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we are in the air everywhere. The vast power of the I Heart podcast network, the global reach of podcasting on demand now on demand, that's the big advantage that we have right with podcasting on like the radio show, although now that's a podcast also, but you can you can hear this whenever the hell you want, whatever you're doing, and whether you want to save it for late at night, make it like the radio show, or if you want to listen during the day, which is very odd, but

welcome to the podcast and I'm glad you have decided to spend some time this weekend with us. And the slogan continues to be because four hours on enough, and we do this eight days a week. It started as a one day a week podcast, a spin off of the radio show and it has morphed into something else, and the numbers keep going up. And I got an email from a guy this week said, hey, are you once the coronavirus stuff goes away, are you gonna go back to doing it one day a week? I said, not.

If the numbers keep staying where they are, We'll keep doing it if you keep downloading it. Now, if this gets done and suddenly we lose half the audience, funk that. I'm not gonna do it every day. But if if the numbers are good, then we'll keep it going here because if there's there's a market for it. If there's not a market for it, because we gotta keep doing this until the advertising market comes back. All right. We're in the advertising business, so I mean let you in

behind the curtain here. So we need that to come back, obviously, and then we can actually reap the benefit of this. But right now we're not. But just fine, which is fine. So uh away as always, for better or worse. Joined by the man effectually known in the hallways and the byways of Fox Sports Radio as gag On David Gascon. I'm I'm encouraged to be here again today. It's it's a brand new day. I will I will admit I've been watching a lot more stuff on on YouTube and uh,

because we we've only had Korean baseball. I love Korean baseball. I'm all down with the Koreans. I can't get enough. Man. I'm good with the bat flips. I don't know how many people are against it here in the United States, but as as long as a picture can throw up and end, I am perfectly flat fine with bat flips. I don't care who the hell it is Pweag Bautista. I don't give a ship who it is. If you can bat flip, you can take a pitch up and end too, So no, I agree. Speaking of Pueeg, isn't

he supposed to sign with the Giants? Isn't that Has he signed with him? Don't know if he sign with him yet. They said he was gonna sign with him, which will create one of the great ironies of baseball when this happens, and you'll have Madison Bumgardner in a Diamondbacks uniform going at Wegan the Giant's uniform, which will be should be pretty amusing, uh and all that. So um anyway, not, we don't want to waste me. Let's

just get into it right. So on the podcast, I don't know how to how should I title this one? Guess g the I don't know you because right now you're in a ballerina slash stunt mode right now where you're tiptoeing the sidelines, but you're also on a balance beam and like you're way up. You're not even a right you were like way up there. I am doing a tight rope walk without a safety net, is what

I'm I am up. I'm tiptoeing around land mines um and of course they're you're holding the football like Tiki Barber used to with a spumbling propmse. That's you're like your collar bones. So you were you're way up there. Yeah, I just got a vent and I feel like I need to do that. It's therapeutic, so better with me. And if you're annoyed by it or you're offended by it, then you know, go away. I don't know, it's not for you. You know, I'll be like Michael Jordan. If

you like me, great, If not, go fund yourself. That's essentially what Jordan's said, Yeah, exactly, minus the billions of dollars from Nike that I do not have and and all that. So if you've been listening to the radio show, and this is a spinoff of the radio show, and so you and we will get to study this by the way, and pop quiz and all that stuff. So if you're if you don't want to hear my diet tribe, then you can just fast forward through this nonsense. That's

an advantage you have with the podcast. So on the radio show, over the last couple of days, and really the last couple of months, I have been very optimistic, uh, and to the much to the dismay of many people, I've lived up to mind one of my nicknames, Benny bright Side, and this has offended a lot of people. That I believe that we will be able to open up society and have things start to return to normal, not overnight. It's gonna take time to work back up

to a certain point. Um, but we're not gonna always live in a world with masks and gloves and all this stuff. That's just not the way it is. And so let me do a sports show plausibly without sports. And so I've talked a lot about baseball coming back in the NBA and all the different sports leagues and I have been fully as supportive of this, and I've advised them just do it now. Finally, it sounds like baseball is going to just do it and take that

Nike slogan and go forward. So every time, hand to God, every time I've done a little rant about how we need our sports, we should have sports back, open up society where you know, the economy and all that. I get so much pushback from certain people, and it's not always the same people. You know, fuck you, how do you have a radio show? You're bad for people. You know, you're poisoning people, You're the problem, You're gonna kill people. You know all this stuff, and you know a lot

of it I just brush off. It goes with the territory, right so you know, when you buy the real estate, that goes with the real estate. You gotta do with it. But something, and this came from listener Doug. We actually mentioned Doug in in last weekend's podcast. Uh and so, so Doug's a big fan and he found this story and it's it's so n ailed exactly what I'm dealing

with right now. And it's not just me, but a lot of people who are on my side of the you know, if you're picking camps here that think we should open things up and and and try to manage, mitigate risk, but go on with life. Right. So, uh, Doug sends me the stories from the pages of the Wall Street Journal the other day, and fortunately he I don't want to get Dug in trouble, But no I don't. I don't have I don't. You have to pay. It's behind a paywall at the Wall Street Journal, and I

don't pay for the Wall Street Journal. So the only way I could see this story is if Doug had very conveniently taking a picture of it and send it to me. Um, you know what I'm saying. So he whatever copied or whatever he did. I don't know how he did it. I don't want to get into it. I want to give specifics. I want Dog to get in trouble. I'm sure they'll come arrest him. But anyway, he sent me the story and the headline on this is the coronavirus and Project Fear. And I'm not gonna

give you the whole you know, song and dance. I'm not gonna read the whole thing because it's not books on tape, it's a podcast, but there's a couple of paragraphs that really resonated with me, and it it It is an example of what I've experienced, and many of my colleagues and radio that I talked to around the country that have also taken a positive stance have experience. Now the story is Project Fear three point oh, and

that relates to policy makers letting themselves be guide. I'm reading this from the Wall Street Journal story by Joseph C. Sternberg. I believe it's the guy that wrote this. So policy makers are letting themselves be guided less by the science, which means preliminary and conflicting, than by a perceived public

clamor for draconian response to the pandemic. That's that line right there, draconian response to the pandemic that then the public demanding this Now, he says, the important word here is perceived, since whatever outcry exists has been filtered through a media eager to hype the fear factor. And the story goes on to say the longer the crisis drags on, the less natural that fear seems. And this next part

is very important. We now know the virus is not nearly as deadly as early data from China suggested, doctors are developing more efficient treatment protocols, and some drugs have shown early promise, deepening research into which traits make people more vulnerable for the disease. Right, if you have certain pre existing conditions, you are more vulnerable, and you should then be uh, continued to quarantine, which is what I've always said. Um, And so then this this other line

also resonated. He said, all of this should or all of that should trigger a modulation of the fear surrounding the coronavirus, not a denial of the severity of the disease. Right, It's exactly my position, but an understanding that new insights, you know, the insistent and understanding the new insights bring the prosper act of new ways to balance risk while reopening the economy. But many people cannot embrace this, you know.

It's it's it goes back to a line I've used many times about other things, and it it's it really applies here. When the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend and once people make their mind up. That's the other thing, you know, you talk about. I've read books on marketing and things like that, and I'm fascinated with infomercials and all the different tricks and commotion pageantry they use and all that stuff. But the gist of it is, once somebody makes their mind up, they

don't want to change their mind. They don't. And so people made their mind up a lot. And I'm not I don't know if I won't even say a lot of people. But the people that have been very upset with me and throwing molotov cocktails my direction via email and what not, digital molotov cocktails. Fortunately, um, these people, my belief is that they just aid their mind up and they do not want to accept any kind of

nuance that the field has changed. Shall we say that the field has changed, that the information has been adjusted, as always happens in any story, whether it's a pandemic. I I was on the radio in September eleven, and we shifted into doing news after nine eleven happened. And some of those early reports about nine eleven were complete bullshit. But some people form their opinion based on those early reports and never changed their opinion. It's like in the

in the marketing game. In every marketing book, excuse me, every marketing book says the same thing, that it's all about getting into the mind first, because once a mind is made up, it very rarely changes, it very rarely changes. And it's an odd thing that we're all. I'm more still be the most because I'm a tourist, but everyone stubborn in one way or another. So that's my rank. Guescon, I don't know. You want to you want to add

anything to the rand here? You want to you want to step to the dark side, over to the third rail and do tap dance over here. 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. Well, it's dangerous, I will, but we have friends and we have family, and we have listeners that are for whatever you want to call.

Because it's a it's a blind enemy. But we have people that are working on the front lines that are essential job workers, doctors and nurses, physicians, truck drivers, guys that are down the docks, police officers, firefighters. I mean, so the fact that they're out there and they're they're laboring hard, even during these tough times, you have to

give a tip of the cat to these people. And even more are the people that aren't on that side of the railroad tracks that are losing their jobs, they're losing their income, they're going towards like drugs and alcohol and depression. Like like you said, the mind, the mind is a powerful thing, and so when you get control of that, it's not just a simple instance. It is is for life unless you get yourself rewired. And so

where we're at right now is obviously extremely challenging. But these things in the end, like the truth always out and so no matter what we say. You said this in a previous episode, like we're down and we're open to whatever people say. So when people email us or tweet us or d m U s or text us, I don't delete ship, I listen, I watch even a Facebook or YouTube deletes and centers and wipes things out.

But there's just that thing now that obviously people are looking to harness or or have their power, uh I guess bolted up right or or strengthened. And so the quickest way to do that is to swipe people underneath you that don't agree with your sentiments. And people are publishing stuff all across not only the country, but the world on instances that are going on, um what they feel is wrong or what they see as their civil

liberties being taken away. And so you know, we have friends that are in Europe, we have friends are in the Asian markets. I communicate with a lot of people overseas now, and so it's not just here in the United States, but it's people worldwide that are being impacted

by this with their local and and federal governments. And so that's a beautiful thing about Reddit and some of these other platforms that aren't really like part of the mainstream media, is that people still get this information out. It's just one way or another before it is it's captured and deleted. But it sucks, it's it's absolutely horrific. But I think you just look at in a smaller sense.

I'm not a big fan of it, but people wearing masks And I said this last week on the radio with with Steve Hartman Rich arm Burger, because they were talking about the masks, and I said, Hey, do you know anyone in real life that wears these masks outside people that are in chemical plants? More often not it's boxers and m m A finders and the reason why they wear them is because they go up into the

mountains and they wear these masks. And the reason why they do that is because it puts more additional stress on your body and on your lungs in particulars. So you're you're trying to fight for that extra oxygen in and you think about that, that's exactly what you and I and everybody else that's doing right now by wearing these masks. If we're healthy year old adults, we're putting

extra stress on our body when it doesn't require Are that? So? No, Like, obviously you and I and everybody else is not playing doctor. But there's reasons why people are trying to protect their golden goose. And when in doubt, like we've seen over the last ten fifteen years, one in doubt, follow the money and there's got to be that's involved with all of this. Well, yeah, and you know the numbers are skewn. It is, It is true. List I brought up different studies.

We're gonna do a segment here coming up in a couple of minutes study this where we look over some of the studies and whatnot. And it is easy to cherry pick things, but at the same time when I mentioned nuance and that story in the Wall Street Journal that we quoted, and it it does also apply here. Like, for example, the early stories were that a symptomatic A what's the word, I'm symptomatic asymptomatic? Yeah, exactly, thank you, that the people that people that don't show any symptoms

can still spread the coronavirus. Well, that really scared the ship out of everybody. But now that they've updated that saying that that was not true, that that part of it was bullshit, and uh group out of Germany, UM scientists have a Germany debunked that. But people already heard it and formed their opinion based on that initial reporting. And so now you tell people that, oh, that's not true. I heard you know, some X, Y and Z and

and all this stuff. But you mentioned the the tactics that are being used here, and you know, it's like, I go back to that Wall Street Journal thing again. You know, moral superiority was one of the lines I think they used in there about how you know, if you don't want this thing shut down, you're just only worried about the economy and all that stuff. Well, you know that that's you try to get people in lockstep with with their just the whole thing is a mess.

And uh even locally though, we had Stanford up in Palo out So they ran a case study on a control group and found out that it's about fifty to any time is more likely that people have actually contracted the coronavirus and just didn't know it. I told you this a few episodes ago. One of my best friends in Dublin contracted the coronavirus and he he had the symptoms for four days and they were mild to light. He had the first two days he had muscle soreness

and diarrhea. Third and four days he had upper congestion and that was it. He's forty years old and he's a doctor. He deals in high trauma, he deals in e er obviously, so he's around people all the time. But those are mild symptoms to light symptoms. And and you know what, like you and I it, we feel like it it's just either a common cold or the flu,

and then we try to shoot it off. Obviously, not everyone's as fortunate, but I mean personally, I'm around older people as well, so I'm I'm obviously way more cautious about what I'm doing, where I'm at, and who I'm around, especially when going into the market and things of that. True, But but still it's um yeah, I just I just I noticed at times it's information overload because people are sending us all kinds of different things. We're watching, we're

observing and trying to maintain sanity. But I mean, these things come out and damn it, like there will be a or two or three or different networks will actually cover it and be accurate and sincere about it. Well, yeah, and you know you look at the against paralysis by analysis, right, And that's why I I try to limit my consumption on the news. I get a lot of the information I get, you know, surfing around the internet or whatever, you know, and and that's that's how I self educate

myself and what's going on. But there was another survey that came out that actually the mainstream media picked up that said two thirds of patients that in New York that were hospitalized with the coronavirus became infected, despite the fact that they stayed at home most of the time.

So what the funk are we doing? That part of the reason why people are being treated or how they're being treated, is they're getting infusions with vitamin C and vitamin D. Yeah, listen, it's uh, it's a developing story. I'm sure we'll be able to talk more about it, but I recommend that if you're if you have access to the Wall Street Journal, it's an interesting read buying a paywall unfortunately. But it's the coronavirus and Project fear three point oh, and it resonated the meta that resonated

with me. All right, So then we go on on Reddit to right, I'm sure like, yeah, I read it probably has that to Yeah. They do a lot of stuff, all right, So study this tribute to Penn and Teller and homage the Penn and Teller as it real or bullshit. And it's very tough. It's very tough to find studies that don't include the coronavirus. We'll do a few of those, and then we'll get to some other stuff. And we have pop quiz as well. And uh, these are actual

studies from actual people, all right. The voices are getting louder and m I T study says bargaining lockdowns towards the elderly and vulnerable is the best approach. According to I used to. This ties into what we were just talking about. Um, yeah, now, are you insensitive if you say that the elderly and the vulnerable should stay home and the rest of people should go out and work. Is that rude? Is that wrong? Should we either all

be in or out? I read a story and I don't know, this is real bullshit that said that in the history of pandemics, they've never they've never done it like this, where they usually would only tell the people that are at risk to stay home, not people that aren't risk. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven

p m. Pacific. You quarantine the sick, that's what you do now With regards to this, obviously, older people are more susceptible because there are main systems are weaker and they just they just don't generate like younger people do. But on the other side, though, is that older people have a higher and built up a unity system too. So thinking about it, fifties sixty eight years on this planet, your immune system has been built on this and I've

I've listened to Dodgers described this. Because when you wear a mask, you're suppressing your immune system from taking in all those germs and viruses and things like that that you can help that helps build your immunity. It's well, yeah, they we've seen medical research that said one of the great things about kids the reason they build up immunities because they play in mud. Yes, they're playing dirt, and they put any fucking thing in their mouth they come across.

You know, kids, they don't have any you know whatever. Let me see what this tastes like, Oh, what is that poison? And I megin, guess what you gotta your main job when your parents, I guess the early users to keep the kid alive? Right, and the the goal

there all right? What percentage of Americans, according to a new survey, will avoid public spaces long after the coronavirus pandemic is has come to Gosh, I think every state is so different here, but I'll say it's probably close to Like, wow, it's almost exactly right of Americans say they will avoid this. I think that's not true based on what's happened. My You're right state by state, but like I've seen photos of Florida and a few other

states that have started open up, and Georgia Oklahoma. Um, it doesn't seem like people are too concerned. It seems like they're going out, they're living their lives and and

it will be it. Yeah. I think the other thing is is if you have a state that actually allows you to get an antibody at test immediately and free a charger picked up by your insurance, I think people are going to be more inclined to be out there in the open because you're talking about from you mentioned this, but like from October till December, this thing went unchecked in globally. It came out of Wuhan, China, and it

spread around and nobody fought anything of it. And you know, we've heard anecdotal stories about people coming to hospitals in the US and December and UH saying they have the coronavirus in the hospital saying what the fund is that they don't know what it was and um, And so you think about the timeline on that, if you figure it went unchecked and it's highly contagious from October to November, and let's say it really picked up in November and

then in December, and then in January, people started paying attention a little bit, but nothing really happened, and then February came around, nothing really happened, and then not until March. You're talking about what are we talking about? Four or five months of free reign carte blanche for the for the virus. Meantime, you've got economies, you've got countries, you've got job markets are just completely decimated. Yeah, that's the thing that really breaks my heart. Also, so well, I

shouldn't worry about the economy. But then I have people that have been big fans in the show and the militia and stuff that have been correspondence with me over the years, you know, pen pals or whatever. They check in every once in a while. These people are losing their well, their lives, their life's work, and would be like, Okay, if this is absolutely necessary, I don't think it's absolutely necessary.

And that bothers me and that upsets me greatly that these people who are you know, they're getting up there in age now there, and you know they're thinking about retiring and now they might not be able to do that if they're you know, they're they're gonna be on welfare or whatever. It's it's crazy. And conversely, as you get the young uns, like the twenty year olds nineteen

that are perfectly fine taking six dollars a week. Oh yeah, well, that's that's another thing I read that got my blood boiling. They said, uh that some business, some restaurants, they're they're concerned if they reopen, is that their employees don't want to come back to work because they're making more unemployment then they would make at the restaurant, So they'd rather just stay home and smoke weed and hang out and

then not actually work. Because I don't blame them. I would do the same thing if I was making more money by not working. Why would you want to work? I mean it's you know, I generally wired to be a worker. But if you're not like that, why would you want to do it? Now? The cool thing is that I did my own personal research on this because my sister had just gotten her PhD in an SCC school. Is there's a lot of programs now for advanced degrees, whether it's for it's just a straight masters or an

m B a UM. They're they're waving the requirements to take it like a g R and I g R E like a uh G MATT test or Yeah, the GMT of the g r E. So any kind of entrance exams they're waving. So that's pretty nice. If there's a way to encourage people to continue their academics sort of taking addense degree, that's pretty nice is that you can do things online through the universities and not have to worry about paying on a hundred fifty or two hundred. Yeah,

my wife has been doing that. She's been studying the brains. I guess she I told her she can become a brain surgeon now. But she's taking these these classes studying the mind in the different parts of the brain and all that and a bunch of other stuff. Like she's she's really into it. She's like loves it and it's pretty pretty cool. Um, let's see here, all right, let's see moving on. What do we have alright? Uh, Exhausted parents claim during the lockdown they do not get to

relax until what time? Oh man, what time during the day do you think they finally get to relax because of what's going on? Um, I'm gonna think it's I think it's after news, primetime news, So I'll say eight pm. You're pretty close. Nine pm. According to the survey, nine pm is the Golden hour when they can finally let their hair down and let it flow. Let it flow. All right, what else do we have here? We go,

we're doing study this. You've got a few more, and then we'll get to my favorite segment, which is the pop quiz. Big fan of the pop quiz, can't get enough of the pop quiz, Love the pop quiz. And we will get to the pop quiz coming up in a couple of minutes. How about this is a sporty study and it says it's on football, and it says offensive lineman can avoid head injuries. They figured out how offensive line can avoid head injuries. Do you want to take? You guess what it is? Gas on um to avoid

head injuries snapping their head back. Uh, I don't know. This is from researchers that Purdue in Stanford Universities. They say that if offensive linemen start place standing up instead of placing their hands on the ground, it would result in at least fewer hits to the head. Uh. And such a change would not alter football, which is true. I would not alter football. I wouldn't care off offensive linemen have their hand down or not. I played offensive line and I was always annoyed. I had to put

my hand on the ground when I played. Yeah, it's different though, if you're in a three point stands for a two point stands, like guards aren't in a two point stands. Ever, it's only tackles. And I'm saying if you if they said, hey, we can still get our football and the people that are trying to kill football would be okay with this, then I'm willing to to be open minded about this. But you know that that biggie, I don't know if this is actually true or not,

because I love when I played. Back in my day, when I played football, one of the moves you taught defensive players was to smash the offensive lineman on the head to get around him like that was a it was like a dexter manly there's an outdated reference. What's that Reggie White to Reggie White? Another one exactly Reggie White the Minister of Defense, And that was how you

played defense in those years. You did little head slap to the back of the head of the offensive lineman, shock him a little bit, and then you run past and destroy the quarterback. Yeah, I used to wear a neck roll, so when I played, I purposely wored it. Where did I thought you wore it? I purposely wore it because I want to make sure I did keep my head back at all times as opposed to either

tackling or blocking with my head down. So um, you know, I mean guys back like Zach Thomas wore a cowboy collar. Dat win. You get a bunch of guys that wore a cowboy Brian Cox he had one too, So I don't know what if you go in to a leather helmet, we you throwback. But I mean travel was gonna happen no matter what. I love. When Dickie was doing TV and he would go on a rant a couple of times a years, say they gotta go back to the lower helmet. You gotta go back to the leather helmet.

Take off or see either leather helmet or take the helmet off. Either one. Well, rugby players don't have this kind of problem, do they. I don't know. I'm not a rugby are you rugby a person? I've watched it. I heard that the sevens and the Sevens is a main event. It's like a touring event for rugby teams. I heard that is intense. It's like the World Cup of Rugby, and so they do across the world, like Tokyo, Vancouver down in Australia. Um, I think the biggest ones

like the h K sevens they call it. But I heard like these rugby tournaments are just absolutely phenomenal. So I'd love to go to one whe wee can return to normalcy. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and it in the I Heart radio app search f s R to listen live. Yes, I like to do a lot of things when we return to a normal ce. We have one more study this and then we'll get to the pop quiz and

good booze news is the headline on this one. And scientists have developed a hangover cure about that. I don't believe this all right, here's the details of researchers is out of Germany. Researchers tested their hangover cure made of specific plant extracts, vitamins and minerals and a bunch of other crap here I don't know how to say, and they found that their concoction did a better job of reducing hangover sp And that's corner to the research. They

had people from eighteen to age sixty five. In their study. Participants were placed in one of three groups. One group that got the full hangover concoction, a second group that got a hangover concoction with the vitamins minerals, and all the others off in the third group that had a placebo cure that only had glucose, And then they went through it. I was I was lucky or I am lucky. I got I got to my to my good friends that I've grown up with. Um ones a firefighter, on

one's a doctor. But when these guys worked back in the day before they got into their professional um to their professional status, they were e M T s. So when we'd go to Vegas, we would obviously try to do it as full tilt as possible, but we put them the request and we'd ask these guys um to

take some ivy bags from their rigs. So after not a partying we all get strapped up to at least one I V bag of selene and um, you know, we'd get rehydrated just before we went to bed, which is like a three or four or five o'clock in the morning. And Ben I kid you not. We wake up the next day and we were just rise and shine. We were ready roll. Do you believe the the cure for a hangover is to have a paramedic or yes,

he's a friend ivy bag. Yeah, it was a little challenging to have a friend that's in tox kid put ivy in you. But he found me. Guy, I have when I was in the hospital back last year, and I have I guess thin veins. I don't know, and if I got poked and prodded and they one one of the nurses at the hospital like passed. She tried like seven or eight times poke and he couldn't get the veins. She passed it off to another nurse. It's like passing a hot potato off. It was brutal. That's awesome. Yeah,

I'm not really time for the pop quiz. You ready for pop quiz. Let's do the pop quiz right now? Here we go. One in twelve Americans do this in the kitchen? What is it? One in twelve? Do do do? Do? Do this in the kitchen? Do do do? I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say have sex. All right, So you think that that's eight percent? You think eight percent of Americans like to stoop in the kitchen. Yes, all right, that is incorrect. Eight point three percent of people like to

alphabetize the spice rack. That's so lamb. Yeah yeah I I we do not alphabetize the spice ray. You do that the guess con residence. No, that's something like supreme O c D. That is O c D exactly. Yeah, all right, if you're going to do this, you should train for it. Doctors say for at least a month. Oh, I can't do it in a marathon, So so you're trained for this? Um not a decathlon either. Um? Do do do do do? Dream jump out of a plane? Do do? Do? Do? Do? Do do do do? Uh No,

they say that you should. Doctors claim that you should train for at least a month to get surgery. Oh how about that? Now? What the hell? What the fund does that mean? It sounds stupid, Right, you're trying to get surgery and they say that, um, if you have a scheduled operation, depending on what the operation is, that you should change your diet and exercise about a month before the surgery to prepare your body for trauma. Yeah,

which makes sense. I I did not get to prepare my body when I had my gall bladder chopped out, because I wasn't planning on having my gall bladder chopped out, so I didn't get that. If I had had a plan, I, if I had known, I would have prepared. I didn't. I didn't prepare alright. Another one of these pop quiz questions, twenty five of Americans say once they once they plan to do Hold on a second on, once the stay in place orders and all that are over. Uh, they

plan to do this? Uh? Americans say, once all the pandemic stay at home orders are over, they plan to do this? What is it? Um? I think you asked this one last week? Did I asked this last week? I don't think I did. If I did, I screwed up by job by me. The great thing is you don't remember, so it doesn't really matter. Yeah. Um, I'm gonna say travel or fly? That is correct. They have plan on going on a celebratory trip to celebrate the fact that the stay at homeowners and all that are

are over. I had a trip planned, or at least I had an idea of going to Europe this July. How's that working out for you? It's not because I wanted to go to Italy. I want would this be? Would this be to maccab All right? How about you know how the people like to do, like the O J Tour and the you know the different famous weird crime scene type things. How about the Coronavirus Global Tour. You start out in Wuhan, China, you go to Italy and you travel around visit. No, that wouldn't be a

big seller. Does that mean that because we don't know yet. But does that mean I have to make a stop in North Korea? Oh that's a good point. Yeah, it'd be tough crossing the d m Z. I don't know if I can get back. Yeah, it would be a tough one. But how you know some of them, some of the cities. Recent survey found a growing number of Americans admit they've done or they've gone to a restaurant or a bar just for this reason. All right, so recent survey a growing number that's a weasel term to

get away from their significant other. Uh no, the according to this, to charge their phone jesus. Oh yeah, it makes sense because the Starbucks are closed right now, and and most of those Starbucks have ports too, to charge your why don't charge it in your car. Yeah, well, if you don't have a car, if you live in a city with the subways and all that, I guess you can't do that. But yeah, it would make sense

to me too. Back to the travel thing, though, my wife is I feel like she's jones and to go somewhere. I feel like she's wants to go on a trip somewhere, and it'll be a perfect segue to our next episode tomorrow. Okay, alright, U there were seven hundred emergency room visits in the US for this this year. There have been a there's been a ninety percent decline here in emergency room visits in the United States for this problem. I actually thought

about having this happen to me today. Is it beastings? Well, I thought you were gonna say something else the way that started. Uh No, it is not beast things, although that does make sense because people aren't going out and so bees normally only sting you when you're outside, so that makes sense. But no, they say there's been a ninety percent decline in in pizza burns. That hits close.

I did a week of shows. I sounded like a little holt with a list because I burned my my tongue in my the roof of my mouth eating hot pizza too fast. Not a dummy, I am what a moron? Um? Yes see, there's there's a silver lining. I'll be Benny Brightside. The greatest thing about the coronavirus is that, Yeah, sure, all of us are losing our jobs and money and all that stuff, and we're fighting with our families because

we're cooped up. But fewer pizza burns. Yeah, well, don't forget the reason why you got that pizza burn was because the l a Rams the Niger credential for the game. That's good point. I would have been at the Rams Buccaneers game. That jamis winston magical performance. I would have been there and the Rams fucked me over. The team, I like, fucked me over. The Rams and the Seahawks. Screw both of them. I hope they lose every game, which will be impossible. All right, pop quiz? Here we go,

Pop quiz another one. A new report says the average American typically changes this every nine to ten days. Dude, should we add like game show music in the background? We do? Pop quiz? Would that dress it up? Got it up a little bit? It would. I don't know, like for copyright reasons if I can do that. Um, they changed such a such a prisoner of lawyers. They be a rebel. They change their social media avatar. See think every nine to ten days the average American will change. No,

that is incorrect, terrible answer. Um, I haven't changed my avatar in like five years. I probably know why. Why not? Well, because you have a full head of hair in that picture. Well, no, I could put it. I could put an avatar with a hat on. I don't care that you don't want to do that, and that's not cheating. I will I knew avatar will have a hat on. Or I will get that ron popeel spray on hair and I'll put that on and then I'll take a photo and then I'll take it off. And then that's a good idea.

Maybe you should do that. Just don't like, No, I'm gonna get to spray on hair. How do you buy that? So somebody let me know how to buy the spray on here, I'll buy something just for the for the avatar, just for the the the abby, as a sports stock Berry called it. Whatever you do, avy, don't have an avatar with a mask on like that is the ultimate. Yet I'm not doing that and that's not going down

that road. All right. Uh. The alarm clock, right, yeah, yeah, I I have several alarms I I change regularly depending on the day. There's you change the alarm clock tone. I have a I have songs on my iPhone, so I changed the song. But you know it's I usually don't have a problem getting up because unless I drugged myself, I don't sleep very well. So if I take the Kirkland brand sleep Aid, I sleep pretty well. But other than that, it's a struggle. I get four hours and

then that's about it. I'm all, alright. One in every fifty kids born in America this year here in go through life without one of these. Alright, one in fifty, guestcunlet's see if you can get it right out. One of these two two percent of children born here in will not have this something I have. It's something that you have gascon. But these kids, two percent of them will not have the things that we have. Oh man, um doing pop quiz live pop quiz? Yeah, I live

on type. I do not know a middle name. Oh yeah. One in every fifty kids does not come up with them. Isn't that kind of lazy? Though? I like the middle name because it gives you options as a kid, you know, because you know, you don't get to pick your name when you're a kid. You know, your parents obviously do that for you. But what if you get a shitty first name, Yeah, you have the the option you should have one. My theory is, if you give a kid a weird name, at least let the middle name be

somewhat normal. That way, if they want to go by the middle name, then there they've got an option rather than having to actually change their name. You know, it's like, it's like, uh. The greatest example is I can come up with, you know, the most famous middle name guy that we know of. You know who it is? No, Steph Curry. You know what Steph Curry's real name is, war Dell Curry. War Dell Stephen Curry is his The second is his real name a really good first name,

war Dell. Yeah, it's good. Well, he didn't think much of it, apparently because he didn't want to go by that moniker. So if he's if he stays back in the days when I was an autograph hustler who would call guys in hotel rooms, and oftentimes they would have aliases. But Steph Curry could I guarantee it? Most people just like if he stays in hotels as Wardell and say can I have Wardell Curry's you know, number room or whatever, They'll be like who They'll be like, nobody will ask

for that. So he didn't only matter they asked for Steph Curry. When I think of war Del, it's like a it's like an old grizzly man in a three piece suit, scotch a cane and a pistol and his uh in his hip. That's that's Wardell Wardell. Good, all right, moving on popcorns. He had a few more. I'm gonna get all these in. Uh. The percent of us say that this is the messiest thing about our car. What is uh, it's it's either the steering column or it's the It's like it's the the center console. You're on

center console. Yeah, alright, No, they say that they the car is filled with empty bottles, you know, like water bottles or gatorade bottles. Used throw it down and that's it. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Like I try to I haven't bothered to wash the car in a while because I don't really use the car. I don't go anywhere, so for I haven't really done any of that recently. But I used to wash the car every like once a month.

I would wash the car and then but I like going to the gas station and throwing all that ship out at the gas station on the gases pump, and that's my move. Yeah, but usually have a water jug with you anyway, So why would you have water bottles? No, I'm saying back in the day. Yeah, I now I've moved on, I've matured, and I have a water jug that I always had with me. So back in the day,

you probably have like McDonald's cups. Oh, I had McDonald's, Windy's, Del Taco, RBS, Carl's Jr. You name it, any of them, KFC. I had the whole the full board. Yeah. Thirty seven percent of us who are currently doing video conferencing have been embarrassed because of this. What has happened here? Are different our hair? Uh No, apparently they've been eating and they burped on the video conference. I'm not embarrassed in that,

You're okay burping? Yeah, a lot of testosterone. There's there's people that have been caught on video conferences not having pants on. Yeah, that's pretty good. Going to gonna ship you the woman toilet there, that was pretty good. Yeah, solid. Bill O'Brien, Mike Rabel was the NFL draft right, someone was at his house taking a y that was was

kids were We're doing the crazy stuff and all that. Anyway, new report says ten percent of parents had one of these in the nineteen nineties, but nowadays less than two percent of parents happened. Um, oh, how about this uh an address book? Address book? Yeah? Uh, I think something else. It's like parents related that you would think a parent would have. I yeah that a stamp collection. Yeah boy, my grandfather may rest in peace, Grandpa Jack. He loved stamps. Yes,

he had a prolific stamp collection. I'm talking about going back to the regional stamps, the first stamps that were rather anyway, Um, get sidetracks, get back to the point please. The answer is a minivan, oh man, Yeah, which replaced the station wagon. I'm old school. I like the station wagon. They should bring back the station wagon. You like it? The shagging wagon. Isn't everything old new again? Like people would would people fall in love with a hybrid station

wagon that gets good gas mileage. I mean the v dew busses. Those are cool. Yeah, all right, um, let's see have we done this one the serve I don't remember if we've done this. If we have, we won't do it again. Uh. Survey found this percentage of Americans are not always wearing pants while working from home. I think we did that, didn't we? Yeah, it's about scent said they are not wearing pants? All right? Uh? Bees? Bees can fly as high as what landmark? Um? What landmarks?

According to National Geographic um A flight tower? Uh No, According to this this blew me away. The bees can fly to the height of Mount Everest. Bees can fly higher than twenty nine thousand, five hundred feet above sea level, which is higher than the world's tallest mountains, quoted a National Geographics That is pretty impressive. But it brings up the obvious question, and maybe we'll get more to this in a future episode. But what about the Asian giant hornets,

the murder hornets? Wow? Can they fly all the way up to the highest mountains? First, you enjoy the murder hornet story that went around the internet there and they're like, what did I somebody said that I don't know this is bullshit or not that they they actually the murder hornets. Hornets were a product of a nuclear reaction from UM Fukajima. Is that correct that they are? They're they've been modified

by UM nuclear stuff. Somebody told me, I don't know if that's bullshit, and I should probably look that up before I say it. But you have no idea. No, I mean I saw it and I just I glanced over it because that's just nothing to add. Yeah, I don't know. The Asian giant hornet, the massive hornet that can devastate honey bees and all that. Yeah, apparently this is not I don't know. I gotta look this up on the SEC here that it's they said it mutated.

I guess that's not true. So it's bullshit. Okay, because somebody had told me that this stuff gets repeated. Somebody sayd hey, mo, just a friend of mine. Uh, he says that you see this thing came from Fukajima, say giant. Yeah, I guess not all right. Anyway, I got fooled fake news. I got fooled by fake news. There you go. I got to know that's right. The guy that told me that I'll text him he'll send me a dumbass. I just repeated your stupid line without looking what I get.

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could be teaching somebody. So anybody that works out is now a meathead. That includes someone that's in a yoga studio. That's people that do videos working out are generally meatheads. So like when I see a football player post a sizzle reel of him lifting weights or something like that, I think this guy's a dummy. But what if you have a guy like telling I kind of assume that if you're a professional athlete, you work out. I don't

think I need to see you working out. It's just kind of the assumption is that if you do at your body is your temple and you have to keep it in. Well, I'm not a professional athlete, So no, you're not. You're very fat. By the way, you gotta listen to you keep eating those mint kit cats problem, big fat pig. Now all right, listen, have a great day today. Thank you again. Tell a friend about the podcast and keep those numbers up. And if you, if you have some time, review the podcast. That helps us

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