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, and
Speaker 1: if you hear my voice at this time, you know
Speaker 1: that the weekend has begun. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallory,
Speaker 1: because four hours are not enough, and we are doing
Speaker 1: this now eight days a week, and thank you for
Speaker 1: that being part of this. The numbers continue to go up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna address that in a couple of minutes. And
Speaker 1: we are as always in the air, everywhere more than
Speaker 1: ever now on the podcast the Vast Power and the
Speaker 1: global footprint. Put footprint, he's mean to say of the
Speaker 1: podcast there as it's heard every week three times. We
Speaker 1: can started out as once a week and then morphed
Speaker 1: into a monstrosity and as always joined for better or
Speaker 1: worse by the man affectionately known as gag On, David Gascon,
Speaker 1: who's right over there, happy a happy, happy weekend to
Speaker 1: Ben Maller. I think it's uh been a long time,
Speaker 1: been a long time since so we have we have,
Speaker 1: we've gotten together. But the day after you and Rob Parker,
Speaker 1: Robert Garrett, myself, it's it's nice to decompress a little
Speaker 1: bit from the day that was. Um oh yeah, radio
Speaker 1: history clearly. And uh, I think we should actually start
Speaker 1: with this because I have gotten nothing but vitriol from
Speaker 1: the Mallard militia. Uh. They want me to never ever
Speaker 1: do anything other than the show. And uh and if
Speaker 1: I do anything other than the show, then this becomes
Speaker 1: from Maggie. I try to explain to people that listen.
Speaker 1: I got a phone call, I was asked to do this.
Speaker 1: I love Rob, I'm a big fan. I wanted to
Speaker 1: do it, and he wanted me to do it. Management
Speaker 1: wanted me to do it, and so and then and
Speaker 1: then they're like, well, you should still have done your
Speaker 1: show last night. You still should have been in and
Speaker 1: then the show. My argument was like, yeah, I would
Speaker 1: have done it. I've done a ton of radio. When
Speaker 1: I worked at e I, I was doing like a
Speaker 1: three hour show there on a four hour show at Fox.
Speaker 1: It was like seven hours. I only had an hour break,
Speaker 1: so I would totally do it, but it that was
Speaker 1: on different radio stations, like this is the same radio
Speaker 1: I started explained to people, like the concept of like
Speaker 1: like if if you have one voice for seven hours
Speaker 1: out of eleven, management doesn't normally want that because they
Speaker 1: want different voices on. That's usually how that works a
Speaker 1: little a little bit different, especially because and I still
Speaker 1: get random texas from you, like at six or seven
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. In fact, I had to go
Speaker 1: back through my phone on that date on Thursday, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the funk is? He's still doing a
Speaker 1: way go to bed? No got I got a certain routine,
Speaker 1: I got a certain schedule. I gotta keep my schedule
Speaker 1: and um, but yeah, I'm gonna do these other day parts.
Speaker 1: But I am happy to report. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've done this something we talked about this a while ago.
Speaker 1: But I have done the radio cycle. Very few people
Speaker 1: in radio have done the radio cycle. I've done the
Speaker 1: radio cycle. Now what is the radio cycle? Yes? Now,
Speaker 1: first of all, you gotta you gotta really be messed
Speaker 1: up in the head to do it. That's the first thing.
Speaker 1: Second thing is it's a round the clock, spanning the clock.
Speaker 1: I have been on over my career every hour of
Speaker 1: the day, every day. Part from like morning drive, which
Speaker 1: I've only done briefly, mid days, which I did a
Speaker 1: little while I I was for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: I did mid days, afternoon drive. I've done some shows
Speaker 1: on afternoon drive, evenings, late nights, and then overnights. So
Speaker 1: I've done the full radio cycle. Now, I know, guest
Speaker 1: on you're you're not really into that, you don't you
Speaker 1: You're pretty boogey. You like your sleep, you like your routines,
Speaker 1: So you probably haven't done the radio, the full radio
Speaker 1: cycle because you you're someone that likes to to have
Speaker 1: daytime shifts. You like the daytime radio. Well, no, I've
Speaker 1: never I've never hosted around the cycle. In fact, I've
Speaker 1: never hosted on any cycle. So that's that's correct. Are
Speaker 1: you complaining about that? Why don't you make that change?
Speaker 1: Create your own reality? How about that? It's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a log gam here, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that I'd have that opportunity to do that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a definis statude losers mentality. I guess I think
Speaker 1: you'd agree with me that everyone needs to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to swing the stick, but that doesn't come without
Speaker 1: an advocate. So I think I think you around on
Speaker 1: you and be like, hey, you know what, I think
Speaker 1: this guy deserves to have a shot. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'd like to woken up the microphone to my right
Speaker 1: or to my left and uh, let's give this an Well,
Speaker 1: I would be really open for you getting a shot
Speaker 1: if you had more empowering beliefs that if you try to,
Speaker 1: you know, create your own reality and you know, make
Speaker 1: life happen for you. I one of my pet peeves
Speaker 1: is people that have the victim mentality and you're out
Speaker 1: to get me, and it just sounds like you have that.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're letting obstacles hold you back. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's too hard, it's too difficult, there's
Speaker 1: too many people. Oh my god, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: any of that. I think it sounds like to me,
Speaker 1: I think it would. You would agree with me here
Speaker 1: that that working here and and working with you like
Speaker 1: those are things that I'm not publicly or privately acknowledged
Speaker 1: for doing. Right, I think that you can attest to that.
Speaker 1: So what are you referencing here, What are you getting
Speaker 1: in here? Well, I mean it's the pro bono work.
Speaker 1: We've we've discussed this, and you know I'm not oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're free to leave whatever you want. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're open to if you're not happy here,
Speaker 1: if we're we feel like you're not being treated properly
Speaker 1: and you feel like this is an obstacle you cannot overcome,
Speaker 1: and you're free to re resign from your position here.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's seven thousand other people out there would
Speaker 1: love to do this. Well, I don't think those of
Speaker 1: thousand people would want to do that, to be fair,
Speaker 1: do you? I get email every day from people saying,
Speaker 1: get rid of guests, gun bring somebody else in here,
Speaker 1: and so that the people are saying, so, I I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, not listening to them. I'm ignoring them.
Speaker 1: I like working with you, but bitching your west of
Speaker 1: the four or five attitudes. You know what, in that
Speaker 1: entire rat you said you'd like to work in with me,
Speaker 1: So you know what, that's the acknowledgment that I needed.
Speaker 1: So let's you just need me to scratch your back
Speaker 1: a little. I think it's more appropriate that you can
Speaker 1: say like a thank you ever so often or a
Speaker 1: paddle the back and be like, man, it's good to
Speaker 1: hear your voice, like like when you were dying, when
Speaker 1: you were dying in the in the hospital and you
Speaker 1: came back from your gallbladder situation, I said, you were missed.
Speaker 1: You're missed by all, you were missed by me, and
Speaker 1: it's good to have you back in the saddle and
Speaker 1: im bloviating on the air. So well. I think it's
Speaker 1: important that you you know that they kind of you.
Speaker 1: And I believe the quote of Chuck Baganto he was
Speaker 1: literally on his deathbed there and uh yeah, I was
Speaker 1: there because of you, by the way, so make sure
Speaker 1: you don't forget that. The last the famous question, have
Speaker 1: you ever had a surgery? If you ever? And uh
Speaker 1: within what ten days? I think something like that I
Speaker 1: was being chopped open. So thank you for that, guest gun,
Speaker 1: I appreciate literally literally gutted yes, thank you and uh
Speaker 1: so you couldn't do diddle pooh in my book. But
Speaker 1: but anyway, let'sten. So be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. We've got just a few things
Speaker 1: here on the menu. Lean in me and I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll spin into a couple of things we'll have later on.
Speaker 1: We'll get the Florida Man. I have a few stories.
Speaker 1: I love the Florida Man. The Florida Man is great,
Speaker 1: and so we have a few Florida Man stories. We'll
Speaker 1: get to those in a little bit. We have the
Speaker 1: magical hack Saw and Handy Man and Mallard. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to these. So why don't we start with hacks
Speaker 1: Ag who we had on last week on the podcast.
Speaker 1: And uh to say that hacks All still has a
Speaker 1: little bit on his fastball is an understatement that there's
Speaker 1: a there's a need to hear the voice of Lee Hacksaw.
Speaker 1: Hamilton's a staple of Los Angeles, San Diego West Coast Radio,
Speaker 1: early days of sports talk radio. The numbers on this
Speaker 1: now we get real time feedback on what's good and
Speaker 1: what's not good, and what people are listening to, what
Speaker 1: people are listening to and Lee Hamilton's when we chatted
Speaker 1: with him, we went on memory Lane. We broke the
Speaker 1: ice on the high Speed Sports Wire from Baja to
Speaker 1: the Canadian Rockies. This was a ratings win for the
Speaker 1: podcast Gascon, was it not? Yeah, it was. I had
Speaker 1: to go back, and I was just curious because as
Speaker 1: soon as the number, I tend to check the the
Speaker 1: reports like every other day or like once a week
Speaker 1: to see like the progression or like what's going and
Speaker 1: what's not and when people actually download these podcasts, because
Speaker 1: we did tweak a little bit, going from like a
Speaker 1: Friday midday to Friday morning, Saturday and Sunday mornings, and
Speaker 1: then I had to go back to not only your podcast,
Speaker 1: but then also your show podcast, like the regular overnight show.
Speaker 1: And so dating back to January one of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: your highest rated download ever for any audio is the
Speaker 1: interview time with Lee Hacksaw Hamilton's believable. So that broke
Speaker 1: because the previous record was the Kobe Bryant Death Show,
Speaker 1: when we were on the night after Kobe had died
Speaker 1: in the helicopter accident. That had been number one. So
Speaker 1: Hacksaw is bigger than Kobe. Yes, yeah, So you had Hamilton's.
Speaker 1: So you had the Kobe Bryant Show, and then you
Speaker 1: had the best of what the Kobe Bryant in there,
Speaker 1: and those two were both topped by by hacks On. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just for the record, and I'm not certainly looking
Speaker 1: for a compliment, because I would never do that. I
Speaker 1: had wanted to get hacks on a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and I thought this would be the perfect platform for that.
Speaker 1: And someone I'm not gonna name any names, he was
Speaker 1: disturbed by that. Someone was bothered by that, was baffled
Speaker 1: why I would want to put Hacksaw on the podcast,
Speaker 1: almost to the point of being agitated. Uh. And it
Speaker 1: was just bewildering to this person that I would want
Speaker 1: to do that. And it's very odd of you know,
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking, well, this is what's wrong with this.
Speaker 1: This will be fine, you know, nobody should be bummed
Speaker 1: out about this. Hacks as a friend and he's a
Speaker 1: mentor of mine. And but yet, uh, there was somebody
Speaker 1: and again I'm not naming any names, might have grown up,
Speaker 1: might be living west of the four or five. It
Speaker 1: was annoyed by this, was exasperated by the idea that
Speaker 1: hacks would would be on the podcast, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it just makes makes me pump my chest out a
Speaker 1: little bit more on just just saying, you know, some
Speaker 1: people are maybe ungrateful for the hard work of booking
Speaker 1: certain people and do not appreciate that, but it does happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we should acknowledge those people. If they are ungrateful,
Speaker 1: they don't appreciate your your hard work, and so we
Speaker 1: should make sure that they kind of put their nose
Speaker 1: in their own ship. Well, I'm sure, I'm sure the
Speaker 1: people that felt that way will also acknowledge their mistakes
Speaker 1: and their inaccuracy and say that they screwed up, they
Speaker 1: dropped the ball on that one. They misjudge the The
Speaker 1: listener to the podcast, Yeah, I I completely agree. Now,
Speaker 1: this actually goes against as you know, this goes against
Speaker 1: the great, the great author Dale Carnegie. This goes against
Speaker 1: what his words were in telling people that they are wrong.
Speaker 1: Never tell people that they are wrong, just point out
Speaker 1: some different information that they can change their Carnegie didn't
Speaker 1: host a sports talk radio program, so he built a
Speaker 1: multimillion dollar business. That's what That's what he did. So
Speaker 1: I read the book. I liked the book, but it's
Speaker 1: not word for It's kind of like people read the bable,
Speaker 1: they don't follow it word for word. Right, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of debauchery that people do that you shouldn't do
Speaker 1: in the Bible, but people still do it right. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't shouldn't riot, you shouldn't kill people, you shouldn't fornicate
Speaker 1: out of marriage. People still do it right, and you
Speaker 1: pick and choose what's important to them. So that's that's
Speaker 1: the way human beings consume literature books. You pick and
Speaker 1: choose what you think is important. Like the stuff I
Speaker 1: took out of that that book were you know, certain
Speaker 1: little things to help communicate and make people feel better
Speaker 1: about themselves and the little things like that. But it's
Speaker 1: not a word for word right right, point by point thing.
Speaker 1: But for you, it's interesting that that would be something
Speaker 1: that's very important to you, and it's really telling about
Speaker 1: your personality that that is that that you're kind of
Speaker 1: a typical millennial here that anybody tells me, I made
Speaker 1: a mistake and I got a problem, I got a
Speaker 1: I got an issue. That's not true. I'm always like
Speaker 1: it sounds like I'm always first to acknowledge when I'm
Speaker 1: in the wrong. I'm always open for for debate and
Speaker 1: for listening. And uh, I feel like I'm pretty open
Speaker 1: the conversation. I'm not. I think you'd agree with me
Speaker 1: more that I'd more the listening here than the talking,
Speaker 1: and so I think that, you know, with with that
Speaker 1: being said, I think that's typical of my personally. I'm
Speaker 1: really an open spirit here. So this reminds me of
Speaker 1: that old conversation with the great talk show host from Chicago,
Speaker 1: Mr North. There like North and what was he What
Speaker 1: was his line? Something like, welcome to the big leagues.
Speaker 1: Not You're not in the minor leagues anymore, You're in
Speaker 1: the big leagues, and very very funny quote. But did
Speaker 1: be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1: Just to follow up on the hacks thing. I did
Speaker 1: have a brief conversation with Lee Hanks on him and
Speaker 1: I called him up checked in with him a couple
Speaker 1: of days after we had him on, and Hacksaw was
Speaker 1: very kind. He wanted to come on the radio show,
Speaker 1: and I tried to explain to him we don't really
Speaker 1: have guests on the radio show. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: the podcast thing, and he was cool with that and
Speaker 1: he wanted to come back on the podcast. So considering
Speaker 1: the massive ratings and we didn't even get to like
Speaker 1: most of the stuff we could have talked about with
Speaker 1: Hacks that we just did, like the basic outline nd
Speaker 1: of Haxe's career, but some of the crazy things that
Speaker 1: happened at the mighty six ninety back in the day,
Speaker 1: and all the personalities, the people that made it, the
Speaker 1: people that didn't make it, um some big names, some
Speaker 1: some hit and misses at that station, and some of
Speaker 1: the other drama that went on behind the scenes, which
Speaker 1: is now all fair game because the Statue of Limitations
Speaker 1: has run out on that and so you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about burning bridges or anything like that. In fact,
Speaker 1: I just so Howard Friedman, who was the program director
Speaker 1: when I interned in San Diego, and I've told the
Speaker 1: story before about Howard, like many of my my neurotic
Speaker 1: nature towards radio, never wanting to take days off is
Speaker 1: in large part because Howard Friedman as a program director
Speaker 1: in San Diego, when people would take vacation at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, he just fired them. They would
Speaker 1: never come back, and so uh so because of that,
Speaker 1: I was, like, I correlated that if you take time off,
Speaker 1: you're gonna gonna lose your job, and all this stuff
Speaker 1: and so you can thank him for me not taking
Speaker 1: a lot of time off. But plus I just like
Speaker 1: doing the show anyway. Yeah, that's that's pretty interesting. I
Speaker 1: did not know that. Now, did he ever take time off, Howard? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: how I took it. He's in he moved to Idaho,
Speaker 1: by the way. I just I don't know if I
Speaker 1: should say that, but nobody knows who he is. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty generic name. But yeah, he's retired now
Speaker 1: he's living, and I hope, Yeah, he took time off.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's interesting. So also he also had the
Speaker 1: line that he was, you know, when the board ops
Speaker 1: would funk up and they would make a mistake, which
Speaker 1: would happen occasionally, and he he would be quick to
Speaker 1: fire them and uh. And his his line was something
Speaker 1: to the effect that he could go down to the
Speaker 1: San Diego Zoo or the train station, to the bus
Speaker 1: station and find somebody that could run the board. Always
Speaker 1: nice to uh to diminish someone that's making like ten
Speaker 1: dollars an hour part time. It was even last back then, man,
Speaker 1: not even ten blucks an hour. There, you better off
Speaker 1: working at Jack in the box. You make more money,
Speaker 1: the benefits are better that's that's fascinating. But yeah, Haxell
Speaker 1: was really good. You know, the beautiful thing about asking
Speaker 1: the questions. He's rather long winded, and that's from the
Speaker 1: experience and from his his roots of coming from the
Speaker 1: East Coast to the West coast. There was a lot
Speaker 1: to There's certainly a lot to take in, especially since
Speaker 1: he kind of covered the globe with sportscasting right play
Speaker 1: by play and being a reporter and being a he
Speaker 1: did it all, So I I like, I like guys
Speaker 1: like that that can cover everything as opposed to be
Speaker 1: in a one trick pony. So I really appreciate that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I loved, you know, to to butter his biscuits
Speaker 1: because he's not here and he won't hear this, but
Speaker 1: the methodical nature that he would prepare for the show
Speaker 1: and that he had this and everyone's got their own
Speaker 1: way to do things, but he was so formulated and
Speaker 1: so disciplined and meticulous with the way that he would
Speaker 1: get ready for whether it was a charger game or
Speaker 1: the talk show. And he brought it up and it
Speaker 1: was it's ridiculous. And there's there's two different ways to
Speaker 1: do it, and you know, there's you can make beds
Speaker 1: different ways. You can cut peel peel and orange different ways.
Speaker 1: But uh he he really mastered the willpower part of it,
Speaker 1: and uh so it was pretty cool. So thank for
Speaker 1: all the download the hacks So hopefully well we'll actually
Speaker 1: gain some new listeners that will say, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: maybe I should listen to this going forward as opposed
Speaker 1: and we'll have other guests on. You know, if you
Speaker 1: want to recommend somebody, feel free to reach out either
Speaker 1: on social media or if you there's somebody that maybe
Speaker 1: somebody in radio like Hacksaw that I used to work with,
Speaker 1: that you you would want to hear on. It's the
Speaker 1: email address, is what is it? Dear? It's the uh
Speaker 1: let's see here the fifth hour, right, fifth hour, the
Speaker 1: fifth hour, real fifth hours, real fifth hour. There you go. Eventually,
Speaker 1: I'll get it right, keep getting fifth hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. I was gonna say, like part of see
Speaker 1: I personally read that wrong because like we had Tony
Speaker 1: Bruno on you know, a few episodes ago, and Tony
Speaker 1: did well. To Tony, yeah, those were good. So I
Speaker 1: guess for me, it's just you know, how I'm trying
Speaker 1: to read the the audience because you have a very
Speaker 1: eclectic audience and people that listen to your show or
Speaker 1: people that just listen to podcas as younger, older, and
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to get an idea of what people
Speaker 1: like to listen to. So I was figuring, like, well,
Speaker 1: if we had Tony on who was a host and
Speaker 1: a former host at Fox Sports Radio, like, would that
Speaker 1: go in line with having another host that's worked in
Speaker 1: the industry that's close on by it too? So I
Speaker 1: thought like, maybe we should spread those out. So I
Speaker 1: read the Uh, I read the I read the green
Speaker 1: a little wrong, and yeah, that's but now we know.
Speaker 1: And you don't know what you don't know until you
Speaker 1: know what you don't know. And now you know what
Speaker 1: you don't know, So now we know and uh and
Speaker 1: going forward and at some other I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of some other ideas. I wish the late great Joe
Speaker 1: McDonald was still with us. I'd have big, Big Nasty
Speaker 1: on Joe McDonald, who was a big star l a
Speaker 1: talk show host, another guy that influenced me in my career,
Speaker 1: the Big Nasty as they called him there, and I
Speaker 1: had some radio wars with him and we went at
Speaker 1: it a few times. We've got some fights, me and him,
Speaker 1: but we made up and we were friends and and
Speaker 1: all that. But anyway, so any you are right about
Speaker 1: the Mallar mush because, as I referenced your ear you're
Speaker 1: in this podcast, there were many people very upset with
Speaker 1: me who wanted to put a human firewall up around
Speaker 1: me to protect me from leaving to go just do
Speaker 1: a one, one off type show with Rob Parker, which
Speaker 1: was yesterday, and people very protective and they do not
Speaker 1: want anything. It's almost like they don't want If I
Speaker 1: were to leave the overnight, I would these people would
Speaker 1: be revolting. Guess there would be a revolt if I
Speaker 1: did that. Yeah, it's a little odd. It's the same station,
Speaker 1: it's the same network, it's the same platforms, it's just
Speaker 1: a different time slot. I don't I don't know. I think,
Speaker 1: if anything, that people are failing to acknowledge that by
Speaker 1: you working with Rob on his show, that directs traffic
Speaker 1: to your show or to your podcast, which I might add.
Speaker 1: Over the last sixty days, downloads are up a hundred
Speaker 1: and sevent Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m.
Speaker 1: P sip. It's good, it's wonderful. So but yeah, this
Speaker 1: is not again just to clever, people were comparing me
Speaker 1: to Blake SNeW there was some kind of dereliction of duties.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's the opposite of that. It is not
Speaker 1: any defiance of authority. I was contacted by authority. This
Speaker 1: is not a disobedience. It is obedience, is what it is.
Speaker 1: If I had said no, that would have been more
Speaker 1: of a rebellion type situation. Well, it's a combination of
Speaker 1: both though. You you leave your time slot to go another,
Speaker 1: but then you bring somebody else in a fill your
Speaker 1: time slot that people don't like. So it's a conversation
Speaker 1: that they're y. Yeah, it was that I I don't
Speaker 1: like to I'm not gonna lie. I I like my show.
Speaker 1: I I love that I have the show. I would
Speaker 1: like to do my show. I feel like that's what
Speaker 1: I should do. But occasionally, from time to time I
Speaker 1: feeling like I know some other guys that do this
Speaker 1: all the time, that you know, shift and move around.
Speaker 1: I know not the name names here, but there's some
Speaker 1: people that do this and love to change day parts
Speaker 1: and have no problem with it. And I guess It's
Speaker 1: okay for them because they don't get lampooned and ridiculed
Speaker 1: their listeners, which is wine. That's the beauty of the
Speaker 1: Mallard Militia, a bunch of hoodlums, which I love so anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, now, a couple of other things here on
Speaker 1: this wonderful, glorious edition of the podcast The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Mallard. So handy man Mallard. Now, I had
Speaker 1: mentioned this, We talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But I now have everything locked in, everything has been purchased,
Speaker 1: everything is here, and this weekend, at some point this weekend,
Speaker 1: I am going to do a d i y project.
Speaker 1: That is right. I will be renovating the remote Mallard
Speaker 1: studio here. I will be paddling my own canoe and
Speaker 1: uh I look forward a little home improvement project there,
Speaker 1: a little home studio project. I'm gonna get out the
Speaker 1: toolbox and I will throw together with some spit and
Speaker 1: duct tape, a brand new look, a brand new look
Speaker 1: for or the city, which you said, well, who the
Speaker 1: hell cares about that? You know the matter? It's a
Speaker 1: damn radio show. Nobody can see inside. I say no.
Speaker 1: I say no because of the YouTube videos which have
Speaker 1: become more and more popular, growing viewers for those things
Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel that now this becomes more important,
Speaker 1: and so the company thinks it is important. So I
Speaker 1: will go through, much like Hacks does a show very robotically.
Speaker 1: I will be going through and be touching up, cleaning up, dusting,
Speaker 1: moving stuff around that you cannot see in the camera,
Speaker 1: but there will be stuff behind the camera. Lit'll make
Speaker 1: it in this and we're lighting here and we're gonna
Speaker 1: try to make it less generic brand and more mainstream
Speaker 1: because we're going mainstream. We are going. It's rather unremarkable
Speaker 1: right now, but it's I just threw this together a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. What's interesting like this is uh,
Speaker 1: like you continue to to dress up. I like it.
Speaker 1: It's here we go again. Oh I'm I'm just acknowledging
Speaker 1: it because you went from having a show with w
Speaker 1: e I where you you had to do that stuff
Speaker 1: from from your remote studio and now not on camera.
Speaker 1: Who was not on EI stuff was not on cameras.
Speaker 1: Used threw together some soundproofing and yeah, yeah, so now
Speaker 1: you get to do this for for Fox and for
Speaker 1: on the the YouTube platform. There's different ways that they're
Speaker 1: able to to market and monetize and do it stuff
Speaker 1: on a on a on a bigger level too, which
Speaker 1: is beautiful. So I'm encouraged by this. Do you have
Speaker 1: a glimpse of what we can look at like penance
Speaker 1: or or pinned up hats or oh you'll you'll be
Speaker 1: You'll be seeing it soon enough, there, guess can I get?
Speaker 1: They got a couple of things here that I'm I'm
Speaker 1: working on, Like, do you have any home Do you
Speaker 1: have any jerseys at home they're framed or put into
Speaker 1: a seal that you're gonna post up now. I don't
Speaker 1: have any frame jerseys. I have jerseys that I have
Speaker 1: a bunch of jerseys from years ago, but they're in
Speaker 1: the back of the bowels of the closet. Back that's
Speaker 1: that's what do you have? You have frame jersey's guests?
Speaker 1: I have? So you let me guess your high school
Speaker 1: football jersey, your Al Bundy. I have a signed John
Speaker 1: Elway throwback jersey, and then I have I have a
Speaker 1: Vince Scullier Dodgers jersey that's like the skull in the
Speaker 1: back of the microphone. I got a really awesome gift
Speaker 1: A listener sent a autograph. This is really cool photo
Speaker 1: of Sandy Kofax that I have to get autograph photo
Speaker 1: of ko Fax. I gotta get that framed, and I
Speaker 1: get a few a few other things here that I yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't have to. I actually want to
Speaker 1: put some more photo. The only photo I have up
Speaker 1: in my office here is the one from the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Cavaliers parade. Why would I have that, you ask, because
Speaker 1: that was the famous day that some whacka doodle, this
Speaker 1: Mama Luke was walking around in front of millions of
Speaker 1: people in Cleveland and he held up a sign with
Speaker 1: a list of all these haters that didn't think the
Speaker 1: Cavaliers are gonna come back to beat the Golden State
Speaker 1: Oars and was like, the first person hit my photo,
Speaker 1: hit my photo from my avatar from Twitter he had
Speaker 1: on this thing, and I'm like right next to Skip
Speaker 1: Baylist and stephen A. Smith and all these guys, and
Speaker 1: it was it was hilarious. I thought it was photoshop.
Speaker 1: So somebody sent it to me and I thought, who
Speaker 1: the funk would put me on there with those idiots.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm you know, Overnight radio guy. And then
Speaker 1: sure enough it was legit because I saw a couple
Speaker 1: of different photos that were going around, and so I
Speaker 1: got this thing blown up and I thought, it's hilarious
Speaker 1: that that this this some random person was so upset
Speaker 1: that they ran around the parade to to try to
Speaker 1: goof on me, and uh, and I'm celebrating that. So
Speaker 1: I had that, But I gotta put up the photos
Speaker 1: from the meet and greets. Actually the Bakersfield one where
Speaker 1: I think, did you take that? I don't know who
Speaker 1: took that, but the Bakersfield. There was one in sanbur
Speaker 1: Do the base minor league baseball stuff, and then the
Speaker 1: Boston casking flagging. There's a team photo there I want
Speaker 1: from the Mallam Militia of the Northeast there in the
Speaker 1: New England States, and then the one from Seattle. I'd
Speaker 1: like to get those frame, but I haven't had time.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll get to it at some point.
Speaker 1: So not that you really care about that, but I
Speaker 1: am excited about this. I'm looking forward to I always
Speaker 1: love touching up the studio. I've been spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time in here. I probably spend fifteen hours a
Speaker 1: day in here during the week, and so it's it's
Speaker 1: good yeah. Now, yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, like,
Speaker 1: is it really good though, because that that kind of
Speaker 1: gives me the inclination that you are expected to stay
Speaker 1: in there a lot longer than the normal. Like, does
Speaker 1: that mean that you're not returning to the Geico Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. No, No, I'll be back, I think though
Speaker 1: going forward, I'll probably do the show from this studio
Speaker 1: some of the time. Like you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: that we won't be full return. It will be a
Speaker 1: partial return. But I need to go back to the
Speaker 1: radio station, and I will go back to the radio station.
Speaker 1: We'll make that happened. I gotta figure out the logistics.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this also is in a
Speaker 1: previous episode of the YouTube videos. I got a pretty
Speaker 1: like I said, I got a pretty good system down
Speaker 1: now on getting that stuff recorded because I gotta do
Speaker 1: it on my own here, which is no big deal.
Speaker 1: Just click a button and then you stop it and
Speaker 1: then you you know, you have to compress it or what.
Speaker 1: It's really pretty simple. We can take somebody out of
Speaker 1: out of a dog cage and teach him how to
Speaker 1: do it. But but anyway, so yeah, so I gotta
Speaker 1: figure that out and I've you know, I thought a
Speaker 1: couple of ideas on how to do that, but I
Speaker 1: have not actually done a dry run. You know, if
Speaker 1: you if you want, you know, I know that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people here, but you know, if you
Speaker 1: want to ask me, you could lean on me. I
Speaker 1: think I had this. I think I had a you know,
Speaker 1: a thought of doing something like this while back. So
Speaker 1: we go, here we go. I've I've touched a nerve. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if you need help, I'm I'm here
Speaker 1: for you. Like you know sometimes if you need any
Speaker 1: audio that's taken out, or if you need help with
Speaker 1: the monologue, and I'm here to help you out. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, get a lot of moxie over there. You
Speaker 1: certainly are not lacking in in moxie. Yes, but I
Speaker 1: want to tell you so. So the studio home studio.
Speaker 1: So like when I did it for the when I
Speaker 1: was doing some w E I and that lasted a
Speaker 1: couple of years. I did that for about two years,
Speaker 1: a little over two years, I believe it was. And
Speaker 1: then that came to an end. And so then I
Speaker 1: was like, I got all this radio equipment, I don't
Speaker 1: do the Fox Show from here? Like I did the
Speaker 1: New Zealand thing that ended during the pandemic, but I
Speaker 1: still was doing it with the I wasn't even really
Speaker 1: using the equipment because it wasn't really working right. Um,
Speaker 1: And then I was like, maybe I should get rid
Speaker 1: of it, you know. Uh, And but I'm so happy
Speaker 1: I kept it because I was like debating. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's taken up some space and you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'll be using it again. And then I'm
Speaker 1: sure enough it worked out and it was it was
Speaker 1: a decent cost. I was out of pocket and nobody paid.
Speaker 1: I had to buy all this crap and and put
Speaker 1: it together. So fortunately, I know you're very concerned about
Speaker 1: my finances. The return on investment very good. As it
Speaker 1: turns out now because of the apocalypse, it's it's worked
Speaker 1: out pretty well. That's good. And you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: happy that you made decision to erin the set of caution,
Speaker 1: because especially in this downtime, you're gonna have down to
Speaker 1: here and you're gonna have a lot of stations that
Speaker 1: are gonna flip from local to national and their occasionally
Speaker 1: gonna need filling people too. So actually I talked to
Speaker 1: some people in Florida earlier in the week about about
Speaker 1: the podcast, and I was talking to them about like
Speaker 1: bookings and guests and kind of trading guests back and
Speaker 1: forth between their content and whatnot. And a couple of
Speaker 1: the guys I talked to that are are program directors
Speaker 1: in Florida. They they like you a lot, and they
Speaker 1: actually have you on their shows, like one in in
Speaker 1: Fort Myers, Florida, another one in Tampa. So nice. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've gone on the morning show and uh, I think
Speaker 1: in Fort Myers done on that station that our Fox affiliate.
Speaker 1: There some good guys. Actually, one of those guys is
Speaker 1: sick right now. I hope he's doing all right. I
Speaker 1: have not gotten an update on that, but yeah, that
Speaker 1: was it was a good guys. I love like the
Speaker 1: good radio people, you know those are those are those
Speaker 1: guys Fort Myers And it's just like regular dudes, radio guys.
Speaker 1: I love radio guys, like lifetime radio guys. I love.
Speaker 1: For some reason, these are my people. They have the
Speaker 1: same michigas I have. They've lived the same life I've lived,
Speaker 1: and so I love. I love those guys. And everyone's
Speaker 1: got a chip on their shoulder. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You're
Speaker 1: you build up. It's a rhino skin when you work
Speaker 1: in well, any business, but in radio in particular. The
Speaker 1: rhino skin thing is really you learn to roll with
Speaker 1: the punches. Yes, you gotta build up some scar tissue
Speaker 1: in life. And if you don't have scar tissue, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm doing it. You know, I give you a
Speaker 1: hard time, guest gun, because I want you to build
Speaker 1: up scar tissue. You're a West of the four oh
Speaker 1: five guy. You've lived a trumped life. I want you
Speaker 1: to to to have to learn to withstand some criticism,
Speaker 1: toughen up a little bit, don't go into a shell
Speaker 1: and total up. And so you're you're doing better, I
Speaker 1: mean better. I can go through the scar tissue. If
Speaker 1: you like, I've torn a couple of groins, of torn
Speaker 1: a hamstring, of you have more than one groin? What
Speaker 1: do you like some kind of sideboard or something like that,
Speaker 1: guest gun toward a couple of groins left grind torn right, groin,
Speaker 1: torn hamstring quad right. You might want to consider some
Speaker 1: different women to date. If you've turned both parts of
Speaker 1: your growing there, what's up to that doing? I was
Speaker 1: playing hockey, so I did that. Yeah, so I got
Speaker 1: California who's playing hockey. I think there's one thing that
Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky you can't you can't disagree with that. There's uh,
Speaker 1: I don't lack any I don't lack grit or intestinal
Speaker 1: fortitude here, especially working with the likes of many people
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports. Ready, would you like to name names here?
Speaker 1: I feel like you want to name some names. Well,
Speaker 1: I know, I mean, I just you know, not everyone's
Speaker 1: as you know, not everyone's easy to work with. You
Speaker 1: gotta adapt and overcome and sometimes just endure. And so
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm I'm a teammate. I have a
Speaker 1: competitive atmosphere. It's a very competitive. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: But I think that, you know, if you're a host,
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be a pont you or
Speaker 1: incumbative you too straight arm an editor or a producer
Speaker 1: something that's low on the totem polls. So I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you, but wow, you know otially implying that no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know the listener can hear that? Well? First
Speaker 1: of all, you don't have any editors that work on
Speaker 1: your show, so that's correct, nothing, nothing at all. You
Speaker 1: have director, a producer in an acre like you are
Speaker 1: or bare bones. So that is that is true. And
Speaker 1: at one point years ago, in the early days of
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, we had just me and the board up.
Speaker 1: The board op had to answer the phones and do
Speaker 1: the technical work, and the updates were recorded. Oh I
Speaker 1: don't know that. And that that was how we got
Speaker 1: virtual disager p ones. Remember the oldest Steve de Segur,
Speaker 1: who doesn't even work overnights anymore, is below him, but
Speaker 1: he used to work overnights and so he would record
Speaker 1: his updates and leave, and so I would ask the
Speaker 1: seer questions, trying to make it you know too, and
Speaker 1: and and we put these drops in where he would respond,
Speaker 1: and it was virtual Steve the saga. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's very very popularly. So you don't have a producer
Speaker 1: either during your show back in the day. No, no,
Speaker 1: I had no producer, they said. When I started on
Speaker 1: the weekend overnights, They're like, hey, listen, we don't have
Speaker 1: a budget. I always live when you hear that, and
Speaker 1: but if you want to do it, you'll have to
Speaker 1: produce it, and you'll just have the board op. And
Speaker 1: then and that lasted a while, and then something slipped
Speaker 1: past the goaltender and then that changed inside radio term.
Speaker 1: But something did slip past the goaltender that was not
Speaker 1: supposed to slip past the goaltender, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they're like, Okay, we need to put more
Speaker 1: more people in there. But at that time, I was
Speaker 1: doing an update shift. Before I had I did a
Speaker 1: few hours of updates. I think it was like three
Speaker 1: or four hours of updates. I did the show and
Speaker 1: then I did a couple of hours of updates after. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like a nine hour period of time there.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Like if there was an opportunity
Speaker 1: to do something like that, I think I would go
Speaker 1: back to the overnight. Oh so you you're willing to
Speaker 1: do that if you get the host, you really went well.
Speaker 1: I think everyone in no matter any walk of life,
Speaker 1: whether you're in television, radio, if you're you know, a teacher,
Speaker 1: whether you're a basketball coach, I think I think you
Speaker 1: would agree with me that whatever occupation you're in, you
Speaker 1: always want to advance. You always want to take another step,
Speaker 1: Like you don't want to be stuck in just the
Speaker 1: norm or like whatever the president is right, like that
Speaker 1: goes for Yeah, but you're you also at some point,
Speaker 1: not that you should be satisfied, but you should not.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't always want to do it's a
Speaker 1: certain point you should if you're at a point where
Speaker 1: you're successful and you're you're comfortable and you're doing well,
Speaker 1: like you're still gonna be like I I gotta do
Speaker 1: something else. I mean, it's is it's like that what's
Speaker 1: that guy's name that left the office? What's his name?
Speaker 1: The remember the when the office was very popular in
Speaker 1: the middle of it, he quit. I forget the guy's name.
Speaker 1: But like that would be, hey, I'm being typecast as
Speaker 1: the guy from the office, so need to go do
Speaker 1: some other stuff and the office could still be on
Speaker 1: the air if you had stayed, they would still be
Speaker 1: doing the Office. Yeah, I mean Daniel Craig's like that.
Speaker 1: For for James Bond, like he's he's over written. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be typecasted as double O seven. But
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm with with that being said, I'm
Speaker 1: not satisfied yet. So like if there was a point
Speaker 1: where I felt like, man, I'm I'm good with where
Speaker 1: I'm at, then yeah, I would, I'd be comfortable. But
Speaker 1: I think there's always that need to do more or
Speaker 1: learn more, or to interact or to be engaged more.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not there yet. I think that
Speaker 1: you're not. I think, yeah. I mean it's like this podcast,
Speaker 1: for example, Like I wasn't you would agree with me
Speaker 1: on this, Like I wasn't content with where our numbers
Speaker 1: that were at towards the till and twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 1: so I feel like we should do more. We can
Speaker 1: do more, and we have done more, and I think
Speaker 1: that the listeners and the adience have responded in kind.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the reflection of the effort we're
Speaker 1: putting in. But it's it is going well. And some
Speaker 1: of that, though, is the apocalypse and the fact that
Speaker 1: there's more people listening now than ever before to Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. I mean, let's that'd be honest. You ever,
Speaker 1: that part of it is, uh, it's an odd situation.
Speaker 1: This is an odd year. This is our our podcast
Speaker 1: is space X and here you come mother Nature with
Speaker 1: the pandemic rating us sound, scuttling the vision. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: like we still get the people upset when we've had
Speaker 1: doctors on talking about the coronavirus. Doctor you had doctor,
Speaker 1: you had people that were upset that we had the
Speaker 1: doctors on. Yeah. Yeah, They're like, oh this is you know,
Speaker 1: right wing propaganda and all. I'm like, okay, I mean
Speaker 1: I didn't First of all, your friend the doctor didn't
Speaker 1: say this is he didn't say anything outrageous. I thought
Speaker 1: he said this is real. He's had it. And I
Speaker 1: mean like Dr G was fine too. I thought he
Speaker 1: was great and people and some people enjoyed him. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's certain people I just can't I can't handle.
Speaker 1: Let me just get triggered. That's embarrassed. We triggered. Those
Speaker 1: are our those are our citizens, those are our our
Speaker 1: countrymen that are doing God's work. What I don't know.
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Speaker 1: search f s R to listen live. It is odd.
Speaker 1: It is odd, all right. We have a few Florida
Speaker 1: man stories here, so we get to that the Sunshine
Speaker 1: State never never lacking in providing us with great content
Speaker 1: for the radio show. So here we go. This is outstanding.
Speaker 1: A Florida man, guesscon accused of kicking a chicken like
Speaker 1: a football like you would kick a field goal so
Speaker 1: hard he broke four of the animals rips. The problem was,
Speaker 1: you think kicking a chicken, you would assume the chicken
Speaker 1: was already like frozen, right, No, this was a live chicken. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he kicked a live chicken. He was apparently annoyed. He
Speaker 1: said he was annoyed by the noise the animal was making.
Speaker 1: So he suddenly turned in Martin to uh to Adam
Speaker 1: Vinitari or Martin Grammatica or one of the kickings, and
Speaker 1: Day has brothers and decide, you know what, this chicken
Speaker 1: will not show it up, So I Am going to
Speaker 1: see if I can kick a fifty yard field goal.
Speaker 1: And of all the like there's so much chicken consumed.
Speaker 1: We did a big Chicken podcast a while ago, of
Speaker 1: all the things like really, like, I mean, you go
Speaker 1: to the if you want to kick a chicken, go
Speaker 1: buy a frozen chicken and kick it. Like what are
Speaker 1: you doing? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, nothing, nothing
Speaker 1: to show your toughness, and to man up like chicken
Speaker 1: a chicken, like the chicken's pride, the size of his
Speaker 1: foot and he's punting that thing like fifty yards. That's unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how now did he How old was he? Do you
Speaker 1: know the age he I'm looking at his mug shot
Speaker 1: at it tears to be in his thirties or forties.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's hard to tell because he's he's had a
Speaker 1: hard life. He's had a hard life. Like if all
Speaker 1: the things to go digital and all the things to
Speaker 1: go trending, is I got arrested for punting on a
Speaker 1: chicken and now I got a mug shot. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is what a way to go down. Yeah, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: and that great. Yeah, that's that's fucking That is that
Speaker 1: is up there with embarrassing. Now, if you had, if
Speaker 1: you had any listeners that would do such a thing,
Speaker 1: can you name or can you identify with one that
Speaker 1: would consider doing something like this? Angry Bill? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's all Angry Bill. He's a loon. He
Speaker 1: would do that. He would absolutely kick a chicken, live chicken.
Speaker 1: He would kick a dog, he'd kick a cow, he'd
Speaker 1: kick a horse, zebra, you name it, go down the list.
Speaker 1: And rhyo. I don't know if you kick a rhino
Speaker 1: because that would come back and kick his asp. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's something just imagine this would have gone viral had
Speaker 1: he had he kicked a dog. He kicks a dog.
Speaker 1: This thing is viral and game on like he done.
Speaker 1: Like that woman that woman in was it Central Park
Speaker 1: in New York earlier in the week, who uh strangling
Speaker 1: the her dog while she was Yeah, And then the
Speaker 1: guy in Philadelphia through his headphones they get it an argument,
Speaker 1: the radio guy in Philadelphia and then that whole thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: here's one I bass Pro fisher fisherman in Florida, Tank
Speaker 1: Copper popped up on the news. He told the police
Speaker 1: to stop trying to catch him. Trump, stop trying so
Speaker 1: hard to catch Hipparently, Uh, it's the guys facing felony
Speaker 1: criminal mischief charges after bass Pro said it cost three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to decontaminate the fish tank that this guy
Speaker 1: was was messing around in. He was filmed jumping into
Speaker 1: the bass Pro shops fish tank. You've been to a
Speaker 1: bass Pro shop, right? Those things are awesome. Those are
Speaker 1: amazing stores. I mean that is like going to Disneyland.
Speaker 1: The bass Pro shop. He got everything you want. You
Speaker 1: got guns, fishing, knives, you name it. And so this
Speaker 1: guy he he popped up on Facebook originally Florida man
Speaker 1: and he was taunting the authorities, telling them he'd turned
Speaker 1: himself in when he was ready. And again he's facing
Speaker 1: felony criminal mischief charges for this is another wonderfully for
Speaker 1: for the best pro shop fishing tank. Uh that is
Speaker 1: that is outstanding. Jumping in that is that is just great.
Speaker 1: That is wonderful. Swan diving into a tank like I
Speaker 1: wonder if he had a statement of why he would
Speaker 1: do that in the first place, or if he did
Speaker 1: anything any harm to anyone, what would a good excuse
Speaker 1: be on that? What would a good excuse be on that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. The only thing I can say is
Speaker 1: either he was on drugs, or he was drinking, or
Speaker 1: he just thought he could get away with it. He
Speaker 1: was because you get people, you get kids like millennials,
Speaker 1: well the generation z s that will do stupid ship
Speaker 1: like a trend a month ago where two months ago,
Speaker 1: as you get these guys on TikTok that would start
Speaker 1: licking toilets, they do like the coronavirus. That's the stupid
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, let me go viral. Let me lick
Speaker 1: this toilet to see if I get coronavirus. And then banging.
Speaker 1: Four days later you get crown of virus. So, um,
Speaker 1: maybe he was trying to go viral at that and
Speaker 1: went wrong. Yeah, it's it's possible. I don't know. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot to this year. There's just pretty basic.
Speaker 1: He's hired a lawyer and he's fighting. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a tough one to fight that. I don't know what
Speaker 1: your defense is. You just really hot and you needed
Speaker 1: some water. You were hungry. So the fish look good.
Speaker 1: The fish was flirting with you, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: Here's a Florida woman's story here. This is a good one,
Speaker 1: and we go now to let's see central Florida. We're deputies.
Speaker 1: There's gave chase to a topless woman shoplifting suspect who
Speaker 1: made her getaway on a bicycle. Uh, it's thirty two
Speaker 1: year old one. She looks like she's fifty five. She's
Speaker 1: apparently done a lot of heroin. I'm looking at her
Speaker 1: mug shot here and right, not not good. There. Did
Speaker 1: not go very well anyway, She got stopped. Eventually she
Speaker 1: tried to pedal past, and she was stealing flip flops
Speaker 1: of all the all the things. She also had a
Speaker 1: T shirt twenty five dollar T shirt and she was
Speaker 1: charged with retail theft resisting arrest without violence. But again,
Speaker 1: the key part of that topless shoplifting female there, because
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go shoplifting, if you're a lady, you
Speaker 1: do not wear your shirt. Let the boobies free, let
Speaker 1: him go free, let him fly. Now, if she's aged,
Speaker 1: like you said, as like a fifty year old and
Speaker 1: she's thirty two, that's probably not a good sight to see, unless,
Speaker 1: of course you're like in southern California, because then you
Speaker 1: know you're probably a little handsd um. Yeah. No, this
Speaker 1: is not this is not easy on the eyes. This
Speaker 1: is not not great. This is not something you want
Speaker 1: framed in the Mallard studio. Correct, Yes, I think one,
Speaker 1: maybe one more. We have time for one more quick
Speaker 1: one here naked Florida man. So we had naked Florida
Speaker 1: woman or topless Florida when we now we have naked
Speaker 1: Florida man. Uh In. A suspect, while naked, vandalized Miramar
Speaker 1: High in Miami. The entire day this guy was going
Speaker 1: around naked, must have been on the bass salts. They
Speaker 1: say he left a hundred thousand dollars a naked manament's
Speaker 1: an entire day vandalizing high school in Miami and a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in damage. So they have they're trying
Speaker 1: to identify this guy, and they sent out a photo
Speaker 1: of him. Bob is just they just cropped off the
Speaker 1: bottom part, just the head headpart. But he he was
Speaker 1: wearing headphones. He was he was wearing headphones, so he
Speaker 1: wasn't totally naked. At least he had some even maybe
Speaker 1: listening to some tunes, you know, enjoying some tunes. You
Speaker 1: don't have been better too, as if he was wearing
Speaker 1: headphones and he was holding one of those old school
Speaker 1: cassette players. Yeah, well these headphones, you know how a
Speaker 1: lot of the new headphones are wireless and they're small
Speaker 1: and you can barely see them in your These are
Speaker 1: like the kind you know when you go to the
Speaker 1: airport and the people like pointing at the planes which
Speaker 1: direction there, Like those size headphones are massive. That's uh,
Speaker 1: it's a good look. Thousand dollars to a high school,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. Yeah, how about the fact he was
Speaker 1: doing it all day and they don't they have us
Speaker 1: like a security system at the school. They like look
Speaker 1: let them know that stuff's going on, don't they have that?
Speaker 1: Are just the community watched? Like you've got to be
Speaker 1: hearing something that's going on, right unless he's in the
Speaker 1: school buildings and causing damage to the desks, into the
Speaker 1: windows and maybe to plumbing. Yeah, but those those schools
Speaker 1: usually will have an alarmed system that's tied into the
Speaker 1: doors either way, so fire departments should be alarmed or
Speaker 1: or the police at least. That's that's unbelievable. It's pretty wild,
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