WEBVTT - Miss Me? 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka Boom. If you thought more hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.120 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.959 break free for something special, Fur with Ben Maller starts 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:30.200 right now. Waste Not, Want Not. We are back the 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.319 cat and mouse game of podcasts and continues. We are 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:38.319 in the air everywhere. There are no borders when you're 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.080 doing a podcast. Anyone can listen anywhere, anytime. You just 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.200 have to find the podcast. That's the secret. You've already 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.519 found it. We think our friends at I Heart the 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.400 I Heart podcast Network, this podcast available wherever you get 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.519 your podcast. I saw a story this week that the 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.440 I Heart Podcast division is blowing up, getting even more 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.440 and more powerful in the podcast world. So that's exciting. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.720 I don't know that we actually benefit from that, but 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.679 it's good for the company. So that's uh good for 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.720 us um this week. This week we had Ryan Leaf 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.760 on Yesterday Today on the Saturday edition of the podcast, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.479 We've got a couple of interesting things that I think 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:25.360 you'll find fascinating and riveting, but unfortunately yet again, joining 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.680 us for the full weekend. From West of the four 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:33.959 oh five, a man who has been called persnickety and 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.320 that's one of the few good things people say. From 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.520 West of the four oh five, Mr lot d Dah 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:54.680 himself David Gass, a social primer fast the case. This 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:59.200 is uh. I'm Vernest Mount Earnest is uh looking mighty 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.640 steep right now, but I continue to hammer away as 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.120 I do. It's been h it's been a good couple 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.360 of weeks. Um, I know you missed me last week. No, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.560 I didn't miss you at and did not know. We 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.320 were so happy. We were like doing a dancing here 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.040 in the podcast. We were like, oh this is great. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.280 We said, Asta la vista, b voyage. It's a gascon. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:24.079 See you right, odio, and we moved on. I do uh, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.880 I do appreciate the leftovers that you you gobbled up 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.880 last week as well. We can certainly get into that. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.800 I know you didn't want well we will that. Um, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.000 it's on my it's on my list. We will synchronize here. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.560 Thanks for reading the notes. It's good A good job 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.760 that good show prep by you. Be prepared. Unless you're 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.840 not prepared at all. You're just doing this off the cuff. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.760 I definitely want to acknowledge that you were doing a 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.400 little bit of sandbagging. We will certainly get into that 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.160 there was no sandbagging at all, none at all. I 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.519 did find I did find we shepherd in We Shepherd 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.239 in a New Era on the podcast last week. It 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.720 was very exciting. More on that coming up in a 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.360 couple of minutes. And we we were hoping that you'd 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.280 become like a cosmonaut and gone out to the space 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.360 station or something like that and moved out to outer space. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:19.760 But apparently that was incorrect. Your back, your gobbledegook back, louder, better, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.040 stronger than ever. I don't know about that. You don't 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.919 sound that good. Your voice sounds very weak. You think so, yes, Uh, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.560 the guys that you work with, I am like the 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:35.600 Rolls Royce of audio audio efficiency. Well listen, here's what's 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.920 coming up on on the podcast. First of all, a 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.400 shameless promotion for cameo dot com. If you'd like a 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.559 personalized video message, if you want your own personal malat monologue, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.120 it's available right there. If you want to make Gascon's 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.520 life terrible and have him do a video praising me, 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.960 which somebody already did, which was hilarious. I play that, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.520 you know, at the end of the weekend when we 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.760 have a terrible set of podcast, which is every weekend 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.200 when you here, I'll play that and I'll say, well, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:03.720 you know, at least he said this and that and 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.240 the other thing. But CAMEO dot com search my name 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.080 Ben Mallard. Gascon's on there as well. Yes he's on there. Yeah, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.840 he's waiting waiting for your call. Unless he's not. Operators 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.800 are standing by. So on today's podcast, we've got Mr Microphone, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.919 we have d I Y and Pop Quiz. That's what 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.320 we have to look forward to. Let's start with Mr Microphone. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.800 So we open up the files of the Complaints and 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.159 Concerns Department, and there was a lot of hooey that 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:37.159 was flying around after last weekend's podcast. I was met 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.760 with much grumbling and disapproval from the podcast listener. My 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.120 may include you. Chances are it did if you sent 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.480 me a nasty message on email, uh to my personal 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.080 email or the the email we use for the show, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.479 which is Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. My 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.520 email Ben Maller's show at gmail dot com. But anyway, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:03.080 so people rep set the audio old quality was that 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:07.320 it was compared to that of a MR microphone that 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.120 was broken, or I would say more like a tin 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.960 can and a string is what I would say. It 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.760 sounded like. And so I would like to give my 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.600 side of the story. Now we had Mel procteron last weekend. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.680 Mel's a veteran broadcaster. I respect the legends of broadcasting, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:32.120 and Mel called Orioles, Games, Padres, and the Washington Bullets 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.560 and also was the Clipper broadcaster. I met him and 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:36.760 I got to know him a little bit when he 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.000 was the play by play guy for the Clippers on radio. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.880 And so we had Mel on telling some stories. He 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.119 wrote a few books over the years, and I hadn't 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:45.680 talked to Mel in a while, so I thought we'd 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.160 have him on fund and we had Big Mike in 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.640 here and Gascon was a no show yet again, the 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.960 lack of grit, the lack of work ethic on display 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.080 yet again, just the lazy, lazy, lazy lazy, And so 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.799 we we marched down the show must go on whether 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.240 the people that are supposed to be here are here 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.279 or not, And mel Proctor was great. He told old 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.360 stories from his days with the Orioles and the Bullets, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.320 and talked about cal Ripken and Tony Gwyn, talked about 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.880 a crazy game he was broadcasting in Arlington, Texas were 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.960 the Orioles back in the day, mentioned that the dreadful 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.160 Oh in twenty one start for the Orioles and the 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:30.320 nineteen eighties. But about thirty seconds into all that, it 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:37.200 sounded wonky in my headphones, and I immediately, as any 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.719 anyone in my position would do, I immediately contacted the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.919 person that had the ability to change that. So I 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.080 shot a message over to Big Mike. I said, listen, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.200 Big Mike, it does not sound good. I sent him 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.200 a text. I said, listen, I'm doing the interview right now. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:57.400 The audio is not good. It sounds overmodulated, he tells me. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.440 He writes back, he says, not nothing to worry about. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.159 Audio's fine. I got it onto my headphones. Just sound good. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:03.920 The levels are good. You're both on the same level. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.440 Nothing to worry about. So I sold your on. Now 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.680 I'm I'm doing this and the whole time it's like 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.920 it sounds like absolute horseshit, you know, And I'm like, well, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.880 this is I mean, I hope, I'm I'm in my head, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.840 I'm I'm I'm getting gas lit. Like I'm thinking, well, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.080 maybe it's just me, you know, maybe it's just me. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.480 And so we go on the proctory interview, we did 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.440 the thing. It was a whole thing, just sounded terrible. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.800 So then okay, so we go to the Saturday podcast. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.640 So we're doing the Saturday podcast and again it sounds 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.640 just like fucking fertilizer. Right, So I'm getting piste and 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.720 I again and say, hey, we got a problem here, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.480 and then he pulls out the old Aaron Rodgers relax right, relax, 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.840 So you know, I was like, yeah, everything's fine, the 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.600 levels and find nothing to worry. So then I go 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.720 listen to the podcast and it's, uh, it's absolute amateur hour, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.080 Like I would have been better off just taking the 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.880 weekend off. Uh the audio quality was so terrible. But 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.160 I do deserve a miacolpa because I did point out 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.640 immediately the trained ear of a broadcaster who was going 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.240 to need a Kirkland brand hearing aid when I'm done 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.880 with radio because of my years and years of on 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.120 the job abuse, and where where are the people in 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.480 radio to look out for our health. Yeah, the NFL 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.400 players have CTE. We've got loss of hearing being on radio. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.560 But anyway, I just want to point that at and 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.480 before Gascon. You have anything to add to that Gascon 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.720 you wanna you want to touch up my work there. No, 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:38.640 I think that I had some messages sent my way. Uh, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:43.839 this is just continued validation of the presence that I 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.520 have and the impact that I have. The president you have, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.480 but no president, you never hear. You can't have a 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.520 president you never hear. Well, you never hear. Its like 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.319 Lebron James when he's not in the line of for 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.439 the Lakers, they just obviously look like they're the Titanic. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.240 They just simply sink to the bottom of the ocean. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.000 That's just like this podcast. If I'm not around, you 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.880 have somebody that's just incompetent or not observant or doesn't 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.000 care anything and everything that's the opposite of me happens. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:15.760 Your ship just goes wrong. Bad audio. So, so what 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.440 I do in a situation, I said, I have this 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.840 thing called the blame pie, and I cooked the blame pie, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.360 and then I cut up the pieces of the blame pie. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.400 You get like of the blame on this. Do you 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.600 understand that? You get you're the culprit. You're the bad 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.480 guy in this story, not Big Mike. You're the bad guy. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.400 You did not tell him how to properly record the podcast. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.400 You didn't tell him the levels have to be a 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.720 certain point. You didn't do your job. I no accountability. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.559 You sabotage the podcast. That was an intentional act from 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.080 what I'm hearing, And there is a lot of blame 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:50.160 worthiness to go on your shoulders and gascon as I 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:56.240 told you in the podcast by loss page seven seven 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:02.240 A on page seven Wins and Losses Achieved, buy a podcast, Uh, 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:09.720 the the interroom podcast person, go to the actual podcast. Coach, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.920 you're the coach, I'm the star, I'm the headliner. You're 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.200 the coach, and that loss goes on your record, even 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.040 if you were not on the bench or even in 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:24.199 the building. You get the l You are liable. That's 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.000 on you. And that's some real talk right there now. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.600 I know that you can can obviously compare me to 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.880 the Bill Walsh of the podcasting world, since I do 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.400 bring excellence every single weekend that we're doing this fucking thing. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.120 But you would agree that in order to be here 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.120 um and handling this thing, I need to be I 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:46.800 need to be taken care of. I need to have 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.920 my I need to have my pillows cooled off a 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.319 little bit. I need you have the sheets cleaned at times. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.120 I need to be fed. I need to be compensated. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.160 I need to have a pat on the back. I'm 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.600 not getting any of that, so I took a I'm victim. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.679 My name is guest go aka. This is the difference 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.240 between me and I wake up. You are so soft. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.439 You are misty, Mr softy mixed soft over. There is 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.640 what you are. You don't even realize it. Listen here, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.280 I am guest guy. I live by the Code of 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.800 the West. You should learn the code of the West. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.120 Take pride in your work. You have no pride in 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.680 your work. And also one of the bye laws code 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:29.040 of the West always finish what you start, which means 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.320 if you agree to do a podcast every week, do 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.960 the podcast every week. Nobody put a gun to your head, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.600 Nobody put a knife to your throat and said you 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.400 have to do it or the record I volunteered. There's 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.720 a difference do what has to be done to what 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.640 has to be done. Doing volunteer work does not constitute 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.680 being obligated or compelled to do work. I do volunteer 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.320 work outside of the Fox Sports Radio I heard, and 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.199 I'm not. This is not a charity podcast. This is not, 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:03.280 this is not we're not on public broadcasting. We're not 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.199 for anyone that's getting this for free. And they bitch 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.640 and moan about it. It's charity. They don't need to 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.040 have it, they don't deserve. You are providing a public service. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:16.520 We are provided use that need it because their souls 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.640 are not filled until we complete it. So with that 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.960 being said, I think you need to bend the knee. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.240 There's no bed in the knee. No, you sabotage. You're 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.000 the sabotaur. Use what you are? You ruined an entire 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.120 weekend of great podcast. You deliberately damaged the quality of 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.320 this podcast. You you you how dare you? How do 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.240 you sleep at night? Damaged that you? But you undermine 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.600 the work here. I go to bed at ten fifty 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.880 nine every night Pacific standards. It's funny because I know 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.680 somebody that shows up to work about that time. That's interesting. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.959 But listen, you know that what you adjust because you're 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.040 hearing you adjust your audio levels on your headset, and 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.040 it's not always precise. It's the same thing in here. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:09.760 I don't have a measurement to adjust. And there's there's 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.000 a level. I'm allowed talker, there's a level. And you 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.160 turned this thing into the Hindenburg, right, this became a 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:22.240 hydrogen bomb because of you. All Right, it was podcast 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:27.040 Arma Geddon okay, uh. I listened to the thing and 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.040 it was frightening. I'm like, I think I'm a professional broadcaster. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.760 This is a broadcasting catastrophe. What this is. It was 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.280 an unmitigated disaster, and it's on your resume and it's 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.760 going to affect your future employment. Fact I already hear 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.880 rumors Gascon that some people have turned down you're hiring 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.320 you because of this in part. Well, I'm happy to 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.360 report that I don't think that's gonna have a big 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.400 impact on my my employment. Here when you're doing volunteer 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.480 work for for you and oh my god, it's not 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.160 volunteer work. Every Thursday morning we let you into bill mean, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.040 you get to come to Disneyland for free every Thursday. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.160 It's like Disneyland around here. Get a text message from 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.480 you every Thursday morning that says, I'm on the marquee, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.319 you're not get to works. Yes, that is correct, Yes, 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.520 because I am a tyrant and a death spot. And 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.640 uh yeah, I'll come in up such a schoolyard bully 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.960 that I'll work with anybody. I don't care who's in here. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.240 I'll just put my head down, one foot in front 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.840 of the other, and I'll be Benny blow Hard and 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.040 I'll just keep talking one word after another. I don't care, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.880 because that's the gig code to the West, code to 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.840 the West. You can't take a shot at me when 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.040 the dude that was working last week has been with 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.200 the company four times longer than I have. Yes, and 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.360 but again, he trusted he's a good employee, big Mike 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.240 on and not him at all. He did a great job. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.720 It's all on you. It's all on you because he 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.680 trusted his good leadership. You trust your employees to tell 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.960 me you you did not give him the proper direction. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.040 You didn't give him the code to this safe when 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.800 you know he needed to open the safe. You didn't 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.280 give him the code to the safe. That's bad job 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.160 by you. I think we need to take a pace 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.680 from Ryan Leave's book. Yesterday be accountable for your own 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.920 fucking actions. Yes, exactly, you should be accountable for your 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.200 own fucking action. You've funked up the podcast The Path 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.720 and a podcasting here in our little cathedral, and you 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.440 you ruined, you defecated on the podcast. I was being 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.880 accountable for my paycheck and I went to a higher bidder. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.280 How about that? Alright? Serial whore Gascony is not only 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.000 a sabotary. He's a whore, is what he is? Right? 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.160 You admitted this right now. You don't even realize what 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.120 you're admitting. I go to the highest bidder every fucking time. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.040 Oh my god, no, what about me? I have integrity, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.240 have been yes I do. I've been underpaid for years, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.440 but I still show up every day. I don't even 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.160 complain about it. You have a hundred and fifty dollar 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:58.000 Tomahawks steak and your freezer from last year. Yes, I'm 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.640 holding onto it for a special day. Yet to have 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.760 more special day was last year we've had. I was 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.200 gonna eat, and then the apocalypse happened and we had 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.240 the pandemic. I couldn't eat. I was depressed. You're stupid, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.920 I'd pointing out. Listen, I'm trying to teach you guesco. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.480 All right, you are lacking the proper audio acumen. All right, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.720 I am trying to help you out. All right, Yeah, 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.360 you need to be uh you know, a little bit brighter. Right. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.320 Vision is not quite good enough. You're lacking the gumption. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.880 You need more gumption. No I am. I am a 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.760 fucking giant maglite. That's what I am. And the fact 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:37.320 that you have had the gall. You are a storm 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:42.400 cloud that follows around and dribbles, doesn't rainfully, just kind 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.880 of gets you wet enough to annoy you. That's what 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.640 you are. I don't think the women have ever complained 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.400 about that, but that's a different conversation. And had Wow, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.400 you really you are the epitome of a douche. You 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.800 had the gall last week not to congratulate and call 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.400 me and say, hey, great job hosting and setting me 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.840 up for my show last week. Terrible. It was the 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.439 worst thing ever. It was horrible. I thought it was 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.760 so good that you actually took a lot of my 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.960 takes and built it into here we go again. You 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:15.080 got you got that take neurosis. They're remarkable what you did. 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.199 And for me to set you up on a on 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.040 a Thursday night and I didn't get any thank yous. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.440 I thought that was I think it was embarrassing. Yeah, 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.399 I I are you in that club now as certain 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.680 group of people working in our business that are convinced 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.840 that their takes are stolen by other people? Are you? 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.399 Are you in that group? Because I don't listen to 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.280 other shows, I have no idea I do want to. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.480 I stay in my lighte as my mentor LaVar Ball 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.480 taught me how years ago. I used to listen to 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.560 a lot of other radio shows, but I really don't. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.200 And there's different reasons for that. But I don't know people. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.360 I hear everyone's about people steal stuff that I've done. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.520 I'm like, I don't give a flying rats ass because 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.040 I I'm not listening. So you know, you can. You 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.960 can be in mimic and all that all you want, 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.119 that's fine, but I'm doing my own thing. And if 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.320 you want to steal the stuff, uh, it's you know, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.600 the sequel is not the equals what I always say. Yeah, 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.679 I don't listen to any sports talk radio, but I 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.720 think two guys that I work with, it would be 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.080 hard to steal like you and Jonas would be really 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.240 hard to steal from because you guys go you guys go. Really, 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.080 you guys can go dark and not ever go dark. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.600 But I'm positive I'm Benny bright Side were talking, I 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.400 go dark. I don't go dark. How do I go dark? 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.600 You get a little bit lights, I see the light. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.120 I gravitate to the lights. I know I'm a ray 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.720 of sunshine on a cloudy day. Well put it this 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.760 way in gambling terms, you don't go with Joe Public 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:42.800 all the time? Well, no, I don't want to do that. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.480 You don't do that. You wanna you don't want to 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.840 be where you turn on the radio. You know, there's 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.919 a certain percentage of guys in our business from what 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.200 I hear, they're just complete hacks and they just totally 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.080 you know the line, they don't go. You gotta to 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.960 be good at this. You gotta go outside the lines 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.960 a little bit. You gotta all are outside the lines. Yes, yes, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.560 so yeah I don't, But no I don't. I mean 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.280 my takes are again. So I'm gonna take that as 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.399 an apology by you for ruining the podcast, and I 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.639 would accept your apology and do not not ever do 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.760 that again, please, And if you, if you you know 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.119 I know you're you're floating on the lazy river over there. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.360 You're probably miss some more time. But just whoever fills in, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.399 try to try to give him some good advice and say, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.280 all right, the levels are a little hot here, make 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.359 sure the levels are good, double triple check. How about that? 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.960 Why don't you have because the tea is piping hot, No, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.040 the microphone is piping hot. Not the t The microphone 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.840 is piping hot. Why don't you have one of the 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.040 one of the little in cells that you work with 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.000 that fills in with you operate the board from now on? 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:39.920 Who's the guy that works with you on the board 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.720 that has like his little cat that he's worried about. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:44.760 I don't know what you're talking about. There was one 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.080 of the guys that was like, you know, it's really rumor, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.200 has it you're you're a big fan of the Pussycat. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.680 It depends on which kind yes, interesting yeah. Be sure 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.120 to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.399 days at two am Eastern eleven Empacific. Be sure to 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.200 catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:08.000 two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.960 and the I Heart Radio app. All right, we're moving on. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:15.879 We have d I Y. So we present you handy 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:20.080 Man Mallard. And this did not have a happy ending, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.000 this story. So I've been doing some work around the 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.800 Mallard mansion. There the something going on we can't talk about. 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.359 But I was doing some work, doing some improvements, cleaning 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.320 up a little bit, and you could say spring cleaning. 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.639 Say spring cleaning. So I was assigned to clean the 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:40.600 oven at the Mallard mansion. And I learned, as handy 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.399 man Mallard that it is not that easy. This job 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.840 is not for anyone. It's not for sissy's. So this 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.040 is like a big mass cleaning situation. And I was, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.800 as I said, tagged with beautifying the oven. And I 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.159 took the job for sures and um. The wife had 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.400 recommended some YouTube video she found it that they said 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.080 this is the way to clean the Okay, I'll do 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.760 that whatever. I don't care. So it involved ove and 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:14.159 off spray, which is a highly powerful I think you 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:17.520 might have used it before you used ove and off. Yeah, 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.920 it's a it's a rather powerful spray that will use 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:24.880 very simple. I followed the instruction you spray it on 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.359 and then you let it sit and then for like 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.680 an hour, and then you you kind of rub off 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:34.080 the chemical and then you soak it in hot water 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.679 and then wash it again and then you're good. And 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.080 by the time I got done with this, I was 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:48.160 as high as like Cooper loop on four. I needed 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.320 a stand I guess standing eight count. I was almost 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.359 overwhelmed by the fumes of the oven off. I I 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:57.879 don't know if I used too much of it or 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.159 I don't know what. There was bad circulation, but I 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:05.399 was a little wonky for a for a fair amount 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.840 of time. That was I was not expecting that. And 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:10.960 it was funny because I was kicking myself because I 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:12.640