Bee Sting

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five starts through thick and thin, through holidays, furloughs, layoffs.
We're pandemics. We are kind of just simply surviving or
amongst the walking dead. Right now, it feels like, yes,
just keep talking, keep the VU meter moving, and that's
our main job. Doesn't matter what we say much because,

(01:48):
as we've talked about many times, about seventy five percent
of what's said in audio broadcasting is completely forgotten because
you're doing something else and you're not paying that close attention.
And then every time I say that, though, Guest Gone,
the twenty five percent of people or not even twenty
five is less than that. But the people that really
pay attention and take copious notes of everything I say
and comb over my words, those people say, well, I

(02:11):
heard everything you said. I'm not like the seventy five percent.
I listen to everything you say, and I am I. Okay,
you're the exception to the rule. That doesn't make the rule.
You're the exception to the rule. Now doesn't that go
I mean to add to your point, doesn't it go
with the It like the seven thirty eight and fifty
five rule where only seven percent of your message is heard,
and then I think it's thirty eight percent is tone

(02:34):
and fifty five percent is body language something that nature. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I've seen I've seen that before. Yeah, absolutely, I think
that's that's law. A big part of it. Now you're hearing,
just listening and hearing the ability to hear. Yes, you're right,
it's it's about seven percent of what you say. The
other ninety three percent is through like facial expressions and

(02:57):
the way the tone. You can have like the late
night DEJ voice, or you can have the very serious
which sounds kind of like the late night DJ voice,
very serious talk slowly. It's very important, you know, whisper. Yeah.
The voice is a musical instrument. It is. I used
to get ripped when I first started in radio because

(03:17):
your vodio your voice was terrible. Then well that and
they said I was trying to be an FM. They
did say I was trying to be a DJ, like
I was trying to be like Kiss FM or K
Rock or something like Rick D's Baby these yeah, these sleeves. Yeah, absolutely,
that was good. But now you've evolved, it has matured.
And then I think it's led to when you've lost weight.

(03:37):
It kind of coincides with the Superdad. I don't know,
I cared from all these ball You're gonna feel so
much better when you lost weight. I didn't feel bad
when I was fat. Well, no I didn't, I know,
but you you sound better. It's not like you. It's
not like you've you know, stuck yourself in the house
in a room and then smoked a cart and a
cigarettes like the old Tom Looney did. Oh yeah, I dude.
When I first got into radio, I was shocked because,

(04:00):
you know, my parents were like, don't smoke cigarettes, you know,
because their parents smoke cigarettes and they all got cancer
and all this stuff, so they don't smoke. Don't smoke,
you know. So I and so I was always like
that was brainwashed into me not to smoke cigarettes. And
then I go to the radio station. Everyone's out in
the in the break room smoking because they're trying to
get their voices to sound more masculine. I was like, wow, right,

(04:22):
good for you, well, grateful that your voice is not
light that. How do you feel over the last couple
of weeks. I know you've had some roller coaster events.
You've been almost like a human pinata, especially with your
crew chopping you at the knees. Have you recovered? U? Yeah, yeah,
I usually only last like a day. I'm in a
really surly mood. I'm in a bad mood. I can

(04:42):
tell I want to I want to punch somebody. I'm
I'm questioning my life choices. Uh, And then you know,
calms down and I'm okay, and then the next fire
starts up, and then we start the whole thing over again,
and you just have to accept that. And yeah, you know,
I just have to presume that this is gonna be
the way it's gonna be for for a while here.

(05:04):
Whatever you do. Don't bend the knee. No, no, I don't.
I don't do that. I'm a big believer. Or not
apologizing to the mob, because then then you end up,
well you're get in trouble for that. Yeah, getting more
trouble so yeah, but you can lose ballot to the
congregation because, as you mentioned, listenership continues to be record highs.

(05:26):
We go from John Sterling last week. We'll see how
Leo Terrell does yesterday. But John Sterling, yeah, the voice
of the Yankees. We should get more like baseball play
by play guys. I love fucking a baseball play by
play guys. Well, if that's the case, we go from
from John Sterling. We need you to get on the
horn and get Vince Scully in here. Then that's the

(05:49):
voice of God. I know, that's it's you know, I can't.
I do have access to me. I know, I know,
but that's I don't know, it's forbidden fruit. I'd love
to do it. I mean, I've talked to him many
times over the years, and it's been always a great
honor because I respected the obviously, respective grew up a

(06:09):
Dodger fan, and Vin Scully's a god. But yeah, I
don't know he's Vin spends well I don't know now
because of the apocalypse, but he did spend a lot
of time just with his grandkids. You know, get up,
read the newspaper, have a cup of coffee. Like most people,
do and then um, and I know he'll still answer
the phone, you know, occasionally during the day or whatever.

(06:30):
But it would be fun to have him on though.
That would be great. Yeah, I'd be a big one.
I always that's the one regret, especially since you know,
when you go into the press box at Dodger Stadium,
it's kind of an open space and you always see
the broadcasts that pop in and out of the cafeteria.
I never had that chance just to say hi. Obviously
had a respect you didn't want to bother him because yeah, preparation.

(06:56):
I got a great story about that. So my my
other lives in New York, my older brother, and you know,
it comes to LA a lot to visit family back
before the pandemic. And one year, many years ago, he
came out my nieces, who were now one of them
graduated high school. They were little girls, right, and so

(07:18):
my brother's father in law wanted to take them to
a Dodger game and they I happened to be working
at the game as a reporter at the time, and uh,
and so I wanted to, you know, show off as
Uncle Ben to his little girls, who probably don't even
remember this, but I was like all right, I'm gonna
take them through the press box and I am gonna,
you know, show them my world. Thinking these little girls

(07:41):
who couldn't give a flying you know what about this
because they're little kids. But I was going to show
them and so. But the one who was really impressed
was was my brother's father in law. But anyway, so
I'm walking through the press box. It happened to be
during the seventh inning, top of the seventh inning, and
the top of the seventh inning ended, and Vince Gully
did what he had always done. He in the seventh

(08:03):
inning stretch, he would get up from his broadcast position
and he would stretch his legs and walk. He would
literally honor the seventh inning stretch by getting up and
walking back and forth across the press box and singing
the seventh inning stretch song and waving at those of
us in the press box. What just happened that I
was walking by the Dodger TV booth at the time

(08:25):
Ben was walking out to do his round in the
press box, and he met my nieces and not my
father in law, but my brother's father in law. And
it was it was very nice and very cool, and
it was a fond not planned. I did not plan that,
gust On. It just kind of worked out that way.
In fact, I had wanted them to come and hang

(08:46):
out with me earlier in the game, but they waited
till the seventh inning before they were leaving on their
way out. So did they at least capture a few
Dodger dogs that the CIA. Yes, I might have used
my allotment of Dodging dogs to pass those on to
my relatives there. Possibly, Yeah, be cool for people that

(09:07):
don't know. Typically it correct me if I'm wrong, But
usually in the beginning of the seventh inning, the cafeteria
will open it up, so it's like a frenzy for
hot dogs and nachos and frozen frozen yogurt. Yeah. I
think they actually moved it up to like the fifth inning,
but it's like the fifth inning. Yeah, you get the
hot dogs, Dodging dogs, you get the popcorn, the nachos.

(09:28):
All that's gone. All that's gone by the way in
the pandemic. I just got an email. I mentioned this
on the radio show the other day. The Dodgers sent
out all these guidelines no food, you gotta bring your
own food, you gotta eat at your own position. You're
not allowed to mingle with other people in the media,
you know, Like it's one of these like going to
the game if you're a reporter. I don't know how

(09:48):
these beat guys are gonna do it. And I mean
part of being a beat writer is getting in the
weeds and getting down and doing the dirty work in
the locker room and interviews. But a lot of it
also I've noticed when I was on the beat as
a radio guy back in the day, is I learned
so much crap from other media people. Yeah, just convincing

(10:10):
and small talking and schmoozing and that I guess they
can still do it, they just have to do it
on the phone, but it doesn't seem as effective to me.
Is that that FaceTime that head to head, you know,
belly to belly types situation. Yeah, I'm fascinated about it,
especially because you and I talked about this soft of
the year. But earlier in the week on Vice, they

(10:32):
had a report that absolutely eviscerated the LA Times with
credibility with reporting with stories and sources and things like that,
and like you mentioned, like you when you get stories
from these players, usually it's in the dugout it's in
the clubhouse, it's on the fields durn p BP, or
if you're on the court, it's turned shoot around whatever.

(10:53):
All that stuff is gone. So how do you get
that information that doesn't sound like it's just something you
get from the ap well, and not to let you
understand how they make the hot dogs. But my experience,
a lot of the insider stuff actually came from people
that worked behind the scenes, people that worked in auxiliary
roles supporting players, whether it be in the locker room

(11:15):
or the medical staff or you know, whatever wing of
the team. Those are the people that would often let
you know and give you the inside skinny because people
love to gossip, right, I mean, that's one thing about
the human condition, whether it's sports, politics, human if you
look at human nature, humans are gossip. They use gossip

(11:41):
to cement many of us to cement a friendship. Right.
It's it's an odd I think, But anyway, so that's
we went down that rabbit hole. But there you go.
So we've got pop quiz, We've got a few don't
stick to sports stories and we'll do more of those tomorrow.
We've got a little study. This also some random weird
crap that I found surfing the web that I thought

(12:01):
was interesting. So why don't we start with the couple
that don't stick to sports stories? Here is a popping
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Since I'm a big fan of the of the handle
of the Babylon be I figured we not only are

(14:08):
you a big fan, you are I don't even have
to look at the Babylon b because guess God will
send me anything even mildly good. He will send me.
It's like you're on the payroll over there. I feel
like you're on the payroll over there. We have direct
competition with the Onion, and that's why I like it.
The Onion's really good. Babylon B is equally as good.

(14:31):
So what I wanted to do Ben with you? Since
you've done it with me on study this or pop quizes,
I want to have a new segment that would be
the B or not the Bee. Oh okay, that is
this question. This is like Factor fiction. This is like
a cheap rip off version of Factor Fiction, the game
I've been playing for twenty years on the radio. Dare
you yes? So what I let's play the game? All right?

(14:52):
Here we go. I like this. So what I want
to do is I want to provide you with the
title of the of the report, and I want you
to tell me if it is if it is a actual,
if it's actually legit, or if it's part of the
Babylon be Okay, all right, I'm excited. I get to
play a game. I'm excited about this. All right. Now,
I'm gonna give you five titles that did not make
the cut. First, okay, and these are all from the

(15:13):
Babylon be Stacy Abrams says she'll step down as governor
if asked to run for VP. That it made the cut,
all right. Nike releases Bernie Sanders signature shoes that help
you survive the under socialism. That it made the cut.
Hillary Clinton proposes reparations to anyone who ever lost a
presidential election to Donald Trump with statues gone pigeons forced

(15:39):
to poop on rioters. It's funny. And last, but not least,
conservative man checks Bench Shapiro's page to find out what
he should be outraged by today. That's about That's about right.
You got you gotta find out what to have a
hissy fit about it. Yeah, you can't just have a
conniption fit unless somebody tells you to have a conniption fit.

(16:00):
That's right. So we go from that to the b
or not the Bee band? How about this white congressman
pulls endorsement a black female district attorney for being too
hard on crime? All right? So is that the bee
or not the Bee? Uh? Let's see here, let's think
about this logically. Uh, in the times we're in now,

(16:24):
you know, I'm gonna say that's that's true. That's true.
That is actually factually true. It's yeah, I got it right.
What do I w You've been a prize full of nothing,
a box full an You didn't think I was gonna
get it right? Dude? You know, well today's climate, that is.
But that is a key to Uh you see some
white Antifa guy attack a block police officer. Yes, well

(16:47):
here's it's the same thing. I mean, it's just mind
bockling or you know, just see these videos of these
random you know, woke uh, you know, white people attacking
black people. Who are you know, but they're they're I
don't know, I don't, I don't unders and that is
beyond me. I can't figure it out. But there you go.
So let me give you the cherry on top. Ben,
It's actually happening right here in Los Angeles District Attorney

(17:09):
Jackie Lacy's under fire. She's up for re election this year,
but it all depends because se Congressman Adam Schiff has
pulled his endorsement for her, saying in a tweet quote,
this is a rare time in our nation's history. We
have a responsibility to make profound changes to n systemic racism,

(17:30):
and where's Leo Terrell? Right? We need our friendly right,
and he adds we need to reform criminal justice now,
Ben hear me out on this. Jackie Lacey, here's her resume.
She's a black woman. She graduated from UC Irvine. She
earned her j d at USC and then oh, by
the way, she's the first black woman ever to serve

(17:51):
as a DA in Los Angeles since the role was
created back in eighteen fifty. And then on top of that,
she's actually sixty three years of age, so it's not
like she's some thirty year old looking to hammer down
crime to make her you know, make a name for
herself and her career. Yeah, well, it's crazy. Everything's topsy turvy,
Eving's upside down and uh yeah, although it is, it's

(18:14):
very odd when some of these these politicians so liberated
to attack anyone, anybody who's like even slightly outside of
their dogma. It's like, it's crazy. Yes, next one for
the bee or not the Bee? Um? How about this
government announces lockdown of all fast food restaurants to prevent
heart diseases? All right, so uh yeah, this has gotta

(18:37):
be the Bee. I mean that that's that's funny. That's good.
But no, that's that's obviously that is that is correct.
How about this one? Two for two? By the way,
I'm dominating this game. I'm the greatest bee or not
to be contested in the history of the game. Eat
is breathtaking what I am doing right now. I hope

(18:57):
you are appreciating how equipped I am for this particular game. Yeah,
batting a thousand and a truncated season, how much they
stop right now because I don't. I can only go
down from here. Well that's not true, because even if
you go to for five, it's still a hell of
a batting average. That's a good point. How about this.
One of our states, in our great Republic, Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
has students throwing COVID parties. Is that the bee or

(19:18):
not the bee? All right? So full disclosure. I actually
I saw this and I think I saw it on
like the real news. I have it. I'm gonna I'm
gonna go that this is actually, uh, this is legit. Yes,
you are three for three. All right, So, Betty, students
in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, ben are throwing coronavirus parties and what

(19:41):
that basically maybe you're supposed to cough a lot on
each other or something like that. Is apparently, so all
these kids are throwing these parties, and what happens is
when you attend, you throw money into a pot, and
the first student that gets the coronavirus wins the pot. Well,
how do you know you have it if you're asymptomatic? Though,
that's a good question. I guess the only thing you

(20:01):
can do is you can get a antibody's test. Yeah, well,
I guess you could do that. But this reminds me
when I was younger. I remember like some kind of
hippie parents would have chicken pox party, yeah, to get
their kids chicken pox, which seems rather strange to me.

(20:24):
But uh, you know, I gotta love college, man, You
gotta love college. Right, I'm gonna go for it, man,
I'll get the corona. I'll be the man. It's like
everyone's like Blake Snell of the I got the corona,
you know, just a bunch of innocent lambs. Yeah, I
just God love them. How about? And these are the same,
These are the same people. When they you know, get

(20:44):
to our you know, mar age, you're a little older,
They're like, oh, no, you gotta protect everything, you know. Yeah,
this is the land of tide pods and drinking clorox.
To uh to cleaning your body would be the word. Yeah, exactly.
The bee or not the bee? How about this one?
Nitty gritty? That term is now being banned on air,
so you can't You're not allowed to I use that

(21:07):
term everyone, So you can't say nitty gritty. No, you cannot.
So is this a b or not to be? Yes? Uh, well,
considering it's we're in cancel culture time right now, Um,
I will say that this is that seems I'm sure
there's something I don't know about that, so I'll go yes,

(21:27):
I'm gonna say that that is part of cancel culture.
You're four for the game, So we go off to
the greatest start in any player in baseball history right now,
So we go, we go over the pond. Sky Sports
they're actually adding nitty gritty to the band list due
to its links supposedly to slavery, So broadcasters now are

(21:51):
ordered to avoid such language such as nitty gritty, which
may offend viewers. Now, what the network is doing is
they also run through a list to going on air,
and they also email the talent on appropriate words and
certain words that they need to stay away from. Nitty
gritty is on the bad list. Yes, Now, for all
those out there that don't want to look it up

(22:12):
in the Oxford English Dictionary, nitty gritty means fundamentals, realities,
or basic facts of a situation or a subject. Last racist,
you can't have facts. That's wrong. Please facts. Yeah, that's
a dog whistle. That's a bad job by you. Guess guy. Now,
I'm gonna save the last last one for the best.

(22:34):
I guess to see if you can go five for five.
But this one's a challenging one, especial what happened over
the last twenty four hours, the bigger not to be
final one. Ben Maller, all right, excited, this is to
go five for five, which would be one of the
great accomplishments in the history of broadcasting. Maiden Voyage of
the Bee or not the bum Hollywood actors pledge never

(22:55):
to take a role or they have to pretend to
be someone else. Well, listen, you whittled down Hollywood and
everyone is trying to be woke mcwoke in Hollywood. So
I think this is actually true. I think the Hollywood

(23:18):
culture is so fucked up that, you know, the whole
concept of acting is pretending to be other people who
aren't you. So the very bedrock of acting is to
do that job where you are playing make believe. But
that's how fed up these people in Hollywood are. So
I am gonna say that is legit. I'm trying to
go five for five gas gun ah damn, Ben Maller,

(23:40):
But you're battye at Crisp damnit. See I throw that
one in there because a couple of voiceover actors just
two days ago had said that they're going to be quitting.
They're quitting their vo jobs on The Simpsons because they
portray an Indian store clerk and a couple other voices
that are on that show. So yeah, yeah, there have

(24:02):
been I know there's been some people who said there
was a woman that did like the voice of a
cartoon character who was a little girl who's like black
or something like that in the cartoon and she quit it, right,
And but I don't it doesn't seem to make a
lot of sense to me that that minds Am I
missing something here? Like uh no, only allowed to play

(24:25):
like if you're a forty year old woman. You can
only play a forty year old woman, because otherwise you
got to if you have a six year old, you
gotta get a six year old to play a six
year old. They got to be exactly the same that
the genetics have to be. This it doesn't seem like
a very reasonable situation, and it really trims down the
talent pole, right, because how many voiceover actors that you

(24:45):
get that are children, or how many older people that
you get that can sound like a grandma or a
grandpa or someone that's refined. You know, it's all right,
the Maiden Voyage, you are complete bill four to five.
That's I ain't about at all. Man. Let's take that
feet Rose, Tony Gwyn Oh you guys ight there boom.
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you questions, besco. I love this. It's my favorite bit

(27:17):
that we do here, pop quiz. And here we go,
these your actual questions about pop culture, and we'll see
how gas gon. Doesn't you going to answer as well?
The way the bit's supposed to work. You gotta answer,
But I don't know you're answering because I can't hear you.
It's the magic of broadcasting. All right, So here we go.
They say, who were there? They say that children are
incapable of doing this until they reach the magic age

(27:38):
of four. What is it that kids are unable to
do no matter how smart they are or how dumb
they are, they can't do this until they reach the
age of four. Ty shoes. No, that is that is incorrect.
The correct answer is lie. Oh m, that's interesting. It

(28:00):
is interesting. Is that because if you're like three and
you're learning, you start talking, You're like you start anytime
you make a mistake. You don't know. You don't know
what a lie is. You don't know the concept of
a lie. Ye. Maybe that or that that's probably the
appropriate age that parents feel like they can discipline their

(28:20):
kids too well. I have a niece that just turned four.
Um on the on actually today, the fourth of July
is my niece's birthday. I guess I'm gonna tell her
mom my sister in law, that she is now able
to lie. That congratulations. You get a lie card, you
get a driver's license, then you get a passport, you

(28:41):
get all these things are certain, you know, moments in
a person's life that are a rite of passage. Yes,
And the age of four is the age not of reason,
the age of Lyne Green to go yeah, all right.
A reason survey you found nearly two and five Americans
would not only change jobs, would take a pay cut

(29:01):
if they could have this at work? What is it?
Um they could have this at work? I just correct,
that's the question. There's two things they could guess on this.
Would it be their pet or there? Yeah? Would it
be their pet? Or that is that stop right there?
That is it their pet? Nice? Yeah? So forty percent

(29:22):
of Americans love their pets so much they would be
willing to take less money to have their pet with him. Now.
I've been fortunate guest gun from the home studio of
Fox Sports Radio, the remote Geico Fox Sports Radio studios,
which are in the Maler Mansion, buried in the secret
location deep in the bowels of the Maler Mansion, and
Bella has spent many a night while I've been broadcasting
since March from here, and she's been hanging out with me,

(29:45):
and as long as she doesn't bark, she's allowed to
stay in here. Every once in a while, she'll start
pawing at my leg because she wants to go to
take a whizz or go to thee a drink or
something like that. So I gotta open up the door.
But she has to wait. Bella's gotta wait until a break,
and not that we take breaks, but it's for her
to break. So does she ever get tired coming into
your studio because there's a long walk. I don't know

(30:08):
if many people know this, but you have a three
story house, and so it's a three story I do
not have a three story house. I'm not west of
the four or five. I'm not west of the four.
And I've never lied about where I live like somebody
I know who has possibly tried to say they live
in a more blue collar part. That's not true. Okay,

(30:30):
I'm gonna I'm gonna call bullshit on that. I will.
I know that when I first started becoming a friend
with you, when I asked, I believe where you live,
you gave me a certain city, and then somehow an
address came up with your name attached to it a
much different part of town, you know. All right? Moving on,

(30:51):
More adults are doing this right now than at any
other time in the history of the United States. What
is it adults having more sex? Uh? No, they're not
stooping more. No, it's living with their parents or grandparents. Oh. Interesting,
there are more adults right now doing that now. Some

(31:15):
of it is to save money, some of it is
save a life, save a life. To help your parents out.
That's also a big part of it. Older parents, grandparents,
that's important too. Man. If you're that's underrated. Man. If
you look out for your grandparents, that's tough work. And
you see them get old and their bodies fall apart.
That ain't easy. Yeah, not easy at all. Right. After

(31:36):
spending the last three months of the pandemic together, fifty
eight percent of couples say this, what is it? I
want to divorce? See that's what I thought would be
the answer, But it's actually they want to spend the
rest of their lives together. Invitted. Bliss enough, I believe that.
No way, not hearing California anyway. No. New survey says

(31:59):
one in three Americans buy this from the grocery store
at least once per week. But now, actually this surprised me.
Bananas Yeah, no, what it's something that is refrigerated milk,
No believe it or not? A frozen dinner. Oh it's
good frozen pizzas. Man, Yeah, I guess that counts. That

(32:21):
has to count, right as a frozen meal. Um. When
I was a bachelor, I used to get those Hungry
Man TV dinners. Oh yeah, and I got very excited
when they had that pound, you know, a pound of food.
You're not like, oh boy, this is great. But did
you go like pizza pockets or pizza bites. How would
you go with the with the frozen pizza? Uh no,
I would just make the I would get the pie
and I would uh well, I like when de Jorneau

(32:43):
came around. But I remember the days before de jorn No,
and uh yeah, I would I get my toppings or
whatever it was, you know, that was that was an
easy make. I had no problem with that. I like
making the pizza from scratch from time to time. We've
been doing that, which is which is kind of cool.
But the frozen dinners, I liked them, but you never
they never cook right because I would put them in

(33:03):
the microwave. You're supposed to put them in the oven
to make them really taste decent. And it was always
the corn was way too hot, or that brownie, the
little brownie in the little square. Would it be too
too hot compared to the other stuff, because I would
eat that first, you know, Or things would stick yeah boy, yeah,
yeah exactly. Or you get like the fish sticks and
they would the bottom part would kind of stick to it,

(33:23):
and you're like, oh crap, yeah, you know. Anyway, the
breading any moving on New York, Chicago and lost wages.
Nevada have seen a large increase of this over the
last month. What is it? Murder? H no fireworks noise?
People complaining about fireworks. I've seen that a lot here
in La at night. I don't know a lot of

(33:48):
conspiracies on why that is, but yeah, I think a
lot of those are bullshit. We're doing pop quiz. A
new study found that men dudes, yes, twice as likely
to do this as women, but by the time we
reach our forties, which is close to home Gisco, women
are slightly more likely to do this than a man.

(34:10):
So again, this is according to the study. They found
that the dudes are twice as likely to do this
than women, but by the time everyone reaches forty, women
are slightly more likely to do this than than men. Exercise,
uh no, actually speed When driving around, women drive slower,

(34:33):
and then when they reach a certain age, they're like,
who gives a fuck, I'm gonna hit the hit the
gas pedal. I can appreciate that. Yeah, there you go,
all right, let's see here. Any men, emo, anymo? What's next?
All right? Three out of ten people say they sometimes
do this while playing Monopoly. What is it once a

(34:54):
last time you played Monopoly? I haven't played Monopoly and forever?
Oh yeah? Three out of ten pe Well, yeah, I
will say, um, I'll say they miscount? Do you miscount? Yeah?
So they'll go an extra look, an extra marking. What
is it like boardwalk and park plays the two spots

(35:15):
you want to be on? Yeah? Uh no. The correct
answer is three out of ten people say that they
quit to avoid losing. They just give up. They raised
the white flag and say that's it. No, moss, I'm out,
I'm done. See you later. Yeah, Monopoly takes too long.
It does take a long time. But if you're winning,

(35:37):
it doesn't matter. It's kind of like my look at baseball.
If your team is great, it doesn't matter they play
one hundred and sixty two games because they win most
of them and you love it and you're excited by it.
But if the team sucks, so oh, there's too many games.
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(37:25):
It is said that we spend about fifty percent of
our lives doing this sitting in traffic. Uh yeah, right, Well,
in LA that fifty percent, I would say, um, I'll
say oh fuck, um, you'll say a fuck. Okay, we
don't spend fifty centuri lives fucking on our cell phones.
Cell phone? Uh no, they say daydream. Oh yeah, you're

(37:48):
thinking about something. You're imagining some other scenario while you're
living your life. Now, do you night dreams? Since you
don't go to sleep during the night, you are sleeped
in the daytime. So do you do night dream? Do
I night dream? Yeah? No? Not really? Do you daydream?
I don't. The only time I dream is if I

(38:10):
take a Kirkland brand sleep age because I don't get
to it. I'm like, I'm sleeping, but I'm not in
the really deep rem sleep that you need to be
in the dream. It's rarely get into that. I'm not
a great sleeper. I blame my parents my dad, and
both my dad and my mom were not particularly great sleepers.
So it doesn't help with your work schedule. Yeah, well

(38:32):
that's also problem. I have noticed when I take time
off that doesn't happen very often. But I go to
beddle oiler and I sleep better, Like it's shocking. I
don't know why that is. I don't know if there's
a correlation between those two events. But anyway, all right,
Regarding the current pandemic, one in three people surveys said

(38:55):
they are they have noticed this. What is it that
they notice? God, it's pretty pretty vague. I just involves
some creature in the house. Um, they noticed more spiders
in the house. Now they noticed that their pet has

(39:16):
gotten fat. It's a cat or a dog or whatever.
I don't think this applies to lizards. No, do you
do you do you clip Bella's coat? No, but Bella
went to the groomer. Um, and now it's about a
third of the dog went to a groomer. Yeah, that's
very very white collar. You well, you would know about

(39:36):
that west of the four or five. I don't have
a dog, and that I was trying to find a
gift for you, and I was looking up but I
couldn't find it. It would have been the greatest gift
because guest Gon's birthday is coming up. The Cougar. It's
gonna guest Gons about to turn Guescan's about to turn
fifty years old. You've already you've already set me a gift. Well,
I understand. But I was trying to find a specific

(39:58):
book that was written about the four oh five a freeway,
and I looked all over the internet and I spent
about well, I'm not gonna embell it. I spent about
thirty minutes trying to find a book because I thought
this would be the hilarious couldn't find a book. I
was like, nobody's written a book about just a four
oh five freeway that goes from Irvine to the San

(40:21):
Fernando Valley, which Gascon mistakenly thought went all the way
up the west coast. Because I was in Santa Barbara
when I was on furlough, and Guest Guns like, yeah,
you're west of the four oh five. I was like, No,
I'm not. The four oh five freeway ends way, ends
of the San Fernando Valley Way before Santa Barbara. It
turns into it when you weren't furloughed, you're on vacation

(40:43):
ilough and I was furload and I had a fine
time getting out. I'm glad I got out because King
Newsom I closed everything down, so I got in there
before the king and the parliament and all that. You
got me in show of the monarchy, and I yes. Uh.
Twenty six percent of us are considering this as a

(41:03):
result of the coronavirus. A career change. No moving, Oh,
I don't know, I'm not. Are you thinking about moving? No? Well,
where would I go anyway? Arizona, Scottsdale, I don't. I
don't know. Where you go to Vegas or something? No?
Fuck that. Can you go to Vegas? You could dominate
Vegas radio though, Yeah, but Vegas there's no radios. But

(41:27):
what are you gonna have? You have the Golden Nights, Yes,
you'll have the Raiders, but you got no Major League
Baseball and you got no NBA. Every casino you could
possibly want, you, Oh, it's a great Vegas. The weather's nice,
nice and warm and toasty hot. No, it's hot. It's hot.
If I were to go anywhere that was east of
Los Angeles, it would be Scottsdale. Yeah. Again, that's like

(41:48):
west of the four h five. Oh it is. It's
in Scottsdale. But it's very bougie, showing how lots of
cougar is narcissist you are. Listen, the men that listen
to your show are are very healthy, um, and they're
very e centric. There's tons of eye candy in Scottsdale.
So if you're not coming to LA, you can't afford

(42:10):
it for vacation. Guescon. You didn't get the memo from
Cancel culture. We're not supposed to appreciate a good looking
woman as men. We can no longer. And that's the
next step. Right, Do we start with the mask and
then we get to the burke? Oh boy, I can't wait.
I can't wait till doctor Fauci announces we need a burke.
Oh man, that that'll be. That'll be good. Imagine I'm

(42:31):
gonna brand you can put your ike your logo on
the burko though, that'd be good, right, somebody gonna put
the Fifth Hour in front you're gonna put the Ben
Maller show right on the head, right above the eyes,
this little slit for the eyes there right there. Yeah,
and then you're gonna put one like a goalie mask.
You're gonna put it on your chin too. Yeah, of course,
all right, more pop quiz. You are more likely to
be stung by a bee if you are eating this

(42:53):
food item, a strawberry. Dude. It's actually something you mentioned
earlier in the show Guess pizza. No pizza. Bees are
attracted to pizza. Banana A banana A banana? Jeez, I
don't know who the fuck's eating a banana outdoors anywhere.
The bees love a pepperoni pizza. That would be like,

(43:15):
I would like that. I would like to sting you
know this dumb dumb because he's eating a slice of pizza.
Do you ever see people outside eating a banana? I
see strawberries, they see oranges. I do. I have seen
in New York at Central Park. I remember sitting out
there and they there was so there was a fruit
stand and there are people eating bananas. O. Well, Central
Parkers turn into an autonomous zones. So I don't know

(43:35):
what you're talking about. It is it. Yeah, okay, is
it a sovereign nation? It is, yes, I said, okay,
the People's Republic. A new survey found passwords are number
number one thing that Americans forget most often. What is
number two? According to this new serve, I would say
a pen for their ATM or debit card. That is

(43:59):
a good guests, But no, it's things on your shopping list,
Like you go to the store and you try to
remember what you need and you forget something. I thought
number five was what I really am bad at on
this and this was my average Americans. They listed three
hundred and thirty two forgetful moments a year that happened,
But the password was number one. Number two was the

(44:20):
shopping list. The one that stood out to me was
number five. A person's name after being introduced. And I
can't tell you how many times I've been in a
social setting and and you you're introduced, they say their name,
and then for whatever reason, you forget and you're like ah,

(44:40):
and it's that awkward thing, you know, it's like ah.
And and you know, from reading the book that I
read years ago, the most and the sweetest sound that
someone can hear is their name, right, it's the sweetest
sound you can possibly hear. And yeah, it's that that
old Dale Carnegie. The person's name is, to that person,

(45:02):
the sweetest and most important sound in any language. And
then when somebody tells you their name, and then like
a minute later, you're like, oh fuck. And so then
you just say, hey, dude, day guy, what's going on? Man?
You know you go down that road. Well, I just
I mean, when I've been out with you and the
misses is, I will introduce you to the people I
don't know on the regular. So that way, you have

(45:23):
to introduce yourself to them first, and then I piggyback
off of that dirty man. Well, it's just the easiest
way to do it. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't know.
I have a bad habit of doing that. I try
to repeat their names now more on everyday occasion. So yeah, yeah,
I fortunately now because of the apocalypse, being an introvert,
I don't have to worry about going out and meeting people,

(45:44):
so I have to worry about any I love how
you gave that great stat the other night on radio
about how you're more likely to die while driving to
work than you are of the coronavirus. Yes, but the
fuck are you don't drive anywhere? That is correct? I
drive once a week. I'm worried about dying in a car, right, yeah, clearly,
but but no I people have said, what are you
coming back? Well, I am following the iHeart media, gun boy,

(46:07):
I am. I am following a mandate. I'm a good soldier.
I know you're not, Guest gun You're a rebel. You're
an anti anarchist kind of guy. But I follow what
my bosses tell me. And when my bosses say, go ahead,
come back in, I'm there. I am there with bells
and whistles on. They haven't done that. So I wonder
how much gas you've actually saved gas money you've saved

(46:29):
driving not driving. The workouts of the one it was
it was probably over five hundred miles a week. Yeah,
probably a lot more than that actually when you add
on some of the other stuff. So yeah, that's a
tank of gas a week. Oh yeah, plus a service
like tires and yeah, wheel changes. Yeah that's right. So
I'm coming out ahead on this all right now, this

(46:50):
is something you you should know the answer to, Guest
goun based on your little secret you don't like to
talk about much. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app.
Sales of women's wardrobe this particular women's wardrobe item have
gone up sixty percent since the lockdown. For those that

(47:13):
don't know, Gascon's nickname is Rue. Paul Gascon's nickname. Yeah, Um,
I can't say stockings right, No, it's not stock Oh
you could. I mean I like that. That's not really
my answer, but it's my answer. I liked it because
it was right. You would have taken credit. Yeah, bras
no flats flats? Yeah, what the hell are you? You

(47:36):
know the shoes that are just flats, right, that's what. Yeah,
it's because you don't have women water high heels or whatever.
Where are these like style and shoes have go out
and press people their girlfriends or dudes, but they don't
have to worry about I would assume that's why. I
don't know. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. Got up
sixty percent, all right. Last one on pop Quis, we
got a few study this. We're getting along here because

(47:56):
you're a little game show guest, go on how dare
you pop quiz? Here we go? Forty seven percent of
American parents now catch themselves saying this phrase that their
parents used to say to them when they were little kids,
back in my days, back your margin. No, it's something
involving eating. Oh, make sure to eat your greens or

(48:20):
your vegetables. That's what I thought. But no, it's don't
eat that, you'll spoil your dinner. Oh fuck, don't eat
that ice cream. You'll spoil your dinner. And listen, I'm
guilty of that. Going to steakhouses, I'll get as much
bread as possible. Or if you go to like a
Brazilian steakhouse, when you get to eat all the sides
first before the meat comes out. I don't know if

(48:41):
I want to point out guests guy on that. As
far as your birthday and you're the Big five, oh
and all that for you coming up here, and we
were planning me and the missus to take you to
a steakhouse because we know you steakhouses, and I would
like to thank this is one thing King Newsom got right.
Because we can't take you to a steakhouse. They're all closed.
So I was like, okay, So I guess we're screwed

(49:03):
on this, and but we're actually again coming out financially ahead,
because I know you would have ordered the way you
roll west of the four or five your pedigree, you
would have ordered the most expensive steak on the menu
and a bottle of wine red and white both, I
don't care seven appetizers. You would have just gone for
it is what you would. How about you barbecue that
steak that I got you? It gives you something to

(49:26):
complain about, it does? It's like, yeah, it's like the
Dodgers trying to win a World Series man lovable losers
since eighty eight. Yes, and they'll they aren't built for
the shortened season nineteen eighty one, strike season they won
work stop it season nineteen eighty one. All right, study
this realer bullshit? Do a few of the distributes to
Penn and Taylor lockdown, loneliness, coronavirus quarantine has a quarter

(49:50):
of adults feeling like they have no friends. Yeah you
buy that. I believe that. Yeah. Yeah, there's some people
that we work with that actually have said that. Oh yeah, names,
I want to name names. But they feel isolated because
because there's no motion in what we're doing right, Like
everything that you do for your show, you're looking for

(50:11):
sound bites, so you're looking for anything to pull from.
But most of the guys we work with, they're always
in the flow of things like pulling sound from you
or for anybody else with a game going on, or
press conferences or guys getting arrested or doing stupid shit.
We get none of that right now, and outside of that,
they have no other activities. So I believe it really
is interesting because, like, the whole cool thing about working

(50:33):
at radio station is the people, you know, talking and
schmoozing with each other and doing that whole thing, and
you can't do that right now, even and there's a
bare bone staff that's there. I did have to go
in the other night, guest gone because the car, but
not the car, the line, the broadcast line went down.
So yeah, all right, lockdown. We mentioned lockdown lonely. How

(50:54):
about this. A quarter of JIM goers do not expect
that they'll ever return to fitness club thanks to coronavirus.
So if you've invested in gym like Stock and Gym
or workout companies, they say that about twenty five percent
think they're never gonna come back. Think about in an
industry losing twenty five percent of their paying customers in

(51:14):
one year. Now, I don't know if that's true, and
people are just bullshitting. I know I'm not going back
until it gets back to the way I remember it.
And you know, there's a lot of reasons for that.
I work overnights. I would go to the gym in
the wee hours of the morning, and that is not
an option right now, so it doesn't really work for
my schedule. I also would spend about ninety minutes in there.

(51:35):
You only get about sixty and so it's just not
something I'm interested in, and I instead, I'm just the
wandering man going down Winna Muckle Road here walking down.
That's a Johnny Cash resurance, by the way. I mean. Plus,
like the other alternative too, is if you want to
go outside and exercises, where do you do that in
your community? Like, if you're in New York right now,
how the fuck are you gonna do that? In Seattle?
How are you gonna do that? We just walk around? Yeah,

(51:56):
but you're gonna try to avoid the sovereign nations that
up in your city. Yeah, I mean, you're looking for
random things to hurtle over nowadays, right, a cop cars
someone burned out cop car? Yeah, somebody tagging some building
with whatever. All right, referees, this is this Actually, I
thought was interesting and I was I was gonna bring
this up on the radio the other night. I decided

(52:18):
not to do it. I saved it for our little
weekend Fourth of July podcast. Yes, and I hear this.
Referees in soccer they are stricter without fans in the
stadium to cheer or jeer their calls. This is according
to a new study. Now I am skeptical. I want

(52:40):
to see how this how this works, right, I want
to see how this works here, because I've read studies
on this that the big advantage you have at home
is that the officials want to appease the crowd, and
that if there's a fifty fifty call like in basketball,
chart or block, if it's the home team that would

(53:04):
benefit from the call and the crowd would go wild,
you would then side with that. Or in baseball three
two pitch, ninth inning, Dodgers Stadium, and you got ken
Lee Jansen on the mound, it's on, it's right there
could go either way. Striker ball and the umpire, punches out,
punches out the cheating Jose Albouve, and the crowd goes

(53:28):
wild and yeah so, but we'll see if this is true.
We're gonna experience this a lot, they say, the home team.
This is obviously in European soccer, the home team in
that one of the leagues that they studied here has
been penalized more for fouls and handed more yellow cards
and empty stadiums than in non empties. Could you imagine

(53:49):
if you had a studio that was full of either
supporters or deniers of each monologue you did, Like what
kind of reaction you would have after a monologue if
you were cheering or just booed right out of the building.
Oh yeah, yeah, it would be well I get a
lot of that on Twitter, but mostly it's just negative.
I know, but it's but it's from a far though,
Like if they're up in your grill like you would

(54:11):
for an NBA official, Like, can you imagine back of
the day, if you're an NBA official in like Chicago
or Philadelphia or New York. Oh yeah, that would not well,
they it was just a different time, different time. All right,
This is good for you. You're a big alcoholic ascot
beer for your brain. Study claims that light drinking may yeah,
may maze weezelword, light drinking may protect cognitive function, may,

(54:37):
of course being the key word in that. Like there's
a study one week that says, hey, you gotta you know,
don't drink coffee, it's bad for you. The next week,
drink a cup of coffee a day keeps the doctor away. Yeah,
it's that's that that that same dame, What was the
last time you had in the alcohol? Uh, probably at
that party we went to in Hollywood, Oh, for Rob

(54:59):
part ER's birthday. No, no, no, no no, not the way
it was our my buddy of rash Oh yeah, yeah fine,
La Times columnist A rash Markazi, my old co worker
back in the day. That's a long time ago. I
haven't had a drink since February. But you want a cookie? Yeah,
I think that's pretty impressive. All right. I don't give
you a special today's day. I haven't eaten yet either,

(55:21):
but especially in today's day and age, right, well, there's
like nothing else going on. Yeah, yeah, there's you gotta
be like beer drinking Brian and half punt show. Yeah.
Researchers from the University of Georgia surprisingly concluded that a
little bit of alcohol may actually be a good thing
for the aging brain. And uh, he said. The key

(55:41):
part of that is little bit, yeah, he said, So
a glass of wine with some steak, yeah, and some
green beans. There you go. What a life. I like
this idea. What a fucking happy birthday for me? All right?
A new study, new study shows that stereotypes affect decision making. Guests, Gun,
do you really do you think we need a study
on this? That? Isn't that just human beings? Like who?

(56:04):
It's what's the term a risk assessment? Yeah, in a
situation you go into if you perceive you stereotype, you
have to stereotype. I don't know how you avoid it. Yeah,
and sales they call it pre qualifying. Yeah. Yeah, So
all right, I think that's that's a good place to

(56:24):
hit the pause button. Yes, it's good. Yes, all right,
So we will not get the weird stuff found surfing
the web, because guest, Gun, give us B or not
the bee, which is fine. I liked B or not
the bee. But we can do the We can do
the odd stuff I found surfing the web. We can
do that tomorrow with the email bag and some other things. Yes. Yes,
And since we can't go outside on the fourth of
July and light fireworks, be careful with lighting fireworks instead

(56:44):
of your housepind maller. Well, I do that every day,
four hours a night on the radio. Fireworks here, verbal fireworks,
Cobo well, happy for all, and Birthday America, Happy Birthday America.
That's a little that's a little taboo to say nowadays. Oh,
you can't be patriotic and supposed to hate America. Is
that right? Yes. The odd thing to me about the

(57:06):
fourth of July is it isn't actually the right date.
It's one of those things we the founding fathers. You know,
people think that's the day the Constitution was done and
all that, but actually I bring this up sporadically every
couple of years. But it was officially voted for. They
voted for independence on July second, right, And if you

(57:27):
look at it, the things move slower back then. The
most of the people that signed, the bulk of the
fifty four people that signed, the men that signed the
final Declaration of Independence, it was like sent out on
August second, and so it's like it's like this the
timeline on that like the Independence Day originally, I think

(57:50):
July eighteenth they celebrated it in Philadelphia originally, but maybe
July fourth is the day. And when the legend becomes
the fact, Gascon, you go with the legend. Go with
the legend. Everything it works, and it doesn't matter whether
it's the wrong date or not. You say, I know,
religious scholars say that Christmas is the wrong, wrong date
that Jesus was actually when was it sometime in the

(58:12):
in the summer. Yeah, anyway, all right, listen, have a
wonderful day again. Cameo, cameo, came off. You want a
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Weekends are a great time for that, and you guys
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