May 8, 2021 • 40 mins
A perfect birthday weekend was overshadowed by a big swing & a miss from the big guy.
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Ben Maller on Fox Facebook. Bennet Mallard Show joined again
by David Gascon from West of the four oh five
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making his way in. I am I'm happy to be here.
Unlike most of the guys were in Dodger Blue, I
am not on the injured list. Yeah, well, can you
play defense? And can you actually you know, have some
balls on the mound as a relief pitcher, because if
you could do those things, the Dodgers could use. But
I don't have a lot of that right now. I
it just it's it's pretty wild. Hell, they blew a
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seven one lead to the San Diego Padres and that
kind of just was the ignition for this tailspin that
they have been in. Holy sh it. Yeah, no, I
mean they're they're a joke right now. And uh, you know,
listen Andrew Freedman, boy, wonder there the executive everything came
up great the last couple of years with the Dodgers.
The players he picked up that were auxiliary players, but
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the secondary actors suck. And the guys that he brought
in there, they got rid of some old stalwarts that
we were fine with. I didn't need, I didn't need
buyas out of the bulpen again, right, I was good
changing things up, But the guys they brought in sucked.
And uh, and they've been bad. And they got rid
of Jack Peterson and Kei k Hernandez and guys like that.
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And you figure you can get some outfielders will be
able to hit, and guys that can play the position defensively.
And these guys have been terrible. I mean, the backup
guys have been absolutely dreadful. Yeah, and just imagine if
they because they were pondering resunning Justin Turner, where the
funk would they be without him? And he's batting over three,
He's one of the he's one of the best defenders
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on that lineup right now. So they'd be in a
world to hurt right now. And then Cody Bellinger's obviously out,
but I'm missing his three or four strikeouts the game
per night. Yeah, and they're they're like, well, they're injured,
they'll be all right and all that stuff, and maybe
they will be all right. So the season goes on forever.
It's not a sixty game season. But at this point,
my hot take Gascon on the Dodgers is that Andrew Freedman,
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who had the might, has touched the golden touch. Right,
even by accident, he was picking up good place. He
had this uncanny ability as backup players, but now here
in one he's got the sadom touch. You know what,
the sadom touches, gas Gun. That would be the opposite
of the mightas touch, right, you know, Mightas touched everything
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you touch. Turns to gold. With the sadom touch everything
you touch turns to ship. And that's what's going on
right now with the Dodgers, right that's take Now, have
you done have you done anything that would rival a
Clayton Kershoven monologue? No, not yet, not yet. That would
be a premature situation. But I'm getting closer and closer.
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And if this spills into another week and we'll see
how things go. Obviously we're recording this podcast at the
previous day, but we'll we'll see what happens. But I
am I am considering. I've gotten emails from some Dodger
lap dogs like myself here, who are demanding that I
put the hypnotic suggestion into Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman
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shake it up a little bit, because I always believe,
and this is my philosophy on sports radio panic and
then ask questions. I believe it's panic at the disco
all the time. That's what I believe. Nothing wrong with that.
It's fitting because we had Steve Hartman on yesterday with
us that he's one of the rare guys along with yourself,
that actually go after the l A teams in this
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market where you know, unlike unlike San Diego or San Francisco,
or maybe like Colorado or Arizona, you don't get a
lot of that on the West coast, more so Philadelphia,
New York and Boston, like those the only markets in Chicago.
We will actually attack those teams and not suck up
to management players the organizations as a whole. Well that's
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one of Listen, I love l A and all that,
but there's too many people out here that are just
you know, la la la la la, everything will be fine,
don't worry about anything. And I'm I'm I'm the opposite,
which is one of the reasons actually the show has
done so well in Boss. And I'm very cynical when
I know I've been able to I've been offered radio
jobs in Boston whatnot, because I kind of have that
mindset even though I didn't grow up there and I
grew up here and all that stuff. But I I'm
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always convinced whoever you hire is the wrong higher, whoever
you draft the wrong player. Uh. And the coaches whatever
plays they call incorrect right and uh. And even when
you're playing well, you're always waiting for the other shooter
drop right you're always you're always waiting and you know
it's gonna happen. And even like it was, I love
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the Clippers. I believe the Clippers are gonna win the championship,
but I understand that, you know, the Paul George playoff
p thing is problematic. However, However, I heard the same
crap with Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers won the championship.
So and heard things about David Price when he was
with the Red Sox and they won. So a lot
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of bullcrap. It doesn't really mean anything. Oh, this guy
I can't win, and then he wins, and then they
move on to the next guy. It's like a moving
it's like a whack a mole. You move on to
the next target. Well, we're a few months away from
the NFL c isn't getting underway, but I could hardly
wait for that one a week where you're just having
a great day and then all of a sudden, Matthew
Stafford throws three picks and costs the Rams a game. No,
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and I don't see that in my crystal ball. You
know what's gonna happen. It's let's go back now. I
remember a conversation we had before the NFL Draft with
a certain talker host in Houston who said, remember this,
John Salisbury. He said that he has in Matthew Stafford
as a m v P nvy P Canada, as a
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former NFL quarterback, former star commentator on ESPN. Sean Salisbury,
that's we can't see an ugly face of Stafford though. Well, no,
everyone has a bad game, Listen, I mean no, No
one's gonna play sixteen perfect games. I'm sure Matthew Stafford
will have a game where he comes out and pukes
all over the logo at the fifty yard line. It's
going to happen. But if it happens consistently, that's a problem.
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If it happens once in a while, once every you know,
five games or something like that, Okay, that's an acceptable
what's within the margin of error? I mean, hell, hell,
Aaron Rodgers has ship games, Peyton Manning had crap games,
Tom Brady has terrible games, Breeze has had bad moments.
That's that's what happens. So anyway, all right, I got
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postal perfection, gluttony, glory. We also have speed trading and
pop quiz. There's a lot to get to. Let's go
rat a tat tat gascon rat a tat tat all
right now, postal perfection. Over last weekend, while you were
enjoying the podcast, I made the pilgrimage to the hollowed
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hallways of the Fox Sports Radio studios in Sherman Oaks, California,
right there in La La Land, the San Fernando Valley,
right on the corner of Ventura and s Pulvita, some
high end real estate there the I Heart Media building
home in the Premier Networks. And I traveled there and
made my journey to pick up my listener mail, my
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listener mail. Now I've been bad about this. I've not
done this in many months. Bad job by me. Uh.
Cooper Loop said, hey, you idiot, there's tons of mail here.
You probably should come pick it up. And I said
I should, I should, and I didn't and I didn't
and I didn't and uh, I just want to thank
that malle Musha, the listeners of the Overnight Show, not
this show. They the people on the podcast, not so much,
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but the Overnight show man or the very kind, generous,
loving people. And I walked in there. I walk in
the building. I turned, I walked down a little bit
of a hall. There's a drinking fountain, and then turn right,
turn right, turn right, and then walked down past the
blue kitchen and then there's a table on the other
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side there. And it was and I'm not exaggerating here,
it was as high as the heavens. Uh. And and
it was filled with with all kinds of things, letters, boxes,
you name it there and it's uh, it's great. I
have not even been able to sort through everything. I
did want to take them all. I think Rachel and
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Mono Bello sent a large, massive box of candy, which
I think I need to share because if I eat
the whole thing, I'll be five hundred pounds again. But
I I thank her for that very kind And uh.
The hat collection is expanding here Gascon, so I will
have some new hatch to wear courtesy of p ones
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in the Mallard militia were taking care of their gas bag.
Are they form fitting hats? Are the adjustables? Well, I
haven't gone through all the hats, and I'll give you
the hat breakdown once I go through all that. But
I just want to I want to thank you guys.
You guys don't have to send me anything, obviously, but
I do, thank you, and it's very kind. And I
love these unique hats. Uh, that's that's my thing. I mean,
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I've said I want to I support the police. I
know that's taboo, but if you if your police officer.
We got a lot of police that listen to the
show overnight, any police had I will wear and represent
your your department loud and proud and minor league baseball.
I think we talked about this in the previous episode, guest.
We we both like kind of the obscure. I like
obscure college hats and I like minor league baseball hats.
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Those are probably my favorite right now. And I I
wore the RAM hat the other day and I still
you know, I'll rep my teams there and I have
a tribute to my Boston sojourn in radio. I'll wear
some of the Boston hats. But other than that, you know,
it's mostly minor league college stuff. That's good and it's uh,
it's it's spicy, and the best part about it is
people will look at your hat, stare at it and
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not know who the funk that hat has to do with,
which is great. You don't know where the city is,
what the team is, and they usually have some pretty
good nicknames too. So and also I have learned what
the college thing. When you wear like weird colleges or
colleges that aren't in your area, you get a lot
of people that want to start a conversation with you.
Because I remember I had a Wyoming University of Wyoming. Uh.
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I used to go to the gym and I'd wear
this sweatshirt and it had Wyoming Cowboys logo. Yeah, it's
pretty cool. I got it like at Ross Dress for
Less or something like that. I gotta, but it was
every time I wore that thing, somebody come up here,
are you from Wyoming? Uh? Yeah? Like no, I've never
been to Why. I've flown over Wyoming a few times,
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but that's about it. I used to know a guy
that Steve Stillwell, that worked in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I've
had callers from Wyoming, but I don't I don't actually
don't actually have any experience in Wyoming. Here. It's what
national is it? Yellow Stone is in Wyoming. Yeah, so
I guess there's a reason to go to Wyoming Yellowstone.
You know, I don't think we'll need a vaccine passport
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to go to Yellowstone. So no, you don't think we'll
need that. No, I don't think about that. Yeah I
think so. But to go to Dodger Stadium, you might,
you might, well you might, or you might be segregated
like you are at at a couple of ballparks in
New York. Yeah. Yeah, segregation is back Joe Biden's America
right there. It's a cheap shotcast scout. All right, we
have gluttony glory, as my grandfather would say, what a causer.
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All right, So our lead, our lead right now in
this portion of the fifth Hour comes from an epic
birthday weekend food run last Saturday. Now I mentioned I
had gone to pick up the mail, but prior to that,
all right, prior to that, when this was while you
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had tarnished my name, my good Remember during my podcast
we're recording, and you I called you a piece of ship. Yeah,
you called me a piece of ship. You remember what
you said? You called me a piece of shit on
my birthday. And I'm gonna remember on your birthday. You
don't even remember you have the same birthday as O. J. Simpson.
Of course I remember that. That's that's how I know
your birthday because you and o J. Which is great
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because your dad she's very famous with o J and
all that. But anyway, so yeah, on your birthday, I'm
gonna call up and say, David Gascon piece of shit.
Uh that is going to happen. That is going to happen.
But anyway, so just get to the point, please. So
first of all, I decided I need to over indulge.
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I need to have a throwback, and I believe I
had the perfect food day in l A, authentic l A,
the best dining you can get. Now. I started out
across the street from MacArthur Park. You know, it's across
the street from MacArthur Park. Nothing good, No, no, no,
Now that's an historic park. You know MacArthur Park has
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been around since the eighteen eighties. Did you know that
eighteen eighties? Early it's one of the first things. It
was swamp land. It's one of the first things they built.
And I've heard the story from historians in the real
authentic this point that in the early days of l
A it was all swamp land, and some investors came
in and they that was actually the the prime part
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of l A. They tore up the swamp and they
built this massive lake which was like a reservoir for
the water supply in southern California. And then they built
all these hotels around it to get tourists to come
to California. And it worked and and and it worked.
But but anyway, uh, and by the way, it's named
after General Douglas MacArthur. Do you know that. Yeah, it's
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named after General. It had a different name. I know
a lot about MacArthur Park. And it's also a total shipthole.
I know that. Uh. If you want prostitution, drug dealing, shootouts,
homeless pissing, and shipping like it's a third world country,
it is literally sodom and gomorrah at MacArthur Park in
Los Angeles. It is unbelievable. But anyway, it's by the way,
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before I forget, I'm gonna get to the point here.
But do you know the legendary story that I've heard
for years about MacArthur Park that the lake that they
have there, they've drained it a few times. You know,
when they've drained it, what they found bodies, bodies, guns,
all kinds of amazing things that were just tossed into lake.
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Wonderful um. But regardless. On the other side of the
street is what I call the Theona Pastrami, the Pantheon
at Lanyard's Delhi all right, now, that was the first
stop on the Mallard food tour. I ordered the number
ten on a kaiser or ride, depending on the weekend.
Sometimes I don't go there every week. I go there,
you know, once in a while. It's pretty expensive. But
I I got kaiser number ten on a kaiser with
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the Russian dressing and all that, and the fries and
a large side of fries. They're pretty good, and it's
the nectar of the gods. But it wasn't open. Even
though a lot of restaurants in l A are now open,
they weren't open. I had to get I had to
eat in my car. So I parked right across the
street from MacArthur Park and watched all the all the
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nonsense that was taking place there, and I had my
windows up and we were eating from the Pantheona Pastrami.
So we then traveled to uh right near skid Row.
Of course, all of l A now is skid Row.
It used to be just a few blocks in downtown
Los Angeles, but now all of l A is kid Row,
and I found a really cool spot. My wife she's
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into going to like kind of junk antique stores and
finding hidden gems. So it just play called Old Good Things.
You ever been to Old Good Things? No? No, but
I know exactly where this is going. So no, I mean, no,
you don't know. I mean it's a it's a cool place.
I know. They're all kinds of like it's a mitch
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mash of old props from movies, signs, uh, and they
pretty much just put all this stuff together. They had like,
if you want to buy a Starbucks sign for your
house to decorate, they have it. They had a Seize
candy sign you could buy. They had these big lights
from the movie, you know, old movie sets back in
the day and all that. It's essentially a place where
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if you're an interior designer, you would go to find unique,
quirky stuff that you can charge a fortune for that
you don't pay a fortune for. All Right, So we
were we were there and I and my wife wanted
to buy a bunch of stuff, and I convinced her.
I said, listen, let's uh, let's let's hit the brakes
on that let's wait and see if we can find
something better. Just make sure you really want this, you know,
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so she did, but I have a feeling we'll be
back there. You can buy a phone booth if you want,
you know, I mean, it's just a weird, weird ship
that you probably wouldn't want or need. But if you
want to like decorate something weird, you can find weird stuff. So, um,
pretty cool. I can admit it was pretty cool walking
around it was. It was pretty much overwhelmed. They had
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like a pink elephant and like, it's like all this
weird ship. So with with that revelation, with what you
guys did on that that wonderful day where you're having
I'm not done, by the way, I'm not done. It's
just the middle part of the day, I know. But
where does all the photos and the gallery sent from
your your wife E's Instagram account, Where does that come from? Then?
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Because it looks like you guys had bought a healthy
amount of ornaments and old school artifacts. Uh, I'm not
sure what. I don't really, I don't check out Instagram
very much. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to.
But my wife does put a lot of photos off
of random, random stuff. But now, I mean we bought
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a few things over the last week, but nothing that
I remember that was that crazy. I mean every post signal,
the signal we had was that was pretty crazy. We've
got a traffic signal. Everything he doesn't need a traffic signal,
but everything that she's posted online, I think like, no way,
better prove that, No way that better purchase. No. No,
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you know, um, I am pretty frugal and uh, a
lot of stuff like you don't really need it, you
can't really take it with you, and so what are
you doing? But all right, so you did this at
what time? Did you have Langers at? Exactly? I had
langers at like one thirty, had lunch breakfast. No, I
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don't need practice. I was fasting, so and I broke
the fast at Langers. And then I went to downtown,
did a little shopping there, went out to Burbank. Burt
Bank had been there in awhile bur Bang and walked
around there some stores, and bur Bank went out to
beautiful Sherman Oaks to pick up my mail. I text
you to see if you were there. You said, no,
of course not, I'm not here. Why would I be here,
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you texted like a Saturday night at seven o'clock. Well,
that's when I went there. Be sure to catch live
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and then we traveled down. It was very uncomfortable on
the four oh five. I tried to stay on the
east side of the four oh five. Traveled down the
four oh five. They're past the Getty Center and U C.
L A and that the cemetery, and we made our
way to Culver City because we then had, by my choice,
our dinner at what I call now Langer's is the
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pant on a postromy but Tito's is the Temple of Tacos.
Tito's Tacos the home of the Gringo Taco just at
the edge of the it's like the end of the
flat Earth. Kyrie Irving would say, it's right against the
four oh five freeway. Literally across the street is the
freeway from Tito's Tacos the home of my friend, the
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lake Great Alex Russo said, the Gringo taco and it's
this crunchy taco with neon orange cheese on top, and
he's amazing. My wife hates it. I love it. She
hate it. She doesn't like it. She hates it. She
puts up with it, but she doesn't like it. Oh boy,
didn't think it's very good. She's crazy. Yes, I mean,
no one's perfect, but that's insane. It's blasphemy. I tell
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her that you should be crucified for saying that. How
dare you? But she puts up with it, and so
they were not having people eat it, Tito. So we
had to take it to a park over there in
Culver City, right near what movie studios? Over there? There's
a little park that we went to. And is that
that's That's not Warner Brothers? What is over there? Is that? Parents?
Which lot is over in Culver City? I thought it's
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I thought it was Warner Brothers. Is it Warner Bros?
I thought Warner Brothers was out in Burbank? That's I
think they have two lots of that also, Warner Brothers.
I thought there was two the one off of like,
was it Burbank Boulevard? Well, I know when I worked
in Burbank, they in to Lucca Lake, they had the
one big lot right there. Oh you know what, maybe
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it is Paramount. Yeah, I don't think it's a Warner Brother.
I think that's a Paramount because it's like I mean,
I think it might be Sony. I think it's a Sony.
Is it Sony? I don't know. No, Well, I know
there's doesn't matter who cares look it up, google it,
just go any I had a wonderful culinary day. I
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flashed back to my fat days, and it was wonderful.
It was great. The greatest astronomy can get better than
the New York pistronomy. Langer's deadly. I warned you if
you're listening in California here, if you're traveling californ to
be careful. It's bad neighborhood. They have a lot. You
can parking down the street and walk in and get
your your take out order, but it's a ship. Neighborhood's
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so bad. They close at four o'clock because you don't
want to be there after four o'clock. And and and
that's that's how that operates. And then Tito's is good.
There's usually a line and they didn't have neither one
of the restaurants allowed you to eat there, so I
had to take the food somewhere else. And so what's
the speed? What's the speed? Trading? Thing about? What? What
are we? Where are we going here? Gascott? What are
we doing? So we've been kind of knee deep in
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in everything that is um investment trading, and uh, you know,
we've got some people that have sent us a few
things on cryptocurrency. I I have yet to put my
toes into that. Oh I have, and I've done very
well by the way, the Mallard militia coming through Bigley
helping out. I'm not gonna name the crypto, but has
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well because I don't want to jinks and I don't
have the crystal the banbano on it. But it has
gone up, up, up and away. It's been tremendous, I
guess on this this particular currency that and I want
to thank Clay actually because he's the one that said, hey,
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you should probably probably purchase you know this crypto X
will call it, and I was like, I don't know
about that, and it's so cheap, it's so wonderful, you
know what, I'm gonna do it, and I just put
I put a few bucks down, and yeah, it's one
of those things. You put a few bucks down, you
get a bunch of it, and I just like forgot
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about it, and then all of a sudden, it's got
a lot of attention this week, and have I do
have a feeling it's gonna skyrocket after Saturday Night Live airs,
if you know what I'm saying, got you guys have
a certain celebrity host that's gonna be on there that
will likely do some bits about about this particular crypto currency. Yeah,
well a few hours from now, then let's we'll see
what happens. I'm not saying you should buy it or
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not buy it. I'm just don't do what you want.
But I have a feeling because of publicity that it'll
it'll jump up a little bit. You make a little money,
it's fair enough. Well, I I have a I have
a relative of a cousin of mine who's who's a
hard oh, but he's a good dude. He's uh, he's intelligent,
and he's a financial advisor for high net worth clients.
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And uh, you know, he's he's he likes to refrain
to himself as the refer to himself, excuse me as
like the general zod of of investing, where he wants
to make everyone bend the knee if you will. And
so he he texted me randomly a few days ago
and said, I need you to get on this stock.
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And I said, Yo, I'm in the middle of traffic
right now. I'm I'm driving to work. I'm on the
four oh five freeway right now. He said, you've got
ten minutes before the market closes. Just push buttons and
get it done. And um lo and behold. You know,
we do a wild things when we're either at a
sporting event, on the toilet, maybe getting ready for the shower,
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in bed after you kick out the misses for the night.
I was, I was day trading on the flour oh
Fire Freeway. That is a first for me. And I
think you're supposed to admit that, gisk and I think
that's illegally you should not have. Well, then you have
that dip ship, that moron in Ohio that can go
rat on me into the l A p D. How
about that? But like as a you know, it's really
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my soul here. I must give a public service announcements,
you know. Doing the overnight showed to a lot of
p S A S. Yes, they'll see you before you
see them. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Which is oddly enough,
Just before that happened, I was at a crosswalk ready
to get onto the one ten Freeway and the L
A P. D. Harbor Division. I didn't have my seatbelt on.
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I was looking at the stocks, and a police officer
rolled up right to my right side and nothing happened.
Oh I really keep going there? Yeah, it was pretty well.
Then obviously put on my seatbelt and proceed to look
at some stocks to make some trades. So that's the
world we're living right now. But I thought about I
thought about you. I was like, oh, I'm doing a
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little day trading as I'm on my way. Did it
work out that the stock? It did? It did? Why
didn't What about your friend Ben? Why didn't you say, hey, Ben,
you should probably get you Why didn't you pass it?
Pass it on? How about that? I don't want to
jink sit, you know, I didn't want to jink sit
and share it with you. Just said that five minutes ago. Yeah,
that's me though, that's not you. You're not wired like me.
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You're not like me. I'm We're different. You've never been
bashed in the past about sharing information. How there you?
That's true? How curled up for your toes when I
started asking Steve Hartman about him and Don Martin's relationship.
Third rail? That's a third rail? How there you dare?
Don't go there? That's you have to admit that the
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reason why you love radio and your radio nerd is
because there's so much drama and so many good stories
off the air with radio personalities. Yeah, yeah, I know,
it's great. I mean it's stuff that happens off the
air that often never makes it on the air. Is
tremus outstanding, wonderful all that? Yeah, it's great, absolutely, no
(27:11):
question about it. Would you ever consider day trading once
you're when you're on the four or five free away again? Well,
let's say, if if I were to come into a
lot of money, if something were to break right gas
on and there would be the richest of Solomon at
my doorstep, I would be a very active day trader.
But making overnight radio money. Yeah, so what with your
(27:35):
with all your birthday gifts and all the mail that
you got the other day when you came into the studio.
There were two things that that we were sent to
me through inquiries of mine that I needed to pass
along to you. Was one, did Ben cook the steak yet?
And I said, unequivocally no, no, you don't know that
to be true enough, showed me a picture of it.
(27:57):
You would have. You would have been praised. I don't
rag about my eating. And then two I was asked, hey,
did Ben acknowledge the the cameo video and the other
video that you produced for him for his birthday card?
So no, I'm still waiting for that thank you. I'm
still waiting for that hug, that handshake, that toe tap.
What do you? What do you? What are you talking?
(28:18):
I didn't get a cameo birthday card I got. I
did get a cameo from a listener, but it was
not a birthday card. That's not that's a lie. That
is a lie. I made two of them, I mean
one of them for birthday for the show, and another
one on a cameo video I sent to you. I
did not get the video handed out. I did not
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get it. I did not see either one of those videos. Really, Yes,
I don't know what you're talking about here. Really, I'm
not I would have. Why would I not talk about it? If?
I mean, I'm a talk show host. I talked about
things that happened because it's from me, That's why. Who
sent it? How did you send it? You send it to?
Somebody else? Said no? Someone else said did because it
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was a listener from Montana. Oh you know, I didn't.
I didn't get it. I'll have to I'll have to check,
and I must have. I don't know if it went
to my spam folder or whatnot. I don't know. Wow,
that sucks. Well, I'm still my birthday post week. I
(29:21):
can still celebrate my birthday. Well, no, you're your doppelganger.
Count scent Or created a giant m video montage of
people that were saying happy birthday to you. Really, Yes,
you didn't see that either? No, No, I did not. No,
(29:41):
I swear I I'd like to see it. It sounds wonderful,
it sounds very very kind. Yeah, it was like a
five or six minute long video. I can't believe that
I did not. I didn't, no one, I don't recall
getting any email. Uh, and I I scanned my emails.
Sometimes I don't check it prime I remember checking it
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on my birthday. I don't. It's weird, that's fascinating. Yeah,
well that sucks. I feel bad. I mean, people went
out of the way to to make a video and
I did not acknowledge the video jet by me. I
did not get the video though. That's crazy. I'm sorry.
I apologize. I would. I'll have to actually applied. It's
not five minutes long. It's eighteen minutes long. Eighteen minutes there.
(30:29):
Now I see it, Okay, I see it. Hold not
say you got a lot of people happy birthday, dined.
I did not know. I didn't know. Well, I what
a what a loser? I am? So I was mentioning
this to you last week or the week of your birthday,
and I was like, well, what do you say? I
don't know what you're saying. All right, that makes sense now,
(30:51):
all right? Wow, unbelievable happens with your introvert? You and
your an introvert. You don't give a ship, you don't
talk or you don't ask a questions. Well, no, I mean,
I did you know? People did send me a few
things via email and I didn't acknowledge that the people
that did that. But wow, all right, well I'm gonna
(31:13):
have to have to watch it. I can't watch it
right now, but thank you. Oh man, that's pretty cool.
Wheel of birthday Cake. I like that, the Wheel of
birthday Care. There wasn't truckload of of listeners. Yeah, there
was a ton of people from the militia that wished
you a happy birthday. Of view, No, I didn't. I
(31:35):
had no idea. I'm here it is, you know where.
It was a week after my birthday and I'm just
learning about it right now. This is kind of fitting.
I mean, you had a you had a steak in
your friger or roof. Calm down, calm down, and members
on ice. I see how it goes. I'm not putting
them on ice. I didn't see it, i'd seen it.
How can I comment on something I hadn't seen. I
(31:57):
thought you were just pulling my chain or something like that.
I thought you were busting my balls about some video.
I didn't think it was real. I thought it was
I honestly, I thought you were tagged in it. I
had just assumed, or I assumed your producer would have
put it on air for you. Oh well, wow, you're
taking a shot. All right, we gotta get the pop
quizz and I got the mailbag. We'll be doing on Sunday,
So pop quiz. Here a few pop quiz questions. A
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new survey asked people to name a possession that they
have too many of these were the most common answer.
What are they? Watches? No, something to do with your
feet mm hmm, sandals? Uh, that would be socks. That
(32:40):
would be socks. I don't have enough. I keep losing them. Yeah,
a lot of people have tons. You just you have
the sock like basket or whatever, So you have all that. Uh.
Nearly sevent of American adults say it is their dream
to do this someday. What is it? Travel the world? Uh? No, right,
(33:01):
their autobiography? Right, their autobiography. People have asked me about that,
I have. I love to write a book. I don't
know that's my dream to do it. I don't know
that's my dream. You're too young. I'm too young to
write a book. Yeah, no, I'm I too young. You're
too young to write an autobiography. Oh well I could
(33:21):
write a book though. Yeah, I'm just saying auto biography
too young? How old do you have to be to
write an autobiography. I think you should be like in
your seventies, because then you'd have what if you don't
make it to your seven? You know everyone makes it
to their seven. Let's can we not put the curse
of the bembino on yourself. I'm just saying, I listen,
both my parents are dead. I don't know who knows
what's gonna happen, but you know you gotta do it.
(33:42):
Do it, strike while the iron is hot. What. I'm
a realist, man, I'm a realist who knows it's just
a dark cloud over you. I get a dark cloud
over me. You said I shouldn't write an autobiography, and
I'm like, well why not? No, you're too young. I'm
just saying, you got way too many things. I got
a bunch of story. I got twenty years of radio
(34:03):
that I could talk about. Listen, how about this, We'll
we'll read, We'll revisit this in in six months, how
about that? Just in case? All right, let's see what
else there have? One in twelve people say they're embarrassed
to admit they can't do this? What is it? Um?
So people, I'll say, tie shoes blow a bubble with
(34:29):
gum one in twelve people? When you first started blowing that? Yeah,
did you start doing it with um gum from a
baseball pack? Or was it big league chew? Oh? I
was a big big league chew guy because I wanted
to be just like the players, and I pretended it
was like chewing tobacco. And I got a big giant
ball and yeah, the whole thing. Uh. But I'm able
(34:50):
to blow a bubble. Not I'm not an epic historic
bubble blower, but I'm all right. On average, about fourteen
of these are made for every American every year. Fourteen
of these, yes, fourteen? Um? Uh do do do? Do?
(35:12):
Don zippers? No, zippity dude does zippity day? The average woman,
where's these? Seventeen times before washing them? What is it?
A bra? No pajamas? Oh that's fucking dirty, dirty dirty dirty? Yeah,
(35:34):
nobody you know who's around when you're in your pajamas,
you know, come up dirty in your pajamas. Uh. Women
can usually do this in six days, but it takes
us men ten days to do it on average. Commit
to a date, No, it's actually the opposite to break
up with someone. No ship, Yeah, it wasn't that Because
(35:55):
the trope is that women have somebody else already lined up.
Right when they're ready to break up with the guy,
they were already scouting out, scouring the market for somebody else. Yeah,
plus the tinks, it's a little bit longer for us
to make the women break up with us, and guys
usually don't have they very rarely do they have someone
else lined up. Women usually have somebody warmed up there.
(36:18):
You could always have someone warming up with the pen
ben Wow, Dave Roberts. Only about of people say they
can do this extremely well, about SI say they can't
do it at all. Now I can do this, but
I cannot do it extremely well. I'm very mediocre at whistle. Yeah,
(36:39):
that's exactly right. Whistle. Now, my grandfather Phil Jackson with
the do you go Phil Jackson with the two pinkies
and yeah, no, no, I don't do that. But my
grandfather was a great whistler. I was I'm only able
to whistle blowing air in, not out. That's the lode,
and which it's the ability to whistle along the length
(37:02):
of the whistle. You know. I was like, she asked me,
can you whistle? That's good I'm a better whistler than you.
If you'd like to rate the podcast, you can go.
You want to know why this is a Saturday podcast
(37:24):
and no one's listening to this crap? Right there, there's
an example two men whistling, whistling the day away, right, literally,
whist whistling the day away, all right. A new study
shows that listening to this for eight to ten minutes
a day will brighten your mood. Um gospel music? Uh no,
(37:49):
how about birds singing? Birds sing? Can you get that
on the music apps on your phone? Birds singing? Is
that on YouTube? I'm sure? Well, I'm sure on you
you can get anything on YouTube. New survey asked dog
owners to name their biggest pet peeves. People said this
top their list. Most annoying thing that people do. Um,
(38:13):
not picking up their dogs. Shit. Now when a stranger
pets their dogs, don't touch fight? Oh what's wrong with you?
Leave fighto alone? I always ask, Yeah, this is one
of our biggest regrets from high school? What is it?
The women we did? I see your hairstyle? Well, your
(38:36):
hair looked. Oh it's so bad, terrible. Almost all of
us have this in our homes, but only use it.
What is it scale no dental floss, get that dental
flow floss. I'm an epic floster. I'm a really good floster.
I'm a talented filosoper. I go those a little, those
little flosters, I use those things off. Yeah, the toothpick flosters.
(38:58):
Those these are wonderful. Have him in my car triggers
my wife's mesophonia, which is so high. I don't I
don't get how you practicing your hygiene would would trigger her.
But whatever, that's what I'm saying. I'm listen. I'm practicing
good dental hygiene. I floss more than doctors recommend. Okay,
give me a break. Of public teachers have this in common.
(39:21):
What is it? They don't want to go back to work. Well,
that's true, but also they have a second job, second
job outside of teaching, a little side hustle. What's going on?
All right? Last last one here? And when it comes
to our house. Four of homeowners have this in common.
(39:41):
They don't know where the electrical boxes or the switchbox.
Uh no is actually uh the They think their house
is haunted. Oh no, but that let just do all right,
that's it, We're done, We're out of here. Cameo dot com.
By the way, want a personal video message, Have a
great rest your Saturday. Get the mail bag on Sunday.
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by David Gascon from West of the four oh five
(01:09):
making his way in. I am I'm happy to be here.
Unlike most of the guys were in Dodger Blue, I
am not on the injured list. Yeah, well, can you
play defense? And can you actually you know, have some
balls on the mound as a relief pitcher, because if
you could do those things, the Dodgers could use. But
I don't have a lot of that right now. I
it just it's it's pretty wild. Hell, they blew a
(01:30):
seven one lead to the San Diego Padres and that
kind of just was the ignition for this tailspin that
they have been in. Holy sh it. Yeah, no, I
mean they're they're a joke right now. And uh, you know,
listen Andrew Freedman, boy, wonder there the executive everything came
up great the last couple of years with the Dodgers.
The players he picked up that were auxiliary players, but
(01:53):
the secondary actors suck. And the guys that he brought
in there, they got rid of some old stalwarts that
we were fine with. I didn't need, I didn't need
buyas out of the bulpen again, right, I was good
changing things up, But the guys they brought in sucked.
And uh, and they've been bad. And they got rid
of Jack Peterson and Kei k Hernandez and guys like that.
(02:13):
And you figure you can get some outfielders will be
able to hit, and guys that can play the position defensively.
And these guys have been terrible. I mean, the backup
guys have been absolutely dreadful. Yeah, and just imagine if
they because they were pondering resunning Justin Turner, where the
funk would they be without him? And he's batting over three,
He's one of the he's one of the best defenders
(02:34):
on that lineup right now. So they'd be in a
world to hurt right now. And then Cody Bellinger's obviously out,
but I'm missing his three or four strikeouts the game
per night. Yeah, and they're they're like, well, they're injured,
they'll be all right and all that stuff, and maybe
they will be all right. So the season goes on forever.
It's not a sixty game season. But at this point,
my hot take Gascon on the Dodgers is that Andrew Freedman,
(02:58):
who had the might, has touched the golden touch. Right,
even by accident, he was picking up good place. He
had this uncanny ability as backup players, but now here
in one he's got the sadom touch. You know what,
the sadom touches, gas Gun. That would be the opposite
of the mightas touch, right, you know, Mightas touched everything
(03:19):
you touch. Turns to gold. With the sadom touch everything
you touch turns to ship. And that's what's going on
right now with the Dodgers, right that's take Now, have
you done have you done anything that would rival a
Clayton Kershoven monologue? No, not yet, not yet. That would
be a premature situation. But I'm getting closer and closer.
(03:42):
And if this spills into another week and we'll see
how things go. Obviously we're recording this podcast at the
previous day, but we'll we'll see what happens. But I
am I am considering. I've gotten emails from some Dodger
lap dogs like myself here, who are demanding that I
put the hypnotic suggestion into Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman
(04:05):
shake it up a little bit, because I always believe,
and this is my philosophy on sports radio panic and
then ask questions. I believe it's panic at the disco
all the time. That's what I believe. Nothing wrong with that.
It's fitting because we had Steve Hartman on yesterday with
us that he's one of the rare guys along with yourself,
that actually go after the l A teams in this
(04:25):
market where you know, unlike unlike San Diego or San Francisco,
or maybe like Colorado or Arizona, you don't get a
lot of that on the West coast, more so Philadelphia,
New York and Boston, like those the only markets in Chicago.
We will actually attack those teams and not suck up
to management players the organizations as a whole. Well that's
(04:48):
one of Listen, I love l A and all that,
but there's too many people out here that are just
you know, la la la la la, everything will be fine,
don't worry about anything. And I'm I'm I'm the opposite,
which is one of the reasons actually the show has
done so well in Boss. And I'm very cynical when
I know I've been able to I've been offered radio
jobs in Boston whatnot, because I kind of have that
mindset even though I didn't grow up there and I
grew up here and all that stuff. But I I'm
(05:09):
always convinced whoever you hire is the wrong higher, whoever
you draft the wrong player. Uh. And the coaches whatever
plays they call incorrect right and uh. And even when
you're playing well, you're always waiting for the other shooter
drop right you're always you're always waiting and you know
it's gonna happen. And even like it was, I love
(05:29):
the Clippers. I believe the Clippers are gonna win the championship,
but I understand that, you know, the Paul George playoff
p thing is problematic. However, However, I heard the same
crap with Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers won the championship.
So and heard things about David Price when he was
with the Red Sox and they won. So a lot
(05:49):
of bullcrap. It doesn't really mean anything. Oh, this guy
I can't win, and then he wins, and then they
move on to the next guy. It's like a moving
it's like a whack a mole. You move on to
the next target. Well, we're a few months away from
the NFL c isn't getting underway, but I could hardly
wait for that one a week where you're just having
a great day and then all of a sudden, Matthew
Stafford throws three picks and costs the Rams a game. No,
(06:11):
and I don't see that in my crystal ball. You
know what's gonna happen. It's let's go back now. I
remember a conversation we had before the NFL Draft with
a certain talker host in Houston who said, remember this,
John Salisbury. He said that he has in Matthew Stafford
as a m v P nvy P Canada, as a
(06:33):
former NFL quarterback, former star commentator on ESPN. Sean Salisbury,
that's we can't see an ugly face of Stafford though. Well, no,
everyone has a bad game, Listen, I mean no, No
one's gonna play sixteen perfect games. I'm sure Matthew Stafford
will have a game where he comes out and pukes
all over the logo at the fifty yard line. It's
going to happen. But if it happens consistently, that's a problem.
(06:57):
If it happens once in a while, once every you know,
five games or something like that, Okay, that's an acceptable
what's within the margin of error? I mean, hell, hell,
Aaron Rodgers has ship games, Peyton Manning had crap games,
Tom Brady has terrible games, Breeze has had bad moments.
That's that's what happens. So anyway, all right, I got
(07:18):
postal perfection, gluttony, glory. We also have speed trading and
pop quiz. There's a lot to get to. Let's go
rat a tat tat gascon rat a tat tat all
right now, postal perfection. Over last weekend, while you were
enjoying the podcast, I made the pilgrimage to the hollowed
(07:38):
hallways of the Fox Sports Radio studios in Sherman Oaks, California,
right there in La La Land, the San Fernando Valley,
right on the corner of Ventura and s Pulvita, some
high end real estate there the I Heart Media building
home in the Premier Networks. And I traveled there and
made my journey to pick up my listener mail, my
(08:02):
listener mail. Now I've been bad about this. I've not
done this in many months. Bad job by me. Uh.
Cooper Loop said, hey, you idiot, there's tons of mail here.
You probably should come pick it up. And I said
I should, I should, and I didn't and I didn't
and I didn't and uh, I just want to thank
that malle Musha, the listeners of the Overnight Show, not
this show. They the people on the podcast, not so much,
(08:24):
but the Overnight show man or the very kind, generous,
loving people. And I walked in there. I walk in
the building. I turned, I walked down a little bit
of a hall. There's a drinking fountain, and then turn right,
turn right, turn right, and then walked down past the
blue kitchen and then there's a table on the other
(08:46):
side there. And it was and I'm not exaggerating here,
it was as high as the heavens. Uh. And and
it was filled with with all kinds of things, letters, boxes,
you name it there and it's uh, it's great. I
have not even been able to sort through everything. I
did want to take them all. I think Rachel and
(09:07):
Mono Bello sent a large, massive box of candy, which
I think I need to share because if I eat
the whole thing, I'll be five hundred pounds again. But
I I thank her for that very kind And uh.
The hat collection is expanding here Gascon, so I will
have some new hatch to wear courtesy of p ones
(09:28):
in the Mallard militia were taking care of their gas bag.
Are they form fitting hats? Are the adjustables? Well, I
haven't gone through all the hats, and I'll give you
the hat breakdown once I go through all that. But
I just want to I want to thank you guys.
You guys don't have to send me anything, obviously, but
I do, thank you, and it's very kind. And I
love these unique hats. Uh, that's that's my thing. I mean,
(09:51):
I've said I want to I support the police. I
know that's taboo, but if you if your police officer.
We got a lot of police that listen to the
show overnight, any police had I will wear and represent
your your department loud and proud and minor league baseball.
I think we talked about this in the previous episode, guest.
We we both like kind of the obscure. I like
obscure college hats and I like minor league baseball hats.
(10:13):
Those are probably my favorite right now. And I I
wore the RAM hat the other day and I still
you know, I'll rep my teams there and I have
a tribute to my Boston sojourn in radio. I'll wear
some of the Boston hats. But other than that, you know,
it's mostly minor league college stuff. That's good and it's uh,
it's it's spicy, and the best part about it is
people will look at your hat, stare at it and
(10:33):
not know who the funk that hat has to do with,
which is great. You don't know where the city is,
what the team is, and they usually have some pretty
good nicknames too. So and also I have learned what
the college thing. When you wear like weird colleges or
colleges that aren't in your area, you get a lot
of people that want to start a conversation with you.
Because I remember I had a Wyoming University of Wyoming. Uh.
(10:55):
I used to go to the gym and I'd wear
this sweatshirt and it had Wyoming Cowboys logo. Yeah, it's
pretty cool. I got it like at Ross Dress for
Less or something like that. I gotta, but it was
every time I wore that thing, somebody come up here,
are you from Wyoming? Uh? Yeah? Like no, I've never
been to Why. I've flown over Wyoming a few times,
(11:18):
but that's about it. I used to know a guy
that Steve Stillwell, that worked in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and I've
had callers from Wyoming, but I don't I don't actually
don't actually have any experience in Wyoming. Here. It's what
national is it? Yellow Stone is in Wyoming. Yeah, so
I guess there's a reason to go to Wyoming Yellowstone.
You know, I don't think we'll need a vaccine passport
(11:40):
to go to Yellowstone. So no, you don't think we'll
need that. No, I don't think about that. Yeah I
think so. But to go to Dodger Stadium, you might,
you might, well you might, or you might be segregated
like you are at at a couple of ballparks in
New York. Yeah. Yeah, segregation is back Joe Biden's America
right there. It's a cheap shotcast scout. All right, we
have gluttony glory, as my grandfather would say, what a causer.
(12:04):
All right, So our lead, our lead right now in
this portion of the fifth Hour comes from an epic
birthday weekend food run last Saturday. Now I mentioned I
had gone to pick up the mail, but prior to that,
all right, prior to that, when this was while you
(12:25):
had tarnished my name, my good Remember during my podcast
we're recording, and you I called you a piece of ship. Yeah,
you called me a piece of ship. You remember what
you said? You called me a piece of shit on
my birthday. And I'm gonna remember on your birthday. You
don't even remember you have the same birthday as O. J. Simpson.
Of course I remember that. That's that's how I know
your birthday because you and o J. Which is great
(12:47):
because your dad she's very famous with o J and
all that. But anyway, so yeah, on your birthday, I'm
gonna call up and say, David Gascon piece of shit.
Uh that is going to happen. That is going to happen.
But anyway, so just get to the point, please. So
first of all, I decided I need to over indulge.
(13:07):
I need to have a throwback, and I believe I
had the perfect food day in l A, authentic l A,
the best dining you can get. Now. I started out
across the street from MacArthur Park. You know, it's across
the street from MacArthur Park. Nothing good, No, no, no,
Now that's an historic park. You know MacArthur Park has
(13:29):
been around since the eighteen eighties. Did you know that
eighteen eighties? Early it's one of the first things. It
was swamp land. It's one of the first things they built.
And I've heard the story from historians in the real
authentic this point that in the early days of l
A it was all swamp land, and some investors came
in and they that was actually the the prime part
(13:50):
of l A. They tore up the swamp and they
built this massive lake which was like a reservoir for
the water supply in southern California. And then they built
all these hotels around it to get tourists to come
to California. And it worked and and and it worked.
But but anyway, uh, and by the way, it's named
after General Douglas MacArthur. Do you know that. Yeah, it's
(14:12):
named after General. It had a different name. I know
a lot about MacArthur Park. And it's also a total shipthole.
I know that. Uh. If you want prostitution, drug dealing, shootouts,
homeless pissing, and shipping like it's a third world country,
it is literally sodom and gomorrah at MacArthur Park in
Los Angeles. It is unbelievable. But anyway, it's by the way,
(14:34):
before I forget, I'm gonna get to the point here.
But do you know the legendary story that I've heard
for years about MacArthur Park that the lake that they
have there, they've drained it a few times. You know,
when they've drained it, what they found bodies, bodies, guns,
all kinds of amazing things that were just tossed into lake.
(14:56):
Wonderful um. But regardless. On the other side of the
street is what I call the Theona Pastrami, the Pantheon
at Lanyard's Delhi all right, now, that was the first
stop on the Mallard food tour. I ordered the number
ten on a kaiser or ride, depending on the weekend.
Sometimes I don't go there every week. I go there,
you know, once in a while. It's pretty expensive. But
I I got kaiser number ten on a kaiser with
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the Russian dressing and all that, and the fries and
a large side of fries. They're pretty good, and it's
the nectar of the gods. But it wasn't open. Even
though a lot of restaurants in l A are now open,
they weren't open. I had to get I had to
eat in my car. So I parked right across the
street from MacArthur Park and watched all the all the
(15:39):
nonsense that was taking place there, and I had my
windows up and we were eating from the Pantheona Pastrami.
So we then traveled to uh right near skid Row.
Of course, all of l A now is skid Row.
It used to be just a few blocks in downtown
Los Angeles, but now all of l A is kid Row,
and I found a really cool spot. My wife she's
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into going to like kind of junk antique stores and
finding hidden gems. So it just play called Old Good Things.
You ever been to Old Good Things? No? No, but
I know exactly where this is going. So no, I mean, no,
you don't know. I mean it's a it's a cool place.
I know. They're all kinds of like it's a mitch
(16:22):
mash of old props from movies, signs, uh, and they
pretty much just put all this stuff together. They had like,
if you want to buy a Starbucks sign for your
house to decorate, they have it. They had a Seize
candy sign you could buy. They had these big lights
from the movie, you know, old movie sets back in
the day and all that. It's essentially a place where
(16:43):
if you're an interior designer, you would go to find unique,
quirky stuff that you can charge a fortune for that
you don't pay a fortune for. All Right, So we
were we were there and I and my wife wanted
to buy a bunch of stuff, and I convinced her.
I said, listen, let's uh, let's let's hit the brakes
on that let's wait and see if we can find
something better. Just make sure you really want this, you know,
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so she did, but I have a feeling we'll be
back there. You can buy a phone booth if you want,
you know, I mean, it's just a weird, weird ship
that you probably wouldn't want or need. But if you
want to like decorate something weird, you can find weird stuff. So, um,
pretty cool. I can admit it was pretty cool walking
around it was. It was pretty much overwhelmed. They had
(17:24):
like a pink elephant and like, it's like all this
weird ship. So with with that revelation, with what you
guys did on that that wonderful day where you're having
I'm not done, by the way, I'm not done. It's
just the middle part of the day, I know. But
where does all the photos and the gallery sent from
your your wife E's Instagram account, Where does that come from? Then?
(17:48):
Because it looks like you guys had bought a healthy
amount of ornaments and old school artifacts. Uh, I'm not
sure what. I don't really, I don't check out Instagram
very much. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to.
But my wife does put a lot of photos off
of random, random stuff. But now, I mean we bought
(18:09):
a few things over the last week, but nothing that
I remember that was that crazy. I mean every post signal,
the signal we had was that was pretty crazy. We've
got a traffic signal. Everything he doesn't need a traffic signal,
but everything that she's posted online, I think like, no way,
better prove that, No way that better purchase. No. No,
(18:31):
you know, um, I am pretty frugal and uh, a
lot of stuff like you don't really need it, you
can't really take it with you, and so what are
you doing? But all right, so you did this at
what time? Did you have Langers at? Exactly? I had
langers at like one thirty, had lunch breakfast. No, I
(18:52):
don't need practice. I was fasting, so and I broke
the fast at Langers. And then I went to downtown,
did a little shopping there, went out to Burbank. Burt
Bank had been there in awhile bur Bang and walked
around there some stores, and bur Bank went out to
beautiful Sherman Oaks to pick up my mail. I text
you to see if you were there. You said, no,
of course not, I'm not here. Why would I be here,
(19:14):
you texted like a Saturday night at seven o'clock. Well,
that's when I went there. Be sure to catch live
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eleven pm Pacific. So anyway, I've picked up the mail,
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and then we traveled down. It was very uncomfortable on
the four oh five. I tried to stay on the
east side of the four oh five. Traveled down the
four oh five. They're past the Getty Center and U C.
L A and that the cemetery, and we made our
way to Culver City because we then had, by my choice,
our dinner at what I call now Langer's is the
(19:59):
pant on a postromy but Tito's is the Temple of Tacos.
Tito's Tacos the home of the Gringo Taco just at
the edge of the it's like the end of the
flat Earth. Kyrie Irving would say, it's right against the
four oh five freeway. Literally across the street is the
freeway from Tito's Tacos the home of my friend, the
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lake Great Alex Russo said, the Gringo taco and it's
this crunchy taco with neon orange cheese on top, and
he's amazing. My wife hates it. I love it. She
hate it. She doesn't like it. She hates it. She
puts up with it, but she doesn't like it. Oh boy,
didn't think it's very good. She's crazy. Yes, I mean,
no one's perfect, but that's insane. It's blasphemy. I tell
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her that you should be crucified for saying that. How
dare you? But she puts up with it, and so
they were not having people eat it, Tito. So we
had to take it to a park over there in
Culver City, right near what movie studios? Over there? There's
a little park that we went to. And is that
that's That's not Warner Brothers? What is over there? Is that? Parents?
Which lot is over in Culver City? I thought it's
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I thought it was Warner Brothers. Is it Warner Bros?
I thought Warner Brothers was out in Burbank? That's I
think they have two lots of that also, Warner Brothers.
I thought there was two the one off of like,
was it Burbank Boulevard? Well, I know when I worked
in Burbank, they in to Lucca Lake, they had the
one big lot right there. Oh you know what, maybe
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it is Paramount. Yeah, I don't think it's a Warner Brother.
I think that's a Paramount because it's like I mean,
I think it might be Sony. I think it's a Sony.
Is it Sony? I don't know. No, Well, I know
there's doesn't matter who cares look it up, google it,
just go any I had a wonderful culinary day. I
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flashed back to my fat days, and it was wonderful.
It was great. The greatest astronomy can get better than
the New York pistronomy. Langer's deadly. I warned you if
you're listening in California here, if you're traveling californ to
be careful. It's bad neighborhood. They have a lot. You
can parking down the street and walk in and get
your your take out order, but it's a ship. Neighborhood's
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so bad. They close at four o'clock because you don't
want to be there after four o'clock. And and and
that's that's how that operates. And then Tito's is good.
There's usually a line and they didn't have neither one
of the restaurants allowed you to eat there, so I
had to take the food somewhere else. And so what's
the speed? What's the speed? Trading? Thing about? What? What
are we? Where are we going here? Gascott? What are
we doing? So we've been kind of knee deep in
(22:30):
in everything that is um investment trading, and uh, you know,
we've got some people that have sent us a few
things on cryptocurrency. I I have yet to put my
toes into that. Oh I have, and I've done very
well by the way, the Mallard militia coming through Bigley
helping out. I'm not gonna name the crypto, but has
(22:53):
well because I don't want to jinks and I don't
have the crystal the banbano on it. But it has
gone up, up, up and away. It's been tremendous, I
guess on this this particular currency that and I want
to thank Clay actually because he's the one that said, hey,
(23:13):
you should probably probably purchase you know this crypto X
will call it, and I was like, I don't know
about that, and it's so cheap, it's so wonderful, you
know what, I'm gonna do it, and I just put
I put a few bucks down, and yeah, it's one
of those things. You put a few bucks down, you
get a bunch of it, and I just like forgot
(23:33):
about it, and then all of a sudden, it's got
a lot of attention this week, and have I do
have a feeling it's gonna skyrocket after Saturday Night Live airs,
if you know what I'm saying, got you guys have
a certain celebrity host that's gonna be on there that
will likely do some bits about about this particular crypto currency. Yeah,
well a few hours from now, then let's we'll see
what happens. I'm not saying you should buy it or
(23:55):
not buy it. I'm just don't do what you want.
But I have a feeling because of publicity that it'll
it'll jump up a little bit. You make a little money,
it's fair enough. Well, I I have a I have
a relative of a cousin of mine who's who's a
hard oh, but he's a good dude. He's uh, he's intelligent,
and he's a financial advisor for high net worth clients.
(24:15):
And uh, you know, he's he's he likes to refrain
to himself as the refer to himself, excuse me as
like the general zod of of investing, where he wants
to make everyone bend the knee if you will. And
so he he texted me randomly a few days ago
and said, I need you to get on this stock.
(24:36):
And I said, Yo, I'm in the middle of traffic
right now. I'm I'm driving to work. I'm on the
four oh five freeway right now. He said, you've got
ten minutes before the market closes. Just push buttons and
get it done. And um lo and behold. You know,
we do a wild things when we're either at a
sporting event, on the toilet, maybe getting ready for the shower,
(24:57):
in bed after you kick out the misses for the night.
I was, I was day trading on the flour oh
Fire Freeway. That is a first for me. And I
think you're supposed to admit that, gisk and I think
that's illegally you should not have. Well, then you have
that dip ship, that moron in Ohio that can go
rat on me into the l A p D. How
about that? But like as a you know, it's really
(25:21):
my soul here. I must give a public service announcements,
you know. Doing the overnight showed to a lot of
p S A S. Yes, they'll see you before you
see them. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Which is oddly enough,
Just before that happened, I was at a crosswalk ready
to get onto the one ten Freeway and the L
A P. D. Harbor Division. I didn't have my seatbelt on.
(25:42):
I was looking at the stocks, and a police officer
rolled up right to my right side and nothing happened.
Oh I really keep going there? Yeah, it was pretty well.
Then obviously put on my seatbelt and proceed to look
at some stocks to make some trades. So that's the
world we're living right now. But I thought about I
thought about you. I was like, oh, I'm doing a
(26:03):
little day trading as I'm on my way. Did it
work out that the stock? It did? It did? Why
didn't What about your friend Ben? Why didn't you say, hey, Ben,
you should probably get you Why didn't you pass it?
Pass it on? How about that? I don't want to
jink sit, you know, I didn't want to jink sit
and share it with you. Just said that five minutes ago. Yeah,
that's me though, that's not you. You're not wired like me.
(26:24):
You're not like me. I'm We're different. You've never been
bashed in the past about sharing information. How there you?
That's true? How curled up for your toes when I
started asking Steve Hartman about him and Don Martin's relationship.
Third rail? That's a third rail? How there you dare?
Don't go there? That's you have to admit that the
(26:48):
reason why you love radio and your radio nerd is
because there's so much drama and so many good stories
off the air with radio personalities. Yeah, yeah, I know,
it's great. I mean it's stuff that happens off the
air that often never makes it on the air. Is
tremus outstanding, wonderful all that? Yeah, it's great, absolutely, no
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question about it. Would you ever consider day trading once
you're when you're on the four or five free away again? Well,
let's say, if if I were to come into a
lot of money, if something were to break right gas
on and there would be the richest of Solomon at
my doorstep, I would be a very active day trader.
But making overnight radio money. Yeah, so what with your
(27:35):
with all your birthday gifts and all the mail that
you got the other day when you came into the studio.
There were two things that that we were sent to
me through inquiries of mine that I needed to pass
along to you. Was one, did Ben cook the steak yet?
And I said, unequivocally no, no, you don't know that
to be true enough, showed me a picture of it.
(27:57):
You would have. You would have been praised. I don't
rag about my eating. And then two I was asked, hey,
did Ben acknowledge the the cameo video and the other
video that you produced for him for his birthday card?
So no, I'm still waiting for that thank you. I'm
still waiting for that hug, that handshake, that toe tap.
What do you? What do you? What are you talking?
(28:18):
I didn't get a cameo birthday card I got. I
did get a cameo from a listener, but it was
not a birthday card. That's not that's a lie. That
is a lie. I made two of them, I mean
one of them for birthday for the show, and another
one on a cameo video I sent to you. I
did not get the video handed out. I did not
(28:38):
get it. I did not see either one of those videos. Really, Yes,
I don't know what you're talking about here. Really, I'm
not I would have. Why would I not talk about it? If?
I mean, I'm a talk show host. I talked about
things that happened because it's from me, That's why. Who
sent it? How did you send it? You send it to?
Somebody else? Said no? Someone else said did because it
(29:01):
was a listener from Montana. Oh you know, I didn't.
I didn't get it. I'll have to I'll have to check,
and I must have. I don't know if it went
to my spam folder or whatnot. I don't know. Wow,
that sucks. Well, I'm still my birthday post week. I
(29:21):
can still celebrate my birthday. Well, no, you're your doppelganger.
Count scent Or created a giant m video montage of
people that were saying happy birthday to you. Really, Yes,
you didn't see that either? No, No, I did not. No,
(29:41):
I swear I I'd like to see it. It sounds wonderful,
it sounds very very kind. Yeah, it was like a
five or six minute long video. I can't believe that
I did not. I didn't, no one, I don't recall
getting any email. Uh, and I I scanned my emails.
Sometimes I don't check it prime I remember checking it
(30:03):
on my birthday. I don't. It's weird, that's fascinating. Yeah,
well that sucks. I feel bad. I mean, people went
out of the way to to make a video and
I did not acknowledge the video jet by me. I
did not get the video though. That's crazy. I'm sorry.
I apologize. I would. I'll have to actually applied. It's
not five minutes long. It's eighteen minutes long. Eighteen minutes there.
(30:29):
Now I see it, Okay, I see it. Hold not
say you got a lot of people happy birthday, dined.
I did not know. I didn't know. Well, I what
a what a loser? I am? So I was mentioning
this to you last week or the week of your birthday,
and I was like, well, what do you say? I
don't know what you're saying. All right, that makes sense now,
(30:51):
all right? Wow, unbelievable happens with your introvert? You and
your an introvert. You don't give a ship, you don't
talk or you don't ask a questions. Well, no, I mean,
I did you know? People did send me a few
things via email and I didn't acknowledge that the people
that did that. But wow, all right, well I'm gonna
(31:13):
have to have to watch it. I can't watch it
right now, but thank you. Oh man, that's pretty cool.
Wheel of birthday Cake. I like that, the Wheel of
birthday Care. There wasn't truckload of of listeners. Yeah, there
was a ton of people from the militia that wished
you a happy birthday. Of view, No, I didn't. I
(31:35):
had no idea. I'm here it is, you know where.
It was a week after my birthday and I'm just
learning about it right now. This is kind of fitting.
I mean, you had a you had a steak in
your friger or roof. Calm down, calm down, and members
on ice. I see how it goes. I'm not putting
them on ice. I didn't see it, i'd seen it.
How can I comment on something I hadn't seen. I
(31:57):
thought you were just pulling my chain or something like that.
I thought you were busting my balls about some video.
I didn't think it was real. I thought it was
I honestly, I thought you were tagged in it. I
had just assumed, or I assumed your producer would have
put it on air for you. Oh well, wow, you're
taking a shot. All right, we gotta get the pop
quizz and I got the mailbag. We'll be doing on Sunday,
So pop quiz. Here a few pop quiz questions. A
(32:19):
new survey asked people to name a possession that they
have too many of these were the most common answer.
What are they? Watches? No, something to do with your
feet mm hmm, sandals? Uh, that would be socks. That
(32:40):
would be socks. I don't have enough. I keep losing them. Yeah,
a lot of people have tons. You just you have
the sock like basket or whatever, So you have all that. Uh.
Nearly sevent of American adults say it is their dream
to do this someday. What is it? Travel the world? Uh? No, right,
(33:01):
their autobiography? Right, their autobiography. People have asked me about that,
I have. I love to write a book. I don't
know that's my dream to do it. I don't know
that's my dream. You're too young. I'm too young to
write a book. Yeah, no, I'm I too young. You're
too young to write an autobiography. Oh well I could
(33:21):
write a book though. Yeah, I'm just saying auto biography
too young? How old do you have to be to
write an autobiography. I think you should be like in
your seventies, because then you'd have what if you don't
make it to your seven? You know everyone makes it
to their seven. Let's can we not put the curse
of the bembino on yourself. I'm just saying, I listen,
both my parents are dead. I don't know who knows
what's gonna happen, but you know you gotta do it.
(33:42):
Do it, strike while the iron is hot. What. I'm
a realist, man, I'm a realist who knows it's just
a dark cloud over you. I get a dark cloud
over me. You said I shouldn't write an autobiography, and
I'm like, well why not? No, you're too young. I'm
just saying, you got way too many things. I got
a bunch of story. I got twenty years of radio
(34:03):
that I could talk about. Listen, how about this, We'll
we'll read, We'll revisit this in in six months, how
about that? Just in case? All right, let's see what
else there have? One in twelve people say they're embarrassed
to admit they can't do this? What is it? Um?
So people, I'll say, tie shoes blow a bubble with
(34:29):
gum one in twelve people? When you first started blowing that? Yeah,
did you start doing it with um gum from a
baseball pack? Or was it big league chew? Oh? I
was a big big league chew guy because I wanted
to be just like the players, and I pretended it
was like chewing tobacco. And I got a big giant
ball and yeah, the whole thing. Uh. But I'm able
(34:50):
to blow a bubble. Not I'm not an epic historic
bubble blower, but I'm all right. On average, about fourteen
of these are made for every American every year. Fourteen
of these, yes, fourteen? Um? Uh do do do? Do?
(35:12):
Don zippers? No, zippity dude does zippity day? The average woman,
where's these? Seventeen times before washing them? What is it?
A bra? No pajamas? Oh that's fucking dirty, dirty dirty dirty? Yeah,
(35:34):
nobody you know who's around when you're in your pajamas,
you know, come up dirty in your pajamas. Uh. Women
can usually do this in six days, but it takes
us men ten days to do it on average. Commit
to a date, No, it's actually the opposite to break
up with someone. No ship, Yeah, it wasn't that Because
(35:55):
the trope is that women have somebody else already lined up.
Right when they're ready to break up with the guy,
they were already scouting out, scouring the market for somebody else. Yeah,
plus the tinks, it's a little bit longer for us
to make the women break up with us, and guys
usually don't have they very rarely do they have someone
else lined up. Women usually have somebody warmed up there.
(36:18):
You could always have someone warming up with the pen
ben Wow, Dave Roberts. Only about of people say they
can do this extremely well, about SI say they can't
do it at all. Now I can do this, but
I cannot do it extremely well. I'm very mediocre at whistle. Yeah,
(36:39):
that's exactly right. Whistle. Now, my grandfather Phil Jackson with
the do you go Phil Jackson with the two pinkies
and yeah, no, no, I don't do that. But my
grandfather was a great whistler. I was I'm only able
to whistle blowing air in, not out. That's the lode,
and which it's the ability to whistle along the length
(37:02):
of the whistle. You know. I was like, she asked me,
can you whistle? That's good I'm a better whistler than you.
If you'd like to rate the podcast, you can go.
You want to know why this is a Saturday podcast
(37:24):
and no one's listening to this crap? Right there, there's
an example two men whistling, whistling the day away, right, literally,
whist whistling the day away, all right. A new study
shows that listening to this for eight to ten minutes
a day will brighten your mood. Um gospel music? Uh no,
(37:49):
how about birds singing? Birds sing? Can you get that
on the music apps on your phone? Birds singing? Is
that on YouTube? I'm sure? Well, I'm sure on you
you can get anything on YouTube. New survey asked dog
owners to name their biggest pet peeves. People said this
top their list. Most annoying thing that people do. Um,
(38:13):
not picking up their dogs. Shit. Now when a stranger
pets their dogs, don't touch fight? Oh what's wrong with you?
Leave fighto alone? I always ask, Yeah, this is one
of our biggest regrets from high school? What is it?
The women we did? I see your hairstyle? Well, your
(38:36):
hair looked. Oh it's so bad, terrible. Almost all of
us have this in our homes, but only use it.
What is it scale no dental floss, get that dental
flow floss. I'm an epic floster. I'm a really good floster.
I'm a talented filosoper. I go those a little, those
little flosters, I use those things off. Yeah, the toothpick flosters.
(38:58):
Those these are wonderful. Have him in my car triggers
my wife's mesophonia, which is so high. I don't I
don't get how you practicing your hygiene would would trigger her.
But whatever, that's what I'm saying. I'm listen. I'm practicing
good dental hygiene. I floss more than doctors recommend. Okay,
give me a break. Of public teachers have this in common.
(39:21):
What is it? They don't want to go back to work. Well,
that's true, but also they have a second job, second
job outside of teaching, a little side hustle. What's going on?
All right? Last last one here? And when it comes
to our house. Four of homeowners have this in common.
(39:41):
They don't know where the electrical boxes or the switchbox.
Uh no is actually uh the They think their house
is haunted. Oh no, but that let just do all right,
that's it, We're done, We're out of here. Cameo dot com.
By the way, want a personal video message, Have a
great rest your Saturday. Get the mail bag on Sunday.
(40:04):
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