1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Kubbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me Ben Maler, 11 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: Hello and Danny g Radio. A Happy Friday to year, 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: the twelfth day of September. As we are one game 13 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: in two week number two, week number two of the 14 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: NFL season of the Packers and the Commanders last night, 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: and now you have a full weekend of the Fifth Hour, 16 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: and we kick it off right now on this edition 17 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: the Friday Special, after a very long overnight show, The 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 1: Friday Special. We've got bugs, Bunny Truman, and possibly some 19 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: other things. But we're gonna begin with this. So, as 20 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: you know, the Fifth Hour a tribute to the Overnight Show. 21 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: Let me talk about whatever pops up in the head 22 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: that I have on top of my body here. So 23 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: the text arrived the other day. It was during the 24 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: radio show and the text said are you on the radio? 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: Which I thought was odd because I was literally doing 26 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: the show. It was like midway through the show and 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: the text came in, are you on the radio? And 28 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: so I wrote back, yes, I'm on the radio, and 29 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: then silence, and minutes later, the call screening board in 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: my computer lit up. Now, they keep the studio usually 31 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: pretty dark, except when we're recording the YouTube videos, so 32 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: the callboard lights up. Now. I had a bunch of 33 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: other calls and then I see the name and it 34 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 1: starts flashing on my left hand side. I see the name, 35 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: and there's the city the callers from. It's from Chicago. 36 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: Callers from Chicago, and not just any caller. This is 37 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: not just your run of the mill radio caller. If 38 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: you missed it. This week we had the glorious return 39 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 1: of Doc Mike. Doc Mike popped up out of nowhere. 40 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,119 Speaker 1: He is back, well, he was back for one day. 41 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: He called the show the other night. Now his first 42 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: call and much. I actually got some email from people 43 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: who have listened to the show for a very brief 44 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: amount of time and they're like, tell me more about 45 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: this guy, Doc Mike, and so rather than right back 46 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: to people, because I'm very bad about that. If you've 47 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: emailed me, I probably haven't written back. Bad job by me. 48 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: I'm a schmuck. So I said, rather than right back 49 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: to these people, I will use my platform, the pie 50 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: pulpit here on the fifth hour, and I will reminisce 51 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: about the caller known as Doc Mike. So Doc did 52 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: return to the show. He called for the first time 53 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: in probably five six months, maybe longer than that. It 54 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: seemed like it had been years. Seemed like it had 55 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: been years. I'm going to decapitate a goat, let's do it. 56 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: It felt like, Hey, I was running into an old friend. 57 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: You everyone into somebody at the grocery store or something 58 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: like that. He sah, look at that. I didn't know 59 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: you were still around. Yeah, I didn't know you were 60 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: around either. And it's like the old friend, the one 61 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: who always has a story, that really good storyteller, And 62 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: in this case, this is our friend that's got stories 63 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: that are half brilliant, half insane, and completely unforgettable, completely unforgettable. 64 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: That is Doc Mike in a nutshell. He's not just 65 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: a radio caller, he's a headline. He's also a Hasmad 66 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: alert as you're gonna learn if you've don't know that story. 67 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: And he's the reason, one of the reasons that sports 68 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: radio is never just about the sports. Now, we learned 69 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: during the pandemic years ago, that's not really about the sports. 70 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: It's not We had the most listeners we've ever had 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio when there were no baseball games, 72 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: there was no NBA playoff games, there was no sports. 73 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: We had more people listening in the middle of the 74 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: pandemic than we've ever had since or before. I mean, 75 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: it was insane. So many of you have been with 76 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: me on this audio journey out into the twilight Zone, 77 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: and so some of you know these stories. But for 78 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: those that are new, and we love that there are 79 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: new people that find the show because they end up 80 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: working the dreaded overnight shift. All I say it's the 81 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: dreaded day shift. For them, they say it's the dreaded 82 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: overnight shift. So you know the Goadhead story. I think 83 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: everyone does. I mentioned it briefly the other day. He 84 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: left one at Wrigley Field. He's actually done this a 85 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: couple of times. Doc Mike, the Mayor of Chicago. One 86 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: of the great stories as long as I'm around, I'll 87 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: remember this, and when I died, that'll be it. But 88 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: the Mayor of Chicago, Rama Manuel, at the time, the 89 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: cub head, our goathead knocked was dropped off. They knocked 90 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: on the cub's offices, dropped off this goathead, right, So 91 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: the story was and the cub game got rained out 92 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: that day, so there was no story, and so the 93 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: media latched on to the goatthead. The mayor of Chicago 94 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: at the time, Ram Emmanuel, comes out and says that 95 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: all police resources would be used to find out whoever 96 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: did it. They wanted to get to the bottom of it. 97 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: They didn't treat it like some prank. They were very upset. 98 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: So think about that a goat heead in a box 99 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: created the same level of urgency for the city of 100 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: Chicago as a citywide manhunt. How ridiculous is that? And 101 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: my favorite part of that story is that Doc Mike 102 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: was kind enough to call me up as he was 103 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: arriving at Iconic Wrigley Field, Chicago, and he had his 104 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: phone and he was doing play by play. He saw Ben, 105 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: I got the goathhead. I'm going to go here. He's 106 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: describing where he's dropping the goat head off. He's doing 107 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: play by play as this is going on. So juxtapose 108 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: that I'm playing back this message because I was sleeping 109 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: when he sent it. It was early in the morning 110 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: in Chicago. Cubs were playing a day game. I think 111 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: they're playing at Giants. So I'm hearing this, and then 112 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: I'm seeing on the internet. I'm seeing the Mayor of 113 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: Chicago say, hey, we got to find who did this. 114 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: And it was the funniest thing. I still chuckle about it. 115 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: And then there's the time that Doc Mike decided that 116 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: I needed a goat head and he mailed me a 117 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: goat actually mail a couple, and there was a problem 118 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: with one of them send it to the Fox Sports 119 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: radio studios. Now one famously leaked blood through the packaging, 120 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: and this created a very tent situation in the mail room. 121 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: They didn't know what's in the box. They had no 122 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: idea what was in the box, so this became a 123 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: hazmat situation. I get yelled at. People are screaming at 124 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: me and management. Management's changed. They were screaming, what are 125 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: you doing. You can't be having this, Senor. I didn't 126 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: tell them to send it. You can't be having this 127 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: stuff center. I'm not in control of the United States 128 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: Postal Service. I cannot stop someone from sending something to me. 129 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: You shouldn't have people send this stuff here. I understand, 130 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: but I didn't tell the person to send it. They 131 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: chose to send it. You can't send it here. I 132 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: know that, but I told you I someone can mail 133 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,679 Speaker 1: me something all they want. It's not illegal to mail 134 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: something unless it's a hazard. Anyway, we went back and forth, 135 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: and as a result, I was banned embargoed to everyone 136 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: say I could not receive mail. I believe it was 137 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: like six months. They would not not receive any mail. 138 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: He just returned all mail that was sent to me 139 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: as an active protest. Now Doc mailed, as we say, 140 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: several goattheads in that whole thing. Miranda Marino was my producer. 141 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: She got a GoAhead, which she didn't want at the time. 142 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: Another fun factoried about Doc Mike. Every presidential election since 143 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: twenty zero four, so we are over twenty years. Doc 144 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: Mike has run for president one of these fringe parties 145 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: that gets no votes. So Doc Mike has run for 146 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,839 Speaker 1: president and he's always been kind enough to include me 147 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: as his vice presidential candidate. You see, there's no caucus. 148 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: When Doc Mike decides to run for president, he just 149 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: does it. Unfortunately, we never picked up any votes. That's 150 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: not true. We did get some votes people would send me. 151 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 1: It was like twenty oh eight. I vaguely remember people 152 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: sending me photos they were in the ballot box and 153 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: they wrote they wrote in Mike and Ben Maller in 154 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: the Battle of Box. I thought, well, that's both wonderful 155 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: and horrific at the same time. So then there was 156 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: the Cansa City story. Doc big fan of the show, 157 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: drove down from Chicago to Kansas City. Not that bad 158 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: a drive, but still a decent trip. And he shows 159 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: up to the Malar Meet and greet and he sets 160 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: up his own table. Now this is a Malar branded 161 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 1: meet and greet, this is not a Doc Mike meet 162 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: and greet. So he shows up there, He's got a 163 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: table in the back. He puts a stack of T 164 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: shirts out with his face on it, and then he 165 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: starts signing autographs and giving medical advice to people that 166 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: were there to eat chicken fingers. And it's like, bugs, Bunny, 167 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: what's up? 168 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 2: Doc? 169 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: It's like Doc Mike made himself the headliner at someone 170 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: else's party. Who does that, Doc Mike, That's who does that. 171 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: Doc Mike's the one that does that. Now, later outside 172 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: the the event had ended. I was preparing to leave. 173 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: The event had come to a close, and I'm not 174 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: familiar with Kansas City. I don't know where the good 175 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: part in the bad part are. I can kind of 176 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: tell when you drive around. This looks better. This is 177 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: probably the good part. That doesn't look so good. That 178 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: must be the hard scrabble streets, but you don't really know. 179 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: And the restaurant, which was not the landing, It was 180 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: the restaurant before the landing, which is we're not going 181 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: to give them a plug because they don't have the 182 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: food anymore, the ben Maler chicken fingers. So go out. 183 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: It was nighttime and it was another nice, warm Kansas 184 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: City night, one hundred degrees with seven hundred degree humidity, 185 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: seven hundred percent whatever humidity. So I go out the 186 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 1: dark street at night, getting ready to leave, and Doc says, hey, 187 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: I want to show you something. Okay, So I am 188 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: with my wife, my then girlfriend, she is with me, 189 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 1: and Dox says, give me a sack. He then goes 190 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: into his glove box, and in the glove box he 191 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: grabs something I didn't know what. I'm not sure what 192 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: it was. He then walks back out again the street 193 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: starked as a little bit of a street lamp kind 194 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: of gleaning on the face of Doc Mike. And then 195 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: he opened his right eye a little bit and it 196 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: had this like sparkle, and he puts his other hand 197 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: in the air and he's got a screwdriver. He's holding 198 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: up a screwdriver. And in that moment, I thought, this 199 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: is it. I'm going to be murdered by my most 200 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: dedicated listener. But no, it turns out that Doc Mike 201 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: just wanted to give me the license plate literally off 202 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 1: of his car, literally off of his car, a souvenir 203 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: Doc Mike license plate, and he did. He just took 204 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: it off the car and said, here you go. And 205 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: he had some trouble futzing around trying to get the 206 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: license plate off the car, and then he autographed he 207 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: signed it. I still have it, believe it or not. 208 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: I still have that item. There's a couple of license 209 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: plates I have. I have the one from Doc Mike, 210 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: and there was a gentleman from Florida who I've been 211 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: asked not to name because he's a lifetime member of 212 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: the country club in Florida. And this guy, big fan 213 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: of the Ben Maler Show, used to listen all the time. 214 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: I haven't heard from much anymore anymore because it's hard 215 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: to contact people when you're in prison. Costs a lot 216 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: of money to send those letters. Anyway, back then, it 217 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: did anyone. I don't know it's like now. So he 218 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: was deputized. That's probably not the right word. But his 219 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: job in prison was to make license plates, and so 220 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: he made a Florida license plate with my name on it. Now, 221 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: that part is one thing. The next part is you're 222 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: not allowed to do that. How do you get it 223 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: out of the prison. I still don't know how he 224 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: got it out of the prison, but I did receive 225 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: it in the mail. So I have a Doc Mike 226 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: license plate and a my name license plate. It's pretty funny. 227 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: It's a Florida plate and it's as amateur radio on it, 228 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 1: which is really a tribute to my dad as well 229 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: as Big Ham radio operator. So you don't forget stuff 230 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: like this. You just don't back to the Doc Mike 231 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: angle to it. So let's flash way back, way way 232 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: back during the pandemic. So Doc Mike somehow became the 233 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: producer of the Ben mathershw No, we really don't have 234 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: a producer on the overnight show. He's going to produced 235 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: the show and do the show and all that. So 236 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: Doc Mike somehow became the producer. Now, this is another 237 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 1: one of those stories. I'm not sure how it all 238 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: went down. It was a bit of a foggy situation. 239 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: One minute, I'm on the radio talking about Tom Brady 240 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: and the whole situation with Brady, and at that time, 241 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: he was leaving the Patriots, He's going to go to 242 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, and there was all these stories about Tom Brady. 243 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: And the next thing, I've got Doc Mike lining up guests. Now, 244 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: not athletes, not coaches. Doc Mike ended up lining up doctors, 245 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: like real or at least those that believe they're real. 246 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: Uh So he put these people on and during the pandemic, 247 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: we didn't really have many rules. We just had to 248 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: fill the airtime. And the bosses were like, listen, there's 249 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: no sports going on. We hired you to do sports. 250 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,839 Speaker 1: Just talk about whatever you want to talk about. So 251 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: I was like, all right, Doc's going to book a guest. 252 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: No one else's booking guests for me. I don't have 253 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: a producer, so let's let's do it. And so he 254 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: puts these doctors on to do urine therapy on national radio. 255 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: Urine therapy. One even got so worked up and do 256 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: a tizzy that they cursed on the air. Now I 257 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: should have been furious. I should have been very upset. 258 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: That's a very bad thing to do. You're not supposed 259 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: to curse on the air. Instead, I laughed, because when 260 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: you let Doc Mike drive the bus, when you put 261 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: him in the driver's seat and you let him drive 262 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: the bus, you do not complain. Do not complain when 263 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: it crashes. Don't do that. You just and you hope 264 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: the fire isn't too big when the bus crashes, because 265 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: you know it's going to crash. And then there was 266 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: the wedding. Now some of you attended this, if you 267 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: went to the Mallard meet and greet in the Great 268 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: State of Minnesota, a fake wedding at the Iconic Mermaid 269 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: where Hollering James was there and a bunch of other 270 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: big stars there from the Great State of Minnesota. They 271 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: were all hanging out and also other states around there. 272 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: So Doc Mike and Regina, also known as spin Cycle Regina, 273 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: they had a wedding. It wasn't real, of course, but 274 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: it was, if you'll excuse me, the most real fake 275 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: thing I've ever been a part of, Doc Mike saying 276 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: I do in front of radio listeners. I was dragged 277 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: into that. It was funny, it was bizarre, and it 278 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: really was perfect in many ways for that of it. 279 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: It was perfect for that event. You could tell part 280 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: of Doc Mike believed that he was actually getting married, 281 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: even if it was all theater. He played along, good acting. 282 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: And here's the thing about Doc Mike, and I'll sum 283 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: it up like this, he shouldn't matter. Doc Mike should 284 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: not matter in the context of a talk radio show. 285 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: He's just one guy calling in to the overnight a 286 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: sports talk radio show. And yet some of the funniest, 287 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: most memorable, most bizarre things in the history of the 288 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: show have happened because of Doc Mike. He's chaos, he's theater. 289 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: He's the best and worst of what makes sports radio 290 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: so addictive and the passion of sports radio. So yes, 291 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: Doc Mike, he has called the show again, and yes, 292 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: it was wonderful to hear from him, because Doc Mike 293 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: is a reminder, at least for me and maybe for you. 294 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: But he's a reminder to me. Doc Mike is that 295 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: it's kind of why we do what we do in 296 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: the first place. And it's not just about the sports. 297 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: It's about the people around the sports, the goat heads, 298 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: the screw drivers, the fake weddings that never happen. So 299 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: Doc Mike is back, and I say, at least for 300 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: the Ben Mallor Show, and I would say for a larger, 301 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: larger group of sports radio that means the world's just 302 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: a little more interesting again, at least when he chooses 303 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: to call in, he say he's going to call in 304 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: more often. We'll see if that actually happens. I have 305 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: my doubts, but he said he's gonna call in more often, 306 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 1: so we'll see. Now, I did want to rant about 307 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: something else, and there's a need to filibuster for me. 308 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: For me now, I mentioned this in the previous episode 309 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: of the radio show. I would like to now mention 310 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: it again. I want to expand on what has become 311 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: a pet peeve of mine. And there are people in 312 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 1: this world that collect baseball cards. There are some people 313 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: that collect snaps stamps, there's some people that collect Disney stuff. 314 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: Whatever your jam is, I don't know what you collect. 315 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: It's not my business unless you want to make it 316 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: my business. So what we're all collecting though, and we're 317 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: not realizing it, Well, I'm realizing it. I've had the 318 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: point of epiphanation where having an epiphany. But we're all, 319 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: all of us are collecting illusions. The greatest hustle of 320 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: the modern age is not Bernie made Off, It's not Enron, 321 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: it's not the Larry David endorsed crypto that went under. No, 322 00:18:53,520 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: it's the curated, digitalized, algorithm driven social media mirage that 323 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: we are living in a fund zone at the count 324 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: of all, a fun zone of mirrors, and it rubs 325 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: me the wrong way it does. And so the inside 326 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: skinning on this, a lot of us know it's a 327 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:24,959 Speaker 1: really slick trick, and yet we still clap like seals 328 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: at a show when the magician pulls the rabbit out 329 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: of that. Social media is the wile wild West. There 330 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: is no sheriff, just tumbleweeds, tumbleweeds of bots, rolling, rolling, 331 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: rolling across the digital wasteland that is your feet whatever 332 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: your algorithm happens to be. However, here's the con. The 333 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: con is there are major companies, billion dollar, multi billion 334 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: dollar companies who I believe are run by really smart people, 335 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: really really smart people who are very sharp in business 336 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: and know exactly what they're doing. And yet these really 337 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: really smart people, the top one percent of one percent, 338 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: those people are falling for it. They get dragged in. 339 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: Look at these numbers. Millions of followers, billions of views, 340 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: except spoiler alert, spoiler alert, the followers are fake. The 341 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: views are inflated, the downloads bought in bulk like you 342 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: would buy tubs of mayonnaise at Costco or discount toothpaste. 343 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: Now we're told that that artist is blowing up, this 344 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: influencer is a star, and this show is a smash 345 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: hit except when, and it always happens, when the curtain lifts. 346 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: The tickets aren't selling, the arenas are mostly empty, the 347 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: ratings look like they're a minor league team on a 348 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: Tuesday in Toledo. It is a Potempkin village, is what 349 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: it is. It's a facade built out of bots, fake likes, 350 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: and the illusion of relevance. And it turns out that 351 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: a lot of these people that have been going around 352 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 1: trying to sell music or sell their takes on certain 353 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: shows that the fans with just an algorithm in Uzbekistan 354 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: some clicking refresh and there's some new followers and all 355 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: that stuff. And you see, the matrix is a rigged game. 356 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: It is a rigged game. Red pill, blue pill, guess 357 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: what same destination destination fraud, capital f fraud. And now 358 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: entering the chat, half man lizard person Adam Silver, who's 359 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: supposed to be supposed to be the grown up in 360 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: the room, supposed to be the grown up in the room. 361 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: He gets on his soapbox this week. Now, I mentioned 362 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: this on the radio show, but I would like to 363 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 1: expand on this because it really ties into what I'm 364 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: thinking about. And this is my train of thought, and 365 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: I'm the conductor true on my own train of thought. 366 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,959 Speaker 1: So I've just explained to you how I think this 367 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: great hustle is going on. And it's a Potempkin village. 368 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: It's all just an illusion, and it's like a movie set. 369 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: It's like being over at the Universal Lot and they've 370 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: got the downtown New York scene and that whole deal. 371 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: It's like that. So Adam Silver, who's supposed to be 372 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 1: one of those grown ups in the room. Adam Silver, 373 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: he gets on his soapbox or his spaceship is flying 374 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 1: saucer the other day and he says the NBA is 375 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: a highlight sport. He said it. He was asked about 376 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: people not wanting to money for the various streaming services, 377 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: and Adam Silber, without missing the beat, says, well, listen, 378 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: just watch the highlights. Don't bother watching the games. Just 379 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: snack on twelve second dunks and three point shots that 380 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: are about eight seconds on TikTok, and you're good, which 381 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: is the equivalent if if you were the CEO of 382 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: Ruth Chris Steakhouse said, I know you can't afford our steak. 383 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: You can't afford our delicious mashed potatoes or the mac 384 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: and cheese. You can't afford anything because you're poor. So 385 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do for you is you don't need 386 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: the steak, you don't need the mashed potatoes, you do 387 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: not need the mac and cheese. Just lick the plate. 388 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: That's all you need, right, you don't need the steak. 389 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: Just lick the plate. That's what it's all about. So 390 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: the NBA business model. The NBA makes the lion's share 391 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: of their money off television when no one's watching television anymore. 392 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: That may, it may not be true, but television is 393 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: what pays the bills, the real money. Social media, for 394 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: all of the glitter and all the metrics and all that, 395 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: is a cotton candy economy. It's sweet, fluffy and evaporates 396 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: the second it touches your tongue e. And the other 397 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,479 Speaker 1: thing about is, once you've seen how the trick is done, 398 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: and this is with all magic, but this is a 399 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: bit of a magic trick. Once you've seen how the 400 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: trick is done, you no longer say abercadabor, hocus pocus. 401 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: You learn how the magician slides the box, how the 402 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: saw never actually touches the lady who's getting cut in half. 403 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: You see all that. You notice the bots, You notice 404 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: the inflated viral accounts that you've never heard of. You 405 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: notice the emperor has no clothes, just a lot of retreats, 406 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 1: and it's like, what's up with that? Now? Back in 407 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: the old days, you're an old head. Back in the 408 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: old days, we called this what it is. We called 409 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: it fraud. We called it fraud. Now, a synonym for 410 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 1: fraud is engagement. So we've dressed up the con with 411 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: a fancier language, slapped a blue check mark on it, 412 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 1: and said there you go, sold it as is its progress. 413 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: Now everyone is making money on this outside of one 414 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: group of people. And it's one of the reasons that 415 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: this has gone unchecked. That the creators buy followers and views, 416 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 1: they inflate their value. It's not real. The people selling 417 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: advertising on the creators' platforms, the social networks all they're 418 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,719 Speaker 1: all gung ho on that, right. So you got the 419 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: influencer who's buying followers, So the people that sell followers 420 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: are making money, they're growing their audience. Then you have 421 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: the other social media companies who are benefiting because the 422 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: perception is that you have a lot of followers, more 423 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 1: people who are real will actually follow you in so 424 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: they're making money on that. The only people who are 425 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: getting panted and this exercise are the hair brained advertisers 426 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: who don't realize they're being hustled, scam bamboozled, hoodwinked and 427 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: led astray all of those things. Then all realize it 428 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: and so yes, this is a I don't think it's 429 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna use work conspiracy anymore. I just think it's 430 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: a straight con. The house always wins. The magician doesn't 431 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: saw the lady in half, the bots don't care about 432 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 1: your product, and the NBA doesn't want you to watch 433 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: the game. It just wants you to double tap a 434 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: dunk and make sure you give it a like. That's 435 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: all they want. It's an old movie, which is a 436 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: great movie, and they should remake it called The Truman Show. 437 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: Now maybe that's before your time, But The Truman Show. 438 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: The crowd is fake, The applause a canned. The illusion 439 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: is about as airtight as you can get until until 440 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: someone sails their boat into the edge of the set 441 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: and finds an exit door. Then it becomes a problem. 442 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: So it's smoke, it's mirrors, and it's a magic trick 443 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: that we all agree, not me anymore, but we all 444 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: agree to pretend is real. And every once in a 445 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: while there'll be a team that will have an influencer 446 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: throw out the first pitch at a baseball game, and 447 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 1: it's pretty funny. Most of the time, nobody knows who 448 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: these people are. It's kind of like YouTube. During that 449 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: Chiefs Chargers game, they mixed in some YouTube influencers who 450 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,439 Speaker 1: have a big following on YouTube, and the millions of 451 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: people who are watching the NFL game had no idea 452 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: who these people are because they're really not that famous. 453 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: It's like being famous in a silo. Well, you're really 454 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: well known in the silo. Outside the silo, nobody really 455 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: knows your that's the problem. And that's the problem. The 456 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: silo is not nearly as big as you think the 457 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: silo is. That's the other problem. So it's the modern 458 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: world's greatest hustle and the mark is us. It's you 459 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: and me. We'll get out on that. We will have 460 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: a new podcast on Saturday, that would be tomorrow and 461 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: then again on Sunday, NFL Sunday. Don't forget to watch 462 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny Benny versus the Penny on YouTube, 463 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: Benny Vspenny, that's Benny Vspenny on YouTube. Check that out. 464 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: As we have a brand new slate of games up today, 465 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 1: just went up last night. You can watch all the 466 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: picks on the key primetime games, including the game in 467 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: Kansas City, Philadelphia and KC and all the way through 468 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: the double header action on Monday night. Got you covered 469 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: on all of it, and we'll catch you next time. 470 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: Have a great Friday. Danny g should join me tomorrow. 471 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: We'll catch you then. Got a murder. 472 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 2: I gotta go.