Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio App.
Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, back at
Speaker 1: it yet again, a Saturday Saturday extravaganza, eight days a week,
Speaker 1: eight days a week. Is we are building castles in
Speaker 1: the sky unless we're not. And we thank you for
Speaker 1: supporting the podcast, telling a friend about the podcast, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff, even if it doesn't tickle your fancy,
Speaker 1: even if it doesn't do that, but this Saturday podcast,
Speaker 1: and we will get into the question many people have
Speaker 1: now we had Rob Parker on Friday, and we think
Speaker 1: Rob the world Travels of Rob Parker, Clobe Trekker, just
Speaker 1: traveling around the United States all all summer, getting as
Speaker 1: caught up on his travel log and also a hardy
Speaker 1: baseball conversation. There's very few people that you can talk
Speaker 1: baseball with like Rob Parker, old baseball beat guy, and
Speaker 1: there's not many of those left because most of the
Speaker 1: radio guys are like, I don't want to talk about baseball,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. But let's get to the
Speaker 1: Komodo dragon in the room. We traveled now to Indonesia,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately we thought we had gotten rid of him.
Speaker 1: But like a cockroach, he is back. West of the
Speaker 1: four oh five word huckle down, Grettle Dost running on field.
Speaker 1: I am up, I am operational, I'm alive and I
Speaker 1: am well. I am far from being on fumes, Ben Maller.
Speaker 1: But I did make my return to this, to this
Speaker 1: little box that is a a radio studio, um, and
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be back. And actually, how concerned are
Speaker 1: you that you have upset many fans of the podcasts
Speaker 1: that are troubled by your return that we're gleeful enjoy
Speaker 1: that you had been replaced by the great Ryan McBain,
Speaker 1: who did a wonderful job before it. Seemingly the last
Speaker 1: seven months while he was here is just dominating the
Speaker 1: podcast other than his hatred for Boston. Yeah, well I am.
Speaker 1: I'm paying in the butt. I really don't have much
Speaker 1: to say for those that are upset that I've returned.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have you have listened to the first
Speaker 1: sixty seconds of this podcast. That's all I give a
Speaker 1: shit about. Um, So you have been You've been hooked,
Speaker 1: line and sinkred, and so here we are. So we
Speaker 1: continue this journey together like we have two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like the journey though. If you
Speaker 1: were to do a side by side analysis of who's
Speaker 1: been on the podcast more than the other person, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a team. I think I am. I am
Speaker 1: way ahead. I believe you have to be. You're you're
Speaker 1: on the marquee. This figure you get paid more. Um,
Speaker 1: you do all the work. Yeah, you get paid a
Speaker 1: lot more than we could compare. If you want to
Speaker 1: be honest, you get paid off the podcast. So listen.
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta. I was out of commission for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and I didn't receive a fucking
Speaker 1: text S O S smoke signal message in a bottle
Speaker 1: phone call, leve letter note email from you or your wife?
Speaker 1: What the fund is wrong with you people? What's wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Two? Well, let me explain, Um, what do
Speaker 1: we psychics over here? Uh? You have a you know
Speaker 1: this is you're the boy that cred wolf David. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you why? All right? So first of all,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. I mean, you're not very reliable. You
Speaker 1: miss a lot of shows for whatever reason. You know,
Speaker 1: you got a high school softball game, you gotta know,
Speaker 1: you got a German football game that no one's watching.
Speaker 1: You gotta go, I understand. So you got these other gigs,
Speaker 1: all right. So when I get the schedule and it
Speaker 1: says you're not on the schedule, I just assume the
Speaker 1: position that, okay, he must have another gig. So I'll
Speaker 1: just you know again, it's I go back to the
Speaker 1: to the code of the West, right, you just you
Speaker 1: do your job, do your job, and so I don't
Speaker 1: think it's like whatever, you know, I just do my thing.
Speaker 1: And uh and and follow that mantra and Ryan was
Speaker 1: in here. We had a great time. Did I tell
Speaker 1: you he did a really good job? Did I tell
Speaker 1: you how great he was? A lot of people in
Speaker 1: the Twitter universe of send me direct messages saying, how
Speaker 1: wonderful of a job he did. Yeah, it's really that. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's wrong. It is the the show philosophy, and you
Speaker 1: don't really fee to this, but it's the train keeps moving.
Speaker 1: It's it's next man up, do your job. No days off,
Speaker 1: those are all. Those are all the philosophy doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: constitute as full steam ahead. That just means that it
Speaker 1: moves forward, so pace role like you're overnight show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me let me just point out so. So then
Speaker 1: many listeners felt this was a blessing of this guy.
Speaker 1: So I I got to schedule a week after week,
Speaker 1: No gas guy. At no point, no point, did you
Speaker 1: or management or anyone re shout to me for the
Speaker 1: first three weeks. That's not true. That said, there's actually
Speaker 1: a company email that you have been on that I
Speaker 1: looked at and failed. Well, I do not look at
Speaker 1: company emails. I stopped that. Let me tell you why. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got whacked by this company in twenty oh nine,
Speaker 1: the first thing they do when they fire your ass
Speaker 1: is shut off your company email. So what is the
Speaker 1: point of using company email If the moment you need
Speaker 1: it most, when you've lost your job, they shut it off.
Speaker 1: Why would I sign up for that? Management has been receptive,
Speaker 1: they know my position on company Management's the only way
Speaker 1: that I pushed back, and that, to me, that is
Speaker 1: a bridge too far. I don't believe in using company
Speaker 1: email because I know eventually it'll get rid of me
Speaker 1: again and then I won't have access to the email.
Speaker 1: So what's the point of that. So I don't check
Speaker 1: company email. Do not check company emails. So that's you
Speaker 1: know that. You know that I do not believe in that,
Speaker 1: and that's not something it's against my religion. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I don't check coming email. Nobody called me, you didn't
Speaker 1: text me, you didn't do a courtesy call. Hey, you
Speaker 1: know you're my you're my partner in the podcast. You
Speaker 1: know we have this this thing here we're trying to build.
Speaker 1: I can't be here because of blank none of that.
Speaker 1: I had to find out second hand, two three weeks
Speaker 1: down the line from a source what was going on.
Speaker 1: And so once I found out, I pretended to be concerned,
Speaker 1: and I reached out in a series of text messages
Speaker 1: and phone calls. And you know I do not like
Speaker 1: making phone calls. And I did and I did, and
Speaker 1: you're such you're such a weirdo. Simple text, Hey, I
Speaker 1: have blank and I can't be on the podcast. I
Speaker 1: texted you the first week and I said, hey, I
Speaker 1: am out tomorrow. I'm gonna be unavailable. Yes, that's that
Speaker 1: does not mean that I have blank or blank. It
Speaker 1: just means I'm unavailable, like, hey, I have something else
Speaker 1: going on work wise, I'm not available. What happened, if
Speaker 1: someone what happened, if someone significant to me passed away,
Speaker 1: then here's what you need to go. And I've had listen,
Speaker 1: I've had a bunch of people die around me. It sucks,
Speaker 1: but you know what I do. I said, Hey, so
Speaker 1: and so die, I can't be there. That's how that works,
Speaker 1: very simple, very simple. Fixed. I tell enough and enough is.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be there, doesn't matter what the
Speaker 1: reason is for. Okay, that's fine, and listen, you're you're
Speaker 1: cool to do that, but don't expect any sympathy. Don't
Speaker 1: expect any empathy. Why not, because that's not how you
Speaker 1: get empathy when you say, hey, so and so happened
Speaker 1: to me. That's when you get empathy. What about sympathy, Uh, sympathy, Well,
Speaker 1: that would be if like somebody died but nobody nobody died.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be like a mortal wound. I mean,
Speaker 1: it could be, Uh, give me something less severe. What
Speaker 1: do you Simone Biles? Here? You're walking away? I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: we all have ringside seats to this. Some of us
Speaker 1: want to, you know, be in the ring. Some of
Speaker 1: us want to be out and back and doing their thing.
Speaker 1: Do whatever I mean you do. Recall when you did
Speaker 1: call me, you started yelling at me like why weren't
Speaker 1: you here today? Why weren't you here last week? Well,
Speaker 1: yes I did, because I just want to know if
Speaker 1: we you know, you were coming back or not, because
Speaker 1: that the information I had at that time was has
Speaker 1: there ever been a point in the time that I've
Speaker 1: worked at Fox and worked with you that would come
Speaker 1: across your your vision and say, man, this guy is disloyal,
Speaker 1: Like this is the type of guy that would just
Speaker 1: abandon me randomly. Well, yes, for three weeks ago you
Speaker 1: were not there and with all the complaining you assumed
Speaker 1: you've threatened to leave a million times, so I figured,
Speaker 1: finally it didn't. That's it. You didn't have the intestinal fortitude.
Speaker 1: It's you took off in a building that has a
Speaker 1: bunch of lazy people come to funk. Odd. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you my situation, and you want empathy and sympathy.
Speaker 1: I thought sympathy do better. I thought you just again,
Speaker 1: you have to let someone know what's going on. I
Speaker 1: you like to mind your p's and ques or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I do something similar. That's fine. You have told
Speaker 1: me once on many occasions never to talk on the
Speaker 1: phone in the company studios. Well, listen, you can talk
Speaker 1: on your phone, but those but no, I I generally
Speaker 1: do not have private conversations. There was an incident years
Speaker 1: ago that we don't need to get into right now.
Speaker 1: That um, it was an eye opening experience. It was
Speaker 1: an eye opening experience. And let's just say, in general,
Speaker 1: from what I've read, anywhere you work, big brother is
Speaker 1: always listening. That's all I will say. That's all I
Speaker 1: will say. Big brother is always kind of monitoring what
Speaker 1: you're saying. You know, this is a general rule of thumps. Yes,
Speaker 1: So with that being said, did you did you miss me?
Speaker 1: I only miss you when McBain was killing my Boston listenership,
Speaker 1: when he was destroying the Boston and New England area
Speaker 1: where we do very well and I have many big
Speaker 1: p ones that are all over that region, and he
Speaker 1: was giving some scandalous talk about Boston. So other than that,
Speaker 1: it was good. We had some hearty conversations. They're back
Speaker 1: and forth, a respectful, classy, professional, loyal no complaining, no
Speaker 1: complaining by McBaine. It was like so odd to work
Speaker 1: with someone that didn't complain about this, that or the
Speaker 1: other thing. Uh and really settling in. I felt like
Speaker 1: we got in the Goldilocks zone there for for a
Speaker 1: bit and then all of a sudden, here you are
Speaker 1: coming back boom to ruin the party. You're the interloper,
Speaker 1: you're the outsider. Can you introduce yourself to the listeners
Speaker 1: guest on? Can you let everyone know who you are?
Speaker 1: I've been in contact with the ladies, so oh you have?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah? You know, so you only deal
Speaker 1: with the ladies. What about the dudes? Her blind Scott
Speaker 1: spit him on Tirade as a late and uh well,
Speaker 1: blind blind Scots like Helter skelter like he's doesn't call
Speaker 1: for months at a time, and then for like a week,
Speaker 1: he'll call every night, screaming into the phone, shouting about
Speaker 1: the boys at the seven eleven on the North End
Speaker 1: that listen every night, and he's like trying to impress them.
Speaker 1: And then he disappears, and then he'll send me a
Speaker 1: flurry of emails about some legal situation he's involved in,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know, it's it's weird
Speaker 1: because you're like, I don't know. I don't talk about
Speaker 1: this on the air. And then but he'll give me
Speaker 1: like all of his information, like I don't need to
Speaker 1: be in his business. I'm I'm flat that he trust
Speaker 1: me so much to give me all of his legal
Speaker 1: information like lawyer emails and things like that. But it's
Speaker 1: it's none of my business, and I generally try to
Speaker 1: stay around, you know, stay out of that, see, And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I try to do. I tried to
Speaker 1: leave that information out for you because it's technically none
Speaker 1: of your business. So that's true, loading your plate with
Speaker 1: just frivolous content for you, because like you said, it
Speaker 1: was a half hearted call. You didn't care anyway, So
Speaker 1: why divulge information if you're just gonna go Well, that's true,
Speaker 1: and listen, I I thank you for that. You just
Speaker 1: don't complain that you didn't get sympathy, because to get
Speaker 1: sympathy there's an exchange here, there's a give and take.
Speaker 1: Right kinder than you. She quo my wife. You didn't
Speaker 1: tell my wife either. He didn't tell her what was
Speaker 1: going on. He didn't know. She's doing this lame thing
Speaker 1: now where she's sealed off all of her Instagram comments.
Speaker 1: When she posts stories which are fucking hilarious, oftentimes you're
Speaker 1: not a lot of comment on said story. So you yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of odd, but she's probably getting blown up
Speaker 1: for the militia. Uh yeah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have not Uh you know, I don't go on
Speaker 1: Instagram all that much and I don't really check Twitter
Speaker 1: other than for work when I'm on the show, so
Speaker 1: she's not on there anyway, So I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Well, you've had a lot of things to
Speaker 1: to chew on the last three or four weeks, as
Speaker 1: did I missed. I'm a pilot. I know he's been
Speaker 1: sitting pictures traveling around the world and Uh, he didn't
Speaker 1: miss you at all. He's going, I got a question
Speaker 1: for you when you got well, I know you, when
Speaker 1: you got your gallbladder removed. Your doctor was he was
Speaker 1: amazed by I think a couple of things like your
Speaker 1: cholesterol level. He was just shocked by. Right, Uh, well
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't. I didn't have high cholesterol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a couple of things. He said that we're
Speaker 1: just like, wait a minute, should be way off the
Speaker 1: charts and you're not. Uh, yeah, yeah, I know. I
Speaker 1: I was in Uh, I was in really good ship.
Speaker 1: I had. I had mentioned I had to scare around
Speaker 1: Halloween where I thought I had diabetes because I it
Speaker 1: was dizzy, and uh, you know, I looked. Of course,
Speaker 1: everyone goes on web MD and you look for what
Speaker 1: do you have, and you're you're dying of something, you know,
Speaker 1: and you and I connected the dots and I said,
Speaker 1: well that it's probably diabetes. And so I went and
Speaker 1: I got a blood I got my full blood work,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I turned out it was just had overdosed
Speaker 1: on sugar. One night after you know, I got a
Speaker 1: big bag of candy and ate the whole damn thing.
Speaker 1: And so I messed myself up for a night. But
Speaker 1: other than that, yeah, that that I had really I
Speaker 1: had improved my numbers across the boards. So they were
Speaker 1: very very happy about that. They were asking me what
Speaker 1: I had done that. It's always nice when the doctor
Speaker 1: asked you what you had done to improve your health.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, i've done anything other than
Speaker 1: just not eat so fast. That's it? Well, I asked,
Speaker 1: because I was able to get full blood work done
Speaker 1: last week, and the the rains that you want to
Speaker 1: be in with with vitamin D. I believe it's between
Speaker 1: twenty two and fifty that's the range you want to
Speaker 1: be at. And I get my test back and my
Speaker 1: doctor says, what are you doing in my vitamin D
Speaker 1: levels at? Which is bad because if it goes over
Speaker 1: a hundred, becomes extremely toxic and against bloodstream. So so
Speaker 1: you were overdoing. I was overdosing on vitamin G. You
Speaker 1: really wanted a healthy Yeah, it's in the whole nine
Speaker 1: yards um. Oddly enough, though, there was a climate my
Speaker 1: testosterone too, but I didn't know this. I was listening
Speaker 1: to a podcast a very constraal controversial figurehead, but he
Speaker 1: had interviewed a doctor and this doctor had said that
Speaker 1: there's been a one percent decrease in men's testosterone since
Speaker 1: nineteen and studies going back to when we were in
Speaker 1: World War Two, there was actually service officers that tested
Speaker 1: out and they had to their their testosterone level reached
Speaker 1: two thousand, five hundred. So it's amazing where we were
Speaker 1: to where we're at now because they say the range
Speaker 1: for healthy men are age is between like two forty
Speaker 1: and an eight hundred or eight eighty. So you really
Speaker 1: just did this to brag about your Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: he really just did this to brag. Oh no, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's not where I wanted to be. But
Speaker 1: my cholesterol level is not good. Uma my experience when
Speaker 1: I go to the doctors, I am I gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna live for a few more days or I'm gonna die.
Speaker 1: You know, that's pretty much my question. If he says
Speaker 1: you're good, and that's it. I don't really go into
Speaker 1: the specific Well, I just try to make it my
Speaker 1: goal to only see my doctor once a year, and
Speaker 1: that's for your annual free physical and so he does
Speaker 1: comprehensive blood work and I think it's important. Man, I
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean especially you, because you had
Speaker 1: a drastic change in wait. So I think that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you I've had. I've had that looked at.
Speaker 1: And uh, I am a little uncomfortable the last um
Speaker 1: a couple of months. Now, I guess because cost goes
Speaker 1: open that's why. Well, no, no, but I love I
Speaker 1: love it. He Actually I would regretting the Costco samples
Speaker 1: coming back because it's not the same. But it's better
Speaker 1: because they give you a little doggie bags and so
Speaker 1: I can I can go through and hoard the doggie
Speaker 1: bags and then eat them whenever I want at my convenience.
Speaker 1: I don't have to eat them right away. And I
Speaker 1: what I do is I go in my move now
Speaker 1: I went last weekend. I'll be back probably today on
Speaker 1: the Saturday. Here I'll go in and I I go
Speaker 1: in there and I have my pockets empty other than
Speaker 1: my wallet and my keys on one on one side,
Speaker 1: but the other and I just fill it with all
Speaker 1: the bags. I just go around, round and round, and
Speaker 1: they don't even seem as upset. They used to. The
Speaker 1: old ladies at Costco used to get upset when I
Speaker 1: would take a lot of samples before. But now there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of people that are skittish about taking
Speaker 1: the scamps the samples, right, little sc and so so
Speaker 1: the move you know, they don't care as much because
Speaker 1: they just want to get rid of the samples. They
Speaker 1: don't care who takes the samples. And so yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: take as many as I want. So let's let's get
Speaker 1: to the is you're move thal with the samples? Are
Speaker 1: are you a first first morning kind of guy or
Speaker 1: is it the middle of the day with the samples? Well,
Speaker 1: I still sleep weird hours on the weekend, so I
Speaker 1: usually to me, I go the worst time you can
Speaker 1: go to Costco, which is around noon or one o'clock
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, which is just terrible because that's prime time.
Speaker 1: That's you still have the people that got up early
Speaker 1: that are you know, lagging going to the store. But
Speaker 1: then the people that got you know, want to go
Speaker 1: late or not late. But in the middle of the day,
Speaker 1: it's like prime time. But that's also the sweet spot
Speaker 1: for Costco samples. Okay, you wanted to get like pastries
Speaker 1: or any kind of baked goods in the morning, And
Speaker 1: I have not noticed as many hot dish items at
Speaker 1: Costco because they The whole strategy now is to hand
Speaker 1: these things out in bag. So it's a lot of
Speaker 1: processed foods, chips, granola bars. I've noticed a lot of
Speaker 1: dried fruits, trail mix, that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not as I mean the old days with the cheese
Speaker 1: steak and the mini corn dogs and the tacos, and
Speaker 1: those days are not back yet. We're not fully back.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 1: So I have to tell a story. This is a
Speaker 1: story that I've not told before. I saved it for
Speaker 1: the podcast. It is the Doggie Blues. It is the
Speaker 1: Doggie Blues, and it's the kind of a tale. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to oversell this, but you might want
Speaker 1: to buckle it all right, this being the fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Mallard Global Exclusive. So I had a pretty
Speaker 1: big scare at the Mallard mansion in recent days. So
Speaker 1: it is as I said, it's a story that I
Speaker 1: have not talked about on the radio show, even though
Speaker 1: it happened during the radio show. And I'll explain in
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, as Paul Harvey would say, the
Speaker 1: rest of the story. So the end of last week,
Speaker 1: I'm doing the Friday's show. It's going swimmingly, a lot
Speaker 1: of belly laughs, having a grand time, nothing out of sorts.
Speaker 1: And if you were listening to that show, you didn't
Speaker 1: hear anything awkward at all on the air. Off the air,
Speaker 1: there was a crisis that was going on, and I'm
Speaker 1: not exaggerating that. So I'm in the home studio with
Speaker 1: meticulous laser like focus. I'm doing my thing. The show's
Speaker 1: flying by. We're doing the show. That's the way we
Speaker 1: want to do the show. And then in the final hour,
Speaker 1: hour four, with about forty minutes left in the show,
Speaker 1: my wife who's working during the day now and I'm
Speaker 1: working at Nice, so she's sleeping while I'm on. So
Speaker 1: the wife there wakes you. She knocks on the door.
Speaker 1: She had woken up, and she says, hey, we we've
Speaker 1: had an emergency. And I said, oh my god, what happened?
Speaker 1: And our beloved family dog had been bitten by a
Speaker 1: coyote in the backyard of the halfway house here. So
Speaker 1: I come out of the studio and my wife, of
Speaker 1: course freaking out. My dog Bella's covered in blood. The
Speaker 1: coyote had bitten her on like I used to try
Speaker 1: to grab her over the top and like carry her away.
Speaker 1: She's a small dog, and she had blood in her
Speaker 1: mouth like it was a bit. I mean, it's everywhere,
Speaker 1: and she couldn't walk, she was shaking. I mean, we
Speaker 1: thought she that was it, and we lights out for
Speaker 1: our dog, Bella. And so my wife then attempts to
Speaker 1: find a seven By the way, Bella's barking in the
Speaker 1: background or if you can hear that, but she she
Speaker 1: must be. It must be she's alive, obviously because she's barking.
Speaker 1: But my wife attempted to find a seven emergency pet
Speaker 1: hospital while I finished the show. And it took lots
Speaker 1: of effort, uh to compartmentalize my situation, because you know,
Speaker 1: the show must go on, as they say, And so
Speaker 1: I was able to finish the show, and still we
Speaker 1: could not find a pet Every pet hospital in this
Speaker 1: area was filled where I'm living now, and so I
Speaker 1: then joined the pursuit with my wife in the mission
Speaker 1: to get Bella treatment right. And and finally we found
Speaker 1: a place in uh in South Pasadena that could help us.
Speaker 1: And so we got in the car and now you
Speaker 1: know I was driving. We got in the malimibile Bella
Speaker 1: covered in blood, wrapped in a in a towel. My
Speaker 1: wife was holding her, and we set dattled into that
Speaker 1: clinic and the doctors took her. They had an exam,
Speaker 1: and we were expecting the worst, thinking they were they
Speaker 1: were going to have to put her to sleep. And
Speaker 1: the doctor called us back in about twenty minutes and
Speaker 1: said she barely avoided needing to go under. She could
Speaker 1: be saved, but there's always a butt. It was gonna
Speaker 1: cost a shipload of of money. And so what I did,
Speaker 1: I dusted off my wallet and we we emptied out
Speaker 1: our wallet. There my wallet, her wallet, my wife's, and
Speaker 1: we had belly go under an emergency doggie surgery and
Speaker 1: it was so bad. They had to put a drain
Speaker 1: in her to drain the damaged goo that was inside
Speaker 1: of her, and a bunch of stitches, and she has
Speaker 1: a cone, you know, the doggy cone that you've gotten
Speaker 1: on that so and when she came back, she was
Speaker 1: as drugged up as Jed who fled and uh. But
Speaker 1: she has made a dramatic comeback, and I'm happy to
Speaker 1: report that she's back to being the same loving pooch
Speaker 1: that she had been before. And so, as Paul Harvey
Speaker 1: would say, you uh, you now are about to know
Speaker 1: the rest of the story. So the reason I didn't
Speaker 1: say anything on the air was because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to give the curse of the ben Bino di Bella,
Speaker 1: So I kept my mouth shut until she was out
Speaker 1: of the w and she did come home a zombie dog,
Speaker 1: not walking, not eating, not drinking, and those are generally
Speaker 1: signs that you're about to die. When an animal does
Speaker 1: not human or animal does not eat or drink, you're
Speaker 1: you're not long for the world. Both my mom and
Speaker 1: dad before they passed, they stopped eating and and uh
Speaker 1: and drinking. So but fortunately Bella pulled through and is
Speaker 1: on the comeback trail now annoying me and barking, barking
Speaker 1: quite a bit, which is unfortunately she does not normally bark.
Speaker 1: She does not normally do this. That's something that she
Speaker 1: normally normally, she's not a barker. How long was the procedure.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long she was under the knife,
Speaker 1: but it was on a Friday, and she was in
Speaker 1: there pretty much all all day. She had the operation.
Speaker 1: Then they let her out with a bunch of drugs,
Speaker 1: like drugged her and let her out, and we had
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on her and put her in
Speaker 1: a dog crate carrier around where we went and all
Speaker 1: that stuff was the miss crying. We were all pretty
Speaker 1: pretty much. I mean, she was, yeah, because she had
Speaker 1: seen she went out to see the dog. You go
Speaker 1: out to get the dog, dog, went out to go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, You come back, and it's like whoa.
Speaker 1: And another thing we had this call it Regina from
Speaker 1: Minnesota on that Friday show a few minutes before this
Speaker 1: happened to Bella, and she was telling a story about
Speaker 1: how she was in her backyard in Minnesota screaming profanity
Speaker 1: at coyotes who were trying to mess with her dog.
Speaker 1: And then, you know, thousands of miles away here it
Speaker 1: happened to to my dog man. Good times. Bella looked
Speaker 1: mangled though, or did she just look like she had
Speaker 1: a chunk taken out of her? Uh? No, she was,
Speaker 1: she was messed up, and there was there was thick
Speaker 1: red blood flowing down from her her side, and it
Speaker 1: was it was not a pretty picture. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, I couldn't I was like, what the hell,
Speaker 1: I just I'm doing the show. I mean, I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. I was like, what the hell happened? And um,
Speaker 1: it took me a little while the process exactly what
Speaker 1: I was seeing, because it didn't make you know, it
Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of sense. Yeah, I've never had
Speaker 1: I've heard people have their dogs attacked by a coyote,
Speaker 1: but I've never you know, it never happened to me,
Speaker 1: and I never thought, well, you know, just assuming it
Speaker 1: will not happen to you. And where I'm living, at
Speaker 1: least for now, I'm moving in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But where I'm living is closer to the coyote country.
Speaker 1: There's more coyotes around here, and we learned that less
Speaker 1: in the hardaway unfortunately, flag someone down in the South
Speaker 1: Pasadena though. That's and as you know, South Pasadena, little bougie, Yeah,
Speaker 1: little bougie, not not a well you don't love you
Speaker 1: love South Pasadena. You know Pasadena proper there's some real
Speaker 1: crappy parts of Pasadena. Okay. I have a relative that
Speaker 1: lives and just north of Pasadena and Alta Dina. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that is an absolute eyesore. That is a
Speaker 1: and there's some beautiful houses and stuff, but there's so much.
Speaker 1: I used to go to a gym in that area
Speaker 1: and I right near John Muir High School and had
Speaker 1: my car broken into. And there's crime. They talked to
Speaker 1: the guy, the Jim is crime there all the time? Well,
Speaker 1: Glendale's right there. And then of course you got south Pasadena.
Speaker 1: You go right to a Chavez Ravine. So yeah, just
Speaker 1: down the road from Dodger Stadium. That's not far away,
Speaker 1: far away at all. Uh. So that's the tale of
Speaker 1: the Doggy Blues. She's on the comeback trail Bella and
Speaker 1: she's annoying me right now by barking. So she sounds
Speaker 1: like a parrot. Yeah, it does not have a very
Speaker 1: strong bark. It's it's like a clown horn that bark. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we have pop quiz. Will do some of that pop
Speaker 1: quiz right now here we go and uh we begin
Speaker 1: with this. A new survey finds support for a vaccine
Speaker 1: mandate is highest in this eight Which state you think
Speaker 1: it is? Oh? Um, it's not Ohio or Florida. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it is. Actually, I'm gonna sait it's Illinois. No, incorrect,
Speaker 1: it's in Then it's in the northeast, Maine, Delaware, No,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, Vermont. No, you're gonna go through all Massachusetts? Yes?
Speaker 1: Really Massachusetts? Yeah? What the fuck? You have the most
Speaker 1: support for the vaccine in Massachusetts. They love it. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Are you for Are you for a vaccine
Speaker 1: vaccine mandate? No? I don't think there should be a mandate.
Speaker 1: I got the vaccine, but I don't think it should
Speaker 1: be a mandate for it. I don't know. If you
Speaker 1: want to do it, don't do it. I don't. It's
Speaker 1: your business. I don't care. It doesn't affect me. A
Speaker 1: new survey found the favorite flavor during summer is this?
Speaker 1: What is it? Mint and chocolate chip? Favorite flavor? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Um, it's not ice cream flavors, this flavor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, why would you constituents flavor? Then? Well,
Speaker 1: anything can be flavors. Come on, what do you think?
Speaker 1: Use your brain? Summer? What do you think? What do
Speaker 1: you think summer? What do you think? I think summer?
Speaker 1: Thinks beach and sun um and what else? Hot day? Yeah? Um, coconut.
Speaker 1: Now the answer is lemonade. Lemonade is the answer? Interesting?
Speaker 1: All right? What's next year? Seventy five of consumers say
Speaker 1: they'll spend more money with retailers if they can do
Speaker 1: this with them during the holiday season. What is it? Oh? Se,
Speaker 1: that's a high number? Can do seven? Ever? Sent a
Speaker 1: consumers say they'll actually spend more money at a retailer
Speaker 1: if they can do this with them during the holiday
Speaker 1: See easy this think about you use your head human relations.
Speaker 1: I mean I would say, get discounted items during the
Speaker 1: holiday season. Uh No, it's actually message with them. What's
Speaker 1: up with that? I don't I don't want to message
Speaker 1: with the people I shop at the stores I shop at.
Speaker 1: That's bizarre, right, so bizarre, so bizarre. All right. This
Speaker 1: has been voted as the biggest waste of money. What
Speaker 1: is it in your life? This will be the biggest
Speaker 1: waste of money? Would you No? No, it's something that
Speaker 1: people do who are in law by Oh, I have
Speaker 1: a wedding, Yeah, big wedding, big wedding, biggest waste of
Speaker 1: money that one can have. Oh my gosh, that's why
Speaker 1: listen I am, I'm not in. I did not have
Speaker 1: a big medding wedding. I looped. I went to Hawaii
Speaker 1: on a deserted beach in Kawaii and right near the
Speaker 1: between the mile three and mile four marker when you
Speaker 1: leave the airport in Poipoo, and that was it. I
Speaker 1: I got married. There was no one around, no big,
Speaker 1: no big to do, and so I'm ahead of the
Speaker 1: game on that. One reminds me of a tragic story.
Speaker 1: A few days ago, I went to go visit a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine and see it a long time good friend,
Speaker 1: and um I was meeting his fiance for the first time.
Speaker 1: So I said, Hey, I'm gonna come over. Let's do dinner.
Speaker 1: We'll make some some dinner and then we'll just chop
Speaker 1: it up, talk and drink. And so I bought over,
Speaker 1: brought over some steaks. We're cooking up some tuna too. Ben.
Speaker 1: It was my first time in like a long time
Speaker 1: cooking on a barbecue. Girl and my buddies flame on
Speaker 1: that barbecue turned into a massive fire. I had steaks
Speaker 1: on this girl for like four minutes. They were as
Speaker 1: black as you like them. I could not believe. No,
Speaker 1: that's so embarrassed. I'm gonna I'm disinvited from the wedding.
Speaker 1: It was really an embarrassing moment. I thought about you
Speaker 1: when I was doing that. No, you're not. Are you
Speaker 1: divorced or you you've never been married. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: get married at some point, you're gonna have a big wedding,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna have a big, gallow wedding. There we're
Speaker 1: gonna find a wife. Yeah, how's that going. No, your
Speaker 1: wife hasn't introduced me to und of her friends. She's
Speaker 1: tried that in the past, she hasn't. Yeah, she is
Speaker 1: the part of you. Probably you don't go these holiday parties.
Speaker 1: You get up late, and you get to them late,
Speaker 1: and all the people leave by the time you get there,
Speaker 1: and you get cold food and you complain. What's the
Speaker 1: idea that you don't go to the club early, You
Speaker 1: go to the club late, so then you pick up
Speaker 1: all the stragglers. Yeah, how's that working out? I used
Speaker 1: to work out really well? Yeah, not anymore, alreight. A
Speaker 1: recent survey reveals the average person does this about sixteen
Speaker 1: times a day. What is it touches their face. Noah,
Speaker 1: they curse asshole sixteen times a day, they swear, and
Speaker 1: we can't do that, not for the time we're on
Speaker 1: the radio. Otherwise we can curse. That's what happens of
Speaker 1: Americans admit they will never or that they never learned
Speaker 1: how to do this. Not that they will never, but
Speaker 1: they have never learned how to do this. Uh ty,
Speaker 1: their shoes not swim. Swim. If you're not around a
Speaker 1: lake or a river or the beach, which seems like
Speaker 1: most people are within driving distance and one of those things,
Speaker 1: then what's the point. That's true? But yeah, the dog
Speaker 1: is barking. By the way, with the dog is barking,
Speaker 1: gas gun, it better to be barking than six ft under.
Speaker 1: That is true. That is true. It is although the
Speaker 1: dog is not barked at any point up until recently.
Speaker 1: Now the dog is all of a sudden, very very upset,
Speaker 1: the worst possible time, the worst possible time. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: think that's Are we good on this? Guess? I think
Speaker 1: we're good on this. We're good, Yeah, alright, anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful rest of your Saturday. The Sunday Mail
Speaker 1: by I Hope Gascon. You have your your has mat
Speaker 1: suit on because you are You are not very popular
Speaker 1: with the Mallard militia. Very people upset that you're back.
Speaker 1: A lot of my inbox with comments about you, be
Speaker 1: smirching you, and upset with me for allowing you back.
Speaker 1: So that's the tone of the email. But well, we'll
Speaker 1: go through it. We'll work our way through it on
Speaker 1: the Sunday podcast. Have a great rest your Saturday. We
Speaker 1: will catch you there. Okay, okay,