Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of
Speaker 1: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now that it does. I
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well, and welcome to the Magic podcast
Speaker 1: Box and intergalactic takeover of the I Heart Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: As we are back at it seven days a week.
Speaker 1: We started this during the pandemic, and the pandemic still
Speaker 1: going on, and we will continue, and if you keep downloading,
Speaker 1: we will likely continue forever, forever and ever and ever,
Speaker 1: every day of the week. A little taste of the
Speaker 1: Mallard experience if you want. Talking in the third person,
Speaker 1: But as I Ben Mallard, and we are bloviating the
Speaker 1: day away and again, for some reasons, clearly management not
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast. We are joined by David Gascon,
Speaker 1: known by his nickname Gag. Aren't you happy that the
Speaker 1: management is not listening to this because if they did,
Speaker 1: it might be a little embarrassed at certain times of
Speaker 1: the day. But I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: There is nothing to be embarrassed about here at all. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not embarrassed. I know you're not embarrassed, but they
Speaker 1: could be embarrassed. There's this is morphed into it's not
Speaker 1: really pop culture. It started as a gambling podcast and
Speaker 1: then it has morphed into I'm not really sure what
Speaker 1: you would say this podcast is, but it's it's a
Speaker 1: little listen, a little of that, and a lot of nothing.
Speaker 1: You know what it is. It is the evolution of
Speaker 1: Ben Mallory. Like I personally have been thankful and grateful
Speaker 1: to experience this ever since the day that we started
Speaker 1: working together. Because we are you gonna take credit for something? No, no,
Speaker 1: not at all. I'm just I am telling you what
Speaker 1: I'm experience into because there were days and times where
Speaker 1: you told me I don't want video cameras in here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be on the air. I want
Speaker 1: to be on the radio and the radio only. Um.
Speaker 1: In this past week, I've seen the continual evolution of you.
Speaker 1: You've gotten, You've gotten on zoom, You're getting a webcam. Um,
Speaker 1: like the things you were totally against that I had
Speaker 1: brought up to you another colleagues here at Fox um
Speaker 1: people have been doing over the last year year and
Speaker 1: a half. Now, I'm not asking for any credit because
Speaker 1: I won't get any um, but I certainly do appreciate
Speaker 1: the victim. I'm not the victim. I I just like
Speaker 1: I am the catalyst for certain things. But you know,
Speaker 1: let me explain what happened. Okay, all right, So it
Speaker 1: is true. In the future, probably starting sometime next week,
Speaker 1: maybe the week after, I am going to have a
Speaker 1: cam set up in the home studio here. And the
Speaker 1: reason though, it is not because of you, guess agree,
Speaker 1: Uh uh, it's not. I got an email from management
Speaker 1: and they said, hey, listen, we're promoting you know, Cowherd
Speaker 1: and got Leave and all these guys, and the video
Speaker 1: content is pretty popular, especially now during the pandemic. And
Speaker 1: we have no video content of you because you're in
Speaker 1: your house and we can't put a camera there. But
Speaker 1: if you put a webcam up and you set up
Speaker 1: a way to record it, then we could highlight you
Speaker 1: and promote the show. And I'm like, well, I need
Speaker 1: any promotion I can get, you know, doing the overnight show.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, you know, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Why not. And there's some other things that I have
Speaker 1: thought about doing that I have considered doing that that
Speaker 1: that couldn't happen or maybe you know, down the line,
Speaker 1: depending on what happens with some other things. It's all
Speaker 1: happening to side together. That fascinating. Listen, it's not fascinating,
Speaker 1: it's all I think. It's just no, it's not no.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't think anyone wants to look
Speaker 1: at me at all. I'm ugly, I'm repulsive. I got
Speaker 1: into radio because I'm ugly. But I will go on
Speaker 1: camera and uh, people watch, that's fine. If we add
Speaker 1: more people to the show, um, that's that's great. But
Speaker 1: you've always wanted to do more, right like you you
Speaker 1: were on in Australia or New Zealand, you're you're in Boston.
Speaker 1: You've always wanted to do more. So there's that push
Speaker 1: and pull with you that uh you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say me, but there's other people that have encouraged
Speaker 1: you with air quotes to do more on different platforms. Uh,
Speaker 1: not to say that I have encouraged other colleagues you
Speaker 1: to do that, sort of thing, and I've tried to
Speaker 1: do that on my own for them. UM, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you're coming around. This reminds me of of
Speaker 1: Lethal Weapon. That's a great movie. UM one, two, three,
Speaker 1: and four. It's like it's like Riggs and Murta like
Speaker 1: you are. That's relationship. Like there's that point in time
Speaker 1: in your radio career we just say like, fuck, I'm
Speaker 1: too old for this ship, and then here I come,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Ben, we're not too old for that ship.
Speaker 1: Never said but you thought it? You thought I never
Speaker 1: thought it. No, I've never thought that. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't even think I'm as old as I am. I
Speaker 1: feel like I haven't really aged. I know I have
Speaker 1: because my you know, I'm losing hair and I got
Speaker 1: gray hair and crap like that. But I'm like, physically,
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad or anything like that. I feel
Speaker 1: the same. I approach life the same way. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't feel any different. I know I'm getting closer
Speaker 1: to the end in the beginning, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like, come on, I know, but
Speaker 1: you were so against these other elements psychology. I had
Speaker 1: a full plate. I had a full plate. I had.
Speaker 1: At one point I had w E I and Boston
Speaker 1: and I was doing two or three days a week
Speaker 1: at night. And then I had the New Zealand thing,
Speaker 1: which was a weekly appearance on the radio New Zealand,
Speaker 1: and I had some other stuff on the side, so
Speaker 1: I had no time to do anything other than that.
Speaker 1: I was fully focused on all that stuff. And then
Speaker 1: you know, the EI thing went away because we went
Speaker 1: on the Sports Hub in Boston five, the Sports Hub
Speaker 1: by the way and Boston the great radio station, and
Speaker 1: then New Zealand went away because of the coronavirus. The
Speaker 1: whole fucking network shut down in Knockland, New Zealand. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: my friends out of work, and hopefully that will come
Speaker 1: back after the pandemic, but there's no guarantee it comes
Speaker 1: back after the pandemic. So uh so, yeah, so I
Speaker 1: lost all that other stuff. So now I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, the part of me when I got into radio,
Speaker 1: I was like that, well, I don't really have a
Speaker 1: backup plan when I get into radiar other than working
Speaker 1: at Costco or something. Not that that's a bad job.
Speaker 1: It's a very important job now, but I never had
Speaker 1: a backup plan. So I was always like, all right,
Speaker 1: if I'm to be in the business, I gotta have
Speaker 1: a couple of things going. I gotta I gotta be
Speaker 1: a juggling I gotta juggle a couple of things. I
Speaker 1: don't jug juggle a couple of things I can't put.
Speaker 1: You know, it's that only I don't want to put
Speaker 1: all your eggs in one basket, right, It's really true.
Speaker 1: You want to have some options in case something goes
Speaker 1: sideways with one of the gigs, and so right now
Speaker 1: I got no other options. You know, I think I
Speaker 1: think you can agree with me on this, is that
Speaker 1: just because you have a full plate doesn't mean it's
Speaker 1: necessarily the most nutritious. So I think when you scale
Speaker 1: back and you have a well balanced meal, and you know,
Speaker 1: I I think that you would agree. Being in radio
Speaker 1: for such long period of time that you can't do
Speaker 1: it all by yourself, even though there are times where
Speaker 1: you do everything by yourself, having a good support staff
Speaker 1: and people that encourage you and promote you and support
Speaker 1: you makes life for you that much more and pleasurable, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, such a NARCISSI I'm not even talking about myself. Well,
Speaker 1: you are you can do this smirk this annoying really
Speaker 1: doesn't say it's a west of the four o four,
Speaker 1: west of the four oh five argant that you have,
Speaker 1: and it's nauseating, you know, it's absolutely nauseating as what
Speaker 1: you know, what's east of the four or five? Ben Maller,
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, Glendale, some of the finer cities in the
Speaker 1: United play you just compare Beverly Hills in Glendale. I
Speaker 1: love Glendale. Pasadena's east of the four Old Fast is
Speaker 1: not west, It's not. There's a very depressed part of Passadena. Bullshit, Yes,
Speaker 1: hell yeah there is. Trust me. You go a little north, No,
Speaker 1: you go a little north of where were in that
Speaker 1: Altadena Pasadena area, little north of the famous strip there
Speaker 1: Colorado Boulevard where all those great restaurants and I used
Speaker 1: to love. Oh man, I look forward to going back
Speaker 1: to Colorado Boulevard past. Yeah, we had dinner there one time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. I used to hang out when I
Speaker 1: lived at an apartment in downtown. I would take the
Speaker 1: train out to Pasadena and just hang on. I loved
Speaker 1: and the vibe was great everything. But but if you
Speaker 1: go north, I mean I used to go to a
Speaker 1: gym that was on the border of Pasadena and Altadena,
Speaker 1: and I got my card broken into at that gym,
Speaker 1: and they said it happened all the time that that
Speaker 1: was it was that area. There was a ton of
Speaker 1: crime in that area. So yeah, there are pockets west
Speaker 1: of the east of the four oh five that are nice,
Speaker 1: but overwhelmingly that's where the blue collar worker lives. That's
Speaker 1: that's where the salt of the earth. I know you
Speaker 1: don't like salt of the earth people and all that
Speaker 1: you don't like the blue collar. Well nothing, that's what
Speaker 1: you all. Nothing tells me blue collar like an individual
Speaker 1: that performs their work at home. Now, I mean, since
Speaker 1: I'm not really white collar. Have you mentioned several times
Speaker 1: off the air I come into work like I have
Speaker 1: to wear a mask and and I'm driving to work
Speaker 1: all these different times. So let me point out, just
Speaker 1: just for the record, Um, you do this because you're
Speaker 1: not important enough to work from home. I don't understand
Speaker 1: that the company does not value enough. Just remember that
Speaker 1: to all your listeners out there, you're not important enough
Speaker 1: so you have to go outside of your house. You're
Speaker 1: so important that the company wants to protect me from
Speaker 1: the bug. So they've demanded that I quarantined the Mallard
Speaker 1: mansion because there's so I'm such a valuable piece of
Speaker 1: the Fox imp are that I have to stay in
Speaker 1: my house twenty four hours actually with twenty three hours
Speaker 1: a day because they go for about an hour walk,
Speaker 1: So twenty three hours a day I have to stay.
Speaker 1: How important night want to even risk my health to
Speaker 1: go outside? Think about that? How it's amazing, And that's
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. I agree. And with
Speaker 1: that same logic, we can apply that to other people
Speaker 1: that listen to your show that are required to go
Speaker 1: out of their house to do their job. That's the
Speaker 1: exact same logic that we're applying. Those people aren't as important,
Speaker 1: they're not as valuable apparently, So that's different things. In radio.
Speaker 1: I explain this. You know, you get talked to you
Speaker 1: on your level there down your grade level. So so
Speaker 1: here's the thing in the radio twelve degrees is alright, alright,
Speaker 1: So in the radio business, um, we can work remotely.
Speaker 1: If you are a police officer, you cannot enforce crime remotely.
Speaker 1: If you are a nurse, you can't. We're from home,
Speaker 1: you can't be effective. You can't do You can't doc
Speaker 1: right now, you can't. You're not as effective when you're
Speaker 1: actually seeing patients. Right somebody comes to you and says, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm sick, I've got whatever illness. If you're not physically there,
Speaker 1: it is much more difficult to properly treat those people.
Speaker 1: So therefore those jobs you have to actually do. I'm
Speaker 1: in a business where you don't have to do it.
Speaker 1: You're not in the same side of the business. You're
Speaker 1: in the lower wrong of the radio business. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's where you started. I think I started in
Speaker 1: San Diego. Actually I started before that, No, but I
Speaker 1: mean in terms of the job and and operation. The
Speaker 1: way that you were into the industry was what as
Speaker 1: a board op or an anchor. Well, I was very
Speaker 1: briefly an engineer that was a board op, but that
Speaker 1: didn't last very long. I was the engineer for San
Speaker 1: Diego State men's basketball. I told the story before. I
Speaker 1: had some major disasters when I ran the board for
Speaker 1: Aztecs basketball back in the day. I still have night
Speaker 1: mirrors about that, and that's a disaster to be in
Speaker 1: my book. So I did that, and then I was
Speaker 1: I was I started an intern for Hacks. I ran
Speaker 1: the board for a little bit. I did a little producing,
Speaker 1: not very much of that, and then I became a
Speaker 1: radio reporter, did that for a number of years in
Speaker 1: the nineties, and then they started a station in l A.
Speaker 1: And I became a gasbag, a talk show host. This
Speaker 1: is fascinating because you were more valuable than the guys
Speaker 1: that you bitch and monat by being off the radio.
Speaker 1: There's certain times in your show where it's just puts
Speaker 1: and you're yelling at Roberto and everybody else here at
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio because you're not on the radio. Your
Speaker 1: valuable voice is not on the radio. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Here's what's coming
Speaker 1: up on the menu for today's edition that we've already
Speaker 1: been doing the podcast, but what we have to don't
Speaker 1: know why I need to do it now. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's already a zillion minutes into this thing. But but anyway,
Speaker 1: so here's what's coming up. We're gonna get to respect respect.
Speaker 1: Also Kremlin's and Goblins Buster and we have don't stick
Speaker 1: to sports as well. We'll get to all that, and
Speaker 1: we will begin with this. You know, Gascana, we just
Speaker 1: talked about my road in radio and how I've been
Speaker 1: able to maneuver the highways and byways of the radio industry.
Speaker 1: Um mostly successful. I've only been fired a few times
Speaker 1: in radio, and so never has anyone ever done anything
Speaker 1: to say, hey boy, you're doing a good job. That's
Speaker 1: a solid, that's a solid man, You're great. Doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: I've never won any awards in radio. The closest thing
Speaker 1: I've gotten to an award in radio is restaurants in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Denver, and Lawrence, Kansas and formerly in Syracuse
Speaker 1: and in Michigan named food dishes after me. That's to
Speaker 1: me a Marconi award right now. I did technically work
Speaker 1: at a radio station that won the Marconi Award. W
Speaker 1: e I the year I might was there for like
Speaker 1: a year and a half, two years or whatever, and
Speaker 1: they won Marconi Awards. So that's how I got the
Speaker 1: nickname Marconi Maler Marconi because I was part I did
Speaker 1: two or three shows a week at night during the week,
Speaker 1: and that station won the Marconi Awards. So I am
Speaker 1: a Marconi Award winning broadcast as horse shit, it's not horseshit.
Speaker 1: I was at e I and I they they won
Speaker 1: the Marconi fact look it up. Very like Parker review
Speaker 1: or Luke Walton of you to just pick up a ring,
Speaker 1: you know, they get a ring to they get the
Speaker 1: same ring. Smush Parker got the same ring Kobe Parker,
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant got and just like you know, you go
Speaker 1: down the Chicago bo Dickie Simpkins get the same ring
Speaker 1: as Michael Jordan, didn't get a different ring, get the
Speaker 1: same fucking ring. And I was part of it. So,
Speaker 1: but that is the backdrop. I got an amazing seeing surprise.
Speaker 1: You know, the one thing I have not done ever
Speaker 1: since March actually it was January nine. Ever since that day,
Speaker 1: I stopped checking the company email. You know why, I'll
Speaker 1: stopped checking the company email. I have a pretty good
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons why. But yeah, it's go on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I got whacked on that day. It was the
Speaker 1: worst decision in the history of Fox Sports. Rate. I
Speaker 1: was terminated. I got the coal miners holiday, as they
Speaker 1: say they're I was put on the do not call list,
Speaker 1: and so you know, it was the the budget. The
Speaker 1: economy had crashed, you know, eight and it was early
Speaker 1: oh nine, and they laid off a bunch of people
Speaker 1: and I happened to be on that list. And so
Speaker 1: I went to check my email and uh immediately lockout.
Speaker 1: So I realized that that day, I can't trust this
Speaker 1: email because if something doesn't go right, you know, if
Speaker 1: there's a you know, a fart in the wind, this
Speaker 1: email is gonna get shut down. And so I that
Speaker 1: day I stopped checking maim bout. Now I have to
Speaker 1: check it a couple of times a year for W
Speaker 1: two forms and things like that, you know, that kind
Speaker 1: of tax stuff. It's tax season right now, so I
Speaker 1: had to check. So the other day I logged into
Speaker 1: the company email. I slid her in there, and I
Speaker 1: hadn't been in the company email a long time, and
Speaker 1: I get this this message, you know, and I eat
Speaker 1: most of It's just like Dan buyer emails and Steve
Speaker 1: the Sagre emails, and these guys they were sending like this,
Speaker 1: the news of the day cut type thing, which I
Speaker 1: never even look at. Thanks, but they said, you've said
Speaker 1: some of those as well, So I never even look
Speaker 1: at those. But so I'm going through my email. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to see if there's anything that I missed that
Speaker 1: I really probably should have seen, but I'm bad at
Speaker 1: checking email, and so I get this email. I scrolled down.
Speaker 1: You know, most of it's pretty generic that a lot
Speaker 1: of the radio trade websites, they'll send us links two
Speaker 1: stories about the industry, what's going on in the industry,
Speaker 1: especially now with the pandemic, and a lot of those
Speaker 1: things in the inbox. So I'm like going through and
Speaker 1: I'm doing whatever. Uh, and then i get this email headlined,
Speaker 1: Hey Ben, I'm asking your approval for and then hiss
Speaker 1: the details and uh, this is outstanding. So I occasionally
Speaker 1: referenced a very brief education that I had at Saddleback
Speaker 1: College back in the day. And so this is the
Speaker 1: program director of Saddleback College. The radio station which actually
Speaker 1: now since I left. When I was at Saddleback College,
Speaker 1: it was only in South Orange County, but they partnered
Speaker 1: with cow State Northridge, and so it's like a simulcast.
Speaker 1: My old college station is now a simulcast between cow
Speaker 1: State Northridge and that they have studios down there, so
Speaker 1: it's a collaboration between satellite. It's like a satellite type deal.
Speaker 1: So it's on in both l A and Orange County.
Speaker 1: When I was there, it was only on in Orange County.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so that being said, they are promoting and tributing. Uh.
Speaker 1: They wanted to give tribute to me, a proper tribute
Speaker 1: to me, and they also at the same time, I
Speaker 1: wanted to promote the radio station. And so the ultimate
Speaker 1: sign of respect from Saddleback, as Warner Wolf would say,
Speaker 1: let's go to the audio tape. This is going to
Speaker 1: blow your mind away. The single I'm not exaggerating here
Speaker 1: the single greatest honor I've gotten in radio from my
Speaker 1: old college radio station. Here we go April. Ben is
Speaker 1: born in Irvine, California. Obviously a bright and inquisitive child,
Speaker 1: Ben struggles and a conventional high school curriculum, but his
Speaker 1: keen interest in sports broadcasting leads him to enroll at
Speaker 1: Saddleback College, where he becomes play by play announcer of
Speaker 1: Gauchos football and basketball games on the radio. This experience
Speaker 1: at Saddleback helps prepare Ben for a full time career
Speaker 1: as a radio sports journalist on Fox Sports Radio. I
Speaker 1: love l s you in this game. I don't trust
Speaker 1: a j McCarey. Saddleback College salutes, Ben Malice the Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard Show. We are in there everywhere, that aucho always
Speaker 1: a gouchow. Where will your saddleback college dreams take you?
Speaker 1: Find out at Saddleback dot e du man. That is
Speaker 1: like audio porn is what that is? So that's so narcisstic.
Speaker 1: The soul is great, that is wonderful. Are you like Alex?
Speaker 1: Where you so excited? I called you the wrong name
Speaker 1: I called you. Let me tell you something. I'm for Clempton.
Speaker 1: All right. I am choked with emotion, is what I am.
Speaker 1: I am so finally, after all these years of bloviating
Speaker 1: over the radio and and being a gas bag and
Speaker 1: all this the finely, we have reached the pinnacle. A
Speaker 1: radio commercial slash tribute to me, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: We wonderful vers this we know to me, I didn't
Speaker 1: say what I said. You said we have reached this pinnacle. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a it's an effort. You know, I've got multiple personalities,
Speaker 1: as you and my personalities have worked out. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But it's one thing to have the nicknames. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm known as the spin massive Misinformation, the banner broadcaster.
Speaker 1: I've been called the Beethoven of BS by people that
Speaker 1: listen to the show, the curmudgeon of commentary, although I'm
Speaker 1: pretty optimistic, all of a sudden uh chasm of sarcasm
Speaker 1: TSAs any dark night a week night sports radio, Mogul
Speaker 1: of mischief, Benny the Brazen King of zing, Moneyball Mallard,
Speaker 1: facetious Fox, Salting of insulting, jumping Jack of wisecrack, Insight
Speaker 1: of overnight name, Bob of Negativity, Sage of Outrage, Pinnacle
Speaker 1: of synegal, Prince of preposters, Professor or propaganda, hazar I hyperbably,
Speaker 1: and the mad Hatter of sports jedder and and mind
Speaker 1: I had. One of my other nicknames is Benny Brightside.
Speaker 1: So I am known as Benny Brightside because I look
Speaker 1: at the I look at the glass is half full
Speaker 1: and getting filled up all the way to the top.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, guess I know it pains you to
Speaker 1: give me a pat on the back, and uh that
Speaker 1: boy and all that, but that momo, that commercial to
Speaker 1: get people to go to Saddleback is outstanding. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna be overwhelmed with students now because of that.
Speaker 1: I just think that we should applaud you for for
Speaker 1: opening your eyes, because, as I mentioned the top, we
Speaker 1: are doing so much to help push you out of
Speaker 1: your comfort zone and you're beginning to finally blossom like
Speaker 1: a delicate rose that you. Yeah, I mean, it's so contentious,
Speaker 1: you guess. I'm not. I'm you are? You got this
Speaker 1: like smart again? I gotta teach you, all right, I
Speaker 1: gotta teach you how to be relatable to the common
Speaker 1: name I am. I mean, I'm not. For the record,
Speaker 1: I have never hung up on a color that calls
Speaker 1: me internationally like you did earlier in the week to Terry,
Speaker 1: like you hung up on the guy you want to
Speaker 1: stay high, Terry thought ye, Terry. Initially, Terry played oblivious. Originally,
Speaker 1: you know, played a little oblivious like I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going No, no, no, And then of course I
Speaker 1: figured out that you were communicating with him. Uh, you
Speaker 1: scumbag behind my back. In the end of all, you
Speaker 1: were the lowest common denominators what you are there. There's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with me trying to promote your podcast to
Speaker 1: the masses. That is, you were booking. You were booking
Speaker 1: a guest, which, first of all, I don't have guests.
Speaker 1: We have friends that hang with those people that we
Speaker 1: liked that we hang with. I don't do guests on
Speaker 1: this I don't like guests. Uh, it's not an interview
Speaker 1: which people we hang with. We asked random questions too.
Speaker 1: Now I want the record and to show that we
Speaker 1: had actually planned and I had booked someone. We won't
Speaker 1: say who, but they flaked I got the message about
Speaker 1: an hour before we were beginning to record the podcast
Speaker 1: that this person flaked out on us. So we'll see
Speaker 1: whether they come. We give them another opportunity to come
Speaker 1: on the podcast in the future. But yeah, so does
Speaker 1: that give you any excuse to clip Terry at the
Speaker 1: knees and cut him off? I mean he was calling
Speaker 1: long distance. Well, I would have put Terry on the
Speaker 1: podcast if it had been my idea, but it was
Speaker 1: your No, it was not. Yeah, originally it was. But
Speaker 1: you were working in cahoots behind my back in some
Speaker 1: kind of mutual admiration society with Terry, where you're gonna
Speaker 1: put him on. You found the one guy in the militia,
Speaker 1: the one guy who likes you and gets all with you,
Speaker 1: and it gives you extra syrup. It's sickening. Is what
Speaker 1: it is. It's nauseating. And so of course, rather than
Speaker 1: put on a great man brigad dear general, like moving
Speaker 1: man Matt from Boston, or Justin in Cincinnati, or Chris
Speaker 1: and Houston, you put the ship in the militia legends
Speaker 1: in the militia. Well here's the thing. Like, I gotta
Speaker 1: like Chris and Houston. I want to do a power
Speaker 1: our with Chris and Houston, but he's working at the
Speaker 1: at the store. He I can't he can't dedicate the
Speaker 1: amount of time I need because he's got stuff to do.
Speaker 1: And Justin's uh, I can't put him on because I
Speaker 1: got the FCC. I gotta worry about that guy's got
Speaker 1: a potty mouth. Yeah, well, wasn't he busy like flying
Speaker 1: to another state to go visit one of your old
Speaker 1: colleagues ex girlfriends and getting the corona or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what's going on. Oh now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you don't know what's going on. Listen,
Speaker 1: I have no I have no idea. I hear rumors, yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear rumors, but I I do not know whether
Speaker 1: that and see, Chris and Houston can't come on you
Speaker 1: know why. It's because he's not available. I can't rip.
Speaker 1: Just if that's true, and you know people traveling around
Speaker 1: to uh hook up or whatever, I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: be ripping now. Now you're not supposed to do it
Speaker 1: because of the coronavirus. But back in the day, let
Speaker 1: me tell you guess you know I you know, I
Speaker 1: would drive pretty far. I mean I would go pretty
Speaker 1: far if I thought I had a chance of succeeding.
Speaker 1: What's the furthest you've driven for a booty call? Or
Speaker 1: I think Santa Barbara. Okay, it's not like you're going
Speaker 1: to like, well, but it's this. But but listen, if
Speaker 1: we were on the East Coast, it would be like
Speaker 1: three states over from where I was living at the time. So,
Speaker 1: but you're going to Santa Barbara. It's not like you're
Speaker 1: going to Stockton. What do you are? I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on with Justin. He's driving around picking up bodies.
Speaker 1: That was his gig for a while. It's hard. Women
Speaker 1: generally don't find that attractive. I don't know, what do
Speaker 1: you what do you want? You know? To be fair,
Speaker 1: he's probably like a dead body in bed anyway. Wow, Well,
Speaker 1: you would know. Maybe you should, you know, test it
Speaker 1: out from your female militia members. It probably so. Listen, Terry,
Speaker 1: I liked you, I don't like you as much. What
Speaker 1: the fun is that I found out you were behind
Speaker 1: my back like a snake with gascon. That is not
Speaker 1: the approach I would have taken there. And so you
Speaker 1: you know, you got a little bulls on your back now,
Speaker 1: Terry in England, I hate to say that, but it's
Speaker 1: not right. Now you have to kiss the boot. And
Speaker 1: if you kiss the boot then I will put you
Speaker 1: back into good graces of the Mala Milish. I'm willing
Speaker 1: to forgive and forget. I will give the all them
Speaker 1: branch to you and all that. But Bet, speaking of
Speaker 1: kissing the boot, I did watch one of your favorite quotes.
Speaker 1: I've watched that movie There at Night, the man who
Speaker 1: shot Liberty Valence, sixties movie that I quote quite a
Speaker 1: bit there. Yes, it's pretty good. Right, that's good. When
Speaker 1: the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend
Speaker 1: that solid it is true, it is so true, and
Speaker 1: we've you know, I hate to beat maccabb but I
Speaker 1: did a monologue the other day about Roy Halliday and
Speaker 1: his demise and the NTSB report came out and it
Speaker 1: was bad, bad, bad news. You know, he's on ampheta
Speaker 1: means he had drug addiction apparently, like a whole cocktail
Speaker 1: of am being and all these other drugs. Now, who's drinking? Now?
Speaker 1: Who crushed you more? Because I remember when you did
Speaker 1: your Jose Fernandez monologue. Oh I got yeah, keep saying thing, Well,
Speaker 1: it's these guys when the legend becomes the fact, you
Speaker 1: go with the legend. Legend is these guys are star athletes,
Speaker 1: their bulletproof they have no they don't. They don't fall
Speaker 1: to the same vices the rest of us have. And
Speaker 1: so when they die, we're supposed to give them a state,
Speaker 1: a rule in the proper and knows, people, we all
Speaker 1: have issues, and we all have problems, and no one's infallible.
Speaker 1: I get that. But you know, if you get all
Speaker 1: boozed up and fly your plane into the ocean, you've
Speaker 1: got two young kids and a wife at home, you know,
Speaker 1: come on, are we supposed to celebrate that? And if
Speaker 1: you get in a boat in Miami in the in
Speaker 1: the night, in the middle of the night with a
Speaker 1: couple of buddies and you're doing a bunch of coke
Speaker 1: and you crash into a jetty and kill everyone. Do
Speaker 1: you deserve a state funeral? And nine days of the morning,
Speaker 1: I say no. Now, maybe I'm in I'm cruel and
Speaker 1: all that, but the lesson. The reason I bring that
Speaker 1: stuff up is because when the legend becomes the fact,
Speaker 1: you go with the legends, and people don't want to
Speaker 1: hear that that. They just want to they want to
Speaker 1: celebrate the greatness of the athletic ability. Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 1: I noticed that earlier this week. Two you actually watching
Speaker 1: the World Series game? I did. I don't usually watch
Speaker 1: old games, and apparently no one else does. We heard
Speaker 1: from somebody this week that the ratings are terrible for
Speaker 1: these games. But but I watch a little nostalgia. I
Speaker 1: was flashing back to when I was a kid watching
Speaker 1: the World Series on TV, and I love Joe Garagiola
Speaker 1: and vincel I'm such a broadcasting nerd like I was
Speaker 1: more excited about seeing Garagiola and Scully on TV and
Speaker 1: it propped back. Oh man, did I love that, dude?
Speaker 1: I used to watch those guys. And then and then
Speaker 1: after that, I like overdosed on nostalgia because I fell
Speaker 1: into that trap that I do every once in a while,
Speaker 1: I'll do the nostalgic boogie, and I'll go over to
Speaker 1: the YouTube and I'll type in this week in baseball,
Speaker 1: and and then for like the next two two and
Speaker 1: a half hours, I will just like time will stand
Speaker 1: still and I will just worship the late great mel
Speaker 1: Allen and twib notes and uh straight A's in Oakland.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are flying high in St. Louis, like all
Speaker 1: those dopey lines. But when I was a kid man,
Speaker 1: did I love all that crab? I thought that was
Speaker 1: the greatest thing in the in the world here and
Speaker 1: all those And now you watch it, you're like, oh, boy,
Speaker 1: if I said that, I'd rip You know whoever said that,
Speaker 1: now I'd ripped. But you know when he when he
Speaker 1: said it was it was great. Be sure to catch
Speaker 1: live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
Speaker 1: am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. It's weird because we were
Speaker 1: actually ready to tape a podcast episode like two or
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, and the background audio was actually Game
Speaker 1: one of the World Series, and you were ripping me
Speaker 1: because I was watching highlights of that. Yeah. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the one World Series eight allowed allowed. I did that.
Speaker 1: I did that during I think one of your shows
Speaker 1: when you're off the air for a healthy amount of time.
Speaker 1: Which which health problem did I have that you brought
Speaker 1: onto me? Which the comrad existant condition came out because
Speaker 1: your com rex dropped. So I was. I stubbled upon
Speaker 1: YouTube and I was watching the nine a f C
Speaker 1: Divisional and championship games on NBC. Dick Enberg was on there.
Speaker 1: And that's another one. Charlie Jones, remember Charlie Jonson. Yes,
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy. Bob Trumpy always did the shittiest games and
Speaker 1: I loved it. You know, every Bill's game when they
Speaker 1: were bad, or Colts game when they were terrible, Bob Truppy,
Speaker 1: or you know the Bengals who were still terrible, and
Speaker 1: it was I always knew that was a bad game
Speaker 1: when Trumpy was doing. It's kind of like now, my
Speaker 1: my friend Dick Stockton. If Dick Stockton's calling the game,
Speaker 1: it's not one of the top games in which is
Speaker 1: weird because he had some really good games in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I think that every time we went through the menu,
Speaker 1: he actually had some some pretty decent games. They turned
Speaker 1: out to be good, like you had, you had graded
Speaker 1: him as bad, but then they actually turned out to
Speaker 1: be competitive. Well, let me say this, when Fox puts
Speaker 1: the schedule out, they project what they think are going
Speaker 1: to be the bad games. It doesn't always work out
Speaker 1: because you're projecting. It's kind of like the weather. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a forecast, and the forecast is often wrong. But
Speaker 1: they're projecting what's gonna be a popular game in this
Speaker 1: day and age. You got you know, weatherman that are wrong,
Speaker 1: and now you've got doctors and people that are looking
Speaker 1: at models that are wrong on the coronavirus too. So
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, listen, it's I've been ranting about that.
Speaker 1: That's a whole We can put that in a different
Speaker 1: podcast because I got some thoughts on on that. It's
Speaker 1: fascinating what's going on right now out there, But I
Speaker 1: wanted to get to the Gremlins and Goblins buster, alright,
Speaker 1: so I should win some kind of I heart be
Speaker 1: above and beyond the call of duty a word. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the company has something like that, but
Speaker 1: my god, did I do a courageous act this week.
Speaker 1: So if you've listened to the Overnight show, you know
Speaker 1: that I have had some major technical issues that have
Speaker 1: popped up over the last couple of weeks. Was knocked
Speaker 1: off the year. I had to do multiple segments on
Speaker 1: my phone because my equipment was malfunctioning and it was
Speaker 1: a nightmare, and from the remote studio that we're broadcasting
Speaker 1: from compliments of the coronavirus, and so I had some
Speaker 1: issues here. I used to have an I s d
Speaker 1: N set up. Not to give you a little inside radio,
Speaker 1: but I guess I'll give you an inside radio. So
Speaker 1: I had an I s DN set up, which is
Speaker 1: a hard wire line and it's old technology. The company
Speaker 1: wanted me to get rid of it. They moved on
Speaker 1: from it, the industry has moved on from it. I
Speaker 1: never had any problems with that. I never had any
Speaker 1: problems with the I s d N line, but the
Speaker 1: company wanted me to get rid of it and go
Speaker 1: to a more complex internet based UH situation. And so
Speaker 1: I did, of course, because you know who am, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm a nobody. So I said, sure, whatever you want,
Speaker 1: I'll have another UH. And so so anyways, I did that,
Speaker 1: and I've had I've had nothing of a problems with
Speaker 1: this new setup of of late, and so every day
Speaker 1: we'd have issues that the last couple of weeks, and
Speaker 1: so Roberto would send off an email to the engineering
Speaker 1: department and crickets. Nobody got back those not even in
Speaker 1: an acknowledgement that they received the email. Well the other
Speaker 1: night it was such a ship show that literally that
Speaker 1: and I you know was it was. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: So that led to like the what what's the term
Speaker 1: defcon one? Right? And that's what the So they went
Speaker 1: Defcon one, DEFCN five? I think is it deathcon five?
Speaker 1: I thought it was Defcon one. I thought it goes
Speaker 1: in reverse. I thought like def Con five was was
Speaker 1: the worst? Yeah, I used to think that too, and
Speaker 1: I said Defcon five. And then I had somebody with
Speaker 1: a military background who said, Defcon one's actually the highest statue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is five is minimum, one is max. Yeah. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I made the same mistake. You would think it would
Speaker 1: be the oppotuite, you would think Defcon five would be
Speaker 1: the worst. And then but no, Defcon one is the
Speaker 1: I love how like google Defcon five and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden there's a picture of JFK in there. Cis
Speaker 1: it's appropriate? Any So? Anyway, so I had some issues
Speaker 1: and after the last disastrous broadcast where I was like,
Speaker 1: I was really like after usually trying to whatever happens,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, who cares? You know? Go to bed?
Speaker 1: But I was like piste off because I was like,
Speaker 1: spent spent a lot of time getting ready for the show,
Speaker 1: and you assume you'll be able to do the show
Speaker 1: the way you want to do the show, and it's
Speaker 1: a disaster. So anyway, So I get a phone call
Speaker 1: in the afternoon from the one of the head engineers
Speaker 1: at I Heeart, who I didn't even know who. This
Speaker 1: guy never talked about at the company for years. I've
Speaker 1: been at the company for probably twenty years, never talked again.
Speaker 1: His name Fred. No, it was not Fred. I've talked
Speaker 1: to Fred before. This was a different guy. So this
Speaker 1: guy calls up and, uh, hey whatever. We had a
Speaker 1: brief conversation. He says, listen, call you back in about
Speaker 1: half an hour. I'm gonna get somebody else on and
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna go through this, we're gonna figure
Speaker 1: out what the hell is going on. Um And so
Speaker 1: I said, okay, fine, I'll be here, and in half
Speaker 1: an hour later, Ring Ring calls me up. I'm on
Speaker 1: I'm on a conference call with a team of engineers
Speaker 1: and we go through all the equipment here the I
Speaker 1: Heart engineers and they I have to fix it, though,
Speaker 1: I have to physically do the thing to fix it.
Speaker 1: So they walk me through the steps that they think,
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're checking boxes and what they think
Speaker 1: the issue could be. And we figured out the problem
Speaker 1: and I was able to fix it. So I should
Speaker 1: win some kind of I Heart Media Engineering Above and
Speaker 1: Beyond the Call of Duty award UH and UH possibly
Speaker 1: an FCC award, some kind of FCC. I have an
Speaker 1: FCC license. I don't know. I guess it's it's expired.
Speaker 1: But when I got into radio, I had to get
Speaker 1: a card from the government to run a radio board.
Speaker 1: And they don't have to do that anymore. Roberto told
Speaker 1: me the on the air the other day that he
Speaker 1: does not have a license. I had to get a license.
Speaker 1: I never got a license. I got a license with
Speaker 1: a licensed broadcast. I was, I got a license. What
Speaker 1: year was that? This is the early nineties. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: What's that that was? That's interesting. I've never I never
Speaker 1: knew that. I mean now, I mean, you have the
Speaker 1: badges though you have badges and paperwork that gives you
Speaker 1: a clearance to to drive. I know, yes, I am
Speaker 1: h key, Uh what does it say? It's the term there,
Speaker 1: there's the I don't forget the emergency resp answering it. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: there's some Communications Act that passed during one of the
Speaker 1: World Wars that broadcasters are essential. And uh, you have
Speaker 1: a card. I don't use it because I'm not leaving
Speaker 1: my house, but you you have in case you get
Speaker 1: pulled over and they say you're not supposed to be
Speaker 1: out of your house now, and you got that, except
Speaker 1: if you're in Michigan. Now you've got a couple of
Speaker 1: sheriffs that are actually uh putting the boots to the
Speaker 1: governor out there about about people being quarantined not able
Speaker 1: to visit other people from door to door. So it
Speaker 1: seems a little much. It seems a little much to me,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. Drunk on power. Maybe Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
Speaker 1: Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot
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Speaker 1: s R to listen Live Well Vett Well Vette taking
Speaker 1: things a little too far? You know, there's always that
Speaker 1: person that takes things a little too far, right, then yeah,
Speaker 1: you're having fun, and then somebody does the one thing
Speaker 1: they're not supposed to do. It's like they dropped the
Speaker 1: turn in the punch bowl or something like that. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're just kidding right now. You can't now not since
Speaker 1: you brought it up. Um, and being off the air,
Speaker 1: I know it was a naked feeling for you, because
Speaker 1: I know you tend to have a stopwatch when you're
Speaker 1: not talking, but you're on the air, Um, someone else
Speaker 1: hawking the mic. Supposedly, how was the show when you
Speaker 1: were off the air? Well, I don't know because I
Speaker 1: couldn't hear it, so I don't know. I assume Eddie
Speaker 1: was panicking and Coope and Roberto were trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what was going on. And so I when I
Speaker 1: got knocked off there Sometimes I got knocked off in
Speaker 1: the middle of a monologue. I was doing a Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey monologue and I got knocked off, and I didn't know.
Speaker 1: So it's funny because I had mentioned on this podcast
Speaker 1: with Lee Klein we had on a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I and Lee had something similar happened, and I
Speaker 1: goofed on him, and I guess it's again the karma
Speaker 1: laws of the podcast world with you a whole and
Speaker 1: sure enough, the same thing after me. I'm doing a monologue.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm nailing it and I'm gonna get a
Speaker 1: tent from even the Russian judge. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I find out that half the half the
Speaker 1: monologue wasn't even on the air because it got cut
Speaker 1: off after seven minutes. I'm starting to think that i'm
Speaker 1: your karma, like for all the wrong that you've done
Speaker 1: in your life, all the wrong reasons, you're you're my
Speaker 1: bad luck. I think it's what you're I'm snake bit
Speaker 1: having to work with you. I think that's maybe right.
Speaker 1: Maybe By the way, kiss of death, by the way,
Speaker 1: we talked about this two weeks ago. Every day with
Speaker 1: you guest, on this Friday thirteenth, I just want to say,
Speaker 1: it's nothing wrong with that. Everyone loves a good Friday, right.
Speaker 1: If you were an animal, you'd be a black cat. Wow,
Speaker 1: Now you're racist, all of a sudden, as something racist
Speaker 1: about that at all? Talking about God. So because you
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of confidence in other people. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious as to how the show does. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. People, here's the odd thing that people loved it,
Speaker 1: you know, and people the biggest fans, and I get
Speaker 1: a lot of One of the cool things about doing
Speaker 1: the shows, we get real time reaction. And people were
Speaker 1: they they thought it was the greatest show they'd ever heard.
Speaker 1: And here I am thinking, man, this is just embarrassing.
Speaker 1: This is a network radio show. We can't even stay
Speaker 1: in the fucking air. And h I'm doing this on
Speaker 1: my goddamn phone, you know, in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: scream and I'm like, what it's like the end of
Speaker 1: the world. And then I get all these emas, Oh,
Speaker 1: that was great. That was the funniest show I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: That was like a throwback to the old days, you know.
Speaker 1: And and it's you know what it is. It's schadenfreud.
Speaker 1: It's shot. People are taking joy out of my misery.
Speaker 1: They are feeling pleasure, just like I feel press you know,
Speaker 1: I I feel a sense of happiness when I hear
Speaker 1: something bad happens to the astros. That that is a
Speaker 1: powerful drug, that whole revenge thing, that's, you know, the
Speaker 1: quickest and easiest way to remedy. That kind of of
Speaker 1: technical and error on your part. Take your ass into
Speaker 1: the studio like Coop does, Eddie does, Roberto does. That
Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee. And now I know you're a newbie, a
Speaker 1: neophyte in radio, but let me let me teach you
Speaker 1: a little something about business. I've been knocked off the
Speaker 1: year there. I've been like, yes, Bob Gara got the
Speaker 1: nickname wrong Button Bob, Bob Garra. I asked him to
Speaker 1: reset my computer one night. He then proceeds to walk
Speaker 1: down the hallway. He makes a right turn, then he
Speaker 1: makes a little bit of a left turn, then another
Speaker 1: right into the engineering room and proceeds to shut down
Speaker 1: the entire network. He found the one switch. Nobody even
Speaker 1: knows what switch that is, and it shut us off.
Speaker 1: The entire network went dark, and uh, he got the
Speaker 1: nickname wrong Button Bob from that point forward, and he
Speaker 1: got promoted. Now he's the producer with Rob Parker and
Speaker 1: Bruss sort. I mean, he did something manly like you
Speaker 1: you just discussed, but it was an error. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: happen if you were here in the studio with us.
Speaker 1: So it's fine. I mean, there's other hosts that come
Speaker 1: in here and still do their show. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't want to, it's fine. Well it's not
Speaker 1: many they didn't do that, and uh, key people, they're
Speaker 1: trying to protect their health, people like my know, Jason
Speaker 1: harm In, people like that. You know who comes into
Speaker 1: the studios. You know, Colin Coward goes into the studio
Speaker 1: in Burbank. So it's pretty nice that he can conduct
Speaker 1: business there. And well he does that in part, I
Speaker 1: believe because he wants the camera in there, because he
Speaker 1: likes the video that gets Internet. It's good for his brand.
Speaker 1: He's a TV guy. He can't really do TV now
Speaker 1: because the show is on on hold and all that.
Speaker 1: So at least, I mean, at least admit a little
Speaker 1: bit that you miss coming into work. Like listen, I
Speaker 1: do miss coming you know. I got into radio because
Speaker 1: I like going to the radio station every once in
Speaker 1: a while. I would like to do the show from
Speaker 1: home and hopefully when things get back to normal, I'll
Speaker 1: still be able to do that. But no, I I
Speaker 1: I am annoyed by this. It bothers me that we
Speaker 1: you things can't be normal and and you know it's
Speaker 1: it's annoying to me. I feel like, you know, this
Speaker 1: is this is unnecessary a lot of this stuff. That's
Speaker 1: just my opinion. But you know what the management management wants.
Speaker 1: I follow. I'm a good foot soldier, guest guns what
Speaker 1: I Well, you should learn that sometimes because maybe you
Speaker 1: that in the bullshit. I'm a great wing man and
Speaker 1: you cannot deny that. In fact, I know you're annoyed
Speaker 1: by a lot of things. I will be happy to
Speaker 1: report that this podcast is up over the last thirty days,
Speaker 1: so we are doing more podcasts, so that might be
Speaker 1: who cares. That just means that it's more popular. I
Speaker 1: think that's good this. I'm glad people like the podcasting,
Speaker 1: whether they're downloading the podcast and that is. That's one.
Speaker 1: And now we've started and creating a monster. So now
Speaker 1: we have to do the podcast. We have to do
Speaker 1: three a week. Now we were doing one and now
Speaker 1: we gotta do three. So well, it's not hard, is it. Well,
Speaker 1: it's hard to cash the check, you know. Let's just
Speaker 1: say it. Listen, you wear the big belt. You gotta
Speaker 1: fucking school to promote you on air. You got the
Speaker 1: luxury of you have the true generations of broadcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have the luxury of operating your show from home.
Speaker 1: I think you carry a big stick, so you know,
Speaker 1: if you want the hell, you know, it's fine. Again,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, guest, and we don't need to talk
Speaker 1: about that family show. But I'm not gonna complain. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I'm not gonna denounce you for saying that.
Speaker 1: If you want to talk more about that, you are
Speaker 1: more more than welcome. All right, Well, we'll put the
Speaker 1: baby to bed, as they say, right, guest. So you've
Speaker 1: got Facebook, Twitter, Instagram accounts. Yes, I got three different
Speaker 1: names on three different platforms. I'm really trying to get
Speaker 1: my Instagram following up because that that's the newest of
Speaker 1: the platforms. And that's Ben Mallard on Fox. I'm a
Speaker 1: late arrival to the Instagram game. So Ben Mallar on
Speaker 1: Fox and usually post some stuff on the weekends more
Speaker 1: than during the week but you can see and I
Speaker 1: might start put some videos on there from the new
Speaker 1: camera that I'm getting in my remote studio here, so
Speaker 1: we'll have some videos up there. Also the Facebook page
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show, Now that's the Place in the Future podcast.
Speaker 1: So this weekend we'll have asked Ben, which is well
Speaker 1: not really asked. We call it the mail bag or
Speaker 1: grab bag, whatever you want to use. It's a spinoff
Speaker 1: of Ask Ben. It's your questions. Those all come from
Speaker 1: the Facebook page. So if you love this podcast and
Speaker 1: you want to contribute content to the podcast, the easiest
Speaker 1: way to do that would be to go to the
Speaker 1: Facebook page, which again is Ben Mallard Show on Facebook,
Speaker 1: and then on Twitter, which is what I use a
Speaker 1: lot during the show to get real time reaction from listeners.
Speaker 1: We have the Muppet Militia that's on there with Earning
Speaker 1: the Great Old Pineer and then a bunch of muppets
Speaker 1: that started up. I don't know who's behind that, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny. Uh So that's Ben mav just my
Speaker 1: name there on Twitter and that's that's all. I'm a
Speaker 1: guestcon I guess you're not a Facebook guy. You're not
Speaker 1: allowed on their banned a couple of years ago, but
Speaker 1: you're still on the other play. Yeah, I'm on Twitter
Speaker 1: at David J. Gascons. If you want to send me
Speaker 1: some d m s to be a guest on the
Speaker 1: on the podcast, you can do that shout out Terry
Speaker 1: over in the UK and then uh of course on
Speaker 1: Instagram at Dave gascon So yeah, and of course you're
Speaker 1: you're not gonna solicit women to send you d M s. Right,
Speaker 1: you're not doing that. Well, I mean they do that freely,
Speaker 1: don't need to beg for it, like guys in Ohio.
Speaker 1: But you know, wow, wow, wow wow. You know he's
Speaker 1: going to get the last word. You realize that now
Speaker 1: he's got like a lifetime supply of golden tickets. He's
Speaker 1: just gonna call up and it's gonna be NonStop. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be nobody's listening at that time. Anyway, according to
Speaker 1: the numbers, many people and ratings are up on the
Speaker 1: radio show too. Ever, since we stopped talking about sports anyway.
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