WEBVTT - Prison Sentence 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.400 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.880 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.160 pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:29.120 Maller starts right now that it does in a hello 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.200 to you. Whenever you listen to the podcast, the odd 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.880 think about podcast as you can listen to the morning, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.159 you can listen to the afternoon, the evening. I think 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.000 you figured that out by now. But welcome in as 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.960 we are in the air everywhere, the vast power of 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:46.240 the I Heart podcast Network, the global reach of podcasting 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.680 not constrained by the Federal Communications Commission. No no, no no. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.319 We can say fuck on the podcast. Yes we can. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.120 Occasionally we do, but I try not to do that 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.440 because here's the problem. All right, I'm trying to limit 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.800 my prof and I'm gonna explain during the podcast why 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.560 I'm trying to limit my profanity. I had an epiphany 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.720 before I was doing this, and so I will explain 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.680 coming up. Even though I began by saying fuck, I 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.640 will explain why I'm trying to limit my profanity. And uh, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.200 it is the fifth Hour with Ben Mallory and and 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.480 because four hours or not enough in the Overnight show, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.360 four hours and not enough. And this is eight days 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.680 a week, that's right now. Because of the pandemic, we 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.920 started cranking out more podcast than the salt mines here 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.800 of my heart. And so we do this podcast for 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.960 you Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just like that. Rat tat 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.120 tat is how it works. You figure that out. The 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.840 subscribe be part of it and uh and all that 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.560 and for better or worse, yet again, the people that 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:53.080 run this company have put me with David gascon offetually 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.760 known in the followays have you ever come to Fox 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:02.760 Sports Radio, He's known as gat On. It's been a 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.880 rather peculiar week for me. Ben. It's oh, yeah, you 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.720 want to share your life story here with us? You 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.320 want to yeah, you know Uma. Earlier in the week, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.639 I was actually pleasantly surprised by a couple of alarming 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.320 compliments by you. Um, and then I took my act 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.000 to social media and I was blindsided by your better half, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.240 your your wife took a swipe and a shot at me, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.960 and so weird paradigm that's going on right now. I'm 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.200 not really comfortable with all this, but uh, that's where 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.720 I mat and where we're at as I just want 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.239 to point out for the deep state people, the conspiracy 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.880 people that believe that there's some funny business going on, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.160 that Gascon didn't even make it to the two minute 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.960 thirty second mark in the podcast without mentioning my wife's name, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.680 so that that will of course feed. That's like jet 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.280 fuel for the conspiracy here a gascon. So thank you 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.400 for throwing red meat into the lines. Then I do 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.600 appreciate ate that. Very helpful, very helpful. To be perfectly transparent. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.560 You were actually on a show that I was on 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.600 earlier in the week with Rob Parker and Chris Brossard, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.040 and Rob Parker brought up your wife, So that is true. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.119 That was equally awkward. That was equally awkward as well. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.079 And I my wife loves it because she's getting all 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.560 this attention to get big head and all that. You know, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.680 I said, you gotta be you gotta keep level headed. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.000 You know you can't. You know, I don't just because 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.880 these guys are big fans you can't. You know, you 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.680 gotta be on the even keel. You know, I'm the 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.280 man of the people. You gotta be the woman of 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.800 the people. You can't be like this elitist, snobbish west 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.680 of the four oh five type of additive because I'll 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.920 go deranged if that happens. I I don't want to 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.720 become unhinged or anything like that. But yeah, you actually 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.000 did help me out. You and it was shocked because 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.000 you tipped me off to what was my favorite story 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.800 of the week. Yeah. I got a text from guest guy. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.360 He's like, hey, do you see this thing with Blake Snell? 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.160 As like, you know, I don't watch twitch, and uh, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.000 sure enough, he sent me. He sent me the story 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:05.760 and I looked there. I had did some research on it, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.000 added some stuff to it, and we put a monologue together. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.920 That was my favorite monologue of the week because I 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.440 love talking about the senseless whack job, you know, I 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.960 just love it, the the nonsense and and just Blake 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.080 Snell is everything to hate about professional athletes. And I 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.000 love sports, and I have friends that are ex athletes 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.160 and I get along with them, but that is like 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:33.640 the the ultimate asshole donkey. Uh, Mama, Luke, you can 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.320 possibly have. And so I wish nothing but bad things 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.799 to Blake Snell because he's just an idiot. Everyone's taking 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.760 pay cuts, got you guys still gonna make over a 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.120 million dollars and he's sitting there bitching and complaining. It's 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.919 just out all control, is what it is. So I 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.200 did that's a that's a good job by you. You know, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.160 it's you know, Coop sends me like seven or eight 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.480 stories a day, and I based my monologues around those, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.919 unless he doesn't. So I wanted to give you the 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.080 proper credit on the I was a little hesitant because 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.760 it's stun because you actually you had You are the 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.880 probably only person I know on planet Earth that actually 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.760 had the audacity to open up a show with a 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.240 Blake Snell monologue and you did that. Correct me if 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.960 I'm wrong. I think you did this two years ago 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.400 just before the All Star break. Yeah, I did, I remember, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.360 because you were very upset with me and you complained. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.039 Is that I can't believe it. You're you know, you 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.920 should be reprimanded by management. What are you doing a 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.279 Blake Snell? You know, he's just like complaining none stop, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.000 and uh yeah. At one point I think the we 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.560 were talking about um Blake Snell or I think it 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.920 was baseball. It was I did one last year was 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.200 like Blake Snell or Chris Sale, like who's gonna who? 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.840 Who had the more concerning perform or something, and I 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.560 ranted more about Blake Snell and I was like, you know, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.760 at that time, I was like, hey, I would like 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.640 to Dodgers to get this guy, you because he had 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.120 a bad start. But I think these guys been a 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:03.960 pretty good picture and he's a pretty good picture. It's 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.000 just a dick, um, you know. That's it. Uh and 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.040 uh And now I don't want the Dodgers to get 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.080 him at all. I want nothing to do with Blakes now. Um. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.080 But yeah, I mean those are the kind of stories 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.080 that are just they don't happen that often. And fortunately 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.400 this is a pandemic that we had time to fully 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.680 invest in it. And uh and I saved it. I 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.359 saved it for the last hour. You know. We went 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.840 on that big new affiliate in Dallas, which I'm very 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.960 excited about. I told the story on the air, but 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.440 we're on the ticket now, the major station in Dallas, 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.640 and I tried to get a job at the Ticket 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.919 when I was in my younger days, when I was 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.919 first starting out, I was actually working for Hacks on 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.320 San Diego, and I had sent the tape out, you know, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.080 that's how you did it, a cassette tape and a 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.560 resume or what. I don't resume because I hadn't done anything. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.040 And so I sent it out to all these radio 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.719 stations and they rejected me. And I had they were 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.360 in the box somewhere, and I gotta go down my 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.440 dad's house. I kept a shoe box filled with rejection 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.520 letters from from like w e I kJ R in Seattle, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:11.320 k n b R in San Francisco, the Ticket in Dallas, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.600 the Score in Chicago, and all these big sports stations 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.960 that would not even dare hire me. And uh w 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.520 f A N was on that list, w I P 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.800 in Philadelphia and all I just like I assumed, I 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.840 just walked into like a top fifteen market, you know, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.240 with no problem, and didn't happen. But it's great. The 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.640 Tickets a wonderful brand, if you will, in sports talk, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.800 very loyal following, and so it's exciting to be on 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:41.360 a big new radio station and U and the timing 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.920 is perfect. And I say that because of this you 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.400 hear this a lot, especially since you know you do 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.440 vo stuff. Is that at times people can oddly enough, 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.520 people can hear you smile. And I think for the 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.880 first time in quite a while, under this quarantine, I 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:02.840 actually heard you smile via Sweet. And it was earlier 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.080 in the week with the Deshaun Watson fiasco, and it 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.720 was like you were like a pig and slop. You 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.880 were so giddy about this Deshaun Watson fiasco. I just like, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.200 this is this is butter on the bread baby. Yeah. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.760 Well yes, and me and DeShawn have sparred in the 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.280 past and uh and all that, and I know he's worshiped. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.000 But I always get a kick out of these guys 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:32.319 that are insufferable big stars that just are thin skinned 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.440 and can't deal with people you know, on social media 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.840 or people in the media and all this. But Deshaun Watson, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.160 he lied, He got caught lying, and then he tried 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:45.560 to get his way out of it. He had the 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.320 people around him, his confidence. He was like, well, no, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.440 everyone loves before the draft, Okay, I guarantee you if 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.359 Deshaun Watson this involved Gottlieb because Gottlieb. It was reacting 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.200 to a common Gottlieb made on Fox. But um, but 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.160 my point is this, like if if he hey, he 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.080 he had realized and and remembered Deshaun Watson that he 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.720 had and he was he was talking about black quarterbacks, 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.760 he implied the Chicago Bears or like the KKK essentially, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.559 and that's what the story was. And then you know, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.920 the woke Twitter all got a you know, their panties 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.520 in a bunch and they were all upset and so uh. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.480 They had the marching morons who were like running around 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.080 just unloading on the Chicago Bears. We're not having black 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.160 quarterbacks and they didn't want to even talk to Deshaun Watson. Well, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.120 then there's audio of Deshaun Watson talking about it on 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.280 the Dan Patrick Show. And then they go back and 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.439 look at some of the reports and they were like, 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.640 wait a minute, the Bears, GM and coach were at 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.360 Clemson's pro day to watch Deshaun Watson work out. Wait 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.440 a minute here, uh, And they were like one of 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.640 only four teams to send both their coach and GM, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.719 which would lead one to believe that they were there 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:54.920 to see Deshaun Watson and to consider contemplate drafting Deshaun Watson. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.480 So his story completely unraveled as it turns out. And uh, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.160 and so you know, he was caught red handed and 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:08.119 I took full advantage, full advantage of unloading on the ragamuffin. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.760 And uh and I did. And did you have any 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.840 media personalized come at you, like any reporters, anchors or 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.520 writers at all? Because you go through Gottlieb's timeline and 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.120 you had people from ESPN, people from CBS, and they 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.960 looked like a lot of former colleagues and they just 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.840 obviously want to get their body shots and and you're like, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.480 wait a minute. Be sure to catch live editions of 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.040 The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.680 eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.120 Heart Radio app. You're talking about before the other part 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.120 came out right when the initial you talking about the 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.320 initial thing before? Sean, Yeah, I mean because listen ESPN 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.400 and particular I got friends that were there, Jack sniffers. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.000 You know, that's the test, you know, Yeah, that's how 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.320 you do it. You have sniff all the athletes ship 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.560 and just love it. And uh, you know a lot 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.679 of these people, so I listen. My my position, uh 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.120 is yeah, I did see some of it. And as 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.760 far as me being attacked by by media people, I 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.959 have been assaulted by like a lot of like local 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.680 small time you know, your town small time, the media 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.480 small time when they're like, uh, ambassadors to the team. 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.520 You know, it's like I I've gotten into it with 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.160 sports writers in Cleveland and Phoenix for good reason, a 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.920 couple of other locations and uh yeah, I mean listen, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.280 it's all the just slabber slabber slabber lick lick lick. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.520 They want to give these athletes a manny and a 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.360 petty and it's it's disturbing, but it goes on all 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.520 the time, and you know, it's like whatever, it's it's 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.040 it's it's ridiculous, is what it is. But it is 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.000 the way it is. And you know, I choose not 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.320 to do that kind of radio where you just give 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.200 guys bubble baths. I know you do that something you 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.439 like to give a little neck massage to the guys. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.559 Want to be fair though, you know this like when 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.920 you work for a local or regional affiliate or a team, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.040 a lot of your advertising dollars are pushed towards that product, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.840 and so you can't be lightning a fire to your 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.920 own feet for the sake of just having a hot 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.439 take out there, or you know, for all intents of 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.280 purposes a legit sincere take. Well, that's true, but you 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.480 also don't need to give them a Swedish massage. You know, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.960 there's a balance there, And it seems like a lot 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:32.480 of these guys are just you know, they love the nuts, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.000 you know what I'm saying. But it's slurp slip slip slip, slip, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.200 slip slip slip, slurp slip. But it's odd, right because 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.880 you wake up every day around two or three o'clock 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.440 in the afternoon and your your Twitter account is just 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.040 guys giving you a tongue bath. It's not It's not. No, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.200 that's not true at all. I think so like guys 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:55.600 are I know, the attack dogs are out the attack poodles. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.079 I got attacked by the attack poodles this week. Why 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.119 I tweeted out a story from there was a Yahoo's 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.280 story which actually they picked up from some other news 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.920 site because Yahoo just aggregates a lot most of their stuff. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.439 So but it was about the state of Florida and 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:17.000 Georgia reopening, and how the coronavirus cases had gone down 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.320 even though they reopened. And so this was a tremendously 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.600 exciting piece of information because, as I pointed out, when 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.000 the announcement came down first for Georgia back in late April, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.200 and you know, it's only a couple of weeks back, 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.000 and they had said, hey, we're going to reopen, and uh, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.760 I watched the news, and I went on the internet 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.800 and went to the websites, the mainstream news media, and 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.920 they had experts on that said, this is going to 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.360 be terrible. Uh, this is going to be horrific that 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.440 people are gonna, you know, die, and the the tremendously 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.640 in the coronavirus raid is gonna go through the roof 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.400 and blood on the hands of the politicians in Georgia, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.360 blood on the hands of the politicians in Florida. Now 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:03.480 keep in mind, at they opened up Georgia, there were 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.560 still a bunch of restrictions in place. It's not like 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.080 they completely opened it up and said all right, everyone 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.120 run a muck and everything's the way it was. There 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.720 were restrictions on how many people can go into the businesses, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.400 and things like that. Um, and yet the mainstream media 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.559 is like just oh yeah, this is gonna be doom 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.760 and glowm and all this stuff. So I treated out 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.680 the story. It said, Hey, this and this is this 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.280 is great news. The uh, the numbers are going down, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.520 and I think we should all celebrate this this. You know, 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.000 we're all in this together and this is wonderful. So 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.680 what do you think happened? Guests on to the attack poodles? 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.320 What do you think the attack Poodles did to me? 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.640 I think they were probably calling you insensitive, uh your 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.120 far right wing? Oh yeah, yeah. They were comparing me 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:47.240 to Alex Jones that very similar, tweeting out a story 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.120 from Yahoo and uh, you know, going full Alex Jones. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.760 By the way, I'm not an Alex Jones guy, but 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.640 I don't think you should be banned the way he's 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.320 been banned. I think it's ridiculous that because you people 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.200 don't like what he says, he's not allowed to say it. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.440 To me, that's very Unamerican, Like I think I I 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.000 My problem is I give people the benefit of the doubt. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.440 Like a lot of people don't like what I say 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.440 and just don't listen. You know don't. But but by powering, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.280 whether it's Alex Jones or anybody in the media, by powering, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.320 by empowering them, and by admitting, oh, I'm so offended 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.160 by what you're saying, you're actually giving them more power. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.760 And these idiots don't realize. It's like there are people 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.960 that say stuff all the time like that's bullshit this 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.720 you know that this guy's an idiot or whatever, and 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.560 I don't pay attention to him. But it's like people 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.920 lost that skill somewhere along the way, you know, And 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.080 I don't know why, and but you know, somewhere along 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:46.520 the way, and it's like stick. When I was a kid, 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.480 I learned sticks and stones may break your bones, but 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.880 names will never harm you. Somewhere we lost that. Well. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.600 I think social media allowed people to lose it on 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.720 their own accord, because you're so quick to respond that 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.720 how often. I'm a little bit different in this regard that. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.480 You know, even if something I don't agree with or 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.160 I think it's just straight bs, like you said, I 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.160 like to at least listen to it. I mean, I 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.440 listened to all kinds of things, guilty information overload, but 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.400 I like to at least listen to people, like their perspective, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.920 their context, how they're actually viewing these things. I like 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.200 to do that, and for me, especially in this situation, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.480 we got friends all across the country. So different states 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.800 have different governors, they have different doctors that are working 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.600 in different hospitals, and so you gotta get the lay 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.520 of the land. You know. Here in Los Angeles, I 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.680 get friends at work at us A Medical Center in 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.560 Westwood and Santa Monica down in Torrance, and they're telling 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.640 me things they are drastically different than friends that are 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.360 in Orange County at different hospitals out there. So yeahs you. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.240 I've told the story for I was growing up. My 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.400 my dad conservative, my mom miss you rest in peace, 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.920 a liberal, and I as a little kid when I 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.720 was eating my salmon patties with my mac and cheese 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.120 as a little Betty, and that's the last time I 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.880 eat fish was salmon pat as my mom would make 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.160 and with the onions on top, and uh, and I 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.840 like the onions because they were burned up. And my 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.679 mom and dad would debate about the political news of 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.200 the day, and I'd get my mom's side to get 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.720 my dad's side, and I just listen to everything that. Yeah, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.560 I mean I watched all this stuff and you know 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.919 a lot. That's another skill, like just being able to 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.240 consume all sides without oh my god, my my new michigas. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.239 And this is really a problem once you Once you 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.720 go down this rabbit hole, what I'm about to tell you, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.440 there's no going back. Um, so be careful. I'm putting 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.359 a disclaimer on this. But when I'm watching the news, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.520 I say that near quotes, I look for the weasel words, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.159 and then I just I'm incited. Uh you know what 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.960 I mean, Like I'm like, oh, I got ways of 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:51.520 ways wide, you know, and I there's there's so overwhelming, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:18:00.520 They're so overwhelming here, Uh could may might maybe po possibly, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.240 you know, all of these things, all of these things 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:09.240 are just that's how the news is done without weasel words. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.240 You cannot have the news. I'm convinced you cannot have 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.640 the news without projections. That's essentially what you're doing. All 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:22.520 the world shut down because of projections, not because of facts, 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.920 because of projections, which is amazing to me. And and 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.840 it's like, okay, let's take the position. That's good, that's 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.480 the right thing to you. And I don't totally disagree 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.359 with that that that is the proper thing. If people 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:35.600 tell you a bunch of people are gonna die, you 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.760 have to do this or other people gonna die. That's 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.360 completely reasonable for politicians to do it. But then when 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.879 the data comes back and tells you the opposite, that 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.760 it's not nearly as bad as the initial reports out 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.520 of Wuhan, China, then you have to say, Okay, who 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.199 needs to be quarantined here? Clearly, if you're someone of 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.840 a certain age and you have pre existing conditions and 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.200 you've got these problems, I feel you've got to continue 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.760 the quarantine. But if you look at the numbers for 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:07.520 people that are younger and people that are you know, 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.960 at a certain age, without the pre existing conditions and 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.600 all that stuff, you have a better chance of crossing 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.960 the streets several times getting hit by a bus than 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.520 dying of the coronavirus. But yet you tell people that 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:22.080 and you're oh my god, you're You're just such an asshole. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.280 I can't listen to you anymore. I was like, oh 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.440 my god, does it Does it make you nervous? When 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.760 you're always on a tight rope, uh, hanging from the 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.520 third rail? You have I think like in some way 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.240 as that we we've pushed you towards that. But well, no, no, 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.040 I was, I was. I don't. I'm not like people 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.280 are starting to think like I'm this political guy. I'm not. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.200 I'm really not. I I just am very I'm very 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.640 concerned that my life's work is gonna go away here 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.440 because of this, uh, this pandemic. To be honest with you, 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:53.639 I mean, I think that's a big part of it. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.280 And if I thought that everyone was gonna die, I 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.480 would be like, Okay, you know what, well, well this 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.520 is the right thing to do. But this is the 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.199 wrong thing to do. And I because I worked a 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:04.520 long time in radio, I think the show is going 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.200 pretty well. But I'm telling you, if the global recession 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.720 kicks in and the country stays mostly shut down, I'll 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.639 eventually lose my job. It's going to happen, um, and 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.359 so I'd like to avoid that. I like my job. 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.840 I feel like I've gotten a pretty good place at it. 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.720 I have friends of mine that have already lost their jobs. Uh. 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.440 And I just think it's unnecessary. If if I felt 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.119 it was necessary, that would be different. I don't think 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.240 it's necessary. I think it's irrational. I think what's happening 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.960 now because of the science that's out there which is encouraging, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.719 and to have reckless disregard to that science that you know, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:44.480 to what is the new truth, is just very upsetting. Yeah, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.520 but you know, you you mentioned it with your life's work. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.639 It's not just you, like people that are listening and 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.280 have listened. I mean you think about it as a 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.520 micro or a macro. People that are our age or 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.280 a little bit older, a little bit younger, that have 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.080 been fortunate with income and resources, they're also losing their 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.240 life's work and it's gonna take a long time to recover, 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:07.639 like you mentioned. So yeah, yeah, I mean it depends 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:09.119 how older. I guess if you're you're you know, of 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:10.639