1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:01,520 Speaker 1: Kubbooms. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: In the air eywhere for the final time in the 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 1: month of October, the year twenty twenty five. It is 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: I Ben Mahler. We have stumbled and bumbled our way 12 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: inside the Fifth Hour Podcast Studio, the remote podcast studio, 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: as we hang out here together enjoying the fun that 14 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: is weekend podcasting. And today is a rather big day, 15 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: as not only do you have that little Halloween thing, 16 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: you got the little Halloween thing. And then tonight is 17 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: this the last night of the Major League Baseball season? 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: Developing Hot Dot Dot Dot the Dodgers and the Toronto 19 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: Blue Jays. It is own like Donkey Kong from the 20 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: stadium formerly known as SkyDome. You've got Yoshinobu Yamamoto for 21 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: the Dodgers favorite the Dodgers are favored to force a 22 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: Game seven in the World Series. They open up a 23 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: minus one thirty five favorite. They are a little higher 24 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,759 Speaker 1: than that. And where is the money. It's it's Yoshinobu 25 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: Yamato versus the Gossman, Kevin Gossman, the gas Man Gossman. 26 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: That is the matchup at the building known now as 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: the Rogers Center. And most of the cash, most of 28 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: the cash is on the Dodgers. The tickets a little 29 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: more split, although the Dodgers have the edge there. So 30 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: that is the matchup tonight, and we will have a 31 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: complete Malar monologue, win loser, draw. Of course there will 32 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: be no draw, but we'll have that on the Saturday 33 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: edition of the Fifth Hour. One of the as we 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: said last week me and Danny g it's one of 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: the blessings and the curses of doing a weekend podcast. 36 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: You have a platform because that'll be old news. Whatever 37 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: happens tonight will be old news by the time we 38 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 1: get to the next Ben Mahler show. Not to get 39 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: too inside radio, how we make the sausage. You do 40 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: not want to know how we make the sausage. But 41 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: as far as Halloween is concerned, which is the main 42 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: event today, the World series. People will be out doing 43 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: things and all that stuff. Every Halloween, I go down 44 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: the rabbit hole and I look back and say, well, 45 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: where did this all begin? Like what is the origin 46 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: of Halloween? Like how far back does it go? It's 47 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: got pagan origins. We're reminded of that every time we 48 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: look back at what happened. But really it's the se 49 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 1: Eltse who we should thank for what Halloween is today. 50 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: The ancient people now they live where modern day Ireland 51 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: is in northern France, and the UK's Halloween pagan roots 52 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: go back thousands of years to the Celtic fire festival. 53 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: I wonder if that's like the one they have in 54 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: outside Vegas. Well, the fire festival, that's something else, that's 55 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: the daisy something electric light thing. The fire festival was 56 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: the one that was a total disaster and made a 57 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: Netflix documentary back in the day. Anyway, So they recognized 58 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: the end of the harvest season and the start of 59 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: the new year on November first, and so they had 60 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: this big festival. The pagans wore costumes and they lit fires, 61 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: and they had to do that because they wanted to 62 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: keep the bad spirits away. You do not want bad 63 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: spirits to mess around with you. And so that was that, 64 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: and they believed that on October thirty first, today the 65 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: dead returned. The dead return to walk among the living. 66 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: He's zombieish. Wouldn't that be amazing? Though? Imagine if all 67 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: the people that have died like somehow came back and 68 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: it would be like great to see them, But then 69 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: they'd be like, well, what did you do to my sofa? 70 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: You know, I was like my mom she came back 71 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: and being then you messed up my kitchen. That's not 72 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: my mom. You're not here, but I'm back. But I know, 73 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: I I know. I'm glad you're back. But I didn't 74 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: think you'd mind. You didn't think you were going to 75 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: come back. I don't, I don't know. I mean, what 76 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: do you want me to do? Uh? And all that 77 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: and uh and so there you go. Yeah, anyway, moving 78 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: on from that, let's get to the meat of the 79 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: matter on this edition of the Fifth Hour podcast, and 80 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: that would be I got two things for you, and 81 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: then there's some other stuff. I got Benny the Butcher 82 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 1: and chicken soup in a way. In a way, chicken soup, 83 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: So let's start with this. First of all, again, Happy Halloween, Oh, 84 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: Happy Halloween. So you reach a certain agent. I guess 85 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: I'm at that age now. I would assume I'm at 86 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: that age somewhere between. I still know the words to 87 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: every Month to Oh Monsters. I know that. And then 88 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: I look at the candy bowl and I think, boy, 89 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: if I eat that, I'm going to gain all the 90 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: weight I lost back, all of it. Just one bowl 91 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: of delicious butterfinger and Baby Ruth and Snickers bars and 92 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: three Musketeers and it's all gone. And then you start 93 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: to think that the Halloween costume, that's a young person's game, right, 94 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: You got to be a kid to be in a 95 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: Halloween costume, unless, of course, the costume finds you. Welcome 96 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: to my world. That's right, mine did right there, in 97 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: of all places, the kitchen at the Malor Mansion. Right. 98 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: Let me repeat that for the back of the room there. Yeah, 99 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: I found my Halloween costume because it slammed me down 100 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: in many ways. So I was not at spirit Halloween. 101 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: I was not working my way through all the polyester 102 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: cowboys and vampire capes and the natty nurses and all 103 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: that other stuff. I didn't brave Target. My wife likes Target. 104 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: I'm more of a costco guy. I would go to Walmart, 105 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: the endless aisles of synthetic rubber masks and scary fangs 106 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: if you're gonna be Dracula and all that stuff. So no, 107 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: my costume was homemade. It was hand crafted, really hand cut, 108 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: really hand cut, if you want to get precise, because 109 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: on this particular Halloween week, I became Benny the Lime Cook. Now, 110 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: I do like to make I eat one meal a day, 111 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: and I try to eat a good meal and the 112 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: hearty meal, and that gets me through the rest of 113 00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: the day. And I don't need to eat three meals. 114 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: One meal, save a little bit of money, try not 115 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: to get any weight. I have a meal, I have 116 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 1: a snack bowl. That's it. Boom, done, done done. Usually 117 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: eat within half an hour to forty minutes, and the 118 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: rest of the day I don't eat. Well. It turns 119 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: out that Bennie the line cook Moonlight It's got a 120 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: second job, must have gone to Express Pros because I 121 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: got a second job as Benny the Butcher. That's right. 122 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: So let's go back a few days. The Life of Maler, 123 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: the Life of Mouth, that lunch is a singular event. 124 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: My wife goes to work, she's not home. I'm by myself. 125 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: It's me and Moxie, and I usually put Moxie outside 126 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: because if Moxie's inside while I'm eating, Moxie wants to 127 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: join the meal. And normally what I'll do is, if 128 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: I have leftovers, I will then toss them to Moxie 129 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: as an active goodwill. As an active goodwill, so I 130 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: used to eat just like really terrible food. I still 131 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: eat bad food on the weekends, but during the week 132 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: I try to eat somewhat healthy. So on this particular day, 133 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: I had grilled chicken, I had on a spit, we 134 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: had rice. I had rice because I say wee, but 135 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: I had rice, pineapple, love pineapple, some diced onion, and 136 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: some bell pepper. The kind of meal that if you 137 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: had told me when I was twenty years old, I 138 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: would be eating when I'm the age i'm at now. 139 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: I just said, you're full of crap. And it's also 140 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: the kind of meal I think that if you're a nutritionist, 141 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: you would put that on the GRAM and get a 142 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: lot of clout right, a clean fuel and all that stuff. 143 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: Put the eating healthy man look at me now, except 144 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: my meal. Even though it sounded very healthy, it sounded 145 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: very healthy, my meal was not clean false advertising. Now 146 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: we could do a clash parody song, the meal fought 147 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: back and the meal one, The meal fought back and 148 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: the meal one. You see, I misjudged where my knife 149 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: ended and the finger began, which is kind of similar 150 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: to going to Arizona and misjudging where the cliff and 151 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: and the grand Canyon begins. Hello, Hello, it doesn't end well. Now, 152 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: if you ever have that split second where your brain 153 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: lags behind. Have you ever had that? You know what 154 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm talking about? You think that kind that felt kind 155 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: of weird. It didn't feel like it was supposed to feel. 156 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: So I'm cutting the onion and I had that brain 157 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: lag where it's like, what's going on with that? That 158 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: didn't feel quite right, and so I thought, well, it 159 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: must be the onion. Maybe it was a bad onion. 160 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: I didn't examine the onion. I cut the onion, so 161 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: I picked the onion up. At this point, I now 162 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: am inspector gadget. I should update that reference. I am 163 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: imagine me in a lab code. I'm working on CSI right, 164 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: it's better than Inspector Gadget, although I like Inspector Gadget 165 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: more than CSI. And only at this point in the 166 00:09:55,120 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: story did I notice in my peripheral vision these little 167 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: red drips drip, drip, drip. Now, this is the part 168 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: of the story that is not for the faint of heart. 169 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: It is not you see, at that moment, a simple 170 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: chopping of the onion became a horror movie plot twist. 171 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: It's not the onion's fault, it's not. There were no 172 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: special effects. There was no current corn syrup or food 173 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: dye or any of that, just my knuckle on my 174 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: right hand auditioning for an upcoming Tarantino close up. Yes. So, now, 175 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: later today, as the neighborhood kids parade around through their 176 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: cute little costumes through the mean streets of the north Woods, 177 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: dressed as princesses and pikachuw's and all the other stuff 178 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: that I have no idea. Well, you go through the 179 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: list of popular Halloween costumes and it's like, that's anime, 180 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: that's anime, So what's anime? Just go with it, Just 181 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: go with it. I'm old, I'm older than anime. I 182 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: don't know that. I didn't grow up with anime. I 183 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: grew up with the Looney Tunes. Well that year old 184 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: you don't know what, you don't know what these things 185 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: are as a bad job by you. So anyway, I 186 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: will be the gentleman who will be waving from the 187 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: driveway as I walk out to the car with the 188 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: I have the new skin, I have the gauze wrapped 189 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: around the hand like a mummy mall or the Mummy. 190 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: And of course I lost the instructural manual. So my 191 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: homemade costume is called stylish Bloodshed, Benny's Stylish Bloodshed. The 192 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: authenticity of this, I'm telling you, is undeniable. It is 193 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: absolutely un deniable. I didn't even need a sewing machine. 194 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: I didn't. My mom was an epic sewer back in 195 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: the day. But I didn't need my mom's old sewing machine. 196 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: Just a chef's knife and a little spatula awareness and 197 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: that's it. So somewhere off in the wild blue yonder, 198 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: way out there in the wild blue yonder, wes Craven smiling. 199 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: It's got a Cheshire cat smile from ear to ear 200 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: hearing the story. Now, had I sliced just a millimeter, 201 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: just a a millimeter more, you and I would be 202 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: having a much different conversation right now. Instead of talking 203 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: about what did happen was I just went over there? 204 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: We would be talking dismemberment instead of a chunk of 205 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: my flesh on my knuckle, on my pointer finger going 206 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: away from this thick laceration you see. I then if 207 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: that had been a dismemberment, I would have been the 208 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: star of my own low budget remake, The Big Lebowski two, 209 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 1: starring Ben Maller. This time the dude loses a digit. 210 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: Forget the the severed toe in the shoe box. What's 211 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: in the box? Now my finger? And this is the 212 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: part where Brad Pitt, who looks really weird in that mustache, 213 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: I SunUp the Dodger gameless week. It's very weird. This 214 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: is where Brad Pitt comes in screaming what's in the box. 215 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 1: I'd also like to point out Brad Pitt if you 216 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: ever saw me, he said, ooh, you got a body 217 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 1: for overnight talk radio. That's right, Brad, I do, Daddy. 218 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: There's a bit of a malord metaphor in this story. 219 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 1: Somewhere seems like there always is, always is a bit 220 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: of a metaphor. So maybe it's about the hubris that 221 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: I was so confident in my ability to multitask that 222 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,839 Speaker 1: I tried to make lunch and play iron chef at 223 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: the same time while watching while watching the World series. 224 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: It might be about my age, the way reflexes kind 225 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: of slowed down, and the knives don't forget and all 226 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: that stuff. However, I don't think of myself as that old. 227 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: I know mathematically if you had told me when I 228 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: was twelve years old, you said, how old, Well that's 229 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: old man, You're a relic. You're really old. Or maybe 230 00:13:55,520 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: it's about the metaphor is about Halloween itself, and we 231 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: spend so many you're watching horror movies and all this 232 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: stuff and trying to get those fake scares, only to 233 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: find that at some point the real ones are sitting 234 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: there very quietly off to the side in the kitchen, waiting, 235 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: just waiting for you to reach for the cutting board 236 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: and the very sharp knife. And the whole thing reminds 237 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: me of every over confident, blowhard radio host who thinks 238 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: that they can juggle too many hot takes at once 239 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: and you end up burning the microphones one slip and 240 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: suddenly you're bleeding ratings. In that case, but that the 241 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: knife doesn't care if you've done this a thousand times before, right, 242 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: they don't care. So again later tonight on Halloween. Later tonight, 243 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: when I visit my lovely and sweet niece and nephew 244 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: for their Halloween festival, I will be the man with 245 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: the bandage, hand the new skin, and then the bandage 246 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: walking PSA for life safety call me the middle aged Frankenstein, 247 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: and I will be held together by gauze and regret 248 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: that I didn't pay closer attention while chopping the onion. 249 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be some kids if I take the 250 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: gauze off that will scream, oh my god, what happened 251 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: to that man. I'll smile. I'll smile at them, and 252 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: I'll tell them kids, this is a teachable moment. This 253 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: is a public service announcement from your friend on the radio. 254 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: I used to be the king of PSA. Is what happens. 255 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: This is what happens when you don't respect the onion. 256 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: I'm telling you respect the almighty onion. Now the good 257 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: news again, my finger is still attached. The bad news, 258 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: the chunk of my flesh is gone. The ego is 259 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: not attached as much a homemade costume. I would tell 260 00:15:53,920 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: you though, this homemade costume unforgettable, unforgettable. After all, there 261 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: is nothing, nothing that says Halloween like the authentic droplets 262 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: of blood on your apron and a story that begins 263 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,359 Speaker 1: It was supposed to be a quiet lunch by myself, 264 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: and then you'll never believe what happened next. You'll never 265 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: ever believe it. All right, turn the page on that 266 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: we go to the great radio Pilgrimage in sin City. 267 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: That's right, beautiful sin City. So people go to Vegas 268 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: to gamble, to take part in all kinds of debauchery, 269 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: to party, to lose all sense of time and place. 270 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: We know that I go to Vegas three or four 271 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: times a year. Now. I went there to renew this 272 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: last weekend there, to renew my vows with radio, or 273 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: at least to confirm that the almighty, all powerful, omnipresent 274 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: magic Radio Box still exists on the big stage. When 275 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: it seems like most people get their content from TikTok 276 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: and Instagram and they get to that social media dopamine 277 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 1: slot machine going and all that stuff, you realize that 278 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: it's a bit of a rig game, right, that social media. Yeah, 279 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 1: everyone's on there, but how many people are active on 280 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: there and whatnot. So it turns out that there's a 281 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: lot there. The Magic Radio Box still exists and it 282 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: is great. So this past weekend, again I found myself 283 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: bleary eyed and heavily over the caffeinated with those caffeine supplements. 284 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: I got at CBS doing the Bend Maler Show, The 285 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: Bend Maler Show from the world class iHeart Studios on 286 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: Fremont Street. I am blown away. I said it last time, 287 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: and I went in there again, and I want to 288 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: thank Ice, who's a big DJ star. She knows Flavor Flaves, 289 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: She's a big deal in Vegas and she kind of 290 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: runs that place at night. She came in there and 291 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: we were hanging out and it was cool. Nice to 292 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: see her again and anyway, moving on with sorry. So 293 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: I was there at the Iheartstudos Fremont Street now Fremont again. 294 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: For those of you that have not been to Vegas, 295 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: and for those of you that have been but haven't 296 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: been lately, Fremont Street is what happens when the civilized 297 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: world decides it's no longer interested in daylight. It is 298 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: a real life freak show. There is no admission. You 299 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 1: don't have to pay for admission. You just go through 300 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: some metal detectors. It's a freak show with free admission. 301 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: It's a human zoo. And unlike the San Diego Zoo, 302 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: where you might see a hippo or a heeling monster 303 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: or any other goblin that might be there, No, no, no, 304 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 1: it turns out that when you go to Fremont Street, 305 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: you don't have to pay. It's a human zoo and 306 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: it's where you can see everything from grown men wearing 307 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: diapers to women wearing pasties who probably shouldn't be wearing pasties. 308 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: You know, we should maybe had one less cheeseburger. And 309 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: I'm the last guy to talk. And then Elvis impersonators 310 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: up the wazoo a little bit of everything. I got 311 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: cover bands, there's music, there's zip lines. It is sensory overload, 312 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: is what it is. It's also humanity's clearance rack. It is. 313 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 1: So I wrap up the overnight show in Vegas, and 314 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: I wrap it up. I wrap it up. It's like 315 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: three in the morning. Right, Wait, this this works. I 316 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: wrap it up, and I have some other business I 317 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: have to take care of, so I can't just leave 318 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: right away. But that's the witching hour at three am. 319 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: That's the witching hour for the degenerate and the dreamer 320 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: in that part of Vegas, Old Vegas and then or 321 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: downtown base what you're gonna call it at locals, I 322 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: think say Downtown, Others say Fremont, whatever, it doesn't really matter. 323 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 1: You get the point. So, because the job requires a 324 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: certain level of lunacy when you do this kind of work, 325 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: I drag my fat ass and I took my lovely 326 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: wife over to New York, New York, down on the 327 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:43,479 Speaker 1: Strip for the Power Trip Morning show from Kfan in Minneapolis, Kfan, Kfan. Now, 328 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: if you live outside the Twin Cities, and by the way, 329 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: my hand is raised, I do live outside the Twin Cities, 330 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: you might not grasp the gravitational pull of the Power Trip. Well, Ben, 331 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: it's just a little morning show, It's all it is. 332 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: Don't embellish it. We don't need puffery. What is wrong 333 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: with you? I don't do that. Okay, time out. This 334 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: is not puffery. This is not embellishment. It is not 335 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: I promise you I will let you know next time 336 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: I go down that road. So the morning show, the 337 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: Power Trip. The big stars the players are Chris hockey, 338 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: or Hawkeye as we call hockey. His nicknames is the 339 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: Hawk Corey and then Meat Sauce, whose real name is Paul, 340 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,439 Speaker 1: but he goes by the name Meat Sauce. And so 341 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: these guys, Hawk Corey and Meat Sauce are the three 342 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: Musketeers of Minnesota mornings. One part sports, one part stand 343 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: up comedy, and one part group therapy. And by any 344 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: measurement and by every metric, they are a phenomena. They 345 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: are and tip of the headphones from one radio guide 346 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: to another, and they're very kind. They liked the overnight 347 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: show where they'll lead in on the network. They carry 348 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: us overnight on Kfan, And to put in perspective about 349 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: how bonkers this whole thing was, there were listeners and 350 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 1: not just a few listeners that plan their vacations around 351 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: these guys. The show is simulcast across the iHeart and 352 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: a bunch of iHeart stations in Minnesota. It's also streamed online. 353 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: They've got a massive following rivaling you know, you think 354 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: about like some football teams that have no fans, like 355 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 1: a small market NFL franchise. And on this particular weekend, 356 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 1: they were broadcasting in Vegas and that's how I, the 357 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: overnight Vampire from Fox Sports Radio, ended up in their orbit, 358 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: and I had actually met Hawk. I think we talked 359 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: about this. I met Hawk a little while back thanks 360 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: to some Mallard Militia listeners in Minnesota who are big 361 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 1: fans of both shows who connected us the last time 362 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: I was in Vegas and Hawk happened to be there. Now, 363 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: originally the plan was when I had seen Hawk the 364 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: last time, I said, oh, yeah, he guess he works 365 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: for the Vikings. He does some of the radio stuff 366 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Vikings. So I figured, well, the plan 367 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: would be to hang out when the Vikings played the 368 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: Chargers at Sofi Stadium, that I'd go there, I'd prepare 369 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: for my radio show. I'd get to see the quick 370 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: five minute hey, how you're doing good, to catch up 371 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: with you and all that stuff. So that was the plan. 372 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: The Vikings weren't time to play the Chargers last Thursday, 373 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: or I guess two thursdays ago, because last night we 374 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: had the Ravens absolutely dismember the Dolphins. Back to the story, 375 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,959 Speaker 1: so you know, here we are the Chargers and Vikings, 376 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: two teams that could lose a coin toss with a 377 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: Magnet and I was going to go to the game 378 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: and Hawk had text me a couple of weeks earlier. 379 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: He's like, hey, you know, I think I forget exactly 380 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: what he said. We said we're going to be in Vegas. 381 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: I think he said something like the guys want to 382 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: meet you on the show. And so he invited me 383 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: on their show, and I could not resist. I love radio, 384 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: and I've heard so many crazy things about how good 385 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: the show is and how popular the show is and 386 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: all this stuff. The Minnesota audience is just different. It 387 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: just cuts different. And you guys had hyped these guys 388 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,880 Speaker 1: up on Power Trip for a while. People were prank 389 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: calling us with meat sauce, saying meat sauce and all 390 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: that stuff. So you guys had been telling me that 391 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: this was the show, the Power Trip. This was it right, 392 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: This is like the Beatles of bloviating. So I wanted 393 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: to see with all of the gusto I have or 394 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: the what it was in living color. I wanted to 395 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: witness it the hullaballoo. So there I was. I made 396 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: a last minute trip to Las Vegas. Now my wife 397 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 1: was with me, and she asked me as we were 398 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: leaving Fremont Street, the iHeart Studios, going to the hotel 399 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: for a second and going to the event. She asked me, 400 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: She's like, well, you know who's going to be there, 401 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 1: Who's gonna be on hand? Do I need to get 402 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: dressed up for this? As is anyone going to be there? 403 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: And I told her, I said, listen, this popular show, 404 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: it's a local show. They're sixteen hundred miles or whatever 405 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: it is away from the Twin Cities. It's four in 406 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: the morning. Just don't expect much. I know it's a 407 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: popular show, but who's going to show up here at 408 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: this time? It was four in the morning. And so 409 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: you know what happens when you assume, right, you know, 410 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: we all know what happens when you assume. So I 411 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: parked the car, I pay my twenty five dollars for parking. 412 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: I'm paying seventy dollars in Vegas for a little over 413 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Ended up paying seventy dollars to park 414 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: the car. You know how much you paid to park 415 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: the car for? I don't know. Thirty years up until 416 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: about ten years ago, nothing, nothing. It was free. Everywhere 417 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,879 Speaker 1: was free. If they've charged for parking, you didn't go 418 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: you said you ignored it. That's it anyway, So I 419 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: assumed there would be very few people there. I'm walking 420 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: through New York, New York, after paying, you know, getting 421 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 1: ripped off for the parking, and I was waiting with 422 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: baited breath to find tumbleweeds to the right direct from Russia, 423 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: an invasive species. And I thought there'd be a few chainsmoking, 424 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: probably older elderly women, and a few guys, maybe in 425 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: wheelchairs with oxygen, and there'd be some other guys that 426 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: were heavily intoxicated, some insomniacs clinging the slot machines. Instead, 427 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: I found something that I still marvel at. There were 428 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 1: hundreds of people in Minnesota, purple jerseys, hats. I didn't 429 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: see any face paint. There might have been some guy 430 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 1: in the back. I think he fell asleep. There was 431 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: a buzz kind of sounded like that, kind of sounded 432 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,479 Speaker 1: like that that could light the strip up. It was 433 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: not just a crowd, it was a congregation. I was like, WHOA, Like, 434 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 1: I've done Mallard meet greets, and we get good crowds. 435 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: We get sometimes we don't get good growd with the 436 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: smallest one we ever had was in Wisconsin. It was 437 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: last minute. It was Appleton, Wisconsin. We do pretty well 438 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 1: in Boston. We've done well. In La we've done well. 439 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: We've had good turnouts in Minnesota. By the way, was 440 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: amazing when we did the malar meat greet there in Minnesota. 441 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. It was a lot 442 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: of fun. So anyway, I was like, okay, so there 443 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 1: are all these people. It was not just a crowd. 444 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: It was like, like I said, it was bigger than that. 445 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: You don't get that in radio much anymore, in an 446 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: era where the corporate machine is worried about one thing 447 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: and one thing only the bottom line. That's all that matters. 448 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: And the goal of many of these mega media companies 449 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: is not a good product. They want a product you'll 450 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: listen to. It doesn't have to be good. The main 451 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 1: goal is just nickel and dime everything low ball here. 452 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: You know, they can't give you that there all that stuff. 453 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: Now we know that every one's chasing clicks and the 454 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: algorithm and all that. But these guys have created a 455 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: real a real community, I guess is the word I'll 456 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: use again as something that is tangible. And so this 457 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: was a chicken soup for the Broadcast Soul chicken soup 458 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: for the Broadcast Soul. It was like bone broth that 459 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: went right into my bones. And it reminded me why 460 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: I got in to this racket years ago in the 461 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: first place, when I decided to go down that road, 462 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,719 Speaker 1: and I could have been a doctor or a lawyer, 463 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 1: some kind of Wall Street guy, and I went down 464 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: this road, so I got in this racket. And that 465 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: the connection, the bond, the live wire between a microphone 466 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: and a fan base, that just feels something. There's something there, 467 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: the communal aspect of it, that you're all listening to 468 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: the same thing at the same time, you're all part 469 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: of it. So we're pretty lucky. We're pretty lucky you 470 00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,959 Speaker 1: and I because we have that in the Mallard Militia. 471 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: We have that. These guys found it in Morning Drive 472 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, and congratulations, good job by them. They don't 473 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: need Meda corasulate them. They've done a great job. Moving 474 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: on with the story, the Power Trip Fellas from Minnesota. 475 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: The Power Trip Fellas. They even allowed me access behind 476 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: the velvet ropes to take part in the crown jewel 477 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: of their show, the segment of segments every Friday. It's 478 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: the Initials Game. Well, what the f is the Initials Game? 479 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is for the uninitiated, and 480 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: I was part of that. It's kind of like Jeopardy 481 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: Cross with Wheel of Fortune, only a little bit louder, 482 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: hopefully funnier, and very competitive, much more competitive than those shows. 483 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: Now they've been doing this for years. I was on 484 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: episode six hundred. They have their own standalone podcast on iHeart. 485 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: The podcast allows you to play along the Initials game, 486 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: and so this has become a regional phenomenon. They actually 487 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: sell the home version online. They sell a fair amount 488 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: of copies around the Upper Midwest. And there's really no pressure, right, 489 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: I mean, here am I here? I am rather here. 490 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: I am just showing up, you know, I'm the guest 491 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: and all that. And I actually practiced. The guys told 492 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: me they wanted me to be on this, and so 493 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'll do it. I'll practice. And 494 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: so I went in the car and I turned on 495 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: their podcast and I listened and I was yapping away 496 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: talking about you know whatever, and you know, kind of 497 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: playing along. And sure enough, I practiced, and when it 498 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: was showtime the lights came on, I ended up surrounded 499 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: by savants. Hawk and Meat Sauce were like Mozart and 500 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: Da Vinci, except they had a buzzer, which was their name, 501 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: and they rattled off answers before I could even process 502 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: the first clue boom, and I was shut out early. 503 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,239 Speaker 1: I was shut out. I'm not going to sit here 504 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: and do revisions history. But redemption came in the bonus 505 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: round and the initials were gl and I got Great Lakes. 506 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: That was me. They didn't give it to me. They 507 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: didn't hand it to me. Nobody told me what the 508 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: word was. I scored Great Lakes. Mission accomplished. So after 509 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: the show, the many fans there that were not there 510 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: to see me, they were there to hang out with 511 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: the power Trip. They wanted a little FaceTime after the event, 512 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: and many of them had Again, I just want to 513 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: stress how crazy this is. These people flew out to 514 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: La to watch the Vikings play the Chargers. It then 515 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: drove all night from in the hood in Inglewood and 516 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: up no good. So they drove all night from Inglewood 517 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: near Lax through the California desert just to be there 518 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: after watching their Vikings get mollywopped by the Chargers and 519 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: they weren't chasing fame or prizes. They were just chasing 520 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: that bond between a listener and the radio show. And 521 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: I did have a chance to talk to some of 522 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: these people. You know who you are. If you're listening 523 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: right now, you might remember our conversation. It is interesting 524 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: to note that a few of the people said that 525 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: they were just in Vegas for the morning show at 526 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: the Power Trip. They were then planning on driving back 527 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: to la because apparently the and I didn't check the 528 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: Timberwolves and the Lakers played the game, so they were 529 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: planning on sticking around to watch that game. So okay, 530 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: and met I didn't write any notes down, but I 531 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: met the guy. One of the guys was there. He's 532 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: sitting in the front on the right hand side. He 533 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: works at a pepsi plant in Minnesota. He told me 534 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: that the boys listen all the time, that they're fans 535 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: of the show. They bottle pepsi products in Minnesota. There 536 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: was another gentleman who was there with his wife who 537 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: she's from Dallas. I remember he's from he's from Minnesota 538 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: and now they're both in Denver. And unless unless what 539 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: he told me was wrong or I made it up, 540 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: in my head, I believe he had said, since he 541 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: lives in Denver, he's had the Mallor. Now, what is 542 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: the Mallor? I don't know what the malor is. The 543 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: Mallor is one of the most delicious things you can 544 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: possibly have. It is well. The Mallor is available at 545 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: the Sportsbook Bar and Grill. There are multiple locations in 546 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: the Greater Denver area. They are not paying me to 547 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: tell you about this. I just want to get the 548 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: word out. We spent so much time promoting the Ben 549 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: Mallard chicken. Fingers often lost in the shuffle, Often lost 550 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: in the shuffle. Is this The Sportsbook Bar and Grill 551 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: has the Mallor. That's the name of it, the mallar 552 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: buffalo chicken. They have the fried chicken breast tossed in 553 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: hot sauce. They have the lettuce, the tomato. If you 554 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: want to go that, I go, no tomato on mine. 555 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: They have blue cheese. I don't need the blue cheese. 556 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 1: I'm good. I don't need the blue cheese. But it's delicious. 557 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 1: I recommend it, highly recommended it anyway. But despite that, 558 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 1: again we lined up, met some fans, took some photos, 559 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: and at the very end there, I was running on 560 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: fumes and the caffeine had worn out. So I stumbled 561 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: back to the hotel, which was off the strip, one 562 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,800 Speaker 1: of the few hotels that has free parking, very important 563 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 1: much so I paid seventy five dollars for parking, and 564 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: I didn't even have to pay at the hotel. We 565 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: stayed at seventy five dollars. Went to the place we 566 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: do the radio show at the iHeart Studios, had to 567 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,320 Speaker 1: pay for that. Well, you work for iHeart, you shouldn't 568 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 1: have to pay. Okay, we'll let the people over there know. 569 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: Let them know everything got turned off, including what happened 570 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 1: in we just mentioned here the whole thing shut down 571 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So anyway, I just loved the 572 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:01,239 Speaker 1: tremendous vibe that was out there, and so I went 573 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: back to the hotel. I crashed. The ears were still 574 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: ringing with laughter and applause. And it wasn't about me. 575 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,879 Speaker 1: It was about the medium. A reminder that even in 576 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, when everyone's jaded and yours truly as well, 577 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: and the algorithm is the almighty, all powerful king, it's 578 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 1: not about how many people listen, it's how many people 579 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: click and radio still has more than a pulsip. Radio 580 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: to me is like baseball. For two hundred years, or 581 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 1: at least one hundred and fifty, people have been writing 582 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:42,319 Speaker 1: stories that baseball's boring, baseball's dead, Baseball's not gonna make it. 583 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: All of these stories right year after year, and it 584 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 1: just keeps on going. It just keeps on going and 585 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 1: going and going. And the funny thing is more people 586 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: now want to do radio than they ever before in 587 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 1: the history of radio. Radio has never been more popular 588 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: than it is today. And What's My evidence podcast? Whether 589 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: it's consuming podcasting like this show, or whether or not 590 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: it is doing your own podcast. There are so many 591 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,879 Speaker 1: people that want to do podcasts and want to listen 592 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: to podcasts. God bless them because this is a podcast. 593 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,759 Speaker 1: But get to the point, please. So the point is. 594 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 1: The point is that when you're doing a podcast or 595 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,720 Speaker 1: listening to a podcast, it's radio without the radio. However, 596 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: it's still radio. You're doing broadcast work, you're doing spoken word. 597 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:29,279 Speaker 2: Now. 598 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: I know some of the podcasts are on video and 599 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 1: some of the radio shows are on video. The point is, 600 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: though the essence of it, the ethos of it, is 601 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 1: that it is a audio program. That you don't have 602 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: to sit there and watch the show. You can. You 603 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: can do what you want, right, You can do what 604 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: you want, and so listen. Vegas just has its own sound, 605 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: of course, is the slot machines, the sirens, the constant 606 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: hum people trying to win something, to get out of 607 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: a deep dark place. However, tucked inside a casino at 608 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,720 Speaker 1: New York, New York, at dawn, I saw something better. 609 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: I saw something better. There were a bunch of proud Minnesotans, 610 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 1: Minnesota and Ice, proving that when the right voices come 611 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: through the speakers, people still show up. And they weren't 612 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 1: there for a jackpot because nobody won that. They were 613 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,440 Speaker 1: there for a connection. They were there for a connection, 614 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: and it was pretty freaking cool. It really was. All Right, 615 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: we'll leave you on that note. We'll see what happens 616 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: tonight with the Dodgers. We should have a very Dodger 617 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,680 Speaker 1: centric fifth hour. I will put together some Mallard monologues 618 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: after the game, and we'll come in here early tomorrow 619 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 1: on Saturday morning, the first day of November, and we'll 620 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,000 Speaker 1: cobble together a malamool I hopefully Danny will be with me. 621 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's Halloween weekend. He might be out 622 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 1: of town. I don't know, but there it is. All right. 623 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: We'll put the baby to bed, have a wonderful, gious 624 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,920 Speaker 1: rest of your Halloween. We'll see what happens with the 625 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,560 Speaker 1: Dodgers and Jays tonight, and I we'll catch you next 626 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: time later, skater asta pasta. See that's see, Danny, that's 627 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,239 Speaker 1: the part, Danny. That's the part where we end this 628 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 1: right here. See this is the end part. Yeah, that's 629 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,280 Speaker 1: it right there, we end it. Yeah, that's right. Okay, 630 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,960 Speaker 1: hit that that what you might call yeah, hit to 631 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 1: what you mightna call it? Got a murder. I gotta go, 632 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: thank you, okay, bye bye