WEBVTT - Fit to Print 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.400 Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.600 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:11.119 If you thought four hours a day dred minutes a 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.840 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.119 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.119 treats crackheads in the Ghetto Cutter the same as the 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.240 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.040 hot takes, break free or something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:34.120 with Ben Maller starts right now that it does in 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:39.400 the air everywhere coast the coast, border to bar There 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.120 actually are no borders on podcasting. But that we are 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:47.000 back at it again as this podcast heard every single 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.600 week on the I Heart Podcast Never we thank you 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.000 for being a loyal minion or supporting the content that 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.520 we provide. And uh, it's weird. You have mixed feelings 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.560 about this because part of me is happy that the 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.320 audience is continuing to grow and that there's a demand 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.440 for these podcasts. The other part of me is like crap. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.400 That means I have to keep doing the podcast, so 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.280 I have I have mixed emotions because if nobody was listening, 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.480 if the numbers were down. If it was crapped and 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.160 I wouldn't have to do it, the company wouldn't want 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.720 me to do it. Um, But the numbers keep going 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.400 up studily, so we do thank you for that. And 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.560 we are joined yet again by the man who made 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:30.240 the b famous. He's got his singer, David Gascon from 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.839 West of the four oh five. Well, since this podcast 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.839 continues to grow, do you think this podcast is adequate 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:41.360 and sufficient enough to be carried live on radio? Was 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:46.080 made for live radio? How about occasionally we curse? But 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.440 I would be if it. If it involved more money, 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.440 I'd be all about it. Put it on the radio. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.880 I'm all for it. I've changed my stance. I used 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.240 to always say, never put radio on television because it's radio. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.440 But if they pay, And I've had friends have done 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.960 radio shows that ended up being simulcast on television and 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.600 they get a nice, big fat check in a bonus 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.160 to the radio work. So if you can get paid 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.200 double for the same thing, who wouldn't sign off on 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.760 that sports colman do that? Or who does a simulcast 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.040 on the show? Oh one guy's in Boston and Jerry Callahan, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.440 uh when he when he at w e I back 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.000 of the day. He his show was on Nesson and 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.280 so he was getting a check from Nesson in addition 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.440 to w E I. And so yeah, I mean there's 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.600 a few other people that have dabbled in that. And uh, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.000 you can put a camera in the studio overnight, and 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.120 I got a camera in here anyway because the videos 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.520 we do on the on YouTube. Uh, so we've got that. Uh. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.360 We had said before we get to today's podcast, we 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.760 had set Dylan on from the Babylon. But how did 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.840 that go? By the way, did that? Did that do well? 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.040 The set Dylan thing? It was? It was it was 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.440 surprisingly excellent, not by by my stards. I knew it 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.040 was gonna be great, but but people have downloaded it. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.160 It's been a great surprise to see the elevation and 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.360 of course not to be overlooked. But we had Benny 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.240 versus the Penny last night too. Yes, that's right, Benny 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.200 versus the Penny again. Back at it a big weekend. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.720 It's gonna be a big gambling weekend. Guess can I'm 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.560 gonna get back. I've been I've been like a see 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.120 saw so far this season, picking games either up and 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.639 you're down, and you're up and you're down, which is 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.239 really the way of life. But well, we'll see and 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.760 you check that out. That's that's up there on the YouTube. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.480 We tweeted it out, of course, and you can check 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.280 that out. And not just before the games. A lot 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:40.920 of people obviously would want to watch it before if 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.600 you're planning on gambling on the NFL. However, many people 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.440 enjoy looking at my analysis after the fact when they 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.400 know the outcome and they can goof on me and 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.080 say how dumb that analysis was. So there's two ways 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.200 to do it. Are they goofing on you or they 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.680 goofing on your lack of furniture. Because it seems like 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.200 every time we're on air, people are all he is 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.520 thinking that you're homeless, or that you're just you've just something. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.920 That's my man cave, that's my spare man cave, and 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.760 you're just just people are jealous. People are just jealous. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.880 Maybe I'll put a photo one week of Bella behind 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.440 me and they could have Bella staring about that. It's 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.080 a small dog. She can't get around your back. Bella 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.480 is a beast. What are you talking about? What's that? 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.040 She's like the size of your fu. We Bella's fur 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:33.839 has grown out. Bella is very large and in charge. Yeah, 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.720 all right, So before we get into the meat of 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.880 the matter here, cameo dot com. Cameo dot Com actually 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.080 did a few cameos recently and for for a couple 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.680 of Maddie and the Natty, it was one of the 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.839 guys there, one of the Cincinnati Bros. Although I didn't 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.560 realize it was Maddie from The Natty. 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We have fit 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.800 to print. We've got no breaks and pop quiz and 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:07.080 we begin here the Saturday podcast with our show a 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:13.680 rant on the radio becoming a news story in the 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.080 state of Arizona. Uh, this is outstanding. So let's let's 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:23.240 flash back to Monday night football and the Arizona Cardinals 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:27.279 with a blowout win thirty eight to ten over the 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:32.840 Dallas Cowboys, a convincing domination situation there and after the game. Now, 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.880 I did a monologue on this guest gun. I don't know. Obviously, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.520 you react to what's going on in the sports world 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.560 for twenty four hours of the last twenty four hours 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.719 or so. So this obviously was the story we talked about. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.840 I did a rant, mostly about the Cowboys. I had 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.520 about maybe three or four good minutes, if I remember, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.839 at the end of the monologue, which was dedicated to 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.400 Kyler Murray, who was not only a quarterback, he was terrible, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.680 had a terrible performance for the Arizona Cardinals. And so 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.760 that was on Monday night or Tuesday morning, depending on 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.920 how you look. It was in the overnight. So all 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.800 the way later went fast forward till Thursday, and I'm 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:18.480 getting these notifications that the Arizona Republic, the newspaper of 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:23.480 record in Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, ran a 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.640 story and I I couldn't believe it. This is a 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:32.760 thousand words story on our show and me ripping Kyler 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.920 Murray's performance in the game against the Dallas Cowboys. And 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.160 the tone was that there seemed to be very upset 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.480 that I was not impressed gascon with Kyler Murray's performance 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:50.760 against the Dallas Cowboys, and uh, it's hilarious. I had 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.120 a smile from ear to ear. I could not believe 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.960 the stupidity of what has gone on. I have friends 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.760 that work in the newspaper business. What has gone on 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.560 in the newspaper business. What have you done. I will 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.239 admit that I I am one to defend Kyler Murray 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.440 on the regular fan boy, but his performance on Monday 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.440 night reminded me of what Kobe Bryant did in his 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.679 Game seven against the Boston Celtics when they beat Boston 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.600 in seven games. He shot six or twenty four in 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.400 that game, and he would admit he shot like shit. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.800 Murray was nine of twenty four and it's not like 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.920 the fifteen incompletions were just bad throws. He missed some 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.080 wide open people, including DeAndre Hopkins, who was the best 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.720 wide receiver in the National Football League, who was left 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.760 unmolested at the line of scrimmage on multiple occasions. And 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.319 this is the one of the worst defenses historically, one 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.920 of the worst defenses in the history of pro football, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.520 which goes back a hundred years. That Dallas Cowboy defense 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.000 and Kyler Murray for the balance of that game was garbage. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.840 And so I pointed it out, and I you know, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.240 I was watching. I was watching again. I'm like, I'm 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.320 taking some notes down, like you know, the chicken scratch 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.600 on the game and Murray's performance and he kept missing 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.920 receivers and I'm like, okay, and I'm going on and on. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.800 And then when the game ended, I went back and 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.480 I crunched the numbers and realized that seventy four, almost 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.720 seventy of Kyler Murray's passing yards came on two blown 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.000 coverages by the Cowboys to Christian Kirk and eighty yard 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.240 passed and DeAndre Hopkins a sixty yard passed. Outside of 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.600 those two throws, right, we'll give him credit for that. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.320 We'll give Kyler a Patama back and odda boy for 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.280 those two throws. Outside of that, the rest of the game, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.600 the other throws he made twenty two of them, he 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.080 only completed seven of them for an average I had. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.880 I had typed this in three times to the to 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.040 the calculator, kyla average two point one yards per pass 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.840 attempt on his other twenty two throws in the game, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.079 and had a passer rating of forty one for the cards. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.760 So me pointing this out, I was like, to me, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.640 this is like a throwaway thing. You know, people know 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.000 I'm the I don't like Kyler Murray. Guy. I'm critical 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.680 of Kyler Murray and I'm taking some gratuitous cheap shots 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.880 at him. But this he deserved it. He deserved it. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.160 I wasn't doing anything outrageous. I wasn't doing shock jock radio. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.720 The guys sucked. But so many people don't watch these games. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.360 They don't pay attention. They look at the final numbers 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.240 and they see the totally oh you know, had he 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.319 ran for a touchdown? He threw the touchdowns here, He's unstoppable. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.959 What another memorable performance, right, and going on another master 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.560 work from Kyler Murray. I'm like, no, no, none of that, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.480 None of that is true, none of that. You know, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.720 this is not a goose bumps inducing performance. In fact, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.280 that is not as a sustainable formula for the Arizona Card. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.120 They're fraud. If that's how Kyler Murray is gonna play, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.320 they're not gonna go They're not gonna do anything. They're 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.520 not gonna beat anybody good playing like that. So I 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.040 did this rant and uh and like we said, the 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.440 Arizona newspaper ran with I sent you this, so you 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.440 did not actually click on the story. You thought it 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.280 was right, Guescon. You did not realize what the story 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.200 was when I sent this. No, I was guilty of 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.960 of reading the title only and then through conversation. I 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.400 started looking at it and bang, your name popped up 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:09.960 and I was like, oh, ship, there we go. My 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.760 name is in the right in the lead. There. My name's. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:17.079 Radio host Ben Maller was not impressed with Arizona Cardinals 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.920 quarterback Kyler Murray's performance in eight to ten when they 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.920 know because on on Twitter on the text you had 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.600 sent me, it says Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray slam 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.120 for poor performance versus Dallas Cowboys and nothing of you 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.880 on there, and still not until I open it up 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.440 and then hashed the memories from twenty nineteen when you 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.640 had some reporters taking Yeah, well it's also I'd like 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.480 to thank the Arizona Republic. I should be on their 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.440 editorial staff because I'm providing content here for the Arizona Republic. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.120 I guess there's nothing to write about in Arizona apparently locally. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.040 My god. Uh so, yeah, yeah, it was. It was 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.760 pretty amusing here I gotta kick out of it, and 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.760 uh it was like, really, this is what you're doing. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.760 I talked to a couple of buddies of mine and 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.000 radio who saw the story, and they were we were 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.560 going back and forth and one of my buddies is 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.240 a longtime radio guy, pointed out that we are at 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:15.120 the point now as sports gas bags, where there is 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.320 no room for any criticism of the hometown team. It is. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:24.040 It is totally tribal. It's like politics. Sports have become politics. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.640 Like there used to be a time where we could 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.720 bust each other's balls and uh, and I still like 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.360 doing that. I guess I'm too old now because I 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.840 like busting balls on you know, when your team sucks 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.920 and I I get it. Listen, I I talk a 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.719 lot of crap. And when the Clippers go out and 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.840 take a ride in the vomit comet against the Denver Nuggets, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.040 they deserve to get ripped. I deserve to get attacked. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.760 I'm fine, I'm fair game. But it cuts both ways, right, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.080 It's a double edged sword, and people can't handle that 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.560 and they get all upset and it's it's it's really pathetic. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.720 But I mean it's we're talking about sports, especially in 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:04.160 East is where it's it's obvious that it was like, 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.040 you know, this guy was terrible, this was you know, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.560 this is incompetence. It was malfeasance by the quarterback. And 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.360 I pointed out, I'm the bad guy. Come on, you're 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.280 making it sound like it's a dereliction of duty. It 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.720 wasn't that. I mean he averaged the eight he averaged 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:23.840 what's seven point because because of the passes though, the 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.280 dual threat quarterback. The thing that's the most important is 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.960 the passing, the runnings, the extra part of it. The 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.760 passing is the most important. The most important thing is 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:39.439 getting points anyway, you're you're wrong, You're the most more 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.480 thing the running. And we've seen these quarterbacks often get 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.240 exposed like Lamar Jackson, people like you dumb fans look 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.480 at and they look at Lamar Jackson, they're like these guys. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.880 Then in the playoffs they take that away and suddenly 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.840 he's a jumbled mess, right, he's a hot mess in 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.440 the playoffs. Well, that is one quarterback that's been the postseason. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.319 Kylin Murray hasn't yet, but I mean, he was great 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.160 at Oklahoma. He's been good so far with Arizona. And 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:08.560 there are a lot better than that would have been 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.880 with Josh Rosenhead he stayed there in the Valley of 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.559 the Sun. So you you don't know that if rosen 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.560 had stayed and they'd have confidence him. You don't know 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.040 that he wouldn't have blossomed into something. But I just 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.480 love I'm just saying. I'd just saying that, and he's 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.560 been been a bit of bad. Yeah, but these people 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.320 that are like Pavlov's dogs when it comes to the 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.480 hometown team stop. But you know this all too well. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.880 Being in Dodger Town, people gravitate towards Clayton Kershaw and 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.080 god forbid. Oh and I listen, but that's a perfect example. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.520 I'm glad listen. I like the Dodges. A lot of 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.480 people know my history. I did work for Dodger Talk 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.960 years ago, and so I have a pass there. But 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.120 I'll rip Kersha off. I had him traded after his 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.040 NLCS started. I had him traded to Texas. I traded 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.560 into the Rangers. I had Dave Roberts fired. Okay, I 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.760 I the whole thing. I'm you know, maybe it was 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.880 just slight overreactions, but I'd rather be like that desc 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.640 on then Oh you could rip Cursea. I had a 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.840 guy call up the other night on the show and 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.120 was ranting and raving about how Kershaw was great. He's 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.320 getting a bad rap, and I'm like, what are you 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.200 talking about I know you're a dodging fan. You want 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:18.960 to jump in the volcano because they tell you to 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.200 jump in the volcano. But stop, don't be a blind sheep. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.600 You should never be a blind sheep. Ever, I like 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.440 the Clippers when they suck, I say they suck. I stop, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.240 don't be a lemming. But here's here's the problem, though, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.360 is if you're a beat reporter, or if you're just 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.400 a regular newspaper reporter that oftentimes report on general things 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.440 like let's say, for Arizona, you go Dimondbacks, you go 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.400 Arizona or Arizona State, and then you go obviously the 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.800 Cardinals and maybe the Coyotes or even the Phoenix Suns. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.480 Like you want access to those teams. So if you 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.120 start trashing them publicly in articles, you know how the 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.120 media departments are, they will cut you off at the 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.040 knees and you get granted minimal to know access. I 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.000 understand how the game works, but there's a lot of 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.760 fan boys. It's it's kind of like in politics, there's 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.160 a lot of political people who are actually working for 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.720 political parties who are masquerading as you know, as newspaper 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.280 writers for different operations or reporters on television, but they're 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.880 actually you know, in the tank. If you also I 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.240 understand there's that you also have that element which is important. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.160 You you've got people that genuinely are you know, they 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:25.880 might as well be on the payroll for the team. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.240 It's like I used to we used to talk years ago. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.240 I had an executive who who's like you, eventually everything's 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.240 gonna be you know. It's like when you cover the Patriots, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.480 your Patriots dot Com. You know, you worked with the 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.440 team and and even the newspapers and the TV stations. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.360 I had got a friend of mine in Kansas City 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.600 told me that after the Chiefs game, I think it 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.560 was in Buffalo, one of the TV reporters in Kansas 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.280 City congratulated Andy Reid and his game plan before he 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.520 asked his question like he was like, it's like total 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.200 fanboy move, total fan boy move. So that stuff goes 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.840 on all the time, but it really is. It travels 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.760 and I I think I I sent this to you. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:04.879 I don't know if I did, but my one of 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.399 my favorite scenes in the movie, asked an old movie now, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.080 is the opening scene of Major League Remember and the 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.359 grounds crew is preparing the field there at the ballpark 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.600 in Cleveland and they're like and they showed also there 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.399 was a coffee shop and they're like, hey, how are 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.800 the Indians gonna do this year? And they're like, they suck. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.639 They're still shitty. You know, they're still shitty, And uh, 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.520 that's perfect, right, that's great. You know. One of the 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.240 things I like about Minnesota sports fans is I feel 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.200 like Minnesota still gets it. Like there's a lot of hey, 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.640 we blow you know, the Vikings, how are they gonna 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.240 lose this week? Or how are the Twins gonna blow 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.680 it in the playoffs? Or you know what lottery pick 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.719 of the Timberwolves gonna screw up? Like I appreciate that, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.639 but it's in towns like Phoenix and uh, you know, 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.120 Cleveland and and some of these other cities that I've 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.880 had battles with with the local newspapers. They have no concept, 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.400 they have no concept of of this. They've they've It's 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.240 total libelism, is what it is. You're either part of 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.280 the tribe or you're not part of the tribe. And 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.639 if you're not part of the tribe, we're gonna decapitate you. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.760 We're gonna take you to the guillotine. I think that's 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.800 a good thing about how New York media is because 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.600 you have so many beat writers that work for the 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.879 Yankees or for the Knicks, or for the Rangers or 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.600 the Jets, the Giants, that you're taking shots left and 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.600 right if you're a head coach or a general manager, 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.960 even the ownership group. And they don't fucking let down either. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.480 Like that's that city never sleeps. Those attackers, they hunt, 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.640 they hunt. But even that, I will tell you, I'm 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.159 not as familiar with the New York media as I 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:37.720 am in the Boston media because of the stuff I 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.440 did with the I back in the day. But even 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.440 the Boston media, there are factions of fan boys. It's 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:49.720 not as bulldogg ish as it was because because they, yeah, 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.880 well the guess right, the Globe own or the Red 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.600 Sox are on the on the Globe. John Henry I 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.639 believe owns the Boston Globe, which is the big newspaper. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:00.919 Obviously it's the Herald and the Globe, and so you 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.919 control the media. And also Nesson is run by the 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.760 Red Sox. It's there, it's their baby, and so you know, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.200 you gotta gotta look out for my my relatives. My man, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.680 So how about this. Let let me throw this back 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.919 your way. If you were if you were an owner 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.720 or maybe even just a general manager of a professional team, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.719 and your said team owns an ownership stake in a 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.000 radio or a television station, or even a newspaper like 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.960 the you know, Washington Post or or whatever it may be, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.919 would you go behind everyone's back and go to the 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.320 editor of the executive producer and just say, hey, turn 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.160 the dogs loose on my guys. Be as critical as 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.840 you can. That way you can motivate them to be 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.880 as best as they can be. Yeah. No, because if 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.600 you own it, Once the public knows that you own 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:56.919 the website or the TV channel or the newspaper, it's over. Yeah, 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.359 it's over. I can't do it. But I get nobody 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.600 wants criticism. You know. People want to be encouraged. They 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:08.040 don't want to be discouraged. Nobody likes critique. Is fine. 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:13.919 I thought it was. I thought criticism and critiquing and 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.760 all that. I feel like it's kind of part of 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.240 the gig. But maybe the gig has changed. I know 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.520 there's a lot of hypocrisy out in the world these days. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.600 There's like this this double standard talk about sports but 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.760 only do it in a positive light about my teams. 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:29.480 You know. I was like, I really want you to 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.600 talk about my team. I get that all the time. 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.399 I get I get guys. You know that guy in 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:35.960 Ohio they bust my balls. He's he's a Steeler fan. 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.119 He's you know, near Pittsburgh in the Ohio, you know, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.840 at the far end of Ohio there, and he's like, 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.159 you know, talk about the Steelers and all this stuff. 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.080 And then you know, if I do do a monologue 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.399 and then I rip him that, he'll have a coronary. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.000 You know, he'll have a court. How could you do that? 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.960 Oh my god, I can't believe it. I used to 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:58.000 like you, and that it's it's it's tremendous. It is 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.320 wonderful to be alive. It is great to be a 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.760 love you. You've got to wear kid gloves all the 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.960 time apparently to make it. But I get a kick 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:07.960 out of it. I like the fact when I when 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.399 I saw that story we were referencing here in the 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.359 Arizona Republic, and I just thought it was great. It 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:17.000 was like it was like getting a shoulder massage. Uh. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.159 It was because I'm never gonna get the meat. You know, 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.000