A Tasting or Two

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we have to follow. And joining us now sash his way in the man from West of the four oh five, the villain David gesc I did some I did some crime scene investigative work from yesterday, your inquiry from yesterday. Curry Body. Curry Body is known as the latest time zone on Earth. Where does that look? It is? Uh? It's considered. I don't know. I guess it stretches island. Yeah, it's got to be an island. Ever heard of it? Yeah? How many hours behind is it of the first time zone? Well,

that's a good question. I looked at up there. You didn't look that up, so you have you have a partial answer. It's the latest. You asked yesterday what the latest time zone is? Well, the last, yes, because you have like Australia brings up the beginning of the time and then the end has to be somewhere. Yeah, like we're nineteen hours in the on the west coast of the United States. We're nineteen hours behind New Zealand. So they said there would be no math and there should

not be math time zone. As farthest behind is the Baker Island time Baker Island, but they say cure body is the latest time zone, which is uh. They listed as plus four hundred on the Universal Time Zone Club. You said Baker Island is the last time Yeah, Baker as it sounds, Yeah, Baker's it's not even on my on your big board. I have a thing I can check different locations, locales, what's another one, Give me another town.

It's on that list year. I look it up, Currey body, K I R I B A T I I be carry aboudy Okay, I want to say, oh yeah, twenty one hours. It's good. I believe it is the that's the difference. So there are two hours past New Zealand. How about this for a for a trivia question for you? What is the what is the national abbreviation for Germany? You know the United States as USA G E R. No, it is D E E D E Deutschland. Are you

moving to Germany? No, you will not be moving to German No, but I might be moving closer to you. It's got a great story. Yeah, well you don't know where I live. You have no idea right now. I live in a temperar you and Joe's knocks up in Malibu, up west of the four oh five. You guys, is that is incorrect. I'm living at a halfway high now, much like my listeners wish they were living in a half he half pint. Big story this week on the show, Half Pint ends up in jail facing two and a

half to five years in jail for meth. According to beer drinking Brian, that was his math of the day. Yeah, a little math on the overnight. What the fuck well? I mean, listen that people get down that rabbit hole. Man, you go down, you start with the meth. You can't stop with the meth. Man, you get addicted to it. That's what drug addiction is all about, my man. That's why you don't start. Don't start, you can't stop. Uh. It's she's the very small half. That's why I call

her half punch. She's not a full punch to half point and then beer drinking Brian, who's is lean and mean as possible. Yeah. Interesting, So you move? Where are you moving to? Where are you leaving? Two parts? Unknown parts? Yeah, you tease, but you're not gonna pay off the team. I um, I invite you out to a venue or to last weekend, and um, you were unavailable. You had other obligations. I was available earlier in the day, but

you were not. Yeah, I was. I was asking I'm available, by the way, if you want this weekend during the day. And I worked during the day and you forgot that. I'm stuck here and I don't call out work. I call it a work to go to work. I Uh. I went with a colleague of mine, a friend of mine, childhood friend. His wife was gone for the weekend, so he want to go out. This guy is like a This guy is you times ten in terms of introverts, doesn't do anything, doesn't go out. And I invited him

to uh to Javier's. It is a great spot. It is in Crystal Cove. It's the south point of Newport Beach off a Pacific Coast Highway. And Ben, I get into the parking lot, I see a tesla, a Maserati or range Rover, Like, obviously this is way above my weight us so obviously not valeting my car. I you know, I had to park a little bit, you know, weighs down a little bit. But this restaurant, it's a Mexican spot, really good food, a little overpriced. But that's why I

don't like overpriced. You lost me it over. The food is good. I've eaten there. The food is good. Yeah. I'm more of a Tito's Tacos place where the food is also over priced, yeah, but better. But what you're going for the real estate, and you're going for the scenery. So that's what we went for. We went for the ambiance, if you will. We went to watch the Clipper game Clippers and Sons and then um and they obviously we went for the for the ambiance and uh, it was

a full deck. I would just say it was packed wall to wall with with a plus talent. And Uh, my buddy want to go to Mastros. Mastros is like in the same parking plaza, and I said, Okay, after we're done with dinner, let's go down there. So we decided to go to Mastros. I was underdressed, he was overdressed, which was per fixed. So we walked in and had a couple of drinks and as we were at the bar area for drinks, a group of girls congregated to us because they were at Javiers and they saw us

at Javiers earlier that they didn't come by. So we started bullshitt and talking and I got introduced by one of the one of one of the women, she said, Hey, my friend thinks you're good looking. She's single, blah blah blah. So she introduces me to her, and as we started talking, I just thought like, man, this girl she wants to talk, but she really doesn't have much in terms of the

conversation skills. Well, she bolts to go to the go to the restroom and her friend, the one that introduced us, came back to me and she whispers in my hair like, hey, just be careful. Like she's getting over a relationship, her husband or her boyfriend or whatever is in the joint Like what she like, Yeah, he's been in prison for four years. She's having a hard time about it. I was like like, yeah, you know what, you know, I don't know if I'm gonna be going that way. She's like, oh, perfect,

that's great, that's great, don't worry about it. Pulls out her phone. She said, let me take a picture of you. I'm gonna send this to my friend. Well, she's the matchmaker. That's exactly what I said, dating website. So what do you do? And she said she works for Microsoft. She wants to set me up with this fifty year old

And uh, that's a younger lady for you. Yeah, yeah, definitely younger, Yeah, much younger by a decade of And I just thought to myself, a wow, and uh And it turns out and this woman works for a major player in the in the hospitality industry, and um, so it's just are you gonna it's just gonna blossom? Into something. You guess, are you trying to Are you gonna go with a lot of women do where they they date serial dating, well men with money and then they try

to cash in on that, like sugar daddies. Yeah, like a sugar You don't have a sugar mama. I don't. I don't think so. I'm not one to serial date. But it's just it's a healthy reminder because we haven't been out in a long time because of COVID that Newport Beach, Crystal Cove, Navier's Mastros, it's undefeated. You could just like that. You know who used to hang out there all the time. Yeah, Kobe. That was Kobe spot as he lived down in Newport and that's where he

would hang out. Yeah. You when you and Steve were talking yesterday about the Angels and working out there in Anaheim, you mentioned one sports bar, Nationals. I thought you guys were talking about another sports bar called the Catch. No, I've been to the Cash, but catches like a cougar Den as well. Now, we used to hang out the National Sports Grew, which hasn't been there in years, and that was our spot and we get the sampler. They had pool tables, a lot of TVs. It was. It

was a cool place to mingle. And not that I'm very social, even I as an introvert, not the party animal, go out there and have a good time. When I had my fake idea at sixteen, I would go there. That was the only place I'd go to. The one in Torrance and the one in Anaheim worked every time. Yeah, it was a cool place. What happened went on obviously went on a business a long time ago. I guess it's a It's a hard business to keep around, right, the profit margin is not great? So I have so

are you gonna follow up on that? Guess? By the way, are you're gonna? I think I should, right, I just you know, I call ride these ways out see what kind of lottery tickets I can land? Yeah, I mean, so I have the I have the pros and the cons here. So as we talked about in a previous episode, and I just mentioned, I'm living in a halfway house, h my the Mallard mansion that I'll be moving to.

I sold my house and then the Mallard mansion that I'm moving to is being renovated and it's hopefully going to be done in sometime in August, like mid August. Yeah, mid August. So I'm living in a lot. There's a lot of work to do. So I'm I'm living in a temporary house and I've had to make some adjustments. And like anything in life, you have the positives and the negatives. I learned that when I was a kid. You take the good, you take the bad. You take

them both, and you have the facts of life. The facts of life. That's the old old TV show. So the positives here. The house, it's I've got my studio set up. I think it sounds better than the old studio. The line solid, which is great. Um, got a lot of space, you know. We we have enough space. You're not not as big as the old place. Put enough space. It's got a very powerful air conditioner, which is important in the summertime July gets hot. Air condition and water pressure.

Water water pressure is not particularly good because we have not adjusted the filter on the showerhead because we're only temporarily here. But I promise you at the next house we will doctor the showerhead. Um, there's a garage for them mobile. Now the negatives. It's got this h o A. There's an older crowd that lives here. There's h o A which is a problem. The big guessed red check mark though to the halfway house I've lived here for a few weeks now is the lack of a doggie door.

And Bella has taken full advantage my ships. Bella has taken full advantage to turn the entryway into a ship house. And she's pretty good about pawing at one of us here for the number one to go out and you know, and go to the bath number. But when it comes time to jump on the poop train, she cannot be bothered. Oh and you and the misses have flip flop schedules. Now, yes, yes, she's working during the day and I'm working at night, and so during the day Bella he likes to go out.

And but I am happy to report the Mallard Mansion. When it is done, we'll have the new Mallard Mansion. I will have a doggie door. So Bella will be if she still continues to crap all over the place, she will be punished if she continues her third world steaming piles of dump in the in the new place. So there's she's gotta say. She's ready to be in

San Francisco or l A for that matter. Let's be honest, the same stuff is happening in l A. That's not to pretend like that's your governor right there, Gavin Newsom that he recalled date has been set in September. Yeah, recalled date for Gavin Newsom has been set. Are you going to vote for Caitlyn Jenner to replace? I don't know who I'm gonna vote for. I mean, we've got looking ship going down all over the place. We got we got it going on. Man, how about the sample this? Now?

I mentioned this briefly on the show. So I snuck away. I was running some errands this week. I was meandering around Costco. Don't buy some water. We don't have filtered water here, soide some water do you buy? Do you buy the jug with the water filter in it? Or do you just buy filtered water by the bomb by Kirkland brand purified water turning some right now. They're not

a sponsor, no they're not, but it's good. So I'm walking around and like whatever, And I I walked into the store per normal, and I was greeted by like this, this ray of light, like an old friend. And it was a bunch of old women in hairnets who were hawking samples. The samples are back. That's right, the samples are back, and they have returned to Costco and it's wonderful. What was your first sample, Well, the first one was a little baggy of potato chips. It was a little

bag Then they've changed the samples a little bit. They a lot of them. If they're not like really hot, fresh out of the bakery, you know the bakery, the the mini oven they have, they'll put them in a bag um. And I went through. I had a half a pancake. They had a half a pancake. But it was like riding a bike. It was like muscle memory kicked in and I was so I was so excited. I actually posted a photo on Instagram and on Facebook that my old friend had returned. And I was a

little concerned. I was nervous. You know, it's like you hadn't played in a while. It was the off season. Was the off season with the COVID No samples and get back in the batter's brox and bam, you know, moonshot upper deck, get out the ride, bread and the mustard. It's grand Salami. Time, I'm a little worried for you. Now. 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. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Because during the year of COVID, we've had the COVID Third Team where there's so many people gaining an abnormal amount of weight. Yes, but you've gone in the reverse like you've lost a ship ton of weight and now a samples coming back, you're gonna get fat again. No, I'm not gonna get fat again because I'm only going to eat in the

window I'm allowed to eat. So that's it. Like all on Saturday, I have a little more leeway, So I'll go in there and I will plane my day around the samples. And the cool thing about the samples when I went is people were still a little gunshot, a lot of people still wearing masks. And I don't know if you should eat the samples. Maybe you shouldn't eat the samples, which just meant more for me. I just meant more for me so I was happy about that.

You're not worried about the Delta variant while you're at Costco. Oh god, no, please, you get I know you're very concerned. You've washed your hands a lot, they're guests. You're very concerned about all that. Yeah, I washed my hands for different reasons. No, I I mean I'm in the gym as much as possible. I load up on vitamins, I get plenty of sun I know a lot of people that we work with, they're just apprehensive about being around anybody. Um, they look at you like you got cooties. Yeah, I

mean you got the cooties. Yeah. I mean you've got people in here that need has mat suits on the way they act. But I'm not like that. I am. I am not like that. I've at least they took the signs down though. At Fox Sports Radio. That doesn't mean anything. Though we've we've had we've had acknowledgements, and we've had internal memos it say, despite that we are required to wear masks. Yeah, if an individual is not vaccinated,

he or she has to wear a mask. Did not stipulate at that person has natural immunity, just if they have not been vaccinated. So how do they enforce that, I don't know. But the fascinating thing is is that just because well, what's the point of being vaccinated? Then if other people need to have a mask on that aren't vaccinated because the idea is you're gonna have protection, Yeah, it's that's I don't there the mask things not going

to come back. People are people have moved on. There's some people moving There still a lot of people that oh yeah, I'm telling you, the rest of our lives, there is always gonna be some people that are gonna wear masks. It's gonna be. It's like when I was a kid, my parents, uh you know, their parents were part of the Great Depression, and so they hoarded food. My mom hoarded toilet paper before it was cool. The hord toilet paper and all kinds of food prepared for

nuclear winter. And I'm sure for us are people around our age the rest of our lives are are these people that will always wear masks, would have never worn masks before because they're convinced that is their way to stay healthy. What do you remember, though, when we back in the day, back in the day, like before last year, we would go to work sick, cold, hay fever, flu, stomach bug, you know, blood comeing out of your eyes,

blood coming out of your ass, whatever it was. You're coming to work like you've come to work when you're sick and and and if you didn't, your bosses would kind of say, are you sure you can't come in, kind of giving you like that little nudge and now God forbid you know. Well, the model and I followed, take a couple of ass and rub some dirt on it that kind of yes, get back out there and play. And I feel like you're letting your teammates down. Has

it really changed though? It's still cool because I know when I don't take a lot of time off, but when I do take time and they're pretty cool because I don't take a lot of time off, but some people they're not around much at all, a lot of time. Yeah, we've had an added holiday obviously. Yeah, people look for for ways to spring loots to the I'm all for more holidays because it's more comp days, so I'll work anyway. I don't really care. They just keep adding holidays and

that's fine. Yeah, I mean I need the holidays they have in Europe. You're European. Now you're a German. Do they have many more holidays there? And you know in the different countries. I'm gonna try to get out there for the championship game. You should come, We should, We should if you Makenna do it, if you get them to pay, I will go about that. What if I can get I'm a pilot to hook us up. Always sliding in your like a sort of at the suit store.

That's different though, you're how it's got to be with Lasorda is an asshole? Or wasn't that? You don't know that number one you've never met. But we talk. We correspond email this week. By the way, he's busy. He's like touring the world is what I like. Talk to us all the time. He's got better things to do. But let's do this. We can go. It's a whole It's one thing to send a hat guest gun. It's a different thing to fly a plane. You know much the fuel costs and all that come on. Yeah, but

international flights typically aren't full. I would guess they're probably half full, especially nowadays. So we can do this. We can do Berlin, we could do Hamburg, wherever. These championships. You know what you need. We need the Willie May's package is what we need. Right, William May's got that deal with American Airlines, right, it's rights five thousand fly anywhere you want, limited flights and great. Now, okay, here's a question for you. Let's go to Paris and have lunch,

will fly back now. Because the cost of well, I don't know, because you don't travel a lot. But if you have the ability to have that kind of a hook up or any kind of Bobby Buonia contract that was given to you until what would you rather have? So I'd rather have the money just not have to earn it, just get it every every year, or the ability to travel and I have to pay for it. Well, I'd rather have the money because then you can travel

with the money if you want to. You can spend the money and travel, so that that would be the best of both worlds. I there's a guy Lanced the bus driver that was one of our callers back in a different era of the show, right in San Francisco, and he's been on disability for like several years, but he travels all over the globe because he's got a hook up at the hotel, and I think his wife works at the airline. He's got like family rates, friends fly free friends and family whatever. And then he has

a hotel hook up. Yeah, so he's like he's a bust dry Would you make decent money as a bus driver San Francisco? It's a union gig, but he just travels around. It was like it used to send me photos. Look, well I'm in you know, I'm in is standing bull or wherever. That's awesome. Congratulations, that is awesome. Now what happens when San Francisco goes all electric? Is he gonna be out of a job. Well, no, they still need busses. They'll just put the buses electric. You think so, Yeah,

of course they don't need public transportation. Yeah, I know. In fact, if they make it, public want more public transportation. Yeah, but they might make it or it's artificial intelligence driving these vehicles. I don't think we're We're not at that point. I would be very surprised if we're in. I know that Tesla's got the self driving thing and all that the liability for a city to do that, because he knows something's inevitably gonna go wrong and someone's gonna get killed,

and then who do you sue? You? You can't sue the bus drout. You see that. It's it's a mess. We'll have to sort that out, all right. I have a few gets scientifical, and then we got to get out of here because we have they have the Sunday podcast, which we will we will do here. We can't put on that the Sunday Why would you want to put on the Sunday part? You don't have a lot of good people who want to mingle, and your Mr Sociable over there, you're the people person you should want to

interact with the unwashed. I don't know, unless it's someone driving up from San Diego to come visit me in Pasadena, I don't know. So you're saying you don't get the Trevor Bauer treatment there on your people's sliding in and wanting to stoop you randomly. What's the furthest you've ever driven for a booty call? I think Santa Barbara. I think was at least that's a great destination too. Yeah, if it doesn't go well, you can you can do that. Yeah,

but my guys will drive anywhere. But usually the trope of women is they won't right because you know women don't have to. Why would you drive unless the guys loaded? And then you're like, all right, I'll go wherever there you go. Talks and fools walk. I drove from San Diego to l A once for for a booty call, and I drove l A to Vegas ones for a booty call and left the same night too. It made the walk of shame. No, I wasn't a walk of shame if you're proud of what you did. But she

was being an absolute wait for it, cunt. Wow. I mean, my god, you you just said to see what you can't say that? Yes? Wait, wait, we got a lot of acknowledgement last week from that being our our number one I swear word on the on the platform, so a few get scientifical. Uh. Superhero vaccine coming soon, yeah, a ground This is out of a study from Stanford.

A ground baking superhero vaccine inspired by the DNA code of Olympic athletes could that's a weazel word could help transform society over the next decade, So that means by it's according to a genetic scientists who claims the vaccine would provide lifelong protection against three of the top ten leading causes of death. Coin to Stanford, the so called Superhero vaccine would offer protection long term protection against heart disease, stroke,

heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and liver disease. Okay, so guess Jean, I know you're reluctant with the vaccine. If someone offered you this, yes, would you take that? You would? But would you be one of the first people to take Yeah, you would. On that one, you'd be good. Yeah, I'll be good on that. You and I both know a lot of people professionally and personally that have been

impacted by dimension Alzheimer's. That's huge. And then yeah, I mean you look at the number one death for Americans is heart disease, especially in men because it coincides was stress. So just our lifestyles alone with the stress that we have from you know, working not regular nine of fives and working majority of the time. Yeah, those two things as Americans. Yeah, they get after you. So I would definitely take that. Stanford does some great stuff the Superhero vaccine.

Yeah sounds good. Now, would you be more prone to do that or to go neural link with Elon Musk and having a chip in your brain that would prevent or limit anything. The neural link thing with with musk is something where if you're I wouldn't really be interested in that. But if I was paralyzed and that could get me to walk again or something, yeah, of course

I would do that. Why wouldn't I thought the genesis of that came around the way that your brain functions would deteriorate due to UH Alzheimer's dementia, other kinds of other forms of dementia. I don't know if it would and mentioned paralyzation. Hasn't some of that stuff already happened, like in China and other countries where they've already experimented with that stuff where they don't have the restrictions that we have and their militaryants, and just let's tossing it

out there. Hey, fog warning, A fog warning in the let's get scientical. Uh. And so, parents, if you've got young kids, we got a lot of listeners of this podcast that listen while they're taking care of their kids. Study finds parents are walking around in a days even when they're wide awake. The average American parents loses nearly wait for it, four thousand hours to what they call

brain fog when raising children. According to a new survey, parents over thirty reveal that this breaks down to about two d nineteen hours for every year of parenting. The average respondent gets so distracted the loose focus on up to three tasks a day, resulting in a loss of thirty six minutes daily. Six to ten blame the blur of not getting enough sleep and having low energy as the reason they don't always properly hydrate. They miss meals

and even forget birthdays. Well, missing meals isn't one of them. But eating bad certainly is. Because you get fogged from eating bad food when when it's high in in fat, when it's high in sugar, when it's high in carbohydrates. Yeah, that that will cause the fog. But yeah, I mean the same thing with with sleep, like thereof that's not I mean, I know you don't get much sleep, but I don't get a lot of sleep, and I don't eat very much. Off your phone, somebody call me right now.

Oh my god, it's rude. It's a scam, says scam. Likely may scam phone calls. Do you get a day? Would you say? Just ballpark? Well, I've gotten tons more since we had to file. I fill out all these docuse signs in my number to sell the house, and these trolling assholes go out and I'm like, i'd say I get seven a day. I'm thinking, I'm seven a day. It's NonStop, man, NonStop political stuff like the the fake

FBI stuff, the fake bank stuff, UM car servicing stuff. Man, all right, fake last one on scientific, We're gonna get out of here. Fake it. Three and five Americans are faking it through life. This rings a bell with gascon uh. New survey reveals that six have confessed to faking it till they make it through things that they don't know. The study of Americans who drive also discovered which topics respond it's most commonly feel out of their depth when discussing.

Thirty nine percent admit they're at a loss when it comes to the latest technology, and over a third thirty seven percent are making it up as they go, while parody one in four confessed to not really understanding how politics work. But it's higher than that and have problems a little closer at home, saying that their coolest in the kitchen. Okay, so I don't have a problem with kitchen. I don't obviously have. I've seen some of the stuff

that you make. It's really good. It's orgasmic. That's that's good my page. My problem is is the finance portion. That's what I'm trying to educate myself on, like the stock markets, you know, buying, buying and trading like options stocks themselves, and then just reading patterns. That's the biggest thing I'm trying to educate myself on. So I'm I'm learning as I go. But you don't want to like you don't want to learn on the sideline and something

like that, because you learn from the mistakes. But you also you can learn big time if you hit goal on something that you invest in. You're gonna learn that way, whether it's a bad loss or a great gain. So I'd rather do that than just looking on the sidelines. But uh well, as far as like the just the general question of faking it till you make it. My cooking is amazing. I didn't know how to cook any until I got married, and now I am a master chef. I give the chef's kiss when I make my pizza

every week. It is unbelievable. You're a better dishwasher than a cook. How about that? I do everything in the kitchen, pizza, the cheese, steak. I've been able to cook much the last this year because everything had to be clean. We couldn't mess the house up. We were trying to sell it. And in this house, the kitchen is pretty small, so I can't really cook here. But once I get back in the new Mallard mansion. Man, unbelievable, unreal. All right,

we have a great rest of your Saturday. We're back with the Sunday mail Bag podcast and we'll catch you then. 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. Sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific