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eight days a week and the podcast format. They have the radio show five days a week and then this show three days a week. How is that possible? Well, on Friday there's obviously two podcasts up, and then we got the Saturday and the Sunday covered. And we do this show because management wants me to do the show. And four hours, as we like to say, are not enough. And you've found the podcast, we thank you. If you have yet to subscribe to the podcast, that helps us

out a lot. It would be really cool also if you write a nice review and give us five stall ours and that's that's pretty neat. We've had a lot of people do that, which has been very nice and helped us out and we want to get as many people as possible. I know there's a lot of people listening to the podcast, very few actually take the time, and I get it's annoying. It's paying the asta to you know, click the button stars write a little review. It's you know, it's a nuisance. Who wants to do that?

But if you do do it, it does mean a lot, does help us out a lot, and then eventually we'll lead to a bigger and better podcast. I would assume a bigger and better podcast down the line. So you have that to look forward. Which is which is? Which is not bad? And as always I am joined by for better or worse? David a K. David gag On a K. David Gascon. I was right over there. I think it's for the better. I think I've improved and helped you along the way and certainly added a little

different flare to your normal mundane type of broadcast. So here I am, and don't don't pull a muscle patting yourself on the back. And I'm here for you, Ben, I'm here for you. So that's here from me. Yeah, I'm here for you, don't you think more often than not? Yes, you know, give a take thirty minutes. You know, you know, unbelievable. I'm just saying, I mean, you know, give a take. So I want to point that out. Yeah, that's fine, taking taking Ben Melling. That's fine. So what's on the

menu for today? All right? So we have study this or homage the Penn and Teller. We'll look at some studies and surveys and say is this real or is this bullshit? We'll take a look at that. We will also have a nice pop quiz. One of my favorite segment is the pop quiz segment, not like big fans. We'll have that, uh, and then whatever else pops up, whatever else pops up, we'll go through this. So we'll just go point by point. Yes, yeah, that's fine, let's

do it. All right, let's get started. So study this. These are actual studies that I have accumulated. And now I will tell you that I try to avoid the coronavirus stuff. But it's just there's hardly any other studies out there. So a lot of this stuff is related either directly or indirectly to the coronavirus. Right, the coronavirus. So we'll start with this one. Uh, let's see here, all right, Uh. This is a study. They says that mobile phones may word may act as trojan horses for

coronavirus and other diseases. Now, is that because it's five G related? Here we go with the five stuff again, here we go, all right, Uh, No, it's not because of that. It's because your phone is like a petri dish and people don't usually wipe off their phones and they are hands it dirty and disgusting and and and all that. So the author of this study says, this is from the Gold Coast of Australia and says, uh, the phones are five star hotels with premium heated spas,

free buffet for microbes to thrive on. That's good line right there. And this is done by Bond University. Now do you do you believe it? Do you believe it? I actually do believe this one. And I'll tell you why because I very rarely will wipe my phone down. And I you know, even when you wash your hands and then you it's like washing your hands and then go putting your hands in mud when you go back to touch your phone. So I agree, it's it's it

would be a good habit. Like I have an otter box on my phone because that way, if I drop it, it doesn't break the phone and all that um. But it would be a good habit to, like, once at least once a week wipe your your phone down with a disinfected thing. I think that's a good thing. It sounds like you're a skeptic, guest gun. It sounds like you do not believe in the biosecurity concern here people have.

I do agree with it, and like you mentioned to like, obviously, the phone is one of the dirtiest places that you can put your hands on, telephone, cell phone. I would imagine you're steering will if you're driving a lot A couple of the places too. But yeah, I w believe it. Do you now? Do you clean your phone a lot though? Or do you wipe it down? I have since this pandemic started, because we got some disinfectant wipes, and so I have. I started wiping the phone down a little bit.

I haven't done it the last couple of days, but I was pretty good about it for a while. What about you, that's good? I'm more so. Yeah, I'm more cognizant now wiping down my phone, wiping down the cover case and then taking the phone out of the case and wiping it down to phone, laptop, earbuds, um pens. The whole nine yards have to be alright, Uh, not a page turner. H This is kind of a version of pop quiz, but it's about a study that Amazon did.

They determined via digital books because they're always watching, Uh, that men will give up a bad book before page blank? Which how many pages will a man read a book before? They determine? This is horseship and I don't want I don't want to read this. I'm done. I'm gonna say page eight, page eight. That's probably the real number. But the people over at Amazon the study said it's page fifty that men will give up a bad book before page fifty, while women we'll get to blank page before

they give up on the book. What do you think women? What's their magic number? I think women have a little more patience, so I'll double it. I'll say one. That is correct, that most women are more patient. They persevere and they will go to one hundred. So tend to believe that, right. I think the lesson men make their minds up faster than women women's. Is that is that wrong to say? I think that's generally true in my life. It's variants that you know what you like and you

don't like right away, and that's it. You continue on, carry on and that's it. Yeah, can you speak that way when going on on dates where you like that? When you went on dates? And um no, no, they cannot. That's something that you have to keep on the down low. That's very important there. All right, what's next, let's see here. Oh, this is a shocking study. Guess on. This says that couples who regularly show physical affection have happier relationships. Wow, deep,

I believe that? Why I know? I mean, do you really need to study? No, if you're going to pull it out, well, it's not allowed to work with Sometimes these things are so ridiculous. It's like what are you doing? And this kind of relates to the third rail we talked about in the previous podcast. But what percentage of lockdown Americans say they'll reach breaking point by mid June? What percentage going to do a new survey of Americans? What percentage say that it's it's either ship or get

off the pot by mid June. With all of the restrictions the federal government, the local governments are placed on American citizens. Ah, what what percentage? I'll say, you think fifty percent of people say they will lose it by mid June, wealthy, the number is actually higher than that. The number seventy two seventy two percent of those surveyed said, you know, these are lockdown Americans that if we are in mid June still doing this, Uh, it's it's not

gonna be good. It's not going to be good there and people of complaining kind of stuff. We're all going through loneliness. People are arguing more with loved ones because of being in cabin fever, having cabin fever. There's also anxiety over money. Um, people are have lost their jobs. But even if you haven't lost obs, uh, you get a pay cut. I'm included in that. I've gotten a pay cut. Um. I don't wait and talk about it. And I don't know we were allowed to, but I'll

say it. I don't care. They've cut our pay because of what's going on. So it's affecting everyone in one way or another. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app out of Let's see what percentage of Americans say quality of sleep during the coronavirus outbreak has been

never been worse than they're going through right now? What percentage of Americans percentage calculator out David gas gun and give me a I'm gonna say you are very close. The number is. Actually the number is say quality of sleep has never been worse. And I am any roundabout way the beneficiary of this. I don't like to be

the beneficiary, but hey, you know I didn't make the rules. Um, but yeah, I know from doing the show, the Overnight Show, that it is there's more people listening, more people interacting with the show live. You know a lot of podcast listeners. But I feel like there's people that are they just can't sleep and they're lonely and they want somebody to to listen to and want something talking to them and all that. And uh yeah, only eighteen percent of response

this is uh study out of London. Only eighteen percent feel refreshed when they wake up each morning, and forty eight percent of adults are kept awake at night from worrying either about the coronavirus or about the financial fallout from said coronavirus. So people are not sleeping well, not not going well. Another another added benefit of the times that we're living. And what do you sleep well on

the weekend zone? But the only time I sleep well is when I drugged myself with sleeping pill Kirkland brand sleeping pill. Thank you very much. Let's go and sleep aid. And if I don't take that, I don't sleep. I'm I'm a four hour guy without some kind of chemical enhancement. Yeah, yeah, four hours, you know. I I'm I'm a little different. As long as my rooms pitch black, I'm good to go. Well.

I have double blackout curtains, a sleep mask, ear plugs, I got everything, Like I've picked up every you know, a little trick you can over the years doing the Overnight show. But it's still, you know, I turned the air down cold. You sleep better when it's cold. But it's still if I don't have that little you know thinking. The other problem is I I'm trying. I don't. I'm not really working out. When I worked out, I did

sleep better because I my body was tired. You don't need to recover like I'm working out, but I'm walking you know it's not It's not like the same cardio that I had going before when I was at the gym and doing that kind of stuff. So that's the other problem. Like I think that's a an issue there all right. Researchers have created personalized streaming DJs that are just playlist to your mood, So they say, do we buy this or not? I think so? Do you have

that app called what is it called mood? I think it's called mood. There's like a yeah, a couple of different apps. I think Lebron James actually is a a it's like the voice or is like one of the head people that are part of this app. But I've seen him on a couple of advertisements. Well this is Researchers from the University of Texas in Austin sought out to make the streaming experience more unique and enjoyable for users, so they created a personalized DJ that Taylor's playlist to

each user's mood. The program they created it's called d j m C and it uses a machine learning algorithms to create adaptive playlist for each individual user. It's just so, yeah, I don't know, my mood fluctuates though, you know, I was like and and and doesn't music change your mood? Like you hear certain music and you can calm you down if you listen to classical music, for example, or if you depending on the genre of music, can change your movie. Yeah do you what? Do you listen to

much music? Though? Um? Occasionally when I'm going on my walks, I'll have some music on. Yeah. I mean, I don't do it. I'm not like a music hard oh or anything like that. But I don't hate music. I listened to it. I have my own, you know, songs that I like and well, Johnny Cash, a lot of Johnny Cash stuff like that, but some other random stuff that I've picked up over the years that I like. But you listen to rock too, though, right, Yeah? I listen

to rocks, not classical music though. Uh No. Sometimes I'll have it on though when I'm getting ready trying to focus, because it does help you focus. Um, it's a little trick I learned years ago, Like when you're getting ready to do a show or something like that, you can you can knock yourself out there and work better with with the classical music. I know that's a shocking for you, guess I listened to an array of music though, so

I appreciate it. Though it just depends on what I'm doing, where I'm going, if I'm if I'm stuck on the road or on the freeway, I tend to ramp up the music, whether it's whether it's uh classical, classic rock or alternative. Um, sometimes house just because I'm speeding. I just that's what happens, you know. I could be a little bit of that. Hey, we're near the LBC, so why not? Sure, well, near the LBC. Yeah, okay, at

least four or five okay. I A new study found researchers found that goats behaved very similarly to dogs in their ability to read humans. Wow. Behind that that the goat can read the humans? Um, I don't know. So should we have pet goats instead of dogs? Can you just have the pet goat instead of the dog. There's nothing like man's best friend. Dogs are really smart. I love dogs. Yeah, dogs are great. Yeah, you gonna invest in a dog sometime soon. I have a great dog,

wonderful dog. Bella's outstanding, very entertaining dog. Loyal you're not. It's very questionable if you call that a very fine dog. But it's fine two. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Alright, here's another study that shows that lizards develop what sciencests call their own cologne to attract mates. They develop a new chemical language to attract the other side in predator free environments. That that's interesting.

Lizard cologne natural cologne? Are you a cologne guy? Uh? No, you know, I can't want to go out all is sometimes too social events to make sure I don't steak cow. Put some on, but not not so much typically, you know, I used to be back in the day, but not anymore. Why not because you have to go oh natural? No, I wear deodorant, but I just I smelled good, always smelled good. Narcissists, not just what are you talking about?

I was carry boh. I don't go like into these bathrooms like the the lounges of the clubs, when you go into and you have an arsenal of cologne's and and perfumes and and deodorant like the bathrooms have for all these places like in Vegas right where you go to like into a men's or woman's bathroom, and they're all closed. Now, don't bring that out. All the bathrooms

like that are closed in says I always know. I always hated the the bathroom attendant when I went to a fancy restaurant and there was a guy there with that little tray of mints and the the deodorants, and I always hated that. Just felt like he was spying on me going to the bathroom. Maybe he's listening to me taking a party. The whole I hated it. It It was very uncomfortable. I don't like right I go to a bathroom and I see that person, I might hold

my bladder as an act of protest. And you go to a different bathroom where there's not someone there lurk. Do you feel compelled to tip? No? No, no, because I don't use any of that stuff, So why if I used it I would tip? What is what is the guy doing? I go to the bathroom, I then go over and have to wash my hands with this. So what do I pay him? Because he's standing there looking pretty like if I bought something. I if I bought some mints or something like that, maybe I would

tip him. But no, what do you tip a guy for taking a whiz is that what you're supposed to do? Is that proper etiquette? And I know the I know the last dances on right now, So I think you're you know, no tipping, pipping is rubbing off on you a little bit. That's that's fine. You don't want to. I want you to know. In those days, and this

was I was doing local radio. We had a couple of paparazzo guys, one in particular, that would hit the clubs in Hollywood and when the Bulls came in, he would give us reports about Scottie Pippen, No tipping pipp He hit the Sunset Strip with those Chicago Bulls teammates and a legendary tight lod. Scottie Pippen. That's one of the great nicknames. That's right up there with a round mount of rebound. No tipping, pipping, it's appropriate. Do you

tip when you when you travel via lift or uber? Uh? Well, you know, on your phone? Yeah, a couple of bucks or whatever, you know, as long as the guy doesn't talk my ear off, and I'm not tip as long as it doesn't talk your ear off. Yeah, I don't need the small talk, you know, get me the where I need to go, and I'm good. I mean, I'll say hello to you and I'll be nice. But I had a guy in Seattle. I was going to the airport to leave Seattle at the end of twenty nineteen.

This guy gave me his whole life story. I like, I learned, think we talked about on the podcast, but I like learned, like where he grew up. I learned. You know, this former wife, the girl he's seeing now that he gets along with, who's very hot, but she's she's not supposed to be seeing him because she's a doctor and he's just an uber driver. And he's like, give me the whole rap. You know. It was like a long car ride, and I'm like, this guy is

too much out of control. It's like he's like he owned a restaurant, but it was like an African restaurant, but then there wasn't a big market for it in Seattle, so he was he sold it. But he was even give me the whole deal. And I hate to be your your non work friend. Jesus. Wow. Alright. New survey reveals that blank percentage of Americans love working from home and would like to keep doing it. My percentage of Americans enjoy not having to go to work m M

thirty three. You are wrong, gas On. The number according to this survey is fifty seven percent of Americans. I would like to stay up. This is one of the conspiracy theories that's going around that this will become the new normal, that even when they end the lockdown, that a lot of businesses like this. It's expensive to pay rent on the buildings, So why don't we just have people stay at home and then we can, you know, do this that way, and we'll save money and we'll

help the bottom line. And that's the way it's gonna be. Yeah, but do you feel do you feel like you're getting stuff down when you're working only from home? Well, for me, yeah, I mean I it hasn't really changed. Like I always got ready for the show at home anyway, in my office, and I would get ready for the to prepare some notes for the monologues and the show and get that all set up, and so I do things normal that way, and then I just drive to the studio and do

the show. So I've just eliminated the driving step. But it isn't really change. I feel I'm just as productive as I was maybe even more productive because now I got like a couple of hours that I would be spending in the car that I don't have to spend in the car. So but I would like to go back to the radio station at least. Yeah, maybe not every day, but maybe you know, a few days a

week at least, that would be nice. Only a couple of us do, so it's fine you okay there, I think you don't want you to pull the muscles, you reach the back gear your head there and pat yourself on the head. It would be impossible to do that, you know. And some of us have grit and strength to actually go to work every day. It's fine. Some of you don't. Some of us have perseverance to do the radio show day in and day out, most NonStop. And we don't get a bunch of time off here.

We're not the weekend guests. We worked during the week. It happens well on weekday and weekend. So yeah, I don't know about that. A lot of Brian Finlay all right. A new survey suggests that nearly sixty million Americans are losing money because they can't get refunds on canceled flights and other travel arrangements. Uh, yeah, it's I think that number is actually low. I would believe the number is higher.

People purchased plane tickets. I know multiple people that purchased plane tickets for May and for April that have all been you know, stuck in purgatory. So that's I think that's absolutely true. Sure, absolutely, Yeah, I guess I believe that to ticket matches the worst. Right. Uh, they're they're on the list there on the ship list, that's for sure. In a prolonged periods of isolation, a group of people

can unwittingly start to develop their own unique accent about that. Yeah, I believe that measurable changes have been observed, and as little as four months. So what are we were? Almost two months into this, So if we go another two months, we'll have a bunch of different cadences to our voice about that. Yeah, I could believe that. I don't know. All right, here's another one. We're doing study this right now. The average desktop printer does how many hours of actual

print in his lifetime? Oh man deaktop printer. Yes, the average desktop printer does this number of hours of actual printing in his life. I'm gonna blow this one. I'll say, I'll say seventy two, seventy two. Well, according to new research, the average desktop printer that you bought on Amazon or at wal Martyr Costco does five and a half hours of actual printing in his life. I was thinking twenty four and even that was too much. Jesus. Yeah, yeah, and I totally by this, Like we I've had I

have a printer here, I never use it. I never used the printer, And in fact, we've had multiple printers, and then they're all on the WiFi network and all that, and so we've forgotten the password. Then you then they run out of ink and you can't get the ink, and so it's a big ship show with the printers and hard the ever print anything. And then when you get replacement cartridges, those are usually like twenty four forty fifty dollars especially. Yeah, we go to Costco and get

the replacement cartridges. But with the pandemic, I don't even know if they're still doing that. I don't know what's going on with that. I think they might shut that down. It's a different setup. But yeah, I'm looking right over here, it's right next to me, this printer, and I don't think it's been used since I'm not kidding. I think it last It was last used in eighteen and it's still hanging out over here, collecting Dusty. 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. New study is deemed blank is the most popular NBA arena Madison Square Garden. That is correct, Madison Square Garden home in the New York Nigger Backer is the world's most famous arena. They gathered data on twenty nine different arenas used in the thirty for the

thirty NBA teams. Obviously, the Lakers and Clippers use Staples Center in l A study looked at the numb burs and they used social media data. As we said there and the most frequently mentioned arenas far and away is Madison Square Garden, Second is Staples Center, Third is Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Your sense of trend here Big cities a lot of people on social media posting about arenas I do. What about Boston Garden that is also on this the TD Garden and the United Center in Chicago

home respectively. The Celtics and the Bulls are the fourth and fifth teams. I always like to look at the bottom of this, so the very bottom. What is the least mentioned arena in the NBA? The least popular arena? M David gascon for thousand dollars. I don't know the name of the arena, but I would imagine the one in Charlotte. Uh no, uh no, you're not correctly correct answer would be Oklahoma City and the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

Not getting a lot of of and a wink in a nod to the twenty ninth RNGTH arena, which would be the Cleveland Cavaliers Rocket Mortgage Field House. Remember twenty nine? How the Mighty have fallen? Where have you gone? Lebron our lonely hearts? Missive? Let's get to pop quiz. Yes you and a little pop quiz? Why not? All right? Very good? So pop quiz? Uh these are random questions, will ask escono. The way this works is you have to also play along. You gotta play along here for

this to work properly. And we'll see how we do here with this edition of pop quiz. All right, more than half of us have been doing less of this during the coronavirus pandemic direct from Muhan, China, So more than half of us are doing less of this during the pandemic. I guess i'd say working, but no, um, I'd say working out. That's not a bad guest. The

actual answer, though, is wasting food. That people value food more because they don't want to wait in line like they're going to Disneyland to get into the costco, which is what we have to do now, which really annoys me. Speaking of which, um, since we're recording this podcast at this time, I'm in the middle of a lengthy fast. I'm trying to hit forty. Here we go, humble brack gas go right there. I'm in the middle of a forty eight hour fast and I'm on our forty two

as we speak. That's nothing, It's it's something for me that's not easy for no. I just all right. You want to you want to play the do a pissing match with fast? You want to do that? It's not a mate. If you want you seem like you want to do it, alright, So this week, just this week, here, ain'ty meny money, moll Let's see here, how many do you have the app, this is how many hours you fasted this week? No, it does not know, so you gotta get my my apps better than your app. Well,

I don't track I fasted. Uh let's here. It ended April. I started on April twenty a sixty seven hour fast. Sixty seven hours. That's the most I've had the last week. I had a forty seven hour fast last last week. I actually had forty seven or forty eight hour fast last week sixty or two weeks ago. Sixty seven hours this week. And but like I said, in the next couple of days, because my birthday week, my wife said,

only seventeen hours, no more than seventeen hours. So that's that's like not even fasting for me at this particular point. But how many consecutive fasts are you on? Uh No, this is like I went one day on one day off. That's a bad job by you, man. You gotta this is a lifestyle. I'm in the cult, man, I'm I'm like Jim Jones boking the kool aid is what I'm doing, the grape kool aid with the cyanide. I'm in it. I am now at seventy five consecutive days fasting seventy

of This is my longest streak. My goal is to go at least three sixty five days fasting. It's impressive. So I want to do a full calendar year fasting, and I'll probably just keep going because you know, then I gotta start over so save money on groceries. Yeah, exactly, and more importantly, because I'm not working out the way I used to. That's what I'm mostly worried about it. Like, hey, if you're fast, you burn fat and it does work. Man. I lost a lot of weight doing this, So alright,

what else, pop quiz? What else do we have here? About fifty percent of kids in major cities have never experienced this? What the hell is it? Uh? In a major city, major cities, major in the United States, they have never been able to do this. M hm um, damn it. I don't I have no idea. No, okay, um. Roasting marshmallow, roasting marshal. That's makes sense because that's something you do when you're usually camping or out, you know.

So yeah, I've roasted marshmalls. You roasted marshmallows. That was a boy scout back in the day all the time. So so was I a Yeah, do you make s'mores? Do you ever do this? The graham crackers and the marshmallows? Yeah? I still did that to this day. I just like the chocolate graham crackers, really careful marshmallows because because the marshmallows are super sticky and stick the wire and it stick to your teeth and is nasty. Man. It was like,

I'm just giving the chocolate graham, so I'm good. All right, I'll let's see here. Let's see alright. One intent of us have tried this during the pandemic? What is it? Don't say that? Guess God, get your mind out of the gutter. Don't do that. One intent have tried this? Yes, I don't know. Learning another language. Uh No, we've had that one before. This is actually meditation, meditation. Have you tried meditation? I can't do. My wife's into that. She

likes the medication. She's a she's a fan of all that hippie stuff and whatnot. She's tried to get me to do it a few times. And the thing I've really done recently is the breathing app that she got, your breathing exercises to help your lungs. She's encouraged me to do that. So I've been a good, good guy and helped her out with that. Um made her happy. According to doctors, most people do not do this correctly. What is brush their teeth? Well, that is probably true,

but that's not the answer to this. The answer is to take off rubber gloves. Okay, so which you probably people are probably taking an off finger by finger. What you're supposed to do is take it off by the end of a glove. Yeah, yeah, which makes sense, which kind of it's It defeats the purpose of wearing the gloves if you take them off incorrectly, So as will just not wear gloves because it's a waste of time.

We're doing pop quiz. According to a new survey, men say they are much more likely to do this than women after the pandemic. What is it? Drink or go to a bar? Well, guess they're still drinking. People have not stopped dranking to go to a bar. Um. No, The answer is resume shaking hands. After the pandemic. Dudes are into handshaking. Women say no, no, no, not going to touch you, dear to the lands. But women, but women hug and they kiss each other on the cheeks

like all that ship. So which which is worse? Yeah, I don't. I've always been like a hugger and a handshaker. Pat on the back, guy, It's always been me. So this has been odd to to. Everyone looks at you like I got your freak right, you're the elephant man if you try to do a handshake. And because I've avoided that, I've not seeing anyone for a while. Um, but yeah, I can go back when shaking hands. Why not?

You know what, they'll just wash my hands are It takes twenty years for this to reach its maximum weight of three pounds. Over the next sixty years it loses about three ounces total. What is it? No fucking clue? All right, So again the riddle is this. It takes riddle me this, batman. It takes twenty years for this to reach its maximum weight, which is only three pounds, but over the next sixty years it loses about three ounces total. A cactus. Now, this is the human brain.

About that. So the human brain developing for twenty years, and so that's why when one right, you're an adult one, so they give you a little extra time there and then it stays the same. You you have the same brain size from that point until you check out. All right, what's next? Most people know how to to do this adult skill? What is it most people not to do? Change? It's actually something I don't know how to do about it. Uh No, that's incorrect. It's how to tie a tie. Suck.

I do not know how to tie that. In fact, full disclosure, and I've told this, uh you know years ago when I did television at the NBC Sports Network Beautiful Stanford, Connecticut for a year, and I flew me back there every month, and I I was dreading having to wear ties, you know, because I'm not not how to fucking tie a tie. So somebody told me a

trick that they use some of the TV people. They have these ties that are like zip ties, where they're perfect and you just you just it's awesome and you can't even tell unless you get really close. And if you're watching somebody on TV, you have no idea whether they're wearing one or not. So I bought, actually my mom bought a bunch of these for me. Makes you rest in peace, and so I have a huge collection of these zip ties, which are awesome, and I used them when I did the TV stuff, But yeah, I

do not. I've tried, and it just looks fucking terrible when I tie a tie. And I know, I know the basics of it, but it just doesn't look right. And there's nothing worse than a someone that has a tied it's not tied properly. You just look like a disheveled mess, you know what I'm saying. So, Bet you have a problem with ties, but I don't, And we don't have a problem. When we did that game together, like early or at the tail end of twenty nine, we did a football game together. Who tied your tie

for you at that time? Was that a Was that a clip on tie? That? That was not a clip on It's a zip tie? See that you didn't even know. You didn't realize I was wearing a zip tie. About that? You hit it, your wife hit it, you guys all hit it for me. That's the point. That's These are the greatest things. I'm telling If you don't know how to tie a tie properly, these are the greatest things. They're not that hard to find. There's some businesses that

sell only like zip ties, and they're wonderful. They're perfect, the perfect tie every single time. Why don't you just learn how to tie a tie? It's not that difficulty, you know. I haven't learned how to do it to this point. So what's you know? We got a few more here. More than half of us we're doing pop quiz. More than half of us say we would rather pay them. I think we've used this one before. More than half of us would say we would rather pay someone to

do this then do it ourselves. Oh yeah, what the answer is? No, Um, it was something stupid to um. Yeah, it is some rather stupid uh man, I don't remember what was washed. Wash the car? Okay, wash the car and you ever go to the self car wash place and do it yourself where they have did it a handful of times. So I do with buddies when you know,

when we go like on trips. But my buddies usually have like these big suv so it's easy to hose it down right the tires and the the wheel wells and then underneath to the top of the Yeah, that power you can you can get a adapter for your hose that turns your hose into a power washer. It's pretty cool and they're not that much. It's like an

infomercial that sells them and they're not They're not that bad. Uh. Yeah, I coming back from a road trip, back when we used to you know, leave our houses and we weren't locked up in house the rest and we could go places I used to love, you know, driving to San Francisco and driving back through the California, going to Vegas and coming back. You know, you just got it's like a graveyard for bugs your when she get back and then and then you just wash it off. It looks amazing.

That's great, all right. I remember the last time I've washed my car. Now that come and think of it. I know, I haven't washed it since the pandemic, and it was probably three or four wks prior to that, so it's probably going on like three months now. Yeah, I'm gonna saying I might actually wash it this weekend, maybe depending on what we got going on. But it's it's good to vacuum, and but I'm not using it,

so like it's what's the point. You know, you keep it clean if you I mean, you know you're obviously using it. But in my situation, valued employee of Fox Sports Radios from home, not I'm not using it. Uh. Survey shows that tying shoes is the hardest thing to teach your child. What comes in second behind trying to teach a kid how to their shoes potty trap incorrect? How to whistle? That's the second hardest thing. Yeah, you're not to whistle? Yeah I do, but yeah, whistle right now,

go ahead. I see I can't do the I can't do the vintage Phil Jackson whistle though, like where you put through your two pinkies in your mouth? My problem. And my grandfather may he rest in face? My my, you just grandfather from Springfield, mass He was a prolific whistler, and so I tried to teach me, and it must have been the most frustrating thing. I did learn how to whistle, but only blowing air in, not blowing air out,

which limits the ability for quality whistling. Yeah, like I don't know how to whistle blowing air out, but only in. So it's like eventually your lungs fill up and then you have to stop whistling, you know. It's like, yeah, I got out holds him like that, you know, man, Yeah, but it's only blowing air in, which is very frustrated. All right, let's see here. New surveys says roughly one in four men that's I believe they're excellent at doing

this household task. So what do men think they're excellent at household task? Um? I guess I would say, well, you can't include cooking, can you? Okay, I'll say cooking, correct, Yes, men think they're great cooks. Here's my theory on the cooking thing. You really have to funk up a meal for someone who's eating the meal that didn't prepare it to say it's a bad meal. You know what I'm saying, Like most people, when you give someone food, that's a

tremendous gift. Right, you're keeping them alive, you're giving them food. Who the hell is gonna say that's a terrible meal? And really, and really, what do you what can you possibly funk up? There's plenty of stuff you could funk up. You'd you know, and cook things inappropriately. Have you know, blood coming out of the burger, you know that kind of stuff, or you know, put the wrong spices on there,

and you could mess stuff off. It's easy to mess But see, if you serve someone like a raw hamburger, you can just recook it. Or well, I guess chicken would be the one that you'd really funk up if you didn't cook it. Well, all right, there's a scientific evidence that doing this as an adult makes us as happy as when we were kids. What activity can you do as an adult that is just like when you were a kid and it makes you feel great? Two things I was thinking about either playing playing games or

going to amusement parks. Yeah, you're in the right train of thought here. And if you persevered and I gave you some more time and you were determined and persistent, you probably could get it right. But no, the answer is play in the dirt. Really that they say adults and kids get the same joy of playing in the mud. You see people go out to the we're talking about washing your car, but sometimes people go off road in the desert or in the swamps and just drive the

buggies around. All right, last one on this edition of pop Quiz. Most people in a relationship are impressed when their partner does this. What is it? Um plans plans for a date kind of, but they say cook a fancy dinner. So they like when their partner cooks him a nice dinner. That means a lot. So there you probably a pretty good reason why a lot of women appreciate what I do because let's start from there. Don't see a ring on that finger. Let's see a ring

on smart about that. That's why it's fine, But that the guests gone riches. You don't want to share those with anybody. Yes, I understand, I understand the west of the four or five lifestyle. I get it. I understand. All right, listen, have a great rest of your day today. Remember to follow us on social media if you haven't already done that. You know, we go on Facebook for example the show Facebook page, which is Ben Maller's show.

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