Speaker 1: If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the
Speaker 1: old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads
Speaker 1: in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill
Speaker 1: poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes.
Speaker 1: Break Free for Something Special Hour with Ben Maller starts
Speaker 1: right now in the air everywhere as we loviate the
Speaker 1: weekend away and we welcome you into the Mallard Podcast
Speaker 1: studio deep in the north Woods eight days a week
Speaker 1: as we try to overcompensate for my absence this week
Speaker 1: from the show, my post for a few a few
Speaker 1: nights here, and of course four hours a night clearly
Speaker 1: not enough. And the great thing about the podcast is
Speaker 1: you can listen to it overnight if you want, or
Speaker 1: when the sun is up. You can actually listen when
Speaker 1: the sun is up. And I know from when people download,
Speaker 1: we actually have a lot of people that listened during
Speaker 1: the day and so we do appreciate that. Joined yet
Speaker 1: again by a man west of the four oh five,
Speaker 1: David gascong Man, I I really got to give myself one.
Speaker 1: I continue to book good guests. I should start getting
Speaker 1: paid for this ship. Wow. Wow, Wow, you know it's funny.
Speaker 1: I I had done a Q and A session with
Speaker 1: one of your couple of your your listeners a few
Speaker 1: days ago, and they had asked that question about booking guests,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I like booking guests that
Speaker 1: Ben doesn't know or doesn't like, doesn't come in contact with,
Speaker 1: because it gives you. It gives you, like a little
Speaker 1: bit more work to write. It's like to do a
Speaker 1: little bit more research and to do a little bit
Speaker 1: more recon and iways think it's fun. But like these guys,
Speaker 1: certain people like that you've come across and introduced me to,
Speaker 1: and like vice versa. I just think those people are
Speaker 1: so fascinating because we're always stuck in this you know,
Speaker 1: spectrum of sports and full disclosure, we've done the podcast
Speaker 1: long enough that we pretty much run out of people
Speaker 1: that there's very few people left that we haven't had
Speaker 1: on like I think they like petros. People have said
Speaker 1: we should get petro Son, and I would love to
Speaker 1: get petro Son, but when we record the podcast, he's working,
Speaker 1: so we can't get petro Son. Now, maybe we can
Speaker 1: do something in another time. And we're talking about doing
Speaker 1: some stuff differently down the line, so that will open
Speaker 1: up the possibility of that and so we'll see. But
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I don't. I don't know a lot
Speaker 1: of people I do. Radio radio is a small circle.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of people in it. And of
Speaker 1: the people in it, there's only a few that I
Speaker 1: get along with. So, um, you know, it's not a
Speaker 1: lot to work with you. There's not a lot that
Speaker 1: we can do. And so if you have any suggestions,
Speaker 1: we always say, hey, the email, the inbox is always
Speaker 1: open if you have somebody you'd like to have on.
Speaker 1: We've had recommendation with people from Denver, were like, we
Speaker 1: could get the voice of the Broncos on. We haven't
Speaker 1: done that. Uh we we attempted to get the voice
Speaker 1: in the Minnesota Vikings on right and then he had Yeah,
Speaker 1: we tried a couple of times and that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: Paul Allen, the voice of the Vikings, Dave Logan and
Speaker 1: Denver that's right, maybe get them on because of scheduling issues. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, so I don't. I don't. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Andrew was fun to talk to. I like, I have
Speaker 1: an interest in cooking. He's a professional he's on television.
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting how someone ends up on television
Speaker 1: and we're kind of in the same ballpark age wise,
Speaker 1: so we have our our perspective on life. I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty similar. Uh yeah, yeah. I although I don't
Speaker 1: like sea food, I do like pizza. I love pizza.
Speaker 1: Uh And Julia Child. I got to use my favorite
Speaker 1: Julia Child quote, and I didn't think I would ever
Speaker 1: get to use that, and so I'm glad that I did.
Speaker 1: I found a way to use a Julia Child quote,
Speaker 1: which I think I've only used once in my life.
Speaker 1: But it's one of the great quotes about anything. You
Speaker 1: can have drama, even a pancake if if done properly.
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing the quote from from Julia Child. So I
Speaker 1: didn't ask you. I'd ask Andrew this, but I should
Speaker 1: have asked you gun to your head pancake waffle or
Speaker 1: French toast pancake? Oh wow, pancake, alright, pancake. You I
Speaker 1: don't know frive French toast, but I don't know. Arnie.
Speaker 1: Arnie every year for Christmas sending his gift packages for
Speaker 1: you know, for all the staff. The Vermont Maple syrup
Speaker 1: man I've gotten I haven't got one. I've known Andrew
Speaker 1: longer than you, not Andrew, I've known Arnie longer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't known I've known Andrew at all. Actually I
Speaker 1: just met him yesterday, so but yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, pancakes a good call, especially because you can pacakes,
Speaker 1: you can stack them, you can put different so you know,
Speaker 1: obviously one of those things you can put different syrups
Speaker 1: or whatever, strawberry or the traditional maple syrup or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But a well made pancake. And I don't
Speaker 1: I don't need breakfast, so I don't need a lot.
Speaker 1: As you know, that is one of the great scams.
Speaker 1: I should have brought this up with Andrew h And
Speaker 1: you know, the whole breakfast is the most important meal
Speaker 1: that you've heard that right, That is one of the
Speaker 1: great marketing slogans of all time. John Kellogg, the guy
Speaker 1: behind Kellogg's you know cereal company, That was his catchphrase
Speaker 1: to try to sell cereal breakfast Cereal. Nobody in the
Speaker 1: when they breakfast cereals started, nobody bought it. Nobody wanted it.
Speaker 1: They didn't need it, they didn't want it. Most people
Speaker 1: ate breakfast it was just leftovers from dinner the night
Speaker 1: before if they ate anything, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: didn't even eat breakfast, they just skipped it. And he
Speaker 1: they came up with that marketing slogan breakfast is the
Speaker 1: most important meal of the day. They flooded all the newspapers,
Speaker 1: all the radio stations, and and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: All these years later, we're talking about probably radio started
Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties, so probably seventy eight years at least,
Speaker 1: I would say maybe longer than that. Damn crazy, It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I I do like the fact that Andrew said, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you do it at all, but I
Speaker 1: love eating breakfast for dinner. Yeah, I don't do too much.
Speaker 1: My wife loves breakfast, so that would be a compromise.
Speaker 1: I do. I do like similar to him. I do
Speaker 1: like the breakfast foods. I am a fan of breakfast foods.
Speaker 1: I just I usually I'm fasting, so I can't eat breakfast,
Speaker 1: and I I pretty much just eat lunch. I've I've
Speaker 1: settled into a lunch I'm a lunch guy. I don't
Speaker 1: really eat dinner. On the weekends, I'll eat because otherwise
Speaker 1: I'll get killed with the family. I gotta eat, you know,
Speaker 1: lunch and dinner. But that's about it. Oh, we gotta
Speaker 1: go to Tustin. Man, I'm gonna let's do it. Let's
Speaker 1: do it. Let's just get a big old pie. Those
Speaker 1: those pineapples, Uh, I don't know if they're go on
Speaker 1: my pizza. But the other pizza look delicious, they look
Speaker 1: they look solid. That's a good looking pie. That is
Speaker 1: a So that's that's food porn. That is food point.
Speaker 1: All right, So we have moving man Mallard. Now, as
Speaker 1: I referenced, I was away from my post this past
Speaker 1: week for three long, painful days. I would like to
Speaker 1: thank the staff at Fox Sports Radio for filling in.
Speaker 1: Mr Plank did a fine job sitting in for me there.
Speaker 1: Not not easy, not easy. The Mallard Militia, as you know,
Speaker 1: a rather rambunctious group, the Mallard Militia. And typically when
Speaker 1: I'm away it is is open season, open season. But
Speaker 1: Chris Plank did a great job, as I understand, and
Speaker 1: did a wonderful holding of the fort. So we thank
Speaker 1: him for that. But as being away from the bully pulpit,
Speaker 1: the reason and you know I moved, but I'll give
Speaker 1: you some details. So the schedule worked out where my
Speaker 1: wife was off from work, um at the police stations
Speaker 1: and one operator. And so, no, you don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of time off. You have to you know, you
Speaker 1: do get a lot of time off, but when you're
Speaker 1: supposed to work, you after work as well. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: most jobs and um, so she she said, we gotta move.
Speaker 1: This is it, you know, for for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: And so dragged me away to help help move. And
Speaker 1: we ski at schedaddle out of the halfway house to
Speaker 1: the the new Mallard mansion. And even though it's not
Speaker 1: completely done, it's not completely done, but logistically we had
Speaker 1: to do it. And so it's still an active construction
Speaker 1: zone right now. Right across the room I'm in the
Speaker 1: I'm in the studio here, but just across the other
Speaker 1: side of the wall there are a group of hard
Speaker 1: working people who are sweating their asses off, covered in dust.
Speaker 1: They got the studio done, but the rest of the
Speaker 1: house is really not done, and it won't be done
Speaker 1: for a couple more days. I've actually been staying in
Speaker 1: a hotel the last couple of nights while they finish up.
Speaker 1: But the studio has done so I'm here and I'm
Speaker 1: breathing in all the dust, which is great, and they
Speaker 1: really recommend that they recommend eating breathing in a lot
Speaker 1: of dust. But but anyway, so we it was a
Speaker 1: paint in and it took I have much respect from
Speaker 1: moving man Matt from Boston who hates you gascon uh
Speaker 1: and and several other p ones who have reached out
Speaker 1: to me over the years that are moving, you know, professionals.
Speaker 1: My god, what a what a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a crap ton of physical labor, obviously,
Speaker 1: and you gotta take everything apart to fit it through doors,
Speaker 1: and it's just a nightmare. And then you lose. I
Speaker 1: I took some stuff apart from my student yoke because
Speaker 1: I moved that over, and I lost a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of screws that I needed. So then I'm going to
Speaker 1: home depot trying to match the screws, you know, and
Speaker 1: then they don't have the exact ones, so you gotta
Speaker 1: get it kind of close. And several U haul trips loading, unloading.
Speaker 1: And the amazing about this is I'm not even done. Like,
Speaker 1: as I said, the house where I'm moving to is
Speaker 1: the studios done it'll be done in a couple of days.
Speaker 1: But then I have to move everything back from the
Speaker 1: storage that it's in and put it, you know, where
Speaker 1: it needs to be, and all that stuff for the
Speaker 1: final final move. So I have several probably months, because
Speaker 1: I can only do it on the weekends of sojourns.
Speaker 1: Renting a truck and then moving it and and all
Speaker 1: of that and all that. You know, something uh that
Speaker 1: I was not anticipating taking is long. But the good
Speaker 1: news is this will be the final move. This will
Speaker 1: be my my final resting place. I don't imagine I will.
Speaker 1: I will die either in this house or while living
Speaker 1: in this house. So that's exciting. I don't have to
Speaker 1: move again, so I'm excited about that. And the house
Speaker 1: is gonna look great. And my wife designed like all
Speaker 1: I did was request the flooring. That's all I did.
Speaker 1: I said, I want a certain kind of flooring. Everything
Speaker 1: else that was like pretty much here. So if it's good,
Speaker 1: I'll give her credit. If it's bad, she'll blame me
Speaker 1: for not having more of a say in the but
Speaker 1: she know she did a wonderful job and it's gonna
Speaker 1: look wonderful. I know you've seen some photos there gascon
Speaker 1: of some of this stuff that's done, which is not
Speaker 1: completely completely done, but almost done. And be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app. It looks great.
Speaker 1: I saw a giant bowl occupying the living room, so
Speaker 1: that was that was nice. Um as a giant size bathtub. Um,
Speaker 1: that's the Mallard tub. That is the Mallard tub. It is.
Speaker 1: It looks old school, it looks awesome. The bathroom looks fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The bathroom is like it looks like the bellagio in here.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, because you get the little bench yeah yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Well we figured no because this the place
Speaker 1: I needed complete complete, like gutting a fit. Yeah, talk
Speaker 1: to bottom. Yeah yeah. So like we can put ever
Speaker 1: we want, Like why don't we go big? You know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't cost that much more once you once you
Speaker 1: the hard part. The demo is expensive and then obviously
Speaker 1: the materials, but you can make it whatever you want.
Speaker 1: It doesn't cost that much more. I think kitchens and
Speaker 1: bathrooms you have to nail, and I think your wife
Speaker 1: nailed him. I think uh, Liven's in the kitchen yet,
Speaker 1: but the bathroom, like the tile, the color, it looks great. Um,
Speaker 1: she looks good. Um My wife's really really good. She
Speaker 1: a lot of HUTV, a lot of reading stuff online
Speaker 1: and like what her tastes are, and and she tried
Speaker 1: to compromise because I have more. I'm pretty benign with
Speaker 1: this stuff, you know what I mean, Like I just
Speaker 1: can't like whatever. I just like I don't need it
Speaker 1: popping and all that stuff. But yeahs you we wanted
Speaker 1: stuff that's gonna last for a while, so hopefully this will.
Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes you you paint something and you haven't
Speaker 1: look a certain way, and you get tired of it
Speaker 1: after a while. Yeah. I try to avoid that as
Speaker 1: much as part. I mean, it's like it's like the
Speaker 1: old cliche of buying real estate right on, like in Malibu,
Speaker 1: and you have this amazing window looking out of the
Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean, and then you look at it for like
Speaker 1: the first week or the first month, and then after
Speaker 1: a while you forget about it. You don't even look,
Speaker 1: you know, used to get used to it. It says
Speaker 1: like you might as well live on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of the tracks looking at skid row because you're not
Speaker 1: gonna look at that, and you're not gonna look you know,
Speaker 1: you just it's not part of your routine. It's just not. Um.
Speaker 1: I think you guys did a great job. And I
Speaker 1: applaud her for opening up her Instagram comments section. I
Speaker 1: was giving her shit about it, and she said that
Speaker 1: I was not the only person that was grieving over
Speaker 1: the fact that she had closed the door on comments.
Speaker 1: So that's in my position is different. You know, my
Speaker 1: my wife's loves to give updates, and I'm I'm more of, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, this is our you know, my private life.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't need this out there. But I
Speaker 1: think she has a couple of Instagram pages, so I
Speaker 1: think it was on her personal one that she she
Speaker 1: set this stuff out. I think. I don't I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I've not been very good at the Instagram game.
Speaker 1: I just don't have I'm not a booty model. I'm
Speaker 1: not good at it, and I need to do better.
Speaker 1: I did post some photos the other day of me moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's about it, and uh yeah, so uh the
Speaker 1: house will be done in a you know, a week
Speaker 1: or ten days, and then we gotta move everything and
Speaker 1: and then some of the stuff won't actually be here
Speaker 1: for months somebody because of the delay. Everything is delayed.
Speaker 1: I guess because of COVID. I don't know, but the
Speaker 1: production line delays some of the stuff that we got.
Speaker 1: We're looking at, well it's August right now, we're looking
Speaker 1: at October. October. That's actually good news because most of
Speaker 1: the stuff that you get in October will be in
Speaker 1: such good condition it will be perfect for me to
Speaker 1: break in during the Christmas party. Just a beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: way to uh end there you go. Yeah, you'll have
Speaker 1: to to come over there, and I'm sure you'll complain
Speaker 1: about how far it is from where you live. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's actually worth the drive. Yeah you'll complain. You know.
Speaker 1: It's a secret location deep in the north Woods. And
Speaker 1: that would be would you live in the north Woods?
Speaker 1: Would you live? I do? I do the studios in
Speaker 1: the north Woods? It is, But I mean like, would
Speaker 1: you live like Lake Arrowhead, let's say, or Big Bear?
Speaker 1: Would you ever considering living there? Um? Yeah, And now
Speaker 1: I can do. Because of the studio set up, I
Speaker 1: could work anywhere, so I'm open, you know, getty up.
Speaker 1: My my wife is more tied down than I am
Speaker 1: at this point because I never imagined working in radio
Speaker 1: that this would be the setup. I always thought, well,
Speaker 1: it's only like Rush Limbaugh and uh, you know Steve
Speaker 1: Harvey and Art Bell could do their show from their
Speaker 1: home studio. Now there, I'll never be able to do that.
Speaker 1: And then because of the it's one of the benefits
Speaker 1: of COVID we have we have full the full time
Speaker 1: hosts that have remote access. We have hosts that work
Speaker 1: once a week that I have access, we have anchors
Speaker 1: that have access. It seems like everybody has access to
Speaker 1: work remotely, except for like someone like myself. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: knew that was coming, you know, like driving to work
Speaker 1: paying five and a half dollars and gallon for gasoline
Speaker 1: and then you can thank your your governor, Gavin Listen.
Speaker 1: I have I have voted a high, high, high dark
Speaker 1: circle on that. Yes, recall, It'll be great. And of
Speaker 1: course most of my friends are like, why are you
Speaker 1: gonna recall him? What has he done? All right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I my favorite part of that is the positioning
Speaker 1: of the recall, like these are extremists, this is these
Speaker 1: are hardcore people that are these are Trump people? No, Huan,
Speaker 1: that was called I believe the people. These are people
Speaker 1: that overtook the White House, you know, And I'm like, real, uh,
Speaker 1: because California is mostly liberal, a lot of liberal people
Speaker 1: that think this guy's a boob. So oh, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. I'm glack. Should I endorse it? I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm allowed to endorse. Am I allowed to
Speaker 1: endorse anybody? Somebody? As far as the pool of candidates,
Speaker 1: Larry Elder, Yes, Larry Elder's the guy, radio guy, well spoken.
Speaker 1: I think I think he would be a fine temporary
Speaker 1: governor for the state of California. I hope that Larry
Speaker 1: Elder ends up if we do succeed in getting rid
Speaker 1: of this stiff, this turd, Gavin Newsome. I'd love to
Speaker 1: see Larry Elder in there. I think he'd do a
Speaker 1: great job. You have to give up his radio show though, right,
Speaker 1: he can't do the radio show'd be nice of you could, right,
Speaker 1: That'd be they'd be kind of wild awesome. Yeah, three
Speaker 1: or four hour and syndicated Larry Elder show as the
Speaker 1: governor of California. Oh my gosh, could you imagine that'd
Speaker 1: be wild? I'm glad you brought him up. And I
Speaker 1: want to ask you, I need your your your personal
Speaker 1: and probably your fessional opinion on this because they overlap
Speaker 1: in a couple of different things. You annually do a
Speaker 1: nice little thing for a couple of cities where you
Speaker 1: dress up as Santa Claus. Yes, and you do it
Speaker 1: obviously for the kids. If if there was ever a time,
Speaker 1: because you're volunteering your time and your day to do
Speaker 1: this for the kids, But if there was ever a
Speaker 1: time where the centers that you do it for the
Speaker 1: fire departments, that you can do it for they said, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're triggered by you looking like this or doing this
Speaker 1: as Santa Claus. We need you to change, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to. Um, would you just tell them to
Speaker 1: kick rocks? Or would you change for the fact that
Speaker 1: you're volunteering and you're offering your services for the kids. Well,
Speaker 1: it depends, like if I was flicking off the kids
Speaker 1: as I was address no, Like if it was just
Speaker 1: something that it was your personal choice, like the way
Speaker 1: you dressed, the way you talk to them, um, the
Speaker 1: way you looked, just something like that, like which, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know even it's ridiculous. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do it. I'm not getting paid for it. It's
Speaker 1: just I like doing. It's fun, all right, Why do
Speaker 1: you so? Last week we talked about someone we were
Speaker 1: celebrating or I was celebrating my one year anniversary on
Speaker 1: the National Suicide Prevention Line, and UM, I don't know
Speaker 1: if many people know this, but the State of New
Speaker 1: York followed State of California's leader vice versa on this.
Speaker 1: We're Gavin Newsom mandated that everyone in the health industry
Speaker 1: UM Health Services has to be there. They're mandated to
Speaker 1: be vaccinated. So that means employees, wage earner's staff, board members, volunteers,
Speaker 1: everybody has to be vaccinated. And so the cut off
Speaker 1: date on that is September thirty this year. And our center,
Speaker 1: the National Suicide Prevention Center, sent out a mass email
Speaker 1: to all of us and said, hey, you guys need
Speaker 1: to be vaccinated by this date or at least have
Speaker 1: your first shot. And prior to that, we need everybody
Speaker 1: to actually get COVID test dating once a week that staff, employees,
Speaker 1: and volunteers. Bend the kicker on this as they even
Speaker 1: wanted remote employees and staff and volunteers to also do this.
Speaker 1: So their logic was, well, it's mandated by the Health
Speaker 1: Department or health, the health industry, and the governor. That
Speaker 1: means you all have to do this because we consider
Speaker 1: everyone to be interacting with individuals. Well, we interact with
Speaker 1: people on phone calls. That's it. Like, we're not case managers,
Speaker 1: were not meeting with people, were not doctors, physicians and
Speaker 1: that stuff. And they basically said, hey, you either do
Speaker 1: this or you're going to be forced to resign. And
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, after my one year anniversary,
Speaker 1: I sent a pretty detailed and scathing email and I said, Hey,
Speaker 1: you guys have an email that says you're either vaccinated
Speaker 1: or you're not. But you guys haven't addressed including the
Speaker 1: medical director or this agency, individuals that have out of bodies,
Speaker 1: Like where does that come into play? And I said,
Speaker 1: you're doing this under the advisement or recommendation of a
Speaker 1: governor that staring down the barrel of a recall. What
Speaker 1: happens if he gets recalled and we have a new
Speaker 1: governor and he doesn't mandate, in fact, he retracts that
Speaker 1: mandate of vaccines. So it was a long, long email,
Speaker 1: but the gist of it was I just said I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lose agency over my body because of what
Speaker 1: other individuals I think I should and shouldn't do. So
Speaker 1: you can either accept that. You can either be comfortable
Speaker 1: with me working from home and doing what I want
Speaker 1: to do, or I can I can say goodbye. I
Speaker 1: did training, I did role pall role call, role play
Speaker 1: calling on the phones I did I took a TV shot, um,
Speaker 1: I did a background. I did all this stuff remotely,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, they're like, well, in
Speaker 1: case you come into the studio or into work, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm not so I've already been given access.
Speaker 1: I was good for eighteen months to work there, a
Speaker 1: year to work there, and uh, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: one of those text messages, right like if when you're
Speaker 1: in a relationship, someone tends to send you a big text,
Speaker 1: like emotionally like throwing all these things out there, and
Speaker 1: you just respond with a K. That was kind of
Speaker 1: what it was. I said this long ass email to
Speaker 1: the medical director, to the HR representative, and to my supervisor,
Speaker 1: and they sent like a three three line, you know,
Speaker 1: sentence that said, sorry, we require all this, Yeah, an listen,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't believe people should be uh forced
Speaker 1: to get a vaccination if they don't want to. People
Speaker 1: get upset when I say that we said this, but
Speaker 1: oh you shouldn't say that and all this stuff. But
Speaker 1: I think it's up to you if you want to
Speaker 1: do it or you don't want to do it. But
Speaker 1: common sense is not coming. I think that that is
Speaker 1: really the lesson. Common sense is not common and people
Speaker 1: have whatever their motivation is, um, they do not they
Speaker 1: do not want to take a position on the you know,
Speaker 1: that is away from the group think, right. The group
Speaker 1: think is everyone needs to get vaccinated and and uh
Speaker 1: and all that. And that's why I was asking. I think,
Speaker 1: I think me each you have to decide for yourself
Speaker 1: what you want to do and and whether it's worth it,
Speaker 1: or you have to weigh what you know and what
Speaker 1: you don't know because we don't know a lot, and
Speaker 1: then you have to be the enlightened young grasshopper and
Speaker 1: make the decision. Right. Well, that's what I was asking
Speaker 1: because I'm curious in your stance because you've had the
Speaker 1: matter militia attack attack certain people. William Shatton is one
Speaker 1: of them. Uh, They've gone after after writers and reporters
Speaker 1: in Arizona and in Texas. Um, do you think I
Speaker 1: should be vocal about something like this? Uh, well, if
Speaker 1: you're planning on leaving anyway, left, I left, you're not.
Speaker 1: You're not, so you're done, you're not. I turned in
Speaker 1: my stuff a couple of days ago. I just it
Speaker 1: was quick, like the email was sent out on Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: I had a shift Wednesday morning, and as soon as
Speaker 1: I logged on or my shift, everything was was canceled out.
Speaker 1: I had no credentials everything. They did it for you,
Speaker 1: They got rid of you. What happened? Okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I basically said I wasn't gonna do it, so they
Speaker 1: cut me off. And so they they must have endless
Speaker 1: amount of people that want to do that. Then, right,
Speaker 1: there's not as shorts of people that want to do
Speaker 1: Oh there is a short but they still got rid
Speaker 1: of you, even though again, just to recap as as
Speaker 1: I understand the story that you told me, you don't
Speaker 1: actually go anywhere around people. No, you do it remotely,
Speaker 1: but they still are demanding that you get the vaccine
Speaker 1: even though you do it from your house. Right, And
Speaker 1: I have to get tested and I have to get
Speaker 1: tested once a week. While I work from home until
Speaker 1: that September thirty cut off date. Yeah, so I have
Speaker 1: to go pay to get tested. I have to go
Speaker 1: drive to get paid to pay to go get tested. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought it was free to get tested, right, And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of places you can get it from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can get it for free, but they wanted specific centers.
Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah, So I mean I might have to
Speaker 1: pay and then they re imburse me. Now is there
Speaker 1: a chance you can go work somewhere else or is
Speaker 1: it all they're all the same dogma? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But here in the state of California, it's mandated for
Speaker 1: everybody in the health industry, so doctors, physicians, p A
Speaker 1: s um, clinical workers, like everybody. I have a friend
Speaker 1: that works in pharmacy, she had to get it um.
Speaker 1: I have a friend who is in a caretaker she
Speaker 1: has to get it UM. But I was reading and
Speaker 1: I think there's like seventy nurses that threatened to quit
Speaker 1: Anne you center up in Northern California on the vaccine mandate.
Speaker 1: So you know, I mean, for as much as we
Speaker 1: are in a crisis right now, this will amplify the crisis.
Speaker 1: If you have people in this industry that say I
Speaker 1: don't or I can't get it. At this point, do
Speaker 1: you know, are you alone wolf on this? Though? Now
Speaker 1: I found out I found it through the grape vine,
Speaker 1: emails and phone calls that I was not the only
Speaker 1: guy in this fight. But I am one a few
Speaker 1: people that has a platform I guess that can be
Speaker 1: vocal about it. I just don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: win and all that, because you see it what's happening
Speaker 1: with kids, you see what's happening in other states. Obviously
Speaker 1: the medical industry in New York you can't get into
Speaker 1: places without having a vaccine card um. But nobody is
Speaker 1: talking about natural immunity, which is just beyond me because well,
Speaker 1: the thing that frustrates me is is the uh, you know,
Speaker 1: big big pharma as uh figured out like they'll be
Speaker 1: booster shot. They found they can make this, you know,
Speaker 1: billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: They're gonna make money on top of money on the right,
Speaker 1: the booster shots every year that fiser is gonna put
Speaker 1: out and all that. So it's not it's not just
Speaker 1: like get the vaccine then you're good. It's no, no, no,
Speaker 1: every year, you gotta come back and get a every
Speaker 1: two years or whatever, you're gonna get a shot. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's my whole thing. In that email,
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, if the state's mandating you to have
Speaker 1: everyone vaccinated, does that mean that you will mandate everyone
Speaker 1: to take the necessary precautions uh to either avoid, treat,
Speaker 1: or recover from COVID Because that includes working out, exercising,
Speaker 1: eating well, cooking, lowering your stress, getting more sleep, and
Speaker 1: and working on your own mental health. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: mandate that or you're gonna be proactive about it? And
Speaker 1: that was my final shot across the bow. And they
Speaker 1: probably don't like that either, but it's true, right, like
Speaker 1: you realize you're outnumbered, though you're you're you're tremendously out well,
Speaker 1: I'm only outnumbered because people have actually gotten the vaccine,
Speaker 1: like Californians have gotten the vaccine. So I'm outnumbered in
Speaker 1: that sense. But I do think there's plenty of people
Speaker 1: that either regret getting the vaccine or question the effectiveness
Speaker 1: of it, considering the fact that, yeah, you need booster
Speaker 1: shots now, and some of these, some of these have
Speaker 1: adverse effects to people well, and a lot of not
Speaker 1: a lot, but if a percentage of the those people
Speaker 1: got the vaccine because they were told, you don't have
Speaker 1: to wear a mask anymore, you don't have the social distance.
Speaker 1: And then within a month they're like, fuck you, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta do all that. So the Hollywood Bowl
Speaker 1: and the Greek Theater here in Los Angeles, so requiring
Speaker 1: people to wear vaccines outside where you may wear masks not.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can va vaccine mask. If you could,
Speaker 1: that would be something. How could you wear a vaccine
Speaker 1: that look, I don't know. You can wear a tattoo
Speaker 1: on your shoulder right. Well, it's like the people on
Speaker 1: social media that have the circle their photo I got vaccinated,
Speaker 1: which is like almost as annoying as the people on
Speaker 1: social media say he him or you know, see her. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's when you know you've reached a douche bag. When
Speaker 1: I see that kind of stuff, I just rolled my
Speaker 1: eyes and they really were at that point there come on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. I feel bad, you know,
Speaker 1: because I did that out of a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: One was like, we got killed with the sports industry,
Speaker 1: and I was motivated to help other people out and
Speaker 1: I just feel awful that people are losing AID because
Speaker 1: these people are trying to put a gun to do.
Speaker 1: I do have a story for you, So I uh,
Speaker 1: the RAMS training Camp. I I just love to go
Speaker 1: to RAMS training camp when I was a kid. And
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to go to RAMS training Camp
Speaker 1: this year, but there were so many hoops you had
Speaker 1: to jump through. You had had of the vaccine, you
Speaker 1: had to get tested even after the vaccine, and so
Speaker 1: all these and as I'm not worth it. I don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with the bullshit, and so I didn't
Speaker 1: even go out. And I would have loved it. It It
Speaker 1: would have been wonderful. I liked the RAMS. I could
Speaker 1: have gone and had access and and all that, but
Speaker 1: they they sent an email. I was like, really, there's
Speaker 1: like seven such a pain in the ass. It's like
Speaker 1: to me, it's not worth it to spend an hour
Speaker 1: and a half watching football players, you know, run around,
Speaker 1: which would have been fun. But I like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not dealing with that crap and uh,
Speaker 1: and so I haven't. I have not. But it's up
Speaker 1: to you if you want to release the hounds. The
Speaker 1: Malle Militia very good at annoying, very good. They're like mosquitoes.
Speaker 1: They just getting your business. They bite you, they'll sting you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's weird. I don't know. I obviously everyone's got their
Speaker 1: own choices and uh, you know, this thing continues to
Speaker 1: evolve anyway, taking shape. So it's weird because there's people
Speaker 1: that think that just because you don't want to do something,
Speaker 1: you're anti that right, like you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: if I'm against something around, Yeah, what do you say? Now?
Speaker 1: What do you say? Guess there are people that listen
Speaker 1: to this that think, hey, this guy's a nut job.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? What do you say to people?
Speaker 1: They love the vaccine and think that everyone needs to
Speaker 1: get it and if you don't get it, guessing you're
Speaker 1: a bad person. Who want to say to that guy,
Speaker 1: But I'm not an anti vaxter and I think everyone
Speaker 1: should take it if they need to get it. Like
Speaker 1: you said, you're some of your family have got parents
Speaker 1: have recommended. Uh, aunts and uncles have recommended. I have
Speaker 1: a couple of friends that are diabetics. I recommended they
Speaker 1: get it. Um, and you know my situation. I got
Speaker 1: it my my brother. Um, I you is my brother
Speaker 1: is a guinea pig, and I figured he has the
Speaker 1: same DNA as I. Plus I got you know, my
Speaker 1: wife and my family, the first side of the family.
Speaker 1: You know, we hang out on the weekends. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get excited. So I but I waited until my brother
Speaker 1: had had it, and then I waited a couple of
Speaker 1: months until after. I didn't get it until not that
Speaker 1: long ago because I wanted to make sure he was
Speaker 1: all right. And um, and you know, he's got other
Speaker 1: medical conditions other than that I don't have. But he's
Speaker 1: he's doing fine and so. Uh. But if I was
Speaker 1: single and not, you know, and not in the situation,
Speaker 1: I probably would not have gotten it. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: because of my situation, I got it, and I've been
Speaker 1: fine and nothing's It was painful for a day and
Speaker 1: I felt a little weird for like a few hours,
Speaker 1: but other than that, nothing really happened. And who knows,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't know down the line. And but
Speaker 1: the way I look at it, um, I'll be in
Speaker 1: the majority of the people or whatever that so we'll
Speaker 1: all die at the same time. We all hold the
Speaker 1: hands while we die. Well, well, at least at least
Speaker 1: I know where get to bury you in your brand
Speaker 1: new remodeled house. Yes, yeah, in the backyard if you want,
Speaker 1: you can bury me back there. I think I have
Speaker 1: five G power. Now you can use me as a
Speaker 1: cell phone receptacle. I'm growing an extra I I have
Speaker 1: a tail. But other than that, it's all good. It's
Speaker 1: all good. What could possibly go wrong? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of friends that are autoimmune, and
Speaker 1: when they asked me what I thought about, I said,
Speaker 1: you gotta get the vaccine, Like I feel like you
Speaker 1: are in that that group where you badly need it,
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, I mean elderly, of course. I mean
Speaker 1: we had the The thing that is frustrating is like
Speaker 1: you still can get it to me? To me a vaccine,
Speaker 1: is you get it? You like if you have the
Speaker 1: polio vaccine, I don't think you get polio. And maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong with that and maybe somebody can correct me,
Speaker 1: but you don't get But this now there's well, it's
Speaker 1: not as bad. And there's always those outliers where people
Speaker 1: make the media where people get have the vaccine, get it,
Speaker 1: get COVID and still and they say that's within the
Speaker 1: margin of error or whatever. And so you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know that people know what they're talking about, but
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta roll with it, guess sometimes I
Speaker 1: gotta roll with I'm rolling with you, guest. But I
Speaker 1: give you credit for standing standing up for your principles
Speaker 1: in a world where that's looked down upon. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: have to just follow the group think. And if you
Speaker 1: don't follow the group think, you're a heathen, which is
Speaker 1: just weird, right because if you put I mean, because
Speaker 1: we have people like in our industry radio and television,
Speaker 1: and some of them are in fantastic shape, some of
Speaker 1: them are okay, and some of them are just got awful.
Speaker 1: But are you trying to tell me someone that's pushing
Speaker 1: like three bills or four hundred, that's on radio or
Speaker 1: TV and sits down every day and gets a vaccine
Speaker 1: that's healthier than me, Like fuck no, Like well, no, no,
Speaker 1: of course not. But they cheat people like bio hazards. Right,
Speaker 1: If you're not vaccinated, you're walking biohazard. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't care. I mean, to me, you should
Speaker 1: aside if you don't want to do it, you just
Speaker 1: have to deal with the consequences of something happens. Right,
Speaker 1: but but at the same time, it doesn't guarantee the
Speaker 1: vaccine doesn't get it to you're not gonna get it
Speaker 1: and have consequence. Yeah, so I wanted your opinion on
Speaker 1: that publicly because yeah, it's interesting and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and being a lot the argument the Devil's Advocate arguments, well,
Speaker 1: these are these are private A lot of these are
Speaker 1: private businesses, although you said, is that through the state
Speaker 1: of California, Well, it's a nonprofit, so I don't know
Speaker 1: like where they are. I guess the National Center is
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles, but they're across the country, Like aren'
Speaker 1: they gonna They're gonna like have military guys have to
Speaker 1: get it and all that, and they're talking about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's and the argument has always been like in
Speaker 1: the private sector, you can have you can require so
Speaker 1: and so, and they you know, they'll they'll say that
Speaker 1: you have kids going to school, you have you have
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated for certain things, and so that's just
Speaker 1: part of the deal. And you know that going in
Speaker 1: and right, and I get that, But counter argument, you
Speaker 1: are so are comparing vaccines that have been in the
Speaker 1: game for a long period of time to something that
Speaker 1: has just been put out into the market, you know.
Speaker 1: It just I don't think it's apples to orange. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's apples to apples. I think it's apples
Speaker 1: to oranges. I really do. And and well we'll fight
Speaker 1: out if they royally screwed up. And a lot of
Speaker 1: people are you know, you know that. But I hope
Speaker 1: the thing we have to look forward to down the line,
Speaker 1: you know, we can look forward to that years people.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like people smoke cigarette. Doctor used to
Speaker 1: recommend smoke cigarettes, you know, and then eventually, as my
Speaker 1: dad used to tell me all the time when I
Speaker 1: was thinking about, you know, should you smoke, should not smoke,
Speaker 1: He's like, well, you know, it's the doctors used to
Speaker 1: say to smoke. And then you know, they didn't realize
Speaker 1: you get lung cancer, and they didn't put that there
Speaker 1: was no connection, no correlation. For a while, I didn't
Speaker 1: want to mention briefly here before we get to get
Speaker 1: out of here. The the Mallard Studio, which I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about. It is the even though this is actually
Speaker 1: airing the Friday podcast and now this is Saturday podcast
Speaker 1: aired after the radio show, this is actually the maiden voyage.
Speaker 1: This is the maiden voyage from the new studio and
Speaker 1: new and improved audio quality. By the way, uh deep
Speaker 1: here in the north Woods, off the grid from the
Speaker 1: rest of the world, embedded with a microphone in hand,
Speaker 1: ready to go. The studio is It's like a two
Speaker 1: for one. So I'm on the radio side of the
Speaker 1: studio right now. The I had my own podcast set up.
Speaker 1: I'm still getting some equipment for that putting that together.
Speaker 1: I did dust out the wallet. I would like to
Speaker 1: thank the great Jake Warner. Was on Jake Warner's podcast,
Speaker 1: Stay Awake with Jake, my guy, my engineer Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio back in the day, and he's now doing his
Speaker 1: own thing. He's got a popular podcast, the Big Brother
Speaker 1: Jake Podcast, and we were talking old radio stories and
Speaker 1: Jake I connected and he said, wait a minute, that
Speaker 1: sounds that sounds terrible. It sounds that sounds bad. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, I'm on my computer. It sounds fine.
Speaker 1: He says, no, it doesn't. That sounds He's a professional engineer.
Speaker 1: And I was like, uh, and so I said, well,
Speaker 1: you gotta help me, Jake. He said, yeah, Jake guided
Speaker 1: me to see the light. He's the o. G the
Speaker 1: old gangster engineer for the Clippers, my my favorite NBA team,
Speaker 1: the l A. King's my favorite hockey team. And he
Speaker 1: used to be the traveling audio engineer for the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers for years. And Jake knows how to make
Speaker 1: you sound good. Jake will make you sound good. He's
Speaker 1: a pros pro and so he we were talking back
Speaker 1: and forth. He actually came over to the halfway house
Speaker 1: and looked at the equipment that I had, and he's
Speaker 1: the only one, literally, the only one that was in there.
Speaker 1: Nobody else. I didn't have anybody else in my friend
Speaker 1: circle that came in there because I was so embarrassed
Speaker 1: because there was boxes everywhere and like there was a
Speaker 1: mattress on the on the floor. It was a disaster. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he came in and he told me what to
Speaker 1: get and so that should be up and running within
Speaker 1: about ten days or so. So it'll give us a
Speaker 1: little more freedom and it will sound better. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited about this is gonna be this a big chapter here, Gascon.
Speaker 1: And you were actually part of it. I can't get
Speaker 1: into the reasons why, but you were the motivation for it.
Speaker 1: So if it hadn't been for you and your you
Speaker 1: know your situation, I would not have done this. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. So do you want to give you a
Speaker 1: little little, little added bonus to this? All right, so
Speaker 1: some of your dreams, no pun intended, might come true. Um,
Speaker 1: the league that I'm calling European football for right now,
Speaker 1: that production company reached out to me a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, and uh, they are in partnership with another
Speaker 1: production company in Europe and they want me to do
Speaker 1: play by play for a champions hockey league. It's an
Speaker 1: international league with like twenty six teams involved. Pluck usually
Speaker 1: drops around six or seven o'clock Pacific, which means they'll
Speaker 1: have to be up early. So am so so your
Speaker 1: dream of potentially recording these things at different times like
Speaker 1: after your show might actually, unfortunately have to come into reality.
Speaker 1: I'm not really happy abou any of that. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: very happy about that. I'm very happy. Uh. As you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a creature of habits, and because of your situation
Speaker 1: about my my habits are changing and and so if
Speaker 1: it can be more ben friendly, that would that would
Speaker 1: be great? Employ would that be one? You haven't posted
Speaker 1: any pictures of your studio yet, have you No, No,
Speaker 1: I want to wait till it's the podcast stuff is up.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited about it. It's it's pretty cool. This
Speaker 1: is this is gonna be great. It's gonna be wonderful.
Speaker 1: And then I went out and it sounds sounds better.
Speaker 1: This week, I spent some bucks on a new voice processor.
Speaker 1: My voice processor had been dying a slow, painful death,
Speaker 1: and I finally put that out to pastor and this
Speaker 1: one is good to go. So I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 1: And uh, and also I've been dealing with a massive
Speaker 1: spider bite, by the way, that's been that's been going
Speaker 1: on here, guests. I write, the spider loves the meat
Speaker 1: right below my knee on the back of my my
Speaker 1: leg there, they just right below the knee there, and
Speaker 1: it's my whole right leg was like infected. And I
Speaker 1: then read that spiders love piles of clothes, like for them,
Speaker 1: that's porn, that's yes, they love to hide and live
Speaker 1: and piles of clothes. Well, the place I was living
Speaker 1: had nothing but piles of clothes because everything was kind
Speaker 1: of in transit, right, so we didn't really put anything
Speaker 1: away because we're not gonna stay there and we're only
Speaker 1: there for a couple of months, and so it was
Speaker 1: like a playground for the spiders and it was a
Speaker 1: freaking nightmare. Um. Anyway, so it is finally healed. And
Speaker 1: I did read online though, that a home remedy for
Speaker 1: spider bites garlic. Yeah, that you can just rub garlic
Speaker 1: on the spider bite, which adds to the mystical powers
Speaker 1: of the ancient formula, the original medicine garlic. You can
Speaker 1: put some witch hazel on it too. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I could rub a lot of stuff on anyway. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we'll put the baby to ba. Get a big
Speaker 1: mail bag. A lot of people fired up here, Mallard
Speaker 1: militia on malamlicia, crime on the mail bag. We look
Speaker 1: forward to that, and uh, we'll catch you then, have
Speaker 1: a wonderful rest of your Saturday, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: on the other side on a on a Sunday. Be
Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
Speaker 1: weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart to Your While