WEBVTT - New kid on the block 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:29.800 Ben Maller starts right now, Hey, you know what that is. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:35.400 It's a Saturday in this podcast, the Fifth Hour eight 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.320 days a week, which would include Saturday. That's the eight 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.279 days a week. Because four hours are not enough. They 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.680 are not enough. And we thank you for finding the podcast, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.680 and I do want to encourage you if you want 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.200 the podcast to continue eight days a week, continue to listen. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.319 The numbers have been good. We're growing the audience. The 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.040 only way we can grow the audience, though, is with you. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.320 We have no ad budget. You're not gonna see a 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.200 billboard for the Fifth Hour. You're not gonna hear a 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.280 commercial for the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard. It's not 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.080 gonna happen, right. I occasionally mentioned this podcast on my 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.280 on the on the radio show that we do right 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.200 the Overnight Show that we are all part of I 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.880 mentioned it occasionally, but outside of that, we have nothing. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.680 So word of mouth advertising, which is the most effective advertising. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.840 People that work in the ad business get very upset 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:25.360 that the word of mouth advertising is the way to go. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.840 It bothers them. They're annoyed by it. But it's the 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.280 reality of the world. It is the reality of the 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:36.520 world that when people tell other people recommendations it means 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.440 more like, I love commercials, and we do a lot 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.240 of commercials. You'll hear commercials during the podcast. But it 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.080 is a fact. I'm getting carried away here. But I know, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.600 for example, like when when you're looking for somewhere to 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.000 eat and you're like, hey, you know any good Italian 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.600 restaurants and somebody says, hey, I know this place that's 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.360 got great chicken palm, and you're like, okay. If it's 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:04.800 someone in your circle, a friend or a relative, someone 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.360 that is a value, then you're gonna be like, okay, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.520 let me go give it a shot. Give a shot. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.119 And I will also tell you if if you give 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.000 it a shot and you go and eat the chicken 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.440 parm and it's like chewing bubblegum, then you're not gonna 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.000 listen to that person again, so there is value to it. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.480 So you know it. It's a double edged sword. It 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.440 cuts both ways, right, it cuts both ways. But that 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.880 is that is part of it. And uh so on 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:35.239 this podcast, we've got into the principal's office and we'll 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:40.000 do pop quiz as well. Right into the Principal's office 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.560 and pop quiz and then other random stories that caught 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.240 my attention if we have time. Other random stories that 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.200 caught my attention. So those are the the tenants of 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.160 the podcast. But we begin with this now you probably 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:59.320 noticed already, maybe not, the Friday Podcast was an interview podcast. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.800 It normally unless we can't get anybody to come on 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.480 the podcast, and occasionally we can. But the Friday Podcast 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.680 this week we had Lee Kleine, the Prince of Darkness. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.200 Lee Kleine, radio legend and a guy that I used 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.880 to work with. And Lee was regaling us with stories 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.680 there about some of the old days and my run 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.920 ins with athletes, and he was a witness to it, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.920 some of our interactions a lot of funds could have leon. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.800 I hope you enjoyed that. Lee's an interesting cat, and 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.239 we'll have him on again. But one thing you did 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.720 not hear on the Friday podcast, you did not hear 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:41.160 a peep out of David Gascon. You did not hear 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:47.640 a peep. He was quiet. It was radio silence, dead 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.560 air from Gascon, right, as we would say here, all 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.680 quiet on the West of the four oh five front. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.320 That's right, um. And the reason that you did not 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:04.680 hear from David Gascon on that podcast, the reason you 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.040 are not hearing Gascon on this podcast is because David 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.320 Gascon has been placed on time out. He has been paced. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:18.200 He's in podcast jail for the weekend high crimes and misdemeanors. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.400 Because Mr West of the four oh five I know 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.039 he doesn't want me to talk about this and he'll 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:27.640 deny it. I he had nobody running interference for him. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.560 Nobody running interference for him. Uh, and so he will 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.600 be as quiet as a lamb this weekend. Because Gascon 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.200 is the butcher of audio. I don't know if you 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.160 know that, but he's the butcher Budio and we do 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:48.160 a bit called Benny versus the Penny iconic I say 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.680 that in air quotes, iconic bit wink wink not not, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.640 And we used to do it on the radio. I 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.599 hit it on the radio for like ten fifteen years. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.360 Then we moved it to the podcast for a year, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.360 and now we've moved to a standalone own YouTube interactive 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.600 show usually on Friday nights. We did last week on 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:09.720 Friday night, week eleven. But back in week ten, all right, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.440 Benny Versus the Penny of the YouTube show. It was 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.880 supposed to start at nine thirty in the West. It 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.400 did not start till, I believe after an hour delay. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.880 It wasn't because of rain. It wasn't because of rain. Uh, 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.640 it was because Gascon left it up. He screwed up 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.359 his computer and all that at the very last minute, 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.960 at the eleventh hour. And so he is not on 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.680 the podcast. It's it's punishment for him in a reward 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.520 for for you listener. And so Gascon has been sent 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.880 to podcasting Siberia. Uh, and he's gonna have to weather 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.320 the storm. He's gonna have to weather the storm there. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.840 He has not been candy, has not been terminated. He 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.040 did not get a pink slip. He didn't get the axe. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.600 We would like to give him the boot, but he 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.200 has not been whacked. None of those things have happened. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.240 He's not on a coal miners holiday or any of that. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.840 But he's off this weekend from the podcast because of 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.520 some mistakes that he made, so in his place, writing 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:17.960 Shotgun as my sounding board. Give it up now for 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:24.279 the Great Ryan Smith. Hello Ryan, Hello, Uncle Ben. Oh 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.880 I'm so excited. I don't have to talk to guests. Gone, Ryan, 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.760 I get to talk to you. Well, unfortunately I have 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.159 to see him every day. So, uh that's not good 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.000 for me. Yeah, no it is not. And so we're 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.920 gonna do the pop question. But I wanted to get 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.000 to know this is a bit that Real Talk does 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.280 on the radio show, Like you know, four questions, we'll 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.960 do more than four questions. Why don't we do it? 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.559 How about this? We'll call it five good minutes learning 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:54.360 about the Great Ryan Smith? Sure? Why not? Sounds great? 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.840 It's that? Is that not gonna be a podcast? We're 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.280 gonna set a record. We're gonna beat Joe Rogan for 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.680 downloads with this. You understand, We're gonna have so many 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.680 people downloading this. We're gonna be the top podcast on 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.480 the I Heart network. Peas. People are gonna be fascinated 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.600 to learn about the life and times of Ryan Smith. Yes, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.400 I'm probably gonna get a lot of hate tweets. Yeah, probably, Well, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.000 they don't know your Twitter account. You want to give 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.240 your Twitter account so people can go ahead? Will at 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:26.920 Ryan McBain on Twitter. There you go. Alright, alright, I'm 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:32.360 very funny. All right, So the the fifth Hour listener. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.640 First of all, why don't we start with the basic 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.280 for those who don't know who you are and they 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.320 have no idea because you're behind the scenes guy. Mostly, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.520 what is your job at Fox Sports Radio? What is 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.720 your title at Fox Sports Radio? I am a one 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.240 of the mini producers for Colin Cowherd. Wow, you're part 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.840 of the herd. I am a part of the herd. Yes, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.040 way behind the scenes, way behind, way behind. So do 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.720 you do you think that Colin knows who you are? 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.480 He knows me, he doesn't know my name because he 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.720 keeps calling me chief or big guy. This is fine, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.080 that's cool, he's calling that's that's fine. Exactly. He's a legend. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.560 And now so you're a low man on the total 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.360 pull on that. But if you understand, for the company, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.520 Colin Calherd is omnipresent, almighty and all knowing. He is 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:28.840 the colossal Bofo Sacho gigantic figure at Fox Sports Radio. Right, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.280 that's the conan, the barbarian. Yes, he's the head show. Yes. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.160 Do you feel like you need to throw rose pedals 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.160 down when you're around him? He's basically the only host 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.160 here at the network that uh if. And when he 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.040 yells at me, I just take it. Anybody else all like, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.679 snap back? All right. So there's a fear factor you're 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.000 getting here, there's a fear factory because not only and 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.959 in this. I love Colin. I've bet him a few 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.480 times over the years. He'd been very nice to me. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.679 But Colin has the kind of power I don't think 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.040 Colin even realizes how much power is. If Colin wants you, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.600 if you get on the back outside of Colin, it's done. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.719 I mean he has if he wanted to. I'm not 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.679 saying he would do this because he probably wouldn't, but 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.600 if he wanted to, he could make you be a race. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.520 That's how much influence Colin has on on the business 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.439 and the company and all that. Because he's the moneymaker. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.120 We're basically fans. Yeah, one staff and you're gone. Yeah, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.679 he's he's the what's the guy that runs Amazon? There? 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.680 The bald guy. What's Yeah, Jeff Bezo, He's our Jeff 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.520 Bezos is essentially how that that goes? Now? How long 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.319 have you been in radio? Ryan? We're getting to know 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.360 Ryan Smith? How exciting is this the guy he's one 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:39.000 of cow Hurts producers. I've been in radio almost twenty years. Really. Yeah, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.319 I've been all over the place. I've been at Sporting 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.800 News Radio, I've been at KFI obviously, I've been here 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.480 at Fox. I've been at UH, at K Day. I've 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.640 pretty much worked everywhere. Now is it all in l A? 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.040 Was it all over Los Angeles where you work? Did 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.640 you work in other cities? Oh? Just basically in l A? 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.520 So you've bounced around the radio dial in l A. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.120 So when you were a at Sporting News, you were 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.319 at it was an AM station? Was atty or something like? 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:10.000 The ticket? The ticket? About that? Actually? Oh, you're with 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.439 the P. Was with the P. I've known Petrols for 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.880 a long time. Yeah, that's good, but Petrols good guy. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.640 He'd be sure to catch live editions of the Ben 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.600 Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.280 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.520 All Right, and so now these are this is gonna 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.600 be a very important question here. Um, were you born 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.880 and do you live east or west of the four 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.000 oh five fruit? And remember answer this Ryan very carefully. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.440 Answer this because I like you. Right now I seem 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.360 I seem to enjoy the conversation. But if you answer 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:53.920 this the wrong way, then this might sully our relationship. Well, Um, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.719 I was born in San Jose, California. Okay, that's far 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.200 away from the four oh five freeway, so that's very good. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.720 But but but I am not a Giants fan. I'm 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.520 a die hard Dodgers fan. Good job by you. You 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.360 were raised, you were raised, Clipper, you were raised properly, yes, 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.559 And I'm a Raiders fan. So basically all I know 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:17.360 is pain. Um pretty much. Yeah, the agony of being 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.160 a sports fan, yes, the agony being so you were 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.480 you were San Jose? Guy? Did you grow to high 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.160 school and stuff in San Jose? Were you from that? 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.200 You just stay there until you were older? Or? Fun fact? 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.319 I went to high school uh at Leland High School 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:35.199 with Pat Tillman. Oh is that right, the legendary Pat Tillman. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.520 Good guy. I still talked to one of his brothers. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:44.800 Uh yeah, Uh, Okay, awesome person. Cool all right, And 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.760 and now you're in l A and so now that's 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.520 that's dangerous. There's that point of the market. But you're 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.640 a producer, so I'm guessing you can't afford to live 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.040 west of the four or five. My right? Uh, I 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.360 make do I got a side hustle? Oh really, what 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:05.920 do you sell drugs? What do you I'm actually on Twitch? 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.640 Actually really you make money on Twitch a little bit? Yeah, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.400 no way, man. Some people think that I'm somewhat entertaining, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:20.080 you know, you know, how do you what's the what's 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.920 the secret? Because I I know Twitch. I've been on 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.920 there a few times. I got Tony Bruno did a 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.760 Twitch show for a while. But how do you how 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.000 does one make money on Twitch? Well? People a lot 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.439 of people think that it's just playing video games, but no, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.160 you can you talk to people. You can talk about anything, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:43.120 you know, as long as you're entertaining and like tell stories. Now, granted, 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.400 I'm out of female, so a lot of people don't 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.040 want to watch me because a lot of people that 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.599 watch Twitch want to see boobies and I don't have 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.800 any boobies, So you can you know, you can fix 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.520 that now, it's you can get all the things the 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.280 ladies have. You can go if you go to like 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.360 a Frankenstein doctor, they'll put it together pretty good there. Yeah, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.320 I don't want to look like gask On, So I'm 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.920 all right, I'm good. I'm good on that, all right. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.080 So and you just get how do you build an 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.199 audience though? Because to get money, right, you have to 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.199 have people actually watch it. So how do you convince 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.280 people to watch it without having going into it with 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.599 the phone? Ah, you just gotta build it. You have 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.560 to um, you know, go out on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.839 Facebook and just say hey, I'm going live, and just 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.319 have to keep on doing it and doing it and 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.680 slowly but surely you'll build an audience. It's not easy, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.520 especially being a dude. Yeah. And also it's the Internet, 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.880 and we all know how dirty and bad the internet is. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.560 So you get a lot of harassment. Yeah, well the trolls, right, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.160 and never you're never supposed to feed the trolls. I 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.280 like that. People. People are so stupid. They think that 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.520 they have uh, you know, this shield, this cone of 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.120 silence around them, not code of science, but but they're protected, 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.280 they're insulated from reality. They it's so easy to track 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:06.760 people down online that these keyboard assassins, these cyber soldiers 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.920 don't even really so dumb they don't realize that anybody 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.839 who has, you know, half a brain and it can 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.240 immediately track down exactly where they are because there's a 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.840 there's a code when you're on the internet, and they 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.880 can track it down and these people haven't figured it out. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.920 It's fascinating to me that people are so stupid they 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.320 can't figure that part out and they think that they're 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.480 protected and they have animity on the Internet. That's because 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.560 they don't take the right steps, like having a burner 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:40.240 account and you know, Kevin duran On, you gotta do 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:45.280 it the right way, though, you know, I try now Gascon, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.200 who's who's suspended this weekend? And that's why we have 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.880 the great Ryan Smith in But I he he had 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.800 a hook up on the VPN, but he has not 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.160 shared the VPN with me. He he knew a guy. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.880 I like, I want to get a VPN from a guy, 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.800 you know, because I don't know you can buy it 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.840 different websites and all that, and uh and so yeah, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.760 I'd like to do Now, what is the strangest thing 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.320 that's happened. I love radio stories, right. I've been in 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.000 radio for a long time too, so I love good 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.200 radio STU. What's the craziest thing you've witnessed at a 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:19.680 radio station in your career. Craziest thing I have ever witnessed? Wow? Yeah, Yeah. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.160 For example, I'm putting on the spot. In the early 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.760 days of Fox Sports Radio, we had a guy that's 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.720 doing a kind of a job you have, who got 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.000 so burned out because they worked into the bone. He 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.600 just quit. He in the middle of a shift. He 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.080 walked out and said I'm done, but he didn't really 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.440 tell anybody in management that he was done, and he 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.560 never showed up to work again. And they had to 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.440 call the police to make sure they thought he was dead. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.520 They had to call the police. He just quit. He 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.080 just had a meltdown and he quit. I've had that happened. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.160 I'm trying to think of some other stories as a reference. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.360 Guy like crazy stuff that has happened. I was one 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.680 time was doing local radio and a guy almost burned 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.520 the station down. He was smoking cigarettes inside the station 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.560 and he dropped a cigarette. He thought it was out. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.960 He dropped into it a trash can and the trash 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:11.520 can lit on fire, and uh and and this smoke 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.080 filled up the entire floor of the radio station. And 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.720 this was on the this was in a skyscraper, you know. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.440 And so it came very close to the sprinkler system 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.120 turning on, which would have would have put water in 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.240 all of the electrical equipment. It would have turned the 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.240 radio station. So those are some of the stupid things 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.800 that I've experienced. What is Is there anything? If? If not, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.520 it's fine, you don't. You can punt, you can punt 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.080 no um um. I can't really name any names because 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.080 the person still works in radio. But over when I 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.840 was over at many many years ago, over at Sporting 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.280 News Radio, one of the hosts um snapped at one 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.920 of the program directors and literally, uh took the keyboard 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.960 from his computer and just chucked it down the hall, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.600 yelling every type of F bomb you can think of. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.680 And I was in my early twenties, and I'm standing there, going, 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.920 you know what, I don't want any of that. I 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.119 don't want any of that. I don't want that smoke 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.160 is the kids are saying, Yeah, so he threw the keyboard. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.520 What a hissy fit? What a temper change? Rumh, my god. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.840 The best part about it is, um he was doing 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:27.320 an interview, a live interview at the time. This guy's 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:33.760 got talent. I mean, I love the old radio show. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.320 I I had a program director at one time that 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.680 ran down the hall. Well I really he kind of 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.760 waddled down the hall and started banging his hands on 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.440 the wall because we did a bad segment. He didn't 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.359 like how he handled this second and he just started 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.680 screaming at us. And I was like, what a lunatic? 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.520 I mean, my god, I mean, just there's different ways 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.919 to do this. My my goodness. Here all right, now 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.119 a couple where we're getting to let Ryan Smith and 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:00.679 I got to get to the pot quiz because it's 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.640 very important show here. Do you have any odd skills? 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.200 Can you juggle? Uh? Is? There? Can you? Is? You're 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.320 some kind of weird thing that you have that you 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.679 could make. But you're on Twitch, so you've already revealed 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.399 one thing that's not normal. Um, but by by the 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.040 by the way, like what do you what kind of 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.400 stories do you tell on Twitch? Maybe some sleazy sex 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:28.080 stories from my past music, uh, movies, like you know, 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.680 pretty much basic stuff. So you times and sometimes I 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:37.160 may or may not be drunk. So okay, Now, were 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.879 you like a male jiggolo back in the day? No, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.760 I was not. But I was a professional wrestler back 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.760 in the day. Well, you're buried to leave my mind. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.760 You're buried to leave my mind. I was getting to it. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.640 I was getting to it. I mean, come on, that's 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.520 a big story. You were a professional now where there's 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.720 different levels of wrestling as I know where where were 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.960 you a professional wrestler here in l A on the 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.440 indie scene? But I have wrestled with and against some 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.600 pretty big name stars or or been on the same 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.520 like quote unquote shows with people that that like blew 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.800 up and made it um. One guy I won't bear 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:18.119 the lead. Maybe you've heard of him, John Cena. Really 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.640 I knew him when his wrestling name was the Prototype, 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:28.320 before he was John. So the way it works is 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.639 I understand it, but you worked in the wrestling world. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.360 The way I understand it is that these lower level 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.000 wrestling like it's kind of a feeder system and then 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:38.480 you if you want to get into the like the 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.800 top level where like the w W or the other 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.400 what's the other one called the in Atlanta or the South. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.200 What's the other wrestling I forget m W CW I 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.320 think you're talking about. Yeah, I think that there's like 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.960 two big ones that supposedly at the top. But isn't it, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.320 from what I understand, and maybe I'm completely wrong, that 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.159 they scout out guys at these lower levels and then 0:19:58.200 --> 0:19:59.879 you have to go to like an academy. I don 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.080 the w w E does that. You have to go 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.400 to academy in Florida and then you have to work 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.479 your way up again, right, isn't that how that works? Oh, 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.639 that's exactly how it works. Sometimes people, um, you can 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.200 go to Japan and wrestle, but yeah, it's uh now 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.680 like here, there's only like two major federations. It's the 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.160 w E and there's a w Those are two big 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:24.359 ones right now. Okay? And so when you what was 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.680 what you're you're wrestling? Stick? Like? What was your stick? 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.639 When you were? Were you just a guy that people 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:31.480 the other guys beat up? I remember when I was 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.040 a kid and I love the WWF and I'd go 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.720 to the card on like Saturday at the Anaheim Convention 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.720 Center and they have the big name wrestler against like 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.560 Bill Smith who just had who just had like the 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:44.560 blue shorts on and there was nothing to him, and 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.000 he was just you knew, he was just there. He 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:47.960 was the tomato can that the star could beat and 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.480 then they'd move on to the next match. Yeah, they 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.320 call them jobbers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the job exactly right, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.600 that's it. Good job you. Of course you wouldn't know that, Yeah, 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.880 the jobber. It's kind it's kind of like the Clippers 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.200 back in the day with the abbers they were yeah exactly. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:06.119 So what was your stick? I was? I had all 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.719 different types of names, but I basically went by Ryan McBain, 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.200 which is why I go by that on Twitch and 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:17.080 also on Twitter. Uh. I think when I first started out, 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:22.880 I went by sweet Dick Ryan McBain, and I would 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.760 come out with this nice fedora. You know. It was 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.760 really fond of that name, but a lot of promoters 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.159 were like, you know what, let's just go with Ryan McBain. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.119 I'm like, okay, what I didn't like sweet Dick. I 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.320 didn't like it. I don't know why. Friendly. If you 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:39.400 were bad, you could have been slap dicks. You could 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.800 have been slap dick, and look at that would have 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.320 been a way that would have been the way to right, 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.199 we got slap dick over here doing doing this thing. 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.919 What was the worst injury you suffered when you were wrestling? Right? 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.520 It was the worst injury is what that was actually 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:59.280 training I wasn't even wrestling. I got a concussion, like 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:01.800 a really na see where your head spinning kind of thing. Yeah, 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.719