Life's Observation Deck

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myself and back again. I thought he would be gone, but David Gascon the Narcissist is in the building. Back in the building. With a rate of return of thirty one and a half percent, a FICO score of eight hundred uh, six ft one pounds. I am here loud and proud of and your douchebag scores through the roof as well. So congratulations on that, you dumbo hitter man. Good shot by you, right, I mean, listen, the clown Prince of the podcast has returned here for cuckoo for

cocoa puff. So, uh, listen what we're gonna talk about. Let's just get to them. I want to, I don't want to. I don't wanna be s here, I don't want to be. I'll get right to it, all right. So we've got brush with Doom. We've got that hands and knees master class grab bag. That's actual questions from actual listeners. We've got some good ones this week. And study this, study this, We've got that also, and don't

stick to sports. Do you understand you comprehend all these things? Guessing? Yeah, I heard you a couple of nights ago cheating on the segment you were doing a little study this over the last hours. So it was a little disturbed by that. But it's fine. I mean, you can use some of that bullshit on your radio show. It's fine. Why I had no idea you were you were so protective of the podcast that you wanted me to not use any of those. I have so many sometimes I don't I

don't have time to get to them all here. Well, that's fine. I'm trying to slander me. No, I'm not trying to slander you. I'm just stating facts. It's it's fine. We're knee deep in in the political realm of impeachment, so I'm not gonna slander you. I'm not gonna accuse you. I'm not gonna to fame you in any way. So we're good, man. I'm just pointing out the obvious. What you did on your show is for the show. It's

not for the podcast. I like to have you compartmentalized and keep one thing to that side and another thing to this side. Yeah, well, you did run into me when you don't work very much at the building when I'm there. But you you know you because you're you can't handle the overnight hours. But you walked in one time this week and you were you were, I guess upset with me for doing a whole week of death

Radio regarding Kobe Bryant's demise last weekend. You were very upset, so I thought we should on this podcast, do some maccabre more death talk? Right, Well, this is an entire month's worth the podcast that we do death talk on. Yeah, yeah, it's I think it's good. I mentioned that there was a study. I mentioned this. I was talking about Kobe and people love spreading bad news and it's part of human nature. It's a it's very primal that from the

early stages of the brain. It's a survival instinct that people don't pay attention to good news. They pay attention to bad news because it could threaten there existence and I could throw you know what I'm saying. So it's a little odd though, consider the fact that you're your better half is full of optimism and life and glee and good fortune, and yet you are the contrarian to that. It's a little odd, don't you think. Uh No, well,

my wife's the exceptional rule. I believe I am in the majority, and I have years and years of data that I have collected from doing the show that I do, that I know, and I've done very fortunate. I have done the postgame show. Here's a humble brag for the Dodgers years ago and the Red Sox a couple of years ago, and it didn't matter whether you were in Boston or l A. When the Red Sox or Dodgers won, there weren't as many people that were interested in calling

up to talk about the game. But when the Red Sox or Dodgers were going through a tough patch, everyone was had an answer, Everyone had a solution. Everyone wanted to give you their ten cents. It's just human nature. That's how people are not fair enough. But now are you? Now? Are you doing this from the I Heart Radio studios in your backyard? You that she doing this from South Beach, Florida, because I know that. Yeah, I'm actually at Radio Row.

We're gonna have Joe Montana is gonna tell you sell you some sketchers coming up that'll be in the later part of the podcast. And I think I'll be sending out some photos of my steak dinners. I haven't sent any of those out, so I've got to do some of that. And you should check out the view from my hotel room. It's unbelievable. Gas gun. Doesn't it sound good? It sounds and it sounds good here I'm I'm in the the special Remote Radio Row studio and uh I

only came down for the podcast. I'm not allowed to do the show there, but from the podcast perspective, that's why I'm here, so fair enough. Now, have you finished watching the Aaron Hernana's documentary since I know you have all this? I did? I did. I watched it last weekend. Like I said, I was, I I finished it and I enjoyed it. They did a very good job. It

was well made. Whoever made that for Netflix? A solid job, wonderfully produced in the production value, and a let up individual one Aaron her name days they were and I liked what one of the former Patriot players said that, you know, it's part of the documentary. It was like they were making excuses for Aaron Hernandez going around and being a murderer. And one of the guys, one of his former teammates, said, now that's a cop out, and

I thought that that was where I'm at. You know, yeah, bad things happened to you and it sucks, but you know, there's you can't be on the I'm gonna get back and retaliate by killing people or you know, shooting in the cars. It's not how a civilized world works. And can you know the matter, everyone everyone who's committed to crime. Everyone has become, you know, a murderer or something like that.

They've had a bad break along the way, right, you know what I'm saying, There's been a couple of things like that, but that doesn't mean they don't go to jail or whatever happens. So, well, you know what, you know what happens when someone spilled a drink on you. You pull out your nine and all of a sudden you empty the clip. Wow, I see, Well that's the Patriot. Well I see Aaron Hernandez was gonna Patriot best air in Hernandez. Way, Yeah, don't don't. Don't bring that in

with Kronkowski and Brady. Sorry, al right, so let's get to brush with do and it ties into the Kobe Bryant story. The helicopter crashed last weekend. So Kylie Jenner, h you know who Kylie Jenner is. She's she's like a million billion dollar model because she's tied in with the Kardashians. She's got that Kardashian DNA and she posted the other day that she was a frequent flyer, a frequent flyer in the helicopter that Kobe Bryant crashed in Alkay.

So that was the the statement there that she she took the helicopter quite a bit there and did that. So I wanted to talk about it now. I have you ever been in a helicopter? No, I've I've never been in a helicopter. I think the closest thing that has been resembled to a helicopter for me has been one of those little prop planes which scared the ship out of me. Part of my French and some people like the foul language. You want a prop plane like one of those like spin the spin, the propeller type.

Do I took h I would not get on. I don't think. I don't think I'm allowed to get on one of those. I think I'm too big. Probably the weather. The weather was so bad too. I was a recruiting trip for football. I went from UH. I went from Seattle to Pullman, Washington. I was at a camp at

Washington State and it was really weird. I a buddy of mine and I were at the airport and we had paid for some food, but I didn't have a lot of money, and at the time I took a little bit more from the UH from the pizza hut stand than I paid for, and I had it on my person. I had it on top of a bag, but the clerk didn't see all of that, so I only paid for a portion of it. Went on to the flight. And this flight, I kid you not Ben,

It was like Magic Mountain. There was a roller coaster going up and down, up and down sideways to sideways, and I thought in my head, I'll ship this is karma for stealing that pizza. Payback, payback. Yeah, I've never been on a prop plane like that. I've never been flying in a helicopter. When I was a kid, I grew up near what used to be the El Toro Marine Base and the Tusted Marine Base in Orange County.

I was like sandwiched between these and I we used to see the Blue Angels practicing and it was I have great memories of that being around military basis that neither one exists anymore. But I remember going to the open house at the military base and it was like a big deal. You know. We got to go and my my parents, like my mom was, oh, you can run through the tanks and you can run through the helicopters. And in those days, they led us like we could go.

They had an open house. You could like literally sit in a in a in a goddamn tank or or a military helicopter was wild and the planes, you know, it was it was just crazy. I don't think they do that anymore. Maybe they do, I don't know, um. But anyway, so I was in a helicop. I never flew in it. And then the other question I had regarding as Kylie Jenner's story is, of course made it all about her, you know the fact that she flew in the helicopter. Uh, and her had her it, I

guess in the helicopter. But have you ever had a similar situation like that where you had a brush with tragedy? And I've told the story a few times over the years, but I have had that happened to me, and it is very surreal when you experienced something like that. Now, I had the same experience a lot of people had, um but it involved September eleven and and back in. If you haven't heard the story, if you're you're new to the show, I've told it a few times over

the years. But in late August of about two weeks before the event, it took place in September eleventh, the hijacking and the attack on New York and the Pentagon and all that. I was visiting my my older brother who's lived in New York for years. It was me, my younger brother who's who was living in California at the time, now losing Wisconsin, and my older brother. Uh, and we were on like a brother's trip, you know. Uh,

me and my my younger brother. We were just like hanging out with my older brother and you know, showing it. He He was showing us around all that I've been to New York before, my younger brother hadn't. So they we were going to all the tourist traps in New York. Um, and uh, we're going all you know, the Statue of Liberty and all that, and you know, the all the all the things standard New York City sightseeing. And it was late August. Now, if you've ever been in New York,

you live in New York. In late August. It's muggy, nasty. The humidity level is through the roof, the stupidity level is through the roof. And but of course I'm cheap. I'm also very fat at this time, much fatter than I am now. And we were walking around New York. I'm covered in sweat, right, and I'm just covering its way. So anyway, long story short, we make it to the South Tower of the World Trade Center to visit the

observation deck, which is a top. If you remember the World Trade the original World Trade Center, it was a top that South tower. So we're in the lobby. It's about if I remember, and you know, memories fleeting. But as I remember, it was about four or four fifteen something along those lines, and the observation that closed at five o'clock and it was very expensive to go up to the observation deck in the South Tower. So and this, this is one thing on my deathbed, I assume I

will remember this. I I said, I'm not doing it. I said, no, that's a waste of money. And I remember we walked out of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and you know, and we were right between the North and the South Tower, that little courtyard area, and I looked up to the heavens and these massive buildings that looked like they went all the way into outer space when you stood at the ground at the World Trade Center. And I said to my brothers, I said,

these things aren't going anywhere. Next time we're in New York, we'll just go to the observation deck. And two weeks later, those buildings vanished in on September eleven, and it it's just crazy. My mom was so freaked out for several reasons, like everyone was, but the fact she she could not

get over the fact that we were there. And then there were media reports at the time that said that the terrorists had done some dry runs around, some scouting trips around the towers the time we were visiting, right around you know those not probably not the afternoon time, but they were there, uh in New York doing some scouting at the World Trade Center around that time. But I did learn a valuable lesson and it's even if you have limited time and it's expensive, take advantage of it.

I was in Boston on another trip and I was at the Kennedy Museum, the Kennedy Presidential Museum in Boston, which I think is on Boston University's campus, like right there anyway, so it was same situation. It was like it was like half an hour till the place closed, and it was the only day we had to go there, and I paid the money. I ran through the Kennedy Presidential Museum in about half an hour because they kick you out at five o'clock. Uh and uh and so

I learned my lesson there. That did not push stuff off if you you say it's gonna be there, because stuff isn't there forever. But that was my my brush with doom if you will. Now, I guess on that point too, when you talk about taking advantage of what's available to you, like, why doesn't that like why doesn't that jump start your interest of traveling abroad? Because that certainly did for me. We had this conversation last week about visiting asch Fitz and Broken Now and the concentration camps,

Like I think that's so instrumental. Just see, especially you because you're Jewish, like to take that stuff in face to face as opposed to like what you see online or what you're reading a book through school. I mean, I did this last year through a buddy of mine turned forty and he lives in Ireland. So I want to go meet up with him, but he's a doctor, and another buddy of mine he had to go. He

went to go visit family in Croatia. So I hate flying um and going obviously to Europe is not something I wanted to do alone, but I did it anyway. So I flew into London, I chewed that up for a day, then took a flight down a pair and I went wire to wire for three days in Paris. I think the one thing I did regret was I assumed that the Louver was going to be open from morning until like eight or nine o'clock at night, and I got there about three o'clock in the afternoon and

it closed at six. So I spent three hours inside the louver. But Austin God Been, I could have spent all day and all night in that place, just to soak it all up and see all the art and all the creativity and all the work, and just to have the enjoyment of seeing that stuff, whether it's in Paris or in Amsterdam, or you know, we went to Spain port. I'm just saying, like, those are the things that if you mentioned that I love traveling in the United States, I've been to twenty two states so far

out of the fifty. But I enjoy it specially because you get to I like, I like traveling around the United States. My main disdain with international travel is I feel like a lot of countries are not designed for people my size. I'm very tall. I uh you know. I I've lost a lot of weight, but I'm still a big guy. And I do not want to travel. First of all, the plane travels a nightmare. But I don't want to spend money and go on vacation and then have a very I'm reluctant to do it because

I think it's gonna be very uncomfortable for me. I won't fit in cars, i won't fit in the beds um and I'm not even like the size of an NBA player. Now. I know there's ways you can do it, and you spend more money and you get a bigger bed and all that stuff, but I just seems like a big inconvenience, and I despise going somewhere and feeling like I am Andre the Giant, uh you know, compared to everybody else. I don't want to. I don't want to experience that. I mean, who needs You're not a

victim here? And when you go to you're not saying I'm a victim. I'm just telling you why. I am unwilling and I loathe going to there's some European countries where that's not the case. But I I am resistant because I believe that I will find the ones that are averse to people my size. Here's the thing is that, and I think anyone can be contest to attest to this, is that when go to Europe or even in Japan, you're doing a lot of walking anyway, or if you

get on a train or any of those trolleys. I mean, you can do that stuff no matter where you go. Size doesn't matter, and most of the time it's always enjoyable to walk to those pop You say that because you are of the size where you fit in everything. No, I'm six one to twenty. It's not not here we go. What do you is is like the old Dan Patrick show ring a bell for your height and waight. No, but it's not what I mean what you are the ultimate narcissist. Let me give my height and weight. I'm

not a small guy. Some my nose. I'm not a small guy. I got problems when I get onto a plane or when I walk through No, you don't, of course I do. I'm six six or whatever I am. I get on a plane, what are you worried about someone hitting me with sniper fire from a rooftop because you're so much bigger than I'm not worried about that.

I'm worried about having to, you know, decapitate the lower part of my legs so I fit in the plane, or or getting into one of those taxi cabs and uh, you know an Amsterdam or something like that, I'll be able to fit. Okay, So Amsterdam you can bike everywhere you go, and you can get on the ferries that take you across some of the canals, so that's easy for you. Walk around town where they're going through like the Red Light District, or even through like some many

other business areas, so that's not a problem. Same thing with Spain, same thing with Portugal. London. You got the you got the train, you can go through the underground. Um. I haven't been in Italy yet, but do come on, man, those are just excuses the reality. I've studied it a little bit the Internet. They people have said similar things. Anyway, Maybe if you go if you're flying internationally, don't forget you're usually flying on like a seven seventies seven and

those air busses. Those things are spacious and you can always sit one of the emergency level seats too, so you're gonna have plenty of leg room. I get it, But pony it up many easy for you to say it up, easy for you to say, Yes, I'm saying pony it up to an overnight radio host that works four hours at night for Monday through Friday. Yes, you're right. I show up one minute before the show, and I

do no show prep. That is acting. That is absolutely You've been in the industry for what twenty years, I'd say, i'd seem to say with the mansions that you have not mansion um and the uh, the exhorbitan amount of money you spend on your kitchens. Now, let me tell you something, a gag on. I have one house that I bought on the advice of my real estate guy who's now a TV dentist, that is still underwater. My other house, I haven't had a kitchen in a month.

I'm getting fat again because all I can do is eat out when I eat, and it's it's terrible. I I love home cooked meals and I haven't had one in a month because I have no kitchen sink and no kitchen countertop. It's a It's a freaking nightmare, is what it is. Listen, you gotta do this stuff while you're young, and you're saying I'm young. Thank you very much. I appreciate you saying I'm young. I appreciate you for do you hit your midlife crisis? You need to experience

the finer things when I try. I'll tell you what. When I turned forty, I will think about here about that. When I turned forty, I will think about doing this. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hands and Knees Gas. We gotta move on because I want to get to a lot of good emails, and

we'll get to it at some point here. So uh Now, the p Ones tell me they like to hear about my life, and I don't tell too many stories on the radio about just my personal business. But I feel like this as we talked about the fifth hours, for the super fans of the show, the p ones that love the show, and our senior members of the Mallard Militia, you're at a different level if you listen to the

fifth hour. So with that as the preference, I was doing some shopping over last weekend and running some errands with the wife. Me and the wife, we made hand to god sixteen stops in one day. I felt like a Lance the bus driver type character. We were. We were stopping so often. Now, one of the stops was at Walmart. All right, now, my wife hates Walmart. You can't stand I don't. I don't mind wall I like, I don't, I don't care. I like a deal. I'm value guys, so I don't mind the freaks and geeks

that go to Walmart. I'm okay with my wife. She's she'll go to a store. She'd be like, I don't like the vibe. Oh I don't even notice. I don't even notice that. I just want the how much is the product? And I'm very simple that way. I'm a direct line, straightforward, you guy. My wife she's gonna have the proper lighting and all that stuff. And anyway, So we parked the car at Walmart. We run into the story,

had to pick up one thing. I got to the entrance of Walmart where they have the shopping carts, and I I from time to time, will do a little test where I'll say, all right, I got three things with me pretty much all times. I got wallet, phone, keys, and I'm so paranoid about losing one of those things even while I'm walking. I will just it's second nature. Now we'll I'll try to feel Do I have my wallet, yes?

Do I have my phone? Yes? Do I have my keys? So, because I left my phone one time years ago in in the roof of my car in the big A I was covering an Angels game and the and uh and it was I lost. I was really piste off about the whole thing. Anyway, So I'm in the shopping car area. Uh. And I reached for my wallet, got it boom done. Reached from my keys, boom, got it done. Reached for the phone. No phone, uh, no phone? Oh

my god. I start freaking out. So I figured why I must have left it in the car, because I knew I had the phone in the car. So I went back to I saw. I told my wife is I'll be right back. I gotta get my phone. I go back to the car. I spent about five minutes trying to find the phone. Couldn't find the phone. I couldn't find the goddamn phone. Uh. My wife was then summoned. I went back to grab the wife and I said, well, maybe you know another set of eyeballs. You could probably

find it. You know, you got better eyesight than me anyway, so you could probably find it. And I couldn't find it. She couldn't find it. So then I start freaking out. I'm thinking, man, our kitchens destroyed. I don't want to drop a thousand dollars on a new iPhone. And plus I was like, where the where the hell did it go? Did it? Just it doesn't vanish right a phone? It does not vanish. I don't think somebody came down from

a different dimension and stole my phone. Saw. I then get on my hands and knees, thinking maybe it fell under the car while I was getting out of the car. And so I start digging around trying to reach under the car and see it's dark, it's night. I don't have a flashlight. No luck. So then my wife's like, she said, well, you're on here in this app, you know, fine phone app. I don't know if you have that, but so we track, we can keep track of each other, spy on each other. So my wife looks at them.

She didn't usually use it, but she looks at the fine phone app and it says that the phone is right where the car, so it must be in the phone. And this this made it even more. This increased the degree of anxiety even higher, like it made no sense. We had two adults looking through the car trying to find the phone. Couldn't find the phone. I'm on my hands and knees, I'm looking under the car. I couldn't

find it. So then I had an idea. So I'm gonna retrace my steps back to the store, because I may I must have dropped it either in the street or somewhere. And I, of course, to to make it into the Walmart, I walked right through a bunch of like trees and bushes, you know, that was the direct route. And so I grabbed my wife's phone. I'm using the

flashlight on her phone. I retracked my steps. Nothing uh, nothing, all right, And I walk all the way and then I turned back around and I'm going to the car, and then boom, I found the phone laying face down between two bushes in the dark of night in the parking lot of the Walmart. And I felt like I had one the sweep sweet the clearing, how sweepsteaks. You know, I'd want a lottery or something like that. And your phone is black too, right, it is. Once you go black,

you never go back. That's a black phone, bet on black, whatever cliche you want to use. But yeah, black phone and so and it was the last place I looked. But I love that. That's one of my favorite phrases that humans use. It's the last place you look because you wouldn't keep looking if you you know, you know what I'm saying, not gonna keep looking for if you found it. Yeah, that's exactly it. But why would you drop your phone in a bush? Anyway? Well, it was unintentional.

I must have been going so fast. I'm like a hedgehog or something like that, and I just happened to drop the phone. There's nothing that you do is fast. Alright, Moving on the master class gas Gun. Now you don't know this. I don't think I've told you this, but I have been dropping wisdom on the next generation, this gen z. These guys love the wisdom of the mallemmolition.

And I like giving back. I like giving back to people that want to work in radio or podcasting or whatever, and I wish I could have interns, and I I wanted to address that. So I've gotten a lot of requests over the last few years since I've been doing the overnight show during the week that people want to intern from, like specifically for our show, and I am flattered. Uh, And I'll explain it a minute why that is not allowed. And I'd also like to teach when no one will

hire me to to radio. I think it would be fun if they still have professors teach radio. I think, and and and the cool thing is I don't have like a formal education. I'm I'm educated on the streets, gas go on. I learned on the streets. But I would love and I think I'm qualified because I've I've done this long enough for I could teach a class

on on radio talk radio or something like that. Because if you do it for like is it ten years or fifteen years or twenty years, how many years do you have to do it before you're allowed to teach a class ten years you're tenured. Yeah, I've done it for longer than that, So I'm I would be allowed to teach a class at at a college where I think it would be a lot of fun. You're pretty old, guess on your micros on when you said that. Anyway, I like helping young broadcasters. Uh, any advice you need,

I'm here to help. You can email me. Just put in the headline what you're looking for. And it's been really cool the last couple of weeks here, last month or so, I have heard from a number of college age a little older than that that are trying to break into the business and it's it's cool and I would love to have the access. Like when I was younger trying to reach these guys, it was very difficult to get ahold of them. You had to send a

fax or call somebody, and you couldn't just email them. Um. But I I'm asked all the time from people to be interns. I have not had an intern in eleven years. The last intern I had was in twenty nine. I am the Bill Clinton of Fox Poetry. I'm not allowed to have interns Gascon. Hopefully it's not because you're misusing a cigar. Yeah, I know I did not misuse a cigar, but it has been explained to me by the powers that be that it is not that I couldn't have

interns if I had a different shift. But it's because of the hours, and it's not the safest neighborhood. I know, you're not there at night gascon, but where we do the show from. While there's a lot of rich people that live up in the hill, the Hollywood crowd where we are, um, it's all over l A. There's a lot of vagrants and creatures of the night prowling. It's become a bit of a shanty town at night, and so it's not that safe. And it's been that way

for a number of years. When we leave, I've seen, you know, unbelieve I've seen people shooting up drugs and things like that, and the in the street, down the street and sleeping on the street. It's crazy leaving work. I feel bad for some of these people, but some of the people I think are just scum anyway. So

that's the reason. Because of liability, Well, I'm not allowed to have an apprentice because they they were concerned about the apprentice walking to their car after like you know, midnight or one or two in the morning or whatever it is. Yeah, now, full disclosure, I'm actually one of those occupants that when I started here with Fox, Um, I wasn't allowed to actually park in the same complex

as you guys. Yeah. I was given a key card to park down the street in the Sherman Oaks Galleria, right, yeah, park in a mall and good to walk through. I I used to park there when the early is I was not allowed to park in the me That was like a rite of passage when you got the main parking lot that meant you to arrive. Oh no, I had to actually leave the company and then come back and lie that I had parking key. Um, and then I was given one to park here in this structure

at at Fox. So I'm glad that you didn't admit that you lied on the podcast. That's good and we do what we can, right, let me just make things happen. So anyway, but yeah, and my schedule was always overnight, so I was here, you know, during your hours, the overnight decrepit hours where you see all kinds of people at all walks of life walking through here. So I know all about it. Man, It's uh, I understand now.

So if you have students or people that want to get into the industry, I must caution everybody because you will have to give them advice on the craft itself, but it won't be about the other things that surround this craft like networking and social No no, no, no much much much of your brand. Much of my advice, guest gun is about networking. Oh, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at

two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. It is it's about I. I've told these guys some version of Most of these jobs are not given to the good people. Most of these jobs are not given to the most talented talksro host Um. Most of these jobs are either because you have clout because you're an athlete, or you used to be a sportswriter or you you know, a

comedian or something like that. Um, that's you know, it's very you have to really go above and beyond to make it when you're just a radio guy, and it's it makes it much more difficult. But they're all ways around it, like networking, getting in schmoozing like it's it's it's copy was doing. And I would like to point out Esca that my coaching intern Tree, I have a better coaching intern try than Bill Belichick back when I

used to have interns. A. Rashmar Kazi, the lead. I don't know if he's a lead columnist, but he's a columnist at the l A. Times. Was my intern when he was in a high school kid. He used to play soccer in the hallways. Now he's a columnist at the Times. Just work at ESPN. Jamie A. Pody, who's a big TV sports personality in Philadelphia, she worked as an intern at our place. Uh. There's also some others

that have gone on and become program directors. I know multiple program directors of powerful sports talk radio stations that intern for me, um and UH. One in particular three thousand miles. This person traveled moved for a couple of months to be an intern. Um so, but nobody now because I've not been allowed to have any for years.

So what happened? If there's a waiver, gas, could we could we have the intern sign away their life a waiver or at lease like you're going into of a gym or you're driving a car, like you need to sign a waiver earlier. Yeah, you know how you have to sign a waiver when you have a surgery or something like that. You have to sign a waiver or whatever you know, yeah, liability release. As I go under the knife with the anesthesiologists coming in saying are you okay?

This might kill you? Yeah? Yeah, exactly, Yeah that's true. So what happened? Now? What happens? Would you consider me under your tree when I leave what? I what? I consider you what under your tree? The tree um only if you do well, only if you do If you don't do well, I will not consider you under my under my coaching tree. I'm not anyway, Let's move on.

I got I got a lot of good questions here from these are actual questions from actual listeners called the grab Bag, an account with the name Alexander on Facebook rights and from parts unknown. Please explain the following, Ben, what does the board has held mean? When you're doing to pick them? And when you win? At asked Ben, you say, put it on the board. Uh is this the same board that you have that that has been held or is this the held board something you're putting

it on? Alright, So, first of all, Alexander, when I say the board has held, when we're doing the pick them, I jot down a list of who I believe the top players are in the NBA for that night. So I have a board much like a draft board, where I have ranked one, two, three, four, or five, six, seven, eight. And so when we get through the first couple of picks, when I say the board has hell, that means that the other idiots on the show are picking the players that I would have picked if I had had the

number one pick. That that's the value I put on each player. So when I say the board is hell, that means my personal draft board is the way I thought it was going to be. I'm the mel kiper of the the pick up. That's what I'm saying. And as far as put it on the board when I win a game, which I went all the time, as you know, Alexander. That is a direct tribute on homage to Hawk Harrelson, the former Chicago White Sox broadcast I used to watch on on the satellite when I was younger.

I used to watch the White Sox games when he did it, did the games with Tom Pashark, and I always gotta kick it. What a homer. I'm not even a White Sox fan. I got no skin in the game, but I always got to kick out of Hawk Harrelson when you know, somebody would hit a home run and he'd scream put it on the board. Uh and uh oh when I think he did that when they won also, So anyway, it's just my way to to celebrate Carrolson, just like when I say, and I talk about about football,

matriculate the ball down the field. That is an homage to Hank Stram, who I was a football coach but also a broadcaster. So the answers to those questions and he and you use some of the uh, the whack or the bump or the boom during our tell Me broadcast in twenty nineteen. That's right, that was my tribute to John mad John, that's right, that was my John Madden tribute. I thought that would be good because Madden had it was very popular and people like that. People

like sound effects. They like this randomly, you know, doing sound effects. They enjoy that. Yeah, people gotta love affair with your drops, at least some of them. But I don't. I don't play any drops. I don't other people play the drops. I don't hit any any sound effects on the show. I have nothing to Eddie hit some Roberto hit some uh. People hate the bell. I don't control it, you know, and who knew that people hated the bell so much? Well, because it's used on a regular occurrence.

That's wow. 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 liften Live. John from Colorado is a podcast listener. He writes in he says, Ben and David, do you guys smuggle your own candy into a movie theater? H Now, John, And this is come on, I mean this is a this is low hanging fruit. Of course I do, all right. I could teach a class on this. Also. I mean I will

buy the popcorn. I'm a sucker. I I spend ten bucks for fifty cents of colonels and butter. But when it comes to candy, my move. I go to the dollar store, the Dollar Tree store, which we have here in l A and I buy my candy. I spend you know, three bucks on candy, and then I get shorts or or, depending on the year, time of the year, summertime shorts. If not it's a wintertime, I get a jacket with big pockets and uh, and I smuggle the candyon and and my my smuggling game has really improved

that he since I got married. Yeah, Eddie, you called me Eddie? Did I call you Eddie? Yes? Oh wow, that's all I'm sure we'll edit that out of the podcast, right, yeah, of course, so yeah, alright, so sorryway Gaston, whatever you look like Eddie? Alright, yeah you sound like him too, sorry Gascon. So my smuggling of candy game and answer this guy John in Colorado's question, is improved when I

got married because women have an advantage over men. Nope, boom, it is a bag to bring candy into the movie theater. That is why women have purses. I'm convinced it's not to hold their makeup keys wallet. No, it is to sneak handy in to this show. That's why they do it. So yeah, I absolutely it's you know, you're a sucker if you pay seven not seven. It's like five bucks for a candy at the movies, and it's a dollar at the dollar store. Why would you not sneak it in?

Yeah I did the same thing. Um, I did it back in the day. But yeah, so my go to was always it always has and red vines and Eminem's um peanut Eminem's the go to, and red vines of course, so those are the go too. I'm not popcorns, okay, I always go with the nachos for some reason. I just lays a sucker for for tortilla chips and and

some nacho cheese just before the movie starts. Of course, nowadays, I guess the last Star Wars and the damn credits were thirty minutes long, so usually you gotta buy at least enough canny gets you through the credits, because by the time the movie starts you could be tapped out. So I'm always good with candy too, But you gut sneak you and jack and see always that way to go. You've got a female of course, purse bra whatever it may be. And sometimes if you want the back pocket.

You don't get too many people that are looking at your back pocket, especially if you have something that's long enough that your shirt will cover and if you drape it on down. So that's not well my with the movies. We we know, I've mentioned this. The three most important food groups are you know what they are? Uh? In a movie theater? No? No, and just in general. The three things if you have these the proper amount of these ingredients, you will sell whatever food dish you're trying

to sell. Sugar, Yep, sugar is one of them. Two more salt and grease. I don't know pretty much. It's salt, sugar, and fat. Okay, that's some combination, like for example, I like peanut Eminem's also, I'm you know, I'll dabble in some well, I try to get a little healthier. So I've I've moved on because I'm I feel like this is less unhealthy. I'll eat like chocolate almonds, you know, dark chocolate covered almonds. Who's your goat too? Because I feel like it's it's it's it's a sweet, but it's

not as bad as like Eminem's. Do you know what I'm saying? What about like Nestly Crunch? I like Nestly i I but I love the combination of the candy, like the chocolate and the and the salt, the sugar from the candy and the salt from the popcorn Snickers Man Snickers that go too as well. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, um so. But that's but and you know the movies business, nine of the revenue is from popcorn sales. Did you know that ninety percent of the money that they make

at a movie theater is because of the popcorn? Now, are you one of those guys that has to buy a big drink or do you just go back? Well, I used to. I used to get the super gulp whatever and all that. I loved it. But now I just drink water because that's empty calories and I'm getting I'm already eating ship, you know, with the butter and the popcorn and the candy and all that crap. So unless you're unless you're seeing rainbows and unicorns, you probably

shouldn't be doing that. That reminds us, since we're talking about all this good stuff, you still owe me a set of tacos. That's a lie. So we made a bet on the other podcast. That's a legit bet on the super Bowl. You took one team, I took the other. You gotta hear the fifth hour Benny versus the Penny Podcast, and we have a bet and uh and a trip to the Ponies. A trip to the Ponies is on the line the killing grounds, as they say. All right, Frank,

Frank the chef Tank from Medway, Massachusetts. Frank's a big fan. He says, Ben, we have made enough babba ganoche. Can we make some hot and sour soup or some pineapple have a narrow salsa or my choice. Frank's secret slaw. That's from Frank. Well, Frank, if you are an actual chef, here's my advice. Now, I'm not gonna tell you to do this, but if you really want a food dish to be mentioned, you can slide my name in, Frank, right, slide my name in. We we we'll get to that

in a minute here on the questions. But yeah, I can change it up. I I am not against it. I always say bobba ganos because it's a funny word to say, and people smile when they hear the word bobba ganouge because half the people don't know what babba ganush is, and the people that do know bobba ganuche, they probably like it, and so they're like, hey, this brings back a memory of when I was a kid eating babba ganouge. All. So that's why I say baba ganosh.

It's just for comedy reasons. There's no real other reason to do it, obviously. Let's see here, Ken in Toledo says, what was your first car? Uh? Well, I had a Valari. Uh my grandfather's car, Grandpa Jack, May he rest in peace. It was his whole car. I love that car. I like the smell of it. He had the musty smell in the car. The seats were padded and big, and I loved it. I loved those old cars because they

were like they put sofas in those things. That's why someday I want my dream car is not a Porsche or Lamborghini. It's a Lincoln town Car. Because a Lincoln Town Car you feel like you're driving around sitting on a sofa. I had one as a rental car years ago, and I've always said, when I get money and I'm older, That'll be my my middlelife crisis car or my retirement car.

Lincoln ca it just is wonderful. Yeah, it's like what ray Leota drove and Goodfellas, right, those just those big old buicks those Yeah, I love that, love those things. My first car was a nineteen one Ford Crown Victoria. And obviously as my dad being a cop he was, he was driving those things around anyway. As the he did. He buy one on the auction sailor. Was you did you get one for free or something like that. This is just the family cars. So I went from from

one kid to to five of us. And my dad is a huge driver. I don't know what your dad was like or is like, but my dad would drive cars into the ground. So he's got an old Ford Explorer that is now um in his possession. Ben The car has over three hundred thousand miles on it, and a single car that he has owned and then he's passed down to us. I have successfully driven those cars into the ground before they blew up or I blew

them up. So the eight one Crown Victoria, which was the hand me down from my sister to me to my other sisters. UM, I successfully demolished that car, thankfully. But uh, but yeah, that was my first car. It was a tank Man. So people have tried to screw with me in high school. Uh, try pushing me around with their cars or whatever. I just gotten their way, whether it was by force of nature or just by shooting stuff out of my car, it was. It was a thing of beauty. That's pretty cool. Uh. Kid also

says I think he's in Toledo, Ohio. He says, I think you've spent so many years finding ways around cursing on radio, Hearing you curse on the podcast sounds forced and unnatural. Yeah, I agree. Now I hear this a lot, which and I there's two things I want to say about this. A. I don't believe this is true. I have used profanity for years in my personal life. I talk like a sailor quite a bit. I don't use periods. I use fucking ship instead of periods all the time

when I'm not on the radio. There is some truth to the fact that I have made a life of trying to find ways to say bad words that aren't actually bad words. They'll get me in the Principle's office. That is true. But I think the main issue I get a lot of people would say this that listen to the podcast when I curse, is that you're not used to be cursing, right, because if you've listened for any period of time, I don't curse on the radio.

So when you hear this, it's like, wait a minute, it sounds like the radio, but this idiots ton fucking there, what's up with that? And so it doesn't make any sense. So I think it's more about you than it is me, is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, people, just because you're on the radio so much that people aren't used to using that kind of foul language, and all of a sudden it's it's, uh, it's a different nature. Right when you grew up, did your parents ever curse around you?

Very rarely, very rarely? Would they curse around me when I was I was younger, didn't happen much, but everyone was everyone let it rip. So you're you're kind of like the You're the father figure of many people and in so many ways. And so when they when they hear you go off the off the third rail, are

use some foul language. It's a little different, so it rubs them the wrong lay all right, Uh, Stacy, She says, I have to tell you this, but I live in Ottawa in Canada, and I listened to you at night when I can't sleep. I love your show. Oh and uh, everyone with you very thank you. She's talking about me, She said, this, check us out. This this this is the part I wanted to get to. She says, I fell asleep one night with you on the air, and I had a dream I was in l a visiting you.

She just a thought i'd share this. Uh my husband thinks I'm crazy. Stacy said, well, no, you're not crazy, Stacy. Now this is the only say I've read a study about this gascon Like, whatever you do before you go to sleep likely will pop up in a dream. Like if you had I don't know, orange chicken or Beijing beef for dinner, you'll somehow work in. Maybe it won't be that meal particularly, but to be a Chinese food or or you know, you know what I'm saying. It's

weird how that was. But whatever you did, chances are right before the hours before you went to sleep will pop up in your dream. So I don't think that's unusual at all. And you're welcome to come visit a Stacy if you want. We have people come in and hang out with us, and you typically have to bring food. But yeah, you can stop by for an hour or something like that and see how we do the show.

If you're in l A, you're more than welcome. Well that's a nice little holiday, right you're going from Ottawa to to Los Angeles. But you gotta go during the good time of the year. You can't, you know, in the winter. You go in the winter in Ottawa and it's not too bad in l A. All right, here's one from Ethan in Detroit. If you guys were in charge of punishing the astros, what would you do. I've suggested starting them at Owen forty. Are not allowing them

to wear pants for the duration of the season. Ethan says, that's pretty funny. Ethan, I've given this advice on a podcast. I did a model, not a podcast of the radiers. So I did a podcast, not I kept saying podcast.

I did a monologue about this topic. Even my advice is that the astros their punishment is they have to fly commercial Okay, they don't get charted flights, and they stay at like one star hotels on the road, and their meal money goes down to twenty dollars a day instead of a hundred and fifty or whatever it is a day. Uh So, the creature comforts of life I would take away from the Astros. That's what I would do for me. I would have gone a complete I

would have gone scorched earth. I would have used UM. I would have used the ability to cast these players and given them immunity for testimony on who started it, who executed it, and then once I gathered all the credible evidence, I would have pulled the rug underneath all of these guys. I would have banned Alex Cora, A J. Hinch, and every single player that partaked in this. I would have banned them for life in the game of baseball.

And I would have stripped the Astros of draft picks for at least one year and find them a million. They did take away draft picks for more than one year, I know, but I'm just telling you what I would have done. I would have find them, but I would

have banned all these players for life, not even close. Well, And the thing that annoyed me is a lot of these people who are in the tank for baseball, the baseball writers, who are just essentially pr people from Major League Baseball, they say, well, it's too difficult to suspend an entire roster. It's it's you know, it's it's problematic

because these players are all over baseball farm system. Though, that's what I say, and you can you don't have to spend them all at the same time, you can have rolling suspensions if you don't suspend them for the entire year. It's not that perplexing. I don't think this is open heart surgery or brain surgery. Uh yeah? Is Is it convoluted? Absolutely, it's absolutely compluted. But to say

it's too difficult, it's too hard. Fuck you figure it out. Okay, this is a candle worms that got opened up by the Astros. You didn't open it up, they open it up. It is complicated, but that's why you get paid the big bucks. You know what's compl You know what's difficult is attaining the most wins that season in Major League Baseball and then not only winning it all, or at least getting to the World Series, but then winning it all.

That's difficult, old, and that's what the Dodgers are robbed from. They they they were the best team in Major League Baseball that season, and they were great in the postseason, and then all of a sudden they ran into a brick wall in Houston for three games and got absolutely tattooed. I have no remorse if anyone got banned for the Game of life. But guys appeal all the times. So if you suspended a guy or a couple of guys

for eighty games, you know they're gonna appeal. So if you had ruling suspensions, you know, whatever it may be. But players don't care about the finds as much as they care about losing the games. And if you if you ban them for life, then obviously that'll hit them where no one else has hit them before. Because otherwise you mentioned this too, there's no detriment to what they did. They're getting paid, they got their rings, are getting celebrated,

they'll be mortalized in Houston Astro's history forever. Um. No, that's redundant, but still there. There's no deficit to what they did, and it's unfortunate because that now obviously hinders the careers of so many guys for the Dodgers, for the Yankees. Where else was impacted by the Houston Astros runs. Yeah, yeah, I've ranted a lot about that. I would have done more this week, but you know, unfortunately the Kobe story

has swallowed up a lot of those Mallard monologues. I didn't do one the other night though, about Dusty Baker, and we did one about Clayton Kershaw and all that. But I like how Ethan's thinking that would be funny if they're not allowed to wear pants for the entire season. Then it come out there in the banana hammock. All right, Uh, let's see here. Dupre in Houston, via New Orleans, says Ben.

Does Fox Sports Radio use Andy Furman and Arnie Spaniard to train up up and coming up personalities like as a mentor? I don't know, Dupree, I I don't know. Is that the case? So they that they're using the old grizzled veterans. Uh, but I hate to learn radio from Arnie Andy. I would be good, But Arnie, come on the stinking genies. No, this place to cut throat. No. Yeah, they're not trying to help the everyone's out for them. It's radio. Everyone stabs everyone in the back. That's how

the business works, all right. Tony who lives in northern Minnesota. Right since this question, have you ever been ice fishing or on a snowmobile? If not, would you part of our winter activities in northern Minnesota? He says, here is we just had the world's largest ice fishing tournament here in Goal on Goal Lake, over ten thousand people ice fishing like a small city on ice. And he sent some photos which doesn't really do justice here on radio

or podcasting, but this is pretty cool. Uh. To answer your question, No, I have not been ice fishing. I have not been on a snowmobile. That would be pretty neat though. If I ever end up my travels take me to northern Minnesota. That would be fun, just to say, hey, I did it as an experience. But I've only been in the snow a limited amount of time. Like traveling in you know, wintertime in Boston or Connecticut or New York.

I've been in snow there in l A. I can go to the mountains above l A and go to the snow, but I haven't done much. Have you ever been ice fishing or on a snowmobile? No? Never? But you know what, Um, I wor size thirteen shoes and I have ice hockey gear. Why don't we put some skates on you and you can wear my goal equipment. You can go play some pot hockey up in Minnesota. That'd be kind of cool. All right, you buy the plane ticket, boom. We gotta get to Minnesota. We gotta

get to Minnesota at some point. We have so many listeners in that state, in the Twin Cities and all over the place. Man, And they're good people, good people. Top five market, right in terms of Fox, and I heard like, well, we we do very well there in the ratings, and we do very well with interaction, like people are very interactive. You know, some cities we do well in the ratings, but people don't actually interact, which is bizarre to me. I don't understand, like why the

numbers are good. We have a fair amount of listeners, but they don't really interact that much. It seems odd to me. But I would say Boston, Minnesota, Seattle, Uh, Houston, we do pretty well in ironically on the Astros flagship ringing station seven ninety in Houston. What about five seventy. Yeah, usually during baseball season we get more of that because the Dodger station we do alright on on in l

a on five seventy. Movie Man Matt from Boston, right, since says, uh, currently in Denver, and that being said, a two part question in the spirit of moving man match Mallard food hat trick. Yeah, he's going to complete the Mallard hat trick of eating the three Mallard branded food dishes in the same week. It has never been done before. This is historic, he says. If you could

have any food dish named after you. What would it be, Well, Matt, my dream was always to have chicken fingers named after me. I have that in Kansas City. The Mallard Fowler is an amazing gift. I love that. I'm grateful for that. And also the Mallard chicken sandwich in in Denver is wonderful. I guess the next frontier would be like a big cheeseburger or a Philly cheese steak. I'd really like that.

I had a pizza named after me, the Mallard Pizza in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a couple of years, which is no longer on the menu at that restaurant in Floyd Mayweather's Old Snopping Grounds. But but yeah, because I I love these these people, that the guys and the women that run these mom and pop restaurants. It's it's a tremendous honor. Like I never win awards. I never win any awards at all, But I feel like this

is cooler than winning some dopey radio award. Knowing that people that go out to have a nice meal in Kansas City or Lawrence, Kansas or Denver and they have the option of eating a mall or meal. I love that. Uh so, but yeah, it's the big three. Next on my list would be like a big fat, greasy cheeseburger um with with my toppings that I pick on. That a Philly cheese steak. I had the mau zone which was kind of like a cheese steak in Syracuse, but

they changed that restaurant changed hands. Uh And then I'd like to get another pizza on the menu. It would also be nice if run like UM that I can actually go to all the time would do it, you know, that would be that would be cool. And then and moving man Matt also says, why has guess Gun still on the podcast? Fuck gas guard, That's what he says. So why are you still on the pod? You well, because one you need me um to moving Matt, Matt needs me um. And three, as you mentioned, I do

a lot of these things for the greater goods. It's all pro bono work. So alright, Colin and Denver writes us a terrible answer, and we give you funk about your answer. Colin and Denver writes and says, which illicit drug that you've never done before? Have you all always been curious about Colin In Denver? Any drug you've been Don jonesing to do gastchut. No, not at all. Yeah,

I'm not. I'm very paranoid about you know, I'll be the guy that does a line of coke and dies the first time, you know, I'll be the one percent or whatever that has that happen. So I'm paranoid about that. I blame my mom for for putting that into me. And then I guess if there was one I'm curious about that I don't think would kill me, it's that

crap that Joe Rogan always talks about that I Alaska. Yeah, like maybe I would try that in the Amazon or something like that, but even that I probably would avoid. You need a shoper on with you anyway before you can take any of that, is that right? Yeah? Like they go through like a day of prep to tell you exactly how it's gonna go down, and you actually have a guy that's that's with you throughout the entire process because you go through like the meditation and all

that stuff. I'm not a good meditator. Now. No, when you had your your gallbladder removed, were you on any kind of pain meds like codeine or I only right after the surgery. They gave me a baggy of pain pills, but I did not. I did not take them when I went in. What was it? What's the pain medication

that starts with an M A. I thinking of morphine? Morphine. Yeah, he gave me morphine and that actually I had a gold stone stuck in where a place it wasn't supposed to be, and they gave me the morphine and it, Man, is that crap amazing? Within about ten minutes, that goal gold stone had passed Because it opens up your your insights, It makes everything wider and allows stuff to pass through. It was wild. Man. These doctors are what an amazing

thing they've come. Like you imagine we're so so lucky. Imagine it's gonna be like a hundred years from now or two hundred years from now with medicine, the ship that these people have figured out. And you think about like the original medicine was like tartar sauce. You know in America or the early days of American people thought tartar sauce had healing powers. That's what we're at a fork in the road, guest, Scout. I know you have things to do. We can do study this which I promoted.

We can do don't stick to sports, or we could say goodbye. We can say goodbye. All right, who's studied this? Uh, let's see. Here is your actual studies by actual people. Uh. Here's one that resonates with me. And we determine whether these are real or bull shit? Real or bullshit. This is a tribute to the Pet and Teller show, which was called bullshit back in the day. But here it is that American households waste nearly blank of their food. Nearly blank of their food. I'll give you the answer.

This is from a Penn State University study. All right, well, I'll give me the number. According to the Penn State research they said that in America here American households, the value of the waste is estimated at two hundred forty billion annually. When divided among the American households, that's an average of one thousand, eight hundred and sixty six dollars being wasted per household on a yearly basis. I think

it's higher than that. Now, this is one of the things I don't have many disagrees with my wife, but one of the things I disagree with she will go through the refrigerator and the cabinet sporadically and just throw out food that is kind of not where it's supposed to be. And my argument is always just because they have a date on the package doesn't mean the food is not still good, you know, And and why don't we do a little taste and and see if it's still good or not. But she's like, no, no, it

says it's past the expiration date. We gotta throw that away. It's not good for your health. And um, I I disagree because I know there's old people and people you know, don't have a lot of money that eat this stuff when it's expired. They don't die, you know. Yeah, that's true. I I am. I'm not really like that. Well, I don't eat a lot of dairy. Actually, I don't eat any dairy anymore. So that's the only thing that really was conscious about when it came to labels. Everything else.

Fruit obviously you can identify that, but outside of that, no, I think dairy is the only thing to be worried about. If you have a bag of potato chips and it's like the potato chips expire on the janu and it's you know, February seven. Or you know what, what about you really concerned you're gonna die from meeting the bag of potato chips? No, but what about like poultry and meats and things like that. Well, meats, I would agree with like meats, but you can do the smell test

on that, the eyeball test weird color. Plus, if you cook it enough, it doesn't matter anyway. If you burn the ship out of it, it doesn't matter. You know you're gonna burn out anything that's wrong there anyway. Uh, these are actual studies by actual people. Here's one in the modern family. On average, how much does your typical parents spend face to face with their kids per week? How many hours face to face does the average parents spend with their kid? Oh, I guess it depends on

the age of the kid. Um under the age of eighteen. They said, Oh, on a week, Um, I'll say eighteen hours. Nope, not even close. The number is five, just five hours of ace to FaceTime parents spend with their kids per week. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. And they did this survey done, you know, a face to face meetings and whatnot, and they they have all this kind of data and all

they spit out. Here's a lot of b s here, But nearly half of the survey parents said they only talked to the kids from maximum four hours each week. Fifty four percent said they would love to spend more time with their children. But to rectify this problem over parents have taken to an active interest in their activities and whatnot, but they say it doesn't matter. It's like

about five hours a week. About five hours that was that because the kids are just playing video games and they're not into it, or parents are just tired after work and they don't have time for it, and combination of both. People are stuck on their cell phones too, whether it's a parent or a child, so they're either watching something or playing on an app. And uh yeah, people are the adults at least working too much. So it is the sign of the time. So I give

my parents credit. I got a lot of face time with mom and dad, one more mom than dad when I was growing up. But my mom made it a priority and she worked her ass off, but she made sure that always give us some some face time there and a lot of it as as I remember. Although I also spent a lot of time like throwing a tennis ball against the garage door, thinking I was going to play shortstop for the Dodgers, so I had that going on as well. Wow, I didn't work out. Your

arm is horrible. Wow. I had great range though back in my day I could. I was like Auzie Smith running out to short stop. You're chuck knob Block, You're fucking range. Sucked man in Bakersfield. You needed a cut off man. Just get that ball to home play. I remember, I remember breakers Field. It was a great night we had there. It looked like urinated my pants because of the broken cooling machine that you put out there. A good job by you. Our last last study I have here.

There's a study here that you know that story that comes out ever a year about sex trafficking surging during the Super Bowl. Apparently it's bullshit. University of Minutes Soda Twin Cities examined the evidence on this subject for the eighteen Super Bowl. They discovered that this belief is false. It's fake news and has largely become so widely believed due to inaccurate reporting from news outfits. So the researchers

brought their findings to local outlets in Minnesota. They resulted in nearly seventy of local news stories on the topic U trafficking ahead of twenty eighteen Super Bowl blah blah blah, la ilegals here in BS. But they said, bottom line, it's not true. It's not it doesn't it's not surging. It's not like taking an uber and surge pricing. I

call bullshit on that one. And I think the reason why I do that is because much like gambling, you know this is that whatever is accounted for on the books in the gambling world, uh, people usually say it's double on the black market. And so I think it's the same thing with with these studies and human trafficking because now but I think the argument is like it is gonna be new, um, new people that are brought

mostly women are in sex trafficking. But women that are brought into the game or is it just the same people there. It's moving pieces on a chessboard, you know what I'm saying. Like, I think their argument is it's not new people, it's the same people that are. It's kind of like the strippers go to Vegas for the Super Bowl because they know or a big fight, you know, the big fight in Vegas because they know there's going to be uh an increased. That's where the people are going,

where the people are right, right? Yeah, I don't don't. I don't believe that. All right, that's all the studies we have time for. Do you we want to do any don't stick to sports? Are you good? I think we're good, aren't we? I don't know. Well, you're the one that has somewhere to go. I have nowhere to go. I've got nothing to do, so I have to work. So that's the other thing. I mean, one of us call that work. You call that work? How about this one? How is Miami? By the way, you're having a good

time in Miami. I didn't get an invite. I'm not part of you didn't No, I'm not part of the cool Oh man, you must have had a great steak dinner the other night. It was wonderful. I want you to tweet about it. Why don't you put it on your Instagram account? Right? Why don't you put on your Facebook account? Yeah? I think I think I'm good. Who paid for the flight? Was it was it Jay Scoop? Or is he only do that to see you? I'm

not supposed to talk about that. Why not I'm not supposed to all of a sudden now being shy, bashfulle Betty. They call me bashfulle Betty. I do need a fair for all your fanboys, bootlookers, listeners, all those guys looking for rubbing elbows. Uh. We need to be rated. We need to have reviews, we need to have downloads. The one minute right, all we need is one minute. You can be the one minute man. You'll be a hero. Normally, when you're a one minute man, you're not a hero.

But in this case, one minute man hero. Right, what are you, don Lemon, all of a sudden, just talking down to your listeners. No, I'm saying your nickname touch somebod used to date you was the one minute man's. But for you, it's okay. One minute. We're good, guest, gun sixty seconds. It could be the best sixty seconds of your life. Yeah, all right, listen, have a great We can enjoy the super Bowl. Try the other podcast. A lot of fun exotic prop bets in that podcast,

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