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in the air everywhere the vast power of podcasting. Back for a Saturday edition of The Fifth Hour, and we welcome you in eight days a week kind of not this week. More on that in a minute, and keep those reviews coming in. We thank you very much for that positive reviews to help us out yet again. Over there, David Gascon right over there, he's hanging on, uh, pull us down another mind. I don't know how. I don't

know how we're doing it. I know it's a lot more challenging for you, but uh, I don't know how the funk we're getting through this without live games going on right now. But you how, you somehow are finding a way to um to polish a turret at times and and make magic happen, and so it's been a wild ride here on the podcast will last four to five months, especially with the the engagement we've had and

listen ship is is sky high right now. So gonna big thank you to everyone that's been participating in this. It's it's been great with taking the sports out of sports radio or podcast, that's what we've been doing here, and uh it's good. People are are listening more and more, which is nice. We've always got some controversy and something that gets politicized, and uh so we've got that going on now. We had John Sterling in here yesterday and

I love that. That was great and we've gotten a lot of good reviews for John Sterling and I'm excited about that. And but today's podcast, we're gonna have some of the traditional stuff. We're gonna have pop quiz and we'll do study this. Um. But I have to begin with the reason I was not in the Magic Radio box on our Friday show, the Overnight Show. I'm on furlough. I'm on furlough, and we mentioned this Eddie took a week of furlough. I actually have a lot of furlough time.

Um that they sliced me. Give me a good haircut there at the company, and I'm not gonna take all of it. I I decided. I was debating, like what should I take any of it? I was like, well, I shouldn't not take any of it, you know, because I'm not getting paid, so you should take some of it. So my my plan is to try to take between now and when sports come back August first, to try to take some time off. So I'll take some like long weekends. We call those the Chuck Booms weekends where

you take the Monday and the Friday. I think I'll try to do that most of the time and just have have an extended time. So so, yeah, I'm on furlough, but we had to do the podcast anyway this week because I had a chance to catch up with John Sterling. So I was like, all right, we'll do that and then we'll Uh. I can't guarantee in the future there might be a weekend we don't do it when I'm

on furlough. That could happen. I'm not I'm not guaranteeing we're gonna keep doing the podcast even when that happened. So that's the situation with the furlough game, and it's you know, it's out of our control. You know, it's a company wide mandate, and everyone had to give back, and so we gave back. And part of the deal was you you're not gonna work, and we're not gonna pay you, and you can choose to work some of it and and I will do some of the furlough days.

But that's the deal on that. We also had a radio meltdown. We had a nice radio meltdown, is what we had. It was wonderful, wonderful radio meltdown. Uh. That was the broadcast line from my home studio that went down. They were doing some maintenance in the wee hours of the morning when we're on the radio, and if you were listening to the show, you know this already. So

I'm you know, I'm an hour in. I've done an hour radio and then I i i I hear silence, and I thought like Roberto was just kind of messing around with me and kind of goofing on me and all that. And then I didn't hear anything, and I was like, wait a minute, and then I realized I was off the air. So then I did what I always do, is I start like, uh, you know, I start kind of hitting stuff. But then I see these flashing lights

that I've never seen before. Like I've had the equipment you go to hell in a hand basket, but I've never had that. Like there's certain lights that I don't even know we're there that started flashing. So I'm like, holy fuck, you know, I mean, what is going on here? And because they had they taught me, the engineering department had taught me how to fix the problem that we had before. But then this was just a broadcast line that went down. They were doing maintenance on this. There's

nothing I can do. So I waited about ten minutes and it still was down, and then I skid dattled to work, and Eddie had to cover and and he had to do dance there and cover and uh and that whole thing. So how many many segments was that? Ben? I think it worked out to be about two segments or so. I think it was about two segments. Yeah, how was how was that experience? Listening to it as you drove into the studio. Fox Sports Radio has the

best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app. Search f s R to listen live. Uh it was was blind. Scott was on and was like, hey, I think I know where Miller lives. I might move by. That was a little awkward. You know, Eddie did a good job. And it's tough when you're not prepared, and there's a different skill set to be a talk show host as opposed to a sidekick or an update guy. And you don't prepare with the same

vigor when you're when you're in that role. And so it's when you put somebody in at the last minute. You gotta dance, you know, dance, man dance, Spider dance. And I thought Eddie did a good job considering he wasn't prepared for it. So I think he did a good job. He didn't end up like Spider shot dead right, he did not end up like that. Well, before I forget, I did want to say I had a proud uncle Ben. Mar We allowed to say Uncle Ben because you know, you know it's got canceled Uncle Ben. But I I

am uncle Ben. I have a couple of nieces and I have a nephew now, which is we'll just go and I remember Looney had a great line about being a nephew one of the cool things about being a nephew is kids have no idea who's a blood uncle and who's not a blood uncle or aunt. You know, I don't know. They just all it's all the same

when you're a kid, which is kind of cool. But one of my my nieces in New York, she graduated high school uh in Manhattan, and because of the apocalypse, we got to watch like the stream and the video and I was very proud. She's going off to college the next year, assuming the world does not end before then. Uh and so so that was pretty neat. It was fun to watch that see uh some whole photos and cool. Now you feel official, so you give the congratulations to

to being an uncle. I will say, um my thoughts are are with one of your listeners and Philly Rob. I saw the news earlier in the week, um with with his cancer, so obviously keeping the chin up and hoping for good health because yeah, especial in times like this, you need as much support mentally, physically, emotionally as possible. So that's uh, some sad news. But hopefully he's on the men's and can get back to as quickly as

humanly possible. Yeah, Philly Rob's great and uh, and I don't want to bug him because you know, that's a tough thing, and you know everyone handles that differently. Some people I've been corresponding with some listeners that have been going through cancer, and some of them are very talkative, you want to give me updates, and other people are like, I'll talk about it. So I want to respect Philly robs privacy, but I will hope I tell him this.

I email them and I I told him, I hope he will kind of keep us updated as much as he can in this situation. So great, great fan and a tremendously generous a fan of the show. And he's been been great. He's been in the studio uh several times over years. He was supposed to be in this year at the NFL Draft, dude, but there was no NFL draft, not not the way we normally have the NFL draft, So there was that. All right, let's get to pop quiz. You're ready for some pop quiz y

flight in the mude. Um. You've you've escaped a mutiny over the last week, You've you've had your your basically your entire control system shut down. But yeah, let's do some positive things. Uh, alright, so I like this, but maybe you don't like the pop I like the pop quiz. I wish we knew if people like the pop quiz, if they liked it, they thought it was just dumb. You give out emails, so people don't email you about

this stuff. I get random emails, but not normally about any specific thing in the podcast other than the interviews. I did get a lots a lot of positive feedback from Fox Sports radio fans who love Mike North and wish you know North was still regularly on the network and all that. And I love North too. I mean this US we had them on its great I love I love those radio legends. Put them on all hacks, all all those guys. Um. But anyway, so yeah, you can't email us. It's a real fifth hour at gmail

dot com if you want to send a note. But here's the pop Quizies are questions you can answer. The way's the bit supposed to work is I will ask the question plausibly for gascon, and then Gascon we'll have the opportunity to to answer, but you can also answer before him. All right, So sales of this snack food have gone up twenty five since the start of the apocalypse. What is it? What is this snack food? Oreo cookies?

No goldfish, big bag of goldfish? Better? Better goldfish? Though, is when you mix a little chocolate with a little it's huge, right all? Yes, do you have the original goldfish or do you have the pretzel flavored ones? I usually do the original. I don't think I've had the pretzel for flavored ones. Who do you? What do you go? Yeah? I go, I go original with that? Or even cheese it's too cheese. It's well. The key with anything is

I learned this years ago on a cooking show. The three most important food groups for any of us are salt, sugar, and fat. And if you can bind two of them, it's good. If you can find all three of them, it's amazing. But you can bind the salt from the goldfish, and then like milk, chocolate or some kind of sweet, it's nirvana. What it is? I just had I know that you you were flossing that picture being at Tito's Tacos last week on Instagram. Yes, I went to Teitos Tacos. God.

I would eat there every day. If I live Tacos, I would go there every fucking day, and I would be the last thing. Oh my god, it's so good. I hadn't been there obviously in months because the place was closed down because of the pandemic or whatever. And uh, oh god, it's amazing, guests, gun, it's better than any steakhouse, any five star, ten star restaurant. It's amazing. It is. You can't go wrong with Mexican food in southern California.

That's that's for damn sure. The only problem was when I left Tito's, I had to go on the I had to go on the four or five South, so I had to cross over from the good side of the four or five to west of the four five, which is just dreadful. We can indoctrinate you, just dreadful. It was forble dirty, felt wrong anyway, Alright. According to a new survey, twenty percent of office workers admit they keep at least one of these in their desk. What

is it, one of these in their desk? Um, I'm gonna say, a bathroom key, a bathroom key, al right, Uh no, that would be a toothbrush. A toothbrush. Yeah. Good dental hygiene, good dental hygiene, very important. Yeah, I remember. Years ago. I didn't go on a lot of dates, but I did remember one of the women that I dated. Her dad was a dentist, and she brushed her teeth like five six times a day. And it was like O. C. D. Level teeth brushing or toothbrushing. You know, did she have

any cavities? Why is that a teeth brushing and not toothbrushing? Why do we call it toothbrushing? But I don't think she had any caby. I don't know. I mean that was years ago. I don't know what happened. Now I do what happened to her, but I assume she's still around. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, you brush your teeth that much, you better not have any cavities, right, yeah, But do you keep well do you keep those two picks? The two pick flosses? Oh? I love those flosses. All

those are great. And their noise the hell out of my wife. She cannot stand the sound because I get the real I'm I'm going next level, Like I go for the flossers that have, you know, the good kind, the plastic kind and all that. I'm always floss I have the most floss teeth in the world. I'm gonna I'm Flossie mcfloss is what I am. I And see, when I was a kid, I never flosst, especially when I had braces on. I didn't either. I did not floss when I was a kid, because you you probably

had the string floss, right that we all. Yeah, I never did that, but gum makes a good toothpick dental floss. And yeah, I keep a bag in my car, and then I keep one bag in my backpack so whenever I'm traveling, And yeah, I need floss philosophy. That's great. I'm a big flosser. All right, boy, that's hot floss talk on the radio. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am

Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Alright, moving on, two out of three Americans, two out of three Americans who don't do this say it's because they're afraid they won't do it. Right, What is it? I was just say, um, don't get your mind out of the gutter. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm gonna say, bake, bake. It's actually not a bad diss. It's actually recycled because you got

like do you put it? Does it go in the paper basket or does it go into the other I mean there's like remember Costco used to have the three baskets set up and it was so confusing. You shouldn't have to take You think it's not confusing, but when you're at the moment, you're like, what am I holding? What basket? Does this go in? You know, it's like I just want to throw something away? And you know, anyway, fifteen of truck owners have one of these what is it? Um?

I'd say, I guess one of those a toe hitch, no a name for their truck. I am in that. As you know. I have the Mallarmobile, which is like the seventh or eighth edition of the Mallonmobile that I have had, very similar to the Batmobile. It's not go to the Mallard Cave. Doesn't matter, asshole, It's what I call it, all right? And truck car it's all the same thing. Do you name your car? No? You know why? Because you're west of the four or five and you don't like fun. That's why I used to name I

used to have an eighty one Crown Victoria total. That's a boss car right there. That's a light out of the L A P. D Lot. I bet yeah, total cop car from my dad was a hand me down my sister and then I had it. We used to name it the Blue Bomb because that thing would just run over or run through everything. And uh and I was an absolutely medicine the road with that car. So yeah,

but yeah, you shouldn't name your car anything. That thing's like an ugly no no no. But my first car, my grandpa Jack gave me, which was a nineteen seventies Valari, I called the brown Bomber stick bomber. Was it stick or automatic? Um? I don't know how to drive stick, so it was automatic. But yeah. It was brown on the outside, brown interior light, brown dashboard and what can brown do for you? Did it smell like cigarettes? Yeah? It had the old you know, it had the old

guys smell. My grandpa did smoke, and so yeah, it had that whole I kind of fell in love with it had the It had the greatest like seat. It was like a sofa. I remember this seat. It was like a long bench type seat set up and it was really comfortable. And but anyway, alright, new survey looked at the most common rules of the house that you had grown up. Now. Number one was you you want to take with Guess what number I'm gonna ask you.

I was gonna ask you about a different number. But let me ask you, what do you think The number one rule when you were growing up for most people was take off your shoes on the end of the house. No, it was you can't play until you finish your homework. You can't play until you finish now if you can't play video games until you finish your work. But before it was you can't like run outside and go run through the trees or the mountains or whatever the on

your house or whatever. You know. Now you have like the you have the hierarchy. You can't you can't TikTok unless you're done with Facebook. You can't Facebook until you're done. On YouTube, you'r you can't YouTube INTI you're done reading a book. Yeah, there's a cadence to it. There's a certain cadence to it, absolutely all right. A recent survey asked adults to think back and identify what made some

someone else's house cool when they were a kid. And I know you're old, guest, you're about to become older here, but can you remember back to when you were a kid. What do you think? The number one answer is that people said, boy, that house was so damn cool because of blank. I'll say this. How about a swimming pool. That's a good that's a good one, but you can only use the swimming pool when the weather is right.

It's actually snacks, good snacks, right when you're a kid and everyone knows the cool house that's got all the candy and all the chips and all that stuff. Uh yeah, that that's that's pretty I think we've got the cool house here, guess on the Mallard Mansions, the cool house with all the I don't need any of it. I used to eat it, but I don't eat it now. But speaking of eating, have you barbecued that fucking steak yet? I have not come on, man, still two months ago.

It's frozen. It's fine, it's frozen in time. I'm going to eat it. I tried, it's not been. I want a hundred degree day. Hundred degree day is what I'm looking for. I mean, I get too relaxed. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller show week days at two am Eastern Pacific. All right, pop quiz continues. Half of the people in your office think you do this too much, but you don't realize it. What is it gossip? No, we're too much cologne or perfume. I

don't know anyone that wears cologne anymore here. That's because we work at radio. People love to smell like gas. They don't care. But if you work in an office, there used to be I've told the story before, but there was a young lady that worked at a country Yo station that was in our building, and she wore so much perfume that even if she had walked past seven or eight minutes earlier, you could still smell the perfume. Back in the day, when I used to go to

the ballet, I smelled that very similar thing. And it was actually one of my one of my producers at the time said that, I think she's she's a dancer or something like that, and I think she turned out to like be a part time I don't know what do you call it, dancer or strip or whatever. Yeah, I mean she did that kind of thing. But but you know this all too well then, because when you go to the clubs or bars. You get dudes that

will just dress themselves with cologne from the bathroom. You have one of those, one of those guys helping him out out, you give him adald and all of a sudden they just bathe and whatever cologne that's Or you go in the men's room when they have that. It was high and I hate the high. And I hate when someone's in the in the bathroom that to offer you like deodorant, and oh, I can't stand that. But then there are guys that are like, okay, I didn't take a shower, Okay, let me just pour It's like

a cheap bathroom shower. Or you just pour cologne over your head. It's that is that is pretty gross, all right. A new survey says roughly two and five people have cut a vacation short because of this What is it? Um, I'd say the flu Uh Nope. They wanted to beat the traffic. And I'm in that group. I have done that. I have had Vegas weekends and I've gotten and I'm like, I'm gonna stay till Sunday. But anybody that lives in l A and goes to Vegas when things are normal knows.

The get back traffic from Vegas on Sunday is apocalyptic. It is apocalypic You're just stuck out in Baker in the middle of nowhere, and it's just a fucking nightmare. And so I will occasionally I'll leave sometime ms in the middle of the night on Saturday, just to beat the traffic and just have clear sailing on the on the Hug. I've done that many times in Vegas in particularly. Yeah, there's a work around for that. That's called flying forty five minutes up and down from l A X to

Sin City. That's what you should be doing. Well again, I didn't grow up west of the four or five. Live west of the four or five. For the commoners, the unwashed, we like driving. It's cheaper, and you have your car when you're in Vegas, and you can drive around at the different hotels and all that. So screw you. You're just showing how elitist you are. No, because it takes it's ninety dollars to fly from here to Vegas.

And then the benefit is if I don't have a car, I don't want to have to pay for parking, and too, I get to walk around a little bit get my steps in while I go from casino to casino. You get your steps anyway, just walking from the parking lot to the hotel. They put the parking lot about seven miles from the front desk of the hotel. You gotta walk through the entire casino to get to the to the damn front desk. But today I'm gonna drive to Vegas. Guy,

You're a fly to guy. That's the that's the difference. I'm out there stopping at the Mad Greek and having uh falafel. That's what I'm doing. Yes, that's right, hanging out. That's the only time I eat falafels the Mad Greek anyway. I uh more popuas. Fifty five of Americans fifty five percent of Americans say that this is the number one species they'd want to save from the list of endangered species. What is it? Oh my gosh, um, and this could be any of This could be bugs, This could be

and you know, giant animals in the ocean. This could be land animals, This could be any um can go with a koala bear? Koala bear? All? Is it a koala bear? No? Honeybee? People love their honey. They enjoy the honey, what about those Asian murder hornets. Murder hornets? I want to save those. We have the synthetic ones. Remember we talked about that a couple of weeks ago. They were and being released in Florida and in Texas. Oh that's right, that's that's coming. That's great, alright, more

pop quiz. A new survey says more than twenty of Americans will lose this at least once this year. Um, I think that's low car keys, house keys. Uh, no credit or debit card. Now, I think this number is skewed. It's actually not. My wife accounts for about of these at least once a week. I don't know where my debit card is. I don't know where my credit card is. And this is a mad search. You know, we're going I'm like digging around under the seat in her car.

I'm like going through a purse trying to find her debit card. I'm like, you know, most of the time we find it. A few times we haven't found it. It's it's next to your cell phone in the parking lot of the costco. Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, all right, Uh, screw you. He's you know what about percent of your co workers have this in common? What is it about have in common? Oh shit, um, definitely not salary, Um, definitely not. Wait, um have in common birthdate? Birthdate? Alright, Uh,

that's a lot. Thirteen percent. It's of people you work with worked at McDonald's. McDonald's is such a large employer that roughly percent of the population has worked at some point in their life as a teenager, most likely at McDonald's. I don't know anyone that's worked at McDonald I'm trying to Yeah, at Fox Sports Radio, did anyone work No. Jonas worked at Chuck E. Cheese lead to lap worked at the arc Light Movie Theater, movie theater, and guy, Yeah,

I don't know anybody else. That's You don't really know much. You don't really you're west of the four or five. You don't really know much about the co workers. You really care about the co workers there? These are these are peasants between you and I. I think I know every coworker's name here. You don't know those are the that's the hoy POLOI. You don't care about the people, right, it's the ranking file. You don't want to talk to the lower order of society. You're a West of the

four oh five guy. These people are hillbillies. These people are our country bumpkins. You don't want to talk to those people. Listen, this is uh, this is getting dangerously close to Goodwin's loss. I'll stay away from any of that, right, Oh wow, all right, going to activate Goodwins log. Yeah? Anyway, Um, yeah, I don't know anybody off the top of my head that in my circle that worked. What about Do you know anyone that worked it in and out which is big here in l A. No, you know, not at all.

But I know they make some pretty good I had a friend that worked, my buddy from elementary school who worked at Del Taco fast food chain and Carl's Jr. And so, But not McDonald not McDonald. Alright, A new survey do a couple more of these. We got some studied survey of this new survey found parents feel their child should be at least nine years old before they can get this what is it? A cell phone? Now? An allowance that seems a little old to me. I feel like I got an allowance before I was nine

years old. But what were you doing cutting the grass? I would vacuum the carpet, and I had to do a little yard work, mow the law and that kind of stuff. All right. I did a shitty job mowing the lawn. I was a kid, but I did it all right. Last pop quiz. Armenia is the only country in the world that requires their students to learn this game. Um baccarat chess. Ah, very nice chess. You know how to play chess? I do. I do enjoy it, enjoy I'm not Bobby Fisher or anything like that, but yeah,

my dad taught me when I was a kid. I'm more of a checkers guy. My mom and dad tried to teach me chest, but I'm too dumb and I couldn't figure it out. And I know that I knew some of the things, and I used some of like the some of the moves I'll use as references, but I don't know like the meat and potatoes of it. All right, Studying survey this real or bullshit tribute to Penn and Teller. All right, let's see her. A dog expert has invented a wagglemeter, which supposedly tracks the movements

of a dog's tail to interpret its mood. I buy that, I mean, does Bella, Bella wax or tell when she's excited, right, and doesn't so much when she's tired. Yeah, usually when they're happy. It's like I always was told, when they're smiling, they wagged the tail. That's how that that works there, So I don't can't you just tell without needing a wag a meter to figure out whether they're happy or not. Well, it could be able to seeve me, like if the dog's tongue is out in the mouth is open, it

could be the dogs tired. Yeah, but it's like getting too far into the weeds, isn't it. No? No, I mean, I love my dog and I hang with Bella all the time. But you know, man's best friend, you got a better getting a better understanding of him or her, all Right? So I read this on the internet. Do you think this is true? Humans have left two hundred tons of rubbish on the Moon. There's supposedly seventy spacecraft that have landed and been left there, old boots, backpacks,

and nineties six PAGs of pa and vomit. I assume that's from the astronauts that when I'm walked on the Moon. That seems like it's a lot that's pretty excessive. I guess that goes back to our recycling conversation a few minutes ago. It seems like a lot two hundred tons. I don't how how do they know that there's two? I mean right, how do they know exactly it's two hundred tons? I don't know. Can you imagine what they're doing right now on SpaceX? Oh yeah, yeah, elon must

they're moving to Texas, right, they're leaving California. Let's see if they actually do all right in Ohio State University. Study finds that not only is it specialized terminology difficult for us to understand, but according to this study, it actually makes people lose interest in science. And they said

the same thing applies to political jargon as well. Researchers had participants read one of two versions of scientific articles to use this as the study, one full of jargon scientifical terms and the other using more colloquial language for the common man, right the the sharecroppers, and the people who read the jargon filled version reported feeling less informed about the topic and less qualified to discuss it, even if the difficult lingo was defined in the article, And

according to what I'm reading here, the readers ultimately felt less interested in science, but the the opposite happened. The readers that read the colloquial version felt like they had a better understanding, and they've felt like they could talk about the article and give an opinion. That goes back to our conversation about you being Awards Smith, because I oftentimes I read certain things, now what's for legal purposes or not. I'm half the time I'm reading it. The

other half I'm looking up. I'm in the dictionary, look at it to find certain words in there. I can totally understand that, Yeah, well it's in anything. It's the most important thing in broadcasting is to know thy listener, right if the listener can't understand what you're saying. You know, some of these guys I know when I first start, I don't know about as much now. I don't listen to too much of radio other than what we're doing, and I listened to a few of my friends. But like,

there are people that try to show everyone. You know, it's like a pissing contest with I'm so great, I'm going to show you how smart I am, and they get into this big spitting match type thing and generally battle of egos and uh it's it's a cock fight and it's pretty bad to listen to usually. Yeah, but

people get to see. People got annoyed back in the day with Bob Costas, and I couldn't understand why, because he's got a great grasp of the English English language and so sometimes that he use words that weren't necessary relatable to a lot of people. I appreciate that, like having the having that kind of depth is a beautiful thing with language. Man, it's it's a great powerful tool, especially when you're on television and on radio all the time.

Well it's I I mix in some big words, some ten dollar words like but I try to make them fun words like hornswoggle or hoodwink or bambooze or skullduggery or something like that. I think those are fun words. Bamboozleman's a great word to throw out there. Um, you know these things. It kind of livens it up a little. But that's the main reason. It's like to me, it's putting sugar into a recipe, a little extra sugar to give it a little more sweetness rather than be boring anyway.

All right, Uh see here it may sound like science fiction, but apparently it's real. It's real science. An international team of scientists has created a three D artificial ie that looks human like and actually functions better than a human eye or any other biotic creation. About that it's coming. Bionic eyes a huge breakthrough in the development for obviously

people that are having vision problems, the blind and whatnot. Now, the current eyes, the fake guys they have do not provide much clarity, and they usually require special sunglasses and whatnot. But apparently this out of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. They are very optimistic that they have solved many of those issues. Does that mean we can get blind scan as a test subject on us? Like, can we get someone to test drive the sucker? Yeah? He said,

he emailed me. I think he called the show and talked about this too. There's some some glasses you can get that will help blind people actually see it seems why And I asked him if he was going to do that that Tesla thing, the musk, and he said no, because he thinks something better is gonna come along. Well, that's always the case. Now this is the this is the blind Scott that you go to for all of

your investment advice. Yes, yes, I I spent a lot of money on a weed stock that he recommended, which is now a penny stock, and he told me how much money anytime he tells me, hey, I made a hundred grand today as a day traders on the stock mark. Yeah bullshit, Yeah, bullshit. So you've listened. You've listened to blind Scott for investment purposes, and you've listened to a

fake dentist for all your real estate advice. That's correct, And you want to know why I am close to bankrupt not made some of the best decisions there with that, all right? More of study slash survey is between pandemics, protests and politics and all that's going on in many people. Guess how many people say, oh my god, this is the worst time ever to be alive and all this stuff. Well, not so fast, my friend. According to a study out

of University of York, here's some positive news. According to their calculations, the world as a whole is much more peaceful over the last thirty years in comparison to the first half of the twentieth century. Now keep in mind from nineteen ten to nineteen fifty, Now you had world wars of biblical proportions and global The global death rate, though, has continued to steadily drop. And yeah, it's it's one

of those things. It's perspective. It's you watch the news and you think everyone's a lunatic and everyone's you know, upset about something, and everyone's shooting each other and stabbing each other. But the crime rates have gone down. I mean, that's that's a reality. But that they're still politicians still run elections. Maybe not now, maybe it's all about race, but they used to run elections based on, uh, you know, we're gonna solve crime, We're gonna stop crime. And crimer

has been going down many years. Outside of Chicago, I guess, yeah, yeah, well there's certain parts of Chicago. It's the Old West there, the law of this Old West. All right, So uh, this is this is maybe only interesting too to me and a handful of other people. But I had a boss years ago, Andrew Ashwood, who passed away at pancreatic cancer. And the study this is pancreatic cancer, which obviously is the worst survival rate among the most common cancers that

you can get well. Researchers say that is likely to change sooner than later because of all of all things foot and mouth disease. Apparently they found something in foot and mouth disease or it's used to treat it, that they can use that at to attack pancreatic cancer. How fucking great would that be? That would be amazing. Yeah, let's hope that actually is not bullshit and that's real. It would be. That would be wonderful. If you go down the totem pole of diseases, is that number one

for you? I think you're looking for a cure from Oh well, wow, my mom died of breast cancer, so I would go with breast cancer. But I mean if any of the cancers, you know, any of those things, it's just so brotal And it's like, did I see somebody wrote or somebody told me it's cancer? Is the body deciding to commit suicide but you've just said you don't want to, but the body is trying to kill itself? Essentially what cancer is? It's just see I go dementia, Alzheimer's. Yeah,

that's that's a terrible thing too. Yea. My when my grandfather passed away, and see my grandfather back in the day, he played hockey into college and then uh fought in the World or Crian War. And then when he moved out here to l A, he was an l A p D officer. But he was tall, he was slim, six ft two, six ft three, great shape. He was a golfer. And when I was in high school and he was diagnosed, I didn't know anything of Alzheimer's at the time. And then I couldn't see him for ten

years because my grandmother, grandmother wouldn't allow us to. And when I saw him in his deathbed, I kid you not, Ben, he was in the still like pristine physical physical condition. Just the mind was gone. It was it was surreal. Yeah, you know, it's it's a very maccab question. But we're all going to meet our demise. Would you rather have your body fall apart but your mind be sharp, or your mind fall apart and your body be sharp. That's a neither one is good imagine having you know, my

mom was kind of like this. My mom, she was as sharp as attack, as the old line goes. My mom right up until the end. She didn't lose anything off her fastball, but her body was just crumbling and there was nothing she could do, and there was nothing we could do, and it was just fucking painful because she was still the same sharp woman she had always been. But she knew what was happening, and we all knew what was happening. But there's like it's like, would you

rather not know? But you have a great I don't know, it's it's really all those mind boggling Yeah, because I have friends that work in hospice carries too, and so I hear what they have to do, obviously prepping a bed, bathing, um, you know, helping them to leave themselves, and they go through so many thankless jobs per day. That's a great question. One of our old interns of Fox Sports Radio is doing that, right, Brianna, Yeah, Brianna, Like, isn't she doing that?

I think she is. You know, I think this is great. I mean it's amazing. Uh give back to people that will not even be able to tell you thanks. You know, that's true, they're messed up. But that just to finish up on that study about the cancer and the possible cure, well eventually hopefully cure. They say that they look at

foot and mouth disease. There's a certain specific type of protein that has been discovered in high amounts UH of people that have pancreatic cancer and they think they've figured out, because of foot and mouth disease, a way to take care of that, to attack that, and they think that and will obviously lead to much lower death rate. Well, if you're questioning your investments, Ben, I think one place

you can look at as as pharmaceuticals. So you look at technologies and you look at drugs that can help cure people of pancreatic cancer or anything else that comes to light. Of course, the vaccine for the coronavirus um. Shift your attention, Ben, I'm just telling you that much. Well, I saw they're going to phase three trial in is in China for something which is good. That's like, isn't that the final phase Phase three? Is it phase three or phase four? I have no fucking idea. I just

sounded like I knew what I was talking about. I don't know. I'm not a scientist. So so again, just to give again the foot in mouth thing, they've they've got something that they use for that that they believe will we use for for the other cats. All Right, So moving on, Researchers from the University of California Davis say, they're investigation of commercially sold avocado oils. Sounds like you're

probably west of the four or five. You're an avocado oil guy shows that at least eighty two of their sample samples were stale or watered down with cheaper oils. Yeah. The food science experts add that three of the products they tested actually contained nearly a hundred percent soybean oil. It was being marketed as avocade oil and the those were claiming pure or extra version avocado oil and it

was soybean oil. Cons what a rip off? Yeah, it reminds me of that Big Chicken podcast that we did from the day and the marketing and people the way humans are wired. If you you're told something, even if it's bullshit, if somebody tells you it, you're more likely to believe it to be true. They have the right words, how they're phrase and how they're presented. Yeah, mine tricks.

All marketing is one mine trick after another. Right. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. New study reveals at sixty six percent increase in gambling activity worldwide. Mostly they claim because of the forty million unemployment here and around the world. Unemployment is pretty bad, very bad financial implications of the coronavirus. So people are turning to

the casino. I believe it. I believe it. There's one I will say, I will probably dip my toes into some draftking stock. Then I'm I'm telling you I've invested. That's one thing. I did invest in some gambling stock, not DraftKings, but I invested in some of the casinos because I was betting on the sports books being the boom and then of course the industrial complex of American sports shutdown this year. But people love sports, and people love to bet on sports or anything, and so I

believe this is gonna be a boom town business. So I put some of my investment money into those, uh those because there's a fool. I mean the casinos. As we've talked about, and I've done monologues on this, and it's just anybody who's been to a casino knows it's the most fantastic thing from a business perspective, because every single person that goes into a casino knows the odds are against them that they're gonna walk out of the casino with less money than they walked in. They know

they're gonna lose, they will go in. They still enjoy it. They consider it recreational fun and they know they're gonna lose in the long run. But it doesn't matter. I'm willing to throw my money away and just to have a good time. Yeah, the stimulation, and because it's so accessible via a cell phone, a laptop, or a PC. I don't I don't doubt that study one bit. We could have a monster explosion here with football, college and NFL seasons right around the corner. That everything converging, right,

the convergence of everything. A new study shows this is about the coronavirus. It shows that herd immunity against the COVID nineteen virus can actually be achieved now they say at forty three instead of six, which had been projected earlier. But the medical cost will still be very high. They say, but yeah, oh that's a that's a speculation. I hope

they're right. That'd be great. Yeah, it's unfortunate because I was reading some stuff in New York talking about how the protests did not provide any kind of spike in coronavirus tests, positive test results, only the only the rallies and some of the other things. It's just a coincidence that they were burning and pillaging l A and then a few weeks later everyone's walking around with the corona. But it's not those There's no correlation, Gasca, You're just racist.

If you think there's a correlation, that's a bad job by you. And don't even think that these two things could be related. There's no way. Then, all those scientists that said it's perfectly okay to go out. As long as you say it's a protest, you're gonna be fine. I can't believe that that would be wrong. It couldn't be wrong. It could not be wrong, not at all. All. Right,

here we go. In an effort to find a cure for the coronavirus pandemic, researchers at Boston University have developed a way to fight not only the COVID nineteen, the virus behind that, but also really any virus in the human body. WHOA how about this? The new technology from Boston University uses tiny bits of they say in air quotes, bio friendly plastics wrapped in cell membranes to create what are essentially fake decoy cell. So here's how it works.

Let me walk you through this. So they make the fake decoy cells out of the bio friendly plastics, and these fake cells, uh, they attract the virus particles and they divert the virus from attacking the real cells that will give you, you know, fuck you up and kill you. How great is that? Awesome? That's Oh, this is another one. You gotta cheer for this, right raw raw. You gotta be Benny bright Side on this one. Yeah, especially because think about the thing about every illness that that could

cancer and all this stuff. Yeah, I mean, we just think about when we were kids, because you get chickenpox usually as a kid, and then when you age, whether you're in your fifties or sixties of seventies, you also get shingles or you're susceptible to that too. So if you can knock all this stuff out, especially at your youth, more power to you. Be awesome. Be great. I would

I would sign up for that in a heartbeat. A recent survey from munster dot com shows that fifty one percent of Americans are finding themselves burning out from the stress, long hours and lack of boundaries because they're working at home. I think it's more than that. I think it's higher than well, I have a studio. I actually go into a radio studio. I built a professional broadcast student. I don't if you know this, guest. I spent a lot of money thanks to w e I several years ago.

I actually paid for it because when they didn't pay for it, they's paid me. I used all the money I made from w e I to pay for the equipment in the studio, which, by the way, let me point out again, better equipment than we have at our main studio, the mothership. So put that in your pipe and smoke at guess gun. I will say, boundary y, it's it's it's a little challenging, but I feel like I feel that there are more people that want to talk or at least go out and socialize more because

they've been so locked down because of work. Uh yeah, Like I feel like it's gotta be some separation, you know. And it's like one of our old bosses back in the day used to preach, you know, you gotta you gotta have family time, you gotta have work time, you gotta have you know rest time? You know said you gotta have a little bit of balanced life, right, a balanced life everything in moderation. I go a little too

much on the work thing. But I'm talking about this while I'm on furlough, so I'm taking I'm taking some unpaid time off. Is what is it technically furlough for you? Because you're not compensated for this? Yeah, what do you call it? I know they said that the deal was you got to did you get the same deal? You didn't get to know the same deal? Yeah, but the honor every everyone making over a certain amount of money at I heart had to take several weeks of unpaid

time off. I don't is that a furloughed? Am I calling at the wrong thing? Well? No, but I mean for this podcast, it's not technically a furlough. Concerned that you don't get camped out for this. But if you want to claim furlow, you can also claim unemployment for that too, because we have other people that have been flowed and they've claimed the unemployment from the state of California. Yeah.

I don't know how that works. I don't know. But for the definition of furlough is to leave of absence, especially that's granted to a member of the Armed Services. I'm not in the Armed services. No, but you're a frontline worker. Yeah, I guess front line of sports radio without sports emergency response unit, that's what you're part of. I have a card, though I do have we have martial law. I have a card. I can go out and drive. So let's good alone. I got a radio show,

the host. I'm doing God's work. I'm driving to the transmitter right now to broadcast in the magic radio box. Is that? Yeah? We have time for one more? All right? Are you? Let me ask you this? Now? What do you before I ask you? Are you not the right way to phrase it? Um? Which generation do you think is feeling the locked down loneliness the most? Well? What's the generation below me? Is a Generation Z? Yes? Yeah,

I'll go Generation Z. You got it right? Congratulations. A new study says that Gen Z has the highest level of loneliness compared to before the lockdown and all this. Why would that be? Like? I would think older people, you know, your grandparents, if you still have them, why they get most of them get so excited when your kids and their grandkids come and see them. You know what I mean, Like, like, so you'd think that that would be older people will be like I want it,

But it's the younger genera. They're tougher. The older people are tougher. They've been through wars, they've been through the sixties, Like they know what chaos is all about. This is nothing at least from the people that I've talked to and that we've interviewed. This this pales in comparison to what happened three or four decades ago. I just think people were tougher than And you also look at the activity on social media nowadays. Generation Z is all over

social media. I mean they use that as an escape and they use that for an attention the at tension that they're not getting either at home or their immediate circle that they're in. And I think that's the case. Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. Uh yeah, I don't know. When I was a kid, I didn't have many hardcore friends, and I you know, I take a tennis ball and play against the garage door at the house for hours. Yeah, but look at you now, Look you have a boatload

of friends that you can't even attend to. What do you what are you saying do you have a lot more friends now, especially with the way that you are in in media that you talked to, You talk to people all across the world. I know, yeah, I know I have friend well, yeah I have friends and things like yeah. But I'm saying when I was a kid, like growing up, I you know, I'd sit and watch cartoons for hours and cheeseball TV shows. You know, the one thing you weren't doing is you weren't watching a

TV show. We're looking at a statue and feeling offended. No, no, I was no. You know normally when I grew up, I'm old. When I grew up, you had to like have a vote to have a statue remove. You didn't just decide to do it yourself and have vigilante justice. But you know that's uh. We evolve as a society gainst them. We evolve as a society. Clearly canceled, you

must be canceled. What a world great? Uh my, most the most amazing part of that, to me, the eye opening part is how many people are in They are down with it. They're down with it, and every once in a while comes back and buy seeing the ass like Jimmy Kimmel and Howard Stern and those guys trying to be woke mcwoke and uh, suddenly some of their

old skeletons came out. Everyone's got skeletons. But see, here's the problem though, what about on the other side, where people want to respond to it and prevent it, then they also have recourse that happens their way, whether it's in their immediate circle with family and friends, or even their professional life with their employers. What do you mean specifically,

what do you mean examples? I see people talk about this all the time and social media that they are either let go or fired because they're conservative or they don't agree with certain people in the way that they're treating or the way that they're taking down statues or graffiting a building or setting up camp somewhere in the middle of the city in Seattle. I see people that

are getting pushed back professionally because they're opposed to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's part of the Orwellian thought police, right, that's the the whole bs that reference that I've made a million. I feel like I've used the Orwellian thought police more George Orwell in the last month than I ever did before. But just read the book, which was published in nineteen forty nine. George Orwell died in nine team fifty. George L.

George Orwell has been dead for seventy years. And the things he wrote before he died, that was not a true book. It was a fictional account of what was gonna happen. Wasn't nonfiction. And it's become nonfiction. It become nonfiction. But every record it is a quote from from the

book George George Orwell. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue in street building has been renamed, every date has been altered, and the process is continuing, day by day, and minute by minute history has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right. And see, I think it's such a lazy take to say, well, if you want to be educated, go read a book. Oh yeah,

I'll go to a museum. Saving for the museum. But there's tons of ways that you can educate yourself, not only in a book, but you could do it on social media, you could do it on television. You could do it a museum, you could do it a gallery. Uh, you could do in an arts center, Like, there's tons of ways to do that, and then to bury that kind of a product that has made it defeats the purpose. You're not gonna go bury yourself into tons of books and just be some kind of you know, scholar overnight.

So anyway that you can get out there and expose yourself to to whatever kind of pieces out there in history, whatever may be, there's no way to be taking the stuff down't no way you can justify it. Yeah, well, these ragamuffins. So my favorite part is the punks and the losers that like they're tearing down statues of people that work to freeze place. Yes, I mean, I mean you are such. Are you just announcing what a brainless

varment you are? If your goal is for you know, and racism and you're tearing down an Abraham Lincoln statue, what the funk are you doing? Yeah? I saw earlier this week a U. S. Senator from Wisconsin who actually decided to join in a in a protest in parade. Ben he was taking a picture of himself in this parade and he proceeded to get his ass kicked. He's a Democratic senator from Wisconsin. And he got his ass kicked. He was eaten by his own people alive. I just

I don't get it. Man. Well, look you saw in d C they named across from the White House, they named a square for the movement, and then, uh, they tried I think they're still trying to put an autonomous zone right in d C. And then in in Washington State, he had a politician who was all supporting the movement and the cause and all that, and they eventually started tagging her house. Oh yeah, the Seattle mayor mayor. Yeah, no, I was some city outside say, but it was in

in Washington State anyway. All right, Uh that a gascar and we put the baby to bed. We still have another podcast on Sunday. We've got the the mail bag. Good questions, good questions in the mail bag. I'm looking forward to that. But there it is. Have a great day. We are on all the different platforms again. Follow me cameo dot com. You want a personalized video message if you're a big fan of the show or you know a big fan of the show. It's not free, but

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what's the phone book? Yeah, of course I can. I can certainly do that. So you would do that? So you're willing to do some some light nudity. It's not really light nudity. There's no difference from between me going to the beach and you listen, the way we're going with these masks. Next step is the burka. The next step is that's the next step up. Okay, so that's wait till Dr Fauci says, I think to stop the

spread of life, we need the burka that's coming. That's coming. Well, leave it up to your governor to decide on what we're wearing. How about I don't have a governor. I have a king. I do not have a governor. I have a king. Anyway, all right, you want to promote anything or it's just cameo Gascon David Gascon, and all right, listen, have a great rest of your day. I got another podcast coming your way with the mail Bag on Sunday. Enjoy the rest of your time.