Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as
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Speaker 1: of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air
Speaker 1: everywhere and welcome back into the podcast dojo for a
Speaker 1: brand spanking new addition of The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio in an extra special, extra
Speaker 1: special edition of the Fifth Hour, And I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: You know, doing the overnight show for so many years
Speaker 1: talking sports, the goal has always been to be at
Speaker 1: the very top, right, you know, you always want to
Speaker 1: have the most success you can have in anything that
Speaker 1: you do. And in our business, the most successful overnight
Speaker 1: show is Coast to Coast AM. It has been on
Speaker 1: since the late nineteen eighties and it has dominated. It
Speaker 1: is the most popular overnight show in the country. Now,
Speaker 1: you you're probably thinking, why am I talking about this?
Speaker 1: That's a competitor, But we're all under the same umbrella
Speaker 1: as you. Know Fox Sports Radio is a partnership with
Speaker 1: the Premier networks. I work out of the Premier Network studios.
Speaker 1: We do the Ben Maller Show out of that studio,
Speaker 1: and George Nori does his show as he talks paranormal
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories and all of that, he does his show
Speaker 1: from our studio base. He's on a different floor than
Speaker 1: we are, but we're in the same building and so
Speaker 1: I often will run into George, more his car than
Speaker 1: anything else. But I have been a fan of Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast going back to Art bell Uh, the man
Speaker 1: that started that show at its inception back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I just love the variety of topics and the
Speaker 1: way they approach radio. I love radio when it's done well.
Speaker 1: And every time I've met with the bosses over the
Speaker 1: years at Fox, the people that are in charge of
Speaker 1: my show, I've always said, listen, my goal with the
Speaker 1: Overnight I wanna I wanna make this like Coast to Coast, right,
Speaker 1: I want to make this as important a show as
Speaker 1: Coast to Coast is for the overnight listener. And we're
Speaker 1: not quite there yet. We're getting there, We're not there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of work to still be done to
Speaker 1: close the gap and whatnot. But the man that has
Speaker 1: all the answers, and someone who I'm a fan of,
Speaker 1: I don't hear him that much. But I don't really
Speaker 1: hear him on the way home. Actually, I'll flip on
Speaker 1: Coast to Coast, got a long drive back to the
Speaker 1: north Woods, and we are welcomed in now by George
Speaker 1: nor the host of Coast to Coast AM and Art Bell.
Speaker 1: Of course, as I mentioned a legend of late night radio, George,
Speaker 1: he retires, and I'm gonna give you credit. You have
Speaker 1: seamlessly guided Coast to Coast for twentysomething years without missing
Speaker 1: a beat. And I know in our world, the sports world,
Speaker 1: when a star quarterback exit stage right, normally things fall apart.
Speaker 1: For example, the New England Patriots with Tom Brady. He
Speaker 1: goes to the Buccaneers and the Patriots go from Super
Speaker 1: Bowl team contender for the Super Bowl year after year
Speaker 1: to a very mediocre product without Tom Brady because they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to replace him. But you have done
Speaker 1: above and beyond, gone above and beyond the call of duty, George,
Speaker 1: And how have you been able to do it? Placing
Speaker 1: an icon and continuing to grow and evolve and improve
Speaker 1: the show. It's kind of interesting, Ben, I have been
Speaker 1: interested in this subject matter since I was a kid.
Speaker 1: We can get into that in a moment. But I
Speaker 1: groomed myself to do this years ago. And so when
Speaker 1: I got into broadcasting, I was nineteen years old. I
Speaker 1: got my first job as a television production company a
Speaker 1: worker in Detroit for an ABC TV station, and I
Speaker 1: just worked my way up. I got was twenty one
Speaker 1: years old. I got my radio job, my first one,
Speaker 1: and then went into television as an executive and kept
Speaker 1: marketing and pushing myself. But I was always interested in
Speaker 1: the unusual, the unexplained, and so when the time came
Speaker 1: to replace Art Bell or fill in for him, there
Speaker 1: I was. I was in the right spot. And then
Speaker 1: many of the guests that I had on local shows
Speaker 1: in St. Louis, for example, we're the same people who
Speaker 1: are on coast to coast, So it was a seamless
Speaker 1: move for me. And what I just did is I
Speaker 1: just kept tweaking the program and I've been doing it
Speaker 1: now we're going on twenty years this year. Well congratulations
Speaker 1: on that. And what is it? Maybe it's just the
Speaker 1: late night hours, but the the topics, which obviously you're
Speaker 1: you're a big fan of You've been doing a long time.
Speaker 1: But why does that show do so well? You guys
Speaker 1: have dominated late night syndicated radio everywhere I go when
Speaker 1: I travel anywhere, George, I turned on the radio late
Speaker 1: at night. Coast to coast is everywhere. What is the
Speaker 1: magic recipe about these topics? I think people are bombarded
Speaker 1: during the day ben with political information, breaking news tragedies,
Speaker 1: and they just want to get a little break at
Speaker 1: night and just relax. Whether they're driving in trucks, driving
Speaker 1: home from work, security police officers, or just home in bed,
Speaker 1: they just want to relax and chill out for the day.
Speaker 1: And that's what our program brings them. It brings them
Speaker 1: not only comfort, but it brings them the ability to
Speaker 1: let their minds wander. I mean, is their life after death?
Speaker 1: Are their UFOs? Are these strange things happening? Are there conspiracies?
Speaker 1: And uh, it's kind of fun for people to sit
Speaker 1: back and enjoy it. Yeah, now we both have this
Speaker 1: in common. I do a late night sports show, George,
Speaker 1: and I get some really zany people that call up
Speaker 1: and and you know, it's in the sports world and
Speaker 1: all that, but you hosting coast to coast, you get
Speaker 1: like next level uh callers some really wild stuff and
Speaker 1: I've heard some of it. I've heard stories about some
Speaker 1: of the people that have called over the stretching the
Speaker 1: boundaries of the imagination and the thing. I will give
Speaker 1: you credit because I'm not like you, Georgie. You are
Speaker 1: able to stay very calm. You listen. You how do
Speaker 1: you have so much patience dealing with some of the
Speaker 1: really extreme things that happen when people call up on
Speaker 1: open lines Bead. My favorite phrase when I get a
Speaker 1: strange call is really, but I let them talk. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the secrets I have learned of interviewing is
Speaker 1: to listen and let your guests or the caller call.
Speaker 1: And the only thing I don't tolerate his profanity. Obviously
Speaker 1: you know that they get booted off for that, and
Speaker 1: they know that. So they talk about some outlandish things
Speaker 1: and it's my job to kind of pull it out
Speaker 1: to get more and more information from them. And that's
Speaker 1: what I do. I you know, I'm I'm seriously interested
Speaker 1: in what they're talking about. I'm listening to what they're
Speaker 1: talking about, and uh, I mean, I've heard some talk
Speaker 1: show hosts that somebody will say in uh, six people
Speaker 1: in my family got sick last night, and then his
Speaker 1: next question is how many people got sick last night?
Speaker 1: You have to listen and uh. And I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the things that has kept the program successful
Speaker 1: with the callers is they know that they can become
Speaker 1: part of the show without being put down, offended, and
Speaker 1: then to say what they want and that it will
Speaker 1: get on. Yeah, for sure. And you mentioned you were
Speaker 1: kind of groom growing up. You're into paranormal activity and
Speaker 1: whatnot as a as a kid, was there anything specific, George?
Speaker 1: I mean you think about your your in your days.
Speaker 1: Did you did you see something in some UFO or something.
Speaker 1: Was there a moment in time where you realize, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is something that I love and that that's what
Speaker 1: led you down this path his career. When I was
Speaker 1: a youngster, my mother brought me home a book by
Speaker 1: Walter Sullivan, New York Times science writer. And when I
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to read that book called We Are
Speaker 1: Not Alone, I was obsessed with the possibility of extraterrestrial
Speaker 1: life out there in the universe, and at that young
Speaker 1: age that just kept pushing me and pushing me and
Speaker 1: pushing me, and then Look magazine came out with an
Speaker 1: article about Barney and Betty Hill. They were the couple
Speaker 1: abducted in the sixties, and I just couldn't get enough,
Speaker 1: and I just kept pushing myself even more. And uh,
Speaker 1: it has just grown and grown and grown. But I mean,
Speaker 1: these things happened to me at a very young age,
Speaker 1: and I never stopped. She always gave me alternative medicine
Speaker 1: ideas when I was ten years old eleven years old,
Speaker 1: and I've used that to do a lot of those
Speaker 1: kind of shows on the program. I had an out
Speaker 1: of body experience at eleven years old. I was one
Speaker 1: of one of the rare days I stayed home from
Speaker 1: school and I woke up and I'm on the ceiling
Speaker 1: looking down at my body, and I'm going, WHOA, what's that?
Speaker 1: At that moment, I snapped back into my body and
Speaker 1: then ended up going to the library to try to
Speaker 1: find a book on what had happened to me, and
Speaker 1: I stumbled into the occult section and they had a
Speaker 1: book on astral projection, and on the cover of the
Speaker 1: book they had a picture of a body floating above
Speaker 1: a body, and I want gosh, that's what happened to me.
Speaker 1: So I grabbed that book, picked it up, read it,
Speaker 1: and just learn more about that. So at a very
Speaker 1: young age, I was really grooming myself to all of this.
Speaker 1: As far as the topics that you guys talk about,
Speaker 1: I know recently and I know you've talked about this
Speaker 1: from time to time, these shape shifters. And for people
Speaker 1: who may be listening who don't know that that is
Speaker 1: someone who has transformed into an animal. Uh, where does
Speaker 1: that rank on coast to coast topics? George, the shape shifters.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, just recently I did a major
Speaker 1: show on shape shifting. And I think all of us,
Speaker 1: at some point in our lives ben have met people
Speaker 1: who have changed right in front of us, not necessarily
Speaker 1: into an animal, but into a different person. I mean,
Speaker 1: and uh, these things are strange, but they're out there
Speaker 1: and you know people, And we use the example during Halloween.
Speaker 1: People shape shift on Halloween. They get into a costume
Speaker 1: and they become that costume, whatever it might be, whether
Speaker 1: it's a witch, a dracula, people change, and that is
Speaker 1: happening in real life to a lot of people, whether
Speaker 1: it's emotional alcohol, who knows what, but they do shape shift.
Speaker 1: George Nori, I I gotta ask you. I have a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine who loves talking about Roswell, New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and he's convinced that there was a spacecraft that landed
Speaker 1: there and the government covered it up and and all that.
Speaker 1: I know you also, you guys have talked a lot
Speaker 1: about Area fifty one over the years. That's a big
Speaker 1: topic of conversation, the paranormal world and based on doing
Speaker 1: coast to coast And you're, as you said, growing up
Speaker 1: interested in paranormal and all that. Do you think that
Speaker 1: we've we've been visited here by extraterrestrial George, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times do you think it's a regular occurrence?
Speaker 1: You think all that's just made up? Well, I think
Speaker 1: number one, this universe is way who asked for us
Speaker 1: to be all by ourselves? And we don't taking God
Speaker 1: out of the equation just for a moment. We don't
Speaker 1: really understand why we're here, how we're here. And so
Speaker 1: when you look at the vastness of the University James
Speaker 1: Webb space telescope, for example, is sending back glimpses of
Speaker 1: the universe and star clusters being formed and stuff. There's
Speaker 1: no question in my mind that there are thousands, if
Speaker 1: not millions, of civilizations out there that have had a
Speaker 1: head start. I mean, we're, you know, our our planets
Speaker 1: four and a half billion years old. The universe is
Speaker 1: fourteen billion years old. Jumps start another billion or two
Speaker 1: on another planetary system. Who knows what kind of technology
Speaker 1: they have. But I think we were visited in the
Speaker 1: Biblical times, the ancient times. I think we're being visited now.
Speaker 1: And I think in the context of the Bible, when
Speaker 1: they talk about fallen angels coming down to Earth, who knows,
Speaker 1: they could have been talking about extraterrestrials coming on the Earth.
Speaker 1: And there was a great author by the name of
Speaker 1: Zecharia Sitchen. He passed away at nine years old. His
Speaker 1: theory was that extraterrestrials came to our planet a long
Speaker 1: time ago from another planetary system and seated us, literally
Speaker 1: created us from what we are now in their image.
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? The Bible talks about God making us
Speaker 1: in his image. Who knows what's going on, But but personally,
Speaker 1: I believe we've been visited and we'll probably still be visited.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you Georgia. I'm going off topic here
Speaker 1: a bit. But when I look at my iPhone and
Speaker 1: the computer technology that we have today, and I think
Speaker 1: some of that stuff, maybe it's just me. I think
Speaker 1: some of that stuff comes from outside our realm. The technology,
Speaker 1: it could be, it could be reversed engineer technology. There
Speaker 1: was a late Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso who wrote a
Speaker 1: book the day after Roswell, and he claims that it
Speaker 1: was his job to take the technology from that crashed
Speaker 1: UFO at Roswell and give it to companies to reverse engineer.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, of course it's no longer with
Speaker 1: us anymore, but gosh, that's entirely possible. And maybe that's
Speaker 1: how we got all this technology so fast. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine what we've done in the last hundred years. We
Speaker 1: have exploded technologically. I mean, we had people on the
Speaker 1: moon in nineteen sixty nine. That's incredible. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It is wild. But in in terms of the global community, George,
Speaker 1: and you talk about this stuff all the time, but
Speaker 1: are people in the world prepared If let's say the
Speaker 1: government's got together in the Western world and said, okay,
Speaker 1: they've kind of danced around this in recent months that
Speaker 1: there have been UFOs, we have had communication. How do
Speaker 1: you think we were gonna get the whole story? And
Speaker 1: how would the world react. It's one thing to say
Speaker 1: everything to be fine, but we saw what happened during
Speaker 1: COVID with people running out, panicking, buying toilet paper and
Speaker 1: all that. What would the reaction be if if the
Speaker 1: people in charge said here's what happened and laid everything out.
Speaker 1: I remember what Jack Nicholson said in a few good Men,
Speaker 1: you can't handle the truth. Well, I think we can
Speaker 1: handle the truth. I think most people, if the government
Speaker 1: officially came out and said what was going on, would
Speaker 1: probably say I knew it. They'd be ticked off that
Speaker 1: we've been lied to over all these years, but they
Speaker 1: would say we knew it, we we we accepted. And
Speaker 1: I think we're at a point now ben where people
Speaker 1: would not panic, which they probably would have years ago,
Speaker 1: and that was a concern I think of governments. But
Speaker 1: I think right now most people probably if you went
Speaker 1: on the street today it asked them about extraterrestrial life
Speaker 1: and do they believe it? I would think seven out
Speaker 1: of ten people would say, yeah, it's happening. Interesting and uh,
Speaker 1: turning the turning the page on that, George. Over the
Speaker 1: last ten years or so, maybe a little less than that,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of people and in our in
Speaker 1: our world, the media world, attacking free speech and trying
Speaker 1: to limit outside opinions, and the word conspiracy has been
Speaker 1: attacked as you're on the fringes and all that. But
Speaker 1: doing coast to coast, you've always welcomes, you talked about
Speaker 1: your welcome free thought, let people talk, tell their stories
Speaker 1: and all that. And how difficult has it been to
Speaker 1: navigate all that with outside entities, uh, you know, screaming
Speaker 1: and shouting, how you you're not allowed to talk about that?
Speaker 1: How have you been able to juggle that? We've been
Speaker 1: able to just make it work. I've never been told
Speaker 1: by management. I've never been told by outside entities or
Speaker 1: organizations or groups not to talk about a certain topic. UM.
Speaker 1: I just try to make sure that when we talk
Speaker 1: about something that we're accurate, that we're right. Unless it's
Speaker 1: just a fun topic like a UFO visitation or something
Speaker 1: like that, those are difficult to verify. But when we
Speaker 1: get into some serious stuff too, and we've done that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's where my old newsman and that that
Speaker 1: newsman ability kicks in, and I want to balance things
Speaker 1: and make sure that we get equal sides. I think
Speaker 1: one of the problems a lot of cable channels have
Speaker 1: done these days is there's just so one sided. Instead
Speaker 1: of giving people the story straight and let us decide
Speaker 1: what we want. Um, you know, they have force fed us,
Speaker 1: and I think that's hurting journalism a lot. Yeah, George,
Speaker 1: you worked at TV and radio your entire life. Here
Speaker 1: as an adult, what do you think it will take
Speaker 1: to get back? Will we ever get back? Are we
Speaker 1: is this just a new normal forever? Or or is
Speaker 1: it possible to get back to playing it more down
Speaker 1: the middle and not right wing, let wing the extremes
Speaker 1: as you talked about. Well, we need to get back.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question about that. And I think
Speaker 1: people are going to slowly eventually demand it. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you'll be able to tell that by ratings, of course,
Speaker 1: and ratings mean the money for the networks, and if
Speaker 1: they start losing their ratings, they're going to change and
Speaker 1: I think that's going to force it in the In
Speaker 1: the long run, we're just so as as a nation,
Speaker 1: we're so divided, and then you know, years ago you
Speaker 1: could be in favor of a politician or individual or
Speaker 1: sports figure and talk about it with somebody who was
Speaker 1: opposed to you, and and talk about it with great dialogue. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: if you're talking about some sports issue in a bar,
Speaker 1: you're gonna end up getting into a fight with somebody.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Yeah, it is in the in the athletes,
Speaker 1: every issue, even the most mundane. I know from doing
Speaker 1: my show, George, people make it political, like certain athletes
Speaker 1: Lebron James, for example, has become a political figure over
Speaker 1: the years and whatnot. It's it's wild. I'll be talking
Speaker 1: about something that's I'm talking about sports and I'll get
Speaker 1: people on one political side getting upset with me because
Speaker 1: I mentioned that. It's a wild, wild time. But as
Speaker 1: far as your experience, and we we all went through
Speaker 1: the COVID thing doing radio shows from home or different
Speaker 1: locations and whatnot. But during that shutdown in and how
Speaker 1: long that lasted, what was what was your experience like
Speaker 1: dealing with all that and you know, doing the show
Speaker 1: night after night and having people who were really scared
Speaker 1: freaking out and all that. How did you how did
Speaker 1: you hear that? How did that that go? For you. Well,
Speaker 1: we broke the story back in December of two thousand
Speaker 1: nineteen that COVID was in that Wuhan lab, where everybody
Speaker 1: else denied it. At that time, it was just I've
Speaker 1: always believed there are no coincidences. And when I saw
Speaker 1: a little tiny story that said there was a lab
Speaker 1: in Wuhan, China that worked on viruses, it just hit
Speaker 1: me and I said, this thing didn't happen in the market.
Speaker 1: It just didn't come from some tainted bat. And I
Speaker 1: went on the air and said, folks, I really believe
Speaker 1: it was concocted and got released accidentally. Never said it
Speaker 1: was intentional, but it was made in that Wuhan lab.
Speaker 1: And now most people, most people believe that's the case,
Speaker 1: even though they still haven't gone to the bottom of
Speaker 1: all this. But when COVID hit, it was devastating for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. They stayed home, they had to
Speaker 1: do a lot of different things. But we didn't miss
Speaker 1: a beat on coast to coast. I mean, we we
Speaker 1: kept with the story. We kept reporting on um. My
Speaker 1: big issue at the time was thirty to sixty people
Speaker 1: die every year from the flu. But I have not
Speaker 1: heard one story of flu deaths in two or three years,
Speaker 1: have you no No. And that's the other thing, and
Speaker 1: the thing that really told me a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: my um my dad was sick at the time and
Speaker 1: I obviously couldn't he didn't have COVID, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: take him to the hospital. They told me not to
Speaker 1: dig him the hospital and it ended up ended up
Speaker 1: costing him dearly. But but all the people that have
Speaker 1: cancer and other illnesses, they were not able to get
Speaker 1: checked up in that for for seven, eight, nine months,
Speaker 1: whatever whatever it was, and that just nobody brought that up.
Speaker 1: It seemed like they just didn't worry about that was
Speaker 1: all about about the COVID stuff. It's pretty pretty wild
Speaker 1: how that all worked out. And and we're also seeing,
Speaker 1: i think now a couple of years later, George, the
Speaker 1: fallout from that from people still trying to recover from
Speaker 1: having their lives shut down. I've noticed absolutely. And now
Speaker 1: we're going in the monkey poks. Then it doesn't stop, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is well, there's always something for you guys to
Speaker 1: talk about on coast to coast, George Nori. Now you
Speaker 1: you worked in RAID. I'm fascinated by people in the
Speaker 1: business and how they rise to the top like you have, George.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you mentioned you you're in the paranormal as
Speaker 1: a kid. You've had a very interesting life experience. You
Speaker 1: did TV Big Star in St. Louis before Coast to Coast.
Speaker 1: What what is Chiefe? What have you noticed working your
Speaker 1: entire life in radio and TV and whatnot. What is
Speaker 1: the biggest change in the business that you've noticed over
Speaker 1: the years. Consolidation, I think has been one thing. You know,
Speaker 1: in the old days, you had a company that owned
Speaker 1: a couple of TV stations and a couple of radio
Speaker 1: stations and that was it. And now you know, they're
Speaker 1: conglomerates all over the place, controlling a lot of stations
Speaker 1: and a lot of media. But the biggest change has
Speaker 1: been the technology with streaming, podcasting as you're doing now.
Speaker 1: These things were unheard of several years ago. Nobody would
Speaker 1: even anticipate that. I mean, the poor guys that used
Speaker 1: to work at Blockbuster Video that had all these stores
Speaker 1: that are all gone. Now. Some guy probably went up
Speaker 1: to his boss and said, you know, what we should
Speaker 1: be doing is beaming these things into people's home homes.
Speaker 1: And the guy probably said, you're nuts. And now look
Speaker 1: what's happening. The world is streaming. Technology has changed the
Speaker 1: business dramatically. People are listening on their phones. Um, those
Speaker 1: people who have radios, thank god they still have them
Speaker 1: in cars. But the technology has changed things dramatically and
Speaker 1: we as people in the media need to be abreast
Speaker 1: to that. We need to react to it and change that.
Speaker 1: My granddaughter, who was twenty seven years old, I asked her,
Speaker 1: I says, how do you listen to shows? My show?
Speaker 1: She says, on my phone, Papa, I mean different age
Speaker 1: groups are doing things differently. Now you talk to somebody
Speaker 1: who's in their fifties or sixties, they've got a radio
Speaker 1: in their home, and uh, it's it's They would never
Speaker 1: think of listening on the phone, but it's it's happening,
Speaker 1: and we as media people need to adjust to all
Speaker 1: these changes that are happening out there. Well, it's great
Speaker 1: for guys like us George that are on late at
Speaker 1: night because now before what you just did the show
Speaker 1: that was it, the show vanished and you moved on
Speaker 1: to the next show. But now people during the day
Speaker 1: can listen. I'm sure you guys do great on downloads
Speaker 1: on your podcast during the day and people listening who
Speaker 1: are sleeping at night and can't listen live, that will
Speaker 1: listen during the day and I I have the same
Speaker 1: experience on my show doing sports at night that we
Speaker 1: we can really double the audience if you will, in
Speaker 1: many ways because people can listen to all So there's
Speaker 1: no question. We have what is called Coast Insiders, which
Speaker 1: is a very nominal membership, and people listen to us
Speaker 1: in their office the next day. You know, the world
Speaker 1: has changed technologically and we as media people just need
Speaker 1: to keep abreast to that. All right, Well, there's obviously
Speaker 1: a large audiences we've talked about for Coast to Coast.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody over the years, George, that reached out
Speaker 1: to you that is a someone we might know, big
Speaker 1: celebrity or influential type person who you've you've heard is
Speaker 1: a listener That kind of surprised you because you never know.
Speaker 1: The great thing about radios, you never know who's who's
Speaker 1: tuned in. You know, the regular guy and also the celebrity.
Speaker 1: We've had regular listeners. Billy Gibbons from CZ TOPP as
Speaker 1: a regular listener. He's been on the program with us
Speaker 1: UH legendary Pat Boone, John Fogerty, the Great singer from
Speaker 1: Greedence Clearwater actor Russell Crowe. I mean it just the
Speaker 1: list goes on and on and on, Ben, And they're
Speaker 1: just people who are They love the program, they love
Speaker 1: the subject matter, and you know, they're people they you know,
Speaker 1: get dressed the way we get dressed. They cry, they eat,
Speaker 1: and they just love what they we're doing, and thank
Speaker 1: god we keep doing it. Absolutely. How many how many
Speaker 1: more years you want to do this year? You've do
Speaker 1: us a long time? You know you have a you
Speaker 1: have a plan. Have you laid out? How many more
Speaker 1: years you gonna keep going as long as you can?
Speaker 1: What's the plan on this? I've told my producer it's
Speaker 1: his job, Tom dan Huiser. They're in a commercial break.
Speaker 1: When I I one day to go on the air
Speaker 1: and say, well we finally lost them, I decided I'm
Speaker 1: not going to retire. The network has signed me to
Speaker 1: another long term contract. I'm just gonna keep going as
Speaker 1: long as my I got a face for radio, right,
Speaker 1: but as long as my voice keeps staying as young
Speaker 1: and powerful as it sounds, I'm gonna keep doing it.
Speaker 1: Oh good, And you've got the tremendous pipes here, so
Speaker 1: we'll get you out on this, George. Now we're working
Speaker 1: late night overnight radio. I'm biased here, but I think
Speaker 1: I think you'll you'll agree with you, maybe not. My
Speaker 1: belief is the the late night radio audience. I did
Speaker 1: do a daytime show. I've worked the full radio clock
Speaker 1: over the years where I worked every day part during
Speaker 1: the day, mornings, afternoons, mid days, nights, late nights. But
Speaker 1: for me, the people late at night that listen to
Speaker 1: the radio overnight, I just think they need what we
Speaker 1: do a little bit more for companionship. It just seems
Speaker 1: different to me then when I worked during the day.
Speaker 1: What I did work during the day. You agree with that?
Speaker 1: Is you disagree with that? And why do you think
Speaker 1: that is? You're absolutely right. And one of the things
Speaker 1: we do here ben at Coast to coast, and it's
Speaker 1: a pledge I made to my audience. We will be
Speaker 1: live seven nights a week. We will not run tapes
Speaker 1: on holidays. I mean, God love the hosts who want
Speaker 1: to go home and spend time with their families and
Speaker 1: they run tapes on special holidays. I understand that and
Speaker 1: appreciate that. But as you have just said that, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there who love radio.
Speaker 1: It's their family, it's their life. They're lonely during holidays.
Speaker 1: So I made a pledge when I came in here
Speaker 1: twenty years ago that we will have live programs on
Speaker 1: holidays and every holiday that falls on my regular scheduled
Speaker 1: work day, personally, I work, whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, New
Speaker 1: Year's Labor Day, we will have live programs. And if
Speaker 1: they happen to fall on a weekend, my weekend hosts,
Speaker 1: who I'm not going to take any money out of
Speaker 1: their pocket, they'll come in and they'll be live as well.
Speaker 1: But I made a pledge to my audience twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: no tapes on holidays, and they truly appreciate that. Now
Speaker 1: it is great. Well, George, I appreciate you doing this.
Speaker 1: I know you don't do a lot of these things,
Speaker 1: and I run into you every once in a while
Speaker 1: the Premier Networks studios from time to time. We obviously
Speaker 1: work head to head, but continued success and it's a
Speaker 1: great having you on and I appreciate it. YouTube then
Speaker 1: you're one of a kind, my friend. Keep doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing.