Misery Dressed in Dodger Blue

Mallarck starts right now. That it does. I hope you're having a great day today and have a wonderful weekend whenever you consume this podcast, as it is continuing on apparently doing very well, although I have not seen any of that in my my check, but it's doing very well. It's the fifth Hour with Ben mal That would be me talking in the third person and David Gascon Because four hours of a network radio show are not enough.

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Uh and it's this show is also available anyway, It's not just I heeart. Some people say, uh. I get a lot of people who complain about Apple uh and say that they're not big fans of Apple. Uh. And I usually tweet out the link to the Apple page because there's a place to review the show. But it's wherever you can get your podcast. You can hear this show. At least that's what they tell me. I haven't followed up on that, but but anyway, now, Gascon, are you there? Gascon?

Wake up? Gas Guy. I gotta I gotta carry this show. It's been a tough couple of weeks for you, man. I really feel bad for you as a as a colleague. You have gone through some troubling times physically, emotionally mentally. You recovered from a mangled tongue and now that's right, and you come into a new week with a butchered team and then NLS Division well you, much like Clayton Kershaw, I have become pretty good at doing monologues after a team.

I care about vomits all over the field. So I I have had so much experience between the Dodgers and the Clippers and the Rams in recent years. It is the Golden Age. I'm in the gold n for for suck, for ship, and uh, I really wish we had been doing the podcast earlier this week after the Dodging game, I left Dodger Stadium guests Gun went in there and it was a totally ship show and all everyone's bad, a whole astro fans are busting my balls. You know,

everyone's had. You don't even care about the Dodgers. They just love my agony, all right, And uh, I wish I could have cursed. I would have. That would have been one of the great profanity laced monologues of all time. I could call that guy's a motherfucker, and that guy's a piece of shit and asshole and all these words were not supposed to say. You know. The first thing that came to my mind was not that it was

a great movie, but Major League two. When Charlie Sheen, who was Rickey Vaughn in that movie, faces off with Jack Parkman, and Parkman's got his timing down and he knows his fastball as shit, I texted you just before Kershaw came out of the bullpen, and I said, you want to see what managerial suicide is. Watch until the same thing to my dad, and sure ship it was a half an inning later, though, back to back Jack's

Ball Games series. Well, and listen, make Kershaw. I know he's not trying to be this bad, but he has vamboozled the Dodgers for so many years, and they resigned the guy every one million dollars for the next two years.

And and now you know the other thing that annoys me to really talk about these assholes that are Dad defending Kershaw, blaming Dave Roberts for all this noticing I believe Dave Roberts is as culpability and he should be held accountable because I don't think he's done a very good job here in the postseason with his decisions, with

all this talent, this overwhelming talent. I get there's a lot of eye rolls watching Dave Roberts managed the Dodgers, but well, you should have just left Kershaw on for one batter thirty one million dollar guy, thirty one million dollar guy, Hall of Fame picture, and he's a one third of an inning one out guy and then you can't bring him back. I mean, what are you doing. I don't know, but the eye popping stat that you threw out during your show was seven eleven seven. Yeah,

I mean it's it's nuts, man. I I trade his ass. I said this right after the game, and I've had some time since then to calm down. I would trade him. You gotta get rid of him. He just it's it rubs off on all the This suck rubs off on all the other players, and these young guys who were supposedly all blue chip players from the Die Jeers, and these guys are all a bunch of choke artists in these games for the most part. I mean Max Munsey, who's not even a minor league guy from the Dodgers.

He came from the Athletics. He's actually been a clutch player, Justin Turner, not a Dodger minor league guy. Also, is there a coincidence? Did they treat they must coach these guys in the minor leagues? All right, you are only good until the end of the regular sty Once October started, he like turned into a pumpkin. Uh. I know, you're not a big laker. Guy. But this made me think it's an understatement. But this made me think of the

Sacramento Kings in the early two thousand's. The Dodgers are made for a hundred sixty two game regular season, much like the Sacramento Kings are during the regular season, but when it came to postseason time, they could not nut up against the Lakers. Came down to something that might be true now, it wasn't true in I mean, they had that and they they vomited that away. But Bellinger wasn't even good in that series. Though against the House. He hasn't been good in the playoffs his entire career.

It's gonna be so embarrassing when he wins the m v P Award and he had no home runs, no r b I s in the National League Divisional Series. It's gonna be ridiculous. But anyway, we gotta get on with the show. This hooting Nanny in Benny's kitchen. We will have hanging with the elites. I will have that. That's an exclusive thing on this show. I opening study this which I love. Agony of defeat. That's a new thing, and it's in the bag in our panic word tonight

or today for all of our listeners as hornswoggle. All right, I got you, and uh and also I don't stick to sports. That's guest CON's baby. He'll put the baby to bed with that. But we begin on this podcast with hanging with the Elites. Now, I have been asked a lot of questions about my night with Marlin's Man, Game two of the National League Divisional Series at Chavez RAVI in sitting in the fourth row. I've had a lot of questions from people that are curious super fans

of the show. They want to know more about this, How did this happened? What's what was Marlin's man like? Uh, they want to know about him, his life and all this stuff. So I believe we spent a couple of minutes. I don't spent too long, is but we can reveal some exclusive details. No other podcast has this. Eddie. No, Eddie, that's a bad job. I'd beat Well, you kind of sound like Eddie. No, you do what? You look like him? All right, So now here's the shut up guest gun

who cares about your name? All right? Anyway, I'll call you Eddie if I want to call you Eddie. But uh, we we have some some details here, so I'd like to share some of these. No one else has these, no other party Joe Rogan doesn't have this. No nobody all right and not at all. So now Marlin's Man, I mentioned on the little bit, he he actually invited me. I sat with him one time before a Dodgy Yankee game. But I only did that, like in the fifth inting, uh and uh. He is a fan of the show.

He listens not all the time, but he's up late in Miami where he lives, and he is a consumer of the of the radio show. He likes the what we do here, and so that that's pretty cool that he's a Mallard militia guy. And we talked about it. The funny thing is we would talk about in the air. And the reason I mentioned I called you Eddie's because I had I was gonna in my head. I wanted to mention Eddie because when I first started talking about

Marlin's Man, his real name is Lawrence Levy. When I first started talking to Lawrence about Lawrence on the air, and I said how much I revered him, and I love that this guy was, you know, just a rich guy going to games, living the dream you know every sports fans dream. He's doing it, hustling, going traveling, going to airports and all this stuff. And Eddie just trashed

the guy. I hates the guy. So it was this awkward situation where I'm praising him and he's a listener and Eddie's just killing him and uh but fortunately he didn't hold that against uh against So I sat in the dugout squeez he ever sat in the dugout sweets at Dodger Stadium. I actually sent sat there Back in my twenties. I was working for City Group and it

was like thirty years ago. I know, they had that titled company had given me some comp seats and it was it's all you can eat, all you can drink, and then includes alcohol. You were in a boogie spot. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was wild. I mean it was first class all the way. Big celebrities. I don't know who most of these stars are now in Hollywood, but I recognized old people like Mary Hart, Magic Johnson and Scott

Boris and people like that. But there were a bunch of other people that were people were oh did you see that, Pert. That's a typical Hollywood bullshit, you know. I look at that. But you know it's like, well, you want a great start to compliment this Monday. Monday I go to go see my orthodonist and he's he's a great guy in the South Bay area. The first thing he says to me, not talking about me, not talking about my grill, he says, how the hell did

Ben Maller score seats behind home plate? Listen to yours? And all of a sudden he just starts talking to you. You guys are BF But I said, said, man, dude, he lived that. He lead us good life. You've got that white collar. Uh clearly. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Now, I do have a story this.

This is the exclusive part of this here. Gas got so the way this works here, you know, you get a front row seat at the baseball game. And like a lot of these ballparks, the Yankees do this have My my cousin went to a Yankee game. You pretty much just ate seafood the entire time and didn't even watch the Yankee game. Not big sports fan. She had seats behind Home played. Her company gave her the seats,

so the Dougouts Sweet section at Diger Stadium. They have all this all you can eat food, but it's like high quality. You know, usually you go to a buffet and dog food. You know, it's chicken feet that they serve you. But they have all the finest foods and meats and all this stuff. It was overwhelming. It was all of my senses were overwhelmed by this. There's a guy with the chef's hat cutting prime rib, spare ribs over here, gigantic shrimp and other seafood over there. They

had a an Asian themed booth. They had a Mexican food over there, and it was just overwhelming. So I grabbed it. Now that markin but you know it's it's Marlin's Man's saved the seat for me to sit right next to him. So I, me and Lawrence are gonna sit together. We're gonna have uh, you know, a dinner in bullshit. So I grabbed a plate and I went on a food scavenger hunt. I passed over the prime rib, I walked past the short ribs. I dodged like a good running back. I was able to dodge the tackler.

That was the the Asian food, and uh and and all the rest. And then I saw this line of kids and and uh it was the burger station. They had burgers and fries as field as high as the sky to the heavens right. And I saw this. My eyes lit up. I said, who doesn't like a hamburger? Who does not enjoy a hamburger and French fries? So I loaded up my plate and then I probably went back. I got a drink. I went back. I sat next to Lawrence marlins Man. He takes one look at my plate,

guest on hand to God. He says, what is that he's looking at? What are you getting? Hamburger? Is fine? Rip over there? And I paid for this ticket and uh yeah, and so he uh he shamed me, which I don't blame him, because I I picked the cheapest item on the menu where all the eight year olds were eating, and uh, I picked the burgers and fries. But he said to go get some better food. So

I had. I did actually get some higher class food, not that I enjoyed it, but I did it because I had to get banged for your buck and all that. Why couldn't you do that later on the ball game, like in the fifth or sixth inning. Well, because I didn't want to leave the seat, like I only left to go to the bathroom and that was it. Like I I stayed in that seat pretty much the entire game. I think I left twice to go to the bathroom

and that was it. But it's your time. When Kurt Suzuki got hit in the face a good time, well that was not that. That was That was the other game. That was. That was not I was at that game in the press box and what But but to give you some follow up on this guest gun, I signed autographs, I took photos. I posed for pictures with people, all because hanging out with Marlin's man, just being around Marlins man. And you know, when I meet people who don't know me,

I don't say, hey, I'm mr. Radio guy. I don't promote the show that way. I'm I'm I'm an introvert. We don't do that. I'm not wired that way. I'm not a self promoter, which is odd because on the radio people said I'm a self promoter all the time, but in person, I don't actually promote that way. I think you know you're a douche when you did that. But marlins Man is like, hey, this guy's on the radio. You know what I mean to give me the whole rap.

He's like my PR guy. And so all these people that are meeting marlins Man, some of them are like, hey, let's meet out, let's get his I signed to Dodger jerseys. I mean, it's unbelievable. No, I hope those aren't the jerseys that we saw after Game five when Dodger fans are running over on at Chavez Riena's there. I did see that. That was well, that's a that's a new level because you can wash the jersey after you read it over so you don't ruin it, but so you

can keep it. But it looks you show your disdain, right you you show how annoyed you are, uh and all that. So that's that's not not bad. But Marl's man, where does he rank now on your listener power rankings? That guy he's there with Doc Mike. I gotta put blind Scott up there always because he's are are blind listener? I mean there's a core four at any one time in the Mallet militia. The hierarchy of the mallet militia. But even I don't meet a lot of the fans

of the show. I wish I could meet more, but they don't. They don't let me out of the box very often. But I would say, you know, Doc Mike, because he drove all the way in Chicago to Kansas City, hang out with me. Uh. This guy, although he doesn't, he's not calling right now. I don't know what happened to him. This guy David in Florida, winter Park, Florida, he's got to be up there. He drove all away from Winter Park, Florida, Boston. Uh. And our guy in Toronto,

and Michael in Toronto who drove from Toronto. The ball. I mean, these guys that is that is tremendous there to do that, to go above and blind. Scott obviously been very loyal over the years. He's up there. Um, you know, so there's there's a there's a group. But marlins Man as far as because he's loaded, I mean, I a lot of these guys. I don't blame people, you know, and most people aren't loaded. Marlins Man is a very successful lawyer. He's got a law firm that

does to law firms. I mean this is very well and good for him. He's I don't look down upon people's success. I'm happy for him. And he gives back him all that stuff. He charter his own flight or does he take commercial airlines? No, I mean he's uh, I don't know all of it, but he um like this. This past week, he had told me that I he wasn't sure if he was gonna come to the Dodger game.

He end up sitting next to a beautiful model that's a friend of his instead of me, which I don't blame before at all, but but he told me, like he said, you know, I'm gonna He had to do some business in Miami, so he couldn't go to any games Monday or Tuesday. And then he said, you know, I might go Wednesday if there's a game five. And he wasn't sure whether he was gonna go to Atlanta

or Los Angeles. And then he decided to come, uh to to l A. And and but he decided like Tuesday night, I just I'm gonna go to the game. And you know how expensive a flight is. At the last minute, you call an airline or go to the website and you want to buy a ticket, the last minute. Typically, uh, not a good deal. All right, we gotta move on. I opening this is a real quick so guest on last week, me and the wife. All right, we're going on to El Coyote. Were my favorite Mexican restaurants. You've

been there with me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I MA. I mocked the fact that I was there and you were not there, because I love El Coyote. I'm bet in l A. If you're in l A, you gotta love l Kind. I still right near there, and that was my spot, and I've raised the prices a lot, but I still love the food. Um, and I'll go there very often. So I'm I'm on my way to this El Coyote Mexican restaurant right on Beverly there in l A.

And we're stopped at a red light. We were, I remember, we're Vermont and Beverly, and we pulled up to a red light and I see this this poor old man pushing a shopping card. He looked so disheveled, right and broke, and I remember turning to my wife and saying that I was how bad I felt for the guy. And then as he got in front of the car, I noticed that he was holding rather limply in his hand a smartphone that was bigger and better and newer than me.

And I'm like, this is homelessness in twenty nine and this guy and it was unbelievable. The guy I guess got his phone was like twice the size. Oh mind, I mean, it's it's un I mean I in l A. I know this is a problem in San Francisco where people are pooping on the street and it's uh, it's the Third World, Sodom and gomorrow. But in l A it's ten city. Man, It's unreal. All the politicians in l A are are completely clueless. They don't know what to do. It's all over the place too, it is.

It is rampant in downtown Los Angeles. It's kind of near us in Studio City, Sherman Oaks. That and the thing that where we are in Sherman Oaks, which is a very wealthy part of Los Angeles because a lot of money, a lot of Hollywood people live in the Hills of bel Air, is just up the road, not far from where we are we do the show from. And uh, you're right, man, I see it more than anybody because I'm leaving there, you know, in the middle of the night, and I'm seeing poor people, you know,

just laying all over the street. You're allowed to lay on the street in they all see. It's like the streets rolled up. In the morning when people go to work, it's like it's wild. It's like the overnight. I wonder how many of those people are aware of of of what's what's going on while they're sleeping. Uh, I don't know. An iPhone ten rocking it. That's so good. Oh my god, I wish I had taken a photo because it was

this guy. He's pushing a shopping cart and he's just that's probably all of his life's possessions right there, and he's he's got like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and he's he's holding this phone. It makes my phone. Oh my god. Well, you know, when I lived in San Diego and working for Extra Sports thirteen sixty, the local NBC down there, their affiliate actually did a great story because in Mission Valley they have two malls. They have

the Mission Valley Mall and then the Fashion Valley Mall. Yeah. I used to be a Fashion Valley mall, so so you know, exactly what I'm talking about. There's a main street called Friar's Road, and what they did was they used to do some special investigative reporters sending them out there and they would monitor panhandlers throughout the day. People that you just described, they would monitor them because they were out in front of the Fashion Valley mall off

of Friar's Road. I remember distinctly one woman was tailed at the start of the day until the end. They followed her all the way to her mansion in Lahoya. Well. I remember John Stossel, who's uh, I don't know if he's still working the news guy. He did an amazing story on one of those news programs years Honestly, I remember watching this and he he went out and pretended to be homeless and painhandled the New York City on

subway stations. And I don't you know, I'm obviously I'm probably gonna get the number of wrong guess hunt, but I believe he made like at least five dollars or something like that and one day just payanhandling and talking about orangeager right there. I'll tell you I would consider that as a career change. And that's it's a little contressing. But can I do that for this podcast? Well, I get to do it first. I get to do it first. I think we're in the same financial boat. Oh yeah,

we are. We are. I'm not. I'm not. I haven't got a dime for this. I'm doing this out of mind. This is my pro bono act of goodwill. All right, all right, fair enough. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern pm Pacific. All right, let's move on to study this. We've got to keep the train moving. Study this. These

are actual studies. Now I have this obsession. I used to use these on the show, but I figured the podcast is a better form where we can actually spend some time. And Plus, when I work with Eddie heats some of these things. He just doesn't want to deal with. I just didn't want to talk about him. Gascon has no shame. He'll talk about anything. He doesn't care about that. Um So, anyway, these are actual studies. Out here's one.

Humans they say have a salamander likability to regrow damaged cartilage. According to a study. They say the findings could open the door to new treatments for joint injuries and diseases about that, Well, have you had have you ever had major surgery? Um? Not as an adult. I had some when I was a kid. But I'm not all right. I'm kind of curious just because I need some of that good stuff. I've had a torn roadtator cup that's been damaged twice. I've had a deviated septum. I've had

surgery on for corrective reasons. I need some help, man, I need some need you got. You've got some loaded listeners. You got an attorney and that's high powered. You've got a dock, well not really a dock, but you've got a dock, Mike. You got a blind guy. We need a we need someone from Germany, we need someone overseas that is that delves into the pharmaceutical side of of of this industry. Well, I think what you're really saying is you want someone from Frankenstein's lab to come in.

What about the guy or institute? There? You go, very nice, Um, but no, I mean. The study was published on Wednesday in the Journal of Science Advances, and it found that cartilage and human joints can repair itself through a process similar to that used by creatures such as salamanders and zebrafish. And how about that we're in we have something in common with the zebrafish and the salamander. Uh and they can read those can know the zebra fish can barely

regenerate limbs, according to this. This is from Duke Health. Duke Health has this, so keep an eye and that, of course we'll probably all be dead by the time they figure out how humans can regrow things. But they say that it can happen. I guess in theory, why not. I mean, we we regrow our fingernails and our hair keeps growing unless well, and it's for me for a while. And you brought it up last week with your tongue.

Your your mouth and your eyes are too of the quickest body parts to heal and recover it at a faster rate than anything else on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that was a bad week, man, the tongue week. That was idiot of a pizza so hard that they put a debt in their mouth. Let me take something, smuck, you schmuck hole that I make a great pizza, alright, the Mallard homemade pie is a wonderful thing. And then you made your wife go get you some kind of

some kind of special honey. What then was that? No? I didn't know. No, No, let me tell something. My wife is a hippie. No, she's a godsend for you that she might, well she is at gods, but but she's also a hippie. Okay. She any kind of alternative medicine, special vitamins, so whatever, yogi's yoga, meditation, any of that. You know, she's all about that, right, and and and meditation and fruit smoothies and the all of I don't even know what manuka honey is. Manuka, I don't even

know what it is either. She put it all over my tongue, she said, he is, this will make it better. You know, I'm surprised she didn't bring in some ayahuasca or something like that. This is what Joe Rogan uses have some of the here's some magic mushrooms, knock yourself out, but you know, just some some manuke honey. Al right, Next up, study This rejection is good for the soul, especially when it comes to your career. This according to a new study that rejection is actually a positive thing.

So and this is a Harvard Business Review study in the United States and they determined that getting denied from that job you were aiming for may actually help be helpful to your career overall. Now I'll go for I A. I completely agree with this. I for years, and it's it's back at my my, my mom's, my my late mom's house, my dad's house. Now. Um and I have

a shoe box because it's how old I am. I have a shoe box of rejection letters from kJ R and Seattle, The Score in Chicago, w i P in Philadelphia, w e I and Boston, all these big sports stations that I was convinced right out of college I was gonna work for. They all sent me. I sent tapeson they all sent me rejection letters, said I wasn't good enough and all that. And I used that. I that fueled me as I, oh, screw these assholes. I'm gonna prove these schmucks wrong. I'm gonna I'm gonna make it.

And I that did drive me. And but here's the other problem, guest, gun, I think today we that you were programmed to society for younger people. No, no one should bully you, no one should reject you. I think that's wrong. I think you get better people out of rejection, and not that anyone wants to be bullied, but it's also part of the growing up process in life. I

think it's a heightened sense of motivation too. I think of it about this in the athletic perspective too, because I played multiple sports growing up, and in the high school. My freshman year, I didn't see the field at all when I played ball, and then I hit a gross spurt my sophomore year, and before you knew it, I don't even played JV football anymore. I played varsity football, was a three year letterman. That motivated me, and then I played ball in college. Is the same thing in

this industry. I was in sales in my twenties and I heard rejection every single damn day. But had I not experienced that then to where I'm at now, I don't think i'd last. I mean because different, it's different today in terms of rejection. I know you used to get rejection letters, but today people just get ghosted or they'll just say we don't have anything open or available right now for you. So the rejection is still the same, it's just the words and the message are a little

bit different nowadays. But yeah, I'm not. I'm piggybacking off of that. I think that is great obviously for you, that's great for your chin, that's great obviously for your immediate future. And then beyond that, you gotta throw in so you learn, you generate some rhino skin. You gotta have in life. People are gonna shoot on you. You gotta have rhino skin. I try to tell people, you know, young people that all the time. And I talked to them young people like I'm old, but anyway are you?

Are you? And I guess how many times do we hear athletes? You know? Doing the Overnight show, we play sound of of different people and and they're like, you know, nobody thought we could do this. You know, everyone bet against us, you know. Oh, and they love that. They they're fueled by what they perceive as usually as contrived rejection.

Right now, let me ask you on the other side of this, though, do you feel I don't want to say lost, but do you feel like you lose your edge when you you're on top of the mountain, like when you get compliments and people are patting you on the back and telling you how good you are and everything is going right, do you feel like you lose your edge as a competitors, as someone in the industry. Yeah, yeah, like I I'm not floating on an air biscuit. You

know when I get these compliments. In fact, it's like the same I got. A lot of people are like this. I'm not I'm not alone. But you know, people have been pretty nice to me. The Malamouish has been pretty supportive. They like to bust my balls, but they're pretty kind and I pretty much block all that out. It's just a few handful of assholes that send me you suck, You're fucking terrible. You know, I remember those people. You know, those are the people I'm like, what a dick this

person is? Arizona media, Houston media right now? I mean those those are just fanball ways and all that that. You know. I love these little small towns that these aren't small towns, but they're they're reacting like small town They have a minor league mindset. There the tribalism. You can talk one of our stars, Oh dare you? Alright? Moving on? Study this a couple more. How about this is I laughed my ass off when I saw this is more of a visual story than an audio story.

But of course it's it's me. So we're doing this here. But have you seen the photo of the cow was zebra stripes? Have you seen this? No, tell me about it. It's going around. So apparently, according to a new study, painting, painting zebra stripes on cattle discourages flies from biting. And it seems, according to the research that the stripes. Painting white stripes on cattle apparently confuses the flies. They're so dumb their motion detector system and they avoid flies from

from biting them. Do a new study published online, this Japanese researcher has painted zebra style stripe. Who's the guy said, let's put some zebra stripes on the on the cow? Were most people laugh at this anyway? So they painted zebra style stripes on the cow. Biting flies bothered them half as much as when the cows did not have stripes. And so the ideas that stripes a centment may confuse the insects, that their system of motion there and uh

and that's that's crazy. What would you rather do in Japan paint cows with stripes or be in charge of some of the sex stores that they have to test drive some of the equipment for men and for women that they gotta produce. Yeah, well I'll do the cows. You can do the sex stor well you know it's a tea right. Uh. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows that Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live.

Al Right, moving on, it is study is here's a fun one. Here's a survey that says the average American hasn't made a new friend in five years. About that five years that no new friends. I believe that we're so stuck in the digital realm that people do not know how to communicate outside their little box of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or whatever it is. People have a hard times. Let me look at you. For example, you're an introvert.

You don't like going out. You're screwed over the weekend because you don't want to go to your wife's Halloween party and you're gonna be forced to engage and start talking to people. Or if she brought me, I'd be the bell of the ball man. I'd be liked brow. I mean, that's my wife is scheduled. Not only the uh, I guess the hallowing part. I don't know if we're

still going to that. But but with her parents are having birthdays like milestone birthdays, and so I gotta go one day it's with your dad and you know they're divorced, and so I have to go with the mom the next day and it's you know, the whole thing, the party weekend. But you know, I gotta tell you though, I even though I'm on the internet all the time,

I don't go out very much. I I've made friends, I don't know if they're real friends, and I don't know like they really I feel like I have a lot of work friends, and I you know, people I loved when I worked with them, and then when they don't, I don't work with them. There's no reason to be friends like forced friends, you know, when you work with somebody and then and then after that. Um, you know part ways. Do we have any outgoing people that we work with in the building at at Fox Sports Radio.

I feel like we don't, even though everyone's a part of the media. Oh well yeah. The only introver, the extrovert we had was Looney but they blew him out of there. Um. Last year, So I yeah, I don't. I'm not there during the day. You're a daytime guy. You're an elitist all day an all day But I yeah, I don't. Not no one off the top of my head. Maybe you know, um Jason's the vegan Alex tysher thinking him more. I think him as a people person, engineer, he's a gamer, he's a car guy. So yeah, he

he seems like a nice guy. He always talking to people like he's he's not shy or anything like that. A couple of Mores survey says just three in ten millennials actually see themselves owning a home. Many wish they could take a break without risking their position, blah blah blah blah blah. But they say, according to this, three out of ten millennials uh believe they can will never

own a home. Well, that goes hat in hand with how they perceive the workplace environment to be, Like, they don't want to be there around the clock seven or nine to five. They want to have a comfortable work environment. And because that they don't max it on their income, they don't max out on the time that they stay in the office, and obviously, depending on their situation, they might not propel to a higher standard in terms of incomes.

So I can see that, yes, at the bar higher than that though, I mean plus, I mean, if you're fortunate enough where your family has a house, will probably at least inherit the house something. When they're all dead right, Millennials are in their twenties or early thirties, so they're not the parents are I think they're now? Haven't we moved on to gen Z? I think the I know in college now, the high the basketball and football blue not top notch recruits are gen Z now, so we

were past. The millennials are old news, man. You guys are old news. All let's move on the agony of defeat now. In honor of David Gascon, who loves list radio, these are the five most painful nights I've had in

sports radio in recent years and probably all time. Um, number five, I'm gonna put the Dodgers losing to the Red Sox in the World Series, all right, that's number five on my list because I was working on w e I and Boston at the time, on the Red Sox flagship radio station, and I had to do celebratory Red Sox rob Radio and I like the Red Sox,

but I like the Dodgers more and uh. And the night of the parade, I had to go on after everyone had been out having their party in Boston to celebrate the demise, I had to go on the radio and do a few hours a raise. I would I would put that number five. Number four the Los Angeles Clippers Vanishing Act against the Rockets Chris Paul, Blake Griffin. I was at that game. Clippers had a thirteen point league going to the fourth quarter. They win their onto

the Western Finals. The Rockets then outscored the Clippers forty to fifteen. You know many points James Harden had in the fourth quarter of that game, one zero. Josh Smith and Corey Brewer strubs outscored the Clippers. But those two guys alone, Chris Paul mistake filled mess. Blake Griffin show cartists and uh and I came in there and it was in Uh, what a what a ship show? That

was all right? Number three the teen Super Bowl again, same concept as Red Sox and Dodgers doing local Boston radio at the time, and I had to cover the Super Bowl from both sides. My friends in the hub there were killing me right, and the Rams offense of course also killed me by not showing up, so that that was that was brutal. I'm still getting shipped from Patriot fans. And number two, I'm gonna put the twenty nine n LDS number two. That moves ahead of the

super Bowl, the Clippers and the World Series. The Dodgers were superior this year and just about every category against the Nationals, and then they go out there and play like a bunch of stumble bombs and it would complete boondoggle in this and it's embarrassing. Clayton Kershaw and Joe Kelly suck they take extra doses. A suck A j Pollock done to me? Corey Seeger, you close your eyes, you might hit the ball because you can't hit it when your eyes are open. Will Smith uh done with him?

Cory Cody Bellinger over rady and beaten by a former Dodger, Howie Kendrick. That's the guy that hits the game winning Grand Slam that you can't muster any kind of offense. Howie Kendrick is the executioner of the Dodgers. Really, I can make the argument that claim Kershaw was the execution of the Dodgers. Well he tied. Yeah, the game was tied, but he still had a chance to win the game. They still had an opportunity in the game. Kendrick was with the Dodgers for two years. The first year I

remember he played pretty well. The second year he batted like two fifty or something like that. He wasn't very good. Well, he wasn't great in this series. Defensively, he gave the Dodgers a couple of runs and so in Game five, a little bit of revenge alright. And number one, I

think we all know what Number one is. The most painful nights of radio for me is list radio brought to by David Gascon seventeen World Series, A thirty four thirty four tie, Game seven, I know you were a Game seven, also very similar to the Atlanta Cardinal Games, Game five where the game was over in the first inning. Uh you Darvish who blew chunks had a reversal of fortune. And but not only that, I mean Game two Kenley

Jansen giving up the home run to Marwin Gonzalez. Game five, Kershaw had multiple four run leads Dodgers lad for nothing. Then seven four he gave both of those leads up. So really, as we said, the Dodgers in that year had to win six out of the games because they gave away two of them, actually win six out of eight because they gave two of them away, and there's only seven. So yeah, it doesn't doesn't work so well. All right, in the bag, we keep the train moving

gascon in the bag. These are listener questions, actual listeners to the podcast who have sent these things, and these come from our Facebook page. My my show face facebook page is Ben Maller's show. There you can be part of it. Will do a few of these. We have some sport oh questions. R J and several other people say, will you be drowning your sorrows away from the Dodge just this weekend? And what is your go to drink

for it? Well, I'm not a big boozer, r J. I'm going to a couple of parties, so I might have a drink, depending if I think we're having a party here so at the Mallard mansion, so I think I'll definitely do that then. But uh, my favorite drink is the biggest woosh drink in the world. I love root beer beer. It's high alcohol content, it doesn't taste like alcohol. You can a lot of sugar. You get diabetes from drinking it. But I I love that stuff. I every holiday party, I load up my refrigerator with

that root beer beer. I can't get enough of that stuff. What about you, guess? I what's your favorite drink of choice? Favorite drink of choice? I like to drink whiskey or scotch. That's my favorite because I don't drink a lot of it, and it's usually pretty pricey, so it does the damage in a minimal amount of time. There's also a beer that my sister introduced me to out of St. Petersburg, Florida. It's called High and it's a pale ale and it

tastes delicious. I think it's eight point five percent but super strong. You have a couple of those and you're good for the night. Well, this isn't the holy trinity of booze, Scotch, whiskey, and bourbon. Isn't that like the holy trinity of the booze the world? I think? So? All right? Moving on Gregg Wrights and he says, so, why do your team's always choke in the playoffs? Ben? Is it? The Bill Miller factor. Yes, yes, that is it.

Frankly speaking, that is why they are all a bunch of you know, a bunch of guys shipping bricks in big games. Yes, clearly. All right, the only one time I want to write off into this. Can you imagine how how unbearable I would be if one of these idiots actually won a championship? Oh my god? Well, yeah, you just need to get hot, like the Chicago you got the black Hawks, and you have the Cubbies, or

or Philadelphia or Boston. Imagine if you lived in Boston, if you were a Boston guy with the Celtics of the Patriots and the Bruins, you'd be sweeping the board. All you need. You need a hockey team, need a tennis player, you need a boxer. You need all those guys to crumble at the same time too. That'd be perfect for you, all right, Jan writes, and he says, if the Dodgers replaced David Roberts, this is a sport question. Who are the candidates to replace him? All right? Couple

of things. First of all, if I ran the Dodgers, Roberts has done. He's out of here. Fire his ass. I see you later, goodbye. Like, you go manage somebody else, go manage the Mets. Have a good time. But I do not believe Roberts is gonna be fired. Now. If he was fired, it depends on what the Dodgers do with Andrew Friedman, whose contract is up. I know this report saying that all this will work itself out or

something that say won't work itself out. But you can't be unprepared, right art of War sun Zoo, Right, you gotta be prepared at all times. So if you really want to go away from from Roberts, the problem is they have an analytically based front office, so they're gonna want to hire a robot. They're gonna want to hire somebody who just follows instructions blindly and Lemming, Lemming going over the cliff um and so like, if you want to appease the old school Dodger fan. I brought this

up the other night in the Overnight Show. I said, bring in Mike Soshan. Yeah, you know when when Sosia had good players in Anaheim, that those teams often succeeded in the place. I only only one in one World series, but they were as I recall, teams, he got the most out of that that roster with the Angels, and when he had bad players, obviously you are a product of what you have, and they were not very good,

but he played putting. Those teams played like an NL team though they played small ball, they actually ran, They went hit and run running hit, They squeezed, So he'd be perfect for the Dodger, especially the National League side. Yeah, you know, and it's it's just the basics of of coaching, right. The always say the key to coaching is to find out what your players weaknesses are and and then making

sure how to hide them. And Dave Roberts for whatever reason, and maybe it's not him, maybe it's the computer, but he has not been sick, sccessful. He doesn't seem to understand that Kershaw can't pitch in these certain pressure spots, and he doesn't hide him. You know, you you've got to put that is part of you. Gotta put players in position to succeed, find their comfort zone. Clayton Kershaw's comfort zone is the Cactus League. That's his comfort zone,

not the regular season. Um, But anyway, I'm moving on Michael uh. He he has another herd of questions. I was wondering if you agree with my point of view that the Colorado Rockies should have trade Nolan Erinado after he choked in last year's playoffs against the Brewers. And it's the same thing he says with the Broncos. He's obviously Colorado guy. I think they should trade Vaughan Miller and get a couple of first round picks and start

over again. That is from Michael. I'm gonna push back on this, Uh, Michael, Nolan Arronado is a probably the top third basement baseball. I don't know, he's better than that. Guy's a stud um. But I don't this whole revolving psyche goal of we'll just start over. I hate that. Who wants that? Who wants the start over? Nobody wants that. I mean, that is just the nightmares what that is. So I say no to that. But you are a Bronco fan, guess gn so von Miller gone, you keep

him and get rid of him. I don't know why you'd want to trade him, especially because where they sit right now, picking up their first win against the Chargers, they're gonna be a contention for a top five pick anyway. And if you have to bookend guys like von Miller and Bradley Chubb. I have the biggest problem for the Broncos so far as they've been out coached, and they're out coaching a week one against the Raiders and John Gruden. They they took Chubb and von Miller at that ball game.

But if you don't in the National Football League, you need three things. You need a quarterback, you need a left tackle, and needed pass rushers. That's exactly what the Broncos have. They have no damn quarterback, they have no damn left tackle. Their offensive line is trash. I don't know why you would trade away a guy who's a potential Hall of Famer. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that.

It's hard because it's like the trade for these draft picks, and most draft picks don't turn out to be players that are as good as von Miller, right, you know what I mean? So so you're you're you're going you might get quantity, but you're not gonna get quality. Most like he might get a starter, but you're not gonna get an all Pro type player, which von Miller has the ability to be and has been. And they vested so much you know, don't forget he had drug problems

early on in his career. He had all kinds of character issues, and they've worked that shut out, and now all of a sudden, he's a super Bowl winner. He's an m v P in the super Bowl. There's no way I would trade this guy. It's not like he's on the on the back back side of his career. He's in the prime of his career. I agree, all right, Matt in no Cal or nor call, he says, nor Cal is experiencing planned power shutdowns. What would you guys

do in a prolonged blackout situation? Why? I What I would do is I try to find a mall and go to like a Starbucks or something like that and use the WiFi. Piggyback to wife, I I need to have WiFi. I need to have my phone charged that that would be a uh a nightmare without without the WiFi. But this sucks. I mean, I'm I'm fascinated. I said this the other day, but are you telling me they figured out that most of these forest fires in California that have been going on since my entire life that

are caused by power lines. That seems to be what they're saying. That seems to be what they're saying here. But what would you do? Guests on and they how we're shutdown? I think the much like you. I wouldn't go to a Starbucks, but I'd probably go to my car first to make sure that my cell phone has charged, and then, depending on how long it is or what time of the day it is, it either go to sleep or go to the gym. Yeah, you know what, I My wife got me one of these these battery

backup things that are awesome. Have you got for your phone? Where you can you take it with you and charge your phone anywhere in the middle of the desert. That's pretty cool, man. I like that we have old school versions of the iPhone. That's probably why she got it for you. I know I need one to you my battery doesn't fill up capacity anymore. Yeah, it's pretty bad, all right, Big Big Lou rights and he says, you and Gagon are given money to begin a minor league

baseball team, think Lou from the LBC. What city would it be in and would Gagon be the announcer? All right, of course I would torture Gagon. I would make him be the announcer. But if I could put a minor league baseball team anywhere, I would bring back professional baseball to Honolulu. Wouldn't that be great? Honolulu had uh for for a while. I don't know how many years it was, but they had a Triple A baseball team in in Honolulu, and I magine you wouldn't want to be called up

to the Major League. The Hawaiian Islanders twenty seven seasons nineteen sixty one to nine seven. They were an affiliated the Kansas City Athletics, and they played in a Loja Stadium in uh In, Hawaii. The University of Hawaii plays their games. But I would bring back the Hawaiian Islanders. That's what I would just say. I live in Hawaii, and you know, because minor league ballparks do so many wild things, and much like spring training, I would build

my minor league facility at near Fort Leavenworth. I'd haven't connected to the prison. I talked about a home field advantage, bend. I would just have all those convicts in the right field left field pavilions just summoning batters every time they

come up. That well you know you should do is you know the phrase out and left field comes from baseball, and it comes from Wrigley Field the end of the background because apparently in the old Cubs ballpark there was a mental hospital down the street from the ballpark, and the guy playing left field on a quiet day when the crowd wasn't making noise, could hear people screaming from behind left the left field wall and the mental hospital because they were having issues. And so the term out

in left field came from that. It's a baseball It started with baseball in the mental hospital in chicag Go behind whatever the cup ballpark was at the time. Let's get to don't stick to sports stories of the week. Here, what do we have? This is your baby, this is your department? All right? How about this? Bend? What not? Roll? Tide roll. I don't know if you saw this at all, but in Paducah, Kentucky, police are actually looking for a suspect of man check this out. Had to uh, you

need a little bit of money. So naturally he goes to a motel and decides to rob the motel. Tricky part is on all of this he's wearing Alabama attire. He's wearing an Alabama beanie and he also brings in a bag to rob this woman at her front desk. The woman just starts throwing this dude money, and naturally, as he wants to, he's packing all the money in the kicker part in all of this bend while he's doing this, as he puts his own handgun on top of the desk, and then he bends over to pick

up the drop money. The woman obviously sees this and grabs the gun and points it right back into him, and he goes fling outside the motel. He never to return them. But what a fool man? What did g I just think they caught him? By the way, I have an update. They caught this guy's twenty six years old Corey Phillips from West Paduca, Kentucky. And uh, you guys see his mug shot. Little having a bad hair Day's having a bad hair day. It would would have

worked out, they say. In the guy's car, the police found an Apple computer that had been reported stolen from the burglary, and white T shirt like the one apparently found the robbery scene. All that, well, that's even worse though, because even if you have a Mac, much like your phone, you can have a locator on it. So, yeah, you're right, You're right. I mean, what's the point of stealing the phone. I mean, he's gonna find it and he's letting track it down. You're an idiot. And I mean if you

do that. And the other thing here with this guy is he's he was showing proper etict right, you're supposed to you're not been down with a gun, You're supposed to put the gun on the table, right, and that he's supposed to do. So he was doing proper gun safety. Yeah, just give him a pass on that, alright. I was next speaking of this, we go down to Florida with a low hanging fruit. A man was reportedly arrested just

a few days ago after he tried getting an alligator drunk. Dude, twenty seven years of age, he tried feeding an alligator some beer. I guess what happened. The alligator actually bit him. Uh. Wildlife Conservative Conservation Commission actually reported on this guy was arrested obviously for animal endangerment. Uh. They caught the game the gator, though was on camera that more of that footage was available for him, but he had consumed a couple of beers throughout the day. Decided to give an

alligator a couple of beers as well. Caught on tape and again more from Florida. So he this guy had his arm bitten, right, and that's what I understand. And he so he was bleeding. Yeah. Well, now, unfortunately it was a small alligator. Right when it was a big gator, he'd be dead. Yeah, it was a small but he was. You can't imagine, you know, I've spent some time in Florida, but I haven't spent that much time in Florida. Like when you imagine going outside and this like alligators walking.

These are dinosaurs. These are little dinosaurs living amongst human beings. It's wild to me, it's wild. And you just see the what's that big galligator in South Carolina? I think it is that that wanders around the course. It's like, you know, sixteen feet long or some ridiculous thing like that. That happy Gilmore. It's uh, it's crazy. Man. Florida continues to be a stay. You always give me problems because I love Florida man stories. I love the Florida Man,

the Florida man stories. You want to you don't feel better about your life, you go with the Florida Man stories because they are they are classical stories. They're wonderful stories, and they very rarely these Florida Man stories disappoint Yeah, they've never let you down. How about this? We go from uh, we go from Florida to UH to Michigan. Now. I think it was a year maybe two years ago when we had that tide pod challenge for kids. Do

you remember that. I do recall that. Yeah, that's so you had to you had to bite into a tight pot or something like that. Yes, well, we we've taken the next step as a progressive society. Now, Um, a twelve year old boy is actually recovering from second degree burns after he set himself on fire. They do this now as part of a burning challenge. Where was this? What was this in it? Yes? And so these kids will be caught on YouTube or or even the demo

where they basically get themselves put on fire. They pour flammable liquid like rubbing alcohol or other kind of flammable liquids on themselves and they ignite after and obviously see how long they can they can survive. And one kid obviously was caught on tape on YouTube and uh, yeah, second degree burns. How about that? Did the kid at least he had a lot of follows on YouTube? Did he?

Did he win the fire challenge? If you're gonna get burned up and live the rest of your life with burns all over your body, I hope you hope you were successful? Wow? I mean we're all we were all like that. We were like twelve years old, a bunch of idiots. But I mean, seriously, what a world? Even I as a twelve year old like I I it was a little gun shy with the fire. How about this? The next sounds, we're gonna pour gasoline on our heads and we're gonna put a match on top and see

what happens? What could go wrong? Oh? What the world? Come on, man, you gonna be better than that? All right? What else we got? Have you heard about this? The you know, a touchdown Jesus obviously in South Bend for the nore Dame fighting Irish Nike Irmack's nineties sevens are named Team Jesus Shoes. They're manufactured by a Brooklyn based company. Right now, um they're getting sold for a monstorious price of three thousand dollars and they were actually sold recently

within minutes. When a shoe was blasted, it was filled with reportedly holy water. That was a holy water edition of shoe. So some some dope bought a shoe because they said there was holy water in it. Really, where did the holy water come from? Was it? Did? Did Jesus drop down pour the water into the shoe there along with his talking donkey and the talking snake and the sun staying still in the sky. I mean, come on, well, with any luck that water turns into wine. Yeah? Right, Well,

and really that in the Bible, right, isn't that? That's the original fire challenge man walking into a furnace, right, not getting hurt, that's the original fire challenge. To a blaze, Betty? Last one? How about this one? Stafford, Virginia. We've we've heard stories probably the last couple of years about Chick fil A employees doing marvelous things and heroic things, oftentimes

besides giving us great chicken sandwiches. But a woman, uh, she dropped her phone and she could not I in a parking lot and it turned out and actually fell into a storm drain. So a Chick fil a employee actually opened up a man cover and dropped himself into it to recover her cell phone. It was all caught on footage as well documented on Facebook. Um but more from Chick fil A obviously doing uh doing a lot for humanity. All right, So she drops this, how is

the thing? I wasn't listening? How is the thing opened? Like? Why would how she? How do you drop what? It wasn't the man cover? It was actually a storm drain, but Chick fil a employee opened up a storm drain or the man. I have a story like this. I have a story about this. Actually years ago, before I got married. I was dating my wife and I was at her house and I parked right in front of

the house there she was living in. And I got out of the car and it was right near one of those gutters you know that goes down to the storm drain. And somehow I was tired because I had worked, you know, crazy hours doing the website at the time. Mike key my keys fell into the storms, right and uh, I didn't even know. I mean, what are you gonna do? I couldn't get in there, you know, I can't fit down there and all that. So we my wife, of course, she's very smart, so she figured out that you can

call the city and they will come out. But I had to wait. I had to stay there that night because they wouldn't come out till the next day to get the keys out. That reminds me great point of bringing up your wife. She says that you owe your listeners an apology because last week's edition you had mentioned the dating scene with her and that you proposed within seven months. She actually said it took about three and a half to four years for you find a propose

to hers. So she was like, hey, you're gonna ship he get off the pot, like one of these two things needs to happen, and you find. As I told my wife, I am a storyteller, and I that is what's the better story, getting married or waiting? You know, four years to get married at three years to get married? On time? Man? What think about women? My wife's no difference that they remember these dates, you know they we they remember like next year in January or early I

think it's late January. I will be like our ninth or ninth anniversary. I think is something like that. But she she always like she's counting down to the days. She remembers all this and h and I always I always bust her balls by pointing out that I originally tried to date her earlier and she blew me off for Richard, so we could have been together even longer, but she wouldn't give me the time of it, which I don't blame her for at the beginning, and then

eventually she she came around. I guess, so I guess. All right, Well that was fun gas gun and then we'll do the hard old gambling show. We have that straight ahead here as well. But how we have a great weekend, and and please send us an email. I don't most people aren't listening to the end of the podcast here, but the email, I blame you, Gascar, And we used to I used to get tons of email on that our show email page. For this show, the

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