Speaker 1: Boom. If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now today here it is the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and David gascon As. We are
Speaker 1: here to enlighten you on this non football weekend no NF. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't consider the Pro Bowl. I've been to the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl kind of years ago. I don't consider the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and actual NFL events. So there will be
Speaker 1: no Benny versus the Penny podcast. But you do have
Speaker 1: this standby Grab Bass podcast because four hours, five days
Speaker 1: a week is not enough of the Ben Maller brand,
Speaker 1: if you want to call that a brand. But we
Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere the vast power of My Heart,
Speaker 1: the global reach of podcasting. This podcast has heard weekly
Speaker 1: on the I Heart podcast network, which you probably already
Speaker 1: figured that out because you're listening to it. But tell
Speaker 1: your friends, Tell your friends want to up the numbers
Speaker 1: here in still earlier in the year obviously, so I
Speaker 1: want to see these podcast numbers go up and maybe
Speaker 1: we'll actually get some money. Um of course me not
Speaker 1: David Gascon, who is right over there. Unfortunately, back again,
Speaker 1: we thought you would be gone, but you've survived under
Speaker 1: the week. Yeah. You know what, I will say that
Speaker 1: in all of this with the fifth out with Ben Maller,
Speaker 1: that UM, I welcome you into the studio this entire
Speaker 1: week because I'll tell you what, not only do we
Speaker 1: have sportscasters, producers, editors here at Fox Sports Radio, but
Speaker 1: we got some amazing politicians and we got some knowledgeable
Speaker 1: attorneys throughout as we are. We're underway in the impeachment
Speaker 1: here inwies so we got Rhodes scholars in here. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a delight to tell you this much, Ben,
Speaker 1: it is a lot of fun to see, um, all
Speaker 1: the intellectuals that are throughout this building so loud and
Speaker 1: proud here we are. You're you're enjoying this, You're you're
Speaker 1: feasting on all of this. Yeah. I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's entertainment. I think it's good. Um, we have
Speaker 1: like the parlor game. David guest Gun enjoys the parlor
Speaker 1: game of the impeachment. I've watched some of it, but
Speaker 1: small doses well earlier in the week. I can only
Speaker 1: handle blow blowhards so much. Yeah, but look at the
Speaker 1: industry we're in. Like I said, I can only handle
Speaker 1: the blowhards so much. I don't hang out with these people.
Speaker 1: We don't. It's if it's not one thing, it's another.
Speaker 1: Turn your turn your damn phone off. Turn your phone off.
Speaker 1: Please put it on silent. You can't be interrupted. I
Speaker 1: gave you an entire hour to sleep, and now you're
Speaker 1: interrupt in this podcast. Your stupid you were fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: late to the podcast, and so you will be deducted
Speaker 1: from your pay. You will be deducted for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: That a Demerit is that what that is? Yeah? Do
Speaker 1: you know that you're a bad influence? Like people are
Speaker 1: sending me angry messages from the Bible belt. I know
Speaker 1: that you're getting me to curse, and they do not
Speaker 1: like to hear. I'm like, leave it to beaver. I
Speaker 1: don't curse, but you've gotten me to curse on this
Speaker 1: fucking podcast, and people are upset by that. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't tell you to curse. And it's understandable that
Speaker 1: some people don't want you to use foul language because
Speaker 1: they have kids, they have lives that it's it's not
Speaker 1: a it's not a bomb on. Kids curse more than anybody,
Speaker 1: of course, But I learned all these words when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. But they don't do it around their parents.
Speaker 1: I understand the last thing they need is you or
Speaker 1: I to be a bad influence on them. So can
Speaker 1: you can you curb the cussing a little bit? Please?
Speaker 1: You curse? If you do a side by a ven diagram,
Speaker 1: you curse much more than I curse. But it's usually
Speaker 1: at you. Well, yeah, which is called for unnecessary and dumb.
Speaker 1: But it's not on air. It's not on a podcast,
Speaker 1: it's not on the national radio. It's not on air.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you hello? Is this thing on? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. I guess
Speaker 1: it just depends on the time of day, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're loyal enthusiasts and blow hards aren't really downloading as
Speaker 1: much as they should apparently, But it's all good other
Speaker 1: than the numbers are where they're I guess they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be. I just think they should be higher. I think,
Speaker 1: but working with you is a liability, speaking of which
Speaker 1: that you have to overcome, a liability. I heard I
Speaker 1: heard Media did their two thousand nineteen podcast awards just recently,
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm proud to say that you were not
Speaker 1: among the elected podcasts. And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 1: And uh, well, the reason is you well look in
Speaker 1: the mirror and you will see why that that we
Speaker 1: cannot be accepted by the mainstream. With David Gascon, that's
Speaker 1: the react. But I don't really want to win awards
Speaker 1: because my whole reputation has been that I am people's champ.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be some fugazzi award show. They
Speaker 1: have these awards shows. I have friends of mine to
Speaker 1: go to these luncheons and they get awards, and it
Speaker 1: looks like just the most horrible afternoon you could possibly
Speaker 1: spend hanging around with a bunch of gas bags who
Speaker 1: are also full of themselves, how great they are, patting
Speaker 1: each other on the back, taking bows. Who wants to
Speaker 1: take part in something like that, Well, I think for
Speaker 1: the purposes of of professional acknowledgement, maybe a company bonus,
Speaker 1: maybe an advancement in the career. I think, well, you
Speaker 1: can show me where in that contract I get a bonus.
Speaker 1: If I win an I Heeart Podcast award, then I
Speaker 1: will be motivated and I will lick the toes of
Speaker 1: who I need to lick to win the award. Well
Speaker 1: as you did, mention, It's all about enlightenment. It's all
Speaker 1: about making people aware. And when you make people aware,
Speaker 1: advertisers come, sponsors come, new friends come along and uh,
Speaker 1: and I won't have to be doing such so much
Speaker 1: of the heavy lifting for us to market outside of
Speaker 1: this building here. So um, I can only do so much.
Speaker 1: I can only bring it to the water. I can't
Speaker 1: force you to drink at Ben Maller. You know you are.
Speaker 1: I'm Lebron James, your Mo Williams, and I'm handing you
Speaker 1: to a championship. At least at least she didn't say
Speaker 1: I was somebody else that was on that team that
Speaker 1: is now suffering greatly. So um, I'm I am Kauhai
Speaker 1: Leonard and you are Jeremy Lynn and I have won
Speaker 1: a championship for you. But you get a ring? Oh well,
Speaker 1: y'all get a ring. One a way or another at
Speaker 1: quarterback championship ring. Doesn't the chief in the championship ring?
Speaker 1: Luke won't want an NBA title with the Lakers. Is
Speaker 1: that take a championships? Does that take away from anything?
Speaker 1: Of course not everybody has a role. I think that
Speaker 1: mine needs to be amplified a little bit more. Um,
Speaker 1: but that is your role is to get hemorrhoids role.
Speaker 1: Sitting there listening, we can certainly do that. So what
Speaker 1: do we What do we have on the alright venue
Speaker 1: on this Week's a Day into the fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben malloy. We've got the voice of a killer haunting
Speaker 1: from the trash can. We've got that fake it until
Speaker 1: you make it. We'll get that as well. Study this
Speaker 1: grab bag, which is the mail bag. We just changed mail.
Speaker 1: We grab mail to grab or whatever. Whatever. You get
Speaker 1: the point, uh, and don't stick to sports stories of
Speaker 1: the week, So we get those. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: to get to and we'll probably not get to half
Speaker 1: of it, but we begin with this Aaron Hernandez documentary
Speaker 1: which I have been watching on Netflix and I'm not
Speaker 1: all the way through it yet. I've made my way
Speaker 1: through most of it. It is pretty good, actually, it's
Speaker 1: pretty good, uh on the mall scale of documentaries one
Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being the magnum opus. I'm out
Speaker 1: of nine, and it could go up to a ten.
Speaker 1: I'm out of nine right now. It's got a chance
Speaker 1: to get to attend. That's not good that there's great
Speaker 1: production value on this, which is important with podcasts. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's amateur our kind of like the fish Bowl, the
Speaker 1: famous fish Bowl podcast that we did with guests gout
Speaker 1: Engineering back in but the podcast that's a different animal.
Speaker 1: The documentary with Aaron Hernandez life story, fast moving, somewhat informative, alow.
Speaker 1: I knew a lot of it and chilling at times.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I didn't expect this to
Speaker 1: be that great because we were on the radio talking
Speaker 1: about Aaron Hernandez when he was on trial for murder
Speaker 1: and then substantly found guilty of that and all, and
Speaker 1: so we didn't play a monologues. I knew a lot
Speaker 1: about it. I was doing some radio in Boston remotely
Speaker 1: during that time, so we talked a lot about it
Speaker 1: on the Boston Show off and on, and I knew
Speaker 1: some of the people that were involved in the story.
Speaker 1: On the kind of the outskirts of the story. But
Speaker 1: it's just wild. I mean to watch it and hear
Speaker 1: the phone calls that this guy was going around killing
Speaker 1: multiple people, and he then show up at the stadium
Speaker 1: on Sunday and rah rah there are a bunch of
Speaker 1: people wearing this jersey cheering him on, not knowing they
Speaker 1: were cheering on a killer. Just craziness and the ability
Speaker 1: that Internet has had to compartmentalize. He's uh, he's fast. Fascinating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the way that it was all all laid out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, just what you're hiding guests. Well, just because
Speaker 1: of the way that this wasn't just a regular guy.
Speaker 1: This was a high performance athlete at the major Division
Speaker 1: one level at Florida and then eventually in the National
Speaker 1: Football leagues. Sue to maintain that kind of excellence on
Speaker 1: the field, not only physically but also mentally, to stay
Speaker 1: disciplined within the confines of Florida and also at New England.
Speaker 1: It was. It was phenomenal. Now, I know you haven't
Speaker 1: finished all of it just yet, so I won't boil
Speaker 1: the end. Well, I know what happens, he dies. I
Speaker 1: am aware of the end of this, but you know,
Speaker 1: what if if that was the case. You know how
Speaker 1: it ends, you wouldn't be watching the damn documentary. So
Speaker 1: I'm saying purpose logistics and how things worked internally with
Speaker 1: New England. I'm not going to spoil it for you.
Speaker 1: Let me let me explain, guest on that when I'm
Speaker 1: watching this documentary, I will be checking it out because
Speaker 1: there's people I know that I have not seen yet
Speaker 1: in the documentary that work or used to work at
Speaker 1: w E. I uh so, people I am casual acquaintances with.
Speaker 1: So I want to see that part of the story.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to see any kind of background
Speaker 1: story on the patriots or I know that the patriots
Speaker 1: look the other way, and they're gonna claim probably in there,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the end of it, but they're gonna
Speaker 1: claim they try to get him help and whatever. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you help somebody like that, but they
Speaker 1: probably are going to say that, how about this? How
Speaker 1: about you wait and watch the entire thing before you
Speaker 1: make those kind of assumptions. How about that? Okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: how about I'll wait for you please. Now. I finished
Speaker 1: it last night. I enjoyed it, and you want a
Speaker 1: cookie congratulations. But as I was getting I mean, if
Speaker 1: I if I didn't work during the week, I would
Speaker 1: have watched it last night too. I have a job,
Speaker 1: I have to work at night. I have to watch
Speaker 1: sports at night. I keep you watching documentaries at night,
Speaker 1: manual labor. Well, I have fortunate watch documentaries two days
Speaker 1: a week. What days of those Friday night if my
Speaker 1: wife allows it, depending on if she wants to do
Speaker 1: something else. And then on Saturday, I'll leave a little time.
Speaker 1: I will a lot time to watch some documentaries. So
Speaker 1: it's like two days a week I catch up on
Speaker 1: my documentaries, and then during the rest of the week,
Speaker 1: I'm hard. Oh sports guy, looking for things to talk about,
Speaker 1: That's what I do. Now this is one of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not a topic of conversation in
Speaker 1: the mainstream media, or you couldn't talk about this at
Speaker 1: all in the National Football League with Super Bowl right
Speaker 1: around the corner and the NFL season coming to a
Speaker 1: close and the NFL Draft coming up, the combine coming up, Like,
Speaker 1: you couldn't bring that into a top up a conversation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: could you? I mean I could? I mean that would
Speaker 1: require you to cut off your callers, so I know
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that. Why would I have
Speaker 1: to cut off caller because that would mean more, That
Speaker 1: would mean more content for you, like you have to
Speaker 1: talk more and elaborate more on I don't take that
Speaker 1: many calls anymore. I am selective with the calls. I
Speaker 1: do a monologue at the beginning, and then I have
Speaker 1: a you know, a few calls I mixed in throughout
Speaker 1: the hour. And people want to stay on hold, they
Speaker 1: can get on the show. If not, they can hang up.
Speaker 1: They're free to do whatever they want. And people don't
Speaker 1: hang on, then that's fine. We just talk, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: all right, moving on from the in her Nadez documentaries.
Speaker 1: You told me I shouldn't talk about it because I
Speaker 1: didn't watch that. Don't make an assumption on the back
Speaker 1: end of it. That's all I'm saying. Because it is enjoyable.
Speaker 1: Like you said, he's dead, I'm not sad he's dead.
Speaker 1: He was a loser, as scumbag, a psychopath and you know,
Speaker 1: go around randomly killing people and they don't feel any
Speaker 1: empathy for you. So you gave this, you gave this
Speaker 1: documentary a nine, and you only want to watch the
Speaker 1: end for the people that you know. Yeah, what else
Speaker 1: that people will be in the documentary, so I want
Speaker 1: to watch and see how they're portrayed in the documentary.
Speaker 1: That's just absolutely fascinating to me. Right, I'm moving on.
Speaker 1: Haunting from the Trash. Can be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. So, this Houston Astros story, which
Speaker 1: we have chronicled day in and day out, effortless coverage,
Speaker 1: endless coverage as well of this story, and I reject
Speaker 1: the notion that Major League Baseball has it They're just
Speaker 1: gonna be able to sweep this under the rug, and
Speaker 1: this is it. That's all it's gonna you know, nothing more.
Speaker 1: This is a one month story and by the time
Speaker 1: spring training games get going, people will have moved on.
Speaker 1: This is going to come back and haunt them like
Speaker 1: a traumatic experience in your life or some kind of
Speaker 1: disease that keeps popping back up every so often. Uh,
Speaker 1: it is going to be the ongoing narrative. I am
Speaker 1: convinced in season and there's nothing that Rob Manford can do.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that Robert Crane, the owner of the Astros,
Speaker 1: can do or any of these other Jamox, These Mama
Speaker 1: Lukes are so screwed. Uh. And it's it's an odd
Speaker 1: deal because Baseball made a deal with the devil. The
Speaker 1: I want to use the right terms. I don't want
Speaker 1: to curse anymore guests. Guy, I said the f wort already.
Speaker 1: I don't want to upset the people in the Bible
Speaker 1: belt who are offended here. But the way I'll say it,
Speaker 1: I'll say, like this right, the fact that Baseball made
Speaker 1: a deal with the devil for immunity, and they were
Speaker 1: the players supposedly that's why none of them got punished. Uh.
Speaker 1: These players getting immunity, now, it's like the perfect crime
Speaker 1: stealing the Mona Lisa and not getting caught on video
Speaker 1: and no d n a fingerprint evidence. The Dodgers, the
Speaker 1: Yankee the A's, the Mariners, the Rangers, pretty much every
Speaker 1: team in the American League other than I guess the
Speaker 1: Red Sox, who are part of this and complicit with it.
Speaker 1: It is going to be vicious. I have heard from
Speaker 1: a number of my friends Dodger fans who are looking
Speaker 1: at the schedule for the trips the Astros make to
Speaker 1: Anaheim for the sole purpose of booing the Astros and
Speaker 1: goofing on them. And the other part is the other
Speaker 1: reason forget about that. I mean, the fan outrage will
Speaker 1: will die down, maybe it won't die down. But what happens?
Speaker 1: Think about this, what happens if Alex Bregman and Jose
Speaker 1: Altuve are frauds and they turn into two forty hitters
Speaker 1: with limited power all of a sudden. Are they gonna
Speaker 1: blame injuries? Are they gonna blame some other boogeyman or
Speaker 1: the obvious? No more bang bang, no more buzz buzz,
Speaker 1: no more whistle while you work, Like, what's the spin
Speaker 1: gonna be from the Astros a major league baseball? It's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting. I think one of the guys
Speaker 1: that you'll remember this, but going back to a guy
Speaker 1: that was pot for p E d Us was Brady Anderson,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. That's old school guests on you're dating
Speaker 1: your stuff. That's before my time. I've I've heard about it.
Speaker 1: I read him on the Wikipedia. Yeah, but of course,
Speaker 1: so you know this. I mean he topped out with
Speaker 1: what fifty home runs and and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden just fell off a cliff. I think that's exactly
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen to these guys that they don't perform
Speaker 1: at least at an average level. But you hit the
Speaker 1: nail run on the head. And I've got a problem
Speaker 1: with it because this is gonna staying Rob Manfred's legacy
Speaker 1: as commissioner of Major League Baseball. And people will say
Speaker 1: that there's no precedent for this, that this is enough
Speaker 1: of a penalty against the general manager, against the manager,
Speaker 1: against the future manager when Carlos beltran, but it's not.
Speaker 1: And this dates back to eighteen seventy seven guys got
Speaker 1: banned for life. There's were players, then you got the
Speaker 1: eight players the nineteen nineteen Chicago Black Socks scandal, and
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for him to drop the hammer,
Speaker 1: and he's not doing that by giving these guys immunity.
Speaker 1: It's just dumbfounding to me because these are the ones
Speaker 1: that executed the plan to cheat, to rob the game,
Speaker 1: to steal from other teams, and obviously use technology to
Speaker 1: improve the likelihood of winning a World Series. And I
Speaker 1: think it's gutless to do this or not to take
Speaker 1: any action against these guys, because what's it a turrent
Speaker 1: for these guys in the future. Oh yeah, listen, if
Speaker 1: you told me right now that you could get away
Speaker 1: with it, it's the perfect crime. And all you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose is your dopey manager and your owners are gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. Who's worth billions will be fined five dollars essentially? Uh,
Speaker 1: and then your GM has gone okay done? Where do
Speaker 1: I sign the paper with? I'd like the champion. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly if if I gave the common man h
Speaker 1: G h R steroids and I said, hey, you have
Speaker 1: decent athletic ability, but here are P E D s
Speaker 1: now enhancement. There might be an opportunity for you to
Speaker 1: get caught, but you still have a chance to make
Speaker 1: millions of dollars, not only for yourself or your family,
Speaker 1: be set for life. Who wouldn't take that kind of action? Well,
Speaker 1: it's like when you if you rob a bank and
Speaker 1: then you get to keep the money, but you have
Speaker 1: to go to jail for a couple of y I
Speaker 1: would do it exactly. Who wouldn't do it? You know?
Speaker 1: Of course you're gonna do it. If you figure about it,
Speaker 1: spent a couple of years in jail, it can't be
Speaker 1: that bad. I'll be you know, club fed or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then I'll keep the money when I come out.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's just wrong out. Listen. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this when when baseball, in the early days of baseball,
Speaker 1: when guys got suspended, there was no union. Since the
Speaker 1: Union got muscle, since the Union got backbone, baseball has
Speaker 1: been a bunch of pussy willows. But even you know,
Speaker 1: you think about bud Selike in the steroid era, bud
Speaker 1: Selick could have easily suspended players based on the best
Speaker 1: interest of the game, looking out for the wellness of baseball,
Speaker 1: whatever clause they call it, whatever language and they use.
Speaker 1: But but Seeley didn't do it because he was afraid
Speaker 1: of the Union and he didn't even try to punish
Speaker 1: anybody that was involved in this. Eventually they made a
Speaker 1: compromise because of bad pr and they put the steroid
Speaker 1: rules in. But he could have violated and he could
Speaker 1: have punished these guys, didn't do it. There's a culture
Speaker 1: in baseball of looking the other way, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: boys being boys and all that stuff. And but the fact,
Speaker 1: the main reason that Rob Manford looks like a giant
Speaker 1: pussy willow is because of the fact that the Mexican
Speaker 1: drug cartels have as much power in Mexico as the
Speaker 1: Union has over major League Baseball right and based most
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball teams, it's a den of inequity. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of shadiness going on with bending the rules,
Speaker 1: but it's again, it's it's okay when you hire the
Speaker 1: five year old guy that should not be wearing a
Speaker 1: baseball uniform who happens to be good at detecting te
Speaker 1: holes from pictures or ripping off signs, that's okay. But
Speaker 1: when you put a camera and bang bang and buzz
Speaker 1: buzz and and all that, that's where you've crossed the line,
Speaker 1: period period. Stop. But but the other thing too, about
Speaker 1: the Astros. When you watch Astros games, Let's say they
Speaker 1: do win some games this year because they have players
Speaker 1: that we think are good, but maybe they're not because
Speaker 1: of cheating. Any time the Astros get a big home run,
Speaker 1: if there's any kind of oddity, any kind of sound
Speaker 1: thing that goes bump in the night, will be assumed
Speaker 1: to be part of some new age way to to
Speaker 1: tell a hitter when you know when something's coming. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine going to like Anaheim or Yankee stadium in
Speaker 1: in here, and when the Astro hitters are the plate,
Speaker 1: people will be banging seats, you know, whatever they can
Speaker 1: get to make noise, to make kind of reminiscent and
Speaker 1: make it sound like trash cans and things like that.
Speaker 1: You know that's gonna happen. It reminds me of back
Speaker 1: in the day when Bonds would go down to San
Speaker 1: Diego or even law Sandels and people would throw syringes
Speaker 1: or fake syringes onto the diamond. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember that. I don't remember that. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: around at games, going to games, and I remember bon
Speaker 1: Bonds was like an infamous like he was. He was
Speaker 1: a brute of baseball and people just despised him, and
Speaker 1: he was so upset with Barry Bonds. And in the
Speaker 1: media coverage you was crazy. Now, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know how you feel on this, but I don't like
Speaker 1: the stance that CC Sabathia took with this about how
Speaker 1: the Astros robbed him and the Yankees of a World
Speaker 1: Series title. I wouldn't give the Dodgers the title in
Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen, but I was certainly wanted to assume
Speaker 1: that the Yankees would be there either, and and I
Speaker 1: think what they should have done, much like with Reggie
Speaker 1: Bush and the Heisman Trophy that was vacated, I think
Speaker 1: they need to do the same thing too, because you
Speaker 1: can't make it right, but at least you can negate
Speaker 1: what they acclaimed. You got the bonuses, you've got the rings,
Speaker 1: and you got the celebrity status from a team that
Speaker 1: was Don't forget they were absolutely horrific in the early
Speaker 1: two thousand's. They were a doormat. I mean they went
Speaker 1: to what one World Series with Royal Oswalton Company, but
Speaker 1: they were They were dormant for such a long period time.
Speaker 1: They had all those high ranking draft picks and it
Speaker 1: led to nothing for for countless years, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, these guys started getting good, which is understandable.
Speaker 1: They make some trades, They pick up Justin Verlander, who
Speaker 1: should have been a Dodger in two thousand and seventeen,
Speaker 1: but nobody wants to spend the money. And then these guys,
Speaker 1: I think was cheat. I wouldn't be shocked if he was.
Speaker 1: They were doing something with the pictures too, that hasn't
Speaker 1: come out yet because Verlander, when he was with Detroit
Speaker 1: he looked like he was on the back nine and
Speaker 1: he didn't have much left, and he goes to Houston.
Speaker 1: He's cy young, but at the time he was with
Speaker 1: the Tigers, it did not look like that was a
Speaker 1: wise trade because he had a lot of money left
Speaker 1: in his contract. He had not been all that great
Speaker 1: for the for the Tigers. But the Astros usually some
Speaker 1: of the stiff pictures that had gone to Houston, guys
Speaker 1: that were underachievers and all of a sudden turned out
Speaker 1: to be these massive supernova pictures. On the mind was like,
Speaker 1: what's going on here? But the Astros also, it's it's
Speaker 1: good that this has happening in a way because they
Speaker 1: are a product of tanking. The Astros at one point,
Speaker 1: one of the great stories that they had a cable
Speaker 1: dispute in Houston. Had a friend that worked at the
Speaker 1: cable network that was not carried in a lot of
Speaker 1: the cable market, you know, cable companies in Houston, and
Speaker 1: the Astros had a game where they had a zero
Speaker 1: point zero rating. Professional baseball team within the last decade
Speaker 1: had a game We're literally according to the ratings, nobody
Speaker 1: was watching. That is very difficult to do that to
Speaker 1: pull that off and they were able to do it.
Speaker 1: So listen to me, these guys are all outlaws. Altol
Speaker 1: A doesn't get in the Hall of Fame, Bregman, that'll
Speaker 1: be their their punishment. I mean, based on the fact
Speaker 1: that if you're not gonna put Bonds and Clemens in
Speaker 1: the known the known steroid guys and other than pet
Speaker 1: Rodriguezen like Piazza, then the come up in the price
Speaker 1: to pay here the pound of flesh, will be by
Speaker 1: the baseball writers. But we have a lot of young
Speaker 1: baseball writers that don't really care about this and think
Speaker 1: it's absurd the Astros are even being punished at all.
Speaker 1: So well that this is the same reason why Kurt
Speaker 1: Schilling is not in the Hall of Fame too, because
Speaker 1: don't tell me his resume does not qualify for the
Speaker 1: Howard Halls of Cooper's Town. Because he was great in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia on a bad team still got them to a
Speaker 1: World Series, and he was fantastic in Arizona and even
Speaker 1: in Boston. He won three World Series titles, has four trips,
Speaker 1: and had eleven and two records with an e r A.
Speaker 1: Just over to the guy was money in postseason play.
Speaker 1: But he's on the wrong side of the political spectrum
Speaker 1: for the many of the baseball writers exactly. So he's
Speaker 1: being crucified and condemned for his political position, and some
Speaker 1: of these writers are even admitting it, which plows me away.
Speaker 1: It's like some of the guys on the writers on Twitter, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like this guy. That's unfortunate. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: goes back to your point about them not even caring.
Speaker 1: So I don't know for you, do you think that
Speaker 1: in your own cynic way that baseball actually enjoys this
Speaker 1: because you go back to with McGuire and Sosa and
Speaker 1: Griffy in that home run chase, there was acknowledgement of
Speaker 1: pe d us down the road, but then all that still,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, it amplified a tenant's
Speaker 1: numbers in Major League Baseball, and the game itself grew
Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, listen, I I think there is absolutely
Speaker 1: truth in that. I mean the fact that a bunch
Speaker 1: of people who I know off the air talk show
Speaker 1: hosts who have told me, why do you talk about
Speaker 1: baseball men? It's an old man's sport, it's an old
Speaker 1: white sport. Nobody cares about it. It's a dying sport.
Speaker 1: I don't talk about it. You know these people, the
Speaker 1: never baseball crowd on talk radio who tell me this
Speaker 1: off the year while you're an idiot you talk, you'd
Speaker 1: be better if you didn't talk about baseball. These are
Speaker 1: the people that love this story. Right. So it's it's
Speaker 1: the old argument of any publicity is good publicity. And
Speaker 1: you already pay attention about what they say about you,
Speaker 1: what they write about you. It's just you measure it
Speaker 1: in interest or you measure it in the number of tweets. Right,
Speaker 1: And it's and and and the Astros are gonna be
Speaker 1: brewed up the wazoo. And I do believe in the
Speaker 1: old quote that Reggie Jackson had back the old Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer in his day with the Yankees, when he
Speaker 1: talked about the fact that they don't boo nobody's, right,
Speaker 1: they don't boo nobody's And so yeah, the Astros people
Speaker 1: are angry, and there's gonna be that lynch mob mentality
Speaker 1: with the Astros. But it is actually publicity because people
Speaker 1: are gonna be curious to see what happens and check
Speaker 1: out whether there's a fall of the Roman Empire. In
Speaker 1: this case, the Houston Astros Empire. How about the fact
Speaker 1: that they have we talked about on the radio the
Speaker 1: other night earlier the week. I love that we're doing
Speaker 1: a sport or podcast, but the Astros had the hutzpah
Speaker 1: of tweeting out that their owner bregmant in l Tuba
Speaker 1: one Awards. Yeah, what's up with that? And the best
Speaker 1: part was someone had actually captured a tweet from Justin Verlander.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was a tweet from
Speaker 1: him or or an article where he was interviewed, but
Speaker 1: back in two thousand seventeen or prior to that, when
Speaker 1: he was with Detroit talking about how Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: needs to do something about sign stealing. So this is
Speaker 1: all all coming out and he did something about it,
Speaker 1: he found a team that was good at it, and uh,
Speaker 1: all right, anyway, we'll move on from that. Good luck
Speaker 1: to the Astros, maybe we dig their grave. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So fake it
Speaker 1: till you make it now, since next week is going
Speaker 1: to be all about the Super Bowl and Consas City
Speaker 1: and Santa Clara Mono Ormano for the Championship of the NFL,
Speaker 1: and that'll be the sole focus, I would imagine, depending
Speaker 1: on something earth shaking that happens before next podcast, so
Speaker 1: we will not have a lot of time to discuss
Speaker 1: the x f L. Can the XFL make it? Because
Speaker 1: they will be launching right after the Super Bowl in February,
Speaker 1: the new eight team XFL, which is paid for by
Speaker 1: the Sugar Daddy Vince McMahon, the Big Cheese over there
Speaker 1: at Professional Wrestling w w E and all that, the CEO.
Speaker 1: They begin play February eight, and they're gonna have teams.
Speaker 1: If you haven't paid attention to this, I don't blame you.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've got a life. But there's teams in New York,
Speaker 1: l A, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington
Speaker 1: d c S. There's no team in Boston, there's no
Speaker 1: team in Chicago. But that's that's where the XFL is
Speaker 1: going to be. And unlike the initial edition of the XFL,
Speaker 1: which was way back in one, which was a partnership
Speaker 1: with NBS, see uh, they were all about being cutthroats
Speaker 1: and violence and all that stuff and shock value, and
Speaker 1: but now in these more gentle, softer times the incarnation
Speaker 1: the XFL. Their marketing arm. They want this to be
Speaker 1: a fan first league focused on delivery the high quality
Speaker 1: unfield product. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So will it work? Will the XFL succeed? Now? What
Speaker 1: are the odds that the XFL last past three seasons?
Speaker 1: Remember the first time it only lasted one year? I
Speaker 1: have in my my closet somewhere. I gotta find it
Speaker 1: because I should put that on on on the Graham.
Speaker 1: I have an XFL shirt with all the helmet logos
Speaker 1: that I got back in the day because I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm into it, man, I like, and I gotta find
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool shirt and it's held up and it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's all. I haven't warned that much.
Speaker 1: That's probably it's held up, but it's it's a treaty.
Speaker 1: But as far as the odds, I am an amateur bookmaker,
Speaker 1: guests gaunt. I am gonna set the odds that the
Speaker 1: XFL will it last three seasons or past three seasons,
Speaker 1: which would mean it has to turn some kind of profit.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go at plus fifteen hundred, which implies about
Speaker 1: a six percent chance, about a six percent, which I
Speaker 1: think I'm actually going high. I think I'm going high.
Speaker 1: You know that member American Express had that commercial years
Speaker 1: back where they know they warned that ninety percent of
Speaker 1: start up restaurants fail in the first year. It's actually
Speaker 1: not that high. Um, there was a study done, they said,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, seventeen percent of restaurants with twenty
Speaker 1: or less like the mom and pop places, Uh, they fail.
Speaker 1: It's it's higher when you have twenty one or more employees.
Speaker 1: But sports leagues, you know, how many how many startup
Speaker 1: sports leagues have we seen here that have just come
Speaker 1: and gone and we don't even remember them or remember
Speaker 1: like one thing about them? Yeah, Alliance of American Football
Speaker 1: just recently. Yeah, I mean. And and and the thing is
Speaker 1: that the blue blood sports leagues have such a strangle
Speaker 1: hold because they're in bed with the politicians. They get
Speaker 1: exemptions from the government and whatnot, so they have a
Speaker 1: huge competitive advantage. And also since they've been around so long,
Speaker 1: it's generations of hearts, minds, and souls that love and
Speaker 1: I get it, I'm part of it, that love the
Speaker 1: NFL and follow baseball and basketball and even hockey a
Speaker 1: little bit and those sports leagues. But um, the reason
Speaker 1: I give it about a six percent chance, which I
Speaker 1: think it's a lot, is because of Vince McMahon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of the great marketing people
Speaker 1: of our time. The problem, guess gon, is that the
Speaker 1: w w E. What is the formula for the w
Speaker 1: w E, right, what what is the secret sauce the
Speaker 1: w w E is that they are staging events. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you can't make this like I guess you could
Speaker 1: any of the NBA. The NBA David Stern was accused
Speaker 1: of that back in the day that this was like hard.
Speaker 1: You know, they were the Harlem Globetrotters. Can't really do
Speaker 1: that in people. The jig is up in sports when
Speaker 1: you you rigged the stuff like that. Yeah, the NFL,
Speaker 1: but I mean you talk about the way that this
Speaker 1: league has been developed, and I think McMahon has obviously
Speaker 1: learned something from his past failures with the XFL. And also,
Speaker 1: if you recall back then when it was originated, that
Speaker 1: ww E was not a subscription based network as well,
Speaker 1: So you get fans that I've alrea subscribed to w
Speaker 1: w E now on a regular basis. I think no
Speaker 1: matter where you go, whether it's on their platform or
Speaker 1: YouTube or Twitter or Amazon, I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: an audience, especially because it's not directly competing with the
Speaker 1: National Football League. It's doing so during the NFL's off season.
Speaker 1: As a as a football guy, you are too. I
Speaker 1: can't get enough football anyway. The problem with the Lines
Speaker 1: of American Football was that not every game was on TV,
Speaker 1: it wasn't on CBS all the time, and it was
Speaker 1: only a handful of teams. Anyway, I think McMahon will
Speaker 1: do something that's obviously different from the NFL, and you'll
Speaker 1: still get players that can't compete in the National Football
Speaker 1: League either, but that can make plays and and provide
Speaker 1: some sort of entertainment, because that's exactly what this is now, right,
Speaker 1: This is two or three hours of entertainment. It's not
Speaker 1: always football or baseball or basketball or hockey anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, the problem with these things it's a The
Speaker 1: games have to be interesting. You watched that Alliance of
Speaker 1: American Football and it was like they were playing in
Speaker 1: a mortual way. It was very dull, and there was
Speaker 1: nobody in the crowd. There was no excitement there was
Speaker 1: no juice to the games at all. Be the quality
Speaker 1: of the play like, there's gotta be. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be up to NFL standards because these are at NFL players, right,
Speaker 1: These are the elite of the elite. And if you're
Speaker 1: the elite elite, most of these guys will be in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Would would have an opportunity in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But the games have to be played at a higher
Speaker 1: level than the A, A F or whatever the hell
Speaker 1: was called. Um and I saw a survey of sports fans.
Speaker 1: This is on the Morning Consoled. They conducted a survey
Speaker 1: and what percentage, Well, I go point by point here,
Speaker 1: will play a game here, what percentage of avid sports
Speaker 1: fans are going to watch the XFL. I'm gonna say no,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about hardcore sports fans. Two people like our
Speaker 1: our base, our percenters that love sports radio and all that.
Speaker 1: I'll say right around there at sixty percent say they
Speaker 1: will self identified avid sports fans are gonna give the
Speaker 1: XFL a chance during the off season. What percentage of
Speaker 1: high school football fans are going to give it a chance?
Speaker 1: That's how about college football? What percentage of college football
Speaker 1: fans about how about NFL fans, guests, don't you wanna
Speaker 1: take a swing at this? What percentage of NFL fans
Speaker 1: say they are going to give the XFL a shot.
Speaker 1: I'd no, only fifty, less than college and less than
Speaker 1: high school. So this is weird though for me because
Speaker 1: of what you just mentioned with the other sports like
Speaker 1: the NBA and Major League Baseball have been successful obviously
Speaker 1: because of what they do domestically, but I think the
Speaker 1: international elements have been great for the NBA and also
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. You talk about players that come from
Speaker 1: Japan or Korea or China or Puerto Rico or Cuba,
Speaker 1: and the NBA the same thing Germany, Spain. I think
Speaker 1: those players, I know, the leagues that they play are
Speaker 1: not considered the elite of the elite. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that we can't take the best of those best and
Speaker 1: bring him here and make it our own. So I
Speaker 1: think that's the same thing here with what we got
Speaker 1: in the XFL. And I mean there's countless players that
Speaker 1: have made it into the National Football League that either
Speaker 1: have been low drafted or undrafted, and it have had
Speaker 1: historical careers. So I think a chance, but I'm looking
Speaker 1: for content and I'm looking for things to talk about.
Speaker 1: So if there's something odd that happens, there's something interesting
Speaker 1: that's worthy of a monologue, I'd love that. I would
Speaker 1: love to be able to do a monologue, but it's
Speaker 1: got to be mainstream enough where people are watching, if
Speaker 1: no one's watching, and really, ultimately this all comes down
Speaker 1: to television ratings. If the w w E can convince
Speaker 1: enough of the market to watch, and they can get
Speaker 1: advertisers and they can make a profit, and it's it's
Speaker 1: going to be driven by the television community and whether
Speaker 1: or not there's any kind of buzz on TV. And
Speaker 1: a lot of these shows, you know, you know guests,
Speaker 1: gun you hang out with TV people. If a show
Speaker 1: doesn't get a high enough percentage of the ratings the
Speaker 1: first year, it doesn't get a second year. Well we
Speaker 1: we do know off the top already though that ratings
Speaker 1: have been coming down for the NBA of the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. Major League Baseball is a regional sport.
Speaker 1: The NHL's a regional sport as well. So you think
Speaker 1: about this when it happens with the XFL, it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen at a great time for other sports content. I
Speaker 1: mean NFL is king. They produced the highest rated shows.
Speaker 1: What is it twenty of the best shows throughout the
Speaker 1: year or all NFL related or college football related. So
Speaker 1: I mean they dominate, but they're they're one of the
Speaker 1: few things that they're like the last of the Mohegans
Speaker 1: as far as what's over the air television. And you
Speaker 1: know a lot of US cord cutters don't have access
Speaker 1: to the to the cable and all that, so they're watching.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have a cable to watch an
Speaker 1: NFL game. The games are available for free, other than
Speaker 1: the Monday Night package of course. But the other thing
Speaker 1: is the the gambling element too. If you can't gamble
Speaker 1: on these games and make some money on it. At
Speaker 1: the gambling aspect is always gonna bring casual fans into
Speaker 1: it because if there's action, you know, a degenerate wants
Speaker 1: it and they'll get it. Well. You can bet on anything.
Speaker 1: You can bet on you know who's crossing the road.
Speaker 1: You know faster two old guys crossed the road, which
Speaker 1: one is gonna get there first? You can bet on anything,
Speaker 1: I know. But now the three things I know you
Speaker 1: love list Gascon, You're the o G of lists. Yes,
Speaker 1: the three things I remember about the original XFL, and
Speaker 1: I might or might not have been on the radio
Speaker 1: talking about it. I remember the strippers in the hot
Speaker 1: tub at the Coliseum in l A. Remember that very much.
Speaker 1: It was wild. They had like they brought in some strippers.
Speaker 1: I think there were some porn stars or actresses in there.
Speaker 1: Uh in the in the end zone, in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone. I remember he Hate Me, the
Speaker 1: breakout star who went on and played several years in
Speaker 1: the NFL with Carolina and some other teams there. Um.
Speaker 1: And I also remember when I was writing for Ben
Speaker 1: Mallory dot com, my old website, that people were outraged.
Speaker 1: I got a special interest group that was outraged because
Speaker 1: the team in Memphis was nicknamed the Maniacs, and they
Speaker 1: said that was offensive to people that had mental illness.
Speaker 1: Now the reason I remember that not today that would
Speaker 1: be the norm, but back in one that wasn't how
Speaker 1: society operated. But now everyone runs around the outrage army
Speaker 1: is upset about everything and they want everything changed, and
Speaker 1: everything is offensive and all that is. I think I'm
Speaker 1: very proud of myself guessing and I pointed out defending
Speaker 1: my wife's honor that the forty niners, mascots of offensive
Speaker 1: sour dough Sam. It's offensive to people to have gluten allergies.
Speaker 1: So it's wrong, and it's just an example of the
Speaker 1: absurdity that takes place in these these days. You're not
Speaker 1: other point of the x saw this. You know you're
Speaker 1: part of that survey. You don't remember the players running
Speaker 1: to the football for the I remember that too, But
Speaker 1: that's not one of the top three. It's my list.
Speaker 1: It's not your list. Sorry, Okay, alright, sorry, I thought
Speaker 1: you're trying to touch up my list, Like my list
Speaker 1: isn't good enough? Mr. List over there. Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: really small. I'm just adding to it, all right. So
Speaker 1: the main reason, which is very the thing that people
Speaker 1: the most people said it's very important for them to
Speaker 1: watch the most important thing when they watch the XFL.
Speaker 1: What is top three? Give me the top three? How
Speaker 1: about that? Top three of what they're interested in? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the most important things for them potential XFL fans, Uh,
Speaker 1: the most important to the FFL does this? It's very
Speaker 1: important to me. Um, women like cheerleaders or divas. Uh no,
Speaker 1: no bad about you know. I'll give you the top
Speaker 1: three number number three. Well, I'll give you number one
Speaker 1: because number one is kind of obvious. Quality of play
Speaker 1: makes the game suck. I'm not gonna want. Number two
Speaker 1: is player's safety. I think that's bullshit. I don't think
Speaker 1: people really care. And they say they care, but unless
Speaker 1: you're a relative or a friend of the players, do
Speaker 1: you really care. It's like people go to NASCAR Racist
Speaker 1: to watch him crash, so you really care about you
Speaker 1: don't you want him to die? But you know a
Speaker 1: good head swirling hit. You take that right here, torpedo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we go from Aaron Hernandez to uh, Nascar and Indy
Speaker 1: Car and car crash is great. Number Three standing for
Speaker 1: the national anthem. They say that's the third most important
Speaker 1: thing for people to watch the XFL. Now, I've I
Speaker 1: believe you should stand for the national anthem, and I've
Speaker 1: I've crucified Colin Kaepernick over the years and the other
Speaker 1: of those people that followed him as followers is but
Speaker 1: I I don't think that's you know, that's that It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be a reason I don't watch. I'll just
Speaker 1: google on him if they they don't stand for the
Speaker 1: national land fair enough. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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Speaker 1: All right, moving on from the XFO we have we
Speaker 1: can need to go to study this guest game. I
Speaker 1: know your time is limited. When you grab bag, why
Speaker 1: don't grab bag actual questions? Then we'll get back to
Speaker 1: study this. We have time. Yeah, you had some annoying people.
Speaker 1: You had one guy that was sending an emails to
Speaker 1: the real fifth our account, but he was doing it
Speaker 1: from his cell phone, and what's wrong with that? People
Speaker 1: send email from their cell phone, but it's it's like
Speaker 1: it was a long string of text messages that he
Speaker 1: was sending on email form. The luxury, though, was that
Speaker 1: he was doing this when you were either on the
Speaker 1: air or sleeping. So I was just like every time
Speaker 1: I saw those delete, delete, delete, delete tell things. I
Speaker 1: like that we have a shared email account and you
Speaker 1: go through and delete these things, because because he was
Speaker 1: really bashing the entire staff, like he was bashing your
Speaker 1: entire staff, I'd like to read that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't think I want to. I'm about positivity here.
Speaker 1: I know you're not. I need feedback. But this show
Speaker 1: is not good. What are you gonna do? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Fire everybody on your staff? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Fire everybody on your staff? Well, if
Speaker 1: I have to, if a guy on a cell phone
Speaker 1: who's drunk sending messages overnight once that, if I must
Speaker 1: appease the listeners, always right, yeah, and then you're gonna yeah.
Speaker 1: Then you're compelled to actually talk to the rest of
Speaker 1: your staff, which you don't like doing anyway off the air.
Speaker 1: Um anyways, I talked to him, but they don't like
Speaker 1: to talk to me. If they like to talk to
Speaker 1: they wouldn't show up at ten fifty nine. But you
Speaker 1: know the show starts at eleven or whatever. They don't
Speaker 1: show up, baby, I don't know, half an hour early
Speaker 1: or whatever. Things like that that you're asking a lot
Speaker 1: that is too I mean, it's really difficult to have
Speaker 1: to show up more than one minute before the show.
Speaker 1: It's a very big, big problem. Yes, well, I guess
Speaker 1: it depends. Did you like the fact that I denied
Speaker 1: working with you on that Sunday night? I said, Hey,
Speaker 1: Burr Schinger, why don't you go in there and and
Speaker 1: clean things up? Well, I like because Bursching is better
Speaker 1: than you, and it was really you had to take
Speaker 1: one for the team guests gun because Burschinger is a talent.
Speaker 1: I love this guy should be a full time producer
Speaker 1: at Fox. Showed up early prepared. Whatever you need, Ben, Yes,
Speaker 1: can I What can I do to help you? What
Speaker 1: can I do to make the show better? I mean,
Speaker 1: these are all things I'm not used to. So I
Speaker 1: really liked Burschinger. I I thought he was great, better
Speaker 1: than you, better than you when you produced. And I
Speaker 1: am on team Burschinger. Keep trying, Ryan. He's a good guy,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I don't think that his production
Speaker 1: value or elements for anything that supersedes what I have
Speaker 1: brought to the table much better than you. Like him.
Speaker 1: He's got likability because he doesn't talk in the young demographic.
Speaker 1: You're in the older demographics. So it's it's he got
Speaker 1: a lot of he checks a lot of box all right,
Speaker 1: so grab back. These are actual questions from actual listeners
Speaker 1: of the show. Jonathan and Delaware says, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: player coach who has never won a title in their sport?
Speaker 1: All right, this is easy, Jonathan, Jim Tracy former Dodger,
Speaker 1: Pirates and Rockies manager Jim Tracy. I love the guy.
Speaker 1: Befriended him when he was a coach with the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and then he became the manager. And Jim was very
Speaker 1: nice to me back in the day, and we had
Speaker 1: a good relationship and we occasionally even go out and
Speaker 1: have a meal on the road and whatnot. But he
Speaker 1: he when he was managing the Privates, he got let
Speaker 1: go and I ran into him after he had managed
Speaker 1: the Pirates, and he still owned his house in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, Ben, if you go through Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: you can stay at my house. I'm not there anymore.
Speaker 1: He stayed his old house in Pittsburgh. I thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of cool, which was probably a mansion out
Speaker 1: in the suburbs. My answers, Jim Tracy, you didn't have
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't have a listener to fly you
Speaker 1: out there and stay there for free. I would have
Speaker 1: been impressive. Done. Yeah, I'm done, shocked you got any
Speaker 1: peanut butter or just jelly. God, let's see what you
Speaker 1: did there. I think my favorite is uh has got
Speaker 1: to be Andy Reid, just because of what he went
Speaker 1: through in Philadelphia, and I know he's obviously had some
Speaker 1: some tough times of his family, but I think everything's
Speaker 1: coming to fruition in Kansas City. And he created a
Speaker 1: winner in Philadelphia, got booted from there. He's created a
Speaker 1: winner in Kansas City, and he's obviously brought them to
Speaker 1: the peak of of the Mountain and obviously one hurdle
Speaker 1: to go, but the first time they've been in the
Speaker 1: Big Dance and what fifty years, So I think it's
Speaker 1: great for the game. He's a great play caller, he's
Speaker 1: a good motivator, and he's built winners everything. Everywhere he's gone,
Speaker 1: he's been successful. I think him Jim Harbaugh obviously now
Speaker 1: in Michigan. But those are two guys that are amongst
Speaker 1: my favorites that have not won at the highest level yet. Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean mine's better than yours. My mind is better
Speaker 1: than yours. Idn't know these guys. Yeah, I A Lugo
Speaker 1: from Lancaster, California, the High Desert says, Ben, what are
Speaker 1: you going to do a live streaming show? I would
Speaker 1: love to see the Gang live. Yes, what are we
Speaker 1: doing a live show? Well, I'm glad that he asked
Speaker 1: you that, and not me, because the real answer would
Speaker 1: be coming for me is that every single week I
Speaker 1: text you in the morning and that night and I say, hey,
Speaker 1: dom favorite, where something decent or professional or at least
Speaker 1: somewhat upright and not wrinkled. Because I like to stream
Speaker 1: something or at least put something up digitally that has
Speaker 1: us on there to promote second video, it's not thirty
Speaker 1: seconds to show up, like like local radio when you
Speaker 1: go to a sports bar restaurant and you have a show,
Speaker 1: a live broadcast recording streaming the show live from some location. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's another great way that you
Speaker 1: can word that. And um, I'll say that it's in
Speaker 1: progress right now, we're working on it. I have been
Speaker 1: doing a lot of the heavy lifting. I have been
Speaker 1: detracted by you to do some of the things that
Speaker 1: I have done already. And um, we'll wait and see.
Speaker 1: But something could be in the mix. And um, okay
Speaker 1: depends from the LBC says, I don't believe you, Lou
Speaker 1: From the LBC says for you both, you guys grew
Speaker 1: up or lived in southern California for a long time.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen or have you ever been to
Speaker 1: the beach and seen an animal wash up on shore.
Speaker 1: Order seeing a wild animal roaming the streets, such as
Speaker 1: a mountain lion or a coyote, etcetera, etcetera, a bear
Speaker 1: or whatever. Well, Lou, I'll go first. I have back
Speaker 1: in my hiking days. I don't really do that much more.
Speaker 1: I go to the gym and just go to the
Speaker 1: treadmill and watch TV for an hour and a half
Speaker 1: or whatever. But back in the day when I would
Speaker 1: would go out and hikes around Los Angeles and the
Speaker 1: suburbs in the mountains around l A, I did see
Speaker 1: coyotes a couple of times, but I didn't get scared
Speaker 1: because I I feel like I'm so much bigger. I
Speaker 1: know they have they're a pack. They attack as a
Speaker 1: pack and through like three or four coyotes. I'd be
Speaker 1: really screwed I saw one lone coyote wandering around. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a mountain lion or a bear. I would
Speaker 1: I'm chipped my pants if I saw a bear mountain
Speaker 1: lion I was out hiking in the woods, I'd be
Speaker 1: really just yeah, that would not be good. And I
Speaker 1: have seen several um animals wash ashore like seals. Uh
Speaker 1: in California, and I was in Hawaii and there was
Speaker 1: a seal that washed up on shore and they they
Speaker 1: put ropes. It's weird are they do in Hawaii? They do?
Speaker 1: They put ropes around it and they put a sign up,
Speaker 1: do not touch, you know, animal whatever is sick, dying, whatever,
Speaker 1: and you just have to like stand afar, you know,
Speaker 1: stand back and look. So I I have seen coyotes,
Speaker 1: and I have seen animals wash up on shore. Never
Speaker 1: like a giant whale, though I know that happened. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. Yeah, I have not seen that. Um.
Speaker 1: But to answer the second part of that question, I have. Um,
Speaker 1: I have seen wildlife in the areas that I live in.
Speaker 1: And great story, I know you'll enjoy this. But a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine and I were out one night and
Speaker 1: and met a couple of females um up in like
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Was Billy No West side of your friends,
Speaker 1: Billy quit name dropping. He's the only one I know.
Speaker 1: I didn't say his last name. His name is Billy. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So we turned out to meet a couple of women
Speaker 1: and one of them was actually she was from Rolling Hills,
Speaker 1: which is on the back side of Palace forties down
Speaker 1: on the coast, and at the end of the night
Speaker 1: she invited us back to her place. Well, I wasn't
Speaker 1: feeling one of the girls that we were there with,
Speaker 1: but my buddy like the girl that lived in rolling Hills.
Speaker 1: So I said, hey, I gotta balance, I gotta work
Speaker 1: in the morning. Any anyway, have at it and see
Speaker 1: what see what happens at the rest of this night.
Speaker 1: Really good. I got him in the door. He was like,
Speaker 1: he's an introverts. I got him in the door. I
Speaker 1: did my job, took off anyways, So I took off
Speaker 1: and ben at kids. You not because usually when I'm
Speaker 1: at Fox, I gotta be up at like seven or
Speaker 1: eight o'clock in the morning. I had a laundry list
Speaker 1: of text messages at like three, four or five o'clock
Speaker 1: of the morning. And my buddy asking for help because
Speaker 1: he was walking down Hawthorne Boulevard and a couple of
Speaker 1: other streets and rolling hills and he can hear and
Speaker 1: then see coyotes, and he tried getting an uber and
Speaker 1: a lift, and nobody would come pick him up because
Speaker 1: obviously it's rolling hills and where he needed to go
Speaker 1: was probably like five miles away, maybe six so he
Speaker 1: had a he was walking home from a strikeout kind
Speaker 1: of a night and he was around coyotes all evening
Speaker 1: long until the early morningtime. So it was it was
Speaker 1: pretty awesome. So yeah, even up in Rolling Hills you
Speaker 1: got coyotes. Alright. Uh, this one's from James and Zephyr
Speaker 1: Hills Floorida. I believe that's how you say it. He says,
Speaker 1: Why is gag On so hostile towards you? Bet well
Speaker 1: I can answer that James jealousy is the main driving
Speaker 1: force of David Giscon's animosity towards myself. What am I
Speaker 1: to be jealous about? The empire? The Mallard militia. Will
Speaker 1: you take pot shots of the Mallew militia? No, I don't.
Speaker 1: There's no gag On gang. There's none of that. You
Speaker 1: don't have not have a following. Well, there's people chanting
Speaker 1: my name up in the Pacific Northwest at my direction,
Speaker 1: thanks to Ms Wilkin Christina. Actually they started. I didn't
Speaker 1: even have to tell him to do it, they just did.
Speaker 1: The maturity level of you and them speaks volumes um.
Speaker 1: There's nothing I need to be jealous about. Well, why
Speaker 1: are you acting this way like a child. I'm not
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. I I applaud you for
Speaker 1: all of your hard work, stacks of paper that you
Speaker 1: burn and waste throughout the middle of the night, um,
Speaker 1: your dedication to your staff. How how much of an
Speaker 1: extrovert you are for marketing and branding? Uh I am.
Speaker 1: I am an introvert that, when needed, will be an extrovert. Well,
Speaker 1: I I applaud your wife for those efforts because it's
Speaker 1: not on you. My wife is much bet more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife is better at that the end than than
Speaker 1: I am. Yeah, that's that's not saying a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Because I could take her with me whenever we meet.
Speaker 1: She has to take you out because I say, hey,
Speaker 1: mrs we have to go to this event, and she
Speaker 1: says why and I'll say, okay. She's like, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough to convince Ben, but I'll try. Wow, I'm
Speaker 1: open minded. I have things to do, though, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: a lot of these questions. We have too much time,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna get some more questions here. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: he here. This is from Christie in Trevor's wife, Finally
Speaker 1: in Nashville, Finally, a female Trevor Hayes's wife in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Why does my husband wake me up listening to you guys?
Speaker 1: Christie has to say. I'm sure she's referencing the radio show,
Speaker 1: not this podcast, but I'm hopefully Trevor listens to the podcast. Well, Christie,
Speaker 1: if you hear this, the reason that your husband, Trevor
Speaker 1: wakes you up for the podcast is because he's a
Speaker 1: smart that's number one. B. He is a discerning audio
Speaker 1: content listener. That's number two, and uh number three, he's
Speaker 1: probably uber successful in life. And if he's not uber
Speaker 1: successful in life, he's about to become uber successful in life.
Speaker 1: Those are all the qualities of the average listener that
Speaker 1: wakes up their wife to hear the show. Period. Stop,
Speaker 1: are you done? Well? You want me to go on?
Speaker 1: All right? Here's Darryl. Darryl from Southern Illinois. He writes
Speaker 1: in he says, what has been the most exciting moment
Speaker 1: of your radio program? He says, enjoy listening to you
Speaker 1: from beautiful southern Illinois, where we are the hub of
Speaker 1: the universe. According to Darryl, Well, Darryl, I don't stop
Speaker 1: and smell the roses. I at some point I would
Speaker 1: like to write a book. I tried to write a
Speaker 1: book a couple of years ago. I talked to a
Speaker 1: couple of writers and they were not that interested. So
Speaker 1: at some point I'll write a book. I think it
Speaker 1: will be fun to tell some of the old stories,
Speaker 1: but I don't really sit back and think about it.
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of crazy things that have taken place,
Speaker 1: depending on what you like. Dispats with shots, the war
Speaker 1: with William Shatner, which the pop culture icon. People like
Speaker 1: that a lot. The Uh one time I wore a
Speaker 1: paper bag during the entire show after the Clippers lost
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland when they were terrible. Uh. We've done
Speaker 1: some dopey things. We've had some fun things with listeners
Speaker 1: and callers and whatnot. But I have not summed it
Speaker 1: up in like a top three moments in the history
Speaker 1: of the show. But if I haven't write a book,
Speaker 1: or I choose to write a book, I will do that.
Speaker 1: Brian from north Bridge, Massachusetts rights in can you please
Speaker 1: ask Gascon to quit the show? Gascon? Will you please
Speaker 1: quit the show? How am I gonna quit if I'm
Speaker 1: not getting paid for It's a fair point. You got
Speaker 1: a point, Glenn writes and says did weed Man Hippy
Speaker 1: quit your radio show again. Yes, Glenn we Man did
Speaker 1: not make it through January. He's already had a hissy
Speaker 1: fit and he's upset that I did not give him
Speaker 1: enough a lot of airtime. He's like a politician that
Speaker 1: needed a lot of airtime. I'd be willing to trade
Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie for Chris and Houston because you don't
Speaker 1: like Chris and Hughes. He's just an ankle grabber. Wow,
Speaker 1: he's weak sauce. Really, Yes, he's embarrassing about ankle grabbing.
Speaker 1: He's exhibit A. He's exhibit A. Yeah. The term screw
Speaker 1: the pooch is a guest on term. Can we get
Speaker 1: more interaction with the female audience. I know that you
Speaker 1: don't like to look upon them lightly and you ignore them.
Speaker 1: Let me help you out that the sports audio, sports radio,
Speaker 1: sports podcasting is a male driven vehicle. I'll teach you
Speaker 1: about this because you know it's podcasting radio one on one.
Speaker 1: The lion share of the listeners are dudes, who are
Speaker 1: many of them trying to get away from their wives
Speaker 1: and girlfriends and just kind of reminisce and just be
Speaker 1: sports fans or or just bullshit fans. Uh, those kind
Speaker 1: of people. Here's one battle Royale. I don't know who
Speaker 1: sent this one in. Who would win between Ben, Eddie, Cooper,
Speaker 1: Roberto or guest Gone. Now I'll answer this. I would
Speaker 1: obviously win because I would physically man handle the Coop
Speaker 1: would have no chance. I would throw him away like
Speaker 1: a used tissue. Roberto if liquored up. I know Roberto
Speaker 1: is an angry guy when he gets licked up, but
Speaker 1: he's like the sweetest guy in the world when he's
Speaker 1: not right. If Roberto's looking up, he could probably kick
Speaker 1: my ass. But he's not most of the time, so
Speaker 1: I could take him down. Eddie wouldn't be that interested
Speaker 1: in fighting, so I could take him and Guesscon's he's
Speaker 1: a fake tough guy. So I would beat all these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm an agreement with could you have Could you imagine Roberto?
Speaker 1: Roberto would be fighting himself if it was silver versus drunk,
Speaker 1: that would be great. Yeah, that would be pretty good. Uh,
Speaker 1: here's another version of that. Clay Travis, Dan, Patrick, Colin Coward,
Speaker 1: Doug gott Lee, R J Bell, Jonas Knocks, Chris Brussard,
Speaker 1: Rob Parker, Jason Smith, and Mike Harmon and you are
Speaker 1: in a battle Royale style fight band who wins? This
Speaker 1: is from Ethan in Detroit who sent that one. Well,
Speaker 1: let's go point by point here. Uh see, if I
Speaker 1: don't know much about r J. I I've talked to
Speaker 1: I've never met him in person. I was supposed to
Speaker 1: meet him with Tom Looney blocked our lunch meet meeting
Speaker 1: great years ago. So I've never met r J in person.
Speaker 1: I've met everyone else there. Travis, and I met Dan Patrick,
Speaker 1: but Dan is old at this point. I'm like Dan
Speaker 1: would cause much of a fight there. Jason, he's a
Speaker 1: peace Nick Harmon's a good guy, but he's not a fighter,
Speaker 1: although he's a little bull if he wanted to fight.
Speaker 1: And then like guys like Coward and Clay Travis, you
Speaker 1: know their TV guys and Gottlieve. You know, when you
Speaker 1: can do enough of that TV, you get a little
Speaker 1: soft there as far as your fisticuffs. Yeah, so and
Speaker 1: Broussard very this guy was sorry, he's not gonna fight.
Speaker 1: He's not a fighter. No, So it would really come
Speaker 1: down to me, Jonas Knox and Rob Parker. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that would be the top three out of that list
Speaker 1: in the battle Royale and we'd have to fight to
Speaker 1: the death. Well, yeah, but Jonas is younger, more energetic.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, but he's into like manscaping a little bit
Speaker 1: and and all that. So you know that takes away
Speaker 1: from your fighting skills and you're worried about your hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's got tremendous cardio. He's in good shape. He's
Speaker 1: also tactical. Um yeah, this would be Jonas in the landslide,
Speaker 1: and you're probably just sit in a corner wait for
Speaker 1: you guys all to try to tire out and then
Speaker 1: take you guys all out one by one. See what
Speaker 1: you don't understand is well, I might look off and
Speaker 1: disheveled and unkept at the radio station because I'm doing
Speaker 1: an overnight radio show. Uh I cleaned up pretty good
Speaker 1: when I want to, and I I can turn in
Speaker 1: two russa if I want. This is nauseating. Are we
Speaker 1: done yet? Uh no, We're We're not doing Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Some of these are like real hard o sports questions.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to do any of those.
Speaker 1: Is there anything from Doc Mike the doc about doctor Ecuador?
Speaker 1: He doesn't say anything. Let's do a couple of study
Speaker 1: this questions, how about this, here's a pool, what out
Speaker 1: of ten parents, how many on average field teenagers spend
Speaker 1: too much time on video games? Nine? Nine in ten parents.
Speaker 1: It's nine in ten parents feel that their teams spend
Speaker 1: too much time on video games. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's of course. I think they should be doing studying
Speaker 1: or something like that. All right, here we go. Americans
Speaker 1: are now averaging less than blank hours of sleep per night.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Guess I'm gonna say they're averaging
Speaker 1: less than five hours of sleep per night. Not that
Speaker 1: low yet, but less than six hours of sleep per night?
Speaker 1: Is that real or bullshit? I think that's real. I
Speaker 1: get less than six hours of sleep. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: so too. People are consumed by work, entertainment, um, travel,
Speaker 1: multiple jobs. That comes into play as well. The stress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think less than six is is easily attainable. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's tired nation, tired nation. All right, let's see here,
Speaker 1: here's the study. This is interesting games. You know, I
Speaker 1: am on the dance floor. Oh my god, tell you something.
Speaker 1: My wife won't let me dance because all the women
Speaker 1: they're trying to hang out with me. That's a true story.
Speaker 1: So that's why I choose not to dance. But there's
Speaker 1: a study out that says your dancing style is as
Speaker 1: unique as your fingerprint, that gas guard, that each individual
Speaker 1: has their own unique dancing moves. You're buying that. Uh No,
Speaker 1: I'm not buying that because a lot of how people
Speaker 1: dance is either based on alcohol or what they see
Speaker 1: and what they mimic. Some of the choreographed because they
Speaker 1: can't dance on their own, they have no rhythm. So no,
Speaker 1: I'm not buying that. According to the research team, regardless
Speaker 1: of the type of music, from jazz to reggae, the
Speaker 1: studies said the vast majority of people maintain a uniform
Speaker 1: uniqueness to their dancing style. It's this ever present personality
Speaker 1: in each of our dance moves that makes it easy
Speaker 1: for computers to I d the dancer. So this is
Speaker 1: a research from the University of blah blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah in Finland. It's say this, say this university's name
Speaker 1: is j y v A s k y l A.
Speaker 1: I'd rather not exactly. That's why I said the University
Speaker 1: of blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever I said. So
Speaker 1: that's it's interesting. I don't know. I don't pay attention
Speaker 1: to dancing that much. You know what I'm saying. All
Speaker 1: right now, this is a story warms my heart. And
Speaker 1: uh I, let's see how close you get to being
Speaker 1: right on this. We're doing a few study this questions
Speaker 1: on the fifth hour. But a new study found that
Speaker 1: blank percentage of Americans have never deleted anything from their devices.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say this number is high.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's no, that's too high. You went
Speaker 1: too high. But according to the survey, fifty two percent
Speaker 1: of Americans have never deleted anything from their their devices.
Speaker 1: No house cleaning, no spring cleaning, none of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah's to luxtually you get if you go incognito mode.
Speaker 1: Though I was, I right, you do the incognito. I
Speaker 1: don't delete anything on my devices, but I have been
Speaker 1: forced to recently delete emails because my my main Gmail account,
Speaker 1: which I use, I got up to like I'm at
Speaker 1: over I think I was over seventy five thousand emails.
Speaker 1: I'm at sixty five thousand, like unready emails because I
Speaker 1: get a lot of email from pr people I don't
Speaker 1: even open and and whatnot. So but once it started
Speaker 1: filling up, I was running out of space, so I
Speaker 1: had to start the leading some email wait from PR people.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, when I ran a website, they would always
Speaker 1: try to horror whole out, you know, some product or
Speaker 1: some person for an interview when I ran the website.
Speaker 1: So and I once you end up on those lists,
Speaker 1: you very rarely go off list. I'm still getting emails
Speaker 1: from NASCAR because I had to do a NASCAR rumor
Speaker 1: page when I worked for Fox Sports dot Com. I'm
Speaker 1: still getting email during NASCAR season a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: updating me on what the drivers are doing this weekend
Speaker 1: and PR events and all that stuff. NASCAR rumor board
Speaker 1: for you. Oh yeah, Fox had a Nascar and I
Speaker 1: was the rumor guy, and they had to come up
Speaker 1: with a NASCAR rumor page. That's pretty impressive. I pulled
Speaker 1: it off. I pulled it off for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and don't ask me to do it right now. But
Speaker 1: it was a lot of rumors about like drivers changing
Speaker 1: sponsors or drivers changing teams and that kind of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't your true you know, it's obviously
Speaker 1: it's NASCAR, so they're NASCAR specific. But yeah, I pulled
Speaker 1: that off for a while. Let's see what else looks
Speaker 1: interesting here. Oh, this is kind of cool. This is
Speaker 1: the dream. This is like out of you throw back
Speaker 1: to the like cartoon days or the movies. There's a
Speaker 1: group of scientists at the University of Michigan who think
Speaker 1: they have invented a pill that gives you the same
Speaker 1: benefits as working out. How great is that you don't
Speaker 1: have to work out? Get just take the pill, it says.
Speaker 1: If it works, obviously this would be amazing. But can
Speaker 1: you continue to live the sedentary lifestyle and just take
Speaker 1: a pill? And and and that's it? But they discovered
Speaker 1: that the protein that mimics the effects of working out.
Speaker 1: This is a University of Michigan study. And so you
Speaker 1: could avoid the gym. I'd save so much time. I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time during the week at the gym.
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't have to spend it. Why would
Speaker 1: you want to do that? Because it's easier. I'd have
Speaker 1: more free time, I could do other things. I can
Speaker 1: maybe sleep more. Right, you have plenty of time throughout
Speaker 1: the day to sleep. There's something about going to the gym.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like going to school as opposed to
Speaker 1: learning and your education online. There's something different about your
Speaker 1: curriculum at school with a professor and other students and classmates.
Speaker 1: The same thing with the gym, like the extra monivations.
Speaker 1: Terrible people are animals. They shipped all over the bathroom,
Speaker 1: they piss all over the bathroom. It's a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 1: And morning it's a lot of retirees and older people
Speaker 1: and they walk around there. They apparently think towels are
Speaker 1: optional in the locker room. They are, and it's disgusting.
Speaker 1: And then but then if you go to the gym
Speaker 1: like in Primetime where the good looking people, the young
Speaker 1: people are, then it's a bunch of meat head guys
Speaker 1: walking around flexing, looking at the mirror. And I don't
Speaker 1: need to see that either. You need to go to
Speaker 1: a better gym. Well, sign me up. I go to
Speaker 1: a very affordable gym that's open all night long, because
Speaker 1: I go to the gym in the wee hours of
Speaker 1: the morning. A lot of these gyms are foul foul.
Speaker 1: They only open at a certain time, which is not
Speaker 1: friendly with my schedule. Yeah, I go to a gym
Speaker 1: that's open twenty four hours a day. So I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with that. Well I do too, but
Speaker 1: it's the one I go to. The neighborhood gym, is
Speaker 1: not that it's not that great. You're lazy, don't be lazy.
Speaker 1: Don't take a damn pill. There's everything days five days
Speaker 1: a week, four or five days a week lazy. But
Speaker 1: you're not working out hard heart, are you? And now
Speaker 1: you want to take a pill and take that all
Speaker 1: away from you? Of course, when you burn baby burns
Speaker 1: this team burnie. Now wow, all right, moving on Mr
Speaker 1: Political over there. There's a new survey that has determined
Speaker 1: out of out of an average of five adults, how
Speaker 1: many how many feel too exhausted to go out, to
Speaker 1: go cook dinner, even have sex any of that stuff?
Speaker 1: Out of how many people, like, on average, out of
Speaker 1: like five, like, out of five adults, how many have
Speaker 1: actually seen a doctor because they feel too exhausted to
Speaker 1: do pretty much anything? Four out of five? E think
Speaker 1: four out of five adults have seen a doctor because
Speaker 1: they're too tired to go out, cooked dinner or have sex.
Speaker 1: No one, one out of five, But that's still a
Speaker 1: pretty high percentage. Well, I think four out of five
Speaker 1: probably should yeah, but a lot of people don't. We're
Speaker 1: gonna try to avoid doctor. I try to avoid doctors.
Speaker 1: I think most people try to avoid doctors because they'll
Speaker 1: find something wrong with it. We we work with a
Speaker 1: lot of unhealthy people. Like the industry itself demands that
Speaker 1: you don't take a lot of time off of work
Speaker 1: because if you do, then someone else has taken your spot. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta hold your place in line. If you get
Speaker 1: out of line, somebody to the back of the line. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other thing too is obviously you know your
Speaker 1: shows four hours long and then in prepping, so your
Speaker 1: sleep patterns are different, the diets different, the stress levels
Speaker 1: are different. That goes for a lot of people that
Speaker 1: work here working a lot of other places to entertainment, law, medicine.
Speaker 1: Does that explain, guest on why I have been to
Speaker 1: so many funerals of colleagues of mine and radio this
Speaker 1: is what three weeks in a rail we're gonna do
Speaker 1: death talk podcast if you want. The Russian Orthodox had
Speaker 1: funeral a Mormon funeral And what was the last one?
Speaker 1: Russian Orthodox? What's that in the Russian Orthodox? I did
Speaker 1: to the Russian Orthodox? I did that last time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you need a twenty one gun salute. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've not done in the military funeral. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: not been at a military although my uncle was in
Speaker 1: the military. Did have the American flag over his casket
Speaker 1: when he was laid in in the ground. There no
Speaker 1: death talka and uh it happened a few where they
Speaker 1: had well actually, no, you know, technically, I have been
Speaker 1: to a funeral where they did have the military presence,
Speaker 1: and they did they did. They did a bugle. They
Speaker 1: didn't do the guns, but they did the bugle salute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of which, I forgot about that. I've been to
Speaker 1: so many funerals I've I've forgotten some of them. Here's
Speaker 1: one more study. A new study finds you're likely to
Speaker 1: be the most miserable at age blank. Um, I think
Speaker 1: I saw this. I think I did. I think so
Speaker 1: aged fifty close forty seven, According to a recent study,
Speaker 1: that is the worst age to be This is from
Speaker 1: Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College and a midlife crisis and all that,
Speaker 1: but they determined that the p of your life's misery
Speaker 1: arrives around at the age of forty seven. So why
Speaker 1: would that be Well, because you realize you're closer to
Speaker 1: the end than you are to the beginning. And uh,
Speaker 1: and you've had people starting to die, your your relatives
Speaker 1: get older and have issues and all. That's why I
Speaker 1: would think that would be the bad age, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think we'll see you're you're close to that number. Um,
Speaker 1: I think could could your wife and I make plans
Speaker 1: for your midlife crisis, Like I'd like to be around
Speaker 1: for that. I think that would be important. Once you
Speaker 1: hit forty seven and you start going delusional and you
Speaker 1: hit that low point like we need to be there
Speaker 1: for you. Well, you're not there for me. Now, why
Speaker 1: would you be there for me? Then he's not there
Speaker 1: for me. I'm here right now. You're causing me more
Speaker 1: heartburning ache. The reason my gall letder gave out was
Speaker 1: because of you. That's a lie. That was from all
Speaker 1: your that was from all your wrong doing in your
Speaker 1: early twenties. As you admit, you pushed me over the cliff.
Speaker 1: You were the one they're stay, You're like, all right,
Speaker 1: here you go. You know, I was the guy on
Speaker 1: top of the bridge that didn't want to jump. You know,
Speaker 1: they do the bungee jump, and you're the guy that
Speaker 1: pushed me off the bridge. Let's do that though, when
Speaker 1: you hit forty seven, bungee jump or skydiving or even parasailing,
Speaker 1: how about that? I'm good. I don't need to have
Speaker 1: you done. Have you skydive? No? Never? Why not? Pussy?
Speaker 1: Why not go do it? Come on? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of hyas. You're pussy willow. Anyway,
Speaker 1: last last study this, and we have time, we get
Speaker 1: some of the other stuff. But the last study is,
Speaker 1: are you on a diet? Gas gun? I don't want
Speaker 1: to say a strict diet, but I am. I am
Speaker 1: observing of what I eat. Okay. So there's a new
Speaker 1: study out that said, the average adult in their lifetime,
Speaker 1: we'll try blank number of different diets. Seven. You think
Speaker 1: the average adult will try seven diets in their life?
Speaker 1: Poor you? Are you terrible at this? But that's fucking horrific.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to the people in the Bible belt. That's terrible.
Speaker 1: Why put into a new study the average adult will
Speaker 1: try an unbelievable one hundred and twenty six diets over
Speaker 1: the course of their life. I couldn't even name a
Speaker 1: hundred twenty six diets. They estimate that means at least
Speaker 1: two new diets each year, he will, well, there's fat.
Speaker 1: I'm on a suddenly a diet. It's a lifestyle with
Speaker 1: intermitute fast. That's not dieting though, but it is dieting
Speaker 1: because I don't I cut down on my calories, because
Speaker 1: I don't eat. You know, several days a week, I
Speaker 1: will not eat. It's intermittent fast. Okay, So intermittent fasting fasting,
Speaker 1: a ketto diet, a vegan diet, a vegetarian diet. What
Speaker 1: other diets are there? Well, according to this, they say
Speaker 1: the interminute fasting was the most popular, but something called
Speaker 1: the cabbage soup diet. I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: that isketo diet, a juice ends diet. But then you've
Speaker 1: got all like the weight watchers and the other diets
Speaker 1: that are out there. You've got the gluten free diet,
Speaker 1: You've got that, You've got the vegans diets, the different
Speaker 1: levels of vegan diets that you can get, vegetarian diets, pescetarian.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different things you can try. Jee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I've tried a lot, but I don't think
Speaker 1: I'll get to a hundred and twenties. So I feel
Speaker 1: like I've I've reached my zen. Like with the intermittent fasting,
Speaker 1: it's really worked well for me. Like before when I
Speaker 1: lost the weight, I just ate like one meal a day,
Speaker 1: which is kind of intermittent fasting. Um, but I had,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. There were reasons that I was
Speaker 1: able to lose the weight so so quickly. Anyway, right,
Speaker 1: do we have any grab Do we have any we
Speaker 1: didn't grab bag? Don't stick to sports stories in the week?
Speaker 1: Do we have any of them? And this kind of
Speaker 1: goes on the heels of study this, But how about this.
Speaker 1: Fewer than half of American adults know how many Jews
Speaker 1: were killed in the Holocaust. Are you surprised by this? Uh?
Speaker 1: Well he got he talking about the entire world here
Speaker 1: or what are we talking American adults? So, according to
Speaker 1: a survey published by the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January,
Speaker 1: set of people that were asked, I knew that approximately
Speaker 1: six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it sucks. I I'm not shocked by that because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of younger people that don't pay attention
Speaker 1: to that kind of stuff. There's also some knuckleheads that
Speaker 1: there's still the people I didn't happen. The Holocaust didn't happen,
Speaker 1: You know those people you've been to out. So I went.
Speaker 1: Three years ago a buddy of mine got married. He's
Speaker 1: he went to medical school in Poland and his his
Speaker 1: wife is Polish, but he was living um in Ireland.
Speaker 1: So we did a bachelor party and a wedding on
Speaker 1: the same trip as a fourteen day trip, and we
Speaker 1: started off in Berlin, but then we that was for
Speaker 1: the bachelor party, but then a bunch of guys and
Speaker 1: girls then got together and we took a trip down
Speaker 1: to Auschwitz and broken Now and Ben, I mean, you
Speaker 1: could read about this stuff until you're blew in the
Speaker 1: face and hear about it, but not until you get
Speaker 1: there do you understand the gravity of what these people
Speaker 1: and what countries had gone through. Because it was just
Speaker 1: jaw dropping I'm talking about. There were specific areas in
Speaker 1: the museums were hair, nail clippings, glasses, shoes was all preserved,
Speaker 1: and the skulls and stuff. Yes, I mean they brought
Speaker 1: you into the into the shower room, which is just
Speaker 1: chilling because it looked like a regular old school locker room,
Speaker 1: just nothing but brick and these small holes from the
Speaker 1: rooftop and obviously that's where everything was sprayed down to
Speaker 1: to these people, the hospital which was basically a rack
Speaker 1: room and torture center where they would torture these people,
Speaker 1: revived them, them, torture them again. Um. And it was
Speaker 1: just amazing when you got there because there was just
Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful path of nature, just grass, trees and
Speaker 1: a railroad track, and it looked like you were going
Speaker 1: somewhere in a fairy tale. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you get to where you are and you were
Speaker 1: segregated between men, women and kids, and you were led
Speaker 1: to your demise. And so when you got there and
Speaker 1: people were talking on the buses once they got there,
Speaker 1: you did not hear a soul talk at all. You
Speaker 1: just you just soaked it all in because yeah, it
Speaker 1: just obviously they were been there at some point. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we'll end up when I get older and I
Speaker 1: travel when my wife when seven, when I gravel the Europe.
Speaker 1: But I remember when I was a kid, you know,
Speaker 1: growing up as a Jewish kid, and they had the
Speaker 1: bar mitz and that whole thing. And then I recall
Speaker 1: when I was at. I was at somebody else's either
Speaker 1: was a bar mitz for a wedding. A very vague
Speaker 1: memory of where I was, but I know it was
Speaker 1: it a family functions somewhere in l A. And I
Speaker 1: was dragged over as a little kid to look at
Speaker 1: one of my relatives tattoo from from the death camps.
Speaker 1: There they tattooed you. When you went in there and
Speaker 1: you put in, they put like a number on you.
Speaker 1: And I still remember his old frail, his old dude,
Speaker 1: and he pulled up his arms sleeve and there there
Speaker 1: it was, right there there was the tattoo from the
Speaker 1: death camp that that he had as a kid. I
Speaker 1: still it's one of those memories and a few things
Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid, but that's one
Speaker 1: thing I remember back in the day. Well that's very uplifting. Gascout.
Speaker 1: What else do we have to sports stories of the week.
Speaker 1: So we got the impeachment that's going on right now,
Speaker 1: Senators gotta have a couple of rules that are implemented.
Speaker 1: Obviously language what they're uh bringing in, what they're not,
Speaker 1: But they're also there's rules right now prohibiting food and
Speaker 1: drink on the floor. So under the certain rules right now, Ben,
Speaker 1: they're only allowed water and or milk, and also a
Speaker 1: little bit of candy. So this this actually goes back
Speaker 1: to nineteen sixties six, which centate rules do not prohibit
Speaker 1: a center from sipping milk during his speech. So earlier
Speaker 1: this week, Adam Shipp was drinking water. He took a
Speaker 1: quick pause during his thirty thousand word um opening monologue
Speaker 1: to drink a little bit of water. Um. So so
Speaker 1: these guys are they're they're stuck obviously, And I know
Speaker 1: was it I think it was Tuesday. They had their
Speaker 1: opening um statements that went until about one or two
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. So yeah, well the candy, here's what.
Speaker 1: You don't do the milk because you know, you might
Speaker 1: have to go to the bathroom. I drink the water
Speaker 1: and do the candy. Now, I remember I did television
Speaker 1: very briefly at the NBC Sports Network years ago. We
Speaker 1: were in in Stanford, Connecticut, and and I'd fly back
Speaker 1: like a week a month or whatever, uh, and I
Speaker 1: would be on the late shift. You know, it would
Speaker 1: end we'd have to wait for the West Coast games
Speaker 1: to end, so we would get off the television and
Speaker 1: when we're done with the show. We had to touch
Speaker 1: up what we've done earlier. And so we got out
Speaker 1: of there like at two in the morning, and for
Speaker 1: those people who are day people, it was very odd
Speaker 1: to have to step late and so but they had
Speaker 1: like these little bowls of candy all over the green
Speaker 1: room and the production rooms and all that. And I
Speaker 1: remember asking one of the senior producers at NBC, I said,
Speaker 1: why the why the fuck everyone? This is like my dream.
Speaker 1: And I had lost a lot of weight before I
Speaker 1: did that. I was like, you know, I'm a recovering
Speaker 1: fat guy. It's not good for me to be around
Speaker 1: piles of candy everywhere I turned, and and he told me,
Speaker 1: he said, well, we do that because we're on late
Speaker 1: and you know, the sugar keeps people awake. So that's
Speaker 1: why we have these little mini candy bars all over
Speaker 1: the place because it's good for you know, it's good
Speaker 1: for you to kind of give you some extra energy. There.
Speaker 1: That's like perfect, that's perfect, like a Vegas casino, right
Speaker 1: or you have no clocks. The the ceilings are are
Speaker 1: bright or or vibrant, comfortable colors, plenty of lighting, the
Speaker 1: oxygen and of course, uh little snacks and alcohol or
Speaker 1: are distributed once the players are are playing on the tables. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do it right, They absolutely do it right. All right?
Speaker 1: And what else do we got? That is it? We're
Speaker 1: getting kicked out of here, at least I'm getting killed here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got a couple of stories. They're not great stories.
Speaker 1: It's death talk, impeachment talk. And about that furry story.
Speaker 1: You didn't mention that one? What about Well there's another one.
Speaker 1: Did you hear about this? A man was killed by
Speaker 1: blade wielding rooster during an illegal cock fight. So he
Speaker 1: was killed by a cock? Is that what you're saying? Yes? Uh,
Speaker 1: this was a couple of weeks ago. It was an
Speaker 1: illegal cock fight. Have you ever been to a like
Speaker 1: a dog fight or or a cock fight or um
Speaker 1: anything down south of Mexico? I have not, I understand.
Speaker 1: I had a friend that was at a hotel in
Speaker 1: Mexico and said that they had in the you know,
Speaker 1: the pamphlet at the hotel and things to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had like cock fighting on the little pamphlet. This
Speaker 1: is years ago. I don't know if they still do so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this took place ben in India, and what happened
Speaker 1: was the birds. They have razor blades that are tied
Speaker 1: to their limbs and their placed in the in the
Speaker 1: ring where they obviously fight until you know one's left standing.
Speaker 1: And um, when things got underway, one of the roosters
Speaker 1: escapes kicked out and actually wounded this older man like
Speaker 1: fifty five years of age and wounded have been the
Speaker 1: stomach and eventually killed them. So it's pretty dark. I
Speaker 1: knew we weren't gonna do death talk, and now here
Speaker 1: we are. You're very ghoulish person. These stories just right themselves.
Speaker 1: I remembered remember the kids eating tide pods? Who could
Speaker 1: forget one of my favorite stories? Who loves teenage anything? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess there's a trend now on a new app
Speaker 1: called TikTok which men are apparently dipping their their cranks
Speaker 1: into a cup of soy sauce because apparently um men's
Speaker 1: genitalia have um taste buds. So that is a that
Speaker 1: is a trending topic on an app called TikTok, And
Speaker 1: I know you can enjoy that. Well, I I think
Speaker 1: you should probably save that for your grinder. Pie. I
Speaker 1: don't know study this bling? Wow, can we put a
Speaker 1: ball on this thing. We got five stars since September,
Speaker 1: so yeah, we need to keep that up. Tell a
Speaker 1: friend seriously, that'll help us out a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll actually get paid for this if they get
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Speaker 1: and all you have to do is listen for a minute.
Speaker 1: One minute. That's it. We get credit for one minute
Speaker 1: of your time. So tell the people if they don't
Speaker 1: even like to show, just to listen for a minute
Speaker 1: and move on to the next podcast. We get credit
Speaker 1: for it. That's all it takes. But listen. Have a
Speaker 1: great weekend, a football free weekend. I don't count the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, and next week are Super Bowl. Any versus
Speaker 1: the penny, we'll have that and whatever else pops up.
Speaker 1: We'll have a great weekend and we'll catch you next time.