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Speaker 1: the masses demand more. They demand more every day, no
Speaker 1: days off, no days off. And so we are here
Speaker 1: and yet again, right over there, coming in from west
Speaker 1: of the four oh five crossing, just across the four
Speaker 1: oh five David gascon. It's a pleasure to be here,
Speaker 1: as as always a little rough to get off the
Speaker 1: freeway and head eastbound off the four oh five freeway,
Speaker 1: but unlike my counterpart, I actually drive to work. I
Speaker 1: take the extra step. I don't have a luxury of
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollar equipment in my house that I can
Speaker 1: do from my happy beds. So I am here. I'm
Speaker 1: loud and proud. It's gonna be here. And before you
Speaker 1: diff gold, Now, is it difficult for you to pull
Speaker 1: the victim card out right away from the bottom of
Speaker 1: the da you had at the top? You know, because
Speaker 1: today today's society, it's profitable to be a victim. And
Speaker 1: that is true. It's profitable to say that I am
Speaker 1: a victim of Back in the old days, I heard
Speaker 1: that society used to say, no, just suck it up
Speaker 1: and don't be a victim. But now they don't want
Speaker 1: you to suck anything up. They don't want you to
Speaker 1: just let you know, it's like water off a duck's back,
Speaker 1: or they don't want that. No, No, you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta have everything soaking and be angry. You need to
Speaker 1: be angry, triggered whatever it maybe lie in the middle
Speaker 1: of the road. Um, before we get into any kind
Speaker 1: of nonsense, Wheeler, yesterday was was fantastic. That is a
Speaker 1: great get for you from you appreciate that a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to I. I just rolled through my phone list.
Speaker 1: Here another big name that happens to be in my
Speaker 1: phone book on my iPhone, and we'll have to go
Speaker 1: through that and find there's plenty others though I look
Speaker 1: at my context here, big name after big name. I
Speaker 1: never talk to any of these people actually, because why
Speaker 1: would I do that? But but I have them in
Speaker 1: my phone now or any of them. Do any of
Speaker 1: them have a title like an EP or CP which
Speaker 1: stands for executive producer or coordining producer, because no other
Speaker 1: people i'd be interested and talking to you. Well, they
Speaker 1: don't want to talk to you. Well, maybe we can
Speaker 1: range something like a cocktail or you know, having some
Speaker 1: cold one. You know, they don't they don't know you
Speaker 1: are a pimple on an elephant's ass, which you are.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is. Well, let's before me
Speaker 1: getting any of that, I must say, since we did
Speaker 1: that fun talk down session with with Wheeler yesterday, one
Speaker 1: of the guys that we work with, Brian Finley, comes
Speaker 1: to mind. Oh, here we go. It's fainly right away.
Speaker 1: Pull out your pull out your fifth hour Bingo card.
Speaker 1: If you had not in there. It's not on that's
Speaker 1: not on the No, it's not And the reason why
Speaker 1: I bring this's not on there? Really I gotta go
Speaker 1: back and check. I thought it was on there. You do,
Speaker 1: you have to go check real quick. And why you
Speaker 1: go check? I will say Brian did. Brian did something
Speaker 1: pretty fun a few days, like, oh uh, he does
Speaker 1: stuff that are is a little bit off the beaten
Speaker 1: path with Fox Sports Radio and he does some some
Speaker 1: vlogs and he interviewed our colleague of ours, Jonas Knox,
Speaker 1: and it was for a good fifty two minutes, I believe,
Speaker 1: And if you get the chance anyone that can do this,
Speaker 1: I recommend you you go over to Brian's Twitter account
Speaker 1: and you look up the interview with with Jonas, because like,
Speaker 1: we work with a lot of people here, colorful people,
Speaker 1: some that are black and white, some that are vibrants,
Speaker 1: some that are flat, and there's some guys that are dogs.
Speaker 1: And like you talk about the Clippers a lot because
Speaker 1: they got that dog mentality, Like Jonas has that dog
Speaker 1: mentality and and he talks about it during during the
Speaker 1: q and A between him and Brian, So you know,
Speaker 1: we've worked with him for a long period of time,
Speaker 1: and so seeing him like he works some stupid hours,
Speaker 1: like you work stupid hours, and and to see guys
Speaker 1: like that drive it's it's always good because he obviously
Speaker 1: comes in for you when when you have like the
Speaker 1: rare days off, well, when I have my furlough days, yes,
Speaker 1: the rare day is off. Yes, those coming up in September,
Speaker 1: by the way, right right, So I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: before we get into any of our amateur hour stuff, Um,
Speaker 1: you can always go over to Brian's social media. Noticed
Speaker 1: that Finley they're locally locally do hasn't had me on
Speaker 1: his podcast? He hasn't had you on the podcast. That's
Speaker 1: a little bit different. We've come from different you know,
Speaker 1: from different passages and pathways. Oh is all right, So
Speaker 1: you're like a rival of his and he doesn't want know,
Speaker 1: it's nothing like that. I just think that, you know,
Speaker 1: for that kind of content and that kind of audience
Speaker 1: that he has, I think you need to have someone that's, uh,
Speaker 1: that would actually be riveting. I don't know, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna talk to me and I got nothing good. That
Speaker 1: is true. You are not riveting. You prove that every
Speaker 1: week here and our podcast. Yes, It kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of You're you're ode to Fox Sports Radio and
Speaker 1: the happy birthday, happy anniversary. Whatever you gave, Well, I celebrate.
Speaker 1: You know, if you ever worked somewhere for twenty years,
Speaker 1: you can celebrate. Also, is all right, you can celebrate.
Speaker 1: We'll get We're gonna get to that come down one.
Speaker 1: I can jumped the gun all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: jumped the gun yet again. You're bad at this. You're
Speaker 1: bad at a bad job by you. You got to promote,
Speaker 1: you dummy, all right, let's promote, promote, promote, promote now
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Speaker 1: Who gives a better pep talk than me? Now? You
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Speaker 1: but it's not very much and if you want to
Speaker 1: do it, if you're a big super fan of the show.
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of members of the militia that
Speaker 1: are big p ones that we've been able to do
Speaker 1: shout outs and birthday messages and weddings and all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff. UH even had people call UH call up
Speaker 1: cameo and say hey, or actually on the website and
Speaker 1: I call up and say, hey, you, I want to
Speaker 1: hear male do a rant about team X or Team
Speaker 1: Y or Team Z, and Uh, I will do that. Still,
Speaker 1: nobody has requested that I do a cameo with Bella
Speaker 1: that is not has good. So we're still waiting for
Speaker 1: that to break Bella's cherry in the cameo world. I'm
Speaker 1: surprise angry Bill hasn't called up so cameo dot com
Speaker 1: Ben Maller for that. Yes, guess what happens if someone
Speaker 1: puts in a request for you to do some live
Speaker 1: play by play of them having sex with their significant other?
Speaker 1: Would you do that? Well? My rate would be higher
Speaker 1: on that. My rate would be higher on that. But
Speaker 1: unlike Joe Buck, I'm open mind. If the every everyone's
Speaker 1: got a price. Every man has a price, So if
Speaker 1: they reached my price point, it could be six figures.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good on that. I'll do it. Why not?
Speaker 1: Who do I have to live? Nothing at all? That
Speaker 1: would be some great content. Yes, could go all the
Speaker 1: what all right now? Also, if you want to get
Speaker 1: us on a social media Twitter, Ben Mallard, just's my name, Instagram,
Speaker 1: Ben Mallor on Fox and Facebook Ben Mallard Show. So
Speaker 1: those are the ways you can hit us up on
Speaker 1: hit me up on social media and Gascon. You are
Speaker 1: also available on all those different and Twitter odd stuff
Speaker 1: at David J. Gascon Instagram is is that Dave Gascon?
Speaker 1: No Facebook, though I've successfully divorced that back in two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven. You're on TikTok though, so that no, I
Speaker 1: am not on Chinese propaganda TikTok I, and I am
Speaker 1: not no, so you're on Parlor? Are you on Parlor?
Speaker 1: I did create account and account, but I haven't like
Speaker 1: used it at all. Have you have you done? I
Speaker 1: did create one too, but I have not. I went
Speaker 1: on there and I don't quite know how to use
Speaker 1: it. It It doesn't seem like there's as much it's obviously
Speaker 1: not not as many people on there. And uh, yeah
Speaker 1: I was on there like one time. I created account
Speaker 1: because we told me to do it and I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't see a lot of activities, so I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, all right, speaking of activity, I will ask
Speaker 1: you this since we mentioned it last week on a
Speaker 1: couple episodes. Um. Our colleague Mike Harmon sent me a
Speaker 1: text a few days ago about this, So I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, did you take the plunge into Tesla?
Speaker 1: Oh with the uh? You know I I did not.
Speaker 1: And and here's the thing, Like they cracked to two thousand,
Speaker 1: I understand. I understand that they cracked it. We're talking
Speaker 1: at those like fifteen nine year or something like that. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I talked to a real financial adviser this week,
Speaker 1: guestcon who actually was like, you know, if you actually
Speaker 1: look at the economics of the like Tesla and how
Speaker 1: they Tesla is a great company. I think they'll be
Speaker 1: around forever. But they don't actually make a lot any
Speaker 1: money on the cars, which is the meat of their business.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. There's a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of things that plus it's just so expensive. I
Speaker 1: did not get in, but I'm I'm I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: getting some more Apple. Uh. You gotta diversify, though, you
Speaker 1: gotta diversify the biggest It is tempting with all these
Speaker 1: big companies that are having stock splits not that I
Speaker 1: am a stock market expert, because I'm not. No, but
Speaker 1: I'm more I like the real estate, but I can't
Speaker 1: afford the real estate. At least I can afford the
Speaker 1: Wall Street. I can afford a little bit to buy
Speaker 1: some stock. And it's great now on a lot of
Speaker 1: these apps, you can you don't even have to buy
Speaker 1: the full stock if you can't afford that, you can
Speaker 1: buy part of a stock. That's great, even like a
Speaker 1: dollar you know the app that I use, I sent
Speaker 1: you which you used one time and then that was it.
Speaker 1: But they they set it up where you can, you know,
Speaker 1: buy five bucks worth of you know, pick your favorite company, Apple, Tesla,
Speaker 1: uh Google, which I get, Alpha bet or whatever. You're
Speaker 1: gonna pick your favorite companies and go for it. That's
Speaker 1: pretty nice, Pretty nice. So we've we've got the Bingo,
Speaker 1: the Roaring Twenties and popcoy is Slash Study Survey this alright,
Speaker 1: So let's start with the Bengo card here and we
Speaker 1: referenced it already. This is great. Big props to our
Speaker 1: guy Greg and Iowa who has put together the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Mallord Bingo card. Because there's certain things
Speaker 1: that just happened every freaking time. We cracked the microphones
Speaker 1: on the fifth hour every weekend. And I'm looking at this.
Speaker 1: I got my big board up here, my big bingo board.
Speaker 1: Now unfortunately put my logo right there in the middle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can we you need to update your fucking head shot? Man.
Speaker 1: I know I take the worst photos, man, but you look,
Speaker 1: you look bloated here. No I was. I Here's what
Speaker 1: happens the company. I've been here for twenty years and
Speaker 1: I think there's been about five times that they've had
Speaker 1: photo shoots to promote the talent. Every time. I don't
Speaker 1: even know when these things are happening. But about three
Speaker 1: months before the photo shoot, not knowing there's a photo shoot,
Speaker 1: I fatten up like a turkey before Thanksgiving and uh,
Speaker 1: or a cow before going to slaughter and uh. And
Speaker 1: so I take the worst freaking photos in the world
Speaker 1: and uh, and it sucks. It's terrible and lot. But
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's a bad photo, man, That's a bad
Speaker 1: that's all over the internet. That's what the company sends
Speaker 1: out to these affiliate you know, the stations that put
Speaker 1: on their website. So it's disgusting. Yeah, which is weird
Speaker 1: because you have an old photo that I heart and
Speaker 1: Premiere promotes. I think it was on the fourth or
Speaker 1: fifth floor. But as with you in a black blazer
Speaker 1: and you looked and you yeah, you looked like fifty
Speaker 1: pounds lighter in that one. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Yeah, there's one one time they
Speaker 1: took a photo. Is that actually on the fourth or
Speaker 1: foot floor? Really? Yeah, they had, Yeah, because they it
Speaker 1: was on one of the flat screen TVs. They was
Speaker 1: gonna say I was not an actual photo because I
Speaker 1: I'm not that level. There are if you walk around
Speaker 1: the hallways of the Premiere Networks where the legends of
Speaker 1: broadcasting work, you know you've reached elite status when they
Speaker 1: have your your photo up like Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Steve Harvey,
Speaker 1: these type of people, um and there are you know,
Speaker 1: Clay's got one, Gottlieb. But some of the guys at
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio I did not make the cut, did
Speaker 1: not make the cut. There's no photograph of me anywhere.
Speaker 1: I walked. All those floors in the building, they are
Speaker 1: the different floors. The Premiere Networks was on did not
Speaker 1: see a photo. Uh, I'm sure that was an oversight
Speaker 1: and I know they will correct that right away unless
Speaker 1: we go so so and it's the Bengo card. Uh,
Speaker 1: this was Greg and Iowa great idea, very creative and
Speaker 1: so some typical Bengo card. Now some of the items here,
Speaker 1: and you gotta play Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard bingo.
Speaker 1: You've got starting from left to right, you've got Tomahawks
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Speaker 1: talked about the stock market, so you've already won that.
Speaker 1: Moving man matt Our guy from Boston. Uh, surgeries, which
Speaker 1: is a popular topic here. That's good weasel words. I
Speaker 1: love my weasel words. Narcissist gascon. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: Can you really spell it right? Oh? Who cares? You
Speaker 1: know what he meant? Dummy, narcissist gascon. You've got high
Speaker 1: school football broadcast, the Seattle Flight. That's right. Gascott is
Speaker 1: so jealous of the Seattle Flight. He brings this up
Speaker 1: every week because you had a caller pay for a
Speaker 1: first class. Here we go, see I mean we go.
Speaker 1: You're neurosis is popping up, your ross is popping up.
Speaker 1: You've got a free space kaboom. Uh, David Gagon, which
Speaker 1: is great baseball hats. That's right, baseball hats. I love
Speaker 1: my baseball hats. The militia has been great, man. I
Speaker 1: got the Mad Hatter of sports Jeder. You guys have
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Speaker 1: to send one in and I need, I still haven't
Speaker 1: gotten my first like to support law enforcement. I'm not
Speaker 1: None of the police guys that listen have sent me
Speaker 1: one of the hats, so I don't have one of those.
Speaker 1: Be or not to be? Well, that's every week we
Speaker 1: did the b or not to be? Uh, the apocalypse,
Speaker 1: which is popular third rail rail politics, Well that's Gascon's baby. Man.
Speaker 1: He dragged me. How do you figure it's me? You
Speaker 1: dragged me down, and then you blindfold me and gagged
Speaker 1: me and dragged me down in the sewer of politics.
Speaker 1: Justin in Cincinnati his name popped up. Here do we
Speaker 1: talk about Justin and Cincinnati? Never like, unless you're talking
Speaker 1: about someone flying across the country to get coronavirus to
Speaker 1: get laid like you know, like if you're not working
Speaker 1: like you know, let me know. One brings up that
Speaker 1: So we could take we could take Justin out and
Speaker 1: put Finley, Brian Finley in there. No, because we barely
Speaker 1: talk about Brian well every week recently we've talked about
Speaker 1: that knucklehead over We talked about him one time and
Speaker 1: another time was when you have you allowed him to
Speaker 1: do ten in it updates? That's like a little bit
Speaker 1: I don't allow him to do. Of course you do,
Speaker 1: it's your show. You have no control over any of
Speaker 1: these people. You think I have control over these people? No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I have no They do what they want.
Speaker 1: I do what I want and hopefully it works. Uh,
Speaker 1: here's another box west of the four oh five. Well
Speaker 1: that's a big one. Yeah, that's a money box, but
Speaker 1: it's in a weird spot, like down at the bottom line.
Speaker 1: That should be center square. Yeah, that should be center square.
Speaker 1: You've got l a Clippers. Shout out the People's team.
Speaker 1: Tito's tacos. God, I love titos. I gotta get the
Speaker 1: titos like I've been to titos in a while. If
Speaker 1: Greg experienced titos tacos, he might really appreciate that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would want us to have mentioned titos, tacos more
Speaker 1: show prep that's also popular food pictures. Well, that's Gascon's
Speaker 1: baby and Laker hate. No, it's not Laker hate Gregg,
Speaker 1: it's Laker reality. Is what now that that's seasonal thing? Anyway,
Speaker 1: that is a available if you want to check that out,
Speaker 1: if you want to update your own fifth Hour Bingo board.
Speaker 1: That came from Greg and Iowa is Twitter handle is
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Speaker 1: Philly said that was brilliant. So if Fats said that
Speaker 1: the most die hard Philadelphia Delaware Valley sports guy and
Speaker 1: he was impressed by that fifth Hour bingo board, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good and that that does mostly sum
Speaker 1: up the show. That mostly sums up what we do
Speaker 1: for an hour a day on the weekend. And you
Speaker 1: can't have beer not to be and not include like
Speaker 1: study this or that's fine? No, no, no, you being
Speaker 1: be or not to be is your little thing. Were
Speaker 1: you upset when the and we'll do beer b be
Speaker 1: or not to be tomorrow? But were you concerned when
Speaker 1: Twitter shut down Twitter account? Twitter put beer not to
Speaker 1: be a satire website on time out? Why did they
Speaker 1: get what are they get in trouble for? For being satirical?
Speaker 1: So stupid, so so ridiculous. It's the world we're in
Speaker 1: the world we live in. A sign of the time,
Speaker 1: it's a good beingo card. Does this rival the Lebron
Speaker 1: James Bingo card? Oh? The Lebron one is great? Yeah,
Speaker 1: theve I love that one. That will become a staple.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna say that Lebron every time the Lakers lose,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to my Lebron Bingo card and the excuse,
Speaker 1: Yeah Lebron. Who's the one of our co workers? Is
Speaker 1: a several big Lebron fanboys? Uh, we have a lot.
Speaker 1: The guy he does a weekend show here to some
Speaker 1: podcasting stuff, did TV? Oh Jason McIntyre, Yeah McIntyre. I
Speaker 1: don't really know him. I've met him a few times,
Speaker 1: but he's got to be like the biggest Lebron fanboy
Speaker 1: that I know that works in the company. Right, I
Speaker 1: think he would admit to it, right, I think he
Speaker 1: would admit to it based on his comments. He is
Speaker 1: really right there, and I think he cares more about
Speaker 1: Lebron and Lebron's family. Now, I think so Berard's up there,
Speaker 1: brus Sorry, it is another one he's on. They like
Speaker 1: him a lot, fortunately me and like Rob Parker, we're
Speaker 1: the truth tellers here. You guys are way on the
Speaker 1: other side of the fence on this one. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: are the truth tellers on that. But yeah, the Lebron
Speaker 1: If you didn't see that, a listener actually sent this
Speaker 1: to me. I guess a big one around the internet.
Speaker 1: But it's excuses for Lebron by bronze sexuals Bingo. Now
Speaker 1: did you that's good? Did you get the athletic reporter
Speaker 1: to respond to your tweet about him just foaming at
Speaker 1: the mouth? Did he respond to me? I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I was curious if he did. Oh, I I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't check. I mean, yeah, that guy was. He's said,
Speaker 1: Lebron's got nothing to play for now because the fans
Speaker 1: aren't at the games in Orlando. He's explained that's why
Speaker 1: he lost. That's that's good. But that the Lebron Bingo card,
Speaker 1: the one that the ones that are my favorite on
Speaker 1: that are Uh, he had a triple double? What more
Speaker 1: couldn't I love that, or thirty five years old, seven
Speaker 1: year seventeen, that's why gron was hurt. You know, all
Speaker 1: those things are hilarious. Uh, just just great. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful that someone came up with this because this
Speaker 1: at least gets to distract you from from attacking every
Speaker 1: good athlete in the value of the sun, like you've
Speaker 1: gone on this onslaught of the last, like you've taken
Speaker 1: unnecessary shots at Kyler Murray and Devin Booker. Not unnecessary.
Speaker 1: I just report the facts. When when Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: comes out and says Kyler Murray was the thirty second
Speaker 1: ranked quarterback and I got guys like you, they're giving
Speaker 1: him a shoulder rub in a bubble bath, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's a disconnect between reality and how
Speaker 1: this guy played. He played like his height, He played
Speaker 1: small small ball in Arizona. Kyler to be playing second
Speaker 1: base in baseball somewhere. I would have taken him last
Speaker 1: year over at Jared goth That's for sure an idiot.
Speaker 1: Um that's j Goff let a team to a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff beat Drew Brees and the Saints in their
Speaker 1: building in the playoffs. What is Kyler, little Man Murray
Speaker 1: the Garden him done. He's a Heisman Trophy winner. Um,
Speaker 1: that's not a gimmick offense. At Olklohol the place back.
Speaker 1: Everyone was winning the Heisman at Oklahoma in those days.
Speaker 1: He had Baker May that was heisman. You please, boy,
Speaker 1: when you got against Devin Booker. By the way, the
Speaker 1: guy runs some some gravy treans and I know the guys,
Speaker 1: guys puts up empty stats. I'm like the NBA. See.
Speaker 1: This is why I try to tell you, because you're
Speaker 1: you're like this, You're the low information, low information fan.
Speaker 1: You don't understand the nuance, right, you don't understand the
Speaker 1: nuance of breaking down an NBA game. And I learned
Speaker 1: from the legends back in the day how to properly
Speaker 1: break down an NBA game. But you can't handle that.
Speaker 1: You can't handle the truth. Man, as Tony Bruno would
Speaker 1: say back in the back in the old days of
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. But but no, I mean you don't
Speaker 1: get that just because you have the gaudy stat line
Speaker 1: does not mean that you have played a complete game
Speaker 1: and deserve to be fond O. I'm well aware of that.
Speaker 1: There's no you are not. There's guys like Kevin Love
Speaker 1: and Alex Rodriguez when he was in Texas and in
Speaker 1: Seattle to come to mind that the stat stuff for
Speaker 1: his I get that. I don't think you do, but
Speaker 1: I don't think so you failed to acknowledge that Booker
Speaker 1: led a Phoenix team. Ain't no in the bubble. They
Speaker 1: covered the spread eight times. That's a young played the schedule.
Speaker 1: Schule be as soft as it is right now. I
Speaker 1: merely pointed out that the Sun's does not prove that
Speaker 1: they're they're on the come and they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: great team next year. It's nothing. It was a it
Speaker 1: was a one off situation until they do it again.
Speaker 1: They played such shitty basketball the first part of the
Speaker 1: year that even going eight no, they still couldn't get
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Well, how about that because Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: didn't even want to go to the bubble. How about that?
Speaker 1: Like quite a remarkable turnaround. The guy did not want
Speaker 1: to go into the bubble and play because he didn't
Speaker 1: think they qualified for the playoffs. They found a way
Speaker 1: to get in, and he was lighting it up prior
Speaker 1: to the postseason starting. And now they've gotten off to
Speaker 1: a good start in round number one. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well Lillard was he raised hotly hell and all that.
Speaker 1: He was complaining and you know, listen, everyone complains. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was complaining. I thought that whole thing was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And the Blazers they're not a good team. They should
Speaker 1: beat the Lakers. And we hope they will beat the Lakers.
Speaker 1: What I mean, we we hope they will. Like Who's
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Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven
Speaker 1: pm Pacific. Um. The people like Wheelers. Majority of Wheeler's
Speaker 1: not rooting for Portland to beat l A. Wheelers is
Speaker 1: a Wheelers not on this, But I'm talking about the hard,
Speaker 1: hard working, salt to the Earth people. I want to
Speaker 1: go back to the box score thing because and I say,
Speaker 1: the low information fan. Yes, you know. One of the
Speaker 1: problems with people they tend to think in extremes like oh,
Speaker 1: you put up the great status and he was a
Speaker 1: great game moment because that's easier to understand because you're
Speaker 1: not that bright nuance. It kind of messes with your understanding.
Speaker 1: Can be frustrating and say, oh, how could you say
Speaker 1: you didn't play well, well the last three minutes of
Speaker 1: the game when it was anyone's game and he puked
Speaker 1: all over the court. That's that's the nuance. You can't
Speaker 1: handle that. You gotta complete the mission. Like when you're
Speaker 1: when you're flying a battle plane in combat. There you're flying,
Speaker 1: you're flying a fighter jet and you have you know,
Speaker 1: seven or eight great bombing runs and then you get
Speaker 1: shot down because you made a mistake. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: say that was a wonderful day. No, you gotta complete that.
Speaker 1: You gotta get back safely. How about that? Comparing Lebron
Speaker 1: James to a fighter pilot, Yes, successful fighter pilot touching down. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is the comparison. So why would you First of all,
Speaker 1: there's four quarters in the game. So I I understand
Speaker 1: the how the game is amplified and the closing it's
Speaker 1: of a game, But to get the game to where
Speaker 1: it is, where it's competitive or clothes, I mean, you
Speaker 1: said it yourself. That's like, you know, let me run,
Speaker 1: me run the New York Marathon. I'm going twenty five miles,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll even go twenty six miles, but that last
Speaker 1: point two miles, you know what I took you there? Finish,
Speaker 1: eat yourself. I'm done. No, but I'm gonna wash my
Speaker 1: hands with it. That's when you're you're enmurging that this
Speaker 1: is what a loser you are to lose his mentality. Guests,
Speaker 1: I'm a better fan than you. I'm a better fan
Speaker 1: than you. High standards, you have, low standards I have.
Speaker 1: I have big expectations. That's why I have brought you.
Speaker 1: Know you don't. That's why you sound like I've carried
Speaker 1: you from terrestrial radar to the digital realm. So I
Speaker 1: have expectations, the feelings, the the ideas we gotta carry.
Speaker 1: We gotta put that on that fifth hour Bingo card. Greg,
Speaker 1: you gotta update the baby card. You gotta get rid
Speaker 1: of Justin. Put that on there, get one of these
Speaker 1: other things. Put Finny on there. Yeah, you can do
Speaker 1: that way, Like, come on, Mattie, you can't say you
Speaker 1: just said the other night with Philadelphia and Boston like
Speaker 1: they looked so disinterested after they at a six point
Speaker 1: lead at the end of the first quarter. The ideas
Speaker 1: to get and the ideas to get out of the
Speaker 1: blocks and then progressively get to where you want to
Speaker 1: be in the fourth quarter. You can only do so
Speaker 1: much if you're one guy not you can only do
Speaker 1: so much. Let me get my violin, the smallest violin.
Speaker 1: You're a Lebron family I didn't really know Alebron fan boy. No,
Speaker 1: I I agree that he should be maxing out more
Speaker 1: as opposed to defer in every other guy that he's
Speaker 1: gotten that roster because those guys can't shoot for Dick
Speaker 1: from outside, and so he needs to take over games
Speaker 1: like he could when he was with Miami or Lebron
Speaker 1: can't shoot from the outside. I know that you have
Speaker 1: you seen. Well, there's a great hold on. I say,
Speaker 1: there's a great stat and I got it. Now you're
Speaker 1: gonna make me go to my archive here. I didn't
Speaker 1: even use this on the air. That's a bad job
Speaker 1: by me. Why not? Uh? What's that? Why not? Were
Speaker 1: you stand backing it for another show? No? No, you
Speaker 1: know we ran out of time because I overprepared guests.
Speaker 1: I know this is something you're not familiar with. Do
Speaker 1: you When do you over prepare? You run monologues longer
Speaker 1: when the Lakers lose than you do when the Clippers lose,
Speaker 1: Like you cut your monologues and I did a great monologue.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't get credit for it when I
Speaker 1: ripped the Clippers and I tore into Paul George and
Speaker 1: the Clippers when it was it was a two possession
Speaker 1: game or whatever. Actually not even it was a one
Speaker 1: score it's eighty three. The other night in Game two
Speaker 1: against Dallas, with two minutes and thirty eight seconds to
Speaker 1: go in the third quarter, and they got outscored by eleven.
Speaker 1: That was the game. They just stopped playing and instead
Speaker 1: of being a one score game going to the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: the Clippers played like dog food and ended up uh
Speaker 1: ended up down by thirteen and they never got back
Speaker 1: in the game. But Lebron check this out. Now, this
Speaker 1: is not including the game on Thursday night, So this
Speaker 1: is only Lebron through the first part of the bubble
Speaker 1: and the first game against the Blazers. Lebron has become
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Lebron James has become Ben Simmons. Here's my evidence. Okay, alright, Lebron.
Speaker 1: Outside the restricted area, you know what the restricted area
Speaker 1: guests going. You're a basketball guy, do you know what
Speaker 1: restricted areas? Tell the guy in Fargo what a restricted
Speaker 1: areas because he might not know the restricted areas. The
Speaker 1: paint and yes, the lane right near the basket. Right,
Speaker 1: Lebron outside of the restricted area, outside the paint is
Speaker 1: shooting twenty eight percent. Inside the bubble, he's a less
Speaker 1: than thirty. That's Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons is fine if
Speaker 1: he's in the paint. If he's outside the paint, forget
Speaker 1: about it. Forget about it. Well, you know what it
Speaker 1: could be. It's great. You know what that is. That's
Speaker 1: solid NBA information. That's what Tony Bruner would say back
Speaker 1: in the day. Now I think he said knowledge. He
Speaker 1: would say knowledge. I think I think there's a good
Speaker 1: explanation for the lack of shooting efficiency that Lebron's sustaining
Speaker 1: or last you know, to three weeks. It's because there's
Speaker 1: no fans in attendance. There's no there's no there's no
Speaker 1: there's no juice. There's no juice in the building. Obviously. Now,
Speaker 1: do you feel embarrassed by the fact that the Clippers
Speaker 1: lost game to to No, no, no, no, there's inferior team.
Speaker 1: That's what the media, the mainstream media, your colleagues, were
Speaker 1: looking for a sweep or a five game series between
Speaker 1: the Clippers and the Mavericks. This I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: concerned because it'll just make it that much more enjoyable
Speaker 1: when they finally win. Like you have the best players
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and they were nullified, like they were
Speaker 1: nullified on the fourth, but it wasn't really. Patrick Beverley
Speaker 1: did not play. And he's really he's the glue guy.
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley learned his name, learned his name son, Patrick Guy.
Speaker 1: Never Junkyard Dog, the guy guys that Junkyard Dog. He's
Speaker 1: the heart and soul. He's the motivational guy out on
Speaker 1: the court. Now he's junk of it. That you got
Speaker 1: that right, that's you know, you got the guys and
Speaker 1: everyone loves he's old school Patrick Beverley. He's the instigator.
Speaker 1: And those those punk guys on the Maverick, those thugs
Speaker 1: like Porzingis on the Mavericks got who got reacted, and
Speaker 1: they reacted to the to the instigator, the Patrick Beverley
Speaker 1: and some of those other guys there. Beverly sparks the fuse.
Speaker 1: That's what Pat Patrick Beverley does. I love those pesky guys.
Speaker 1: Every championship team has to have some agitator on it,
Speaker 1: and Patrick Beverley is one of those guys. Clippers have
Speaker 1: a lot of them. Fortunately, Uh, these these guys that
Speaker 1: work as lighter fluid, and I like. I like those
Speaker 1: kind of guys on my team. I like. I don't
Speaker 1: like him on the other team, but I like him
Speaker 1: on my team. I think they got pushed around in
Speaker 1: Game two. Did get pushed around all they weren't interested.
Speaker 1: I didn't take the Mavericks seriously. And if you don't
Speaker 1: take an opponent seriously, you gotta compete. You gotta play
Speaker 1: with energy the team. Remember the great Bill Fitch, Bill Fitch,
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame coach. When I was covering the Clippers
Speaker 1: and those morbid days, and Coach Fitch whould coach Larry
Speaker 1: Bird and Elijah Want all these greats in his NBA
Speaker 1: career with the Celtics and the Rockets, and they had
Speaker 1: to coach dog teams like the Clippers and the Nets
Speaker 1: at the end. They were terrible in those days. But um,
Speaker 1: but Bill Fitch, he he used to talk about the
Speaker 1: fact that to win in the NBA, and this is
Speaker 1: years ago before all these gayzy statistics and all that,
Speaker 1: he said, you win the hustle stats in basketball, but
Speaker 1: just play with more energy. And if you play with
Speaker 1: more energy, you're gonna win the hustle stats and and
Speaker 1: hustle stats. If you're not familiar, if you don't know
Speaker 1: what that means, that is essentially, um, you know, drawing charges,
Speaker 1: deflecting loose balls, getting rebounds, setting screens, getting the fifty
Speaker 1: fifty balls, all that kind of stuff, all that that stuff.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Clippers were so bad they never actually
Speaker 1: won the games in those days very often, so they
Speaker 1: put a hustle board up in the arena. It was
Speaker 1: the most cheeseball thing at the sports arena. But I
Speaker 1: remember they put a hustle board up because Fitches, like
Speaker 1: his mindset was, we're probably gonna win the game, but
Speaker 1: if we hustle, we'll have a chance and uh, and
Speaker 1: so maybe we'll win the hustle board. Yeah, it's painful.
Speaker 1: It was. It was, but it is true if you
Speaker 1: watch an NBA game, even if you know nothing about
Speaker 1: the teams that are playing, the team that is deflecting
Speaker 1: passes and Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant say hands on
Speaker 1: balls right, hands on balls right. That is the key blocks, steals, rebounds,
Speaker 1: uh and all that contested shots, charges drawn. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that frustrates frustrates the opponent, and you're
Speaker 1: tipping passes away that bothers them, that cuts under their skin.
Speaker 1: And and when you're on defense and you're able to
Speaker 1: do that, and that sets the tone. You fight through
Speaker 1: screens and all that stuff, all those little things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that reminds me of the early two thousand Lakers.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have like Derek Fisher, and Ron Harper
Speaker 1: and Glenn Rice, and Rick Fox and Ori and Kobe
Speaker 1: and Shack. Like I could see that this is this
Speaker 1: equates to why they were so successful. You know, I
Speaker 1: can only hope that Clippers can be reminded of something like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: little Clipper hater, you were. You know, why don't you
Speaker 1: clean up your own house? The Lakers went out and
Speaker 1: puked all over in Game one. Now this is a series,
Speaker 1: and we don't know what happened in Game two as
Speaker 1: we're doing this, but I promise you the Trail Blazers
Speaker 1: are not intimidated by the La La Lakers. I didn't
Speaker 1: have them getting out of the second round. To be
Speaker 1: frank with you, I have Houston the Clippers in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference finals. Players is showing some basketball knowledge, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's get to the roaring twenties, if you will
Speaker 1: here so as a Fox Sports Radio celebrating this week
Speaker 1: it's twenty anniversary, twenty years of continuous network sports radio
Speaker 1: broadcasting doing God's work here behind the microphones of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Now. I have been asked guestcount by several
Speaker 1: Brigadier generals about the early days of Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: and I'm one of the few that experienced that in
Speaker 1: the first first part of the run of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: And I've been fortunate to be you with the company
Speaker 1: for most of the time except for six months and
Speaker 1: twenty six days. Not that we're counting, No, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't count. I just just just random. Um. I
Speaker 1: could have said seven months, but it wouldn't be correct.
Speaker 1: Six months and twenty six days is not seven months.
Speaker 1: It's six months in twenty six days. It's not six
Speaker 1: months because it's twenty six days. More than six months
Speaker 1: is closer to seven months. So it's twenty it's six
Speaker 1: months and twenty six days. So anyway, I I I
Speaker 1: will give you what I remember. Gonna give a brief
Speaker 1: for a synopsis of what I remember. Alright, So when
Speaker 1: the network launched, now, the network started, I was hired
Speaker 1: about a month after the network originally launched. And this
Speaker 1: when it When Fox Sports Radio launched, it was a
Speaker 1: big ESPN Radio was like the only real game in town,
Speaker 1: I think was it One on one sports and Sporting
Speaker 1: News Radio were around still in those days, I believe,
Speaker 1: but they were secondary operations. It was ESPN Radio at
Speaker 1: the time was the eight hundred pound guerrilla in this
Speaker 1: worts radio game. And so this was a originally and
Speaker 1: it still is a conglomeration between Fox Sports Television and
Speaker 1: at the time it was Clear Channel, which has become
Speaker 1: I Heart Media. That's how long ago this was. And
Speaker 1: and so obviously I was a low man on the
Speaker 1: totem pole. But I remember meeting with Tom Lee, who
Speaker 1: was the programming man behind Fox Sports Radio when it launched,
Speaker 1: and and e Z and all these people, and they
Speaker 1: were filling out the lineup card much like a bingo card.
Speaker 1: And they had no weekend programming past like six o'clock.
Speaker 1: I don't even think they had weekend programming for part
Speaker 1: of the day part on the weekend. They only had
Speaker 1: shows during the week and they didn't have a full lineup,
Speaker 1: and so that worked to my advantage. They hired me
Speaker 1: originally at Fox Sports Radio. I was hired as a
Speaker 1: utility guy. I was an update guy. I would do
Speaker 1: weekend fill in hosting and uh, you know, plug and
Speaker 1: play guy, plug and player. I play me anywhere I
Speaker 1: can play. I got a million glaw was and and
Speaker 1: all that. So that's what they hired me for originally,
Speaker 1: and in fact it was it was so early on
Speaker 1: the studios that are now twenty almost twenty years old.
Speaker 1: We didn't have they weren't completed. They were still doing construction.
Speaker 1: I remember when i'd go down to take a tour
Speaker 1: and I had to wear a hard hat because they
Speaker 1: were still doing construction because it used to be at
Speaker 1: Denny's and they were putting the thing together when it launched,
Speaker 1: and we were broadcasting from the Michael Reagan studios, the
Speaker 1: adopted son a president, Ronald Reagan, and he had a
Speaker 1: syndicated show at the Premiere then Premiere Radio Networks, and
Speaker 1: so I remember that. I also remember my first shift,
Speaker 1: my first update shift. The person that showed me the
Speaker 1: ropes at Fox Sports Radio was a just an update
Speaker 1: guy that occasionally worked on the morning show named Andrew Siciliano,
Speaker 1: who has gone on and done some big things for
Speaker 1: himself at the NFL Network and Direct TV and all that.
Speaker 1: But Siciliano was the guy that showed me the ropes
Speaker 1: and how to do the updates and work the equipment
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So so I remember that, and uh,
Speaker 1: and then you know, I randomly remember some of the
Speaker 1: early shows. UM. The first person I did a talk
Speaker 1: show with it Fox was Jason I. We we did
Speaker 1: a weekend show together, myself and Jason Smith. We had
Speaker 1: a weekend show we did together, and I remember that.
Speaker 1: And also I remember like one of my early update
Speaker 1: shifts UM was in like January of oh one, so
Speaker 1: it was a couple of months after I had started,
Speaker 1: but it was a Saturday, and I remember it. It
Speaker 1: was sometime in January of twenty one. But the the
Speaker 1: plane carrying the Oklahoma State basketball team, one of the
Speaker 1: planes and with a couple of like players and a
Speaker 1: broadcaster crashed and they all died. And all I remember
Speaker 1: having to I was like, I was going, I don't
Speaker 1: want any breaking news to happen, you know, I was
Speaker 1: have smooth shift, And I remember the U having to
Speaker 1: report on that. How that's like then obviously been working
Speaker 1: on nine eleven was another one, the Boston Marathon bombings,
Speaker 1: and a couple of years ago. I used to have have
Speaker 1: been more than a couple of years now, So I
Speaker 1: have been random things that you were on the radio
Speaker 1: for that you remember. But it's been it's been interesting,
Speaker 1: and uh it's been it's been fun. A lot of
Speaker 1: people that Gascon does not respect that worked here, like
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno, Bruce Jacobs, Mike North. We have had North
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Bruno, We gotta get Bruce Jacobs on
Speaker 1: the podcast. You know who need to get on is
Speaker 1: Craig Kitchen. Yeah, that was you get him on. We
Speaker 1: get Craig on, Yeah, Mark Patrick. Craig Kitchen was the
Speaker 1: executive at Premier Networks who ran the joint and is
Speaker 1: a big powerful radio executive, which I think is why
Speaker 1: you want him on. I believe that's why you wanted
Speaker 1: I met him once. Um, I actually met him once,
Speaker 1: and I think I asked I met him several times
Speaker 1: at parties. Well, yeah, I've never met him like in
Speaker 1: that setting, but I met him here once and I
Speaker 1: think I either asked you or Tom Looney about him,
Speaker 1: and uh, one of you were speaking glowingly about it. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's great. Craig Kitchen is wonderful. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: how even most I say most, but a lot of
Speaker 1: these radio executives, like higher really higher up corporate muckety monks,
Speaker 1: just they don't get the business. Like Craig got it.
Speaker 1: He got it. He was relatable to talent. He looked
Speaker 1: out for the people that are on this side of
Speaker 1: the microphone. A lot of the people that are in
Speaker 1: management only care about the people that are in the
Speaker 1: sales department. I don't really care about the people on
Speaker 1: the air that much. But yeah, Craig was wonderful. And
Speaker 1: the one guy I wish I could have met and
Speaker 1: obviously is not around, is the one that you speak
Speaker 1: about highly is was Andy Andy Ashwood Andrew Ashore wish Yeah,
Speaker 1: Andrew Ashwood, who was legend in San Antonio radio. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he was great. I was upset I every once so
Speaker 1: while I go back, and there was a memorial that
Speaker 1: they put on somebody put on YouTube from his when
Speaker 1: he passed and it showed his career and he was
Speaker 1: a d J I think in Phoenix or Milwaukee. I
Speaker 1: think it was Phoenix though, and his on air name,
Speaker 1: Andrew Ashwood was b J. Hunter. Was his on their name,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was just funny, you know, obviously as
Speaker 1: different times. Now, of course, oh you know, I'm offended
Speaker 1: by that. We can't have that. But back in those days,
Speaker 1: in the wild days of radio in the seventies or
Speaker 1: the early eighties, you could do that. And he ended
Speaker 1: up becoming a radio executive. And uh, and you know
Speaker 1: there's another guy. He started on this side of the
Speaker 1: microphone and then crossed over. So you're like, you have
Speaker 1: a different perspective than if you don't have that that experience.
Speaker 1: There are some that you know, So there's some people
Speaker 1: I've worked for that didn't get on the air that
Speaker 1: still get it, but they're far a few between. Now.
Speaker 1: I was reading I was reading something, um a few
Speaker 1: days congratulations, you were reading something this is a big
Speaker 1: accomplish a few days ago, and uh, I was. I
Speaker 1: was shocked at the individual that said this. But this individual,
Speaker 1: talking about the network and Fox Sports Radio said I'm
Speaker 1: a big believer that a chain is only as strong
Speaker 1: as its weakest link. It's a team effort at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, from management on air, behind the scenes, support staff,
Speaker 1: all the above, and it goes that is an absolutely
Speaker 1: profound statement a great statement. What a fucking liar you are.
Speaker 1: What a fucking you're talking about it. That's an accurate call.
Speaker 1: You're saying that was that was taken out of context.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? Yeah, I think you. I
Speaker 1: think I was looking out for the little guy. If
Speaker 1: not my theory, but people I work with it, they
Speaker 1: work hard and they have desire and ambition. I'm a
Speaker 1: big ambition guy. I believe an ambition. Now, show up
Speaker 1: Coughlin standard time, right when you coach the giants, you know,
Speaker 1: show up early, work hard, take pride in your work right,
Speaker 1: have a little fire in your belly all that. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's like the old quote from the Sports of Story
Speaker 1: and who we had on Fox Sports ready years ago
Speaker 1: he passed away I think a year ago, Harvey former
Speaker 1: fromer Rather. He said, you've got to outwork the horse,
Speaker 1: and if you do that, I will defend you. I
Speaker 1: will have your back no matter what. You have that determined. Now,
Speaker 1: unfortunately there's a lot of people who don't have that,
Speaker 1: and uh, for that I just attacked. But but the
Speaker 1: rest of the people that many of them do the
Speaker 1: hard work. I like the people that are maniacal, that
Speaker 1: want to be great, want to improve. I'm all about that.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for you to get my back. Um, Well,
Speaker 1: when you started showing perseverance, when you starting that right,
Speaker 1: when you start having a little moxie and all that,
Speaker 1: and then then I'll do it. I got plenty of moxie,
Speaker 1: I got crisp, I got grit, and I showed the
Speaker 1: verse all. Now you say those words, but you don't
Speaker 1: know what those sweat equity, sweat equity, no days out.
Speaker 1: I walked the other day it was a hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen degrees coundred and fourteen degrees where I live out
Speaker 1: of the desert here. And you you, of course you
Speaker 1: were those real photoshopped or whatever. It's fake and all that.
Speaker 1: But I was trying to teach you a lesson on
Speaker 1: what you fail the lessons I was teaching the lesson
Speaker 1: about grit. I was teaching lesson about toughness, backbone, fortitude,
Speaker 1: all of that having having resolved, and you just spat
Speaker 1: in my face. You've failed the test. Guess you've You've
Speaker 1: only taught me a few things. You've taught me. One
Speaker 1: never used the company phone, Um to never let a
Speaker 1: falling star fall on you. That is right. That's a
Speaker 1: great line. Thank you for that. Three, um never trust
Speaker 1: anybody and uh and four do not fall under the
Speaker 1: wrath of Ben Malley. Otherwise you'll turn out to be
Speaker 1: like like Jake Warner or Bob gillra what's wrong with
Speaker 1: Jake Warner Bob Garrett? Those are fine people. Both have
Speaker 1: done great things. Take Warner, you've got the lead engineer
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Clippers and the l A. King's
Speaker 1: a great job. He's gone on to bigger and better things.
Speaker 1: Bob Garrets on a day part during the day, which
Speaker 1: is more important. Nobody cares about overnight or night radio,
Speaker 1: but Bob Garret works on a day part that's important.
Speaker 1: TV guys. He's working with, not some lowly radio overnight guy.
Speaker 1: When did we need to have the Mallard tree blossom
Speaker 1: a little bit? The Mallard tree is great. Many of
Speaker 1: these people have gone on and done wonderful things. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about, but try to try
Speaker 1: to get a little resiliency in your game. Plenty. I
Speaker 1: tried a little bit, a little bit, a little bounce
Speaker 1: back ability we like to call it. There. It's like
Speaker 1: my man Victor Break used to say back in the day,
Speaker 1: the bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's Japanese haiku from Vic the Brick. It's true.
Speaker 1: Be like the bamboo, bend like the bamboo. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm like a prize fighter. I got a tough chin.
Speaker 1: They call me guest on Bamboo Benny. That's what they
Speaker 1: call me, Bamboo Benny. You're fucking embarrassing right now. I
Speaker 1: don't think twenty years that's a long time to be
Speaker 1: out of network. That's h that is. I am stunned.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I don't know. I you know what,
Speaker 1: it's it's great. Somebody was asking me about that too,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know. I never even thought.
Speaker 1: I was like, I just believe in that cliche day
Speaker 1: by day and all that in by inch, which is
Speaker 1: your philosophy. But yeah, just you know, one step at
Speaker 1: a time, keep your head down. Yeah, apparently it works.
Speaker 1: I remember this network from when I was when I
Speaker 1: was a teenager because I was stopped. I was a
Speaker 1: big friend of job Jim Rome stop. Because Jim Rome
Speaker 1: would have his his show. It would be played on
Speaker 1: repeat in San Diego, so whenever I drive down with
Speaker 1: my family had listened to Rome in the morning time,
Speaker 1: and then when we drove back from San Diego it
Speaker 1: was on in the afternoon time. So well, Rome would
Speaker 1: in the early days, Rome was on the network, but
Speaker 1: wouldn't say Fox Sports Radio. Why um, because he had
Speaker 1: he was on ESPN affiliates and things like that, and
Speaker 1: so there was a conflict. So even though Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio carried the Jim Rome Show, he would say Premier Networks.
Speaker 1: So he never I don't he ever said Fox Sports Rade.
Speaker 1: Here's another fun fact. This is the twentieth anniversary. Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio had a deal with w f A n
Speaker 1: SO for weekend programming with Mike and the mad Dog
Speaker 1: doing shows, not together. But one day Russo would do
Speaker 1: a show and the other day Francessa would do a show.
Speaker 1: And as I remember, and maybe I'm wrong on this,
Speaker 1: those guys Russo showed up to do the show several times,
Speaker 1: but Francessa almost never did. It was always like, you know,
Speaker 1: Jody McDonald or somebody was filling in for him, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, so he he didn't really do that very often. Uh,
Speaker 1: we've we've wasted most of our a lot of time.
Speaker 1: Now we have a decision make. We could do pop
Speaker 1: quiz here briefly and do some of those have a
Speaker 1: lot of those questions. We could save that for the
Speaker 1: next podcast. So it's really your discretion here, guests. That's
Speaker 1: beautiful turning it over to the pilot. I haven't I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to I'm a pilot in a long time.
Speaker 1: Where has he been on on the social media? That
Speaker 1: reminds men, I've not talked to a few people. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened to him. I don't he vanish?
Speaker 1: Has he gone? And maybe he finally realize you're a
Speaker 1: fraud and he distanced yourself, distanced himself from you because
Speaker 1: you're bad news. I don't know about that. Hopefully he's
Speaker 1: flying across the country or across the world. Even was
Speaker 1: flying all over the place sending us photos of random
Speaker 1: city braggadocious about how look at look who where I am?
Speaker 1: Look at where I am right in a long time?
Speaker 1: But anyways, I digress. Uh, yeah, let's turn it over
Speaker 1: to tomorrow. Let's go to Sundar, right, so we do. Man,
Speaker 1: That means tomorrow is gonna be jam packers. We've got
Speaker 1: the pop quiz. We got study. Uh, this will do
Speaker 1: some of that. The b or Not to Be mail bag.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of content. We'll just have to get
Speaker 1: right into that tomorrow. Yes, that's fine. They're dicking around
Speaker 1: by you. I don't mean you spent I didn't not
Speaker 1: plan on talking about the bingo, but we that I
Speaker 1: didn't bring it up. We actually started talking about sports,
Speaker 1: so I know we did a sporty this is a
Speaker 1: sporty podcast. We did some XS and os NBA type
Speaker 1: of broadcasting. You know someone's gonna picture about that, right, Well,
Speaker 1: you're talking about sports, talk about the politics. What's wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Yes? All right? Uh, anyway, listen, I have
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