What About Me?

Ben Maller starts right now. Audio bear, knuckle boxing, we bob and weave on the podcast here as we are in the air everywhere the vast power of I Heart the podcast network from my heart, and as you know, you were available everywhere and man or a lot of places to get podcasts endless really when you think about most people seem to get their podcasts. You get on iHeart or Apple, but people find it. I get people that email me from very odd places I didn't even

know existed that you can get the podcast. It is all over the place. And we do this podcast now eight days a week, just like the old Beatles song eight days a week because of the pandemic and the numbers are good, and if the numbers continue to be good, the downloads are up and more people are listening than we will continue somehow to pull out three podcasts a week, even when things return to normal and we don't have any reason to do it because we can actually leave

our homes and we're imprisoned. We're under house arrest in California. We got some good news here this week that we learned that because of really doing well in in prison, uh that being a model prisoner, we're getting our our sentence extended for three months. It sounds like hopefully not, but as always I am joined by for better or worse, the man affectionately known in the hallways of Fox Sports Radio as gag On David Gascon. Yeah, we're we're up

over the last sixty days. Been a and uh yeah, people are living listen to us all over the platforms. I Heart Radio, Apple, iTunes of course, Spotify, Apple Watch, Stitcher, uh tune in. You know it's it's um. The evolution of you in is continued to pave out nicely and blossom like a beautiful rose um the digital This is where the narcissist checks all right, This is where humble brag Gascon go ahead, humble brags, shelf adoring pampas guest go on. Earlier in the week, gest to the four

oh five guesscons. Earlier in the week, I was showered by praise from you on on a nice little little prop for for show, and we already covered that in a future but former podcast. I was remissed though, to mention the fact that last week you actually did the same when we took our act to Zoom and we provide something on on YouTube which was nicely decorated, and you were pleasantly surprised that it actually turned out. Well. Yeah, I was expecting horrific things. We did a podcast one

time on what what was that thing we did? Uh? Yeah, we did it on Skype and it it literally was tin can string quality. The first radio like when the Titanic sent the Morse code that sounded better than the podcast that we did on on Skype. It was horrible. So I was assuming that that was That was the expectation I had, that this would be like Skype. That's what I assumed it would be. Well, unfortunate for them, but fortunate for us. We did survive the Maiden Voyage. Yeah,

there's Zoom things pretty cool. I've only done a few of those with my family, but and I did this from the studio, and I have this other headset. I didn't use the microphone that I used for the show, and it worked out pretty well. By the way, I want to announce guess on that in the next couple of weeks, if everything goes right, I will be redecorating the home studio. I will be rebranding the home studio.

Thank god, you did some penance up there. You need Uh no, No, I'm gonna put like I don't want to say what I'm I'm not surprised you, but it'll be branded more. It'll be more branded on the company brands, so I'll have that. I mean, that's that's I mean, nothing says white color like I'm gonna have company branded material at my home studio because I'm doing this from work. Yeah, okay,

so it's a long drive, bro, I'm risking my light. Bro. Yes, you're the sniveling child like that Tampa Bay Rays pitcher over there. So if you rebrand your studio, does that mean that you'll rebrand your wardrobe because I heard that my wardrobe is fine? You dick? What you said that after you're opening? Well, yeah, I do actually do take the hat all because I I'm a sweater you know, and I the problem is the light. I'm actually going to upgrade the lighting because people have been bitching that's

too dark in here. But I'm like really, so I guess to make the videos pop more, there's some lighting I can get that's not that expensive that I can just put in here. And my my wife found it. This is a great guest. This is how low my life is. This is what such a loser I am. Right now, Okay, let me tell you something. It's how pathetic I am. So I'm making these YouTube videos and they're getting thousands of views, which is pretty cool. You know,

it's nice. It's something I didn't have before and I didn't really ask for and they asked me to do it. So I was like whatever and um and Sody was like the lighting is not great. So my wife goes on the internet and sees what like Instagram booty models where when they're making their videos and stuff, and it's like this light that's like wrapped around the phone type deal and yeah, the ring lights. Yeah, the ring light.

I even know what the funk that was. And so then I saw it and then I was like, all right, all I'll get one of those. I'm gonna have some ring lights, so it really pop there and I'll probably start sweating like that. No, they don't get hot. The cool thing is those ring lights. You can actually change the lights, so it can be like a bright color. It can be a tan color, or it could be blue. It can make me look tan. Yeah, it can be the tan man. So it depends on the circumference that

she got you. I don't know if maybe look younger and skinnier. Well, yeah, that depending on the configuration of the life. Yeah. So they great. I'm into this. Now I'm excited. I was not excited about having to be like an Instagram booty model, but now I'm excited. So they connect via USB. So I don't know how many she bought you, but I'd probably recommend to have too. And you can get a USB adapter that will plug into your computer or like iPad or you have to

plug into the computer. Is that other work? Yeah, to power it on? Yeah so really, but it goes it goes via USB. So you know, like if you had a thumb drive or if you had like a you know, a teabout hard drive that you plugged into your computer the same way that it powers on. So you want to have one on your left side, probably like it around like ten o'clock, and another one to your right at like one or two o'clock. Just this is becoming more expensive here as I talked to you know, you

know what, I only ordered one of them. Yeah, it's probably twenty bucks, right fibbucks. I think it was a little more than that, and it was like thirty something. It's not just the light though, it comes with the tripod and it goes at different levels. Yeah, there's a try. I got the one with the tripod because I got a weird My studio is a weird set up in here. You've been in here. It's got a raise kind of

desk and stuff that I have in front of me. Okay, so the tripod itself, though, it tilts, so if you put your cell phone on there, or even your computer or your light, those lights they all tilt or you can move them to the side and tilt them again. So if you want to get the right angle, you can tweak it. It's not like a just a straight up tripods. Have experience with this. Guest guy sounds like I use that stuff at home. So yeah, I mean

part of me encouraging you like two years ago. Here we go, like over three hundred sixty five days ago, it was too did do stuff like this, Which is just amazing that someone now asked you to do it and you're like, yeah, I'll do it. That's a great idea. I'm happy that I never said it was a great idea. I never said it was a great idea. Yeah, but I figured, you know, if somebody, if a boss asked you to do something during a pandemic, you probably should consider.

You probably should consider. You know what I'm saying, when people are losing their jobs, I'm like, you know, who am I to bitch? You know? I could? I could do this? Well, I just think it's that much work. I can do it and people seem to like it. So that's good. What's part of the evolution? I mean, because you are you're a multi media broadcasters, So I think that's the purpose of being you know, multifaceted as

opposed to just you know, one trick pony. So I think this goes back to what we talked about last week, like how to win friends and influence people? Right? Have you finished the book? Now? It's a great read man. It is a wonderful book. Is that not great life advice? It is an easy book, and yeah, like I I every time I read a chapter, I think about what I used to do compared to what I do now, and it's like a bullet of Chatti shop a little bit different. Yeah, you know, I have changed the way

I broadcast. I read that book years ago, and I incorporated some of the things that I use on the radio. Just a fucking minute, no way, Yes, I do the opening chapters, the three c's, don't complain, don't criticize, and don't condemn, and you do all three of them. I ignored that part. Okay, I ignored that, But there's other parts of the book that I do. I do use,

do you. Yeah, I don't want to get into it here, but yeah, I mean there are certain things later in the book that we talked about on human relations that I have added to my repertoire. And uh, and it really helped me. It's good. It really helped me and and I think it helped create what we have whatever whatever it is on the show. And you know what, I'm happy that I'm reading it. So it's uh, it's enjoyable. Um. I know you said your your wife is on books too,

and here we go again. All right, at least you made it almost ten minutes this podcast with mentioning my wife's name, So congratulations. The last podcast was less than three minutes. At least you almost made it to the ten minute mark this week. Well, I think it's a team effort, don't you. You mentioned last week that she's into these books now, like she's in all this like brain food books. Oh yeah, she's been taking college classes and she's been I guess she wants to go back

to school for some degree or whatever. But you know, she's got that, and she's been reading all these different books, and I just tell her, don't tell me because I'm like I've told it, don't buy anything, don't buy any I'm taking a pay cut, don't buy anything. And so as long as I don't know about it, out of sight, out of mind, you know, buy whatever the hell hell you want, but just don't tell me about it. Well that's good. See this is the evolution of the Mallards.

Then this is this is great. I'm excited for your Christmas party. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure everyone's gonna come to my Christmas party this year. I'm sure no one will stay home. Yeah, yeah, yes, we'll I'll be wearing those the t Rex costume to blow up t Rex costume will be Halloween theme to the oh Man, oh Man oh Man. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and

the I Heart Radio app. I didn't mention this in the previous podcast. I would like to address this right now. Will we will get to the usual standard fair here study this and my favorite part of the podcast, pop Quiz, which I love. I can just quiz David gascon Man Do I love that and I have all the answers and he's gotten none of the answers, and then you can play along. I like the fact that you can play along, and that's pretty cool that you can play along.

So we'll have pop Quiz as well. But I wanted to address the profanity and I had something embarrassing. I have not said this at all publicly. This is the first time I'm gonna say this publicly, so I do now because of what's gone on with the pandemic. I broadcast the podcast on the radio show from the same place. Now.

Before I would just do the podcast from the studio, my home studio, the old w e I studio, and and that was the way we do and then and so then they've asked me the company to continue doing the show from home for the time being, And so I do all of the shows out of here. And sometimes when i'm podcast Mallard, I let it rip. You know, fux shit, you know, all these big words, and I can't say on the radio show. But then I have to do the radio show from the same place. And

and so I finally got caught. This is this is so embarrassing. So I I end up. I do my hit in Kansas City, right a couple of days ago with Bob Fesco in Kansas City. So again I'm in the podcast studio, I'm in the radio studio. I just done the radio show, and I'm doing my thing, and I somehow slipped a fuck into the comments. I was so upset about Blake Snell that I just casually worked in the word fuck in to my response, which would not have been a problem if this was not for

the UH Commercial Airways. Unfortunately, that was a pre record. This week, we're able to pre record it. Usually we don't do that, but we we pre recorded it so it was able to be edited out. But yeah, I get this message from Bob. Hey, you realize you said fuck on the No. I did not realize I said that. I had no idea. I would not have said that. Why would you say that. That would be ridiculous to say that. That would be so stupid to say that.

But yeah, apparently I said it every so often, right, Uh, you slipping the tongue And yeah, the first time that ever happened. I've told this story a few times, but I was. It was during the Olympics back in the nineties, and we were so depressed. We had been preempted by women's hockey. So it's like late nineties get preempted by women's hockey at the Olympics. And so we were on a night show. We're like, it's like delayed tape, delayed

women's hockey. I'm like, who the funk wants to hear that? Know? In l A? Oh my god. I was on a local show in l A. And so they the boss is like, hey, listen, you know, I'm sorry about this, but the good news is the game might not go that long and maybe you'll get on. So just hang out. You have to hang out in Burbank, where we're doing the show from. So so I went across the street with the guys on the show. We went to adults and we were just drinking. And you know, I don't

drink very much, but that night I did drink. And we were eating chicken fingers and talking ship about people we worked with and uh. And then we got a phone call, not a text message, because that text message wasn't in vogue back then. We get a phone call, Hey,

the game's going short, get your asses back here. So okay, So we stumble like a bunch of stumble bumps back to the radio station across the street and we go up to the eighth floor where the studios were, and we're hammered and um, apparently that night we just randomly we were finishing sentences with instead of periods. Ship. Uh, we say that off, you know, fuck, and it was. It was a disaster. So that's like the only time that's really happened consistently on the air until this week.

That's good. I'll never let it happen again because you don't have the power of the dump button where you're at operating from. I do not that's that's a good thing, though. I have plausible then ability because if somebody says something like, it's really up to on the radio show, I guess somebody claims somebody cursed. I don't think they did this week, but it's up to Roberto and Coope. And the great thing about those guys don't listen every second, so occasionally

you can slip one past the goaltender. Yeah that's good. It does happen on the menu. Alright, So yeah, study this and pop quiz will start with study this. This this is where we read you studies. It's our tribute to Penn and Teller's Old Shore show on showtime bullshit. And we determine whether these studies are legit or their bullshit. And so let's get this party started. The first study, a new study out says that playing video games for just one hour improves your focus. How about that? Do

we believe this? Do we not believe? I actually believe is And this is this is nice because most studies that are done about video games are it leads to you killing people and you're gonna be a bad seed if you play video games. This is to get off my lawn crowd. So I I agree with this, especially

in the new video games. I'm guessing when I was playing duck Hunt back in the day, it didn't really improve my focus very much compared to playing Grand Theft Auto or some of the games that are out today, which are so ridiculous, so over the top the graphics and all that. So I I absolutely buy that too. Do you play well, do you play any games on

your phone? Oh? Yeah, yeah, Well my michigas I told you a few weeks back, is I'm playing one of these games that will pay you if you get to a certain let a certain level, right, and so it when I started the first like two days of playing the game, I ended up making like seventeen dollars. And then it said this is great. So it says, all right, well great, I'm gonna look at it right now. All right, So it says here you need to have twenty dollars to exchange for an Amazon gift card or cash out

with PayPal. So I'm at like seventeen dollars. So I'm like, oh, no problem, right, And so then after like you know, fifty levels, it will give you some more money to add on to the to the pot. So after a few days, I was at seventeen dollars. I have now played let me check here, I have played one thousand three levels and I'm at eighteen dollars. Yes, and you've got to play about a hundred and eight levels between

getting more money. And but it's like this, it's like a Ponzi scheme because but I don't think that's the right analogy. But like you played a hun lets say, played two hundred levels, and when I first started, they were giving you like three dollars or two dollars, and then it's it slowly has weaned like ten cents or fifteen cents. It goes like fifteen, then ten, then fifteen. So it's gonna take me like another three months to

get to the twenty dollars. But I'm gonna keep doing it because I'm stubborn, I'm pig headed, and I'm gonna keep doing it. And then I'm gonna cash that twenty dollars out and say funk that game. And then I'm gonna go buy a hat with that twenty dollars. What I'm gonna do the only do you only cover you do only cover like half a hat because he's hats like forty bucks now, which is ridiculously yeah, because you gotta buy two hats for your big dumb shut up. The only game I play on my phone is uh,

it's a logic base game called Sudoku. Have you heard of that? You had? Another way for you to humble brag. I play a logic base game. Well, I gotta characterize what it is. A buddy of mine got me onto it when we took a trip last year to Europe and this game you go, you got. It's like sliding like a back door curveball, like the batter's knees are frozen. I mean, I'm onto you, guest, Scott, I know you're staying. It's like, let me just working. How great I am?

Like you know better than you? In Europe traveling with my one of my academia friends, one of my one centers west of the four h five. Okay, first of all, yes, he's west of the four oh five, but I know it. I knew he was west of the four oh five. I know it. But he he's like this guy that knows all these great and useless stats and and facts, and so he had this crossroom puzzle that was out and he was playing, you know, playing the crossroom puzzle, and then he flipped the page and he had this

game that he was playing. I'm like, what the funk is this and he explained it to me, and it's logic bass. So it has nine different grids that are together and you gotta fill each of them with the numbers one through nine, but they can't anyone row can't have the same number, and you have to obviously see it to get a better understanding of it. But it's it's super frustrating and it's it's challenging. So you know, certain blocks will have a lot of numbers, certain ones won't.

You have to logically place those numbers one through nine in different spots and so things to do when you're stuck up flight. So yeah, I'm old schools. So like I I don't want to have to take a MENSA test to play a game on my phone. I want painless, carefree, uh, just past the time, that kind of stuff. And but see, you have a PlayStation, don't you, or an Xbox. Yeah, we have a PlayStation in the house. I don't use it,

but the family does. I want to get one, but a couple of colleagues at Fox and not to do it until Christmas because the new PlayStation is coming out. So I waited. But but I should have you. Uh, I should have you connect me to your brother because which one um? The one in entertainment? Uh? Oh, my brother in law. He's not working right now because there's nothing's being made. Well, I know that. But I finished. For the first time ever, I wrote a pilot. I'm

pretty happy about that. It took me a little while. Another way for you to pray. But about playing video games, you were relentless. I'm just talking lest I can't I share these things with you. I'm part of my life of what I'm doing. I you know, I have friends. I feel like it's a big accomplishment to write something like that, right, I mean, you're so matter of fact about sliding these things in any very savage way. By the way, I feel like way of your merciless It's like, hey,

I'm better than Mallard. I have a smart I'm smarter friends. Mallard's friends are knuckle draggers. They're that's who Mallard hangs out with. A bunch of barbaric people know I think. I think the smartest person I've ever come across that you affiliated with is Lee Klein and that guy's encyclopedia. I feel like I feel we got very upset with me because I sent him the stories about how, you know, the coronavirus stories that the numbers have changed, they're not

as bad we got. He just like yelling aim and screaming at me. He's trying to vilify me. I've been a friend with that guy for twenty five years. I was like, all right, I'm just down. Yeah, you know he's not. He's not gonna get those stories because he can't handle them. So he gets triggered. So back to my story. Do you think you can back to your story? Yes? Mr Narcisses guest God, Yes, yes, go ahead here. So you want me to hook you up with my brother in law who works on He's a set guy. He design,

he helps make the props. He's a prop guy, a lot of work. Man. Have you been on a set that he is, Uh, he's designed. I have not. I have been on sets in the past for different stuff. And well, we used to do the show. One of my favorite parts of my career at Fox Sports Radio was in the early days is where I get to brag. Guest Gun And we had satellite studios at the Fox lot in West l A on Pico, and they gave

us a path. I had the free reign to wander around the back lot at the Fox Studios in Los Angeles. It was unfucking you. I couldn't believe it. And because I had cleared by security, I'd go in there. I walk around, you know, those New York City backdrops and all the different setups, the outside set up so they film commercials or TV shows or movies. I got to I lived, I got to walk through that. It was amazing. I was. I was like a pig and slop and I would take friends. Yeah, this was why I should

have taken women. That would have been a good way to impress women. But I'm such a loser. I took my guy friends and I take my friends and we'd walk around the back lot at the Fox lot. And you know, unfortunately there was no cell phones back in in those days to take selfies or whatever around. But but I have tremendous memories in my head of doing this. And then you know what stopped that, guest Gun, Uh,

unionizing right, No, Uh, September eleven. Yeah, once September eleven happened. Uh, the ship hit the fan and you had to drive through like amaze to get on the Fox lot. I still remember that. Were like sandbags, guys with like fucking M six team means outside. It was unreal. I actually was on the Fox lot on September eleventh. I was doing updates that day. I was backing when I was

doing updates and I, yeah, it was crazy. It was so they made us move our cars out of the parking garage because there were rumors that they were going to bomb the movie studios and uh. And so I had to go during the shift in between updates, I had to go move my car out of the parking garage, the underground parking and uh. And then I remember driving home after that and driving by L A X and no planes. I'm like, whoa this is? This ship is insane man. Anyway, did you ever go on a set

with with Fred Dryer? I did not know. I did not have you. What are you talking about like a movie? What about You've been on porn sets right in the past, guest, and you were in a porn career? No, but uh, but my dad was. He was able to go on plenty of sets because he was good friends with Steven Botko before he passed. Oh wow, Bosco is a legend, man.

I guys like a king of television back in the day. Yeah. Yeah, so like twenty one, Jump Street, Murder one, Um cool, like all those was your dad like an advisor because he had all the day stuff. Yeah, he got like a consulting credit. Like the whole nine Yards Sonic Blues, like you should have put your dad on. Your dad is like the definition of what a police officer looks like. He's got the total police officer look, the perissona, the

whole thing. They should just put him in uniform is like an extra that would have been nice, But he got to he could muck it up with the with the head hot shows. So it's cool. I got to see some of the old scripts back in the day, and you know, it's pretty surreal to see that stuff now. But yeah, that's that's great for you to have that kind of experience. I want to point out that we've done study this. We did one story study. We are

probably twenty five minutes into the podcast. We've done one study be sure to catch live edition so the Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm. All right, uh, here we go. Let's try to go through some of these without giving twenty minutes stories and sermons about your life. Guest, got bitter becomes better? A study finds you can train your taste buds to like veggies. Believe that. I do believe this too. I had an old guy tell me years ago how to do this.

It's it involves fasting, but it also involves like just eating one food for a certain amount of time. I don't know if it's like a week, two weeks, a month, but like if you eat just potatoes and you can't put I remember you said you can't put salt, pepper, or garlic or seasoning on the potatoes, just potatoes. You can bake the potatoes, but you just can. You can only eat the potato without like butter and all that other stuff. And then if you just eat the potatoes

for like a month, then you will reset. When you start to eat other foods, the other foods will taste much different than they did before. I just yeah, I was thinking, like if you ate it. You mentioned the season and I was gonna say, like eating those things with other food incorporate with it, like a steak or chicken breast. Yeah, I don't know about that, but I was told that if you want to reset your body,

you can. You have to, and it doesn't have to potatoes, but it has to be something without a lot of flavor to it, to kind of a bland food, and you just eat that only that. Can't eat anything other than that for a certain amount of time, and then when you start incorporating other foods they will taste much different. But you should not take medical advice from a podcast. No, definitely should not. All right. A zoologist has discovered the

first known animal that doesn't breathe oxygen. How about that? Wow, that's a game change. You're right, du tell alright, So let me give you the details on this, because these are the kind of things that that I enjoy. Yeah. This is out of Tel Aviv shout out Israel. Zoologists and Tel Aviv University have discovered the new animal that does not breathe oxygen. This challenges the long standing assumptions

in the science community about the the more Kingdom. Now the newly discovered species is a type of parasite, which I don't know that does that count as a animal? I don't know. I guess it's a parasite called a oh boy, I'm not gonna be able to pronounce that, uh called. It lives in the muscles of a salmon and is made up of less than ten cells. Is related to corals and jellyfish at some point though, and it's evolution. The salmon and cola whatever, uh, stop producing

energy via respiration. So they're examining this and they're trying to determine if this how does this relate to us? And could we see more creatures? Are there more creatures out there that we don't know about that don't breathe auction? All right? We got UFOs that are coming out now, and now we get creatures not breathing oxygen. So yeah, all right, So here we go. You have a sofa at the guess on palace there? I guess you have

you have that going? Yes? All right? Uh So, a new study out says the average couch sees thousands of kisses and people spilling drinks and all that, but most are never cleaned. According to new research out, this is out of Europe um and they they say that this is done in Britain. But they said the average couch will be a comfy place for couples to kiss roughly four thousand, four hundred times. The sofa will also be the convenient location for over three thousand dates, four thousand,

two hundred eighty seven hours spent cuddling. Uh. They say they're there'll be three thousand, two hundred forty arguments. I like how they're exact, uh, and they say. Researchers added that a person will likely be kicked out of bed and sent to sleep on the couch six twelve times in the life of the couch. But it gets messy. Researchers claim that the ridged sofa will see six thousand,

nine hundred sixties spills during his life. And despite all of that, twelve percent of the response it's admitted they've never cleaned their couch. Another said it's been at least a year since they've cleaned their couch. So all right, let's you want to have some fun with numbers here, guests, I'm gonna use some Mallar math. Now, remember disclaimer. Mallar math is a version of math, but not accurate math. It's mallar math. That's the way it goes. Okay, so

let's do the math. Twelve percent of six thousand, nine hundred and sixty what would what would that number be? Uh, let's see here. Wow, that's and then you expand that and like that's a lot of people haven't clean. Yeah, I believe that. I get very upset when stuff gets built on the sofa at the Mallard Man. We got a pretty long sofa here and it happens all the time. But in fact it got stained. I don't want to see what happened, but we have a stain on it.

Like it wasn't me. Yeah, well there was. There was some art. We had an artist in the house, guess on that was. And they had a pen with this this bright red kind of highlighter type pen thing that was permanent and they were shaking the pen and kaboom, and it exploded and went all over the side of the sofa. So we did instead of just fixing it and replacing the sofa because it's expensive, we just put

a blanket over. It. Goes to your point though, like a lot of couches, they're not white, you know, so they're usually or brown or black. So more often than not, they either can't see it or they just assumed no one else is gonna see it anyway, so I clean it all right. Next on study this a Love and Loneliness. Fifty two of Americans already in relationship are using dating apps whall in quarantine, taboo, bad job by you on you?

And they think this is more men or women. The joke is it's got to be men, right, But I think it's gonna be man, you know, like the women for their ego are out there. I think. I think I think women are more clever to be on social media, so they're gonna do anything like this. They work other means, what kind of deceit what kind of deceitful ways are you thinking? The kinder gentler, I think friends of friends,

I think co workers. I think there's waste to Oh so you think they're like hooking up with they are hooking up. They're actually hooking up with other I got you, Yeah, all right. The survey commissioned by Lelo, I don't know what that is. I found that forty is out of New York of both single and attached Americans are at downloaded a dating app wall in quarantine. The big difference, however, was that people who already have a significant other are

apparently taking their browsing browsing even further. They said forty of single people said they've signed up for a dating website during the isolation, fifty two percent of attached Americans signed up. And they got a bunch of other numbers here that Yeah, I guess i'd buy that. Why not?

What the hell? Dating sites are are out there and people are using them, and they're curious, and they're like, hey, let me see if people see if I'm still attractive and people will want to hook up with maybe there's something better out there. Would you have that? Would you ever investigate your wife's phone if you had that suspicion? Uh? Again with the wife, no question, she wouldn't care. I mean she I can play with her phone or whatever. You can play with my phone. It's no no big deal.

So what about you are your paranoid type guest on do you think? No, I'm not a paranoid type, but I think that I have the appreciation for everyone's right to privacies. I wouldn't barging in. Yeah, I mean that's the thing. I mean, my my space your space, I said, my space. That's an outdated but yeah, get the point, all right, A couple more studies and we'll get the pop quiz, which is my favorite part of the bit. Uh. Here we go study. All disease models are wrong, they say,

but new mathematical tools out can help. This is important to me because we talked about I don't know if it was this podcast or a previous podcast, about the fact that many decisions are made based on these models, these scientific models, which they scientists admit they're all wrong, but yet society shuts down based on these which is very upsetting to us. All right, I think we can we're on the same page on this is at a University of Colorado. University of Colorado study, they determined this

that they're all wrong. They're all wrong. The researchers in Colorado, they say they've developed a new mathematical tool that can help produce more accurate disease infection predictions. Where the funk was this before coronavirus anyway, goes into detail and need all the minutia. Can look that up on the internet yourself.

But yeah, we can see a headline from scientists that say all disease models are wrong, and yet you try to point that out to someone and wait two more weeks, Oh my god, wait till more kes just slap them in the faces. What you would like to do? Alright? See here, you know I wouldn't We just move on to pop quiz because we're getting late in the in the day here, Yes, and I want to pop quiz al right. These are actual quizzes for Gascon and you

can play along as well. The way the bit works, which is more fun, is if you try to answer these and then you can pat yourself on the back and brag if most people don't listen with anyone else, and you can say how smart you are to yourself. All right, so here we go. Uh, here's the question. We throw away five hundred seventy nine of these each second. Million of these are thrown away a day, and we have all used one at one point in our lives. Every man, woman and child at one point used uh,

tissue paper. It's not a bad guess, but you're you're wrong. The answer diapers, all right, right? Diapers. The great thing about diapers is you come into life needing diapers. You go out of life if you're lucky enough to live long enough needing diapers, so you get the full the full circle of of life is around diapers. Don't remind me something we have looked forward to these all right? This hairstyle has seen a huge spike in Google searches

over the past six weeks during the quarantine. What is it? What hairstyle has seen a huge spike in Google searches. Oh, the mullet, That is correct, You've got that one right. Google searches for how to cut a mullet have been through the roof. I'm I'm trending that way, man, I'm not happy about the result. I got hair growing over my ears now my hats can't contain it. Um, it's

not good. It's not Yeah, it's bad, you know. And I was like, I told my wife listen, I said, I know you're taking all these hidy tidy classes from Yale and Duke and all these places that put their classes online and all that. That's great. How about you watch a couple of YouTube videos how to cut hair that would really help us out over here. Why don't you go full on lex Luthor, Like, why don't you go bicket? Yeah? I was thinking about my brother in New York. I think I told the story on he

shaved his his hair off. He was so frustrated the barbershops in New York City were close. He just cut it all his hair off, and I thought he was sick or something. I thought, well, at first, I thought it was like a joke. I thought it was like a filter on his phone, and then it turned out it wasn't. I was like, whoa, Yeah, it's pretty wild. I have thought about trying to cut my own hair. Why not, because if it turns out like you you fucking make your pizza, you're gonna funk yourself. Qu My

pizza is delicious. You burn my mouth when pizza because it was so good. I ate it too fast. That's that's a great thing, when it's so wonderful. I can't wait to eat the damn pizza you're gonna have. One of the reason it was I was during the NFL and I wanted to, you know, I want to eat and watch the game, and it was like second half of the game. I cooked it at a halftime. You know that thing. What are you gonna do for the back of your head? What do you have? Like the

no I know that's the problem. Man, I don't know how to cut the hair in the back. I can do the sides. I could do that, and I definitely so I keep wearing these hats, so it's not that big deal. But the I have a big head as it is, and then you add on a layer of hair. Fortunately it's only on the side. It's not really on the top, which I wish. I wish. I was like, it wouldn't be so bad if it just started growing on the top, but it's like it's not really growing

up there much. So it's like, jeez, why don't you have a beard that goes all the way up or at least halfway up to your ears and then pick your head? Yeah, I think I would just be terrible if I don't know. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our show was at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to

listen live all right. Moving on, During World War Two, The New York Times wrote an article about this now very popular item in order to educate the public about said item, which is now in pretty much every locale in the United States. But during World War two, The New York Times had to write an article about it, and it has become amazingly popular. What do you think it is something? Do you have an answer? Guest? No,

I mean my first guest. When you're saying, like world War two, I was gonna say, like Mercedes bad, it's a food, it's a food dish. I'll give you a um food dish that was not in America wildly. But then after World War two, no pizza, but that they didn't have pizza. No Holy Dominoes, and it's a hunt and Papa John's Batman no pizza, all right. A new

report says this is pop quiz. New report says over the past two months, the amount of people using this form of technology has increased to at least one in four adults. What is it? Uh obviously to be a computer. Uh, yeah, it's it's related. It's actually it's a it says here in the answer, I have it says a voice assist slash smart speaker. What is that? Oh okay, I got you or Alexa or whatever? Right that? Yeah? I don't use that, No, no, never, yeah, I don't use it.

Most people don't do this when shopping. What is it um write a list. Well that is probably true, but that's not the answer. Pay with cash Okay, yeah, yeah, I don't pay with cash. We travel about one point three billion miles per year using this what is it our feet? It is incorrect. Well, let's we travel more than one point three billion as there's all the people on the planet. There's billions of people. But the answer elevators. About that you travel one point three billion miles per

year in an elevator. That's a great question. That's a fun fact right there. You can back when society opens up. If you're in Wisconsin or Florida or Georgia a place like that where it's open, or Texas, you can use that to win a beer at the bar. One point three billion miles high man, all right, a couple more pop quiz. Nine percent of us who were scared of this as a kid it's an item, are still afraid of this as an adults. You're not far away. It's

related to clowns. Most clowns have this in their bag of tricks, their toolbag. Was it like the horn or whatever? A little balloons? Balloons? Yeah, nine of kids, we're scared. Actually, nine percent of people were scared as kids, and they're still scared as adults of balloons. I've never been scared of blows? Am I better? Like person, Have you ever been scared of clowns? No? I wasn't a big clown guy,

but I was never scared of clowns. Like I wasn't like running over to Ronald McDonald when I was a kid, But I was like whatever. You know, I was kind of a little creepy with the pain on the face, but I didn't really get scared of it. You know, some people do. Who's that guy was? John Wayne Gacey? Right? Was that the guy that dressed up as a clown and the mass murder? Oh? He lost me on that with the hell John Wayne Gacy? Yeah, I remember. You

don't know that story? American serial killer? Yeah he was. He was. He performed at hospit doles and stuff as Patches the clown and he was killing people in his house. He was raping them and torturing them and killing them. But he was Patches the clown us. Yeah, he didn't know that story. I usually he's killing like he was gay or whatever. He was killing men, you know, and all that so pervert and dope and loser and all that. Anyway, all right, didn't think i'd be mentioning that. I can't

believe you've never heard of that. Thirty three young men and boys. That is unbelievable. Pog clown what's that? His name was Pog of the clown or Patches the clown? Yeah, Patches the remember Patches the clown? Remember that? But yeah, he was. It wasn't in Chicago or something like that. It was in Chicago. Yeah. I think that's the reason when I was a kid there was this this stigma about clowns that people had. I think a lot of it was because of John Wayne Gaze. He was a

famous murderer back in the back in the day. All right, Moving on on pop is what type of alcohol has had the biggest bump in sales since the pandemic? Do my first? My first? Vodka? Vodka? Good guess? But I think I think it's beer, not beer. No tequila? Alr people are running out to bite tequila during the pandemic. Alright. A new study shows that blank percent of women said they will not feel safe trying on clothes in dressing

rooms because of the coronavirus. Even when society opens up they don't, Well, we're not gonna feel comfortable putting on clothes at the store. All right, what percentage I'm gonna it's hi, I'm gonna say. It's like you are very close, but you went over, so you do not win the showcase show now, and so clothing stores are like changing. I don't know, I don't know what they're gonna do. But it's Macy's has there. They used to have a policy.

I don't know if they have it anymore, but Macy's has a policy where if you bought something online, they delivered it to you, you have a free um. You can refund it and return it in exchange for a different item. You can either get reimbursed all the way or getting different items. So if you run that risk or that problem, you can do that. So alright, a couple more here on pop quiz, a new survey says that this is the most common thing you'll find in

junk drawers across America. What is it? A book of matches? So you think in the junk drawers, the little book of matches there the paper clips? Paper clips is a good one? No, the answer a tube or container of superglue. All right, let's go, I need some glue. Go to the go junk drawer. That's where it is. That's where our glue is in our drunk drawer. Let's that's where

I keep my glue. Yeah, all right. The average parent says a thousand items from their kids school, from their kids child saves a thousand items for the kid's childhood. Seventeen percent will save at least one of these. No what your no, wow, I'm gonna say, retainer. I don't know a bib? All right, your mom doesn't have a little guest gone bib when you were a little annoying child, the narcissistic child. I bet you have that. I butt your mom has that, your dad has that somewhere saved away.

Your baby book. My mom saved everything. She was Oh my my mom. Oh she had loved all this stuff, like a massive baby book. My mom was so excited to be a mom. She she was great. You know, I go back and look at all this crap and you're like, whoa, it's all faded because it's old and ship. It's uh, it's pretty cool that she was that into being a mom. That's pretty neat. All right, let's see here, all right. Most of us say, we're responsible enough to

do this all the time. What is it we're responsible to do this all the time? Yeah, it's pretty generic. Um, it's something around the house. Uh, I don't know, like to change the mess with the fuse box, mess with the fuse I think everyone, Come on, some people are freaked out by electricity and should be freaked out electricity. The answer is pick up dogshit is the answer. All that. Most people think they're responsible enough the dog shits, they can clean it up. All right. That is it for

pop Quiz. Will have another podcast with thrown't stick to sports, and we'll have the mail Bag and all that. Have a wonderful weekend. You can see how to follow us there if you look at your podcast page. But if you're too lazy to do that, you can check me out on Twitter at Ben Mallory m A L. L. E Er on The Graham, Ben Maller on Fox, Ben Mallar on Fox, or Facebook page which is Ben Mallard Show. And if you want a special video shout out, I am now a member of Cameo. If you don't know

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