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Speaker 1: affectionately known as David gagon writing the Hong Kong Express

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Speaker 1: is David gascon Well. I am a hero of the

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like those people who get unfortunately get

427
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Speaker 1: you know, some kind of weird form of cancer and

428
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Speaker 1: they go to Mexico for some bullshit medical procedure that's

429
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: not don't even work most of the time, but it's

430
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Speaker 1: called quackery, is what it's called. Anyway, So hand to God,

431
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Speaker 1: this stuff work. Like Matt I, I had my talking

432
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Speaker 1: to my wife about it. She bought it. We had

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Speaker 1: had it for a year. Yeah Mary Poppins with her

434
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 1: bag of you know, remedies and all it's anyway, So

435
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,360
Speaker 1: we had it in the house and uh, man, this

436
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: stuff is like magic. In about five minute. It wasn't

437
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: a minute, but in about five minutes, pressed though my pain,

438
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: my agony was gone. I love the Amish. You saved

439
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: my life. This stuff is as basic as it gets. Gastcut.

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Speaker 1: It's just It's like I always say, with garlic when

441
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Speaker 1: I get sick, and I use the garlic when I

442
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 1: have laryngitis because it kills the infection in my throat um,

443
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: which I've done for years and it's really helped me out.

444
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 1: In the old world garlic, you know, the original plant

445
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: based medicine before dr your modern medicine came around. But

446
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 1: this stuff has apple cider vinegar mixed with high a pepper,

447
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: garlic juice, and ginger. That's it. That's all. It's disgusting

448
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of Kien pepper in it, but man,

449
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: is it effective. And thank God for this, But I

450
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: always worry, like I'm gonna get this. You know, I

451
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: eat a big meal. I don't eat much during the

452
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Speaker 1: week so when I eat on the weekends a nice

453
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Speaker 1: regular meal, I'm like, oh crap. And and it was

454
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 1: pretty cool, al right, how did you consume it? Though?

455
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: You just well, you can either drink a shot of it. Now.

456
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: I I put what I had my wife to it

457
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: because I could not move. I was literally I felt

458
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: like I was on my deathbed. But so dramatic, I'm

459
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: not trust me. I've been dramatic for the last three

460
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: weeks and your stupid fucking tongue and now your heartburn

461
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: every week. Man, like you're getting old in front of

462
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: my ears. Wasn't believable. It's it's it's embarrassing. But but anyway,

463
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Speaker 1: so um, I don't know what I was gonna say,

464
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Speaker 1: but I uh we we I poured. I had to

465
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Speaker 1: her pour this and and mix it with some water.

466
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Speaker 1: And that's the kind of deluded a little bit. And

467
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Speaker 1: then you drink it like a shot. So are you're

468
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Speaker 1: feeling better? I'm fine not you know, I felt immediately better,

469
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Speaker 1: and I haven't had heartburn since then. I haven't eaten much,

470
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 1: although I had. That's the other thing. Guest on on

471
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: the golf Back to the golf thing real quick. So

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Speaker 1: I don't normally eat on Wednesdays, you know, I take

473
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Speaker 1: I skip every other day during the week, but I had.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's rare and appropriate, you know, you know,

475
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Speaker 1: this is a rare thing and it was appropriate to

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Speaker 1: eat eat. I felt like I had to eat because

477
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Speaker 1: everyone But it was funny. Before the thing, I forgot this.

478
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Speaker 1: But before the event, we I got there earlier, they

479
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Speaker 1: had lunch, you know, sandwiches to eat for lunch. And

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Speaker 1: and you could practice, you know, putting or hitting golf

481
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Speaker 1: balls and um, and everyone was doing that except me

482
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 1: and Jason Smith eating roast beef salmi. Yeah, we were

483
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: eating roast beef sandwiches. All these other people are practicing,

484
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: you know, taking hard ohs and golf and all that. Anyway, alright,

485
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: but moving on, getting up. Now it's a bad day. Now,

486
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Speaker 1: this this is a gas go on special. Now, I

487
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Speaker 1: assume you've had a lot of bad days. Guess what

488
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Speaker 1: makes this a better bad day than all the other

489
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Speaker 1: bad days. Well, part of this is attributed to the

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Speaker 1: month of July. And uh, you had a producer that

491
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Speaker 1: decided to leave the country for a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: and so I volunteered to subben and and fill in

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Speaker 1: for him. And as I did so, one of the

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Speaker 1: nights that I had some questionable parking, you decided to

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Speaker 1: take a picture of it. I did, and you posted

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Speaker 1: not only on your social media accounts, but then it

497
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Speaker 1: was retweeted through Fox Sports Radio social media account. Well,

498
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Speaker 1: we wanted the full bang for the buck. Yeah. Well,

499
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Speaker 1: speaking of bank, you had a bunch of different assholes

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Speaker 1: that we're talking about. I should get fists. I should

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Speaker 1: get my car keyed, I should get my ass kicked

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. So when those are all legitimate points,

503
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Speaker 1: yeah they are, but they're not really anything of value

504
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: to to someone like me. So coming around the bend um,

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Speaker 1: we have a producer here, Lee de Lap, who is

506
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Speaker 1: not he is, but he's new and in free into

507
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Speaker 1: the world again. His girlfriend from a couple of months

508
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: ago I decided to call it quits, so she dumped them. So,

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Speaker 1: as the good friend that I am, the good colleague

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Speaker 1: that I am, I decided to say, Hey, Lee, I'm

511
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Speaker 1: gonna take you out. We'll go out in town and

512
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Speaker 1: get you some drinks, get you right back in the world,

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Speaker 1: and get you all healed up. So Saturday night I

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Speaker 1: take Lee. We go down to Studio City, which is

515
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Speaker 1: fairly close to where we yet for Fox Sports Radio.

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00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: We go out for drinks and we're watching, uh, we're

517
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Speaker 1: watching the Astros play. I got the Alcs on against

518
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: the Yankees rotching college football's while USC was trashing Arizona.

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Speaker 1: And we've stopped at a couple of bars, have dinner,

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Speaker 1: then go have some drinks, and then we go to

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Speaker 1: one other place for for the night festivities to end.

522
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Speaker 1: And Ben I get to my car at one thirty

523
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Speaker 1: in the morning on Ventura Boulevard and I get into

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Speaker 1: my car. I'm ready to turn on the car and

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Speaker 1: I hear traffic. Normally you can't hear traffic when it's

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Speaker 1: that late of a night. I looked to my passenger

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Speaker 1: side right rear window and it was blasted out. So

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Speaker 1: I go to my car because I was I was

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00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, well, funk, I just got off of

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Speaker 1: work a little while ago. I have my laptop, I

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Speaker 1: have my hard drive, you know, the bag that I

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Speaker 1: bring in. So I go to the back of my car.

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Speaker 1: This is great. How it ends, though, is I go

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Speaker 1: to the back and I look to see if my

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00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: bags still in there. It is. It was in the trunk.

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00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: It was still Yeah, I have at a trunk. Yeah,

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00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: that's the problem. That's the one. I love those trucks

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00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: and four but you know, I'm a big fan of

539
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: the trunk. You can hide crap in there. I love

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Speaker 1: the trunk. We'll see. Here's the kicker on this. My

541
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: bag was still in the truck. But I go to

542
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 1: the front of my fore Runner to go and see,

543
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: like what else is around or if I could take

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00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: pictures of the address. The fucker's that broke into my

545
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: car tried taking my twenty five pound weighted vest out

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Speaker 1: of my car. They took it and then dropped it

547
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: in front of my car. Did they take anything, though?

548
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: Did you notice anything that was the only Those are

549
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: the only two items that I had in there of

550
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: any value. I have some boxing gloves and some hitting pads,

551
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: but that's it, and a foam roller. But these guys

552
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: took my weighted vest. The weighted vest not only is

553
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: it heavy, but it also smells like hockey gear. It

554
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: has this old, dirty smell to it. So these guys

555
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: grab it, quickly, pulled it out and then dropped it

556
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: as there were like two feet in front of my car. So, um, Ben,

557
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: this is kind of the the dark cloud that you

558
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: put over me in my vehicle UH to have it vanialized,

559
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: and it came to fruition because I was taking care

560
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: of a colleague. So now I need one of your

561
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: listeners and supporters to help me out because my insurance

562
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: company won't even pay for the window to be replaced

563
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: for a market window. They will pay for an UH

564
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: secondary market window, which is even worse because the window

565
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: itself has tint to it and also not like that

566
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: I want to tint, but it has tint to it

567
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: and also has the sensors for defrost, which are really expensive.

568
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: The vehicle, Um, it's not got a good night, so

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Speaker 1: it was an expense if it makes you feel better.

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00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: Living in Los Angeles all these years, I've had my

571
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Speaker 1: car smashed and broken into multiple times. I I don't

572
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: know that we have time to get into here, but

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Speaker 1: I I one was on Chris this day and like

574
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: nine or two thousand, I was at a Laker Blazers

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00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: game in downtown Los Angeles, but when Staples Center had

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Speaker 1: first open, so it was like and uh so I

577
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: came to my you know, I came out to my

578
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: car after the game. That was like when Scottie Pippen

579
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: was on the Trailblazer or whatever the long time ago

580
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: and came out of the car, uh clicked the button open,

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00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: you know the thing, and hear glass tingled down and

582
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: you're like, oh crap, that's not supposed to happen. So

583
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: so anyway, I flagged down up an L A p

584
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Speaker 1: D guy and the guy was like, I'm swamped. There's

585
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: hardly anybody working it's Christmas, and he's like, go to

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Speaker 1: the precinct, right, So he tells me to go to

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00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: the precinct, which is in skid Row. The closest police station,

588
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: the Staples Center in Los Angeles is on skin Row.

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00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: So I go down there. I parked my car in

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Speaker 1: front of the police station. Now keep in mind, it

591
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: was kind of a cool night that year, and there

592
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: were there were people out in front of the police station,

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Speaker 1: like across the street, homeless people that had lit a

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00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: trash can on fire to keep warm. It was like

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00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: a scene out of like Sodom and Gomorrow a movie

596
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: or something like that. So anyway, I go into the

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00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: police stage. You know, it's Christmas. There were many people

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00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: there actually, and a very nice police officer came out

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00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: and so he wanted to take a report, and so

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Speaker 1: he walks out. Uh, and we go down to my car,

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00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: and as we walk down, which is only a few

602
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: steps down from the precinct, one of the homeless dudes

603
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: is halfway in my car, rummaging to see if he

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00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: can find anything else. They need some change, and the

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00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: police officers like trying to show him a way get

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Speaker 1: out of there. And uh, it was it was crazy.

607
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: And uh, I've had my car broken into three times

608
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: when we where we worked though guests. And I've told

609
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: you this before. That is the car thief capital of

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00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: l A. Because we are located right between the one

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: oh one and the four oh five freeway and you

612
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: can get on right I mean you can either get

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00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: on the four or five or the one on one

614
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: right away, and so a lot of cars get stolen

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00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: there more than anywhere else in l A. And a

616
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: lot of is obviously get broken into, but that's everywhere.

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00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: I think that's a big problem because the people, even

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00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: if you get caught, they don't really punish the people

619
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Speaker 1: to do this. Yeah, And I found out two when

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00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: I asked him if I can get some fingerprints taken,

621
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't even go and do that. The local precinct.

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00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 1: The really yeah, I want to call to ask for

623
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Speaker 1: a police report. So because I could have gotten fingerprints

624
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: off the vest, I think, um, but's odd because they

625
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: did do that. They offered that to me a long

626
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: a long time ago. They must have stopped because it

627
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: happened so much that it's like a waste of a time. Yeah,

628
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: it was brutal, So yeah, trying to do the right

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Speaker 1: thing for a colleague that was fallen, and uh, I

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00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: get busted that this all goes back to your shitty

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Speaker 1: picture and tweets. So I hope you feel better about yourself.

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Speaker 1: I have a last twenty four hours boosing it up

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Speaker 1: and now putting a hex on me. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at

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00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. You know it's like Cinderella,

636
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: the Pumpkin and the Carriage turn us to a pumpkin again?

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Speaker 1: Uh and bat reality? Who I am? Yea? Uh? Moving

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Speaker 1: on though it is hip the clip. I am in

639
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: a good mood. I've been in a good mood all week.

640
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: Why am I that good mood? It's Kauai would not Hollywood,

641
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: It's Kauai would Terminator l A will never be the same.

642
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: Kauai Leonard better than Lebron James Kawhi Leonards the top

643
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: player in the NBA, and he's wearing a damn Clipper uniform.

644
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not just blowing smoke, guest. I know you're

645
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: a Laker fanboy and all that, and you grew up

646
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: with the purple and goal, but Kawhi Leonard Is I

647
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: would say about equal, maybe a little worse than Lebron offensively,

648
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: but he is light years ahead of Lebron defensively. Lebron

649
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: is like a designated hitter at this point. He's a

650
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: one trick pony. Uh Kauai is a Swiss army knife,

651
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: or in basket or baseball parlance, he's like a five

652
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: tool player. He can do a little bit of everything

653
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: to kill you and uh and I love it. And

654
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: the Laker historians free life tip you want to make

655
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and I would say invest in

656
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: vice stocks because these these historians are having a tough

657
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: time dealing with it. And there the arrogance has no bounds.

658
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: These guys a Lakers are gonna put the Clippers in

659
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: their place opening night. They're gonna win by thirty or

660
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: Lakers unstoppable duo Anthony Davis and Lebron James. There were

661
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: one of six in the fourth quarter of those two idias.

662
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: I know it's one game, it's all we really have

663
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: to go with, uh, but I predict that the Laker

664
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: historian base will be self medicating with booze and drugs

665
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: by the time the playoffs come around and I'm very

666
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: proud I had aligned on a monologue this week, but

667
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like we need a report here

668
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: repeated here because people might not have heard it that

669
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 1: since Jerry Bust died, the Laker franchise has been Charlie Brown.

670
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: They have been the Charlie Brown Basketball And I think

671
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: of it in those terms, right, and the famous cartoon

672
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: character Charlie Brown thinking they are close to winning again, Right,

673
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna only to have the ball cruelly pulled away

674
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: at the last second by Lucy. He's falling on your

675
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: b said, you got all these lottery picks, you know,

676
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: number two, pick number two, pick number two pick that

677
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: all sucked as Lakers. Some of them have become productive

678
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: players elsewhere, but not as Lakers. You didn't get Lebron James.

679
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: Now you can't. You can't funk up Lebron James. Right,

680
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: this guy makes the play He's in the finals. Every

681
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: year they don't even make the playoffs with Lebron James.

682
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: Now they get Anthony Davis and they get trumped by

683
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard. It just keeps getting better

684
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: and better, and uh anyway, and and and then the

685
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: other thing from that Clipper Laker game. I mentioned this.

686
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: I don't mean we've talked about it together. Is that

687
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: China China Hong Kong thing? We mentioned it earlier, But

688
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: I mean that the that was crazy, man. That was

689
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: like Fremont Street in Vegas or Venice Beach or uh.

690
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: It was wild man. It was freaky town down there. Yeah.

691
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: I say, you taking some of the pictures and you

692
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: said that there was heightened security outside Staples Center to

693
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: I know, there are some fans with free Hong Kong

694
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: shirts that were out there posting those things up. So

695
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine this scene was pretty intense, but it was.

696
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: I had to go through two sets of metal detectives.

697
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: Guy said it was like super Bowl level security, like

698
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: that kind of security for a regular season NBA game

699
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 1: between the Clippers and Lakers. You didn't watch the World Series.

700
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: You didn't watch Game one of the World Series. You

701
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 1: went to Game one of eighty two between the Clippers

702
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: and the Lakers. Let's you obviously you don't follow me

703
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: on Twitter. You can, I would recommend you give me

704
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: a follow there at Ben Maller on Twitter. I washed,

705
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was. It might have been legal. It

706
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: might have been illegal. I don't know, but I watched

707
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: on my laptop with my headset, my headphones. I watched

708
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: Game one of the World Series and my Washington Nationals natitude,

709
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: I get that win and then they got to win.

710
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: I did not see much of Game two, actually because

711
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: I was socializing that they did have the game on television.

712
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: But I I watched all of Game one. And but

713
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: it's the The NBA, though, is stuck between a rock

714
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: and China. I mean they are. They are, Scott rude.

715
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: There's so much money that comes out of China for

716
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: the NBA. It's a a mess. Alright. Moving on, we

717
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 1: gotta the up guests, n study this. Are you ready?

718
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: We'll do a few of these. Yes, yea, let's do it.

719
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: These are actual studies. Now I'm addicted to these kind

720
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: of things. I used to do them on the radio show,

721
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: but I just save them for the podcast. These are

722
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: I collect these during the week. These are actual studies

723
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: done by universities mostly I think pretty much all universities.

724
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: Uh and and whatnot. So I knew studies says sugar sweets, Uh,

725
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: maybe as addictive as cocaine. About that. According to a

726
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: scientific study recent evidence may suggest, I don't know how

727
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: they throw may in there, which is a weasel word,

728
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: may suggest that the sugar craves we have are very

729
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: similar to the addictive narcotics. So I could say, like,

730
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: I what, I've never been I've never done cocaine, But

731
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: I could say like I was, like, I'm addicted to cocaine. Yeah,

732
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 1: I love, I've been addicted to sugar. I've I've tried

733
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: to wean myself out a little off in a little bit,

734
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: but it's tough man. Same way. I mean, I'm like

735
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: that with caffeine. It doesn't matter if it's an espresso

736
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: or an energy drink, whatever it is. The caffeine I have,

737
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: especially when I'm working in the studio or on site somewhere,

738
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: I need that extra extra shot to give me a

739
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: little wake up juice. But I've been like that, And yeah, sugar,

740
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get with candy and chocolate

741
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: and things like that. But as soon as you have one,

742
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: like Pringles, you can't only have just one. You gotta

743
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: have a couple of them. So I believe that one

744
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: This is probably gonna be taking the wrong way, but

745
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: I'll say it anyway, because the hard the hardcore fan

746
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: of the show, the super fans listen to the podcast guest,

747
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: and the casual fan does not listen to the podcast.

748
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: You're you're a higher level Mallard Militia person if you

749
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. So I've often thought, you know,

750
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: in years when I was a kid, I was like,

751
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: why do we eat the cow and the chicken, but

752
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: not the horse and not, you know, not these other

753
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: animals that are we could cheat, you know, the elephant.

754
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: Why don't we eat the elephant? You know, I wonder

755
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: why do we choose the cow? And now I learned

756
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: that we don't eat horses because they were very valuable

757
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,760
Speaker 1: and they were cars in the early days of humanity,

758
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: and that's why we don't eat horses. But not anymore

759
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: we have cars. Um. But it's like, why is sugar

760
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: okay but cocaine is not? You know what I mean?

761
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: How come some things are like according to this research,

762
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: and it might be bullshit, but they say it's just

763
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: as addictive as cocaine, and it's also gives you. I

764
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: I realized, because I've had a sugar addiction, I'm probably

765
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: get some gnarly disease when I get older. Because of it. Umb,

766
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: what's that diabetes? Well, yeah, the diabetes and all, I

767
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: mean all that stuff. But I mean that's it's odd.

768
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: I mean, if you knew this is bad for you

769
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: and it's addictive, but yet society has decided that's. I know.

770
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should ban everything and adults should

771
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 1: be able to choose. It's just odd how we've chosen

772
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: these rules. That cocaine's bad and again not that I'm

773
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: endorsing cocaine, but sugar apparently is also as as bad

774
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: in some ways. Guess you don't die immediately though from

775
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: the sugar. Well what about this then? Does that mean? Why?

776
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: It just like goes hat in hand with with tobacco, alcohol? Um,

777
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: what else do we got? I mean, vaping now is

778
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 1: the thing? Well, now they're trying to ban vaping, and

779
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: so they started vaping. Some people would stop smoking because

780
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: they thought it was like the lesser of two evils.

781
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: And now now they determined they got to get rid

782
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: of the vaping. But I gotta be honest, if I know,

783
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: not that I do either of those things, but if

784
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: I had to choose between sitting next to someone who

785
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 1: vapes and someone that smokes, I'll take the vapor, Give

786
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: me the vapor, man, Yeah, of course anyway. Alright, moving

787
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: on to self absorbed researchers create this is important for

788
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: you guests on the arrogance spectrum, to help classify the condition.

789
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: There are six degrees of the arrogance spectrum. Uh, let's

790
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:49,479
Speaker 1: see how many of these we qualified for. Denigration of others. Check.

791
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: That's I make my living denigrating athletes about how I

792
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: do it. That's right, believe or assumption of superiority. I

793
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: don't think I'm superior than any what. Well you you

794
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,919
Speaker 1: looked down upon everybody? Well, but I treat everyone the same. Yeah.

795
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: But contempt, yes, failure to consider the perspectives of others. Absolutely,

796
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: I never consider anyone. I'm all about me. Resistance to

797
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: new information about one's limits. Uh, yeah, you're pretty defined

798
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: on that. I'm a I'm a taurist man, I'm a bull. Uh.

799
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: Let's see who else. Number two overestimation of one's information

800
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: and abilities. I don't say that, no, Yeah, and I'm

801
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: not like that. Number one Distorted information and limitations inabilities.

802
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: That's the number one thing here on the scale of arrogant. Man.

803
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: It sounds like everybody on social media. Then sounds like

804
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: everyone I've ever worked with in radio, where's my guy,

805
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 1: Pat Obrian? I love Pat. Pat is the single most

806
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: arrogantuy I've ever met. I love him to death. He's so,

807
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: he's so, and he knows it too. Pat knows he's just.

808
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: I'll never forget when I was on a call with

809
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,919
Speaker 1: when I was doing a show with Paddle Ryan years ago,

810
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: the old entertainment guy and sports guy at CBS. I

811
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: grew up watching. I told he should tell Pat all

812
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: the time. He would hate it. I told him I lost.

813
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 1: I used to watch him do those big Lakers Celtic

814
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: games when I was a kid. You know, and you

815
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: get annoyed. But but but anyway, Uh, I was on the

816
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: I was talking to Pat on the phone. I called

817
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: him what we were talking and he's like, hey, Ben,

818
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: I I gotta I gotta hang up here. I gotta

819
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: call you back. Yoko is calling on the other line. John.

820
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: Let you know it's a widow. Oh that was That

821
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: was funny. So there's the arrogance spectrum? What else we

822
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: have to do a few more of these that study this?

823
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: Do you check your emails at work? Gast guard? All

824
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: you do all right. A new study says some workers

825
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: who don't have access to their email after hours experience

826
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: a decline in their well being. That's bullshit, I now, no,

827
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah, that's that's ridiculous. Here's here's

828
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: a fun one. Ants are immune to traffic jams, recorded

829
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: a new a study. How about this? The university which

830
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: university was is, I don't have this in front of me.

831
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, they said, even in crowding conditions, ant colonies

832
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: still managed to maintain smooth traffic flow. And so like

833
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: they're studying the are they gonna try to get human

834
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: beings to act more like ants? Uh? Is that? I

835
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: don't know what their their endgame on this. This is

836
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: unlike self interested humans. Are there you go ripping humans?

837
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: It's have a common goal, the colony's survival. And this

838
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: maybe why just widening highways does not reduce human traffic congestion? Son?

839
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: Should we should we identify in the new year? Should

840
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: we identify as ants? Are you? Yeah? You're allowed to

841
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: do that right in California, we can do whatever the

842
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: identify as what's those? What are the possible people? Remember people?

843
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: Or the possibles? All right? Uh, let's see how about

844
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: how about the here's the University of Richmond, A lot

845
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: of listeners in Richmond, Virginia. University of Richmond. Rats that

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Speaker 1: drive aren't just unusual if they're taught to skill, they

847
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: also find the process of learning driving rather relaxing. They

848
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Speaker 1: put rats in many cars and had him drive around.

849
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Speaker 1: Scientists of trained rats to drive these little, tiny cars,

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Speaker 1: suggesting that brains of rodents are so flexible and much

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00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: more flexible than initially thought. That is fascinating. Who's the

852
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: guy that saying, you know, why don't we put these

853
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Speaker 1: guys in cars? These little rats and cars? It's exactly it.

854
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Speaker 1: What kind of vehicle would you put them in the

855
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Speaker 1: first place? They look like little I saw a photo

856
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: of it or a video of it, and it looks like, um,

857
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 1: like a Lego type cars are very obviously rats. They're small,

858
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Speaker 1: they're not that big lab rats man Mini Cooper. Yeah,

859
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: like a golf carts that you were in over the

860
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: last couple of days. Those were nice golfer I'd like

861
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Speaker 1: to buy one. I couldn't afford one of those. Maybe

862
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 1: give me one or something like that. Trying to relax,

863
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: check this out. This is depressing, trying to relax can

864
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: actually make anxiety worse. About that, I can believe that.

865
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Speaker 1: I can stand believe that. According to a new study,

866
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: thinking too much could cause you to die sooner, according

867
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Speaker 1: to this study done by Harvard. So you're not supposed

868
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: to think you're supposed to meditate. Yeah, well I know

869
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: people to meditate. My wife meditate. She got me a

870
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: meditating she spade for a meditation app. I used it

871
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: a few times. I probably should do it more. It's

872
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: like a deep breathing thing, you know, as that is

873
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: not all meditation is when you breathe in, pause, breathe out.

874
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 1: That kind of crap. You're supposed to have all your

875
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 1: warriors left the door. Do you do that when you're

876
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: at the gym? No. I watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC

877
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: and hear them all either praise Trump or rip Trump.

878
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: That's pretty much what I watched. See how when I'm

879
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: in the gym, I hate doing this because I listened

880
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: to a lot of music, but my mind and my

881
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: energy starts increasing, and then my mind starts racing. So

882
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: I didn't start thinking about what I should do for

883
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,760
Speaker 1: the day, or what do I need to accomplish, or

884
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: what steps INTO take in terms of just a project

885
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 1: or or something that nature, like I'm not doing enough. Yeah,

886
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: just gets the blood flowing. Well. My problem, Gascon is

887
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: that I I'm like that all the time. Like I'm

888
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: always like, what what can I do? What if I

889
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: don't do it? Am I gonna be behind? You know?

890
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: And someone's gonna beat me on the show? And I'm like,

891
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: even when I go to bed, it's I'm always like,

892
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss something, you know, and I'm gonna you know,

893
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be some big scandal that's gonna break and

894
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 1: I'll be sleeping and I get I'm paranoid, and it's

895
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: it's so dumb because who cares. I can wake up

896
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: and people don't really care. But yeah, I think about

897
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:43,919
Speaker 1: that stuff a lot. I'm always like trying to plan

898
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: ahead and what you know, what, what's an angle tonight?

899
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: What do you think the big story is gonna be?

900
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: So I have an idea for the next show? And

901
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: so you're a warrior? No, of course. Yeah, let's say

902
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: kind of the Jewish DNA. I guess you're supposed to

903
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: worry about. That's my my grandpa grandmother told me when

904
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: I was a kid, you know, you don't worry about.

905
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: It's the insecurity of working in the industry that we

906
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: work in, because that's part of it. That's absolutely part

907
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: of it, because you always think that someone's gonna come

908
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: over the top and one up. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,

909
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always worried like I'm gonna have a

910
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: really bad show. I'm gonna screw something up and then

911
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: the wrong person is going to hear it, and then

912
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: that's Uh, that's the caput. I'll be working pushing shopping

913
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: cards at Costco, finally living my dream of of doing that. Uh,

914
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: let's see here. I don't know if there's anything else

915
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: that here's the one that I thought was interesting. A

916
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: new studies says that sixty percent of Uber drivers don't

917
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: tip at all. Six out of ten don't leave a

918
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Speaker 1: tip on you meant passengers, Oh yeah, writers, I said,

919
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: as that drivers on the writers they don't tip at all?

920
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: And how what percentage of these people actually tip every time? No? Well,

921
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: I just said six don't tip, So how could it

922
00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: be fifty dummy of the oftent don't You're not good

923
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: with the man. Not only one percent of people that

924
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 1: take Uber tip every time. So that means the people

925
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: that take Uber. There's one percent that are Uber wealthy. Right,

926
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: bum bum bump, thank you. Ver has a long way

927
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: to get to that. Here's another study. We're wrapping up

928
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,760
Speaker 1: on this one. A new study show that just forty

929
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: of employed Americans say they're in good jobs versus forty

930
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:33,959
Speaker 1: in mediocre jobs and scent in bad jobs. Seventy nine

931
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: percent of workers and good jobs report a high quality

932
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: of life, but only a third in bad jobs reported

933
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: a good quality of life. So there's a lot of

934
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: ship jobs out there. If you have one, you're in

935
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: the majority. I guess, So where are you at? Then? Well,

936
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: I have a I have a good job with bad hours.

937
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: I have a good job with bad hours. Like, I

938
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: love my job, but the hours can be tough. But

939
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: I I've adjusted. I'm nocturnal. I'm the nocturnal colonel. So

940
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 1: what about your work life balance? Oh that's terrible. Yeah, yeah,

941
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 1: it's I need to improve and I got on weekends.

942
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:06,439
Speaker 1: I have a good time. I try to get away

943
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: from it a little bit, but I definitely need to

944
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: have uh more more hands on deck. I guess you

945
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: need to go out more. You need to be more engaging.

946
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: You can't just you can't do a Netflix documentary and

947
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: chill night with the wife. That's every Saturday. Now, No,

948
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 1: I we go, I go out, we go out. We

949
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: when we spent a lot of time with family, and

950
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: we're big with the family. I saw my dad after

951
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: the golfing and uh, I said, I had to leave

952
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: actually a little early, as like my dad goes to

953
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: bed early, so I had to get there before you.

954
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: The old man passed out, and uh I took him

955
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: out to get some food because you know, we've got

956
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: to look out for your pops. Would you take him

957
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,959
Speaker 1: Raising canes chicken fingers? All right? Damn right? Man? Uh

958
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: So I did that? Oh probably I forgot to mention

959
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: gascon so a Raising Canes opened up this week right

960
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: near the Mallard Manchi and Beverly Hills. I have been

961
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: waiting for the for like ten years. I'm not exaggera.

962
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: My first experienced Raising Kings in Vegas a long time

963
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: and I loved it. And they've come to l A

964
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: and they just opened one. So the deal is if

965
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,760
Speaker 1: you get there early, you the first day it opens,

966
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: they have a drawn like a lottery, and twenty people

967
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: will be selected to get a free year of Raising Kings,

968
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: free me, free year of food. Now you talk about

969
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: a conundrum. So I'm like, I get off the radio

970
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: l a time about you know three, I have about

971
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: you know, an hour plus drive or whatever defending on

972
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: that to get home. So I'm like, I didn't get

973
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: there like four four thirty in the morning and wait,

974
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: but I had to beat this golf event and I

975
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: had to be up at ten in the morning to

976
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: go to the Gulf. And that's why I was off

977
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: from the radio show this week. And it was a

978
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 1: last second decision. I actually drove by the Raising Kates

979
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: restaurant on the way home to decide where they wanted

980
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: to go, and there were people already lined up, and

981
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 1: I said, ah, fuck it. I'm I mean, I don't

982
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: want to deal with it. You know. Was it as

983
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: bad as a Black Friday for Best Buy when you

984
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: get people that are pretty much tailgating and there's a

985
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: line that's typically wrapped around the block. Well, it wasn't

986
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,439
Speaker 1: that bad, but there were people enough people there where

987
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: I looked at that and I said, well, imagine all

988
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: the other people that are gonna come. The math doesn't

989
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: really work out for this. And they were sitting in

990
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: like these are professional line sitters. They had chairs like

991
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: beach chairs and the folk pop up chairs that they

992
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: were sitting in and all that. All right, it's in

993
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: the bad gas On. These are listener questions. You ready

994
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: for this? Let's get you up, all right, we'll do

995
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: a few of these. Uh Tarrell rights in from Columbus, Georgia,

996
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: says Ben. Since you used to always say you would

997
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: discuss hockey and the w n B A and the

998
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: fifth hour, will you keep your word and do a

999
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: Mallary maneuver or or do a Mallary maneuver and move

1000
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: it into the sixth hour? Well, yeah, I listen, Terrell.

1001
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: That's these are good questions. Um and and I'll tell

1002
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: you what I'm gonna have Gaess go onto a standalone

1003
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: fifth hour and he'll talk only w n B A

1004
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: and hockey. All right, I'm gonna take that week off Gascon.

1005
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: You can do it yourself. Yes, I don't know if

1006
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: I could pull it off. Can you imagine doing anything

1007
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: with n h L N w n B A related

1008
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: for a podcast? Fox Sports Radio has the best sports

1009
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,320
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00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: Heart radio app search f s R to listen live. Yeah, yeah,

1012
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: that would be uh we do. I've done hockey some.

1013
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 1: I did the Boston thing. I did bruin Boston Bruins monologue.

1014
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: That's a little bit different because it's a it's a

1015
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 1: hot market to do hockey, and you can't do hockey

1016
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. You can do hockey and Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Boston,

1017
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: New York, Chicago, even in Boston. Be honest with you,

1018
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: it's a niche thing right now. It's become a niche

1019
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,399
Speaker 1: thing the Bruins. At least it was when I maybe

1020
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 1: since I was the messenger station though yeah him a right,

1021
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: since says Ben, please come to daytime l A radio

1022
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: you and the petrol some money show would would kill

1023
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: thank you him me, But yeah, I love petros, no

1024
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: petrols for years, no money for years. Love those guys,

1025
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: uh stars of talk radio. But uh, I don't think

1026
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. But you never know that on line.

1027
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: I used to work local radio and l I was

1028
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: eleven fifty back then, but I used to fill in

1029
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: on AM. I haven't used me as a fill in guy.

1030
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: They always invite me to fill in when I'm on

1031
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: vacation at the end of the year. They're like, hey,

1032
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: you want to fill in for petrol some money. I'm like, why,

1033
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: I'm already on vacation. Why could I Why would I

1034
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: leave my vacation, my end of the year sabbatical to

1035
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: go do that. Plus my wife won't allow me to

1036
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: do it, you know what I mean, guess for a

1037
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: good reason? Would you ever consider asking to be a

1038
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: more regular host on on five seventy? Well, the problem

1039
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: is my sleep schedule. Um, But they used me for

1040
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: a while. I had had fun doing it, and I

1041
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: did I used to. Last time I did it a

1042
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I filled in on Dodger Talk,

1043
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: which was fun. You know, I was like the filling guy.

1044
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: But they don't. They don't need that anymore. Mopar writes

1045
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: and says, what do you really sound like? Well, I'm

1046
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: actually not a real person, Momar Mopart. I am a

1047
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: creation of the magic radio Box. Ye, Siri, I do

1048
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,959
Speaker 1: not exist. I do not Brian in Newton Mass writes

1049
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 1: and he says, hey, Bench is guest Gon sucks and

1050
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: clearly is not on the show. And Brian Finley is incompetent.

1051
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: Why not do a podcast with Wreckett, Ralph or Coop?

1052
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: Either of them would be better. That's from Brian in Newton, mass. Well,

1053
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: that's up to guess. I guess ye have any update

1054
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: on the acting gig that you're up for? You have

1055
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: you gotten it? Are you leaving the podcast? Are you stay?

1056
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: You haven't gotten anything just yet. So it could be

1057
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: the situation where no call is is no job. I'd

1058
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: probably give it another two weeks. Uh, there was there

1059
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: was something else that I was selected four, and that

1060
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: was a month after the audition, So I gotta wait

1061
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: this thing out for probably another two three weeks. Okay,

1062
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: so the weight continues. Jay Rodd writes in or Jared

1063
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: in l A. He says, is it true that a

1064
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: warm basketball bounces higher than a cold basketball? Uh? Well,

1065
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: thank you. That was a commercial that we did a

1066
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I didn't write that copy, but

1067
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: we lost one of my crazy callers because of that,

1068
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: Randy and Norman, Oklahoma. Randy loved the show but was

1069
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:28,720
Speaker 1: so offended that I used bouncier. He said, Paul, can't

1070
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,439
Speaker 1: be bounce here. You're very upset, and he stopped calling

1071
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: the show. Because you imagine stopped calling you show what

1072
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: a looney. Well, you've had some You've had some listeners

1073
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: that have stopped calling the show for some rather peculiar reasons.

1074
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: He got one guy in Miami that was pretty much

1075
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: asking for people on the radio for money calling the show.

1076
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, he got upset because I tried to

1077
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: stop his business of begging panhandling listeners. He got offended

1078
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: by that. Genie and Medford stopped calling. Um, she dropped dead.

1079
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: I don't think that that that's to me, that's a

1080
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: legitimate try. Yeah, alright, alright, Uh Caesar from South Texas.

1081
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: Right so, and he says, Ben, I'm a Newish listener here.

1082
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: I was introduced to you buy a colleague of mine.

1083
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: I enjoyed listening to the show. Well, thank you, Caesar.

1084
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: And again he wants to know if Fox Sports Radio

1085
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:20,240
Speaker 1: offered you a daytime slot, would you take it? Um, Well, well, Caesar,

1086
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to worry about that happening.

1087
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: I like working at night. I've done this a long time.

1088
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: I often say that the cool thing about doing a

1089
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 1: nighttime radio show is are the artistic freedom. You'll get

1090
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: paid as much money, but like I can try and

1091
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: stuff out and and throw crap against the wall. We're

1092
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: during the day. It's it's you know, you have a

1093
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: bad segment, the bosses is coming in to talk to you,

1094
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: or you know something, people are coming around. I don't

1095
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. The language is different too. Yeah,

1096
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: you can get away with a lot more and be

1097
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: just more colorful and and vibrant with your show as

1098
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: opposed to what you do during the daytime side of things. Yeah,

1099
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I absolutely, And it's a different type of radio.

1100
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: Daytime radio and nighttime radio are different. And the reasons

1101
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: for that, and we can debate whether that, you know,

1102
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: nighttime radio would work during the day and the sensibilities

1103
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: of the listener are different during the day and all that,

1104
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: but it's just a different animals, a lot more interview

1105
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: based during the day and things like that, and at

1106
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: night obviously we don't do that kind of thing. John

1107
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: from Parts Unknown says, I've been listening to you for years.

1108
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: I've never heard you swear on the radio until the

1109
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: fifth hour, have you and the crew ever made a

1110
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: swearing mistake? And what was from? John? Uh? Well, John,

1111
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: I'm even uncomfortable cursing here. I don't do too much

1112
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: of it because the problem is we we record this

1113
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: podcast on sometime on Thursday, and then I have to

1114
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: go do the Thursday and the Friday show. And so

1115
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: if I start cursing like a sailor here, then I'm like, oh,

1116
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: I wanna do it on the other show. You know,

1117
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:01,479
Speaker 1: it becomes problematic. But I have the famous cursing story

1118
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: with me is when I was doing local radio. It

1119
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: was during one of the Olympics in the I don't

1120
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: want to say one because I'm gonna date myself, but

1121
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: it was a long time ago, and the we were

1122
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: doing a show. We were preempted, and the boss is like, well,

1123
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: there's like a like a one percent chance, so I

1124
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: might need you to come back, but just go down

1125
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: and have dinner at the and have some drinks at

1126
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: the bar. Don't worry about it. I probably won't need you.

1127
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: And so we went down there and got hammered. I

1128
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: don't even I'm not even, you know, And we got hammered,

1129
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: and me and the late great Mark Smith Dave Smith,

1130
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: and it was Ben and Dave show, and we were

1131
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: all drinking, eating, having a good time and being married.

1132
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: You know, young single guy having a great time. That

1133
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: was a that was adults. You don't know adults, is

1134
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: guest con. But it's this old Chicken Finger place. The

1135
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: original o G of the Chicken Finger was closed like

1136
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: a million years ago. What off of it was on

1137
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: Riverside driving Burbank, right next to Warner Brothers studios, bottom

1138
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: floor of an office building which used to be the

1139
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 1: K Rock building. We were at the Kiss F M

1140
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: Building which was across the street. And uh and that

1141
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers I think owns all those buildings. I think

1142
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: they bought it. But anyway, so long story short, so

1143
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: we we we got hammered h John and then we

1144
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: got a phone call, not a text, because there's no

1145
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: text in those days. I got a phone call, Hey, uh,

1146
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, numb nuts, come back and do the show.

1147
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: And I didn't even realize. I didn't know what was

1148
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: going on. I I I believe I cursed four or

1149
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: five times on regular radio. Um, I believe it was

1150
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: fuck and ship you know those I mean, I you

1151
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: know those kind of things. So and and and Mark Smith,

1152
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: the engineer who was also drinking it. Mark Mark didn't

1153
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: mess around. I love Mark. He would he came in

1154
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: and punched me because he kept having a dump me.

1155
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: And you know, there's only a certain amount of dumps

1156
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: you have, and then it becomes a problem. Big Loue

1157
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: writes and says for this is for David Gascon, a

1158
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: Big Loue from the LBC says, how many chicks at

1159
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: Big Bend's Christmas party did you slay? Uh? During or

1160
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: after the party? And will you try to beat that

1161
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: number this year? Well, I think the bigger question is

1162
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: how many women were actually at the party? Because I

1163
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: think I mentioned this in a previous edition. It felt

1164
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: like an eighth grade dance where you had men on

1165
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: one side of the room and then women on the

1166
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: other side of the room. So it was pretty it

1167
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: was pretty well segregated, and for some odd reason it

1168
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: was but there were a lot of married people there,

1169
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: at least in the women's side of things. Well, it

1170
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: was segregated well by the way. Guess you know, sometimes

1171
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: women say they're married just so you'll leave them alone.

1172
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: I've never run of that problem. Yeah, yeah, uh so yeah,

1173
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: I know so so so anyway, uh yeah, it is.

1174
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: You have the radio side, which is my side, and

1175
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: my wife's works at the police station. So you have

1176
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: the police side. Yeah, so what that it's code? Shall

1177
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 1: they mingle? Never? Shall they mingle? Well, what that code

1178
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: for is that radio people are ugly people and then

1179
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: everyone else is actually good looking. That's what it basically means.

1180
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: I saw some ugly people on that side of the

1181
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: room too, and usually on the radio side, it's just

1182
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: Looney regaling us in stories, is what that is. That's

1183
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: normally and everyone just listening to Looney talk about himself.

1184
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: How that goes? Uh, let's see your Mike and St.

1185
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: Paul's please find a cure. I'm a Life Along Lions fan.

1186
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: I am doomed. I love your show. Thank you, Mike,

1187
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 1: well all of you want. I My wife bought a

1188
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: voodoo doll to killing the Dodgers and it's working. I'm

1189
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: killing the Astros with the voodoo doll. So maybe I

1190
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: can loan that out the listeners who want to put

1191
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: a hex on uncertain teams or remove a hex. That's

1192
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: very Indiana Jones Temple of Doom. Ask I can appreciate that.

1193
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: Jesse and Pomona in SoCal says, Hey, Ben, with all

1194
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: the criticism you've been tossing at the Dodgers, especially Clayton Kershaw.

1195
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: Do you ever worry that one day you'll go to

1196
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: blue Heaven on Earth and they will turn you away,

1197
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 1: bann you from the stadium. Uh, you know, Jesse, Jesse,

1198
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: that's actually a legitimate question. Now, I couldn't obviously do

1199
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: this if I I did dodge your talk, because that

1200
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: is a you know, that's paganda for the die. I

1201
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: did it. I love it, and I do love the Dodgers.

1202
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what Tommy Hawkins, the late great

1203
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: Tommy Hawkins told me. He used to be a Dodger executive.

1204
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 1: I love Tommy Hawkins. And he told me, and this,

1205
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is still a philosophy, so

1206
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: maybe it's not, but he said, you know, I don't

1207
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,920
Speaker 1: care if you guys rip us and you know, the

1208
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: Dodgers and all that. We don't care because it shows passion.

1209
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: And as long as you're passionate, as long as you care,

1210
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: then that matters. The thing that everyone in professional sports

1211
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: is worried about, and the thing that at that time

1212
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: the Dodgers were worried about was apathy. It was being aloof,

1213
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 1: It was being detached or disinterested and and I'm not disinterested.

1214
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: I'm not detached at all. Uh. And so I'd like

1215
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: to think that the people that work for the Dodgers

1216
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: are are grown up and know that I am coming

1217
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: coming at this from a place of hoping things get better.

1218
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: But you know, it is a legitimate thing. And I'll

1219
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: tell you, I'll give credit to the Lakers. I have

1220
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that work for the Lakers. I

1221
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: have been savage against the Lakers over the years, and

1222
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 1: they still welcome me, and they're very nice to me,

1223
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: and they tell me things I probably shouldn't know about

1224
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: the franchise and things like that. And and so I'll

1225
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: give the Lakers credit because they have thick skin. Not

1226
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: the fan base or the historians, but the people that

1227
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: work for the Lakers have been very good to me

1228
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: for the most part. And uh, and I have been

1229
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 1: I have just shipped all over them. There's nothing wrong

1230
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: with being critical either. We live in a world now

1231
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: where God forbid, if you have any kind of disagreement

1232
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: or any kind of dissension, people look at it as

1233
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: now you going to take things personal and it goes

1234
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 1: off the reservation. Yeah, it's true, you know, And we

1235
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 1: see this in relationships all the time where people, you know,

1236
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 1: Republicans only want to be with the Republicans, Democrats only

1237
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: want to be the Democrats. And my my wife has

1238
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: telling me some of her girlfriends are like, you know,

1239
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: she's telling them like they only want to be with

1240
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 1: like liberal guys because they're liberal, and like, you gotta

1241
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: open it up. Man, you get to a certain age,

1242
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 1: you know, suddenly the uh, the laundry list goes a

1243
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 1: little shorter. You know what you're what you're looking for

1244
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: exactly in man, let's get you up with this thing,

1245
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: all right, don't stick the sports stories of the week.

1246
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: What do we go? So? Bet? How about this? One

1247
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: forty six year old man developed a rare disease. It's

1248
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: called the auto brewery syndrome, better known as the drunken disease. Now,

1249
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard about this, but a

1250
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: guy back in two thousand eleven, and it continued for

1251
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 1: six years. Um He told doctors that he had no

1252
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 1: kind of medical issues, no psychiatric history at all, nothing wrong,

1253
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: but he began feeling depressed and his brain started to

1254
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: feel foggy. He also at times got an aggressive behavior

1255
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: were It turned out that his his body started turning

1256
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: carbohydrates into alcohol. Yeah, by taking antibiotics. How the fund

1257
01:04:56,120 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: does that happen? Exactly? It? So what happened was, you

1258
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: tell me, by drinking, like it's your body thinks you're

1259
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 1: drinking whiskey and vodka and all that, but you're just

1260
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Speaker 1: you're eating carbs. Yeah. So what happened was and this

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01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: is unfortunate for him, but uh, one morning he was

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01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: actually arrested for alleged drunk driving and he was pulled

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01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: over and he took a breathalyzer test from a hospital

1264
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: and it actually occurred that his blood alcohol content had

1265
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:25,920
Speaker 1: skied high, like it was above ten alcoholic drinks for him.

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01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: So after the arrest was over, he went to to

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01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: get some treatment and they actually took a stool sample

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01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 1: from him and found out that the yeast and his

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01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: body uh was actually converted into what they have from

1270
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: like wineries and and breweries and whatnot. So any of

1271
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: the carbon hydrates that he had turned over into alcohol,

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01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: which obviously elevated his blood alcohol levels. Well, how many

1273
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: people have that it's rare disease? Like how uh A

1274
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 1: dozen people were talking that's a good question. I don't know.

1275
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: You don't know, I make it up. It'd be like

1276
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: loony and just make it up. Twelve people been twelve people.

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01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: They're all in India, some in Pakistan. Uh you know, yeah,

1278
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 1: and this is it all stemmed from taking antibiotics. So

1279
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: just imagine taking antibiotics and having that trigger your carbohydrates

1280
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: and turn that in an alcohol. Yeah. I try not

1281
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 1: to take antibiotics because I feel like I'll need him

1282
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: at some point and if you take him now, they

1283
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: won't be as effective, that's what they say. I mean,

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01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 1: I do that with hand sanitizer. Oh you don't. You

1285
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: don't do the hands. I barely use hand sanantires. And

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01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: the reason why is because the disinfectant that's used on

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01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: your hands um your body, the way that it fights

1288
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: off some of the germs and whatnot, it becomes it

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01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: doesn't become as potent the the wipes that you use,

1290
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 1: the the hand sanitizers, so you're gonna pick your spots,

1291
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: you know. I don't like hand sanitizer anyway, Like I'm

1292
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: old fashioned, like soap and water. Is nothing wrong with that.

1293
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: How about this one? An Australian man was actually uh

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01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: he pled guilty a manslaughter for killing a sixty year

1295
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: old homeless guy. Now here's the kicker on this. A

1296
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 1: gentleman back in two thousand and eighteen left a pub

1297
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: down in Sydney, Australia, and got into an argument with

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01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: another guy. And they were they were talking, they were pushing,

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01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 1: they were shoving and whatnot. And the other gentleman, who

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01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: was obviously hammered too, pulled out a knife and stabbed

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01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 1: this guy. Um. The guy's name, will call him Thomas.

1302
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: Thomas said, all right, go ahead and stab me. Pulls

1303
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: out a knife, gets stabbed, and as he gets stabbed,

1304
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: the the obviously the guy that stabbed him released the

1305
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: knife because it was in his body. He pulls it

1306
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: out of his own body and his stomach and stabs

1307
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: the attacker back and kills him. How about that? You

1308
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 1: know what that that tells you? If you're gonna stab someone,

1309
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: be a backstabber. That's what a brutal story that is got.

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01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 1: I got plenty of that in this industry. How about this?

1311
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: In the UK, a man was arrested after driving unsupervised

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01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: to his own driving test. So it's just like a

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01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 1: young guy or an old guy. I was a middle

1314
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 1: age guy. Middle age middle aged guy, and he's he's

1315
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: going to take his driving test, and uh, and so

1316
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 1: why what happened? So what happened was this all stems

1317
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: from the incident itself, because he wanted to take a

1318
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 1: driving exam not for the first time, not for the

1319
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 1: second time, but for the tenth time. He had failed

1320
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:25,599
Speaker 1: the driving test nine other times. And then obviously that's

1321
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 1: kept going with it. He was arrested on suspicion of

1322
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 1: taking a vehicle without the owner's consent as he arrived

1323
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: to the test. I think that's called stealing, isn't that called?

1324
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: So this guy drove a stolen car to take a

1325
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 1: driving test and then failed it again. Oh my god,

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01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: that's like they say, though, you know, it reminds me

1327
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: like the You can fail the bar endlessly and eventually

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01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: if you pass it, you're called a lawyer. Right. This

1329
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 1: guy fails the driving test, you know, nine ten times,

1330
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: but eventually if he passed, says, they call him a driver.

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01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:05,000
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, that's all. That's a lot of hoots. But man,

1332
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:08,639
Speaker 1: you imagine, I mean, that is uh, take someone special

1333
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: to keep going at it like that. Yeah, that's wild man.

1334
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: Last two ones? How about this? Do you know anyone

1335
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:17,040
Speaker 1: that works in UH as like a flight attendant or

1336
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 1: as a pilot or god, I wish, I wish my

1337
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: wife would work at the airlines. That's I mean, man,

1338
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: you get that free air travel or discounted friends fly free, man,

1339
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:28,560
Speaker 1: I wish. Yeah, speaking of that, this woman by the

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01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: name of Tiffy Jenkins, she's on the East Coast. She's

1341
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 1: facing twenty years in prison after she pleaded guilty UH

1342
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:40,120
Speaker 1: to some federal charges. She basically scammed UH the airline

1343
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: Jet Blue over a million dollars because what she would

1344
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 1: do is that she'd put codes in for passengers UM

1345
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: that had regularly priced rates on their flights, but she

1346
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: would price them out at a discounted rate. So she

1347
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 1: would have there's a code in the system for different things,

1348
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: whether it's for senior citizens or for UM, for people

1349
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: with infants obviously because they fly for free or they

1350
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: pay like a discount of rate, and military the same thing. UM.

1351
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 1: There's also a code in there for people that fly

1352
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 1: because of some kind of family distress. And so she

1353
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 1: was in putting these people that wanted to buy flights

1354
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 1: and she was pocketing the money, so she'd give them

1355
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 1: the regular price flight, but that input the code into

1356
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 1: the system at a cheaper flight, the cheaper fair. How

1357
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 1: long did she do this? It probably not that long

1358
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:38,560
Speaker 1: because airline tickets are pretty prices, so right, yeah it was.

1359
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 1: It was actually a little bit less than a year

1360
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:44,640
Speaker 1: and a half. She did it five five times. You

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01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:46,640
Speaker 1: know what this reminds me of. Do you remember the

1362
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: NBA official scandal? No? No, no, not that one. There

1363
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: was another scandal that didn't get as much play. There.

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01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 1: There was a travel expense scandal. I think the Major

1365
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:59,680
Speaker 1: League Baseball umpires were also their own scandal. But this

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01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: goes back before your time, in the nineties, but I

1367
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: remember talking about this when I first got in the radio.

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01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 1: Forty three NBA referees had been running a scam where

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01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 1: they the NBA bought them first class plane tickets, right

1370
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: and they they would go, they would downgrade first class

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01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: the full fair coach plane tickets, and and they pocketed

1372
01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: the money and and eat. Each each made between seventy

1373
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy seven thousand a year by just

1374
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: taking the worst flight, you know, or not the first class,

1375
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:38,840
Speaker 1: but going to coach. And they they did that for

1376
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:43,639
Speaker 1: for several years and eventually they got caught obviously, and um, Steve,

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01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 1: I think Steve Jabby was acquitted, but he was a

1378
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: longtime referee, he was. But but all the other ones

1379
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 1: were Eleven of the twelve that were indicted ended up,

1380
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: um being being in trouble, you know, being a lot

1381
01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 1: of trouble. So Zyra Coban was like slap on the wrist.

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01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 1: I think a lot of them took a lot of

1383
01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: them took plea deals, if I remember correctly, is that

1384
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: what it was? What's that was that? Like? Do you

1385
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: remember what the plea deals were? Though? I mean, it's

1386
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 1: nothing like the college scandal right now? Correct? Um, yeah,

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01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: I mean it's yeah, I mean it's like the punishments

1388
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: of the similar I mean, they're people aren't really getting

1389
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: punished for the college scandal, right mostly and these people,

1390
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: the referees as I and I was a long time

1391
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: ago guestcum but I don't remember them getting I think

1392
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:28,759
Speaker 1: they got community service and they had to pay back money,

1393
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing restitutional. Yeah, yeah, I

1394
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: think it was that kind of all right, fair enough,

1395
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: But this one. We're both huge pizza lovers. Do you

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01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: have a favorite. I don't know, Well, the homemade Mallard pie.

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01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:41,880
Speaker 1: I love the bubbles in the crust of the pizza,

1398
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,759
Speaker 1: and uh I love that. I make a pie myself,

1399
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: usually on the weekends. Um I was a when I

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01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 1: go to Pieces, I liked the round table pizza was

1401
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 1: like a northern California chain. Um I like that. But

1402
01:12:55,840 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: Chicago style, New York style. Um more, Kirkland brand style.

1403
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: Shut up, don't pizza snobby or don't be frugal with

1404
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:08,679
Speaker 1: your pizza. No, Kirkland brand pizza is wonderful. It's okay.

1405
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: It's nothing compared to Chicago or New York. New York.

1406
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:13,600
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. The New York pizza is

1407
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 1: so freaking overrating over it. I go to New York

1408
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 1: every couple of years because my brother lives there, my

1409
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: older brother, and so these two famous pizza places in Brooklyn,

1410
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: right why we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to eat pizza.

1411
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 1: We made a pilgrimage and I'm I told my wife,

1412
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,599
Speaker 1: I said this, I can get better pizza costco. It's

1413
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 1: not even that good. It's a high end pizza. It's

1414
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: a high end pie. What about Chicago pizzas like a cake.

1415
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: That's like eating a piece of cake. No, that's that's

1416
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: like a pie. That is like I would to choose

1417
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 1: if I had to choose between Chicago pizza New York,

1418
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: I would take Chicago pizza, of course I would. They

1419
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: used been a place called Numero Uno Pizza Change. Oh yeah,

1420
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: I remember that. I love that place, and that was

1421
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: more Chicago style pizza anything. Don't they still around, No,

1422
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,759
Speaker 1: not that I'm aware of. Maybe they are pizzas around.

1423
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if you used to go to that

1424
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 1: back in the day. And there's that you know where

1425
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: we work in uh In in Sherman Oaks part of

1426
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:11,800
Speaker 1: l A. They opened a authentic Chicago pizza. We should go.

1427
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 1: That's where we got to go, guests gar um when

1428
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: we get to were we get together in real life? Um,

1429
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 1: there's a Chicago pizza places apparently opened up like a

1430
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 1: famous one of the famous Chica. They don't have very

1431
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: many locations outside Chicago, and they opened one up here.

1432
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: All right. I mean it's tough to get away from

1433
01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:29,600
Speaker 1: Fat Souths which is right down the street. That's a

1434
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: really good spot. Obviously, no pizza there. Uh Medine Cheese

1435
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: is a good pizza spot down the street from where

1436
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 1: we're at too. So I bring all that up because

1437
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: a vegan um has been traumatized. Yeah, they had asked

1438
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 1: Dominos to make him a vegan pizza and uh, the

1439
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 1: chain pizza obviously down there is a little bit different

1440
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 1: than here in the United States. But they had actually

1441
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 1: added to the menu a couple of plant based options

1442
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: for people that included Hawaiian option. Well, the Hawaiian option,

1443
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 1: as you know, is what it's ham and pineapple. Well

1444
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:10,559
Speaker 1: he ordered the Hawaiian uh dish, but it wasn't fake ham.

1445
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: It was actually real ham. And now he has disclosed

1446
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 1: to the Daily Mail in Australia that he feels horrible.

1447
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: It's a sinking feeling. And I had to eat an animal.

1448
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: Not eating animals has become a core part of my

1449
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:26,559
Speaker 1: belief system. I felt shame and pain for the animal.

1450
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: End quote. Now get over. I mean, my god, it's

1451
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:33,720
Speaker 1: so it's so stupid. That's the world we live in.

1452
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: A plant base there you go, that's wonderful. So that's

1453
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: just some guy working to the pizza shop that grabbed

1454
01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 1: the wrong instead of the fake ham, he grabbed the

1455
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:47,640
Speaker 1: real right, I mean, is that probably unless it was

1456
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 1: intentional And yeah, you know when you go out to eat,

1457
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: you were taking a risk that you're gonna get what

1458
01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 1: you order. I think we all know that, right that

1459
01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:59,640
Speaker 1: no one's gonna spit a loogie in your food or

1460
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: do something the other disgusting thing in your food. You know,

1461
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: take you take a chance. Aren't rolling the dice? That's right?

1462
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: I even roll the dice when I was at the

1463
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 1: Mallard mansion. Well, the food is the Mallard match this

1464
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:14,599
Speaker 1: top notch, wonderful booze everywhere, food everywhere. Companies a little suspect,

1465
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: But wow, I don't know that you're gonna be invited

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Speaker 1: this year. I don't know. You might, you might not

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Speaker 1: be invited. If there's any luck, I'll be working. They

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Speaker 1: usually say that if you're a good broadcaster worth your salt,

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Speaker 1: you're working on the holidays. Is that right? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want to know, if you know, if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're not important, you're working in the holiday. That's not true,

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Speaker 1: because the absolutely true. The NBA has their showcase games

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. Thanksgiving. We got three four games National Football.

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Speaker 1: I work on Thanksgiving. I do work, not really, I do.

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Speaker 1: I do a Thanksgiving show every year, much to the

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Speaker 1: disdain of my wife, I do. I she's got a

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Speaker 1: good point. Anyways, that's it for now. That's that's it

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Speaker 1: for me on this. All right, very very We'll get

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Speaker 1: you up and get the hell away, and don't forget

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Speaker 1: the other podcast, which you should see or it'll be

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Speaker 1: up soon if you don't see it right now. If

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Speaker 1: you get this right away, that'll be Benny versus depending.

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Speaker 1: Another winning week last week picking NFL games and a

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Speaker 1: lot of big favorites again, a lot of big favorites

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Speaker 1: in the NFL uh this weekend, So we'll we'll give

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Speaker 1: you that and have a great weekend. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: supporting the show. Thank you. Follow us on social media.

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Speaker 1: I'm at Ben Maller, what's your Twitter account? Gast guns

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Speaker 1: at David J. Gascon and email us the Real Fifth

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Speaker 1: Hour or just Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com

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Speaker 1: is the email address for this. The Facebook page Ben

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Speaker 1: Mallory Show. I got the I've got Instagram. I got

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Speaker 1: my password from Elijah for the Instagram page. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna try to get back on that maybe this week,

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Speaker 1: post some photos on there. So it's my name Ben

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Speaker 1: Maller on Instagram and I'm excited about that and have

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Speaker 1: a wonderful weekend. Be safe. We'll be back in the

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Speaker 1: Magic Radio Box Sunday night into Monday on the overnight