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This podcast, this week is not supposed to happen. But here we are showing you the grit, the commitment. I'm trying to teach David Gascon here that you can't have work ethic. You don't have to check out, you can actually prepare and even when you're on vacation, you don't have to mail it in. And so that's why we are here. And as you know by now, because you're already listening, this podcast is available. We were in the

air everywhere, but really everywhere, you know, the radio. We are limited to the affiliates that pick up the show, but on the overnight. But here the vast power of my heart, the global reach of podcasting and we have listeners that claim to be listening all over the world, so you can hear this every week at about this

time when we stop and we start downloading. Of course, the show starts when you downloaded, but it goes up on the web on Friday afternoon in the East, Friday morning the West, and it's available on the I Heart Podcast networking wherever you get your podcast. And the slogan because you've gotta have a hokey slogan is because four hours are not enough. But again, we're here to teach you a lesson. David gascon that we're not going through the motions. Uh, there's no flake tendencies here. I don't

cut corners. I don't believe in shoddy work. I don't do that. Uh, and so so that's why we're here. I know you've always been kind of a guy. You know. I'm in the fast lane. I'm putting pedal of the metal. You're in cruise control. Yeah, there's nothing nothing cruised in my control right now. I'd kind of unwrapping some neutrogena face wipes. I had to do some some stuff on a studio set. Oh that's right, I guess. Yeah, your nicknames the Hollywood narcissist is David Gascon here. You know

you bitched and moaned last week for good reason. Plained now, you were a couple of minutes late. Oh my god, so so horrible. Couple would be too maybe four? You were actually thirty five minutes late to your own podcast. Well, I would like you to know that you are. You were fifty eight minutes late, okay, which is exhausting to me. Uh, it is draining to me to sit around for fifty

eight minutes. And wait, you're just killing the podcast. You're punishing everyone involved, all the many people that are part of the podcast. How dare you know there's only two people that are part of this podcast, you and myself. So well, no, there's an army of produce ers and editors. I'm your producer. You're preoccupied with yourself. I yeah, I produced this, I edit this, I do all the write

ups for this. I launched it, all right. I want to add on the record because of course you probably you produced the fish Bowl podcast, the worst moment in the history of video, and you were behind that. So I'm glad that you put your name on it, which is good. Well, I'll own it. Just because we try to do something a little bit different, since we will do something different as well, so it's oh, is that right,

we're doing something different. You are stripped to some of your thousand dollar pieces of equipment there at the Ben Malley Studio, So that's right. This is actually the last podcast in the remote studio, which I have used to work at great radio stations like w e I in Boston and uh in some other places along the way where I have popped up on the radio because we are out with the old technology and next time we are in with the new technology. And I have a

dedicated right now. If you're I'll give you a little inside radio. So it's an I S d N line, which is I always when I grew up in radio, I always knew about I S D and I always want to have an I S d N set up. So I have that. But it's old technology and the radio business has switched over to a different technology, which is not a hardline based thing. It's a digital connection. And um, they're forcing me to the company's forcing me

to change, so I have to switch. I mean, they're they're forcing an old guy to learn some new tricks. That's what they're doing, so you know, I'm excited about it. You know when I first got into radio, guest and they had cart machines and I learned how to edit audio this, Uh, I got my my thumbs bloody literally working in radio because we had these things called razor blades. Imagine imagine going to work and having razor blades all over the stuff. They're just asking you to kill yourself.

And they had razor blades all over the place. And it was the slice, real, the real tape. It's like some of your your fan boys that use those in the morning time before they in their day. So you know already you know, I know the Mallem militia there.

They hate you. Uh And because they know that you don't have any ambition, You have no aspirations, you don't have the strong desire to do or to achieve something, and that bothers them, it should and nothing nothing says ambition like coming into with studio on days off to come That's right, Like I am right here doing as I shipped and and sit and piss in three hours worth the traffic up and down. Well you sit in traffic because guesscan is I went to an audition. All right,

he went to a Hollywood audition. I mean, what I should do radio in Sheboygan, because nobody in Sheboygan's going to an audition and is an hour late to where their work responsibility. Well, to be fair, the distance between the studio that I did my audition at and the Fox its radio studios, the distance is actually only eleven miles, but the commune was forty five minutes. Well, that's called

Los Angeles. That's how it works. It's a it's a nightmare when you mix the homeless with the traffic that everyone you can't afford anything. It's a wonderful place to live, you know it, kind of. But the weather is good. The weather is good. And this was a fraction of the distance it actually took me to get from my house to your stupid Christmas party. So we'll get to

the Christmas party I have. You have a lot of hutspu for some of the stuff that you pulled around the Christmas What do you mean we will We will get to that. I know you want to talk about that, but we have other things that we must get to on this you robust your podcast, glorious trip to Seattle. Uh, your big pike the bonus at the end of bonus, I'm might getting any any they might give me, like

a hungry, hungry hippos. If I want you to know, by the way, that as we are recording this podcast, because Gascon is such a diva and such a mama luke, I am missing the I Heart Media Premier Networks Christmas party that I had planned on attending that I was scheduled to attend because Gascon needs to he only would be available at this time. So here I am. Well, let's just clarify this for other people that aren't. Aren't

stuck on your tit? Uh you are? You are also skipping the Christmas party so you can attend a game tonight, an l A Clippers game. Well, that's the people's team, and I have been invited by a very powerful person to attend the game, so I will be there, that is correct. I will be sitting in a very nice seat, uh, and I will be hanging out watching. Well hopefully Kawhi Leonard plays. I don't know if he's gonna play because he might have load management. He's a bit of a

lightweight when it comes to that. But assuming he plays, but uh, I will absolutely be hanging out there because it's my vacation, is what it is. How dare you well? Tip off time at Staples Center seven thirty And I know you love to mingle and socialize with the the journalists, the TV people, the radio people, So I expect you to be there at Staples around four thirty five o'clock. Um,

so that actually I will. I will be there. And the reason I will be there is because people love to tell me stuff and then I get to repeat it on the radio without giving them credit. And I have insider sources. Do people have loose lips? I'll teach you that something. No, I know firsthand that there's a lot of things that I tell you that you actually use for your opening monologue. Yeah, you know is growing, Pinocchio, your nose is growing. How are we no balls, no guts,

no spine? That's the guest gun mantra. How are we ending this podcast in? Because? Uh, because we've been through a lot the last two or three months, you almost dying, my car, getting vanalized, your car, getting tapped a little bit. Uh? Yes, how are we putting a bow on this thing? Well, you'll just have to keep listening. And you'll find out. It's an amazing So what we have we have the bistro here, Benny's Bistro, this weekend, the podcast. We've got

beyond guard Mallard's meal plan. We also have proper etiquette, study this grab bag and don't stick to sports. Stop. Actually, before I get to all that, I have an added bonus here. Do you know that I through? You know that Kevin Bacon, like six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Why have a game six degrees through? Marlin's Man and my guy marlins Man sat five seats away from the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump at the Army Navy game. He sent me a bunch of photos. It

was unreal. He's sitting imagine going to a football game and Marlin's Man, my guy in Miami, Lawrence. He told me that he did not know, he just got the ticket or whatever. And and oh, by the way, here's the President of the United States, like literally five seats over, five ten seats over from marlins Man. He took all

these photos. It was it was crazy. I mean, to be that close to up any president, That's one of the things I've met a lot of these athletes, but I've never been around any president, and I always would like to do that at some point, but that that was crazy, And then I was like, wow, it's pretty cool marlins Man. He then invited me to next year's Army Navy game. Yeah, invited me the next So I I, I it's a legit offer. Marlins Man doesn't do bogus offer. So I there's a chance. I've never been to an

Army Navy game. I'd be kind of fun. Next year it's in New Jersey at the Meadowlands, and I might I might go. I might be able to go, which will be a lot of fun. What do you mean you might go like this Trump? No, pun intend this. Trump's going to Seattle in weeks seventeen. Well, no, I'm excited about Seattle, which is December. And if you have not R s v P. If you haven't and you're listening in Seattle, will tell you about that in a minute.

But just think about this for second. Ben, if you go next year to that game and you actually even get close to Trump, you will be around the first ever president of the United States that has been impeached, not once, but twice. I know. I was, yeah, he he has a very good chance of being impeached twice,

which is, uh, that would be great. I think at this point, if you're Trump, you want to get obviously reelected, but you would like to be impeached again, because you know, it's one thing to be impeached one time, but to be impeached twice, you know, you know that that is an unbreakable record. We're talking about unbreakable records in sports, but in politics, that would be an absolute unbreakable record.

But yeah, Marlin's man, it was really cool. He's sitting right there and there's a photo of like Trump walking right by him, and he told me the Secret Service coverage was intense, and apparently some of those hard oh secret Service guys didn't know who Marlin's Man was. They don't know the more because you know, when you're around the president, everyone gets screened and all that stuff. And it was now, if I do go to the Army Navy game, do I support the Army or the Navy?

I have a lot of Marine friends. I don't know a lot of Army friends, So I thought the Marines support the Navy. Isn't that how it works? Yeah, but you gotta be like the commander in chief, you support one for the first half and the other for the second half, unless, of course, you do it where they're ranked, then it's different. I think you you gotta support whoever has ranked in the ball game. Because Navy was ranked

this year. Army had a great year last year and they were ranked in the top twenty five, So I think it's all. And by the way, guess marlins Man and not the name drop here, but my buddy marlins Man invited me to his holiday party in Miami, and uh, but unfortunately he sent it just a week before the party. It's a little tough to change your schedule around for that. But uh, he has a casino. This is great. You want to hear how crazy this guy marlins Man is.

So he's got a casino style holiday party he's throwing for his friends and people he works with and stuff. And uh, I I made the it. I got an invite and it's a it's an Ocean's thirteen movie casino party. Right. So they have all these tables and whatnot. And you know, where do you get card tables? We could probably rent them or something like that. Um, but these are the actual Oceans thirteen movie tables where Brad Pitt and George Clooney played. He found them on the internet and bought them.

He bought the actual tables from the Oceans thirty. I don't know what you do with them after you use them for the party. I guess he's gonna have to do these parties every year. But it's uh crazy man, absolutely crazy, all right. Anyway, Um, moving on from that, I'm living the good life Marlin's Man, my friend Lawrence, but beyond guard now Christmas and New Year's sports radio. And I am partly to blame for this because I have a lot of comp days that I gotta get through.

Here there's a lot of fill in. I'm not gonna say they're all hacks. A lot of them are hacks who poison and sully the airwaves of radio stations all over the country. And I consider this the primer, the handbook on what to listen to and signs signs that your favorite talk show host is mailing in or your fill in favorite talk show host is mailing in. Now, we have two different versions here to look out for,

guest on the Christmas version. Um, And before I even get to the Christmas version, I heard something unprecedented on our radio station. I will not name the guilty party here because I don't want to step on any toes. But somebody this week, all right, did this kind of radio for the impeachment of Donald Trump. Somebody did a topic of who in sports should be impeached? Was their topic? How great is that? How great is that? Guest guy?

I heard about that heard that? Yeah? Yeah, that's that's outstanding. I mean that is that is dabbling deep in the Christmas Handbook of lazy radio outstanding. But can I veer out the beaten path with this for just a second, because you are are I guess you can say famous or infamous for Benny versus the Penny, which is a season long spectacle where you go against a coin and

you pick against the spread for all NFL games. But if you're gonna use any of that kind of conversation in a radio show, couldn't she use some of the lines that are out there right now? Because there's some lines that have been placed by Vegas on the impeachment process. So so you want to gamble on the impeachment and all? Yeah, I mean we could we I don't have that in front of me, but Yeah. I love that. You can bet on anything. I get props on awards and all

kinds of nonsense. Yeah, it's good. I saw one of them, what's which basically said, uh, the over undertotal on Republicans that would vote for impeachment. It was the list that a one and a half and half. This is pretty good.

Well what there was one? Well, how many demogos? Is one Democrat that voted against it, but he became a Republican, so it doesn't really count, right, No, there were two that were voted against it and one that just called present, and that was Gabbard, which is the ultimate lazy way to approach it, right, Like, I'm not going to pick a side. I'm just gonna say I was there. For instance,

will the Senate vote to remove President Trump from office? Yes, is plus two thousand and Noah's minus five thousand as of now as of now. Yeah, that's well, that's pretty good. Well, the math is because of the way the Senate. You know, this is not a political show, guest coun but the way the Senate is set up, it would you know, there'd have to be a couple of senators that get drugged or something like that that changed their position. Um. Anyway,

so the Christmas version of lazy Holiday radio. Um. Some of these topics, now these are just a version of some versions of there. There's a few different spinoffs on this. But who's been naughty and who's been nice? In sports? That's always you get that at least once during the next couple of weeks. What do you get you know, blank, what do you get Lebron for Christmas? Or you know, what do you get Bill Belichick for Christmas? You know I get him on offense? Get get Lebron James the

Fountain of Youth? You know, some nonsense like that. What is under your favorite athletes Christmas tree? Right? That's that's wonderful. What do you know? It's kind of what do you get? Gifts? And all that? Who gets a lump of coal? Which is a spinoff of the previous question, who in sports do you invite the Christmas dinner? Dead or alive? Yeah, debt or alive? That's right. Here's one that kind of

relatively new here. Christmas Draft, which is great. Right, you have a big board and you say, oh, it's gonna be the number one pick. Do you go with the gifts the Christmas tree? What about the stockings, what about the family dinner? About Santa? You gotta put Santa number one? How about reindeer? Maybe reindeer Christmas carols? Church, you know and be you know, you can be the the virtue signaling. What about church Christmas music? You can put that up there.

All different versions of the Christmas draft. Now you can do the Honeker draft, which would be like a potato lot, you know, pancakes lot, because you can do the minora, You could do the dradol and that kind of stuff. But it's the same damn concept. It all sucks. Yes, it's awful, and it doesn't go on for a segment or two. It usually goes on for the three or four hours at the hoasts are on that show. Yeah.

And the thing that's most frustrating, and I've I've been on shows when I got early in my career, I was with hardos that did this kind of radio. And the thing that's the most frustrating is that the listeners respond to this. They love it, They love playing the little dopey games. That's why it keeps going on. It's a self licking ice cream cone, right, They these people do it, and then the you know. The audience responds, and how about this new Year's version? Alright, new year's

spinoff version. Tell me your new Year's sports resolution. Right, always the case, Um, who needs to spend more time with family? Uh, it's ay, k, lose your job in the new year, right, it's the way to say, lose your job for football coaches, tell me in sports? Who needs to work out more? You know, because they're out of shape? You know that. That's how that goes. Who needs to quit well, you know, too much weed or whatever you get. There's different spinoffs on that, but it's

the same concept. And it's all I find it nauseating and all that and lightweight radio and lack of daisical and lacklust. There's one that you're missing and it's it's actually it's been a trend over the last couple of years. I'm surprised you didn't catch it. But um, you'll have hosts that come on and say is that a bowl game or not? And then they'll run through at least two or three segments worth of bowl games during the college football season and give out the names of the sponsors,

you know, the Tostita, Fiesta bull or whatnot. And they'll go through all forty bowl games to blow through a couple of segments and say, hey, listeners, is this a segment based on college football? Is this a bowl game or not? Wow, I've not heard that, but that is wonderful. That is a tremendously bad radio And yeah, I'm surprised you even heard that one. I have not well, I try not to listen to bad radio, but I know you like that roo. I'm stuck on it, so I

am fatigued when I hear that. I I feel guilty, like I feel like this is my profession. You know. The radio. I I've always thoughts like an art form. It's an audio art form, and it's like watching were

listening to people fingerpaint. When you hear this kind of radio, it's not good, all right, I think, I think, Ben, I mean, on your point, I think the two hardest ways to be entertaining is one in theater actually on a stage, and to talk radio, because yeah, I don't know about I've never done theater, but I know i've done televisions. I always find television a lot easier because to tell you exactly what to say, and it's it's

all kind of land out produced. You got a bunch of produce sus in your ear telling you what to do and all that stuff. So yeah, I think, and you see it when TV people go into radio, they can't handle the stickle up in. You know, some of them can, but a lot of them just they're not. It's they're in over their head and they find it

just horrific. It's murderous. I need to tease, I need a lead, I need the monologue and in stats, and you got a twenty minute block, the B block, and you have to fill it and there can be no dead air and it has to be entertaining and blah blah blah blah blah. Al Right, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio

and the I Heart Radio app. So the Mallard Meal Plan. Now, several people recently have asked me about the mount Rushmore of Mallard food dishes. And I don't talk about this enough. I mean, I have been honored. I don't get any awards in radio. I'll never win a Mark Cony, I'll never win any of those things I do an overnight show. Very few people who are in the main stream of the radio business. Who the hell in it you need to submit that's why you need to submit your material

or have someone dude on your behalf. That's just lazy. Well whatever, but I'm sure Coop will get right on that. So the Mallard meal plan, now these this is the one honor that I have really gotten over the years. I have been regaled with food dishes named after me, Which how great is it you go out to have a nice meal and you see my name on the menu. How wonderful is that? What a wonderful thing. And so

I wanted to remind you. If you are new to the show and you're like you're a big fan of the show for whatever dumb reason, thank you number one and number two. If you're in any of these areas, I would love for you to try a Mallard food dish. Now, I didn't prepare the dish, but my name's on it. Now the big one. They're all big. But at the Landing Eateryan Pub, which is in the Kansas City area in Liberty, Missouri, that is the home guessn of Ben

Mallard's chicken Finger basket. It is a large portion of chicken tenders fried to perfect, piled on a mound of French fries. Does that not sound like heaven? It does. It doesn't matter what time of the day it is, if it's after a hangover, or during a hangover, or even like when you're in the middle of drinking, it sounds like a perfect dish. Yeah, even for vegetarians and vegans,

they want those chicken figures. The chicken figures have been on that menu at two different Kansas City area restaurants over the years. The Landing, by the way, it's just a couple of miles away from Kaufman and Arrowheads Stadium, that that sports complex with the Royals in Chief's Place, So it's it's pretty cool. That's the Landing eaterrean pub. It's in Liberty, Missouri, and if you go in there, my name right there is on the menu. You can

have the Bend Mather chicken figures. So if you're listening on six ten Sports in that area in Kansas City to the podcast, you can can check it out. The second restaurant is in the Denver area, and it's actually at two different restaurants in the Denver area, but the main one is in Greenwood Village. It's the sports Book Bar and Ill, and they have honored us with Mallard's

breaded chicken sandwich. Now you go to Denver Gascon, right, why have you not had the Mallard's breaded chicken sand Because the last time I was in the Mile High City I did not know you. Oh well, that's good, dude. I guess it's been a while then, and you still don't really know me. But Mallard's breaded chicken sandwich Gascon hand battered chicken breast tossed in Frank's Red Hot sauce with lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese. Now I I get it without the tomato and without the lettuce, just the

cheddar cheese on top. But here's a fun fact. Years ago. Now you're a Broncos fan, which is you know, God love you, um. But but years ago, there was a Broncos player that was eating at the sports Book Bar and Grill, having some pops and apparently they had a little too much fun and ended up hiding in some mulch outside the restaurant got arrested. It was a Brandon Marshall. Uh No, it was like a defensive back or something

like that. Dude. Yeah, it was like a group of broncho players and some guy got arrested after going to the restaurant. Maybe they had a bad reaction to the chicken sandwich. I mean, having some ranch with it might do that. Uh. Now, where where else we have we have the fla This is probably the one for you guests on the famous Flamingo Club a k a. The Bird in Lawrence, Kansas, just down the road from that famous field house where Kansas has produced so many great

basketball players over the years. Um. Yeah, yeah, it's in Lawrence, Kansas, nice college town. It is the premier ballet for a gentlemen there in the only place in North America you will find the Mallard Fowler. About that, the Mallard Fowler. Yeah, it is a mouth watering chicken sandwich. So it is just just absolutely the wonderful. Where is this at? That is at the ballet, the Flaming the famous Flamingo Clubs,

the Birds, Trip Club. It's a gentleman's clubs. Yeah. I think when I want to go to a strip club, I go to Lawrence, Kansas. That's exactly where I want to go and have your There are beautiful farmers daughters there that are just trying to enjoy themselves, paying for medical school in Lawrence, Kansas. What they're doing. Yeah, you know, you were such a snob coast guy. There are beautiful people all over the world. I don't know if you know this, and all over the United States everywhere, they're

beautiful people. I've traveled around the world, so I've got to see a lot of people, a lot of women in Europe. Not all in l a or New York, you idiot. Okay, in Boston. There's some Indianapolis beautiful people. When I was in Indianapolis. Uh, you know, all over the place, there's just maybe not as many of them, but there's still a lot of you know, I can't imagine the grade being too high on the fine women. The Flamingo Club, well I don't care about that, but

the Mallary it is actually highly rated. But the Mallard Fowler is a tent all right. Uh. And if you live near any of the city so Lawrence, Kansas, you got Kansas City, Missouri, and the Denver, Colorado area, you can have a Mallard food dish. We used to have food dishes in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We had a pizza named after some Grand Rapids, Michigan. We had in UH in New York in Syracuse, the originator was the the mal Zone, which is like a cow zone, but it

was the mal Zone. We had that for years and that restaurant changed hands. Unfortunately it went away, and we I think had a dish in Boston or that the guy behind the restaurant that opened a barbecue place, he kind of vanished. So I don't really even know much about that. And UH and by the way, guess and if you're interested, if you run a mom and pop type restaurant and you want to add a Mallard brand dish to the restaurant, we're all four it. Contact us.

We have other states. We'd like to get one, like in every state, or you know, as much as we can because we've got three states, we have forty seven states available for a Mallard Food Day and we'll promote it and it'll be you know, we have fans everywhere that can travel and can go and have enjoyed the dish. I don't know that anyone's eating all three of these. I think a lot of people have eaten at the Landing Eatery and Pub in in Kansas City area, and

also the Flamingo Club because those are close. You know, it's a short drive between Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas there right next to each other. But yeah, and in Denver is not that for it. So it is possible you could do all three, but probably nobody's done it yet. I think we need something in California. We need something in l A or San Diego or no. I mean, why would people do that? I do Seattle. I want somebody could do it before next week. I'll be in Seattle.

Uh of the month. Do it in Seattle? Man boom done. No, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of that, especially because it's a big city. I like the smaller cities. Do something smaller. Yeah, what about like a Norman, Oklahoma. I've been in Norman, Oklahoma. I would be fine. I love Norman, Oklahoma. Well, I like Okla on the city which is right next door about like Billings, Montana, Montana. Like on the I'd be all about it and listen if they want, you know, some like old saloon or

something like that. Guests, what about like saloons? I know that you're drunk. What about Blue Finn? Was it Blue Finn, West Virginia? The the albatross of cities in the United States that you try to send me to. Why again? That would you would have been in a better place? Um, if you had gone there, you would have been the we we like. There's a famous sportscaster and l I called, you know, Jim Hill, who's been on television since the nineteen eighties and looks exactly the same as when I

was a child on television. You could have been the gym Hill of small town, West Virginia. But you chose not to do that. That's a bad job by doesn't sound great anyways? Well, yeah, but when everyone else is making three dollars an hour, you reach everything's relative, Everything's relative, right, Yeah, Okay, proper etiquette. All right, we'll dive into the holiday party. We'll get to the holiday party. We had the Mallard sweater party in a minute. But I have a bone

to pick with David Gascon. Okay, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific. Uh. You know what you're like a Neanderthal raised by wolves. He realized this right like, it's more of like a bull in a china shop. You have no decorum. You have no decorum. We had the Ugly Sweater party this past week, and we'll get to that in a minute. We had pretty nice turnout, people that are friends of mine and radio and my wife,

all of her work friends. She has more popular than me. Everyone was there mingling, drinking, eating, having a wonderful time. There were no fights. There were a few drunkards, you know, old stories around the camp fire was the way I would describe this year's version of the holiday party. And then following the holiday party this week it worked. You acted like a douce. Do you realize the crime that

you are now on? Try out four gast? No, that concerned the fact that the Christmas party was on Saturday and I haven't worked with you or even talked to you since today, which is six days later. Well that's not technically true. We were ships passing in the night and you don't even you're so tone death you you are. There's a breach of the korum with you. Your etiquette is very poor. All right, let me let me explain here is because apparently you were raised by wolves, you

did not learn good manners. So in a brief crossing of the guard. There I was walking in, you were walking out of the I Heart Media building there the Premier Network Studio center, and I'm walking in, you're walking out, and you asked a co worker. You asked me in front of a co worker why they were not invited to the holiday. No, no no, no, I gotta you talk about no no, no no. Let's say no no, no, no, no you did? You did? You schmuck? Gonna clarify how rude is this in front of you? Talk about a

loaded question? You put me in a very difficult situation because you don't know social norm you don't know decency, you don't have good taste. That's a bad job by you know. Okay, let me clarify why I did that, because you're a no, that's why you did. Let me be frank with you, because no one within the company is gonna listen to this, so it won't that's true.

Do not lit matter. But there was an individual there at your party that has the same name as someone that we work with, and I introduced you to the conversation. I said, Ben, you actually missed so and so, And what I wanted to tell you was you miss so and so, because just twenty minutes ago I had to wake him up because he was passed out drunk in the studio. But I couldn't say that because he was right there. He's like, don't tell him, don't tell him,

don't tell up. So I said, hey, you know you're not. You said, why didn't you invite? It was me on a pivot because the luxury of me doing live TV and live radio is I can improv like this, like I don't have improv you. No, no, you screwed up pivoted. I pivoted from one individual with the same name to another individual. Yeah so, uh no, that is not No, you did not do it. Prov of course it did.

And the reason why I brought that up is because the first individual, you're gonna get into the Christmas party. But I made a pivot because that guy was embarrassed that I was gonna bring up and air out his dirty laundry while he was just ship faced drunk at work, passed out just ten minutes before. Can't imagine that anyone would be would be drunk at work, that would be

that would be inappropriate I do not believe you. I was put in a very awkward situation that was that's never happened to me, and uh, you know, I don't even know. I don't even remember who I invited. There were some people that sent me messages after the holiday party, Hey, I'm sorry I couldn't make it, and I was like, oh, I thought I I forge and I invited that person. So why do you care? Then? Well, because I want to invite everybody. I want to be all inclusive like people.

I like that particular person I like. I like that, but I didn't know he was a drunkard, But I like that person. Here's the thing, though, It's like a wedding, right, It's like you and your wife getting married in Hawaii. You invite everyone on their mother and if they show up, then great. They paid five six hundred dollars for a flight plus two three fours for a hotel room. You live in fucking butt funck Egypt, Arizona. Let's really think people drive. I drove fifty miles from my house to

come to your party. The other the other thing here, you know, we spent uh probably a c note on on this dumb party and all that. I mean we we we dropped a lot of money on this thing, food and all that stuff. Me, no, not you so And then you have the hutzpah. You have the unmitigated gall Okay, I don't have my gall bladder, but you have the unmitigated gall to complain about the food situation. I wasn't really which I found with you talked about

this no fiasco here. You showed up two hours late to a party and then complained the food was not fresh out of the oven ninety minutes Yeah, ninety minutes late. The food was piping hot when the party started, and you show up. Your disaster is what you are. Well. I was put under the spotlight to get my impression of the raising canes that you'd bought, and it was my first ever experience, and I must say it was wonderful. It was disappointed. We had two trays of the delicious

raising canes chicken fingers that catered the mallard Ugly Sweater party. Uh, it was wonderful. Everyone loved us. Everyone loved the food. They were like, wow, this is great, this is so awesome. Orgasms. They were so excited about the chicken fingers. But not you not the the oppressor over there, Uh, the absolute

dick David Gascon. None on if I'm gonna drive that far out of my way to go to a party, I was expecting a little flameg yon, the seafood platters, some more dirt, chocolate chip cookies that I slaved over. I baked myself those homemade chocolate chip cookies. We had a nacho bar that was amazing, you know, my wife put together. It was awesome with all this stuff. And of course you then complain you ship all over our parades. What you did, David Gascon, Mr glamor shot guy over there,

David Guest. They asked for my opinion on raising canes, and I told him I wasn't impressed. Next year, I'm gonna get you a bag of dog food. I'll just take some from from Bella and then you can enjoy that, right, you can enjoy the dog food because that's what you deserve.

You deserve dog food. You know the number. There's this thing that I one of the mantras that I follow, other than the Code of the West, is there's there's ten things that take no talent and will give you a hundred sent respect, effort and there are things like being prepared, doing extra, being coachable or teachable or whatever, having passion, right, attitude, energy, body language, effort, work ethic. Number one is being on time. Yeah, number one, you

are ninety minutes late, ninety minutes late. Uh and by the way, you fail many of those things, the ten things that take no talent. I have great on time, on time I have. I have a great energy, enthusiasm for life, I have passion with what I do, have a lot of work ethic. You can plain all the time. You your effort is lacking with the fish Bowl podcast, you're very bad, body language, low energy. I don't like your attitude, you're lacking passion, you're not coachable, and you

don't do extra. I don't know if you're prepared. I think you're prepared. You can plain about people that prepared because they make you look bad. Well, I don't think so. I think there's an element of being overproduced and underproduced, and I'm like right in the middle of that. I'm

on time by the clock for the clock demand. I think it's one of those things where it's appropriate for someone like myself being in the City of Angels, that I show up on time, I deliver a plus quality content and uh, time and time again, I deliver and

that unless you don't listen. We're in Los Angeles. There there's an opportunity for everyone to show up to a party, but it's more about being fashionably late as opposed to on time, because you never want to be the first guy at a party, and he never want to be the last guy. And for me, I definitely was not either of those categories. So I think it's perfect, especially because you know it's all about making an entrance. Keep in mind though the people there was like one person

that came after you. In that particular person did not complain about the food. In fact, eight extra food. Well that's different. He's got a different palate than I do. I mean. Plus, when I walked in, anyway, you were sitting next to the firepit with Brian Fenley on your lap, so like my other lap dog two lap dog ni. Yeah, well we had a great time. Steve, the great Steve Fodderman, news man over at CBS, was there. He was regaling

us with stories. Finly made his first appearance. Uh, there was one person that did not invite it invited themselves. How about that who was it should I say the name of the person on the on the course. Iowa Sam. I had forgotten I would have invited him, but I said, I forget who I didn't invite Iowa Sam. The worst part is that he was the best dress guy. There many dress pretty. He was dressed festive and he had lights on. He had a good sweater, he had a

he had a scarf on. He also had I don't know though, beanie, but he had like a you know, dearer antlers or whatever, and he was rocking it. He should have won a prize. He had a couple of people that want prizes that did not deserve it. I was Sam showed out well. I always Sam should have gotten more applause. He did not get enough applause to win an award. You hate to do it, but people did not cheer for him. It was all a popularity concast.

It was all admit it was a little uncomfortable for me for the first two hours because I had grabble Leeklin and I know you were boxed. You were boxing in the corner and some of the people were like, we should give guests on a purple heart. He's taking one from the team. Man. You know, he's taking one for the team here because you you were cornered and

you kept Lee away from everyone else. Everyone else could sit back and relax, and then you were just getting grilled like a c bass over there by Leeline Well. I it was a self inflicted wound because what I was trying to do, and it was a boomerang effect. But I was trying to do this while he was making the approach towards you. I brought the impeachment and everything's going on with the United States and the government.

And as soon as I did that, then he started pushing me into said corner with We were talking about everything. We were talking about the Cuban missile crisis, we were talking about sputneck, we were talking about the Negro leagues in Major League Baseball prior to that. We're talking about Alabama, Yeah, Alabama and USC segregation, Uh black ops. We're talking about UFOs.

And then Rob Parker walked in and it led me right into it because I was like, hey, Rob, you just got back from Antarctica and lead up right into that and he's like, hey, do you know where did you fly next to the area where they don't allow commercial airlines to fly over because the black ops are they're drilling holes in the bottom of the South Pole. Oh my god. So I tried provoking all of this in front of you, in front of the entire congregation and the back film. Does Lee know that Rob's part

of the illuminati? He's no, he's not. Sole Lee had his tinfoil hat on, and uh, yeah, you gotta know your audience there. I mean, that is wild. That is pretty good man. Yeah. At one point he asked me, He's like, do you give a shit about anything I'm saying right now? Oh, he realized that you don't. He realized at some point he picked up on your body language that you were you were shocked. You were you

were gobsmacked by what was going on here. I'm us through to him, and they see eyeballs from like you and Coop and Eddie. Well, Roburrow's eyes were on the back of his head, but everybody else was kind of like looking at me. What the hell is going on with cots kind in the back of it. Yeah, well there are at some point we'll have to do our conspiracy theory. I learned radio I did something years ago.

I I think I read this somewhere. There are four main types of conspiracy theories that get repackaged, and I don't have it here, and I'll have to get to that. Maybe we'll do that in a future podcast. If somebody reminds me a moving on gas on study, This real or bullshit? Now? These are studies and surveys we examine and determine whether or not we believe this or not.

All right, here's what hey, fatty is the headline, and this if America does not collectively adopt healthier eating habits, they say that over a half of the nation will be obese by twenty thirty and ten years. According to a new study out, they say even worse, one in four Americans will be severely obese with a body mass index over thirty five. I believe that. I believe it. But I believe also that we need to change the

body mass index rating. I think that is bullshit. Uh, everyone's supposed to be skin and bones there and you have to adjust with the times. I think that if they change. Now. I'm not saying you should be a total fatass, but I would be. I am. I've lost a lot of weight and I feel like I'm in a pretty good spot right now. But I would probably have to lose another sixty pounds to be within the proper body mass index that they require. So it's ridiculous

in my opinion. You're what six five? Uh six five six six depending if straight yet. Yeah, so I'm six one two and looking at the body mass index chart, I'm considered on the borderline of obese, like my which is That's what I'm saying. It's so dumb my ideal body weight, I guess it's like four. So for you six ft five would imagine it's what like to ten? Yeah, yeah,

something like that. And so my argument is, like, I think the people that made these are the same people that cast Hollywood movies where every every woman has to be ninety pounds, you know in a movie. And it's like skeletor or something like that. Put this together so uh funk that I hate it. Screw them with the body mass index. Alright, moving on waste of money. This

happens every year. There's a new study that found out that people tend to abandon their getting in shape for the New Year resolution by January se al. Right, now, I this is not bullshit. I go to a gym, and I see it every year. It is as reliable as the swallows returning to Capistrano and punk Satani Phil It's like clockwork. In early January, a bunch of people that got subscriptions to the gym show up and they they're there. The gym is packed. When I go early

in the morning. Um, they they're all working out. And then around I don't know if it's January seventie, but sometime around the Super Bowl they're all gone, right, all the new people are gone. That's it. Uh, see you later. All those gym memberships. What a racket the gym. They know that most of these people that sign up will never actually use the gym. Yeah, wonderful. It's a that's even not as bad. But when people buy the home equipment like a peloton or free weights and dumbbells and

those things that just it collects dust. And because you have in your own confines of your house or property, you think you're more inclined to use it. But that's not the case. That's why I always recommend buying a gym membership and doing it where you're semi close to where you live, too, because at least you have the opportunity to leave the house, get in and get out as opposed to having to drive a long distance or having the comfort of your own home, or it's collecting dust.

But I believe one thousand percent. Now you work at a gym which you have people staping off literal elimination. So for your gym, it's a little bit different. What are you talking about? What are you what are you cryptically saying here? Gag on the people that you work out with. They're old people. They're trying to stay up off death, so they're gonna work out no matter what. Body in motion stays in motion. Get older and you

stop working out, you don't move as well. So what I'm saying is is that, Jim, I think it's more you're gonna have more people that stay true to the working out. Well, there are like good looking young people that work out, but they don't work out. When I work out, I guess I'm gonna have to work out at a different time, so I'll be there. I'll see some different people. But when yeah, when I'm there, it's it's a bunch of people drinking Grandpa and grandma juice.

You come down to my gym down in Torrance, the South Bay crossed the four oh five, I don't cross. At the Christmas party, you and your wife are both bitching to me about going down to like Busy Bees and Street in San Pedro and having I go. I go there want for Thanksgiving because my in laws live right down the street from the Busy Beast, so that's why I go there. But that's not even open on Thanksgiving. So I've never had a Busy Beast sandwich. Everyone says

it's amazing, but I've not had one that's good. And come down and go get a workout, and then you can go get a sandwich. How about that? All right? Next up on study, this watching television makes viewers more likely to prefer wait for it, thinner female bodies, putting to a new study, I don't believe this. This is bullshit because I grew up watching more television than anyone. I had no friends, No one would hang out with me.

My friend was the boob tube. And I enjoy a nice, curvacious woman more than a skinny I find like skinny women. I want to make them like some fete chini Alfredo or something like that to fatten them up. You know what I'm saying they're too skinny. And I've been around occasionally in events some of these these actresses that are I used to call them actors, now whatever. But the women that are these movies, they're so petite and so

small it's unbelievable. They're like, it's out of control. Yeah, I gotta agree with you, especially because considering the fact that I don't know if you have a get at jail free card, but if I did, I would put Summer Hike. I'd put Sofia Virgara. I put those two women at the top of the food chain. They're full figured women. Well, I don't know, comp compared to everyone else in Hollywood, there full figured women. I think full figured women might argue that there's not they're not really

full figured. But but yeah, no, I enjoy a nice curvy road. I don't need the straight road. I like the curvy. Yeah. Absolutely, Man, that's unfortunate. I call that bullshit, all right. Next up, the work flirt. Apparently there's a new study out to suggests office flirting could help employees feel less stressed. So, guestcon you've gotta start flirting with your co workers because you're very stressed. We have We have two female is that we work with, do we YEA?

I what? Who do I know one of them? Who's the other one? One's an editor and one's a Okay, I don't know the editor, and we don't talk to somebody upstairs. I wouldn't in today's climate. Are you fucking kidding me? I know this is just you're just asking for hr because the only way this works is if

the other person's receptive. They're not receptive, you're screwed. Yeah, you know, the woman can just unload on you even even if you're not ship could get misconstrued taking the wrong way, and then up the food chain it goes and before no, you're bouncing your ass. Yeah, but to be fair, and we work in an odd, mostly male business. Well on the radio said and on the on air like broadcast. But I'm saying like a lot of people find love in the office and all that stuff. They

find their partner at work. I mean that happens all the time. What was your first job when you were eighteen? I worked at my my parents mailing service, and I had some other odd jobs before of that, but uh, that was the the gig I drove around. I put bulk mail together and I went to post offices and what and I was a very exciting job. But yeah, there was no U. I had a newspaper deliverything when I was younger, and then I got into radio. I got a radio when I was nineteen years old. Radio

ever since. I brought that up because I was talking to a good friend of mine on the East Coast, special kind of Felix, and we both had sales jobs when we were younger, like eighteen nineteen years old. But the sales jobs when you're a kid, they really get the juices flowing. But I, yeah, I met the women that I dated at the time all through sales. I worked at Petros Papada because his dad's restaurant in San

Pedro name dropper. And then I worked at a health club for like four years when I was going to college. And that was the best part because you talk about flirting on the job site, and I was doing that and you didn't have to do anything. It's like, oh, you should probably work out this area or this area. I've heard stories. I've had friends that have worked in the restaurant business, and apparently it's like orgies going on

behind the scenes. There are a lot of those restaurants with managers and waiters and waiters and okay, it was all men that worked at Petrus's dad's restaurants. So and there's no fucking it was a five star restaurant. There's nothing wrong with that, guess you no, I know, but he threatened me, he said, you need to learn how to sing Happy Birthday in Greek by next week or you're fucking fired. Really, And that was a week end

of the job. And he's good friends with his dad, is is good friends with my dad, and so how that show went, Damn, my dad was just gonna do it. So, yeah, I talked about your first job. It's jumped off the day because down your down, your throat, just giving you the business, like do the ship right, you know when they break glass. It was a Greek restaurant, so you're breaking glass and and singing and you get the ballerinas and not the balleries, the belly dancers and all that stuff.

It was My first ever tip was a hundred dollar tip from an old DJ at Kiss FM, Rick D's. Oh I knew, I knew Rick I worked with. Yeah, Rick was great, oh man, wonderful back well yeah, actually gave me some great advice. And Rick was like the nicest guy. He was a big star in l A Radio and he had a TV show and all that.

Very nice man Rick D's And when he was the big morning star Kiss FM, I was doing local radio and l A Kiss A M and d S. I guess we can say it now because he's not really doing much these days, but he used to record the first hour or two hours of his show after his morning show, so he I was doing a midday show and D's would still be hanging out when I got in and he come down, you know, and he asked us how we were doing. And we make some small talk with the great Rick D's and he told me

two things, two pieces of advice in radio. Because I was doing um a duet with Dave the Ben and Dave Show. He said, listen, he said, the key to along career in radio, you've got to be able to perform on your own. You can't. You know, it's great to have people that you work with, but most radio stations aren't gonna hire a duo. You have to be able to hide, you be able to do your own act. Right. So he told me that Uh, and that was that

was good advice. And then he also told me, when you're pre recording a segment of radio, make mistakes, but don't edit them out, you know, when you make mistakes, because he said, and he knew this because these was the master of this. He said, when you make a mistake that the listener doesn't think it's recorded because they assume you'd edit it out in post production. So they

how how smart is that? Right? It's true. If I'm listening and I hear somebody on the radio make a mistake, I'm like, wow, I mean that must be live, but no, it's it could be on recorded, you know, DVR. Whatever. Good advice. I just solid advice, and I just passed it on to a new generation of blowhards and gas backs. Here's a new survey that finds the average American gets

into blank arguments during the holiday travel. So, when you're traveling over the holidays, how many arguments will you get into with your family, friends, the people at the airport, the people at the uber, all of those people ten close twelve, they say, twelve arguments during holiday travel? And uh, are you an arguer? Do you argue when you travel? And whatnot do you complain? And I think it just

depends on who we're talking about. With family, maybe a little bit more inclined if someone is doing something stupid or whatever. But with people, especially in the transportation industry like T s A and flight attendants and people of those nature, I don't because part of the thing is you work on holidays. I work on holidays. These people work on holidays and they want to be with their family, like they don't want to be at work unless they don't have families that are close by. So I tend

to be a little bit more lenient with that. Plus it's just I got pretty good patients, So I try not to be as dramatic as other people are, especially because you don't want to be that guy or that girl that stands out amongst a big crowd just being a fucking asshole. So this is where I should tell the story. With Lee Kleine, we were traveling together to a Clipper playoff game years ago, It's probably about twelve years ago, and we were at Sky Harbor Airport in

Phoenix and Lee had a rental car. He had schedule with the rental car, so we go into the rental car booth and Lee starts telling jokes to the person in the rental car with a person at the rental car place did not want to deal with Lee's bullshit so started sniking, you know, going back back at Lee, and it turned into an argument where they were like yelling at each other, right, and I'm like, oh my god. And so the person at the rental car place said, I'm not going to rent you with the car. Um,

you're a rude customer. I'm not going to rent you the car. And so hand to god. Lee, apparently he had had this happen to him before. He then walked out of the car rental booth, walked about ten feet over to another car rental booth, and had a second reservation just in case he had a problem with the first reservation, and then got the car. He was on his best behavior at the next rental car place and he got the car with some other Joe schmo. That's

pretty good backup plan for being an asshole. Yeah, if you're a schmuck, you have to have a backup plan, all right. In light of Star Wars Rise of Skywalker, this study was sent to me. What percentage of Americans say they read movie reviews before watching a movie, and what percentage read movie reviews after watching the movie? While what percentage never read movie reviews? So break up the

pie chart. Okay, so before the movie, I would say twelve percent, alright, you think twelve percent before the movie, all right? After the movie alright? And then not at all? I would say, I don't know that that all adds up to the right. You're off on some of that, But the answer gascon, you're wrong. Forty three percent of Americans say they read movie reviews before watching a movie. Alrightcent say they read the movie review after watching the movie.

What's the point of that? Twenty nine percent never read movie reviews at all. It's almost now, I don't read the movie reviews because I don't know the person that's making the reviews. Taste, you know what I mean? Like, I have a special taste in movies, and I know what I like, I know what I enjoy, and I don't know that this other person that's the same thing. So like and a lot of times the critically acclaimed movies I think are just horrible, right, I think they

blow and they're a waste of my time. And uh, I don't need to see a musical or anything like that. But these things are often celebrated by the people that review movies. Are you a trailer guy? Do you like going to the movies and watching the trailers before the previews of of upcoming movies? But the movie you can't avoid it because they get thirty minutes of trailer. Like I'm good with like two or three trailers, but after that,

I'm I'm done. I'm like, this is horrible. You know, yeah, I mean they make him pretty good and they kind of get they suck you in and all that. I got sucked into that Mr. Rogers movie with Tom Hanks and and the trailer was bullshit compared to how the movie actually was. Now I heard and correct me if I'm wrong, But I heard you're watching a new documentary called Don't Funk with Cats? Is that true? Uh? No, No, I'm not. Uh my wife was watching that. I watched that.

I heard from a bird that you were watching it, and no, no, I did not watch it. I have not seen that one. I'll be watching a lot of documentaries and anybody wants to recommend the documentary, send me a message on social media. I got a lot of time for the next couple of weeks. Here to watch documentaries, a lot of well I'll be you know in Seattle for some of them. The most caring city in Americas, according to a study done by wallet hub, the most caring.

So they have the top five here. How many of the top five most carrying cities can you name? Austin, Texas, Uh, not on the list, Nashville, Tennessee see here, not on the list, oh Man, Iowa. Not on the list. Over three, Little Arkansas not on the list. Over four, you gotta get one of them. Come on. San Diego, California, not on the list, Orange County not on the list. This is why you're This is why you suck at this. Okay? How about St. Petersburg, Florida, not on the list? Uh?

Number five, Fort Lautado not on the list. Number five, Minneapolis, minister come on, Number four, Lincoln, Nebraska, Number three, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Number two, Madison, Wisconsin and the number one most carrying city in America according to this new study. Virginia Beach, Virginia now a spinoff. Because you know, anybody can talk about the positive, I like the negat announcer. And this study also looked at the cities in the United States

where the lowest percentage of income donated to charity per capita. Right, but these are the cities that don't give the charity. Alright, how many of these can you names? All right? So we go. Chicago not on the list, l A not on the list, New York, New York City, not on the list, San Francisco not on the list, Dallas not on the list, Miami terrible of this game, not on the list. One of them is obvious, Gasco. These people are known as heathens and schmucks and assholes. Boston, Uh,

that is on the list. Boston is on the list. That's not the city I was thinking of. I I was thinking of the other city that's known for that. Oh man, uh Philadelphia, Yes, Philadelphia, That's what I was thinking of. You have Philadelphia. Check this out. So Philadelphia, San Diego, and Boston fied for sixty eight as the least charitable. The next on the list number this is number seventy three Pittsburgh. So Pittsburgh is the This is fine, both the most caring and the least charitable. How can

you be both? Um? Number seventy four, Number seventy three, rather than the list that was seventy two. I guess number seventy three was Sacramento. Sacramento, California, the state capital and the worst of the worst, the least charitable based on percentage of income done or No. I've been to this city though, Buffalo, New York. Hello Buffalo, man, that's odd. Those are some of the you wouldn't really want to go to many of those cities, but outside of San Diego.

But I've been to Philly, into San Diego. I've been to Boston, I've been to Pittsburgh, I've been a sacrament I've been. I've been all five of those cities. Wait a minute, I've been to every one of those cities. Fit like a glove. Yeah, Well, charity starts at home, you know. And and you know what I always say about charity guests, gar And I know you like to brag about everything and all that. That's how you work. But true charity should be anonymous. I say this all

the time, and is my belief. The value of a charity donation is reduced when you're like J. J. Watt running around trying to take a bow and get praise. Uh and I feel the same way about these NFL players that make a big deal about when they do charity. I to me, it's Sully's the charity and giving anonymously guarantees the donor's modems are truly altruistic. And do you donate to charity? Yes, we donate to charity every year,

but I don't talk about I don't promote it. We we do not talk about the charity that we do. I donate close to the Salvation Army every year. Yeah. Part of the reason I do that is because I is it as a motivation tool for myself that when I lose weight and the clothes look like parachutes on me, then I could give them away and it's good motivation and reminder. Yeah. My my problem with that is my

um my wife, like, I'm a yo yo dieter. You know, I'll lose a lot of weight, I'll gain it back, lose it again, and all this stuff, and so I'm I'm always paranoid. I always telling my wife, you're holding onto those fat clothes because I might go off the wagon, you know I might. I might say, well, I might go on the food wagon, the gravy training rack, you know wagon and all that stuff. So I always get paranoid about that. But it is better to get rid

of this stuff. You're right, that's what you should do. That way you're motivated and not have to spend a grand unclothes because you're a fatass again. Yeah, And I think the beautiful thing now that I know you in your present state as opposed to in your beef your state, is that you don't have to worry about that because I can remind you if you're getting a little heavy around the face and chest and chin and waste on stuff, have no shame in that. All right, moving on, grab bag.

These are actual questions by actual listeners. Lee in the Value of the Sun leaves a longtime mallew Militia. Guy, you went to a Cardinals game holding up a mallar Yeah, guy has yeah, wow, Wow, what an asshole? What an asshole? No wonder the malle millish as. I like you, Lee, although I don't like this question. He says, now that your net worth went up three million dollars according to Google. Check this out, guest Lee and in the Phoenix googled me now in the past, Google said my net worth

was three million dollars. I have now apparently. I guess those investments in bitcoin are paying off. I'm now up to a six million dollars in net worth's according to Google. I type in Ben Mallard and as soon as they do that, it finishes the rest of it for me and puts in net worth. Yeah that's amazing. Wow, six million dollars they got change that picture though? For you? Yeah, well I was when I was fat. You have every You have a lot of hair your head in that picture.

Well I have a lot of hair, I do know. Oh no, Now I just typed it in on on bing. It says four point five million dollars, So I'm only worth four but that's still a million and a half more. Let me go to Google hol a sec. They love that they have your birth side in there. Very important. Oh yeah, six million dollars. Celebrity Uh is it celebs trending now dot com? Can we talk that into reality? Can we make that reality? I'd be very happy with

a net worth of six million dollars. Yeah. If that's the case, that means we're actually or you're making some money on this podcast, which means you need to cop up some coin, so quit being a cheap Bestard listen. I and talked to the boss this week and I did some specs specs spots for the podcast that could be popping up in and that would be a little bit of money, let's see. Alright. Uh so you're Stephen writes in from so Cally says, who's gonna win the

NFC West? And are you really going to Seattle for that last game? Yes? Uh Stephen, everything's booked. I got a hotel room, I got a plane ticket. I'll be in Seattle December and that's a Saturday, and we're gonna have a Mallard get together that night, Saturday night. Contact Jay Scoop on Twitter or email me if you want more information on that. But we want every man, woman and child who can make it in the Seattle area or Washington State, or in Oregon or up in in

British Columbia, uh, Idaho, reasonable driving distance. Uh. We we would love to see you there and and and hang out and have a great time. But I will be there. And as far as who's gonna win the NFC West, I know it's not gonna be the Rams. The forty Niners are the more talented team, but they've lost to Atlanta, So I would say the forty Niners will win the NFC West. But I'm gonna be in Seattle, So go Seahawks, right, I gotta win in Rome. Act like a Roman's on

the time breaker right now? So alright, here's the guy that writes since is if Fox offered to double your salary but you had to move to an eleven AM to three pm time slot, would you do it? It would mean giving up your title of being the king of late nights. Uh, well, they have to do more than double my salary. But yeah, everyone's got a price, so I mean. Emmanuel from Portugal says, is it better to eat first and cry after? Or cry before and eat after? I think it's better to cry before and

eat after. You know, if you're gonna eat and your cry, you might have a reversal of fortune and stuff. Who wants to do that? You know? I like to eat before and after after. You you're a crier. I just you know, when I feel guilty about something, I'll like it before or after in between, not more than either. All right, Jonathan writes, and he says, is Stevie Wonder really blind? Shaquille O'Neil's latest encounter seems to once again

debunk blindness. I've heard the same thing, Jonathan. I've heard about Stevie Wonders car collection. I've heard about the televisions that he's got at his house. I've heard about that. Now there is a guy that we work with that has worked with Stevie Wonder. Do you know who that is? Guest? Yes, Bobo on the radio knows Stevie Wonder, and he swears he's worked on the Steve Harvey Show and Stevie Wonder has been on there before, and he swears that Stevie

Wonder is blind. I'm skeptical. This would be one of the great scams of all time. Can you imagine when he dies at his eulogy if they say, by the way, Stevie could see this entire time, you morons, That dude vision just eagle eye. Yeah? Would that not be wonderful? Would that that would be just great? All right? Brian says, whose desk does Gagon go under to keep his job? David, you want to answer that Brian's a fucking idiot? All right?

Than that? Very nice? Raymond asked. He asked a good question. If you buy yourself a Christmas president, it should you still wrap it? Well, technically it's already wrapped if you're usually buying something anyway, right, Well, I guess, but you know, some people buy themselves. My wife actually, I think, has done that in the past, like you, s'll buy herself something and kind of wrap it so it's under the tree or whatever. But yeah, it's what's a waste of

wrapping paper? Do a gift bag or something like and and by the way, by your wrapping paper, your gift cards like Dollar General, the Dollar Tree Store, whatever, you're your story? Why waste money on wrapping papers? Who reads newspapers anymore? I read newspapers online. I don't have an actual newspaper. Do you get an actual newspaper? All right? Jose rights and says, what's Gaggon's kind of woman? We just talked about this full figured ideal? He says, any

anything that walks and talks. Yeah, I mean, I don't know where is he from? Again, I'm not sure where Jose's from. What, it doesn't matter. Five ft nine Burnett usually my strike range. That's your full figured you gotta have. I mean, I don't like skinny women. I like women that are curby. Yeah, I do too. Yeah, I don't want that somebody's always eating and throwing up. You know,

somebody enjoys a nice meal. Like interdependent women too. I don't like women that are dependent man or that's because you're cheap. You don't want to pay for stuff. No, but I appreciate the hustle, you know. I mean, yeah, I do too. I think it's I think it's that's part of the reason why. Like when I went to your Christmas party, I talked to two people the entire time, Lee and your wife, because there's nobody else. That's nobody else wanted. Nobody else wanted to talk to you. That's

not true. We're like the bell of the ball. We stood out amongst everyone else. I was just sitting down. I was holding court around the campfire, holding with your fans that were there. All right. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app. Search f s R to listen live. Do we have any don't stick to sports stories. We got some bad stuff. We've got some

good stuff. This one. Actually, I think Cooper to appreciate Chuck, Bonnie well, he's a talk show host in Colorado. He co hosts a show with his wife. Well, yesterday he laughed as he came back from a break and introduced a segment that said the never ending impeachment of Donald Trump, and he said quote, you know you wish for a nice school shooting end quote, and then his wife immediately cut him off. And that's like, no, no, no, we didn't say that. We didn't say that. Don't call us.

Chuck didn't say that. So basically, so they said they said it, and what happened They try to retract no dumb button show guy dump then dumping. So we got the dumb button here. I think, what is it? Forty five seconds in total length? Um, I don't know how long it is, but you're never supposed to say how long it is because that that's the top trade secret in radio, how much dump time you have. No, but we have multiple dumb buttons though, yeah, we do have

multiple dump buttons. We every studio years ago when Janet Jackson showed her boobies and the company freaked out because they were talking about finding the every every station that broadcast Janet Jackson's tits was gonna have to pay a fine and and it was a nightmare, right, So everyone in broadcasting was freaking out. So they put these game show style buzzers in the studios. It's like press your luck, the old game show, and it's so funny. You go

in there and it's it says dumping. It's a black box, it's got dumped the little button called dump on it and it flashes when you dump something. It's it's quite amazing. But but yeah, I mean you can't. I mean that's the third rail, my man. No, you can't be joking around about school shootings. I mean even I, uh, come on, what are you doing? But I don't think that person should be fired. I think they should be should be slapped and suspended and all that because they were trying

to be funny. But that's a bad job by them, producer. Not paying attention, that's unfortunate. How about that happens all the time, man, that happens all it's people are paying attention. And I'll be you know, I I say stuff sometimes and in half an hour later somebody else will say, what about this? I'm like, I talked about that, Uh, you know, thirty minutes agore an hour ago. All right,

what's not about this? Hackers broke into the Epilepsy Foundation's Twitter feed last month and they actually posted images of flashing or strobing lights to cause, you know, to cause obviously seizures to people that have epilepsy. Uh. The attacks were deliberate, so the feed on the Epilepsy Foundations Twitter feed was just nothing but flashing and strobing lights for a time period that most people with those disorders, uh

could obviously notice it before the organization eventually pull them down. Yeah. What a ragamuffin, what kind of what kind of lunatic? I know, they're just trying to get their jollies off. And it's uh, but you talk about the marching moron society? I mean really, I mean, who the hell funk I mean, leave the fucking people alone. Okay, they got their own issues. Okay, he's stupid vermin. How about this? Children at a Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy were allegedly encouraged to smoke to

control their weight. Alright, but we we know people. Does that work? By the way, Yeah, you know, I'll say I won't say the name, but back in the day, when I was in grade school and in high school, there was a girl that was right around my age, not in the same class, but right around my age, and she was by far the most attractive girl that we went to school with. And we're talking about grade school to high school and into college. She was absolutely gorgeous.

My problem was, is she wait a lot. She gets into college and I think like her junior senior year, she went strictly to smoking cigarettes and eating saltine crackers, and she lost a shipload of weight, like a bulletload of weight, and everyone was trying to hook up with her. Yeah, but she's gorgeous, like you, you could just hell, but

that's exactly what she did. And so so tobacco tobacco, Yeah, so tobacco is the thing, right, that's you get a lot tobacco, you don't want to eat or whatever, But why not just do intermittent fasting and just train your body like I've done here. We can go forty eight hours without eating or something like that, because people splurs the after that fast like I go. Yeah, but you

can explore if you don't. If you go two days without eating and then eat, and then go two days without eating, you can eat a lot in between the two days, which is what I do. Yeah, but the the purpose is not to overload. It's not to binge eat, it's not to binge drink. It's too intermittent. But but but by I've done this for about a year and I feel like, even when I eat a lot, I don't need as much as I used to because my appetite is not as much as it used to be a lot.

To be fair, everyone's bodies are a little bit different. So, well, that's true, it's accurate, all right, Well, so there's good luck to this. There was a dance school, yeah in Vienna. So but yeah, it's parents also have to sign off on that. Right as you're you're twelve year old comes home smoking some Marlborough's, you have to be like, what's

going on here? Are they vaping? Now? I guess that's gonna be the new trend right now Marlborough or you know, uh, whatever else they have as far as cigarettes go, I don't know, but yeah, that's it's dangerous. But that's what we got. We're on a on a truncated timetable. As we close. That's because you were fifty eight minutes late. That's why we we would have more but you're fifty

is like, well, I thank you, Gascon. I want to wish you the listener, a wonderful Christmas, a happy Hanukkah, and if you don't celebrate anything, if you're a Jehovah's witness, just have a really good day. Just have a really good day and enjoy all the holiday fistubbies. Now, there would be no podcast. Next week next there was no podcast. I'm planning on not doing a podcast. The week after we might have a podcast, although I will still be on vacation, but I do need to test out the

new piece of equipment. So uh, we might have the podcast the following we that's that would be the thirty first, so to be January first or second. I might not be around to kick off and we won't have the podcast. Or we'll get somebody else to sit in with you who's actually good. You know, somebody who's not a maggot, and we'll get them to come in here and get a non mosquito. Uh, you're gonna use that on a

podcast sometime in the inter future. I guess someone that doesn't cause us to get itchy and scratchy when we hear their voices, but Anyway, you guys have been great this year. It's been fun. We just launched this podcast at the start of football season and the downloads have been through the room. You guys have been great. The audience continues to grow. Tell your friends about it, Tell your enemies at these holiday parties. Hey, you know a good podcast you should be listening to, which is this

podcast and the radio podcast. But have a great, wonderful, wonderful end of twenty nineteen and we will catch you in twenty in the Magic Radio Box. Thank you.