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for the body clock is today. Today, the eighth day of March as we change the clock at 2 in the morning, daylight savings time. We sprung forward, which I assume you know by now, and I'm not going to do my normal rant for years on this podcast. I have done a rant and rave about how ridiculous this is, and how stupid the flipping of the clocks. I don't care which time you pick. Just pick a time. But daylight savings time has started and observed every March 8th. I guess not every March 8th, but this year it's obviously March 8th, which is today, and yeah, move the clock forward one hour. Weee! And then later on you revert back to standard time, dumb, dumb,

dumb. And I'm a little disappointed that Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea of resetting clocks to save money on electricity. He's like, wow, I'll save some money. Why not? I was back at like the 1700s, and then there was some other English guy that came up with the plan was the first true proponent of daylight savings time. But it was not until 1918. All the way in 19, this came up originally in the 1700s, and then in 1918 they said, oh yeah, let's do the daylight savings thing. Yeah, that works. Why not? And it was during World War One, and then in World War Two there was some more farts in around with the clock. But I just hate it. I can't stand it. Dispise it. And it's just going to be the next couple days. It's terrible. And a couple years ago there was a push to change this and just set one time. And it's the days like this that I wish I

lived in Arizona, or one of the other states that does not farts around with the clock. But I'm not going to go on on that. We have the mailbag to get to. So let's strike up the band. Oh, hi, wow. Get me in the mood. Oh, hi, wow. It's in the bed. And this mailbag. All right, these are actual letters by actual listeners. We have not had to beg for messages in a long time. You guys have been great. We've got new names, which I love. The podcast is growing. And as it is a dawn of a new day as we were doing this here early on on a Sunday, we begin with a staple of the mailbag. Someone that I don't believe has ever called the radio show. Reggie from Detroit. Reggie says, hey, Ben and Danny,

I wanted to get your thoughts, Ben, on that guy that called this week. I think his name was Tom, he says, I think you're referring to Tom, who the guy claims to be from Texas. And Reggie says, is he a legit caller or a plant? Why would someone call your show multiple times who hates the show? That's a Reggie. In Detroit, first of all, Reggie, thank you for sending the message. I appreciate that and listening on a regular basis. So I, I have not spent much time investigating this guy, Tom. I do have boots on the ground, the investigative wing, the MIB, as I like to call the maler investigative bureau. There have been some people that have gone around and messed around on the internet, found some information out. This guy's been very open about posting nasty stuff online and all that. I don't know much about him. I've just read some things. Reggie, it sounds like he's a failed radio guy and he just didn't make it because he was not

very good at radio and he's upset because people are on the radio. And so he's a troll and all that. And I get it. You know, radio is hard. It's not for everyone. It's the hardest medium to do, especially doing a solo show. And then the guy apparently was an abject failure at radio. So I get it. I am, I'm not upset. I mean, it's great. It's been a good bit for the show that he doesn't seem to like it. I don't know if it's stick. It might be stick. Who knows? And it's good. You do the show and you hope people like it. It doesn't really matter whether they like it or not. I get paid the same money whether you love the show or you hate the show as long as you listen. And there's a term it goes back to the 1980s called the Stern Effect for Howard Stern before he went woke and now wants everyone to like him when he was just doing outrageous bits, just crazy bits on the radio back in his heyday before he lost his fastball Howard Stern. And they did research the the radio stations determine that the people who really hated Howard Stern, they couldn't stand

and they thought he was a pig and all that. And you know, man, terrible. They listen longer than those who absolutely loved him. And they why is that? And they as well, we want to make sure that the people that hated him didn't want to miss an opportunity to be outraged, to be angry. People love to be angry, right? Of all the things to get angry about an overnight radio show. And it's like, if you don't, I've always said, but if you don't like a restaurant, I don't because I don't like your restaurant. I'm not going to hear anymore. You just don't, you don't go. I'm not wired that way. It's not an airport. You don't have to announce your departure. You just, that's it. So, but thank you for, I guess, being concerned, Rich, you were just asking why this guy would Tom, that's the name he's using would call you'd have to ask him. Danny in Nashville, now you sent me a question. Danny's in, he's hanging out in Miami these days,

but I wanted to say Mazelta to Danny in Nashville. I'm very proud. I feel like I should be the Godfather because Danny had his first child. His son arrived recently. He sent this email a while back. I somehow it fell through something. I apologize to Danny and your lady there, but congratulations to both of you. That is awesome. And I'm excited that you're going to be able to listen live because you're going to have a little, you have a little guy and you'll be able to stay up late because kids have problems sleeping and all that stuff. And so I'm just very happy for it. Very happy for you. And Danny did have a good line. He says, hey, his kid can now snore along with Holler engines. I did not get the name of his child. So email me again, Danny. Let me know the name of your son. Or maybe I missed it. I did see some really cool photos. And I saw you right there. You look a little different than when you were hiding in the bushes outside these

studios there in Sherman Oaks. You're all grown up now. And you're a dad. That's pretty cool. Mike from Wisconsin writes in on the mail bag. He says, hey, Ben, I've heard you talk about Logan Paul on your radio show. Are you concerned about a lawsuit? Mike says that Logan Paul said this week he's going to sue people that call him a scammer. And yeah, Logan Paul apparently said he's looking forward to dealing with people who have called him a scammer through legal action. He says as their false narratives are out there about him online. So to answer a question, Mike, the percentage of concern that I have for being sued by Logan Paul is zero. I'm not a social media influencer this time or the only one Benny versus the pennies on. So I'm not a social media influencer. I also have been educated by an army of lawyers over the years working at all these big radio

companies, mostly Fox sports radio, but I've worked at other companies and what we do, and I think you realize this, if you listen, it is an opinion based show. Oh my god, it's an opinion based show. I often say things like this is my opinion or as we understand it in a pure opinion, you're in this country. I don't know about other countries. I don't worry about that. But in this country, a personal viewpoint that does not assert or imply any kind of factual claim is protected speech, very important protected speech. It cannot be the basis of a defamation lawsuit. Now you could sue for defamation. However, you would not win the case would be thrown out and you'd get bupkiss. However, an opinion that implies some undisclosed facts or if it's phrased in a way

that a reasonable person would take as a factual accusation, that can be defamation. Though you can look at my webinar if you want on that, defamation from what I understand requires a false statement of fact that harms the reputation. Opinions do not qualify. You are entitled to your own opinion and editorials, commentary, obvious hyperbole, which we love. We love hyperbole. They get even more protection. So I got even more protection and oh, by the way, hurt feelings and unfair criticism do not meet the legal standard for defamation. So yeah, you learn that right away. I've had people I've worked with that have been sued for things that they said on the radio and you learn how to avoid that happening. It's not that difficult. It's once you learn the little

things you can say it's not that hard, but good luck to Logan Paul. I'm sure that'll go very well and he'll make a lot of money and be very, very wealthy as he needs the money. Jose from Dallas writes in and I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've gotten an emailer who wanted to ask about F1 racing. Jose says Ben, I know you're not a big racing guy, but yeah. He says, did you take in the big F1 story this week? What's your opinion on that? Apparently he sent me a link here to a story from some website I've never seen. Aston Martin's F1 car was unable to finish the race at the Australian Grand Prix. Said the driver for Nando Alonzo risked major health problems and he had to go only 58 laps because of he felt like he was being electrocuted

as he was driving his F1 car. Well, I'm not an F1 guy, open wheel racing. I did watch the Brad Pitt F1 movie with a giant bucket of popcorn. I did watch that. I did watch that. My goodness. Was it like an electric chair instead of a driver's seat? Did maybe they go down to San Quentin or something like that? Said, can we get the driving? Can we get the electric chair? We'll put that in there. That seems very odd. I wonder how that could happen. I'm not a car guy. I like my car, but I'm not a car guy. Not really a shoe guy. I don't kind of guy I am. I guess I'm a dog guy as I did that rant the other day and then what else am I? I'm not a foodie. I just like what I like and that's it. What else do we have here? Let's see. Dave from Indiana right since they've been in Danny. I try to catch the podcast at least every other weekend when I'm up early

doing doing things around the house. He says I wanted to thank you for the the Lou Holtz monologue this week. It was I think you meant touching. I don't know what word. I don't know what that is. There's no need to thank me. I've never liked doing eulogies. I have not enjoyed doing eulogies. I don't know if anyone that does. However, whether this is a positive or negative, depends how you look at it. I guess it's a negative that there's a positive that grew out of it. This coffee shop running smooth thanks to genius from global payments, instant transactions, effortless inventory and synchronized operations, big league reliability for any business. That's genius. This is Julian Edelman from Dood's on Dood's with Gronk and Jules. All right, real quick. Take a look at yourself right now.

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legally blind Christopher who is answering the question that I posed on the air. I said, you're complaining about the weather in London. You're you're whine about that. What is going on with you? Legally blind Christopher and he writes and says, dear Mr. Mather, I live in London for two reasons. And then he gives the reasons six thousand miles from his ex. Well, that's pretty good. Free mass transit for me. Instead of having to walk eight miles a day in Charlotte, North Carolina. To get what I need. That sounds like a nightmare. And he says, plus I have work and a new family here in London. Look at you, Christopher. Hey, look at that. All that happened in the last couple of years. That's pretty well. So six thousand miles. Does that mean your ex now lives on the west coast of the United States? Am I correct on that? Let me know in your next email.

Fill me in on that. All right. Next up, we have Gary in Pittsburgh writes in on the middle bag. He says, Ben, I was listening to your buddy, Steve Zabin on his Wednesday podcast. And he and his guests were talking about Arby's buying Buffalo Wild Wings back in 2018 for $2.9 billion. And Gary says, I was absolutely for it. And Zab and his guests both remarked that they said, where did Arby's get 2.9 billion? And he says that Gary says that's an under the radar event that has been kept very hush hush. I guess bad roast beef makes a killing. And less they are experts. And as Danny G says, money laundering. But I want your thoughts. What Danny's unfortunately not here. I will try to remind him next time he's on the mailbag. Hopefully next week I will let him know about that. But my goodness. He says, PS, if you make it to Ohio,

I will be there with the Orams Cinnamon Rolls. Well, that would be amazing, Gary. That's a reason to go right there. And we are, I say weak, not me. But we mentioned last week on the mailbag. There has been a listener that has stepped up. I don't know if they want me to give their name or not, but a fan of the show who's in Cincinnati, in the Cincinnati area, who is boots on the ground. And he's he's got some ideas on some venues that could host the mall or meet and greet. So we're hoping that that all works out. And we can make it happen. And it's typically how this goes. Unless somebody just sets up the whole thing like Mike the leprechaun and our friend Mike and New Hampshire are planning on doing for the big Boston Worcester meet and greet outside of that. Normally, it's like, Hey, I need somebody who's actually there because you live in the city. And it's kind of obvious here. I don't know what's good and bad. I could go find a restaurant or a sports bar to go to. It very well could be on the wrong side of the tracks. And no one's going to go. And so I want

to go to a place that's classy and people want to go to and it's safe and all that. And so that's where we are on that. What else do we have? See page down here. Felix from Fresno. I don't think we've had an email from Felix before. He says, Ben, I know you and Danny don't like traveling very much by planes. Will this change your opinion on United Airlines? And then he sent me a story. I saw this the other day, actually, Felix, but the United Airlines is changing. They changed their code of conduct. And now passengers who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or video content, those infractions can get them on the no fly list for United Airlines. Yeah, how about that? I don't like all the rules. You shouldn't have to put a rule in this. I feel like this is one of those things, Felix, that should be common sense. Like the fact that society is

at a place where you have to put a rule in to just be polite. It's a communal space. You're stuck in a tube, 30,000 feet in the sky. And if anything goes wrong, it's turn out the lights, the parties over. And the amount of people that get on planes that don't shout, you probably sending these feelings of the rant I did about the airlines and all, but the amount of people that show up that don't have simple decency, decorum. It's like, what do you live, you raised by like the end of the fall? Like, what are you doing? I feel the same way. When I go to the beach during the summer, which is getting summer times, not too long from now. And the people that are out there and they've got their boom boxes and they're just blasting the music. It's not your private

beach bozo. Like, dude, what are you doing? So I don't like that they have to put a rule in. However, if you're watching video or audio stuff and you're just having a blasting, it's affecting other people. So yeah, and that is a big pet peeve. It gets people's blood boiling as it should. It's a very territorial thing. Barry, the hostess with the most is my guy, Barry, put together what a great meet and greet we had in Charleston, South Carolina. A little while back, I was down there to visit my niece who loves Charleston so much that she has stayed. That's her home. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. And I know Barry is still trying to get out of there. And for some reason, he's still there, but hey, I know he's trying to get out. I know he's trying to get out. He says, Ben, now that you know you can make money from TikTok, when can we expect to see

your TikTok account? It's from Barry. So this is one of those things that the guy that filled in for a coup one night has worked behind the scenes branding at Fox Sports Radio. And I really talked to him, kind of an introvert like me. And so we don't really talk. When you put two introverts in the room, not much happens. There's not a lot going on. So he's like, yeah, it makes some money. And I was asking them some stuff on the air. I asked them some stuff off the air. And I've always been like, I'm too old for TikTok. I'm not, no, I'm not doing that. I'm starting to change my opinion. I'm I'm not going to lie. I started looking around. I'm like, oh, maybe I can do something with this. And I a couple of monologues a day. And they don't have to be, they don't have to be monologue. They can just be like, he said one minute. I do four hours of opinion based radio. Do you understand how

easy that would be? How little work would be required to do a one minute rant about whatever? So I am looking into it. Now on that note, Barry Tony, who lives, he says in the greater Philadelphia area, but not not South Philly, whatever that means. He says, Ben, I believe your matrix theory is picking up steam. I wanted to see if you saw this. This is a story from a CEO of Twitch. And I did not see this Tony, but I thank you for sending it my way. It does back up my world view. And the headline headline says a top Twitch executive encouraging streamers to buy view bots. Because good content is not enough. Oh, oh, spaghetti. Oh, all right. So in a post on a

different social media platform, the Twitch executive explained that bots are going undetected and Twitch benefits from this. Hello. It's exactly what I've been saying. Because more viewers look better when it comes to advertisers. Exactly. And this is my point. This has been the rant. I feel like I'm going crazy here. I'm one of the few people that is pointing this out. Now I learned this years ago. It's all full gazing. It is. And is either people want to ignore it? They don't want to bring it up. It's I keep going back to the the wolf of Wall Street. I go back to the wolf of Wall Street. And they're going on and on and on and all that stuff. And then nobody knows if a stock is going to go up or down sideways or fucking circles, least of all stock brokers.

And then he goes in that whole rant. It's all full gazing. You know what? A full gazing is, full gazing is fake, full gazing, full gazing. It's wavy. It's woozy. It's fairy ghost. It doesn't exist. It never landed. It is no matter blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's internet view counts. I'm telling you, it's been this way for years. All right, back to the story. So thank you, Tony, for sending this by the way. If I didn't thank you already, the executive from Twitch says that he he claimed that view bots, which you can buy, is important for anyone looking to grow even if the growth is done by those nefarious methods. And the quote continues, I would never explicitly say you should bot your views on Twitch other than in the title of the article, but you know what that means, kids, but the reality is,

if you're view botting and everyone else is, if you're not view botting, rather if you're not view botting, everyone else is, you're at a disadvantage. There you go. Close quote. And he's not wrong. And again, I go back to the stories. I'm going bonkers here. The people on TikTok who had all these downloads and dumb people who work at websites that aren't social media-based, like these old newspapers, which are just websites now. This person had two million views on their song and okay. And then they try to sell tickets and friends and family by tickets. That's it. Friends and family by tickets. Next up, we have any, any, my most Scott from Florida, right since they've been in Danny. What's a sign in the wild that someone is a Costco member? For me, it's the the Puma tube socks. I don't own anything else. Puma. But damn, if I don't have

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to the night shift. I don't know. It's early. There was a fricking time change. I have no idea. Anyway, what is he's asking? What is the sign someone's a Costco member? Well, you really wouldn't know until you went to their house and found the seven gallon tub of mayonnaise, the 25 gallon container of pretzels, the five pound thing of M&Ms. You got to go into the storage, the pantry at the house and then you'll say, Oh, that's Costco. That's Costco. Clearly Tom from L.A. Right. Thank you, Scott. I hope things are going well for you. Tom from L.A. writes and says McDonald's launching crocs keychain toys in the new basketball happy meal. Ben, are you going to go back to Mickey D's? No, I'm not interested. I don't wear crocs. I don't have a problem with crocs. Some people have a very strong reaction to crocs. I'm not that person. So enjoy if that's your thing.

I'm good on that. Now, if that's worth some money, we can revisit this and say, well, maybe I should go back and get some of those. So the promotion begins. Today, the 8th begins March 10th. It includes, so a couple days away, it includes miniature croc keychain toys inspired by the footwear brand signature clogs, a colab bringing basketball theme collectibles to restaurants along the annual high school showcase, which I guess is coming up in Phoenix, Arizona. So there is that. Yeah, I mean, they look kind of cool. And that looks to me like something that will go for a fair of amount of money for people that collect random crap, Tom. Shane Indomoyne writes and he says, hey, Ben and Danny. Oh no, Shane's in Dallas. I got Shane in the morning. Sorry. I got my Shane's

mixed up Shane and Dallas. It's early. I'm telling you, that's my default excuse. It's early. Mama. So a man had to be rescued by firefighters. He got trapped into a phone booth or as they call it in London, a phone box while trying to order a cabab. And then Shane in Dallas, not the morning, Shane and Dallas has been. How could this happen? Well, Shane, I wasn't there. I'm looking at a photo of this and it's in Manchester in the UK. And these are these classic. When I think of London, I think, first thing I think of is the double decker bus. The second thing I think of is the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. And then somewhere a little lower after big band and some other things. After that, I then at some point, I get to the red phone booth. You would think though, just again, common sense, not being very common, that you would look inside

there's windows on this thing. You say, okay, there's no phone in there. Cause this story says this guy got in there and he realized there was no working phone. And then the door shut behind him and locked. And there was no way for him to get out. So his friends were there and they called firefighters to get him out. You'd think why not just use his friend's phone, but who knows? Rick from San Diego writes in the mail bag. He says, Hey, Ben, can you let your friend in Vegas know that he better not take a whiz with his glasses on? Yeah, I don't know. Rick sent me a story about metaglasses. Does he? Does our friend in Vegas use metaglasses or does he use some other kind of glasses? Are there other kind of glasses? I'm going to assume he knows. I'm going to assume our buddy in Vegas knows. But yeah, this story is that the metaglasses, the people behind them have warned users that when they go to take a nice dump that everything they're doing is being reviewed

by humans that these meta-ray man smart glasses, they've sent out this mass warning that whether you're dropping a doose, you're wiping your tookus, you're making whoopee, or you're maybe by yourself adjusting the joystick, it's all going to be on on camera. So yeah, I don't have to worry about that. I do wear glasses. I inherited from my my dearly departed parents, the bad, the bad vision. Sasquatch Willie, that sounds like a real name. He says he's in the greater Seattle area. He writes in. He says, Ben, how come this was not a bigger story? I know you like UFO stories, a declassified UFO going back 35 years, a giant glowing spear over a military base has been confirmed and yet nobody seems to care. Yeah, well, welcome to the modern times, the zeitgeist

of the times, Sasquatch Willie. He sent me a bunch of UFO stories as UFO hotspot uncovered under or around underwater canyons off US coasts. Okay. Well, that one goes into my long standing theory. I say long for the last couple years that I have believed what we're experiencing is some other life form that shares the planet with us. And they say here in this story right off the west coast, three regions of the west coast, Lahoya and San Diego. Then there's a canyon in central California and also Monterey Canyon that showed unusually high concentrations of UFO sightings compared with the population based expectation. So the theory is there's some stuff going on at the very bottom of the ocean. And then Willie also sent me a story that NASA scrubbed the moon landing

mission for 2027. And he says there's claims there's an ancient city on the surface of the moon. And that's why they're not going to go because humanity is not ready for that. Okay. That would be great. That would be amazing. And there are people that would know I'm pretty sure they've sent things all over the moon. We also talked I think it was the last week about Mars. The Mars thing's not happening. Elon Musk going to Mars. They were going to go to the moon. So anyway, we'll get out on that. I want to go try to go back to sleep and have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Oi, this fricking daylight savings time change thing. Be watch. And these loser politicians, they don't have the balls to change it. This is something that is a bipartisan issue. Anyway,

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