On the Brink of Elimination

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the
old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads
in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill
poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break
free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller

(00:24):
starts right now. That it does, and we are in
the air everywhere, the avast power of my heart, the
global reach of podcasting here, and we are back at
it because we learned this last week that four hours
or not enough. Of course last week it was zero hours.
We're not enough, but we are back at it. Ben

(00:46):
Maller and David Gascon not to be confused with this
alter ego Gagon, which was given to him by the
great Mike North, one of the great nicknames in radio history.
That we are about these days. Mike North. I think
he's back on the air in Chicago. Actually does he.
I think he's got a weekend show in Chicago. He does.

(01:06):
He's like he's got his tentacles are all over the place.
Doctor are not Doc? I called him? Mike? You know, Mike,
I think Chicago The first knee jerk reaction is Doc
Mike actually was just I told you before we started
doing this podcast that I just got a call from
Doc Mike in Chicago who's convinced he's my personal doctor
and he wants to give me some It's like he
works for Kaiser or something. He wants to give me

(01:28):
some care. But how many how many listeners have your
telephone number? Uh, that's a good question. We had. Well,
Doc Mike's had it for the longest. Uh, there were
a couple of other listeners, but Doc's the one that's
the most abusive. Doc's the one that really, uh just
calls me every weekn Uh, none stuff there we were.

(01:50):
I think there's two other people I've given the number two,
but they were actually well actually, now we were a
friend in Maine who I met in Boston. Now she
I didn't actually give her my number, her and her
her guy Paul there. I didn't give her my number,
but I she was gonna send me. This is a funny.
It was a great scams here guest gut. So She's like, Hey,

(02:10):
I'm gonna send you, Um, I'm gonna send you this,
uh this hat from from Maine. The minor league team
right in Maine. And so I'm like, all right, whatever. Uh.
And so I had to take a picture of my
my business card which they gave me years ago, to
to show her that hey, this is uh you know,
this is important whatever, this is the address, send it here.

(02:32):
And so she said, let me just take a picture
of it. And then uh, it turns out, of course
she got a photo of my my number and uh
occasionally will send me a text message. So I get
that's the most recent one. But that was not an
intentional act. That was not an intentional act. Since I
do this this podcast for for free, Yeah, I think

(02:52):
I'd be willing to share that telephone number. I wanna
give that number out. Go ahead, guest. I have a
great lawyer. I have a really good lawyer, So I
would like to give you if you can, that would
be great. Yeah, I think that would be that would
be wonderful. I need a little bit of extra money
in the pockets, and uh, yeah, I think that'd be uh,
I think that'd be great. For a good time. Call

(03:15):
This number available eleven PM till five am. Ah. Alright, alright, anyway, listen,
so we gotta get with on with the show here,
you're distracting me. We have the menu today, We've got
you have lots of gall We've got that mellow yellow tomato,
tomato elementary. It's the diet stupid, spanning the globe. Study this,

(03:41):
it's in the bag. As we're listener questions and don't
stick to sports stories of the week. So we have
all those, we will throw them all together. We'll make
some babaose. Alright, we're gonna start with this. Now, I'm
gonna begin with it's all about me, Gascon. You love
this type of broadcasting, do you not. It's uh, it's
a little bit different than eulogy radio. You have different forms.

(04:05):
Some of it you are you are bombastic. A couple
of days ago it was a great rout with the
Houston Astros. Other times it's frankly just ejaculation radio because
you have listeners that come on and profess their love
to you. What's wrong with that? It's disgusting. And then
you have and then you have staff members that just
foam at the mouth because of you, which is a
little annoying to um. But yes, it's just foaming, well,

(04:29):
angry in anger, foaming the mouth. But no, no, no no, no, no, no.
Like Brian Finley loves you, he adores you. He's the exceptional.
Brian Finley is like a Bennett. But Finley is like
the one of the only Benett's that's in the building.
Like everyone else is like, screw this guy's terrible, Get
somebody else in there. I don't think that's true, especially
when you're gone for a couple of days, like you
took a week off for vacation purposes, just like, Yes,

(04:50):
I booked myself at a four day four and a
half days at a bed in bath in a hospital. Yes,
that's exactly what I did. Hashtag sleep number bed four
nights at a hospital of your choice, unplanned, Yes, vacation. Oh,
it's good to know that I had the sick time.
I did not know that. Yeah, continue, I'm listen. It

(05:10):
was it was a little empty of a feeling for
you being gone for a week. Uh. I was actually
a little shocked when I knew something was up, because
I sent you a acid amount of Textas that usually
will respond, you'll respond accordingly with a wow, or what
the hell you're sending me? Or this is disgusting. But
all of a sudden, I got a text from another

(05:32):
number that I didn't recognize and it was your better
half and I was like, oh Ship, something's up. Halfway
through the text message, I realized, oh Ship, something's up.
And then I had the news broken to me and
I was like, all right, jokes aside. I hope this
guy's all right. Very very odd for you to do
jokes aside. So anyway, I got a lot of email.

(05:53):
I told people on the radio show that I would
spend more time here on the podcast talking about it
for those that are interested. If you're not in, said, boy,
this is gonna be one hell of a boring podcast.
My god, is this going to be terrible if you
don't care about this. But so as you know, we
we didn't do the podcast last week. I did have
the doctor's note if I can show you that gascon
if you want, and uh, I did get rushed by

(06:15):
my wife there to the emergency room on Friday. This
was November one. But to give you the backstory, so,
I I had started feeling like shit the previous Sunday.
I I felt pain like it was it was not good.
I was on my way to actually Staplesenter. I was
at a Laker Hornets game. Sitting in the near the

(06:38):
Pearly gates there watching that game on a on a
Sunday night, and I I figured it was acid reflux.
So I self diagnosed myself. I wanted the internet and
went to a couple of sites and I put my
symptoms in and uh and I and they put it
all there. Whatever. So I treated it with my amish cure.
It didn't get better this time. It didn't get better. Uh.

(06:59):
It stayed bad but manageable. For several days. I the
pain was continuing, and I did the show. Here's what
the day I should win like some kind of award here.
I did the show every night for five nights, withering
in pain, right, And then on Thursday into Friday, I

(07:19):
did the show normally or somewhat normals Halloween, you know,
in the November one. I then went to the gym.
I've been working out all week. I did my workout.
I was still in pain. And then I got home
and actually started feeling a little better. And then around
the time I went to bed, we attempted to go
to bed. It's like seven in the mornings, maybe eight

(07:42):
in the morning. Uh, and I just could not. It
got worse. I couldn't get comfortable, and it was this
throbbing like pain in my chest area. But it kind
of felt like acid reflects to me, but it was
it was pure agony. So anyway, here's how I ended
up going to the hospital. So I attempted to go
to bed at approximately seven in the morning, all right.

(08:04):
I then twisted and turned. I took showers and bass,
I drank magical potions. My wife cooked up until six
o'clock at night. I did not sleep on Friday. I
was up from all four when I went when I
woke up on Thursday ironically to do this podcast until
Friday night at six, and I couldn't go to sleep

(08:25):
then because I I I just was terrible. My wife
got medicine, I drank water. I did everything I could
to feel better, and after twelve hours I got taken
to the emergency room and I end up staying there
for from Friday night till Tuesday afternoon. And in that
time I had my gall bladder removed. That was Sunday
during the late television window, so I did not get

(08:47):
to watch well Baker Mayfield. Uh so that was I
had a better day than him. As the year that
joke goes. But but this is typically a pretty routine
medical procedure. That's the other thing. Guess gun. It is
typically an in and out thing. But I hadlications. That's
why I had to stay longer. And you know other
people have this, they're out the same day. But because

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my gall bladder was such a such a mess that
it was pretty much just a collection of gall stones
loosely hanging together and ready to fall apart and wreck
havoc on the enters of my body, they considered actually
a second medical procedure. That's one of the reasons they
didn't operate the first time, because I still I had
gall stones, they thought messing around, so they were gonna

(09:29):
a procedure before the other procedure. Uh. And there was
a team of doctors trying to figure out how to
fix all this. And it makes you feel very good.
It makes you feel very good. But that's that's the
backstory on how this all down. Well, and you want
to medal for this, which is I want a purple heart.
It's a little mind boggling because I saw you that

(09:49):
Sunday night and I actually offered to go to Whole
Food to get you some probiotics or some tons. You said, no,
well that wouldn't have worked. Stupid, I know, but I'm
just I'm just saying, oh, yeah, says the guy that
way in a week after self diagnosing him having gall stones,
which I I has been, my wife said that it's
been compared one of her friends. Uh as, it's compared

(10:10):
to like the paint agony of childbirth, but worse. Yeah,
it's like kidney stones. But your wife also recommended that
you went to the doctor a week prior to you
actually go into the er room. So the fact that
you want to medal because two people recommended a little
bit of a remedy and you ignored both. Well, in fairness,
my wife always recommends going to the doctor, So it's

(10:30):
not that's her default. You'll go with the doctor. Check
it out. Why. I think her occupation has something to
do with it. She does work in trauma. Possibly that
could be the case. Alright, So moving out, we got
mellow yellow tomato. Tomato. This is continuing. It's all about
my gall bladder. I'm not done with the gall black.
I know I was gonna ask you, do you have
a souvenir. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk

(10:51):
lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at
Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart
Radio app search f s R to listen live. Uh
we'll get to that, all right. So there were two
times during all of this medical malady that I thought
I was actually in some peril. All right, now, Normally
I don't think, you know, come on, I'm gonna be

(11:12):
fine no matter what. But when now, when my wife
dragged me to the emergency room and they started to
examine me, this is the first moment that I thought, oh,
oh shit, this is this is not good. The e
R doctor said I was turning jaundice. That for those
that don't know, that means you're you're the whites of
your eyes and the skin start turning yellow. Yeah. Uh

(11:35):
and uh. And I had a flashback because one might
my mom passed away a number of years ago from
from cancer and she she had I remember when she
started getting worse her skin, she started turning jaundice at
the end before she passed away, And uh, it freaked
me out. I was like, oh, you know, I didn't
I said much, but on the inside, I'm like, oh crap,
Like this is uh I was. I was like wow,

(11:58):
and but apparently it's common when you have extreme gall
stones like I had, and you do go an entire
a week without treating them. Um, And so that that
freaked me out. And the other thing that freaked me
out was the nurses and the doctors. They wanted me.
They wanted me to pee into a cup like I
was an NFL player doing steroids, and they wanted me
to know, to examine my urine and all that stuff. So, um,

(12:21):
which is what you have to do in any of
these situations. So and my, my, my, my urine. Guest,
you're very fascinated. It's been a little darker than normal,
which is apparently a sign that your body is screwed
and dehydrated. Yeah, but on that Saturday night, now I
was alone more on this for a few hours. So yeah,

(12:41):
there's nothing more dangerous than when you're alone. Your mind
plays the mind tricks on you, especially in the hospital.
And that was the day the time change happened. So
at an extra hour that night in the hospital, which
is even better. So I piste into the cup and
I turned on the light and it looked handed god
like tomato juice. I was urinating V eight and uh,

(13:05):
you know, my wife had gone home because she couldn't
spend the night because the hospital had rules. Uh, so
she couldn't stay. I was all alone, and my mind
started playing, you know, walking away. I went on the
phone and I looked up you know what happens when
your urine looks like tomato juice? You know? Uh that
was a mistake. And after I read a few things
on the internet, I was convinced I was gonna die.

(13:27):
And then around if it was. It was late at night,
but my mother in law, who's she had text me
to see how I was doing. She's a very very
she's had a big careers. E ar nurse in l
A and uh we get along good. And she she
texted me and I was like, well, my I tried
texting my wife, but she was sleeping, so I was like, hey,

(13:47):
it looked like blood, but you know she she was
freaking out too. But then it turned out that it
was apparently other crap that was looked like blood but
was not as bad as blood. I do you know
what Billy Reuben is, guest gun Uh yeah, I didn't
either until this, but apparently there the Billy Ruben levels
uh in your body from your gall bladder. If you

(14:11):
have excessive billy Ruben in your system that causes this
to happen. And so it's supposed to be for the
average human being, it's supposed to be below one. My
billy reuben was almost nine. Oh my god. Yeah, it
was a bad situation. But hey, I learned what. I
don't need it, and I don't think I do. I
have the billy Reuben still. I don't think I do

(14:31):
because I don't have my gall bladder anymore. But yeah,
like billy Reuben is a yellowish substance made during the
body's normal process of breaking down red blood cells. There
you go. Yeah, so that's that that The billy Reuben
level was through the roof, and they messed with everything,
like the whole thing, and I'm like, oh man, it's brutal, alright,

(14:52):
that we've got elementary. Also, you're listening to the fifth Hour,
but you know that already, the elementary part. So I
spent four nights and not the brad guest gun four
nights and a part of a fifth day at the hospital.
And this is not the vacation I needed or I wanted.
I didn't notice though, that for the first time in
my life since I was in elementary school or junior

(15:14):
high school. Time slowed down like it's slowed down when
I was in the hospital. I flashed back when I
was in Northwood Elementary School and in the o C.
And I would watch the clock slowly tick forward and
and and plus. As I said, I had the good
fortune of spending the extra hour in the infirmary and
all that. I mean, it was. It was crazy this

(15:37):
and that. Everyone says the same thing. You cannot sleep
in hospitals. I noticed that they took my vitals, Uh,
they messed with my had and I v gon and
or they take my blood one of those things every
hour at least at night and then but during the
day it didn't seem to happen as often. The main problem, though,

(16:00):
is I did not have a private room. I had
a shared experience guest, older, younger, all older men, three
older men. I had roommates. Now, you know, I think
about I was there long enough. Three different people came
and left the hospital. Well I was there, that's a
good sign. Yeah. And now there were two guys that
had knee replacement operations. The other guy, who actually was

(16:24):
the nicest of the guys was he had an anal fisher.
He tore his anal spincter about that. He had a
good attitude about got The guy was upset because he's
a Raider fan, and he said that he had a
big party plan for the Raiders game that day against
I think they're playing the Lions. And he and he
had all his food he had bought and all this
stuff for this party, all these guys, you know, he's

(16:46):
a Mexican guys. All these guys are coming to my house,
you know, and he blew the old ring. Yeah. Yeah,
but he was like, he had a very good attitude
about He was, you know, smiling and we're talking back
and forth. The the other guys. Yeah, not that so
much much older than me, that all these guys are
older than me. But the other guys were really older
than me. And it was, Yeah, it's just weird because
you're you're not antisocial, but you're an introvert. So for

(17:10):
you to want somebody around or or critique the people
that are around you because they're not nice or not talkative,
it's a little it's a little bit of a mix bag,
don't you think, Well, I'm not looking to have a wonderful,
heart felt conversation. I just want someone that's not a dick.
That's that's all. Or not, you know, it doesn't snore.
I mean I couldn't sleep because I had my ear

(17:31):
you know, I had my ear plugs, but they really work.
And then they had, you know, people snoring and farting,
and you know, it's wonder It's like sleeping next to hollering. James. Yeah,
it's like it's like being on a retreat or like
on a boy scout trip or something like that. And
they were back in the day. I just a bunch
of punks in a in a bunk bed. Now, were
you thinking of any monologues while you were just laying
bedridden that was going through your mind outside of dying? Said,

(17:56):
I was trying to keep track of what was going
on in sports. I did see like the Kauhi Leonard
load management. I said, that would have been great. I
could have done like a two hours on load management
if I had been on there because he missed a
thing it's like the fourth game of the year or
something like that. That would have been good. And there
were a couple of things I was like, I wish
I had been you know, but the other times I

(18:19):
was like, I don't really care about that. You know,
I got, I got my own problems. But what kind
of drugs did you take? Uh? Yeah, well we'll get
to that. Uh. They gave me a bunch of ivs.
I took morphine. Morphine actually when I got to the
hospital and give me morphine. That actually helped pass the
gall stone because it opens up the tubes in your
body there. And I thank God for the morphine because

(18:42):
otherwise they would have had to have a second medical
procedure and that would have they would have knocked me
out twice and not cut me open. That correct me
if I'm wrong. But I know on kidney stones they
can they can shoot it with a laser. Can they
do that with with gall stones or no? I don't
think so. I I don't know, but uh, I want
to address on the email I got. I gotta ask

(19:04):
a lot of questions, a lot of questions people. Some jackasses.
I think they're your your friends against We're like, it's
your diet man suits you you you this intermitted Fasting
said something too, something about your past. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Well well so anyway, so these smarty pants, okay, uh,
these smarty pants who seemed to believe that my inner

(19:25):
minute fasting is to blame for all this. That is
fake news. That is fake news. I talked to the
doctor before and after the operation they gotta cut me up,
and he said the diet, that part of the diet
had nothing to do with Uh. This was a case
of my you know, the chickens coming home to roost.
And I owe you from when I was in my
twenties and my early thirties and I ate ship. Every night.

(19:49):
I would be at Dodger Stadium eating ballpark food, or
I'd go to Tommy's for chili cheese fries in the
middle of the night, or go pick up a ten
pack of tacos on the way home from some fast
food joy. I mean, that's that's where this came from.
It did not happen since I got married. Actually, I've
eaten better. I still only great, but I've eaten a
lot better than when I was single and I was

(20:09):
a bachelor and I would just eat whatever ship I
could get my hands on. It was cheap, I didn't care.
It was quantity over quality and all this stuff. So
but this is this is all about my bad eating
habits when I was younger. It's paid me back in
spades here. And uh, I've often said at some point
that this will happen. I didn't think it would happen yet.
I thought I'd get a few more years before this

(20:29):
this stuff started happen. Well, yeah, and of course it's
better to happen now when you're when you're up and
healthy relatively speaking, and you're exercising and you're always working,
as opposed to later on your years, where yeah, something
like this could be a severe medical emergency and then
you're tapped out your six under. Yeah, I mean you
can it doesn't happen at all, but you can die

(20:50):
from the gall Black people have died from this, if
you know. So. Fortunately, obviously, I guess I think I'm
still here alive. I don't know, maybe I'm in a
parallel universe here. I had no idea that just did
the mrs take any good selfies? She took a couple
of pictures of me, and I looked like death warmed over. Yeah,
in the hospital, but then those are not for public consumptions,
So unfortunately told her, I said, no photos. I don't

(21:12):
need people to see me in here. I'm good, you know,
because I I know any photo of me in the
hospital would have resulted in seven thousand memes, you know,
and I don't need that ship because they would have
continued forever. I was probic a little bit. Yeah, I'm
sure you were. I'm sure you be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Meller Show week days at
two a m. Eastern. Now the good news there is

(21:34):
a positive. There's two positives that came out all this. Okay,
we'll put we'll end my goal talk here, but there's
two things that are very positive. I already started to
resume my INTERNI minute fasting. Uh. And one of the
great things about this is I set what I believe
is an unbreakable record for fasting. Okay, because I was.

(21:56):
I was on a fast when I got taken inter
minute fast. When I got taken to the emergency room,
I had not eaten since Thursday, Halloween night, and it
was Friday, November one, So I didn't eatn in about
a day over a day. Uh. And I go to
the emergency room and then they wouldn't let me eat
or drink water because I they at any moment I

(22:17):
was gonna be taken into the operating room, so you
can't have food or water. So and then they didn't
want to operate because there were complications with my gall
stones and that's why I was in the hospital for song.
So so anyway, I ended up going ninety hours in
seven minutes. I think I sent you a screen shot,
guess gun. Ninety hours in seven minutes between between meals,

(22:38):
and for much of that I didn't even have what
normally I just drink a lot of water, So it's
not that big a deal. I had my stomach is full.
But I went ninety hours and seven minutes without eating food.
That's pretty good. And uh, were you thinking about food
though at all? Uh? No, I always not. At the beginning,
I wasn't because I was in pain, I wasn't thinking
about it. And then at the end, I was just
trying to get out of the hospital, so I wasn't

(23:00):
really thinking about it. I was. I was worried about
the surgery and all that, but um, I was less
than six hours away from four full days without eating
my own personal hunger strike guest gon and then the
other thing that I'm so happy about it, and I'm like,
I should put this in my book when I write
my book some day is from the moment I went
into the hospital to the moment I came out of

(23:22):
But four days I lost eight pounds. I lost eight pounds.
How great is that? Eight pounds in four days gone?
You lost your gall bladder. Well, that doesn't weigh eight pounds.
The gall bladdersn't weigh that well with you. You never know,
you didn't say. He did say, it's the spades of
your of your bad days in your twenties and your

(23:43):
early thirties. So yeah, you never know. Uh, you know.
I was not that bad. But to answer your other question,
I did not get an offer to take the gall
bladder because it was really not a gall bladder anymore.
It was just a collection of gall stones. It was
like a be taking a cup of sand from the beach. Uh.
I want to ninety plus hours on a fast. That's

(24:06):
pretty damn good, especially when your bedridden, tune you have
nothing else to do. Um, But what a lonely feeling
to you for a while, you said, because the misses
was out and so you're by your lonesome, and just
as you said, self medicate and self diagnosed. That's a
dangerous feeling, especially when when something serious like this is
not like your tonsils or your pendix or a broken

(24:27):
bone or a bust attendant. This is your gall bladders.
So yeah, man, I I felt bad for you. I
felt now you were sending me messages. Why did you
do the show from the hospital. Well, things like that.
That's compelling radio, though, that's compelling that people live to
see things like that. You don't do. You don't do
blissful radio. Money through Friday day positive, Well it might

(24:49):
be positive, but it's train wreck radio that that people
love to see a good car crash. And this is
exactly what it was. This is this is Buster, your
Douglas versus Mike Tyson, like you kind of sweet shot
to the chin and you're down. Yeah, you were down
for the mighty Casey struck out. But at least you
have another at bat. Be sure to catch live editions

(25:10):
of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. Alright, moving on, guest, I'm very positive
to thank you for that very kind spanning the globe,
spanning we will be thrill of victory, the agony of
defeat human drama of athletic competition. So I will be

(25:31):
doing something I've not done all the time. I will
be pretending to be a TV person because of you, Gascon,
You've dragged me into your dark underbelly. On Friday night.
Depending on when you hear this podcast, we might have
already done this. But Friday night, I will put on
my Kendall outfit and I will do a little TV action, Right, Gascon?
What are we doing at high school football game? Is

(25:53):
that correct? You're You're gonna be suited and booted to
the fullest. And as you would say, it's on Fox,
see you better watch? Yeah right? Yeah, well of course
you know, and who loves high school football in me?
And I'm like that guy that used to work at
the six nineties John Kintera back into the coach, the
coach mr high school Football. But yeah, this is gonna
be fun. So it's a high school playoff game, not

(26:15):
just a regular season game. It's a playoff games. And
it's two of the best teams in southern California and
one of members of the Trinity League and the other
ones out of Corona Centennial High School, which has usually
had some top prospects go to the college and then
to the National Football League. Yeah, so I was doing
my show prep. I know you don't do a show
prep for the game, but I saw Vontes Berfect went
to Centennial back in the day. But you didn't know
that them in and then j Jay Sarah they're in,

(26:38):
Like that's the I didn't even know that conference. That's
the toughest. The Trinity Conference, he called the Modern Day
and all those Catholic schools in Orange County that recruit players. Yeah,
that's like, that's more competitive than the Pack twelve. It is.
In fact, some Modern Day has got Bryce Young, who's
the quarterback transferring or he's not transferring. He was. He
was committed to USC de committed from there. He's going

(26:59):
to Alabama. And then also Satan John Bosco has a
quarterback they're getting moving to Clemson after this year. His
name is dj wang La Le six five to Yeah,
he's a dual sport athlete to baseball and football, so
he's going to Clemson. But be these offensive linemen for
all these schools are like two eighty two nine pounds.

(27:20):
Seems that way when I played back. Yeah, but these
guys have muscle and it can move and have agility athleticism.
So it's this receiver for centennials apparently total study. Yeah,
Gary Bryant, Bryant is going Where is he going? USC
or somewhere like they's getting recruited by everybody too. Yeah.
I called the game of his back in like Week

(27:42):
four against Liberty from Las Vegas. Dude caught four touchdown
passes in the first half. Yeah, that's pretty good. Listen,
and I will give you a piece of advice, since
we're going from your domain to mine, stay in your
later and do your John. I'm gonna be like Ron Santo,
you know when he the late Ron Santo, when he

(28:04):
would talk over the play by I've consulted with my
my counsel on this, Tom Looney, who has told me to.
So we used to talk about this years ago when
I did the Blitz Looney on Sundays and we'd interview
all these play by play guys and commentators for Fox,
and we always said, well we could do that. I mean,
it's pretty pretty simple, no big deal, you know. And

(28:27):
and so so Looney I told him I was texting
the other day, I said, you know, guesscon is gonna
be I'm doing some high school game on Friday night,
and guess Gon's giving me the rap and all that stuff,
and you know, give me the what's going on or
or Looney. Uh he was telling me he was gonna
so anyway. Uh, Loony's like, all right, you got both
teams got played hard, you know, bring your a game,

(28:48):
you know, and he's give me all these cliches that
I gotta work out, these generic football terms that I
have to throw out there. Half time adjustments, nothing's changed
more in my I will use that line. Guess got
nothing's changed more in my life time than halftime adjustments
that will be said when we start the second half.
My style Gascon will be a mix of John Madden
early Madden, Tony Romo, I'll mix him and there Paul McGuire,

(29:12):
a forgotten broadcast ABC. Yeah. Uh, and I'll mix that
with like Homer Simpson. All right, I'll mix that with
Homer Simpson. So, and people can actually watch this. They
have to pay for it, guests, No, it's free charge.
It's on the Fox Sports Go app. So, so if
you're outside r l A or even in l A,
you can watch this on the app. You can check
it out. Yeah, and so here's the kicker on, well,

(29:32):
how do you get to the game, because people are stupid?
How can you find it? On? You go to the
Fox Sports Go app. You're simple. You just sign up
for that's it, Yeah, Fox Sports Go. And then at
the top usually there's a magnifying glass or a search
icon and you just type in either centennial or J Sarah.
So it's J and then s E R R A.
It's one word, but it's Jay Sarah, so it'll pop up.

(29:53):
And here's the other thing too. I don't know if
you're aware of this, is that depending on how the
game goes, like production wise, competit of nature and on stuff,
it could be like the NFL and the Sunday NFL
Pass were certain games they'll go from CBS or Fox
and they get flexed. They get flexed to the nightcap. Well,
if our game is good, we'll get flexed out and

(30:16):
we'll be on Fox Sports West or Fox Sports Prime Ticket.
How about that? Great? You know I was on Fox
Sports Prime Ticket years ago when Steve Mason and John
Ireland's morning show was simulcast and I hosted that show
one day and also guest Gone Before Your Time. I
was a regular contributor in an Evergreen TV program where

(30:39):
we we looked back at great moments in sports and
all that stuff, and that aired on Fox Sports Network
for like six years or something like that as filler programming.
They have nothing else, which is what that reminds me.
You also, with all those personalities that you're bringing in,
you're also gonna bring in the flavor of Bruce Arians too, right, Yeah,
I am planning on wearing the Arians cap. That is

(31:01):
my plan because otherwise that people will just goof on
my hairline. I've me and Lebron have the same hairline,
so I think I'm going to do that. That's my plan.
I'm looking forward to this Gascon. It'll make me seem
like I'm more of an expert, you know, I'll do that.
I might even leave my glasses on. I probably won't.
I have very self conscious about that, but but it'll
make me seem more educated. Who is the who was

(31:24):
the skipper for the Miami Marlins or the Florida Marlins
at the time when they won the world Seriously, Jack McKinnon, Yeah,
Jack mckinn, I'm sure you should have a instead of
a pocket square, you should have a cigar in your
breastpo Yes, that would be really really good. I'm all
about the Well, I am excited. Guesscon I hopefully we
can destroy this. It's high school football. How could I
destroy it? I've you know, it's very simple. And see,

(31:46):
unlike you bringing me here, I'm bringing you there and
getting you paid. Well, I have not gotten a check yet,
and we don't know that I will actually get a check.
And I have done gigs where people have promised me
money and I haven't gotten the money. So until I
actually get a deposit of money into my bank account,
I will not congratulate you and thank you at all. Okay,
because i've heard Hey, oh I don't I never got

(32:07):
your information. We can't pay you that kind of thing.
I've gotten that. I'm happy that you got the permission
slip in the wifey, I was a little I was
a little apprehensive about asking since you were bedridden for
a couple of days. But happy that now she's excited.
She's I think she's planning on attending also, like doing
stats or something like that. She knows nothing about stats,
but pretend she's in charge of the stats. Well, fair enough, Well,

(32:31):
I'm happy you guys are coming along. It'll be a
short trip for you from coming from Arizona too, So
you're all good. Yeah. I was worried because when you
said there, you said, hey, there's some game. I don't
know which game it is. We don't know the game yet.
I'm thinking you're gonna have me driving out to like
Big Bear, Santa barber or something like that would have
been a great weekend for the wife. Well, they paid
for the hotel room, it would do really Yeah, that

(32:53):
would have been damn. Why couldn't we do a game
in Santa Barbara? And now you want for a hotel?
I work in radio and I don't to pay for
anything in radio. What are you talking about? Wow? Alright,
moving on study this? Are you ready for studying this?
These your actual studies by actual mostly universities, and they
take a look at some of the more interesting things

(33:15):
in life. I get a kick out of these things.
I know most of them are bullshit. So the way
this works is will give the study and then we
will decide whether or not we believe it or we
don't believe it, whether or not it's bullshit or it's legit.
And the first study up here involves basic human rights.
All right, this comes out of England and there's a

(33:38):
study done. According to this new study that internet access
is such a vital part of the human experience that
it is right there with food and shelter. It should
be a basic human right, according to a study published
by the University of Birmingham in England. How about that. Yeah,

(34:04):
this is study and this person that they determined if
only a certain percentage of the world's population has access
to the Internet, well others, particularly those in developing nations,
do not. It undermines these people's basic human rights, an
ability to live a minimal decent minimally decent live. Well,
shout out globalists. Yeah, I have to come on. I mean,

(34:25):
I love the Internet, but at times I wonder what
my life would be like without it. You know, maybe
it would be better, more positive. Yes, I I don't.
I don't have to log into Twitter and say, hey, asshole,
fuck you. The astros are great. I don't worry about that,
you know what I'm saying? Hashtag blessed. Uh here's a
selfie with me waking up in the morning and I
just poured myself a coffee. Life is great. Plus, you know,

(34:46):
you know, spoiler alert. Most people on the internet are
not trying to become better people. They're trying to post
selfies of their ass to get a boyfriend on on Instagram.
Not that I'm complaining about that, but yeah, they're trying
to get paid exactly. So I mean, come on, now,
what what are we doing here? Right? It's it's it's ridiculous. Anyway,

(35:08):
what else do we have it? Study? This? These our
actual studies as songs for the heart. Listening to instrumental
music while driving eases cardiac stress? Do we believe this
or we do not believe this? Um? I think I
believe it, because, well, what do you listen to when
you go to the gym? I usually have the the TV.

(35:30):
I watched TV more than I don't usually listen to music.
I'm watching the TV. What do you what do you
listen to when you drive from Arizona to the studio
h Hodgepodge of podcast radio And then I'll listen to
some some music from time to time. Also I'll mix
it in, but it's just you know whatever. I've got
some songs on my phone usually listen to those off
I'll go on like Amazon Music because my wife's got

(35:54):
Amazon Prime, and I'll put something in there. I'm always
curious to what people listen to when they're in the car,
especially here in l A or maybe New York. Um,
I'm one of those guys were all listened to like
fast music, Like I'll listen to house or trance or
something like that when I'm driving and it makes me
go faster obviously, or I listened to believe it or not.

(36:15):
Like movie soundtracks. I like movies soundtracks too, because your
life becomes the movie. Yeah, your life becomes away. So
like when you play like classical music and stuff. It's
like because in movies when they when they have the
background music, it's often just classical. There's no vote, no
words or anything like. Yeah. Absolutely, So when I'm in
the gym, if I need to get in and out,
I listened to Batman Begins. I'll listen to that sound track.

(36:36):
You know in some of those streaming services they have whatever.
John william John Williams has put out almost all of
that stuff, right, Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer's got the yeah
so that I don't listen to Star Wars, but Top Gun,
the Rocky sound tracks, those are all good back in
the day. Right, yeah, oh yeah, those are great. It's
all listen to that stuff depending and then if when

(36:57):
you slow things down, I'll listen to a show down track,
just because the music mixture is a little bit different.
So I got a big blend though of music like
alternative rock. And look at you patting yourself on the
back with a humble brag about how you listen to
all kinds of music. Well, I just tried to have
a different environments than a man. You know, I don't
listen to podcast at the time. I gotta diagnose what
you're sucking up on on this podcast. So alright, A

(37:21):
lot of people, by the way, last week thought you
fucked up because at the end you put all these
bloopers on and people didn't know what they were and
they were like, wow, this is amateur hour. Yeah, and
you said, and I quote, you gotta make sure you
explain this to our audience because they're a bunch of idiots.
End quote. I did did you explain it to the audience?
Are you playing open saying he it's blooper time? But
I think it's better that way that they don't know

(37:42):
what's going on. This is what's all about Yeah, okay,
I love the emails. You know, guess going he left
up the podcast man just gonna screwed it up. He
left all your bloopers in it. Okay, it was pretty
damn funny. Alright, I blame the yoga pants. Well who
I don't know any man that doesn't love yoga pants.
But apparently this is right, isn't. This comes out of
Portland or in Portland State University. You find that pollutants

(38:05):
known as micro plastics are being detected in oysters and
razors razor clams along the Oregon coast, and they've determined
this is great. Yoga pants are for fox sake, I know, right,
Come on, these people should be kicked out forget anyway,
kick him out of the country. The researchers claimed that

(38:27):
yoga pants, please jackets, and other sweat absorbing clothes frequently
warned by Pacific Northwesterners, are contributing to the local plastic problem. Yeah.
I don't plan on going to Portland, Oregon anytime soon,
but I'll tell you this much. If you are a
male or even a female, if you're wearing yoga pants,
it's usually in spots like l A, Orange County New York, Boston, UM, Florida,

(38:53):
like down South Beach, Tampa. Maybe, I mean, yeah, that
that does that does a body good. Well, it does
a body good when it's the right body. But I
think we've all seen situations where does not necessary you know,
not necessary. You know what I'm saying. Well, whatever makes
a woman feel sexy. Yeah, but you know you gotta Yeah,

(39:15):
there are limits, There are limits, there are, but you
know what, fuck it. Who cares you want it all for?
I'm I'm I think it's one of the great inventions
right up there with the remote control and power. Yes,
yoga pants, one of the great inventions at right time. Alright,
so we have virtual pain, virtual competition. Uh, this is
this is great, so real injuries. Sports medicine, the according

(39:39):
to study, has to adapt to the dangers all wait
for it, E sports, yes, E sports. Coding to new study,
researchers say that excessive numbers of hours E sports athletes
typically spend practicing is taking a physical toll on them
carpal tunnel, resulting in a variety of physical, psychological and

(40:00):
uh met a ball like ailments. I can believe that.
And uh yeah, so they're going through the whole thing here. Tournaments. Uh,
these things sell out and whatnot, and there big crowds,
very popular in the you know, people watching this stuff,
they love it. Were you a gamer back in the day, Uh? Yeah,
but I played like Duck Hunt, I mean that was
my Yeah, I played games. But these games are out

(40:20):
of but three. They said, the average e gamer, the
pro gamer plays three to ten hours every day, three
or ten hours every day, and they average five hundred
and six hundred in game action minutes per minute. Yeah,
I mean that. When I went to San Diego State,
we would spend about six seven hours a night playing
video games. But which was actually ingenious too, because the

(40:43):
more time we spent playing video games, the less time
we spent in the bar wasting money. So we would
play games all night and then around eleven or eleven thirty,
after done playing video games and maybe some dominoes, then
we'd go to the club or then we'd go to
the bar. And usually that time it's the best time
because you get the stragglers. You go when they come out,
and you know, it's like the inter and out service,

(41:05):
so you're set up. Yeah, it's pretty good, especially have
no standards, so you're good. Well, I have standards, it's
just that they're different levels at different times to day.
I understand. I mean you're closing time a four becomes
an eight. Well yeah, but in something California, usually four
here is usually like a ten in you know, like

(41:26):
Illinois or Iowa. Yeah, people listening in Iowa in Illinois stupid?
Who cares? They care? Yeah, but they know they know
what I saw when I was in Indianapolis years ago.
You just busted on women that wear yoga pants that
might not need to wear those. Well, yeah, but that
could be in anywhere. That could be in Miami or

(41:47):
l A or anywhere then, not to be just Iowa.
But I was in Indiana, Indiana, and they were beautiful
women in Indiana years Like I was walking, I just
couldn't believe it. This is crazy or yeah, Bloomington, No,
it is in Indianapolis. And there were a bunch of
colleges in Indianapolis. But I was like I, I you know,
I didn't. I've never been there before. I didn't know
what to expect us. I could be a bunch of
ugly people, but there they were good looking people. Did

(42:08):
you meet anybody, Uh No, of course not. I did not. I.
I did eat the most expensive meal I've ever eaten.
That was when the Lakers and Pacers played in the
NBA Finals. We went to Stay No St. Elmo's Steakhouse
and my friend I had the surf and turf, but
I had to had a big steak. I even really
like steak that much, but I I this thing was
it was. The meal was almost like a grand It

(42:30):
was crazy. So how did you funk up the steak?
Did you put sauce on it? Oh? Catch up, pepper,
catching you a one steak, sauce, catchup? Whatever I could do?
Well done? Yah? Yeah. Yeah. It's always great when you're
going to a high end steak joint and you say, hey,
can you burn it? Burn and baby burn. They really
like that. They love that. You can't get enough of

(42:51):
that big the big fans of that. You should try it.
Sometimes it's embarrassing, all right. Uh. This one came from
our friend in Iowa. Let me see here, we have
give the proper credit, because if we don't give the
proper predit gask on, people get very upset here. And
they Bill in Iowa set this one in. He wanted
us to talk about this and I love that guys
are now feeding his content for the fifth hour. Uh

(43:15):
it's like having a producer and uh it's pretty good.
But anyway, here's the study and it's about sleep. And
this is by something I should use during a sleep
number commercial, but I'm not. I'm using it here and
uh it's like, I guess a warning sign to me
is people who sleep for fewer than five hours a
night have significantly shorter telomeres than those who get an

(43:38):
adequate seven hours of sleep. That's according to a new study.
Apparently this causes problems if you don't have a lot
of telemore's telomeres. I think I'm saying that right. And
uh so they've done a bunch of research showing how
consumers sleep trackers can shine a light on the cost
of not getting enough sleep. Now I do not get
enough sleep, probably five nights a week, and then two

(44:00):
nights I get plenty of sleep. I don't think it matters,
but yeah, that's the life of doing overnight radio and
having stuff to do during the day. Are you is
your room straight black or do you have blinds that
have a little crack? No? No, no, no. We One
thing I've invested in is I have two layers of
blackout curtains. I have a window tint on the windows.
I have hotel high end, hotel level darkness. When I'm sleep,

(44:25):
I do. And that's one thing I'm very proud of.
It's like a dungeon in there. And it's the only
because I go to bed the sun's and when i'm
in I'm in near Vegas, apparently it's really hot. It's
boiling hot. So yeah, but it's also the fact that
you don't go to bed till like eight or nine o'clock.
When you get off at three, Well, I go to
the gym uh and then wind down after the gym,

(44:46):
and I have some responsibilities that I have to do,
and then once that's done, I go to bed. You
have a very stressful life. It's self imposed stress. No,
it's all right. I mean I'm not. It's fine. I don't.
I don't feel higher or anyway. When I do these
stupid podcasts, I feel tired because I get even less
sleep to get up to do this. Dude, these once
a fucking a week. Yeah, but that's a very busy,

(45:08):
very busy day, all right. I mean, you're you're gonna
send me over the edge. You remember last week you
sent me to the hospital gascon people pointing out that,
and they probed into the podcast and you asked me
about about you ever had an operation and I said, no,
I've never had a major operation. And uh, today two
days later chopping me open. Thank you gas Well you
got a war wound. Now it feels so weird. They

(45:32):
glued me back. They took the stitches or the staples
out and they put glue in there. So I'm literally
glued together. That is amazing. And you have the stitches
removed to you, right, or they took they took the
stitches out on the other cuts. But they cut me
open four times, four places to do the gall stone thing.
But the one in the top is the big one.
They really ripped my skin apart on that one. Listen,

(45:53):
you gotta promised me this. Then the next time you
go to the hospital for something, can you at least
bring me along for some play by play when you
play by calling oscarpy Next year, I will do your
play by play. We'll just think big guest. Once this
Friday night high school football game goes well, like we'll
be partners next year, right, I mean we'll be doing
this every week? How great will that be? Come on?

(46:14):
And if I move up to a higher rank, God
forbid if I have to use any of this work
as a real Alright, moving on, it's in the bag.
These are listener messages posted on our Facebook page Ben
Mallard Show every Thursday mornings during the week. I post
I say, hey, we're probably gonna be doing the podcast later.

(46:36):
Send some questions in, and listeners have done that. The
first one comes from Dan and Kalamazoo. Now Calamazoo's in
my top ten city nameless with beaver Dam and Punk
Sitani and Rancho Kucamonga and in those places, So I
like Calamazoo. Dan and Kalamazoo writes, and he says, what

(46:56):
is the longest you've got? This is appropriate? What is
the longest you've gone without sleep? He says, He says,
gag on too. I guess, well, I don't have an
exact number of hours, Dan, but I do know the
longest I went with sleep is when I again for work.
I was working at the NBC Sports Network years ago,
and and they fly me out one week a month

(47:17):
to Stanford, Connecticut from l A. And I at that
time I was doing the weekend overnight show. So I
did the weekend overnight show on a Saturday into a Sunday. Uh,
and then I did the Blitz on Sunday afternoon. So
I didn't get much talking about two hours of sleep
on Saturday night, got up to do the Blitz and
then I rushed to l a X to take a

(47:39):
red eye into JFK. And then they took a car
service drove me to Connecticut to do the thing. And
but the problem was on Monday, we had production meetings.
Pretty much as soon as I got to to the
that area, I had to go to a production meeting
for that night show. So I did not sleep, and uh,

(47:59):
I could not, and so I'm amazed I did not
fall asleep like Mike Francesa on on television. But I went,
I would say roughly by time I finally went to sleep.
I remember one of the times I didn't even go
to sleep that night because I had a room near
an elevator, and then the elevator kept waking me up.
But I would say I went probably about sixty hours,
but not sixty over fifty, certainly over fifty hours without sleep.

(48:22):
What about you, Gasca, Well, I've had a couple of them,
but they're mostly Vegas benders, drug related. I understand. I
went thirty two hours twice in Vegas for a bachelor party. Um,
I actually went twenty eight hours at Fox Sports Radio
and uh, and I got rated out by a colleague
here too for doing that. I oddly enough, I worked

(48:43):
a day shift at Fox, went to UC rivers side
to call a basketball game that night, and then Dan
Bayer had called me up because, um, oddly enough, timing wise, uh,
Eddie and his wife. Eddie's wife had a medical emergency
and so he had a go to the hospital. And
so Dan and asked me to fill in for for Eddie,

(49:04):
and so I filled it on your show. And the
show schedule is different from yours because yours a four
hour slot. Well, I have to work two shifts, so
it's two shows, which is nine hours. So at a
daytime to get my little make it, my little violin
out at a daytime shift, I'll call the basketball game.
Came back here, and then the morning anchor she comes

(49:25):
in a little later than normal, which you're supposed to
be doing, like an hour early. She comes in like
just before you need to be on air. I had
to stay around the entire time. And when I got
off at six am, traffic had built up in downtown
Los Angeles and on the west side of town. SAW
was stuck an hour traffic getting back home, and so
I didn't fall asleep until like nine or ten. So

(49:46):
I was a full like twenty eight hours. By the
by the way, I just had an epiphany guest on
that I the longest I stayed away. It just happened
in April when I got flown back to do the
Boston w e I Show, and I had a listener
part and I had no time. I was doing two shows.
I was doing the night show in Boston, the overnight show,
and I'm like, I love Boston. I was one of

(50:06):
my favorite cities. I love going around. Is a lot
to you know, check out history in Boston. And I
was there all week and I all I did was
go to from the hotel room to UH to UH
the radio station. And I was like, what the hell, man,
you know what I mean, this is a great city.
So I had an evening, like a late afternoon flight
on Friday, but I did the overnight show Friday night,

(50:27):
you know, Thursday night and Friday morning and then I
just said, you know what, screw it, I'm gonna stay awake.
I'm gonna go walk around Boston. And it was kind
of a chilly morning in April, and I'm gonna go
walk around. So I I did. I stayed awake, and
then I thought I was gonna be able to sleep
on the flight. I couldn't sleep on the flight. I
was too jammed in the flight. I couldn't fall asleep.
So I stayed awake. That was I think that was
probably the longest I stayed away. By the time I

(50:49):
finally got to sleep late at night Friday in l
a uh, that was probably well over fifty hours. But
see Boston and New York. You can do that. Like
I take red Eyes to New York. And part of
the reason for that is when I arrive in New
York with it's LaGuardia or JFK, I have Flint Newark once.
People don't like New Ork, no, not at all, but
you feel juiced up when you land in New York.

(51:10):
There's just something about that city that never sleeps. You're
just you were just juiced up. You can just do whatever,
and obviously you can walk around and eat and drink
whatever at any time of the day. Of course out
here in the West Coast. You can do that in
Las Vegas. But yeah, it's a good reason. Boston's a
really fun city to be in. No matter. I love
Boston and they've been very good to me. The people
of Boston been cool and uh, we have the same attitude.

(51:32):
We're all assholes, so they're called they call them massholes,
but I'm just an assholes. Oh yeah, to do it.
I love their attitude. Do you still like them after
they fired you? They didn't fired me. I was forced
to leave, idiot because we are shows now on the
Sports Hub and amazingly, they will not let us work
on both radio stations in Boston. There's apparently compete clause

(51:52):
in these contracts that are beyond my pay grade and
all that. But but but yeah, the people of Boston
pretty pretty. I love to find when I did that
the Red Sox postgame, Uh that two years I was
doing it, and the Red Sox would be like a
streak of like nine wins in twelve games and people
would be like that, dad fucking good trade. Jackie Bradley,

(52:15):
that guy can't be had. Dual m vps that year.
J d. Martinez and Mookie Batts. Yeah, they did that
when he won the World Series. Apparently they were who
knows if they were begging on drums like the Astros.
I'm sure those videos will likely come out at some point.
I don't know what they were doing, but the But anyway,
all right, moving on, it is in the bag. Will
do a few more of these, and I know we
also have for your dancing and dining pleasure we have.

(52:37):
Don't stick to sports. Glenn says, when since when is
weed Man hippie allowed back on the show? Well, Glenn,
real quick for that, you missed the show when I
came back from the hospital. While I was in the hospital,
weed Man apologized. He sent me an email apologizing for
his actions. But is this was this apology coming because
he felt like he was giving you last rights? Probably,

(52:58):
but he apologized and then he's like he for well,
I have unlike you, I have empathy. But he apologized.
I was like, I have to do with anything. I
don't know. He's been listening the whole time. Anyway, he
just doesn't call in and it's killing him. They're not
call in. But did you did you have an epiphany? Though?
Like I feel like you should start abolishing some callers,
like like Chris and Houston, like that guy should never

(53:22):
be allowed to call your show again after he tucktailed
and ran from the World Series. Yeah, and like Chris is,
so he's such a cool a drinker. Like this Astro
scandal came out this week. There was a video that
popped up of them blatantly banging a trash can when
there was a breaking ball, and uh, it was like, yeah, yeah, anyway,

(53:42):
and so I put the video Chris says, oh it
was edited video. You can't even hear it, and then
hand the god guest And there's like seven hundred videos
that are out now in different games in including the
World Series, of the Astros either using banging a trash
can or or a whistle. It's hilarious. Chris like, well,
I was editing. It was one time. I don't think

(54:03):
that you know, they didn't do it in the World
the World Series. Even Cooper Loop was like, but there's
no video of them in the World Series doing it.
Then the next day the video showed up. There you go, wonderful.
Can we be a party to a class actual lawsuit?
Gasc on for for get get some money out of that.
We're gonna get some things happening in social media, Like
social media is gonna find out the World Series in

(54:23):
two thousand and seventeen was should be played under protest
because the Astros cheated, And somehow, some way Twitter is
gonna find out who really killed Jeffrey Epstein. Well, they're trying.
I got a prediction somebody's gonna put video out saying
that the Dodgers also cheated in the World Series. That's
my prediction that that someone will come up with some

(54:44):
video of something and clinch to the Dodgers were doing
it too. Uh. Well, maybe I'm wrong, but I have
a feeling that somebody in the Astros organization is gonna
try to come back with that. Let's see Derek the
E sports guy in Boston from Boston's in l A. Now,
this guy is a big E sports star. What kind
of game is playing? I forget the name of the game.
But he works. He They moved him to l A

(55:06):
to work in a house and just practice his craft
of playing video games. I've been trying. He's a young guy.
How great is this? This guy said he's making more
money than both of us combined. He's like a teenager
guy or his early twenties. What it made me feel
better about myself anyway, says He says, do you consider
do you guys consider professional video games as a sport? Uh?

(55:29):
If not? Why I do not think of it as
a sport because I think generally I think of it
as you have to have some physical act. It's mentally challenging,
but I don't consider it, Like my traditional definition of
sport is an activity involving physical exertion. What do you

(55:53):
think golf is a sport? I didn't until I played
the other day and I felt pain all over my
body when we got back the next day. Do you
think IndyCar or NASCAR drivers are athletes? No, not really,
But the skill I mean, see, that's what there's gotta
be like a It's it's different because to me, sport

(56:15):
is physical recreations, physical activity. These things I feel are
mostly mental. Now. It is if you're in a NASCAR
in a stock car and you're going around for five
hours in a circle, it is a wear and tear
in your body more than east A sports all about
the mental part. You have to have laser like focusing.
They've gotta be doing those, hopefully not those opiates handation.

(56:37):
I think east sports, I think they're athletes. It's like poker,
it's like chess, it's like being in a car. Like
you're using your mind, you're using some physicals. I'm an athlete.
I drive to work. I'm an athlete. By your definition,
I'm an athlete. Doing this is mentally challenging. I have
to think of the next word I'm going to say,
so that is also, I'm an athlete when I'm doing

(57:00):
I'm a broadcast athlete. So you think like something you
think a c P as an athlete, Well, you're a definition. Yes,
it's a physical activity in a competitive nature. Driving is competitive.
Talk radio's competitive. Podcasting is competitive. Well you're married. Do
you think you're an athlete because you have sex? Uh? Yes,

(57:21):
Well my wife's more of an athlete than I am. Yes,
but ump bump, all right, Uh, moving on. You're just
saying that, guest because you want to be a play
by play guy for the sports I know I you
aw ulterior motives. I know what you're up. Well we
can do this together, though, Yeah, i'd be I would
totally do that. I would totally be up the sports
play by play guy would be fun a good time.

(57:43):
And it's funny you say that. I actually met someone
like high ranking in the East sports world a couple
of weeks ago. He came to one of my high
school games for Fox. It turned out his dad. I
didn't know this until I found out through a couple
of buddies that were there. His dad was one of
the original creators of Monday Night Football. Wow. Really, Yes,

(58:07):
what was his dad's name? I can tell you that
off here. Yeah, I can tell you that. You know,
in my early days, and since we're name dropping, when
I worked, a name dropped while you were trying to
you were there's a humble brad. You'd admit it was
a humble brad. I didn't. I didn't. You know, I
didn't get anything. Yeah, but you were looking for some
credit for that, you know, you you were doing. You
didn't fully open up the can of worms, but you

(58:28):
were looking for some credit. Always. No. But when I
first started in radio in San Diego, it was Steve
Hartman was doing a show with Chet Forte, who was
the Monday Night Football like I think it was the
director of producer of Monday Night Football. And uh, it
was like the highest paid TV executive and then lost
everything gambling, lost everything gambling on sports. It all went away.

(58:49):
And he was like a college basketball player in New
York back in the day and a good guy, nice guy.
I passed away a few years back. But anyway, uh,
here's one Oh. This is from Iowa Sam in Los Angeles,
by the way of Iowa City, I like one of
our colleagues, and a question. He says, any foods that

(59:13):
you are prohibited from eating now that your gallbladder has
been removed. That's actually a good question, Iowa Sam, and
thank you for listening and to appreciate your work for
the company. You're jolly good. But but no, I I
wasn't really given any restrictions. I was told that now
that I don't have my gall bladder, let when I
eat spicy foods, which I have not done yet, or
really greasy foods, It's gonna be a poop fest right away.

(59:37):
I'll be on the shifter within like half an hour.
Mike Harmon has had this happen to him. He had
his gall bladder out, although it was not as messed
up as mind, and he has said that that is
the case that you eat greasy food. It's a problem,
so I have. I've tried to change my diet a
little bit. Uh, we'll see if I stick to it.
More rice, chicken, that kind of stuff, not spicy. I
used to eat tacos and burritos all the time and

(59:59):
nacho losing. I'm not gonna do that as much, but
I still I'm not. I'm gonna live my life. I'm
still occasionally on the weekends when I don't even eat
much during the week guest gone. So on the weekends,
I'm still gonna have a nice meal, maybe on a
Saturday or a Friday or something like that, and then
that's it. I well, don't forget. You actually owe me
a Philly cheese steak too, so um, I'll be a

(01:00:19):
part of you know what, Philly cheese steak. You you're
so worried about your girlish figure, you don't eat any
of that. Man. I've been I've been working out really
hard recently. I've been trending pretty hard, running miles, and
I've decreased my one mile run from like eleven minutes
and some change down to et I'm really proud of myself.
Let me give you some Reese's pieces here you want something,

(01:00:40):
I could use some. I've been fastened today and if oh,
there you bragging about your fast, I'm fasting too. In fact,
I'm gonna out fast you. I'm not eating today when
we're recording this on a Thursday. The next meal I
have will be after that high school football game on
Friday night. How about that? Yeah, I hope your wife
doesn't take us summer shitty. She better not. I'll be

(01:01:01):
eating a lot of food that particular nights. But to
be fair, i'bout raising canes. We go to Canes, they're
open late. You wanta go to Keynes, but you can't
have greasy food though I can't. I can't. I'll just
go to the toilet. Boom done. Listen, you just got
out of the icy you. I'm not gonna The first
thing I'm not gonna do is take you to a
Come on, you gotta live. I'm I'm working, although I

(01:01:21):
haven't been able to go back to the gym yet.
They told me I had to wait because they glued
me back together until Monday. Well that sucks because I do.
Even though I'm not Adonis and I'm not you know,
a Mr. Universe, I do enjoy the working out. I
do enjoy. Can you have I guess that's the thing too.
Can you have protein shakes? Because the protein usually probably
goes right through right? I don't. I don't know. I

(01:01:42):
have not. I don't have pro I have like veggie
and my wife will throw some like a fruit smoothie
Gabe kapler or something like the Greenies. Yeah. Yeah, that's
a great way to eat vegetables and not realize you're
eating vegetables masket with like oranges or you know, some
kind of fruit rais or something like that. Yeah. Uh.
Michael in Ohio rights and he says, do we do

(01:02:05):
we as members of the mallem Militia make you and
the crew better people? Or do you ever feel a
bit bitter with some of the shenanigans that some people,
uh in the radio audience put out to us. From Michael,
I'd like to answer that for you. The Mallard Militia
makes the staff uh double think about themselves, like rethink

(01:02:27):
their life, re evaluate where they're going in life, the
repurpose of life. That's exactly what they not. Most people
that have a spine and a backbone don't feel that way.
The Mallew Militia. Let me evangelize film Momentbut this Mallew Militia,
all right, they are watch dogs for the Ben Mallow Show. Okay,
they are, and they they they stay focused, they stay grounded,

(01:02:50):
most of them, not all of them. And they monitor,
they monitor the spinning match that is sports talk radio.
And they if anyone the key thing of being in
the Malamlitias, when anyone bespirches my good name, they have
to let me know about it and defend the the
honor of the Ben Maller Show and the people that
work on the Ben Mallier And they are relentless people

(01:03:11):
are ruthless. That ruthless, which I love. They they're such
super fans of the show that they go over the top.
It's they're gonna have a rally in Seattle in December,
late December. Ed in Spokane and Christina are behind it.
But they're gonna be like holding signs and bullhorns shouting
my name outside the Seahawks game. How cool is that? Yeah,

(01:03:33):
they're they're rabid dogs. Not them, but the Mallar Militia
is a whole. They're like rabid dogs that anything is
out of out of whack they come barking. Yeah, the
way I will answer the question, though, Michael in Ohio
is I love the Malamlicia. They've been great, very supportive,
you know, as long as they don't cross the line
where they end up getting arrested and uh, fan of

(01:03:53):
the Ben Maller Show arrested for pooping in the streets.
I don't need that, you know, you know what I'm saying.
Other than that, I'm good. Uh. Let's see. Uh oh,
Richard said, I don't have a question, but I just
sending you guys love from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Those nice Wisconsin people.
So you got you got Wisconsin, you got Kalamazoo, Seattle,

(01:04:13):
We're all Derek the sports guy from Boston, We're all
over the place. Let's see, here's one. How much money
would it take for you to spend one whole winter
in Canada where temperatures can reach minus for this from
Mark the load management expert listening to us in Ottawa. Well, see,
that's got to depend on where you're at, because if
you're up north, like in Edmonton, then you're probably asking

(01:04:36):
for a little bit more than and let's say, if
you were in Vancouver or Calgary or Winnipeg, or Toronto
or Toronto. Toronto is awesome though, like you'll warm yourself
no matter what. In Montreal, Yeah, I mean the way
I look at it. I've I have been offered jobs
in Boston, you know I can't. I have been because
of my life situation. I couldn't take them. But I

(01:04:57):
would live in Boston, where it gets pretty nasty in
the winter time. I think I could be fine. I
don't go out much anyway, you know, I think I'd
be all right as long as I had a nice heater. Uh.
Look at people live in Minnesota. They've got tunnels and
stuff in Minnesota. They live their life fine that the
weather is very harsh there. Uh, And so I think
it would be fine. I would. I wouldn't have a
problem with it as long as that WiFi because it's

(01:05:17):
a it's a right of life. And a food shelter
and a heater. You live anywhere, who cares. I've been
several people have recommended that I visit Canada. Uh. They
say Vancouver, the Vancouver Islands, Toronto, Montreal, and they also
said even as a non sports event, they recommend they
highly recommend going to the Calgary Stampede. Yeah, they say

(01:05:41):
millionaires and billionaires like these oil tycoons go there like
once a year. In fact, when I went to grad
school in Boston, I had two classmates. They were both
bartenders down in Florida. They would get flown to the
Calgary Stampede and clear ten grand in a weekend. Wow,
pretty good. But they said, there's nothing like the ten

(01:06:03):
grand in the year on this podcast. That would be nice. Listen,
you might make more money tagging along with me on
on some television. Well you just wait. You're gonna be
blown away by the amount of sports cliche goodness does
that I provide. It is going to be amazing. It's
gonna be a life changing experience. I I you, I
don't know who you worked with. I'm sure you worked

(01:06:24):
with some former players or whatever. Any house, Reggie, So
you just asked who I've worked with? Name dropper Gascon.
But listen, you're connected to some TV executives, so you
gotta understand Gascon. I I know every cliche in football.
I have been doing this for a very long time.
You know, from ground in pound to dink and dunk

(01:06:45):
uh to remedial passing game. You know anything Northwest, southeast whatever.
I got all the terms. I got all the terms
and much like mostly Defense, mad At Dart, Defense, Cents Store, Defense,
you name, and I got their kids. You can't just
destroy them, though, on come on, please, they're not watching that.

(01:07:06):
Come on, they're playing video games. They're not gonna watch that.
Although I can't use I can't use my line gas
and I can't say that's a trap game because this
is a playoff game. So I can't Centennial's gotta watch
you out this is a trap game. No, it's a
playoff game. And I don't think you can use lunch
pails and hard hats. Why not because none of them
are like social workers and they don't know what lunch

(01:07:29):
pails are anymore. Wow, Wow, unbelievable. Can I Can I
say that Jay Sarah might be tanking for a higher
draft pick and I say that, but see, you're connected
to some TV executives, so I would I would strongly
encourage you to send this out after we're done. Oh,
they're not gonna love me. They're not gonna watch Do

(01:07:50):
you think I'm gonna get TV executive to watch this? Yeah?
You think they're gonna hire me? Then to do like
you replace Colin's Worth at Sunday Night Football. No, but
they might hire me for something. And now we know
why I got Now we know why I got the
invite into the stupid high school football games. Much like radio,

(01:08:10):
ward is the leadman's medium television as a broadcasting team.
It's not my medium either as a one. It's the
color analyst. This medium that's your so once again, television
to radio, radio to TV. No. No, the thing about TVs,

(01:08:30):
I don't have to say that much because it's just
you got pictures. So I I can be I can
take a quarter off and just be like I had
nothing to say. That's it, you know, and who would
know because they're watching the game. How great? Is that great?
So you mail it in on podcasts like you did
last week and they're gonna tank this game? Well no,
I mean occasionally say, now I'll do the instant replay

(01:08:51):
because I I learned from Madden when I was a kid. Boom, bam,
see you hit that whole bam, just like that. I
like the quarterbacks name though, for is it for Centennial
or oh no, for Jay Sarah? What's his name again?
General Booty? General Booty. I hope this guy wins the
Heisman something. How great would it be to have General Booty.
That is a great name, that is one of the top.

(01:09:14):
When when you, or somebody I think it was you
sent me the depth chart for this game and I
looked at that, I said, hell, look, guesscon's funny. He's
sending in the funny names here to goof with me.
He wanted me to say the quarterbacks named General Booty
on the air. And then I looked it up and
the kids like, he's legit, his dad played college football
or I believe, and he's the John David Booty. This

(01:09:37):
goes I think this goes right to the food chain.
Amongst the best names in quarterback history. That goes like
it's comparison to Major Apple White from Texas. Yeah, it's
one of the great sports names. Now, I think the
greatest sports name of all time is Chubby Cox, which
is which is Kobe Bryant's uncle. But fair Hooker was
a great name for the Cleveland Browns back in the day.

(01:09:58):
And everyone wants a fair hooker. Everyone wants a fair
hooker for sure. Uh yeah, I'm happy that that doing
a high school game has brought your maturity level down
to a teenager. It's it's fascinating. That's it's great. That's
what I'm here. All right, moving on. I think that's enough.
I didn't get all the question. I'm sorry Biglou and

(01:10:19):
some of you other guys, but we gotta move on.
Guestcown we're doing. This is like a two hour, not
the fifth hour. It's the sixth hour here. Well, you
had what you had a week off of work. That's
good point. That is a good point. So it's actually
not that bad. You just you know, that's I understand. Uh,
don't take stick to sports stories a week that is
your domain. Yeah, we had Where were we going first?

(01:10:40):
I guess we can go to You mentioned Indianapolis earlier,
but this three Indiana Supreme Court judges were declared uh
uh constituted judicial misconduct because they had a night on
the town. Three judges were traveling throughout Indianapolis. They actually
had to go to a conference. After a night of drinking.

(01:11:00):
Three judges went to White Castle because of near a
gentleman's club. Well sure, why not? Those White Castle burgers
is delicious. In the middle of the night, late night affair,
these judges got into an altercation in the parking lot
with the driver and passenger of an suv H. One
of them raised the middle finger, another one got out,
a gun was pulled out. Obviously all caught on camera

(01:11:23):
because you're gonna parking lot next to a restaurant. These
guys front and stars. So they've been suspended, but they
will return to work later on. So all right, So
and and there one of them was wounded. Is out.
Two of the judges were actually wounded. They got shot. Yeah,
they got shot. One of them went to an emergency surgery. Uh,
he's required to stay in in the hospital for a

(01:11:43):
couple of weeks. Uh. They were obviously both in toxic
are the ones that were shot? Uh? Wow, these judges, man,
I wonder if I've been to that. I've been to
some white castles in Indianapolis. I wonder if I've been
to that one. In fact, that one the time last
time was in Indianapolis. We we flew we had a
we had a morning flight, like a six am flight,

(01:12:05):
So we stayed up all night that night and we
just ate White Castle burgers. And when I got back
to l A, I could still when I went to
the bathroom, it smelled like white Castle. I ate white
castle in Newark, New Jersey. Congratulations, awful. Well, I don't
know if it's as bad as what a burger in Arizona,
but it's pretty freaking bad. You know, it's a white
castle in the in Vegas? Is there? It's the closest

(01:12:28):
one to l A. I believe there's a white castle
in Vegas. Yet we are due for a Vegas trip
by the way. Uh yeah, maybe you can cut something
else out of my body by that and that'll be
that'll be wonderful. Wow, are you still complaining? That was
a week ago? Yeah, but you you were responsible for that.
What's necess we go to Mile High City? Um, the

(01:12:49):
city of Denver has gotta pay out somebody for a
little wrongdoing. Um. Would you ever pose in front of
a camera naked? Uh? No, of course, what if I
gave you money, I would know it would have to
be a ridiculous amount of right. How about this? The
city of Denver has agreed to pay United Airlines pilot

(01:13:10):
three hundred thousand dollars because he was actually arrested after
standing naked in front of his hotel room window and
in Denver International Airport. Oh he was arrested the airport. No, No,
at New there was the Denver International Airport. Hotel there
was one was connected to it. Did he think the
window was like tinted or something like that. He was

(01:13:31):
on the tenth floor and he was opening up the curtains,
not suspecting anyone could see him from that high up.
He was butt naked. Uh, he was arrested, obviously a
wrongful arrest. Uh, look up plasts of the curtains. Arrested, detained,
and now the city Denvers pay him three hundred thousand dollars.
How about that three? Yeah? Yeah, So like somebody had

(01:13:55):
to call and say, hey, there's a naked man there. Whatever?
Who called? That's a bad person? What are you? What's
the blur? Unless he was, you know, enjoying himself there.
What are you doing walking around naked? Who cares? But
even if he was, he was the own hotel room.
I know. Well, that's like this whole thing in you know,
New York. Remember remember a rod got caught in uh,
you know, taking a dump in his condo and in

(01:14:17):
the in the right. Yeah, because people do that all
the time in New York. They people in high rises
think that they're you know that no one's looking at them,
and there's there's a bunch of pervs out there that
were their binoculars and cameras. They are taking photos and
other buildings across from where they live. It's the whole
cottage industry. Has that ever happened to you in the misses? While? Uh,
you know, cuddling at a hotel? Uh? No, Well she

(01:14:41):
would be okay with it, but I closed the blinds
and all that. The wife, he's down for voyeurism, slightly slightly.
She's so much. She's got such a better personality than you.
It's amazing. I agree with you on that. All right?
What's next? Year? Stone six? To stick to sports? The
extended version here the fifth. McLaren's got a new car. Ben.

(01:15:03):
This one's a little bit trickier. Uh. We couldn't afford it.
It costs one point seven million dollars. It's it's a supercar.
Check this out though, no roof and no windshield. The
windshield that is actually made of air. Have you heard
such a thing? No? Never? Yeah, So the options that
you have, why would I? Yeah, I'm sure that works

(01:15:23):
really well. Uh, no windshield and and and then you
get a rock that hits you right in the face. Yeah,
that's good. Geniuses and a carly want a car without
a windshield? Someone, that's probably I mean you're driving that
through where Calabasas, Malibu, Newport Beach. Uh yeah, I mean

(01:15:45):
all it's it's insane. It's uh yeah, I mean you're
probably not. You're probably driving like engated communities and all that.
I guess. Yeah, I've seen a picture of it. It's
called the McLaren Elva, and it is jet black leather seats.
It is apple gorgeous, eight and four horsepower with a
V eight engine in it. Yeah, it can. It can

(01:16:06):
go from zero to sixty and three seconds or less.
I'm good. I just give me a Nissan Ultima. I'm good.
I'm all right. You know, your car's ugly, fucking ugly green.
People are actually commenting on your color, like there's some
that's a pretty decent color. I said, no, it's not.
It's an ugly color. How about this one. What's the

(01:16:27):
most you've ever paid for a steak? Well, I told
you earlier in in Indian Apples. I forget how much
my personal said for it. Yeah, yeah, of course, I say, Well, no,
I mean I don't know. Out back, I had a
steak in a blooming onion. I don't know, seventy eight
bucks or something like that. I Uh. In Vegas, Wolfgang
Puck owns a restaurant in between the Venetian and the Palazzo.

(01:16:49):
It's called Cut and from my my Buddies thirtieth birthday,
we celebrated by taking him to Vegas. He also that
same weekend he got accepted to medical school, so he
was going up Heseas. For that. We went to Cut
and we ordered Japanese wagon steak, three different cuts of
it and seven ounces, twenty five dollars ben. It was

(01:17:15):
the best piece of steak I've ever had. It's like
it wasn't until the bill came. Who cares. It's like
only you're but you're still frugal with your money, Like
there's no reason to joy a little bit. It was
a special occasion. You're in Vegas, you can splurge a
little bit. Uh. I. I bring that up because I

(01:17:36):
can't even go out to dinner with you because I
feel like you're gonna order the most expensive. You're the
dick that orders the most expensive, okay, or the record
The last time we did go to dinner. It was
your idea. We went to the west side of town.
We went to a bougie Mexican spot. That was not
my idea, that was yours. Yeah, but I I ordered
here's the move. I actually ordered less food than I

(01:17:56):
wanted because I knew how expensive it was, and I
ordered the smallish dish amongst us four. I paid for
that meal, by the way, So you don't get it.
My beard was more than the tacos. I maade, Well,
you should have gotten a ticket because you parked illegally.
And I saved you that money because we told you
you got to move the car. Otherwise you would have
gotten a ticket. So I really I paid you even

(01:18:17):
more money. It's like an extra hundred bucks on a
parking take. Well, how about this. There's a Japanese chef
forty two years of age. Um. He owns a restaurant
called the Butcher's Kitchen. Restaurant that sounds like my kind
of place, The Butcher's Kitchen. He's got a wagoose style
sandwich ben his trademark eighty five dollars for a save.

(01:18:40):
How big is Sam? But it's the size of your arm. No,
it's it's not big at all. But it's it's probably
the size of your fist and you don't have a
big fast my headphones came out, Yes, guy, and I apologize,
But what did you say. I wasn't listening, was like
the size of your fist, the size of your fist.

(01:19:02):
I definitely do not need the do not need that
my life at all. Yeah. So yeah, last one, and
this is a personal story. So last week, for all
intensive purposes, you were you felt like you were pushed
through the brink of annihilation. Correct. There were a couple
of points where I thought that I was in really bad,

(01:19:23):
bad shape. Yes, I had a incident that was making
me feel the same way. Uh. So I went to
an event and on the west side of town. Did
you watch some of your work and you started feeling nausea? No? No,
So it's for a clothing line. They wanted me and
a couple other guys to work at this gym called
the dog Pound um in West Hollywood, our senior halls. Yeah,

(01:19:47):
something like that. That for an outdated reference. So we
have the clothing line. Came out with a pose work
at a tire. We worked out, was a great night.
Had some Mexican food after and I'm driving on the
one Tent South going home ben Usually at that time
of the day, people weren't usually drunk driving, but it
was around eight or nine o'clock and I noticed this
car in front of me, and he was going in

(01:20:09):
and out of lanes. Well, he actually drove somebody off
the road. And I'm a huge honker, but in this instance,
I wasn't honking. I was flashing my brightes because I
figured like either he wasn't paying attention or he was intoxicated,
so he needed to obviously drive in the middle of
the lane. Well, this dude jammed on his brakes, got

(01:20:30):
next to me, and then as soon as I passed
him by, he got behind me and started flashing his
brights and so, NATCHI uh get a little hot that
someone's trying to show me up. I'm on the road.
I jammed on my brakes, start flashing my brakes. He
pulls up alongside me, and passenger window rolls down and

(01:20:50):
outcomes this little black piece of metal, and so I
hit the brakes and I was like, holy sh it.
So one Tent South when it exits into the Harbor
area San Pedro, if you exit one street called Channel
the Harbor division of the L A p D S
right there. I knew it, so I jammed on the

(01:21:13):
brakes and as soon as he starts hitting the brakes
to pull it next to me, I hit the gas
and his window rolls down all the way and he
points out a fucking gun. It was a straight gun.
It wasn't a big one. It was probably smaller than
a glock, so I don't know what it was, but alertly,
I went right off onto the next off ramp. Now
are you are you like China duck? Yeah, yeah, you

(01:21:36):
have to duck. Yeah, side ducked, but I kept my
I knew exactly where I was going, so I knew
the road really well. So as soon as I got off,
I made the U turn. He didn't follow me because
he had to go to the next exit, which was
Gaffy Street. But part of the reason when people say
you're going to Pedro, like that's where the ghetto meets
the sea, and yeah, I was like a fast and

(01:22:00):
furious movies. Yeah, I wasn't scared, but the adrenaline level
of shot up really quick. And then not until like
ten fifteen minutes after I realized, oh, funk. Someone pulled
a gun out on me as well, I've never had
that happened. I've never had a gun pulled on me.
So can you've you've beaten me? Congratulations. I have had
driving overnight when I come home from the show. I've

(01:22:20):
had three times a wrong way driver was coming at me,
and that is that's scary, but not as I don't
think as scary as a gun. Yeah, would make a
scary as a gun. See, since we've started this podcast,
we've had a windshield blown out, We've had you get
hit in a parking lot, burned my tongue eating pizza,
bit my tongue, and I had a lisp like Lou

(01:22:41):
Holtz for a week. Yeah, you've gone to the infirmary
with your gall stones and I've had a gun flown
at me. So so things are going well, it's uh,
We're gonna get Vin Diesel in here and Dwayne Johnson
for you. We'll interview them about that. I think we
we can't get Paul Walker unfortunately, he's not available. Like, like,
what would make you feel like you're okay to throw

(01:23:02):
that line out there? Like the guy fucking died in
a car accident a few years, but he burned in
a car accident. I don't know how. I don't understand
six years man, at the time, five years is in?
After five years, it's open season. By the way, if
I died last week, you would have done a stand
up act about me, I mean, what are you talking about?

(01:23:23):
It would have called your wife and I would have asked, Hey,
was I in the will? Yeah? Yeah, exactly right? Is that?
Are you done? I don't know why you would have
felt good to throw a Paul Walker reference out there. Well,
I talked about Fast in The Furious and that was
his his vehicle. Actually, that wasn't his vehicle. He was
a different vehicle that he was in when he wasn't

(01:23:43):
he in a Ferrari? I don't remember. I don't. I
remember the night that he died. Everyone was freaking out,
but I don't remember the details much about it. I also,
was it like that comedian Kevin Hart that he almost
died on a car accident like last year? Right? That's right? Yeah?
Or maybe earlier? Here? Was it? Mel Gibson too? Yeah? Yes,
dangerous man? Yeah? What what end this podcast on? On

(01:24:08):
a great note? I think it's a great freaking note.
Litten to reference Paul Walker. Fast. I didn't know you
were such a fanboy of Paul Walker. My god, it
could have been gonna you're gonna do a heartfelt tribute
right now? What are you gonna do here? You get
out of the hospital and all of a sudden, you're
just Spry's day, Like I'm making pop culture references alright,
Fast and the Furious that how many movies do they make?

(01:24:29):
Seven movies or something, that they're still going Fast eight
was out, and then uh, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham
had their own. Uh so I'm what I'm doing is
going I'm going pop culture pop culture mount a right,
Van Diesel I mentioned him, Dwayne Johnson, what about Eric Holder?
And Fast and Furious? I'm good? Are we done? Thank you?

(01:24:52):
Guess good? And we'll have eno if you don't. If
I haven't already listened to Benny Versus De Penny, this
podcast comes out first, the one you're listening to, but
then we will have Betty Versus the Penny back picking
NFL games every game against the spread for a week eleven.
Have a great weekend. Don't forget if you're hearing us
on Friday during the day I'll be I'll be doing
a high school game with Gascon on television, and how

(01:25:14):
can people watch it? Again, Gascon, you're not even listening.
It's the Prep Zone, the Fox Go app. You can
check that out. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to
you on the radio health permitting, Sunday night into Monday
two am in the East. We'll talk about all those
big NFL games.

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