Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the
Speaker 1: old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads
Speaker 1: in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill
Speaker 1: poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: starts right now that it does. Welcome into the Magic
Speaker 1: podcast Box, if that's even such a thing, because most
Speaker 1: people listen to the podcast. I'm told like anywhere in
Speaker 1: your car phone, whatever you might be doing, but welcome in.
Speaker 1: It is another weekend of the Fifth Degree with me
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and bringing up the deadweight. David gascon For
Speaker 1: affectionately known as David gagon writing the Hong Kong Express
Speaker 1: is David gascon Well. I am a hero of the
Speaker 1: protesters in Hong Kong. I'm still getting messages from people
Speaker 1: in Hong Kong and that part of the world that
Speaker 1: are very very happy that I took photos of crazy
Speaker 1: people Staples Center the other day. And uh yeah, but
Speaker 1: if you're new to the podcast, welcome. We've been doing
Speaker 1: this since the start of the football season, and we
Speaker 1: will do it until we start getting paid. But because
Speaker 1: four hours not enough, you know, the overnight show on
Speaker 1: the radio four hours and night most nights. Uh and uh,
Speaker 1: I know I missed the day. We'll explain that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we we are broadcasting on the very powerful I
Speaker 1: Heart podcast network. Now. I Heart Media is started out
Speaker 1: you know, radio conglomerate and all that, and still is
Speaker 1: known as a radio company as the Bread and Butter.
Speaker 1: But this podcast things taken off in the last year
Speaker 1: and a half two years and it's just just great.
Speaker 1: I mean, big big names, big powerful people, uh, and
Speaker 1: all that. And the podcast available wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 1: So I think most people get their podcast in like
Speaker 1: two or three places, So it's not like there's like
Speaker 1: seven different places people get their podcasts. But in the
Speaker 1: big ones you can find this podcast. So normally, yes,
Speaker 1: and when I go to a restaurant, I look at
Speaker 1: the menu, right, So the menu at what we like
Speaker 1: to call Benny's Bistro. This week we've got Happy Gilmore returns.
Speaker 1: We have that we have I Love the Amish Bad Day,
Speaker 1: It's hip. The clip study this which is a staple.
Speaker 1: It's in the bag. Those are listener questions and don't
Speaker 1: stick to sports, which is pretty much the entire fifth hour.
Speaker 1: I'm told that we don't really stick to sports. Well,
Speaker 1: I think, to be fair, we we do try to
Speaker 1: incorporate as much sports as possible. It's just that there's
Speaker 1: so much out there in the in the universe that
Speaker 1: we can kind of highlight for for the audience, and
Speaker 1: they don't get anywhere else, which is great. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I had a boss early in my career, program director
Speaker 1: who informed me, kind of schooled me, and said, you know,
Speaker 1: you can talk about anything, you just have to find
Speaker 1: a sports angle to it, you know, all right, whatever, Sure,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what we're doing here. Yeah, yeah, loosely, loosely alright,
Speaker 1: so happy Gilmore returns out gas gun and I don't
Speaker 1: know who else gets bullied when they are not in
Speaker 1: the shop where they work at the Salt Mine. But
Speaker 1: earlier this week, and I said on the radio show,
Speaker 1: I would go into detail here on what has happened,
Speaker 1: what has transpired. Uh so I'm gonna do that right now.
Speaker 1: But I was away from my post, my catbird seat,
Speaker 1: leading the train into oblivion on the Third, the The Overnight,
Speaker 1: The Third Ship, the Ben Maller Show and all that
Speaker 1: I missed a night. Uh, and was I sick a
Speaker 1: gas gun? Well, it sounds like you're sick, and that's
Speaker 1: typical for the days that were record But uh, I
Speaker 1: actually asked your significant other. I said, where the fund
Speaker 1: has been at? And this is right around the time
Speaker 1: of eleven o'clock Pacific PM. And you were a no
Speaker 1: show at your your bay. Yeah, and I come to
Speaker 1: find out, remember that you had the previous engagements that
Speaker 1: did I did. Here's the thing gasking on. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've you've known me a few years. I when sick work,
Speaker 1: I do not use sick days when I'm actually sick.
Speaker 1: I I use sick days when I am not uh
Speaker 1: sick to enjoy them. That's a veteran move that you
Speaker 1: need to do if you can get away with it,
Speaker 1: if you get sick days. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm pretty much quarantined overnight. No one talks
Speaker 1: to me. There's no one there, so it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much I'm in my own little room, in
Speaker 1: my own little world. No producer, no anchor, no board up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're by yourself. Now, I'm gonna tell you to say
Speaker 1: I did not use a sick day. This was not
Speaker 1: a sick day. I did not use a vacation day either.
Speaker 1: Now did I get suspended? That was a popular theme
Speaker 1: on so the media that I had been suspended, that
Speaker 1: one of our bosses finally heard the show and said,
Speaker 1: what the F is this idiot doing? You know what
Speaker 1: an asshole? Let's suspend it. Well, and if you get suspended,
Speaker 1: you only want to be suspended for three days because
Speaker 1: if you get a seven day suspension, that's usually leads
Speaker 1: down the path determination. Well, you want a paid suspension,
Speaker 1: and you want it to be on a Friday or
Speaker 1: a Monday, right, that's what you want. You get the
Speaker 1: long weekend and who cares, sparks can fly, But I
Speaker 1: get a long weekend, and so you're not a picture.
Speaker 1: So being suspended for five days is a lot different
Speaker 1: than uh, a day. So it's not a scheduled start
Speaker 1: for you. Usually it's uh, it's a couple of days out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one trip through the rotation, one trip through the rotation.
Speaker 1: So but but no, I mean, we'll tell you what happened.
Speaker 1: I was part of a huge radio hooting nanny that
Speaker 1: took place at a very ritchy golf club in the
Speaker 1: exclusive area of South Orange County and I spent now keepon.
Speaker 1: This was during the day, but on Wednesday, I was
Speaker 1: assigned for the company to take part in this big
Speaker 1: gala event. And I spent Wednesday doing something I'm not
Speaker 1: very good at doing because I'm an introvert socializing. Yes,
Speaker 1: I smoothed, I kissed ass with very powerful people in
Speaker 1: the radio business, my industry, my chosen industry. My entire life,
Speaker 1: I worked on the radio business and I never get
Speaker 1: invited of these things. And I've worked at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio for nineteen years. I've never been to uh to
Speaker 1: this kind of an event. And I was I was like,
Speaker 1: I I kept telling him, are you sure you wanted
Speaker 1: to invite me to this? And uh, they said, well,
Speaker 1: it might have been a mistake, but you're here, so
Speaker 1: uh so do it. But yeah, invited me and all
Speaker 1: the big wigs and in advertising. Uh, We're there and
Speaker 1: they got to mingle with the blow hards and the
Speaker 1: gas bags on the network. Uh. And it was hosted
Speaker 1: by iHeart Media, the premier networks. And now I pointed
Speaker 1: out for years guest and also that doing a nighttime
Speaker 1: radio shift is in the radio business. Uh, they spit
Speaker 1: loogie's at you, and I know, I understand. I mean
Speaker 1: you have the halves and the have nots. And in
Speaker 1: in typically six am to six pm is the Goldilocks
Speaker 1: zone in radio. That is where you have morning and
Speaker 1: afternoon drive in most of the country. Some cities have
Speaker 1: afternoon drive that goes to eight, and sometimes I often
Speaker 1: believe morning drive doesn't even start at six anymore. Think
Speaker 1: a lot of people in big metropolitan areas get up.
Speaker 1: I think we do an hour of morning drive. I'll
Speaker 1: challenge anybody on that, because I hear from people that
Speaker 1: are getting up at you know, guys that live on
Speaker 1: Long Island or in Jersey. They're driving in a New
Speaker 1: York listening on satellite radio. Get up, you know, four
Speaker 1: thirty or five in the morning. Uh, to beat the
Speaker 1: traffic as much as they can. So but anyway, that's
Speaker 1: a different conversation. But pretty much anyone else eats hit
Speaker 1: or get ship on. Uh probably not eat it. Uh
Speaker 1: that wouldn't taste very good. But so one day, Yes,
Speaker 1: I got to live the life of run. It was
Speaker 1: like a make a wish type thing. And uh, I
Speaker 1: got to hang out with very as I said, powerful
Speaker 1: people in radio. I was, I was shooting the breeze
Speaker 1: with your hero. Uh. Colin Cowherd was there and a
Speaker 1: big star of daytime radio. And I say, Cowherd does
Speaker 1: an overnight show for me. Uh, and I do an
Speaker 1: overnight show for him. So we have that in common.
Speaker 1: But I hadn't seen Colin in a few years. I
Speaker 1: got to hang out with our guy, Rob Parker. We
Speaker 1: love Rob. Rob's great. I chatted up people think we
Speaker 1: know all these people like in real life because we
Speaker 1: worked at Fox Sports Radio. But like I had talked
Speaker 1: to Gottlieb like on on the phone or whatever on radio,
Speaker 1: but I never actually met him in person. Um, and
Speaker 1: I met Gottlieb. We caught up Clay Travis, who has
Speaker 1: been doing the show in the morning show after me
Speaker 1: for for a long time. I'd never physically met Clay.
Speaker 1: I I've actually known him for probably ten years doing
Speaker 1: like TV and radio crap. Uh. Chris, Bruce Sard's another guy.
Speaker 1: Talked to Bruce Sarterer of times over the years. I've
Speaker 1: never actually physically met him. Uh, And so I I
Speaker 1: we got to catch up and all that, and um,
Speaker 1: my my regular guys. The only guys in radio. I
Speaker 1: really see are like Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Jonas Knocks,
Speaker 1: they were also there, so I got to hang out
Speaker 1: with him. And this was played guest gun at the
Speaker 1: Monarch Beach Golf Club in Dana Point, Beautiful Dana Point,
Speaker 1: which is roughly it's south Orange County, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people think it's more. It's almost halfway between l
Speaker 1: A and San Diego. It's almost the halfway point. In fact,
Speaker 1: uh Greg Maddox who used to pitch for the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame picture for the Cubs and the Braves, but
Speaker 1: at the end of his career he played for the
Speaker 1: Padres and the Dodgers. And the reason he did that,
Speaker 1: in part was because he lived in that are. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he still does. But it's you know,
Speaker 1: because it's halfway, so you can either pick San Diego
Speaker 1: or l A and all that stuff. But this, this
Speaker 1: is a couple of things here, all right. So this
Speaker 1: golf course is like a it's a traditional Scottish link
Speaker 1: style and it's right on the goddamn Pacific Ocean. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the It's amazing. It's like an oil painting. Um,
Speaker 1: you got rolling green greens, very tight fairways which I
Speaker 1: don't like UM, and they say it's for golfers of
Speaker 1: all skill lovers. I believe that's bullshit. UM. I had
Speaker 1: not played golf in in a fair amount of time.
Speaker 1: But it's one of the higher ranked golf courses in California.
Speaker 1: I don't know about globally golf digestive. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a million golf courses. Um. They said it was the
Speaker 1: number one best golf course in Orange County, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of golf courses in Orange County and a
Speaker 1: lot of rich people that live in that part of
Speaker 1: the country. So take that for waysworth so and the
Speaker 1: other thing's guests on how did I do? I think
Speaker 1: that's a bigger question because part of the reason I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask this is because temperatures this week in southern California.
Speaker 1: I know, earlier this week we're hovering between eighty five
Speaker 1: and ninety degrees, and over the last forty eight hours
Speaker 1: they're about seventy five to eighty not a cloud in
Speaker 1: the sky. It was a great day to golf if
Speaker 1: you are an avid golfer or even a casual golfer,
Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, you haven't done that in quite
Speaker 1: a few years. So, yes, Ben Mallory, how did you
Speaker 1: do actually playing? It was a house of horrors. It
Speaker 1: is what it was. It was a pit of misery.
Speaker 1: Uh Man, was I terrible? Uh? We we played, fortunately,
Speaker 1: we played best ball. If you're not a golf person,
Speaker 1: you might not know what that is, but best balls
Speaker 1: where you gonna force him. And out of all everyone
Speaker 1: takes shots, but whoever has the top shot is the
Speaker 1: one you use. And thank God for that. That was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a savior from complete embarrassment and disgrace.
Speaker 1: But I had not played golf and probably five years
Speaker 1: I played. I used to play with my wife when
Speaker 1: we first got together a few times, but she's not
Speaker 1: a big golf fan and so we didn't continue that.
Speaker 1: But I had. I used to play every once a while.
Speaker 1: I would played like once a year for something. And
Speaker 1: I have a public course. I gotta tell you, guess
Speaker 1: my public course is not quite match up with the
Speaker 1: endless lakes and sandtraps at Monarch Beach. I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: but they were great. The people that worked there were awesome.
Speaker 1: It was a v I p very friendly. People are
Speaker 1: very nice, and I wanted someone to be an asshole.
Speaker 1: Uh No, one was an asshole. Uh, and they rolled
Speaker 1: out the red car. But now my force included talk
Speaker 1: radio legend Mike Harmon, Bucky Brooks, veteran NFL player for
Speaker 1: like five different teams, including Brett Farven the Packers back
Speaker 1: in the day, and Uh, a guy I don't know
Speaker 1: if he wants me to use his full name, so
Speaker 1: I'll just use his first name, Graham, who is a
Speaker 1: very powerful media buyer from a company in Chicago and
Speaker 1: handles million, millions and millions of advertising for huge companies
Speaker 1: like Taco Bell and Discover Card and some other people
Speaker 1: that advertised. I actually Taco Bell doesn't advertise in sports radio,
Speaker 1: but Discover Card is one of our big sponsors. So
Speaker 1: but you know, he was very nice. Well, you know
Speaker 1: I should have probably been driving the golf cart with Harmon.
Speaker 1: By the way, these golf cards, yes, you know, I
Speaker 1: know you're rich, you but I'm not. And last time
Speaker 1: I was in a golf cart, you know, it was
Speaker 1: it was like gas. This was electric. Had a GPS system.
Speaker 1: Minute more on that in a minute. Um had a
Speaker 1: had a monitor in there to tell you which, you know,
Speaker 1: shot to hit, how far away you were from the
Speaker 1: whole um where you were on the course. It was insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really curious about the tab on this thing. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't have that. I My tab was zero because
Speaker 1: coming from coming from a guy that's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: not seeing anything on this podcast, I'm curious as to
Speaker 1: what I heard spent on the kind of lavish afternoon
Speaker 1: that you guys had, and I could only I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I'm really bad with that, but uh, you
Speaker 1: don't want to know. I'm really curious to know exactly
Speaker 1: who was all there too, because it sounds like that
Speaker 1: there was some real firepower there. And uh yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and I I was being introduced the scotch Apire, our boss,
Speaker 1: Don Martin, another one of our bosses. They were there,
Speaker 1: and they were introducing me to all these very profitable
Speaker 1: like this guy controls all of the I Heart Media's
Speaker 1: digital sales, this guy does radio sales, in charge of everything. Uh,
Speaker 1: all these executives from New York, where the headquarters of
Speaker 1: My Heart is now mostly located, they were all they
Speaker 1: were all there, and uh and I met him and
Speaker 1: you know Julie who runs Premier Networks, who has been
Speaker 1: my boss for you all these years. I met her.
Speaker 1: I met her before, but I not very often. I'm
Speaker 1: not there during the day, so it was so it
Speaker 1: was cool. I got a chance to you, played some golf,
Speaker 1: you had some food, And I guess I'm curious because
Speaker 1: when you go on an event like this, you're talking
Speaker 1: to so many people. Um, there's gonna be a bow
Speaker 1: that's put on this thing. So I'm curious now that
Speaker 1: after it's all said and done, the bigger question now is,
Speaker 1: since um, you are a family man and you are
Speaker 1: a supporter, is what did you bring home? What stalp
Speaker 1: did you bring home for us so that we can
Speaker 1: feast on? Uh? So you're looking for dirt? Is that? No,
Speaker 1: not dirt. We need, we need this thing to be
Speaker 1: taken to a higher level. And I think you can
Speaker 1: agree with me that we're not Joe Rogan, so we
Speaker 1: don't have bonds inside of our studio, so we have
Speaker 1: primetime guests. But we need uh, we need that kind
Speaker 1: of Uh. We need this thing to may be propelled
Speaker 1: to a higher level. How are we doing this now?
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean everyone was very nice. They love the product
Speaker 1: that I put out and we put out or whatever,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I got a lot of I
Speaker 1: got a lot of atta boys. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of pats on the back when I got a lot
Speaker 1: of good job by you that I do not believe
Speaker 1: we can monetize that. I don't think there's a way
Speaker 1: for us to cat in on att a boy. Uh
Speaker 1: but I got a lot of those and uh so
Speaker 1: may made it made me feel good. It was good
Speaker 1: for my ego. I mean that certainly is nice that,
Speaker 1: uh you know, these people seem like it. But but
Speaker 1: as far as the golf part of it, we'll get
Speaker 1: back to the kissing ass of of powerful people on radio.
Speaker 1: I actually started now it turned out to be a
Speaker 1: ship show for me. But I I started out okay,
Speaker 1: and I got progressively worse as I played, And it
Speaker 1: makes no sense. I I believe I set golf back
Speaker 1: to the stone age. Uh And ironically that's one of
Speaker 1: the highlights. There's a couple of things that stood out.
Speaker 1: So I used my golf clubs, which I when I
Speaker 1: bought them twenty years ago. I proudly displayed to everyone right,
Speaker 1: And I even I got some of my old grandfather's
Speaker 1: clubs that he didn't use anymore. Maybe it was after
Speaker 1: he died. Uh, And I was feeling pretty good about
Speaker 1: myself because I had a real golf bag like everyone
Speaker 1: else there. We had the golf carts and uh. One
Speaker 1: of the hard old golf guys, one of the guys
Speaker 1: that was trying to sell some golf product, is a
Speaker 1: nice guy. He Uh. He sees my my driver and
Speaker 1: he said, wait a minute, let me see that. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen that in years. And then he looks at
Speaker 1: me right in the eyes and says, man, that should
Speaker 1: be donated to a museum. He said he had not
Speaker 1: seen anyone using that in a long time. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, so I said, see, it's very valuable. He says, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. You'll be lucky if anybody ten bucks for that.
Speaker 1: You know what I kind of think. So it was
Speaker 1: he's I'll charge you a disposal fee to get rid
Speaker 1: of a man like an old like a like a
Speaker 1: BlackBerry cell phone that you got. As we get up
Speaker 1: with this thing, Ben, I want to ask you on
Speaker 1: a tire because we talked about this. I think the
Speaker 1: first or second podcast addition, But we were I was
Speaker 1: probing around to see exactly what you'd be wearing, since
Speaker 1: you were typically not a You're always shorts, right at least?
Speaker 1: Why I dressed like a slob at work because no
Speaker 1: one's around. But when I go out in public to
Speaker 1: you know, meet people, I dressed no. I had you
Speaker 1: know that golf golf attire. I got a golf shirt.
Speaker 1: Um not. I am upset with Jason Smith because I
Speaker 1: was gonna wear shorts. I asked if we were allowed
Speaker 1: to wear shorts. Everyone was wearing shorts. Jason's like, it's
Speaker 1: right on the ocean. It's gonna be cold down there,
Speaker 1: don't you know? You just wear pants? So I wore pants.
Speaker 1: It was ninety two degrees or whatever it was, and
Speaker 1: I'm sweating now. The good news is I got a
Speaker 1: little sunburned, but I didn't get burned on my legs,
Speaker 1: so that's so that's a good thing. And U. But
Speaker 1: as far as the God, I mean, I was, we'll
Speaker 1: wrap this up, and A said, but I was like
Speaker 1: I was seeing ghosts. It was really neat, though. I
Speaker 1: I I had a couple of other highlights. Just before
Speaker 1: I forget I I hit a wooden chair on a drive,
Speaker 1: and everyone was that was the highlight for my my FORO.
Speaker 1: Everyone could not believe that they were compaired with a
Speaker 1: guy that couldn't even get the ball over the wooden chair,
Speaker 1: which it sounds impressive until you learned the chair was
Speaker 1: about fifteen feet away from where we teed off. It was.
Speaker 1: It was on the ground, obviously, and it was like
Speaker 1: a par you know it was. It was like a
Speaker 1: par five, So it was a long, long hole. I
Speaker 1: also hit several trees. I smashed the ball in the
Speaker 1: into the wrong part of the course next to the
Speaker 1: one the hole next to the one we were supposed
Speaker 1: to be on. I killed ants, mosquitoes, a bunch of critters,
Speaker 1: and by the end of it, guest gun I had PTSD.
Speaker 1: I I lost so many golf balls in that f
Speaker 1: and lake and uh the water traps and the sand
Speaker 1: traps and the trees and all that that I hit
Speaker 1: one into the bushes and I'm like, I can see
Speaker 1: it because it was a neon green golf ball, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to get it. And I emerged looking like
Speaker 1: pig pen. I I had crap hanging out. I was
Speaker 1: ridiculous and um and then but you know, so then
Speaker 1: after we me the little dinner type thing after the
Speaker 1: golf and I had to clean myself up, and but
Speaker 1: they brought in This is how important this event was.
Speaker 1: Guest on Sean Hannity flew in from the East Coast
Speaker 1: and smoke for like five minutes to tell everyone how
Speaker 1: all these powerful people, how glad he was to be here.
Speaker 1: And it was I give him credit because Hannity is
Speaker 1: so he's polarizing now because of his friends, and he's
Speaker 1: best friends with Trump. That's right, President Trump, and he
Speaker 1: handed he's telling the story about how he was at
Speaker 1: the White House last a couple of days ago. I
Speaker 1: guess with the President or whatever, he's telling some story
Speaker 1: about that. You know, I give because there you know
Speaker 1: a lot of liberal people there California, man, And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he was no shame in his game. Man.
Speaker 1: He's a good guy. He's been in radio longer than
Speaker 1: he's been in TV by a long time. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt you. And yeah you mentioned Hannity, but you
Speaker 1: also had, like you said, with Coward being there, and
Speaker 1: I heard about the dinner that you guys had, So
Speaker 1: it was that's quite the Expia. It was similar to
Speaker 1: like um full for a radio geek, which I guess
Speaker 1: I am. Uh, you know it was it was Disneyland,
Speaker 1: you know, it was shang Ralai, was Nirvana and that
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. It was. It was cool And
Speaker 1: now I go back to reality with you, all right,
Speaker 1: moving on, I love the Amish gas. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you I've had a running joke over the years on
Speaker 1: radio that has been the one group of people we
Speaker 1: can goof on the Amish, right, because it is okay
Speaker 1: to poke fun of them, because what is a real
Speaker 1: authentic Amish person doing? Not listening to the radio, right,
Speaker 1: because by definition you can't use modern technology, so you're
Speaker 1: not a lot of listening to the radio. Well, last
Speaker 1: week I had a terrible case of heartburn acid reflux. Right,
Speaker 1: Have you ever had that? Once or twice? It's coming.
Speaker 1: You're getting older, one old man, it's coming. So it's terrible.
Speaker 1: If you've ever had this, you feel like you're having
Speaker 1: a heart attack, you think you're gonna die. These are
Speaker 1: end times. It's it's like a biblical prophecy. And this
Speaker 1: happened to me last year in for the first time.
Speaker 1: I've never had this happen to me before. Last year
Speaker 1: and I went on the internet and I found this
Speaker 1: you know, bs uh website that said this is the
Speaker 1: cure for heartburn. In one minute, you will be cured.
Speaker 1: It's a proven old Amish formula to stop heartburn immediately.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, this is bullshit, but man, is
Speaker 1: that heartburn horrible. I'm willing to try anything. You know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like those people who get unfortunately get
Speaker 1: you know, some kind of weird form of cancer and
Speaker 1: they go to Mexico for some bullshit medical procedure that's
Speaker 1: not don't even work most of the time, but it's
Speaker 1: called quackery, is what it's called. Anyway, So hand to God,
Speaker 1: this stuff work. Like Matt I, I had my talking
Speaker 1: to my wife about it. She bought it. We had
Speaker 1: had it for a year. Yeah Mary Poppins with her
Speaker 1: bag of you know, remedies and all it's anyway, So
Speaker 1: we had it in the house and uh, man, this
Speaker 1: stuff is like magic. In about five minute. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a minute, but in about five minutes, pressed though my pain,
Speaker 1: my agony was gone. I love the Amish. You saved
Speaker 1: my life. This stuff is as basic as it gets. Gastcut.
Speaker 1: It's just It's like I always say, with garlic when
Speaker 1: I get sick, and I use the garlic when I
Speaker 1: have laryngitis because it kills the infection in my throat um,
Speaker 1: which I've done for years and it's really helped me out.
Speaker 1: In the old world garlic, you know, the original plant
Speaker 1: based medicine before dr your modern medicine came around. But
Speaker 1: this stuff has apple cider vinegar mixed with high a pepper,
Speaker 1: garlic juice, and ginger. That's it. That's all. It's disgusting
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of Kien pepper in it, but man,
Speaker 1: is it effective. And thank God for this, But I
Speaker 1: always worry, like I'm gonna get this. You know, I
Speaker 1: eat a big meal. I don't eat much during the
Speaker 1: week so when I eat on the weekends a nice
Speaker 1: regular meal, I'm like, oh crap. And and it was
Speaker 1: pretty cool, al right, how did you consume it? Though?
Speaker 1: You just well, you can either drink a shot of it. Now.
Speaker 1: I I put what I had my wife to it
Speaker 1: because I could not move. I was literally I felt
Speaker 1: like I was on my deathbed. But so dramatic, I'm
Speaker 1: not trust me. I've been dramatic for the last three
Speaker 1: weeks and your stupid fucking tongue and now your heartburn
Speaker 1: every week. Man, like you're getting old in front of
Speaker 1: my ears. Wasn't believable. It's it's it's embarrassing. But but anyway,
Speaker 1: so um, I don't know what I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: but I uh we we I poured. I had to
Speaker 1: her pour this and and mix it with some water.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of deluded a little bit. And
Speaker 1: then you drink it like a shot. So are you're
Speaker 1: feeling better? I'm fine not you know, I felt immediately better,
Speaker 1: and I haven't had heartburn since then. I haven't eaten much,
Speaker 1: although I had. That's the other thing. Guest on on
Speaker 1: the golf Back to the golf thing real quick. So
Speaker 1: I don't normally eat on Wednesdays, you know, I take
Speaker 1: I skip every other day during the week, but I had.
Speaker 1: You know, it's rare and appropriate, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a rare thing and it was appropriate to
Speaker 1: eat eat. I felt like I had to eat because
Speaker 1: everyone But it was funny. Before the thing, I forgot this.
Speaker 1: But before the event, we I got there earlier, they
Speaker 1: had lunch, you know, sandwiches to eat for lunch. And
Speaker 1: and you could practice, you know, putting or hitting golf
Speaker 1: balls and um, and everyone was doing that except me
Speaker 1: and Jason Smith eating roast beef salmi. Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: eating roast beef sandwiches. All these other people are practicing,
Speaker 1: you know, taking hard ohs and golf and all that. Anyway, alright,
Speaker 1: but moving on, getting up. Now it's a bad day. Now,
Speaker 1: this this is a gas go on special. Now, I
Speaker 1: assume you've had a lot of bad days. Guess what
Speaker 1: makes this a better bad day than all the other
Speaker 1: bad days. Well, part of this is attributed to the
Speaker 1: month of July. And uh, you had a producer that
Speaker 1: decided to leave the country for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and so I volunteered to subben and and fill in
Speaker 1: for him. And as I did so, one of the
Speaker 1: nights that I had some questionable parking, you decided to
Speaker 1: take a picture of it. I did, and you posted
Speaker 1: not only on your social media accounts, but then it
Speaker 1: was retweeted through Fox Sports Radio social media account. Well,
Speaker 1: we wanted the full bang for the buck. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of bank, you had a bunch of different assholes
Speaker 1: that we're talking about. I should get fists. I should
Speaker 1: get my car keyed, I should get my ass kicked
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So when those are all legitimate points,
Speaker 1: yeah they are, but they're not really anything of value
Speaker 1: to to someone like me. So coming around the bend um,
Speaker 1: we have a producer here, Lee de Lap, who is
Speaker 1: not he is, but he's new and in free into
Speaker 1: the world again. His girlfriend from a couple of months
Speaker 1: ago I decided to call it quits, so she dumped them. So,
Speaker 1: as the good friend that I am, the good colleague
Speaker 1: that I am, I decided to say, Hey, Lee, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take you out. We'll go out in town and
Speaker 1: get you some drinks, get you right back in the world,
Speaker 1: and get you all healed up. So Saturday night I
Speaker 1: take Lee. We go down to Studio City, which is
Speaker 1: fairly close to where we yet for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: We go out for drinks and we're watching, uh, we're
Speaker 1: watching the Astros play. I got the Alcs on against
Speaker 1: the Yankees rotching college football's while USC was trashing Arizona.
Speaker 1: And we've stopped at a couple of bars, have dinner,
Speaker 1: then go have some drinks, and then we go to
Speaker 1: one other place for for the night festivities to end.
Speaker 1: And Ben I get to my car at one thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning on Ventura Boulevard and I get into
Speaker 1: my car. I'm ready to turn on the car and
Speaker 1: I hear traffic. Normally you can't hear traffic when it's
Speaker 1: that late of a night. I looked to my passenger
Speaker 1: side right rear window and it was blasted out. So
Speaker 1: I go to my car because I was I was
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, well, funk, I just got off of
Speaker 1: work a little while ago. I have my laptop, I
Speaker 1: have my hard drive, you know, the bag that I
Speaker 1: bring in. So I go to the back of my car.
Speaker 1: This is great. How it ends, though, is I go
Speaker 1: to the back and I look to see if my
Speaker 1: bags still in there. It is. It was in the trunk.
Speaker 1: It was still Yeah, I have at a trunk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the problem. That's the one. I love those trucks
Speaker 1: and four but you know, I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: the trunk. You can hide crap in there. I love
Speaker 1: the trunk. We'll see. Here's the kicker on this. My
Speaker 1: bag was still in the truck. But I go to
Speaker 1: the front of my fore Runner to go and see,
Speaker 1: like what else is around or if I could take
Speaker 1: pictures of the address. The fucker's that broke into my
Speaker 1: car tried taking my twenty five pound weighted vest out
Speaker 1: of my car. They took it and then dropped it
Speaker 1: in front of my car. Did they take anything, though?
Speaker 1: Did you notice anything that was the only Those are
Speaker 1: the only two items that I had in there of
Speaker 1: any value. I have some boxing gloves and some hitting pads,
Speaker 1: but that's it, and a foam roller. But these guys
Speaker 1: took my weighted vest. The weighted vest not only is
Speaker 1: it heavy, but it also smells like hockey gear. It
Speaker 1: has this old, dirty smell to it. So these guys
Speaker 1: grab it, quickly, pulled it out and then dropped it
Speaker 1: as there were like two feet in front of my car. So, um, Ben,
Speaker 1: this is kind of the the dark cloud that you
Speaker 1: put over me in my vehicle UH to have it vanialized,
Speaker 1: and it came to fruition because I was taking care
Speaker 1: of a colleague. So now I need one of your
Speaker 1: listeners and supporters to help me out because my insurance
Speaker 1: company won't even pay for the window to be replaced
Speaker 1: for a market window. They will pay for an UH
Speaker 1: secondary market window, which is even worse because the window
Speaker 1: itself has tint to it and also not like that
Speaker 1: I want to tint, but it has tint to it
Speaker 1: and also has the sensors for defrost, which are really expensive.
Speaker 1: The vehicle, Um, it's not got a good night, so
Speaker 1: it was an expense if it makes you feel better.
Speaker 1: Living in Los Angeles all these years, I've had my
Speaker 1: car smashed and broken into multiple times. I I don't
Speaker 1: know that we have time to get into here, but
Speaker 1: I I one was on Chris this day and like
Speaker 1: nine or two thousand, I was at a Laker Blazers
Speaker 1: game in downtown Los Angeles, but when Staples Center had
Speaker 1: first open, so it was like and uh so I
Speaker 1: came to my you know, I came out to my
Speaker 1: car after the game. That was like when Scottie Pippen
Speaker 1: was on the Trailblazer or whatever the long time ago
Speaker 1: and came out of the car, uh clicked the button open,
Speaker 1: you know the thing, and hear glass tingled down and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh crap, that's not supposed to happen. So
Speaker 1: so anyway, I flagged down up an L A p
Speaker 1: D guy and the guy was like, I'm swamped. There's
Speaker 1: hardly anybody working it's Christmas, and he's like, go to
Speaker 1: the precinct, right, So he tells me to go to
Speaker 1: the precinct, which is in skid Row. The closest police station,
Speaker 1: the Staples Center in Los Angeles is on skin Row.
Speaker 1: So I go down there. I parked my car in
Speaker 1: front of the police station. Now keep in mind, it
Speaker 1: was kind of a cool night that year, and there
Speaker 1: were there were people out in front of the police station,
Speaker 1: like across the street, homeless people that had lit a
Speaker 1: trash can on fire to keep warm. It was like
Speaker 1: a scene out of like Sodom and Gomorrow a movie
Speaker 1: or something like that. So anyway, I go into the
Speaker 1: police stage. You know, it's Christmas. There were many people
Speaker 1: there actually, and a very nice police officer came out
Speaker 1: and so he wanted to take a report, and so
Speaker 1: he walks out. Uh, and we go down to my car,
Speaker 1: and as we walk down, which is only a few
Speaker 1: steps down from the precinct, one of the homeless dudes
Speaker 1: is halfway in my car, rummaging to see if he
Speaker 1: can find anything else. They need some change, and the
Speaker 1: police officers like trying to show him a way get
Speaker 1: out of there. And uh, it was it was crazy.
Speaker 1: And uh, I've had my car broken into three times
Speaker 1: when we where we worked though guests. And I've told
Speaker 1: you this before. That is the car thief capital of
Speaker 1: l A. Because we are located right between the one
Speaker 1: oh one and the four oh five freeway and you
Speaker 1: can get on right I mean you can either get
Speaker 1: on the four or five or the one on one
Speaker 1: right away, and so a lot of cars get stolen
Speaker 1: there more than anywhere else in l A. And a
Speaker 1: lot of is obviously get broken into, but that's everywhere.
Speaker 1: I think that's a big problem because the people, even
Speaker 1: if you get caught, they don't really punish the people
Speaker 1: to do this. Yeah, And I found out two when
Speaker 1: I asked him if I can get some fingerprints taken,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't even go and do that. The local precinct.
Speaker 1: The really yeah, I want to call to ask for
Speaker 1: a police report. So because I could have gotten fingerprints
Speaker 1: off the vest, I think, um, but's odd because they
Speaker 1: did do that. They offered that to me a long
Speaker 1: a long time ago. They must have stopped because it
Speaker 1: happened so much that it's like a waste of a time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was brutal, So yeah, trying to do the right
Speaker 1: thing for a colleague that was fallen, and uh, I
Speaker 1: get busted that this all goes back to your shitty
Speaker 1: picture and tweets. So I hope you feel better about yourself.
Speaker 1: I have a last twenty four hours boosing it up
Speaker 1: and now putting a hex on me. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. You know it's like Cinderella,
Speaker 1: the Pumpkin and the Carriage turn us to a pumpkin again?
Speaker 1: Uh and bat reality? Who I am? Yea? Uh? Moving
Speaker 1: on though it is hip the clip. I am in
Speaker 1: a good mood. I've been in a good mood all week.
Speaker 1: Why am I that good mood? It's Kauai would not Hollywood,
Speaker 1: It's Kauai would Terminator l A will never be the same.
Speaker 1: Kauai Leonard better than Lebron James Kawhi Leonards the top
Speaker 1: player in the NBA, and he's wearing a damn Clipper uniform.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just blowing smoke, guest. I know you're
Speaker 1: a Laker fanboy and all that, and you grew up
Speaker 1: with the purple and goal, but Kawhi Leonard Is I
Speaker 1: would say about equal, maybe a little worse than Lebron offensively,
Speaker 1: but he is light years ahead of Lebron defensively. Lebron
Speaker 1: is like a designated hitter at this point. He's a
Speaker 1: one trick pony. Uh Kauai is a Swiss army knife,
Speaker 1: or in basket or baseball parlance, he's like a five
Speaker 1: tool player. He can do a little bit of everything
Speaker 1: to kill you and uh and I love it. And
Speaker 1: the Laker historians free life tip you want to make
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and I would say invest in
Speaker 1: vice stocks because these these historians are having a tough
Speaker 1: time dealing with it. And there the arrogance has no bounds.
Speaker 1: These guys a Lakers are gonna put the Clippers in
Speaker 1: their place opening night. They're gonna win by thirty or
Speaker 1: Lakers unstoppable duo Anthony Davis and Lebron James. There were
Speaker 1: one of six in the fourth quarter of those two idias.
Speaker 1: I know it's one game, it's all we really have
Speaker 1: to go with, uh, but I predict that the Laker
Speaker 1: historian base will be self medicating with booze and drugs
Speaker 1: by the time the playoffs come around and I'm very
Speaker 1: proud I had aligned on a monologue this week, but
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like we need a report here
Speaker 1: repeated here because people might not have heard it that
Speaker 1: since Jerry Bust died, the Laker franchise has been Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1: They have been the Charlie Brown Basketball And I think
Speaker 1: of it in those terms, right, and the famous cartoon
Speaker 1: character Charlie Brown thinking they are close to winning again, Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna only to have the ball cruelly pulled away
Speaker 1: at the last second by Lucy. He's falling on your
Speaker 1: b said, you got all these lottery picks, you know,
Speaker 1: number two, pick number two, pick number two pick that
Speaker 1: all sucked as Lakers. Some of them have become productive
Speaker 1: players elsewhere, but not as Lakers. You didn't get Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Now you can't. You can't funk up Lebron James. Right,
Speaker 1: this guy makes the play He's in the finals. Every
Speaker 1: year they don't even make the playoffs with Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Now they get Anthony Davis and they get trumped by
Speaker 1: the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard. It just keeps getting better
Speaker 1: and better, and uh anyway, and and and then the
Speaker 1: other thing from that Clipper Laker game. I mentioned this.
Speaker 1: I don't mean we've talked about it together. Is that
Speaker 1: China China Hong Kong thing? We mentioned it earlier, But
Speaker 1: I mean that the that was crazy, man. That was
Speaker 1: like Fremont Street in Vegas or Venice Beach or uh.
Speaker 1: It was wild man. It was freaky town down there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I say, you taking some of the pictures and you
Speaker 1: said that there was heightened security outside Staples Center to
Speaker 1: I know, there are some fans with free Hong Kong
Speaker 1: shirts that were out there posting those things up. So
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine this scene was pretty intense, but it was.
Speaker 1: I had to go through two sets of metal detectives.
Speaker 1: Guy said it was like super Bowl level security, like
Speaker 1: that kind of security for a regular season NBA game
Speaker 1: between the Clippers and Lakers. You didn't watch the World Series.
Speaker 1: You didn't watch Game one of the World Series. You
Speaker 1: went to Game one of eighty two between the Clippers
Speaker 1: and the Lakers. Let's you obviously you don't follow me
Speaker 1: on Twitter. You can, I would recommend you give me
Speaker 1: a follow there at Ben Maller on Twitter. I washed,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was. It might have been legal. It
Speaker 1: might have been illegal. I don't know, but I watched
Speaker 1: on my laptop with my headset, my headphones. I watched
Speaker 1: Game one of the World Series and my Washington Nationals natitude,
Speaker 1: I get that win and then they got to win.
Speaker 1: I did not see much of Game two, actually because
Speaker 1: I was socializing that they did have the game on television.
Speaker 1: But I I watched all of Game one. And but
Speaker 1: it's the The NBA, though, is stuck between a rock
Speaker 1: and China. I mean they are. They are, Scott rude.
Speaker 1: There's so much money that comes out of China for
Speaker 1: the NBA. It's a a mess. Alright. Moving on, we
Speaker 1: gotta the up guests, n study this. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: We'll do a few of these. Yes, yea, let's do it.
Speaker 1: These are actual studies. Now I'm addicted to these kind
Speaker 1: of things. I used to do them on the radio show,
Speaker 1: but I just save them for the podcast. These are
Speaker 1: I collect these during the week. These are actual studies
Speaker 1: done by universities mostly I think pretty much all universities.
Speaker 1: Uh and and whatnot. So I knew studies says sugar sweets, Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe as addictive as cocaine. About that. According to a
Speaker 1: scientific study recent evidence may suggest, I don't know how
Speaker 1: they throw may in there, which is a weasel word,
Speaker 1: may suggest that the sugar craves we have are very
Speaker 1: similar to the addictive narcotics. So I could say, like,
Speaker 1: I what, I've never been I've never done cocaine, But
Speaker 1: I could say like I was, like, I'm addicted to cocaine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love, I've been addicted to sugar. I've I've tried
Speaker 1: to wean myself out a little off in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it's tough man. Same way. I mean, I'm like
Speaker 1: that with caffeine. It doesn't matter if it's an espresso
Speaker 1: or an energy drink, whatever it is. The caffeine I have,
Speaker 1: especially when I'm working in the studio or on site somewhere,
Speaker 1: I need that extra extra shot to give me a
Speaker 1: little wake up juice. But I've been like that, And yeah, sugar,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get with candy and chocolate
Speaker 1: and things like that. But as soon as you have one,
Speaker 1: like Pringles, you can't only have just one. You gotta
Speaker 1: have a couple of them. So I believe that one
Speaker 1: This is probably gonna be taking the wrong way, but
Speaker 1: I'll say it anyway, because the hard the hardcore fan
Speaker 1: of the show, the super fans listen to the podcast guest,
Speaker 1: and the casual fan does not listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: You're you're a higher level Mallard Militia person if you
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. So I've often thought, you know,
Speaker 1: in years when I was a kid, I was like,
Speaker 1: why do we eat the cow and the chicken, but
Speaker 1: not the horse and not, you know, not these other
Speaker 1: animals that are we could cheat, you know, the elephant.
Speaker 1: Why don't we eat the elephant? You know, I wonder
Speaker 1: why do we choose the cow? And now I learned
Speaker 1: that we don't eat horses because they were very valuable
Speaker 1: and they were cars in the early days of humanity,
Speaker 1: and that's why we don't eat horses. But not anymore
Speaker 1: we have cars. Um. But it's like, why is sugar
Speaker 1: okay but cocaine is not? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: How come some things are like according to this research,
Speaker 1: and it might be bullshit, but they say it's just
Speaker 1: as addictive as cocaine, and it's also gives you. I
Speaker 1: I realized, because I've had a sugar addiction, I'm probably
Speaker 1: get some gnarly disease when I get older. Because of it. Umb,
Speaker 1: what's that diabetes? Well, yeah, the diabetes and all, I
Speaker 1: mean all that stuff. But I mean that's it's odd.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you knew this is bad for you
Speaker 1: and it's addictive, but yet society has decided that's. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should ban everything and adults should
Speaker 1: be able to choose. It's just odd how we've chosen
Speaker 1: these rules. That cocaine's bad and again not that I'm
Speaker 1: endorsing cocaine, but sugar apparently is also as as bad
Speaker 1: in some ways. Guess you don't die immediately though from
Speaker 1: the sugar. Well what about this then? Does that mean? Why?
Speaker 1: It just like goes hat in hand with with tobacco, alcohol? Um,
Speaker 1: what else do we got? I mean, vaping now is
Speaker 1: the thing? Well, now they're trying to ban vaping, and
Speaker 1: so they started vaping. Some people would stop smoking because
Speaker 1: they thought it was like the lesser of two evils.
Speaker 1: And now now they determined they got to get rid
Speaker 1: of the vaping. But I gotta be honest, if I know,
Speaker 1: not that I do either of those things, but if
Speaker 1: I had to choose between sitting next to someone who
Speaker 1: vapes and someone that smokes, I'll take the vapor, Give
Speaker 1: me the vapor, man, Yeah, of course anyway. Alright, moving
Speaker 1: on to self absorbed researchers create this is important for
Speaker 1: you guests on the arrogance spectrum, to help classify the condition.
Speaker 1: There are six degrees of the arrogance spectrum. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: see how many of these we qualified for. Denigration of others. Check.
Speaker 1: That's I make my living denigrating athletes about how I
Speaker 1: do it. That's right, believe or assumption of superiority. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm superior than any what. Well you you
Speaker 1: looked down upon everybody? Well, but I treat everyone the same. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But contempt, yes, failure to consider the perspectives of others. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I never consider anyone. I'm all about me. Resistance to
Speaker 1: new information about one's limits. Uh, yeah, you're pretty defined
Speaker 1: on that. I'm a I'm a taurist man, I'm a bull. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see who else. Number two overestimation of one's information
Speaker 1: and abilities. I don't say that, no, Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: not like that. Number one Distorted information and limitations inabilities.
Speaker 1: That's the number one thing here on the scale of arrogant. Man.
Speaker 1: It sounds like everybody on social media. Then sounds like
Speaker 1: everyone I've ever worked with in radio, where's my guy,
Speaker 1: Pat Obrian? I love Pat. Pat is the single most
Speaker 1: arrogantuy I've ever met. I love him to death. He's so,
Speaker 1: he's so, and he knows it too. Pat knows he's just.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget when I was on a call with
Speaker 1: when I was doing a show with Paddle Ryan years ago,
Speaker 1: the old entertainment guy and sports guy at CBS. I
Speaker 1: grew up watching. I told he should tell Pat all
Speaker 1: the time. He would hate it. I told him I lost.
Speaker 1: I used to watch him do those big Lakers Celtic
Speaker 1: games when I was a kid. You know, and you
Speaker 1: get annoyed. But but but anyway, Uh, I was on the
Speaker 1: I was talking to Pat on the phone. I called
Speaker 1: him what we were talking and he's like, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: I I gotta I gotta hang up here. I gotta
Speaker 1: call you back. Yoko is calling on the other line. John.
Speaker 1: Let you know it's a widow. Oh that was That
Speaker 1: was funny. So there's the arrogance spectrum? What else we
Speaker 1: have to do a few more of these that study this?
Speaker 1: Do you check your emails at work? Gast guard? All
Speaker 1: you do all right. A new study says some workers
Speaker 1: who don't have access to their email after hours experience
Speaker 1: a decline in their well being. That's bullshit, I now, no,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah, that's that's ridiculous. Here's here's
Speaker 1: a fun one. Ants are immune to traffic jams, recorded
Speaker 1: a new a study. How about this? The university which
Speaker 1: university was is, I don't have this in front of me.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, they said, even in crowding conditions, ant colonies
Speaker 1: still managed to maintain smooth traffic flow. And so like
Speaker 1: they're studying the are they gonna try to get human
Speaker 1: beings to act more like ants? Uh? Is that? I
Speaker 1: don't know what their their endgame on this. This is
Speaker 1: unlike self interested humans. Are there you go ripping humans?
Speaker 1: It's have a common goal, the colony's survival. And this
Speaker 1: maybe why just widening highways does not reduce human traffic congestion? Son?
Speaker 1: Should we should we identify in the new year? Should
Speaker 1: we identify as ants? Are you? Yeah? You're allowed to
Speaker 1: do that right in California, we can do whatever the
Speaker 1: identify as what's those? What are the possible people? Remember people?
Speaker 1: Or the possibles? All right? Uh, let's see how about
Speaker 1: how about the here's the University of Richmond, A lot
Speaker 1: of listeners in Richmond, Virginia. University of Richmond. Rats that
Speaker 1: drive aren't just unusual if they're taught to skill, they
Speaker 1: also find the process of learning driving rather relaxing. They
Speaker 1: put rats in many cars and had him drive around.
Speaker 1: Scientists of trained rats to drive these little, tiny cars,
Speaker 1: suggesting that brains of rodents are so flexible and much
Speaker 1: more flexible than initially thought. That is fascinating. Who's the
Speaker 1: guy that saying, you know, why don't we put these
Speaker 1: guys in cars? These little rats and cars? It's exactly it.
Speaker 1: What kind of vehicle would you put them in the
Speaker 1: first place? They look like little I saw a photo
Speaker 1: of it or a video of it, and it looks like, um,
Speaker 1: like a Lego type cars are very obviously rats. They're small,
Speaker 1: they're not that big lab rats man Mini Cooper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a golf carts that you were in over the
Speaker 1: last couple of days. Those were nice golfer I'd like
Speaker 1: to buy one. I couldn't afford one of those. Maybe
Speaker 1: give me one or something like that. Trying to relax,
Speaker 1: check this out. This is depressing, trying to relax can
Speaker 1: actually make anxiety worse. About that, I can believe that.
Speaker 1: I can stand believe that. According to a new study,
Speaker 1: thinking too much could cause you to die sooner, according
Speaker 1: to this study done by Harvard. So you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to think you're supposed to meditate. Yeah, well I know
Speaker 1: people to meditate. My wife meditate. She got me a
Speaker 1: meditating she spade for a meditation app. I used it
Speaker 1: a few times. I probably should do it more. It's
Speaker 1: like a deep breathing thing, you know, as that is
Speaker 1: not all meditation is when you breathe in, pause, breathe out.
Speaker 1: That kind of crap. You're supposed to have all your
Speaker 1: warriors left the door. Do you do that when you're
Speaker 1: at the gym? No. I watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC
Speaker 1: and hear them all either praise Trump or rip Trump.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much what I watched. See how when I'm
Speaker 1: in the gym, I hate doing this because I listened
Speaker 1: to a lot of music, but my mind and my
Speaker 1: energy starts increasing, and then my mind starts racing. So
Speaker 1: I didn't start thinking about what I should do for
Speaker 1: the day, or what do I need to accomplish, or
Speaker 1: what steps INTO take in terms of just a project
Speaker 1: or or something that nature, like I'm not doing enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just gets the blood flowing. Well. My problem, Gascon is
Speaker 1: that I I'm like that all the time. Like I'm
Speaker 1: always like, what what can I do? What if I
Speaker 1: don't do it? Am I gonna be behind? You know?
Speaker 1: And someone's gonna beat me on the show? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: even when I go to bed, it's I'm always like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss something, you know, and I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be some big scandal that's gonna break and
Speaker 1: I'll be sleeping and I get I'm paranoid, and it's
Speaker 1: it's so dumb because who cares. I can wake up
Speaker 1: and people don't really care. But yeah, I think about
Speaker 1: that stuff a lot. I'm always like trying to plan
Speaker 1: ahead and what you know, what, what's an angle tonight?
Speaker 1: What do you think the big story is gonna be?
Speaker 1: So I have an idea for the next show? And
Speaker 1: so you're a warrior? No, of course. Yeah, let's say
Speaker 1: kind of the Jewish DNA. I guess you're supposed to
Speaker 1: worry about. That's my my grandpa grandmother told me when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, you know, you don't worry about.
Speaker 1: It's the insecurity of working in the industry that we
Speaker 1: work in, because that's part of it. That's absolutely part
Speaker 1: of it, because you always think that someone's gonna come
Speaker 1: over the top and one up. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always worried like I'm gonna have a
Speaker 1: really bad show. I'm gonna screw something up and then
Speaker 1: the wrong person is going to hear it, and then
Speaker 1: that's Uh, that's the caput. I'll be working pushing shopping
Speaker 1: cards at Costco, finally living my dream of of doing that. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here. I don't know if there's anything else
Speaker 1: that here's the one that I thought was interesting. A
Speaker 1: new studies says that sixty percent of Uber drivers don't
Speaker 1: tip at all. Six out of ten don't leave a
Speaker 1: tip on you meant passengers, Oh yeah, writers, I said,
Speaker 1: as that drivers on the writers they don't tip at all?
Speaker 1: And how what percentage of these people actually tip every time? No? Well,
Speaker 1: I just said six don't tip, So how could it
Speaker 1: be fifty dummy of the oftent don't You're not good
Speaker 1: with the man. Not only one percent of people that
Speaker 1: take Uber tip every time. So that means the people
Speaker 1: that take Uber. There's one percent that are Uber wealthy. Right,
Speaker 1: bum bum bump, thank you. Ver has a long way
Speaker 1: to get to that. Here's another study. We're wrapping up
Speaker 1: on this one. A new study show that just forty
Speaker 1: of employed Americans say they're in good jobs versus forty
Speaker 1: in mediocre jobs and scent in bad jobs. Seventy nine
Speaker 1: percent of workers and good jobs report a high quality
Speaker 1: of life, but only a third in bad jobs reported
Speaker 1: a good quality of life. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: ship jobs out there. If you have one, you're in
Speaker 1: the majority. I guess, So where are you at? Then? Well,
Speaker 1: I have a I have a good job with bad hours.
Speaker 1: I have a good job with bad hours. Like, I
Speaker 1: love my job, but the hours can be tough. But
Speaker 1: I I've adjusted. I'm nocturnal. I'm the nocturnal colonel. So
Speaker 1: what about your work life balance? Oh that's terrible. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I need to improve and I got on weekends.
Speaker 1: I have a good time. I try to get away
Speaker 1: from it a little bit, but I definitely need to
Speaker 1: have uh more more hands on deck. I guess you
Speaker 1: need to go out more. You need to be more engaging.
Speaker 1: You can't just you can't do a Netflix documentary and
Speaker 1: chill night with the wife. That's every Saturday. Now, No,
Speaker 1: I we go, I go out, we go out. We
Speaker 1: when we spent a lot of time with family, and
Speaker 1: we're big with the family. I saw my dad after
Speaker 1: the golfing and uh, I said, I had to leave
Speaker 1: actually a little early, as like my dad goes to
Speaker 1: bed early, so I had to get there before you.
Speaker 1: The old man passed out, and uh I took him
Speaker 1: out to get some food because you know, we've got
Speaker 1: to look out for your pops. Would you take him
Speaker 1: Raising canes chicken fingers? All right? Damn right? Man? Uh
Speaker 1: So I did that? Oh probably I forgot to mention
Speaker 1: gascon so a Raising Canes opened up this week right
Speaker 1: near the Mallard Manchi and Beverly Hills. I have been
Speaker 1: waiting for the for like ten years. I'm not exaggera.
Speaker 1: My first experienced Raising Kings in Vegas a long time
Speaker 1: and I loved it. And they've come to l A
Speaker 1: and they just opened one. So the deal is if
Speaker 1: you get there early, you the first day it opens,
Speaker 1: they have a drawn like a lottery, and twenty people
Speaker 1: will be selected to get a free year of Raising Kings,
Speaker 1: free me, free year of food. Now you talk about
Speaker 1: a conundrum. So I'm like, I get off the radio
Speaker 1: l a time about you know three, I have about
Speaker 1: you know, an hour plus drive or whatever defending on
Speaker 1: that to get home. So I'm like, I didn't get
Speaker 1: there like four four thirty in the morning and wait,
Speaker 1: but I had to beat this golf event and I
Speaker 1: had to be up at ten in the morning to
Speaker 1: go to the Gulf. And that's why I was off
Speaker 1: from the radio show this week. And it was a
Speaker 1: last second decision. I actually drove by the Raising Kates
Speaker 1: restaurant on the way home to decide where they wanted
Speaker 1: to go, and there were people already lined up, and
Speaker 1: I said, ah, fuck it. I'm I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with it. You know. Was it as
Speaker 1: bad as a Black Friday for Best Buy when you
Speaker 1: get people that are pretty much tailgating and there's a
Speaker 1: line that's typically wrapped around the block. Well, it wasn't
Speaker 1: that bad, but there were people enough people there where
Speaker 1: I looked at that and I said, well, imagine all
Speaker 1: the other people that are gonna come. The math doesn't
Speaker 1: really work out for this. And they were sitting in
Speaker 1: like these are professional line sitters. They had chairs like
Speaker 1: beach chairs and the folk pop up chairs that they
Speaker 1: were sitting in and all that. All right, it's in
Speaker 1: the bad gas On. These are listener questions. You ready
Speaker 1: for this? Let's get you up, all right, we'll do
Speaker 1: a few of these. Uh Tarrell rights in from Columbus, Georgia,
Speaker 1: says Ben. Since you used to always say you would
Speaker 1: discuss hockey and the w n B A and the
Speaker 1: fifth hour, will you keep your word and do a
Speaker 1: Mallary maneuver or or do a Mallary maneuver and move
Speaker 1: it into the sixth hour? Well, yeah, I listen, Terrell.
Speaker 1: That's these are good questions. Um and and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I'm gonna have Gaess go onto a standalone
Speaker 1: fifth hour and he'll talk only w n B A
Speaker 1: and hockey. All right, I'm gonna take that week off Gascon.
Speaker 1: You can do it yourself. Yes, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could pull it off. Can you imagine doing anything
Speaker 1: with n h L N w n B A related
Speaker 1: for a podcast? Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
Speaker 1: talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows
Speaker 1: at Fox sports radio dot com. And within the I
Speaker 1: Heart radio app search f s R to listen live. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be uh we do. I've done hockey some.
Speaker 1: I did the Boston thing. I did bruin Boston Bruins monologue.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit different because it's a it's a
Speaker 1: hot market to do hockey, and you can't do hockey
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. You can do hockey and Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Boston,
Speaker 1: New York, Chicago, even in Boston. Be honest with you,
Speaker 1: it's a niche thing right now. It's become a niche
Speaker 1: thing the Bruins. At least it was when I maybe
Speaker 1: since I was the messenger station though yeah him a right,
Speaker 1: since says Ben, please come to daytime l A radio
Speaker 1: you and the petrol some money show would would kill
Speaker 1: thank you him me, But yeah, I love petros, no
Speaker 1: petrols for years, no money for years. Love those guys,
Speaker 1: uh stars of talk radio. But uh, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. But you never know that on line.
Speaker 1: I used to work local radio and l I was
Speaker 1: eleven fifty back then, but I used to fill in
Speaker 1: on AM. I haven't used me as a fill in guy.
Speaker 1: They always invite me to fill in when I'm on
Speaker 1: vacation at the end of the year. They're like, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to fill in for petrol some money. I'm like, why,
Speaker 1: I'm already on vacation. Why could I Why would I
Speaker 1: leave my vacation, my end of the year sabbatical to
Speaker 1: go do that. Plus my wife won't allow me to
Speaker 1: do it, you know what I mean, guess for a
Speaker 1: good reason? Would you ever consider asking to be a
Speaker 1: more regular host on on five seventy? Well, the problem
Speaker 1: is my sleep schedule. Um, But they used me for
Speaker 1: a while. I had had fun doing it, and I
Speaker 1: did I used to. Last time I did it a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I filled in on Dodger Talk,
Speaker 1: which was fun. You know, I was like the filling guy.
Speaker 1: But they don't. They don't need that anymore. Mopar writes
Speaker 1: and says, what do you really sound like? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: actually not a real person, Momar Mopart. I am a
Speaker 1: creation of the magic radio Box. Ye, Siri, I do
Speaker 1: not exist. I do not Brian in Newton Mass writes
Speaker 1: and he says, hey, Bench is guest Gon sucks and
Speaker 1: clearly is not on the show. And Brian Finley is incompetent.
Speaker 1: Why not do a podcast with Wreckett, Ralph or Coop?
Speaker 1: Either of them would be better. That's from Brian in Newton, mass. Well,
Speaker 1: that's up to guess. I guess ye have any update
Speaker 1: on the acting gig that you're up for? You have
Speaker 1: you gotten it? Are you leaving the podcast? Are you stay?
Speaker 1: You haven't gotten anything just yet. So it could be
Speaker 1: the situation where no call is is no job. I'd
Speaker 1: probably give it another two weeks. Uh, there was there
Speaker 1: was something else that I was selected four, and that
Speaker 1: was a month after the audition, So I gotta wait
Speaker 1: this thing out for probably another two three weeks. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the weight continues. Jay Rodd writes in or Jared
Speaker 1: in l A. He says, is it true that a
Speaker 1: warm basketball bounces higher than a cold basketball? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: thank you. That was a commercial that we did a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I didn't write that copy, but
Speaker 1: we lost one of my crazy callers because of that,
Speaker 1: Randy and Norman, Oklahoma. Randy loved the show but was
Speaker 1: so offended that I used bouncier. He said, Paul, can't
Speaker 1: be bounce here. You're very upset, and he stopped calling
Speaker 1: the show. Because you imagine stopped calling you show what
Speaker 1: a looney. Well, you've had some You've had some listeners
Speaker 1: that have stopped calling the show for some rather peculiar reasons.
Speaker 1: He got one guy in Miami that was pretty much
Speaker 1: asking for people on the radio for money calling the show.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, he got upset because I tried to
Speaker 1: stop his business of begging panhandling listeners. He got offended
Speaker 1: by that. Genie and Medford stopped calling. Um, she dropped dead.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that that's to me, that's a
Speaker 1: legitimate try. Yeah, alright, alright, Uh Caesar from South Texas.
Speaker 1: Right so, and he says, Ben, I'm a Newish listener here.
Speaker 1: I was introduced to you buy a colleague of mine.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed listening to the show. Well, thank you, Caesar.
Speaker 1: And again he wants to know if Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: offered you a daytime slot, would you take it? Um, Well, well, Caesar,
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to worry about that happening.
Speaker 1: I like working at night. I've done this a long time.
Speaker 1: I often say that the cool thing about doing a
Speaker 1: nighttime radio show is are the artistic freedom. You'll get
Speaker 1: paid as much money, but like I can try and
Speaker 1: stuff out and and throw crap against the wall. We're
Speaker 1: during the day. It's it's you know, you have a
Speaker 1: bad segment, the bosses is coming in to talk to you,
Speaker 1: or you know something, people are coming around. I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. The language is different too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can get away with a lot more and be
Speaker 1: just more colorful and and vibrant with your show as
Speaker 1: opposed to what you do during the daytime side of things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I absolutely, And it's a different type of radio.
Speaker 1: Daytime radio and nighttime radio are different. And the reasons
Speaker 1: for that, and we can debate whether that, you know,
Speaker 1: nighttime radio would work during the day and the sensibilities
Speaker 1: of the listener are different during the day and all that,
Speaker 1: but it's just a different animals, a lot more interview
Speaker 1: based during the day and things like that, and at
Speaker 1: night obviously we don't do that kind of thing. John
Speaker 1: from Parts Unknown says, I've been listening to you for years.
Speaker 1: I've never heard you swear on the radio until the
Speaker 1: fifth hour, have you and the crew ever made a
Speaker 1: swearing mistake? And what was from? John? Uh? Well, John,
Speaker 1: I'm even uncomfortable cursing here. I don't do too much
Speaker 1: of it because the problem is we we record this
Speaker 1: podcast on sometime on Thursday, and then I have to
Speaker 1: go do the Thursday and the Friday show. And so
Speaker 1: if I start cursing like a sailor here, then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wanna do it on the other show. You know,
Speaker 1: it becomes problematic. But I have the famous cursing story
Speaker 1: with me is when I was doing local radio. It
Speaker 1: was during one of the Olympics in the I don't
Speaker 1: want to say one because I'm gonna date myself, but
Speaker 1: it was a long time ago, and the we were
Speaker 1: doing a show. We were preempted, and the boss is like, well,
Speaker 1: there's like a like a one percent chance, so I
Speaker 1: might need you to come back, but just go down
Speaker 1: and have dinner at the and have some drinks at
Speaker 1: the bar. Don't worry about it. I probably won't need you.
Speaker 1: And so we went down there and got hammered. I
Speaker 1: don't even I'm not even, you know, And we got hammered,
Speaker 1: and me and the late great Mark Smith Dave Smith,
Speaker 1: and it was Ben and Dave show, and we were
Speaker 1: all drinking, eating, having a good time and being married.
Speaker 1: You know, young single guy having a great time. That
Speaker 1: was a that was adults. You don't know adults, is
Speaker 1: guest con. But it's this old Chicken Finger place. The
Speaker 1: original o G of the Chicken Finger was closed like
Speaker 1: a million years ago. What off of it was on
Speaker 1: Riverside driving Burbank, right next to Warner Brothers studios, bottom
Speaker 1: floor of an office building which used to be the
Speaker 1: K Rock building. We were at the Kiss F M
Speaker 1: Building which was across the street. And uh and that
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers I think owns all those buildings. I think
Speaker 1: they bought it. But anyway, so long story short, so
Speaker 1: we we we got hammered h John and then we
Speaker 1: got a phone call, not a text, because there's no
Speaker 1: text in those days. I got a phone call, Hey, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, numb nuts, come back and do the show.
Speaker 1: And I didn't even realize. I didn't know what was
Speaker 1: going on. I I I believe I cursed four or
Speaker 1: five times on regular radio. Um, I believe it was
Speaker 1: fuck and ship you know those I mean, I you
Speaker 1: know those kind of things. So and and and Mark Smith,
Speaker 1: the engineer who was also drinking it. Mark Mark didn't
Speaker 1: mess around. I love Mark. He would he came in
Speaker 1: and punched me because he kept having a dump me.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's only a certain amount of dumps
Speaker 1: you have, and then it becomes a problem. Big Loue
Speaker 1: writes and says for this is for David Gascon, a
Speaker 1: Big Loue from the LBC says, how many chicks at
Speaker 1: Big Bend's Christmas party did you slay? Uh? During or
Speaker 1: after the party? And will you try to beat that
Speaker 1: number this year? Well, I think the bigger question is
Speaker 1: how many women were actually at the party? Because I
Speaker 1: think I mentioned this in a previous edition. It felt
Speaker 1: like an eighth grade dance where you had men on
Speaker 1: one side of the room and then women on the
Speaker 1: other side of the room. So it was pretty it
Speaker 1: was pretty well segregated, and for some odd reason it
Speaker 1: was but there were a lot of married people there,
Speaker 1: at least in the women's side of things. Well, it
Speaker 1: was segregated well by the way. Guess you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: women say they're married just so you'll leave them alone.
Speaker 1: I've never run of that problem. Yeah, yeah, uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: I know so so so anyway, uh yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: You have the radio side, which is my side, and
Speaker 1: my wife's works at the police station. So you have
Speaker 1: the police side. Yeah, so what that it's code? Shall
Speaker 1: they mingle? Never? Shall they mingle? Well, what that code
Speaker 1: for is that radio people are ugly people and then
Speaker 1: everyone else is actually good looking. That's what it basically means.
Speaker 1: I saw some ugly people on that side of the
Speaker 1: room too, and usually on the radio side, it's just
Speaker 1: Looney regaling us in stories, is what that is. That's
Speaker 1: normally and everyone just listening to Looney talk about himself.
Speaker 1: How that goes? Uh, let's see your Mike and St.
Speaker 1: Paul's please find a cure. I'm a Life Along Lions fan.
Speaker 1: I am doomed. I love your show. Thank you, Mike,
Speaker 1: well all of you want. I My wife bought a
Speaker 1: voodoo doll to killing the Dodgers and it's working. I'm
Speaker 1: killing the Astros with the voodoo doll. So maybe I
Speaker 1: can loan that out the listeners who want to put
Speaker 1: a hex on uncertain teams or remove a hex. That's
Speaker 1: very Indiana Jones Temple of Doom. Ask I can appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Jesse and Pomona in SoCal says, Hey, Ben, with all
Speaker 1: the criticism you've been tossing at the Dodgers, especially Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: Do you ever worry that one day you'll go to
Speaker 1: blue Heaven on Earth and they will turn you away,
Speaker 1: bann you from the stadium. Uh, you know, Jesse, Jesse,
Speaker 1: that's actually a legitimate question. Now, I couldn't obviously do
Speaker 1: this if I I did dodge your talk, because that
Speaker 1: is a you know, that's paganda for the die. I
Speaker 1: did it. I love it, and I do love the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what Tommy Hawkins, the late great
Speaker 1: Tommy Hawkins told me. He used to be a Dodger executive.
Speaker 1: I love Tommy Hawkins. And he told me, and this,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is still a philosophy, so
Speaker 1: maybe it's not, but he said, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: care if you guys rip us and you know, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and all that. We don't care because it shows passion.
Speaker 1: And as long as you're passionate, as long as you care,
Speaker 1: then that matters. The thing that everyone in professional sports
Speaker 1: is worried about, and the thing that at that time
Speaker 1: the Dodgers were worried about was apathy. It was being aloof,
Speaker 1: It was being detached or disinterested and and I'm not disinterested.
Speaker 1: I'm not detached at all. Uh. And so I'd like
Speaker 1: to think that the people that work for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: are are grown up and know that I am coming
Speaker 1: coming at this from a place of hoping things get better.
Speaker 1: But you know, it is a legitimate thing. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you, I'll give credit to the Lakers. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that work for the Lakers. I
Speaker 1: have been savage against the Lakers over the years, and
Speaker 1: they still welcome me, and they're very nice to me,
Speaker 1: and they tell me things I probably shouldn't know about
Speaker 1: the franchise and things like that. And and so I'll
Speaker 1: give the Lakers credit because they have thick skin. Not
Speaker 1: the fan base or the historians, but the people that
Speaker 1: work for the Lakers have been very good to me
Speaker 1: for the most part. And uh, and I have been
Speaker 1: I have just shipped all over them. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with being critical either. We live in a world now
Speaker 1: where God forbid, if you have any kind of disagreement
Speaker 1: or any kind of dissension, people look at it as
Speaker 1: now you going to take things personal and it goes
Speaker 1: off the reservation. Yeah, it's true, you know, And we
Speaker 1: see this in relationships all the time where people, you know,
Speaker 1: Republicans only want to be with the Republicans, Democrats only
Speaker 1: want to be the Democrats. And my my wife has
Speaker 1: telling me some of her girlfriends are like, you know,
Speaker 1: she's telling them like they only want to be with
Speaker 1: like liberal guys because they're liberal, and like, you gotta
Speaker 1: open it up. Man, you get to a certain age,
Speaker 1: you know, suddenly the uh, the laundry list goes a
Speaker 1: little shorter. You know what you're what you're looking for
Speaker 1: exactly in man, let's get you up with this thing,
Speaker 1: all right, don't stick the sports stories of the week.
Speaker 1: What do we go? So? Bet? How about this? One
Speaker 1: forty six year old man developed a rare disease. It's
Speaker 1: called the auto brewery syndrome, better known as the drunken disease. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard about this, but a
Speaker 1: guy back in two thousand eleven, and it continued for
Speaker 1: six years. Um He told doctors that he had no
Speaker 1: kind of medical issues, no psychiatric history at all, nothing wrong,
Speaker 1: but he began feeling depressed and his brain started to
Speaker 1: feel foggy. He also at times got an aggressive behavior
Speaker 1: were It turned out that his his body started turning
Speaker 1: carbohydrates into alcohol. Yeah, by taking antibiotics. How the fund
Speaker 1: does that happen? Exactly? It? So what happened was, you
Speaker 1: tell me, by drinking, like it's your body thinks you're
Speaker 1: drinking whiskey and vodka and all that, but you're just
Speaker 1: you're eating carbs. Yeah. So what happened was and this
Speaker 1: is unfortunate for him, but uh, one morning he was
Speaker 1: actually arrested for alleged drunk driving and he was pulled
Speaker 1: over and he took a breathalyzer test from a hospital
Speaker 1: and it actually occurred that his blood alcohol content had
Speaker 1: skied high, like it was above ten alcoholic drinks for him.
Speaker 1: So after the arrest was over, he went to to
Speaker 1: get some treatment and they actually took a stool sample
Speaker 1: from him and found out that the yeast and his
Speaker 1: body uh was actually converted into what they have from
Speaker 1: like wineries and and breweries and whatnot. So any of
Speaker 1: the carbon hydrates that he had turned over into alcohol,
Speaker 1: which obviously elevated his blood alcohol levels. Well, how many
Speaker 1: people have that it's rare disease? Like how uh A
Speaker 1: dozen people were talking that's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't know, I make it up. It'd be like
Speaker 1: loony and just make it up. Twelve people been twelve people.
Speaker 1: They're all in India, some in Pakistan. Uh you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: and this is it all stemmed from taking antibiotics. So
Speaker 1: just imagine taking antibiotics and having that trigger your carbohydrates
Speaker 1: and turn that in an alcohol. Yeah. I try not
Speaker 1: to take antibiotics because I feel like I'll need him
Speaker 1: at some point and if you take him now, they
Speaker 1: won't be as effective, that's what they say. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do that with hand sanitizer. Oh you don't. You
Speaker 1: don't do the hands. I barely use hand sanantires. And
Speaker 1: the reason why is because the disinfectant that's used on
Speaker 1: your hands um your body, the way that it fights
Speaker 1: off some of the germs and whatnot, it becomes it
Speaker 1: doesn't become as potent the the wipes that you use,
Speaker 1: the the hand sanitizers, so you're gonna pick your spots,
Speaker 1: you know. I don't like hand sanitizer anyway, Like I'm
Speaker 1: old fashioned, like soap and water. Is nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: How about this one? An Australian man was actually uh
Speaker 1: he pled guilty a manslaughter for killing a sixty year
Speaker 1: old homeless guy. Now here's the kicker on this. A
Speaker 1: gentleman back in two thousand and eighteen left a pub
Speaker 1: down in Sydney, Australia, and got into an argument with
Speaker 1: another guy. And they were they were talking, they were pushing,
Speaker 1: they were shoving and whatnot. And the other gentleman, who
Speaker 1: was obviously hammered too, pulled out a knife and stabbed
Speaker 1: this guy. Um. The guy's name, will call him Thomas.
Speaker 1: Thomas said, all right, go ahead and stab me. Pulls
Speaker 1: out a knife, gets stabbed, and as he gets stabbed,
Speaker 1: the the obviously the guy that stabbed him released the
Speaker 1: knife because it was in his body. He pulls it
Speaker 1: out of his own body and his stomach and stabs
Speaker 1: the attacker back and kills him. How about that? You
Speaker 1: know what that that tells you? If you're gonna stab someone,
Speaker 1: be a backstabber. That's what a brutal story that is got.
Speaker 1: I got plenty of that in this industry. How about this?
Speaker 1: In the UK, a man was arrested after driving unsupervised
Speaker 1: to his own driving test. So it's just like a
Speaker 1: young guy or an old guy. I was a middle
Speaker 1: age guy. Middle age middle aged guy, and he's he's
Speaker 1: going to take his driving test, and uh, and so
Speaker 1: why what happened? So what happened was this all stems
Speaker 1: from the incident itself, because he wanted to take a
Speaker 1: driving exam not for the first time, not for the
Speaker 1: second time, but for the tenth time. He had failed
Speaker 1: the driving test nine other times. And then obviously that's
Speaker 1: kept going with it. He was arrested on suspicion of
Speaker 1: taking a vehicle without the owner's consent as he arrived
Speaker 1: to the test. I think that's called stealing, isn't that called?
Speaker 1: So this guy drove a stolen car to take a
Speaker 1: driving test and then failed it again. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's like they say, though, you know, it reminds me
Speaker 1: like the You can fail the bar endlessly and eventually
Speaker 1: if you pass it, you're called a lawyer. Right. This
Speaker 1: guy fails the driving test, you know, nine ten times,
Speaker 1: but eventually if he passed, says, they call him a driver.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, that's all. That's a lot of hoots. But man,
Speaker 1: you imagine, I mean, that is uh, take someone special
Speaker 1: to keep going at it like that. Yeah, that's wild man.
Speaker 1: Last two ones? How about this? Do you know anyone
Speaker 1: that works in UH as like a flight attendant or
Speaker 1: as a pilot or god, I wish, I wish my
Speaker 1: wife would work at the airlines. That's I mean, man,
Speaker 1: you get that free air travel or discounted friends fly free, man,
Speaker 1: I wish. Yeah, speaking of that, this woman by the
Speaker 1: name of Tiffy Jenkins, she's on the East Coast. She's
Speaker 1: facing twenty years in prison after she pleaded guilty UH
Speaker 1: to some federal charges. She basically scammed UH the airline
Speaker 1: Jet Blue over a million dollars because what she would
Speaker 1: do is that she'd put codes in for passengers UM
Speaker 1: that had regularly priced rates on their flights, but she
Speaker 1: would price them out at a discounted rate. So she
Speaker 1: would have there's a code in the system for different things,
Speaker 1: whether it's for senior citizens or for UM, for people
Speaker 1: with infants obviously because they fly for free or they
Speaker 1: pay like a discount of rate, and military the same thing. UM.
Speaker 1: There's also a code in there for people that fly
Speaker 1: because of some kind of family distress. And so she
Speaker 1: was in putting these people that wanted to buy flights
Speaker 1: and she was pocketing the money, so she'd give them
Speaker 1: the regular price flight, but that input the code into
Speaker 1: the system at a cheaper flight, the cheaper fair. How
Speaker 1: long did she do this? It probably not that long
Speaker 1: because airline tickets are pretty prices, so right, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was actually a little bit less than a year
Speaker 1: and a half. She did it five five times. You
Speaker 1: know what this reminds me of. Do you remember the
Speaker 1: NBA official scandal? No? No, no, not that one. There
Speaker 1: was another scandal that didn't get as much play. There.
Speaker 1: There was a travel expense scandal. I think the Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball umpires were also their own scandal. But this
Speaker 1: goes back before your time, in the nineties, but I
Speaker 1: remember talking about this when I first got in the radio.
Speaker 1: Forty three NBA referees had been running a scam where
Speaker 1: they the NBA bought them first class plane tickets, right
Speaker 1: and they they would go, they would downgrade first class
Speaker 1: the full fair coach plane tickets, and and they pocketed
Speaker 1: the money and and eat. Each each made between seventy
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy seven thousand a year by just
Speaker 1: taking the worst flight, you know, or not the first class,
Speaker 1: but going to coach. And they they did that for
Speaker 1: for several years and eventually they got caught obviously, and um, Steve,
Speaker 1: I think Steve Jabby was acquitted, but he was a
Speaker 1: longtime referee, he was. But but all the other ones
Speaker 1: were Eleven of the twelve that were indicted ended up,
Speaker 1: um being being in trouble, you know, being a lot
Speaker 1: of trouble. So Zyra Coban was like slap on the wrist.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of them took a lot of
Speaker 1: them took plea deals, if I remember correctly, is that
Speaker 1: what it was? What's that was that? Like? Do you
Speaker 1: remember what the plea deals were? Though? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: nothing like the college scandal right now? Correct? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's yeah, I mean it's like the punishments
Speaker 1: of the similar I mean, they're people aren't really getting
Speaker 1: punished for the college scandal, right mostly and these people,
Speaker 1: the referees as I and I was a long time
Speaker 1: ago guestcum but I don't remember them getting I think
Speaker 1: they got community service and they had to pay back money,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing restitutional. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was that kind of all right, fair enough,
Speaker 1: But this one. We're both huge pizza lovers. Do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite. I don't know, Well, the homemade Mallard pie.
Speaker 1: I love the bubbles in the crust of the pizza,
Speaker 1: and uh I love that. I make a pie myself,
Speaker 1: usually on the weekends. Um I was a when I
Speaker 1: go to Pieces, I liked the round table pizza was
Speaker 1: like a northern California chain. Um I like that. But
Speaker 1: Chicago style, New York style. Um more, Kirkland brand style.
Speaker 1: Shut up, don't pizza snobby or don't be frugal with
Speaker 1: your pizza. No, Kirkland brand pizza is wonderful. It's okay.
Speaker 1: It's nothing compared to Chicago or New York. New York.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. The New York pizza is
Speaker 1: so freaking overrating over it. I go to New York
Speaker 1: every couple of years because my brother lives there, my
Speaker 1: older brother, and so these two famous pizza places in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: right why we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to eat pizza.
Speaker 1: We made a pilgrimage and I'm I told my wife,
Speaker 1: I said this, I can get better pizza costco. It's
Speaker 1: not even that good. It's a high end pizza. It's
Speaker 1: a high end pie. What about Chicago pizzas like a cake.
Speaker 1: That's like eating a piece of cake. No, that's that's
Speaker 1: like a pie. That is like I would to choose
Speaker 1: if I had to choose between Chicago pizza New York,
Speaker 1: I would take Chicago pizza, of course I would. They
Speaker 1: used been a place called Numero Uno Pizza Change. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that. I love that place, and that was
Speaker 1: more Chicago style pizza anything. Don't they still around, No,
Speaker 1: not that I'm aware of. Maybe they are pizzas around.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you used to go to that
Speaker 1: back in the day. And there's that you know where
Speaker 1: we work in uh In in Sherman Oaks part of
Speaker 1: l A. They opened a authentic Chicago pizza. We should go.
Speaker 1: That's where we got to go, guests gar um when
Speaker 1: we get to were we get together in real life? Um,
Speaker 1: there's a Chicago pizza places apparently opened up like a
Speaker 1: famous one of the famous Chica. They don't have very
Speaker 1: many locations outside Chicago, and they opened one up here.
Speaker 1: All right. I mean it's tough to get away from
Speaker 1: Fat Souths which is right down the street. That's a
Speaker 1: really good spot. Obviously, no pizza there. Uh Medine Cheese
Speaker 1: is a good pizza spot down the street from where
Speaker 1: we're at too. So I bring all that up because
Speaker 1: a vegan um has been traumatized. Yeah, they had asked
Speaker 1: Dominos to make him a vegan pizza and uh, the
Speaker 1: chain pizza obviously down there is a little bit different
Speaker 1: than here in the United States. But they had actually
Speaker 1: added to the menu a couple of plant based options
Speaker 1: for people that included Hawaiian option. Well, the Hawaiian option,
Speaker 1: as you know, is what it's ham and pineapple. Well
Speaker 1: he ordered the Hawaiian uh dish, but it wasn't fake ham.
Speaker 1: It was actually real ham. And now he has disclosed
Speaker 1: to the Daily Mail in Australia that he feels horrible.
Speaker 1: It's a sinking feeling. And I had to eat an animal.
Speaker 1: Not eating animals has become a core part of my
Speaker 1: belief system. I felt shame and pain for the animal.
Speaker 1: End quote. Now get over. I mean, my god, it's
Speaker 1: so it's so stupid. That's the world we live in.
Speaker 1: A plant base there you go, that's wonderful. So that's
Speaker 1: just some guy working to the pizza shop that grabbed
Speaker 1: the wrong instead of the fake ham, he grabbed the
Speaker 1: real right, I mean, is that probably unless it was
Speaker 1: intentional And yeah, you know when you go out to eat,
Speaker 1: you were taking a risk that you're gonna get what
Speaker 1: you order. I think we all know that, right that
Speaker 1: no one's gonna spit a loogie in your food or
Speaker 1: do something the other disgusting thing in your food. You know,
Speaker 1: take you take a chance. Aren't rolling the dice? That's right?
Speaker 1: I even roll the dice when I was at the
Speaker 1: Mallard mansion. Well, the food is the Mallard match this
Speaker 1: top notch, wonderful booze everywhere, food everywhere. Companies a little suspect,
Speaker 1: But wow, I don't know that you're gonna be invited
Speaker 1: this year. I don't know. You might, you might not
Speaker 1: be invited. If there's any luck, I'll be working. They
Speaker 1: usually say that if you're a good broadcaster worth your salt,
Speaker 1: you're working on the holidays. Is that right? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to know, if you know, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're not important, you're working in the holiday. That's not true,
Speaker 1: because the absolutely true. The NBA has their showcase games
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. Thanksgiving. We got three four games National Football.
Speaker 1: I work on Thanksgiving. I do work, not really, I do.
Speaker 1: I do a Thanksgiving show every year, much to the
Speaker 1: disdain of my wife, I do. I she's got a
Speaker 1: good point. Anyways, that's it for now. That's that's it
Speaker 1: for me on this. All right, very very We'll get
Speaker 1: you up and get the hell away, and don't forget
Speaker 1: the other podcast, which you should see or it'll be
Speaker 1: up soon if you don't see it right now. If
Speaker 1: you get this right away, that'll be Benny versus depending.
Speaker 1: Another winning week last week picking NFL games and a
Speaker 1: lot of big favorites again, a lot of big favorites
Speaker 1: in the NFL uh this weekend, So we'll we'll give
Speaker 1: you that and have a great weekend. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: a wonderful weekend. Be safe. We'll be back in the
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