July 12, 2020 • 53 mins
After surviving the off and on furlough period, Ben is back to his normal routine and that means more classwork. Ben and David dive into another session by studying recent trends and discussing what the rest of this summer looks like with the current climate the nation is living in. Not to be forgotten, the guys open up another mailbag to see what people want to talk about. Recent weeks have seen a calmer crowd participate in listener based questions, but will that continue? Will the audio be considered radio gold?
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Ben Maller starts right now. It's the Fifth Hour with
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you've already downloaded the podcast available wherever you get your podcasts,
and it is another Sunday edition of the podcast, even
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on furlough. And for better or worse, in a secret
location somewhere in parts unknown, David Gascon is right over there.
Look at that. You have no applause, as I see
there's no applause on this, Uh not really necessary? And
and parts of Unknown, I guess you can narrow it down,
because no matter what, I will be west of the
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four oh five for lay here and sunny southern California,
hanging out with the aristocrats, the elitist, the one per
centers your people. I'm hanging out with the unwashed, my people,
the blue collar workers, the fabric of America. That's who
I'm hanging out. You're closer the Phoenix than your Los Angeles,
but it's all good. We still love you the same, alright.
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So coming up on today's podcast, here's what we are.
We are a little pop quiz, a little study this,
and a whole lot of mail. Will open up the
mail bag, and I asked you guys to send messages
in earlier because because of the furlough, so we're recording
this at a different time. Obviously we're not in the studio.
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That's also the audio of you've been listing all weekend.
The audio is not not up to stand. So that
means this will be a rare week where you just
don't try to annihilate me for the audio the when
it's recorded. So I'm grateful for that you acknowledge it
right off the bat, and I want to have to
worry about the rest of the week all but this
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At Ben Mallor, we're gonna be launching some new things.
There might be a YouTube channel that could be coming,
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It's it's time to also a payoff a thank you
cardon Um, your cameo is working. I bared witness to that.
Uh you did, you did cameo. I I appreciate the
cameo video from you to me. Very thoughtful for you,
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pro bono work for Ben maller. Um, that's awesome. I
appreciate it. Well, well, yeah, I appreciate I died laughing
when I finished that, because it was very painful to
do that particular cameo, which was requested by a secret
person we will not name, who for some reason, is
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so smitten with gag On. I do not know why.
I can't quite figure it out, but this particular person
really wanted a cameo, just lavishing Gascon with praise and uh,
I'll pretty much do anything you know on cameo. So
I said, all right, it's like, you know, nobody's gonna
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see this, nobody's gonna hear this other than a couple
of people. So so I'm doing it. Yeah, I appreciate it.
It was nine painful minutes for you, but a lot
and proud thank you for the card. So birthday, you're
now fifty? Does it feel different to be fifty? There?
You you look a lot older. All of a sudden,
I'm looking at a video of you, man, you look old.
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The gray hair has slowly come in on the chin
and across the beard. On top of my head, I
get a full head of hair, unlike you. So I
don't see a gray just year. But I don't know
about that you're wearing. You're wearing a hat. I don't
know that you have a full head. I'm full ahead
of it. Looks like that looks like some hair plugs
right there. I don't know about that. Man. Do you
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imagine if there's one person that would not disclose that too,
that is exactly the guy Ben Molly would not. I
got I got nothing. I got nothing. But but uh,
that's fine, that's fine. I look at you in an
hair club for men. I think you're dying the beard
a little bit. I think you got a little uh,
you know, covering up the gray there. That's a good move, right,
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you get to get the fifty. You gotta do it. Yeah,
I I need you to, uh, I need you to
walk me through the process of once I turned forty two,
now be into that phase of getting checked, you know,
once every six months for prosted exams, blood pressure, cholesterol,
the whole, the whole smash. I mean, I know you
don't have to get a gallbladder checked anymore, but I
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might have to. It's a cheap shot. Yeah. Yeah, Well
a good thing about working in radios. We got our
prostate check quite regularly working, so you know it really
helps your health. Uh it does anyway, all right, you dummy. Uh,
let's get we got pop quiz you. I got a
few pop quiz with the show must continue here, so, uh,
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these are random things that are fun questions. I'll ask
gascon and then you can play along as you listen.
According to a new survey, forty percent of parents say
they argue with their family about this on a regular basis.
It is a regular problem in families. Man, I I
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guess in today's world, would my number one answer be?
What is politics? Uh? That's not a bad answer. Answer,
It's not a it's not a great answer because you know,
most people these days, you very rarely see a Republican
and a Democrat. It's Democrat, democrat, Republican, Republican. There's no
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differing things. But the answer is the temperature in the car,
you know, like you're driving around and I don't want
it colder, No, I want it hotter. You know, I
haven't really had that problem in recent years. I don't
know if you know this, but there's certain vehicles out
there that have temperatures for the passenger side of the
vehicle and the driver's side of the vehicle. I is
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that right? Is that right? Is that? Is that how
you live west of the four oh five? Is that right?
Some of us have the dial on the air conditioner.
You have blue and red. Cold would be blue and
then red would be warm, and then you have to
figure out what is the proper temperature based on that?
All right? Moving on what? One third of Americans say
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this is the celebrity where they would like to share
a hot dog with. This is a spinoff of the
Fourth of July, which was obviously recently, So one third
of Americans say this is the celebrity they would like
to enjoy a weener with. Who is it? You know
a lot about eating Wiener's guest on? So what do
you think here? I'm gonna go out on a limb
with a man of Troy and say Will Ferrell, Will Farrell?
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All right? He went. I went to the same high
school as Will Farrell. He's made slightly more money than me. Um,
but no, that is incorrect. That is incorrect. It's a woman.
It's an older woman. How about that even better? Um,
I'm gonna is it Holly Berry? No? No, I didn't
know Holly Berry was old. And this is I'm I'm talking.
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I mean, I guess she's old for you know, for
for if you're like twenty, she's old at thirty, your forty,
but you're fifty, she's I don't think it's halle Berry fifty.
I don't. I don't know. Yeah, she's past fifty. She
doesn't look like it, though. Oh is that all right?
I haven't I've not seen any photo of halle It's
not halle Berry, though, it's not. Let's see drink some
Grandpa juice here and see if you can figure out
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you want to take one more older female Hollywood. Uh?
Katherine Hepburn, Catherine, I think this woman is beyond octogenarian.
I have Bet Midler, not Ben Miller, be Middler. Oh
my god, you are terrible at his game. No, what's
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your name? The one that was on? Yeah? Yeah, say it.
Rob Parker loves her, Come on, say it. Parker is
a big fan. I I'm forgetting her name. Uh, it's
it's not. The last name is not. Well, they have
the same first name. The last name though, for the
bakery stuff is Crocker, but the first name is the same.
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Do you know the no, uh no, you're flipping my mind.
Betty Crocker, Betty White, Betty White. There you go. Oh
come on, yeah, there you go. One third. Wow, that's
a large number. Let me tell you can you can
lead a horse to water, you can't get the horse
to drink. I try. I lead you right there, guest,
guns you don't drink water, right, you know. I'm usually
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at the beach, just enjoying the way. Now you you
drink filtered water from the springs of you know, somewhere
in the south of France or something. Anyway, be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app Alright. Another one
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kind of related to the recent Fourth of July holiday.
A new survey asked Americans to name the side dishes
they love to eat on the Fourth of July. Now,
baked beans was the most popular. Not at the Mound,
not at the Mallard, household, by the way, not baked beans.
But I'm more of a like a chip guy on
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the side. But anyway, what was number two? How about
potato salad or macaroni salad. Yeah, my wife likes the
potato salad. I'm not a fan. Why not? Wait wait wait,
why not? Yeah? I like mac and cheese. I don't
like macaroni salad. I like potatoes. I don't like potato salad. Uh.
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The answer is, and this is disgusting. It's probably west
of the four or five people eating this deviled eggs.
How pathetic is that? It makes me want to puke
thinking about deviled eggs. When I think of deviled eggs,
I think Christmas and holiday parties, like not the ones
that you go to because I know you're gonna company
ones that are like usually hundred thousand dollars to cater
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for but uh w when invited guest got Those days
are over now thanks to the corominavirus, so I don't
have to worry about over indulging at a company event anymore.
I'm glad I got that in because there will be
no more of those anytime soon. I can't do you
remember the last thing you had a deviled egg crap. No,
and maybe when I was a kid, I was forced
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to eat it. You know, I wolfed it down to
try to get it over with and then you move on.
It was torture. But now I'm not a fan. Alright.
Any two of Americans say this is the number one
pet peeve about going to the beach. A lot of
people going to the beach over the summer here or
the lake. Lack of parking. Uh no, that is not it.
(12:05):
See if you go to Hawaii, because there's parking everywhere
in Hawaiian. No, that's true. It's amazing. Ah. The correct
answer though, smoking, Oh, people smoking at the beach. You
like the smokes? You smoke cigarettes for years? Gas gun No, never,
never ever ever, My my, my pipes are naturally like this.
But that is that is annoying. Like on the boardwalk.
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You'll get guys that are just hanging out on the
boardwalk smoking a cigarette or a cigar, and you get
traffic going up and down the boardwalk and that just
blows into their faces. It's pretty annoying. Yeah, allowed, though,
it is allowed. Yeah, you're smoking not illegal? Alright. Thirty
three of kids do this at night? What is it?
What kids. I can't say, play video games because they
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do that all day, that's right, not video games. Um
of these kids do this. Um, they don't do homework
any more. No, those days, those days are over, long gone.
What about what about talking on the phone? Talking on
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the phone, Those days are over too. I guess people
text these days. They don't talk on the phone. They
could text her in the day and talk at night.
You're better off spitting in the wind. Uh. The correct
answer is sleepwalk? Have you ever been, ever been a sleepwalker? Yeah?
But yeah, I mean early and yeah I have a
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couple of times have walked, like randomly into the wall.
It's genetic, right, isn't that genetic that's passed down usually?
I think it runs in the family. I don't know.
You gotta ask your wife. She's the hippie, she knows
all this ship. How about you ask your dad if
he slept walk when he was a kid. How about that?
All right? Anyway, he doesn't sleep, He doesn't sleep good?
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Neither do I I get these random text message as well.
I'm trying to sleep, you know, calling me out for
not paying my my co workers more money. And I
didn't realize I was a former NFL player making millions
of dollars. Anyway, we call you Betty money bags, money bags, Mallar,
money moneyball, Maller, not money bags moneyball. Mollery will never
call me money bags. I would like to be called
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money bags Mallory. I think that would be the cat's whiskers.
To be called moneyball money bags Mallory would be great,
all right. Anyway, five of men are freaked out when
their woman does this. They lose their mind. What is it? Um?
But only five role play? Role play? Uh no, I've
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it's probably higher than five percent on that. But the
answer is make more money than they do. So when
they're there there, woman makes more money, like crap, that's good.
Not only only five percent, that's good. I think that's
that's adequate. I don't I wouldn't freak out at all,
would you now? I'd be happy. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
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worry is you know? Might be? That's great. Good. I'll
live off you. That's the way to do it. Come on,
I'm perfectly fine doing that, all right. A new survey
finds many Americans do not want to return to the
office once the coronavirus is done. And people, you know,
(15:18):
they you don't have to wear the mask anymore, and
they don't mandate all these things and all this stuff. So, uh,
this is not really a pop quiz question, but it
was interesting that maybe people don't want to go back
to work. Um I actually would like to go back
at some point, not every day, maybe a few days
a week, go back to fact to work part time.
(15:41):
But you know it isn't people want to stay at home.
And if if you do work out of the office,
imagine if you work in the commercial real estate sector
and you're renting out office buildings, you gotta be like,
wait a minute, if everyone's just gonna work from their home,
is are there some zoning rules that you're not allowed? Yeah?
I think, I mean I don't have to look, but
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I believe there are some rules that you're not allowed
to work in some businesses you're not allowed to work
at home. Well yeah, I mean, if you're mean, we
live here in Los Angeles, Sin. So we got the harbor,
are in the docks. I mean the longshoreman they have
to work no matter what. Um. Yeah, I would imagine
an outside of politicians, but how many public servants that
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they have to go to work no matter what to
you know, if you're a police, firefighter, UM, gas and
electric companies, UM. You know, if you're a real estate agent,
you don't really have to work from an office anymore.
You can work from you can work from home and
just show people listings and list property when you need to.
But well, no, I know that. But I mean, you
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know some I thought there was some zoning laws and stuff.
I'm not sure how that. Well, I'll tell you one
place for sure that needs employees. There is King Newsome's winery.
He needs employees there. That's the only place open here
in California. Well, he, when you're part of the monarchy, gascon,
you can do whatever you want when you're in the monarchy.
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And good for him. I guess the people of California
get what you vote for. I didn't vote for Gavin Newsom,
so I hope the people enjoy Gavin Newsom, and they
enjoyed he's turning the state into San Francisco. And uh,
that's a different conversation. Don't you don't you miss coming
to the studio though, I mean you're you're always there,
(17:27):
even on holidays. So you went from zero to sixty
and vice versa, and you blinking. Yeah. Yeah, Although you know,
it's like I've always said, I remember years ago, I
learned it takes about thirty to sixty days to form
a new habit. Yeah, I'm kind of used to working
from from the home studio. I've settled into this. I
(17:49):
got my routine. Now I've got my new routine. It
does not involve going to the gym. I walk like
an old man randomly around the neighborhood I live in. Here,
go to a couple of cities. Actually walked through like
two three cities here. I walked that far. But uh yeah,
I'm I'm used to it. Now. You gotta, in fact,
the you gotta take the wife and just walk up
and down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. That's like, you know,
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that's an easy walk and the streets are empty. That's
like an easy place to do that stuff. Like you
got the parks and a lot of stuff. I just yeah,
but let me tell you Pasadena, there's some sneaky crime
in Pasadena. I went to a gym just a little
north of Colorado Boulevard. I had some My car was
vandalized broken into. I was at the gym and they
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said it happens all the time. They're just like, it's
really weird, like Pasadenia. It's it's more like there's a
lot of cities on the East Coast where it goes
from really wealthy to pretty poor rather quickly, and the
the crime seems to spike up there. All Right, A
new service is kind of something we've had in the past.
But a new survey found that more than seventy five
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of Americans that were survey admitted to gaining as much
as blank number of pounds since the shutdown in the
United States. If we got the freshman fifteen, I will
say the COVID thirty five, thirty five, that's a lot.
Thirty five is a lot. Uh no, how about we
(19:18):
slice that a little less than half of that sixteen
pounds of love. Sixteen pounds that's not bad. You've gotta
figure people aren't going, Wow. It's kind of weird though,
right because if people are at home, they're not eating
fast food, so it just means they're cooking like fools,
or they're not exercising, and you know there's a combination, right, Yeah,
(19:40):
but if you if you eat good, you don't always
have to exercise. It just I mean, who the funk
wants to eat good? Come on? Please? Yeah, I definitely
know that. So be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific. Alright, let's get to study this. I
gotta up all leaves. Then we'll get to the mailbag. Uh.
(20:02):
It is not a myth. After this is a great,
great story here from these science files that they now believe,
the scientists that they can figure out when earthquakes are
gonna happen based on farm animals. Farm animals, gas guy,
how about that? Get you? I was gonna say, I
(20:24):
gotta believe that because you have dogs that have a
great sense of things and and they're always responsive when
it comes to the emergency, responds to units. And that's
from from miles away. So farm animals assignment, especially here
in California, we need. We need all the help we
can get. You need the warning. Yeah. But then see
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the problem with this is they'll get it right some
of the time, and they'll probably get it right wrong
a lot of the time, and then once you start
getting it wrong, people are like, that's bullshit. It's kind
of like when Hawaii got you know, the text message
alert saying uh, you know, missiles inbound or something like that.
Once you get that, you can like wait a minute.
But it says according to this, and these have obviously
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been over the years anecdotal accounts. But the farm animals
and as you said, dogs and other pets before an earthquake,
they act different, they act weird. There's something going on there,
and so uh, never has there been any scientific evidence
to back that up, But now there has been. There's
a new study by a bunch of German scientists that
(21:29):
they claim show scientific evidence that supports the longstanding anecdotal report,
you know, evidence of people saying that odd animal behavior
does happen prior to earthquake, the earthquakes. The research suggesting
I'm reading it right out of this that animals may
indeed provide the clues maze the way that was phrased
(21:51):
was weasel terminology, but that they can lead to telling
human beings when and where earthquakes are gonna happen. Well,
the nice thing is if these if these farm animals
are are wrong and they need a fallback plan, they
can always get into becoming a weather person, or they
could or they can create models for COVID nineteen deaths.
Those people are just off by, you know, hundreds and
(22:14):
thousands too, So it doesn't matter. And and you're never
the weather person is called out more than the person
who's making the doomsday prophecies. The peddic the panic peddling.
You never have to You never get called for it.
You never get called out for it. Neither does the
media that just go all over it and just love
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the hell out of it. All right. This is something
that relates to a conversation I used to have all
the time with Looney. We used to talk about round
numbers and how important round numbers are with us. A
new study out that says consumers would rather have round
numbers even when the specific number is actually better news.
For example, we'll use the coronavirus. If they announced that
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this magical potion, this vaccine that they're coming up with
is ninety one point two percent effective. According to this,
people are likely to think the vaccine is actually less
effective then if they said it was effective. So the
power of round numbers. Just like in Minnesota, they say
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the land of ten thousand lakes, I think there's actually
eleven or twelve thousand. I think it's eleven thousands something
something lakes in Minnesota, but they go by ten thousand
because that's round numbers, marketing revenund round number. Any chance
you're gonna go to the Twin Cities and anytime sooner,
verify that for us. Well, I have been to the
(23:41):
airport in Minnesota over the years, but I have not
spent any time. I would like to go to UH.
I was planning, I was planning on going, but I
don't know if I go to Minneapolis anytime soon. Now,
oh yeah, there's multiple reasons. But know so listen, it's
like it's like anything you gotta like. They're whack of
doodles in a lot of these cities, but you they're
(24:02):
in pockets. You've got to avoid the pockets of the
nut jobs and the loons and uh and then you
find the normal people that live out usually in the
suburbs or who knows where, but the people that aren't
trying to defund the police and those idiots. Anyway, all right,
what's what's the fascination with round numbers? Because you do
it all the time in marketing, right when you sell
something you have a listed price of like nineteen thousands
(24:25):
opposed to twenty thousand or or anything around about that. Yeah,
I mean, it's it's something about the human condition that
people love round numbers. It's like satisfying, and they've they've
figured it out, like in baseball, Uh, if you have
a three batting average, that's much more impressive than hitting too.
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But it's one percentage point right, and it's like, what
the hell? And so I actually there was a study
on this I read a while back that said something
to the effect that it's because if you if you
count human beings, you have ten right fingers. And that's
a film. Including the film, obviously you have ten and
(25:08):
so uh, there's a there's a theory that it's linked
to the fact that we have ten fingers, and it's
some kind of weird evolutionary quirk. It's like, why do
we yawn? And why why is yawn? What when somebody yawns,
like around you you you can't help yourself, but yawn.
That's interesting. It is one of the weird things that
(25:30):
they haven't been able to figure out. But it's I
think that's because of the fingers. So if somewhere there's
a parallel universe guesscout where they have, you know, let's
say like thirteen fingers, then they would like not they
w W want round numbers, they'd be they'd be more
attracted to to odd numbers. And I and I actually
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I have read that it's the exact opposite that you
want to negotiate. If you're ever negotiating a contract, you
can always have a range of numbers with round or
even numbers. But they say that once you get to
your sweet spot on a dollar amount that you want,
you've got to make sure you throw something that's completely
ambiguous or just thought to be benign. So if your
(26:16):
negotation for twenty dollars, but you say instead I want
twenty one thousand five, the person on the other side's
gonna be like, well, wait a minute, like how did
you get that number? And they'll think in process that
you actually took the time to compound your your analysis
in a thoughtful manner, that they'd be more inclined to
believe that as opposed to you saying, hey, I want
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twenty dollars. Ah, so you have to you have to
add on to it. And it's it's strange also because
we love round numbers, but in shopping when you set
a price like on the internet for a product or
or for gasoline for example, right, like that nine tense
thing just is so fucked up that the gas is
(26:59):
allowed to do that. But but no, it's like instead
of forty dollars, you say thirty. If you buy a product, uh,
you know, it's it's ninety nine dollars instead of a hundred.
Because that's one of the examples where people think they're
getting a great deal when in reality, you know, just
people's instinct to be tight wads like me here, you know,
(27:19):
and and be frugal. And he's like, well I'm getting
a deal. It's not it's on sale or it's less
than it's less than twenty bucks. It's you know, like okay, anyway, alright,
moving on, we have mail bag. These are actual questions
by actual listeners. Thank you for sending them in a
little earlier this week. If you want to send questions
to a future podcast Facebook page, Ben Maller show The
(27:43):
Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. It's just Real
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Chris from Edmonton writes and He says, what was your
very first job in broadcasting and or the sports industry
and did you always want to be a broadcaster or
(28:03):
was your ultimate goal to work in sports? That was
from from Chris and Edmonton. Well, Chris, technically, my first
job in broadcasting was at the college radio station k
s b R eight point five on the FM dial,
keeping a jazz commercial free. But that was that was
(28:23):
My My first commercial radio job was with the station
in San Diego, which was actually in Mexico, and that
was it was a Baja California Mexico Extra Sports six
ninety and uh, yeah, I wanted to work in sports.
I wanted to be the voice of the Dodgers. But
unfortunately Vince Scully never retired where it was in in
(28:44):
my wheelhouse, so that never happened. But yeah, I love
sports and I thought, hey, be a good life to
work in sports. What about you, gas, Um, Well, I yeah,
I always wanted to. Well, I didn't want to be
in sports talk radio. I wanted to play professionally and
it and it shows by the way it certainly does not,
at least when when it talks about you and you
(29:05):
and I on camera. Um, But I wanted to be
a professional athlete. I played college football, I play a
little bit of college baseball, but I always had the
ambition of playing professionally like you know most people do.
And then I, um, I needed to escape after college,
and so I got in the sales. I always wanted
to be in a sportscaster after that, but that was
(29:28):
more along the lines of just kind of like you said,
on the footsteps of Ben Scully and some of the
other grades that we had here in l A and
even San Diego. You Vin Scully, Chickhern dick Enberg, Al Michael's,
Ralph Lawler, Ralf Lawler. Yeah, he was obviously the Clippers forever.
So yeah, so stubble onto this the happy playground of
(29:48):
radio and television and now digital. Yes, yes, digital, Thank
god for digital. Yeah. Are you clapping for yourself? No,
I'm clapping. I'm clapping for you because you what what
a douche You've turned the corner into the digital realm.
Stacy writes in from Ottawa. We are big in Canada,
(30:09):
gas and we we should just go to Canada. We
were dominating the Canadian market for audio content. You have
you have fans in Vancouver. I know that, Um, I
think you have a couple of fans in Calgary too,
So we have we have all the big sties. We
have Vancouver, Calgary, we have Ottawa, all overa Ottawa, we
have Toronto, Montreal. I've gotten some email from guys in Montreal, Winnipeg. Yeah,
(30:36):
are we missing any other big locations in Canada? I
think those are most of the big cities. There's not
too many of them. You mentioned Evanton too, so yeah,
we got all the all the major ones. Yes, they're
major because they have sports teams. Us See, Stacy writes
in and says, uh, I don't know Jason from Ottawa.
She said, all right, well good, I'm glad you know Jason.
(30:57):
That would be kind of creepy if you did. And
she says, how do you keep going with no sports? Uh?
Says I listened most nice to your show and your podcast.
Well God love you. Thank you for that, Stacy. That's
very nice of you. When I can't and uh, she
just we can't listen to She listened to the podcast
and hasn't missed a beat and all that stuff, and
(31:18):
then she says, this is good. Does Eddie and Coop
do they help you out with content? She says, enjoy
all of you, especially Eddie. How about that? Not you gascoon.
She likes Eddie because he loves hockey, so that's that's great.
But yeah, Stacy, the way the show works normally is
(31:38):
I spend about eight hours getting ready for the show
and then we kind of do the show and to
each our own. But it works. It's a it's a
formula that works. Man Roberto. Earlier this week he posted
a picture Ben because I know you do cooking with Roberto. Yes,
every it's a staple. Every Wednesday we do cooking with Roberto.
(32:00):
He made Tostado's this week. Yeah, he did that, and
he had some marinara sauce too that he was putting
together in a nice looking conction. I was like, man,
Roberto crossing the streams going from the Mexican to the
tie inside look pretty awesome. Yeah, he's crossed over. See
Roberto is gone. When we first started, were trying to
find a bit for Roberto, and he tried some different things.
(32:21):
He was doing some comedy bits that was a disaster,
and then he did the two that are popular. Weather
with Roberto, when he tries to pronounce some of the
names of different cities, like Des Moines, Iowa, which he
called it, which is always fun, and Roberto is a
good sport about it. And then but he's a he's
a good cook. He's he loves cooking, so he's people
(32:42):
like it too. There's he's given you people that don't
know those recipes in some places that things he's cooking,
so it's cool. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific. Kentucky J writes and says, if you
guys were out camping and became stranded for two months,
(33:02):
which of your callers would you choose to be stuck
with due to their resourcefulness? Yeah? Anyone really that resourceful?
I mean, you gotta say blind Scots one of them, right,
The guy's living blind. The guy took The guy took
me on a five mile walk throughout Boston the last
(33:22):
time I went out there and knew everywhere ago obviously
with his dog. But that guy kept talking and showing
me around, and you know, I was just like, I
was pretty impressed. You know, I don't know who else
you would trust. Who would you trust on an island
for two months? Yeah? Maybe Jay Scoop. Yeah, I can
(33:45):
trust him, but yeah, no, there's a lot of these guys.
Everyone's like the great thing about the Malle Militia, it's
a band of misfits. Everyone brings something positive to the
to the group, but everyone also brings a lot of
negative things to the group fall So so you gotta
pick and choose. There I need like a team of people. So,
well do you have Do you have any callers that
(34:07):
are actually legit chefs or someone that can cook, because
there's gonna be an island for two months nearly, someone
that can drum up whatever it is around the around
the local area. Yeah, we've we've had some guys, well
it was it Blind Willie worked at an applesbe Applebee's
in Tampa. He used to call the show. We don't
heard from Blind Willie awhile. And we've had a few
(34:29):
chefs that have called up. And there's a guy in
Minnesota that works at a Taco bell. He offered me
as much taco bell as I want if I come
to Minnesota. So I'm hooked up on that. I'm good.
What if you got to live on an island for
two months with Fats? Oh, Fats would be fun. Fats
would be entertaining. I don't know that Fats could handle
(34:49):
being on island for too much two months, because I
don't think you'd have like Ribi steak, and you wouldn't
be able to make pretzels and things like that. I
think that would be a problem. All right, Uh, this
one's from in in Boston, He says, Ben, do you
ever want to kill yourself? After reading? How stupid some
of these fucking questions are just asking? All right, thank you, Brian,
very kind of you. Uh have you heard the show, Brian,
(35:12):
have you heard the radio show? This is actually the
best of the best year the Kreme de la Creme.
Then some of the calls we take, Oh my god,
Tim and Cadillac Michigan says, hey, big Ben, this is
for both of you. If you could only have one
streaming service for the rest of your life, which one
(35:33):
would you pick? And why I love the show? Can't
wait for my non shout out. Yeah, I'm not gonna
give you a shout out to him In Cadillac Michigan.
Do they have to change the name of Cadillac Michigan
because the Cadillac is not really cool anymore? And I'm
sure at one point it was considered cool. So do
they have to change the name of that. I don't know,
I don't know, maybe not to cancel it for some
(35:54):
stupid benign reason. Yeah. Yeah, Well, the Cadillac is for
wealthy people, and so you you're really disparaging poor people
when you have a city named Cadillac Michigan. So it
used to be canceled, right, You're mocking poorness and celebrating
elitism with Cadillac Michigan. Uh. I watched the streaming services
(36:16):
pretty much exclusively these days because there's no sports to watch,
So I don't need to worry about watching any of
the sports that I used to watch because there's no
no sports. Uh So, I mean I guess Netflix, I
guess they have the most stuff, But you know, I
usually we have Netflix and we'll rotate Hulu, but I
(36:38):
got commercials on that. I don't really like that. What
about YouTube? Yeah, YouTube's YouTube's a really good that that
probably has more than anything. So yeah, and there's some
actually sneaky good documentaries on YouTube that are hidden and
hard to find, but when you find them, you're like, wow,
that's pretty cool. In fact, that the big chicken documentary
I think was on YouTube when we uh we did
(37:00):
podcast about that. So yeah, YouTube you YouTube. Yeah, I'd
go to YouTube for sure. All right. Barry in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says,
if sports talk radio had not worked out, what do
you think you would be doing for a living? Well,
first of all, how do you know it's worked out?
Have you seen my finances? Barry? Uh in debt up
(37:22):
the wazoo. But no, I I would have figured something out.
I I often have said my my dream is to
work at Costco, and I still might end up doing
that if this, if sports don't come back, I might
have to apply over there. But uh yeah, I don't know.
I mean maybe a lawyer. I wasn't really into academia
and you have to do a lot of that to
become a lawyer, to pass the bar and all that.
(37:43):
But I think from an argument standpoint, I could I
would be a decent lawyer at least I have that
in me. Some of my family thought I should have
been a lawyer, but yeah, and that's you don't know.
Every decision it closes another door, right You you open one,
you close another. So I guess in another dimension, I
(38:05):
didn't become a radio guy, and I had to get
a different job. And yeah, but you had. I had, Uh,
the only other jobs I've had out of radio, I
worked the newspaper delivery guy. That was my first jobs.
And then I also worked for my mom's business. I
had a sales job briefly, but that's that's it. I'm
(38:25):
surprised he didn't say political talk radio. Well, that might
be coming if sports don't come back. Well, sports have
really turned into political radio. Everything's political when it fits
the agenda, you know. And uh, Deshan Jackson says something
anti semitic. Those guys that are out there virtue signaling
and prol clutching suddenly shut up. They have nothing to
(38:48):
say about de Sean Jackson and a bunch of hypocrites.
We ripped the hell out of him the other night
on the show, which Uh, Steven Jackson. Boy, what a
fraud that I turned out to be hunt jeez. Yeah,
there's a lot of there's a lot of hustling going
on right now. So I it's just the climbate we're in,
right I Mean, everybody's getting paid off some way somehow,
(39:10):
and you know, everyone's trying to be ahead of the curve,
and that's what Lebron, who's been proven to be anti Semitic.
I go back to google Lebron anti Semitic. So he
really couldn't enter the chat because he's got his own
skeletons in his closet there, But all those other guys
could have done it anyway. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, the
(39:33):
hometown of my dearly departed grandfather. He says, can you
please pay off your tease and elaborate on some of
the plans that you and Roberto have for the Astros
when they come to Dodger Stadium? All right, So I'll
say this, this is only for the p one, the
extreme p ones that listen to this podcast. So me
(39:54):
and Roberto have been talking about getting a band of
misfits together and and heckling the Astros at their hotel.
All right. Now, you can find out where these teams
are staying. There's a couple of hotels in the l
A area that are like highly rated where the team stay.
So I think this would be great to get a
(40:16):
bunch of guys with like signs and we'll just we'll
call it a protest, and then King Newsome will allow
us to do it. I think it'll be fun. Wouldn't
be great When the Astros come out of the hotel
to get on the bus, they hear like cow bells
and boom out, boo bay and all that to be wonderful. Yeah.
I remember one of the shows that you were you
(40:37):
were hosting. I was up it was like twelve or
one o'clock in the morning, and I have a friend
of mine who works at a hotel that the Astros
stayed out during the seventeen World Series, and she texted
me during the fight that A. J. Hinch had gotten
into I don't know if you remember that, but he
was he got into a fight like a hotel bar
and lobby area. And so she texted me and she's like, yeah,
(40:59):
that that story, you know accurate? So well they spun
the story to make it seem like he was like
a totally innocent Do you think that's actually what happened
that he was. Yeah. Yeah, And especially in the in
the you know, hindsight being as they say, when you
look back at what lying this these assholes in Houston did,
(41:23):
I'm thinking A. J. Hinch was the insider, he was
the instigator. Uh. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong. He's
he's a liar, he's a cheat, he got suspended, proved
me wrong, cannot do it all right anyway. Uh, let's
see Trucker Joe. Our guy. Trucker Joe in Pennsylvania and
Parts Unknown says, if you can pick one fictional monster
(41:44):
to be real, for example, the lock Nest monster, big Foot,
up a cabra along those lines, what would you pick? Well,
the big one would be big Foot, right, because how
many people have made money on documentaries and movies and
written books about big Foot? But yet no one's found
the skeletal remains of Bigfoot. So they must bury other Bigfoots,
(42:06):
must bury Bigfoots for those to be too well. Yeah,
big for any mythical character. Guess what about Chewbacca? Yeah
you want to go Hollywood about Darth Vader or damn good? Yeah?
(42:27):
All right, I mean talking about a mythical character. If
he's on your side, you got the force since came over.
I'm surprised. I'm surprised you didn't pick winning the pool.
I thought you would pick winning the pool, didn't? Yeah?
Or big bird? Alright? Alright? Moving on. Jess from Pomona
(42:47):
in so Cow says, hey, Ben, if you had to choose,
which one would you choose? And why either the Dodgers
or the Clippers win at all? Uh this year? And Jesse, listen,
this is a question I get asked a lot, and
I love my Dodgers, and I'm looking forward to watching
the Dodgers this season. But the answer here is the Clippers,
(43:10):
because it would upset to no end the Laker historians,
who would just be in tears, Guys like gag On
the West of the four oh five crowd, the one
per centers, the Hollywood elites. They would be shipping their
pants to watch the Clippers win a championship, and it
would be magical. It would cement Kauai Leonard as the
(43:31):
greatest player in NBA history. Three championships with three different
teams as the lead dog. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong,
Kawhi Leonard. If he wins a championship with the Clippers,
he trumps Jordan's, he trumps Bill Russell, He trumps Uh,
all of the greats, all of the greats in NBA.
Kobe Bryant, Sorry, Kobe, I know You're gone. Lebron James, sorry,
(43:54):
bye bye. So the Clippers I'm not disagreeing with y Leonard.
I think he is the best player in the game
right now, but there's no chance in hell he trump's
all of those guys like he does. That is a
that is a greater career accompt I don't want go
all sporting on you, but that's a greater career accomplishment
to win the first championship with Toronto in the Clippers,
(44:17):
all right, to franchises that are known to be woe
beyond teams, and to prove that it's he wasn't just
a product of the Spurs and being around those good
players in San Antonio, that he was the good player.
So that's the Clippers. I don't I'm surprised they'll be okay,
because if this is another sitting in another franchise, I
(44:38):
think you'd be more inclined to say the Dodgers, just
because the losing team is always the better story, even
when they get to the World Series, the NBA Finals,
or whatever it may be in the Super Bowl, because
people love the losers, like the Cubs for so long
right on the win. In media, if you're a radio host,
you love the losers. If you're a sports writer, you
(44:58):
love the losers. But if you're a fan, you love winners.
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to listen live. Alright, Matt from Mansfield, Texas rights and
he says, if you could topple any statue in sports,
(45:22):
who's would it be? For me? The choice is clear,
it would be the Bud Selix statue outside Miller Park
in walk O. I don't know if Matt's from Wisconsin,
he says he's listening in Texas. Uh. Yeah, I would
say that Peyton Manning statue in Indianapolis is the obvious one.
Take that statue down. Peyton Manning oppressed my people, take
(45:45):
him down, Please chop him down. Where is Antifa when
you need them? Take Peyton Manning down? Horrible? What about you?
He is the symbol of Indianapolis. I can't think of
many I can't think of many statues that are actually
like like worthwhile to eat. I mean, the one statue
that needs to stay up no matter what is the
Rocky statue right in Philadelphia, like you can't. You can't
(46:08):
touch that. No matter what I think that one is
is uh as hollow ground. Um, I'm trying to think
of even like, what are the statues are out there
that are notable figures that are good you If you
want to blow have your mind blown, go on the
internet and do a search of sports statues. There are
so many random people that have statues that are in sports.
(46:31):
It's just mind boggling. I love the fact that broadcasters
have gotten statues. I know in Chicago they have the
Harry Carry statue in l A They've got and Bob
Miller has a statue out in front of uh Staples Center.
Did any of those get touched? Any of those Staples
Center statues? Did theyn't even try to tear them? There's
no way I can't imagine them touching those, right. Maybe Gretzky,
(46:54):
you know he didn't, he never even he never even
played it. A lot of those guys didn't even play
at the Staples Center. Complix anyway, all right, Uh Greg
from Riverside, So this is a question for you, Ben.
Do you fart in front of your wife? And does
your wife fart in front of you? Well? Thank you, Greg?
I appreciate that. I think we we both it has happened.
(47:15):
We both try to avoid it the times it's most
likely to happen. And you'll learn this someday, guess ghun.
When you're in a hotel no, no, When you're in
a hotel room and there's really because there's nearly no
way to go. You know, if you're in the house
and you're about you're you're feeling a big moist fart,
you can go in the other room, you know, you know,
(47:35):
you can kind of walk out. They don't normally just
pop up out of the blue, so you have some time.
But when you're in a hotel room, what do you
I'm sorry, I'm gonna go down to a lobby or
run out to the hallway to check the mail. You
can you can put the suppressor on, ben, You can
sit straight up on your on your bed, on your
hotel bed. Is that right? Is that there? They put
(47:58):
the suppressor on, then it's all good. It's even worse
if you go to the rest room because all of
a sudden, the acoustics and it's just this loud echo.
It's like kaboom, no chance that's happening. Carlos in Houston,
right since this did you guys have my Space? If
you all did, that's a good by the way. You know,
Carlos is authentic texting when he says, y'all, that's authentic
texting right there. Who was on your top friends list? Yeah,
(48:24):
I don't know. You can check I have. My MySpace
page is still up and it's I was pretty fat.
But you can look at photos from the my Space
when when I originally did the Overnight show during the
week with Karen Kay, Uh, we had my Space page
and that was like the big thing that was that
was more popular than the Facebook when it came around.
(48:46):
I think they started around the same time MySpace and
face Facebook. My Space was before Facebook was it, but
my Space was pretty popular at one point and then uh, Karen,
Karen had a drop. We played a lot back in
those days. My Space is huge, you know that kind
of thing. But I think my top my top eight
were just hot girls don't even know who they were,
(49:07):
just connected to them and all of a sudden, like
hot put them up there and they didn't know who
you were either. All right, thank you very much. Barry
from Chattanooga says, do you regularly listen to sports talk
radio shows. If so who Uh, No, I don't burry
I I when I do, I listen to my friends.
(49:27):
People I liked it are good people. Petro's papad because
I like to petrol, some money show and I'm driving
around l A. They used to work at Fox Sports Radio.
Tony Bruno, We've had on the podcast Jerry Callahan, who's
got a podcast in Boston. I'll listen to Jerry. Uh,
some of some of those guys. Uh, you know, there's
there's a few others were randomly listened to. But yeah,
I don't go out of my way. Uh, usually listen
(49:50):
to something else because it's like taking if you even
live at the beach, taking sand home to the you
know your home. You know it's you have, you have
it there. I'm immersed in sports radio all the time.
Plus I don't want to steal somebody else's stuff. So
(50:11):
you guess got you a big consumer of sports radio. No,
I mean I'll listen to the network, but when I'm
there eight nine, ten hours out of the day, I
refused to listen to anything else just because I just
I'm over it. I'm tired of it, and I mean,
I listened to Jim Rome especially, you know sometimes well
go on YouTube and I'll listen to his old segments
just for great laughs, before um, he became really corporate.
(50:34):
But you know, back in the day, you were in
six ninety and I used to listen to that station
all the time. He just there was no holds barred
and he would just let it rip. But yeah, I'll
listen to him at times. Obviously I'll listen to the
network and on I Heart, But I have a tough
time listen to a lot of guys that, you know,
because of the climate that we're in right now, it
is really just either one way or the other. And
(50:57):
and god forbid if there's any kind of pushback the set,
and I think it's just worth where we're at right now.
You can really see like the true colors shining, or
you can see just a lack of content. Listen, guys
out there that just have absolutely no way know how
to entertain. And I think it's just an indictment on
I'm a talent, like thereover right now. Yeah, It's something
(51:20):
I've always said, like this job is really easy. When
you're it's around Super Bowl time and there's a big
game and you can talk about it and it's it's
funny because traditionally, the the the way the industry worked
in sports radio is the guys would always take vacation
around the All Star break in the summer because it
was only baseball and there wasn't once the NBA Finals
(51:42):
ended in training camp hadn't started in football. There was
like that sweet spot, and some guys named it the
dead zone because they dreaded coming in and having to
talk about just baseball and having nothing else to talk about,
even though they were like always in retrospect, they're always
NBA rumors with free agents and there's always like stuff.
But yeah, the last couple of months, what do we
(52:03):
a hundred over a hundred and twenty days now since
the apocalypse started for the US sports And yeah, I
mean it's not as I will say, there's not as
much variety, but there's stuff. You just gotta you gotta
dig below the surface to find the stuff. Oh yeah,
I mean you look at your show case and point
you have an entire segment that is dedicated to the
(52:24):
NFL offseason and guys getting in trouble for doing stupid ship.
So yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. Listen. If
it's if the players don't do stupid ship, the bit
goes away and we all we always issue the disclaimer
before that, saying we hope no one gets arrested and
no one has problems with the law. And every year, yeah,
armed robbery over here, uh, you know, beating somebody up
(52:48):
over there, bar fight over here. It never ends. I
think we'll we'll end it there. Guess we're gonna end
it there. We have bigger fish to fry, I believe, yes, yes, yes,
all right, listen, have a great weekend. The furlough is over.
A great rest of your weekend. This being Sunday. Back
at it, back in the catbird seat tonight on the radio,
(53:11):
eleven pm in the West, two am on Monday in
the East. Have a good day.
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(01:08):
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hanging out with the aristocrats, the elitist, the one per
centers your people. I'm hanging out with the unwashed, my people,
the blue collar workers, the fabric of America. That's who
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Uh you did, you did cameo. I I appreciate the
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(03:42):
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do that particular cameo, which was requested by a secret
person we will not name, who for some reason, is
(04:02):
so smitten with gag On. I do not know why.
I can't quite figure it out, but this particular person
really wanted a cameo, just lavishing Gascon with praise and uh,
I'll pretty much do anything you know on cameo. So
I said, all right, it's like, you know, nobody's gonna
(04:23):
see this, nobody's gonna hear this other than a couple
of people. So so I'm doing it. Yeah, I appreciate it.
It was nine painful minutes for you, but a lot
and proud thank you for the card. So birthday, you're
now fifty? Does it feel different to be fifty? There?
You you look a lot older. All of a sudden,
I'm looking at a video of you, man, you look old.
(04:45):
The gray hair has slowly come in on the chin
and across the beard. On top of my head, I
get a full head of hair, unlike you. So I
don't see a gray just year. But I don't know
about that you're wearing. You're wearing a hat. I don't
know that you have a full head. I'm full ahead
of it. Looks like that looks like some hair plugs
right there. I don't know about that. Man. Do you
(05:08):
imagine if there's one person that would not disclose that too,
that is exactly the guy Ben Molly would not. I
got I got nothing. I got nothing. But but uh,
that's fine, that's fine. I look at you in an
hair club for men. I think you're dying the beard
a little bit. I think you got a little uh,
you know, covering up the gray there. That's a good move, right,
(05:30):
you get to get the fifty. You gotta do it. Yeah,
I I need you to, uh, I need you to
walk me through the process of once I turned forty two,
now be into that phase of getting checked, you know,
once every six months for prosted exams, blood pressure, cholesterol,
the whole, the whole smash. I mean, I know you
don't have to get a gallbladder checked anymore, but I
(05:53):
might have to. It's a cheap shot. Yeah. Yeah, Well
a good thing about working in radios. We got our
prostate check quite regularly working, so you know it really
helps your health. Uh it does anyway, all right, you dummy. Uh,
let's get we got pop quiz you. I got a
few pop quiz with the show must continue here, so, uh,
(06:15):
these are random things that are fun questions. I'll ask
gascon and then you can play along as you listen.
According to a new survey, forty percent of parents say
they argue with their family about this on a regular basis.
It is a regular problem in families. Man, I I
(06:37):
guess in today's world, would my number one answer be?
What is politics? Uh? That's not a bad answer. Answer,
It's not a it's not a great answer because you know,
most people these days, you very rarely see a Republican
and a Democrat. It's Democrat, democrat, Republican, Republican. There's no
(06:59):
differing things. But the answer is the temperature in the car,
you know, like you're driving around and I don't want
it colder, No, I want it hotter. You know, I
haven't really had that problem in recent years. I don't
know if you know this, but there's certain vehicles out
there that have temperatures for the passenger side of the
vehicle and the driver's side of the vehicle. I is
(07:21):
that right? Is that right? Is that? Is that how
you live west of the four oh five? Is that right?
Some of us have the dial on the air conditioner.
You have blue and red. Cold would be blue and
then red would be warm, and then you have to
figure out what is the proper temperature based on that?
All right? Moving on what? One third of Americans say
(07:43):
this is the celebrity where they would like to share
a hot dog with. This is a spinoff of the
Fourth of July, which was obviously recently, So one third
of Americans say this is the celebrity they would like
to enjoy a weener with. Who is it? You know
a lot about eating Wiener's guest on? So what do
you think here? I'm gonna go out on a limb
with a man of Troy and say Will Ferrell, Will Farrell?
(08:07):
All right? He went. I went to the same high
school as Will Farrell. He's made slightly more money than me. Um,
but no, that is incorrect. That is incorrect. It's a woman.
It's an older woman. How about that even better? Um,
I'm gonna is it Holly Berry? No? No, I didn't
know Holly Berry was old. And this is I'm I'm talking.
(08:31):
I mean, I guess she's old for you know, for
for if you're like twenty, she's old at thirty, your forty,
but you're fifty, she's I don't think it's halle Berry fifty.
I don't. I don't know. Yeah, she's past fifty. She
doesn't look like it, though. Oh is that all right?
I haven't I've not seen any photo of halle It's
not halle Berry, though, it's not. Let's see drink some
Grandpa juice here and see if you can figure out
(08:52):
you want to take one more older female Hollywood. Uh?
Katherine Hepburn, Catherine, I think this woman is beyond octogenarian.
I have Bet Midler, not Ben Miller, be Middler. Oh
my god, you are terrible at his game. No, what's
(09:14):
your name? The one that was on? Yeah? Yeah, say it.
Rob Parker loves her, Come on, say it. Parker is
a big fan. I I'm forgetting her name. Uh, it's
it's not. The last name is not. Well, they have
the same first name. The last name though, for the
bakery stuff is Crocker, but the first name is the same.
(09:36):
Do you know the no, uh no, you're flipping my mind.
Betty Crocker, Betty White, Betty White. There you go. Oh
come on, yeah, there you go. One third. Wow, that's
a large number. Let me tell you can you can
lead a horse to water, you can't get the horse
to drink. I try. I lead you right there, guest,
guns you don't drink water, right, you know. I'm usually
(09:57):
at the beach, just enjoying the way. Now you you
drink filtered water from the springs of you know, somewhere
in the south of France or something. Anyway, be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app Alright. Another one
(10:19):
kind of related to the recent Fourth of July holiday.
A new survey asked Americans to name the side dishes
they love to eat on the Fourth of July. Now,
baked beans was the most popular. Not at the Mound,
not at the Mallard, household, by the way, not baked beans.
But I'm more of a like a chip guy on
(10:39):
the side. But anyway, what was number two? How about
potato salad or macaroni salad. Yeah, my wife likes the
potato salad. I'm not a fan. Why not? Wait wait wait,
why not? Yeah? I like mac and cheese. I don't
like macaroni salad. I like potatoes. I don't like potato salad. Uh.
(10:59):
The answer is, and this is disgusting. It's probably west
of the four or five people eating this deviled eggs.
How pathetic is that? It makes me want to puke
thinking about deviled eggs. When I think of deviled eggs,
I think Christmas and holiday parties, like not the ones
that you go to because I know you're gonna company
ones that are like usually hundred thousand dollars to cater
(11:20):
for but uh w when invited guest got Those days
are over now thanks to the corominavirus, so I don't
have to worry about over indulging at a company event anymore.
I'm glad I got that in because there will be
no more of those anytime soon. I can't do you
remember the last thing you had a deviled egg crap. No,
and maybe when I was a kid, I was forced
(11:41):
to eat it. You know, I wolfed it down to
try to get it over with and then you move on.
It was torture. But now I'm not a fan. Alright.
Any two of Americans say this is the number one
pet peeve about going to the beach. A lot of
people going to the beach over the summer here or
the lake. Lack of parking. Uh no, that is not it.
(12:05):
See if you go to Hawaii, because there's parking everywhere
in Hawaiian. No, that's true. It's amazing. Ah. The correct
answer though, smoking, Oh, people smoking at the beach. You
like the smokes? You smoke cigarettes for years? Gas gun No, never,
never ever ever, My my, my pipes are naturally like this.
But that is that is annoying. Like on the boardwalk.
(12:26):
You'll get guys that are just hanging out on the
boardwalk smoking a cigarette or a cigar, and you get
traffic going up and down the boardwalk and that just
blows into their faces. It's pretty annoying. Yeah, allowed, though,
it is allowed. Yeah, you're smoking not illegal? Alright. Thirty
three of kids do this at night? What is it?
What kids. I can't say, play video games because they
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do that all day, that's right, not video games. Um
of these kids do this. Um, they don't do homework
any more. No, those days, those days are over, long gone.
What about what about talking on the phone? Talking on
(13:11):
the phone, Those days are over too. I guess people
text these days. They don't talk on the phone. They
could text her in the day and talk at night.
You're better off spitting in the wind. Uh. The correct
answer is sleepwalk? Have you ever been, ever been a sleepwalker? Yeah?
But yeah, I mean early and yeah I have a
(13:32):
couple of times have walked, like randomly into the wall.
It's genetic, right, isn't that genetic that's passed down usually?
I think it runs in the family. I don't know.
You gotta ask your wife. She's the hippie, she knows
all this ship. How about you ask your dad if
he slept walk when he was a kid. How about that?
All right? Anyway, he doesn't sleep, He doesn't sleep good?
(13:52):
Neither do I I get these random text message as well.
I'm trying to sleep, you know, calling me out for
not paying my my co workers more money. And I
didn't realize I was a former NFL player making millions
of dollars. Anyway, we call you Betty money bags, money bags, Mallar,
money moneyball, Maller, not money bags moneyball. Mollery will never
call me money bags. I would like to be called
(14:13):
money bags Mallory. I think that would be the cat's whiskers.
To be called moneyball money bags Mallory would be great,
all right. Anyway, five of men are freaked out when
their woman does this. They lose their mind. What is it? Um?
But only five role play? Role play? Uh no, I've
(14:37):
it's probably higher than five percent on that. But the
answer is make more money than they do. So when
they're there there, woman makes more money, like crap, that's good.
Not only only five percent, that's good. I think that's
that's adequate. I don't I wouldn't freak out at all,
would you now? I'd be happy. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
(14:57):
worry is you know? Might be? That's great. Good. I'll
live off you. That's the way to do it. Come on,
I'm perfectly fine doing that, all right. A new survey
finds many Americans do not want to return to the
office once the coronavirus is done. And people, you know,
(15:18):
they you don't have to wear the mask anymore, and
they don't mandate all these things and all this stuff. So, uh,
this is not really a pop quiz question, but it
was interesting that maybe people don't want to go back
to work. Um I actually would like to go back
at some point, not every day, maybe a few days
a week, go back to fact to work part time.
(15:41):
But you know it isn't people want to stay at home.
And if if you do work out of the office,
imagine if you work in the commercial real estate sector
and you're renting out office buildings, you gotta be like,
wait a minute, if everyone's just gonna work from their home,
is are there some zoning rules that you're not allowed? Yeah?
I think, I mean I don't have to look, but
(16:02):
I believe there are some rules that you're not allowed
to work in some businesses you're not allowed to work
at home. Well yeah, I mean, if you're mean, we
live here in Los Angeles, Sin. So we got the harbor,
are in the docks. I mean the longshoreman they have
to work no matter what. Um. Yeah, I would imagine
an outside of politicians, but how many public servants that
(16:22):
they have to go to work no matter what to
you know, if you're a police, firefighter, UM, gas and
electric companies, UM. You know, if you're a real estate agent,
you don't really have to work from an office anymore.
You can work from you can work from home and
just show people listings and list property when you need to.
But well, no, I know that. But I mean, you
(16:43):
know some I thought there was some zoning laws and stuff.
I'm not sure how that. Well, I'll tell you one
place for sure that needs employees. There is King Newsome's winery.
He needs employees there. That's the only place open here
in California. Well, he, when you're part of the monarchy, gascon,
you can do whatever you want when you're in the monarchy.
(17:05):
And good for him. I guess the people of California
get what you vote for. I didn't vote for Gavin Newsom,
so I hope the people enjoy Gavin Newsom, and they
enjoyed he's turning the state into San Francisco. And uh,
that's a different conversation. Don't you don't you miss coming
to the studio though, I mean you're you're always there,
(17:27):
even on holidays. So you went from zero to sixty
and vice versa, and you blinking. Yeah. Yeah, Although you know,
it's like I've always said, I remember years ago, I
learned it takes about thirty to sixty days to form
a new habit. Yeah, I'm kind of used to working
from from the home studio. I've settled into this. I
(17:49):
got my routine. Now I've got my new routine. It
does not involve going to the gym. I walk like
an old man randomly around the neighborhood I live in. Here,
go to a couple of cities. Actually walked through like
two three cities here. I walked that far. But uh yeah,
I'm I'm used to it. Now. You gotta, in fact,
the you gotta take the wife and just walk up
and down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. That's like, you know,
(18:10):
that's an easy walk and the streets are empty. That's
like an easy place to do that stuff. Like you
got the parks and a lot of stuff. I just yeah,
but let me tell you Pasadena, there's some sneaky crime
in Pasadena. I went to a gym just a little
north of Colorado Boulevard. I had some My car was
vandalized broken into. I was at the gym and they
(18:34):
said it happens all the time. They're just like, it's
really weird, like Pasadenia. It's it's more like there's a
lot of cities on the East Coast where it goes
from really wealthy to pretty poor rather quickly, and the
the crime seems to spike up there. All Right, A
new service is kind of something we've had in the past.
But a new survey found that more than seventy five
(18:57):
of Americans that were survey admitted to gaining as much
as blank number of pounds since the shutdown in the
United States. If we got the freshman fifteen, I will
say the COVID thirty five, thirty five, that's a lot.
Thirty five is a lot. Uh no, how about we
(19:18):
slice that a little less than half of that sixteen
pounds of love. Sixteen pounds that's not bad. You've gotta
figure people aren't going, Wow. It's kind of weird though,
right because if people are at home, they're not eating
fast food, so it just means they're cooking like fools,
or they're not exercising, and you know there's a combination, right, Yeah,
(19:40):
but if you if you eat good, you don't always
have to exercise. It just I mean, who the funk
wants to eat good? Come on? Please? Yeah, I definitely
know that. So be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific. Alright, let's get to study this. I
gotta up all leaves. Then we'll get to the mailbag. Uh.
(20:02):
It is not a myth. After this is a great,
great story here from these science files that they now believe,
the scientists that they can figure out when earthquakes are
gonna happen based on farm animals. Farm animals, gas guy,
how about that? Get you? I was gonna say, I
(20:24):
gotta believe that because you have dogs that have a
great sense of things and and they're always responsive when
it comes to the emergency, responds to units. And that's
from from miles away. So farm animals assignment, especially here
in California, we need. We need all the help we
can get. You need the warning. Yeah. But then see
(20:44):
the problem with this is they'll get it right some
of the time, and they'll probably get it right wrong
a lot of the time, and then once you start
getting it wrong, people are like, that's bullshit. It's kind
of like when Hawaii got you know, the text message
alert saying uh, you know, missiles inbound or something like that.
Once you get that, you can like wait a minute.
But it says according to this, and these have obviously
(21:06):
been over the years anecdotal accounts. But the farm animals
and as you said, dogs and other pets before an earthquake,
they act different, they act weird. There's something going on there,
and so uh, never has there been any scientific evidence
to back that up, But now there has been. There's
a new study by a bunch of German scientists that
(21:29):
they claim show scientific evidence that supports the longstanding anecdotal report,
you know, evidence of people saying that odd animal behavior
does happen prior to earthquake, the earthquakes. The research suggesting
I'm reading it right out of this that animals may
indeed provide the clues maze the way that was phrased
(21:51):
was weasel terminology, but that they can lead to telling
human beings when and where earthquakes are gonna happen. Well,
the nice thing is if these if these farm animals
are are wrong and they need a fallback plan, they
can always get into becoming a weather person, or they
could or they can create models for COVID nineteen deaths.
Those people are just off by, you know, hundreds and
(22:14):
thousands too, So it doesn't matter. And and you're never
the weather person is called out more than the person
who's making the doomsday prophecies. The peddic the panic peddling.
You never have to You never get called for it.
You never get called out for it. Neither does the
media that just go all over it and just love
(22:35):
the hell out of it. All right. This is something
that relates to a conversation I used to have all
the time with Looney. We used to talk about round
numbers and how important round numbers are with us. A
new study out that says consumers would rather have round
numbers even when the specific number is actually better news.
For example, we'll use the coronavirus. If they announced that
(22:59):
this magical potion, this vaccine that they're coming up with
is ninety one point two percent effective. According to this,
people are likely to think the vaccine is actually less
effective then if they said it was effective. So the
power of round numbers. Just like in Minnesota, they say
(23:21):
the land of ten thousand lakes, I think there's actually
eleven or twelve thousand. I think it's eleven thousands something
something lakes in Minnesota, but they go by ten thousand
because that's round numbers, marketing revenund round number. Any chance
you're gonna go to the Twin Cities and anytime sooner,
verify that for us. Well, I have been to the
(23:41):
airport in Minnesota over the years, but I have not
spent any time. I would like to go to UH.
I was planning, I was planning on going, but I
don't know if I go to Minneapolis anytime soon. Now,
oh yeah, there's multiple reasons. But know so listen, it's
like it's like anything you gotta like. They're whack of
doodles in a lot of these cities, but you they're
(24:02):
in pockets. You've got to avoid the pockets of the
nut jobs and the loons and uh and then you
find the normal people that live out usually in the
suburbs or who knows where, but the people that aren't
trying to defund the police and those idiots. Anyway, all right,
what's what's the fascination with round numbers? Because you do
it all the time in marketing, right when you sell
something you have a listed price of like nineteen thousands
(24:25):
opposed to twenty thousand or or anything around about that. Yeah,
I mean, it's it's something about the human condition that
people love round numbers. It's like satisfying, and they've they've
figured it out, like in baseball, Uh, if you have
a three batting average, that's much more impressive than hitting too.
(24:47):
But it's one percentage point right, and it's like, what
the hell? And so I actually there was a study
on this I read a while back that said something
to the effect that it's because if you if you
count human beings, you have ten right fingers. And that's
a film. Including the film, obviously you have ten and
(25:08):
so uh, there's a there's a theory that it's linked
to the fact that we have ten fingers, and it's
some kind of weird evolutionary quirk. It's like, why do
we yawn? And why why is yawn? What when somebody yawns,
like around you you you can't help yourself, but yawn.
That's interesting. It is one of the weird things that
(25:30):
they haven't been able to figure out. But it's I
think that's because of the fingers. So if somewhere there's
a parallel universe guesscout where they have, you know, let's
say like thirteen fingers, then they would like not they
w W want round numbers, they'd be they'd be more
attracted to to odd numbers. And I and I actually
(25:54):
I have read that it's the exact opposite that you
want to negotiate. If you're ever negotiating a contract, you
can always have a range of numbers with round or
even numbers. But they say that once you get to
your sweet spot on a dollar amount that you want,
you've got to make sure you throw something that's completely
ambiguous or just thought to be benign. So if your
(26:16):
negotation for twenty dollars, but you say instead I want
twenty one thousand five, the person on the other side's
gonna be like, well, wait a minute, like how did
you get that number? And they'll think in process that
you actually took the time to compound your your analysis
in a thoughtful manner, that they'd be more inclined to
believe that as opposed to you saying, hey, I want
(26:36):
twenty dollars. Ah, so you have to you have to
add on to it. And it's it's strange also because
we love round numbers, but in shopping when you set
a price like on the internet for a product or
or for gasoline for example, right, like that nine tense
thing just is so fucked up that the gas is
(26:59):
allowed to do that. But but no, it's like instead
of forty dollars, you say thirty. If you buy a product, uh,
you know, it's it's ninety nine dollars instead of a hundred.
Because that's one of the examples where people think they're
getting a great deal when in reality, you know, just
people's instinct to be tight wads like me here, you know,
(27:19):
and and be frugal. And he's like, well I'm getting
a deal. It's not it's on sale or it's less
than it's less than twenty bucks. It's you know, like okay, anyway, alright,
moving on, we have mail bag. These are actual questions
by actual listeners. Thank you for sending them in a
little earlier this week. If you want to send questions
to a future podcast Facebook page, Ben Maller show The
(27:43):
Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. It's just Real
Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. If you don't want
to post your message on Facebook, if you're not on Facebook,
Chris from Edmonton writes and He says, what was your
very first job in broadcasting and or the sports industry
and did you always want to be a broadcaster or
(28:03):
was your ultimate goal to work in sports? That was
from from Chris and Edmonton. Well, Chris, technically, my first
job in broadcasting was at the college radio station k
s b R eight point five on the FM dial,
keeping a jazz commercial free. But that was that was
(28:23):
My My first commercial radio job was with the station
in San Diego, which was actually in Mexico, and that
was it was a Baja California Mexico Extra Sports six
ninety and uh, yeah, I wanted to work in sports.
I wanted to be the voice of the Dodgers. But
unfortunately Vince Scully never retired where it was in in
(28:44):
my wheelhouse, so that never happened. But yeah, I love
sports and I thought, hey, be a good life to
work in sports. What about you, gas, Um, Well, I yeah,
I always wanted to. Well, I didn't want to be
in sports talk radio. I wanted to play professionally and
it and it shows by the way it certainly does not,
at least when when it talks about you and you
(29:05):
and I on camera. Um, But I wanted to be
a professional athlete. I played college football, I play a
little bit of college baseball, but I always had the
ambition of playing professionally like you know most people do.
And then I, um, I needed to escape after college,
and so I got in the sales. I always wanted
to be in a sportscaster after that, but that was
(29:28):
more along the lines of just kind of like you said,
on the footsteps of Ben Scully and some of the
other grades that we had here in l A and
even San Diego. You Vin Scully, Chickhern dick Enberg, Al Michael's,
Ralph Lawler, Ralf Lawler. Yeah, he was obviously the Clippers forever.
So yeah, so stubble onto this the happy playground of
(29:48):
radio and television and now digital. Yes, yes, digital, Thank
god for digital. Yeah. Are you clapping for yourself? No,
I'm clapping. I'm clapping for you because you what what
a douche You've turned the corner into the digital realm.
Stacy writes in from Ottawa. We are big in Canada,
(30:09):
gas and we we should just go to Canada. We
were dominating the Canadian market for audio content. You have
you have fans in Vancouver. I know that, Um, I
think you have a couple of fans in Calgary too,
So we have we have all the big sties. We
have Vancouver, Calgary, we have Ottawa, all overa Ottawa, we
have Toronto, Montreal. I've gotten some email from guys in Montreal, Winnipeg. Yeah,
(30:36):
are we missing any other big locations in Canada? I
think those are most of the big cities. There's not
too many of them. You mentioned Evanton too, so yeah,
we got all the all the major ones. Yes, they're
major because they have sports teams. Us See, Stacy writes
in and says, uh, I don't know Jason from Ottawa.
She said, all right, well good, I'm glad you know Jason.
(30:57):
That would be kind of creepy if you did. And
she says, how do you keep going with no sports? Uh?
Says I listened most nice to your show and your podcast.
Well God love you. Thank you for that, Stacy. That's
very nice of you. When I can't and uh, she
just we can't listen to She listened to the podcast
and hasn't missed a beat and all that stuff, and
(31:18):
then she says, this is good. Does Eddie and Coop
do they help you out with content? She says, enjoy
all of you, especially Eddie. How about that? Not you gascoon.
She likes Eddie because he loves hockey, so that's that's great.
But yeah, Stacy, the way the show works normally is
(31:38):
I spend about eight hours getting ready for the show
and then we kind of do the show and to
each our own. But it works. It's a it's a
formula that works. Man Roberto. Earlier this week he posted
a picture Ben because I know you do cooking with Roberto. Yes,
every it's a staple. Every Wednesday we do cooking with Roberto.
(32:00):
He made Tostado's this week. Yeah, he did that, and
he had some marinara sauce too that he was putting
together in a nice looking conction. I was like, man,
Roberto crossing the streams going from the Mexican to the
tie inside look pretty awesome. Yeah, he's crossed over. See
Roberto is gone. When we first started, were trying to
find a bit for Roberto, and he tried some different things.
(32:21):
He was doing some comedy bits that was a disaster,
and then he did the two that are popular. Weather
with Roberto, when he tries to pronounce some of the
names of different cities, like Des Moines, Iowa, which he
called it, which is always fun, and Roberto is a
good sport about it. And then but he's a he's
a good cook. He's he loves cooking, so he's people
(32:42):
like it too. There's he's given you people that don't
know those recipes in some places that things he's cooking,
so it's cool. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific. Kentucky J writes and says, if you
guys were out camping and became stranded for two months,
(33:02):
which of your callers would you choose to be stuck
with due to their resourcefulness? Yeah? Anyone really that resourceful?
I mean, you gotta say blind Scots one of them, right,
The guy's living blind. The guy took The guy took
me on a five mile walk throughout Boston the last
(33:22):
time I went out there and knew everywhere ago obviously
with his dog. But that guy kept talking and showing
me around, and you know, I was just like, I
was pretty impressed. You know, I don't know who else
you would trust. Who would you trust on an island
for two months? Yeah? Maybe Jay Scoop. Yeah, I can
(33:45):
trust him, but yeah, no, there's a lot of these guys.
Everyone's like the great thing about the Malle Militia, it's
a band of misfits. Everyone brings something positive to the
to the group, but everyone also brings a lot of
negative things to the group fall So so you gotta
pick and choose. There I need like a team of people. So,
well do you have Do you have any callers that
(34:07):
are actually legit chefs or someone that can cook, because
there's gonna be an island for two months nearly, someone
that can drum up whatever it is around the around
the local area. Yeah, we've we've had some guys, well
it was it Blind Willie worked at an applesbe Applebee's
in Tampa. He used to call the show. We don't
heard from Blind Willie awhile. And we've had a few
(34:29):
chefs that have called up. And there's a guy in
Minnesota that works at a Taco bell. He offered me
as much taco bell as I want if I come
to Minnesota. So I'm hooked up on that. I'm good.
What if you got to live on an island for
two months with Fats? Oh, Fats would be fun. Fats
would be entertaining. I don't know that Fats could handle
(34:49):
being on island for too much two months, because I
don't think you'd have like Ribi steak, and you wouldn't
be able to make pretzels and things like that. I
think that would be a problem. All right, Uh, this
one's from in in Boston, He says, Ben, do you
ever want to kill yourself? After reading? How stupid some
of these fucking questions are just asking? All right, thank you, Brian,
very kind of you. Uh have you heard the show, Brian,
(35:12):
have you heard the radio show? This is actually the
best of the best year the Kreme de la Creme.
Then some of the calls we take, Oh my god,
Tim and Cadillac Michigan says, hey, big Ben, this is
for both of you. If you could only have one
streaming service for the rest of your life, which one
(35:33):
would you pick? And why I love the show? Can't
wait for my non shout out. Yeah, I'm not gonna
give you a shout out to him In Cadillac Michigan.
Do they have to change the name of Cadillac Michigan
because the Cadillac is not really cool anymore? And I'm
sure at one point it was considered cool. So do
they have to change the name of that. I don't know,
I don't know, maybe not to cancel it for some
(35:54):
stupid benign reason. Yeah. Yeah, Well, the Cadillac is for
wealthy people, and so you you're really disparaging poor people
when you have a city named Cadillac Michigan. So it
used to be canceled, right, You're mocking poorness and celebrating
elitism with Cadillac Michigan. Uh. I watched the streaming services
(36:16):
pretty much exclusively these days because there's no sports to watch,
So I don't need to worry about watching any of
the sports that I used to watch because there's no
no sports. Uh So, I mean I guess Netflix, I
guess they have the most stuff, But you know, I
usually we have Netflix and we'll rotate Hulu, but I
(36:38):
got commercials on that. I don't really like that. What
about YouTube? Yeah, YouTube's YouTube's a really good that that
probably has more than anything. So yeah, and there's some
actually sneaky good documentaries on YouTube that are hidden and
hard to find, but when you find them, you're like, wow,
that's pretty cool. In fact, that the big chicken documentary
I think was on YouTube when we uh we did
(37:00):
podcast about that. So yeah, YouTube you YouTube. Yeah, I'd
go to YouTube for sure. All right. Barry in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says,
if sports talk radio had not worked out, what do
you think you would be doing for a living? Well,
first of all, how do you know it's worked out?
Have you seen my finances? Barry? Uh in debt up
(37:22):
the wazoo. But no, I I would have figured something out.
I I often have said my my dream is to
work at Costco, and I still might end up doing
that if this, if sports don't come back, I might
have to apply over there. But uh yeah, I don't know.
I mean maybe a lawyer. I wasn't really into academia
and you have to do a lot of that to
become a lawyer, to pass the bar and all that.
(37:43):
But I think from an argument standpoint, I could I
would be a decent lawyer at least I have that
in me. Some of my family thought I should have
been a lawyer, but yeah, and that's you don't know.
Every decision it closes another door, right You you open one,
you close another. So I guess in another dimension, I
(38:05):
didn't become a radio guy, and I had to get
a different job. And yeah, but you had. I had, Uh,
the only other jobs I've had out of radio, I
worked the newspaper delivery guy. That was my first jobs.
And then I also worked for my mom's business. I
had a sales job briefly, but that's that's it. I'm
(38:25):
surprised he didn't say political talk radio. Well, that might
be coming if sports don't come back. Well, sports have
really turned into political radio. Everything's political when it fits
the agenda, you know. And uh, Deshan Jackson says something
anti semitic. Those guys that are out there virtue signaling
and prol clutching suddenly shut up. They have nothing to
(38:48):
say about de Sean Jackson and a bunch of hypocrites.
We ripped the hell out of him the other night
on the show, which Uh, Steven Jackson. Boy, what a
fraud that I turned out to be hunt jeez. Yeah,
there's a lot of there's a lot of hustling going
on right now. So I it's just the climbate we're in,
right I Mean, everybody's getting paid off some way somehow,
(39:10):
and you know, everyone's trying to be ahead of the curve,
and that's what Lebron, who's been proven to be anti Semitic.
I go back to google Lebron anti Semitic. So he
really couldn't enter the chat because he's got his own
skeletons in his closet there, But all those other guys
could have done it anyway. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, the
(39:33):
hometown of my dearly departed grandfather. He says, can you
please pay off your tease and elaborate on some of
the plans that you and Roberto have for the Astros
when they come to Dodger Stadium? All right, So I'll
say this, this is only for the p one, the
extreme p ones that listen to this podcast. So me
(39:54):
and Roberto have been talking about getting a band of
misfits together and and heckling the Astros at their hotel.
All right. Now, you can find out where these teams
are staying. There's a couple of hotels in the l
A area that are like highly rated where the team stay.
So I think this would be great to get a
(40:16):
bunch of guys with like signs and we'll just we'll
call it a protest, and then King Newsome will allow
us to do it. I think it'll be fun. Wouldn't
be great When the Astros come out of the hotel
to get on the bus, they hear like cow bells
and boom out, boo bay and all that to be wonderful. Yeah.
I remember one of the shows that you were you
(40:37):
were hosting. I was up it was like twelve or
one o'clock in the morning, and I have a friend
of mine who works at a hotel that the Astros
stayed out during the seventeen World Series, and she texted
me during the fight that A. J. Hinch had gotten
into I don't know if you remember that, but he
was he got into a fight like a hotel bar
and lobby area. And so she texted me and she's like, yeah,
(40:59):
that that story, you know accurate? So well they spun
the story to make it seem like he was like
a totally innocent Do you think that's actually what happened
that he was. Yeah. Yeah, And especially in the in
the you know, hindsight being as they say, when you
look back at what lying this these assholes in Houston did,
(41:23):
I'm thinking A. J. Hinch was the insider, he was
the instigator. Uh. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong. He's
he's a liar, he's a cheat, he got suspended, proved
me wrong, cannot do it all right anyway. Uh, let's
see Trucker Joe. Our guy. Trucker Joe in Pennsylvania and
Parts Unknown says, if you can pick one fictional monster
(41:44):
to be real, for example, the lock Nest monster, big Foot,
up a cabra along those lines, what would you pick? Well,
the big one would be big Foot, right, because how
many people have made money on documentaries and movies and
written books about big Foot? But yet no one's found
the skeletal remains of Bigfoot. So they must bury other Bigfoots,
(42:06):
must bury Bigfoots for those to be too well. Yeah,
big for any mythical character. Guess what about Chewbacca? Yeah
you want to go Hollywood about Darth Vader or damn good? Yeah?
(42:27):
All right, I mean talking about a mythical character. If
he's on your side, you got the force since came over.
I'm surprised. I'm surprised you didn't pick winning the pool.
I thought you would pick winning the pool, didn't? Yeah?
Or big bird? Alright? Alright? Moving on. Jess from Pomona
(42:47):
in so Cow says, hey, Ben, if you had to choose,
which one would you choose? And why either the Dodgers
or the Clippers win at all? Uh this year? And Jesse, listen,
this is a question I get asked a lot, and
I love my Dodgers, and I'm looking forward to watching
the Dodgers this season. But the answer here is the Clippers,
(43:10):
because it would upset to no end the Laker historians,
who would just be in tears, Guys like gag On
the West of the four oh five crowd, the one
per centers, the Hollywood elites. They would be shipping their
pants to watch the Clippers win a championship, and it
would be magical. It would cement Kauai Leonard as the
(43:31):
greatest player in NBA history. Three championships with three different
teams as the lead dog. Proved me wrong. Proved me wrong,
Kawhi Leonard. If he wins a championship with the Clippers,
he trumps Jordan's, he trumps Bill Russell, He trumps Uh,
all of the greats, all of the greats in NBA.
Kobe Bryant, Sorry, Kobe, I know You're gone. Lebron James, sorry,
(43:54):
bye bye. So the Clippers I'm not disagreeing with y Leonard.
I think he is the best player in the game
right now, but there's no chance in hell he trump's
all of those guys like he does. That is a
that is a greater career accompt I don't want go
all sporting on you, but that's a greater career accomplishment
to win the first championship with Toronto in the Clippers,
(44:17):
all right, to franchises that are known to be woe
beyond teams, and to prove that it's he wasn't just
a product of the Spurs and being around those good
players in San Antonio, that he was the good player.
So that's the Clippers. I don't I'm surprised they'll be okay,
because if this is another sitting in another franchise, I
(44:38):
think you'd be more inclined to say the Dodgers, just
because the losing team is always the better story, even
when they get to the World Series, the NBA Finals,
or whatever it may be in the Super Bowl, because
people love the losers, like the Cubs for so long
right on the win. In media, if you're a radio host,
you love the losers. If you're a sports writer, you
(44:58):
love the losers. But if you're a fan, you love winners.
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to listen live. Alright, Matt from Mansfield, Texas rights and
he says, if you could topple any statue in sports,
(45:22):
who's would it be? For me? The choice is clear,
it would be the Bud Selix statue outside Miller Park
in walk O. I don't know if Matt's from Wisconsin,
he says he's listening in Texas. Uh. Yeah, I would
say that Peyton Manning statue in Indianapolis is the obvious one.
Take that statue down. Peyton Manning oppressed my people, take
(45:45):
him down, Please chop him down. Where is Antifa when
you need them? Take Peyton Manning down? Horrible? What about you?
He is the symbol of Indianapolis. I can't think of
many I can't think of many statues that are actually
like like worthwhile to eat. I mean, the one statue
that needs to stay up no matter what is the
Rocky statue right in Philadelphia, like you can't. You can't
(46:08):
touch that. No matter what I think that one is
is uh as hollow ground. Um, I'm trying to think
of even like, what are the statues are out there
that are notable figures that are good you If you
want to blow have your mind blown, go on the
internet and do a search of sports statues. There are
so many random people that have statues that are in sports.
(46:31):
It's just mind boggling. I love the fact that broadcasters
have gotten statues. I know in Chicago they have the
Harry Carry statue in l A They've got and Bob
Miller has a statue out in front of uh Staples Center.
Did any of those get touched? Any of those Staples
Center statues? Did theyn't even try to tear them? There's
no way I can't imagine them touching those, right. Maybe Gretzky,
(46:54):
you know he didn't, he never even he never even
played it. A lot of those guys didn't even play
at the Staples Center. Complix anyway, all right, Uh Greg
from Riverside, So this is a question for you, Ben.
Do you fart in front of your wife? And does
your wife fart in front of you? Well? Thank you, Greg?
I appreciate that. I think we we both it has happened.
(47:15):
We both try to avoid it the times it's most
likely to happen. And you'll learn this someday, guess ghun.
When you're in a hotel no, no, When you're in
a hotel room and there's really because there's nearly no
way to go. You know, if you're in the house
and you're about you're you're feeling a big moist fart,
you can go in the other room, you know, you know,
(47:35):
you can kind of walk out. They don't normally just
pop up out of the blue, so you have some time.
But when you're in a hotel room, what do you
I'm sorry, I'm gonna go down to a lobby or
run out to the hallway to check the mail. You
can you can put the suppressor on, ben, You can
sit straight up on your on your bed, on your
hotel bed. Is that right? Is that there? They put
(47:58):
the suppressor on, then it's all good. It's even worse
if you go to the rest room because all of
a sudden, the acoustics and it's just this loud echo.
It's like kaboom, no chance that's happening. Carlos in Houston,
right since this did you guys have my Space? If
you all did, that's a good by the way. You know,
Carlos is authentic texting when he says, y'all, that's authentic
texting right there. Who was on your top friends list? Yeah,
(48:24):
I don't know. You can check I have. My MySpace
page is still up and it's I was pretty fat.
But you can look at photos from the my Space
when when I originally did the Overnight show during the
week with Karen Kay, Uh, we had my Space page
and that was like the big thing that was that
was more popular than the Facebook when it came around.
(48:46):
I think they started around the same time MySpace and
face Facebook. My Space was before Facebook was it, but
my Space was pretty popular at one point and then uh, Karen,
Karen had a drop. We played a lot back in
those days. My Space is huge, you know that kind
of thing. But I think my top my top eight
were just hot girls don't even know who they were,
(49:07):
just connected to them and all of a sudden, like
hot put them up there and they didn't know who
you were either. All right, thank you very much. Barry
from Chattanooga says, do you regularly listen to sports talk
radio shows. If so who Uh, No, I don't burry
I I when I do, I listen to my friends.
(49:27):
People I liked it are good people. Petro's papad because
I like to petrol, some money show and I'm driving
around l A. They used to work at Fox Sports Radio.
Tony Bruno, We've had on the podcast Jerry Callahan, who's
got a podcast in Boston. I'll listen to Jerry. Uh,
some of some of those guys. Uh, you know, there's
there's a few others were randomly listened to. But yeah,
I don't go out of my way. Uh, usually listen
(49:50):
to something else because it's like taking if you even
live at the beach, taking sand home to the you
know your home. You know it's you have, you have
it there. I'm immersed in sports radio all the time.
Plus I don't want to steal somebody else's stuff. So
(50:11):
you guess got you a big consumer of sports radio. No,
I mean I'll listen to the network, but when I'm
there eight nine, ten hours out of the day, I
refused to listen to anything else just because I just
I'm over it. I'm tired of it, and I mean,
I listened to Jim Rome especially, you know sometimes well
go on YouTube and I'll listen to his old segments
just for great laughs, before um, he became really corporate.
(50:34):
But you know, back in the day, you were in
six ninety and I used to listen to that station
all the time. He just there was no holds barred
and he would just let it rip. But yeah, I'll
listen to him at times. Obviously I'll listen to the
network and on I Heart, But I have a tough
time listen to a lot of guys that, you know,
because of the climate that we're in right now, it
is really just either one way or the other. And
(50:57):
and god forbid if there's any kind of pushback the set,
and I think it's just worth where we're at right now.
You can really see like the true colors shining, or
you can see just a lack of content. Listen, guys
out there that just have absolutely no way know how
to entertain. And I think it's just an indictment on
I'm a talent, like thereover right now. Yeah, It's something
(51:20):
I've always said, like this job is really easy. When
you're it's around Super Bowl time and there's a big
game and you can talk about it and it's it's
funny because traditionally, the the the way the industry worked
in sports radio is the guys would always take vacation
around the All Star break in the summer because it
was only baseball and there wasn't once the NBA Finals
(51:42):
ended in training camp hadn't started in football. There was
like that sweet spot, and some guys named it the
dead zone because they dreaded coming in and having to
talk about just baseball and having nothing else to talk about,
even though they were like always in retrospect, they're always
NBA rumors with free agents and there's always like stuff.
But yeah, the last couple of months, what do we
(52:03):
a hundred over a hundred and twenty days now since
the apocalypse started for the US sports And yeah, I
mean it's not as I will say, there's not as
much variety, but there's stuff. You just gotta you gotta
dig below the surface to find the stuff. Oh yeah,
I mean you look at your show case and point
you have an entire segment that is dedicated to the
(52:24):
NFL offseason and guys getting in trouble for doing stupid ship.
So yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. Listen. If
it's if the players don't do stupid ship, the bit
goes away and we all we always issue the disclaimer
before that, saying we hope no one gets arrested and
no one has problems with the law. And every year, yeah,
armed robbery over here, uh, you know, beating somebody up
(52:48):
over there, bar fight over here. It never ends. I
think we'll we'll end it there. Guess we're gonna end
it there. We have bigger fish to fry, I believe, yes, yes, yes,
all right, listen, have a great weekend. The furlough is over.
A great rest of your weekend. This being Sunday. Back
at it, back in the catbird seat tonight on the radio,
(53:11):
eleven pm in the West, two am on Monday in
the East. Have a good day.
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