WEBVTT - Docubenny 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.720 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.240 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.879 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:25.000 break free for something special. Fitur with Ben Maller starts 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:30.120 right now on a Saturday. Well, come in. We are 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.480 in the air everywhere, hanging out on another weekend here 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:41.159 as the NBA postseason continues right here on the podcast. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.400 We thank you for finding the podcast, subscribing to the podcast, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:50.760 growing the number of downloads every single weekend. Here three 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:55.560 podcast the week and the Saturday podcast. Right there in 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.200 the middle. That's the good part of the sandwich. That's 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.320 the good part of the sandwich, right there in the middle. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.840 And we are going to have some fun today. We 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.000 are joined west of the four oh five back on 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.720 a Saturday. David Gascon is right over there. I am here, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.679 I am here, and um are you limping a little 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.640 bit after what has transpired over the last week, week 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.319 and a half span with your with your l A clippers, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.320 because wow, well I mean again, you know we're doing 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.360 this on a Saturday. I we we don't know what 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.160 happened on Friday night, so it's kind of tough to 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.360 break that down. I think I'm looking forward to a 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.680 game seven. Uh though, I'm pretty impressive performance by Kauai 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.880 in game game six. I'm sure you watch that, right, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.800 Paul George and the People's team there and well, it's 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.759 like we record this on a Thursday, but I'm sure 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.880 they played very well on a Friday night. Well, it's 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:50.680 like a m C. I am all in on the 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.520 Clippers in the game six. Now you're a Laker historian, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.920 you're west of the four oh five. You support the 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:02.480 elitist Lakers. The one person enters the late. Of course, 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.480 the Lakers. What a great season they had, let me 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.680 tell you, very impressive. They're that performance against the Sun's 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.680 I think Lebron still walking. I don't know, maybe he's 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.519 walking back to l A. I don't know. Look, gives 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.679 him time to work on movies, now, right. I mean, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.240 that's that's really what the ultimate goal is. To bring 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.400 it enough help and support and as soon as they 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.280 break down, you just pull the rip chord and you 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:26.120 are off into the entertainment. Realm. Yeah, he is stopping 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:31.640 stopping away. Uh, clearly clearly stopping away anyway. On the 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:37.040 podcast this week, we've got Boom too, Benny pop Quiz, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:42.440 and I also have some random scientific we'll get scientifical 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.760 if you will. Some things that I came across that 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.760 we're intriguing. At least I found him intriguing scouring the web. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:56.880 You know what intriguing is the mail? Um the mail 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.080 It feels like Santa Claus weekly comes into Fox Sports 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.640 Radio because well, I know, but I go in and 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.240 out of the mail room on a weekly basis, and 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:15.320 I can't believe the amount of mail boxes, envelopes, goodies 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.480 that your fans send you. Well, you don't know. You 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.560 don't know what is in the malight, I do not. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.080 You don't know unless you open the mail, which is 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.320 a federal crime to open the mail. You're not supposed 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.160 to open another person's federal crime, so you shouln't do that. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.079 So you don't know what's in there. And I don't 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.360 know what's in there until I opened the box and 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.000 I see what's in the box. So and I don't 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.440 even we don't even really have a mail room. The 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:42.200 mail room was moved. Yes, well it was moved for us, 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.119 but they have a general mail room on the fifth floor, 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.360 so I have to navigate up there and then look 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.520 into some cubby holes and at times, at times you 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.320 have boxes that have been sent to you by fans 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:57.920 and it's like, wait a minute, this has been up 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.000 here for how long before they actually bring it down 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.880 in the lobby for us. Well, that's the problem with 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.760 the mail service. That's what people. I can email from people, Hey, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.960 I sent you something, and I'm like, well, I don't know. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.760 I didn't get it. I don't know where it is. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.720 I mean, I could try to find it, but it 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.560 is unfortunate. But I do eventually get everything. It just might. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.000 I wouldn't send anything perishable. No, I would not send 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.440 anything that will expire or anything like that. And I 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.200 certainly wouldn't send any animal parts like Doc Mike assumed 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.440 with the bloody goathhead and all that stuff. I would 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.719 avoid that because for a while in the early days 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.839 of Fox Sports Radio, this goes back to probably two 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.480 thousand four, two thousand five, you know, the network had 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:37.960 been on the air for like four or five years. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:43.279 But Doc Mike would he would send goathheads. And one time, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.760 one time they thought they thought they had a like 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.280 a body part, like a human body part, because it 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.039 was like blood coming out of the box. And they stopped. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.320 They put a stop on my mail at the company. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.440 They would not take my mail anymore because of Doc. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.520 And then so I told Doc, as said, listen, they're 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.000 not taking mail for me, will you. You You know you're 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.120 an asshole. You've screwed this up for me. He said, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.679 don't worry. So then everything he sends to this day 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.000 and Doc sends me a lot of parapherne you're in 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.320 books and crap like that, and everything had he writes, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.800 no animal parts, no goat head, no blood on the 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.760 outside of the package in large black you know inc 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.560 on the side of the box. There. Yeah, I have 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.320 a whole I have a whole wing here of like 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.719 Doc Mike crap I have. He's run for president since 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:40.880 every election since twenty twelve, sixteen and now twenty uh 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.760 he has run and I am his vice presidential Kennedy. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:49.120 But he actually has presidential election style photos taken like 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.279 campaign posters. He makes these campaign posters and he always 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.360 sends me some every year. It's not now I know 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.080 that you've had You've had a listener send you a 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.600 cooler with with frozen meat before. Yes, so our guy 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.200 in Boston, that's the greatest. That he hooks me up 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.960 with the Finway Monster Dog, the greatest hot dog of 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.640 all time, only available in the local Boston area. And uh, 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.719 this guy fil Man, he's the hot dog benefactor. He 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.200 always hooks me up. The problem with that is a 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.240 few times, you know, he's gone out and got the 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.560 hot dogs and then by the time they got down 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.560 to me, they were lukewarm, and it's not well. I 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.200 I bring that up because I'm curious if Doc Mike 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.720 has ever gone that route of disguising mail and maybe 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:39.080 having packaged or cooled off urine in a bottle. No, No, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.200 that's very he would never say that because the urine 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.920 is very valuable the doc. It's it's it's gold, it's 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:50.440 liquid gold, and he would never never do that. So 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.479 so yeah, I mean he's he's not centering a urine 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:54.640 the mail, but he has sent me a lot of 0:06:54.760 --> 0:07:00.440 urine themed items paraphernalia. Yeah, it was seven of books 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.719 on on Yourin. We actually had one of the authors 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.160 on that doc booked for this show we had and 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.040 the guy cursed and it was a it was a 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:15.480 hot mess that doc working hard to produce the radio show. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.720 So tremendous, tremendous, tremendous tumentus. But yeah, I do think 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.600 that the people have sent stuff. I appreciate it, and 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.600 I've got to go through everything to the inventory and 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.840 all that, but it's, uh, it is much appreciate it 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.680 and I do eventually get it. I want you to 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.040 know I do get it. There's a big lag time though, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.760 because you know the mail. Um, it's like a snail. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.400 We have a snail in there and it's kind of 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.920 like it goes along and it does this thing. So 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.200 I've got boomed to Benny. And this is another thing. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.840 I listen. I got several messages from people on the 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.720 social media and emails from people, Hey I saw this, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.800 and uh it is true. So I give you the 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.920 rest of the story. So there is a documentary series 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.600 on Vice TV called The Dark Side. Apparently they do 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.600 this for a number of topics, The Dark Side. It's 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.600 like their own franchise documentary franchise advice, and you know 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.600 they claim in their in their propaganda that they explore 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.560 the underbellies of the world's many, you know, prefer left 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.840 in the shadows. And so the latest one that's out 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.560 now is The Dark Side of Football and it's you know, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:32.360 no holds barred approach to looking at the NFL. And 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.160 one of the episodes of the Air and I think 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:40.199 it was episode three was on all Right, and I 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:45.200 am in that episode. I uh did a number of 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.960 different I don't know how to frame me. You do 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.319 these these documentary shows. They sit you in a chair 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.559 and then they ask you questions for for a while. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.840 So I'm told I'm gonna be in some other episodes. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:03.120 If you haven't seen it, the Vice TV, uh, and 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.160 it's on the internet. Some of it's on the internet. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.760 I didn't see the Raider episode yet on the internet. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.760 I have not seen that. I've not seen the episode. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.280 And even if I could see the episode, I don't 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.839 think I would watch the episode because it's Uh. I 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.679 don't like listening to myself on the radio, and I 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.400 definitely don't like looking at myself on TV. But it 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.959 hadn't done really any real TV stuff, like any and 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:28.840 like this kind of thing since uh, the INBC Sports 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.079 Network back in the day. But we uh to tell 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.160 you how that works. These things work. We we taped 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.360 for like several hours. This goes back to December, and 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.480 they'll probably only use like a total of thirty seconds 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.920 if I'm lucky, But it was like three hours. We 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.800 had a lunch break, and I mean it was the 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.280 whole the whole deal, and the producers and the directors. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.360 They reached out to me, uh back in like November 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.000 of last year, and one of the guys worked on 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.560 the Best Damn Sports Show period, one of the he 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.559 was one of the producer guys and I and and 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.880 he was like he knew, I knew some people have 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.560 worked on that show, so we we kind of knew 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.679 the same people and that kind of stuff. Chris Rose, 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.200 Tom Looney, No, I weren't the guy was on. He 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.240 was behind the scene, but yeah, I Rose and Looney 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.600 and those guys who worked at Fox Sports Radio back 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.120 in the day. And so we filmed that like the 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:25.000 first week in December, and it was taped at the 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:30.520 lobby of the Culver Hotel in Culver You've ever been 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.720 to the Culver Hotel in Culver City? Is it the 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.080 one that's on the corner And it's really, really nice 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.440 when you walk in, it's a it's a weird shape. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.280 It it looks like a building from New York. It's 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:46.800 an old Hollywood landmark. In fact, it is a historical landmark. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.880 It's a National Historical landmark. This hotel. It's been around 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.839 since the early days of Hollywood. It's pretty cool. I 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.680 was walking around there and it's like a it's not 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.079 really a triangle, but it's kind of you know, it's 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.880 like a weird shape of the building. And they built 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.720 like a movie theater around it. But the movie studios 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.560 right across the way. It's still still there from the 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.240 old days. But that is that hotel is most famous 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.559 because back in the nineteen thirties, when they were filming 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:20.280 The Wizard of Oz, the Munchkins stayed at that hotel. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.000 It was just down the street from the MGM studios, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.800 and so they put up all these little people at 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:34.240 the Culvert Hotel in the late nineteen thirties. And the 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.320 legend is that they were so cheap at the movie 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.640 studio that they literally would put three little people in 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.480 a bed because they were so tiny, and that way 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.560 they could. Because it's not a big hotel, there's only 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.960 like it's like less than fifty rooms in the hotel. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.000 It's a small building. And so to monetize space, they 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.360 would lay three I don't know what used to call 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:56.880 them midgets. I don't know what do you call him now, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.960 I don't know what the political people, little people a politicularly, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.960 all right. So they lay him on the bed, three 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.079 of them, and they could they could get him, and 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.520 they were a hundred and twenty four I wrote it down. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:15.679 A hundred and twenty four little actors were filmed. And 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.760 not only is it hilarious to think that while they 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.000 were filming The Wizard about's one of the great movies 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.920 you know, think about all time. I quoted many people quoted. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.599 It's one of those you've got to see. It's like 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.600 a write of passage at some point, even though it's 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.280 a million years ago, from the nineteen thirties. Uh. But 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.440 so they lay the little people down on the bed 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.199 and all that stuff. Hundred and twenty four actors, and 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.000 it was apparently like Sodom and Gomorrah, like they had, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.120 you know, a little men and wait a minute and 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.440 all that, and they were getting drunk and having wild parties. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.440 They had filmed during the day and then at night 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:54.920 at the Culvert Hotel, they would just go insane. And 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.839 the legend also is that the studio would they use 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:05.320 underground tunnels to the shuttle the the actors, the munchkins 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.440 underneath in the bowels of the hotel across the street 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.640 to the MGM studios, so they would be undetected, so 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.960 people wouldn't know what was going on about that. Yeah, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.760 so it's an interesting hotel. That's what you did the 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.360 documentary and like it goes. I mean the big names 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.199 in the old days of Holly Clark, Gable, uh, you know, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:31.280 Greta Garbo, people like that. Um, Charlie Chaplin supposedly owned 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.640 that hotel. And the legend is, although I don't think 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.480 it's true, as he sold the hotel, he he lost 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.640 the poker game and he is something with the pot 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.040 game where they sold the hotel that John Wayne for 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.199 one dollar or something like that. And so there's a 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.440 bunch of stories about it. But it's a it's a 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.400 pretty cool old Hollywood place. And so anyway, I you're 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.080 interested in seeing the dark side, and I did see 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.080 the first episode, which I was not in. It's well done. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.520 It's a good you like a good sports documentary The 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:10.120 Dark Side of Football, and we'll see they talked about 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.440 the Raiders on the in that episode. I know there's 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.160 some I don't want to give it away, but there's 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.160 some on you know, violent hits and the concussions and 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:23.160 that kind of stuff, and the Eagles, the Cowboys, uh, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.440 you know some of the other stuff that we talked about. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.880 I have the book. I have not read it yet though, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:34.480 but The Dark Side it was I'm curious, what did 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.359 they so when this is broken down in each episode 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.760 sixty minutes in length or thirty minutes, So they're doing 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.240 it like a short version with with an entire series 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.360 or is it? No, the episode I saw was like 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.120 an hour, like an hour deal I guess about with 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.160 commercials or whatever, it's a little less. But uh yeah, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.120 that seems like the full the full manti there they're 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.200 not cutting corners and maybe they were working on this 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.800 for like a year and a half. Actually well no, 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.520 not a year. But it was like during COVID the 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.480 guys were traveling around and interviewing people, so you have 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.360 to sign all these COVID disclosures and whatnot. I'll be 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.160 curious why, I mean, why won't you watch it though, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.720 because editors, it's a making break with editors don't make 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.360 it look good. They'll make you look bad. Yeah. No's 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.000 I mean that's the whole thing with the documentary. But 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.000 I don't know, I don't see it because then I'll 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.760 like be like I look fat or I look ugly, 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.200 or you know I didn't wear that, or you know, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.000 why did I say that? I should have said this. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.560 You know, I don't want to do that. So I mean, 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:36.200 I might check out a screenshot. I might, I'll take 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.400 like a photo. Well, you're gonna have the same thing 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.640 for you. I mean, I know Rob Parker did it 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.280 or whatever. You know he does, and he's on TV 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.360 all the time. I sends that stuff to us all 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.440 the time. You're gonna have a handful of listeners are 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.920 doing this anyway for you. They're gonna face is too 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.920 shiny right here. Well. The funny thing about that is 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.560 when I finished the shoot back in December, They're like, well, 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.000 this should come out around the super Bowl. Yeah, so 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.600 I'm like, okay, the Super Bowls in February early February. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.240 They wanted to do it like, you know, either promoted 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.600 the beginning and then drop it right after the Super Bowl. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.520 I was like, and it never happened. So I was like, well, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.520 maybe it got scrapped or something like that, maybe because 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.000 I didn't hear from him. And I was like, well, 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.280 maybe they never did the show. And then, um, here 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.000 we are in June, and you know, February, not March, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.880 not April, not May, but we're in June, so five 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.040 essentially five months later, and uh, and there it is. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.240 But I had actually forgotten about I figured they just 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:38.000 scrapped in and that was it. But people pointing out 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.400 they did not scrap So there you go. Can I share? 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.520 Can I share a football? Um? Can I share a 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:50.280 football story with you? Then? Um, I was. I was 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.680 fortunate and lucky. I've I've been on a little bit 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:58.480 of a kick thanks to what we've done in the markets, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.760 whether it's crypto or or obviously the New York Stock 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.480 Exchange been up quite a while. At six six thirty 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.440 in the morning, seven thirty in the morning, and um, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.840 I got a call a few days ago from this 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:17.960 this digital company overseas that's based in Hamburg, Germany, and 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.640 they contacted me because they needed, or they do need 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:28.399 a handful of announcers to commentate on the new European 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:34.439 Football League. So yesterday, No, not yesterday, the day before 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.439 I did a test I did a test game for 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:43.960 them and featured the Hamburg Sea Devils, and uh, yeah, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.480 it was pretty interesting. It was a inter squad American 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.520 style football. Yeah, American football they have so they have 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.520 NFL rules except for overtime over time, they'll go to college. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.159 But outside of that, Yeah, it's a lot of the 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.800 guys that were playing at the Division one level, whether 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.840 it's FBS the FCS, and a lot of these dudes 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.760 that play that in German leagues before or still play 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.000 in German leagues. So yeah, it's pretty interesting. I was like, fine, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.000 you know, like you go through the you go through 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.160 the roster and you're looking for the Johnson's, the Smiths, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.399 and then all of a sudden you get those German 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.840 last names and you're like, wait a minute, this is 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.640 gonna be a little challenging. Yeah, and are you gonna 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:29.400 travel to Germany and no, no, So they're doing everything online. Um. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.080 The kicker on this, which is kind of unique, is 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.879 that the European Football League is generating sixty players on 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.919 each roster. You can only have ten foreign players and 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.399 you can only have four Americans. So they want to 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.200 keep it where it's centrics to centric to the state 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.040 or the state the country that you're in. So right 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.480 now it's comprised of Germany, Poland and Spain, and you 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.800 can only have those players in that country or from 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.359 that country playing those teams that want that. That's what 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.040 most like I know in basketball. I've talked to guys 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:04.960 that have played overseas and they have limits on how 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:09.480 many Americans can play in like basketball, internationally, a lot 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.640 of the countries have limits on that. You can only 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.080 have one or two I forget the number is. But 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.879 be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.240 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.760 sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.480 weekdays at two am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.960 Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Yeah. Can 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:31.879 you imagine they tried that in America? Well, you can 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.400 only have one foreign player on your team, and then 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.320 after that you're not a lot. Oh my god, the 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:42.560 locarate would go nuts. They would lose their mind to crap. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:48.879 Can you imagine? Yeah, well you have a quota and 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.320 I'm sorry, reached our quota and that's it. Could you 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.120 imagine if they did that for Major League Baseball? Oh yeah, 0:19:56.200 --> 0:20:01.040 as far as like the Dominican Republic, American countries, ship 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:03.760 Toronto Blue Jays would be in a whole lot of time. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.240 It would be in the world of hurt. Yeah, but 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.760 it isn't you look at the US versus the world. 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:13.920 I mean that a lot of the other places. That's 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.200 I think I heard in the Mexican League, Mexican League baseball, 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.240 they have a limit on how many US players you 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.159 can have. I don't know that. Somebody told me that 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:24.640 a couple of years ago. I don't know if that's true. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.800 So do you know that then for like the Japanese 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:31.120 or Korean leagues? Is that the case? I believe that 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.679 to be the case. Also, Yeah, I think we can 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.080 double check it. But I know in basketball, I've I've 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.959 worked with some guys that played basketball in different countries 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.400 and they were limits on how many Americans I could 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.040 play in that country. And I think in in Japanese baseball, yeah, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.040 that you can only have a couple of per team. 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:50.160 That you've got to have mostly players from the Homeland. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.440 That's But as far as the broadcasting thing, like see 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.720 now because of the COVID, this is one of the 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.600 things like if you're an up start league, you're not 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:05.640 going to actually have the broadcasters travel to wherever you are, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.720 right if you can save money now you can. People 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.119 have been hypnotized and mesmerized and they don't really know 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.480 where the broadcasters are, and so you could call games 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.479 from your living room and you don't have to travel 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:22.520 to Germany and need a sausage. You know, Germany Schnitzelman, 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:28.360 the German press man. Yes. And the one lucture that 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.840 we had with this game to which I loved they 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:37.000 probably didn't was that they had two cameras but hot mics, 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.480 and so that the mics were down there field level 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:44.359 and you could just hear English speaking head coaches, a 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.760 couple of them, more American dropping f bombs left and right, 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:51.679 blown tackles, missed the simits, staying out of their lanes 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:55.600 on kickoff and kickoff return. So it was awesome. Sometimes 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.199 it would lay out just so I can hear the 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.639 hot mics. It's really good. So and you're doing this 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.400 in English, you don't speak Germans, you're doing this in English, 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.680 and this is being broadcast where is this supposed to 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.360 be broadcast? When you start doing it, it'll be broadcasted 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.879 on a company's platform called Spock TV s p A 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:16.639 l K TV. Yeah, so they do. They do a 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:18.480 bunch of different sports. Have been trying to work with 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.000 them for for a while and they do a lot 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:27.080 of basketball, baseball. Um, I think they do polo, tennis, boxing, 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.520