WEBVTT - Roll Call 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.680 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.240 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.879 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.040 break free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.640 Maller starts right now that it does in this as 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.560 you know, not the normal day that we dropped the podcast. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.519 But don't worry, because we have decided we made an 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.680 executive decision here that we are going to enhance our 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.919 podcast footprint. I think that's the proper language with this 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.760 bonus edition, a free downloaded to your phone edition or 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.400 whatever device you use of The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.080 Maller and David Gascon. Four hours not enough. As we 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.680 are literally in the air everywhere, Unlike the coronavirus were 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.240 good for you. The vast power of the I Heart podcasting, 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.520 the global reach of the podcast network. They have an 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.160 I heeart and you can get this wherever we get podcasts, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.240 whatever it might be. It's not on one platform, go 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.920 to the other platform. It might be there. Uh So 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.880 here we are on a day that we're not normally here. 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.559 Now why is that. I'll give you the brief menu 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.600 that we have. It's a truncated edition of the Fifth Hour. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:31.160 We've got Global podcast Domination, letting your guard down, Survey says, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.679 and an extra hot spicy edition of Don't stick to 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.480 Sports Stories of the Week, the show better than Not 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.560 Suck Gust go on please well, seventeen ways that you 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.200 can locate us on the global reach of podcasting and 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.360 uh and yeah, I'm excited about this because we have 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.680 spoken to the higher ups from near and afar um 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.280 and we got the message loud and clear, do fucking more. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.680 And so here we are. Do more. Well, yeah, I 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.400 mean listen, let's just get right to do it, because 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:07.360 that is the global podcast domination. So we had talked 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.440 to guess Gon track down some corporate muckety MUCKs at 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.880 I Heart, some big wigs that are in charge of 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:19.079 the podcast network. And when they started, first of all, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.600 when he called them up, they started laughing, who the 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.400 funk are you? Um? And then eventually they were very 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.160 kind and very nice and they gave us some time. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:27.960 But we had a meeting. Of course, don't worry, we 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.680 didn't meet in person. It was a conference call, which 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.800 I love. I love conference calls because you can just 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.760 put it on mute not even you know, you can 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.120 like fart and do all that and you're on a 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.640 conference call so don't really matter. Um. But anyway, so 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.320 these guys are now aware of the Fifth Hour with 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:50.280 Ben Mallor and Gagon, and they they were trying to 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:55.160 figure out how to make this financially successful because it's not. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.200 I'm not getting paid for it, neither's guests gone. We're 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.600 doing this pro bono even though there are listeners and 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.359 people are listening. So there's a couple of tricks that 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:08.120 we can use to increase and bump up the listenership. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.640 So we're essentially gonna do some spring cleaning here, Gascon 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.280 is what we're gonna do. Do you do that on 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.040 your social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.160 like where you just scrub the people you don't talk 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.240 to or you really have no connection to. They just 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.079 know I'm terrible. I'm really bad at that. Like I'm 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.320 I don't go on Facebook all that much, but when 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.040 I go on there, I have a personal page and 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.440 then we have the work page and my personal page 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.720 I'll get bombarded with messages from people who I don't 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.120 even know who they are. And I'm sure I knew 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.560 them at one point in my life. I had a 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.560 relationship with them. But I've met a lot of people 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.000 and I don't know who they are and they're talking 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.360 to me like we're best friends, and I'm trying to think, like, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.840 who the fuck is this person? You know, I have 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:52.440 no idea who this person is, and so it's a 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.320 big it's a big pain in the ass, and so 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.560 I try to avoid that. But I'll pop on there 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.080 for a few minutes, like if I do it during 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.720 the day, that's when everyone's you know, and they're like, hey, Mallard, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.840 what's going on? Remember me? And I'm like, no, I 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.600 don't remember. You have no idea who you are. Um. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.119 But but anyway, so the days I want to walk 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.400 you through this, and the reason I want to walk 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.080 you through this, guest gun you the listener, is because 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.080 one thing I have come to both love and despise 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.880 about the Malley Militia. All Right, these people are so 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.880 dedicated to what we do here that they get completely 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.160 flummixed if anything changes can and I get it. I 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.720 don't like change either it sucks, it blows and all that, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.320 so people get all freaked out. So we are going 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.600 to change this podcast a little bit. We're gonna provide 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.520 more volume for the podcast, which means that each individual 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:50.599 podcast will be a little shorter, right, a little shorter. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.640 I think that's fairness. So we're gonna trim the fat, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.840 get get the podcast up to speed, get it in shape. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.880 We're doing this for the better good, for the greater good, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.800 because we will be able to provide content seven days 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.960 a week under this new format that we're considering doing, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.320 and I think we're gonna try it out and see 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.880 how it goes. This week, we will do shows the 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.479 Radio show five days a week, and then this podcast 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.800 will have two shows on Friday of the Radio Show 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.240 podcast and then a version of the Fifth Hour, and 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.360 then Saturday and Sunday will drop other podcasts that will 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.039 be available. What's not to like? More podcasting? Right? Yeah? 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.360 I think. And with all of this being provided for 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.960 the listeners out there, we need to make a request 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.520 to on two different things. One is make sure to 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.720 rate us. Make sure to provide a review positive, negative, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.400 and give some comments to you because a lot of 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.320 people on the higher ups East Coast, West Coast, whatever 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.520 it may be, that they look at all those things. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.039 So even when you trash me for no stupid reason, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.880 or you throw rose pedals virtually at Ben or what's 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.720 wrong with that of that, feed him fruit and liqu 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:06.200 his toes via Rex Ryan. Please I love that, my harem. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.000 Please comment, please rate, subscribe as well too, And like 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.280 you have mentioned, um, spread the well to the friends 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.960 and family, because you know, everyone's pretty much in quarantine 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.680 right now, so what else do you got to do. Yeah, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.159 and I'll be completely transparent. One of the reasons that 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.200 we're doing this, in addition to the fact that we've 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.720 been asked to do it by corporate, is the fact 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.840 that we set a record. I feel terrible about this guest, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.360 and we said a record you told me for downloads 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.560 our last podcast, which was really nothing spectacular. It was 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.120 very pathetic, actually, I would think, but we had a 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.480 new record. People are looking for things to listen to 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.840 to pass the time, and so that's that's another part 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.120 of this. Yeah, it was an ode to Benny versus 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.200 the penny because when you were piping hot the first 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.479 I think six seven weeks, your largest downloads were actually 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:01.080 week two in week three, so uh, as long as 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.479 long as we can kick those numbers to the curve. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.440 But I think the third highest one was the death 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.600 of Kobe Bryant. But outside of that, last week was 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.200 great for us, and we certainly appreciate it. And we 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.760 always interact with with people that's on Twitter, Instagram and 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.720 now through your mailbag. Keep them coming, man, because there's 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.560 always things that are coming through our heads and giving 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.600 us ideas to pop up for what we're gonna do 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.480 earlier in the week later in the week, and I 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.200 think it provides for pretty good content down the road. Yeah. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.000 And the cool thing about this is that one of 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.600 the podcast we'll have a huge one, will dedicate a 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.240 lot more time to each thing that we're doing. So like, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.560 for example, we do a grab bag, which is just 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.480 a cheap rip off of Asked Ben from the radio show, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.680 and we asked for questions on Facebook. Fact, we'll probably 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.520 put that up later in the week here and we 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.960 do it, you know, each Wednesday or Thursday of the week, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.680 depending on uh, the schedule. I have to appease my 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.000 master David guest gone, so it's up. But but all 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.640 of this is uh calculated in a way to to 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.160 make the podcast better. And the cool thing, you know, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.880 the mall of Militia is a group, a small group 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:14.080 of the population that is able to to do amazing things. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.680 And we have to grow the militia, right, we have 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.520 to grow the militia, the special forces of the show, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.680 and we can make enough noise. You and I together, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.720 you the listener and us, and we can grow this thing. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.080 And I'm not saying we're taking down Joe Rogan, but 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.840 we just have to do something. We have to take 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.280 down some of these other stiffs that suck at this 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.920 podcast game. And so that that's the end game. That's 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.040 the goal to eventually get to that point, and we'll 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.520 even be mixing in some interviews. I made my first 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:49.199 interview request for the podcast the other day. Send a message, 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.600 by the way, guest Gan, as we are recording today's podcast, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.719 have still not heard back. Fifteen hours ago. I sent 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.240 this particular person a message, very nice message, say hope 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.560 all as well, excited to invite you on for a 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.480 special podcast interview. And this person is not gotten back 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.760 to me. But it's possible this person is just in 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.160 a drug haze. Somewhere and that's why can you give 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.679 us a hint as to who it is? Uh? It 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:20.320 is a sports legend from a different era who has 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.160 become how do you how would you describe him now, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.880 like describe a character or like a W W E character, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.760 like he has really evolved from one way to the other, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.520 hero to heal or heel to hero. Yeah, he's a 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.440 little bit of both and someone who's I would say, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.560 more of like a Howard Stern type of guests than 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.800 a sports radio guest. But um, so hopefully this person 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.760 will do it. I don't know. I'm trying to to 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:52.920 branch out. If you would like to hear us chat 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.920 with anybody, if you want to recommend, send us an email. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.160 What's the email address? Guest on again the Real Fifth 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.920 Hour at gmail dot com. Make sure the is in there, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.640 The Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and say hey, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.680 hey dummies, I would like to hear so and so 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.360 do a podcast. Now, since you threw that out there 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.320 and you've made that request to our our listeners, um, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:17.199 what can we do about getting like the famous Kenny 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.400 Albert in here or some of these? So you're just 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.280 looking for people that will advance your career. That's what 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.559 you're doing. No, I I put Kenny. We can put 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.600 Kenny on. I don't. Kenny would probably do it, I don't. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.680 I mean, we could get him on there. You know 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.240 what we should do would be funny is to get 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.040 Joe Rogan on and just ask him for tips, you know, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.360 just pick his brain for tips and say, hey, Joe, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.319 we really suck at this. We need to get a 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.679 bigger audience. What the funk do we do to get 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.839 more people listening? See? That would be pretty funny. That 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.480 would be really good. Best about you know what's been 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.320 going around the news this week with the Olympics and 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.440 all and and that seemingly being put on hold for 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.800 at least a year. You could we could get Dick 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.120 Pound on right, the Dick Pound podcast. How great would 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.800 that be? From the OC? That wouldn't that be wonderful? 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.200 And the US Olympic operation there I believe it is. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.040 But bring him on? Why not? We can do that 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.760 now now since you brought that up. You can also 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.600 if you wanted to, you could bring the Chief on 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.840 if you'd like the Chief. I would love to talk 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.320 to the Chief. The Chief was a part of the 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:23.920 United States Olympic diving team board. So you know, obviously 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.959 in instances like this for the diving team, the swimming team, 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.200 and a bunch of the other gymnastic teams wanted to 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.240 postpone the summer games. He was a part of all that, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.160 so you can definitely pick his brain about that. You 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.160 can also talk about the stay at home acts by 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.520 the local mayors and the governors around the country, so 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.480 crisis mode. He can certainly help you out and kind 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.400 of walk you through those. Yeah, yeah, I'd love to 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.920 put the Chief on your Pops on for sure. People 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.599 would love to hear from that. That would be that 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.520 would be kind of advancing your career. Now I think so, well, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:02.120 now I see it's you. It's your damn dad. That 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.120 doesn't count. Not We can put my dad on and 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.240 talk about Ham radio and talk about how he's bitching 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.360 about every coffee shop being closed, in every restaurant being closed, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.440 even though he's in the age range where he's supposed 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.600 to be worried about the coronavirus and I gotta fight 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.760 with him every day. I would just love to probe 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.959 his thoughts about just traveling to go buy some cheese 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:26.360 for some pizza Yeah, pro Bolone cheese, Parmesan cheese, Parmesan cheese, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.760 and he went out to the store to risk his 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.559 health for parmesan cheese. I've gotta really love he should 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.080 do commercials for Parmersan cheese. You gotta really love parmesan 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.640 cheese to leave your house just for parmesan geese in 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.440 the middle of a pandemic. To mind all that, it's 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.320 great and uh so, let's we gotta branch out here. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.560 I got some ideas now. Gascon has always pushed back. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.840 I've I would love to do, like a an interview 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.480 with my mentor, one of my mentors, Lee Hack saw 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.439 Hamilton's sports radio legend from San Diego, and Hacks I 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.480 would do it and I could pick his brain and 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.240 we could have some fun there on early sports radio 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.360 Titan on the West Coast. And you've always pushed against that. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.520 You don't want you don't want him on there. You 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.679 don't want any of my old radio friends on. You're 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.520 so jealous and will not allow any of them on 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.400 the podcast. I would love to have Leakline on the 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.520 Prince of Darkness. Yeah, Lee would be great. I don't 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.680 know if we'd be able to survive because some of 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.720 your listeners could be triggered by it, and and I 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.080 don't know how sensitive they are to to Lee's language 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.240 and vernacular, but I think it'd be a lot of 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.560 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.800 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.160 on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.840 for those that don't know. Lee briefly worked at Fox 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.760 Sports Radio, but mostly is known as a news talk 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.640 guy at that big powerful stations like kf I and 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.480 k ABC in Los Angeles. And he is a guy 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:04.160 that dabbles in conspiracy and the Illuminati and New World 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:10.440 Order and everyone's got a hitting agenda, shadow government's, uh 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.839 satanic conspiracies, all that stuff. Yeah, he cornered me at 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.880 your Christmas party for an hour and a half. Um. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.840 He he kind of nullified any opportunities that I had 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.680 was speaking to the lovely females that were there. It was. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.880 It was really suffocating ground and pound. It was a 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.360 Tennessee Titans version of what happened this year at Derrick 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.080 Henry in the playoffs. It was really suffocating. But you know, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.840 he's a good dude. Yeah, Well, My favorite part about 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:43.120 that as well. You were being bombarded with incoming projectiles 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.800 from the Prince of Darkness, Lee Kline, the original Prince 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.800 of Darkness. All of the rest of us were like, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.560 way to take one for the team. Gas guys, thank 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.720 you for that, because now he's not talking are ear 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.680 off and that's wonderful. Well, he's experienced. And as soon 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.160 as he hit me with the I have the FBI 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.920 called me twice at the studio, I was hooked, Like 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.080 it's not every day that you get the FED to 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.320 call up your local station and say, knocked that ship off. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:12.960 But he he was at it and it was great. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.440 It was a great story. So yeah, I know a 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.560 couple of people that have had the FBI come wandering 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.400 around my My caller this this old guy used to 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.920 have a call the show Pete in Pittsburgh and he 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.840 was one of Stearns callers. But he did a bit 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.320 on the radio, not on my show, but another show, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.000 and he got to knock The FBI came to the 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.320 guy's house and traced the phone call and knocked on 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.840 his door because of a stick that he did on 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.800 the radio. It was that hazardous that the FBI, I 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.320 get nothing else to though, they come knocking on the door, 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:47.880 which is great. All right. So anyway, that's what's coming 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.600 on with the podcast in the future. It'll start changing 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.600 later this week. This is an emergency special edition of 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.440 the podcast. Uh, some other things. We have to get 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.760 to letting your guard down. I like this. So you 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.000 probably over the last week to ten days have seen 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.200 the videos that have gone viral of the dolphins and 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:14.120 the swans returning to the deserted Venetian canals. Oh, how 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.360 amazing the video went viral, So so cute. Speaking of cute, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.680 how about the elephants wandering through an empty village somewhere 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.000 in China and then getting drunk off corn wine and 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.480 passing out. That also went viral. Um and and did 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.560 you see these stories? Guess have you seen both these 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:38.960 in your timeline? Yeah? Yeah, so, uh spoiler alert. These 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:45.680 stories are bogus. People have been hustled, scam bamboozled, hoodwinked, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.960 and led astray by social media. And there's a theory 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:54.200 that because so much focus is on the coronavirus and 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.600 people are more worried about buying toilet paper than anything else, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.520 they're freaking out the panics worth the worse than the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:05.760 illness for most people that our defense system for stories 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.840 like this, it's not. People are like trying to find 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:13.480 positive stories, and people love animal stories. People love these 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:17.119 kind of stories about animals deemed cute, not not vicious 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.760 killer animals, but animals seemed as lovable and cute. And 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:26.440 it seems the entire Internet has fallen victim to these pranksters. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:31.000 And so some investigators from the National Geographic determined that 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.760 they debunked both of these stories. Gascunt they're not true. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.840 Now have you seen the stories you know with with 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.959 fake news or with fake stories about the fake COVID 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.959 nineteen clearance for people in in Asia where they've been 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:50.400 given fake uh medical reports stating that they're they're capable 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.760 of flying to other countries because they don't have the coronavirus. No, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.920 I haven't seen that one. Oh yeah, that's that's making 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.120 the rounds. That's not a cute animal story though, guess 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.200 and stay focused, stay in your lane. As LaVar Ball 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.639 would say, I apologize, that's a bad job by you, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.520 but but just on the animal things. So the National 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.480 Geographic did an investigation which I don't think was that 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.639 hard and they determined that. Now I saw the videos 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.119 of the dolphins. I fell for the dolphin video the 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.800 swan thing, but I fell for the dolphin video because 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.040 it looked like they you know, I've never been to 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.600 the Venetian Canals. I've been to the Venetian Hotel and 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.200 casino in Las Vegas, but I've never been to the 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.919 Venetian Canals in Italy and all that. So, but anyway, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.400 they they determined that the Venetian dolphins were actually filmed 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:38.159 at a port ports Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea. It's 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:43.160 actually hundreds of miles away from the Venetian Canals. Good. Yeah, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.480 and I guess they just whatever. They couldn't figure it out. 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.440 And the the the post also the swans that has 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:56.920 also gone viral. Apparently they regularly appear on this small 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:01.560 island in the Greater Venice metropolitan area. But it's not 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.960 the canals, right, um, they appear in differently, appear in 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.720 different canals, not the Venetian Canals, but the canals of Barano. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.320 Does that do anything for you? It does not bu 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:14.119 r A n O. I've never heard of that, but 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:18.040 apparently that's something because I have it right here. Uh, 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:19.959 and then no one has been able to figure out 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.719 where the drunken elephant photos came from or where they 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.520 were photoshoped or not. But if you believe the Chinese media, 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.320 they debunked that. They said that viral prost that that 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.480 while elephants routinely did come through that particular village in 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:40.439 the Union Province of China, their presence not out of 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:44.959 the norm, and they said they don't have any evidence 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.280 to prove that that is actually true, that the elephants 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:52.440 didn't get drunk and pass out in a tea field. Now, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.119 since since we are predominantly sports base with what we 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.480 do and there's no sports, we don't have to be 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.800 sports based, I know. But consider the fact that we're jocks, 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.000 I guess for for lack of I'm not a jock. 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.800 I'm a man of the people. Anyways, have you ever 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.560 gone on air with a fake story like We've had 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.439 colleagues that have reported breaking news that turned out to 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:17.119 be dead wrong. It was pretty embarrassing. Uh, But have 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.800 you ever gone on air and reported fake news like 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.240 like this or something of that nature where you're just, um, yeah, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.280 I have. It's happened very rarely, I think it maybe 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.400 once or twice where I've done something. And then one 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.800 time I did a story that it's a listener had 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:38.080 sent and it was an NFL story. It wasn't fake, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:44.600 it was just twenty years after initially happened, like I didn't, Uh, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.800 the date wasn't on the story, and apparently I fell 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:49.800 for it and it was actually a twenty year old 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.320 story and uh, and I reported it as just having happened. 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:57.359 I didn't work with somebody years ago that fell for 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:02.720 a fake Twitter, a fake Adam Schefter Twitter account and 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:08.400 reported some stuff from a bogus doctor Schefter account as 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.520 the gospel, which was kind of embarrassing. That's pretty good. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.520 I really, have you been guilty of this sin of sins? 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.600 Guess no? No, I mean I think the closest I came, 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.680 I mean it wasn't that close, but the closest I 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:26.040 came was the death of of Kobe Bryant and the 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.359 passengers that were on board. Because there were a lot 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.000 of outlets here locally in l A that we're talking 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.320 about Rick Fox being on board, Kobe's kids, all of 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.119 Kobe's kids being on board, like all this stuff was 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.680 just being thrown out and and obviously we're in the 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.919 middle of this fire, so we had no idea like 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.800 what was fact and what was fiction of so I 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:47.680 aired on the side of caution. But there's some people 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.280 that went on the air with that information, and Matt, 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.000 it's just I mean, it's better safe and sorry. So 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.000 I I couldn't. You know, that's like the one job 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.080 that I have to do and I can't fuck it up. 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.040 So it's better to be wrong, or it's better to 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.760 be right and just second or third or fourth reporter 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:03.200