WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Mickey Mouse Operation 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:01.520 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.560 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:18.480 Wow. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.400 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:29.440 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:34.279 In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour back at it 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.080 on a Friday, the eighth day of December. We're hanging 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:43.120 out with you here because five nights a week not enough. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.120 On the overnight and Ben Maller hanging out with Danny 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.239 g Hello, Danny, welcome. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.080 Good morning. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.000 Yeah, it's so early on a Friday that I was 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.720 trying to turn a heater on in the garage. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.160 Well, you know, we do these tire rack commercials and 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.520 part of the copy is the terrible winter weather that 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.560 we have in California in La how bad it is 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.560 and really is that wintery mix that we get in 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.040 California where it occasionally gets down to like fifty degrees 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:15.839 or something like that. It's a real problem. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:17.640 I thought you were going to tell me to burn 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.160 some tires in the grudge. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.280 Oh no, I listen, if you want, I can do 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.160 a tire rock commercial now, if you want. I have 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.360 them memorized at this particular point. We love them so much, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.319 Danny that in if you need insurance, I know who 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:32.160 you can contact. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.680 What is your favorite piece of copy to read? 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.839 Well, let me tell you someth Danny. Winter is coming 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.240 and you know what that means. To us here that 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.279 means well, it doesn't mean anything, but for other people 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.760 it's that wintery combination. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.200 Northern California that means rain. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:50.920 No. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.960 I have the copy memorized as well, because I get 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.840 it ready every day for Covino and Rich, so we 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.480 have that in common in our lives. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.720 It doesn't matter whether you need Bridgestone tires, it be 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.280 of Good, Rich or Continental. We know them all. In fact, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.400 I'm more qualified to work at a tire shop tire 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.720 rack than I am to do a radio show. So 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.800 I think I should just sell tires. Maybe that's my future, Dan. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.400 I'll just become a tire salesman and I'll work for 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.160 the people at Tyreck, which is kind of like what 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.960 we're doing now anyway, right, In many ways in many ways, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.000 we love them, but that's what we're doing. So anyway, 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.720 on this podcast, we have The Mickey Mouse Show, The Pods, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:34.280 Squad Flawed, the Word of the Week, and Foody Fund. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.040 So a lot to get to, but that's always shameless promotion. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.960 It is week fourteen in the NFL season. It began 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:41.760 on Thursday night. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.320 Can you believe it's already Week fourteen? 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.440 Yeah, there's only a few weeks to go in the 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:51.200 regular season as we wind things down or wind up 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.480 for the home stretch. But week fourteen, and for the 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.160 purposes of this podcast, and if you want to help 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.920 us out, that means Benny Versus the Penny Week fourteen 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.320 is back and we are on all over the clock, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.600 all weekend long, starting today. The first episode that will air, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.680 I believe, is in the Bay Area on NBC Sports 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.440 Bay Area. We are the pre pregame show for the 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.200 Golden State Warriors as they play. If I'm correct, I 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.920 think they play Okay, see today and the pregame coverage 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.840 will begin after Benny Versus the Penny. But I believe 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.680 we if I have the schedule correct, which I think 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.200 I do. Three point thirty in San Francisco in the 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.040 Bay Area there and then a non core showing at 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.320 ten o'clock. But we'll be on all over the map. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.600 The Hub in Boston on NBC Sports Boston, we're on 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:52.680 late night after Celtics programming and whatnot eleven thirty pm, 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.560 and then another replay showing and encore showing after the 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.960 Witching Hour. Actually it's during the Witching Hour at twelve thirty, 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.680 so they'll be on there Philadelphia at eleven o'clock. I mean, 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.560 you go through the whole schedule here. Check it out. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:13.280 Benny versus the Penny goof around with a penny handicapping 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.720 NFL games, So check that out. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.040 Tons of eyes on you on the Lakers Channel tomorrow 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:21.599 as well, pre and post. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.240 Right, well, we'll be on yeah, well we were back 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.800 to more normal times there on the Saturday Spectrum sportsnet 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.760 so cal because the six am showing who the Hell's 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.919 awake at six am? One on Saturday, I don't know, 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.200 raising my hand all right, yeah, you got a kid, 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:45.040 three pm and then seven pm, so three showings at least. 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.279 There might be more, but at least three showings on 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.080 the Laker Channel and then on Sunday if you're in 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.960 New York or New Jersey or Connecticut and you have 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.640 SNY you can check it out at eleven thirty am 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.200 and there'll be a bunch of other showings as well. Now, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.720 big doings this week and big thanks to Danny g 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.320 So the big reveal. Now, I was not at the 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:14.080 watch post on Wednesday into Thursday. I did not do 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.159 the show per normal. Now, we have talked about this 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:18.400 in the past. I don't know if I've done it 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.480 with you, Danny, but typically in broadcasting, if you take 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.640 a day off in the middle of the week and 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:30.599 then you come back following that, that's less than ideal. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.880 Like usually people take days off, it's either Monday or Friday. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.159 You don't normally take a Wednesday into a Thursday off. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.479 But I did, and there was a reason for it. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.560 I was hanging out with a bunch of vermin, well 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.479 cartoon vermin. This actually goes back to a story we 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.920 talked about last year, and it's really been going on 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:52.360 for many, many years. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.640 Yeah, you not opening your work email? 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.560 Yes, I Ever since I got whacked by the company 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.680 in nine, I made a pack with myself. I'm never 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.200 going to open up the work email unless I'm forced 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:06.880 to because I have to do some kind of training 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.359 because when I needed to get access to the email, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.880 when I got let go, the first thing they shut 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.200 off that you want to take You guess what the 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:16.560 first thing they shut off is. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.159 Besides bulk erasing all of your voice from everything on 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.960 the network, Yeah, but shut your email off. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.479 Yeah, it's I remember I was a kid. I watched 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.680 a History channel and they had to think about Joseph 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:34.120 Stalin right the way he would erase people I give 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.320 it of their photos and it was pretty much what happens. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.320 But the email thing was annoyed, right, the Great Purge 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:41.640 and the email thing would always you know, So I 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.640 stop checking my email, and that's that's good because I 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.560 don't have to worry if anything happens. I don't have 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.760 to worry about missing email because I don't have I 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.520 don't even know it's there. But it's bad because, as 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.120 Looney used to say, sometimes they have free cupcakes on 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.679 the fourth floor or something like that, you can't get them, 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.560 or tickets to big events and things like that. And 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:09.080 so iHeartMedia, which is the parent company of Fox Sports Radio, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.640 the radio Mega. They don't like the word radio, right, Danny. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.560 They just like the word broadcasting or media audio audio 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.080 audio company. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.640 I think they prefer media company, now. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:26.000 Company, right whatever, whatever. The consultants all platforms including TV, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.240 that's right. So anyway, the people at iHeart the parent company, 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.520 the LA Cluster, which I don't even know if we're 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.800 part of because we're not at the LA Cluster. They 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.360 have a bunch of big radio stations that have a 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.800 lot of listeners and all that stuff. Anyway, every year 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.880 they have an event. We talked about this in years 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:50.080 past at Disneyland, the California Adventure, and this is where 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:54.120 they close the park to the great unwashed and then 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.560 it's a private party. I have worked at the company 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.080 for over twenty years. This thing has been going on, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:07.320 not that long, but close, and I have never ever 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.640 been to this event. I remember last year you went 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.560 and I was like, I was, I was very jealous, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.840 and several other people went and I was like damn. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.200 So I asked you. I said, Danny, let me know, 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.000 give me a heads up. I don't check my working 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.320 and you're a man of your word, Danny, you're a 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:29.160 man of integrity. You immediately alerted me to the events 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.680 the way I guess it had worked in the past, Danny, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.920 it no longer worked, right, They had changed it up 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.120 a little bit this year. Just my luck, right, they 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.520 decided to change it up. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:39.600 A little bit. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.080 They still did their quote unquote raffle for employees. Yeah, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.800 but who wants to, you know, live their life by chance. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.120 So if you are friends with the right people, you 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.040 can still get into the park for this iHeart event. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.920 So I went through the right channels. But yeah, they 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.160 had given away their extra tickets this year at our 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.520 company Christmas party. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.120 Yeah, so it looked like I wasn't gonna go. No, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.280 to be fair, and just for the record, I liked 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.560 the event. I wanted to go to the event, and 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.680 Danny directed, you knew the right person. I actually I 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.440 knew the person. Also. I reached him as well. A 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.640 guy that I've known for twenty five years who funny story, 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.280 our promotions guy, Dave Dave Weis. So I met him 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.520 he was working I was covering baseball. I was a kid, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:35.600 and he was the He was working at a station 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:41.880 in Orange County where Steve Desager worked. So that's when 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.640 I first met the Sager and I met Dave Weis. Also, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.360 it was like the same the same time. It was 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.280 a ninety five to nine, which I think is like 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.520 a religious station. Now maybe I'm wrong on that. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.079 I don't know, but that. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.800 Was the station they all worked at. And so I 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.480 met him and I reached out to him. You were 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:00.000 you were great. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.240 It seems like a religious guy. I've never been to 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.800 a strip club with him in a super Bowl city before. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.920 That would never happen. That would be that would be inappropriate. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.280 When I got a hold of Dave Ben, I told 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.920 him and I used your wife, my wife, if I said, look, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.480 as long as Ben's been at the company, he's never 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.600 been to one of our big iHeart events. And his 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.040 wife is a big Disney fan, so you can't fail 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:26.600 him on this. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.960 Yeah, And I was getting pestered. My wife wanted to go, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.240 but her aunt really wanted to go, and so I 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.160 was getting pestered a lot. I hate, you know, I 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.400 hate getting pestered, Danny. I don't like I hate asking 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.320 for things. It annoys me. I think so much more stuff. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.600 If I just was a pain in the ass and 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.480 just asked, you know, give me this, that and the 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.960 other thing. But I don't. I just hate doing so 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.719 I don't do it. I mean rarely, rarely do I do. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.320 This was like a rare exception. But anyway, it worked out. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.160 Was able to go and the Scott our Ball gave 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.920 me the night off, so that that worked out pretty well, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.760 and it was interesting. It's a weird situation because it's 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.720 I'd not been to this before. Because you go into 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.480 the park, it's still open. They're in the process of 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.160 like shutting it down. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.920 Yeah, they kick the regular customers out by a certain 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.800 time and then only the iHeart winners and staff get 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.679 to run around the park after that for a few hours. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.079 Yeah. And so I was in social butterfly mode, Danny, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.840 thinking I was just going to run into a bunch 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.800 of people that I knew because I've met a lot 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.559 of people over the years, and a lot of the 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.160 radio people. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.439 have to be social butterfly guy. And I'm an introvert, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.959 but I'll be social butterfly guy. I didn't see one person, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:54.200 not one person that I recognized or knew from the company. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.160 I mean, California Adventure is a pretty big chunk of land, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.440 so it is a spread out situation. But I didn't 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.280 see one person, and I knew people that were there 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:05.840 because they told me they were going to be there, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.840 so I was like, okay, and I started texting people. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.720 But that's fine. I mean, it got on everything that 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.240 we wanted to get on and all that, and it 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:16.680 was good. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.920 And to watch the water show. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.600 We did actually, and we didn't take your advice initially 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.800 because you did advise us to get real close. You 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.880 told us like to find the times and stuff. We 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:35.040 didn't get real close, but the wife loved it, the 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.800 light show and the water and it's like the Bellagio 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.880 on steroids is what it's like. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.000 Yes, but it was good. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.080 I only got motion sickness on like one ride, which 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.720 was pretty good. That's not bad. And I got on 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.079 the cars right still had like an hour hour and 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.080 a half wait. We waited till the very end and 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.800 went on that that's the big ride at California Adventure. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:12:59.960 Yeah, that's a good one. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.560 And Soaring Over used to be California, now Soaring Over America. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.119 That went on that. So it was good. And unfortunately, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.360 to the dismay of Disney, Danny did not dust off 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.200 the wallet for a five dollars and fifty cents soda. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.000 I was going to ask you about your purchases there 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.360 because I just couldn't imagine you taking your wallet out 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.760 to pay for any of their overpriced concessions. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.040 Yeah, well, it was a weird situation because you know, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.360 it's rare and appropriate. I'm a rare and appropriate guy, Danny. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.080 I'm like, okay, rare and appropriate. You know, how often 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.480 do you go to Disney It's you know, everything was 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.480 taken care of. They gave us the VIP status, So 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.800 I mean they charged thirty five bucks for parking at Disneyland. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.760 Thirty five bucks to park your car. That's insane, insane, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.760 which is why a lot of people and you should 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.240 never do this, Danny. People in southern California will park 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:02.960 in the neighborhoods around Anaheim and then walk to Disney. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.080 To say, it sounds like one of my mom's moves. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you might have mentioned that too, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.480 But I know that's that's been a thing. But you park, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:13.280 and you just kind. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.760 Of Since I was a kid, my mom parked her 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.160 station Wagon in the Anaheim neighborhoods and she'd be like, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.000 come on, walking's not going to kill any of you. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.200 Yeah, you're gonna walk anyway when you get to the 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:23.880 amusement park. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:24.880 Yeah. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.400 Yeah. So so here's the deal. So I had an 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.080 interesting day because I was off from the radio show 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.720 and I spent a lot of my days, you know, Danny, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:39.760 I'm obsessive, compulsive with preparation. I have like a factory 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.920 type situation getting ready for the show. And I didn't 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.560 have to worry about that. But I wasn't off because 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:50.440 I had the TV show that we record the TV 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.960 show at Universal Studios on Thursday. So I had the 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.760 TV show and I had to get ready for the show. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.440 But I was off from work. So I spent time 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.040 with the wife and we had been wrestling thing we 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:02.800 had to go to and all that. But I had 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.920 to get ready for the TV show. And so what 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:11.040 ended up happening. I popped up. I was on my 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:17.120 phone using I wrote notes using the I have an iPhone, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.240 so this notes thing, which I don't you have an iPhone, 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.560 but it's a little notepad, yeah, digital notepad, and so 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.400 I use that and I pretty much wrote all of 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.480 my notes that I needed for the TV show, which 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.920 I don't read. I have to memorize them, or memorize 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.520 as much as I can but I wrote all this 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.800 stuff down like on my iPhone. I usually use a laptop, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.960 but I use the notes thing, and so I'm like 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.280 scrambling to get all that done. And then so the 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:53.760 Disney thing went to one in the morning, Mickey Mouse 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.720 Show was till one in the morning. And then by 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.920 the time you get out of there, it's like one thirty. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.760 You had to drive to the house, the Malor Mansion, 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.240 which isn't that far away from Disneyland, but it's still 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.440 far enough. And did all that, but then I had 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:12.960 to I took like a thirty minute power nap, and 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.440 then I started going into TV mode and I had 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.960 to put my my my church temple clothes on and 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.040 get ready for for the TV thing. So it was 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.400 a busy day. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.400 Were you inspired by getting a glimpse of the Great 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.320 ellen k Well? 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.680 Ellen k a legend, And might I add I knew 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.720 ellen k before she became the Great Well And I 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.760 don't want to say that before she became the Great ok, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.800 because she was like Rick Dez's sidekick. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.240 Yeah, she went from Rick D's to your Boy from 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:51.440 American Idol. Oh right, yeah, and then after Seacrest she 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:56.400 went to coach FM so man talk about three different 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.120 lives in radio and all big stations. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.360 Yeah, when I met her, she was with with D's Rick, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.840 the legend. This guy was a massive start. I mean, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.560 he had the number one radio show in La on 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.359 Kiss FM back in the yedies, and she was with 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.800 him and all that. So yeah, I mean they had 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.880 the Coast logo up in a bunch of different places 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.719 and they had little photo op things. I didn't take 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.760 a lot of photos because I was we were running 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.679 around and all that, but but it was a lot 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.359 of fun. So thanks Danny for helping it help me 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.119 out there. Hopefully next year we can all go again, 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.040 but who knows. If not, you know, if it's one 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.360 and done, it's one and done. You know, at least 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.200 we got in there, so that's good and it all 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.159 it all worked out now. I didn't want to. I 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.240 want to mention this as we turned the page. Here 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.679 the pod squad is flawed. Not the podres Dandy, although 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.159 you could make that argument. They gave away Juan Soto 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:51.359 U and who saw that one coming? Everyone everyone, because 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.119 the owner died and they're going to cut back. The 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.800 TV deal fell apart in San Diego. But anyway, this 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.120 is not about the poty. This is about the podcast, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.240 which we're doing right now. So we need help. Probably 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.199 not you gotta to mention this on the podcast. But 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.440 I got this big email. Did you get this big email? 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:06.639 Dani's big company email. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.399 I did get that email, yep. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.440 Yeah, yeah. So they made some changes to the podcast game, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:17.439 which affects this podcast and the Ben Malor Show radio podcast, 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.440 which is problematic. But so we want to be proactive, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.920 not reactive. Then I guess in a way we're reactive, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.159 but we're being proactive because we're making sure that this 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:30.680 does not continue to cause issues. So we get, according 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.240 to the numbers, the analytics, because we are all about 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.560 big data, we get over eighty percent of all of 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:43.760 our podcast listens from the Apple podcast, which we've mentioned 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.600 how we desperately need people to review the podcast. We 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.400 begged for that on the show. So we have the analytics. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:51.480 I don't know how much of this we want to 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.320 give out, but over eighty percent of the downloads we 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.640 get come from the Apple podcast. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.840 Of course, because so many people have iPhones. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:03.399 Yeah, and so Apple made some rather large changes to 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.600 the to the way they do business and their metrics 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.680 and all that, and without getting into the minutia of 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.000 how they make the hot dogs. 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.560 Yeah right, I don't think anyone. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.040 Wants to know how they make DoD dogs. But the 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.840 main thing is they stopped auto downloading podcasts. For years, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.600 we had just begged people just describe to the podcast. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.840 You automatically get the podcast, which is true if you 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.000 if you would, you know, sign up. I guess the 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.600 terminology has changed. Right, You're supposed to just follow because 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.720 subscribe means pay for it. We don't charge anybody. It's 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.200 completely free. So you just follow the podcast. So that's 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.560 the big word. They want to follow. You follow the podcast. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.280 And the issue here and I mentioned this the other 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:49.400 night on the radio show, but it bears repeating because 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.280 like the show that I do and you guys with 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.840 Covino and Rich, we're a high volume podcast because we 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.359 do a lot of content every day. We have the 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.760 Ben Malacher we have four hours, and then we have 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.960 the best of podcasts, so we're doing five podcasts a day. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.159 And from what I understand, if I who knows, if 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.520 I'm right on this, the way it works if you 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.680 follow the Ben Malershow podcast and then you start getting 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:21.000 the downloads of the podcast, and then as a follower 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.679 of the podcast, you don't listen to the five most 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.000 recent episodes, and then you don't listen to an episode 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:34.240 in fifteen days, they stop, they stop. You know, you 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.520 don't get we don't get credit. Right, that's it, it's done, 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:41.360 it's over, I believe. Yeah, and so that for us, 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.639 that's five podcasts a day, and so it adds up 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.840 pretty quick. So we need you to follow. What can 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:49.879 people do here, Danny? 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:50.239 Do you know? 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.359 I forgot? There's some of the things that people can 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.320 do to help us out, but mainly just be vigilant 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.199 and don't go more than a day. Just give us 0:20:58.200 --> 0:20:59.920 at least a few minutes a day of. 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.400 That's the key is, don't let episodes pile up. If 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.679 at all possible, at least go back and download Friday 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.399 or Saturday and listen to at least five ten minutes, 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.840 and then you know, later you can get more caught up. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.520 But yeah, that's the thing. They're not going to let 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.439