Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: back at it on a Saturday, Saturday Saturday, another piping
Speaker 1: hot edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and
Speaker 1: gascon Free, not sullyed by anyone west of the four
Speaker 1: or five. It is a one man band. The podcast
Speaker 1: must go on no matter what, unless it actually doesn't
Speaker 1: have to go on. But we do this as a
Speaker 1: labor of love, eight days a week, because four hours
Speaker 1: a night, five nights a week clearly not enough. The
Speaker 1: podcast studio which is right next to the radio studio
Speaker 1: deep in the north Woods, and I do thank you
Speaker 1: for supporting the podcast. And now the podcast has done
Speaker 1: so well that management gets very upset if we do
Speaker 1: not have a piping hot edition of the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: podcast on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. So uh we provide
Speaker 1: them and please keep that up. That that helps out
Speaker 1: the show in a large way, and you guys have
Speaker 1: been doing a great job at that. So on this
Speaker 1: edition of the podcast, we have the title of it
Speaker 1: should be Revenge of the Nerds. Revenge of the Nerds,
Speaker 1: we have that. We also have It's a downhill race,
Speaker 1: passing in the night and whatever else pops up along
Speaker 1: the way. On this edition of The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben mat Now, before we get to Revenge of the Nerds,
Speaker 1: I would like to tell you about Cameo. This is
Speaker 1: not a commercial for Cameo. I am not being paid
Speaker 1: to tell you about Cameo. I just had a funny
Speaker 1: story I thought you'd appreciate. So this podcast, The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour is dedicated to the extreme fan of the show.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of casual listeners of the show, and
Speaker 1: we have the hardcore, passionate listenership that is through and
Speaker 1: through a really buys into what we do. And boy,
Speaker 1: I thank you for that. And some of the biggest
Speaker 1: fans of the show, I want to take you to
Speaker 1: the next level and they want to get on Cameo
Speaker 1: and and I will do a personalized Mallard monologue. We
Speaker 1: don't do shout outs on the radio, but we do
Speaker 1: do them on cameo. And so I got a cameo
Speaker 1: request the other day. I'm gonna tell you the story
Speaker 1: briefly here I won't bore you, and if I bore you,
Speaker 1: just fast forward through the podcast. So I got a
Speaker 1: cameo request. I don't usually promote cameo that much, and
Speaker 1: so there's certain times of the year randomly I'll get
Speaker 1: a bunch of cameo requests and then other times I'll
Speaker 1: get none. And I'm fine with that. It's there. It's
Speaker 1: something that if you you want it, that's great. Um
Speaker 1: there's some people on that website cameo that are making
Speaker 1: their living off that, and good for them. Those are
Speaker 1: also TV people and movie people. The cast of the Office,
Speaker 1: for example, does very well. A lot of people who
Speaker 1: grew up watching The Office now are all they're all
Speaker 1: grown up and they have a lot of disposable income,
Speaker 1: liquid liquid money to toss around, so they love their
Speaker 1: their cameo. Now, we have a little bit of a
Speaker 1: smaller reach on cameo, but I did get a request
Speaker 1: from a super duper p one and I will not
Speaker 1: reveal the gentleman's name. Because it was a private cameo.
Speaker 1: But this is a gentleman served in the United States Marines,
Speaker 1: and he's a big fan. He's got a little insomnia,
Speaker 1: and so he made the request, and I I felt like,
Speaker 1: this is a special thing. You know, when you go
Speaker 1: out of your way to to pay a little bit
Speaker 1: of money on cameo, I want to give you your
Speaker 1: money's worth. So I did the cameo. He wanted a
Speaker 1: little pep talk, and I gave him a win one
Speaker 1: for the gipper type speech unless I didn't, but I
Speaker 1: gave what I thought was a decent pep talk. And
Speaker 1: it's really up to him whether he liked it or not.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the reason I'm telling the story, get to
Speaker 1: the point. Please all right, I will get to the point.
Speaker 1: So the reason I told the story or to you,
Speaker 1: am telling you right now, is because I did the
Speaker 1: cameo in the studio. I do these things usually in
Speaker 1: the studio, I have all the equipment of a camera.
Speaker 1: We record the monologues for YouTube for the company, and
Speaker 1: so I did the cameo kind of like I do
Speaker 1: this podcast or I do the radio show, and the
Speaker 1: same share the same podcast microphone that I use and
Speaker 1: I just let it rip. I just let rip and
Speaker 1: and so I sent the cameo and you have to
Speaker 1: uply upload the cameo on my end. My job is
Speaker 1: pretty simple. Do the cameo, upload the cameo, Boom done.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, the dumbest person on the block could
Speaker 1: do it. It's not that hard. So anyway, I clicked
Speaker 1: the button on the cameo app, and I send the
Speaker 1: video to the gentleman who's a big fan and I'm
Speaker 1: here to cheer him up. And it was a special request.
Speaker 1: It is a twenty four hour request. You gotta pay
Speaker 1: a little extra for that. Um. And so I did it.
Speaker 1: And anyway, long story even longer. Why not, it's a podcast.
Speaker 1: So I I forgot about it. I got a message
Speaker 1: on my phone like two hours later saying that I
Speaker 1: had not actually posted the cameo, and I said, what
Speaker 1: what the hell? You know? I know, I did it.
Speaker 1: I did the thing, and I clicked the button and
Speaker 1: it said it was uploading. And so I then tried
Speaker 1: to upload it again. I noticed that it had not uploaded.
Speaker 1: The message was correct. So I clicked the upload button
Speaker 1: on the cameo and I said, that's it. Okay, I'm good.
Speaker 1: And then about fifteen minutes later I checked and again
Speaker 1: it had not uploaded, and so I was like, what
Speaker 1: the hell. So then I had to contact my rep
Speaker 1: at Cameo and say, hey, I did the cameo. I
Speaker 1: followed the instructions, I clicked the send button on said cameo,
Speaker 1: and what the heck is going on here? So they're
Speaker 1: very polite, good customer service, much better customer service than
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of people a lot of places
Speaker 1: I've talked you over the years, and and so anyway,
Speaker 1: they got right back to me and they, you know,
Speaker 1: said that, you know whatever, it had been fixed. So
Speaker 1: it turns out I've been doing cameo wrong. I'm bad
Speaker 1: at cameo. They told me the average cameo that people request,
Speaker 1: and and I'm on the very low end of this.
Speaker 1: I'm nobody. I'm an overnight guy. Who am I? But
Speaker 1: some of these big TV stars and these movie stars
Speaker 1: that are on there that that people loving athletes the
Speaker 1: average cameo. You want to take a guess how long
Speaker 1: the average cameo is? You gotta guess, Yeah, how about
Speaker 1: one minute? One minute? For example, if you're listening to
Speaker 1: me right now, and you've listened to the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the podcast till now you've already you would have
Speaker 1: heard over six almost seven cameos by now right, you know,
Speaker 1: not even including the commercials. But the commercials is probably longer.
Speaker 1: But the actual time of me talking on the fifth
Speaker 1: hour podcast here is about now. It's up to seven,
Speaker 1: give or take seven cameos. So anyway, my cameo to
Speaker 1: this gentleman was, I think over seven minutes long, like
Speaker 1: usually there are five. I try to do four or
Speaker 1: five six minutes somewhere and there I went along on
Speaker 1: the pep Talk one. So I have been doing too
Speaker 1: much on the cameo. But screw cameo. I like, I
Speaker 1: like doing these things, you know, from time to time.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do too many of them, but
Speaker 1: I also don't want to do them too short. I
Speaker 1: think like one minute. It's like, you know, that's nothing, man.
Speaker 1: I do four hours a night and plus an extra
Speaker 1: three hours on the weekend. But twenty hours a week
Speaker 1: plus the three hours or more sometimes we go avery
Speaker 1: longer on the weekend. So that is the the brief
Speaker 1: cameos story, which turned into the Extended Dance remix. Now
Speaker 1: moving on the Revenge of the Nerds, The Revenge of
Speaker 1: the Nerds, this being the Saturday podcast, which means the
Speaker 1: life of Mallard. How boring is that? So during the
Speaker 1: standard Mallard monolg we do four monologues a night. The
Speaker 1: the a block of every hour is a monologue. I
Speaker 1: can't guarantee it's gonna be a good monologue. And I
Speaker 1: try to do a different monologue every hour during those monologues,
Speaker 1: mainly because I get bored. Mainly because I get bored.
Speaker 1: And good programming directors will tell you that you should
Speaker 1: only do one topic radio and just keep repeating the
Speaker 1: one topic, because the average radio listener does not listen
Speaker 1: for more than a few minutes. Therefore, I'm actually doing
Speaker 1: four times the work that I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1: And and I've had programmed reactors tell me, why not
Speaker 1: just do one topic and just repeat it. And a
Speaker 1: lot of afternoon shows and morning drive shows they'll do
Speaker 1: like two different topics, one hour on one thing and
Speaker 1: an hour or another. And they do that because there's
Speaker 1: this sweet spot, the sweet spot on radio where it's
Speaker 1: like the prime rush hour. So the first two hours
Speaker 1: like the warm up act. It's like a lounge act.
Speaker 1: You're testing out material. I'll give you the inside radio.
Speaker 1: So you're testing out material and whatever really clicked, whatever
Speaker 1: really resonated at least among the staff of the show,
Speaker 1: the producer, of the board, op the host that then
Speaker 1: gets regurgitated in the prime hour. Because most radio shows
Speaker 1: are three hours. I do four, but most shows are
Speaker 1: three hours, and that's kind of the standards become the
Speaker 1: standard now. And so you do an hour warm up,
Speaker 1: try something, an hour, another hour on something else, and
Speaker 1: then which everyone works your third hour. You put it
Speaker 1: all together. So we do the Mallon. Will said, I've
Speaker 1: been known to take gratuitous cheap shots at Brainiac's. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not that bright, you know, I'm pretty dumb. I'm
Speaker 1: doing radio, so I like to take my under the
Speaker 1: table backhanded shots. Baseball executives we call super nerds. The
Speaker 1: people that run the baseball franchises are the chief nerd.
Speaker 1: We've got the geeks, the point dexters, you name it,
Speaker 1: the Ivy League crowd, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So this week
Speaker 1: I got my come upp It's this is a global exclusive.
Speaker 1: No one else has this content, no one else has
Speaker 1: this content content. If I could talk, that would help.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing the radio show per normal. I'm shouting,
Speaker 1: I'm yelling, I'm enthusiastically screaming like a crazy person in
Speaker 1: a studio by myself, per normal. It is near the
Speaker 1: end of the Wednesday show, Eddie says that, hey, I'd
Speaker 1: like to get a nice photo. So we got the
Speaker 1: crew together in the main studio. And typically we are
Speaker 1: not together. I'm in the home studio and most of
Speaker 1: the time now as I am right now doing this podcast,
Speaker 1: so this was a rare and appropriate opportunity to get
Speaker 1: a photo. So, okay, let's do some photos. So in walks,
Speaker 1: Eddie in walks, Robert to in walks the Coop de
Speaker 1: loop and we're all there. The team is altogether, we
Speaker 1: formed Voltron ready for a little photo. So then lead
Speaker 1: a Lap comes over, the producer of the morning show.
Speaker 1: He's in the building. He comes over, he's the he's
Speaker 1: the camera guy. Now during the flash mob photos session,
Speaker 1: I do what I do most of the time. I
Speaker 1: do not like the way I look in glasses. I
Speaker 1: don't I need them because my parents gave me some
Speaker 1: very bad eyes, which you know I'm fine with. I
Speaker 1: love them to death, but they did not give me
Speaker 1: the good jeans on the eyes. So I I have bifocals,
Speaker 1: and I take my bifocals off, and I usually put
Speaker 1: them either on my my shirt or I'll put them
Speaker 1: in my pocket and uh. In this case, I put
Speaker 1: the eyeglasses in my pocket. It's my right pocket. In
Speaker 1: my right pocket, I had a set of car keys.
Speaker 1: So I took the picture. Of the picture came out okay, fine,
Speaker 1: and then I had to rush back to the chair
Speaker 1: because it was about time to talk. The on air
Speaker 1: light was coming on, so no time for grab bass.
Speaker 1: So I sat down real fast, and then I reached
Speaker 1: into my pocket to get the glasses out to put
Speaker 1: them back on so I could read some comments from
Speaker 1: you on Twitter and also the screen the call screener
Speaker 1: that we had. So I reached into my my right
Speaker 1: pocket with my right hand. I'm right handed, and much
Speaker 1: to my surprise, the glasses come out and there's there's
Speaker 1: a there's two different parts of the glasses. I now
Speaker 1: have a matching set, the right part and the left part.
Speaker 1: I have Jack and Jill his and hers classes, which
Speaker 1: would not have been a problem if that was the
Speaker 1: way they were supposed to be right. It wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been an issue if I did not have another couple
Speaker 1: of segments of radio to do and I had to
Speaker 1: finish the show, and as they say in show businesses,
Speaker 1: show must go on. My vision clearly is not that great.
Speaker 1: It's okay from a distance. My reading is not good.
Speaker 1: I had a website for years, Ben mallary dot com
Speaker 1: and it it did not go you know, it went well, actually,
Speaker 1: but I it didn't go well. My vision didn't go well.
Speaker 1: So I've I've had two jobs that have left up.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have a real real job, like
Speaker 1: you know, if you work as a contractor or a
Speaker 1: garbage person or something construction, some thing with physical activity,
Speaker 1: that's like a real job. You're gonna factory, right, You're you're,
Speaker 1: you're more You've got more of a cheesemo than me.
Speaker 1: But I do have the side effects of radio and
Speaker 1: the internet job that I had is my hearing is
Speaker 1: terrible because of the radio the headphones, and the vision
Speaker 1: is pretty shitty. And that is a byproduct of my
Speaker 1: parents inheriting some bad vision. They both wore glasses, but
Speaker 1: also just being in front of computers, just being in
Speaker 1: front of computers and monitors and things many hours a
Speaker 1: day to get ready to do the show, to do
Speaker 1: the show and all that stuff. So anyway, getting back
Speaker 1: to the story, So I've now broken my glasses. I've
Speaker 1: got to finish the show. That was only the start
Speaker 1: of my problem, and I didn't realize at the time,
Speaker 1: but my vision, as I said, not that great. I
Speaker 1: really need the glasses to drive right, So I have
Speaker 1: to have the glasses. Well, I was in studio, have
Speaker 1: a long drive home. I moved very far away from
Speaker 1: the studios, the main studios in Sherman Oaks in southern California,
Speaker 1: on the corner of Sepulvida Inventura and the beautiful San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley. So I moved very far away. And that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I don't come in that often
Speaker 1: because I'm not close to the studio and Los Angeles
Speaker 1: traffic even working my shift is terrible, at least half
Speaker 1: of it's terrible. So I'm like, what am I gonna do.
Speaker 1: I can't drive home without the glasses. I guess I could,
Speaker 1: but that's a little bit of risky. As Bruce Arian says,
Speaker 1: no risk it, no biscuit. So I'm talking to Roberto.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, Roberto, look what happened. And I pull
Speaker 1: out the glasses, the half the right and the left
Speaker 1: half of my glass. I throw him down on the
Speaker 1: table right in front of Roberto. Roberto looks at him
Speaker 1: and he smiles. He's always smiling, Roberto, and he says,
Speaker 1: you gotta go, curt Rambis. You gotta go, curt Rambis
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, n b A. And I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: You're damn right, I gotta do that. And so that's
Speaker 1: exactly what I did. And then I went into the
Speaker 1: newsroom the update studio where Eddie works, and I'm chatting
Speaker 1: with Eddie, catching up on life and whatnot. And so
Speaker 1: Eddie then helped me and he held the glasses together.
Speaker 1: I then took Scotch tape and proceeded to scotch tape,
Speaker 1: said glasses together right in the middle, and I put
Speaker 1: them on and went out to my car. The it's
Speaker 1: really my Halloween costume. Like all all I was missing
Speaker 1: was the pocket protector and I had a full point
Speaker 1: dexter look instant nerd kit mill think Mill House from
Speaker 1: The Simpsons, Dwight in the office. The it's pat movies, Napoleon,
Speaker 1: Dynamite and of those nerd emoji. So anyway, I do
Speaker 1: have a backup play a pair of glasses. I was
Speaker 1: able to get those, but it is off to Costco.
Speaker 1: We go for a new pair of bifocals. Get out
Speaker 1: the credit card, Grandma. These things aren't cheap. These are
Speaker 1: prescription glasses. Holy Moses, that's gonna be a pricey one. Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on, it is a down hill race. What is
Speaker 1: this all about? Well again, back at the Mothership this week,
Speaker 1: couple of live shows. We'll have a couple of more shows.
Speaker 1: The upcoming week. I'll be at the National League Championship
Speaker 1: Series when it shifts back to Los Angeles. I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about that. I love playoff baseball. There's an energy
Speaker 1: in the air and it's a lot of fun. So
Speaker 1: this past week I was covering the Dodger Giant sears.
Speaker 1: Goodwin by the Dodgers, great call by the home plate umpire.
Speaker 1: By the way, again, I just want to say that
Speaker 1: on the podcast in case you missed the radio program,
Speaker 1: if you somehow we're not able to tune in. Tremendous
Speaker 1: job by the umpire in the ninth inning. What a call.
Speaker 1: What a call My favorite umpire, Gave Morales, and this
Speaker 1: led us to to remind you there is no official
Speaker 1: definition of a swing. Uh, there is no official definition
Speaker 1: of a swing. The words swing appears in the Official
Speaker 1: Baseball Rules twenty one times, fifteen times, it's in text,
Speaker 1: six times, it's in the index. None of those appearances
Speaker 1: in the Official Baseball rule Book include the definition of
Speaker 1: a swing. It is a judgment call. And in the
Speaker 1: judgment of Gave Morales, that was a good swing by
Speaker 1: Wilma Flores of the Giants against Max Scherzer to end
Speaker 1: the game. And I agree, I agree, good job by you,
Speaker 1: Mr Morales, solid umpire. Anyway, Yeah, I'm getting side checked here.
Speaker 1: Bad job by me. So let me tell you the backstory.
Speaker 1: So I go to the Dodger Giants games in l
Speaker 1: A and even in person, and it's you know, much
Speaker 1: closer to get to the Sherman Oaks studios than the
Speaker 1: Mallard Mansion home studio in the North Wood. So I
Speaker 1: hide tail it out of the ballpark. I have to
Speaker 1: leave right at the final out of the game. I
Speaker 1: leave as late as possible. Sometimes when the game goes long,
Speaker 1: I have to leave early. So I run down the hill.
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium is built in a very hilly area there,
Speaker 1: right overlooking the skyline of downtown l A. So I
Speaker 1: run down the ball game ends, I run down to
Speaker 1: Lot fourteen. That's usually why park, not always, not always.
Speaker 1: We don't believe in momentum on the show, we don't
Speaker 1: believe there is momentum. But in the foot race downhill
Speaker 1: that does exist. And so I'm running out of Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: off the reserve level and sprinting as far as I
Speaker 1: can down the hill. And so if you're one of
Speaker 1: our listeners in Cali, in so Cal, you likely know
Speaker 1: the area. I park real close to the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Fire Department Training Center. It's it's some more. It's named
Speaker 1: after somebod I forget who was named after. But that
Speaker 1: building used to be a Naval and Marine Reserve center.
Speaker 1: It's actually a California Historic Landmark. And they filmed, much
Speaker 1: like everything else in l A. They filmed a bunch
Speaker 1: of TV shows and movies over the years that have
Speaker 1: been filmed there. And what I like about that, You know,
Speaker 1: it's a good reminder because there's a piece of the
Speaker 1: World Trade Center South Tower that is at the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Fire Department Training Center right near Dodger Stadium there,
Speaker 1: and it's a tribute to all of those firefighters. Was
Speaker 1: three firefighters then close to three fifty that died on
Speaker 1: September eleven, which it's crazy that it's been been twenty years.
Speaker 1: But so that that that part kind of knew that,
Speaker 1: and l A sent a bunch of firefighters to help
Speaker 1: out their brothers and sisters in New York. And so
Speaker 1: the people in New York as a gift, sent back
Speaker 1: a piece of the World Trade Center as a memorial.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of cool and it's hidden and all that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: again I'm getting sidetracked. I apologize. It's a podcast, that's
Speaker 1: what this is for. So anyway, that's why I park
Speaker 1: and fun time catching up with a bunch of old friends,
Speaker 1: people I hadn't seen a long time, hadn't been to
Speaker 1: a game, you know, in a while, prior to that
Speaker 1: Dodger Cardinal game that I had gone to. So I
Speaker 1: had been on the Dodger beat from the mid to
Speaker 1: early nineties to the mid two thousands and then I
Speaker 1: go sporadically. But I've been going to games for a
Speaker 1: gazillion years, and I know a lot of the people
Speaker 1: worked behind the people work behind the scenes, but there's
Speaker 1: so many new faces. There's only a handful of people
Speaker 1: that I know really well. There's other people that I
Speaker 1: know a little bit. And I'm not the most social guy.
Speaker 1: I'm an introvert, but just crazy how fast time goes by.
Speaker 1: I was standing right in front of the Dodger dugout
Speaker 1: with a buddy of mine who's worked for the team
Speaker 1: since the nineteen seventies, and he looked out at the
Speaker 1: outfield and I looked at at the outfield, and we
Speaker 1: had sensory overload from all of the advertisements. And I'm
Speaker 1: not against it. I'm not ripping him. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: how different is that the people on the Dodgers, the
Speaker 1: Googenheim group, this hedge fund group, they have squeezed every
Speaker 1: dollar out of that ballpark. And when I started going
Speaker 1: out there, Peter O'Malley owned the team, the O'Malley family
Speaker 1: that had taken the team from Brooklyn, and the spot
Speaker 1: of Walter O'Malley. Peter O'Malley, who was very kind to me.
Speaker 1: Uh And anyway, they didn't have any other advertising and
Speaker 1: there was a seventies six sign for gasoline, and there
Speaker 1: were maybe one or two other ads. I think Farmer
Speaker 1: John hot Dogs, which is not now associated with the
Speaker 1: Dodgers was out there. Um and and then that was it,
Speaker 1: and now it is again sensory overload. The other thing
Speaker 1: that I know I noticed every time I go there,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned running down the hill at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: earlier here, but the parking lots. And that's the other thing.
Speaker 1: Fifty cent of all parking revenue goes to Frank McCord,
Speaker 1: the previous owner of the Dodgers. You're talking about one
Speaker 1: of the great deals. I put that right up there
Speaker 1: that the story. I think this deal ended. But the
Speaker 1: A B A team in St. Louis, the St. Louis Spirit,
Speaker 1: I think they were called their spirits, I think spirit,
Speaker 1: and they made a deal when the A B A
Speaker 1: and the NBA merged. If I remember, and I'm as
Speaker 1: I understand it, maybe I'm wrong and you can correct me.
Speaker 1: I'm just the just a podcast guy now on the
Speaker 1: weekends and an overnight guy. But as I as I
Speaker 1: remember a story, they made a deal of the A
Speaker 1: B A and the NBA merged, there was a fusion
Speaker 1: and the St. Louis team was not included in that,
Speaker 1: and to end a lawsuit, to prevent them from suing,
Speaker 1: they were promised a portion of the NBA television revenue
Speaker 1: like forever, there was no end date. There was no
Speaker 1: expiration date on it. And so the NBA when they
Speaker 1: sliced up their revenue pie for all those years from
Speaker 1: the A B A NBA merger up until a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, the same check that would go to
Speaker 1: the Lakers, Clippers, Nick's, Timberwolves, Rockets, Miami Heat, or Lando Magic,
Speaker 1: Golden State, Wars, whoever, doesn't matter, would go to the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Spirit. They would get a percentage of the national
Speaker 1: television revenue from the NBA TV package. It's an insane
Speaker 1: amount of money. So I am Frank McCort, this guy
Speaker 1: that you're still in the Dodgers. My buddy, you know,
Speaker 1: my buddy was we were talking about how much money
Speaker 1: Once a year the Dodgers have to cut a eck.
Speaker 1: They don't do it every month, but once a year
Speaker 1: they balance the books and determine how much money they
Speaker 1: need to give to Frank McCourt. And it's a it's
Speaker 1: a massive amount of money. As you might imagine. And
Speaker 1: so I was telling my buddy, who has worked for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers since the O'Malley days, and he told me
Speaker 1: something that shocked me. He says, you know what, Ben,
Speaker 1: I I've heard you over the years take shots at
Speaker 1: Frank McCourt, and I do I admit guilty has charged
Speaker 1: He said, you know, I've I've worked for a lot
Speaker 1: of different owners here and this guy works behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: By the way, he said that he does not have
Speaker 1: a bad thing to say about Frank McCort. That Frank McCourt,
Speaker 1: more than anyone else just about that has been around
Speaker 1: there in the ownership side, treated the working stiff, the
Speaker 1: HOI POLOI, the unwashed, behind the scenes better than anyone,
Speaker 1: and that he was a big tipper and he you know,
Speaker 1: those were his guys. He'd like to hang out with him.
Speaker 1: And so the parking lot attending who just collects money
Speaker 1: for money for nothing, money for nothing, turned out not
Speaker 1: a bad guy, at least those that knew him, at
Speaker 1: least those of them. I'll have to tell the story
Speaker 1: sometimes because I actually got to go into the owner's
Speaker 1: office at Dodger Stadium because of Frank mccoory. I got
Speaker 1: called into the carpet, called onto the carpet in the
Speaker 1: in the ownership meeting I had with Frank years ago
Speaker 1: when he was trying to hold on to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: All right, now, passing in the night, passing in the night.
Speaker 1: What is this all about? Well it is it's been net.
Speaker 1: I mentioned, you know, the studio, and I love the
Speaker 1: energy of coming to the studio. I love having a
Speaker 1: radio studio in my home. I never thought I would
Speaker 1: have that. I built a station for w e I
Speaker 1: when I was doing remote broadcast back to Boston, and
Speaker 1: I had that and then New Zealand. I used it
Speaker 1: for my New Zealand broadcast and then I kind of
Speaker 1: got away where I I got let go from Boston.
Speaker 1: I had to leave that job. It was actually my
Speaker 1: decision because I am now picked up by the Sports Hub.
Speaker 1: We've been on the Sports Hub, which is the rival
Speaker 1: of w e I in Boston, so we've been on
Speaker 1: there for a while. Anyway, UM, you just get to
Speaker 1: the point piece please on this. So I've been in
Speaker 1: the studio a little bit recently and it was kind
Speaker 1: of neat because when I get done with my show
Speaker 1: for years working out of that studio. I'd get done,
Speaker 1: the morning show would come on, and the morning show
Speaker 1: was in Chicago or Cincinnati, or Indianapolis or Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Or Milwaukee or New York City anywhere filling the blank.
Speaker 1: It wasn't in Los Angeles at the studio, but now
Speaker 1: it is at least part of it. The morning show
Speaker 1: that follows the Ben Maller Show with Jonas Knox and
Speaker 1: LaVar Arrington and Brady Quinn, A couple of jocks and
Speaker 1: uh a cup of Joe right, something like that, A
Speaker 1: couple of Yeah, I think that's the name. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we had Jonas on the podcast. I forget though. It's
Speaker 1: very early in the morning as I am recording this anyway,
Speaker 1: so it was nice to see the fellows and uh
Speaker 1: me and LaVar. You know, I remember LaVar. We talked
Speaker 1: about him when he was a star in college and
Speaker 1: then with the Washington Redskins and cool guy, cool guy
Speaker 1: catching up with him, and LaVar actually lives. I can't
Speaker 1: say where he lives, but he lives in a place
Speaker 1: I used to live. Of course, he likely lives in
Speaker 1: a bigger house than I lived in. Being and having
Speaker 1: all that NFL money, but we were telling stories about
Speaker 1: the neighborhood and I didn't realize he lived in that area,
Speaker 1: had no idea. And I gotta get LaVar on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I gotta make that happen. Always good to hang out
Speaker 1: with Jonas. Always a good time to see Jonas. We
Speaker 1: go way back, and I remember when Jonas started at
Speaker 1: the company, and that's one of the reasons we got
Speaker 1: him on the podcast. I was like, Hey, Jonas, I man,
Speaker 1: I'm here, why don't we do the podcast? Uh last
Speaker 1: week and um, but most every morning show. We've had
Speaker 1: a lot of morning shows since I started at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio when it began, and I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: how many morning host can I name that followed me
Speaker 1: at one point or another, whether I was the weekend
Speaker 1: host or the uh, the full time host during the
Speaker 1: week Now, Steve's Aben loves Abe. We've been trying to
Speaker 1: get Zabe on the podcast. Zabe is a good radio guy.
Speaker 1: I love radio guys. Steve's Aben. I am a fan
Speaker 1: loves Abe. He was very positive to me early on
Speaker 1: when I started at Fox Sports Radio and I was
Speaker 1: drowning on a nightly basis, and he was very kind
Speaker 1: and The problem we've had getting zabon is logistically he
Speaker 1: does a couple of radio shows a day, does a
Speaker 1: morning show he's part of in Milwaukee, and then he
Speaker 1: does an afternoon type show in d C. And typically
Speaker 1: when he's on would be the windows I record the podcast.
Speaker 1: So we've been able to get him on, but I'd
Speaker 1: love to try to work that out at some point
Speaker 1: have Za on the podcast. Uh, there was a morning show,
Speaker 1: Zack and Jack. If you're a Fox Sports radio historian,
Speaker 1: you might remember that stephen A. Smith. I wonder whatever
Speaker 1: happened to him. Stephen A was one of the morning hosts.
Speaker 1: Now I'm talking about the East Coast morning show. There's
Speaker 1: a West Coast morning show which Tony Bruno hosted and
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick's been doing it for years. Um who else,
Speaker 1: Mike North and Andy Ferman. We've had both those lads
Speaker 1: on Good People, Good Radio Guys. Clay Travis, who's replaced
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh. Can you imagine that replacing the goat Rush Limbaugh?
Speaker 1: And Clay has been doing that. So but it's a
Speaker 1: rare treat. As I was weird, like I had to
Speaker 1: get my stuff and leave and get out of there
Speaker 1: because it's the that's the other show is coming in,
Speaker 1: you know, nip. Typically, when there's no other show in there,
Speaker 1: you can put your feet up and you don't have
Speaker 1: to her. You can take your time, you can pick
Speaker 1: your nose, get a couple of water, do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: you know, grab your ass, it doesn't matter. But when
Speaker 1: there's somebody in there, we only have a few minutes.
Speaker 1: And so that's how that goes. Now, I was gonna
Speaker 1: get to let's get scientifical. I just wanted let me
Speaker 1: give you one story. We don't have a lot of time,
Speaker 1: and we we have more podcasting to do, and there's
Speaker 1: also a Dodger game with the Atlanta Braves today that
Speaker 1: I am distracted. Yeah, you might guess when we're recording
Speaker 1: this anyway, uh live, it's almost live. It's just just
Speaker 1: almost life, just hours before anyway. So the unexpected radio signals,
Speaker 1: I'll give you that because it's kind of radio related
Speaker 1: and this will be our closer. So that's the headline here,
Speaker 1: and what is the story? All right? So the headline
Speaker 1: unexpected radio signals detected in deep space may reveal hidden planets.
Speaker 1: Now may is a classic weasel word. This comes from
Speaker 1: Brisbane Australia. Shout out Ozzy Momentum, Shout out Ozzy Guy
Speaker 1: and these several other proud members of the Mallard Militia
Speaker 1: who are not as well known but live in Australia,
Speaker 1: because in Australia we're not a dope overnight show. We're
Speaker 1: like an evening show. So as anyway, the story comes
Speaker 1: from Queensland University using the world's most powerful radio antenna
Speaker 1: and they have made a discovery surprising radio waves coming
Speaker 1: from distant stars that maybe revealing the presence of undiscovered
Speaker 1: planets in those solar systems. How cool is that. The
Speaker 1: story says that they have discovered signals from nineteen distant
Speaker 1: red dwarf stars, four of which are best explained by
Speaker 1: the existence of planets orbiting them. This comes from someone
Speaker 1: who has studied the planets, the cosmos and and looked
Speaker 1: into all that, and so they that's what they're saying,
Speaker 1: all because of the radio waves. That is cool to
Speaker 1: think about that when we do the terrestrial radio show,
Speaker 1: it gets boomed out into the heavens, into the cosmos
Speaker 1: and in theory, if there is a creature like us
Speaker 1: that has the ability to hear as we know it
Speaker 1: then that said creature would be able to hear the noise.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't likely understand what we're saying, unless there's some
Speaker 1: kind of advanced species of human being. But they just
Speaker 1: hear the sound of blah blah blah blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and interstellar gas
Speaker 1: will be fearing. So actually we could. That could be
Speaker 1: my new nick an interstellar gas man or gas bag.
Speaker 1: Now I am gas bag man here, but providing interstellar
Speaker 1: gas I might have to use that at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour one of these days. Maybe I'll add
Speaker 1: that to my my repertoire, if you will. That's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. So yeah, I I do. We talked about
Speaker 1: this on the podcast before. But I am in the camp.
Speaker 1: There is other life out there. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of life out there. Even if this planet is
Speaker 1: a mistake, that doesn't mean we're the only mistake. There
Speaker 1: are other mistakes, and they're likely crazier and wilder and
Speaker 1: goofier and more outrageous. Whatever you could possibly imagine. It's
Speaker 1: either better or worse than that. Like I look up
Speaker 1: and you know not, I don't do this that oft
Speaker 1: and I work overnight, but then you do too, probably
Speaker 1: if you listen to the radio show. But when I
Speaker 1: have some downtime, maybe on the weekends, and I go
Speaker 1: out and if I'm away from the city lights, and
Speaker 1: I look up in the sky and I look at
Speaker 1: all of those stars, and I say, even if there's
Speaker 1: less than one percent, even if there is less than
Speaker 1: one percent of those planets that have life, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, there is an endless amount. And just thinking
Speaker 1: every star that we see there's like a bunch of
Speaker 1: other planets around it. The math on that is insane. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's have a wonderful rest of your Saturday. If you
Speaker 1: did not catch the Jerome Jeroovich sit that headline sports,
Speaker 1: I love Jerome and that was a great story. He
Speaker 1: told a couple of really good stories on that I
Speaker 1: recommend going back and listening to. Jerome told the story
Speaker 1: about meeting Jolton, Joe DiMaggio Joel did Joe DiMaggio back
Speaker 1: in the day. And also he is most known as
Speaker 1: the CNN guy, and he explained the origin of Jarome
Speaker 1: much how he started saying, and it is a wonderful
Speaker 1: broadcast type behind the scenes story very relatable. Anybody has
Speaker 1: ever done radio for a day or television can relate
Speaker 1: to that, or even a podcast you gotta hit a
Speaker 1: heart out, you gotta hit heart out and Jerome started
Speaker 1: screaming his name in part because of that. You can
Speaker 1: hear him tell the story on the Friday edition of
Speaker 1: the podcast. We'll catch you on Sunday. We'll have a
Speaker 1: big bad mail bag until then. Aloha, mahalo, arriva, der
Speaker 1: Chase say Anara, audio s, muchachos,