Freedom of Speech, but Not Thought

Hour with Ben Maller and David Guston. Unfortunately, because four hours or not enough, eight days a week, we are here for you, as we are in that air everywhere you can hear us, says obviously, wherever you found the podcast the I Heart Podcast Network, and we're available wherever you choose to get your podcast, then we welcome in. I mentioned his name there and here he is right now. Make way for David get Ska known as Gagon in the building. You know scrong yea like some can sound effects.

It's a little bit of liberty to a tense conversation. I was I was thinking about you that night after a tweet you sent out, Oh what did I send out? It was very careful. It was something around since city and I had this. I had this thought in my mind, and it was that it was that sound right there,

like the side of it. If you can recognize that salad that is obviously from your infamous to some and famous to most Betty versus the penny bent and was since City in Vegas opening up, I just I would love for sports to come back right now in the worst kind of way. You know, it's it's wild. I would like to play the speculation game. And there's no need for us, people like us to go to Vegas because we were getting were sports gamblers and you're playing

the tables a lot. I'm mostly a sports gambler. And uh, the casinos, even though they're open, you know, some of the people were complaining and bitching that. You know, you go were masks and they got plexiglass everywhere. There's no buffets. There's like weird h sinks that they put instead of slot machines. They put like sinks of people can wash their hands. It's like, you wonder what army of lawyers went through there and said, all right, here it's a

limitar liability. You put a washing, you put a sink over here, and then down there you put some hand sanitizer and I mean, just done endless. But it was nice.

I mean that's see, that's a sign. It's a very small sign, but you look for small victories that things are starting to come back in the great news is you know, we we had many conversations people are very upset with US gascon on this podcast because we had two doctors on about the coronavirus, one of them Dr G who was a fan of the podcast, and not that he downplayed it, but he said it was embellished

by the media. I think I don't know if he's exactly that word were paraphrasing and and people got very upset. Some people got very upset. They were triggered. How dare you? You're talking with conservative talking points, But it seems like everyone's in agreement now because there's protesting everywhere. There's millions

of people out on the streets of America. So that would lead me to believe that they think we're right, that this is no big deal, and they're they're fine going out and hanging out wearing a mask and not social distancing and it's all good. Yeah, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, But I don't think Dr G would have come to us with a fake name had he not been worried about any kind of personal or

professional ramifications. Yeah. See, I think that would be fair to say anything that that he would be concerned about someone tracking him down and uh que questioning his integrity, the Hippocratic oath or whatever. I don't know. I don't have he violated any of that, but that it Yeah, that is typical of the times that we're in right now. Yeah, yes,

you've you've looked at the uptick of possible gambling. And I was exchanging some some pleasant trees online through the through the power of the blue birden Twitter with with a couple of fans of your show. Um, we were talking about away from my people there, Well, we're talking about the different gambling aspect. One that's uh the stock market so um that is legalized gambling in every state across the country with very few regulations. And I don't

think there's an age liment. There's no ageent event on buying stock is there? You have to be of a certain ad. I don't think there is no. Well, I can imagine with with bank accounts you're gonna have well, yeah, but if you're have a bank account, some people get

bank accounts pretty young. Absolutely, um, but yeah, we're talking about that and the way the market is right now, there's been a steady, slow but steady uptick in in certain portfolios and certain stocks, like you're looking at Google and Facebook and now I'm was on like the the Power of five Bowing is one of them. So there's there's been a nice, steady increase. Is this your way of patting yourself on the back and saying that you invested.

I remember you were investing in the stock market when it was going doing the limbo and seeing how low it could go, and you at that time thought that that would be something to invest. Well, you have a retirement. I have a retirement. The masses that listen to your show and podcasts have retirements. I don't really have a retirement, to be well, I don't. I mean I work in I don't you know, we don't have any retirement plan at work and uh no not really. It's not like

a pension plan. But yeah, not a pension Like I have a couple of guys I used to work with in radio and they had other jobs and they have pensions and uh. In fact, I talked to a friend of mine the other day, Well, I've known for years and you were talking about things, and he's really upset with his job and he's still working and he's like, I'm just gonna quit and I got three pensions. I'll just live off that. And I'm like, really you can do that. I what's that? Like? How does that work?

And he's like walking me through the steps, and I'm like, what that's like? Because I don't think I'll ever be able to experience that. So let me know what that that's that deal is. I feel I feel a little on edge because it seems like from the inception of this podcast to where we're at now, everything that we've kind of like questioned or talked about or like inquired about has almost come to fruition. Hey, Benny, have you ever had a major surgery? Bang, you're going to the

hospital and you know, so on and so forth. But you've also had fans that have emailed you and said, Hey, if you weren't working in sports talk radio, what would you be doing? And I think about him like fun, I've had no sports. There's an idea that the NBA is coming back in the NHL, but Major League Baseball still kicking the can down the road. But yeah, man, like yeah, And even when they come back, we're looking at made to late July, which is still almost two

months away. When you know we're in early June here and so you're still two months away. That's what we're we're looking at, just more extended time without Games of Note. We will not have Games of Mode for some time. Unfortunately. Eddie's disappointed about that. This has not been a good fun week for any of us. Uh in you know, life, having to you know, go through the emotions and all the the things that are going on in the world. But coming up on the podcast now, I think we

should start with that. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm paciffect on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. A high wire act without a net, the verbal gymnastics of our jobs. And then we also have the nine knife Fight. Get to that knife fight, and we have Florida. Man, is there anything else we could do? And I have a confession for you, I don't know you have a confessional. I used to do that bit confessional,

did you really? Yeah? And then I had much like well, Bob Garrat was not my producer at that time, but Bob Garret who ruined which lap will Dannika Patrick reckon because he was convinced that she was gonna die in a race? And then we would be blamed for it because we picked the lap that she was going to crash, and so we had to cancel that bit um. But I used to do a confessional. And the way the bit worked is that listeners would call up and say,

you know so, and so this is years ago. I mean this is long long early days of Fox Sports Radio on the weekend, like in the middle of the night on the weekend, like Sunday morning, and be like, all right, what do you want to confess to? What do you want to confess? Of course, and people would confess to you know, stealing extra food or you know, sleeping with the secretary of things like that. But then somebody's like, oh, what if they called up and say

they confessed the murder. I always got to ruin it, you know, you always got to ruin any fucking thing I come up with, you gotta ruin it. And then the other thing I used to do is the apology line. I would do the apology line where I'd have people call up and and complain about their jobs or you know, their wives, or they don't have any money or the government, and then I would apologize, say with my fault. And I was thinking about bringing that bit back, but I

don't know. I think it's uh, everyone's triggered by everything these days. Yeah, don't I can do that. They'd be agitated by It's crazy. And that makes me think, with the way that we're the way that life is right now. And we know what Drew Brees walking back his statements earlier in the week, what happens if someone says, Ben, you need to cut NFL book them. Oh yeah, well we've already done it for this year, so we won't be doing it again until next year. But yeah, people

were were busting coops balls on that too. How could you you'll be part of that? But let people are maddened about everything. And you know it's that old phrase we use several years ago. I use that everyone's offended by everything these days, and you know, I really believe the mantra. Though just because somebody says they are offended by something does not by itself qualify something as offensive. You know what I'm saying. So if that's the case,

then you know I find you offensive? You know what I mean? You want to play that game? Um? And the other thing is that the problem I have with the always offended mob is this, if you're offended by everything, then it cheapens what really needs to be offensive, you know what I mean, like like the real stuff that

needs to be offensive. If you're offended by someone who doesn't like standing for the national anthem or a broadcaster who doesn't say the right phrase for the Sacramento Kings, what ends up happening is it's it's a case where that stuff in the big picture in significant and you lose the message in the method. Do you know what I'm saying? Just then am I wrong on I don't think I'm wrong on that. I think that's the It's it's kind of like the way some people accuse you

of certain things. Everyone is guilty of this, that and the other thing, and uh, and if you do it for everyone, there are people who do terrible things and are bad actors and need to be called to the carpet. But it seems like now the way this works is it's just everybody is yeah, just it's unload on all of the people out there. So it's it's pretty crazy, but it's it's been why I've been texting my radio friends around the country that I've met over the years.

Some of them I haven't even met. We're just text friends. And we were all like, wow, this is we all need to drink. We need a hard like whiskey, scotch, bourbon. You know, it's been just that kind of a a week. Give us some tornadoes juice here. We all want to be high, baked and wasted after what's been going on on here with these uh having to to to juggle. It's like you you, it's an odd situation because the

word police are always out to get you. And it's an awkward situation here because when you're paid to make your your living talking and talking about issues, and I guess the easy way would be not to even bring these things up and just and there are some sports radio guys that don't even talk about these things. But I mean that's not how I how I've chosen to do it. Well, yeah, because you run a show though that's different, like you run an actual like entertainment show.

We're like, if we took you and Coope and Roberto or you know, and Eddie, previous board ops or previous producers or anchors, like you could take that show and put it into any kind of radio platform like a like a morning zoo show or midday show for any kind of atmosphere. It would be applicable, Like you can convert your sports to to news talk, to pop talk to entertainment talk, like those things are kind of are

always evolving and it's all I think circular. Whereas yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I would say, yeah, there's some sports radio guys that are just the meat and potatoes xs and ohs and that's it. And this is not as many of those guys left. They're a dying breed, the Francessa type and Mike Francessa type that just do a B and C one, two and three. You get the Yankees.

Here's the Yankees lineup. And I I used to love when I worked in Connecticut briefly and I'd fly back to UH to do the show, the TV stuff and and then I flew into like JFK and I had to drive up to Stanford, Connecticut, and they had a car there, but they'd have Francis on and it was just blew me away. This was like, at that time, the most listened to radio show in New York City, and he would be reading the Yankee lineup at a

time like the four o'clock hour. He be reading the lineup and uh, here's the Ankie lineup tonight and Bernie's leading off, and but it was just like who wants that? But people they ate it up. It was it was wild. I was like, I guess I didn't grow up with FRANCESSA and I didn't. I didn't understand, but it's just it's crazy. But this has, uh, it has given me confidence. Guess on you know, I've been typecast as sports radio guy and goofy overnight sports radio guy because I've been

doing this a long time. But yeah, I think if I had to cross over to a different genre, if they said, you know what, on second thought, no more sports because people in sports are bad people and we can't have sports, and so we're just gonna get rid of it. I feel relatively confident I could go find some other format of radio and probably not being a disc jockey. But take a little bit too old for that,

I think. Um, but you also, what are you saying? Well, I just think that that age group would not respond to like the age group responds to you. Here on a sports and news you can relate to the every man. No, come on, I'm I'm the working class sports you're west of the four oh five, But I relate to the unwashed. I relate to the grimy, grunge e, the unkempt. Those

are my people. Well, you know, until you drive through a protest here in Los Angeles, you're not really classified as the working types since since I do that, So be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two a m. Eastern. YEA, I have lived. I lived through the l A riots in the ninety two, and I was had a front row seat at a Laker riot after they won the championship against I think it was Indiana in two thousand. We

were broadcasting from the Epicenter. It literally the riots started in front of where we were broadcasting our remote show from, and we did right it radio coverage. In fact, that was such a ship show that night in l A. That the riot police who were out trying to dismerse dimmers the mob dispersed the mob, brother And it was the funniest thing because we had we had a glass windows looking out to the street right there on l A. Live wasn't even there at that time. It was just

like a parking lot, but there was that street. I forget what's called now, but anyway, so we were doing the show and we had a glass few and there was people like running around. They started a bonfire in the in the fucking street and then they were running around like some kind of Native American Indian ritual the fire and uh. But there was like there were cops that were trying to clear them out. And then of course the people moved around the city and started trash

and ship and uh. But the one of the cops of the LPD guys came over and knocked on the door and we're like, oh, fuck are we are? We gonna get taken off the air. And I'll still it's one of it's weird what you remember. I remember the cop he knocked on the door. It was very polite. He didn't like break the door down, and he asked if we had a bathroom because he had to take

a whiz. So he came in there in full military riot gear with his guns and all that ship, and then he walked over to use our our restroom to take a piss. And then, uh, it was it was just it was just the vision of that that was really funny. And then I remember walking to my car after the night had ended, and we stayed late because we didn't it was particularly safe. First of all, we didn't know if our cars were gonna be there, because we had heard they destroyed a bunch of cars and ship.

And this is this, this is not after some kind of civil situation. It's just the Lakers winning um and and so anyway, we I walked to my car at a long walk, and I walked by a burned out l ap D cruiser that they had destroyed, and a Channel two in l a CBS new van that had been torched. Also, So I still remember the smell. The smell of that is something you don't forget. But anyway, man, so you've lived through a pandemic so far, a riot,

and now a second one that's in progress. Yes, and we are in the second chapter of the Apocalypse, and we were trying to figure out the advanced script on this. Well, now what's next. We've had the pandemic, everything, natural disaster, everything shut down. So now it's like big earthquake we all get swallowed up, or like Category twelve hurricane it's the United States or something like that. Or or how about this one if you want to play the wager,

what's gonna come next? How about we've got two other options here. I've got asteroid comes pumbling down and destroys all of humanity. I've got nukes inbound on your phone? Remember when Hawaii thought they were getting hit by nuclear weapons and that who knew that we would all find out we're being nuked by a message saying inbound nuclear weapons? Right, get shelter um? That was I opening. So which of these do you want to take a bet on this?

You guess? I guess if if we're all dead, it won't matter because we won't be able to pay off the bets. But what's the next chapter in the Apocalypse movie that we're living through here that I think else as it could be about the return of the bubonic plague, a second plague how about that. That's pretty good too. I mean, because the coronavirus has had multiple strands, it could be another strand of the coronavirus. I think that's possible. Um, so we have to place again stay at home orders.

Here's another one. You might get some people triggered by this one though. The rapture all the biblical full biblical and yeah, could happen. You wouldn't that be. That'd be a shocker, that would be I will be genuflecting. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So I gotta I gotta pay off my confession to you. Oh that's right. It's time now to open the Mallard confessional. Stepping in west of the four oh five heere, he

has a confession to make. So step into the confessional booth. I'm gonna now give you true serum, and there there is truth in wine, So have some wine that is true serum, of course, And to explain to me your misbehavior, your misconduct, please, I would like to know. So bless me, father, for I have sinned. It has been about six months since my last confession. My sins are um. I hijacked the fifth Hour with Ben Maller, So coming up on the heels of this episode, I actually did a one

on one interview with a fighter from the UFC. Really, yes, yes, I've taken that away. I did not get to participate in this. You did not allow me to this space, correct, So I kind of did. What I'm trying to do is trying to force myself onto the same podium as Jonas Knox, who somehow got a Benny for Benny. Yes, he did, receiver Benny, although I hear he's been trying to poach my my callers there. The guy in Arkansas, Tracy said, hey, Jonas was thrown, you know, get made

the callingsrown, all this stuff. So I changed his name from Jonas to Judas's good. But now I love Jonas and he's doing his thing over there. So all right, So I think the way this works, now that you're in confession, you have to say me a colpa, right, isn't that what you say? That's I asked for a penance. I asked you for for a penance. Assignments, Well, I won't have to listen to your dumb podcast with the UFC person, So what what? Who the fun? But I

don't care. Do you think here's the here's the great test? And this is gonna be a test. And I'm gonna tell you right now, if this does well, we will do more of those type of things. Like with UFC. I'm not a big UFC person. I would have talked this woman, right, I would have talked to you what just a conversation. I don't think it's gonna do that. Well. Do you think it will do better or worse than hacks All? Oh? Well, no, you can't do You can't because hacks All is my idea. Your idea is this

UFC places. But to be fair, Hacksaw, the interview with Hacksll was your highest ratted download for any platform that you're on radio or for for the podcast, because it means because people look miss hacks Off, they're going down memory lane, as Axel would say, and they love hearing stories about the old days in radio. How about this, If it exceeds Lenny Distra, Okay, that's fair, Okay, that's fair. Al Right, there you go. If it beats Lenny, then we're good. Yes. And And part of the reason I

say that is because she's a contemporary. She's a firecracker just like Lenny d extra a lot of color to her and she's got some good good stuff. So um yeah, yeah, well well it's just as far as the verbal gymnastics, just to kind of put the wrap up on that. One of the things that I have learned the last

couple of weeks is just it's reinforced my belief. There's a statement we've made, I've made for years, uh from the man who shot Liberty Valence, that when the legend becomes the fact, you print the legend, and it's it's so true here that you know, people reacting to certain things that may or may not be true, it doesn't

really matter whether they're true or not. And if the facts don't back these things up, because the tinker Bell effect takes over, and it's the tinker If you don't know what the tinker Bell effect, which is a version, it's it's another way of saying, the man, you know, the when the legend becomes the fact, print the legend.

The tiger Bell effect is similar. If enough people believe hard enough that fairies exist, they do you see what I So it's it's it's that mindset that a lot of people have, so I and it's with everything, whether it's a sports issue, a political issue, all this stuff. Even if you present facts that would go against that, that would just reinforce people's beliefs on whatever issue you're

talking about. Yeah, I think there's a lost art to this though, because like you as a talk show host are a little bit different in your dynamic because you are talking for two three four hours and four hours a night, five days a week, three hours on the weekend. Thank you very much, right, But see, I think what gets lost for a lot of people is not necessarily like how you're saying it, but it's what you're saying.

And I think that gets it's so polarizing now not what people are actually like the language, but how they're saying it. I think that's overcoming people and they're losing the translation that message and people aren't doing that well.

Like That's the thing that I'm having the hardest time about, is like you need to look at the meaning behind this and listen to them as opposed to taking what they say and then having an immediate rebuttal like in the chamber right of the shoot back, Like I think that's I mean, that's the that's the purpose of social

media now right, Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. It is like instant gratification, instant response, like look at me and the mob with pitchforks and cyber torches that are running around looking for somebody to be offended by and to attack, to attack and to destroy, to pillage, you must pillage. Uh. One final final note. UH. I mean, we have a lot of cops that listen to this show and uh and have listened to me for years, and I I'm not apologizing, but I do not share the views that

Cooper Loop said. This week, I've gotten several emails from people that worked in law enforcement their entire lives that were very upset by what Coop had said. Coop pretty much implied that cops are dumb and corrupt and anybody can get a job as a cop um and people were hurt by this, and UM, that's not my position. I I know people that work in law enforcement. I've my obviously, my wife's not a police officer, but she's

not sworn, but she works at the police station. I know from her experience and from what I've read online because I looked it up to see what if he was what he was saying was true, because it's not what my experience has been. And uh, in in every big city. I looked up every major police force. Uh it's bullshit. So I wouldn't worry about that unfortunately. I mean, I guess the one thing you can be concerned about. There's a lot of people that believe that those talking points,

that that these things are true about the police force. Um. And that's the other thing too, is it's not a national people like I gotta get her of all police. Well, police is local. I mean other than the FBI, right, which is the national hobby obviously the national operation. But the police departments are local. That's where police work has done. It's not on the national level. It's community police work.

So yeah, if you made that kind of a statement, you could make that statement that, well you don't have to be that smarter. Anybody could join the U. S. Military because all you need to be is eighteen years of age. Yeah, and there was a point where I believe that was true, but it's not true anymore. Even the military is like they've trimmed it down. They want they want people that can you figure out there's a lot of nuance now because of the advancements in machines

to kill people that are better now. And you know, you've got to have a brain. You can't be a the village idiot and figure it out. Well. You know, it's always fascinating to me because people can make statements like that, but in reality, could they do it? Oh? Yeah, no, yeah, that's that's true. That these This again goes back to the stereotypes. I mean, there's stereotypes about people, their stereotypes about jobs. Um, you know, I hear from people. Anybody

could do a talk show, and it's true. Anybody could talk. It has functioning uh mouth and brain. You could talk, but could you do it good talk show? There's a skill as certain skill to it, right, there's certain skill. And just to prove that, listen to a bad talk

show host. And I'm not saying I'm good, but listen to somebody who's bad, and listen to somebody is good, and tell me that's not a different experience and not something that you The bad talk shows you wouldn't want to listen to, and the good one you want to listen to because they are engaging in their thought provoking and they get your mind going. It is theater or

the mind. And so you know, I I've always thought, and I really blame my mom for this, that I've always valued whatever you do to help the village out. And it's you know, people get I've got an emails some people, why do you care about the truck driver driving through uh you know bf E, um, you know Iowa or North Dakota or whatever. I'm like, well, because you know, I think that's an important job. He's whatever

that person is bringing is a value. It's either helping a business stay open or helping people get products and um, you know, I don't know, it's just it's to just dismiss it, like which a lot of people do, these lower wrong jobs, like it doesn't matter. I don't know. I've never been like that. Maybe I should be like that, Maybe I should. I've just never thought how I was brought up, And I just think it's everyone's important, no matter what you do. Some are obviously more important, but

that doesn't mean that the other people aren't important. Well, the reality is to whether you're the president of the United States or whether you're a janitor here at Fox, like you're providing a service you're doing. You're doing a you're providing a service and a selfless act for somebody else. Now, in some instances it can be self serving, but you're still serving other people as well. So yeah, well, and the other the other thing too, is I I just just popped into my head, so I better spit it

out before it pops out of my head. But I'm gonna I'm gonna humble brag. I'm gonna pull a Pat O'Brien, I'm gonna name drop. So in the context of what I just said, I think everyone's important. Years ago, when I was doing Dodger Talk, were in New York and Vince Scully was a long time ago. Vin was traveling with the team still, and I got to have dinner with Vin Scully at Chase Stadium and the press dining room.

It was not just me and him, there were a couple of people at the table, and Vin was telling stories about growing up in New York as a kid. And he told his story about when the sanitation people went on strike in New York City and trash was piling up in Manhattan right just fucking everywhere. It's smelling already, It already smells when they pick up the trash of New York. You can imagine what it must have smelled like without the trash people and so people were freaking.

I said. It was around Christmas time, and what people were doing they would get big boxes. I get. You know those old TVs. What are massive boxes? You know, the early days of television, those huge giant TVs, their size of tanks. And so Vin told the story. He said he remembers this when he was younger, that people would get these big they buy the TVs or whatever, and then fill the TV boxes with trash and then

wrap them and leave them out on the street. And people would come and steal the boxes, thinking it's a television and it was filled with like you know, trash and ship and stuff. It's pretty funny, but that's just that's an example of like trash man, who cares if you pick up trash, you're nothing, You're in sanitation. Okay, wait till they don't pick it up. And then see see how valuable the trash man is. All of a sudden, you know, absolutely all right, really I gotta get this

knife fight thing. So the knife fight. Now, I tried with the kid here, I tried to recreate a YouTube video. Yeah, Mark Roeber, who I like the stuff that he puts out, the science videos he puts out on on YouTube. I don't know if you've seen his work or not, but he had this really cool trick involving watermelons. So it looked ridiculously simple. I said, listen, I'm you know, I'm street educated. You know I'm not book smart. I'm street smart, but I can figure this out. So the way it

works is you buy a couple of watermelons. You chopped one watermelon. They gotta be matching. They gotta be like the same shape watermelon, you know, same size, basically like twin watermelon, twinsies. So you chopped the first watermelon and a half and then you gut it the other watermelon. You peel off the melon skin like the green stuff and get down just the juicy red part, the good

part of the melon. And then you at that point you polish the melon with like a sponge from the kitchen, of course, a new sponge, cheap smot so you kind of polish it to smooth it out. So then the next step is you take the melon you cut that you just cut right, the one that cut in half, and you if you've gutted that. The final step is you put the shell of the second melon, the one that was cut in half and gutted, and you put it over the melon that you you peeled apart and

skin and and and made it look all smooth. And so then when you show up, it makes it seem like you're he man. It gives the illusion of your like some kind of superhero. And you can pull the melon apart, and then you have this amazing watermelon that's smooth and wonderful, and you're just so strong. You pulled the watermelon skin a part. What could possibly go wrong? Unfortunately, my job in this little equation guest on was to um to gut. I was the guy that cut the

watermelon and a half and gutted the watermelon. I almost chopped off my left thumb. Hand to god, I am not. I'm looking at my thumb right now. There is a massive gash in the middle of my left thumb that has still not healed. This was a last weekend and it was a gusher. It was a gusher, and you

know how, you you cut yourself and right away. It doesn't normally start bleeding right away, but you know it's coming, right, You're the anticipation of the blood dripping down, and so I had that and then it started just going for it and I should have gotten stitches. My wife was so freaked out, she's she actually called the hospital and and we talked to a nurse because because of the

the apocalyps. We talked to the nurse and described what happened, and they actually advised us to go get checked out. But I didn't do that. I just I held it. I held down pressure until it stopped bleeding. And then I've been putting new skin on that and bandages and so far it's it's not it doesn't look all green and puffy and infected or red and infected. So I'm I think I dodged having to go to the walk in clinic or the hospital or any of that stuff.

But I it's pretty gnarly. It's another it's another battle wound. I got big scars all over my hands from doing radio. You got scars all love your body from doing radio. You got a gallbladder that was you gotta busted mound from from burning a pizza. Uh, that's correct, So why would you do the YouTube video with that and not not prep the like the ten pounds steak I got you. Yeah, well, because I told you the steak, which I still have and looks wonderful. I'm waiting for it to warm up.

It's not I want. I want to eat that steak on like a hundred degree day, have a nice barbecue, and just enjoy the hell out of it. It's gonna be cool this weekends supposed to be cool in in l A where we we all hang out here, so it's not supposed to warm up. Maybe next week, maybe next week? Is this? Oh, I guess this is June gloom they call it in l A. I hope so

I'd be. I'd be down for some rain right now. Unfortunately, I'm good with rain in California, especially in New York right now, New York d C. In California, I could really use some rain. Make it rain, not the Floyd maywhere make it? Want to make it rain? Is uh, squash some of the fires around this country, I understand. I want to do a few Florida man stories. How did how do? Was the reception last week from Florida man and woman? We we made sure we weren't sexist.

All we had man and a woman involved. So yeah, I didn't get much blowback or positive reaction, and there'sn't a lot of reactions. I guess that's I guess they don't they don't really care. That's good, all right anyway, So these are actual stories from people in the Sunshine State. You know, you know how this works? All right? Well, good news of Florida man has admitted to swindling the Milk casino out of twelve thousand five Now, how the

hell did this work? This is great though. So this guy from Florida, he was able and now, by the way, the Milk Casino is in Bend, Oregon. Not he's from Florida, but this happened in Oregon. But he's a Florida man, so it counts. So he he swindled them out of twelve thousand five dollars by claiming to represent the village people. So he calls up the casino. Um, he actually know

he sent This is back. This goes back to August of this This guy, he was in his sixties, sends this Indian tribe of flyer offering them the opportunity to book the village people for a show at the Mill Casino. In ben Oregon, and the people that run the casino are like, well, that sounds great. We can get the Village people to come in here. That's everyone knows the Village People that Old Bend and uh so, of course, he wrote out a contract and he emailed the casino

a contract with agreement. The casino signed and returned it to the guy with a check for twelve thousand, five hundred dollars. The guy cashed the check two days later and no Village People um. In January, the casino discovered that the Village People were scheduled to appear in Florida the same day they were booked to play in North Bend. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so he got arrested for that. Apparently this guy has been he's a shyster. This guy has been doing this of stuff, uh for years. He

he pulled off a similar scheme. He contracted with two other people to have the Temptations, the Supremes and Jimmy Walker performed at their venue. Man, well you know you do to be fair. This story is so much better than some of the scumbag parents that are out there, because I know that their parents. There's been stories with parents that would say that their kids have some terminal disease.

Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and they're just on their deathbed and it's like set up a go fund Me account and then just pocket all that cash and you're never heard from again. Yeah. Well, remember the there was a young couple that made a video of a homeless guy and started like a go fund me for the homeless guy. Except he knew nothing about the go fund me and he's just like taking the money. Yes, yeah, yeah, but

that's good though. With the bands, that's that's pretty fucking good. Yeah, that's that's a pretty well all right, here's a Florida woman's story. Excited about this? Alright, So a naked Florida woman standing in the streets, surrounded by household items, please show up, cherry tops. The cops show up. She then says, I'm naked, arrest me, and then proceeds to hit one of the deputies in the waist with a windshield. Squeegee. Snow, oh my god, that the villages there in Florida. Minute.

So you've had back to back weeks where you've done a Florida woman's story and they've both been naked. Yeah, let me tell these women I'm a woman, hear me, roar. I hope she's a little bit younger than the one from last week. And yet again, Eddie not, you gotta tell you. You know, we're all beautiful in God's eyes, but some of us are more beautiful than others. Not

particularly great there. She was charged with battery of a law enforcement officer, battery on a person over the age of sixty five, simple assault on a person over the age of sixty five, and indecent exposure. Urse. If you're good looking, it's not indecent exposure, not at all. But could you imagine apprehending that woman? No? Yeah, how did they're calling a female cop? Is that how that went?

They never mail do it? I really? Yeah? I don't know if you remember your body came on, I guess yeah, you've you've seen some of the stuff that's happening in Baltimore and some of the other cities like St. Louis and and whatnot with the female is getting arrested and you know, the males taking taking charge. So yeah, but could you imagine that though she's naked or you get threatening of like being coughed on or piste on or anything like that. Yeah, that's yeah, alright, you won't always

say what do you want me to say? 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, so how about this one? A white Florida man, This guy actually actually in Florida Keys. You ever been to the Florida Keys. No, for the south of Ghne is Miami. Yes, say, I've been in Miami, but I'd love to go to the Florida Keys. It looks amazing. It looks just like Paradise

Jimmy Buffett singing about it back in the day. Um, I gotta get there at some point, the Florida Keys. Anyway, that's a flight for you, though. Are you prepared to take a five hour six I can do that. I've flown to Hawaii and back. Then. You know, you get flying from the East coast to the West coast, sometimes it takes five, you know, five like Boston or whatever. If you're going against the jet stream, it's five hours or going from Hawaii. Are going to Hawaii takes longer

than coming back to Hawaiian anyway, all right. So, uh, a white Florida keys man who police say was driving here Mercedes well three three times over the legal limit and drinking alcohol while driving, invoked the name of George Floyd in a desperate effort to avoid being arrested about that. So he's uh boozing it up there, he's drinking the fireball whiskey and he's doing his thing and uh and then they pulled him over. He guys twenty three years old.

And uh he made a reference about not being able to breathe as they tried to handcuff him, and then he brought up George Floyd there and uh so three times the limit is point to four because Florida is the same as California point zero eight. Um. But that's that's actually that's progressive and ingenious because don't forget, like we've had criminal we've had felons here in the state of California that have been released because they've had fear

of the coronavirus. Like we have felons walking the streets of California now because of the coronavirus. They've been released from prison. Well, we have a mayor in Los Angeles that said, you can't walk on the beach with the sand because of the coronavirus. Now he's at there, he's out there making out with protesters. So I mean, what are we doing right I mean, where are we at right now? It's crazy, It's pretty totally hypocritical, the fact that he was that inebriated at at point to four

and three years old. By the way, it sounds like a rich, stuck up piece of ship. He sounds like because he also said, I'm gonna hi, I know my my rights, my amendments, and I'm gonna hire the greatest lawyer. Good luck with that. Mom and dadd'll right do that. Yeah, well, of course mom and dad, we'll do that. And anyway, so another another story along those lines. Guests on because it is the Florida Man portion of the podcast where you're dancing and downing pleasure. Uh these these Florida Man

stories are just absolutely wonderful. Uh So, a Florida man busted busted for punching a police dog while cops were trying to stop him from starting a riot. Twenty nine year old guy Black Guy hurled items at the windows of two police stations in St. Petersburg, Florida that seems like a good idea when no one would join him in the riot. I can't imagine you're trying to start a riot and everyone's ignoring you. How up setting was that? You're like, come on to burn the police station down?

What's wrong with your people? Come on? You know you're you're bad people. Don't you want to burn the police station down like they did in Minnesota? Um anyway, So when the officers tried to arrest this guy, he ran across the street and fought with him. At one point during the scuffle he punched a police dog and then he punched his handler. And apparently there's like a bunch of police that need to bring him down. He faced. He's now facing three felony charges. So there's another Florida

man story for you. You know, when when in doubt, attack a canine like that's what I want to do when I grow up. Yeah, I think you sent me this story the other day about the Florida the sheriff in Florida who was encouraging residents who have guns to shoot looters who break into their homes. Yes, you see that. People freaking out by that. But isn't that the whole old point if you have a gun for self defense, isn't that if somebody breaks into your home, isn't that

kind of how that's supposed to work. Isn't that a risk that you take If you break into someone's home, they could be armed and kill you. Yeah. Absolutely, It's it's either your your house or your place of business where you're conducting business at. Like it would be different if like, let's say you own a shop and you weren't in there, but you saw people breaking in or looding, like,

you couldn't open fire on them. But if you were inside and then they broke in and they came in, like the assumption would be that you're there is an imminent threat and your life is in danger. Isn't that different in every state? Though? It's it goes state by state, right, Yeah, yeah,

I know California we have. If someone breaks in to where you're at and you feel like your life is an intimate, intimate danger, you can you can respond with fire, But if that individual turns around and it's no longer a threat, you still can't fire. Okay, So here's uh, all right, here's another naked Florida man story. A naked North Fort Myers resident was tackled by a naked man. Now this guy wasn't and the resident wasn't he So the north Fort Myers resident was tackled by a naked

man who had leapt off his roof Monday evening. And it got even more crazy after that. Uh, the deputies were called. This happened about seven o'clock. The residents said, um, the residents. You know, I'm lying in bed and my wife heard what sounded like thunder. So the guy went out and saw that this person was running around on his roof. He allegedly jumped off and onto the victim, hitting him in the shoulder and knocking him down. And

then what happened next. The guy ran into the house and pulled a large screen TV off at stand and dumped the contents of a vacuum on the floor. He then headed towards the couple's son's bedroom, where several guns were stored. So the man's wife fired three warning shots with the revolt was gets even better. Uh. The rest report says that the guy fell into the floor and then began pleasuring himself. He got up off the floor, ran into the sun's bedroom and began rubbing clothes on

his face. The resident then got a shotgun and held the guy until the police arrived. So that kind of relates to what we were talking about the previous story, right, I mean, was it only rubbing clothes on his face or was he actually like jerking off? Well no, no, they said he was. He was masturbating. He was doing some some gun masturbation right there. Yeah. Yeah, what I want to rush? I want to go rob a house, go assault somebody, and then go jerk off. How about that?

Is that? Like? Is that like the modern day Gordia Hall hat trick? All right? Last Florida man, So we were gonna put this baby to bed. So Florida man suspect hid fifty four antidepressant pills in his wrecked them wrecked them Florida man says syringes found in the wreckt him or he claimed that, he claimed. I guess that they're not his. He does not know how they got there, He does not know how they got there. How wonderful is that? How fucking great is that? That's like something

from fucking Hollywood? Right man? Florida? There you go the Sunshine State. Then you never change, stay the same forever. God love Florida. Alright, that is it. Hey, follow us on social media. We got a podcast every day of the week. We got another one tomorrow, another one on Sunday. Uh. Follow me on Twitter at Ben Maller, Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox Facebook Ben Maller Show. And hey, if you want a video, I'd love to make one for you cameo. It's not free, but we'll have people seem to love it,

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