Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Mallarck starts right now that it does, and
Speaker 1: welcome into the magic podcast boxes that what we call it.
Speaker 1: We are in the air everywhere the vast power of
Speaker 1: the I Heart Media family, the glob will reach of
Speaker 1: the podcast network here with I Heart and we are
Speaker 1: at it again the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller our
Speaker 1: new slogan eight days a week because also four hours
Speaker 1: not enough, as we like to say in the Overnight
Speaker 1: Show during the weekend. If you're finding this, you're saying,
Speaker 1: what the hell is this crap? This is a spit
Speaker 1: in off of the Overnight Show for Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show, which is broadcast live on hundreds
Speaker 1: of radio stations like WOR over four hundred radio stations
Speaker 1: and a bunch of other international platforms. Uh Sunday. For me,
Speaker 1: it's Sunday through Thursday, but for most people it's Monday
Speaker 1: through Friday from two am til six am Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 1: So that's this And this show originally started as a
Speaker 1: football handicapping podcast. It has morphed into something else. It
Speaker 1: is the pathogens have shifted, uh, and it's it's something.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what we're doing here, but it's not
Speaker 1: a football handicapping podcast. There's no football to handicap. And
Speaker 1: it was only gonna be one day a week when
Speaker 1: we started. Now it's three days a week. We keep
Speaker 1: this up, we will be doing it twelve days a week.
Speaker 1: But we are joined, as always, for better or worse,
Speaker 1: by the man affectionately known as gag On David Gascon.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's a new week forget brand
Speaker 1: new episodes. It's a but it's a crazy dynamic that
Speaker 1: we have, or you have in particular with your your
Speaker 1: fans and followers. Because I before we get into any
Speaker 1: of this, I must apologize for my lack of of
Speaker 1: spunk and life last week. Um, but it's crazy because
Speaker 1: we had Now are you are you willing to know?
Speaker 1: Not yet? Not yet? You're not ready to go into
Speaker 1: detail on that okay, because there was something that happened,
Speaker 1: and I just want you to know know I'm a good teammate.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. I kept my mouth shut and
Speaker 1: I'll continue to keep my mouth shut. But something happened,
Speaker 1: a dramatic life event for David Gascon, and I didn't
Speaker 1: mention and he didn't mention it. And it's very uncomfortable
Speaker 1: me not to do it, but I am. I'm continuing
Speaker 1: to honor your wishes. You you you holsted your side arm.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. But it's crazy because the dynamic that
Speaker 1: you have with your ends and followers is crazy. Because
Speaker 1: we had I had some female fans or followers of
Speaker 1: yours that reached out and said, hey, I hope you're
Speaker 1: doing well. You send a different lack the energy, lacked
Speaker 1: the life, and then you had the mail that said
Speaker 1: you're fucking terrible, you suck, You're horrible. What the fucke
Speaker 1: loony on here? Instead it was bipolar. But three three
Speaker 1: things I can I can sit you right now. One
Speaker 1: is UM, I will never ever hack your Twitter account
Speaker 1: like Jannasontenna Coople. I know you covered that earlier in
Speaker 1: the week during your show, UM. And to UM, I
Speaker 1: will never ever ever allow your wife to locate you
Speaker 1: via snapchat if you're if you're at your brother's and
Speaker 1: be doing any kind of extracurricular activity. So of course,
Speaker 1: of course, of course. Uh. And just to address in
Speaker 1: the mouth imlsia from the female perspective of the male perspective,
Speaker 1: and it is a much different perspective. The women look
Speaker 1: at things differently than the men, that's obvious. Um. As
Speaker 1: far as the dudes, I like the comments I got
Speaker 1: instead of gag on it's lifeless gone. Uh, that was
Speaker 1: one of them. They were comparing you to a dead
Speaker 1: fish with your contribution, which is odd because this is
Speaker 1: not the first time this has happened. All right, I
Speaker 1: remember we did the Sports Talk Verry interview and you
Speaker 1: set that one out. Use I'm on the bench out
Speaker 1: of that one. Listen, we live here in southern California,
Speaker 1: and you can agree with me on this because you
Speaker 1: did get married on the island. Um, when someone's riding
Speaker 1: a wave, you don't want to get in front of it,
Speaker 1: you don't want to ride along with it. And because
Speaker 1: I did my best to to not derail um, which
Speaker 1: was a great podcast, and you would have just been
Speaker 1: bland and unimaginative if you had added to that. But so,
Speaker 1: and you're promising gascon here not to be boring, right,
Speaker 1: this is not You're gonna and we're not gonna be
Speaker 1: welcomed to Dolesville here with you on this this weekend
Speaker 1: of podcast. But we we did. Typically when we when
Speaker 1: we post the podcast, we always ask either at the
Speaker 1: end of the podcast or whether it's in print for
Speaker 1: the Apple iTunes, to rate, review, subscribe the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1: And and we did get some colorful reviews that came
Speaker 1: in last week and that said, congratulations Ben, you are
Speaker 1: now Fox News. Oh yeah, yeah, I did, like yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that, you know, and and and and on
Speaker 1: que I think I even said this on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I got an email to my my other email address
Speaker 1: and they were like, hey, you know, I was a
Speaker 1: big fan I've listened to a few years. I can't,
Speaker 1: you know, you just I don't. I don't agree with
Speaker 1: what you said, so I can't. I can't. And you
Speaker 1: you went the third rail. You know, this is which
Speaker 1: I the great thing is that you know it's a
Speaker 1: self fulfilling prophecy because I said, this is what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly. I got not a lot, but there
Speaker 1: were a few people to reach time. Now there were
Speaker 1: other people, and we'll get to the email back later
Speaker 1: in the weekend. The people actually did like what we
Speaker 1: we said, and they were open to it, and they
Speaker 1: were like, hey, whatever, no matter of your opinion, which
Speaker 1: was refreshing. But there were the people that the snowflake
Speaker 1: crowd that's easily triggered by this stuff. And if you
Speaker 1: don't agree with everything, if you don't drink the same
Speaker 1: cool aid they drink, they're done. Um. And you know
Speaker 1: that's just I don't. I don't live my life that way.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people do. And I have
Speaker 1: friends that are I totally disagree with who are politically,
Speaker 1: but I get along with him. I don't care. Now,
Speaker 1: Yeah I did. I did show with Looney for years,
Speaker 1: and I could not be more far further away from
Speaker 1: Looney politically, uh you know, the limousine liberal Tom Looney.
Speaker 1: But I you know, I get all. I was a friend,
Speaker 1: I I I you know, we fight all the time
Speaker 1: about stuff, but politically and sports wise, and then at
Speaker 1: the end we hug it out. We're good. Yeah. Now
Speaker 1: we since we're producing this um. The second week or
Speaker 1: be the first week of May. Um, I I do
Speaker 1: have a special request that I have to make and
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's something that you chat about last week
Speaker 1: with with our friend Fats in Philadelphia. I love Fats.
Speaker 1: Fats is one of my favorite don't This guy just
Speaker 1: started listening to a short while ago, and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of Fats. Now I think we might
Speaker 1: have to invite him on for the week of May
Speaker 1: twenty one. I'm not going to tell you now why,
Speaker 1: but it is related to what he has done and
Speaker 1: in the whole Philadelphia thing. Um, okay, I listen. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm open to having Fats on the podcast. I guess
Speaker 1: he's on guest Jon's team. Apparently no. No, But unlike
Speaker 1: Chris and Houston, who you do not like the fact
Speaker 1: that you have a listener torch himself with him all
Speaker 1: you went straight torching on social media? That was that is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've had some weird things. I mean, for some reason,
Speaker 1: people are attracted me that do wild things, like the
Speaker 1: most famous one had been Doc Mike that sent the
Speaker 1: bloody goat heads from Chicago multiple times. But this is
Speaker 1: it's in the top five. Lighting yourself on fire and
Speaker 1: shouting my name during the NFL Draft is one of
Speaker 1: the most unique things that I cannot encourage people to do,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that anyone would want to do it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, Fats facts will be on the podcast
Speaker 1: as long as the people with the white coach don't
Speaker 1: come knocking on his door first, whether that's the CDC
Speaker 1: or the FBI. That dude had a Molotov cocktail and
Speaker 1: he undressed himself with it. It was it was, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. And he didn't even make it to the
Speaker 1: Eagles pick, which was my favorite part. Like normally you'd say, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Eagles made a terrible pick, I'm gonna light myself
Speaker 1: on fire. That would be like a classical Philadelphia thing
Speaker 1: to do, that's timeless for the Philadelphia sports fan. But no, no,
Speaker 1: not this guy. Fats in Philly's light. I can't even
Speaker 1: make it. The Traps dragon onto long. I was gonna
Speaker 1: light myself on fire right now. I'm a human dynamo,
Speaker 1: is what I am. Man Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two
Speaker 1: a Eastern paciffect on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app so coming up on today's party. It's
Speaker 1: just area with a couple of things that we've got.
Speaker 1: It's a cameo and Operation Odessa. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: that as well. It's that's right. Another Mallard film review tonight,
Speaker 1: Thank the Pandemic. Another Mallard film review with Gascon as well.
Speaker 1: I gave him a homework assignment, so we'll have that
Speaker 1: in a minute. But just briefly, it's a cameo. Now.
Speaker 1: We had teased this a couple of weeks ago. It
Speaker 1: is now reality. My friends Sports with Coleman, beloved Baltimore
Speaker 1: radio personality Morning Man in Baltimore. One of my radio friends.
Speaker 1: Have a couple of radio friends that do local radio
Speaker 1: at the other places that are in my like chain
Speaker 1: of chatting, text messaging, and one Sports with Coleman's in
Speaker 1: that group. And so he said, Hey, I got an idea.
Speaker 1: Why don't you sign up for this thing? Can you?
Speaker 1: I said, what the fuck is cameo? And don't bother me?
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you doing? Um? And then
Speaker 1: I looked at it, and I considered it, and we
Speaker 1: talked about on the air, and I made the plunge.
Speaker 1: I made the polar plunge. Like our friends in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I jumped into the Frozen Lake and I have joined
Speaker 1: up with Cameo and it's pretty cool. Now. If you're
Speaker 1: not familiar what this is, you didn't listen to a
Speaker 1: previous podcast. It is a platform design for the shout out. Now.
Speaker 1: I have said for many, many years, I do not
Speaker 1: do shout outs. I'm not a morning zoo show, and
Speaker 1: that is true. We are not a morning zoo show,
Speaker 1: and we usually give out like brief shoutouts on the
Speaker 1: radio occasionally, um, but that is what this platform is for.
Speaker 1: And so I joined up about a week ago and
Speaker 1: I've been playing around with it. Now, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: I didn't mention this on social media, all right, that's
Speaker 1: number one or radio or this podcast, other than I
Speaker 1: was considering it. But at that time I had not
Speaker 1: signed up. And here's the second point here, which is
Speaker 1: the great thing about this show and the p but
Speaker 1: that love this show and uh in all that, which
Speaker 1: is amazing, and I don't deserve this. So I signed
Speaker 1: up for it. I'm thinking, well, who nobody knows who
Speaker 1: the funk I am. I'll just stay on here and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll eventually get around to announcing that I'm on
Speaker 1: this platform, and once I clicked the live button to
Speaker 1: let people know that I was on already, a couple
Speaker 1: of super fans of the show have popped my cameo
Speaker 1: cherry and they have clicked on the button. I've only
Speaker 1: done a couple of these things, and it's a video
Speaker 1: platform greeting thing. There's a lot of real celebrities I'm
Speaker 1: not a real celebrity that are on there, and uh so,
Speaker 1: it's it's really cool if you're a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show. And the way I was told by the
Speaker 1: person from cameo who used to play by the Way
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. How about that the guy that's uh
Speaker 1: that that was my rep for this company through Coleman
Speaker 1: is a former New England Patriot and was on one
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl winning teams, which I thought was
Speaker 1: kind of neat. Um. I don't know if he wants
Speaker 1: me to give his name out or not. I don't
Speaker 1: know that we need to give his name out, but anyway, so,
Speaker 1: uh so, this guy was giving the whole rap. He's like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're big fans, you know they have
Speaker 1: like a birthday coming up or a wedding and bar
Speaker 1: mitzvah you know whatever, or you want to settle a bet,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want me to rant like a
Speaker 1: lunatic or something like that. Uh, this is what this
Speaker 1: is for. And I was like, okay, I mean fine.
Speaker 1: You know it's because it's one of those things you
Speaker 1: don't have to do it. Nobody has to do it,
Speaker 1: and nobody does it. It doesn't matter, it doesn't affect
Speaker 1: me at all. People want to do it, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: And it does cost a couple of bucks. It's not free,
Speaker 1: so I will tell you that. But it's a personalized greeting.
Speaker 1: And from what understand, you can set it either you
Speaker 1: can let it be public and let other people see it,
Speaker 1: or you can just keep it private. And uh, I was,
Speaker 1: I was pretty fired up, man. I had the first
Speaker 1: two I had. Um was a woman whose husband was
Speaker 1: a big fan of the show and and it was
Speaker 1: his his birthday. You know, it sucks because of what's
Speaker 1: going on with the pandemics. It's hopefully getting kept to
Speaker 1: an end here soon. People couldn't go out and and
Speaker 1: you know obviously can't go out and socialized. I just
Speaker 1: had my birthday while I go so I gave a
Speaker 1: a shout out to him. And then also there was
Speaker 1: a kid that I had a birthday and we we
Speaker 1: said a load of him, which was which was cool. Man.
Speaker 1: That was that? That Really that one was neat because
Speaker 1: this kid's like eleven years old, and I flashed back
Speaker 1: to when I was eleven and I used to stay
Speaker 1: up late at night and listen to the radio. And
Speaker 1: so that was that was pretty neat. So anyway, let'sten.
Speaker 1: If you want to know, I'll tweet it out at
Speaker 1: some point. I'll put it on Facebook and all the
Speaker 1: social media platforms. If you're not interested in looking that up,
Speaker 1: but it's on the cameo dot com website if you
Speaker 1: just search my name. Uh there you can check it out.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, like for I'm pretty open to
Speaker 1: doing anything other than like wearing a you know, Angry
Speaker 1: Bill cap and one of those things like I'm shopping
Speaker 1: in San Diego and but uh, like you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to see Bella, for example, like Angry Bill
Speaker 1: might sign up and say, hey, send a video with Bella.
Speaker 1: I would hold Bella against her will and force her
Speaker 1: to do the video. So I'm mostly flexib Now, gascon
Speaker 1: are you gonna sign up for this, guesscan if I
Speaker 1: can hook you up, are you gonna sign up? So
Speaker 1: the you claim to have many fans are very narcissistic here,
Speaker 1: and I would think that you would want to be
Speaker 1: part of this, to get in on that and and
Speaker 1: give back to the listen. Yeah, I'd be down to
Speaker 1: do something like that. It's just um, you know, for
Speaker 1: as bad as has been, it is just a beautiful
Speaker 1: thing to see you evolve. Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 1: Is this is guess CON's humble brag shelf deprecation? This
Speaker 1: is it right now? Egotistical? There he goes, We're off
Speaker 1: to the races. It took a while, let me check
Speaker 1: at fourteen minutes, about fourteen minutes into the podcast, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, kinda we're off to the races.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't know if it's Cowboy and windsor
Speaker 1: Doc Mike, whoever it is, but the oldest listeners on
Speaker 1: your show to the youngest, like they're experiencing, even though
Speaker 1: we're going through this big quarantine, they're experiencing the evolution
Speaker 1: of of Ben Mallory like they're there. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's a reboot like this is like Ben Mallory rebooted.
Speaker 1: So you go just terrestrial radio to digital, to camera
Speaker 1: to broadcasting like you are now full fledged professional broadcast.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I've you've popped my cherry guess pop
Speaker 1: by chair. But you you're such a show. You were
Speaker 1: on you were on YouTube back in the day. You know,
Speaker 1: we have some of the videos from when you were
Speaker 1: on with NBC. And you're flying back and forth the
Speaker 1: East coast to West coast like once a month to
Speaker 1: the beautiful Stanford, Connecticut area. There the home of professional wrestling,
Speaker 1: you know, the headquarters of the w W. I walked
Speaker 1: by their building are in Stanford, Connecticut, and I have
Speaker 1: eaten at Bobby V's restaurant in Stanford, Connecticut. Hout that.
Speaker 1: See so you have? I mean you traveled near and far,
Speaker 1: and now you're going straight to digital, straight to uh television,
Speaker 1: and now you're going onto the social media apps. This
Speaker 1: is wonderful on YouTube nodding your monologues for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: That was a brilliant idea. Who ever crafted that idea.
Speaker 1: You are shameless. No, you are the shameless schmuck is
Speaker 1: your new nickname, the shameless schmuck. No, I'm encouraged by
Speaker 1: the West of the four oh five shameless suck, the narcissist, pretentious,
Speaker 1: spoiled brat. I have such a conceited person. I have
Speaker 1: said nothing of myself this entire time. I'm just encouraged
Speaker 1: by what you're doing. I know you're just encouraged. And
Speaker 1: you just have this little smirk to your voice while
Speaker 1: you talk, because you have this smirk that makes me
Speaker 1: want to punch you as you talk. You know, because
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're not around, I'll have a I have
Speaker 1: a careful conversation with your wife and she'll say, sometimes
Speaker 1: he just needs to be pushed in that uncomfortable situation,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I agree with you. Miss is one hundred.
Speaker 1: Yet again, this is this is gonna the conspiracy theorists
Speaker 1: will be out again. Unsolicited guest gun works in Miller's
Speaker 1: wife yet again into another podcast. This is seven eighty five,
Speaker 1: that seven time this has happened. Well, you know, because
Speaker 1: it's a team effort. It's it's not this is not golf,
Speaker 1: this is not tennis. This is a collaboration of sorts.
Speaker 1: You are not a rose. You're like a cactus, and
Speaker 1: you live for a great period of time but you
Speaker 1: need a little bit of water every so often. This
Speaker 1: is great, Okay, done question for you. Yes, um, I
Speaker 1: know you mentioned your dog, but are you gonna have
Speaker 1: you gotta be running out of hats eventually, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I've gone through a lot. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that My goal was I'm the mad Hatter of sports
Speaker 1: chatters nicknames. So I thought, well, they're making me do
Speaker 1: these dopey videos for YouTube, so I might as well.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people, like thousands of people the
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott thing. We were like fifteen thousand views, around
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand used on just one video alone, that's like
Speaker 1: five minutes or whatever. So it's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people seeing these things. And that's just on one of
Speaker 1: the platforms, not you know, they're on all the social
Speaker 1: media players. So my goal was to wear a new
Speaker 1: hat every day. But yeah, I had the this week.
Speaker 1: I've worned the Bill Miller barbecue hat listeners sent me
Speaker 1: from Texas. I had that on the other night. And
Speaker 1: what else have I I've gone through some of my
Speaker 1: minor league baseball hats. I have not yet warned the
Speaker 1: Bakersfield Blaze hat. I will wear that that's on my list.
Speaker 1: You did the odd couple one. I did the odd couple.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the odd couple. Our friends Rob Parker
Speaker 1: and Christmas sort I had that going on. I have
Speaker 1: a Tony Bruno hat that Tony gave me. I'm going
Speaker 1: through some old hats. Here's one. You probably don't even
Speaker 1: know who this is, but longtime listeners of Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio might remember Mark Patrick, big big radio star in
Speaker 1: Indianapolis who did our morning show. And uh, Mark, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know no that story, but
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool because when I was doing the
Speaker 1: overnight show and and he was doing the morning show
Speaker 1: and we are, paths would cross, although he was doing
Speaker 1: it from a different location. Um, but he had a
Speaker 1: kid that was a pretty good high school baseball player
Speaker 1: and he would send me, Um, we have correspondence, you
Speaker 1: know about the kid and all that stuff. And uh,
Speaker 1: in in Indiana, in the Innnianapolis area and uh and
Speaker 1: this goes back, Man, what are we talking here? We're
Speaker 1: probably talking the likeve something like that, maybe right around then.
Speaker 1: So this is like fifteen years ago. And uh, and
Speaker 1: you know he's like, hey, my kids got a you know,
Speaker 1: he got drafted by the you know, the the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I don't know, you know, he
Speaker 1: might go to college or he ended going to college
Speaker 1: and he made the major leagues and he's he had
Speaker 1: an eight year career. The guy named Drew Storing. I
Speaker 1: don't if you remember Drew Orange played for the Washington Nationals. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was the closer for the Nationals. He he had
Speaker 1: a forty save season in the big leagues. And for
Speaker 1: the first couple of years of his career he was brilliant.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know what happened. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: you know, the clock hits hit zero and all hell happens.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I met him. Cool. It was when
Speaker 1: when the Nationals came in and uh with the against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers obviously, and I was like, hey, I know
Speaker 1: you're old man, and uh and uh, it was pretty
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. So I'm off to where the
Speaker 1: Mark Patrick had my homage to Mark Patrick on sports.
Speaker 1: You're in the big chair is what he used to say.
Speaker 1: That was one of his trademark catchphrases. You're in the
Speaker 1: big chair now. Just because you're running out of hats
Speaker 1: for right now doesn't mean you can't shy away from
Speaker 1: from rocking the beanie. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific. The Beanie. Yeah, you can rock some beanies.
Speaker 1: That is that what this was all about. But do
Speaker 1: rag also, what would you like me to wear? We
Speaker 1: pull that off, but culturally inappropriate? No, but I just
Speaker 1: I mean, your head is huge. Yeah, I can wear
Speaker 1: like a bandana on my head. Maybe I'll do that, right,
Speaker 1: could do that? I get the banda old school like
Speaker 1: you could be either old school Kelly Rudy or old
Speaker 1: school Jim McMahon. Oh, Kelly Rudy is a good one.
Speaker 1: I like that. I think Kelly Rudy is. When I
Speaker 1: think of Kelly Rudy, I think of him taking his
Speaker 1: helmet off to get a gatorade shot or water shot
Speaker 1: and then you see you know the yeah yeah, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I think a beanie would work now because
Speaker 1: you got when when you were nominated for your team's
Speaker 1: every year on on your radio show. Usually get some
Speaker 1: kind of apparel, right jersey hat? Did you ever get
Speaker 1: a beanie at all? You know, I have to go
Speaker 1: through it. I have in the Mallard Mansion buried in
Speaker 1: the bowels of the Mallard Mansion. I have an entire
Speaker 1: section of hats that I have gained from a lot
Speaker 1: of them from listeners, a lot of them from freebees
Speaker 1: back when they used to get freebes out. They don't
Speaker 1: do that anymore. Um, I was gonna wear I was
Speaker 1: excited because I didn't even realize i'd gotten this. I
Speaker 1: don't remember ever paying for this, but I got a
Speaker 1: Tito's Tacos hat and I was gonna wear it to
Speaker 1: promote Tito's Tacos. But they're not open. So my favorite
Speaker 1: tacos shop in l A Is Tito's Tacos and and
Speaker 1: so I was gonna do that, but as like, what's
Speaker 1: the point. They're not open, So when they open up,
Speaker 1: let me know. When they open up, you're you're you're
Speaker 1: in that part of town, guests gun and I will
Speaker 1: rock the Tito's Tacos capus and omage to Tito's Tacos.
Speaker 1: Definitely do so. Now I'm I'm encouraged by this. So
Speaker 1: are you gonna do this? Are you doing this once
Speaker 1: every week? Or what are you talking about? What the
Speaker 1: the cameos? Oh no, the cameo. The way this works
Speaker 1: is it once the page goes live, it's hunting season.
Speaker 1: So like anybody you listening, you're like, hey, this would
Speaker 1: be kind of fun. Maybe I'll do this and harass
Speaker 1: Mallard and make them do a video about the Lakers
Speaker 1: or some crap that. Um. You just go on there
Speaker 1: and then you have I guess there's a couple of
Speaker 1: days I have to get it back to you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's open, so you know, can be endless people can
Speaker 1: submit this or no one, UM might want to do
Speaker 1: we only had we already had a couple, which is
Speaker 1: which is encouraging. As I said, because the cameo website,
Speaker 1: I'm not even I didn't even promote it. I just
Speaker 1: said I might do it, and then I did it.
Speaker 1: But it's cameo dot com. There's an app also that
Speaker 1: they have and you know, I don't do it for me,
Speaker 1: but there's like big, big celebrities that charge a ton
Speaker 1: of money for these things. I'm I'm on the low
Speaker 1: end of it because I'm a nobody. But there's like
Speaker 1: we went through some of the names. Flavor. Flavor is
Speaker 1: on there, and he's like charging two hift bucks for
Speaker 1: a message dah these. I didn't know how long these
Speaker 1: things should be, like I did, I wasn't sure, like
Speaker 1: I've never done him before, so I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: that out. I was playing around with the app. The
Speaker 1: first one was too short, the second one was probably
Speaker 1: too long, so I gotta mess around with that. I
Speaker 1: apologize for that, but I'm figuring out. Uh. It's it's
Speaker 1: pretty funny, man. Some of the some of the names
Speaker 1: we went through them before that are on here. You're like, whoa,
Speaker 1: what the heck? Jamal Andrews, remember Jamal Anderson, the Dirty Bird? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the ant L he's on there. Dave wan Steady,
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson, Oh my god, the Great. He was probably
Speaker 1: good at this because Hugh can regale. He's a good
Speaker 1: BS artist. He's got the gift for gab. You um,
Speaker 1: not not the gift for coaching, but the gift for gab.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know anyway, So if you
Speaker 1: want interest in that, I'll get guests on on there
Speaker 1: and uh and we'll have a contest to see who
Speaker 1: gets more cameos. How about that we could do that?
Speaker 1: I wonder if we can include any any kind of
Speaker 1: play by play coverage of you cooking or or barbecuing.
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 1: f s R to listen live. Yeah, I would be
Speaker 1: open to that. And you know, Mallard cooking on the cameo,
Speaker 1: cooking on the cameo. If you want that, I can.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea I'd be open to do anyway.
Speaker 1: As you know, I make the meanest Philly cheese steak
Speaker 1: west of the Mississippi, and it's an amazing homemade sandwich.
Speaker 1: I get the bread that's shipped out from Philadelphia. I
Speaker 1: have the thin cut ribby, although maybe not anymore because
Speaker 1: I guess there's no meat. It's all going away. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I chopped that up even more. I've got
Speaker 1: the the onion, the bell pepper, and the pro Bolone cheese,
Speaker 1: not the whiz, not the cheese whiz, the pro Bolone cheese.
Speaker 1: That's how you do a cheese steak, right. My friend
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno taught me that back in the day, and
Speaker 1: he's authentic Philadelphia and Fats has encouraged me as well.
Speaker 1: So that's the way that goes all right, So moving on,
Speaker 1: Hold on, you're not done. Because you mentioned that, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the cooking. We are surprisingly especially you. You You had
Speaker 1: surprisingly a lot of people that chimed in on some
Speaker 1: of the podcast the last couple of weeks because of fasting,
Speaker 1: Like you have really gotten this. This is big picked
Speaker 1: up steam. Surprisingly. I don't know if that's because of
Speaker 1: a lack of meat that's actually coming into some of
Speaker 1: our cities or because people are actually trying to trim
Speaker 1: down and and and and change their way of life. Yeah. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: And it's not for everybody, and uh it might be
Speaker 1: total bullshit, but it works, um for me. So it's
Speaker 1: it's the placebo effect, right, you know, human beings when
Speaker 1: they even if it's a placebo and you tell them
Speaker 1: it's a placebo, it still works for for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. So um, yeah, it's been it's been good
Speaker 1: for me and I you know, I've had a lifetime
Speaker 1: battle with being a big fatass, so this has really helped.
Speaker 1: And I had a diet before I've told the story.
Speaker 1: I lost a lot of weight and I gained gained
Speaker 1: quite a bit of it back when I got married.
Speaker 1: And this has been a way to get back to
Speaker 1: where I wanted to be. So um, it's it's worked
Speaker 1: for me, and it's really mind over matter. If you
Speaker 1: don't mind, it doesn't matter that you're not eating right.
Speaker 1: You just to me, I just drink water. I don't.
Speaker 1: Some people fast and they don't even drink water. But
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it, guess com. But
Speaker 1: I'm I'll just drink water and fill my stumming up
Speaker 1: with water. There's no calories in it. And then I figured, like,
Speaker 1: I'll work out, although now I can just go for walks,
Speaker 1: but it's a million degrees where I live, so I
Speaker 1: can get you know, I can, I can sweat and
Speaker 1: then that'll burn off the water and so then it's
Speaker 1: no big deal. Yes, So I was reading some stuff online, uh,
Speaker 1: and I always look at YouTube for for ways that
Speaker 1: people do fast. And part of of what I have
Speaker 1: done is I've stayed away from taking like supplements or
Speaker 1: adding any kind of protein or creating to my water.
Speaker 1: So I've done that, but then I've also gone days
Speaker 1: where I'll have some beat juice put into my water,
Speaker 1: have some creating put in, and then work out and
Speaker 1: then fast. But for everybody that tries or does do this.
Speaker 1: I experienced this and you didn't tell me this last week,
Speaker 1: but I did complete a forty eight hour fast and
Speaker 1: the first thing I ate, um, Ben, it would right
Speaker 1: through me. I mean seconds after I digested it is right,
Speaker 1: three man. I would have appreciated a little heads up
Speaker 1: after a da or fast, like, hey, this is what happened.
Speaker 1: But I kind of experienced the ben mallor gall stone bladder.
Speaker 1: You did, you had you had the explosion. No, I
Speaker 1: didn't have it, but like I was, I was trending
Speaker 1: in that right direction where I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: get the funk out of my way, welcome to my world.
Speaker 1: Now all we need to do is have your gall
Speaker 1: bladder taken out and then we will complete the mission here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is wild man. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of it is because I had my
Speaker 1: gall bladder taken out. But I hear from other people
Speaker 1: who do the fasting, like after you fast for a
Speaker 1: certain over, I think it is about forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Is that there's that threshold and I usually try to
Speaker 1: go once or twice a week. I've told the story
Speaker 1: I tried to go over that. But this week my
Speaker 1: wife has put me on. She's embargoed. I'm only a
Speaker 1: lot to eat one meal a day, she says, because
Speaker 1: she's just still my birthday celebration. So she said, I
Speaker 1: can eat one meal at a but and then next
Speaker 1: week I'll get back to the h my michig with
Speaker 1: the fasting and all that full fasting. Because you junked
Speaker 1: out a little bit. Eddie sent you something banana cream
Speaker 1: pie and then banana cream pie. Yeah, you didn't send
Speaker 1: me a banana creampie. Edie sent me a banana cpie
Speaker 1: and he likes me more than you. He sent me
Speaker 1: a banana cream pie, but he sent you a pie
Speaker 1: and then lied to you about the vending machine. So
Speaker 1: I know we brought We brought this up the other
Speaker 1: night and he's declared victory no matter what he says,
Speaker 1: he won. Um. But you we did talk about your
Speaker 1: weird addiction to Mint kit kat. Yeah, my my, my
Speaker 1: longtime grandfather passed away, uh several years ago, but he
Speaker 1: got me onto to mint when I was a child.
Speaker 1: And that's good because I've heard guest Gun that if
Speaker 1: you don't get a kid into mint early, they don't
Speaker 1: get into it like you cross a certain age you're
Speaker 1: not into mint. I don't know if that's true or bullshit,
Speaker 1: but I love mint. My my dad was a big
Speaker 1: fan and still is of mint ship ice cream of that,
Speaker 1: and so I then, you know, copied my dad. I get.
Speaker 1: I get sometimes I get chocolate chip ice cream. I
Speaker 1: love cookie dough. But I'll occasionally too reminisce and go
Speaker 1: back to my youth. I will get mint chip ice cream.
Speaker 1: It flashes me back to when I was like eight
Speaker 1: years old. So as yes, so as soon as they
Speaker 1: put mint kit cats in there, I kid you not.
Speaker 1: Last week it was just the tail end of April.
Speaker 1: I had the first two and then over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I know that I ate seven more so I was
Speaker 1: probably of the consumption of that one row. What does
Speaker 1: it C six or B six or whatever. That was
Speaker 1: all me. So it was not only a dollar, was
Speaker 1: a dollar ten cents because I had used my debit
Speaker 1: card for the transaction, So that was all me. I
Speaker 1: was a guilty party. Yeah. I was thinking about bringing
Speaker 1: back the vending machine draft Part two to determine what
Speaker 1: will be the last item left. But then I thought,
Speaker 1: now they're they're gonna start refilling the vending machine, so
Speaker 1: there's no point in doing that. So on that you
Speaker 1: can always do like vending machine versus um health healthcare
Speaker 1: items here in the in the studio because I've heard
Speaker 1: about you know, I gotta come. I gotta go in
Speaker 1: there because I have not been in a while, and
Speaker 1: I have to pick up some mail. And I was
Speaker 1: supposed to do it last weekend and then and you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't do it or whatever, but I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it this weekend. So I'm gonna have to go in.
Speaker 1: And I told my wife, I said, listen, I'll take
Speaker 1: you with me, but you gotta sit in the car
Speaker 1: because this company has a zero tolerance policy. I don't
Speaker 1: lose my job because I took my wife into work
Speaker 1: to pick up the mail. So yeah, we got a
Speaker 1: thermostat in here with obviously temperature for the studios, but
Speaker 1: we have a thermometer as well handwipes. And then every
Speaker 1: window door is plastered with these giant I heeart warnings
Speaker 1: about bringing in your own headphones, gloves, masks, the whole smash.
Speaker 1: Good times. Can we now get the operational desk? What
Speaker 1: the hell did I watch? This is great? So I
Speaker 1: gave guests got a homework assignment. Now, I have been
Speaker 1: a big fan of documentaries for a long time, all right,
Speaker 1: but there's only a few that reached top level, very few.
Speaker 1: Most of them are fucking terrible, all right. They suck,
Speaker 1: But I'll watch them anyway because I'm I'm not kind
Speaker 1: of person. I realized that these things are all biased.
Speaker 1: I think everything is biased because people have their own
Speaker 1: bias in life from life experience. But anyway, so this
Speaker 1: is called Operational Desk. It actually came out a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, and I mentioned it on the radio
Speaker 1: when it first came out and I first saw it.
Speaker 1: I think it was originally on Showtime, but it's now
Speaker 1: on Netflix. And I cannot recommend this enough. So to
Speaker 1: give you the backstory, and and I know, I wrote
Speaker 1: a few notes down because I watched it again, and
Speaker 1: I could watch this thing probably every other month and
Speaker 1: not get bored with it, not get old with it,
Speaker 1: not get tired with it, any of that stuff. So
Speaker 1: it's a it's a documentary about essentially the early nineties,
Speaker 1: wild and crazy late eighties, early nineties Miami floored, the
Speaker 1: drug scene, the whole thing. It's a true story. That's
Speaker 1: the most amazing part of this. When you watch it,
Speaker 1: you're like, well, this is this gotta be bullshit, This
Speaker 1: can't be real. This has to be made up. But
Speaker 1: but no, it's about these criminal I guess, for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, masterminds, who mixed with playboys in
Speaker 1: Florida and it was sex, drugs and rock and roll
Speaker 1: and hookers and guns and all kinds of debauchery. It's
Speaker 1: it's like the story of the Cocaine Cowboys, but it's
Speaker 1: like it's all interviews and it's it's better than that.
Speaker 1: And the big parts of it, though, were the fact
Speaker 1: that these guys, the reason they became operational Odessa is
Speaker 1: the government got tipped off that these guys were buying
Speaker 1: trying to buy Russian helicopters, and they succeeded and and
Speaker 1: also bought a Russian sub. This is when the Soviet
Speaker 1: Union crash. And the star of this podcast is a
Speaker 1: guy named this gangster named Tarzan, who is one of
Speaker 1: the most engaging bad guys you'd ever want to mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I want to work for
Speaker 1: Tarzan after watching this. His real name is Ludwig Fainberg.
Speaker 1: I believe it is his real name, and he's just
Speaker 1: this like burly guy, very vibrant, smile, charming. He knows
Speaker 1: he's done bad things, but doesn't seem to care. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he thinks they're not really that bad and
Speaker 1: all that. He's very enthusiastic about life and and uh,
Speaker 1: so I guess he actually I think he's originally from
Speaker 1: the Ukraine. He's actually not from Russia, but he lives
Speaker 1: in Russia and he I guess he you know, goes
Speaker 1: a side by side countries. Obviously been had many battles
Speaker 1: and whatnot over the years. But but anyway, he came
Speaker 1: to America and was an enforcer. His first job when
Speaker 1: he he came to American immigrated was to to work
Speaker 1: for the Gambino crime family in New York, New York.
Speaker 1: So um, I I loved it, Gascott. I think it
Speaker 1: was great that he ran a strip club called Porky's
Speaker 1: in Miami, which was highlighted in the show. Oh and
Speaker 1: then he became I guess he was the go to
Speaker 1: guy for the Russian mob scene in South Florida, and
Speaker 1: he started making tons of money. Like if you needed
Speaker 1: if you needed drugs, you want to to tarzan if
Speaker 1: you needed women to hook up with you went to
Speaker 1: Tarzan if you needed what anything, you need to kill somebody?
Speaker 1: He went to Tarzan. He would know a guy. He
Speaker 1: he knows a guy. And then there's the other character.
Speaker 1: There's this a couple other guys. There was this exotic
Speaker 1: car guy, this wand Almeida. Um it was like the
Speaker 1: Miami playboy guy. And then you had my other favorite
Speaker 1: that all three of them were great. But this guy
Speaker 1: Tony Nelson, Tony Yester, who was supposedly was I guess
Speaker 1: he worked for Pablo Escobar. He's got ties to Pablo Escobar.
Speaker 1: And the guy is still an international fugitive today and
Speaker 1: they interviewed him. Imagine doing a documentary and interviewing a
Speaker 1: fucking international fugitive. I mean, that just blows my mind.
Speaker 1: But that just blows my mind that they did this.
Speaker 1: It's unreal. And that you just mentioned Cameo. I was
Speaker 1: actually initially petrified because when they did interview him, they
Speaker 1: went right out of the gate to ask him about
Speaker 1: the actual transgressions that he had and he says, do
Speaker 1: you really want to talk about this? Let's not talk
Speaker 1: about this, And I was like, oh ship, they actually
Speaker 1: got him, and then he's ready to shoot these camera
Speaker 1: guys and they cut away and then they go to
Speaker 1: him and he's more relaxed. But you go back to
Speaker 1: Tarzan real quick. Ben. It was amazing because the first
Speaker 1: thing that he purchased when he landed in Miami was
Speaker 1: a three fifty seven magnum. And then when they talked
Speaker 1: about the helicopters that you mentioned, Um, I will spoil it,
Speaker 1: but you can imagine we do these games and these
Speaker 1: quizzes and you say, hey, how much is this or
Speaker 1: how many people was this? And I usually shoot the
Speaker 1: moon and you know, blow my wad on on over
Speaker 1: shooting it on something. These guys bought helicopters for five dollars,
Speaker 1: Russian military helicopters and I guess another spoiler alert, which
Speaker 1: is which is great. When they were negotiating to buy
Speaker 1: the Soviet sub remember the option, they had the option
Speaker 1: to get the nukes, so you would offer these these
Speaker 1: you know, random hustlers from Miami nuclear weapons and uh,
Speaker 1: it's just there. It's unbelievable you're into these kind of things.
Speaker 1: I cannot recommend this enough. And I actually he was curious.
Speaker 1: I looked up a story was how did this all
Speaker 1: come about? And so the documentary maker, um, he he
Speaker 1: said he had a friend of him tipped him off
Speaker 1: about Tarzan, right, the guy that's the start of the documentary.
Speaker 1: And so at the time, Tarzan was in in jail
Speaker 1: and I think like Argentina or something like that. I
Speaker 1: forget which country, and I apologize, but he was in
Speaker 1: jail somewhere. So anyway, this documentary guys like, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta talk this guy and see if we've got
Speaker 1: a film. So he paid off the prison guard. He
Speaker 1: said he paid the prison guard where Tarzan was staying.
Speaker 1: Five He had been texting Tarzan on a on a
Speaker 1: was it a BlackBerry blueberry? What enough blueberry? BlackBerry back
Speaker 1: in those days, And so he contacted Tarzan. I guess
Speaker 1: is a lot of this was originally shot about ten
Speaker 1: years ago and then it came out in originally eighteen.
Speaker 1: But so the guy goes to this prison, the documentary maker,
Speaker 1: and you know, Tarzan is a he's a very nice guy,
Speaker 1: but he didn't know this and and you know, he's
Speaker 1: nice to your face, but he could stab you in
Speaker 1: the back, those kind of guys. And so he goes
Speaker 1: and pays off the guy at the prison in whatever country.
Speaker 1: It was five dollars to get into the prison, five
Speaker 1: dollars to get out alive. So so there was the
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars just to get in and then five
Speaker 1: dollars protection so you don't get killed in the prison.
Speaker 1: And then he sat down with Tarzan, and Tarzan you know,
Speaker 1: talked and just talked and talked and talked, and so
Speaker 1: the guys like, we got something. And and then he
Speaker 1: went down the list and went to one i'l made
Speaker 1: it and Wan was in for it and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And so then Tarzan escaped from jail and became a
Speaker 1: fugitive and moved back to Russia. And then that allowed
Speaker 1: them to interview him very casually Tarzan. So then I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out how the fund did this guy,
Speaker 1: Tony yester Uh come into this, right, the Pablo Escobar guy.
Speaker 1: And so this is this is so perfect. Right when
Speaker 1: I heard this, I laughed my ass off, saying, when
Speaker 1: you watch the documentary, will enjoy this. So so Tarzan
Speaker 1: and Wan are regaling this documentary maker with all these
Speaker 1: wild stories about their lives. Right, so they're still talking
Speaker 1: to Tony, the the international fugitive Wan and and Tarzan
Speaker 1: Andre talking to this guy. So Tony is like, what
Speaker 1: the funk? I want to be part of this, you know,
Speaker 1: I was part of this, you know. And so he
Speaker 1: out of the blue from a from the What's app,
Speaker 1: the documentary maker gets a random message on the What's App.
Speaker 1: Hey it's Tony and uh and and he I forget
Speaker 1: what the line he used was when it was something like, uh,
Speaker 1: why don't you step up to the big leagues instead
Speaker 1: of the minor leagues? You want to know what really
Speaker 1: happened like that, you know, something some line like that
Speaker 1: and uh. And then they had to negotiate and they
Speaker 1: like I think it was in Africa and an airport
Speaker 1: in Africa. It was. It's just crazy, I mean it is.
Speaker 1: It is an amazing thing that not only getting the helicopters,
Speaker 1: having to get them out of St. Petersburg in Russia
Speaker 1: and all the obstacles they had to overcome. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you got you had gangsters in Russia when the government
Speaker 1: was was obviously crumbling, and Jan had to fake it
Speaker 1: like he was Pablo Escobar to come. Yeah, that's another
Speaker 1: gred that's another part of it. Yeah. I love the
Speaker 1: fact that and he taught I think the most The
Speaker 1: most polarizing moment when all of this is when they
Speaker 1: sent undercovers to to kind of unmask this entire incident.
Speaker 1: Tarzan actually was getting it was in the middle of
Speaker 1: a conversation when with an undercover and they were in
Speaker 1: a hotel room and he looks at a clock next
Speaker 1: to the bed and he says, that clock has a
Speaker 1: camera in it. That clock has a camera. And the
Speaker 1: guy's like, what are you talking about? And he's like,
Speaker 1: I know, I've seen that before. That clock has a
Speaker 1: camera in And he's like, well, if you think there's
Speaker 1: a camera, to go check it. And he didn't call
Speaker 1: his bluff and he didn't check it. But it turned
Speaker 1: out there was a camera and a microphone because the FEDS,
Speaker 1: were you spying on these guys? Well that was Tarza
Speaker 1: is like, how many how many hours did they have
Speaker 1: of talking about drugs, guns, murder and uh and all
Speaker 1: the rest of these. Now I don't want to I
Speaker 1: don't know if I should do this or not, guess gun,
Speaker 1: but I looked up because I was curious what This
Speaker 1: documentary came out a couple years ago. I say, what
Speaker 1: happened to these guys? I know what happened. Do you
Speaker 1: want me to share that now or should I? Should
Speaker 1: I not? Shire? Uh? Yeah, sure, I want to? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so you know two an this is spoiler. Also,
Speaker 1: so what happened to the lives of these three guys
Speaker 1: since the documentary? So we'll start out we had the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly. Alright, the good I guess
Speaker 1: if you you're a fan of the documentary, is Tarzan
Speaker 1: is still living in Russia. Um. He says he's still
Speaker 1: committing crime because he's he's that's his career. But I
Speaker 1: guess in Russia it's allowed, so he's he's free. One
Speaker 1: al Mada, Um, the Miami playboy guy, is in jail.
Speaker 1: He was convicted on drug charges in I think, and
Speaker 1: so he went to jail. He was sentenced to six
Speaker 1: years in jail for drug charges. So the Miami Playboys
Speaker 1: down for the count for six years. And then and
Speaker 1: I just found this out that Tony Yester Nelson, Tony Yester,
Speaker 1: the guy with ties to Pablo Escobar. Um, he was
Speaker 1: just extradited from Italy last year. I didn't realize this
Speaker 1: last summer from Italy to the United States to face
Speaker 1: drug and guns artists so he is no longer an
Speaker 1: international fugitive. The law enforcement caught up with him and
Speaker 1: he is now he's a he's facing he's facing a
Speaker 1: maximum penalty of life in federal prison if convicted on
Speaker 1: all all charges. So he he could be down for
Speaker 1: the count they say from the light late nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: This is from the Orlando United States District Attorney's Office,
Speaker 1: Middle District of Florida. It says here this guy Tony Yester,
Speaker 1: Uh from the eighties to the early nineties are actually
Speaker 1: late nineties, was part of a group involved in importing
Speaker 1: kilogram amounts of cocaine and other narcotics in the United States,
Speaker 1: including by negotiating the purchase of a Russian diesel submarine
Speaker 1: for Colombian drug smugglers. According to law enforcement, he fled
Speaker 1: to South Africa in nine seven to escape prosecution and
Speaker 1: Uh then they began investigating in January fifteen. I guess
Speaker 1: they get tipped off or something like that, and they
Speaker 1: still doing marijuana and whatnot. But anyway, so it's a
Speaker 1: lot of legalis and all that. So I'm guessing this
Speaker 1: documentary guest did not help that. The You can talk
Speaker 1: to your old man about this but I'm getting I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that the law enforcement do not like when
Speaker 1: a international fugitive does an interview for a documentary makes
Speaker 1: him look bad, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, The
Speaker 1: first thing he said when I when I talked to
Speaker 1: him about this, he said, like what you just mentioned
Speaker 1: was the he's like cocaine cowboys, man. Because I thought,
Speaker 1: obviously I wasn't in that, uh and the know all
Speaker 1: at that time because I was really young, but I
Speaker 1: thought New York was a lot of this, and Miami
Speaker 1: was just more flare around it, you know, Studio fifty
Speaker 1: four and whatnot, and how New York was back in
Speaker 1: the day with with the mob. But man, Miami was
Speaker 1: so they were just drunk on drugs and women and
Speaker 1: it was it was wild. Man. I you know, I
Speaker 1: have a who wasn't there there in that time either.
Speaker 1: I've only been to Miami a couple of times, and
Speaker 1: I was there last. I actually was there in I
Speaker 1: was there for the World Series in ninety seven, so
Speaker 1: I was around that time. I wonder if I crossed
Speaker 1: paths with Tarzan? How cool that? But the beautiful thing
Speaker 1: was that one Almeida was was custom making speedboats that
Speaker 1: had twin turbines like like a plane, like a fucking
Speaker 1: planet at l A X or something like that at
Speaker 1: like Guardia, but two million dollar boats and they were
Speaker 1: only to traffic in and out narcotics, cocaine especially, So, man,
Speaker 1: what it was fun. It was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: watching this thing and to see them actually pull a
Speaker 1: few stunts off. I mean, these guys could do no wrong.
Speaker 1: These guys lived their best life even though a short
Speaker 1: period of time. Yeah it is again. I cannot just
Speaker 1: wrap this up here. I cannot recommend it enough. I
Speaker 1: only talk about these documentaries on a podcast like this
Speaker 1: if they are elite. Otherwise I don't waste my time
Speaker 1: or just goof on them. But the Mallard doc rating
Speaker 1: score one to ten, with ten being like Get Me
Speaker 1: Roger Stone or Supersize Me Too, or any of those
Speaker 1: great documentaries. This one on a scale of one to ten,
Speaker 1: with ten being best. Gets a entertaining, thrilling, funny plot, twist,
Speaker 1: great detail, comedy, um, all of it, everything, twist and turns,
Speaker 1: all of that stuff gets the highest score you can
Speaker 1: possibly get. Operation Odessa. It's on Netflix right now, Gascon.
Speaker 1: Any score you want to give here, give it ten,
Speaker 1: especially because the level of suspension, suspense and danger involved
Speaker 1: was was full tilt. This is this was I mean,
Speaker 1: we've we've watched some documentaries before and a lot of
Speaker 1: that had to do with with Nike and the shoe companies,
Speaker 1: and that's try the scheme, which was pretty good, but
Speaker 1: not as good as Yeah, Roger Stone you mentioned, but
Speaker 1: I love that. Get me Roger Stone, and that's one
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Speaker 1: you had six or seven different bureaus on these guys
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