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Speaker 1: and it is another Sunday edition of the podcast, even
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Speaker 1: Look at that. You have no applause, as I see
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Speaker 1: four oh five for lay here and sunny southern California,
Speaker 1: hanging out with the aristocrats, the elitist, the one per
Speaker 1: centers your people. I'm hanging out with the unwashed, my people,
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Speaker 1: but it's all good. We still love you the same, alright.
Speaker 1: So coming up on today's podcast, here's what we are.
Speaker 1: We are a little pop quiz, a little study this,
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Speaker 1: very important. We need to grow the social media following
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Speaker 1: so smitten with gag On. I do not know why.
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Speaker 1: really wanted a cameo, just lavishing Gascon with praise and uh,
Speaker 1: I'll pretty much do anything you know on cameo. So
Speaker 1: I said, all right, it's like, you know, nobody's gonna
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Speaker 1: It was nine painful minutes for you, but a lot
Speaker 1: and proud thank you for the card. So birthday, you're
Speaker 1: now fifty? Does it feel different to be fifty? There?
Speaker 1: You you look a lot older. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a video of you, man, you look old.
Speaker 1: The gray hair has slowly come in on the chin
Speaker 1: and across the beard. On top of my head, I
Speaker 1: get a full head of hair, unlike you. So I
Speaker 1: don't see a gray just year. But I don't know
Speaker 1: about that you're wearing. You're wearing a hat. I don't
Speaker 1: know that you have a full head. I'm full ahead
Speaker 1: of it. Looks like that looks like some hair plugs
Speaker 1: right there. I don't know about that. Man. Do you
Speaker 1: imagine if there's one person that would not disclose that too,
Speaker 1: that is exactly the guy Ben Molly would not. I
Speaker 1: got I got nothing. I got nothing. But but uh,
Speaker 1: that's fine, that's fine. I look at you in an
Speaker 1: hair club for men. I think you're dying the beard
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think you got a little uh,
Speaker 1: you know, covering up the gray there. That's a good move, right,
Speaker 1: you get to get the fifty. You gotta do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I need you to, uh, I need you to
Speaker 1: walk me through the process of once I turned forty two,
Speaker 1: now be into that phase of getting checked, you know,
Speaker 1: once every six months for prosted exams, blood pressure, cholesterol,
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole smash. I mean, I know you
Speaker 1: don't have to get a gallbladder checked anymore, but I
Speaker 1: might have to. It's a cheap shot. Yeah. Yeah, Well
Speaker 1: a good thing about working in radios. We got our
Speaker 1: prostate check quite regularly working, so you know it really
Speaker 1: helps your health. Uh it does anyway, all right, you dummy. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's get we got pop quiz you. I got a
Speaker 1: few pop quiz with the show must continue here, so, uh,
Speaker 1: these are random things that are fun questions. I'll ask
Speaker 1: gascon and then you can play along as you listen.
Speaker 1: According to a new survey, forty percent of parents say
Speaker 1: they argue with their family about this on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: It is a regular problem in families. Man, I I
Speaker 1: guess in today's world, would my number one answer be?
Speaker 1: What is politics? Uh? That's not a bad answer. Answer,
Speaker 1: It's not a it's not a great answer because you know,
Speaker 1: most people these days, you very rarely see a Republican
Speaker 1: and a Democrat. It's Democrat, democrat, Republican, Republican. There's no
Speaker 1: differing things. But the answer is the temperature in the car,
Speaker 1: you know, like you're driving around and I don't want
Speaker 1: it colder, No, I want it hotter. You know, I
Speaker 1: haven't really had that problem in recent years. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know this, but there's certain vehicles out
Speaker 1: there that have temperatures for the passenger side of the
Speaker 1: vehicle and the driver's side of the vehicle. I is
Speaker 1: that right? Is that right? Is that? Is that how
Speaker 1: you live west of the four oh five? Is that right?
Speaker 1: Some of us have the dial on the air conditioner.
Speaker 1: You have blue and red. Cold would be blue and
Speaker 1: then red would be warm, and then you have to
Speaker 1: figure out what is the proper temperature based on that?
Speaker 1: All right? Moving on what? One third of Americans say
Speaker 1: this is the celebrity where they would like to share
Speaker 1: a hot dog with. This is a spinoff of the
Speaker 1: Fourth of July, which was obviously recently, So one third
Speaker 1: of Americans say this is the celebrity they would like
Speaker 1: to enjoy a weener with. Who is it? You know
Speaker 1: a lot about eating Wiener's guest on? So what do
Speaker 1: you think here? I'm gonna go out on a limb
Speaker 1: with a man of Troy and say Will Ferrell, Will Farrell?
Speaker 1: All right? He went. I went to the same high
Speaker 1: school as Will Farrell. He's made slightly more money than me. Um,
Speaker 1: but no, that is incorrect. That is incorrect. It's a woman.
Speaker 1: It's an older woman. How about that even better? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna is it Holly Berry? No? No, I didn't
Speaker 1: know Holly Berry was old. And this is I'm I'm talking.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess she's old for you know, for
Speaker 1: for if you're like twenty, she's old at thirty, your forty,
Speaker 1: but you're fifty, she's I don't think it's halle Berry fifty.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. Yeah, she's past fifty. She
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it, though. Oh is that all right?
Speaker 1: I haven't I've not seen any photo of halle It's
Speaker 1: not halle Berry, though, it's not. Let's see drink some
Speaker 1: Grandpa juice here and see if you can figure out
Speaker 1: you want to take one more older female Hollywood. Uh?
Speaker 1: Katherine Hepburn, Catherine, I think this woman is beyond octogenarian.
Speaker 1: I have Bet Midler, not Ben Miller, be Middler. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you are terrible at his game. No, what's
Speaker 1: your name? The one that was on? Yeah? Yeah, say it.
Speaker 1: Rob Parker loves her, Come on, say it. Parker is
Speaker 1: a big fan. I I'm forgetting her name. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's not. The last name is not. Well, they have
Speaker 1: the same first name. The last name though, for the
Speaker 1: bakery stuff is Crocker, but the first name is the same.
Speaker 1: Do you know the no, uh no, you're flipping my mind.
Speaker 1: Betty Crocker, Betty White, Betty White. There you go. Oh
Speaker 1: come on, yeah, there you go. One third. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: a large number. Let me tell you can you can
Speaker 1: lead a horse to water, you can't get the horse
Speaker 1: to drink. I try. I lead you right there, guest,
Speaker 1: guns you don't drink water, right, you know. I'm usually
Speaker 1: at the beach, just enjoying the way. Now you you
Speaker 1: drink filtered water from the springs of you know, somewhere
Speaker 1: in the south of France or something. Anyway, be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app Alright. Another one
Speaker 1: kind of related to the recent Fourth of July holiday.
Speaker 1: A new survey asked Americans to name the side dishes
Speaker 1: they love to eat on the Fourth of July. Now,
Speaker 1: baked beans was the most popular. Not at the Mound,
Speaker 1: not at the Mallard, household, by the way, not baked beans.
Speaker 1: But I'm more of a like a chip guy on
Speaker 1: the side. But anyway, what was number two? How about
Speaker 1: potato salad or macaroni salad. Yeah, my wife likes the
Speaker 1: potato salad. I'm not a fan. Why not? Wait wait wait,
Speaker 1: why not? Yeah? I like mac and cheese. I don't
Speaker 1: like macaroni salad. I like potatoes. I don't like potato salad. Uh.
Speaker 1: The answer is, and this is disgusting. It's probably west
Speaker 1: of the four or five people eating this deviled eggs.
Speaker 1: How pathetic is that? It makes me want to puke
Speaker 1: thinking about deviled eggs. When I think of deviled eggs,
Speaker 1: I think Christmas and holiday parties, like not the ones
Speaker 1: that you go to because I know you're gonna company
Speaker 1: ones that are like usually hundred thousand dollars to cater
Speaker 1: for but uh w when invited guest got Those days
Speaker 1: are over now thanks to the corominavirus, so I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about over indulging at a company event anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I got that in because there will be
Speaker 1: no more of those anytime soon. I can't do you
Speaker 1: remember the last thing you had a deviled egg crap. No,
Speaker 1: and maybe when I was a kid, I was forced
Speaker 1: to eat it. You know, I wolfed it down to
Speaker 1: try to get it over with and then you move on.
Speaker 1: It was torture. But now I'm not a fan. Alright.
Speaker 1: Any two of Americans say this is the number one
Speaker 1: pet peeve about going to the beach. A lot of
Speaker 1: people going to the beach over the summer here or
Speaker 1: the lake. Lack of parking. Uh no, that is not it.
Speaker 1: See if you go to Hawaii, because there's parking everywhere
Speaker 1: in Hawaiian. No, that's true. It's amazing. Ah. The correct
Speaker 1: answer though, smoking, Oh, people smoking at the beach. You
Speaker 1: like the smokes? You smoke cigarettes for years? Gas gun No, never,
Speaker 1: never ever ever, My my, my pipes are naturally like this.
Speaker 1: But that is that is annoying. Like on the boardwalk.
Speaker 1: You'll get guys that are just hanging out on the
Speaker 1: boardwalk smoking a cigarette or a cigar, and you get
Speaker 1: traffic going up and down the boardwalk and that just
Speaker 1: blows into their faces. It's pretty annoying. Yeah, allowed, though,
Speaker 1: it is allowed. Yeah, you're smoking not illegal? Alright. Thirty
Speaker 1: three of kids do this at night? What is it?
Speaker 1: What kids. I can't say, play video games because they
Speaker 1: do that all day, that's right, not video games. Um
Speaker 1: of these kids do this. Um, they don't do homework
Speaker 1: any more. No, those days, those days are over, long gone.
Speaker 1: What about what about talking on the phone? Talking on
Speaker 1: the phone, Those days are over too. I guess people
Speaker 1: text these days. They don't talk on the phone. They
Speaker 1: could text her in the day and talk at night.
Speaker 1: You're better off spitting in the wind. Uh. The correct
Speaker 1: answer is sleepwalk? Have you ever been, ever been a sleepwalker? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean early and yeah I have a
Speaker 1: couple of times have walked, like randomly into the wall.
Speaker 1: It's genetic, right, isn't that genetic that's passed down usually?
Speaker 1: I think it runs in the family. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You gotta ask your wife. She's the hippie, she knows
Speaker 1: all this ship. How about you ask your dad if
Speaker 1: he slept walk when he was a kid. How about that?
Speaker 1: All right? Anyway, he doesn't sleep, He doesn't sleep good?
Speaker 1: Neither do I I get these random text message as well.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sleep, you know, calling me out for
Speaker 1: not paying my my co workers more money. And I
Speaker 1: didn't realize I was a former NFL player making millions
Speaker 1: of dollars. Anyway, we call you Betty money bags, money bags, Mallar,
Speaker 1: money moneyball, Maller, not money bags moneyball. Mollery will never
Speaker 1: call me money bags. I would like to be called
Speaker 1: money bags Mallory. I think that would be the cat's whiskers.
Speaker 1: To be called moneyball money bags Mallory would be great,
Speaker 1: all right. Anyway, five of men are freaked out when
Speaker 1: their woman does this. They lose their mind. What is it? Um?
Speaker 1: But only five role play? Role play? Uh no, I've
Speaker 1: it's probably higher than five percent on that. But the
Speaker 1: answer is make more money than they do. So when
Speaker 1: they're there there, woman makes more money, like crap, that's good.
Speaker 1: Not only only five percent, that's good. I think that's
Speaker 1: that's adequate. I don't I wouldn't freak out at all,
Speaker 1: would you now? I'd be happy. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: worry is you know? Might be? That's great. Good. I'll
Speaker 1: live off you. That's the way to do it. Come on,
Speaker 1: I'm perfectly fine doing that, all right. A new survey
Speaker 1: finds many Americans do not want to return to the
Speaker 1: office once the coronavirus is done. And people, you know,
Speaker 1: they you don't have to wear the mask anymore, and
Speaker 1: they don't mandate all these things and all this stuff. So, uh,
Speaker 1: this is not really a pop quiz question, but it
Speaker 1: was interesting that maybe people don't want to go back
Speaker 1: to work. Um I actually would like to go back
Speaker 1: at some point, not every day, maybe a few days
Speaker 1: a week, go back to fact to work part time.
Speaker 1: But you know it isn't people want to stay at home.
Speaker 1: And if if you do work out of the office,
Speaker 1: imagine if you work in the commercial real estate sector
Speaker 1: and you're renting out office buildings, you gotta be like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, if everyone's just gonna work from their home,
Speaker 1: is are there some zoning rules that you're not allowed? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think, I mean I don't have to look, but
Speaker 1: I believe there are some rules that you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to work in some businesses you're not allowed to work
Speaker 1: at home. Well yeah, I mean, if you're mean, we
Speaker 1: live here in Los Angeles, Sin. So we got the harbor,
Speaker 1: are in the docks. I mean the longshoreman they have
Speaker 1: to work no matter what. Um. Yeah, I would imagine
Speaker 1: an outside of politicians, but how many public servants that
Speaker 1: they have to go to work no matter what to
Speaker 1: you know, if you're a police, firefighter, UM, gas and
Speaker 1: electric companies, UM. You know, if you're a real estate agent,
Speaker 1: you don't really have to work from an office anymore.
Speaker 1: You can work from you can work from home and
Speaker 1: just show people listings and list property when you need to.
Speaker 1: But well, no, I know that. But I mean, you
Speaker 1: know some I thought there was some zoning laws and stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that. Well, I'll tell you one
Speaker 1: place for sure that needs employees. There is King Newsome's winery.
Speaker 1: He needs employees there. That's the only place open here
Speaker 1: in California. Well, he, when you're part of the monarchy, gascon,
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want when you're in the monarchy.
Speaker 1: And good for him. I guess the people of California
Speaker 1: get what you vote for. I didn't vote for Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: so I hope the people enjoy Gavin Newsom, and they
Speaker 1: enjoyed he's turning the state into San Francisco. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's a different conversation. Don't you don't you miss coming
Speaker 1: to the studio though, I mean you're you're always there,
Speaker 1: even on holidays. So you went from zero to sixty
Speaker 1: and vice versa, and you blinking. Yeah. Yeah, Although you know,
Speaker 1: it's like I've always said, I remember years ago, I
Speaker 1: learned it takes about thirty to sixty days to form
Speaker 1: a new habit. Yeah, I'm kind of used to working
Speaker 1: from from the home studio. I've settled into this. I
Speaker 1: got my routine. Now I've got my new routine. It
Speaker 1: does not involve going to the gym. I walk like
Speaker 1: an old man randomly around the neighborhood I live in. Here,
Speaker 1: go to a couple of cities. Actually walked through like
Speaker 1: two three cities here. I walked that far. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm used to it. Now. You gotta, in fact,
Speaker 1: the you gotta take the wife and just walk up
Speaker 1: and down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. That's like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's an easy walk and the streets are empty. That's
Speaker 1: like an easy place to do that stuff. Like you
Speaker 1: got the parks and a lot of stuff. I just yeah,
Speaker 1: but let me tell you Pasadena, there's some sneaky crime
Speaker 1: in Pasadena. I went to a gym just a little
Speaker 1: north of Colorado Boulevard. I had some My car was
Speaker 1: vandalized broken into. I was at the gym and they
Speaker 1: said it happens all the time. They're just like, it's
Speaker 1: really weird, like Pasadenia. It's it's more like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of cities on the East Coast where it goes
Speaker 1: from really wealthy to pretty poor rather quickly, and the
Speaker 1: the crime seems to spike up there. All Right, A
Speaker 1: new service is kind of something we've had in the past.
Speaker 1: But a new survey found that more than seventy five
Speaker 1: of Americans that were survey admitted to gaining as much
Speaker 1: as blank number of pounds since the shutdown in the
Speaker 1: United States. If we got the freshman fifteen, I will
Speaker 1: say the COVID thirty five, thirty five, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Thirty five is a lot. Uh no, how about we
Speaker 1: slice that a little less than half of that sixteen
Speaker 1: pounds of love. Sixteen pounds that's not bad. You've gotta
Speaker 1: figure people aren't going, Wow. It's kind of weird though,
Speaker 1: right because if people are at home, they're not eating
Speaker 1: fast food, so it just means they're cooking like fools,
Speaker 1: or they're not exercising, and you know there's a combination, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you if you eat good, you don't always
Speaker 1: have to exercise. It just I mean, who the funk
Speaker 1: wants to eat good? Come on? Please? Yeah, I definitely
Speaker 1: know that. So be sure to catch live editions of
Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific. Alright, let's get to study this. I
Speaker 1: gotta up all leaves. Then we'll get to the mailbag. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is not a myth. After this is a great,
Speaker 1: great story here from these science files that they now believe,
Speaker 1: the scientists that they can figure out when earthquakes are
Speaker 1: gonna happen based on farm animals. Farm animals, gas guy,
Speaker 1: how about that? Get you? I was gonna say, I
Speaker 1: gotta believe that because you have dogs that have a
Speaker 1: great sense of things and and they're always responsive when
Speaker 1: it comes to the emergency, responds to units. And that's
Speaker 1: from from miles away. So farm animals assignment, especially here
Speaker 1: in California, we need. We need all the help we
Speaker 1: can get. You need the warning. Yeah. But then see
Speaker 1: the problem with this is they'll get it right some
Speaker 1: of the time, and they'll probably get it right wrong
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, and then once you start
Speaker 1: getting it wrong, people are like, that's bullshit. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like when Hawaii got you know, the text message
Speaker 1: alert saying uh, you know, missiles inbound or something like that.
Speaker 1: Once you get that, you can like wait a minute.
Speaker 1: But it says according to this, and these have obviously
Speaker 1: been over the years anecdotal accounts. But the farm animals
Speaker 1: and as you said, dogs and other pets before an earthquake,
Speaker 1: they act different, they act weird. There's something going on there,
Speaker 1: and so uh, never has there been any scientific evidence
Speaker 1: to back that up, But now there has been. There's
Speaker 1: a new study by a bunch of German scientists that
Speaker 1: they claim show scientific evidence that supports the longstanding anecdotal report,
Speaker 1: you know, evidence of people saying that odd animal behavior
Speaker 1: does happen prior to earthquake, the earthquakes. The research suggesting
Speaker 1: I'm reading it right out of this that animals may
Speaker 1: indeed provide the clues maze the way that was phrased
Speaker 1: was weasel terminology, but that they can lead to telling
Speaker 1: human beings when and where earthquakes are gonna happen. Well,
Speaker 1: the nice thing is if these if these farm animals
Speaker 1: are are wrong and they need a fallback plan, they
Speaker 1: can always get into becoming a weather person, or they
Speaker 1: could or they can create models for COVID nineteen deaths.
Speaker 1: Those people are just off by, you know, hundreds and
Speaker 1: thousands too, So it doesn't matter. And and you're never
Speaker 1: the weather person is called out more than the person
Speaker 1: who's making the doomsday prophecies. The peddic the panic peddling.
Speaker 1: You never have to You never get called for it.
Speaker 1: You never get called out for it. Neither does the
Speaker 1: media that just go all over it and just love
Speaker 1: the hell out of it. All right. This is something
Speaker 1: that relates to a conversation I used to have all
Speaker 1: the time with Looney. We used to talk about round
Speaker 1: numbers and how important round numbers are with us. A
Speaker 1: new study out that says consumers would rather have round
Speaker 1: numbers even when the specific number is actually better news.
Speaker 1: For example, we'll use the coronavirus. If they announced that
Speaker 1: this magical potion, this vaccine that they're coming up with
Speaker 1: is ninety one point two percent effective. According to this,
Speaker 1: people are likely to think the vaccine is actually less
Speaker 1: effective then if they said it was effective. So the
Speaker 1: power of round numbers. Just like in Minnesota, they say
Speaker 1: the land of ten thousand lakes, I think there's actually
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve thousand. I think it's eleven thousands something
Speaker 1: something lakes in Minnesota, but they go by ten thousand
Speaker 1: because that's round numbers, marketing revenund round number. Any chance
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to the Twin Cities and anytime sooner,
Speaker 1: verify that for us. Well, I have been to the
Speaker 1: airport in Minnesota over the years, but I have not
Speaker 1: spent any time. I would like to go to UH.
Speaker 1: I was planning, I was planning on going, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if I go to Minneapolis anytime soon. Now,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, there's multiple reasons. But know so listen, it's
Speaker 1: like it's like anything you gotta like. They're whack of
Speaker 1: doodles in a lot of these cities, but you they're
Speaker 1: in pockets. You've got to avoid the pockets of the
Speaker 1: nut jobs and the loons and uh and then you
Speaker 1: find the normal people that live out usually in the
Speaker 1: suburbs or who knows where, but the people that aren't
Speaker 1: trying to defund the police and those idiots. Anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: what's what's the fascination with round numbers? Because you do
Speaker 1: it all the time in marketing, right when you sell
Speaker 1: something you have a listed price of like nineteen thousands
Speaker 1: opposed to twenty thousand or or anything around about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's something about the human condition that
Speaker 1: people love round numbers. It's like satisfying, and they've they've
Speaker 1: figured it out, like in baseball, Uh, if you have
Speaker 1: a three batting average, that's much more impressive than hitting too.
Speaker 1: But it's one percentage point right, and it's like, what
Speaker 1: the hell? And so I actually there was a study
Speaker 1: on this I read a while back that said something
Speaker 1: to the effect that it's because if you if you
Speaker 1: count human beings, you have ten right fingers. And that's
Speaker 1: a film. Including the film, obviously you have ten and
Speaker 1: so uh, there's a there's a theory that it's linked
Speaker 1: to the fact that we have ten fingers, and it's
Speaker 1: some kind of weird evolutionary quirk. It's like, why do
Speaker 1: we yawn? And why why is yawn? What when somebody yawns,
Speaker 1: like around you you you can't help yourself, but yawn.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. It is one of the weird things that
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to figure out. But it's I
Speaker 1: think that's because of the fingers. So if somewhere there's
Speaker 1: a parallel universe guesscout where they have, you know, let's
Speaker 1: say like thirteen fingers, then they would like not they
Speaker 1: w W want round numbers, they'd be they'd be more
Speaker 1: attracted to to odd numbers. And I and I actually
Speaker 1: I have read that it's the exact opposite that you
Speaker 1: want to negotiate. If you're ever negotiating a contract, you
Speaker 1: can always have a range of numbers with round or
Speaker 1: even numbers. But they say that once you get to
Speaker 1: your sweet spot on a dollar amount that you want,
Speaker 1: you've got to make sure you throw something that's completely
Speaker 1: ambiguous or just thought to be benign. So if your
Speaker 1: negotation for twenty dollars, but you say instead I want
Speaker 1: twenty one thousand five, the person on the other side's
Speaker 1: gonna be like, well, wait a minute, like how did
Speaker 1: you get that number? And they'll think in process that
Speaker 1: you actually took the time to compound your your analysis
Speaker 1: in a thoughtful manner, that they'd be more inclined to
Speaker 1: believe that as opposed to you saying, hey, I want
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. Ah, so you have to you have to
Speaker 1: add on to it. And it's it's strange also because
Speaker 1: we love round numbers, but in shopping when you set
Speaker 1: a price like on the internet for a product or
Speaker 1: or for gasoline for example, right, like that nine tense
Speaker 1: thing just is so fucked up that the gas is
Speaker 1: allowed to do that. But but no, it's like instead
Speaker 1: of forty dollars, you say thirty. If you buy a product, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's ninety nine dollars instead of a hundred.
Speaker 1: Because that's one of the examples where people think they're
Speaker 1: getting a great deal when in reality, you know, just
Speaker 1: people's instinct to be tight wads like me here, you know,
Speaker 1: and and be frugal. And he's like, well I'm getting
Speaker 1: a deal. It's not it's on sale or it's less
Speaker 1: than it's less than twenty bucks. It's you know, like okay, anyway, alright,
Speaker 1: moving on, we have mail bag. These are actual questions
Speaker 1: by actual listeners. Thank you for sending them in a
Speaker 1: little earlier this week. If you want to send questions
Speaker 1: to a future podcast Facebook page, Ben Maller show The
Speaker 1: Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. It's just Real
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. If you don't want
Speaker 1: to post your message on Facebook, if you're not on Facebook,
Speaker 1: Chris from Edmonton writes and He says, what was your
Speaker 1: very first job in broadcasting and or the sports industry
Speaker 1: and did you always want to be a broadcaster or
Speaker 1: was your ultimate goal to work in sports? That was
Speaker 1: from from Chris and Edmonton. Well, Chris, technically, my first
Speaker 1: job in broadcasting was at the college radio station k
Speaker 1: s b R eight point five on the FM dial,
Speaker 1: keeping a jazz commercial free. But that was that was
Speaker 1: My My first commercial radio job was with the station
Speaker 1: in San Diego, which was actually in Mexico, and that
Speaker 1: was it was a Baja California Mexico Extra Sports six
Speaker 1: ninety and uh, yeah, I wanted to work in sports.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be the voice of the Dodgers. But
Speaker 1: unfortunately Vince Scully never retired where it was in in
Speaker 1: my wheelhouse, so that never happened. But yeah, I love
Speaker 1: sports and I thought, hey, be a good life to
Speaker 1: work in sports. What about you, gas, Um, Well, I yeah,
Speaker 1: I always wanted to. Well, I didn't want to be
Speaker 1: in sports talk radio. I wanted to play professionally and
Speaker 1: it and it shows by the way it certainly does not,
Speaker 1: at least when when it talks about you and you
Speaker 1: and I on camera. Um, But I wanted to be
Speaker 1: a professional athlete. I played college football, I play a
Speaker 1: little bit of college baseball, but I always had the
Speaker 1: ambition of playing professionally like you know most people do.
Speaker 1: And then I, um, I needed to escape after college,
Speaker 1: and so I got in the sales. I always wanted
Speaker 1: to be in a sportscaster after that, but that was
Speaker 1: more along the lines of just kind of like you said,
Speaker 1: on the footsteps of Ben Scully and some of the
Speaker 1: other grades that we had here in l A and
Speaker 1: even San Diego. You Vin Scully, Chickhern dick Enberg, Al Michael's,
Speaker 1: Ralph Lawler, Ralf Lawler. Yeah, he was obviously the Clippers forever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so stubble onto this the happy playground of
Speaker 1: radio and television and now digital. Yes, yes, digital, Thank
Speaker 1: god for digital. Yeah. Are you clapping for yourself? No,
Speaker 1: I'm clapping. I'm clapping for you because you what what
Speaker 1: a douche You've turned the corner into the digital realm.
Speaker 1: Stacy writes in from Ottawa. We are big in Canada,
Speaker 1: gas and we we should just go to Canada. We
Speaker 1: were dominating the Canadian market for audio content. You have
Speaker 1: you have fans in Vancouver. I know that, Um, I
Speaker 1: think you have a couple of fans in Calgary too,
Speaker 1: So we have we have all the big sties. We
Speaker 1: have Vancouver, Calgary, we have Ottawa, all overa Ottawa, we
Speaker 1: have Toronto, Montreal. I've gotten some email from guys in Montreal, Winnipeg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are we missing any other big locations in Canada? I
Speaker 1: think those are most of the big cities. There's not
Speaker 1: too many of them. You mentioned Evanton too, so yeah,
Speaker 1: we got all the all the major ones. Yes, they're
Speaker 1: major because they have sports teams. Us See, Stacy writes
Speaker 1: in and says, uh, I don't know Jason from Ottawa.
Speaker 1: She said, all right, well good, I'm glad you know Jason.
Speaker 1: That would be kind of creepy if you did. And
Speaker 1: she says, how do you keep going with no sports? Uh?
Speaker 1: Says I listened most nice to your show and your podcast.
Speaker 1: Well God love you. Thank you for that, Stacy. That's
Speaker 1: very nice of you. When I can't and uh, she
Speaker 1: just we can't listen to She listened to the podcast
Speaker 1: and hasn't missed a beat and all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: then she says, this is good. Does Eddie and Coop
Speaker 1: do they help you out with content? She says, enjoy
Speaker 1: all of you, especially Eddie. How about that? Not you gascoon.
Speaker 1: She likes Eddie because he loves hockey, so that's that's great.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Stacy, the way the show works normally is
Speaker 1: I spend about eight hours getting ready for the show
Speaker 1: and then we kind of do the show and to
Speaker 1: each our own. But it works. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: formula that works. Man Roberto. Earlier this week he posted
Speaker 1: a picture Ben because I know you do cooking with Roberto. Yes,
Speaker 1: every it's a staple. Every Wednesday we do cooking with Roberto.
Speaker 1: He made Tostado's this week. Yeah, he did that, and
Speaker 1: he had some marinara sauce too that he was putting
Speaker 1: together in a nice looking conction. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: Roberto crossing the streams going from the Mexican to the
Speaker 1: tie inside look pretty awesome. Yeah, he's crossed over. See
Speaker 1: Roberto is gone. When we first started, were trying to
Speaker 1: find a bit for Roberto, and he tried some different things.
Speaker 1: He was doing some comedy bits that was a disaster,
Speaker 1: and then he did the two that are popular. Weather
Speaker 1: with Roberto, when he tries to pronounce some of the
Speaker 1: names of different cities, like Des Moines, Iowa, which he
Speaker 1: called it, which is always fun, and Roberto is a
Speaker 1: good sport about it. And then but he's a he's
Speaker 1: a good cook. He's he loves cooking, so he's people
Speaker 1: like it too. There's he's given you people that don't
Speaker 1: know those recipes in some places that things he's cooking,
Speaker 1: so it's cool. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific. Kentucky J writes and says, if you
Speaker 1: guys were out camping and became stranded for two months,
Speaker 1: which of your callers would you choose to be stuck
Speaker 1: with due to their resourcefulness? Yeah? Anyone really that resourceful?
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta say blind Scots one of them, right,
Speaker 1: The guy's living blind. The guy took The guy took
Speaker 1: me on a five mile walk throughout Boston the last
Speaker 1: time I went out there and knew everywhere ago obviously
Speaker 1: with his dog. But that guy kept talking and showing
Speaker 1: me around, and you know, I was just like, I
Speaker 1: was pretty impressed. You know, I don't know who else
Speaker 1: you would trust. Who would you trust on an island
Speaker 1: for two months? Yeah? Maybe Jay Scoop. Yeah, I can
Speaker 1: trust him, but yeah, no, there's a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like the great thing about the Malle Militia, it's
Speaker 1: a band of misfits. Everyone brings something positive to the
Speaker 1: to the group, but everyone also brings a lot of
Speaker 1: negative things to the group fall So so you gotta
Speaker 1: pick and choose. There I need like a team of people. So,
Speaker 1: well do you have Do you have any callers that
Speaker 1: are actually legit chefs or someone that can cook, because
Speaker 1: there's gonna be an island for two months nearly, someone
Speaker 1: that can drum up whatever it is around the around
Speaker 1: the local area. Yeah, we've we've had some guys, well
Speaker 1: it was it Blind Willie worked at an applesbe Applebee's
Speaker 1: in Tampa. He used to call the show. We don't
Speaker 1: heard from Blind Willie awhile. And we've had a few
Speaker 1: chefs that have called up. And there's a guy in
Speaker 1: Minnesota that works at a Taco bell. He offered me
Speaker 1: as much taco bell as I want if I come
Speaker 1: to Minnesota. So I'm hooked up on that. I'm good.
Speaker 1: What if you got to live on an island for
Speaker 1: two months with Fats? Oh, Fats would be fun. Fats
Speaker 1: would be entertaining. I don't know that Fats could handle
Speaker 1: being on island for too much two months, because I
Speaker 1: don't think you'd have like Ribi steak, and you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to make pretzels and things like that. I
Speaker 1: think that would be a problem. All right, Uh, this
Speaker 1: one's from in in Boston, He says, Ben, do you
Speaker 1: ever want to kill yourself? After reading? How stupid some
Speaker 1: of these fucking questions are just asking? All right, thank you, Brian,
Speaker 1: very kind of you. Uh have you heard the show, Brian,
Speaker 1: have you heard the radio show? This is actually the
Speaker 1: best of the best year the Kreme de la Creme.
Speaker 1: Then some of the calls we take, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Tim and Cadillac Michigan says, hey, big Ben, this is
Speaker 1: for both of you. If you could only have one
Speaker 1: streaming service for the rest of your life, which one
Speaker 1: would you pick? And why I love the show? Can't
Speaker 1: wait for my non shout out. Yeah, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give you a shout out to him In Cadillac Michigan.
Speaker 1: Do they have to change the name of Cadillac Michigan
Speaker 1: because the Cadillac is not really cool anymore? And I'm
Speaker 1: sure at one point it was considered cool. So do
Speaker 1: they have to change the name of that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe not to cancel it for some
Speaker 1: stupid benign reason. Yeah. Yeah, Well, the Cadillac is for
Speaker 1: wealthy people, and so you you're really disparaging poor people
Speaker 1: when you have a city named Cadillac Michigan. So it
Speaker 1: used to be canceled, right, You're mocking poorness and celebrating
Speaker 1: elitism with Cadillac Michigan. Uh. I watched the streaming services
Speaker 1: pretty much exclusively these days because there's no sports to watch,
Speaker 1: So I don't need to worry about watching any of
Speaker 1: the sports that I used to watch because there's no
Speaker 1: no sports. Uh So, I mean I guess Netflix, I
Speaker 1: guess they have the most stuff, But you know, I
Speaker 1: usually we have Netflix and we'll rotate Hulu, but I
Speaker 1: got commercials on that. I don't really like that. What
Speaker 1: about YouTube? Yeah, YouTube's YouTube's a really good that that
Speaker 1: probably has more than anything. So yeah, and there's some
Speaker 1: actually sneaky good documentaries on YouTube that are hidden and
Speaker 1: hard to find, but when you find them, you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. In fact, that the big chicken documentary
Speaker 1: I think was on YouTube when we uh we did
Speaker 1: podcast about that. So yeah, YouTube you YouTube. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: go to YouTube for sure. All right. Barry in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says,
Speaker 1: if sports talk radio had not worked out, what do
Speaker 1: you think you would be doing for a living? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, how do you know it's worked out?
Speaker 1: Have you seen my finances? Barry? Uh in debt up
Speaker 1: the wazoo. But no, I I would have figured something out.
Speaker 1: I I often have said my my dream is to
Speaker 1: work at Costco, and I still might end up doing
Speaker 1: that if this, if sports don't come back, I might
Speaker 1: have to apply over there. But uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe a lawyer. I wasn't really into academia
Speaker 1: and you have to do a lot of that to
Speaker 1: become a lawyer, to pass the bar and all that.
Speaker 1: But I think from an argument standpoint, I could I
Speaker 1: would be a decent lawyer at least I have that
Speaker 1: in me. Some of my family thought I should have
Speaker 1: been a lawyer, but yeah, and that's you don't know.
Speaker 1: Every decision it closes another door, right You you open one,
Speaker 1: you close another. So I guess in another dimension, I
Speaker 1: didn't become a radio guy, and I had to get
Speaker 1: a different job. And yeah, but you had. I had, Uh,
Speaker 1: the only other jobs I've had out of radio, I
Speaker 1: worked the newspaper delivery guy. That was my first jobs.
Speaker 1: And then I also worked for my mom's business. I
Speaker 1: had a sales job briefly, but that's that's it. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised he didn't say political talk radio. Well, that might
Speaker 1: be coming if sports don't come back. Well, sports have
Speaker 1: really turned into political radio. Everything's political when it fits
Speaker 1: the agenda, you know. And uh, Deshan Jackson says something
Speaker 1: anti semitic. Those guys that are out there virtue signaling
Speaker 1: and prol clutching suddenly shut up. They have nothing to
Speaker 1: say about de Sean Jackson and a bunch of hypocrites.
Speaker 1: We ripped the hell out of him the other night
Speaker 1: on the show, which Uh, Steven Jackson. Boy, what a
Speaker 1: fraud that I turned out to be hunt jeez. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of hustling going
Speaker 1: on right now. So I it's just the climbate we're in,
Speaker 1: right I Mean, everybody's getting paid off some way somehow,
Speaker 1: and you know, everyone's trying to be ahead of the curve,
Speaker 1: and that's what Lebron, who's been proven to be anti Semitic.
Speaker 1: I go back to google Lebron anti Semitic. So he
Speaker 1: really couldn't enter the chat because he's got his own
Speaker 1: skeletons in his closet there, But all those other guys
Speaker 1: could have done it anyway. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, the
Speaker 1: hometown of my dearly departed grandfather. He says, can you
Speaker 1: please pay off your tease and elaborate on some of
Speaker 1: the plans that you and Roberto have for the Astros
Speaker 1: when they come to Dodger Stadium? All right, So I'll
Speaker 1: say this, this is only for the p one, the
Speaker 1: extreme p ones that listen to this podcast. So me
Speaker 1: and Roberto have been talking about getting a band of
Speaker 1: misfits together and and heckling the Astros at their hotel.
Speaker 1: All right. Now, you can find out where these teams
Speaker 1: are staying. There's a couple of hotels in the l
Speaker 1: A area that are like highly rated where the team stay.
Speaker 1: So I think this would be great to get a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys with like signs and we'll just we'll
Speaker 1: call it a protest, and then King Newsome will allow
Speaker 1: us to do it. I think it'll be fun. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: be great When the Astros come out of the hotel
Speaker 1: to get on the bus, they hear like cow bells
Speaker 1: and boom out, boo bay and all that to be wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember one of the shows that you were you
Speaker 1: were hosting. I was up it was like twelve or
Speaker 1: one o'clock in the morning, and I have a friend
Speaker 1: of mine who works at a hotel that the Astros
Speaker 1: stayed out during the seventeen World Series, and she texted
Speaker 1: me during the fight that A. J. Hinch had gotten
Speaker 1: into I don't know if you remember that, but he
Speaker 1: was he got into a fight like a hotel bar
Speaker 1: and lobby area. And so she texted me and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that story, you know accurate? So well they spun
Speaker 1: the story to make it seem like he was like
Speaker 1: a totally innocent Do you think that's actually what happened
Speaker 1: that he was. Yeah. Yeah, And especially in the in
Speaker 1: the you know, hindsight being as they say, when you
Speaker 1: look back at what lying this these assholes in Houston did,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking A. J. Hinch was the insider, he was
Speaker 1: the instigator. Uh. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong. He's
Speaker 1: he's a liar, he's a cheat, he got suspended, proved
Speaker 1: me wrong, cannot do it all right anyway. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: see Trucker Joe. Our guy. Trucker Joe in Pennsylvania and
Speaker 1: Parts Unknown says, if you can pick one fictional monster
Speaker 1: to be real, for example, the lock Nest monster, big Foot,
Speaker 1: up a cabra along those lines, what would you pick? Well,
Speaker 1: the big one would be big Foot, right, because how
Speaker 1: many people have made money on documentaries and movies and
Speaker 1: written books about big Foot? But yet no one's found
Speaker 1: the skeletal remains of Bigfoot. So they must bury other Bigfoots,
Speaker 1: must bury Bigfoots for those to be too well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big for any mythical character. Guess what about Chewbacca? Yeah
Speaker 1: you want to go Hollywood about Darth Vader or damn good? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, I mean talking about a mythical character. If
Speaker 1: he's on your side, you got the force since came over.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I'm surprised you didn't pick winning the pool.
Speaker 1: I thought you would pick winning the pool, didn't? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or big bird? Alright? Alright? Moving on. Jess from Pomona
Speaker 1: in so Cow says, hey, Ben, if you had to choose,
Speaker 1: which one would you choose? And why either the Dodgers
Speaker 1: or the Clippers win at all? Uh this year? And Jesse, listen,
Speaker 1: this is a question I get asked a lot, and
Speaker 1: I love my Dodgers, and I'm looking forward to watching
Speaker 1: the Dodgers this season. But the answer here is the Clippers,
Speaker 1: because it would upset to no end the Laker historians,
Speaker 1: who would just be in tears, Guys like gag On
Speaker 1: the West of the four oh five crowd, the one
Speaker 1: per centers, the Hollywood elites. They would be shipping their
Speaker 1: pants to watch the Clippers win a championship, and it
Speaker 1: would be magical. It would cement Kauai Leonard as the
Speaker 1: greatest player in NBA history. Three championships with three different
Speaker 1: teams as the lead dog. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. If he wins a championship with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: he trumps Jordan's, he trumps Bill Russell, He trumps Uh,
Speaker 1: all of the greats, all of the greats in NBA.
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, Sorry, Kobe, I know You're gone. Lebron James, sorry,
Speaker 1: bye bye. So the Clippers I'm not disagreeing with y Leonard.
Speaker 1: I think he is the best player in the game
Speaker 1: right now, but there's no chance in hell he trump's
Speaker 1: all of those guys like he does. That is a
Speaker 1: that is a greater career accompt I don't want go
Speaker 1: all sporting on you, but that's a greater career accomplishment
Speaker 1: to win the first championship with Toronto in the Clippers,
Speaker 1: all right, to franchises that are known to be woe
Speaker 1: beyond teams, and to prove that it's he wasn't just
Speaker 1: a product of the Spurs and being around those good
Speaker 1: players in San Antonio, that he was the good player.
Speaker 1: So that's the Clippers. I don't I'm surprised they'll be okay,
Speaker 1: because if this is another sitting in another franchise, I
Speaker 1: think you'd be more inclined to say the Dodgers, just
Speaker 1: because the losing team is always the better story, even
Speaker 1: when they get to the World Series, the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be in the Super Bowl, because
Speaker 1: people love the losers, like the Cubs for so long
Speaker 1: right on the win. In media, if you're a radio host,
Speaker 1: you love the losers. If you're a sports writer, you
Speaker 1: love the losers. But if you're a fan, you love winners.
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Speaker 1: to listen live. Alright, Matt from Mansfield, Texas rights and
Speaker 1: he says, if you could topple any statue in sports,
Speaker 1: who's would it be? For me? The choice is clear,
Speaker 1: it would be the Bud Selix statue outside Miller Park
Speaker 1: in walk O. I don't know if Matt's from Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: he says he's listening in Texas. Uh. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say that Peyton Manning statue in Indianapolis is the obvious one.
Speaker 1: Take that statue down. Peyton Manning oppressed my people, take
Speaker 1: him down, Please chop him down. Where is Antifa when
Speaker 1: you need them? Take Peyton Manning down? Horrible? What about you?
Speaker 1: He is the symbol of Indianapolis. I can't think of
Speaker 1: many I can't think of many statues that are actually
Speaker 1: like like worthwhile to eat. I mean, the one statue
Speaker 1: that needs to stay up no matter what is the
Speaker 1: Rocky statue right in Philadelphia, like you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: touch that. No matter what I think that one is
Speaker 1: is uh as hollow ground. Um, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of even like, what are the statues are out there
Speaker 1: that are notable figures that are good you If you
Speaker 1: want to blow have your mind blown, go on the
Speaker 1: internet and do a search of sports statues. There are
Speaker 1: so many random people that have statues that are in sports.
Speaker 1: It's just mind boggling. I love the fact that broadcasters
Speaker 1: have gotten statues. I know in Chicago they have the
Speaker 1: Harry Carry statue in l A They've got and Bob
Speaker 1: Miller has a statue out in front of uh Staples Center.
Speaker 1: Did any of those get touched? Any of those Staples
Speaker 1: Center statues? Did theyn't even try to tear them? There's
Speaker 1: no way I can't imagine them touching those, right. Maybe Gretzky,
Speaker 1: you know he didn't, he never even he never even
Speaker 1: played it. A lot of those guys didn't even play
Speaker 1: at the Staples Center. Complix anyway, all right, Uh Greg
Speaker 1: from Riverside, So this is a question for you, Ben.
Speaker 1: Do you fart in front of your wife? And does
Speaker 1: your wife fart in front of you? Well? Thank you, Greg?
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I think we we both it has happened.
Speaker 1: We both try to avoid it the times it's most
Speaker 1: likely to happen. And you'll learn this someday, guess ghun.
Speaker 1: When you're in a hotel no, no, When you're in
Speaker 1: a hotel room and there's really because there's nearly no
Speaker 1: way to go. You know, if you're in the house
Speaker 1: and you're about you're you're feeling a big moist fart,
Speaker 1: you can go in the other room, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you can kind of walk out. They don't normally just
Speaker 1: pop up out of the blue, so you have some time.
Speaker 1: But when you're in a hotel room, what do you
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm gonna go down to a lobby or
Speaker 1: run out to the hallway to check the mail. You
Speaker 1: can you can put the suppressor on, ben, You can
Speaker 1: sit straight up on your on your bed, on your
Speaker 1: hotel bed. Is that right? Is that there? They put
Speaker 1: the suppressor on, then it's all good. It's even worse
Speaker 1: if you go to the rest room because all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the acoustics and it's just this loud echo.
Speaker 1: It's like kaboom, no chance that's happening. Carlos in Houston,
Speaker 1: right since this did you guys have my Space? If
Speaker 1: you all did, that's a good by the way. You know,
Speaker 1: Carlos is authentic texting when he says, y'all, that's authentic
Speaker 1: texting right there. Who was on your top friends list? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You can check I have. My MySpace
Speaker 1: page is still up and it's I was pretty fat.
Speaker 1: But you can look at photos from the my Space
Speaker 1: when when I originally did the Overnight show during the
Speaker 1: week with Karen Kay, Uh, we had my Space page
Speaker 1: and that was like the big thing that was that
Speaker 1: was more popular than the Facebook when it came around.
Speaker 1: I think they started around the same time MySpace and
Speaker 1: face Facebook. My Space was before Facebook was it, but
Speaker 1: my Space was pretty popular at one point and then uh, Karen,
Speaker 1: Karen had a drop. We played a lot back in
Speaker 1: those days. My Space is huge, you know that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. But I think my top my top eight
Speaker 1: were just hot girls don't even know who they were,
Speaker 1: just connected to them and all of a sudden, like
Speaker 1: hot put them up there and they didn't know who
Speaker 1: you were either. All right, thank you very much. Barry
Speaker 1: from Chattanooga says, do you regularly listen to sports talk
Speaker 1: radio shows. If so who Uh, No, I don't burry
Speaker 1: I I when I do, I listen to my friends.
Speaker 1: People I liked it are good people. Petro's papad because
Speaker 1: I like to petrol, some money show and I'm driving
Speaker 1: around l A. They used to work at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno, We've had on the podcast Jerry Callahan, who's
Speaker 1: got a podcast in Boston. I'll listen to Jerry. Uh,
Speaker 1: some of some of those guys. Uh, you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's a few others were randomly listened to. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't go out of my way. Uh, usually listen
Speaker 1: to something else because it's like taking if you even
Speaker 1: live at the beach, taking sand home to the you
Speaker 1: know your home. You know it's you have, you have
Speaker 1: it there. I'm immersed in sports radio all the time.
Speaker 1: Plus I don't want to steal somebody else's stuff. So
Speaker 1: you guess got you a big consumer of sports radio. No,
Speaker 1: I mean I'll listen to the network, but when I'm
Speaker 1: there eight nine, ten hours out of the day, I
Speaker 1: refused to listen to anything else just because I just
Speaker 1: I'm over it. I'm tired of it, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I listened to Jim Rome especially, you know sometimes well
Speaker 1: go on YouTube and I'll listen to his old segments
Speaker 1: just for great laughs, before um, he became really corporate.
Speaker 1: But you know, back in the day, you were in
Speaker 1: six ninety and I used to listen to that station
Speaker 1: all the time. He just there was no holds barred
Speaker 1: and he would just let it rip. But yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: listen to him at times. Obviously I'll listen to the
Speaker 1: network and on I Heart, But I have a tough
Speaker 1: time listen to a lot of guys that, you know,
Speaker 1: because of the climate that we're in right now, it
Speaker 1: is really just either one way or the other. And
Speaker 1: and god forbid if there's any kind of pushback the set,
Speaker 1: and I think it's just worth where we're at right now.
Speaker 1: You can really see like the true colors shining, or
Speaker 1: you can see just a lack of content. Listen, guys
Speaker 1: out there that just have absolutely no way know how
Speaker 1: to entertain. And I think it's just an indictment on
Speaker 1: I'm a talent, like thereover right now. Yeah, It's something
Speaker 1: I've always said, like this job is really easy. When
Speaker 1: you're it's around Super Bowl time and there's a big
Speaker 1: game and you can talk about it and it's it's
Speaker 1: funny because traditionally, the the the way the industry worked
Speaker 1: in sports radio is the guys would always take vacation
Speaker 1: around the All Star break in the summer because it
Speaker 1: was only baseball and there wasn't once the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: ended in training camp hadn't started in football. There was
Speaker 1: like that sweet spot, and some guys named it the
Speaker 1: dead zone because they dreaded coming in and having to
Speaker 1: talk about just baseball and having nothing else to talk about,
Speaker 1: even though they were like always in retrospect, they're always
Speaker 1: NBA rumors with free agents and there's always like stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the last couple of months, what do we
Speaker 1: a hundred over a hundred and twenty days now since
Speaker 1: the apocalypse started for the US sports And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's not as I will say, there's not as
Speaker 1: much variety, but there's stuff. You just gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: dig below the surface to find the stuff. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you look at your show case and point
Speaker 1: you have an entire segment that is dedicated to the
Speaker 1: NFL offseason and guys getting in trouble for doing stupid ship.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. Listen. If
Speaker 1: it's if the players don't do stupid ship, the bit
Speaker 1: goes away and we all we always issue the disclaimer
Speaker 1: before that, saying we hope no one gets arrested and
Speaker 1: no one has problems with the law. And every year, yeah,
Speaker 1: armed robbery over here, uh, you know, beating somebody up
Speaker 1: over there, bar fight over here. It never ends. I
Speaker 1: think we'll we'll end it there. Guess we're gonna end
Speaker 1: it there. We have bigger fish to fry, I believe, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: all right, listen, have a great weekend. The furlough is over.
Speaker 1: A great rest of your weekend. This being Sunday. Back
Speaker 1: at it, back in the catbird seat tonight on the radio,
Speaker 1: eleven pm in the West, two am on Monday in
Speaker 1: the East. Have a good day.