January 31, 2021 • 56 mins
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the four oh five. Yeah, David Gascon has come over here,
happy to report that our podcast is not halted by
these Securities and Exchange Commission either. So that's a positive spin.
Just think how much influence we can manipulate the market.
If we give out stock advice here. We'll have Sprinkles
the clown going and buying stock here because of our advice.
I didn't want to bring it up to Catherine, but
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I know you know exactly what's going on, especially in
the gambling world. This ship happens all the time with Sharp's.
You know Sharp's will will shell out money to some
of their you know, some of their little plebs to
go bet on a line, swing it one way, and
they'll come right back over the top and swing it
another way. Yeah. Well, the big money moves the market.
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But here's the thing too. In the in the wall
Street with day trading is essentially sports bits, sports betting,
that's what it is. And so I had heard from
people that last March, when sports were shut down for
a hundred and thirty four days, there were no live
team sports in America. If you're a sports gambler and
that's how you get your dopamine fix, you couldn't do it.
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And so a large percentage of sports gamblers who were
addicted to it and had a better game every night,
a game of day people or more, they moved over
to Wall Street to day trading. And so that's that
kind of you know, loosely related to where we're at today.
But the it's a great story that you know, that's
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gonna be a movie. They're gonna make a movie about
the Wolf of Wall Streets. One of the better movies
I've seen over the last fifteen years or so. It's
I enjoyed the hell out. That was a good it's
a great movie. I mean, for me, it's it's totally
relatable because I was a part of the housing market
crisis in the two thousand seven, two thousand eight, two
thousand nine period. And I mean, I hate to say it,
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but that's what they were all about. I mean, these
these mortgage backed securities banned, like we were told when
I was working for City Group, I was told that
we needed to to refinance a bunch of mortgages. And
typically when you're an escrow it takes you anywhere from
like thirty to sixty days to close on a house,
sometimes ninety if it's under construction. But if you're trying
to refinance your property, it's anywhere from still thirty to
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forty five days. And they're so severe on the underwriting
guidelines that underwriters won't pass you unless you're over or
above clearance on their checklist. But when I was with
City all of these were streamlined, so you went from
thirty to forty five days of processing to ten or fifteen,
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which is fucking absurd. But the whole point of it
was is that they wanted to have all of these
mortgages that were on their books refinanced so they could
sell them immediately on the secondary market. And then all
they did after that was just layoff and terminate everybody
in their mortgage lending department, or the majority of it.
And the reason why was that they want to get
out of the industry because a lot of the mortgages,
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mortgages that did did sell or two people with stated
income stated assets no documents, no verification. All you gotta
do is show up and prove that you have like
a seven score, and we give you an interest rate
and a loan that was like three or four or
five percent, and you had like a loan to value
which was like at ninety, which is fucking absurd, you know,
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like so so, but I was doing that. It's it's
so essentially with the volatility of the stockment. Just invest
in soybeans, you know, just go by soybeans. They can't
go wrong with soybeans. But it's fascinating because we will
bail out the mortgage back securities, will bail out the
real estate industry, will bail out the automotive industry, the
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airline industry, the banking institutions, automotive industry, but we won't
bail out the common folk. Here's your six dollar check
that you got like twelve months after this whole fucking
thing went down. It's fucking appalling, but it's it's typical, right,
Like it's what you'd expect. But my favorite part of
it is and I think that if I was writing
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the screenplay for this movie about the game Stop situation,
it would be a story of all these greedy Wall
Street people like, hey, let's these daily apps will be great.
We'll get more dumb money, right, more dumb money, and
we'll be able to take their money. That's what they
were excited about when Robin Hood and these things came around.
The It's kind of like, you know, we we talk
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about gambling, and you mentioned the sharps in the gambling world, right,
the bookie, the sports book fears the sharp. They don't
like the sharps because those are people that have all
the inside information, you know, like edge fun people, like
hedge fun people. They can't stand them. But the square,
which would be what the day trader is, the Robin
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Hood user, the you know, the they just kind of
go off a hunch or something they they read on
the internet for example, that they consider them unsophisticated financial people,
and so they want they want those people. They want
because dumb money, right, they want the dumb money. Um.
And so the movie would be all these greedy Wall
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Street people so excited because these daily apps, and then
it blows up in their face and it's this thing
shoots to the moon. Right. That's that's the story. I mean,
get I don't know if Dicapriole, do it in Jonah
Hill and McConaughey and all those that were in Wolf
of Wall Street. But call him up. See what you
got there, See what you got. There's a good story.
There's a solid story right there. Greed is good, Michael Douglas,
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so good. It's um, it's it's great because you know,
this thing is not going to be a short term
fixed Like as soon as they release the Hounds with
robin Hood and some of these other uh digital platforms
or the apps that allow you for trading, these guys
are gonna they're gonna release the cracking. I think these
guys will continue to trade no matter if it's a
MC or game Stop or or Nokia whatever it may be.
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I think they're gonna push those things to the limit.
And I I am a customer of robin Hood. I
have the app on my phone. I think you do too, also,
guest Gun, I think it's a great product. But what
they did by taking these not allowing you to buy
game Stop and those others, I think that is horrific
for their business and there is going to be a
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price to pay. You just can't do that, especially when
Kather mentioned the I p O that they're supposed to
release here in the coming weeks. Yeah, I mean, what
are you doing? And I you know you've heard rumors
they got pressured by certain people. But still you gotta
think it's like people who are on that you have
to be of a certain age, you have to be
an adult, you know. And you know they were like,
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I don't an abundance of caution. This is my my
problem with abundance of caution. When you play the stock market,
it's the it's the risk versus reard. Yeah, some people
and I'm sure some people even with what happened and
taking it off and all that, it's the risk versus
the reward. You're going to lose money, right, And and
when you invest that, what's the warning they always give
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that past results do not guarantee future outcomes, right, they
always say that. And so you know, if somebody ends
up a hemorrhage in cash on the robin Hood map
because they didn't sell at the right time, that's on them.
You can't this this name I call it, I guess
nanny state, Right, isn't that the term where you're just
trying to overly protect people? You know, if you're in
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the stock market game. You gotta get fully in the mud, right,
and nobody's forced to buy, whether it's game stop or
bed bath and beyond. The companies that people choose to
do it think they're gonna get a big return on
the capitol and all that. That's fine and and hopefully
it works for them. But if it doesn't, that's the
that's the way the game is. You don't change the
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rules of the game. And that's what they did. They
changed and moved the goal posts, and you can't do it.
I'm sorry. I bad job by them. You know, you've
got a problem when you have independence, Democrats and Republicans
on the same side for a cause. Yeah, well, with
everything that we got on in this country, how great
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is it? The thing that united the Donald Trump Republican
and the Joe Biden Democrat would be the Wall Street
It's wonderful. Ah, the irony? Al Right, pop quiz, pop quiz?
You want Popca got the mail back? A lot, a
lot of mail backs. We'll do a little bit of
pop quiz. Alright. Ten percent of football fans will end
up doing this in the next couple of weeks to
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get ready for the big game. What is it um
shot for alcohol? No, it is, Well, it's more than
ten percent that will shop for alcohol. But this is
something that doesn't involve shopping. Hmm um by a by
the sports team apparel. Yes, buy it new jersey. This
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is known as the band wag Ner effect, coined by
Blair and Main. That's I gotta look good for the game.
I'm a casual fan. I'm gonna go buy my new
Patrick mahomes or Tom Brady jersey and ra rati. It's
not bad. I would have guessed just buying any kind
of alcohol because it's almost like Valentine's Day when you
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buy You never buy roses the day or two before,
because it's usually through the roof. Uh. The same thing
with with alcohol and food and all kinds of other drinks.
They usually well gouge you a little bit, especially the
day before the game or the day of. Well, my
move was always to buy the candy and the flowers
the day after that was my So anyway it's on sale,
everything's half off after that, all right. Diamonds are the
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hardest gem on earth. What is the second hardest. Everyone
knows about diamonds like the hardest gym and what about
the second hardest, Um, how about a ruby da na
na ning ning. That is right, sapphire slash rubies are
the second hardest gym on the planet. I like him.
I like sapphires. You're a fan of the sapphire. Yeah.
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When you when you went shopping for your your wife's
wedding ring, Um, Like, what was your approach? Were you like,
I'm gonna get anything. I don't know anything about rings.
I Uh, she actually had picked out something she thought
was good. Then I consulted with my mom and uh
it was. It was a team effort. And my mom
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was very like, get a ring. You know. She was
like she just happy I was with someone after all
those years of bachelorhood. Uh So, anyway, we've all heard
of it, but only one in five of us have
actually eaten this dish. What is it? Um? Do sardines? Caviar?
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I was gonna say caviar? Caviar? You're west of the
four or five. I'm sure you've had caviar. No, I
want to come on, you've had it. Don't lie. That
doesn't look a lie. You A lot of things don't
look appetizing, but I bet you Patty you're you're not
telling the truth. If I had it, but now it's pricey,
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it's expensive, it's it's a delicacy, right, Yeah, have you
had it? Of course? Not? Of course why would I.
I don't. I eat like a child. I eat chicken, fingers,
chese steak, and cheeseburgers. That's my diet, all right. Uh.
In a new survey, seventy of men say they have
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this in their car or truck at all times. What
is it? Um? Seven out of ten? Um flashlight? It?
No cologne or after shape. I don't have after shape,
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but I guess the same. Yeah, I know I have
this in the car. You don't have cologne or some
kind of like the odoran type stuff in your car? No.
The only thing I have my car is the you
know these, the the gum toothpicks. Yeah, yeah, No, No, No,
I always have because you know, I'm a sweater and
during the summertime, and if I start sweating, I am
going somewhere and I don't have time to go take
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a shower, spray on some cologne or something like that
to cover up the smell. Did not that's bad? Do
you have bad hygiene? No? I always smell roses. It's
all good. That's a lie, alright. One in six of
us will spend a hundred and forty nine dollars on
this this year and not happy about it. Game stop
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stock yars on average um shoes. No a speeding ticket,
speeding ticket, hundred speeding ticket. When's the last time again? Well,
you probably have ways of getting out of speeding tickets,
but was the last time that somebody attempted to give
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you a speeding ticket? Three weeks ago? Three weeks ago,
and you didn't tell us the story? Beat job by
your Where were you? Four oh five? There you go?
Four oh five? Speed? How fast are you going? You know?
I was I was told I've used this before on
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the podcast, but for new people. I was pulled over
one time by a California Highway Patrol officer who gave
me what I believe is the greatest advice I've ever
gotten from someone in law enforcement. And he told me
that you can speed, but you can't go over seven.
He won't even it's not worth his time to write
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a ticket if someone's going below seven. Seventy nine or
below is his threshold. If you're eighty or above, and
he sees you, you have a higher chance to being
pulled over. So from that, from that day forward, I
have driven. I've said my thing. At seventy nine, I
have not been pulled over. And it's years. It has
been years, and I will drive seventy nine, you know,
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when the highways are open and all that, and I've
not gotten pulled over. Now that might just be a
California thing, or maybe I'm just lucky. Um, but yeah,
I never go past seventy. I got lucky, I um
because you said, you know, let me hold on, let
me call my dad and see what's No. No, I
didn't get lucky. I didn't get lucky in that regard.
I got lucky because it was on a Saturday during
college football season. So I had my cell phone on
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the dash with a speedometer is with the ESPN app open,
and this woman cut me off. She went from the
car pool lane into the fast lane. So when she
cut me off, I went into the car pool lane
and then sped up and then cut her off. And
then that's when I got popped. So I had three
dingers right there. I was you're driving the car pool lane,
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but you that's a big that's like two thousand dollar
thing cell phone on and speeding the trifactor. He didn't
see the cell phone though, so he didn't see the stuff.
And did he end up? He didn't write you a ticket?
Or he did? Right? He didn't. He did. Don't sound
so excited? What the fun is wrong with you? Well,
how often are you driving the car pooling? I don't,
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I don't. I was literally in that car pool lane
for less than a quarter of a mile. Well, because
I'll tell you because a guy I used to work
with who I did an NFL show with on Sundays
and gave me some terrible real estate advice always drives
in the car pooling. Is that the guy that takes
steroids by himself drives in the car pool later? Right?
And you know I said, what are you doing? You
know you shouldn't do that. It's for people, And he
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said no, it saves him time. And he's done it
for years and he's only gotten like two tickets and
he's done it for like twenty years. Yeah, so he's
like he does a cost benefit analysis. He's like, well,
you know I save all the time I save, you know,
worth it? Do you know? In other parts of California,
you can actually there are open and closed times of
when you could drive in the car pool lane. Yeah. Yeah,
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in northern California. I've seen that, and I've not seen
that in southern California. That's that's a good job by
by No Cal, but So Cal bad job by then.
I think they do that in Arizona as well. Correct
me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember doing
that when I was in Scottsdale and in Phoenix they'd
had the high occupancy vehicle lane and it was only
for specific times. It's pretty much pointless in my opinion,
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to have the car poolane going twenty four hours a
day because I drive when no one's on the road,
usually other than a few big rigs. And you know,
just what's the point? You know, what's the point? Stupid?
All right? It is estimated to two percent of women
will do this in the first five years of marriage.
What is it, have sex with you, uh, lose their
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wedding ring. Okay, that's actually pretty low, is it? I think?
So that's that's pretty good. Well, how do you lose
if you're wearing it all the time, you don't take
it off? How do you But if you take it
off a new shower. Yeah, but don't you just put
it right next to the shower and then you get
out of the shower, use the towel and then it's
right there. Yeah. But what happens if you hit it
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and goes into the sink. Well, you have a stopper
so it doesn't go all the way down the drain.
And I agree, but it happens. I just think it's
like people like on the on the sofa or something
like these, like their hands, I don't know, they're digging
for the remote and it comes off or something like that. Yeah,
nineteent of women have eaten this exclusively in order to
lose weight. What is it? Saltine crackers? No? Um? Baby food?
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Do you much? I want to lose a couple of pounds.
Let me get some Gerber baby food and see? Uh?
Can I get the peas like the peas of the squash? Geez?
I've heard stories of older people that don't have a
lot of money buying dog food because it's cheaper. Yeah,
that's a tough one, all right. The the average parents
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stops doing this when their child is eight years old.
What is it? Um? Tangle their shoes? No, um reading
to them before bed bedtime story. The fun stops when
you're about eight years old old. I love, I have
fun members of my mom reading these stories when I
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was a kid. Boy, that was fun. All right. Of
people would like to change this about their vehicle? What
is it? The color? Not the size of the gas tank?
All right? All right? Scientists are working on a way
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to create a version of this item that many people
enjoyed daily by using watermelon and sunflower seeds. Are gonna
create a version of this product. Wait say this again?
All right? So the science community are working to create
a version of an item that many people enjoyed day
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a lie, and they're gonna use watermelon and sunflower seeds
to do it. Man, I am, it's something you've probably
had today? How about that? Um, don't I don't know. Man,
It's something my wife loves and I've never had coffee. Oh, coffee,
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watermelon sunflower seed coffee. Interesting. How's that gonna work? I
don't know. We'll find out doing this for about eighty
minutes a day, they say, whoever they are, it helps
you maintain good mental health. Meditating now, listening to music. Okay,
I can believe that yeah, I do that. I have
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great mental health because I clearly listened to a lot
what I'm getting ready for for for work, and I'm
trying to find stuff to talk about. I have um
mozart or some classical bull crap on the background just so,
just so I have a little music. That way, I
don't get distracted by anything other than that. It's pretty
and take you for a classical guy. That's cool though. Well,
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if I hear lyrics, I might listen to it, but no,
like sometimes I'll do some jazz, little jazz, classical, just
background stuff. Got I'm not really paying attention to it.
But all this is good. According to a brand new survey,
this was the numbber one comfort food that got us
through the pandemic last year. I have two guesses. Um.
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My first guess is ice cream. Ice cream is a
great guess. That is wrong. My second guest is French
fries solid again wrong again? Is it pizza? No, but
it doesn't involve cheese. Uh, tacos cassadas grilled cheese. It's good, man,
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it's good. Two slashes of bread and you you had
some cheese? Now did you? Did you go the old
school way of putting the butter on top two and
flipping it over on the side. Let me tell you something,
My wife is the greatest cooker of grilled cheese. Now
I don't have I haven't even the grilled cheese, but
she from her in a while because you know, it's
not the healthiest thing. But she's slobbers butter both sides
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of the bread. Cheese on top, cheese on top the
secret cheat code. So not only you get the gooey
cheese in the middle on the grilled cheese, but you
get an extra shot of cheese on top and bottom.
And it is wonderful good. My grandma back in the
day when she would do quesadillas, she would layer the
top of the tortilla with butter, like wrap that thing
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around and then put the cheese and sprinkle it all
over and then flip it over, put more butter on top.
So good, are you salivating right now? My my grandma
really she hit some good spots. She the sparse side
of the family. She was really really good. They did
to Molly as well, Casada as well, and then oddly
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enough aprilcot pies. She was fucking amazing. Yeah. Well, as
a as a kid, you know you finally remember the things,
but yeah, you know, listen again. We we've talked about
the keys, the cooking and all that and what you
need there and it's the proper mix of sugar, salt,
and fat. Those are the key ingredients. And that's pretty
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much all these restaurants. They spend so much money trying
to come up with the right just there's that Goldilocks zone.
We've talked about it before, but it's I'm fascinated by that.
There's this ratio. It's called the bliss point. And every
every new item, like you know, Armies comes out with
a new roast beef sandwich. They're trying to get that
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bliss point. And because it's irresistible and you gotta, you
gotta come back. But I see, I fast a lot.
So for me, the best, the best hung hunger is
is a is a tremendous spice. You know, because you're hungry,
you'll everything tastes better. That's true. Everything has been all right.
Time Now for the mail bag. These are actual listener
questions by actual listeners like yourself, submitted via the show
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Facebook page, Ben Mallers Show or via email, Real Ben
Real Fifth Hour, Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
First question from Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of a
pro basketball Hall of Fame or just the basketball Hall
of Fame. Now that we have a new regime in
power in Washington that may or may not have better
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relations with China? Was gag on absent last week because
he was interviewing for that job in China that you
recommended him for. Alright, guess guns is for you? No,
I was not. Are you sure about that, because I'm
hearing differing reports on that. Listen, I'm interviewing at a
(24:50):
bunch of different places, but not in China. So interesting. Yes,
so you're looking to leave the podcast, I'm looking to Uh,
I'm looking at upgrade my my paycheck. No, so I'm
want to create your own little personal stimulus. Well yeah,
in some ways, yes, Okay, I think you'd agree. We're
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all trying to create our own positive stimulus certain times
of the day. Okay, So you're denying again, Pierre. You
might want to fact check that. Um, see if he's
telling the truth, because would he admit, Pierre, that he
was talking to the people of China, Yes, but I
would not do that. He was not catch me dead,
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all right, chef Scott from La Orleans, the byou writes
in and the very nice things to say. I left
that out, of course, because I don't I'm not an
elitist like you. I don't need to pat myself on
the back. But he was very kind. No, he's talking
about me, all right, Yeah, just buttering me up like
a biscuit with compliment. So if I were to design,
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if I were to designed a Mallard special food entree,
a chef Scott from New Orleans rights in, what would
your top three meats, top two vegetables, and top two
starches beat? Well, I know now, he says that no
fried chicken would be allowed. He wants me to think
outside the box. But I know you like to keep
things simple, he says. Although I am experienced and trained
(26:19):
as a friend chef specializing in fine dining, my favorite
kind of food is comfort food. Now you're speaking my language.
Now I know exactly what you choose for your meat.
You would choose pastrami and carnea sada. No, let me
tell you. I'm gonna give you the list here. So
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I love pastrami is on there. I don't know if
it's a number one, but like ribby, thin cut ribby amazing.
And I like chicken, so chicken, rebby pastrami, some combination
of that. And as far as the veggies, Chef Scott,
I love the garlic. That's a vegetable, So I love
the guard I love bell pepper. Some chilies, uh corns
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a vegetable, right, So I like corn. Get you more
than two onions? Yeah, I like onions, garlic, bell pepper.
Those would be the big three because that's when I
do the Mallard pizza. And what's like starches at but
potatoes pastas at? What all those starches? Yeah? Rice? Yeah?
How about rice? Potatoes? About that I could do? I
mean any of those three potatoes occasionally, don't hate them.
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Not my favorite, but don't hate. Yeah. So yeah, that's it.
It's the list. I can't wait to see what Chef
Scott comes up with. Although it sounds like he's a
high end connoisseur at a I imagine him working at
this like Boogie restaurant. So what you're trying to say
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is you would not sit down in his restaurant like
I would. No, no, no. If he has addition named
after me, I'm in you know, I'll go to the
French Quarter. I'll do it absolutely, I'll hang out there.
I'll go to Paddlebrian's. Now'll send Paddlebran to photos. See. Look, Pat,
I'm at your restaurant and road. Somebody else did in
paddle Brian and all that stuff. Yeah, pick up that
(28:13):
name he just dropped. There's a famous dummy. There's a
famous restaurant there. I know you've you've probably been to
Marty Grand all that, but that's famous. You've never been
to Marty Gars h huh, bad job. I'm surprised you
haven't gone down there throwing beads around and all that.
I've been to. Uh, I've been to a La Vista
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on the campus of you see Santa Barbara for Halloween.
Does that count? It's a little crazy in Santa Barbara,
a little bit. San Diego Steak is a little crazy too.
It was yeah, all right. Stephen Boston right since says
there's not really questions, more of a statement, says Tom
Brady and his aging wife made the perfect plan for retirement.
(28:54):
Clock is ticking, So get the Florida no state tax,
easy coach, brilliant and no more. Bill Steve from Boston says, well,
The main part of that was no more Bill. I
think that's the do you want to get away from Belichick?
And he got what he wanted and now he's laughing
and it will be a week of bashing Belichick. The
Super Bowl hype wheep hYP hype week coming up. David
(29:18):
in Simpsonville, South Carolina. He says, when they rehired you
after laying you off, that was in twenty nine, what
did they tell you? He says, the economy was better,
or they made a stupid mistake, or they needed you back.
I'm trying to remember now. They originally hired me back
to do weekends. I had been doing the weekday overnight
show and they hired me back to do the weekend show.
(29:39):
So it was a demotion. But yeah, they they told
me some bull crap about how you know, they didn't
want to let me go, and it was like they
told me, it was like the last I was I
was on the list to be let go, and then
I was off the list, and then they put me
back on and it was a mistake. And yeah, they
didn't really mention the economy, but they just said that
(30:01):
they they had erred and they were wondered if I
wanted to come back, and I was actually at that time,
I was in negotiations with the people at satellite radio
and I was talking to a station in Boston, and
so I had a couple of a couple of spinning plates.
But I was like, all right, I knew the people,
(30:22):
obviously Fox Sports Radio. I was like, I liked it there.
So I was like, all right, I'll go back. Darryl
in Elko, Nevada says, I failed to see what Marcel
in Brooklyn brings to the show. It's time for him
to go. Well, Darrel, listen, um. Marcel is a acquired taste.
(30:45):
I get that he's not for everybody, but I like
mars and I think the show is good for Marcel.
Not that we're here to help Marcel out, but Marcell
doesn't have a lot going on. He lives in a
crappy apartment in the projects in Brooklyn, and so the
highlight from Marcel, one of the highlights of his week
is calling into the show. And I feel like we
(31:07):
have created a niche from marself. When Marcel used to
call up and we didn't do food picks, it was
it was a little painful at times, a little painful
of times and all that. But this this food thing
is good. And Marcel says stuff that he doesn't realize
is funny. That is funny. And you know, listen when
we welcome everyone into the Mallard Moist and Marcell's I
(31:30):
think he means well, he's a good a good guy,
so I'm not getting rid of him. But we don't
force him to call. It's like he's on the payroll,
so he could stop calling it any time. John the
jailer from Alan Town, p A. Calls and he says,
Ben and gascon. My Christmas gift for my wife was
a flop. What do you suggest for Valentine's Day? To
(31:51):
get me out of the doghouse? Man, this is all
your domain. I am terrible at getting gifts. I I know,
a nice card and and all that I can do,
and the the candies, the flowers, the usual tropes of
Valentine's Day. Doesn't it depend on what this guy's wife
is into. I we don't know anything about her. I
think her hobbies are and all that I think it's.
(32:13):
I think you're a safe bet would be to stack
your gifts, like just do it one year, or you
get something for her in the morning, the middle of
the day and nighttime, and then cap it off with
like a dessert or like some sweets something like that,
like chocolate. Never go wrong with that. What about like
um massage type thing, like a day spot type but
(32:33):
you're in right now, Yeah, but they're they're in Pennsylvania,
which is kind of you. You'd be going with some
candles and some incense. You could do that. That's always good.
Maybe some body lotion always handy. You could do is
Airline tickets are ridiculously cheek right cheap right now. You
could buy tickets somewhere playing a little weekend getaway somewhere
(32:55):
that you would not normally be able to afford to
go to because things are so cheap right now. Yeah,
maybe you can inquire about heading up to h to Newport,
heading up to Rhode Island up there, the the big
mansions that are up there in Rhode is looking at
you trying to show off your East Coast and geographical knowledge,
or going to Boston. Why not than that? I don't know.
(33:15):
I think wryn to go up to Maine and keep
going kind of cool too, though. How about the Nova
Scotia You can go even first, actually not this time
of the year and concentrate. Yeah, okay, uh, Carlos in
buying buying Houston, Texas? Right, since says Ben, will the
Negro drop finally go away? Since the brothers have passed away? Also,
(33:37):
when are the Benny's alright? First of all, let me
address the Phil and Joe Nekro drop. I think it's
a funny drop. I liked it on the show. We
had to stop playing on the show because of the
local ROTI what I mean by that is every time
we played this ever since things went wacky in the
(33:58):
world and every was trying to cancel everyone else. The
the average radio consumer does not listen to everything that
we say. Right, Listening is an art form, it's a
talk radio and all that stuff. But but listening is
often a bit of a problem. And you know, we
(34:20):
we only have it's like one percent of listeners that
will actually contribute content to the show, and most people
will not. They're just casual listeners and all that stuff.
And the problem that we ran into here is both
it's like two worlds meeting. You have the wocalati going
around and trying to cancel everybody, and then you had
(34:41):
people who don't listen right, who have bad hearing right
hearing impaired. And I mean hearing. I don't mean they're
actually hearing impaired. I mean just studies have pointed out.
Being in the radio business, I pay attention to this
stuff that the person listening to a radio show will
only remember about twenty maybe even less than that, of
the things they listen to it the most. It's like,
(35:04):
which means of the content is in one ear and
out the other, right, and and so the other thing
we have is that words only convey It's like less
than ten percent of what you're trying to say. The
other ninety percent is communicated by facial expressions. Now we
can't do tone of voice, and I try to use tone.
(35:26):
But anyway, the point of this, Carlos is every time
we played the Phil and Joe nicro drop, someone would
inevitably email me or post something on social media. I
can't believe in you would say that you're racist? How
dare you at all? I can't want to contact Fox
manage written get you off the air? What are you
(35:48):
in the k K K? And I'm like, well, no,
it's the name is Nikro, that's the last name. Phil
and Anyways, I I just I was tired of it,
and I was like, all right, it's not worth it.
It's funny, but it's not worthy. So you can blame
the wocarati who and people that are bad at hearing
as why we had to change that up. Okay, that's
the answer. Chris in Maracca to Iowa writes In says,
(36:11):
now that you've been married a while, whom of your
wife's who Who on your wife's side do you like
most or least? Does your wife get along with your
brother's dish on the drama? Chris says, well, I don't
know that it would be prudent for me to do that.
The wife is a listener of the podcast. Occasionally she
(36:33):
listens to the podcast, so I don't know if that
would be helpful to name names here. But no, honestly,
I get along with everyone. My wife's family is great.
I was concerned, you know, you hear stories from friends
about all these in laws. Man, what a freaking nightmare.
But I love them. They're great. I'm very close with
her sister. I'm not close with my wife's brother he
lives out of the area, but her parents are great,
(36:55):
and both of them wonderful people, very kind and nice,
and so I'm very lucky in that regard. Are They've
taken me in and we we spent a lot of time,
especially during the summer because my father in law has
a pool and it gets hot, and so we go
there quite a bit. And the only person that I
have an issue there was like a friend of the
family that I had a rhubarb with. But that's about it.
(37:17):
That's about it. But the actual like blood relatives and
all that people are in the family, in the inner circle,
get along with all of them, get along with all
of them. I am it. The blind Seahawk fan from
Olympius says, what are your actual thoughts on Brian Finley?
I don't have any thoughts on it. Why do you
think I spend my time obsessing over Brian Finley? Gascon
(37:40):
On the other hand, you have a lot of thoughts
about Brian Finley. What do you mean, Well, you're jealous
of the attention he's gut here through the grape vine,
that you're jealous of the attention that he gets, and
that he's the go to fill in guy when and
he's not around, well he fills in. Because I don't
want to someone I'm here, Well, you're hearing a red
horse his mouth. That's not what I'm here. I don't
(38:02):
want that drag of a schedule. Yeah, okay, interesting, Greg
in written Washington writes in We're very big. In written Washington,
we are Uh, he says, Ben, what can you tell
me about Shane Waldron? You know who Shane Waldron is? Guest,
you know who the hell's that? That is? The new
(38:23):
offensive coordinated or the Seattle Shawks. Who was the was
he the quality control coach or something like that of
offense for the Rams. I've never even heard of the guy.
And I'm a Ram fan, and I can assure you Greg,
he was not hired because Pete Carroll thinks he's going
to reinvent the wheel. He was hired Shane Waldron because
he's young, he's cheap, and he will follow the orders
(38:47):
of Pete Carroll. So that's that's the end of that.
But but good luck, good luck on that. And if
Seattle has a good offense next year, he'll get credit.
If not, they'll blame him. He's a he's a necessary
useful idiot, as they say Kevin from Rockford Dale. And
all right, so says Mr Mallor and Mr whoever is
filling in this week. I guarantee you that are fat,
(39:07):
poor excuse for a governor is worse than the king
running your state. That stuff. Have you seen our new
police reform bill? He says, it's absolutely terrible. Uh, he
complains about that, and then he wanted to get a
hold of my boss to complain about somebody we work
with here. He's he doesn't name him. I don't know
(39:29):
who this could be. Anybody, says a colleague who repeats
himself at least fifty times every show. Um, and he says,
so you don't, Rob and Chris don't, yeh, Jason and
Mike don't. Okay, who else repeats themselves? So if we're
(39:51):
talking money through Friday, Jonas doesn't, r J doesn't. So
these guys do four hours or original content and do
not repeat things they Yeah, I've done, Okay, all right, good? Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know who he's referred to,
but he's, uh, he's very upset and you some some
(40:13):
terrible words there, and uh, yeah, anyway, he says he
will not name names, but just no, he is a
little fat piece of blank there you go all right,
I don't know who that could be. All right, pieces
of ship here. It's radio mash kidding, so simple, it's
the radio show. It's not that hard. Dave in Mill Valley,
(40:36):
California rights in. By the way. As far as the
police reform, uh yeah, the pendulum will swing back, you know.
It's it's gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be half. There's gonna
be blood on the hands of these people because they're
gonna send out their psychologists for domestic situations and unfortunately
a morbid prediction to gascon. Some of them are gonna
(40:58):
get killed, They're gonna get shot, and they're gonna be like,
we're not going we need police. So then what do
you do? You know? Good luck, you know, and it's
gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be that's gonna be what leads
to the change. It shouldn't be that way. People with
common sense would know that's gonna be the result. But
it's gonna inevitably happen. And then you're gonna get the case, well,
(41:22):
we need the police and so but you would agree
that we get the world we deserve, like we get
in the world I want. Yeah, but we get as
a whole, we get exactly what we deserve. Well, there's
a lot of dumb people that don't don't think things
through as far as Actually, I had a conversation with
the buddy of mine other day who's who's in law enforcement,
(41:46):
and I said, here and here in l A they
voted out Jackie Lacey, who's a woman check, minority check, homegrown,
juicy l a grad check. And she's also a Democrat
chack check check. And you know why they voted her
out because she was not far left enough and they
(42:07):
voted in an old white guy. So identity politics only
work if you're drinking the kool aid. Jackie Lazy didn't
drink the kool aid, so it didn't matter if she
met all of the boxes that they love. She she
was useless to them because she didn't think the group
(42:28):
think that they think right wonderful, God forbid. She had
try to uphold the law and protect law enforced. I
gotta tell you, man, I get I am. I live
in you know, technically l A County. I am considering
relocating out of l A County because it's this unfortunately
share the name with that guy. Uh, but man who
(42:52):
gets recalled first the hammer Newsom, because Newsom, because it's
already the wheels are already. No. But but George, George
can get recalled after ninety days. Yeah, how many signals?
Who do you have to get on that for news
you need? I think it's one point seven I believe
it is. Have you signed that petition? Yeah? I have
all Yeah, Well I haven't. I put my information on
(43:14):
the website. I think I have to sign something else.
But I mean on it. I want Gavin Newsom kicked
out of office, and I would love every second of it.
And I hope he goes to that French laundry and
eats a bowl of pasta and chokes on it. I
believe he would only be the second governor ever in
twenty three attempts to be recalled from the state of California.
(43:34):
Keep in mind, not die, just choke. You know, eat
pasta sometimes and it kind of goes down the wrong way,
you know, just so for the people that take things literally. Uh,
you know, a little awkward bite into the pasta. Yes, alright. Uh. Else,
we have Michael from Newtown Newton Township rather, I don't
know if he's in Michigan. I think there's a couple
of Newton townships. He might be in Pennsylvania. I think
(43:57):
there's more than that. But anyway, he says he's been
listening for ten or more years. How about that good job.
It's pretty awesome. Good job by you. That's a lot
of a lot of time, a lot of times that
there's a there's a great quote which I have stolen
from from Hawk Carrolson and when he retired as the
White Sox broadcaster, I do homages UH to Hawk Carrelson
(44:20):
because I gotta kick out. I'm watching White Sox games
on w g N back in the day, and you
know you can put it on the board. Yeah, Like,
I'll do that sometimes. But Hawk Harrelson said something, and
I'm paraphrasing here, that when you take a man's money,
you take a man's money, but when you take a
man's time, you take part of their life. And that
that is I believe that. I mean that, you know,
(44:42):
and when you listen to UH show and you give
ten years of your life at least part of five
days a week or whatever it is, to listen, that's
that's meaning. That's more meaningful than money. I try to
teach you that games and you're you're very money. You
take my time. You take my time. Now, I try,
I try to explain you the podcast. It's it's it's
(45:02):
not all about monetary things. It's about giving back book
and like someone that's getting paid well off of it,
not getting paid well, not getting paid well at all. No,
not at all. I beg to differ. Oh, you can
beg the different all you want. Put that up the
old you know what I got the minets, I got
three seeds, all right. Anyway, um, this guy Michael says,
(45:23):
if you had won power Ball or Mega millions slash
billions with the recent drawings, would you have continued your
sports talk show. I think you would have. You know,
my life perspective has changed a lot recently because it
would happened with my parents. So I don't know that
I would. I would like to think I'm a worker,
(45:43):
so it's just I'm kind of wired that way, so
I would say yes, because it's not like a real job.
But I have been slapped in the face with how
short all this is. So I don't know. I don't know,
but I as of before the beginning of one, I
would have said, absolutely, I'm gonna keep working no matter what.
But uh, yeah, I don't know. I think you would have.
(46:03):
I think you might have jumped platforms, but I still
think you would have. Yeah. Uh, Pete rights in from
parts and on. He says, where do I find Iowa
Sam these days? I misses Iowa Insider news. Oh my god,
Oh my fucking god. He as I heard i was
Sam still works with the company. I talked to him
(46:24):
the other day. I don't know what what is he referencing? Well,
because because Jonas on his shows on Saturdays with with
Bucky Brooks and myself and lead the lab, you know,
Jonas is forced name dropping. By the way, well, how
to pick any of those up? These are co workers.
I don't know if you know who they are. Um,
Jonas is forced to never heard of them. Jonas is
(46:44):
forced to dedicate a segment to Iowa Sam so he
can give us all the news and information in the
world of sports out of the state of Iowa. It's
dreadful fucking radio. Yeah, it's awful. Iowa sucks. How do
you really feel cool al right outside the state of Iowa. Yeah,
(47:05):
but it's just a it's it's eight minutes of painful
Iowa talk. I had a lot of friends from Iowa.
I was not the biggest state in the world. But
I've met people over the years from Iowa and they're
always like, I'm not I'm stereotyping. It's a good stereotypes
of people. Don't mind it. This seems like generally good people.
Like I've not I've not met an asshole from from Iowa.
(47:26):
I'm sure they exist. I'm sure there's a lot of
big assholes from Iowa, but I've not met them. I mean,
the people I've met have been like really cool people,
normal people that kind of get life and uh yeah so.
And also Minnesota, I've yet to meet an a whole
from Minnesota. Like everyone I've dealt with, whether it be
virtually on the radio or in person in my life experience,
(47:50):
have been some of the nicest people. I genuinely, I
feel genuinely good people. Maybe it's an act, but yeah,
some of the people that follow you from Minnesota are
kind of knobs. Well, I save the worst for last year.
Were gonna wrap up the mailbag on this one, Adrian
in the Mile High City. I hope you're prepared for
this guest, Deshaun Watson, because you're about to get a
(48:11):
tongue bath. He says, once again, I gotta give credit
words due tell the west of the four oh five
guy to stick around. Yeah. Then he proceeds to assault Kevin,
saying that Kevin was terrible. He was very upset. He
said he sucked at a time you cannot suck the
pop quiz portion of last Saturday's podcast. Yeah, Kevin was
not fully engaged in the podcast on Saturday. That is true.
(48:34):
Probably because you don't. It's probably because you intimidate a
lot of the young uns here. You're blaming me, Yeah,
you're you're I gave him airtime on a on a
big podcast. It's a little intimidating to give him airtime.
It's a little intimidating. It's a young, spry one. Am
I supposed to massage his shoulders? Maybe a little bit
be a little welcoming into the into the friend Oh no, no,
(48:55):
you gotta jump into the frying pan. No, you don't
just sliding. You gotta jump in the I get it.
You gotta do a belly whopper into the deep end.
You don't. You don't put your toe in the kiddie pool. No,
you go into the deep end. You swim with a shark.
This is a different generation. You you can't you can't
lather them up with with sandpaper. You have to caress
them and kind of guide them into the into the
(49:16):
wide world. And you know, he might be the case.
So I think you're you're doing two things. You're attacking
me and him. No, no, no, that's good. I accomplished
two things on that I I do appreciate. But it's
also his fault because he's soft. I do appreciate tough love.
I come from the school of hard knocks. But you know,
this generation is a little bit different, man. Yeah, okay,
(49:39):
Well just keep in mind though every generation says the
generations below them are soft and weak and all that,
and Kevin's generation ten fifteen years from now will say
whoever follows them, the next generation is also weak and soft.
It is the circle of life. It is the circle
of life. And I learned this at a very young
age when I started covering the NBA in the early nineties,
and the players who played in the seventies and the
(50:01):
eighties said how soft and weak the players in the
nineties were, And they wore baggy shorts and they were,
you know, gangsters. And how weak that was, and they
would rip these NBA players, and then those NBA players
in the nineties ripped the players in the two thousands,
and then the players in the two thousands ripped the
players in the next generation. And uh and so it
goes on. Yeah, but don't you think, like our parents
(50:22):
generation is probably the most important and or the strongest, toughest,
name you know, generation in our countries. I don't know, Well,
the greatest generation, they say, was the World War two generation,
but there's some parents generation. Yeah, well baby boomers, right,
is that what you're talking and the baby the baby
boomers a great generation. Tremendous change that took place in
(50:45):
their in their salad days in the United States, and
they were big part of that with civil rights and
you know, wood stock and all the other things that
they were a part of in that time. But you'd
like to think every who's the worst generation? And you say,
who's the greatest? Who's the generation? What is the worst?
Is it? What's going on right now with cancel culture?
(51:05):
And it has to be something. It feels that I
know that's a myomic, myopic view, but it's certainly it
feels like that in the moment. Maybe it's just a
prisoner of the moment thing and it's not as bad.
But well, I just think about all these unimportant things
that are that are generally insignificant that are being made,
you know, canceling people over irrelevant things. Uh, it's for
(51:27):
political reasons? Is this ridiculous? People are getting squeezed out
of social media because they have different opinions. And then
if you have a different opinion that doesn't go your way,
then you're labeled as something like you're you're labeled as
as a xenophobe, as racist, as misogynistic, as like an
(51:51):
all left or an all right, like you're labeled, you're
labeled in some category because of your stance or because
of your opinion. That's yeah, that's what it comes down.
Like the what's the latest guy recently been trying to
cancel the mike My Pillow guy, mich Lindell. Mind, I
did see he pointed out, which I thought was, I know,
(52:13):
people like to rip that guy, and he's he's an
easy target for some. But I I saw his interview
with Tucker Carlson and he went on a rant about
um hit groups. He said bots and trolls was I
think the quote that he used and say, what was
going on? Didn't they see that? That's the issue we
talked about. There's a lot of that like that, you know, cyborgs,
(52:35):
trolls and bots and all that that you don't know
what's real and what's not real. And it's, uh, it's
a wild time, man, it's a wild time. I'm good
with it. I'm good with the I'm good with labeling
this generation maybe the worst or at least this time frame,
because you still have a lot of older people that
are still trying to cancel people as well. And it
(52:58):
depends on how it's though, right, like who writes the history,
because you could also spin it. This is the greatest
time we started judging people not by their merit, but
by how they were born. You know, this is the
greatest thing in the world. Everything we went against, everything
Martin Luther King strived for. Uh, yeah, it's it's tremendous.
(53:20):
Someone with high moral authority is gonna tell me how
good this generation was. Yeah, it's it's a pissing match
that I have. I have the moral high ground and
you don't, right, And uh, it's that it's the greatest
quote by Martin Luther King, who you know, were me
and you were we were a little a partner age,
but we grew up, you know, when we learned about
(53:41):
civil rights, and with Martin Luther King and his quote
about you know, he wanted to live in the day
where you are judged by the not by the color
of your skin, but by the content of your of
your character. And now the federal government wants you to
be judged by the color of your skin. It's fascinating,
it is outstandingly ridiculous. But but here we are, it's
(54:04):
like the it's like the microcosm of how we are.
Sports fans work where it's all tribal ism, like you're
you're a Bruins fan or a Trojans fan, or you're
a Lakers fan or Clippers fan. But now it's now
it's an everyday life. It's really read because the way
my parents taught me was to you know, kind of
follow that much for you know, judge. You don't just
(54:26):
judge people based on how they, you know, look to
You judge them by how they treat you. So I
have I've met complete schmucks who are white, black, Mexican you,
I mean, you go down in the list, and I've
been really good people. But I judge those people based
on my interactions with them, not based on, you know,
just how their appearances. But I guess I'm outdated now.
(54:49):
I'm the old guy. All I need to have the
John DECI is what I need to have a parent.
I need to have these preconceived notions and things like that,
because that's what you know, that's the that's the way
it is now. I question for because when you judge
these people, do you automatically go back into their Twitter
history to see what tweets they had from fifteen years ago?
Of course, no interest in that. Who cares. It's a
(55:11):
lot of wasted time. Life is short. Who cares? Seriously,
get off your ass and do something. Go out, You
go out and look at birds. She's like, yeah, look
at birds. All right, we gotta get out of here.
Look at out. This is the longest on the weekend
this podcast. How did that happen? God? All right, let's
(55:33):
have a great rest of your Sunday. We will be back.
I will not you Gascon. I will on the overnight show,
So that'll be tonight. If you're on the West coast,
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(55:54):
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the four oh five. Yeah, David Gascon has come over here,
happy to report that our podcast is not halted by
these Securities and Exchange Commission either. So that's a positive spin.
Just think how much influence we can manipulate the market.
If we give out stock advice here. We'll have Sprinkles
the clown going and buying stock here because of our advice.
I didn't want to bring it up to Catherine, but
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I know you know exactly what's going on, especially in
the gambling world. This ship happens all the time with Sharp's.
You know Sharp's will will shell out money to some
of their you know, some of their little plebs to
go bet on a line, swing it one way, and
they'll come right back over the top and swing it
another way. Yeah. Well, the big money moves the market.
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But here's the thing too. In the in the wall
Street with day trading is essentially sports bits, sports betting,
that's what it is. And so I had heard from
people that last March, when sports were shut down for
a hundred and thirty four days, there were no live
team sports in America. If you're a sports gambler and
that's how you get your dopamine fix, you couldn't do it.
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And so a large percentage of sports gamblers who were
addicted to it and had a better game every night,
a game of day people or more, they moved over
to Wall Street to day trading. And so that's that
kind of you know, loosely related to where we're at today.
But the it's a great story that you know, that's
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gonna be a movie. They're gonna make a movie about
the Wolf of Wall Streets. One of the better movies
I've seen over the last fifteen years or so. It's
I enjoyed the hell out. That was a good it's
a great movie. I mean, for me, it's it's totally
relatable because I was a part of the housing market
crisis in the two thousand seven, two thousand eight, two
thousand nine period. And I mean, I hate to say it,
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but that's what they were all about. I mean, these
these mortgage backed securities banned, like we were told when
I was working for City Group, I was told that
we needed to to refinance a bunch of mortgages. And
typically when you're an escrow it takes you anywhere from
like thirty to sixty days to close on a house,
sometimes ninety if it's under construction. But if you're trying
to refinance your property, it's anywhere from still thirty to
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forty five days. And they're so severe on the underwriting
guidelines that underwriters won't pass you unless you're over or
above clearance on their checklist. But when I was with
City all of these were streamlined, so you went from
thirty to forty five days of processing to ten or fifteen,
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which is fucking absurd. But the whole point of it
was is that they wanted to have all of these
mortgages that were on their books refinanced so they could
sell them immediately on the secondary market. And then all
they did after that was just layoff and terminate everybody
in their mortgage lending department, or the majority of it.
And the reason why was that they want to get
out of the industry because a lot of the mortgages,
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mortgages that did did sell or two people with stated
income stated assets no documents, no verification. All you gotta
do is show up and prove that you have like
a seven score, and we give you an interest rate
and a loan that was like three or four or
five percent, and you had like a loan to value
which was like at ninety, which is fucking absurd, you know,
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like so so, but I was doing that. It's it's
so essentially with the volatility of the stockment. Just invest
in soybeans, you know, just go by soybeans. They can't
go wrong with soybeans. But it's fascinating because we will
bail out the mortgage back securities, will bail out the
real estate industry, will bail out the automotive industry, the
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airline industry, the banking institutions, automotive industry, but we won't
bail out the common folk. Here's your six dollar check
that you got like twelve months after this whole fucking
thing went down. It's fucking appalling, but it's it's typical, right,
Like it's what you'd expect. But my favorite part of
it is and I think that if I was writing
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the screenplay for this movie about the game Stop situation,
it would be a story of all these greedy Wall
Street people like, hey, let's these daily apps will be great.
We'll get more dumb money, right, more dumb money, and
we'll be able to take their money. That's what they
were excited about when Robin Hood and these things came around.
The It's kind of like, you know, we we talk
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about gambling, and you mentioned the sharps in the gambling world, right,
the bookie, the sports book fears the sharp. They don't
like the sharps because those are people that have all
the inside information, you know, like edge fun people, like
hedge fun people. They can't stand them. But the square,
which would be what the day trader is, the Robin
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Hood user, the you know, the they just kind of
go off a hunch or something they they read on
the internet for example, that they consider them unsophisticated financial people,
and so they want they want those people. They want
because dumb money, right, they want the dumb money. Um.
And so the movie would be all these greedy Wall
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Street people so excited because these daily apps, and then
it blows up in their face and it's this thing
shoots to the moon. Right. That's that's the story. I mean,
get I don't know if Dicapriole, do it in Jonah
Hill and McConaughey and all those that were in Wolf
of Wall Street. But call him up. See what you
got there, See what you got. There's a good story.
There's a solid story right there. Greed is good, Michael Douglas,
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so good. It's um, it's it's great because you know,
this thing is not going to be a short term
fixed Like as soon as they release the Hounds with
robin Hood and some of these other uh digital platforms
or the apps that allow you for trading, these guys
are gonna they're gonna release the cracking. I think these
guys will continue to trade no matter if it's a
MC or game Stop or or Nokia whatever it may be.
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I think they're gonna push those things to the limit.
And I I am a customer of robin Hood. I
have the app on my phone. I think you do too, also,
guest Gun, I think it's a great product. But what
they did by taking these not allowing you to buy
game Stop and those others, I think that is horrific
for their business and there is going to be a
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price to pay. You just can't do that, especially when
Kather mentioned the I p O that they're supposed to
release here in the coming weeks. Yeah, I mean, what
are you doing? And I you know you've heard rumors
they got pressured by certain people. But still you gotta
think it's like people who are on that you have
to be of a certain age, you have to be
an adult, you know. And you know they were like,
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I don't an abundance of caution. This is my my
problem with abundance of caution. When you play the stock market,
it's the it's the risk versus reard. Yeah, some people
and I'm sure some people even with what happened and
taking it off and all that, it's the risk versus
the reward. You're going to lose money, right, And and
when you invest that, what's the warning they always give
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that past results do not guarantee future outcomes, right, they
always say that. And so you know, if somebody ends
up a hemorrhage in cash on the robin Hood map
because they didn't sell at the right time, that's on them.
You can't this this name I call it, I guess
nanny state, Right, isn't that the term where you're just
trying to overly protect people? You know, if you're in
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the stock market game. You gotta get fully in the mud, right,
and nobody's forced to buy, whether it's game stop or
bed bath and beyond. The companies that people choose to
do it think they're gonna get a big return on
the capitol and all that. That's fine and and hopefully
it works for them. But if it doesn't, that's the
that's the way the game is. You don't change the
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rules of the game. And that's what they did. They
changed and moved the goal posts, and you can't do it.
I'm sorry. I bad job by them. You know, you've
got a problem when you have independence, Democrats and Republicans
on the same side for a cause. Yeah, well, with
everything that we got on in this country, how great
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is it? The thing that united the Donald Trump Republican
and the Joe Biden Democrat would be the Wall Street
It's wonderful. Ah, the irony? Al Right, pop quiz, pop quiz?
You want Popca got the mail back? A lot, a
lot of mail backs. We'll do a little bit of
pop quiz. Alright. Ten percent of football fans will end
up doing this in the next couple of weeks to
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get ready for the big game. What is it um
shot for alcohol? No, it is, Well, it's more than
ten percent that will shop for alcohol. But this is
something that doesn't involve shopping. Hmm um by a by
the sports team apparel. Yes, buy it new jersey. This
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is known as the band wag Ner effect, coined by
Blair and Main. That's I gotta look good for the game.
I'm a casual fan. I'm gonna go buy my new
Patrick mahomes or Tom Brady jersey and ra rati. It's
not bad. I would have guessed just buying any kind
of alcohol because it's almost like Valentine's Day when you
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buy You never buy roses the day or two before,
because it's usually through the roof. Uh. The same thing
with with alcohol and food and all kinds of other drinks.
They usually well gouge you a little bit, especially the
day before the game or the day of. Well, my
move was always to buy the candy and the flowers
the day after that was my So anyway it's on sale,
everything's half off after that, all right. Diamonds are the
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hardest gem on earth. What is the second hardest. Everyone
knows about diamonds like the hardest gym and what about
the second hardest, Um, how about a ruby da na
na ning ning. That is right, sapphire slash rubies are
the second hardest gym on the planet. I like him.
I like sapphires. You're a fan of the sapphire. Yeah.
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When you when you went shopping for your your wife's
wedding ring, Um, Like, what was your approach? Were you like,
I'm gonna get anything. I don't know anything about rings.
I Uh, she actually had picked out something she thought
was good. Then I consulted with my mom and uh
it was. It was a team effort. And my mom
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was very like, get a ring. You know. She was
like she just happy I was with someone after all
those years of bachelorhood. Uh So, anyway, we've all heard
of it, but only one in five of us have
actually eaten this dish. What is it? Um? Do sardines? Caviar?
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I was gonna say caviar? Caviar? You're west of the
four or five. I'm sure you've had caviar. No, I
want to come on, you've had it. Don't lie. That
doesn't look a lie. You A lot of things don't
look appetizing, but I bet you Patty you're you're not
telling the truth. If I had it, but now it's pricey,
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it's expensive, it's it's a delicacy, right, Yeah, have you
had it? Of course? Not? Of course why would I.
I don't. I eat like a child. I eat chicken, fingers,
chese steak, and cheeseburgers. That's my diet, all right. Uh.
In a new survey, seventy of men say they have
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this in their car or truck at all times. What
is it? Um? Seven out of ten? Um flashlight? It?
No cologne or after shape. I don't have after shape,
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but I guess the same. Yeah, I know I have
this in the car. You don't have cologne or some
kind of like the odoran type stuff in your car? No.
The only thing I have my car is the you
know these, the the gum toothpicks. Yeah, yeah, No, No, No,
I always have because you know, I'm a sweater and
during the summertime, and if I start sweating, I am
going somewhere and I don't have time to go take
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a shower, spray on some cologne or something like that
to cover up the smell. Did not that's bad? Do
you have bad hygiene? No? I always smell roses. It's
all good. That's a lie, alright. One in six of
us will spend a hundred and forty nine dollars on
this this year and not happy about it. Game stop
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stock yars on average um shoes. No a speeding ticket,
speeding ticket, hundred speeding ticket. When's the last time again? Well,
you probably have ways of getting out of speeding tickets,
but was the last time that somebody attempted to give
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you a speeding ticket? Three weeks ago? Three weeks ago,
and you didn't tell us the story? Beat job by
your Where were you? Four oh five? There you go?
Four oh five? Speed? How fast are you going? You know?
I was I was told I've used this before on
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the podcast, but for new people. I was pulled over
one time by a California Highway Patrol officer who gave
me what I believe is the greatest advice I've ever
gotten from someone in law enforcement. And he told me
that you can speed, but you can't go over seven.
He won't even it's not worth his time to write
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a ticket if someone's going below seven. Seventy nine or
below is his threshold. If you're eighty or above, and
he sees you, you have a higher chance to being
pulled over. So from that, from that day forward, I
have driven. I've said my thing. At seventy nine, I
have not been pulled over. And it's years. It has
been years, and I will drive seventy nine, you know,
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when the highways are open and all that, and I've
not gotten pulled over. Now that might just be a
California thing, or maybe I'm just lucky. Um, but yeah,
I never go past seventy. I got lucky, I um
because you said, you know, let me hold on, let
me call my dad and see what's No. No, I
didn't get lucky. I didn't get lucky in that regard.
I got lucky because it was on a Saturday during
college football season. So I had my cell phone on
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the dash with a speedometer is with the ESPN app open,
and this woman cut me off. She went from the
car pool lane into the fast lane. So when she
cut me off, I went into the car pool lane
and then sped up and then cut her off. And
then that's when I got popped. So I had three
dingers right there. I was you're driving the car pool lane,
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but you that's a big that's like two thousand dollar
thing cell phone on and speeding the trifactor. He didn't
see the cell phone though, so he didn't see the stuff.
And did he end up? He didn't write you a ticket?
Or he did? Right? He didn't. He did. Don't sound
so excited? What the fun is wrong with you? Well,
how often are you driving the car pooling? I don't,
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I don't. I was literally in that car pool lane
for less than a quarter of a mile. Well, because
I'll tell you because a guy I used to work
with who I did an NFL show with on Sundays
and gave me some terrible real estate advice always drives
in the car pooling. Is that the guy that takes
steroids by himself drives in the car pool later? Right?
And you know I said, what are you doing? You
know you shouldn't do that. It's for people, And he
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said no, it saves him time. And he's done it
for years and he's only gotten like two tickets and
he's done it for like twenty years. Yeah, so he's
like he does a cost benefit analysis. He's like, well,
you know I save all the time I save, you know,
worth it? Do you know? In other parts of California,
you can actually there are open and closed times of
when you could drive in the car pool lane. Yeah. Yeah,
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in northern California. I've seen that, and I've not seen
that in southern California. That's that's a good job by
by No Cal, but So Cal bad job by then.
I think they do that in Arizona as well. Correct
me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember doing
that when I was in Scottsdale and in Phoenix they'd
had the high occupancy vehicle lane and it was only
for specific times. It's pretty much pointless in my opinion,
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to have the car poolane going twenty four hours a
day because I drive when no one's on the road,
usually other than a few big rigs. And you know,
just what's the point? You know, what's the point? Stupid?
All right? It is estimated to two percent of women
will do this in the first five years of marriage.
What is it, have sex with you, uh, lose their
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wedding ring. Okay, that's actually pretty low, is it? I think?
So that's that's pretty good. Well, how do you lose
if you're wearing it all the time, you don't take
it off? How do you But if you take it
off a new shower. Yeah, but don't you just put
it right next to the shower and then you get
out of the shower, use the towel and then it's
right there. Yeah. But what happens if you hit it
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and goes into the sink. Well, you have a stopper
so it doesn't go all the way down the drain.
And I agree, but it happens. I just think it's
like people like on the on the sofa or something
like these, like their hands, I don't know, they're digging
for the remote and it comes off or something like that. Yeah,
nineteent of women have eaten this exclusively in order to
lose weight. What is it? Saltine crackers? No? Um? Baby food?
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Do you much? I want to lose a couple of pounds.
Let me get some Gerber baby food and see? Uh?
Can I get the peas like the peas of the squash? Geez?
I've heard stories of older people that don't have a
lot of money buying dog food because it's cheaper. Yeah,
that's a tough one, all right. The the average parents
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stops doing this when their child is eight years old.
What is it? Um? Tangle their shoes? No, um reading
to them before bed bedtime story. The fun stops when
you're about eight years old old. I love, I have
fun members of my mom reading these stories when I
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was a kid. Boy, that was fun. All right. Of
people would like to change this about their vehicle? What
is it? The color? Not the size of the gas tank?
All right? All right? Scientists are working on a way
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to create a version of this item that many people
enjoyed daily by using watermelon and sunflower seeds. Are gonna
create a version of this product. Wait say this again?
All right? So the science community are working to create
a version of an item that many people enjoyed day
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a lie, and they're gonna use watermelon and sunflower seeds
to do it. Man, I am, it's something you've probably
had today? How about that? Um, don't I don't know. Man,
It's something my wife loves and I've never had coffee. Oh, coffee,
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watermelon sunflower seed coffee. Interesting. How's that gonna work? I
don't know. We'll find out doing this for about eighty
minutes a day, they say, whoever they are, it helps
you maintain good mental health. Meditating now, listening to music. Okay,
I can believe that yeah, I do that. I have
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great mental health because I clearly listened to a lot
what I'm getting ready for for for work, and I'm
trying to find stuff to talk about. I have um
mozart or some classical bull crap on the background just so,
just so I have a little music. That way, I
don't get distracted by anything other than that. It's pretty
and take you for a classical guy. That's cool though. Well,
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if I hear lyrics, I might listen to it, but no,
like sometimes I'll do some jazz, little jazz, classical, just
background stuff. Got I'm not really paying attention to it.
But all this is good. According to a brand new survey,
this was the numbber one comfort food that got us
through the pandemic last year. I have two guesses. Um.
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My first guess is ice cream. Ice cream is a
great guess. That is wrong. My second guest is French
fries solid again wrong again? Is it pizza? No, but
it doesn't involve cheese. Uh, tacos cassadas grilled cheese. It's good, man,
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it's good. Two slashes of bread and you you had
some cheese? Now did you? Did you go the old
school way of putting the butter on top two and
flipping it over on the side. Let me tell you something,
My wife is the greatest cooker of grilled cheese. Now
I don't have I haven't even the grilled cheese, but
she from her in a while because you know, it's
not the healthiest thing. But she's slobbers butter both sides
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of the bread. Cheese on top, cheese on top the
secret cheat code. So not only you get the gooey
cheese in the middle on the grilled cheese, but you
get an extra shot of cheese on top and bottom.
And it is wonderful good. My grandma back in the
day when she would do quesadillas, she would layer the
top of the tortilla with butter, like wrap that thing
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around and then put the cheese and sprinkle it all
over and then flip it over, put more butter on top.
So good, are you salivating right now? My my grandma
really she hit some good spots. She the sparse side
of the family. She was really really good. They did
to Molly as well, Casada as well, and then oddly
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enough aprilcot pies. She was fucking amazing. Yeah. Well, as
a as a kid, you know you finally remember the things,
but yeah, you know, listen again. We we've talked about
the keys, the cooking and all that and what you
need there and it's the proper mix of sugar, salt,
and fat. Those are the key ingredients. And that's pretty
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much all these restaurants. They spend so much money trying
to come up with the right just there's that Goldilocks zone.
We've talked about it before, but it's I'm fascinated by that.
There's this ratio. It's called the bliss point. And every
every new item, like you know, Armies comes out with
a new roast beef sandwich. They're trying to get that
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bliss point. And because it's irresistible and you gotta, you
gotta come back. But I see, I fast a lot.
So for me, the best, the best hung hunger is
is a is a tremendous spice. You know, because you're hungry,
you'll everything tastes better. That's true. Everything has been all right.
Time Now for the mail bag. These are actual listener
questions by actual listeners like yourself, submitted via the show
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Facebook page, Ben Mallers Show or via email, Real Ben
Real Fifth Hour, Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
First question from Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of a
pro basketball Hall of Fame or just the basketball Hall
of Fame. Now that we have a new regime in
power in Washington that may or may not have better
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relations with China? Was gag on absent last week because
he was interviewing for that job in China that you
recommended him for. Alright, guess guns is for you? No,
I was not. Are you sure about that, because I'm
hearing differing reports on that. Listen, I'm interviewing at a
(24:50):
bunch of different places, but not in China. So interesting. Yes,
so you're looking to leave the podcast, I'm looking to Uh,
I'm looking at upgrade my my paycheck. No, so I'm
want to create your own little personal stimulus. Well yeah,
in some ways, yes, Okay, I think you'd agree. We're
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all trying to create our own positive stimulus certain times
of the day. Okay, So you're denying again, Pierre. You
might want to fact check that. Um, see if he's
telling the truth, because would he admit, Pierre, that he
was talking to the people of China, Yes, but I
would not do that. He was not catch me dead,
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all right, chef Scott from La Orleans, the byou writes
in and the very nice things to say. I left
that out, of course, because I don't I'm not an
elitist like you. I don't need to pat myself on
the back. But he was very kind. No, he's talking
about me, all right, Yeah, just buttering me up like
a biscuit with compliment. So if I were to design,
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if I were to designed a Mallard special food entree,
a chef Scott from New Orleans rights in, what would
your top three meats, top two vegetables, and top two
starches beat? Well, I know now, he says that no
fried chicken would be allowed. He wants me to think
outside the box. But I know you like to keep
things simple, he says. Although I am experienced and trained
(26:19):
as a friend chef specializing in fine dining, my favorite
kind of food is comfort food. Now you're speaking my language.
Now I know exactly what you choose for your meat.
You would choose pastrami and carnea sada. No, let me
tell you. I'm gonna give you the list here. So
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I love pastrami is on there. I don't know if
it's a number one, but like ribby, thin cut ribby amazing.
And I like chicken, so chicken, rebby pastrami, some combination
of that. And as far as the veggies, Chef Scott,
I love the garlic. That's a vegetable, So I love
the guard I love bell pepper. Some chilies, uh corns
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a vegetable, right, So I like corn. Get you more
than two onions? Yeah, I like onions, garlic, bell pepper.
Those would be the big three because that's when I
do the Mallard pizza. And what's like starches at but
potatoes pastas at? What all those starches? Yeah? Rice? Yeah?
How about rice? Potatoes? About that I could do? I
mean any of those three potatoes occasionally, don't hate them.
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Not my favorite, but don't hate. Yeah. So yeah, that's it.
It's the list. I can't wait to see what Chef
Scott comes up with. Although it sounds like he's a
high end connoisseur at a I imagine him working at
this like Boogie restaurant. So what you're trying to say
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is you would not sit down in his restaurant like
I would. No, no, no. If he has addition named
after me, I'm in you know, I'll go to the
French Quarter. I'll do it absolutely, I'll hang out there.
I'll go to Paddlebrian's. Now'll send Paddlebran to photos. See. Look, Pat,
I'm at your restaurant and road. Somebody else did in
paddle Brian and all that stuff. Yeah, pick up that
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name he just dropped. There's a famous dummy. There's a
famous restaurant there. I know you've you've probably been to
Marty Grand all that, but that's famous. You've never been
to Marty Gars h huh, bad job. I'm surprised you
haven't gone down there throwing beads around and all that.
I've been to. Uh, I've been to a La Vista
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on the campus of you see Santa Barbara for Halloween.
Does that count? It's a little crazy in Santa Barbara,
a little bit. San Diego Steak is a little crazy too.
It was yeah, all right. Stephen Boston right since says
there's not really questions, more of a statement, says Tom
Brady and his aging wife made the perfect plan for retirement.
(28:54):
Clock is ticking, So get the Florida no state tax,
easy coach, brilliant and no more. Bill Steve from Boston says, well,
The main part of that was no more Bill. I
think that's the do you want to get away from Belichick?
And he got what he wanted and now he's laughing
and it will be a week of bashing Belichick. The
Super Bowl hype wheep hYP hype week coming up. David
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in Simpsonville, South Carolina. He says, when they rehired you
after laying you off, that was in twenty nine, what
did they tell you? He says, the economy was better,
or they made a stupid mistake, or they needed you back.
I'm trying to remember now. They originally hired me back
to do weekends. I had been doing the weekday overnight
show and they hired me back to do the weekend show.
(29:39):
So it was a demotion. But yeah, they they told
me some bull crap about how you know, they didn't
want to let me go, and it was like they
told me, it was like the last I was I
was on the list to be let go, and then
I was off the list, and then they put me
back on and it was a mistake. And yeah, they
didn't really mention the economy, but they just said that
(30:01):
they they had erred and they were wondered if I
wanted to come back, and I was actually at that time,
I was in negotiations with the people at satellite radio
and I was talking to a station in Boston, and
so I had a couple of a couple of spinning plates.
But I was like, all right, I knew the people,
(30:22):
obviously Fox Sports Radio. I was like, I liked it there.
So I was like, all right, I'll go back. Darryl
in Elko, Nevada says, I failed to see what Marcel
in Brooklyn brings to the show. It's time for him
to go. Well, Darrel, listen, um. Marcel is a acquired taste.
(30:45):
I get that he's not for everybody, but I like
mars and I think the show is good for Marcel.
Not that we're here to help Marcel out, but Marcell
doesn't have a lot going on. He lives in a
crappy apartment in the projects in Brooklyn, and so the
highlight from Marcel, one of the highlights of his week
is calling into the show. And I feel like we
(31:07):
have created a niche from marself. When Marcel used to
call up and we didn't do food picks, it was
it was a little painful at times, a little painful
of times and all that. But this this food thing
is good. And Marcel says stuff that he doesn't realize
is funny. That is funny. And you know, listen when
we welcome everyone into the Mallard Moist and Marcell's I
(31:30):
think he means well, he's a good a good guy,
so I'm not getting rid of him. But we don't
force him to call. It's like he's on the payroll,
so he could stop calling it any time. John the
jailer from Alan Town, p A. Calls and he says,
Ben and gascon. My Christmas gift for my wife was
a flop. What do you suggest for Valentine's Day? To
(31:51):
get me out of the doghouse? Man, this is all
your domain. I am terrible at getting gifts. I I know,
a nice card and and all that I can do,
and the the candies, the flowers, the usual tropes of
Valentine's Day. Doesn't it depend on what this guy's wife
is into. I we don't know anything about her. I
think her hobbies are and all that I think it's.
(32:13):
I think you're a safe bet would be to stack
your gifts, like just do it one year, or you
get something for her in the morning, the middle of
the day and nighttime, and then cap it off with
like a dessert or like some sweets something like that,
like chocolate. Never go wrong with that. What about like
um massage type thing, like a day spot type but
(32:33):
you're in right now, Yeah, but they're they're in Pennsylvania,
which is kind of you. You'd be going with some
candles and some incense. You could do that. That's always good.
Maybe some body lotion always handy. You could do is
Airline tickets are ridiculously cheek right cheap right now. You
could buy tickets somewhere playing a little weekend getaway somewhere
(32:55):
that you would not normally be able to afford to
go to because things are so cheap right now. Yeah,
maybe you can inquire about heading up to h to Newport,
heading up to Rhode Island up there, the the big
mansions that are up there in Rhode is looking at
you trying to show off your East Coast and geographical knowledge,
or going to Boston. Why not than that? I don't know.
(33:15):
I think wryn to go up to Maine and keep
going kind of cool too, though. How about the Nova
Scotia You can go even first, actually not this time
of the year and concentrate. Yeah, okay, uh, Carlos in
buying buying Houston, Texas? Right, since says Ben, will the
Negro drop finally go away? Since the brothers have passed away? Also,
(33:37):
when are the Benny's alright? First of all, let me
address the Phil and Joe Nekro drop. I think it's
a funny drop. I liked it on the show. We
had to stop playing on the show because of the
local ROTI what I mean by that is every time
we played this ever since things went wacky in the
(33:58):
world and every was trying to cancel everyone else. The
the average radio consumer does not listen to everything that
we say. Right, Listening is an art form, it's a
talk radio and all that stuff. But but listening is
often a bit of a problem. And you know, we
(34:20):
we only have it's like one percent of listeners that
will actually contribute content to the show, and most people
will not. They're just casual listeners and all that stuff.
And the problem that we ran into here is both
it's like two worlds meeting. You have the wocalati going
around and trying to cancel everybody, and then you had
(34:41):
people who don't listen right, who have bad hearing right
hearing impaired. And I mean hearing. I don't mean they're
actually hearing impaired. I mean just studies have pointed out.
Being in the radio business, I pay attention to this
stuff that the person listening to a radio show will
only remember about twenty maybe even less than that, of
the things they listen to it the most. It's like,
(35:04):
which means of the content is in one ear and
out the other, right, and and so the other thing
we have is that words only convey It's like less
than ten percent of what you're trying to say. The
other ninety percent is communicated by facial expressions. Now we
can't do tone of voice, and I try to use tone.
(35:26):
But anyway, the point of this, Carlos is every time
we played the Phil and Joe nicro drop, someone would
inevitably email me or post something on social media. I
can't believe in you would say that you're racist? How
dare you at all? I can't want to contact Fox
manage written get you off the air? What are you
(35:48):
in the k K K? And I'm like, well, no,
it's the name is Nikro, that's the last name. Phil
and Anyways, I I just I was tired of it,
and I was like, all right, it's not worth it.
It's funny, but it's not worthy. So you can blame
the wocarati who and people that are bad at hearing
as why we had to change that up. Okay, that's
the answer. Chris in Maracca to Iowa writes In says,
(36:11):
now that you've been married a while, whom of your
wife's who Who on your wife's side do you like
most or least? Does your wife get along with your
brother's dish on the drama? Chris says, well, I don't
know that it would be prudent for me to do that.
The wife is a listener of the podcast. Occasionally she
(36:33):
listens to the podcast, so I don't know if that
would be helpful to name names here. But no, honestly,
I get along with everyone. My wife's family is great.
I was concerned, you know, you hear stories from friends
about all these in laws. Man, what a freaking nightmare.
But I love them. They're great. I'm very close with
her sister. I'm not close with my wife's brother he
lives out of the area, but her parents are great,
(36:55):
and both of them wonderful people, very kind and nice,
and so I'm very lucky in that regard. Are They've
taken me in and we we spent a lot of time,
especially during the summer because my father in law has
a pool and it gets hot, and so we go
there quite a bit. And the only person that I
have an issue there was like a friend of the
family that I had a rhubarb with. But that's about it.
(37:17):
That's about it. But the actual like blood relatives and
all that people are in the family, in the inner circle,
get along with all of them, get along with all
of them. I am it. The blind Seahawk fan from
Olympius says, what are your actual thoughts on Brian Finley?
I don't have any thoughts on it. Why do you
think I spend my time obsessing over Brian Finley? Gascon
(37:40):
On the other hand, you have a lot of thoughts
about Brian Finley. What do you mean, Well, you're jealous
of the attention he's gut here through the grape vine,
that you're jealous of the attention that he gets, and
that he's the go to fill in guy when and
he's not around, well he fills in. Because I don't
want to someone I'm here, Well, you're hearing a red
horse his mouth. That's not what I'm here. I don't
(38:02):
want that drag of a schedule. Yeah, okay, interesting, Greg
in written Washington writes in We're very big. In written Washington,
we are Uh, he says, Ben, what can you tell
me about Shane Waldron? You know who Shane Waldron is? Guest,
you know who the hell's that? That is? The new
(38:23):
offensive coordinated or the Seattle Shawks. Who was the was
he the quality control coach or something like that of
offense for the Rams. I've never even heard of the guy.
And I'm a Ram fan, and I can assure you Greg,
he was not hired because Pete Carroll thinks he's going
to reinvent the wheel. He was hired Shane Waldron because
he's young, he's cheap, and he will follow the orders
(38:47):
of Pete Carroll. So that's that's the end of that.
But but good luck, good luck on that. And if
Seattle has a good offense next year, he'll get credit.
If not, they'll blame him. He's a he's a necessary
useful idiot, as they say Kevin from Rockford Dale. And
all right, so says Mr Mallor and Mr whoever is
filling in this week. I guarantee you that are fat,
(39:07):
poor excuse for a governor is worse than the king
running your state. That stuff. Have you seen our new
police reform bill? He says, it's absolutely terrible. Uh, he
complains about that, and then he wanted to get a
hold of my boss to complain about somebody we work
with here. He's he doesn't name him. I don't know
(39:29):
who this could be. Anybody, says a colleague who repeats
himself at least fifty times every show. Um, and he says,
so you don't, Rob and Chris don't, yeh, Jason and
Mike don't. Okay, who else repeats themselves? So if we're
(39:51):
talking money through Friday, Jonas doesn't, r J doesn't. So
these guys do four hours or original content and do
not repeat things they Yeah, I've done, Okay, all right, good? Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know who he's referred to,
but he's, uh, he's very upset and you some some
(40:13):
terrible words there, and uh, yeah, anyway, he says he
will not name names, but just no, he is a
little fat piece of blank there you go all right,
I don't know who that could be. All right, pieces
of ship here. It's radio mash kidding, so simple, it's
the radio show. It's not that hard. Dave in Mill Valley,
(40:36):
California rights in. By the way. As far as the
police reform, uh yeah, the pendulum will swing back, you know.
It's it's gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be half. There's gonna
be blood on the hands of these people because they're
gonna send out their psychologists for domestic situations and unfortunately
a morbid prediction to gascon. Some of them are gonna
(40:58):
get killed, They're gonna get shot, and they're gonna be like,
we're not going we need police. So then what do
you do? You know? Good luck, you know, and it's
gonna unfortunately, it's gonna be that's gonna be what leads
to the change. It shouldn't be that way. People with
common sense would know that's gonna be the result. But
it's gonna inevitably happen. And then you're gonna get the case, well,
(41:22):
we need the police and so but you would agree
that we get the world we deserve, like we get
in the world I want. Yeah, but we get as
a whole, we get exactly what we deserve. Well, there's
a lot of dumb people that don't don't think things
through as far as Actually, I had a conversation with
the buddy of mine other day who's who's in law enforcement,
(41:46):
and I said, here and here in l A they
voted out Jackie Lacey, who's a woman check, minority check, homegrown,
juicy l a grad check. And she's also a Democrat
chack check check. And you know why they voted her
out because she was not far left enough and they
(42:07):
voted in an old white guy. So identity politics only
work if you're drinking the kool aid. Jackie Lazy didn't
drink the kool aid, so it didn't matter if she
met all of the boxes that they love. She she
was useless to them because she didn't think the group
(42:28):
think that they think right wonderful, God forbid. She had
try to uphold the law and protect law enforced. I
gotta tell you, man, I get I am. I live
in you know, technically l A County. I am considering
relocating out of l A County because it's this unfortunately
share the name with that guy. Uh, but man who
(42:52):
gets recalled first the hammer Newsom, because Newsom, because it's
already the wheels are already. No. But but George, George
can get recalled after ninety days. Yeah, how many signals?
Who do you have to get on that for news
you need? I think it's one point seven I believe
it is. Have you signed that petition? Yeah? I have
all Yeah, Well I haven't. I put my information on
(43:14):
the website. I think I have to sign something else.
But I mean on it. I want Gavin Newsom kicked
out of office, and I would love every second of it.
And I hope he goes to that French laundry and
eats a bowl of pasta and chokes on it. I
believe he would only be the second governor ever in
twenty three attempts to be recalled from the state of California.
(43:34):
Keep in mind, not die, just choke. You know, eat
pasta sometimes and it kind of goes down the wrong way,
you know, just so for the people that take things literally. Uh,
you know, a little awkward bite into the pasta. Yes, alright. Uh. Else,
we have Michael from Newtown Newton Township rather, I don't
know if he's in Michigan. I think there's a couple
of Newton townships. He might be in Pennsylvania. I think
(43:57):
there's more than that. But anyway, he says he's been
listening for ten or more years. How about that good job.
It's pretty awesome. Good job by you. That's a lot
of a lot of time, a lot of times that
there's a there's a great quote which I have stolen
from from Hawk Carrolson and when he retired as the
White Sox broadcaster, I do homages UH to Hawk Carrelson
(44:20):
because I gotta kick out. I'm watching White Sox games
on w g N back in the day, and you
know you can put it on the board. Yeah, Like,
I'll do that sometimes. But Hawk Harrelson said something, and
I'm paraphrasing here, that when you take a man's money,
you take a man's money, but when you take a
man's time, you take part of their life. And that
that is I believe that. I mean that, you know,
(44:42):
and when you listen to UH show and you give
ten years of your life at least part of five
days a week or whatever it is, to listen, that's
that's meaning. That's more meaningful than money. I try to
teach you that games and you're you're very money. You
take my time. You take my time. Now, I try,
I try to explain you the podcast. It's it's it's
(45:02):
not all about monetary things. It's about giving back book
and like someone that's getting paid well off of it,
not getting paid well, not getting paid well at all. No,
not at all. I beg to differ. Oh, you can
beg the different all you want. Put that up the
old you know what I got the minets, I got
three seeds, all right. Anyway, um, this guy Michael says,
(45:23):
if you had won power Ball or Mega millions slash
billions with the recent drawings, would you have continued your
sports talk show. I think you would have. You know,
my life perspective has changed a lot recently because it
would happened with my parents. So I don't know that
I would. I would like to think I'm a worker,
(45:43):
so it's just I'm kind of wired that way, so
I would say yes, because it's not like a real job.
But I have been slapped in the face with how
short all this is. So I don't know. I don't know,
but I as of before the beginning of one, I
would have said, absolutely, I'm gonna keep working no matter what.
But uh, yeah, I don't know. I think you would have.
(46:03):
I think you might have jumped platforms, but I still
think you would have. Yeah. Uh, Pete rights in from
parts and on. He says, where do I find Iowa
Sam these days? I misses Iowa Insider news. Oh my god,
Oh my fucking god. He as I heard i was
Sam still works with the company. I talked to him
(46:24):
the other day. I don't know what what is he referencing? Well,
because because Jonas on his shows on Saturdays with with
Bucky Brooks and myself and lead the lab, you know,
Jonas is forced name dropping. By the way, well, how
to pick any of those up? These are co workers.
I don't know if you know who they are. Um,
Jonas is forced to never heard of them. Jonas is
(46:44):
forced to dedicate a segment to Iowa Sam so he
can give us all the news and information in the
world of sports out of the state of Iowa. It's
dreadful fucking radio. Yeah, it's awful. Iowa sucks. How do
you really feel cool al right outside the state of Iowa. Yeah,
(47:05):
but it's just a it's it's eight minutes of painful
Iowa talk. I had a lot of friends from Iowa.
I was not the biggest state in the world. But
I've met people over the years from Iowa and they're
always like, I'm not I'm stereotyping. It's a good stereotypes
of people. Don't mind it. This seems like generally good people.
Like I've not I've not met an asshole from from Iowa.
(47:26):
I'm sure they exist. I'm sure there's a lot of
big assholes from Iowa, but I've not met them. I mean,
the people I've met have been like really cool people,
normal people that kind of get life and uh yeah so.
And also Minnesota, I've yet to meet an a whole
from Minnesota. Like everyone I've dealt with, whether it be
virtually on the radio or in person in my life experience,
(47:50):
have been some of the nicest people. I genuinely, I
feel genuinely good people. Maybe it's an act, but yeah,
some of the people that follow you from Minnesota are
kind of knobs. Well, I save the worst for last year.
Were gonna wrap up the mailbag on this one, Adrian
in the Mile High City. I hope you're prepared for
this guest, Deshaun Watson, because you're about to get a
(48:11):
tongue bath. He says, once again, I gotta give credit
words due tell the west of the four oh five
guy to stick around. Yeah. Then he proceeds to assault Kevin,
saying that Kevin was terrible. He was very upset. He
said he sucked at a time you cannot suck the
pop quiz portion of last Saturday's podcast. Yeah, Kevin was
not fully engaged in the podcast on Saturday. That is true.
(48:34):
Probably because you don't. It's probably because you intimidate a
lot of the young uns here. You're blaming me, Yeah,
you're you're I gave him airtime on a on a
big podcast. It's a little intimidating to give him airtime.
It's a little intimidating. It's a young, spry one. Am
I supposed to massage his shoulders? Maybe a little bit
be a little welcoming into the into the friend Oh no, no,
(48:55):
you gotta jump into the frying pan. No, you don't
just sliding. You gotta jump in the I get it.
You gotta do a belly whopper into the deep end.
You don't. You don't put your toe in the kiddie pool. No,
you go into the deep end. You swim with a shark.
This is a different generation. You you can't you can't
lather them up with with sandpaper. You have to caress
them and kind of guide them into the into the
(49:16):
wide world. And you know, he might be the case.
So I think you're you're doing two things. You're attacking
me and him. No, no, no, that's good. I accomplished
two things on that I I do appreciate. But it's
also his fault because he's soft. I do appreciate tough love.
I come from the school of hard knocks. But you know,
this generation is a little bit different, man. Yeah, okay,
(49:39):
Well just keep in mind though every generation says the
generations below them are soft and weak and all that,
and Kevin's generation ten fifteen years from now will say
whoever follows them, the next generation is also weak and soft.
It is the circle of life. It is the circle
of life. And I learned this at a very young
age when I started covering the NBA in the early nineties,
and the players who played in the seventies and the
(50:01):
eighties said how soft and weak the players in the
nineties were, And they wore baggy shorts and they were,
you know, gangsters. And how weak that was, and they
would rip these NBA players, and then those NBA players
in the nineties ripped the players in the two thousands,
and then the players in the two thousands ripped the
players in the next generation. And uh and so it
goes on. Yeah, but don't you think, like our parents
(50:22):
generation is probably the most important and or the strongest, toughest,
name you know, generation in our countries. I don't know, Well,
the greatest generation, they say, was the World War two generation,
but there's some parents generation. Yeah, well baby boomers, right,
is that what you're talking and the baby the baby
boomers a great generation. Tremendous change that took place in
(50:45):
their in their salad days in the United States, and
they were big part of that with civil rights and
you know, wood stock and all the other things that
they were a part of in that time. But you'd
like to think every who's the worst generation? And you say,
who's the greatest? Who's the generation? What is the worst?
Is it? What's going on right now with cancel culture?
(51:05):
And it has to be something. It feels that I
know that's a myomic, myopic view, but it's certainly it
feels like that in the moment. Maybe it's just a
prisoner of the moment thing and it's not as bad.
But well, I just think about all these unimportant things
that are that are generally insignificant that are being made,
you know, canceling people over irrelevant things. Uh, it's for
(51:27):
political reasons? Is this ridiculous? People are getting squeezed out
of social media because they have different opinions. And then
if you have a different opinion that doesn't go your way,
then you're labeled as something like you're you're labeled as
as a xenophobe, as racist, as misogynistic, as like an
(51:51):
all left or an all right, like you're labeled, you're
labeled in some category because of your stance or because
of your opinion. That's yeah, that's what it comes down.
Like the what's the latest guy recently been trying to
cancel the mike My Pillow guy, mich Lindell. Mind, I
did see he pointed out, which I thought was, I know,
(52:13):
people like to rip that guy, and he's he's an
easy target for some. But I I saw his interview
with Tucker Carlson and he went on a rant about
um hit groups. He said bots and trolls was I
think the quote that he used and say, what was
going on? Didn't they see that? That's the issue we
talked about. There's a lot of that like that, you know, cyborgs,
(52:35):
trolls and bots and all that that you don't know
what's real and what's not real. And it's, uh, it's
a wild time, man, it's a wild time. I'm good
with it. I'm good with the I'm good with labeling
this generation maybe the worst or at least this time frame,
because you still have a lot of older people that
are still trying to cancel people as well. And it
(52:58):
depends on how it's though, right, like who writes the history,
because you could also spin it. This is the greatest
time we started judging people not by their merit, but
by how they were born. You know, this is the
greatest thing in the world. Everything we went against, everything
Martin Luther King strived for. Uh, yeah, it's it's tremendous.
(53:20):
Someone with high moral authority is gonna tell me how
good this generation was. Yeah, it's it's a pissing match
that I have. I have the moral high ground and
you don't, right, And uh, it's that it's the greatest
quote by Martin Luther King, who you know, were me
and you were we were a little a partner age,
but we grew up, you know, when we learned about
(53:41):
civil rights, and with Martin Luther King and his quote
about you know, he wanted to live in the day
where you are judged by the not by the color
of your skin, but by the content of your of
your character. And now the federal government wants you to
be judged by the color of your skin. It's fascinating,
it is outstandingly ridiculous. But but here we are, it's
(54:04):
like the it's like the microcosm of how we are.
Sports fans work where it's all tribal ism, like you're
you're a Bruins fan or a Trojans fan, or you're
a Lakers fan or Clippers fan. But now it's now
it's an everyday life. It's really read because the way
my parents taught me was to you know, kind of
follow that much for you know, judge. You don't just
(54:26):
judge people based on how they, you know, look to
You judge them by how they treat you. So I
have I've met complete schmucks who are white, black, Mexican you,
I mean, you go down in the list, and I've
been really good people. But I judge those people based
on my interactions with them, not based on, you know,
just how their appearances. But I guess I'm outdated now.
(54:49):
I'm the old guy. All I need to have the
John DECI is what I need to have a parent.
I need to have these preconceived notions and things like that,
because that's what you know, that's the that's the way
it is now. I question for because when you judge
these people, do you automatically go back into their Twitter
history to see what tweets they had from fifteen years ago?
Of course, no interest in that. Who cares. It's a
(55:11):
lot of wasted time. Life is short. Who cares? Seriously,
get off your ass and do something. Go out, You
go out and look at birds. She's like, yeah, look
at birds. All right, we gotta get out of here.
Look at out. This is the longest on the weekend
this podcast. How did that happen? God? All right, let's
(55:33):
have a great rest of your Sunday. We will be back.
I will not you Gascon. I will on the overnight show,
So that'll be tonight. If you're on the West coast,
it will be at eleven o'clock Sunday night into Monday.
If you're on the East coast, that's two am. Last
week we had to explain the weed Man that the
New Day starts at midnight in your time. So at
(55:54):
midnight I had to explain to weed Man in Miami
that became the new Day. So we will technically be
on Monday on the coast at two am, but for
those of us who live on the West Coast, it
starts at eleven pm and we'll take you through the overnight.
Have a great, great wee gets super Bowl Week. Hallelujah
super Bowl Week. We'll catch you next time. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
(56:16):
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