1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Boom. If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: break free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 7 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: Maller starts right now today here it is the Fifth 8 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and David gascon As. We are 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: here to enlighten you on this non football weekend no NF. Well, 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: I don't consider the Pro Bowl. I've been to the 11 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl kind of years ago. I don't consider the 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and actual NFL events. So there will be 13 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,959 Speaker 1: no Benny versus the Penny podcast. But you do have 14 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: this standby Grab Bass podcast because four hours, five days 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: a week is not enough of the Ben Maller brand, 16 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: if you want to call that a brand. But we 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere the vast power of My Heart, 18 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: the global reach of podcasting. This podcast has heard weekly 19 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: on the I Heart podcast network, which you probably already 20 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: figured that out because you're listening to it. But tell 21 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: your friends, Tell your friends want to up the numbers 22 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: here in still earlier in the year obviously, so I 23 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: want to see these podcast numbers go up and maybe 24 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: we'll actually get some money. Um of course me not 25 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: David Gascon, who is right over there. Unfortunately, back again, 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: we thought you would be gone, but you've survived under 27 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: the week. Yeah. You know what, I will say that 28 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: in all of this with the fifth out with Ben Maller, 29 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: that UM, I welcome you into the studio this entire 30 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: week because I'll tell you what, not only do we 31 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: have sportscasters, producers, editors here at Fox Sports Radio, but 32 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: we got some amazing politicians and we got some knowledgeable 33 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: attorneys throughout as we are. We're underway in the impeachment 34 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: here inwies so we got Rhodes scholars in here. It's 35 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: a it's a delight to tell you this much, Ben, 36 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: it is a lot of fun to see, um, all 37 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: the intellectuals that are throughout this building so loud and 38 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: proud here we are. You're you're enjoying this, You're you're 39 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: feasting on all of this. Yeah. I think it's I 40 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: think it's entertainment. I think it's good. Um, we have 41 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: like the parlor game. David guest Gun enjoys the parlor 42 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: game of the impeachment. I've watched some of it, but 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,399 Speaker 1: small doses well earlier in the week. I can only 44 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: handle blow blowhards so much. Yeah, but look at the 45 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: industry we're in. Like I said, I can only handle 46 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: the blowhards so much. I don't hang out with these people. 47 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: We don't. It's if it's not one thing, it's another. 48 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: Turn your turn your damn phone off. Turn your phone off. 49 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: Please put it on silent. You can't be interrupted. I 50 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: gave you an entire hour to sleep, and now you're 51 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: interrupt in this podcast. Your stupid you were fifteen minutes 52 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: late to the podcast, and so you will be deducted 53 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: from your pay. You will be deducted for fifteen minutes. 54 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: That a Demerit is that what that is? Yeah? Do 55 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: you know that you're a bad influence? Like people are 56 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: sending me angry messages from the Bible belt. I know 57 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: that you're getting me to curse, and they do not 58 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: like to hear. I'm like, leave it to beaver. I 59 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: don't curse, but you've gotten me to curse on this 60 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: fucking podcast, and people are upset by that. I don't. 61 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: I don't tell you to curse. And it's understandable that 62 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: some people don't want you to use foul language because 63 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: they have kids, they have lives that it's it's not 64 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,839 Speaker 1: a it's not a bomb on. Kids curse more than anybody, 65 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: of course, But I learned all these words when I 66 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: was a kid. But they don't do it around their parents. 67 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: I understand the last thing they need is you or 68 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: I to be a bad influence on them. So can 69 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: you can you curb the cussing a little bit? Please? 70 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: You curse? If you do a side by a ven diagram, 71 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: you curse much more than I curse. But it's usually 72 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: at you. Well, yeah, which is called for unnecessary and dumb. 73 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: But it's not on air. It's not on a podcast, 74 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: it's not on the national radio. It's not on air. 75 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: What do you what do you hello? Is this thing on? Well? 76 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: I mean sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. I guess 77 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: it just depends on the time of day, right, I mean, 78 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: you're loyal enthusiasts and blow hards aren't really downloading as 79 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: much as they should apparently, But it's all good other 80 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: than the numbers are where they're I guess they're supposed 81 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: to be. I just think they should be higher. I think, 82 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: but working with you is a liability, speaking of which 83 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: that you have to overcome, a liability. I heard I 84 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: heard Media did their two thousand nineteen podcast awards just recently, 85 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: and uh, I'm proud to say that you were not 86 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: among the elected podcasts. And there's a reason for that. 87 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: And uh, well, the reason is you well look in 88 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: the mirror and you will see why that that we 89 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: cannot be accepted by the mainstream. With David Gascon, that's 90 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: the react. But I don't really want to win awards 91 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: because my whole reputation has been that I am people's champ. 92 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: I don't need to be some fugazzi award show. They 93 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: have these awards shows. I have friends of mine to 94 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: go to these luncheons and they get awards, and it 95 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 1: looks like just the most horrible afternoon you could possibly 96 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: spend hanging around with a bunch of gas bags who 97 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: are also full of themselves, how great they are, patting 98 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: each other on the back, taking bows. Who wants to 99 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: take part in something like that, Well, I think for 100 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: the purposes of of professional acknowledgement, maybe a company bonus, 101 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: maybe an advancement in the career. I think, well, you 102 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: can show me where in that contract I get a bonus. 103 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: If I win an I Heeart Podcast award, then I 104 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: will be motivated and I will lick the toes of 105 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: who I need to lick to win the award. Well 106 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: as you did, mention, It's all about enlightenment. It's all 107 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: about making people aware. And when you make people aware, 108 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: advertisers come, sponsors come, new friends come along and uh, 109 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: and I won't have to be doing such so much 110 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: of the heavy lifting for us to market outside of 111 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: this building here. So um, I can only do so much. 112 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: I can only bring it to the water. I can't 113 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: force you to drink at Ben Maller. You know you are. 114 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: I'm Lebron James, your Mo Williams, and I'm handing you 115 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: to a championship. At least at least she didn't say 116 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: I was somebody else that was on that team that 117 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: is now suffering greatly. So um, I'm I am Kauhai 118 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: Leonard and you are Jeremy Lynn and I have won 119 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: a championship for you. But you get a ring? Oh well, 120 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: y'all get a ring. One a way or another at 121 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: quarterback championship ring. Doesn't the chief in the championship ring? 122 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: Luke won't want an NBA title with the Lakers. Is 123 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: that take a championships? Does that take away from anything? 124 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: Of course not everybody has a role. I think that 125 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: mine needs to be amplified a little bit more. Um, 126 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: but that is your role is to get hemorrhoids role. 127 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: Sitting there listening, we can certainly do that. So what 128 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: do we What do we have on the alright venue 129 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: on this Week's a Day into the fifth Hour with 130 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: Ben malloy. We've got the voice of a killer haunting 131 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: from the trash can. We've got that fake it until 132 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: you make it. We'll get that as well. Study this 133 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 1: grab bag, which is the mail bag. We just changed mail. 134 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: We grab mail to grab or whatever. Whatever. You get 135 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: the point, uh, and don't stick to sports stories of 136 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: the week, So we get those. We've got a lot 137 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: to get to and we'll probably not get to half 138 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: of it, but we begin with this Aaron Hernandez documentary 139 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: which I have been watching on Netflix and I'm not 140 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: all the way through it yet. I've made my way 141 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: through most of it. It is pretty good, actually, it's 142 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: pretty good, uh on the mall scale of documentaries one 143 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being the magnum opus. I'm out 144 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: of nine, and it could go up to a ten. 145 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: I'm out of nine right now. It's got a chance 146 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: to get to attend. That's not good that there's great 147 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: production value on this, which is important with podcasts. Sometimes 148 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: it's amateur our kind of like the fish Bowl, the 149 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: famous fish Bowl podcast that we did with guests gout 150 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: Engineering back in but the podcast that's a different animal. 151 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: The documentary with Aaron Hernandez life story, fast moving, somewhat informative, alow. 152 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: I knew a lot of it and chilling at times. 153 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I didn't expect this to 154 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: be that great because we were on the radio talking 155 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,599 Speaker 1: about Aaron Hernandez when he was on trial for murder 156 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: and then substantly found guilty of that and all, and 157 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: so we didn't play a monologues. I knew a lot 158 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 1: about it. I was doing some radio in Boston remotely 159 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: during that time, so we talked a lot about it 160 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: on the Boston Show off and on, and I knew 161 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: some of the people that were involved in the story. 162 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: On the kind of the outskirts of the story. But 163 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: it's just wild. I mean to watch it and hear 164 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: the phone calls that this guy was going around killing 165 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: multiple people, and he then show up at the stadium 166 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: on Sunday and rah rah there are a bunch of 167 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 1: people wearing this jersey cheering him on, not knowing they 168 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 1: were cheering on a killer. Just craziness and the ability 169 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: that Internet has had to compartmentalize. He's uh, he's fast. Fascinating. Yeah, 170 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: the way that it was all all laid out, Yeah, 171 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: I mean, just what you're hiding guests. Well, just because 172 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: of the way that this wasn't just a regular guy. 173 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: This was a high performance athlete at the major Division 174 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: one level at Florida and then eventually in the National 175 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: Football leagues. Sue to maintain that kind of excellence on 176 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: the field, not only physically but also mentally, to stay 177 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: disciplined within the confines of Florida and also at New England. 178 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,959 Speaker 1: It was. It was phenomenal. Now, I know you haven't 179 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: finished all of it just yet, so I won't boil 180 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: the end. Well, I know what happens, he dies. I 181 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: am aware of the end of this, but you know, 182 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: what if if that was the case. You know how 183 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: it ends, you wouldn't be watching the damn documentary. So 184 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying purpose logistics and how things worked internally with 185 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: New England. I'm not going to spoil it for you. 186 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: Let me let me explain, guest on that when I'm 187 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 1: watching this documentary, I will be checking it out because 188 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: there's people I know that I have not seen yet 189 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: in the documentary that work or used to work at 190 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: w E. I uh so, people I am casual acquaintances with. 191 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: So I want to see that part of the story. 192 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,479 Speaker 1: So you don't want to see any kind of background 193 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: story on the patriots or I know that the patriots 194 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: look the other way, and they're gonna claim probably in there, 195 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: I haven't seen the end of it, but they're gonna 196 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: claim they try to get him help and whatever. I 197 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: don't know how you help somebody like that, but they 198 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: probably are going to say that, how about this? How 199 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: about you wait and watch the entire thing before you 200 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: make those kind of assumptions. How about that? Okay, I mean, 201 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: how about I'll wait for you please. Now. I finished 202 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: it last night. I enjoyed it, and you want a 203 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: cookie congratulations. But as I was getting I mean, if 204 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: I if I didn't work during the week, I would 205 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: have watched it last night too. I have a job, 206 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: I have to work at night. I have to watch 207 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 1: sports at night. I keep you watching documentaries at night, 208 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: manual labor. Well, I have fortunate watch documentaries two days 209 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: a week. What days of those Friday night if my 210 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: wife allows it, depending on if she wants to do 211 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: something else. And then on Saturday, I'll leave a little time. 212 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: I will a lot time to watch some documentaries. So 213 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: it's like two days a week I catch up on 214 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: my documentaries, and then during the rest of the week, 215 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: I'm hard. Oh sports guy, looking for things to talk about, 216 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: That's what I do. Now this is one of them. 217 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: I mean, this is not a topic of conversation in 218 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: the mainstream media, or you couldn't talk about this at 219 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: all in the National Football League with Super Bowl right 220 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: around the corner and the NFL season coming to a 221 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: close and the NFL Draft coming up, the combine coming up, Like, 222 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: you couldn't bring that into a top up a conversation. Yeah, 223 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: could you? I mean I could? I mean that would 224 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: require you to cut off your callers, so I know 225 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: you don't want to do that. Why would I have 226 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: to cut off caller because that would mean more, That 227 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 1: would mean more content for you, like you have to 228 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: talk more and elaborate more on I don't take that 229 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: many calls anymore. I am selective with the calls. I 230 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: do a monologue at the beginning, and then I have 231 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: a you know, a few calls I mixed in throughout 232 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: the hour. And people want to stay on hold, they 233 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: can get on the show. If not, they can hang up. 234 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: They're free to do whatever they want. And people don't 235 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: hang on, then that's fine. We just talk, all right, Well, 236 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 1: all right, moving on from the in her Nadez documentaries. 237 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: You told me I shouldn't talk about it because I 238 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: didn't watch that. Don't make an assumption on the back 239 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: end of it. That's all I'm saying. Because it is enjoyable. 240 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: Like you said, he's dead, I'm not sad he's dead. 241 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: He was a loser, as scumbag, a psychopath and you know, 242 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: go around randomly killing people and they don't feel any 243 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: empathy for you. So you gave this, you gave this 244 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: documentary a nine, and you only want to watch the 245 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: end for the people that you know. Yeah, what else 246 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: that people will be in the documentary, so I want 247 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: to watch and see how they're portrayed in the documentary. 248 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: That's just absolutely fascinating to me. Right, I'm moving on. 249 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: Haunting from the Trash. Can be sure to catch live 250 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am 251 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 252 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. So, this Houston Astros story, which 253 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: we have chronicled day in and day out, effortless coverage, 254 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:35,359 Speaker 1: endless coverage as well of this story, and I reject 255 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: the notion that Major League Baseball has it They're just 256 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: gonna be able to sweep this under the rug, and 257 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: this is it. That's all it's gonna you know, nothing more. 258 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: This is a one month story and by the time 259 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: spring training games get going, people will have moved on. 260 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: This is going to come back and haunt them like 261 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: a traumatic experience in your life or some kind of 262 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: disease that keeps popping back up every so often. Uh, 263 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: it is going to be the ongoing narrative. I am 264 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: convinced in season and there's nothing that Rob Manford can do. 265 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: There's nothing that Robert Crane, the owner of the Astros, 266 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: can do or any of these other Jamox, These Mama 267 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: Lukes are so screwed. Uh. And it's it's an odd 268 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: deal because Baseball made a deal with the devil. The 269 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: I want to use the right terms. I don't want 270 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: to curse anymore guests. Guy, I said the f wort already. 271 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: I don't want to upset the people in the Bible 272 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: belt who are offended here. But the way I'll say it, 273 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: I'll say, like this right, the fact that Baseball made 274 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: a deal with the devil for immunity, and they were 275 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: the players supposedly that's why none of them got punished. Uh. 276 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: These players getting immunity, now, it's like the perfect crime 277 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: stealing the Mona Lisa and not getting caught on video 278 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: and no d n a fingerprint evidence. The Dodgers, the 279 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: Yankee the A's, the Mariners, the Rangers, pretty much every 280 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: team in the American League other than I guess the 281 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: Red Sox, who are part of this and complicit with it. 282 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: It is going to be vicious. I have heard from 283 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: a number of my friends Dodger fans who are looking 284 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: at the schedule for the trips the Astros make to 285 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: Anaheim for the sole purpose of booing the Astros and 286 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: goofing on them. And the other part is the other 287 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: reason forget about that. I mean, the fan outrage will 288 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: will die down, maybe it won't die down. But what happens? 289 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: Think about this, what happens if Alex Bregman and Jose 290 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: Altuve are frauds and they turn into two forty hitters 291 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: with limited power all of a sudden. Are they gonna 292 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: blame injuries? Are they gonna blame some other boogeyman or 293 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: the obvious? No more bang bang, no more buzz buzz, 294 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: no more whistle while you work, Like, what's the spin 295 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: gonna be from the Astros a major league baseball? It's 296 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: going to be interesting. I think one of the guys 297 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: that you'll remember this, but going back to a guy 298 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: that was pot for p E d Us was Brady Anderson, 299 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. That's old school guests on you're dating 300 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: your stuff. That's before my time. I've I've heard about it. 301 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: I read him on the Wikipedia. Yeah, but of course, 302 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: so you know this. I mean he topped out with 303 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: what fifty home runs and and then all of a 304 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: sudden just fell off a cliff. I think that's exactly 305 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: what's gonna happen to these guys that they don't perform 306 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: at least at an average level. But you hit the 307 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: nail run on the head. And I've got a problem 308 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: with it because this is gonna staying Rob Manfred's legacy 309 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: as commissioner of Major League Baseball. And people will say 310 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: that there's no precedent for this, that this is enough 311 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: of a penalty against the general manager, against the manager, 312 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: against the future manager when Carlos beltran, but it's not. 313 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: And this dates back to eighteen seventy seven guys got 314 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: banned for life. There's were players, then you got the 315 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: eight players the nineteen nineteen Chicago Black Socks scandal, and 316 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for him to drop the hammer, 317 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: and he's not doing that by giving these guys immunity. 318 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: It's just dumbfounding to me because these are the ones 319 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: that executed the plan to cheat, to rob the game, 320 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: to steal from other teams, and obviously use technology to 321 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: improve the likelihood of winning a World Series. And I 322 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: think it's gutless to do this or not to take 323 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: any action against these guys, because what's it a turrent 324 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: for these guys in the future. Oh yeah, listen, if 325 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: you told me right now that you could get away 326 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: with it, it's the perfect crime. And all you're gonna 327 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: lose is your dopey manager and your owners are gonna 328 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: be fine. Who's worth billions will be fined five dollars essentially? Uh, 329 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: and then your GM has gone okay done? Where do 330 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: I sign the paper with? I'd like the champion. And 331 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: that's exactly if if I gave the common man h 332 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: G h R steroids and I said, hey, you have 333 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: decent athletic ability, but here are P E D s 334 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: now enhancement. There might be an opportunity for you to 335 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: get caught, but you still have a chance to make 336 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: millions of dollars, not only for yourself or your family, 337 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: be set for life. Who wouldn't take that kind of action? Well, 338 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: it's like when you if you rob a bank and 339 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: then you get to keep the money, but you have 340 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: to go to jail for a couple of y I 341 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: would do it exactly. Who wouldn't do it? You know? 342 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: Of course you're gonna do it. If you figure about it, 343 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: spent a couple of years in jail, it can't be 344 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 1: that bad. I'll be you know, club fed or whatever, 345 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: and then I'll keep the money when I come out. 346 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: And uh, it's just wrong out. Listen. We've talked about 347 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: this when when baseball, in the early days of baseball, 348 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: when guys got suspended, there was no union. Since the 349 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: Union got muscle, since the Union got backbone, baseball has 350 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: been a bunch of pussy willows. But even you know, 351 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: you think about bud Selike in the steroid era, bud 352 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: Selick could have easily suspended players based on the best 353 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: interest of the game, looking out for the wellness of baseball, 354 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: whatever clause they call it, whatever language and they use. 355 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: But but Seeley didn't do it because he was afraid 356 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: of the Union and he didn't even try to punish 357 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: anybody that was involved in this. Eventually they made a 358 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: compromise because of bad pr and they put the steroid 359 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: rules in. But he could have violated and he could 360 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: have punished these guys, didn't do it. There's a culture 361 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,239 Speaker 1: in baseball of looking the other way, and it's you know, 362 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: boys being boys and all that stuff. And but the fact, 363 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: the main reason that Rob Manford looks like a giant 364 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: pussy willow is because of the fact that the Mexican 365 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: drug cartels have as much power in Mexico as the 366 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: Union has over major League Baseball right and based most 367 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball teams, it's a den of inequity. There's 368 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: a lot of shadiness going on with bending the rules, 369 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: but it's again, it's it's okay when you hire the 370 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: five year old guy that should not be wearing a 371 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: baseball uniform who happens to be good at detecting te 372 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: holes from pictures or ripping off signs, that's okay. But 373 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: when you put a camera and bang bang and buzz 374 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: buzz and and all that, that's where you've crossed the line, 375 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: period period. Stop. But but the other thing too, about 376 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,479 Speaker 1: the Astros. When you watch Astros games, Let's say they 377 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: do win some games this year because they have players 378 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: that we think are good, but maybe they're not because 379 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: of cheating. Any time the Astros get a big home run, 380 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: if there's any kind of oddity, any kind of sound 381 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: thing that goes bump in the night, will be assumed 382 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: to be part of some new age way to to 383 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: tell a hitter when you know when something's coming. Can 384 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: you imagine going to like Anaheim or Yankee stadium in 385 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: in here, and when the Astro hitters are the plate, 386 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: people will be banging seats, you know, whatever they can 387 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: get to make noise, to make kind of reminiscent and 388 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: make it sound like trash cans and things like that. 389 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: You know that's gonna happen. It reminds me of back 390 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: in the day when Bonds would go down to San 391 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: Diego or even law Sandels and people would throw syringes 392 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: or fake syringes onto the diamond. I don't know if 393 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 1: you remember that. I don't remember that. Yeah, I was 394 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: around at games, going to games, and I remember bon 395 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: Bonds was like an infamous like he was. He was 396 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: a brute of baseball and people just despised him, and 397 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: he was so upset with Barry Bonds. And in the 398 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: media coverage you was crazy. Now, I don't I don't 399 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 1: know how you feel on this, but I don't like 400 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: the stance that CC Sabathia took with this about how 401 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: the Astros robbed him and the Yankees of a World 402 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: Series title. I wouldn't give the Dodgers the title in 403 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen, but I was certainly wanted to assume 404 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: that the Yankees would be there either, and and I 405 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,479 Speaker 1: think what they should have done, much like with Reggie 406 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,120 Speaker 1: Bush and the Heisman Trophy that was vacated, I think 407 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: they need to do the same thing too, because you 408 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: can't make it right, but at least you can negate 409 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: what they acclaimed. You got the bonuses, you've got the rings, 410 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: and you got the celebrity status from a team that 411 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: was Don't forget they were absolutely horrific in the early 412 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: two thousand's. They were a doormat. I mean they went 413 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 1: to what one World Series with Royal Oswalton Company, but 414 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 1: they were They were dormant for such a long period time. 415 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: They had all those high ranking draft picks and it 416 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: led to nothing for for countless years, and then all 417 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: of a sudden, these guys started getting good, which is understandable. 418 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: They make some trades, They pick up Justin Verlander, who 419 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: should have been a Dodger in two thousand and seventeen, 420 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: but nobody wants to spend the money. And then these guys, 421 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: I think was cheat. I wouldn't be shocked if he was. 422 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: They were doing something with the pictures too, that hasn't 423 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: come out yet because Verlander, when he was with Detroit 424 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: he looked like he was on the back nine and 425 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: he didn't have much left, and he goes to Houston. 426 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: He's cy young, but at the time he was with 427 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: the Tigers, it did not look like that was a 428 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,880 Speaker 1: wise trade because he had a lot of money left 429 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 1: in his contract. He had not been all that great 430 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,439 Speaker 1: for the for the Tigers. But the Astros usually some 431 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 1: of the stiff pictures that had gone to Houston, guys 432 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: that were underachievers and all of a sudden turned out 433 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: to be these massive supernova pictures. On the mind was like, 434 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: what's going on here? But the Astros also, it's it's 435 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: good that this has happening in a way because they 436 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: are a product of tanking. The Astros at one point, 437 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: one of the great stories that they had a cable 438 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: dispute in Houston. Had a friend that worked at the 439 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 1: cable network that was not carried in a lot of 440 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: the cable market, you know, cable companies in Houston, and 441 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: the Astros had a game where they had a zero 442 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: point zero rating. Professional baseball team within the last decade 443 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: had a game We're literally according to the ratings, nobody 444 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: was watching. That is very difficult to do that to 445 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: pull that off and they were able to do it. 446 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: So listen to me, these guys are all outlaws. Altol 447 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: A doesn't get in the Hall of Fame, Bregman, that'll 448 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: be their their punishment. I mean, based on the fact 449 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: that if you're not gonna put Bonds and Clemens in 450 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: the known the known steroid guys and other than pet 451 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: Rodriguezen like Piazza, then the come up in the price 452 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: to pay here the pound of flesh, will be by 453 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: the baseball writers. But we have a lot of young 454 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: baseball writers that don't really care about this and think 455 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: it's absurd the Astros are even being punished at all. 456 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: So well that this is the same reason why Kurt 457 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: Schilling is not in the Hall of Fame too, because 458 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: don't tell me his resume does not qualify for the 459 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: Howard Halls of Cooper's Town. Because he was great in 460 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: Philadelphia on a bad team still got them to a 461 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: World Series, and he was fantastic in Arizona and even 462 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: in Boston. He won three World Series titles, has four trips, 463 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: and had eleven and two records with an e r A. 464 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: Just over to the guy was money in postseason play. 465 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: But he's on the wrong side of the political spectrum 466 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: for the many of the baseball writers exactly. So he's 467 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: being crucified and condemned for his political position, and some 468 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: of these writers are even admitting it, which plows me away. 469 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: It's like some of the guys on the writers on Twitter, like, yeah, 470 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: I don't like this guy. That's unfortunate. But yeah, it 471 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: goes back to your point about them not even caring. 472 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: So I don't know for you, do you think that 473 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: in your own cynic way that baseball actually enjoys this 474 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: because you go back to with McGuire and Sosa and 475 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: Griffy in that home run chase, there was acknowledgement of 476 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: pe d us down the road, but then all that still, 477 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, it amplified a tenant's 478 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 1: numbers in Major League Baseball, and the game itself grew 479 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, listen, I I think there is absolutely 480 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: truth in that. I mean the fact that a bunch 481 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: of people who I know off the air talk show 482 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: hosts who have told me, why do you talk about 483 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: baseball men? It's an old man's sport, it's an old 484 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: white sport. Nobody cares about it. It's a dying sport. 485 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 1: I don't talk about it. You know these people, the 486 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: never baseball crowd on talk radio who tell me this 487 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: off the year while you're an idiot you talk, you'd 488 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: be better if you didn't talk about baseball. These are 489 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: the people that love this story. Right. So it's it's 490 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: the old argument of any publicity is good publicity. And 491 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: you already pay attention about what they say about you, 492 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: what they write about you. It's just you measure it 493 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 1: in interest or you measure it in the number of tweets. Right, 494 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: And it's and and and the Astros are gonna be 495 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: brewed up the wazoo. And I do believe in the 496 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 1: old quote that Reggie Jackson had back the old Hall 497 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: of Famer in his day with the Yankees, when he 498 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: talked about the fact that they don't boo nobody's, right, 499 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: they don't boo nobody's And so yeah, the Astros people 500 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: are angry, and there's gonna be that lynch mob mentality 501 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: with the Astros. But it is actually publicity because people 502 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: are gonna be curious to see what happens and check 503 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: out whether there's a fall of the Roman Empire. In 504 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: this case, the Houston Astros Empire. How about the fact 505 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: that they have we talked about on the radio the 506 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: other night earlier the week. I love that we're doing 507 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: a sport or podcast, but the Astros had the hutzpah 508 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: of tweeting out that their owner bregmant in l Tuba 509 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: one Awards. Yeah, what's up with that? And the best 510 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: part was someone had actually captured a tweet from Justin Verlander. 511 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was a tweet from 512 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: him or or an article where he was interviewed, but 513 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 1: back in two thousand seventeen or prior to that, when 514 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: he was with Detroit talking about how Major League Baseball 515 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: needs to do something about sign stealing. So this is 516 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: all all coming out and he did something about it, 517 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,719 Speaker 1: he found a team that was good at it, and uh, 518 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: all right, anyway, we'll move on from that. Good luck 519 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: to the Astros, maybe we dig their grave. Be sure 520 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays 521 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So fake it 522 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,199 Speaker 1: till you make it now, since next week is going 523 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 1: to be all about the Super Bowl and Consas City 524 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: and Santa Clara Mono Ormano for the Championship of the NFL, 525 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: and that'll be the sole focus, I would imagine, depending 526 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 1: on something earth shaking that happens before next podcast, so 527 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: we will not have a lot of time to discuss 528 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 1: the x f L. Can the XFL make it? Because 529 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: they will be launching right after the Super Bowl in February, 530 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: the new eight team XFL, which is paid for by 531 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: the Sugar Daddy Vince McMahon, the Big Cheese over there 532 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: at Professional Wrestling w w E and all that, the CEO. 533 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: They begin play February eight, and they're gonna have teams. 534 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: If you haven't paid attention to this, I don't blame you. 535 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: Maybe you've got a life. But there's teams in New York, 536 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: l A, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington 537 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: d c S. There's no team in Boston, there's no 538 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: team in Chicago. But that's that's where the XFL is 539 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: going to be. And unlike the initial edition of the XFL, 540 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: which was way back in one, which was a partnership 541 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: with NBS, see uh, they were all about being cutthroats 542 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: and violence and all that stuff and shock value, and 543 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: but now in these more gentle, softer times the incarnation 544 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: the XFL. Their marketing arm. They want this to be 545 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: a fan first league focused on delivery the high quality 546 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: unfield product. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. 547 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: So will it work? Will the XFL succeed? Now? What 548 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: are the odds that the XFL last past three seasons? 549 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: Remember the first time it only lasted one year? I 550 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: have in my my closet somewhere. I gotta find it 551 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 1: because I should put that on on on the Graham. 552 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: I have an XFL shirt with all the helmet logos 553 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: that I got back in the day because I was like, 554 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: I'm into it, man, I like, and I gotta find 555 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: it's pretty cool shirt and it's held up and it 556 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's all. I haven't warned that much. 557 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: That's probably it's held up, but it's it's a treaty. 558 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: But as far as the odds, I am an amateur bookmaker, 559 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: guests gaunt. I am gonna set the odds that the 560 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: XFL will it last three seasons or past three seasons, 561 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: which would mean it has to turn some kind of profit. 562 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go at plus fifteen hundred, which implies about 563 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: a six percent chance, about a six percent, which I 564 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: think I'm actually going high. I think I'm going high. 565 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: You know that member American Express had that commercial years 566 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: back where they know they warned that ninety percent of 567 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: start up restaurants fail in the first year. It's actually 568 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: not that high. Um, there was a study done, they said, 569 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: but it's you know, seventeen percent of restaurants with twenty 570 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: or less like the mom and pop places, Uh, they fail. 571 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: It's it's higher when you have twenty one or more employees. 572 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: But sports leagues, you know, how many how many startup 573 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: sports leagues have we seen here that have just come 574 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: and gone and we don't even remember them or remember 575 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: like one thing about them? Yeah, Alliance of American Football 576 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: just recently. Yeah, I mean. And and and the thing is 577 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: that the blue blood sports leagues have such a strangle 578 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: hold because they're in bed with the politicians. They get 579 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: exemptions from the government and whatnot, so they have a 580 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: huge competitive advantage. And also since they've been around so long, 581 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: it's generations of hearts, minds, and souls that love and 582 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: I get it, I'm part of it, that love the 583 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 1: NFL and follow baseball and basketball and even hockey a 584 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: little bit and those sports leagues. But um, the reason 585 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: I give it about a six percent chance, which I 586 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: think it's a lot, is because of Vince McMahon. Yeah, 587 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of the great marketing people 588 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: of our time. The problem, guess gon, is that the 589 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: w w E. What is the formula for the w 590 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: w E, right, what what is the secret sauce the 591 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: w w E is that they are staging events. Yeah, 592 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: so you can't make this like I guess you could 593 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: any of the NBA. The NBA David Stern was accused 594 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: of that back in the day that this was like hard. 595 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 1: You know, they were the Harlem Globetrotters. Can't really do 596 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: that in people. The jig is up in sports when 597 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: you you rigged the stuff like that. Yeah, the NFL, 598 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: but I mean you talk about the way that this 599 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: league has been developed, and I think McMahon has obviously 600 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: learned something from his past failures with the XFL. And also, 601 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: if you recall back then when it was originated, that 602 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: ww E was not a subscription based network as well, 603 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: So you get fans that I've alrea subscribed to w 604 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 1: w E now on a regular basis. I think no 605 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: matter where you go, whether it's on their platform or 606 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: YouTube or Twitter or Amazon, I think there's gonna be 607 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: an audience, especially because it's not directly competing with the 608 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: National Football League. It's doing so during the NFL's off season. 609 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: As a as a football guy, you are too. I 610 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: can't get enough football anyway. The problem with the Lines 611 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: of American Football was that not every game was on TV, 612 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: it wasn't on CBS all the time, and it was 613 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: only a handful of teams. Anyway, I think McMahon will 614 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: do something that's obviously different from the NFL, and you'll 615 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: still get players that can't compete in the National Football 616 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: League either, but that can make plays and and provide 617 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: some sort of entertainment, because that's exactly what this is now, right, 618 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: This is two or three hours of entertainment. It's not 619 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: always football or baseball or basketball or hockey anymore. Yeah, 620 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: I mean, the problem with these things it's a The 621 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: games have to be interesting. You watched that Alliance of 622 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: American Football and it was like they were playing in 623 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: a mortual way. It was very dull, and there was 624 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: nobody in the crowd. There was no excitement there was 625 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: no juice to the games at all. Be the quality 626 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: of the play like, there's gotta be. It's not gonna 627 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: be up to NFL standards because these are at NFL players, right, 628 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: These are the elite of the elite. And if you're 629 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 1: the elite elite, most of these guys will be in 630 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: the NFL. Would would have an opportunity in the NFL. 631 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: But the games have to be played at a higher 632 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: level than the A, A F or whatever the hell 633 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: was called. Um and I saw a survey of sports fans. 634 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: This is on the Morning Consoled. They conducted a survey 635 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: and what percentage, Well, I go point by point here, 636 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: will play a game here, what percentage of avid sports 637 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 1: fans are going to watch the XFL. I'm gonna say no, 638 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: I'm talking about hardcore sports fans. Two people like our 639 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: our base, our percenters that love sports radio and all that. 640 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: I'll say right around there at sixty percent say they 641 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: will self identified avid sports fans are gonna give the 642 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: XFL a chance during the off season. What percentage of 643 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: high school football fans are going to give it a chance? 644 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: That's how about college football? What percentage of college football 645 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: fans about how about NFL fans, guests, don't you wanna 646 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: take a swing at this? What percentage of NFL fans 647 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 1: say they are going to give the XFL a shot. 648 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:02,799 Speaker 1: I'd no, only fifty, less than college and less than 649 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: high school. So this is weird though for me because 650 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: of what you just mentioned with the other sports like 651 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: the NBA and Major League Baseball have been successful obviously 652 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: because of what they do domestically, but I think the 653 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 1: international elements have been great for the NBA and also 654 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,239 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. You talk about players that come from 655 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 1: Japan or Korea or China or Puerto Rico or Cuba, 656 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,479 Speaker 1: and the NBA the same thing Germany, Spain. I think 657 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: those players, I know, the leagues that they play are 658 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,200 Speaker 1: not considered the elite of the elite. That doesn't mean 659 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: that we can't take the best of those best and 660 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: bring him here and make it our own. So I 661 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,359 Speaker 1: think that's the same thing here with what we got 662 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: in the XFL. And I mean there's countless players that 663 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 1: have made it into the National Football League that either 664 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,399 Speaker 1: have been low drafted or undrafted, and it have had 665 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: historical careers. So I think a chance, but I'm looking 666 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: for content and I'm looking for things to talk about. 667 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 1: So if there's something odd that happens, there's something interesting 668 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: that's worthy of a monologue, I'd love that. I would 669 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 1: love to be able to do a monologue, but it's 670 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: got to be mainstream enough where people are watching, if 671 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: no one's watching, and really, ultimately this all comes down 672 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: to television ratings. If the w w E can convince 673 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 1: enough of the market to watch, and they can get 674 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: advertisers and they can make a profit, and it's it's 675 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 1: going to be driven by the television community and whether 676 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,480 Speaker 1: or not there's any kind of buzz on TV. And 677 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: a lot of these shows, you know, you know guests, 678 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: gun you hang out with TV people. If a show 679 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: doesn't get a high enough percentage of the ratings the 680 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 1: first year, it doesn't get a second year. Well we 681 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: we do know off the top already though that ratings 682 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: have been coming down for the NBA of the last 683 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,240 Speaker 1: couple of years. Major League Baseball is a regional sport. 684 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,879 Speaker 1: The NHL's a regional sport as well. So you think 685 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: about this when it happens with the XFL, it doesn't 686 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 1: happen at a great time for other sports content. I 687 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: mean NFL is king. They produced the highest rated shows. 688 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,320 Speaker 1: What is it twenty of the best shows throughout the 689 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: year or all NFL related or college football related. So 690 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: I mean they dominate, but they're they're one of the 691 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,200 Speaker 1: few things that they're like the last of the Mohegans 692 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 1: as far as what's over the air television. And you 693 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,400 Speaker 1: know a lot of US cord cutters don't have access 694 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 1: to the to the cable and all that, so they're watching. 695 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 1: You don't have to have a cable to watch an 696 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 1: NFL game. The games are available for free, other than 697 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 1: the Monday Night package of course. But the other thing 698 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 1: is the the gambling element too. If you can't gamble 699 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 1: on these games and make some money on it. At 700 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 1: the gambling aspect is always gonna bring casual fans into 701 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,320 Speaker 1: it because if there's action, you know, a degenerate wants 702 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 1: it and they'll get it. Well. You can bet on anything. 703 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,479 Speaker 1: You can bet on you know who's crossing the road. 704 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 1: You know faster two old guys crossed the road, which 705 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: one is gonna get there first? You can bet on anything, 706 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: I know. But now the three things I know you 707 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 1: love list Gascon, You're the o G of lists. Yes, 708 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,320 Speaker 1: the three things I remember about the original XFL, and 709 00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:58,840 Speaker 1: I might or might not have been on the radio 710 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,839 Speaker 1: talking about it. I remember the strippers in the hot 711 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 1: tub at the Coliseum in l A. Remember that very much. 712 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: It was wild. They had like they brought in some strippers. 713 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: I think there were some porn stars or actresses in there. 714 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,919 Speaker 1: Uh in the in the end zone, in the back 715 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: of the end zone. I remember he Hate Me, the 716 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,800 Speaker 1: breakout star who went on and played several years in 717 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,359 Speaker 1: the NFL with Carolina and some other teams there. Um. 718 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,439 Speaker 1: And I also remember when I was writing for Ben 719 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: Mallory dot com, my old website, that people were outraged. 720 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: I got a special interest group that was outraged because 721 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: the team in Memphis was nicknamed the Maniacs, and they 722 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,560 Speaker 1: said that was offensive to people that had mental illness. 723 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: Now the reason I remember that not today that would 724 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,399 Speaker 1: be the norm, but back in one that wasn't how 725 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,960 Speaker 1: society operated. But now everyone runs around the outrage army 726 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 1: is upset about everything and they want everything changed, and 727 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,799 Speaker 1: everything is offensive and all that is. I think I'm 728 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: very proud of myself guessing and I pointed out defending 729 00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,440 Speaker 1: my wife's honor that the forty niners, mascots of offensive 730 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 1: sour dough Sam. It's offensive to people to have gluten allergies. 731 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 1: So it's wrong, and it's just an example of the 732 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,920 Speaker 1: absurdity that takes place in these these days. You're not 733 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,839 Speaker 1: other point of the x saw this. You know you're 734 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,440 Speaker 1: part of that survey. You don't remember the players running 735 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,080 Speaker 1: to the football for the I remember that too, But 736 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,959 Speaker 1: that's not one of the top three. It's my list. 737 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,839 Speaker 1: It's not your list. Sorry, Okay, alright, sorry, I thought 738 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,640 Speaker 1: you're trying to touch up my list, Like my list 739 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,839 Speaker 1: isn't good enough? Mr. List over there. Well, it's it's 740 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: really small. I'm just adding to it, all right. So 741 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 1: the main reason, which is very the thing that people 742 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: the most people said it's very important for them to 743 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,280 Speaker 1: watch the most important thing when they watch the XFL. 744 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:43,239 Speaker 1: What is top three? Give me the top three? How 745 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: about that? Top three of what they're interested in? Yeah, 746 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 1: like the most important things for them potential XFL fans, Uh, 747 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,799 Speaker 1: the most important to the FFL does this? It's very 748 00:39:53,800 --> 00:40:01,280 Speaker 1: important to me. Um, women like cheerleaders or divas. Uh no, 749 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 1: no bad about you know. I'll give you the top 750 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 1: three number number three. Well, I'll give you number one 751 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 1: because number one is kind of obvious. Quality of play 752 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,320 Speaker 1: makes the game suck. I'm not gonna want. Number two 753 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,719 Speaker 1: is player's safety. I think that's bullshit. I don't think 754 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,800 Speaker 1: people really care. And they say they care, but unless 755 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,799 Speaker 1: you're a relative or a friend of the players, do 756 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 1: you really care. It's like people go to NASCAR Racist 757 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 1: to watch him crash, so you really care about you 758 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,800 Speaker 1: don't you want him to die? But you know a 759 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:37,279 Speaker 1: good head swirling hit. You take that right here, torpedo. Yeah, 760 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,960 Speaker 1: we go from Aaron Hernandez to uh, Nascar and Indy 761 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:45,359 Speaker 1: Car and car crash is great. Number Three standing for 762 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,760 Speaker 1: the national anthem. They say that's the third most important 763 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,120 Speaker 1: thing for people to watch the XFL. Now, I've I 764 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,439 Speaker 1: believe you should stand for the national anthem, and I've 765 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 1: I've crucified Colin Kaepernick over the years and the other 766 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: of those people that followed him as followers is but 767 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,399 Speaker 1: I I don't think that's you know, that's that It's 768 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,080 Speaker 1: not gonna be a reason I don't watch. I'll just 769 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,640 Speaker 1: google on him if they they don't stand for the 770 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,279 Speaker 1: national land fair enough. Fox Sports Radio has the best 771 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,160 Speaker 1: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our 772 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the 773 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,880 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. 774 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: All right, moving on from the XFO we have we 775 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:27,840 Speaker 1: can need to go to study this guest game. I 776 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,279 Speaker 1: know your time is limited. When you grab bag, why 777 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,360 Speaker 1: don't grab bag actual questions? Then we'll get back to 778 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,080 Speaker 1: study this. We have time. Yeah, you had some annoying people. 779 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,880 Speaker 1: You had one guy that was sending an emails to 780 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: the real fifth our account, but he was doing it 781 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,160 Speaker 1: from his cell phone, and what's wrong with that? People 782 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,279 Speaker 1: send email from their cell phone, but it's it's like 783 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 1: it was a long string of text messages that he 784 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,600 Speaker 1: was sending on email form. The luxury, though, was that 785 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 1: he was doing this when you were either on the 786 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,920 Speaker 1: air or sleeping. So I was just like every time 787 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,880 Speaker 1: I saw those delete, delete, delete, delete tell things. I 788 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,400 Speaker 1: like that we have a shared email account and you 789 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,040 Speaker 1: go through and delete these things, because because he was 790 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,279 Speaker 1: really bashing the entire staff, like he was bashing your 791 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,640 Speaker 1: entire staff, I'd like to read that. I don't know, 792 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,120 Speaker 1: I don't think I want to. I'm about positivity here. 793 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,959 Speaker 1: I know you're not. I need feedback. But this show 794 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,120 Speaker 1: is not good. What are you gonna do? What are 795 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 1: you gonna do? Fire everybody on your staff? What are 796 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,640 Speaker 1: you gonna do? Fire everybody on your staff? Well, if 797 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,520 Speaker 1: I have to, if a guy on a cell phone 798 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,240 Speaker 1: who's drunk sending messages overnight once that, if I must 799 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 1: appease the listeners, always right, yeah, and then you're gonna yeah. 800 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,520 Speaker 1: Then you're compelled to actually talk to the rest of 801 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,520 Speaker 1: your staff, which you don't like doing anyway off the air. 802 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,400 Speaker 1: Um anyways, I talked to him, but they don't like 803 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: to talk to me. If they like to talk to 804 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 1: they wouldn't show up at ten fifty nine. But you 805 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,359 Speaker 1: know the show starts at eleven or whatever. They don't 806 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,839 Speaker 1: show up, baby, I don't know, half an hour early 807 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:57,359 Speaker 1: or whatever. Things like that that you're asking a lot 808 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,080 Speaker 1: that is too I mean, it's really difficult to have 809 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,879 Speaker 1: to show up more than one minute before the show. 810 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,160 Speaker 1: It's a very big, big problem. Yes, well, I guess 811 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,280 Speaker 1: it depends. Did you like the fact that I denied 812 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,200 Speaker 1: working with you on that Sunday night? I said, Hey, 813 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: Burr Schinger, why don't you go in there and and 814 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,399 Speaker 1: clean things up? Well, I like because Bursching is better 815 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,839 Speaker 1: than you, and it was really you had to take 816 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 1: one for the team guests gun because Burschinger is a talent. 817 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,080 Speaker 1: I love this guy should be a full time producer 818 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,439 Speaker 1: at Fox. Showed up early prepared. Whatever you need, Ben, Yes, 819 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 1: can I What can I do to help you? What 820 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,640 Speaker 1: can I do to make the show better? I mean, 821 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,160 Speaker 1: these are all things I'm not used to. So I 822 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:37,240 Speaker 1: really liked Burschinger. I I thought he was great, better 823 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,200 Speaker 1: than you, better than you when you produced. And I 824 00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,399 Speaker 1: am on team Burschinger. Keep trying, Ryan. He's a good guy, 825 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,719 Speaker 1: but I don't think I don't think that his production 826 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,239 Speaker 1: value or elements for anything that supersedes what I have 827 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,040 Speaker 1: brought to the table much better than you. Like him. 828 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,239 Speaker 1: He's got likability because he doesn't talk in the young demographic. 829 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,520 Speaker 1: You're in the older demographics. So it's it's he got 830 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,560 Speaker 1: a lot of he checks a lot of box all right, 831 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,520 Speaker 1: so grab back. These are actual questions from actual listeners 832 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,840 Speaker 1: of the show. Jonathan and Delaware says, what's your favorite 833 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: player coach who has never won a title in their sport? 834 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,800 Speaker 1: All right, this is easy, Jonathan, Jim Tracy former Dodger, 835 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:20,480 Speaker 1: Pirates and Rockies manager Jim Tracy. I love the guy. 836 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,840 Speaker 1: Befriended him when he was a coach with the Dodgers 837 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:26,080 Speaker 1: and then he became the manager. And Jim was very 838 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,840 Speaker 1: nice to me back in the day, and we had 839 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,759 Speaker 1: a good relationship and we occasionally even go out and 840 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 1: have a meal on the road and whatnot. But he 841 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,839 Speaker 1: he when he was managing the Privates, he got let 842 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,000 Speaker 1: go and I ran into him after he had managed 843 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,600 Speaker 1: the Pirates, and he still owned his house in Pittsburgh, 844 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 1: and he said, hey, Ben, if you go through Pittsburgh, 845 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:45,880 Speaker 1: you can stay at my house. I'm not there anymore. 846 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,960 Speaker 1: He stayed his old house in Pittsburgh. I thought it 847 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000 Speaker 1: was kind of cool, which was probably a mansion out 848 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,759 Speaker 1: in the suburbs. My answers, Jim Tracy, you didn't have 849 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,640 Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't have a listener to fly you 850 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,360 Speaker 1: out there and stay there for free. I would have 851 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:04,839 Speaker 1: been impressive. Done. Yeah, I'm done, shocked you got any 852 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 1: peanut butter or just jelly. God, let's see what you 853 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,200 Speaker 1: did there. I think my favorite is uh has got 854 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: to be Andy Reid, just because of what he went 855 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,359 Speaker 1: through in Philadelphia, and I know he's obviously had some 856 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,160 Speaker 1: some tough times of his family, but I think everything's 857 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,400 Speaker 1: coming to fruition in Kansas City. And he created a 858 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 1: winner in Philadelphia, got booted from there. He's created a 859 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,759 Speaker 1: winner in Kansas City, and he's obviously brought them to 860 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,959 Speaker 1: the peak of of the Mountain and obviously one hurdle 861 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,920 Speaker 1: to go, but the first time they've been in the 862 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,200 Speaker 1: Big Dance and what fifty years, So I think it's 863 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,319 Speaker 1: great for the game. He's a great play caller, he's 864 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,440 Speaker 1: a good motivator, and he's built winners everything. Everywhere he's gone, 865 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 1: he's been successful. I think him Jim Harbaugh obviously now 866 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,240 Speaker 1: in Michigan. But those are two guys that are amongst 867 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,280 Speaker 1: my favorites that have not won at the highest level yet. Wow. 868 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,759 Speaker 1: I mean mine's better than yours. My mind is better 869 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,720 Speaker 1: than yours. Idn't know these guys. Yeah, I A Lugo 870 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:05,279 Speaker 1: from Lancaster, California, the High Desert says, Ben, what are 871 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,600 Speaker 1: you going to do a live streaming show? I would 872 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,120 Speaker 1: love to see the Gang live. Yes, what are we 873 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: doing a live show? Well, I'm glad that he asked 874 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,360 Speaker 1: you that, and not me, because the real answer would 875 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,680 Speaker 1: be coming for me is that every single week I 876 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 1: text you in the morning and that night and I say, hey, 877 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,280 Speaker 1: dom favorite, where something decent or professional or at least 878 00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,640 Speaker 1: somewhat upright and not wrinkled. Because I like to stream 879 00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,799 Speaker 1: something or at least put something up digitally that has 880 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:40,840 Speaker 1: us on there to promote second video, it's not thirty 881 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,080 Speaker 1: seconds to show up, like like local radio when you 882 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:48,240 Speaker 1: go to a sports bar restaurant and you have a show, 883 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:54,040 Speaker 1: a live broadcast recording streaming the show live from some location. Well, 884 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,880 Speaker 1: you know, I think that's another great way that you 885 00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,600 Speaker 1: can word that. And um, I'll say that it's in 886 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,319 Speaker 1: progress right now, we're working on it. I have been 887 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,120 Speaker 1: doing a lot of the heavy lifting. I have been 888 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,480 Speaker 1: detracted by you to do some of the things that 889 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,280 Speaker 1: I have done already. And um, we'll wait and see. 890 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,960 Speaker 1: But something could be in the mix. And um, okay 891 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,200 Speaker 1: depends from the LBC says, I don't believe you, Lou 892 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:22,640 Speaker 1: From the LBC says for you both, you guys grew 893 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,360 Speaker 1: up or lived in southern California for a long time. 894 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,480 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen or have you ever been to 895 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,200 Speaker 1: the beach and seen an animal wash up on shore. 896 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,560 Speaker 1: Order seeing a wild animal roaming the streets, such as 897 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,399 Speaker 1: a mountain lion or a coyote, etcetera, etcetera, a bear 898 00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,799 Speaker 1: or whatever. Well, Lou, I'll go first. I have back 899 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,960 Speaker 1: in my hiking days. I don't really do that much more. 900 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:45,920 Speaker 1: I go to the gym and just go to the 901 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,759 Speaker 1: treadmill and watch TV for an hour and a half 902 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,719 Speaker 1: or whatever. But back in the day when I would 903 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,160 Speaker 1: would go out and hikes around Los Angeles and the 904 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,959 Speaker 1: suburbs in the mountains around l A, I did see 905 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,800 Speaker 1: coyotes a couple of times, but I didn't get scared 906 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,360 Speaker 1: because I I feel like I'm so much bigger. I 907 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,799 Speaker 1: know they have they're a pack. They attack as a 908 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,040 Speaker 1: pack and through like three or four coyotes. I'd be 909 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:10,000 Speaker 1: really screwed I saw one lone coyote wandering around. I've 910 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,200 Speaker 1: never seen a mountain lion or a bear. I would 911 00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,600 Speaker 1: I'm chipped my pants if I saw a bear mountain 912 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,719 Speaker 1: lion I was out hiking in the woods, I'd be 913 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,719 Speaker 1: really just yeah, that would not be good. And I 914 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:25,120 Speaker 1: have seen several um animals wash ashore like seals. Uh 915 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,520 Speaker 1: in California, and I was in Hawaii and there was 916 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,560 Speaker 1: a seal that washed up on shore and they they 917 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,400 Speaker 1: put ropes. It's weird are they do in Hawaii? They do? 918 00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,359 Speaker 1: They put ropes around it and they put a sign up, 919 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,920 Speaker 1: do not touch, you know, animal whatever is sick, dying, whatever, 920 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,719 Speaker 1: and you just have to like stand afar, you know, 921 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,600 Speaker 1: stand back and look. So I I have seen coyotes, 922 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,680 Speaker 1: and I have seen animals wash up on shore. Never 923 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,320 Speaker 1: like a giant whale, though I know that happened. Sometimes 924 00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,800 Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. Yeah, I have not seen that. Um. 925 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,960 Speaker 1: But to answer the second part of that question, I have. Um, 926 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,239 Speaker 1: I have seen wildlife in the areas that I live in. 927 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:03,360 Speaker 1: And great story, I know you'll enjoy this. But a 928 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,200 Speaker 1: buddy of mine and I were out one night and 929 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,680 Speaker 1: and met a couple of females um up in like 930 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,760 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Was Billy No West side of your friends, 931 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,799 Speaker 1: Billy quit name dropping. He's the only one I know. 932 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,160 Speaker 1: I didn't say his last name. His name is Billy. Anyways, 933 00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,360 Speaker 1: So we turned out to meet a couple of women 934 00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,600 Speaker 1: and one of them was actually she was from Rolling Hills, 935 00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:29,839 Speaker 1: which is on the back side of Palace forties down 936 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,040 Speaker 1: on the coast, and at the end of the night 937 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:36,120 Speaker 1: she invited us back to her place. Well, I wasn't 938 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:37,960 Speaker 1: feeling one of the girls that we were there with, 939 00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,000 Speaker 1: but my buddy like the girl that lived in rolling Hills. 940 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,759 Speaker 1: So I said, hey, I gotta balance, I gotta work 941 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,919 Speaker 1: in the morning. Any anyway, have at it and see 942 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,319 Speaker 1: what see what happens at the rest of this night. 943 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,719 Speaker 1: Really good. I got him in the door. He was like, 944 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:55,960 Speaker 1: he's an introverts. I got him in the door. I 945 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,320 Speaker 1: did my job, took off anyways, So I took off 946 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,120 Speaker 1: and ben at kids. You not because usually when I'm 947 00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:03,960 Speaker 1: at Fox, I gotta be up at like seven or 948 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,839 Speaker 1: eight o'clock in the morning. I had a laundry list 949 00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,800 Speaker 1: of text messages at like three, four or five o'clock 950 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 1: of the morning. And my buddy asking for help because 951 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,759 Speaker 1: he was walking down Hawthorne Boulevard and a couple of 952 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,759 Speaker 1: other streets and rolling hills and he can hear and 953 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:25,319 Speaker 1: then see coyotes, and he tried getting an uber and 954 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,960 Speaker 1: a lift, and nobody would come pick him up because 955 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,839 Speaker 1: obviously it's rolling hills and where he needed to go 956 00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:35,640 Speaker 1: was probably like five miles away, maybe six so he 957 00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:40,120 Speaker 1: had a he was walking home from a strikeout kind 958 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:44,280 Speaker 1: of a night and he was around coyotes all evening 959 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,520 Speaker 1: long until the early morningtime. So it was it was 960 00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,520 Speaker 1: pretty awesome. So yeah, even up in Rolling Hills you 961 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:53,480 Speaker 1: got coyotes. Alright. Uh, this one's from James and Zephyr 962 00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,280 Speaker 1: Hills Floorida. I believe that's how you say it. He says, 963 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:02,680 Speaker 1: Why is gag On so hostile towards you? Bet well 964 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,000 Speaker 1: I can answer that James jealousy is the main driving 965 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,680 Speaker 1: force of David Giscon's animosity towards myself. What am I 966 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:15,600 Speaker 1: to be jealous about? The empire? The Mallard militia. Will 967 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,319 Speaker 1: you take pot shots of the Mallew militia? No, I don't. 968 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,680 Speaker 1: There's no gag On gang. There's none of that. You 969 00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:25,200 Speaker 1: don't have not have a following. Well, there's people chanting 970 00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,239 Speaker 1: my name up in the Pacific Northwest at my direction, 971 00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,640 Speaker 1: thanks to Ms Wilkin Christina. Actually they started. I didn't 972 00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,080 Speaker 1: even have to tell him to do it, they just did. 973 00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:37,000 Speaker 1: The maturity level of you and them speaks volumes um. 974 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,480 Speaker 1: There's nothing I need to be jealous about. Well, why 975 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,600 Speaker 1: are you acting this way like a child. I'm not 976 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,799 Speaker 1: what are you talking about. I I applaud you for 977 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:49,239 Speaker 1: all of your hard work, stacks of paper that you 978 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,800 Speaker 1: burn and waste throughout the middle of the night, um, 979 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,120 Speaker 1: your dedication to your staff. How how much of an 980 00:51:56,120 --> 00:52:00,399 Speaker 1: extrovert you are for marketing and branding? Uh I am. 981 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,640 Speaker 1: I am an introvert that, when needed, will be an extrovert. Well, 982 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,839 Speaker 1: I I applaud your wife for those efforts because it's 983 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,040 Speaker 1: not on you. My wife is much bet more. Yeah, 984 00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:11,879 Speaker 1: my wife is better at that the end than than 985 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,879 Speaker 1: I am. Yeah, that's that's not saying a whole lot. 986 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,839 Speaker 1: Because I could take her with me whenever we meet. 987 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:20,000 Speaker 1: She has to take you out because I say, hey, 988 00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,200 Speaker 1: mrs we have to go to this event, and she 989 00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:24,279 Speaker 1: says why and I'll say, okay. She's like, it's gonna 990 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:28,359 Speaker 1: be tough to convince Ben, but I'll try. Wow, I'm 991 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,879 Speaker 1: open minded. I have things to do, though, I'm gonna 992 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:33,200 Speaker 1: a lot of these questions. We have too much time, 993 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,680 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna get some more questions here. Uh, let's 994 00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:40,320 Speaker 1: he here. This is from Christie in Trevor's wife, Finally 995 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,880 Speaker 1: in Nashville, Finally, a female Trevor Hayes's wife in Nashville. 996 00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,120 Speaker 1: Why does my husband wake me up listening to you guys? 997 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,520 Speaker 1: Christie has to say. I'm sure she's referencing the radio show, 998 00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:55,480 Speaker 1: not this podcast, but I'm hopefully Trevor listens to the podcast. Well, Christie, 999 00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,520 Speaker 1: if you hear this, the reason that your husband, Trevor 1000 00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:00,400 Speaker 1: wakes you up for the podcast is because he's a 1001 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:06,480 Speaker 1: smart that's number one. B. He is a discerning audio 1002 00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:11,680 Speaker 1: content listener. That's number two, and uh number three, he's 1003 00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,120 Speaker 1: probably uber successful in life. And if he's not uber 1004 00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,200 Speaker 1: successful in life, he's about to become uber successful in life. 1005 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:21,040 Speaker 1: Those are all the qualities of the average listener that 1006 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:28,360 Speaker 1: wakes up their wife to hear the show. Period. Stop, 1007 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,799 Speaker 1: are you done? Well? You want me to go on? 1008 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,320 Speaker 1: All right? Here's Darryl. Darryl from Southern Illinois. He writes 1009 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,080 Speaker 1: in he says, what has been the most exciting moment 1010 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,960 Speaker 1: of your radio program? He says, enjoy listening to you 1011 00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:50,200 Speaker 1: from beautiful southern Illinois, where we are the hub of 1012 00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,920 Speaker 1: the universe. According to Darryl, Well, Darryl, I don't stop 1013 00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,120 Speaker 1: and smell the roses. I at some point I would 1014 00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:57,680 Speaker 1: like to write a book. I tried to write a 1015 00:53:57,680 --> 00:53:59,360 Speaker 1: book a couple of years ago. I talked to a 1016 00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:03,200 Speaker 1: couple of writers and they were not that interested. So 1017 00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:04,960 Speaker 1: at some point I'll write a book. I think it 1018 00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,520 Speaker 1: will be fun to tell some of the old stories, 1019 00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:08,360 Speaker 1: but I don't really sit back and think about it. 1020 00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:11,200 Speaker 1: We've had a lot of crazy things that have taken place, 1021 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 1: depending on what you like. Dispats with shots, the war 1022 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,839 Speaker 1: with William Shatner, which the pop culture icon. People like 1023 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,960 Speaker 1: that a lot. The Uh one time I wore a 1024 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,200 Speaker 1: paper bag during the entire show after the Clippers lost 1025 00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,759 Speaker 1: to the Cleveland when they were terrible. Uh. We've done 1026 00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,680 Speaker 1: some dopey things. We've had some fun things with listeners 1027 00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,520 Speaker 1: and callers and whatnot. But I have not summed it 1028 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,680 Speaker 1: up in like a top three moments in the history 1029 00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,160 Speaker 1: of the show. But if I haven't write a book, 1030 00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,160 Speaker 1: or I choose to write a book, I will do that. 1031 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:45,160 Speaker 1: Brian from north Bridge, Massachusetts rights in can you please 1032 00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:48,000 Speaker 1: ask Gascon to quit the show? Gascon? Will you please 1033 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,080 Speaker 1: quit the show? How am I gonna quit if I'm 1034 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:54,120 Speaker 1: not getting paid for It's a fair point. You got 1035 00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,920 Speaker 1: a point, Glenn writes and says did weed Man Hippy 1036 00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:01,080 Speaker 1: quit your radio show again. Yes, Glenn we Man did 1037 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,000 Speaker 1: not make it through January. He's already had a hissy 1038 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,279 Speaker 1: fit and he's upset that I did not give him 1039 00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,719 Speaker 1: enough a lot of airtime. He's like a politician that 1040 00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,320 Speaker 1: needed a lot of airtime. I'd be willing to trade 1041 00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,759 Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie for Chris and Houston because you don't 1042 00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,080 Speaker 1: like Chris and Hughes. He's just an ankle grabber. Wow, 1043 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:27,000 Speaker 1: he's weak sauce. Really, Yes, he's embarrassing about ankle grabbing. 1044 00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:32,960 Speaker 1: He's exhibit A. He's exhibit A. Yeah. The term screw 1045 00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,680 Speaker 1: the pooch is a guest on term. Can we get 1046 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,719 Speaker 1: more interaction with the female audience. I know that you 1047 00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,200 Speaker 1: don't like to look upon them lightly and you ignore them. 1048 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:46,160 Speaker 1: Let me help you out that the sports audio, sports radio, 1049 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,120 Speaker 1: sports podcasting is a male driven vehicle. I'll teach you 1050 00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,920 Speaker 1: about this because you know it's podcasting radio one on one. 1051 00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:57,239 Speaker 1: The lion share of the listeners are dudes, who are 1052 00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,240 Speaker 1: many of them trying to get away from their wives 1053 00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,160 Speaker 1: and girlfriends and just kind of reminisce and just be 1054 00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:06,239 Speaker 1: sports fans or or just bullshit fans. Uh, those kind 1055 00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,680 Speaker 1: of people. Here's one battle Royale. I don't know who 1056 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,240 Speaker 1: sent this one in. Who would win between Ben, Eddie, Cooper, 1057 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:16,399 Speaker 1: Roberto or guest Gone. Now I'll answer this. I would 1058 00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,960 Speaker 1: obviously win because I would physically man handle the Coop 1059 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,920 Speaker 1: would have no chance. I would throw him away like 1060 00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,840 Speaker 1: a used tissue. Roberto if liquored up. I know Roberto 1061 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:26,640 Speaker 1: is an angry guy when he gets licked up, but 1062 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,399 Speaker 1: he's like the sweetest guy in the world when he's 1063 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,160 Speaker 1: not right. If Roberto's looking up, he could probably kick 1064 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:32,960 Speaker 1: my ass. But he's not most of the time, so 1065 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,160 Speaker 1: I could take him down. Eddie wouldn't be that interested 1066 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,040 Speaker 1: in fighting, so I could take him and Guesscon's he's 1067 00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:43,040 Speaker 1: a fake tough guy. So I would beat all these guys. Yeah, 1068 00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm an agreement with could you have Could you imagine Roberto? 1069 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,280 Speaker 1: Roberto would be fighting himself if it was silver versus drunk, 1070 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,520 Speaker 1: that would be great. Yeah, that would be pretty good. Uh, 1071 00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,320 Speaker 1: here's another version of that. Clay Travis, Dan, Patrick, Colin Coward, 1072 00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,600 Speaker 1: Doug gott Lee, R J Bell, Jonas Knocks, Chris Brussard, 1073 00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:06,960 Speaker 1: Rob Parker, Jason Smith, and Mike Harmon and you are 1074 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,400 Speaker 1: in a battle Royale style fight band who wins? This 1075 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,160 Speaker 1: is from Ethan in Detroit who sent that one. Well, 1076 00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:19,360 Speaker 1: let's go point by point here. Uh see, if I 1077 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,960 Speaker 1: don't know much about r J. I I've talked to 1078 00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:23,880 Speaker 1: I've never met him in person. I was supposed to 1079 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,840 Speaker 1: meet him with Tom Looney blocked our lunch meet meeting 1080 00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,320 Speaker 1: great years ago. So I've never met r J in person. 1081 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,480 Speaker 1: I've met everyone else there. Travis, and I met Dan Patrick, 1082 00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,160 Speaker 1: but Dan is old at this point. I'm like Dan 1083 00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:40,360 Speaker 1: would cause much of a fight there. Jason, he's a 1084 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,880 Speaker 1: peace Nick Harmon's a good guy, but he's not a fighter, 1085 00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,040 Speaker 1: although he's a little bull if he wanted to fight. 1086 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,600 Speaker 1: And then like guys like Coward and Clay Travis, you 1087 00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,920 Speaker 1: know their TV guys and Gottlieve. You know, when you 1088 00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:54,880 Speaker 1: can do enough of that TV, you get a little 1089 00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:58,480 Speaker 1: soft there as far as your fisticuffs. Yeah, so and 1090 00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,400 Speaker 1: Broussard very this guy was sorry, he's not gonna fight. 1091 00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,360 Speaker 1: He's not a fighter. No, So it would really come 1092 00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:11,240 Speaker 1: down to me, Jonas Knox and Rob Parker. Yeah, and 1093 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,120 Speaker 1: that would be the top three out of that list 1094 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,040 Speaker 1: in the battle Royale and we'd have to fight to 1095 00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:20,480 Speaker 1: the death. Well, yeah, but Jonas is younger, more energetic. 1096 00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:24,760 Speaker 1: Um yeah, but he's into like manscaping a little bit 1097 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,960 Speaker 1: and and all that. So you know that takes away 1098 00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,919 Speaker 1: from your fighting skills and you're worried about your hair. Yeah, 1099 00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:34,760 Speaker 1: but he's got tremendous cardio. He's in good shape. He's 1100 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:39,160 Speaker 1: also tactical. Um yeah, this would be Jonas in the landslide, 1101 00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:40,640 Speaker 1: and you're probably just sit in a corner wait for 1102 00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,520 Speaker 1: you guys all to try to tire out and then 1103 00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:45,280 Speaker 1: take you guys all out one by one. See what 1104 00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,280 Speaker 1: you don't understand is well, I might look off and 1105 00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:51,120 Speaker 1: disheveled and unkept at the radio station because I'm doing 1106 00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:55,080 Speaker 1: an overnight radio show. Uh I cleaned up pretty good 1107 00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:57,439 Speaker 1: when I want to, and I I can turn in 1108 00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:03,760 Speaker 1: two russa if I want. This is nauseating. Are we 1109 00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:08,840 Speaker 1: done yet? Uh no, We're We're not doing Let's see here. 1110 00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,120 Speaker 1: Some of these are like real hard o sports questions. 1111 00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:12,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to do any of those. 1112 00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:16,560 Speaker 1: Is there anything from Doc Mike the doc about doctor Ecuador? 1113 00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,800 Speaker 1: He doesn't say anything. Let's do a couple of study 1114 00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,439 Speaker 1: this questions, how about this, here's a pool, what out 1115 00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:26,320 Speaker 1: of ten parents, how many on average field teenagers spend 1116 00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:31,360 Speaker 1: too much time on video games? Nine? Nine in ten parents. 1117 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,000 Speaker 1: It's nine in ten parents feel that their teams spend 1118 00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:38,040 Speaker 1: too much time on video games. And yeah, I mean 1119 00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:41,400 Speaker 1: that's of course. I think they should be doing studying 1120 00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,800 Speaker 1: or something like that. All right, here we go. Americans 1121 00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:49,200 Speaker 1: are now averaging less than blank hours of sleep per night. 1122 00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,560 Speaker 1: What do you think? Guess I'm gonna say they're averaging 1123 00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,800 Speaker 1: less than five hours of sleep per night. Not that 1124 00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,120 Speaker 1: low yet, but less than six hours of sleep per night? 1125 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,680 Speaker 1: Is that real or bullshit? I think that's real. I 1126 01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,680 Speaker 1: get less than six hours of sleep. Yeah, I think 1127 01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:11,240 Speaker 1: so too. People are consumed by work, entertainment, um, travel, 1128 01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:16,520 Speaker 1: multiple jobs. That comes into play as well. The stress. Yeah, 1129 01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:21,360 Speaker 1: I think I think less than six is is easily attainable. Yeah. Absolutely, 1130 01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:25,080 Speaker 1: it's tired nation, tired nation. All right, let's see here, 1131 01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:26,840 Speaker 1: here's the study. This is interesting games. You know, I 1132 01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:31,760 Speaker 1: am on the dance floor. Oh my god, tell you something. 1133 01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,360 Speaker 1: My wife won't let me dance because all the women 1134 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,840 Speaker 1: they're trying to hang out with me. That's a true story. 1135 01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,680 Speaker 1: So that's why I choose not to dance. But there's 1136 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:45,560 Speaker 1: a study out that says your dancing style is as 1137 01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:51,560 Speaker 1: unique as your fingerprint, that gas guard, that each individual 1138 01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:58,800 Speaker 1: has their own unique dancing moves. You're buying that. Uh No, 1139 01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,440 Speaker 1: I'm not buying that because a lot of how people 1140 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:06,080 Speaker 1: dance is either based on alcohol or what they see 1141 01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:10,080 Speaker 1: and what they mimic. Some of the choreographed because they 1142 01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,520 Speaker 1: can't dance on their own, they have no rhythm. So no, 1143 01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:16,320 Speaker 1: I'm not buying that. According to the research team, regardless 1144 01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,480 Speaker 1: of the type of music, from jazz to reggae, the 1145 01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:22,880 Speaker 1: studies said the vast majority of people maintain a uniform 1146 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:28,000 Speaker 1: uniqueness to their dancing style. It's this ever present personality 1147 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,400 Speaker 1: in each of our dance moves that makes it easy 1148 01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:34,800 Speaker 1: for computers to I d the dancer. So this is 1149 01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:37,200 Speaker 1: a research from the University of blah blah blah blah 1150 01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:41,840 Speaker 1: blah in Finland. It's say this, say this university's name 1151 01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:45,800 Speaker 1: is j y v A s k y l A. 1152 01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:50,200 Speaker 1: I'd rather not exactly. That's why I said the University 1153 01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,200 Speaker 1: of blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever I said. So 1154 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,280 Speaker 1: that's it's interesting. I don't know. I don't pay attention 1155 01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,880 Speaker 1: to dancing that much. You know what I'm saying. All 1156 01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,800 Speaker 1: right now, this is a story warms my heart. And 1157 01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,240 Speaker 1: uh I, let's see how close you get to being 1158 01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,200 Speaker 1: right on this. We're doing a few study this questions 1159 01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:11,960 Speaker 1: on the fifth hour. But a new study found that 1160 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:17,240 Speaker 1: blank percentage of Americans have never deleted anything from their devices. 1161 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say this number is high. 1162 01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:29,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's no, that's too high. You went 1163 01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:34,680 Speaker 1: too high. But according to the survey, fifty two percent 1164 01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:41,240 Speaker 1: of Americans have never deleted anything from their their devices. 1165 01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:44,840 Speaker 1: No house cleaning, no spring cleaning, none of that stuff. 1166 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,479 Speaker 1: Yeah's to luxtually you get if you go incognito mode. 1167 01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:51,000 Speaker 1: Though I was, I right, you do the incognito. I 1168 01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:53,919 Speaker 1: don't delete anything on my devices, but I have been 1169 01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:58,960 Speaker 1: forced to recently delete emails because my my main Gmail account, 1170 01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,760 Speaker 1: which I use, I got up to like I'm at 1171 01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:05,040 Speaker 1: over I think I was over seventy five thousand emails. 1172 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,360 Speaker 1: I'm at sixty five thousand, like unready emails because I 1173 01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:10,160 Speaker 1: get a lot of email from pr people I don't 1174 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:14,160 Speaker 1: even open and and whatnot. So but once it started 1175 01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,000 Speaker 1: filling up, I was running out of space, so I 1176 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:20,120 Speaker 1: had to start the leading some email wait from PR people. 1177 01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:24,760 Speaker 1: Well yeah, when I ran a website, they would always 1178 01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,880 Speaker 1: try to horror whole out, you know, some product or 1179 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,840 Speaker 1: some person for an interview when I ran the website. 1180 01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:33,120 Speaker 1: So and I once you end up on those lists, 1181 01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,240 Speaker 1: you very rarely go off list. I'm still getting emails 1182 01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:38,520 Speaker 1: from NASCAR because I had to do a NASCAR rumor 1183 01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:41,840 Speaker 1: page when I worked for Fox Sports dot Com. I'm 1184 01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,680 Speaker 1: still getting email during NASCAR season a couple of weeks 1185 01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,680 Speaker 1: updating me on what the drivers are doing this weekend 1186 01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:52,160 Speaker 1: and PR events and all that stuff. NASCAR rumor board 1187 01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:55,400 Speaker 1: for you. Oh yeah, Fox had a Nascar and I 1188 01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:57,520 Speaker 1: was the rumor guy, and they had to come up 1189 01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:01,800 Speaker 1: with a NASCAR rumor page. That's pretty impressive. I pulled 1190 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:03,720 Speaker 1: it off. I pulled it off for a couple of years, 1191 01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,440 Speaker 1: and don't ask me to do it right now. But 1192 01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,040 Speaker 1: it was a lot of rumors about like drivers changing 1193 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:14,800 Speaker 1: sponsors or drivers changing teams and that kind of stuff. Yeah, 1194 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:16,800 Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't your true you know, it's obviously 1195 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:21,160 Speaker 1: it's NASCAR, so they're NASCAR specific. But yeah, I pulled 1196 01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,200 Speaker 1: that off for a while. Let's see what else looks 1197 01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,920 Speaker 1: interesting here. Oh, this is kind of cool. This is 1198 01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:28,520 Speaker 1: the dream. This is like out of you throw back 1199 01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:32,680 Speaker 1: to the like cartoon days or the movies. There's a 1200 01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:37,240 Speaker 1: group of scientists at the University of Michigan who think 1201 01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:41,480 Speaker 1: they have invented a pill that gives you the same 1202 01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:46,640 Speaker 1: benefits as working out. How great is that you don't 1203 01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:51,160 Speaker 1: have to work out? Get just take the pill, it says. 1204 01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:56,400 Speaker 1: If it works, obviously this would be amazing. But can 1205 01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:00,240 Speaker 1: you continue to live the sedentary lifestyle and just take 1206 01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:03,960 Speaker 1: a pill? And and and that's it? But they discovered 1207 01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:07,720 Speaker 1: that the protein that mimics the effects of working out. 1208 01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:11,440 Speaker 1: This is a University of Michigan study. And so you 1209 01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,280 Speaker 1: could avoid the gym. I'd save so much time. I 1210 01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:16,160 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time during the week at the gym. 1211 01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:18,040 Speaker 1: I wish I didn't have to spend it. Why would 1212 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:20,920 Speaker 1: you want to do that? Because it's easier. I'd have 1213 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:22,840 Speaker 1: more free time, I could do other things. I can 1214 01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:26,480 Speaker 1: maybe sleep more. Right, you have plenty of time throughout 1215 01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,600 Speaker 1: the day to sleep. There's something about going to the gym. 1216 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,080 Speaker 1: It's like it's like going to school as opposed to 1217 01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:37,120 Speaker 1: learning and your education online. There's something different about your 1218 01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:41,680 Speaker 1: curriculum at school with a professor and other students and classmates. 1219 01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,439 Speaker 1: The same thing with the gym, like the extra monivations. 1220 01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,800 Speaker 1: Terrible people are animals. They shipped all over the bathroom, 1221 01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,560 Speaker 1: they piss all over the bathroom. It's a fucking nightmare. 1222 01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,920 Speaker 1: And morning it's a lot of retirees and older people 1223 01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:58,480 Speaker 1: and they walk around there. They apparently think towels are 1224 01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:02,240 Speaker 1: optional in the locker room. They are, and it's disgusting. 1225 01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,160 Speaker 1: And then but then if you go to the gym 1226 01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,600 Speaker 1: like in Primetime where the good looking people, the young 1227 01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:08,919 Speaker 1: people are, then it's a bunch of meat head guys 1228 01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,840 Speaker 1: walking around flexing, looking at the mirror. And I don't 1229 01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:13,840 Speaker 1: need to see that either. You need to go to 1230 01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:17,160 Speaker 1: a better gym. Well, sign me up. I go to 1231 01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,120 Speaker 1: a very affordable gym that's open all night long, because 1232 01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:21,920 Speaker 1: I go to the gym in the wee hours of 1233 01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:23,880 Speaker 1: the morning. A lot of these gyms are foul foul. 1234 01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,160 Speaker 1: They only open at a certain time, which is not 1235 01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,800 Speaker 1: friendly with my schedule. Yeah, I go to a gym 1236 01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:31,720 Speaker 1: that's open twenty four hours a day. So I don't 1237 01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:33,360 Speaker 1: have a problem with that. Well I do too, but 1238 01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,480 Speaker 1: it's the one I go to. The neighborhood gym, is 1239 01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:38,480 Speaker 1: not that it's not that great. You're lazy, don't be lazy. 1240 01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,919 Speaker 1: Don't take a damn pill. There's everything days five days 1241 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,040 Speaker 1: a week, four or five days a week lazy. But 1242 01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,880 Speaker 1: you're not working out hard heart, are you? And now 1243 01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,280 Speaker 1: you want to take a pill and take that all 1244 01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:52,440 Speaker 1: away from you? Of course, when you burn baby burns 1245 01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:57,760 Speaker 1: this team burnie. Now wow, all right, moving on Mr 1246 01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:02,040 Speaker 1: Political over there. There's a new survey that has determined 1247 01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:06,440 Speaker 1: out of out of an average of five adults, how 1248 01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:12,600 Speaker 1: many how many feel too exhausted to go out, to 1249 01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:16,200 Speaker 1: go cook dinner, even have sex any of that stuff? 1250 01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,480 Speaker 1: Out of how many people, like, on average, out of 1251 01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:24,120 Speaker 1: like five, like, out of five adults, how many have 1252 01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,120 Speaker 1: actually seen a doctor because they feel too exhausted to 1253 01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:31,240 Speaker 1: do pretty much anything? Four out of five? E think 1254 01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,919 Speaker 1: four out of five adults have seen a doctor because 1255 01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,120 Speaker 1: they're too tired to go out, cooked dinner or have sex. 1256 01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:42,000 Speaker 1: No one, one out of five, But that's still a 1257 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,800 Speaker 1: pretty high percentage. Well, I think four out of five 1258 01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,960 Speaker 1: probably should yeah, but a lot of people don't. We're 1259 01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,160 Speaker 1: gonna try to avoid doctor. I try to avoid doctors. 1260 01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,040 Speaker 1: I think most people try to avoid doctors because they'll 1261 01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:53,840 Speaker 1: find something wrong with it. We we work with a 1262 01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:58,360 Speaker 1: lot of unhealthy people. Like the industry itself demands that 1263 01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:00,320 Speaker 1: you don't take a lot of time off of work 1264 01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:05,680 Speaker 1: because if you do, then someone else has taken your spot. Right, Yeah, 1265 01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:07,720 Speaker 1: you gotta hold your place in line. If you get 1266 01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,280 Speaker 1: out of line, somebody to the back of the line. Yeah. 1267 01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,880 Speaker 1: And the other thing too is obviously you know your 1268 01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,440 Speaker 1: shows four hours long and then in prepping, so your 1269 01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:19,479 Speaker 1: sleep patterns are different, the diets different, the stress levels 1270 01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:22,680 Speaker 1: are different. That goes for a lot of people that 1271 01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:27,800 Speaker 1: work here working a lot of other places to entertainment, law, medicine. 1272 01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,600 Speaker 1: Does that explain, guest on why I have been to 1273 01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:33,840 Speaker 1: so many funerals of colleagues of mine and radio this 1274 01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:35,599 Speaker 1: is what three weeks in a rail we're gonna do 1275 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:41,240 Speaker 1: death talk podcast if you want. The Russian Orthodox had 1276 01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,920 Speaker 1: funeral a Mormon funeral And what was the last one? 1277 01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:48,360 Speaker 1: Russian Orthodox? What's that in the Russian Orthodox? I did 1278 01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:50,479 Speaker 1: to the Russian Orthodox? I did that last time? Yeah? 1279 01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:54,120 Speaker 1: And you need a twenty one gun salute. Now, yeah, 1280 01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:55,840 Speaker 1: I've not done in the military funeral. Yeah, I have 1281 01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,240 Speaker 1: not been at a military although my uncle was in 1282 01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:00,719 Speaker 1: the military. Did have the American flag over his casket 1283 01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,320 Speaker 1: when he was laid in in the ground. There no 1284 01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:07,240 Speaker 1: death talka and uh it happened a few where they 1285 01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:11,280 Speaker 1: had well actually, no, you know, technically, I have been 1286 01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:15,599 Speaker 1: to a funeral where they did have the military presence, 1287 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,280 Speaker 1: and they did they did. They did a bugle. They 1288 01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:21,800 Speaker 1: didn't do the guns, but they did the bugle salute. Yeah, 1289 01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:23,760 Speaker 1: speaking of which, I forgot about that. I've been to 1290 01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:27,360 Speaker 1: so many funerals I've I've forgotten some of them. Here's 1291 01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:30,120 Speaker 1: one more study. A new study finds you're likely to 1292 01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:35,400 Speaker 1: be the most miserable at age blank. Um, I think 1293 01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,240 Speaker 1: I saw this. I think I did. I think so 1294 01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:46,599 Speaker 1: aged fifty close forty seven, According to a recent study, 1295 01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:50,080 Speaker 1: that is the worst age to be This is from 1296 01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:57,320 Speaker 1: Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College and a midlife crisis and all that, 1297 01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:02,040 Speaker 1: but they determined that the p of your life's misery 1298 01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,640 Speaker 1: arrives around at the age of forty seven. So why 1299 01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:07,920 Speaker 1: would that be Well, because you realize you're closer to 1300 01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,839 Speaker 1: the end than you are to the beginning. And uh, 1301 01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:14,200 Speaker 1: and you've had people starting to die, your your relatives 1302 01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:17,600 Speaker 1: get older and have issues and all. That's why I 1303 01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:19,679 Speaker 1: would think that would be the bad age, right, Yeah, 1304 01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:24,320 Speaker 1: And I think we'll see you're you're close to that number. Um, 1305 01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:28,519 Speaker 1: I think could could your wife and I make plans 1306 01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,519 Speaker 1: for your midlife crisis, Like I'd like to be around 1307 01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,720 Speaker 1: for that. I think that would be important. Once you 1308 01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:37,240 Speaker 1: hit forty seven and you start going delusional and you 1309 01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:39,320 Speaker 1: hit that low point like we need to be there 1310 01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:42,559 Speaker 1: for you. Well, you're not there for me. Now, why 1311 01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:45,400 Speaker 1: would you be there for me? Then he's not there 1312 01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:48,479 Speaker 1: for me. I'm here right now. You're causing me more 1313 01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,080 Speaker 1: heartburning ache. The reason my gall letder gave out was 1314 01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,000 Speaker 1: because of you. That's a lie. That was from all 1315 01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,439 Speaker 1: your that was from all your wrong doing in your 1316 01:10:56,439 --> 01:11:01,360 Speaker 1: early twenties. As you admit, you pushed me over the cliff. 1317 01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,960 Speaker 1: You were the one they're stay, You're like, all right, 1318 01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,519 Speaker 1: here you go. You know, I was the guy on 1319 01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,600 Speaker 1: top of the bridge that didn't want to jump. You know, 1320 01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,160 Speaker 1: they do the bungee jump, and you're the guy that 1321 01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,120 Speaker 1: pushed me off the bridge. Let's do that though, when 1322 01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:16,320 Speaker 1: you hit forty seven, bungee jump or skydiving or even parasailing, 1323 01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:20,320 Speaker 1: how about that? I'm good. I don't need to have 1324 01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,160 Speaker 1: you done. Have you skydive? No? Never? Why not? Pussy? 1325 01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:26,479 Speaker 1: Why not go do it? Come on? What's wrong with you? 1326 01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:30,080 Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of hyas. You're pussy willow. Anyway, 1327 01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,880 Speaker 1: last last study this, and we have time, we get 1328 01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:34,639 Speaker 1: some of the other stuff. But the last study is, 1329 01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:39,040 Speaker 1: are you on a diet? Gas gun? I don't want 1330 01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,760 Speaker 1: to say a strict diet, but I am. I am 1331 01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,599 Speaker 1: observing of what I eat. Okay. So there's a new 1332 01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:48,080 Speaker 1: study out that said, the average adult in their lifetime, 1333 01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:53,160 Speaker 1: we'll try blank number of different diets. Seven. You think 1334 01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:56,839 Speaker 1: the average adult will try seven diets in their life? 1335 01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:02,040 Speaker 1: Poor you? Are you terrible at this? But that's fucking horrific. 1336 01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:04,479 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to the people in the Bible belt. That's terrible. 1337 01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:08,400 Speaker 1: Why put into a new study the average adult will 1338 01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:14,599 Speaker 1: try an unbelievable one hundred and twenty six diets over 1339 01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:16,800 Speaker 1: the course of their life. I couldn't even name a 1340 01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:20,479 Speaker 1: hundred twenty six diets. They estimate that means at least 1341 01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:25,160 Speaker 1: two new diets each year, he will, well, there's fat. 1342 01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:27,920 Speaker 1: I'm on a suddenly a diet. It's a lifestyle with 1343 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:31,479 Speaker 1: intermitute fast. That's not dieting though, but it is dieting 1344 01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:34,160 Speaker 1: because I don't I cut down on my calories, because 1345 01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:37,280 Speaker 1: I don't eat. You know, several days a week, I 1346 01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:41,480 Speaker 1: will not eat. It's intermittent fast. Okay, So intermittent fasting fasting, 1347 01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:46,479 Speaker 1: a ketto diet, a vegan diet, a vegetarian diet. What 1348 01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,599 Speaker 1: other diets are there? Well, according to this, they say 1349 01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:53,400 Speaker 1: the interminute fasting was the most popular, but something called 1350 01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:56,000 Speaker 1: the cabbage soup diet. I don't know what the hell 1351 01:12:56,080 --> 01:13:03,519 Speaker 1: that isketo diet, a juice ends diet. But then you've 1352 01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:06,479 Speaker 1: got all like the weight watchers and the other diets 1353 01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:09,519 Speaker 1: that are out there. You've got the gluten free diet, 1354 01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:13,799 Speaker 1: You've got that, You've got the vegans diets, the different 1355 01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:18,600 Speaker 1: levels of vegan diets that you can get, vegetarian diets, pescetarian. 1356 01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:22,000 Speaker 1: There's a lot of different things you can try. Jee. Yeah, 1357 01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,800 Speaker 1: that's amazing. I've tried a lot, but I don't think 1358 01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:26,800 Speaker 1: I'll get to a hundred and twenties. So I feel 1359 01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:30,120 Speaker 1: like I've I've reached my zen. Like with the intermittent fasting, 1360 01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:33,240 Speaker 1: it's really worked well for me. Like before when I 1361 01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:36,519 Speaker 1: lost the weight, I just ate like one meal a day, 1362 01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:40,519 Speaker 1: which is kind of intermittent fasting. Um, but I had, 1363 01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:42,360 Speaker 1: you know, I was. There were reasons that I was 1364 01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,519 Speaker 1: able to lose the weight so so quickly. Anyway, right, 1365 01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:46,120 Speaker 1: do we have any grab Do we have any we 1366 01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,680 Speaker 1: didn't grab bag? Don't stick to sports stories in the week? 1367 01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:49,880 Speaker 1: Do we have any of them? And this kind of 1368 01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,160 Speaker 1: goes on the heels of study this, But how about this. 1369 01:13:52,400 --> 01:13:55,960 Speaker 1: Fewer than half of American adults know how many Jews 1370 01:13:56,000 --> 01:14:02,160 Speaker 1: were killed in the Holocaust. Are you surprised by this? Uh? 1371 01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:05,000 Speaker 1: Well he got he talking about the entire world here 1372 01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:07,720 Speaker 1: or what are we talking American adults? So, according to 1373 01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:12,280 Speaker 1: a survey published by the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January, 1374 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:19,760 Speaker 1: set of people that were asked, I knew that approximately 1375 01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,479 Speaker 1: six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Yeah, I 1376 01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:27,160 Speaker 1: mean it sucks. I I'm not shocked by that because 1377 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,679 Speaker 1: there's a lot of younger people that don't pay attention 1378 01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:32,160 Speaker 1: to that kind of stuff. There's also some knuckleheads that 1379 01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:35,000 Speaker 1: there's still the people I didn't happen. The Holocaust didn't happen, 1380 01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:38,479 Speaker 1: You know those people you've been to out. So I went. 1381 01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:41,599 Speaker 1: Three years ago a buddy of mine got married. He's 1382 01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:44,640 Speaker 1: he went to medical school in Poland and his his 1383 01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:48,800 Speaker 1: wife is Polish, but he was living um in Ireland. 1384 01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:52,479 Speaker 1: So we did a bachelor party and a wedding on 1385 01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:55,439 Speaker 1: the same trip as a fourteen day trip, and we 1386 01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:58,400 Speaker 1: started off in Berlin, but then we that was for 1387 01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,920 Speaker 1: the bachelor party, but then a bunch of guys and 1388 01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,519 Speaker 1: girls then got together and we took a trip down 1389 01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:06,519 Speaker 1: to Auschwitz and broken Now and Ben, I mean, you 1390 01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:08,559 Speaker 1: could read about this stuff until you're blew in the 1391 01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:11,639 Speaker 1: face and hear about it, but not until you get 1392 01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:16,719 Speaker 1: there do you understand the gravity of what these people 1393 01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:21,000 Speaker 1: and what countries had gone through. Because it was just 1394 01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:25,439 Speaker 1: jaw dropping I'm talking about. There were specific areas in 1395 01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:32,480 Speaker 1: the museums were hair, nail clippings, glasses, shoes was all preserved, 1396 01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:37,439 Speaker 1: and the skulls and stuff. Yes, I mean they brought 1397 01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:40,800 Speaker 1: you into the into the shower room, which is just 1398 01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:44,320 Speaker 1: chilling because it looked like a regular old school locker room, 1399 01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:47,360 Speaker 1: just nothing but brick and these small holes from the 1400 01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:51,560 Speaker 1: rooftop and obviously that's where everything was sprayed down to 1401 01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:55,080 Speaker 1: to these people, the hospital which was basically a rack 1402 01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,360 Speaker 1: room and torture center where they would torture these people, 1403 01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:04,000 Speaker 1: revived them, them, torture them again. Um. And it was 1404 01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:06,360 Speaker 1: just amazing when you got there because there was just 1405 01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:11,559 Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful path of nature, just grass, trees and 1406 01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:14,040 Speaker 1: a railroad track, and it looked like you were going 1407 01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,560 Speaker 1: somewhere in a fairy tale. And then all of a 1408 01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:19,320 Speaker 1: sudden you get to where you are and you were 1409 01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:23,000 Speaker 1: segregated between men, women and kids, and you were led 1410 01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:26,320 Speaker 1: to your demise. And so when you got there and 1411 01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:28,840 Speaker 1: people were talking on the buses once they got there, 1412 01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,320 Speaker 1: you did not hear a soul talk at all. You 1413 01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:34,400 Speaker 1: just you just soaked it all in because yeah, it 1414 01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,439 Speaker 1: just obviously they were been there at some point. Maybe 1415 01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:39,760 Speaker 1: maybe we'll end up when I get older and I 1416 01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:44,000 Speaker 1: travel when my wife when seven, when I gravel the Europe. 1417 01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:45,519 Speaker 1: But I remember when I was a kid, you know, 1418 01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:48,360 Speaker 1: growing up as a Jewish kid, and they had the 1419 01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:51,519 Speaker 1: bar mitz and that whole thing. And then I recall 1420 01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,040 Speaker 1: when I was at. I was at somebody else's either 1421 01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,040 Speaker 1: was a bar mitz for a wedding. A very vague 1422 01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:58,880 Speaker 1: memory of where I was, but I know it was 1423 01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:02,200 Speaker 1: it a family functions somewhere in l A. And I 1424 01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:05,800 Speaker 1: was dragged over as a little kid to look at 1425 01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:12,559 Speaker 1: one of my relatives tattoo from from the death camps. 1426 01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:14,960 Speaker 1: There they tattooed you. When you went in there and 1427 01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:16,720 Speaker 1: you put in, they put like a number on you. 1428 01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:21,280 Speaker 1: And I still remember his old frail, his old dude, 1429 01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:24,880 Speaker 1: and he pulled up his arms sleeve and there there 1430 01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:26,720 Speaker 1: it was, right there there was the tattoo from the 1431 01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:29,559 Speaker 1: death camp that that he had as a kid. I 1432 01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:31,760 Speaker 1: still it's one of those memories and a few things 1433 01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:33,519 Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid, but that's one 1434 01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:37,360 Speaker 1: thing I remember back in the day. Well that's very uplifting. Gascout. 1435 01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:40,519 Speaker 1: What else do we have to sports stories of the week. 1436 01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:42,479 Speaker 1: So we got the impeachment that's going on right now, 1437 01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:45,959 Speaker 1: Senators gotta have a couple of rules that are implemented. 1438 01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,439 Speaker 1: Obviously language what they're uh bringing in, what they're not, 1439 01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,479 Speaker 1: But they're also there's rules right now prohibiting food and 1440 01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:56,080 Speaker 1: drink on the floor. So under the certain rules right now, Ben, 1441 01:17:56,479 --> 01:18:00,920 Speaker 1: they're only allowed water and or milk, and also a 1442 01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:03,920 Speaker 1: little bit of candy. So this this actually goes back 1443 01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:07,360 Speaker 1: to nineteen sixties six, which centate rules do not prohibit 1444 01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,120 Speaker 1: a center from sipping milk during his speech. So earlier 1445 01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:14,280 Speaker 1: this week, Adam Shipp was drinking water. He took a 1446 01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:19,480 Speaker 1: quick pause during his thirty thousand word um opening monologue 1447 01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:23,680 Speaker 1: to drink a little bit of water. Um. So so 1448 01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,559 Speaker 1: these guys are they're they're stuck obviously, And I know 1449 01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:28,880 Speaker 1: was it I think it was Tuesday. They had their 1450 01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:31,640 Speaker 1: opening um statements that went until about one or two 1451 01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:34,680 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. So yeah, well the candy, here's what. 1452 01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:36,720 Speaker 1: You don't do the milk because you know, you might 1453 01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:39,360 Speaker 1: have to go to the bathroom. I drink the water 1454 01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:42,640 Speaker 1: and do the candy. Now, I remember I did television 1455 01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:45,720 Speaker 1: very briefly at the NBC Sports Network years ago. We 1456 01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:50,360 Speaker 1: were in in Stanford, Connecticut, and and I'd fly back 1457 01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:53,120 Speaker 1: like a week a month or whatever, uh, and I 1458 01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,320 Speaker 1: would be on the late shift. You know, it would 1459 01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:57,439 Speaker 1: end we'd have to wait for the West Coast games 1460 01:18:57,439 --> 01:19:00,680 Speaker 1: to end, so we would get off the television and 1461 01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:02,800 Speaker 1: when we're done with the show. We had to touch 1462 01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:05,360 Speaker 1: up what we've done earlier. And so we got out 1463 01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:07,200 Speaker 1: of there like at two in the morning, and for 1464 01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:09,599 Speaker 1: those people who are day people, it was very odd 1465 01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:12,160 Speaker 1: to have to step late and so but they had 1466 01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:15,439 Speaker 1: like these little bowls of candy all over the green 1467 01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,439 Speaker 1: room and the production rooms and all that. And I 1468 01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:21,240 Speaker 1: remember asking one of the senior producers at NBC, I said, 1469 01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:24,719 Speaker 1: why the why the fuck everyone? This is like my dream. 1470 01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:26,120 Speaker 1: And I had lost a lot of weight before I 1471 01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:28,000 Speaker 1: did that. I was like, you know, I'm a recovering 1472 01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:30,360 Speaker 1: fat guy. It's not good for me to be around 1473 01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:34,320 Speaker 1: piles of candy everywhere I turned, and and he told me, 1474 01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:36,519 Speaker 1: he said, well, we do that because we're on late 1475 01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:41,040 Speaker 1: and you know, the sugar keeps people awake. So that's 1476 01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:42,960 Speaker 1: why we have these little mini candy bars all over 1477 01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:44,400 Speaker 1: the place because it's good for you know, it's good 1478 01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,120 Speaker 1: for you to kind of give you some extra energy. There. 1479 01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,680 Speaker 1: That's like perfect, that's perfect, like a Vegas casino, right 1480 01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:52,679 Speaker 1: or you have no clocks. The the ceilings are are 1481 01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:56,559 Speaker 1: bright or or vibrant, comfortable colors, plenty of lighting, the 1482 01:19:56,600 --> 01:20:00,160 Speaker 1: oxygen and of course, uh little snacks and alcohol or 1483 01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,680 Speaker 1: are distributed once the players are are playing on the tables. Yeah, 1484 01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:05,640 Speaker 1: they do it right, They absolutely do it right. All right? 1485 01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:07,080 Speaker 1: And what else do we got? That is it? We're 1486 01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,720 Speaker 1: getting kicked out of here, at least I'm getting killed here. Yeah. 1487 01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:12,360 Speaker 1: I got a couple of stories. They're not great stories. 1488 01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:16,120 Speaker 1: It's death talk, impeachment talk. And about that furry story. 1489 01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:19,240 Speaker 1: You didn't mention that one? What about Well there's another one. 1490 01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:21,360 Speaker 1: Did you hear about this? A man was killed by 1491 01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:26,360 Speaker 1: blade wielding rooster during an illegal cock fight. So he 1492 01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:31,679 Speaker 1: was killed by a cock? Is that what you're saying? Yes? Uh, 1493 01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:33,240 Speaker 1: this was a couple of weeks ago. It was an 1494 01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:35,559 Speaker 1: illegal cock fight. Have you ever been to a like 1495 01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:39,840 Speaker 1: a dog fight or or a cock fight or um 1496 01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:43,839 Speaker 1: anything down south of Mexico? I have not, I understand. 1497 01:20:44,120 --> 01:20:45,680 Speaker 1: I had a friend that was at a hotel in 1498 01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:47,720 Speaker 1: Mexico and said that they had in the you know, 1499 01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:50,160 Speaker 1: the pamphlet at the hotel and things to do. Yeah, 1500 01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:54,400 Speaker 1: they had like cock fighting on the little pamphlet. This 1501 01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,040 Speaker 1: is years ago. I don't know if they still do so. Yeah. 1502 01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:59,719 Speaker 1: So this took place ben in India, and what happened 1503 01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:03,960 Speaker 1: was the birds. They have razor blades that are tied 1504 01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,680 Speaker 1: to their limbs and their placed in the in the 1505 01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:10,479 Speaker 1: ring where they obviously fight until you know one's left standing. 1506 01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:15,240 Speaker 1: And um, when things got underway, one of the roosters 1507 01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:20,040 Speaker 1: escapes kicked out and actually wounded this older man like 1508 01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,360 Speaker 1: fifty five years of age and wounded have been the 1509 01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:26,160 Speaker 1: stomach and eventually killed them. So it's pretty dark. I 1510 01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:27,880 Speaker 1: knew we weren't gonna do death talk, and now here 1511 01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:34,080 Speaker 1: we are. You're very ghoulish person. These stories just right themselves. 1512 01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:39,760 Speaker 1: I remembered remember the kids eating tide pods? Who could 1513 01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:43,640 Speaker 1: forget one of my favorite stories? Who loves teenage anything? Yeah? Well, 1514 01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:46,759 Speaker 1: I guess there's a trend now on a new app 1515 01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:52,799 Speaker 1: called TikTok which men are apparently dipping their their cranks 1516 01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:58,639 Speaker 1: into a cup of soy sauce because apparently um men's 1517 01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:05,479 Speaker 1: genitalia have um taste buds. So that is a that 1518 01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,720 Speaker 1: is a trending topic on an app called TikTok, And 1519 01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:12,840 Speaker 1: I know you can enjoy that. Well, I I think 1520 01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:16,519 Speaker 1: you should probably save that for your grinder. Pie. I 1521 01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:24,000 Speaker 1: don't know study this bling? Wow, can we put a 1522 01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:27,440 Speaker 1: ball on this thing. We got five stars since September, 1523 01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,920 Speaker 1: so yeah, we need to keep that up. Tell a 1524 01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:32,040 Speaker 1: friend seriously, that'll help us out a lot. I mean, 1525 01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:34,280 Speaker 1: maybe we'll actually get paid for this if they get 1526 01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:37,000 Speaker 1: the numbers up even higher. And all it tasts if 1527 01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:41,120 Speaker 1: you get one person that wasn't listening to download the podcast, 1528 01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:42,639 Speaker 1: and all you have to do is listen for a minute. 1529 01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,400 Speaker 1: One minute. That's it. We get credit for one minute 1530 01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:47,920 Speaker 1: of your time. So tell the people if they don't 1531 01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:49,719 Speaker 1: even like to show, just to listen for a minute 1532 01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:51,679 Speaker 1: and move on to the next podcast. We get credit 1533 01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:53,800 Speaker 1: for it. That's all it takes. But listen. Have a 1534 01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,479 Speaker 1: great weekend, a football free weekend. I don't count the 1535 01:22:56,479 --> 01:23:00,759 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, and next week are Super Bowl. Any versus 1536 01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,920 Speaker 1: the penny, we'll have that and whatever else pops up. 1537 01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:06,599 Speaker 1: We'll have a great weekend and we'll catch you next time.