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is the Sunday mail Bag podcast. We have some things to get to before the Mailbag joined from West of the four oh five. Yeah, David Gascon has come over here, happy to report that our podcast is not halted by these Securities and Exchange Commission either. So that's a positive spin. Just think how much influence we can manipulate the market. If we give out stock advice here. We'll have Sprinkles the clown going and buying stock here because of our advice.

I didn't want to bring it up to Catherine, but I know you know exactly what's going on, especially in the gambling world. This ship happens all the time with Sharp's. You know Sharp's will will shell out money to some of their you know, some of their little plebs to go bet on a line, swing it one way, and they'll come right back over the top and swing it another way. Yeah. Well, the big money moves the market.

But here's the thing too. In the in the wall Street with day trading is essentially sports bits, sports betting, that's what it is. And so I had heard from people that last March, when sports were shut down for a hundred and thirty four days, there were no live team sports in America. If you're a sports gambler and that's how you get your dopamine fix, you couldn't do it.

And so a large percentage of sports gamblers who were addicted to it and had a better game every night, a game of day people or more, they moved over to Wall Street to day trading. And so that's that kind of you know, loosely related to where we're at today. But the it's a great story that you know, that's gonna be a movie. They're gonna make a movie about the Wolf of Wall Streets. One of the better movies I've seen over the last fifteen years or so. It's

I enjoyed the hell out. That was a good it's a great movie. I mean, for me, it's it's totally relatable because I was a part of the housing market crisis in the two thousand seven, two thousand eight, two thousand nine period. And I mean, I hate to say it, but that's what they were all about. I mean, these these mortgage backed securities banned, like we were told when I was working for City Group, I was told that

we needed to to refinance a bunch of mortgages. And typically when you're an escrow it takes you anywhere from like thirty to sixty days to close on a house, sometimes ninety if it's under construction. But if you're trying to refinance your property, it's anywhere from still thirty to forty five days. And they're so severe on the underwriting guidelines that underwriters won't pass you unless you're over or

above clearance on their checklist. But when I was with City all of these were streamlined, so you went from thirty to forty five days of processing to ten or fifteen, which is fucking absurd. But the whole point of it was is that they wanted to have all of these mortgages that were on their books refinanced so they could

sell them immediately on the secondary market. And then all they did after that was just layoff and terminate everybody in their mortgage lending department, or the majority of it. And the reason why was that they want to get out of the industry because a lot of the mortgages, mortgages that did did sell or two people with stated

income stated assets no documents, no verification. All you gotta do is show up and prove that you have like a seven score, and we give you an interest rate and a loan that was like three or four or five percent, and you had like a loan to value which was like at ninety, which is fucking absurd, you know, like so so, but I was doing that. It's it's so essentially with the volatility of the stockment. Just invest in soybeans, you know, just go by soybeans. They can't

go wrong with soybeans. But it's fascinating because we will bail out the mortgage back securities, will bail out the real estate industry, will bail out the automotive industry, the airline industry, the banking institutions, automotive industry, but we won't bail out the common folk. Here's your six dollar check that you got like twelve months after this whole fucking thing went down. It's fucking appalling, but it's it's typical, right,

Like it's what you'd expect. But my favorite part of it is and I think that if I was writing the screenplay for this movie about the game Stop situation, it would be a story of all these greedy Wall Street people like, hey, let's these daily apps will be great. We'll get more dumb money, right, more dumb money, and we'll be able to take their money. That's what they were excited about when Robin Hood and these things came around.

The It's kind of like, you know, we we talk about gambling, and you mentioned the sharps in the gambling world, right, the bookie, the sports book fears the sharp. They don't like the sharps because those are people that have all the inside information, you know, like edge fun people, like

hedge fun people. They can't stand them. But the square, which would be what the day trader is, the Robin Hood user, the you know, the they just kind of go off a hunch or something they they read on the internet for example, that they consider them unsophisticated financial people, and so they want they want those people. They want

because dumb money, right, they want the dumb money. Um. And so the movie would be all these greedy Wall Street people so excited because these daily apps, and then it blows up in their face and it's this thing shoots to the moon. Right. That's that's the story. I mean, get I don't know if Dicapriole, do it in Jonah Hill and McConaughey and all those that were in Wolf of Wall Street. But call him up. See what you got there, See what you got. There's a good story.

There's a solid story right there. Greed is good, Michael Douglas, so good. It's um, it's it's great because you know, this thing is not going to be a short term fixed Like as soon as they release the Hounds with robin Hood and some of these other uh digital platforms or the apps that allow you for trading, these guys are gonna they're gonna release the cracking. I think these guys will continue to trade no matter if it's a MC or game Stop or or Nokia whatever it may be.

I think they're gonna push those things to the limit. And I I am a customer of robin Hood. I have the app on my phone. I think you do too, also, guest Gun, I think it's a great product. But what they did by taking these not allowing you to buy game Stop and those others, I think that is horrific for their business and there is going to be a price to pay. You just can't do that, especially when Kather mentioned the I p O that they're supposed to

release here in the coming weeks. Yeah, I mean, what are you doing? And I you know you've heard rumors they got pressured by certain people. But still you gotta think it's like people who are on that you have to be of a certain age, you have to be an adult, you know. And you know they were like, I don't an abundance of caution. This is my my problem with abundance of caution. When you play the stock market,

it's the it's the risk versus reard. Yeah, some people and I'm sure some people even with what happened and taking it off and all that, it's the risk versus the reward. You're going to lose money, right, And and when you invest that, what's the warning they always give that past results do not guarantee future outcomes, right, they always say that. And so you know, if somebody ends up a hemorrhage in cash on the robin Hood map because they didn't sell at the right time, that's on them.

You can't this this name I call it, I guess nanny state, Right, isn't that the term where you're just trying to overly protect people? You know, if you're in the stock market game. You gotta get fully in the mud, right, and nobody's forced to buy, whether it's game stop or bed bath and beyond. The companies that people choose to do it think they're gonna get a big return on the capitol and all that. That's fine and and hopefully it works for them. But if it doesn't, that's the

that's the way the game is. You don't change the rules of the game. And that's what they did. They changed and moved the goal posts, and you can't do it. I'm sorry. I bad job by them. You know, you've got a problem when you have independence, Democrats and Republicans on the same side for a cause. Yeah, well, with everything that we got on in this country, how great is it? The thing that united the Donald Trump Republican and the Joe Biden Democrat would be the Wall Street

It's wonderful. Ah, the irony? Al Right, pop quiz, pop quiz? You want Popca got the mail back? A lot, a lot of mail backs. We'll do a little bit of pop quiz. Alright. Ten percent of football fans will end up doing this in the next couple of weeks to get ready for the big game. What is it um shot for alcohol? No, it is, Well, it's more than ten percent that will shop for alcohol. But this is something that doesn't involve shopping. Hmm um by a by

the sports team apparel. Yes, buy it new jersey. This is known as the band wag Ner effect, coined by Blair and Main. That's I gotta look good for the game. I'm a casual fan. I'm gonna go buy my new Patrick mahomes or Tom Brady jersey and ra rati. It's not bad. I would have guessed just buying any kind of alcohol because it's almost like Valentine's Day when you buy You never buy roses the day or two before,

because it's usually through the roof. Uh. The same thing with with alcohol and food and all kinds of other drinks. They usually well gouge you a little bit, especially the day before the game or the day of. Well, my move was always to buy the candy and the flowers the day after that was my So anyway it's on sale, everything's half off after that, all right. Diamonds are the

hardest gem on earth. What is the second hardest. Everyone knows about diamonds like the hardest gym and what about the second hardest, Um, how about a ruby da na na ning ning. That is right, sapphire slash rubies are the second hardest gym on the planet. I like him. I like sapphires. You're a fan of the sapphire. Yeah. When you when you went shopping for your your wife's wedding ring, Um, Like, what was your approach? Were you like, I'm gonna get anything. I don't know anything about rings.

I Uh, she actually had picked out something she thought was good. Then I consulted with my mom and uh it was. It was a team effort. And my mom was very like, get a ring. You know. She was like she just happy I was with someone after all those years of bachelorhood. Uh So, anyway, we've all heard of it, but only one in five of us have actually eaten this dish. What is it? Um? Do sardines? Caviar? I was gonna say caviar? Caviar? You're west of the four or five. I'm sure you've had caviar. No, I

want to come on, you've had it. Don't lie. That doesn't look a lie. You A lot of things don't look appetizing, but I bet you Patty you're you're not telling the truth. If I had it, but now it's pricey, it's expensive, it's it's a delicacy, right, Yeah, have you had it? Of course? Not? Of course why would I. I don't. I eat like a child. I eat chicken, fingers, chese steak, and cheeseburgers. That's my diet, all right. Uh. In a new survey, seventy of men say they have

this in their car or truck at all times. What is it? Um? Seven out of ten? Um flashlight? It? No cologne or after shape. I don't have after shape, but I guess the same. Yeah, I know I have this in the car. You don't have cologne or some kind of like the odoran type stuff in your car? No. The only thing I have my car is the you

know these, the the gum toothpicks. Yeah, yeah, No, No, No, I always have because you know, I'm a sweater and during the summertime, and if I start sweating, I am going somewhere and I don't have time to go take a shower, spray on some cologne or something like that to cover up the smell. Did not that's bad? Do you have bad hygiene? No? I always smell roses. It's all good. That's a lie, alright. One in six of us will spend a hundred and forty nine dollars on

this this year and not happy about it. Game stop stock yars on average um shoes. No a speeding ticket, speeding ticket, hundred speeding ticket. When's the last time again? Well, you probably have ways of getting out of speeding tickets, but was the last time that somebody attempted to give you a speeding ticket? Three weeks ago? Three weeks ago, and you didn't tell us the story? Beat job by your Where were you? Four oh five? There you go? Four oh five? Speed? How fast are you going? You know?

I was I was told I've used this before on the podcast, but for new people. I was pulled over one time by a California Highway Patrol officer who gave me what I believe is the greatest advice I've ever gotten from someone in law enforcement. And he told me that you can speed, but you can't go over seven. He won't even it's not worth his time to write a ticket if someone's going below seven. Seventy nine or

below is his threshold. If you're eighty or above, and he sees you, you have a higher chance to being pulled over. So from that, from that day forward, I have driven. I've said my thing. At seventy nine, I have not been pulled over. And it's years. It has been years, and I will drive seventy nine, you know, when the highways are open and all that, and I've not gotten pulled over. Now that might just be a California thing, or maybe I'm just lucky. Um, but yeah,

I never go past seventy. I got lucky, I um because you said, you know, let me hold on, let me call my dad and see what's No. No, I didn't get lucky. I didn't get lucky in that regard. I got lucky because it was on a Saturday during college football season. So I had my cell phone on the dash with a speedometer is with the ESPN app open, and this woman cut me off. She went from the car pool lane into the fast lane. So when she cut me off, I went into the car pool lane

and then sped up and then cut her off. And then that's when I got popped. So I had three dingers right there. I was you're driving the car pool lane, but you that's a big that's like two thousand dollar thing cell phone on and speeding the trifactor. He didn't see the cell phone though, so he didn't see the stuff. And did he end up? He didn't write you a ticket? Or he did? Right? He didn't. He did. Don't sound so excited? What the fun is wrong with you? Well,

how often are you driving the car pooling? I don't, I don't. I was literally in that car pool lane for less than a quarter of a mile. Well, because I'll tell you because a guy I used to work with who I did an NFL show with on Sundays and gave me some terrible real estate advice always drives in the car pooling. Is that the guy that takes steroids by himself drives in the car pool later? Right? And you know I said, what are you doing? You know you shouldn't do that. It's for people, And he

said no, it saves him time. And he's done it for years and he's only gotten like two tickets and he's done it for like twenty years. Yeah, so he's like he does a cost benefit analysis. He's like, well, you know I save all the time I save, you know, worth it? Do you know? In other parts of California, you can actually there are open and closed times of when you could drive in the car pool lane. Yeah. Yeah, in northern California. I've seen that, and I've not seen

that in southern California. That's that's a good job by by No Cal, but So Cal bad job by then. I think they do that in Arizona as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember doing that when I was in Scottsdale and in Phoenix they'd had the high occupancy vehicle lane and it was only for specific times. It's pretty much pointless in my opinion, to have the car poolane going twenty four hours a day because I drive when no one's on the road,

usually other than a few big rigs. And you know, just what's the point? You know, what's the point? Stupid? All right? It is estimated to two percent of women will do this in the first five years of marriage. What is it, have sex with you, uh, lose their wedding ring. Okay, that's actually pretty low, is it? I think? So that's that's pretty good. Well, how do you lose if you're wearing it all the time, you don't take it off? How do you But if you take it

off a new shower. Yeah, but don't you just put it right next to the shower and then you get out of the shower, use the towel and then it's right there. Yeah. But what happens if you hit it and goes into the sink. Well, you have a stopper so it doesn't go all the way down the drain. And I agree, but it happens. I just think it's like people like on the on the sofa or something like these, like their hands, I don't know, they're digging

for the remote and it comes off or something like that. Yeah, nineteent of women have eaten this exclusively in order to lose weight. What is it? Saltine crackers? No? Um? Baby food? Do you much? I want to lose a couple of pounds. Let me get some Gerber baby food and see? Uh? Can I get the peas like the peas of the squash? Geez? I've heard stories of older people that don't have a lot of money buying dog food because it's cheaper. Yeah,

that's a tough one, all right. The the average parents stops doing this when their child is eight years old. What is it? Um? Tangle their shoes? No, um reading to them before bed bedtime story. The fun stops when you're about eight years old old. I love, I have fun members of my mom reading these stories when I was a kid. Boy, that was fun. All right. Of people would like to change this about their vehicle? What is it? The color? Not the size of the gas tank?

All right? All right? Scientists are working on a way to create a version of this item that many people enjoyed daily by using watermelon and sunflower seeds. Are gonna create a version of this product. Wait say this again? All right? So the science community are working to create a version of an item that many people enjoyed day a lie, and they're gonna use watermelon and sunflower seeds to do it. Man, I am, it's something you've probably had today? How about that? Um, don't I don't know. Man,

It's something my wife loves and I've never had coffee. Oh, coffee, watermelon sunflower seed coffee. Interesting. How's that gonna work? I don't know. We'll find out doing this for about eighty minutes a day, they say, whoever they are, it helps you maintain good mental health. Meditating now, listening to music. Okay, I can believe that yeah, I do that. I have great mental health because I clearly listened to a lot what I'm getting ready for for for work, and I'm

trying to find stuff to talk about. I have um mozart or some classical bull crap on the background just so, just so I have a little music. That way, I don't get distracted by anything other than that. It's pretty and take you for a classical guy. That's cool though. Well, if I hear lyrics, I might listen to it, but no, like sometimes I'll do some jazz, little jazz, classical, just background stuff. Got I'm not really paying attention to it.

But all this is good. According to a brand new survey, this was the numbber one comfort food that got us through the pandemic last year. I have two guesses. Um. My first guess is ice cream. Ice cream is a great guess. That is wrong. My second guest is French fries solid again wrong again? Is it pizza? No, but it doesn't involve cheese. Uh, tacos cassadas grilled cheese. It's good, man, it's good. Two slashes of bread and you you had

some cheese? Now did you? Did you go the old school way of putting the butter on top two and flipping it over on the side. Let me tell you something, My wife is the greatest cooker of grilled cheese. Now I don't have I haven't even the grilled cheese, but she from her in a while because you know, it's not the healthiest thing. But she's slobbers butter both sides of the bread. Cheese on top, cheese on top the

secret cheat code. So not only you get the gooey cheese in the middle on the grilled cheese, but you get an extra shot of cheese on top and bottom. And it is wonderful good. My grandma back in the day when she would do quesadillas, she would layer the top of the tortilla with butter, like wrap that thing around and then put the cheese and sprinkle it all over and then flip it over, put more butter on top. So good, are you salivating right now? My my grandma

really she hit some good spots. She the sparse side of the family. She was really really good. They did to Molly as well, Casada as well, and then oddly enough aprilcot pies. She was fucking amazing. Yeah. Well, as a as a kid, you know you finally remember the things, but yeah, you know, listen again. We we've talked about the keys, the cooking and all that and what you need there and it's the proper mix of sugar, salt, and fat. Those are the key ingredients. And that's pretty

much all these restaurants. They spend so much money trying to come up with the right just there's that Goldilocks zone. We've talked about it before, but it's I'm fascinated by that. There's this ratio. It's called the bliss point. And every every new item, like you know, Armies comes out with a new roast beef sandwich. They're trying to get that bliss point. And because it's irresistible and you gotta, you gotta come back. But I see, I fast a lot. So for me, the best, the best hung hunger is

is a is a tremendous spice. You know, because you're hungry, you'll everything tastes better. That's true. Everything has been all right. Time Now for the mail bag. These are actual listener questions by actual listeners like yourself, submitted via the show Facebook page, Ben Mallers Show or via email, Real Ben Real Fifth Hour, Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. First question from Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of a pro basketball Hall of Fame or just the basketball Hall

of Fame. Now that we have a new regime in power in Washington that may or may not have better relations with China? Was gag on absent last week because he was interviewing for that job in China that you recommended him for. Alright, guess guns is for you? No, I was not. Are you sure about that, because I'm hearing differing reports on that. Listen, I'm interviewing at a bunch of different places, but not in China. So interesting. Yes, so you're looking to leave the podcast, I'm looking to Uh,

I'm looking at upgrade my my paycheck. No, so I'm want to create your own little personal stimulus. Well yeah, in some ways, yes, Okay, I think you'd agree. We're all trying to create our own positive stimulus certain times of the day. Okay, So you're denying again, Pierre. You might want to fact check that. Um, see if he's telling the truth, because would he admit, Pierre, that he was talking to the people of China, Yes, but I

would not do that. He was not catch me dead, all right, chef Scott from La Orleans, the byou writes in and the very nice things to say. I left that out, of course, because I don't I'm not an elitist like you. I don't need to pat myself on the back. But he was very kind. No, he's talking about me, all right, Yeah, just buttering me up like

a biscuit with compliment. So if I were to design, if I were to designed a Mallard special food entree, a chef Scott from New Orleans rights in, what would your top three meats, top two vegetables, and top two starches beat? Well, I know now, he says that no fried chicken would be allowed. He wants me to think outside the box. But I know you like to keep things simple, he says. Although I am experienced and trained as a friend chef specializing in fine dining, my favorite

kind of food is comfort food. Now you're speaking my language. Now I know exactly what you choose for your meat. You would choose pastrami and carnea sada. No, let me tell you. I'm gonna give you the list here. So I love pastrami is on there. I don't know if it's a number one, but like ribby, thin cut ribby amazing. And I like chicken, so chicken, rebby pastrami, some combination of that. And as far as the veggies, Chef Scott, I love the garlic. That's a vegetable, So I love

the guard I love bell pepper. Some chilies, uh corns a vegetable, right, So I like corn. Get you more than two onions? Yeah, I like onions, garlic, bell pepper. Those would be the big three because that's when I do the Mallard pizza. And what's like starches at but potatoes pastas at? What all those starches? Yeah? Rice? Yeah? How about rice? Potatoes? About that I could do? I mean any of those three potatoes occasionally, don't hate them.

Not my favorite, but don't hate. Yeah. So yeah, that's it. It's the list. I can't wait to see what Chef Scott comes up with. Although it sounds like he's a high end connoisseur at a I imagine him working at this like Boogie restaurant. So what you're trying to say is you would not sit down in his restaurant like I would. No, no, no. If he has addition named after me, I'm in you know, I'll go to the French Quarter. I'll do it absolutely, I'll hang out there.

I'll go to Paddlebrian's. Now'll send Paddlebran to photos. See. Look, Pat, I'm at your restaurant and road. Somebody else did in paddle Brian and all that stuff. Yeah, pick up that name he just dropped. There's a famous dummy. There's a famous restaurant there. I know you've you've probably been to Marty Grand all that, but that's famous. You've never been to Marty Gars h huh, bad job. I'm surprised you haven't gone down there throwing beads around and all that.

I've been to. Uh, I've been to a La Vista on the campus of you see Santa Barbara for Halloween. Does that count? It's a little crazy in Santa Barbara, a little bit. San Diego Steak is a little crazy too. It was yeah, all right. Stephen Boston right since says there's not really questions, more of a statement, says Tom Brady and his aging wife made the perfect plan for retirement. Clock is ticking, So get the Florida no state tax,

easy coach, brilliant and no more. Bill Steve from Boston says, well, The main part of that was no more Bill. I think that's the do you want to get away from Belichick? And he got what he wanted and now he's laughing and it will be a week of bashing Belichick. The Super Bowl hype wheep hYP hype week coming up. David in Simpsonville, South Carolina. He says, when they rehired you after laying you off, that was in twenty nine, what

did they tell you? He says, the economy was better, or they made a stupid mistake, or they needed you back. I'm trying to remember now. They originally hired me back to do weekends. I had been doing the weekday overnight show and they hired me back to do the weekend show.

So it was a demotion. But yeah, they they told me some bull crap about how you know, they didn't want to let me go, and it was like they told me, it was like the last I was I was on the list to be let go, and then I was off the list, and then they put me

back on and it was a mistake. And yeah, they didn't really mention the economy, but they just said that they they had erred and they were wondered if I wanted to come back, and I was actually at that time, I was in negotiations with the people at satellite radio and I was talking to a station in Boston, and so I had a couple of a couple of spinning plates. But I was like, all right, I knew the people, obviously Fox Sports Radio. I was like, I liked it there.

So I was like, all right, I'll go back. Darryl in Elko, Nevada says, I failed to see what Marcel in Brooklyn brings to the show. It's time for him to go. Well, Darrel, listen, um. Marcel is a acquired taste. I get that he's not for everybody, but I like mars and I think the show is good for Marcel. Not that we're here to help Marcel out, but Marcell

doesn't have a lot going on. He lives in a crappy apartment in the projects in Brooklyn, and so the highlight from Marcel, one of the highlights of his week is calling into the show. And I feel like we have created a niche from marself. When Marcel used to call up and we didn't do food picks, it was it was a little painful at times, a little painful of times and all that. But this this food thing is good. And Marcel says stuff that he doesn't realize

is funny. That is funny. And you know, listen when we welcome everyone into the Mallard Moist and Marcell's I think he means well, he's a good a good guy, so I'm not getting rid of him. But we don't force him to call. It's like he's on the payroll, so he could stop calling it any time. John the jailer from Alan Town, p A. Calls and he says, Ben and gascon. My Christmas gift for my wife was a flop. What do you suggest for Valentine's Day? To get me out of the doghouse? Man, this is all

your domain. I am terrible at getting gifts. I I know, a nice card and and all that I can do, and the the candies, the flowers, the usual tropes of Valentine's Day. Doesn't it depend on what this guy's wife is into. I we don't know anything about her. I think her hobbies are and all that I think it's.

I think you're a safe bet would be to stack your gifts, like just do it one year, or you get something for her in the morning, the middle of the day and nighttime, and then cap it off with like a dessert or like some sweets something like that, like chocolate. Never go wrong with that. What about like um massage type thing, like a day spot type but you're in right now, Yeah, but they're they're in Pennsylvania, which is kind of you. You'd be going with some

candles and some incense. You could do that. That's always good. Maybe some body lotion always handy. You could do is Airline tickets are ridiculously cheek right cheap right now. You could buy tickets somewhere playing a little weekend getaway somewhere that you would not normally be able to afford to

go to because things are so cheap right now. Yeah, maybe you can inquire about heading up to h to Newport, heading up to Rhode Island up there, the the big mansions that are up there in Rhode is looking at you trying to show off your East Coast and geographical knowledge, or going to Boston. Why not than that? I don't know. I think wryn to go up to Maine and keep going kind of cool too, though. How about the Nova Scotia You can go even first, actually not this time

of the year and concentrate. Yeah, okay, uh, Carlos in buying buying Houston, Texas? Right, since says Ben, will the Negro drop finally go away? Since the brothers have passed away? Also, when are the Benny's alright? First of all, let me address the Phil and Joe Nekro drop. I think it's a funny drop. I liked it on the show. We had to stop playing on the show because of the local ROTI what I mean by that is every time we played this ever since things went wacky in the

world and every was trying to cancel everyone else. The the average radio consumer does not listen to everything that we say. Right, Listening is an art form, it's a talk radio and all that stuff. But but listening is often a bit of a problem. And you know, we we only have it's like one percent of listeners that will actually contribute content to the show, and most people will not. They're just casual listeners and all that stuff. And the problem that we ran into here is both

it's like two worlds meeting. You have the wocalati going around and trying to cancel everybody, and then you had people who don't listen right, who have bad hearing right hearing impaired. And I mean hearing. I don't mean they're actually hearing impaired. I mean just studies have pointed out. Being in the radio business, I pay attention to this stuff that the person listening to a radio show will only remember about twenty maybe even less than that, of

the things they listen to it the most. It's like, which means of the content is in one ear and out the other, right, and and so the other thing we have is that words only convey It's like less than ten percent of what you're trying to say. The other ninety percent is communicated by facial expressions. Now we can't do tone of voice, and I try to use tone. But anyway, the point of this, Carlos is every time we played the Phil and Joe nicro drop, someone would

inevitably email me or post something on social media. I can't believe in you would say that you're racist? How dare you at all? I can't want to contact Fox manage written get you off the air? What are you in the k K K? And I'm like, well, no, it's the name is Nikro, that's the last name. Phil and Anyways, I I just I was tired of it, and I was like, all right, it's not worth it. It's funny, but it's not worthy. So you can blame the wocarati who and people that are bad at hearing

as why we had to change that up. Okay, that's the answer. Chris in Maracca to Iowa writes In says, now that you've been married a while, whom of your wife's who Who on your wife's side do you like most or least? Does your wife get along with your brother's dish on the drama? Chris says, well, I don't know that it would be prudent for me to do that. The wife is a listener of the podcast. Occasionally she listens to the podcast, so I don't know if that

would be helpful to name names here. But no, honestly, I get along with everyone. My wife's family is great. I was concerned, you know, you hear stories from friends about all these in laws. Man, what a freaking nightmare. But I love them. They're great. I'm very close with her sister. I'm not close with my wife's brother he lives out of the area, but her parents are great, and both of them wonderful people, very kind and nice,

and so I'm very lucky in that regard. Are They've taken me in and we we spent a lot of time, especially during the summer because my father in law has a pool and it gets hot, and so we go there quite a bit. And the only person that I have an issue there was like a friend of the family that I had a rhubarb with. But that's about it. That's about it. But the actual like blood relatives and all that people are in the family, in the inner circle, get along with all of them, get along with all

of them. I am it. The blind Seahawk fan from Olympius says, what are your actual thoughts on Brian Finley? I don't have any thoughts on it. Why do you think I spend my time obsessing over Brian Finley? Gascon On the other hand, you have a lot of thoughts about Brian Finley. What do you mean, Well, you're jealous of the attention he's gut here through the grape vine, that you're jealous of the attention that he gets, and that he's the go to fill in guy when and

he's not around, well he fills in. Because I don't want to someone I'm here, Well, you're hearing a red horse his mouth. That's not what I'm here. I don't want that drag of a schedule. Yeah, okay, interesting, Greg in written Washington writes in We're very big. In written Washington, we are Uh, he says, Ben, what can you tell me about Shane Waldron? You know who Shane Waldron is? Guest, you know who the hell's that? That is? The new

offensive coordinated or the Seattle Shawks. Who was the was he the quality control coach or something like that of offense for the Rams. I've never even heard of the guy. And I'm a Ram fan, and I can assure you Greg, he was not hired because Pete Carroll thinks he's going to reinvent the wheel. He was hired Shane Waldron because he's young, he's cheap, and he will follow the orders of Pete Carroll. So that's that's the end of that.

But but good luck, good luck on that. And if Seattle has a good offense next year, he'll get credit. If not, they'll blame him. He's a he's a necessary useful idiot, as they say Kevin from Rockford Dale. And all right, so says Mr Mallor and Mr whoever is filling in this week. I guarantee you that are fat, poor excuse for a governor is worse than the king running your state. That stuff. Have you seen our new

police reform bill? He says, it's absolutely terrible. Uh, he complains about that, and then he wanted to get a hold of my boss to complain about somebody we work with here. He's he doesn't name him. I don't know who this could be. Anybody, says a colleague who repeats himself at least fifty times every show. Um, and he says, so you don't, Rob and Chris don't, yeh, Jason and Mike don't. Okay, who else repeats themselves? So if we're

talking money through Friday, Jonas doesn't, r J doesn't. So these guys do four hours or original content and do not repeat things they Yeah, I've done, Okay, all right, good? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who he's referred to, but he's, uh, he's very upset and you some some terrible words there, and uh, yeah, anyway, he says he will not name names, but just no, he is a little fat piece of blank there you go all right, I don't know who that could be. All right, pieces

of ship here. It's radio mash kidding, so simple, it's the radio show. It's not that hard. Dave in Mill Valley, California rights in. By the way. As far as the police reform, uh yeah, the pendulum will swing back, you know. It's it's gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be half. There's gonna be blood on the hands of these people because they're gonna send out their psychologists for domestic situations and unfortunately

a morbid prediction to gascon. Some of them are gonna get killed, They're gonna get shot, and they're gonna be like, we're not going we need police. So then what do you do? You know? Good luck, you know, and it's gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be that's gonna be what leads to the change. It shouldn't be that way. People with common sense would know that's gonna be the result. But

it's gonna inevitably happen. And then you're gonna get the case, well, we need the police and so but you would agree that we get the world we deserve, like we get in the world I want. Yeah, but we get as

a whole, we get exactly what we deserve. Well, there's a lot of dumb people that don't don't think things through as far as Actually, I had a conversation with the buddy of mine other day who's who's in law enforcement, and I said, here and here in l A they voted out Jackie Lacey, who's a woman check, minority check, homegrown, juicy l a grad check. And she's also a Democrat chack check check. And you know why they voted her out because she was not far left enough and they

voted in an old white guy. So identity politics only work if you're drinking the kool aid. Jackie Lazy didn't drink the kool aid, so it didn't matter if she met all of the boxes that they love. She she was useless to them because she didn't think the group think that they think right wonderful, God forbid. She had try to uphold the law and protect law enforced. I gotta tell you, man, I get I am. I live

in you know, technically l A County. I am considering relocating out of l A County because it's this unfortunately share the name with that guy. Uh, but man who gets recalled first the hammer Newsom, because Newsom, because it's already the wheels are already. No. But but George, George can get recalled after ninety days. Yeah, how many signals? Who do you have to get on that for news you need? I think it's one point seven I believe it is. Have you signed that petition? Yeah? I have

all Yeah, Well I haven't. I put my information on the website. I think I have to sign something else. But I mean on it. I want Gavin Newsom kicked out of office, and I would love every second of it. And I hope he goes to that French laundry and eats a bowl of pasta and chokes on it. I believe he would only be the second governor ever in twenty three attempts to be recalled from the state of California.

Keep in mind, not die, just choke. You know, eat pasta sometimes and it kind of goes down the wrong way, you know, just so for the people that take things literally. Uh, you know, a little awkward bite into the pasta. Yes, alright. Uh. Else, we have Michael from Newtown Newton Township rather, I don't know if he's in Michigan. I think there's a couple of Newton townships. He might be in Pennsylvania. I think there's more than that. But anyway, he says he's been

listening for ten or more years. How about that good job. It's pretty awesome. Good job by you. That's a lot of a lot of time, a lot of times that there's a there's a great quote which I have stolen from from Hawk Carrolson and when he retired as the White Sox broadcaster, I do homages UH to Hawk Carrelson because I gotta kick out. I'm watching White Sox games on w g N back in the day, and you know you can put it on the board. Yeah, Like,

I'll do that sometimes. But Hawk Harrelson said something, and I'm paraphrasing here, that when you take a man's money, you take a man's money, but when you take a man's time, you take part of their life. And that that is I believe that. I mean that, you know, and when you listen to UH show and you give ten years of your life at least part of five days a week or whatever it is, to listen, that's that's meaning. That's more meaningful than money. I try to

teach you that games and you're you're very money. You take my time. You take my time. Now, I try, I try to explain you the podcast. It's it's it's not all about monetary things. It's about giving back book and like someone that's getting paid well off of it, not getting paid well, not getting paid well at all. No, not at all. I beg to differ. Oh, you can beg the different all you want. Put that up the old you know what I got the minets, I got

three seeds, all right. Anyway, um, this guy Michael says, if you had won power Ball or Mega millions slash billions with the recent drawings, would you have continued your sports talk show. I think you would have. You know, my life perspective has changed a lot recently because it would happened with my parents. So I don't know that I would. I would like to think I'm a worker, so it's just I'm kind of wired that way, so I would say yes, because it's not like a real job.

But I have been slapped in the face with how short all this is. So I don't know. I don't know, but I as of before the beginning of one, I would have said, absolutely, I'm gonna keep working no matter what. But uh, yeah, I don't know. I think you would have. I think you might have jumped platforms, but I still think you would have. Yeah. Uh, Pete rights in from parts and on. He says, where do I find Iowa Sam these days? I misses Iowa Insider news. Oh my god, Oh my fucking god. He as I heard i was

Sam still works with the company. I talked to him the other day. I don't know what what is he referencing? Well, because because Jonas on his shows on Saturdays with with Bucky Brooks and myself and lead the lab, you know, Jonas is forced name dropping. By the way, well, how to pick any of those up? These are co workers. I don't know if you know who they are. Um,

Jonas is forced to never heard of them. Jonas is forced to dedicate a segment to Iowa Sam so he can give us all the news and information in the world of sports out of the state of Iowa. It's dreadful fucking radio. Yeah, it's awful. Iowa sucks. How do you really feel cool al right outside the state of Iowa. Yeah, but it's just a it's it's eight minutes of painful Iowa talk. I had a lot of friends from Iowa.

I was not the biggest state in the world. But I've met people over the years from Iowa and they're always like, I'm not I'm stereotyping. It's a good stereotypes of people. Don't mind it. This seems like generally good people. Like I've not I've not met an asshole from from Iowa. I'm sure they exist. I'm sure there's a lot of big assholes from Iowa, but I've not met them. I mean, the people I've met have been like really cool people, normal people that kind of get life and uh yeah so.

And also Minnesota, I've yet to meet an a whole from Minnesota. Like everyone I've dealt with, whether it be virtually on the radio or in person in my life experience, have been some of the nicest people. I genuinely, I feel genuinely good people. Maybe it's an act, but yeah, some of the people that follow you from Minnesota are kind of knobs. Well, I save the worst for last year. Were gonna wrap up the mailbag on this one, Adrian

in the Mile High City. I hope you're prepared for this guest, Deshaun Watson, because you're about to get a tongue bath. He says, once again, I gotta give credit words due tell the west of the four oh five guy to stick around. Yeah. Then he proceeds to assault Kevin, saying that Kevin was terrible. He was very upset. He said he sucked at a time you cannot suck the pop quiz portion of last Saturday's podcast. Yeah, Kevin was not fully engaged in the podcast on Saturday. That is true.

Probably because you don't. It's probably because you intimidate a lot of the young uns here. You're blaming me, Yeah, you're you're I gave him airtime on a on a big podcast. It's a little intimidating to give him airtime. It's a little intimidating. It's a young, spry one. Am I supposed to massage his shoulders? Maybe a little bit be a little welcoming into the into the friend Oh no, no, you gotta jump into the frying pan. No, you don't just sliding. You gotta jump in the I get it.

You gotta do a belly whopper into the deep end. You don't. You don't put your toe in the kiddie pool. No, you go into the deep end. You swim with a shark. This is a different generation. You you can't you can't lather them up with with sandpaper. You have to caress them and kind of guide them into the into the wide world. And you know, he might be the case. So I think you're you're doing two things. You're attacking me and him. No, no, no, that's good. I accomplished

two things on that I I do appreciate. But it's also his fault because he's soft. I do appreciate tough love. I come from the school of hard knocks. But you know, this generation is a little bit different, man. Yeah, okay, Well just keep in mind though every generation says the generations below them are soft and weak and all that, and Kevin's generation ten fifteen years from now will say whoever follows them, the next generation is also weak and soft. It is the circle of life. It is the circle

of life. And I learned this at a very young age when I started covering the NBA in the early nineties, and the players who played in the seventies and the eighties said how soft and weak the players in the nineties were, And they wore baggy shorts and they were, you know, gangsters. And how weak that was, and they would rip these NBA players, and then those NBA players in the nineties ripped the players in the two thousands, and then the players in the two thousands ripped the

players in the next generation. And uh and so it goes on. Yeah, but don't you think, like our parents generation is probably the most important and or the strongest, toughest, name you know, generation in our countries. I don't know, Well, the greatest generation, they say, was the World War two generation, but there's some parents generation. Yeah, well baby boomers, right, is that what you're talking and the baby the baby

boomers a great generation. Tremendous change that took place in their in their salad days in the United States, and they were big part of that with civil rights and you know, wood stock and all the other things that they were a part of in that time. But you'd like to think every who's the worst generation? And you say, who's the greatest? Who's the generation? What is the worst? Is it? What's going on right now with cancel culture?

And it has to be something. It feels that I know that's a myomic, myopic view, but it's certainly it feels like that in the moment. Maybe it's just a prisoner of the moment thing and it's not as bad. But well, I just think about all these unimportant things that are that are generally insignificant that are being made, you know, canceling people over irrelevant things. Uh, it's for political reasons? Is this ridiculous? People are getting squeezed out

of social media because they have different opinions. And then if you have a different opinion that doesn't go your way, then you're labeled as something like you're you're labeled as as a xenophobe, as racist, as misogynistic, as like an all left or an all right, like you're labeled, you're labeled in some category because of your stance or because of your opinion. That's yeah, that's what it comes down. Like the what's the latest guy recently been trying to

cancel the mike My Pillow guy, mich Lindell. Mind, I did see he pointed out, which I thought was, I know, people like to rip that guy, and he's he's an easy target for some. But I I saw his interview with Tucker Carlson and he went on a rant about um hit groups. He said bots and trolls was I think the quote that he used and say, what was going on? Didn't they see that? That's the issue we

talked about. There's a lot of that like that, you know, cyborgs, trolls and bots and all that that you don't know what's real and what's not real. And it's, uh, it's a wild time, man, it's a wild time. I'm good with it. I'm good with the I'm good with labeling this generation maybe the worst or at least this time frame, because you still have a lot of older people that are still trying to cancel people as well. And it depends on how it's though, right, like who writes the history,

because you could also spin it. This is the greatest time we started judging people not by their merit, but by how they were born. You know, this is the greatest thing in the world. Everything we went against, everything Martin Luther King strived for. Uh, yeah, it's it's tremendous. Someone with high moral authority is gonna tell me how good this generation was. Yeah, it's it's a pissing match

that I have. I have the moral high ground and you don't, right, And uh, it's that it's the greatest quote by Martin Luther King, who you know, were me and you were we were a little a partner age, but we grew up, you know, when we learned about civil rights, and with Martin Luther King and his quote about you know, he wanted to live in the day where you are judged by the not by the color of your skin, but by the content of your of your character. And now the federal government wants you to

be judged by the color of your skin. It's fascinating, it is outstandingly ridiculous. But but here we are, it's like the it's like the microcosm of how we are. Sports fans work where it's all tribal ism, like you're you're a Bruins fan or a Trojans fan, or you're a Lakers fan or Clippers fan. But now it's now it's an everyday life. It's really read because the way my parents taught me was to you know, kind of

follow that much for you know, judge. You don't just judge people based on how they, you know, look to You judge them by how they treat you. So I have I've met complete schmucks who are white, black, Mexican you, I mean, you go down in the list, and I've been really good people. But I judge those people based on my interactions with them, not based on, you know, just how their appearances. But I guess I'm outdated now.

I'm the old guy. All I need to have the John DECI is what I need to have a parent. I need to have these preconceived notions and things like that, because that's what you know, that's the that's the way it is now. I question for because when you judge these people, do you automatically go back into their Twitter history to see what tweets they had from fifteen years ago? Of course, no interest in that. Who cares. It's a lot of wasted time. Life is short. Who cares? Seriously,

get off your ass and do something. Go out, You go out and look at birds. She's like, yeah, look at birds. All right, we gotta get out of here. Look at out. This is the longest on the weekend this podcast. How did that happen? God? All right, let's have a great rest of your Sunday. We will be back. I will not you Gascon. I will on the overnight show, So that'll be tonight. If you're on the West coast, it will be at eleven o'clock Sunday night into Monday.

If you're on the East coast, that's two am. Last week we had to explain the weed Man that the New Day starts at midnight in your time. So at midnight I had to explain to weed Man in Miami that became the new Day. So we will technically be on Monday on the coast at two am, but for those of us who live on the West Coast, it starts at eleven pm and we'll take you through the overnight. Have a great, great wee gets super Bowl Week. Hallelujah

super Bowl Week. We'll catch you next time. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific