Moldy Cheese

it eight days a week. This is the Saturday Podcast. And I don't know about you. I've done a lot of these things. That conversation with Tommy john is in my top five pantheon of things I did not expect now. I was very excited to talk to Tommy, and I enjoyed the conversation, and if you didn't hear it, I do highly recommend going back. Because so often we have people on who are guarded and afraid to say anything.

Tommy was the opposite. He said whatever was on his mind and told the fact that he almost died of COVID. A wild tale from baseball player Tommy Johns so I'm still I'm still getting over that. I'm still you know, I'm still enjoying the afterglow of that conversation. But the podcast game does not end. The podcast machine does not end.

And this the Saturday Podcast, and we thank you for hitting that subscribe button, giving us five stars and telling a friend, telling a friend, what does that help us out? And yet again it's it's like a hostile take over. Here. Ryan Smith, better known as his wrestling name Ryan McBain is writing shotgun. Are we still allowed to say that? He's in the passenger seat here on the fifth Hour with Ben Maller. So Mr McMahon, the number one Boston fan that I know that works at Fox Sports Radio Boston,

can kiss my ass. Yes, yes, yes, and yes you can still say shotgun. Okay good. That has not been canceled yet. So you're writing shotgun I came, which is a great reference, as you know, Ryan, because you're a historian of words. That goes back to the stagecoach days, right, that was the in the early days of travel in

the Old West. They had the person who was driving the stage coach, who was holding onto the straps with the horses, and then the person next to him was the lookout in case some you know, some hostile attack on the side of a dirt road somewhere, so they had you. You were literally holding a shotgun sitting next to the driver, and you had to obviously defend stage coach. Yes, I'm your protor. That's right, you are holding the weapon, protecting us from evil people who from Boston, evil people

from Boston. Yes, here we go again, here we go. All right, So on this podcast we'll see how much of this we get too, because I have a lot of things I wanted to rant about. I've got the eulogy, right, the eulogy, the p it's a party foul, We've got that. We have pop quiz and study, you know, let's get scientifical that kind of stuff. So when we might get some of that, depending on the time, Depending on the time. You don't want a tight clock here unless we're not.

But I didn't want to spend some time at the beginning of the Saturday podcast to acknowledge said it and forget it. And if you've been a fan of a podcast, we've been doing this for a while now, and we we try to get people that touched my life in one way or another, people I like in radio. Usually we get a lot of radio nerds that come on here, uh,

and and athletes that I appreciate and whatnot. And with that as the backdrop, one of the people that I really wanted to get on the podcast that I tried. I said, when I got this podcast, I gotta get this guy on. I want to talk to this guy. This guy's alleged he's a living legend, and I I had it booked. It didn't happen. So we're talking about Uh, the old gangster of infomercials has gone to salesman heaven,

Ron Pope Peel. Ron Pope. Now we mentioned this briefly in the Overnight the other day, but Ron Popeel not just an infommercial guy. The guy was an inventor. But he did become the face of infommercials and the as seen on TV product line the Showtime Rotisserie, the Pocket Fisherman. He passed away this week at age six. Apparently had a brief medical emergency on Tuesday. And life is so fragile, so fleeting at at all ages, but especially when you

get to that age. And then he passed away the day after here in Los Angeles at Cedar Sinai where a lot of the celebrity people go. That's the celebrity hospital there in La La Land. And and so he has known as the the the set in the forgett It And so he's checked out. And I wanted to give you the backstory if you missed those podcasts, kind of give you the story here. So I love infomercials. I've always been more of a night person. And when I was a kid, there wasn't a lot to watch

late at night on television. A lot of reruns and a lot of TV stations actually would like shut off after a certain hour and just have nothing. And then infomercials came and that was a big thing, and I would watch quite a bit of infomercis. We didn't have the interweb the way it is today now. When I can't sleep, I'll just go on the Internet and I'll fall into the matrix and I'm good. I can kill hour after hour on YouTube. But that didn't exist, so

so I watched a lot of infommercials. It was very influential on my childhood, which is bizarre to say, because I didn't really buy much. I did buy one thing I bought the They had car wax that you could put on the car and you could light it on fire and the car would not be burned. And this was such an impressive infomercial to me that I bought the car wax. And I was so excited because they threw in all those extras and all that good stuff. Um so I had. That's the only thing I bought.

But I watched so much of Ron Popel and the Showtime Rotisserie was the most famous of the late night infomercial sold a billion, a billion rotisserie cookers one billion, and and just insane, just just insane. So and uh and and he was the guy that is credited with coming up with the most famous phrase in salesmanship. But wait, there's more. But wait there's more. Is that not perfect? But wait there's more. So so I attempted to book Ron POPEO. I have followed him on Facebook for many years.

We are Facebook, Ron Popeel and myself, and so I reached out on Facebook. I said, hey, Ron, I'm a radio guy. I put myself up a little bit, put my look at me. I'm so great. Uh. I do a radio show and it's on four hundred stations and it's on all over the world, you know, really pumping it up, you know, really exaggerated, which is not exaggerate. I'm just pumping up. So Ron gets back to me and said, listen to my publicist. Talk to my publicist. We'll do it, okay. So I talked to the publicist

and then I play email tech with the publicist. We go back and forth, very nice woman, and she's like, what's where's the show going to be broadcast? You know, how long is the inter We're gonna be all those who, what, where? When? Why? Questions? So I'm okay, all right, you know, I answered all the questions. We go through everything, um, and she says, okay, I'll talk to Ron, just make sure he definitely wants to do it, and we'll get back to So she

emails me back. She says, Ron really wants to do it. He wants to know who you've had on in the past, though, some of the names you've had on the past. So I said, okay, no problem. So then at that time, it was early in the fifth hour, and at that time, the only names we had had on on We're like Tony Bruno and Lenny Dikest. It was like that was it,

and radio's Tony Bruno and baseball's Lenny Dice. So I wrote back and I said, well, we had Lenny Dikester was part of the eighties six Mets, you know, it's a wild character. And baseball we had Tony Bruno, the guy started ESPN Radio, he started Fox Sports Radio pretty much is the god of syndicated sports radio. We had him on. You know, we're just starting the podcast, and she says, okay, great, I'll go back to Iron and then we'll come back to you and it should be

no problem. We'll book the podcasts. Yes, sure, no problem, so I said. I wrote back and said, well Thursday. You know, we do the normal to record the podcast in the afternoon on Thursdays. There's good, no problem. So she then I get no response right for a couple of days, and I'm like, well, this is not good. This is not good. You know. She had been writing back and then like the morning before we were supposed to record the rom Pool Peel podcast, which I thought

was a tentative green light go in turn. Instead it was like a yellow light, but it was actually more of a red light. She writes back, she says, well, after further review, uh, you know, run just you know, he's got to spend time with his the grandkids, and he's got he's got a house in Malibu. I think it was that he had to go to and he just doesn't have time to do it, so he can't do it. She said, okay, great, so why don't we do it next week. We can do it next week,

maybe he won't be as busy. And then she's she realized I didn't get the message, you know, the kind put down, and so then she just said, well, you know, Ron just he didn't have enough big names on there, so he didn't want to do it. And I was like, all right, whatever. I was devastated, but you know, that's fun. I mean the guy was in his his golden years and that's that's his position. But it doesn't mean I'm not a huge fan. A huge fan. I've read books.

Uh that's what a loser I am. I've read books about informercial. I'm just fascinating. No, no, McBey, no, seriously, you're laughing at me, Mr Big. But here's my position. Like radio is, sales were in the sales business, right, and really all of life is sales. You want people to like you. You're selling your your personality, You're selling you know, if your business, you're selling business. And they have mastered all of these Jedi mind tricks in infomercials.

They really have, and I've I've been fascinated by it. I was a kid, I had no business, I didn't even have any money or a credit card, and I would watch for hours these infomercials and be captivated. You should have lined by the way. You should have said, yeah, we had we had lots of big names on on the pond. That's what you should have done. I know

on on hindsight. We used to have a producer I will not say the name, uh, but famously would book star baseball players and sometimes he would say he was the Today Show or you know, because it was he was doing. He was perusing a morning show and so he was like, yeah, hey, it's so and so from the Today Show. Can you come on? And then they'd be like, Okay, sure, I think I know who the producer is. You probably do know who the producer is.

You probably do no wire, I don't know is I know it's morally not proper Ryan, I know it's morally not. I don't know if it's illegal to say that. I'm not sure about the hell it is. The show does take place in the morning, yeah, yeah, and you could say that among the people on the show, that's what we call it. You could say, that's the name that we have for the show. So, uh, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at

two am eastern pm Pacific. Anyway, just to wrap up, I won't spend the whole thing on rom Po Peo, but he did influence me a little bit and actually a lot. And he had the whole Ronco line of products. I mean this this was all kinds of crap that has just filled landfills over the years, right, I mean and for radio, now, this is something I did have, but I didn't get it off an infomercial. My mom bottle for me because she knew I was a fat kid that wasn't gonna make it in sports. And I

wanted to be on radio. Mr microphone, Mr microphone. Uh that was all you could hook up to the radio and beyond the radio, and that mattered back in those days. Now, of course, you go on YouTube, you know different there's a stone age back then. But I was a big deal. It's like the first karaoke machine. I had a MR microphone, I did, I still have one that I'm a grown up. I have a I'm a grown ass man. I have a MR microphone, radio studio here um. And he had

the pocket Fisherman. You know what, any jokes didn't Saturday Night Live in the old days. I think they did jokes about the pocket Fisherman. Goofund on, Ron popeel Um. I mean, there's all kinds of stuff. His his stuff is in the Smithsonian's that's wild. So rest in peace, Ron Popio in fullmercial god, who ended his life worth

two hundred million dollars two hundred million smackaroos. And I know even in recent years from being Facebook friends with him, that he would still hang out with the other big stars of the infomercial world. Like there's this tight fraterning there and I know it's table. I think this guy has been banned by a lot of people. I off photo of him with the my pillow guy saying with him, I know you're a big fan Ryan, not at all, not at I'm not a fan of him. Who do

you hate more than my pillow guy or Boston. Oh, that's a good question. That's a selfie's choice, that's a pick your poison. Yeah, I ain't. I guess, I guess how to go with Boston? I guess, But let's put you you really don't hate the my pillow guy as much. That's pretty close close. So on a scale of one to tend Ryan McBain, what how big a loser am I that my hero, one of my heroes as a kid, was a guy hawking products on infomercials. I wouldn't say

you're a loser at all. I would say that you're uh. You just give a valuable lesson, and that lesson is if you want that big interview, you gotta lie. Yes, that is true. That's a teachable moment. That is correct teachable moment. But all the tricks, and think out the tricks that are used today in sales, like the feigning.

A small amount of one of the tricks that he learned on the I think it was on the Jersey shore at the boardwalk on Atlantic City is Ron Popeo was out and he was before he became an informercial guy. I remember reading a book about his his early life and he would be out on the boardwalk. His father was in the business, and he would get people walking down the boardwalk and he'd have these over the top sales pitches like a carnival barker, but you're selling a

pasta maker or something like that, you know. And and then he he would have a crowd. He build a crowd up, and then he would sell products. And then before he sold all the products, he would he would say we we ran out, and he'd keep the crowd. So then the next time he started it over the

same bullshit, the bullshit, he would have a crowd. And then he realized that other people, because human nature, and this has been proven, when people see a line people waiting for something, they think it's a more important They they're curious, right, I guess the first thing would be curious. Secondly they're like, what, well, this must be really good. People are waiting online for this, and so it's he

channels human nature. And to this day, when you open a restaurant, if you pay, you're not gonna have to pay. But if you get a crowd of relatives and friends to fill up the restaurant and make it seem like it's really popular, people that would never eat at that restaurant will come to the restaurant thinking, you know, there's something amazing about that. There's a scientific name for it. I don't remember it offhand here, I have to look it up, but it's true. My my wife's the same way.

My wife, Well, we've got to go to that restaurant. It's popular. I'm like, no, I'm the opposite. I'm like, I'm an introvert like you McBain, and I want I don't want to go anywhere near where it's popular. I want I want to go where there's no one. I want to go where they haven't served uh that meal in two months. That's where I want to go, exactly because you're seated quicker. Absolutely, I totally agree with you exactly,

all right, So, uh we have a pizza party. Foul Tales from the Halfway House at the Mallard Mansion Tails from the Halfway House at the Mallard Mansion. Now, as you know, I dabble. I dabb only kitchen, and since I am living in a temporary place with a rather small kitchen, I would say this is the smallest kitchen I've had since I lived in a little ship whole

apartment in Hollywood. It's very tiny. It's a little like a small wrap around kind of corner, doesn't even go through the whole corner of the room type of thing. I bet your kitchens bigger than my entire apartment, no chance, how big. You have a studio or a one bedroom. I have a one bedroom. Well, yeah, you don't even have If you don't, if you had a studio, then you could make that argument. Studio apartments blow terrible. I hate studio apartments. So you have a one bedroom, one bedroom,

one bath. Of course that's all you need. Now, if you had no bath, you'd have a problem. If you have no bath, you'd have an issue. That would be a problem, slight problem. So it's a small, small kitch and there's a lot of stuff in boxes. And I'm I'm not the first world problem. It's a good problem to have them living the whole ball life. Fine, whatever I signed up for in any event, get to the point, please. So this week, in my haste to make the perfect

Mallard pizza, it's the one thing I still cook. Everything else I got to eat out of a doggy bag because I have to get It's the one thing I can cook in this in this fugazy kitchen, I got so the Mallard pizza, and I am very meticulous. I am a person that follows the recipe exactly. But I have made the Mallard brand pizza so often that it has become second nature. I make it every week, normally on Tuesday. That's pizza day. Don't eat on Monday, eat

break the fast with the Mallard pizza on Tuesday. Well, unfortunately, as I said, to my haste to make the perfect Mallard pizza, I did not pay proper attention to detail this week and this week different than all other weeks. And so after rolling out the dough, putting the tomato sauce on, spreading out the mazzarella, the spices, the Italian seasoning, the pizza spices, the garlic, the onion, the bell pepper,

all that, so I get to the very end. My my last touch on the pizza is I try to make a big fat crust and I like to put parmesan a cheese around the crust. You know, that sprinkle sprinkle of parmesan cheese. And to me, that's that's a nice touch. Yes, So I like that. That's my move. So I go to the refrigerator. McBain, I grabbed the parmer gan a cheese. I grabbed, I take it out and i started sprinkling it around the pizza and I'm about done, and much to my shock, I noticed that

the palm just didn't look right. Jesus Christ, Yeah, now, Keiman, why Now? I did look in the bag of cheese, and the top layer was fine. It was the proper color, it was the proper texture of parmegana cheese. But as I went underneath that top layer, there was some moldiness there. And I had just covered the crust of my pizza with moldy parmesan cheese. Well, you know, some people do like penicillin on their pizza. Now at this point, we're at a crossroads. What do you think I did at

this particular point. I know, damn well, you ate that pizza. Damn right, absolutely correct. So so here's my move, right, So I'm like, holy fuck, I mean, one am. I I didn't have another thing at doll I didn't have more tomato sauce. This was the one pie and I was hungry. I hadn't eaten since Sunday and it was Tuesday. So I gotta eat. And so so I'm like examining the pie with my I'm getting right up with my putting my nose in the in the dog, trying to see the the moldy cheese. And so I went over

there and tried to remove. As they say in in gardening, you removed the dead wood, right, you cut the dead wood out. So I'm trying to remove the cheese, the moldy cheese. I think I got about of the moldy cheese out and then I just gave up. I figured, well, of moldy cheese, I think I'll be okay, and I and I cooked it and I ate it and I'm still alive to talk about it. So it didn't kill me. You can't eat moldy cheese, Yeah, because I think like

the heat. Wouldn't the heat like get rid of the bacteria? Is that? Isn't that how it works? I hope you're right. I don't know. I I assume that makes sense. That's a logical way to look at it. Now, keep in mind, I did have the Tennessee trots, but I get that. Yeah, that's what they when you have dysentery, when you get to run to the bathroom. It was this organ trail. Well, no, that's an old that's like a civil war term. I think. Yeah, uh no, I could say Mona Zuma's revenge. Has that

been canceled? I don't know. Drink the water. Yeah, it's whenever I fast, since I had my gallbladder taken out, whenever I fast for a long time, it doesn't matter what I eat, I immediately have to make a run for the commode. So I'm not sure if it was the mold or it was just my gall bladder acting up after I hadn't eaten in a while. So that was my pizza party foul with the moldy moldy. Gee,

now here's the thing you called a foul. I think it's a story of redemption because you mess up the pizza, the nice Pizza Pa, and you fixed it and you still ate it. So that's a story of redemption. Ben, Well, thank you, you've you've just validated my position. I told my wife that. She said, if you did that with my pizza, you'd have to throw that out and start off. I said, well, it's not your pizza. People don't appreciate

pizza Pa. That's what I'm saying, right, this is confirmation that you can have a little mold on your pizza and you're gonna be okay. You shouldn't be wasting food during a global pandemic. Now, granted, like you might have invented some type of COVID variant, but I'm just saying the mold variant of the mold. Help centered is the the people over at Delta? Are they upset? Like? Wait a minute here, I mean, you assholes. At first it

was called the coronavirus, so you're ruined Corona beer. Now it's the Delta variant, so you've screwed up the airline bed job by you. You know, It's like, what's going on, Let's get down to business. As long as it's not the whiskey variant, I think I'm fine. I'm good. Whereas there's nothing with the whiskey. Keep very open and shut, keep the whiskey cabinet, the whiskey bottle clear of any damage. Yes,

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the eye test. We've got all the bases called New Episodes drops every Thursday, So do yourself a favor and listen to Inside the Partner with Rob Partner on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. Let's get scientifical. Let's get scientifical. Do a few science stories here now. And this is a tribute. I used to love the show called Bullshit. It was on HBO Showtime. I forget. It was a penn and teller and they examined random things and says this real or is it bullshit?

And a lot of science. I love reading studies, scientifical studies from universities mostly, and I have learned over the years that there's so many weasel words in this. You really have to go over these things with a microscope and use critical thinking. You can't believe every single study because they throw a lot of weasel words out. Here's a study that says testosterone levels don't drive success, do

not drive success? Uh, and this, this, this is good news if you're not an alpha male obviously, because you have a lot of tester testosterone a beta male. And they say it does not drive success in men, and they say much less important than previously claimed. Bullshit. Yeah, I I tend to agree. I think this is bullshit.

I think this is the University of Bristol. They claim it's a myth that testosterone levels drive success in life, contradicting explain porn stars, well, well in that business, and I would say athletics. I mean, your brother was a pro basketball player, right, did he have an increased testosterone? Never, that's a question I never asked him. Ben Well, I understand, but just I mean, you know you're around, and you know when they're they a little more testosterone. He's got

two kids, I mean, big stuff. Look at that. Look at that going for it. Yeah. I don't believe that one. I find that hard to believe. So I'm gonna choose not to believe that. Here's a fun story about bees. It's for the bees. It's the bee's knees. Bees, according to science, get buzzed off caffeine just like human bees do, and it makes them better. It makes them better. The bees are better bees when they're out doing their thing. This is why we have science. It's things like this.

It's things like this. Uh. This is according to Greenwich University in southeast London. This is what they're doing in London. The caffeine is like cocaine or something. Well, it says a new study shows that bees also get a buzz from caffeine. It helps them become more productive on the job,

more productive. I'm not a coffee drinker. I've never had a cup of coffee in my life, and I'm at the point now where I can't have a cup of coffee because I like to tell people I haven't had a cup of coffee, so I can't have a cup of coffee. I do take caffeine supplements every once in a while when I'm driving and I don't want to fall asleep and die when I'm driving in a ditch somewhere along the side of the road, but I generally don't even do a lot of that. It's the same

thing though, Just drink some coffee. Yeah. Yeah, it's cheaper too, if you get a bottle of caffeine supplements that Walmart is somewhere it's very cheap for a bottle. A bottle of caffeine supplements is as much as a one one cup of Starbucks coffee and it'll last year, an entire month or longer. Fun fact. Yeah, anyway, what does it say? Let me go deeper into the study, says, scientists say the the pollinator learns better so when nectar is laced with the pick me up of a caffeine, and they

go into a lot of scientifical minutia in this. But the study was published in Current Biology found bumble bees fed caffeine were better at remembering the smell of a specific flower and the nectar inside. How the hell do they know that? How do you feed a bee caffeine? By the way, Oh, that's a good question, says let me try to find it here. I think you're not giving the coffee. No, no, uh, let's see here. Let's just say, uh, I think it's in in some of

the flowers. I think I must I'm not reading this right here, it's in here somewhere. Uh. This as many stray towards neighboring wildflowers instead of the delicious summer fruit. But those that have had the the caffeine. I enjoy it. Uh, let's see here, what is it saying? La la la la la la la. Yeah, yeah, that's a great question, right, where is there natural caffeine? It doesn't it's not jumping out to me here, and we don't have time to read. It's a long study. And if I read the whole thing,

no one will be listening to the podcast. So uh, they see they buy dozens or even hundreds of boxes of commercial bumbees a year to boost crops. All right, so this is something to help the farming farming community. So I don't know, there's gotta be natural caffeine. Just google it, probably get the answer, quicker. Just google it. There you go, says In test eighty six, previously untrained

bumblebees were divided into three groups. Two got either the strawberry odor or the caffeineated sugar solution, uh sugar solutional. And also they gave them the calf. Wait a minute, that's not It's cheating, isn't it. That's cheating anyway? They they they said the ones with the caffeine did better. Boy, okay, I didn't think we spent a lot of time on that. We did a deadly spider venom. As we get scientifical,

deadly spider venom can help heart attack survivors recover. This could be a live change and could being a weasel word bullshit called bullshit on this. According to another study. This is from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. They say that the eight legged spiders friendly you know, eight legged spider may turn out to be life savers. The researchers report that venom from one particular type of spider is the integral ingredient in a new life saving

treatment for heart attack victims who knew. The spider in question, formerly known as the Frasier Island funnel Web spider, is considered among the world's most deadly creepy crawler. And they say that a molecule extracted from the spider's venom is being used now to produce a new drug. That is a new drug candidate capable of both preventing heart attack damage and extending the life of donor art it's used for organ transplant. Okay, let's just say it like that

this story is true. How in the world would they figure that out? Well, I'm dumb, so I'm not the person to ask. But there are people that are very smart. I'm not one of those people. I'm an idiot. I talk about sports for a living. I'm a moron. It's a great question. And they say that this drug, the new drug, actually blocks a death signal sent from the heart during a heart attack. The death signal. That's called that's what I'm reading it out of study. I'm reading

it out of the study. It's from the University of Queensland. The death signal. Yeah, that's what it says right here. So is that how it works, like when you have a heart attack, that the heart sends a message of the brand. All right, we're done, shut her off. That's it. Good by everybody, We're out of here. Is that how that works? The death signal. I'm gonna steal that. I'm gonna use that. It makes no sense. No, I'm gonna I am going to steal that and use that in

a future Mallon monologue. The death signal. It's like the death star from Star Wars. I want to know what type of drugs these doctors are on to figure that out? You know what, man, You know we should try get some spiders, man, and just to see what happens. Now, here's the here's the thing, right, So I am of the belief. Tell me if I'm crazy this. I believe that all of the solutions to life problems are on

this planet. We just haven't found them. Like every illness, I believe there is a cure for for that set illness on this planet, but we haven't yet discovered it. Am I crazy? Or am I on the path to salvation? You are crazy and you're also correct? No, I can't be both. You gotta pick. You can't. You can't stay on the for the fans. Ryan, you gotta get off the fence. Come on. I mean, I I agree with what you're saying, but I mean you're also kind of insane, which is fine. I don't think I am. I think

I'm I'm right. I think that with all the different plants and all the things in the ocean, that we have no idea what the hell is there? And it doesn't mean we'll ever find the solutions to this, doesn't mean we'll ever find the answers, but they're there. I really think they are there. I think everything we need is right here on this planet. We just have to find I'm becoming Benny Brightside, I'm becoming Mr Positive here. Let's not put the cart in front of the horse.

Calm down, Calm down, All right, let's see what's next. Here we go. Study finds that friends who behave badly are easier to forgive than strangers. I'll go for it. This is obviously real and we didn't need to study to tell us that the reason you will forgive bad behavior by friends is because us. Hello there, your friends. You don't know a stranger from Tim Buck two, So

who can't? I mean, what are you gonna do? Right, You're not gonna if you don't know somebody and they're an asshole to you, you're not going to give them the time of the day, right, Yeah? Like, I mean, you run across some stranger, You're like, okay, what if you guys a dick, I'm I'm out of here. But if it's a friend, you're like, well, what did you do that? You know? You're like, you figure out a solution.

Global Let's say there's a global collapse, global collapse. Oh my god, there's a global collapse and a cataclysmic global collapse. Where is the place that you need to be to survive a cataclysmic global collapse. I'm talking about anywhere on this little blue marble we call Earth. Well, I know the place you're not supposed to be. Where would that be? That would be Boston, Massachusetts, there you there, you well, anywhere in the corridor to be fair, anywhere e c. Philly,

New York, Boston. I had a buddy of mine who was a sportswriter who despised all the attention the Red Sox and Yankees got, and he called that the axis of evil, the corridor. He was the access of evil because everything in the country comes out of that region. Boston, New York, Philly, Washington, d c uh to this day. Uh. The answer, though, Ryan is New Zealand. Why they're New Zealand, they say tops the list because of their favorable island conditions.

They identified five places with favorable conditions to survive a global cataclysmic event. New Zealand came out number one, followed by Iceland, the u k. Tasmania, and Ireland. Okay, so where's the last place wherever you are? Probably? Probably yeah, exactly, they say. Threats to society globally floodings, route pollution, pandemic, superbugs, wildfires, food,

loss severe financial crisis are all listened. There. The great thing about these studies, let me tell you why these are great, because if there is a cataclysmic global collapse, no one's gonna go back to look at the studies see if they're right or not. So it doesn't like this is one of those things like, oh, whakay, that's important, but no one's gonna say that you got it right. No one's gonna look it up down the line if something terrible happens. So it's it's one of those bull

crap story. Bull crap story. So here's an exciting story from androids, from robots taking over the world, and I am convinced at some point we will have the battle the bots for real, like legitimate, big time robots. We'll have robots playing sports mixed with human beings. It's going to happen. Given enough time. We won't be around for it, but it will happen. So two legged robots are becoming more and more popular science, trying to master the art

of walking like humans, making them look like humans. So there's a robot called Casey with the Sea and it has made history. It is completed a five k marathon in fifty three minutes. Fifty three minutes. But the robot they call it, she does it have she robot parts or he? All right? Anyway? Uh said she had to stop twice after her computer overheated and she fell while taking a corner too fast. Okay, so there is that.

And they say that the makers of this robot are hoping to use it to deliver package is or work in warehouses. Well, this has Amazon written all over it, doesn't He says, like Amazon, Hey, we don't have to pay people, and we don't have to give them medical insurance, and we don't have to worry about them getting hurt on the job or not being productive. I'll just have a bunch of robots. Jeff Bezos saves more money so

he can go into outer space. Again, if you had f you money and you were the richest person in the world, you'd probably do the same thing you're going. I mean, I wouldn't want to do that, but I get it. Like if you just think about this, they dude made so much money. He was bored to death. He was like, you know what, I'm gonna go out of space. Well, and it's really because these other the other there's like two or three other rich dudes like that.

We're doing the same thing, right. Uh, what's the guy from Tesla? What's that cat's name? I forget the guy's name, but he he was going out of space. Elon Musk. Yeah, I keep forgetting Elon must name. But he was going to space. He was doing some stuff in space. And then the guy from that airline, the rich I Virgin Airlines that or something. Yes, yeah, Richard Branson's his name. Look at you. You're connected, guy, I'm connected. And I also say this, if you have so much money that

you can go to outer space, you're not paying enough taxes. Now, come on, I am no, no, no, you should not pay a lot of taxes every If you have that much money, you're not paying enough taxes. I'm sorry. That is a fact. Put that on my tombstone. Listen. I don't know about you, but I, like everyone else, I would think when it comes time to do the taxes, you you find it. Either you do your taxes or you find an accountant that will make you pay the

least amount of taxes. Whether you're Bezos or Bezos or whatever his name or anybody, that's just how you want to pay it the full amount in taxes. Who wants to pay the full amount of taxes if you could not pay the full amountain taxes. So you're saying, oh, he has to pay more taxes, he might not be able to go out of space. Oh no, no, I I don't care whether it goes to outer space or not. The most amazing thing about Bezos is that he is

stooping a woman that I know. That is that blows me away that the richest man in the history of the world, you know, at least in modern times, is dating a woman that used to cover the Lakers for Fox Sports West in Lauren Sanchez and I had dinner with her at Staples Center. Man, no, I'm not name shopping. It is amazing to me because I remember in the locker room she covered the Lakers, like in the shack Kobe days, the early days of Kobe and Shock was there.

And I mean she's a very attractive woman. Yeah, I would imagine if I'm not gonna go there, never mind, she's a lovely lady in my apologies tour, But the players and the Lakers were, I mean, they were giving her a lot of attention. You know what. I'm saying yeah, which, which, which goes back to my other point. What's proves that he's not paying enough taxes? To Bezos going out of space? Didn't nobody's hot women pay more taxes. That's my point.

I respect people that try to pay as little as possible because I've tried to pay as little in tax Okay, okay, but you're not You're you're not Jeff Bezos. No, but here's the thing you should you're you're directing your rage at the wrong people. The people you should be upset

about are the politicians that allow that to be possible. Right, if you are a rich enough person, you can make a deal and you can go to Congress and get laws change and get tax loopholes and go in there these things called lobbyists, and that's what the rich people do. And so that's really the problem. It's not it is, You're right, it is a problem. They always say like, oh, you know, if they don't pay a lot of taxes, it will trickle down and people will get more jobs

and work more. No, these people will just go to our space. That's where the money is going. Is not going to the people. Yeah, well, I don't know. It's kind of Dooby I I was. I watched that on YouTube when when Bezos went out of space, and I was expecting like a lot more than I got so angry about this. I'm not really angry. I don't really care whatever. It's fine. You know, eventually they'll be regular flights.

You'll go to l A X. All right, We're going to go up to outer space for ten minutes and then we'll come back. And the man is so rich. He got married, divorced, lost a ship ton of money, and he's still the richest man in the world. That's all Richie is. Well. I say good for him. He came up with something that society clearly loves and spends a shipload of money on. And I think we should encourage more people to be the next Jeff Bezos and come up with a product and that everyone needs and

makes their life easier. And I think that's that should be encouraged. I think that you should want to be the next Bezos and create something and get the riches of not Solomon, that's beyond the riches of Solomon. That's unbelievable, my god. All right, I think we've gone long on this. We should put the baby to bed. Unfortunately, the will will know we'll do no pop quiz will do that next week. And so Ryan, thank you? How can how

can the masses follow you? Ryan McMahon, I knew you've been doing a tremendous job, yeoman's work here over the last nth last month. I'm sure management will give you a big fat raise at some point. Yes, yeah, I'm sure Jeff Bezos will pay more taxes before that happens, But I digress. You can find me on Twitter, Ryan McBain R Y A N M C B A I N and on Twitch Yes Twitch Ryan McBain on there as well, one of those twitch people yes with Twitters, which is also owned by Jeff Bezoz. Yes, you're helping

them out. You're you're helping the man out right there. Anyway, listen, have a great rest of your Saturday. We got the mail bag right around the corner on Sunday. You can follow me on you know, the social media channels. Ben Maller on Twitter, Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox, the Facebook page Ben Mallers shown. If you did not hear the Tommy John interview, you gotta go back and hear it from Friday and have a great rest of your day. Will catch you next time.