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So on this podcast, the Saturday podcast, we've got Halfway House Mallard, Halfway House Mallard, Golblo exclusive pop quiz, which is gonna be interesting because normally I asked the pop quiz question for Gagon, but Gagon is not here, so we don't have to worry about West of the four or five, and we'll get scientifical well, probably end up

getting scientifical before pop quiz. I. I continue to be fascinated by these science stories, and so I thought, you know, I can't really use them, most of them on the radio show because it is, you know, in air quotes, a sports talk radio show. But on the podcast we we have more freedom, we have more flexibility, we can do different things, and so I thought, why not some of the stories. I mean, I'm reading these things anyway, So what's what's to lose by by not doing them

or doing them? I should say by doing them, I should say. So anyway, we'll start with Halfway House Mallow. This is a podcasting. This is something I've not talked about on the radio show. Some of you have figured this out, which is a little scary. I don't know if you're hacking my email or your my phone and my text message and all that, but you you might have picked up on this if you listen to the radio show at all. This week, I was not in on Thursday into Friday, but for the first time in

roughly fifteen months, I was actually schedule. I didn't just pop in here after a rainstorm. I made my triumphant return to the I Heart Media building the Premier Networks building where the late Rush Limbaugh did a show when he came to l A and Art Bell and Casey Casum and Legends of Dr Laura worked out of their Jim Rome when he did the show for the Premiere Networks. Uh, it's a it's a cool building. I've been some great radio talent. George Nor does the show out of there.

And Fox Sports Radio has studios, which is our main hub, and I've worked at Fox Sports Radio for over twenty years. But because of the global pandemic, we were doing the show from the home studio. And Uh, the reason I can now reveal why I was in studio this past week because last weekend, while you were living your lives and you were listening to the podcast, I was moving Man Mallard. Now I should have brought in moving man Matt. That would have made sense. But it was a short move.

It wasn't a long move, but I moved. I packed up me and the wife there, we packed up the station wagon, the Winnebago and high tailor skdaddled out of the Mallard mansion. Now, there's a lot of reasons for it, some of them I don't want to get into on the podcast their private their personal UM. But one of the reasons this happened, there's, you know, some some bad things happened in my life that led to this UM.

But also the housing market is very robust where I'm in California, and it was a tremendous time financially to do it. UM. But also I mean, there's some tragedy in my life, and I, uh, you know, inherited some some things and some things I didn't inherit, but I have to pay for those other things. So anyway, my life. The point is, my life is in boxes. And I was giving some clues. You know, you guys picked up

on it. I give you credit or Alfae alienal Pine or a couple other guys were like, hey, you know, where are you moving? Uh? When do you moving? Did you move? Uh? And I was like, well, you guys picked up I'm talking about moving stuff to storage and things like that. Different things I've I've said, different clues that I've tossed up very vague, very vague, UM, But

you guys picked up on it. And so it's the summer of Bubba Rap and I said, I'm living in the Mallard half away house, the Halfway House of Mallard, and that is true because I moved to a temporary location. I sold the house. I loved the house I was living in. I want to be very clear about that. I would have been very happy to stay in that house for the rest of my years. It was a very good house. I I was very proud of the fact that I was able to put a studio, and

that was something I wanted to do. And I remember when I got into radio, I was like, Wow, maybe I'll put a studio and someday I'll be like a big talk show host, you know, big radio guy. And of course it never happened. It took up. It took a radio station w e I in Boston to offer me a gig, uh and then I said, okay, I'll do it, and then I just had them essentially pay for it. They paid me back. I built the studio

out and then I didn't use it. I lost the EI gig because our show got picked up by the Sports Hub in Boston and I can't be working at both sports radio stations in Boston. So as a result, I lost the w e I get again. So for a little while, I didn't use the studio at all. And then the podcast came along and I did the podcast, and then the world shut down, and so we moved in and decided to, you know, we could continue to

the show from there. So I have great memories, a lot of family parties, and we would host the holidays for the family pretty much my wife's family. All my family lives elsewhere, but my wife's family, and so so that was neat. That was cool, and we have great memories there and whatnot. But it was it was time. I mean, everything lined up, as Andrea these sports sourcers would say, everything lined up for this to work out. And I am not like many I'm not a fan

of chain. I'm not. I don't think many people like change. I'm a creature of habit. I have my routine. I get ready for the show at a certain time. I know where to go and what to do and what I'm looking for, and everything is sideways. I don't know if it sounded like that on the show. I don't know if you could pick up on that. Maybe not. I think I'm a pretty good actor in that regard. But we had we had a lot of good stories this week to talk about with the Clippers and some

of the other things that happened. There were some some good sports talk radio for June, which is normally the dead zone. I mean, let's be honest, June is not not a time which is typically great sports talk radio. It's the dog days for our business. The calendar and sports radio really begins. Our New Year's Day is the first weekend of September, when the NFL kicks off. That's that's right where it's a it's a sweet spot. It's a sweet spot. So uh, we're dealing with the move.

The good news is I have recreated a temporary studio in the new halfway house of the Mallam Mansion. Another reason I'm at the halfway. I'll actually be moving in a couple of months, depending on how things go. We've hired a contractor, a good guy guy named Ruben Uh knows what he's doing. He's got a bunch of guys working underneath him as well. It seemed to be very good tradesmen. Um, you know much better than I am.

I can't do any of that crap. I know. Just Josh in Cincinnati's very talented, and some of you other guys have sent me messages about how you know you're able to move around and build kitchens out in bathrooms and all that. I don't have any of that ability. I don't have that gene. I don't have it. But I will be moving again in a couple of months to a new place in a secret, secret location off the grid, deep in the north Woods. Uh, that's where

I will be located. But in the meantime, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Uh. I came in studio. Was great to see Eddie and we caught up and Roberto and Coop. I talked to those guys all the time. I don't even get to talk to Eddie much off the air the way the set up is because he's

in a different room. But I get to talk to Eddie pick up my mail. UH. Really want to thank the Mallard militia. Man. You guys are great. You're wonderful and so many, so many cool things. A little little trinkets. Uh you know this that the hat the hat collection is burgeoning, and we were off this. We were dark on the videos, so I didn't get to wear any

of the new hats on the videos. But the videos should be back, assuming the Kremlins don't attack the equipment in the temporary studio, So we'll start having some videos next week. So I look forward to that. But in the meantime, I was here hanging out and it was weird. It was weird. I was a little concerned when I pulled up to the studios here at the corner of Ventura and Splvida in the San Fernando Valley here just across from the Cheesecake factory across the street there at

the Yeah Sherman Oaks Galeria. I was a little concerned. I was like, maybe my parking pass won't work. It did, and then I got to the building, Well, maybe my card to get in the buildings past the security didn't work. I have worked so back in Sherman Oaks and great memories of this place. I've had tremendous fun doing radio here over the years. So anyway, that's the halfway house. That's where I am right now. If you're concerned about my life. And I know a lot of people move

and this is not out of the ordinary. Uh, this is actually a good news story. It'll it'll be much much cooler, uh, in the studio that I'm gonna have in the new place, the which I I don't know if this is the final Mallard mansion. I think it is probably gonna be the final mallet match. I don't think I'll be moving again unless somebody really just pays me a crapload of money, just a shipload of money. Uh, then maybe I'll do it. But it's gonna be a

great I'm gonna have a nice studio. Everything will be a first class all the way. And not that it wasn't, I mean it's it was. It was great also, but I am looking forward to as far as the soundproofing will sound better like nerds stuff, Nerds stuff in radio. Now, I would like to get to let's get scientifical, which is a combination of stories that I find around the Internet, and I like to call it real or bullshit. It's a tribute to paying homage to Penn and Teller. They

had a show called Bullshit which was very good. I thought that was a good show. I don't know if they're still working. Are they retired because of the pandemic? Penn and Teller I have not checked. I used to go see them when I was in Vegas. I loved I don't I'm not a big show guy. I want to go to Vegas. But Penn and Teller, I mean I used to watch them when I was a punk kid on Saturday Night Live and some of the nonsense they did, so I was I was a fan. I was a cult fan of Penn and Teller, and it

was kind of cool that they're still performing. I don't think they're doing it right now anyway. So let's get scientifical. These are actual scientific stories that I thought were interesting that I read at some point over the last the last seven at ten days. So the headline on this scientists discover part of the brain addicted to news stories about impending doom. Do you see this? You do not? All? Right? Uh?

So this actually is validation. One of the reasons I want to bring this up on the podcast for you is because it validates something that I learned early on in my careers. How I relate to this. So one of the catchphrases that I use doing radio is the better story is in the losing locker room. That's where the drama is. That's where the finger pointing is. When you win, there's a bunch of people there to slob or slab a slab or all over you, right to

ride your junk. They love you, but would you lose when you're a loser. That's where the real story is, and it's how we are wired. And that's what I took away from this study. But reading about impending doom, doom and gloom is a hobby that many people have. It's according to the study here, it's addicting and and people will spend hours browsing the internet about you know, the global warming, we're all gonna die, you know, ten years and all this, and people buy that crap. It's

all bullshit. In fact, there was a story done a couple of years ago which was hilarious and it went back like thirty years prior. I think this came out like it went back to nineteen and the science community, if we don't stop this, the you know, we're gonna run out of gas or uh, you know, global warming, the sea levels, we're gonna runs. Uh, and you know none of those things happen. Uh. Now, there is a climate change in all that, but it's not nearly the

pan horrific story that the people are saying. But anyway, this, as far as this study is concerned, researchers have discovered. This is what's new. They have discovered the part of the human brain that dictates why some people can't stop looking at those nerve racking, oh my god, we're all

gonna die type of stories. And so researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, this is in St. Louis, say how people cope with the uncertainty of what the future holds could come down to the biology of their brains. That certain people are just wired better to handle bad news. They don't look for it, keep their head down, one foot in front of the the other, move on. All right. Now, here's another story that caught my attention. Popcorn perfection. I

love popcorn. To me, a perfect night is to go to the movies. And I don't really like movies that much, but big chub extra large with the refill buttered popcorn, and like some kind of chocolate, whether it's peanut m and ms or something amazing Well, they study, but you imagine the science communion studying this studying popcorn. A study reveals the secrets to popping every kernel of popcorn, not popcorn is an amazingly big snack in America, not around

the world. And a lot of countries they don't eat popcorn. We do, uh, this country corners report they eat as Americans, we eat fifteen billion courts of popcorn. Popcar is actually a pretty good snack if you're on a diet. The calories and popcorn come from all the butter, which is the good part, and you get a big bucket of movie theater popcorn. Right. But the thing about it is it's when you make it at home. It's never perfectly popped. But when it's perfectly popped with butter all over it,

my god, is it good. A recent study looked at what it takes to make sure every colonel in your bag of popcorn actually pops uh. And when it comes to consumers, researchers at the State University of Maringa in Brazil tell us that people are looking for a great seed to snack ratio. Remember seed to snack ratio. That means when the popcorn is done popping. There isn't a whole pile of unpopped corn colonels at the bottom back. You know, one of the things I do to honor

my dad passed away back in January. My dad loved popcorn. And I haven't done this. Actually, I gotta get on that. I've been dealing with this house crap um. But my dad figured out, you know, he didn't buy like the bag of Orville Red and Baker or whatever, want any chain. What he would do he should buy the current annuals and then get a paper bag and you measure out a certain amount of salt, a certain amount of butter, put it in the bag, and then fold the bag

up and cook it. And made his own version of popcorn. And it was really good. And he sent me the recipe, so I I will make that from time to time to honor honor him. All right, moving on, We're getting scientifical, is what we're doing. Well, Americans, you and I Americans, believe it or not, are really dumb. We don't know geography. We think we know, but we don't know. You think you know, but you don't know what you don't know, and you don't know what you don't know. Uh. This

is regarding the national landmarks. According to this study, many Americans believe the Grand Canyon is in univer State. The Grand Canyon is a lot of people think it's in Colorado. What about Niagara Falls? You ever been? Niagara Falls is beautiful, Mike. I've been there. It's awesome. Was there in the summertime. A lot of Americans think Niagara Falls is actually in Iceland.

How fucking dumb are these people? Some Americans are confused by pretty much everything, uh, as far as national geography. According to a new survey out, they're also very confident. Here's the thing. Americans, according to this don't really know where crap is, but are confident they do, which is which I guess a good way to go through life. Like if you don't realize you're wrong and you just talk loudly. It's like I used to work with a guy on the weekends. I forget his name. I think

it was lom to Me or something like that. Uh, And he always said, listen, if you don't know how to pronounce a name, ben Um, just say it confidently and loudly and no one will think you're wrong. Uh. He also gave me some terrible real estate advice as well, but I digress alright. So of people, according to this survey, think they feel knowledgeable about the locations of the national landmarks, but only half of those who were pulled correctly identified

that the Redwood Forest is located in California. Another thirty correctly said that Shawnee National Forest is in Illinois, but incorrectly selected Ireland, that the Shawnee and National forces in Ireland. Fewer than four and ten could realize that the Grand Canyon is in Arizona, less than Colorado, the most common incorrect answer. Another of people surveyed believe Niagara Falls is in Iceland, as we said, not on the New York

Canadian border, only answered correctly. Holy crap. Wow. These stories are great though, because they come out every every couple years. You know, people, you don't know where Nebraska is, right or Iowa? What? I have, no idea, no concepts, all right? Getting scientific. Another story that caught my attention this week tiny poisonous caterpillars on the move. Somebody call my guy Blair and May and all our p ones in Portland,

Maine and beyond. Tiny poisonous caterpillars are spreading across Maine. Holy Moses. According to a recent news report, the tiny caterpillars known as brown tail moss a moss m O t h s. They have brown bodies with white streaks, orange dots, and thin poisonous hairs. It sounds like a horror movie and they can cause poison ivy like rashes and breathing problems in some people that come across these

poisonous caterpillars. And these were accidentally introduced into the state of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth in eight nine seven from from Europe, and within a matter of a shorter matter of time, these things spread all over the New England States. And so you all go back to here we are in one and in the decades that have followed, the number

have declined and they're not doing as well. But they're mainly found just along the coast of Maine and in Cape cod where all those high salute in one percent political types in Hollywood phonies hang out on the cape. Uh So, man like, there's a lot of stuff in the world that would classify as a horror movie. Tiny poisonous counterpillars, it sounds about right right. It sounds about

brown bodies, white streaks, orange dots, thin poisonous hairs. That checks a lot of boxes on the horror side of things. All right, last scientifical story, Last scientifical story. Doom and gloom. Now, I, from time to time will point out that you and I both have a failed illness, that every single person before us and every single person after us is going to die. We all have a fatal This it's called life. There's no getting out alive. Uh. And the most deadly thing,

the most deadly thing in our world is oxygen. Everyone that's ever breathed oxygen has died, unless you're a lizard person. I bring this up. Not to be a bummer, Benny Downer, Not to be that. But scientists have developed several ways to slow the aging process. People are living longer, and there's some that think they'll be able to make human beings like the terminator people overre Tesla for example. Well, they can put things in your brain and they can

move some stuff around. You'll live as an android within a certain amount of time. Well, a new study finds immortality is not gonna happen. It's out of reach. An international team of scientists, UH, give the bad news. They say, no matter how hard we try, every species on Earth has a generally fixed finite amount of time aging that

you know, science cannot stop. That human death is inevitable no matter how many vitamins you take, no matter how many minutes you spend on the treadmill, and how many weights you lift. Doesn't matter, Doc, Mike, doesn't matter how much how much piss do you drink, Doc, You're still gonna gonna check out. Although Doc's doing pretty good Ducks Ducks in his late seventies. Now Doc started calling me boy. I was in my twenties and Doc was in his early fifties when he started calling the show. And he

hasn't missed a beat. I give him crap. I I hope I just make it the seventies six. My dad didn't make it the seventies, and I would make it the seventies. And I hope by I have my faculties and I'm as sharp as the dock. Uh. Not that I want to drink my own urine to get there anyway. That the findings of this study reveal, although some people live longer today than they did in the distant past, the rate of aging among humans isn't really changing all

that much. So to explain this to you, like your five years old, researchers believe that today's life expectancy in one has less to do with people growing older and more to do with fewer people dying earlier in life. Yeah, I heard that. Uh it's some other study. I read

a lot of crap. But there was a study a couple of years ago that said the reason back in the the Middle Middle Ages that people would would check out at such young age, you know that life expectancy was like in your thirties or something like that, was because the infant mortality rate, you know, and women were having children. A lot of the kids were not surviving and that factored in. You know, kid checks out on the first day that kids supposed to be alive. That

that does damage to the numbers. Um So, anyway, I pop quiz. Now this is where I'm gonna ask you. I normally would ask that West of the four or five elitist snob, but he's not here. Uh So pop quiz. And these are things I found that I found interesting and I want to share them with you. They are of the science neighborhood. And we'll start with this and I'll ask the question, I'll give you a couple of seconds to think about it, and then I'll I'll give

the answer. And that's how we're gonna do it. Alright. So a recent survey asked Americans to name their favorite and least favorite burger toppings. Now only one thing ranked highly on both lists. What topping is? It? Got an answer? Now, I like a lot of things in my burger. I like uns, like obviously, catchup, I like mustard sometimes the Thousand Island depending on my mood, barbecue sauce, depending on

my mood. But the item, the only item to pop up on the highly and and negative list ranked highly and k not list pickles. Pickles. I thought of our guy Alfie Alien Old Piner in Springfield, mass because alf found out that Eddie hates pickles, and alf went out and purchased like a gazillion bags of potato chips, pickled flavor and all these pickle items uh and some other good stuff too, uh for for the guys on the show. Was pretty funny. And I remember Eddie's eyes when he

saw the box with all the pickle stuff. He's like, oh, he like rolled his eyes. But I'm not a big pickle guy. I spent a lot of time at Deli's, you know, growing up Jewish family go to Deli's, the cliche and all that. And I love a good pastronami sandwich to me, that soul food to me. That so far. But the pickles, no, No, not a fan. They always give them. I wish I did like pickles because they always toss those in. My favorite delhi is is a place called Langer's Delhi in l A which is in

MacArthur Park, and I love Langers. It's only open until four because it's in the hood, but I go over there and they give you pickles on I love free stuff. I love when I when I go to a Mexican restaurant, I won't go there if they don't have free chips and sauce. I know it's built into the price. If I go to an Italian restaurant they don't get bread, I'm out. I don't go back. But the pickle thing

I never got into all right. A new report claims today, I think it's the texture, by the way, the pickles. A new report claims today UH that UH Americans are least likely to do this common activity. What activity is it? Uh, and this is on a this is a Monday. The answer is going out to eat that people generally do not go out to eat on a Monday. A new survey asked Americans to name something on their bucket list. This was the most common response, What was it? What's

on your bucket list? I don't really have a bucket list. I probably should get a little older, I should have a bucket list. I don't. But the answer to this survey was wait for it, wait for it, driving a race car. Driving a race car, Yeah, well I could do that. First of all, I worked the overnight shift, and I've been working, having a long commute here while I'm at the halfway house and on the highway on

my way home. Even in l A, with all these millions of people, there's nobody on the road other than a couple of trucks and Caltrans fixing the highway. Most of the time when I'm driving, in a few drunks, so I can get up pretty good, but typically I max out at about ninety and I feel like I'm gonna lose control. I don't think I've ever gone over a hundred miles an hour, because I know that when you get up to that level. Plus I don't have cars that go that fast. I've got commuter cars. It's

mostly what I have. But even if I did have a car that could get that fast, I'd be so paranoid that if I got up to two miles an hour and one mistake, one hair out of place, cabone lights out, get the body bag. I don't want that now. Next one. In the nineteen seventies and eighties, half of kids did this. Now it is down to ten. What is it you know at the answer something I did when I was a kid, a product of the of that era. Uh, the answer is to walk to school. Yeah,

apparently kids today don't walk to school. Everyone's paranoid but letting their kids walk to school by My mom and I a Jewish mother, overly protective Jewish mother, but in hindsight, she allowed me to take the school bus and to walk home and to school. Not all the time, but when I was very little and I started going to like first grade, I remember taking the school bus and

how excited it was. I love the smell of the diesel, and I thought, as through the eyes of a child, you look at a school bus, You're like, Wow, I'm big time. I'm on a school bus and you get a little older and you're like, holy fuck, what are you doing all right now? Next one? Just over ten pc of people say they have stolen this from their neighbor without their neighbor noticing. What is it? Got an answer? It's hard to do now. It used to be pretty

easy to do this WiFi. Yeah, wife, it's harder now because when I moved, for example, to the halfway house the mallor halfway house, I did see if I could get on the neighbor's WiFi, and they were all locked. He needed the password. Now, the veteran move would be if you go to a neighbor and how can I

borrow your WiFi? Can I use your WiFi? And then if you're that other neighbor, you said, okay, yeah, how do you Why don't you give me, like, you know, five bucks a month or something like that, and who cares if they use your WiFi and you get an extra money. I'm saying, go crazy, little extra cash. You know it adds up. Nothing wrong with that, alright. Fient of kids say they want to do this when they grow up, although when they actually grow up, most of

them don't want to actually do the job. The answer you probably think like police officer, fireman, astronauts, something like that. The answer is actually zookeeper. I get that. It makes sense. Ay, you're a kid, you like animals, be you go to the zoo and you see the zookeeper wearing the brown outfit and the funny safari hat. You're like, hey, I could do that. They get to hang out with elephants

and rhinos and monkeys and how cool is that? And then you eventually realize you're like, wait a minute, but they actually clean up the ship and they don't often make a lot of money. Holy crap, what's that about? Another thing when I when I was younger. I don't know if they still have this. I know when the late night talk shows were big. They're terrible. I cannot

watch the late night talk shows are not funny. But when he used to be good, and that was like big entertainment was a communal experience when people would watch the late night shows, and it pretty much ended with Jay Leno and David Letterman, at least for me. I just like, these other guys are funny, but they used to have Remember the people from the zoos there was a guy from the zoo in Ohio. Man. I forget

the guy's name, Hannah. I think it was Hannah. Uh. And they would come out there and they'd have all these different weird lizards and snakes, and the the bit was always the same. The bit would be put the snake around the neck of the talk traw host and the talk rows would freak out and all that. Uh, and that that was kind of cool, Like I remember watching that. Boy, I can I can just go on TV shows and I can get the you know, the snake out and and the and the weird looking like

it's not really a monkey? What is it? You know, it's kind of like a dog, but it's not a dog. It's a cat, but it's not a cat. What not coming? All right? Men, on average US dudes will do this fewer than ten times today. What is it? You got an answer? No, it's you're wrong again. All right, you're still wrong. The correct answer is smile. Smile that men on average will smile fewer than ten times. Yeah, I'm not a huge smile guy. I become more of a

smile guy as I've gotten older. But there was a long period of time I just didn't smile, but I mind it. You know, it's a it's a it's a good good thing, especially when I was walking when the gyms were closed and I before I got my treadmill, and I was walking around and you come across people and just like a smile and a nod, smiling nod, a wave lets people know you're not they're gonna You're

not gonna bludging them. It's a friendly gester. Fifty of men wouldn't be able to tell you this about their wife. What is it? Shoe? Siye, Yeah, I think I know my wife's shoe size. But if she gave me a credit card and put me on one of the websites and said buy me shoes, I would just be guessing. I would absolutely be guessing. That would be it, all right. Most people have at least three of these, and they don't realize how important they are until they don't have one.

What is it? You got an answer? Well, this is a big one. The phone charger. The phone charger, What use is it having a phone? There's no use having a phone if you don't have it charged. It's obvious now, something that I picked up a couple of years ago, which is great. It's been around for a while. The battery backup. Like I love going to the Sequoya National Forest, but I don't get cell reception up there. I don't really good cell reception. And often I'll be hiking around

and I my battery on my phone. You're out several hours, you're battery on your phone. If it's not fully charged, we'll go down. So you bring that battery back up. It doesn't matter. You'll be out in the middle of the forest, the giant forest, and with those huge three thousand year old Sequoia trees, you can charge your phone while you're walking along. It's pretty cool. It's a pretty pretty cool Alright, last one here and we'll put the pop quiz to bed. Get the hell out of here.

We do have the mail bag on Sunday. Seventies seven percent of people say this infuriorate infuriates them. Easier for me to say when someone does this at the grocery store, what is it? I want to point out before I tell you what it is. I'm in this category. I've had this happen while I was at Costco. I've had this happen at the Kroger. It's been bad the answer seventy seven percent of people say this infuriates them is

when they're at the grocery store. They're they're online to check out, and the person in front of him leaves while checking out to grab something else off the shelf. So then you are then delayed because they forgot to get the item before they went to the checkout. Now, what you should do in that situation is if you go as a couple, Well, if you're the husband, you have the wife go get the product, and if you're

the obviously vice versa on the other side. Um, but yeah, I've been in this and then he can you hold my spot? I always do it. I hold their spot. If I'm like a total douche bag, I hold their spot. But at the same time, I'm thinking, man, why am I doing this? Why the hell am I doing this? You know, I just want to I want to check out. I want my chocolate almonds. I want to get out of here. What are we doing here? What do we do? Well? Anyway, listen,

that is it. The Saturday podcast is fin too and done. We will have a mail bag podcast. We will if he's on his best behavior, bring back gag on. We will find out. We'll have the mail bag as we'll have a great rest of You're Saturday, and boy, you know record this obviously before Saturday. You'll know if I'm in a really good mood or a really bad mood, depending on how things go with the People's team, the Clippers, you'll know before I know, at least at this time. Anyway,

have a great rest of your day. Will catch you next time on the fifth hour. Mahallow aloha. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app.