Memory Lane

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on the podcast. So, Kevin, I hope you're prepared for this. You know, I figured Ben two times this week wasn't enough. I had to fill in for gascon too and get you a couple more times. Third times the charm, third time charm exactly. It's been a busy week with you. Yeah, yeah, as your life changed in the magical ways that you've been on the show so much, just drastically, I mean ways I can't even explain on air. Yeah, you have a little more pep in your staff. And he pumped

your chest out a little bit, walk around like a peacock. Yeah. Everyone's like, what's up with Kevin today? I'm like, well, I've been working with Ben Mallery this week. What do you expect? You know? And then they say who who? You explain? You explain who it is. It's a whole, it's a hole to do and all that, so very brandish. Well, I know a little bit about you about can we put you on the hot seat? Are we allowed to do that? Of course? Is your show, you tell me, Yeah, exactly.

So you're from Orange County, right, I'm from Orange County, but you're Boston. Your family's a Boston families that correct? In that correct? Yes, I'm born and raised in Orange County, North Orange County, pacentially for the most part. And my dad is from Rhode Island, so not technically Boston, but close enough Rhode Island. I still have family back there, my cousins in Maine, one cousins in downtown Boston, and my aunt and uncle are still in Rhode Island actually,

so yes, background of all Boston teams. So when you were younger, did you always go to like the Rhode Island and Boston went for vacations? So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, been there plenty of times. And then now, you know, once I turned twenty one, and then I say, pretty much just in Boston. Yeah of course, why would you really get all the bars and all that going on in Boston? So sure? And then now have you ever thought about working in Boston? Moving to Boston? I would

love to. Yeah, I've looked up jobs at you know, of course, w E. I you've talked about it before. I think you worked there for a little bit I did, and you know, big fans of those guys. Of course, that's where I get most of my Boston content from. And yeah, I've looked up jobs for sure, and I would absolutely move there. The only thing that would stop

me would obviously be the weather. Of course. Yeah, it's nasty, man, And I've only been there for like a week at a time when the weather is horrible, or a couple of weeks at a time when the weather is horrible. But yeah, if you're living there, it's like, jeez, it's pretty much like well, I'm sure your dad's told you your relatives just like five months of the year, it's brutal. Yeah,

I mean, why do you think he's out here? He actually helped the buddy move when he came out here, and then he liked it so much that he drove right back, grabbed his stuff and drove right back to California because I'm moving here to the women in the weather. And he said, this is enough for me. There you go, what more do you need? That's it right there, done, problem solved right there, absolutely. And so now there's another thing.

And I think you mentioned this on the show a couple of months ago that you know a guy that I know before I got into radio, I when I was in high school. To make a little extra money, I had a little side hustle where I would hang out and get autographs and then sell most of them. I didn't sell all of them, I sold most of them, and then I would spend the money to like go to games. I mean, I had a whole racket going.

But there's and I haven't. I haven't really kept in contact with any of those guys that I ran with back in those days. But you know one of them, right, Do you're familiar with one of those guys that that knows the dark secrets of my past? Yes, yes, the very dark secrets. His name is Jim Rafferty and he owns a bar in Placentae at my hometown, like I was just talking about, called Kelly's Corner Tavern. It's the greatest bar. I worked there for a little bit right

when I graduated college. Everyone I know, my family and my friends, we all go there. We support and we actually did a go fund me for him when this pandemic hit. And great guy and small world. You guys know each other, and you guys gotten into some dark days back in your what teenage days, right, Yeah, I was in I was in high school, and uh, it was mostly in Anaheim. I did a little bit of l A stuff, but it was mostly in Anaheim. And yeah, we were just like stock baseball players at hotels and

restaurants and we ran the joint. We had. It was wild back in in those days. Some of the stuff that that took place and at a great time, and we we found ways to sneak into the big a through the back. I mean stuff stuff you would be like sent to you know, the Who's goal for these days, but we we had a whole racket going back then. It was a lot of fun and so so that's pretty cool. And the other fun fact about about you, Kevin is you've actually had I don't know if it's

a fun fact, but you've had the COVID. Yes I am. I am at COVID vivor yes, yes, And you said it you had a very mild it didn't really affect you much. Am I correcting that? Yeah? I had the chills and some sweats for one night, just one overnight. I woke up and I had a feeling, you know, after that, but I went got tested and tested positive. But after that one night I had some sniffles like a mild cold for a couple of days, and then literally probably four or five days after that night, I

was completely fine. A quarantine of course. Um. Actually quarantined with my dad because he tested positive the same same day, because we went out of town with each other the weekend before and he's sixty years old, and he was he had the same thing. He had one night of sweats and everything, and then he was good and we quarantined together for a couple of weeks. Wow. Yeah, And so you did you lose your I've read that people lose their sense of smell and tasted. Did that happen

to you? No? I didn't. I had I've had a few friends and family members actually have that to him. But yeah, that didn't happen to me or my dad, And I'm very thankful for that for sure. Now, the people that you know that have lost their sense of taste and smell, has it come back yet or is it still gone? Oh? Yeah, No, it was just about a week or so, probably a little over a week maybe. UM. I think the person the longest I've known is maybe two weeks or so yeah, um, but now they're fine.

They're fine now that this was what seven months ago now, back in early July. Okay, yeah, I got you, I got you. Everyone's good, all right, everyone's all right, just just checking in that. All right. Now we've learned. See there, we've learned a little bit about about you, Kim. Any other fun facts you'd like to share with the class or is that is that enough? Um? No, nothing on the top of my head. I'm not too interesting, you know. And just uh no, no, you're not supposed to say that.

The first rule of advertising you never right, you never say I'm not I tell my wife this. You know, my my wife we've been selling some of the stuff, you know, my as we're going through my dad's stuff, the stuff we're getting rid of and whatever, and so rather than say, hey, you know this so and so is not that good, but do you want to know you you sell it and then you know, at the end, you start with a positive, go negative, and then go pause.

I'm already learning a thing from you here, Ben, Yeah, eight minutes. Then, well, now see see what I learned, Kevin. I learned this about simple human nature, right I can. I've had a lot of meetings with program directors and radio and I've learned the tricks. Like they always start out with a positive boy, Ben, you sound really good. I like this show, and then they move into but

and then they just bring down the hammer. But then they finished with oh, by the way, I you know, I'm looking forward to hearing so and you know so they it's positive negative positive. Okay, Yeah, there's a whole science behind this. Well it works. It works for sales also, like works in the sales world. Also, okay, can I can? I'll say one thing then I do have another job. I run a h back company with my dad. That

makes a little interesting, right, We have a faily business. Yeah, that we do on the side here look at now there's a lot of money in that, right, because they didn't they change the no that I mean they changed the in California a few years ago. Didn't They got rid of what's the free free Yes, yes it is that old, Yes, the R twenty two um free on. But yes, there's a lot of I've been doing that since I was probably sixteen, you know, helping them out.

But the last four or five years I've definitely done a lot more with him and we are. Business is booming again this year. We had a little time off during the winter, but you know, as soon as that comes out in California, people they jump all over it. Yeah, where I'm living, at the house I'm in right now, we actually have a free on air conditioning unit. And he told us, like, we're gonna have to get rid of it because when when it breaks, I guess you

can't repair it or something like that. They said, yeah, like yeah, it's the whole like you were saying, the California rule. We have to put put the new free on in and the old systems don't take the uh the the new free on. They're just trying to cycle it out, if you will, kind of like the as best to the old duckwork stuff like that. And uh so if you ever need anything, you know who to call. Ben. I now I know I did not know that the things you learn, the things you learn. So now your

dad taught you everything? And did you did you have to go to school or your dad taught you everything? Now he's taught me every thing. He went to school when he was younger, and he actually he works for l A County um as a refrigeration supervisor for the jails all in l A County jails downtown and then he kind of does this on the side. And he's taught me everything as far as residential UM since like I said, I was about sixteen or so, I've never

gone to school for it. UM. I've gone to regular school, but not anything as far as a trade for it. Shot Dad has to go into the prisons and fix the refrigerators. He he used to be involved in the prisons. Now he's more of a supervisor sitting on the desk, but he kind of has it for most of his career, a truck route where he would go from um, yeah, either jails to jails, walk around. He's his first not first job, a main job for a while was a

twin towers jail. And actually, you know what's funny, I'm thinking about this since he worked with obviously Coope justin Samponia, was in Liar Liar. He was there when they were filming when when um Jim Carrey got arrested and that jail or in that scene where they're in the jail making a phone call. He was around for that. Oh is that right? Yeah, that's kind of fun factory. So how long does it take you? If somebody I'm just curious how the air conditioning business work, I wanta go

back to that. So how how long if I call you up, I say I need my air conditioning replaced or whatever. You gotta buy this stuff, obviously, but can you just do it in? How many hours does it take to switch out in air condition Uh? Obviously it depends on the size of the house, the um, the system, everything. But if you I mean, if you're just changing out the equipment itself, meaning just like the furnace and just a condenser, we can get that done in one day.

'p about rip out the old stuff, putting the new. But then, you know, we like to do it the right way, as we say, and we like to keep it nice and clean and um we you know, take our time and we do it the right way and adding new duckwork. Everything is all about the duck work too, So it could take up to a few days, two to three days if you do the whole change out of everything. So you spend a lot of time in addicts, Yes, a lot of time. I'm the addic guy, that's what

they call it. Your dad's probably get up in the are you're younger, try to keep him out, you know, and you know he's sixty now. I don't want him going up in there. That's where all the nasty stuff is, man, that's where the that's where the varmints are running around the attic. I bet you've seen some crazy stuff in attics, right, and bugs and critters and all that stuff. Yeah, you know. Surprisingly, I mean I've seen a lot, quite a few, but

not as many as you would think. For how long I've been doing this for almost what almost fifteen years now, and I've probably only seen maybe two live rats. And I've seen plenty of dead ones and traps or something like that, but uh, not as much as you would think. Actually, Well, where I live at at the Mallard Mansion, I have heard critters running around in the attic, but I've never gone up to see what kind of critters there. I'm

convinced it's like a squirrel. It's sounds because I have a lot of squirrels around where I live here, and I'm thinking one of them got or two of them got in the attic and we're running around, but I haven't heard it. I think it died, so it's probably stuck up in there somewhere. Yeah, yeah, I I don't know if it has like a door it goes out and he's only there for the summertime, and I don't know anyway. All right, Well you're all the hot seat now, Kevin. Congratulations, Yes,

all right. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. So I've I've memory Lane here I wanted to talk about so before working with Eddie, I've been with Eddie for a long time. I did the Overnight show with Karen Ka KK, as we call her, and

this week I reached out to Karen. I had not talked to Karen in a good amount of time, but on January, the day that Joe Biden was sworn in as the new President of the United States, I sent KK a text. And the reason I sent KK a text that was an important day. We like round numbers, we like anniversaries, human beings, right, markers because without without those markers, it's all just a big blob. Life's just

a big blob. Right, That's the reason we have how of day is because otherwise it's just the monotony of the daily life, and you need things to break up the monotony, and so we have these holidays. But I reached out to KK Center a few text messages because that was the anniversary of something that we both have in common. That was the twelfth anniversary of my exit stage right. I've been working at Fox Sports Radio since

it launched up until twenty o nine January nine. Barack Obama was to be sworn in as the President of the United States that particular day, and I was given the boot. I was excommunicated from from Fox Sports Trading one of the worst decisions they ever made, and so I was at that time. I remember very well. To give you the story. If you're new to the story and you've not heard it, I've told it a few

times over the years. But I was looking forward, first of all, to watching the presidential inauguration, believe it or not. Even though I lean more to Team Read, I enjoy the political nonsense with presidents being sworn in things like that, and I always pulled for the president. Why would you not pull for the president because you're in America, whether it's a democratic Republican. So I've always believed in That's how I was raised, and so I was looking forward

to seeing it was historic. I heard a lot of a lot of things Barack Obama, the first black president, and all this stuff. So I was looking forward to watching. And uh, the night before, the night before, it was one of the craziest nights in my radio journey. So at that time, the show is called The Third Shift with Ben Maller and came in. It was a normal night. I remember I was doing a monologue about Bill Kauer

for some reason. That's what I remember. I don't remember exactly what I was saying about Bill Kauer, but I was. I was doing some rift about Bill Kauer. And I forget what exactly had happened, whether he had left the Steelers or just left the Steelers, or he was up for a coaching job somewhere else, or there was some something with Bill Kauer that was going on at that time.

So I'm doing my thing talking about Kaur, and I I got tipped off from someone that we were going to be fired or laid off, however you want to call it. The next day. Now, keep in mind that that breaks the fourth wall. If you will. I think I'm saying it the right way here, because there's a cardinal rule in radio that you never get a final show. You never get a final show. Now, there are exceptions to the rule if you're all time legend and they let you get a final show and you could say goodbye.

But generally speaking, if you're just a rank and file radio person, you don't get a final show. Your final show, they pull you at the end of the show. They give you an envelope with some cash and say, get the hell out of here and take up here's a box and fill it up. Um. But technically that night, that final night, I think it was like a Monday. If I remember correctly, I'd have to go back and check. But we did get a final show because the company

had sent out an email. I got an email about I think it was about half an hour into the overnight show that said there was a mandatory meeting at three o'clock the next day. Now, if you know how corporate America works and the corporate world, they don't send emails telling you to go to a meeting after five pm, you know what I mean, Like during regular business hours, you would send an email you on eight in the morning, nine ten, went all the way up through like about

five o'clock, but after that generally is ABO. So I get this email, you know, late at night demanding that I show up for this very important meeting at three o'clock in the afternoon on So this is actually January. It's the overnight in early morning hours on January twenty,

if you could say it's nineteen. But so anyway, I get the email whatever, and uh, and then we were tipped off before that that there were going to be mass layoffs coming and a number of us were going to be uh, let go, And so I was numb. I remember the feeling I had was numb. I was like it was I couldn't focus on anything, and it was really you know, you imagine the feeling you've been in a situation similar in your life. And so anyway, I called the text care and K this week to reminiscence.

I did not reach out to Bergie. I was gonna text Burgie. He's a big radio executive now, Gregg Bergman was my producer at the time, and he's uh, he's doing very well for himself in in l A radio. So I did not reach out to him, but I did reach out to k Kay. I also remember that day. I recall calling my dear old mom as she rest in peace, and I had to tell her Mom, I got let go again, and uh, because I had been

let going a long time. But I I had had a few um divorces, shall we say, in the early part of my my radio career, but usually I I was pretty lucky where I would just transfer, like I

started in San Diego Radio. I did that for a few years in the nineties, and then they the company I was working for, launched the station in the Los Angeles market, and I was based in Orange County, covering all of southern California, mostly l A in Orange County, and so they're like, well, you're already in l A. Why don't we just transfer you to the l A station. So I went there. They then got rid of me, so I got laid off from that. I had a college football job I got laid off from or fired

everyone to say it. And there were a few other sporadic things, but it had been a decent amount of time since that before I got the the Walking Papers from from Fox, but it only lasted six months. In twenty six days, and during that time I filled in at a couple of radio stations. I had auditions, I did some, but that was my first appearance actually doing local radio at w e I filled in for the great Mikey Adams on w e I, and that was my first taste of that. The show that I had

done was on in the Boston market. We did pretty well there and so that was cool, had a good time, and but my mom was very supportive, as you know, that's what a good mom does, and encouraged me to keep you know, get back and get another job. Blah blah. You know, these people are radiots, blah blah blah. But uh, but it only lasted about seven months, a little less than that, and then I came back. And so I've been back at the company for I guess eleven and

a half years, almost eleven and a half years. The second run. The first run was uh what nine years? It was nine years, and then the second run has been Yeah, so it's all all together. It's over twenty years now. Which where the hell has that? How the hell did that happen? Uh, my goods. I want to share that with the order to share that with you and Uh. So that's that's the deal. All right. Now we have pop Quiz pop quiz coming away, and so we're gonna bring back Kevin. Kevin O'Connell f he was

on the hot Seedoise. So the way this works, Kevin is I will I I searched the internet. I find interesting questions somewhat pop culture related. When I say popcorn, it's like mostly about day to day life, the American experience living life day to day, right, and so then you have to try to answer and uh, and then that's how we're gonna be Okay, I got it, all right, all right, so here we go. This is a pop quiz. Uh. Thirty nine percent of parents have admitted they've used their

kid as an excuse to buy this. What is it to buy an? This? A TV? TV? Alright, kids love television. That's not a bad yes? Uh no? Happy meal? What? Yeah? Really? Why would you buy would be meal? Why would you buy a happy meal? If you're an adult? I don't know, what do you want the toy? Maybe a happy meal? Well it could be it could be on a diet or something like that, and they just want the kiddie meal because it's smaller portions. So maybe they want those

apple slices that you can get with that. Yeah, I mean I feel like if you really want those, you can order them separately. But he eats their own. I guess a happy meal. Okay, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't like eating happy meals when I was a kid because it wasn't enough food. I mean, I liked, I like the toy. I was all about the toy. But man, yeah, it kind of shorts you on those. Yeah, alright. One in four of us cannot name a single one of these. One in four people cannot name a single one of these.

One in four cannot name it. It's something, it's something involved in like, uh, like a neighborhood, shall we say, like something you would do in a neighborhood or something you would do in a neighborhood. One four cannot name. One in four cannot name some one of these is that you said? Yes? Um alright, So twenty five people cannot name a single name neighbor, neighbor? Yeah, really, can you name the can you name the people you have?

You said you live in Pasadena or can you name the people you live around in Pasadena that live right next to you? I only know one person that lives in my apartment building below me, and his name is Lile. I believe I'm not even totally confident in that either. Yeah. See, I'm the same way when I now I live in a in a house now, When I lived in an apartment, I live in an apartment in Hollywood for years, and

there were a lot of people coming and going. I didn't know anyone on my entire floor that I lived on above below nobody. Yeah, I was. I'm mostly a shut in anyway. I'm you know, I'm I'm an introvert, but I I didn't know anyway now here. I know I have a couple of friends in the neighborhood, but as far as the people that lived directly on either side, I don't really know them. I don't even really know

their names. Like if somebody came up to me and said, hey, so and so needs some help, I'd be like, who the hell is that? I don't know that. I have no idea. I mean, they're nice people and they're good neighbors, but I just don't know their names. So you don't walk. You don't walk in the streets and say, hey, Jim, how's it going today or good morning Karen. Oh god, no, no, I I don't want to be the busy body I hate because I'm annoyed by the busy body. You know.

You know, I stay out of my business. You know, I leave me alone. I'm that kind of guy. I'm that guy. Yeah, I I like it all right. When it comes to first, you know, the first, this the first that people remember their first what more than anything, You're gonna go third rail on this, um, what do you I mean? What do you remember? That was the first experience that that's the most vivid thing that your car. That's right, yes, get you, there we go. They say.

A new study says that people remember their type of car they had first. That's the thing that they remember. I do, Yeah, I got My first car was a brown Volari. Was my grandfather's, my my dad's dad's car. And it it was like awesome. It was this big boat of a car. You know, anybody's first car is good because it's your freedom. But I loved that car. And it's kind of smelled like my grandpa, you know, had his his cologne smell, even years after he passed away.

And it was big scenes it was like sitting on a sofa. I love that car was great. Valari. I've never even heard of that. Yeah, it's an outdated card, so you know from a different, different what was your first car? Uh? Silverado Chevy Silverado Verado Christmas Morning. It's like I can every time I hear that, I hear like Petro singing, singing in one of those commercials he did back in the day, the Silverado thing. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays

at two am Eastern Pacific. Alright. According to a new survey, thirty six percent of people claim that they order this at a restaurant and they go out to eat because they hardly ever make it at home. What is it? Uh, they hardly ever make it up. There's almost there's almost of people Wow that order this be because they don't make it at home. Hardly ever, they don't make it at home. Yeah, I feel like it's something simple. Um, yeah,

I don't know. I'll be like steak, Yeah, let's go with the let's just go let's go with a steak. Why not steak? Alright? It's fine. Guests probably off, but you're off. It's the opposite of steak salad. Really that popped on my head for a second, but I was like, those are so easy to make. My theory is that the reason people order salad when they go to a restaurant is because it makes them look like they're healthy. Good right, yes, absolutely, And the other people that put

that person is healthy. They're eating salad covered with three gallons of salad dressing and a pound of crutons, but they're they're healthy. Don't forget the cheese, that's right, cheese, cheese, man, But it's still a salad, right, yeah, exactly. My My only idea, well is when I was a kid and my mom would try to get me to eat salad, I would never do it, but I'd eat the crutons. I'd always eat the crutons and the cheese that's right, yeah, and the and the salad dressing. That was always good

to con drink the salad dressing. All right, we're doing pop quiz here. Next up. Since the pandemic began, doctors are reporting a tremendous increase in this type of injury with people staying at home quite a bit. Uh, you know what, Let's stay on the cooking. Let's go with some type of or something. Yeah, burn, like a cut on your hand from a knife, something like that. Let's go with the burn though, actually because not not too many people use a knife, so we'll go to burn,

all right. Uh? No, broken toes? Why would that? Was that? People walking around and they have the lights off and they kick into something? Why would why would that be? That doesn't make sense to me. There's gotta be a reason for it's got Let's think about this logically. Why would people have more broken toes staying at home? So? Um, I don't know, you get it from the couch and you kick your center or your Yeah, like I can

see that. But if you're home all the time, don't you then have more of a lay of the land. You can navigate your furniture at your house wherever you're at, right because you're there all the time, So you would think so maybe maybe it's kids running around and causing a records inside the house or something like that. Yeah, I don't know, all right. Uh, here's another one related to the We have a few more related to the pandemic.

According to a recent survey, this was the most popular hobby in the most popular hobby in the most popular hobby, says learning a new instrument, cooking. Oh god damn, why did I say on the culinary? Yeah, that's because everyone the restaurant. It's hard to get food. Do the rest take out some places only, and no indoor dining and all that. Just just no salads though, No salads, yeah, exactly, so you can't because that's good the lettuce and the

Bible cheese and yet all right. Last year there were many people taking part in outdoor activities obviously, right people, because that's you know, couldn't go indoors a lot of places. The largest increase was golf. Golf was the biggest increase. What was number two? Though? Outdoor activities? Outdoor activities golf? I don't even know, m what can you play outdoors? Well, it doesn't have to be a sport, it could just be an activity. H Um. It's just I don't know running,

I guess running, all right? Uh? No gardening, Oh, I wouldn't get your green thumb gone. Yeah, okay, I don't do any garden myself, so that didn't even pop in my head. Even an apartment. Why would you do garden? Have you do indo indoor gardening? But that's get you in trouble depending on what you're growing in there. Yes, yes, all right. Most couples tend to do this in January more than any other month of the year. This is the most probably thing to do in January as opposed

to any other month. What, um, well, before I'm gonna go time before the let's go No, not vacation, I'm not sure. Um, alright, I'll give it to you get divorced, break up? Really the holidays did? Yeah? Yeah, it's obvious, right, I mean you gotta get together with you gotta stay together during Thanksgiving and Christmas, so for the in laws or the relatives whatever, and then after that you got

a little bit of a break. But you gotta break up in January because you don't want to still begether if you the other person when like Valentine's Day comes around, right, you want to So you've got a little time there, and and that's the sweet spot, that's the Goldilocks zone to break up is in in January. So damn wonderful. Alright, six inten people speaking of that, six and ten people say that they definitely delete this after a breakup. What

is it? They definitely delete this after a breakup. Uh delete this, delete this. It's gotta be an with an app no pictures? Uh no, it's the our song. You know that, You know how couples have a song many relationships. I've been and ben. Are you dating anybody? Here? Are you? You're not? Want you want me to hook you up? You have a dating service, Kevin. We have a lot of great members of the Malley Militia that if you want, I can you know, I can hook you up. Hey,

you know I'm a single man looking for something. So yeah, it's tough being single during the pandemic. It's hard to be in anybody. It's the worse since it's very tough. Yes, yeah, everyone's like looks at you like you got cooties and stuff. Yeah exactly. Yeah, alright, so what's next? One third? Here's one one third of people admit to eating this after it's been left out all night. What is one third

after it's left up all night? Food? Food dish? You leave it out on the table all night, you get up, You're like, I'd like to have some of that depends if you're hungover, maybe, but well, this is a food that often goes with being hungover. I was gonna say pizza, Yes, yes, okay, okay, alright. Pizza is the most malleable food you can. You can eat it hot, cold, laying out around on the table. It's could be the most perfect food dish. That's a

weasel term. But is there any other food that you can just have lay around that you would like eating? Like if I like tacos, if I left tacos on the down or all night, I wouldn't eat them. I like a cheeseburger. If I eat a cheeseburger after it's been laying around, I'd probably get some disease or something. Is But pizza anytime, any temperature, anywhere, you canna eat it? All right? A fifty one of people say they would rather have jury duty then give up blank for a week.

What is it? Uh? Give up their phone? Their phone? Alright? No coffee? Oh wow, I'm not a coffee drinker. Are you a coffee drinker? I am a coffee drinker, not heavy, but I do have one cup every morning when I wake up. Are you like Bougie or like a chain coffee place? So you make it at home? I mean I'm not gonna lie. I Well, I usually make it at home. But I love Starbucks. I'm no shame in

that I love Starbucks. My wife is addicted to Starbucks to so I I have to get like the the tea lemonade thing because I don't drink coffee, so you drink a lot of tea or now the only when she goes to Starbucks and gets no no, my, my, my. My experience with tea is whenever I feel like my I might be getting sick, like I have a throat issue or you know, you feel that raspiness in your voice when you're about to get sick, So then I immediately start drinking gallons of tea and sucking on garlic

to try to kill the illness in my throat. But that's about it. Man. Tea's okay. I don't hate it, but usually you end up having to put sugar and crap in it, and it's not particularly great for you. So alright, you know a few more here as we press on with this wonderful Saturday edition of the podcast. Oh do we have here? Uh see any meany mighty? All right? The top three things in almost everybody's car, all right. Number one on the floor of the car a French fry number two is a car Fa cup

wouldn't be in my car? And then number three? What is number three? And some of his car? Yeah, the stuff you would find if you just randomly went to a garage and went through some cars, you'd find these three things. Coffee cup, French fry, and uh it's kind of trash. Well that's a general I like that because you could you could argue a French fry trash, right, That's why I was kind of reluctant to say it. I understand, but you did say it. You said it.

Let's go with the let's go with a hat, a hat, all right? Uh no, how about like lip bomb chapstick? You know that stuff? You get that laying around the car in case it's windy and you get dry lips and you need that, you know. Yeah, yeah, I mean I have one in my truck right there. I'm ready to go ahead all times. So that prepared like a like a boy scout. You have to be prepared, absolutely are. A new report claims the average person will say this roughly five times by the end of today. What will

they say five times a day? On average? We say this every single day? Is it only one word that's more than one word. Let's go with two words, two words. Let's go with uh, you know, you know, you know, you don't know, you know, you don't know, don't you don't you don't know what you don't know? You know you don't know the answer. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I've met my quota. I've now met my quota. Thank you, So I do not have to say thank you any more. Ah. So

that that's it for pop quiz. There was I saw a couple of bizarre stories that I caught my chips. I always love weird athlete injury stories. There was a story going around that a twenty five year old guy had to retire from sport because of a thumb injury. Where this video game guy, twenty five year old professional video game player forced to retire because of a thumb injury.

How about that? Really? Yeah? He said? He wrote. It breaks my heart to step away from from a game I put my heart and soul into every single day for eight years, he said. And this guy's a New York I played. He's gonna call of duty E sports situation. Wow, well, uh, that's a lot of gaming. If you have to retire because of your thumb. You've used it so much a lot of gaming. I guess be careful though, ripping the gamers, Kevin, because I had a kid that called me up from

Boston and he was a professional gamer. He got hired, they moved into l A and I believe he at and he was like nineteen or something like that and was making a ton more money than I was making playing video games all day and living in a house with a bunch of other video game nerds. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, it's wonderful. It's a wonderful world. Man, It's not my world. But hey, if people making money like that, then you can't can't hate on it. Yeah, if you're thinking, I

guess find a way to beat the system. That's the way the way to do it. All right, we're gonna put the baby to bed. We thank you again. We'll have another podcast on Sunday. Sundays Sunday. I guess I just said thank you another time, So I'll thank you Kevin as well for sitting in for Gagon. And I like you because you don't live west of the four oh five. You live east of the four oh five, So that's good. That's a point of demarcation for me.

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