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June 20, 2020 • 44 mins

With the week coming to a close, Ben and David reflect on a Cowboy making his first stand. The guys shift focus from the old paradigm to one that could benefit all that are impacted by it. After being sidetracked not sideswiped, Ben goes back inside the classroom to pull out a new study or two, while David lands on the disabled list. Not to be overlooked, Florida Man comes back as electric as ever.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom bo. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House
of Hot Takes break free for something special. The Fifth

(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does
is we are in the air everywhere the vast power
of podcasting. That's right, podcasting. We just blow viate here
for like an hour round an hour and it's very simple,
very simple to do. Uh. And then either like it

(00:44):
or you don't like it or whatever. But that's how
it works. And yet again, as we do this eight
days a week, NonStop, never ending Friday, this are Saturday show,
and then we have Sunday as well. Right over there,
the biggest narcissist I know west of the four oh
five is in his d n A not a man

(01:06):
of the people, David Gesco. Right. Uh. I like the introduction,
and I got some great news for you, Ben, and
also for our listeners out there. Oh really, Well, I'll
be the judge of whether it's great news or not,

(01:27):
you drama queens. All right, Well, if anyone's listening to
this podcast today, which is on a Saturday and when
we launch it, uh, that means that we're making our
way towards a new week. And that also means that
the Mayan calendar is also wrong. Uh their reports last
week that the Mayan calendar was off track a little
bit by eight years, and in fact they had predicted

(01:49):
now that this week the world would end. So if
we're making our way towards a new week now, we're
fishy beyond the Mayan calendar curse if you will, about
the world coming to an end, even though it feels
like at certain times of the day, especially out here,
it is it is conceivable that we are doing this

(02:09):
podcast and the entire world has come to an end.
So why are we fucking doing this if the world's
over now? Because I feel like we're wasting our time
because no one will hear this. Everyone's dead, So what's
the point of doing a podcast if no one's alive
to hear well? Because ultimately, it's like it's like when
you erase an email or your race a sex message,
you know, for sex and the wife or whatever and

(02:30):
whether you're deleted or not, it's out there in the universe.
So we are leaving our spirit from beyond the grave.
We're leaving our voices out there for anybody that might
not be here but on another planet listened to us.
So um our message can still be heard somehow somewhere, like,
we're not alone. You've said this thousands of time. I

(02:51):
don't believe we're alone. I think it would be ridiculous
to think that we're alone. And who knows what's I
don't know whether they other creatures can hear. I don't
if they have, they're just like us. I guess, although
I do the parallel parallel universe, not to wrap our
head around that and go down that rabbit hole. But
I dude, put some style like if the universe goes

(03:14):
on forever and there's no end to it, because how
could there be an end to it? Right, just you
wrap your head around it. So if it goes along
far enough and there's all these different galaxies to infinity
and beyond, then it would make sense that there's probably
multiple planets just like Earth with human like creatures on
them out there that will never get in contact with

(03:35):
will never know and I think that's that seems it
doesn't seem like I'm I'm smoking bass salts when I
say that. Yeah. Well, anyway, so if if we're still here,
if you're hearing this, you've survived the end of the world.
That doesn't guarantee we have, but maybe they have not
fallen yet exactly all right, So coming up on today's podcast,

(03:58):
got a little Florida Man may Florida Maya and Florida My.
We have that. We also have study and survey, this
tribute to Penn and Teller, homage, the Penn and Teller reeler, bullshit,
and a lot of pop quiz. My favorite part of
the show is the pop quiz. Before you give us
our our meals for the day, Ben Um, we go
with the appetizers. Social media accounts. Oh that's right, yes,

(04:22):
follow us on social media. We already promoted Cameo because
we're now both Cameo Horse. Cameo Horse that was on
the previous edition was out the bravest. I don't know,
it's all the same to me. I have no idea,
but I I am on Cameo at Ben Mallory. It's
a Father's Day weekend and I will try to expedite
if you need that quickly a special cameo message. I
got some engagements I've got to take care of, but

(04:45):
I will do assuming why I don't get flooded, which
I never do. I never do, but I will send
a message if you want cameo dot Com slash Ben
Mallard on there. Also on Twitter at Ben Mallard. Follow
me on there. I need your help on that. Follow
me on Instagram. I really need your help on Instagram
because man, old man, I got late to the game.
I'm not a booty model. I can't shake my money

(05:05):
money maker and get people to follow me on there.
So Ben Maller on Fox, on Instagram, on the Facebook
page Ben Mallard Show. It's Ben Mallard Show. And it's
been very eye opening here Gascon recent. I know we'll
get into it a a little bit before we get into
the meat and potatoes of the podcast. The the eye
opening experience of the last couple of weeks doing radio,

(05:26):
which is really coming into political radio and learning certain
percentages of the audience get triggered by every fucking thing
you say. It's just an eye opening experience, But how
can people reach you? Guests um, that makes me think
of press your luck that that game back in the day.
No wammy, no wammy stop um Twitter at David Jay Gascon,
Instagram at Dave Gascon and then cameo as well. I

(05:49):
am at David Jay Gascon. I I do have a
question since you brought that up, and it's it's nice
that that you've seen incoming bogies while you been hosting
Money through Friday. Do you think the audience would be
interested and us going from just strictly podcast audio version

(06:10):
to to a YouTube channel. That's a good question. I'm
I'm not sure it would be an interesting interesting question.
My my horse sense tells me they would because it's
that doesn't cost them anything and they can then some
people like to stare at the at the animal in
the cave, so which I'm always surprised by. But yeah,

(06:34):
I mean, if you wanna, and we can certainly set
that up. I as you know Gascon, because the company mandated.
Did I have a studio here that has lighting and
I have the all the camera equipment and all that
stuff that you would need to do that. Although there
is one technical thing my microphone is not hooked up

(06:55):
to the camera that I use it's I might have
to work out logistically that, but we could really work
that stuff out YouTube. It would be good to get
a YouTube channel because I think you can actually make
money at that, right, there's actually something you can make
some cash at. Yeah. The other thing too, is that
we'll be able to track what people like, love or
hate when they listen to our topics. I mean, obviously,

(07:19):
when we have this kind of a platform the podcasting world,
we're running anywhere from forty to sixty five seventy minutes.
But you know, sometimes we're flying blind with the way
that people receive our information. That you could download the
podcast and it's good for sixty seconds, we get credit
for that, but we don't know how long people are
actually listening to it. It's it's like your show, right,
you have four hours a day, but you don't know

(07:40):
how long people are listening to you to your show.
So youtubeoud give us a better idea of what people
like to listen to, what they enjoy, and then on
top of that, they can actually comment in real time
with the topics of the day. So so that would
mean I'd have to put clothes on. I can't. You
can just go to the top only, or you could
go from top. You can go robe. You can go bathrobe.

(08:02):
And yeah you can go like Rick Rude style, you know,
ravishing Rick Rude. You just wear like a pinker or
white robe with a couple of sandals on. You'd be
you'd be good. Maybe a cigar, you can be like
the Bruce Arians. You got like a cigar and your
hat too. Yeah, yeah, well I'm sure why not people
want that? Reach out to us, let us know whether
you want that or not. And I why you would

(08:23):
not like? Why you? So? I know I don't want
the video, and I don't like anyone's gonna say that.
So I don't think that's a I realized. I just
wanted to mention though. The last couple of weeks have
been eye opening, and uh, you know, the most benign comments,
the most benign comments, and people just go crazy, They
just go nuts. Like for example, I did a monologue
the other night about I was actually celebrating the fact

(08:45):
that Dan Snyder, the Redskins owner, who's not a very
good owner. His team sucks every year. But the the
one person that has not bowed down and submitted to
the cancel culture is Dan Snyder. People have been trying
to cancel the Redskins name for years, and he just
tells him to go pound Sam with the rubber mount

(09:06):
is what he tells him. And there's something refreshing about
that that that's that's as close to an alpha male
as we have these days where everyone else is just
bowing down on issuing multiple apologies and it's just pathetic.
So I did a monologue about Dan Snyder and I
mentioned one other I think was one other person that
also has survived cancel culture that I that recently took place.

(09:29):
That was Tucker Carlson of Fox News. They tried to
cancel him, uh and he had the highest rated show
on cable television uh and it was like the number
one show. So I mentioned this just as an example
of well, there's other people too, not many, but here's
Tucker Carlson. They tried to get rid of him and
he had the number one show. And the backlash from

(09:51):
some members of the listening audiences like, oh, they're sending
me all these stories about how Fox News lost all
their you know, are advertisers for Tucker Carlson. So then
I then responded because I thought, well, that's that's actually incorrect.
I know a lot of the liberal media is running
with that, but uh, Fox News pointed out that all
those national ads and the revenue from Tucker Carlson show,

(10:14):
we're moved to other shows. So the net is no
net loss and they haven't lost any revenue, which is
really what matters. Right, do you lose revenue? Do you
not lose revenue? And again, and we talked about with
Mike North yesterday, say what you want about Fox News
and you don't like it, and you think it's horrible whatever,
because it doesn't meet your agenda, your political agenda, and
you think since they don't line up with you, they

(10:36):
should be banned. Right, at least they got balls over there.
At least the people that run Fox News have balls
and defend their employees and have some backbone and say, well, no,
we're not gonna get rid of this guy Carlson because
the two percent on Twitter one, I'm gone, We're not
gonna do that. Just something refreshing about, But I got

(10:57):
I got a bunch of shipped for it. Guess we're
very upset. It's it's beautiful. Right. We have freedom of speech,
but not freedom of thought, like God forbid you have
any kind of sent in the public opinion, or at
least the loudest opinion. It's not the public opinion, but
it's the loudest opinion, because I'll be very curious as

(11:18):
see how things turn out when we get to November,
not just for the uh, not just for the White
House and the presidency, but how things will be trickling
on down with with the local voting too, because you know,
it doesn't matter which way your your sway to the right,
to the left, right down the middle, but there's things
that people need to address and that just that doesn't

(11:41):
go just for what's going on with law enforcement, but
we're talking about the way that cities are structured, how
they're budgeted, how they're allocating funds. And it's a cumbent
upon us as individuals and as voters to actually use
our voice, use our power, and to make sound decisions

(12:01):
without using just the emotion behind what's in front of
us because of social media or because of the news
that sensationalizes certain things, but actually doing a hardcore research.
You can attest to this because on shows as a
sportscaster or even as a as a commentator, we're often
required to look at information from players from games from

(12:24):
history to tell the story about what's going on right now,
and that same thing as applicable to what's going on
with our politicians. And if people want to hold people accountable,
what better way than to research for yourself, as opposed
to letting an athlete or a fucking celebrity or some

(12:45):
shock shock tell you exactly what you should think. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show
weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah,
you know that's something that I'm very happy. In my
younger days, I certainly was swayed by celebrity, you know,
and the big big names and all that. I was

(13:05):
no different. But at some point I had an epiphany.
I said, who the funk are these people? I mean,
I don't need to listen to because somebody's good at
singing a song or throwing a little ball around that
their opinion matter. I mean, it's so it's so backwards.
But but yet the studies indicate that many people are
just rubes and they just blindly follow because someone's good

(13:28):
at throwing a football. I need to know what he
thinks about politics, and they go down that. But I've
I've always been and you you can tell someone who
is afraid of the other side when you say, all right,
I believe the free market. And this is always how
I felt. The free market should decide what is acceptable
and what's not acceptable. And people are like, no, some

(13:50):
people know. And I always say, the consumers should decide
by their wallet and their spending habits, what is a
good business and it isn't a good business. And while
many people push back on that, that still is the
way of the world. For example, Colin Kaepernick did his kneeling.
We talked about that with Mike North quite a bit

(14:11):
yesterday on the podcast, and and it turned out the
free market determined they didn't like that. The ratings went down.
There were there was vitriol and the stadiums with people
throwing raspberries at Kaepernick and getting upset with the players
that were protesting during work. I got very upset, got

(14:31):
very upset. Uh, And so that affected the bottom line
that the people spoke, the customers spoke, and that's what
should happen. And I tend to think the same thing
is gonna happen later this season when everyone's taken and
it's gonna even more ridiculous when everyone's doing it. Uh,
and and you're gonna get similar reactions some people that
and then you're gonna see it's up to the NFL

(14:53):
whether they want to risk the holy grail of television
ratings and lose that and and have that in Ironman
at NFL stadiums, which doesn't have to be that way,
where you know, most people go to a game just
to get out of the racket for a couple of
hours and they don't need to be preached to and
given a sermon on what they're supposed to believe and

(15:13):
and all that. So, uh, that's that's gonna be very
interesting to see. But I'm I'm a free market person.
I think if you're afraid of the free market, it's
because you know you're on the wrong side. You're afraid.
You don't want people to be adults and judge for themselves. Yeah,
I kinda. I kind of go with the Vegas model.
Vegas model of thinking that if everybody's going one way,

(15:35):
it's just like Vegas, you gotta go the other way,
you know. Benny versus the perfect example, right with the public. Yeah,
you always want to bet whatever the public mindset is.
You never want to bet on the public. You want
to bet on the wise guys. You don't want to
bet on the majority in that absolutely. Yeah. Now I
know earlier this week you had opened up a show
on a monologue with Chubba Hubbard of the Oklahoma state

(15:56):
tailback Ubba, that's right, cancel culture, the king of the
Cancel culture are there in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He got his
coach to bow down and kiss his boat. Yeah. No,
I didn't agree with with the way that he attacked
Mike Gundy, but I will say in in his defense
or even as a college athlete goes, especially with football
and some basketball and baseball players. As I think, and

(16:18):
this is just my opinion, but I think that athletes
like him. I mean, he is a Heisman Trophy candidate
coming up this season. He's gonna be a great professional
player too. He's a great running back. But I think
these guys should take a stand, and I think it'd
be It would It would do so much for college athletics.
It would just imagine, Ben, take me through this, but

(16:40):
imagine one day if you had USC and Notre Dame
whether it was in South Benner at the Colisseum on
primetime television, or you had Ohio State in Michigan playing
in the Big House primetime television. They got to the
fifty yard line for the coin toss. After all these
warm ups are done, the bands on the field, they
come off, and then all of a sudden, they all
walk off. Players don't play, players don't play at all,

(17:03):
and they finally take a stand against the n C
Double A and they say, pay us what we fucking
bring you guys as administrators, as in a university, because
you guys are taking our likeness, selling it and becoming
fat cats off of it, and we're getting nothing like
one percent of one percent of the population becomes a

(17:24):
professional athlete. And these guys that doesn't matter if you're
a wide receiver, a quarterback, and offensive line and a
defensive tackle. They may or may not experience that. They
may or may not get drafted. And some of them
are undrafted free agents that never see a cent because
of what they did in the college game. Now I
know that they get free education. I completely understand that,

(17:46):
but you have administrators, athletic directors, boosters, some of these
people that don't put in the work physically, and they
don't put in the weight training as well, and they
get to reap a lot of the rewards of these
athletes who are, like you've said, indentured servants. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(18:06):
I know it is. I've always thought it was ridiculous
when I've been to big sporting events and I was
around USC in the heyday with Pete Carroll when they
were the greatest team in college football for several the
most exciting team in college football with Reggie Push, and
it was I'm going on, I'm like this, I've been
to NFL games that didn't have as much juice. I've
been to NFL games I didn't have the buzz and
the excitement and the crowd was into it, and I'm like,

(18:28):
I'm looking around, like what the hell are we doing here?
And same thing with big college basketball games. You're You're
like Duke in North Carolina and these big powerhouse teams,
You're like, what the hell is going on? But I
like that you are recommending now the full Mayhem chaos
and anarchy plan. Well, I don't you want the full

(18:48):
collapse of these are? Are? Are you? Just? Is your point?
Maybe your point is that these guys are willing to
get upset over a T shirt. But what they could
really change that really wouldn't matter. Cares what fucking cable
channel Mike Dundee watches a big fucking deal. Uh, But
the real anarchy would be the uprising would be if

(19:10):
the big stars before like a Saturday night Alabama game
against l s U, said fuck you were not playing.
That would that would actually get You're right, it would
absolutely that kind of descent from the orthodoxy of college
sports would completely be chaotic and wild and uh yeah,
And it's not because I'm I'm believing and straight anarchy.

(19:32):
But you think about this is that you get so
much the top tier talent across the country, and they
come from broken families, they come from inner cities, and
they don't have a lot of support that other people might.
And so if you get these guys, not only that
would they be able to try to take care of themselves,
but they'd be able to take care of the same

(19:53):
guys that were in their shoes or would be in
their shoes ten fifteen years down the road. Because you
think about kids in the l entry school level of
the high school level, they're just waiting for a break,
or they need a break to get out of their
economic status, and they use their athletics skills, their god
given talent to get to the higher level and sometimes
potentially become professional athletes. But I think you're you're. The

(20:17):
one flaw in your argument is the fact that human
nature is this I want mine. Sure, that's just basically
so that's the same problem the the NFL. You can
make the same argument the NFL players if they took
a stand and not take a knee, but took a
stand against the NFL, the league itself, there would be

(20:39):
major change, and they would they would improve, But they don't.
They no one's looking out for No one cares about
what happened before them, right the old guard, and nobody
cares about what's coming up after them. They want their
share of the pie. Right. But as I get, I
understand human nature and and and I don't disagree with that.
You you've got to get what you can get. But

(21:00):
it would be in a perfect world you'd be like, okay,
let's take a stay and then every the greater, good
for everyone. But I think, but see, here's the thing though,
and this is why I'll push back on. That is
because when you're an university, you have the educational foundation
at least support to guide you where you want to
be as an adult. When you're a pop singer or
a gymnast or someone that's playing like the sports, you're

(21:22):
getting all this money at sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years of age.
You don't know how the fund to spend it. You
know how to allocate it, you know how to save it,
you don't know how to build on it. But if
you're a college football player or a college basketball player,
you should be given the academic guidance, whether it's from
a counselor or professor, to say, hey, you're getting this

(21:42):
money now as a collegiate athlete, let me show you
the ways to not only build on it, but to
protect yourself and to make long term investments, so not
only securing yourself but also securing your family fifteen thirty
years down the road. I think that would be a
genuine cause were an athlete like Hubbard or anybody else

(22:02):
to then take a stand in a in a big situation.
Because the television contract has been the academic process, the
administration process to apply for these schools. A lot of
these people are paying hand over fist for tuition and
when they get out of school, they're fucking six figures
in debt, whether it's law school, medical school, or just

(22:24):
getting a general b A. Yeah, you know, it's well,
we've gone down a rabbit hole, so we'll get back
to that. I didn't want to get to the Meat
and Potatoes podcast now that we've killed about half the podcast.
Um so, not that I'm judging. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two

(22:44):
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So let's do some Florida man.
These are interesting. These are actual stories from actual people
that live in Florida. Because of the disclosure laws, we
get crazy stories. Crazy people live everywhere, but in Florida
were allowed to learn about them because of the the
way the laws are there. So uh so, this guy
in in in Tampa Bay. Guy from Tampa Bay is

(23:05):
looking for a frisbee, right and he's he's trying to
find his frisbee. He had lost his frisbee, so he
goes into a little body of water to find his
his frisbee. He gets bitten in the face by an alligator.
Florida Man gets bitten in the face by an alligator.
Wildlife officials are still searching for the alligator as of

(23:25):
the other day here. But the guy got bitten directly
in the face and he didn't even it must have
been a small gator because he's used around. The guy
named Travis was in Waiste deep water in Taylor Lake
in the Tampa area. Uh. This was last Friday at
around five in the morning. So he's trying to find

(23:47):
his frisbee, all right, looking for the first frisbee, and
the gator bites him in the face. He then uses
his left hand to pry himself free and as a result,
of course, what do you think happened? His hand is
all sliced up from the gator teeth. Uh, and his
face is all sliced up, and he was transported. But
he is expected to make a recovery. He's not. He's
not gonna die, and so they're they're trying to find

(24:10):
the gator. I I there was a guy in the
Dodgers when I did Dodger Talk named Bruce Avon, generic
outfielder from Florida. Not not a very good guy. I'm
not a good guy, not a very good player, but
Bruce Avon had wrestled alligators. He told me that he
had been growing up in Florida. He had actually wrestled alligators.
Random generic outfielder. He didn't have a great you know,

(24:30):
running baseball, but he played for a couple of different teams.
I thought that was interesting. Uh so that's that's our
first Florida man story. We also have another Florida man story.
That Florida man was arrested for allegedly shooting a cyclist
in the head with a crossbow. What the fuck? Yeah?
How about that one? That and the gun kills you.
The bullet kills you, but from a pain standpoint, because

(24:53):
not think the crossbow going in but also getting it
out right. Yes, holy fuck yeah, I'm looking at the photo.
He looks like the kind of guy that would shoot
a crossboat at someone's head. Fort Walton Beach, Florida guy
arrested this week and he's alleged to have shot a
cyclist in the head with a crossbow. Forty two year
old guy charged with aggregated battery with a deadly weapon,

(25:16):
firing a deadly weapon into a moving vehicle and the
victim was riding his bike at the time and the
alleged incident took place and and later obviously was taken
to the hospital with is serious head injury. So they're
investing is not much more to it than that? So
it took something straight out of The Walking Dead. Yeah,
that's a little fun, I'll speaking of that. This this

(25:37):
is the Apocalypse, You're the Apocalypse. Another Florida Man story.
Florida man with a machete tattoo has been accused of, yes,
wait for it, using a machete to attack another man.
So Florida Man alive and well, so you have crossbows
and you have machetes. And my favorite part is this

(25:59):
guy under his left eye. You gotta google it, look
up the photos on Twitter. Uh, this guy has a
tattoo of a machete under his eye and he's accused
of using machete to attack another guy twenty five year ago. Now,
how about by the time you reached twenty five, you're like,
you know what, this is a good life choice. Let
me get a machete and I'm gonna put that runner

(26:22):
right under my eye. What could possibly go wrong? What
could possibly go wrong? Jeez, craziness. Imagine setting up a
bumble or tender account with that face. Yeah, there's a
certain certain cult of women that probably would you know,
the bad boy crowd of the ladies would like, I

(26:43):
like that guy's a rebel. Yeah. Uh. Florida man behind
bars after he became violent at an outdoor church service,
knocking the pastor and other church course to the ground.
Why he thought the service was too loud. Wow, can

(27:04):
you imagine the the neurosis, the psychosis that's going on.
This This just just wonderful. So then he also of
course resisted arrest and uh he positioned his hands to
avoid handcuffs and started swinging his legs and whatnot, and
he was yelling rape and I can't breathe to the

(27:27):
to the police officers who attempted to take him into
into custody. Uh, so there you go, good luck on that.
Uh oh, here's a fun one, guest. This is right
up your alley. A fifty eight year old Florida man
has been arrested for purchasing, eating soiled underwear. Yes, and

(27:47):
shockingly enough, he's also of course into the child porn
so he has been been busted for that. But the
soiled underwear a part buying it, and then how do
they know he ate like, did it come out the
other end? Like this sounds like a this sounds like
attacked him event for you and Coop right, like you
shoot your pants before you go on the air. And

(28:09):
then Cooper actually eats it because of a bat or
a dare, Like, didn't he do that with vassoline? Be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Uh, well,
he's done that with When Jay Moore worked at our place,
he left hot dogs, yeah, and cooperated an old hot dog.

(28:31):
And the listener came by and we were doing the
vassoline challenge because I had read online that the guy
that invented vassoline he had died a couple of years ago,
but he every day had a scoop a spoonful of vasoline.
You know that that spoonful of sugar makes the medicine
go down. Yeah, this guy was a spoonful of vasoline.

(28:54):
And so we said, I can't believe you can eat it,
and then Coops like, yeah, give me enough money, I'll
do it. And then and then he did. So, where
is the soiled underwear that you took back home to
the Mallard mansion. After you shouted your pants, it's back
in my rotation. I'm glad you asked. I washed it
seven times and I got all the ship out of it,
and then we're gonna I'm saving the environment. I didn't

(29:15):
throw away that underwhere else? At least you didn't done it. Well,
I know you'd like him, all right, This got to
study survey, this homage dependent teller. Well, this kind of
relates to something we had mentioned earlier. This weekend. Researchers
behind a new study estimate that there are almost forty
million alien civilization. The estimate there could be thirty six

(29:38):
other alien civilizations or more. That's just in the Milky
Way galaxy that we all share here alone. So thirty
six they claiming this is mostly I I would say,
even though I believe there are other alien life forms,
I don't think that scientists at this time having a
grasp of what they're talking about. So I think that

(30:00):
I believe ultimately this will be proven true at some
point in humanity, assuming we don't all die this weekend.
Uh that you know, the thirty six and that seems
scratching my head at that one. Where do you think
that we rate on the intelligence scale. You know, I'd

(30:20):
like to think we're at the low end. But what
if we're at the high end. What if we are
the most advanced civilization? What if this is as good
as it gets? Think about that that we're all fighting
with each other, we're burning down, billing buildings, pillaging, we
all have to wear masks when we go to stores.
Shaming you for your clothing, yeah, shaming you for what

(30:40):
you wear and all that, and uh, and that's where
we're at. And what if we're the most advanced What
if there's no one more than and and are there
other planets that have cancel culture like this where I
don't like that? I'm I'm offended. I'm offended. You most
tonsil Anyway, moving on, all right. Uh, here's a new

(31:02):
survey out that talks about exercising, and out of five adults,
how many of those five adults admit that they have
lied about working out? They've claimed they worked out, but
they did not actually work out, thus lying, and they've
admitted to it. I gotta say, hi, I think that's
eight percent, four and five. Well, that's what the answer

(31:23):
actually should be. But the answer here is only one
out of fun, right, I agree, right, you you wanna.
It's it's kind of like the mindset of social media,
where you know you're trying to present yourself in a
light that's not actually real, right, you're trying and so people, oh, yeah,
I work, I work, now, I do. Actually I've called

(31:44):
you while I am out doing my my nonsense there,
So I I do do it every day very religiously.
Uh do an hour hour and a half a day.
I used to go on the treadmill and do that,
but the gym. Fuck the gym. So I go these
long wandering rants who are just walking around the neighborhoods.

(32:04):
I'm jealous. I'm on the deal right now. So how
are you on the deal? Um? So, I think I
was talking about this last week, but I was running
on the board walking beaches in hermos and Manhattan Beach
like West of the four or five. But typically when
I trained, now, at least when I run outside, I
wore a weighted vest twenty five pound vests and um,

(32:26):
are you the guy that goes into the sauna and
it was like the big puffy suit, No, seven layers
are closed. Well no, I did have friends that would
do that there were wet suits to cut weight when
they're wrestling, like they would have to cut weight, so
they'd wear multiple wet suits at a time and then
sit in the sauna for like fifteen twenty minutes to
try to get that excess weight off. But but yeah,
I have I have what they call jumpers knee, and

(32:49):
so both my Patel attendants are really really banged up
and sword It hurts to stretch out my legs now
hamstrings and quads because like I've been putting a inditional
weight on on my knees. And my sister, who has
a PhD um in in physical science and whatnot, had
told me and talked to me about the impact of

(33:11):
of what we put on our bodies when we run
just running naturally, and then she's like done of her
fucking wear a weighted vest again when you're running on
the beach, doesn't matter if it's on concrete or on
the sand, but you're putting so much force on your
on your body outside of your regular body weight. You
can't afford to do that otherwise you'll have chronic injuries
when you're like in your forties, fifties, sixties or seventies.

(33:33):
So so what about those legendary stories about like Jerry
Rice running the steps in Santa Monica and running around
the beach and all that and having all those bull No, No,
I don't think it's that. I mean, I'm putting added
weight on. So I think if you're conditioning your body right,
if you have strong quads and hamstrings and and those

(33:55):
things supporting the joint, you're gonna be in good shape.
But over the period of time, like the wear and
hair in your body is just gonna it's gonna eventually
get to you. So I gotta scale that thing back
quite a bit. Roll the back, Roll the back now,
Roll the back now. Because I always assumed, like the
people I've seen teams workout, athletes work out, they often

(34:16):
put weights on they're working out because it makes you
in theory, it makes you faster when you don't have
the weights on. Yeah, we'll see. My sister is talking
to me about this. She says. One of the worst
things that our US military does, especially the guys down
in Coronado, down in San Diego, when they trails. Yeah,
the butt's training to become Navy's seals is that you're
wearing all this package. You're apparently wearing everything around your waist,

(34:38):
You're wearing it around your your your legs and then
of course your boots. It's not great for stability, you know,
the the high impact of running and you have no
absorption from the soles in your shoes which are obviously boots,
and so impacks your joints. Like obviously, the course of time,
you can get used to it, but still it has
long term ramifications on you as opposed to just an
acute injury that you sustained right away. So yeah, man,

(35:01):
getting old sucks. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
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the alternative also sucks. No guess gut, so you've got
that as well. Right, moving on with studying serving this
the dishonest truth. This kind of relates to what we

(35:24):
talked about earlier with the exercising thing. Uh. Study says
people lie to appear more honest. And I actually buy this,
you know, the the white lie, the harmless I mean,
I think that is actually spot on. You know, people
lie all the time anyway, but in this regard. I

(35:49):
buy it. I absolutely buy it. Right the dishonest truth,
which is the headline on this, it makes it makes sense,
right if you feel guilty about, you know, getting a
big break, you know, getting getting something given to you. Uh,
you know, and you're like, I don't know if I
should say I don't know if I should talk about

(36:10):
you change the narrative. You know what I mean, Understand
what I'm saying. So I, by that does that also
count not necessary lying, but just not telling the truth period,
as opposed to lying, just not saying a lie by
omission you're talking about h I have to read the
whole I only read the first paragraph here, tod did

(36:31):
you do that? Now? Did you do that? On dates?
Did I lie? Yeah? Did you? Did you? Did you
lie to your mrs? Before you guys get married? I know,
I was like vague. I did not. When I was dating.
I didn't like to tell the woman that I was
in radio. Not that I'm embarrassed by it, but I

(36:52):
made so much ship money and at that time not anymore.
But at that time a lot of people thought if
you were the guy on the radio, you were making
a killing, And so I didn't want to date someone
where they thought I was rich and I was living
in the slums, you know, the shitty little apartment in
Hollywood for most of that time. And uh, I had
no money, and I I got I was like getting

(37:16):
food at games. I used to have free media food
and that's where I would eat. And I would say,
I would save my fucking money. And so I was
I was always conscious about that. I didn't want to
tell people the way what I did because they would
have the wrong impression and they think I had more
money and all that, and so I thought, I'll just
avoid that. So so I didn't want And the other
thing is I didn't want them to you know somebody
that you don't want to date someone just because they

(37:38):
think that's a cool job or something like you know
what I mean, Like I don't want that either. So yeah,
that's where I was. Uh see, moving on, let's see here.
Oh he's kind of cool. Engineers have created the first
ever underwater WiFi system. Yeah, so now when they go
do deep dives in the out in the middle of

(37:58):
the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean wherever they will, you'll
be able to have like live streaming video while they're
down at the bottom of the ocean looking around. That's
pretty neat, that is. I mean, I can't get good
cell phone reception where I'm at sometimes, but yeah, let's
having in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Yeah, alright,
speaking of the ocean, what's on the menu? Scientists surprised
by the diets of great white sharks the first ever

(38:20):
detailed study then in Australia on the diet of great
white sharks, and it blows away the popular movie perception
of the fish swimming looking you know, the shark fin
over the water looking to eat human blood. They determined
that most of the sharks diet they feed at the seabed,
not at the top. They actually most of the ship

(38:41):
they eat is at the bottom of the ocean, meaning
that that Hollywood image, the Hollywood trope of the shark
hunting with a dorsal fin out of the water is
likely bullshit. So there you go. Uh, you are more
likely to grant request if they are poking into your
right ear rather than your left. How about that one?

(39:04):
Did you know that? It's a fun fact. My wife
actually gave me that function. That's good. I will remember
that going on dates now as I make the approach
the right here. Yeah, there you go. A new study
shows that sevent people would rather watch a new movie
at home. I think this is bullshit. I think this
is bullshit because I guess I'm old, but I like

(39:28):
something special about my my aunt I used to call
going to the show. You know, going to the show
and sitting there, get a big bucket of popcorn. You
can't replicate that at home. Yeah, no, I'm you're not old.
This is this is like going to a concert, or
this is like going to an athletic event. You there's
nothing like going and sing it in the box office.

(39:49):
You get the trailers, you get the food, you get
the snacks, and you get the big picture. No fucking way. Yeah,
And it's it's like the sports. One of the things
that attracts us to sports is the enterg g in
the building. And we've all been even if it's just
that little league or high school, the crowd going wild,
that communal being part of that and feeding off the engine.

(40:10):
So it's so wonderful. It's like you feel alive when
you're a big sporting event and everyone's chairing or bowing
and all that, and it's great. It's wonderful. So it's
one of the reasons we love sports and Plus movie
theaters now most of them have the reclining leather seats
you can order from your seat as well, and the
audio has gotten so much better that the surrounds sound

(40:30):
really comes in great. Yeah. I mean, I love trailers,
so I always try to get their little watch the trailers,
but there's nothing you'll duplicate their. Plus, it's not like
it's overpriced. I can understand if you're going to a
game and you want to pay eighteen or twenty dollars
for one beer that's twelve or sixteen ounces. But go
to a movie theater. You can sneak in some snacks

(40:50):
if you want to, but for the most part, it's
moderately priced. I'm gonna push back on the moderately right.
So my thing is I sneak in the candy. Yes,
thank god, myam married. Now my wife get a big
bag called the purse and just put the candy in there,
and then I'll buy the popcorn. Um, that's my guilty pleasure.
Big bucket of popcorn, big giant bucket of popcorn. That's

(41:11):
my guilty pleasure. Now with with popcorn band, do you
actually have them layer it? And what I mean by that,
it's like they'll they'll pour in some popcorn, layer it
with butter, add more popcorn, layer it with butter, and
then top it off and then layer it with butter. Again.
I don't go that far, but I what I will
try to recreate that myself. I've never had the hoods
but to ask them to do that. So what I
will I will do is I will get the bucket.

(41:34):
I will then move it around a little bit to
put buck butter down further to the bottom, you know,
move the popcorn to the side and kind of shake
it up a little bit. So I have done that.
Uh well, good news. You know. The war on football,
which I guess is taking a break because of the apocalypse.
But it's not just football, it's also rugby. Researchers in
the UK say that playing three rugby matches can damage

(41:55):
the brain. They went further, they said, there is no
longer any debate that even jolts can cause subtle changes
to the human brain. Yeah. There, but the same thing,
the same thing is applicable for you in a car
crash or if you get whiplash like that. Jars the
brain and also the just kids growing up, falling, learning

(42:16):
how to walk, concussions, and it's just part of part
of the human experiencing on. Yeah, people of higher status
are more likely to think that those who disagree with
them are stupid or biased, according to a new study,
even when they're higher status is the result of random

(42:38):
process or dumb luck, if you will. That's the echo
chamber that they surround themselves in. What do you expect? Yeah, alright,
so we're at a point. Now, we're at a crossroads. Now.
I promised pop Quiz. I love pop Quiz. I feel
like we'd be rushed through pop Quiz. So I feel
like if we bump pop Quiz to the other podcast,
we'll have more time for pop Quiz, and then I'll
be happier about that. Yeah, we're not. We're not on

(42:59):
the streets of me orc. There's no bumper to bumper
traffic that we're trying to fight our way through from
Florida Upper Manhattan, so we can we can skirt our
way and wait for for things to uh on wine
on Sunday. That's fine, all right, so we will. I'm sorry,
I promised false advertising. Bad job by me, A bad
job by me. But we did get twenty minutes of
Gascon regaling us with stories that expect storytime with Gascon.

(43:24):
That's your way, that's your descent, that's your disobedience, there's
your civil disobedience. Was it storytelling? You have? You have
light and disregard to the plan. Would you rather have
me cut you off at the knees like what happens
Monday through Friday? Now I get enough of that during
the week. I don't need to be under under, undermined
and sucker punched by my people anymore than I am already.

(43:46):
So please how they are? You? All right? Listen, have
a wonderful rest your Saturday. Remember if you missed it
at the beginning, I don't know how you could have
Cameo Cameo Cameo or Cameo whores. I would love to
if you're big fan, make a video for you. It's
kind of cool, something different, and uh, just you know,
tell us what you want. We're happy to do it.
Cameo Ben Maller And then Guestcon has joined the Cult

(44:07):
of Cameo. He's on there as well. And uh, let's
see who will get more cameos this weekend? Me or
you I'll going with me. Thank you. I appreciate that.
Ben Mallard on Twitter, Instagram, Ben Mallar on Fox Facebook,
Ben Mallard Show and Guest Guns is gonna reach you
Twitter at David J. Gascon. It's the same thing at
cameo at David J. Gascon and then I g is

(44:29):
at Dave Gascon. Alright, have a wonderful day today. We'll
catch you next time on Sunday.
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