WEBVTT - Love Line 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.520 a week was enough, I think again. He's the last 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.160 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.320 He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.360 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.120 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:28.440 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. That does top 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.320 o the day. Whatever time you are downloading this podcast, 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.120 we thank you for supporting The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.279 Maller because four hours are not enough, and we are 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:43.360 in the air everywhere the vast power of my heart, 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.960 the global reach of podcasting available now eight days a week. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.400 About that, just like that old Beatles song, eight days 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.120 a week. And as always, I am joined by David 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.560 guest Gard known as I was gonna call you something 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.760 else but gag. He's on his guy gone. What yours? 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.800 Very conny to properly introduce me saying that loud and 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.640 proud gas con Have you sent Doc Mike any money 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.360 for coming up with your nickname? Have you sent him 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.040 any kid? Doc Mike? I was no Mike. I got 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:21.920 my Mike's mixed up. That's a bad job by me, 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.080 the great Mike North, Chicago radio legend, one of my 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:30.160 heroes in radio, Mike North, fearless, that guy fearless prepared 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.200 called me by the right name, and uh was promptly 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.200 left Fox Sports Radio a couple of weeks after that. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.200 The that was the funniest when I first heard the 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.080 gag on Drop, Oh my god, that was hilarious. Was 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.840 it really like, can you take me through that please? 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:51.440 So let's romanticize. I loved you. I was a lead 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.520 in for Mike North and Andy Furman when they did 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.600 the Morning Show, and I love both those guys because Furman's, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.520 you know, a classic radio guy, you know, paranoid like 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.240 everybody else, and and it's it was great. I've I 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.360 met them. It came out, did some shows from l 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.200 A and we got to hang out with them, and 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.440 it was really good. Guys. Love hanging out with like 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.280 lifetime radio guys. You know, we all have the same 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.680 wartz that we have to deal with. But my favorite 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.639 part of that show was like during the breaks when 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.679 the producer would be like hey, you know, they tell 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.160 like Andy, hey, Andy, you messed that, or they tell 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.560 Doc They're like, Doc, you messed up something or not 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.720 Doc uh Mike North I came on and call him 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.600 Doc Mike. But because you know, I hear Chicago, I 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.960 think Doc Mike. But there was a Mike. He messed 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.799 something up and then Mike would get excited when they 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.600 tell Andy that he messed up. He loved was the 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.760 greatest thing in the world. But but those guys were 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.679 were wild man, just absolutely crazy. And uh, Mike's doing 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.320 well local Chicago radio now and and he's still on 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.919 Fox Sports Radio and he still does stuff in Cincinnati, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.000 so they're still doing their things, so that's good. Yeah, 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.520 Jonas was the producer for them for a little while, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.639 and he used to tell me some great stories with 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.519 those guys when obviously behind the scenes, off the microphone 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.560 type of stuff. And yeah, half the ship that they 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.160 set off the air would would get them fired to me, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.800 but it was it was wonderful. It was some of 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.440 the some of the rants that they would go on 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.720 were hilarious. And every once in a while, like they 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.720 would say something on the air, they would let one 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.519 slip past the goaltender and be like, oha, wait a minute, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.639 called into the principal's office. There that's a problem that's 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.840 a bad job. So coming up on today's edition of 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.160 the podcast, we have a we did pop quiz yesterday, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.560 we did study this yesterday. Today we have the inbox. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.119 But before we get to the inbox, we begin with 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.120 don't stick to sports. These are the bizarro stories of 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.200 the week. What is on the menu? Hear Gaestcard, this 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.240 is your playground. What's on the menu? Well, I think 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.080 the first thing we need to acknowledge is that month 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.880 to date, band we're up nine in total downloads. That 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.720 is absolutely amazing, pretty good. How awesome is that? That 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.160 is good? Of course we're doing two extra shows a week, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.720 so at the point that we might be. But even 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.840 during the NFL season, we didn't see this kind of 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.040 outreach downloads. Wild man, I'm I'm I'm getting it. You 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.119 know the radio show. More people are listening now than ever. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.400 They're watching you too. It's amazing. I think I think that. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.920 I think it's such. I think it's like it's fascinating 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.760 that you're putting yourself out there. I really encouraged by 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.920 the uh, the type of nature that you've gone about this. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.960 They're showing my masculinity you're doing you have got a 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.120 lot of cestosterone. Yeah, I have. And I like to 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.160 show people that you're machismo, that the real extrovert coming 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.600 into this. Now you're progressive, you have that vision. That's uh, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:45.000 it's fascinating. Um, other stick you'd like to to spit 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.880 out of your mouth. There's your routine over or you've 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.680 got more rhetoric. I got more rhetoric. But how about this, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:56.440 Um Minneapolis, Minnesota. You've you've visited there right, only the 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.600 airport a few times, only the air But I need 0:04:58.640 --> 0:04:59.960 to go out. I need to go I was planning 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.280 on going to Minnesota this year. I was gonna do Minnesota, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.080 do a Millard meet and greet in the Twin Cities. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.479 We had Vegas this weekend. We were supposed to be 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.080 in Vegas hanging out with Queen rocks In and some 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.000 of the other big stars Robin Vegas and yeah, I 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.440 think Jay Scoop was gonna come down from Seattle, some 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.000 of the big stars of the mall um wish We're 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.320 gonna unite and have an NFL draft party. Yeah that sucks. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.160 That did not happen obviously, so but yeah, I gotta 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:24.960 get to Minnesota hang out. We had so many great 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.160 listeners in Minnesota that are big fans of the show. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.320 But I have not done much traveling around Minnesota. What 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.839 what do we need to know about Minnia. The reason 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.680 why I bring that up is because of this. A 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.880 man led police in a high speed chase on the 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:42.880 Indiana Toll Road, reportedly because he said he thought troopers 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.600 wanted to race him. This is last night or a 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.240 couple of nights ago, excuse me, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Man 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.920 found himself. He went to jail for not stopping when 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.560 Indiana State troopers were on pursuit of him. And uh, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.000 it happened to the guys from Minnesota, but this happened 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:03.560 in Indiana. Yeah, okay, so uh it's happened right around 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.440 nine ten o'clock at night too. And he was he 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.080 was not toxicated. But he basically went from the crossover, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.600 uh near the ninety six mile marker on the Indiana 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.760 Toll Road and police observed him in his Mustang. He 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.480 was driving a hundred and twenty miles per hour on 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.760 the understate. You're going seventy miles, bro, that's the maximum 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.000 speed limits. So what's the fastest you've driven in late 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:35.479 night hours? There? I will acknowledge a hundred and sixteen. Yeah. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.320 I once I get over, like ve, I started freaking 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.400 out because I'm like, if one thing fucking goes wrong here, yeah, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.479 it's lights out, parties over, you're dead. Um. We just 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.960 saw that with that NFL player right that died. He 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.920 was speeding, they said, and that led to oh yeah, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:58.920 was it to Various Jackson? Uh to Various? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.240 exactly exactly. Um I drove. I think the speed that 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.160 was in with that was an old school Honda prelude. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.920 I don't know if you remember those cars, but had 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.560 our next girl from back in the day that owned 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.920 one before, um, I would have been smoke and uh yeah, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.320 I hit the accelerator a little too hard. But anyways, Yeah, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.400 can you imagine you're having a hundred twenty miles per 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:22.560 hour on an interstate I can imagine thinking, hey, there's 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.440 nobody around. But that was at nine o'clock at night, right, Yeah, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.320 one thing like in the middle of the night, But 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.360 what the heck, what's going on? Yeah? Pretty nice thing 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.600 about this though, is he was pretty elusive with what 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.320 he was doing. Um they were pursuing him, and he 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.000 also was able to avoid not only the pursuit, but 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:43.240 those stop sticks that assisted troopers. Um. They had him 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.520 set up on the on the interstate and he was 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.840 able to turn off a couple of different times and 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.400 then get back on the road. So um, little Bonnie 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.320 and Cloude action, that's pretty nice. Wow, that's wow. Man, 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:55.880 that's good. That's a good thing to tell the police. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.640 Those you know, I thought you just guys want to race, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.240 you know, fust this thin could go by, not wait 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.360 to do it? Um. I know some of your listeners 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.360 get a little loose with their lips on the radio 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.960 with you all the time. How many of them are 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.480 pretty active on social media too? Uh well, a lot 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.800 of these guys get blocked. They have to change accounts 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.640 and all that stuff. It's it's an endless struggle most 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.200 of them. All right. Well, New York Daily Post is 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.800 reporting a new study that's out there that Daily Post 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.480 or the Daily News. No New York Post. I thought 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.720 you said, you said Daily Post you can find sorry 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.320 New York Post. Um, they have a new study out 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.040 that's that's been prevalent with the coronavirus, that's sexting as 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.559 skyrocketed with the stay at home orders in place, right 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:48.000 now so not only sexting, but also tweets um for 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.640 dudes looking for for nudes and also guys that are 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.560 shipping off crank pis to to the females. Reportedly, the 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.360 study has it it's an increase of two and it's 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.800 gonna three hundred and eighty four percent from the beginning 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.880 of March to where we're at in April right now? 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.240 Is that right? But that look at that way to go? 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.360 How about that? Everybody? You got nothing else to do? 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.360 So send the photos around? Why not? That makes sense? Now? 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.000 When you're when that in porn consumption must be through 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.760 the roof on the Porner website. Have they gone I don't. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.599 I haven't looked recently, guest, and you look at that 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.280 stuff all the time at porn. Have they gone to 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.240 coronavirus theme porn where the women are wearing masks and 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.280 all that? Yet? Not? Yeah, that's that's gonna be a 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.920 new S and M category. And but I'm sure they'll 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.640 come to, uh, to a porn studio near you we live, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.360 because when we got a couple got a couple of 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.600 cities here that are known for a Chatsworth is one right? Uh? Well, yeah, 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:50.520 Chatsworth is thenecca. That's the Vegas is the gambling mecca. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.160 Chatsworth is the porno mecca. That's where I think they 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:00.320 still all live in either Chatsworth or adjacent to Chatsworth. Yeah. Yeah, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.679 they still do a lot of that. So and you 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.040 you worked in porn for several years. That's how you 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.360 got your start in media. You were a porn actor 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.120 for many years from porn, went from I went from 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:19.480 porn to sports talk radio very similar exactly. Be sure 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.240 to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.800 at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.559 Radio and the I Heart Radio app. How about this. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.360 A man in Louisiana is a little piste off because 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.160 he received the stimulus check. Ben. It's not for the 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.360 reason you think. He was mad that he had not 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.920 received the full amount, so he set his mom's shed 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:48.240 on fire. It seems reasonable. Man. Yeah, one year old 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.480 man was so mad last week that he lit his 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.080 mother's shed on fire. That's according to Louisiana Oppoe State Police. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.240 Uh saying that so special. Shoutout this time of the 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.040 year when you need your taxpayer dollars. Coming back to 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.160 you and you say it's not enough. I need a 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.560 little bit more. Mom, Mom, where am I at? That's 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.720 not unhinge at all. That's I think most normal rational 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.920 people be like, hey, you know, that's like, what was 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.360 that movie Stepbrothers. That's like something that would happen in 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.079 that movie Stepbrothers and another Stepbrothers. Move by the way, 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.560 you've been watching You've been watching what the Sopranos? Yeah, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.959 that's been my thing here, going back through the Sopranos 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.720 and catching up on those shows and watching documentaries that's 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.480 mostly would have been doing. Yeah, fair enough. Um, how 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.199 about this here in Los Angeles, a former pharmacy technician 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:41.439 has been charged with stealing antimillaria tablets. Really yeah, it's 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.120 the city of Torrance. It's right next to me in 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.880 the South Bay. He was charging two filony counts. Probably 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.280 know the second degree burglary, No, I don't. I looked. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.440 Everyone works to the four or five knows, everyone wants 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.560 to the four or five us all hang out together, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.439 you little bougie parties and all that stuff. I'd like 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.160 to call that Manhattan Beach. You know Ata Monica, I know, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.640 I know Marina del Ray, I know the whole thing 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:11.000 at all, Venice, Beverly Hills, nothing, Malibu, Malibu boo. Yeah, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.560 the guys stole more than Laguda Beach, the Lagoda Beaches 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.240 not what a you're talking about? The west of the 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.120 four oh five. It's southeast there, your dad. It's still 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.760 west of the four. Four or five ends in Irvine, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.920 and Lagoda Beach is just west of where the four 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.559 or five in. Wow. The four or five is shaped 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.800 like an s. You can get there's an off ramp 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.520 you get off of. Yeah, but that's off the four 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:41.000 oh five, So screw you. Anyways, this guy stole more 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.440 than seven hundred tablets of cloroquinn um a few days ago. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.280 Obviously was pot for that. I thought he could get 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.719 away with it. He thought he was. It was a 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.640 perfect crime. He tried anyway at um. The total value 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.480 of those tablets nearly seven thousand dollars. So he's facing 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.439 a maximum four years and four months in jail. I 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.360 hope he enjoys that. I hope he enjoys that. Good luck. 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.400 They're like, there's a black market for that, like you 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.920 have to sell. I used to have a friend in 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:15.439 San Diego that would get viagra from his doctor and 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.240 sell it to people for twenty five dollars a pill. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:26.199 Is that dollars a fucking pill? Yes? Wow, believable. I 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:31.120 mean the whatever people take, like any kind of narcotic 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.000 that's labeled on the you know you need the prescription 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:39.160 for people will pay a healthy amount. Viagra dolls. I 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.000 get you something you need it. I'm good? Are you well? 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.080 I know you? I know you have a lot though, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.640 I mean you use it every every weekend. You got 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.400 plenty there. Yeah, and I never leave the city of 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:54.000 Los Angeles. Um are you? Are you? Are you armed? 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.760 I am armed and dangerous. I got guns, I got diflects. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.079 These are guns I got right here. I bring that 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.400 up because of this there's um there's new artificial intelligence 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:11.679 that's out there by a professor up in northern California, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.440 was a graduate of cal Berkeley UM. The device, which 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.640 was in the m I T Technology Technology Review, actually 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.920 has artificial intelligence that can monitor people's movements when they're 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.280 out on the streets and detect that they're keeping in 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:33.880 close are far enough proximity? Do the coronavirus outbreak? This 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:40.360 is George orwell night for big brother Big brothers watching you? 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.560 How you dealing with that. I don't care this, and 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.800 you know what, it doesn't bother me. I don't as 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.720 long as they don't like arrest me. That would be 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.200 uh that. You know, I don't like fascism and all that. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.960 But there you go. Well it's just your your civil 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.200 liberties been. I mean, you don't want me looked upon? No, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.840 I don't want to be looking of course, nobody wants 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:01.200 to be looked upon. Who wants to be looked upon? 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.200 Nobody wants to be looked upon. It's obvious. I just 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.000 saw the story A man has eating six hundred cheese 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.920 steaks in the last two years and the coronavirus is 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.760 not stopping him. What was the last time you had 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.520 a cheese steak? Well, I had a homemade cheese steak 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.560 which was fucking amazing, and I probably will make one 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.480 neither today or in the next couple of days. I 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.840 love the cheese steak. It is the number one sandwich. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.680 It is the most great. I mean that guy Fats, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.480 it was Fats in Philly. Is he the guy that 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.960 ate the six hundred cheese steaks? This guy's fifty seven 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.560 years old and he lives in Philadelphia, though, right that's 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.160 if you live in Philadelphia. When in Rome, act like 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.480 a Rome, do as the Romans. When in Philadelphia, do 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.720 as the Philadelphias. And I agree. If you live in 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.360 the Delaware Valley you eat five hundred seventy eight cheese steaks, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.760 why not, that's Philadelphia. You You're not really having a 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.240 proper Philly Chase steak where you're at in the I am. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.400 I I have. I'll tell you why. Because I get 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.360 the bread. I go there's a smart and Final market 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.880 that has the rolls from Philadelphia. I get the authentic 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:07.560 pro bolone cheese. I get the thin, thin sliced ribby, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.400 and then I chop up the onions and the bell 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.960 peppers and all that and then mix it all together. Yeah, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.960 you can't tell me. I don't know. I've been to 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.560 Philadelphia and eating the real thing. I've eaten the authentic 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.680 cheese steaks, so I know what the real cheese steak 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.320 taste like, and I can make a good knockoff version 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.760 of the cheese steaks. Cooking is not that good. I 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:31.560 want to point out the gut what's wrong. That's gonna 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.440 be deleted on the podcast. Right. My cooking is great. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.080 I've actually gone to the cheese steak place, and I've 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.280 watched how they make the cheese like. I've looked at 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.400 like I have the same. I even bought. This is 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.920 how in the cheese steak. I got a griddle. I 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.760 bought a griddle. I put on the barbecue and I 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.280 got the same You know that flipper, that pie flipper thing. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.160 I got that. That's how they make the cheese steak, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:56.920 and that's how they chop up the ribbon I got. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.840 I got the same tools. I'm qualified. Once this radio 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.840 doesn't work out anymore, I could make cheesesteaks for a living. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.439 I would trust Blind Scott on a phone call more 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.000 than I trust you cooking. I don't start with that 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.200 guy that he just spanned my inbox this week. I don't. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.240 I don't want to talk about him. A nightmare. That 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.040 guy has turned out to be the last week. He 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.080 needs to snap out of that quick. I got a 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.760 lot of uh I since the purge, there's a lot 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.800 of people that really sucked up to you. They're now 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.760 coming to to the good side here, and uh I 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.040 just want to let them know that I'm a good, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.320 capable shoulder of the cry on. So if you need 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.480 any talking through and Ben's being mean to you. You 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.520 come over, make sure to give you a following. Another 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.440 night in shining armor there, David Gascon, all right, night 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:46.200 and shining on the damsel in distress yet again, what 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.359 a hero. I don't think you have any damsels? Do 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.520 many beautiful damsels, and apparently they're all in distress. According 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.400 to you, they're all in distress. That's what we got 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.200 for not sticking to sports. All right, let's go to 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.040 the mail bag. These are actual questions from actual listeners. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.880 Will get right into it. We will not waste any time. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.359 No lollygaggy, no grab bass. This is from Matt in Mansfield, Texas. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.040 He says, Guys, I'm getting used to seeing and hearing 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.399 people in the media broadcast from separate places rather than 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.480 being in a studio together. Do you think that this 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:20.479 will continue post shutdown? And to what extent? So from 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.160 Matt in Mansfields, Texas. Well, that's a great question, Matt, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.560 and I know there's some people in radio that I've 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.479 dealt with that are very concerned that this is going 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.720 to become the new permanent, not the new normal, just 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:35.760 the new permanent. I am optimistic that it's not going 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.159 to be like this. I got like that. As I 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:38.879 said in an earlier episode, I would like to do 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.200 the show occasionally from home, even when things get back 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.359 to normal, but I still would rather go into the 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.399 radio station. And I got into radio to go into 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.040 the radio station. But I do think that some broadcast 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.800 companies will say, hey, we can save money. Costs a 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.960 lot of money to put those TV studios together. It 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.280 was a lot of money for the radio studios, the 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.920 infrastructure and all that stuff. And if you can sit 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.320 save that by not having the people actually go there 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.040 and still have the product. A lot of people who 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.239 are frugal trying to cut corners will be like, hey, 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.320 that's the way to do it. We can save some money. Now, 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.320 there are hosts of Fox Sports Rael that do come 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.400 into the student to do their show. Why have you not, Well, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.120 I'm glad you have. Scott Shapiro told me that under 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.520 the California guidelines and the federal guidelines and all that 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.480 stuff that they the I Heart Media Mandate was for 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.480 most of their talent to work from home. And I 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:34.040 was on the list of important integral talent essential that 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:35.720 needed to work from home. And I don't know what's 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.400 going on with the other guys. I you can ask 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.320 them if you want, I can give you their phone numbers. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:40.680 I don't know who you're referring to, but if you 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.119 want to talk to any of them and you know, 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.640 say why are you coming into work? And you're free 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.680 to do that. But uh, that that's my situation. I 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.639 was asked by management to not come in for an 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.199 extended period until this is done, and so I'm following 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.320 instructions not to answer Matt's question too. A lot of 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.800 college networks actually do this, are ready, they've been doing 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.680 it for several years, Like the Pac twelve and the 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.560 Big ten do it where they'll have their home operations 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.160 taking place at their network sites. They'll have different edit 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.399 base for producers and graphics and a director and a 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.720 producer that all camp out there, and sometimes they'll even 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.000 have the broadcasters in those same edit bays, and all 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.600 they'll do is they'll take an internet feed from the 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:30.120 actual campus with two or three videographers or static cameras, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.120 and then that's how they broadcast the games. So yeah, 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.040 when you think about condensing and having these things brought 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:41.240 down a little bit, it makes sense. On to certain degrees. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.240 But yeah, like you said, Ben, it's just something intimate 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.439 and great about being in the studio where you can 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.520 actually like work with everybody in here. I know you 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.280 don't like to work with everybody that you work with, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.440 but being here in the same building and just adds 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.320 a little bit different of an element as opposed to 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.680 working at home on your backside with most most people, 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.600 those that watched like television news, you want to see 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:04.960 the anchors side by side on the set, you know, 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.399 that's what. You don't want to see them in their kitchen, 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:14.160 in their living room and all that. Alright, Mike from Boston, Right, guys, 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:22.240 why did the Pilgrims have buckles on their hats? Then? Um, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.320 I guess they probably had extra buckles and they thought 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.159 it was like a fashion statement. They're like, hey, why 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.640 not be sure to catch live editions of The Ben 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.160