Misery Dressed in Dodger Blue

A horrendous two weeks was culminating with a Game 5 loss by Ben's Los Angeles Dodgers. Sitting and sulking in his Dodgers blues, Ben gets off the mat to talk about his night of royalty with a loyal listener. Ben and his tumultuous wingman return with more from the bag of knowledge while addressing a few lackluster fan emails. All that and the guys don't stick to sports with a drunk alligator! Sit back and enjoy!

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(00:24):
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(00:44):
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(01:04):
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(01:27):
a lot of people who complain about Apple uh and
say that they're not big fans of Apple. Uh. And
I usually tweet out the link to the Apple page
because there's a place to review the show. But it's
wherever you can get your podcast. You can hear this show.
At least that's what they tell me. I haven't followed
up on that, but but anyway, now, Gascon, are you there? Gascon?
Wake up? Gas Guy. I gotta I gotta carry this show.

(01:50):
It's been a tough couple of weeks for you, man.
I really feel bad for you as a as a colleague.
You have gone through some troubling times physically, emotionally mentally.
You recovered from a mangled tongue and now that's right,
and you come into a new week with a butchered
team and then NLS Division well you, much like Clayton Kershaw,

(02:12):
I have become pretty good at doing monologues after a team.
I care about vomits all over the field. So I
I have had so much experience between the Dodgers and
the Clippers and the Rams in recent years. It is
the Golden Age. I'm in the gold n for for suck,

(02:32):
for ship, and uh, I really wish we had been
doing the podcast earlier this week after the Dodging game,
I left Dodger Stadium guests Gun went in there and
it was a totally ship show and all everyone's bad,
a whole astro fans are busting my balls. You know,
everyone's had. You don't even care about the Dodgers. They
just love my agony, all right, And uh, I wish

(02:54):
I could have cursed. I would have. That would have
been one of the great profanity laced monologues of all time.
I could call that guy's a motherfucker, and that guy's
a piece of shit and asshole and all these words
were not supposed to say. You know. The first thing
that came to my mind was not that it was
a great movie, but Major League two. When Charlie Sheen,
who was Rickey Vaughn in that movie, faces off with

(03:16):
Jack Parkman, and Parkman's got his timing down and he
knows his fastball as shit, I texted you just before
Kershaw came out of the bullpen, and I said, you
want to see what managerial suicide is. Watch until the
same thing to my dad, and sure ship it was
a half an inning later, though, back to back Jack's

(03:37):
Ball Games series. Well, and listen, make Kershaw. I know
he's not trying to be this bad, but he has
vamboozled the Dodgers for so many years, and they resigned
the guy every one million dollars for the next two years.
And and now you know the other thing that annoys
me to really talk about these assholes that are Dad
defending Kershaw, blaming Dave Roberts for all this noticing I

(03:58):
believe Dave Roberts is as culpability and he should be
held accountable because I don't think he's done a very
good job here in the postseason with his decisions, with
all this talent, this overwhelming talent. I get there's a
lot of eye rolls watching Dave Roberts managed the Dodgers,
but well, you should have just left Kershaw on for
one batter thirty one million dollar guy, thirty one million

(04:20):
dollar guy, Hall of Fame picture, and he's a one
third of an inning one out guy and then you
can't bring him back. I mean, what are you doing.
I don't know, but the eye popping stat that you
threw out during your show was seven eleven seven. Yeah,
I mean it's it's nuts, man. I I trade his ass.

(04:43):
I said this right after the game, and I've had
some time since then to calm down. I would trade him.
You gotta get rid of him. He just it's it
rubs off on all the This suck rubs off on
all the other players, and these young guys who were
supposedly all blue chip players from the Die Jeers, and
these guys are all a bunch of choke artists in
these games for the most part. I mean Max Munsey,

(05:05):
who's not even a minor league guy from the Dodgers.
He came from the Athletics. He's actually been a clutch player,
Justin Turner, not a Dodger minor league guy. Also, is
there a coincidence? Did they treat they must coach these
guys in the minor leagues? All right, you are only
good until the end of the regular sty Once October started,
he like turned into a pumpkin. Uh. I know, you're

(05:26):
not a big laker. Guy. But this made me think
it's an understatement. But this made me think of the
Sacramento Kings in the early two thousand's. The Dodgers are
made for a hundred sixty two game regular season, much
like the Sacramento Kings are during the regular season, but
when it came to postseason time, they could not nut
up against the Lakers. Came down to something that might
be true now, it wasn't true in I mean, they

(05:49):
had that and they they vomited that away. But Bellinger
wasn't even good in that series. Though against the House.
He hasn't been good in the playoffs his entire career.
It's gonna be so embarrassing when he wins the m
v P Award and he had no home runs, no
r b I s in the National League Divisional Series.
It's gonna be ridiculous. But anyway, we gotta get on
with the show. This hooting Nanny in Benny's kitchen. We

(06:12):
will have hanging with the elites. I will have that.
That's an exclusive thing on this show. I opening study
this which I love. Agony of defeat. That's a new thing,
and it's in the bag in our panic word tonight
or today for all of our listeners as hornswoggle. All right,

(06:32):
I got you, and uh and also I don't stick
to sports. That's guest CON's baby. He'll put the baby
to bed with that. But we begin on this podcast
with hanging with the Elites. Now, I have been asked
a lot of questions about my night with Marlin's Man,
Game two of the National League Divisional Series at Chavez
RAVI in sitting in the fourth row. I've had a

(06:55):
lot of questions from people that are curious super fans
of the show. They want to know more about this,
How did this happened? What's what was Marlin's man like? Uh,
they want to know about him, his life and all
this stuff. So I believe we spent a couple of minutes.
I don't spent too long, is but we can reveal
some exclusive details. No other podcast has this. Eddie. No, Eddie,

(07:17):
that's a bad job. I'd beat Well, you kind of
sound like Eddie. No, you do what? You look like him?
All right, So now here's the shut up guest gun
who cares about your name? All right? Anyway, I'll call
you Eddie if I want to call you Eddie. But uh,
we we have some some details here, so I'd like
to share some of these. No one else has these,
no other party Joe Rogan doesn't have this. No nobody

(07:40):
all right and not at all. So now Marlin's Man,
I mentioned on the little bit, he he actually invited me.
I sat with him one time before a Dodgy Yankee game.
But I only did that, like in the fifth inting,
uh and uh. He is a fan of the show.
He listens not all the time, but he's up late

(08:00):
in Miami where he lives, and he is a consumer
of the of the radio show. He likes the what
we do here, and so that that's pretty cool that
he's a Mallard militia guy. And we talked about it.
The funny thing is we would talk about in the air.
And the reason I mentioned I called you Eddie's because
I had I was gonna in my head. I wanted
to mention Eddie because when I first started talking about

(08:21):
Marlin's Man, his real name is Lawrence Levy. When I
first started talking to Lawrence about Lawrence on the air,
and I said how much I revered him, and I
love that this guy was, you know, just a rich
guy going to games, living the dream you know every
sports fans dream. He's doing it, hustling, going traveling, going
to airports and all this stuff. And Eddie just trashed
the guy. I hates the guy. So it was this

(08:43):
awkward situation where I'm praising him and he's a listener
and Eddie's just killing him and uh but fortunately he
didn't hold that against uh against So I sat in
the dugout squeez he ever sat in the dugout sweets
at Dodger Stadium. I actually sent sat there Back in
my twenties. I was working for City Group and it
was like thirty years ago. I know, they had that

(09:04):
titled company had given me some comp seats and it
was it's all you can eat, all you can drink,
and then includes alcohol. You were in a boogie spot. Yeah, yeah,
it was. It was wild. I mean it was first
class all the way. Big celebrities. I don't know who
most of these stars are now in Hollywood, but I
recognized old people like Mary Hart, Magic Johnson and Scott

(09:26):
Boris and people like that. But there were a bunch
of other people that were people were oh did you
see that, Pert. That's a typical Hollywood bullshit, you know.
I look at that. But you know it's like, well,
you want a great start to compliment this Monday. Monday
I go to go see my orthodonist and he's he's
a great guy in the South Bay area. The first
thing he says to me, not talking about me, not

(09:48):
talking about my grill, he says, how the hell did
Ben Maller score seats behind home plate? Listen to yours?
And all of a sudden he just starts talking to you.
You guys are BF But I said, said, man, dude,
he lived that. He lead us good life. You've got
that white collar. Uh clearly. Be sure to catch live

(10:12):
editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m.
Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
I Heart Radio app. Now, I do have a story this.
This is the exclusive part of this here. Gas got
so the way this works here, you know, you get
a front row seat at the baseball game. And like
a lot of these ballparks, the Yankees do this have

(10:34):
My my cousin went to a Yankee game. You pretty
much just ate seafood the entire time and didn't even
watch the Yankee game. Not big sports fan. She had
seats behind Home played. Her company gave her the seats,
so the Dougouts Sweet section at Diger Stadium. They have
all this all you can eat food, but it's like
high quality. You know, usually you go to a buffet
and dog food. You know, it's chicken feet that they

(10:56):
serve you. But they have all the finest foods and
meats and all this stuff. It was overwhelming. It was
all of my senses were overwhelmed by this. There's a
guy with the chef's hat cutting prime rib, spare ribs
over here, gigantic shrimp and other seafood over there. They
had a an Asian themed booth. They had a Mexican

(11:17):
food over there, and it was just overwhelming. So I
grabbed it. Now that markin but you know it's it's
Marlin's Man's saved the seat for me to sit right
next to him. So I, me and Lawrence are gonna
sit together. We're gonna have uh, you know, a dinner
in bullshit. So I grabbed a plate and I went
on a food scavenger hunt. I passed over the prime rib,

(11:38):
I walked past the short ribs. I dodged like a
good running back. I was able to dodge the tackler.
That was the the Asian food, and uh and and
all the rest. And then I saw this line of
kids and and uh it was the burger station. They
had burgers and fries as field as high as the

(12:01):
sky to the heavens right. And I saw this. My
eyes lit up. I said, who doesn't like a hamburger?
Who does not enjoy a hamburger and French fries? So
I loaded up my plate and then I probably went back.
I got a drink. I went back. I sat next
to Lawrence marlins Man. He takes one look at my plate,
guest on hand to God. He says, what is that

(12:24):
he's looking at? What are you getting? Hamburger? Is fine?
Rip over there? And I paid for this ticket and
uh yeah, and so he uh he shamed me, which
I don't blame him, because I I picked the cheapest
item on the menu where all the eight year olds
were eating, and uh, I picked the burgers and fries.
But he said to go get some better food. So
I had. I did actually get some higher class food,

(12:46):
not that I enjoyed it, but I did it because
I had to get banged for your buck and all that.
Why couldn't you do that later on the ball game,
like in the fifth or sixth inning. Well, because I
didn't want to leave the seat, like I only left
to go to the bathroom and that was it. Like
I I stayed in that seat pretty much the entire game.
I think I left twice to go to the bathroom
and that was it. But it's your time. When Kurt

(13:07):
Suzuki got hit in the face a good time, well
that was not that. That was That was the other game.
That was. That was not I was at that game
in the press box and what But but to give
you some follow up on this guest gun, I signed autographs,
I took photos. I posed for pictures with people, all
because hanging out with Marlin's man, just being around Marlins man.

(13:30):
And you know, when I meet people who don't know me,
I don't say, hey, I'm mr. Radio guy. I don't
promote the show that way. I'm I'm I'm an introvert.
We don't do that. I'm not wired that way. I'm
not a self promoter, which is odd because on the
radio people said I'm a self promoter all the time,
but in person, I don't actually promote that way. I
think you know you're a douche when you did that.

(13:50):
But marlins Man is like, hey, this guy's on the radio.
You know what I mean to give me the whole rap.
He's like my PR guy. And so all these people
that are meeting marlins Man, some of them are like, hey,
let's meet out, let's get his I signed to Dodger jerseys.
I mean, it's unbelievable. No, I hope those aren't the
jerseys that we saw after Game five when Dodger fans

(14:13):
are running over on at Chavez Riena's there. I did
see that. That was well, that's a that's a new
level because you can wash the jersey after you read
it over so you don't ruin it, but so you
can keep it. But it looks you show your disdain,
right you you show how annoyed you are, uh and
all that. So that's that's not not bad. But Marl's man,

(14:33):
where does he rank now on your listener power rankings?
That guy he's there with Doc Mike. I gotta put
blind Scott up there always because he's are are blind listener?
I mean there's a core four at any one time
in the Mallet militia. The hierarchy of the mallet militia.
But even I don't meet a lot of the fans
of the show. I wish I could meet more, but

(14:53):
they don't. They don't let me out of the box
very often. But I would say, you know, Doc Mike,
because he drove all the way in Chicago to Kansas City,
hang out with me. Uh. This guy, although he doesn't,
he's not calling right now. I don't know what happened
to him. This guy David in Florida, winter Park, Florida,
he's got to be up there. He drove all away
from Winter Park, Florida, Boston. Uh. And our guy in Toronto,

(15:17):
and Michael in Toronto who drove from Toronto. The ball.
I mean, these guys that is that is tremendous there
to do that, to go above and blind. Scott obviously
been very loyal over the years. He's up there. Um,
you know, so there's there's a there's a group. But
marlins Man as far as because he's loaded, I mean,
I a lot of these guys. I don't blame people,
you know, and most people aren't loaded. Marlins Man is

(15:38):
a very successful lawyer. He's got a law firm that
does to law firms. I mean this is very well
and good for him. He's I don't look down upon
people's success. I'm happy for him. And he gives back
him all that stuff. He charter his own flight or
does he take commercial airlines? No, I mean he's uh,
I don't know all of it, but he um like this.

(16:00):
This past week, he had told me that I he
wasn't sure if he was gonna come to the Dodger game.
He end up sitting next to a beautiful model that's
a friend of his instead of me, which I don't
blame before at all, but but he told me, like
he said, you know, I'm gonna He had to do
some business in Miami, so he couldn't go to any
games Monday or Tuesday. And then he said, you know,
I might go Wednesday if there's a game five. And

(16:21):
he wasn't sure whether he was gonna go to Atlanta
or Los Angeles. And then he decided to come, uh
to to l A. And and but he decided like
Tuesday night, I just I'm gonna go to the game.
And you know how expensive a flight is. At the
last minute, you call an airline or go to the
website and you want to buy a ticket, the last minute. Typically, uh,
not a good deal. All right, we gotta move on.

(16:45):
I opening this is a real quick so guest on
last week, me and the wife. All right, we're going
on to El Coyote. Were my favorite Mexican restaurants. You've
been there with me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I MA. I
mocked the fact that I was there and you were
not there, because I love El Coyote. I'm bet in
l A. If you're in l A, you gotta love
l Kind. I still right near there, and that was
my spot, and I've raised the prices a lot, but

(17:06):
I still love the food. Um, and I'll go there
very often. So I'm I'm on my way to this
El Coyote Mexican restaurant right on Beverly there in l A.
And we're stopped at a red light. We were, I remember,
we're Vermont and Beverly, and we pulled up to a
red light and I see this this poor old man
pushing a shopping card. He looked so disheveled, right and broke,

(17:29):
and I remember turning to my wife and saying that
I was how bad I felt for the guy. And
then as he got in front of the car, I
noticed that he was holding rather limply in his hand
a smartphone that was bigger and better and newer than me.
And I'm like, this is homelessness in twenty nine and

(17:51):
this guy and it was unbelievable. The guy I guess
got his phone was like twice the size. Oh mind,
I mean, it's it's un I mean I in l A.
I know this is a problem in San Francisco where
people are pooping on the street and it's uh, it's
the Third World, Sodom and gomorrow. But in l A

(18:13):
it's ten city. Man, It's unreal. All the politicians in
l A are are completely clueless. They don't know what
to do. It's all over the place too, it is.
It is rampant in downtown Los Angeles. It's kind of
near us in Studio City, Sherman Oaks. That and the
thing that where we are in Sherman Oaks, which is
a very wealthy part of Los Angeles because a lot

(18:35):
of money, a lot of Hollywood people live in the
Hills of bel Air, is just up the road, not
far from where we are we do the show from.
And uh, you're right, man, I see it more than
anybody because I'm leaving there, you know, in the middle
of the night, and I'm seeing poor people, you know,
just laying all over the street. You're allowed to lay
on the street in they all see. It's like the

(18:56):
streets rolled up. In the morning when people go to work,
it's like it's wild. It's like the overnight. I wonder
how many of those people are aware of of of
what's what's going on while they're sleeping. Uh, I don't know.
An iPhone ten rocking it. That's so good. Oh my god,
I wish I had taken a photo because it was
this guy. He's pushing a shopping cart and he's just

(19:18):
that's probably all of his life's possessions right there, and
he's he's got like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and
he's he's holding this phone. It makes my phone. Oh
my god. Well, you know, when I lived in San
Diego and working for Extra Sports thirteen sixty, the local
NBC down there, their affiliate actually did a great story
because in Mission Valley they have two malls. They have

(19:40):
the Mission Valley Mall and then the Fashion Valley Mall. Yeah.
I used to be a Fashion Valley mall, so so
you know, exactly what I'm talking about. There's a main
street called Friar's Road, and what they did was they
used to do some special investigative reporters sending them out
there and they would monitor panhandlers throughout the day. People
that you just described, they would monitor them because they

(20:02):
were out in front of the Fashion Valley mall off
of Friar's Road. I remember distinctly one woman was tailed
at the start of the day until the end. They
followed her all the way to her mansion in Lahoya. Well.
I remember John Stossel, who's uh, I don't know if
he's still working the news guy. He did an amazing

(20:25):
story on one of those news programs years Honestly, I
remember watching this and he he went out and pretended
to be homeless and painhandled the New York City on
subway stations. And I don't you know, I'm obviously I'm
probably gonna get the number of wrong guess hunt, but
I believe he made like at least five dollars or

(20:46):
something like that and one day just payanhandling and talking
about orangeager right there. I'll tell you I would consider
that as a career change. And that's it's a little contressing.
But can I do that for this podcast? Well, I
get to do it first. I get to do it first.
I think we're in the same financial boat. Oh yeah,
we are. We are. I'm not. I'm not. I haven't

(21:07):
got a dime for this. I'm doing this out of mind.
This is my pro bono act of goodwill. All right,
all right, fair enough. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am
Eastern pm Pacific. All right, let's move on to study this.
We've got to keep the train moving. Study this. These
are actual studies. Now I have this obsession. I used
to use these on the show, but I figured the
podcast is a better form where we can actually spend

(21:30):
some time. And Plus, when I work with Eddie heats
some of these things. He just doesn't want to deal with.
I just didn't want to talk about him. Gascon has
no shame. He'll talk about anything. He doesn't care about that.
Um So, anyway, these are actual studies. Out here's one.
Humans they say have a salamander likability to regrow damaged cartilage.
According to a study. They say the findings could open

(21:52):
the door to new treatments for joint injuries and diseases
about that, Well, have you had have you ever had
major surgery? Um? Not as an adult. I had some
when I was a kid. But I'm not all right.
I'm kind of curious just because I need some of
that good stuff. I've had a torn roadtator cup that's

(22:15):
been damaged twice. I've had a deviated septum. I've had
surgery on for corrective reasons. I need some help, man,
I need some need you got. You've got some loaded listeners.
You got an attorney and that's high powered. You've got
a dock, well not really a dock, but you've got
a dock, Mike. You got a blind guy. We need
a we need someone from Germany, we need someone overseas

(22:37):
that is that delves into the pharmaceutical side of of
of this industry. Well, I think what you're really saying
is you want someone from Frankenstein's lab to come in.
What about the guy or institute? There? You go, very nice, Um,
but no, I mean. The study was published on Wednesday
in the Journal of Science Advances, and it found that

(22:57):
cartilage and human joints can repair itself through a process
similar to that used by creatures such as salamanders and zebrafish.
And how about that we're in we have something in
common with the zebrafish and the salamander. Uh and they
can read those can know the zebra fish can barely
regenerate limbs, according to this. This is from Duke Health.

(23:18):
Duke Health has this, so keep an eye and that,
of course we'll probably all be dead by the time
they figure out how humans can regrow things. But they
say that it can happen. I guess in theory, why not.
I mean, we we regrow our fingernails and our hair
keeps growing unless well, and it's for me for a while.
And you brought it up last week with your tongue.
Your your mouth and your eyes are too of the

(23:40):
quickest body parts to heal and recover it at a
faster rate than anything else on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And that was a bad week, man, the tongue week.
That was idiot of a pizza so hard that they
put a debt in their mouth. Let me take something, smuck,
you schmuck hole that I make a great pizza, alright,

(24:01):
the Mallard homemade pie is a wonderful thing. And then
you made your wife go get you some kind of
some kind of special honey. What then was that? No?
I didn't know. No, No, let me tell something. My
wife is a hippie. No, she's a godsend for you
that she might, well she is at gods, but but
she's also a hippie. Okay. She any kind of alternative medicine,

(24:22):
special vitamins, so whatever, yogi's yoga, meditation, any of that.
You know, she's all about that, right, and and and
meditation and fruit smoothies and the all of I don't
even know what manuka honey is. Manuka, I don't even
know what it is either. She put it all over

(24:42):
my tongue, she said, he is, this will make it better.
You know, I'm surprised she didn't bring in some ayahuasca
or something like that. This is what Joe Rogan uses
have some of the here's some magic mushrooms, knock yourself out,
but you know, just some some manuke honey. Al right,
Next up, study This rejection is good for the soul,

(25:03):
especially when it comes to your career. This according to
a new study that rejection is actually a positive thing.
So and this is a Harvard Business Review study in
the United States and they determined that getting denied from
that job you were aiming for may actually help be
helpful to your career overall. Now I'll go for I A.

(25:27):
I completely agree with this. I for years, and it's
it's back at my my, my mom's, my my late
mom's house, my dad's house. Now. Um and I have
a shoe box because it's how old I am. I
have a shoe box of rejection letters from kJ R
and Seattle, The Score in Chicago, w i P in Philadelphia,
w e I and Boston, all these big sports stations

(25:50):
that I was convinced right out of college I was
gonna work for. They all sent me. I sent tapeson
they all sent me rejection letters, said I wasn't good
enough and all that. And I used that. I that
fueled me as I, oh, screw these assholes. I'm gonna
prove these schmucks wrong. I'm gonna I'm gonna make it.
And I that did drive me. And but here's the
other problem, guest, gun, I think today we that you

(26:11):
were programmed to society for younger people. No, no one
should bully you, no one should reject you. I think
that's wrong. I think you get better people out of rejection,
and not that anyone wants to be bullied, but it's
also part of the growing up process in life. I
think it's a heightened sense of motivation too. I think

(26:33):
of it about this in the athletic perspective too, because
I played multiple sports growing up, and in the high school.
My freshman year, I didn't see the field at all
when I played ball, and then I hit a gross
spurt my sophomore year, and before you knew it, I
don't even played JV football anymore. I played varsity football,
was a three year letterman. That motivated me, and then
I played ball in college. Is the same thing in

(26:54):
this industry. I was in sales in my twenties and
I heard rejection every single damn day. But had I
not experienced that then to where I'm at now, I
don't think i'd last. I mean because different, it's different
today in terms of rejection. I know you used to
get rejection letters, but today people just get ghosted or

(27:14):
they'll just say we don't have anything open or available
right now for you. So the rejection is still the same,
it's just the words and the message are a little
bit different nowadays. But yeah, I'm not. I'm piggybacking off
of that. I think that is great obviously for you,
that's great for your chin, that's great obviously for your
immediate future. And then beyond that, you gotta throw in
so you learn, you generate some rhino skin. You gotta

(27:35):
have in life. People are gonna shoot on you. You
gotta have rhino skin. I try to tell people, you know,
young people that all the time. And I talked to
them young people like I'm old, but anyway are you?
Are you? And I guess how many times do we
hear athletes? You know? Doing the Overnight show, we play
sound of of different people and and they're like, you know,

(27:56):
nobody thought we could do this. You know, everyone bet
against us, you know. Oh, and they love that. They
they're fueled by what they perceive as usually as contrived rejection.
Right now, let me ask you on the other side
of this, though, do you feel I don't want to
say lost, but do you feel like you lose your
edge when you you're on top of the mountain, like

(28:16):
when you get compliments and people are patting you on
the back and telling you how good you are and
everything is going right, do you feel like you lose
your edge as a competitors, as someone in the industry. Yeah, yeah,
like I I'm not floating on an air biscuit. You
know when I get these compliments. In fact, it's like
the same I got. A lot of people are like this.
I'm not I'm not alone. But you know, people have
been pretty nice to me. The Malamouish has been pretty supportive.

(28:39):
They like to bust my balls, but they're pretty kind
and I pretty much block all that out. It's just
a few handful of assholes that send me you suck,
You're fucking terrible. You know, I remember those people. You know,
those are the people I'm like, what a dick this
person is? Arizona media, Houston media right now? I mean
those those are just fanball ways and all that that.

(29:01):
You know. I love these little small towns that these
aren't small towns, but they're they're reacting like small town
They have a minor league mindset. There the tribalism. You
can talk one of our stars, Oh dare you? Alright?
Moving on? Study this a couple more. How about this
is I laughed my ass off when I saw this
is more of a visual story than an audio story.

(29:23):
But of course it's it's me. So we're doing this here.
But have you seen the photo of the cow was
zebra stripes? Have you seen this? No, tell me about it.
It's going around. So apparently, according to a new study, painting,
painting zebra stripes on cattle discourages flies from biting. And

(29:45):
it seems, according to the research that the stripes. Painting
white stripes on cattle apparently confuses the flies. They're so
dumb their motion detector system and they avoid flies from
from biting them. Do a new study published online, this
Japanese researcher has painted zebra style stripe. Who's the guy said,

(30:09):
let's put some zebra stripes on the on the cow?
Were most people laugh at this anyway? So they painted
zebra style stripes on the cow. Biting flies bothered them
half as much as when the cows did not have stripes.
And so the ideas that stripes a centment may confuse
the insects, that their system of motion there and uh

(30:32):
and that's that's crazy. What would you rather do in
Japan paint cows with stripes or be in charge of
some of the sex stores that they have to test
drive some of the equipment for men and for women
that they gotta produce. Yeah, well I'll do the cows.
You can do the sex stor well you know it's
a tea right. Uh. Fox Sports Radio has the best

(30:56):
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Al Right, moving on, it is study is here's a
fun one. Here's a survey that says the average American
hasn't made a new friend in five years. About that

(31:21):
five years that no new friends. I believe that we're
so stuck in the digital realm that people do not
know how to communicate outside their little box of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
LinkedIn or whatever it is. People have a hard times.
Let me look at you. For example, you're an introvert.
You don't like going out. You're screwed over the weekend

(31:41):
because you don't want to go to your wife's Halloween
party and you're gonna be forced to engage and start
talking to people. Or if she brought me, I'd be
the bell of the ball man. I'd be liked brow.
I mean, that's my wife is scheduled. Not only the uh,
I guess the hallowing part. I don't know if we're
still going to that. But but with her parents are
having birthdays like milestone birthdays, and so I gotta go

(32:04):
one day it's with your dad and you know they're divorced,
and so I have to go with the mom the
next day and it's you know, the whole thing, the
party weekend. But you know, I gotta tell you though,
I even though I'm on the internet all the time,
I don't go out very much. I I've made friends,
I don't know if they're real friends, and I don't
know like they really I feel like I have a
lot of work friends, and I you know, people I
loved when I worked with them, and then when they don't,

(32:26):
I don't work with them. There's no reason to be
friends like forced friends, you know, when you work with
somebody and then and then after that. Um, you know
part ways. Do we have any outgoing people that we
work with in the building at at Fox Sports Radio.
I feel like we don't, even though everyone's a part
of the media. Oh well yeah. The only introver, the
extrovert we had was Looney but they blew him out

(32:47):
of there. Um. Last year, So I yeah, I don't.
I'm not there during the day. You're a daytime guy.
You're an elitist all day an all day But I yeah,
I don't. Not no one off the top of my head.
Maybe you know, um Jason's the vegan Alex tysher thinking
him more. I think him as a people person, engineer,

(33:09):
he's a gamer, he's a car guy. So yeah, he
he seems like a nice guy. He always talking to
people like he's he's not shy or anything like that.
A couple of Mores survey says just three in ten
millennials actually see themselves owning a home. Many wish they
could take a break without risking their position, blah blah
blah blah blah. But they say, according to this, three

(33:32):
out of ten millennials uh believe they can will never
own a home. Well, that goes hat in hand with
how they perceive the workplace environment to be, Like, they
don't want to be there around the clock seven or
nine to five. They want to have a comfortable work environment.
And because that they don't max it on their income,
they don't max out on the time that they stay
in the office, and obviously, depending on their situation, they

(33:55):
might not propel to a higher standard in terms of incomes.
So I can see that, yes, at the bar higher
than that though, I mean plus, I mean, if you're
fortunate enough where your family has a house, will probably
at least inherit the house something. When they're all dead right,
Millennials are in their twenties or early thirties, so they're
not the parents are I think they're now? Haven't we
moved on to gen Z? I think the I know

(34:16):
in college now, the high the basketball and football blue
not top notch recruits are gen Z now, so we
were past. The millennials are old news, man. You guys
are old news. All let's move on the agony of
defeat now. In honor of David Gascon, who loves list radio,
these are the five most painful nights I've had in

(34:37):
sports radio in recent years and probably all time. Um,
number five, I'm gonna put the Dodgers losing to the
Red Sox in the World Series, all right, that's number
five on my list because I was working on w
e I and Boston at the time, on the Red
Sox flagship radio station, and I had to do celebratory

(34:59):
Red Sox rob Radio and I like the Red Sox,
but I like the Dodgers more and uh. And the
night of the parade, I had to go on after
everyone had been out having their party in Boston to
celebrate the demise, I had to go on the radio
and do a few hours a raise. I would I
would put that number five. Number four the Los Angeles

(35:20):
Clippers Vanishing Act against the Rockets Chris Paul, Blake Griffin.
I was at that game. Clippers had a thirteen point
league going to the fourth quarter. They win their onto
the Western Finals. The Rockets then outscored the Clippers forty
to fifteen. You know many points James Harden had in
the fourth quarter of that game, one zero. Josh Smith

(35:41):
and Corey Brewer strubs outscored the Clippers. But those two
guys alone, Chris Paul mistake filled mess. Blake Griffin show
cartists and uh and I came in there and it
was in Uh, what a what a ship show? That
was all right? Number three the teen Super Bowl again,

(36:02):
same concept as Red Sox and Dodgers doing local Boston
radio at the time, and I had to cover the
Super Bowl from both sides. My friends in the hub
there were killing me right, and the Rams offense of
course also killed me by not showing up, so that
that was that was brutal. I'm still getting shipped from
Patriot fans. And number two, I'm gonna put the twenty
nine n LDS number two. That moves ahead of the

(36:25):
super Bowl, the Clippers and the World Series. The Dodgers
were superior this year and just about every category against
the Nationals, and then they go out there and play
like a bunch of stumble bombs and it would complete
boondoggle in this and it's embarrassing. Clayton Kershaw and Joe
Kelly suck they take extra doses. A suck A j
Pollock done to me? Corey Seeger, you close your eyes,

(36:49):
you might hit the ball because you can't hit it
when your eyes are open. Will Smith uh done with him?
Cory Cody Bellinger over rady and beaten by a former Dodger,
Howie Kendrick. That's the guy that hits the game winning
Grand Slam that you can't muster any kind of offense.
Howie Kendrick is the executioner of the Dodgers. Really, I

(37:14):
can make the argument that claim Kershaw was the execution
of the Dodgers. Well he tied. Yeah, the game was tied,
but he still had a chance to win the game.
They still had an opportunity in the game. Kendrick was
with the Dodgers for two years. The first year I
remember he played pretty well. The second year he batted
like two fifty or something like that. He wasn't very good. Well,
he wasn't great in this series. Defensively, he gave the

(37:35):
Dodgers a couple of runs and so in Game five,
a little bit of revenge alright. And number one, I
think we all know what Number one is. The most
painful nights of radio for me is list radio brought
to by David Gascon seventeen World Series, A thirty four
thirty four tie, Game seven, I know you were a
Game seven, also very similar to the Atlanta Cardinal Games,

(37:58):
Game five where the game was over in the first inning.
Uh you Darvish who blew chunks had a reversal of fortune.
And but not only that, I mean Game two Kenley
Jansen giving up the home run to Marwin Gonzalez. Game five,
Kershaw had multiple four run leads Dodgers lad for nothing.

(38:20):
Then seven four he gave both of those leads up.
So really, as we said, the Dodgers in that year
had to win six out of the games because they
gave away two of them, actually win six out of
eight because they gave two of them away, and there's
only seven. So yeah, it doesn't doesn't work so well.
All right, in the bag, we keep the train moving
gascon in the bag. These are listener questions, actual listeners

(38:41):
to the podcast who have sent these things, and these
come from our Facebook page. My my show face facebook
page is Ben Maller's show. There you can be part
of it. Will do a few of these. We have
some sport oh questions. R J and several other people say,
will you be drowning your sorrows away from the Dodge
just this weekend? And what is your go to drink

(39:02):
for it? Well, I'm not a big boozer, r J.
I'm going to a couple of parties, so I might
have a drink, depending if I think we're having a
party here so at the Mallard mansion, so I think
I'll definitely do that then. But uh, my favorite drink
is the biggest woosh drink in the world. I love
root beer beer. It's high alcohol content, it doesn't taste

(39:25):
like alcohol. You can a lot of sugar. You get
diabetes from drinking it. But I I love that stuff.
I every holiday party, I load up my refrigerator with
that root beer beer. I can't get enough of that stuff.
What about you, guess? I what's your favorite drink of choice?
Favorite drink of choice? I like to drink whiskey or scotch.
That's my favorite because I don't drink a lot of it,

(39:47):
and it's usually pretty pricey, so it does the damage
in a minimal amount of time. There's also a beer
that my sister introduced me to out of St. Petersburg, Florida.
It's called High and it's a pale ale and it
tastes delicious. I think it's eight point five percent but
super strong. You have a couple of those and you're

(40:09):
good for the night. Well, this isn't the holy trinity
of booze, Scotch, whiskey, and bourbon. Isn't that like the
holy trinity of the booze the world? I think? So?
All right? Moving on Gregg Wrights and he says, so,
why do your team's always choke in the playoffs? Ben?
Is it? The Bill Miller factor. Yes, yes, that is it.
Frankly speaking, that is why they are all a bunch

(40:32):
of you know, a bunch of guys shipping bricks in
big games. Yes, clearly. All right, the only one time
I want to write off into this. Can you imagine
how how unbearable I would be if one of these
idiots actually won a championship? Oh my god? Well, yeah,
you just need to get hot, like the Chicago you
got the black Hawks, and you have the Cubbies, or
or Philadelphia or Boston. Imagine if you lived in Boston,

(40:52):
if you were a Boston guy with the Celtics of
the Patriots and the Bruins, you'd be sweeping the board.
All you need. You need a hockey team, need a
tennis player, you need a boxer. You need all those
guys to crumble at the same time too. That'd be
perfect for you, all right, Jan writes, and he says,
if the Dodgers replaced David Roberts, this is a sport question.
Who are the candidates to replace him? All right? Couple
of things. First of all, if I ran the Dodgers,

(41:16):
Roberts has done. He's out of here. Fire his ass.
I see you later, goodbye. Like, you go manage somebody else,
go manage the Mets. Have a good time. But I
do not believe Roberts is gonna be fired. Now. If
he was fired, it depends on what the Dodgers do
with Andrew Friedman, whose contract is up. I know this
report saying that all this will work itself out or
something that say won't work itself out. But you can't

(41:38):
be unprepared, right art of War sun Zoo, Right, you
gotta be prepared at all times. So if you really
want to go away from from Roberts, the problem is
they have an analytically based front office, so they're gonna
want to hire a robot. They're gonna want to hire
somebody who just follows instructions blindly and Lemming, Lemming going
over the cliff um and so like, if you want

(42:02):
to appease the old school Dodger fan. I brought this
up the other night in the Overnight Show. I said,
bring in Mike Soshan. Yeah, you know when when Sosia
had good players in Anaheim, that those teams often succeeded
in the place. I only only one in one World series,
but they were as I recall, teams, he got the
most out of that that roster with the Angels, and

(42:22):
when he had bad players, obviously you are a product
of what you have, and they were not very good,
but he played putting. Those teams played like an NL
team though they played small ball, they actually ran, They
went hit and run running hit, They squeezed, So he'd
be perfect for the Dodger, especially the National League side. Yeah,
you know, and it's it's just the basics of of coaching, right.

(42:45):
The always say the key to coaching is to find
out what your players weaknesses are and and then making
sure how to hide them. And Dave Roberts for whatever reason,
and maybe it's not him, maybe it's the computer, but
he has not been sick, sccessful. He doesn't seem to
understand that Kershaw can't pitch in these certain pressure spots,

(43:05):
and he doesn't hide him. You know, you you've got
to put that is part of you. Gotta put players
in position to succeed, find their comfort zone. Clayton Kershaw's
comfort zone is the Cactus League. That's his comfort zone,
not the regular season. Um, But anyway, I'm moving on
Michael uh. He he has another herd of questions. I
was wondering if you agree with my point of view
that the Colorado Rockies should have trade Nolan Erinado after

(43:28):
he choked in last year's playoffs against the Brewers. And
it's the same thing he says with the Broncos. He's
obviously Colorado guy. I think they should trade Vaughan Miller
and get a couple of first round picks and start
over again. That is from Michael. I'm gonna push back
on this, Uh, Michael, Nolan Arronado is a probably the

(43:52):
top third basement baseball. I don't know, he's better than that.
Guy's a stud um. But I don't this whole revolving
psyche goal of we'll just start over. I hate that.
Who wants that? Who wants the start over? Nobody wants that.
I mean, that is just the nightmares what that is.
So I say no to that. But you are a

(44:12):
Bronco fan, guess gn so von Miller gone, you keep
him and get rid of him. I don't know why
you'd want to trade him, especially because where they sit
right now, picking up their first win against the Chargers,
they're gonna be a contention for a top five pick anyway.
And if you have to bookend guys like von Miller
and Bradley Chubb. I have the biggest problem for the
Broncos so far as they've been out coached, and they're

(44:34):
out coaching a week one against the Raiders and John Gruden.
They they took Chubb and von Miller at that ball game.
But if you don't in the National Football League, you
need three things. You need a quarterback, you need a
left tackle, and needed pass rushers. That's exactly what the
Broncos have. They have no damn quarterback, they have no
damn left tackle. Their offensive line is trash. I don't
know why you would trade away a guy who's a
potential Hall of Famer. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that.

(44:59):
It's hard because it's like the trade for these draft picks,
and most draft picks don't turn out to be players
that are as good as von Miller, right, you know
what I mean? So so you're you're you're going you
might get quantity, but you're not gonna get quality. Most
like he might get a starter, but you're not gonna
get an all Pro type player, which von Miller has
the ability to be and has been. And they vested
so much you know, don't forget he had drug problems
early on in his career. He had all kinds of

(45:21):
character issues, and they've worked that shut out, and now
all of a sudden, he's a super Bowl winner. He's
an m v P in the super Bowl. There's no
way I would trade this guy. It's not like he's
on the on the back back side of his career.
He's in the prime of his career. I agree, all right,
Matt in no Cal or nor call, he says, nor
Cal is experiencing planned power shutdowns. What would you guys

(45:44):
do in a prolonged blackout situation? Why? I What I
would do is I try to find a mall and
go to like a Starbucks or something like that and
use the WiFi. Piggyback to wife, I I need to
have WiFi. I need to have my phone charged that
that would be a uh a nightmare without without the WiFi.
But this sucks. I mean, I'm I'm fascinated. I said

(46:05):
this the other day, but are you telling me they
figured out that most of these forest fires in California
that have been going on since my entire life that
are caused by power lines. That seems to be what
they're saying. That seems to be what they're saying here.
But what would you do? Guests on and they how
we're shutdown? I think the much like you. I wouldn't
go to a Starbucks, but I'd probably go to my

(46:27):
car first to make sure that my cell phone has charged,
and then, depending on how long it is or what
time of the day it is, it either go to
sleep or go to the gym. Yeah, you know what,
I My wife got me one of these these battery
backup things that are awesome. Have you got for your phone?
Where you can you take it with you and charge
your phone anywhere in the middle of the desert. That's
pretty cool, man. I like that we have old school

(46:49):
versions of the iPhone. That's probably why she got it
for you. I know I need one to you my
battery doesn't fill up capacity anymore. Yeah, it's pretty bad,
all right, Big Big Lou rights and he says, you
and Gagon are given money to begin a minor league
baseball team, think Lou from the LBC. What city would
it be in and would Gagon be the announcer? All right,

(47:11):
of course I would torture Gagon. I would make him
be the announcer. But if I could put a minor
league baseball team anywhere, I would bring back professional baseball
to Honolulu. Wouldn't that be great? Honolulu had uh for
for a while. I don't know how many years it was,
but they had a Triple A baseball team in in Honolulu,

(47:37):
and I magine you wouldn't want to be called up
to the Major League. The Hawaiian Islanders twenty seven seasons
nineteen sixty one to nine seven. They were an affiliated
the Kansas City Athletics, and they played in a Loja
Stadium in uh In, Hawaii. The University of Hawaii plays
their games. But I would bring back the Hawaiian Islanders.

(47:59):
That's what I would just say. I live in Hawaii,
and you know, because minor league ballparks do so many
wild things, and much like spring training, I would build
my minor league facility at near Fort Leavenworth. I'd haven't
connected to the prison. I talked about a home field advantage, bend.
I would just have all those convicts in the right

(48:19):
field left field pavilions just summoning batters every time they
come up. That well you know you should do is
you know the phrase out and left field comes from baseball,
and it comes from Wrigley Field the end of the
background because apparently in the old Cubs ballpark there was
a mental hospital down the street from the ballpark, and
the guy playing left field on a quiet day when

(48:42):
the crowd wasn't making noise, could hear people screaming from
behind left the left field wall and the mental hospital
because they were having issues. And so the term out
in left field came from that. It's a baseball It
started with baseball in the mental hospital in chicag Go
behind whatever the cup ballpark was at the time. Let's

(49:04):
get to don't stick to sports stories of the week. Here,
what do we have? This is your baby, this is
your department? All right? How about this? Bend? What not? Roll?
Tide roll. I don't know if you saw this at all,
but in Paducah, Kentucky, police are actually looking for a
suspect of man check this out. Had to uh, you
need a little bit of money. So naturally he goes

(49:25):
to a motel and decides to rob the motel. Tricky
part is on all of this he's wearing Alabama attire.
He's wearing an Alabama beanie and he also brings in
a bag to rob this woman at her front desk.
The woman just starts throwing this dude money, and naturally,
as he wants to, he's packing all the money in
the kicker part in all of this bend while he's

(49:46):
doing this, as he puts his own handgun on top
of the desk, and then he bends over to pick
up the drop money. The woman obviously sees this and
grabs the gun and points it right back into him,
and he goes fling outside the motel. He never to
return them. But what a fool man? What did g
I just think they caught him? By the way, I
have an update. They caught this guy's twenty six years

(50:08):
old Corey Phillips from West Paduca, Kentucky. And uh, you
guys see his mug shot. Little having a bad hair
Day's having a bad hair day. It would would have
worked out, they say. In the guy's car, the police
found an Apple computer that had been reported stolen from

(50:30):
the burglary, and white T shirt like the one apparently
found the robbery scene. All that, well, that's even worse though,
because even if you have a Mac, much like your phone,
you can have a locator on it. So, yeah, you're right,
You're right. I mean, what's the point of stealing the phone.
I mean, he's gonna find it and he's letting track
it down. You're an idiot. And I mean if you
do that. And the other thing here with this guy

(50:53):
is he's he was showing proper etict right, you're supposed
to you're not been down with a gun, You're supposed
to put the gun on the table, right, and that
he's supposed to do. So he was doing proper gun safety. Yeah,
just give him a pass on that, alright. I was
next speaking of this, we go down to Florida with
a low hanging fruit. A man was reportedly arrested just
a few days ago after he tried getting an alligator drunk. Dude,

(51:16):
twenty seven years of age, he tried feeding an alligator
some beer. I guess what happened. The alligator actually bit him. Uh.
Wildlife Conservative Conservation Commission actually reported on this guy was
arrested obviously for animal endangerment. Uh. They caught the game
the gator, though was on camera that more of that
footage was available for him, but he had consumed a

(51:39):
couple of beers throughout the day. Decided to give an
alligator a couple of beers as well. Caught on tape
and again more from Florida. So he this guy had
his arm bitten, right, and that's what I understand. And
he so he was bleeding. Yeah. Well, now, unfortunately it
was a small alligator. Right when it was a big gator,
he'd be dead. Yeah, it was a small but he was.

(52:01):
You can't imagine, you know, I've spent some time in Florida,
but I haven't spent that much time in Florida. Like
when you imagine going outside and this like alligators walking.
These are dinosaurs. These are little dinosaurs living amongst human beings.
It's wild to me, it's wild. And you just see
the what's that big galligator in South Carolina? I think
it is that that wanders around the course. It's like,

(52:24):
you know, sixteen feet long or some ridiculous thing like that.
That happy Gilmore. It's uh, it's crazy. Man. Florida continues
to be a stay. You always give me problems because
I love Florida man stories. I love the Florida Man,
the Florida man stories. You want to you don't feel
better about your life, you go with the Florida Man

(52:44):
stories because they are they are classical stories. They're wonderful stories,
and they very rarely these Florida Man stories disappoint Yeah,
they've never let you down. How about this? We go
from uh, we go from Florida to UH to Michigan. Now.
I think it was a year maybe two years ago
when we had that tide pod challenge for kids. Do
you remember that. I do recall that. Yeah, that's so

(53:06):
you had to you had to bite into a tight
pot or something like that. Yes, well, we we've taken
the next step as a progressive society. Now, Um, a
twelve year old boy is actually recovering from second degree
burns after he set himself on fire. They do this
now as part of a burning challenge. Where was this?
What was this in it? Yes? And so these kids

(53:28):
will be caught on YouTube or or even the demo
where they basically get themselves put on fire. They pour
flammable liquid like rubbing alcohol or other kind of flammable
liquids on themselves and they ignite after and obviously see
how long they can they can survive. And one kid
obviously was caught on tape on YouTube and uh, yeah,

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second degree burns. How about that? Did the kid at
least he had a lot of follows on YouTube? Did he?
Did he win the fire challenge? If you're gonna get
burned up and live the rest of your life with
burns all over your body, I hope you hope you
were successful? Wow? I mean we're all we were all
like that. We were like twelve years old, a bunch
of idiots. But I mean, seriously, what a world? Even

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I as a twelve year old like I I it
was a little gun shy with the fire. How about this?
The next sounds, we're gonna pour gasoline on our heads
and we're gonna put a match on top and see
what happens? What could go wrong? Oh? What the world?
Come on, man, you gonna be better than that? All right?
What else we got? Have you heard about this? The
you know, a touchdown Jesus obviously in South Bend for

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the nore Dame fighting Irish Nike Irmack's nineties sevens are
named Team Jesus Shoes. They're manufactured by a Brooklyn based company.
Right now, um they're getting sold for a monstorious price
of three thousand dollars and they were actually sold recently
within minutes. When a shoe was blasted, it was filled

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with reportedly holy water. That was a holy water edition
of shoe. So some some dope bought a shoe because
they said there was holy water in it. Really, where
did the holy water come from? Was it? Did? Did
Jesus drop down pour the water into the shoe there
along with his talking donkey and the talking snake and

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the sun staying still in the sky. I mean, come on, well,
with any luck that water turns into wine. Yeah? Right, Well,
and really that in the Bible, right, isn't that? That's
the original fire challenge man walking into a furnace, right,
not getting hurt, that's the original fire challenge. To a blaze, Betty?

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Last one? How about this one? Stafford, Virginia. We've we've
heard stories probably the last couple of years about Chick
fil A employees doing marvelous things and heroic things, oftentimes
besides giving us great chicken sandwiches. But a woman, uh,
she dropped her phone and she could not I in
a parking lot and it turned out and actually fell

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into a storm drain. So a Chick fil a employee
actually opened up a man cover and dropped himself into
it to recover her cell phone. It was all caught
on footage as well documented on Facebook. Um but more
from Chick fil A obviously doing uh doing a lot
for humanity. All right, So she drops this, how is

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the thing? I wasn't listening? How is the thing opened? Like?
Why would how she? How do you drop what? It
wasn't the man cover? It was actually a storm drain,
but Chick fil a employee opened up a storm drain
or the man. I have a story like this. I
have a story about this. Actually years ago, before I
got married. I was dating my wife and I was
at her house and I parked right in front of

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the house there she was living in. And I got
out of the car and it was right near one
of those gutters you know that goes down to the
storm drain. And somehow I was tired because I had worked,
you know, crazy hours doing the website at the time.
Mike key my keys fell into the storms, right and uh,

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I didn't even know. I mean, what are you gonna do?
I couldn't get in there, you know, I can't fit
down there and all that. So we my wife, of course,
she's very smart, so she figured out that you can
call the city and they will come out. But I
had to wait. I had to stay there that night
because they wouldn't come out till the next day to
get the keys out. That reminds me great point of
bringing up your wife. She says that you owe your

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listeners an apology because last week's edition you had mentioned
the dating scene with her and that you proposed within
seven months. She actually said it took about three and
a half to four years for you find a propose
to hers. So she was like, hey, you're gonna ship
he get off the pot, like one of these two
things needs to happen, and you find. As I told
my wife, I am a storyteller, and I that is

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what's the better story, getting married or waiting? You know,
four years to get married at three years to get married?
On time? Man? What think about women? My wife's no
difference that they remember these dates, you know they we
they remember like next year in January or early I
think it's late January. I will be like our ninth

(58:13):
or ninth anniversary. I think is something like that. But
she she always like she's counting down to the days.
She remembers all this and h and I always I
always bust her balls by pointing out that I originally
tried to date her earlier and she blew me off
for Richard, so we could have been together even longer,
but she wouldn't give me the time of it, which
I don't blame her for at the beginning, and then

(58:35):
eventually she she came around. I guess, so I guess.
All right, Well that was fun gas gun and then
we'll do the hard old gambling show. We have that
straight ahead here as well. But how we have a
great weekend, and and please send us an email. I
don't most people aren't listening to the end of the
podcast here, but the email, I blame you, Gascar, And

(58:57):
we used to I used to get tons of email
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I mentioned and everyone, so you mentioned it like you
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I will. By the way, I saw you're not feeling
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to work with record Round. That's right, Tuesday, Wed and

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Ru so Beaver cleaver right there. Wonderful. All right, have
a wonderful weekend. Thank you again. You guys are the greatest,
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