WEBVTT - A Day with the Elites 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.680 If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.320 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.520 old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.040 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.200 poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.400 break free for something special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:31.000 starts right now that it does. Welcome into the Magic 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.959 podcast Box, if that's even such a thing, because most 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.760 people listen to the podcast. I'm told like anywhere in 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.800 your car phone, whatever you might be doing, but welcome in. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:44.680 It is another weekend of the Fifth Degree with me 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:51.159 Ben Maller and bringing up the deadweight. David gascon For 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.840 affectionately known as David gagon writing the Hong Kong Express 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.360 is David gascon Well. I am a hero of the 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.360 protesters in Hong Kong. I'm still getting messages from people 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.640 in Hong Kong and that part of the world that 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.040 are very very happy that I took photos of crazy 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.800 people Staples Center the other day. And uh yeah, but 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.000 if you're new to the podcast, welcome. We've been doing 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.560 this since the start of the football season, and we 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.279 will do it until we start getting paid. But because 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.080 four hours not enough, you know, the overnight show on 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.720 the radio four hours and night most nights. Uh and uh, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.199 I know I missed the day. We'll explain that. Uh. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.160 And we we are broadcasting on the very powerful I 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:39.640 Heart podcast network. Now. I Heart Media is started out 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.080 you know, radio conglomerate and all that, and still is 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.440 known as a radio company as the Bread and Butter. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.600 But this podcast things taken off in the last year 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.040 and a half two years and it's just just great. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.800 I mean, big big names, big powerful people, uh, and 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.200 all that. And the podcast available wherever you get your podcast. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.880 So I think most people get their podcast in like 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.800 two or three places, So it's not like there's like 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.440 seven different places people get their podcasts. But in the 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.600 big ones you can find this podcast. So normally, yes, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.000 and when I go to a restaurant, I look at 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.240 the menu, right, So the menu at what we like 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.559 to call Benny's Bistro. This week we've got Happy Gilmore returns. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.680 We have that we have I Love the Amish Bad Day, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.679 It's hip. The clip study this which is a staple. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.200 It's in the bag. Those are listener questions and don't 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.320 stick to sports, which is pretty much the entire fifth hour. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.480 I'm told that we don't really stick to sports. Well, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.440 I think, to be fair, we we do try to 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.119 incorporate as much sports as possible. It's just that there's 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.640 so much out there in the in the universe that 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.880 we can kind of highlight for for the audience, and 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.440 they don't get anywhere else, which is great. Yeah. Well, 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.480 I had a boss early in my career, program director 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.520 who informed me, kind of schooled me, and said, you know, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.760 you can talk about anything, you just have to find 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.440 a sports angle to it, you know, all right, whatever, Sure, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:12.239 that's exactly what we're doing here. Yeah, yeah, loosely, loosely alright, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:17.120 so happy Gilmore returns out gas gun and I don't 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.840 know who else gets bullied when they are not in 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.840 the shop where they work at the Salt Mine. But 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.160 earlier this week, and I said on the radio show, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.520 I would go into detail here on what has happened, 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:34.079 what has transpired. Uh so I'm gonna do that right now. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.360 But I was away from my post, my catbird seat, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:44.840 leading the train into oblivion on the Third, the The Overnight, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.960 The Third Ship, the Ben Maller Show and all that 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.480 I missed a night. Uh, and was I sick a 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.240 gas gun? Well, it sounds like you're sick, and that's 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.560 typical for the days that were record But uh, I 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.200 actually asked your significant other. I said, where the fund 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.440 has been at? And this is right around the time 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.480 of eleven o'clock Pacific PM. And you were a no 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.480 show at your your bay. Yeah, and I come to 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.680 find out, remember that you had the previous engagements that 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.920 did I did. Here's the thing gasking on. I mean, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.799 you've you've known me a few years. I when sick work, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.280 I do not use sick days when I'm actually sick. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.040 I I use sick days when I am not uh 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.520 sick to enjoy them. That's a veteran move that you 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.160 need to do if you can get away with it, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.200 if you get sick days. Yeah, I mean, I mean, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.080 I'm I'm I'm pretty much quarantined overnight. No one talks 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.279 to me. There's no one there, so it's you know, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.680 it's pretty much I'm in my own little room, in 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.520 my own little world. No producer, no anchor, no board up. Yeah, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.280 you're by yourself. Now, I'm gonna tell you to say 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.520 I did not use a sick day. This was not 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.360 a sick day. I did not use a vacation day either. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.560 Now did I get suspended? That was a popular theme 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.719 on so the media that I had been suspended, that 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.800 one of our bosses finally heard the show and said, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.480 what the F is this idiot doing? You know what 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.760 an asshole? Let's suspend it. Well, and if you get suspended, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.840 you only want to be suspended for three days because 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.240 if you get a seven day suspension, that's usually leads 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:20.480 down the path determination. Well, you want a paid suspension, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.360 and you want it to be on a Friday or 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.920 a Monday, right, that's what you want. You get the 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.279 long weekend and who cares, sparks can fly, But I 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.320 get a long weekend, and so you're not a picture. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.320 So being suspended for five days is a lot different 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.359 than uh, a day. So it's not a scheduled start 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.880 for you. Usually it's uh, it's a couple of days out. Yeah, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.800 it's one trip through the rotation, one trip through the rotation. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.920 So but but no, I mean, we'll tell you what happened. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:51.800 I was part of a huge radio hooting nanny that 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.440 took place at a very ritchy golf club in the 0:05:54.480 --> 0:06:00.600 exclusive area of South Orange County and I spent now keepon. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.560 This was during the day, but on Wednesday, I was 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.120 assigned for the company to take part in this big 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.200 gala event. And I spent Wednesday doing something I'm not 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.520 very good at doing because I'm an introvert socializing. Yes, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:19.680 I smoothed, I kissed ass with very powerful people in 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.200 the radio business, my industry, my chosen industry. My entire life, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.479 I worked on the radio business and I never get 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.760 invited of these things. And I've worked at Fox Sports 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:32.599 Radio for nineteen years. I've never been to uh to 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.040 this kind of an event. And I was I was like, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.600 I I kept telling him, are you sure you wanted 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.840 to invite me to this? And uh, they said, well, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.720 it might have been a mistake, but you're here, so 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.880 uh so do it. But yeah, invited me and all 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.320 the big wigs and in advertising. Uh, We're there and 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.760 they got to mingle with the blow hards and the 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.200 gas bags on the network. Uh. And it was hosted 0:06:55.200 --> 0:07:00.400 by iHeart Media, the premier networks. And now I pointed 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.080 out for years guest and also that doing a nighttime 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:09.080 radio shift is in the radio business. Uh, they spit 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.080 loogie's at you, and I know, I understand. I mean 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.760 you have the halves and the have nots. And in 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.880 in typically six am to six pm is the Goldilocks 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.240 zone in radio. That is where you have morning and 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.560 afternoon drive in most of the country. Some cities have 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.119 afternoon drive that goes to eight, and sometimes I often 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.680 believe morning drive doesn't even start at six anymore. Think 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.160 a lot of people in big metropolitan areas get up. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.280 I think we do an hour of morning drive. I'll 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.520 challenge anybody on that, because I hear from people that 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.280 are getting up at you know, guys that live on 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.520 Long Island or in Jersey. They're driving in a New 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.000 York listening on satellite radio. Get up, you know, four 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.680 thirty or five in the morning. Uh, to beat the 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.960 traffic as much as they can. So but anyway, that's 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.440 a different conversation. But pretty much anyone else eats hit 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.040 or get ship on. Uh probably not eat it. Uh 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.720 that wouldn't taste very good. But so one day, Yes, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.720 I got to live the life of run. It was 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.960 like a make a wish type thing. And uh, I 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.280 got to hang out with very as I said, powerful 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.720 people in radio. I was, I was shooting the breeze 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.480 with your hero. Uh. Colin Cowherd was there and a 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.920 big star of daytime radio. And I say, Cowherd does 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.560 an overnight show for me. Uh, and I do an 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.880 overnight show for him. So we have that in common. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.240 But I hadn't seen Colin in a few years. I 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.920 got to hang out with our guy, Rob Parker. We 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.760 love Rob. Rob's great. I chatted up people think we 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.480 know all these people like in real life because we 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.400 worked at Fox Sports Radio. But like I had talked 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.840 to Gottlieb like on on the phone or whatever on radio, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.480 but I never actually met him in person. Um, and 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.720 I met Gottlieb. We caught up Clay Travis, who has 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.440 been doing the show in the morning show after me 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.480 for for a long time. I'd never physically met Clay. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.439 I I've actually known him for probably ten years doing 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.400 like TV and radio crap. Uh. Chris, Bruce Sard's another guy. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.079 Talked to Bruce Sarterer of times over the years. I've 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.040 never actually physically met him. Uh, And so I I 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.199 we got to catch up and all that, and um, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.320 my my regular guys. The only guys in radio. I 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:14.200 really see are like Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Jonas Knocks, 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.199 they were also there, so I got to hang out 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:17.880 with him. And this was played guest gun at the 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.960 Monarch Beach Golf Club in Dana Point, Beautiful Dana Point, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.800 which is roughly it's south Orange County, but a lot 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.120 of people think it's more. It's almost halfway between l 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.400 A and San Diego. It's almost the halfway point. In fact, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.679 uh Greg Maddox who used to pitch for the Hall 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.800 of Fame picture for the Cubs and the Braves, but 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.079 at the end of his career he played for the 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.040 Padres and the Dodgers. And the reason he did that, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.280 in part was because he lived in that are. I 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.040 don't know if he still does. But it's you know, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.800 because it's halfway, so you can either pick San Diego 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.160 or l A and all that stuff. But this, this 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.000 is a couple of things here, all right. So this 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.520 golf course is like a it's a traditional Scottish link 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:04.840 style and it's right on the goddamn Pacific Ocean. Okay, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.800 that's the It's amazing. It's like an oil painting. Um, 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.920 you got rolling green greens, very tight fairways which I 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.040 don't like UM, and they say it's for golfers of 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.079 all skill lovers. I believe that's bullshit. UM. I had 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.360 not played golf in in a fair amount of time. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.280 But it's one of the higher ranked golf courses in California. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.640 I don't know about globally golf digestive. I mean, there's 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.640 a million golf courses. Um. They said it was the 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.160 number one best golf course in Orange County, and there's 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.760 a lot of golf courses in Orange County and a 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.600 lot of rich people that live in that part of 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.760 the country. So take that for waysworth so and the 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.040 other thing's guests on how did I do? I think 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.480 that's a bigger question because part of the reason I'm 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:51.080 gonna ask this is because temperatures this week in southern California. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.040 I know, earlier this week we're hovering between eighty five 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.000 and ninety degrees, and over the last forty eight hours 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.000 they're about seventy five to eighty not a cloud in 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.880 the sky. It was a great day to golf if 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.400 you are an avid golfer or even a casual golfer, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.720 And as you mentioned, you haven't done that in quite 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.720 a few years. So, yes, Ben Mallory, how did you 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:16.240 do actually playing? It was a house of horrors. It 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.040 is what it was. It was a pit of misery. 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.200 Uh Man, was I terrible? Uh? We we played, fortunately, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.439 we played best ball. If you're not a golf person, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.160 you might not know what that is, but best balls 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.679 where you gonna force him. And out of all everyone 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.200 takes shots, but whoever has the top shot is the 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.400 one you use. And thank God for that. That was 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.160 a little bit of a savior from complete embarrassment and disgrace. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.040 But I had not played golf and probably five years 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.480 I played. I used to play with my wife when 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.720 we first got together a few times, but she's not 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.960 a big golf fan and so we didn't continue that. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.680 But I had. I used to play every once a while. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.160 I would played like once a year for something. And 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.760 I have a public course. I gotta tell you, guess 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.360 my public course is not quite match up with the 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.280 endless lakes and sandtraps at Monarch Beach. I mean, my god, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:11.760 but they were great. The people that worked there were awesome. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.480 It was a v I p very friendly. People are 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.720 very nice, and I wanted someone to be an asshole. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.600 Uh No, one was an asshole. Uh, and they rolled 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:24.040 out the red car. But now my force included talk 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:29.160 radio legend Mike Harmon, Bucky Brooks, veteran NFL player for 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.760 like five different teams, including Brett Farven the Packers back 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.920 in the day, and Uh, a guy I don't know 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.240 if he wants me to use his full name, so 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.520 I'll just use his first name, Graham, who is a 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:43.920 very powerful media buyer from a company in Chicago and 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:49.880 handles million, millions and millions of advertising for huge companies 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.560 like Taco Bell and Discover Card and some other people 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.079 that advertised. I actually Taco Bell doesn't advertise in sports radio, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.560 but Discover Card is one of our big sponsors. So 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.720 but you know, he was very nice. Well, you know 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.040 I should have probably been driving the golf cart with Harmon. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.280 By the way, these golf cards, yes, you know, I 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.800 know you're rich, you but I'm not. And last time 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.640 I was in a golf cart, you know, it was 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:17.560 it was like gas. This was electric. Had a GPS system. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.840 Minute more on that in a minute. Um had a 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.800 had a monitor in there to tell you which, you know, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.960 shot to hit, how far away you were from the 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.840 whole um where you were on the course. It was insane. Yeah, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.240 I'm I'm really curious about the tab on this thing. Well, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.160 I don't have that. I My tab was zero because 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.280 coming from coming from a guy that's uh, you know, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.840 not seeing anything on this podcast, I'm curious as to 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:49.199 what I heard spent on the kind of lavish afternoon 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.920 that you guys had, and I could only I have 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.840 no idea. I'm really bad with that, but uh, you 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.640 don't want to know. I'm really curious to know exactly 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.040 who was all there too, because it sounds like that 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:08.600 there was some real firepower there. And uh yeah yeah, 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.800 and I I was being introduced the scotch Apire, our boss, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.920 Don Martin, another one of our bosses. They were there, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.720 and they were introducing me to all these very profitable 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.720 like this guy controls all of the I Heart Media's 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:26.000 digital sales, this guy does radio sales, in charge of everything. Uh, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.200 all these executives from New York, where the headquarters of 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.200 My Heart is now mostly located, they were all they 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.400 were all there, and uh and I met him and 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.120 you know Julie who runs Premier Networks, who has been 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.040 my boss for you all these years. I met her. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.760 I met her before, but I not very often. I'm 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.920 not there during the day, so it was so it 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.000 was cool. I got a chance to you, played some golf, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.640 you had some food, And I guess I'm curious because 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.000 when you go on an event like this, you're talking 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.600 to so many people. Um, there's gonna be a bow 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.400 that's put on this thing. So I'm curious now that 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.080 after it's all said and done, the bigger question now is, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.000 since um, you are a family man and you are 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:16.200 a supporter, is what did you bring home? What stalp 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.440 did you bring home for us so that we can 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.840 feast on? Uh? So you're looking for dirt? Is that? No, 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.320 not dirt. We need, we need this thing to be 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.920 taken to a higher level. And I think you can 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.120 agree with me that we're not Joe Rogan, so we 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.080 don't have bonds inside of our studio, so we have 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.280 primetime guests. But we need uh, we need that kind 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.520 of Uh. We need this thing to may be propelled 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.560 to a higher level. How are we doing this now? 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.400 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.600 Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.720 on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Well, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.400 I mean everyone was very nice. They love the product 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.720 that I put out and we put out or whatever, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.720 and um, you know, I got a lot of I 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.840 got a lot of atta boys. I got a lot 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.880 of pats on the back when I got a lot 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.960 of good job by you that I do not believe 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.800 we can monetize that. I don't think there's a way 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.680 for us to cat in on att a boy. Uh 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.920 but I got a lot of those and uh so 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:20.760 may made it made me feel good. It was good 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.120 for my ego. I mean that certainly is nice that, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.040 uh you know, these people seem like it. But but 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.920 as far as the golf part of it, we'll get 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.880 back to the kissing ass of of powerful people on radio. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.720 I actually started now it turned out to be a 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.640 ship show for me. But I I started out okay, 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.960 and I got progressively worse as I played, And it 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.000 makes no sense. I I believe I set golf back 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.920 to the stone age. Uh And ironically that's one of 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.800 the highlights. There's a couple of things that stood out. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.920 So I used my golf clubs, which I when I 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.800 bought them twenty years ago. I proudly displayed to everyone right, 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.840 And I even I got some of my old grandfather's 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.680 clubs that he didn't use anymore. Maybe it was after 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.480 he died. Uh, And I was feeling pretty good about 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.560 myself because I had a real golf bag like everyone 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.400 else there. We had the golf carts and uh. One 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.560 of the hard old golf guys, one of the guys 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.520 that was trying to sell some golf product, is a 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:22.320 nice guy. He Uh. He sees my my driver and 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.399 he said, wait a minute, let me see that. I 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.359 haven't seen that in years. And then he looks at 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:29.879 me right in the eyes and says, man, that should 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:34.280 be donated to a museum. He said he had not 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.879 seen anyone using that in a long time. And uh, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.080 you know, so I said, see, it's very valuable. He says, no, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.840 it's not. You'll be lucky if anybody ten bucks for that. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.119 You know what I kind of think. So it was 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.399 he's I'll charge you a disposal fee to get rid 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.320 of a man like an old like a like a 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.800 BlackBerry cell phone that you got. As we get up 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.240 with this thing, Ben, I want to ask you on 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.600 a tire because we talked about this. I think the 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.520 first or second podcast addition, But we were I was 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.480 probing around to see exactly what you'd be wearing, since 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.240 you were typically not a You're always shorts, right at least? 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.919 Why I dressed like a slob at work because no 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.720 one's around. But when I go out in public to 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.240 you know, meet people, I dressed no. I had you 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.840 know that golf golf attire. I got a golf shirt. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.080 Um not. I am upset with Jason Smith because I 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.080 was gonna wear shorts. I asked if we were allowed 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.680 to wear shorts. Everyone was wearing shorts. Jason's like, it's 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.520 right on the ocean. It's gonna be cold down there, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.160 don't you know? You just wear pants? So I wore pants. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.720 It was ninety two degrees or whatever it was, and 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.720 I'm sweating now. The good news is I got a 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.720 little sunburned, but I didn't get burned on my legs, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.439 so that's so that's a good thing. And U. But 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.200 as far as the God, I mean, I was, we'll 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:45.880 wrap this up, and A said, but I was like 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.840 I was seeing ghosts. It was really neat, though. I 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.160 I I had a couple of other highlights. Just before 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.040 I forget I I hit a wooden chair on a drive, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.359 and everyone was that was the highlight for my my FORO. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.639 Everyone could not believe that they were compaired with a 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.480 guy that couldn't even get the ball over the wooden chair, 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.840 which it sounds impressive until you learned the chair was 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.000 about fifteen feet away from where we teed off. It was. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.600 It was on the ground, obviously, and it was like 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.760 a par you know it was. It was like a 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.760 par five, So it was a long, long hole. I 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.119 also hit several trees. I smashed the ball in the 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.199 into the wrong part of the course next to the 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.520 one the hole next to the one we were supposed 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.720 to be on. I killed ants, mosquitoes, a bunch of critters, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.640 and by the end of it, guest gun I had PTSD. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.440 I I lost so many golf balls in that f 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.400 and lake and uh the water traps and the sand 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.760 traps and the trees and all that that I hit 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.600 one into the bushes and I'm like, I can see 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.240 it because it was a neon green golf ball, so 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.639 I'm going to get it. And I emerged looking like 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.760 pig pen. I I had crap hanging out. I was 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.280 ridiculous and um and then but you know, so then 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.720 after we me the little dinner type thing after the 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.720 golf and I had to clean myself up, and but 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.600 they brought in This is how important this event was. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:13.280 Guest on Sean Hannity flew in from the East Coast 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.240 and smoke for like five minutes to tell everyone how 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.240 all these powerful people, how glad he was to be here. 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.320 And it was I give him credit because Hannity is 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.120 so he's polarizing now because of his friends, and he's 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.919 best friends with Trump. That's right, President Trump, and he 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:29.760 handed he's telling the story about how he was at 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.639 the White House last a couple of days ago. I 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.600 guess with the President or whatever, he's telling some story 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.960 about that. You know, I give because there you know 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.160 a lot of liberal people there California, man, And uh, 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.000 you know, he was no shame in his game. Man. 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:45.840 He's a good guy. He's been in radio longer than 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:47.760 he's been in TV by a long time. Oh yeah, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.960 no doubt you. And yeah you mentioned Hannity, but you 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.040 also had, like you said, with Coward being there, and 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.640 I heard about the dinner that you guys had, So 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:02.600 it was that's quite the Expia. It was similar to 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.879 like um full for a radio geek, which I guess 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.439 I am. Uh, you know it was it was Disneyland, 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.040