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the four oh five for now will be moving. Will you tell l a county to Well, it's sucker London. David gascon Well, I got h I got booted from a from a workout studio a few days ago for that exact reason. They COVID protocol. Well they yeah, so they said we need you to wear a mask. Well I didn't get booted. I just didn't go in. But they basically said, you need to be wearing a mask and you need to bring proof of vaccination in order to come into the to the facility. And so I said,

well why is that. Obviously I was playing dumb because I knew the mandate from from our king, and they told me exactly what it was. And uh, I said, I need a refund. I will not be visiting your establishment. I do not agree with these, uh the statewide mandates and imposing those fines on individual companies that that ignore it. So I said, peace out, give me my money back, and that's exactly what I did. I took my ball and I went home. Good good for you. Uh yeah,

I have not been attending as many sporting events. You know. I have access to a lot of games. I've been to a few NFL games, been to the Dodger playoff games, but I have not been to any NBA or hockey games. And part of it is the mask bullshit, which if I'm sitting by myself and no one's around me. Why am I gonna wear Why do I have to wear a mask? Most most ridiculous thing in the world. And uh so I've been been not as active as I usually would be at this point. I've already and I've

I've avoided that, that scene and all that. But when will it end? That's the question. Is it gonna be in January February two? I don't know if it will. I don't think there's any there's no need for it to end, right, I mean you have probably it has ended elsewhere, but yeah, just on the coast or the northeast and the West coast, it hasn't. It hasn't slowed down at all. But I told you the story when the Dodgers were playing the Atlanta Braves in the National

Championship Series. The the Atlanta Brave beat writers like they were they from Georgia. They're not wearing any stupid man like screw you. And you got like the l A writer, the l A writers that are like double masked and had their hoodies on, and you know, super scared about what was going on making you mentioned you mentioned bumping our gums. When I was a kid, I love the

double dipping. I don't know if you did this, but I would buy a pack of Strawberry and a pack of Great Big League Chew and I'd mix it after during every game, I'd I'd be double did them with a Big League Chew. That was my favorite brand of bubble gum back in the day as a kid. It was. It was great. It's like it's like eating filame and yon and then eating a burger, like when you compared to eating gum out of a baseball pack. You know,

the stick of gum that was just stale. Yeah, yeah, Big League to what a great concept to teach children in retrospect, in hindsight, right, to teach kids how to stick a wad of chewing tobacco in their mouth because they're not old enough for chewing tobacco. So it's like a starter set, right. It's like it's like, well, let's pretend that you are your favorite baseball player, because growing up for young punks like watching this Weekend Baseball and like we had we've had Lenny dik Straw on the

podcast and some other people. They had these massive they had like a golf ball size thing of chewing tobacco in their in their mouth. It was wild man. And Lenny didn't let me lose all his teeth. I think that might be from other things, but yeah, but yeah, that the big league chew was awesome and you felt like you were in the big leagues. You're you're here

a little league park. You know, there's like three people, they're all parents watching you, and but you've got a big wad of big league chew and you got little pouch in your back pocket, right just like the players. I mean, who would you remember, because I remember Dikestra was one of them. I think Eric Davis was another. Strawberry. Strawberry had a lot. Uh, there was Ken oh, I mean fun man. I got us as soult Tony Gwinnuck

died of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not trying to There was a guy of the Red Sox that had had a big They were I mean pretty much everybody back in those days. Uh, chewing tobacco was was insane. But Bikestro was the biggest cause Thanks Tro would forget golf ball. Thanks Tro would have like softball. He would go all in and it was it was nuts man, and it was like the late eighties early nineties, they

would ridicu he list wads of chewing tobacco. Uh. And as a kid, you're watching that, You're like, whoa, what is what is going on here? Like this is crazy? I just thought it was cool. Yeah. I mean my grandfather my dad's side, was a smoker too, and I just thought that was just the cool thing to do. I had no idea how and healthy and dangerous that was. Yeah. George Brett, he was another guy, George that's right. Yeah,

he had a big, big thing in his mouth. I remember with the Royals back in the day, the pines As when he goes out to home plate and he just got that big ball of chew and yeah yeah yeah, and uh Nick Swisher who worked for us UM. But the are a lot of guys now I don't really notice it. Maybe I don't pay attention to it. I don't think a lot of the guys are doing it now. They've tried to get rid of it, and I think they got rid of it minor league baseball. They outlawed

it in my monlleague baseball. But man, they've been been some big time chewing tobacco people over the I think Babe Ruth back in the day, the Bambino. One of the reasons he got cancer, they claim, is because of his love of tobacco. What's that. No, I never know. In high school, a bunch of guys on the football team did, and they would do it during class and they tried to hide it. They tried to hide it.

I remember one of my buddies in his high school he had He was sitting right next to me, and it was like really disgusting because he had like a water bottle and he would, you know, when the teacher turned their back on the class, he spit a little bit, and uh it was I saw it was in the bottle.

I was like, dude, that's pretty bad. Plus, my mom put the fear of God in me, you know, like my my both my parents, we don't over smoke, you know, because they're there when they were going up, their parents smoked and they had cancer and ship you know, stuff like that. So anyway, but now you did, right, tobacco, No, I never did. Um No, My my dad told me he hadn't. He had chewed once and got sick to his stomach and threw up. And then on my mom's side,

my mom and her twin sister. I guess they tried smoking when they were teenagers, and my grandfather did what I think a lot of older parents did, was not he didn't say, don't do it. He just basically fed them more cigarettes to smoke him all at the same time until they got sick. And they're like, we're never doing this again, and that that did the trick. Wow, Well that that's great. That's the the chocolate chip cookie thing right there. They are you allowed to do that

anymore though? Or you're as an animal and that's my that's my truth, that you're a you're a horrible person, you know, and all that stuff. Um, yeah, because they say if a kid like you know, it loves you know, it's kind of goes into the cookie jar. You see him in a room with like seven boxes of cookies, and you're like, all right, eat up, and you know, eat all the cookies, you know, and all that, and don't leave the room until you eat all the cookies

and then you'll never want to eat a cookie again. Yeah. I always say that the night after I have tequila and for some reason I go back to the well yeah, well that's like the same concept with me when I eat ice cream too fast and I get the brain freeze and then I'm like, oh shoot, I hate this. I'm never eating ice cream again. And then two seconds later you're taking another bite. Go to the same contime, you go to seven eleven, you get like a slurpee.

You know, it's so good. And then my bride, my bride, my bride. You're like, okay, all right, as soon as it goes away, all right, here we go. I am back. I'm going I'm going to the bank account one more time. I'm going back there. I've got my broomstick. I'm gonna I'm gonna knock away the coldness. And you're in denial anyway, all right, we have amazing, amazing, wonderful, powerful questions from listeners. Is the actual mail bag sent in via Ben Maller

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the space. So I just said, you know what, I can have as mainly many Gmail accounts as I can. So I just keep adding new Gmail. I think I'm up to seven or eight not kidding, seven or eight Gmail accounts, I believe it. I have like a catalog every time I just put the letter b e N. All of a sudden just populates all your damn email addresses onto my Gmail Account's ridiculous. Yeah, well, listen, Google

could give you some legitimate space there for free. And I mean they steal all my information and anyway, so they just give They choose not to do that. That's their decision, which is fine. But I'm looking at my email let me see you. I'm looking at the number of emails I have. I have the Ben Maller Show account, which I use for obviously the radio show. I have a special email account that I use for the videos that we do on YouTube for the show. I have

the Real Fifth Hour account. I have a podcast account which I started for this podcast, and I also started a Benny versus the Penny account so I can only have six, but I will be adding more. I will be adding more. What email did you use when you met your wife on the online dating app? Oh? That was like a Yahoo? I think Yahoo. So do you have a yeah? Now? Do you have an A L account that's still active too? Yes? Yes, I have a O L That is my spam a count like every

old guy. That's my spam account, A big a O L guy back in the nineties. And you gotta have hotmail then too, Right, I do have a Hotmail account, but that's only because on I usually use BING, the search engine Bing, and I'll tell you why, because they track everything, but they give you points. I search a lot on the internet. I'm a big searcher, right, So I search a lot and they give you these points

you can cash in for gift cards. So and I never I never actually cash them in, but just by doing my job searching the internet for you know, things that I'm looking to talk about and whatever, maybe the definition of words or whatnot. I have when I want at my disposal three dollars in Amazon gift cards that I have waiting for me that I could use at any time. And I'm just waiting, waiting I want to see how high I can get it. I actually have cashed out. I think I've cashed out about fifty bucks

in in gift cards early on. But I don't even I don't even think about it. I just keep going over and over and over again, and uh yes, so that's my that's my thing. Anywa, let's get to the questions here, and Kevin and Kansas in the leadoff position. Kevin says, dear great ones, Ben and David, it's that time of the school year again where the weather changes and the cold and sore throat season is upon us. He says, Ben, would you please repeat the garlic clove

prescription and what are any side effects? There? You go, all right, I can do that briefly. So the garlic therapy, now, there's a couple of ways to approach it. Garlic is a natural antibiotic. It is the original old world medicine before modern medicine. And uh it's seriously, it's got the same compounds known in uh in antibiotics are in garlic natural antibiotic they called garlic. Now, first sore throat, which is normally for most people, the first sign of an illness,

and you should not take this as medical advice. This is just merely a guy in a podcast telling you what I do. So, you take a clove of garlic, you slice it in half. You put one half of that clove of garlic on the right side of your mouth, you put one half on the left. You then suck the garlic juices like it was a hard candy, like a Jolly Roger candy. You do this before bed, and you don't obviously eat anything after that or drink anything.

You do this before bed. The garlic healing powers while you are sleeping will attack the infection in your your sore throat. And generally speaking, if you catch this early enough, the success rate is tremendous. Of nipping a cold in the butt. Now, if you're already sick, if you've you've missed this opportunity. The other thing that you can do, which is much more painful, uh is to take a clove of garlic, and even a couple of clothes of garlics as much as you can handle, and on an

empty stomach, eat one to two cloves of garlic. You know, the heads of garlic, not the head to clove on an empty stomach, and the side effects of that, Kevin Are, you will feel horrible. It is very hard to swallow raw garlic. It is very difficult to swallow raw garlic. It is horrible. You will think that you're going to die. Uh, it'll burn your throat, it'll it'll feel really bad and you'll feel bad for maybe ten minutes or so, and

then you'll drink some water. You'll get over it. And usually within a day or so, after using the raw garlic on an empty stomach, not eating for many hours, you will end up the guard are like, well, we'll knock out the infection and you'll you'll feel great within within in a day. That's usually how that has worked for me. But the side effects on no one want to kiss you. Uh, No one wonn't want to be around you. But most people hate the smell of garlic.

I like the smell of garlic, so it wouldn't bother me, but most people hate it. And so those are the side effects. And and the burning of your gums. I mean again, the garlic is so pungent, it's so powerful that when you suck on it like a candy, it's burning your gums. So that's a sign that it's going to perfection out. I got enough detailed guess going on the garlic therapy, I think, I mean it was a

perfect transition from talking about chewing tobacco. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly Carlos, who says the depressed stro fan in Houston, Texas, Bang Bang. Last week, you and Cooper we're talking about edibles, and Coop said that edibles are way stronger than weed, and I can confirm that that is true. I just want to say that it's your fault, he said, Carlos, your fault that my high was ruined. Carlos says, I

got so high that day. How high was he? He says Guescon that he forgot to run an import and errand and he kept replaying in his head the public service announcement that we do on the show Drive High get a d u I. He says, I almost went into a panic attack because because of that, and my wife couldn't stop laughing at me. So thank you for getting me into an almost panic attack, says Gascon. When will you be filling in on the overnight show so you can claim your Benny Award for filling of the

year man, Carlos, I did that earlier this year. Didn't get any award for that last year. Unfortunate. Really it's very competitive that Jonas is out of the running now, so you don't have to worry about Jonas. Jonas is no longer eligible for filling of the year on the show, so right now, Danny g who else has been on their wreck it? Ralph made an appearance locally docally do ned Flanders made an appearance. Uh, tryna think who else are? Ilo? Ilo was on there. He did a good job back

in the day. But I love the fact, Carlos that that p S A resonated with you. That's good. It's good. That should have let the people that buy the the p S a time. The government should know that that's actually worked. The only one that stuck out to me was the Cougar Love one. The cougars are coming, The cougars are coming. The cougars are coming. Cougar Uh, I think it was it was it Cougar Life? Was that it or something like that? And it was it was awesome,

great advertising. Uh. Dr abdul Kader writes, and he says, I have been an on and off listener to the Mallard Radio show via podcast Living in the East makes listening live not quite healthy, The doctor says, let me cut to the shase. I discovered the Fifth Hour podcast just last week. How about that the doc found us last week. Thank you for ben this morning's episodes, he he emailed me right after the episode. The episode with David Gascon tickled me a lot, he said, because you, guys,

delved into the insane times we live in. It appears that most people blind blindly bought into several agenda driven studies which masquerade as scientific findings, says the COVID nineteen Shenanigans and Wokerism. So he says wokers, and I say the wocarate wocarate in the media, and he says cyber thugs act as the smelling salts to aken some of us. Uh. Is a great job, guys, So the doc a new fan of the Fifth Hour Podcast and we are here

for you all weekend long Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I think there's a little bit of guilt when it comes to the sensory overlord from overload with what we get And don't you feel like that way in the sports world, like there's just so much content out there, at least during the NFL season, when it's Major League Baseball, the Dodges, some of there's nothing to chew on, But in the following in the winter, there's a lot of informations. I feel like we get that with this topic with COVID. Yeah,

science and yeah. Well, the biggest problem is that people put too much stock in social media. That's the biggest problem. And we pointed out before it's one to two percent of the general population the United States is contributing content and most are not, and most aren't even on there. So but media companies and even political figures, now, uh, that's the almighty all powerful, that's the public square for deciding what stuff is that, but it it leans politically

one direction. It also is much younger than the people actually are on there, and it's easily distorted. As I like to say, it's like the matrix, right, you don't know it's real, what's fake. You don't know what's bots, what's not there are what was that thing on on Instagram that there are so many body accounts on Like, there's so many people that have a million followers or whatever on Instagram. I remember reading this, I forget the exact number. So I'm talking out of my ask right now.

But there's so many people that have a million followers on Instagram because they bought followers. It's like more than are actually on the more than the real legitimate users Instagram has. But they don't get rid of those bots because people use the website. So they don't care if you've got fake followers or not. It doesn't matter. And Twitter talks. Twitter talks a good game about that, but they don't really care about it either. They don't clean

it up. You know, how how many of Lebron James followers are legit and how many of the what he got twenty million followers or something, and how many of those are just bodycounts. I have no idea. I'm sure it's not it's not legit. I know that it's probably not, you know, real or fake. You know, it's somewhere in

the middle. Anyway, A Cliff from Nashville writes in He says, Ben, just to prove we were at the resort, this guy an email member, He said he was at the resort and he he had the the gangster guy that was going to give him a hard time and all that, and they pondered over the show. He sent me here. He says. The tattooed, cheating astro fan was there celebrating his daughter's fifteen birthday sause apparently it's a huge deal for young Catholic girls, cost as much as a wedding.

He said, all right, you know anything about this gas gun? Is it Catholic or is it in the Hispanic community? I don't know. I'm not sure. The fifteen year old birthday party for a for a lady? Oh yeah, I think that's yes, yes, incinera Is that what they call it? All right in Latin America? Right? Yeah? All right, yeah, like the you know us, the Jews, we have the bar mits or box and so in Latin America they have this when you're fifteen. Is it the same for

dudes or is it just it's just for girls? Right? So did the guys not get anything? They don't get a party if you're you don't get No. I don't know. I didn't get anything. I'm goin back to cent. I didn't have a big part. Did your sister have a Well we're a moth. We're a mix though, we're a pretty big mixes. The key to a mixes to celebrate the big events in that to go crazy. Man. We did for for New Years. It was always my my grandmother or her sister's place, and I was always watching

bowl games and homemade to Molly's. That was awesome. Yeah, yeah, I have fun memories of Hanukkah and Uh and Ashley. My mom passover, which is supposed to be like the worst, you know, for you don't get to eat bread. Yeah, you know that the holiday pass over, but my it was always the greatest. Always got the fattest on Passover

because my mom iss she rested peace. To compensate for the lack of bread, she bought every they sell these brownie mixes and cookie mixes and ship like this that that was unleavened, you know, so you can make it past. My mom would spend you know, three three days baking brownies, cakes, uh, cookies, and I'm a fat kid. I love I just ate all of it. I was like, this is the greatest. I can't eat bread, but I can eat endless brownies

and cookies. And now would you would would you would you dunk in milk or do you get them dry? You know, I had a bad experience with milk. I combined milk with a tuna fish sandwich when I was a kid. I ever since then, I've avoided the milk. It was like a neutron bomb. It was a chemical reaction to my stomach. And I've I've avoided that. Uh, let's see here. Rich writes in, says home of the Baseball Bat and Louisville. He says, is it fuzzy Komoto or fudgy Komoto? I've heard it both ways. I've heard

it both ways. Rich. Now I've actually I don't even know for sure. I think it's fudgy. I hear fuzzy though, and I'm wearing headphones. He's referring gascon to a guy that calls the Instant Advice line every week from Boston, and he's got this cartoon voice, and he said, I'm funny to Comoto, and but sometimes it sounds like fuzzy Comoto. So I'm not sure. Valls Fan Jimmy writes in from Fayetteville, Tennessee. He says, Man, how much preparation goes into the overnight

show each night, staff meetings and material models. Well that's a good line, right. You know how this show works, Jimmy. We have a we have a morning production call Gaston, we get together, we go over some of the big stories of today. Uh. Then we have a dry run, we go over the show. We do a reading, like a table reading of the show. That's usually about five

o'clock in the afternoon. We do a table reading. Uh. Then Cooper Loop is busy booking guests and uh, you know, lining up sound for the show and uh so he does all that and uh and then I, of course I roll in at one minute before the show, no prep. Coop hands me notes for the monologue. Coop hands me all of the work. I do no prep at all during the day, and uh and then whatever Coop comes up with or the producer, I just repeat that verbatim.

That's exactly what happens in a parallel dimension, guestcon That's exactly what happens. That you just roll in there one minute before the show. Producer does all the work, You do the dry run, you do the the meeting, the text chain, all that, and then the show goes on. Could you imagine if that actually happened, would you feel uncomfortable? Like would you feel awkward to be involved in something like that? I would feel like Jim Rome, No, I uh that's a low blow. No, I like having having

my hand in the preparation process. I don't know that I want to have my hand in the preparation process forever as much as I do, But yeah, I actually enjoy that's that's all. The hardest part of my day is trying to find find things that are interesting that it would be a good talk radio There's stories that are good sports stories, but they're not good radio stories. And for me, there's that Sweet Spot scandal, love It Check, all Over scandal, anything involving palace, intrigue, um team coming

apart of the seams. Those stories are always really good finger pointing that type of stuff. Injuries, how teams will do after key injuries happen, that's always great. Players, any kind of changing of rosters, like the Odell Beckham story that had a little bit of everything to it. Those stories are good talk radio. But like some some guys really forced the issue and they do topics that I shake my head at, Like we really only breakdown games now.

Playoff games or primetime games will talk about, but baseball playoff games will break down. We don't break down regular season baseball games anymore. We don't we we've cracked the code. Nobody wants to hear that. So there's always a good one off, though, like a Blake Snell and his my life's on the line and you know crap like that, I'm risking my life. But that's not a game story. That's Blake Snell on on Twitch playing Video Games that

that was a mouth watering story. That was a great The Ben Simmons stuff is pretty good too, Yeah, but that's also not really on the court. That's like off the court. Yeah, buddy of mine does a morning show back East, and he texts me says, when's the last time we did a whole show just talking about stuff that actually happened in games? Said, you know what, I

can't remember the last time I've done that. Maybe Super Bowl Sunday, But even Super Bowl Sundays a lot of drama behind the scenes on what's gonna happen after the Super Bowl or somebody said something after the game and got themselves in trouble. Some scattered brain players had something, stupider coach that kind of stuff. All Right, I'm moving on VA Heat from New Orleans. The Big Easy the Bayou says, hello, my friends, Big Ben and d gas gun.

It's a heat from Saints Country and New Orleans. Uh, he says, wet dreams, how early did you get them? And what was the experience like? Well, he wants to know about our wet dreams. Uh. Not talking about Doc Mike's favorite drinks still happening. Uh, feel free to to give a long answer. Love listening to religiously radio show on podcast. Well, God love you heat, thank you for that. In New Orleans, should go down to No, that's a city.

My wife wants to go to this other place. So I haven't traveled much lately because of the COVID stuff, but I New Orleans. She she really wants to go there. I've heard good things, and I've never been to New Ones. Every good things and bad things. I've heard it's disgusting, dirty, old lot of traffic, terrible. I've heard it's amazing, the party never ends. It's wonderful. The people are nice, southern charm. So I've heard two different versions of New Orleans, and

it's possible that both of them are true. Yeah, it's possible that both of them are true. So, but as far as wet dreams, I don't know what year it was. I I remember though, when some of that stuff started, I was very confused because I I grew up with parents that did not exactly teach me the birds and the beast. They assumed that I would learn that at school. So yeah, I don't remember when. As far as wedding the bed, I think I last wedded the bed back

on Tuesday. Any any Wet Dream Stories guests, guns. There's nothing I needed to share that would be enticed into the ears of those listening in to the mass audience. No, what the hell? Random question to ask? It is a random question, but he was looking for a question. He just wanted to hear his name. So but her Pierre from Springfield, mass Right, So, he says, Alfie adian O

planter Ben. Since your sidekick may or may not be moving into or around the north Woods, can we expect future podcast recordings from the two of you live on tape from the home studio? He says? Is there a chance that David did an end around and contacted Mrs Maller in attempt to sub let a room in the Mallard mansion two point oh in order to help you build your media empire? From Pierre, I would not know about that. Have you circumvented the normal channel of communications

here Gascony. You've been talking a lot about moving, but you haven't pulled the trigger here, not a lot of it. There's a lot of inventory, and so I'm looking more and more. The biggest thing that I've been looking at in some of the areas that I've been inquired about is the awfully egregious rates when it comes to h o A s h A. Fees are just awful. No, no, do not, do not do h o A. You're better off renting a room in a house or something, or

renting the house. I will never again the rest of my life, I will gear in t that I will never make a deal with Frankenstein's monsters. Those h o A they never they never go down, They only go up. And it's like you buy. I bought a condo, the Mallard Mansion in Lincoln Heights, near downtown l A near Dodger State Room, and the h o A. When I bought it, you know, it was reasonable. It was, you know, a couple hundred bucks. It's gone up. I think it's

fifty higher than when I bought it. Yeah, it's because the building gets tagged with graffiti all the time because those guys from the Avenue gangs because it's the Lincoln Heights and so they tagged the building endlessly. It's like a billboard for the fucker's and so they end up having to spend all this money and they have to

have somebody on call. They have a secure already, you know, they haven't have a security guard because it's in a ship neighborhood and so that's all covered in the h o A. But it's it's ridiculous how and I'm still paying for it because it's under water. But I'll never do that again. My brother lives in Manhattan, and you imagine the h o A is there and those are co ops and so I think the co ops pay. You pay a lot more in fees for that. He's

getting clobbered. And it's like, I understand where the house. You still you always have to pay property taxes, which is like paying rent anyway, right, you have to pay property taxes. But it's like double jeopardy to me in my head with buying a condo and then you're not you still have to play property tax. It's not like you don't have to pay property tax. You still got to pay that, and then on top of it, you have to pay for everything else, like the to me,

the property taxes cover should cover the garbage. You know what I'm saying that that stuff covering them in the property taxes, but you end up having to pay twice. And I think I'm gonna that's a good idea to go shoot a note too. I'm a pilot and see if I can move out to his neck of the woods. You're gonna go to Texas? You know, I think you chased away. I'm a pilot. We've not got any email correspondence. You have been successful at chasing away that nice couple

in Florida, the very nice couple in Florida. I think they're underwater literally speaking wow. Well. I actually emailed them saying, hey, you know what's going on? Just check like a wellness check. They didn't right back, wellness check, Yeah, I do wellness checks. I'm a good guy, guess scan. I I'm concerned about these people when they stopped when they're part of the show, and they're they're not part of the show. We had a very interesting phone call the other night from beer

drinking Brian No. No, he was a little inebriated, not much by his standards, but he was complaining. He said he's gonna have to go back to the hospital because he was urinating blood. Yeah. I said, well, why don't you hang up right now and go to the hospital, calling Amiens. He said no because he wanted he was too cold in Missouri and he wanted to wait till the morning. And I it's like, you know, normally my experience is if you're bleeding blood, that's your body telling

you a dummy, get to the doctor. I get to a doctor and all that. And anyway, he uh, he didn't do that. And then he wanted to talk about the Vikings and fire Mike Zimmers. So it was very odd. Why who's pissing blood? I wanted to complain about Mike Mike Zimmer. So anyway, that was that was bizarre. Alright. What was next year? Page down? Page down? Neil from the Real Miami question for you too? He says, have you ever meet? He says, you, two dukes, have you

ever mediated either alone or meditated? Mediated? Meditated? Meditated alone, or did one of those hippie retreats? If you asked, what was your experience? Like? That's his first question. I've never meditated, although I have done. My wife made me download an app. Hold on me, let me look it up here homeless like here that that. Uh, it's a box breathing. You ever done box box breathing? No? Never? Yeah,

she it's one of her hippie things. It's a breathing exercise you're supposed to do to calm you down when you're stressful. So I have done that, and although the last time I did it was in May, so I haven't done it in a while. But I have the app here that tracks my history of doing me the breathing exercises, so I I do have that, But I've

never done meditation. Um, you guess on any meditation like I've done yoga in the past, and it is extremely hard for me to just zero in on nothing, like to lose lose thought and not wander and not think about anything. Yeah, it's pretty It's it's extreme for me. You just go from hundred miles an hour to nothing. It's it's a challenge. I don't know if you can

get away with it. I think the only way that I can get into that kind of state of mind is by listening to music and uh, but obviously the musical patterns, they obviously will take shape in different tempos, and then that gets me going or swimming me down a little bit. So that's about it. Yeah, you know, I don't do the meditation. I do listen. I've told

the story before. I when I'm prepping for the show and I'm looking for stuff to talk about, I often have I have a a playlist of classical music that I will play or jazz music, kind of a mix of classical and jazz, and I'll listen to that and that calms me down. My my wife says, the only I never turned off my brain. I never unplugged my brain when I'm here at the house. So she said. The only time I do it as when we go out of town. So we'll go on like weekend road trips.

Not we haven't done it recently, sayce she was working on the weekends. But we'll go to like Sequoia, you know, and I'll hang out. I go out in that giant forest, and I just told it, it's great. It's wonderful because it's you're out in the giant forest and I have no cell reception there, so I can't even if I wanted to check my phone. I couldn't check my phone. Is you're off the grid unplugged? It's it's Neil. It's great.

Neil also says any He says, give give the renovation, given the renovation is on schedule, and many of your possessions are in storage. Which item do you miss the most? Not named the Rush Limbaugh pen? Now, I actually have the Russia Limbab pen. It's in my work bag that I have when I go to the studio. I have my work bag, it's there. I have the Steve Harvey. Uh No, I don't have a Steve Harve, have the Russia limball pen, Pat O'Brien pen, J Moore pen, Tony

Bruno pen. I have a collection of celebrity pens that I have. I've finagled out of these studios over the years. Uh says, would you be willing to give all of it away for a Clipper Championship? I think he just means the Russia limbab But yeah, I give the Russia Limbab pen away for a Clipper championship. He says. Guesscan what is the most prized possession you have and what is the story about high school football trophy. Back in the day, guesscan Um the Heisman winner of the South Bay.

Now I can't say. I can't say that. I can't say the family, right, I can't see the parents, the sisters. Now, I can't use that right. Uh yeah, I don't think you can. I don't think you can do it. You know. It's it's weird, the transition from one as a young buck to where I am now and then the exact change. I don't know if you and your dad were like this, but my dad obviously changed drastically from being a cod to being retired, Like the dynamics just changed drastic. We

were the lines of communication or wide open. Now we're before Back of the day, it was like open and closed. It was. It was different, obviously, And so that's a good question. I think the one The one thing is I could ask that dude anything and I'm gonna get the right answer, or if I don't get the right answer, pretty damn close. Like that's the one thing that I feel like nowadays, especially with just you know, everything going on, I could ask him anything and it's like extreme. I

was always a mama's boy. I mean, I my mom was my number one and the ultimate mom's boy. And I wasn't really close with my dad. My dad had a corporate job. He worked at a computer company back in when computers were the size of a football field. So he worked at this computer company and it was actually we we I used to bust my dad's balls because Bill Gates worked at his company before he left to go start you know, eventually what led to uh, you know, Microsoft, So he had worked there, but my

dad didn't know him or anything like that. But I just I just, you know, it could have been you you know, we've been but my my dad got lost his corporate job when I was in high school and my mom had run a small business out of the house and my dad he was kind of at the age where you couldn't really get a job in the corporate world because he was too old. He was middle aged, and so they just ran the family business and built

that up. But I really became closer with my dad when my mom passed away, like the last the last seven eight years or whatever it has been, so and I became close with him, But I I really wasn't all that close, you know. I was kind of my breast my dad's pretty quiet, and I didn't talked that much. And but yeah, yeah, I'm I'm like like that. Like I'm like, I'm like a mix, you know, I'm I'm

I'm my little a little you know. I think that's how it usually works, right, You got some of your mom's qualities, some of your dad's qualities, and yeah, whatever whatever that produces, whatever mix that produces, You've got there, all right. Moving on from Neil fred in Spring, Texas says what foreign country would you both like most to visit and why Japan? You want to go Japan. I

want to go to Japan really bad. I'm fascinating with their culture and their discipline, and it's just a direct opposite of what we have here in the United States. Like the United States is a giant melting pot of cultures, diversity, influence, you know, obviously religious, non religious, um, but Japan is exact opposite. They are strict with what they do, They're strict with their discipline and um. And obviously they respect their elders too. Yeah. Like I think just the historical

perspective too. I mean, you go to pretty much ground zero for for obviously Hiroshima and uh, you know, you talk about some of the uh, the rural world historical pieces. You know, I've talked to you about a couple of years ago. Actually taken a trip to asch fitzen Berken now uh and going to the concentration camps you know, Germany and Poland and whatnot. So I think going to Japan that would be absolutely amazing. And I heard the

people are freaking wonderful too out there. Yeah. Yeah, I as I've gotten old, this is one thing that's changed in my life. I'm more open to travel. I can't afford it, but I'm more open to it. There's a lot of places, fred I would like to visit. I did have, you know, being of Jewish descent, I had relatives. I remember when I was a kid at a family

bar Mitzvah. Uh. There was one of the old relatives was there when I was a kid, and they had the tattoo from the concentration camp then, and they were old, fragile and all that. I remember they made sure to show all those kids. And at the time I didn't really get it, you know, because you're a kid, and you're like, what the funk? Who cares? You know, you're

just an old guy. With it that too. But then as I got older and realized what had happened, I'm like, holy sh it, holy shit balls right, But yeah, so going seeing some of that that history as I got I get family. I guess a lot of my families was from Russia, but it's now the Ukraine. So maybe check Neil where Neil's from. And I don't think Neil can help me out based on his experience with the Russian government over there. That's I don't think he's a he's a good person to talk to you, but uh,

And I'd love to go to New Zealand. I did. I did radio for a long time there every week on the radio New Zealand. We've got a lot of listeners. Australia like a combo trip. That would be fun. I will never go to that. I will never visit that, that land of tyranny Australia. You're Prime minister. Yeah, well that's not gonna last forever though at some point, So you don't want to be there when the next pandemic happens, and then you're locked you're locked in. You're like holy ship.

Yeah alright. Dave in Toronto writes and says our jelly filled donuts considered a healthy in a diet. He says, yeah, well, it's it's all about perspective as a fat man. To me, it's a fruit. You're eating fruit. You know, my mom, what are you eating? I'm eating? Uh, I'm meaning apples. It's an apple filled the jelly donut. You know, So I like. I like that. No, I don't eat a lot of donuts anymore. I love doughnuts. Donuts are great. A fresh made doughnuts one of the great things about life.

Anybody that says their life sucks, eat a doughnut fresh out of the oven. Man, at least for five minutes, you'll think, you know, life's not that bad, unless you're diabetic, and then you'll obviously I would. I'm I'm still a big fan of the donut holes because you can eat more quantity. Yeah, it's probably. I mean, I like go to McDonald's for two things, fries and the chicken McNuggets, and I feel like I'm the same way now with donuts. It's either donut holes or the or the twists. Yeah.

I love the tiger tailed doughnut, which is like a cinnamon cook a cinnamon um cake mix. Doughnut, really good, really good, outstanding where I where I used to live, in the area where I used to live, there was a famous donut shop that had the tiger tailed donut and that was just just great. Next one to one. Weren't you next to one in like Hollywood? Wasn't there like a pretty good spot office? Yeah? What was the name of that place? They they had the crow nuts,

the crown nuts. You ever had a crown nut? Know? What the hell's that? That's a more of a hybrid donut. That's a that's a mix of a doughnut and uh like it's like a croissant and a donut. Oh, I'm looking at it now. That's pretty good, really good. There's a place on Third Street near what is the at like the Park Libre area of l A. You know Librea. There's a place on Third Street that Scot though was really good, really good. Right now, what's that big shopping

center down there? Third and Fairfax. It's the name of Forget. It's a little right across Farmers Markets there. What is the name? I Forget? Doesn't matter anyway. Next one from I didn't write down the name of this guy because I don't think he put his name Ben. He says, I was I was just rear ended today. That is now three times I have been rear ended. I've ever been involved in any accidents? Yes, yes, I have also been. I've been in several accidents over the years. Twice check

this out. Twice I have been in a multi car accident where suddenly traffic stops. And twice I stopped just in time to not hit the car in front of me right, but the car behind me it me. I got rear ended and an a chain reaction got knocked into the car in front of me. Happened twice. Last time I got know an accident was twenty fourteen. I was driving on the one thirty four, Not not the

one thirty four. I was driving on the what's the Glendale Freeway, the one the two that goes up Yeah, anyway, for those of you in southern California who are familiar with the freeways. So I got I got rear ended. I was transitioning onto the one four from the two. I got rear ended, and I was fine after the accident. The next day, I had my neck, I couldn't move

my neck, and I felt I felt so stupid. Because I'd always mocked people that claimed to have whiplash after accidents, and I was like, wait a minute, that's no. I'm sure some of those people were lying, but that's actually legit. And they told me that. The doctor said that it's because you have when you get an accident, you have what's the thing, what's the word I'm looking for here? Um, you know you're well, no, no, no, but you don't notice it because you have the chemicals in your brain

were adrenaline. Adrenaline, adrenaline. Yeah, that's it. And so I didn't realize it. And you know the next day when that's when we actually I think it was that night when stuff were out the adrenaline war down. I was like, whoa man, that's crazy. Uh anyway, uh, gentleman from I assume he's from Canada, he says, I have have also I live in oh He says, he lives in a beautiful Vancouver Island. And there is a place you need to take your bride called Tofino. You ever heard of

Tofino in Vancouver? Check this out? Google it t O f I n O. This place is freaking awesome. I've never heard of it before. They got the beach, they got the woods, got everything right there. It's a picturesque. It looks like a postcard this place. You know what if if Catalina looked like this, I would go to Catalina. Man. This is absolutely this is something you would see in a movie, on a postcard, on on a screen saver.

This is gorgeous. This looks this looks like Italy in some ways, where the where the woods meet the sea. It's wonderful. I never heard of it before. It's a district in on Vancouver Island. They only have they have less than two thousand residents on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Man, that is a little paradise. Man. I wish I had written down the name Batch out by me, the gentleman that sent this. But you shouldn't

be telling people about your secret there. And he just told me, and I just repeated it to thousands and thousands of people. That job by you, all right. So I wonder what the approaches because it's not it's not close to Vancouver like you have to. It almost looks like distance from l A to Las Vegas in and just in terms of a flight yeah, so it's probably a forty five minute flight because you gotta go over some water too. But man, this thing is right on

the west coast. It looks absolutely gorgeous. They say they have boat services. You can take a boat. One of these days, I'm gonna take a boat across Lake Michigan from from Appleton, Wisconsin. I have my cousins that live in northern Michigan, and so she's my cousin. Marcy's like, you gotta take the boat across Lake Michigan to so I gotta do that. But this this place looks. Yeah. They they have the San Juan Islands, so they have like the Wall Drown Island, the Lemni Island, and the

Loomis Island. Man, that's like a bunch of little islands. As you go through from Vancouver to Ye it's pretty neat the weather there. I'm looking at the weather in Tofino right now in November thirty eight degrees on average, or the day or the daily mean is forty four degrees. It's usually it seems like it will be in the forties until and it doesn't get hot like during the summer. It's it's like it's Canada. Man, it's supposed to be cool. Yeah,

I bet you. The spring is probably awesome. April forty six degrees, average May fifty fifty point nine. The hottest gets is in July at fifty eight degrees. Actually know, August fifty degrees in August m so it's like cool. But they have gotten up to the nineties before. But that the daily averages, I guess you can't get in the sixties. Maybe I'm reading this wrong. Who knows, I don't know, but it says it says fifties low sixties. Are you really get a Celsius or fahre kneit? I

know I was. I was looking at the Ron American. I don't know. Okay, the gasoline in uh in Canada? Right? They so by? They so by? The leader isn't right? Yeah? What's what's bigger? A leader or a gallant? I believe I believe a gallon is, isn't it? I don't know. I'm I have no idea Google it. Just google it. Let me know. Should hit The best month to visit Tofino is June two September. Okay, so we just missed it. I'll have to wait till next year. Could I get

a studio and I'm in the north Woods. Could I be in the Tofino Woods in the Vancouver Island north Woods. You'd have to bring an axe at least, right, Paul Bunyan walking around there chopping wood. Yeah, it's a conversion of one gallon is about three point seven nine leaders. Wait wait so one so the leader is more than Okay, so they get a better deal in Canada with their gas, they paid more. I don't know how they can pay more than us. Well, gas prices ever go down again?

Well maybe, yeah, maybe a good down in a year a year. Yeah, yeah, once certain members of political parties are voted out of office and then they have to do something to address the inflation. Not here in the state of California. Well, no, California is insane, man, It's the same fucking gas. And uh they claim it's it's different because the the environmentalists put them, make them have have to put a different mix of gas together so they can charge next dollar and all the gas tacks

and all that not to get political gas. Come before I forget a story that caught my touch. L A l a proper is a shanty town. It is horrible. Uh, there's so much homeless. I feel bad for the homeless, but a lot of these people don't want to get off the streets. They love doing their drugs and they don't want anyone telling them where to go and all that, and they like shipping and pissing on the street. It's

just a reality. So for the last I would say five years in particular, l A has decided very boldly to just allow the homeless to do whatever they want and not bugged. Right, it's got even worse since COVID. So you drive on the one oh one in in downtown l A and it is horrific. It is the worst of the worst. Right, you feel like you're in a third world country because there's so much hope. It's terrible.

So this week the city of l A decided randomly that they need to clean up the homeless encampments, right, they need to take up the homeless because it's become such a big problem. Finally, they decided, we need to do something about this. So the l A Times, the paper of record in l A, complain that it's for political reasons that they're doing it, and they're being inhumane to the homeless. So apparently all those people that pay property taxes are supposed to just pay their property taxes

and uh and not clean up the ship. And the people that are degrading their neighborhoods, they're just supposed to take it. That's unbelievable. Serious, Oh my god, John writes and says, one of the most hated people in St. Louis bar None. Seriously. I can't think of an opposing player, manager, politician, and Missouri has some doozies despised here more than your man stand Cronkey. Hmm, Well, John, first of all, he's not my man. I just happened to like the Rams.

He happens to be the guardian of the Rams franchise right now. That's number one. Number two. I do have friends in the media that our buddy Buddy with Stand Cronkey supposed we had Jerome Darenovitch on the podcast He's Buddies with Cronkey worked for Cronkey in Denver. I think your guy, Colin Cowhard is a Cronkey disciple. I believe as well. And I used to know Joe McDonald the late Joe mcdonney passed away. Obviously old man was dead, but Big Joe the big nasty l a radio legend.

He knew Cronkey a little bit. Crocky's friends with select people in the media, but I've heard good things about him. But he's a very private man. But obviously the St. Louis thing, Oh man, that is a major, major f up. That's gonna cost a ton of money. All right, last one here, Lord Goofa from Cardboard City. Right, So, and he says, would you rather that's a good question for both of you, says would you rather have a pause button in your life or a rewind button? Now? Does

the re one button mean that you can redo? Yeah, I'm gonna assume creative license here, artistic license that you could redo the life that you have that every wind And what would you change not doing this podcast? That would be number one. I think I think some I think some dating choices back in the day. UM. I think academic selections back in the day are important or like thereof um and I probably should have followed my

dad's advice and put baseball inst the football into college. Um. Those are just a handful, you know what I screwed up? I could admit this as being like the I guess that the ringleader of the group. But in my twenties, all my friends I grew up with in San Diego. Anytime there's a bachelor party, it was always Las Vegas. But then now that I traveled internationally, I don't know what the hell we're thinking, Like, there's so much more out there than just Vegas or San Diego or l

A or Miami. It's it's embarrassing. It's a lot easier though, to get to Vegas or Miami. You don't have to worry about a passport and all that stuff, you know, But it's it's like a man once told me, it doesn't matter like where you're going, it's about the journey. Well it's a yeah, it's the stories you pick up along the way. And that is why I would not hit the rewind button as much as I would like to be go back and hang out with my mom again and people I love that have died in my life,

and I think that would be great. I'm convinced I would. See. We are all a product of our decisions, right, We're product Every decision you make leads to the next decision and leads to who you become in life experience. So I wouldn't go back because I would make different decisions, but I'd probably funk up in a different way, you know what I mean. So so I'm okay with where I'm at in life. I feel like I'm in a good spot in my life. I would like to hit

the pause button. I'll tell you why, because the grind and we all have our own problems in life, but the grind of doing the radio show, in the podcast, I would be fun to take a couple of months hit the pause button and not have to worry about all that and just travel around, enjoy life and just have some downtime and reset. And I only get to do that usually a week a year, ten days a year at the end of the year, but to do it for a couple of months, to hit the pause button,

that would be awesome. That would be great. And so I would choose the pause button rather than the rewind button, because yeah, in in retrospect, that's probably a little bit better with women, with the life experience I have now and stuff I know now, But then I probably would have made different mistakes with you know this, uh As we like to say, a couple of different ways to slice an orange or a peel and orange, a couple of different ways to tie shoes or whatever. You just

pick a different way. But it doesn't mean to be perfect. It's still be muddy waters there as well. So yeah, that's all right. Anything to promote, gasc on, anything to promote no just beaversus the penny week nine if you if you need to find it, you go to your Twitter handle h or mine. And then of course, uh, you know, I ain't got the loud and proud Arizona Cardinals in San Francisco today, So go Niners, Go Go Niners, Go Rams and Titans tonight, and I will be on

after that game now tonight, will you? Will you dance a little bit with the Aaron Rodgers conversation at all? Yeah? You know, I have to see where we're at in the Rogers story. And I have a feeling that something will have come out on Sunday morning about Aaron Rodgers that will be whether it's Glazer or Schefter, will have some scoopage about that story. So I'll, yeah, I don't know that I'll do it on the Overnight Show Sunday and the Money, but I guarantee you we're gonna circle

back to Aaron Rodgers. It'll be on the will be on the same brain wave Monday into Tuesday, and that's a story that we'll have legs because well we have to wait to see Rogers comes back, Like when's he gonna come back? What's gonna you know that whole thing? Does he when the ship hits the fan? And he's obviously upset based on his interview back on Friday with Pat McAfee, has paid interview with comments he may drag Joe Rogan into this thing, so it'll it'll be interesting

in the locker room. Is their dissension in the packer locker room? Or people upset with Aaron Rodgers. I know a lot of liberal hack columnists are upset, but will it actually matter in the locker room? Will will not care? I have a great rest of your Sunday. Thank you, five stars on the podcast. Please remember that cameo dot Com I'm on their guestcon's on there. If you want to have us do a cameo for you, you can do that and be safe. We'll catch you next time.