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reach of podcasting. And we started this podcast by saying that four hours were not enough in the four hours, five days a week. But now this has become an eight day a week situation because of the coronavirus from Wuhan, China. See you think the folks over in Uhan, China for helping us out here with this podcast every single day plus an extra day. It's like an old Beatles song. Eight days a week. And as always, for better or worse, I am joined by the man who's affectionately known as

Gagon David Gascon. Ben, You've got to be careful because um, we've got to make sure that whatever we talk about today doesn't sound or feel like it's right wing or it's some kind of Fox News propaganda, like we gotta make sure that we curtail to the mass stream. Yes, the masses are the mainstream that want us to go either all one way or not the other way at all. We've gotta make sure that our languages in line with whatever people feel is best suited for them. So you

are forewarned as we continue on this dark path. I didn't realize that we have. We offended one of the snowflakes, So the snowflakes offended. Here we knock someone's sensibilities around here, some privilege, little brat. Is that what has happened here? I guess? But these are your followers though, so you my father. I do just because I have had so much bullshit that I I mean, I feel like I'm like a high school counselor not just a radio host.

It's it's unbelievable. It's just a fucking radio show. And I got I mean the drama. I like these people, and I really mean I mean that I think they're I know them a little bit. Some of these people have met in real life. And it's just unreal. How my world I have to wake up to seven emails about I can't believe you allow that guy to say this about this person, and then then the the other side comes back to you know, you gotta bear in this person. You know, it's it's like it's back and forth.

It never ends. I mean, I understand we're all going through a ship storm right now, but please, it's just an overnight radio show. You If somebody says something offensive, who the fuck cares? All right? And I've tried to get that message across, but there's so many people who see I don't know whether they're unstable or not. I don't know what the hell is going on, but I listen, Just relax. It doesn't matter. You know, if some loser in his mom's basement says something offensive, who cares you?

You don't. I was always raised you know, the sticks and stones argument, guess on and you know it doesn't matter. Names don't hurt you and all that stuff. And you really give power to these people, and so you're you're in creating a monster. You're you're empowering them. You're liberating these these trolls that are out there. So stop. That's my public service announced, But that's my raw rob speech.

Guests think you're enabling though the masses that that follow your show, because what you're doing is you're it's like you're corrupt traffic cop because you have the heroin addict on one side and you have the drug pushers on the other, and so you confiscate the paraphernalia from the drug users and you give it back to the distribut and then you push repeat on the spin cycle. And a radio show, I don't want to be boring. I

I think that these people spice it up. The characters on the show, I find them appealing, and I I think it makes the show better, makes it more interesting to listen to. I don't want to do a boring, benign radio show that is garbage. I try to avoid that.

These characters have a lot of enthusiasm. They also say a lot of ridiculous things which I just I don't pay attention to, But apparently a lot of people pay attention to it, and it's overpowering and overwhelming and they can't handle it, which bothers me because I don't the way I consume the show doing the show and the way the listener consumes there. And I will tell you guess it's probably a small percentage. It's probably just a

small percentage, but it's a very loud, voiceterous percentage. So I think what we should do here, and I think you'd agree with me, is have some Mallard militia safe spaces. What do you say, how about that? Would that be good? No? That would you know? You might as well put a little bow on somebody. You might put a dress on somebody and just put him in the corner and say don't talk for the next month. Month we just hand out like warm blankets and a like a glass of milk.

How about that? Would that be good? You're gonna make sure that soy milk. Oh, it's gonna be milk. Yeah, that's right, lactose. And we don't want anything like I got. I got the Mallem Militia, and then I got a branch of the Mallem Militia. But tune that is, uh is the snowflake army I got. So I don't I don't know what to do with this. I mean, I just, I mean, really, you can get that upset by some dope that calls a show for five minutes or three minutes or whatever the hell it is. I mean, jeez,

what are we telling? This is what happens when you're stuck inside all day and you can't do anything about it. I got in fairness to the people that are being triggered and all that right now. I have had this happen when things were normal, So every couple of years. It must be some kind of ingredient that I'm putting in the show here that is causing a certain percentage of people to become neurotic. I don't know what it is, but if you, if you know, let me know. Now.

How about this though, for anyone that that wants to provide any kind of tutorial or instructional um, any kind of instruction on how or what we should say, I think you would agree with me. Ben then when I say this that they can kiss my ass because oh yeah, I don't care exactly. There's an off button you've obviously, especially with a podcast. You know, sometimes people still stumble on the radio show and they're they've never heard it.

They just scan the radio dial. There's no way you can consume this podcast, not a single way unless you made the effort to a find it and be downloaded and then see click the play button. So three things you had to do to find the podcast. And if you're that offended by anything you say, that's fine. Offended, don't listen. I don't give a fuck. We'll do the podcast. Other people are gonna listen. That's fine. I'd like everyone

to listen. I don't think that we are, you know, going off the deep end and anything we say, but the train doesn't stop moving, you know. And I always love these listeners are like, well, your show will suck without me. I heard it from all these guys we we have. It's generations of people that contribute the show. And now I wish everyone would listen forever, like Cowboy John Brad and Windsor and Doc Mike, who have been with me for twenty plus years listening to the show.

And these guys started they were in their late forties. Now they're in their sixties seventies, and they've been with me a long time. And I love it. But the reality is that most of the hardcore listeners listen for a while and then they either grow out of it because they're young guys and they find a lady friend, they get married, they have kids, they can't listen anymore, and they've they've come podcast listeners, or or the job changes.

There's a lot of reasons people stop listening and contributing to the show. But the idea some of these guys have such big heads of oh you're you're so will suck without me, know, it'd be fine. Pete and Pittsburgh said that, you know, some of the old guard Motor City Mike, one of my callers back in the day. We've had We've had some real characters they've called the show, and I loved all of them. They were great. They helped me out and they help me get to where

I am right now. But it's the ebb and flow that that goes on, and I think the best part about that is it's the revolving pipeline. So when some leave, newbies come in, and then they established themselves and they leave and dubies come in. It's kind of like, um, college is supposed to be, right, you know. It's the great thing about college is that every few years it cycles over and people leave and there's new people that come in, and then that's kind of what happens with

the radio show. But just like in college, every once in a while, there's that person that has tenure that stays there forever and uh and just never leave. Yeah, shout out Harvard, Princeton, Stanford right now, So be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show a weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. All right, So we have v I P Status Denied the Mad

Hatter of Sports Chatter. Study this, and we also have pop Quiz, which is becoming my new favorite bit on the podcast Pop Quiz. I'm a big fan of the POPU have. I think it's funny. Whether you do well or not, for the listener, you can play along. So I think it's a lot of fun. So let's get right to it. So v I P Status. So I get a text the other day, and I didn't talk about this on the radio show. My friend Marlin's man,

the number one celebrity fan in America. He sends me a text, and I had not talked to him in a while. And uh, now his real names is Eugene and and so he sends me a message and whatever. And and he was at the airport in Miami and he was waiting for a flight to Jackson. You know this week gas gun, which you know, no one's flying anywhere.

And he the reason. He texts me, he he was at the terminal in the airport in Miami where he lives, waiting for his flight, and he said he was the only person in the entire terminal that was traveling in Miami. This was Tuesday, I think of this week. Correct. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, he's like it was like a Twilight

Zone episode. I mean, think about the air travel industry and now we have friends that work in the air travel business, but I think most of us are like they've been gouging their customers for years, and now they're come up in this is the coronavirus, where suddenly no one wants to fly in their planes, and maybe you should treat the customer a little bit better in the future and not gouge them for baggage free fees and

all that other bullshit that they put in there. But but it was while he's so, he sent me a photo and you know, sure enough, the whole sucking airport was empty. It was unbelievable. It's like it's kind of like when you go to an airport where they, you know, overnight, some airports don't have flights that land or take off, you know, because of restrictions. And it's like you'd be in the airport in the middle of the night, there's no one there and uh and it was pretty crazy.

And then he he the real reason I brought this up is that my friend Marlin's Man lamented the lack of baseball, right we're talking about that, and he told me, though, this is what this was killed me, guest gun. So Marlins Man is like he was like, he's like, I'm really bummed out because I had planned a bunch of surprises, uh for you this year and he was he he had told me he had a bunch of Dodger games that he was gonna go to, you know, Sunday night

games or whatever behind home plate. And he said I was gonna be a special guest first row behind home plate at the All Star Game that was scheduled to be played at Dodger State. Oh guess god, I could have been in the front row that goddamn All Star Game with Marlins in. And now there's even no All Star Game at Dodger Stadium the way that it should have been this year. Oh my god, there's there's only one.

There's only one way that you can recruit from something like this, and that's if he hooks you up with some tickets to a game one or two of the World Series of the Dodgers in it and you're behind home play with him. Yeah. Well, he's told me like, if the Dodgers get back to the World Series, He's like, you're my guy, you know, and and all that things. So h that hurts though. That's a blow, man. I have only been to the All Star Game. I think I've been a one as a kid. I want my

dad to the All Star Game. When Bo Jackson hit a home run to center field. I think it was eighty nine, the All Star Game in Anaheim at the Big A and and you have great memories of that. And I like the All Star gum. I know it doesn't count for anything and all that, but to think you could be the front row at the All Star Game, I could have been a damn front row throw the coronavirus all right? Now, does that does that mean that your invitation to his holiday parties are now canceled as well?

Or now yeah, he has invited me. Yeah, well, I'm assuming he's not gonna have a party. I won't hope we can have our party by the end of the year, the Mallard Ugly Sweater party. But that's up in the air. It's really depending on how society adjust and all that stuff. So but my dreams of being behind the velvet ropes at the All Star Game are now in the penalty box.

So I want to pass that on now. As far as the mad Hatter of Sports Chatter, as you referenced in a previous edition of the Fifth Hour podcast when the one we had sports Talk Barry on um, let me point out here all right that I have started, at the request of management Fox, of making some video content. I have a camera in my little remote studio here that I have put in at the request of Elijah are Fine, I T Guy and some of the management people.

So they've asked me to record certain parts of the show that they can put the YouTube channel and all this stuff. I know, I know, you're about like a volcano bubbling up ready to explode, But one of my nicknames is the mad Hatter of Sports Chatter, and so my goal, because listen, I'm not getting paid to do the videos or anything like that. It's just an added add on, like an added bonus. So my goal is to wear a new hat every day, like a different hat every day on the videos. And I've got a

pretty massive hat collection from years of doing radio. People have sent me hats, I bought hats, and so it's a pretty good combination of hats. And I also would

like what my goal is is to support businesses. You're just talking about, you know, mom and pop businesses and how bad it is right now, but like privately owned businesses, like for example, the other day, um My, my guy ed and spoke can he had given me a hat from his land escaping company, which is Washington Lawn Service, lawn Services or whatever it is, And so I wore that hat, and you know, it's just a little little tribute,

a little tribute that I would like to do. So if you're interested in that, if you work at like a warehouse, you guys have a certain hat I'd love to get, like truck driver hats, like the trucker hatsles are pretty cool. Restaurants, mom and pop restaurants, you name it, pretty much anything with a few exceptions, I will be willing to wear. The only problem is I have a massive head. Is you know, guest Gun, big brain, big head,

and so it's a size eight. So if it's not a big hat, it won't fit, which is a problem. But the cool thing is these videos, much to my dismay, or seen, you know, thousands and thousands of times on the YouTube channel with different platforms, the various platforms. Yes, now here's guest guns counter argument the other side of the album. I don't I don't know. I don't have a counter argument to that. I think it's a wonderful idea.

I think it's fascinating that we as a company have decided to do at that this time of the year. I think that it's amazing that you know that the powers that be have have acclimated to this in such a timely fashion. So I think that you have responded accordingly. I am. I'm encouraged by the hats though, especially because you can go. I don't know about you, but I'm always a big fan of minor league baseball. Yes, yes,

I will be wearing this. I know this is like a knife assault in an open wound here, knife in the back, but I have the Baker's Field Blaze hat I will be wearing. Yeah, I know it's a great hat. You have the sixties sixers Rue two right in in sam you know, Yeah, I got for me throughout the first push there. I have a Lanca, I have jat Hawks, Yes the lank was it Mike Casters right, I have. I was in Indianapolis. I went to an Indianapolis Indians game years ago when we were there. I got one

of those hats. It's probably an old hat. Now they don't wear that anymore. So I have a few of those. Have a Viro Beach Dodgers from when I was in Vero Beach. H That's pretty cool. That's pretty neat one. So yeah, I got road teeth these and all, you know, But I really the goal is to help promote some of these businesses. You know. I know it's a small thing and maybe it won't do anything for you, but

it could, you know, it could. And so if you're interested in that, you can email me or just send it into the care of the Ben Miller Show at Fox Sports Radio. The address, what happened? What happens if they mail it in, Well, I'm gonna have to then go to pick it up. Amazing. Yeah, I'm gonna have to make the pilgrimage to better hope someone doesn't put to the care of David Gascon. Unfortunately, you know, I don't put the guest. Don't know. Guess I'll take the

hat and you'll never see. Remember how triggered you were? Who sent you Omaha steaks? Oh yeah, there was I remember? That was that our guy in uh in Nashville who sent us? Though I think it was that manic Mike that hooked U something he forget. Yeah, it was Mike because because Fats sent you, Fats sent you something else, right, he sent you a bunch of snacks. Oh yeah, Fats sent us the Philly Man Fats. Oh god, that was awesome. Pretzels, the tasty cakes. That was I love that. That was great.

I love Philadelphia food man. That's the greatest Philadelphia, Kansas City, great food cities. Yeah, when Mike sent those Omaha steaks, I uh, I could I could feel your tension through

a text message. You're so fucking well. Let's let me explain that full disclosure, all right, Like I the mail room, I have had a love hate relationship with the Fox Sports Radio mail room because over the years, then the famous story about Doc Mike, he probably fifteen years ago, or So sent a goat head to Fox Sports Radio and it went through the mail room at the Premiere Networks, and apparently there was blood that came out of the box, and uh you know, everyone went defcon one. And I

understand why they went DevCon one. They thought that this somehow was like they could have been a body, like a human body. They didn't know what it was they and so it became this big to do. I got in trouble that I don't know how I would get in trouble for that. I didn't tell him to send the goat head. He just set me a fucking bloody goat heead why don't you clean the blood off the damn thing? And uh so that I was. I was banned from getting mail for a while, and they would

not deliver the mail to me. They had I had to go to a different place to get the mail. So that was frustrating. But I've had a pretty good relationship with them since. But my main concern is I don't go to the mail room very much at all, and so Coop gets the mail and I very rarely get to open up the mail. The only mail Coop doesn't open is the letter from prison. I have guys in prison that's that are pent pals that send me

letters and stuff, and he doesn't touch those. But like any box, coople, open up, like if it's my name's on it, like and like open down up in my mail. I like copening mail. It's fun to open mail. If you don't know what's inside, it's cool. Even when you know what's inside, it's fun to open mail. Yeah, I mean, I've only opened up one thing of yours, and that was the credentials for the racetrack. But you know they can't steal credentials, so well those will do you a

lot of good, right now? Do you have those? By the ways that No, I don't, but those only I think I can't remember. And someone gave me the box though of the Omaha steaks because it was a giant cooler and someone passed along to me, like why are you giving this to me? I can't do anything with this and Ben doesn't come in for another eight hours.

Why there you guys given it to me? So my favorite we got this guy Phil and Cambridge Mass who was a big fan of the show and he's so nice, like every year for years he sent us these Finway monster dogs, which are the greatest talk dog ever. And then every once in a while he'll send them and some do fist in the mail room will forget to put them in the refrigerator. So by the time I get there, I can't even eat the damn hotdogs because

they're expired. You know. They they've gone, you know, traveling all the way from Boston to l A. And then you gotta put them in the refrigerator. And it says I love when it says, right on the box refrigerator immediately, you know. And then they don't even do it. It's like, what I mean, that's your what other job do you have? Man? That's your gig to take care of the mail. Alright, so we have study this. We'll do a little study this, and then my favorite the pop quiz as we press

on here. These are actual studies. Now, this is a bit that was inspired by that old Penn and Teller show Bullshit, And the whole point of this is to figure out whether these studies are real or bullshit. And that's that's how that goes. So that's the bit, and I will tell you we have not had as many studies because I'm trying to have to do full coronavirus type stuff because I think people listen to this to

get away from it. But most of the studies that are out now are about virus, virus related studies and things like that, so I will only include a few of those. The rest of these I really had to dig deep into the dark web to find. Uh. First couple are about the coronavirus. UH survey says eighty four percent of Americans right now want another stimulus check. It's gone, and so give me the money. Give me the money. That's what you're saying right now. I believe it. I mean,

you're you're getting your own money back. That's all you're getting now. I know quite a few people that haven't gotten a stimulus check just yet. I have no handful of people that have applied for small business loans. They can't get those yet. But here in California, I think I told you this before, but when we have the market crash in two thousands six, two thousand seven, two eight, I had a friend of mine collect unemployment and I kid you not, he collected unemployment from the state of

Cali Fornia for seven years seven. How do you seven How do you collect it? Seven years? Seven years? I shot you not. He kept doing it, and he kept getting away with it here in the state of California. Wow, seven years. Just handed out money, man, that's what we're doing here. Well, we're handing out to anybody. It doesn't matter if you're here legally or not to Alright, you're gonna trigger those people. No, I'm just saying, Governor. Governor Newsom as in a stimulus package here for the state.

It's Halloween. You knock on the door, you get money. That's that's how it works in California. Just knock on the door, they'll write your check. How much do you want? Good? Here, you go go away, Come back next tomorrow. I'll give you more money. All right, his endless amounts of money.

No taxation without representation, alright. Many many Americans feeling lonelier than ever before as the coronavirus the social distancing wears on, According to a new study out, I think this is kind of obvious, right, I mean, people are not socializing. Human beings are social creatures. We like to hang out with our family, our friends. Even I, who's an introvert, still like to hang out with relatives and things like that, And unfortunately it's not the case you were killing No,

I believe you. You're getting lonely. Earlier this week, I know that give you the cold shoulder, and you were you were wondering if I had traveled off to far lands, and uh, well I know you did. There's a certain pattern, I know when you go to a certain pattern. There is when you go to a certain location to stop responding. Is the only time you stopped responding, not leaving that. I haven't left Los Angeles for quite a while. Thanks, not what I hear. That's not what if you don't

hear it from me, that it's inaccurate? Well, I have sources, and so all I will say, no, you might have violated social distancing rules. I'll just say that, right, I wish I did. Yeah, okay, all right, there you go. All right, here's the study about babies. Now, why would we do a study about babies on sports? It's radio? I don't know. I thought I thought this was interesting. So timid babies, according to this study, are likely to end up as introverts. So apparently I was a timid

baby growing up. According to a new report that was out this week, and they looked at the National Institutes of Mental Health say that infants showing a condition referred to as behavioral inhibition are more likely to struggle socially by age. But that where are yall introverted personality in adulthood based on what you do as an infant? But that that's interesting? So how this must have been like a twenty years study though, right, I mean because these

takes a long time for this too. You know, you gotta wait until these guys are in their twenties to girls too to figure it out. How much of that do you think has to be attributed to your parenting? Yeah, you know, it's it's that's a great thing, is that. You know, it's at our what's it nature versus nurture? Right? You know? Is it? That is a great debate, Like I haven't really spent a lot of time thinking about That's like one of those deep questions, you know, is

it is it your genetics? I guess it's a little bit of both. But I really think it's I hate to say this, but I think it's more about how you were raised, right, how your you know, your parents treated you, and how you your life growing up and that can be. You can have a bad background and then still be amazing and successful and use that as motivation. But I think I gotta go more nurture than nature. Yeah, what about you guess. I mean, that's fascinating. You know,

I was. I was kind of a delinquent though. When I was a kid, I was a punk. I mean, still are a little bit more refined a being a punk. But when I was a kid, I tried to get away from my dad as much as possible. I was he scared the ship out of me, being a cop, and he had that deep, deep voice and then the mustache like he was. He was imposing, and I did everything I possibly could take it away from his wrath. But I was an absolute pain in the ass for

my parents as a kid. Catholic school, uh, Catholic high school. We're all a bunch of punks and brats back then too, so, but they give me free rein. I mean my sisters they were a little bit different, more strict with them. But I was, you know, I was a wild card. And uh, well, everyone has that period where they're well guys like rebellion. I think women do the same thing. But there's like this rebellion stage. You go through it like I don't like my parents, you go to hate

your parents. Isn't that what you're supposed to like natural? You're supposed to hate your parents when you're a teenager, and then eventually you snap back and then you like him. Okay, here's the thing, though, I was never in that phase of all I hate my parents. But now that my dad has gotten older and more removed from law enforcement, now I get to hear all the good, juicy stories.

I gives you the dirt. Now he gives me the good stuff, Like I never got to hear any of the toxic, bad, brutal, ugly stories in law enforcement, in the media and the news and entertainment, and I get to hear a lot of it. That's cool. So the statue of limitations has run out, and so now he is free to share with you some of the good stuff. I bet your dad has amazing Has he written a book your day? No, but he'd probably, like he'd be more inclined to tell you stories than to tell me,

Like that's just how he is. Like he he does not subject any of the kids to the stories, but he'll be if it's somebody else, yes, but if it's us directly, not so much. And still we start asking him questions and kind of breaking him up a little bit, but it takes a while. Do you drink coffee? I drink espresso, but I don't drink coffee on the regular. Now, there's a new study out that says coffee influences our sense of taste. They claim it make sweet food even

more delicious. I don't drink coffee, so I have no way of knowing whether that's real or bullshit. I do know that Starbucks has a pretty good industry of selling no desserts and stuff, little cookies and crap like that on the side, muffins and all that, so they must have some infra information that that's true. Coffee also doesn't just wake you up in the morning. It may that's a weezel word, may even lengthen your life, but only

if you prepare it with a filter. It's, according to a new long term study, that's uh, the only coffee I ever drank. If I do drink, it's called bulletproof coffee. Um, I highly recommend it. You gotta drink it cold, though, but it's good. Are you s Are you a big caffeine guy. No, I used to I used to be addicted to soda. I just drink water, like what I drinks water. I'll cheat, I'll go crazy on the weekend. I'll have like grape juice from Lemonade or something like

that and be really out there. But it's but mostly just wat But when you're sluggish, you're flat from you know, when you wake up with your sleep patterns, how do you get how do you get up? How do you get energized? Um? You know, I bang my head against the wall a few times, and I don't know. I don't I don't really have any any substance. Occasionally, when I'm back when things were normal and I was getting you know, four hours of sleep, I'm getting more sleep

now because then, you know, I've got nothing else to do. Um. But back then, I had a bottle in my car of caffeine pills and I would take one of those. It's just like a shot of coffee, is what it is. Like a cup of coffee and a little pill and then that would wake me up. Was it hydroxy cut or something? No, it's no, it's not shut up. Now you go to like Walmart or whatever, and you get

a bottle for like four or five bucks. It's it's like the cost of one cup of coffee, except it costs you know, it's for two hundred cups of coffee for the price of one. As far as the caffeine content that, it's not brutal. What's what's brutal about that taking caffeine? I don't know. It's what's the big deal? Who cares a little caffeine supplement? It's like a vitamin. Yeah, I guess you're not gonna get a world. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays

at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Alright, new study out says, according to researchers, they've created a smart toilet that check this out, guest, go on, remembers your ass print, your buttocks print, and we'll also apparently scan your urine for disease. Stanford University says the smart toilet will be able to not only recognize its user via their ass, but also warning signs for cancer and other diseases when they go to the bathroom. Well, this is

this is great. If you can you cancer, if you find it early, you're in really good shape. Right, Yeah, that's that's Stanford has been busy then, because earlier this week they had some tests from a controlled group that said that the presence of the coronavirus was fifty eight times more uh more likely to have occurred earlier this year, uh than what many people had thought to believe prior. So that's good on Stanford. They've been busy doing some

things lately. That's yeah, I saw that, and that's I hope that's right, that story about the chronab us, because that would lead us to ending this much sooner, because that would mean all the numbers were bullshit and they were wrong, that we were being fed about, you know how the death rates and all that stuff. And then suddenly you're like, wait a minute here, you know what's going on with this? You know, you can kind of

look at this from a different perspective. Now. Were you ever from November to where we're at now, were you ever sick? Like, did you ever feel like you were under the weather, have the flu? And like I was sick in I think it was December January. Um, I usually get sick around that time year, so I didn't think anything of it, and I was like whatever, my wife had a little cough. I had a little coughing, but I didn't think of it. So I don't know. I would be shocked if that was the coronavirus, But

who the hell knows. The weird thing is like you read these stories on the symptoms and some people they say have no symptoms, and other people have this and other people that. It's like it's like it could be anything. You know, it could be nothing and it could be something. It's crazy. Well, I think I think there was a couple of guys here that that had it, and I wouldn't be surprised if I had it. There was Eddie. Eddie said he thought he had it, and he was.

I remember he was really sick and and he was out. I think he missed work a couple of times. He was under the weather. You had it too? Now? Was that after his trip? Though? Didn't he go to Didn't you go to Australia or something like that and then come back? And I think, so, yeah, he didn't travel overseas. I forget what, Yeah, I think Australia. So I was sick for about four or five days, and I distinctly

remember this. Now, I was not going to come in on a Thursday to record the podcast, and your fucking ass was giving me a guilt trip about it, showing some grit, having some mental toughness, right, So I came in here and I proceeded to work the entire weekend. I felt, that's good. You know what you showed toughness, You showed great you you put some dirt on it, right to taking aspirate and get out there and do your job. They say not to take aspirin during this

taking profit suck it up. But I feel better three days later, and then it got sick again five days after that. So yeah, that's the other thing about this guest guy, Like I'm hoping that we don't turn into a bunch of pussy willows. Like I I pride myself and you know, working and and having some grit and all that stuff and resolve. And it seems like I've read a lot of these stories all you should never work sick ever again now because of the coronavirus, you know.

And I'm like, really, are we gonna go to that particular point. But so you think you had it, and and so have you been tested to see it? But I know that there's a few urgent care centers where I live in the South Bay that are actually gonna start doing the antibody testing. So I'm gonna see if I can get tested because here in California that I don't know what the other states of the same, I believe they are. But if you get an antibody test, uh, it's free a charge. Insurance will pick it up. I

know swabs across the country or free. But the antibody testing I think is different in each state. So well, that would be cool, And I mean how much how great would you feel like? You would feel somewhat in power right that if you already had it, you'd be like, well, I can't be that scared of it, you know what I mean? Yeah, I certainly don't want the vaccine shot. I don't know about you, but I'm done. Should will

put some extra stuff. You think it'll be like a Christmas tree bill in Congress, Well, they'll throw some other stuff in there that you don't necessarily need. I'm not afraid of needles, but we've had enough what booster shots and tetana shots when we were kids. Right, are you an anti vaxer um? Oh? Boy, come on, your anti vaxer. I'm I'm anti medicine, like I believe that what I hate medicine until I get sick. And then listen, you're hippie. Wife will agree with me on this. Everything that we

consume is medicine for us, right. The food that we take in medicine, medicine, exercise, weed man, hippie. And now I've got weed man gascon. Oh man. My wife sent me a story today and she was all excited. I gotta find it, you know, It's like, I gotta find

the story here. This is pretty funny. So I gotta tell you how I how I responded if I could find it, um, you know, I don't think I'm gonna find it in time, but but it was it was some report about something that you can take that how you know that is going to help your body and all this stuff, And so then I responded, here's what I'm such a douchebag. So I then responded, how with all the weasel words that were used, you highlighted it? Yeah,

may could might you know? And I'm like, this is just like filled the weasel words, is like what he did? This is this bullshit? And of course my wife, well, I like to you know, she's like, I don't really care if it's not real or not. I like the placebo effect that She's like, I like the idea of it being real. Is I'm paraphrasing that, but she said some version of that. So, now, are you gonna get tested for the for the COVID You know, my wife's

work actually at the police station. Um, they were testing, but the times unfortunately did not work out. So I have not I would like to be tested for the antibodies, just to let me know what I'm what I'm dealing

with you, whether I've had it or not. So you're now. So. Governor Newsome here in the state of California has also bumped women like your wife to a Tier one So that means that they're allowed automatically to get tested anywhere for the antibodies test because they're really because they're a part of the emergency Response Unit team in the state.

Just so yeah, so if your law enforcement, um, if you're a civil servant, if you work in those high areas of risk, like if you're a doctor, a nurse, if you work in trauma, or if you work like a hospice care and you can get your like on the front line, so you can get an antibody test immediately whatever you want. Oh interesting, I did not I did not know about that. All right, um, let's see moving on here in the magical world of study this, we do a couple more studies because I want to

get the pop quiz. We got a lot of pop quiz. Let's see here. Should I do this one here? Oh, Russian trolls here, this is online with our talking points. Russian trolls supremely effective and exploiting America's fear anger online. About that, let's via Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. Let's see your This is a study conducted at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Nice. They looked at this and they they did the research. They analyzed the Russian bought post.

Researchers discovered they generated click through rates as much as nine times higher than the norm in digital advertising. They're more effective in digital advertising. About that. Anyway, there's a bunch of bs here. I don't have time to read the whole thing, but I don't think it's it's shocking. I mean, we we talked to Sports Talk Barry yesterday. He's not a Russian troll. He's an American control. He's very good at it. And people respond right, human beings respond,

whether it's because of vanity or whatever. That's why it works. And we'll, by the way, are we not eve enough to think that the US doesn't have their version on the Chinese social media and the Russian social media, there's American bots that are doing the same thing. That's just that's how this works. So I every country is, you know, sending their little messages to other countries. Uh, am my wrong and saying I don't think I'm wrong, saying I

think that's exactly. US has their own Internet people that are flooding the market in these other countries. And we're not unique, but we have a special branch of trolls that do this too, because we have the mainstream media that also can night a fire too, just asking for for more triggered snowflakes the email it's a bad job

by you. Well, we did have the mainstream media earlier this week basically report that Kim Jong un was brain dead after he was admitted to the hospital for major surgeries. I thought that was sports talk, barely going into politics when I saw that. Well, the other one, which is you know, they're so thirsty, the media for anything that can make Trump look like a jackass, which you know, let's be Trump does a lot of stuff that does

put him in a situation looked like a jackass. But but then, like they there was that study that went around and I saw this a million times, you know, it was, um, what's the drug? I forget the name of it. He's he's been promoting UM for the coronavirus um. Uh, not the anti malaria du no, no was the one? H um? Yeah, that's what is hydroxy callorquin okay colorquin Alright.

So yeah, so there was a study out that said, you know, more people die on this drug than than uh, you know, not the people that didn't their drug doesn't work. Was essentially what you study said, right, So that's the headline, this one everywhere, right, this one ever. CNN was all over it, all, the TV local TV news, repeated at New York Times, all these media outlets reported, nobody reads the fucking fine print. All right, if you read the

five print, it was not a peer reviewed study. And in the science community, if it's not peer reviewed, it's bullshit, it's not real. So that's the first thing, it wasn't peer reviewed, and then they also admitted in the study that the people that were getting the drug were most likely gonna die anyway. So you know, it's kind of like I learned this unfortunately, maybe she rest in peace my mom when my mom had cancer three times and and they had these different drugs that they offered um

in these clinical trials. You know that we're supposed to be magical drugs that could cure you, but as I learned, those are only available to people that are in great health. They think they want to skew the numbers so they can get the drug companies to invest in the in

the drugs and buy the patent for the drugs. So it's a lot of that is deception and manipulation because if the people that are looking for that, that are really in you know, shitty condition can't get it because the people behind the studies are like, no, no, I want to give this to people that are probably gonna make it anyway, because then that will make it look better the final math on this. You know what I'm saying.

If it's the same way that people that have passed away and they have underlying conditions, but despite the fact that they have the coronavirus. That's these underlying conditions that caused um the coronavirus obviously to hinder their immune system. But now they're the cause of death will be ruled COVID nineteen as opposed to whatever it was before. So it's it's true. I mean, that's that's one of the other problems with the numbers, like it's if they don't

have an exact the numbers are. We say, all right, so we moved to pop quiz, or I got one more study, but we can do that, or we can move to pop quiz. What do you want? We can do one more study, alright, one more study? Alright. So researchers from Michigan State University have released a study on sex door sex stortion. I could even say right sex stortion a right, not extortion sex stortion? Uh and are

you familiar with this? It is an internet crime where someone poses a threat to adults or minors and uh. And essentially what it is is they claim, hey, I've got naughty photos that you took and sent to your girlfriend or your boyfriend, and if you don't send me money, then I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna send these to your mom or your boss or whatever that kind of Yes.

So I got an email last week about that. It was really I was in my spam folder and basically whoever spam me basically said that they had my old password, which was actually accurate too. They had an old password of mine that was that was archived on my computer and said, hey, I've seen what you're doing in your computer. If you don't give me such and such amount of money, I'm gonna publish all your content to all your contacts on the Worldwide Web. And so they always say to

send it stuff to the FBI. So I did that. I had two separate accounts, and I shipped it off to the FBI, like email accounts, the names and all that stuff on there. But yeah, it's a it's a common trend. I had to go down to because you use read it a lot, right, Yeah, I go on, I go and read it. Yeah that's a good website. Yeah. So read it had a bunch of information on their people, you know, showing the the email of the exact email

that was being spanned out to people. So yeah, I thought you were going down the road of revenge porn.

But that's well, it's it's yeah, no, this is different sect sex torsion is different cording missions, and it makes sense, you know, like they say, oftentimes they're just fishing that people don't actually have the photos they say they do, and then you know, we're all perverts and we all take photos with your and take and we look at photos we probably shouldn't look at, and then you send stuff out and then and so you don't know, you're like, wait a minute, minute, was that do they have that?

You know, you know what I mean, They don't really understand, and so they say, oftentimes they'll get money. In many cases, the perpetrators don't actually have the actual images or videos they claim they have. They just use it as leverage and they're able to manipulate the victim the mark, if you will, and they tap into their fear of not knowing whether the threat is real or not, and then

they end up getting money out of that's brutal. Yeah. Uh, Fortunately, I am pretty confident there's none of those photos because no one wants to see me in that situation anyway. All Right, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot Com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live pop Quiz. Here we all, pop quiz time. My favorite new bit on the show pop Quiz is happy organically on the

fifth hour podcast. All Right, here's I'll ask the questions of gascon. The goal is for you listening to play along as well. Well, I got a bunch of the so we'll get it through as many of these as we can. All right, pop quiz question number one. Netflix has picked up blank million global subscribers since the coronavirus began.

How many new people have signed up for Netflix? This is as of a couple of days ago since the coronavirus pandemics give the audience a quick second to respond, I'm gonna guests lucky number alright, a lot of people thirteen million platform but where that's right worldwide? You were actually very close and you did not go over, so you win the showcase showdown. Netflix says they have picked up sixteen million global subscribers. So you think about the

people that are benefiting from the pandemic. It's the streaming services like Netflix, it's the what else the grocery trains. Amazon is a beneficiary of this. I heart radio. Yeah, I know. Unfortunately are our listenership has gone up, which is which is wild to me. But anyway, so sixteen million. I all right. Here's another one. At what age do you become old? According to a survey, what age do you become old? What's the official age when you are

an old? Fart man? I think this is a trick question. I'm gonna say, you do, I'm gonna do do do do do thirty? Do you think you're old at thirty? I don't think so, but I think this is a trick question. No, no, no, you're not not you're wrong, your sense is wrong. It's not a trick question. And when you're like eight years old, thirties old? Right, you know, when you're ten years old, thirties old. But when you

get closer to thirties, suddenly thirties not old. The according to this survey, you're officially old at age fifties seven, you have become old. And they say the things that make the perception that you're old include overall health obviously, declining financial security once apparently once you reach financial security you're old, wrinkles and weight gain. Wow, So that's what they say. My my beards growing pretty long right now, and I do show signs of greatness. It's I don't

know if that's good or bad. Welcome to my world. Welcome but gray, though, aren't you? No, I'm not fully gray. I'm I'm salt and pepper. More of the salt than the pepper. All right, but yeah, alright. New survey found the ten most romantic home cooked meals. How many of these? Can you name? Mr? Romance over the meals? Like that? Petros So, what's what's he called himself? Vance Romance or something like that? You know. I worked at his dad's restaurant my first job, and I was eighteen. I love

the old people. He threatened. His dad threatened to fire me a week after I got hired if I did not memorize Happy Birthday in Greek. Yeah, because we had to sing to the guests that were there, so I would have said, thank you, sir, I love your restaurant. I will not be working here. That's a lot of fun, I do remember it. Um, okay, home cooked meals that are romantic. Steak, give me give me a few steaka pasta alright, shrimp shrimp, I guess we could do lobster. Um,

so ye, lobster all right? Yeah, um, I guess you might as well include salad, right, Can you include that? It's food, you can put it in there. Um? I mean, can I include wine? That's a drink that's not a food, I know, but it comes with you know, your parents? Salmon, salmon? You conclude yet I'll include I'll include salmon and um how about lamb? Lamb? Yeah? All right, very offensive? People love lambs. All right, let me give you the list.

Here we are. These are the ten survey found ten most romantic home cooked meals, which is appropriate because of what's going on right now. They are all right, here we go. Steak, you got that one night, Good job by you. Pasta you got that one right, good job? Chicken nice did not? I don't think you included chicken on this pizza really romantic pizza. Everyone knows pizza man Burgers is on that list. That's uh, lobster, mac and cheese. All right? How about this one soup? Soup? Who the

fox like soups are romantic? Really? Is that because you have to slurp it up and people look at your lips or something like that? It's weird man. I don't know. You don't even know. If they didn't terpret that like with clam chowder or something like that, that's odd. I've never heard. No, but's on this list. Tacos. I love tacos. It's good tacos, great crunchy though, gringo tacos. Sushi you should have said sushi. That's it's a home cooked meal

out here. And risotto is also on the list. So there, that's the list of romantic foods. According to this new survey, it is pop quiz. What's next here? Uh? This breakfast item was created in the late nineties seventies kind of by accident, kind of by accident, and is still They still sell tons of these to this day. What breakfast foo do you think was created by accident? As E goes all right, E goes a fine, guess that is incorrect. The answer is the everything bagel. That everything bagel was

a mistake and it worked. What's your favorite bagel? You a bagel guy? Really? No, you don't like the bagels. I mean, I like bagels, but bagels and doughnuts. Fan. Back when I was in my big eaten days, there's few things better than eating any food fresh is great, but there are a few things better than going into a donut shop or a bagel shop and getting it

right out of the oven. Oh my god, but they said everything bagel for those that don't know, if you're not a bagel person, that's got the poppy seeds and sesame seeds, and the onion flakes, the garlic flakes, the pretzel salt at the pepper, all that. And it started out as an error. Last year when I went to Philadelphia the for the first time. I got into Penn Station and the bagels they were pretty fucking good. And I had I got there early, like seven or eight

o'clock in the morning. Said the eggs on top and the bacon in it too. It was the bagels are pretty delicious. I know that everything in Philadelphia tastes good. Man. I gotta get back to Philly once this is I gotta go some traveling, not to see the world, all right. A new survey claims that roughly one in three Americans would rather give up showering instead of losing this for

one month. What do you think now? Keep in mind some of our listeners on the radio show have given up showering I would say, give up showering over television. Television all right, Well you're not right technology, I guess. Yeah,

that's a broad umbrella. Um you're you're it is internet access. Yeah, I mean that's you'd rather have WiFi than you know, the shower, right, Yeah, I think so, especially now because you can't it's not like you know most of us what you're supposed to shower just you don't want to be a pig and a pig pan and all that. But it's not like you can go out and hang out with anybody. So you know what I mean, how much money do you think you've you've saved so far

on not shaving and not getting a haircut. With a haircut, I don't get me started on barbers. Every time I go to the barber, one day, it's one time I go, it's fifteen bucks, next time it's twenty. You know, they changed the price every fucking time. And it's not like I have a lot of hair anymore that they have to cut the fucking Yeah. But I I've I'm comeing out of head on this because I'm saving I My gas alone every week was probably around I had to fill up usually twice a week, so that's like a

hundred and twenty. I think it was when gas was really expensive, roughly twenty on gas a week. And then the barbershop is you know, every couple of months is like Bucks, so you attack that on. Eating out is more expensive than eating home, and we've just been eating at home, so it's cheaper to eat at home, so I probably saved. I have actually done pretty well here saving money because of all the things we're not spending. That's great. Good for you, Ben. I'm really happy here

we go. This is all right, there you go. That's the narcissist voice, David, extremely happy for your circumstances. Uh. And I have had to shave because since the cameras on, I don't want to look like a complete stumph. Yeah. I mean it's bullshit. Was it bullshit? Because your cares you should look that, you should rock the grungey look, you should look like you're in playoff mode. Man. People. That's already bad enough that they say that goofing on

my glasses, you know, my bifocals and all that. You know, I've had Chris and Houston said I look like a mafioso guy. And then somebody else is like, it's just goofing on me, and um so my tribute to Harry carry all? Right? Another another question? Only of Americans can remember this set of numbers from our past? What is it our home telephone number? Uh? No, but hold address? No license plate from your first car? Oh I never

knew that. Yeah, I don't know that either. I don't even really know the license plate on my car right now? To be don't see that if you go to check do you know your do you know your driver's license number? I do not know. I don't have a memorize. You have my wife always, so we just have a memorize. You don't really need that, you know. I was like, I don't know it. Yeah, you do. You have memorizemembers because your dad ran the L A p. D. Probably drilled you to do it. No, he did not do.

I'm just good with numbers, right. Uh. Study shows that coffee is the most recognizable spell smell rather peanut butter is second. What is third? Do do do do do of any food? Or just anything in general? Anything in general does not have to be a food. Gasoline gasoline. That's actually a good guess. I love to smell a smell that gasoline really bad for you, but it smells great, smells really good. Uh. The answer is a rose. The smell of a rose. I think that might be bullshit, though,

I don't know, right, I mean, all right. In an attempt to get kids to eat more vegetables, McDonald's one once made broccoli flavored like what, like French fries. Well that I would. I would have eaten broccoli if it was tasting like French fries. But no bubble gum. That's trash. Yeah what idiots like that must have been in the nineteen seventies, and those cutes like bubble gum will make

bubble gum broccoli. Yeah, alright. New survey says roughly of Americans are now doing this less often than they were just a few months ago. What is it? I'd say showering, but no text messaging. No, people are doing more text mess I think people are calling more. No, they're still texting. Most people would rather text than call. Um, I don't talk. I don't know, all right. Brushing their teeth what, yeah, less about that. Roughly of Americans are brushing their teeth

less than they were a few months ago. That's embarrassed. Is that because they're not going out and it's like, who cares? I don't need to worry about it. I guess, man, brush my teeth first thing in the morning and I want to go to bed. Alright. A recent survey, I don't think we use this one before. A recent survey claim having one of these near your home? Do we do this one will increase the value by almost double one? What is it? Um, you have this near your home,

your value will go through the room. Gosh, I'm either guessing I consider the ocean. Um, well, you Mr Western floor or five would know about that. Those of us that live east to the four or five would not know about that. It's beautiful to look at every day. Um, I'm either gonna say a school or yeah, no, a mall, big mall. Okay, uh no, it's a Starbucks. So if you have a Starbucks near your house, they say that your home will increase in value by almost double wow.

All right, yeah, alright, let's see who else do you walt did? I was gonna say, you do not have a Starbucks next to your house? Actually we have one not neck right next to it, but this one not that for it's like like a mile away, a mile and a half away, a couple of streets over all. Right, see yeah, if you go see, if you go north where I live, North is pretty nice. South is is the hood. Yeah, so you gotta keep going north, don't

go south. That's the key, Thames. A point of demarcation, much like the four or five freeway for you is the point of demarcation for me. It's a certain highway that you just going to want to avoid just after going to your Christmas party and having to pick up some gas because it's a great deal away from my house. So that's okay. Let me get my violine out here, play a little music for you, all right, Uh, it's it's a small Violince Walt Disney decided there should be

one of these every thirty steps in Disney World. What is it? A character? No, a trash can. It's pretty smart. Interesting. You know the famous story about Dodger Stadium though when they when the open Dodger Stadium, they didn't have enough drinking fountains was the thing they didn't have enough of. And they had they didn't include drinking phones. I remember. I think the matter at like one or two or whatever.

It was, and so they had to install all these drinking founds after they've already built Dodger Stadium because they didn't have enough for the fans on those hot day games. Man was that? Yeah? Yeah, because they played they came from Brooklyn, played at the Colosseum for a few years and then Dodgers stayed. Um open up, all right, a most women, Oh this is good. Most women say they don't want a man who is one of these? What

is it? Um? What do the ladies say they don't want they don't want this in the manor Here we go, Here we go, trigger anybody, Here we go, you've already triggered everybody. Guess God, you don't gay. You're getting you're getting excited. Hitting buttons is what you're doing. They don't want a frugal man, a frugal man. Yeah, yeah, no, you're not right. They don't want women do not want

a feminist. That isn't that great? Yeah, that's good. So all these you know, we've all known guys, guesscn that think their way to get in the pants of a lady is to be a feminist, right and then, but apparently the long term that's not the case. Women like the traditional testosterone field lunatic man or more that direction than a Mr. Softy feminist. Yeah, I was gonna say, I was gonna say a beta. But yeah, that's that's good.

I know you love beta all the time. Here's the text conversation with guests, your your omega, I'm a beta. I would never say that to you, said that like seven times a week, you know I did not. Alright, the longest anyone has been able to do this activity is a hundred straight hours. What activity is? Meditate? Meditate? All right, that is incorrect. How about hula hooping? What then you imagine hula hooping for a hundred straight hours?

First of all, why would you want to do it? Secondly, who's gonna stand there and keep track to make sure you didn't stop hula hooping for a hundred hours? Yeah, it's pretty pretty ridiculous. All right. Uh, this one hits close to home. Whilst stuck in quarantine with your spouse, family, etcetera. This is what bothers you the most? What is it the thing that bothers people the most while hanging out with their spouse, family, et cetera. Their smell. Yeah that's

a good one, but it's not the answer here. The answer is chewing your food loudly. This is called miss aphonia. My wife has chronic missophony's mental illness, and she is she's been treating it by turning on the television when I eat. She does not like the way I chew my She is bothered by that. And bad news though, because you just opened up Pandora's box. Because what did I do? Now I know exactly how to trigger her

the next time. Oh yeah, no, you should. Next time you come over, get some really loud, you know, bubble gum and start chewing it like you're like a donkey or a horse chewing you know that kind of thing or cow. Yeah. Oh, she can't stand that. Gets triggered by that. Well. She upset me one time because I guess I was eating so loud. She turned on her music on her phone. Oh my god, and that was I gets. I'm okay with the TV, but when you're turning music on your phone, like, I felt like that

crossed the line. I was like, that's a little too much. But we we handled it out, We talked it out, so it's it's all good, all right. Last one on pop Quiz, I know we're getting along on this. A new survey says nearly half of Americans I think you should wait until the age of twenty five to do this. To get married, Uh well, yeah, I would agree with you on that answer. To move in with someone, No, the answer is to get a credit card. Yeah. I

heard that when I was a kid. Yeah, was growing up. Yeah, you shouldn't get a credit But then my mom was like, well, no, you need to start. You're getting good credit, so you gotta start young and then don't use it, but we'll get your credit card, you know, sporadically use it. So yeah, I got my first credit card when I was eighteen, and um, you know, if if you need some help on credit repair things like that. R Yeah, FICO score gas guy, he's narcissist. He brags about his FICO score. Yeah,

he sends me Republican talking points. Good things from David Gasco. I'm wonderful. I'm gonna mill you a nice folded rat Confederate flat. Yeah, you've got that going on. You've got your little hoodie there alright. Anyway, listen, have a great weekend. I'm glad you have done a little the podcast. Thanks if you didn't miss yesterday's podcast. If you did miss, rather the podcast with sports Stock Bear. I thought that was interesting. Check that out and we'll keep the train

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