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The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:46.559 starts right now in the air everywhere, back at it 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.120 on a Saturday. It is the Fifth Hour Podcast. As 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.280 you know, as we are bloviating all over the global 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.840 reach the vast power of the I Heart network of podcast. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.800 Wherever you get your podcast, you obviously found the podcast, 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:07.760 but it's it's available everywhere. It's sensory overload with this podcast, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.360 and we are glad to have you. A long yere 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.360 a good conversation yesterday with Michael McCarthy. I enjoyed that. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.880 I don't know that you enjoyed that. But as a 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.120 sports business nerd observer of the business of sports and media, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.320 I could have done another ninety minutes with Michael McCarthy. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.000 But we are joined now again this week. Somehow there 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.920 must be a mistake. This is like several weeks in 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.840 a row. He's been here from West of the four 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:39.760 oh five. Yeah, don't love him, you hate him, David, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.840 that's good man, that's uh, that's a really good conversation yesterday. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.560 It was fun. I enjoyed it. I love that kind 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.760 of stuff, talking about you know, Al Michael's future, Jim Nance, 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.720 whether he actually controls the Masters. These stories are fascinating 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.920 to me because I don't control anything, well don't. I 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.520 have no power over anything. But these other people that 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.600 actually have power in sports media, I am. I'm jealous 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.080 and impressed and all of that. And don't forget what 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.120 do you even mentioned this to Michael. But we're only 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.640 a couple of years removed from Tony Romo having his 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.640 knees chopped out from underneath them because of the gambling 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.880 and stuff going on in Las Vegas, and you know, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.480 all this stuff is now coming together with the NFL, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.919 Major League Baseball, the NBA, the ANHEL sports gambling, it's 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:29.320 it's no longer taboo. Yeah, and we we also and 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.320 you go back and download if you didn't hear the 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.079 Friday podcast. But we discussed the obvious Komodo dragon in 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.600 the room here that these sports leagues and television are 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.119 are side by side, which we've all known, but television 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:47.160 in many respects is beholden to the sports leagues, like 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.040 there's this this this odd relationship. And we also got 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.560 into the fact that years ago the networks were losing 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.639 money and I think they're still losing money on these deals. Um. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.360 Michael disagreed on at things said, it's different now, but 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.359 it was an interesting conversation. But but upward and onward, Gagon, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.680 upward and onward. And it's all about us. This is 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:15.200 not a podcast, it's an experience. Uh. We have critically 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:20.480 acclaimed Hardball, Heaven and Pop Quiz, but let's start with us. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:30.240 We gave last weekend a masterclass in podcasting domination. Podcasting domination. Now, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.080 you know, we have tried over the years, at least 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.520 I have tried. We've been doing this for a couple 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.000 of years now. I have attempted to present a professional 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.839 podcasting and entertaining somewhat entertaining podcasts. I realized the people 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.960 are doing crap on the weekends, and you know, the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.360 audience is usually smaller for this because you're you're asking 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.240 people to spend part of their their downtime listening to 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.360 audio content and usually it's it's it's a tough ask, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.640 but we've done pretty good. We've got a loyal fall 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.080 and we thank you for that. But we've tried to 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.200 put people on who are upstanding citizens on the podcast. 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.400 With the exception of Lenny Dexter, we've tried to put 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.880 good people on. And we we went to the dark side, right, 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.480 went to the dark side, and we went on the 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.720 Highway to Hell, and we had our We had Tim 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:18.719 Donneghee on and he turned out to be podcast bullion. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.360 Uh unbelievable. The the gambling NBA referew, which I wanted 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.520 to have on, And I do want to thank a 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.440 couple of you guys that reached out and said, hey, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.919 let's get Tim Donnie on the podcast because he'd be 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.520 really good. And I was like, well, yeah, I wanted 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.320 to talk to him anyway. I'm fascinated by his story 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.919 and We had a record number of downloads with the 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.680 Tim Donnie podcast. He is a drawing card. Who knew 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.159 that Tim Donnie, he had a conversation with him. We're 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:53.320 turned into a big, big, massive audience for us. It's good, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.280 It's real good. I know that, uh you probably didn't 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.440 want me, you know, in that same boat with you, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:04.960 but uh, you know, I feel like, yeah, the highest 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.880 are you? Are you taking credit? Well? I'd like to 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.000 think that I have a lot to do because dr Evil, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.680 you'r mini me is what you min? I'm a little 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.159 bit bigger than mini me. And how about that I'm 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.760 not you know not what I hear? Well, it's it's 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.960 what you should hear. It's you're being told lies. But anyways, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.000 I I digress as because I know you like to 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.440 put on a good show. And you know what I am. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.359 I'm Shrek and you're the donkey. No, I'm Shrek and 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.520 you're the dog. You're like, you're like Willow, You're just 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:39.160 a little pack. I'm you're Chuaca. You don't have the chrisma, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:44.280 very piece that screams right, that that watches your back, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.840 that takes care of you even when you get dropped 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.320 in carbonite. I get dropped all the time. I'm buzz 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.839 light here, you're Sheriff, You're Wow, you're Genie and Medford. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.280 How about that fucking corpse. This is the last two 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.520 of three episodes of the fifth Hour, or the highest 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.159 ever in the show's history. In fact, they were so high, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.799 guest Gun, that I was convinced that we had somebody 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.359 buying bots to download the podcast. Maybe how that's how, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.240 And I wouldn't be against that, by the way, I 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:19.039 let against people setting up bots to download the podcast. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.760 I don't you know how I feel about the internet, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.839 guest Gun. It's all social media, is all the matrix. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.839 Take the blue pill of the red pill, do whatever 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.400 you want there. But I I believe in that. So 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.640 why I don't know what happened. There's no tangible reason. 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.400 We tried to find the answer why the downloads were 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.719 up so high last weekend, and I have a theory. Okay, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.800 My theory is this is that on the on the 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.080 heels of the week, we typically do this Friday, Saturday, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.480 and Sunday, as you mentioned, and looking at the two 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.159 episodes Fridays with Tim donnihe and then Sunday with the 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.120 mail Bag, that there was residual carry over for me 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:01.480 producing your shows Wednesday and Thursday. Doubt in my mind 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:07.640 that ears and oftentimes hearts peak. When I'm on your show. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.160 There's more energy in the building, there's more enthusiasm. You 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.000 actually have more content to cover, you have sound duty, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.040 your monologues, and then it all comes together where people 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.440 either bitch and moan or they sing my praise and 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.080 throw rose pedals at me. So there was residual carry 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.800 over from those two days and it was echoed into 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.480 the to the podcast. So just to recap for those 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.200 whether you admit it or not, for those of you 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.760 in the back of the room, the prima Donna is 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:40.880 styling and profiling and taking credits. Yes, the reality is 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.040 the to fit out with Ben Mallory is not on 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.920 if if I'm not around so here, I am loud 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.400 and proud. I know you don't want to give me credit, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.400 Eddie credit, not even I'm I'm impressed that you were 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.280 able to show up, show up to work. It's amazing. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.440 Not always. I mean I don't done this with I 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.240 mean there are people who don't even work in the 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.440 company anymore, that you know sell air conditioners that I've 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.800 done this one, Okay. I mean, let's be honest here, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.640 and I'm fine. I'll like, you know, I'm the man 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.880 of the people, the people, the only guy that listens 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.800 to this content that doesn't roll out of bed and 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.640 do his work. And that that is you. You roll 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.120 out of bed, you do your work, and you roll 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.680 back in the bed. Everyone. I go into a professional 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.480 I have to get up, put my clothes on, just 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.800 like anyone else, one leg at a time. I gotta 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.400 walk down the hall. I gotta make it turn, I 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.800 gotta turn all this crap on. And by the way, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.240 it's manual labor. Okay. It takes us like a twenty 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.720 minute lag time. When I come into the studio and 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.880 I'm ready, you know, I got my lunch pail and 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.280 I'm ready to do some talk, some hot talk radio, 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.600 and I gotta sit here for twenty minutes. And I'm like, 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.600 I'm like Mr Miyagi from the Karate Kid, you know, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.520 training Daniel wax On wax Off, trying to get the 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.400 damn equipment to work, and uh, and then finally I 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.199 get enlightenment and it actually works after twenty minutes, is 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.199 like hallelujah. But it's chopping. What I'm doing is carrying 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.959 water and chopping wood. It's like that old Buddhist saying, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.200 right after enlightenment, carry water, chop wood. Before enlightenment, carry water, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.280 chop wood. I am your enlightenment, Ben Mallory. There's a 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.679 rejuvenated sense of you and your professional career that you've 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:20.000 gone digital. And it is uh. It is tabulated through 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.480 the metric system of Fox Sports Radio, and it is nice. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.000 Though you know you're the white collar guy on the 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.560 blue collar guy. It is nice. You know. I've had 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.040 a little bit of a break. I've I've done a 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.040 lot of the YouTube videos for the company are our 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.680 guy has been on vacation, so I haven't had to 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.520 do it. So so I can. I can sit there 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.400 in my underwear and through the show. His name is Elijah. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.920 Thank you very much for everyone knows Elijah, asshole. Everyone 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.520 knows Elijah that they learned of him in the Bible. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.520 Elijah is great, He's wonderful. Listen, how do you spell 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:54.400 Bo Benson's first name? I don't I don't know what asshole. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.199 You don't even know who you work with? B e 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.400 au Bo Benson, and I'll worked with you and produced 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.920 a episode of the Fifth Hour. He's tight an entire weekend, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.559 the entire weekend go back and he Uh, is that 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.960 how you've gone through your professional career? You just looked 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.599 down at everyone that doesn't serve you accordingly, like you 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.680 spit on them, and then what what? What star here? 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.560 Let me tell you something. It's it's a great thing 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.480 here for who It's a lesson I learned from my 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.360 mom and dad back in the day. You put one 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.920 foot in front of the other. You keep your head down, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.000 and you just keep moving right. And all the crap 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.319 that goes on around you, like you're not showing up 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.120 one weekend or you know, bringing in the air conditioning 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.800 salesman when the next weekend. What I just do the show. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.040 And you know, if you want to be here, that's great. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.040 If the other people want to be here, that's wonderful. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.720 And uh and you know we'll have fun about some 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.360 people are better than others. But I keep doing the show. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.440 One foot in front of the other, head down, do 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.920 your job. I learned that from Bill Belichick. Do your job. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.280 But when you outcasted me to you Bakersfield, you said, 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.360 out cash you that was a great you said, you said, 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.839 journal everything and life is all about experiences life, It's 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.080 all about life, It's all about the story. Well, wouldn't 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.240 you agree the story is better to be shared with 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.240 people as opposed to buy yourself. I don't know, but 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.160 I'm an introver. I don't know about that. That's bullshit. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.320 I'm an introver, I am. I've always been that way. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.800 I'm inward looking. It's because you have content for most 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.640 people that you come across. Well, I've been done dirty 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.440 by some people over the years. I'm not I'm not 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.840 gonna lie to you. I've had some experiences that have 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:39.760 shaped me. Can we address the elephant in the room, Well, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.880 it's the Komodo dragon, Rember I changed that. It's no 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.040 longer the elephant in the room. I think Komodo dragons 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.920 are very cool. I'd like to go to that island 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:50.280 in Indonesia someday that has like nothing but Komodo dragons. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.319 I think that would be really cool. But required to 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.800 get on a plane. You can't touch them though, because 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.439 you're like, they got this poisonous google on the Komodo dragons, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.000 like they'll their spit will kill you. Well, can we 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.400 acknowledge the fact that one of the most frugal human 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:10.760 beings I know bought a four figure traffic light and 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:16.600 on Instagram. What kind of an asshole are you? What 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:22.160 kind of Oh my gosh, do you want to hear 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.120 the backstory on that? Yes, please share that backstory please? 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.600 All right. So there's some stuff going on behind the 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.800 scenes that I will not get into. But there's some 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.280 relocation possibilities that are going to be taking place here. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.199 The Mallard mansion might be on the move soon. So 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.760 uh in that process, which I will not get into here. Uh, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.040 there's been a lot of things that me and the 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.520 wife have had to do on the weekends to prepare 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:52.720 for that. And she loves going to you know, different 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.960 uh antique stores and intiking and that kind of crap, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.480 Like you know, she loves trying to find cool things 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.880 that are you know, unique and quirky and all that. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.480 So I'm like, all right, I'll go along whatever. So 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.079 we walked in. It was actually on Robertson in Uh 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.640 we're in l A h and on Robertson right right 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.240 there in your west l A and near by the 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:18.960 way east of the four H five. Want it being 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:20.400 very clear. It was east of the four oh five. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.600 But we walked in on Robertson over there, right near 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.679 that Taco bell which I used to stop at back 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.520 in the day. Uh and they had a bunch of 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.880 random stuff and this, this light, this signal. Just called 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.719 out to my wife and she's like, we gotta get there, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:40.480 and uh so we did. We bought a traffic signal 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.960 to hang up in the house. I don't know how 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.640 we're gonna hang it. The thing weighs a fucking ton, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.559 but uh, I don't know how you hang something that heavy. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.840 But we'll find a way to hang it up. And 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.400 it actually, it actually works. It's a working traffic light. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.400 How freaking nuts is that? To the Mallard mansion into 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.520 a frat house. That's what you're doing? Do it? The 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.280 thing is, it is a real size traffic light. It's 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:09.040 not it's nuts insanity, it's you know, you can stand 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:14.520 out a little bit, why not not? Unbelie No, I 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.880 think it's cool. I think it's neat. But but but 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.320 just back to the downloads with with Tim donnahe I 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.120 think I told you guess we now need to go 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.960 to the dark side, right, we need the criminal underbelly 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.280 of sports, and I'm not getting this is not disinformation here. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.440 I'm I'm willing to bring on on a bunch of bandits, miscreants, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.360 unsavory characters, right, I'm fine with that. The desperadoes. Some 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.640 would call them human scum. We call them downloading gold. Now, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.360 the only way we will avoid this I will see 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.520 what the numbers are this weekend. We obviously don't know 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.800 because we're doing the show right now. Uh. But if 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.920 the numbers continue to be up and it turns out 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.560 it's not because of Tim donahe that the spill over 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.720 from that, and that the numbers are still strong, then 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.040 we will avoid bringing in the den of inequity here. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.280 We will. We will continue to fight the good fight 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.320 here without going to the Gray Bar Hotel about that. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.560 In the process of doing so, you can at least 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:20.960 agree that the guest booking and production has just been tremendous. Like, 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.520 you know, there's a term in baseball when you're swinging 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.760 up bats. Sometimes the baseball looks like a b B 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.520 and you're striking out all the time, and other times 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.040 the baseball looks like a beach ball and you can't miss. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.240 Like I am I'm hitting a like a right four fifty, 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.920 slugging probably over a thousand. Like I'm in that cleanup 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.920 spot for a reason. Ben Maller, Yeah, you know what 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.640 you are? You I am the guy. You're you're You're 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.400 in yoga and you're doing the downward dog stretches. What 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.040 you're doing right now, you're really going out there and 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.400 nobody else. By the way, I've never done yoga. I 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.280 just like saying downward dog. I think that's a fun 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.360 for used to say. Yeah, a little bit sketchy right 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.720 downward No, Yeah, that's great for long time. You've done 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.240 yoga your West of the four Old five. I've tried 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.600 Bickram yoga in Manhattan Beach. Yeah. They raised the temperature 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.840 in the room to over a hundred degrees and it's 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.600 it's like you're doing yoga and asana. I did it 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.920 with women that were a fraction of our size, and 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.600 they'd crush it like ninety minutes long. And these women, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.280 I mean, the we're hot, but they were older, and 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.520 you get intimidated. I mean there was two guys in there. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.920 Me and one other guy looked like a basketball player. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.560 He was like six seven, six eight and he was lengthy. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.040 I stood in the back the way. Problem is that 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.120 in studio is filled with mirrors, so you have no escape. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.240 So if you're out of gas, you tap out. Everyone's 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.200 looking at you. Remember gas gun though, it's not the 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.840 size of the dog in the fight. It's the size 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.680 of the fight. Yeah. That's why. That's why I'm a 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.640 perfect compliment to you, because at times you're spineless, you're 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:58.040 sleeping nothing. And uh I had a buddy of my 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.040 years ago who hated yoga but did yoga just to 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.600 meet women. Uh and would complain about how what he 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.919 hated it, but you know, it was a way to 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.560 meet women, so he would You know, guys will do 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.440 anything to meet the women when you're a single dude. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.600 I mean, he was in better shape than I was, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.240 you know, but that's not hard you know. So, but 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.560 I wouldn't call him, I wouldn't confuse him with like 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.680 Adonis or anything like that. I would I wouldn't go 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:35.640 go that far, but fair enough. Yeah, anyway, Uh So, 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.640 I didn't want to bring up this hard ball heaven things. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.360 So I did a Mallard monologue award winning Mallard monologue 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.360 this week about the start of baseball with opening Day 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:48.040 happening back on Thursday. And you know, I went through 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.160 all the major leagues and I eliminated twenty three teams. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.040 There was only seven teams that have a chance to 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.959 win the World Series. And the Mallar militia. There's a contingent. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.760 There's an arm of the Mallard militia that loved them baseball. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.760 They love them some baseball. Now, it's not a large contingent. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.760 And I I'm sure at some point the bosses will 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.920 call me into the office and say, hey, you should 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.399 shouldn't be talking about baseball. What are you doing? You're 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.639 you're doing old guy radio. But I like baseball. I 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.760 talked about it from time to time, not too much. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.199 I still mostly do football and some basketball. But we 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.440 did a baseball monologue and people the feedback was really good. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.520 In fact, Robbie, the Mariner fan, he said, how about 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.679 a baseball podcast every week or every other week? Do 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.520 like a hard oh hardcore baseball poctice Now he recommended 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.440 with Roberto, not you. He didn't want you part of 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.280 the parties. He wanted Roberto to be part of it 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:38.919 because he doesn't think of you as more like a 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.400 baseball guy. He thinks of Roberto is the baseball guy, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.359 and you're not really the baseball guy. I'm I'm a 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.520 huge baseball guy. Played baseball in the college. Baseball has 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.840 been my one of my first loves. I I was 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.760 outcasted by you to go to Bakersfield covering baseball. What 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.960 this was great advice. I have a story. I worked 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.920 with a story to tell you work cornered, rattlesnake, you had, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.919 you have a story to tell. No, I worked for 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.120 the Seattle Mariners class or advanced a affiliate. That's that's 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.840 a little odd. That's interesting that he brings that up 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.680 because earlier in the week, Um, I had wanted to 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.639 call and talk to you and talk to you about 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:22.520 baseball as as a particular subject. And um yeah, no response, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:27.560 no return phone call. Um still while I was sleeping, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.840 How am I supposed to four o'clock in the afternoon. 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.480 I'm sleeping. That's bullshit. You're usually awake at eleven or 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.800 twelve o'clock Pacific. Yeah. Yeah, un listen, you don't need 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.800 to give my my schedule out here, my dirty laundry. Yeah, 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.200 I don't think any want to do that. But I 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.160 was thinking since this is the Saturday podcast. I was thinking, Hey, 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.720 how about we do a test run. Maybe we can 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.680 start this next week and give pop Quiz a hole, 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.000 you know, do like a no not this week in baseball, 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.760 because the problem is we're gonna have to keep this 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.880 a little bit kind of not generic. But it's got 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.320 to be a little evergreen when you talk about baseball. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.560 Because the podcast, there's a lag time from when we 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.280 do the podcast and when it's it's available. We can 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:12.879 play around with it, we can test it out and 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.640 if the downloads are good, we can keep it going. 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.000 How about that, Well, why can't we go back to YouTube? 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.639 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.000 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.520 sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.240 weekdays at two am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:34.600 Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. What do you mean? 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:40.359 That was great? It was interactive check, great graphics check 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.080 we could bring in that was all a check. But 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.600 the chi ching chiching I didn't get out of that. 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:50.000 You know, I'll point out there was you know, no monetization. Wow, 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.720 kind of works like this right, Well, see how that works. 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:56.720 I get, I get, I get a little money at it, 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.240 not much. Not so if I got paid what we 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.000 should get paid here for people he's dropping in here 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.400 and spying on the on the conversation, then it would 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.000 be some real money. Yeah, well, I mean I would. 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.240 I guess I'm a part of that too, right, So, okay, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.960 he's just writing my coat and you have no shame. 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.399 I'm providing a service, am I not? I am doing work, 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.000 am I not? You're the Mallard gravy train guy. There's 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.000 gonna go on the Mallord gravy train today. There's at 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.560 least got to be a home destination, right, Like I'm 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.640 I'm buying the dough, I'm buying the pepperoni, I'm buying 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.240 the cheese. What's wrong with having a slice? Well, you 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.679 do bring a lot of cheese here you doing? What's 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.120 what's wrong with bringing that love? And how about this 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.520 little constructive criticism, a little tough love. How about be 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:47.920 more relatable to the to the common person. How about 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.320 that I'm exatremely relatable. I'm not. I'm younger, I'm hip, 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:57.000 I watch movies, pop cultures. You're proving exactly what I 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.520 was saying here. I am. I. I am the person 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:03.919