WEBVTT - Freedom of Speech, but Not Thought 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.840 Boom boom. If you thought four hours a day dred 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.480 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.160 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.320 He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.360 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.120 of hot Takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.240 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does, 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.320 and I hope you're doing well. We are back at 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.159 it again the latest chapters of the Apocolyps, The Fifth 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:37.840 Hour with Ben Maller and David Guston. Unfortunately, because four 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.519 hours or not enough, eight days a week, we are 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.680 here for you, as we are in that air everywhere 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.440 you can hear us, says obviously, wherever you found the 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.640 podcast the I Heart Podcast Network, and we're available wherever 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.920 you choose to get your podcast, then we welcome in. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.680 I mentioned his name there and here he is right now. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.840 Make way for David get Ska known as Gagon in 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:07.080 the building. You know scrong yea like some can sound effects. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:12.360 It's a little bit of liberty to a tense conversation. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.560 I was I was thinking about you that night after 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.680 a tweet you sent out, Oh what did I send out? 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.520 It was very careful. It was something around since city 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.520 and I had this. I had this thought in my mind, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.559 and it was that it was that sound right there, 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.960 like the side of it. If you can recognize that 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.200 salad that is obviously from your infamous to some and 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.160 famous to most Betty versus the penny bent and was 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.640 since City in Vegas opening up, I just I would 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.080 love for sports to come back right now in the 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.240 worst kind of way. You know, it's it's wild. I 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.160 would like to play the speculation game. And there's no 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.160 need for us, people like us to go to Vegas 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.160 because we were getting were sports gamblers and you're playing 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.360 the tables a lot. I'm mostly a sports gambler. And uh, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.480 the casinos, even though they're open, you know, some of 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.200 the people were complaining and bitching that. You know, you 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.880 go were masks and they got plexiglass everywhere. There's no buffets. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:17.960 There's like weird h sinks that they put instead of 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.560 slot machines. They put like sinks of people can wash 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.840 their hands. It's like, you wonder what army of lawyers 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.200 went through there and said, all right, here it's a 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.720 limitar liability. You put a washing, you put a sink 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.840 over here, and then down there you put some hand 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:39.840 sanitizer and I mean, just done endless. But it was nice. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.840 I mean that's see, that's a sign. It's a very 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.680 small sign, but you look for small victories that things 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.240 are starting to come back in the great news is 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.120 you know, we we had many conversations people are very 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.160 upset with US gascon on this podcast because we had 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.720 two doctors on about the coronavirus, one of them Dr 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.120 G who was a fan of the podcast, and not 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.920 that he downplayed it, but he said it was embellished 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.520 by the media. I think I don't know if he's 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.919 exactly that word were paraphrasing and and people got very upset. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.239 Some people got very upset. They were triggered. How dare you? 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.080 You're talking with conservative talking points, But it seems like 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.560 everyone's in agreement now because there's protesting everywhere. There's millions 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.520 of people out on the streets of America. So that 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.600 would lead me to believe that they think we're right, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.200 that this is no big deal, and they're they're fine 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.880 going out and hanging out wearing a mask and not 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.040 social distancing and it's all good. Yeah, I mean, correct 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.640 me if I'm wrong, But I don't think Dr G 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.880 would have come to us with a fake name had 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.040 he not been worried about any kind of personal or 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.240 professional ramifications. Yeah. See, I think that would be fair 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.240 to say anything that that he would be concerned about 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:55.760 someone tracking him down and uh que questioning his integrity, 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.600 the Hippocratic oath or whatever. I don't know. I don't 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.640 have he violated any of that, but that it Yeah, 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.080 that is typical of the times that we're in right now. Yeah, yes, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.800 you've you've looked at the uptick of possible gambling. And 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.720 I was exchanging some some pleasant trees online through the 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.960 through the power of the blue birden Twitter with with 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.200 a couple of fans of your show. Um, we were 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.320 talking about away from my people there, Well, we're talking 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.000 about the different gambling aspect. One that's uh the stock 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.400 market so um that is legalized gambling in every state 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.279 across the country with very few regulations. And I don't 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.039 think there's an age liment. There's no ageent event on 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.880 buying stock is there? You have to be of a 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.800 certain ad. I don't think there is no. Well, I 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.280 can imagine with with bank accounts you're gonna have well, yeah, 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.200 but if you're have a bank account, some people get 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:48.040 bank accounts pretty young. Absolutely, um, but yeah, we're talking 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.760 about that and the way the market is right now, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.599 there's been a steady, slow but steady uptick in in 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.520 certain portfolios and certain stocks, like you're looking at Google 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.599 and Facebook and now I'm was on like the the 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.359 Power of five Bowing is one of them. So there's 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.760 there's been a nice, steady increase. Is this your way 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.479 of patting yourself on the back and saying that you invested. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.880 I remember you were investing in the stock market when 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.000 it was going doing the limbo and seeing how low 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.520 it could go, and you at that time thought that 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.400 that would be something to invest. Well, you have a retirement. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.160 I have a retirement. The masses that listen to your 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.599 show and podcasts have retirements. I don't really have a retirement, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.320 to be well, I don't. I mean I work in 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.680 I don't you know, we don't have any retirement plan 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:38.599 at work and uh no not really. It's not like 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.560 a pension plan. But yeah, not a pension Like I 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.919 have a couple of guys I used to work with 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.279 in radio and they had other jobs and they have 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.640 pensions and uh. In fact, I talked to a friend 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.080 of mine the other day, Well, I've known for years 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.919 and you were talking about things, and he's really upset 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.080 with his job and he's still working and he's like, 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.479 I'm just gonna quit and I got three pensions. I'll 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.440 just live off that. And I'm like, really you can 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.599 do that. I what's that? Like? How does that work? 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.520 And he's like walking me through the steps, and I'm like, 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.479 what that's like? Because I don't think I'll ever be 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.680 able to experience that. So let me know what that 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.720 that's that deal is. I feel I feel a little 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.560 on edge because it seems like from the inception of 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.040 this podcast to where we're at now, everything that we've 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.839 kind of like questioned or talked about or like inquired 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.360 about has almost come to fruition. Hey, Benny, have you 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.560 ever had a major surgery? Bang, you're going to the 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.560 hospital and you know, so on and so forth. But 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.920 you've also had fans that have emailed you and said, Hey, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.160 if you weren't working in sports talk radio, what would 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.320 you be doing? And I think about him like fun, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.320 I've had no sports. There's an idea that the NBA 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.679 is coming back in the NHL, but Major League Baseball 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.760 still kicking the can down the road. But yeah, man, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.240 like yeah, And even when they come back, we're looking 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:01.960 at made to late July, which is still almost two 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.400 months away. When you know we're in early June here 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.440 and so you're still two months away. That's what we're 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:13.000 we're looking at, just more extended time without Games of Note. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.360 We will not have Games of Mode for some time. Unfortunately. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.520 Eddie's disappointed about that. This has not been a good 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.880 fun week for any of us. Uh in you know, life, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.320 having to you know, go through the emotions and all 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.760 the the things that are going on in the world. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.320 But coming up on the podcast now, I think we 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.840 should start with that. Be sure to catch live editions 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.440 of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.080 eleven pm paciffect on Fox Sports Radio and the I 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.200 Heart Radio. A high wire act without a net, the 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.200 verbal gymnastics of our jobs. And then we also have 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.680 the nine knife Fight. Get to that knife fight, and 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.560 we have Florida. Man, is there anything else we could do? 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.720 And I have a confession for you, I don't know 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:59.000 you have a confessional. I used to do that bit confessional, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.560 did you really? Yeah? And then I had much like well, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.840 Bob Garrat was not my producer at that time, but 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.560 Bob Garret who ruined which lap will Dannika Patrick reckon 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.080 because he was convinced that she was gonna die in 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.480 a race? And then we would be blamed for it 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.239 because we picked the lap that she was going to crash, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.240 and so we had to cancel that bit um. But 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.360 I used to do a confessional. And the way the 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.840 bit worked is that listeners would call up and say, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.040 you know so, and so this is years ago. I 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.720 mean this is long long early days of Fox Sports 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.240 Radio on the weekend, like in the middle of the 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.040 night on the weekend, like Sunday morning, and be like, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.680 all right, what do you want to confess to? What 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.920 do you want to confess? Of course, and people would 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.920 confess to you know, stealing extra food or you know, 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.079 sleeping with the secretary of things like that. But then 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.839 somebody's like, oh, what if they called up and say 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.720 they confessed the murder. I always got to ruin it, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.280 you know, you always got to ruin any fucking thing 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.360 I come up with, you gotta ruin it. And then 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.240 the other thing I used to do is the apology line. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.079 I would do the apology line where I'd have people 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:09.400 call up and and complain about their jobs or you know, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:14.080 their wives, or they don't have any money or the government, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.920 and then I would apologize, say with my fault. And 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.160 I was thinking about bringing that bit back, but I 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.600 don't know. I think it's uh, everyone's triggered by everything 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.280 these days. Yeah, don't I can do that. They'd be 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.760 agitated by It's crazy. And that makes me think, with 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.680 the way that we're the way that life is right now. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.080 And we know what Drew Brees walking back his statements 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.360 earlier in the week, what happens if someone says, Ben, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.480 you need to cut NFL book them. Oh yeah, well 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.440 we've already done it for this year, so we won't 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.120 be doing it again until next year. But yeah, people 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.240 were were busting coops balls on that too. How could 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:57.199 you you'll be part of that? But let people are 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.520 maddened about everything. And you know it's that old phrase 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.520 we use several years ago. I use that everyone's offended 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.840 by everything these days, and you know, I really believe 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.400 the mantra. Though just because somebody says they are offended 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.040 by something does not by itself qualify something as offensive. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.120 You know what I'm saying. So if that's the case, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.880 then you know I find you offensive? You know what 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.600 I mean? You want to play that game? Um? And 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.760 the other thing is that the problem I have with 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:33.760 the always offended mob is this, if you're offended by everything, 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.880 then it cheapens what really needs to be offensive, you 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.480 know what I mean, like like the real stuff that 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.400 needs to be offensive. If you're offended by someone who 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.719 doesn't like standing for the national anthem or a broadcaster 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:53.559 who doesn't say the right phrase for the Sacramento Kings, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:58.160 what ends up happening is it's it's a case where 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.079 that stuff in the big picture in significant and you 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.679 lose the message in the method. Do you know what 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.880 I'm saying? Just then am I wrong on I don't 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.439 think I'm wrong on that. I think that's the It's 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.760 it's kind of like the way some people accuse you 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.120 of certain things. Everyone is guilty of this, that and 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.200 the other thing, and uh, and if you do it 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.360 for everyone, there are people who do terrible things and 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.400 are bad actors and need to be called to the carpet. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.400 But it seems like now the way this works is 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:32.760 it's just everybody is yeah, just it's unload on all 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.880 of the people out there. So it's it's pretty crazy, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.120 but it's it's been why I've been texting my radio 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.640 friends around the country that I've met over the years. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.800 Some of them I haven't even met. We're just text friends. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.439 And we were all like, wow, this is we all 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.480 need to drink. We need a hard like whiskey, scotch, bourbon. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.600 You know, it's been just that kind of a a week. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.920 Give us some tornadoes juice here. We all want to 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.040 be high, baked and wasted after what's been going on 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.520 on here with these uh having to to to juggle. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:08.120 It's like you you, it's an odd situation because the 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.640 word police are always out to get you. And it's 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.720 an awkward situation here because when you're paid to make 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:22.120 your your living talking and talking about issues, and I 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.000 guess the easy way would be not to even bring 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.000 these things up and just and there are some sports 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.840 radio guys that don't even talk about these things. But 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.880 I mean that's not how I how I've chosen to 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.120 do it. Well, yeah, because you run a show though 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.319 that's different, like you run an actual like entertainment show. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.000 We're like, if we took you and Coope and Roberto 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.160 or you know, and Eddie, previous board ops or previous 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.960 producers or anchors, like you could take that show and 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.240 put it into any kind of radio platform like a 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.080 like a morning zoo show or midday show for any 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.760 kind of atmosphere. It would be applicable, Like you can 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.600 convert your sports to to news talk, to pop talk 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.040 to entertainment talk, like those things are kind of are 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:10.400 always evolving and it's all I think circular. Whereas yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.760 I mean I would say, yeah, there's some sports radio 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.560 guys that are just the meat and potatoes xs and 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.760 ohs and that's it. And this is not as many 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.439 of those guys left. They're a dying breed, the Francessa 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.400 type and Mike Francessa type that just do a B 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.720 and C one, two and three. You get the Yankees. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.360 Here's the Yankees lineup. And I I used to love 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.480 when I worked in Connecticut briefly and I'd fly back 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.960 to UH to do the show, the TV stuff and 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.040 and then I flew into like JFK and I had 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.160 to drive up to Stanford, Connecticut, and they had a 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.280 car there, but they'd have Francis on and it was 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.280 just blew me away. This was like, at that time, 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.880 the most listened to radio show in New York City, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.000 and he would be reading the Yankee lineup at a 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.680 time like the four o'clock hour. He be reading the 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:07.040 lineup and uh, here's the Ankie lineup tonight and Bernie's 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:11.839 leading off, and but it was just like who wants that? 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:16.520 But people they ate it up. It was it was wild. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.240 I was like, I guess I didn't grow up with 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.840 FRANCESSA and I didn't. I didn't understand, but it's just 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.920 it's crazy. But this has, uh, it has given me confidence. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.240 Guess on you know, I've been typecast as sports radio 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.760 guy and goofy overnight sports radio guy because I've been 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.560 doing this a long time. But yeah, I think if 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.600 I had to cross over to a different genre, if 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.200 they said, you know what, on second thought, no more 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.400 sports because people in sports are bad people and we 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.000 can't have sports, and so we're just gonna get rid 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:53.200 of it. I feel relatively confident I could go find 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.320 some other format of radio and probably not being a 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.720 disc jockey. But take a little bit too old for that, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.840 I think. Um, but you also, what are you saying? Well, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.240 I just think that that age group would not respond 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.960 to like the age group responds to you. Here on 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.720 a sports and news you can relate to the every man. No, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.000 come on, I'm I'm the working class sports you're west 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.640 of the four oh five, But I relate to the unwashed. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.160 I relate to the grimy, grunge e, the unkempt. Those 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.840 are my people. Well, you know, until you drive through 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.359 a protest here in Los Angeles, you're not really classified 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.600 as the working types since since I do that, So 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.000 be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.840 Show week days at two a m. Eastern. YEA, I 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.480 have lived. I lived through the l A riots in 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.000 the ninety two, and I was had a front row 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.760 seat at a Laker riot after they won the championship 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.960 against I think it was Indiana in two thousand. We 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:54.880 were broadcasting from the Epicenter. It literally the riots started 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.040 in front of where we were broadcasting our remote show from, 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.440 and we did right it radio coverage. In fact, that 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.640 was such a ship show that night in l A. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.000 That the riot police who were out trying to dismerse 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.880 dimmers the mob dispersed the mob, brother And it was 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.480 the funniest thing because we had we had a glass 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.160 windows looking out to the street right there on l A. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.880 Live wasn't even there at that time. It was just 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.400 like a parking lot, but there was that street. I 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.800 forget what's called now, but anyway, so we were doing 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.400 the show and we had a glass few and there 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.640 was people like running around. They started a bonfire in 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.720 the in the fucking street and then they were running 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.520 around like some kind of Native American Indian ritual the 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.600 fire and uh. But there was like there were cops 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.520 that were trying to clear them out. And then of 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.720 course the people moved around the city and started trash 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.760 and ship and uh. But the one of the cops 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.800 of the LPD guys came over and knocked on the 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.560 door and we're like, oh, fuck are we are? We 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.480 gonna get taken off the air. And I'll still it's 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.880 one of it's weird what you remember. I remember the 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.119 cop he knocked on the door. It was very polite. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.359 He didn't like break the door down, and he asked 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.240 if we had a bathroom because he had to take 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:14.840 a whiz. So he came in there in full military 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.679 riot gear with his guns and all that ship, and 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.600 then he walked over to use our our restroom to 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.840 take a piss. And then, uh, it was it was 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.960 just it was just the vision of that that was 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.920 really funny. And then I remember walking to my car 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:35.159 after the night had ended, and we stayed late because 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.080 we didn't it was particularly safe. First of all, we 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:39.480 didn't know if our cars were gonna be there, because 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.080 we had heard they destroyed a bunch of cars and ship. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.400 And this is this, this is not after some kind 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.920 of civil situation. It's just the Lakers winning um and 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.840 and so anyway, we I walked to my car at 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.320 a long walk, and I walked by a burned out 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.600 l ap D cruiser that they had destroyed, and a 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.840 Channel two in l a CBS new van that had 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.919 been torched. Also, So I still remember the smell. The 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:09.400 smell of that is something you don't forget. But anyway, man, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.560 so you've lived through a pandemic so far, a riot, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.600 and now a second one that's in progress. Yes, and 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.080 we are in the second chapter of the Apocalypse, and 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.720 we were trying to figure out the advanced script on this. Well, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.720 now what's next. We've had the pandemic, everything, natural disaster, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.760 everything shut down. So now it's like big earthquake we 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:34.760 all get swallowed up, or like Category twelve hurricane it's 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.040 the United States or something like that. Or or how 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.000 about this one if you want to play the wager, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.000 what's gonna come next? How about we've got two other 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.280 options here. I've got asteroid comes pumbling down and destroys 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:55.600 all of humanity. I've got nukes inbound on your phone? 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.080 Remember when Hawaii thought they were getting hit by nuclear 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.480 weapons and that who knew that we would all find 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:06.680 out we're being nuked by a message saying inbound nuclear weapons? Right, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.119 get shelter um? That was I opening. So which of 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:12.520 these do you want to take a bet on this? 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.280 You guess? I guess if if we're all dead, it 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:15.840 won't matter because we won't be able to pay off 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.480 the bets. But what's the next chapter in the Apocalypse 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.960 movie that we're living through here that I think else 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.639 as it could be about the return of the bubonic plague, 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.639 a second plague how about that. That's pretty good too. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.520 I mean, because the coronavirus has had multiple strands, it 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:40.359 could be another strand of the coronavirus. I think that's possible. Um, 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.760 so we have to place again stay at home orders. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.040 Here's another one. You might get some people triggered by 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:51.800 this one though. The rapture all the biblical full biblical 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:56.040 and yeah, could happen. You wouldn't that be. That'd be 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:01.840 a shocker, that would be I will be genuflecting. Be 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.400 sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.760 weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So I 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.160 gotta I gotta pay off my confession to you. Oh 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.240 that's right. It's time now to open the Mallard confessional. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.560 Stepping in west of the four oh five heere, he 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.520 has a confession to make. So step into the confessional booth. 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.640 I'm gonna now give you true serum, and there there 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.199 is truth in wine, So have some wine that is 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.440 true serum, of course, And to explain to me your misbehavior, 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.160 your misconduct, please, I would like to know. So bless me, father, 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.400 for I have sinned. It has been about six months 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:39.120 since my last confession. My sins are um. I hijacked 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.320 the fifth Hour with Ben Maller, So coming up on 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.000 the heels of this episode, I actually did a one 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:53.600 on one interview with a fighter from the UFC. Really, yes, yes, 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:58.600 I've taken that away. I did not get to participate 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.800 in this. You did not allow me to this space, correct, 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.320 So I kind of did. What I'm trying to do 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.439 is trying to force myself onto the same podium as 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:11.760 Jonas Knox, who somehow got a Benny for Benny. Yes, 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.359 he did, receiver Benny, although I hear he's been trying 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.520 to poach my my callers there. The guy in Arkansas, 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.560 Tracy said, hey, Jonas was thrown, you know, get made 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.080 the callingsrown, all this stuff. So I changed his name 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.040 from Jonas to Judas's good. But now I love Jonas 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.480 and he's doing his thing over there. So all right, 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:35.160 So I think the way this works, now that you're 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:36.800 in confession, you have to say me a colpa, right, 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.360 isn't that what you say? That's I asked for a penance. 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.600 I asked you for for a penance. Assignments, Well, I 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:44.359 won't have to listen to your dumb podcast with the 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:46.560 UFC person, So what what? Who the fun? But I 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.640 don't care. Do you think here's the here's the great test? 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.240 And this is gonna be a test. And I'm gonna 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:56.440 tell you right now, if this does well, we will 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.400 do more of those type of things. Like with UFC. 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:00.680 I'm not a big UFC person. I would have talked 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.919