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in full effect, as sweet as honey, clearly. But we're back at it for a Saturday podcast. And we do this because it's a spinoff of the Overnight Show. You already knew that. You already know that, and we thank you for that. Cameo dot com, Cameo dot com, cameo dot com, you wanna video message, We're on. I'm on there, and so is the guy that's over sitting on the other side of the microphone, David Gascon, who's right over there. Back again on a Saturday with no applause today, which good?

You were the second coming of Andre Carolinko a K forty seven. Did you know that I have never seen a man publicly cheat on his wife quite like you have. I mean the tongue bath and the boot licking and the ass wiping from your sickle fans. I mean, how would you take advantage of Jay Scoop the other day? I mean he was great on the podcast advantage of My God. You put a gun into the dude's head, told him to write some lyrics and then create show.

He's such a man, he's such a nice guy, and he took an advantage of him and just Josh, no, I didn't take advantage of He's a super fan. I listen, Someday you will actually have someone that appreciates your works. I'm not sure when that's gonna happen. I don't know. It seems like it's not going so well for but at some point someone will appreciate your work and then you will have them do these kind of acts of kindness and you will not, you know, discredit other people

that benefit from these things. How dare you? You just did job by you? It is in broad daylight. It's such a nice guy, and you have no remorse for taking advantage of these kind people. It's this this guy, I love these guys that are fans of the show. Uh that unlike you. And I tried to explain it to you again. Gascon only wants to put aristocrats and powerful people on and all that, and I am more

relatable to the common man. And that's the difference, right I. I I don't mind, and I actually look forward to hanging out with the Hoi POLOI you don't guesscan for you? This was very uncomfortable when you were very silent when we had Jay Scoop on you. I think you brought up one thing to try to bring me down there. Uh and you know, tear the man down and all that, just looking out for him. I don't know what you think,

what do you want? What you are such when it comes to the common person, you think these people are all a bunch of cavemen and carnivores and all that. And you know you're you're at a higher social standis and you're so oblivious, You're so oblivious through the way this works. How dare you? Bad job by you? I do think that he mentioned that Jay Scoop mentioned it yesterday. I think we should name it, or I think you

should name it the Jay Scoop Score the Year. Yeah, well I don't know about that, but we we will have a J. Scoop Theme Award for the Talent Show. And he is right. That's a great point by Jay Scoop that branding is important and we need to celebrate some of the great things that have happened on the show. A score is perfect. Do you think about like Star Wars or the Indiana Jones score, like those are those are tunes and soundtracks that you will never ever forget.

That's you know, it should be a dedicated to him. I mean he put in a lot. He the John Williams of of our little show. Yeah, great, John, is he still working? He's like almost nineties. Yeah, I think he actually is ninety. Actually is great stuff though that I mean John Williams, you talk about the composer, greatest composer of all time, right, you know in our world? I mean night have went around for eighty nine? Yeah, great, the Star Wars, Indiana Jones stuff, amazing park, Jurassic Park.

What man. You know, sometimes I'm a loser and I'll go on to one of the music apps and I'll click on just the John Williams channel. Yeah, it's all good. There's no ship, it's all good. Everything's great. Everything is better than the last long you heard. I remember an eye popping moment when I was working in the banking industry. I had a client that came into the bank and I worked in the real estate department. But he came into my office and said, Hey, I need to deposit

the check. Can you help me out? And I should? I said sure. You know, I thought he was just a common guy. I mean, he's dressed, low key. He comes in, he comes in and opens up the envelope for the check and I see six digits on it, seven zero zero Comma zero zero zero. And I was like, He's like, yeah, I mean I just got paid on the score. And he was a music composer and he had just gotten paid off of a huge project. That I was like, holy shit, that he wasn't I forgot

his name, but it was you forgot his name? Is it's you, the king of all name droppers? Forgot the guy's name. Yea. Now it's that's common up in up in Rolling Hills. Man. That's why Tiger was crashed there. You know, we've got all kinds of people just doing bougie ship. Here we go. But yeah, that yeah, it was an I popping moments like, oh shit, check for seven thousand dollars. Back when when this guy did a radio show at the Premier Networks, I recall seeing Slash

at the A t M outside the building. Yeah, yeah, he wasn't wearing his his trademark guns and Roses hat there, he didn't have that, but it was Slash. It was absolutely Slash. They're hanging out back back in the day. Pretty wild. That's good. I'm proud of Jay Scoop. I'm actually inspired because with what he is, um well, he brought to the party of uh last week for you on the show. I think he will be the rare guy that I will allow to enter the golden happy

confines of the Ben Mauers Show this upcoming week. Oh is that right? Yes? Is that right? What do you what are you referencing there? Spand on that So it's a tease, It's it's not the full meal, it's just a taste. What's the come of the Ben Mallas Show on the coming day? Are you going to become an interloper? Is that what you're about to do? No? No, but it could be. It's fine, it's fine. So what's up. Well, what's on the menu for today? Well, the thank you

message received? We've got that. We also have if that was not enough for you, three seven one, A Tale of Gascon and Sports TV plus pop Quiz plus pop Quiz, we have all that now. Uh, the thank you the message received. We we begged pathetically for people to review the podcast in a positive light. We had some hostile actors, some bad actors that attacked the good name of this fifth hour podcast. You noticed that, of course, because you love negativity, and we said, hey, we'd like to get

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We love yet and that's a little compliment to Uh to the guy that you will not compliment since he included the compliment myself quite a bit. And you can't have banfy with just one person. Oh you're not usually here, so who I I can bounce the conversation off anyone. The conversation never stops. It's fine, No, it doesn't, never stops. Yeah, that's good. And we got some pleasant responses. That's good.

I apprec we're here for when talk matters. That's what we're here, and talk matters and uh and also m J said, I totally enjoyed your show. Don't change a thing, especially your value laden orientations. How about that. I like it. Yeah, solid big word there to big word like that, So thank you and keep that up. We need like twenty five more, which will probably take us the rest of the year to get that. But we'll we'll keep begging. We'll keep begging. And I've heard people say, hey, I'm

on Android. I can't I can't review an Apple podcast on Android. So I guess you just have to have an Apple product. Is that the way that works? I think I guess, so yeah, all right, well that's all right, yeah it is. It's fun and I think they're on the I Heart platform. Right, there's a there's a review section on there when you download your podcast. If you're on the I Heart app or on iHeart the website, they have that as well. All right, so what's this

three seven one? What is this all about? So I did something and it felt like it felt like I was in the at the d m Z. I felt like I was at the demilitarized zone just a couple of days ago. And I don't know if you'd appreciate this, but I felt like I was walking through a land mine um for the first time in three hundred and seventy one days, I took my ass into a gym. I went into a gym the other day then, and

I was shocked that it was open. It wasn't busy, but I actually felt rather strange in the sense that I was a little apprehensive and and fearful about going in there, Like we're not all walking bio hazards, but just the sheer climate that we're in, at least in this state, I don't worry about it. And so people were required to wear masks whenever they worked out, whether it was running or on a StairMaster, a treadmill, elliptical, or lifting weights. And the gym that I work out

at is a massive gym. It's like a giant warehouse converted into a gym, but it's super clean and spacious. Not a lot of people in there. But yeah, I felt like you worked out with a mask on. I did. Yeah, I had to work out with a mask on, but I went into a back room area, uh where there was nobody around. So I felt guilty. But you know, I was like, Uh, I was like John Kerry on a flight. I took the mask off when I was

when I was lifting a weight. So you know, if he can do it on an airline and not have any kind of recourse, I can do that. So I did do it, but I it was it was weird to think and to feel how on edge I was just about going in with gym, which is a healthy place to working your body out, your mind out, and then obviously boost up the immune system. Yeah, well I will not be going back to the gym, I don't think. So I got a treadmill. I gotta use the treadmill, and I got you. I got some gym equipment at

the house here. So yeah, I think I'm out. I think I'm done, and I don't the gym stuff I don't see it going unless you live in Texas or Mississippi. I think still in places like where we live California, I think there'll still be so many restrictions that are gonna forever be placed on the gym. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. And how our heads prevail here um and I guess have enough politicians get recalled, maybe that will happen. But until that point, I don't need

to wear a mask while I'm at the gym. Yeah, it's good, it's tough. I know guys have to work masks. That's at certain places of work when they're around people. But I can't imagine. I can't imagine working out long term with the mask on. It's just there's no there's no health benefits to it, and you know the the implications about doing that for a long period time, especially with through you know, a heavy lifting or heavy cardio,

and that's that's not going in the positive direction. And uh, I know we're a little asked backwards with that, but yeah, I don't know. It's ah, but a long time man, I feel sort of ship. It's a it's been a while. Look at you bragging about your work, No, but three seventy one day. I mean I was fearful for my body, you know, like you don't go in you know, lifting way, it's a running The first thing I thought of fun, I'm gonna tear a quad, or I'm gonna pull something,

or I can't get the weight up anymore. Like all that stuff was running through your mind, not just you know, obviously we don't start out as as hercules. You have to work yourself back up to you. But no guy thinks like that, like we all think we're bulletproof or we think we can overcome it and we're beyond. You're old, though, I mean you're old, man Guescon. I mean I'm young and hip, and there's nothing about you. There's nothing spry about you. Come on with please, I I just give

the youthful energy is what I give about. Youth Ful energy is what I provide here. Uh clearly. Yeah. For me, I have not gone at the gym. I haven't been any sporting events at all. I used to go every week. I would go to at least one game a week, whether it be basketball, hockey, football, baseball. And you know, back in my heyday, I was there every night you know, seven days a week. I was at a ballpark in my younger days. I'm married now, so I can't do that.

Dodger Dogs with Steve the Sager after the seventh inning. 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. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Yeah, I grew up at Dodger Stadium. I did. I mean, I

started out. I was like when I first started covering the Dodgers, I was nineteen years old and I was there every day probably until I was about thirty five, pretty much. So that's a long run. And yeah, so it was. It was pretty crazy back back in the day. So have you been to a restaurant? They opened up in indoor dining in Los Angeles for a small percentage of customers, and I have not. I'm a little gunshy about that too. And we talked. I don't know, I just I am. I don't be a woos what's wrong

with you? I'm not. I just hate thinking about like I hate thinking or treating people like they're walking around with all kinds of of issues with with COVID. I I'm sorry, I don't think like that. I don't either, but just the simple sounds like you do. I'm guilty of it in the back of my mind, that's the only thing. But now when people start coughing, I get a little queasy. But other than that, you know, I don't. I don't look at people like they have cooties. I

try not to. I certainly don't tell people to put masks on. I certainly don't tell people to back away from me or to get you know, six ft apart, especially since that's in changing now. Dr Fauci saying we should go from six ft to three ft um. It wasn't too late though. Once the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend. The legend six feet, so you have to keep going with the six feet. All these businesses lined up six ft. Yeah, well, I mean,

he's the go to three feet. You can't do three feet, it's a six feet. He's the god almighty with the with the medical and science industries and yeah, yeah, I mean just a CNN any of a doctor's opinions or a virologists that offer anything that pushes back on it. It doesn't matter. He is the guys, so we got

to bend the knee, if you will, to him. It is amusing, though, with that kind of stuff, because you'll see stories that will come out that will say something that you know, this is the science, and the media will push back say it's not, and then months later it will turn out to be true. But then no,

and no one, no one goes back and does inventory. Well, wait a minute, you guys in the media said that wasn't true, but it turned out to be true, and you know, yeah, it'll just be a small omission or an editorial change and a line at the bottom saying we apologize in air for for what was reported earlier. Are you referring to the Washington resident Trump and the

Secretary of State truemandious bullshit quotes that destroyed Trump? And then we're completely crap And then oh, you know months later, by the way, this is unbelievable, unreal. Are we have we have we have? Have you been into a restaurant yet? Yes, yeah, I I've been going to Orange County on the weekends taking care of my dad's estates. So they the restaurants, there's some of them that are open in the in the O C. And it's it's much more like Texas

in the O C. Than it is. Yeah, you know, California, And yeah, I've been fine. I mean, there's there's one Mexican restaurant that we've been going through for years of kind of the family restaurant that we've been you know, since I was a kid, and they have indoor dining and uh yeah, no no qualms about it. Love it great.

It is amusing though, when I when you go into these restaurants because they have the mask mandate except when you're eating, So sitting down at the table eating chips and salsa, you don't have to wear the mask, but if you stand up one foot next to the table, you have to have the mask. Yeah, so the logic behind that doesn't seem to really, you know what. We're lucky though, at least here in southern California because it's

turning the calendar. We're in March right now. I had in April that a lot of the restaurants can't afford actually to have the outdoor dining now and it's pretty much pleasant and clear and comfortable weather. So it's yeah, yeah, we're not sitting in Boston where it's nasty, or Philly or New York or any of those, or parts of Michigan and Ohio and all all that. All right, So

we have sports TV. Big news in Sports TV that was announced the other day, the NFL and their new television contracts, a license to print money for the National Football League and a lot of it. We already knew a lot of it. We already knew the NFL and go point by point by this. But the the NFL network will continue to televise a certain number of games. They're gonna leave some games on there. They have all

these new media agreements. Uh, the NFL has the the traditional blue bloods of sports television, NBC, Fox, CBS and ESPN will continue on NBC has got the Sunday Night football package again. They renew that and they're gonna simulcast the Sunday night game on their streaming service. If you pay for the peacock, I do not pay for the peacock. Do you pay for the cock? Guest, do you pay

for the peacock? I get all the I get all the good material when you're on in a good mood, I get uh, I get all the good stuff when you want to share it. So, oh is that right? You have access to all that for interesting Sometimes it just depends, right, I mean all right, these websites, don't they typically like re like these links get redone every year, right, just to avoid getting getting clipped by the FBI or some of these agencies. Right, I don't know what you're

talking about. I don't know right now. Uh. I would never I would never knowingly do anything like that. Fox. Fox will continue to broadcast the NFC package. They've been doing that since nineteen. It's a long run that when Fox started, people people were like outrage, Oh this was a road network Fox Sports. No one's gonna watch you know,

nobody wants to watch that. They thought it would only be a couple of years and then they would go back because CBS had had the NFC package prior to that, and because I remember Pat summer All and John Madden doing all those NFC East Cowboy Redskins games or Giants and the Eagles and all that. ESPN is gonna continue as the Monday Night football partner, but a BC is

gonna do two Super Bowls. There have been some rumors that the Monday Night package was gonna move to ABC, and I think that still might be the case for some select games. CBS contin and US on with the a f C package, and so that that will says the most interesting part of this is into the Amazon we Go. Amazon has agreed to the first ever fully digital package for sports television and they've acquired the rights to the Thursday night football package. All right, so they

will they will be doing that. They've they've done some select samplings of of football since seen but uh, and I referenced this in a previous edition of the Ben Mallor Show. For Amazon, they've got to make a move here, right, They've got to make a move because you want credibility as a sports network. These are gonna be produced by Amazon, these broadcasts. Now, what's gonna happen is they're gonna inevitably hire establishment producers and establishment directors and people that work

in sports television. So they're gonna hire people you know of. But as I said on the radio show Guest Gun, the guy that Amazon has to get is Al Michaels. That's the guy NBC's forcing Al Michael's out. If you believe the scuttle button Sports TV circles al this gonna be his last year at NBC. They're they're bumping to Rico and Drew Brees and they're getting rid of cowns Worth and Al Michaels. If I'm Amazon, I hired them both.

I hire Michaels and coins Worth, and I might throw a third person in the booth, but that's who I go with if I want credibility as an NFL broadcast. Yeah, it's it's weird that they are getting punted. I mean they are. I like. I like their pair Collinsworth and al Michaels because they can mix in a lot of the gambling conversations that we we chatter about. But they're good,

they're colorful, they've got good structure, the great chemistry. And there's no guarantees on Drew Brees, like what has he done? Like how is he tested out? For them to say that is our go to guy compared to Chris Collinsworth, who has been doing this for over two decades. Well, you know the answers jock Ocracy. I did a monologue about this. Is he played football, so he you know the skill set to be a broadcaster is different than

the skill set to be a professional athlete. But the people that make these decisions often don't realize that, and it's, uh, you know, they shoot their shot because he's they're they're they're fans of these guys as players, and so, you know, ridiculous and oftentimes there was disaster. Do you have a

Collinsworth play. The one thing with Jason Witten is at least he had protect you with Booker McFarlane on the back side of him, and he was doing so much college football related so him and Joe Test It tour. Even if Witten sucked, you still had two of the guys that were competent and good. But with Breeze, I mean, he we've already been think what happened last year where he got drilled by his teammates and the social media

outburst from what he had his stances on the American flag. Yeah, but here's the thing, Like as far as Consworth is concerned, Like, yeah, he's a former player, that's true, but he's spent much more time as a broadcast and he did playing for the Bengals. He hasn't played in the NFL, And like almost thirty five years, Like he's been a broadcaster for over thirty years. That's been his gig um. But he

proved himself. But when he started also he there was no guarantee that Chris Collinsworth was gonna be any good as a broadcaster, and he worked in his crap. But yeah, the Breeze thing, you know, he's he wants to be liked too much to me and other people. Listen, the fanboys, the sick of fans and the media and so you know, a lot of the just the blind sheep, the lemmings will be like, oh whatever he says, Oh that was such a great point by Drew Brees. Oh my god,

it was awesome, you know, the sheep um. But I need more. I need so. I needed the ability to be critical. I need that. I don't think we're gonna get that. Don't either. He's not afraid to take shots at anybody Callingsworth and in the same breath, I mean not to say that Breeze doesn't He doesn't obviously analyze tape and things of that nature. But there's a difference between talking about it and then translating what you see

onto film and then obviously onto a game set. So I don't know if he can do that in such a way. Like the one unique thing about live television live radio is you're flying without a parachute, and so you get no fun, you get no Mulligan's. You have to see and then translate it quickly and process it.

There's no guarantees that Breeze can do that. Well. The good news for Breezes, he'll have an army of people in his ear telling him, all right, here's what we're gonna do, Drew, here's what you need to say, you know, like that that kind of stuff. You'll have that support to guide him through. Maybe he'll be good. You get surprised every once in a while, and typically the people you think are gonna be good suck, and then the people that you think you're gonna be bad or better

than than you expect. I just I hate it in the sense that I mean probably it's probably because we're like old man, get off my my lawn type of guys. But but when I think about these transitions, I think about the new Star Wars movies compared to the old ones, the originals, which pale in comparison to the original three because the acting, the chemistry and just the content was way better. This reminds me of back in the day

when we used to have the NBA on NBC. You'd have typically it was Bob Costas or somebody else, um, but it was always Steve Snapper, Jones and Bill Walton and they were fucking fantastic together. Like any kind of trio with with the Snapper and Bill Walton was great. Did you like the mid rashad following Michael Jordan's around licking toes really out of that? Yeah, Yeah, I was great. Gumble was on there, I think a lot too, So

it's like Gumbles wasn't Wasn't it funny though? When they had a Jordan documentary, the Last Dance in head video of Jordan's driving to the Chicago stadium to play a Bulls game and a mod rashot is riding shotgun. He's in the car with Jordan's as he's going to the game, sitting in the next seat over from Michael Jordan as

they go to the Bulls game. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Man oh man. Now, okay, so you mentioned having a third guy in do you think that would be a spot for Manning boy, Amazon's got endless money, right, they have a license to print money, so they could they could do that, but I say no because I also think part of the part of the problem for Amazon is they are very deep in the wocarati and so I you know, I while they should hire al Michaels and Colin's Worth, there will be

pressure at that company to not hire them because they want to and they want to have a quota. You know, you gotta have certain boxes checked. Uh. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but my instinct tells me from what I know about that company that that will be the way that they go. Now, when you played when you play all your video games, like Technmobowl is different than playing Madden because Techno Bowl you're going side to side and

Madden you're going up and down. Do you think would you be open with Amazon completely doing away with how we traditionally watch a football game when we're going from left to right or right to left. Uh, well, we read that. I wasn't listening with last part, like, would would you be okay with Amazon reconfiguring a broadcast? Okay? I mean because the one thing I do like NBC has done it well with football and with actually with with soccer internationally is the skycam views. I'm a huge

fan of skycam views. The quarterback views are are great. Here's the problem. People don't like change. People get a product a certain way, they expect the product that way, and that's gonna be the issue. Right, anything new people immediately hate. It's just their default position. And and so that's gonna be the issue. You have to present the product. When you get a hamburger, or you know, get a cheeseburger,

it looks like a cheeseburger. If you change the appearance of the cheeseburger, people, it might still taste good, it might taste better, but people are used to seeing a

cheeseburger a certain way. So to answer your question now, and the other problem Amazon is gonna have, and this is a problem that I have dealt with in radio with podcasting, is once you consume a product, as I said, a certain way, and you change the way that product is consumed, certain number of people will never find the product. Like I have told people, podcast podcast our podcast numbers are very good, but compared to the people that listen

to terrestrial radio, not good at all. We have many, many more people hundreds and hundreds of thousands and more people that listen to the radio show that never hear the podcast. And I'm convinced it's because they're of a certain age and they just didn't have podcasting and they don't know how to do the podcasting, or they're not not of that age, but they just don't have any enthusiasm for the podcast world, and they think the radio is there, that's how they're gonna that's the vehicle that

gives them the radio show. And so that's just the way it is. Yeah. And the other thing too, is you know how this this industry works. It's much like the coaching circles in the NFL or Major League Baseball or the NBA, is that once you're in with one fra turning, whether it's ESPN or Fox or CBS or NBC, neither get laid off or terminated. You've got another job with another network. Like they're not bringing anybody new, they're

bringing in the old guard. Yeah, yeah, there's a finite. Yeah, you know, it's it's one of those is when you get into that network and the good old boys network, you get in there and you're a made man, right that kinship that nepotism in any but it's really true in any business. I mean, look, the reason the Chicago Bears, the main reason the Chicago Bears signed the red rifle Andy Dalton was because the offensive coordinator used to work

in Cincinnati and liked Andy Dalton. That's why Andy Dalton's the Chicago Bear. Tyrod Taylor signed with the Texans. The reason that the new coach of the Texans was the quarterback coach in Buffalo, this guy Culley, and Taylor was the quarterback of the Bills. So I mean, that's the secret to success is often you know, it's not what you know, it's it's who you know. But that thing about people changing their minds is so true. It's proven time and time again. Once people perceive you one way,

that's how they expect you to be. And whether it's a football, broadcast, food item, any of that stuff. And also the platform. So I'm not I'm not a huge fan of it, but we have seen in recent in recent months and even weeks, is that the development of of online gaming and all these gaming platforms that are coming to light on um on these other you know platforms that you're talking about with with gaming like FanDuel pen Draft Kings like they've migrated their way into the

television world. So I think there's gonna be another way that people are gonna be able to consume these games on Amazon. I don't think it'll be strictly for digital purposes. I think there'll be a way to migrate that onto the television. I'm hoping, Yeah, we'll see what a disaster. The other the other problem with these streaming services, and it's the same thing with podcasting, you actually know exactly

how many people who listen. You know, we do a terrestrial radio show, we get the ratings that take place, but you don't really know. They give you a ballpark estimate of how many people are listening. They tell you

that X number of people are listening. You're like, okay, but you can literally count, literally and figuratively everyone that's listening, or in the case of Amazon, everyone that will be watching, and the NFL will have access to those numbers, and more importantly, advertisers will have access to those numbers, so that will affect advice. So that's that's all a factor. All right, Let's do a little bit of pop quiz and oh, we've gone long on this. We have a

lot to say. So these are random things I found around the interweb, and I think they're interesting, and I'll quiz gas count. But I'm really quizzing you. I'm really quizzing you, all right. A new report says this product has a lifespan of ten years, but nine of them are rarely used after the first year. What is it? Toothpaste? No toothpaste? Well, you stopped using toothpaste after after a year.

I go through toothpaste pretty quickly. Many times. Your well, yeah, but if you go through it, you're not gonna You're not You're gonna get to a new tube. Some people treadmill. Treadmill is the answer. Treadmill makes me feel like my iPhone is the same way. Now, I disagree with that tenure thing. I bought a Jim Grade treadmill, so I believe my treadmill is gonna last for like twenty years. About that, I do you gotta see this thing when

you come over to the Mallard mansion. I know you're afraid to leave your house guest gun, but when you come over to the Mallard mansion, this thing is a monster. Yeah, this treadmill takes up the entire room. I love it. I was on there this morning. Do you get to the show? I wind down? I get on the treadmill for about an hour, hour and a half, two hours. Whatever it did? Do you do you and the wife?

You pay a subscription to it because there something you guys access and at the power God, No, no, not at all. I get on there, I cook at my WiFi, I watch on my phone, I watch videos on you Tube or all and know. I'll catch up on the news of the day, or I'll listen to a podcast or something along those lines of music. But no, I don't subscribe. I don't have a peloton. I don't have one of those type deals. Yeah, uh a, I don't. I don't really like that that kind of stuff. That's

not from me. I know. I'm self driven. I'm a self made man. Guest gun Alright, A record, a record number of adults admit they are doing this these days. What is it? Um um filling out a will? No um, living with their parents? Okay, I feel like that's always the kid. Doesn't that come up every every year? The same story, more and more people living. But that's just but I actually and I don't know if this is

a wholesome thing or not. But I feel like there's more people now that are willing to take care of their parents. I hope so, yeah, I hope so. I I tried to take care of my parents at the end of their lives. You know, I didn't realize it was the end of their lives. But I tried to take care of what my mama did. But I tried to take care of my very important We really gotta get one of the things I love. In some of the Asian cultures, they respect their elders, right, those are

the most important people. It's not the way it is here in in American culture. It's just not Alright, the average person does this at work five times a week. What is it? I look for new jobs? Now, this is something you probably do this like twenty times a week. Lie to their boss. Okay, can pass that one by all right, Uh, nearly half of people. I think it's a lie biomission. All right, Nearly half of the people say they do this nearly every time they go grocery shopping.

It's actually surprises me every time they go grocery shopping. Um, go buy the buy alcohol. No, no, no, no, they they support. You know, when you check out at the grocery store, would you like to give a dollar to the to the Little Sisters of the poor and the blind? And you're like, okay, I don't do that. Yeah. The worst is that it's not that I don't give you charity. I don't like when I'm going to go to a store to buy potato chips. I don't want to be

you know, shaken down for a charity donation. I'll donate to charity, but to me, that's not it's it's not appropriate. Yeah, you know. The worst is Panda Express. So especially if you pay on a devor to credit card for food at Panda Express, and let's say that the total was thirteen, they always asked, do you want to round up? Oh, you donate to change? Do you want to donate to change to to children's health benefits? And so that that's not rounding up, that's you charging me an extra eighty

seven cents for for charity. It don't give me that ship. So yeah, yeah, I'm the I'm the same way, but apparently we're heathens and many people do this. According to the the research, almost half of people. I guess that explains why so many stores do that, because it works. Dollar here, dollar there, adds up man, Penny's to Heaven, right, Penny's to Heaven. All right. Thirty nine of Americans believe that wearing green on St. Patrick's Day will do this

give them good luck? Uh no, actually increase their chances of meeting someone special. I could believe that not this year, though, not this past St. Patty's Day, because most people weren't going out. Let's see live in Mississippi, Texas or Florida. That's true. According to a study, age forty one is the average age when you're too old to be doing this. What is it going to clubs? Yeah? Pretty much dancing in public, which I count as a going to a club.

Now have you ever been to Have you ever been to New Orleans for Marty Garras? I have not. My wife wants to go. I will get to the Bayou at some point. I I have not been to New Orleans. I have not done any time. And Louisiana. I have a friend that I used to work with in in radio that lives in New Orleans. He loves it. Yeah, the Cajun food man. That's a big regret at his sister that went to school down there, and I never

went to visit. It's a huge regret. Well you've been there now though, right, No, never, you've never been there. You never huge regret. Yeah, well, why don't you go. We can have a Mallard meeting greet. We could do the podcast from some bar on Bourbon Street. That'd be great. Are you do you like Jambalaia? No? No, no, I actually hate most of the New Orleans theme foods. But I do like the the pull Boy, I like that.

I like the Kingcake. But we had a woman named Barbara in New Orleans who sent us a king Cake. Oh god, it was great. You never had a kincake? No, but I was just thinking, like, your your stomach is not gonna be able to endure that food because you're gall bladder being removed. Uh. Well, I don't really eat much anyway because of my fasting neurosis that I've got, but I would enjoy any I go and eat a couple of meals there a day and fast the rest

of the time. I don't know if you can hold it though, right, because it isn't the majority of that food like tangy, spicy. Yeah, everything in moderation, my mind. Moderation my mind. If you're going down there, and I don't think anything's in moderation, especially the green, the green, blue, red, and the beads, all that you throw around into the lad has that been canceled? Is got into that? And

not yet? I'm sure we'll here it's it's wrong, it's promoting this that the other thing, and shouldn't be doing this and blah blah blah blah blah. All right, Uh, this happened more in the last two minutes than the entire nineteenth century. What is it? I'm gonna say more earthquakes. Nope, people taking pictures because everyone's got a camera. About everyone's got a camera, got a smartphone, you got a camera. Think about that, though, in two minutes, more pictures taken

than an entire century. What sex takes more photos? Men or women? I would think women like do the whole selfie thing, look at me, But dude, you do the same thing now, So I've gotta be neck and neck. But I'm gonna give an edge to the ladies. What would you have the answer? You just bring that out. I'm just curious because we like to document stupid ship that we do. But yeah, that's true. Well women do that too, but then they also, you know, you get

the look at me. You know you can yea, if you're a good looking woman, you can make a killing on Instagram and the fans only pages and all that. Jeez, there are so many women on Instagram that look or try to resemble Kim Kardashian. Is absolutely jaw dropping to me. I cannot can not all these years later that they're still trying to be like Kim Kardashian. Some of them do. They just look like knockoff versions of her. Of course

she looks like a knockoff version of someone else. But but but still, do you not find that type of look attractive? I do find it attractive, but I just don't find it. I don't find it unique. Well, yeah, you don't want to be unique? But excuse me, what was that? You do not want to be unique in that world? Right? Because people go they're looking for a certain certain type. Yeah, for sure of appearance. All right,

A let's see your page down page. A new survey says half of Americans have not change this in at least three years. What haven't we changed? I'm gonna say, toothbrushes. Um, that's disgusting. And no, uh, the answer is your voicemail message on your cell phone. Yeah, I haven't changed mine a long time, but I don't even know what my message is on my cell phone. If you go to a voicemail, I have no idea. Yeah, you just have the electronic or the electronical. Yeah, okay, I didn't know.

A recent survey found at least of men, at least of men don't know their partner's favorite one of these what is it? Color? Flower, flower, flower, flower power? I do not know. You probably should know that for certain events might come in handy there. A new report claims more than nine of people don't washed this properly or often enough. What is it their feet? Uh? No, they're they're pillows. Do you ever wash pillows the cases? Yeah?

I don't know. If I've ever watched the pillow itself though. Yeah, Well, here's the deal. I love cooling pillows because I I like to stay nice and cool while I'm sleeping. Most people do, and so these cooling pillows. My favorite cooling pillow though, which actually got from sleep number. They're not an advertiser right now on our show, but sleep Number sent me a pillow when they were an advertiser, and I love that pillow. It was the greatest cooling pillow

I've ever gotten. I used it so much. You gotta till a little dirty and all that, and so the wife's like, I'm gonna wash the pillow, so she did, and it has never been the same. The cooling of that pillow has never been the same. I still use it, but it's just not it was. It was like an ice box before, and now it's like melted ice. It's just not the same. It's just I'm still upset about that.

And I've tried to replace it with other pillows and I've been unable to find that same amazing cooling pillow. And I've tried a bunch of them. I've tried bamboo cooling pillows, I've tried you name it, We've tried it, and I haven't been able to to find it. All Right, last one here, last one. The T shirt was originally invented for men who couldn't blank. Um, who couldn't blank? Um? Who couldn't I don't know, who couldn't shoot? Who can't shoot? Makes no sense? I don't know. Yeah, by you Uh,

it was invented for men who couldn't sew. So the T shirt was invented in the early nineteen hundreds for single dudes bachelors who didn't know how to sew or replace buttons on the on the shirt the regular shirt that they had before that. Do you know how to sell? No? Do you know? Do you know any domestic skills that you know? How to fix a car? Well? You do not. Like my dad, my dad's my dad, my grandfather was a mechanics, so my dad can rebuild a lot of

parts in the car, engines, carburetors. Do you have any any plumbing you know? Can you fix some plumbing issue a little bit? Yeah. I helped my parents house to help install an entire sprinkler system front and backyard. That's nice. Yeah, I did. My grandfather was it was a plumber. But I think it's skipped a couple of generations because I don't have to have the What about electricians? You got any electricians in the family? No, No, that's another one.

These are all things if you you can do them, would save you a lot of money. Yeah, And you know, people don't celebrate the electrician or the trash man or you know, the handyman, but when you need them before, they yeah, you know. It's it's like the story that

Vince Scully told years ago. We were name dropping here, but he was talking about growing up in New York and living in New York during the UH there was a sanitation strike in Manhattan and the trash was trash piles up in New York City anyways, disgusting, but the sanitation crew was on strike and it was around Christmas, and Vince said he remembers as a as a young guy, people were so desperate to get rid of their trash that they would get these big you know, TVs were

massive back in those days. And they get these big TVs and boxes and when they take the TV out and they fill the box with their trash, wrap the box and leave it out on their doorstep of their building, and someone would come steal it. They take their trash away. How great is that? It's correct? That's real good man, That is really good, smart, pretty pretty solid. All right, Well, I think that's that's it. We'll put the baby to bed for Saturday. We got the mail bag on Sunday,

guestcon did we forget anything? Are we good? To go on this. Yes, anything you want to promote. No, no, I guess we could promote We could promote Jay Scoop and Just Josh with the was it the Mallard Odyssey? Yes, the Mallard Odyssey and we if you missed, Jay Scoop was on the Friday podcast. Was great to talk to him. We'll have to get Just Josh on at some point as well, some of these other Mallard Militia guys. Now that we forced guests Gon to do that out of

his comfort zone. So anyway, have a great rest your Saturday. We'll catch you on the Sunday edition Sunday. Sunday Sunday in the fifth hour. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m PACIFICIC on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Be sure to catch live edition so The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific