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Speaker 1: joined yet again by a man who came in here
Speaker 1: kicking and screaming, had a temperate tantrum yet again, David Gascatta.
Speaker 1: I'm motivated and I'm interested on with fargic. You will see,
Speaker 1: David Guest. I I will admit I've felt lethargic of
Speaker 1: the last seventy two hours. Things have been going on
Speaker 1: through my mind. You want to expand on that for
Speaker 1: the class. You want to tell the class what's going
Speaker 1: on here? Why do some volunteer work. I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about that, but do something. But I'm looking
Speaker 1: for compliments. I'm not looking for compliments, but I do
Speaker 1: some volunteer works. That's kept me at bay for a
Speaker 1: little bit. And then uh yeah, being pressed with with
Speaker 1: this time of the year, you know, with college basketball,
Speaker 1: making the transition from the regular season to the conference
Speaker 1: tournament to the n c Double A dance. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I had some assignments, so thinking about that, and then
Speaker 1: of course baseball season. You know, talked to Charlie on
Speaker 1: FREDA and you're fired up about it, and I am
Speaker 1: too with baseball season. Getting underweight. It's good as seeing,
Speaker 1: it's good to hear the crack of the bat and
Speaker 1: um so yeah, I've been a little flat blast couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. I've been sore. Shit, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I I hate doing this, but I did make the
Speaker 1: investment to buy some weights. Um, not heavyweights, but I
Speaker 1: bought some kettlebells, about five of them, going from eight
Speaker 1: pounds to six. And I hated doing that because the
Speaker 1: thought is, if you buy the weights, or if you
Speaker 1: buy a treadmill or a bike, that means you're always
Speaker 1: at home like you're never going to the gym or
Speaker 1: never going out to exercise, and but I had to
Speaker 1: do it. Getting weak man getting weak, Yeah, well you're
Speaker 1: getting old. That's what happens in old age, and so
Speaker 1: you do it now. Usually what I've heard is the
Speaker 1: people that buy the treadmill and stuff, they'd never use it.
Speaker 1: But I use my treadmill. I use it four or
Speaker 1: five days a week. I'm on the treadmill that's sending
Speaker 1: on my my schedule. So I don't want to be
Speaker 1: that guy that buys the workout equipment on the infomercial
Speaker 1: and then just sits there and it's a close rack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of mine. I don't want to ever be that guy.
Speaker 1: Some of my best lines when I used to work
Speaker 1: at a gym when I was younger in the sales department,
Speaker 1: were specifically like that. Like if you came into the
Speaker 1: gym and you said, well, you know, I think I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna buy some home equipment as you walked out,
Speaker 1: and you didn't want to buy a membership, I'd be like, hey,
Speaker 1: make sure when you go and you buy your equipment,
Speaker 1: go buy a rag and um and some cleaning material.
Speaker 1: And the guy would usually be like, well, why and
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, because when your gym at home starts
Speaker 1: collecting dust, you need something to clean it off because
Speaker 1: you probably won't be using it like you would be here,
Speaker 1: or we hold you accountable. Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 1: What a dick. My favorite one was like back in
Speaker 1: the pay phone days, there was always four excuses someone
Speaker 1: would give you why they didn't want to join a gym.
Speaker 1: It was money, time, commitment, or their spouse. And so
Speaker 1: spouse was always the fourth one. And so sometimes a
Speaker 1: guy would be like, hey, I gotta talk to my
Speaker 1: wife about this. This is a financial decision. And we
Speaker 1: could do two things, and I'd pull out change and
Speaker 1: put it on the table, or I'd say, hey, I
Speaker 1: can leave. There's a phone right here. Because it sounds
Speaker 1: like every time you need to make a big decision,
Speaker 1: you need to go call your wife. Oh, guys would
Speaker 1: just get fucking bat It's just it was good man,
Speaker 1: you just call him out right. How many times you
Speaker 1: get slapped? It never got slapped. The females love me.
Speaker 1: They're the men always got like defensive. I'm not fucking
Speaker 1: like that. I just need to make a decision with
Speaker 1: her involved. You know, back in the day, like memberships
Speaker 1: for gyms or thirty dollars a month, and now they're
Speaker 1: sixties seventies, sometimes a hundred dollars even still get a deal.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know now because with the pandemic
Speaker 1: and the gyms, are they even still making him in?
Speaker 1: My God? But uh, I guess they still had their
Speaker 1: money coming in though the gym's right, so maybe they
Speaker 1: actually came out ahead of it because a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't cancel their membership. But I would always go
Speaker 1: to Costco. They had a deal you get like two
Speaker 1: years membership. You had to pay it all up front, obviously,
Speaker 1: but then you didn't have to pay about it was
Speaker 1: per month. Was cheaper than the the rate they would
Speaker 1: give you the gym. But I'm not going back screw that.
Speaker 1: I had some weirdos. I'd go to the gym in
Speaker 1: the morning after the show, and I had the older
Speaker 1: crowd was there, and I knew everyone at the gym,
Speaker 1: and nobody knew who I was, and they didn't know
Speaker 1: what I did for a living. They just thought. Many
Speaker 1: people thought I was just getting up just to work
Speaker 1: out in the morning. They didn't realize I'd been up
Speaker 1: all night because everyone else was getting up at the
Speaker 1: crack of down to go in there and work out. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, so what we're talking about gis
Speaker 1: guy we were bloviating here you're calling and are those
Speaker 1: are Well, you're not exactly a robber baron. You're not
Speaker 1: a captive industry here. You would admit that, right, I'm
Speaker 1: an up and comer. Um, you know, I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not sitting in the big scene. You've you've aged out
Speaker 1: of the prospect range. That's why to point that up.
Speaker 1: You know your prospect in baseball, which is a suspect
Speaker 1: until proven otherwise, and then you reach a certain age downgraded. Wow.
Speaker 1: But you would agree though that when you get into
Speaker 1: the sports industry oftentimes these are jobs for life. Yes, No,
Speaker 1: no that I've been fired many times, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: but like you get into this endeavor thinking like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this for the rest of my life. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've always hoped I would do this for
Speaker 1: the rest of my life, But I've never assumed. I've
Speaker 1: always thought at any given moment. I used to say
Speaker 1: I would push shopping carts at Costco. I would I
Speaker 1: would get a regular job if I nobody would hire
Speaker 1: me in this In this business, if you need money,
Speaker 1: go out and hustle. I'm I'm I'm old. I think
Speaker 1: you have to work hard for your Mucco dinero. I
Speaker 1: know these days that's not the speaking of that. Did
Speaker 1: you see that that that story on social media the
Speaker 1: other day which I mentioned this, I was dude, I
Speaker 1: did a hit with my guys sports with Coleman on
Speaker 1: his show in Baltimore. He brought this up. But this
Speaker 1: this great whining and complaining about unpaid into And uh,
Speaker 1: I actually thought of you because you you often use
Speaker 1: victim mentality. No, no, I am, I am a I'm
Speaker 1: an unpaid employee. There's a difference. Well, you're a paid
Speaker 1: employee chronic out and you're a chronic complainer. So I
Speaker 1: didn't think of you during that time. And and it's
Speaker 1: like it's an odd deal because I do not believe
Speaker 1: I would have had any career in radio without my
Speaker 1: unpaid internship for Lee Hack saw Hamilton's at the mighty
Speaker 1: six ninety and San Diego from Baja to the Canadian Rocket. Wait,
Speaker 1: were you living in Orange County and commuting down there? Yes,
Speaker 1: I I could not afford to live in the beautiful
Speaker 1: San Diego. But I was down there like four or
Speaker 1: five days a week. And you can imagine the gas
Speaker 1: from from where I was was growing up and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean I was down there all
Speaker 1: the time. I wasn't getting paid for it, but I
Speaker 1: loved being at the radio station. This was a station
Speaker 1: I listened to. These are the pool that I heard,
Speaker 1: you know. You know, I was in high school and
Speaker 1: then I went to college briefly and then got you know,
Speaker 1: internship shortly after that, and so these are people I
Speaker 1: were familiar with. And I would get down there early.
Speaker 1: And I remember there was a Jack in the Box
Speaker 1: because I was big, big eating days, so there was
Speaker 1: a Jack of a Box just down the street from
Speaker 1: off Arrow Drift right. Um. Yeah, So I would go
Speaker 1: to the Jack of the Box and I would get lunch,
Speaker 1: and then I would go in there hours before Jim
Speaker 1: Rome was on doing his show, and I would hang
Speaker 1: out in the newsroom there and just kind of soak
Speaker 1: it all in as often as I could. And then
Speaker 1: when Hacksaw would get done at seven o'clock I believe
Speaker 1: it was, and then I I would just hang out
Speaker 1: in the back with John che Lesnik and some of
Speaker 1: the other guys that were there in the back in
Speaker 1: the newsroom. And but I didn't get paid for it.
Speaker 1: And then eventually the hired me as an engineer as
Speaker 1: a board op and then I did I did San
Speaker 1: Diego State basketball a few times. I was terrible at that.
Speaker 1: But but one thing led to another. But it all
Speaker 1: started with the the unpaid internship, which is in many
Speaker 1: ways paid because of connections. It's paid with who you're
Speaker 1: going to meet and and is the key to life
Speaker 1: we've learned over the years is not what you know,
Speaker 1: it's who you know, and you get to know people
Speaker 1: in that situation. This is fascinating, let's say, fascinating revelation.
Speaker 1: Oddly enough, you know, wait, wait aside, we've had linear
Speaker 1: timelines in this industry, is that right? Yeah? When I
Speaker 1: when I graduated from grad school, I came back to
Speaker 1: l A. And I worked as an unpaid like postgraduate
Speaker 1: work for the city of Torrance doing like reporting, like
Speaker 1: field reporting, editing like the whole nine yards. And oddly enough,
Speaker 1: I had a classmate from San Diego State. I hit
Speaker 1: her up on Twitter one day and I said, point Blake,
Speaker 1: because this is how desperate it was, I said. I
Speaker 1: texted her and I said, get me a fucking job.
Speaker 1: That's how desperate I was, Like thirteen months of that
Speaker 1: work getting paid, and she introduced me to someone at
Speaker 1: the same station that you worked at, got me to
Speaker 1: the program director. And four months later he gets back
Speaker 1: to me. He says, I might have a job for you.
Speaker 1: I don't know yet, but why don't you come down
Speaker 1: next week and we'll talk about it. Ben I, I
Speaker 1: kid you not. I packed all of my ship, called
Speaker 1: one of my buddies and I said, hey, I need
Speaker 1: a crash here and he said for how long? I
Speaker 1: said two weeks. So I get down there and the
Speaker 1: guy hires me after we met, and he's like, I
Speaker 1: can't give you that many hours, maybe like six, maybe twelve,
Speaker 1: but coming every day this week and we'll give you
Speaker 1: some hours and we'll get you at to speed and
Speaker 1: see you know how many we can get you. I
Speaker 1: fucking moved down there, and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: started cranking out hours every week, and lo and behold,
Speaker 1: I was a part of a couple of shows, but
Speaker 1: I was capped. I was capped it because I was
Speaker 1: part time. You can't be full time. You know, working
Speaker 1: twenty nine hours. So I worked part time, working uh
Speaker 1: twenty nine hours a week ten dollars an hour as
Speaker 1: a fucking board up. I did not leave my house
Speaker 1: and when I and the only way I could watch
Speaker 1: sporting events was just like you, I stayed at the station,
Speaker 1: so my shift of the shows would end at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go home till ten because I was watching
Speaker 1: the Pacific time zone games. Yeah. Well, the thing I
Speaker 1: remember too is that's a good point. But I had
Speaker 1: in those days. You know, it's a stone age we had.
Speaker 1: The internet was not really a thing, and I think
Speaker 1: a o L was around America Online. But I love
Speaker 1: being at the Mighty S because they had the has
Speaker 1: hacks all called at the High Speed Sports Wire. They
Speaker 1: had the AP news Wire on one side of the room,
Speaker 1: and then across on the other side was the Sports Ticker,
Speaker 1: which was more for scores and updating that, and they'd
Speaker 1: be there'd be news bulletins and so I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit here, and I was like, I was
Speaker 1: like a news junkie back then. I was like like
Speaker 1: I am today still, but it's much easier today to
Speaker 1: do it. And I'd wait for these news bulletins to
Speaker 1: come across and be oh, okay, you know, you know
Speaker 1: a p news bulletin from the NBA. You know so
Speaker 1: and so has been traded or whatever. It was awesome, yeh.
Speaker 1: But but I mean, I just I saw that conversation
Speaker 1: and it was asked about that, and I just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess now, and everything's supposed to be
Speaker 1: handled to you, handed to you. But I don't know
Speaker 1: why any business if a we'll use radio here as
Speaker 1: an example, the unpaid intern. You don't have experience, you're
Speaker 1: not qualified to work at the radio station. You're learning
Speaker 1: the craft. So why if they're gonna pay someone, why
Speaker 1: wouldn't they just pay someone who actually knows what they're doing,
Speaker 1: rather than having to pay someone and then train them.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It didn't mean from a
Speaker 1: business standpoint, the company, then you're not gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: limit opportunities. And these people are so stupid they don't
Speaker 1: realize that. They think that no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be you're gonna be paid for this, that
Speaker 1: and the other thing. And it's uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a sign of the times, right, it's a sign of
Speaker 1: the time. The other thing that's a little a little unnerving,
Speaker 1: I guess is that these people bit shimon about not
Speaker 1: being paid for internships, but they don't enquire about what
Speaker 1: starting pay is anyway, because if they inquired about that,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't do these jobs in the first place. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's all part of the night guys. Well, but then
Speaker 1: let's see they start, and then they would be complaining, Well,
Speaker 1: you've got to raise them, you know, it's not a
Speaker 1: livable wage. You've got to raise it up, you know,
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. By the way, speaking of that poverished,
Speaker 1: I was in poverished working. Do you need a room?
Speaker 1: If there's a chance you could clear out the Mallard
Speaker 1: mansion for for me, it'd be great. Oh you're getting
Speaker 1: you're getting kicked out of your house. Lie, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just not getting not getting paid here with you.
Speaker 1: So I need to, you know, slum it up with Mallard.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe if you did a better job, more
Speaker 1: people you get you make some money. How about that?
Speaker 1: How is the how is the collection going with with
Speaker 1: your with your father's uh, with your father's place, Because
Speaker 1: you've you've You've You've cleaned off a lot of different
Speaker 1: things during during the time, some good collect bles. Um
Speaker 1: are you still jams these days? Uh? Well, most of
Speaker 1: it has. Every weekend my my my pops passed away
Speaker 1: in January. January two, it was the day after New
Speaker 1: Year's and so ever since then, here we are in March,
Speaker 1: and I've been every weekend, literally every weekend has been
Speaker 1: at his house, the family house, cleaning it out, going
Speaker 1: through my parents, saved everything from my my childhood. So
Speaker 1: and once my mom passed, my Dad's like, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't care, do whatever you want. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to throw that stuff away, you know. And so I
Speaker 1: have everything. So I've gone through it. And what we've
Speaker 1: done is we've put it in by category and then
Speaker 1: eventually I'm gonna go through it. And actually I was
Speaker 1: talking to Mike Harmon. We had him on the the podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't think you were here for that one, but
Speaker 1: we we had him on, and uh, he's in he's
Speaker 1: very into sports collectibles, very tied into that. And then
Speaker 1: there's some listeners that have reached out to me that
Speaker 1: are in that business that have said they would like
Speaker 1: to assist in getting man I don't need this stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I got a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of interesting like cards. But also I realized I had
Speaker 1: picked up some knick knacks and things from my early
Speaker 1: days in the media, uh, where you know, certain guys
Speaker 1: would give me, Like I have a bunch of base
Speaker 1: game used baseball bats and random crap that I picked
Speaker 1: up that I don't even know if that's worth much,
Speaker 1: but it's, uh, you know, stuff I've acquired. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Over the times, it's good man, I mean, because I
Speaker 1: would imagine part of you says, let's get rid of it,
Speaker 1: but the other parts of nostalgic, and you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's a lot of money or not, it's still near
Speaker 1: and dear to the heart. Yeah. You know, what's one
Speaker 1: of the cool things I found. I've always been the
Speaker 1: mad hatter. Even when I had hair, I was the
Speaker 1: mad hatter, and I I had a I found a
Speaker 1: whole stash of baseball caps from back in the day.
Speaker 1: And you know, I just used to collect hats and uh,
Speaker 1: and I I found some of these things. And these
Speaker 1: are like vintage hats that I could probably sell for
Speaker 1: a fair amount of money if I wanted to. Like
Speaker 1: the the style hat like I'm actually I've got one
Speaker 1: right here that I brought back to the to the office.
Speaker 1: It's the Detroit Lions had. I'm not Allions fan. I
Speaker 1: happen to buy Alliance hat because it was I thought
Speaker 1: it was a good looking at hat and it's got
Speaker 1: remember the look where they had the it's like the
Speaker 1: early nineties that the flames kind of coming up behind
Speaker 1: the logo. Yeah, so I have one of those, just
Speaker 1: randomly that I just happened to find and pro line
Speaker 1: authentic is uh what was what what it was? But anyway,
Speaker 1: just random random things. We have the mail bag, though,
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Speaker 1: Brian writes it in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Oh come, He says,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear your viewpoint on nb A
Speaker 1: top shot. Yeah, Uh, do you know what NBA top
Speaker 1: shot is? Have you been paying attention to this guest? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So NBA top shot is. The way I've been told,
Speaker 1: it's like a video trading card. Uh, and these these
Speaker 1: little video clips. The NBA partnered with somebody, and it's
Speaker 1: a digital craze. Uh, and people have been spending millions
Speaker 1: of dollars on highlights. And it's been explained to me
Speaker 1: a couple of different ways. But there's actually a company
Speaker 1: out of Canada I think that is partnering with the
Speaker 1: NBA on this um. But the way I was told,
Speaker 1: and I'm probably gonna get this completely wrong, is that, uh,
Speaker 1: they they tag these highlights like a lebron hammered dunk
Speaker 1: as a moment, and uh, people spend money, they purchase
Speaker 1: digital packs containing there's there's a couple ways, you know,
Speaker 1: either get random moments or specific moments, and the moments
Speaker 1: are you know something. Some are very rare, Uh. Some
Speaker 1: are artificially scarce based on they have they have a
Speaker 1: scale like they call it the rarity scale and all that.
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of different tiers. Um. The common
Speaker 1: ones are like a thousand dollars for digital COMMU people pay.
Speaker 1: They paid millions of dollars these things, but you don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can actually make any money on
Speaker 1: it though. That's the thing, Like I I that part
Speaker 1: I don't understand. They're selling it like it's a pack
Speaker 1: of trading cards, except it's video. It's only available well
Speaker 1: in on on social media, and it's not like if
Speaker 1: Fox or ESPN played a highlight, you would get paid
Speaker 1: for it. So that part of it I don't understand, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, they say purchasing is like buying anything, right,
Speaker 1: you you use your credit card, you purchased something like
Speaker 1: you would go to the store. But it remains it's
Speaker 1: I'm not explaining it the right way, guest, because I
Speaker 1: don't understand all of it. I've been told by a
Speaker 1: couple different people about it, but it's not for me.
Speaker 1: How about that you You you obviously don't know about it. Here,
Speaker 1: I don't have an interest in it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't really either. I I don't need to get
Speaker 1: a highlight of somebody unless I can make money. If
Speaker 1: you told me, Okay, no, let's just pick a random
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard had the most amazing spin move and he
Speaker 1: knocked down a little bunny jumper that you know won
Speaker 1: a game and this is the highlight of the year
Speaker 1: in the NBA A And every time NBC, CBS, Fox
Speaker 1: or ESPN plays it because you bought it on top shot,
Speaker 1: they gotta pay, you know, twenty cents or a buck
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'd be Okay, I get it. I understand.
Speaker 1: I'm in on that. It makes completely sense. You know,
Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense here, But that's not
Speaker 1: the way it is, um. But this is proof you
Speaker 1: you can with the proper marketing, guess gun, you can
Speaker 1: convince people that something is valuable that for most people
Speaker 1: would be like, that's not why would anyone want that?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess if you're into it, good for
Speaker 1: you if that's your Michion gosp But I, yeah, I
Speaker 1: have no no interest in this at all. I uh,
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm gonna go in there and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm really upset I missed out on this. Now, if
Speaker 1: there's a way, I can make a ton of money, okay,
Speaker 1: But as I understand it, I don't really think and
Speaker 1: then you just like resell these things. What's the point.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. It sounds like bitcoin of man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it is similar to that. And you've got
Speaker 1: in on bitcoin. I have not. Yeah, I haven't dipped
Speaker 1: my toes and that I'm worried about what I got
Speaker 1: in the pipe right now. So yeah, yeah, these stock
Speaker 1: markets is not not particularly been kind here the last month. Here.
Speaker 1: These that the Biden effect? That should we call that
Speaker 1: the Biden effect? They're a little sleepy, how about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Every day is how low can you go? How low
Speaker 1: can you go? And look at those church and they're
Speaker 1: not green the red. It's usually not a good sign.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm sitting right now. Let's see, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at my portfolio here and I have a fair amount
Speaker 1: of stocks and only three of them have gone up
Speaker 1: A one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, Yeah, nine
Speaker 1: have gone down. So that's the math on that's not
Speaker 1: particularly get it all. Huh So I just gotta keep
Speaker 1: going with these. I told you this might strategy with
Speaker 1: the dividends, the stocks that the pay dividends, because at
Speaker 1: least then you get a little bit back. So it
Speaker 1: when your stock goes down, obviously the payback is less,
Speaker 1: but you're still getting something. So it adds to the
Speaker 1: pot there to spend more money. Of course, then there's
Speaker 1: the argument that the great one of the great weasel
Speaker 1: techniques ever Wall Street, when the stocks are, when the
Speaker 1: stock market is now, that's the time to buy, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always tell you you you, you repeat that from
Speaker 1: time to time. I say more so now by the hype.
Speaker 1: There's hype behind it. There's usually a push by the
Speaker 1: hype all about the type. Yeah, so that answers your question, Brian.
Speaker 1: I know a little bit about top shot, but I
Speaker 1: really don't have an interest in that. Jason and Rocky
Speaker 1: Mountain Virginia, right, See, Man, I think the verbal octagon
Speaker 1: between you and Cooper Loop occasionally should be up for
Speaker 1: a benny every year. They're hilarious. Can you guys try
Speaker 1: and have one every night? They are epic? No, no, no, no, Jason,
Speaker 1: see listen. Uh. Coopa Loop is triggered by my commentary
Speaker 1: because he doesn't hear this anywhere else. Coop lives in
Speaker 1: a cocoon surrounded by Laker propaganda and Laker apologist. He
Speaker 1: consumes media from toes sucking, shoulder rubbing Laker fan boys
Speaker 1: who are in the media, and so when he hears
Speaker 1: me give the truth about the Lakers truth and broadcasting
Speaker 1: Coop cannot handle. And he starts getting very defensive and
Speaker 1: very upset and starts pushing back to my points that
Speaker 1: are accurate about the Lakers, and then he tries to
Speaker 1: get into a dust up, and it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we had to put him in his place the other night.
Speaker 1: This week we had a big back and forth you
Speaker 1: heard at Jason, and of course we won that battle.
Speaker 1: The Lakers lost a Sacramento How embarrassing to lose to
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings. They are falling apart. As it is
Speaker 1: All Star weekend in the NBA. They are falling apart.
Speaker 1: The Lakers. I don't know that they're ever going to
Speaker 1: bounce back from this. This could be the end. Kevin
Speaker 1: in Rockford writes, and he says, would you ever consider
Speaker 1: giving jiu jitsu a try? Any person at any age
Speaker 1: and any build can do it. It's amazing the exercise
Speaker 1: and it's good for the mind. Look at um uh, Kevin,
Speaker 1: I have not considered jiu jitsu. It sounds like you
Speaker 1: are fully invested in the cult of jiu jitsu, and
Speaker 1: that's good for you. You're you're into it. I actually
Speaker 1: I have a neighbor, Uh that I'm friendly with, who's
Speaker 1: who's into jiu jitsu. He's actually around my age, and
Speaker 1: he hurt his back doing jiu jitsu and like several
Speaker 1: months he could not do any physical exercise. But that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's it doesn't mean that everyone's gonna hurt
Speaker 1: there back. But I have not considered you a jiu
Speaker 1: jitsu guy, Gascon. Is that something that interests you? I'm
Speaker 1: curious about it. Yeah, I've I've taken boxing classes before
Speaker 1: with a couple of friends, like training with them. Uh,
Speaker 1: a form of mixed martial arts. It's a lot. I've
Speaker 1: actually taken some classes in that, um, not jiu jitsu
Speaker 1: though not ju jitsu. But it's great for flexibility because
Speaker 1: you need to be nimble and you need to be flexible.
Speaker 1: That's one area that I've always had a weakness with.
Speaker 1: But we have a lot of weaknesses, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you want to point that out, it's fine. We
Speaker 1: all do know. No, No, some of us don't. Some
Speaker 1: of us some of us are in really good shape,
Speaker 1: don't have well, I mean, round is a shape. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to say that's a good shape.
Speaker 1: But it's fine. If you want to classify yourself as
Speaker 1: being shape, it's good, not a weakness. Point that out, Kevin.
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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Kevin in Mansfield, Texas. Right so,
Speaker 1: he says, I want to know what awards from the
Speaker 1: Benni's did not make it on the air that ended
Speaker 1: up on the cutting room floor. For instance, I never
Speaker 1: heard an award for the worst fifth hour co host
Speaker 1: producer or word Fox Sports Radio parking job, or biggest
Speaker 1: elitist west of the four oh five. I don't know
Speaker 1: who might be nominated. I'm just asking you know, you
Speaker 1: should worry about that power grid you got in Texas.
Speaker 1: You should worry about that. Why why he didn't say
Speaker 1: your name? Why why do you think it's you? Because
Speaker 1: you tend to take shots at me unprovoked. I didn't
Speaker 1: write this email. I did not write this message. But
Speaker 1: do you have your you have the guys that slurp
Speaker 1: you up a little bit. You know, it seems like
Speaker 1: a legitimate question. He's curious, and you don't have to
Speaker 1: be rude. Customer service is the way to go. This
Speaker 1: is not a customer service kind of business and endeavor
Speaker 1: that we're upon right now. The customers always run, customers
Speaker 1: always run satisfaction. Janet in Indianapolis. Our friend Janet writes,
Speaker 1: and she says, what's up with the Cincinnata read this season?
Speaker 1: That's a very sportive question. Will they ever have a
Speaker 1: winning season? For the love of God? She points out why,
Speaker 1: I would say that if the Reds were going to
Speaker 1: have a good season, last year would have been the
Speaker 1: good season when you had Trevor Bauer, who's not walking
Speaker 1: through that door. Uh. This is not that the Reds
Speaker 1: look tremendously mediocre. They look about the saying that they'll
Speaker 1: be around five hundred giver. Take there, and you've got
Speaker 1: the big centerpiece with Joey Vado and Nick Castellanis who's
Speaker 1: still hanging out there, and Mike Mustakis and guys like
Speaker 1: that in the lineup, and then you look at the
Speaker 1: pitching staff and you're like, all right, you got you know,
Speaker 1: one or two guys that you've you think are gonna
Speaker 1: be reliable in Luise Kissio and Sunny Gray in the
Speaker 1: rotation and then after that, forget about it, forget about it,
Speaker 1: forget about it. Yeah, the Reds are gonna be visible.
Speaker 1: So will they ever be good again? Uh? Well, you
Speaker 1: know what you should do, Janet? You should go on
Speaker 1: YouTube watch some old Big Red Machine highlights from back
Speaker 1: in the day. Should go back to So that's that's
Speaker 1: thirty plus years ago. Boy? Yes, so is the Big
Speaker 1: Red Machine? What is that fifty two years ago? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But that was that was the day. That was the
Speaker 1: heyday of Cincinnati Reds. I like the story though about
Speaker 1: them taking out the Oakland A's when they shouldn't have.
Speaker 1: The A's were supposed to win three straight years in
Speaker 1: a row and the Dodgers got them, and so the Reds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the great moments in Red's history when Eric Davis
Speaker 1: got injured and March shot left him out in the hospital. Boy,
Speaker 1: great moments in Red history. Kevin in Kansas writes, since says,
Speaker 1: with all of the radio legends you have on your
Speaker 1: Friday podcast, any thoughts about creating a six hour show?
Speaker 1: It expands these interviews. I know you are packed as
Speaker 1: it is, but these segments are so informed and entertaining
Speaker 1: that it would be worth be worthwhile. Thanks the from
Speaker 1: Kevin Well, I think you'd be open to that, guest
Speaker 1: gun you you have no problem doing this year. You're
Speaker 1: very punctual, you show up on time, and you're a
Speaker 1: big fan of what we do, So I think you'd
Speaker 1: be open to a six hour podcast. Yeah, he didn't
Speaker 1: ask me, so not really answer that. It's a good
Speaker 1: point when condemned Kevin, you want to take a shot
Speaker 1: fastize him not today an thing negative about me. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's a fine guy and enjoying Kansas right now. Yeah, well, Kevin,
Speaker 1: as I often have pointed out, I will do anything
Speaker 1: if there's a check associated with it. So if the
Speaker 1: company wants to spend a couple more bucks there, maybe
Speaker 1: raise the rate. I would certainly be more than open
Speaker 1: to doing a six hour podcast. Chris and Iowa writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, enough of your radio pals, when is
Speaker 1: Bill burd coming on the podcast? Alright, guess book Bill Burr,
Speaker 1: you've got some connections. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: connections you've got, but I know some people. It would
Speaker 1: be a tough gut for me. I don't know lot
Speaker 1: of comedy people, though I do a lot of comedians.
Speaker 1: I'd like to get comedians on. It will be fun
Speaker 1: to get comedians. I don't know. I don't really, I'm
Speaker 1: not in that world. So if anybody knows, and we
Speaker 1: have people that listen to the are in the comedy world,
Speaker 1: if you would like to help us out on that.
Speaker 1: The only comedian I really know casually is Jay Moore
Speaker 1: because he worked at Fox Sports Radio. That's I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think off the top of my head. That's about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have in my roll of decks.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have any other numbers or contacts
Speaker 1: other than Jay Navy. Steve in Boston rights and he says,
Speaker 1: which happens first, the Patriots have an above average season again,
Speaker 1: or Tiger gets another rent a car? Good question. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: see here's the thing. Like Tiger, the Great Tiger Woods there,
Speaker 1: he's famous, and so somebody will give me a car, right,
Speaker 1: that was, oh yeah, we'll give you, well, we'll give
Speaker 1: you a loaner car. Meagtioned that that phone call somebody
Speaker 1: had to make from like Tiger's agent, you know, you
Speaker 1: know that car that you gave was that was it Riviera?
Speaker 1: Is that the group that gave him the Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: a sixty or seventy thousand dollar vehicle. Hey, Tiger would
Speaker 1: give you a loan? Hey yeah, yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: Tiger's agent there, and that's gonna let you know. We
Speaker 1: had a little situation, a little fender vendor. Oh really
Speaker 1: is that? What? How's the car doing? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's not that good right now. But I
Speaker 1: think he'll be repaired, you know, I think he could
Speaker 1: be Yeah, God, jeez, that might be great for marketing.
Speaker 1: Though when you think about it, if he was not
Speaker 1: in that vehicle but wasn't in another suv, he probably
Speaker 1: is dead. So that's the case. Now, if Tiger had
Speaker 1: died that day, does he get the full Kobe package?
Speaker 1: Is bigger than Kobe because there was like a national
Speaker 1: morning period when Kobe passed away. I think it's probably similar.
Speaker 1: But golf versus basketball, it's not an apples to apples
Speaker 1: can Paris and golfs are a global game, but not
Speaker 1: as big as I would say basketball. Man, But golf
Speaker 1: is a global game. No, no, no, But both are
Speaker 1: global games. But basketball is I get bigger deal. Golf
Speaker 1: is big for like four majors, but Tiger transcended golf
Speaker 1: because of the crossover popularity. Yeah, that's a tough call, man,
Speaker 1: Yeah that is Unfortunately we don't have to find that
Speaker 1: out for a whole Hopefully. I think Tiger will ever
Speaker 1: walk again with a limp. Yes, with the limp. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna give him some kind of like biomic bionic
Speaker 1: leg or something like. They got a rod in his
Speaker 1: leg already, so you have that, and then he's gonna
Speaker 1: have multiple surgeries, so he'll be walking with the limp.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll ever play again, but I
Speaker 1: mean he was still rehabbing from his back surgery. Big
Speaker 1: Mike from Courtland, New York Rights in Home of the
Speaker 1: Red Dragons says burger joints are very regional. So what
Speaker 1: are your top three in California? Yeah, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: in and out, in and out like a little more
Speaker 1: meat in the in and out burger. But I'm you know,
Speaker 1: the fries are good and all that, but the in
Speaker 1: and out solid. Try think like locally, there's a few
Speaker 1: local small change. There's a place called Mooyas. You ever
Speaker 1: been to Mouas pretty good. Pretty good burger, isn't there?
Speaker 1: Have you ever gone to Fred's in I think it's
Speaker 1: in Norwalk. No, I've not been to Fred's. No, have
Speaker 1: you you've been there? You It kind of reminds me
Speaker 1: of Fat Burger. There's a place I used to go
Speaker 1: called Slaters. You ever been? There's a few of those.
Speaker 1: I think that's a national I think it's in Texas
Speaker 1: to I don't think it's just in California. But it
Speaker 1: was pretty good. They changed, they've changed their menu fair
Speaker 1: amount of time. But you know that's not bad. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of or not well in and out for sure.
Speaker 1: Carls Jr. Always been a fan of the double Western
Speaker 1: bacon cheeseburger. Yeah, that's that's Hi on the list. But
Speaker 1: I gave up red meat for Lens. I haven't been
Speaker 1: able to enjoy burgers steaks. Good place. Bun Street is
Speaker 1: another place that's pretty good. Have you been to the Counter? Yes,
Speaker 1: I've been to the Counter. That's a boogie West of
Speaker 1: the Food Well. It's a high end burger place. It's
Speaker 1: fucking huge though those burgers are one story. It depends,
Speaker 1: it depends what you can get different size Burgers used
Speaker 1: to make your own, create your own. Yeah, that's fine,
Speaker 1: it's a it's great. When was the last time I
Speaker 1: too Bob's Big Boy? Man? I used to go there
Speaker 1: all the time as a kid, Bob's Big Boy And
Speaker 1: was it food ruckers? Yeah? Fund Ruckers. I love fund Ruckers.
Speaker 1: Damn the sides of the cow and you walk into
Speaker 1: fund Ruckers you see a big piece of meat on
Speaker 1: a hook and you can walk in there. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: food Ruckers around at least where I am and Bob's
Speaker 1: Big Boy. When I worked in Burbank, right near to
Speaker 1: Luca Lake, the only was was it the original? Wasn't
Speaker 1: the original? There was an old one of older Bob's
Speaker 1: Big Boys burger joint was there, and that a lot
Speaker 1: of the Hollywood crowd would hang out there and they
Speaker 1: used to have car shows. Jay Leno when he was
Speaker 1: hosting Into the Night Show, he would go there quite
Speaker 1: a bit and there were always always some interesting cats
Speaker 1: over At that point, what I was mentioned Bun Street
Speaker 1: Moyaz pretty good. Um, I'm trying to think that's about it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's something that I'm I'm forgetting here, But
Speaker 1: those are the ones that popped into my head right away.
Speaker 1: All right, what is next year? We're doing the mail
Speaker 1: bag and any MENI mony mo uh. Let's go now
Speaker 1: to alf the alien opiner um, better known as Pierre
Speaker 1: and Springfield. These this pen you often equate a player's
Speaker 1: best years as his salad days. Where did this phrase originate?
Speaker 1: And who in the hell prefers salad to anything else?
Speaker 1: Because I'll mix it a salad once in a while,
Speaker 1: But when I think of a good time, I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking salad. Tomahawks steak maybe, but definitely not salad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, listen, Pierre, I agree with you. Uh, And
Speaker 1: I am saving that Tomahawks steak for a very special day,
Speaker 1: very special when you're not lazy as fuck. Uh. And
Speaker 1: as far as salad is, I think we've answered this before,
Speaker 1: but it's a a Shakespearean expression from Cleopatra. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: stood the test of time. It was. It just means
Speaker 1: you're you're something when you're doing something with enthusiasm and youth,
Speaker 1: and it's associated with a young, exciting time in someone's life,
Speaker 1: and so salad is. But that reminds me because your
Speaker 1: your birthday is I'm up right, I don't age I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, honey, don't age. Everyone ages. There's just two
Speaker 1: different degrees. But your your birthday is coming up. What
Speaker 1: kind of an asshole accepts a steak for his birthday
Speaker 1: and sits on it for over a year. Again, the
Speaker 1: steak isn't fine. I could take that steak here, I'm
Speaker 1: asking the question, what kind of an asshole would do that? Well,
Speaker 1: what kind of asshole checks to see you don't give
Speaker 1: a gift? And then did you use the gift? How's
Speaker 1: the gift? It's like you give some corpware. Did you
Speaker 1: use your tupper work? Did you use your tupper work?
Speaker 1: I put a lot of money on the tupper work?
Speaker 1: Of course, dick, of course, of course, there's a word
Speaker 1: for people like that, asshole. That's the word for people
Speaker 1: like that. Yes, but seriously, think about that. What are
Speaker 1: you doing? What are you doing? You're you're getting reading yourself,
Speaker 1: You're you're smirching your family name. Here is trying to
Speaker 1: grade the quality. You're slandering the guests. God name. It's
Speaker 1: bad enough the district attorney in Los Angeles is doing that.
Speaker 1: But now you I'm trying to grade the gift on
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten on how good
Speaker 1: it was. By the way that guestscon versus guests going,
Speaker 1: is that yeah, yeah, you should start that campaign gascons
Speaker 1: against guestcones. You could, you could leave the recall charge charge.
Speaker 1: Get this nim Rod out of this. Mama Luke got
Speaker 1: office there, we got two guys, we got Newsome and
Speaker 1: and guests going that are yeah on the outs. That
Speaker 1: would be reason to celebrate, to have a Tomahawks stake,
Speaker 1: to get rid of that punk Gavin Newsom, that loser
Speaker 1: and this this is also this ridiculous district attorney in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles who it's it's like, let's have the rooster
Speaker 1: run the the the coop. I mean it's insane. Uh,
Speaker 1: Charlie in Memphis, right since says, how can to alcoholic
Speaker 1: idiots who don't know the difference between a Poland writing
Speaker 1: lawnmower and a John Dear tractor win any award? Shouldn't
Speaker 1: that be an automatic is qualified? Charlie? Let it go, Charlie,
Speaker 1: let it go. Okay, come on, and we don't we
Speaker 1: don't put disclaimers on us, and and and you should
Speaker 1: be upset not with with us, you should be upset
Speaker 1: with the people that voted the Big Stars of the
Speaker 1: Benny's Beer Drinking Brian and a half point the most
Speaker 1: decorated tosome in show history for a single Benny Awards.
Speaker 1: Beer Drinking Brian and half point got tons of votes.
Speaker 1: It's shocking they didn't win Caller of the Year. Carlos
Speaker 1: and Bang Bang Houston, Texas, right so, and it says
Speaker 1: now that Texas has opened up all the way, will
Speaker 1: you be making your way here when the Stros play
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Also, you said you collect pens from colleagues.
Speaker 1: How do you know what pen belongs to who? Well,
Speaker 1: I keep them in a certain order. Wait, pens or pens?
Speaker 1: I thought you collected pens? No, no, I collect pens.
Speaker 1: I told the story, thanks for listening that I Rush Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: the great late Rush Limball would come out to the
Speaker 1: Premier Networks. He was in Los Angeles and he would
Speaker 1: do a show from time to time, usually once or
Speaker 1: twice a year, and they had his he his own
Speaker 1: studio which was just across the hall, around the corner
Speaker 1: across the hall that was only for Rush when he
Speaker 1: was in Los Angeles. Thinking about how powerful you are
Speaker 1: in radio when there's an entire studio and it was
Speaker 1: a big studio only for you. No one else was
Speaker 1: allowed in there. No one else used it for roughly
Speaker 1: fifty of the fifty two weeks of the year. Uh,
Speaker 1: no one was in there. And then when Rush Rush
Speaker 1: would come in any of the gold microphone or that.
Speaker 1: But one time Rush was in there and he was
Speaker 1: doing his show, and obviously he's not there when we're
Speaker 1: doing the overnight show and Rush it was gone. They
Speaker 1: had left the door open. I guess they were cleaning
Speaker 1: in or something like that, and I might might have
Speaker 1: gone in there and just snooped around to see where
Speaker 1: the King sat and did his radio show and the
Speaker 1: legend to someone I aspire to be as successful as.
Speaker 1: And sure enough there was a pen that was was
Speaker 1: there and I grabbed it, and that's my Russia Ni. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a Russia Limba pen. I have Jay Moore penn,
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno pen. Uh, there's a there's a few good
Speaker 1: few that I have in my collection. So it's my thing.
Speaker 1: But as far as going to Houston or yeah, I
Speaker 1: would definitely love to do it. I I'm backed up
Speaker 1: though I haven't gone anywhere since the end of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: so I need to do some Mallard meat and greets again.
Speaker 1: Gotta get back into that we were We've got Vegas.
Speaker 1: I'd like to get to Minnesota, Cincinnati. Also, those are
Speaker 1: on my short list of places we need to go
Speaker 1: and people we need to see. How about you need
Speaker 1: to get to work? How about that? How about you
Speaker 1: drive to work? Drive into this every drive bad, drive
Speaker 1: into the student fuck believable. Did you ever learned? The
Speaker 1: great Charlie Steiner pointed out he can call the World
Speaker 1: Series game from his living room, okay, from his living room.
Speaker 1: Uh and did anyone say, well, Charlie, you didn't really
Speaker 1: call the game. You didn't do No, he did it.
Speaker 1: He nailed it. You are so behind in the time.
Speaker 1: Just because you can't do it doesn't mean you should
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, there's something lost and being at the ballpark,
Speaker 1: just like there's something lost about not being at a
Speaker 1: at a studio. I disagree. I used to think that way,
Speaker 1: and then I realized I didn't have to see you,
Speaker 1: and so I thought, well, that's really good. I can
Speaker 1: avoid you. Uh. Emmett Emmett, the blind Seahawks fan in Olympia, Washington.
Speaker 1: I like this guy. This guy's got some gumption. This Emmett.
Speaker 1: He's a high school guy and he's moved up in
Speaker 1: the Malla Militia as a neophyt. He's moved up. He's
Speaker 1: Moxi too, and I like he's on Facebook. I was
Speaker 1: looking he posted this question and I saw some photos
Speaker 1: of him in his younger days, and uh, I love it. Man,
Speaker 1: it's good for him. A little odd, think you're looking
Speaker 1: at pictures of teenagers, but it's fine. I was just cure.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it was let me explain, dummy. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of characters, cartoon characters like to pretend
Speaker 1: to be other people, so I wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: this was actually like blind Emmon and it was not
Speaker 1: somebody pretending to be blind Emmy. But it turns out
Speaker 1: it was blind him. You have do you have doppel
Speaker 1: gangers and you have fake accounts? Yes, well there's the
Speaker 1: gag on account, which is of course I think you're
Speaker 1: behind that. But it's interesting that you won't admit to
Speaker 1: that all these years, but you are a gag A
Speaker 1: little odd, Yeah, it is odd. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I am at the Blind Sea Fanlimpia Washington says this
Speaker 1: is for you and that gag on guy. Have you
Speaker 1: ever cursed on air or been close to it? Well,
Speaker 1: we're allowed to us here on the podcast, we can
Speaker 1: say all the naughty words. But on the air, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've We've cursed. I've cursed a few times. The last
Speaker 1: time I cursed was when the Denver Nuggets kode the Clippers,
Speaker 1: the People's team. Was a sad day for sports fans
Speaker 1: all over America, uh and the world very upset. The
Speaker 1: People's team eliminated and I had eat bull testicles, which
Speaker 1: I did paid off that bed. But that night Doc Rivers,
Speaker 1: then Clipper coach, gave some bullshit excuses about the Clippers
Speaker 1: and why they lost and all that stuff, and I, uh,
Speaker 1: I think I told Roberto, as I remember, Roberto, get
Speaker 1: ready to dump me, I'm gonna curse. Now. Normally when
Speaker 1: I would say that, I would pretend to curse. This
Speaker 1: time I let it rip. This time I let it
Speaker 1: rip and appointed that feel good gessco Have you ever cursed? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the top of the hour news update. No, but I've
Speaker 1: done it for TV and it was actually for a
Speaker 1: live event. I was actually calling a football a game.
Speaker 1: The second half was about to get underway and the
Speaker 1: place kicker was injured, so the punter had to do
Speaker 1: all the kicking, and I wanted to acknowledge that for
Speaker 1: the second half kickoff, and I combine kicker and punter
Speaker 1: and I more for that in to cunt. So I
Speaker 1: I caught myself and it was already too late, like
Speaker 1: the horses were out of the bar, And so I
Speaker 1: immediately texted the executive producer. And because it wasn't it
Speaker 1: was live, but if you weren't watching it live, then
Speaker 1: it was gonna be on Fox on demand after so
Speaker 1: I merely text him. I said, Hey, that opening kickoff
Speaker 1: of the second half, you need to clip it. I
Speaker 1: was like, I was ship, so all right, there you
Speaker 1: go tremendous. Uh. You said, well, the thing about that
Speaker 1: is that you're you don't want to bring attention to it, right.
Speaker 1: They always say, don't bring attention to it because the
Speaker 1: people that consume audio content or in your case, television,
Speaker 1: people are watching TV. They're looking, They're not hanging on
Speaker 1: your every word. And as much as I would like
Speaker 1: to think that you listening to this podcast are just
Speaker 1: totally focused on everything that I am saying. And it's
Speaker 1: very important there. We know better than that. We know,
Speaker 1: studies have been done that of the things that we say, uh,
Speaker 1: the majority is lost. People don't pinch it. People remember
Speaker 1: like less, it's right around. Sometimes it's less, sometimes a
Speaker 1: little more of things that they listened to. And so
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like you say something that people like,
Speaker 1: Well maybe I heard that. A lot of people like, oh,
Speaker 1: he didn't say that. And there's no way that Gascon
Speaker 1: would say kunt on the on the broadcast, so I
Speaker 1: must have been imagining that he said punt. He clearly
Speaker 1: said punt. Always the case. Man, just hit the gas
Speaker 1: and just drive right through it. You know, you don't ever,
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I used to listen to Tom
Speaker 1: Looney on the radio and I was a little child,
Speaker 1: and Looney taught me that he did when you don't
Speaker 1: know how to pronounce a name, you just mumble it
Speaker 1: and say it quickly and move on. That's the key.
Speaker 1: H Barry in Tennessee rites and he says many a
Speaker 1: year ago when sports were shut down, I asked you guys,
Speaker 1: what you thought the chances of Alex Smith ever taking
Speaker 1: a snap in the NFL was? Gascon said it was
Speaker 1: fifty fifty. Uh. Sitting Peyton manning come back from next
Speaker 1: surgery as an example, sighting, he said, uh, you Ben
Speaker 1: said there was no chance, zero percent chance he takes
Speaker 1: a snap. Now that Alex has played, he's won the
Speaker 1: NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Will you admit that
Speaker 1: Gascon was right and you were wrong? No? No, I
Speaker 1: will not admit that, Barry, because at the time I
Speaker 1: made that statement, every indicator was that Alex Smith would
Speaker 1: not play again for Washington, for the team formerly known
Speaker 1: as the Redskins Soul. At the time you asked me
Speaker 1: that question, Barry, and you the information I had, I
Speaker 1: gave you the proper answer. Gascon gave you the wrong answer. Now,
Speaker 1: the wrong answer eventually turned out to be correct, But
Speaker 1: at the time Gascon gave that answer, he was wrong.
Speaker 1: He was he was inappropriate to give that answer. I
Speaker 1: gave you the proper response. Okay, So that is the
Speaker 1: way and and bad job by Scott. Still, you got
Speaker 1: it wrong. You won't admit to it, but you got
Speaker 1: it roll very I think the easiest way to just
Speaker 1: to identify this is just to put Ben and I
Speaker 1: side by side, and you'd see one guy with grit,
Speaker 1: determination and a tough chin, and then there's the other one.
Speaker 1: There's Ben Mallory. Just roll over then beat you on
Speaker 1: the punchline. Acquiesced to everything, yes, sir, No, sir, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do what you say, sir, and rag a muffin. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just but because you watched Alex Smith and his rehab,
Speaker 1: the stuff that was done on TV, the nineteen operations,
Speaker 1: I know the whole but it's just it's faster, right,
Speaker 1: like that fucking leg for it to survive and to play.
Speaker 1: That is a and that's like Rob meat Man. He
Speaker 1: did some some great work. But Alex Smith has sending
Speaker 1: a big thank you note to another varmint uh. That
Speaker 1: would be Dwayne Haskins. Because if Dwayne Haskins, no seriously,
Speaker 1: if Dwayne Haskins wasn't a suck bag, then there's no
Speaker 1: way that Alex Smith would have gotten on the field.
Speaker 1: But because he he spent more time at the ballet
Speaker 1: and then then he did working on his craft, that
Speaker 1: opened an avenue for Alex Smith to come in. But
Speaker 1: that right, you got a winning lottery ticket. All you
Speaker 1: need to do is cashing in. But let's just do
Speaker 1: some other bullshit that has nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: game of footballs I mean you think about the great
Speaker 1: moments of Dwayne Haskins his first NFL win. He could
Speaker 1: not go out, Remember he couldn't go back out to
Speaker 1: take the snaps in the victory formation. Why he was
Speaker 1: doing a selfie on the sidelines with fans. He was
Speaker 1: taking photos with fans on the side. How embarrassing is this? Uh?
Speaker 1: What kind of twisted reasoning is going through the mind.
Speaker 1: But they're wonderful, all right. Got a couple more here,
Speaker 1: were doing the mail bag. Here's an odd one from Habib.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben Mallory and David Gascon, any of you
Speaker 1: subject of a carjacking or a close car call. He says,
Speaker 1: this just happened in January of this year. He was
Speaker 1: carjacked by two juveniles. And he says, the good news
Speaker 1: is they got arrested about that. For some reason, though
Speaker 1: he gave me his number, like I think he wants
Speaker 1: us to. I don't know that we need to call
Speaker 1: him to get the the story. But that's wild he
Speaker 1: got He's in Louisiana. I believe, yeah, I actually I've
Speaker 1: had this happen to me. Um, And I don't know
Speaker 1: who I should be more piste off about with this,
Speaker 1: but I went with a buddy of mine of Vega
Speaker 1: and we went out there for for my birthday. I
Speaker 1: was during the summertime, and we went out there for
Speaker 1: four days. And it turned out it wasn't just as two.
Speaker 1: There's like a gang of people that went guys, girls
Speaker 1: a whole nine yards and so we parted our asses off,
Speaker 1: and before we left San Diego, I drove to the
Speaker 1: airport and I had a friend um that that hooked
Speaker 1: us all up in terms of like getting our cars
Speaker 1: taking it back to our our places. So I had
Speaker 1: that done and I had some of my birthday presents
Speaker 1: in the back of my Explorer. And the place I
Speaker 1: lived that was a condominium complex with garages like the
Speaker 1: whole smash right next to Qualcom Stadium ben When we
Speaker 1: got back beautiful Mission Valley, but Mission Valley spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time I was trophies in Mission Valley, which
Speaker 1: doesn't exist anymore. I was so dead tired from partying
Speaker 1: in Vegas that when I got home on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: I didn't have to work until Friday. I did not
Speaker 1: leave my house for three days. I shoot you, not
Speaker 1: my my buddy who was my roommate at the time
Speaker 1: did um. He would go down the parking structure every
Speaker 1: day to get to his car. Well, Friday comes, Ben
Speaker 1: Friday comes. That's three days later. I go down to
Speaker 1: my car. My car is not there, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. And then I asked my room and
Speaker 1: I man, hey, have you noticed that my car has
Speaker 1: not been around? No? I I haven't looked at it.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked. It was right next to the door.
Speaker 1: I could not fucking believe it. But like, I don't
Speaker 1: know when my car was stolen. I was either stolen
Speaker 1: the day that we left for Vegas or when I
Speaker 1: came home. I had been obviously incapacitated for a week
Speaker 1: because of all that ship. But yeah, it was, hey dude,
Speaker 1: where's my car? Pretty much, yeah, I've I've lost my car.
Speaker 1: Sporting events were like I part I I parked it
Speaker 1: and I didn't know where it was and all that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, what you know? It was
Speaker 1: like you've just been half an hour walking around the
Speaker 1: parking lot and then you have to wait for everyone
Speaker 1: to leave, you know, like me, let me see what's
Speaker 1: going on here? And big pain paint and the took
Speaker 1: his uh ted writes and he says, I'm I'm forty
Speaker 1: seven years old, originally from Philadelphia, huge baseball fan. He
Speaker 1: has a story, is a pretty good story, he says.
Speaker 1: And when the Phillies got Pete Rose in nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: I was a super stoked kid. I bet you were,
Speaker 1: says he loved Pete Rose, really bummed out about the gambling,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And so Ted says, fast forward years later,
Speaker 1: me and my dad his pops are in Vegas and
Speaker 1: they see Pete signing autographs on the strip, just sitting
Speaker 1: at a card table on the sidewalk next to the MGM.
Speaker 1: It's quite pathetic and hysterical at the same time. Ted says,
Speaker 1: So anyway, he says, he goes up to Pete and
Speaker 1: tells him he broke my heart, and Pete Rose says,
Speaker 1: I broke a lot of hearts, buddy. So then Ted
Speaker 1: comes back and says, you should have gambled on the baseball.
Speaker 1: Pete Rose then responds, why don't you go funk yourself?
Speaker 1: Ted says, I turned around, and my dad says, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're not the first nor the last person Pete
Speaker 1: told that. He says, I'm not sure why I'm sharingybody
Speaker 1: does love the podcast in the Overnight show, Well, thank you, Todd.
Speaker 1: That's a great Ted. Rather, that's a great story. Ted.
Speaker 1: That's uh, that is awesome. Man. Imagine you be careful
Speaker 1: about your meeting your heroes because you're gonna be disappointed.
Speaker 1: Yea more times than not, you will. You will be disappointed. Matt.
Speaker 1: You know my run New York rights and he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and gascon. Since grocery stores now require me to
Speaker 1: scan and bag all of my own items, do you
Speaker 1: see any problem with me accidentally neglecting to ring up
Speaker 1: a few items here and there, or possibly helping myself
Speaker 1: to a few grapes or radishes from the produce section
Speaker 1: now and then I feel taking advantage of and I
Speaker 1: demand justice. There you go. I love the show that
Speaker 1: is from Matt. Yeah, I I would avoid that. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it happens all the time. I don't know the
Speaker 1: Walmart I go to, uh they have self check out mostly,
Speaker 1: and I know there's cameras everywhere, but how do you
Speaker 1: really keep track of who what's getting scanned and what's
Speaker 1: not getting you know what I'm saying? Don't they have monitors? Though?
Speaker 1: Don't they have people actually standing at those those areas
Speaker 1: to make sure that people are putting that stuff. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to be smirch the good people who
Speaker 1: work at Walmart, but my experiences, they're not ego eyed.
Speaker 1: They're not paying very close attention to watching everything. I'll
Speaker 1: point that out. Yeah. So uh, anyway, all right, that's it.
Speaker 1: We're we went way long on this bad job. But
Speaker 1: us Remember the Charlie Steiner podcast. If you didn't hear
Speaker 1: it on the Friday podcast, Charlie was wonderful. Love me
Speaker 1: some Charlie Steiner on the podcast. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have him on again. Uh, have a great rest of
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