Hollywood Bound

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Ben Maller starts right now. That it does. I hope
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lot of fun. Uh. So David Gascon is with me.
So Gascon, It's been two weeks of torture for me
because my voice last week was messed up. I had

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a lisp because I bit my tongue eating a hot pizza,
which was so stupid, and that took like a whole
week to to recover, and and now I am sick,
but I'm almost over it. This is not good for
my health though, to have to get up early to
do this podcast for my normal schedule, and then to

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add insult to injury. Someone was a little late today
and it wasn't me. It's to be fair. Um, you
just raw out of bed and you pop on a
stupid little um zephyr and turn on and pop goes
the leasel where I have to drive seventy five minutes
in traffic through Los Angeles. Well that's not true, actually,

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I mean you're you're downplaying my importance here. What I
do is I get up, I have to go. I
have to walk down the hallway, I go make a
I make a left turn. Then I go and I
washed my face a little bit and then I get
out of that hallway. I walked back down the long hallway,
and and then I have to make a right turn.
After the left turn, I make a right turn. I

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then have to walk all the way through this room
and into the studio and then I have to turn
some things on here to do the do the show.
It's very difficult. This is very hard. This job is
not that easy. I had to wake up early this morning.
I had a prep for some games this weekend. Then

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I had to work out, and then I had to
drive my asked all the way to the studio. Well
I did, do you know, let's do a pissing contest.
I had to do the overnight show last night and
then had to drive because I lived near Vegas, uh forever.
And what whose fault is that? My wife? That's her fault.
But but anyway, I'm here and fine, so on with

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the show. We're in a good mood. Here's what's on
the menu for Benny's Bistro this week on this edition
of the podcast. That's some mara we have that we
also have. Give me the props, Give me the props.
Hooray for Hollywood. Study This a staple. It's in the bag.
That's listener questions and don't stick to sports stories of

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the week. Are you prepared? I'm fully prepared. I have
I take a long time to get this thing prepared
for you. I'm I'm happy this thing comes to fruition.
It's like it's like baking a cake or maybe uh
got thin. It's giving around around the corner. So it's
like preparing a turkey for you. Well, you are a turkey,

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so you would know about preparing a turkey because you
are with an amazing joke. Thank you. I'll be here
all all hour or whatever this is. It probably won't
be an hour because you were a little late, so
it'll be a little less because they kick us out
of this studio at a certain time because they turned
into a pumpkin. The carriage literally turns into a pumpkin.
That's a more right. So the twenty nineteen twenty NBA season, Wow,

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it's crazy, man, that's that's crazy. NBA season kicks off
next week Tuesday, Clippers and Lakers, a game. I will
be in attendance add at the clip Joint. And there's
all kinds of controversy. It's been a big topic on
the radio show overnight, Lebron James, Steve kerg Greg Popovich,

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all of them suddenly being being unable to speak of
what's going on in China. Well, Darryl moorey the Rockets
GM has now become a symbol of hope for the
people of Hong Hong because of that tweet, and it's
just why not Lebron James On the other side, you've
got good versus evil In the eyes of many, Lebron

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has been vilified and some calling him the Hanoi Jane
of the NBA for spewing what many people deemed pro
Chinese rhetoric. Uh. We talked about that on the radio
show and Lebron um making himself the victim here cozying
up to a dictorial, oppressive communist government in the People's

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Republic of China. Um. So that's that's the back story.
I mean, I don't know how you would have missed
the back story. We can't assume you're aware of everything.
And then we have this new development regarding Darryl Moore,
a couple of new developments. That's why we call it
that tomorra, a cyber attack, wild story. I don't know

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if you get the wall Street Journal or not, but
I somebody had forwarded me in this story. It's it's
nuts from this week and Darryl Morey was the target
of a coordinated harassment campaign by the Chinese state government
and it was all on Twitter, and it played out
in real time on that fateful day. And when on

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October four, Darryl Morey sent that tweet out which was
supportive of the people of Hong Kong. In the twelve
hours after that tweet, all right, uh, Darryl Morey the
Rockets GM, his Twitter account was flooded with amazing, endless
comments of pro Chinese rhetoric and it was like over

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more than sixteen thousand times and twelve hours. And some
of these analytical types from Forensic Research Labs analyze this
and they they said, based on their analysis that of
these comments over others like almost two undred thousand comments,
but twenty two thousand or rather came from accounts that

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have no followers at some point that last week. That
that means these people likely started these accounts just to
attack Terrell Morey. We're from accounts that had fewer than
thirteen followers. And uh, and if you don't know how
the Twitter game works if you're not on Twitter. Um,
there's a lot of box there's a lot of dummy
accounts on there, and you know, the numbers are inflated

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on how many people are actually really using the platform.
But the other thing you're the way the story is
being reported is that this was a direct assault from
the Chinese government. Meaning the way they break this down

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the troll mobs, it was an orchestrated activity by the
people who run me accounts. It wasn't it wasn't just
a bunch of bots, it was actually people in China.
They believe that we're doing this. That one of the
one of the people I in this Wall Street Journal

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story guests and it was quoted said, I am not
saying this is a state affiliated operation, but the guy
says he's done this for professionally, says I've only seen
so many brand new accounts used at one time when
it was a state affiliated operations. So that's just like,
how does that work just the the Chinese government? Do

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they you know, hit a button and then the mob attacks.
Is it like like in the old days you blow
into the bugle um propaganda wise? How do you actually
input this with having people how do you pay out
these people? Or do you pay out these people? I
think that's the bigger question. It's like turnstile if you're

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because you not only have to activate an account, but
then obviously you're putting in a password and then you're
typing up the step. Now, the luxury is with Twitter
is you can have multiple accounts on your same profile.
So I know that you have some shadow accounts that
you used to pack yourself on the back during your
you know, eleven o'clock to three three am show. So

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when you just lied, do you have just lied on
the podcast? You have just lied on the podcast. You
can go from one account to another and then you
just light somebody up, so around the clock we go.
I would imagine you get someone in foreign intelligence, and
you probably get some of the military that's gonna hop

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on it and start activating accounts and start sending stuff
out to Darryl Moore. This is amazing. When you first
told me this story, I was I was perplexed because
of how short of a window that is to generate
that kind of volume as astronomical. Be sure to catch
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the I Heart Radio app, um a couple of other things.
It is crazy. I mean, I don't know troll mob,
but the Twitter is actually banned in China, you know,
that's the thing about. And I have talk to some
people over the years that have gone to China and
they tell me that it's very odd the Chinese people

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because many of them use the websites we use, even
though they're banned in China. How do they do that?
They use a VPN, VPN, they use a VPN and
it'spparently like the Chinese government even somebody told me the
Chinese government even sells these like they're fully aware. They
are fully aware, but they're making money on it so
they don't really care. And and so it's this odd

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thing where you know, all these things are banned, but
you know you can do them. So it's it's another
thing now. So this is full disclosure though, but this
is the second time that something has come up in
a country and in a regional part of the world
that you have advised me to go take a job.
In two years ago, you said I should go to Bluefield,
West Virginia for a job that would have paid two

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or twelve dollars an hour. And last year you told
me to take a job in China as a correspondent
for a local agency, a news agency. Next next year,
I'm gonna tell you to take a job in Afghanistan
or Syria or Iran. Yes, not North Korea. Well, I
don't think you're good enough for North Korea. I don't

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think you are. Yeah, uh, this, I was trying to
help you out. I wanted you to experience poverty. You
chose not to experience poverty. I think you would be
a great propaganda guy for a communist government. You would. Yeah,
this is a loaded subject that it is loaded for you,
but not for me. I'm gonna I don't know that

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I'll ever go to China, probably after my last couple
of monologues on the radio. I'll not be allowed in China. Um,
because as soon as you hit the tarmac, don't they
take pictures of you? They take video images of you
and and isolate your face. And I think they do all.
I mean, I don't know, that's what they say. And
then on the internet, in the dark Web, I don't know.
It was just to finish up on this come and

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move on. But the Adam Silver, the commissioned the NBA,
spoke this week and he waxed poetic about the fallout.
He admitted that the NBA has been hurt financially, said
he had no you know, the people of China asked
the Chinese government asked the NBA to fire Darryl Morey
and uh and the NBA obviously hasn't done that, at

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least at this particular moment. Adam Silver says, the losses
have already been substantial. Our games are not back on
the air in China, he said, and we'll see what
happens next. Now, somebody I know that works in the
NBA told me that this is going to destroy future
salary cap numbers. That there's so much it's not the

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most money, but so much money that comes from China
that they're gonna have to downgrade future salary cap numbers
for teams because of revenues being down if China doesn't
capitulate with the NBA, which would affect you know, these
teams that have these super Max contracts they've given out to,
like the Rockets have James Harden and Russell Westbrook. Ironically,

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Darryl Morey's team UM as an example, so and then
the other the other, just to put the final touch
on this. What happens next, Like the NBA is hoping
this will just go away. People will move on once
the season starts next week. People will just be excited
about that. Uh. And they're trying to work as liaisons
with the Chinese government to kind of massage their shoulders

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and make them feel okay with But at the same
time they have to they have to. They can't cross
the line here in America. UM. And so it's a mess.
And the protests are going to continue. My theory on this,
the obviously are gonna stop. That will at some point.
If you look at the history be bloodshed, a lot
of bloodshed involving these protesters in Hong Kong. Um. There

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is a point of demarcation for the Chinese government. People
are gonna be sent to prison camps. Uh. They already are.
And Lebron James can say he don't want to talk
about this, but it's gonna follow him around. He is
now a symbol for the communist Chinese government, at least
in the eyes of the people of Hong Kong. Whether
that's fair or not. And I listen. I understand I've

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taken shots at Lebron, okay, but I know that a
lot of this is just piling on. People have been
waiting for Lebron to step in it, and now he's
stepped in it, and so people are are dancing on
his grave. But he does deserve it in this respect.
All right, moving on, we give props now, we won't
do too many, but I love these prop bets for

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the NBA season. Here, I've got a few of them.
Gascon uh, And you can bet the l A Clippers
will win the NBA Championship. You get plus four ten
or you can take the field at minus five fifteen.
Keep in mind, the Clippers have the top odds to
win the NBA Championship. So would you rather take the

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Clippers or the field? I think with those numbers, I
would probably be compelled to take the Clippers. See that's
the that's why you're wrong. I would go the other way.
And I and I love the Clippers, and I'm man,
I hope they're good as everyone says. It bothers me
that everyone's licking and um, you know, doing all that
with the clips and giving them a bubble bass I'm

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not used to that, um, used to them being the
punching bag. I believe they'll have a very good team.
I don't think they'll be great during the regular season
because Paul George is gonna be out. Um. But if
Kawhi Leonard, if I'm right that he is the modern
Dame Michael Jordan's defensively and offensively combined both better. Probably
defensively than Jordan. Jordan was good, but uh, you know,

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not quite as good offensively as Jordan. But in that area, Um,
the Clippers will be amazing in the playoffs. But yeah,
I mean I've always been of the position you bet
on the field and the reason you do that well,
obviously have more chances? Can you have more bullets in
the chamber? With these other NBAS thirty NBA teams, you
get twenty nine even though really there's only about seven

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or eight if you win the championship. Yeah, I mean
that's two. But the other thing is, I hate to
say it, but knock on would this doesn't have me happened.
But you know, let's say Kauai gets hurt or George
gets hurt later in the year, the Clippers aren't winning
a championship if either one of those things happened. So um,
so you have that operatorny. I mean, I would do
that with every team. And you can do the same

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thing with the Lakers. The Lakers are plus four sixty
five um, the fields minus six thirty. I would do
the same thing, same concept. Lebron could get hurt. He
got hurt last year. Anthony Davis is a walking injury.
He's like the operation game um with all the injuries.
So I think that's a suckers bet and that's just
my my position. Now, another like spinoff bet on this,

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which I thought was interesting, is a California team winning
a championship at plus one thirty five. The field winning
the NBA Championship is minus one fifty five. I would
actually consider betting on a California team because you get
the Lakers and Clippers in that, and you get Golden State.
Assuming Clay Thompson does the back for the playoffs. That's

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three of the roughly eight teams that could win the championship.
That's value. I believe you're getting some value in that
you do. But here's the thing, and this is not
a hot take, but I'm of the opinion that with
Golden State and the injuries that they have and also
the fact that they lost Kevin Durant, I see them
as a bottom tier team in the Western Conference, like seven,

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eight seed or potentially missing the playoffs. I think it
goes that low. Yeah, I don't. I think they'll win
enough against the ship bag teams in the NBA. They's
just the horrible teams that I think they will find
a way to be in the middle probably lower there.
Not gonna be a top four seed, but I think
they can be in that five six range, not seven

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or eight. I think they'll be in the fives. It
still means you've got to go on the road, um
the first round of the playoffs. But that's that's interesting
to discuss. Now you can do that with every team.
My my answer as far as the overall teams, they
just take take the field some of the player or
team props in general. Um, this is interesting here Clippers

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to make the playoffs or not make the playoffs. Um.
And and this is something when you might bet a
little bit, just again based on the theory that players
will get hurt and they might not make the playoffs
because it's so close in the Western Conference. But you
gotta think with this much talent, they're gonna make the playoffs.
I mean they might not win, but they're gonna make
the playoffs for them. And then you get some value

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that the Phoenix Suns to make the playoffs are plus
one thousand, which is they have no chance. They have
no chance. All right? Um, moving on? How about this
Janie ident to Coombo, the Greek freak will win the
regular season m v P or take the field? I
gotta go. I gotta go with taking the field on
this one. He won it last year. I think it's

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one of those things where it's much like Lebron and
previous m VP winners, is that people feel that it
gets a little bit over too saturated. Plus the fact
that he's not in the major major media market. You
have Kawhile Leonard Kawai going from the Eastern Conference the
Western Conference. If he has a monster's season, he is
in Los Angeles. I think that ESPN, T and T
will elevate him. Lebron James is coming back, obviously, Anthony

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Davis in l A. I think there's too much firepower,
and then who knows, Steph Curry could go off not
saying that he will, but that's the one that's stop, period, stop.
Steph Curry is the guy here because if the Warriors
are a middle seed in the West, Curry is gonna
have to average like thirty five points a game. And
we know he's like, he's like Clayton Kershaw. There's regular
season Curry and there's playoff Curry, and uh, you know,

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he's like Cody Bellinger, who you know, in the regular
season it's all his home runs and then in the
postseason they throw sliders low and away and he goes
fishing all the time, hit hand home runs. Um, but yeah,
I think it Curries plus five five, you could take
the field of minus seven fifty. That would be one.
Although he's also injury prone. But if any of these props,
I would take him as the as the m v

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p UM for sure. How about this Rookie of the Year,
He's a rookie, all right, Zion Williamson will win the
Rookie of the Year minus one ninety the field plus
one sixty five. Wow. I would actually take Zion Williamson
even though he could get hurt because historically guess Guard

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and I have studied this because I'm a degenerate. The
number one overall pick in the NBA draft. It seems
like the number one or two pick or three pick
has won the m v P pretty much every year.
Very rarely does a pick outside of that win the
Rookie of the Year. Be sure to catch live editions
of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern

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eleven p m. Pacific. Outside of your shoddy voice, I
like the selection because you also go into the season.
Was Zion Although he is a top pick, he's not
going to a bear cupboard. I mean a Lonzo ball
is there, Brandon ingram Is The ball is not that good.
I know, well, okay, he's not a good shooter. His
room always looks like he's glazed over. I don't know
what's going on with him exactly, but I'm saying he's

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not He's not playing with a bunch of scrubs. It's
not like he's in Phoenix right now. It's not like
he's in Sacramento. It's not like he's in Memphis. So
he's got personal around him. And plus, like you mentioned,
the way that he has been elevated when he played
at Duke, that's gonna carry on over the media market
there in New Orleans. We're gonna try to wrap around him, obviously,
propel him and make that market somewhat relevant, especially in

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the Western Conference and a down season for Golden State.
They need to prop somebody else up. Want to do
it with the top pick in the NBA draft from
this year, Yeah, I think you gotta go with Zion,
although I you know the other name here obviously, the
second thing, John Moran, who I loved in college and
the tournament. But I think Zion's got so much behind

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him and the NBA needs him to be a star
of the next generation here, so he would really have
to be out of whack to not win the award.
All right, Moving on, ry for Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood.
So there's a rumor in the building, Gas Guy, that

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you have been cast or are about to be cast
in a whoa whoa in a movie. Uh if somebody
said you have gone la la land, is that correct? No,
I've had I've had a couple of recent auditions for
some some projects, some feature films and or some shows.

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And um, a lot of it has to do with
the fact that you know what I do here at
Fox Sports Radio or what I do for Fox Sports West.
Those type of roles have come up as an announcer,
as a kind of journalist, reporter, journalists, Yeah, things, so
those things cars advertising into what it's Hollywood. Of course

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it is um but those things have carried over obviously.
And uh, I've been in contention for a couple of
gigs and it's uh, it's air tight right now, say
that much. But something could happen the next couple of
weeks where I could just completely abandon this podcast never
to return again, that I would not see you. The
only thing is is that if I had been in

(23:12):
this podcast that I have to have someone fill in
for me, I think i'd have like Ralph Irvin do
it or have I think that's probably the one guy.
You don't have anyone else that would actually want to
contribute to the show or participate or actually work on it. Well,
that's true. None of the other people want to work
on it because they don't want to get up early
and have to work extra. And I don't blame them,

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but you have what you have a guy that fills
in for Eddie and you actually ball wash him worse
than he ball washes you, Brian Fenley. I think it's
like one of those annoying things that you here on
radio outside of your callers that call in drunk, cracked out,
it passed out. Whatever. You fond over the kid. You
know what you are. You're a national radio host for
four hours a night, and you drool all over this kid. Well,

(23:56):
I don't know if you know this, but you're sounding
like the green eyed monster jealous. He is not something
that is becoming. It is not uh, and I do
not appreciate your cynicism. Brian Finley is uber talented. Uh.
He is a tremendous radio broadcaster. I think you're jealous
that he is so good, he is so young and
so good that you feel like a dumb dumb compared

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to him. And you're also bothered that, unlike you, who
wants my affection, I have tremendous respect for Finley. I mean,
this guy said the term reverse cow girl on the
radio and I got dumped. He did get dumped. He
reverse cow girl during a game. What game was it?
Was it the Braves or the Cowboys? Was it somebody? Yeah,

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I don't remember what game, but it was. We were
all like it was one of those things that we
weren't really listening, and then he said it and we
were like, oh my god, I can't. But that's the
great thing about Finley, as he was nicknamed Fentanol Finley,
we call him the buckaroo. But he he's got this
very smooth, professional delivery, and then he works in these

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disgusting terms. Uh you want to try that sometimes? No,
you see, he's he's knocking this off of your old
pal um Tom Looney theatrical words to to give a
description on a game. Luny sent me a message this week.
He was sitting courtside at a Laker exhibition game, and

(25:26):
did you see what he had? I don't think you
saw what he had said to me, bough he know saying,
you know, if you had only been nicer to a
former producer, you would have also been getting courtside sheets
to lag because because because I got used to work
at our company, who I did not get along with
because I thought he was very lazy and bad at
his job, and it bothers me. I like people that

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work hard. I respect people that work hard people that
don't work hard. I spent on um and this guy
was lazy, and you know, I would drink it works,
you know, allegedly and and whatnot. So it just was
just a bad apple and and so I pushed back
with him a couple of times. And uh, anyway, the
guy's the guy's really good at sucking about. I'll give
him credit. He is good at lick lick lick. And

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so he got a job where he's connected and can
get like courtside seats and stuff like that. But uh,
but I'm good. I like sitting near the pearly gates
when I go to basketball game, so I like sitting
closer to God. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, listen,
I will say this much. If you ever see me
in a purple suit with a gold tie on, I
would love for you just to run me over with

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your car. Like, yeah, you would ever wear that ship
in public? Yeah? I I responded to Looney, and I said, no,
you didn't get your Laker girls outfit. You know, they
didn't come in on Amazon. I mean, my god. This
was the poor man's version of Clipper Darryl. Like Clipper
Darryl is decked out in Clipper attire, and it looks awesome,
especially when he has the full suit on pants jacket,

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shirt and tie. Looney went with the Lakers version of it,
and it looked like someone shot him up with a
paintball gun. Yeah you did it, did not? You know?
He plays his all muscled, routed out or whatever, and
it just looks as an odd look. He's this guy's
like a meathead and then he's got this purple It's
like Barney the Dinosaur worked out, you know. Anyway, So

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so you get the gig in Hollywood. Um, and I
hope you do because I don't want to work with you.
That would be need the money. You need the money.
You're a sellout. I'm gonna sell out to whoever writes
me the biggest check or a check for that matter.
How about they check? All right? So I want you
to quit the podcast now, even if this is a
big show and I don't know what show it is,
and I don't really watch much TV or movies or much.

(27:34):
I watched documentaries because I'm old. But I need a
gig as an extra, I'll take it. I would take
your job as a my my my dream. I when
I worked at the w E, I Jerry Callahan, Well,
I like he's a great radio guy there. He got
fired though because of a protester. Um. But but anyway,
Jerry Callahan and that morning show was very popular in Boston,

(27:58):
and they put him in that show in a couple
of movies, like you know those scenes where they come
back and there's like a radio or something broadcast and
it would be his show. Very nice, and I thought,
how cool would that be if somebody does a movie
and puts our you know that somebody's listening to our
show while they're going to bed or something like that

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and they can't sleep because they're on drugs. Now with
with I Heart Radio, do you know who Elvis Durant is.
I've heard the name. I believe he is a very
important person at the company because I have that is
a name that I don't know, but I have heard
many times. Okay, So Elvis Durant is an FM host
and he's based out of New York with I Heart Media.
And it's funny you mentioned that because if you watch

(28:41):
and go back to Die Heart three, Diehard with a Vengeance,
there's a part in that where there's a radio show
that's that's calling in or having a calling guests talking
about a bomb that's planet in the middle of a
school and Elvis Durant is the host of that show. Really, yeah,
that'd be great. I gotta that's on my bucket list.
I'd like to have that happen before my fledgling career

(29:03):
comes to an end. So how about this that if
if something out of sheer luck happens to me and
cross my fingers. But you don't want is you don't
want a background roll. You want an under five roll,
because an under five roll means that you actually get
airtime or a background You could be on the lot
for twelve hours and get paid like a hundred fifty
bucks or two hundred bucks. So yeah, I don't want that.
I don't know how about crap works. I've never done that.

(29:25):
I've never been to a TV show taping. I've been
my my friend from Dallas, my buddy comes out every
year and he always goes to the studios to watch
the TV shows big tape and he invites me, and
I've been online with him a couple of times. We
got bumped. Um, I've never actually been. I I got
bumped years ago in New York when I want to
go see the David Letterman show. I was in line
online for Letterman, and I got bumped from that. I've

(29:48):
been to the Tonight show. I got bumped from that,
So I guess maybe it's me. I just get bumped.
What would you rather do? I fly first class either
to the East Coast or two Europe, or be on
a show as a background actor. Oh well, man, I
get paid for the background actor and you get a
hundred fifty bucks. He says. Well, like, let's say we

(30:10):
could put you in Game of Thrones as someone that
was fighting someone in that fantasy flick. Um. Yeah, I
mean like an iconic movie or something like where people
are gonna go back and watch, you know, for years,
like The Godfather Too or something like that. Yeah, but

(30:31):
first class air travel very expense. I can put you
in Casino, right, that's a great movie. Yeah, alright, moving on?
What good luck with the gig. I hope you get
it and I never have to see you for our sake. Absolutely,
good luck on that, and knock yourself out, all right,
study this, that's right, study this. These are actual stories.

(30:53):
I love these studies. And are you competitive? Gas Gown?
Are you a competitive person? Yeah? Yeah, I've been playing
sports my entire life. A couple of years in college
and uh yeah, probably probably a drug. Competitive people are
more prone to drug consumption, according to it a new
study that has confirmed there is a very strong correlation

(31:14):
between personalities characterized as a competitive and consumption of illegal
substances such as cocaine, cannabis, and hallucinogenics. None does that
count for caffeine. I know it's not illegal, but I
do not see that on the list of banned illegal substance.
I've I've been in the nature of consuming a lot

(31:36):
of energy drinks in my time. Is how what you
call that stuff? Energy drink? When I went into college,
I um, it was kind of like a monkey see
monkey do. But obviously with McGuire and uh Sosa the
home run chase and whatnot. My first year in college
I was actually taking I was stacking creatine and Andrew Stein,

(31:57):
which was obviously a banned substance now, but at that
time I was I was a taking I guess you
could consider performance enhancing drugs. It was like Shan Sharp
was in commercials and Bill Romanowski all all those guys
had something underneath the uh, underneath the drawer and or
in the drawer, and um, yeah, you know, well, I

(32:19):
I consider myself a somewhat competitive person. But I I
I have no real desire to do the coke or
the any of that stuff. But yeah, I don't think
that would actually work with your wife probably would have
a problem with that. Something tells me, being a married
man fifty years of age out here, not to cocaine
closer to well, no, because you can't go back in time.

(32:43):
You can only go forward, So you can't go back
in time. I have created a machine, the Hot Tough
Time Machine. I can go back in time. If you
want to see someone that's on cocaine, you can come
to Manhattan Beach, or go down to Newport Beach on
a Friday or Saturday night, or your house. Oh yeah,
that's perfect. Yeah, just uh yeah, it's just sugar all
over the place. Yeah, you can do that. Have you

(33:03):
ever been to a party where they do the cocaine? Yeah?
I went to. Uh. I went to a music festival
in Miami in the mid two early two thousand's and UM,
a couple of colleagues that I worked with at the time,
we walked into this monster hotel room. It was a
sweet right on the water near the Belvedere Hotel in Miami,

(33:24):
and I kid you not, it was it was like
something out of a movie. There was coke, there are pills,
there's marijuana, there was alcohol. There was everything that you
could imagine. And I walked right the hell out. I
was like, holy shit, this is like waiting for someone
from the federal from the FBI to come in here
at the e A and just pop everybody and hook
him and book him. So well I was, I was

(33:45):
at I've only been at one party like that. It
was in the Hollywood Hills. I was invited to a
party and uh, I was so out of my element. Man.
They was like, you know they talk about those hills
talking in Hollywood. And it was this big match in
with just a beautiful showcase pool and they had a
view of the skyline of Los Angeles. It was just

(34:06):
amazing and uh and then everyone was hammered. And then
they had like piles of all kinds of party drugs
and people were snorting and I was just like, oh
my god, it's so uncomfortable. It was. It was crazy, man. Yeah.
I just I always thought, well, that's just what they
do in the movies, it doesn't actually happen. But it

(34:30):
did actually happen. All right? Moving on, study, This a
a new study. How about this, you got kids? A
new study found that ninety five percent of baby food
contains lead, seventy three percent contains arsenic, and thirty two
percent contained mercury. We're all gonna die, We're all gonna
till our kids. Well do you think that's a reason

(34:51):
why a lot of women now are breastfeeding their kids
until they're two three years of age? Well? Yeah, I
mean if you can do it, you know you would.
I mean, man, my mom breast fed me when I
was a kid. What about your your mom? Yeah? Absolutely,
But baby food formula, that's I don't know. I mean
people drink dr pepper and I've read that there's there's

(35:14):
some ingredients in there that caused cancer right away. Um, yeah,
I drank a lot of Dr Pepper back in the day.
I mean so, But the other argument is, like everything
you consume in some way or another's gonna get you.
But we know the big three are like lead, arsenic,
and mercury. Those are like those aren't on the spectrum.
They are the spectrum. You've forgotten. Number four global warming,

(35:36):
that's that's that's gonna get us. Too, so no, it's
climate change. I changed it to climate change. Speaking of which,
how's the fasting going? Uh, it's it's going. It's not bad.
And I made it. I was sick this week, so
I didn't have an appetite, so I made it seventy
six hours. I eat on Sunday and then I ate
on Wednesday night. Um, Sunday afternoon and Wednesday night. I

(35:57):
made seventies six hours, where I think it's a new
good for the longest stretch without eating. But I just
had like chicken broth, which doesn't count as food. It's
not an actual food. I had some of that. But
I'm on a nineteen hours and forty three minutes as
we speak. I got an app. It's called Life Fasting.
It's an app that can track your metabolism depending on
when you fast, how long you fast, weight, body mass index,

(36:21):
the whole nine yards. So it's actually challenging because I
work at hard hours and then I exercise, and then
I gotta do this ship with you, so it's it's
really a lot on my plate. So I, um, you know,
i'd expect the encouragement for me to come along sometime
soon in their in future. Well, you're the same asshole
that sends me food pictures when I'm in the middle
of a fast of a delicious, juicy cheeseburger or whatever.

(36:44):
I mean. I mean, I mean, you really are an
asshole that you might as well move to North Korea.
We said you couldn't work there, but you might as
well move there. That's what Instagram is for. It's for
bikini models, food and workout videos, I think, and destination
put pictures too, so I know you're not on there,
but yeah, all right, it is Uh, study this, what's next?

(37:05):
What we got? Study? Study says less educated men most
likely to make or take wives last name after marriage. Wow.
I don't know how they get I guess they just
looked at your degree or whatever. Well, you're not married yet, guest,
you might never be. But if you do get married, Guest, ken,
I think you're the kind of guy I would take

(37:25):
your wife's last name. Why would I? I got a
Bacher's and a master's degree. I work in radio, plenty
of son, Yeah exactly, we're in radio. That's the first
thing that people ask me as soon as I tell him,
and I have a master's, Like, why the why the
hell are you working in radio. Yeah, yeah, you know,
I don't have a grade response after that. I just

(37:46):
just shake my head and put it down. And and
not What would you do if your wife said you
need to have her last name instead of yours? Does
she have your last name? Yeah? I mean she does.
I'm it's awkward for me that she has my last name.
I feel weird about it. It's very odd to me.
It's like very grown up, and it's like there's a
responsibility in that and all and h it is. It

(38:06):
is crazy. It's one of those traditions that has continued
in in the marriage. Would you've would you have felt
a little upset or annoyed that she wanted to hyphenate
it or just keep her own? Yeah, you know, probably
I would have. You know, I feel like that's part
of the that's part of the gig, you know. Unfortunately,
that's what you sign up for. You know, you kind
of have to change your name. I don't know if
people some people don't have to do that. Like, you're

(38:27):
not asking a lot. You give him a ring, no
matter what dollar amount that is. Can I get a
little something back a name? Please? Yeah? I mean that's
that's true. And I mean, plus these you know, I
have friends, you know, women that are married and they
change their name but on Facebook and they still use
their old name, you know, because that's how people know them.
So the reason for that, they're probably doing something else

(38:49):
on the side. That might be true too. I mean,
I've had no idea, all right. New study finds that
despite the rise of villains in Hollywood movies, most movie
goers still prefer the heroes with morals. I don't know
if I agree with that. I think that the trend
of having the anti hero is more compelling for a

(39:12):
storyline for me and I think for a lot of
people than it is just the traditional hero. I know
that we're over saturated with Dwayne Johnson the Rock in
his movies, but he is because he's in everything and
he's just there for he's guys. But he never like,
he's never on the immoral side of things. He's always

(39:32):
that guy. He's always the good guy. But I prefer
someone that's got the dark side that eventually sees the
light they suffered through it. I know you haven't. Did
you see that movie seven Back in the Day with
Brad Pitt, Kevin space c, Morgan Freeman. No, alright, never mind. Um.
Most recently true detective shows on on Showtime. Um, those

(39:53):
were good Wody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey. They had a dark side,
each of them. They were the anti heroes. There were cops,
Dan louise Yanna. Um. I prefer those shows. I don't
know if about you, but I prefer watching a hero
dig themselves in deep and then pull themselves out to
recover and obviously get to the finish line with a
great ending. Uh. Well, we we've talked about this. There's

(40:16):
only seven stories that Hollywood and books use, right, rags
to riches, study rise, riches to to rags where you're rich,
you lose everything, tragedy, which is usually like a Disney
movie and the mom dies. Uh. The study your fall
would be that the man and a hole, Right, that's

(40:36):
the fall rise, You fall down, but you get out
of the hole. Um, batman. And then there's like there's
the rise and fall, which is always just talking about Cinderella.
That's always the Cinderella story. Then you have rise fall rise,
where you in the course of a TV show or movie,
you start out great, you suck and you get back
on your feet and then you have fall rise, uh fall,

(40:59):
which is the opposite where you get some success. That's
like Brewster's Millions, Right, remember that movie? Are you a
big Bond guy? Uh? No? I I watched some of
the early one I was kid. I watched The Bond.
I've not seen a Bond movie in a million years,
but I like the the idea of James Bond agent
double O seven. Yeah. I also say because one of
the rarer movies with Bond, George Lazenbie was the start

(41:22):
of it. His only flick on Her Majesty's Secret Service,
That one ends with tragedy because he gets married at
the end of that movie and then his wife gets
murdered at the end. Yeah, that's just the way it
closes out. So yeah, Hi, real quick, I gotta do
a couple more. I want to move this on, study this,
check this out, guess and we joke around this on

(41:42):
the radio show. There's a drop that Roberto plays all
the time. I was talking Color asked about Phil Niekro
and Joe Nikro, and I said something that I do
We're not recall saying, I can't repeat it right now,
but anyway, so he plays it all the time. Is
a funny drop and all this stuff. Well, it turns out,
according to a study, phrases like you all look the
same to me or I can't tell any of them

(42:03):
apart uh. People think of those as racial stereotypes and
obviously prejudice and all that stuff. But quote a news
study turns out that we are really hardwired to have
a more difficult time distinguishing the facial characteristics of individuals
from a different race than our own. It's quoted a
study done by the University of California, Riverside. They say

(42:25):
our brains are inherently inclined to either process or not
process facial characteristics based on race. So it turns out, yeah,
it might be a racial stereotype, but it's actually part
of the DNA for people, and you don't for the
other races. How crazy is that? That's interesting? Now, I'm
not like that, but I will say this much, with
regards to facial recognition and whatnot, I'm terrible with age.

(42:48):
I can't guess someone's age anymore. If they tell me
that they're they're forty, I just believe them. But if
someone says, hey, how old do you think I am?
I'm god awful with that, no matter if it's a
male or female. Well, I've told you guess. I think
everyone's a on my age, even kids. I think they're
all around with even like five years of my age.
I just I just assume I lived my life. I
I see really old people, I think, well you probably

(43:08):
have you know, simmer, we'reund my age, you know. And
I see really young people. I'm like, okay, you're probably
close to my age. And I have no no concept
of that at all. You know the people I wait,
Brian Finley brought he bring up up again. He's a
young guy and uh, you know, he says he grew
up listening to to me on the radio or whatever.
I I I mean, I think if he's like my age,
he's not. It's crazy. No, I know he could he

(43:28):
could be your son, you know. I could only be
still like all right, anyway, it is a study. This
should we move? I got a couple of all them.
How about you ever eat late at night? I don't
do this anymore. You do all the time. New study
says the top food to eat before bed as a
snack is blank. What do you think? Chocolate nope? French

(43:49):
fries nope? I would rather have French fries in this pizza.
No tottage cheese. Wow, how disgusting is that. I don't
imagine getting a big spoonful of cottage cheese before you
could have What do you eat cottage cheese with? Though? Anyway?
Like if you have a dig I don't eat cottage cheese.
I don't. I don't like cottage. I'll have it with

(44:09):
if I have, like steak and rice soft some cottage cheese.
But I only get hungry late at night when I'm
not drinking, which is every other night, or it's late
after work. I'll get out of here at like an
eleven o'clock or twelve and I'll go to Jack in
the box, but or in and out. But cottage cheese. Yeah,
My cottage cheese is like a cousin of ranch dressing

(44:30):
in blue cheese. So I I I'm good, alright, alright,
real quick. A new study that looked at the hundred
largest US states to find the greenest cities in the
in the least green cities and the top three. Now
these are obvious San Francisco, San Diego, and Irvine, California,
where I grew up, But I like the bottom three.

(44:51):
What do you think the according to the top one
u s states or cities rabbits um the least green
city in America, the one that is the renegade, the
one that doesn't put up with any of these gayzy
environmental activists and just says go go Pound saying we don't.
We're gonna do our own thing. Um can say Dallas,

(45:16):
not Dallas. I gotta go red states here, I think.
So how about Norman, Oklahoma? Not not Norman, Oklahoma. There's
let me just give you the bottom three. I'll give
you the bottom number nine eight to lead Ohio, a
right number on the least environmental friendly green states. You've

(45:41):
got none other than Corpus Christi, Texas. I've never been there.
You've been in Corpus Christy. No, but in the next
of the border. Uh. And then you have number one
hundred Baton Rouvee, Louisiana, the capital of Louisiana is just
number were number zero on this list, if you will,

(46:03):
as the worst of the worst. And in this same
study they say that the worst the worst air quality
index in in these cities. Congratulations in Riverside, San Bernardino County, California,
not far away from where we live. Yeah, it's it's
horrible out there. I used to date someone that lived

(46:25):
out there, and I remember commuting every time to go
see her off the fifteen freeway. And it's a kick
in the nuts. Because the freeway goes east and west.
There's always a sign that says beaches or cities, and
I in my mind, I'm always like heaven or Hell,
and usually that was pointing towards her in Hell. So yeah,
River said, sucks. It's the ringing endorsement the Chamber of

(46:48):
Commerce Riverside, California, and listening to this would be surprised
that they don't. I'm very big in the I E. Man,
they love me. Those are my peeps of the So
I just want to be one more. I got so
many of these stupid things. Uh. The kids these days,
you're like, oh you kids these days? You know? Hear

(47:08):
people say that from time to time. Uh, there is
study out and says people's tendency to believe kids these
days are deficient relative to those of previous generations. Like
you think the generation before you, UM or after you, rather,
it's not as good as your generation. UM. This has
been apparently going on for like a hundred years according

(47:29):
to the to the study, if not longer when when
observing current children, we are wired to compare our biased
memory to the present and decline appears. So essentially, put
that in layman's terms, um, we think we're better than
the people that follow us, you know. Yeah, I think

(47:51):
it's more of an age thing to Um. When you
look at someone that's older, you think either they are younger.
You think that you just have the advantage of them
based on experience and education and what you've gone through. UM.
I know I look at younger people, especially uh, teenagers
and younger kids, and I don't think that I'm better

(48:12):
than them in the sense or that I'm gonna be
more successful, But I I'm always fearful for them for
some reason, like like they don't know what they're getting into,
or they're not going to be educated enough, or they're
not gonna have enough good quality exposure things like that.
I don't know why, I just I don't. I don't
have any of those things. I'm like, well, they'll figure out.
I mean, we all figured it out, right. I didn't
know what the hell I was doing in life, and

(48:33):
figure it out. I mean, that's how life works. You
gotta figure it out trial and error. Um, that's the
only way to do it. Man, you're gonna screw up
a bunch of life. That's part of being human, and
you're gonna have to go through it. And you're gonna
lose some you know, get some bad grades. You're gonna
lose a job. I've lost a bunch of jobs, and
you just gotta keep going. Yeah, fair enough anyway, all right,
So that's that in the bag. These are we'll do
a few of these. They got a bunch of these questions.

(48:54):
These are actual questions by actual listeners. This these all
came from Facebook. Um, we have email address. But when
we mentioned that guest gone, the whistleblower is has access,
people stopped emailing us. Why would they do that? I
blame you. I think that was a reactionary thing. People.
You know you're an enemy of the state, right. I'm reliable.

(49:16):
People like to communicate reliable. You were half an hour
late to today's podcast. I was fifteen minutes late, and
your fucking connection is not working, so we had I
did not touch a damn thing, schmuckla, I did not
I know, I know you dingle Berry in the back
This is from will in Triangle, Virginia. You ever been

(49:38):
Triangle Virginia, never been in Virginia, But you could have
lived not far away over in West Virginia. But you
chose not to take my advice. By job by you.
Thank God. Anyway, says hey man. If you got a
phone call from the Dodgers to be their new GM,
what should happen? Would you? Would you? Would you look to?
What would you look to? Do you have so much talent?

(49:59):
Do you it through right it out? Or would you
trade Clayton Kershaw who you called satan Well, technically, will
I call him the devil? I didn't say the word
satan um, but I could have, and they made that
a promo, which I don't know that how you feel
about that. It was a very emotional, visceral response when

(50:20):
I called him the devil. At the moment, I felt
he was the devil um. But yeah, I think he
gotta trade him. I mean, it's just it's, you know,
let him go somewhere else. I don't care if he
wins the World Series somewhere else, that's fine, and Pitch
is great. It's just not happening with the Dodgers and
just to to do the same thing over and over again.
It's just it's wasting this era. Um, he single handedly

(50:42):
has played a role in now you know, a couple
of playoff runs that have ended because of his incompetence.
And I realized, he's not trying to suck, but he's sucking,
and so something should be done on that. I would
absolutely trade him. And and you know the thing is,
these guys, Howie Kendrick wasn't that good as a Dodger.

(51:02):
He goes to the Nationals, guy's getting big hits in
the plays. He is such a random things, you know,
as the cookie crumbles in the baseball playoffs, which makes
it all the more frustrating. But if the randomness never
seems to go your way, that's telling you something. Yeah.
On top of that, they gave him a Kobe Bryant
type of extension. You know, in his last two years,

(51:24):
he got forty eight and a half million dollars. Kershaw
has two years remaining on this current deal and he's
gonna get paid sixty two million dollars. Yeah, he's gotta
go that. We call that in radio, a golden parachute,
that's what we call that. And he actually was successful
during the regular season, which blew me away, and they
won a lot of his games in the regular season.
But again, he's exposed. All these guys get exposed in

(51:44):
the playoffs. It's a different style of game, and we
can piss and mot about it, but that's the way
it is, and you gotta do better. Yeah. Well, it's
unfortunate because it's Kershaw, it's Bellinger, it's everybody outside of
of Justin Turner and Max Munsey. That seems like the
last couple of years are delivering. Kevin in Rumford, Maine, right, So,
he says, should the Red Sox resigned Rick Porcello, he

(52:06):
wants to stay in Boston, but it would it would
have to be a discount price. Uh. He's an innings eater,
stays healthy. Some bad years, he'll bounce, he bounces back,
uh he he and it has a really good career overall.
Kevin sounds like you're a Porcelo fan. I believe the
Red Sox are gonna move on now. They don't even
have a GM so who God only knows, but they've

(52:28):
got to get some younger guys on that that rotation.
It's a pretty old pitching staff. Um or middle aged
to old with David Price who is now out of
his prime and Chris Sale who was a disaster last year. Um,
they've got to sign some other guys, you know. And
I don't think the Red Sox are gonna spend two
hundred million dollars on Strasburg or uh or Derek Cole,

(52:51):
but you know, they gotta get somebody else in there.
I don't think Porcelos the the anties. I'm if I'm
a Red Sox guy and I'm in the front office,
I'm like, all right, we'll let him go. Well. The
other thing two is don't forget is they need to
offer some money to Mookie Betts if they want to
keep them. It sounds like they're not going to keep them. JD.
Martinez is gonna be there again this year, so they
have a lot of holes to fill. The fact that

(53:13):
they could not get off the map at all this
year though after the World Series from last season, that's
a little bit of a surprise. Yeah, I know what
I did the local radio in Boston. We did some
monologues on Mookie Bets. This has been a lingering story
here and there's a lot of people in Boston that
think he's not fully in love with playing for the
Red Sox, and he is totally willing to be a

(53:34):
baseball renegade and and you know, soldier of fortune and
all those words, and go play for anybody for the
highest bidder, but typically the Red Sox. I've said this
for years, the Red Sox, Yankees, the Dodgers. You cannot
say you don't want to play for those teams because
they're the ones that have all the money. So if
you want to get a loaded contract, you gotta be

(53:56):
open to playing in those you know, in l A,
New York or boss And and just as a competitor,
there's nothing that gets gets the juices flowing, like if
you're in l A or Boston, in New York, maybe
San Francisco. But outside of that, those are the major
markets St. Louis, Chicago, the Cubbies. But I mean, that's
what you want to be. He's gonna be what the
modern day version of Durell Reavius when he was with
the Patriots. That's what they say. But to get the

(54:19):
real money in baseball, you sign on ten year contracts.
So it's like really just changed teams one time and
you're there like Bryce Harper in Philadelphia for thirteen years.
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(54:40):
moving on, Mark in Ottawa says your favorite mom cook
dish growing up? Um, all right, Now here's my theory
on this, Mark, Um, this is whatever your mom. Your
mom could be the worst cook in the world, but
you have no point of reference as a kid. So
what were your mom makes is you'reant a reminisce about

(55:03):
that time in your life and you think, well, I
was you know, I was eight years old, I had
no worries in the I played video games all the
time or whatever, and I was what a great point
in my life. So whatever that is, it's gonna bring
back memories of your youth and all that. So but
for me, I recall, you know, I remember I would
be a little on the weather that that mats of
ball soup my mom would make. I love that. That

(55:23):
was amazed that that was awesome. I love that. And
but even suddenly, I mean I'm clearly a lot of
regular stuff. Your mac and cheese and things like that
and spaghetti or whatever. But it's just something about Mom's
touch that is is magically anything for you Gascon Growing up,
I think my mom was really good at beef stroking
off and enchilada's. She was money. She is money with that.

(55:48):
Like any time that we have big family parties and
we need to do something in a hurry, she just
quick with the Mexican food, tacos, enchiladas, tostada's. Uh My
sister her her kids, my niece says they love that
stuff too, So yeah, yeah, that's cool. But my mom
also made this cranberry chicken which I loved. I was

(56:10):
a big fan of that, and a little rice on
the side that was Man, was that good stuff. But
then she also made stuff I hated, like lentil soup
which was disgusting, and um yeah, I mean there were
some some other things I didn't like, but you know
he blocked those out. You remember the good things, not
the bad things. Moving on Matteo in Penfield, New York. Right, so,

(56:31):
and he says, if you could own any exotic animals
a pet, what animal would you pick? I think I
got asked this on asked bend this week. I said, uh,
maybe not this specific question, Matteo, but I would take
an alligator. How cool would it be to have an
as long as it didn't eat you like an alligator.
Wouldn't that be cool? But what would you do with

(56:52):
the alligator? You couldn't pimp it out? You know? Well,
hen what was that? A guy in Indonesia years ago
was like, had a pet alligator and raised it from
birth and slept with the alligator, and his kids played
with the alligator. Remember that, I do. It was like
a seven foot long alligator, man wild man alligator. I
can't see with an alligator. I can see you more

(57:14):
with like um, like an elephant in elephant. Yeah, well,
I do love the elephant. The rhino hippo. I love
the fat animal, just like I love the fat coach
and sports the fat athlete. Uh, there's something about that.
I love, you know, rhinos skin, big fat rhino and
I don't know how fast the hippo is and all
that I can I can see you. Yeah, that's right

(57:37):
up your alley. What about a koala bear, Well, that's
more Eddie's that's more Eddie speed, you know, that's more
his his situation. You see Eddie more of like a
like a penguin. Penguin. Yeah, that's about right with Eddie. Yeah,
like Eddie, like you know, are you are you saying
he's like the what was the character band from China him?

(58:01):
I'm trying to think of the bear, um, the Disney Bear,
Winnie the Pool the Poo. Yeah, banned from China. Yeah,
Winning the Pool got banned from China because the Chinese.
They the people, I guess, the people that hated the
leader of China. China used, he's Winnie they put aside
by side. They said he looked like Winnie the Pooh,
and so China said, all right, you want to play

(58:22):
that game, well, band Winnie the Pooh? Can they pained him? Uh?
How about which of the which of the Big Five?
I already said, right, Rhino, I'd go Rhino. But of
the Big five, the African Big five? Like you know
what that is? Lyon African elephant, cape, buffalo, leopard, and Rhino.
Which of those would you want to have? Like, a
lion would be pretty cool to get, like women for

(58:44):
you because you're single, you know, and the women would be, oh,
he's a tough guy, he's got a lion. I think
a rhino would be Ryan would be great. You're stealing
my answer, schmuck, that was my answer. But you can't
have a rhino. I picked a rhino. But a rhino
is like driving the original Hummer. Like not think the
H one or the H two. But if you have
an original Hummer and you you pimp that thing out
here in l a or or New York or wherever

(59:05):
he may be, like that is that's American steel right now.
That's a Cadillac. The rhinos a Cadillan. Yes, it's Cadillac.
It's a big thick or Um. What's the car? The
Lincoln Continental? Oh my god, I love the Some day
I'm gonna get a Lincoln Continental. I I had one
as a rental car in Cleveland years ago, and I

(59:26):
didn't want to Uncle Buck. I didn't want to give
it back. That was the most comfortable seat I've ever had.
An an an honorable bill was a Lincoln Continental. It was amazing.
It was like sitting on my sofa driving. It was
so good. It was I still wish I wish I
could have stolen that car. It was that good a car, um,
but it gets terrible gas mileage. And I you know
I live inside. You know, I live in Siberia, so

(59:47):
I can't I can't have that. Big. Lou rights in
from the LBC says, is the sleep number bed good
for making whoopee? I get asked this a lot, Lou.
I know you're a big stud with the ladies. Uh so, Yeah.
The only advice I would give you is you've got
to have the bed set at a hundred, which is
the firmest setting on the sleep number bed. If you
try to to to do the making love with the

(01:00:10):
bed down, it does not go as well. Um, there's
a lot of odd movements that are gonna happen to
you that you do not need to have happened in
that situation. That could cause you to pull a muscle
or something like that. So as long as you keep
the bed all the way up the full max, you're fine.
I will remember that when I go to your house
for the Christmas party. Wow, yeah, I know that's your

(01:00:33):
You know some people go on tender you go to
the holiday parties. What you do? I know that's how
you doing. Make sure it's set to a hundred. All right?
John the jailer from a prison near you, right, so
he says Ben and also gagon. He says, what are
you going to be for Halloween? Uh? And he says
a bonus question, what's your favorite candy? Says I know
you've talked about this before, but I love a good

(01:00:54):
candy breakdown. Well, John, I'm a grown ass man. I
will not be anything for Halloween. Although my wife we
were talking about what I would be, and I think
we decided if I do dress up, if we get
invited to another holiday party, I would be a Costco
sample person. I would I would wear the uniform of

(01:01:15):
the foot soldiers of Costco who don't even work for Costco.
They they sub let it um, but I would. I
would do something like that. And that's that's like a
red tray, blue apron um. And then you've got like
a hair net and then that that's what that? What?
What about? You guess? Kart? I a buddy of mine
a few years ago as a gift, got me an

(01:01:36):
authentic kilt and I haven't cracked it open yet. I
haven't worn it yet, but I have a full kill
with like the the shirt as well, like the longsleeve shirt,
the socks. I might rock it this year. I don't know,
I don't dress up for Halloween though, I'm just like you.
I have not dressed up for Halloween since Salas in

(01:01:57):
my early twenties. Well I have, but that's are being married.
My wife likes to dress up, and so every once
in a while I get dragged bill holiday party and
to now here, I am the clown. Look at me.
I'm the trained seal. I will dance stands. As far
as candy, I'm a traditionalist. I grew up with the
Baby Ruth Butterfinger. Uh. Those are the big two for me. Uh,

(01:02:17):
and then I rotate. I love peanut M and M's.
That's a solid one. Um. The sticker bars a traditional one,
the big powerful candies. I've always been a supporter of those.
Reese's Peanut butter Cup can't go wrong. Problem is you
don't get a lot there. There's a very small the
Reese's Peanut butter Cup. Um, but they're they're pretty good. Um.
I'm more of a chocolate guy. My My wife's all

(01:02:40):
about the the other stuff, not the you know, like
the jelly beans and that kind of stuff. Yeah, I
found out your wife does not like chocolate. Yeah, she
I like the chocolate. She does not like the chocolate
so much, but I don't mind the other stuff. But
it's I'm if I had to choose, it would be
like chocolate, Like you know, I'll go basic. I'll go
like a chocolate Hershe's bar with almonds, that's solid. Yeah,

(01:03:00):
that's good. I'm anything with waivers. So if you get
me like a kick Cat, I'm good with that. As
you mentioned Reese's pieces, Um, if you want to go
off the beaten path, I do like Snickers, but the
Snickers ice cream bars are fucking delicious. Those are really good.
Nasty Crunch was a favorite of mine back in the day.
Um those are yeah, those are the ones. I'm on

(01:03:21):
part with you Eminem's as well. Um, peanut butter, Um,
anything with peanut butter and it hits a spot. So yeah,
all right, Jose writes in from Parts Unknown, He says,
if you and Gagon would have to get a tattoo,
what would it be? Uh? Well, Jose, uh you know,
gun to my head, you gotta get a tattoo. Um,
I guess I'd get my wife's name to suck up

(01:03:42):
to her. But now I don't. I don't know I
would get a tatt I don't have any interest with
you can get a tattoo. The reason I want to
get a tattoos because I I changed my mind. You know,
I don't want to. I don't want to get something
and then ten years from now say, oh crap. And
plus it's hard. You gotta spend a lot of money.
I talked to people that have friends that have tattoos,
and from I understand, you have to do tattoo maintenance,

(01:04:02):
which I never I never knew that was a thing
until a few years ago. Like you, you get a
lot of money. These things cost a couple of grand
I was talking to Alex Tisher, one of the engineers
at Fox, and he just got his first tattoo and
he wanted to get a sleeve tattoo. He's just gonna
cost him like three grand or something like that, and
then he's got to spend money every year to keep
it maintained. Yeah, not worth it at all. That's like,

(01:04:22):
that's like a lifetime commitment. Man. Yeah, if I were
to get a tattoo, would be something from my youth,
and I think something that could be timeless. Um, I
think you should appreciate this. I don't know, your brother
or something like that. I would probably get either an
autobot or a Decepticon logo Decepticon. Yeah, autobots are Decepticons
from Transformers. So now you can get you're gonna get

(01:04:45):
it like on your forehead, or you're gonna get it.
You tookis so no one sees it, even women. Uh,
I probably have to go arm you arm or arm
or leg maybe I don't know. Yeah, all right, here's
one for you. Only gag On, Chris writes in from
Parts Unknown. He says, gag On, how disappointed is your
father and you he saved lives with the l a

(01:05:08):
p D for you to do radio. Yeah, that's it's
a good question you think about your dad was like
a hero man. Your dad's like a big star in
the l a p D. Now look at you. The
males that my family were law enforcement and the females
were teachers. And I'm the only idiot that got into

(01:05:29):
two media. So I don't know. I'd have to ask
him that one day. But my relationship with my dad
is very on the surface. It's not a lot of
like deep stuff unless we're talking sports or to get
into the law or in a politics that does your
dad listen to this or no, I don't think so,
I probably Yeah, I don't blame him. He has, He's
asked a couple of times about it, though. Um, he's

(01:05:52):
asked how you're doing, how we're doing well. You first
thing me first. You put me on the phone with
your dad one time, and I was, I, I hate
when the third person comes in the conversation, you know,
And I was very awkward. I feel terrible. Your dad
probably thinks I'm an asshole or schmuck. And I didn't
mean to give that first impression, but I was just
I was kind of blindsided by the whole situation, and

(01:06:14):
I I was, Uh, I choked. I flop swed is
what I had. It's funny because we're coming from a
Dodger game, so it's only fitting that you were choking. Yeah,
my dad, I was coming from a Dodger like Kershaw.
That was like, it was like Clayton Kershaw pretty much.
I think the only time he feels disappointed that I'm
in radio is when you assholes butcher our last name.
So it's like, you know, you have some fucking respect,
but I can't expect that. Um yeah, but well that

(01:06:37):
and when he sees how much money you make. He's
probably like, wait a minute, you know I was ran
the L A P. D Man, I got a pension.
You got nothing. Listen, if I had some different bloodlines
were with being an entertainment and probably a different story.
Well I'm the same way. Listen. My dad was in radio,
but Ham radio. You don't make any money in Ham radio.
It's a hobby. And my dad was so annoyed. I

(01:06:58):
never got into Ham radio. Uh as a kid, and
and then but he's proud of the fact I'm in
radio now. But you know he anyway, But yeah, if
he had been like a DJ. You know there was
a guy that used to work at Fox who's whose
dad was a famous l A morning radio guy, and uh,
you know he had so much access to the business
at a young age because of that. Steve Hartman. Steve Hartman, No,

(01:07:22):
not Steve harm Do you have time for a couple more?
Should we just move on to don't stick with sports?
I don't have the clock here and have a lot
of time. We're we're up against it, all right, let's
don't stick to sports. What do we got? How about
this one? For twenty years, this guy named Austin Davis, um,
his meal of choice, you're in, you're out, not at
at ten times was he would eat vel vetta shells

(01:07:44):
and chess. Mac and cheese was his velvetta. Yeah, vel vetta.
Are you a mac and cheese type of guy? I
do like mac and cheese, but I don't normally like
stuff tossed in my mac and cheese. I like just
the mac and cheese. I know some people like, um my,
my father in law loves like ham thrown into the
mac and cheese and stuff like. That's his favorite meal.

(01:08:05):
He just had a birthday. They serve that. Um. Now,
I'm a traditionalist with the mac and cheese. I just
like the mac and the cheese, and I do like
it a lot. I my wife makes a great mac
and cheese sheet, like a twice baked my mac and cheese,
which is awesome. She didn't make it that often because
it's very fattening, and you know, I'm very health conscious
when I got my girlish figure. But she makes that's

(01:08:25):
an amazing meal that she makes. But but yeah, I'm
down with the mac and cheese, although I wouldn't be
down with it for seventeen years. I mean, the poor
guy's got some condition. But man, if you imagine what's
like people that live off of like Big Max or
cheese burgers for McDonald's, Like those are burgers that just
don't deteriorate. You can have them like laying out here

(01:08:45):
in the studio for five years and coople eat it
on that fifth year and it's because still the same condition. Right, Yeah, yeah,
the McDonald's french fries do not deteriorate. So if only
we could be made out of the materials they make
McDonald's French fries. God, how great would life be? Right?
Be fantastic? But how about this? Uh, I know you're
a frequent visitor of Costco. What about Walmart? Do you
ever go to Walmart? I do go to Walmart. I

(01:09:06):
have been to Walmart. I go there, not as often
as Costco, but they're cheap and I like it. My
wife hates Walmart. She would want she wants me to
go to Walmart. In said of verse. She hates the
vibe in Walmart. She's a negative energy in Walmart. I
don't mind. I like the way. These are my people,
these are my listeners. The profession your wife is in
has negative energy. What the hell is she talking about? No,
she's you know, she's a hippie. My wife, she she

(01:09:28):
likes the certain environments and all that. Why I bring
this up because a woman at a Walmart in Mexico
City was accused of shoplifting. I don't know if you
heard about this, but, uh, she went beyond the norm
to prove that she was innocent in the middle of
the store. She actually literally put down her stuff and

(01:09:48):
stripped naked in the middle of the supermarket in front
of security, uh, the guards that were their cameras, obviously customers,
to prove her innocence, and obviously was captured on video
and and repeat, I saw this. This is in Mexico City, right, Um.
And a couple of thoughts. Number one, I feel like
this is not the first time she's done this, you

(01:10:11):
know what I mean? Like I feel like somewhere and
I don't know what happened, or maybe she was abused
as a kid or something. Maybe not, Maybe she's just
that's how she is. But I feel like she's done
this before, maybe like a party or something. She just fine,
you want, I'll strip, I don't care. And then the
other thing is she didn't like leave her underwear on
guest gun. She took everything off, brawn and panties on.

(01:10:32):
She took the whole thing off. Perhaps wild she's walking
totally naked through Walmart. Would you watch that? Would I would?
I if I was in Walmart? Of course? What if
you're with the misses? I would pretend like I wasn't watching,
but she would expect me to watch her else she'd
probably be upset. What are you? What are you? What's
going on? I can see your wife taking a selfie

(01:10:54):
with her. Oh yeah, my wife would be like, oh,
I can't believe it. For the works nuts, I gotta
find out what she's all about. That's really good. Yeah,
I know you've lost a ton of money in the
stock market. Yes, I have my financial advisor's blind Scott,
who told me to buy a weed stock, which has
lost over fifty percent of its value since I purchased.
No way, are you kidding? Yeah, Well, what happened was

(01:11:16):
the vaping um. They were invested in vaping, and the
government has started to ban vaping or whatever state by state,
and so it's affected their market share, and uh, that
was a big part of their business model. So I've
been getting screwed because of the vaping thing. Well, how
about this. There's a guy that was on Reddit. Uh.
He goes by the name of Eddie Choi, and he

(01:11:39):
was not in tune with the stock market. In fact,
was a novice when it comes to trading and buying
and selling and whatnot. But he had picked it up
because of some some experts that were on there that
were given some some fruitful advice, and Choi had actually
acknowledged that he was a pretty risk loving person. Uh.
So what he was doing recently was he was observing

(01:11:59):
of roque. It's a streaming service obviously that people can
watch material on um. He put in an initial investment
on roku for a put, which is basically shorting the stock. Uh.
Seven sixty six dollars been turned into fifty thousand dollars
and some change overnight. It was a gain of six

(01:12:20):
hundred and fifty it was. It was a gain of
sixty Yeah, I mean I think the number he made.
I thought it was more than that. I thought it
was like over a hundred thousand dollars. What is Yeah,
it is, but it's his initial investment just one time
was fifty thousands. Okay, So I got a couple of
thoughts in this. First of all, I think it's great.
I mean, I'm happy for the guy. This is everyone's

(01:12:43):
dream that plays with the Wall Street game. You wanna,
you know, want to hit it big. Everyone tries to
do this, nobody really does. The other thing is it's
much like these prop bets or these or these seven
team parlays, where every once in a while, some dopel
hit a sevent team parlay or that guy that out
on the St. Louis Blues when they were the worst
team in hockey in January and they won the Stanley Cup.

(01:13:05):
Like every once in a while that happens. And it's
good for gambling. It's good for the gambling business because
people you know that, you know, people are like, oh,
I'm I believe I'm gonna be the next person to
do that, and they these are sucker beds, okay. And
so I think the same thing. Wall Street wants you
to see stuff like this because they know that it's

(01:13:25):
not gonna work out for you most of the time.
It's not. But risk a little bit, try to win
a lot. That's what everyone would like to do. Yeah,
and it's two trades, as you mentioned, were over a
hundred thousand dollars. He closed out at just under a
hundred eight thousand dollars on two transactions. That's nuts. Could
you imagine doing that? Have you come close to hitting
a monster parlay? Oh? Yeah, yeah? Years ago I had

(01:13:49):
the I was about. I was getting like an eight
team parlay. And the one that I lost I still remember.
It was Will Clark with the St. Louis Cardinals at
the end of his career, the Cardinals against the Atlanta
Braves in a he he he went off at a
big game and I lost, and I have I already
hated Will Clark because he was a star with the Giants,

(01:14:10):
but I hated him even more after that. Man, I was,
I was like, he's a bomb, He's no good the
guy h I went nuts in the playoff game and
it was brotal That's unbelievable. I've never gotten a run
like that. I didn't in Vegas like ten years ago.
Um I won thirt hands in a row playing blackjack
and uh, I crushed the had a room that was

(01:14:32):
coned to me at the Venetian Um cleared out. It
was like a thirty two. I think it was my
buddy from New York was watching me do this, and
he was a big spender and he thought he could
do the same thing. He put down ten grand after
I was done and lost it all on fifteen minutes.
It was amazing. Well, I have often, well not often,

(01:14:53):
but occasionally, my strategy with roulette. I have a fail
proof plan for roulette. However it has failed me. Um.
It's a problem, and it involves, you know, either betting
red or black repetitively and doubling your bet each time.
You gotta have a big bank roll to do it.
But in theory you have it's not quite fifty fifty

(01:15:16):
because you've got some of those green spots on the
on the roulette wheel, you know, the zero and the
double zero. But it's almost fifty fifty, right, And and
so the odds are that if you bet ten of hands, um,
you're going to get to a point where you end
up getting what you've been on a red, green or

(01:15:36):
otter even Um. But I have noticed on espending on
video roulette you can go like seven or eight times
without going the other way. And uh, it makes you
wonder if things are you know, rigged. You know, well,
if you want to make some money in Vegas, you
should bring me along and we can hit the craps
table and I get to you. I'd love to do that.
We should go to Vegas sometime. I I have occasionally

(01:15:59):
in the past. I was at a Tyson fight, usually
going Vegas, and uh, and there was a some guy
the crap. Everyone's going crazy when somebody's hot in craps,
you know, people go nuts in the casino and uh
and and so I I just started copying whatever he
was doing. And uh and I won, you know, And
and I think that's all you have to do. You
find the person that's winning and you just follow them

(01:16:20):
and just keep going. You love it. That's the way
to go. I I have a specific strategy and uh,
it's a patient approach. You can't drink a lot. You
have to be very very cautious what you do. Um,
but you actually go the other way against a lot
of the people are shooting and throwing. Yeah, so you don't.
You don't take the you take the adder all before
you go out there. If you're you're hyper focused and

(01:16:42):
all that. Yeah, I'm pretty much locked in. You know
what it is. You get the oxygen that's pumped in
the casinos, the lights that are bright there's no clocks.
You can on your cell phones, so there's no distractions
at all. Um, but plenty of I candies, so everyone's
looking to see if you're stacking chips. There you go.
So that's what we got. That's what we got for
the stories. Alright, very good and have a great weekend.
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