WEBVTT - Sound on Tape 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.520 a week was enough, I think again. He's the last 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.240 remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.320 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.400 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.120 of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:28.800 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. It is the 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.080 Fifth Hour with Ben Miller and David Yes, so we 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:38.640 are in the air everywhere. The vast power of podcasting 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.560 now eight days a week, because four hours are not 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.040 enough on the Overnight and this I assume you figured 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.279 this out now by downloading the podcast and subscribing and 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.159 giving his five stars. But this is a spinoff of 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.800 the Overnight Show. And this is what we call technically 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:02.160 guessc on an evergreen podcast, which means that at any 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.360 particular moment, if something crazy happens, we will go to 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:12.000 this archive of evergreen podcast and here it is why 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.080 I'm bad, Thank you, ma'am. And since we are in 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.000 an evergreen mode, I get to not acknowledge the time lauds. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.479 But the Ben Mallard family sent a couple of couple 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.120 of books my wife. I appreciate that sub right in 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.000 the birthday and style. I gotta point out I like 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.520 the fact that I immediately right after I say this 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.720 is an evergreen podcast, you will immediately date the podcast. No, 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:41.440 I didn't date the podcast. This is very ambiguous. No, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.720 it's not. Anybody listening knows exactly when we did this podcast. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.120 Because of your response, you have just dated the podcast. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.760 It literally a minute of me saying it's an evergreen podcast. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.400 Do you know what the word evergreen means? Yeah, of 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.680 course they do. But what date did I give? What 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.920 time did I give? I gave nothing of the sore 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.640 it's twenty funny. We're indoors. We're in quarantine. So that's 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.440 all people can speculate as to what time of the year. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.280 It is, somewhere between January and December. I'm gonna push 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.480 back on that because you let me point something here. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.200 People listen. You don't understand how the Mallem militia operates. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.320 They listen to every stupid minute detail that gets said, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.400 and they can connect the dots backwards. These people have 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.639 no lives, you understand. Some of these people have no lives, 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.480 and they investigate everything. They have said, you have just dated. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.239 I would like you to apologize right now, how dare you? Well, 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.200 there's one thing I've learned, at least that you have 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.799 taught me, is that you want that you never apologize 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.560 and to you never take the knee. So I'm not 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.760 gonna apologize. I'm not gonna bend the knee. I'm not 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.079 gonna genuine flagged and I haven't given any dates or time. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:49.000 So let's let's push on, Shelley. Alright, So on this again, Gascon, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:54.919 stay with me evergreen podcast, which is which is another 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.880 way to say it is and this is timeless. This 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.800 podcast is timeless and it will stand the many challenges 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:06.600 of time, the corrosion of the elements and all of 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.919 that stuff. So we will avoid all of that because again, Gascon, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.680 it is an evergreen podcast, which is very very important. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.680 So this podcast, we're gonna take a look at the 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.480 type of people that call sports talk radio. Now, I 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.440 had mentioned this years ago on the show, and I 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.320 haven't done this in a long time, but there aren't 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.520 too many of call in radio shows left. A lot 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.600 of these sports talk show host uh, they don't want 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.880 anything to do with the callers. The unwashed that call in. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.640 And so we're one of the last of the Mohegans 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.720 that takes phone calls. A lot of the other shows 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:46.160 just don't do it because for whatever reason they is 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.080 think it's below them to talk to the people that 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.440 listen to the show. So we still do it, but 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.000 there are generally only a few types of people that 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.480 call into sports talk radio shows. And and I'm gonna 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.360 it's not a list, guess, because the list would be wrong. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.720 We don't do list radio here. That's something that you do, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.760 but we don't do that. But there are essentially ten 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.480 types of people that we've compartmentalized that call into these 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.280 radio shows. All right, So if we're not gonna do 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.760 a list, does that mean we're gonna do like a 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.240 pie chart or bar graph? Like how are you how 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.520 are you designing this for the masses? Since that's a 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.280 great question. It's like a ven diagram. I've got vent 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.320 diagram out of here, so just imagine in your head 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.000 event diagram. So we're not doing a mount Rushmore radio 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.720 or list radio. We're doing even diagram radio. Is what 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.720 we can't do Mount Rushmore radio because that sooner later 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.280 will be canceled too. So we can't do that. Yeah, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.240 so exactly. So the goal here is to try to 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:50.000 figure out which of our regular callers on the overnight show, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:55.840 which of my guys is in this particular department. So, uh, 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.240 the first caller that we have that And these are 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.719 all the types of people that call sports talk radio shows. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.120 The the first one I have written down here on 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.679 my chicken scratch is the guy that's addicted to calling. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.200 And I have more of these type of people than 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.119 than anybody else. Uh. And if you listen to sports radio, 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.120 you know that this is the type of person that 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.800 is so obsessed with not the host, not me, and 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.040 it's not the show. They're just obsessed with calling in 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.960 to any show. And it doesn't matter whether it's a 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.960 sports show, they call in political shows. Um. Typically the 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.000 problem is they don't normally have any material, so they 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.279 really shouldn't be calling radio shows. But these are the 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.240 type of people. And if you listen to other shows, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.120 and not just the Ben Mallor Show, but other shows, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:55.039 you'll hear the same people on over and over and 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:59.080 over and sometimes now there's two different types of the 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.320 addicted to calling, and it's the ky that has nothing 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:06.880 to say, And then there's the guy that has some agenda, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.440 which is actually a different kind of caller. But they 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.480 have a certain format they follow and every show they call, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.880 they do the same thing, and typically it's never that good. Uh, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.880 it's never original. And uh, we have a lot of 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.320 these guys. Uh, and some of them I like, like 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.520 Dick and Dayton comes to mind. Dick's been calling radio 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:31.680 shows forever. Usually doesn't that much to say. Marcel in 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:37.000 Brooklyn is is another guy. Marcell's addicted to calling radio shows. Well, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.719 I think Marcell is a little bit different because you 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:44.200 purposely antagonize him and encourage him to call your show 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.680 because you know what upsets the masses. That's a that's 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.719 a little bit different. Well, he is a caller of 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.760 the year. I know you don't respect those kind of 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.039 you know, kind of awards that that you get in life, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.800 but he is a caller of the year. He's he's 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.039 reached certainly a more decorated spot the mallamlish than you. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.720 But but no, So anyways, just I just wanted that's 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.560 the first type of person that calls radio goes the 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.520 person who's addicted the calling. Uh. Then some of the 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.080 other types of people that call, we've got the person 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:20.160 that's always interrupting, um, and you know, this kind of 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:24.119 falls into that, Hey, I'm inebriated, I'm having a good time, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.720 I'm feeling no pain, I'm I'm doing the Molly wally, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:32.320 uh and that kind of thing. But usually, and you know, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.280 gets gonna like the back and forth, the ebb and 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:39.120 flow of a conversation on a radio show, it's uh, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.400 you ta, I introduce you as the caller, you talk 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.960 for a little bit, then I talk, and then you talk, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.280 and then I talk, and then usually it's over at 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.040 that particular point. Be sure to catch live editions on 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.600 The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.240 eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.320 Heart Radio. Wow, can we call this the Looney color 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.560 because it seems like, at least back in the day 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.840 when you worked with that infamous doctor Tom Looney, you 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.280 guys did have conversations, but it was always like you 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.880 were talking over him. He was talking over you, and 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.160 nobody could hear anything coherent from what you guys were 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.520 saying at any given time. Well, I know you're jealous 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.520 of looney success in broadcasting, and how popular Looney was 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.000 on that Litch show in a w ening show. But 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.840 but there is a certain kind of verbal rat a 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.840 tat tat ballet or whatever, that that is supposed to 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.000 take place. And we get people that call up that 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.480 have no concept of how this is supposed to work, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:48.199 and it is cringe worthy. It is uncomfortable, it is awkward. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.240 And that's only on my end. I can't imagine if 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.440 you're listening to this crap what that must sound like. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.200 So you know, that's that's another one. You you know, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.800 just if you're gonna call in just trying to understand 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.600 it's conversation. Yeah, there's people he's dropping into the conversation. 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.920 But ultimately, for this to work, it's a conversation between 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.480 the host and whoever's calling it. Of course it's like 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.520 a nice casual dance. But but yeah, four hours that 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.479 you get a lot of it, and I think oftentimes 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.360 too much. Yeah, some of the other types of callers 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.640 we get on the Ben Mallory Show and sports talk 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.319 radio in general. The here's one of my favorites, they 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.160 remember me guy. I get a lot of the remember 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.160 me guy. And now I am not talking here gascon 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.960 about the regulars that call the show all the time. Um, 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:43.120 and you know the guys that have called me. When 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.359 one guy called me when he was like, you know fifteen, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.280 I have a few of these people like fifteen, all 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:52.480 of a sudden there twenty six or nine. They got 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.720 a wife, they've got kids, you know that whole thing. Uh, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.880 it's it's it's not so much that it's not about 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:03.880 the guy who randomly every other year will call you 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.400 up and then try to reference the previous conversation that 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.520 you had, right, you know, keep on. Most of these 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.959 calls are like two and a half minutes, three minutes 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.200 at the most, and uh, you know, you gotta remember me, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.680 and they get they get upset if you don't remember. Now, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.760 I have a pretty good memory for this. I remember 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.520 a lot of these conversations, but not all of them. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.520 And then they want you to remember their their kids 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.240 name or their dog's name something like that, and like, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.160 how does that even work? Now? Now full disclosure on this. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.839 Are are you talking about the actual callers that call 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.199 on the show and say hey, remember me? Are you 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.760 talking about the callers that's somehow finagle away to find 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.440 your your own cell phone and then call you up 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:52.000 on your cell phone, remember me. Well that's a whole 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.720 different animal, the the personal cell phone, which I should change. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.880 But everyone I know in the business has that numbers. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.560 Oh I have. I feel like I have to keep 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.600 the number. So I also get those uncomfortable phone calls 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.600 from Doc Mike every week about drinking my own piss 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.440 and the and those kind of things, which is which 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.600 is great. But that but then remember me guy? Uh yeah, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.000 I mean that's just you know, chances are I'm not 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.719 gonna remember you, and maybe I will remember you. But 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.880 do we really need to waste time talking about how 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:32.640 I remember you? Is that important? Yeah? Some of the 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.560 other types of calls we have and looking at the 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.560 not this is not a list. This is a VEN diagram, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.320 the ven diagram that we're using here. So you have 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.440 the I told you so guy Gascon. Now, this is 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.240 a raging lunatic. This type of guy is a raging 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:54.920 lunatic who will call in right after his prediction like 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.600 I don't know, I let's just use a super Bowl. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.319 I picked the Chiefs and Patrick has to win the 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:07.600 Super Bowl. I told you you're that guy, obnoxious asshole. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.280 You just want to punch the guy in the face, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:15.320 that guy who probably made the prediction a couple of 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.360 days before said Super Bowl or a week before or whatever. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.120 And then he is cannot wait to call in and 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.479 pat himself on the back and gloat about how wonderful 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.760 this person is and what a genius he is and 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.000 everyone needs to listen to him. Uh. And of course 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.559 we know that that is a total fraud. Uh and 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.520 all that stuff because that same caller. What does that 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.760 caller never do? Gascon never calls this team loses exactly, 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.960 he vanishes. He vanishes. He never calls and said, well, 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.000 I got that one wrong, that job by me. That 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.720 never happens. The only time that person calls back is 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.080 when they got it right. Otherwise they don't make a 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.840 return phone call. So therefore there schmuck to prick and 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.280 screw them. That reminds me of a couple of guys 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.640 that used to call your show back in two thousands 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.719 seventeen from Houston. I would talk a lot about that, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.840 and then all of a sudden, when the Houston Texans 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.960 would crumble in the postseason or the Eastern Rockets, they 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.679 could be nowhere to be found. So a little bit 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.120 different with the Astros cheating their way to the World 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.199 Series a couple of years ago. Well, and there that 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.160 is the difference. So like, because I mean, the difference 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.400 to this is really like I have to show up. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.640 Like when the Clippers go out and have the Tennessee 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.360 Trots in a playoff game against the Rockets, I gotta 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.040 come in here and talk. Or when the Rams go 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.400 out and shift the bed against the Patriots in the 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.560 Super Bowl, I still got to come in here and 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.240 do the show. It would be a lot easier if 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.160 I didn't. Now, sometimes it has worked out to my advantage. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.000 Where I had a scheduled day off Ember one year, 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.560 the Clippers lost in the playoffs in the Lob City Days, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:58.200 and people thought I was running for the hills. I wasn't. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.720 I had a scheduled day off, I had a trip 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.280 to Vegas and uh, and people thought I was I 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.880 was like dodging, and I wasn't. It just happened. I 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.680 didn't know that that series was gonna go all the way. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:10.960 I think they were playing that, like I said, the 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.520 jazz I think and then they thought I was up 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.840 some shady stuff. But I wasn't. So anyway, to be fair, though, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.200 some people want you at your lowest point because it 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.520 does provide riveting talk radio. No, no, I'm at no, No, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.280 I'm at my best guest gon when I am on 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.960 top of the mountain and I am basking in the 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:34.520 greatness of wonderful success for my teams. Well, I mean, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.120 if you want to go through that, I don't know 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.160 the last time any of your teams actually had butterfide success. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.200 So you can go back the Rams, the Clippers, well, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.880 hold on, sick. The Clippers just won a championship not 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.360 that long ago, the Kawhi Leonard Championship. That's a championship 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.080 that the Lakers wanted, the Toronto Raptors wanted, but the 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.360 l A Clippers won the Kawhi Leonard Championship. The l 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.400 A Rams when the NFC Championship beating that punk Drew 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.000 Brees and then New Orleans Saints. By the way, Drew 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.200 just apologized again. I just want you to know he's 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.480 apologized again. And uh and then the the you know, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.040 the the other team, the Dodgers back to back World 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:14.280 Series a couple of years ago. So yeah, I think 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.720 I think the last time, I think lost time any 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.920 of your teams actually want anything with two thousand and 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.600 four team this l King's long their second Stanley Cup 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.520 in three years, so that's the last time any of 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.440 your teams have walked off of the championship. Be sure 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.160 to catch live editions of The Ben Miller Show weekdays 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.400 at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. So that 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.360 moving on here on the event diagram we have, we 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.240 went from the I Told You soap caller, which is 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.480 always a staple of sports radio, to the conspiracy guy 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.600 conspiracy guy, which I love, right, I love Now. The 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.760 great thing about making predictions in sports is that you're 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.480 going to be right approximately ninete percent of the time. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.760 Because you say, in the NFL is thirty two teams, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.400 only one of them is going to be standing on 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.360 top of the mount at the end and win the 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.480 Super Bowl. So if you say a team is not 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.760 going to win the Super Bowl, you have a thirty 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.440 one out of thirty two chants of being correct. Right. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.520 It's not even really that much because some teams are 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.040 not even trying to win. Uh, And you can say 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:15.960 that obviously the numbers are different depending on how many 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:22.280 teams there are, but most of the time teams simply 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.640 lose because you know they're not good enough for the 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.120 players didn't perform well you know, standard standard stuff by 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.480 the books and all that stuff. But the conspiracy guy 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.960 calls up and the team didn't lose because they weren't 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:43.720 good enough. They lost because the other team was up 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:49.160 to some shinani. Right, And now there is proof with 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.600 the Astros and so that is I didn't see that 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.720 one coming, but there is proof of that. But oftentimes 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:01.960 there's no tangible evidence to back up the claims. But 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.840 you get the hey, this this game, that game is 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.200 thrown and all that stuff, and uh or blame the officials, 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.080 but it's some kind of conspiracy that that type of 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.280 caller always brings up. And the only, the only time 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.360 in the history of the show where this really played 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.000 wonderfully was and it was a pre act. It was 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.680 a pre emptive shot. I had a guy from Boston 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.000 who might or might not be a made man in 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:35.000 Boston who called me up before a random Pirates Cardinals 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.800 series when the Cardinals were good, they had LaRussa as 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.119 their manager and Albert Poojos and the Pirates were dogshit 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.600 and he said, hey, he says, I got a tip. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.320 He says I got a tip. He says, you gotta 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.240 bet on the Pirates. They're gonna sweep the Cardinals this weekend, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.440 and just bet on them, you know, let it, let 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.720 it run, you know, let it roll. And uh. I 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.480 was like, this guy is full of you know, he's 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.240 full of happy. You don't know what he's talking about. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.240 And the Pirates won the first game. I was like, oh, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.600 wait a minute. So they won the second game and 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.520 then and then they sure enough, and one of those 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.280 games was like extra innings, and then they ended up 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.080 winning all the games. The guy said they were gonna win. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.040 It was unbelievable. So you don't you don't subscribe to 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.719 any kind of conspiracy theory about the Music City Miracle, 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.520 then right, probably you acknowledge that that play was legit 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.480 and that was a bush. That was a bullshit. That 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.840 was an illegal forward past that was not called by 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.720 the officials on the field or on instant replay. They 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.000 were there holding their dicks. They had no idea what 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.600 to do. It was embarrassing. It was It was a 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.159 dark day in the history of the NFL, and it 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.800 really fucked the Buffalo Bills franchise up. You know, I'm 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.080 I'm an honorary member of Bill's mafia. So I'm offended, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.439 all right, Moving on again, these are the types of 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.800 people to call sports radio shows. Here's another one on 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:56.960 the event diagram, The old guy. I love the old 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.719 guy that calls up. I get so many old guys 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.120 that call up. Now. We dominate the older demographic on 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.600 the Ben Mallther Show, and I have no problem. You know, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.520 elitist west of the four oh five guys like Gascon. Yeah, 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:14.360 you look down upon older people. I I learned Guscon 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.040 to respect my elders. You, of course do not, But 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.439 I do not mind taking calls from from the older 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.520 people that call up, right. It's it's hey, when when 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.119 the guy drinking the Grandpa juse calls up and he 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.280 can't sleep because he's got insomnia in the middle of 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.040 the night and he can't go to the bathroom because 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:33.919 he's got other problems there, or he goes to the 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.679 bathroom too much. Ah, this is the highlight of their 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.960 night calling into the show, and they've usually got pretty 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.159 good stories to tell. You just gotta dig below the 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.600 surface a little bit. Yeah, I think maybe a little 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.760 bit of pushback on that is you're more relatable to 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.080 the older crowd. You're more relatable to the sixty five 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.919 and older, where I have this wide range of you know, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:54.920 I can relate to the twenty year olds, at thirty 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:56.840 year olds of forty year olds, And part of the 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.879 reason is because I don't trigger people like you do 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.240 every so often. So yeah, I think that's why you're 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.560 more inclined to be relatable to the seventy two and over. Well, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.200 here's it. I'm relatable to the blue collar worker. I'm 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.720 relatable to the person of the factory, the person driving 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.800 the truck, the person person working a grocery, star stocking shows. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.800 You're relatable to the asshole on top of the mountain 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.600 mansion in Beverly Hills or out in the Hamptons in 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:26.080 New York or Scottsdale. Uh, yeah, you're that type of person. 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.359 So you're relatable to the to the very wealthy, the aristocrats, 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.800 And I'm relatable to the people that bust their ass 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.680 and work their work, work the tail off to make pennies. Well, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.560 don't forget that one percent actually provides the jobs for 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.080 the other percent, So there's nothing wrong with that. They're 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:42.919 the ones that pay the bills. But not when the 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.440 Marxists take over. When the Marxist takeover, guess guy, it's 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.840 not gonna be the jig is up, guest guy, and 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.159 you're gonna have to move out of West of the 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.560 four oh five. So but again, the old timers, Uh, 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.879 this is a big thing for these guys. Uh, and 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.000 and some of the things we have Skeener in Montana. 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:05.920 Who qualifies as that? I guess Doc Mike, Doc Mike. 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.240 He's not your typical old time caller. But Doc is 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.720 in his seventies and he's still he's been calling me 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.359 since he was in his fifties, and a lot of 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:19.560 my regular guys are older. I haven't heard from Helmet 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.840 Man in a while. No, he's not in his seventies. 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:25.000 I think Helmet Man is probably in his late fifties, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.040 early sixties, I would think. But we have not heard 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:33.399 from him in a while as we're doing this evergreen podcast, 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.400 So hopefully helping Man's all right. But but the old 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.880 guy calls up and you know, typically be like I 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:41.840 like it the way it was back in the old days, 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:43.320 you know that kind of thing, you know, back in 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.520 my day, And uh, yeah, So who who doesn't enjoy 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.560 a good back in my day rant or get off 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.280 my lawn, And it's kind of an ode to one 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.000 of your favorite guests, Fred Dryer, Yes, the great Fred 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.200 Dryer who just had a birthday and not that long ago, 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:03.040 the great Fred Dryer, of course. And I know you 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:06.639 don't like Fred because you don't like Hollywood and you 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:10.040 don't like guys that crossed over from the NFL. But 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:12.720 Freend's a good guy. Be sure to catch live editions 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:14.960 of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:19.240