WEBVTT - Down & Nearly Out 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.720 Have you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.239 was enough? I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.240 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.440 break free for something special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:28.800 starts right now. That it does, and we are in 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:34.360 the air everywhere the vast power of I Heart the 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.479 global reach of podcasting, as we are everywhere. You can 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:43.000 download the podcast her weekly. Even when my tongue is 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.440 all mangled. I am such a glutton for punishment coming 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.400 in here, especially having to work with David Gascon. I mean, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.040 my god, what a nightmare. But it's all part of 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:57.920 the I Heart podcast network. Available wherever you get your podcast, 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.760 you can hear this show, and I'd like to give 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.920 you the menu. I I'm told you don't need to 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.320 do this in a podcast, but what the hell now? Normally, 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.160 if this was a successful podcast, I would be reading 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.880 like Joe Rogan, like seven minutes of commercials. Uh, there 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.800 are no commercials. I'm reading right now, zero zippo bub kiss. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.080 That's a bad job by you by a damn commercial anyway. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:28.840 On the menu today we have the Apology Tour Wordy 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.080 study this because I love that, and also we will 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.800 have It's in the bag. Your your questions are answers, 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:44.319 and don't stick the sports bizarre jumbalayah of craziness from 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:49.279 around the world and none of them really sports stories. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.680 You You will be enthralled with this show, unless you're not. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.200 I have been told by someone on Twitter that the 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.160 fifth Hour with Ben Maller is like a Norman Rockwell 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.640 painting from back in the old days. It's like apple 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.480 pie and baseball. It's all of those things. And Gascon, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.919 are you awake? Guy? I gotta carry this show, are 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.680 you there? Gascon? I think that's a huge compliment to 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.240 to me right, because that I have to carry you 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.080 on my back. Even when my tongue is all messed up. Still, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.160 you're playing itself way too much. No, I'm not. I 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.800 am not. I should send out a photo of my 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.640 throbbing tongue, which he is, uh is in a great 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.000 amount of But you can literally see the agony, all right, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.440 and then you will you will suddenly change you too. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.240 So has the Mrs put you on the injured reserve list. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.640 Then that's the bigger question. Well, she has tried to 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.560 and I have pushed back. I actually did feel better. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.760 Here's the problem, Gascon and I have a great medical 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.760 background from years of practicing medicine on radio and helping athletes, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.679 sanitize athletes, clean them up, fixed athletes and all that. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.040 But uh yeah, so I I typically the way it 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.440 goes is I'll feel better during the day because I'm 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.000 not talking, uh, and I'll do the usual bells and 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.960 whistles the stuff too. They treat it the injury when 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.680 you bite your tongue really bad. But then the problem 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.160 is I I go in and do the show, and 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.960 then by the second segment of the overnight show, Uh, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.520 it is uh freaking brutal, man, it is. Uh So 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.120 it's it's basically rinse, wash, repeat, and so I just 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.960 have to batten down the hatches. Now. I'm hoping that 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.840 this weekend, where you know, this podcast was being aired, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.880 that wall that's going on, I will I will have 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:42.320 no longer the pain there. But it's quite the new 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.880 hookie what I've developed. I don't know the origin of 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.160 the story. What did you do to bite it? Onto 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.880 your tongue pretty hard. Well, thanks for listening to the show. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.960 I'm usually a week. I appreciate that. Very very loyal, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.360 very supportive. Thank you. Uh well, you know, a Sunday, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.920 my wife was working and I made a pizza. I 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.440 like to make pizza on Sunday watching football because that's 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.920 a man's food, pizza, pizza and football. And so I 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.600 made the pie and just like normal, nothing spectacular. I mean, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.760 there are a few issues actually making the pie because 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.320 the pizza stuck to the pan, which is a pain 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.920 in the ass. But but anyway, Um, I got it 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.640 done and I cut the pizza. I made it from scratch, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.119 cut it up, put a couple of pieces on my plate, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.440 went sat down to watch. Uh. This was like the 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.119 early part of the late TV window. So I had 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:40.760 the Rams game on. I had the Cardinals Seahawks. Um. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.960 I was flipping around to a couple of different games. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.640 I forgot what there were a couple other ones. Yeah yeah, yeah, 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.720 Minshew Mania Gardner, Minshew who I keep calling Gary for 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.640 some reason. I don't know why. But but b anyway, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.760 so I'm sitting down and eat the pizza and uh, 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.160 you know, I by it into the pizza and fine, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:05.680 second by uh, and then I made a miscalculation and uh, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.360 I was in deep water. My tongue was in it 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:13.440 just got bitten really bad. And yeah, I figured, Oh, 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.200 it's no big deal. I mean, I mean kind of 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.680 woos is upset with a bitten tongue. But I have 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.720 the only job that you can have where if you 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.920 have an injured tongue, it's a problem. All two, you're 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:32.200 also married, so needs come into play. So clearly that's 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:33.520 why I was curious if your wife put you on 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.080 the injured reserve list, because right now you're you're not 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.320 doing too much. You can't slug as as much as 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.600 you possible. I mean, I'm in the injury a tent. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.839 Somebody pointed out that I sound occasionally like little Holds 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.240 because there's a little bit of a list there. But 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.120 it's not my fault, So I don't feel shame in that. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.560 I don't have any real vanity about that because it's 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.520 an injury. Are you purposely trying to derail the product 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.240 the podcast? Because every week it sounds like your voice 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.920 is just it when you first kick it off, and 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.240 now you have this element. These are like different things 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.479 that I have to overcome to promote this podcast, which 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.120 is there. There is no promotion. You do nothing, There 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.400 is absolutely nothing. And I know you have the gag 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.600 on parody account that you've run, but other than that, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.120 I mean, what are we talking about here? Yeah? My 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.680 goal is to sabotage this every week? How can I 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.039 f up the podcast? How can I how can I 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.040 ship all over the pocket? That is my goal every week? Okay? 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.240 And how am I doing? Right? Then? I think it's 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.359 kind of fair, right because you're because your colleagues torpedo 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.520 your show money through Friday, and so now you torpedo 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.200 your own podcast. Well, I learned. I learned how to 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.560 destroy a radio show from years of being a witness 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.279 to the radio show being destroyed, and so I figured 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.960 out why not right not go the other way? Speaking 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.960 of which, we gotta put this out there, but I 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.240 want to ask you, before asking any of the listeners 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.480 on this, when are we gonna have our first guest? 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.760 And in what kind of capacit? See we'll he or 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.479 she be on the show. We're gonna get a sports figure, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.919 a coach, a political junkie, and entertainer, Like, where are 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.480 we going with this? Next? Be sure to catch live 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.160 editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.040 Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.080 I Heart Radio app. Alright, so here's the way I 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.440 look at this now. I know that the podcast game, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.680 a lot of it is dependent on people love interviews, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.560 they love hearing famous people. There's a lot of celebrity worshiping. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.280 All that. I get it. I'm not much different. I 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.280 when I listened to a certain podcasts that are in 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.480 my rotation, and if I see a guest I recognize, 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.440 I will be more likely to download that episode of 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.880 the podcast. I I understand that, but that a couple 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.840 of things. It's not what we normally do. But I 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.760 I like, I don't mind doing the interviews here. Uh, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.280 and I think it would be good. This is the 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.200 perfect format, So I I I'd like to bring on 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.920 some people, like a wide range of people. The problem 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:06.120 is gas on. Second thing here is you know you 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.160 don't like production meeting, You're You're like the laziest guy 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:14.600 in the West. It's talking about content throughout the entire 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.280 week that you actually use on your radio show. You 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.280 use words and Texas I send you with your opening monologue. Yes, correct, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.360 you don't even give me credit for that. What do 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.080 you want me? You think that you're you're being I'm 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.960 not admiring you. You don't know. Yes, No, okay, listen 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.400 to me, gas okay, uh, this show this inside radio, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.960 or in this case, inside podcasting. So I roll into 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.839 the studio three hours of sleep, right, three hours of sleep. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.640 I rolled into this, this studio that we do the 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:54.400 podcast from, and gas on. No, Hey, what are we 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.959 talking about today? None of that's totally amateur and it 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.000 just wants to turn the mics on and start talking, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.079 talking and figure it out as we go. What I'm 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.240 on a minor league operation that I have to work 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:10.880 the budget podcasting for a budget show, right, wow, unbelief? No, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.640 and no, hey, how's your tongue? None of that, I mean, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.760 what's up with that? Because one, I'm talking to you 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.920 for the next couple of hours too. I'm gonna see 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.920 you later on today. Three maybe not, I'll be here 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.000 calling sick. You're not gonna call him sick, you know, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.480 I mean, calling sick during the dog days of summer. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.400 You're not gonna call him. I'll change my ways here. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.600 Maybe I will be pressured and bullied calling, and you've 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.520 got enough guys on your staff that take time off 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.080 during football season. I don't think you're going to I 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.560 know Eddie's going to Uh it's a shot at Eddie. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.440 By the way, Eddie's going to Chicago. They'll miss some 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.520 shows didn't go to two years ago. Yeah, and he 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.000 went to here up a couple years ago. But now 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.800 he's also he's going to Chicago for a Charger Bears game, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.520 and we're trying to have him meet Doc Mike. Connie's 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:05.120 piecing Chicago and Doc's got his friend Frankie. You've never 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.400 met Doc Mike. No, you gotta meet Doc. If you 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.440 go to Chicago, you gotta meet this guy. Uh. What 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.280 an unbelievable character. I met him one time for a 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.040 few hours in Kansas City, and he is he didn't 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.679 even know what a podcast is, so we can rip 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.640 the ship out of him. But uh, he is bizarro world. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.960 I mean, I love the guy. He's quite a character. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.559 I don't know that I'd love him if I live 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.080 next door to him, but I don't live next door 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.240 to him. And uh, he's done some of the most 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:38.319 ridiculous stuff I'm any Mallard militia person, Doc Mike, who's 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.080 been with me longer than like of the people that 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.360 that call the show and whatnot, the characters on the show. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.959 And uh, I mean going to Michael Vick, going to 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:52.000 Leavenworth Prison to interview Michael. Yeah, yeah, when he was 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.360 in jail, and and he called me up outside Leavenworth 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.600 Prison for like four nights in a row, and he 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.360 kept going in thinking he was gonna talk to Michael 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.000 Vick and and they kept denying him because Vick didn't 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.640 know who the you know, who the hell he was 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.800 or whatever. So, uh, that was great. The goat head 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.240 thing he called up as he was dropping off a 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.920 goat head at at Wrigley Field multiple times, the Curse 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:23.000 of the Billy Goat and all that, and occasionally that 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.400 made national news. And uh, one of the funniest was 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.479 the old mayor of Chicago, Rama Manuel. Uh, this guy 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.840 after it was Cubs opening day and Doc Mike such 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.679 a whacker doodle. He shows up to Wrigley and he 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:44.719 drops the goat head off the Cubs offices in a box, right, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:49.640 so the secretary of the Cubs takes the goat head. No, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.520 it was a goat head because he didn't open the box. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.679 It was for the owner of the Cubs. And then 0:11:53.720 --> 0:12:00.199 somebody in the Cub's office and opened the box and surprise, surprise, surprise. Wait. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.640 Rob Emmanuel, the mayor of Chicago at the time, he 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.040 got up on the microphone and he looked right in 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.240 the camera and he said that the city of Chicago, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.800 we'll use all police resources to find out who did this. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.760 All right, we are, We're gonna spare no expense. You know, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.720 I'm giving a paraphrasing, and uh, and I was just laughing. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.840 I said, I can play the voicemail as he did 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.560 it if you want, so let's do it. And even 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.560 Doc was like, oh, the police don't care. I think 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.720 he's stupid. They don't, they don't care. And they didn't 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.959 they never never bothered. That's like what they did with 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.439 Jesse smallertt. This is something straight out that movie Seven. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.080 Have you seen that movie? Uh? I don't think I have. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.839 Seven was with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman and Kevin 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.760 Spacey and Kevin Spacey is just a serial killer and 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.640 one of his final acts as he kills uh brad 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.320 Pitt's wife. He was a detective at the time, David Mills, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.640 and he chops off her head, puts it in a 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.720 box and they go out in the middle of nowhere 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.240 here in California, like out in the desert, and he 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.520 opens up the box and sees it as his wife's 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.760 head and she was on top that she was pregnant too. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.880 So it's wonderful. This is great. That's a great movie. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.679 Solid movie. It sounds like a Is that a kids movie? Yes? Yes, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.760 a Disney movie PG. Yes. It's available on Disney also online. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.320 You can download it anytime. Bambi's mom. He cut the 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.439 head off. It's a great that's a great move. Man, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.600 Like I gotta meet Doc Mike. Now, don't you think 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.160 like Walt Disney was a sick bastard? I mean, all 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.840 these moms dying in movies. Who wants their mom to die? 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.840 I meanyone loves her mom, right, I mean, come on, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.160 how many movies? How many movies do you have a 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.520 girl or a woman dying though back from the dead. Well, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.640 the traditional Hollywood story Damsel in distress and all that 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:51.600 you know, and the Shining Night, uh, the night writing 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.320 in and all that. I mean, there's only there's only 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.920 a few different storylines. I mean, that's the odd thing 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.920 about somebody the movie business told me, explain to the 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.680 this to me many many years ago, and he was 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.240 absolutely right that there's only I don't know that. I 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.600 don't have to look up. I wrote down what they were, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.920 but there's only a few different stories that are used 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.960 in Hollywood. And and that's it. I mean, uh, and 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.720 so it's it's odd the way that people write. But anyway, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.240 that's not somebody to talk about here, I guess. I mean, well, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.120 I mean, do you watch a lot of HBO or 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:34.120 Showtime shows? Uh? Not a lot. I mean I I 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.560 loved some of the stuff on HBO, but I don't 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.240 I don't have a DVR right now, so I don't 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.400 record a lot of stuff. So it's pretty much I 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.200 have to be up watching. We have HBO on demand, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:47.960 so I guess I can watch stuff on there. You 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.960 HBO goes. Somebody has to tell me something that's like, hey, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.280 I gotta watch that. Well, okay, So season one of 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.680 True Detective was fantastic with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.200 Another show that's fantas Asset that's ending at the start 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.840 of next year's Homeland, Claire Danes is in that she's 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.920 just she's diabolical, but she's uh, she's fantastic. A lot 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.560 of that show is just based on current events of 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.479 today's political atmosphere, so you see a lot of crossover. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.600 But those two shows come to my mind just immediately 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.640 to the the jump out. There obviously a lot different from 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.680 what we see in the regular landscape of CBS and 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:28.200 Fox and NBC with the regular programming money through Friday. Yeah, no, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.480 I mean, listen, I liked a lot of stuff and 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.000 this they try different things and whatnot. But I mean, now, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.040 with like YouTube, anybody can put pretty good content out 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.800 and people can get The problem is getting an audience, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.920 but anybody can do it. But anyway, all right, let's 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.720 get on with the show. What oh yeah, be sure 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.440 to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.600 at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Well, are we 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.960 done with the production meeting? Is a highly combustible situation. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.000 What's that? So we're done with our production meeting now, 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.920 so we can move forward. And so let's uh, let's 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:04.680 push on Dick, all right, the apology tour and uh, 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.480 and this is We're starting with this only because it's 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.960 plausibly sporty. And I'm told that I need to mention 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.880 a little sports occasionally, because I think we told our 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.560 bosses it would be a little bit about sports, but 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:22.440 it's pretty much anything we want. I think it's a podcast. Uh. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.680 And and and the numbers tell me that some people 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.120 are actually listening, not many, but some. Anyway, the apology tour? 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.160 Who did it better? I mentioned this on the overnight program. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.920 Kirk Cousins on his radio show on CAFAN in Minnesota 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.800 apologize publicly to Adam feeling essentially for being bad at 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:49.120 his job right and and being as exciting as a 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:55.720 pancake with no syrup. And so anyway, Cousins apologizing all 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:01.080 this stuff. Uh, And well, I like accountability, and I 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.760 did a rant about accountability and all that this was 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.880 so ridiculous. Uh, this apology by by Cousins. He does 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.199 this all the time. He apologizes all the time, and 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.639 then he goes out and vomits all over the field, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.800 and then he comes back and apologize it again. And 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.960 occasion will have a good game, he won't apologize, and 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.320 they'll come back and have a crappy game and ship 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.640 all over the fifty yard line and then he will announce, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.720 you know, it's no big deal whatever, I'm sorry about it. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.560 So we had that, and then behind door number two 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.359 the Baltimore Orioles. Now this I I had not seen 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.520 this one. This is a wild story. So the Baltimore Orioles, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:41.520 who are not only a baseball team, they are an embarrassment, 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.000 all right. They aren't even close to being a competitive 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.480 baseball team. They are out in the back waters of 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.920 Major League Baseball. I cannot emphasize that enough. They are 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:59.840 so far away from even sniffing, even sniffing wild card content, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.240 and it's it's ridiculous. But the Orioles this week, in 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:09.000 a tremendous plot twist for fan appreciation, these seven people 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.280 that go to Orio games, uh, and the season ticket 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.560 holders are getting No it's not not all of them. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:23.080 They're getting hand written thank you notes saying things like 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:28.679 thank you and hang in there. How crazy is this? 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.360 I don't know, But you know what I recommend that 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.520 what we do after this podcast is over is I 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.639 can go to Right Aid or a thrifty store and 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.879 buy a bunch of thank you cards and we should 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.720 get the listeners addresses, and you should write thank you 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.680 cards for your tongue. I think that would be amazing 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.760 than I should get sympathy cards for having to work 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:55.840 with you. I think that would be my condolences on 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.720 the loss of your quality broadcasting career. So you could 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.920 just imagine that if you're a fan, would you rather 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.200 go to an Orioles baseball game or go to a 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.399 Miami Dolphins football game. That's the same. It's an you know, 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:12.080 it's uh either way, you're losing. It's a selfie's choice. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.359 There's no good choice in that. But but the the 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.800 Oriel thing. I got questions about this, right, were these 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.359 actually written by the Oriole players? Because it the story 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.760 made it it seemed like some of these came from 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.840 Oriole players, Like was this punishment like rememb when you 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.399 were a kid and you got sent to detention in 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.879 elementary school or junior high and you had to you 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.320 had to write out things as punishment. Is that whether 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.200 the Oriels did or did they actually hire a firm 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.439 that does this and outsource it and hire someone to 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.760 write all these notes make it seem like it came 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.840 from the players, because who would really know Yeah, well 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.520 it could be something like this. I don't know, if 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.480 you when you were younger and you went to elementary 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.399 school or even high school, if you're if your parents 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.840 would buy scripts or they'd have to do some kind 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:02.720 of service with your elementary high school, like community service 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.040 for them as opposed to making a donation. What if 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.280 it's like this or the oriole players are actually writing 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.280 these notes and then in turn they don't have to 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:14.760 do any additional community service work. Yeah, so this the sins, 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:19.840 the sins of being bad at baseball that is overlooked 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.720 as long as you write the note games back of 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.119 first place they finished this year. If I was Peter Angelos, 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.399 I would have just had Chris Davis. I would have 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.840 had him just write all the notes and none of 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.400 the other players would have had to write the notes 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.280 because he's the only one making any real money in 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.119 Baltimore and he is horseshit and has been that way 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.600 ever since he signed a contract. Yeah, but if you're Davis, 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.119 do you just hire a bunch of interns and have 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.040 him write something out that's legible. I mean, you just 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.040 sign your John Hancock on the bottom of it. So anyway, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.800 just to wrap up the apology thing. So I would 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:56.280 give the the edge here to none other than the Orioles. 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.080 If if and this is a key caveat here in 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.800 a qualifier, if the Oriole players actually were forced to 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:07.359 really write out, uh these these photos or not photos, 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.200 these letters. If that's the case, then that's I mean, 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.159 that's better than what cousins did. Anybody can go on 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.400 the radio show and and apologize. He keeps going down 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.080 that rabbit hole. It's like he's living in Alice in Wonderland. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.960 He's gonna get out of it, man. Anyway, all right, 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.399 wordy Now. I used to do this bit on the 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.080 Overnight show. I got rid of it, and some people 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:29.560 are saying, why don't you do it anymore? I'll do 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.600 it here. It's the fifth hour. I always say the 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:33.560 fifth hours for the crap we don't get to during 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.760 the week. Uh and it's you know, leftovers with gascon 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.480 but wordy word of the week. All right, now, I've 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.199 read this the other day, and I was unaware of this. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.920 There is a term that is regularly used by people 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:52.280 like myself sportscasters that is an homage to Michael Vick's 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:57.800 favorite sport, dog fighting. It has become part of our language. 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.920 Did you know this, guest, Like, for example, this weekend, 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:08.000 the Washington Redskins are fifteen and a half point underdogs 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.960 against the Patriots, right, I mean that's a big point spread. Yes, 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:18.520 so they are the underdog. Right. That term underdog comes 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:23.320 from the language of dog fights. Did you know that? Yeah? 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.600 The term underdogs start originally was used in in the 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:31.640 lexicon in the late nineteenth century, and it was related 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.000 to dog fights and what would happen in those fights. 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.080 They would obviously put two dogs, and two dogs would 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:42.840 attack each other, and whoever lost, whichever dog was declared 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:46.440 the loser was termed the underdog because they were under 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.880 the other dog who was eating them, and the winner 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:55.600 was called what was called top dog. So both those 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.280