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power of the I Heart Podcast Network. As you know, you've already downloaded the podcast available wherever you get your podcasts, and it is another Sunday edition of the podcast, even on furlough. And for better or worse, in a secret location somewhere in parts unknown, David Gascon is right over there. Look at that. You have no applause, as I see

there's no applause on this, Uh not really necessary? And and parts of Unknown, I guess you can narrow it down, because no matter what, I will be west of the four oh five for lay here and sunny southern California, hanging out with the aristocrats, the elitist, the one per centers your people. I'm hanging out with the unwashed, my people, the blue collar workers, the fabric of America. That's who I'm hanging out. You're closer the Phoenix than your Los Angeles,

but it's all good. We still love you the same, alright. So coming up on today's podcast, here's what we are. We are a little pop quiz, a little study this, and a whole lot of mail. Will open up the mail bag, and I asked you guys to send messages in earlier because because of the furlough, so we're recording this at a different time. Obviously we're not in the studio. That's also the audio of you've been listing all weekend.

The audio is not not up to stand. So that means this will be a rare week where you just don't try to annihilate me for the audio the when it's recorded. So I'm grateful for that you acknowledge it right off the bat, and I want to have to worry about the rest of the week all but this is the part. Hopefully that the audio stays solid for this because the most important part of this entire podcast is Cameo dot com. Ben Mallor on cameo dot Com, I will give you a personalized video shout out. Not

free but not much. Don't need to throw a tantum. I'll do it for you. So go to cameo dot com. A bunch of big people on there. I'm not a big person, but but I am on there. Ben Maller. Also, if you want to contact this, social media very important, right, very important. We need to grow the social media following because then we take the audience wherever we want to take the audience, and you would be part of that. At Ben Mallor, we're gonna be launching some new things.

There might be a YouTube channel that could be coming, who knows. So if you want to find out about that before everyone else, follow me on Twitter at Ben Mallard, Instagram, Ben Mallar on Fox, and the Facebook page Ben Mallard Show. And even Gascon West of the four oh five in his mansion looking down at all the peons and all the unwashed is available as well. We're beach level Ben, but it's Twitter at David Jay Gascon, Cameo the same at David ja Gascon, and then Instagram at Dave Gascon.

It's it's time to also a payoff a thank you cardon Um, your cameo is working. I bared witness to that. Uh you did, you did cameo. I I appreciate the cameo video from you to me. Very thoughtful for you, pro bono work for Ben maller. Um, that's awesome. I appreciate it. Well, well, yeah, I appreciate I died laughing when I finished that, because it was very painful to do that particular cameo, which was requested by a secret person we will not name, who for some reason, is

so smitten with gag On. I do not know why. I can't quite figure it out, but this particular person really wanted a cameo, just lavishing Gascon with praise and uh, I'll pretty much do anything you know on cameo. So I said, all right, it's like, you know, nobody's gonna see this, nobody's gonna hear this other than a couple of people. So so I'm doing it. Yeah, I appreciate it. It was nine painful minutes for you, but a lot and proud thank you for the card. So birthday, you're

now fifty? Does it feel different to be fifty? There? You you look a lot older. All of a sudden, I'm looking at a video of you, man, you look old. The gray hair has slowly come in on the chin and across the beard. On top of my head, I get a full head of hair, unlike you. So I don't see a gray just year. But I don't know about that you're wearing. You're wearing a hat. I don't know that you have a full head. I'm full ahead of it. Looks like that looks like some hair plugs

right there. I don't know about that. Man. Do you imagine if there's one person that would not disclose that too, that is exactly the guy Ben Molly would not. I got I got nothing. I got nothing. But but uh, that's fine, that's fine. I look at you in an hair club for men. I think you're dying the beard a little bit. I think you got a little uh, you know, covering up the gray there. That's a good move, right,

you get to get the fifty. You gotta do it. Yeah, I I need you to, uh, I need you to walk me through the process of once I turned forty two, now be into that phase of getting checked, you know, once every six months for prosted exams, blood pressure, cholesterol, the whole, the whole smash. I mean, I know you don't have to get a gallbladder checked anymore, but I might have to. It's a cheap shot. Yeah. Yeah, Well

a good thing about working in radios. We got our prostate check quite regularly working, so you know it really helps your health. Uh it does anyway, all right, you dummy. Uh, let's get we got pop quiz you. I got a few pop quiz with the show must continue here, so, uh, these are random things that are fun questions. I'll ask gascon and then you can play along as you listen. According to a new survey, forty percent of parents say they argue with their family about this on a regular basis.

It is a regular problem in families. Man, I I guess in today's world, would my number one answer be? What is politics? Uh? That's not a bad answer. Answer, It's not a it's not a great answer because you know, most people these days, you very rarely see a Republican and a Democrat. It's Democrat, democrat, Republican, Republican. There's no differing things. But the answer is the temperature in the car, you know, like you're driving around and I don't want

it colder, No, I want it hotter. You know, I haven't really had that problem in recent years. I don't know if you know this, but there's certain vehicles out there that have temperatures for the passenger side of the vehicle and the driver's side of the vehicle. I is that right? Is that right? Is that? Is that how you live west of the four oh five? Is that right? Some of us have the dial on the air conditioner.

You have blue and red. Cold would be blue and then red would be warm, and then you have to figure out what is the proper temperature based on that? All right? Moving on what? One third of Americans say this is the celebrity where they would like to share a hot dog with. This is a spinoff of the Fourth of July, which was obviously recently, So one third of Americans say this is the celebrity they would like to enjoy a weener with. Who is it? You know

a lot about eating Wiener's guest on? So what do you think here? I'm gonna go out on a limb with a man of Troy and say Will Ferrell, Will Farrell? All right? He went. I went to the same high school as Will Farrell. He's made slightly more money than me. Um, but no, that is incorrect. That is incorrect. It's a woman. It's an older woman. How about that even better? Um, I'm gonna is it Holly Berry? No? No, I didn't know Holly Berry was old. And this is I'm I'm talking.

I mean, I guess she's old for you know, for for if you're like twenty, she's old at thirty, your forty, but you're fifty, she's I don't think it's halle Berry fifty. I don't. I don't know. Yeah, she's past fifty. She doesn't look like it, though. Oh is that all right? I haven't I've not seen any photo of halle It's not halle Berry, though, it's not. Let's see drink some Grandpa juice here and see if you can figure out you want to take one more older female Hollywood. Uh?

Katherine Hepburn, Catherine, I think this woman is beyond octogenarian. I have Bet Midler, not Ben Miller, be Middler. Oh my god, you are terrible at his game. No, what's your name? The one that was on? Yeah? Yeah, say it. Rob Parker loves her, Come on, say it. Parker is a big fan. I I'm forgetting her name. Uh, it's it's not. The last name is not. Well, they have the same first name. The last name though, for the bakery stuff is Crocker, but the first name is the same.

Do you know the no, uh no, you're flipping my mind. Betty Crocker, Betty White, Betty White. There you go. Oh come on, yeah, there you go. One third. Wow, that's a large number. Let me tell you can you can lead a horse to water, you can't get the horse to drink. I try. I lead you right there, guest, guns you don't drink water, right, you know. I'm usually at the beach, just enjoying the way. Now you you drink filtered water from the springs of you know, somewhere

in the south of France or something. Anyway, 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 Alright. Another one kind of related to the recent Fourth of July holiday. A new survey asked Americans to name the side dishes they love to eat on the Fourth of July. Now, baked beans was the most popular. Not at the Mound, not at the Mallard, household, by the way, not baked beans.

But I'm more of a like a chip guy on the side. But anyway, what was number two? How about potato salad or macaroni salad. Yeah, my wife likes the potato salad. I'm not a fan. Why not? Wait wait wait, why not? Yeah? I like mac and cheese. I don't like macaroni salad. I like potatoes. I don't like potato salad. Uh. The answer is, and this is disgusting. It's probably west of the four or five people eating this deviled eggs. How pathetic is that? It makes me want to puke

thinking about deviled eggs. When I think of deviled eggs, I think Christmas and holiday parties, like not the ones that you go to because I know you're gonna company ones that are like usually hundred thousand dollars to cater for but uh w when invited guest got Those days are over now thanks to the corominavirus, so I don't have to worry about over indulging at a company event anymore. I'm glad I got that in because there will be no more of those anytime soon. I can't do you

remember the last thing you had a deviled egg crap. No, and maybe when I was a kid, I was forced to eat it. You know, I wolfed it down to try to get it over with and then you move on. It was torture. But now I'm not a fan. Alright. Any two of Americans say this is the number one pet peeve about going to the beach. A lot of people going to the beach over the summer here or the lake. Lack of parking. Uh no, that is not it. See if you go to Hawaii, because there's parking everywhere

in Hawaiian. No, that's true. It's amazing. Ah. The correct answer though, smoking, Oh, people smoking at the beach. You like the smokes? You smoke cigarettes for years? Gas gun No, never, never ever ever, My my, my pipes are naturally like this. But that is that is annoying. Like on the boardwalk. You'll get guys that are just hanging out on the boardwalk smoking a cigarette or a cigar, and you get traffic going up and down the boardwalk and that just

blows into their faces. It's pretty annoying. Yeah, allowed, though, it is allowed. Yeah, you're smoking not illegal? Alright. Thirty three of kids do this at night? What is it? What kids. I can't say, play video games because they do that all day, that's right, not video games. Um of these kids do this. Um, they don't do homework any more. No, those days, those days are over, long gone. What about what about talking on the phone? Talking on the phone, Those days are over too. I guess people

text these days. They don't talk on the phone. They could text her in the day and talk at night. You're better off spitting in the wind. Uh. The correct answer is sleepwalk? Have you ever been, ever been a sleepwalker? Yeah? But yeah, I mean early and yeah I have a couple of times have walked, like randomly into the wall. It's genetic, right, isn't that genetic that's passed down usually? I think it runs in the family. I don't know. You gotta ask your wife. She's the hippie, she knows

all this ship. How about you ask your dad if he slept walk when he was a kid. How about that? All right? Anyway, he doesn't sleep, He doesn't sleep good? Neither do I I get these random text message as well. I'm trying to sleep, you know, calling me out for not paying my my co workers more money. And I didn't realize I was a former NFL player making millions of dollars. Anyway, we call you Betty money bags, money bags, Mallar, money moneyball, Maller, not money bags moneyball. Mollery will never

call me money bags. I would like to be called money bags Mallory. I think that would be the cat's whiskers. To be called moneyball money bags Mallory would be great, all right. Anyway, five of men are freaked out when their woman does this. They lose their mind. What is it? Um? But only five role play? Role play? Uh no, I've it's probably higher than five percent on that. But the answer is make more money than they do. So when they're there there, woman makes more money, like crap, that's good.

Not only only five percent, that's good. I think that's that's adequate. I don't I wouldn't freak out at all, would you now? I'd be happy. I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry is you know? Might be? That's great. Good. I'll live off you. That's the way to do it. Come on, I'm perfectly fine doing that, all right. A new survey finds many Americans do not want to return to the office once the coronavirus is done. And people, you know, they you don't have to wear the mask anymore, and

they don't mandate all these things and all this stuff. So, uh, this is not really a pop quiz question, but it was interesting that maybe people don't want to go back to work. Um I actually would like to go back at some point, not every day, maybe a few days a week, go back to fact to work part time. But you know it isn't people want to stay at home.

And if if you do work out of the office, imagine if you work in the commercial real estate sector and you're renting out office buildings, you gotta be like, wait a minute, if everyone's just gonna work from their home, is are there some zoning rules that you're not allowed? Yeah? I think, I mean I don't have to look, but I believe there are some rules that you're not allowed to work in some businesses you're not allowed to work at home. Well yeah, I mean, if you're mean, we

live here in Los Angeles, Sin. So we got the harbor, are in the docks. I mean the longshoreman they have to work no matter what. Um. Yeah, I would imagine an outside of politicians, but how many public servants that they have to go to work no matter what to you know, if you're a police, firefighter, UM, gas and electric companies, UM. You know, if you're a real estate agent, you don't really have to work from an office anymore.

You can work from you can work from home and just show people listings and list property when you need to. But well, no, I know that. But I mean, you know some I thought there was some zoning laws and stuff. I'm not sure how that. Well, I'll tell you one place for sure that needs employees. There is King Newsome's winery. He needs employees there. That's the only place open here

in California. Well, he, when you're part of the monarchy, gascon, you can do whatever you want when you're in the monarchy. And good for him. I guess the people of California get what you vote for. I didn't vote for Gavin Newsom, so I hope the people enjoy Gavin Newsom, and they enjoyed he's turning the state into San Francisco. And uh, that's a different conversation. Don't you don't you miss coming to the studio though, I mean you're you're always there,

even on holidays. So you went from zero to sixty and vice versa, and you blinking. Yeah. Yeah, Although you know, it's like I've always said, I remember years ago, I learned it takes about thirty to sixty days to form a new habit. Yeah, I'm kind of used to working from from the home studio. I've settled into this. I got my routine. Now I've got my new routine. It does not involve going to the gym. I walk like an old man randomly around the neighborhood I live in. Here,

go to a couple of cities. Actually walked through like two three cities here. I walked that far. But uh yeah, I'm I'm used to it. Now. You gotta, in fact, the you gotta take the wife and just walk up and down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. That's like, you know, that's an easy walk and the streets are empty. That's like an easy place to do that stuff. Like you got the parks and a lot of stuff. I just yeah, but let me tell you Pasadena, there's some sneaky crime

in Pasadena. I went to a gym just a little north of Colorado Boulevard. I had some My car was vandalized broken into. I was at the gym and they said it happens all the time. They're just like, it's really weird, like Pasadenia. It's it's more like there's a lot of cities on the East Coast where it goes from really wealthy to pretty poor rather quickly, and the the crime seems to spike up there. All Right, A new service is kind of something we've had in the past.

But a new survey found that more than seventy five of Americans that were survey admitted to gaining as much as blank number of pounds since the shutdown in the United States. If we got the freshman fifteen, I will say the COVID thirty five, thirty five, that's a lot. Thirty five is a lot. Uh no, how about we slice that a little less than half of that sixteen pounds of love. Sixteen pounds that's not bad. You've gotta

figure people aren't going, Wow. It's kind of weird though, right because if people are at home, they're not eating fast food, so it just means they're cooking like fools, or they're not exercising, and you know there's a combination, right, Yeah, but if you if you eat good, you don't always have to exercise. It just I mean, who the funk wants to eat good? Come on? Please? Yeah, I definitely know that. So be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern

eleven pm Pacific. Alright, let's get to study this. I gotta up all leaves. Then we'll get to the mailbag. Uh. It is not a myth. After this is a great, great story here from these science files that they now believe, the scientists that they can figure out when earthquakes are gonna happen based on farm animals. Farm animals, gas guy, how about that? Get you? I was gonna say, I gotta believe that because you have dogs that have a great sense of things and and they're always responsive when

it comes to the emergency, responds to units. And that's from from miles away. So farm animals assignment, especially here in California, we need. We need all the help we can get. You need the warning. Yeah. But then see the problem with this is they'll get it right some of the time, and they'll probably get it right wrong a lot of the time, and then once you start

getting it wrong, people are like, that's bullshit. It's kind of like when Hawaii got you know, the text message alert saying uh, you know, missiles inbound or something like that. Once you get that, you can like wait a minute. But it says according to this, and these have obviously been over the years anecdotal accounts. But the farm animals and as you said, dogs and other pets before an earthquake,

they act different, they act weird. There's something going on there, and so uh, never has there been any scientific evidence to back that up, But now there has been. There's a new study by a bunch of German scientists that they claim show scientific evidence that supports the longstanding anecdotal report, you know, evidence of people saying that odd animal behavior

does happen prior to earthquake, the earthquakes. The research suggesting I'm reading it right out of this that animals may indeed provide the clues maze the way that was phrased was weasel terminology, but that they can lead to telling

human beings when and where earthquakes are gonna happen. Well, the nice thing is if these if these farm animals are are wrong and they need a fallback plan, they can always get into becoming a weather person, or they could or they can create models for COVID nineteen deaths. Those people are just off by, you know, hundreds and thousands too, So it doesn't matter. And and you're never the weather person is called out more than the person

who's making the doomsday prophecies. The peddic the panic peddling. You never have to You never get called for it. You never get called out for it. Neither does the media that just go all over it and just love the hell out of it. All right. This is something that relates to a conversation I used to have all the time with Looney. We used to talk about round

numbers and how important round numbers are with us. A new study out that says consumers would rather have round numbers even when the specific number is actually better news. For example, we'll use the coronavirus. If they announced that this magical potion, this vaccine that they're coming up with is ninety one point two percent effective. According to this, people are likely to think the vaccine is actually less effective then if they said it was effective. So the

power of round numbers. Just like in Minnesota, they say the land of ten thousand lakes, I think there's actually eleven or twelve thousand. I think it's eleven thousands something something lakes in Minnesota, but they go by ten thousand because that's round numbers, marketing revenund round number. Any chance you're gonna go to the Twin Cities and anytime sooner, verify that for us. Well, I have been to the airport in Minnesota over the years, but I have not

spent any time. I would like to go to UH. I was planning, I was planning on going, but I don't know if I go to Minneapolis anytime soon. Now, oh yeah, there's multiple reasons. But know so listen, it's like it's like anything you gotta like. They're whack of doodles in a lot of these cities, but you they're

in pockets. You've got to avoid the pockets of the nut jobs and the loons and uh and then you find the normal people that live out usually in the suburbs or who knows where, but the people that aren't trying to defund the police and those idiots. Anyway, all right, what's what's the fascination with round numbers? Because you do it all the time in marketing, right when you sell something you have a listed price of like nineteen thousands

opposed to twenty thousand or or anything around about that. Yeah, I mean, it's it's something about the human condition that people love round numbers. It's like satisfying, and they've they've figured it out, like in baseball, Uh, if you have a three batting average, that's much more impressive than hitting too. But it's one percentage point right, and it's like, what

the hell? And so I actually there was a study on this I read a while back that said something to the effect that it's because if you if you count human beings, you have ten right fingers. And that's a film. Including the film, obviously you have ten and so uh, there's a there's a theory that it's linked to the fact that we have ten fingers, and it's some kind of weird evolutionary quirk. It's like, why do

we yawn? And why why is yawn? What when somebody yawns, like around you you you can't help yourself, but yawn. That's interesting. It is one of the weird things that they haven't been able to figure out. But it's I think that's because of the fingers. So if somewhere there's a parallel universe guesscout where they have, you know, let's say like thirteen fingers, then they would like not they w W want round numbers, they'd be they'd be more

attracted to to odd numbers. And I and I actually I have read that it's the exact opposite that you want to negotiate. If you're ever negotiating a contract, you can always have a range of numbers with round or even numbers. But they say that once you get to your sweet spot on a dollar amount that you want, you've got to make sure you throw something that's completely

ambiguous or just thought to be benign. So if your negotation for twenty dollars, but you say instead I want twenty one thousand five, the person on the other side's gonna be like, well, wait a minute, like how did you get that number? And they'll think in process that you actually took the time to compound your your analysis in a thoughtful manner, that they'd be more inclined to believe that as opposed to you saying, hey, I want twenty dollars. Ah, so you have to you have to

add on to it. And it's it's strange also because we love round numbers, but in shopping when you set a price like on the internet for a product or or for gasoline for example, right, like that nine tense thing just is so fucked up that the gas is allowed to do that. But but no, it's like instead of forty dollars, you say thirty. If you buy a product, uh, you know, it's it's ninety nine dollars instead of a hundred.

Because that's one of the examples where people think they're getting a great deal when in reality, you know, just people's instinct to be tight wads like me here, you know, and and be frugal. And he's like, well I'm getting a deal. It's not it's on sale or it's less than it's less than twenty bucks. It's you know, like okay, anyway, alright, moving on, we have mail bag. These are actual questions by actual listeners. Thank you for sending them in a

little earlier this week. If you want to send questions to a future podcast Facebook page, Ben Maller show The Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. It's just Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. If you don't want to post your message on Facebook, if you're not on Facebook, Chris from Edmonton writes and He says, what was your very first job in broadcasting and or the sports industry and did you always want to be a broadcaster or was your ultimate goal to work in sports? That was

from from Chris and Edmonton. Well, Chris, technically, my first job in broadcasting was at the college radio station k s b R eight point five on the FM dial, keeping a jazz commercial free. But that was that was My My first commercial radio job was with the station in San Diego, which was actually in Mexico, and that was it was a Baja California Mexico Extra Sports six ninety and uh, yeah, I wanted to work in sports.

I wanted to be the voice of the Dodgers. But unfortunately Vince Scully never retired where it was in in my wheelhouse, so that never happened. But yeah, I love sports and I thought, hey, be a good life to work in sports. What about you, gas, Um, Well, I yeah, I always wanted to. Well, I didn't want to be in sports talk radio. I wanted to play professionally and it and it shows by the way it certainly does not, at least when when it talks about you and you and I on camera. Um, But I wanted to be

a professional athlete. I played college football, I play a little bit of college baseball, but I always had the ambition of playing professionally like you know most people do. And then I, um, I needed to escape after college, and so I got in the sales. I always wanted to be in a sportscaster after that, but that was more along the lines of just kind of like you said, on the footsteps of Ben Scully and some of the other grades that we had here in l A and

even San Diego. You Vin Scully, Chickhern dick Enberg, Al Michael's, Ralph Lawler, Ralf Lawler. Yeah, he was obviously the Clippers forever. So yeah, so stubble onto this the happy playground of radio and television and now digital. Yes, yes, digital, Thank god for digital. Yeah. Are you clapping for yourself? No, I'm clapping. I'm clapping for you because you what what a douche You've turned the corner into the digital realm. Stacy writes in from Ottawa. We are big in Canada,

gas and we we should just go to Canada. We were dominating the Canadian market for audio content. You have you have fans in Vancouver. I know that, Um, I think you have a couple of fans in Calgary too, So we have we have all the big sties. We have Vancouver, Calgary, we have Ottawa, all overa Ottawa, we have Toronto, Montreal. I've gotten some email from guys in Montreal, Winnipeg. Yeah, are we missing any other big locations in Canada? I think those are most of the big cities. There's not

too many of them. You mentioned Evanton too, so yeah, we got all the all the major ones. Yes, they're major because they have sports teams. Us See, Stacy writes in and says, uh, I don't know Jason from Ottawa. She said, all right, well good, I'm glad you know Jason. That would be kind of creepy if you did. And she says, how do you keep going with no sports? Uh? Says I listened most nice to your show and your podcast. Well God love you. Thank you for that, Stacy. That's

very nice of you. When I can't and uh, she just we can't listen to She listened to the podcast and hasn't missed a beat and all that stuff, and then she says, this is good. Does Eddie and Coop do they help you out with content? She says, enjoy all of you, especially Eddie. How about that? Not you gascoon. She likes Eddie because he loves hockey, so that's that's great.

But yeah, Stacy, the way the show works normally is I spend about eight hours getting ready for the show and then we kind of do the show and to each our own. But it works. It's a it's a formula that works. Man Roberto. Earlier this week he posted a picture Ben because I know you do cooking with Roberto. Yes, every it's a staple. Every Wednesday we do cooking with Roberto. He made Tostado's this week. Yeah, he did that, and he had some marinara sauce too that he was putting

together in a nice looking conction. I was like, man, Roberto crossing the streams going from the Mexican to the tie inside look pretty awesome. Yeah, he's crossed over. See Roberto is gone. When we first started, were trying to find a bit for Roberto, and he tried some different things. He was doing some comedy bits that was a disaster,

and then he did the two that are popular. Weather with Roberto, when he tries to pronounce some of the names of different cities, like Des Moines, Iowa, which he called it, which is always fun, and Roberto is a good sport about it. And then but he's a he's a good cook. He's he loves cooking, so he's people like it too. There's he's given you people that don't know those recipes in some places that things he's cooking,

so it's cool. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Kentucky J writes and says, if you guys were out camping and became stranded for two months, which of your callers would you choose to be stuck with due to their resourcefulness? Yeah? Anyone really that resourceful? I mean, you gotta say blind Scots one of them, right,

The guy's living blind. The guy took The guy took me on a five mile walk throughout Boston the last time I went out there and knew everywhere ago obviously with his dog. But that guy kept talking and showing me around, and you know, I was just like, I was pretty impressed. You know, I don't know who else you would trust. Who would you trust on an island for two months? Yeah? Maybe Jay Scoop. Yeah, I can trust him, but yeah, no, there's a lot of these guys.

Everyone's like the great thing about the Malle Militia, it's a band of misfits. Everyone brings something positive to the to the group, but everyone also brings a lot of negative things to the group fall So so you gotta pick and choose. There I need like a team of people. So, well do you have Do you have any callers that are actually legit chefs or someone that can cook, because there's gonna be an island for two months nearly, someone that can drum up whatever it is around the around

the local area. Yeah, we've we've had some guys, well it was it Blind Willie worked at an applesbe Applebee's in Tampa. He used to call the show. We don't heard from Blind Willie awhile. And we've had a few chefs that have called up. And there's a guy in Minnesota that works at a Taco bell. He offered me as much taco bell as I want if I come to Minnesota. So I'm hooked up on that. I'm good. What if you got to live on an island for two months with Fats? Oh, Fats would be fun. Fats

would be entertaining. I don't know that Fats could handle being on island for too much two months, because I don't think you'd have like Ribi steak, and you wouldn't be able to make pretzels and things like that. I think that would be a problem. All right, Uh, this one's from in in Boston, He says, Ben, do you ever want to kill yourself? After reading? How stupid some of these fucking questions are just asking? All right, thank you, Brian, very kind of you. Uh have you heard the show, Brian,

have you heard the radio show? This is actually the best of the best year the Kreme de la Creme. Then some of the calls we take, Oh my god, Tim and Cadillac Michigan says, hey, big Ben, this is for both of you. If you could only have one streaming service for the rest of your life, which one would you pick? And why I love the show? Can't wait for my non shout out. Yeah, I'm not gonna give you a shout out to him In Cadillac Michigan. Do they have to change the name of Cadillac Michigan

because the Cadillac is not really cool anymore? And I'm sure at one point it was considered cool. So do they have to change the name of that. I don't know, I don't know, maybe not to cancel it for some stupid benign reason. Yeah. Yeah, Well, the Cadillac is for wealthy people, and so you you're really disparaging poor people when you have a city named Cadillac Michigan. So it used to be canceled, right, You're mocking poorness and celebrating

elitism with Cadillac Michigan. Uh. I watched the streaming services pretty much exclusively these days because there's no sports to watch, So I don't need to worry about watching any of the sports that I used to watch because there's no no sports. Uh So, I mean I guess Netflix, I guess they have the most stuff, But you know, I usually we have Netflix and we'll rotate Hulu, but I got commercials on that. I don't really like that. What

about YouTube? Yeah, YouTube's YouTube's a really good that that probably has more than anything. So yeah, and there's some actually sneaky good documentaries on YouTube that are hidden and hard to find, but when you find them, you're like, wow, that's pretty cool. In fact, that the big chicken documentary I think was on YouTube when we uh we did podcast about that. So yeah, YouTube you YouTube. Yeah, I'd

go to YouTube for sure. All right. Barry in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says, if sports talk radio had not worked out, what do you think you would be doing for a living? Well, first of all, how do you know it's worked out? Have you seen my finances? Barry? Uh in debt up the wazoo. But no, I I would have figured something out. I I often have said my my dream is to work at Costco, and I still might end up doing that if this, if sports don't come back, I might

have to apply over there. But uh yeah, I don't know. I mean maybe a lawyer. I wasn't really into academia and you have to do a lot of that to become a lawyer, to pass the bar and all that. But I think from an argument standpoint, I could I would be a decent lawyer at least I have that in me. Some of my family thought I should have been a lawyer, but yeah, and that's you don't know. Every decision it closes another door, right You you open one,

you close another. So I guess in another dimension, I didn't become a radio guy, and I had to get a different job. And yeah, but you had. I had, Uh, the only other jobs I've had out of radio, I worked the newspaper delivery guy. That was my first jobs. And then I also worked for my mom's business. I had a sales job briefly, but that's that's it. I'm surprised he didn't say political talk radio. Well, that might be coming if sports don't come back. Well, sports have

really turned into political radio. Everything's political when it fits the agenda, you know. And uh, Deshan Jackson says something anti semitic. Those guys that are out there virtue signaling and prol clutching suddenly shut up. They have nothing to say about de Sean Jackson and a bunch of hypocrites. We ripped the hell out of him the other night on the show, which Uh, Steven Jackson. Boy, what a fraud that I turned out to be hunt jeez. Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of hustling going

on right now. So I it's just the climbate we're in, right I Mean, everybody's getting paid off some way somehow, and you know, everyone's trying to be ahead of the curve, and that's what Lebron, who's been proven to be anti Semitic. I go back to google Lebron anti Semitic. So he really couldn't enter the chat because he's got his own skeletons in his closet there, But all those other guys could have done it anyway. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, the

hometown of my dearly departed grandfather. He says, can you please pay off your tease and elaborate on some of the plans that you and Roberto have for the Astros when they come to Dodger Stadium? All right, So I'll say this, this is only for the p one, the extreme p ones that listen to this podcast. So me and Roberto have been talking about getting a band of misfits together and and heckling the Astros at their hotel. All right. Now, you can find out where these teams

are staying. There's a couple of hotels in the l A area that are like highly rated where the team stay. So I think this would be great to get a bunch of guys with like signs and we'll just we'll call it a protest, and then King Newsome will allow us to do it. I think it'll be fun. Wouldn't be great When the Astros come out of the hotel to get on the bus, they hear like cow bells and boom out, boo bay and all that to be wonderful. Yeah. I remember one of the shows that you were you

were hosting. I was up it was like twelve or one o'clock in the morning, and I have a friend of mine who works at a hotel that the Astros stayed out during the seventeen World Series, and she texted me during the fight that A. J. Hinch had gotten into I don't know if you remember that, but he was he got into a fight like a hotel bar and lobby area. And so she texted me and she's like, yeah,

that that story, you know accurate? So well they spun the story to make it seem like he was like a totally innocent Do you think that's actually what happened that he was. Yeah. Yeah, And especially in the in the you know, hindsight being as they say, when you look back at what lying this these assholes in Houston did, I'm thinking A. J. Hinch was the insider, he was the instigator. Uh. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong. He's he's a liar, he's a cheat, he got suspended, proved

me wrong, cannot do it all right anyway. Uh, let's see Trucker Joe. Our guy. Trucker Joe in Pennsylvania and Parts Unknown says, if you can pick one fictional monster to be real, for example, the lock Nest monster, big Foot, up a cabra along those lines, what would you pick? Well, the big one would be big Foot, right, because how many people have made money on documentaries and movies and written books about big Foot? But yet no one's found

the skeletal remains of Bigfoot. So they must bury other Bigfoots, must bury Bigfoots for those to be too well. Yeah, big for any mythical character. Guess what about Chewbacca? Yeah you want to go Hollywood about Darth Vader or damn good? Yeah? All right, I mean talking about a mythical character. If he's on your side, you got the force since came over. I'm surprised. I'm surprised you didn't pick winning the pool. I thought you would pick winning the pool, didn't? Yeah?

Or big bird? Alright? Alright? Moving on. Jess from Pomona in so Cow says, hey, Ben, if you had to choose, which one would you choose? And why either the Dodgers or the Clippers win at all? Uh this year? And Jesse, listen, this is a question I get asked a lot, and I love my Dodgers, and I'm looking forward to watching

the Dodgers this season. But the answer here is the Clippers, because it would upset to no end the Laker historians, who would just be in tears, Guys like gag On the West of the four oh five crowd, the one per centers, the Hollywood elites. They would be shipping their pants to watch the Clippers win a championship, and it would be magical. It would cement Kauai Leonard as the greatest player in NBA history. Three championships with three different

teams as the lead dog. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong, Kawhi Leonard. If he wins a championship with the Clippers, he trumps Jordan's, he trumps Bill Russell, He trumps Uh, all of the greats, all of the greats in NBA. Kobe Bryant, Sorry, Kobe, I know You're gone. Lebron James, sorry, bye bye. So the Clippers I'm not disagreeing with y Leonard. I think he is the best player in the game right now, but there's no chance in hell he trump's

all of those guys like he does. That is a that is a greater career accompt I don't want go all sporting on you, but that's a greater career accomplishment to win the first championship with Toronto in the Clippers, all right, to franchises that are known to be woe beyond teams, and to prove that it's he wasn't just a product of the Spurs and being around those good players in San Antonio, that he was the good player.

So that's the Clippers. I don't I'm surprised they'll be okay, because if this is another sitting in another franchise, I think you'd be more inclined to say the Dodgers, just because the losing team is always the better story, even when they get to the World Series, the NBA Finals, or whatever it may be in the Super Bowl, because people love the losers, like the Cubs for so long right on the win. In media, if you're a radio host, you love the losers. If you're a sports writer, you

love the losers. But if you're a fan, you love winners. You love winners. If you're fans, 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. Alright, Matt from Mansfield, Texas rights and he says, if you could topple any statue in sports,

who's would it be? For me? The choice is clear, it would be the Bud Selix statue outside Miller Park in walk O. I don't know if Matt's from Wisconsin, he says he's listening in Texas. Uh. Yeah, I would say that Peyton Manning statue in Indianapolis is the obvious one. Take that statue down. Peyton Manning oppressed my people, take him down, Please chop him down. Where is Antifa when you need them? Take Peyton Manning down? Horrible? What about you?

He is the symbol of Indianapolis. I can't think of many I can't think of many statues that are actually like like worthwhile to eat. I mean, the one statue that needs to stay up no matter what is the Rocky statue right in Philadelphia, like you can't. You can't touch that. No matter what I think that one is is uh as hollow ground. Um, I'm trying to think of even like, what are the statues are out there that are notable figures that are good you If you want to blow have your mind blown, go on the

internet and do a search of sports statues. There are so many random people that have statues that are in sports. It's just mind boggling. I love the fact that broadcasters have gotten statues. I know in Chicago they have the Harry Carry statue in l A They've got and Bob Miller has a statue out in front of uh Staples Center. Did any of those get touched? Any of those Staples Center statues? Did theyn't even try to tear them? There's

no way I can't imagine them touching those, right. Maybe Gretzky, you know he didn't, he never even he never even played it. A lot of those guys didn't even play at the Staples Center. Complix anyway, all right, Uh Greg from Riverside, So this is a question for you, Ben. Do you fart in front of your wife? And does your wife fart in front of you? Well? Thank you, Greg? I appreciate that. I think we we both it has happened. We both try to avoid it the times it's most

likely to happen. And you'll learn this someday, guess ghun. When you're in a hotel no, no, When you're in a hotel room and there's really because there's nearly no way to go. You know, if you're in the house and you're about you're you're feeling a big moist fart, you can go in the other room, you know, you know, you can kind of walk out. They don't normally just pop up out of the blue, so you have some time.

But when you're in a hotel room, what do you I'm sorry, I'm gonna go down to a lobby or run out to the hallway to check the mail. You can you can put the suppressor on, ben, You can sit straight up on your on your bed, on your hotel bed. Is that right? Is that there? They put the suppressor on, then it's all good. It's even worse if you go to the rest room because all of a sudden, the acoustics and it's just this loud echo. It's like kaboom, no chance that's happening. Carlos in Houston,

right since this did you guys have my Space? If you all did, that's a good by the way. You know, Carlos is authentic texting when he says, y'all, that's authentic texting right there. Who was on your top friends list? Yeah, I don't know. You can check I have. My MySpace page is still up and it's I was pretty fat.

But you can look at photos from the my Space when when I originally did the Overnight show during the week with Karen Kay, Uh, we had my Space page and that was like the big thing that was that was more popular than the Facebook when it came around. I think they started around the same time MySpace and face Facebook. My Space was before Facebook was it, but my Space was pretty popular at one point and then uh, Karen, Karen had a drop. We played a lot back in

those days. My Space is huge, you know that kind of thing. But I think my top my top eight were just hot girls don't even know who they were, just connected to them and all of a sudden, like hot put them up there and they didn't know who you were either. All right, thank you very much. Barry from Chattanooga says, do you regularly listen to sports talk radio shows. If so who Uh, No, I don't burry I I when I do, I listen to my friends.

People I liked it are good people. Petro's papad because I like to petrol, some money show and I'm driving around l A. They used to work at Fox Sports Radio. Tony Bruno, We've had on the podcast Jerry Callahan, who's got a podcast in Boston. I'll listen to Jerry. Uh, some of some of those guys. Uh, you know, there's there's a few others were randomly listened to. But yeah,

I don't go out of my way. Uh, usually listen to something else because it's like taking if you even live at the beach, taking sand home to the you know your home. You know it's you have, you have it there. I'm immersed in sports radio all the time. Plus I don't want to steal somebody else's stuff. So

you guess got you a big consumer of sports radio. No, I mean I'll listen to the network, but when I'm there eight nine, ten hours out of the day, I refused to listen to anything else just because I just I'm over it. I'm tired of it, and I mean, I listened to Jim Rome especially, you know sometimes well go on YouTube and I'll listen to his old segments just for great laughs, before um, he became really corporate.

But you know, back in the day, you were in six ninety and I used to listen to that station all the time. He just there was no holds barred and he would just let it rip. But yeah, I'll listen to him at times. Obviously I'll listen to the network and on I Heart, But I have a tough time listen to a lot of guys that, you know, because of the climate that we're in right now, it

is really just either one way or the other. And and god forbid if there's any kind of pushback the set, and I think it's just worth where we're at right now. You can really see like the true colors shining, or you can see just a lack of content. Listen, guys out there that just have absolutely no way know how to entertain. And I think it's just an indictment on I'm a talent, like thereover right now. Yeah, It's something

I've always said, like this job is really easy. When you're it's around Super Bowl time and there's a big game and you can talk about it and it's it's funny because traditionally, the the the way the industry worked in sports radio is the guys would always take vacation around the All Star break in the summer because it was only baseball and there wasn't once the NBA Finals

ended in training camp hadn't started in football. There was like that sweet spot, and some guys named it the dead zone because they dreaded coming in and having to talk about just baseball and having nothing else to talk about, even though they were like always in retrospect, they're always NBA rumors with free agents and there's always like stuff.

But yeah, the last couple of months, what do we a hundred over a hundred and twenty days now since the apocalypse started for the US sports And yeah, I mean it's not as I will say, there's not as much variety, but there's stuff. You just gotta you gotta dig below the surface to find the stuff. Oh yeah, I mean you look at your show case and point you have an entire segment that is dedicated to the NFL offseason and guys getting in trouble for doing stupid ship.

So yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. Listen. If it's if the players don't do stupid ship, the bit goes away and we all we always issue the disclaimer before that, saying we hope no one gets arrested and no one has problems with the law. And every year, yeah, armed robbery over here, uh, you know, beating somebody up over there, bar fight over here. It never ends. I think we'll we'll end it there. Guess we're gonna end it there. We have bigger fish to fry, I believe, yes, yes, yes,

all right, listen, have a great weekend. The furlough is over. A great rest of your weekend. This being Sunday. Back at it, back in the catbird seat tonight on the radio, eleven pm in the West, two am on Monday in the East. Have a good day.