun dealing with human beings. And I've known from
Speaker 1: the people I've worked with in radio. I hope, I
Speaker 1: hope the real world is not like radio, because everyone
Speaker 1: I've worked with in radio is as lazy as can
Speaker 1: possibly be. Uh. They don't show up early, they cut corners,
Speaker 1: anything to take the easy road. Uh. And and then
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's the self interest thing. There's the
Speaker 1: vanity everyone's vain in one way or another. And I
Speaker 1: have proof of that later on in this podcast. But
Speaker 1: and people are looking at as I said, for their
Speaker 1: own self interest, and uh, to be said fair, it's
Speaker 1: weird because it's a conundrum. I'm giving a psychology class here.
Speaker 1: But not only are people lazy, they're greedy. Those two
Speaker 1: things are like polar opposites. And and yet even though
Speaker 1: people are lazy, they have this great ambition to try
Speaker 1: to improve. Like if you're in a in a bad neighborhood,
Speaker 1: you want to be in a good neighborhood. You're a
Speaker 1: good neighborhood, you want to be in a great neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It's just an odd thing that happens. I feel like
Speaker 1: i'm your therapist today, Like we have to have this
Speaker 1: sit down session. You have a drink of water, you
Speaker 1: can kick off your shoes, relax the feet, and uh
Speaker 1: kind of open up. That's that's exactly what you're doing
Speaker 1: here today. This is very cathartic for you, right, like
Speaker 1: you're just trying to get this all out to the open.
Speaker 1: Now the baseball season is right around the corner, and
Speaker 1: football season is closed off. And Benny versus the Penny
Speaker 1: is now in the books for another year. This is
Speaker 1: not you want to pretend like you're my shrink or
Speaker 1: something like that. Is that what you want to pretend?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it could. I do have a
Speaker 1: great story for you this since we're talking about work
Speaker 1: and whatnot in the Fox Sports radio studios, we have
Speaker 1: just had another microphone and arm break as as we're talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that the one you're using? Yes? Nice, it is
Speaker 1: another one that has just come down to the good
Speaker 1: old side of exit stage right. It's a good one too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a phrase I'm gonna teach you here
Speaker 1: and it is never let them see you sweat. It's
Speaker 1: a marketing campaign for back in the day, right, And
Speaker 1: uh see, I wouldn't have known that if you hadn't
Speaker 1: pointed this out. I like the fact that you're pointing
Speaker 1: out that the building is crumbling, but it's only our
Speaker 1: side of the building. Have you noticed it's only our
Speaker 1: side of the building. Well, not the kitchen. The kitchen
Speaker 1: is beautiful, it's majestic, it's bright. It's what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: A month a month ago, the water had to be
Speaker 1: shut off in the kitchen because there was some problem.
Speaker 1: We had no ice and the refrigerator was all messed up.
Speaker 1: You don't remember that that was because there was a
Speaker 1: leak from upstairs. Okay, but it doesn't matter. It affected us.
Speaker 1: And how could it be upstairs? There's nothing above that.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how it could be upstairs because it's
Speaker 1: the first floor. There's no that part of the building.
Speaker 1: There's no upstairs. Well, the piping, well, the piping, but
Speaker 1: that's not upstairs. I mean it was in the building.
Speaker 1: The building had an issue. I'm just telling you what
Speaker 1: I was told operational. But I'm saying, like my my
Speaker 1: point is, like Steve Harvey, the Steve Harvey warning shows
Speaker 1: across the hall from us. Like Steve comes in there
Speaker 1: and I'm relatively confident. He pulls his mic down. It
Speaker 1: doesn't keep coming down, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a There was a turnaround time for his studio
Speaker 1: to be built. And I kid you not. I think
Speaker 1: that thing was done in thirty days. It was with
Speaker 1: all new equipment, all new equipment, uh, everything first class.
Speaker 1: I mean, as Steve Harvey deserves. The guy's a great
Speaker 1: entertainment one of the great modern entertainers of our time.
Speaker 1: But it would be nice every once in a while
Speaker 1: to get a bone, you know. Speaking of which, how
Speaker 1: tier yard were you on on Tuesday night when you
Speaker 1: saw Rush Limbaugh win a medal from the President of
Speaker 1: the United States. No, I was. I was happy. Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm I love radio people, and Rush Limbaugh is one
Speaker 1: of the titans in my business, and I think it's great.
Speaker 1: And you know, I know everyone who's a Democrats all
Speaker 1: freaking out, roaches, terrible and all of stuff, but I
Speaker 1: think it was wonderful, was a great thing. He's been
Speaker 1: one of the great champions for Donald Trump, although not
Speaker 1: all the time, but mostly positive for Trump and all
Speaker 1: that since he became president, and Russell Limbos got millions
Speaker 1: and millions of people that are minions of his that
Speaker 1: listen to him every day. I think it's a great
Speaker 1: for Limbaugh. It's great for radio that radio blowhard can
Speaker 1: get an award like that. I think it's wonderful and
Speaker 1: I'm still bummed out. I told the story briefly. I
Speaker 1: didn't get into the full detail that I came very
Speaker 1: close to meeting Rush Limbaugh. And one of the cool
Speaker 1: things about working at Fox Sports Radio for the last
Speaker 1: a long time is is uh that when Limbaugh would
Speaker 1: come to l A over the years, he would do
Speaker 1: his show just across the hall to the right, directly
Speaker 1: across the halls with the podcast studio from where we
Speaker 1: do the show, and then you turn right out of
Speaker 1: our studio, go down a little short, stumpy hallway and
Speaker 1: then if you hear and left, there's where Steve Harvey
Speaker 1: does his show from. And then to the right of
Speaker 1: that is a guest studio which Rush Limbaugh Mega Dittos
Speaker 1: does his show from. And I always gotta kick when
Speaker 1: Rush would come to l A, which is sporadically and
Speaker 1: he talked about everyone going to uh Operation Rush, rolling
Speaker 1: out the red carpet and def Con one to make
Speaker 1: sure everything was perfect for Limbaugh when he came in.
Speaker 1: He has his own microphone, this colden microphone that he
Speaker 1: uses and all this other stuff, and I I gotta
Speaker 1: kick out of I thought it was pretty cool. Almost
Speaker 1: met him and uh are the late grade Andrew Ashwood
Speaker 1: May he rested piece or old Boss years ago. He
Speaker 1: he wanted me to meet him, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: meet him, and I asked him, I said, when Russians
Speaker 1: in town interros and he gave me this whole you
Speaker 1: know thing. Well, you know it's complicated. He's got to
Speaker 1: prepare for a show and he you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of people, there, a lot of red tape. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. And the day we were scared
Speaker 1: Jewel to have a very brief meet and reet me
Speaker 1: in Limball, well it turns out that uh, Andrew had
Speaker 1: a meeting that ran late and he couldn't get out
Speaker 1: of it. And by the time he got down to
Speaker 1: the studio to do the introduction Limball had to go
Speaker 1: and get ready and he really couldn't talk to anybody.
Speaker 1: So I never got the chance to h well, not yet.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll meet him down the line. And he's got
Speaker 1: he's ill right now, but came very close to to
Speaker 1: meet him. How I do have a fun story. I
Speaker 1: have one of his pens. I have a Russia Limball pen.
Speaker 1: He left a pen behind and I'm a scavenger and
Speaker 1: I grabbed Russia Limboss pen. I have it. It's my pen.
Speaker 1: I have a pad O'Brien pen. I have a J.
Speaker 1: Moore pen. I have a Rush Limball pen. I don't
Speaker 1: have a Steve Harvey pen yet. Um, I gotta get
Speaker 1: that but I have do you have a Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: impeachment pen? I do not know. If somebody wants to
Speaker 1: send me one, I'll take that to my pen collection. Yeah,
Speaker 1: could you hell what those are going for right now? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean people collect odd crap. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe somebody's paying for it. Uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: always a market. It's crazy what people pay for. Have
Speaker 1: you seen some of the stuff on eBay that people
Speaker 1: sell that they make money with. Its unbelievable. People make
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars on there. It is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: You know who's an opportunist like that is Roberto. Roberto
Speaker 1: He's a hustler and he sells all not on eBay.
Speaker 1: He goes on that offer up app Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: anything like he gets his hands on like he'll he'll
Speaker 1: be driving down the street see something, Hey I can
Speaker 1: get that. Put that on offer up, like somebody's trash
Speaker 1: and people buy this stuff. Does he make good money
Speaker 1: off of it? Well, it's it's it's like extra meal
Speaker 1: money or you know, a little extra money to go
Speaker 1: out and go to the movies on the weekend or
Speaker 1: something like that. That's pretty damn good. Now have you
Speaker 1: ever gone down that path? Well, it's Amazon or eBay
Speaker 1: or Craigslist to sell you know, I would like to.
Speaker 1: I think I could be pretty good at it, but
Speaker 1: it's very time consuming, assuming there's a lot of tedious things.
Speaker 1: You have to post the ads and update the ads
Speaker 1: and then take them down and and all that. Although
Speaker 1: I speaking of that story just popped in mind. One
Speaker 1: of my good friends, an old newspaper guy that I've
Speaker 1: known for many, many years, he sends me a message
Speaker 1: telling me that he was robbed in broad daylight in
Speaker 1: just down the street from our studios. He was this
Speaker 1: crazy story guest gun. So the guy was in I
Speaker 1: think it was either North Hollywood or Van Eyes, but
Speaker 1: it was very close to where we do the show
Speaker 1: from and he was selling a camera, like a camera lens,
Speaker 1: and he was selling it on eBay or No, no,
Speaker 1: it was Craigslist. Rather was Craigslist, which is even more
Speaker 1: CD right Craigslist. Um, so the guys tell me says
Speaker 1: he he scheduled to meet the guy at a bank
Speaker 1: because he figured there's cameras everywhere at the bank, nothing
Speaker 1: can possibly go wrong. And he went to the bank
Speaker 1: with the camera to make the transaction to give the
Speaker 1: guy the camera and take the money. And so he's
Speaker 1: in the bank for like twenty minutes. The guy doesn't
Speaker 1: show up, so he's like, I guess the guy flaked.
Speaker 1: And then he goes back to his car. In the
Speaker 1: parking lot at the bank, two guys, two thugs come
Speaker 1: up to my guy, my friend, the newspaper guy, and
Speaker 1: uh and and they one had like a metal crowbar
Speaker 1: type thing and uh, give the camera. And my friend
Speaker 1: tried to fight back a little bit, got his ass beaten.
Speaker 1: Fortunately he didn't get killed. They didn't have guns or knives,
Speaker 1: but they still beat him up pretty good. And I
Speaker 1: guess you could you know, you can get blunt force.
Speaker 1: You could die from getting whacked over the head with
Speaker 1: a crowbar. But anyway, he survived. And uh, and then
Speaker 1: he calls the police. And this is how great l
Speaker 1: A is, guest, go on, and you know your dad
Speaker 1: knows this. Of course, in l A, this is like nothing.
Speaker 1: You know, in another city. This is like crime of
Speaker 1: the century, right, It's like, oh, I can't believe somebody
Speaker 1: got jacked in broad daylight in front of a bank.
Speaker 1: But the police are like, we'll get to it. You know,
Speaker 1: we have like a stack of seven thousand of these things. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I got when my car was broken into back
Speaker 1: in October or November, I was in Studio City and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember me saying this, but
Speaker 1: I call the Van Nay's Police department at twelve or
Speaker 1: one o'clock in the morning, and that's exactly what they
Speaker 1: told me. Come on over, we'll due to report. If not,
Speaker 1: you could do it tomorrow or later on down the week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was like a strip of strip of cars that
Speaker 1: were all broken into, not just mine, but like two,
Speaker 1: three or four other cars that were blasted out, windows
Speaker 1: blasted out, and they tell me nothing we can do
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah. Yeah, I've had my car broken into
Speaker 1: all over l A. I've had in Pasadena, Burbank, downtown
Speaker 1: at Staples Centered in the year two thousand. I've told
Speaker 1: that story. It was Christmas Day in the year two
Speaker 1: thousand and Yeah. So I learned that I don't leave anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, they can break into my car, but there's
Speaker 1: nothing in it. I've learned my lesson. I used to
Speaker 1: leave stuff up around and I it took three smash
Speaker 1: and grab situations for me to stop doing that. But
Speaker 1: it is crazy how often this stuff happens. And then so,
Speaker 1: my my buddy, the newspaper guy, I won't say his name.
Speaker 1: I don't I didn't ask for permission to tell the story.
Speaker 1: But the newspaper guy he's telling me, he's like, so
Speaker 1: he talked to somebody from his old he doesn't work
Speaker 1: at that newspaper anymore, but somebody that works at the newspaper, uh,
Speaker 1: and a journalist, investigative, reporter, news guy whatever. So the
Speaker 1: guy tells him, listen, the police aren't gonna do anything.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to be the lead investigator on this
Speaker 1: if you want anything to get done. And so he
Speaker 1: got some advice from a newspaper guy, and he went
Speaker 1: to all the local he went to. First of all,
Speaker 1: he went to the bank. The bank said they did
Speaker 1: not have functioning cameras in the parking lot. Can you
Speaker 1: believe that? Oh my gosh. Uh yeah, So that that
Speaker 1: pissed him off. And then he was able to get
Speaker 1: some video of the guys from some of the restaurants
Speaker 1: that were like across the street from the bank, kind
Speaker 1: of like, but it's not great because it was far
Speaker 1: away or whatever. So, um, but I did hear. I
Speaker 1: think this goes back to the Dez Bryant story. Remember
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant had that famous incident that was recorded on
Speaker 1: video and a parking lot at Walmart, and supposedly they
Speaker 1: the camera either there was video and it disappeared the
Speaker 1: the internet. Urban legend is Jerry Jones bought the video
Speaker 1: to make it disappear. The other theory that that is
Speaker 1: a lot of businesses just even though they have sometimes
Speaker 1: cameras in the parking lot, they often don't have them working,
Speaker 1: or if they break, they don't repair them because they're
Speaker 1: only curried there. They only worry about what's in the story.
Speaker 1: They don't worry about what's in the parking lot. That's
Speaker 1: the and you only care about what's at the A
Speaker 1: t M two. That's the only other camera that would
Speaker 1: be operational at that time too. So yeah, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure if the A t M camera broke they would
Speaker 1: fix it right away. Right, all right, We have a
Speaker 1: bunch of questions here we got grab bag. These are
Speaker 1: actual questions from actual listeners of the show. Jason from
Speaker 1: Rocky Mount, Virginia rights and he says, Ben, who would
Speaker 1: win an arm wrestling contest between you and Gascon. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if he just wanted to play flick
Speaker 1: the knuckles, though, all right, that's from Jason. Well, I
Speaker 1: would obviously win. Jason, I have a tremendous size advantage
Speaker 1: over the very petite gas Gone, so you would admit
Speaker 1: gas and you have no chance. I've been a little
Speaker 1: bit of trouble right now. Part of the reason is
Speaker 1: because I have a surgically repaired right road tator cuff
Speaker 1: two times. And although I am a south paw, my
Speaker 1: right arm is typically stronger than my right, but even
Speaker 1: my left hand is fucked up. Right, you said your
Speaker 1: right arm is typically straight, stronger than your right, my
Speaker 1: right arm stronger than my left. Okay, sorry, so I'm
Speaker 1: left handed, but am I empidextrous? So I don't think
Speaker 1: I would go that far as just saying I would lose, um,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't give it my full effort. I'll just
Speaker 1: say that much, unless, of course, there was tacos in
Speaker 1: the line. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven
Speaker 1: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio app. Well, I won the bet, last week where
Speaker 1: you haven't paid up the bet. I won the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl bet, and if I had lost, that would have
Speaker 1: been the lead story. You would have been running around
Speaker 1: like a peacock with your feathers up in the air saying,
Speaker 1: look at me, I beat Mallard at the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: pick I had the forty nine airs because I would
Speaker 1: have had tacos at Santa Anita. Those are two different bets. Well, no,
Speaker 1: we can just listen. Well, we can either close out
Speaker 1: the better you buy me tacos boom done. Wait, how
Speaker 1: does that work? You can't double down on something if
Speaker 1: it was just a bet on tacos and you leverage
Speaker 1: that into tickets at Santa Any any excuse Santa Anita.
Speaker 1: I don't mind going to the track. I mean we
Speaker 1: can bet the ponies. I love it there. The more
Speaker 1: horses that die the better. I don't care. But uh,
Speaker 1: but no, that taco place, my wife doesn't really like it.
Speaker 1: She could give two ships about it. So I I
Speaker 1: want any excuse I can get to go to that
Speaker 1: taco place. I'm all about it. You don't really come
Speaker 1: to the West Side unless there's a Clipper Laker game,
Speaker 1: or I don't even go they don't play on the
Speaker 1: west side of playing downtown. I I've almost never go
Speaker 1: to the West side anymore. I used to when I
Speaker 1: lived in Hollywood, I would go over there because I
Speaker 1: had friends that lived in the Marina, and I would
Speaker 1: go down to that area. But well, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't not go down. That's that's that's where the
Speaker 1: one percenters hang out. I don't go down. Listen, you're
Speaker 1: doing a great job of losing weight. I don't want
Speaker 1: to add weight to you. So I think it's appropriate
Speaker 1: not to u tacos anymore. Anyway, I disagree with all
Speaker 1: of them. Well, if I you know, if I eat
Speaker 1: once every other day, I can eat tacos. I'm fine,
Speaker 1: that's good. That's fine. But you're you're swimming down your clothing,
Speaker 1: so I think it's best to keep on that positive
Speaker 1: momentum of no cheese, no no, you know, grilled meat
Speaker 1: or no Friday meat. I'm not buying any new clothes
Speaker 1: because as last time I lost a lot of weight,
Speaker 1: I bought clothing and then gained it back. I got
Speaker 1: the other quote, I think you've learned your lesson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep what I have and then you know, eventually,
Speaker 1: I'll probably end up gaining the weight back. It seems
Speaker 1: to be what happened, the most number of plates you've
Speaker 1: taken down in a single visit to the buffet, longest
Speaker 1: you've spent at the buffet time wise getting your grub on.
Speaker 1: That's Henry in Tempe, Arizona wants to know the buffet
Speaker 1: happens when you're a health nut. Guess, so I'm guessing
Speaker 1: you don't have much. I'll lead with this. Five plates
Speaker 1: is the most, and we actually closed down. I was
Speaker 1: with a group of guys for a bachelor party a
Speaker 1: week closed down a buffet because it was at the Venetian.
Speaker 1: They had bottomless mimosas until one o'clock in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and my buddies and I went all night into the
Speaker 1: morning time. We got there at seven o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: eight and drank as much as humanly possible, and we
Speaker 1: got thrown out by security because we were allowed. We're obnoxious,
Speaker 1: we were hammered, we were disturbed, and of course we
Speaker 1: were eating as much as possible too. So yeah, five
Speaker 1: and uh and one o'clock in the afternoon for a buffet,
Speaker 1: we closed that thing down, getting kicked out. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I have I don't really do the buffet much
Speaker 1: anymore because I I do try to somewhat monitor how
Speaker 1: much food I come I come in contact with, because
Speaker 1: I have very little self control in those situations. But
Speaker 1: back in my big eating days, to answer your question, Henry,
Speaker 1: I studied this. I was like a ninja, uh with
Speaker 1: the various cuisine at the restaurants, and I studied it.
Speaker 1: I figured out how to get the most bang for
Speaker 1: my buck, and I learned some of the secrets of
Speaker 1: the buffet world and how uh, let's be honest. Your
Speaker 1: restaurants are in it to win it, so they put
Speaker 1: a few secrets here they I think we've mentioned this
Speaker 1: on the radio show, but they put the least expensive
Speaker 1: food and the most filling food, which is often the same,
Speaker 1: right at the front of the buffet. The stuff that's
Speaker 1: worth more money, that costs them is towards the back
Speaker 1: of the buffet. So you want to skip over the
Speaker 1: first part of whatever food they have. You don't salad
Speaker 1: and soup, those things are designed to fill you up.
Speaker 1: Do not fall victim to the trap. Right? What about
Speaker 1: this though? What about when you go to those restaurants
Speaker 1: like foga to chow. What's your Brazilian restaurants which are
Speaker 1: for all intensive purposes buffet style dyning, very expensive, the
Speaker 1: Brazilian steakhouse, it's very pricey. I've been to that. I
Speaker 1: liked it. It was fine. But I'm talking like your
Speaker 1: standard Vegas buffet, which is also expensive. Now, the Vegas
Speaker 1: buffets aren't cheap either. It's depressing. You gotta pay for parking,
Speaker 1: you get no comps, and they gotta pick exorbitant amount
Speaker 1: of prices for the buffets. Yeah, but Henry, the most
Speaker 1: plates I took down, I don't know, it's probably like
Speaker 1: seven or eight back in the day, full size plates
Speaker 1: of food. And that The worst experience I had was
Speaker 1: at the Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. And
Speaker 1: in retrospect, think what happened? I ate so much I
Speaker 1: had a gull stone attack that was like the first time.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was just indigestion. But I did
Speaker 1: think I was gonna die in the hotel room that night,
Speaker 1: and I was just dating who Aaron is my wife now?
Speaker 1: And uh And at the time I thought I thought
Speaker 1: that was it. I thought I had eaten so much
Speaker 1: I was gonna literally blow up or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's a great experience with your your soon to be
Speaker 1: wife in lost what comp What made you go to
Speaker 1: Vegas and just chat out on a buffet with with
Speaker 1: your girlfriend at the time. Well, well, can you go
Speaker 1: to Vegas and you want to experience Vegas buffets? Right?
Speaker 1: And she had heard good things about the Paris Buffet
Speaker 1: and so we did it. Never again. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: food's fine. I have nothing against the hotel. It's a
Speaker 1: fine hotel, but it just did me in John in
Speaker 1: Minnesota says, who was your favorite three Stooges actor and
Speaker 1: why that's a random question from John. Well, this is easy,
Speaker 1: all right. Uh Now, when I was younger, they they
Speaker 1: still had a ton of Stooges reruns on television, that's
Speaker 1: how bad TV was. And I used to love watching him.
Speaker 1: But there's only one Stooge for me, and that is
Speaker 1: Curly Howard, the greatest fought Vilian actor in the history
Speaker 1: of Hollywood, and I loved he was the bald guy.
Speaker 1: By the way, GUESSTCN. I know you're not up on
Speaker 1: the Stooge. You know he died it He didn't even
Speaker 1: make fifty. He died at forty eight years old. What Howard?
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly what I know he had. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of alcohol involved with the Stooges, the
Speaker 1: Howard brothers and all that. But he didn't make it
Speaker 1: to fifty and he married four times by the time
Speaker 1: he had died, and all kinds of health problems. I
Speaker 1: think mostly these guys self medicated themselves because they didn't
Speaker 1: have stunt doubles all that crap. They were doing what
Speaker 1: they were really doing. So I guess the and the
Speaker 1: name of television and writing? Is he the Is he
Speaker 1: the antagonist? Curly Howard? Yeah? Would he? Larry be the
Speaker 1: protagonist and he'd be the antagonist? Like where does he?
Speaker 1: You know? Because Larry and Mo I don't know if
Speaker 1: they all had those those elements to their to their
Speaker 1: games or their stick right. Yeah, yeah, well he was
Speaker 1: to me he was like the I don't know the
Speaker 1: technical parts of that, but he was just amazing. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by far he was the the best one. And by
Speaker 1: the way he is uh, I think he's interred. Uh
Speaker 1: just down the road in San Gabriel, not that far
Speaker 1: away here. The there's a Curly Howard his grave. You
Speaker 1: want to go check it out. Sure you will. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I could go through brent Wood to go to a
Speaker 1: couple of spots there and go look at a grave
Speaker 1: site there and then go to Curly as Yes, I
Speaker 1: can do that. Yeah. Apparently he had mental deterioration. And
Speaker 1: if he was alive today, you know what they would
Speaker 1: have said about Curly Howard? What's up? CTE? You probably did.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there is such a thing, if you
Speaker 1: believe E T if you're a physical actor and you're
Speaker 1: bumping your head and having bowling balls dropped on your head. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's crazy though, Like I didn't even make
Speaker 1: the fifty. He ended up in a nursing home when
Speaker 1: he was forty eight years old. You know, only the
Speaker 1: good die young. That is just just I guess he
Speaker 1: had a stroke and some other things as well, so
Speaker 1: it was a combination of things that took him down.
Speaker 1: But man, do you want to die young or do
Speaker 1: you want to die late? I'd like to as long
Speaker 1: as my health is good. I'd like to keep going,
Speaker 1: all right, I'd like to keep going. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't really need to check out early. Um, but you know,
Speaker 1: you never That's a great thing about life. You never
Speaker 1: know when it's gonna all end. The mystery of life.
Speaker 1: What about you, guess you want to check out early? No,
Speaker 1: I love this game of life. I mean watching the
Speaker 1: veteran last night. I think he was a hundred years
Speaker 1: of age that was being honored during the State of
Speaker 1: the Union address on Tuesday the other night. You mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Um, so he he was a hundred years old.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go, I'd like to hit triple digits,
Speaker 1: if you'd mind. Yeah, Well, I'm hoping that with modern medicine,
Speaker 1: by the time I really need modern medicine, I'm hopeful
Speaker 1: that it will advance to the point where I will
Speaker 1: be able to be the beneficiary of the medical advancements.
Speaker 1: You can get extra quality, quality years of life, because
Speaker 1: nobody wants to live like a vegetable. I'm talking about good,
Speaker 1: good moving around, going out doing stuff that kind of like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean even for an introvert like you. But the
Speaker 1: best medicine for to you is actually like stress relief,
Speaker 1: eating good whole fruit, vegetables, all the good stuff, not
Speaker 1: like Tito's and you know, foing Chow and mas rows
Speaker 1: and Navier. By the way, you know the people that
Speaker 1: eat the Mr Dietitian gas Gun. The people that eat
Speaker 1: all the fresh fruits and all the fish and all
Speaker 1: the grilled vegetables, they end up in the same place
Speaker 1: the people that eat the fried tacos and the steak
Speaker 1: and all that other stuff. The end game is the same.
Speaker 1: It is the end game, all right, Let's keep going
Speaker 1: with the questions here. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific. A New in Owensboro, Kentucky says, uh,
Speaker 1: this is for both of you. Do you ride roller
Speaker 1: coasters and if you ask, what's your favorite? Well, a
Speaker 1: new thank you for listening. I do not ride roller coasters.
Speaker 1: I am apparently too tall for most roller coasters. Uh
Speaker 1: so they're not designed for people my size height wise.
Speaker 1: My last experience, which is not really a real roller coaster,
Speaker 1: was at Space Mountain. You know what happened, Gascon, You
Speaker 1: got stuck? Well, I waited in line for like two
Speaker 1: hours and then got on the ride and I couldn't
Speaker 1: My knees could not fit in the car because I
Speaker 1: was too tall, And I wasted several hours of my
Speaker 1: life waiting in line at Space Mountain, So I said,
Speaker 1: a screw it, Yeah I was. But you a roller
Speaker 1: coaster guy. You like going on the thrill ride. I've
Speaker 1: gone on and I enjoy them. At six Flags Magic Mountain,
Speaker 1: they used to have a ride that you stood up on, uh,
Speaker 1: shock Wave, and that was a really fun ride. Ninja
Speaker 1: is another one where you're not standing up, but your
Speaker 1: legs are hanging down. That was pretty fun. But I'm
Speaker 1: like you like like the mattaw Horne at Disneyland Um
Speaker 1: Space Mountain Star Tours. Yeah, like the only one I
Speaker 1: can go on right now is just not a roller
Speaker 1: coaster at all. The Splash Mountain. Oh, I can do
Speaker 1: Splash Mountain, Get soaked. That's pretty good. I cannot be
Speaker 1: at these amusing parks all day though anymore. Too many
Speaker 1: kids and too old and not too many kids. You're
Speaker 1: wedding in line, and I'm just you know, I like
Speaker 1: to go, like to do. I don't like being stuck
Speaker 1: in a lot the move And I learned this from
Speaker 1: Wreck at Ralph Ralph Irvan, who's a Disney savant. You
Speaker 1: go when the park opens and there's nobody there for
Speaker 1: like the first two hours, because nobody wants to get
Speaker 1: there early. You go for the first couple of hours
Speaker 1: and you're set up. Wonderful. Are you gonna take the
Speaker 1: misses there for a for a night out? Not a
Speaker 1: night I we usually go. We do one day a
Speaker 1: year at Disneyland and we go all day. It's it's
Speaker 1: like twelve hours of NonStop ridiculousness and gluttony and just
Speaker 1: running up the food and oh it's wonderful. I remember
Speaker 1: back in the day, did you do grad school when
Speaker 1: you were did you do like your grad event where
Speaker 1: you guys would go somewhere. Well, I tried to avoid
Speaker 1: all that. Actually, uh, we did have I didn't go
Speaker 1: to it, but yeah, they they I know a bunch
Speaker 1: of people did go to Disneyland and all that, but
Speaker 1: I did not take part. That's what we did. I
Speaker 1: went to a Catholic school in San Pedro, and I apologies.
Speaker 1: I remember that night grad night we went and there
Speaker 1: were a bunch of guys and girls that were tripping
Speaker 1: out like shrooms really and other stuff. So they went
Speaker 1: into the Haunted mansion and they got stuck like they
Speaker 1: got They were terrified. They were just petrified, like the
Speaker 1: whole ordeal for them. They were absolutely lost. When they
Speaker 1: got outside of that haunted mansion. So it was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: It's us Maybe I should have gone and retrospect that
Speaker 1: I missed that Catholic school. Everyone's doing mushrooms. Way to go,
Speaker 1: all right? Uh? Big Lou from the LBC said, here's
Speaker 1: a question for Gascon. He says, Gascon, were you aware
Speaker 1: that the Blaze planned to cease operations when you had
Speaker 1: the Bakersfield Mallard Militia meet up? Did you know at
Speaker 1: the time? No? I did not. In fact, had I know.
Speaker 1: There was an idea that the club would get closed
Speaker 1: down before I took the job. But a a sad
Speaker 1: story about all that was the guy that actually hired
Speaker 1: me his his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, so
Speaker 1: he needed to uh pull away a little bit, which
Speaker 1: is why he offered me a job to come up there.
Speaker 1: And there were speculation that the franchise could be closed down,
Speaker 1: but they said that was a yearly thing that they
Speaker 1: always talked about and joked about. So I didn't know
Speaker 1: about this until the end of the season. I think
Speaker 1: it was like telling of September and then got the
Speaker 1: news and uh that was after the night out with
Speaker 1: the Ben Mellor Show. So no, I did not it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you could kind of see the writing on the wall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as soon as I got up there in February or
Speaker 1: March and there was just a dirt parking lot. There
Speaker 1: were people on the streets and syringes all over the
Speaker 1: floor and a SHOTP seven eleven right next to the ballpark.
Speaker 1: I saw the writing on the wall. But you told
Speaker 1: me again to go up there and take the job. No,
Speaker 1: I listened to you regret doing it. No, I don't
Speaker 1: you think if you didn't do it, you would have
Speaker 1: some amazing TV job right now if you didn't do it, No, No,
Speaker 1: it's it was a fun time, right you got to
Speaker 1: I wish I could have done that, to travel around
Speaker 1: with a baseball team, and then it would have been
Speaker 1: a lot of I would had a great time doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was some of that. Climbed the right field foul
Speaker 1: pole line and shot up a parking lot. That was
Speaker 1: pretty fun. Um, a broadcaster at one of the ballparks
Speaker 1: was was getting some oral pleasure from a bartender while
Speaker 1: he was calling the game. Yeah, that was pretty fascinating.
Speaker 1: How could you never told me these stories prior? Well,
Speaker 1: what is that's not appropriate for your show? Is it
Speaker 1: appropriate for this show? Yeah, it's a podcast. People don't
Speaker 1: really do stuff for sports, do they. Well, so this
Speaker 1: was just a bartender at the just happened to be
Speaker 1: Uh he lost something under the table. No, so one
Speaker 1: of the one of the ballparks. Uh, they have bar
Speaker 1: service and they'll have the vendors that come in and
Speaker 1: out for cocktails and beers and whatnot. And a broadcaster
Speaker 1: made his way to the to this area, this beer
Speaker 1: garden prior to first pitch, and we were all having
Speaker 1: food and drinks together and then we had a good
Speaker 1: work and he hit it off with this bartender and
Speaker 1: in between the ball game she came on in and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, they got together while he was calling the game.
Speaker 1: And then in post game, after the lights are out,
Speaker 1: I got a text message and said I'm I'm almost done.
Speaker 1: I was like, fair enough, good job by you on.
Speaker 1: Did that ever happen with you? Gascon Nod did not
Speaker 1: have No, it did not ever happened with me. Can
Speaker 1: that happen to me? In Bakersfield? You know I missed
Speaker 1: out on all this. I let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I'm so piste off. I got into radio I heard
Speaker 1: these stories from these old DJs. When I got into radio.
Speaker 1: We worked at I worked at Kiss AM well, I
Speaker 1: worked in San Diego. First I heard got stories from
Speaker 1: guys at ninety one X, which was the big rock
Speaker 1: station in San Diego and the classic rock station at
Speaker 1: back at the time. Actually, I think with alternative rock,
Speaker 1: whatever the case, it was popular X. I don't even
Speaker 1: know it's still that same format of music, but it
Speaker 1: was very popular. And I heard stories from these DJs.
Speaker 1: And then I went to l A and we worked
Speaker 1: at the sister station of the iconic Kiss FM. I
Speaker 1: and Rick D's in the morning, all these powerful DJs,
Speaker 1: and they would regale me in stories about fans that
Speaker 1: would show up to the radio station and provide them
Speaker 1: with favors while they were on the year. I heard
Speaker 1: all these stories. Yeah, and I got none of that.
Speaker 1: I had none of that. I had no experience. It's
Speaker 1: like that at all in radio. What what was wrong
Speaker 1: with me? Guess? Why come everyone else I had these
Speaker 1: experiences and I did not. Well. Part of it's because
Speaker 1: you're an introverts. You don't go out like you're not
Speaker 1: out out out there in the in the open. Are
Speaker 1: you no I'm not. I'm not. I'm not a shut in.
Speaker 1: I do go out, I just don't advertise what I do.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, But I mean even when you do
Speaker 1: go out, it's not like you're working the room at all.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I meant is that you're not
Speaker 1: you're not really all that engaging when you're out, and
Speaker 1: I'm selected when I smooth, Yeah, you pick your shots.
Speaker 1: I tell you, very rarely am schmooze. When I want
Speaker 1: to be smoozy, I can be schmoozy. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: very rare that I choose to go down that road.
Speaker 1: But that's for any guy then. So if you, if
Speaker 1: you want to get into some trouble, you can find
Speaker 1: a way to get in some trouble. Like if you
Speaker 1: if you if you asked your wife, let's go to
Speaker 1: Vegas and let's get into some trouble. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: you guys would get into some trouble. Not because of you,
Speaker 1: but she would get you guys into some trouble, so
Speaker 1: she would find she would find trouble. Yeah, it's exactly it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know why you did not, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some great stories I have from my day in Bakersfield.
Speaker 1: I it's uh, it's six months. But that's one thing
Speaker 1: you said, when you go, take a pen and a
Speaker 1: paper and journal as much as you possibly could, because
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some wild stories. And there was. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I said, listen, it's all about the stories, right, That's
Speaker 1: all we got in life. We don't get to say
Speaker 1: anything with us put the stories, hopefully, but anyway, it is, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's the podcast we're doing grab bag here if you
Speaker 1: fast forward and saying, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: Kevin in San Diego, he's kind of the same question.
Speaker 1: He says he actually admits to a meeting Gascon in
Speaker 1: Lake Elsinore when you were with the Bakersfield Blaze, Jesus,
Speaker 1: and he said he wanted to know what it was
Speaker 1: like when you knew things were coming to an end,
Speaker 1: when you found out. Did you know during the year
Speaker 1: the team was gonna be relocating or when did you
Speaker 1: find out the team was going belly up? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: it is at the end of the season in September.
Speaker 1: Our last games were at the beginning of September. Because
Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball rosters, as you know, expand to
Speaker 1: forty and so special special teams, specific teams like San Jose.
Speaker 1: What they typically do, since this was at the Advanced
Speaker 1: A level, is that the Giants would hide a lot
Speaker 1: of their talent, not the Triple A level or not
Speaker 1: the Double A, they'd hide him at the high A level.
Speaker 1: So you'd get a lot of the guys that were
Speaker 1: in the Advance A level that would play in the
Speaker 1: big leagues. And so a lot of these guys were
Speaker 1: coming and going where most of the guys with the
Speaker 1: Blaze at that time, they were the affiliates of the
Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners. They were taking off, and then not only
Speaker 1: were they taking off, but they were really moving all
Speaker 1: their stuff. Their wives or girlfriends or their family that
Speaker 1: came in and visited said hey, we're not gonna be
Speaker 1: around next year, and so that gave me the idea
Speaker 1: that hey, they could be gone. And then the manager
Speaker 1: and I went out one night for some for some
Speaker 1: tacos and some drinks, and he's like, yeah, man, He's like,
Speaker 1: you probably gonna find a new job. I'm going to
Speaker 1: Arizona in a couple of months for for rookie ball,
Speaker 1: And sure enough he did, and then we got the
Speaker 1: bad news that came on down which is unfortunate too
Speaker 1: because meeting Kevin and some of the other people like
Speaker 1: can San Jose or in Stockton or Lake Elson are
Speaker 1: those are awesome facilities. So it's unfortunate that, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if if Rob Manfred's gonna contract a
Speaker 1: lot of these teams from the minor league systems, but
Speaker 1: the California League is pretty wild, just what where they're
Speaker 1: at in proximity and things of that nature. But yeah,
Speaker 1: when I got the bad New Years, it sucked because
Speaker 1: my idea was to go from high A ball to
Speaker 1: double A or triple A and not to come back
Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio. It's like to take that next step.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't do it and I had to come back.
Speaker 1: But that led me to do some tele Still remember
Speaker 1: I was there the day you came in with your
Speaker 1: tail between your legs. You came back to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: I still recall that. Yeah, I felt like the prodigal
Speaker 1: son a little bit. I'm not gonna lie because you leave,
Speaker 1: you leave, you want to go somewhere else, right, like
Speaker 1: you want to take that that elevated step. Well, I
Speaker 1: left when I didn't really leave. I was forced out
Speaker 1: when I they whacked me in twenty oh nine. It's
Speaker 1: been almost eleven years. Actually, yeah, it's been over eleven
Speaker 1: years now since the initial But that was the blood bath, right, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a mass execution that was bringing everyone in
Speaker 1: the room gas them. Uh, you know, with thousands of
Speaker 1: people across the country, what what's happening? I said, nice, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, But a ton of people lost their job
Speaker 1: and uh, it was a company wide and all I
Speaker 1: just happened to be one of a number on a
Speaker 1: on a piece of paper. But but I never wanted
Speaker 1: to leave. I always liked it, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: stay and I wanted to, you know, do shows, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately I they allowed me back. All right, Uh, here's
Speaker 1: one do you This is from Mike. Do you try
Speaker 1: not to talk about politics at work? Do you end
Speaker 1: up keeping your mouth shut or try to keep it nonpartisan?
Speaker 1: That's from Mike. Uh, yeah, I don't. We don't usually
Speaker 1: walk talk politics, and we don't most of us don't
Speaker 1: talk off the air. I got my show because most
Speaker 1: of the guys don't show up early enough to talk. Uh.
Speaker 1: And uh so that's part of the problems. Hard to
Speaker 1: have a a meeting when guys show up a minute
Speaker 1: before the show, which happens most night, so I don't do.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of talking off the year, and
Speaker 1: plus I don't know so the guys, uh, some of
Speaker 1: them are very hardcore on their political positions that are
Speaker 1: against my political beliefs in some ways, So usually don't
Speaker 1: talk about that very much. What about you, guess do
Speaker 1: you have a lot of political conversations with people that
Speaker 1: were I try to, but it's it's fascinating to have
Speaker 1: those conversations because I feel like, for the most part,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that are here, or even the
Speaker 1: girls too, if they're Republican or right right wing leaning,
Speaker 1: they're open for dialogue. But the left side and the
Speaker 1: guys that are like veering off the hard left, they
Speaker 1: will talk. Then they'll talk louder and louder, and then
Speaker 1: the name calling comes and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: like ship's just off the rail and you just walk
Speaker 1: away from it. I just it's it's unfortunate, But that's
Speaker 1: kind of like when I was, you know, back in
Speaker 1: my day. To me, this is like a sign of
Speaker 1: the times, because when I was younger, I got in
Speaker 1: even growing up, I remember at the house my parents
Speaker 1: would at dinner, you know, they disagreed politically, and they
Speaker 1: would get into arguments about politics at dinner or whatever
Speaker 1: the election, the presidential election was at the time, or
Speaker 1: the big issue of the day. And so this is
Speaker 1: how I grew up hearing this. Right, my mom and
Speaker 1: dad disagree, but in a um, a peaceful way, right,
Speaker 1: just giving their position and whatever. And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't really care about what your
Speaker 1: politics are. If you disagree with me, that's fine, but
Speaker 1: have you know, be somewhat civil. You don't have to
Speaker 1: have a temper tantrum, bang the table and run off
Speaker 1: and all this. A lot of people just can't handle it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because how they were raised
Speaker 1: or what it is, but they just cannot have a
Speaker 1: rational conversation about politics. And I enjoyed. I enjoy the
Speaker 1: political conversation just because I like to know what people
Speaker 1: think or how they see things, or how they perceive things.
Speaker 1: I'm I am completely open with any that's up, and
Speaker 1: I'll let him talk and I'll let him ramble and go,
Speaker 1: especially everybody here, because everyone's obviously got an opinion and
Speaker 1: not everyone can voice it on a microphone, but when
Speaker 1: they do it, it's fine. But yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: but I do talk to a lot more people are
Speaker 1: at work than you do. That's that's safe to say.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people that because in California, if you like Trump, you're
Speaker 1: a pariah. So I think a lot of people that
Speaker 1: they might support Trump don't really talk about it much
Speaker 1: because you know, you get swallowed up. Just Greg and Iowa. Right,
Speaker 1: So here's a good question. How many illegitimate kids does
Speaker 1: David Gascon have in California? So from Greg and Iowa
Speaker 1: answer that guest, Yeah, I would say zero. I think
Speaker 1: you can point to my score as as a reason
Speaker 1: for that. My my conditioning is great, my endurance is fantastic.
Speaker 1: My better watch out for that DNA testing website. You
Speaker 1: don't want to get on there. Do you do that?
Speaker 1: That was that the three and me? Uh yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: My wife did it? She wanted us to. Would she
Speaker 1: grabbed some of my DNA? Boy? Yeah, oh boy, I
Speaker 1: don't do any of that. Ship I don't care. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll be dead soon enough, so who the hell cares?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean, is it really that? I mean
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to me. Are they gonna clone me
Speaker 1: or something like that? Hopefully I'll be gone. It doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter. And everyone's freaking out about the deep State
Speaker 1: having your d n A and I'm not worried. I've
Speaker 1: got other things to worry about. Lan from Stillwater rights
Speaker 1: in and this is for Gascon. Have you ever tried
Speaker 1: on a pair of women's pantings? No? I have not
Speaker 1: that you're willing. You're not willing to admit to it. No,
Speaker 1: I've never tried out women's panties. Thank you very much
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Speaker 1: Patricia from Vegas, she writes, Since he says, Ben, I
Speaker 1: saw the picture of you and Fred Dryer the other day,
Speaker 1: And she says, Gascon is right. You need an iron?
Speaker 1: What say you, Patricia? I say you should go smack
Speaker 1: yourself in the face. That's a bad job by you, Patricia,
Speaker 1: how dare you? Alright? Don't judge me, Do not judge me.
Speaker 1: And and then the shirt was fine when I when
Speaker 1: I put it on to go to work. I haven't
Speaker 1: be sitting down. I drove out along. I've a long
Speaker 1: drive to go to work. I'm sitting down. The shirt
Speaker 1: became wrinkled, but when I put the shirt on, it
Speaker 1: wasn't wrinkled. And who knew that you had to be
Speaker 1: a fashionist, of Patricia? I work in radio, is what
Speaker 1: I do. Okay, I could be buck naked behind the microphone.
Speaker 1: All that matters is this dumb voice. That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: So stop, all right, wrinkled bad. I think that's a
Speaker 1: good point that she made. But here's the thing is
Speaker 1: that this went back to my original comment of why
Speaker 1: you need to buy upgraded clothing now because you can't
Speaker 1: ham the attire that you have and you needed new
Speaker 1: clothes anyway. You gotta get like into the to the
Speaker 1: new trend of where you're like, you need to PHTN jeans. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do radio. If I I'll tell you what, I'll
Speaker 1: make a deal with you. If TV happens, if any
Speaker 1: big TV opportunity presents itself, I'll go out and buy
Speaker 1: some new clothes. Until then it ain't happen. About that.
Speaker 1: That doesn't work like that because you still go out
Speaker 1: with your wife. Yeah, I don't know. We I have
Speaker 1: like a few nice things that I wear that fit properly,
Speaker 1: the nice two or three. The nicest thing that you
Speaker 1: have that you wear is your hat. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a big hat collection. Since my hair went away, I
Speaker 1: have a big hat collection. But the hats are good.
Speaker 1: You're you're set there, But your jackets now are long
Speaker 1: and baggy. You need to have those things hemmed at least,
Speaker 1: right because as soon as I get them hemmed, I'll
Speaker 1: eat seven cheeseburgers and I'll need to get them hemmed again.
Speaker 1: Don't that's the idea. But I love I as long
Speaker 1: as I know you understand the way it works. It's
Speaker 1: it's Mallard's law, not Murphy's law. Mallard's law. Mallard's law
Speaker 1: states that as in the diet game, and I've lost
Speaker 1: a lot of weight and gained a lot of weight
Speaker 1: back and lost a lot of I'm what's known as
Speaker 1: a yo yo diet or apparently. But I think this
Speaker 1: this latest diet I have is going to actually work
Speaker 1: because it's just a lifestyle which I have, this inter
Speaker 1: minute fasting which has worked for me and uh, in fact,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to convince my buddy, who I I my
Speaker 1: my gambling buddy from back in the day. I said,
Speaker 1: he's doing the whole thirty diet and he hates it.
Speaker 1: And I said, you gotta come over to the dark side.
Speaker 1: You've got to come over to the inter minute fasting diet.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to commitce it. But anyway, but but no,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, like I said, we do TV, I'll
Speaker 1: get some clothes and all that, and other than that,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not because the way that the Mallard law works,
Speaker 1: all right, is that as soon as you lose weight
Speaker 1: and then buy clothes, you gain the weight back. But
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you do not buy clothes, you
Speaker 1: will not get in the weight back. But what happened
Speaker 1: that what happens if we're asked to do a a
Speaker 1: doc show like a mock show or a pilot and
Speaker 1: you don't have anything suitable, it's better to need it,
Speaker 1: and or it's better to have it and not needed,
Speaker 1: not needed, not have it. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this, guescoun I have not had a kitchen
Speaker 1: at the Mallard mansion for almost two months. So all
Speaker 1: my money for the next like five years will go
Speaker 1: to pay off the new kitchen. So I really have
Speaker 1: no disposable income anymore. I know travel, I won't be
Speaker 1: going anywhere far away or anything like that. I have nothing. Well,
Speaker 1: we could do this, we can. We can put out
Speaker 1: a go fund me and have J. Scoopy the the
Speaker 1: conductor of this thing. And yeah, and I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: gone to Seattle if the Malla militia had not stepped
Speaker 1: up to the play. I told you that I could not.
Speaker 1: I all of this is going on with the kitchen
Speaker 1: is taking all my money anyway? Uh more questions grab
Speaker 1: bag emails. Stacy in Kentucky writes in and he says,
Speaker 1: will the XFL make it past its first season? Yes?
Speaker 1: They will. Vince McMahon, I believe he has enough money
Speaker 1: set aside that they're gonna go at least a couple
Speaker 1: of years here. The only way they wouldn't is if
Speaker 1: it is just a total abject failure and nobody's watching
Speaker 1: the games on TV. Really, television is gonna dictate this.
Speaker 1: But I buy in to Vince McMahon giving this a
Speaker 1: couple of years. He realized the mistake of his ways. Initially,
Speaker 1: the original XFL and they're gonna give it a go,
Speaker 1: and I am concerned by what I've seen. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: check out the XFL this weekend, sample the product a
Speaker 1: little bit, give it a try. But Vince McMahon's claim
Speaker 1: to fame at professional wrestling is always that you can't
Speaker 1: think traditionally in a non traditional world. And it seems
Speaker 1: like the XFL from what I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: the presentation of the game is going to be very
Speaker 1: similar to everything else we've seen it. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like it's all that bold and provocative. Of course, they
Speaker 1: try to be bold and provocative and it blew up
Speaker 1: in their face originally, but it seems like it's it's
Speaker 1: a much more watered down version of the XFL this time.
Speaker 1: Does that mean that we get a taste of Benny
Speaker 1: versus the Penny XFL version? Yeah, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: check it out this weekend, and uh, if I enjoy it,
Speaker 1: we will do a Benny versus the Penny XFL handicapping edition.
Speaker 1: How about that? Alright? Last one, the last question from
Speaker 1: Queen Roxanne. Uh, for some reason, you must have sent
Speaker 1: her money, she says. David Gascon is hilarious. No he's
Speaker 1: not kind of knows what he's talking about. No, he doesn't.
Speaker 1: Can we please get this Vegas Mallard Man march together?
Speaker 1: And would you please make sure David Gascon attends. How
Speaker 1: about that, Queen Rocks would be April, she says, is
Speaker 1: the date? It's a Saturday night Fremont Street experience. Oh man,
Speaker 1: and and she says that the march. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a good idea. So Queen Roxanne, she's gonna be there.
Speaker 1: I know we got a bunch of listeners in Vegas,
Speaker 1: and that's the NFL Draft weekend that weekend, the first
Speaker 1: round on Thursday, second in, third round on Friday, and
Speaker 1: the rest of it I think is on Saturday. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I could do that because I could just
Speaker 1: drive there. I don't have to like buy a plane
Speaker 1: take I could drive for the day and then drive back.
Speaker 1: Gascon about that, Yeah, well you're not gonna drink when
Speaker 1: you're in Vegas. Maybe not. I might stay. You know
Speaker 1: what I could do is I could stay in prim
Speaker 1: right on a California Nevada border and cheap. You could
Speaker 1: stay there for like twenty bucks. Yeah, but you can
Speaker 1: get some media rates can't you don't you have? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know people, but that's a tough weekend though.
Speaker 1: Because of the draft. I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: get any of those goodies because of the draft, they
Speaker 1: might put X nay on the good easy. So you're
Speaker 1: supposed to have a mallary March April in Vegas. Well,
Speaker 1: Queen rocks Inn is putting it together, so I guess
Speaker 1: they could do it without me, but she would like
Speaker 1: me to be there, and she's rolled out the invitation
Speaker 1: to you. Guess that's pretty nice, especially in Fremont, because
Speaker 1: you'd be playing at tables for like five bucks that's
Speaker 1: the minimum, right, usually five bucks or like a dollar.
Speaker 1: At certain certain tables you get the action at Well,
Speaker 1: it's black jack or crab more of a golden nugget
Speaker 1: guy myself or the Plaza girls stayed at the Plaza
Speaker 1: Hotel and casino. No, what the hell? Why not? What
Speaker 1: kind of places are you staying at? I'm staying That's
Speaker 1: that's Vegas. Vegas is not the bells and whistles with
Speaker 1: roller coasters. Vegas is the Fremont Street, Old Vegas, seedy
Speaker 1: people walking around in thongs, uh, shaking their ass that's
Speaker 1: old Vegas. Yeah, I stay at the hard rock back
Speaker 1: in the day. No, this is not the hard rocks
Speaker 1: off the strip. It's off by itself the hard rock.
Speaker 1: Now this is something else alright, anyway, Uh study this
Speaker 1: these are are they real or bullshit? That's the bit
Speaker 1: here and uh, here's the story. A new study out
Speaker 1: says what percentage of Americans would struggle to pay off
Speaker 1: a four hundred dollar bill? Alright, to guess, ghan, you'll
Speaker 1: play the game here? What percentage of Americans would struggle
Speaker 1: to pay off a four hundred dollar it? You think, uh,
Speaker 1: you you're clearly cheating. That's a bad job by you,
Speaker 1: you schmuck. It is actually yeah, two and five Americans.
Speaker 1: Two and five Americans say that they would struggle to
Speaker 1: pay off that amount. The News Serve a quarter of
Speaker 1: adults admit to not having a savings account, and among
Speaker 1: those that do, they said they could not even cover
Speaker 1: two months worth of bills. Yeah, that's embarrassing. Of people
Speaker 1: said they would have an issue with a four uh bill.
Speaker 1: But well, you need you need to save up to
Speaker 1: because um, you know, I gotta I gotta monumental birthday
Speaker 1: in July, so I'll need a payoff on that on
Speaker 1: that day. It's not gonna be cheap either. So well,
Speaker 1: I know it's when you turn fifty five. It's a
Speaker 1: big birthday, so I know you're excited about that double
Speaker 1: Nichols just coming up for you. Yes, big birthday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna get you exactly what you got
Speaker 1: me from my big birthdays. When I'm like, what is
Speaker 1: your birthday, I'm gonna get you. My birthday is the
Speaker 1: same birthday as Jerry Seinfeld, great comedy minds. We have
Speaker 1: the same birthday there in late April. That reminds me
Speaker 1: your your your better half. Tell me to start watching
Speaker 1: Curb Your Enthusiasm. You actually watched Curb Your Enthusiasm? I do.
Speaker 1: That's the really the only scripted TV show, which is
Speaker 1: it's not really it's loosely scripted, but I love that show.
Speaker 1: Huge fan. That's pretty solid. Yeah, because you're always documentaries
Speaker 1: and sports, you know, yeah, with with few exceptions, I
Speaker 1: like Curb Your Enthusiasm, big fan. Been a fan of
Speaker 1: that show for years. In fact, my brother in law
Speaker 1: worked on the show and the crew of the set
Speaker 1: but building the sets, which is he gave us some
Speaker 1: insight dirt on Curb your enthusiasm, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Like where they different places? They filmed that around l A.
Speaker 1: So I know all the locations, intel um, and that's cool.
Speaker 1: And then I used to watch the Sopranos. Was a
Speaker 1: big Sopranos guy back in the day. Good good show.
Speaker 1: So I like a lot of the HBO pro x. Well,
Speaker 1: here we go, guess got a new study out says
Speaker 1: darker summers could be ahead because fireflies are facing extinction.
Speaker 1: That's right, we could live in a world, according a
Speaker 1: Toughs University in just outside Boston there, we could soon
Speaker 1: live in a world without the lighting bugs because of
Speaker 1: the planet apparently the climate to change their claiming and
Speaker 1: some other issues. They're pesticide, light, light pollution, whatnot. They
Speaker 1: say that it's happening all over the world, not just
Speaker 1: in places where this stuff is bad, but all over
Speaker 1: the world. Have you ever seen a firefly? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't remember. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I would think I would remember that because they're pretty
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, you're not a camper, are you? No?
Speaker 1: I was a kid. We went camping, but I after
Speaker 1: dark I stayed in the tent. She didn't go out.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to get eaten by a bear, surprise, surprise,
Speaker 1: and did not want that. All right, moving on here,
Speaker 1: this is study this, How about this one? Facing a
Speaker 1: complex decision, you should narrow your choices down to how many? Three? No?
Speaker 1: According to the study too two. You should narrow your
Speaker 1: choices down to two, and that will help you make
Speaker 1: the the better decisions. Study comes out of Switzerland, where
Speaker 1: I go for all my my life decisions. I go
Speaker 1: to Switzerland. But according to the study there that suggesting.
Speaker 1: They say to narrow your choices down to the two
Speaker 1: most promising options, and that will help you make a
Speaker 1: decision as quickly as possible. According to Basil Universities Center
Speaker 1: for Decision Neuroscience, there you go, well I do that anyway,
Speaker 1: don't most people do that just by you know, the
Speaker 1: way you're wired. You you have a bunch of options
Speaker 1: to say, all right, let's limit all these let's get
Speaker 1: a fifty fift shot at getting this right. I've always
Speaker 1: done that. I was just thinking like a restaurant, because
Speaker 1: isn't it kind of the norm for restaurants where you
Speaker 1: have your most important item or the best featured one
Speaker 1: in the middle, and you have everything at the top
Speaker 1: on the bottom. So you have it broken down to
Speaker 1: three different categories. Well, isn't it the stuff you that
Speaker 1: you can make the most profit on you have featured.
Speaker 1: Isn't that usually how it works? Yeah, that's usually the
Speaker 1: middle middle. So well, it's kind of like when you
Speaker 1: go to the store and the cheapest stuff that the
Speaker 1: name brand products the big companies are near the top
Speaker 1: at your eyeball level, but the generic brand products are
Speaker 1: at the bottom. But it's the same stuff, but it's
Speaker 1: at the bottom because you don't usually look at the bottom.
Speaker 1: But that but the only place in the in the supermarket,
Speaker 1: of the grocery store where that's different. You know where
Speaker 1: it is? Or is that the cereal aisle because kids,
Speaker 1: their line of eyesight is lower, so they put the
Speaker 1: good cereal and the really sugar filled cereal that they
Speaker 1: want kids to eat, they put that. The prime real
Speaker 1: estates at the bottom, like the lie, like the first
Speaker 1: two parts of the the the aisle there the lower part,
Speaker 1: not for the kids. I have not had cereal in
Speaker 1: a long time. I was always a cinnamon toast crunch
Speaker 1: kind of guy. Yeah, I liked cinnamon toast crunch. I
Speaker 1: loved those little chocolate chip cookies. I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you can have chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. How amazing
Speaker 1: is that? And then I learned later on, you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to have little chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. But
Speaker 1: I like Captain crunch. I was a big Captain crunch guy.
Speaker 1: Gotta eat that quick, they'll get soggy fast. Cheer No,
Speaker 1: my dad likes cheers I cheeros are so boring, well,
Speaker 1: honey nut. Yeah, he just liked regular cheerios. How boring
Speaker 1: is that? Then my mom would she because my dad
Speaker 1: liked cheerios, So my mom would serve cheerios, but then
Speaker 1: she would mix in fruit to kind of dress it
Speaker 1: up a little bit. Now, so it didn't seem so
Speaker 1: depressing eating cheerios. That's fine. What about life? Life was
Speaker 1: pretty good too, didn't It was not a big life guy.
Speaker 1: I ate, Uh, what was it? Fruity pebbles or whatever
Speaker 1: that was? Did? Were just all sugar? Well, that was
Speaker 1: all every when I was a kid, every serial they
Speaker 1: treaded as much sugar as they could into the cereal.
Speaker 1: It was it was a race to get as much
Speaker 1: sugar in as they possibly could, which says a lot
Speaker 1: about my generation. But anyway, brand awareness new survey out
Speaker 1: gascon ranks the top thirty most recognizable logos in the
Speaker 1: United States of America in the year twenty twenty. Let's
Speaker 1: just see. I forget the top thirty because we don't
Speaker 1: have time for that. How about top three or top five?
Speaker 1: Which when you wanted to top five? Let me go
Speaker 1: with five. Let's do Facebook. No. McDonald's yes. McDonald's is
Speaker 1: number two, the second most recognizable brand in America. What's
Speaker 1: that Nike? Yes, Nike's number four on the list. Um?
Speaker 1: Is Twitter too obvious? Twitter is not in the top five.
Speaker 1: In fact, Twitter's number sixteen on the list. Those dummies
Speaker 1: in the media like us. We think Twitter is the
Speaker 1: end all bill, but most people aren't even on Twitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true, that's true. Um, Apple, Yes, Apple? What do
Speaker 1: you think Apple is? Well, I think you're gonna go there.
Speaker 1: So is Apple number one? Yeah? Apple is number one.
Speaker 1: The most recognizable brand in the United States is Apple.
Speaker 1: That's pretty powerful. McDonald's is number two. What do you
Speaker 1: think number three is? Um, Nike's what four? Nikes? Four? Yeah? Three? Gosh, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's that's a good question. How about
Speaker 1: it's something to do with a product you would drink. Oh, gatorade? No, no,
Speaker 1: not Gatorade. Um, I don't see Gatorade on this Um,
Speaker 1: I don't see him on the list. Don't they have
Speaker 1: the good logo? Anyway? I don't know what is it?
Speaker 1: It is. Coca Cola is still number three, solid the list.
Speaker 1: Nike's number four, Number five is Java, Starbucks Cup of Joe.
Speaker 1: Starbucks is number five, Google's number six, Facebook seven, addas eight,
Speaker 1: Amazon nine, and YouTube number ten. No longer a top
Speaker 1: ten item. Pepsi not in the top ten anymore. They've
Speaker 1: been bumped out by the tech companies. Disney not in
Speaker 1: the top ten, the car companies like Mercedes, Ford, Toyota
Speaker 1: not in the top ten. But I've been reading a
Speaker 1: lot about millennials now choosing to rent as opposing to buy.
Speaker 1: So that's uh, it's a change. And like you said,
Speaker 1: the generations pepsi because they can't afford to buy right that,
Speaker 1: they don't want to put the money into it. And
Speaker 1: plus you've gotta be tied down usually when you buy
Speaker 1: a place, and you gotta be there for a long time,
Speaker 1: and all that right, I need to find a wife.
Speaker 1: You need to find a sugar mama, is what you're not? Great? Well,
Speaker 1: Santa Anita is right around the corner. We can make
Speaker 1: that happen. Oh, you could definitely find a sugar mama
Speaker 1: down at Santa Anita. I mean that is a no brainer. Alright.
Speaker 1: A new study from M I T reveals that particles
Speaker 1: from the average sneeze they've now terman can travel blank
Speaker 1: number of feet a M I T study Now, no, no,
Speaker 1: twenty five ft twenty five ft gascon Now you you
Speaker 1: should that's a garcia. That's what Eddie does. He goes
Speaker 1: too high. He ruins the game. It's a bad job
Speaker 1: by you. Terrible. Is a pretty large, pretty large area
Speaker 1: A couple of size of a free throw line to
Speaker 1: the basket. Yeah, Like an NBA court is nine ft
Speaker 1: by fifty so it's half of the width of an
Speaker 1: NBA court. Right, that's a long that's a long distance.
Speaker 1: Does that include the coronavirus? M Yeah, I'm sure includes everything.
Speaker 1: Everything is all part of the package. See, we're short
Speaker 1: on time here because we spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: playing the grab ass. Let's see here any other studies
Speaker 1: that stand out that I really want to get to.
Speaker 1: I gotta study about babies. Super Bowl, I know it
Speaker 1: came and went. There was a study out that found
Speaker 1: that the most popular Super Bowl food I think we
Speaker 1: talked about this. Did we talk about the most popular
Speaker 1: being No? I don't think we did. Cocktail wieners most popular. Yes,
Speaker 1: cocktail weeners the most popular. They beat out chicken wings
Speaker 1: and all the other food and that you get there.
Speaker 1: And they also there was a study that claimed that
Speaker 1: people that go to Super Bowl parties say that they
Speaker 1: go more for the food than to watch the game.
Speaker 1: What did you have for the Super Bowl? I don't
Speaker 1: have a kitchen. I I ate Chinese food take out.
Speaker 1: Chinese food is what I ate. And I had some
Speaker 1: peanuts and peanut m and m's in the crap like that.
Speaker 1: This was not a great Super Bowl food eating experience.
Speaker 1: I went to les Seals. I was thinking about giving
Speaker 1: you a call, but I figured you got the show
Speaker 1: that night. So badness is not a good weekend. This
Speaker 1: past weekend I could not cannot get out much and
Speaker 1: move around, so I was home quite a bit. All right,
Speaker 1: do we have any don't stick to sports stories the week? Guess? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How about this one. A woman in her entire family
Speaker 1: went on vacation when a few neighbors started hitting them
Speaker 1: up with calls and text messages and whatnot, and the
Speaker 1: woman said that she was getting pictures sent to her
Speaker 1: that her car had been booted in her own driveway.
Speaker 1: So one of the photos that she actually shared online, uh,
Speaker 1: showed her car was was not just one, but there
Speaker 1: was two boots on her car, the front and back
Speaker 1: end of her vehicle once she was gone on vacation.
Speaker 1: But this is in front of her own house. So
Speaker 1: no hold on, But she did she need to get booted?
Speaker 1: Did she have a bunch of parking tickets and all that,
Speaker 1: or was it a mistaken identity situation? Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a mistaken identification. Um, she was on vacation the homeowners association,
Speaker 1: and um they had some parking rules that were instituted
Speaker 1: and a resident with no resident permit would be subject
Speaker 1: to a boot. So although she was yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: she got the boots. So she was in front of
Speaker 1: her own house. But that's another reason, guest, and the
Speaker 1: moral of this story is to never live with a
Speaker 1: homeowners association. It's the worst. I the first well not
Speaker 1: the first Mallard mansion that I bought was a condo,
Speaker 1: oh right right in your Dodger Stadium downtown l A.
Speaker 1: And I love the location. But the homows insurance what
Speaker 1: a fucking nightmare? How much was these people are? And
Speaker 1: uh no, never again. And I will for the rest
Speaker 1: of my life, if I'm lucky to live a long life,
Speaker 1: I will never again buy a place where the homeowners
Speaker 1: group done, zippo, Never gonna happen. They're not getting a
Speaker 1: dollar of my money, not a dime. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: huge rip off. Paying for security and the well being
Speaker 1: of the property and the parking and the dressing of
Speaker 1: the house is nuts. It's a it's a game. How
Speaker 1: about this? A Brazilian man was arrested last week for
Speaker 1: dressing up as a sixty year old mother so that
Speaker 1: he could take her driving test after she failed it
Speaker 1: multiple times. Now that is love? Is that not love?
Speaker 1: Didn't do anything for your mom? Maybe that's a good
Speaker 1: son right there? He's illegal. Put that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: he's going missed doubt fire to try to get his
Speaker 1: mom a driver's license. That's pretty cool. And he looked
Speaker 1: the part two, which is great at the wig the
Speaker 1: attire the whole nine yards. So how did he get caught? Um?
Speaker 1: The driving and stretcher noticed that they that he didn't
Speaker 1: look the same as it was in his I D.
Speaker 1: So he did a full up and down of the guy.
Speaker 1: It was like like you said, that's Mrs Down fire
Speaker 1: your pop. So he's out. That's a that's great, there
Speaker 1: you go. I wonder how much you spent on that
Speaker 1: get up. It's money wasted, right, unless you went to
Speaker 1: like Walmart or something like that, you can pull it off.
Speaker 1: How about this A drunk British mother left stop right there?
Speaker 1: This is comedy gold. Drunk British mother doesn't get any
Speaker 1: better than that. She left her seven year old daughter
Speaker 1: on a flight to go have sex with a stranger
Speaker 1: who left her a drink, basically a note that had hey, um,
Speaker 1: let's join the mile high club. Here's a drink and
Speaker 1: here's a note attached to it. So she's on the
Speaker 1: flight with her kid. Yeah did she do the act? Wow?
Speaker 1: And uh and and and she got arrested? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: she got the whole night. Well we know about it,
Speaker 1: so she obviously got arrested, right. Yeah, the mom I
Speaker 1: guess to repeately offered to perform oral sex uh with
Speaker 1: the guy. Uh. What kind of mat man? Mama, I mean,
Speaker 1: I believe these moms today. Man, they're not like moms
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. What's up with that? How
Speaker 1: about this one? I think you'll appreciate this one. Um,
Speaker 1: we're talking about politics earlier. Uh, liberal white women and
Speaker 1: are paying twenty dollars to go into an event called
Speaker 1: the Race to Dinner, which is basically an event for
Speaker 1: white women, UH to have their subconscious challenged on racism.
Speaker 1: Fifteen events so far been held across the United States.
Speaker 1: That includes UH, the city of Denver, and it started
Speaker 1: back in the spring of two thousand nineteen. So a
Speaker 1: couple of women, one is an Indian American, another one
Speaker 1: is black. They're the host of this dinner, but they
Speaker 1: basically invite women in that are white so that they
Speaker 1: can challenge their subconscious on racism. Twenty dollars to intend
Speaker 1: to say, you know what this really is. It's not
Speaker 1: about racism, it's about stupidity. And and if if somebody
Speaker 1: pays money to go to this, you are a moron.
Speaker 1: This is a roar shock test for stupidity. And if
Speaker 1: you've paid money, what kind of assholes go to this thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine? I mean, it's like a
Speaker 1: placement test for stupidity, is what it is. And here's
Speaker 1: the best part. Dumb, dumb white men and or Trump
Speaker 1: voters are not invited as they are perceived to be
Speaker 1: lost causes. Always that right, Yes, the evil white mind
Speaker 1: must be stopped at all acrost Absolutely, it's a wonderful world.
Speaker 1: Oh man, how about this would last one? A seventy
Speaker 1: two year old woman uh was charged as she stabbed
Speaker 1: her boyfriend in the face with scissors during an argument
Speaker 1: over sleeping arrangements while she was extremely drunk. Should have
Speaker 1: got a sleep number? Did he got a sleep number?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't worry about that he has sleep number? Bad. It's
Speaker 1: a bad job by her, Oh boy. At least she
Speaker 1: didn't use like a butcher and now she used to
Speaker 1: use like a kid scissors or like a full on adults.
Speaker 1: They're full on adult scissors. At two thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: she decided to grab a shank. The scissors are just
Speaker 1: as bad as a knife. Ben, I think I got
Speaker 1: butcher's knife. You know I'm in the kitchen. You're not
Speaker 1: a cook like me, gu cook? And when I have
Speaker 1: a kitchen and I've cut my finger with a button
Speaker 1: with a butcher's knife. Ball man, I did that cut
Speaker 1: my finger off one time with a butcher's knife cutting.
Speaker 1: I think I was I was cutting either I think
Speaker 1: it was either a steak or an onion, and it
Speaker 1: slipped and uh, I don't even forget. I just remember
Speaker 1: the blood pouring out of my fingertip and thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: this is not good. And you feel that. You know
Speaker 1: when you cut yourself, you feel that warmness, Yeah, when
Speaker 1: the blood starts gushing out of your your injury, and
Speaker 1: it's like, wow, this is pretty gnarly, man, this is brotal.
Speaker 1: I did that earlier this week cutting an onion and
Speaker 1: it's bled all over the place. You made the onion
Speaker 1: and it had a little catchup on it, and you
Speaker 1: were good. I made some amazing plant based meatballs that
Speaker 1: were stuffed with onions and bell peppers and shives. It
Speaker 1: was really good. Anytime I hear that, I hear west
Speaker 1: side of l a base, the plant base side strikes
Speaker 1: something different. Cant you appreciate what I do my blinary expertise.
Speaker 1: I made hush puppies one time. That was really good.
Speaker 1: I'll make you some hush puppies. They're solid, serious corn
Speaker 1: hush puppies. Man, those are plants based corns. A plant, right, Hey,
Speaker 1: listen until you start making your your Philly cheese steak.
Speaker 1: I'm off the reservation. I've made the cheese steak. Is
Speaker 1: that not great cheese steak? The mallar man, You've never
Speaker 1: had it. No, I've never had it. You never had it. No.
Speaker 1: The last time I went over there was for the
Speaker 1: Christmas party. We made the fajitas. Yes, I'll make I
Speaker 1: love the cheese steak. I make it just like I'm like.
Speaker 1: I worked with Tony Bruno's I'm like from South Philly
Speaker 1: because Tony rubbed off on me back in the day.
Speaker 1: Award winning Tony Bruno by the way, the great Tony.
Speaker 1: I love Tony. Tony is a good man. He's on
Speaker 1: the A list. I'm not on that A list. I
Speaker 1: don't win those awards anything else. Guess that is it
Speaker 1: with close up shop with those alright? Another business like
Speaker 1: impartial uh well by me, an objective by me edition
Speaker 1: of the Fifth Hour as we will do it again
Speaker 1: next weekend. Who knows we might even have the XFL
Speaker 1: Benny versus Man that would be like a test run
Speaker 1: to see if anyone downloads that version of the podcast.
Speaker 1: I will consider doing it, but have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll be back. I will be on the radio Sunday
Speaker 1: night into Monday to a m in the East eleven
Speaker 1: pm on Sunday night in the West, and we'll catch
Speaker 1: you then