Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day dred
Speaker 1: minutes a week was enough, I think again. He's the
Speaker 1: last remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of
Speaker 1: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now. Out of the shoot
Speaker 1: we go. It is that time yet again, The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Mallard. We are in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: There are no borders in the podcast world. We thank
Speaker 1: you for finding the podcast, subscribing to the podcast, downloading
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Speaker 1: appreciate your loyalty and your support for said podcast. And
Speaker 1: we've been listening over the weekend. Here we had Mike Harmon,
Speaker 1: great radio conversation with my my buddy Mike Harmon, and
Speaker 1: then we also had the story they Look Back at
Speaker 1: Rush Russia lim Bossom of my memories of Russia, Limball
Speaker 1: and in interactions with Russia's pen and whatnot. On the
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast What Today Is All About? You it's the
Speaker 1: mail bag. The mail bag. And since Gascon is too
Speaker 1: lazy to come in here this weekend, we have both
Speaker 1: the show Who's gonna be with us as well, so
Speaker 1: the way this works both now, I solicited a bunch
Speaker 1: of of questions from members of the Mallard militia, big
Speaker 1: fans of the show, and we'll just go through as
Speaker 1: many of these as we can. I want to answer them.
Speaker 1: If you want to add on anything, Bow, you are
Speaker 1: more than welcome to do that. You want to touch
Speaker 1: up my work, you can do that if you like,
Speaker 1: and we'll see where this takes us. It sounds like
Speaker 1: sounds like a blast, all right, So here we go,
Speaker 1: Here we go, all right. Question number one, number one
Speaker 1: from Chris in any Town, Iowa, formerly known by a
Speaker 1: different name. He says, during your Fox hiatus, you ran
Speaker 1: the Rumor website. Why did you end it? And didn't
Speaker 1: actually make any money? Chris says, well, Chris, I don't
Speaker 1: actually own the domain name anymorey believe or even it's
Speaker 1: my name, I don't own the domain name. It's Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard dot com was the website. And yeah, I actually
Speaker 1: made a very good living. I didn't make riduculous money.
Speaker 1: Didn't make riduculous money, but I made a good living.
Speaker 1: I ran the Gossip website on my own independent website
Speaker 1: for many many years. I then partnered with Fox Sports
Speaker 1: dot Com as the Rumor Guy, and my content I
Speaker 1: aggregated was put out on on the Fox Sports dot
Speaker 1: Com website. UM And at one point I think the
Speaker 1: eek of that was when Drudge, the Drudge Report was
Speaker 1: the the end all be all and there was a
Speaker 1: story that I had put up about Tim Tebow when
Speaker 1: Tebow came onto the scene with the Broncos in the
Speaker 1: NFL and uh, and that popped up on the front
Speaker 1: page of the Drudge Report, and that that was like
Speaker 1: the coolest thing because that I was like, that was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, you've arrived. You know, Matt Drudge has taken
Speaker 1: a story that you put together and that's like a
Speaker 1: big deal. And my parents, who were more more political
Speaker 1: than sports people, that was like that was cool for
Speaker 1: them to check out. But yeah, I made money on it,
Speaker 1: and I actually did it way before I was doing
Speaker 1: both gigs. I did the radio show for a long time.
Speaker 1: I was the weekend filling guy in radio, so I
Speaker 1: was like the six man I would do a weekend
Speaker 1: show Friday, Saturday and occasionally Sunday, and then I would
Speaker 1: fill in. And a lot of radio people very lazy.
Speaker 1: They take a lot of time off, and so I
Speaker 1: would get a lot of fill in time. But my
Speaker 1: my main gig day through Friday was running and and
Speaker 1: correlating the content on the gossip site, aggregating it. And
Speaker 1: I did that for a long time and I made
Speaker 1: very good money. And then the thing that really changed,
Speaker 1: and there were two things that happened. It was the
Speaker 1: double way, right A. I was offered full time work
Speaker 1: in radio, and the amount of time I was a
Speaker 1: one man band. I didn't have a staff, I didn't
Speaker 1: have people. I was me. Anything you saw on that
Speaker 1: website was me, and that's a bad job by me.
Speaker 1: I should have hired other people and whatnot, but I
Speaker 1: didn't do it. And so once I got the full
Speaker 1: time radio gig, I was like, I can't. I just
Speaker 1: cannot do both. It's just physically impossible to do both
Speaker 1: because the timing and all that, and the amount of
Speaker 1: hours that it took to to make the product that
Speaker 1: I wanted on the website, I couldn't do it. That
Speaker 1: was the first part Part B though, was around that time.
Speaker 1: This is probably twelve thirteen years ago, give or take.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little sooner than that, maybe remember a little less,
Speaker 1: but around that time, and so social media was starting
Speaker 1: to really take off. Because remember and before that it
Speaker 1: was my Space, it was a O L Netscape navigator,
Speaker 1: and I started doing the website. In the early days,
Speaker 1: it was like the old West of the Internet, Chris.
Speaker 1: And so, to make a long story longer, once social
Speaker 1: media took over, people were not reading websites much. It
Speaker 1: was all about social media. It was about Twitter. Twitter
Speaker 1: was coming and becoming a bigger and bigger thing, and
Speaker 1: and all of these worlds converging that the social media stuff,
Speaker 1: along with the fact that I I had the radio gig,
Speaker 1: I let it go. Um, but it's always something that
Speaker 1: I've thought about bringing back, and if anything happens to
Speaker 1: me in radio, it's certainly something I would consider if
Speaker 1: I can monetize it and there's a market for it,
Speaker 1: and I think there is now. What I've seen is
Speaker 1: a lot of people now have shied away from spending
Speaker 1: as much time on social media because of the the
Speaker 1: down downside of social media. So I think they're the
Speaker 1: people are starting to come back to just regular websites.
Speaker 1: I know, in my life, I used to be on Twitter,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen hours a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm
Speaker 1: not on there much at all these days. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm over it. Um. I get my information from different
Speaker 1: websites that I trust, uh, and in different other sources
Speaker 1: outside of the social media world. So that's a long
Speaker 1: answer to a short question for Chris Michael in Newton
Speaker 1: Falls right. So he says, this question is for Benjamin.
Speaker 1: How do you keep such a sharp wit when you
Speaker 1: hardly sleep? Perhaps you are a sleep deprived, drunk and delirious.
Speaker 1: Michael says, well, first of all, Michael, thank you for
Speaker 1: the question. Uh. Secondly, you can blame my DNA. I
Speaker 1: come from a family of bad sleep I come from
Speaker 1: a family of terrible sleepers. That's just the reality. We're
Speaker 1: all like that. And I used to bust my dad's balls. Yes,
Speaker 1: I can't sleep, it's your fault, you know. And he
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep. He was a bad sleeper. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a four or five hour a night sleep guy.
Speaker 1: I wish that how long? How long do you sleep? Both?
Speaker 1: I try to get like the seven or eight, but
Speaker 1: it just doesn't do anything for me. So maybe I
Speaker 1: should try the four or five hours. No, no, I
Speaker 1: I would. I want to get seven or eight. I
Speaker 1: my goal is to get seven or eight. But I'm
Speaker 1: usually up and I just wake up randomly and can't
Speaker 1: go back to sleep after about four or five hours.
Speaker 1: See like that. That happens to me too. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just it feels like it's never
Speaker 1: enough for me. So I don't know. Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: My wife's a very good sleeper, but I'm not a
Speaker 1: a good sleeper. But but that's the cool thing. It's
Speaker 1: actually sometimes when my wife's told me this and other
Speaker 1: people said that, it's actually thing that I can get
Speaker 1: more done because I don't have to sleep as much
Speaker 1: and I'm and now there are times where for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I don't get like maybe I get like an hour
Speaker 1: for an hour and a half. And then I will
Speaker 1: come in here and you'll know when this is because
Speaker 1: I will sound like I I have, you know, had
Speaker 1: a case of booze right before I came. I will
Speaker 1: be a stumble bump, just a complete drunk and I'll
Speaker 1: slur my words. And so that does happen every once
Speaker 1: in a while, but usually if i'm if I'm if
Speaker 1: I get four or five hours, I'm fine, I'm I'm okay.
Speaker 1: And and usually the end of the week, like today's
Speaker 1: a podcast day that we're when we're recording this, and
Speaker 1: this is a day and we record this during the
Speaker 1: day I do the overnight show. I you know, go
Speaker 1: to bed around the same time every every morning, which
Speaker 1: is not convenient to do a daytime podcast, and so
Speaker 1: I don't get a lot of sleep, and we when
Speaker 1: we are recording these podcasts. But that's just part of
Speaker 1: the part of the deal. See I've always wondered, Uh,
Speaker 1: do you go to sleep right after the show is over?
Speaker 1: Or do you stay up for a little bit? No? No, God, no,
Speaker 1: I have to wind down, Like I have a whole routine,
Speaker 1: like I, you know, doing doing the radio show, being
Speaker 1: on the radio, you know, you you work yourself into
Speaker 1: a different spot and there's a different level of energy,
Speaker 1: and then I have to wind down. So I'll usually
Speaker 1: jump on the treadmill and I'll go on there, which
Speaker 1: is I don't think a good way to wind down.
Speaker 1: Probably by the way, I don't think they recommend that,
Speaker 1: but I'll just go on there and us walk. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't jog or run. I just kind of walk
Speaker 1: and get my body moving because you do it a
Speaker 1: four hour show. You're sitting around for four hours. You
Speaker 1: gotta get the blood going a little bit. Um. So
Speaker 1: I'll kind of hang out there and I'll I have
Speaker 1: some me time. We're all I'll look at some stuff
Speaker 1: and and then I'm always My problem is I'm always
Speaker 1: like looking for the next show. I'm like always looking
Speaker 1: like what can I do for the next show, What
Speaker 1: what's gonna be the big I'm trying to project what
Speaker 1: the big stories are gonna be. So that's part of
Speaker 1: the My mind's always racing. That's that's one of the issues.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't seem to shut it down. It's
Speaker 1: problem not see that. That happens to me too. If
Speaker 1: I if I know I have to do an overnight
Speaker 1: or something like that, like I try to sleep, but
Speaker 1: it just the thought in my head is like while
Speaker 1: I'm asleep, I'm gonna miss something happening. And then you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm sure that Ben or Jonas or whoever I'm
Speaker 1: working with will know. But I still want to be
Speaker 1: on top of it. So that's a that's a struggle.
Speaker 1: Oh it's terrible. And I used to have this argument
Speaker 1: with my dad because my dad was like the same way.
Speaker 1: But even though my dad didn't work in radio, but
Speaker 1: he would. He loved keeping up on the news. He
Speaker 1: was a news junkie and he'd always be on his
Speaker 1: phone looking at the news, whatever the political news was
Speaker 1: or politics, and I was listening, it'll be there when
Speaker 1: you wake up, you can then you'll have even more
Speaker 1: news to go through. But of course I didn't follow
Speaker 1: my own advice either, because I'm the same way like.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes right before I go to sleep, something
Speaker 1: big will happen and then I'm like, oh crap, now
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to bed. I remember the
Speaker 1: last time that happened was I was about to go
Speaker 1: to bed and the story came out that Rob Bob Kraft,
Speaker 1: the owner of the Patriots, have been been arrested for
Speaker 1: the tug and rub or the rub and tug, and
Speaker 1: as I couldn't go to sleep, I might I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: my gods, amazing story. I wanted to see what was
Speaker 1: gonna happen and let you know next and that that
Speaker 1: goofy local hack police guy came on there and started,
Speaker 1: you know, trashing Robert Kraft and made this whole big deal.
Speaker 1: The story turned out to be nothing as as as
Speaker 1: you will. But I remember that day. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go sleep and I just want to stay up
Speaker 1: and hear everything. All Right, Who else do we have
Speaker 1: about Kevin in Kansas? Right? Since it's been last week,
Speaker 1: you and guest Gon discussed cartoons you watched as kids.
Speaker 1: I know you watched sports. What are some of the
Speaker 1: game shows and evening shows you watched? How about Johnny Carson? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we watched the Tonight Show. That was but everyone seemed
Speaker 1: only when I was a kid, everyone watched the Tonight Show. Um,
Speaker 1: and then I was a fan because it seemed cool
Speaker 1: because he was like the weird late night guy David Letterman.
Speaker 1: We used to watch. Saturday Night Live was a big thing.
Speaker 1: That was a big deal to watch Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: I watched Saturday Night Live in years. Um, maybe once
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, I watched Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: Uh so, I Kevin. I would watch those shows a
Speaker 1: lot of sports, Monday Night Baseball. Fact, I'm such a
Speaker 1: loser that I stumbled on this old, but it's not old.
Speaker 1: It's a YouTube channel that shows old games and and
Speaker 1: I love it because they don't give the score and
Speaker 1: they don't really tell you what happened. The other night
Speaker 1: after the show, I'm on the treadmill trying to wind down,
Speaker 1: and I put on I think it was a nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two Chicago White Sox versus Oakland Athletics game. Billy
Speaker 1: Martin's managing the Athletics and the late great Billy Martin,
Speaker 1: Tony Larusso's managing the White Sox. Carlton Fisk is playing
Speaker 1: catcher for the White Sox. Ricky Henderson was a very
Speaker 1: young player still at that point for the A's. Uh,
Speaker 1: they had Cliff Johnson was on the A's. All these
Speaker 1: like random players that I recall because I'm old. So
Speaker 1: I'm I'm watching this and I loved it. And and
Speaker 1: Howard Cosell, the legendary iconic sports caster, Howard Cosell and
Speaker 1: Keith Jackson we're calling in the game, and Bob Yucker
Speaker 1: was like the third man in the booth and uh,
Speaker 1: and I just loved the hell out And I watched
Speaker 1: this for like an hour and a half and I
Speaker 1: still I still have like an hour and a half
Speaker 1: to get through, and and I it was just a
Speaker 1: random game. And you know, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I watched it when I was a kid, But it's
Speaker 1: just nostalgia, I guess would be the way the way
Speaker 1: to say it. So, uh, that's not really what you
Speaker 1: were asking, Kevin. But I did watch the tonight show
Speaker 1: to answer your question. Saturday Night Live, we watched sixty
Speaker 1: minutes was a big thing every Sunday. Remember one time
Speaker 1: my mom, as she rest in peace, she wrote a
Speaker 1: letter that they read on on sixty minutes and that
Speaker 1: was that was a big thing for the family that
Speaker 1: she was famous because there because the letter was read
Speaker 1: on sixty minutes. Um Valls Fan Jimmy the caller formerly
Speaker 1: known as Walls Fan. Jimmy says, been and Mr West
Speaker 1: of the four oh five? Have you ever gone out
Speaker 1: on a date and the woman was all about you
Speaker 1: and you completely blew it? Uh? Well, well, Jimmy, Uh,
Speaker 1: we don't know Miss West of the four or five
Speaker 1: is doing Mr West of the four so four or
Speaker 1: five things with no work. I think he's not here
Speaker 1: so Bo will help answer this. But but yeah, I
Speaker 1: was terrible I was so awkward dating and just it
Speaker 1: was it was a world I was not good at um,
Speaker 1: which it is amazing. I ever end up getting married,
Speaker 1: and I went on a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: first dates and not a lot of second dates. And
Speaker 1: there were reasons for that. I mean, there were obviously
Speaker 1: reasons for that, and it was uncomfortable. It was my hours,
Speaker 1: my schedule. Plus I was fat, and uh, women don't
Speaker 1: like dating fat guys. That's a problem. Uh. So you know,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of a lot of variables that
Speaker 1: led to that. But yeah, I mean there were there
Speaker 1: were some women I would go out with them like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, amazing, and I'm like okay, and then
Speaker 1: I just I started talking and I I just keep
Speaker 1: biting my tongue, and you know, it was terrible. So
Speaker 1: I think it happens to every right, even even the
Speaker 1: show right there's yeah. I I I was in a
Speaker 1: relationship in high school and then that ended. So most
Speaker 1: of my my twenties I was in a relationship. So
Speaker 1: I had no idea how to date. And I finally,
Speaker 1: you know, worked up the courage to ask someone and
Speaker 1: we met at a Starbucks in North Hollywood and it
Speaker 1: was nice. Talking, but it kind of just felt awkward,
Speaker 1: and you know, like the goodbye hug was weird. Um,
Speaker 1: But thankfully she didn't kick me to the curb. And
Speaker 1: we're supposed to get married here in July, so you
Speaker 1: got God willing. If everything goes to plan on, that'll
Speaker 1: be fine. But wait, wait, so you got out of
Speaker 1: a long term, relatively long term relationship that you started
Speaker 1: in high school and then the next person you went
Speaker 1: out with you ended up you're gonna get married to? Wow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at that bow the show. You don't mess around,
Speaker 1: But you're not a serial dat or No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not much of a Yeah, I I went on
Speaker 1: a couple of first dates with other people but it
Speaker 1: just didn't click. But thankfully this one did. So that's
Speaker 1: that's nice. And also, you know, it's it's good that
Speaker 1: I'm here to answer this question because I don't think
Speaker 1: Gascon has been on a date, and in his head,
Speaker 1: he's wouldn't be wouldn't be much for him to add
Speaker 1: to this conversation. Yeah, well, being west of the four
Speaker 1: oh five is guestcon is uh, you know, let's be
Speaker 1: honest here. The thing about Gascon is the person he
Speaker 1: loves the most is the person in the mirror, right right,
Speaker 1: I mean when you're that, when you're that high brow
Speaker 1: and pompous and the elitist and all that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just he doesn't need a data woman. He can
Speaker 1: just look at himself in the mirror and just be
Speaker 1: in love. In love. Oh my, my, my, my my,
Speaker 1: all right, Clayton writes, in says, can you please tell
Speaker 1: us the story again of you getting Russia limboss Pen
Speaker 1: would be good? Well, go back in Clayton, hear the
Speaker 1: podcast from Saturday. I did tell the story on the
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast of Rush, and I told two stories. I
Speaker 1: told the time I almost met Rush but pot that
Speaker 1: would have been cool to meet him didn't happen. And
Speaker 1: then I also told the story about when it was
Speaker 1: Rush week and he had left and they left the
Speaker 1: studio open and I gone in there. It was a
Speaker 1: Rush limball Pen. It's in my collection. J Bone, J
Speaker 1: Bone in May rights in or in Maine, not may
Speaker 1: not May in Maine. He says. So if there was
Speaker 1: a dating site for the Mallard Militia, who would hook up?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the characters that call the show? My god? Well,
Speaker 1: I know who wouldn't be able to day. It would
Speaker 1: be like angry Bill. That wouldn't really work too well.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, well, we'd man. You mentioned dating, we man,
Speaker 1: send me money, g Matte weed man, hippie and gmail
Speaker 1: dot com send me money, I mean holler and James
Speaker 1: he might fall asleep. Well then you got I'd feel
Speaker 1: bad for the women because we have a few women
Speaker 1: that love the show and they're big fans, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of creepy guys. You know. It's like, uh
Speaker 1: if imagine if Regina spin Cycle, Regina in Minnesota was
Speaker 1: on their Holy crap, these losers, you guys, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: would be a nightmare. How about Flexus, America's favorite drag
Speaker 1: queen caller. I think she was my first caller that
Speaker 1: really weirded me out. And I was told about Flexus,
Speaker 1: But yeah, not being told about Flexus is not the
Speaker 1: same as actually talking to Flexus. Well, it really is
Speaker 1: the Welcoming Committee to the Ben Maller Show and what
Speaker 1: the show is all about. There is the what seven
Speaker 1: and a half towed drag queen from Upstate New York,
Speaker 1: the great and really America's most beloved drag queen and
Speaker 1: only known drag queen caller to sports talk radio flexus.
Speaker 1: Who else do we have that would be all Hollerwing James.
Speaker 1: You imagine Halloween James. He would just scream and shout
Speaker 1: and h and yell all about would be Halloween James. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there's plenty, plenty characters that would be fun though. That'd
Speaker 1: be like a good cartoon. Wouldn't that be a fun
Speaker 1: cartoon that you have the characters draw them up. Cowboy
Speaker 1: and windsor Cowboy and winsor would be another one. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know Blair in Maine. You go down the list there.
Speaker 1: So all right, Glenn from Carmichael Carmichael, California says, what's
Speaker 1: the highest speed you have reached driving an automobile. Now
Speaker 1: we've been asked this question a few times, Glenn, I
Speaker 1: have gotten around a hundred. I do not believe I've
Speaker 1: ever gone over a hundred, mainly for two reasons. I
Speaker 1: am paranoid that if I go too fast, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose control and that's it, lights out, game over. So
Speaker 1: that's the first problem. The other problem is I generally
Speaker 1: have not had vehicles that are designed to go all
Speaker 1: that fast. I've had commuter vehicles mostly or I had
Speaker 1: had an F one fifty for a while, I had
Speaker 1: an Explorer for some time. I have the Malon wobile
Speaker 1: I have now is a hybrid. Hybrid are not designed
Speaker 1: to go over a hundred miles, even though it says
Speaker 1: you can. They're just not designed to do that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I might cut off is somewhere in the nineties, somewhere
Speaker 1: in the nights. But I've told the story before, My
Speaker 1: my my thing here and I got I got pulled
Speaker 1: over from a highway patrol guy and he said that
Speaker 1: he never gives tickets. He can't be said, he couldn't
Speaker 1: speak for other officers, but he couldn't. He never gives
Speaker 1: tickets to anybody driving seventy nine and under. He said
Speaker 1: the threshold for him was eighty and above. So Ever,
Speaker 1: since that conversation, that really resonated with me. So Ever,
Speaker 1: since that conversation, I of course set the speed the
Speaker 1: max speed to seventy nine, which is still speeding. But
Speaker 1: I have I've not gotten a ticket. I've not been
Speaker 1: pulled over for a speeding violation since I got that advice,
Speaker 1: especially especially when you're in like a nondescript car. I
Speaker 1: used to I used to drive a Mustang and I
Speaker 1: got pulled over going like nine on the freeway. But
Speaker 1: I can get up to a five eight nine in
Speaker 1: my current Corolla and nobody cares. It Really all depends,
Speaker 1: I think, on what car you're driving. So the advice
Speaker 1: from both the show is, if you want to be
Speaker 1: a speed racer, get a generic car. Yes, the most
Speaker 1: nondescript car as possible. He can get like a white
Speaker 1: Corolla or white camera. Drive as fast as you want to.
Speaker 1: So if you buy a red Lamborghini, chances are that's
Speaker 1: going to get the attention of law enforcement. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm giving some of these guys just pull the the
Speaker 1: really exotic cars over just so it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Can take a closer look at them, you know, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Like we see some of the cars around our building
Speaker 1: in Sherman Oaks out here, some of the because the
Speaker 1: celebrities live up in bel Air and they come down
Speaker 1: to drive cruise around Ventura Boulevard and whatnot. So Pulvita
Speaker 1: and I have seen some of the most exotic, outrageous
Speaker 1: like three wheeled cars, looks like they're out of a
Speaker 1: circus and really all old cars, cars I've never seen before.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's just some Hollywood dope driving around
Speaker 1: taking a joy ride in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: or whatever. And area area matters to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: upper upper class areas. I don't think they're going to
Speaker 1: pull over cars like that. I remember I used to
Speaker 1: work at Dodger Stadium, and do you remember, y'all see
Speaker 1: how Pueak he drove that orange Z car. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he uh. I was walking back to my car after
Speaker 1: a game and he just zoomed by us, like he
Speaker 1: almost hit me. Just just cruise out of Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: with you know, cops all over the place, because at
Speaker 1: the end of a Dodger game, nobody cared, like just
Speaker 1: that's Pueek being peak. I guess. Yeah, well that was
Speaker 1: part of the reasons he's no longer a Dodger. It
Speaker 1: was pweak being pweak. They got they got tired of that.
Speaker 1: I remember one time I was leaving and it was
Speaker 1: a playoff game, Playoffs, and I parked in the auxiliary
Speaker 1: media parking lot, which is down the hill. You probably
Speaker 1: parked there if you worked at Dodger Stadium, bow you
Speaker 1: know that you had to take a shuttle bus up
Speaker 1: to the top of the hill right near the fire
Speaker 1: Museum they have their Yeah, so I that during the
Speaker 1: playoffs we have to park there, and it was the
Speaker 1: overflow lot. And I remember one time I was walking.
Speaker 1: I was always I take the shuttle up because it
Speaker 1: was uphill to Dodgers Statum. But on the way back
Speaker 1: I would just walk because it was all downhill. If
Speaker 1: you know the layout of Dodger Stadium. So I'm walking
Speaker 1: down and um, and there's a bunch of traffic after
Speaker 1: a playoff game. It's about half an hour after a
Speaker 1: playoff game, tons of traffic backed up, and uh there
Speaker 1: is a I see Cherry Tops. There's a police escort
Speaker 1: leading yao peg down you know that backstreet that goes
Speaker 1: behind that parking lot, leading Pueak to the one ten freeway.
Speaker 1: It was like the funniest thing. He's he's driving this
Speaker 1: clown card and he's got a police escort to lead
Speaker 1: him past all the fans that are stuck in gridlocked
Speaker 1: traffic trying to get out of Dodger Stadium at like
Speaker 1: five o'clock after a day playoff game against the Brewers
Speaker 1: or you know something like that. So yeah, alright, Uh,
Speaker 1: what else do we have Let's see page down here,
Speaker 1: A page down. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the
Speaker 1: Pro Basketball Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, rights in and
Speaker 1: he's got a couple of questions. He says, you're stuck
Speaker 1: on a deserted island with gag On, Brian Finlay and
Speaker 1: record Ralph. Who do you eliminate? First? All right, that's
Speaker 1: his his question. And then the second question is what
Speaker 1: do you do to pass the time with Finley and
Speaker 1: Ralph until you're rescued? Uh? Well, Finley would probably tell
Speaker 1: stories about tennis, right, or he ball washed some athletes,
Speaker 1: which he loves to do. He is a big fanboy,
Speaker 1: loves his professional athletes. Uh. And then Ralph would probably
Speaker 1: tell me some stories about the old days in San
Speaker 1: Diego and we worked together at the Mighty, So that's
Speaker 1: that's how we were past the time. And then we
Speaker 1: just goof on, gag On, that's what we're doing. That
Speaker 1: that that's that would be what we did. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you imagined gag On on a deserted, deserted island. He
Speaker 1: can't even handle doing a podcast. Eye. Yeah, he wouldn't,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't make it. Yeah, I think I think he'd
Speaker 1: last maybe six hours. I try to explain to guy
Speaker 1: on the key to this, you've gotta be here every week.
Speaker 1: He has missed more time, My god. Anyway, Dave from
Speaker 1: Mill Valley rights in. He says, Ben, who would win
Speaker 1: an arm wrestling match between you and David guns Gascon?
Speaker 1: Would it be? Would he be a worthy opponent? Or
Speaker 1: is he all show and no go? Well, Dave, thank
Speaker 1: you for the question, Dave, And uh, of course the
Speaker 1: answer is is he's not is he all show and
Speaker 1: no go. It's he's all no show, is the answer.
Speaker 1: Because he wouldn't show up. Yeah, you wouldn't show up.
Speaker 1: He'd be the guy. He'd be like Conseco when Barstool
Speaker 1: had Conseco in that celebrity boxing match a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks back, and Conseco it certainly looked like he took
Speaker 1: dive there. He showed up, lasted five seconds or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then now hit hit the hit the mat. That's it.
Speaker 1: That would be Gagon. That would be all right. Big
Speaker 1: Mike from Courtland, New York writes in Home of the
Speaker 1: Red Dragons. He says, how about discussing all of this
Speaker 1: sometimes confusing talk about quarterback shifting teams salary caps, dead money, etcetera.
Speaker 1: The more this is talked about, the more it seems
Speaker 1: to go in different angles. Perhaps you could make some
Speaker 1: sense of it. Well, Big Mike, that's a sport oh question.
Speaker 1: I will attempt to answer it briefly. I do this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff on the Overnight Show. But I am
Speaker 1: a salary cap cruther. I'm a salary cap truther. I
Speaker 1: I believe it is fiction. It is malleable. It is
Speaker 1: something you can move around. It is something you use
Speaker 1: as an excuse when you don't want to keep someone
Speaker 1: on your team. If you want to keep someone on
Speaker 1: your team, you're gonna find the money. And because of
Speaker 1: all of the loopholes and all of the offset language
Speaker 1: and the fine print in these agreements, as the rams
Speaker 1: are the living embodiment of this. Now, at some point
Speaker 1: down the line, you have to you have to take
Speaker 1: it in the shorts. But you can keep kicking it
Speaker 1: down the line. It's like the United States economy. You
Speaker 1: know how much debt the United States is in. They
Speaker 1: just keep finding, you know, loopholes and printing money and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And you know, eventually eventually that will be problematic. Eventually
Speaker 1: that will be problematic. But until then, no, so I
Speaker 1: always gett a kick. I see these stories on the latest.
Speaker 1: One this week was von Miller and the Broncos might
Speaker 1: have to release von Miller for Sarry Cat reason all
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't have to release von Miller for
Speaker 1: Sarry Cat reasons. They can move some some numbers around
Speaker 1: and have fun with numbers, used the funny math there
Speaker 1: to make it work. But they're they're over. They're like
Speaker 1: von Miller is getting a little long in the tooth.
Speaker 1: He missed all last season. He wasn't as good as
Speaker 1: he was that nineteen and he's part of the old guard.
Speaker 1: Von Miller is part of the old Broncos. We want
Speaker 1: a new identity and as long as von Miller is
Speaker 1: gonna be there, he's gonna be associated with the old
Speaker 1: Broncos and we want someone new, and so we'll move on. Ethan.
Speaker 1: In Akron Ohio Rights in our man, Ethan, he says, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I just got a job in ticket sales. Sales obviously
Speaker 1: a huge part of the radio industry. That's true, Ethan.
Speaker 1: Any sales advice or crazy sales stories that you've run
Speaker 1: into over the years, well, Efan, good luck being the
Speaker 1: sales guy because I actually briefly, briefly worked in sales.
Speaker 1: I briefly worked in sales at a cable radio. He
Speaker 1: gave me a desk and I was gonna dose sales,
Speaker 1: and I I just was terrible at it. I was,
Speaker 1: I was horrible at it. There's an art to it. Now.
Speaker 1: My experience with sales people in radio is the way
Speaker 1: to get the easy street is once you get with
Speaker 1: the uh. I forget what they're called there that I
Speaker 1: of the media buyers. The media buyers, I believe it is,
Speaker 1: and so you know, they just buy a certain number
Speaker 1: of spots every every month or whatever. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how the ticket game works and all that, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're selling tickets to. But most of
Speaker 1: all of human relations is is personal. So you've got
Speaker 1: to get on the level. You're selling a product, but
Speaker 1: you have to let the person know that you care
Speaker 1: about them, and just like the basic stuff. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying anything you have to go full Tony Robbins and
Speaker 1: go that direction. But from what I've heard from sales people,
Speaker 1: most of the successful sales people, it is, you know,
Speaker 1: knowing about people's families and getting on that personal level.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know if you can do that
Speaker 1: in the ticket sales game. I'm not sure how that
Speaker 1: racket works. Um, but you can slowly work on those skills.
Speaker 1: Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia. Right, since has Ben, my question
Speaker 1: for you this time is what is one of your
Speaker 1: favorite travel vacation memories? Also, if you had the opportunity
Speaker 1: and to guarantee that you would make it back alive,
Speaker 1: would you want to visit and walk on the moon. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: hell yes, Jennifery. As far as the moon part, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guaranteed me I'd come back and I'd be in
Speaker 1: one piece, and I'd have that experience of being out
Speaker 1: in the cosmos and looking back at this little blue
Speaker 1: rock rotating around, thinking everything I've ever known and everything
Speaker 1: that has ever you know in the humanity has been
Speaker 1: in that little blue dot. My god, that would be awesome. Plus,
Speaker 1: I think you'd see some cool stuff. I think you
Speaker 1: see some stuff that they don't tell us about traveling
Speaker 1: to the moon. Yeah, I don't know, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a no brainer, right, But I mean I think there's
Speaker 1: there's goblins and creatures and stuff that we don't know about.
Speaker 1: And yeah, for sure, not believe that there's a other
Speaker 1: other things out there but us. Yeah, oh definitely. Now
Speaker 1: what those things are, who the hell knows, And but
Speaker 1: there's something, there's something out there. And as far as
Speaker 1: like the travel stories, yeah, I mean I remember family vacations.
Speaker 1: I remember when you know the Mallard family is not
Speaker 1: a camping family. Remember we tried to camp we failed. Um,
Speaker 1: I remember that. Remember going to the Grand Canyon when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, trips to Vegas, to Chicago to
Speaker 1: see family in Chicago. Uh, I grew up in Orange County.
Speaker 1: We'd go into l A to visit my relatives in
Speaker 1: l A. I remember going to Hawaii, I mean northern California.
Speaker 1: Just like random, random trips and very very fun mambies.
Speaker 1: When when I was a kid, we had these big
Speaker 1: family reunions because my family extended family spread out all
Speaker 1: over the country, and the older generations of the family
Speaker 1: always made it a point. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: every year, but it was like every other year they'd
Speaker 1: have a family reunion. They're usually in Phoenix, but sometimes
Speaker 1: they were in Chicago, and we had the Midwestern family
Speaker 1: and uh in other places, and so I I fondly
Speaker 1: remember going to meet with my cousins and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know all the the different characters that were in
Speaker 1: the family and the older the older generation, which you
Speaker 1: know they've died off now, but I have fond memories
Speaker 1: of Uncle Joe and some of the some of the
Speaker 1: people that we u we hung out with back there.
Speaker 1: But I think that's most people. Right when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: you remember certain certain things that stayed out about your
Speaker 1: your childhood and trips that you made and things like that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh personally, like I had a family friend that would
Speaker 1: take me to Disneyland every summer, Disneyland and Universal Studios.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, so that was fun. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's that's those are probably like the most
Speaker 1: memorable trips for me personally, was doing that every summer.
Speaker 1: And I was like gotten older. I have you know,
Speaker 1: when I have I have nieces and you know, nephews
Speaker 1: and things like that. And in fact, my sister in
Speaker 1: law just she's got a couple of young kids, so
Speaker 1: I'm waiting they're not quite old enough yet. But there's
Speaker 1: that goldilog zone when you're a kid between nine and eleven,
Speaker 1: where you that's the point you don't reset. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a certain point you reset, you're not gonna remember stuff.
Speaker 1: Usually it's it's different for everybody. But I don't remember
Speaker 1: anything before I was like five, But for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, it's like nine, nine to eleven right around
Speaker 1: there as you start to figure things out a little bit,
Speaker 1: but you're still a kid, and like that's the time
Speaker 1: to take, you know, to have the trips to Disneyland
Speaker 1: and those because those are lifetime memories that will influence
Speaker 1: kids for like the rest of your life. Like I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: like when I was a kid, the stuff I remember,
Speaker 1: it was around that age nine, ten, eleven, twelve, right
Speaker 1: around there. Yeah, no, I I I don't get the
Speaker 1: people they take their infants to Disneyland, Like, uh, that
Speaker 1: seems like a waste to me. Well because they're free,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like when they start charging, like it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, come on to really get the full experience,
Speaker 1: it's gotta the kid's gotta be like, you know, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: I'd go nine to a nine to twelve someone in
Speaker 1: those lines. So you gotta remember meeting Mickey, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's very important, very very important. All right, who else
Speaker 1: do we have let's see page down here. Eric and
Speaker 1: Omas has any chance that the polar vortex is karma
Speaker 1: for the cheating as Stros. I hope the buzzers are
Speaker 1: frozen now. Wow. Then he says, prayers out to everyone
Speaker 1: that went through the polar votchecks uh in Texas. Yeah
Speaker 1: that was pretty crazy. Yeah, I'm gonna say that that
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the cheating Astros, but the
Speaker 1: downfall of the Rockets and the downfall of the Texans,
Speaker 1: there is a correlation between what happened with the Astros.
Speaker 1: Stephen Boston writes and says, if Cam Newton returns next season,
Speaker 1: will teams know his injury passed and total lack of ability,
Speaker 1: Will they will start really going after him? Or because
Speaker 1: of his likability, will he be given a past. No,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be giving a pass. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they were, They were going after him this year. I
Speaker 1: don't think that business operates where they don't go if
Speaker 1: they you find a weakness. It's like anything the art
Speaker 1: of war. You find your opponent's weakness and you attack.
Speaker 1: So I can't If Cam comes back, holy crap, what
Speaker 1: a what a disaster? Cam Newton is back? Is the
Speaker 1: Patriots quarterback will have things will have have to gone
Speaker 1: really wrong for that to happen. I think, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: don't want to spend any money on a quarterback, and
Speaker 1: he has spent a little bit. You can't sell Patriots
Speaker 1: fans on another year of Cam. I just I just
Speaker 1: don't think it'll work. Well. They were hyping up Jared Stidham,
Speaker 1: the other guy, and then they never hardly play him
Speaker 1: at all, and they was talking about he was gonna
Speaker 1: be the heir to Tom Brady and all that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: That was weird. That never felt real to me. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I thought it was. I was buying into it,
Speaker 1: and then What's training camp started? Forget about it? I'm
Speaker 1: Matt you Almira New York rights in. He says, what
Speaker 1: is the song that comes on the radio that you
Speaker 1: absolutely can't stand and turn off immediately? So I think
Speaker 1: we all have one. He says, mine would be Life
Speaker 1: is a Highway. He says, I f and hate that song.
Speaker 1: I'm actually pissed right now just thinking about it. Um,
Speaker 1: And so he then curses out Tom the guy that
Speaker 1: made this song. Uh, you know, I I'm not good
Speaker 1: with song names. My my thing, Matt is that I
Speaker 1: I cannot stand the parts of songs where they just
Speaker 1: repeat the lyrics over and over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over, and I just I'm done.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of the newer songs where it's
Speaker 1: just you have, like I understand, you have verses and
Speaker 1: you repeat verses, but I'm saying it's just one line
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. I'm out. I'm out.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's there's those lists of songs that
Speaker 1: have the the most repetitive uh songs, which you know,
Speaker 1: I again I don't know in names. I can look
Speaker 1: them up if you want, but it's just I cannot
Speaker 1: I cannot stand that. I just man, uh that there
Speaker 1: was that pump Up, pump up the jam that's an
Speaker 1: old one from back in the day. Heck uh even uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know was it was it Funky Town? I
Speaker 1: think it was that and it was that that was
Speaker 1: trying to think of some of the older ones. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I had. Any song that is in your
Speaker 1: head there both that you cannot stand, you know, I
Speaker 1: I used it. I used Spotify mostly. I don't really
Speaker 1: listen to the radio when I'm in my car, but working?
Speaker 1: Are you working? Radio? Pet By? I do remember my
Speaker 1: dad loves that song and I got a Evita. I
Speaker 1: don't remember who does it. I remember the band, but
Speaker 1: the first time I heard it, I just I begged
Speaker 1: him to change it. And I think it's like thirteen
Speaker 1: minutes long or something like that. So anytime he like
Speaker 1: tries to listen to that song or talk about that song,
Speaker 1: and just I can't do it. Yeah, that's that's my thing.
Speaker 1: I think, the repetitive stuff. Um, I'm out of all right?
Speaker 1: Who is next? Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia, r J
Speaker 1: and San Antonio. They both have similar questions about the
Speaker 1: coldest weather we've ever been in. Uh, this is for
Speaker 1: both me and Gagon. But Gagon again too lazy to
Speaker 1: show up this week, so I will I will go first.
Speaker 1: I have spent time in weather around below ten degrees
Speaker 1: below ten degrees. I don't remember the exact temperature, but
Speaker 1: it was on the East Coast. It was in Connecticut.
Speaker 1: My trips back to Connecticut, I was doing stuff with
Speaker 1: NBC or AT when I was listening my brother and
Speaker 1: my relatives in New York. But I haven't usually gone
Speaker 1: back when in the winter. Normally I would go back
Speaker 1: in the summer where it's just humid and kind of nasty.
Speaker 1: But I've only I've only spent maybe my life around
Speaker 1: a week in that really terrible weather total probably and
Speaker 1: then actually be fair like around here in the hills.
Speaker 1: I've gone up to the National parks around here where
Speaker 1: it does get to that temperature, but never like minus
Speaker 1: thirty wind show, I've never been in that, But I
Speaker 1: I do believe both the show that cold is cold,
Speaker 1: like once you get to a certain point of cold,
Speaker 1: I don't think it gets much worse than that. That's
Speaker 1: my belief any I think I think the most the
Speaker 1: coldest weather I've ever been in was like November in Chicago,
Speaker 1: So I want to say it was like eight degrees
Speaker 1: or something like that at night. But yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: certain threshold where it's just like it's cold and there's
Speaker 1: nothing that's really going to change that. All right, moving
Speaker 1: on Ramon from Virginia Beach, right, since says, do you
Speaker 1: consider Russi lumb would be the greatest talk show host
Speaker 1: of all time? The goat? If not who is well?
Speaker 1: Russia is on that big board uh, certainly for political radio,
Speaker 1: because he pretty much created the genre of modern political
Speaker 1: talk radio, which both obviously conservatives have copied Rush, but
Speaker 1: liberal talk show hosts have used the Rush format just
Speaker 1: with different rhetoric. So it's it's similar in that regard.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Rush, Howard Stern the legends for me overnight
Speaker 1: it was Art Bell, the late grade Art Bell, uh,
Speaker 1: the king of overnight radio. And George Norry has done
Speaker 1: a good job as a competitor, uh, you know, going
Speaker 1: head to head with him, uh, in in that particular space.
Speaker 1: And then something like who else are the forefathers of
Speaker 1: modern radio? A lot of people saying sports radio is
Speaker 1: Mike and the mad Dog at w f INN in
Speaker 1: New York. Gym Rome had a lot for me. It's, uh,
Speaker 1: you know other people. There's different people, but Russia is
Speaker 1: on that that big board for his contributions obviously too
Speaker 1: to radio Kevin in Rockford, Illinois, right since is my
Speaker 1: wife and I are driving to Tampa, Florida from Rockford
Speaker 1: this coming weekend. It's gonna be a long trip, so
Speaker 1: you best believe I will have the Mallard Show on tap.
Speaker 1: Good job by you, and and he he points out
Speaker 1: that His wife is not a big sports fan, but
Speaker 1: according to Kevin, I told her that you had the
Speaker 1: voice combination of Jesus and Frank Sinatra and could take
Speaker 1: the virginity of non sports listeners across the country. She's
Speaker 1: still not convinced. So how how do I go about
Speaker 1: listening to your show on on our road trip without
Speaker 1: getting bitched at more so for the way back, because
Speaker 1: we will already be there by the time this podcast
Speaker 1: is available. Yeah, well, those are those are great points
Speaker 1: by Kevin. Good job by you. And what would be
Speaker 1: the way to sell the show? I'm I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not totally sure how to do that. I do know
Speaker 1: from other listeners experiences and whatnot that I don't know
Speaker 1: this is a compliment or not, But I have been
Speaker 1: told that some people listen to the show and don't
Speaker 1: even like sports, but they like the show for some reason.
Speaker 1: I get that, and I get that. I don't know
Speaker 1: how that could be like because it's I mean, the
Speaker 1: monologues are about sports, right, and the rest of the
Speaker 1: show we kind of goof around, but it's a nod.
Speaker 1: It's another thing, and I like some people will just
Speaker 1: be lonely and call up and I know they don't
Speaker 1: listen to the show. You can tell you know it
Speaker 1: was called they want someone to talk to and I
Speaker 1: happen to be the person on at four in the morning,
Speaker 1: and so they'll call up and you can tell they're
Speaker 1: not really sports people and all that we get. I
Speaker 1: get calls all the time on different shows that I'm
Speaker 1: producing that are asking, uh, if this is the Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor show. So, I mean, you know, you're a you're
Speaker 1: a shoulder for them to cry on, or you don't
Speaker 1: hear for them to tom I'm a radio shrink man. Actually,
Speaker 1: the funny thing is I I don't know that management
Speaker 1: agrees with this. I don't think they find it funny,
Speaker 1: but I find it amusing. Some of the calls I
Speaker 1: like the most are when people call up AND's like,
Speaker 1: I'm having a problem with my girlfriend or um, I
Speaker 1: having a problem with my boss and they asked me
Speaker 1: that Dopy Overnight sports guy for advice. I was going
Speaker 1: to kick out of that. I was like, those are funds.
Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, or maybe maybe longer than that,
Speaker 1: there was that guy that called in about his pet, Bobcat.
Speaker 1: You remember that, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a wild you were that you were in that night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not sports at all, but that's uh, that's good radio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: our buddy from North Hollywood with his pet Bobcat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that started as a sports call. Remember, he wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about sports, and then somehow it morphed into
Speaker 1: this thing with the the cat and he didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it, and then we got him to
Speaker 1: talk about it, and uh yeah that was that was
Speaker 1: wild and uh man, oh man, oh man. The the
Speaker 1: Bobcat call Pinto was the guy's Pinto and he's working
Speaker 1: nights now so he's not able to call. He hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to call in a while. But Pinto and
Speaker 1: the Bobcat he was out about. There's a little a
Speaker 1: cub bobcat there and the uh as it has domesticated
Speaker 1: it until the podcasts aren't that big, until the Bobcat
Speaker 1: decides that it's hungry and eats the face of the
Speaker 1: Bobcat or eats the face of of Pinto. Alright, last one,
Speaker 1: last one. Here we go Tom from St. Augustine, Florida. Right,
Speaker 1: since says, how come you and Gagon don't YouTube the
Speaker 1: podcast like Benny versus the Penny. The production was high
Speaker 1: quality by the end of the season, and you got
Speaker 1: that fancy ass background. Would be cool to watch YouTube bullshit,
Speaker 1: thank you? Uh well, Tom, there's a couple of reasons
Speaker 1: we don't do that. The podcast. Uh you know, there's
Speaker 1: financial reasons. We would put it on YouTube to make money,
Speaker 1: but this podcast is property of my Heart Media. We
Speaker 1: do it under that umbrella, so I'm pretty sure they
Speaker 1: wouldn't want us to sell the podcast the YouTube video.
Speaker 1: And then we want people to download the the show
Speaker 1: via I Heart or Apple or wherever you get your
Speaker 1: podcast from. And so if we were put a platform
Speaker 1: up on YouTube, which I'm I'm not against, if there
Speaker 1: was some money in it, but that would take away
Speaker 1: from the downloads. And ultimately we get judged and compensated
Speaker 1: based on how many people download the podcast. And if
Speaker 1: nobody downloads it, we are doing this pro bono for free.
Speaker 1: Uh people downloaded, we will make a little bit of money.
Speaker 1: We're not getting rich on it at all, and so
Speaker 1: it's we're really about getting the downloads. I have considered
Speaker 1: doing a different YouTube show we did Benny versus the Penny,
Speaker 1: and there's some gambling possibilities that we've kicked around and
Speaker 1: some other things that we've kicked around, and so we'll
Speaker 1: we'll see what the futuroals. All right, Well, thank you Tom,
Speaker 1: Thank you everyone that email. If we didn't get your email,
Speaker 1: it either sucked or it didn't have time to get
Speaker 1: to it. You'd be the judge of that. Do better
Speaker 1: next week. And if you want to ask a question
Speaker 1: for a future edition of the if our podcast mailbag,
Speaker 1: there's two ways you can do it. Usually Wednesdays in
Speaker 1: the morning we post on the Facebook page of the
Speaker 1: show Facebook page Ben Maller Show. There's a link. You
Speaker 1: can ask your question there in the public square. Or
Speaker 1: you want to keep your question private and some people do,
Speaker 1: like I'm a pilot, you can go on the Real
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real Fifth Hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com and send your question and both the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, my man. Good job by you.
Speaker 1: It was a pleasure to be here anytime, anytime you
Speaker 1: survived three days of podcasting, three days of podcasting. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: there's a gold star. All right, we'll be back tonight
Speaker 1: on the radio breaking down all the big NFL gossip
Speaker 1: and speculation, the news of the day, the news of
Speaker 1: the weekend of the world of sports, the Ben Maller Show,
Speaker 1: which will be on at eleven p m. Sunday night
Speaker 1: in the West, two a m. Monday morning in the East,
Speaker 1: and we'll take you all the way until six am
Speaker 1: in the yapping, yapping and blabbing and barking and bloviating
Speaker 1: and all of that. So we'll talk to you then
Speaker 1: and see you bye bye