Doctor-Patient Privilege

Ben Mallard and David Gas gone back again. Now. We started this podcast back before the football season with the intention of having Benny Versus the Penny as the highlight of the podcast, and that's exactly what happened. We had Benny versus the Penny almost all the way through the football season until my gall bladder went caput and we had to miss a week. But other than that we had everything cover. We had the super Bowl last week, and then this was just an extra bonus podcast. But

now that football season is over, uh todah. The only sensible thing, the only reasonable thing, would be to either stop doing the podcast altogether or just continue along doing the grab Ass podcast. So here we are doing the grab ass podcast yet again, because we gotta keep those podcast numbers up. And and according to gag On, there were more people actually at at points during the year listening to this then the other podcast, which was the

main one we were doing. Well, that's that's been the case, and that was true and uh, and I want several bets because of that. So I don't know that that's actually been the case. Guess you could be doctoring the numbers. I have no verification. I need a second source. I'm like the Associated Press. No, well, I'm I'm usually good with numbers. I am a numbers driven guy, especially in this competitive world of podcasting and radio. And so I've I've sent you a couple of snapshots of of your

actual show podcast numbers. Uh, these podcast numbers and where we've been from September all the way down to February. So yeah, Well, Unfortunately I don't really pay attention when you send me stuff because I'm not usually logical and um, so I don't really look at that. But but thank you for trying to send me that stuff. I appreciate that. Yeah. I mean, if there's ever a complaint about production and and things of that nature, I guess we can throw

it right back at you. But I think the point I would say here about the podcast and and also the radio show podcast is the numbers are relatively consistent. It's growing the audience, Like the there's a solid base. I'm pretty much the Donald Trump of podcasting because like Trump's got a solid base, but you've gotta get a few extra people if he wants to win the election, you know again and all that stuff. You it's not

about winning the popular vote. It's about winning the electoral college to get validation on so you don't have to have the popular vote because the popular vote. To get the most listenings to a podcast will be honest, you you need advertising, you need people promoting it. We have

none of that. There's no advertising budget for this, right no. Yeah, so it's word of mouth, and it's very difficult to get people a to take your advice and tell other people about the podcast, which I I say every podcast. Do I not say every podcast? Get somebody else to listen to the podcast. I said, every podcast, Yeah, mom, dad, brother's sister, or a kid, and listen for about sixty

seconds that they like it. Gray If they don't, at least keep it on for a minute and then they're done, So grandparents whatever, and uh, and you know there's you do that number one. Number two. The problem is if you you get people to actually do it, if you're listening, actually tell somebody, then the other people actually have to listen to it, and they actually have to take your advice.

And that's where it gets complex. That's where it gets thorny, because it's one thing to get somebody to do it, and I hear from people, Hey, I told my mom you should you should know you should listen to the podcast, or I told my grandpa, my uncle or my aunt or whatever. But then how do you know they're actually doing it? That's my problem. Well, you have you have close to a hundred thousand followers on your Twitter account. Of each of those followers could at least listen to

the podcast one time, would be in great shape. We can and week out. Yeah, but a lot of those are fake. I have a lot of like a porn bots because I tweet in the middle of the night and the only people on Twitter are there's a few of us that are up all night, and then we have a lot of porn bots. So I'm very popular with porn bots and Russian bots and North Korean bots, any kind of bot. It's bought tastic, which I think

is also the name of the podcast bot Tastic. Well, maybe since you are the Donald Trump of sports talk radio, you should kinda align with the d n C and then maybe they can help you out with any kind of push towards uh some doctored numbers and whatnot. Well, I'm Trump, I give speech, and then you're Nancy Pelosi tearing it up behind me. That's what you're essentially, That's how that works, right, Very disappointing by you. Bad job

by you. Yeah, I'm drunk, and I was looking for ways to to test drive your speech and to tear it up for the actual speecher is over with. So yeah, that's a that's me. Yeah. Well, judging by the reaction from the mallamost As far as what's coming up on this edition the I'm Gonna call the Lean and Mean edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and David Gascon, which is available on the iHeart podcast network, you probably

are listening on that. I think most of our listeners are on the I heart podcast network, but also available on the the Apples downloads the app Store. They're on Apple, you can download that their podcast section and pretty much wherever you can find find podcasts. And this is not technically a Fox Sports Radio property right because it's even though it's part of that family, it's it's through I Heart. It's the I Heart podcast network now as I heard, own it or do you own it? Uh? No, I

don't own anything. I don't even own my house. You know. People say, well, you bought a house. That's a big thing. I said, No, the bank owns the house until I pay the house off. The bank owns the house. And then even when I pay the house off, and I have the actual paperwork saying I own the house. If you don't pay property taxes, guess what, you don't own the house. So you're always going to have to pay somebody.

You don't really own anything. We're just renting all of this stuff and then when we die, we have to give it back. That's my deep thought of the week right there. Boom, Well, do you have anyone that's uh that's gonna take over anything that you may give away once you depart this great land? Not you. You're getting nothing. You are getting absolutely nothing. Zippo and bump caisses what you're getting just the same thing you're getting for the podcast.

But yeah, that's kind of like what I get here at Fox Sports Radio too. So you get what you deserve, guests, you get what you really not getting what I put into it, that's for sure. Well, you're not really putting that much into more than everybody does here. That's that's safe to say. I don't know. It's human nature to

try to be as lazy as possible. I've determined that from years and years of working with human nature, are working with people who I believe our humans, who I believe our humans, that laziness is the number one characteristic of human beings. And negativity too, right, Uh No, I mean people people respond to negative stuff. I don't know if that's one of the top I know, greed is a big one. Everyone's out looking for their own self interests. Primarily.

People like to talk about how they want to give back and all that, but it's usually you're looking out for your from your own point of view. Yeah, it's like giving away to charity, Well, you're getting that tax benefit of giving away to charity since you make or if you're J. J. Watt. You get the social clout from being Mr charity Man, and you can be seen as mother Teresa and all that. I have a feeling you were you were heartbroken and your your younger days.

Is that accurate to say, uh, well, what what's your definition of heartbroken? What do you just sound scarred? You sound like you were troubled as a as a youth or a teenager or no, no, no, no no, I'm not some female broke your heart and you just haven't recovered yet. Well listen, I the dating game is a zero sum game. That is true. But I know, I mean, I'm no different than any other dope that had some

bumps along the road and all that stuff. But I've studied human beings because we're in the human being business, guess gun dealing with human beings. And I've known from the people I've worked with in radio. I hope, I hope the real world is not like radio, because everyone I've worked with in radio is as lazy as can possibly be. Uh. They don't show up early, they cut corners, anything to take the easy road. Uh. And and then there's you know, there's the self interest thing. There's the

vanity everyone's vain in one way or another. And I have proof of that later on in this podcast. But and people are looking at as I said, for their own self interest, and uh, to be said fair, it's weird because it's a conundrum. I'm giving a psychology class here. But not only are people lazy, they're greedy. Those two things are like polar opposites. And and yet even though people are lazy, they have this great ambition to try to improve. Like if you're in a in a bad neighborhood,

you want to be in a good neighborhood. You're a good neighborhood, you want to be in a great neighborhood. It's just an odd thing that happens. I feel like i'm your therapist today, Like we have to have this sit down session. You have a drink of water, you can kick off your shoes, relax the feet, and uh kind of open up. That's that's exactly what you're doing here today. This is very cathartic for you, right, like you're just trying to get this all out to the open.

Now the baseball season is right around the corner, and football season is closed off. And Benny versus the Penny is now in the books for another year. This is not you want to pretend like you're my shrink or something like that. Is that what you want to pretend? I mean, I mean it could. I do have a great story for you this since we're talking about work and whatnot in the Fox Sports radio studios, we have just had another microphone and arm break as as we're talking. Yeah,

is that the one you're using? Yes? Nice, it is another one that has just come down to the good old side of exit stage right. It's a good one too. Yeah. You know, there's a phrase I'm gonna teach you here and it is never let them see you sweat. It's a marketing campaign for back in the day, right, And uh see, I wouldn't have known that if you hadn't pointed this out. I like the fact that you're pointing out that the building is crumbling, but it's only our

side of the building. Have you noticed it's only our side of the building. Well, not the kitchen. The kitchen is beautiful, it's majestic, it's bright. It's what you're talking about. A month a month ago, the water had to be shut off in the kitchen because there was some problem. We had no ice and the refrigerator was all messed up. You don't remember that that was because there was a leak from upstairs. Okay, but it doesn't matter. It affected us.

And how could it be upstairs? There's nothing above that. I don't understand how it could be upstairs because it's the first floor. There's no that part of the building. There's no upstairs. Well, the piping, well, the piping, but that's not upstairs. I mean it was in the building. The building had an issue. I'm just telling you what I was told operational. But I'm saying, like my my point is, like Steve Harvey, the Steve Harvey warning shows across the hall from us. Like Steve comes in there

and I'm relatively confident. He pulls his mic down. It doesn't keep coming down, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, there's a There was a turnaround time for his studio to be built. And I kid you not. I think that thing was done in thirty days. It was with all new equipment, all new equipment, uh, everything first class. I mean, as Steve Harvey deserves. The guy's a great entertainment one of the great modern entertainers of our time. But it would be nice every once in a while

to get a bone, you know. Speaking of which, how tier yard were you on on Tuesday night when you saw Rush Limbaugh win a medal from the President of the United States. No, I was. I was happy. Listen. I'm I love radio people, and Rush Limbaugh is one of the titans in my business, and I think it's great. And you know, I know everyone who's a Democrats all freaking out, roaches, terrible and all of stuff, but I

think it was wonderful, was a great thing. He's been one of the great champions for Donald Trump, although not all the time, but mostly positive for Trump and all that since he became president, and Russell Limbos got millions and millions of people that are minions of his that listen to him every day. I think it's a great for Limbaugh. It's great for radio that radio blowhard can get an award like that. I think it's wonderful and

I'm still bummed out. I told the story briefly. I didn't get into the full detail that I came very

close to meeting Rush Limbaugh. And one of the cool things about working at Fox Sports Radio for the last a long time is is uh that when Limbaugh would come to l A over the years, he would do his show just across the hall to the right, directly across the halls with the podcast studio from where we do the show, and then you turn right out of our studio, go down a little short, stumpy hallway and then if you hear and left, there's where Steve Harvey

does his show from. And then to the right of that is a guest studio which Rush Limbaugh Mega Dittos does his show from. And I always gotta kick when Rush would come to l A, which is sporadically and he talked about everyone going to uh Operation Rush, rolling out the red carpet and def Con one to make sure everything was perfect for Limbaugh when he came in. He has his own microphone, this colden microphone that he uses and all this other stuff, and I I gotta

kick out of I thought it was pretty cool. Almost met him and uh are the late grade Andrew Ashwood May he rested piece or old Boss years ago. He he wanted me to meet him, and I wanted to meet him, and I asked him, I said, when Russians in town interros and he gave me this whole you know thing. Well, you know it's complicated. He's got to prepare for a show and he you know, it's a lot of people, there, a lot of red tape. But

I'm gonna do it. And the day we were scared Jewel to have a very brief meet and reet me in Limball, well it turns out that uh, Andrew had a meeting that ran late and he couldn't get out of it. And by the time he got down to the studio to do the introduction Limball had to go and get ready and he really couldn't talk to anybody. So I never got the chance to h well, not yet. Maybe I'll meet him down the line. And he's got he's ill right now, but came very close to to

meet him. How I do have a fun story. I have one of his pens. I have a Russia Limball pen. He left a pen behind and I'm a scavenger and I grabbed Russia Limboss pen. I have it. It's my pen. I have a pad O'Brien pen. I have a J. Moore pen. I have a Rush Limball pen. I don't have a Steve Harvey pen yet. Um, I gotta get that but I have do you have a Nancy Pelosi impeachment pen? I do not know. If somebody wants to send me one, I'll take that to my pen collection. Yeah,

could you hell what those are going for right now? Uh? Yeah, I don't know. I mean people collect odd crap. I mean maybe somebody's paying for it. Uh, you know, it's always a market. It's crazy what people pay for. Have you seen some of the stuff on eBay that people sell that they make money with. Its unbelievable. People make hundreds of thousands of dollars on there. It is absolutely insane. You know who's an opportunist like that is Roberto. Roberto He's a hustler and he sells all not on eBay.

He goes on that offer up app Oh yeah, he's anything like he gets his hands on like he'll he'll be driving down the street see something, Hey I can get that. Put that on offer up, like somebody's trash and people buy this stuff. Does he make good money off of it? Well, it's it's it's like extra meal money or you know, a little extra money to go out and go to the movies on the weekend or something like that. That's pretty damn good. Now have you

ever gone down that path? Well, it's Amazon or eBay or Craigslist to sell you know, I would like to. I think I could be pretty good at it, but it's very time consuming, assuming there's a lot of tedious things. You have to post the ads and update the ads and then take them down and and all that. Although

I speaking of that story just popped in mind. One of my good friends, an old newspaper guy that I've known for many, many years, he sends me a message telling me that he was robbed in broad daylight in just down the street from our studios. He was this crazy story guest gun. So the guy was in I think it was either North Hollywood or Van Eyes, but it was very close to where we do the show from and he was selling a camera, like a camera lens, and he was selling it on eBay or No, no,

it was Craigslist. Rather was Craigslist, which is even more CD right Craigslist. Um, so the guys tell me says he he scheduled to meet the guy at a bank because he figured there's cameras everywhere at the bank, nothing can possibly go wrong. And he went to the bank with the camera to make the transaction to give the guy the camera and take the money. And so he's in the bank for like twenty minutes. The guy doesn't show up, so he's like, I guess the guy flaked.

And then he goes back to his car. In the parking lot at the bank, two guys, two thugs come up to my guy, my friend, the newspaper guy, and uh and and they one had like a metal crowbar type thing and uh, give the camera. And my friend tried to fight back a little bit, got his ass beaten. Fortunately he didn't get killed. They didn't have guns or knives, but they still beat him up pretty good. And I guess you could you know, you can get blunt force.

You could die from getting whacked over the head with a crowbar. But anyway, he survived. And uh, and then he calls the police. And this is how great l A is, guest, go on, and you know your dad knows this. Of course, in l A, this is like nothing. You know, in another city. This is like crime of the century, right, It's like, oh, I can't believe somebody got jacked in broad daylight in front of a bank. But the police are like, we'll get to it. You know,

we have like a stack of seven thousand of these things. Yeah. When I got when my car was broken into back in October or November, I was in Studio City and I don't know if you remember me saying this, but I call the Van Nay's Police department at twelve or one o'clock in the morning, and that's exactly what they told me. Come on over, we'll due to report. If not,

you could do it tomorrow or later on down the week. Yeah, there was like a strip of strip of cars that were all broken into, not just mine, but like two, three or four other cars that were blasted out, windows blasted out, and they tell me nothing we can do about it. Yeah. Yeah, I've had my car broken into all over l A. I've had in Pasadena, Burbank, downtown at Staples Centered in the year two thousand. I've told that story. It was Christmas Day in the year two

thousand and Yeah. So I learned that I don't leave anything. I mean, they can break into my car, but there's nothing in it. I've learned my lesson. I used to leave stuff up around and I it took three smash and grab situations for me to stop doing that. But it is crazy how often this stuff happens. And then so, my my buddy, the newspaper guy, I won't say his name. I don't I didn't ask for permission to tell the story.

But the newspaper guy he's telling me, he's like, so he talked to somebody from his old he doesn't work at that newspaper anymore, but somebody that works at the newspaper, uh, and a journalist, investigative, reporter, news guy whatever. So the guy tells him, listen, the police aren't gonna do anything. You're gonna have to be the lead investigator on this if you want anything to get done. And so he got some advice from a newspaper guy, and he went to all the local he went to. First of all,

he went to the bank. The bank said they did not have functioning cameras in the parking lot. Can you believe that? Oh my gosh. Uh yeah, So that that pissed him off. And then he was able to get some video of the guys from some of the restaurants that were like across the street from the bank, kind of like, but it's not great because it was far away or whatever. So, um, but I did hear. I

think this goes back to the Dez Bryant story. Remember Dez Bryant had that famous incident that was recorded on video and a parking lot at Walmart, and supposedly they the camera either there was video and it disappeared the the internet. Urban legend is Jerry Jones bought the video

to make it disappear. The other theory that that is a lot of businesses just even though they have sometimes cameras in the parking lot, they often don't have them working, or if they break, they don't repair them because they're only curried there. They only worry about what's in the story. They don't worry about what's in the parking lot. That's the and you only care about what's at the A t M two. That's the only other camera that would

be operational at that time too. So yeah, I'm pretty sure if the A t M camera broke they would fix it right away. Right, all right, We have a bunch of questions here we got grab bag. These are actual questions from actual listeners of the show. Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia rights and he says, Ben, who would win an arm wrestling contest between you and Gascon. I wouldn't be surprised if he just wanted to play flick the knuckles, though, all right, that's from Jason. Well, I

would obviously win. Jason, I have a tremendous size advantage over the very petite gas Gone, so you would admit gas and you have no chance. I've been a little bit of trouble right now. Part of the reason is because I have a surgically repaired right road tator cuff two times. And although I am a south paw, my right arm is typically stronger than my right, but even my left hand is fucked up. Right, you said your right arm is typically straight, stronger than your right, my

right arm stronger than my left. Okay, sorry, so I'm left handed, but am I empidextrous? So I don't think I would go that far as just saying I would lose, um, but I wouldn't give it my full effort. I'll just say that much, unless, of course, there was tacos in the line. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Well, I won the bet, last week where

you haven't paid up the bet. I won the Super Bowl bet, and if I had lost, that would have been the lead story. You would have been running around like a peacock with your feathers up in the air saying, look at me, I beat Mallard at the Super Bowl pick I had the forty nine airs because I would have had tacos at Santa Anita. Those are two different bets. Well, no, we can just listen. Well, we can either close out the better you buy me tacos boom done. Wait, how

does that work? You can't double down on something if it was just a bet on tacos and you leverage that into tickets at Santa Any any excuse Santa Anita. I don't mind going to the track. I mean we can bet the ponies. I love it there. The more horses that die the better. I don't care. But uh, but no, that taco place, my wife doesn't really like it. She could give two ships about it. So I I want any excuse I can get to go to that

taco place. I'm all about it. You don't really come to the West Side unless there's a Clipper Laker game, or I don't even go they don't play on the west side of playing downtown. I I've almost never go to the West side anymore. I used to when I lived in Hollywood, I would go over there because I had friends that lived in the Marina, and I would go down to that area. But well, yeah, I don't. I don't not go down. That's that's that's where the

one percenters hang out. I don't go down. Listen, you're doing a great job of losing weight. I don't want to add weight to you. So I think it's appropriate not to u tacos anymore. Anyway, I disagree with all of them. Well, if I you know, if I eat once every other day, I can eat tacos. I'm fine, that's good. That's fine. But you're you're swimming down your clothing, so I think it's best to keep on that positive momentum of no cheese, no no, you know, grilled meat

or no Friday meat. I'm not buying any new clothes because as last time I lost a lot of weight, I bought clothing and then gained it back. I got the other quote, I think you've learned your lesson. Yeah, I'm just gonna keep what I have and then you know, eventually, I'll probably end up gaining the weight back. It seems to be what happened, the most number of plates you've taken down in a single visit to the buffet, longest you've spent at the buffet time wise getting your grub on.

That's Henry in Tempe, Arizona wants to know the buffet happens when you're a health nut. Guess, so I'm guessing you don't have much. I'll lead with this. Five plates is the most, and we actually closed down. I was with a group of guys for a bachelor party a week closed down a buffet because it was at the Venetian. They had bottomless mimosas until one o'clock in the afternoon, and my buddies and I went all night into the

morning time. We got there at seven o'clock in the morning, eight and drank as much as humanly possible, and we got thrown out by security because we were allowed. We're obnoxious, we were hammered, we were disturbed, and of course we were eating as much as possible too. So yeah, five and uh and one o'clock in the afternoon for a buffet,

we closed that thing down, getting kicked out. So, yeah, well I have I don't really do the buffet much anymore because I I do try to somewhat monitor how much food I come I come in contact with, because I have very little self control in those situations. But back in my big eating days, to answer your question, Henry, I studied this. I was like a ninja, uh with the various cuisine at the restaurants, and I studied it.

I figured out how to get the most bang for my buck, and I learned some of the secrets of the buffet world and how uh, let's be honest. Your restaurants are in it to win it, so they put a few secrets here they I think we've mentioned this on the radio show, but they put the least expensive food and the most filling food, which is often the same, right at the front of the buffet. The stuff that's worth more money, that costs them is towards the back of the buffet. So you want to skip over the

first part of whatever food they have. You don't salad and soup, those things are designed to fill you up. Do not fall victim to the trap. Right? What about this though? What about when you go to those restaurants like foga to chow. What's your Brazilian restaurants which are for all intensive purposes buffet style dyning, very expensive, the Brazilian steakhouse, it's very pricey. I've been to that. I liked it. It was fine. But I'm talking like your

standard Vegas buffet, which is also expensive. Now, the Vegas buffets aren't cheap either. It's depressing. You gotta pay for parking, you get no comps, and they gotta pick exorbitant amount of prices for the buffets. Yeah, but Henry, the most plates I took down, I don't know, it's probably like seven or eight back in the day, full size plates of food. And that The worst experience I had was at the Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. And

in retrospect, think what happened? I ate so much I had a gull stone attack that was like the first time. But I thought it was just indigestion. But I did think I was gonna die in the hotel room that night, and I was just dating who Aaron is my wife now? And uh And at the time I thought I thought that was it. I thought I had eaten so much I was gonna literally blow up or something like that.

That's a great experience with your your soon to be wife in lost what comp What made you go to Vegas and just chat out on a buffet with with your girlfriend at the time. Well, well, can you go to Vegas and you want to experience Vegas buffets? Right? And she had heard good things about the Paris Buffet and so we did it. Never again. I'm sure the

food's fine. I have nothing against the hotel. It's a fine hotel, but it just did me in John in Minnesota says, who was your favorite three Stooges actor and why that's a random question from John. Well, this is easy, all right. Uh Now, when I was younger, they they still had a ton of Stooges reruns on television, that's how bad TV was. And I used to love watching him.

But there's only one Stooge for me, and that is Curly Howard, the greatest fought Vilian actor in the history of Hollywood, and I loved he was the bald guy. By the way, GUESSTCN. I know you're not up on the Stooge. You know he died it He didn't even make fifty. He died at forty eight years old. What Howard? I don't remember exactly what I know he had. There was a lot of alcohol involved with the Stooges, the

Howard brothers and all that. But he didn't make it to fifty and he married four times by the time he had died, and all kinds of health problems. I think mostly these guys self medicated themselves because they didn't have stunt doubles all that crap. They were doing what they were really doing. So I guess the and the name of television and writing? Is he the Is he the antagonist? Curly Howard? Yeah? Would he? Larry be the protagonist and he'd be the antagonist? Like where does he?

You know? Because Larry and Mo I don't know if they all had those those elements to their to their games or their stick right. Yeah, yeah, well he was to me he was like the I don't know the technical parts of that, but he was just amazing. Yeah. Yeah, by far he was the the best one. And by the way he is uh, I think he's interred. Uh just down the road in San Gabriel, not that far away here. The there's a Curly Howard his grave. You

want to go check it out. Sure you will. Yeah, yes, I could go through brent Wood to go to a couple of spots there and go look at a grave site there and then go to Curly as Yes, I can do that. Yeah. Apparently he had mental deterioration. And if he was alive today, you know what they would have said about Curly Howard? What's up? CTE? You probably did. I mean, if there is such a thing, if you believe E T if you're a physical actor and you're

bumping your head and having bowling balls dropped on your head. Uh, you know that's crazy though, Like I didn't even make the fifty. He ended up in a nursing home when he was forty eight years old. You know, only the good die young. That is just just I guess he had a stroke and some other things as well, so it was a combination of things that took him down. But man, do you want to die young or do you want to die late? I'd like to as long as my health is good. I'd like to keep going,

all right, I'd like to keep going. I don't I don't really need to check out early. Um, but you know, you never That's a great thing about life. You never know when it's gonna all end. The mystery of life. What about you, guess you want to check out early? No, I love this game of life. I mean watching the veteran last night. I think he was a hundred years of age that was being honored during the State of the Union address on Tuesday the other night. You mean, yeah,

Tuesday night. Um, so he he was a hundred years old. I'd like to go, I'd like to hit triple digits, if you'd mind. Yeah, Well, I'm hoping that with modern medicine, by the time I really need modern medicine, I'm hopeful that it will advance to the point where I will be able to be the beneficiary of the medical advancements. You can get extra quality, quality years of life, because nobody wants to live like a vegetable. I'm talking about good,

good moving around, going out doing stuff that kind of like. Yeah, I mean even for an introvert like you. But the best medicine for to you is actually like stress relief, eating good whole fruit, vegetables, all the good stuff, not like Tito's and you know, foing Chow and mas rows and Navier. By the way, you know the people that

eat the Mr Dietitian gas Gun. The people that eat all the fresh fruits and all the fish and all the grilled vegetables, they end up in the same place the people that eat the fried tacos and the steak and all that other stuff. The end game is the same. It is the end game, all right, Let's keep going with the questions here. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. A New in Owensboro, Kentucky says, uh,

this is for both of you. Do you ride roller coasters and if you ask, what's your favorite? Well, a new thank you for listening. I do not ride roller coasters. I am apparently too tall for most roller coasters. Uh so they're not designed for people my size height wise. My last experience, which is not really a real roller coaster, was at Space Mountain. You know what happened, Gascon, You

got stuck? Well, I waited in line for like two hours and then got on the ride and I couldn't My knees could not fit in the car because I was too tall, And I wasted several hours of my life waiting in line at Space Mountain, So I said, a screw it, Yeah I was. But you a roller coaster guy. You like going on the thrill ride. I've gone on and I enjoy them. At six Flags Magic Mountain, they used to have a ride that you stood up on, uh,

shock Wave, and that was a really fun ride. Ninja is another one where you're not standing up, but your legs are hanging down. That was pretty fun. But I'm like you like like the mattaw Horne at Disneyland Um Space Mountain Star Tours. Yeah, like the only one I can go on right now is just not a roller coaster at all. The Splash Mountain. Oh, I can do Splash Mountain, Get soaked. That's pretty good. I cannot be at these amusing parks all day though anymore. Too many

kids and too old and not too many kids. You're wedding in line, and I'm just you know, I like to go, like to do. I don't like being stuck in a lot the move And I learned this from Wreck at Ralph Ralph Irvan, who's a Disney savant. You go when the park opens and there's nobody there for like the first two hours, because nobody wants to get there early. You go for the first couple of hours and you're set up. Wonderful. Are you gonna take the misses there for a for a night out? Not a

night I we usually go. We do one day a year at Disneyland and we go all day. It's it's like twelve hours of NonStop ridiculousness and gluttony and just running up the food and oh it's wonderful. I remember back in the day, did you do grad school when you were did you do like your grad event where you guys would go somewhere. Well, I tried to avoid all that. Actually, uh, we did have I didn't go to it, but yeah, they they I know a bunch of people did go to Disneyland and all that, but

I did not take part. That's what we did. I went to a Catholic school in San Pedro, and I apologies. I remember that night grad night we went and there were a bunch of guys and girls that were tripping out like shrooms really and other stuff. So they went into the Haunted mansion and they got stuck like they got They were terrified. They were just petrified, like the whole ordeal for them. They were absolutely lost. When they got outside of that haunted mansion. So it was pretty awesome.

It's us Maybe I should have gone and retrospect that I missed that Catholic school. Everyone's doing mushrooms. Way to go, all right? Uh? Big Lou from the LBC said, here's a question for Gascon. He says, Gascon, were you aware that the Blaze planned to cease operations when you had the Bakersfield Mallard Militia meet up? Did you know at the time? No? I did not. In fact, had I know. There was an idea that the club would get closed

down before I took the job. But a a sad story about all that was the guy that actually hired me his his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, so he needed to uh pull away a little bit, which is why he offered me a job to come up there. And there were speculation that the franchise could be closed down, but they said that was a yearly thing that they always talked about and joked about. So I didn't know

about this until the end of the season. I think it was like telling of September and then got the news and uh that was after the night out with the Ben Mellor Show. So no, I did not it. Yeah, but you could kind of see the writing on the wall. Yeah, as soon as I got up there in February or March and there was just a dirt parking lot. There were people on the streets and syringes all over the floor and a SHOTP seven eleven right next to the ballpark. I saw the writing on the wall. But you told

me again to go up there and take the job. No, I listened to you regret doing it. No, I don't you think if you didn't do it, you would have some amazing TV job right now if you didn't do it, No, No, it's it was a fun time, right you got to I wish I could have done that, to travel around with a baseball team, and then it would have been a lot of I would had a great time doing that. Yeah, there was some of that. Climbed the right field foul pole line and shot up a parking lot. That was

pretty fun. Um, a broadcaster at one of the ballparks was was getting some oral pleasure from a bartender while he was calling the game. Yeah, that was pretty fascinating. How could you never told me these stories prior? Well, what is that's not appropriate for your show? Is it appropriate for this show? Yeah, it's a podcast. People don't really do stuff for sports, do they. Well, so this was just a bartender at the just happened to be Uh he lost something under the table. No, so one

of the one of the ballparks. Uh, they have bar service and they'll have the vendors that come in and out for cocktails and beers and whatnot. And a broadcaster made his way to the to this area, this beer garden prior to first pitch, and we were all having food and drinks together and then we had a good work and he hit it off with this bartender and in between the ball game she came on in and uh yeah, they got together while he was calling the game.

And then in post game, after the lights are out, I got a text message and said I'm I'm almost done. I was like, fair enough, good job by you on. Did that ever happen with you? Gascon Nod did not have No, it did not ever happened with me. Can that happen to me? In Bakersfield? You know I missed out on all this. I let me tell you something. I'm so piste off. I got into radio I heard these stories from these old DJs. When I got into radio. We worked at I worked at Kiss AM well, I

worked in San Diego. First I heard got stories from guys at ninety one X, which was the big rock station in San Diego and the classic rock station at back at the time. Actually, I think with alternative rock, whatever the case, it was popular X. I don't even know it's still that same format of music, but it was very popular. And I heard stories from these DJs. And then I went to l A and we worked

at the sister station of the iconic Kiss FM. I and Rick D's in the morning, all these powerful DJs, and they would regale me in stories about fans that would show up to the radio station and provide them with favors while they were on the year. I heard all these stories. Yeah, and I got none of that. I had none of that. I had no experience. It's like that at all in radio. What what was wrong with me? Guess? Why come everyone else I had these experiences and I did not. Well. Part of it's because

you're an introverts. You don't go out like you're not out out out there in the in the open. Are you no I'm not. I'm not. I'm not a shut in. I do go out, I just don't advertise what I do. That's it. Yeah, But I mean even when you do go out, it's not like you're working the room at all. And so that's what I meant is that you're not you're not really all that engaging when you're out, and I'm selected when I smooth, Yeah, you pick your shots. I tell you, very rarely am schmooze. When I want

to be smoozy, I can be schmoozy. Yeah, but it's very rare that I choose to go down that road. But that's for any guy then. So if you, if you want to get into some trouble, you can find a way to get in some trouble. Like if you if you if you asked your wife, let's go to Vegas and let's get into some trouble. I guarantee you you guys would get into some trouble. Not because of you, but she would get you guys into some trouble, so she would find she would find trouble. Yeah, it's exactly it.

So I don't know why you did not, but yeah, there's some great stories I have from my day in Bakersfield. I it's uh, it's six months. But that's one thing you said, when you go, take a pen and a paper and journal as much as you possibly could, because there's gonna be some wild stories. And there was. Yeah, absolutely, I said, listen, it's all about the stories, right, That's

all we got in life. We don't get to say anything with us put the stories, hopefully, but anyway, it is, Uh, it's the podcast we're doing grab bag here if you fast forward and saying, what the hell is going on? Kevin in San Diego, he's kind of the same question. He says he actually admits to a meeting Gascon in Lake Elsinore when you were with the Bakersfield Blaze, Jesus, and he said he wanted to know what it was like when you knew things were coming to an end,

when you found out. Did you know during the year the team was gonna be relocating or when did you find out the team was going belly up? Yeah? So it is at the end of the season in September. Our last games were at the beginning of September. Because the Major League Baseball rosters, as you know, expand to forty and so special special teams, specific teams like San Jose.

What they typically do, since this was at the Advanced A level, is that the Giants would hide a lot of their talent, not the Triple A level or not the Double A, they'd hide him at the high A level. So you'd get a lot of the guys that were in the Advance A level that would play in the big leagues. And so a lot of these guys were coming and going where most of the guys with the Blaze at that time, they were the affiliates of the

Seattle Mariners. They were taking off, and then not only were they taking off, but they were really moving all their stuff. Their wives or girlfriends or their family that came in and visited said hey, we're not gonna be around next year, and so that gave me the idea that hey, they could be gone. And then the manager and I went out one night for some for some tacos and some drinks, and he's like, yeah, man, He's like,

you probably gonna find a new job. I'm going to Arizona in a couple of months for for rookie ball, And sure enough he did, and then we got the bad news that came on down which is unfortunate too because meeting Kevin and some of the other people like can San Jose or in Stockton or Lake Elson are

those are awesome facilities. So it's unfortunate that, you know, I don't know if if Rob Manfred's gonna contract a lot of these teams from the minor league systems, but the California League is pretty wild, just what where they're at in proximity and things of that nature. But yeah, when I got the bad New Years, it sucked because my idea was to go from high A ball to double A or triple A and not to come back to Fox Sports Radio. It's like to take that next step.

But I couldn't do it and I had to come back. But that led me to do some tele Still remember I was there the day you came in with your tail between your legs. You came back to Fox Sports Radio. I still recall that. Yeah, I felt like the prodigal son a little bit. I'm not gonna lie because you leave, you leave, you want to go somewhere else, right, like you want to take that that elevated step. Well, I left when I didn't really leave. I was forced out when I they whacked me in twenty oh nine. It's

been almost eleven years. Actually, yeah, it's been over eleven years now since the initial But that was the blood bath, right, like, yeah, that was a mass execution that was bringing everyone in the room gas them. Uh, you know, with thousands of people across the country, what what's happening? I said, nice, yeah, thank you, But a ton of people lost their job and uh, it was a company wide and all I just happened to be one of a number on a on a piece of paper. But but I never wanted

to leave. I always liked it, and I wanted to stay and I wanted to, you know, do shows, and unfortunately I they allowed me back. All right, Uh, here's one do you This is from Mike. Do you try not to talk about politics at work? Do you end up keeping your mouth shut or try to keep it nonpartisan? That's from Mike. Uh, yeah, I don't. We don't usually walk talk politics, and we don't most of us don't talk off the air. I got my show because most of the guys don't show up early enough to talk. Uh.

And uh so that's part of the problems. Hard to have a a meeting when guys show up a minute before the show, which happens most night, so I don't do. I had a lot of talking off the year, and plus I don't know so the guys, uh, some of them are very hardcore on their political positions that are against my political beliefs in some ways, So usually don't

talk about that very much. What about you, guess do you have a lot of political conversations with people that were I try to, but it's it's fascinating to have those conversations because I feel like, for the most part, a lot of guys that are here, or even the girls too, if they're Republican or right right wing leaning, they're open for dialogue. But the left side and the guys that are like veering off the hard left, they

will talk. Then they'll talk louder and louder, and then the name calling comes and then all of a sudden, like ship's just off the rail and you just walk away from it. I just it's it's unfortunate, But that's kind of like when I was, you know, back in

my day. To me, this is like a sign of the times, because when I was younger, I got in even growing up, I remember at the house my parents would at dinner, you know, they disagreed politically, and they would get into arguments about politics at dinner or whatever the election, the presidential election was at the time, or the big issue of the day. And so this is how I grew up hearing this. Right, my mom and dad disagree, but in a um, a peaceful way, right,

just giving their position and whatever. And so I'm like, I don't care. I don't really care about what your politics are. If you disagree with me, that's fine, but have you know, be somewhat civil. You don't have to have a temper tantrum, bang the table and run off and all this. A lot of people just can't handle it. Yeah. I don't know if it's because how they were raised or what it is, but they just cannot have a

rational conversation about politics. And I enjoyed. I enjoy the political conversation just because I like to know what people think or how they see things, or how they perceive things. I'm I am completely open with any that's up, and I'll let him talk and I'll let him ramble and go, especially everybody here, because everyone's obviously got an opinion and not everyone can voice it on a microphone, but when they do it, it's fine. But yeah, I mean, I but I do talk to a lot more people are

at work than you do. That's that's safe to say. So yeah, I don't. And I think a lot of people that because in California, if you like Trump, you're a pariah. So I think a lot of people that they might support Trump don't really talk about it much because you know, you get swallowed up. Just Greg and Iowa. Right, So here's a good question. How many illegitimate kids does David Gascon have in California? So from Greg and Iowa

answer that guest, Yeah, I would say zero. I think you can point to my score as as a reason for that. My my conditioning is great, my endurance is fantastic. My better watch out for that DNA testing website. You don't want to get on there. Do you do that? That was that the three and me? Uh yeah, I did. My wife did it? She wanted us to. Would she grabbed some of my DNA? Boy? Yeah, oh boy, I don't do any of that. Ship I don't care. I mean, I'll be dead soon enough, so who the hell cares?

You know? I mean, is it really that? I mean It doesn't matter to me. Are they gonna clone me or something like that? Hopefully I'll be gone. It doesn't really matter. And everyone's freaking out about the deep State having your d n A and I'm not worried. I've got other things to worry about. Lan from Stillwater rights in and this is for Gascon. Have you ever tried on a pair of women's pantings? No? I have not that you're willing. You're not willing to admit to it. No,

I've never tried out women's panties. Thank you very much for asking. 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. Al Right, Patricia from Vegas, she writes, Since he says, Ben, I saw the picture of you and Fred Dryer the other day, And she says, Gascon is right. You need an iron? What say you, Patricia? I say you should go smack

yourself in the face. That's a bad job by you, Patricia, how dare you? Alright? Don't judge me, Do not judge me. And and then the shirt was fine when I when I put it on to go to work. I haven't be sitting down. I drove out along. I've a long drive to go to work. I'm sitting down. The shirt became wrinkled, but when I put the shirt on, it wasn't wrinkled. And who knew that you had to be a fashionist, of Patricia? I work in radio, is what I do. Okay, I could be buck naked behind the microphone.

All that matters is this dumb voice. That's all that matters. So stop, all right, wrinkled bad. I think that's a good point that she made. But here's the thing is that this went back to my original comment of why you need to buy upgraded clothing now because you can't ham the attire that you have and you needed new clothes anyway. You gotta get like into the to the new trend of where you're like, you need to PHTN jeans. No, yeah, I do radio. If I I'll tell you what, I'll

make a deal with you. If TV happens, if any big TV opportunity presents itself, I'll go out and buy some new clothes. Until then it ain't happen. About that. That doesn't work like that because you still go out with your wife. Yeah, I don't know. We I have like a few nice things that I wear that fit properly, the nice two or three. The nicest thing that you have that you wear is your hat. Yeah, I have a big hat collection. Since my hair went away, I

have a big hat collection. But the hats are good. You're you're set there, But your jackets now are long and baggy. You need to have those things hemmed at least, right because as soon as I get them hemmed, I'll eat seven cheeseburgers and I'll need to get them hemmed again. Don't that's the idea. But I love I as long as I know you understand the way it works. It's

it's Mallard's law, not Murphy's law. Mallard's law. Mallard's law states that as in the diet game, and I've lost a lot of weight and gained a lot of weight back and lost a lot of I'm what's known as a yo yo diet or apparently. But I think this this latest diet I have is going to actually work because it's just a lifestyle which I have, this inter minute fasting which has worked for me and uh, in fact, I'm trying to convince my buddy, who I I my

my gambling buddy from back in the day. I said, he's doing the whole thirty diet and he hates it. And I said, you gotta come over to the dark side. You've got to come over to the inter minute fasting diet. So I'm trying to commitce it. But anyway, but but no, I think, uh, like I said, we do TV, I'll get some clothes and all that, and other than that, I'm I'm not because the way that the Mallard law works, all right, is that as soon as you lose weight

and then buy clothes, you gain the weight back. But if you don't, if you do not buy clothes, you will not get in the weight back. But what happened that what happens if we're asked to do a a doc show like a mock show or a pilot and you don't have anything suitable, it's better to need it, and or it's better to have it and not needed, not needed, not have it. And I don't know if you know this, guescoun I have not had a kitchen

at the Mallard mansion for almost two months. So all my money for the next like five years will go to pay off the new kitchen. So I really have no disposable income anymore. I know travel, I won't be going anywhere far away or anything like that. I have nothing. Well, we could do this, we can. We can put out a go fund me and have J. Scoopy the the conductor of this thing. And yeah, and I wouldn't have gone to Seattle if the Malla militia had not stepped

up to the play. I told you that I could not. I all of this is going on with the kitchen is taking all my money anyway? Uh more questions grab bag emails. Stacy in Kentucky writes in and he says, will the XFL make it past its first season? Yes? They will. Vince McMahon, I believe he has enough money set aside that they're gonna go at least a couple of years here. The only way they wouldn't is if it is just a total abject failure and nobody's watching

the games on TV. Really, television is gonna dictate this. But I buy in to Vince McMahon giving this a couple of years. He realized the mistake of his ways. Initially, the original XFL and they're gonna give it a go, and I am concerned by what I've seen. I'm gonna check out the XFL this weekend, sample the product a little bit, give it a try. But Vince McMahon's claim to fame at professional wrestling is always that you can't

think traditionally in a non traditional world. And it seems like the XFL from what I've seen a lot of the presentation of the game is going to be very similar to everything else we've seen it. It doesn't seem like it's all that bold and provocative. Of course, they try to be bold and provocative and it blew up in their face originally, but it seems like it's it's a much more watered down version of the XFL this time. Does that mean that we get a taste of Benny

versus the Penny XFL version? Yeah, you know, I'm gonna check it out this weekend, and uh, if I enjoy it, we will do a Benny versus the Penny XFL handicapping edition. How about that? Alright? Last one, the last question from Queen Roxanne. Uh, for some reason, you must have sent her money, she says. David Gascon is hilarious. No he's not kind of knows what he's talking about. No, he doesn't. Can we please get this Vegas Mallard Man march together?

And would you please make sure David Gascon attends. How about that, Queen Rocks would be April, she says, is the date? It's a Saturday night Fremont Street experience. Oh man, and and she says that the march. That sounds like a good idea. So Queen Roxanne, she's gonna be there. I know we got a bunch of listeners in Vegas, and that's the NFL Draft weekend that weekend, the first round on Thursday, second in, third round on Friday, and

the rest of it I think is on Saturday. So uh yeah, I could do that because I could just drive there. I don't have to like buy a plane take I could drive for the day and then drive back. Gascon about that, Yeah, well you're not gonna drink when you're in Vegas. Maybe not. I might stay. You know what I could do is I could stay in prim right on a California Nevada border and cheap. You could stay there for like twenty bucks. Yeah, but you can

get some media rates can't you don't you have? Yeah, I know, I know people, but that's a tough weekend though. Because of the draft. I don't know if I can get any of those goodies because of the draft, they might put X nay on the good easy. So you're supposed to have a mallary March April in Vegas. Well, Queen rocks Inn is putting it together, so I guess they could do it without me, but she would like me to be there, and she's rolled out the invitation

to you. Guess that's pretty nice, especially in Fremont, because you'd be playing at tables for like five bucks that's the minimum, right, usually five bucks or like a dollar. At certain certain tables you get the action at Well, it's black jack or crab more of a golden nugget guy myself or the Plaza girls stayed at the Plaza Hotel and casino. No, what the hell? Why not? What kind of places are you staying at? I'm staying That's that's Vegas. Vegas is not the bells and whistles with

roller coasters. Vegas is the Fremont Street, Old Vegas, seedy people walking around in thongs, uh, shaking their ass that's old Vegas. Yeah, I stay at the hard rock back in the day. No, this is not the hard rocks off the strip. It's off by itself the hard rock. Now this is something else alright, anyway, Uh study this these are are they real or bullshit? That's the bit here and uh, here's the story. A new study out says what percentage of Americans would struggle to pay off

a four hundred dollar bill? Alright, to guess, ghan, you'll play the game here? What percentage of Americans would struggle to pay off a four hundred dollar it? You think, uh, you you're clearly cheating. That's a bad job by you, you schmuck. It is actually yeah, two and five Americans. Two and five Americans say that they would struggle to pay off that amount. The News Serve a quarter of adults admit to not having a savings account, and among those that do, they said they could not even cover

two months worth of bills. Yeah, that's embarrassing. Of people said they would have an issue with a four uh bill. But well, you need you need to save up to because um, you know, I gotta I gotta monumental birthday in July, so I'll need a payoff on that on that day. It's not gonna be cheap either. So well, I know it's when you turn fifty five. It's a big birthday, so I know you're excited about that double

Nichols just coming up for you. Yes, big birthday. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna get you exactly what you got me from my big birthdays. When I'm like, what is your birthday, I'm gonna get you. My birthday is the same birthday as Jerry Seinfeld, great comedy minds. We have the same birthday there in late April. That reminds me your your your better half. Tell me to start watching Curb Your Enthusiasm. You actually watched Curb Your Enthusiasm? I do.

That's the really the only scripted TV show, which is it's not really it's loosely scripted, but I love that show. Huge fan. That's pretty solid. Yeah, because you're always documentaries and sports, you know, yeah, with with few exceptions, I like Curb Your Enthusiasm, big fan. Been a fan of that show for years. In fact, my brother in law worked on the show and the crew of the set but building the sets, which is he gave us some insight dirt on Curb your enthusiasm, which is kind of cool.

Like where they different places? They filmed that around l A. So I know all the locations, intel um, and that's cool. And then I used to watch the Sopranos. Was a big Sopranos guy back in the day. Good good show. So I like a lot of the HBO pro x. Well, here we go, guess got a new study out says darker summers could be ahead because fireflies are facing extinction.

That's right, we could live in a world, according a Toughs University in just outside Boston there, we could soon live in a world without the lighting bugs because of the planet apparently the climate to change their claiming and some other issues. They're pesticide, light, light pollution, whatnot. They say that it's happening all over the world, not just in places where this stuff is bad, but all over the world. Have you ever seen a firefly? Uh? No,

I don't think. I don't remember. I don't. I don't. I would think I would remember that because they're pretty pretty cool. Yeah, you're not a camper, are you? No? I was a kid. We went camping, but I after dark I stayed in the tent. She didn't go out. I didn't want to get eaten by a bear, surprise, surprise, and did not want that. All right, moving on here, this is study this, How about this one? Facing a complex decision, you should narrow your choices down to how many? Three? No?

According to the study too two. You should narrow your choices down to two, and that will help you make the the better decisions. Study comes out of Switzerland, where I go for all my my life decisions. I go to Switzerland. But according to the study there that suggesting. They say to narrow your choices down to the two most promising options, and that will help you make a

decision as quickly as possible. According to Basil Universities Center for Decision Neuroscience, there you go, well I do that anyway, don't most people do that just by you know, the way you're wired. You you have a bunch of options to say, all right, let's limit all these let's get a fifty fift shot at getting this right. I've always

done that. I was just thinking like a restaurant, because isn't it kind of the norm for restaurants where you have your most important item or the best featured one in the middle, and you have everything at the top on the bottom. So you have it broken down to three different categories. Well, isn't it the stuff you that you can make the most profit on you have featured. Isn't that usually how it works? Yeah, that's usually the

middle middle. So well, it's kind of like when you go to the store and the cheapest stuff that the name brand products the big companies are near the top at your eyeball level, but the generic brand products are at the bottom. But it's the same stuff, but it's at the bottom because you don't usually look at the bottom. But that but the only place in the in the supermarket, of the grocery store where that's different. You know where

it is? Or is that the cereal aisle because kids, their line of eyesight is lower, so they put the good cereal and the really sugar filled cereal that they want kids to eat, they put that. The prime real estates at the bottom, like the lie, like the first two parts of the the the aisle there the lower part, not for the kids. I have not had cereal in a long time. I was always a cinnamon toast crunch kind of guy. Yeah, I liked cinnamon toast crunch. I

loved those little chocolate chip cookies. I thought, oh my god, you can have chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. How amazing is that? And then I learned later on, you're not supposed to have little chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. But I like Captain crunch. I was a big Captain crunch guy. Gotta eat that quick, they'll get soggy fast. Cheer No, my dad likes cheers I cheeros are so boring, well, honey nut. Yeah, he just liked regular cheerios. How boring

is that? Then my mom would she because my dad liked cheerios, So my mom would serve cheerios, but then she would mix in fruit to kind of dress it up a little bit. Now, so it didn't seem so depressing eating cheerios. That's fine. What about life? Life was pretty good too, didn't It was not a big life guy. I ate, Uh, what was it? Fruity pebbles or whatever

that was? Did? Were just all sugar? Well, that was all every when I was a kid, every serial they treaded as much sugar as they could into the cereal. It was it was a race to get as much sugar in as they possibly could, which says a lot about my generation. But anyway, brand awareness new survey out gascon ranks the top thirty most recognizable logos in the United States of America in the year twenty twenty. Let's just see. I forget the top thirty because we don't

have time for that. How about top three or top five? Which when you wanted to top five? Let me go with five. Let's do Facebook. No. McDonald's yes. McDonald's is number two, the second most recognizable brand in America. What's that Nike? Yes, Nike's number four on the list. Um? Is Twitter too obvious? Twitter is not in the top five. In fact, Twitter's number sixteen on the list. Those dummies in the media like us. We think Twitter is the

end all bill, but most people aren't even on Twitter. Yeah, that's true, that's true. Um, Apple, Yes, Apple? What do you think Apple is? Well, I think you're gonna go there. So is Apple number one? Yeah? Apple is number one. The most recognizable brand in the United States is Apple. That's pretty powerful. McDonald's is number two. What do you think number three is? Um, Nike's what four? Nikes? Four? Yeah? Three? Gosh, Um, I don't know. That's that's a good question. How about

it's something to do with a product you would drink. Oh, gatorade? No, no, not Gatorade. Um, I don't see Gatorade on this Um, I don't see him on the list. Don't they have the good logo? Anyway? I don't know what is it? It is. Coca Cola is still number three, solid the list. Nike's number four, Number five is Java, Starbucks Cup of Joe. Starbucks is number five, Google's number six, Facebook seven, addas eight, Amazon nine, and YouTube number ten. No longer a top

ten item. Pepsi not in the top ten anymore. They've been bumped out by the tech companies. Disney not in the top ten, the car companies like Mercedes, Ford, Toyota not in the top ten. But I've been reading a lot about millennials now choosing to rent as opposing to buy. So that's uh, it's a change. And like you said, the generations pepsi because they can't afford to buy right that,

they don't want to put the money into it. And plus you've gotta be tied down usually when you buy a place, and you gotta be there for a long time, and all that right, I need to find a wife. You need to find a sugar mama, is what you're not? Great? Well, Santa Anita is right around the corner. We can make that happen. Oh, you could definitely find a sugar mama down at Santa Anita. I mean that is a no brainer. Alright.

A new study from M I T reveals that particles from the average sneeze they've now terman can travel blank number of feet a M I T study Now, no, no, twenty five ft twenty five ft gascon Now you you should that's a garcia. That's what Eddie does. He goes too high. He ruins the game. It's a bad job by you. Terrible. Is a pretty large, pretty large area A couple of size of a free throw line to the basket. Yeah, Like an NBA court is nine ft by fifty so it's half of the width of an

NBA court. Right, that's a long that's a long distance. Does that include the coronavirus? M Yeah, I'm sure includes everything. Everything is all part of the package. See, we're short on time here because we spent a lot of time playing the grab ass. Let's see here any other studies that stand out that I really want to get to. I gotta study about babies. Super Bowl, I know it came and went. There was a study out that found that the most popular Super Bowl food I think we

talked about this. Did we talk about the most popular being No? I don't think we did. Cocktail wieners most popular. Yes, cocktail weeners the most popular. They beat out chicken wings and all the other food and that you get there. And they also there was a study that claimed that people that go to Super Bowl parties say that they go more for the food than to watch the game. What did you have for the Super Bowl? I don't have a kitchen. I I ate Chinese food take out.

Chinese food is what I ate. And I had some peanuts and peanut m and m's in the crap like that. This was not a great Super Bowl food eating experience. I went to les Seals. I was thinking about giving you a call, but I figured you got the show that night. So badness is not a good weekend. This past weekend I could not cannot get out much and move around, so I was home quite a bit. All right, do we have any don't stick to sports stories the week? Guess? Yeah?

How about this one. A woman in her entire family went on vacation when a few neighbors started hitting them up with calls and text messages and whatnot, and the woman said that she was getting pictures sent to her that her car had been booted in her own driveway. So one of the photos that she actually shared online, uh, showed her car was was not just one, but there was two boots on her car, the front and back end of her vehicle once she was gone on vacation.

But this is in front of her own house. So no hold on, But she did she need to get booted? Did she have a bunch of parking tickets and all that, or was it a mistaken identity situation? Yeah, that was a mistaken identification. Um, she was on vacation the homeowners association, and um they had some parking rules that were instituted and a resident with no resident permit would be subject to a boot. So although she was yeah, yeah, so she got the boots. So she was in front of

her own house. But that's another reason, guest, and the moral of this story is to never live with a homeowners association. It's the worst. I the first well not the first Mallard mansion that I bought was a condo, oh right right in your Dodger Stadium downtown l A. And I love the location. But the homows insurance what a fucking nightmare? How much was these people are? And

uh no, never again. And I will for the rest of my life, if I'm lucky to live a long life, I will never again buy a place where the homeowners group done, zippo, Never gonna happen. They're not getting a dollar of my money, not a dime. Yeah, it's a huge rip off. Paying for security and the well being of the property and the parking and the dressing of the house is nuts. It's a it's a game. How

about this? A Brazilian man was arrested last week for dressing up as a sixty year old mother so that he could take her driving test after she failed it multiple times. Now that is love? Is that not love? Didn't do anything for your mom? Maybe that's a good son right there? He's illegal. Put that's I mean, that's he's going missed doubt fire to try to get his mom a driver's license. That's pretty cool. And he looked the part two, which is great at the wig the

attire the whole nine yards. So how did he get caught? Um? The driving and stretcher noticed that they that he didn't look the same as it was in his I D. So he did a full up and down of the guy. It was like like you said, that's Mrs Down fire your pop. So he's out. That's a that's great, there you go. I wonder how much you spent on that get up. It's money wasted, right, unless you went to like Walmart or something like that, you can pull it off.

How about this A drunk British mother left stop right there? This is comedy gold. Drunk British mother doesn't get any better than that. She left her seven year old daughter on a flight to go have sex with a stranger who left her a drink, basically a note that had hey, um, let's join the mile high club. Here's a drink and here's a note attached to it. So she's on the flight with her kid. Yeah did she do the act? Wow? And uh and and and she got arrested? Yes, yes,

she got the whole night. Well we know about it, so she obviously got arrested, right. Yeah, the mom I guess to repeately offered to perform oral sex uh with the guy. Uh. What kind of mat man? Mama, I mean, I believe these moms today. Man, they're not like moms when I was a kid. What's up with that? How about this one? I think you'll appreciate this one. Um,

we're talking about politics earlier. Uh, liberal white women and are paying twenty dollars to go into an event called the Race to Dinner, which is basically an event for white women, UH to have their subconscious challenged on racism. Fifteen events so far been held across the United States. That includes UH, the city of Denver, and it started back in the spring of two thousand nineteen. So a couple of women, one is an Indian American, another one

is black. They're the host of this dinner, but they basically invite women in that are white so that they can challenge their subconscious on racism. Twenty dollars to intend to say, you know what this really is. It's not about racism, it's about stupidity. And and if if somebody pays money to go to this, you are a moron. This is a roar shock test for stupidity. And if you've paid money, what kind of assholes go to this thing. Yeah, I mean, can you imagine? I mean, it's like a

placement test for stupidity, is what it is. And here's the best part. Dumb, dumb white men and or Trump voters are not invited as they are perceived to be lost causes. Always that right, Yes, the evil white mind must be stopped at all acrost Absolutely, it's a wonderful world. Oh man, how about this would last one? A seventy two year old woman uh was charged as she stabbed her boyfriend in the face with scissors during an argument

over sleeping arrangements while she was extremely drunk. Should have got a sleep number? Did he got a sleep number? Wouldn't worry about that he has sleep number? Bad. It's a bad job by her, Oh boy. At least she didn't use like a butcher and now she used to use like a kid scissors or like a full on adults. They're full on adult scissors. At two thirty in the morning, she decided to grab a shank. The scissors are just as bad as a knife. Ben, I think I got

butcher's knife. You know I'm in the kitchen. You're not a cook like me, gu cook? And when I have a kitchen and I've cut my finger with a button with a butcher's knife. Ball man, I did that cut my finger off one time with a butcher's knife cutting. I think I was I was cutting either I think it was either a steak or an onion, and it slipped and uh, I don't even forget. I just remember the blood pouring out of my fingertip and thinking, oh,

this is not good. And you feel that. You know when you cut yourself, you feel that warmness, Yeah, when the blood starts gushing out of your your injury, and it's like, wow, this is pretty gnarly, man, this is brotal. I did that earlier this week cutting an onion and it's bled all over the place. You made the onion and it had a little catchup on it, and you were good. I made some amazing plant based meatballs that were stuffed with onions and bell peppers and shives. It

was really good. Anytime I hear that, I hear west side of l a base, the plant base side strikes something different. Cant you appreciate what I do my blinary expertise. I made hush puppies one time. That was really good. I'll make you some hush puppies. They're solid, serious corn hush puppies. Man, those are plants based corns. A plant, right, Hey, listen until you start making your your Philly cheese steak. I'm off the reservation. I've made the cheese steak. Is

that not great cheese steak? The mallar man, You've never had it. No, I've never had it. You never had it. No. The last time I went over there was for the Christmas party. We made the fajitas. Yes, I'll make I love the cheese steak. I make it just like I'm like. I worked with Tony Bruno's I'm like from South Philly because Tony rubbed off on me back in the day. Award winning Tony Bruno by the way, the great Tony. I love Tony. Tony is a good man. He's on the A list. I'm not on that A list. I

don't win those awards anything else. Guess that is it with close up shop with those alright? Another business like impartial uh well by me, an objective by me edition of the Fifth Hour as we will do it again next weekend. Who knows we might even have the XFL Benny versus Man that would be like a test run to see if anyone downloads that version of the podcast. I will consider doing it, but have a great weekend.

We'll be back. I will be on the radio Sunday night into Monday to a m in the East eleven pm on Sunday night in the West, and we'll catch you then