WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Binge Benny, Me & Mr. Michaels 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.480 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.800 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:34.640 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.199 as we hang out together here on this Saturday. It 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.560 is the tenth day of January, and it is odd. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.720 On this podcast, we have Binge, Benny, Me and Al 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:54.440 and campaign manager, all of that free weekend audio for you. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.160 We do this not just for the American people, for 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.360 all people. Every man will in child. But we begin 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.160 with this so it is wild Card Weekend. I don't 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.400 if you know about that, but it's Wildcard weekend. Today's 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.200 wild Card Saturday, and it is about to explode like 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:16.760 a firecracker in a fireworks factory. It all gets going now. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.280 We're doing this in the morning, so it gets going 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.880 a little bit later today. But if you thought the 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:25.720 last season of what was it called the Last of 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.320 US season two. I believe it was last year. I 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.720 read that that was the most binged show of twenty 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.720 twenty five. It had thirty million viewers glued to the 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:41.520 zombie apocalypse drama rama. Wait until you get your hands 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.520 on what myself and Tom Looney have in store for 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.440 you today. If you haven't watched it yet, we continue 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:53.280 our mission, our life's work, Benny Versus the Penny. There 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:58.360 are three full episodes every NFL playoff game, handicapped this 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.400 weekend against the spread, Locked and loaded. This is the 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:08.080 original rest of be back from our NBC glory days, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.200 and it's must see Tube, not must see TV. It's 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.680 must see Tube. It's at Bennie Versus Penny at Benni 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:20.560 Vspenny on YouTube. 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It's kind of like 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:38.160 upgrading from rabbit eared TV to four K gridiron insanity. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.160 You know, Tom's got his dope e one liners, silly shirts, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.760 bad art which hit harder than a Sequon Barkley stiff arm. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.440 And then I'll toss on top of that a study diet. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.760 According to Alfie Allen, a punter and ferdog of analogies 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.960 that are supposed to fly faster than Tom Brady running 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.880 away from the mess that is the Raiders. Now these 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.160 things hotter Benny versus Penny than asphalt in July. And 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.800 it's not just your standards sports gambling show. 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Just like JT the Wingman, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.760 I always smile because JT the wing Man sends me 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.839 a photo he's on the treadmill, he's doing the gym 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.359 thing on the weekends, and he's got Benny versus the 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.760 pennies watching. It's great. And trust me, bro, trust me, Bro, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.680 Once you start, you won't stop until until the show's 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.120 over and that's it. But that's that's what binge watching is. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.600 So Benny binge or binge Benny or whatever you want 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.320 to call it. And forget the last of us. That 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.119 looks like a snoozefest compared to Benny versus the penny. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.400 So enjoy. So turn your page from that. Me and 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:23.400 al let us jenuflect. Let a little candle, Let me 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:29.599 lower my voice. Why because the word is al Michaels 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.240 is coming back. Let us discuss. So if you didn't 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.560 see this, the news came out yesterday on Friday, and 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.040 the question what is your reac shan to al Michaels 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:48.320 staying in the Thursday night booth calling NFL games in 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.760 what will be his age eighty two season on planet 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.440 Earth in the year twenty twenty six. So my thoughts 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:00.039 on this, I've got the art of pitching, sainthood and 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:05.080 slow cooked stew and we will combine all of these 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.920 things together and we are going to make delicious soft pretzels, 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.840 is what we're going to make. So let's start with this. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.880 Amazon Prime did confirm I was reading about this yesterday. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.760 They confirmed the ageless wonder We'll be back in the 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.960 booth for the upcoming next season. Still of the playoff's 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.200 going on, and if you listen closely, if you listen 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.640 close to you could hear the groans of social media 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.279 a holes, the nitpickers being drowned out by the sound 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.799 of a perfectly time pause between a third down snap 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.360 building up the drama. Now, Al says that the passion 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.039 still exists. He said, quote, I feel really good, still 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.440 love what I do. Let me translate that using the 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:55.280 Mallard decoder ring. That means that he does he have 0:06:55.320 --> 0:07:00.160 the fast ball. No, it's the art of pitching. There's 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.680 more ways than just one to get hitters out. You can, Yeah, 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.919 you can overpower a batter with ninety seven mile on 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.440 hour fastballs. Yeah. However, Al, at this point he didn't 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.920 have the fastball anymore. He's just trying to beguile hitters 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.640 with finesse and finesse pitchers rely on what change ups, curveballs, 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.400 dramatic pauses, and other breaking pitches, and so Tonight, Al 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:28.000 Michaels is on the call Packers and Bears at Soldier 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.200 Field on the shores of Lake Michigan. His thirty first 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:37.679 NFL broadcast from the Cathedral by the Lake thirty one. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.640 It's not a resume, that is a time capsule. His 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.560 first game there was in nineteen eighty six. Ronald Reagan 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.800 was in off his hair spray, was undefeated, and people 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:57.440 still believe that the Bears quarterback situation would sort itself out. Yeah. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.760 Of course, at that time, the Bears had tremendous, tremendous 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.200 def So al Michaels has been the primary voice of 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.240 Thursday Night Football on Amazon since twenty twenty two. Here 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.040 we are in twenty twenty six, and that extends a 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:17.320 run of forty years, four decades of Al Michael's on primetime. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.480 That's two generations that have grown up with Al Michaels 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.800 on NFL primetime games. Now, for me, Al is on 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.760 the path to sainthood for broadcasters, if there is such 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.000 a thing. Someday he will be entombed in the Valley 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.840 of the Kings with microphones wrapped in a linen made 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.840 out of his old play charts, his old call sheets, 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.640 clutching the microphone, whispering, do you believe in miracles? I 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.640 could see that happening, unless I can. Yeah, that miracle, 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.520 by the way, the miracle on ice the big one, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.160 the big one. And if you're keeping score, that call alone, 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.000 that miracle on ice call alone, all those years ago 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:01.400 earns Al Michaels a lifetime exemption from the hot take 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.840 goolog Right, he gets a full exemption from the hot 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.360 take attacks and all that. But wait, there's more. Like 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.880 every good infomercial, Al didn't stop there. He just kept 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.160 going and going and going, like the energizer buddy. More like, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.439 I guess an Al's case, a classic buick that has 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.560 a lot of miles refuses to die because it was 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.520 actually built back when people titaned bolts, made things with 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.000 pride and made things to last, didn't make things to 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.920 fall apart. Within a couple of years now, Al started 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.360 calling games I think I saw was nineteen seventy one. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:42.200 Nineteen seventy one called the Reds, the Giants called baseball 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.640 minor league baseball in Hawaii, back when they had a 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.199 minor league team in Hawaii. Let me paint the picture 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.800 Mallar style to put in perspective here. The nineteen seventy 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:58.600 one Richard Nixon, Tricky Dick was in the White House. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.080 Watergate had blown the doors off yet a home, the 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.960 Median Home cost in America twenty four thousand dollars. A 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.920 new car was thirty five hundred dollars. You get gas. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.280 A gallon of gas would cost you thirty six cents. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.319 A stamp was eight cents. We just had one of 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.679 our buddies from Ohio sent a nice gift package of 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.840 things because you can visit the studio. One of our 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.320 guys in Dayton fifty dollars in shipping. Fifty dollars this 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.640 guy spent to send packages to the studio. A stamp 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.160 back then eight cents. Cigarettes. You're smoker forty five cents 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.160 a pack of cigarettes if you love the nicotine. In 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.720 other words, to put a ball on this, if you 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.079 had twenty bucks, you were like Rockefeller, or a more 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:50.040 modern reference I guess would be Jeff Bezos or any 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.959 of those rich tech guys that run the run the 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.160 world right Elon Musk. So, according to the inflation mallor math, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.000 if you had twenty dollars when al Michael started brought 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.640 casting in nineteen seventy one, one hundred and you'd have 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:08.560 one hundred and fifty eight dollars. One hundred and fifty 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.679 eight dollars you would have. So if you had one 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.920 hundred dollars back then, you'd have over six hundred dollars today. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.440 If my malord math is correct. That's a costco run 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.200 with emotional damage. And through all of that, think about 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.559 what has happened in the world since nineteen seventy one Wars. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:31.520 We've had attacked nine to eleven wokesters. We've had all 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.160 kinds of freaks of nature that have taken over pop 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:39.680 culture and whatnot. The rules have changed. Streaming is now 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.920 a thing. Podcasting what we're doing right now, the invention 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.040 in NFL games of the blue medical tent. When Al 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:51.800 started calling NFL games, if you got knocked out, just 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.920 rub some dirt in your forehead, don't be a pussy 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.480 willow and get back out on the field. Now everything 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.880 stops and all that, and so Al Michaels has been there, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.440 He's seen it. This is not his first rodeo. He's 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.520 been around the block a couple of times as well, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.559 calmly narrating all the football chaos. And he's like a 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:17.480 museum guide for the NFL. Think about it. He started 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.160 was Pete Roselle was the commissioner the NFL back in 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:27.000 the day. And how Luckierre we how Luckierre we that Now, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:32.320 after this season wraps, Al Michaels he said he's heading 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.440 to Lake Placid to honor the gold medal US hockey team, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.280 which helped also elevate his career, and during a recent 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.560 chit chat, Al laid out the secret he told Mad 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.200 Dog the secret sauce to longevity. He said, I'll go 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.600 as long as I can if I can still do 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.760 it at the level that satisfies me. Not you, by 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.080 the way, And that's not ego, that's a standard. The 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.439 standard is the standard, as Mike Thomon likes to say. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.280 And that is the same thing you know, it's it's 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:08.280 the same thing that that's missing when people scream online. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.680 Al's lost it. I don't like this. He's not exciting enough. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.280 He doesn't bark, he's not action. He's not acting like 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.720 a caffeinated auctioneer. He's not doing that. What's wrong with you? 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.680 Come on, Al? Come on? Al. Al doesn't shout, he 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.800 doesn't obviously not. I'm hear say he does. He lets 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:33.040 the moment breathe. And if it was music, he is 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:38.720 not electric dance music. He's obviously not. He's not disco. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:45.600 He's smooth jazz, keeping your jazz commercial free. Al Michaels, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.760 he's a fireplace. He's not a ring light. You want 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.800 a ring light, He's not a ring light. He don't 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.000 know what a ring light is. And let's talk about 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.200 the komodo dragging the room, the snuffle effects in the room. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:04.560 Respect for your elders. Now, in many Asian cultures, In 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:10.880 many Asian cultures, elders are revered. Wisdom is currency. It 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.600 is you need to learn from these people, you need 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:18.640 to appreciate them. In America, we send grandpa to the 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:25.160 convalescent home to play shuffleboard and bingo and tell him 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.800 to stop bothering us. You're telling me the same story, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.760 you old geezer. What is wrong with you? And I 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.280 to that, I say, foe foo. If broadcasting we're a monastery, 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.280 al Michaels would be the monk. Everyone actually sits around 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.240 and listens to tell me another story. Al Michaels, I 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.440 want to hear another story. Now. You know how I 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.720 feel about social media being the matrix and all that. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:53.640 This social media hullabaloo, the pandemonium around al Michaels, I 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.920 believe is largely manufactured. Now, what is my evidence on that. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.360 So I had some downtime yesterday and I started fussing 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.920 around with my phone and I clicked on one of 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.520 the stories that had al Michaels returning to Amazon because 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.000 I was interested in it and I wanted to see 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.640 what was going on, And so I accidentally saw some 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.560 of the comments on there, and then I said, oh, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.200 let me much like the matrix, let me fall down 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.160 the rabbit hole. And I did, and I started clicking 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.320 on people that were just bashing the hell out al Michaels, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.800 just dropping a guillotine on top of his neck. And 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.680 so I kept going through and I noticed as I 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.960 was going through this, most, not all, most of the 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:41.160 accounts had all the hallmarks, all the earmarks of fake accounts, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.960 bought accounts. Now, the part I don't understand, and I'm 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.040 not that smart, you know, I'm just doing a weekend 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.680 podcast right now and I do the overnight show, is 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.800 what is the agenda there? Like why would someone have 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:57.320 an orchestrated bought attack against al Michaels. It doesn't make 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.200 a lot of sense to me, Like there's some bot 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.160 farm in Maldo where they're like, all right, let's stop 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.840 attacking Trump. Let's talk, let's attack Al Michaels. I don't 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.040 understand that, but there they were all the things that 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.440 I'm told to look for. The low number of followers, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.160 the same amount of people you're following, there's a certain 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.800 algorithm that tells you it's a bot. And most of 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.080 these accounts that were taking shots at Al Michaels were 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.800 fake accounts, and they were saying a lot of the 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.520 same things anyway, saying a lot of same things anyway, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.320 So I think this is mostly manufactured. You'd think that 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.640 Al takes a horse and buggy to work. And one 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.200 thing about Al, he always stays at the Presidential Suite 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.840 when he travels, and he's got car service, And yeah, 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.680 he doesn't. He doesn't do the horse and buggy. He prepares, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.200 he watches. He knows when to speak. He also knows 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.480 when to shut up. And that skill alone puts him 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.840 ahead of ninety five percent of the younger generation of announcers, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.480 who treat every second like they're trying to get a 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.520 viral moment on TikTok. Every single moment needs to go 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.040 viral on the TikTok and all that stuff, and it 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.639 just come on, take a breath, Take a breath, as 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.760 Doc Mike would say. Now, there are exceptions. I'm not 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.480 gonna say there's every young get off my lawn, every 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:21.080 young broadcast Noah Eagle Pops Future Goat Noah Eagle, Amazing, 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:27.119 Amazing on NBC. Had a chance to meet him as 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.919 a young lad. He's like nineteen, he started doing Clipper 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.920 games on the radio, and so he's the exception of 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.119 the rule. But by and large, the new wave is 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:43.320 loud soup. It's all salt, no stock and al Michaels. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.800 He's like, I'm not some loud soup. I'm not all salt, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:52.640 I'm not no stock. I'm slow cook Stew is what 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.760 I am? Slow cook stew. That is me, That is me? 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.000 And yes, is he mellow at time? Yeah he is. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.439 He's mellow now, his inflections don't spike like a heart 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.239 monitor in a horror movie. And there's a level of 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.720 confidence that he's still able to call a great game 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.679 and he doesn't have to go up and all that stuff. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.199 And when you've seen everything, you don't flinch at a 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.800 screen pass. You don't. And as an added bonus, and 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.719 I must full disclosure talk about this as an added 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:29.840 bonus personal bias alert, as I have something in common 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:34.639 with al Michaels. We shared dietary habits. The most famous 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.639 quirk of the life of al Michaels, who famously said 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:44.000 that he never has eaten a vegetable ever. He said, quote, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:49.280 man does not need vegetables to survive. Quotes quote That 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.520 is not a diet, That is a philosophy, that is 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:57.639 a life goal. Meat, potatoes and destiny. And I believe 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.280 in the cause. I believe, I stand and in lockstep. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:07.399 I stand in lockstep with al Michaels. I do, I 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:12.080 just say, And so tonight, when al Michaels opens his 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:18.240 mouth and the game begins, al Michaels and Herbie understand 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.600 what you're hearing. I understand. You're not just hearing Packers 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:27.600 versus Bears, dumb bears, the Green Packers and the Rgo Bears, 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.360 the monstrous of Midway, the trees hells. Make sure when 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.280 you come down, stop at the Cheese Castle and Kenosha 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.679 on your way down from Green Bay. What you're hearing 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:44.280 is greatness, continuity, history. You're hearing history. You're hearing a 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.560 living archive who still loves what he does and does 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:54.080 what he loves the craft, right that. Yeah, is it nostalgia? 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.560 Of course it is for me part of it. You know, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.040 growing up, I was a little nine year old kid. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:58.200 I wanted to be on the radio. I want to 0:19:58.200 --> 0:19:59.959 be on TV. And there was al Michael's calling him 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.679 Monday night game with you know, I'm trying to think 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.080 who he was with at that time. It was Frank Gifford, 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.760 or might have even been before that he was. I 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.560 remember watching al Michael's doing a Monday night baseball game 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:17.080 before before time, and it was him, And how would 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.680 co sell? It's just great? And so he still does 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.600 it and he meets his own standards, not your standards, 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.000 and Amazon's okay with it, and Jim Harball would say, 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.440 who's got it better than us? And again, how lucky 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:35.760 are we? So I urge you to enjoy it while 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.560 you can't. Is this is getting eighty two? You're eighty two? 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:40.760 You know? 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:45.000 Yeah? That many more games to call, you know, because someday, 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.240 and sooner than later, the booth will be quieter. They'll 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.000 get some hot shot hipster broadcaster in there, and the 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.000 pauses are going to be gone, and you'll realize what 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:56.880 you know hemy once in a while. It'd be nice 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.760 if you just hit the pause button. That'd be pretty cool. 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.200 I meanwhile, turning the page. Let's workshop. I'm gonna continue 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:10.680 the anti vegetable movement that Al Michaels gave that famous quote, 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.720 one of the great quotes of all time. Man does 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.000 not need vegetables to survive, and Al is the proof 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:17.800 of that. He said, well, you don't need your vegetable. 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:19.640 I remember my mom, If you don't need your vegetables, 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.600 you're not gonna grow tall. You're not You're bah blah 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:26.200 blah blah b Well, mom, Al Michaels is eighty gonna 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:30.200 be eighty two and seems perfectly fine. That's a good run. 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.080 He's on bonus time, right. He's in the average life 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.320 like seventy five, I think, or something like the average 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.000 mail is to about seventy five. So Al's on bonus time. 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.920 He's on bonus time. Good for him. Now, I got 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.040 to tell you, I'm still traumatized by the little rascals. 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:45.560 I used to watch reruns when I was a kid. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:49.560 That character Alfalfa, they say, the father of all foods. 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.560 Alfalfa for me, it was nightmare fuel. For me. It 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.639 was nightmare fuel. It was, And so I said, we're 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:59.000 going to workshop this anti vegetable movement. Let's think of 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.840 this like politics. You know, you have people fighting team red, 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:07.719 team blue. There's very few bipartisan issues. And I understand 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.680 there's already a Green Party. I know there's a Green Party, 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:16.040 but this is the New Green Party, all right, n GP, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:21.880 the New Green Party. Did you write that down? Yeah? 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:29.159 N g e New Green Party. And al Michaels is 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:35.119 part of our party. Puka Nakool of the Rams and yours. 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:39.120 Truly we are all big anti veggie people. Now imagine 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.240 if you will, that for this little exercise, little workshop, 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:47.320 I am the campaign manager some pillars of our movement 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:53.000 against the industrialized agriculture in America, Big Aggie, we'll call 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:56.359 it big Aggie, big Farm. I can't say pharma because 0:22:56.359 --> 0:23:01.720 that's that's pharmaceudals. So our slogans here, what would they be? 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:05.880 I'm the campaign Meager Vegetable lives matter, stand up, speak out, 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:12.439 stop the slaughter of salad, to stop it, stop it. 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:18.520 This election season, I want you to join the anti 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:25.439 veggie movement because every carot deserves a future, every broccoli 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:32.520 deserves a childhood and every legome deserves liberty. Dropped the mic. 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:38.119 How about this? For too long? Big salad has controlled 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:42.280 the narrative. For too long. Humans have marched into grocery 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:47.640 stores like zombies, with reckless abandon ripping innocent greens from 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:53.520 their homes, tearing families of asparagus apart, and sentencing helpless 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:59.840 zucchinis to life on a cutting board. No more, no more, 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.640 put us stop this right now. And I urge you. 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:08.960 I beg you to join the NGP, the New Green Party. 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:11.879 It's not bad, right, I mean, it can touch it 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.640 up a little bit. We'll clean that up and post. Now, 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:19.359 if I were to make a thirty second political ad, 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:22.760 as you know, I love my Live Reads, it's our 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:28.760 number one, our number two. So let's let's attempt this, 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.320 all right. I want you to let me know what 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.960 you think, and if this becomes a thing, we can start. 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:39.520 But again, the NGP, the New Green Party. So this 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:42.600 is a thirty second think of this like a political 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:48.639 ad election season, Vegetable Lives Matter vl M or whatever. 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:52.320 So it starts out in my head, and again this 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:54.600 is the cartoon bubble the top my head. So it 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:58.640 starts out with some somber piano music, and then there's 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:03.040 a slow zoom on a lonely carrot in a field, 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:07.000 and it's all by itself. It's all by itself. And 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:11.600 then the the commercial starts, and I'm just imagine I'm 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:16.800 the narrator. It's Ben Maler here to speak out against 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:20.919 the industrial complex of big veggie. For too long in 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:25.040 this country, innocent vegetables have suffered in silence, ripped from 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:30.359 their homes, chopped without mercy, tossed into salads without a 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:34.280 second thought. So at this point and paused the commercial. 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:36.320 It's a TV commercial, so we cut to black and 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:42.480 white footage of broccolia, a really beautiful piece of broccoli 0:25:42.560 --> 0:25:45.879 trembling in the wind. Now we get back to the 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:50.159 narrator voice. I'm gonna be the narrator, but now I 0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:52.040 gotta go. Let me do that. I got aho slur. 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:56.480 But now a movement rises, a movement that says no more, 0:25:56.960 --> 0:26:01.320