June 5, 2021 • 44 mins
A pandemic slowed things, but did not stop the presses. Ben returns and so does his love for documentaries. Only this time, instead of watching one, he's in it.
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And we are going to have some fun today. We
are joined west of the four oh five back on
a Saturday. David Gascon is right over there. I am here,
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I am here, and um are you limping a little
bit after what has transpired over the last week, week
and a half span with your with your l A clippers,
because wow, well I mean again, you know we're doing
this on a Saturday. I we we don't know what
happened on Friday night, so it's kind of tough to
break that down. I think I'm looking forward to a
game seven. Uh though, I'm pretty impressive performance by Kauai
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in game game six. I'm sure you watch that, right,
Paul George and the People's team there and well, it's
like we record this on a Thursday, but I'm sure
they played very well on a Friday night. Well, it's
like a m C. I am all in on the
Clippers in the game six. Now you're a Laker historian,
you're west of the four oh five. You support the
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elitist Lakers. The one person enters the late. Of course,
the Lakers. What a great season they had, let me
tell you, very impressive. They're that performance against the Sun's
I think Lebron still walking. I don't know, maybe he's
walking back to l A. I don't know. Look, gives
him time to work on movies, now, right. I mean,
that's that's really what the ultimate goal is. To bring
it enough help and support and as soon as they
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break down, you just pull the rip chord and you
are off into the entertainment. Realm. Yeah, he is stopping
stopping away. Uh, clearly clearly stopping away anyway. On the
podcast this week, we've got Boom too, Benny pop Quiz,
and I also have some random scientific we'll get scientifical
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if you will. Some things that I came across that
we're intriguing. At least I found him intriguing scouring the web.
You know what intriguing is the mail? Um the mail
It feels like Santa Claus weekly comes into Fox Sports
Radio because well, I know, but I go in and
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out of the mail room on a weekly basis, and
I can't believe the amount of mail boxes, envelopes, goodies
that your fans send you. Well, you don't know. You
don't know what is in the malight, I do not.
You don't know unless you open the mail, which is
a federal crime to open the mail. You're not supposed
to open another person's federal crime, so you shouln't do that.
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So you don't know what's in there. And I don't
know what's in there until I opened the box and
I see what's in the box. So and I don't
even we don't even really have a mail room. The
mail room was moved. Yes, well it was moved for us,
but they have a general mail room on the fifth floor,
so I have to navigate up there and then look
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into some cubby holes and at times, at times you
have boxes that have been sent to you by fans
and it's like, wait a minute, this has been up
here for how long before they actually bring it down
in the lobby for us. Well, that's the problem with
the mail service. That's what people. I can email from people, Hey,
I sent you something, and I'm like, well, I don't know.
I didn't get it. I don't know where it is.
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I mean, I could try to find it, but it
is unfortunate. But I do eventually get everything. It just might.
I wouldn't send anything perishable. No, I would not send
anything that will expire or anything like that. And I
certainly wouldn't send any animal parts like Doc Mike assumed
with the bloody goathhead and all that stuff. I would
avoid that because for a while in the early days
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of Fox Sports Radio, this goes back to probably two
thousand four, two thousand five, you know, the network had
been on the air for like four or five years.
But Doc Mike would he would send goathheads. And one time,
one time they thought they thought they had a like
a body part, like a human body part, because it
was like blood coming out of the box. And they stopped.
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They put a stop on my mail at the company.
They would not take my mail anymore because of Doc.
And then so I told Doc, as said, listen, they're
not taking mail for me, will you. You You know you're
an asshole. You've screwed this up for me. He said,
don't worry. So then everything he sends to this day
and Doc sends me a lot of parapherne you're in
books and crap like that, and everything had he writes,
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no animal parts, no goat head, no blood on the
outside of the package in large black you know inc
on the side of the box. There. Yeah, I have
a whole I have a whole wing here of like
Doc Mike crap I have. He's run for president since
every election since twenty twelve, sixteen and now twenty uh
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he has run and I am his vice presidential Kennedy.
But he actually has presidential election style photos taken like
campaign posters. He makes these campaign posters and he always
sends me some every year. It's not now I know
that you've had You've had a listener send you a
cooler with with frozen meat before. Yes, so our guy
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in Boston, that's the greatest. That he hooks me up
with the Finway Monster Dog, the greatest hot dog of
all time, only available in the local Boston area. And uh,
this guy fil Man, he's the hot dog benefactor. He
always hooks me up. The problem with that is a
few times, you know, he's gone out and got the
hot dogs and then by the time they got down
to me, they were lukewarm, and it's not well. I
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I bring that up because I'm curious if Doc Mike
has ever gone that route of disguising mail and maybe
having packaged or cooled off urine in a bottle. No, No,
that's very he would never say that because the urine
is very valuable the doc. It's it's it's gold, it's
liquid gold, and he would never never do that. So
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so yeah, I mean he's he's not centering a urine
the mail, but he has sent me a lot of
urine themed items paraphernalia. Yeah, it was seven of books
on on Yourin. We actually had one of the authors
on that doc booked for this show we had and
the guy cursed and it was a it was a
hot mess that doc working hard to produce the radio show.
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So tremendous, tremendous, tremendous tumentus. But yeah, I do think
that the people have sent stuff. I appreciate it, and
I've got to go through everything to the inventory and
all that, but it's, uh, it is much appreciate it
and I do eventually get it. I want you to
know I do get it. There's a big lag time though,
because you know the mail. Um, it's like a snail.
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We have a snail in there and it's kind of
like it goes along and it does this thing. So
I've got boomed to Benny. And this is another thing.
I listen. I got several messages from people on the
social media and emails from people, Hey I saw this,
and uh it is true. So I give you the
rest of the story. So there is a documentary series
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on Vice TV called The Dark Side. Apparently they do
this for a number of topics, The Dark Side. It's
like their own franchise documentary franchise advice, and you know
they claim in their in their propaganda that they explore
the underbellies of the world's many, you know, prefer left
in the shadows. And so the latest one that's out
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now is The Dark Side of Football and it's you know,
no holds barred approach to looking at the NFL. And
one of the episodes of the Air and I think
it was episode three was on all Right, and I
am in that episode. I uh did a number of
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different I don't know how to frame me. You do
these these documentary shows. They sit you in a chair
and then they ask you questions for for a while.
So I'm told I'm gonna be in some other episodes.
If you haven't seen it, the Vice TV, uh, and
it's on the internet. Some of it's on the internet.
I didn't see the Raider episode yet on the internet.
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I have not seen that. I've not seen the episode.
And even if I could see the episode, I don't
think I would watch the episode because it's Uh. I
don't like listening to myself on the radio, and I
definitely don't like looking at myself on TV. But it
hadn't done really any real TV stuff, like any and
like this kind of thing since uh, the INBC Sports
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Network back in the day. But we uh to tell
you how that works. These things work. We we taped
for like several hours. This goes back to December, and
they'll probably only use like a total of thirty seconds
if I'm lucky, But it was like three hours. We
had a lunch break, and I mean it was the
whole the whole deal, and the producers and the directors.
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They reached out to me, uh back in like November
of last year, and one of the guys worked on
the Best Damn Sports Show period, one of the he
was one of the producer guys and I and and
he was like he knew, I knew some people have
worked on that show, so we we kind of knew
the same people and that kind of stuff. Chris Rose,
Tom Looney, No, I weren't the guy was on. He
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was behind the scene, but yeah, I Rose and Looney
and those guys who worked at Fox Sports Radio back
in the day. And so we filmed that like the
first week in December, and it was taped at the
lobby of the Culver Hotel in Culver You've ever been
to the Culver Hotel in Culver City? Is it the
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one that's on the corner And it's really, really nice
when you walk in, it's a it's a weird shape.
It it looks like a building from New York. It's
an old Hollywood landmark. In fact, it is a historical landmark.
It's a National Historical landmark. This hotel. It's been around
since the early days of Hollywood. It's pretty cool. I
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was walking around there and it's like a it's not
really a triangle, but it's kind of you know, it's
like a weird shape of the building. And they built
like a movie theater around it. But the movie studios
right across the way. It's still still there from the
old days. But that is that hotel is most famous
because back in the nineteen thirties, when they were filming
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The Wizard of Oz, the Munchkins stayed at that hotel.
It was just down the street from the MGM studios,
and so they put up all these little people at
the Culvert Hotel in the late nineteen thirties. And the
legend is that they were so cheap at the movie
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studio that they literally would put three little people in
a bed because they were so tiny, and that way
they could. Because it's not a big hotel, there's only
like it's like less than fifty rooms in the hotel.
It's a small building. And so to monetize space, they
would lay three I don't know what used to call
them midgets. I don't know what do you call him now,
I don't know what the political people, little people a politicularly,
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all right. So they lay him on the bed, three
of them, and they could they could get him, and
they were a hundred and twenty four I wrote it down.
A hundred and twenty four little actors were filmed. And
not only is it hilarious to think that while they
were filming The Wizard about's one of the great movies
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you know, think about all time. I quoted many people quoted.
It's one of those you've got to see. It's like
a write of passage at some point, even though it's
a million years ago, from the nineteen thirties. Uh. But
so they lay the little people down on the bed
and all that stuff. Hundred and twenty four actors, and
it was apparently like Sodom and Gomorrah, like they had,
you know, a little men and wait a minute and
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all that, and they were getting drunk and having wild parties.
They had filmed during the day and then at night
at the Culvert Hotel, they would just go insane. And
the legend also is that the studio would they use
underground tunnels to the shuttle the the actors, the munchkins
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underneath in the bowels of the hotel across the street
to the MGM studios, so they would be undetected, so
people wouldn't know what was going on about that. Yeah,
so it's an interesting hotel. That's what you did the
documentary and like it goes. I mean the big names
in the old days of Holly Clark, Gable, uh, you know,
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Greta Garbo, people like that. Um, Charlie Chaplin supposedly owned
that hotel. And the legend is, although I don't think
it's true, as he sold the hotel, he he lost
the poker game and he is something with the pot
game where they sold the hotel that John Wayne for
one dollar or something like that. And so there's a
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bunch of stories about it. But it's a it's a
pretty cool old Hollywood place. And so anyway, I you're
interested in seeing the dark side, and I did see
the first episode, which I was not in. It's well done.
It's a good you like a good sports documentary The
Dark Side of Football, and we'll see they talked about
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the Raiders on the in that episode. I know there's
some I don't want to give it away, but there's
some on you know, violent hits and the concussions and
that kind of stuff, and the Eagles, the Cowboys, uh,
you know some of the other stuff that we talked about.
I have the book. I have not read it yet though,
but The Dark Side it was I'm curious, what did
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they so when this is broken down in each episode
sixty minutes in length or thirty minutes, So they're doing
it like a short version with with an entire series
or is it? No, the episode I saw was like
an hour, like an hour deal I guess about with
commercials or whatever, it's a little less. But uh yeah,
that seems like the full the full manti there they're
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not cutting corners and maybe they were working on this
for like a year and a half. Actually well no,
not a year. But it was like during COVID the
guys were traveling around and interviewing people, so you have
to sign all these COVID disclosures and whatnot. I'll be
curious why, I mean, why won't you watch it though,
because editors, it's a making break with editors don't make
it look good. They'll make you look bad. Yeah. No's
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I mean that's the whole thing with the documentary. But
I don't know, I don't see it because then I'll
like be like I look fat or I look ugly,
or you know I didn't wear that, or you know,
why did I say that? I should have said this.
You know, I don't want to do that. So I mean,
I might check out a screenshot. I might, I'll take
like a photo. Well, you're gonna have the same thing
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for you. I mean, I know Rob Parker did it
or whatever. You know he does, and he's on TV
all the time. I sends that stuff to us all
the time. You're gonna have a handful of listeners are
doing this anyway for you. They're gonna face is too
shiny right here. Well. The funny thing about that is
when I finished the shoot back in December, They're like, well,
this should come out around the super Bowl. Yeah, so
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I'm like, okay, the Super Bowls in February early February.
They wanted to do it like, you know, either promoted
the beginning and then drop it right after the Super Bowl.
I was like, and it never happened. So I was like, well,
maybe it got scrapped or something like that, maybe because
I didn't hear from him. And I was like, well,
maybe they never did the show. And then, um, here
we are in June, and you know, February, not March,
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not April, not May, but we're in June, so five
essentially five months later, and uh, and there it is.
But I had actually forgotten about I figured they just
scrapped in and that was it. But people pointing out
they did not scrap So there you go. Can I share?
Can I share a football? Um? Can I share a
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football story with you? Then? Um, I was. I was
fortunate and lucky. I've I've been on a little bit
of a kick thanks to what we've done in the markets,
whether it's crypto or or obviously the New York Stock
Exchange been up quite a while. At six six thirty
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in the morning, seven thirty in the morning, and um,
I got a call a few days ago from this
this digital company overseas that's based in Hamburg, Germany, and
they contacted me because they needed, or they do need
a handful of announcers to commentate on the new European
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Football League. So yesterday, No, not yesterday, the day before
I did a test I did a test game for
them and featured the Hamburg Sea Devils, and uh, yeah,
it was pretty interesting. It was a inter squad American
style football. Yeah, American football they have so they have
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NFL rules except for overtime over time, they'll go to college.
But outside of that, Yeah, it's a lot of the
guys that were playing at the Division one level, whether
it's FBS the FCS, and a lot of these dudes
that play that in German leagues before or still play
in German leagues. So yeah, it's pretty interesting. I was like, fine,
you know, like you go through the you go through
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the roster and you're looking for the Johnson's, the Smiths,
and then all of a sudden you get those German
last names and you're like, wait a minute, this is
gonna be a little challenging. Yeah, and are you gonna
travel to Germany and no, no, So they're doing everything online. Um.
The kicker on this, which is kind of unique, is
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that the European Football League is generating sixty players on
each roster. You can only have ten foreign players and
you can only have four Americans. So they want to
keep it where it's centrics to centric to the state
or the state the country that you're in. So right
now it's comprised of Germany, Poland and Spain, and you
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can only have those players in that country or from
that country playing those teams that want that. That's what
most like I know in basketball. I've talked to guys
that have played overseas and they have limits on how
many Americans can play in like basketball, internationally, a lot
of the countries have limits on that. You can only
have one or two I forget the number is. But
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Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah. Can
you imagine they tried that in America? Well, you can
only have one foreign player on your team, and then
after that you're not a lot. Oh my god, the
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locarate would go nuts. They would lose their mind to crap.
Can you imagine? Yeah, well you have a quota and
I'm sorry, reached our quota and that's it. Could you
imagine if they did that for Major League Baseball? Oh yeah,
as far as like the Dominican Republic, American countries, ship
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Toronto Blue Jays would be in a whole lot of time.
It would be in the world of hurt. Yeah, but
it isn't you look at the US versus the world.
I mean that a lot of the other places. That's
I think I heard in the Mexican League, Mexican League baseball,
they have a limit on how many US players you
can have. I don't know that. Somebody told me that
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a couple of years ago. I don't know if that's true.
So do you know that then for like the Japanese
or Korean leagues? Is that the case? I believe that
to be the case. Also, Yeah, I think we can
double check it. But I know in basketball, I've I've
worked with some guys that played basketball in different countries
and they were limits on how many Americans I could
play in that country. And I think in in Japanese baseball, yeah,
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that you can only have a couple of per team.
That you've got to have mostly players from the Homeland.
That's But as far as the broadcasting thing, like see
now because of the COVID, this is one of the
things like if you're an up start league, you're not
going to actually have the broadcasters travel to wherever you are,
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right if you can save money now you can. People
have been hypnotized and mesmerized and they don't really know
where the broadcasters are, and so you could call games
from your living room and you don't have to travel
to Germany and need a sausage. You know, Germany Schnitzelman,
the German press man. Yes. And the one lucture that
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we had with this game to which I loved they
probably didn't was that they had two cameras but hot mics,
and so that the mics were down there field level
and you could just hear English speaking head coaches, a
couple of them, more American dropping f bombs left and right,
blown tackles, missed the simits, staying out of their lanes
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on kickoff and kickoff return. So it was awesome. Sometimes
it would lay out just so I can hear the
hot mics. It's really good. So and you're doing this
in English, you don't speak Germans, you're doing this in English,
and this is being broadcast where is this supposed to
be broadcast? When you start doing it, it'll be broadcasted
on a company's platform called Spock TV s p A
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l K TV. Yeah, so they do. They do a
bunch of different sports. Have been trying to work with
them for for a while and they do a lot
of basketball, baseball. Um, I think they do polo, tennis, boxing,
They do a handful of things. But where they are
They an international company or they so they're they're based
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in Germany and but they've had people working in Germany, Australia,
I think New Zealand and different parts of the UK.
So do they pay well, Uh, I don't know. I
even gotten into that. I gotta clear the first turtle
man thing. I just want to make sure you get
your money. I don't want to, you know, be upset
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about that. So they should that should you should say hey,
how much am I getting? And I'm not gonna do
it this is unless I get X amount of dollars
or whatever. Well, I it's it's interesting because of the
sense that their head coaches and the commission have openly
said that their idea for this league is not to
make it a standalone. They want to make it as
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a transition link to the National Football League. I know
that that's a huge leap, especially because you gotta think
big man big, you know. They want to make this
like the NFL Europe, right, yeah, yeah, well I remember
the NFL Europe. It seemed like a good idea. But
I remember people just used to complain that I didn't
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know who any of the right which is. But it's
so dumbfounding to me because I love watching the MAC.
I don't know how many people do, but I'll watch
that ship on Tuesdays and Wednesday nights. And outside of
Jordan Patterson that played running back for Buffalo and scored
seven touchdowns in the game last season, most people don't
know who these cats are. But it's football. Well. I
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love the guys. And when you go to Vegas or
anywhere now they have sports books, you go in there
and there's always that one guy that's like the MAC guy.
You know, you know, he bets on the Mac. That's
the thing. Then there's the everyone's chasing Hawaii, but there's
that person that studies Hawaii. They're kind of you know,
that's their thing, you know, the Hawaii Warriors, the Rainbow
Warriors and all that. Yeah, plus to the last game
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of the night. So if you're chasing an action from
a blown pack twelve game at ten o'clock, Yeah, I
would argue that the sports books make more money from
Hawaii than many of the schools in the Power five
conferences because that that's the drain everything goes through at
the end. You're trying to get your money back. Yeah,
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And I feel like it's amplified now because the continuance
and I guess innovation of live betting too, right, Like
you're not you're not waiting for a second half spread anymore. Now,
you're waiting for the television time outs to come in. Yeah. Boy,
that's a dangerous one, the live betting man, because you
can bet on everything and it's I mean, jeez, that
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is a slippery slope, man. That's a death by a
thousand paper cuts is what that is? Or a thousand
you know, as was it R. J. Bell called pizza
money bets. But you make enough pizza money bets and
you got nothing. Yeah, you you lose enough pizza money
bets and you will feel that, Yeah, that is not good. Now,
I don't know do you, because I know you go
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to bed usually around eight or nine o'clock after your show, right, yes, yes,
I usually go to bed between right around eight to nine,
depending on the day. On Thursday, CNR not CNN. Fox
Business on Thursday had the CEO and president of Fubo
TV on Yeah, and he talked about how it was
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being treated as a meme stock for for some odd reason.
But they have and obviously for those that don't know,
they could check it out. But I think you talk
about a loaded gun with live betting. Fobo TV is
gonna have where if you're watching let's say, like the
Colts in the Charge Years, they're gonna have a menu
that's up there and available for you to live bet
or place bets on other games at the flick of
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a switch on your television channel or just on a
on a touch screen. So yeah, I don't know, man.
I think there's that novelty of going to Vegas, Like
we could hop in a car and go four hours
to Vegas in a car or a forty five minute
of flight, But fuck dealing bets from your house. Yeah,
you gotta be careful. I mean to me, the way
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this would work, you know, and that's you know, there's
a lot of people obviously get swept up in this
and lose everything. But you gotta be careful. But you
can say that about any any vice, like people drink
too much? Does that mean we should ban alcohol? They
tried that prohibition. It didn't work. People people will do
to anything to excess, but everything in moderation. But to me,
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the whole the way it would work in the perfect world.
You know, let's say, uh, on a Friday night, it
worked all week, there's a game or a sun day afternoon,
and you want to put a couple of bucks down,
you know, and then but you go crazy. I don't
think that's But when you go to Vegas, you have
a dollar amount set aside that you're you're seeing yourself.
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I can lose this much, right, Yeah, that's my donation,
that's my tax, and I paid to the casino. That's
the real that's the real resort fee. But they charge
you a bullshit resort for resort fee. What do I
think people are going there and not gambling? Why the
funk would you go to Vegas and not gable? Part
of the resort fee for thirty five dollars is the
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gym and the telephone and the wifire internet access in
your room, Like the funk is using that exactly. Well,
the WiFi I get, but it doesn't cost thirty five
dollars per person for the WiFi, and nobody uses the
hotel gyms. It's a completely empty Yeah, the waste of
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time use your phone at the at the casino tables anyway.
So yeah, wife bull ship, they get away with it. Yeah,
that resort for you. It's like, we'll just put that
in the price of the room because you're afraid to
do it, so you tack it on at the end
and you go there. You're like, well, I'm getting a
great deal at hotel and you know, forty bucks a
night with a seventy dollar resort fee, you know whatever
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it is. It's like so stupid, and don't forget you
need to pay for parking, right Yeah, well yeah, well
that's why I got all those credit cards. I guess.
I heard they got rid of that though with the
COVID they were so desperate to get people to come back.
I wonder if they brought the parking the charge parking back,
but I had heard they got rid of that because
I'd bet a Vegas and in a while since twenty nineteen.
But the last time I was in Vegas you had
(28:37):
to pay parking. But I heard they got rid of
that because they were trying to encourage people to go
back to the casino. It's funny you bring that up.
I just noticed on Delta's website a few days ago
that they did away with cancelation charges. So if you
booked a flight out of l A to go to
New York, let's say on Sunday, and you can't go anymore,
(28:58):
you can cancel, not cancel, but you get a flight
credit now into your account. You got a voucher before
they would charge you I think at least seventy five
dollars to cancel or change it. And then they would
they would charge you the difference on an upcoming flight.
And why did they Because they could. That's why they could.
And all the other you know, the nuisance fees, like
(29:20):
the baggage fees and all that stuff. It's but I
did did learn a lesson when I traveled some in
twenty nineteen, actually before that, Like you know, you don't
pay for a bag to be checked in. What you
do is you try to put it in the overhead
they'll be out of space, and then they'll check it
in for you for free. Yeah, so that's the move.
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You don't actually pay for it in advance because they'll
just do it, and that way you don't have to
pay for now you will when you travel, especially when
you went to Boston, did you either bring a jacket
or a sweater? Uh? Yeah, I had to bring a
couple of jackets. I mean, it wasn't freezing, but it was,
you know, still April and ball spin. It's not particularly warm.
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So that's what I did, or that's why I do.
I'll bring a huge jacket, usually like a winter coat,
and I'll bring it with my bag. If my bag
is too big, I'll try to put it up on
the upper bend compartment, but if I can't, I'll put
it underneath my seat, but put my jacket over it.
And since it's black, you can't really see the dimensions
of the bag. Yeah, I don't when you walk on
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the plane, though, don't they normally I can't see what's
going on. They assumed I'm gonna put it in the
overhead bit. Okay, Yeah, so you're saying the flight attendants
aren't very punctual with what there like, like checking everything. Yeah,
they're not a student, especially since the intent or I
moved my legs around a little bit doesn't look like
I'm crammed. I'll spread spread out a little bit. And
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my big, my big fat days back in the day
when I would fly in the seatbelt didn't particularly fit well.
I was. There were a few flights I was able
to pretend like I had the seatbelt on and I didn't.
That's what you do, well, I would. I would put
my arms on my lap right where the middle of
the seatbelt was, and I hold my hand over it
to make it seem like it was together. But it
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was what it wasn't and uh And very rarely did
I have any issue with him saying, what can I
see the full you know, the clicking of the seabelt.
They assumed that it was connected and it wasn't always
the case. It's better than them tugging on it, right,
Oh yeah, that's good. All right. We have a few
scientifical stories here, and this one's crazy. So a new
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study out found that nearly half of Americans say they
are convinced dinosaurs still exist in some remote corner of
the world. How crazy is that? Uh? And uh, but
wait there's more. Four in ten people survey think that
the prehistoric creatures existed between two thousand and ten thousand
(31:57):
years ago, rather than between sixties six and two thirty
million years ago, which is what science says. And what
in five even think the dinosaur population only went extinct
a hundred years That like, in nineteen twenty one, there
were dinosaurs sours roaming around while Babe Ruth was playing
(32:18):
for the Yankees. Just after World War One, we have
dinosaurs roam in the world. Imagine they would They would
weaponize the dinosaurs, put like bazookas on him and ship
like that. Fifty percent also believed all dinosaurs only lived
in Africa and North America, unaware that these are you know,
these creatures were everywhere, And despite their being a thousand
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different species of dinosaur, the typical adult can name only
how many dinosaurs four that's right for, with the most
popular dinosaur being the t rex. Yeah, Tyronosaurus rex most recognizable.
That's the the o G of the dinosaur, and that's
the king. That's great. Though nearly half of Americans say
(33:03):
they're convinced the dinosaurs still exists somewhere here's the correct
Jurassic Park. That's the Jurassic Park thing, right, So why
don't we think that was a documentary or something. Dr
Grant and obviously the the other ones in amusement park.
I we don't explore the the ocean enough do We
(33:24):
were really fascinated with without our space, which is understandable.
But what about the deep sea, the deep blue sea.
Oh yeah, there's probably all kinds of crap living down
at the bottom of the ocean that we have no idea.
There could be a whole different That's one of the
theories on the UFOs, that they're actually creatures that live
in the ocean that we don't know about. There's some
kind of alien alien it'll be on the planet, but
(33:45):
deep in the bowels and the monsters out there. Like
they say that dinosaurs are gone, but I look at
a blue whale, I think that's that's a that's a dinosaur,
you know, that's that To me, that's a dinosaur. Man
or the the Komodo dragon. Yeah, to me, it looks
like a little dinosaur. Looks like yeah, alright. A new
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study finds one in two Americans in a relationship admit
that their current partner is the worst sex they've ever had.
How about that? I believe it? What are they doing? Well,
you just get used to it and now it's just
all about getting on and getting off. So it's like
chocolate chip cookies. Once you eat the same chocolate chip
(34:27):
cookie every day, you tire of the chocolate chip cookie.
But you can't use an example of me. I'm a
chocolate fiend. I don't know about that. You're not you're
not married. Uh. Let's see, so you think that's more
for men or more for women? I bet, I bet
it's actually equal. You think so? I think both are like,
(34:50):
you know, kind of over it another. Let's see here
a quarter to this, they said people getting injured during
the hay key pankey. Seven percent said it happened in
the shower, so be careful slipping the shower. Say they
hurt themselves while trying the wheelbarrow. But that there you go,
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talking about manual labor. Uh, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, all right? Uh?
What one in five people have actually banned a board
game for causing problems on game night. One of those
who brought down the apparently the one that caused the
most problems was Monopoly, Monopoly or scrabble, and Monopoly has
(35:40):
been banned at the most place. According to a recent
survey of US residents say their game night with friends
or family members are often or always disrupted by competitive
or unfriendly behavior. And they say that said that people
that they would quit the game because they're losing. That
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you can't do that. That's what Lebron did when he
walked off. I'm losing, so I'm gonna go to the
locker room and I'm gonna get a treatment. And the
guys that sucked my toes will say I was good
in treatment and I wasn't just being a bad sport. Yeah.
Someone accusing another player of cheating also popular, and two
or more players getting into an argument. So those are
(36:23):
all reasons you have back. You have to admit Monopoly lags.
It just wears you down. Uh yeah, I used to
like it when I was a kid, but I remember
my parents are like a little long. It wouldn't end,
you know, I just go on for too long. And Scrabble,
Chest Checkers, Umish checkers, Go Fish my favorite. I'm a
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I'm a god fish fiend and machine both fish love spades.
Did you play spades as a kid. I played recently
and not recently. A couple years I started playing Old Maid.
That's a good game. That is a good game. Yeah,
I like Old underraate. It sounds like an old you know,
old grandmother's play Old Maid. But it's a good game.
I don't know if you've you've noticed this when you've
gone in Vegas. But do you know that some of
(37:10):
the casinos have War? Uh No, I don't really. At Paris,
I played it. You can play the dealer heads up
in War, and I didn't. I broke even, but I
just it was pretty intense. He's going to run and
then you get your ass kicked. You're gonna run and
get beat again. Yeah, talking about the ebbs and flows,
(37:32):
that's true. Yeah, all right, a few we have a
limited time, so we do a few pop quiz questions.
A new report claims the best time to buy one
of these is more than two months before you plan
to use it. What is it? Oh? Um, can't be
a house, a refrigerator, a car, I will say, I
(37:55):
will say, um, a barbecue a barbecue? All right? Uh No,
it's a plane ticket to get the best deal you're
supposed to buy it. I think it's a hundred days
or something. Not in a hundreds, maybe less than that,
maybe seventies something days. I think it is the number
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before you use a plane ticket, all right. In a
new survey, almost six of people say when they eat
this particular food, they wish they were alone. They would
rather be alone than have other people around a banana banana?
Uh no, although this can be served with a banana.
This particular food ice cream, Yeah, ice cream. I could
(38:38):
eat a carton of ice cream by myself with a
spoon to sit down. You're like the trope of the
lonely person. Actually your woman sitting on the couch eating
the slop when it comes to ice cream. Man, Yeah,
like my ice cream, but I don't know if I
like it that much. According to any of women at it,
(39:00):
they get suspicious whenever they're significant of the other. Does
this What are they doing? Locks his phone? Uh no,
that's a good one, but no, the answer is sending
them flowers. What Yeah, because they think that they might
have cheated on him. That's why they send them flowers.
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess, so, no good
(39:23):
deed goes unpunished. Clue. Uh. Men are twice as likely
as women to say they are really good at this sex.
Uh No, parallel parking parks, well, I think you know
where I stand on that. That's pretty pretty prolific in
that area. Proved yourself. There's some photos on the internet
(39:44):
if you want to. Yeah, precision driving, Ben Malley, Yes, yes, Uh,
let's see here of homeowners admit this is something they
haven't done for some time, even though they know they
really should clean the Uh clean they on top of
(40:08):
the roof roof. No, it is something cleaning, obviously, something
you should clean the bathroom. No, you know that that
lint filter thing on the dryer. Yeah, you don't do
it after every run? Oh I do. My wife does,
and she she she has the laundry. I I usually
(40:31):
do the dishes and she does a lot of laundry,
but I'll do the laundry occasionally. And I did the
laundry earlier this week, and I I always checked the
lint thing before I do put the dryer on. So
I pulled out the lint thing and it was like
a bowling ball of lint that I put all. It
was unbelievable. I'm surprised that things didn't light on fire,
(40:51):
and uh, you know I had done the laundry in
a while. I was like, hey, you know what are
you doing? Yeah? Yeah, I check it occasionally. Yeah, has
so much link it was. It was insane, insane, all right.
No matter where you work, I don't care whether you
work at a radio station, a you know, you're a
truck driver, you work in a hospital or a church.
(41:12):
No matter where you work, chances are you do this
about fifty five times a week. M hmmm. Fifty five
times a week. Yeah, go to the bathroom? Uh no,
might I think that would be a lot, about fifty
five times in a week. I don't do the math
(41:34):
on that. On the bathroom five days a week? That's uh?
Is that eleven and a half times? I think you'd
lose your job if you went to the bathroom. I
don't know. Uh. The answer is do curse. Curse. You're
gonna curse fifty five times no matter what you do.
And in radio you can't curse on the air, but
(41:56):
you can't curse off the years free to do that.
Eleven people say they are still at their current job
because their boss allows them to do this. Mm hmmm.
Work remotely. Uh no, I know it's coming late. Be
(42:17):
tardying doesn't matter. They don't care, alright. Last one, we're
up against it here. Percentage of people under the age
of thirty that use their phone in the bathroom, I'm
gonna say. I'm gonna say of people under the age
(42:37):
of thirty use their phone in the bathroom. But the
answer is ship while they're sitting there dropping some logs,
are on their phone, playing around. It's got to be
(42:58):
high too, though, I come on to me, what else
you gonna read a book? I guess you could do that,
But what happened to they remember? Like the old school,
you'd have the tal rack and then underneath you'd also
have the magazines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well you
go to the Vegas hotel, some of the high end hotels,
they have the guy there with the we talked about
this before. I hate that, you know, the guy sitting
(43:18):
there with the the the breath, the breath mail and
they got the cologns And I hate that, Yeah, because
then you're in there going to the bathroom. Here's everything.
You know, you gotta let one rip. He'll hear you know.
It's very awkward, very awkward. Anyway, that's it. Have a
great rest of your Saturday's. Saturday's Saturday, and we got
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And we are going to have some fun today. We
are joined west of the four oh five back on
a Saturday. David Gascon is right over there. I am here,
(01:11):
I am here, and um are you limping a little
bit after what has transpired over the last week, week
and a half span with your with your l A clippers,
because wow, well I mean again, you know we're doing
this on a Saturday. I we we don't know what
happened on Friday night, so it's kind of tough to
break that down. I think I'm looking forward to a
game seven. Uh though, I'm pretty impressive performance by Kauai
(01:36):
in game game six. I'm sure you watch that, right,
Paul George and the People's team there and well, it's
like we record this on a Thursday, but I'm sure
they played very well on a Friday night. Well, it's
like a m C. I am all in on the
Clippers in the game six. Now you're a Laker historian,
you're west of the four oh five. You support the
(01:58):
elitist Lakers. The one person enters the late. Of course,
the Lakers. What a great season they had, let me
tell you, very impressive. They're that performance against the Sun's
I think Lebron still walking. I don't know, maybe he's
walking back to l A. I don't know. Look, gives
him time to work on movies, now, right. I mean,
that's that's really what the ultimate goal is. To bring
it enough help and support and as soon as they
(02:19):
break down, you just pull the rip chord and you
are off into the entertainment. Realm. Yeah, he is stopping
stopping away. Uh, clearly clearly stopping away anyway. On the
podcast this week, we've got Boom too, Benny pop Quiz,
and I also have some random scientific we'll get scientifical
(02:43):
if you will. Some things that I came across that
we're intriguing. At least I found him intriguing scouring the web.
You know what intriguing is the mail? Um the mail
It feels like Santa Claus weekly comes into Fox Sports
Radio because well, I know, but I go in and
(03:06):
out of the mail room on a weekly basis, and
I can't believe the amount of mail boxes, envelopes, goodies
that your fans send you. Well, you don't know. You
don't know what is in the malight, I do not.
You don't know unless you open the mail, which is
a federal crime to open the mail. You're not supposed
to open another person's federal crime, so you shouln't do that.
(03:28):
So you don't know what's in there. And I don't
know what's in there until I opened the box and
I see what's in the box. So and I don't
even we don't even really have a mail room. The
mail room was moved. Yes, well it was moved for us,
but they have a general mail room on the fifth floor,
so I have to navigate up there and then look
(03:48):
into some cubby holes and at times, at times you
have boxes that have been sent to you by fans
and it's like, wait a minute, this has been up
here for how long before they actually bring it down
in the lobby for us. Well, that's the problem with
the mail service. That's what people. I can email from people, Hey,
I sent you something, and I'm like, well, I don't know.
I didn't get it. I don't know where it is.
(04:08):
I mean, I could try to find it, but it
is unfortunate. But I do eventually get everything. It just might.
I wouldn't send anything perishable. No, I would not send
anything that will expire or anything like that. And I
certainly wouldn't send any animal parts like Doc Mike assumed
with the bloody goathhead and all that stuff. I would
avoid that because for a while in the early days
(04:29):
of Fox Sports Radio, this goes back to probably two
thousand four, two thousand five, you know, the network had
been on the air for like four or five years.
But Doc Mike would he would send goathheads. And one time,
one time they thought they thought they had a like
a body part, like a human body part, because it
was like blood coming out of the box. And they stopped.
(04:52):
They put a stop on my mail at the company.
They would not take my mail anymore because of Doc.
And then so I told Doc, as said, listen, they're
not taking mail for me, will you. You You know you're
an asshole. You've screwed this up for me. He said,
don't worry. So then everything he sends to this day
and Doc sends me a lot of parapherne you're in
books and crap like that, and everything had he writes,
(05:13):
no animal parts, no goat head, no blood on the
outside of the package in large black you know inc
on the side of the box. There. Yeah, I have
a whole I have a whole wing here of like
Doc Mike crap I have. He's run for president since
every election since twenty twelve, sixteen and now twenty uh
(05:40):
he has run and I am his vice presidential Kennedy.
But he actually has presidential election style photos taken like
campaign posters. He makes these campaign posters and he always
sends me some every year. It's not now I know
that you've had You've had a listener send you a
cooler with with frozen meat before. Yes, so our guy
(06:03):
in Boston, that's the greatest. That he hooks me up
with the Finway Monster Dog, the greatest hot dog of
all time, only available in the local Boston area. And uh,
this guy fil Man, he's the hot dog benefactor. He
always hooks me up. The problem with that is a
few times, you know, he's gone out and got the
hot dogs and then by the time they got down
to me, they were lukewarm, and it's not well. I
(06:26):
I bring that up because I'm curious if Doc Mike
has ever gone that route of disguising mail and maybe
having packaged or cooled off urine in a bottle. No, No,
that's very he would never say that because the urine
is very valuable the doc. It's it's it's gold, it's
liquid gold, and he would never never do that. So
(06:50):
so yeah, I mean he's he's not centering a urine
the mail, but he has sent me a lot of
urine themed items paraphernalia. Yeah, it was seven of books
on on Yourin. We actually had one of the authors
on that doc booked for this show we had and
the guy cursed and it was a it was a
hot mess that doc working hard to produce the radio show.
(07:15):
So tremendous, tremendous, tremendous tumentus. But yeah, I do think
that the people have sent stuff. I appreciate it, and
I've got to go through everything to the inventory and
all that, but it's, uh, it is much appreciate it
and I do eventually get it. I want you to
know I do get it. There's a big lag time though,
because you know the mail. Um, it's like a snail.
(07:37):
We have a snail in there and it's kind of
like it goes along and it does this thing. So
I've got boomed to Benny. And this is another thing.
I listen. I got several messages from people on the
social media and emails from people, Hey I saw this,
and uh it is true. So I give you the
rest of the story. So there is a documentary series
(07:58):
on Vice TV called The Dark Side. Apparently they do
this for a number of topics, The Dark Side. It's
like their own franchise documentary franchise advice, and you know
they claim in their in their propaganda that they explore
the underbellies of the world's many, you know, prefer left
in the shadows. And so the latest one that's out
(08:21):
now is The Dark Side of Football and it's you know,
no holds barred approach to looking at the NFL. And
one of the episodes of the Air and I think
it was episode three was on all Right, and I
am in that episode. I uh did a number of
(08:45):
different I don't know how to frame me. You do
these these documentary shows. They sit you in a chair
and then they ask you questions for for a while.
So I'm told I'm gonna be in some other episodes.
If you haven't seen it, the Vice TV, uh, and
it's on the internet. Some of it's on the internet.
I didn't see the Raider episode yet on the internet.
(09:07):
I have not seen that. I've not seen the episode.
And even if I could see the episode, I don't
think I would watch the episode because it's Uh. I
don't like listening to myself on the radio, and I
definitely don't like looking at myself on TV. But it
hadn't done really any real TV stuff, like any and
like this kind of thing since uh, the INBC Sports
(09:28):
Network back in the day. But we uh to tell
you how that works. These things work. We we taped
for like several hours. This goes back to December, and
they'll probably only use like a total of thirty seconds
if I'm lucky, But it was like three hours. We
had a lunch break, and I mean it was the
whole the whole deal, and the producers and the directors.
(09:50):
They reached out to me, uh back in like November
of last year, and one of the guys worked on
the Best Damn Sports Show period, one of the he
was one of the producer guys and I and and
he was like he knew, I knew some people have
worked on that show, so we we kind of knew
the same people and that kind of stuff. Chris Rose,
Tom Looney, No, I weren't the guy was on. He
(10:12):
was behind the scene, but yeah, I Rose and Looney
and those guys who worked at Fox Sports Radio back
in the day. And so we filmed that like the
first week in December, and it was taped at the
lobby of the Culver Hotel in Culver You've ever been
to the Culver Hotel in Culver City? Is it the
(10:32):
one that's on the corner And it's really, really nice
when you walk in, it's a it's a weird shape.
It it looks like a building from New York. It's
an old Hollywood landmark. In fact, it is a historical landmark.
It's a National Historical landmark. This hotel. It's been around
since the early days of Hollywood. It's pretty cool. I
(10:52):
was walking around there and it's like a it's not
really a triangle, but it's kind of you know, it's
like a weird shape of the building. And they built
like a movie theater around it. But the movie studios
right across the way. It's still still there from the
old days. But that is that hotel is most famous
because back in the nineteen thirties, when they were filming
(11:15):
The Wizard of Oz, the Munchkins stayed at that hotel.
It was just down the street from the MGM studios,
and so they put up all these little people at
the Culvert Hotel in the late nineteen thirties. And the
legend is that they were so cheap at the movie
(11:37):
studio that they literally would put three little people in
a bed because they were so tiny, and that way
they could. Because it's not a big hotel, there's only
like it's like less than fifty rooms in the hotel.
It's a small building. And so to monetize space, they
would lay three I don't know what used to call
them midgets. I don't know what do you call him now,
I don't know what the political people, little people a politicularly,
(12:00):
all right. So they lay him on the bed, three
of them, and they could they could get him, and
they were a hundred and twenty four I wrote it down.
A hundred and twenty four little actors were filmed. And
not only is it hilarious to think that while they
were filming The Wizard about's one of the great movies
(12:20):
you know, think about all time. I quoted many people quoted.
It's one of those you've got to see. It's like
a write of passage at some point, even though it's
a million years ago, from the nineteen thirties. Uh. But
so they lay the little people down on the bed
and all that stuff. Hundred and twenty four actors, and
it was apparently like Sodom and Gomorrah, like they had,
you know, a little men and wait a minute and
(12:43):
all that, and they were getting drunk and having wild parties.
They had filmed during the day and then at night
at the Culvert Hotel, they would just go insane. And
the legend also is that the studio would they use
underground tunnels to the shuttle the the actors, the munchkins
(13:06):
underneath in the bowels of the hotel across the street
to the MGM studios, so they would be undetected, so
people wouldn't know what was going on about that. Yeah,
so it's an interesting hotel. That's what you did the
documentary and like it goes. I mean the big names
in the old days of Holly Clark, Gable, uh, you know,
(13:26):
Greta Garbo, people like that. Um, Charlie Chaplin supposedly owned
that hotel. And the legend is, although I don't think
it's true, as he sold the hotel, he he lost
the poker game and he is something with the pot
game where they sold the hotel that John Wayne for
one dollar or something like that. And so there's a
(13:47):
bunch of stories about it. But it's a it's a
pretty cool old Hollywood place. And so anyway, I you're
interested in seeing the dark side, and I did see
the first episode, which I was not in. It's well done.
It's a good you like a good sports documentary The
Dark Side of Football, and we'll see they talked about
(14:10):
the Raiders on the in that episode. I know there's
some I don't want to give it away, but there's
some on you know, violent hits and the concussions and
that kind of stuff, and the Eagles, the Cowboys, uh,
you know some of the other stuff that we talked about.
I have the book. I have not read it yet though,
but The Dark Side it was I'm curious, what did
(14:34):
they so when this is broken down in each episode
sixty minutes in length or thirty minutes, So they're doing
it like a short version with with an entire series
or is it? No, the episode I saw was like
an hour, like an hour deal I guess about with
commercials or whatever, it's a little less. But uh yeah,
that seems like the full the full manti there they're
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not cutting corners and maybe they were working on this
for like a year and a half. Actually well no,
not a year. But it was like during COVID the
guys were traveling around and interviewing people, so you have
to sign all these COVID disclosures and whatnot. I'll be
curious why, I mean, why won't you watch it though,
because editors, it's a making break with editors don't make
it look good. They'll make you look bad. Yeah. No's
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I mean that's the whole thing with the documentary. But
I don't know, I don't see it because then I'll
like be like I look fat or I look ugly,
or you know I didn't wear that, or you know,
why did I say that? I should have said this.
You know, I don't want to do that. So I mean,
I might check out a screenshot. I might, I'll take
like a photo. Well, you're gonna have the same thing
(15:40):
for you. I mean, I know Rob Parker did it
or whatever. You know he does, and he's on TV
all the time. I sends that stuff to us all
the time. You're gonna have a handful of listeners are
doing this anyway for you. They're gonna face is too
shiny right here. Well. The funny thing about that is
when I finished the shoot back in December, They're like, well,
this should come out around the super Bowl. Yeah, so
(16:02):
I'm like, okay, the Super Bowls in February early February.
They wanted to do it like, you know, either promoted
the beginning and then drop it right after the Super Bowl.
I was like, and it never happened. So I was like, well,
maybe it got scrapped or something like that, maybe because
I didn't hear from him. And I was like, well,
maybe they never did the show. And then, um, here
we are in June, and you know, February, not March,
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not April, not May, but we're in June, so five
essentially five months later, and uh, and there it is.
But I had actually forgotten about I figured they just
scrapped in and that was it. But people pointing out
they did not scrap So there you go. Can I share?
Can I share a football? Um? Can I share a
(16:45):
football story with you? Then? Um, I was. I was
fortunate and lucky. I've I've been on a little bit
of a kick thanks to what we've done in the markets,
whether it's crypto or or obviously the New York Stock
Exchange been up quite a while. At six six thirty
(17:06):
in the morning, seven thirty in the morning, and um,
I got a call a few days ago from this
this digital company overseas that's based in Hamburg, Germany, and
they contacted me because they needed, or they do need
a handful of announcers to commentate on the new European
(17:28):
Football League. So yesterday, No, not yesterday, the day before
I did a test I did a test game for
them and featured the Hamburg Sea Devils, and uh, yeah,
it was pretty interesting. It was a inter squad American
style football. Yeah, American football they have so they have
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NFL rules except for overtime over time, they'll go to college.
But outside of that, Yeah, it's a lot of the
guys that were playing at the Division one level, whether
it's FBS the FCS, and a lot of these dudes
that play that in German leagues before or still play
in German leagues. So yeah, it's pretty interesting. I was like, fine,
you know, like you go through the you go through
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the roster and you're looking for the Johnson's, the Smiths,
and then all of a sudden you get those German
last names and you're like, wait a minute, this is
gonna be a little challenging. Yeah, and are you gonna
travel to Germany and no, no, So they're doing everything online. Um.
The kicker on this, which is kind of unique, is
(18:32):
that the European Football League is generating sixty players on
each roster. You can only have ten foreign players and
you can only have four Americans. So they want to
keep it where it's centrics to centric to the state
or the state the country that you're in. So right
now it's comprised of Germany, Poland and Spain, and you
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can only have those players in that country or from
that country playing those teams that want that. That's what
most like I know in basketball. I've talked to guys
that have played overseas and they have limits on how
many Americans can play in like basketball, internationally, a lot
of the countries have limits on that. You can only
have one or two I forget the number is. But
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Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah. Can
you imagine they tried that in America? Well, you can
only have one foreign player on your team, and then
after that you're not a lot. Oh my god, the
(19:37):
locarate would go nuts. They would lose their mind to crap.
Can you imagine? Yeah, well you have a quota and
I'm sorry, reached our quota and that's it. Could you
imagine if they did that for Major League Baseball? Oh yeah,
as far as like the Dominican Republic, American countries, ship
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Toronto Blue Jays would be in a whole lot of time.
It would be in the world of hurt. Yeah, but
it isn't you look at the US versus the world.
I mean that a lot of the other places. That's
I think I heard in the Mexican League, Mexican League baseball,
they have a limit on how many US players you
can have. I don't know that. Somebody told me that
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a couple of years ago. I don't know if that's true.
So do you know that then for like the Japanese
or Korean leagues? Is that the case? I believe that
to be the case. Also, Yeah, I think we can
double check it. But I know in basketball, I've I've
worked with some guys that played basketball in different countries
and they were limits on how many Americans I could
play in that country. And I think in in Japanese baseball, yeah,
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that you can only have a couple of per team.
That you've got to have mostly players from the Homeland.
That's But as far as the broadcasting thing, like see
now because of the COVID, this is one of the
things like if you're an up start league, you're not
going to actually have the broadcasters travel to wherever you are,
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right if you can save money now you can. People
have been hypnotized and mesmerized and they don't really know
where the broadcasters are, and so you could call games
from your living room and you don't have to travel
to Germany and need a sausage. You know, Germany Schnitzelman,
the German press man. Yes. And the one lucture that
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we had with this game to which I loved they
probably didn't was that they had two cameras but hot mics,
and so that the mics were down there field level
and you could just hear English speaking head coaches, a
couple of them, more American dropping f bombs left and right,
blown tackles, missed the simits, staying out of their lanes
(21:51):
on kickoff and kickoff return. So it was awesome. Sometimes
it would lay out just so I can hear the
hot mics. It's really good. So and you're doing this
in English, you don't speak Germans, you're doing this in English,
and this is being broadcast where is this supposed to
be broadcast? When you start doing it, it'll be broadcasted
on a company's platform called Spock TV s p A
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l K TV. Yeah, so they do. They do a
bunch of different sports. Have been trying to work with
them for for a while and they do a lot
of basketball, baseball. Um, I think they do polo, tennis, boxing,
They do a handful of things. But where they are
They an international company or they so they're they're based
(22:33):
in Germany and but they've had people working in Germany, Australia,
I think New Zealand and different parts of the UK.
So do they pay well, Uh, I don't know. I
even gotten into that. I gotta clear the first turtle
man thing. I just want to make sure you get
your money. I don't want to, you know, be upset
(22:54):
about that. So they should that should you should say hey,
how much am I getting? And I'm not gonna do
it this is unless I get X amount of dollars
or whatever. Well, I it's it's interesting because of the
sense that their head coaches and the commission have openly
said that their idea for this league is not to
make it a standalone. They want to make it as
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a transition link to the National Football League. I know
that that's a huge leap, especially because you gotta think
big man big, you know. They want to make this
like the NFL Europe, right, yeah, yeah, well I remember
the NFL Europe. It seemed like a good idea. But
I remember people just used to complain that I didn't
(23:37):
know who any of the right which is. But it's
so dumbfounding to me because I love watching the MAC.
I don't know how many people do, but I'll watch
that ship on Tuesdays and Wednesday nights. And outside of
Jordan Patterson that played running back for Buffalo and scored
seven touchdowns in the game last season, most people don't
know who these cats are. But it's football. Well. I
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love the guys. And when you go to Vegas or
anywhere now they have sports books, you go in there
and there's always that one guy that's like the MAC guy.
You know, you know, he bets on the Mac. That's
the thing. Then there's the everyone's chasing Hawaii, but there's
that person that studies Hawaii. They're kind of you know,
that's their thing, you know, the Hawaii Warriors, the Rainbow
Warriors and all that. Yeah, plus to the last game
(24:20):
of the night. So if you're chasing an action from
a blown pack twelve game at ten o'clock, Yeah, I
would argue that the sports books make more money from
Hawaii than many of the schools in the Power five
conferences because that that's the drain everything goes through at
the end. You're trying to get your money back. Yeah,
(24:43):
And I feel like it's amplified now because the continuance
and I guess innovation of live betting too, right, Like
you're not you're not waiting for a second half spread anymore. Now,
you're waiting for the television time outs to come in. Yeah. Boy,
that's a dangerous one, the live betting man, because you
can bet on everything and it's I mean, jeez, that
(25:04):
is a slippery slope, man. That's a death by a
thousand paper cuts is what that is? Or a thousand
you know, as was it R. J. Bell called pizza
money bets. But you make enough pizza money bets and
you got nothing. Yeah, you you lose enough pizza money
bets and you will feel that, Yeah, that is not good. Now,
I don't know do you, because I know you go
(25:25):
to bed usually around eight or nine o'clock after your show, right, yes, yes,
I usually go to bed between right around eight to nine,
depending on the day. On Thursday, CNR not CNN. Fox
Business on Thursday had the CEO and president of Fubo
TV on Yeah, and he talked about how it was
(25:45):
being treated as a meme stock for for some odd reason.
But they have and obviously for those that don't know,
they could check it out. But I think you talk
about a loaded gun with live betting. Fobo TV is
gonna have where if you're watching let's say, like the
Colts in the Charge Years, they're gonna have a menu
that's up there and available for you to live bet
or place bets on other games at the flick of
(26:08):
a switch on your television channel or just on a
on a touch screen. So yeah, I don't know, man.
I think there's that novelty of going to Vegas, Like
we could hop in a car and go four hours
to Vegas in a car or a forty five minute
of flight, But fuck dealing bets from your house. Yeah,
you gotta be careful. I mean to me, the way
(26:28):
this would work, you know, and that's you know, there's
a lot of people obviously get swept up in this
and lose everything. But you gotta be careful. But you
can say that about any any vice, like people drink
too much? Does that mean we should ban alcohol? They
tried that prohibition. It didn't work. People people will do
to anything to excess, but everything in moderation. But to me,
(26:50):
the whole the way it would work in the perfect world.
You know, let's say, uh, on a Friday night, it
worked all week, there's a game or a sun day afternoon,
and you want to put a couple of bucks down,
you know, and then but you go crazy. I don't
think that's But when you go to Vegas, you have
a dollar amount set aside that you're you're seeing yourself.
(27:12):
I can lose this much, right, Yeah, that's my donation,
that's my tax, and I paid to the casino. That's
the real that's the real resort fee. But they charge
you a bullshit resort for resort fee. What do I
think people are going there and not gambling? Why the
funk would you go to Vegas and not gable? Part
of the resort fee for thirty five dollars is the
(27:34):
gym and the telephone and the wifire internet access in
your room, Like the funk is using that exactly. Well,
the WiFi I get, but it doesn't cost thirty five
dollars per person for the WiFi, and nobody uses the
hotel gyms. It's a completely empty Yeah, the waste of
(27:54):
time use your phone at the at the casino tables anyway.
So yeah, wife bull ship, they get away with it. Yeah,
that resort for you. It's like, we'll just put that
in the price of the room because you're afraid to
do it, so you tack it on at the end
and you go there. You're like, well, I'm getting a
great deal at hotel and you know, forty bucks a
night with a seventy dollar resort fee, you know whatever
(28:16):
it is. It's like so stupid, and don't forget you
need to pay for parking, right Yeah, well yeah, well
that's why I got all those credit cards. I guess.
I heard they got rid of that though with the
COVID they were so desperate to get people to come back.
I wonder if they brought the parking the charge parking back,
but I had heard they got rid of that because
I'd bet a Vegas and in a while since twenty nineteen.
But the last time I was in Vegas you had
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to pay parking. But I heard they got rid of
that because they were trying to encourage people to go
back to the casino. It's funny you bring that up.
I just noticed on Delta's website a few days ago
that they did away with cancelation charges. So if you
booked a flight out of l A to go to
New York, let's say on Sunday, and you can't go anymore,
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you can cancel, not cancel, but you get a flight
credit now into your account. You got a voucher before
they would charge you I think at least seventy five
dollars to cancel or change it. And then they would
they would charge you the difference on an upcoming flight.
And why did they Because they could. That's why they could.
And all the other you know, the nuisance fees, like
(29:20):
the baggage fees and all that stuff. It's but I
did did learn a lesson when I traveled some in
twenty nineteen, actually before that, Like you know, you don't
pay for a bag to be checked in. What you
do is you try to put it in the overhead
they'll be out of space, and then they'll check it
in for you for free. Yeah, so that's the move.
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You don't actually pay for it in advance because they'll
just do it, and that way you don't have to
pay for now you will when you travel, especially when
you went to Boston, did you either bring a jacket
or a sweater? Uh? Yeah, I had to bring a
couple of jackets. I mean, it wasn't freezing, but it was,
you know, still April and ball spin. It's not particularly warm.
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So that's what I did, or that's why I do.
I'll bring a huge jacket, usually like a winter coat,
and I'll bring it with my bag. If my bag
is too big, I'll try to put it up on
the upper bend compartment, but if I can't, I'll put
it underneath my seat, but put my jacket over it.
And since it's black, you can't really see the dimensions
of the bag. Yeah, I don't when you walk on
(30:25):
the plane, though, don't they normally I can't see what's
going on. They assumed I'm gonna put it in the
overhead bit. Okay, Yeah, so you're saying the flight attendants
aren't very punctual with what there like, like checking everything. Yeah,
they're not a student, especially since the intent or I
moved my legs around a little bit doesn't look like
I'm crammed. I'll spread spread out a little bit. And
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my big, my big fat days back in the day
when I would fly in the seatbelt didn't particularly fit well.
I was. There were a few flights I was able
to pretend like I had the seatbelt on and I didn't.
That's what you do, well, I would. I would put
my arms on my lap right where the middle of
the seatbelt was, and I hold my hand over it
to make it seem like it was together. But it
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was what it wasn't and uh And very rarely did
I have any issue with him saying, what can I
see the full you know, the clicking of the seabelt.
They assumed that it was connected and it wasn't always
the case. It's better than them tugging on it, right,
Oh yeah, that's good. All right. We have a few
scientifical stories here, and this one's crazy. So a new
(31:33):
study out found that nearly half of Americans say they
are convinced dinosaurs still exist in some remote corner of
the world. How crazy is that? Uh? And uh, but
wait there's more. Four in ten people survey think that
the prehistoric creatures existed between two thousand and ten thousand
(31:57):
years ago, rather than between sixties six and two thirty
million years ago, which is what science says. And what
in five even think the dinosaur population only went extinct
a hundred years That like, in nineteen twenty one, there
were dinosaurs sours roaming around while Babe Ruth was playing
(32:18):
for the Yankees. Just after World War One, we have
dinosaurs roam in the world. Imagine they would They would
weaponize the dinosaurs, put like bazookas on him and ship
like that. Fifty percent also believed all dinosaurs only lived
in Africa and North America, unaware that these are you know,
these creatures were everywhere, And despite their being a thousand
(32:41):
different species of dinosaur, the typical adult can name only
how many dinosaurs four that's right for, with the most
popular dinosaur being the t rex. Yeah, Tyronosaurus rex most recognizable.
That's the the o G of the dinosaur, and that's
the king. That's great. Though nearly half of Americans say
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they're convinced the dinosaurs still exists somewhere here's the correct
Jurassic Park. That's the Jurassic Park thing, right, So why
don't we think that was a documentary or something. Dr
Grant and obviously the the other ones in amusement park.
I we don't explore the the ocean enough do We
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were really fascinated with without our space, which is understandable.
But what about the deep sea, the deep blue sea.
Oh yeah, there's probably all kinds of crap living down
at the bottom of the ocean that we have no idea.
There could be a whole different That's one of the
theories on the UFOs, that they're actually creatures that live
in the ocean that we don't know about. There's some
kind of alien alien it'll be on the planet, but
(33:45):
deep in the bowels and the monsters out there. Like
they say that dinosaurs are gone, but I look at
a blue whale, I think that's that's a that's a dinosaur,
you know, that's that To me, that's a dinosaur. Man
or the the Komodo dragon. Yeah, to me, it looks
like a little dinosaur. Looks like yeah, alright. A new
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study finds one in two Americans in a relationship admit
that their current partner is the worst sex they've ever had.
How about that? I believe it? What are they doing? Well,
you just get used to it and now it's just
all about getting on and getting off. So it's like
chocolate chip cookies. Once you eat the same chocolate chip
(34:27):
cookie every day, you tire of the chocolate chip cookie.
But you can't use an example of me. I'm a
chocolate fiend. I don't know about that. You're not you're
not married. Uh. Let's see, so you think that's more
for men or more for women? I bet, I bet
it's actually equal. You think so? I think both are like,
(34:50):
you know, kind of over it another. Let's see here
a quarter to this, they said people getting injured during
the hay key pankey. Seven percent said it happened in
the shower, so be careful slipping the shower. Say they
hurt themselves while trying the wheelbarrow. But that there you go,
(35:16):
talking about manual labor. Uh, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, all right? Uh?
What one in five people have actually banned a board
game for causing problems on game night. One of those
who brought down the apparently the one that caused the
most problems was Monopoly, Monopoly or scrabble, and Monopoly has
(35:40):
been banned at the most place. According to a recent
survey of US residents say their game night with friends
or family members are often or always disrupted by competitive
or unfriendly behavior. And they say that said that people
that they would quit the game because they're losing. That
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you can't do that. That's what Lebron did when he
walked off. I'm losing, so I'm gonna go to the
locker room and I'm gonna get a treatment. And the
guys that sucked my toes will say I was good
in treatment and I wasn't just being a bad sport. Yeah.
Someone accusing another player of cheating also popular, and two
or more players getting into an argument. So those are
(36:23):
all reasons you have back. You have to admit Monopoly lags.
It just wears you down. Uh yeah, I used to
like it when I was a kid, but I remember
my parents are like a little long. It wouldn't end,
you know, I just go on for too long. And Scrabble,
Chest Checkers, Umish checkers, Go Fish my favorite. I'm a
(36:49):
I'm a god fish fiend and machine both fish love spades.
Did you play spades as a kid. I played recently
and not recently. A couple years I started playing Old Maid.
That's a good game. That is a good game. Yeah,
I like Old underraate. It sounds like an old you know,
old grandmother's play Old Maid. But it's a good game.
I don't know if you've you've noticed this when you've
gone in Vegas. But do you know that some of
(37:10):
the casinos have War? Uh No, I don't really. At Paris,
I played it. You can play the dealer heads up
in War, and I didn't. I broke even, but I
just it was pretty intense. He's going to run and
then you get your ass kicked. You're gonna run and
get beat again. Yeah, talking about the ebbs and flows,
(37:32):
that's true. Yeah, all right, a few we have a
limited time, so we do a few pop quiz questions.
A new report claims the best time to buy one
of these is more than two months before you plan
to use it. What is it? Oh? Um, can't be
a house, a refrigerator, a car, I will say, I
(37:55):
will say, um, a barbecue a barbecue? All right? Uh No,
it's a plane ticket to get the best deal you're
supposed to buy it. I think it's a hundred days
or something. Not in a hundreds, maybe less than that,
maybe seventies something days. I think it is the number
(38:15):
before you use a plane ticket, all right. In a
new survey, almost six of people say when they eat
this particular food, they wish they were alone. They would
rather be alone than have other people around a banana banana?
Uh no, although this can be served with a banana.
This particular food ice cream, Yeah, ice cream. I could
(38:38):
eat a carton of ice cream by myself with a
spoon to sit down. You're like the trope of the
lonely person. Actually your woman sitting on the couch eating
the slop when it comes to ice cream. Man, Yeah,
like my ice cream, but I don't know if I
like it that much. According to any of women at it,
(39:00):
they get suspicious whenever they're significant of the other. Does
this What are they doing? Locks his phone? Uh no,
that's a good one, but no, the answer is sending
them flowers. What Yeah, because they think that they might
have cheated on him. That's why they send them flowers.
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess, so, no good
(39:23):
deed goes unpunished. Clue. Uh. Men are twice as likely
as women to say they are really good at this sex.
Uh No, parallel parking parks, well, I think you know
where I stand on that. That's pretty pretty prolific in
that area. Proved yourself. There's some photos on the internet
(39:44):
if you want to. Yeah, precision driving, Ben Malley, Yes, yes, Uh,
let's see here of homeowners admit this is something they
haven't done for some time, even though they know they
really should clean the Uh clean they on top of
(40:08):
the roof roof. No, it is something cleaning, obviously, something
you should clean the bathroom. No, you know that that
lint filter thing on the dryer. Yeah, you don't do
it after every run? Oh I do. My wife does,
and she she she has the laundry. I I usually
(40:31):
do the dishes and she does a lot of laundry,
but I'll do the laundry occasionally. And I did the
laundry earlier this week, and I I always checked the
lint thing before I do put the dryer on. So
I pulled out the lint thing and it was like
a bowling ball of lint that I put all. It
was unbelievable. I'm surprised that things didn't light on fire,
(40:51):
and uh, you know I had done the laundry in
a while. I was like, hey, you know what are
you doing? Yeah? Yeah, I check it occasionally. Yeah, has
so much link it was. It was insane, insane, all right.
No matter where you work, I don't care whether you
work at a radio station, a you know, you're a
truck driver, you work in a hospital or a church.
(41:12):
No matter where you work, chances are you do this
about fifty five times a week. M hmmm. Fifty five
times a week. Yeah, go to the bathroom? Uh no,
might I think that would be a lot, about fifty
five times in a week. I don't do the math
(41:34):
on that. On the bathroom five days a week? That's uh?
Is that eleven and a half times? I think you'd
lose your job if you went to the bathroom. I
don't know. Uh. The answer is do curse. Curse. You're
gonna curse fifty five times no matter what you do.
And in radio you can't curse on the air, but
(41:56):
you can't curse off the years free to do that.
Eleven people say they are still at their current job
because their boss allows them to do this. Mm hmmm.
Work remotely. Uh no, I know it's coming late. Be
(42:17):
tardying doesn't matter. They don't care, alright. Last one, we're
up against it here. Percentage of people under the age
of thirty that use their phone in the bathroom, I'm
gonna say. I'm gonna say of people under the age
(42:37):
of thirty use their phone in the bathroom. But the
answer is ship while they're sitting there dropping some logs,
are on their phone, playing around. It's got to be
(42:58):
high too, though, I come on to me, what else
you gonna read a book? I guess you could do that,
But what happened to they remember? Like the old school,
you'd have the tal rack and then underneath you'd also
have the magazines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well you
go to the Vegas hotel, some of the high end hotels,
they have the guy there with the we talked about
this before. I hate that, you know, the guy sitting
(43:18):
there with the the the breath, the breath mail and
they got the cologns And I hate that, Yeah, because
then you're in there going to the bathroom. Here's everything.
You know, you gotta let one rip. He'll hear you know.
It's very awkward, very awkward. Anyway, that's it. Have a
great rest of your Saturday's. Saturday's Saturday, and we got
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Good Game is your one-stop shop for the biggest stories in women’s sports. Every day, host Sarah Spain gives you the stories, stakes, stars and stats to keep up with your favorite women’s teams, leagues and athletes. Through thoughtful insight, witty banter, and an all around good time, Sarah and friends break down the latest news, talk about the games you can’t miss, and debate the issues of the day. Don’t miss interviews with the people of the moment, whether they be athletes, coaches, reporters, or celebrity fans.
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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.