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we are bloviating the weekend away. Now this podcast makes it eight days a week. This is the Saturday Podcast, because four hours on the overnight during the week each night are not enough. And we are back at its slaving away over the hot microphones here yet again, joined by the very polarizing the lightning Rod, the troll Will Maker David Gascon. You don't need to do that. You don't need to do that just checking us sea or

not splitting at them here, Ben, But we are splitting stocks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's uh. You know, you've gotten to an age where you're you're now really keeping an eye on the stock market, and you're like, okay, let's see, how can I make some money here? How can I how can I figure out how to beat the system? It's it's legalized gambling, right, That's exactly what it is. It is the government. It's taboo in a lot of It was taboo for a long time to put a bet down like on the Bengals.

You know, you couldn't do that. We should never been on the bank with anybody but just an NFL team. But then like all of a sudden, like hey, now, but gambling, betting on a company to make it is fine. Betting on a sports team to do something that you can't do that. But now now fortunately that's turned around a little bit and the people have embraced They've made a deal with the devil and they've embraced that. But yeah, the stock market interesting up and down, roller coaster, roller coaster.

So uh. We had Coatino Mobley on yesterday's podcast. Catino former Clipper legend and now working at Fox Sports Radio, and and oh that was good to talk to Coatino and get his thoughts on the NBA coming back, and I loved what he said. My favorite part of that was when he talked about the Rockets and why it didn't work when they had Barkley, Pippen and Elijahan and his other all. Barkley was eight hundred pounds or whatever, Elijahlan was forty, and you know Pippen was you know,

the ho they gave the whole thing. Yeah, it just made me because part of the thing that you asked him too was just the state of the game. And and I asked about the product of it, and you know, he said it candily. He'd be lighting it up nowadays if he was playing in this era. And it makes me think of quarterbacks from years past, like Elway and Marino and Jim Kelly and Joe Montana. They have some gaudy numbers in the NFL now if they were a lot of playing today's game. Well, yeah, I mean just

because defensively, you're in basketball, you're not allowed to play defense. Really, the hand check that was like the last the last frontier. Once they got rid of the hand check out of the NBA, it was it was on like Donkey Kong, you could do whatever the hell you wanted now in basketball. And but Catino Mobile in particular, I mean, he he was his game was like today's players, but they didn't let him usually, you know, do a lot of that stuff because because of you know, coaches trying to play

it my way. Now, now my way is the way that Katino he would be perving for him with the with the win the game is anyway. All right, So today's podcast, we've got the fastest man in the room. All right, you ready for that. You don't know what that is. That's a little surprised they're the fastest man in the room. We have pop quiz as well. Study

this is also on the agenda, study slash survey. This mostly study this this weekend and probably do be or not to be, depending on the time, and then we'll have If we don't do it today, we'll have it for the Sunday one, and then we also have the mail bag on Sunday. I'm good with that. There's a lot of people that actually like the B or not the BE, So it's I don't think that's true. I think it is what I get in random d m

s about stories that were just posted. I'm like, hold on, hold on, I can't I can't see these, I can't look at these, and I can't be tempted to send them to you because then obviously you'll know the the oh, so you now this is good. So the be or not to be is forcing you to not send me every story on the Babylon BE. I like that. So that's good because there was a period where all you would do anytime they posted something new over there, you

would send me the most trusted name in fake news. Well, there's my hope that one day you would read it and take it as gospel and as truth, and maybe you stumble upon it on air or while you're on air and then just read it verbatim like it's truth. Now, you don't know. There's a rumor going around that you know somebody at the Babylon B. That's why you love it so much, But you you don't, Is that true? You know? Do you have a friend there? No? No,

I do not. That's unfortunate. I have connected a few times with one of the guys that runs Freezing Cold Takes, which is the social media handle forgot oh you have Yeah, yeah, yeah that guy. You guys a loser, he's good. Um. I have not connected with anyone from Babylon B or the Onion. Um, those are those are great spots. Man Like satire is a lost art in today's world, especially because people get so triggered on certain ship Yeah boom,

just like that. Yeah all right, you know this the people to your show, some of the people who work on the show. It's it's that's just the way it is. I mean, I I understand. It's the way of the world. I get it, all right. So let's get going on this fastest man in the room. All right. Now, you probably think I'm going one direction, but I'm gonna zig and I'm gonna zag is what I'm gonna do. I I don't like to pat myself on the back. That's

more your thing. Gascon. But uh, while being peppered with photos of fried chicken sandwiches and piles of fries and four pattied triple double cheese burgers, uh and getting chili cheese fries photos sent my way, Well, all that was going on. The fastest man in the room, not the fastest in the foot race. But when it comes to not eating, when being dedicated to the fasting lifestyle, that is a ding ding ding ding ding, that is a winner in in my department, I completed. I've been fasting

for a couple of years. It's it's my thing, it's my michigas. But I completed now the second longest fast I have ever been a party two uh in my fasting period of my life. And I tweeted to you and I believe you call me a fucking idiot. I believe is what you called me. But I I fasted for eighty seven hours in twenty five minutes. Uh, the from Saturday night to Wednesday, I did not, did not eat,

did not didn't he have. Yeah, I can't hear you, bag, because you've got a thousand people of calling you an asshole right now. No, I don't know why. Why would I be calling it? Says, it's just showing you willpower, dedication, and grit. When my person I do a podcast with is openly trying to distract me and sending me pictures of chocolate chip cookies, chewy chocolate chip cookies and all these other things, I mean, it's just it's just not well,

hold on, hold on. First of all, we even had this conversation last week with Dave Rubin, like some of the finer spots or spots that we'd like to go to here in l A and particularly Mexican food, we haven't had that for the longest of times. So you know, you look at pictures and you know it's something you want to get, right, cheese fries. Yeah, but this like five nights a week you, I mean, look at some

pretty girls or something like what are you doing? Yeah, I mean most people go on Instagram and look at booty models. You go on there to look at big baskets of cookies. But what's wrong with you? I do both. I can't send those to you. You're married, You're happily married. So it's you know, I can't do that. You know, let's send those to the rest of my friends that I connected. So I'm out of the loop because I'm married. I don't get to look at beautiful people. What's up

with that? No, you you're not at the loop. It's just you go down that path. So I'm on the food I'm on the food I'm on the food list, but not the Oh my god. Yes, I think it's only fair right now. You get you get food and you get Babylon be that's what you get there you go fun fact, by the way, guests got the eight seven hour, five minute fast and I complete it. This week. I was able to work out every day. Yeah, Well, I mean I went, I went on long walks and

Hunter dwree weather, So I consider that a workout. Uh you know it's five six seven mile walks or whatever, so that's to me, that's a workout. And then because I'm not going back to the gym, certain unless they go back to the way they were, which I doubt that will happen, but maybe it will. Um, so I was able to work out. And then this is the

second longest. The longest fast I've ever had was a little over ninety hours, and that was only because I was in the hospital and I had my gall bladder taken out and they would not let me eat solid foods or any food for that matter. Uh. I just know I was on a water a regiment, which is why I normally do anyway. But when I came in, I didn't eat it for like two days. When I went to the hospital and they were like, all right, you can't eat for another you know, cup until we

have operation or whatever. And so I I was unable to eat. And then the other fast I had it was really long, was I was in Boston doing stuff for w E I, and I was just I was doing the what was it seven eight hours of radio a day because I was doing the three or four hour EI show and then I had the overnight show that I had to do, so I had no time to eat, so I just didn't eat. And my wife wasn't there to force me to eat, so I just did not eat most of I finally broke it, like

the next to last day. I was in Boston for the entire week, and I I finally just said, I got and I like a whole pizza. I like an entire pizza by myself in the hotel room that was pre pandemic. I could have gone out, but I just stayed in the hotel and made the whole damn pizza in with it. But I loved it. Now, did you not? Did you cap off this last fast by having a nice two and a half pound Tomahawks steak? You know, that's a great question, guess, and I'm gonna I'm gonna

refrain from answering that right now. I'm gonna refrain from answering that right now. I mean maybe I'll get do it in a future podcast. You know, I really appreciate it if you could answer it now, Like that's that's kind of what I'm It's all about you. You're trying to make it all about No, I'm not trying to make it about me. Yeah, all about you was about you. It was for you, and it was like five months ago, so it wasn't five months ago, and it's it's it's

right now, paused. The steak is paused in the freezer. It paused, and I will thaw the steak out and I will have here's the problem. You know, you should do you play my wife because every weekend when I plan on having a nice barbecue, she's like, all right, we're gonna go on a road trip up Highway one through California because not everything's closed, or we're gonna, you know, go go somewhere, go swimming at our my in laws pool, you know, my father in law's pool, whatever, So that

kind of stuff on the weekends. But uh, the reason I was able this is great too. The reason I was able to pull off an eighty seven hour fast this week is because my wife was so busy with work she forgot what day of the week it was. And I normally eat on Tuesdays. The day I eat,

she thought Tuesday was Monday. She was so twisted around. So, you know, normally we have dinner or lunch together on Tuesday, that's the meal, and she thought it was Monday, so she didn't eat, and I didn't eat, and I didn't tell her. Of course I didn't say anything. Yeah, because I was like, oh, this is great, this is I can do a super long fast enough, she's not gonna notice. She's gonna go to work all night. And then yeah, and it worked out perfectly. That's good because you guys

have some awesome you guys have some quirky hours. So yeah, that makes perfect sense. We're both we're both working overnight. But she's working, Um, she's at the police station, so she's got to go down there and do the nine one one thing. And but she she goes in earlier and then um, you know, when she goes in, I start getting ready for the show and all that. But she's there long long, you know, police long shifts. Yeah.

That's part of the reason why I feel like there's a good connection with it with me and your wife is because we actually drive to work to do our work. Like we go, we go the Human the Human Dynamo. David guess right, let me let me give you some crocodile tears. Here, can I you want some crocodile tears. I'll give you some crocodile tears if you want. I got plenty of them. Yeah. 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 Good eight seven hours is that's strong man's proud of it. But you know, and I might go the next couple of days just to one meal a day, you know, kind of get my body back a little bit, and then uh then get back next week to a

to a long one. Now, there are parts of your day though that you feel a little bit agony, right, Like there's that hump that you need to get over for like an hour or maybe a couple of hours. Yeah. Usually for me, I've noticed it's somewhere around like the twenty hour mark. And then it's kind of like your stomach is kind of like talking to you, like, hey, give me, give me a piece of pizza, give me a cheese cheese steak, you know. But then after that you kind of calm down and as one of my

My philosophy is on life, his mind over matter. If if you don't mind, it don't matter, right, So if you know, just kind of keep powering through and all that and uh, and so that's what I've I've tried to do. But so as do you have a target weight now that you have in mind? No? I I I. My wife's like, hey, you're too skinny and all that stuff. I know I'm fat. You know I'm fat. I'm so fat.

I uh, you know, once you get in the fight the fat mindset, you don't know this guess come, but once you get become that was fat for most of my life. Like, yeah, I always I think of myself as I think I'm like eight pounds. I'm not. I've lost a lot of weight and I'm probably not that far away from my target weight. But I don't want to stop. I'm a little worried. I I probably should. At some point. I'm just gonna have to stop doing these long fast and just eat one meal a day,

and then I think that'll be fine. That kind of leveled off, maybe even two meals some days, you know. And but I'm not at that point yet. I'm not at that point yet. And then I'm I'm always paranoid. Like when you lose weight, you get new clothes, and then you gain the weight back, and then you get the old close back, and then you got rid of them, and then it's like this yo yo type thing that happens, which is a which is a pain in the ask,

But there are worse problems there. Yeah, of course, and there's plenty of upside of losing that weight for obviously initial health and health down the road too. So yeah, you hope, you hope, but you know, hell knows anyway. All right, So we have pop quiz here, guest gun, enough about me, Not that I wouldn't like to make this all about me. I know that's a guest gun playbook type move, but you know I was exciting to

congratulate you. The next thing I didn't say was I want to know what your b M. I was your body mass index? So I think we can talk about that next go down. Maybe we could talk about that over some steak and whiskey. How about that? There? You go there, who doesn't need steak? And yes, you don't need to bang on the table. We'll need to bang on the table. A little frustrated with you. Yeah, all right, pop quiz, I will quiz guest. Go on, here we go,

and you can play along the whole way. This bit works. Not to be some kind of charlatan. We just want you to pretend that you are answering the question and then you can. Don't do anything devious. Don't pause it and then google the answer because I think it's hard to find these answers. I think I don't know, maybe maybe they're easy to find. All right, anyway, here it is so. This nineteen eighties video game was based on

a popular movie. It was so bad. How bad was it that thousands of unsold and return copies were buried out in the desert. They expected this to be a massive hit, and it was terrible. I played the game, but I don't know if it was. Um, this is a famous story. This is one. If you ever know what I'm talking about, you would remember. It was an abject failure, man utter incompetence. The people that made the video game, they were out worked and destroyed. Well I

was gonna say Jaws, but it's not Jaws. No, No, it's it's not. It is not just this. Let me give you a clue here there's a couple of things in this this movie that that stood out. There was a type of candy and a famous scene with a bicycle. Yeah, look at you. You got that about that? You remember remember the scene with the bicycle and the et was in the front there and and then and it wasn't

Eminem's was supposed to be. They wanted Eminem's, but Eminem's didn't want to be in it, right, it wasn't that, so they went with the other the competitor there and what so long ago it is. I know it's a long time ago, but Reese's Pieces, like you know, I was, it might have been alive. But if I was alive,

as I might remember, I might not remember. I recall the the we all want to eat Reese's Pieces, because really, I want to be like that in the movie, you know, we want to be eating the Reese's Pieces and all that. Great great product placement, great product placement. One of the first that really nailed product placement was E. T. The Extraterrestrial, but not the video game. Not the video game, because that was crummy and it was a rinky dink operation.

All right. Only nine of couples say their partner never does it never, meaning that the vast majority say this happened. What is it? Um cooks them dinner? Uh, So you think that not only nine never cook the other person dinner. I think that's much higher than that. But I'm gonna say you're wrong, and I'm gonna tell you the right answer is that they steal the blankets or covers. This is a big problem. It does take place in the Mallard mansion. Not gonna lie to you. And you don't

have to worry about this, guest. It's one benefit of being a bachelors. You do not have to worry. Well, I guess maybe occasionally when you're in a booty call or something like that, but but other than that, you don't have to worry. You get all the covers. Yeah, but I'm a light sleeper, Like I don't sleep with a ton of covers. I have a sheet and that's it. Like I I my engine runs pretty hot. I'm never you know, in a day with sheets and covers and

the whole nine yards. Well, I also as men were warm blooded, and women generally are more warm blooded than women. But I also have warm blooded But I like it's weird because I like the feeling of the comfort of covers. But I don't like getting hot, so I like to make it as cold. It's like an ice box when I'm sleeping, So that way I can have a couple

of blankets on top there because I like it. But then it's I still get hot and I have to take them off eventually because it gets too hot in the middle of the night, or at our case, the middle of the day, because sleep during the day, and it really gets hot in the middle of the day. All right, especially this time of the year. Of people have been mad at someone for this what is it? Uh um, hanging up on them? Hung up? No, this is this is even more crazy because it's not something

the person actually did. People have been mad at another person because of something that that person did in a dream. In a dream. Now, this has never happened. If I don't dream very much, I'm not a dreamer. I don't get to that deep enough stage of sleep. I I am a terrible sleep right, blame my parents. Um, so I don't really and plus I don't remember. Most people don't remember their dreams more than five minutes after they wake up. My wife, though, she remembers all day, her dreams.

So are you a Are you a dreamer? I am at times, but man, I dream a lot about my past for some reason, like either events or people regret regrets. Yeah, that's too and and there or is the old Bruce Springsteen sun Glory Days or any know, flash back to your high school football days and so you know, wasn't Meg Ryan and that in that video and Glory Dance? I don't know. I don't remember the video I forget,

but yeah I do. There are sometimes that. Yeah, when people pop up in my dreams, I wake up piste off, Yeah, like why are you? Why are you in this dream? I haven't taught to you, haven't thought about you in the longest of time, And then they'll pop up and get One of the cool things though about dreams is when you lose somebody close to you and they're alive in your dream. That's kind of cool. That's like they're

back alive, you know. I was like, that's kind of neat, you know, it's like you can come back from the dead, you're you're in the dream. That's that's a neat thing, little sentimental and soft about you. Man, that's kind of and also wholeish at the same time because dead people coming back a cob all right. Only a third of Americans say they don't bother, Actually not only about a third of Americans say they don't bother to buy this because it's too expensive. About a but a fire extinguisher.

That is incorrect. The correct answer is fruit. Fruit is food is not that expens depending on what you get, but it's usually pretty cheap. The only thing that really prices up Kiwi's and Easonel blueberries. But you can get like a watermelon five bucks and that thing old. I mean, depending on how big it is, You're You're good. That's a lot of you know, it's water pretty much just water mixed in but anyway, all right, that's why they call it water. A survey asked what's your favorite childhood

summertime activity? And spending time with friends was number on. What was number two? Uh, camping kind of I feel like this is related to number one. Number two was bond. Well, you grew up west of the four or you probably a lot of bonfires. Your silver spoon existing is born on third base. You probably had that. I did not. I did not have a lot of bonfires growing. It's one thing to be born on third base. It's another

thing to scores. Either way, you're scoring. So yeah, let me tell you because when you're west of the four or five, you got sealed each you got Bolsa Chica Beach, you got Malibu, you got Santa Monica, you got Venice like you got all these wonderful places west of the flour five that you don't have when you're closer to Arizona than I am. So yeah, during the summertime, even during the fall and early winter, you can go out there and have a bonfire, some s'mores. You know, you

can grill up whatever you want. Uh, it's it's good times. Ben. I thoroughly encourage you to do it at least once in your life. Yeah. Right now, you're gonna leave California like Joe Rogan, are you gonna take off? I saw if I had that kind of bank roll, I would definitely consider it. Consider Where would you go? Woud you go? He's going to Austin? I don't. I don't know if he's going to Austin, but I would go to Scottort Yes,

Newport Newport Beach. People, Well, if I made a lot of money, if I really like they treated me well, and I gave me like ridiculous radio money. I would move to Florida because that's the for tax reasons. I guess Texas also, but Florida. They always tell you financially, to save your money, go to Florida. Yeah, but see here. The thing is that you would have to get up and go over so often because the hurricane season. That's fine. If I had a lot of money, you know whatever,

it would be good getting gig insurance. And you know, now, is there any particular spot because Florida is obviously a big state with So would you rather be like in St. Pete Tampa or do you want to be in Miami the Keys? Uh? You know, I've been. I was there when the Dodgers said a spring training in Florida for the Grapefruit League. So I've been around a little bit. I haven't spent any time in the Tampa area, so

I don't really know the Tampa area that well. I've been to Orlando and all along the what do they call it the Gold Coast, I think they call it. They're a Florida Vero Beach and in towns Jupiter, in those places down to Miami and I've spent some time in Miami. I actually wonder like across the state, like Fort Myers, that area on the other side. Uh, I've heard some good things about that. Oh you know. The one that would be really cool be kind of like

living in Hawaii or something. Then would be the Florida Keys. Yeah, that would be like the end of the world. That's where people go kind of get away. And I've seen the photo we have. We've had some listeners Malamosha guys that worked at hotels there and send me emails. We were pen pals. Uh not anymore. But forty keys would be pretty cool. That's that's about at the end of the road, I say, you know as uh as Kyrie Irving would say, that's the end of the flag. That's

that's right there. Anyway, like what we got carried away, we started with bonfires and we ended up talking about moving to Florida. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Okay, only twelve percent of women. As we continue pop quiz, only twelve percent of women say they've done this since the pandemic started. Shaved the only thing funny than that would have been taken a shower. And

uh no, the answer is where high heels, which makes sense. Right, you're not going out, you know, you go to out, you go out to impress. Most women go out to where high heel still look good and impress men and other women, right, but you're not really there's no need to impress anybody, uh for a zoom call or a video. And you know it's just the makes sense. Some women that are tall were high heels just so they can kind of exert that that that the dominance over men.

Inner Amazon, Yes, all right, since people have been quarantined. Here's another question similarly that because people have been quarantining because of the pandemic, sales of this particular product are way down. Oh um, dude, that's a good question. Um, way down. Can't be alcohol, and it can't be cigarettes. This is an item that is usually found in the bathroom, something something you use. Most people use this deodorant. Yes, deodorant sales have gone on the toilet. You own stock

and deodorant companies. People aren't buying deodorant because hey, my arm pits stink. Who cares, I'm not around anybody. I can smell all I want. That's true. That's true. It's pretty interesting. It is alright. Moms do this when punishing their kids. My mom is in this may she rest in peace. Slap their kids, slap their kids corporal punishment, your mom beat up as a kid gets kicked by my parents. I only had it happened a couple of times. But I can still close my eyes and feel the belt.

I can still feel. And the cool thing is they only had to happen one time, and the rest of my childhood I learned my life just the you're mentioned of, Hey, you're you know when you're dad, My dad at that time was working outside me. When your dad comes home, He's gonna take the belt, you know what. I'm like, Oh my god, that was it. Yeah, that was it. Whatever I was doing, I stopped doing. But now of

mothers do this when punishing their kids. Use the child's full name, us, the middle name, and the full first name, and that is a dagger to the heart of a kid. You know you have fucked up? You know are you? You are now a sworn enemy of your parents, that you are a low life in the eyes of your mom. If if she uses your first middle and your fur full first name middle name. Oh my god, my mom. When my mom did that, I knew I had stepped in it. I knew it. Now did that? Did that

happen or does that happen to you nowadays? Not like obviously getting busted, but like when men call you, do men call you Mallard? Or do they call you Ben? Oh? The worst is like when people call me sometimes Mr. Mat Oh my god, I feel a thousand years old when they when that happens. Uh, that's that's the one that really gets under me. The Mr Maller. No, no, don't do that. No, please stop. I don't want to hear that. I'm not a Mr. I don't know that will ever be a Mr. Mr Mr Maybe anyway, Yeah

that would. But you think mom's like there's like a mom's secret mom club and they all tell each other all right when your kid acts up? Used the first full first name, full obviously middle name, and then last name. But that's what I was curious about, because like people call me by my men call me by my last name,

and women call me by my first name. Oh okay, yeah I call you, Yeah, I call you guest gun yeah, gage females, David, it's not something curious about because you mentioned it, like, yeah, yeah, I'm usually I think I'm more of a last name guy. I usually. That's that's just how I do it with people. If you have a good if you're last name is like Smith or something something in Jerich, I don't really do it. But if you have an interesting last name, all like Tom Looney.

I talked to a lot Looney, you know, but that's Looney. You know, That's that's how you do it. Yeah. Then that guy leaklined we had in the podcast, I just go prints of darkness. That's what I just do that. And the hacks off we had on I just say, haxhall, Yeah, that's it. I don't lee or whatever. You all right of us say that we have done this before going into the grocery store. Um eating, no taking up two parking spaces and a lot. Come on, who does that?

Na kettle? One of those guys. When I go to the grocery store, I park furthest away from most of the traffic. And that's because you get jackasses that will take their cards and never put them back into the into the car. The areas. Oh yeah, you're blaming of people. Saw my fault. It's other people's fault. Explain to you the time at work, back before the pandemic, when you parked your car taking up three spaces. Explain that one. First of all, it was two spaces, and so that

was the time you parked in three space. And second of all, I'm I'm still the one that's driving to work, So I don't think you should be taking shots at the Here we go again. Let me get my crocodile to drive driving shed. Those crocodiles drive at least seventy five miles to and from work. So I love Gascono. Questioning the parking lot pot calling the kettle back black. Is that's that? That's what that is right, and not to go racist with any of this, so I appreciate it.

Get away from that. Wow, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a big fan of drinking tea, and uh, I've been a teetotaler for many many You don't drink tea. I do when I when I have when I get sick, and you know how sometimes I get laryngitis, and I the only you know that I've got a problem with my voice when I drink tea to try to baby my voice. I don't even know if it works. I thought,

you go garlic. I do, but but sometimes before the garlic if I don't, If I'm at work and I can't have the garlic with me, I'll I'll drink tea. But I've been I've been healthier than ever since. I don't leave my house just amazing a lot I haven't. I haven't had any I might not get a cold this year or anything, because I'm just good to go. Not seven percent of us eat at least two meals a day in this particular manner. Do do do in this these two meals? Like there's something about with our

hands no utensils? All right, you're going caveman style? Uh No, the correct answer is on paper plates. Really, now, I when I was a bachelor, there was I usually just ate out, and when I ate it games because I was going to games every night. But the times the teams were on the road and there were no games to go to and cover, I had paper plates. And I I went to Smart and Final and bought like a big thing, like you know, seven paper plates, and that thing lasted me. I lived by myself and I

obviously it lasted me for years. I had paper plates and I did most of my meals. I ate at the original Mallard mansion was just a small apartment in Hollywood. I ate off paper plates. Yeah, that's so, that's true. You're your West of the four or five, so you probably have a fine china. I don't think there's anything wrong with having plates that you can wash and reuse and wash and reuse again. I kind of go from

start to finish. I don't like to damage the environment. So, oh yeah, I think environmentalists you think, yeah, I guess you and AOC are right at the top of the list. There. The world's gonna end in ten years, guests got science, science, No nobody ten years from now. We'll look back at that when it doesn't end. But anyway, percent of us that drive have done this at some point in our driving career. What's what what total pop quiz? We have driven on our destination with a flat tire. That's a

good one, and I've done that with the air. You're kind of really bad and it's you know, you shouldn't be on the driving that's not it though. This involves the gas station you've gone to the gas station, you filled up the gas tank, and then you drive off

without replacing the gas cap. Yeah. Now the other thing, and I've never had this happen, but I have seen videos on the internet which blows me away when people leave the gas station and still have the pump in the in the car and they and the gas stations have that, which is kind of cool. They have that breakaway you know too, where you drive away it snaps off and then you have to pay money to get it replaced. But but I've done that. I I have with the gas station, you know, the gas cap not on.

And the problem is the car that I have now, the Mallard Mobile. It's really it's been good because it's taught me to tell I have to lock the gas cap because it's it's some weird thing where if you start the car and the gas cap is not fully locked, you have to click it. Then there's a warning light that comes on on the dashboard and you can't get rid of the warning light until you go to the mechanic. There's something like it messes up something in the engine.

So it's, uh, I gotta I gotta make sure that I haven't I haven't done that. While it's a very bougie European car years that's kind of what happens with those things in electronics, so understandable. Understand I don't have a car that's worth as much as you. But but that's fine, all right. The nine seven Ford f one, speaking of cars, appears to be the last American vehicle to offer this feature. Um not available, not available, Yeah, the last one. Last lasting moans can't be diesel fuel?

Um can't be it to it? No, man, I don't know. I'm stumped on this one. Vent windows. They had the nine f one fifty head Vent windows. You can go on YouTube right now and there's there's the videos on how to like repair the vent windows which apparently have fallen apart. Obviously, cars for twenty plus years old at this point, and uh so, yeah, that was last the last one. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

This is what I think we've had before, but maybe not. There's a study out recently that shows that almost sevent of those participating in work conference calls do it from this particular room, uh bedroom, no bath bathroom. I was gonna say the bathroom. One in six participating in work conference calls are on the toilet. Man. I don't know how they get away with it, because the acoustics and the like. You'd get that giant echoes, so people ceiling, Yeah,

the tile floors usually that's a good point. All right. So that's it for popuas. Let's do a few study this and we'll we'll do be or not to be in tomorrow's podcast because because the time reasons, right, I think we have enough time for a few study this, all right, So what a waste? The average American waste over five hundred plus dollars on uneaten fruit every year. This is according to a new I believe that. Yeah, it could be more than that. I'm guilty of this.

But blackberries, that's racist. Blackberries, bananas and and sometimes apples I get away from and blackberries go they get bad really quick. The smartest fruit, I'm gonna tell you the smartest fruit right now, This is mallard logic. The smartest fruit is the banana, because the banana tells you it's going bad, and then you can make banana bread. Yes, right, that's the smartest fruit. The other fruits need to learn

that so they're not wasted. Right, It's harder to detect when the other fruits go bad and you can't really tell, but the banana you absolutely can tell. Yeah, that's good. It's a good choice. I h it's a multipurpose fruit too. I mean you can put that in banana split. You can obviously have it in a shake, and you have independently you put in cereal. You could have banana chips. It's pretty good. All right. Well, here's a myth busting new study that has just come to my attention here

at Gascon. This comes out of London, and there was a study done at the college there in London, and they have concluded that you know that that that thing. When I was a kid, this was a big deal. You know, if you if you put your kids in music, music makes you smarter. If you learn music, right, if you learn how to play the piano and some kind of musical instrument, you are smarter. Well, a new study has declared that teaching music with the sole intent of

enhancing a child's cognitive or academic skills is pointless. They concluded researchers from not only England in London, but also in Japan, concluded that music lessons do not offer any benefits regarding a child's cognitive skills or grades in school.

It's interesting because there's no there's no correlation. And I always read that with certain studies that if you studied with the music on a certain beat would be oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well I I with classical music, like That's what I'll do sometimes because then I also feel like I'm in a movie when you put classical music on the fine you know, it's kind of calm, Yeah, little Mozart or something like that, And I'll do that sometimes. No do

a lot, but occasionally a little background noise. I did it. I did it quite a bit over the last couple of months. Because there's no games to watch. I usually by my office I have in the studio here that I'm doing the show from. I have TV right here and I have the games on usually, but if there's no games, you know, it's some noise. I'll put on the background music. But there you go. So this is important.

If any of our younger listeners, the kids are listening and their parents are forcing them to take music, say hey, listen I'm not getting smarter. It's pointless. Now that said, I do think it's kind of cool to learn to play a musical instrument. I'm kind of jealous, like I didn't really I knew the player how to play the piano kinda not really, but like if you know how to sing or like Jay Scoop, like I got Jay Scoop and see how this guy knows how to sing

and play musical instruments and all that, it's great. Plus if you're a single guy, is there. I mean, that's one of the ways to really razzle dazzle little ladies right through the through the eyes of music. But what are you going? Are you going guitar? Are you going? Drums? Are you going? Piano? Isn't the one? The guitar would be the one that it's the most effective, I would think, right, yeah, I think the least effective's gonna be bagpipes. Pipes has

got to be the least. And then yeah, I think guitar is good. Piano. If you want to get a cougar, the cougars are coming, The cougars are coming. Yeah, And then I think I think that was a commercial gues scout before you were at Fox Sports Radio. Well, no, we had Cougar Love, didn't we No, we had Cougar Life was the website they were. They were one of my biggest sponsors. They bought it. They had a big

ad by and they got some venture capitals. I remember, Man, I'm wrong, but they got some venture capital and they bought the crap out of overnight ads on Fox and it was so the commercial was so over the top that Julio was my producer at the time and we we we took all these clips from them. It was so ridiculous. The cougars are coming, the cougars are coming, and it was like a guy in a bullhorn and uh it was. It was hilarious. Yeah, it was so. It was so. I love some of the commercials we get.

An overnight s Cowhert doesn't have to do. We had the Prey dot com ad by a Cup for a couple of weeks, which was I loved. I thought it was great. Galile in this bedtime Bible stories and I was, well, I was wonderful. I thought it was a great I love unique radio commercials. We don't get a lot of them, and when we do. I I am a big fan of them. I think it's cool. Yeah, no, it definitely is. All right. Here we go another study, well, the power of the Internet gascon and this is not surprising. I

believe this one. I don't think this is bullshit. I think this is weird. Just a few bad online reviews can mean the end of a restaurant. New research has shown that how negative postings on you know, Yelp and those kind of sites can can force businesses to just go under. Popular restaurants get even more popular, and restaurants with some initial low ratings end up getting more and more bad, bad ratings and then it affects business. Is

from Ohio State University. I believe this now. I I think a lot of those reviews are bullshit, and when I don't put much to locking them. My wife though again it's like the seventh reference to my but she when we're deciding, like we'll be traveling up the coast in California, going, you know, going up to this we were lately we've been going to central California, which is kind of cool. There's not many people there. It's deserted, it's it's neat, like San Louis, abys Ball that area.

It's a cool place to hang out. So we'll go up there and we don't know any of the restaurants, and so we'll be like, all right, She'll go on her phone and try to find a restaurant, and she will not go to a place that has bad reviews. But if it has really good reviews, she's, oh, that's cool, there's got great reviews. And I always say, well, it's probably you know, I can't trust those people. But but it doesn't affect initial low ratings. Does H doesn't delivery

body blow to H to the restaurant. Yeah. Some of the spots that I've been to remember, like back in the day going to Belmont Shore when some of the restaurants were opening, they would actually ask you to give them a Yelp review before they offered you dessert, or while they are waiting to get you to your dessert. Okay, so they'd asked for they'd asked for some kind of reviewer rating, and then on top of that, if you did tag them in it, then they give you a

discount your bill. Oh interesting kind we do when this ends, we have to go to that that one pizza place, that pizza porn place. You keep sending me in Chicago pizza place. That looks amazing, That looks good. That's man, Give me some of that. Give me some of that pizza, man. Yeah, the meat Lovers is I think fifty five minutes to make, and then I think just straight cheese is like forty five. But the Deep Dish, yeah, it takes a little while

to get done. That's that's solid. I've never had Deep Dish Chicago pizza up until like a year ago, two years ago, I think within the last couple years. I forget when I loved it. Oh, I thought when I first saw it, I was like, oh, this is crap, you know, because they put the tomato sauce on top and everything's backwards. But they really nailed at those people

from Chicago to right. All right. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Uh. Here's an here's a fun story. I guess on depression may have caused a woman to believe she was a chicken. Did you see did you see this story? You did? Not? All? Right? Good? This story has been making the rounds and uh, you always you hear these kind of anecdotal stories like and

you think, well, could this ever happen to me? But when life gets tough and you're in a bad spot, people have interesting ways of dealing with it. And you know, this is kind of related to depression. There's two hundred and sixty million people worldwide they estimate suffer from depression. Is very serious thing if you suffer it, and it's very sad. People have lost their lives and fallen victim

to depression and it sucks when it happens. And I think we all get a little depressed from time to time. I think that's just part of being alive. But anyway, so, uh, this is in the Dutch Medical journal. This comes from US. A fifty four year old woman unnamed of course for obvious reasons. Uh. She was found in her garden clucking and crowing like a rooster. This is actual condition. It's

called oh I don't know how. It says z O A and t h R O p Y, otherwise known as the delusion or behaving oneself is not a believing oneself is not human but animal man. But that that's pretty good. Yeah. They described the woman as being disoriented during the examination, while also reporting an unfamiliar sensation in her limbs as if they were not fit for her body, and she flapped uncontrollably. That's pretty wild. Oh my god.

And there's no photos of her. I have not if there are, I didn't really I did not find any photo. But shift four years old, so she's, you know, kind of the back not in the middle life, not really old, but kind of that transition from midlife to old life. And uh, that's what happens. Yeah, like that that that

one is odd. And then you these weird glitches in our in our bodies, like the stories of people going to sleep and waking up and learning a language they never knew were speaking in um An accent that they never spoken before. That stuff is like, what the fund

do we have? It makes you wonder if we have all of this ship in our heads and it's just like it's buried somewhere in there, and then some something goes wrong, something goes hey wire, and then it all comes out or some of it comes out, you know, alternate programming. Yeah, we don't maximize it, but we got the capacity for it. Yeah, because they've said that we don't use a lot of our brain. You wonder what

the rest of the brain has. What if it has all this other crap in there and we just you know, knowing how to tap it. So so, being a radio blow hard, would you rather have a different accent or would you rather know another language? Oh? I'd like to

know another language. I think it would be cool. Um, you know, living in California, Los Angeles, if I knew how to speak Spanish, I think that would be I know, I know Spanglish, yeah, but I don't really know Spanish, or going like going to Italy and being able to speak the native tong Italian, you know, that would be cool. Yeah, but I do know how to speak Canadian. God. Hey. But imagine though, if you're in l A as a national host and you have a British or Australian accent,

you could be so condescending. The people that actually hate you might just love you because your accent. Oh. Yeah, there was a guy when I was growing up, there was a guy in l A radio named Michael Jackson, not the musician, but you know, so Michael Jackson had this thick British accent and he was on KBC in Los Angeles and it was a big station at the time, was in the number one station, and whatever he said sounded authoritarian and like he sounded knowledgeable. But I don't

think he probably was that knowledgeable. He just sounded sounded knowledgeable,

you know, because he's because of the accent. But another thing is that when I when I first got into radio, I recall there were a lot of sports stations because w f A was very successful with Chris Russo and Francessa, Mike and the Mad Dog, and so they would just hire guys that had thick New York accents, thinking that's all you had to have to be good at sports radio, and so so like every like in you know, Phoenix, Portland's, Seattle, Dallas, you know, all these guys with these New York accents

were getting these these drivetime shows because he's dopey consultant. So well, yeah, it's working in New York, so maybe you need the New York accent. That'll yeah, that's good. Yeah, be be relatable. Well this is right up your alley west of the four oh five gasc. We have time for a couple more here. Uh. The headline on this pleasure yourself Heatonism is the key to living a happier life. According to a new say, this is really what you're all about, your your you're a heatonist, is what you

you'd admit that. I can appreciate that. And what do they say that that you sleep better? You sleep better when you sleep naked, like, you get into ram faster and you stay in ram longer when you sleep sound like sound like a hippie? Sound like hippy? Researchers in Europe say if you have a lot of self control, it might be time to rethink your life. A new study finds people who take the time for hedonism are

living happier lives and suffer less depression. That's good you're a fan of because because it agrees with your beliefs, variety, it is a spice of life. Ben Mallory, University of Zurich UH. They new new study out says they believe you know self control is vital to having a successful life. It helps prioritize your long term goals, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But the new research argues seeking pleasure and self indulgence positively impacts your well being. Are you that's what weekends

are for? Aren't there. I don't know. I worked the weekends. I couldn't speak intelligently with that playing the victor over the bottom of the deck. He plays the victor hey man when I I used to because there's so many reality TV shows out there now, but one of my favorite was a show called Temptation Island, and I think it was on Fox, but those that didn't watch it, it was basically, you had like ten couples and they

need to have ten single women ten single men. Obviously, everyone was like, great looking, you're all on an island. And they'd split the men up with the single women and the women up with the single men to see if they had succumbed to their temptations. And a buddy of mine who was, you know, very very straight down the middle, like very conservative, very monotone, he'd love the show and I had never seen him get geeked up

for a show in my entire life like this. And then I watched, I was like, this is just fucking amazing. Is you just see these couples that all of a sudden they're having a great time and then they see this video in a cam quarter of the significant other other having a better time because he's grinding on some girl or she's grinding on some dude, and they just look devastated. It's just it's amazing, you know, because they see what we see, we see what they see, and

it's just instant boom. Now did this friend of yours did he go like Petros? And do I know you're a big fan of Petros? Did he do those like Bachelor reviews on the show, on his own show or any No, No, I'm telling you this guy was like. This guy was strictly he's an accountant. He's very very like I don't want to say, he's definitely not outgoing. Is it very much like an introvert um. But he did two amazing things. That was the great the show that he picked I I loved, And um he actually

met his his wife to be at a nightclub. It was pretty wild, like those two things definitely out of the scope for him. Alright, last one on study this here we go living dangerously. I mean, let me turn this into a pop quiz question. Blank, percent of adults still don't wash their hands after using public bathrooms, even though we will have a pandemic, which thecentage of adults do you think leave the toilet and do not wash their hands. I'm gonna say this is high. I'm gonna

say it's like, that's way too high. According to this, twelve percent of adults still don't wash their hands after using the public bathrooms. Now they expell my theory on this guest. Count. All right, here's my theory. All right, if I don't touch the toilet and I don't touch the junk, I don't wash the hands. That's my theory. Meaning if I go up to a urinal, I'm the only one in the bathroom. I go up to a urinal, and obviously you wouldn't be flushing. But if I don't

touch anything, then why do you need to wash your hands? Well, for a couple of a couple of different reasons, you're not. You're not. It's not like it's not like Chinese water torture where you're just urinating drops. You know, you're spraying right, speak for yourself. I mean some of us have a good stream going. I mean, I gotta I gott a very healthy stream. It's it's very clear, it's very hydrated. But I'm still I'm still firing away. So that's gonna

bounce right off the urinal. You're worried about the blowback. You're worried about the blowback and all that. Some people wash your fucking hands, dude, I'm worried about the environment I want. And it was, well, I don't do it all the time. Occasionally I happens. I usually watched my Mainly I watched my hands because I touching the door is disgusting. And that's the worst because people, you know, other people don't you know, they wipe their ass and

walk out of there. All right, that's it, thank you have a one on that note. Good night, everybody. You know. I have a wonderful rest of your day. Today. We'll be back on Sunday. We're gonna have be or not to be. We get the mail back, some really good questions, Hopeully. We'll get to a lot of those email questions and Facebook questions and we'll have that. But have a great

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