WEBVTT - Yellow Submarine 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.080 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.360 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:28.200 with Ben Mallarck starts right now that it does, and 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.239 welcome into the magic podcast boxes that what we call it. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:38.280 We are in the air everywhere the vast power of 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.479 the I Heart Media family, the glob will reach of 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.159 the podcast network here with I Heart and we are 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.879 at it again the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller our 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:51.159 new slogan eight days a week because also four hours 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.560 not enough, as we like to say in the Overnight 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.320 Show during the weekend. If you're finding this, you're saying, 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.920 what the hell is this crap? This is a spit 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.319 in off of the Overnight Show for Fox Sports Radio, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.520 the Ben Maller Show, which is broadcast live on hundreds 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.039 of radio stations like WOR over four hundred radio stations 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.800 and a bunch of other international platforms. Uh Sunday. For me, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.840 it's Sunday through Thursday, but for most people it's Monday 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:25.800 through Friday from two am til six am Eastern Standard time. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.600 So that's this And this show originally started as a 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:34.800 football handicapping podcast. It has morphed into something else. It 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.919 is the pathogens have shifted, uh, and it's it's something. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.000 I'm not sure what we're doing here, but it's not 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.240 a football handicapping podcast. There's no football to handicap. And 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.760 it was only gonna be one day a week when 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.960 we started. Now it's three days a week. We keep 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.120 this up, we will be doing it twelve days a week. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.960 But we are joined, as always, for better or worse, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.440 by the man affectionately known as gag On David Gascon. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.359 You know, it's a it's a new week forget brand 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.080 new episodes. It's a but it's a crazy dynamic that 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.560 we have, or you have in particular with your your 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.040 fans and followers. Because I before we get into any 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.760 of this, I must apologize for my lack of of 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:28.000 spunk and life last week. Um, but it's crazy because 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.160 we had Now are you are you willing to know? 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.760 Not yet? Not yet? You're not ready to go into 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.120 detail on that okay, because there was something that happened, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:36.720 and I just want you to know know I'm a good teammate. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.120 I didn't say anything. I kept my mouth shut and 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.160 I'll continue to keep my mouth shut. But something happened, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.919 a dramatic life event for David Gascon, and I didn't 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.200 mention and he didn't mention it. And it's very uncomfortable 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.000 me not to do it, but I am. I'm continuing 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.679 to honor your wishes. You you you holsted your side arm. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.560 I appreciate that. But it's crazy because the dynamic that 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:03.200 you have with your ends and followers is crazy. Because 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.240 we had I had some female fans or followers of 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.720 yours that reached out and said, hey, I hope you're 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.080 doing well. You send a different lack the energy, lacked 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.360 the life, and then you had the mail that said 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:22.840 you're fucking terrible, you suck, You're horrible. What the fucke 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:28.440 loony on here? Instead it was bipolar. But three three 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.760 things I can I can sit you right now. One 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:35.960 is UM, I will never ever hack your Twitter account 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.240 like Jannasontenna Coople. I know you covered that earlier in 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.640 the week during your show, UM. And to UM, I 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:47.520 will never ever ever allow your wife to locate you 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.360 via snapchat if you're if you're at your brother's and 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.720 be doing any kind of extracurricular activity. So of course, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.640 of course, of course. Uh. And just to address in 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.640 the mouth imlsia from the female perspective of the male perspective, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.560 and it is a much different perspective. The women look 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.080 at things differently than the men, that's obvious. Um. As 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.840 far as the dudes, I like the comments I got 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:15.040 instead of gag on it's lifeless gone. Uh, that was 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.320 one of them. They were comparing you to a dead 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.839 fish with your contribution, which is odd because this is 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.160 not the first time this has happened. All right, I 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.880 remember we did the Sports Talk Verry interview and you 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.640 set that one out. Use I'm on the bench out 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.520 of that one. Listen, we live here in southern California, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.560 and you can agree with me on this because you 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.880 did get married on the island. Um, when someone's riding 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.240 a wave, you don't want to get in front of it, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.559 you don't want to ride along with it. And because 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.400 I did my best to to not derail um, which 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.920 was a great podcast, and you would have just been 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.000 bland and unimaginative if you had added to that. But so, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.520 and you're promising gascon here not to be boring, right, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.520 this is not You're gonna and we're not gonna be 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.640 welcomed to Dolesville here with you on this this weekend 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.360 of podcast. But we we did. Typically when we when 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.800 we post the podcast, we always ask either at the 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.040 end of the podcast or whether it's in print for 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.719 the Apple iTunes, to rate, review, subscribe the whole nine yards. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.159 And and we did get some colorful reviews that came 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.160 in last week and that said, congratulations Ben, you are 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:26.280 now Fox News. Oh yeah, yeah, I did, like yeah, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.720 I like that, you know, and and and and on 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.919 que I think I even said this on the podcast. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.320 I got an email to my my other email address 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.200 and they were like, hey, you know, I was a 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.119 big fan I've listened to a few years. I can't, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.200 you know, you just I don't. I don't agree with 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.839 what you said, so I can't. I can't. And you 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.560 you went the third rail. You know, this is which 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.359 I the great thing is that you know it's a 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.719 self fulfilling prophecy because I said, this is what's gonna happen, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.320 and that's exactly. I got not a lot, but there 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.000 were a few people to reach time. Now there were 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:58.880 other people, and we'll get to the email back later 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.800 in the weekend. The people actually did like what we 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.360 we said, and they were open to it, and they 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.479 were like, hey, whatever, no matter of your opinion, which 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:10.440 was refreshing. But there were the people that the snowflake 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.000 crowd that's easily triggered by this stuff. And if you 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.360 don't agree with everything, if you don't drink the same 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.919 cool aid they drink, they're done. Um. And you know 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.760 that's just I don't. I don't live my life that way. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.039 I know a lot of people do. And I have 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.920 friends that are I totally disagree with who are politically, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.320 but I get along with him. I don't care. Now, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.320 Yeah I did. I did show with Looney for years, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.560 and I could not be more far further away from 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:37.160 Looney politically, uh you know, the limousine liberal Tom Looney. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.520 But I you know, I get all. I was a friend, 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.359 I I I you know, we fight all the time 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.240 about stuff, but politically and sports wise, and then at 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.640 the end we hug it out. We're good. Yeah. Now 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:52.040 we since we're producing this um. The second week or 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.640 be the first week of May. Um, I I do 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.200 have a special request that I have to make and 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.119 it's uh, it's something that you chat about last week 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.760 with with our friend Fats in Philadelphia. I love Fats. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.039 Fats is one of my favorite don't This guy just 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.320 started listening to a short while ago, and I'm I'm 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.360 a big fan of Fats. Now I think we might 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.000 have to invite him on for the week of May 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.560 twenty one. I'm not going to tell you now why, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.760 but it is related to what he has done and 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.640 in the whole Philadelphia thing. Um, okay, I listen. I'm 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.360 I'm open to having Fats on the podcast. I guess 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.720 he's on guest Jon's team. Apparently no. No, But unlike 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.120 Chris and Houston, who you do not like the fact 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.040 that you have a listener torch himself with him all 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:44.640 you went straight torching on social media? That was that is. Yeah. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.960 I've had some weird things. I mean, for some reason, 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.000 people are attracted me that do wild things, like the 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.680 most famous one had been Doc Mike that sent the 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.720 bloody goat heads from Chicago multiple times. But this is 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.600 it's in the top five. Lighting yourself on fire and 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.040 shouting my name during the NFL Draft is one of 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.800 the most unique things that I cannot encourage people to do, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.560 and I don't know that anyone would want to do it, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.400 but I mean, Fats facts will be on the podcast 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.800 as long as the people with the white coach don't 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.480 come knocking on his door first, whether that's the CDC 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:26.200 or the FBI. That dude had a Molotov cocktail and 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.600 he undressed himself with it. It was it was, yeah, yeah, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.680 it was. And he didn't even make it to the 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.480 Eagles pick, which was my favorite part. Like normally you'd say, Okay, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.520 the Eagles made a terrible pick, I'm gonna light myself 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.480 on fire. That would be like a classical Philadelphia thing 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.959 to do, that's timeless for the Philadelphia sports fan. But no, no, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.840 not this guy. Fats in Philly's light. I can't even 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.760 make it. The Traps dragon onto long. I was gonna 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.680 light myself on fire right now. I'm a human dynamo, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.320 is what I am. Man Be sure to catch live 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.719 editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:04.080 a Eastern paciffect on Fox Sports Radio and the I 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.960 Heart Radio app so coming up on today's party. It's 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:08.439 just area with a couple of things that we've got. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:13.040 It's a cameo and Operation Odessa. We're gonna get to 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.840 that as well. It's that's right. Another Mallard film review tonight, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:22.360 Thank the Pandemic. Another Mallard film review with Gascon as well. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.320 I gave him a homework assignment, so we'll have that 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.839 in a minute. But just briefly, it's a cameo. Now. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.520 We had teased this a couple of weeks ago. It 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:36.240 is now reality. My friends Sports with Coleman, beloved Baltimore 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.920 radio personality Morning Man in Baltimore. One of my radio friends. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.960 Have a couple of radio friends that do local radio 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.680 at the other places that are in my like chain 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.880 of chatting, text messaging, and one Sports with Coleman's in 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.800 that group. And so he said, Hey, I got an idea. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.600 Why don't you sign up for this thing? Can you? 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.600 I said, what the fuck is cameo? And don't bother me? 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.920 What are you? What are you doing? Um? And then 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.680 I looked at it, and I considered it, and we 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.120 talked about on the air, and I made the plunge. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.079 I made the polar plunge. Like our friends in Minnesota, 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.439 I jumped into the Frozen Lake and I have joined 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.439 up with Cameo and it's pretty cool. Now. If you're 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.720 not familiar what this is, you didn't listen to a 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.040 previous podcast. It is a platform design for the shout out. Now. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.840 I have said for many, many years, I do not 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.400 do shout outs. I'm not a morning zoo show, and 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.559 that is true. We are not a morning zoo show, 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.319 and we usually give out like brief shoutouts on the 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.680 radio occasionally, um, but that is what this platform is for. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.320 And so I joined up about a week ago and 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.959 I've been playing around with it. Now, keep in mind, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.160 I didn't mention this on social media, all right, that's 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:50.360 number one or radio or this podcast, other than I 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.520 was considering it. But at that time I had not 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.840 signed up. And here's the second point here, which is 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.079 the great thing about this show and the p but 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.280 that love this show and uh in all that, which 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.120 is amazing, and I don't deserve this. So I signed 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.160 up for it. I'm thinking, well, who nobody knows who 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.120 the funk I am. I'll just stay on here and 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.679 maybe I'll eventually get around to announcing that I'm on 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.360 this platform, and once I clicked the live button to 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.079 let people know that I was on already, a couple 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:25.520 of super fans of the show have popped my cameo 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.720 cherry and they have clicked on the button. I've only 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.800 done a couple of these things, and it's a video 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.480 platform greeting thing. There's a lot of real celebrities I'm 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.920 not a real celebrity that are on there, and uh so, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.920 it's it's really cool if you're a big fan of 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.880 the show. And the way I was told by the 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.040 person from cameo who used to play by the Way 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.400 for the Patriots. How about that the guy that's uh 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.280 that that was my rep for this company through Coleman 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.520 is a former New England Patriot and was on one 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.079 of the Super Bowl winning teams, which I thought was 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.520 kind of neat. Um. I don't know if he wants 0:11:58.559 --> 0:11:59.760 me to give his name out or not. I don't 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.679 know that we need to give his name out, but anyway, so, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.199 uh so, this guy was giving the whole rap. He's like, hey, listen, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.600 you know, if you're big fans, you know they have 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.640 like a birthday coming up or a wedding and bar 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.560 mitzvah you know whatever, or you want to settle a bet, 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.120 you know, if you want me to rant like a 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.480 lunatic or something like that. Uh, this is what this 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.640 is for. And I was like, okay, I mean fine. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:19.679 You know it's because it's one of those things you 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.120 don't have to do it. Nobody has to do it, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.080 and nobody does it. It doesn't matter, it doesn't affect 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:24.480 me at all. People want to do it, I'll do it. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.480 And it does cost a couple of bucks. It's not free, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.679 so I will tell you that. But it's a personalized greeting. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.719 And from what understand, you can set it either you 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.880 can let it be public and let other people see it, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.800 or you can just keep it private. And uh, I was, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.280 I was pretty fired up, man. I had the first 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:44.720 two I had. Um was a woman whose husband was 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.240 a big fan of the show and and it was 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.440 his his birthday. You know, it sucks because of what's 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.599 going on with the pandemics. It's hopefully getting kept to 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.360 an end here soon. People couldn't go out and and 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.080 you know obviously can't go out and socialized. I just 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.920 had my birthday while I go so I gave a 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.160 a shout out to him. And then also there was 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:10.080 a kid that I had a birthday and we we 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.040 said a load of him, which was which was cool. Man. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.720 That was that? That Really that one was neat because 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.640 this kid's like eleven years old, and I flashed back 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.480 to when I was eleven and I used to stay 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.560 up late at night and listen to the radio. And 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.280 so that was that was pretty neat. So anyway, let'sten. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:26.840 If you want to know, I'll tweet it out at 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.840 some point. I'll put it on Facebook and all the 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.440 social media platforms. If you're not interested in looking that up, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.000 but it's on the cameo dot com website if you 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.040 just search my name. Uh there you can check it out. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.160 And uh, you know, like for I'm pretty open to 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.600 doing anything other than like wearing a you know, Angry 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.559 Bill cap and one of those things like I'm shopping 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.000 in San Diego and but uh, like you know, if 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.240 you want to see Bella, for example, like Angry Bill 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.480 might sign up and say, hey, send a video with Bella. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.080 I would hold Bella against her will and force her 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.760 to do the video. So I'm mostly flexib Now, gascon 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.480 are you gonna sign up for this, guesscan if I 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.080 can hook you up, are you gonna sign up? So 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.600 the you claim to have many fans are very narcissistic here, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.120 and I would think that you would want to be 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.840 part of this, to get in on that and and 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.280 give back to the listen. Yeah, I'd be down to 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.560 do something like that. It's just um, you know, for 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:23.360 as bad as has been, it is just a beautiful 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.560 thing to see you evolve. Oh, here we go again. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.480 Is this is guess CON's humble brag shelf deprecation? This 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.880 is it right now? Egotistical? There he goes, We're off 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.200 to the races. It took a while, let me check 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.440 at fourteen minutes, about fourteen minutes into the podcast, and 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.880 then all of a sudden, kinda we're off to the races. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.880 You know. I don't know if it's Cowboy and windsor 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.040 Doc Mike, whoever it is, but the oldest listeners on 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.240 your show to the youngest, like they're experiencing, even though 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.800 we're going through this big quarantine, they're experiencing the evolution 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.600 of of Ben Mallory like they're there. I mean, it's 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.119 it's a reboot like this is like Ben Mallory rebooted. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:12.080 So you go just terrestrial radio to digital, to camera 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:18.560 to broadcasting like you are now full fledged professional broadcast. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.920 Oh my god, I've you've popped my cherry guess pop 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.200 by chair. But you you're such a show. You were 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.800 on you were on YouTube back in the day. You know, 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.480 we have some of the videos from when you were 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:35.120 on with NBC. And you're flying back and forth the 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.840 East coast to West coast like once a month to 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.960 the beautiful Stanford, Connecticut area. There the home of professional wrestling, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.920 you know, the headquarters of the w W. I walked 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.760 by their building are in Stanford, Connecticut, and I have 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.800 eaten at Bobby V's restaurant in Stanford, Connecticut. Hout that. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.360 See so you have? I mean you traveled near and far, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:59.080 and now you're going straight to digital, straight to uh television, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.720 and now you're going onto the social media apps. This 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:07.840 is wonderful on YouTube nodding your monologues for Fox Sports Radio. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:12.280 That was a brilliant idea. Who ever crafted that idea. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.880 You are shameless. No, you are the shameless schmuck is 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.080 your new nickname, the shameless schmuck. No, I'm encouraged by 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:25.280 the West of the four oh five shameless suck, the narcissist, pretentious, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.440 spoiled brat. I have such a conceited person. I have 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.600 said nothing of myself this entire time. I'm just encouraged 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.120 by what you're doing. I know you're just encouraged. And 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.640 you just have this little smirk to your voice while 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.880 you talk, because you have this smirk that makes me 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.560 want to punch you as you talk. You know, because 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.760 sometimes when you're not around, I'll have a I have 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.800 a careful conversation with your wife and she'll say, sometimes 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.800 he just needs to be pushed in that uncomfortable situation, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.440 and I'm like, I agree with you. Miss is one hundred. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.520 Yet again, this is this is gonna the conspiracy theorists 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.920 will be out again. Unsolicited guest gun works in Miller's 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.760 wife yet again into another podcast. This is seven eighty five, 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.480 that seven time this has happened. Well, you know, because 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.159 it's a team effort. It's it's not this is not golf, 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.560 this is not tennis. This is a collaboration of sorts. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.679 You are not a rose. You're like a cactus, and 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.119 you live for a great period of time but you 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.919 need a little bit of water every so often. This 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.760 is great, Okay, done question for you. Yes, um, I 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.320 know you mentioned your dog, but are you gonna have 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.120 you gotta be running out of hats eventually, right, Yeah, 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.200 I don't. I've gone through a lot. I didn't realize 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.560 that My goal was I'm the mad Hatter of sports 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.760 chatters nicknames. So I thought, well, they're making me do 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.160 these dopey videos for YouTube, so I might as well. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.639 And a lot of people, like thousands of people the 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.200 Dak Prescott thing. We were like fifteen thousand views, around 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.879 fifteen thousand used on just one video alone, that's like 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.040 five minutes or whatever. So it's there's a lot of 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.480 people seeing these things. And that's just on one of 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.320 the platforms, not you know, they're on all the social 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.439 media players. So my goal was to wear a new 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.080 hat every day. But yeah, I had the this week. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.240 I've worned the Bill Miller barbecue hat listeners sent me 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.760 from Texas. I had that on the other night. And 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.679 what else have I I've gone through some of my 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.200 minor league baseball hats. I have not yet warned the 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.840 Bakersfield Blaze hat. I will wear that that's on my list. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.399 You did the odd couple one. I did the odd couple. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.159 Shout out to the odd couple. Our friends Rob Parker 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.159 and Christmas sort I had that going on. I have 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.240 a Tony Bruno hat that Tony gave me. I'm going 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.840 through some old hats. Here's one. You probably don't even 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.080 know who this is, but longtime listeners of Fox Sports 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:51.359 Radio might remember Mark Patrick, big big radio star in 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:59.720 Indianapolis who did our morning show. And uh, Mark, and 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.439 I don't know if you know no that story, but 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.639 it was pretty cool because when I was doing the 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.639 overnight show and and he was doing the morning show 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.200 and we are, paths would cross, although he was doing 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.800 it from a different location. Um, but he had a 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.919 kid that was a pretty good high school baseball player 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.320 and he would send me, Um, we have correspondence, you 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.840 know about the kid and all that stuff. And uh, 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:29.080 in in Indiana, in the Innnianapolis area and uh and 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.800 this goes back, Man, what are we talking here? We're 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:39.480 probably talking the likeve something like that, maybe right around then. 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.240 So this is like fifteen years ago. And uh, and 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:43.960 you know he's like, hey, my kids got a you know, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.600 he got drafted by the you know, the the Yankees, 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.480 and uh, you know, I don't know, you know, he 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.000 might go to college or he ended going to college 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.080 and he made the major leagues and he's he had 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.879 an eight year career. The guy named Drew Storing. I 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:03.560 don't if you remember Drew Orange played for the Washington Nationals. Yeah. Yeah, 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.760 he was the closer for the Nationals. He he had 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.680 a forty save season in the big leagues. And for 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.800 the first couple of years of his career he was brilliant. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:13.920 And then I don't know what happened. I mean, he's 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.439 you know, the clock hits hit zero and all hell happens. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.160 But um, yeah, I met him. Cool. It was when 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.479 when the Nationals came in and uh with the against 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.280 the Dodgers obviously, and I was like, hey, I know 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.440 you're old man, and uh and uh, it was pretty 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.639 It was pretty cool. So I'm off to where the 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.760 Mark Patrick had my homage to Mark Patrick on sports. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.840 You're in the big chair is what he used to say. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.000 That was one of his trademark catchphrases. You're in the 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.879 big chair now. Just because you're running out of hats 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.840 for right now doesn't mean you can't shy away from 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.280 from rocking the beanie. Be sure to catch live editions 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.919 of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.960 eleven pm Pacific. The Beanie. Yeah, you can rock some beanies. 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.040 That is that what this was all about. But do 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.359 rag also, what would you like me to wear? We 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.840 pull that off, but culturally inappropriate? No, but I just 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.640 I mean, your head is huge. Yeah, I can wear 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.000 like a bandana on my head. Maybe I'll do that, right, 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.399 could do that? I get the banda old school like 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.840 you could be either old school Kelly Rudy or old 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.840 school Jim McMahon. Oh, Kelly Rudy is a good one. 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:20.199 I like that. I think Kelly Rudy is. When I 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.840 think of Kelly Rudy, I think of him taking his 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.240 helmet off to get a gatorade shot or water shot 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.960 and then you see you know the yeah yeah, um, 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.800 but yeah, I think a beanie would work now because 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:38.119 you got when when you were nominated for your team's 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.879 every year on on your radio show. Usually get some 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.640 kind of apparel, right jersey hat? Did you ever get 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:48.320 a beanie at all? You know, I have to go 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.520 through it. I have in the Mallard Mansion buried in 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.439 the bowels of the Mallard Mansion. I have an entire 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.880 section of hats that I have gained from a lot 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.680 of them from listeners, a lot of them from freebees 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:02.280 back when they used to get freebes out. They don't 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.840 do that anymore. Um, I was gonna wear I was 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.399 excited because I didn't even realize i'd gotten this. I 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:10.600 don't remember ever paying for this, but I got a 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:15.439 Tito's Tacos hat and I was gonna wear it to 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.320 promote Tito's Tacos. But they're not open. So my favorite 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.520 tacos shop in l A Is Tito's Tacos and and 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:24.320 so I was gonna do that, but as like, what's 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.360 the point. They're not open, So when they open up, 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:28.840 let me know. When they open up, you're you're you're 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.080 in that part of town, guests gun and I will 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:35.480 rock the Tito's Tacos capus and omage to Tito's Tacos. 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.800 Definitely do so. Now I'm I'm encouraged by this. So 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:41.000 are you gonna do this? Are you doing this once 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.080 every week? Or what are you talking about? What the 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.919 the cameos? Oh no, the cameo. The way this works 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:52.280 is it once the page goes live, it's hunting season. 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:55.600 So like anybody you listening, you're like, hey, this would 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:57.520 be kind of fun. Maybe I'll do this and harass 0:22:57.560 --> 0:22:59.359 Mallard and make them do a video about the Lakers 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:01.760 or some crap that. Um. You just go on there 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:04.639 and then you have I guess there's a couple of 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:07.320 days I have to get it back to you. But yeah, 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.080 it's open, so you know, can be endless people can 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.760 submit this or no one, UM might want to do 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:14.399 we only had we already had a couple, which is 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:18.080 which is encouraging. As I said, because the cameo website, 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:20.640 I'm not even I didn't even promote it. I just 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:23.199 said I might do it, and then I did it. 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.639 But it's cameo dot com. There's an app also that 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:27.800 they have and you know, I don't do it for me, 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:31.680 but there's like big, big celebrities that charge a ton 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:34.720 of money for these things. I'm I'm on the low 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:36.719 end of it because I'm a nobody. But there's like 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:41.159 we went through some of the names. Flavor. Flavor is 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:45.320 on there, and he's like charging two hift bucks for 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:50.040 a message dah these. I didn't know how long these 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:51.960 things should be, like I did, I wasn't sure, like 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:54.480 I've never done him before, so I'm trying to figure 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:56.359 that out. I was playing around with the app. The 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:58.480 first one was too short, the second one was probably 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:01.840 too long, so I gotta mess around with that. I 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.600 apologize for that, but I'm figuring out. Uh. It's it's 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:07.359 pretty funny, man. Some of the some of the names 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.280 we went through them before that are on here. You're like, whoa, 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:15.440 what the heck? Jamal Andrews, remember Jamal Anderson, the Dirty Bird? Yeah, 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:19.240 in the ant L he's on there. Dave wan Steady, 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.520 Hugh Jackson, Oh my god, the Great. He was probably 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:27.840 good at this because Hugh can regale. He's a good 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:31.200 BS artist. He's got the gift for gab. You um, 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:33.800 not not the gift for coaching, but the gift for gab. 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:37.159 I don't know. I don't know anyway, So if you 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:39.200 want interest in that, I'll get guests on on there 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:42.440 and uh and we'll have a contest to see who 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:44.440 gets more cameos. How about that we could do that? 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:47.000 I wonder if we can include any any kind of 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:51.360 play by play coverage of you cooking or or barbecuing. 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.720 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:57.720 the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:01.240 Radio dot com and within the Heart radio apps. Search 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:04.800 f s R to listen live. Yeah, I would be 0:25:04.880 --> 0:25:07.639 open to that. And you know, Mallard cooking on the cameo, 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:09.960 cooking on the cameo. If you want that, I can. 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:12.000 That's a great idea I'd be open to do anyway. 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:14.320 As you know, I make the meanest Philly cheese steak 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:18.400 west of the Mississippi, and it's an amazing homemade sandwich. 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:21.720 I get the bread that's shipped out from Philadelphia. I 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:24.400 have the thin cut ribby, although maybe not anymore because 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:26.760 I guess there's no meat. It's all going away. Uh. 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:28.760 And then I chopped that up even more. I've got 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:32.160 the the onion, the bell pepper, and the pro Bolone cheese, 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:35.199 not the whiz, not the cheese whiz, the pro Bolone cheese. 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:37.560 That's how you do a cheese steak, right. My friend 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:40.199 Tony Bruno taught me that back in the day, and 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:43.640 he's authentic Philadelphia and Fats has encouraged me as well. 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:45.960 So that's the way that goes all right, So moving on, 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:48.520 Hold on, you're not done. Because you mentioned that, you 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:52.399 mentioned the cooking. We are surprisingly especially you. You You had 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:55.040 surprisingly a lot of people that chimed in on some 0:25:55.119 --> 0:25:57.800 of the podcast the last couple of weeks because of fasting, 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:02.520 Like you have really gotten this. This is big picked 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:05.359 up steam. Surprisingly. I don't know if that's because of 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:08.040 a lack of meat that's actually coming into some of 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:10.560 our cities or because people are actually trying to trim 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:15.760 down and and and and change their way of life. Yeah. Yeah, listen, 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:18.439 And it's not for everybody, and uh it might be 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:21.760 total bullshit, but it works, um for me. So it's 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:24.560 it's the placebo effect, right, you know, human beings when 0:26:24.600 --> 0:26:26.280 they even if it's a placebo and you tell them 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:28.800 it's a placebo, it still works for for a lot 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:31.320 of people. So um, yeah, it's been it's been good 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:33.800 for me and I you know, I've had a lifetime 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:37.199 battle with being a big fatass, so this has really helped. 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:39.480 And I had a diet before I've told the story. 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:42.800 I lost a lot of weight and I gained gained 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:44.760 quite a bit of it back when I got married. 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:47.439 And this has been a way to get back to 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:50.399 where I wanted to be. So um, it's it's worked 0:26:50.440 --> 0:26:53.520 for me, and it's really mind over matter. If you 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:55.439 don't mind, it doesn't matter that you're not eating right. 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:57.200 You just to me, I just drink water. I don't. 0:26:57.520 --> 0:27:00.159 Some people fast and they don't even drink water. But 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:01.960 I don't know how you do it, guess com. But 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:04.280 I'm I'll just drink water and fill my stumming up 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.320 with water. There's no calories in it. And then I figured, like, 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:10.080 I'll work out, although now I can just go for walks, 0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:11.800 but it's a million degrees where I live, so I 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:14.119 can get you know, I can, I can sweat and 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:16.320 then that'll burn off the water and so then it's 0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:20.400 no big deal. Yes, So I was reading some stuff online, uh, 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:22.520 and I always look at YouTube for for ways that 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.560 people do fast. And part of of what I have 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:29.600 done is I've stayed away from taking like supplements or 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:33.359 adding any kind of protein or creating to my water. 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:36.440 So I've done that, but then I've also gone days 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:38.560 where I'll have some beat juice put into my water, 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:41.119 have some creating put in, and then work out and 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:45.720 then fast. But for everybody that tries or does do this. 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:48.960 I experienced this and you didn't tell me this last week, 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:52.199 but I did complete a forty eight hour fast and 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:56.240 the first thing I ate, um, Ben, it would right 0:27:56.400 --> 0:28:00.879 through me. I mean seconds after I digested it is right, 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:03.080 three man. I would have appreciated a little heads up 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:06.320 after a da or fast, like, hey, this is what happened. 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:10.640 But I kind of experienced the ben mallor gall stone bladder. 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:13.520 You did, you had you had the explosion. No, I 0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:16.560 didn't have it, but like I was, I was trending 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:19.520 in that right direction where I was like, all right, 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:23.800 get the funk out of my way, welcome to my world. 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:25.400 Now all we need to do is have your gall 0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:29.320 bladder taken out and then we will complete the mission here. 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:32.800 But yeah, it is wild man. And you know, I 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:34.439 think a lot of it is because I had my 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:36.280 gall bladder taken out. But I hear from other people 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:38.040 who do the fasting, like after you fast for a 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:40.360 certain over, I think it is about forty eight hours. 0:28:40.480 --> 0:28:44.160 Is that there's that threshold and I usually try to 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:47.400 go once or twice a week. I've told the story 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:49.160 I tried to go over that. But this week my 0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:52.840 wife has put me on. She's embargoed. I'm only a 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:54.560 lot to eat one meal a day, she says, because 0:28:54.560 --> 0:28:58.680 she's just still my birthday celebration. So she said, I 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:00.960 can eat one meal at a but and then next 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:04.440 week I'll get back to the h my michig with 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:07.080 the fasting and all that full fasting. Because you junked 0:29:07.080 --> 0:29:09.600 out a little bit. Eddie sent you something banana cream 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:11.920 pie and then banana cream pie. Yeah, you didn't send 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:14.080 me a banana creampie. Edie sent me a banana cpie 0:29:14.200 --> 0:29:15.840 and he likes me more than you. He sent me 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:17.880 a banana cream pie, but he sent you a pie 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:20.320 and then lied to you about the vending machine. So 0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.040 I know we brought We brought this up the other 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:26.040 night and he's declared victory no matter what he says, 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:29.160 he won. Um. But you we did talk about your 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:34.600 weird addiction to Mint kit kat. Yeah, my my, my 0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:39.720 longtime grandfather passed away, uh several years ago, but he 0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:42.760 got me onto to mint when I was a child. 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:46.240 And that's good because I've heard guest Gun that if 0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:48.320 you don't get a kid into mint early, they don't 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:50.680 get into it like you cross a certain age you're 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:52.440 not into mint. I don't know if that's true or bullshit, 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:57.320 but I love mint. My my dad was a big 0:29:57.360 --> 0:30:00.360 fan and still is of mint ship ice cream of that, 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:04.600 and so I then, you know, copied my dad. I get. 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:06.680 I get sometimes I get chocolate chip ice cream. I 0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:09.680 love cookie dough. But I'll occasionally too reminisce and go 0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:12.200 back to my youth. I will get mint chip ice cream. 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:14.200 It flashes me back to when I was like eight 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:16.800 years old. So as yes, so as soon as they 0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:20.240 put mint kit cats in there, I kid you not. 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:23.360 Last week it was just the tail end of April. 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:26.920 I had the first two and then over the weekend. 0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:31.440 I know that I ate seven more so I was 0:30:31.760 --> 0:30:36.040 probably of the consumption of that one row. What does 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:40.160 it C six or B six or whatever. That was 0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:42.560 all me. So it was not only a dollar, was 0:30:42.560 --> 0:30:45.280 a dollar ten cents because I had used my debit 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:47.760 card for the transaction, So that was all me. I 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:50.000 was a guilty party. Yeah. I was thinking about bringing 0:30:50.040 --> 0:30:53.440 back the vending machine draft Part two to determine what 0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:56.080 will be the last item left. But then I thought, 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:59.720 now they're they're gonna start refilling the vending machine, so 0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:04.960 there's no point in doing that. So on that you 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:10.160 can always do like vending machine versus um health healthcare 0:31:10.680 --> 0:31:13.640 items here in the in the studio because I've heard 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:15.240 about you know, I gotta come. I gotta go in 0:31:15.280 --> 0:31:17.640 there because I have not been in a while, and 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:20.440 I have to pick up some mail. And I was 0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:22.560 supposed to do it last weekend and then and you know, 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:24.200 I didn't do it or whatever, but I'm gonna do 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:25.800 it this weekend. So I'm gonna have to go in. 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:28.000 And I told my wife, I said, listen, I'll take 0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:29.320 you with me, but you gotta sit in the car 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:33.000 because this company has a zero tolerance policy. I don't 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:35.240 lose my job because I took my wife into work 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:37.440 to pick up the mail. So yeah, we got a 0:31:37.480 --> 0:31:40.520 thermostat in here with obviously temperature for the studios, but 0:31:40.640 --> 0:31:44.520 we have a thermometer as well handwipes. And then every 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:49.320 window door is plastered with these giant I heeart warnings 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:54.280 about bringing in your own headphones, gloves, masks, the whole smash. 0:31:54.920 --> 0:31:58.400 Good times. Can we now get the operational desk? What 0:31:58.440 --> 0:32:00.720 the hell did I watch? This is great? So I 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:03.560 gave guests got a homework assignment. Now, I have been 0:32:03.560 --> 0:32:06.200 a big fan of documentaries for a long time, all right, 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:10.800 but there's only a few that reached top level, very few. 0:32:10.840 --> 0:32:14.120 Most of them are fucking terrible, all right. They suck, 0:32:14.400 --> 0:32:16.440 But I'll watch them anyway because I'm I'm not kind 0:32:16.440 --> 0:32:18.760 of person. I realized that these things are all biased. 0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:21.320 I think everything is biased because people have their own 0:32:21.320 --> 0:32:24.000 bias in life from life experience. But anyway, so this 0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:26.360 is called Operational Desk. It actually came out a couple 0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:28.360 of years ago, and I mentioned it on the radio 0:32:28.760 --> 0:32:30.560 when it first came out and I first saw it. 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:33.880 I think it was originally on Showtime, but it's now 0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:38.040 on Netflix. And I cannot recommend this enough. So to 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:41.920 give you the backstory, and and I know, I wrote 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:43.720 a few notes down because I watched it again, and 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:46.760 I could watch this thing probably every other month and 0:32:46.840 --> 0:32:48.600 not get bored with it, not get old with it, 0:32:48.680 --> 0:32:50.360 not get tired with it, any of that stuff. So 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:53.560 it's a it's a documentary about essentially the early nineties, 0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:57.800 wild and crazy late eighties, early nineties Miami floored, the 0:32:57.960 --> 0:33:02.880 drug scene, the whole thing. It's a true story. That's 0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:05.480 the most amazing part of this. When you watch it, 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:07.760 you're like, well, this is this gotta be bullshit, This 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:09.920 can't be real. This has to be made up. But 0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:13.360 but no, it's about these criminal I guess, for lack 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:17.239 of a better term, masterminds, who mixed with playboys in 0:33:17.280 --> 0:33:20.520 Florida and it was sex, drugs and rock and roll 0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:24.680 and hookers and guns and all kinds of debauchery. It's 0:33:25.000 --> 0:33:27.840 it's like the story of the Cocaine Cowboys, but it's 0:33:27.880 --> 0:33:31.360 like it's all interviews and it's it's better than that. 0:33:32.200 --> 0:33:36.240 And the big parts of it, though, were the fact 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:39.360 that these guys, the reason they became operational Odessa is 0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:42.640 the government got tipped off that these guys were buying 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:49.080 trying to buy Russian helicopters, and they succeeded and and 0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:53.680 also bought a Russian sub. This is when the Soviet 0:33:53.800 --> 0:33:57.840 Union crash. And the star of this podcast is a 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:03.320 guy named this gangster named Tarzan, who is one of 0:34:03.360 --> 0:34:06.440 the most engaging bad guys you'd ever want to mean. 0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:08.279 I mean, I feel like I want to work for 0:34:08.320 --> 0:34:12.160 Tarzan after watching this. His real name is Ludwig Fainberg. 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:14.400 I believe it is his real name, and he's just 0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:18.680 this like burly guy, very vibrant, smile, charming. He knows 0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:22.000 he's done bad things, but doesn't seem to care. And uh, 0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:24.120 you know, he thinks they're not really that bad and 0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:27.600 all that. He's very enthusiastic about life and and uh, 0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:29.640 so I guess he actually I think he's originally from 0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:31.640 the Ukraine. He's actually not from Russia, but he lives 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:33.719 in Russia and he I guess he you know, goes 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:37.640 a side by side countries. Obviously been had many battles 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:40.440 and whatnot over the years. But but anyway, he came 0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:43.359 to America and was an enforcer. His first job when 0:34:43.360 --> 0:34:47.000 he he came to American immigrated was to to work 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:49.880 for the Gambino crime family in New York, New York. 0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:54.080 So um, I I loved it, Gascott. I think it 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:56.560 was great that he ran a strip club called Porky's 0:34:56.600 --> 0:35:00.520 in Miami, which was highlighted in the show. Oh and 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:03.319 then he became I guess he was the go to 0:35:03.440 --> 0:35:06.640 guy for the Russian mob scene in South Florida, and 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:09.080 he started making tons of money. Like if you needed 0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:12.440 if you needed drugs, you want to to tarzan if 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.239 you needed women to hook up with you went to 0:35:15.320 --> 0:35:19.360 Tarzan if you needed what anything, you need to kill somebody? 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:21.520 He went to Tarzan. He would know a guy. He 0:35:21.760 --> 0:35:24.080 he knows a guy. And then there's the other character. 0:35:24.160 --> 0:35:26.520 There's this a couple other guys. There was this exotic 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:31.040 car guy, this wand Almeida. Um it was like the 0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:35.080 Miami playboy guy. And then you had my other favorite 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:37.359 that all three of them were great. But this guy 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:43.080 Tony Nelson, Tony Yester, who was supposedly was I guess 0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:46.160 he worked for Pablo Escobar. He's got ties to Pablo Escobar. 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:50.400 And the guy is still an international fugitive today and 0:35:50.440 --> 0:35:53.440 they interviewed him. Imagine doing a documentary and interviewing a 0:35:53.520 --> 0:35:58.240 fucking international fugitive. I mean, that just blows my mind. 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:01.040 But that just blows my mind that they did this. 0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:05.160 It's unreal. And that you just mentioned Cameo. I was 0:36:05.200 --> 0:36:09.799 actually initially petrified because when they did interview him, they 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:12.280 went right out of the gate to ask him about 0:36:13.040 --> 0:36:15.759 the actual transgressions that he had and he says, do 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:17.839 you really want to talk about this? Let's not talk 0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:20.640 about this, And I was like, oh ship, they actually 0:36:20.680 --> 0:36:23.680 got him, and then he's ready to shoot these camera 0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:25.440 guys and they cut away and then they go to 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:27.920 him and he's more relaxed. But you go back to 0:36:27.960 --> 0:36:30.880 Tarzan real quick. Ben. It was amazing because the first 0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:34.200 thing that he purchased when he landed in Miami was 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:38.080 a three fifty seven magnum. And then when they talked 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:43.239 about the helicopters that you mentioned, Um, I will spoil it, 0:36:43.320 --> 0:36:46.200 but you can imagine we do these games and these 0:36:46.280 --> 0:36:48.200 quizzes and you say, hey, how much is this or 0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:50.680 how many people was this? And I usually shoot the 0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:53.279 moon and you know, blow my wad on on over 0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:58.759 shooting it on something. These guys bought helicopters for five dollars, 0:36:59.360 --> 0:37:05.040 Russian military helicopters and I guess another spoiler alert, which 0:37:05.080 --> 0:37:07.839 is which is great. When they were negotiating to buy 0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:12.400 the Soviet sub remember the option, they had the option 0:37:12.400 --> 0:37:17.400 to get the nukes, so you would offer these these 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:23.880 you know, random hustlers from Miami nuclear weapons and uh, 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:27.600 it's just there. It's unbelievable you're into these kind of things. 0:37:27.640 --> 0:37:33.320 I cannot recommend this enough. And I actually he was curious. 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:35.040 I looked up a story was how did this all 0:37:35.040 --> 0:37:39.680 come about? And so the documentary maker, um, he he 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:41.799 said he had a friend of him tipped him off 0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:45.839 about Tarzan, right, the guy that's the start of the documentary. 0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:49.160 And so at the time, Tarzan was in in jail 0:37:50.600 --> 0:37:53.320 and I think like Argentina or something like that. I 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:55.480 forget which country, and I apologize, but he was in 0:37:55.560 --> 0:37:59.040 jail somewhere. So anyway, this documentary guys like, I gotta 0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:01.000 I gotta talk this guy and see if we've got 0:38:01.000 --> 0:38:04.960 a film. So he paid off the prison guard. He 0:38:05.000 --> 0:38:07.320 said he paid the prison guard where Tarzan was staying. 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:10.000 Five He had been texting Tarzan on a on a 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:14.160 was it a BlackBerry blueberry? What enough blueberry? BlackBerry back 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:17.520 in those days, And so he contacted Tarzan. I guess 0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:20.160 is a lot of this was originally shot about ten 0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:24.080 years ago and then it came out in originally eighteen. 0:38:24.200 --> 0:38:27.200 But so the guy goes to this prison, the documentary maker, 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:31.160 and you know, Tarzan is a he's a very nice guy, 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:33.600 but he didn't know this and and you know, he's 0:38:33.640 --> 0:38:35.239 nice to your face, but he could stab you in 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:37.359 the back, those kind of guys. And so he goes 0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:40.280 and pays off the guy at the prison in whatever country. 0:38:40.320 --> 0:38:43.759 It was five dollars to get into the prison, five 0:38:44.160 --> 0:38:47.560 dollars to get out alive. So so there was the 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:49.279 five hundred dollars just to get in and then five 0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:51.520 dollars protection so you don't get killed in the prison. 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:54.160 And then he sat down with Tarzan, and Tarzan you know, 0:38:54.440 --> 0:38:56.840 talked and just talked and talked and talked, and so 0:38:56.880 --> 0:38:59.879 the guys like, we got something. And and then he 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:02.160 went down the list and went to one i'l made 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:04.360 it and Wan was in for it and all that stuff. 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:08.759 And so then Tarzan escaped from jail and became a 0:39:08.800 --> 0:39:12.160 fugitive and moved back to Russia. And then that allowed 0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:15.920 them to interview him very casually Tarzan. So then I 0:39:15.960 --> 0:39:17.879 was trying to figure out how the fund did this guy, 0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:22.160 Tony yester Uh come into this, right, the Pablo Escobar guy. 0:39:22.719 --> 0:39:25.120 And so this is this is so perfect. Right when 0:39:25.160 --> 0:39:27.640 I heard this, I laughed my ass off, saying, when 0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:31.040 you watch the documentary, will enjoy this. So so Tarzan 0:39:31.280 --> 0:39:35.120 and Wan are regaling this documentary maker with all these 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:39.040 wild stories about their lives. Right, so they're still talking 0:39:39.120 --> 0:39:45.160 to Tony, the the international fugitive Wan and and Tarzan 0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:47.640 Andre talking to this guy. So Tony is like, what 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:49.560 the funk? I want to be part of this, you know, 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:52.160 I was part of this, you know. And so he 0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:55.080 out of the blue from a from the What's app, 0:39:55.719 --> 0:39:58.839 the documentary maker gets a random message on the What's App. 0:39:59.360 --> 0:40:02.920 Hey it's Tony and uh and and he I forget 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:05.439 what the line he used was when it was something like, uh, 0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:08.120 why don't you step up to the big leagues instead 0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:09.640 of the minor leagues? You want to know what really 0:40:09.640 --> 0:40:12.080 happened like that, you know, something some line like that 0:40:13.160 --> 0:40:15.440 and uh. And then they had to negotiate and they 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:17.920 like I think it was in Africa and an airport 0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:22.680 in Africa. It was. It's just crazy, I mean it is. 0:40:23.080 --> 0:40:27.839 It is an amazing thing that not only getting the helicopters, 0:40:27.840 --> 0:40:30.680 having to get them out of St. Petersburg in Russia 0:40:30.920 --> 0:40:33.359 and all the obstacles they had to overcome. Yeah, because 0:40:33.360 --> 0:40:36.160 you got you had gangsters in Russia when the government 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:41.400 was was obviously crumbling, and Jan had to fake it 0:40:41.520 --> 0:40:44.600 like he was Pablo Escobar to come. Yeah, that's another 0:40:44.680 --> 0:40:48.319 gred that's another part of it. Yeah. I love the 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:52.279 fact that and he taught I think the most The 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:54.839 most polarizing moment when all of this is when they 0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:59.960 sent undercovers to to kind of unmask this entire incident. 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:03.440 Tarzan actually was getting it was in the middle of 0:41:03.480 --> 0:41:07.719 a conversation when with an undercover and they were in 0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:10.640 a hotel room and he looks at a clock next 0:41:10.680 --> 0:41:13.360 to the bed and he says, that clock has a 0:41:13.400 --> 0:41:16.400 camera in it. That clock has a camera. And the 0:41:16.400 --> 0:41:17.759 guy's like, what are you talking about? And he's like, 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:20.239 I know, I've seen that before. That clock has a 0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:21.759 camera in And he's like, well, if you think there's 0:41:21.760 --> 0:41:23.880 a camera, to go check it. And he didn't call 0:41:23.920 --> 0:41:26.160 his bluff and he didn't check it. But it turned 0:41:26.160 --> 0:41:28.800 out there was a camera and a microphone because the FEDS, 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:31.720 were you spying on these guys? Well that was Tarza 0:41:31.840 --> 0:41:34.960 is like, how many how many hours did they have 0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:42.799 of talking about drugs, guns, murder and uh and all 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:45.239 the rest of these. Now I don't want to I 0:41:45.280 --> 0:41:46.839 don't know if I should do this or not, guess gun, 0:41:46.880 --> 0:41:49.120 but I looked up because I was curious what This 0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:50.840 documentary came out a couple years ago. I say, what 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:53.640 happened to these guys? I know what happened. Do you 0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:55.560 want me to share that now or should I? Should 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:58.319 I not? Shire? Uh? Yeah, sure, I want to? Okay, 0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:01.280 all right, so you know two an this is spoiler. Also, 0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:03.120 so what happened to the lives of these three guys 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:05.719 since the documentary? So we'll start out we had the good, 0:42:05.800 --> 0:42:09.040 the bad, and the ugly. Alright, the good I guess 0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:11.280 if you you're a fan of the documentary, is Tarzan 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:14.960 is still living in Russia. Um. He says he's still 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:19.600 committing crime because he's he's that's his career. But I 0:42:19.600 --> 0:42:22.479 guess in Russia it's allowed, so he's he's free. One 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:26.960 al Mada, Um, the Miami playboy guy, is in jail. 0:42:27.760 --> 0:42:33.319 He was convicted on drug charges in I think, and 0:42:33.440 --> 0:42:35.719 so he went to jail. He was sentenced to six 0:42:35.800 --> 0:42:39.360 years in jail for drug charges. So the Miami Playboys 0:42:39.400 --> 0:42:41.880 down for the count for six years. And then and 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:47.319 I just found this out that Tony Yester Nelson, Tony Yester, 0:42:47.400 --> 0:42:50.960 the guy with ties to Pablo Escobar. Um, he was 0:42:51.200 --> 0:42:54.799 just extradited from Italy last year. I didn't realize this 0:42:54.880 --> 0:42:58.720 last summer from Italy to the United States to face 0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:02.000 drug and guns artists so he is no longer an 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:06.400 international fugitive. The law enforcement caught up with him and 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:10.200 he is now he's a he's facing he's facing a 0:43:10.239 --> 0:43:13.319 maximum penalty of life in federal prison if convicted on 0:43:13.360 --> 0:43:17.799 all all charges. So he he could be down for 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:20.560 the count they say from the light late nineteen eighties. 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:25.200 This is from the Orlando United States District Attorney's Office, 0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:30.640 Middle District of Florida. It says here this guy Tony Yester, 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:34.000 Uh from the eighties to the early nineties are actually 0:43:34.040 --> 0:43:37.799 late nineties, was part of a group involved in importing 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:41.680 kilogram amounts of cocaine and other narcotics in the United States, 0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:45.920 including by negotiating the purchase of a Russian diesel submarine 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:50.920 for Colombian drug smugglers. According to law enforcement, he fled 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:57.560 to South Africa in nine seven to escape prosecution and 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:00.719 Uh then they began investigating in January fifteen. I guess 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:02.680 they get tipped off or something like that, and they 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:06.279 still doing marijuana and whatnot. But anyway, so it's a 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:08.799 lot of legalis and all that. So I'm guessing this 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:12.759 documentary guest did not help that. The You can talk 0:44:12.760 --> 0:44:14.399 to your old man about this but I'm getting I'm 0:44:14.400 --> 0:44:16.799 pretty sure that the law enforcement do not like when 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:20.120 a international fugitive does an interview for a documentary makes 0:44:20.160 --> 0:44:21.799 him look bad, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, The 0:44:21.840 --> 0:44:23.520 first thing he said when I when I talked to 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:26.000 him about this, he said, like what you just mentioned 0:44:26.080 --> 0:44:30.320 was the he's like cocaine cowboys, man. Because I thought, 0:44:30.680 --> 0:44:34.000 obviously I wasn't in that, uh and the know all 0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:36.960 at that time because I was really young, but I 0:44:37.000 --> 0:44:40.040 thought New York was a lot of this, and Miami 0:44:40.160 --> 0:44:43.120 was just more flare around it, you know, Studio fifty 0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:45.640 four and whatnot, and how New York was back in 0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:49.560 the day with with the mob. But man, Miami was 0:44:49.719 --> 0:44:55.800 so they were just drunk on drugs and women and 0:44:56.880 --> 0:44:59.759 it was it was wild. Man. I you know, I 0:44:59.800 --> 0:45:01.600 have a who wasn't there there in that time either. 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:03.800 I've only been to Miami a couple of times, and 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:08.080 I was there last. I actually was there in I 0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:10.080 was there for the World Series in ninety seven, so 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:12.600 I was around that time. I wonder if I crossed 0:45:12.600 --> 0:45:15.759 paths with Tarzan? How cool that? But the beautiful thing 0:45:15.840 --> 0:45:20.880 was that one Almeida was was custom making speedboats that 0:45:20.920 --> 0:45:25.440 had twin turbines like like a plane, like a fucking 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:27.680 planet at l A X or something like that at 0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:30.919 like Guardia, but two million dollar boats and they were 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:37.640 only to traffic in and out narcotics, cocaine especially, So, man, 0:45:38.080 --> 0:45:40.520 what it was fun. It was a lot of fun 0:45:40.600 --> 0:45:43.040 watching this thing and to see them actually pull a 0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:46.240 few stunts off. I mean, these guys could do no wrong. 0:45:46.520 --> 0:45:49.600 These guys lived their best life even though a short 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:52.200 period of time. Yeah it is again. I cannot just 0:45:52.320 --> 0:45:54.640 wrap this up here. I cannot recommend it enough. I 0:45:55.080 --> 0:45:57.680 only talk about these documentaries on a podcast like this 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:00.600 if they are elite. Otherwise I don't waste my time 0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:03.240 or just goof on them. But the Mallard doc rating 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:07.279 score one to ten, with ten being like Get Me 0:46:07.480 --> 0:46:10.560 Roger Stone or Supersize Me Too, or any of those 0:46:10.600 --> 0:46:13.400 great documentaries. This one on a scale of one to ten, 0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:19.440 with ten being best. Gets a entertaining, thrilling, funny plot, twist, 0:46:20.080 --> 0:46:26.240 great detail, comedy, um, all of it, everything, twist and turns, 0:46:26.280 --> 0:46:28.160 all of that stuff gets the highest score you can 0:46:28.200 --> 0:46:32.520 possibly get. Operation Odessa. It's on Netflix right now, Gascon. 0:46:32.640 --> 0:46:35.120 Any score you want to give here, give it ten, 0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:39.560 especially because the level of suspension, suspense and danger involved 0:46:40.480 --> 0:46:43.920 was was full tilt. This is this was I mean, 0:46:43.920 --> 0:46:46.480 we've we've watched some documentaries before and a lot of 0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:48.839 that had to do with with Nike and the shoe companies, 0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:51.560 and that's try the scheme, which was pretty good, but 0:46:51.640 --> 0:46:54.520 not as good as Yeah, Roger Stone you mentioned, but 0:46:54.640 --> 0:46:56.520 I love that. Get me Roger Stone, and that's one 0:46:56.520 --> 0:46:59.360 of my favorites. But these guys are in their prime 0:46:59.400 --> 0:47:03.080 with their age, and they're dealing with Colombian drug lords. 0:47:03.520 --> 0:47:08.279 They're dealing with Russian gangsters, mob bosses, the FEDS, the 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:11.480 d e A, the FBI, the n s A. Like 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:14.360 you had six or seven different bureaus on these guys 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:17.239 in the United States and they had people hunting them 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:22.680 down internationally too. It was awesome. Yeah, it's a fun watch. 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:25.000 It's a great watch. And if you you know, listen, 0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:26.520 you can't do anything else really these days, all this 0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:28.680 stuff starting to open up. But to check it out again, 0:47:28.800 --> 0:47:30.080 tell me if you like it or not, tell me 0:47:30.080 --> 0:47:33.680 if I'm a schmuck for recommending it. 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