A Walk in the Park

That's right. Wel come in the beginning of the Fifth Hour with Ben mall you already know that you heard that right there, Because four hours are not enough. Eight days a week, eight days a week. We are back at it again, this the Saturday Podcast, and glad you have chosen to hang out with us here on a Saturday.

And again we are joined for not for better, but more for worse by Mr West of the four oh five, Mr Narcissist himself, David Gascon, who is right over there there, He is right over there, picking a little hungover right now after last night's debacle of Betty versus the Penny, But no it was no debacle. It was professional marginal handicapping on NFL games. Mark, you should never take the wisdom of an overnight radio guy who moonlights on the YouTube.

Should never take that for you know, as the gospel. But I will win money this weekend, guestcon I'm gonna I'm gonna do okay. I'm feeling pretty confident about the card on Sunday in the NFL and UH. More importantly, we had more people watching this week. From what I I understand now, I'm a just in relative of the great Nostre Damas, so I I imagine that I am going to be right on that and a friend of Nostredinus from Seattle. So I've got those things going for me.

That's good and I'm comfortable and sad. I look forward to your YouTube extravaganza this weekend. UH. And it's available if you missed the live feed that was on Friday night Slash the Witching Hour on the East Coast Saturday, it is available all the way through the weekend. You can check it out. I have learned over the years that people are very happy to go back and listen when I have a bad week. They like to hear the picks after the fact and see how wrong I

was or how right I was. Usually it's how wrong I I was in picking games, and so um obviously set the bar very low. I like setting the bar low. But it's because you you, because you kind of in a way nerd out right, because you don't run through every game and just saying like a couple of quick hitters, like you run through every game. No, no, this is this is my sick, twisted hobby. I like the handicap games, and I would save a lot. I spend a lot

of time from I start handicapping on Tuesday. I spend a couple of hours on Tuesday, a couple of hours on Wednesday, couple hours on Thursday. So I probably put six hours or more into these, uh, these picks. It's so stupid. It's it's so dumb because I could really just you know, flip a coin and probably like that. That's the whole bit, right, betty versus a penny and

do as well. But I actually think, by reading all of these stats and looking at where the sharps are and all this stuff, that I'm gonna somehow be better than everyone else. But I've been okay, but some weeks it doesn't matter and I just completely waste my time. Yeah, looks good. I mean, we had we had Bernie Freddo on yesterday just before the show last night, and I think it was a great way to open up the

NFL season. So I'm looking forward to this. And you know, maybe we even get Packed twelve football here in but at least the Big ten got off. It's fat ass. Well, if we get the Packed twelve, it will be not because of the isstioner Larry Scott of the Pac twelve. Would be in spite of Larry Scott, we will get the Pact twelve. Based on what I've been reading, man, maybe they can just play virtual reality football, guest gun,

they can just have virtual reality play against air. Just imagine the opponent is there right and oh no, I'm down, Coach. I was imaginarily tackled by the imaginary defensive player and I got a concussion. I have an imaginary concussion, so I have to come out of the game. The defensive back, to use perfect tackling skills, went right to the hips and thrust it up, brought him down. No shoulder tackling

at all, nothing of that nature. No exactly exactly and then invisibly can't call a penalty on the invisible defender, cannot do it absolutely all right, So coming up on today's podcast, we have Swan Lake Swan Lake Pop Quiz and study this all right. Excited about that. I'm a little bit excited about it. I I know. Oh wait, wait, wait wait wait wait, Cameo dot Com guest gun, Cameo dot Com personal video shout out, Cameo dot Com. Type my name in there, Ben Maller, do it right now?

What are you waiting for? I love doing those video messages for for big p ones. It's a lot of fun. That's good. And I know Jay Scoop had requested one a couple of weeks ago for you to actually barbecue a certain Tomhawk steak. You didn't do it. You Uh, that's bullcrap. Listen, Jay Scoop, And that was pretty funny. That was awkward. I didn't know how to handle it, but it's it was Hey. He messaged me on Cameo

as said steak, and I didn't make a video. And I did point out to Jay Scoop in the video and to the steak that I'm keeping the steak alive the Tomahawks steak, because if I had eaten the steak two months ago or three months ago, whatever that was, it was, it was March. It was fucking March. No, I don't think it was. It was March, all right, But that's that's who cares. That's irrelevant. The steaks. It's in the phrase here. It's fine, it's in the freezer.

The steaks. Fine, but I'm keeping this thing alive. If I had eaten it in March, we would have spent one day talking about it. That's it. You've gotten content in April, May, June, July. You want me to keep going August, September. I mean, this is great content. I've given you almost an entire year of content by not eating the steak. If I'd eat the steak, would you want to send me a thank you note? You're you want to send me a thank you note for providing

you content? It's same after all that took a picture of my car in the parking garage at Fox Sports Radio and complaining about playing up content. Let me point something, all right, Let me point to that. Okay, that I could call the cops. You should have been arrested for that, Okay, you should have been arrested that you're not allowed to park like that the private structure I could park. No, you are not. They if you look at the when you drive in the parking lot, they have the parking

code right there. They will follow the law that's outside. What's that? No, on on on on listen. I have to show people think I make this stuff up. And if I had said, hey, Gascon parked vertically across four spaces or whatever, or he he didn't even pull all the way up, that was you didn't pull all the way into the space and there was like a whole car length in front of you. And if I had said this, people said, all Mallory, you're full of ship. That's not true. But since I actually ended up taking

the photo, there's no way to deny it. So instead you've made it all about me, Gascon, and you're blaming me when really you are probably you know what you are. You're Nancy Pelosi. You're Nancy. You're Nancy Pelosi getting caught in a salon without a mask when you're not supposed to be. And you're blaming the person that did the video and saying I was set up? Are you gonna say, I set you up, Gascon. I I set you up

to park that way. I'm gonna I'm gonna take a knee right now and make sure you're wearing authentic African guard guard when you're doing that. It wasn't you doing that, Nancy in the rotunda. Wasn't that? Yes? Yes, all right, Swan Lake. Are you ready buckle up for Swan Lake Gascon? So you might have seen the photos on Instagram or on Facebook available there Instagram. It's Ben Mallar on Fox Facebook Ben Mallor Show. So last weekend I made the pilgrimage in the hood in l A. I went to

a park in in Echo Parks. I don't know what it's called. I call it Swan Swan Park, but it's I don't think that's the actual name of it. So Genie and Medford one of the great callers in the history of sports talk radio. She is outstanding. What a legend. May she rest in peace. So Jennie died a couple of years back, and when she passed away, I've told the story on the radio, but I'll tell it again if you missed it. Give you the brief truncated version

of events. So Jeannie was one of my regular callers for years. She passed away. She had been very sick. She lived a hard life. She lived a hard life, and she had been been ill and she was her hell was declining and all that. And I recall I recall that, you know, we were, we were keeping in contact and when she finally passed on, she was alone. She had family, but she had been disowned by her family because I guess of her lifestyle or whatever. I

don't know what happened. I don't know the specifics, but she was all alone in medfor she had no one and so you know, you gotta pay her body was just hanging out at the you know, at the local where they take the bodies there at the morgue or whatever, and they needed, you know, we needed to come up with some money to pay for her her burial and all that. So we did. We asked the Malla militia. People stepped up and it was great, It was wonderful.

And just a lot of people who never interact with us and on the show, and most of the listener will never send a message on social media or call in or send anything. And you know's there's no interaction. It's you're there, I'm here, and you might listen occasionally, but you you might like it, maybe you hate it, but you still listen. But that's it. And so people were like, oh, yeah, I've listened for years and I've never called, I've never written, but I love Genie and

we gotta take care of Genie. So anyway, we had a little extra money left over, and so we wanted to pay a tribute to Genie, and so Coop had the idea, was some I think it was a few other people to come up with the the plan to have a plaque at a park bench. And Genie had lived in Los Angeles, and so the park was picked. It was in Echo Park and paid for by the Malla militia. So I and the wife we went over there with the kid. We went over to Echo Park and they all stayed in the car there, which is

the best decision you could have possibly made. And I walked out of the car. Beautiful lake right near Dodger Stadium, just down the hill from Dodger Stadium. They're they've got the swan pedal boats there look like swans. There's a beautiful fountain and this little lake there right near the one on one Freeway, you can see on a clear day you can see the silhouette of the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. This was not a clear day, but

it's it's normally very picturesque. Not anymore though, And I don't know, now this has nothing to do with the fact that the smoke had settled in and it looked like the pea soup fog that you would see cliche of London. But this had become. And I'd been to this park a couple of years ago and we actually, me and the wife went on the duck boats and had a fun time, or not the duck boats, the pedal Boston's the duck boats. We have the pedal boats in l A. So I went on these things out

a great time. Now it has become shantytown. An entire side of the lake, the left side of the lake when you're coming from the one on one freeway, the left side of the lake is let's call them the hard scrabble streets of of the park. There it's like the wild West needles. People snorting, coughing, drinking, smoking, doing all kinds of drugs. And I'm mind you, I'm walking through this shanty town because I don't really know at the time where Genie and Medford's name is on this.

There's a bunch of park benches. There's a ton of them, and they're all almost all of them have a name on it, you know, paid for by so and so or in memory of so and so and so. I'm looking at all this and I'm I'm like, I'm going park bench by park bench. Well, some of them I couldn't look at because there were people sleeping on them, you know, And I'm like, oh, I mean, I feel bad for these people. But I'm walking through feces urine trash.

It was like Sodom and Gomorrah. As I'm walking through this and I'm thinking, what the hell am I doing. It's my day off. Um, my lungs are all messed up from the smoke in the air in l A because of the wildfires. I might step on a needle and get a disease. God knows what other things I'm

gonna get. When these guys walking around digging through the trash coffin on me, It's like it's raining sulfur and destroying buildings and all the vegetation and all that, but then finally thanks to some direction, I was able to find the right park bench. It is if you happen to make the trip, we're on all over the place. But if you ever make it to l A or for your in l A and you want to check this out, I have avoid the left side of the park.

It's right near the north end and it's near the playground, and they've got this really cool playground and kids playing, which is very quite the juxtaposition from kids playing on one side having a grand old time and just it's it's the you know one, it's the like the the the nine circles of Hell from Dante's Inferno, right, I mean, it's just man unbelievable. But but there it is about a hundred feet to the east, I believe, to the to the right side of the playground is the park

bench with Genie's name on it. And it was really cool and it was nice and I took some photos there. But I gotta tell you guess, on Los Angeles may Or Eric Garcetti should be prosecuted as a slum lord because that's his park and that is that is unreal what has happened there and and not just I mean, there's a lot of l A has turned into that,

but that is craziness. Yeah, Bennet, it was. It's crazy to think because you know, all that stuff which is going on is one thing, but like, you guys did something commendable for for Genie, especially because the impact that she had on the show and here in has so many things that have gone wrong for people, whether it's economically financially, job situations, house placements, natural disasters and of course the pandemic. You guys did a little pick me up.

But I remember Coop was talking about this for a while and then you know a couple of listeners too that we're choming to introduce something Virginie and you guys, you guys did something that was great, even here in Los Angeles. So I know you're a step but on bodies and whatnot, but oh it was, And I I do I don't think she wants any great but Tammy and Montana, who's she's like the mother Teresa the show. She's so great. Tammy, she she played a role in that.

And Tammy and she keeps track, she keeps track of a lot of these guys that are on the edges. The fringes of the Mallard Militia, and she does a really good job there. But I just want to say, in closing on Genie and Medford, that Genie lived her life like that that famous Hunter S. Thompson quote which I've used a few times over the years, and uh, the quote is, this is one of the great quotes

about Hunters. Thompson said life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skit in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loud proclaiming, wow, you know. And that's how Jeanie lived your life. I mean it was not much. I mean, listen, the body is gonna fall apart when we're done anyway. But she lived her life to the fullest, and she used and abused her body.

But she had some great stories. I've I've said, I don't know whether they're true or not. I have no way of knowing that. But some of the things she said we used to check and they turned out to be true. So as far as the timeline of stuff that happened in l A and some other cities she claimed she lived in. So that's that's still wild though, for you to to basically a high step over things just to get to where you're at. I saw the

picture of it when you're on the bench. But I should send you some hold on, sec Let me see here. If I got I'm gonna go to my phone, guest, gun, can we do that. I'm gonna go to my phone here. Whatever you want. Your name is on the marquee you can respect like you eloquently notified me of that like a three thirty every morning when I'm trying to sleep. Hold on, So I took some pictures of the of the vagrants. Let me see here. I'm gonna send this

to you. This This actually doesn't do it justice, guess con But I'm gonna send this photo to you. This only shows you part you're gonna have to zoom in. Um. But yeah, I was kind of awkward when I was right near the main part of the shanty town. I didn't I felt weird taking a picture right. Yeah, doesn't that look like yo semite campground? There? Guess get on the photo I just sent you there? Like you got the trees, you got the water, you got all the tents. Yeah,

it looks nice. Yeah. And at one tent, the one with the one with the blue tarp over it, they have a full sectional sofa underneath. Yes, yes, hand to God, Hand to God. They have a full section, which is hey, listen, I I am. We're only all a couple of mistakes away or a couple of bad bad breaks away from being homeless. So I don't want to goof on the homeless, because you know, I'm I'm one bad show away from losing the show and then one one more bad decision

away from being homeless. But I've never seen that like you move like they physically move an entire sectional sofa like you've see in the big living room in a mansion, and they brought it to this park and it's under a tree and it's got a tarp over it so it doesn't get I guess the morning do or it doesn't really rain in l A. But I read a couple of articles that were based in San Francisco talking about how certain hotels have to allow homeless people in,

but the homeless people that they're allowing it are also people that are using drugs on the regular and the city is allowing these people to use drugs still in these hotels. At the same time they have these the I don't know what the name of the agency, I forget the name of the agency, but they're giving these people different things to take drugs with, like talking about like syringes and and wraps and whatnot. And they're just

they're condoning it. They're trying to limit the spread of hepatitis and HIV and some of these other diseases, but at the same time they're just perpetuating the actual the actual problem. And it's a mess, man. And these are like cities like San Francisco beautiful. I hate the sports teams there, but they're they're beautiful. It's a beautiful city. In the that park which I had been to San Francisco for years, but I had not for some reason, I had never gone to the park near Golden Gate,

the Golden Gate Bridge amazing, just breathtaking. And yet is a ship town. Let's they do they have an app you can report when people shipped on the streets of San Francisco. Yeah, isn't that Isn't that a wake up call for the politicians? Guesscon that maybe we're not doing things properly. Maybe something's not going right here. We might want to change what we're doing. What about that that guy that live streamed on YouTube him actually taking a ship on Nancy Pelosi's travel I didn't see that. I

did not. I did not see that one. One. That's he doesn't actually live there. She's in Washington all the time, right, I mean she spends maybe a couple of days every couple of months there, right, I mean, I don't think she's regularly hanging out. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she lives it all the time, but I doubt that. Right. Yeah, man calls it peaceful protest while YouTube, Well that is the key. Listen, that is the key. One thing we've learned in alright, when everyone says you got to stay in,

you can't go out. As long as you say it's a peaceful protest, you're good. You are coming, You have immunity, you have an exemption, you are good to go. Nothing to worry about. What a world. Man in the world. But at least at least we got football back. Yeah, we we do have football, Thank God for that. We have Benny versus the Pennies. We've already promoted and all that stuff. So let's get the pop quiz. Yes, yes, yes, alright, pocket story though that's that is um you have a

fan of that. That that's that's a good deed by you, Coop, And that's a pretty cool thing. You know, when I check out something, I think i'd rather maybe that'd be a good because you know when he goes to cemeteries, you know I, you know I. I I tried gascon to go to see my mom's grave because it was the seventh anniversary of my mom's path passing in August. And and so I went to the cemetery because I wanted to pay my respects and I hadn't been there in a while. And the cemetery there was a lock,

a dead bolt lock on the cemetery. They won't even let you go in the goddamn cemetery because of COVID. These these idiot politicians in California, Gavin Newsom and all these morons. I couldn't even go to a cemetery with my wife was with me to pay my respects to my dead mom because these idiots have locked down the cemetery. It's unbelievable. You can't wrap your head around the level of stupidity that is going on. Uh, and just the lack of common sense. It's I have to set I

called it. My wife called the cemetery, said, why can't we get in? It's supposed to be open. You know it was open during the day. You can go in whatever. Well, you have to make an appointment. What you have to make an appointment to grieve? Guests run It's unbelievable. You have to make an appointment to go see the dead. Yes, yes, I'm pretty sure. None of the people in the cemetery. My dead mom included that she rested. Peace is gonna

give me COVID? Okay, pretty confident, not a concerned. Well, hey, man, if she comes back from the dead, now that would be a story. Yeah, that boy, would I have some stories to tell her to if she came back. Mom, you might want to buckle up. Mom, these last seven years have been something else. You know what you might say to lead off the story she came back from the dead. You can be like, hey, mom, your ballot's actually waiting here for you. So yes, no, no, you've

actually voted the last six years. You didn't realize it, but yeah, welcome back, all right? Pop? Quiz. Here we go, pop quiz. These are actual questions. Quiz questions We've found various places around the globe, and here we go. Guests, we'll ask you. Men are much more likely to do the US at work compared to women. What is it? Masturbate, speak for yourself, pull a prank, Pull a prank, guest, gun, that's good. Do you ever pull a prank at work? Yeah? Right,

we were guys. That's what we do. They can't really do it easy. Like in the old days in radio. Oh my god, we used to do so much crap that we can't do now because of HR and everyone's triggered by everything else. Oh man, back in the old days, we had so much fun. The fact that you guys got triggered on how I parked was the intent, And you guys just got so bad, like you and Coop,

Like Cooper is like, I can't believe it. He just he just takes up multiple parking spots and I can't park in my normal spots, so I have to walk five feet further than I had used to before. And I'm like, yeah, that's the problem for you. Man, you were full of ship. Let me tell you something right now, no, no, that isn't. After the fact, much like when the Clippers lost, people said it was because of chemistry. After the fact,

you parked in a fucked up at her. I called you on it, and then you said, all right, I'll turn this into a bit. I'll make this into a bit. That was not the intention. That was not your intention of the bit, and I can prove that. And here's my evidence. All right, you party that was on the other side. And after you parked on the other side of the garage from where I I parked back when I used to go in, back in the really bad

days when I had to go into work. And uh, and so you you parked on the other side of the garage at the I Heart Media building there, and then after that you started parking in my space and you started parking really outrageously on purpose, but that was to cover up the fact that you you were a bad parker. So you said, well, I'm really gonna do it terribly every time. I have a camera in the back of my car so I can see exactly why do you use it? How about that? Why don't you

use it? Then I do use that you were lazy, You were in a hurry. You probably went out to get some protein or whatever else. You west to the four oh five people eat and you were rushing back and you had to get in, and you're like, all right, there's park. I'm good. No one's here. It's you know, midnight or whatever. I'll get out of here. Yeah, there's nothing with me and lazy that go hand in hand. So I kind of resent that comment. But no, it was all a prank and you guys just get so

triggered by it it's it's laughable. But whatever. Again, Again, that is a lot and I don't know about you know, being against the laziness. I mean, one of your nicknames is David tapped out gascon because you often will give up, surrender, no, no, alright, moving on. Every year, close to three thousand of our brothers and sisters in America end up in the e R after eating this. Oh um, Now, this is an injury that I have had. Guess that I have suffered

the injury from this situation. Job Ricker, No pizza? What hot pizza? Now I didn't end up in the yard, but I did have a lisp. Yeah. The Rams game from last year when they denied your credits yes, that's right. Yes, you're right. That was the Rams Bucks Jamis Winston versus

Jared go Off at the Colisseum. They didn't allow me in, So I made a pizza and watched the Rams game on TV and thought, what a loser I am because I couldn't get into the game and I have a you know, national platform, and they wouldn't let me in, but they let the local yokels in anyway. So I'm I'm bitching about how I'm terrible. I'm eating the pizza, and the pizza was so good, it looked so amazing.

I couldn't wait until it cooled off. I had to eat it, and I burned my tongue in the roof of my mouth, and I I sounded like Lou Holtz for three or four days after that. Now, now the question is if you sound like Lou Holtz? Did Mountains South or did mount Saka Saddleback College? It's get your juko's right, man, It's about you're gonna go Palamar next. What are you gonna do? Did settle Back College? Just

a value after that? No, come on, I'm a keynote speaker at the next big event there they have, which will be in three I think anyway. A recent survey says fifty of Americans find people who have this trait attractive. What is it? Left handed? That's it, penny pinching, being a tight wade, being frugal. You are frugalfty, you are very fucking frugal. Wells. People find that attractive. People find that attractive attractive. Yeah, she she likes I let her

spend the money, and I don't spend the money. So it's fine. It works out. Robin Peter to pay Paul. That's exactly what it is. It's coming from the same bank account. I'm getting the You know, I opened the door every day there's a new box from Amazon. You know what's in the box. What's in the box? Yes, some kind of potion. Yeah, she's a hippie, so some kind of potion or vitamins that are gonna cure you

of your problems and all that. Yeah, alright. This famous duo, well known in American culture, became best friends because they were the two slowest out of shape kids in their gym class. Abbott and Costello, No Ben and Jerry. Ben and Jerry the ice cream Maven's It's good. What are they from? Vermont, Is that right? I don't know. Maybe I haven't had either Vermont or New Hampshire. It's Vermont or New Hampshire, one of those two. I think it's

ver Month. Oh you're Ben and Jerry's ice cream fans. No, but no, you know I like that. Yeah, they're from Vermont. I haven't had and I haven't had ice cream in a long time. I can't have dairy right now anyway, So what do you lactose and tolerant? No, the the medication that I'm on from my fucking busted air, I can't have any dairy otherwise I'm throwing up no dairy at all with like no cheese, no cheese. Found it out the hard way. I had some enchiladas a few

days ago. What happened when you ate the cheese? You this is good? Now you're like me when I eat a fat Well, no hope, but you welcome to my world. So you know what this is. I don't really believe in karma that much, but this is karma? How is this? Because you put it on in the university. We're goofing on me because now you know I've shipped my pants multiple times and all that. So the law of karma,

cause and effect, action and reaction right. Any action performed produces an equal and opposite reaction which directly influences your life. You said mean things about me, and now it is slapping you back in the puke in your toilet because of the things you said. There you go take that makes a good comedy for it. Pretty Much everything I eat has cheese in it, though, so I don't know. I don't know if I can handle that. Man, that's a tough one. What do you what are you dipping

the bull testicles in? Are you doing barbecue sauce? You're doing terry hockey sauce? What do you again? As I've said earlier, gotta cut it thin. You gotta bread it a lot of breading. I'm gonna make that thing like a you know, those little doughnut balls you get. I'm gonna at the the donut shop. I'm gonna make it like that. Uh. And then I'll I'm thinking barbecue, possibly a honey mustard. One of the listeners said, honey mustard. Um. And then you know, just quick, one bite, swallow, done out.

What if you like it? But there's no chance of that. There's no chance of that. That's not gonna happen. But I'll get you some if you want to know. You've eaten bull balls before, so you can be good on that. No, I have not, never will. All right. Women are five times more likely to do this particular thing online compared to men. Date. Uh no, like something on Facebook? Oh yeah, yeah, I gotta imagine. Women spend more time on Facebook than men. I don't know. I'm on there. We have the show page.

I'm on there a lot I have on our own page, but I'm never really on there. I just I check in to see if my family members are alive and my cousin you know, my cousins and my relatives and my friends that I used to work with in radio. What the hell they're doing? So that kind of stuff, all right. Instagram is way different though. Like Instagram that is just that is littered with booty bumping like there's yeah,

that's all that is. That's all that is unbelievable. How can I stand up on my tippy toes so my asses in the air everywhere, and I'll make money? God love them. These women have found a way to make money. They make a lot of money, right, They're not living paycheck to paycheck. They're they're doing good. Yeah they're. There are women that are half our age that are traveling the world on someone else's dime and it's just for a stupid fucking Instagram video. Yeah it's it's great. I mean,

it's really the less it is. You can either work hard and show ambition and hard work and dedication and get get a good education and make it in Wall Street or some other big business. Or you can just go on a stair climber and do squats and work your your ass over and then you become a booty model and you're good. The end result is the same financially, right, Yeah, that's true that the end result is the same alright.

In nineteen eighty nine, US News and World Report called this vehicle this new vehicle feature and unnecessary future frill. Air conditioning. No, no air conditioning been around since before. Cup holders? Who needs a coup hold? I do? I like the couple in your car. Do you have a cup holder that's inside of a cup holder, like the rubber ones that are circular so it grips the cup? Uh we think here, I do not think I have

that feature. I do not I have had cars in the past that have had that, but the car that I have currently does not. You're big fan of the cup holder? Guess well, I just you know, you know, because the drinks that we get some times are a little bigger than that the smaller ones. And so if you're making a turn the thing, if you're not like the form fitting cup holders, they tend to you know, tip over and fall out. So, yeah, that's true. They're not big enough because I get I like a big

beverage and they're usually not big enough. All right. A new survey, I'm a size queen when it comes to cup holders. A new survey asked people what they miss most about being in an office. Now, seeing co workers was number one, But I thought the most interesting answer and the most telling answer was number five. So what do you think Number five? Was? Um? The thing that people miss most about being in an office being away from their spouse. No, leaving early, leaving early. I can't

leave early if you're at home. You're already at home. Where are you gonna go? You're at home. I can't do that here though, not with what we do. Tom Looney did one of the great nights in radio, the night the Boston It was a sad night because the Boston Marathon bombing had taken place, and there was a wild goose chase to try to get the two idiots, the two losers, the scumbags that that planted the pressure cooker bomb at the end of the Boston Marathon. So

they're doing this man hunt. Boston is shut down, which at that time, the idea to shut down a city seemed amazing. Now every city has been shut down this year, but at the time was wild. So I'm on the air filling in for JT because JT had the show during the week, so I'm doing the show with Looney. Looney. Of course, hey, I get to leave early. Ben's here, so he checked out after maybe in a couple of hours of the four hours show. So I'm on my

own there. Looney has gone. He taped out left and he recorded his updates as the Boston You know, we were giving updates on the Boston Marathon bombing and what was going on, and you know, police there's a man hunt trying to find these guys. Well, about twenty minutes after Looney left, breaking news, you know, they've found the guy. There was a shootout you know, the whole thing. So and Looney's home sleeping and uh yeah, there you go. I still bust his balls about that from time to time.

All Right, seventeen percent of new teen drivers say this causes the most anxiety behind the wheel. What is getting on the freeway. I thought that would be the case, and that certainly makes sense, but that's not the answer. That's why this is. This is interesting going through the drive through. M Yeah, you know, I got hit by a teen driver in the drive thru at the McDonald's on I think it was on Highland or and he

was on the Brea. When I lived in Hollywood. I was at a McDonald's at like two in the morning getting some food because I was a big fat guy eating some food at two in the morning. And I'm driving in the drive through lane and this kid, you know, there's two windows, right, so I'm hanging and then the next window up where he's at is the the window to take up the food, to pick up the food.

So I'm paying for the order, and then I pay for my food and I hear Paul he had backed into my car because I guess that he went to the window to pick up the food, and I guess his credit card didn't work, so he had to back up to pay, but he didn't look behind him, and he smashed into my car, rendered me um in the fast food drive lane at McDonald's at two in the morning in in Hollywood. Good times. Fuck him. Still pissed about that. And it was one of those things too,

where that he didn't look that bad. It just looked like, you know, it was a mine or whatever. But then there was all this internal damage, which piste me off alright. According to a new survey fifties, six percent of people wouldn't date someone if they were bad at this sex. Well, how the hell do you know though, until you start hooking up. I'm talking about even before um, bad at bad at kissing or is that the same thing? Is

that too? I think it's in the same genre. Bad at gaston wait for it, wait for it, bad at driving. So that's bad for you a guest, gun parking, drivings all the same. Yeah, I've I've never I've never had a woman that I've dated compliment me on my driving. I can't imagine one, but they've all been vocal about the way that I drive. I'm trying to yourself, guest. Guess, I don't know why, Oh, though I did. Is there a long list, guestcon can we contact with these people?

I don't think it's a long list. I think it's a short list. You know, they'll all deny it ever happened. All those women will deny it ever happened. Of all the things, though, I did have one girlfriend for birthday present, she actually bought me a driving experience at Fontana Motor Speedway. Like Riant was able to drive in a dock car and take lots, so it's kind of cool. So she's like, yeah, you can finally drive your your speed and so you have to follow a lot of a lot of sight.

But I did do that. Scariest thing, Ben is before you get in that car, you have to sign this huge waiver like liability and waiver release, and it says that can you damage this car and you're spending like thirty or forty thou dollars on repairs? And she thought, I was like, I'm gonna drive a little bit slower compared to what I used to. So yeah, all right, a couple more and what do we have here? Oh

this is interesting. This actually relates to the last thing we talked about, on average, about thirteen thousand hands touch one of these a month. What is it? Thirteen thousands? Yeah, that's a lot of hands, guest, can uh, I mean we're it can't be a door knob all right, Oh that makes sense. A doorknob, but a busy building. No, you want the answer elevator button? No? Mhm, A wait for it, gas pump handle. Oh yeah, I might want to wear gloves next time you go to the gas station.

Thousand hands on average? Do you wash your hands after you pump gas? I didn't before and before COVID, Now I do. Now I do. But I see people sometimes at the gas station who like fully mask up and they've got gloves and the whole yeah thing. I'm like, Well, usually the gas pumps are are six ft apart, right, so you don't really need that. And the glove thing, I guess makes sense, but it seems like a little much, just like the people driving around wearing the mask seems

like a little much. If your windows up, I think you're good. Yeah, I will stay in defense of that. There's times where I get out of a store and my hands are full and I forget to take off my mask while I drive. So you're meaning you're guilty and there's probably photographic evidence of you driving around without mask. Yeah, no mask with math right with mask al right. According to a new survey, fourteen percent of people say they would end a new relationship if they were not compatible

in this area. Uh, politics, No, I'm sure it's higher than religious. No, people are on his religious there heathens. Now the answer is food diet, food diet. Interesting. Have you ever come across something you've dated that has been on some kind of super food diet? Well when I when I dated it was it was not a good experience. But I did date a few women that were like really into um, like the vegan type stuff, and that was like, that's just not a good situation for somebody

like me. And and but I was you know, beggars can't be choosers, guest get and I would put up with it because you know, the options were limited, The options were limited. New survey asked people to name the outdoor activities that make them feel like a kid again. This was the number one answer. What is it? I think we might have had this one before. I wasn't say either going to the beach, or playing in the park. Fishing, Um, fishing. I never fished as a kid. Yeah, no, no, I

I guess a lot of people love to fish. They live grow up your lakes and they're going out with your dad or their grandpa, their uncle or their answer, their grandma or whatever. Fishing interesting. And a survey of two thousand people, thirty four percent said that they have done this. Walle at work? What is it? I'm god taking my answer from earlier. Um, looking at illegal websites, porn, porn, porno, that's the answer. Drink alcohol at work. Drink Tom Looney,

we're talking about you again. I had a producer one time that was drunk that showed up and uh yeah, and then he got upset because I said, you you shouldn't probably be doing that, you know, all your work, and he got all upset and it's like, uh, I started reading me the Riot Act and all that I've We've had producers and technical directors hammered out of their mind. Yes,

that is correct. I have worked with people when I did the weekend Overnight show that was a like a turnstile for board ops, and I had guys that were usually it was the weed, but some of them were the the alcohol that the glazed over eyes. Hell, there have been guys that work on the radio, in the on air side that have been all schnockered and and working.

I'm not well. I can't say I haven't done it because I used to do remotes when I was doing local radio and l A on the Ben and Dave Show, and we would go to bars and stuff, and so you know, I went in Rome act like a Roman. Yeah, I was gonna say, I do appreciate some of the old stories about baseball guys that would use whiskey to tune up the pipes. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, those little base pull guests. Sure, yeah, I mean I never did that.

I don't know if you've ever done that, like having a shot of something before you've gone on air to loosen up the pipes or just to make you feel a little bit more, you know what I have. I don't do that, but my the wife gave me. These are like kind of like um to me. They're smelling salts. They're these senses, you know, these little things, these little containers or whatever they like. I've one in front of me, here is lemon, and and you it'll kind of wake

you up? Here? Hold? What else do I have? You should probably say this for any kind of YouTube videos that have lime. I have lime here, you're such a oh I'm smelling. See it's like free spirit. No, not really and just laying around. I use them sometimes. I've been really, I don't get a lot of sleep doing these dumb podcast kiss count during the week, it's I always fall asleep. I'm like a old man. On Friday nights, I fall asleep, and it's gonna be problematic because we're

doing Benny versus the Penny on Friday night. It's not not particularly great. Uh, I got two more quick ones. The average person learned how to do this at age eight? What is it? Uh? At age eight? Um, I think it's too old. But ride a bike? Yeah it's too old. Swim swim yeah, swim. How old are you when you learned how to swim? Probably around that man. I I see these instructors now with kids teaching them how to swim,

and I get fucking mortified. Ben, Like, my sister has has three three little girls, and I'm your uncle, David, I am, but Ben, she would throw these little babies in the pool like at one throw them in the pool and I would fight for their life. Well that's not good, it's crazy. But they learned how to swim and then they they doggy paddle to the edge and

it's it's unbelievable. Well, yeah, I have heard that that that is better to do it at a younger age, even like they get them in there so they're not afraid of the water and they're used to it and stuff like that. So I see if they don't make it, though, isn't don't you go to jail if they don't dog paddle and they die and they fall to the bottom of the pools and that the instructors in the pool

with them say, and I think that's child abuse. That yeah, no, but there's I do believe in the secret swim method, though I do will normally it's with my quarterbacks, but you know, kids, why not? Sure? I do say with with regards to that, I wish I learned another language or two at a younger age, like I wish I was taught that as yeah. Yeah, yeah, we we had that a few few weeks or a month ago whatever.

It was, like that's the number one complain people from their education wish they had learned another language, last one when it comes to our hell four intend people lie about this their weight, their weight, alright, No, that they flost their teeth. Oh you go the dentist like, hey, what's going on? And all that we've lost our teeth. We got the we got the denyl floss in the car now. I love those man. I am. I am an expert flosser. I am. That is my special skill.

I am the Lebron James of flossy. I am. My wife hates it though, because she has apple phenia and she cannot stand the noise that I I make. There A noys her very much. Um, and we're not it's not that's not applephenia. What is that? I'm miss aphonia. I'm so I screwed up my illnesses. Guests, yea, she has a problem with your hygiene. You flostic as a problem miss aphonia. You know what miss aphonia is, right. It's a disorder where you certain sounds trigger an emotional

or psychological response and literally drives the person crazy. But me eating drives her crazy. The way I eat, the way I chew my food cannot stand, cannot stand so so often when we're having a meal, together, I'll say, would you like me to go into the other room and and eat? And she's she's brought props like ear plugs, and that a little dramatic. That's what I get upset

by that. That does offend me. I don't usually get offended by anything, but when you're having dinner with your wife and she's putting ear plugs in, it does hit you a little bit. It does hit you to put the dunce cap on her dramatic. I know that's what I thought too. You know, I don't usually complain, but I gotta put my foot down on this one. That's a little much. It's a little much, you know. I mean, I don't need the props. Leave those for the radio.

All right, Very good, guest guy. We put the baby, but we got another podcast tomorrow with the mail Bag on Sunday, right, and I understand the numbers were pretty good for last week, so we'll keep that going for her until they numbers go down. Then we'll not do it. Yes, all right, have a great day. Thank you. Remember Benny versus the Penny. Get that in before the NFL kicks off on Sunday, and it's on YouTube. You can find a link on Twitter and Facebook and all that