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He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.280 the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.120 to clearinghouse of hot takes, break free for something special. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.760 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:54.280 the air everywhere you cannot get away from the Mallard 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.520 brand because management wants us to keep doing other shows. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.360 So it's the podcast, the spinoff version of the Ben 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.360 Maller over a Night Show. Because four hours obviously not 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.840 or not not enough during the week on the overnight 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.400 clearly not enough. We do this now eight days a week. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.040 At least some of us do this eight days a week. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.440 And this the Saturday edition of the podcast and we 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.480 will have plenty of amazing audio content for you. Of 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.080 course you'll be the judge of that, and back this weekend. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.039 You never know when he's gonna be here and when 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.240 he's not gonna be here. He's very bougie. The work 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:35.119 ethics not quite up to standard, but David gascon nice 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:42.480 of you something. The only offs you know, I figured, uh, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.000 you know, and salary demands aren't there met just yet. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.880 So I gotta, you know, play a little tough. I 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.440 gotta play a little a little push, a little back. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.800 You know that dance would do. So just kind of 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.440 sitting here with us common people, the holy poloy sitting 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.280 at home. It's Ben Mallory, the common people. Yeah again, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.360 I know you're oblivious to this. I'm in a professional 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.720 radio studio from your house, with better equipment than the 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.320 equipment that you're sitting in front of in that particular room. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.520 So I just want to point that out right now. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:17.720 I'm in a situation where the quality on my end 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:23.240 is wonderful. Yeah, because the equipment is better. I won't 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.440 be curious come tax Seas, and I know we're around 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.639 the corner, but I would imagine you'll you'll push things 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.240 back a little bit. I will be curious how much 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.920 money you saved in on gas, not like tires, not 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.239 on oil, but gas. Well, it went up. The electricity 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.160 bill went up, as you know, to pay for the 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.920 electricity here for all this equipment here. It's there's a 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.079 lot of equipment in this particular studio that I have, 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.800 So yeah, balances out, No way, there's no way that 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.200 balances out. Like you you drive a hefty, hefty ways 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.240 a way to get to the Fox Sports studios. Yeah. No, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.079 I do occasionally go in there, and I go out 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.560 there and I'll check out the Neanderthals like yourself that 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.840 worked there, and I'll do it. You know, time of 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.079 time you check in when you need to pick up mail. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.840 Let's not confuse anybody about you checking in with people. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:15.280 It's killing two births of the ones. Of course, show 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.440 you a little bit about my and my ambition here 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.080 compared to guest gon. When when I'm doing the show 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.240 and the broadcast line goes down, what I do? Run? 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.160 You know a rain storm. See, I'm hungry like a wolf. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.280 I want to keep working. So what I do? I 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.480 got that fire my belly guest guy, so I gave 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.040 them almobile. I didn't even put shoes on. I was 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.200 in such a hurry because well, the main reason I 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.320 was in a hurry is because that guy Brian Finley 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.400 on the air and I could see my career going 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.320 away because Brian Finley was doing the hour of radio 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.280 while I was was driving around. So I was a 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.200 little concerned by that. I have I actually have a 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.080 remedy for that. And for you. Yeah, this is something 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.600 I was taught by someone else that works on one 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.200 of these networks. Why don't you tape recording and or 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.200 hour and have it in the bag so you're talking 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.400 an evergreen hour. You could just put that on at 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.960 a given moment there, just in case. Right, Yeah, No, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.680 it's not a bad idea. It's not a bad idea. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.440 And uh, I have thought about it. I now. I 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.599 I was in the mother ship, the Fox Sports Radio 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.919 studios when Wrong Button Bob got the nickname Wrong Button Bob. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.440 When Bob Gara went nuclear and turned he hit the 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.080 kill switch on the entire network four radio stations, in 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.800 a switch we didn't even notice existed until Robert Garrett 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.840 found it. The producer now of the Odd Couple, by 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.200 old producer and all I did. I said, you know, 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.080 can you go back and reset the computer because you 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.000 had to go back into the control room to reset 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.039 the computer that I used when I was in there. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.520 And he went back and he flipped the switch, and uh, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.039 and then we found out what happened if Fox Sports 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.919 Radio went off the air and was not met with 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.280 a lot of enthusiasm because they had They did have 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.239 some tape shows, but they were like ten years old 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.360 talking about college basketball. They were not generic, is what 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.240 I'm saying. They were not. They were time sensitive and 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.640 did not satisfy the needs of the consumer. And correct 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.120 me if I'm wrong. Wasn't that the best of Steve Disager? Yeah? 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.320 Well yeah, we heard the Sager doing a college basketball 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.120 like n c A tournament scoreboard, which would have been 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.560 fine if it had been that year and it had 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.599 been college basketball season, it would have been perfectly fine. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.280 But it was neither of those things. It would have 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.120 been awes would have been awesome if it was in March, right, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:40.440 Like we confused? You mentioned how confused the people would be. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.920 So that's that's great. So what's what's on the menu 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.360 of this? So that's fine? So all right, so on 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.359 this Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour. We've got a 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.440 word show, drama, rama, We've got that a lot to 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.520 get to in that discussion. Also cydeclops, tales of West 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:06.520 of the four oh five, and the nickname claim and 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.000 so we have all that. In addition, if we have time, 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.839 we'll get to pop quiz as well. That's a lot 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.000 of content. That's a lot of content. That's bonus content 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.359 that only the p ones that tune in even on 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.080 the weekends get. Other people don't get this content. Guest guy, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.359 this is amazing content. We I come in here with 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.000 a lot of gumption to put this together and people, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.400 you know, not everyone will here. We're fine. This is 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.279 for the special like one per centers if you will, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.960 that are extremely locked and loaded, that support the podcast 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.320 or they have nothing else to do. Well that that 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.200 also well and also the honey Dooo list on the weekends. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.800 I hear that a lot from from the fellas. You know, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.000 you get the get the stuff that you gotta do 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.800 on the Saturday, get up early, do some stuff, put 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.240 the podcast on or there, go for a walk or 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.719 whatever whatever you do. Many different ways you can consume 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.400 the podcast or your truck driver and I know from 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.400 talking to moving Man Matt, the Great Moving Man out 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.240 of Boston, that he will save up the podcast, the 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.560 whole the full Monty and then when he goes on 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.480 the road, goes to Oregon or somewhere across the country. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.160 He was just put on the podcast anyway, All right, now, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:19.760 Awards Show, Drama Orama. It is one of the biggest 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.840 weekends of the year on The Ben Maller Show. And 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.680 if you've been listening, you know, if you've been paying 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.160 attention to the overnight show, all about the lead up 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:36.080 to the pinnacle, to the big payoff, right the crescendo. Uh, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.080 and that would be Sunday night into Monday. Now, why 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.640 is Sunday night into Monday different than all other nights 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.400 on the Ben Mallor Show. I'm glad you asked. Uh. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.400 It is the night that we present in living audio 0:07:51.480 --> 0:08:00.280 color ones Benny Awards, celebrating mediocrity in marginal over night 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:05.680 sports radio. And I know Gascon for you, this is 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.520 very difficult to be part of. You now, you're not 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.720 part of that show, but this is where we honor 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.640 the people you consider peasants and sharecroppers and hay seeds 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.960 and country Bumpkins. These are the people that are below 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.080 you guesscon but to me, they're equals, and so we're 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.800 gonna honor these people. It's always a stressful time in 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.920 in the show. Um, but I know you don't like 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.840 that when we kind of celebrate the regular people. You 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.520 were annoyed by that, Gusco. I'm a little appalled by it. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.679 I'm not gonna lie. I mean, everyone that's out there 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.800 that listens to this podcast knows I'm underappreciated and undervalued 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:48.880 and undercompensated. And to that I break my back for you. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.400 And and then additionally, I am not I am not 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.960 even up for a consideration as a benny for a 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.160 commendable fill in, because that's exactly what I am, or 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.240 what what you have on your show with three guys, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.520 most of them sleeping from majority of the four hours. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.040 You lean on me like a good wing man, like 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.160 this is Pete Mitchell and Mother Goose and top Gun, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.600 like I am here there for you at any given time, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.959 not only on the air, but at the middle of 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.520 the night. I supply you with entertaining and theatrical stories 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.280 that make you laugh a little bit during a You 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.600 have a special kind of Michigas as my grandfather. You 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.800 are so oblivious, you know, you have missed a bunch 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:34.160 of podcast I've missed like six that's a lot. That's 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.000 not a lot. That is a ton. Okay, that is 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.480 a ton. And you're so oblivious, You're unaware. The Pikes 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.720 has been fine. No one hasn't. If I'm getting directly 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.880 it sucks on this, then yeah, no, I disagree. Who 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.800 do you want to rip that? We've had great people 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.800 that have come in here and done the podcast. What 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.480 are their names? Well, last week we had bow of 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.920 the show that was in here and did an amazing job, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.920 and he talked about you want to Yes, Yes, he 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.720 was great. He didn't talk too much, he didn't try 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.720 to steal the show at all. He was he was 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.840 one with Kevin the Great, Kevin O'Connell. Kevin, here's a 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.160 solid job. He's the guy that just left the company 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.000 two days ago. Okay, continue, well, that's fine. He probably 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.160 got a better job for the Curse of the Benbino. Continue, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.640 that was the curse of the Bambino at all. He 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.400 worked on your show and then he quit. He laughed. Well, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.240 because now because of that, it's the catapult. He's not 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.360 probably got a better job. Good for him. The other 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:37.360 Mallard's success story, Mallard tree booming. Maybe he could go 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.880 right for a local newspaper and playgiarize some articles and 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:51.240 then get fired. Wow, savage monster, you're a savage monster. Yeah, alright, anyway, listen, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.280 the point of this is guesstcon. The show goes on 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:59.400 the Jubilasian the celebration. It's always a laza lallapalooza. I 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.240 think it's the of the word I was looking for there, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.640 but it's it's always fun, even when you're not here. So, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.080 but the reason, get back to the point please. Alright, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.200 So we're talking about this this week being special. Why 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.600 is this a stressful time? Because there is so much 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.559 on the line. There was so much on the line. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.680 You win a Benny Award and your life changes in 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:23.000 amazing ways. It does. You get immense clout in the 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.520 little village that is the Ben Mallory Show of the 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.320 Mallard Militia, in our little ecosystem, a little world here. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.000 It's a big deal. This is a big deal. You 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.480 might say, Oh, who cares, It's just a dopey overnight show. No, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.280 one's listening anyway, and you might be right about that, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.120 but we have our own little cult and for the 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:45.160 nocturnal creatures right to get together there and all the 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.760 carnivores and the primitive beings that listen overnight, that are 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.520 up all night with us. Ah, this is huge, This 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.920 is very important. It's essential that you are celebrated and 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:00.680 honored with the Banny Award. And now the the real 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:06.360 reason for the anxiety, though, is emotion. Emotion takes over. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:11.120 The better story is in the losing locker room, and 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.240 it's just a couple of layers this. It's the people 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.160 that don't get nominated. I get nasty emails. I've been 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.240 listening to you for X number of years and your 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.360 trow used to be good. But I cannot believe I 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:27.520 sent you seven thousand three text messengers Twitter and you 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.600 did not put me on the list of a nomene 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.800 Always like that, And then I also like the nominees 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:38.640 who don't win and then have bitterness and resentment towards 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.400 the show as well. And I'm not getting the Benny's. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.319 We've done this for several years now, and some people 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.840 hold such a grudge that we have lost some of 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.680 our higher ranking members of the mall unlesha pe once 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.240 because of displeasure for not winning an award which does 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:02.200 no financial no monetary value. You don't get a trophy. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.400 And you know every everyone, every year there's at least 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.400 one or two unhinged whack jobs, the chowter heads that 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.200 come out here. But I say to each their own guests, alright, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.240 So I got a question and a comment for this 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.959 first offic The comment is this is it's probably Coop's idea, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.080 but I thought it was a great job that you 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.200 guys have nominated a renamed it Genie and Medford Caller 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.480 of the Year. Well we did that several years ago. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.559 Genie passed away. Thanks for paying attention there. You're a 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.360 big fan of the show. But the Genie and Medford 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.920 Memorial Caller of the Year awards the greatest caller in 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.320 the history of sports talk radio, the Overnight, the great 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.679 Genie and Medford loved her, loved I thought she was 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.600 fake for the first five years she called the show 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.360 and says this, No one could be this crazy, but 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.880 she was. That's good. Now. The question is is do 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.800 you have anybody that you would consider in the running 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.040 for a Leonardo DiCaprio kind of a war. Like. What 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.199 I mean by that is it took DiCaprio year years 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.320 and years and years to finally win an Oscar. Yeah, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.080 he was nominated sometimes other times he wasn't and just 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.600 never want anything despite having good work. And then he 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.200 finally had that happened. I think it was with The 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.400 Revenant a couple of years ago. So do you have 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.360 anyone on your big board that you say, keep an 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.760 eye on him or or her because they've been in 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.400 contention a few times and just have never gotten over 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.200 the hump. Oh yeah, there's there's several members of the 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:33.320 Malle militia that are underappreciated, under rated, undervalued, however underword 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.640 you want to use. And uh, and I don't want 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.920 to influence the voting because the voting is Saturday. There's 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:42.240 still time to vote and uh, you're laughing at me, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.480 but but seriously, because this is the final push here 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.400 and now it's a little harder to vote now because 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.840 I had to move some tweets around and you gotta 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.800 check my timeline on there. You might have to scroll 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.720 down a little bit. Maybe I'll repin that. I'm not 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.680 sure how we're gonna do that. But the the voting 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.360 is on. There's a way you can vote on Google. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.400 One vote per customer. There's a link. It's on the 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.440 Facebook page. You're gonna have to scroll down a little bit, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.320 but please vote if you haven't voted yet. Some of 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.080 these categories are literally, I'm not exaggerary, literally and figuratively 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.200 being decided by like ten votes or less. It's insane. Now, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.040 for the sake, for the sake of transparency, will you 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.320 let everybody that's voting on this know that when the 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.920 voting starts, it will not stop at four o'clock in 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:33.280 the morning and then restart any hours. Letter Well, well, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.240 let me put us away, gast Scott. We will have 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.080 on on this edition of the podcast, the Saturday edition 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.040 of the Fifth Hour podcast. Well full transparency. We're gonna 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.400 wait actually to announce the real winners. We're gonna give 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.200 out the awards on Sunday night, but we're gonna wait 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.760 a couple of weeks there to all the absentee ballots 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.400 come in, and then we're gonna count the absentee ballance, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.040 which I didn't even know it's possible on Internet. Pull 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.680 We're gonna wait for that. You never know, Genie might 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.440 actually vote then concern the dead vote. Now, just give 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.520 me a heads up as we're doing this and we 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:08.000 obviously the podcast is uh is recorded in a previous 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.440 day and Saturday, but to give me an idea of 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:15.800 where we're at now. One of the categories Best Show Marketing. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.520 This is a category that includes shell Shock really being 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.640 the driving force the guiding light for the mallarw maneuver 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.600 drink at a bar in Colorado. Thank you for that 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.560 moving man. Matt came up with the Mallard the mobile 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.520 Mallar Militia billboard on the back of his his big 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.240 rig driving around the highways and byways of America. Andrea 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:42.640 the sports astrologist Virgo and service on Twitter. She promoted 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.960 the show when they did a feature on her on 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.920 CBS Sunday Morning, gave us a shout out, and then 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:54.440 Fats in Philadelphia lit himself on fire screaming Ben Maller 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.360 during the NFL Draft, which was a great way to 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.200 market the show since he and die so Um. Those 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.920 are all all the the nominees in this category, but 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:10.199 the top two are literally the separation point between number 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:17.879 one and number two in this category is seventeen votes. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:25.040 Seventeen votes is the separation very close, best lame joke 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:30.960 Writer of the Year, very very close as well, splitting 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.360 hairs here. Uh. In fact, this one, there are as 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.960 we're doing this, five votes separate first place from second place. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.359 Five And we keep in mind hundreds and hundreds and 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.040 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people have voted, and 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:52.400 five votes separate this category. That is this insanity, UM 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.200 and some of the other categories that are extremely extremely close. UM. 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.760 Female Caller of the Year, the ladies stepping up the game. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.800 Are we gonna have to change that just a genderal, 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.440 gender neutral call of the Year in the future, I hope, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.560 but maybe you maybe you dumb it. As as title 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.680 nine Color of the Year, about title nine Color of 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.199 the Year. Now we've had a big sea change in 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:19.280 this category and the favorite is still in the lead, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:24.119 but number one to number two as we're doing this 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:29.520 two votes. This is insanity and the person that was 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.840 in number one is now fourteen votes behind number one. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.440 So it's all it's like a horse race, neck and neck. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.200 It's gonna be a photo finish in many of these categories. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.480 It's so exciting, And we also have the social media 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.880 brackets which are online, and the final bracket is up. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.960 But we had sixteen finalists, the Sweet sixteen, and we're 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.520 pairing that down. We also had the category for the 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:01.000 Top Power Hour from from which you of course mocked 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:07.160 and ridiculed, and radio it was tremendous. Radio was wonderful. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.960 We learned about people, learned about their lives and the 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.200 very relatable something I know west of the four oh five, 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.440 you guys, you guys can't even have your streets safe 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.760 enough for the Great Tiger Woods to drive through. So 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:21.480 you guys got your issues over there west of the 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.720 four or five. Just want to point that out. Maybe, Yeah, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.600 all right, So now as far as the people getting 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.160 upset again, I just want to circle back to that, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.840 as the White House Press Secretary would say, So you 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.520 you really don't need to go start raving mad. P 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:36.480 s A. You don't have to go start raving mad 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.240 because you didn't win a dope awards. You you know, 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.840 on the on the bennings. It'd be cool if you did. 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.840 Not everyone's gonna win. Obviously, it's not like you actually 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.000 win a trophy. I must stress this. You don't win 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.640 anything you get, but you do get golden tickets, which 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.800 are only good. It's like Mickey Mouse dollars. They're only 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.480 good at Disneyland. It's virtual street Craig, you get some 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.840 of that. But the callers, I will say the callers 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.840 were more important than ever in our shows. Much different 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.800 than the other shows in that, you know the other shows, 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.359 they most of them have gone away from taking calls 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.479 and having listener contributions. And some of these shows, I'll 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:13.800 let you in a little secret, some of these shows, 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.879 as Taboo to says, they actually taped their show. They 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.520 even they're not even there to take calls because they're, 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:20.879 you know whatever, they're doing their thing. We're doing it 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.280 live and we do obviously have a lot of interaction. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.040 That's one of the things that makes the show different 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:29.760 and unique. And it was sports shutting down. Uh, you 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.840 the listener were more important. We had no actual sporting 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.320 events for over a hundred days, almost a hundred and 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:41.080 fifty days to talk about in so we thank you now. Well, 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.399 well we ever get the chance since we since we 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:49.600 introduced Benny versus a Penny in online, would you ever 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:57.119 consider doing the Benny's on YouTube? Um? Yeah, I I would, 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.600 but it's it's part of the radio. So it's like 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.200 for the radio shop. So I feel like it should 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.480 be in that world. It should be in that world, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.359 because as much as I try to get people to 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.879 listen to this podcast and to the other things that 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:13.560 we do, there's there's a certain percentage of people that 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:18.040 just our only radio listeners. And as much as I 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.400 have tried, and usually it's people over a certain age 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.439 all stereotype that the radio. I love radio, but I 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:27.960 am able to listen to podcasting and streaming and whatnot. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.600 But some people aren't um and they're only able to 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:32.800 listen to the radio. So I don't want to eliminate 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:36.040 those people who are the backbone and the of the show. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.960 So we have these side clops. What is these cideclops 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:43.440 all about here, guests? So it's it's that that cloud 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.320 that that we have kind of crafted and created, that 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:51.800 was upon us in September when we first launched to 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.960 Fit Down with Ben Maller. It's taken us to the 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:59.000 the highs, the highs of you being disbanded from rams 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.520 and Seahawks games, to the loads of loads with my 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.080 car being hit and windows being bashed out. I was 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.119 I was not around last week obviously, and I know 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.680 that was felt by you not being on the podcast 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.520 for a couple of days, and wonderful. I I thought, 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:17.000 you know, I had some issues. I needed to go 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.480 visit an optometrist. And you know, for a month, maybe 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.520 like three weeks, I had dryness at least I felt 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.040 like I had dried us in one of my eyes 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.720 and I was scratching it and rubbing it so much. 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:29.480 I thought maybe it was an eyelash, maybe it was 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.360 just something from the morning time. Couldn't get anything out, 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.280 and I I tried remedy it by putting a warm 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.000 cloth in my eye eye drops and nothing worked. I 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:40.720