WEBVTT - Power Outage 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.400 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.119 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.360 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.360 with Ben Maller starts right now that it does. I 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.720 hope you're doing well, and welcome to the Magic podcast 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:36.000 Box and intergalactic takeover of the I Heart Podcast Network. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.760 As we are back at it seven days a week. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.200 We started this during the pandemic, and the pandemic still 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.800 going on, and we will continue, and if you keep downloading, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.120 we will likely continue forever, forever and ever and ever, 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.600 every day of the week. A little taste of the 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.680 Mallard experience if you want. Talking in the third person, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.320 But as I Ben Mallard, and we are bloviating the 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.440 day away and again, for some reasons, clearly management not 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:10.840 listening to this podcast. We are joined by David Gascon, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.119 known by his nickname Gag. Aren't you happy that the 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.080 management is not listening to this because if they did, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.080 it might be a little embarrassed at certain times of 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.679 the day. But I don't know what you're talking about. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.640 There is nothing to be embarrassed about here at all. Oh, 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.000 I'm not embarrassed. I know you're not embarrassed, but they 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.280 could be embarrassed. There's this is morphed into it's not 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.720 really pop culture. It started as a gambling podcast and 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.920 then it has morphed into I'm not really sure what 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.520 you would say this podcast is, but it's it's a 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.560 little listen, a little of that, and a lot of nothing. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.120 You know what it is. It is the evolution of 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.920 Ben Mallory. Like I personally have been thankful and grateful 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.800 to experience this ever since the day that we started 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.520 working together. Because we are you gonna take credit for something? No, no, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.320 not at all. I'm just I am telling you what 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.160 I'm experience into because there were days and times where 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.320 you told me I don't want video cameras in here. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.320 I don't want to be on the air. I want 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.680 to be on the radio and the radio only. Um. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.120 In this past week, I've seen the continual evolution of you. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:21.040 You've gotten, You've gotten on zoom, You're getting a webcam. Um, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.640 like the things you were totally against that I had 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.120 brought up to you another colleagues here at Fox um 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.480 people have been doing over the last year year and 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.520 a half. Now, I'm not asking for any credit because 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.920 I won't get any um, but I certainly do appreciate 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.960 the victim. I'm not the victim. I I just like 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.080 I am the catalyst for certain things. But you know, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.960 let me explain what happened. Okay, all right, So it 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.280 is true. In the future, probably starting sometime next week, 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.840 maybe the week after, I am going to have a 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.120 cam set up in the home studio here. And the 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.760 reason though, it is not because of you, guess agree, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.400 Uh uh, it's not. I got an email from management 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.799 and they said, hey, listen, we're promoting you know, Cowherd 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.760 and got Leave and all these guys, and the video 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.400 content is pretty popular, especially now during the pandemic. And 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.760 we have no video content of you because you're in 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.080 your house and we can't put a camera there. But 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.840 if you put a webcam up and you set up 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.080 a way to record it, then we could highlight you 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.160 and promote the show. And I'm like, well, I need 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.640 any promotion I can get, you know, doing the overnight show. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.120 So I was like, all right, you know, I'll do it. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:34.920 Why not. And there's some other things that I have 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:40.480 thought about doing that I have considered doing that that 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.160 that couldn't happen or maybe you know, down the line, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.040 depending on what happens with some other things. It's all 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.200 happening to side together. That fascinating. Listen, it's not fascinating, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.440 it's all I think. It's just no, it's not no. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.720 So you know, I don't think anyone wants to look 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.440 at me at all. I'm ugly, I'm repulsive. I got 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.160 into radio because I'm ugly. But I will go on 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.920 camera and uh, people watch, that's fine. If we add 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.240 more people to the show, um, that's that's great. But 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.000 you've always wanted to do more, right like you you 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.800 were on in Australia or New Zealand, you're you're in Boston. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.239 You've always wanted to do more. So there's that push 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.800 and pull with you that uh you know, I'm not 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.680 gonna say me, but there's other people that have encouraged 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.280 you with air quotes to do more on different platforms. Uh, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.440 not to say that I have encouraged other colleagues you 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.960 to do that, sort of thing, and I've tried to 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.920 do that on my own for them. UM, but I'm 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.359 glad that you're coming around. This reminds me of of 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.280 Lethal Weapon. That's a great movie. UM one, two, three, 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.160 and four. It's like it's like Riggs and Murta like 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.400 you are. That's relationship. Like there's that point in time 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.719 in your radio career we just say like, fuck, I'm 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.599 too old for this ship, and then here I come, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.400 and I'm like, Ben, we're not too old for that ship. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.640 Never said but you thought it? You thought I never 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.480 thought it. No, I've never thought that. I don't. I 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.719 don't even think I'm as old as I am. I 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.240 feel like I haven't really aged. I know I have 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.400 because my you know, I'm losing hair and I got 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.600 gray hair and crap like that. But I'm like, physically, 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.880 I don't feel bad or anything like that. I feel 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.520 the same. I approach life the same way. I don't. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.960 I don't feel any different. I know I'm getting closer 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.760 to the end in the beginning, but it doesn't matter. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.680 I don't know. It's like, come on, I know, but 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:31.120 you were so against these other elements psychology. I had 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.200 a full plate. I had a full plate. I had. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.880 At one point I had w E I and Boston 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.440 and I was doing two or three days a week 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.760 at night. And then I had the New Zealand thing, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.120 which was a weekly appearance on the radio New Zealand, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.240 and I had some other stuff on the side, so 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.479 I had no time to do anything other than that. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.040 I was fully focused on all that stuff. And then 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.120 you know, the EI thing went away because we went 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.960 on the Sports Hub in Boston five, the Sports Hub 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.000 by the way and Boston the great radio station, and 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.960 then New Zealand went away because of the coronavirus. The 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.520 whole fucking network shut down in Knockland, New Zealand. Unfortunately, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.840 my friends out of work, and hopefully that will come 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.640 back after the pandemic, but there's no guarantee it comes 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.080 back after the pandemic. So uh so, yeah, so I 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.920 lost all that other stuff. So now I'm like, all right, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.400 you know, the part of me when I got into radio, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:19.800 I was like that, well, I don't really have a 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.960 backup plan when I get into radiar other than working 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.479 at Costco or something. Not that that's a bad job. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.880 It's a very important job now, but I never had 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.159 a backup plan. So I was always like, all right, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.560 if I'm to be in the business, I gotta have 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.719 a couple of things going. I gotta I gotta be 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.520 a juggling I gotta juggle a couple of things. I 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.480 don't jug juggle a couple of things I can't put. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:39.800 You know, it's that only I don't want to put 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.080 all your eggs in one basket, right, It's really true. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.440 You want to have some options in case something goes 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.599 sideways with one of the gigs, and so right now 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.039 I got no other options. You know, I think I 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.159 think you can agree with me on this, is that 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.880 just because you have a full plate doesn't mean it's 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.279 necessarily the most nutritious. So I think when you scale 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.159 back and you have a well balanced meal, and you know, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.800 I I think that you would agree. Being in radio 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.520 for such long period of time that you can't do 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.400 it all by yourself, even though there are times where 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.720 you do everything by yourself, having a good support staff 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.720 and people that encourage you and promote you and support 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.240 you makes life for you that much more and pleasurable, right, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.960 I mean, such a NARCISSI I'm not even talking about myself. Well, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.600 you are you can do this smirk this annoying really 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.960 doesn't say it's a west of the four o four, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.880 west of the four oh five argant that you have, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.600 and it's nauseating, you know, it's absolutely nauseating as what 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.120 you know, what's east of the four or five? Ben Maller, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.080 Beverly Hills, Glendale, some of the finer cities in the 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.360 United play you just compare Beverly Hills in Glendale. I 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.640 love Glendale. Pasadena's east of the four Old Fast is 0:07:54.680 --> 0:08:01.960 not west, It's not. There's a very depressed part of Passadena. Bullshit, Yes, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.960 hell yeah there is. Trust me. You go a little north, No, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.440 you go a little north of where were in that 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.800 Altadena Pasadena area, little north of the famous strip there 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.800 Colorado Boulevard where all those great restaurants and I used 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.640 to love. Oh man, I look forward to going back 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.680 to Colorado Boulevard past. Yeah, we had dinner there one time. Yeah, 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.200 I love it. I used to hang out when I 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.880 lived at an apartment in downtown. I would take the 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.280 train out to Pasadena and just hang on. I loved 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.360 and the vibe was great everything. But but if you 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.480 go north, I mean I used to go to a 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.760 gym that was on the border of Pasadena and Altadena, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.079 and I got my card broken into at that gym, 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.440 and they said it happened all the time that that 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.520 was it was that area. There was a ton of 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.360 crime in that area. So yeah, there are pockets west 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.720 of the east of the four oh five that are nice, 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:59.520 but overwhelmingly that's where the blue collar worker lives. That's 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.559 that's where the salt of the earth. I know you 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.600 don't like salt of the earth people and all that 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.079 you don't like the blue collar. Well nothing, that's what 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.679 you all. Nothing tells me blue collar like an individual 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.800 that performs their work at home. Now, I mean, since 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.199 I'm not really white collar. Have you mentioned several times 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.480 off the air I come into work like I have 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.440 to wear a mask and and I'm driving to work 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.800 all these different times. So let me point out, just 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.680 just for the record, Um, you do this because you're 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.640 not important enough to work from home. I don't understand 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.600 that the company does not value enough. Just remember that 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.480 to all your listeners out there, you're not important enough 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.679 so you have to go outside of your house. You're 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.400 so important that the company wants to protect me from 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:54.840 the bug. So they've demanded that I quarantined the Mallard 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:59.080 mansion because there's so I'm such a valuable piece of 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.880 the Fox imp are that I have to stay in 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.240 my house twenty four hours actually with twenty three hours 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:06.640 a day because they go for about an hour walk, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.480 So twenty three hours a day I have to stay. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.719 How important night want to even risk my health to 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.120 go outside? Think about that? How it's amazing, And that's 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.320 that's just the way it is. I agree. And with 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.880 that same logic, we can apply that to other people 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.559 that listen to your show that are required to go 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.200 out of their house to do their job. That's the 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:33.280 exact same logic that we're applying. Those people aren't as important, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.880 they're not as valuable apparently, So that's different things. In radio. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.840 I explain this. You know, you get talked to you 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.960 on your level there down your grade level. So so 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.320 here's the thing in the radio twelve degrees is alright, alright, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.719 So in the radio business, um, we can work remotely. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.719 If you are a police officer, you cannot enforce crime remotely. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.560 If you are a nurse, you can't. We're from home, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.480 you can't be effective. You can't do You can't doc 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.320 right now, you can't. You're not as effective when you're 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.000 actually seeing patients. Right somebody comes to you and says, hey, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:14.839 I'm sick, I've got whatever illness. If you're not physically there, 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.840 it is much more difficult to properly treat those people. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.240 So therefore those jobs you have to actually do. I'm 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.440 in a business where you don't have to do it. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.800 You're not in the same side of the business. You're 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.600 in the lower wrong of the radio business. Yeah, that's 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.520 that's that's where you started. I think I started in 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.400 San Diego. Actually I started before that, No, but I 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.120 mean in terms of the job and and operation. The 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.959 way that you were into the industry was what as 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.760 a board op or an anchor. Well, I was very 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.240 briefly an engineer that was a board op, but that 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.240 didn't last very long. I was the engineer for San 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.760 Diego State men's basketball. I told the story before. I 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.120 had some major disasters when I ran the board for 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.959 Aztecs basketball back in the day. I still have night 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.120 mirrors about that, and that's a disaster to be in 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.160 my book. So I did that, and then I was 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.440 I was I started an intern for Hacks. I ran 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.240 the board for a little bit. I did a little producing, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:13.800 not very much of that, and then I became a 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.800 radio reporter, did that for a number of years in 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.400 the nineties, and then they started a station in l A. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:25.280 And I became a gasbag, a talk show host. This 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.320 is fascinating because you were more valuable than the guys 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.160 that you bitch and monat by being off the radio. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.960 There's certain times in your show where it's just puts 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.360 and you're yelling at Roberto and everybody else here at 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.920 Fox Sports Radio because you're not on the radio. Your 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.480 valuable voice is not on the radio. Be sure to 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.319 catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.720 two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on Fox Sports 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.800 Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Here's what's coming 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.520 up on the menu for today's edition that we've already 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.600 been doing the podcast, but what we have to don't 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.079 know why I need to do it now. I mean, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.480 he's already a zillion minutes into this thing. But but anyway, 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:12.359 so here's what's coming up. We're gonna get to respect respect. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:17.880 Also Kremlin's and Goblins Buster and we have don't stick 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.319 to sports as well. We'll get to all that, and 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.080 we will begin with this. You know, Gascana, we just 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.000 talked about my road in radio and how I've been 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.120 able to maneuver the highways and byways of the radio industry. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.000 Um mostly successful. I've only been fired a few times 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:40.400 in radio, and so never has anyone ever done anything 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.760 to say, hey boy, you're doing a good job. That's 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.200 a solid, that's a solid man, You're great. Doesn't happen. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.760 I've never won any awards in radio. The closest thing 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:53.600 I've gotten to an award in radio is restaurants in 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:58.120 Kansas City, Denver, and Lawrence, Kansas and formerly in Syracuse 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.640 and in Michigan named food dishes after me. That's to 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.839 me a Marconi award right now. I did technically work 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:10.240 at a radio station that won the Marconi Award. W 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.440 e I the year I might was there for like 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.080 a year and a half, two years or whatever, and 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.160 they won Marconi Awards. So that's how I got the 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.640 nickname Marconi Maler Marconi because I was part I did 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.560 two or three shows a week at night during the week, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.640 and that station won the Marconi Awards. So I am 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.000 a Marconi Award winning broadcast as horse shit, it's not horseshit. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.360 I was at e I and I they they won 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.920 the Marconi fact look it up. Very like Parker review 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.080 or Luke Walton of you to just pick up a ring, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.760 you know, they get a ring to they get the 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.800 same ring. Smush Parker got the same ring Kobe Parker, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.480 Kobe Bryant got and just like you know, you go 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.520 down the Chicago bo Dickie Simpkins get the same ring 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.280 as Michael Jordan, didn't get a different ring, get the 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.600 same fucking ring. And I was part of it. So, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.520 but that is the backdrop. I got an amazing seeing surprise. 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.080 You know, the one thing I have not done ever 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:07.640 since March actually it was January nine. Ever since that day, 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.240 I stopped checking the company email. You know why, I'll 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.840 stopped checking the company email. I have a pretty good 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.320 a couple of reasons why. But yeah, it's go on. Yeah, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.440 So I got whacked on that day. It was the 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.360 worst decision in the history of Fox Sports. Rate. I 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.000 was terminated. I got the coal miners holiday, as they 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.800 say they're I was put on the do not call list, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.120 and so you know, it was the the budget. The 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.000 economy had crashed, you know, eight and it was early 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.280 oh nine, and they laid off a bunch of people 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.000 and I happened to be on that list. And so 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.720 I went to check my email and uh immediately lockout. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.920 So I realized that that day, I can't trust this 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.840 email because if something doesn't go right, you know, if 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.400 there's a you know, a fart in the wind, this 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.320 email is gonna get shut down. And so I that 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.360 day I stopped checking maim bout. Now I have to 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.880 check it a couple of times a year for W 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.440 two forms and things like that, you know, that kind 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.920 of tax stuff. It's tax season right now, so I 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.840 had to check. So the other day I logged into 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.800 the company email. I slid her in there, and I 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.000 hadn't been in the company email a long time, and 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.520 I get this this message, you know, and I eat 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.800 most of It's just like Dan buyer emails and Steve 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.280 the Sagre emails, and these guys they were sending like this, 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.360 the news of the day cut type thing, which I 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.280 never even look at. Thanks, but they said, you've said 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.840 some of those as well, So I never even look 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.880 at those. But so I'm going through my email. I'm 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.840 trying to see if there's anything that I missed that 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.400 I really probably should have seen, but I'm bad at 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.600 checking email, and so I get this email. I scrolled down. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.480 You know, most of it's pretty generic that a lot 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.680 of the radio trade websites, they'll send us links two 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.160 stories about the industry, what's going on in the industry, 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.360 especially now with the pandemic, and a lot of those 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.400 things in the inbox. So I'm like going through and 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.160 I'm doing whatever. Uh, and then i get this email headlined, 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.440 Hey Ben, I'm asking your approval for and then hiss 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:04.000 the details and uh, this is outstanding. So I occasionally 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.200 referenced a very brief education that I had at Saddleback 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.760 College back in the day. And so this is the 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:17.440 program director of Saddleback College. The radio station which actually 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.360 now since I left. When I was at Saddleback College, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.920 it was only in South Orange County, but they partnered 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:28.200 with cow State Northridge, and so it's like a simulcast. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.920 My old college station is now a simulcast between cow 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.479 State Northridge and that they have studios down there, so 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:40.080 it's a collaboration between satellite. It's like a satellite type deal. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.480 So it's on in both l A and Orange County. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.879 When I was there, it was only on in Orange County. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:49.320 But anyway, so that being said, they are promoting and tributing. Uh. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.879 They wanted to give tribute to me, a proper tribute 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.639 to me, and they also at the same time, I 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.000 wanted to promote the radio station. And so the ultimate 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:05.679 sign of respect from Saddleback, as Warner Wolf would say, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.800 let's go to the audio tape. This is going to 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.080 blow your mind away. The single I'm not exaggerating here 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.280 the single greatest honor I've gotten in radio from my 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:24.080 old college radio station. Here we go April. Ben is 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:28.600 born in Irvine, California. Obviously a bright and inquisitive child, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.119 Ben struggles and a conventional high school curriculum, but his 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.679 keen interest in sports broadcasting leads him to enroll at 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.919 Saddleback College, where he becomes play by play announcer of 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:45.160 Gauchos football and basketball games on the radio. This experience 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.399 at Saddleback helps prepare Ben for a full time career 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.040 as a radio sports journalist on Fox Sports Radio. I 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:53.919 love l s you in this game. I don't trust 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.840 a j McCarey. Saddleback College salutes, Ben Malice the Ben 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:03.760 Mallard Show. We are in there everywhere, that aucho always 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.520 a gouchow. Where will your saddleback college dreams take you? 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:13.159 Find out at Saddleback dot e du man. That is 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:18.520 like audio porn is what that is? So that's so narcisstic. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:23.399 The soul is great, that is wonderful. Are you like Alex? 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.080 Where you so excited? I called you the wrong name 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.320 I called you. Let me tell you something. I'm for Clempton. 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.640 All right. I am choked with emotion, is what I am. 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:36.159 I am so finally, after all these years of bloviating 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.879 over the radio and and being a gas bag and 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.720 all this the finely, we have reached the pinnacle. A 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.800 radio commercial slash tribute to me, what do you mean? 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.560 We wonderful vers this we know to me, I didn't 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.920 say what I said. You said we have reached this pinnacle. Well, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.600 it's a it's an effort. You know, I've got multiple personalities, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:05.119 as you and my personalities have worked out. This is unbelievable. 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:06.800 But it's one thing to have the nicknames. You know, 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.679 I'm known as the spin massive Misinformation, the banner broadcaster. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.439 I've been called the Beethoven of BS by people that 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.560 listen to the show, the curmudgeon of commentary, although I'm 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.160 pretty optimistic, all of a sudden uh chasm of sarcasm 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.600 TSAs any dark night a week night sports radio, Mogul 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.200 of mischief, Benny the Brazen King of zing, Moneyball Mallard, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:32.440 facetious Fox, Salting of insulting, jumping Jack of wisecrack, Insight 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:37.000 of overnight name, Bob of Negativity, Sage of Outrage, Pinnacle 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:41.760 of synegal, Prince of preposters, Professor or propaganda, hazar I hyperbably, 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.360 and the mad Hatter of sports jedder and and mind 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.560 I had. One of my other nicknames is Benny Brightside. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.000 So I am known as Benny Brightside because I look 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.320 at the I look at the glass is half full 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.440 and getting filled up all the way to the top. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.080 But go ahead, guess I know it pains you to 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.359 give me a pat on the back, and uh that 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.040 boy and all that, but that momo, that commercial to 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.400 get people to go to Saddleback is outstanding. I mean, 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.520 they're they're gonna be overwhelmed with students now because of that. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.280 I just think that we should applaud you for for 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.800 opening your eyes, because, as I mentioned the top, we 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.159 are doing so much to help push you out of 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.159 your comfort zone and you're beginning to finally blossom like 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:28.520 a delicate rose that you. Yeah, I mean, it's so contentious, 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.080 you guess. I'm not. I'm you are? You got this 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.119 like smart again? I gotta teach you, all right, I 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.720 gotta teach you how to be relatable to the common 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:41.280 name I am. I mean, I'm not. For the record, 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.359 I have never hung up on a color that calls 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:45.960 me internationally like you did earlier in the week to Terry, 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.639 like you hung up on the guy you want to 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:56.480