Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of Hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now, Hey, you know what that is.
Speaker 1: It's a Saturday in this podcast, the Fifth Hour eight
Speaker 1: days a week, which would include Saturday. That's the eight
Speaker 1: days a week. Because four hours are not enough. They
Speaker 1: are not enough. And we thank you for finding the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I do want to encourage you if you want
Speaker 1: the podcast to continue eight days a week, continue to listen.
Speaker 1: The numbers have been good. We're growing the audience. The
Speaker 1: only way we can grow the audience, though, is with you.
Speaker 1: We have no ad budget. You're not gonna see a
Speaker 1: billboard for the Fifth Hour. You're not gonna hear a
Speaker 1: commercial for the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen, right. I occasionally mentioned this podcast on my
Speaker 1: on the on the radio show that we do right
Speaker 1: the Overnight Show that we are all part of I
Speaker 1: mentioned it occasionally, but outside of that, we have nothing.
Speaker 1: So word of mouth advertising, which is the most effective advertising.
Speaker 1: People that work in the ad business get very upset
Speaker 1: that the word of mouth advertising is the way to go.
Speaker 1: It bothers them. They're annoyed by it. But it's the
Speaker 1: reality of the world. It is the reality of the
Speaker 1: world that when people tell other people recommendations it means
Speaker 1: more like, I love commercials, and we do a lot
Speaker 1: of commercials. You'll hear commercials during the podcast. But it
Speaker 1: is a fact. I'm getting carried away here. But I know,
Speaker 1: for example, like when when you're looking for somewhere to
Speaker 1: eat and you're like, hey, you know any good Italian
Speaker 1: restaurants and somebody says, hey, I know this place that's
Speaker 1: got great chicken palm, and you're like, okay. If it's
Speaker 1: someone in your circle, a friend or a relative, someone
Speaker 1: that is a value, then you're gonna be like, okay,
Speaker 1: let me go give it a shot. Give a shot.
Speaker 1: And I will also tell you if if you give
Speaker 1: it a shot and you go and eat the chicken
Speaker 1: parm and it's like chewing bubblegum, then you're not gonna
Speaker 1: listen to that person again, so there is value to it.
Speaker 1: So you know it. It's a double edged sword. It
Speaker 1: cuts both ways, right, it cuts both ways. But that
Speaker 1: is that is part of it. And uh so on
Speaker 1: this podcast, we've got into the principal's office and we'll
Speaker 1: do pop quiz as well. Right into the Principal's office
Speaker 1: and pop quiz and then other random stories that caught
Speaker 1: my attention if we have time. Other random stories that
Speaker 1: caught my attention. So those are the the tenants of
Speaker 1: the podcast. But we begin with this now you probably
Speaker 1: noticed already, maybe not, the Friday Podcast was an interview podcast.
Speaker 1: It normally unless we can't get anybody to come on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and occasionally we can. But the Friday Podcast
Speaker 1: this week we had Lee Kleine, the Prince of Darkness.
Speaker 1: Lee Kleine, radio legend and a guy that I used
Speaker 1: to work with. And Lee was regaling us with stories
Speaker 1: there about some of the old days and my run
Speaker 1: ins with athletes, and he was a witness to it,
Speaker 1: some of our interactions a lot of funds could have leon.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that. Lee's an interesting cat, and
Speaker 1: we'll have him on again. But one thing you did
Speaker 1: not hear on the Friday podcast, you did not hear
Speaker 1: a peep out of David Gascon. You did not hear
Speaker 1: a peep. He was quiet. It was radio silence, dead
Speaker 1: air from Gascon, right, as we would say here, all
Speaker 1: quiet on the West of the four oh five front.
Speaker 1: That's right, um. And the reason that you did not
Speaker 1: hear from David Gascon on that podcast, the reason you
Speaker 1: are not hearing Gascon on this podcast is because David
Speaker 1: Gascon has been placed on time out. He has been paced.
Speaker 1: He's in podcast jail for the weekend high crimes and misdemeanors.
Speaker 1: Because Mr West of the four oh five I know
Speaker 1: he doesn't want me to talk about this and he'll
Speaker 1: deny it. I he had nobody running interference for him.
Speaker 1: Nobody running interference for him. Uh, and so he will
Speaker 1: be as quiet as a lamb this weekend. Because Gascon
Speaker 1: is the butcher of audio. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know that, but he's the butcher Budio and we do
Speaker 1: a bit called Benny versus the Penny iconic I say
Speaker 1: that in air quotes, iconic bit wink wink not not,
Speaker 1: And we used to do it on the radio. I
Speaker 1: hit it on the radio for like ten fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Then we moved it to the podcast for a year,
Speaker 1: and now we've moved to a standalone own YouTube interactive
Speaker 1: show usually on Friday nights. We did last week on
Speaker 1: Friday night, week eleven. But back in week ten, all right,
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny of the YouTube show. It was
Speaker 1: supposed to start at nine thirty in the West. It
Speaker 1: did not start till, I believe after an hour delay.
Speaker 1: It wasn't because of rain. It wasn't because of rain. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was because Gascon left it up. He screwed up
Speaker 1: his computer and all that at the very last minute,
Speaker 1: at the eleventh hour. And so he is not on
Speaker 1: the podcast. It's it's punishment for him in a reward
Speaker 1: for for you listener. And so Gascon has been sent
Speaker 1: to podcasting Siberia. Uh, and he's gonna have to weather
Speaker 1: the storm. He's gonna have to weather the storm there.
Speaker 1: He has not been candy, has not been terminated. He
Speaker 1: did not get a pink slip. He didn't get the axe.
Speaker 1: We would like to give him the boot, but he
Speaker 1: has not been whacked. None of those things have happened.
Speaker 1: He's not on a coal miners holiday or any of that.
Speaker 1: But he's off this weekend from the podcast because of
Speaker 1: some mistakes that he made, so in his place, writing
Speaker 1: Shotgun as my sounding board. Give it up now for
Speaker 1: the Great Ryan Smith. Hello Ryan, Hello, Uncle Ben. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I don't have to talk to guests. Gone, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I get to talk to you. Well, unfortunately I have
Speaker 1: to see him every day. So, uh that's not good
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, no it is not. And so we're
Speaker 1: gonna do the pop question. But I wanted to get
Speaker 1: to know this is a bit that Real Talk does
Speaker 1: on the radio show, Like you know, four questions, we'll
Speaker 1: do more than four questions. Why don't we do it?
Speaker 1: How about this? We'll call it five good minutes learning
Speaker 1: about the Great Ryan Smith? Sure? Why not? Sounds great?
Speaker 1: It's that? Is that not gonna be a podcast? We're
Speaker 1: gonna set a record. We're gonna beat Joe Rogan for
Speaker 1: downloads with this. You understand, We're gonna have so many
Speaker 1: people downloading this. We're gonna be the top podcast on
Speaker 1: the I Heart network. Peas. People are gonna be fascinated
Speaker 1: to learn about the life and times of Ryan Smith. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna get a lot of hate tweets. Yeah, probably, Well,
Speaker 1: they don't know your Twitter account. You want to give
Speaker 1: your Twitter account so people can go ahead? Will at
Speaker 1: Ryan McBain on Twitter. There you go. Alright, alright, I'm
Speaker 1: very funny. All right, So the the fifth Hour listener.
Speaker 1: First of all, why don't we start with the basic
Speaker 1: for those who don't know who you are and they
Speaker 1: have no idea because you're behind the scenes guy. Mostly,
Speaker 1: what is your job at Fox Sports Radio? What is
Speaker 1: your title at Fox Sports Radio? I am a one
Speaker 1: of the mini producers for Colin Cowherd. Wow, you're part
Speaker 1: of the herd. I am a part of the herd. Yes,
Speaker 1: way behind the scenes, way behind, way behind. So do
Speaker 1: you do you think that Colin knows who you are?
Speaker 1: He knows me, he doesn't know my name because he
Speaker 1: keeps calling me chief or big guy. This is fine,
Speaker 1: that's cool, he's calling that's that's fine. Exactly. He's a legend.
Speaker 1: And now so you're a low man on the total
Speaker 1: pull on that. But if you understand, for the company,
Speaker 1: Colin Calherd is omnipresent, almighty and all knowing. He is
Speaker 1: the colossal Bofo Sacho gigantic figure at Fox Sports Radio. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the conan, the barbarian. Yes, he's the head show. Yes.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you need to throw rose pedals
Speaker 1: down when you're around him? He's basically the only host
Speaker 1: here at the network that uh if. And when he
Speaker 1: yells at me, I just take it. Anybody else all like,
Speaker 1: snap back? All right. So there's a fear factor you're
Speaker 1: getting here, there's a fear factory because not only and
Speaker 1: in this. I love Colin. I've bet him a few
Speaker 1: times over the years. He'd been very nice to me.
Speaker 1: But Colin has the kind of power I don't think
Speaker 1: Colin even realizes how much power is. If Colin wants you,
Speaker 1: if you get on the back outside of Colin, it's done.
Speaker 1: I mean he has if he wanted to. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he would do this because he probably wouldn't, but
Speaker 1: if he wanted to, he could make you be a race.
Speaker 1: That's how much influence Colin has on on the business
Speaker 1: and the company and all that. Because he's the moneymaker.
Speaker 1: We're basically fans. Yeah, one staff and you're gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's the what's the guy that runs Amazon? There?
Speaker 1: The bald guy. What's Yeah, Jeff Bezo, He's our Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos is essentially how that that goes? Now? How long
Speaker 1: have you been in radio? Ryan? We're getting to know
Speaker 1: Ryan Smith? How exciting is this the guy he's one
Speaker 1: of cow Hurts producers. I've been in radio almost twenty years. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been all over the place. I've been at Sporting
Speaker 1: News Radio, I've been at KFI obviously, I've been here
Speaker 1: at Fox. I've been at UH, at K Day. I've
Speaker 1: pretty much worked everywhere. Now is it all in l A?
Speaker 1: Was it all over Los Angeles where you work? Did
Speaker 1: you work in other cities? Oh? Just basically in l A?
Speaker 1: So you've bounced around the radio dial in l A.
Speaker 1: So when you were a at Sporting News, you were
Speaker 1: at it was an AM station? Was atty or something like?
Speaker 1: The ticket? The ticket? About that? Actually? Oh, you're with
Speaker 1: the P. Was with the P. I've known Petrols for
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, that's good, but Petrols good guy.
Speaker 1: He'd be sure to catch live editions of the Ben
Speaker 1: Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm
Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: All Right, and so now these are this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a very important question here. Um, were you born
Speaker 1: and do you live east or west of the four
Speaker 1: oh five fruit? And remember answer this Ryan very carefully.
Speaker 1: Answer this because I like you. Right now I seem
Speaker 1: I seem to enjoy the conversation. But if you answer
Speaker 1: this the wrong way, then this might sully our relationship. Well, Um,
Speaker 1: I was born in San Jose, California. Okay, that's far
Speaker 1: away from the four oh five freeway, so that's very good.
Speaker 1: But but but I am not a Giants fan. I'm
Speaker 1: a die hard Dodgers fan. Good job by you. You
Speaker 1: were raised, you were raised, Clipper, you were raised properly, yes,
Speaker 1: And I'm a Raiders fan. So basically all I know
Speaker 1: is pain. Um pretty much. Yeah, the agony of being
Speaker 1: a sports fan, yes, the agony being so you were
Speaker 1: you were San Jose? Guy? Did you grow to high
Speaker 1: school and stuff in San Jose? Were you from that?
Speaker 1: You just stay there until you were older? Or? Fun fact?
Speaker 1: I went to high school uh at Leland High School
Speaker 1: with Pat Tillman. Oh is that right, the legendary Pat Tillman.
Speaker 1: Good guy. I still talked to one of his brothers.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Uh, Okay, awesome person. Cool all right, And
Speaker 1: and now you're in l A and so now that's
Speaker 1: that's dangerous. There's that point of the market. But you're
Speaker 1: a producer, so I'm guessing you can't afford to live
Speaker 1: west of the four or five. My right? Uh, I
Speaker 1: make do I got a side hustle? Oh really, what
Speaker 1: do you sell drugs? What do you I'm actually on Twitch?
Speaker 1: Actually really you make money on Twitch a little bit? Yeah,
Speaker 1: no way, man. Some people think that I'm somewhat entertaining,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, how do you what's the what's
Speaker 1: the secret? Because I I know Twitch. I've been on
Speaker 1: there a few times. I got Tony Bruno did a
Speaker 1: Twitch show for a while. But how do you how
Speaker 1: does one make money on Twitch? Well? People a lot
Speaker 1: of people think that it's just playing video games, but no,
Speaker 1: you can you talk to people. You can talk about anything,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as you're entertaining and like tell stories. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: I'm out of female, so a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: want to watch me because a lot of people that
Speaker 1: watch Twitch want to see boobies and I don't have
Speaker 1: any boobies, So you can you know, you can fix
Speaker 1: that now, it's you can get all the things the
Speaker 1: ladies have. You can go if you go to like
Speaker 1: a Frankenstein doctor, they'll put it together pretty good there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to look like gask On, So I'm
Speaker 1: all right, I'm good. I'm good on that, all right.
Speaker 1: So and you just get how do you build an
Speaker 1: audience though? Because to get money, right, you have to
Speaker 1: have people actually watch it. So how do you convince
Speaker 1: people to watch it without having going into it with
Speaker 1: the phone? Ah, you just gotta build it. You have
Speaker 1: to um, you know, go out on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok,
Speaker 1: Facebook and just say hey, I'm going live, and just
Speaker 1: have to keep on doing it and doing it and
Speaker 1: slowly but surely you'll build an audience. It's not easy,
Speaker 1: especially being a dude. Yeah. And also it's the Internet,
Speaker 1: and we all know how dirty and bad the internet is.
Speaker 1: So you get a lot of harassment. Yeah, well the trolls, right,
Speaker 1: and never you're never supposed to feed the trolls. I
Speaker 1: like that. People. People are so stupid. They think that
Speaker 1: they have uh, you know, this shield, this cone of
Speaker 1: silence around them, not code of science, but but they're protected,
Speaker 1: they're insulated from reality. They it's so easy to track
Speaker 1: people down online that these keyboard assassins, these cyber soldiers
Speaker 1: don't even really so dumb they don't realize that anybody
Speaker 1: who has, you know, half a brain and it can
Speaker 1: immediately track down exactly where they are because there's a
Speaker 1: there's a code when you're on the internet, and they
Speaker 1: can track it down and these people haven't figured it out.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating to me that people are so stupid they
Speaker 1: can't figure that part out and they think that they're
Speaker 1: protected and they have animity on the Internet. That's because
Speaker 1: they don't take the right steps, like having a burner
Speaker 1: account and you know, Kevin duran On, you gotta do
Speaker 1: it the right way, though, you know, I try now Gascon,
Speaker 1: who's who's suspended this weekend? And that's why we have
Speaker 1: the great Ryan Smith in But I he he had
Speaker 1: a hook up on the VPN, but he has not
Speaker 1: shared the VPN with me. He he knew a guy.
Speaker 1: I like, I want to get a VPN from a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, because I don't know you can buy it
Speaker 1: different websites and all that, and uh and so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to do Now, what is the strangest thing
Speaker 1: that's happened. I love radio stories, right. I've been in
Speaker 1: radio for a long time too, so I love good
Speaker 1: radio STU. What's the craziest thing you've witnessed at a
Speaker 1: radio station in your career. Craziest thing I have ever witnessed? Wow? Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: For example, I'm putting on the spot. In the early
Speaker 1: days of Fox Sports Radio, we had a guy that's
Speaker 1: doing a kind of a job you have, who got
Speaker 1: so burned out because they worked into the bone. He
Speaker 1: just quit. He in the middle of a shift. He
Speaker 1: walked out and said I'm done, but he didn't really
Speaker 1: tell anybody in management that he was done, and he
Speaker 1: never showed up to work again. And they had to
Speaker 1: call the police to make sure they thought he was dead.
Speaker 1: They had to call the police. He just quit. He
Speaker 1: just had a meltdown and he quit. I've had that happened.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of some other stories as a reference.
Speaker 1: Guy like crazy stuff that has happened. I was one
Speaker 1: time was doing local radio and a guy almost burned
Speaker 1: the station down. He was smoking cigarettes inside the station
Speaker 1: and he dropped a cigarette. He thought it was out.
Speaker 1: He dropped into it a trash can and the trash
Speaker 1: can lit on fire, and uh and and this smoke
Speaker 1: filled up the entire floor of the radio station. And
Speaker 1: this was on the this was in a skyscraper, you know.
Speaker 1: And so it came very close to the sprinkler system
Speaker 1: turning on, which would have would have put water in
Speaker 1: all of the electrical equipment. It would have turned the
Speaker 1: radio station. So those are some of the stupid things
Speaker 1: that I've experienced. What is Is there anything? If? If not,
Speaker 1: it's fine, you don't. You can punt, you can punt
Speaker 1: no um um. I can't really name any names because
Speaker 1: the person still works in radio. But over when I
Speaker 1: was over at many many years ago, over at Sporting
Speaker 1: News Radio, one of the hosts um snapped at one
Speaker 1: of the program directors and literally, uh took the keyboard
Speaker 1: from his computer and just chucked it down the hall,
Speaker 1: yelling every type of F bomb you can think of.
Speaker 1: And I was in my early twenties, and I'm standing there, going,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want any of that. I
Speaker 1: don't want any of that. I don't want that smoke
Speaker 1: is the kids are saying, Yeah, so he threw the keyboard.
Speaker 1: What a hissy fit? What a temper change? Rumh, my god.
Speaker 1: The best part about it is, um he was doing
Speaker 1: an interview, a live interview at the time. This guy's
Speaker 1: got talent. I mean, I love the old radio show.
Speaker 1: I I had a program director at one time that
Speaker 1: ran down the hall. Well I really he kind of
Speaker 1: waddled down the hall and started banging his hands on
Speaker 1: the wall because we did a bad segment. He didn't
Speaker 1: like how he handled this second and he just started
Speaker 1: screaming at us. And I was like, what a lunatic?
Speaker 1: I mean, my god, I mean, just there's different ways
Speaker 1: to do this. My my goodness. Here all right, now
Speaker 1: a couple where we're getting to let Ryan Smith and
Speaker 1: I got to get to the pot quiz because it's
Speaker 1: very important show here. Do you have any odd skills?
Speaker 1: Can you juggle? Uh? Is? There? Can you? Is? You're
Speaker 1: some kind of weird thing that you have that you
Speaker 1: could make. But you're on Twitch, so you've already revealed
Speaker 1: one thing that's not normal. Um, but by by the
Speaker 1: by the way, like what do you what kind of
Speaker 1: stories do you tell on Twitch? Maybe some sleazy sex
Speaker 1: stories from my past music, uh, movies, like you know,
Speaker 1: pretty much basic stuff. So you times and sometimes I
Speaker 1: may or may not be drunk. So okay, Now, were
Speaker 1: you like a male jiggolo back in the day? No,
Speaker 1: I was not. But I was a professional wrestler back
Speaker 1: in the day. Well, you're buried to leave my mind.
Speaker 1: You're buried to leave my mind. I was getting to it.
Speaker 1: I was getting to it. I mean, come on, that's
Speaker 1: a big story. You were a professional now where there's
Speaker 1: different levels of wrestling as I know where where were
Speaker 1: you a professional wrestler here in l A on the
Speaker 1: indie scene? But I have wrestled with and against some
Speaker 1: pretty big name stars or or been on the same
Speaker 1: like quote unquote shows with people that that like blew
Speaker 1: up and made it um. One guy I won't bear
Speaker 1: the lead. Maybe you've heard of him, John Cena. Really
Speaker 1: I knew him when his wrestling name was the Prototype,
Speaker 1: before he was John. So the way it works is
Speaker 1: I understand it, but you worked in the wrestling world.
Speaker 1: The way I understand it is that these lower level
Speaker 1: wrestling like it's kind of a feeder system and then
Speaker 1: you if you want to get into the like the
Speaker 1: top level where like the w W or the other
Speaker 1: what's the other one called the in Atlanta or the South.
Speaker 1: What's the other wrestling I forget m W CW I
Speaker 1: think you're talking about. Yeah, I think that there's like
Speaker 1: two big ones that supposedly at the top. But isn't it,
Speaker 1: from what I understand, and maybe I'm completely wrong, that
Speaker 1: they scout out guys at these lower levels and then
Speaker 1: you have to go to like an academy. I don
Speaker 1: the w w E does that. You have to go
Speaker 1: to academy in Florida and then you have to work
Speaker 1: your way up again, right, isn't that how that works? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's exactly how it works. Sometimes people, um, you can
Speaker 1: go to Japan and wrestle, but yeah, it's uh now
Speaker 1: like here, there's only like two major federations. It's the
Speaker 1: w E and there's a w Those are two big
Speaker 1: ones right now. Okay? And so when you what was
Speaker 1: what you're you're wrestling? Stick? Like? What was your stick?
Speaker 1: When you were? Were you just a guy that people
Speaker 1: the other guys beat up? I remember when I was
Speaker 1: a kid and I love the WWF and I'd go
Speaker 1: to the card on like Saturday at the Anaheim Convention
Speaker 1: Center and they have the big name wrestler against like
Speaker 1: Bill Smith who just had who just had like the
Speaker 1: blue shorts on and there was nothing to him, and
Speaker 1: he was just you knew, he was just there. He
Speaker 1: was the tomato can that the star could beat and
Speaker 1: then they'd move on to the next match. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: call them jobbers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the job exactly right,
Speaker 1: that's it. Good job you. Of course you wouldn't know that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the jobber. It's kind it's kind of like the Clippers
Speaker 1: back in the day with the abbers they were yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: So what was your stick? I was? I had all
Speaker 1: different types of names, but I basically went by Ryan McBain,
Speaker 1: which is why I go by that on Twitch and
Speaker 1: also on Twitter. Uh. I think when I first started out,
Speaker 1: I went by sweet Dick Ryan McBain, and I would
Speaker 1: come out with this nice fedora. You know. It was
Speaker 1: really fond of that name, but a lot of promoters
Speaker 1: were like, you know what, let's just go with Ryan McBain.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, what I didn't like sweet Dick. I
Speaker 1: didn't like it. I don't know why. Friendly. If you
Speaker 1: were bad, you could have been slap dicks. You could
Speaker 1: have been slap dick, and look at that would have
Speaker 1: been a way that would have been the way to right,
Speaker 1: we got slap dick over here doing doing this thing.
Speaker 1: What was the worst injury you suffered when you were wrestling? Right?
Speaker 1: It was the worst injury is what that was actually
Speaker 1: training I wasn't even wrestling. I got a concussion, like
Speaker 1: a really na see where your head spinning kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So basically the guy goes training me. I won't name
Speaker 1: any names, but he was he liked to do the steroids. Sure,
Speaker 1: he didn't know his own strength, and uh, he like
Speaker 1: pretty much ran my head right into the match. It
Speaker 1: did not. It was like the worst injury I ever got. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like the how how beat up? Like I know,
Speaker 1: I've I've had some friends that were wrestlers before. We
Speaker 1: had some listeners that went on to be good wrestlers,
Speaker 1: which I'm which I'm proud of. But like in a
Speaker 1: typical match, I got you. It's it's acting right, you're
Speaker 1: not you're not supposed to actually get hurt. But did
Speaker 1: you get beat up? Where you would you end up
Speaker 1: with a bunch of bruises and stuff after a match
Speaker 1: when you're you're not that's not the goal obviously, But
Speaker 1: how beat up did you get after a standard match? Well,
Speaker 1: we're basically like stunt men. Yeah, basically. Uh So, like
Speaker 1: after a match, you feel like the next day you
Speaker 1: feel like, wow, I've had a great workout. You're really sore.
Speaker 1: And the more you did it, the more your body
Speaker 1: to get used to it. Uh. I would go through
Speaker 1: times where I would wrestle like maybe like once, I'd
Speaker 1: be like a couple of months and that and like
Speaker 1: my body's I used to it, and then I wake
Speaker 1: up the morning, I'm like, I I'm not getting out
Speaker 1: of bed. I'm just this. This is not gonna work.
Speaker 1: I am too sore. But uh, obviously, you know we're
Speaker 1: not trying to kill each other. Some people or quote
Speaker 1: unquote stiff as they say when they're like you're in
Speaker 1: the ring and go, hey man, you want to like
Speaker 1: not try and kill me in here? Damn? Do I
Speaker 1: owe your money? Stop? Now? How much choreographing did you
Speaker 1: do before the match? Did you? Because I notice I've
Speaker 1: heard stories I actually seen it been around the wrestlers
Speaker 1: and the fact like they kind of go over what
Speaker 1: the plan is, you know, like I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start out and I'm actually going to go
Speaker 1: over the ropes and you know, I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go outside. I'll bring a chair in. Like, did
Speaker 1: you do that? Did you go that far into it?
Speaker 1: Were that far into the weeds? Everybody's different. Usually that
Speaker 1: the hell or the quote unquote bad guy he would
Speaker 1: call the match. How I would do it is this
Speaker 1: is how this is gonna go down. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: this at the beginning, and then this is gonna be
Speaker 1: the end, and in the middle, will do a few
Speaker 1: things here and there. But like I was really uh
Speaker 1: strict on the beginning because you gotta like the beginning
Speaker 1: is very very important, and then the ending. Now, some
Speaker 1: people have the whole thing planned out, like move by
Speaker 1: a move. I'm like, no, I'm not doing all that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so you didn't, like did you have like
Speaker 1: the armbar, the backbreaker, you have the forearm drop, like
Speaker 1: the head scissors? Like, what was your move there? We
Speaker 1: would like depends so you're working with I usually go like,
Speaker 1: these are the moves that I do. Most people would
Speaker 1: go go like, okay, I can do that. I can
Speaker 1: take that. I can take that. Some people who I have,
Speaker 1: who I would have never wrustled before back in the day,
Speaker 1: they would say, um, I want to do this. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking that. You're crazy. Uh like giving you
Speaker 1: like a like a power bro I'm off the top rope,
Speaker 1: or like give you a pile driver off the top rope.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, dude, No, we're not doing all that
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. No, you're gonna break my damn neck. So
Speaker 1: you never got the elevated double chicken wing or whatever
Speaker 1: you get that that never never happened back. And no,
Speaker 1: Also I'm also burying the lead. I'm pretty big myself.
Speaker 1: I'm six five. Yeah, I've been told. I think Gagan
Speaker 1: says that we look we have a we have a
Speaker 1: similar look, although I know I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: true or not. He he has referenced to you many
Speaker 1: times there, he has referenced you many times. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll look at that. Who knew? I I learned all
Speaker 1: about Ryan Smith with more that was actually more that
Speaker 1: was like twenty minutes. I said, I do five. We
Speaker 1: did twenty minutes. I didn't know you were a wrestler.
Speaker 1: I had no idea. Yeah, I lit of the very
Speaker 1: crazy life. Now what, you got a good job in radio,
Speaker 1: but like if you could have any job, what would
Speaker 1: your job be well, if you could pick any job,
Speaker 1: I just don't say the Overnight Show. Like, if you
Speaker 1: could have any job, like what with it? Honestly, I
Speaker 1: would just like win a lottery and then be left alone.
Speaker 1: I would like change my number and people just not
Speaker 1: bug me anymore. That's that's probably what I'm aiming for. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're like me. You're an introvert, oh very much. You know.
Speaker 1: People are like, oh, it's COVID, we can't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: That's great for me because I hate people. So this
Speaker 1: is perfect. Oh man, this is where have you been? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta deal with this a whole gagon
Speaker 1: over there, Mr West of the four oh five l
Speaker 1: d DA and all that. But you you are, you are.
Speaker 1: We're like P two p's out of you know, the
Speaker 1: same party here. This is amazing because I am a recluse.
Speaker 1: I am absolutely a recluse, uh clearly more this year
Speaker 1: than ever, and socially awkward as well. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to pop Quiz and then we'll get the hell
Speaker 1: out of here for the Saturday podcast Pop Quiz. Pop
Speaker 1: Quiz here it is, and this is the bit here.
Speaker 1: Just you play the role of gagon and uh, and
Speaker 1: I'll just ask the question and you say, I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer, but maybe you know the answer, and
Speaker 1: then we'll we'll yap about it. So these are things
Speaker 1: I found around the internet, random pop culture related things. Us.
Speaker 1: We call it the pop quiz. Alright, So this is
Speaker 1: the number one item that is lost in a household.
Speaker 1: Number one item that people lose in their house. What
Speaker 1: do you think it is? I would say, uh, car keys.
Speaker 1: That's a good guest. Car Keys is good. I would
Speaker 1: have thought remote control for the television. I would have
Speaker 1: gone with that one. The correct answer. The according to
Speaker 1: this socks. Socks. People lose socks. They disappear. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know because a lot of people just put all their
Speaker 1: socks in the wash and then it gets lost in
Speaker 1: the dryer and they okay, you don't wash your socks. Well, um,
Speaker 1: you don't do your long your mom does your black one. Oh,
Speaker 1: you wear the same colored socks, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'll buy a bunch of black ones. And then like
Speaker 1: so if it's dirty item, I don't know, what are
Speaker 1: you Johnny Cash, the Man in Black or something like that.
Speaker 1: Come on, jeez, be sure to catch live editions of
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern, I'll
Speaker 1: leven p em Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Alright. One in three single adults
Speaker 1: say this is why they have no interest in meeting someone.
Speaker 1: You think, here, d D D D D D D, well,
Speaker 1: that would be your reason, but uh no, the answer
Speaker 1: is they're not over an ex about that. They're heartbroken,
Speaker 1: love sick. Man. That sucks all right. Nine of parents
Speaker 1: say this is stressing them out the most in their lives.
Speaker 1: What do you think, your parents, what do you think
Speaker 1: the thing that's stressing you at the most? I would
Speaker 1: go with taxes. You would think taxes, but it's actually
Speaker 1: the according to this survey, it's helping kids with their homework.
Speaker 1: And that is that is a freaking nightmare. Man, you
Speaker 1: just triggered me. I remember back in the day when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, my dad used to help me
Speaker 1: with my homework next day at school. It'll all be wrong.
Speaker 1: You just you just triggered me. Man. Oh good lord.
Speaker 1: The word the worst is like the math, because a
Speaker 1: lot of that for gaysing math that you do, you
Speaker 1: never actually use it in life, right at least it
Speaker 1: depends on what your job is. Like my job, my job,
Speaker 1: I use basic math with percentages and things like that
Speaker 1: for sports stats, but I'm not doing advanced algebra and
Speaker 1: calculus and crap like that. And I can understand, like
Speaker 1: if you have a regular job and you have a
Speaker 1: kid that comes home and they're in like junior high
Speaker 1: school or something, and they have, you know, all this
Speaker 1: ridiculous math. I think the cool thing now, though, is
Speaker 1: you can go to the internet and probably find all
Speaker 1: the answers, Like you could cheat and find the answers
Speaker 1: to pretty much anything on the internet, right if you
Speaker 1: really wanted to about the way. The worst part is,
Speaker 1: my dad is an engineer. He made it a math.
Speaker 1: Do not teach it to save his life. I'm like, Dad,
Speaker 1: this makes no sense, Like how do you not get
Speaker 1: it because you're a crappy teacher? Dad? See that that's
Speaker 1: the same theory, right, That's the same theory as like
Speaker 1: the great player cannot really coach typically because they can
Speaker 1: those that can do cannot teach, and those that can
Speaker 1: eat can teach, cannot do. I'm just convinced my dad
Speaker 1: cheated and that's how he got his degree. How about
Speaker 1: the fight your dask why I don't want to deal
Speaker 1: with this bull crap an screw you. I'll just write
Speaker 1: some answers down and that's it. I'm done, get out
Speaker 1: of here. Uh yeah, that's probably what happened. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't blame your pops. By the way, of all
Speaker 1: these bought today at stores will get thrown out unused condoms.
Speaker 1: But I'm bump uh no, potatoes really yeah, you know why.
Speaker 1: I have a theory on this, because you buy the
Speaker 1: big bag of potato at a place like a Costco
Speaker 1: or somewhere like that, and that's at you. You'd have
Speaker 1: to eat like three or four potatoes a day to
Speaker 1: get through that entire giant jumbo bag of potatoes. I
Speaker 1: can understand that. I don't if you go through my
Speaker 1: draw or I have a box of condoms never used. Well,
Speaker 1: that's because you're an introvert. Usually my experience with women
Speaker 1: is normally you have to talk to them before you
Speaker 1: know the fun times beginning the way. I'm bam, no,
Speaker 1: it's almost work. I don't want to do all this work.
Speaker 1: And you say, hey, how is your day, and they
Speaker 1: give you like their life story. I'm like, dude, just
Speaker 1: give me the cliff notes, Well, you have to learn
Speaker 1: you have to learn the art Ryan of how to
Speaker 1: listen without listening. Yeah, men learn that at some point
Speaker 1: in their life. You listen, but you're not actually paying attention,
Speaker 1: and you have to nod. And there's a technique, there's
Speaker 1: a skill to it, like you have to occasionally like
Speaker 1: ask a follow up question and the skill. I learned
Speaker 1: this a long time ago. Not that I would ever
Speaker 1: do this because it would be wrong. But whatever the
Speaker 1: person said last, if you just repeat that as like
Speaker 1: an echo chamber and then ask, like, tell me more
Speaker 1: about that, they will think you are intently listening to
Speaker 1: their conversation. It is an amazing life hack. It does work,
Speaker 1: you see. Actually, what it works better is a good
Speaker 1: pickup line. And I had the best pickup line in
Speaker 1: the world. Oh I gotta hear this. Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1: Now you go. Perfect works every time. You know. It's
Speaker 1: amazing about Jeff Bezos. The woman he's stooping right now.
Speaker 1: I knew Lauren Sanchez. She was a sportscaster in l
Speaker 1: a and I had a dinner at the same table
Speaker 1: with her many times when she was at the let
Speaker 1: this forum covering the Lakers and and all that, and
Speaker 1: the and Staples Center, and she was on local TV
Speaker 1: and l A doing sports for years, and now she is.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're married, but she's got some of
Speaker 1: that Amazon money. Uh. He actually owns twitch, So I
Speaker 1: have nothing to say. So all right, you know, you
Speaker 1: say she's a lovely lady. In my apologies to her lady,
Speaker 1: in my apologies, tore Alright, forty seven percent we're doing popui.
Speaker 1: Forty seven percent of us do this every morning? What
Speaker 1: is it self? Self pleasure? Is that way brush your teeth?
Speaker 1: Brush your teeth, dot that's funny. Uh, it's it's take
Speaker 1: a vitamin take take yeah yeah, yeahez guestcon's probably doing
Speaker 1: that right now because he's suspended from the podcast. That's
Speaker 1: probably doing that all right now. Alright, owning seven of
Speaker 1: these in Texas is illegal. You're on seven of these.
Speaker 1: You're violating the law in Texas. What do you think
Speaker 1: it is? This actually kind of relates to what we
Speaker 1: were just talking about. Wives. I don't know, um, sex toys,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dildos and all that. Yeah, you're you're not allowed.
Speaker 1: Apparently six is okay, but if you own seven. You're
Speaker 1: an outlaw about that. I call them marinal aid and
Speaker 1: U like the fine sex toy I don't have. They
Speaker 1: didn't they didn't write the definition. I would assume the
Speaker 1: usual standard fair, or, as the Bill's mafia calls it,
Speaker 1: just good fan gear. You know good? Yeah? Well you
Speaker 1: remember right right? They build multiple times, they've They've thrown
Speaker 1: dildos on the field at Bill's games. It's the great
Speaker 1: moments in Bill's history there over the years. Clearly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean they played the Patriots. Some somebody in Bill's
Speaker 1: mafia would check that you not a Patriot game. I'm
Speaker 1: a Raiders fan. I think Tom Prady is a fraud.
Speaker 1: I think it's a cheater. Wow. A matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I hate everything Boston oye. You I am an honorary Bostonian.
Speaker 1: I did a stint in Boston radio. How dare I'm
Speaker 1: gonna slap you? How dare you cheez Louise Man? All right?
Speaker 1: Uh this president it was known to greet foreign dignitaries
Speaker 1: in his pajamas, that Bill Clinton phil with a cigar
Speaker 1: in his mouth or somewhere else. Uh uh No. The
Speaker 1: the correct answer is one of the early presidents, Thomas
Speaker 1: One of the founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson. H yeah, but
Speaker 1: that the you go back in the back in the
Speaker 1: early days were before my time. Now you're old. Come on,
Speaker 1: I am not that old. Are you sure about that?
Speaker 1: He was president? Let me see her. Thomas Jefferson was
Speaker 1: president of the United I'm gonna look at the years here.
Speaker 1: Let's see, la la la la la. He was a
Speaker 1: third president. He was. He was in office from eighteen
Speaker 1: o one to eighteen o nine. H Aaron Burr and
Speaker 1: George Clinton were his vice president. How about he changed?
Speaker 1: How about that he changed vice presidents for his second term. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he succeeded by the great James Madison, which is
Speaker 1: now a university, so you have you have that as well.
Speaker 1: But Thomas Jeffers, why not man be casual? Might be casual? Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on? You know the pjs. I just wear boxers
Speaker 1: and a shirt. Old people wear pjas. I guess I'm
Speaker 1: not old. Or if you're like in cold weather, you'd
Speaker 1: wear a peach. If you're like you're in a cold
Speaker 1: weather place, that you'd wear pjas in California? Who needs
Speaker 1: pjas in California? Rue? All right? This probably happens to
Speaker 1: you about two hundred times a week and you often
Speaker 1: don't even realize it. I'm getting cussed at. Well, that
Speaker 1: happens more than two hundred times a week at the
Speaker 1: I Heart Media buildings, So that's not the the correct answer.
Speaker 1: You are filmed by security cameras. You were filmed and
Speaker 1: you don't even realize it. A lot of times you
Speaker 1: don't because they're hitting cameras. In fact, in the I
Speaker 1: Heart Media building which you're in right now, there's there's
Speaker 1: cameras all over that place. So every time you walk
Speaker 1: in the hallways, you can give the bird to one
Speaker 1: of the cameras, because that's the way you should do
Speaker 1: it exactly. Yeah, alright, what famous current artist loves the
Speaker 1: number thirteen? This performer says, I was born on the thirteenth.
Speaker 1: I turned thirteen on Friday the thirteenth, and my first
Speaker 1: album went gold in thirteen weeks. I don't know, jar rule,
Speaker 1: uh no, the correct answer. I'm sure you listen to
Speaker 1: this person a lot. Taylor Swift, She's still relevant. Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't keep tracking her like her
Speaker 1: whole like uh all her music whatever, some guy bought
Speaker 1: it and oh she lost everything she's done. Huh No,
Speaker 1: I mean like she didn't own the rights too, like
Speaker 1: her previous albums before she like went someplace else. Some
Speaker 1: guy bought her catalog and sold it off for like
Speaker 1: three million or something like that. Oh, wow, didn't was
Speaker 1: it Michael Jackson, the late Michael Jackson? He did he
Speaker 1: own some of the rights to Beatles Music. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he bought the whole catalog. I think. Oh, could
Speaker 1: you imagine owning the rights to two Beatles music? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I have. And people don't know. For those
Speaker 1: who don't know how the music business works, radio state,
Speaker 1: we have to pay money to the radio, to the
Speaker 1: music industry to play music, and we can only play
Speaker 1: like a certain amount, and we go over that, we
Speaker 1: have to pay them more money. And uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: quite the hustle. It's quite the hustle. But the people
Speaker 1: that get the money most are the people that own
Speaker 1: the rights to the music. So if you want to
Speaker 1: make a lot of money in music right music and
Speaker 1: own it right, that's the way to do it. Rather
Speaker 1: than perform. Perform you make good money, but you can
Speaker 1: make even more ridiculous money. It's kind of like syndication
Speaker 1: and television where you make typically in the past, not
Speaker 1: so much now, but in the past you make a
Speaker 1: lot of money. You make decent money doing it really
Speaker 1: in real time. But like Jerry Seinfeld is still getting
Speaker 1: massive checks a Seinfeld, which he hasn't done since the nineties,
Speaker 1: And here we are in the and it's syndicated and
Speaker 1: he's still on television. He gets a check. My dream, Ryan,
Speaker 1: in a parallel dimension, is to have radio shows paid royalties,
Speaker 1: like for people when people download this, I get a
Speaker 1: like a ten cents or something like, wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be wonderful? Why stop fair? Why ten cents?
Speaker 1: How about more than that? Um? I start out low
Speaker 1: and then it's like kind of like you're h o A.
Speaker 1: If you have an h o A, it starts out
Speaker 1: low and then keeps going higher and higher and higher.
Speaker 1: So that goes all right, I'll do a few more
Speaker 1: pop quiz here. Americans eat about one billion pounds of
Speaker 1: this every year. What is it? Uh? I would say
Speaker 1: red meat? Red meat? All right? Uh, that is incorrect.
Speaker 1: It's the chicken, the chicken of the sea, catfish, shrimp, lobster.
Speaker 1: You don't know what the chicken of the Sea is, Bryan,
Speaker 1: have you lived a sheltered life? Ryan? Awqua Man, I
Speaker 1: don't know what. Oh man. The Chicken of the Sea
Speaker 1: is tuna? Really, Yeah, you didn't. That's actually a brand
Speaker 1: of tuna. It's canned seafood Chicken of the Sea. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I only know that because my mom when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, rotated peanut butter and jelly and tuna sandwiches,
Speaker 1: which was not a problem until the weather got hot,
Speaker 1: and then by the time I would eat lunch in
Speaker 1: elementary school with my metal lunchbox, the the tuna sandwich
Speaker 1: was room temperature and it did not taste particularly good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The last time I had tuna, I got some, got
Speaker 1: some at Ralph's and I was sick as a dog.
Speaker 1: It was like one in the morning. I got to
Speaker 1: call my boss here at Fox and I was saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not coming in. There's no way
Speaker 1: in hell good. Yeah. I hate seafood. I do not
Speaker 1: like seafood. Though it's healthy. You're supposed to eat seafood,
Speaker 1: butmp lobster. You don't like lobster. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't I used to eat. The only fish I will
Speaker 1: still eat is beer. Battered fish sticks with breading and
Speaker 1: dipped in tartar sauce. Yeah. When when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I'd eat salmon, but it was like fried salmon, was
Speaker 1: like salmon patties. I used to eat that, like anything
Speaker 1: fried or beer battered. I'm I'm all for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's about the only way I can eat any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. All right, Well, Thanksgiving is coming up. Do
Speaker 1: you know about that? Yeah, alright, eighty one, you've heard
Speaker 1: about it. It's kind of a big deal. One of
Speaker 1: us will be doing this on Thanksgiving. What is it fighting? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's well not because of King Knewsome here. We're
Speaker 1: not supposed to. He'll be fighting because he'll have a
Speaker 1: nice Thanksgiving dinner, but the peasants will not be able to.
Speaker 1: Now counting calories, know what? He counts calaries on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, right right, Come on, man, who
Speaker 1: does it? That's a day your birthday and Thanksgiving. Those
Speaker 1: are days calaries do not count. Those are days you
Speaker 1: just go for it. You go big, You eat the pie,
Speaker 1: and you eat the all the side dishes and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and you gotta go for it. Yeah. I don't.
Speaker 1: First of all, I never count calories like no, I
Speaker 1: don't either. But my my new thing is I'm doing
Speaker 1: this inter minute fasting, which is my michigas. So I've
Speaker 1: been doing it for a while. It's not really new.
Speaker 1: I just like to pretend like it's new. Alright, last
Speaker 1: one of women, and this is the way you can
Speaker 1: pick up women. By the way, you say, did you
Speaker 1: know of women have had this job at some point
Speaker 1: in their life? What do you think? It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: your background, your ethnicity. You've had this gig as a
Speaker 1: woman hostess, hostess with the mostess. Uh no, the correct
Speaker 1: answer baby sitter. I'll let's say call girl or something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, depends on what part of town you come from.
Speaker 1: I guess it depends with a part of town you
Speaker 1: come from. All right, well listen, Ryan, thank you, good
Speaker 1: job by you. Look at that you you hit a
Speaker 1: home run here? How amazing is that? Well? The bar
Speaker 1: was stet pretty low. You know, I was filming in
Speaker 1: for gas On. It's not that difficult. That is true.
Speaker 1: That is true. And although I like that you were
Speaker 1: able to work in that you do live. It sounded
Speaker 1: like you admitted you lived west of the four oh five,
Speaker 1: but you didn't actually say that. You kind of just
Speaker 1: skipped past that. That's a veteran move. That's a veteran move.
Speaker 1: But you're one of the good guys that happened to
Speaker 1: might might live on the wrong side of the highway there. Anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: Thank you and thank you for listening. Obviously we appreciate it. Again,
Speaker 1: Cameo dot Com, Ben Maller, get me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and Facebook, Ben Mallers Show, Instagram, Ben Maller
Speaker 1: on Fox and Ryan again hot for those that are
Speaker 1: you know, listening at the very and how can they
Speaker 1: reach you again on Twitter and all that. Ryan McBain
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Ryan McBain on Twitch. All right, thanks,
Speaker 1: we'll catch you on Sunday. See you, guys,