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Speaker 1: any different than any other week. So still saying those
Speaker 1: stupid emails your Maron's I don't need You've you've woken
Speaker 1: up on the wrong side of the bed today. It's
Speaker 1: it's very apparent, and you've brought me down that road
Speaker 1: to I am exhausted because I've had to stay here
Speaker 1: overnight to monitor your show. You've brought up special guests
Speaker 1: to me and your listeners. We deserve an apology. Uh
Speaker 1: you did not. I saw you leave the building. There's
Speaker 1: security camerage camera footage of you leaving the Psychopaths, So
Speaker 1: you did leave the building. And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you got attacked by bed bugs or something
Speaker 1: like that. And you probably don't have a sleeping over
Speaker 1: bed like I have. No um so yeah, but but no,
Speaker 1: I mean listen, it's uh we do this. We tape
Speaker 1: this thing during the day and uh so sometimes I
Speaker 1: can be rambunctious when that happens. But anyway, we're back
Speaker 1: at coming up on today's edition. Through I give you
Speaker 1: the rundown here because I like doing the rundown nice.
Speaker 1: So this is what we're cooking up here. On the podcast,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about we'll call the embargo Baby. I have
Speaker 1: not mentioned this before. This is we try to give
Speaker 1: you like insider stuff. Somebody pointed out, by the way Gascon,
Speaker 1: that we did no sports conversation last week. There was
Speaker 1: zero sports conversation, and as someone who is the producer
Speaker 1: of the podcast, gas Gun, I fully blame you. In fact,
Speaker 1: I want you to know that if anyone complains, my
Speaker 1: default response and when management calls up and says I
Speaker 1: didn't like what I heard there on this podcast, I
Speaker 1: just blame you. I say, it's not my fault, it's
Speaker 1: gas Gun's fault. You're my fall guy. Well, the beautiful
Speaker 1: thing is, as you mentioned the top is we're under
Speaker 1: the I Heart Media umbrella, so it's not strictly Fox
Speaker 1: Sports and I heard media, so we encompass all that
Speaker 1: is in this good world. That's true, and well that's
Speaker 1: my my thought on this movie. I do four hours
Speaker 1: of sports talk, plausibly sports talk, so this is not
Speaker 1: it's not I'm trying to circumvent sports talk. But one
Speaker 1: of the things that I would like is that I
Speaker 1: want this thing to last, this podcast, as far as
Speaker 1: the fact that if you listen to it. I listened
Speaker 1: to podcasts from time to time, and when the sports
Speaker 1: in the sports corner, when stuff is dated, it's it's
Speaker 1: I evaded, you know, bipad, I sidestep, but whatever you
Speaker 1: want to uh and so uh you know a lot
Speaker 1: of these sports issues we talked about, unless we just
Speaker 1: do really generic things, which I'm not against, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean from time to time. You know you love
Speaker 1: list radio. Gas got invented list radio. Um it's I
Speaker 1: feel it's disastrous, but we could do like top ten lists.
Speaker 1: We could do top five lists, you know, we could,
Speaker 1: we could do all that stuff. We gotta keep it
Speaker 1: more open ending. We can't really do We could do
Speaker 1: that because I mean, after all we've had we can record, right,
Speaker 1: we can just record out a general sports topic and
Speaker 1: then not even worry if it changes the subject in
Speaker 1: a day or two or even hours after that, Right,
Speaker 1: something breaks and we stleft some recorded content that's still
Speaker 1: that's not evergreen, but it's it's what we have. Well.
Speaker 1: For for example, um, the was it two weeks ago
Speaker 1: we were talking about it. We actually recorded a part
Speaker 1: of the podcast talking about Antonio Brown Benny versus a Penny,
Speaker 1: and we had to we had to delete that. Well,
Speaker 1: I it's team when it when it's a team, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's in this in this respects this balancing act. Yeah
Speaker 1: you know, but yes, and so that content had to
Speaker 1: be deleted because it was dated and all that story
Speaker 1: had changed. And that happens a lot with these dopey things.
Speaker 1: But you know that already anyway, So I want to
Speaker 1: put you. We talked about this. I need to have
Speaker 1: you on one of my games, on a television game
Speaker 1: for Fox out here on Fox Sports. I would love
Speaker 1: I would love that. I would I would do nothing
Speaker 1: but sports cliches. I might get fired. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I think it would be great and and uh I
Speaker 1: think they should just just a bit to improve ratings.
Speaker 1: I would I would do that. I haven't been to
Speaker 1: a high school game since you know, I was in
Speaker 1: high school, but I would absolutely go. I would have
Speaker 1: a great time. It would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, all right, the amount
Speaker 1: of hard oh sports talk that I could do here
Speaker 1: if you if you want, I am a contributor. I
Speaker 1: don't I kid around about this, but if you go,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a website. You go to sports
Speaker 1: cliche dot com and you click on there's a link
Speaker 1: there near the tops called mission Statement and Links, and
Speaker 1: it's lists all the contributors of the people that sent
Speaker 1: in these things, and my name is prominently displayed there
Speaker 1: on that particular page. I have contributed to what I
Speaker 1: feel one of the great websites out there, Thank God
Speaker 1: for the Internet. Not many people know about it, but
Speaker 1: sports cliche dot com, well you had You've had a
Speaker 1: couple of fantastic uh monologues with sports cliches from sports personalities,
Speaker 1: right athletes. Uh yeah, yeah, Well I love it. Well
Speaker 1: I did. We did a parody song years ago, which
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of. When the it was like a
Speaker 1: pandemic all of a sudden hit, and it was everyone's saying,
Speaker 1: it is what it is like all so I put
Speaker 1: a Of course I had someone else to it, I
Speaker 1: because I pointed at someone else. But we put a
Speaker 1: song together and it was the it is what it
Speaker 1: is song, And it was like ten different people in football,
Speaker 1: the big stars at the time, and they all, uh,
Speaker 1: they all just said it is what it is like. Belichick,
Speaker 1: Elim Lijah Manning, Tom Brady, they're still around. They were
Speaker 1: doing it and all that stuff. So, but just think
Speaker 1: of me like I have to. You know, I end
Speaker 1: to review the high school coach down by two touches? Coach, man,
Speaker 1: how do you stay hungry? You're up by you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're up by two times? Are you're down by
Speaker 1: two whatever? And uh you can go down that and
Speaker 1: uh go down that road? What else? What's your feeling
Speaker 1: coach heading into the locker room right now? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do you tell your team at halftime? Coach Boom?
Speaker 1: I love that one. That's a great I all that
Speaker 1: from Aaron Andrews. I did I stole that from Aaron Andrews. Uh,
Speaker 1: coach the match up, Your numbers look terrible, looks like
Speaker 1: you have no chance to win, But the stature misleading,
Speaker 1: aren't they? And you can survive As an NFL field reporter,
Speaker 1: you'd be in a good spot. Yeah, I think I'd
Speaker 1: be all right. I think I think I can handle that.
Speaker 1: Not the one thing that you cannot say during a
Speaker 1: broadcast like that, which a lot of radio hosts do
Speaker 1: now or even television personalities, they always use unmitigated disaster.
Speaker 1: That is a catchy phrase over the last year. You
Speaker 1: do you do, but you don't use it as much.
Speaker 1: Other people, I think use it as a crutch. I
Speaker 1: don't know if why is that not allowed? I mean
Speaker 1: it's okay, but you go back to the cliches, right,
Speaker 1: the dumpster fires or you know whatever. It is something
Speaker 1: that's catchy. It is what it is. Those things were
Speaker 1: played on for a long period of time, and not
Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster is one of those. So that this is
Speaker 1: like an earworm for you. You hear this, You're annoyed
Speaker 1: by this, you're troubled by this. I just think that
Speaker 1: it's overused, right, A lot of this nonsense is overused.
Speaker 1: I mean it's everyone's using the same image. I do
Speaker 1: try to change it up, though. That's I get fatigued
Speaker 1: from using the same words, and I do need to.
Speaker 1: My goal for the next week is to use the
Speaker 1: the the word horn swoggle more. I don't use that
Speaker 1: word enough. I love the word horn squogg. I feel
Speaker 1: like the great word. It's perfect words, fun word. Kids
Speaker 1: laugh at it, adults think it's interesting. Uh that don't
Speaker 1: always hear the words. So I like the word horn swoggle.
Speaker 1: I need to use that more. It's a bad job
Speaker 1: by me. Well please use it tonight. Then you know, no, no,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I guess gone though. Yeah, you do
Speaker 1: these high school Friday you do a game, is there right?
Speaker 1: So yeah, for Fox Sports West that will do high
Speaker 1: school football games, and then when you get into winter,
Speaker 1: it's usually college basketball and volleyball and baseball stuff that
Speaker 1: you don't really care about, so don't no, I'd have
Speaker 1: no interest in that. But it's on Fox. You should watch.
Speaker 1: Well not here. We work good I heearts, so it's
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Speaker 1: As they say, but no, I would have fun. It
Speaker 1: reminds me of I think we talked about this. I
Speaker 1: don't know we did on on the podcast or not.
Speaker 1: But when I used to do the Football Show, The
Speaker 1: Hard Old Football Show with Looney Tunes on the weekend,
Speaker 1: we had a great time. We had asked seven years
Speaker 1: I did that show and we had to interview every week.
Speaker 1: We had the stars of the NFL on Fox that
Speaker 1: would come on the play by play people and everybody,
Speaker 1: even Joe Buck had to do this and come on
Speaker 1: with us, and we had players every week from the
Speaker 1: winning locker room is never the losing locker room because
Speaker 1: the reporters were afraid to have them come on the
Speaker 1: show and they wouldn't come anyway. So we do this
Speaker 1: every week and uh looney. One week we tried to
Speaker 1: change it up because we were asking really good, thoughtful questions,
Speaker 1: deep questions, you know, the kind of questions that you
Speaker 1: gotta do some soul searching for the athlete to answer
Speaker 1: the question. And it was it was such a disaster.
Speaker 1: It was it was painful. So we changed it up
Speaker 1: and Louni would just ask one one week, he asked
Speaker 1: nothing but sports cliches, uh to the to the players,
Speaker 1: he spoke their language like, hey, you really brought your
Speaker 1: a game today, didn't you. Yeah, and things like that,
Speaker 1: you know, and they just they just ate it up.
Speaker 1: They just and they were tickled to death that they
Speaker 1: were asking these questions. And it was a tremendous improvement.
Speaker 1: So that's a little lesson. If you ever get a
Speaker 1: show where you have to interview athletes after football games,
Speaker 1: don't ask them those deep soul searching questions. You know
Speaker 1: where they could get lost in thought. You don't want
Speaker 1: you don't want introspection. You don't you want simple, you
Speaker 1: want right. They're as simple as it gets, is what
Speaker 1: you want. I feel like there's a boilerplate template that's
Speaker 1: available for field and court side reporters, for halftime and
Speaker 1: for postgame, just immediate questions that come off your lips.
Speaker 1: How do you feel what led you to victory? What
Speaker 1: was the turning point in the game. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna tell your team at halftime? Coach? Right, halftime adjustment?
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to next week? Okay, awesome?
Speaker 1: So c I have a theory on this, A you're right,
Speaker 1: this goes on everywhere. There's I don't know anyone that's
Speaker 1: really outside that that certain lane they stay in, y'all
Speaker 1: lane and all that stuff that they I know that's
Speaker 1: saying fortune favors the bowl, which I use from something,
Speaker 1: but not when your sideline report, Uh, it is not.
Speaker 1: You want to keep your money. You have to you
Speaker 1: have to play right. The other thing is that people
Speaker 1: have just become programmed to watch football or any sport,
Speaker 1: and they expect, you know what it is like a
Speaker 1: certain expectation It's kind of like when I watch a
Speaker 1: game and I know it's a blowout, and it's uh,
Speaker 1: every broadcaster learns that sportscaster clown class that hey, uh,
Speaker 1: we can't say the game is over. We have to lie, right,
Speaker 1: We have to lie to these people's years and to
Speaker 1: their face. And I said, you should not turn the
Speaker 1: game off. You know it's a bare face lie, but
Speaker 1: you have to say it anyway because you're trying to
Speaker 1: keep your audience. It's harder to get new people than
Speaker 1: keep the people you already have, So it turns into
Speaker 1: a in a blowout, it's pathological line there when there's
Speaker 1: a chance they could come back. Yeah, and once out
Speaker 1: of like a thousand they come back. And then when
Speaker 1: the team does come back, then it's like, well, I
Speaker 1: told you, see, you should never turn the game up.
Speaker 1: Nine nine point nine percent of time if you consider
Speaker 1: all the factors, the game is over. But it's a blowout,
Speaker 1: and and you and you use weasel words gas on
Speaker 1: your own how do I use the reasl word. They
Speaker 1: say that a broadcaster makes his or her money during
Speaker 1: blowouts because that's the only way that you can keep
Speaker 1: an audience around. It's like a talk show host, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you can have a strong opening monologue, but if you've
Speaker 1: got no salt, no pepper, nothing in the middle towards
Speaker 1: the back end of the hour, then your game over.
Speaker 1: You're there for what fifteen minutes? So in a game
Speaker 1: you need the backstories. You need the players, you need
Speaker 1: their stories, You need to know how they came about,
Speaker 1: where they came from. I think those things are important.
Speaker 1: You just have around a conversation. See, I disagree with
Speaker 1: your analogy here. It is the thing that it's like
Speaker 1: you you know firsthand, there's only host that provide a
Speaker 1: good opening monologue and they check out after that. Well
Speaker 1: that is true, alright, is true. But I would say
Speaker 1: the bigger issue in our industry if I were to
Speaker 1: give you a conversation about sports radio in general. And
Speaker 1: I don't listen all that often because I don't want
Speaker 1: to take other people's material and I feel like you
Speaker 1: might listen, I might copy something somebody else does, so
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't actually listen as much as other
Speaker 1: people do. But when I do sample sports talk radio,
Speaker 1: all right, my analysis here, my diagnosis is that it's
Speaker 1: it's part of the calendar, like that this time of
Speaker 1: the year. During the NFL, there is usually five to
Speaker 1: ten pretty good stories a day, some better than others
Speaker 1: some days. But it's coming in in May and June
Speaker 1: and the months where there's not a lot going on,
Speaker 1: that's really not a lot of meat on the bone,
Speaker 1: and to still put out and turn out a decent
Speaker 1: to above average show that. I mean, it's just people
Speaker 1: just pack it in. They get lazy, they don't they
Speaker 1: don't have the the chops to it. But so I
Speaker 1: think that's where like that's our blowout in sports radio
Speaker 1: when there ain't crap going on, the ship going on.
Speaker 1: We say that in the podcast, of course, and yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's you know, it's it's how to do it.
Speaker 1: And I guess in the layman's terms, it's almost like
Speaker 1: the real estate market. Anybody can be an agent when
Speaker 1: the real state market is hot, but when it comes
Speaker 1: down and it cools off, then you see the feast
Speaker 1: and the famine that takes place. That's what it's like
Speaker 1: during the dog days of summer for baseball. Because there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of people that will delve into Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. They won't talk a lot about that. They
Speaker 1: don't go back to the National Football League and then
Speaker 1: of course the NBA had some offseason drama over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, but that's been pretty much it.
Speaker 1: So you really got to manufacture, which comes back to
Speaker 1: your original point why it's important not to stick to
Speaker 1: sports because there's so many other things that are going
Speaker 1: on that make a show for three or four hours entertaining. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you've got a mix and match and and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yeah, even the hard oh sports shows
Speaker 1: is I find it a hard listen. I know that
Speaker 1: some people that love that and they like it, but
Speaker 1: it's it's like nighties sports radio, where like you'd read
Speaker 1: the read the lineups before games during the day, you know,
Speaker 1: the Yankees lineups out. That's read the Yankees lineup. It's like,
Speaker 1: okay on the phone to see that. Yeah, didn't you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember you're telling me a story about
Speaker 1: a couple of New York broadcasters that would actually do
Speaker 1: that for the radio shows in the morning time. They
Speaker 1: would read it would be box score radio. Oh it
Speaker 1: was actually Mike frances Is the legend of this, Like
Speaker 1: FRANCESSA would kill like segments of his show just reading
Speaker 1: the lineups and the box score and and it was
Speaker 1: and he say a name and then he paused for
Speaker 1: like thirty seconds, and I mean, he just dragged it out.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if he still does that or not,
Speaker 1: but he I'm guessing I'll have to check with fun House,
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming he does actually do that. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: was in the middle of the rundown. I was doing
Speaker 1: a formal rundown this Nanny this week. So we have
Speaker 1: Embargo Baby, the Power Lunch Study, this which I like,
Speaker 1: and we've got marginal questions from It's in the Bag,
Speaker 1: It's in the bag. We've got that, which I would
Speaker 1: like to see better questions now. Last week I thought
Speaker 1: the questions were pretty good. And then don't stick of Sports,
Speaker 1: which will be really a blind we there's no production
Speaker 1: meeting on this. I have no idea what five stories
Speaker 1: guestcn's gonna pick. He was in a big hurry to
Speaker 1: get this thing going year, so we'll we'll we'll kind
Speaker 1: of play that by year. So that's that's what I think.
Speaker 1: That's that's a good podcast. I think that's a solid
Speaker 1: discussion has the ability to be a solid podcast. It's
Speaker 1: really up to to you not to eff it up. Okay,
Speaker 1: be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show week dam eastern eleven pm Pacific. Can I give
Speaker 1: you at least an obligatory sports story to kick this
Speaker 1: thing off? Yes? Alright, oh, we that would be great
Speaker 1: because that would appease, that would pacify the people that
Speaker 1: are upset. You never talk about sports, just borring. I
Speaker 1: don't care about what you had for lunch. All right, well,
Speaker 1: here we go. Here's our obligatory sports story. Jennifer Lopez
Speaker 1: will be doing the halftime performance of the upcoming Super
Speaker 1: Bowl j Lo JL man. She looks good for her age.
Speaker 1: Does that mean a rod is gonna be hanging out? Also?
Speaker 1: Will he be part of the festivities? Maybe with the
Speaker 1: answers in the back? Isn't it usually a group effort?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So it'll be her? Who
Speaker 1: is she gonna be with? I mean, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some ensemble group there, right, the assemblage, usually the SUPERO
Speaker 1: I have some kind of tandem. That's that's my like.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll bring some surprise musician who would be I'm
Speaker 1: not big on the music there, guess and I listened
Speaker 1: to it, but I don't know a lot about like,
Speaker 1: who would be someone that people would get all excited
Speaker 1: about and fascinated by if j Lo did some Jenny
Speaker 1: from the block worked with somebody else. I mean justin
Speaker 1: timber Lake comes to mind. Yeah, yeah, of course, I
Speaker 1: mean justin timber Lake with Jack Jackson. Well that was
Speaker 1: the super Bowl war wardrobe malfunction. Yeah, I think Gray Momanson.
Speaker 1: We were, we were, I was on the ear doing
Speaker 1: a show during the super Bowl. What about if P
Speaker 1: Diddy comes out? Then you get a little friction right there,
Speaker 1: because that that whole a Rod relationship will obviously j LO.
Speaker 1: But P Diddy is the one that kind of brought
Speaker 1: her up from where she came from the block. J Lo.
Speaker 1: She's got a Derek Jeter like card of her her
Speaker 1: list of accomplishments there her conquest j Lo. But she
Speaker 1: had the gift basket. I don't know that she has
Speaker 1: the gift basket or not, would you si? How old
Speaker 1: is she by the way, Credit's yeah, she's fifty. For
Speaker 1: her man, she's fifty. Where she probably spends a million
Speaker 1: She's like called Brian James. I bet Jennifer Lopez spends
Speaker 1: a million dollars a year probably to try to maintain
Speaker 1: the body and she's been When did she first broke
Speaker 1: in in like the early nineties? Right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: That's a long that's like thirty years of j Lo
Speaker 1: Jenny on the Block. Do you remember the show in
Speaker 1: Living Color? I do. I I didn't watch it. I
Speaker 1: watched it sometimes, but it was it was it was
Speaker 1: a Fox show. It was very popular in the yearly nineties.
Speaker 1: So she was a flag girl dancer in that and
Speaker 1: that was a that's early nineties, yea. So if the
Speaker 1: miss Wayne's brothers, right, that's right, Jim Kelly was on
Speaker 1: that too. Um, if the misses getting gave you a
Speaker 1: get at jail free card and jail want to uh
Speaker 1: to lay with you one night, would you sign an
Speaker 1: n D A Like no, not not now. I mean
Speaker 1: maybe five years ago I would have. But you know
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, look, it's when you're younger, Like
Speaker 1: you know, Pamela Anderson at one point was the hottest
Speaker 1: woman in the world, but now probably not. She's got
Speaker 1: some I got some issue is the little older down
Speaker 1: so you move on. Yeah, but some of these women
Speaker 1: j Lo some ahya, even Demi Moore, they're they're in
Speaker 1: their fifties and they still look gorgeous. Well, it's the
Speaker 1: same concept that a lot of guys have. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to get with the beautiful person because it's
Speaker 1: it's the story of it, right, I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: story there if you were to hook up with someone
Speaker 1: along those lines. Anyway, all right, let's let's get into
Speaker 1: this embargo. Baby. So this podcast that you are listening
Speaker 1: to right now has gotten to me in trouble with
Speaker 1: the NFL, and we don't even talk about sports. Now.
Speaker 1: Let me let me explain. I have been put on Twitter,
Speaker 1: not necessarily Twitter time out, but there's been an embargo
Speaker 1: placed on some of my work. I use social media,
Speaker 1: like pretty much everyone in this ridiculous industry, to promote
Speaker 1: content that we do, audio content that we do, to
Speaker 1: let people know where to get it and where to download.
Speaker 1: And we're trying to build up the podcast audience, which
Speaker 1: we thank you for being a member of a subscriber
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So we were trying to build
Speaker 1: up the podcast audience. So I send out these tweets saying, hey,
Speaker 1: so will listen to so and so and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Uh. So last week I sent a tweet
Speaker 1: out over the weekend, I said, one last chance to
Speaker 1: catch Benny versus the penny for Week three of the NFL,
Speaker 1: we give you free handicapping and opinions about all today's
Speaker 1: matchups and the Monday night football game. I sent that
Speaker 1: out in the early in the morning on on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. It was a scheduled tweet. I
Speaker 1: don't normally do that, but I was sleeping, so I
Speaker 1: sent that out. I said, I said download, and then
Speaker 1: I had a link. The link was to the podcast
Speaker 1: page on I think was the Apple podcast page that
Speaker 1: I happened to have a link to. And I put
Speaker 1: that out, so whatever, And then like a couple of
Speaker 1: days after that, I got a message announcing that the
Speaker 1: following material had been removed from my Twitter account in
Speaker 1: response to a d m C A takedown notice. And
Speaker 1: that was the tweet and some schmuck, and then they
Speaker 1: included the person's name who claims to work for the NFL,
Speaker 1: saying the copyright owners the National Football League, this guy,
Speaker 1: James will call him now, he doesn't actually work for
Speaker 1: the NFL. He works for I guess a subcontractor, I think,
Speaker 1: but I don't even know that, uh that the NFL
Speaker 1: hires that to take down content. They have someone all
Speaker 1: the time monitoring. It's like a room monitor monitoring what's up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like when you're on the playground. You're
Speaker 1: an elementary school and there's that that used as a
Speaker 1: woman when I was in school, I had any whistle
Speaker 1: and she'd whistle if you did something stupid, started getting
Speaker 1: a fight with somebody or something like that. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: so this I don't know. I don't much about this person.
Speaker 1: I just I've never heard of this company, but it
Speaker 1: is subcontractor for the NFL. And they file, they complain,
Speaker 1: and the complaint appears to be that I used NFL
Speaker 1: video footage, which is copyrighted by the NFL. The problem
Speaker 1: is I didn't include any f and video. All I
Speaker 1: said was the word you know, the letter's NFL. That's
Speaker 1: all I said. Hand to god, Gascon, I showed you
Speaker 1: the email earlier, right, and now so you've told me
Speaker 1: my legal counsel's David gasking, what kind of legal training
Speaker 1: do you have? Gas? Well, I got I'm I'm related
Speaker 1: to the former in deputy chief of l APD, if
Speaker 1: that helps. But is he's not a lawyer though your
Speaker 1: pop seeing a lawyer though, right, he's a legal expert,
Speaker 1: legal expert. Okay, I'm sure he's been in playing of courtrooms.
Speaker 1: But this is a legal matter. Because they want me
Speaker 1: to you you've advised me to counter claim. Yes, in
Speaker 1: fact you should. I actually went to our digital department
Speaker 1: because this the d m c A basically means or
Speaker 1: it is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was copyright
Speaker 1: law implemented in so it's a notice of copyright that
Speaker 1: an owner feels it was taking advantage of by someone
Speaker 1: you as a subject for obviously consent without consent purposes.
Speaker 1: So yes, you need to return fire. My bigger question
Speaker 1: is are you going to turn the dogs loose? Same
Speaker 1: way Shatner went after you and you brought the militia around.
Speaker 1: Do turn those dogs loose again on this cat? Well?
Speaker 1: I I certainly could I have his address? You have
Speaker 1: his uh? I have his phone number which is included
Speaker 1: in this um like all that, And that's the other problem.
Speaker 1: So if I if I enter into this to to
Speaker 1: rebut the if you've never had this happen to you
Speaker 1: on on Twitter, and this is new to me. I've
Speaker 1: not surprisingly, I've not had this happen. So to counter
Speaker 1: the claim, I need to give my full legal name,
Speaker 1: my complete mailing address, my telephone number, my email, my
Speaker 1: Twitter user and name all that stuff. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: I have to have to go point by point. There's
Speaker 1: like a I think it's like five different things that
Speaker 1: I have to do legally, uh to send it back.
Speaker 1: And it's a big pain in the ass to the
Speaker 1: the whole copyright. There's a there's an email address there
Speaker 1: I have do you copyright at Twitter dot com? Is
Speaker 1: the email additor? Now do you feel like this is
Speaker 1: almost like being audited or if you're audited by the
Speaker 1: I R S. Once you're audited one time, then it's
Speaker 1: a consistent thing over and over again that if you know,
Speaker 1: I think no, no, I think what happened here is
Speaker 1: this guy just searched verified accounts because I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: have a list of the other accounts that this this
Speaker 1: whacka doodle attacked, I mean company with people like Yahoo
Speaker 1: was they had a d m c A from this guy.
Speaker 1: And there's a couple of other big name like media
Speaker 1: companies that also had it. But I think what happens
Speaker 1: this guy was lazy. My theory is this guy was
Speaker 1: bat at his job and he just wanted to get
Speaker 1: this thing over with, so he just searched the letters
Speaker 1: NFL and try. You know, he just did as quickly
Speaker 1: as he could. He just threw everything out there, and
Speaker 1: he didn't actually click on the link because if you
Speaker 1: clicked on the link that it's a link to a
Speaker 1: podcast page, which I do not believe the NFL is
Speaker 1: a copyright owner of UM. Anyways, a pain of the ask.
Speaker 1: So I will take care of that this weekend. I
Speaker 1: will counter the claim and it says I consent to
Speaker 1: the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial
Speaker 1: district in which my address is located, and I'll accept
Speaker 1: service of process from the person who provided. So I
Speaker 1: mean this is I could be called in the court.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go, let's go to Yes, let's do it, man,
Speaker 1: and look at your your your family has ties to
Speaker 1: law enforcement. I got ties the law enforcement, got a
Speaker 1: legal team to behind you. This would be this wouldn't
Speaker 1: be quite on the o J Dream team. But we're there. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to work. Can you get what attorneys? You know?
Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna well, of course you got real attorneys.
Speaker 1: What kind of questions at right? You see the effort
Speaker 1: this kid's listening. We still got five stars. We as
Speaker 1: was given me a hard time. Chris said that Chris
Speaker 1: and Houston, who you you do not want on the podcast?
Speaker 1: I want him on the podcast, but you do not
Speaker 1: want him on the podcast. You don't like him. But
Speaker 1: Chris and Houston said that I'm bad at cursing, and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not great at cursing. And I told him
Speaker 1: I think I said this on on the Overnight show,
Speaker 1: as I said, Yeah, it's I don't want to get
Speaker 1: into the habit because it's you know, I can get
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble at the other place, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to. It's not worth it anyway. All right,
Speaker 1: the Power Lunch. Now, we've been asked by several members
Speaker 1: of the malm Alicia here. He said, it's the fifth
Speaker 1: hour with Ben Maller and Gascon. You guys better taught
Speaker 1: me about this power lunch because we all tweeted out
Speaker 1: photos last weekend Saturday night. This past weekend, a group
Speaker 1: of radio rebels sat around eight Mexican food and told
Speaker 1: old war stories at a fine Mexican restaurant which I
Speaker 1: used to hang out at all the time when I
Speaker 1: lived in the city, This eld Coyote on Beverly Lair.
Speaker 1: I used to live just down the street from there,
Speaker 1: in the in l a. And I was there at
Speaker 1: least once a week, probably twice a week a lot
Speaker 1: of the time. And they everyone knew me when I
Speaker 1: would go in there. But we got together. And I
Speaker 1: don't do this very often. I'm not allowed out. My
Speaker 1: my keeper does not allow me out very often. Gasking
Speaker 1: this was a special tree, but it was. It was me,
Speaker 1: Rob Parker, the Great Rob Parker, star of the Odd
Speaker 1: Couple and Boston's number one public enemy, Tom Looney, radio
Speaker 1: legend and television Dennis Tom Looney and uh. And then
Speaker 1: we allowed you to hang on guest on for so
Speaker 1: we felt pity on you and we allowed you to
Speaker 1: hang out. Now, why was your wife's surprised that we
Speaker 1: actually had dinner outside on the patio. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: a patio guy and I didn't pick the table. I'm
Speaker 1: an inside guy. Why I don't like to patty because
Speaker 1: the car could run off the road and and take
Speaker 1: you down and all that stuff. I just the inside.
Speaker 1: I'm want the and they have more comfortable chairs inside restaurants,
Speaker 1: usually padded chairs and things like that. So yeah, if
Speaker 1: I had gotten there first, we would have been in
Speaker 1: a corner like a booth in the back is where
Speaker 1: I I used to go when I would go to
Speaker 1: that restaurant. Well, it was great weather on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1: You made me stay at the Geico Fox Sports Rado
Speaker 1: students an extra hours, so I got there a little
Speaker 1: earlier than everybody else. I picked the table, and we
Speaker 1: went to an establishment that charged seven dollars and fifty
Speaker 1: cents for one bottle Pacifico. Yeah, and that actually leads
Speaker 1: us into some fun facts about this meat, meat and greet. Here.
Speaker 1: The only person out of the four to order alcohol
Speaker 1: was David Gascon, the only one to order outool the
Speaker 1: rest of us. We were just there to have a
Speaker 1: good time and trade stories and talk about the good
Speaker 1: old days and all that. And Gascon's like, I need
Speaker 1: to get boozed up. What's up with that, guest. The
Speaker 1: reason I did that was because I knew I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna get a word in. That's true. You were pretty
Speaker 1: much the audience. You were the studio audience and most
Speaker 1: of that, most of that, it was back back and forth.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you only want to order the boost. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And here's a fun fact about I learned about David
Speaker 1: Gascon at this little get together with Rob Parker and
Speaker 1: Tom Looney went, not not only does Gascon not know
Speaker 1: how to park, he doesn't know how to read parking signs.
Speaker 1: So I mean you you have such a stigma with
Speaker 1: the parking. So we're we're there, and like I I
Speaker 1: valet park. I never valet park. I despise Valley Parking.
Speaker 1: I feel like Gascon. It's like you've run the New
Speaker 1: York Marathon and then the last half mile you you say,
Speaker 1: all right, pushed me across the finish line. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: I want to finish the race that I started, and
Speaker 1: but I valet park because the parking at that time
Speaker 1: we had the meal is terrible in that part of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Like there's no it's all metered. I didn't
Speaker 1: have changed for the meter. I couldn't feed the meter.
Speaker 1: And all the side streets which I have plenty of parking,
Speaker 1: but the people that live there. I understand they don't
Speaker 1: want people parking there because they want to park there,
Speaker 1: and so you have to have a special sticker otherwise
Speaker 1: you get a ticket. And there's signs everywhere. So I
Speaker 1: just valet parking. You think it was five fifty for
Speaker 1: valet plus tip for the valet. So I did it.
Speaker 1: And then we're at the we're at the meal and
Speaker 1: everyone's telling where they parked. And Rob Parker park he
Speaker 1: found a meter, he had some change. He parked there.
Speaker 1: Lney found a place to park down the down the
Speaker 1: street and then gascon use. Oh I I parked on
Speaker 1: the street. I find plenty of parking. My street sign
Speaker 1: was covered by a tree. First of all, that's a long.
Speaker 1: Second of all, that is a truth. But you have
Speaker 1: a lie because you can actually put your credit card
Speaker 1: or debit card inside the meter to pay for the
Speaker 1: parker the parking meters. No, no, no, that's only some
Speaker 1: of the parking. Because it is it is. I tell
Speaker 1: you I didn't. I went. I stopped at a parking
Speaker 1: meter and it was like one of those old school ones.
Speaker 1: So if I had seen the one with the credit card,
Speaker 1: I would have slid the credit card in and would
Speaker 1: have saved myself about six bucks or whoever it was
Speaker 1: so anyway. But but this in Genleman, not not that
Speaker 1: we know. We can't tell what it actually was said
Speaker 1: per se because that's private. I'm not gonna be Judas
Speaker 1: here and break the bubble of trust. But we all
Speaker 1: traded stories about the silliness of working in and radio.
Speaker 1: Rob had some great stories about when he was doing
Speaker 1: local radio and Detroit and what that was like. And
Speaker 1: I told stories about San Diego and the Ben and
Speaker 1: Dave Show, and Looney was waxing poetic about York and
Speaker 1: all that nonsense, and it was great. And like, if
Speaker 1: you're a radio geek like me, if you love radio,
Speaker 1: then I was worried, Guestcott. I I really thought I
Speaker 1: might overdose on dopamine because I was getting so much
Speaker 1: dopamine from I was getting so much joy out of
Speaker 1: all these stories. I love the stories. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: they're great. Rob was telling stories about when he was
Speaker 1: a beat writer for the for the Cincinnati Reds and
Speaker 1: lou Panella and the big Red machine of that era,
Speaker 1: the early nineties. Yeah, Rob Dibble, the whole was col
Speaker 1: I thought. The interesting thing for for me, some of
Speaker 1: my my age group was listening to you guys because
Speaker 1: a lot of the crossover with with radio came from
Speaker 1: the Howard Stern stuff. And so yeah, yeah, we were
Speaker 1: all influenced by Howard Stern. All of us were in
Speaker 1: one way or another influenced by Stern. But not like
Speaker 1: Stern now because now Howard Stern's politically correct and he's
Speaker 1: by the book and he's interviewing celebrities. We were all
Speaker 1: big as Howard Stern when Howard Stern was a rebel
Speaker 1: and it was the the ultimate shock jock and didn't
Speaker 1: want to hang out with any somebody. In fact, I've
Speaker 1: I think I told you a quote which is which
Speaker 1: I stole in part by Howard Stern. Uh the uh,
Speaker 1: the fact that Howard he didn't want to be friends
Speaker 1: with celebrities because he had to be able to rip them,
Speaker 1: you know, and he felt like he felt like he
Speaker 1: became friends with these people that he wouldn't he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to be critical of them, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a version of it. But I asked the question,
Speaker 1: uh word, did don't let a falling star fall on you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we I gave you that. That was I can say
Speaker 1: that a Grady Little who was the manager of the
Speaker 1: Red Sox and the Dodgers. But when he was managing
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, they had brought in a bunch of veteran
Speaker 1: players that used to be All stars and we're really
Speaker 1: good players and all that, and Grady, not on the record,
Speaker 1: but off the record, issued a statement about how one
Speaker 1: of the challenges when you're managing in the major leagues
Speaker 1: is to not allow a falling star to fall on you.
Speaker 1: Meeting the team spends a bunch of money on a
Speaker 1: veteran player, obviously, it was kind of self explanatory. And
Speaker 1: then that player, like you know, normal Garcia Paro I
Speaker 1: think was part of those teams. Like he comes to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He's not anywhere as near as good as
Speaker 1: he had been for the Red Sox, but he's a
Speaker 1: falling star and he ends up falling on top of you,
Speaker 1: and then you end up losing your job. Look, Joe
Speaker 1: Madden is a perfect example. Joe Madden. Find baseball man,
Speaker 1: renaissance man, uh, Joe Madden, and you look at what
Speaker 1: his situation in Chicago. And John Lester got old some
Speaker 1: of the players who aren't even that old have become
Speaker 1: falling stars on the Chicago Cubs are not as productive
Speaker 1: as they were supposed to be. And Joe Madden is
Speaker 1: likely going to lose his job this weekend, if he
Speaker 1: hasn't already lost his job as manager of the Cups.
Speaker 1: But that that was and and I buried the lead
Speaker 1: by man, you buried the lead who paid the bill?
Speaker 1: You paid the bill gas guy who paid the bill?
Speaker 1: Several of you guys you want to see alligator arms?
Speaker 1: I call Kyler Murray, alligator arms Murray. But when that
Speaker 1: check came, suddenly, you know, some of these guys, am
Speaker 1: I gonna name any names, suddenly had alligator arms. They
Speaker 1: I want to go for that check. I went right
Speaker 1: in there. I unlike Cam Newton who backed away. I
Speaker 1: jumped in on top of the fumble. That's what I did. Well,
Speaker 1: if you look at your your phone right now, there's
Speaker 1: a reason for that. But I will say this much
Speaker 1: is that let me hold on, let me look at
Speaker 1: my phone. Last time that we uh that we enjoyed
Speaker 1: a dinner. I had a I had a piggyback and
Speaker 1: carry the entire team with us, you and and Lee
Speaker 1: and uh the rest of the gang. So we gotta
Speaker 1: do more of these things. My wife does not want
Speaker 1: us to do more of these things. I loved. I
Speaker 1: could not get enough of this. I think the best
Speaker 1: thing for or me listening to you guys talk was
Speaker 1: the satisfaction that there was absolutely no ounce of social
Speaker 1: media ever present when you guys are operating under those circumstances,
Speaker 1: because if there was, there's no chance in hell you
Speaker 1: or Rob or Looney would have gotten with half the
Speaker 1: crap that you guys did on the air or in print,
Speaker 1: because it would be it would be blasted all over
Speaker 1: social media Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, and then you
Speaker 1: guys have get blasted right to the chest and probably
Speaker 1: out of a job in certain circumstances. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well under the sensibilities and the everyone's offended by something crowd,
Speaker 1: which is everybody. You know. It's like the the continually
Speaker 1: offended mob that that run around here and are triggered
Speaker 1: by everything. The you get the snowflake types and all that.
Speaker 1: The I like to call him the Charman ultrasoft toilet
Speaker 1: paper crowd who just freak out over I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean some of the stuff that we were able
Speaker 1: to do, and I I got into the business, I said,
Speaker 1: a really good time. I even though looking back on it,
Speaker 1: I'd always said, I wish I had started a couple
Speaker 1: of years later, because when I started, it wasn't all
Speaker 1: digital and all that stuff. There was no social media,
Speaker 1: there was none of that stuff. And we had the
Speaker 1: facts of the day. We we'd have that and uh
Speaker 1: the interaction and people would like send. I did a
Speaker 1: midday show in l A and we had tons of
Speaker 1: people that that didn't have to be provoked. They would
Speaker 1: they would, you know, send in the text of the
Speaker 1: facts of the day and then and all that. But
Speaker 1: I learned all the old equipment in radio. Man we
Speaker 1: the technology has changed. And when I first started, I
Speaker 1: was an engineer, like a board op and I had
Speaker 1: to use these real the real machines, cart machines, this
Speaker 1: old technology that no longer outside of small markets is
Speaker 1: no longer used in in in radio. And so I
Speaker 1: learned all that, and then I had to learn everything
Speaker 1: again because they changed it all to digital, and so
Speaker 1: I had to I learned that. But as far as
Speaker 1: they like radio bits that we did, I mean, it
Speaker 1: was great, it was wonderful. It's it's stuff that people loved.
Speaker 1: And I still I get guys that listened to when
Speaker 1: they were in their twenties who are now in their
Speaker 1: forties or whatever, and they were like, oh, I love that.
Speaker 1: Why don't you do that anymore? And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I can't do it anymore. Those bits. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: It's it's funny you say that because I grew up
Speaker 1: and I would listen to Jim Rome. But I would
Speaker 1: listen to Rome twice a day. It was when I
Speaker 1: was in San Diego. Whenever I drove back, he'd always
Speaker 1: be on simulcast or on the sumulcast. He'd have the
Speaker 1: broadcast replayed up here in Los Angeles. And so I
Speaker 1: remember my first night working here at the network, working
Speaker 1: overnight on your show, and I thought exactly that. I
Speaker 1: was like, who the fund is this guy? Like he is,
Speaker 1: He's a breath of fresh air. You get the monotone
Speaker 1: dudes that are the nine, you know, nine to twelve
Speaker 1: or the twelve, the threes that are always the same
Speaker 1: stick and spiel, And then I had no idea for
Speaker 1: the longest time who you were. And then I remember it.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, this guy, lets it rip.
Speaker 1: I didn't You were the first guy I had remember
Speaker 1: listening to prior to Jim Rome that actually turned loose
Speaker 1: on stuff as opposed to the regular black and white
Speaker 1: box score material. This is how the show's gonna be.
Speaker 1: It's all structured, and maybe we'll dip into a couple
Speaker 1: of phone calls. Yeah, well kind of you guess. Look
Speaker 1: at you buttering my biscuits there. I appreciate. But I
Speaker 1: believe that is good radio. I think that's good talk,
Speaker 1: good audio content is uh. When you become you have
Speaker 1: to be passionate. That's what I was told, you know,
Speaker 1: and I believe it to be true. I don't even
Speaker 1: be told it, but I was been repeated many times.
Speaker 1: Um find I just heard from one of my old
Speaker 1: program directors who was a big influence on me, Mike Thompson,
Speaker 1: who I love. The great guy. Helped me out a lot,
Speaker 1: and he's a radio lifer and I just had had
Speaker 1: some great memories with him. He worked all over the place.
Speaker 1: He's actually now just got a job in Omaha at
Speaker 1: the Fox affiliate in Omaha, so he was he was
Speaker 1: texting me the other morning. But like the philosophy, I
Speaker 1: I don't like listening playing it down the middle. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's terrible. Well, we we shouldn't form an
Speaker 1: opinion yet, we should wait until this, you know, this
Speaker 1: game is over and then well, you know, no, I
Speaker 1: mean that's not how it works anyway. I not that
Speaker 1: you have to be completely unhinged and illogical and all that,
Speaker 1: but it generally makes for better radio. If you're stark,
Speaker 1: raving mad. Uh, you know what I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: if you're not a little bit on that, you're not
Speaker 1: a little psycho and wacko, it's usually a pretty boring
Speaker 1: radio thing. And moving on. We I had to study this.
Speaker 1: That's next, guest, when you're ready for study this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me ask you. How was the What was the
Speaker 1: reception like for your audience last week when we did
Speaker 1: the food picks and the uh, the destinations of where
Speaker 1: you're gonna die in the United States? Any kind of
Speaker 1: response to that. Well, I did guess and people were
Speaker 1: shocked that we did thirty minutes on the causes of
Speaker 1: death in states that they were. They were surprised that
Speaker 1: we did that, and uh, completely understandable. I didn't get
Speaker 1: much reaction from the food stuff. I thought the food
Speaker 1: stuff was pretty good. Well, because you can't see it,
Speaker 1: That's why yeah, what did your wife think about your
Speaker 1: favorite STD? Any any kind of thoughts from her? Well,
Speaker 1: she and we disagree. We debated. She has a different
Speaker 1: favorite STD, and so we we got a whole argument,
Speaker 1: me and the wife. You know. We yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: we'll get some marriage counseling in here about this trip.
Speaker 1: We'll be all right, alright, yeah, alright, So study this.
Speaker 1: These are actual studies. Now, I have an obsession. If
Speaker 1: you know, over the years, you listen to the show,
Speaker 1: and you're obviously if you're you're a super fan. If
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, you're Matar, militia person, p one
Speaker 1: all that. So you know this probably, but maybe not,
Speaker 1: maybe you're new to the show. I love studies now
Speaker 1: I have a love hate relationship. But these are usually
Speaker 1: university studies, but sometimes they're commissioned by non universities or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I would love hate. So a lot of this
Speaker 1: is just bullshit. It's just absolute bullshit. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: play game on study. This is this legit or is
Speaker 1: it bullshit? With these studies? Now, for example, this one
Speaker 1: I saw this week, it's fake it till you make
Speaker 1: It's called imposter syndrome. And this is when people feel
Speaker 1: like frauds, even if they are actually capable, well qualified
Speaker 1: for what they're doing. And they say it's more common
Speaker 1: of people who are of college age, like college students.
Speaker 1: It's about of college students suffer from what they call
Speaker 1: imposter syndrome. We're experiencing something new. They they're outside their
Speaker 1: comfort zone and whatnot, and they feel like they don't
Speaker 1: belong there. So is this legit or is this bullshit?
Speaker 1: I actually think this is legit, guest, because yeah, I
Speaker 1: I know. When I first got on a the mighty
Speaker 1: six nineties, this huge radio station, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't belong here. These people are better than me.
Speaker 1: You know what. When I did Dodger Talk for the
Speaker 1: first time, I was like, man, I I hope they
Speaker 1: don't listen, because man, I'm bad at this and I
Speaker 1: don't belong here and these people are great and I don't.
Speaker 1: So I definitely have felt that at times in my life.
Speaker 1: I have you, Yeah, I did. When I first got
Speaker 1: into the industry, I started from the ground up, though
Speaker 1: I don't know how you got in, but I was
Speaker 1: a technical director, and then I was a producer, and
Speaker 1: then I became an anchor, but that first time red
Speaker 1: lights came on and microphone pop, I was like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I'm talking the thousand words a minute and
Speaker 1: trying to emulate other people. I just felt like I
Speaker 1: was I was a small fish and a giant pond. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I felt that way a couple different points.
Speaker 1: I mean, they would bring in big name stars of
Speaker 1: television or our sports and stuff, and and it was always,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, what what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean, I'm I'm from settled back college.
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to be hanging out. But you gotta
Speaker 1: get over that, and you get over it. But I
Speaker 1: do think imposter syndrow. I think it's more than I
Speaker 1: think it's. I think it's a lot of you. If
Speaker 1: you get your dream job, whatever that might be, and
Speaker 1: you're when you first start, it's you're trying to get
Speaker 1: your sea legs underneath you and all that. So I
Speaker 1: I believe in the imposter syndrome. A moving on spread
Speaker 1: the bad news. Now, this got my attention because every
Speaker 1: once in a while, guess gun, some foolish, incoherent nutball
Speaker 1: will send me an email saying, you know you're so negative,
Speaker 1: you are such a negative Nellie. You know you're such
Speaker 1: a barbaric, heartless bastard. You know, give me this whole
Speaker 1: rant about it. I need to be more positive. Well,
Speaker 1: the reason I am the way I am is because
Speaker 1: I know human nature, guest gun, and I was backed
Speaker 1: up by his study. Obviously, this makes me feel better
Speaker 1: because I agree with it. But here's the study. Negative news.
Speaker 1: The reason it gets broadcast and published online more than
Speaker 1: positive news is because, according to a new global study,
Speaker 1: on average, humans tend to react more strongly to negative information.
Speaker 1: And when you're in the media business, a lot of
Speaker 1: this is trying to get a reaction out of people.
Speaker 1: And that is an example of that. I already knew
Speaker 1: you know how I knew this, guest going. You know
Speaker 1: how I knew this when I did Dodger Talk years
Speaker 1: ago and when the Dodgers would in no calls, nobody cared.
Speaker 1: When the team lost, it was fire the fire, the manager,
Speaker 1: fire the GM whoever the star player was wasn't performing well,
Speaker 1: get rid of him. But then the even more confirmation.
Speaker 1: For about two years, I was the fill in guy
Speaker 1: on Red Sox Review, which is the Boston version of
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk. After Red Sox games on EI, so I
Speaker 1: would come on. I didn't do it all the time.
Speaker 1: I did it maybe a couple of days a week
Speaker 1: after Red Sox games. And I noticed the same exact
Speaker 1: thing when the Red Sox like last year, and when
Speaker 1: the Red Sox won that they said a record for
Speaker 1: wins for the franchise. I believe a hundred eight wins
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. That was tough because they almost
Speaker 1: never lost, you know, and I and and people wouldn't react.
Speaker 1: They didn't have nothing to complain about. Now, I will
Speaker 1: say one thing about Boston a little more than l
Speaker 1: A is that they can find something to complain about.
Speaker 1: Like the team could be when fifteen out of seventeen,
Speaker 1: they'll be like, well, I think the other shoe is
Speaker 1: gonna drop. But still it generally speaking, it was if
Speaker 1: the team was not playing well, people would be arms,
Speaker 1: arms in the air and all that stuff. So I
Speaker 1: have this to me is confirmation corroboration of what I
Speaker 1: already what are you? Yeah, I believe I would rather
Speaker 1: look at a car crash than I would see like
Speaker 1: a wedding or proposal. In fact, you bring up a
Speaker 1: great story. And I thought about this just now because
Speaker 1: you know, the whole Antonio Brown. I'm taking a hot
Speaker 1: air balloon into into wine country for you know, for
Speaker 1: the Oakland writers in their training camp and NAPA nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody really cared about that. But there's a Twitter account
Speaker 1: called Darwinism and I watched this on loop yesterday where
Speaker 1: this guy took a hot air balloon and it wasn't
Speaker 1: out in the middle of nature, it wasn't out in
Speaker 1: the middle of just green passes everywhere. He brought this
Speaker 1: hot air balloon into the middle of a city and
Speaker 1: they got tripped up by power cables and power lines.
Speaker 1: And you hear the person that was recording this saying,
Speaker 1: get out of the way, get out of the way.
Speaker 1: And this hot air balloon goes cray asking these power
Speaker 1: cables and you just see this giant explosion. And I
Speaker 1: was enamored with it and just kept watching it a
Speaker 1: loop on a loop on a loop, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, who could give a shit about Antonio Brown?
Speaker 1: But I would watch this over and over again, even
Speaker 1: though I know that the outcome is you know, you're
Speaker 1: a morbid person. We we not me? No, I don't know, okay,
Speaker 1: because you'd sent me some morbid stories that videos. When
Speaker 1: I was in uh, I was uh junior high or
Speaker 1: high school, it was like faces of Death. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like a big thing before the Internet. It
Speaker 1: would show people meeting their device right, or they'd be somewhere,
Speaker 1: like a parent would hold their kid from getting run
Speaker 1: over by a train that was coming through an expressway.
Speaker 1: Things like that and just avoiding death at like a
Speaker 1: narrow margin. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, those are good. So
Speaker 1: you watch those, don't act like I'm the only one
Speaker 1: that's more I like your man, if my friends would
Speaker 1: be my my guys would be like, hey, you gonna
Speaker 1: check this out. You're not above it. But the problem
Speaker 1: it isn't like today where you could just go on
Speaker 1: your phone. These are kids today you had to like
Speaker 1: go to there were VHS tapes. You had to find
Speaker 1: this stuff. I mean it was hard to find, you know.
Speaker 1: But I won't watch anything that has death in it.
Speaker 1: If people are survived, it's it's available. If they die,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go searching for it, like on Reddit
Speaker 1: or some of these other backdoor websites or anything like that. Uh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know read it was a backdoor website. Well,
Speaker 1: they have links to those different things I read. I
Speaker 1: read an article yesterday. I read it that had which
Speaker 1: is being contaminated right now by manufacturers in Bangladesh for lead.
Speaker 1: There's lead that's being deposited into some of these stuff.
Speaker 1: That's not globally right, it's it is. People are that
Speaker 1: stuff all the time online, especially through Amazon and some
Speaker 1: of the other websites and whatever. I should tell my wife.
Speaker 1: She loves that tumor rex. She's all about the tumor rex,
Speaker 1: so she should probably stopped taking them. Well, if he's
Speaker 1: not getting from Bangladesh, Bangladesh. Yeah, all right, let's see
Speaker 1: what is next year we're doing study this. How about
Speaker 1: click any click? Uh? There's a new stuff the out
Speaker 1: that explains how clickbait works. This is what I wanted
Speaker 1: to know. They say the reason people are pretty much
Speaker 1: helpless to avoid clickbait they have to click on it
Speaker 1: because there's the promise of compelling information and it's I
Speaker 1: used the word dopamine earlier. They say it's a it's
Speaker 1: a dopamine path away. They claim that dopamine is released
Speaker 1: and creates that itch that can only be scratched by
Speaker 1: clicking on the clickbait because you have to obtain the
Speaker 1: promised information. Essentially, it is the human condition. We are
Speaker 1: all wired, every man, woman and child the same way.
Speaker 1: We need information because of our safety or whatnot, to
Speaker 1: persent we we live and we feed on information, right,
Speaker 1: we're all of us. We need to know about things.
Speaker 1: Were curious people most people are. Uh. And they say
Speaker 1: another way that clickbait lures people in is they say
Speaker 1: it's like the Vegas effect because of there's there's this
Speaker 1: variable ratio rein forcement, which is a lot of big
Speaker 1: words of scheduled kind of in gambling, with the slot
Speaker 1: machines and all that, the noises, no clocks in the
Speaker 1: slot machine, the little tricks they do in casinos to
Speaker 1: keep you around. But they say, the clickbait headlines, according
Speaker 1: to this study, make make make us curious and see
Speaker 1: what's behind the curtains, Like you want to see You
Speaker 1: want to peek behind the curtain, see what the you
Speaker 1: just see a little taste of the story that makes sense.
Speaker 1: It makes sense. And people complain about clickbait, but you
Speaker 1: know it ain't going away. And Uh, if you don't
Speaker 1: want clickbait, stay off the internet. I think clickbait only
Speaker 1: comes for for most part, it's usually with videos now right,
Speaker 1: you have like a fifties second or fifteen second or
Speaker 1: video feature, and it just teases it and then you
Speaker 1: get the article it's deposited inside, or you've got some
Speaker 1: sexually provocative pictures that accompany a meaningless article which you
Speaker 1: don't really want to, you know, click on, but you
Speaker 1: do so because you want to see what's behind. TV
Speaker 1: does it all the time. Radio doesn't. Yeah, we do
Speaker 1: it all the time. We do it in radio. Of course.
Speaker 1: We want people to You want people to not click.
Speaker 1: You want to mistay. You don't want to have people
Speaker 1: to to leave. We tease all the time, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll forget, certainly my guys don't remind me, and then
Speaker 1: two hours later I'm paying off the tease. No, I'm
Speaker 1: onto something else. No. What about the blue light? Have you?
Speaker 1: Have you read about that much? The blue light effect
Speaker 1: on your brain? Were doctors have talked about the effects
Speaker 1: of looking at your cell phone too much and that
Speaker 1: blue light impact your your eyes and also your brain
Speaker 1: the dopamine, which could impact your ability to lose weight,
Speaker 1: get proper sleep. They say that you should not look
Speaker 1: at your phone in the first sixty minutes of when
Speaker 1: you wake up and don't look at your phone or
Speaker 1: a computer two hours before you go to bed, just
Speaker 1: because of the way that it wires your brain and
Speaker 1: rewires it. You know. My my wife, you sound like
Speaker 1: a hippie. My wife who's a hippie um, and she's
Speaker 1: into all the special vitamins and all the New Age
Speaker 1: stuff and all the supplements. She got me. She she
Speaker 1: she reads these stuff online. She got me these glass
Speaker 1: because she read the same thing you read a while ago.
Speaker 1: And so she got me these glass because I'm on
Speaker 1: the computer all the time and I put some stuff
Speaker 1: down and I try to put some notes down for
Speaker 1: Benny versus the penny during the week or whatever before
Speaker 1: I go to bed. And so she she knows this,
Speaker 1: and she got me these these glasses that are supposed
Speaker 1: to help you with the lights so it doesn't affect you.
Speaker 1: They're like you know, and I I used them like
Speaker 1: for I don't even know where they are now. I
Speaker 1: used them for a couple of weeks there. That was
Speaker 1: right up there with the other thing my wife. There
Speaker 1: was the Himalayan Salt lamp, which she she got me
Speaker 1: because it's supposed to help your I don't know what
Speaker 1: it helps with. But she told me some story she
Speaker 1: read somewhere, and so she got this this big Himalayan
Speaker 1: salt lamp and I used it for like two weeks
Speaker 1: and then that was it. Didn't use it again. It's disappeared.
Speaker 1: I don't know where it is, but it's not here.
Speaker 1: But keep in mind with what your wife does for
Speaker 1: a living, she's got opportunities to listen and read information
Speaker 1: and educate herself, as opposed to picking up some tabloid
Speaker 1: magazine and just taking a verbatim and saying, all right, here,
Speaker 1: try this, honey. It's not like she's ordering something that's
Speaker 1: from India and saying, hey, Ben, try this sound and
Speaker 1: see if it works. I don't know. Maybe it did
Speaker 1: come from media. We got a problem with up that
Speaker 1: you don't like curry. Shame on you like USA American?
Speaker 1: May you ever had Indian food? I have actually had
Speaker 1: last night here in the studio by somebody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got an Indian restaurant that's like right up the street.
Speaker 1: Who paid for the food? Last one of your old
Speaker 1: technical directors, Alex Tisher, to do with long hair and
Speaker 1: must be vegan. No it was not. But he's got
Speaker 1: a disturbing tattoo in the back of his neck. So
Speaker 1: my food and almost was regurgitated. So Tisher has a
Speaker 1: tattoo in the back of his He's got a tramp
Speaker 1: stamp on the back of his neck. Yes, he does, well,
Speaker 1: he maybe does. I've never he has long hair. I
Speaker 1: don't usually see the back of his neck. He just
Speaker 1: got it on what you guys were doing. He just
Speaker 1: got it and he was flawning it. So don't know.
Speaker 1: It was some kind of it was like some kind
Speaker 1: of Greek Greek language in the back of his neck.
Speaker 1: I think it was. I don't know exactly. I was working,
Speaker 1: I wasn't paying attention much to it. I was bragging
Speaker 1: about it on the air with a couple of their hosts.
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know, but this is new information.
Speaker 1: Next time I see Tysher, I'm gonna have to quiz him.
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Speaker 1: search f s R to listen live. That's that reminds
Speaker 1: me back to our Power Launch or Power Dinner. I
Speaker 1: got so much heat from the staff here about going
Speaker 1: to dinner with you guys. Why did I get an invitation?
Speaker 1: Why don't you guys tell us about this? Da da
Speaker 1: da da. It is amazing what happens when you get
Speaker 1: together with fellow employees outside the the confines of It's
Speaker 1: very rare. We you know, in the early days, even
Speaker 1: if Fox Sports Radio in the other places I worked,
Speaker 1: they used to have you know, team bonding get togethers
Speaker 1: where you go and do some activity together. We haven't
Speaker 1: done that in years. Plus. A lot of the talk show,
Speaker 1: like Clay Travis does the show from from Nashville. There's
Speaker 1: uh r J Bells in Vegas. I mean, these guys
Speaker 1: aren't even in l A where you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of the shows are in l A. But they're all
Speaker 1: over the But the some of the guys that we
Speaker 1: have on Dan Patrick does the show from Connecticut, but
Speaker 1: he's on the on the network and uh, you've got
Speaker 1: rich eyes and doesn't from a TV studio. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Colin Cowherd does it from the Fox lot in West
Speaker 1: l A. So he's not in the building that we're in.
Speaker 1: So it's, uh, everyone's all over the place. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we should do those those money But like I would
Speaker 1: like to do these these again. I don't know, like
Speaker 1: this should be like once every other month or something
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think I can get it every
Speaker 1: I then my wife will kill me if I do
Speaker 1: it every month, but like once every other month, and
Speaker 1: we could. You know, we can come up with a
Speaker 1: list here of when you love of like people we
Speaker 1: should hang out with that do we know in the business, Well,
Speaker 1: that have to be good storytellers like Looney's great at
Speaker 1: telling story is. And the cool thing about going I'm
Speaker 1: as an introvert. The reason I love hanging out with
Speaker 1: Looney is because I don't feel the pressure to talk
Speaker 1: because I know if there's any pause in the conversation, uh,
Speaker 1: that Looney will pick it up right, he will pick
Speaker 1: it up and he will do what he asked to
Speaker 1: do to enhance the conversation. I don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about I think what we need to do is just
Speaker 1: make sure that you're willing and able to drive from
Speaker 1: Arizona out to the west side of town. Because no,
Speaker 1: this is good because you know, when I lived in
Speaker 1: the city, I had all the restaurants in l A.
Speaker 1: We still go to a lot of those places. Next
Speaker 1: time we should go to Fat South is what we
Speaker 1: ought to do. That's a great We can actually do
Speaker 1: the podcast from there. That place is open until I
Speaker 1: think three or four o'clock in the morning. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's great. And is uh there's one in Encino's one
Speaker 1: in Uh. Of course you want the one in Encino
Speaker 1: because it's close to unless she's not close to you,
Speaker 1: it's close to where you work. But there's one in
Speaker 1: The one I usually go to is in l A.
Speaker 1: Just south. I think what street is a Highland? I
Speaker 1: think it is just down from Hollywood. Yeah, yeah, just
Speaker 1: down from there. I hang out there. That used to
Speaker 1: be a real CD They race lived near there, and
Speaker 1: that was that street at night was where the hookers were.
Speaker 1: That was where the prostitutes would walk the streets there,
Speaker 1: And they weren't always they were not always women, They
Speaker 1: were not always women guests. How did you find that out?
Speaker 1: I heard a friend had told me about that that
Speaker 1: that was there was used to be a taco stand
Speaker 1: right on the corner down there, and that was apparently
Speaker 1: where everyone would hang out in that that particular. Not
Speaker 1: that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not my
Speaker 1: my cup of team. We're doing study this what is next?
Speaker 1: We did click any click? How about push it real good? Uh?
Speaker 1: It says here that that a study has discovered that
Speaker 1: introverts like me are happier after pushing themselves socially, And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think this is actually more bullshit than anything,
Speaker 1: because I don't like I I pushed my off a
Speaker 1: little bit this past weekend at that dinner thing we had,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't feel happier because of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the right, the right, the way
Speaker 1: I will tell you that. I'll go back to the
Speaker 1: thing that was like a three hour meal. That was
Speaker 1: a long I mean that was like that was the
Speaker 1: kind of thing when you're a kid and your parents
Speaker 1: would talk to like your aunt or your I used
Speaker 1: to go out my my auntie VI and my mom
Speaker 1: would go out and they would just talk and it
Speaker 1: would be like I want to get out of the
Speaker 1: restaurant and they're telling stories and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear your stupid story. Take me home. And
Speaker 1: uh That's what it was like. But fortunately there were
Speaker 1: no kids there, so it was all right. We just
Speaker 1: we just kept going that's perfect. Yeah, And we didn't
Speaker 1: even eat a lot we had. I had some street tacos.
Speaker 1: I think you had some tacos. Yeah, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't need that much. I mean that the chips, which
Speaker 1: were good. The other problem, here's another reason I don't
Speaker 1: like eating outside. You don't get the chips replenished as off.
Speaker 1: When you're inside, the chip person comes around all the time.
Speaker 1: But when you're outside of a Mexican restaurant, and it
Speaker 1: works the same way with Italian restaurants with the bread
Speaker 1: they don't bring, the bread is off and when you
Speaker 1: in at an outside table part of their rotation. I
Speaker 1: don't think us uh as as guys are looking to
Speaker 1: lose weight and need all the chips and bread and
Speaker 1: salsa and all that stuff. Well, I have shut up
Speaker 1: speak for yourself. It's like a cheap meal. When I'm
Speaker 1: on a cheap meal, I eat like I eat like
Speaker 1: the old guy back in the old desks. I go
Speaker 1: big because I don't eat much as you know, guess
Speaker 1: because you send me that food point you schmuck uh
Speaker 1: And so I don't need a lot during the week,
Speaker 1: but I try to have a nice, hearty meal on
Speaker 1: the weekend at least, you know what I'm watching or
Speaker 1: looking out on Instagram. It's nothing that's uh always say
Speaker 1: platonic between two people. It is all food porn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of and this stuff stuff really good,
Speaker 1: but you never actually want to go to any of
Speaker 1: those restaurants. So it's you know, they're probably all over.
Speaker 1: Now are the Are the Bend Mallard chicken fingers actually legit?
Speaker 1: Are they good? They are really good? Yes, yes, No.
Speaker 1: If you go to Kansas City at any point, you've
Speaker 1: got to do it. It's it's in the Kansas City area.
Speaker 1: The chicken fingers are all right. We'll let me tell
Speaker 1: you some guests. Gun all the food dishes that bear
Speaker 1: my name, and there aren't very many, but these food
Speaker 1: dishes that are part of the Mallard brand are wonderful.
Speaker 1: All they are. I mean the the Mallard chicken fingers,
Speaker 1: which have been at three different restaurants, three different restaurants
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and the price has gone up because
Speaker 1: they're so damn popular there. They're so they're so amazing.
Speaker 1: People love that and they can't get enough. And we
Speaker 1: had the Mallard Fowler, which is at the I think
Speaker 1: I've told you this before. I think we talked about
Speaker 1: this in the original podcast. But the Mallard Fowler is
Speaker 1: available in a strip club, the Ballet Yeah, in Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Kansas and uh yeah, and the guy, the guy that
Speaker 1: put it together, Uh, he is a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show. He doesn't live in Lawrence. He drives at
Speaker 1: night after the show and he's a big fan and
Speaker 1: he wanted to honor us and all that and so,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it was, it was. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: You know, you need something in the UK, I feel
Speaker 1: because you have stuff in the United States. But I
Speaker 1: think Terry is in the UK one of your listeners. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be cool, man, That would that would really
Speaker 1: inspire me to go to the UK to go to
Speaker 1: the restaurant because I've I've i gotta get to the
Speaker 1: place that there's I think it's where it for. I
Speaker 1: used to have a pizza named after me in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Speaker 1: But he do not believe that still exists. I believe
Speaker 1: that items off the table. We had some some big
Speaker 1: super fans and Syracuse. The one that started this was
Speaker 1: a restaurant in Syracuse that had the uh had a
Speaker 1: sandwich that was named after us and it was great
Speaker 1: and uh that that was awesome back in the old days.
Speaker 1: But now we have the at the Flamingo. I'll give
Speaker 1: you the list here Gascon. It's the famous Flamingo Club
Speaker 1: in Lawrence, Kansas. It's called called the Bird by the
Speaker 1: locals there. And they have the Mallard Fowler. It's a
Speaker 1: mouth watering chicken sandwich. It's it's absolutely great. I believe
Speaker 1: the reason that Kansas has had such great basketball teams
Speaker 1: over the years is because of the Mallard Fowler. I
Speaker 1: believe that to be true. Uh. And then we also
Speaker 1: have in Denver, which you you're a big Bronco guy,
Speaker 1: so when you go to a Bronco game next time,
Speaker 1: we have the uh the the wonderful restaurant in Denver,
Speaker 1: the sports Book Bar and Grill in Denver, and they've
Speaker 1: got the Mallard's breaded chicken sandwich, which is hand battered,
Speaker 1: delicious breast of chicken tossed in. They put that Frank's
Speaker 1: red sauce on it. And now I they have the
Speaker 1: lettuce in the tomato and the cheddar cheese. I choose
Speaker 1: no tomato, no lettuce. I don't okay with the cheddar cheese.
Speaker 1: And uh, and here's a fun fact about that gascon
Speaker 1: in a Denver Bronco player Denver Bronco player was arrested
Speaker 1: outside and released from the Broncos practice squad because he
Speaker 1: got hammered at the brookside of Bar and Grill and
Speaker 1: was like running from the police and hiding in mulch
Speaker 1: outside the sports book Bar and Grill there. And there's
Speaker 1: two locations there. There's one in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and
Speaker 1: there's another one, so there's two different locations. And then
Speaker 1: then the we had the landing Eatey and Public Liberty, Missouri.
Speaker 1: That's the one with the chicken finger. Yeah. I twittered
Speaker 1: at them to actually disband that food item. I remember
Speaker 1: that two years ago. So you don't you have food dishes,
Speaker 1: but you don't have a drink yet. You need a cocktail,
Speaker 1: whether it's beer or a mixed drink. At least that
Speaker 1: would be good. I I like that and it would
Speaker 1: be nice if you know, we we need every region
Speaker 1: of We have a lot. We're very big in the
Speaker 1: mountain and the the like the Kansas City, Missouri area
Speaker 1: that it were very big, but we'd like to expand
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a whole mallard food brand on
Speaker 1: the East Coast. I mentioned we had the guy in
Speaker 1: Syracuse Vetos Pizza and Seafood, which was right near the
Speaker 1: Carrier Dome there in Syracuse, and they had the mal
Speaker 1: Zone which was this that was I forgot the name,
Speaker 1: but it was the mal Zone that they named after
Speaker 1: like a cow zone, but it's the mal Zone. And
Speaker 1: uh it was. It was a good, good deal. People
Speaker 1: love that man. That was popular. But they sold the
Speaker 1: restaurant and the new owners didn't know who the hell
Speaker 1: I was. They got rid of it and they But
Speaker 1: but usually what I've learned from people and then we
Speaker 1: got a lot of a lot of guys and ladies
Speaker 1: or whatever that listen to the show that earned the
Speaker 1: restaurant business the culinary business. And I've learned that one
Speaker 1: of the biggest expenses for restaurants is to change the menu.
Speaker 1: So once you get something on the menu and it
Speaker 1: makes the menu that they give out the people in
Speaker 1: the restaurant, generally that stays on the menu for a
Speaker 1: long time because it's a pain in the ask to
Speaker 1: change it. Yeah, and usually you're hoping that that item
Speaker 1: stays in the middle of the menu, not the top,
Speaker 1: and not the bottom. You need to be right smacked
Speaker 1: out in the middle, because it's usually where the focus
Speaker 1: and attention for customers goes right to the middle. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do a couple more here are you this one?
Speaker 1: We're doing study this, we'll get to it's we have
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to do still, By god, we'll
Speaker 1: have to pick up the pace here. Uh, how about
Speaker 1: this recipe for high school popularity? How do you become
Speaker 1: popular in high school? They've done a study. This is
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic University. They have they have researched this and
Speaker 1: they have concluded that the most popular teenagers in high
Speaker 1: school have two different qualities. They describe it as Macavellian
Speaker 1: like is what they say. And essentially what it is
Speaker 1: is that that teenagers that are more popular are both
Speaker 1: aggressive and manipulative when it serves their purposes. But then
Speaker 1: they quickly like their bipolar and they switch over and
Speaker 1: they're nice and lovable and agreeable. But that's every teenager,
Speaker 1: isn't it. That's what I'm thinking, Like, this is this bullshit?
Speaker 1: Every teenagers like that right there there, the whole thing
Speaker 1: and their bodies changing and all that stuff they're going through. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the hormones and all that. So everyone's like that.
Speaker 1: They claim it, they say they said it was like
Speaker 1: Mean Girls the movie remember that movie from like fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago? Whatever? Mean Girls? Uh, you know, I was
Speaker 1: a check flick. I didn't. I didn't check it out,
Speaker 1: didn't Were you like that? Were you like that in
Speaker 1: high school? Popular? No? I was not popular. I was not.
Speaker 1: I was Uh no, I mean I had my group
Speaker 1: of friends and all that, but I was not I
Speaker 1: I was. I was an introvert then I was socially
Speaker 1: awkward and things like that. It was, you know, not
Speaker 1: not my not my seed. You were like six five
Speaker 1: six six, and you're an introvert at that time. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, absolutely. Last last study this how much money
Speaker 1: do you spend on a Halloween costume? Halloween is gonna
Speaker 1: be here before you know it. There's a new study out.
Speaker 1: Take a guest guest on how much did the average
Speaker 1: Americans spend on a Halloween costume? Um, okay, I will say,
Speaker 1: because you said average American, I will say sixty dollars.
Speaker 1: But one stipulation, I will say females spend double the
Speaker 1: amount that males do. Yeah, well, you went too high.
Speaker 1: You went too high. It's because you gotta remember, some
Speaker 1: people have spend nothing, so the the averages though, you've
Speaker 1: got people that spend a lot, and people have spending
Speaker 1: the average costumes thirty one. The people's that you get
Speaker 1: like a mask for that, some makeup for something like that.
Speaker 1: Guys can do like adjacent mask where a goalie mask
Speaker 1: and that's it. Yeah, fright of the thirteen whatever, Freddy Cougar, Yeah, easy,
Speaker 1: pas here right, all right, moving on, in the bag.
Speaker 1: It's in the bag. These are actual emails. We won't
Speaker 1: do too many of these because they suck. I will
Speaker 1: do a few of these. One was the live this one, David,
Speaker 1: When was the last time you went bowling? I think
Speaker 1: we were asked this on the radio show. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe this was a repeat. I I've gone bowling maybe
Speaker 1: once in the past twenty years, maybe twice. I had
Speaker 1: a good time. I love that bowling is the number
Speaker 1: one participation sport, and more people participate in bowling than
Speaker 1: any other sport. Uh, what you big bowling? That's the
Speaker 1: thing we could do that we could get the guys
Speaker 1: together and go bowling. Instead of eating food, we could
Speaker 1: just eat at the bowling down. You know bowling. I
Speaker 1: went bowling three weeks ago. Three weeks ago, we got
Speaker 1: a date or something. No, by, I did go I
Speaker 1: want with some some friends and uhyeah, it was a
Speaker 1: random night out and nothing else to do. So yeah,
Speaker 1: what Chris says, can you do a deep dive on Marcel? No, Chris,
Speaker 1: I mean there's not much. There's not much to Marcel.
Speaker 1: He's a very basic person. He he thinks he is
Speaker 1: breaking news on our show. I love that. I love
Speaker 1: with Marcel because he doesn't listen all he calls up.
Speaker 1: He wakes up and calls the show the last hour.
Speaker 1: But you encourage it, and that's what makes it so bad. No,
Speaker 1: I love that in Marcel's head he is Walter Cronkite
Speaker 1: before the Internet, you know what I mean. Like he
Speaker 1: is breaking news and it's great. He's sitting in you know,
Speaker 1: in an apartment in a bad part of Brooklyn, eating
Speaker 1: oodles and noodles from Marcel. But for him this is
Speaker 1: like the highlight. He is a national star on the radio,
Speaker 1: and I feel good. I feel good because, well, it
Speaker 1: is terrible radio most of the time. I get a
Speaker 1: kick out of I think it's funny that he's so
Speaker 1: into these stories that he gives and the food picks thing.
Speaker 1: He didn't even realize we're goofing on him the food picks.
Speaker 1: That's that's great. And then his player of the Week
Speaker 1: or Player of the night when Marcela does that. Really,
Speaker 1: the main reason we have him do that is because
Speaker 1: he'll mispronounce names, but lately he's just been saying names
Speaker 1: he knows how to pronounce, which isn't very good. But
Speaker 1: he he butchered Kauai Leonard and Pascal uh and those
Speaker 1: guys during the NBA Finals. It was great. Um, what's
Speaker 1: like John? Why is Blair known as whoopee Pie Blair? Well, uh,
Speaker 1: we were originally gonna call him the Blair Witch Project,
Speaker 1: but he was offended by that, and so he originally
Speaker 1: called the show from l a from Orange County. He
Speaker 1: moved to Maine several years back. And what is main
Speaker 1: known for gascon? What is Maine known? Not a damn thing.
Speaker 1: That's that's incorrect. It is known for the whoopie pie.
Speaker 1: The whoopie pie is associated with me, and so that
Speaker 1: is why we do the whoopie pie Blair. It's one
Speaker 1: of the foods. It's kind of in that region. Is known,
Speaker 1: you know the main whoopie pie and so there you go,
Speaker 1: simple enough? Uh Ray says, have you been watching Ken
Speaker 1: Burns country documentary on PBS its musty TV? Uh? Ray, No,
Speaker 1: I have not. I would like to the problem is
Speaker 1: I I can't schedule to watch it at the times
Speaker 1: it's on because I'm working and watching games or whatever.
Speaker 1: Um And I tried to. I had my wife on
Speaker 1: the hunt for this gast Gone because I heard. I
Speaker 1: love good documentaries and I want to watch it, but
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't watch it on demand. I don't
Speaker 1: believe there's a way without paying uh you know, a
Speaker 1: certain amount. I can't watch it like PBS. I feel
Speaker 1: like you shouldn't have to pay for PBS s you know.
Speaker 1: Uh And but but yeah, I'd like to watch it
Speaker 1: if it's available, if somebody knows a link, If it's
Speaker 1: on YouTube, somebody put it on there. If it's available
Speaker 1: somewhere else, I would love to watch it. Uh. I
Speaker 1: think it was Looney that told me he was watching it.
Speaker 1: He said how great it is, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of radio reference. I'm not I'm not a huge country
Speaker 1: music I love Johnny Cash, but I feel like he's
Speaker 1: a crossover. Um, but I would I would check that out.
Speaker 1: Have you seen any of that? I have not. No.
Speaker 1: In fact, the last documentary I did see was the
Speaker 1: one that you referred me to. Wasn't Getting Roger Scott
Speaker 1: Roger Scott Roger Stone. Yeah, Yeah, that's good. I think
Speaker 1: it was going That was a well made document was
Speaker 1: was fire. He's he's going to jail probably right now
Speaker 1: he's he's he's going broke. I know that all is
Speaker 1: legal costs that are mounting up, but it was a
Speaker 1: really good documentary. One of the great characters and politics
Speaker 1: in the history of the United States. Right, So it's
Speaker 1: grab bag. These are actual questions by actual listeners like yourself.
Speaker 1: What does weed Man have to apologize for? All? Right?
Speaker 1: First of all, I'd say just being weed Man and
Speaker 1: being a beggar and all that stuff. He should have
Speaker 1: to apologist for that, because it's you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: trying to hit up and panhandle so many of my
Speaker 1: my core p one people, so that's annoying. But the
Speaker 1: second thing is that he had a he had a
Speaker 1: hissy fit because he was panhandling on the internet and
Speaker 1: some one of our our our friends, I think she
Speaker 1: was in Syracuse one a very nice woman, big fan
Speaker 1: of the show, and she she was gonna send weed
Speaker 1: Man some money, and she announced it on Twitter that
Speaker 1: she was gonna PayPal weed Man some money. So I
Speaker 1: told her not to do it because I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to encourage this activity, right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to encourage his idiot. And so he
Speaker 1: got all upset. And then he read on the internet
Speaker 1: that I was worth like three million dollars or some
Speaker 1: some crap like that, which is total bullshit. And uh,
Speaker 1: he read that on the internet, and then he he
Speaker 1: made all these derogatory like and I'm I'm fine with
Speaker 1: derogatory comments, but he crossed the line, even for my sensibilities,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty open to this stuff. And uh, and
Speaker 1: so he has to apologize. And if he doesn't apologize,
Speaker 1: he's not welcome back. And it seems like he's not
Speaker 1: coming back. He's called a couple of times, but he
Speaker 1: has been unable to. He's so prideful that he cannot
Speaker 1: handle the scrutiny that we're giving him. So but he
Speaker 1: does have to apologize for they the comments he made
Speaker 1: on social media and all that stuff. So good riddance,
Speaker 1: Ozzy Momentum writes in this is one of our international listeners.
Speaker 1: He writes, and he says, out of the following between
Speaker 1: Gascon and Ben, please let us know if you could
Speaker 1: please who. I guess who would win this, I think
Speaker 1: is what he's asking. An arm wrestling contest, an archery tournament,
Speaker 1: a mini golf match, tequila shooter drink off, and a
Speaker 1: hundred meter sprint. Now I know I would kill you
Speaker 1: at miniature golf, you have no chance. I think I
Speaker 1: would be pretty good at archery. Uh, you're an alcoholic,
Speaker 1: so you'd win the to the to key of things.
Speaker 1: That's not sure. You've got like the andre the giant
Speaker 1: advantage where you can drink more than I can just
Speaker 1: because of body arm wrestling. I don't know. You seem
Speaker 1: like a meathead like you work out a lot, so
Speaker 1: I were. I work out, but I do more cardio.
Speaker 1: I don't do the weights as much so, but you're
Speaker 1: I'm left handed, you're right handed, and I have a
Speaker 1: surgically repaired right rotator cuffs, so you probably have the
Speaker 1: advantage of you asked on that that'd be good ud
Speaker 1: sprint boy, If you can't beat me, your pathetic. So
Speaker 1: I can probably do that back where it's backpedaling. That's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Bobby right City says, can
Speaker 1: you please pick college spreads? Uh? Maybe in the second
Speaker 1: hour like a Benny versus the Penny of the college edition.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna ask you about this, and I
Speaker 1: had an idea of what we should do or could do.
Speaker 1: Is that starting next week as we should do a
Speaker 1: quick uh promo video for Benny versus the Penny, but
Speaker 1: you provide a college pick one college pick, we do
Speaker 1: it for video form only, and then we attach it
Speaker 1: to your Twitter handle, so like the handicap e college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I maybe we could mess around with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: usually there's three or four big college games on a weekend.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's only one. Let's do one for Fox. Then
Speaker 1: we'll do the Fox because Big Noon usually celebrates one
Speaker 1: game that happens at twelve or one o'clock Pacific. We
Speaker 1: could do that one game. Hopefully want to have the
Speaker 1: n C double a that writes us season assist letter.
Speaker 1: But we'll try to overcome that. Yeah, exactly, all right? Uh?
Speaker 1: That what else? Valls fan Jimmy says, I'm adding about
Speaker 1: ten people at work the graveyard shift. He says, I
Speaker 1: got half of the third shift listening to the to
Speaker 1: the show. Well, thank you, Jimmy. I appreciate that. That
Speaker 1: that's the that's the best kind of advertising. You're gonna have,
Speaker 1: the word of mouth advertising getting people in us. All right,
Speaker 1: tied it out for don't stick to sports. These are
Speaker 1: stories that David gast John found that have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with sports, pretty much like the entire podcast. So
Speaker 1: give me a couple of these stories, guest gon, we'll
Speaker 1: put the baby to bed. Here we go. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize there was an agency for this, but here we go.
Speaker 1: When not to get your hands dirty if you are
Speaker 1: a cop. Now there's a designated agency that certifies and
Speaker 1: disciplines all police officers in Utah, and they've taken another
Speaker 1: step towards that by banning sexting and masturbation while on duty.
Speaker 1: You heard that right then, So now I don't know
Speaker 1: what you do during the advertising breaks, but I don't
Speaker 1: ever recall like the desire to shake loose for a bit. Anyways,
Speaker 1: The Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training Council reportedly found
Speaker 1: that there weren't any rules explicitly in place for forbidding
Speaker 1: this practice. So naturally they provide some guidelines where they
Speaker 1: expanded to include the forbidding of an officer in uniform
Speaker 1: to send sexually explicit pictures. Thank you very much. Hutah.
Speaker 1: So you're more familiar with, like the inner workings of police,
Speaker 1: is there a lot of Is masturbation a big problem
Speaker 1: with the police? I don't know. I'm not a police
Speaker 1: off joys masturbation, but they do it while there. It worked,
Speaker 1: you know, in a squad car. People got a thing
Speaker 1: for the uniform. Do you want to see a mag light?
Speaker 1: I've read stories before that there's some women, like a
Speaker 1: certain percentage of women like it's on their bucket list too,
Speaker 1: stoop a police officer, like at work, like while they're
Speaker 1: in uniform, Like there's some And so I don't think
Speaker 1: that that anyone in radio field, Like there's no group
Speaker 1: of like female groupies that want to do that while
Speaker 1: you're in radio. I don't think maybe not, maybe it's
Speaker 1: like rock radio, but but yeah, that's uh wild. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm happy you brought that up because that actually leads
Speaker 1: me to, uh tell my next story. We always have
Speaker 1: different stories about relationships, broken, repaired, whatever, We're gonna go
Speaker 1: on that beaten path again. A twenty six year old
Speaker 1: woman fell in love at her wedding all over again.
Speaker 1: Great story, right, Yeah, wrong, Ben, This one fell in
Speaker 1: love with a forty nine year old d J. It
Speaker 1: was her DJ. The woman was married for less than
Speaker 1: a year, but felt neglected and unhappy when she randomly
Speaker 1: bumped into the DJ again. The two started getting together, chatting, texting,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Eventually they fell in love and
Speaker 1: they got married. How about that? So she's twenty six
Speaker 1: and he's right? All right? So so I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about these people, have no idea. But where where
Speaker 1: did this happen? Where was this in the UK? I
Speaker 1: was in the UK? Yeah all right, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought this happened to the U S.
Speaker 1: But what whatever, Mike whoever ended up getting the more
Speaker 1: good for that person, because I mean, this woman is crazy, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing? Well, it's huge because
Speaker 1: you booked the job and then you booked the chick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean for the for the DJ. From his perspective,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a major score. The guys almost
Speaker 1: fifty years old, he's with the twenty six year old
Speaker 1: I mean that, you know, that's a that's wild man. Well,
Speaker 1: he actually had a way to break her down because
Speaker 1: he had explained to her when they started getting together
Speaker 1: that he had just end day twenty six year long marriage.
Speaker 1: So he was able to break down her walls, if
Speaker 1: you will, and then eventually win the day. Oh yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: you could become a wedding DJ guest. Find a woman.
Speaker 1: That way, you can go out and perform at weddings.
Speaker 1: I guess you could do that, right, Just I'm Ben Mellot,
Speaker 1: talk show host right here on Fox Sports Radio. We
Speaker 1: don't have to say that. I mean I could do
Speaker 1: like bar mitz vis and birthdays and stuff. You could
Speaker 1: do that, but then I'd have to be in front
Speaker 1: of people and would be awkward. For Yeah, we'll speaking
Speaker 1: of awkward. How about this? This would be perfect for California,
Speaker 1: But I'm sure we'll get some sensitive people objecting this.
Speaker 1: A South Korean mayor tried sending a message to environmental campaigners.
Speaker 1: Oh I saw this. He actually ordered dumping of collected
Speaker 1: trash onto a local beach. So what he basically did
Speaker 1: was he ordered truck loads of trash and hundreds of volunteers.
Speaker 1: The next day, how to pick it up as part
Speaker 1: of an international coastal cleanup day. Yeah, so essentially, the
Speaker 1: way I saw this story is that the beach was clean.
Speaker 1: There was no trash on the bleach, the beach, but
Speaker 1: they were. But they were doing an environmental day where
Speaker 1: they had a beach clean up. So you can't have
Speaker 1: a beach clean up if there's no trash on the
Speaker 1: beach to clean up, right, other one, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Bunch of idiots? So so he called in the dump trucks,
Speaker 1: the poor, trash, all of it. I saw that before.
Speaker 1: This is an elected official, right, this is this is
Speaker 1: a dumb dumb what a what a freaking moron? I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, you're talking about us the word dingle berry,
Speaker 1: that is dingle berry. But the fact that I got
Speaker 1: a hundred volunteers to actually participate in this is another thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, what a bunch of ignoramus is there? I
Speaker 1: mean that is that is a shrewd level of dumbness,
Speaker 1: is what that is? It is? Now, how abouch? How
Speaker 1: about this one? I I hate flying, but I love
Speaker 1: to travel. Now I know you hate flying and you
Speaker 1: hate getting out of the the house, So this won't really
Speaker 1: apply to you, you know, I I don't. I I
Speaker 1: like going places, but the actual process of traveling and
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of the planes are not designed
Speaker 1: for people like me. They're not. They're designed for little people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you really hate being around people anyway. So if
Speaker 1: I was, if I was a dwarf, I would love
Speaker 1: flying because I would fit in every every aisle. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't matter at all. But I'm not. I'm I'm oversized,
Speaker 1: lug fair enough now anyways, Japan Airlines is helping out
Speaker 1: passengers with a roadmap. I don't know if you've heard
Speaker 1: about this, but the airline has created a new tool
Speaker 1: that lets passengers avoid infants when they book a seat. Now,
Speaker 1: the website will display passengers with children that are between
Speaker 1: the ages of eight days and two years old on
Speaker 1: an icon, so you can know exactly who to avoid
Speaker 1: and who to sit next to you. They only catch though,
Speaker 1: as this icon shows up. If you book a flight
Speaker 1: on their website, you can't go to a third party
Speaker 1: and identify the children on the flight, so you can't
Speaker 1: save money on the You have to pay more a
Speaker 1: premium because they charge more on the airline websites. Usually
Speaker 1: all right. Couple of things. Hey, this sounds is one
Speaker 1: of these things in life that sounds great in theory.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, you know, you date a beautiful
Speaker 1: woman and then you feel like you realize that she's
Speaker 1: she's a basket case. You know, it sounds on the
Speaker 1: outside she looks good, but the her, you know, she
Speaker 1: all messed up or whatever anyway on the inside, So
Speaker 1: it sounds good in theory. I get that. Number two,
Speaker 1: it's my experience with kids on planes, Like the main
Speaker 1: reason you don't want to be near a child because
Speaker 1: they're gonna gonna cry and whatnot on the plane and
Speaker 1: disrupt your your flight. But to me, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: whether you're in there. You might not be next to
Speaker 1: the infant, but if they're crying on a in a
Speaker 1: tube in the sky, and if they're loud enough, it's
Speaker 1: going to affect the entire plane, So it doesn't really
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this, what's the what's the end game?
Speaker 1: What's the accomplishment on this? And you know you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, it's like you're you're not
Speaker 1: You're trying to avoid the noise, but you can't avoid it.
Speaker 1: You are stuck in a traveling tube in the sky,
Speaker 1: you know, all the noise you're gonna hear it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's only two things I want to avoid
Speaker 1: when I'm on a big flight going a long ways.
Speaker 1: That is the the uh laboratories and the emergency exits.
Speaker 1: Because the emergency exits you don't have that that television
Speaker 1: that's in front of you. And the laboratory the door
Speaker 1: opens up right where your seat is. Actually had that
Speaker 1: happened to me when I went to Europe over the
Speaker 1: summertime and I was on a Virgin Atlantic flight. Flight
Speaker 1: was packed and I had nowhere else to go, so
Speaker 1: I was I'll shoot out of luck for ten hours.
Speaker 1: So that's a brutal spot to be in. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: my tips on traveling. And I did travel for years,
Speaker 1: like I would go back to the East Coast a lot,
Speaker 1: did that TV thing for for about a year, which
Speaker 1: every month and then uh, just my other travels. But
Speaker 1: I I like the exit row because you have more
Speaker 1: leg room. Yeah, that's like one of the special for me.
Speaker 1: The extra row is not a problem. And I don't
Speaker 1: eat on planes. I don't because I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to use the bathroom. I don't want to have
Speaker 1: to go to the laboratory. I try not to drink
Speaker 1: that much until we get late into the flight, because
Speaker 1: then I know that I can make it to the
Speaker 1: airport and I can usually commode at the airport and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But it, you know, it's the other
Speaker 1: than that. I mean, it's not me. I don't eat
Speaker 1: the I don't pay for it. I don't pay for
Speaker 1: the add ons. Some people pay for the ad or
Speaker 1: I don't pay for the adam all right, Betty, last one.
Speaker 1: The University of Canterbury left his stinke recently and it's
Speaker 1: not good for anyone involved. Two months, nothing was realized
Speaker 1: until campus police in christ Church, New Zealand went into
Speaker 1: a dorm room and it discovered a body. It was
Speaker 1: the body of a first year student who had died. Now,
Speaker 1: the body had not been discovered until then, after two months.
Speaker 1: It had been decomposing in there for sixty days before
Speaker 1: anyone had discovered him. The body had been untouched for
Speaker 1: such a long period of time that they had to
Speaker 1: bring in forensic officers to come in and take fingerprints,
Speaker 1: d n A and also collect dental records to identify
Speaker 1: the kid. This is this is amazing to me. So
Speaker 1: the flesh is row, the guy dies, and then nobody
Speaker 1: like he has no friends how I mean no friends? No,
Speaker 1: I guess I think I read his family was trying
Speaker 1: to get ahold of him, but they couldn't get ahold
Speaker 1: of him. He was far away from where he grew
Speaker 1: up or whatever. And the only the only ounce of
Speaker 1: of observation from students was that they had gone on
Speaker 1: vacation for two weeks and came back and they still
Speaker 1: couldn't find him or they didn't know where he was at.
Speaker 1: But two weeks, that's nothing compared to eight weeks, right. Well.
Speaker 1: The other thing, the other thing too, is like don't
Speaker 1: you get mail? Isn't usually the post office if you're
Speaker 1: not collecting your mail or things like that, or you're
Speaker 1: not playing your bills, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: nothing that's not on a dorm though, And the dorm
Speaker 1: usually have those, uh the mailboxes when you enter the
Speaker 1: dorm facilities, so you just load your mail up in there.
Speaker 1: They put it in for you and pull it out
Speaker 1: whenever you get a chance, and never dorm. So but
Speaker 1: I know that, but I have heard stories like if
Speaker 1: sometimes the postal employees like that that are hurt, like
Speaker 1: if if someone's not picking up their mail, they will
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, they'll they'll try to knock on the door.
Speaker 1: They might even do a wellness check, call for a
Speaker 1: wellness check, to try to that's brutal man, that's you
Speaker 1: kind of nobody to look after what that's sad man.
Speaker 1: How does that happen in a it's not a third
Speaker 1: world country, New Zealand. Those are my people, these are
Speaker 1: my guys. I love New Zealand. That's true. That's all
Speaker 1: we got. Ben, all right, well, there it is another
Speaker 1: edition of the Fifth Hour. Thank you for being loyal,
Speaker 1: thank you for downloading, and really thank you for listening
Speaker 1: to this entire crap that we've done on this Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and David Gascon. And don't forget
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny. Got that as well. Download that.
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Speaker 1: last week. We'll see if we can make it two
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