Unchartered Waters

be limited by just the signal of radio station. And we are heard eight days a week. This podcast not only available in the radio podcast which is available during the week and then on the weekends Friday, Saturday and Sunday fresh audio content. And we have not missed a weekend since we started doing eight days a week on this show, because four hours or not enough in the overnight and uh and so, but even during furlough, been furloughed, taking time off, We've adjusted the schedules to make sure

the podcast is up on the weekends. And right over there, all right, cover your ears. David Gascon is in the house there, he is right there. I was. I was debating on how we'd start this, uh this episode out, but I'm gonna make a nice audible the line of scrimmage because you must acknowledge what you have done. It might be gross incompetence, or it could be using the light of day. Ben Mallory, I witnessed you, not only in person, but I witnessed you west of the four

oh five, just a couple of days ago. And let me tell you, you look like a changed man. Changed man. You looked young, like vibrant, You look like your full life was absolutely amazing. Um, we must even when we start off this episode of congratulations to our dear friend and colleague Jonas Knox. He got married recently. We were at the We were at the wedding. I'm sorry, people,

stay in your house. It's never gonna be safe. We went to a wedding, there were people there, human beings acting like human beings, hanging out without the human beings. That happened, that's right, having fun. We got to celebrate with him. So it's awesome. So if anyone listens to him, he subs in and fills in for you, and yes

he does. I love Jonas. Jonas has been with us for a long time at Fox, and he says the overnights and he's on with what's his name, r J. Right, he goes on with r J. He's all with Brady Quinn. He also hosts his own show. It's so congratulations to him. So anyone that listens to your show when he does fill in to give him a shout out. Congratulations to

him and his beautiful wife. They had an awesome, awesome, Yeah, that was great and most important I've been to a few weddings over the years of bar Mitz was and living like that. The food fucking great, all right, The food was wonderful and they had chicken fingers, French fries,

mini slider burgers. You know, as you know, guesscon I've I fasted a lot, and I you know, there's this thing called rare and appropriate and when you're when you live the fastening life, you know, and I don't I don't really go overboard very much, but when you're at a wedding and you know, it's like a rare and appropriate social engagement. And in this year, I've only been to a couple of social things all year, so like, what the hell? Why not? And uh, and it had

a great time. The only problem was it was like it was seven hundred degrees um and uh and that was not that was so far west of the four or five. I think it was like in a I don't even think we can say west of the four or five where Jonas had had the wedding because it was way the hell out there. Yeah it was. It was pretty offen hot, but it didn't it did not prevent me and our colleague Rob Parker from looking like

our Sunday best. We were appropriately. I have a photo, a blackmail photo that I look that I am saving for the appropriate day. Why and I can docks you. I'm gonna be able to do what you're gonna docks me. I was wonderfully dressed. Nice jeans, a dress shirt, a good uh dinner jacket, you know, a pocket square, nice shoes. There was something in you accessorized was something that I believe the Malam militia would have a good time with what they think. Well, and then then I'll you're gonna

give me the green light to send it up. Green light go you can? Of course you could you put my fucking car on your fucking Twitter account and on the Fox Sports Radio social media. Why I did that because you parked illegally and risk the life of many people there. But when you back out of you you you park like an asshole. Whatever. I'm the only person in that parking lot nowadays, so whatever, It's fine. You failed to acknowledge how how great I was dressed, though.

I am a little disappointed that, but not surprised. I've never been the type to look at another man and say, that's a good dress man, that's a well dressed man. I'm just not That's not how I'm I roll man. That's not how I operate. That's fine, I mean, that's wrong with that if you do. But we heard it yesterday with Darcy was really painful when you had to give him a description to who I am and what I do out. But well, I was debating. There was a moment there to split second where I was like,

all right, do I say this guy is a asshole? Um, who's been you know, on the gravy train here at Fox Sports? Yeah, real real gravy trainer. Yeah. Oh, listen, You've reached the pinnacle of broadcasting, right, the peak of success here. Uh. I love Darcy Man. That was good. I could have done three hours of podcasting with Darcy. That was fine. But he said it though in his episode, right, And this is something you alluded to that if sports talk radio does not work out for you, you could

cross over to the political row. That's exactly what he's doing. Yeah. Yeah, he's become a news talk guy in New Zealand because they shut down that. If you missed the podcast, you it downloaded. It's obviously still available just below this podcast. But yeah, Darcy had lost his gig. They shut down the entire network during the pandemic. They they're not bringing it back most likely, and he crossed over and became a newshound and uh so, yeah, I would definitely consider that.

If Fox Sports Radio goes away, if they get rid of out and they get out of the Ben Mallar business, uh then I would I would have to go somewhere else. But yeah, I like doing sports. Haven't done it in a hundred and thirty something days, but you know why not. But yeah, it was it was fun with back to jonas though. I was it was great. I was happy I was invited. My wife. My wife was bragging too, She's like, well, see, you know people are inviting you

to things. I'm like, you know, you think you think Jonas was inviting you or inviting your wife. Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. I I'm it's like a package deal though. So that's the thing. It's a it's a contractual agreement. That's a package situation. And it's very bougie how you leave these places too, because you didn't say goodbye to meat and shake my hand and give me a hug. But you're just like, we're we're gonna take a little drive down the coast. Let me

tell you what happened after that? Go white collar? No, no, no, let me tell you what this is great. So you're right now. I do not believe in the in the long goodbye. I believe in the big hello, and and then you just disappear. And that's the proper party attache. Right. That's like Looney taught me that years ago. Looney's a socialite, he's an aristocrat, and so I learned that from Looney.

Where you go to a party, you may you show up a little late, right, and then it was, oh look who's here, and then they give you the big welcome. You say hello, and they give you the hero's welcome, like you're walking down the red carpet, but then when you leave, there's mystery, where did you go? Where are they? And it makes it more interesting you. Of course, when you leave a party, shake everyone's hand, you hug him, you hug it out and all that room, it's a

little bit different. I'm not like that. But but we did, you know the weekend that was the end of my furlough when Jonas got married. Actually it wasn't the end, but it was like the last full day before I had to go back to work. So you know, I don't usually go west of the four or five those on my people. That's not that's not my place, that's

a hostile militarized zone, uh in there. So anyway, uh, we were over the hill from Malibu, but we were also close to a place that I had always wanted to go, but it was kind of far away from where I live, way far away, Lake Sherwood. Lake Sherwood's a famous lake that many Hollywood movies. The original Robin Hood was filmed that and a number of other major

Hollywood movies over the years have been filmed. There's just really beautiful lake in the middle of that part of l A way out, you know, west of the four or five. And I think it's even like Ventura County. It's that far, I mean in l A l A proper. So I'm like, all right, well, listen, this is probably the only opportunity in any any nearer point in my life I'll be able to go to this Lake Sherwood. But I've heard a lot about it, and I want

to check it out. So we went over to Lake Sherwood and like Wayne, I think Wayne Gretzky used either does live there or used to live there, like a lot of celebrities have mansions, because it's like mansions on a hill looking over this beautiful lake. And so we go there and I, you know, I put in the ways and I drive to Lake Sherwood and uh, hand to God, guests, Scott, I couldn't find a fucking way. Again. I think it's a private lake. I don't think you're

any common people are allowed to get in. There was a gate and it did not appear to be very welcoming for the unwashed, the peasants. So that was that was a waste. And then and so then we're a lake Sherwood and there we couldn't get into it. We saw it. We drove on the hill and we saw it was beautiful and it did look just like the movies I've had it. I wasn't changed. But then we were like, oh, I think Malibu is just over the hill from here, so we'll take this road up over

the hill. And it was like a two lane road and it was like a death march. And I know people hear stories about people dying in the canyons around Malibu, and I was like, what the fuck. Oh, I could totally understand it. I mean, you make one wrong move on that road, it's lights out, party over, You're dead. It's why I've never I've never been on that road before, but it was it was scary, man. I was like

it was a finger biting time. Is this is this is the evolution of you two thousand two twenty, Like you're doing digital stuff. Now you're driving west of the four oh five, You're hanging out to a wed to Malibu like fighting to a wedding. These are these are just further motivations for you to to continue to to move And my great one, Malibu sucks all right, malib was terrible. There's nowhere to park. It's it's overwhelmed with people.

It's disgusting. Okay, well, Calabasas is close by. That's that's a great city to hang out with the Kardashians. Nothing wrong with that. Look go over everybody else in this world. That's great. Man. It's one look down from the hill at all the evil people. Yeah, you look down with your nose up. It's the way that you should be. It's a wonderful thing. I think the majority of your listeners would love to live west of the four or five. No, No,

this is a working class mallew militia. These are people assault of the earth. They've got dirt under their finger nails something. You don't know anything because they don't they don't take a bath, that they don't shower. That's why they have dirt under their fingernails. They're all credents, they're just they're just they're actually working. Unlike that. There's a

lot of listeners there and drink the little cocktails. I think there's a lot of people that that have the option to work, but they're not working because they'd rather take some statewide benefits. And we won't talk about those people. Wow, look at you. Guess all right, so let's get I want to get to this Mallard video review. How dare you with that ad? Live? Do not do the head face. It's the congratulations to a colleague of ours, a good friend.

He deserves it. No, but I thought you were You're not supposed to say you actually went to a solvent. That's taboo. I mean you were there and that Rob Parker and Bo Bo on the radio, and we had a lot of the big stars of Flox Sports Radio with you. Yeah, when we were taking temperatures, we didn't say it was a mass gathering. We name who else can we need? Though there were a bunch of people. Yeah, we came in at different times. Ralph Urban showed up. Ralph was there. He did he shout it. Ralph he

shut up with full blown ppe attire was unbelievable. He had like a poker weird mask thing going on. It was. It was kind of a Tommy Bahamas shirt and pants. It's good. Look, man, don't knock the Tommy Bahama. That's a quality look right there. I'm jealous. Those are expensive shirts. Those shirts are like two uter bucks. Yes see, you know man, that's that's the attire that you wear when you're west of the four oh five. No. But you

know the good thing with that Tommy Bahama stuff. They have an outlet store in uh was it prim Nevada, California, Nevada border and stuff pretty cheap there. That is true. That is great Father's Day attire. If you want to buy something of a year old man, Yeah, it is. They make it the be a sponsor of this podcast is what they should job by them Tommy Bahammed and will be all about that action, all about that action. So 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. The Mallard video view and it is all about panic Peddler's exposed. This obviously goes in lockstep with what we've talked about on this show, and it is a John Stossel report, and so this is a Mallard film review, a video And the good thing about this is it's only like I think it's less than six minutes, right, And I

think it's less than six minutes the entire thing. So this is not like a big thirty minute production or something or an hour. We're not asking you to do all that, um. And it's it's just a video on YouTube. John Stossel has his own YouTube channel and you can find it that way if you just go to his YouTube channel. This video that we are going to talk about on this edition of the podcast, it is titled doomsday Ers or Doomsayers Keep getting It Wrong? Doomsayers keep

getting it Wrong from John John Stossel. And we'll give the grade in a couple of minutes. But just a few of the things that stood out. First of all, uh, they they pointed out in the video John Stossel did the Imperial College of London, which are the biggest villains in this entire coronavirus story. And if you're really looking for a real bad guy and everyone wants to blame

Trump and all this, blame London's Imperial College. They were the ones when this first began to happen, the coronavirus that said between two and three million Americans we're going to die, all right, said it right there, um and they they they also said if there was social distancing on the whole population, the death toll could be cut in half, but it would still be one point one million or one point four million or something like that. That are we're gonna die by the summer, by the summer,

all right? It was bullshit. The actual death toll has been they said in this video. It's like one of that number, right. And then the thing that blew me away was I didn't really know much. Maybe you did, guest scout. I didn't know much about the Imperial College of London. I mean I was naive to it. I didn't hear any about it. And you hear this too, then they must know what they're talking about. And then

this is what really pissed me off. So I'm I'm watching the video and I wrote a few notes down here because it really resonated with me, and I was like, wow, this is this is big here the Imperial College. According to the video from John Stossel, they predicted in recent years sixty thousand deaths from swine flew, hundred and thirty six thousand people were gonna die from mad cow disease, two hundred million, we're gonna die from the bird flu.

The actual numbers somewhere in the hundreds total total. And yet these fucking politicians. These people give a number, and the politicians okay, shut everything down, shut everything down. Everyone's gonna die. And the thing that's also knowing is the the public believes it. You know, a lot of the dummies in the there's no critical thinking. Critical thinking, be damned, there's no Whatever you're told, you just believe. You believe it as the gospel. God forbid you question anything. You're

the problem. You're not You're the problem. It's so upsetting here, Guesscott. Yeah, it's like you're the anti vaxxer, you or the anti masker. Don't forget Imperial College, ben is the home of the ones I don't want to say disgrace but embarrassed scientist Neil Ferguson. He's the one that had the models and that predicting over two million deaths. And he's also the same scientists that broke the lockdown roles overseas to go meet his married lover. There you go. So I just

so so again. You know, it's like people talk about facts and what's real and what's not real. Well, these are predictions. Now. I kid around on the show all the time, on the radio show, and I say, hey, listen, I am a distant relative of the great Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas who lives in Seattle, friend of the show, and and you know, it's just tongue in cheek and I'm having a good time where it. But you can't fucking predict the future. I keep cursing here because it's this.

Really the video upset me, guess gun and uh, and it really bothered me because of what's going on, and it doesn't have to be going on. The lockdowns, and John Stossel had another person from the science community who was pointing out that the the lockdowns are wrong. They're they're dangerously wrong, which I with, I agree with, and it's all of this based on bullshit, which is just

so upsetting. And then they highlighted some of the different news outlets and some of the politicians who when you bring this stuff up, right, when you bring up this kind of stuff, they all say, and they quoted Biden, But it's not just Joe Biden, to be fair, it's everyone in political theater who says, follow the science, listen to the experts, do what they tell you, and they mock anyone that questions the science and then did you see the part this guy, what's the guy's named? Matt

Ridley is the guy's name I wrote down? So he he said, there is no such thing as as the science. Not that there's not science, but as he pointed, this is a very important lesson that I'm gonna I'm gonna steal and I'm gonna use when this stuff comes up because I know we'll have many more apocalypse before we're done and we check out of this world. But that guy pointed out out that you know, expert predictions science, all sciences is it consists of people disagreeing with each other.

That science, Hello, dummies, that science. So when you hear someone say trust the science and they dismiss you, and they're, you know, that obnoxious, like, oh, it's obviously true, it's the science. You don't believe in science, like you're a bad person. I heard this from Coope the other day. He he ambushed me on the show during the weekend. You don't believe in science and you're contradicting yourself. Well, all science contradicts itself. Yeah. Well, the best thing is

is you're not supposed to trust the science. You're supposed to challenge the science, and that's his point, is that whatever it was then is not the same as it is now. And of course you get brand new information. We go from January to February to March to where we're at at some point in July. You're supposed to challenge that because there is new information all the damn time.

And we've talked about this with the difference between wearing a mask to wearing a full blown and ninety five mask to wearing a a ppe rehab face, shielding a man ask, the gloves, the whole nine yards. Lots of these things have continued to involve. You have politicians back when we had this lockdown saying no, you guys could be out in open spaces. We had fucking Nancy Pelosi in Chinatown hanging out saying it's perfectly fine to be out here, and now all of a sun a sudden,

it's not. It's like these are the things that now. Of course, Ben don't forget is that you have people that are challenging you about this and perhaps ambushing you with these lofty, lofty accolades and resumes. And you know, I know the academics behind them, the academia, they love to show the academia that proves that this person's a genius. And the thing that's so upsetting is that they never call him on the bullshit. You know. It's like nobody

goes back and says, hey, you were so wrong. That's criminal, it's it's it's very odd how that has been allowed to happen, and nobody, nobody calls him on the bullshit. Like it's just like the way that you predict the worst case in here. If you're wrong, nobody pushes back. If you're right, then you can say I told you so, Yeah,

I told you so. You know. I just cannot understand why a guy like Andrew cuomo Is is beloved by by the media in New York when he actually put sick individuals into these retirement centers and the elderly got worse, and they got sick and then they died. That's the that's where it hurts the most. When you're when your ages infancy to your recovery rate as much higher than those that are over sixty five years of age. It's because you don't have as many underlying conditions. And he

put people in those retirement homes and they died. I mean that that in itself, Ben is it's criminal, That's exactly what it is. And he is being beloved by people, and you're getting a fraction of the people in United States that are trying to make him pay it for his bad deeds. Listen, I this video, you gotta watch it. It got my blood boiling. But I'm I'm a little pleased with one part of it because at the beginning, when they were going over the Imperial College and all

that stuff. I remember when we were on the air of the night the music stopped in the NBA and in the sports world, the world stopped that crazy night when the NBA started shutting down. Rudy Gobert had tested positive. It seemed like we were all living through a movie. Tom Hanks it was reported had the coronavirus. We didn't really know what that meant. You're always gonna die, you know, it's it's it's it's just wild and crazy. But I pointed out, I said, a lot of times these predictions

are not they don't ever turn out true. It's very frustrating, And I guess the secret here, the secret sauce in the science community is to always this is a bedrock of science in predictions, you always over inflate the numbers and then you take credit when the numbers stay alone. Right, you always shoot overshoot what you're supposed to what is reality? And uh? And then the other thing is like the whole media part of it, which is this I guess the second part of this And and that was also

I thought a really interesting part. Guy. I know you have some thoughts on this too, but I the part where predictions and the media and if you the reason this guy, I think it was Ridley right, didn't really say this, um where why do you keep getting pretty these ridiculous predictions and they're wrong and all this stuff, But yet the politicians and the media just slurp it all up, they lick it all up, um and then they get repeated year after year, whatever the case is.

And it's essentially because pessimism sells, right, Pessimism sells The media wants to believe the worst possible story. It makes for a better story. People watch the news more. We've said it for years. It's true. What's human nature? When they tell you you're gonna die their news at eleven but will save you if you watch the eleven o'clock news and the politicians that they can't push back on this.

So there's a there's an innate bias towards pessimism. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific towards pessimist, like, if you give a low prediction on a death toll, that's not gonna make the news, it's not gonna be a sexy story to write about. But if you give an outrageous cartoon number, then they're all about it. They'll

they'll run with that, right, how many people are gonna die? See? Now, That's why I was a little surprised, because if we go back to the episode we had Dick Stockton on a few weeks ago. You you have a line that you've used, that you've borrowed from them, that you said, stats don't tell you what's gonna happen. They've told you, Stats tell SATs tell you what has happened. They don't

tell you what's gonna happen. Right, And that's what I'm saying, So that that is that is a it's a faulty predictor, right, But that same thing is still applicable to what we're talking about with the coronavirus and anything else these doomstairs talk about because they shoot the moon, like you said, and then all of a sudden they look like heroes when it comes under what they had had speculated on. It's a it's a guestimate. Of course, it's not an exact am it, but it's a guestimate. And and I

think it's like, it's obviously wrong. But the fact that people don't clap back at these people is utterly absurd. Yeah, yeah, exactly, because again, the whole lesson, the big takeaway from the video, if you take one thing away, how the media covers these and listen, I'm technically part of the media, and I have friends of mine that work at news stations, television, newspaper writers, have friends I've made over the years, and I like these people, but it doesn't change how the

news business works. Right, If you say something that's really negative and really you know, doomsday prophecies like about how many people are gonna die, they run with it. They don't question it, and they just go with it because the sensationalism selves, the panic pedlar, the alarmist, the chicken little that is the mindset. Well that at the same thing crosses over to what's going on in our political realm with with the activism and black Lives matter, police

brutality and things like that. Is that if you don't if you challenge it, then you're insensitive, you lack sympathy, you lack empathy, and you're totally anti whatever that causes. Right, So if you challenge it, then you're anti science, ben and you're fucking your Yeah, you're educated, you are a neanderthal, you're whatever it may be. But you are not educated, and you don't care about the general good of the country or the world. Wow, that is It's just the

whole thing is is crazy town. The whole thing is crazy town. And you know, I get into these conversation you talk about the movement to like defund the police. I got I got a friend of mine is oh, actually get rid of He says me all these negative stories about the police right now that you know he's upset because people, uh the police that commit crime, right that they end up killing people on the job and all that stuff. And so I gave him some status and I I have told him this guy has been

cherry picking negative. He never sends any positive stories about the police. He only sends negative stories. He's got he's got police derangement syndrome and all that. You know, it's to defund the police. And and so I gave him the numbers. There are almost seven hundred thousand full time police officers in the United States. The according to the last numbers I saw, there's about nine thousand sworn law enforcement officers in America. Out of those nine almost a million.

How many of them are committing Actually, it's this thing called you know, in any group, any group, there's bad teachers, there's bad there's bad doctors. Like I pointed out to my my guy, who hates the police. I said, listen, you know the third most common cause of death in America is medical error. Why don't why don't we defund the doctors by that logic? You know, the most doctors are good. Most doctors do the right thing. Most doctors, when you go in for an operation, they do what

they're supposed to do. They don't get it wrong, they don't funk up. But some do. Some do. Sometimes you go into the operating room and there's a you know, they leave a fucking scalpel in your body. You know that happens, right, that happens. And do we defund the doctors? No, it's only the police. We're out to get the police. We gotta get the it's so so stupid, right, and you can play that game. You know. You want to stop people. Everyone wants to stop death. It shouldn't happen

from happening. Right, But there's a million people a year that die world wide wide in automobile accidents. Right, there's thirty three thousand seven or a day. Right, do we defund cars? Do we get takeaway cars to save lives through you can save four thousand lives a day almost if you just get rid of these savage killing automobiles. Yeah, you can. You can dissolve the automobile industry and you can just make trains and trams and have public transportation

across the United States. Wow, it's just the whole thing is is crazy, now, Ben, do you do know that if you're a doctor operating on a patient or treating a patient, or prescribing them medication. And that's the other thing too. You have people that are prescribed medication let's just say vicing in coding whatever it. Maybe after a surgery people get addicted to that ship pharmaceutical sales as

a whole. It's a trillion dollar industry, and there are sad unfortunate people that become addicted to medication and pills. I mean, do you find those people, those individuals, doctors and physicians, do you find them complicit in that? Because if they are, then technically speaking, those people should be charged with the crime and if they lead to that cause of death that could be manslaughter. It's just madness. Now. I'd like to think that this is just a temporary

hysteria and insanity. It will calm down. Or is it gonna take defunding the place and then having you know, I guess the crime rate. The good thing about defunding the police is the crime rate wouldn't spike up because no one be able to report the crime. Because there's no one to report the crime to. Do you know, do you have limited police, they wouldn't be able to

handle the overload or overload. I'm really just excited to see one day when someone decides to take a video of a social worker who's probably five ft four female a hundred ten pounds trying to break up a domestic violence dispute in the city of like let's say Compton or I think that'll I think that'll that'll go well. Yeah, I think that'll go well. Just to finish up on the video, right, we went long on this. We also did a few minutes on a wedding thanks to the

guest gun. But um, the other thing was about they talked about other predictions that were completely bullshit, which also resonated with me. The climate change thing, right, they made they made a big deal about that in this this video again, I recommend it. It's it's just just absolutely great. Big fan of John Stossel. He's done great work for a long time. He's now like it's just marginalized to YouTube or whatever. There's lot of people on YouTube, so

that's good. But the they did a rant about the climate change and they talked about was it Maldives is what they the islands? And they said, and they went back thirty two years ago, climate experts said that rising seas would completely cover the islands of the Maldives in the next thirty years. It's now thirty two years later. The islands, according to that not only are they still around,

but they're they're in great shape. They even built they're building a new airport there, but thirty two years ago. You must listen to science. You have to believe the experts. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. It's crazy even out. Remember Al Gore, Yeah, that movie that had a lot of bullshit that was in there that didn't happen. That's so good climate change, h and

that was a very popular documentary. You know, got a lot of money raised for for causes based on fear. And now here we are that's more than ten years since that movie. Right, Well, don't forget al Gore want a Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand and seven for for all of that too, so on climate change. So there you go, All right, let's do let's do a

little pop quiz. Yes, and then how we end up speaking for five minutes on this and the actual videos five minutes and fifty four seconds because there's a lot of good stuff packed in. There's a lot of good stuff packed in the video. You know, people are cringing at this audio right now. If they bitched a moment about last week's episode, they probably got through half of this and just no, no, this is this is good. This is good information here, this is good. They're gonna

trigger a lot of people. Oh stop please, because I don't like the reality. They're rather to go when the legend becomes a fact, with the legends. So we're going with the legend, not no, no, don't forget what you're doing, Ben, If you're challenging my truths, I know. I know you only want to hear from your I hear all the time. I liked your show, but you said something I didn't like, and I okay, that's fine. Don't listen. I'm fine. I do the show, and enough people don't listen, I won't

be on the show. And but so far that hasn't happened. I always love the fact, like I always use the analogy when I always get amused when people It actually makes me feel pretty good when people are so offended they send me as I'm not listening to you anymore. It's like going to a restaurant and you change the menu. I'm not going anymore. It's like I just don't go. Who the fund cares? You know, I mean, it's it's

so stupid, like the mindset of people. There's such idiots that do that, but they a lot of them do, and they I'm so offended. Oh I really liked your show, but you said one thing I didn't like it. Okay, what if they start attacking your sponsors and advertisers though, well, there you go. Then then yeah, yeah, well that that would be something I actually said that would have to rise to that level. I don't think I've ever said anything that would rise to that level anyway, so maybe

I will in the future, who knows. Now these are actual quiz questions. Pop Quiz a weekly feature on the show. So uh, we'll ask guestc on you listing can play along as well. So men who have this type of picture on their dating app profile will get fewer matches. What is it now? We asked one of these questions a while back on what would get you more matches? But this is what would get you fewer matches on a dating app. I know you're on all the dating apps,

guestcoun so I'd say a bathroom selfie. Bathroom selfie, well kind of, You're in the right ballpark. The answer is a shirtless selfie sutless. Now, what is the minds. Let's get in the mind of a woman. So what if it's a good look. I imagine most guys that do a shirtless selfie are proud of their body, right, they're uh, you know, not fatties, Right, They're like, yeah, I'm in good shape, I'm I'm ripped, I'm gonna do Why would why would that hurt you? Well, here's a thing, and

you're you're radio guy, and you love baseball. So taking it this way radio play by play for baseball is great because what they say is it's theater of the mind, and so that's the same thing. It's applicable here is that women want to have theater of the mind. Like you don't want to show the entire you don't want to show all the horsepower. You want to show just the outside the body. So you want to make sure that even if that guy has got you know, horses

in his in his engine, he's not flaunting everything. Because that's the other thing too, is if you're doing it for one, you're doing it for all, and women like the thing that you're only dating them, you're only talking to them, and obviously vice for a cemental women as well. So you don't want to give it away all the goods, as they would say. So I'm not I'm not condoning that, but you know it's fun, all right. So you wanna you want the element of surprise to still be there.

You want the when you unpackage the gift, you want to see what's in the gift. Gotta have little bit of four play, right, I mean, if you're you know, I mean, you don't want to answer the door and the woman just dropping drawers right in front of you. It's nice, but I mean gonna lead into it, you know, like a bottle of wine or something like yeah, because if she's doing that for you, you know she's doing it for somebody else or has you know. Well there's

a point for some guys that don't mind. You know. That's what Amsterdam is for Vegas. Alright, alright, anyway, here's the question. At thirty seven percent of people who started working from home during the pandemic, I've discovered this surprising factoid. Um, they've discovered this, Um they work more efficiently. Do do do Do you know that they are actually working more than when they're in the office. That's the same thing, not more, no efficiently, more efficiently would mean you're working

less because you're getting more work done. I don't know. I mean working eight hours at work is different than working eight hours at home, because I think you probably work harder at home. You get the flowers at home than you do when you're at well. I've I've worked more just because of the time I would spend driving from Siberia into work. I just spend working and finding things to talk about and do and things like that.

So I haven't put in more time. I always put a lot of time in any ways, just too I put way too much time, and I should do a lot less of Some of these guys show up a minute before the show and just turn the mic on, and you know, I don't usually do that. Like, I don't know. I feel like I should be getting paid on your show too, Like I send you a lot of great a material. I write some of the monologues. I feel like I should be getting paid. It's all

the monologues. Coop does, all the teases. I just show up a minute before I'm there at ten fifty nine West Coast time. That's when I show up. When was the last time you actually had a producer write a monologue for you, like has that never happened, never really had Like I've never had that happened. But I have had producers that were proactive, that would send me stories and say, hey, this would be good. I think this

is better at your wheel. I haven't had that in a while, but and I I like that, you know, say, helped me out a little bit. But I've had only a few of those guys over the years too, so it's it's pretty every man for himself pretty much. All right. Uh, here's the question. The average person owns six of these, but I didn't pay for any of them. I was gonna say shoes, Um, six of these the average person something to do with the kitchen. I was gonna say, umbrellas.

Um uh fuck they have six fucks? Is that what you're guessing? Fuck me? Fuck you that man. I don't um. I'm I'm baffled on this one. I will say, let's say, frying pan, frying pan, alright, frying pan. No coffee mug, yeah, coffee six? Like I could see that. My wife buys a lot of coffee mugs, but she also has people give her coffee. She loves coffee. I don't have any

coffee more. She's a coffee drinker. Yeah, she's not perfect, that's not I thought she was a hippie, like the herbal tea and you know, something like the ayahuasca like that. Now she does a lot of tea stuff too. She does coffee alright, Um, working overnights. I don't do it, but she does more. Kids say they would rather do this activity with their mom than their dad. Shop shop that's sexist, guest gun hunt there you Uh no, The answers go for a drive. Why would it be more

fun with mom than dad? Why would that be more fun? I don't know, it's the same thing. Maybe because they know mom will always give them a treat after the drive. Oh that's true, Like, oh, it's got some ice cream. You've been good. Dad's like, fuck you, I didn't get you. All right. When a couple argues about this subject, the woman almost always wins. I was gonna say, a time together. Uh no, Whether whether a pet sleeps in the bed? Fuck that? Does bella sleep in your bed? She does?

She does? Yeah, No, wonder you don't get any sleep? No, she's dude. She sleeps more. You can't even hear. It's not even like a really dog. She's a bark. But aren't you worried about like turning over and hitting her or kicking her. I don't really turn over much at all. And and you know it's every dog for itself. You know, she can't get out of the way that's on her. That's a bad job by her. All right, all right, this is this kind of this is pet related. So

this is the number one topic that dog owners fight over. Um, who walks the dog? That is correct? Who has to take the dog for a walk. Now, we don't take Bella for walks. We have a backyard, a little backyard, and Bella runs around out there and does her thing. And she doesn't need a lot of exercises. A lazy fuck. So she's got that going for little backyard with a mile long drive. Well, you have a fire pit in your backyard. Don't tell me it's little. It's such a

bullshit arepit? Yeah, it's a it's a pit. It's not a firepit. It's a fire pit. Your definition of firepit in my definition of firepit? Or two for things? All right. According to a new survey, seventy of people admit they always buy a cheap version of this product cheap deodorant, no sunglasses. Yeah, I I was big on I mean, I need prescriptions, so I can't do that anymore, But

I I was big. I used to love going to like Venice Beach and the boardwalk there, and they had those guys hawking those you get like three pairs of sunglasses for ten bucks back in the day. Now I think it's two for ten bucks. And will you ever do that in Hawaii? Uh? Yeah, well not the last couple of times because I've had my glasses, but because Hawaii is always synonymous with what those ABC stores. Oh yeah, yeah,

those are cool. Yeah. They have all the little snacks and they have the sunglasses and all the stuff you need, sunte and lotion, all that stuff. Yeah. 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. According to a new survey, seventy of people that admit they always buy a did that one bad job by me? All Right, it's the fiftieth anniversary of this food packaging item. Food fiftieth anniversary

of this food package food packaging item. Um, uh, it's tarts, No it's beverage related. Um fuck um he said that effort a lot today. High see. No, it's the two Leader bottle's fifty years old. Yeah, I'm more of a can guy. The two Leader bottle always seems to go too fast. I think it's just my head playing tricks with me, because you feel you take a drink and it's like half empty and yeah, alright. Of all Americans say they have gone at least one week without doing

this masturbating. Uh, well, that might be true for you. I don't think it is. The answer is actually paying with cash. M I've gone a longer, way longer than a week without paying with cash. Very rarely pay with You pay with cash a lot, guess. I don't remember the last time I've paid anything for although when I go of certain places now with service, I'll pay in cash if there's a tip involved, just because I feel guilty about them, because they get taxed on the tip.

If you pay in your card, so we'll go get my haircut or whatever, you pay bucks or the haircut and you tip out on the card, they get taxed on that. You know, five bucks that lead behind his opposed to straight cash. They can pocket that so there you go. All right. A new survey says nearly half of Americans keep one of these inside their cars. What is it? Uh? Flashlight? No, that is incorrect the answer this is surprising in the digital age. A map? Oh,

a map? Can you imagine what people if you said the word Thomas Guide to people? Do you know exactly? Do you know how many people would probably pick that and say that they know what that is? Well, it depends. It's the point of d marcation. Right. How old you are tells you if you know what a Thomas guy is.

I have fond memories when I was a kid and we'd go on like a summer road trip to the Grand Canyon, or we'd go to northern California somewhere, and we'd go to the Auto Club because they offer free maps, and it was all I love looking at the maps. And I asked, like, sometimes I get maps from places we weren't going because they were free because we're Auto Club members, And I just like, look at the maps of it. Wow, that'd be cool. I want to go there some day and check it out and all that.

And now it's forget that. Just go on your phone. You have an app and you're good. What would be more challenging reading a Thomas Guide or a map Disneyland? Oh, I know Disneyland like the back of my hand, guest guns, So that Thomas Guide would be It would be more now that Disneyland made up now where it has like one land, where it's like virtue Land, um triggered Land. A new survey found about half of all people lie to their significant others about this. What is it how

many sex partners they've had in their past? Well, that's an obvious one. That's not really what this is the how much money they make? No, it's uh, they're snacking habits. They downplay they're big fat fatties. They like to go out and enjoy the gorging on food and and overdoing it and all that. And have you ever had a conversation with with your wife about what you like to snack on? No, I don't give a funk with she. She doesn't really care what I eat. Have never had

a conversation yeah at all. You know, she's occasionally should go on a snack bender and I'm fine because I'm the beneficiary area that I get to and it, you know, because she's snacking She'll like, hey, have some of this, and I'm like, okay, I'll have some of that. Why not? Alright, researchers, this is interesting. This is kind of study this type thing. Researchers say studying this animal could lead to cures for jet lag, cancer and other illnesses. Owls, No reindeer, reindeer reindeer,

Yeah about that? No, wild, That is wild. I always love these reports because they are very optimistic, you know, like this is gonna help with the the cancer and all this stuff. And then you never hear the payoff on that. You know, they hear you hear that part, but you don't hear the the payoff clickbait if you Yeah, well exactly, and there's a lot of that. Unfortunately, let's do one more here and then well I will move the rest of study this to the next podcast. Yes,

because we're getting a little long in the tooth here. Alright. So, uh, the longest one ever recorded was four dred and forty miles. What is it? A long yeah? Um um um mum mum forty one miles uh um. I don't know, all right, The answer is a lightning bolts a lightning. The longest one I see that did you see that Russians goalkeeper like a week or two ago gets struck by lightning? Uh? No, I did not. I don't think I saw that. Yeah, there was a Russian goalkeeper. You can look it up

online if you google it. Whatever's listening. I think it was the weekend of the fourth of July. He was warming up and he was in the penalty box area taking a kick into his own goal during warm ups and got drilled by lightning. He survived, but he got he got drilled, and my grandfather got hit by lightning. He did he get hit directly or was it was indirectly? But he I think it happened twice in Massachusetts. Yeah, what are the odds of that? I know, I know.

I guess he took care of you know, he's long gone, but I guess he took care of it for other people because if he got hit twice, that means somebody else didn't get right. All right, anyway, that's that put a wrap on this. I see the red light actually is a yellow light turning into a red light. Uh so, thank you again. Check out cameo dot com. Ben Mallard Gascon's on there. I'm on Twitter at Ben Mallard Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox, the Facebook page Ben Maller Show.

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