March 22, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have another great Friday bonus broadcast! They talk: NCAA Basketball & Gambling, Ohtani & Gambling, Fake Holidays, Word of the Week, Scientifical, and more!
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The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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and Danny g As.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We slide in to a Friday, a brand new weekend.
Otherwise we wouldn't be here doing this podcast unless it
was a brand new weekend. But we're here again, hanging out,
and we thank you for listening. We know today is
a very difficult day to pry away people to listen
because it is day two of the Madness of March Tournament,
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which if you're into gambling, or you like college of basketball,
or maybe just like watching random sporting events all day,
a lot of people take the Thursday and Friday off
the They say the two greatest days if you love
basketball and gambling, the two greatest days are these two
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because there's games all day long from if we're on
the West coast from like nine in the morning all
the way up until ten o'clock at night, so it's
it's March madness. Are you into?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I get to I'm watching these games. And then I
did a monologue last night about the tournament. But I'm
not really feeling and I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm not really feeling the tournament.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I mean, it doesn't consume me. But as a big
sports fan, it's fun to follow along and see how
you do with all your guessing and small bit of
research you did. Like for two hours, I clicked on
all the air quote experts for each game and saw
the pros and cons of picking either side and who
the experts thought would win. And then of course you
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got to go. You can't just go with all favorites,
so you got to pick some Cinderella teams. And you
don't want to be a douche who has like a
number one versus number two up at the top versus
a one and a two again for the final four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well that's how they get you, though, That's how they
get you can't pick all the favorites. You realize most years,
if you pick the favorites, you will end up winning
like seventy of the bets.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
True, if there's always one Cinderella though, there's usually one
Cinderella team that gets somewhat deep into the tournament.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, well, I hope you didn't bet on Nevada yesterday,
as I did.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I had two teams that already jacked up. I'm sure
you want to hear about my bracket right now.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes, And one thing we love is people's brackets. It's
great radio. Absolutely. I had two podcasts.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I had two losses on opening day of the tournament
BYU and Nevada. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, Nevada though, Steve Alford, the old Bruin forever is
going to be a Indiana hoosier or what for me?
But Steve Alford and Nevada one of the epic March
Madness choke jobs. Seventeen points man, seventeen point lead they lost.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, at one point they had gone on like a
twenty four to four run, and I thought all money
on this one. Nope.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, Now the big story of the week that trump
the tournament. Now, we don't do sporty here. This is
not a sporty podcast, But I don't think this is
actually sporty. This is like mafios so scambling. Ah, yes,
scandal is so good. I love Scan. I did not
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expect to get a Dodger scandal. I was. It was
why I was sorting to Jason and Harmon when I
was They were leaving and I was coming into the
studio and they were like, are you gonna watch the
Dodger game? Are you gonna be up for the Dodger Oh, yeah,
of course I'm gonna be up. It's after the show.
I'm gonna I'm gonna check that out. And and then
we were like, well, what's gonna happen as well? I'm
sure somebody will get hurt by the time I get home.
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I didn't realize though, that it was Otani that would
be in upheaval right, that there would be this this
turbulence with Otani. But I will tell you this though, Dan,
I know, I did another monologue last night about it.
I'm sure this will be I heard it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I heard it your Thursday in your Wednesday into Thursday show.
I was all ears. I was listening.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah. And so the feeding frenzy that we've not gotten
that I don't feel like this is a full feeding frenzy.
I had an interesting conversation with somebody in the media
who and by the way, this story is so crazy.
I was getting people that work in news media that
were casual friends of mine that were sending me message
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it was going on with Otani. You know anything about Altani?
What's going on? I was like, well, I don't really.
I mean, everyone I know is in Korea with the
Dodgers this week, so I didn't really I'm not talking
to them on the phone while they're in Korea, so
I don't really know exactly what's going on. They're like,
they're trying.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
To get tap on the podcast immediately.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, and so so this is like a wide ranging
but the whole scandal element. People love scandals and people
it's funny because people, Ah, I don't like scandals. I
don't like but people love scandals. They take pleasure out
of it that there's somebody that is doing something. It's
not damn, somebody's in trouble, right, it's titillating, it's great
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and all that. And then either way, either you're excited
because they get punished or you're happy because they got
away with it. But it it does work as a
nice distraction.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh yeah, And I saw Padre fans all over social
media doing cartwheels and celebrating as if they did something awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah. My favorite, though, is the Yankee fans and the
Giant fans and the Phillies and all these teams that
were sucking the toes like a high school kid in
Oklahoma for licking them for yam you know, for Yamamoto
and Oton. All these teams that wanted Oton right they were,
and they they didn't get him, and they were caught
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flat footed. And so now they're like, they're like celebrating
the possible demise of and he is lucky he's not
a football player because in football, although not even as
much lately, but remember there was that stretch where if
this happened and involved a football player, you would be
put on the commissioner's exemplst until we figure out what's
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going on. But there's not even any talk of that.
They're like, no, it's a it's an odd it's an
odd story considering uh, the magnitude of that that for
so long was the the ultimate final frontier with gambling.
Of course most and I love gambling, but you can't
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be having the people in the sport betting kind of
obvious here, even though baseball is fully in bed as
a gambling operation.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So it's yeah. So I think there's an underlying topic here,
and that is why the hell is gambling not legal
in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well, and I blamed the voters the other night because
this should have been legal. It is the casinos, the
Indian casinos in California blocked the legislation because we know
people are easily manipulated, and that's why there's so much
money in politics, because human beings are weak, and if
you spend enough money in advertising for a political either
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pro or against something, you can get it passed. That's
why it's usually the person that has the most money
wins an election, not necessarily because that they're the greatest candidate,
but because they can brainwash people to vote a certain way.
And the people behind the Native American Indian casinos in California,
they wanted more control. This is what I was told.
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Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I was from I understand
they wanted more control of the California sports wagering market.
And if that law had passed, it would have been
the big companies like DraftKings and fan duel that would
have had more more control than them, and so they're
they're going to have it pass, but they're gonna have
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new legislation that will have them in control. It's all
it's about who's in control of the money. It's always
about the money. But that's the thing. If this had
been legal, Uh, it would have been a thinking. But
you know the whole point. Listen, it's like the whole
drug dealer thing. Right, if you go down to cvs
and buy drugs, everything's good, right, but yeah, you know,
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the neighborhood drug dealer. You can't be doing that, right,
You can't, you know, because you gotta get you gotta
get tax money out of.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
It, exactly. You have to have a certificate that way
the money flows to the right people.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
If Otani and his guy paid taxes so our politicians
could waste that money, that's fine. But oh, you know,
you can't just do it. It's not even a neighborhood bookie.
No neighbor back in the day, I might have known
some guys that ran book in the neighborhood. And they're
not taking action at that level. They're not. They can't,
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they can't cover it. So you're telling millions of dollars.
That's a high end. That's a bougie situation, right, That's
not your normal run of the mill situation. And the
sports writers though, the people that cover these the sports like,
there's not a lot of street smarts, you know, they
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just they This is one of my problems.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
With a ton of mo though.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, they are the moral But the thing
that drives me nuts is they they just believe whatever
these these teams say, or in this case, the lawyers
who are being paid by oh toney. And I don't know,
I don't know what's going on, but I do know
we're not getting the whole story. I do know that
that there's more, and the story has already changed, right,
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And I'm of the agent and I'm probably outdated now,
but I'm of the age that you're supposed to assume
nothing in question everything. Now it is, it's backwards, it's
never questioned anything, and assume everything is right. You know,
there's no bad stuff going on, everything's great, and we'll
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see what happens. But if Baseball doesn't pursue this, the
only way anything will come of it is if the
Feds go after Otani. By the letter of law, a
wire transfer that goes to pay off an illegal gambling
debt is punishable by up to two years in jail,
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up to his weasel terminology. So that alone is a
federal violation. Now Otani's claiming that he didn't know that
he was unaware of the situation, But how do you
get someone to send a couple five hundred thousand dollars
checks or wire transfers?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Do you know what the actual crime is? Is it
wired transfer daring money to an illegal operation?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Uh? Yeah, Well, so there's the federal if you if
you knowingly, I don't even know if the word knowing these,
it's a federal law that if you if you wire
transfer money, it's a heagh. They took down the mob,
right though, you know, using wired transfers or whatever they
call it, going across state lines or whatever. And so
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as I read it and as I understand it, it's
it's just if you knew you were sending money on
a wire that was going to be used to pay
off an illegal gambling situation, that is, you violated federal law,
and it's it it's two years. But but who knows
if it's deeper than that, right, you know, this guy.
Otani and this guy were tight for over a decade.
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I mean, it's hard to imagine that they didn't talk.
Even if Otani wasn't betting, it's almost impossible to think
that he didn't know what was going on, Right, this
guy was justitting on big soccer.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Games and soccer football college football. Let's just hope that
no MLB gambling was involved and there are no traces
of digital gambling slips with Well, they would use numbers,
like you said on your monologue, right.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, they don't use names. Well that's what they're supposed
to do. They don't use and because you know the names,
people obviously can track down. But yeah, that would be much.
I would say it would be bigger than Pete Rose.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, I was going to say the name Pete Rose
was trending for two days.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I would say this would be bigger on the days.
You know. In let's go down the parallel dimension, Danny
in the Twilight Zone, multiple dimensions. There's a dimension where
al Tani was betting and he's starting for the Angels
against the Oakland Athletics, and the Angels are a big favorite,
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and you know, it just wasn't on that day, just
had a bad start pitch that well, and the A's
ended up somehow winning the game and all that. And
you know that you can have so much influence on
that as much as a quarterback. Right.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
No, I just don't even want to entertain that idea.
I don't want to think he did any of that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, no, I don't either. I'd like to think that
this is this is nothing. But I don't believe attorneys.
That's the problem. I mean, it's hard for me to
believe attorneys, you know what I'm saying, Like, just you
got to use some critical thinking, right, not just for
the sake of argument. You just gotta you know, sometimes
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you have to be the lone voice out there.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, there's there's so many examples throughout the history of
sports where players like Charles Barkley, like Michael Jordan love
to gamble, Alan Iverson and others. And the thing is what,
it's a thrill if you win, you're part of the action,
a big part of it. With that kind of money, Well,
let's just hope that a guy like Otani knew even
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even if he did like to gamble. Hey, I don't
want to risk my career on something like this.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, but it's it's one of those things, the addiction
of gambling. It's like it's hard to it's almost impossible
to stop, and they have every trick to keep you
to continue to gamble, and it's amazing the way it works.
Than listen I do a TV show. Hopefully they'll be
back for year two. I don't know that hasn't been
(14:35):
determined yet. But about gambling, but like, you can't be
betting if you've already won the lottery, if you're guys
like even the I would say the interpreter, what was
he making three hundred four or five hundred thousand dollars
a year?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Five hundred thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
If you're making five hundred thousand dollars where I come from, your.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You are above middle class even in Los Angeles that
far hundred.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You're doing well and you've got an easy job. You
don't have to hit the back door slider, the lollipop curve,
you don't have to do any of that. You just
have to show up and and interpret, just repeat some
cliches from Otani. You get to travel on the team. Yeah,
no elbows surgery required you're living the dream, right you're
and then this this pops up. And then there's the
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other possibility that they were both involved in it. And
this guy is the old Chris Carter got to have
a fall guy.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah, And one of our listeners tweeted, he said, I
think the interpreter was gambling, racked up an insane amount
of debt, Otani stupidly and illegally covered him, and now
the lawyers are getting involved.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, I know that's what that's kind of the story
that it's going around. But well, we'll see. It's gonna
be up to the Fed. So my position on this
is it's not major League Baseball will do nothing. They
will be the Ostridge and they'll bury their head in
the ground and be like I didn't see anything nothing,
you know, I didn't see anything. Move on nothing here,
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move on. It's the fifth art. How about it? Today
is National goof Off Day today? Do you you're a
goof off to that? It sounds yeah? It's also Bavarian,
uh Creep's day or no, what is it called crepe?
That's it crep crape. Yeah, that's how they say it
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in France though. Yeah, so there's uh You've got that
International Seal Day, big big holiday, and it's National Donald Day,
so I have to celebrate every Donald, like Donald the Donald.
Do you have A'donald duck don don? That's about the
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only two Donald and Donal. The main reason I brought
this up today is because it's talk like William Shatner
Day today. Did you know that's a holiday?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
That's stupid?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
My guy shats spats with shats.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
We made everything sound dramatic.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Today pays tribute to famous Canadian actor William Shatner, who
has gained worldwide appreciation because of his battles with the
mal Or militia back in the day. No, so yeah,
it's an opportunity to pay tribute to his more memorable performances.
And you just did an impersonation and so you kind
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of get the whole the whole bit. So you go happy,
talk like William Shatner Day. And that's just just great,
just absolutely wonderful. Time out for.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The word of the week, The word of the week.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Are you ready for the word of the week. The
word of the week. All right, so the word this
week is mud slinging. Mud slinging is It's one word.
Mud is slinging.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Is a oh mud sling Does it have a dash?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
No, No, it's all word. Okay, yeah, as I spell it,
it's one word, So mud slinging, which is appropriate. The
last couple of weeks we've seen a lot of mud slinging.
You could argue the Otani story with the gambling, there's
a lot of mud slinging involved in that. You could
claim that the case also Aaron Rodgers. A couple of
weeks ago, his name came up as a possible candidate
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to run for the vice president's seat in the upcoming election,
and immediately immediately people were just like all over Aaron
Rodgers and just trying to bury him with political dirt
and all this so mud slinging, which has been part
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of the political spectrum since the days when politicians would
actually throw real mud. Well maybe maybe not that, but
but it goes back to ancient Latin and the origin
of mud slinging. It goes from a Latin saying which
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translated means throw plenty of dirt and some of it
will surely stick. However, the rise in popularity did not
really take place until the nineteen hundreds, but still here
we are in twenty twenty four and that term is
still regularly used going back to the nineteen hundred and so,
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but it originated in Latin. And it just means you
throw plenty of dirt and some of it is sure
to sure to stick, which is great life advice. Right,
if you're a single guy and you're dating, you know,
you've got to make a lot of offers to people
for dates before somebody takes you up on it. Right,
And if you're that kind of goes where anything in life,
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where it threw out a bunch of dpicts out there
and see where they land exactly exactly, well you know
about that, but you know a lot of Dick and
Dayton stuff. You know you could do that absolutely. Let's
we haven't done science in all I want to we
do scientifically, and there's a few.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Science stories scientifical.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, we'll get scientifical si science. I saw the stir.
We didn't talk about it on the Overnight show. I
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don't know if it came up on a Coveno and Rich.
But the science community was buzzing this week because there's
this exercise pill, which is they claim almost here. Now
that's weasel terminology, almost here, but they say that this
exercise pill is.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
This supposed to be like ozembic but in a pill form.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah. So the scientists from the Washington University School of
Medicine that's in Saint Louis, they have they've gotten pretty
close to creating a pill that would give you the
same health benefits as actually working out, and so you
wouldn't have to go to you wouldn't have to get
ten thousand steps, you wouldn't have to get regular physical activity,
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and you wouldn't have to worry about any of that.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It's a little bit different then. This is more like
a magic pill.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah. Yeah, so they say, you know, substituting physical and
mental health benefits of exercise with a pill. They say,
you know, it seems crazy, but they claim that this
is the They've got it. They're close to it, and
they can replace a lot of the exercise stuff. All exercise,
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of course, you know, you get your metabolism going and
all that. But magic magic maybe in like when your
kids old, Danny and we're really old, like they'll just
you just take a pill. If you want to lose weight,
you take a pill. You want to exercise, take a pill,
and and you're good. That's it, But they claim the
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secret behind the exercise pill lies in the activation of
estrogen related receptors, proteins that play pivotal role in the
body's response to physical activity. So they've been spending a
number viewers on this research wise, and they claim they
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have found the magic Goldilocks formula. I'm a doctor, and
it will provide similar results to h to exercise. I
guess that's good if you're you can't get around right,
if your legs gave out, or you're kind of old,
you're not mobile and you're gonna have to you know,
sitting around.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
While stuck a video studio all day.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I know I've been walking. I've been trying to get
some a little bit of steps at night. So sometimes
during the top of the hour I'll walk up and
down the hall, just back and forth because I'm a loser.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
But I wouldn't used to walk around Sherman Oaks, California.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I did. Yeah, I didn't get shanked either, which I
think i'd get shanked. I think I think these days
that would not not go. Yeah, But I've starting to
doing a little bit of that movement because I was
just like I sitting there and I didn't leave the
studio for four hours. I usually get there an hour
before the show, so it was like five hours just
like sitting around. And so I was like, you know,
I didn't I don't go around the building. I knew
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exactly how long I had to time it. I could
walk around the building and then that took about about
five minutes. Usually the top of the hour paused like
six six and a half minutes, seven minutes, something like that.
So it was that kind of thing. And uh, yeah,
so I've been getting that extra spats pill. What are
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the side effings like that ozembic? Aren't there a lot
of people having issues with thozampic right now?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Oh yeah, you puke your guts out. There's just lots
of issues as far as feeling sick to your stomach.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
And is it one of those deals also where if
you get off of it, you'll just gain all the
way back, so you have to be on it for
the rest of your life. Is that kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, because you need to also be working out, and
a lot of people can't work out while they're on
that drug because they feel nauseous.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, no, wonderful, but that's a lot of a lot
of medication and the conspiracy theorist to me would say
that's why or that's what the drug companies want, right,
The secret is to get You don't want to cure people,
You want to give them medicine they need for the
rest of their life because you've got built in built
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in customers. Just like every business, we've done stories. I
don't know if that was when you were with me,
it might've been before, but we've done stories. The key
to business monthly payments. If you cell phone companies, my god,
everyone's got to have a cell phone. You all got
to have a smartphone. You pay yourself, sell bill every month,
but ye's guaranteed revenue, yeah, month after month.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Remember Willie Wonka, he was inventing the everlasting gobstopper. Put
everybody out of business because the only need one.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
We should have like a podcast club. Remember Oprah had
the book club back in the day when she was big. Oprah,
well she was, she's always been big. But before she
was big, she was already big, but then famous. Well
well yeah, but no, she had like the book of
the month. And if you can get people to do
something regularly and make it a habit, you filthy rich,
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filthy rich. It's like I just read a story this week.
I know it's off off the topic of conversation, but
the story about streaming and how insane to the membrane
it is now that streaming households court of the data
are now ending sixty one dollars per month on four services.
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Sixty one bucks a month for streaming, which now, my
cable bill was. I got rid of cable years ago.
My cable bill was really insane because I had all
the sports packages and I was before Eddie told me
about the Russian websites. But this was like I think
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my cable bill was like one hundred and fifty bucks
a month or something like that. It was ridiculous. But
sixty one bucks a month and you're getting four streaming services,
and you know this is going to end up. This
will end up eventually. It'll be within a year or two,
it's going to be one hundred bucks a month. Like
that's where it's it's just going to be. The people
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think they were getting a deal, and they were getting
a deal for a while, but eventually it's just gonna
be the same as cable. You're paying the same amount
of money. I don't even know. I don't even want
to know how many any streaming services I have at
the mallor mansion, because I don't watch any of them.
I don't I watch YouTube stuff that is free, and
(27:12):
then I have you know, I've heard there are these
websites you can watch any sporting event you want. You know,
I've heard about this. I would ever be wrong to
use those, Danny.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
From our be inappropriate from our hoa. We have cable
every month, Otherwise we wouldn't pay for it. Used to
be Time Warner, now it's Spectrum. We wouldn't pay for
that otherwise. So we have that if we want to
watch live TV, which comes in handy for watching all
the games. But as far as streaming services, all the
ones we have, out of all the ones we have,
(27:43):
we only really watch three of them, and that's Netflix,
Apple TV, and HBO Max.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah my wife has I know, she well, Netflix, she's
got Apple TV plus who I think.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
We let our Hulu go. Yeah, it seemed like a waste.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
The one she doesn't have is the Disney one, which
gets that's problematic when when the nieces and nephews come
over to the house.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh yeah, how do you watch the Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
They want to watch the Disney stuff and we don't.
That's the one we don't have. Well that's the one
I want. Well, we don't have that. We have everyone else,
you know, watch the cartoons over you. No, no, I
want that, you know. And it was funny because my
my cousin was in town, stayed the whole week with
his six year old son, and his kid just watched
the most disgusting YouTube shorts, you know, those short little
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clips on YouTube. Yeah, my god, what a freaking what
a poop show? That is my god.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, that's what our thirteen year old girl watches. We
are all getting dumber just being in the room.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
We are, We are getting dumber, my god, idiot. Anyway,
we'll get out on that. Why you know, I had
a few more signs before we get out a little
bit of time.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
So yeah, you don't want to end on a dumb note.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, definitely not, definitely not. How about this one. According
to a new scientific study, americans skip brushing their teeth
five times a week. Yeah, five times a week.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I don't know about you, but I can't sleep comfortably
if I have not brushed my teeth.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That's part of my routine. I typically am a tooth.
It's teeth, toothbrush. It's teeth.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
It should be teeth brush. It's very odd for CoA
it's toothbrush because he has one tooth.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
He's got that cute one big baby.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
He's actually got two at the bottom that are through
and six more coming in right now on the way. Yeah,
so much fun. Yeah, double up the benadryl.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I know. Yeah, not a good time when everything's growing.
It doesn't feel doesn't feel that good.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well, this is a political study third rail on my head.
It's a third A new study out says, we've got
the two leading candidates careful, you got Joe Biden and
Donald Trump, and they're really old. So what are the
actual odds either one of them will still be alive
by the time the twenty twenty nine end of their
election or end of their the next term of presidency
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comes comes around. So there was a study on most
Americans believe President Biden, at age eighty one, is way
too old to serve another term. Not as many, but
still a fair amount believe that Donald Trump, who's seventy seven,
is too old to be president. So they they crunched
(30:40):
the numbers, and they based this on percentages of your
life expectancy and whatnot. And they went back hundreds of
years to track mortality and all this trying to come
up with the the odds, and the crunched the numbers,
(31:01):
and they were bragging them out this thing and all that,
and they went through the death rates of this, that
and the other thing. So they claim that Biden, both
Trump and Biden. We'll go with Biden. Biden has a
ninety two point nine percent probability of surviving at least
(31:22):
to age eighty two, which is like another year. But
the odds go down. According to the calculations of this study,
they say there is a sixty three point three percent
probability that Biden will survive another five years. So that's
that opens up a thirty seven percent chance he will not,
(31:42):
but that he'll make it to eighty six. There is
a seventy three point six percent probability that Trump will
survive to at least age eighty two. When's the last
time a president passed away in office? Was it an assassin?
Was it Kennedy? Was he the last one? Was he?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I think?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So everyone else, Well, we had Nixon, but he didn't die.
He just got kicked out right.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
That was Yeah, it was sort of a death.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So Kennedy was the last. That was the last.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Just a political death.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah. He had that famous like the finger thing where
you're like wave, very very odd. Anyway, what else do
we have in these scientifical world?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Uh, let's here, I checked it. You're right by the way.
John F. Kennedy last president to die in office, But.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
There was a stretch where a number of presidents in
the early part of America died in office.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Roosevelt died in office.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, it hasn't happened, hasn't happened in a while, happened
a while. Here's the study that says, and we get
these studies every so often, loneliness is worse for your
long term health than obesity, alcoholism, and smoking fifteen cigarettes
a day. Claim being lonely, So you're better off smoking
(33:05):
fifteen cigarettes a day or being an alcohol I find
that hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
The fifteen cigarettes will help you extra help you be lonely.
Ain't nobody gonna want to be around you?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You're not kidding? All right? Well that's enough, all right,
we'll get out of that and then going on it's
Friday today. I am done with the radio show. We
did that this morning and look watching the tournament. But
you've got more work coming up today.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Right, Yeah, it's gonna be a fun Friday show on
the Covino and Rich though with weekend Hobnobbin and we're
going to give out some of our stainless steel water bottles,
our swiggies and watch and keep the listeners updated on
the March Madness game. So should be a fun Friday
from two to four pm on the West Side, and
that's five to seven pm in Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, and let me point out that's a great item.
I know somebody that hooked me up with one of
those Covino and Rich water bottles one. Yeah, I know
a few people, you know. I might I might have
embezzled it out of somebody, But pretty good. Anyway, have
a great day today, enjoyed the tournament. Thank you. We
have new podcast all weekend long at the Mailbag on
Sunday tomorrow, tales from behind the Microphone that you'll only
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hear on this podcast. So have a great day and
we'll get you tomorrow later.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Skater gotta murder. I gotta go,
Cut Booms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
In the air andywhere the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
and Danny g As.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We slide in to a Friday, a brand new weekend.
Otherwise we wouldn't be here doing this podcast unless it
was a brand new weekend. But we're here again, hanging out,
and we thank you for listening. We know today is
a very difficult day to pry away people to listen
because it is day two of the Madness of March Tournament,
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which if you're into gambling, or you like college of basketball,
or maybe just like watching random sporting events all day,
a lot of people take the Thursday and Friday off
the They say the two greatest days if you love
basketball and gambling, the two greatest days are these two
(01:21):
because there's games all day long from if we're on
the West coast from like nine in the morning all
the way up until ten o'clock at night, so it's
it's March madness. Are you into?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I get to I'm watching these games. And then I
did a monologue last night about the tournament. But I'm
not really feeling and I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm not really feeling the tournament.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I mean, it doesn't consume me. But as a big
sports fan, it's fun to follow along and see how
you do with all your guessing and small bit of
research you did. Like for two hours, I clicked on
all the air quote experts for each game and saw
the pros and cons of picking either side and who
the experts thought would win. And then of course you
(02:04):
got to go. You can't just go with all favorites,
so you got to pick some Cinderella teams. And you
don't want to be a douche who has like a
number one versus number two up at the top versus
a one and a two again for the final four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well that's how they get you, though, That's how they
get you can't pick all the favorites. You realize most years,
if you pick the favorites, you will end up winning
like seventy of the bets.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
True, if there's always one Cinderella though, there's usually one
Cinderella team that gets somewhat deep into the tournament.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, well, I hope you didn't bet on Nevada yesterday,
as I did.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I had two teams that already jacked up. I'm sure
you want to hear about my bracket right now.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes, And one thing we love is people's brackets. It's
great radio. Absolutely. I had two podcasts.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I had two losses on opening day of the tournament
BYU and Nevada. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, Nevada though, Steve Alford, the old Bruin forever is
going to be a Indiana hoosier or what for me?
But Steve Alford and Nevada one of the epic March
Madness choke jobs. Seventeen points man, seventeen point lead they lost.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, at one point they had gone on like a
twenty four to four run, and I thought all money
on this one. Nope.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, Now the big story of the week that trump
the tournament. Now, we don't do sporty here. This is
not a sporty podcast, But I don't think this is
actually sporty. This is like mafios so scambling. Ah, yes,
scandal is so good. I love Scan. I did not
(03:39):
expect to get a Dodger scandal. I was. It was
why I was sorting to Jason and Harmon when I
was They were leaving and I was coming into the
studio and they were like, are you gonna watch the
Dodger game? Are you gonna be up for the Dodger Oh, yeah,
of course I'm gonna be up. It's after the show.
I'm gonna I'm gonna check that out. And and then
we were like, well, what's gonna happen as well? I'm
sure somebody will get hurt by the time I get home.
(04:00):
I didn't realize though, that it was Otani that would
be in upheaval right, that there would be this this
turbulence with Otani. But I will tell you this though, Dan,
I know, I did another monologue last night about it.
I'm sure this will be I heard it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I heard it your Thursday in your Wednesday into Thursday show.
I was all ears. I was listening.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah. And so the feeding frenzy that we've not gotten
that I don't feel like this is a full feeding frenzy.
I had an interesting conversation with somebody in the media
who and by the way, this story is so crazy.
I was getting people that work in news media that
were casual friends of mine that were sending me message
(04:45):
it was going on with Otani. You know anything about Altani?
What's going on? I was like, well, I don't really.
I mean, everyone I know is in Korea with the
Dodgers this week, so I didn't really I'm not talking
to them on the phone while they're in Korea, so
I don't really know exactly what's going on. They're like,
they're trying.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
To get tap on the podcast immediately.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, and so so this is like a wide ranging
but the whole scandal element. People love scandals and people
it's funny because people, Ah, I don't like scandals. I
don't like but people love scandals. They take pleasure out
of it that there's somebody that is doing something. It's
not damn, somebody's in trouble, right, it's titillating, it's great
(05:23):
and all that. And then either way, either you're excited
because they get punished or you're happy because they got
away with it. But it it does work as a
nice distraction.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh yeah, And I saw Padre fans all over social
media doing cartwheels and celebrating as if they did something awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah. My favorite, though, is the Yankee fans and the
Giant fans and the Phillies and all these teams that
were sucking the toes like a high school kid in
Oklahoma for licking them for yam you know, for Yamamoto
and Oton. All these teams that wanted Oton right they were,
and they they didn't get him, and they were caught
(06:05):
flat footed. And so now they're like, they're like celebrating
the possible demise of and he is lucky he's not
a football player because in football, although not even as
much lately, but remember there was that stretch where if
this happened and involved a football player, you would be
put on the commissioner's exemplst until we figure out what's
(06:26):
going on. But there's not even any talk of that.
They're like, no, it's a it's an odd it's an
odd story considering uh, the magnitude of that that for
so long was the the ultimate final frontier with gambling.
Of course most and I love gambling, but you can't
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be having the people in the sport betting kind of
obvious here, even though baseball is fully in bed as
a gambling operation.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
So it's yeah. So I think there's an underlying topic here,
and that is why the hell is gambling not legal
in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well, and I blamed the voters the other night because
this should have been legal. It is the casinos, the
Indian casinos in California blocked the legislation because we know
people are easily manipulated, and that's why there's so much
money in politics, because human beings are weak, and if
you spend enough money in advertising for a political either
(07:29):
pro or against something, you can get it passed. That's
why it's usually the person that has the most money
wins an election, not necessarily because that they're the greatest candidate,
but because they can brainwash people to vote a certain way.
And the people behind the Native American Indian casinos in California,
they wanted more control. This is what I was told.
(07:51):
Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I was from I understand
they wanted more control of the California sports wagering market.
And if that law had passed, it would have been
the big companies like DraftKings and fan duel that would
have had more more control than them, and so they're
they're going to have it pass, but they're gonna have
(08:12):
new legislation that will have them in control. It's all
it's about who's in control of the money. It's always
about the money. But that's the thing. If this had
been legal, Uh, it would have been a thinking. But
you know the whole point. Listen, it's like the whole
drug dealer thing. Right, if you go down to cvs
and buy drugs, everything's good, right, but yeah, you know,
(08:34):
the neighborhood drug dealer. You can't be doing that, right,
You can't, you know, because you gotta get you gotta
get tax money out of.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
It, exactly. You have to have a certificate that way
the money flows to the right people.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
If Otani and his guy paid taxes so our politicians
could waste that money, that's fine. But oh, you know,
you can't just do it. It's not even a neighborhood bookie.
No neighbor back in the day, I might have known
some guys that ran book in the neighborhood. And they're
not taking action at that level. They're not. They can't,
(09:06):
they can't cover it. So you're telling millions of dollars.
That's a high end. That's a bougie situation, right, That's
not your normal run of the mill situation. And the
sports writers though, the people that cover these the sports like,
there's not a lot of street smarts, you know, they
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just they This is one of my problems.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
With a ton of mo though.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, they are the moral But the thing
that drives me nuts is they they just believe whatever
these these teams say, or in this case, the lawyers
who are being paid by oh toney. And I don't know,
I don't know what's going on, but I do know
we're not getting the whole story. I do know that
that there's more, and the story has already changed, right,
(09:54):
And I'm of the agent and I'm probably outdated now,
but I'm of the age that you're supposed to assume
nothing in question everything. Now it is, it's backwards, it's
never questioned anything, and assume everything is right. You know,
there's no bad stuff going on, everything's great, and we'll
(10:17):
see what happens. But if Baseball doesn't pursue this, the
only way anything will come of it is if the
Feds go after Otani. By the letter of law, a
wire transfer that goes to pay off an illegal gambling
debt is punishable by up to two years in jail,
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up to his weasel terminology. So that alone is a
federal violation. Now Otani's claiming that he didn't know that
he was unaware of the situation, But how do you
get someone to send a couple five hundred thousand dollars
checks or wire transfers?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Do you know what the actual crime is? Is it
wired transfer daring money to an illegal operation?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Uh? Yeah, Well, so there's the federal if you if
you knowingly, I don't even know if the word knowing these,
it's a federal law that if you if you wire
transfer money, it's a heagh. They took down the mob,
right though, you know, using wired transfers or whatever they
call it, going across state lines or whatever. And so
(11:26):
as I read it and as I understand it, it's
it's just if you knew you were sending money on
a wire that was going to be used to pay
off an illegal gambling situation, that is, you violated federal law,
and it's it it's two years. But but who knows
if it's deeper than that, right, you know, this guy.
Otani and this guy were tight for over a decade.
(11:50):
I mean, it's hard to imagine that they didn't talk.
Even if Otani wasn't betting, it's almost impossible to think
that he didn't know what was going on, Right, this
guy was justitting on big soccer.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Games and soccer football college football. Let's just hope that
no MLB gambling was involved and there are no traces
of digital gambling slips with Well, they would use numbers,
like you said on your monologue, right.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, they don't use names. Well that's what they're supposed
to do. They don't use and because you know the names,
people obviously can track down. But yeah, that would be much.
I would say it would be bigger than Pete Rose.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, I was going to say the name Pete Rose
was trending for two days.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I would say this would be bigger on the days.
You know. In let's go down the parallel dimension, Danny
in the Twilight Zone, multiple dimensions. There's a dimension where
al Tani was betting and he's starting for the Angels
against the Oakland Athletics, and the Angels are a big favorite,
(12:56):
and you know, it just wasn't on that day, just
had a bad start pitch that well, and the A's
ended up somehow winning the game and all that. And
you know that you can have so much influence on
that as much as a quarterback. Right.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
No, I just don't even want to entertain that idea.
I don't want to think he did any of that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, no, I don't either. I'd like to think that
this is this is nothing. But I don't believe attorneys.
That's the problem. I mean, it's hard for me to
believe attorneys, you know what I'm saying, Like, just you
got to use some critical thinking, right, not just for
the sake of argument. You just gotta you know, sometimes
(13:42):
you have to be the lone voice out there.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, there's there's so many examples throughout the history of
sports where players like Charles Barkley, like Michael Jordan love
to gamble, Alan Iverson and others. And the thing is what,
it's a thrill if you win, you're part of the action,
a big part of it. With that kind of money, Well,
let's just hope that a guy like Otani knew even
(14:06):
even if he did like to gamble. Hey, I don't
want to risk my career on something like this.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, but it's it's one of those things, the addiction
of gambling. It's like it's hard to it's almost impossible
to stop, and they have every trick to keep you
to continue to gamble, and it's amazing the way it works.
Than listen I do a TV show. Hopefully they'll be
back for year two. I don't know that hasn't been
(14:35):
determined yet. But about gambling, but like, you can't be
betting if you've already won the lottery, if you're guys
like even the I would say the interpreter, what was
he making three hundred four or five hundred thousand dollars
a year?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Five hundred thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
If you're making five hundred thousand dollars where I come from, your.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You are above middle class even in Los Angeles that
far hundred.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You're doing well and you've got an easy job. You
don't have to hit the back door slider, the lollipop curve,
you don't have to do any of that. You just
have to show up and and interpret, just repeat some
cliches from Otani. You get to travel on the team. Yeah,
no elbows surgery required you're living the dream, right you're
and then this this pops up. And then there's the
(15:23):
other possibility that they were both involved in it. And
this guy is the old Chris Carter got to have
a fall guy.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah, And one of our listeners tweeted, he said, I
think the interpreter was gambling, racked up an insane amount
of debt, Otani stupidly and illegally covered him, and now
the lawyers are getting involved.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, I know that's what that's kind of the story
that it's going around. But well, we'll see. It's gonna
be up to the Fed. So my position on this
is it's not major League Baseball will do nothing. They
will be the Ostridge and they'll bury their head in
the ground and be like I didn't see anything nothing,
you know, I didn't see anything. Move on nothing here,
(16:03):
move on. It's the fifth art. How about it? Today
is National goof Off Day today? Do you you're a
goof off to that? It sounds yeah? It's also Bavarian,
uh Creep's day or no, what is it called crepe?
That's it crep crape. Yeah, that's how they say it
(16:24):
in France though. Yeah, so there's uh You've got that
International Seal Day, big big holiday, and it's National Donald Day,
so I have to celebrate every Donald, like Donald the Donald.
Do you have A'donald duck don don? That's about the
(16:46):
only two Donald and Donal. The main reason I brought
this up today is because it's talk like William Shatner
Day today. Did you know that's a holiday?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
That's stupid?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
My guy shats spats with shats.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
We made everything sound dramatic.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Today pays tribute to famous Canadian actor William Shatner, who
has gained worldwide appreciation because of his battles with the
mal Or militia back in the day. No, so yeah,
it's an opportunity to pay tribute to his more memorable performances.
And you just did an impersonation and so you kind
(17:26):
of get the whole the whole bit. So you go happy,
talk like William Shatner Day. And that's just just great,
just absolutely wonderful. Time out for.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The word of the week, The word of the week.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Are you ready for the word of the week. The
word of the week. All right, so the word this
week is mud slinging. Mud slinging is It's one word.
Mud is slinging.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Is a oh mud sling Does it have a dash?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
No, No, it's all word. Okay, yeah, as I spell it,
it's one word, So mud slinging, which is appropriate. The
last couple of weeks we've seen a lot of mud slinging.
You could argue the Otani story with the gambling, there's
a lot of mud slinging involved in that. You could
claim that the case also Aaron Rodgers. A couple of
weeks ago, his name came up as a possible candidate
(18:24):
to run for the vice president's seat in the upcoming election,
and immediately immediately people were just like all over Aaron
Rodgers and just trying to bury him with political dirt
and all this so mud slinging, which has been part
(18:44):
of the political spectrum since the days when politicians would
actually throw real mud. Well maybe maybe not that, but
but it goes back to ancient Latin and the origin
of mud slinging. It goes from a Latin saying which
(19:09):
translated means throw plenty of dirt and some of it
will surely stick. However, the rise in popularity did not
really take place until the nineteen hundreds, but still here
we are in twenty twenty four and that term is
still regularly used going back to the nineteen hundred and so,
(19:34):
but it originated in Latin. And it just means you
throw plenty of dirt and some of it is sure
to sure to stick, which is great life advice. Right,
if you're a single guy and you're dating, you know,
you've got to make a lot of offers to people
for dates before somebody takes you up on it. Right,
And if you're that kind of goes where anything in life,
(19:56):
where it threw out a bunch of dpicts out there
and see where they land exactly exactly, well you know
about that, but you know a lot of Dick and
Dayton stuff. You know you could do that absolutely. Let's
we haven't done science in all I want to we
do scientifically, and there's a few.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Science stories scientifical.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, we'll get scientifical si science. I saw the stir.
We didn't talk about it on the Overnight show. I
(20:37):
don't know if it came up on a Coveno and Rich.
But the science community was buzzing this week because there's
this exercise pill, which is they claim almost here. Now
that's weasel terminology, almost here, but they say that this
exercise pill is.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
This supposed to be like ozembic but in a pill form.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah. So the scientists from the Washington University School of
Medicine that's in Saint Louis, they have they've gotten pretty
close to creating a pill that would give you the
same health benefits as actually working out, and so you
wouldn't have to go to you wouldn't have to get
ten thousand steps, you wouldn't have to get regular physical activity,
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and you wouldn't have to worry about any of that.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It's a little bit different then. This is more like
a magic pill.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah. Yeah, so they say, you know, substituting physical and
mental health benefits of exercise with a pill. They say,
you know, it seems crazy, but they claim that this
is the They've got it. They're close to it, and
they can replace a lot of the exercise stuff. All exercise,
(21:55):
of course, you know, you get your metabolism going and
all that. But magic magic maybe in like when your
kids old, Danny and we're really old, like they'll just
you just take a pill. If you want to lose weight,
you take a pill. You want to exercise, take a pill,
and and you're good. That's it, But they claim the
(22:18):
secret behind the exercise pill lies in the activation of
estrogen related receptors, proteins that play pivotal role in the
body's response to physical activity. So they've been spending a
number viewers on this research wise, and they claim they
(22:39):
have found the magic Goldilocks formula. I'm a doctor, and
it will provide similar results to h to exercise. I
guess that's good if you're you can't get around right,
if your legs gave out, or you're kind of old,
you're not mobile and you're gonna have to you know,
sitting around.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
While stuck a video studio all day.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I know I've been walking. I've been trying to get
some a little bit of steps at night. So sometimes
during the top of the hour I'll walk up and
down the hall, just back and forth because I'm a loser.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
But I wouldn't used to walk around Sherman Oaks, California.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I did. Yeah, I didn't get shanked either, which I
think i'd get shanked. I think I think these days
that would not not go. Yeah, But I've starting to
doing a little bit of that movement because I was
just like I sitting there and I didn't leave the
studio for four hours. I usually get there an hour
before the show, so it was like five hours just
like sitting around. And so I was like, you know,
I didn't I don't go around the building. I knew
(23:37):
exactly how long I had to time it. I could
walk around the building and then that took about about
five minutes. Usually the top of the hour paused like
six six and a half minutes, seven minutes, something like that.
So it was that kind of thing. And uh, yeah,
so I've been getting that extra spats pill. What are
(23:57):
the side effings like that ozembic? Aren't there a lot
of people having issues with thozampic right now?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Oh yeah, you puke your guts out. There's just lots
of issues as far as feeling sick to your stomach.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
And is it one of those deals also where if
you get off of it, you'll just gain all the
way back, so you have to be on it for
the rest of your life. Is that kind of thing?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, because you need to also be working out, and
a lot of people can't work out while they're on
that drug because they feel nauseous.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, no, wonderful, but that's a lot of a lot
of medication and the conspiracy theorist to me would say
that's why or that's what the drug companies want, right,
The secret is to get You don't want to cure people,
You want to give them medicine they need for the
rest of their life because you've got built in built
(24:46):
in customers. Just like every business, we've done stories. I
don't know if that was when you were with me,
it might've been before, but we've done stories. The key
to business monthly payments. If you cell phone companies, my god,
everyone's got to have a cell phone. You all got
to have a smartphone. You pay yourself, sell bill every month,
but ye's guaranteed revenue, yeah, month after month.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Remember Willie Wonka, he was inventing the everlasting gobstopper. Put
everybody out of business because the only need one.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
We should have like a podcast club. Remember Oprah had
the book club back in the day when she was big. Oprah,
well she was, she's always been big. But before she
was big, she was already big, but then famous. Well
well yeah, but no, she had like the book of
the month. And if you can get people to do
something regularly and make it a habit, you filthy rich,
(25:42):
filthy rich. It's like I just read a story this week.
I know it's off off the topic of conversation, but
the story about streaming and how insane to the membrane
it is now that streaming households court of the data
are now ending sixty one dollars per month on four services.
(26:06):
Sixty one bucks a month for streaming, which now, my
cable bill was. I got rid of cable years ago.
My cable bill was really insane because I had all
the sports packages and I was before Eddie told me
about the Russian websites. But this was like I think
(26:27):
my cable bill was like one hundred and fifty bucks
a month or something like that. It was ridiculous. But
sixty one bucks a month and you're getting four streaming services,
and you know this is going to end up. This
will end up eventually. It'll be within a year or two,
it's going to be one hundred bucks a month. Like
that's where it's it's just going to be. The people
(26:48):
think they were getting a deal, and they were getting
a deal for a while, but eventually it's just gonna
be the same as cable. You're paying the same amount
of money. I don't even know. I don't even want
to know how many any streaming services I have at
the mallor mansion, because I don't watch any of them.
I don't I watch YouTube stuff that is free, and
(27:12):
then I have you know, I've heard there are these
websites you can watch any sporting event you want. You know,
I've heard about this. I would ever be wrong to
use those, Danny.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
From our be inappropriate from our hoa. We have cable
every month, Otherwise we wouldn't pay for it. Used to
be Time Warner, now it's Spectrum. We wouldn't pay for
that otherwise. So we have that if we want to
watch live TV, which comes in handy for watching all
the games. But as far as streaming services, all the
ones we have, out of all the ones we have,
(27:43):
we only really watch three of them, and that's Netflix,
Apple TV, and HBO Max.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah my wife has I know, she well, Netflix, she's
got Apple TV plus who I think.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
We let our Hulu go. Yeah, it seemed like a waste.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
The one she doesn't have is the Disney one, which
gets that's problematic when when the nieces and nephews come
over to the house.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh yeah, how do you watch the Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
They want to watch the Disney stuff and we don't.
That's the one we don't have. Well that's the one
I want. Well, we don't have that. We have everyone else,
you know, watch the cartoons over you. No, no, I
want that, you know. And it was funny because my
my cousin was in town, stayed the whole week with
his six year old son, and his kid just watched
the most disgusting YouTube shorts, you know, those short little
(28:41):
clips on YouTube. Yeah, my god, what a freaking what
a poop show? That is my god.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, that's what our thirteen year old girl watches. We
are all getting dumber just being in the room.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
We are, We are getting dumber, my god, idiot. Anyway,
we'll get out on that. Why you know, I had
a few more signs before we get out a little
bit of time.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
So yeah, you don't want to end on a dumb note.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, definitely not, definitely not. How about this one. According
to a new scientific study, americans skip brushing their teeth
five times a week. Yeah, five times a week.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I don't know about you, but I can't sleep comfortably
if I have not brushed my teeth.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That's part of my routine. I typically am a tooth.
It's teeth, toothbrush. It's teeth.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
It should be teeth brush. It's very odd for CoA
it's toothbrush because he has one tooth.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
He's got that cute one big baby.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
He's actually got two at the bottom that are through
and six more coming in right now on the way. Yeah,
so much fun. Yeah, double up the benadryl.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I know. Yeah, not a good time when everything's growing.
It doesn't feel doesn't feel that good.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well, this is a political study third rail on my head.
It's a third A new study out says, we've got
the two leading candidates careful, you got Joe Biden and
Donald Trump, and they're really old. So what are the
actual odds either one of them will still be alive
by the time the twenty twenty nine end of their
election or end of their the next term of presidency
(30:18):
comes comes around. So there was a study on most
Americans believe President Biden, at age eighty one, is way
too old to serve another term. Not as many, but
still a fair amount believe that Donald Trump, who's seventy seven,
is too old to be president. So they they crunched
(30:40):
the numbers, and they based this on percentages of your
life expectancy and whatnot. And they went back hundreds of
years to track mortality and all this trying to come
up with the the odds, and the crunched the numbers,
(31:01):
and they were bragging them out this thing and all that,
and they went through the death rates of this, that
and the other thing. So they claim that Biden, both
Trump and Biden. We'll go with Biden. Biden has a
ninety two point nine percent probability of surviving at least
(31:22):
to age eighty two, which is like another year. But
the odds go down. According to the calculations of this study,
they say there is a sixty three point three percent
probability that Biden will survive another five years. So that's
that opens up a thirty seven percent chance he will not,
(31:42):
but that he'll make it to eighty six. There is
a seventy three point six percent probability that Trump will
survive to at least age eighty two. When's the last
time a president passed away in office? Was it an assassin?
Was it Kennedy? Was he the last one? Was he?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I think?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So everyone else, Well, we had Nixon, but he didn't die.
He just got kicked out right.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
That was Yeah, it was sort of a death.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So Kennedy was the last. That was the last.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Just a political death.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah. He had that famous like the finger thing where
you're like wave, very very odd. Anyway, what else do
we have in these scientifical world?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Uh, let's here, I checked it. You're right by the way.
John F. Kennedy last president to die in office, But.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
There was a stretch where a number of presidents in
the early part of America died in office.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Roosevelt died in office.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, it hasn't happened, hasn't happened in a while, happened
a while. Here's the study that says, and we get
these studies every so often, loneliness is worse for your
long term health than obesity, alcoholism, and smoking fifteen cigarettes
a day. Claim being lonely, So you're better off smoking
(33:05):
fifteen cigarettes a day or being an alcohol I find
that hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
The fifteen cigarettes will help you extra help you be lonely.
Ain't nobody gonna want to be around you?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You're not kidding? All right? Well that's enough, all right,
we'll get out of that and then going on it's
Friday today. I am done with the radio show. We
did that this morning and look watching the tournament. But
you've got more work coming up today.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Right, Yeah, it's gonna be a fun Friday show on
the Covino and Rich though with weekend Hobnobbin and we're
going to give out some of our stainless steel water bottles,
our swiggies and watch and keep the listeners updated on
the March Madness game. So should be a fun Friday
from two to four pm on the West Side, and
that's five to seven pm in Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, and let me point out that's a great item.
I know somebody that hooked me up with one of
those Covino and Rich water bottles one. Yeah, I know
a few people, you know. I might I might have
embezzled it out of somebody, But pretty good. Anyway, have
a great day today, enjoyed the tournament. Thank you. We
have new podcast all weekend long at the Mailbag on
Sunday tomorrow, tales from behind the Microphone that you'll only
(34:17):
hear on this podcast. So have a great day and
we'll get you tomorrow later.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Skater gotta murder. I gotta go,
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