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Welcome into the Saturday podcast, The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. We hope you enjoyed Friday's podcast. If you did not hear the Friday podcast, Bad Job by You, you can go back and listen to it. It's timeless, it's classical. Uh. Catching up with no Procer, who had a long run with the Baltimore Oils and the Washington Bulls. He also was the first announcer for the Washington Nationals and has worked with a bunch of other teams. He called games

for the New Jersey Nets and the Texas Rangers. Was in Hawaii and I enjoyed the conversation and I don't even know I learned something new about NFL films. From mel So if you want to hear that, go back and download the Friday podcast. But upward and onward we go. It is Saturday and no gascon, a gascon free weekend. A man with that kind of work ethic rest of the four oh five, not here, but in his place, a living, breathing Fox Sports Radio legend behind the scenes.

Occasionally this man pops up on the air. Occasionally it happens Big Mike is in the house in that the gascon chair. Hello, Big Mike. Hello, Barn Mellon knows a pretty nice central man. Feel like I should have some walk up music or something. Well, you're like in old tub I know you know, no no, and see guess I will play like applause and stuff like that. Yeah, that would be that would be a nightmare. Now do do you live west of the four or five or

east of the four or five? I live just east of the four or five, like literally a quarter of a mile east of the four or five. That's okay, you're east of the four or five, as long as you're not west of the four or five. Because I've bad, I've bad, you know, juju with the people that live west of the four or five, like Gascon, So there's a point. There's a point of you know, like a lion the sand here, Big Mike, west or east of the four or five, and as long as they're even

a footstep away, Like I love Tito's tacos rightly. My favorite Tinos Tacos is literally against the four or five freeway. But it is east of the four oh five, so that's okay. Even though it's looking at it's right next to the freeway, but it's east of it, so it's all right too. Those is within walking distance from my house? Is that right? Is right? I'm jealous, man, I'd be eating it. Although full disclosure, when I first started going to Titos, I'm gonna date myself, but I could get

like five tacos for ten bucks. Now those tacos with cheese like five bucks each. Almost oh yeah, but you don't have to pay cash anymore. They're taking credit cards now. Yeah. I was surprised by that because they had a straight cash business for like thirty forty years, you know, and I'm not saying they didn't pay their taxes, Big Mike, but there are workarounds when you get cash, you know, whether there are things you can do, whether or not

you want to be honest or not. So yeah, for sure. Interesting. So how now, I just assume you've been at Fox Spirits Radio as long as I have. I know you haven't. I remember when you started, but you've been here forever. How many years have you been here now, Mike? At the company? Uh, starting two thousand four, so that's seventeen seventeen years. And of course you've been on so they laid me off No. Nine, So you've been consistently there

longer than I have. I had a six month, twenty six day vacation, but you, technically, your seniority was wiped out at that point. Now I am technically senior to you as an employee here, yes, yes, but not that I don't like to relive that faithful day there at all. But you you know where all the barer the bodies are buried, Big Mike. Yes, you know all the secrets of Fox Sports Radio past and present, and I'm not sharing, So don't try to get it out of me. You're not.

Are you gonna? Are you gonna wry to tell all book, Big Mike? When you're done here? What happens in Sherman Oaks stays in Sherman Oaks. Oh no, we have big powerful microphones and we spew all of that. We spew all of that out into the ethos is what we do. But that. But anyway, on this podcast, we are going to have heavy magic. We've got just desserts and a staple on Saturday podcast pop Whiz Boy. Is that exciting? Tell me you're not. This is your dream come true,

Big Mike. You weren't forced to come in and do this. You love you have great fun memories of me and you side by side in the heart the hallways the bowels of Fox Sports Radio back in the day. Absolutely, I've been pestering Gascon for months now to try to let me have a shift in here and try and try to work for him so we can go, you know, do something and pretend he's busy. Yeah, we should get in on this. Yeah, well it's not that different, Gascon.

And when it comes to the work ethic, he's you know, he check out from time to time as we as we punt out. Anyway, so Avy Magic, by hook or by crook, the wings of change have have finally swept through the social media platforms. I did it. I clicked the switch on Twitter at bra Cadabra hook just poke as pressed though I changed my avatar on Twitter. Now this might seem like nothing right, This might who the hell cares you know? It's a stupid avatar on Twitter.

I get it, But it is absolutely something because I believe I didn't. I don't know the last time I changed. I think it's been at least four years. In fact, I think it's been longer than four years that I had the avatar that I had on Twitter. So why did I change? Well, I was considering, not that you really care, but I was considering making a change. I was like, contemplating making a change. But I'm not very photogenetic. I'm I'm ugly. I generally don't like any photos that

are taken where I'm in the photo. That's usually a way for me to not like the photo is when my ugly mug is in the photo. So I looked at a couple of things. I was like, maybe about change. I didn't. And then I was re eating some tweets from and this actually happened on the air. If you listen to the Overnight show, you heard this. And I was reading tweets and this guy, E Rocker. I looked at his advantage, like, that's pretty cool. I'd like to get, you know, in my head, I'm thinking, boy, I'd like

to get something like that. That's a good look at avatar. And it was a cartoon drawing of this guy's face or whatever. I'm probably used to some app to do it. I don't know how he did it, but I pointed out that I liked it, and I like, that's pretty good. And then like the next day or maybe it was even that same night, I don't remember. It was either that night or the next day. Uh. He's sent over

two of him. He had a red and a blue one, and it was like, I like that, and I, after contemplating it some more for a couple of days, I'm like, hey, let's do it. Let's make the let's make the jump. So I am the proud owner of a new cartoon avatar, which I will describe as if for those that can't see it, for our blind listeners. It is slick, it is stylish, it is in vogue, it is cutting ed, and as much as this can possibly be as an avatar, I feel like I'm strutting down the catwalk and Uh.

And and Big Mike, I'm doing a ciple pure weet is what I'm doing. I'm all about it. It looks great. Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. And and so far, you know, so far positive reviews. Although we know the trolls are out there. We are aware the trolls are out there, and they are ready to attack there. They muddy the waters is what they do, one of them. I got to assume that Gascon's out there with a with a

troll account that he's set up secondarily just so he can. Yeah, well, thank you for confirming that, because I have long had these suspicion, and I have had a circumstantial evidence, anecdotal evidence that gagon has started several burner accounts, the most famous one the gag on account, which is a tribute to former Fox Sports radio host Mike North, one of the great mispronunciations of all time him, which really created

a cottage industry. Uh, the gag on account, which I'm pretty confident David Gascon has something to do with that. And then any time I get a positive message from somebody on social media about Gascon, I do a double take. And I'm pretty confident there that it's it's one of his burner accounts. I agree, you are absolutely right to be suspicious. Yeah. Now, so that's my Avatar story. That's that's the big news. They're big exciting. You know how

exciting is my life, Big Mike? That changing in Avatar is something that I feel I need to talk about on the podcast. That's how pathetic I am. Yeah, but I knew. I knew that. I've known you for a long time. But now, when I first met you, Big Mike, you always had like every weekend was you were a huge Carolina Panther fan, and you always were rocking the Carolina Panther gear. But now you're kind of like mid management guy. Now, now you've moved up in the company.

So I'm not there during the day anymore. Not that I ever was really there during the day much, but so, Big Mike, now have you gone corporate? Do you do you have to dress business casual? Now? I have they put down the hammer of God from corporate on on the wardrobe? Are you still splitting the old Carolina Panther gear. Well, honestly, I am a dame game day gear wearing guy, So if it's not a game day, I'm not, but I will rock some Carolina Panthers scared for the upcoming draft

on the twenty night. I will bust out at least a lid or something. Probably won't go in with a full jersey, uh, seeing as how you know, there's gonna be some corporate big wigs in the building as usually happens. But yeah, I I still got plenty of it. It gives my wife and my daughter something to buy me for Christmas and my birthday. You know, no, I still yeah it Patz being like a tie beats a tie or something like that. About and why did you become

a Carolina Panther fan? Again? I know you told me, But so I grew up a Rams fan. I'm in l A and uh, after how they did Eric Dickerson, um, and then they decided to move to St. Louis, I had enough. So what I did was, after nine four, I just started rooting against the Rams. And of course, as a Rams fan growing up, I was already rooting against the forty Niners pretty heavily. That did not change either.

So when the Panthers came into the league, even though they were in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is like three hours from the East Coast. They were put in the NFC West, So I found myself rooting four of the Panthers four times a year because they played the Rams twice and they played the forty Niners twice. And then they picked up Kevin Green, who had been my favorite Rams player before I stopped being a Rams fan. He

was then on the Panthers, and boom. It took me about two years to make the switch over sot SI. There when they went to the NFC Championship with cart Collins is when I jumped on board. Yeah, and I, like yourself, growing up in southern California, was a huge l a Ram fan and love the Eric Dickerson years. Even the Jim Everett was by the way, Jim Everett a Fox Sports radio listener, Big Mike, you know, yeah, he's a consumer of Fox Sports Radio. I've heard it

through the grapevine. But uh yeah, I was furious and I I stopped following the Rams when they went to St. Louis two. But what I did is I just became a degenerate gambler and then I also went with the radio show. I just changed teams every year. I had the contest every year like I had the listeners vote. I never remember that. Yeah, yeah, And it was a lot of fun because I got to experience different fan you know, being a fan of the Patriots one year,

the Cowboys. And then it turned ugly though, because at the end they were just picking whoever the worst team was gonna be, and it was like Cleveland when they were miserable, um, Jacksonville when they were unwatchable, you know. So so then, and I'm convinced Big Mike that they were like bots that hijack the vote because it made no sense. For years, people were like, Okay, it would be a good team that Benkin follow has a chance

to win the Super Bowl. And then it turned on a dime and it became hey, let's try to screw Mallow over and have him have a miserable fan experience. And so eventually, when the Rams came back, I gave it up. Did you consider Big Mike as I did? I am now back on the Ram bandwagon. AlOH, I'm not as fully invested as I was when I was younger, and I still have my doubts. I think they could still leave again someday, but I'm back with the Rams.

If you considered making the leap back, or you're too far invested in the Carolina Panthers at this point to make that jump. No, I'm definitely too far invested in the Panthers, but I will say that I would I would certainly not rule out a possible return to being a Rams fan now of it. They're back in l a obviously different ownership now than there was back then,

so it's not totally off the table. And my you know, I don't despise them in the same way I did when they were in St. Louis, but I'd say highly doubtful that I'm ever going to get back on that wagon. So you're locked, you're locking your ways. But and as a Carolina Panther fan, Big Mike, are you mad enough to chew nails that they traded for Sam Donald? Is this something to, you know, infuriate you because he's not

very good. I understand he's not very good, but he's not any worse than Teddy Bridgewater, or at the very least, he's not going to be worse than a rookie quarterback even if they were managed to trade up and get somebody who's really good. So at least for the foreseeable future. Let's put Sam Donald in. Let's see if all that potential that was wasted by bad management, bad coaching, and bad situations can possibly be rectified in Carolina. I'm not saying it can. I'm not even saying I have high

hopes that it will be. I'm just saying I'm I'm open to the possibilities, and I'm still hoping they pick up somebody in the draft to play quarterback. Yeah. Uh no, Big Mike, you know how I feel about potential, right. Potential means you haven't done anything. That's a great bill parselves quote. I remember, you haven't done anything yet. And then the other thing you you lose on potential and

you win when guys actually play well. It's the what was my moment mantra my manchu is from Dusty Baker that a prospect is just a suspect until proven otherwise. All right, I want to point that out trying I'm trying to rain on your parade here, Big Well, I mean you're not raining on a parade, because I'm not. I'm not having a parade over here. I've I've got my fingers crossed and I'm just hoping there you go blind. Hope, I got you all right. Be sure to catch live

editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Easter. Now, as far as the Just Desserts are concerned, this being the Saturday podcast, we have a follow up, a fifth Hour with Ben Mallard follow up and things did boil over this week. Now, I had a bit of a waterloom moment. Now the previous episode of the Fifth Hour, I explained I had played this word game on my

phone when I had a few minutes. Now and again, I didn't do it all the time, but usually before bad I would have some downtime and I played this word search game. Uh and and the game is advertised where you could get money, like you play a certain number of games, you can get like twenty bucks. I was like, fine, so I played in this game, and you know what, I liked the game, but you know, I was also motivated by the financial element, even tho

it's twenty bucks. You know who cares in the big picture, But I was like, it's twenty bucks. I played the game get a one on him. So as you as you know, if you heard the other podcast, that I did this for a long time. And I got to nineteen dollars and ninety nine cents, and then it would not allow me to get that final cent that you couldn't cash out till you get to twenty dollars. So I got upset and I stopped playing the game. I ripped the game on the podcast. Here. Well, I finally

had a waterloo moment. Here I made my first ever review in the app store, the Apple App Store, slamming the scammers that behind the game. Here, bitter and broken Benny about this game that I had played for a couple of years. Here the game called Word Relax, and you know, just turned out to be a bait and switch situation. And as I had said at the time, you know, I wouldn't have had a problem with it if they had not had the false advertising. Now I

felt like I was bamboozled by the advertising. And right up until the point I got to nineteen dollars and nine cents in the game, it had been legitimate. I mean it wasn't it was. You know, they made it harder and harder to get more money, to play more and more games, hundreds of games to get even a cent. But I was like, okay, you know, I'm in for the battle. I'm in for the war of attrition. I'm not You're not gonna break my soul. You're not gonna

beat me down. I Am going to figure this out, and I'm gonna keep playing and I'm gonna get the center. When I got to nineteen dollars and ninety nine cents, it then became essentially infinity because they've always said you have to play X number of games to get the next dollar amount. Well, once you get to nineteen dollars

nine cents they take that away. It becomes impossible. So then I started reading some of the other reviews and there were people that have played hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of games, all the levels and never got in that final penny. So it was total bullcrap. So right, I read this, and I became incensed, and I finally was motivated enough this week, I was provoked enough to go to the app store and give a one star review. Let me tell you, all right, that might not mean

much to you, but to me, that was therapeutic. You know what it was, Big Mike. It was retribution, is what it was. I was led astray, and I don't like if you're gonna advertise something. I'm big believer in this, you know, the truth in advertising. I think most people are like that. Yeah, I don't want to be scammed

like that. And you have an avenue with which you can redress your issues, and you chose to do so well within your rights, and I'm glad it was cathartic for you, sir, like well from the bully pulpit, as you know, Big Mike. This is the bully pulpit. You're you're in the bully pulpit right now. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, so I can just I can just tell people what to do and make things happen, right, yeah, pretty much? Sweet? Yeah, pretty much absolutely. All right, now we have pop quiz.

H Now, Big Mike, you're in the gascon chair, so you have to play the gascon role. I just want to make it clear that I did switch chairs. There are more than one chair in here, so I just don't want to be sitting in the same chair that guy was sitting in. Yeah, it's probably a stench. You don't want to be there. There's cooties or whatever. Anyway, all right, so the pop quiz, now, this is just random stuff, Big Mike, that I found around the interweb

that I thought was interesting. And then the way this will work you listening, you can attempt to answer, and then Big Mike can attempt to answer, and then we'll actually have the answer and you can see how you do. And it's just human nature, you know, life, life and times, the zeitgeist of our times, if you will. Um. So, the first thing I found here a new survey asked people to name the most important product in their life. Now, their phone and their car were the two most common

answers as the most important products. And you don't think that's kind of obvious there you phone, you're on your phone all the time. The car? But what was number three was in this random survey of people most important products in your life? Phone? Car? Went into what do you think? Number three was? Oh, that's interesting question? Do do do? Do? Do Do? Can I think out louder? At the first thing? I said, well, you can think out loud,

but I will need your final answer. Okay, So I'm it's a toss up between the television, a computer, and a bed television computer. So that's a three away. And I think I think with the with the use of phones and people think I am gonna go with and the cord cutting. I'm gonna go with a bed, A bed, Yeah, beds important. You need a bed. Uh, you need a good bed. I'm I'm getting good sleep like a sleep number bed important? Yes, uh no. But a refrigerator okay,

refrigerator cold food is good. Yeah, well you can store your your food. And my refrigerators got a water thing on it that's get my water in my ice and and all that. I imagine living in the world before refrigerators and and toilets with plumbing. Oh my god, what a nightmare. What a nightmare. Yeah, I don't want to

do that. People did that for a long time. Alright, about forty of people say this is something they hate to do at home something, So four out of every ten people fleet this is something they hate to do at home at home, I hate to do at home. How about how about pinch one off? You know I always like to stink up somebody else's bathroom. That's a great answer. I like that. That's better than anything Gascon has ever come up with on this. That's right there.

You've already trump Gascon. No, it involves something to do with food, not the other end where the food comes out. But they say that about people hate eating leftovers. Huh yeah, I have a big leftover guy. Are you bill left over? I think there are some there are some foods that actually do better on leftover. Well, pizza like pizzas neat food. I will. I will eat leftover pizza no matter what.

But a lot of the other foods it's it's tough and I'm not like I'm boozing when it comes to eating food where I know it's easy to just to put in the microwave, but usually it tastes better. A lot of stuff is you put it in the oven and reheat it. But it's a pain in the ask to put in the oven. Like see, like a lot of things little like pasta and stuff, you put it in the microwave. It kind of tastes a little truly, and you know what I mean, it's not it doesn't

have the same consistency exactly what you mean. So what my wife and I did when we got married, as we registered for this like super sized toaster oven, which we use a lot for reheating food because, like you said, the microwave, everything turns into rubber. It's just not it's not right, and especially if you're talking about pizza man, stick that thing back in the oven, get that crushed up crispy again. And yeah, no, that's good. Yeah yeah,

like I would eat leftover was more. I'm not a big left over guy, but I would eat it more. If the consistency of the I like the giant, big mic toaster, then that would look at a little patience that's all you need. Yeah, well, I used to my my father. I used to my dad. My mom passed my dad for years, you know, he know living, you know, he lived on his own and all that for a

long time. And he he hated the stove. And I tried to tell him right up until the day dies, so listen, you gotta put stuff in the oven, dad, it tastes better. But he he had no patience, right, He did not want to sit there, and he's too much work to have to wait in time it out and all that, and he just you gotta preheat the oven. What a pain? And he asked that, well you know

the whole thing. Oh yeah. Well. And one of the reasons, by the way, I have to admit that I'm I'm down with leftovers is because well, my wife's a personal chef, so when she makes food, I'm not gonna waste it. Like, I like how you worked that in there. Look at that you worked at it, like, yeah, that was smooth, very very smooth. There, you've done this before, alright, on average, you don't pop quiz here? On average? We all have

nine of these, but never used three of them. Right, of nine of these, but never used three of them. This is like a quiz. It sounds more like a riddle. Yeah, well, this is like the Wonderlick test that these draft picks you used to have. I don't know if they still do the one. We have nine of these, but we only have three. I'll give you a clue. Okay, oh yeah, you go my man keys right now? You look at your key chain. I got a ton of keys on here. All right, let me go my head, all right, like

holding us go through here? How many keys do I grab? The keys? Here? There? They are all right here with the keys I found alright, found mine. So I have my car keys, which I obviously use all the time. So there's two, uh, the wife's car that I have, and then I have the I have the house key right here, so I've got that. But then like, I have a bunch of other like smaller type keys, and I don't I don't really use I don't use these much at all, Like somebody, I don't even know what

they go to. I've got I've got eleven. I've got one. I don't know what it goes to. Three of them. Our studio cues that I rarely ever use two car keys, one for mine, one for my wife's car. I got the bike lock key, and then house keys, so I have I'm using all of them mostly. I have thirteen keys on the Mallard key chain and I only use Yeah, I used three of them, so like ten of them, I don't. I don't even know why I have them them around. I'm I'm like nine for eleven, you're nine

for eleven. That's a good batty here. Yeah, I'm I'm using my keys. That's beyond Tony Gwynn. That's a hall of fame. That's that's all the time. This is great key talk. This is what am I not on the pulse of the people here, Big Mike did people on a Saturday one to hear what they're screaming for, Ben, you gotta give them what they're screening for man. Yeah, yeah, I give the customer, Give the customer what the customer

wants and hot key talk very important. All right. The average person will turn this on and off four times day. What is it doing something that they will turn Yeah? Look at you, big Mike. You got that one right? Your car? Yeah, get up, you go to work, maybe go to lunch, you come back, you go home, whatever. So four times a day for the car. All right. Two percent of people have done this to their neighbor.

What is it, uh, throwing some crap in their backyard? Well, it's you're actually close put put their trash in the neighbor's trash can. Okay, yeah, you've ever done that? Now if you've done it by mistake or intentionally, I've done it intentionally. Yeah. Yeah, that's a that's a that's a jerk move. I understand. Why is that a jerk move? They're just gonna come and take the trash away. I'm not a room in mine. You got plenty of room

in yours. Etiquette, you know, it's trash etiquette. Whatever, stop me and then say, well you're big Mike. You're a burly guy. Man. People don't mess with your Big Mike you've got the intimidation factor, you do. I do have that a little bit, and you play that to you. You're like a teddy bear on the inside, but you you are from the outside, from the you know, dark alley. You see big Mike walking down a dark a dark alley. Oh man, this guy's gonna kick my ass. There you go,

all right? The average person does this ten times a month? What is it? Brush their teeth? But last guess, likely ten times a month. Maybe brushes keeps consistency. Are you taking shot at some of the people that listen overnight that they only brush their teeth about ten times a month? Is that I would never do such a thing, never, because that would be inappropriate and shame on you. H. The The answer is forget a password. Forget a password

that often, right, I never forget passwords. Yeah, I don't like that the company makes you change the password every so often. That's the pain, the pain the behind because it's hard to come up with unique passwords. And I'm a little confused by this because I have I'm fully invested in the Apple, I have the iPhone and all that, and like all my passwords are pretty much safe. So but my issue is if that thing breaks, that member that memorizes all my password, I will be passwords. I'll

be completely screwed. Well, yes, you're, you're It should all be in the cloud now, so well that's what I'm saying. But it's like an auto fill. But if like the cloud gets hacked or something, but all my passwords, like I don't remember any of them at this point, I don't have to remember them because anytime I put you know, put the phone out or whatever, their auto saves, so it just fills in and I don't have to ever change them unless they unless they get that mandate you

gotta change your password because it's it's expired or whatever. Like, well, the thing that's killing me these days is the too authentication code. Oh yeah, yeah, crazy man. I'm tired of sticking in a six digit code. Yeah yeah, they yeah, they text you and that you've got twenty four hours and if you don't, it's a pain in the butt.

Yeah yeah. And I've heard that like passwords aren't even really all out effective, like they're they've tried to figure out a way to get rid of the passwords, like there's a different way you can do it, and some of the people are so programmed to have passwords, it's hard to get people to change once they've become set in their way. To be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Easterific, alright.

According to a new survey of people say finding this in their dates car would greatly decrease the chances of a second date. Now you're married and married for a long time. I've been married now for a while. So what do you think this item is that if you found this in the car, you would be less likely to have a second date. Huh anything? Less likely to have a second date. If I found this, and it's something a lot of people have in their cars, it's

pretty common. How about a rear view mirror deodorizer deodor rising fresh like one of those lu aw Hawaiians like the are you doing in your car that it stinks so bad you need to have? Well, the answer is actually something that would lead to that stink, eating fast food and having fast food containers in the you know, I see and I listen. I have guilty as charged, but I have had the occasional in and out burger cup in the back or you know, yeah, I'm gonna

go with the opposite. If I see that in the girls, I don't want a second, third, fourth date, Like do you think that would make her more attractive? And it will confirm that she's probably a cheap date. So that's helpful too. That is true. That is true. But I did have an epiphany when it came to the the fast food thing that when I go get gas, they have these things called trash cans, and so I was like that as a great all the gas is pumping, big Mike, this great opportunity to throw the trash away

and clean the car. And like, I'll go, you were shopping on the weekend. I go like a Kia or something like that, and they got these massive trash cans right in front, and then it's great, trash hands are the key. I get it, all right, Yeah, you know, but I don't usually throw the trash away at at my house though, Like I don't usually clean the car out at the house. I do it while i'm multitask and I'm at the gas station or whatever, and then it's less trash you have to take out later and

put on the curb. Yeah, exactly, exactly right, All right about sixty of households on one of these, but they often only use it a couple of times a year. A couple of times a year. A vacuum, Yes, we have the vacuum. That's about right. Um No, it's something uh with something about America, something Americana and American flag. Yes, yes, right, so July fourth, What other part of the year would you hoist out the American Flag memorial? There? Mooral there

you go. Perfect, there's a couple of times a year. I have an American flag outside the Mallard mansion that we have. I just leave that out there. It's it's there all the all the time, pretty much because it's a pain to take down and put back up and all that stuff. So we just leave it out there. And that a number of our neighbors have the American flag there, gotta at Costco. It's a Kirkland brand flag

and it's it's well mate, it's held up. It's in the sunlight all the time, but it's held up pretty good. So yeah, Kirkland's good stuff. Yeah, I love the Kirkland brand. Alright, any new will there a few more? In a new survey, roughly one in five adults say they don't like doing this common activity with their spouse. What do they not like doing? They do not like exercising with their spouse. That's actually a good one. I get that. But no,

this is writing in a car with them? Wow, that's That'd be difficult to be in a marriage and not want to ride in the car with the other person. How would you? How did you pull that one off? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. In fact, one of the pieces of advice I've been known to give over the years for people who are in a relationship. If you're really want to go to the next level, it's important that you take a road trip together to see if you can handle each other in the car

and in a hotel. Specifically, you should go to Vegas so all the freakery comes out early and you know what you're dealing with before you make a long commitment to a relationship. But if you're in l A, you should go to Vegas. If you're in Maine, you probably shouldn't go to Vegas. That's a little too long in the car, right, I mean, I guess, I guess. Maybe you go down to Boston for the weekend. If you're in Maine. Well, if you're if you're in Florida, probably

shouldn't go to Vegas. Probably shouldn't. Maybe I'm about a boat trip to the Bahamas if you like, I mean, if you're in the South, you can go riverboat gambling, if you're Atlantic City, or you know, you got all kinds of places. Well those casinos everywhere, now, big Mike, right, Yeah, you gotta go. You gotta go somewhere where the freakery is going to show up. Yeah, that so that you can identify it and then decide whether or not that's

a freakery that you can live with. Well, that's your listen, like, because you all know, in a relationship, everyone has their best behavior. Nobody farts around each other when they're in a relationship with sirs. But then at some point, you know, you you let yourself go a little bit, and that's the point of demarcation where you determine whether or not this is good or not. Yeah, all right. In the mid nineteen fifties, this item sold over ten million units

in its first full year of production. It is still available today. In fact, every grocery store you would go to you'll find this particular item. Uh huh, Night in mid nineteen fifties. This is a big breakthrough and people were like, this is amazing. It's gonna make my life so much easier. And you can still find these in grocery stores today. Yes, yes, Big Mike, you can find these in grocery stores today. For I was gonna come with the hula hoop, but they don't have hula hoops

anymore in the grocery stores. No, they don't. They don't have And I think whoops came in the sixties, didn't they It was the fifties. The hula hoops started in the fifties. Maybe you're right. I don't know. I'm just guessing. Alright, so not a hula hoop. I'm gonna go with uh. Sliced bread. Sliced bread. Yeah, you know, when slice bread started, people didn't like it. They like to cut their own bread. They didn't like slice bread. They thought they were getting

short change. But no, it's not slice bread. The correct answer. TV Dinners, those TV dinners. Sure. Back in my bachelor days, I partake in the Hungry Man brand of TV Dinners. That was a big connoisseur of that what's your favorite one? I liked the appropriate enough the chicken strip one because

it was like a pound of food. You know, that was their marketing campaign upon the Only problem and they've never been able to figure this out with the TV dinners, is how ridiculously hot the dessert, right, the apple fitterally or whatever it is. It'll burn your in your lip? Yes, yes, like, and you know you eat that, I like most I ate it first, and it didn't it was and even if you ate it later, it was still so piping hot. It was unbelievably difficult too, and you burn your mouth

and your gums in the whole. Meanwhile, the middle of the Salzburg steak is still frozen. Yes, exactly exactly, but yet still you know, partaking in the frozen tv ns. But anyway, so the nineteen fifties, there you go. Fun fact. Alright, we spend about fifty percent time doing this then we did twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, what do you think it is? Watching television? Uh? No? Making phone calls? Okay, yeah, another one on the technologies that's sort of fading a

little bit. Although when I stay watching television, does does like streaming on your phone? Count? When I say that, I don't know, Yes, it's it's a weird thing because it's like radio. A lot of people don't listen to an old school radio. They listened to us on I Heart podcasting like this, so but I still can I use I know radio is kind of like a taboo term now in the business. They're trying to get rid of the radio, take the radio out of radio. But I love I'm old school. I like their term radio.

And even though I'm listening, I listened to all of a sudden fox ft radio on the I Heart stream or whatever, I still call it radio, you know, and it's not streaming. But that's just just me. But yeah, it's it's all text messaging. I remember when text messaging came around back in my day bick Mark Do Guy radio. But when a text message and came on, I used to like mock people like, oh, yeah, you're like a teenage girl sending text messages, you know, just call them up.

But now and now I get very upset when people call me and don't text me. I'd rather just text yeah I'm agreement, or if you need to talk to me, shoot me a text before my phone rings so I know you're about to call me, or or let me at least say hey, call me in five minutes when I have and because I'm an old guy too, So when we were growing up, like they have them on Facebook or all the time, like do you remember your home phone number? Like, of course I do. I remember

my original phone number. But kids today, man, no chance, because they never really remembered it in the first place. It was always just it's their phone. Yeah, no, absolutely, I'm I'm right there with you and and put up. Maybe we we were around the same age and we spent hours on the phone, like it was like that was amazing to be you talked to your friends in

the phone. Yeah. Well, my I had brothers and sister, so when we were teenagers and my folks broke down and got us a second line for the back of the house because we were on the phone all the time. Yeah, And now you know, everyone's got their own phone, so they don't even use it. That's at least as a phone. They use it for everything else, all right, the last one here on popcust So three percent of people at meet they've broken down and cried in the last year

over this what is it? And like as in two thousand twenty during like in the past year they've broken down and cried over. Uh. Yeah, we have like twenty I don't know if it's exactly Yeah, something that had you know, it's something that happens from time to time. And that's fast that it is. It is that Girl Scout Cookie season only comes once a year. What's the greatest Girl Scout cookie? Big Mike, big question. I am,

I'm a tagline guy. I also like the tree falls, the short red ones, but the peanut butter patties are I'm I'm a I'm a purist, like the the thin mint. But I do love these lemon cookies. But there's two different types of the lemon cookie, at least here in southern California that they have, and I tend to side with the one that has the frosty. Yeah, it's the one I like behind that. Yeah, how many Girls Scout

cookies have you bought over? There's probably thousands of dollars with the girls I can't even count, especially when my daughter was a Girl Scout. So yeah, well, you gotta take care of your daughter. You gotta help her out there so she gets all the perks of being a Girl Scout, all right, Last one, so is it the answer to those last one three percent of people admit they've broken down cried and last year over this the

answer computer problems? Computer? Who the hell's crying over computer problems? Yeah, that seems a bit well, only about three percent of people, I think, but still even that seems high to me. I mean, I understand, like the only way you would cry is if you were Remember years ago, I was

at the press box of Dodgers State. One of the met Beat writers had a deadline and for you know, back when they had to get the deadline in for the print edition of the newspaper and on the East coast, And so he went to send his story on the Mets and instead of clicking send, somehow he deleted his

entire story. And that, yeah, I mean, that guy had a legitimate and it was so funny because the other met Beat writers were pointing and laughing at him and goofing on him, and he was just I just I thought the guy was gonna have a heart attack, he was so upset. And that I get. But like general dated a stuff, like you know, it's frustrating when the WiFi is not working you can't get on the web. But you really cry about it, that's a bit much. I did lose a I did lose a paper in

college on on my girlfriend's computer once. But fortunately those were the old days and I was only really just typing it on the computer, so I still had all my notes. But it still took me hours to like re type the thing off the notes. It was, but I still didn't cry. That's good. That's a good job by you. All Right, that's it. We'll put the baby to bed. Thank you. We have the mail Bag podcast on Sunday. Remember five stars. Make sure right a view how much better Big Mike is than Gascon. You can

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