January 23, 2021 • 40 mins
Ben is joined by David Gascons fill in - Kevin O'Connell and Kevin is put on the life hot seat from Ben. Plus, Ben goes down memory lane of an old co worker and tells a story about his time where he was once let go in the radio business only to be brought back. Ben also caps the show off by doing a pop culture quiz with Kevin, including the most popular trends of 2020!
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four oh five, David Gascon is too busy to do
the podcast this weekend, and so we are joined. For
better or worse, by Kevin O'Connell, who has filled in
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for Cooper Loop. In fact, last week he filled in
for Cooper Loop and he's here for his maiden voyage
on the podcast. So, Kevin, I hope you're prepared for this.
You know, I figured Ben two times this week wasn't enough.
I had to fill in for gascon too and get
you a couple more times. Third times the charm, third
time charm exactly. It's been a busy week with you. Yeah, yeah,
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as your life changed in the magical ways that you've
been on the show so much, just drastically, I mean
ways I can't even explain on air. Yeah, you have
a little more pep in your staff. And he pumped
your chest out a little bit, walk around like a peacock. Yeah.
Everyone's like, what's up with Kevin today? I'm like, well,
I've been working with Ben Mallery this week. What do
you expect? You know? And then they say who who?
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You explain? You explain who it is. It's a whole,
it's a hole to do and all that, so very brandish. Well,
I know a little bit about you about can we
put you on the hot seat? Are we allowed to
do that? Of course? Is your show, you tell me, Yeah, exactly.
So you're from Orange County, right, I'm from Orange County,
but you're Boston. Your family's a Boston families that correct?
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In that correct? Yes, I'm born and raised in Orange County,
North Orange County, pacentially for the most part. And my
dad is from Rhode Island, so not technically Boston, but
close enough Rhode Island. I still have family back there,
my cousins in Maine, one cousins in downtown Boston, and
my aunt and uncle are still in Rhode Island actually,
so yes, background of all Boston teams. So when you
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were younger, did you always go to like the Rhode
Island and Boston went for vacations? So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
been there plenty of times. And then now, you know,
once I turned twenty one, and then I say, pretty
much just in Boston. Yeah of course, why would you
really get all the bars and all that going on
in Boston? So sure? And then now have you ever
thought about working in Boston? Moving to Boston? I would
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love to. Yeah, I've looked up jobs at you know,
of course, w E. I you've talked about it before.
I think you worked there for a little bit I did,
and you know, big fans of those guys. Of course,
that's where I get most of my Boston content from.
And yeah, I've looked up jobs for sure, and I
would absolutely move there. The only thing that would stop
me would obviously be the weather. Of course. Yeah, it's nasty, man,
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And I've only been there for like a week at
a time when the weather is horrible, or a couple
of weeks at a time when the weather is horrible.
But yeah, if you're living there, it's like, jeez, it's
pretty much like well, I'm sure your dad's told you
your relatives just like five months of the year, it's brutal. Yeah,
I mean, why do you think he's out here? He
actually helped the buddy move when he came out here,
and then he liked it so much that he drove
right back, grabbed his stuff and drove right back to
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California because I'm moving here to the women in the weather.
And he said, this is enough for me. There you go,
what more do you need? That's it right there, done,
problem solved right there, absolutely. And so now there's another thing.
And I think you mentioned this on the show a
couple of months ago that you know a guy that
I know before I got into radio, I when I
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was in high school. To make a little extra money,
I had a little side hustle where I would hang
out and get autographs and then sell most of them.
I didn't sell all of them, I sold most of them,
and then I would spend the money to like go
to games. I mean, I had a whole racket going.
But there's and I haven't. I haven't really kept in
contact with any of those guys that I ran with
back in those days. But you know one of them, right,
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Do you're familiar with one of those guys that that
knows the dark secrets of my past? Yes, yes, the
very dark secrets. His name is Jim Rafferty and he
owns a bar in Placentae at my hometown, like I
was just talking about, called Kelly's Corner Tavern. It's the
greatest bar. I worked there for a little bit right
when I graduated college. Everyone I know, my family and
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my friends, we all go there. We support and we
actually did a go fund me for him when this
pandemic hit. And great guy and small world. You guys
know each other, and you guys gotten into some dark
days back in your what teenage days, right, Yeah, I
was in I was in high school, and uh, it
was mostly in Anaheim. I did a little bit of
l A stuff, but it was mostly in Anaheim. And yeah,
we were just like stock baseball players at hotels and
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restaurants and we ran the joint. We had. It was
wild back in in those days. Some of the stuff
that that took place and at a great time, and
we we found ways to sneak into the big a
through the back. I mean stuff stuff you would be
like sent to you know, the Who's goal for these days,
but we we had a whole racket going back then.
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It was a lot of fun and so so that's
pretty cool. And the other fun fact about about you,
Kevin is you've actually had I don't know if it's
a fun fact, but you've had the COVID. Yes I am.
I am at COVID vivor yes, yes, And you said
it you had a very mild it didn't really affect
you much. Am I correcting that? Yeah? I had the
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chills and some sweats for one night, just one overnight.
I woke up and I had a feeling, you know,
after that, but I went got tested and tested positive.
But after that one night I had some sniffles like
a mild cold for a couple of days, and then
literally probably four or five days after that night, I
was completely fine. A quarantine of course. Um. Actually quarantined
with my dad because he tested positive the same same day,
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because we went out of town with each other the
weekend before and he's sixty years old, and he was
he had the same thing. He had one night of
sweats and everything, and then he was good and we
quarantined together for a couple of weeks. Wow. Yeah, And
so you did you lose your I've read that people
lose their sense of smell and tasted. Did that happen
to you? No? I didn't. I had I've had a
few friends and family members actually have that to him.
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But yeah, that didn't happen to me or my dad,
And I'm very thankful for that for sure. Now, the
people that you know that have lost their sense of
taste and smell, has it come back yet or is
it still gone? Oh? Yeah, No, it was just about
a week or so, probably a little over a week maybe. UM.
I think the person the longest I've known is maybe
two weeks or so yeah, um, but now they're fine.
They're fine now that this was what seven months ago now,
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back in early July. Okay, yeah, I got you, I
got you. Everyone's good, all right, everyone's all right, just
just checking in that. All right. Now we've learned. See there,
we've learned a little bit about about you, Kim. Any
other fun facts you'd like to share with the class
or is that is that enough? Um? No, nothing on
the top of my head. I'm not too interesting, you know.
And just uh no, no, you're not supposed to say that.
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The first rule of advertising you never right, you never
say I'm not I tell my wife this. You know,
my my wife we've been selling some of the stuff,
you know, my as we're going through my dad's stuff,
the stuff we're getting rid of and whatever, and so
rather than say, hey, you know this so and so
is not that good, but do you want to know
you you sell it and then you know, at the end,
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you start with a positive, go negative, and then go pause.
I'm already learning a thing from you here, Ben, Yeah,
eight minutes. Then, well, now see see what I learned, Kevin.
I learned this about simple human nature, right I can.
I've had a lot of meetings with program directors and
radio and I've learned the tricks. Like they always start
out with a positive boy, Ben, you sound really good.
I like this show, and then they move into but
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and then they just bring down the hammer. But then
they finished with oh, by the way, I you know,
I'm looking forward to hearing so and you know so
they it's positive negative positive. Okay, Yeah, there's a whole
science behind this. Well it works. It works for sales also,
like works in the sales world. Also, okay, can I can?
I'll say one thing then I do have another job.
I run a h back company with my dad. That
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makes a little interesting, right, We have a faily business. Yeah,
that we do on the side here look at now
there's a lot of money in that, right, because they
didn't they change the no that I mean they changed
the in California a few years ago. Didn't They got
rid of what's the free free Yes, yes it is
that old, Yes, the R twenty two um free on.
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But yes, there's a lot of I've been doing that
since I was probably sixteen, you know, helping them out.
But the last four or five years I've definitely done
a lot more with him and we are. Business is
booming again this year. We had a little time off
during the winter, but you know, as soon as that
comes out in California, people they jump all over it. Yeah,
where I'm living, at the house I'm in right now,
we actually have a free on air conditioning unit. And
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he told us, like, we're gonna have to get rid
of it because when when it breaks, I guess you
can't repair it or something like that. They said, yeah,
like yeah, it's the whole like you were saying, the
California rule. We have to put put the new free
on in and the old systems don't take the uh
the the new free on. They're just trying to cycle
it out, if you will, kind of like the as
best to the old duckwork stuff like that. And uh
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so if you ever need anything, you know who to call. Ben.
I now I know I did not know that the
things you learn, the things you learn. So now your
dad taught you everything? And did you did you have
to go to school or your dad taught you everything?
Now he's taught me every thing. He went to school
when he was younger, and he actually he works for
l A County um as a refrigeration supervisor for the
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jails all in l A County jails downtown and then
he kind of does this on the side. And he's
taught me everything as far as residential UM since like
I said, I was about sixteen or so, I've never
gone to school for it. UM. I've gone to regular school,
but not anything as far as a trade for it.
Shot Dad has to go into the prisons and fix
the refrigerators. He he used to be involved in the prisons.
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Now he's more of a supervisor sitting on the desk,
but he kind of has it for most of his career,
a truck route where he would go from um, yeah,
either jails to jails, walk around. He's his first not
first job, a main job for a while was a
twin towers jail. And actually, you know what's funny, I'm
thinking about this since he worked with obviously Coope justin Samponia,
was in Liar Liar. He was there when they were
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filming when when um Jim Carrey got arrested and that
jail or in that scene where they're in the jail
making a phone call. He was around for that. Oh
is that right? Yeah, that's kind of fun factory. So
how long does it take you? If somebody I'm just
curious how the air conditioning business work, I wanta go
back to that. So how how long if I call
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you up, I say I need my air conditioning replaced
or whatever. You gotta buy this stuff, obviously, but can
you just do it in? How many hours does it
take to switch out in air condition Uh? Obviously it
depends on the size of the house, the um, the system, everything.
But if you I mean, if you're just changing out
the equipment itself, meaning just like the furnace and just
a condenser, we can get that done in one day.
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'p about rip out the old stuff, putting the new.
But then, you know, we like to do it the
right way, as we say, and we like to keep
it nice and clean and um we you know, take
our time and we do it the right way and
adding new duckwork. Everything is all about the duck work too,
So it could take up to a few days, two
to three days if you do the whole change out
of everything. So you spend a lot of time in addicts, Yes,
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a lot of time. I'm the addic guy, that's what
they call it. Your dad's probably get up in the
are you're younger, try to keep him out, you know,
and you know he's sixty now. I don't want him
going up in there. That's where all the nasty stuff is, man,
that's where the that's where the varmints are running around
the attic. I bet you've seen some crazy stuff in attics, right,
and bugs and critters and all that stuff. Yeah, you know. Surprisingly,
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I mean I've seen a lot, quite a few, but
not as many as you would think. For how long
I've been doing this for almost what almost fifteen years now,
and I've probably only seen maybe two live rats. And
I've seen plenty of dead ones and traps or something
like that, but uh, not as much as you would think. Actually, Well,
where I live at at the Mallard Mansion, I have
heard critters running around in the attic, but I've never
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gone up to see what kind of critters there. I'm
convinced it's like a squirrel. It's sounds because I have
a lot of squirrels around where I live here, and
I'm thinking one of them got or two of them
got in the attic and we're running around, but I
haven't heard it. I think it died, so it's probably
stuck up in there somewhere. Yeah, yeah, I I don't
know if it has like a door it goes out
and he's only there for the summertime, and I don't
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know anyway. All right, Well you're all the hot seat now, Kevin. Congratulations, Yes,
all right. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p
m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Radio app. So I've I've memory Lane here I wanted
to talk about so before working with Eddie, I've been
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with Eddie for a long time. I did the Overnight
show with Karen Ka KK, as we call her, and
this week I reached out to Karen. I had not
talked to Karen in a good amount of time, but
on January, the day that Joe Biden was sworn in
as the new President of the United States, I sent
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KK a text. And the reason I sent KK a
text that was an important day. We like round numbers,
we like anniversaries, human beings, right, markers because without without
those markers, it's all just a big blob. Life's just
a big blob. Right, That's the reason we have how
of day is because otherwise it's just the monotony of
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the daily life, and you need things to break up
the monotony, and so we have these holidays. But I
reached out to KK Center a few text messages because
that was the anniversary of something that we both have
in common. That was the twelfth anniversary of my exit
stage right. I've been working at Fox Sports Radio since
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it launched up until twenty o nine January nine. Barack
Obama was to be sworn in as the President of
the United States that particular day, and I was given
the boot. I was excommunicated from from Fox Sports Trading
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one of the worst decisions they ever made, and so
I was at that time. I remember very well. To
give you the story. If you're new to the story
and you've not heard it, I've told it a few
times over the years. But I was looking forward, first
of all, to watching the presidential inauguration, believe it or not.
Even though I lean more to Team Read, I enjoy
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the political nonsense with presidents being sworn in things like that,
and I always pulled for the president. Why would you
not pull for the president because you're in America, whether
it's a democratic Republican. So I've always believed in That's
how I was raised, and so I was looking forward
to seeing it was historic. I heard a lot of
a lot of things Barack Obama, the first black president,
and all this stuff. So I was looking forward to watching.
And uh, the night before, the night before, it was
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one of the craziest nights in my radio journey. So
at that time, the show is called The Third Shift
with Ben Maller and came in. It was a normal night.
I remember I was doing a monologue about Bill Kauer
for some reason. That's what I remember. I don't remember
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exactly what I was saying about Bill Kauer, but I was.
I was doing some rift about Bill Kauer. And I
forget what exactly had happened, whether he had left the
Steelers or just left the Steelers, or he was up
for a coaching job somewhere else, or there was some
something with Bill Kauer that was going on at that time.
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So I'm doing my thing talking about Kaur, and I
I got tipped off from someone that we were going
to be fired or laid off, however you want to
call it. The next day. Now, keep in mind that
that breaks the fourth wall. If you will. I think
I'm saying it the right way here, because there's a
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cardinal rule in radio that you never get a final show.
You never get a final show. Now, there are exceptions
to the rule if you're all time legend and they
let you get a final show and you could say goodbye.
But generally speaking, if you're just a rank and file
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radio person, you don't get a final show. Your final show,
they pull you at the end of the show. They
give you an envelope with some cash and say, get
the hell out of here and take up here's a
box and fill it up. Um. But technically that night,
that final night, I think it was like a Monday.
If I remember correctly, I'd have to go back and check.
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But we did get a final show because the company
had sent out an email. I got an email about
I think it was about half an hour into the
overnight show that said there was a mandatory meeting at
three o'clock the next day. Now, if you know how
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corporate America works and the corporate world, they don't send
emails telling you to go to a meeting after five pm,
you know what I mean, Like during regular business hours,
you would send an email you on eight in the morning,
nine ten, went all the way up through like about
five o'clock, but after that generally is ABO. So I
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get this email, you know, late at night demanding that
I show up for this very important meeting at three
o'clock in the afternoon on So this is actually January.
It's the overnight in early morning hours on January twenty,
if you could say it's nineteen. But so anyway, I
get the email whatever, and uh, and then we were
tipped off before that that there were going to be
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mass layoffs coming and a number of us were going
to be uh, let go, And so I was numb.
I remember the feeling I had was numb. I was
like it was I couldn't focus on anything, and it
was really you know, you imagine the feeling you've been
in a situation similar in your life. And so anyway,
I called the text care and K this week to reminiscence.
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I did not reach out to Bergie. I was gonna
text Burgie. He's a big radio executive now, Gregg Bergman
was my producer at the time, and he's uh, he's
doing very well for himself in in l A radio.
So I did not reach out to him, but I
did reach out to k Kay. I also remember that day.
I recall calling my dear old mom as she rest
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in peace, and I had to tell her Mom, I
got let go again, and uh, because I had been
let going a long time. But I I had had
a few um divorces, shall we say, in the early
part of my my radio career, but usually I I
was pretty lucky where I would just transfer, like I
started in San Diego Radio. I did that for a
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few years in the nineties, and then they the company
I was working for, launched the station in the Los
Angeles market, and I was based in Orange County, covering
all of southern California, mostly l A in Orange County,
and so they're like, well, you're already in l A.
Why don't we just transfer you to the l A station.
So I went there. They then got rid of me,
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so I got laid off from that. I had a
college football job I got laid off from or fired
everyone to say it. And there were a few other
sporadic things, but it had been a decent amount of
time since that before I got the the Walking Papers
from from Fox, but it only lasted six months. In
twenty six days, and during that time I filled in
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at a couple of radio stations. I had auditions, I
did some, but that was my first appearance actually doing
local radio at w e I filled in for the
great Mikey Adams on w e I, and that was
my first taste of that. The show that I had
done was on in the Boston market. We did pretty
well there and so that was cool, had a good time,
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and but my mom was very supportive, as you know,
that's what a good mom does, and encouraged me to
keep you know, get back and get another job. Blah blah.
You know, these people are radiots, blah blah blah. But uh,
but it only lasted about seven months, a little less
than that, and then I came back. And so I've
been back at the company for I guess eleven and
a half years, almost eleven and a half years. The
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second run. The first run was uh what nine years?
It was nine years, and then the second run has
been Yeah, so it's all all together. It's over twenty
years now. Which where the hell has that? How the
hell did that happen? Uh, my goods. I want to
share that with the order to share that with you
and Uh. So that's that's the deal. All right. Now
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we have pop Quiz pop quiz coming away, and so
we're gonna bring back Kevin. Kevin O'Connell f he was
on the hot Seedoise. So the way this works, Kevin
is I will I I searched the internet. I find
interesting questions somewhat pop culture related. When I say popcorn,
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it's like mostly about day to day life, the American
experience living life day to day, right, and so then
you have to try to answer and uh, and then
that's how we're gonna be Okay, I got it, all right,
all right, so here we go. This is a pop quiz. Uh.
Thirty nine percent of parents have admitted they've used their
kid as an excuse to buy this. What is it
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to buy an? This? A TV? TV? Alright, kids love television.
That's not a bad yes? Uh no? Happy meal? What? Yeah? Really?
Why would you buy would be meal? Why would you
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buy a happy meal? If you're an adult? I don't know,
what do you want the toy? Maybe a happy meal?
Well it could be it could be on a diet
or something like that, and they just want the kiddie
meal because it's smaller portions. So maybe they want those
apple slices that you can get with that. Yeah, I
mean I feel like if you really want those, you
can order them separately. But he eats their own. I
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guess a happy meal. Okay, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't
like eating happy meals when I was a kid because
it wasn't enough food. I mean, I liked, I like
the toy. I was all about the toy. But man, yeah,
it kind of shorts you on those. Yeah, alright. One
in four of us cannot name a single one of these.
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One in four people cannot name a single one of these.
One in four cannot name it. It's something, it's something
involved in like, uh, like a neighborhood, shall we say,
like something you would do in a neighborhood or something
you would do in a neighborhood. One four cannot name.
One in four cannot name some one of these is
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that you said? Yes? Um alright, So twenty five people
cannot name a single name neighbor, neighbor? Yeah, really, can
you name the can you name the people you have?
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You said you live in Pasadena or can you name
the people you live around in Pasadena that live right
next to you? I only know one person that lives
in my apartment building below me, and his name is Lile.
I believe I'm not even totally confident in that either. Yeah. See,
I'm the same way when I now I live in
a in a house now, When I lived in an apartment,
I live in an apartment in Hollywood for years, and
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there were a lot of people coming and going. I
didn't know anyone on my entire floor that I lived
on above below nobody. Yeah, I was. I'm mostly a
shut in anyway. I'm you know, I'm I'm an introvert,
but I I didn't know anyway now here. I know
I have a couple of friends in the neighborhood, but
as far as the people that lived directly on either side,
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I don't really know them. I don't even really know
their names. Like if somebody came up to me and said, hey,
so and so needs some help, I'd be like, who
the hell is that? I don't know that. I have
no idea. I mean, they're nice people and they're good neighbors,
but I just don't know their names. So you don't walk.
You don't walk in the streets and say, hey, Jim,
how's it going today or good morning Karen. Oh god, no, no,
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I I don't want to be the busy body I
hate because I'm annoyed by the busy body. You know.
You know, I stay out of my business. You know,
I leave me alone. I'm that kind of guy. I'm
that guy. Yeah, I I like it all right. When
it comes to first, you know, the first, this the
first that people remember their first what more than anything,
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You're gonna go third rail on this, um, what do
you I mean? What do you remember? That was the
first experience that that's the most vivid thing that your car.
That's right, yes, get you, there we go. They say.
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A new study says that people remember their type of
car they had first. That's the thing that they remember.
I do, Yeah, I got My first car was a
brown Volari. Was my grandfather's, my my dad's dad's car.
And it it was like awesome. It was this big
boat of a car. You know, anybody's first car is
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good because it's your freedom. But I loved that car.
And it's kind of smelled like my grandpa, you know,
had his his cologne smell, even years after he passed away.
And it was big scenes it was like sitting on
a sofa. I love that car was great. Valari. I've
never even heard of that. Yeah, it's an outdated card,
so you know from a different, different what was your
first car? Uh? Silverado Chevy Silverado Verado Christmas Morning. It's
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like I can every time I hear that, I hear
like Petro singing, singing in one of those commercials he
did back in the day, the Silverado thing. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern Pacific. Alright. According to a new survey,
thirty six percent of people claim that they order this
(26:44):
at a restaurant and they go out to eat because
they hardly ever make it at home. What is it? Uh,
they hardly ever make it up. There's almost there's almost
of people Wow that order this be because they don't
make it at home. Hardly ever, they don't make it
at home. Yeah, I feel like it's something simple. Um, yeah,
(27:10):
I don't know. I'll be like steak, Yeah, let's go
with the let's just go let's go with a steak.
Why not steak? Alright? It's fine. Guests probably off, but
you're off. It's the opposite of steak salad. Really that
popped on my head for a second, but I was like,
(27:31):
those are so easy to make. My theory is that
the reason people order salad when they go to a
restaurant is because it makes them look like they're healthy.
Good right, yes, absolutely, And the other people that put
that person is healthy. They're eating salad covered with three
gallons of salad dressing and a pound of crutons, but
(27:51):
they're they're healthy. Don't forget the cheese, that's right, cheese, cheese, man,
But it's still a salad, right, yeah, exactly. My My
only idea, well is when I was a kid and
my mom would try to get me to eat salad,
I would never do it, but I'd eat the crutons.
I'd always eat the crutons and the cheese that's right, yeah,
and the and the salad dressing. That was always good
(28:12):
to con drink the salad dressing. All right, we're doing
pop quiz here. Next up. Since the pandemic began, doctors
are reporting a tremendous increase in this type of injury
with people staying at home quite a bit. Uh, you
know what, Let's stay on the cooking. Let's go with
(28:33):
some type of or something. Yeah, burn, like a cut
on your hand from a knife, something like that. Let's
go with the burn though, actually because not not too
many people use a knife, so we'll go to burn,
all right. Uh? No, broken toes? Why would that? Was that?
People walking around and they have the lights off and
they kick into something? Why would why would that be?
(28:55):
That doesn't make sense to me. There's gotta be a
reason for it's got Let's think about this logically. Why
would people have more broken toes staying at home? So? Um,
I don't know, you get it from the couch and
you kick your center or your Yeah, like I can
see that. But if you're home all the time, don't
you then have more of a lay of the land.
You can navigate your furniture at your house wherever you're at,
(29:16):
right because you're there all the time, So you would
think so maybe maybe it's kids running around and causing
a records inside the house or something like that. Yeah,
I don't know, all right. Uh, here's another one related
to the We have a few more related to the pandemic.
According to a recent survey, this was the most popular
hobby in the most popular hobby in the most popular hobby,
(29:46):
says learning a new instrument, cooking. Oh god damn, why
did I say on the culinary? Yeah, that's because everyone
the restaurant. It's hard to get food. Do the rest
take out some places only, and no indoor dining and
all that. Just just no salads though, No salads, yeah, exactly,
(30:06):
so you can't because that's good the lettuce and the
Bible cheese and yet all right. Last year there were
many people taking part in outdoor activities obviously, right people,
because that's you know, couldn't go indoors a lot of places.
The largest increase was golf. Golf was the biggest increase.
What was number two? Though? Outdoor activities? Outdoor activities golf?
(30:31):
I don't even know, m what can you play outdoors? Well,
it doesn't have to be a sport, it could just
be an activity. H Um. It's just I don't know running,
I guess running, all right? Uh? No gardening, Oh, I
wouldn't get your green thumb gone. Yeah, okay, I don't
(30:55):
do any garden myself, so that didn't even pop in
my head. Even an apartment. Why would you do garden?
Have you do indo indoor gardening? But that's get you
in trouble depending on what you're growing in there. Yes, yes,
all right. Most couples tend to do this in January
more than any other month of the year. This is
(31:17):
the most probably thing to do in January as opposed
to any other month. What, um, well, before I'm gonna
go time before the let's go No, not vacation, I'm
not sure. Um, alright, I'll give it to you get divorced,
(31:39):
break up? Really the holidays did? Yeah? Yeah, it's obvious, right,
I mean you gotta get together with you gotta stay
together during Thanksgiving and Christmas, so for the in laws
or the relatives whatever, and then after that you got
a little bit of a break. But you gotta break
up in January because you don't want to still begether
(31:59):
if you the other person when like Valentine's Day comes around, right,
you want to So you've got a little time there,
and and that's the sweet spot, that's the Goldilocks zone
to break up is in in January. So damn wonderful. Alright,
six inten people speaking of that, six and ten people
say that they definitely delete this after a breakup. What
(32:22):
is it? They definitely delete this after a breakup. Uh
delete this, delete this. It's gotta be an with an
app no pictures? Uh no, it's the our song. You
know that, You know how couples have a song many relationships.
(32:42):
I've been and ben. Are you dating anybody? Here? Are you?
You're not? Want you want me to hook you up?
You have a dating service, Kevin. We have a lot
of great members of the Malley Militia that if you want,
I can you know, I can hook you up. Hey,
you know I'm a single man looking for something. So yeah,
it's tough being single during the pandemic. It's hard to
be in anybody. It's the worse since it's very tough. Yes, yeah,
(33:03):
everyone's like looks at you like you got cooties and stuff.
Yeah exactly. Yeah, alright, so what's next? One third? Here's
one one third of people admit to eating this after
it's been left out all night. What is one third
after it's left up all night? Food? Food dish? You
(33:23):
leave it out on the table all night, you get up,
You're like, I'd like to have some of that depends
if you're hungover, maybe, but well, this is a food
that often goes with being hungover. I was gonna say pizza, Yes, yes, okay, okay, alright.
Pizza is the most malleable food you can. You can
eat it hot, cold, laying out around on the table.
(33:47):
It's could be the most perfect food dish. That's a
weasel term. But is there any other food that you
can just have lay around that you would like eating?
Like if I like tacos, if I left tacos on
the down or all night, I wouldn't eat them. I
like a cheeseburger. If I eat a cheeseburger after it's
been laying around, I'd probably get some disease or something.
(34:08):
Is But pizza anytime, any temperature, anywhere, you canna eat it?
All right? A fifty one of people say they would
rather have jury duty then give up blank for a week.
What is it? Uh? Give up their phone? Their phone? Alright?
(34:29):
No coffee? Oh wow, I'm not a coffee drinker. Are
you a coffee drinker? I am a coffee drinker, not heavy,
but I do have one cup every morning when I
wake up. Are you like Bougie or like a chain
coffee place? So you make it at home? I mean
I'm not gonna lie. I Well, I usually make it
at home. But I love Starbucks. I'm no shame in
that I love Starbucks. My wife is addicted to Starbucks
(34:51):
to so I I have to get like the the
tea lemonade thing because I don't drink coffee, so you
drink a lot of tea or now the only when
she goes to Starbucks and gets no no, my, my, my.
My experience with tea is whenever I feel like my
I might be getting sick, like I have a throat
(35:12):
issue or you know, you feel that raspiness in your
voice when you're about to get sick, So then I
immediately start drinking gallons of tea and sucking on garlic
to try to kill the illness in my throat. But
that's about it. Man. Tea's okay. I don't hate it,
but usually you end up having to put sugar and
(35:33):
crap in it, and it's not particularly great for you.
So alright, you know a few more here as we
press on with this wonderful Saturday edition of the podcast.
Oh do we have here? Uh see any meany mighty?
All right? The top three things in almost everybody's car,
(35:54):
all right. Number one on the floor of the car
a French fry number two is a car Fa cup
wouldn't be in my car? And then number three? What
is number three? And some of his car? Yeah, the
stuff you would find if you just randomly went to
a garage and went through some cars, you'd find these
three things. Coffee cup, French fry, and uh it's kind
(36:19):
of trash. Well that's a general I like that because
you could you could argue a French fry trash, right,
That's why I was kind of reluctant to say it.
I understand, but you did say it. You said it.
Let's go with the let's go with a hat, a hat,
(36:39):
all right? Uh no, how about like lip bomb chapstick?
You know that stuff? You get that laying around the
car in case it's windy and you get dry lips
and you need that, you know. Yeah, yeah, I mean
I have one in my truck right there. I'm ready
to go ahead all times. So that prepared like a
like a boy scout. You have to be prepared, absolutely are.
(37:00):
A new report claims the average person will say this
roughly five times by the end of today. What will
they say five times a day? On average? We say
this every single day? Is it only one word that's
(37:20):
more than one word. Let's go with two words, two words.
Let's go with uh, you know, you know, you know,
you don't know, you know, you don't know, don't you
don't you don't know what you don't know? You know
you don't know the answer. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
(37:45):
thank you, thank you, thank you. I've met my quota.
I've now met my quota. Thank you, So I do
not have to say thank you any more. Ah. So
that that's it for pop quiz. There was I saw
a couple of bizarre stories that I caught my chips.
I always love weird athlete injury stories. There was a
story going around that a twenty five year old guy
(38:07):
had to retire from sport because of a thumb injury.
Where this video game guy, twenty five year old professional
video game player forced to retire because of a thumb injury.
How about that? Really? Yeah? He said? He wrote. It
breaks my heart to step away from from a game
(38:28):
I put my heart and soul into every single day
for eight years, he said. And this guy's a New
York I played. He's gonna call of duty E sports situation. Wow, well, uh,
that's a lot of gaming. If you have to retire
because of your thumb. You've used it so much a
lot of gaming. I guess be careful though, ripping the gamers, Kevin,
(38:49):
because I had a kid that called me up from
Boston and he was a professional gamer. He got hired,
they moved into l A and I believe he at
and he was like nineteen or something like that and
was making a ton more money than I was making
playing video games all day and living in a house
with a bunch of other video game nerds. Isn't that crazy? Yeah,
(39:11):
it's wonderful. It's a wonderful world. Man, It's not my world.
But hey, if people making money like that, then you
can't can't hate on it. Yeah, if you're thinking, I
guess find a way to beat the system. That's the
way the way to do it. All right, we're gonna
put the baby to bed. We thank you again. We'll
have another podcast on Sunday. Sundays Sunday. I guess I
(39:32):
just said thank you another time, So I'll thank you
Kevin as well for sitting in for Gagon. And I
like you because you don't live west of the four
oh five. You live east of the four oh five,
So that's good. That's a point of demarcation for me.
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(39:55):
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four oh five, David Gascon is too busy to do
the podcast this weekend, and so we are joined. For
better or worse, by Kevin O'Connell, who has filled in
(01:29):
for Cooper Loop. In fact, last week he filled in
for Cooper Loop and he's here for his maiden voyage
on the podcast. So, Kevin, I hope you're prepared for this.
You know, I figured Ben two times this week wasn't enough.
I had to fill in for gascon too and get
you a couple more times. Third times the charm, third
time charm exactly. It's been a busy week with you. Yeah, yeah,
(01:53):
as your life changed in the magical ways that you've
been on the show so much, just drastically, I mean
ways I can't even explain on air. Yeah, you have
a little more pep in your staff. And he pumped
your chest out a little bit, walk around like a peacock. Yeah.
Everyone's like, what's up with Kevin today? I'm like, well,
I've been working with Ben Mallery this week. What do
you expect? You know? And then they say who who?
(02:13):
You explain? You explain who it is. It's a whole,
it's a hole to do and all that, so very brandish. Well,
I know a little bit about you about can we
put you on the hot seat? Are we allowed to
do that? Of course? Is your show, you tell me, Yeah, exactly.
So you're from Orange County, right, I'm from Orange County,
but you're Boston. Your family's a Boston families that correct?
(02:36):
In that correct? Yes, I'm born and raised in Orange County,
North Orange County, pacentially for the most part. And my
dad is from Rhode Island, so not technically Boston, but
close enough Rhode Island. I still have family back there,
my cousins in Maine, one cousins in downtown Boston, and
my aunt and uncle are still in Rhode Island actually,
so yes, background of all Boston teams. So when you
(02:58):
were younger, did you always go to like the Rhode
Island and Boston went for vacations? So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
been there plenty of times. And then now, you know,
once I turned twenty one, and then I say, pretty
much just in Boston. Yeah of course, why would you
really get all the bars and all that going on
in Boston? So sure? And then now have you ever
thought about working in Boston? Moving to Boston? I would
(03:19):
love to. Yeah, I've looked up jobs at you know,
of course, w E. I you've talked about it before.
I think you worked there for a little bit I did,
and you know, big fans of those guys. Of course,
that's where I get most of my Boston content from.
And yeah, I've looked up jobs for sure, and I
would absolutely move there. The only thing that would stop
me would obviously be the weather. Of course. Yeah, it's nasty, man,
(03:40):
And I've only been there for like a week at
a time when the weather is horrible, or a couple
of weeks at a time when the weather is horrible.
But yeah, if you're living there, it's like, jeez, it's
pretty much like well, I'm sure your dad's told you
your relatives just like five months of the year, it's brutal. Yeah,
I mean, why do you think he's out here? He
actually helped the buddy move when he came out here,
and then he liked it so much that he drove
right back, grabbed his stuff and drove right back to
(04:01):
California because I'm moving here to the women in the weather.
And he said, this is enough for me. There you go,
what more do you need? That's it right there, done,
problem solved right there, absolutely. And so now there's another thing.
And I think you mentioned this on the show a
couple of months ago that you know a guy that
I know before I got into radio, I when I
(04:23):
was in high school. To make a little extra money,
I had a little side hustle where I would hang
out and get autographs and then sell most of them.
I didn't sell all of them, I sold most of them,
and then I would spend the money to like go
to games. I mean, I had a whole racket going.
But there's and I haven't. I haven't really kept in
contact with any of those guys that I ran with
back in those days. But you know one of them, right,
(04:45):
Do you're familiar with one of those guys that that
knows the dark secrets of my past? Yes, yes, the
very dark secrets. His name is Jim Rafferty and he
owns a bar in Placentae at my hometown, like I
was just talking about, called Kelly's Corner Tavern. It's the
greatest bar. I worked there for a little bit right
when I graduated college. Everyone I know, my family and
(05:05):
my friends, we all go there. We support and we
actually did a go fund me for him when this
pandemic hit. And great guy and small world. You guys
know each other, and you guys gotten into some dark
days back in your what teenage days, right, Yeah, I
was in I was in high school, and uh, it
was mostly in Anaheim. I did a little bit of
l A stuff, but it was mostly in Anaheim. And yeah,
we were just like stock baseball players at hotels and
(05:28):
restaurants and we ran the joint. We had. It was
wild back in in those days. Some of the stuff
that that took place and at a great time, and
we we found ways to sneak into the big a
through the back. I mean stuff stuff you would be
like sent to you know, the Who's goal for these days,
but we we had a whole racket going back then.
(05:48):
It was a lot of fun and so so that's
pretty cool. And the other fun fact about about you,
Kevin is you've actually had I don't know if it's
a fun fact, but you've had the COVID. Yes I am.
I am at COVID vivor yes, yes, And you said
it you had a very mild it didn't really affect
you much. Am I correcting that? Yeah? I had the
(06:10):
chills and some sweats for one night, just one overnight.
I woke up and I had a feeling, you know,
after that, but I went got tested and tested positive.
But after that one night I had some sniffles like
a mild cold for a couple of days, and then
literally probably four or five days after that night, I
was completely fine. A quarantine of course. Um. Actually quarantined
with my dad because he tested positive the same same day,
(06:31):
because we went out of town with each other the
weekend before and he's sixty years old, and he was
he had the same thing. He had one night of
sweats and everything, and then he was good and we
quarantined together for a couple of weeks. Wow. Yeah, And
so you did you lose your I've read that people
lose their sense of smell and tasted. Did that happen
to you? No? I didn't. I had I've had a
few friends and family members actually have that to him.
(06:53):
But yeah, that didn't happen to me or my dad,
And I'm very thankful for that for sure. Now, the
people that you know that have lost their sense of
taste and smell, has it come back yet or is
it still gone? Oh? Yeah, No, it was just about
a week or so, probably a little over a week maybe. UM.
I think the person the longest I've known is maybe
two weeks or so yeah, um, but now they're fine.
They're fine now that this was what seven months ago now,
(07:14):
back in early July. Okay, yeah, I got you, I
got you. Everyone's good, all right, everyone's all right, just
just checking in that. All right. Now we've learned. See there,
we've learned a little bit about about you, Kim. Any
other fun facts you'd like to share with the class
or is that is that enough? Um? No, nothing on
the top of my head. I'm not too interesting, you know.
And just uh no, no, you're not supposed to say that.
(07:36):
The first rule of advertising you never right, you never
say I'm not I tell my wife this. You know,
my my wife we've been selling some of the stuff,
you know, my as we're going through my dad's stuff,
the stuff we're getting rid of and whatever, and so
rather than say, hey, you know this so and so
is not that good, but do you want to know
you you sell it and then you know, at the end,
(07:57):
you start with a positive, go negative, and then go pause.
I'm already learning a thing from you here, Ben, Yeah,
eight minutes. Then, well, now see see what I learned, Kevin.
I learned this about simple human nature, right I can.
I've had a lot of meetings with program directors and
radio and I've learned the tricks. Like they always start
out with a positive boy, Ben, you sound really good.
I like this show, and then they move into but
(08:20):
and then they just bring down the hammer. But then
they finished with oh, by the way, I you know,
I'm looking forward to hearing so and you know so
they it's positive negative positive. Okay, Yeah, there's a whole
science behind this. Well it works. It works for sales also,
like works in the sales world. Also, okay, can I can?
I'll say one thing then I do have another job.
I run a h back company with my dad. That
(08:42):
makes a little interesting, right, We have a faily business. Yeah,
that we do on the side here look at now
there's a lot of money in that, right, because they
didn't they change the no that I mean they changed
the in California a few years ago. Didn't They got
rid of what's the free free Yes, yes it is
that old, Yes, the R twenty two um free on.
(09:04):
But yes, there's a lot of I've been doing that
since I was probably sixteen, you know, helping them out.
But the last four or five years I've definitely done
a lot more with him and we are. Business is
booming again this year. We had a little time off
during the winter, but you know, as soon as that
comes out in California, people they jump all over it. Yeah,
where I'm living, at the house I'm in right now,
we actually have a free on air conditioning unit. And
(09:25):
he told us, like, we're gonna have to get rid
of it because when when it breaks, I guess you
can't repair it or something like that. They said, yeah,
like yeah, it's the whole like you were saying, the
California rule. We have to put put the new free
on in and the old systems don't take the uh
the the new free on. They're just trying to cycle
it out, if you will, kind of like the as
best to the old duckwork stuff like that. And uh
(09:46):
so if you ever need anything, you know who to call. Ben.
I now I know I did not know that the
things you learn, the things you learn. So now your
dad taught you everything? And did you did you have
to go to school or your dad taught you everything?
Now he's taught me every thing. He went to school
when he was younger, and he actually he works for
l A County um as a refrigeration supervisor for the
(10:07):
jails all in l A County jails downtown and then
he kind of does this on the side. And he's
taught me everything as far as residential UM since like
I said, I was about sixteen or so, I've never
gone to school for it. UM. I've gone to regular school,
but not anything as far as a trade for it.
Shot Dad has to go into the prisons and fix
the refrigerators. He he used to be involved in the prisons.
(10:29):
Now he's more of a supervisor sitting on the desk,
but he kind of has it for most of his career,
a truck route where he would go from um, yeah,
either jails to jails, walk around. He's his first not
first job, a main job for a while was a
twin towers jail. And actually, you know what's funny, I'm
thinking about this since he worked with obviously Coope justin Samponia,
was in Liar Liar. He was there when they were
(10:50):
filming when when um Jim Carrey got arrested and that
jail or in that scene where they're in the jail
making a phone call. He was around for that. Oh
is that right? Yeah, that's kind of fun factory. So
how long does it take you? If somebody I'm just
curious how the air conditioning business work, I wanta go
back to that. So how how long if I call
(11:10):
you up, I say I need my air conditioning replaced
or whatever. You gotta buy this stuff, obviously, but can
you just do it in? How many hours does it
take to switch out in air condition Uh? Obviously it
depends on the size of the house, the um, the system, everything.
But if you I mean, if you're just changing out
the equipment itself, meaning just like the furnace and just
a condenser, we can get that done in one day.
(11:32):
'p about rip out the old stuff, putting the new.
But then, you know, we like to do it the
right way, as we say, and we like to keep
it nice and clean and um we you know, take
our time and we do it the right way and
adding new duckwork. Everything is all about the duck work too,
So it could take up to a few days, two
to three days if you do the whole change out
of everything. So you spend a lot of time in addicts, Yes,
(11:52):
a lot of time. I'm the addic guy, that's what
they call it. Your dad's probably get up in the
are you're younger, try to keep him out, you know,
and you know he's sixty now. I don't want him
going up in there. That's where all the nasty stuff is, man,
that's where the that's where the varmints are running around
the attic. I bet you've seen some crazy stuff in attics, right,
and bugs and critters and all that stuff. Yeah, you know. Surprisingly,
(12:15):
I mean I've seen a lot, quite a few, but
not as many as you would think. For how long
I've been doing this for almost what almost fifteen years now,
and I've probably only seen maybe two live rats. And
I've seen plenty of dead ones and traps or something
like that, but uh, not as much as you would think. Actually, Well,
where I live at at the Mallard Mansion, I have
heard critters running around in the attic, but I've never
(12:36):
gone up to see what kind of critters there. I'm
convinced it's like a squirrel. It's sounds because I have
a lot of squirrels around where I live here, and
I'm thinking one of them got or two of them
got in the attic and we're running around, but I
haven't heard it. I think it died, so it's probably
stuck up in there somewhere. Yeah, yeah, I I don't
know if it has like a door it goes out
and he's only there for the summertime, and I don't
(12:57):
know anyway. All right, Well you're all the hot seat now, Kevin. Congratulations, Yes,
all right. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p
m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Radio app. So I've I've memory Lane here I wanted
to talk about so before working with Eddie, I've been
(13:18):
with Eddie for a long time. I did the Overnight
show with Karen Ka KK, as we call her, and
this week I reached out to Karen. I had not
talked to Karen in a good amount of time, but
on January, the day that Joe Biden was sworn in
as the new President of the United States, I sent
(13:40):
KK a text. And the reason I sent KK a
text that was an important day. We like round numbers,
we like anniversaries, human beings, right, markers because without without
those markers, it's all just a big blob. Life's just
a big blob. Right, That's the reason we have how
of day is because otherwise it's just the monotony of
(14:03):
the daily life, and you need things to break up
the monotony, and so we have these holidays. But I
reached out to KK Center a few text messages because
that was the anniversary of something that we both have
in common. That was the twelfth anniversary of my exit
stage right. I've been working at Fox Sports Radio since
(14:24):
it launched up until twenty o nine January nine. Barack
Obama was to be sworn in as the President of
the United States that particular day, and I was given
the boot. I was excommunicated from from Fox Sports Trading
(14:47):
one of the worst decisions they ever made, and so
I was at that time. I remember very well. To
give you the story. If you're new to the story
and you've not heard it, I've told it a few
times over the years. But I was looking forward, first
of all, to watching the presidential inauguration, believe it or not.
Even though I lean more to Team Read, I enjoy
(15:08):
the political nonsense with presidents being sworn in things like that,
and I always pulled for the president. Why would you
not pull for the president because you're in America, whether
it's a democratic Republican. So I've always believed in That's
how I was raised, and so I was looking forward
to seeing it was historic. I heard a lot of
a lot of things Barack Obama, the first black president,
and all this stuff. So I was looking forward to watching.
And uh, the night before, the night before, it was
(15:33):
one of the craziest nights in my radio journey. So
at that time, the show is called The Third Shift
with Ben Maller and came in. It was a normal night.
I remember I was doing a monologue about Bill Kauer
for some reason. That's what I remember. I don't remember
(15:53):
exactly what I was saying about Bill Kauer, but I was.
I was doing some rift about Bill Kauer. And I
forget what exactly had happened, whether he had left the
Steelers or just left the Steelers, or he was up
for a coaching job somewhere else, or there was some
something with Bill Kauer that was going on at that time.
(16:13):
So I'm doing my thing talking about Kaur, and I
I got tipped off from someone that we were going
to be fired or laid off, however you want to
call it. The next day. Now, keep in mind that
that breaks the fourth wall. If you will. I think
I'm saying it the right way here, because there's a
(16:35):
cardinal rule in radio that you never get a final show.
You never get a final show. Now, there are exceptions
to the rule if you're all time legend and they
let you get a final show and you could say goodbye.
But generally speaking, if you're just a rank and file
(16:57):
radio person, you don't get a final show. Your final show,
they pull you at the end of the show. They
give you an envelope with some cash and say, get
the hell out of here and take up here's a
box and fill it up. Um. But technically that night,
that final night, I think it was like a Monday.
If I remember correctly, I'd have to go back and check.
(17:19):
But we did get a final show because the company
had sent out an email. I got an email about
I think it was about half an hour into the
overnight show that said there was a mandatory meeting at
three o'clock the next day. Now, if you know how
(17:39):
corporate America works and the corporate world, they don't send
emails telling you to go to a meeting after five pm,
you know what I mean, Like during regular business hours,
you would send an email you on eight in the morning,
nine ten, went all the way up through like about
five o'clock, but after that generally is ABO. So I
(18:01):
get this email, you know, late at night demanding that
I show up for this very important meeting at three
o'clock in the afternoon on So this is actually January.
It's the overnight in early morning hours on January twenty,
if you could say it's nineteen. But so anyway, I
get the email whatever, and uh, and then we were
tipped off before that that there were going to be
(18:23):
mass layoffs coming and a number of us were going
to be uh, let go, And so I was numb.
I remember the feeling I had was numb. I was
like it was I couldn't focus on anything, and it
was really you know, you imagine the feeling you've been
in a situation similar in your life. And so anyway,
I called the text care and K this week to reminiscence.
(18:46):
I did not reach out to Bergie. I was gonna
text Burgie. He's a big radio executive now, Gregg Bergman
was my producer at the time, and he's uh, he's
doing very well for himself in in l A radio.
So I did not reach out to him, but I
did reach out to k Kay. I also remember that day.
I recall calling my dear old mom as she rest
(19:06):
in peace, and I had to tell her Mom, I
got let go again, and uh, because I had been
let going a long time. But I I had had
a few um divorces, shall we say, in the early
part of my my radio career, but usually I I
was pretty lucky where I would just transfer, like I
started in San Diego Radio. I did that for a
(19:27):
few years in the nineties, and then they the company
I was working for, launched the station in the Los
Angeles market, and I was based in Orange County, covering
all of southern California, mostly l A in Orange County,
and so they're like, well, you're already in l A.
Why don't we just transfer you to the l A station.
So I went there. They then got rid of me,
(19:47):
so I got laid off from that. I had a
college football job I got laid off from or fired
everyone to say it. And there were a few other
sporadic things, but it had been a decent amount of
time since that before I got the the Walking Papers
from from Fox, but it only lasted six months. In
twenty six days, and during that time I filled in
(20:09):
at a couple of radio stations. I had auditions, I
did some, but that was my first appearance actually doing
local radio at w e I filled in for the
great Mikey Adams on w e I, and that was
my first taste of that. The show that I had
done was on in the Boston market. We did pretty
well there and so that was cool, had a good time,
(20:30):
and but my mom was very supportive, as you know,
that's what a good mom does, and encouraged me to
keep you know, get back and get another job. Blah blah.
You know, these people are radiots, blah blah blah. But uh,
but it only lasted about seven months, a little less
than that, and then I came back. And so I've
been back at the company for I guess eleven and
a half years, almost eleven and a half years. The
(20:52):
second run. The first run was uh what nine years?
It was nine years, and then the second run has
been Yeah, so it's all all together. It's over twenty
years now. Which where the hell has that? How the
hell did that happen? Uh, my goods. I want to
share that with the order to share that with you
and Uh. So that's that's the deal. All right. Now
(21:13):
we have pop Quiz pop quiz coming away, and so
we're gonna bring back Kevin. Kevin O'Connell f he was
on the hot Seedoise. So the way this works, Kevin
is I will I I searched the internet. I find
interesting questions somewhat pop culture related. When I say popcorn,
(21:34):
it's like mostly about day to day life, the American
experience living life day to day, right, and so then
you have to try to answer and uh, and then
that's how we're gonna be Okay, I got it, all right,
all right, so here we go. This is a pop quiz. Uh.
Thirty nine percent of parents have admitted they've used their
kid as an excuse to buy this. What is it
(21:59):
to buy an? This? A TV? TV? Alright, kids love television.
That's not a bad yes? Uh no? Happy meal? What? Yeah? Really?
Why would you buy would be meal? Why would you
(22:19):
buy a happy meal? If you're an adult? I don't know,
what do you want the toy? Maybe a happy meal?
Well it could be it could be on a diet
or something like that, and they just want the kiddie
meal because it's smaller portions. So maybe they want those
apple slices that you can get with that. Yeah, I
mean I feel like if you really want those, you
can order them separately. But he eats their own. I
(22:40):
guess a happy meal. Okay, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't
like eating happy meals when I was a kid because
it wasn't enough food. I mean, I liked, I like
the toy. I was all about the toy. But man, yeah,
it kind of shorts you on those. Yeah, alright. One
in four of us cannot name a single one of these.
(23:02):
One in four people cannot name a single one of these.
One in four cannot name it. It's something, it's something
involved in like, uh, like a neighborhood, shall we say,
like something you would do in a neighborhood or something
you would do in a neighborhood. One four cannot name.
One in four cannot name some one of these is
(23:22):
that you said? Yes? Um alright, So twenty five people
cannot name a single name neighbor, neighbor? Yeah, really, can
you name the can you name the people you have?
(23:43):
You said you live in Pasadena or can you name
the people you live around in Pasadena that live right
next to you? I only know one person that lives
in my apartment building below me, and his name is Lile.
I believe I'm not even totally confident in that either. Yeah. See,
I'm the same way when I now I live in
a in a house now, When I lived in an apartment,
I live in an apartment in Hollywood for years, and
(24:06):
there were a lot of people coming and going. I
didn't know anyone on my entire floor that I lived
on above below nobody. Yeah, I was. I'm mostly a
shut in anyway. I'm you know, I'm I'm an introvert,
but I I didn't know anyway now here. I know
I have a couple of friends in the neighborhood, but
as far as the people that lived directly on either side,
(24:27):
I don't really know them. I don't even really know
their names. Like if somebody came up to me and said, hey,
so and so needs some help, I'd be like, who
the hell is that? I don't know that. I have
no idea. I mean, they're nice people and they're good neighbors,
but I just don't know their names. So you don't walk.
You don't walk in the streets and say, hey, Jim,
how's it going today or good morning Karen. Oh god, no, no,
(24:48):
I I don't want to be the busy body I
hate because I'm annoyed by the busy body. You know.
You know, I stay out of my business. You know,
I leave me alone. I'm that kind of guy. I'm
that guy. Yeah, I I like it all right. When
it comes to first, you know, the first, this the
first that people remember their first what more than anything,
(25:13):
You're gonna go third rail on this, um, what do
you I mean? What do you remember? That was the
first experience that that's the most vivid thing that your car.
That's right, yes, get you, there we go. They say.
(25:35):
A new study says that people remember their type of
car they had first. That's the thing that they remember.
I do, Yeah, I got My first car was a
brown Volari. Was my grandfather's, my my dad's dad's car.
And it it was like awesome. It was this big
boat of a car. You know, anybody's first car is
(25:57):
good because it's your freedom. But I loved that car.
And it's kind of smelled like my grandpa, you know,
had his his cologne smell, even years after he passed away.
And it was big scenes it was like sitting on
a sofa. I love that car was great. Valari. I've
never even heard of that. Yeah, it's an outdated card,
so you know from a different, different what was your
first car? Uh? Silverado Chevy Silverado Verado Christmas Morning. It's
(26:23):
like I can every time I hear that, I hear
like Petro singing, singing in one of those commercials he
did back in the day, the Silverado thing. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern Pacific. Alright. According to a new survey,
thirty six percent of people claim that they order this
(26:44):
at a restaurant and they go out to eat because
they hardly ever make it at home. What is it? Uh,
they hardly ever make it up. There's almost there's almost
of people Wow that order this be because they don't
make it at home. Hardly ever, they don't make it
at home. Yeah, I feel like it's something simple. Um, yeah,
(27:10):
I don't know. I'll be like steak, Yeah, let's go
with the let's just go let's go with a steak.
Why not steak? Alright? It's fine. Guests probably off, but
you're off. It's the opposite of steak salad. Really that
popped on my head for a second, but I was like,
(27:31):
those are so easy to make. My theory is that
the reason people order salad when they go to a
restaurant is because it makes them look like they're healthy.
Good right, yes, absolutely, And the other people that put
that person is healthy. They're eating salad covered with three
gallons of salad dressing and a pound of crutons, but
(27:51):
they're they're healthy. Don't forget the cheese, that's right, cheese, cheese, man,
But it's still a salad, right, yeah, exactly. My My
only idea, well is when I was a kid and
my mom would try to get me to eat salad,
I would never do it, but I'd eat the crutons.
I'd always eat the crutons and the cheese that's right, yeah,
and the and the salad dressing. That was always good
(28:12):
to con drink the salad dressing. All right, we're doing
pop quiz here. Next up. Since the pandemic began, doctors
are reporting a tremendous increase in this type of injury
with people staying at home quite a bit. Uh, you
know what, Let's stay on the cooking. Let's go with
(28:33):
some type of or something. Yeah, burn, like a cut
on your hand from a knife, something like that. Let's
go with the burn though, actually because not not too
many people use a knife, so we'll go to burn,
all right. Uh? No, broken toes? Why would that? Was that?
People walking around and they have the lights off and
they kick into something? Why would why would that be?
(28:55):
That doesn't make sense to me. There's gotta be a
reason for it's got Let's think about this logically. Why
would people have more broken toes staying at home? So? Um,
I don't know, you get it from the couch and
you kick your center or your Yeah, like I can
see that. But if you're home all the time, don't
you then have more of a lay of the land.
You can navigate your furniture at your house wherever you're at,
(29:16):
right because you're there all the time, So you would
think so maybe maybe it's kids running around and causing
a records inside the house or something like that. Yeah,
I don't know, all right. Uh, here's another one related
to the We have a few more related to the pandemic.
According to a recent survey, this was the most popular
hobby in the most popular hobby in the most popular hobby,
(29:46):
says learning a new instrument, cooking. Oh god damn, why
did I say on the culinary? Yeah, that's because everyone
the restaurant. It's hard to get food. Do the rest
take out some places only, and no indoor dining and
all that. Just just no salads though, No salads, yeah, exactly,
(30:06):
so you can't because that's good the lettuce and the
Bible cheese and yet all right. Last year there were
many people taking part in outdoor activities obviously, right people,
because that's you know, couldn't go indoors a lot of places.
The largest increase was golf. Golf was the biggest increase.
What was number two? Though? Outdoor activities? Outdoor activities golf?
(30:31):
I don't even know, m what can you play outdoors? Well,
it doesn't have to be a sport, it could just
be an activity. H Um. It's just I don't know running,
I guess running, all right? Uh? No gardening, Oh, I
wouldn't get your green thumb gone. Yeah, okay, I don't
(30:55):
do any garden myself, so that didn't even pop in
my head. Even an apartment. Why would you do garden?
Have you do indo indoor gardening? But that's get you
in trouble depending on what you're growing in there. Yes, yes,
all right. Most couples tend to do this in January
more than any other month of the year. This is
(31:17):
the most probably thing to do in January as opposed
to any other month. What, um, well, before I'm gonna
go time before the let's go No, not vacation, I'm
not sure. Um, alright, I'll give it to you get divorced,
(31:39):
break up? Really the holidays did? Yeah? Yeah, it's obvious, right,
I mean you gotta get together with you gotta stay
together during Thanksgiving and Christmas, so for the in laws
or the relatives whatever, and then after that you got
a little bit of a break. But you gotta break
up in January because you don't want to still begether
(31:59):
if you the other person when like Valentine's Day comes around, right,
you want to So you've got a little time there,
and and that's the sweet spot, that's the Goldilocks zone
to break up is in in January. So damn wonderful. Alright,
six inten people speaking of that, six and ten people
say that they definitely delete this after a breakup. What
(32:22):
is it? They definitely delete this after a breakup. Uh
delete this, delete this. It's gotta be an with an
app no pictures? Uh no, it's the our song. You
know that, You know how couples have a song many relationships.
(32:42):
I've been and ben. Are you dating anybody? Here? Are you?
You're not? Want you want me to hook you up?
You have a dating service, Kevin. We have a lot
of great members of the Malley Militia that if you want,
I can you know, I can hook you up. Hey,
you know I'm a single man looking for something. So yeah,
it's tough being single during the pandemic. It's hard to
be in anybody. It's the worse since it's very tough. Yes, yeah,
(33:03):
everyone's like looks at you like you got cooties and stuff.
Yeah exactly. Yeah, alright, so what's next? One third? Here's
one one third of people admit to eating this after
it's been left out all night. What is one third
after it's left up all night? Food? Food dish? You
(33:23):
leave it out on the table all night, you get up,
You're like, I'd like to have some of that depends
if you're hungover, maybe, but well, this is a food
that often goes with being hungover. I was gonna say pizza, Yes, yes, okay, okay, alright.
Pizza is the most malleable food you can. You can
eat it hot, cold, laying out around on the table.
(33:47):
It's could be the most perfect food dish. That's a
weasel term. But is there any other food that you
can just have lay around that you would like eating?
Like if I like tacos, if I left tacos on
the down or all night, I wouldn't eat them. I
like a cheeseburger. If I eat a cheeseburger after it's
been laying around, I'd probably get some disease or something.
(34:08):
Is But pizza anytime, any temperature, anywhere, you canna eat it?
All right? A fifty one of people say they would
rather have jury duty then give up blank for a week.
What is it? Uh? Give up their phone? Their phone? Alright?
(34:29):
No coffee? Oh wow, I'm not a coffee drinker. Are
you a coffee drinker? I am a coffee drinker, not heavy,
but I do have one cup every morning when I
wake up. Are you like Bougie or like a chain
coffee place? So you make it at home? I mean
I'm not gonna lie. I Well, I usually make it
at home. But I love Starbucks. I'm no shame in
that I love Starbucks. My wife is addicted to Starbucks
(34:51):
to so I I have to get like the the
tea lemonade thing because I don't drink coffee, so you
drink a lot of tea or now the only when
she goes to Starbucks and gets no no, my, my, my.
My experience with tea is whenever I feel like my
I might be getting sick, like I have a throat
(35:12):
issue or you know, you feel that raspiness in your
voice when you're about to get sick, So then I
immediately start drinking gallons of tea and sucking on garlic
to try to kill the illness in my throat. But
that's about it. Man. Tea's okay. I don't hate it,
but usually you end up having to put sugar and
(35:33):
crap in it, and it's not particularly great for you.
So alright, you know a few more here as we
press on with this wonderful Saturday edition of the podcast.
Oh do we have here? Uh see any meany mighty?
All right? The top three things in almost everybody's car,
(35:54):
all right. Number one on the floor of the car
a French fry number two is a car Fa cup
wouldn't be in my car? And then number three? What
is number three? And some of his car? Yeah, the
stuff you would find if you just randomly went to
a garage and went through some cars, you'd find these
three things. Coffee cup, French fry, and uh it's kind
(36:19):
of trash. Well that's a general I like that because
you could you could argue a French fry trash, right,
That's why I was kind of reluctant to say it.
I understand, but you did say it. You said it.
Let's go with the let's go with a hat, a hat,
(36:39):
all right? Uh no, how about like lip bomb chapstick?
You know that stuff? You get that laying around the
car in case it's windy and you get dry lips
and you need that, you know. Yeah, yeah, I mean
I have one in my truck right there. I'm ready
to go ahead all times. So that prepared like a
like a boy scout. You have to be prepared, absolutely are.
(37:00):
A new report claims the average person will say this
roughly five times by the end of today. What will
they say five times a day? On average? We say
this every single day? Is it only one word that's
(37:20):
more than one word. Let's go with two words, two words.
Let's go with uh, you know, you know, you know,
you don't know, you know, you don't know, don't you
don't you don't know what you don't know? You know
you don't know the answer. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
(37:45):
thank you, thank you, thank you. I've met my quota.
I've now met my quota. Thank you, So I do
not have to say thank you any more. Ah. So
that that's it for pop quiz. There was I saw
a couple of bizarre stories that I caught my chips.
I always love weird athlete injury stories. There was a
story going around that a twenty five year old guy
(38:07):
had to retire from sport because of a thumb injury.
Where this video game guy, twenty five year old professional
video game player forced to retire because of a thumb injury.
How about that? Really? Yeah? He said? He wrote. It
breaks my heart to step away from from a game
(38:28):
I put my heart and soul into every single day
for eight years, he said. And this guy's a New
York I played. He's gonna call of duty E sports situation. Wow, well, uh,
that's a lot of gaming. If you have to retire
because of your thumb. You've used it so much a
lot of gaming. I guess be careful though, ripping the gamers, Kevin,
(38:49):
because I had a kid that called me up from
Boston and he was a professional gamer. He got hired,
they moved into l A and I believe he at
and he was like nineteen or something like that and
was making a ton more money than I was making
playing video games all day and living in a house
with a bunch of other video game nerds. Isn't that crazy? Yeah,
(39:11):
it's wonderful. It's a wonderful world. Man, It's not my world.
But hey, if people making money like that, then you
can't can't hate on it. Yeah, if you're thinking, I
guess find a way to beat the system. That's the
way the way to do it. All right, we're gonna
put the baby to bed. We thank you again. We'll
have another podcast on Sunday. Sundays Sunday. I guess I
(39:32):
just said thank you another time, So I'll thank you
Kevin as well for sitting in for Gagon. And I
like you because you don't live west of the four
oh five. You live east of the four oh five,
So that's good. That's a point of demarcation for me.
Uh and I don't forget if you want, you want
to reach out to me like cameo cameo dot com,
Ben Maller, do a personalized video message, you want to
know your own Mallard monologue, whatever it might be. Or
(39:55):
I just want me to say hello. We can do
that on There's not free, but it's not that much.
And then on Twitter at Ben Mallard, Instagram, Ben Maller
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wonderful day, the rest of your day today. We'll catch
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