1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Kabooms. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: In the air everyway in a very happy, happy, happy 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Sunday to you as we are chamouing on 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: this glorious day here in NFL Sunday week number ten 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And I will be in 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: attendance at one of the games today. As we are 15 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: doing this. I am in can City on National Vanilla 16 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: Cupcake Day, very specific holidays. National Vanilla Cupcake Day a 17 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 1: very important day, and also Sesame Street Day today, Danny. 18 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: I know it was very important for both of us 19 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:16,199 Speaker 1: growing up Sesame Street. 20 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 3: And you are a big snuffle up a gift guy. 21 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: I am, I am. I love snuffle love gus big 22 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: military weekend as Veterans Day is tomorrow, it's US Marine 23 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 1: Corps Day today. It's also it's the Marine Corps birthday today, 24 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: so there's a lot going on. And as far as 25 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: the Malar meet and greet, which was yesterday, as we 26 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: normally like to point out Danny on this podcast, now, 27 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: I sent some stuff out on the socials yesterday at 28 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: the landing over in Liberty. 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 3: So yeah, I saw pictures that looked like it was 30 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: a good turnout. 31 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I like to let this stuff breathe and 32 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: kind of collect my thoughts. It's been a whirlwind this weekend, 33 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: and in just a few minutes. 34 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 4: They the real reason is you want content for next 35 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 4: weekend's podcast. 36 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: Exactly, And I'm saving content. I know Terry and England 37 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: loves that. He always likes to point that out, how 38 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: great it is. Always looks forward to me saving content 39 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: for the following week. But yeah, so we'll have, you know, 40 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: have some of the stories and I'll have more stories. Today. 41 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm going to the Chiefs game. They're playing the Broncos 42 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: this afternoon at Arrowhead and I will be tailgating the tailgating. 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: Danny begins, the gates open. I think it's seven thirty 44 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: this morning, the gates open. So I again, no sleep, 45 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: but I'm fine, you know, I'm having a good time. 46 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: I'm having fun. Everyone's been very nice here since I 47 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: got to town, and I'm just enjoying a rare and 48 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: appropriate weekend away because I normally do not travel at all, 49 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: especially since I've started doing the TV show the last 50 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 1: couple of years during football season, don't do it. But 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: I made the exception, so I'm going to enjoy the 52 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: hell out of it. Today. I am going to consume. 53 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: I'm not a big drinker, but I will be consuming 54 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: large amounts of alcohol and barbecue today. That's the plan. 55 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: At the game, we do have the mail bag. This 56 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: is a mail bag podcast, Danny. But before we get 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: to that, I wanted to do the Idiom of the week. 58 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: Are you prepared for the idiom of the week? 59 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: The idiom of the week? 60 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: All right? This one came from p Air from Springfield, 61 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: friend of Alf the Alien Opiner, and he said, how 62 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: about cornering the market? Since I've heard that phrase. Wants 63 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: to know about cornering the market? So for those of 64 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: you in the back of the room, it's rather obvious, 65 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: but maybe not. What does the raise corner of the 66 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: market mean? Well, make a long story short, it essentially 67 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: means in business. You've acquired enough of a company, like 68 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: the shares of a company, to be able to manipulate 69 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: the price of the company. Hence the name. The market 70 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: is backed into a corner where there is no room 71 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: to move because you have cornered the market, and the 72 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: corner is as old as trade itself. And this is crazy, though, 73 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: I thought, well, this is probably a phrase from like 74 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,359 Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds or something like that. No, no, it 75 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: goes all the way back to a Greek mathematician, and 76 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: I believe the name is Thales. I believe is that 77 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: how you pronounced it? Dan, You're a big Greek guy, mathematician, 78 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: asked astro astronomer. Easier for me to say philosopher. And 79 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: according to the legend, I think I just butt youered 80 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: all this. But according to the legend Aristotle on you 81 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: got that one right, Yeah, corner of the market on 82 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: olive oil presses. And so this this goes back to 83 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: ancient Greece and all that. And so this, this guy, 84 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: the mathematician, was able to predict the upcoming large crop 85 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: of olives, and he knew he'd done the math on this. 86 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: He figured it out the rudimentary numbers. He figured it 87 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: out correctly and decided to make the best of it. 88 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: He raised a small sum of money. He paid deposits 89 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: for the whole of the olive presses, and you know, 90 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: hire them these other people at low rent. And when 91 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: the season arrived, there was a sudden demand for these 92 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: olive presses and he made a ton of money. It 93 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: cornered the market. So the phrase cornered the market goes 94 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: all the way up, all the way back to ancient Greece, 95 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: and it involves Aristotle and then also a famed fellow 96 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: Greek mathematician and philosopher who was involved with Aristotle. So 97 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: for the idiom of the week, cornering the market, cornering 98 00:05:58,279 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: the market. 99 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: Idea, I was going to learn something. 100 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: It's educational. It's a teachable moment. 101 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 3: Danny. 102 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: Let's get to the mailbag. What do you say you 103 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: want to mail bag? We got the mail bag, right, 104 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: it's this mail bag. Thank you very much, ohio Al, 105 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: the legend that is the great ohio Al. And right 106 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: to the mailbag we go. These are actual letters by 107 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: actual listeners. You can send in your questions anytime. You 108 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,679 Speaker 1: can do it right now, you can do it tomorrow, 109 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: you can do it the day after. I don't care. 110 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: Just put mail bag or mail in the headline on 111 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: the email that you send, and make sure to send 112 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: it to Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's 113 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. First one, Mike 114 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: in Fullerton writes, and he says, hello, Ben and Danny, 115 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: in response to Louis in Delaware's question from last week's mailbag. 116 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: I don't know about masshole, Mickey, but I'm convinced that 117 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: Alf and Ferddog are both AI chat box and they 118 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: aren't even good bots of that. Everything they say on 119 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: the show is stupid. According to Mike and Fullerton, even 120 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: their names are stupid. Alf's spin off the air for 121 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: over thirty years. If I were you, Ben, I'd stop 122 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: reading their tweets immediately. Not to go all third rail 123 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: on you guys, but I'm curious how much election coverage 124 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: you guys watched back on Tuesday. It worked out well 125 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: that it was called a little before Ben's show came 126 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: on the air. Mike says, so yeah, I'll go first. 127 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: I was trying to find something to watch I get 128 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: ready for the show, and I usually watch basketball. There 129 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: was no basketball, God forbid, the NBA plays an election 130 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: night because their fans are they're so stupid they can't 131 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: watch a game and vote, so they cancel all the game. 132 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: So I ended up watching the Bruins and the Maple 133 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: Leafs and the Kings in the wild. I was flipping 134 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: back and forth. Those games were co inciting for a 135 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: fair amount of time, for a fair amount of time. 136 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: But then after that ended, I did turn on the 137 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: election coverage, and I had it on in the background, 138 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: and I was putting monologues together, notes for monologues, and 139 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: I'd look up every you know, every ten minutes or 140 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: so and see what was going on. And I was 141 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: flipping to the different news channels, and people were not 142 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: we're not handling it very well. In some of those 143 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: liberal outlets. They were freaking out. They were like, oh, 144 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: you know, this is not right. They're like, well, there's 145 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: still time, you know. Not only but I did watch, 146 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: and you know, it was I'm not a huge political guy, 147 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:05,079 Speaker 1: but I do enjoy the election coverage and the drama 148 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: of it all. What about you, Danny. 149 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 4: I brought back a present from the airplane and getting 150 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 4: home from Seattle. You ever have those flights where it 151 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 4: messes up the pressure in your head Oh yeah, in 152 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 4: your ears. 153 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have terrible hearing. I mean my headphone and 154 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 1: headphones have destroyed my earring. And yeah, I've got all 155 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: kinds of issues. 156 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, I wasn't feeling well. Not only was I coming 157 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 4: off a busy weekend for work. When I got home, 158 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 4: I just felt like I had been run over by 159 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 4: a truck. So I was in bed Monday. I worked, 160 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 4: but I went right back to sleep as soon as 161 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 4: I got home. I did the same thing on Election 162 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 4: Day and evening, so I'm laying in bed. I had 163 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 4: the coverage on. I was flipping around to see how 164 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 4: the different channels were covering it, and I fell asleep, 165 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 4: like in a kind of under the weather days where 166 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 4: you hear things and you start having dreams about what 167 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 4: you're hearing on the TV. 168 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you confuse dream land with reality. 169 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yeah, that's what happened. 170 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 4: And in my dream, Donald Trump was calling the network again, and. 171 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 1: Buddy, that's right. You were friends with President Trump. That's right. 172 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 3: Eh, Yeah, he voted for me. Remember to get a raise? 173 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: Last question? Did you tell my producer Danny g that 174 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: he deserved a raise when you called last time? 175 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 5: Absolutely? I said, you get the president, but you really do. 176 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 5: You have a great show, and he's a nice guy. 177 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 5: But I said, you get the president of the phone, 178 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 5: you deserve a raise. I haven't done too many of 179 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 5: these calls lately. 180 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: Now that he's president again, you should send him a 181 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: letter and say, hey, by the way, Yeah, I think. 182 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 4: That the best he could do right now for broadcasters 183 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 4: is to ask for us not to get laid off. 184 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. 185 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 4: So I wake up out of the stupor, and it 186 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 4: was perfect timing because they had just one of the 187 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 4: networks had just called it. As I woke up, splashed 188 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 4: some cold water on my face and brushed my teeth. 189 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 4: Trump was going to come out for his speech, so 190 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 4: I got to watch all of that unfold. 191 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: Good timing, way to go, and I didn't. I was 192 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: hoping we would get a concession speech that night, but 193 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: we did not, so I had to I did. I didn't. 194 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: That happened while I was I was sleeping the next day, 195 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: but it was. It was a wild night, man, just 196 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: a wild couple of days because he had all the 197 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: usual suspects before the election, like oh yeah, Trump's gonna 198 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: lose blah blah blah blah blah, and then obviously that 199 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: did not happen. 200 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: You fired. 201 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: Ron from Florida writes some of the mail bag. He says, 202 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, how did you gen survive? Here would 203 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: go again? A lot of political emails? My man third 204 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: rail mo man. Ron says, how did you get you 205 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: gen survive another? Election? Uh? Election cycle? So I I mean, 206 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 1: we just talked about it, Ron, but it's pretty much 207 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: just plug away, right, put one foot in front of 208 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: the other, keep your head down, that kind of crap. 209 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 1: And I did enjoy some of the insane stories that 210 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: we got from this election cycle. The two that I 211 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: loved the most were a large number of people the 212 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 1: day of the election who googled did Joe Biden drop out? 213 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: On election Day? You talk about not having a clue, 214 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: right you met it is the day of the election, 215 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: and you're like, did Joe Biden drop out of the election? Well? 216 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: How else? Why else would his name not be on 217 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: the ballot? Dummy? So that was pretty amusing. 218 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 3: Those are the same people who ask you when is 219 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 3: the Super Bowl? Oh? 220 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's the same crowd. And then my other story, 221 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: which I love and it's a great way to rip 222 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: the younger generation, which we both love so much. It's 223 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: the number one pastime. Is this story that there were 224 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: long delays in a lot of places because the younger voters, 225 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: the eighteen plus voters that hadn't voted before eighteen, nineteen twenty, 226 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: that didn't get to vote in the last presidential election, 227 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: the younger voters did not know how to sign their 228 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: name because they have not you know, they don't have 229 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: to do that anymore in school. And so they couldn't 230 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: sign the voter registry because they had never written their 231 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: name out, or they didn't know how to write their 232 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: name out, and you have to sign. You have to 233 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: sign your name when you go in. 234 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 3: They don't learn cursive yeah. 235 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly, that's what you said. It better than me. 236 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: But so they didn't know how to sign their name 237 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: in cursive writing, and so it became this whole to 238 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,719 Speaker 1: do and which is just perfect. You talk about the 239 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: zeitgeist of the times, say, then, I get it. You know, 240 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: you're on your phone all the time, you're on computers. 241 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: You know, we're dinosaurs, Danny. We had to learn how 242 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: to write with a pen and use a typewriter, not 243 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: a computer, a typewriter. But that's just so hilarious to 244 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: me that at places across the country, from from Maine 245 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: to Hawaii, the kids were like, I don't know, you 246 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: want me to sign my name. I don't know what 247 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: are I supposed to do? I just sign my name 248 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: Kevin in Texas Rights And he says, Ben, you had 249 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: said sarcastically on this podcast you do with Danny that 250 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: you expected writing after the election, why didn't we get 251 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: the mass looting Kevin from Texas? I think we covered 252 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: this earlier, Danny, But I am surprised. I thought that 253 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: we would see I'm happy that we didn't. We saw 254 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: more violence after the Dodgers won the World Series? Am 255 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: I correct in saying that than we did after the 256 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: presidential election? Which is surprising? 257 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 3: Control, wasn't it? Yeah? 258 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 4: And I think it's because the Weienioles and whoever else 259 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 4: might have voted for Kamala. They were crying on their keyboards. 260 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 4: I don't think they were going to go out and 261 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 4: do anything in the streets. 262 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's it's great. I mean, I'm obviously I 263 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: love it. I think it's ridiculous burning stuff down because 264 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: your favorite political hero didn't win. I think the whole 265 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: thing's absurd, and it is a rather large upset that 266 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: I didn't I haven't seen the numbers the last couple 267 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: of days, but I at last I checked Trump. I 268 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: don't think all the voting totals are even in yet, 269 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: but Trump, I think he won the popular vote. He 270 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: was winning the popular vote, which is now that is stunning. 271 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: That is that's a that's a bigger upset since remember 272 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: one University Maryland, Baltimore County and Farley Dickinson, those sixteen 273 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: seeds won in the NCAA tournament. Like that, that's like 274 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: that big an upset to me, a sixteen seed beating 275 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: a one that Trump ended up winning the popular vote. 276 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: So anyway, Mike and Iowa writes, and he says, Ben 277 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: and Danny, do you think these celebrities and athletes like 278 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: Lebron James are feeling like they failed because they endorsed 279 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: the loser people did not list some of them and 280 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: vote for their candidate in the presidential election. But there's 281 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: a lot of political email this week day. It's almost 282 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: like people are more concerned about the election than they 283 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: are anything sporty. I guess, so, yeah, I don't. I 284 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: don't think this is gonna what do you think that. 285 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: I don't think this is going to change how athletes 286 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: approach this kind of stuff. I mean, my belief is 287 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: when you reach a certain level of celebrity like lebron 288 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: and to a lesser degree some of the Hollywood people, 289 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: that you live in a different dimension. You're not in 290 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: the same world we're in. They're in a bubble and 291 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: they're insulated from the real world and they live in 292 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: a different universe, and they hang out with people who 293 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: share their ideology and their dogma and all that, and 294 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: and so they're convinced that they have all the power, 295 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: and obviously they don't. Right otherwise, I mean, then the media, 296 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: then the celebrities, the election would have come out differently. 297 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 4: Well, the celebrities can't relate to our day to day lives. 298 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 4: I saw Beyonce posting stuff on social media and the 299 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 4: first comment are underneath her post for Harris said, what 300 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 4: the hell are you talking about? You haven't been to 301 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 4: the grocery store in decades. You don't know what the 302 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 4: hell's going out there, and you got paid ten million 303 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 4: dollars to side with who you're siding with. I don't 304 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 4: know if that checks out or not. That she got paid, 305 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 4: But you know, I take it with a grain of salt. 306 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 4: Who cares what a rich celebrity says about politics? 307 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm right there with you. And 308 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: I'm at the point now I'm old enough, like I'm 309 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: kind of grown up. I guess I still talk about 310 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,239 Speaker 1: sports for a living, but I'm kind of growing up. 311 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: And I know what I like in life and what 312 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: I don't like in life. And I know what I 313 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 1: want to have happened and what I don't want to 314 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: have happened. And I don't need Lebron James or anyone 315 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: else for that matter to tell me. And I do 316 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: think it's very pretentious. In fact, I saw I think 317 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: it was Aaron Rodgers this week. I did one of 318 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 1: his paid interviews with Pat McAfee, and he was mocking 319 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: the celebrity endorsements like Lebron and whatnot. And I think 320 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: that's that's kind of where I am on it. Like 321 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: I think we agree we're in lockstep when it comes 322 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: to that. Oh me, since he Tommy writes in he says, uh, 323 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: here Benny the Brazen and Danny Ganja the Wife and 324 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 1: I finally tried raising canes this past weekend, and one 325 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: word sums it up. Amazing. Amazing is the word that 326 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: since he Tommy said, whodos to you, gentlemen for speaking 327 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: of the deliciousness that is raising canes. Tommy says, I 328 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: told the girl at the pickup window that Ben Mahler 329 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: sent us, and she said who who? I quickly explained 330 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: to who you are, and she said she'd give your 331 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 1: show a try. Just out there repping your show and 332 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: packing my grill with amazing dummy chicken fingers. Have a 333 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: great day, gentleman. Who day from Sincy Tommy. The Bengals 334 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: planned back, of course, on Thursday against the Baltimore Ravens. 335 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: So there you go, Danny, we got a guy to 336 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: go to Keynes. We should we should have Keynes as 337 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: an advertiser or something like that. Come on, buy some 338 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: spots on the podcast. All right, I want my chicken 339 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: is one of those birds going. 340 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 3: Damn you? 341 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: All right, mass whole Mickey. He is next on the 342 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: mail bag and he's he said he was riding this 343 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: while he was waiting for the Boston Globe truck to arrive, 344 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: and he always listens to our podcast, and he did 345 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: confirm here massle Mickey Danny that if everything goes well 346 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: and the TV show gets picked up that he knows 347 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: people and I can end up going to Wooster, about 348 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: a forty five minute trip west of Boston and throw 349 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: out the first pitch at a at a minor league 350 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: baseball and that'd be awesome. 351 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 3: You mean throw out one of your lollipop pitches. 352 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 1: Well, that's what you say, Danny, But listen, I am 353 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: a veteran of the first pitch honors. It is a 354 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: tremendous honor to throw out the first pitch, and I 355 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,439 Speaker 1: will put on a show. Well I bring back the 356 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: lollipop curb. I don't know. Maybe I'll throw a knuckleball, 357 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll throw a fastball. Who knows. And Mickey also 358 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: says there's a. 359 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 3: Great maybe you look like one of the neat Crow brothers. 360 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 3: How dare you? 361 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: That is a cancel drop? So anyway, mass whole, Mickey says, 362 00:20:55,200 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: there's a speak easy there. He says, it's a tell 363 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: vernon where Babe Ruth used to drink during prohibition times. 364 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: That's kind of cool, right, that's awesome. Go to a 365 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: bar that Babe Ruth got hammered at during prohibition? Can 366 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: you imagine they tried prohibition again today on like anything. 367 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: How how ineffective that would be, right? I mean, the 368 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: fact that they were able to do it for several 369 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: years when they did is rather crazy. But imagine you're. 370 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 4: Telling you what my telling you what my new job 371 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 4: would be. I'd be a bootlegger. 372 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well I heard stories when I was a kid, 373 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: and maybe it was my grandparents making it up, but 374 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: they lived through prohibition and in LA what they would 375 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 1: do is they'd all go on to a boat and 376 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: they'd go out into international waters and just get hammered. 377 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: It was. It was a drinking boat because you couldn't 378 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: drink legally here. But if you're out how many I 379 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: think we've had this conversation before, But how many miles 380 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,719 Speaker 1: is international waters? It's a certain number of miles off 381 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: the coast. But you go out there and you're done. 382 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,199 Speaker 1: You're good. Do whatever you want, gamble, you can drink 383 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: and do all kinds of debauchery out international waters. Alf 384 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: from the future or is it the past? He says, gentlemen, 385 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: did you ever envision a future in radio where you 386 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: would be broadcasting remotely or producing for talent in a 387 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: far away studio from weekend overnights to weekday overnight's, periscope, 388 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: videos to YouTube and all things in between. It's hard 389 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: to believe that in the last twenty years how media 390 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: has changed, especially since the invention of the smartphone and 391 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: social media. So he says, alf, well, yeah, absolutely, it's insane. 392 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: I remember when I was in my early days in 393 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,479 Speaker 1: radio and Mike Thompson was the boss. He came up 394 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: to me and I was working local radio in LA. 395 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: We got covered up a lot by Dodger baseball and 396 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: we were doing a show in the evening and the 397 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 1: Dodgers played during the summer every night pretty much when 398 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: we were on, so we weren't on very often. And 399 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: my boss is like, listen, there's this thing we want 400 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 1: to try to do. We're going to have you do 401 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: your show, but it'll just be broadcast on the internet 402 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: like a podcast. And we both looked at him like 403 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: he was speaking Chinese, like you what are you Chinese? Russian? 404 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: What is that? And he's like no, no, So we 405 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: didn't test it out. It's new technology, and at that time, 406 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: everyone and their mother was listening to to the radio 407 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: and nobody was listening to streaming music. I think at 408 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 1: that time, maybe what was that what was that thing? 409 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: The streaming service was just getting going? What was that 410 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: music one? The Napster I think it was. Was it 411 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: called Napster? I think that was it. Yeah, Napster, I 412 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: think it was around that time, but it was it 413 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: was still kind of a new thing and not everyone 414 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: was aware of it and was it legal? Is it 415 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: not legal? And all that stuff. So we were like, 416 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: you're nuts, what are you talking about? And we never 417 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 1: actually ended up doing it, But now we have such 418 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: a large aunt. The numbers on the Fox Sports radio 419 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: channel on iHeart, which is the largest streaming service in America, 420 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: if not the world. There are how many different channels 421 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: are there on the iHeartRadio I don't know, like fifteen 422 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: hundred or something like that. 423 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's something like two thousand. 424 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: Two thousand, and Fox Sports Radio is in the top 425 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: five every single time the ratings come out on iHeart, 426 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: we're in the top five out of two thousand channels. 427 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 4: That is insane And that's why we haven't been laid 428 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 4: off in radio yet. 429 00:24:55,359 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: Thank god, people are actually listening, which is great, and uh, 430 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 1: you know what I I I love that. I was 431 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: talking to some of the guys in the the I 432 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: T Department, the social media team at Fox and and 433 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: they were telling me that we knew very well on 434 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: my show with people waking up in Europe and whether 435 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: they don't know whether it's ex pats or people that 436 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: they assume it's it's you know, ex Americans that you know, 437 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: former Americans that are living abroad. But when they wake 438 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: up in the morning all over Europe, the numbers spike 439 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: up on on my my show or for the the overnight, 440 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: which is early morning in you know, in the UK. 441 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: And I was like, well, that's kind of kind of bizarre, 442 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: but I guess it makes sense if you're from the 443 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: States and you just kind of want to get little 444 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: taste of home. You'll turn on some sports talk and 445 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: we're talking about all the bull crap that's going on 446 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: in American sports, and we're not talking about football. We're 447 00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: talking about football. You know. 448 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 4: It's Yeah, imagine hearing that heavy accent all day long. 449 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 4: Turn your show on, and all of a sudden you 450 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 4: hear weed man, hippie. 451 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, weed man, angry Bill, Doc Mike, the whole trifecta. So, yeah, 452 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: the industry is is nuts. I still haven't gotten over, Danny. 453 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: We used to have when you did remotes, we had 454 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 1: this thing called an ISDN line. It was a hard line, 455 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: hardwired line, and it was very reliable and worked wonderfully. 456 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: But now everything is pretty much done internet based, and 457 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: I still don't trust it, don't. I can't get over that. 458 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: It's my issue, Danny. I still don't trust them. I don't, 459 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: but everyone in the business. It's an industry standard now 460 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: to use this Wi Fi, but I still don't trust it. 461 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 4: Dealt with that for a few days this past week 462 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 4: with internet issues in the county that I live in. 463 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 4: And I'm all so old enough in radio to remember 464 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 4: when we did hard lines for the remotes. There was 465 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 4: one radio station where the general manager had this whole 466 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 4: system where there was like actual phone cable that was 467 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 4: rolled up and we had to find a phone jack 468 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 4: wherever we were broadcasting from the plug into. 469 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: Oh When I began, we would send out well, I 470 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: did reports. We do the reports over landlines, and I 471 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: like when I was a stringer at Dodger Stadium that 472 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: all started and I would call up at every fifteen 473 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: or twenty minutes or whatever and do an update from 474 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium on a landline, and you know, it's like, 475 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: who has a landline? I know nobody had a landlines. 476 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 1: What are you talking about landline? 477 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 2: Here? 478 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: You lost your mind, you old man. All right, let's 479 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: see your next one is from Stevo, he says, gentlemen, 480 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: I saw a news story this week. Chaos had descended 481 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: on a small town in South Carolina. He says. They 482 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: were over forty monkeys broke free from a research facility. 483 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: And I said, there's a large monkey breeder, one of 484 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: the biggest in the entire world. It's based in South Carolina. Ben, 485 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: I know you were in South Carolina not that long ago. 486 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,199 Speaker 1: What does this sound like to you? To me, it 487 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: sounds like a great documentary, is what it sounds like. Yeah, 488 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 1: the same people that made The Lion King can make 489 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: this right, or you know, the Tiger not the Lion King, 490 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: the Tiger King. Can you imagine a documentary about the 491 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: day that forty monkeys escape from a facility and like, 492 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: where did they go? Ye doing? 493 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 4: When you were talking about that story, I couldn't help 494 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 4: but picture Jerry Jones and his famous drop. 495 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: I am a monkey fan. 496 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: No, for sure. I think that's well, good for the monkeys. 497 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: I'll tell you a funny story about I don't know 498 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: if I've talked about this on the podcast or not, 499 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: but I grew up in Orange County, in Irvine, in 500 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: Orange County, SoCal and years and years ago from I 501 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: think it was the Santa Ana Zoo in Orange County, 502 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: there was a prison break of parrots, those exotic parrots. 503 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 3: I've heard this story before. 504 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I'm the one that told you, But they 505 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: escape from the Santa Ana Zoo and there was a 506 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: jail break. They all got out, and there are now 507 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: multiple generations of parrots flying around Orange County, California that 508 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: are the second third generation of that original escape from 509 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: from the zoo, and they've just they live in the 510 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: area and they fly around and people that live there 511 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: see them. They fly in the afternoons in the mornings, 512 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: and they fly in convoys around Orange County. Parrots, wild 513 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: parrots that escaped from and every one of the animals 514 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: in the zoo must look at those parrots and say, someday, 515 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: that's going to be me. Right, someday, I'm going to 516 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: escape the zoo and I'm going to be like those 517 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: beautiful parrots when they make their way around all right. 518 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: Last one on the mail bag. This one comes from David, 519 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: who is in Vegas. He listens every every Sunday, loves 520 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: the mail bag, or so he says, probably lying just 521 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: so i'd read this on the air. But David, good 522 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: luck it worked, And he says, you guys, being in 523 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: radio your entire career. I want to know what you 524 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 1: thought about the story this week that the AI radio 525 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: station turned out to be a complete disaster. So he 526 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,479 Speaker 1: sent me this. So this is from New York Times. 527 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: A state funded radio show in Poland could not find 528 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: an audience, right, so they listen. You know, we're gonna 529 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: do We're gonna experiment with AI hosts, and we're gonna 530 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: have all AI Hosts're gonna try to appeal the younger listeners. 531 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: You know, everyone wants that younger demo. They don't want 532 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: that younger demo. So they went to AI AI generated 533 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: gen z hosts and there was initially a little bit 534 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: of an uptick, but eventually the results are in and 535 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: it turns out it was a complete disaster and they 536 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: had great intentions. They painted the whole picture. This is 537 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: really great. The future of media AI blah blah blah blah, blah, 538 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: but yeah, I didn't. It turns out people actually like 539 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: human beings talking to them and not AI bots, so 540 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: it turned out to be a total debacle. And obviously, 541 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: I mean, this guy knows, Danny. We're we're pro human 542 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: that's a very controversial position. But we like human being 543 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: doing radio jobs and podcasting jobs. And I'm sure at 544 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: some point we'll all lose our jobs to AI, but 545 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: I'd like to think that we'll be long gone by 546 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: that by the time that happened. 547 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 4: And even if something like that were to come to 548 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 4: fruition in the future, if there are some broadcast owners 549 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 4: that said, you know what, let's do away with the 550 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 4: live people, they eventually I think would still have to 551 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 4: bring them back then because broadcasting companies have tried this 552 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 4: in the past and failed. 553 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 3: Let's just do all music. 554 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 4: Let's test that there were radio stations across the country 555 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 4: that experimented with just playing music, kind of like what 556 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 4: Pandora does nowadays. But Pandora is supposed to be without personalities, 557 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 4: that's supposed to just be a playlist. Radio is the relatability. 558 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 4: It is the warm feeling you get from feeling like 559 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 4: you're with a live human being. And that goes away, 560 00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 4: whether it's a robot AI recordings like VOICEO for stuff 561 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 4: that some radio stations try to trick listeners with, like 562 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 4: let me pre record something and pretend like it's live 563 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 4: on an FM music radio station. The listeners can sniff 564 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 4: that stuff out. 565 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, more now than ever. I'm right there with you. 566 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: And then the whole point, the advantage that we have 567 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 1: in radio. I say this all the time, and we're 568 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: twenty four hour shop. We never close is the fact 569 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: that at any moment, if you're by yourself and you're 570 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 1: driving on some deserted, dusty road down the Winnemucker Road, 571 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: if you will, and there's nobody around, and you want 572 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: to have a connection to another human being, if you 573 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: turn on a radio show, you can hear other human 574 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,959 Speaker 1: beings and you're not alone. On a podcast, like I mean, 575 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: we're doing podcasts now, we can do this whenever, right, 576 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: you know, of course this you know a week ago 577 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: and you never know. But on live radio it's a 578 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: much different communal experience. 579 00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 3: Yeah. 580 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 4: So in fact, this is last week. We don't even 581 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 4: know what happened in the election yet. 582 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, we actually did this about three months 583 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: ago and the joke's on you. 584 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,720 Speaker 2: This doesn't have the number one station anymore. 585 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: Is it? All right? We'll get out on that. I 586 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: am off tonight. I'm traveling back. I'm going to the 587 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: Chiefs game today, and there were no flights that would 588 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: get me back to LA in time to do the show. 589 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: Believe it or not. The flight you have to stop. 590 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,319 Speaker 1: You have to stop again on the way back. 591 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 3: What a slacker? How dare you take a day off? 592 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 1: I know, but I'm taking the first flight out on Monday, 593 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 1: and then I'll be back Monday and Tuesday on the 594 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,839 Speaker 1: radio show and probably be sleeping all day and all that. 595 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: And Danny, what do you have going on? 596 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 3: There's like an apool person beside it and another one inside, 597 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 3: and it has big guys that're looking at us. 598 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 4: Ben, look forward to a lot of conspiracy theories next 599 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 4: week on the podcast, because Alex is going to fill 600 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 4: in for me. What the wife and I decided to 601 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 4: do was not go on that Christmas cruise. It wasn't 602 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 4: in the cards. But our anniversary is coming up next weekend, 603 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 4: so we are going to instead go out of town 604 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 4: and celebrate our anniversary. 605 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: All right, Well, a happy anniversary to you. Danny and 606 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,760 Speaker 1: your wife, and hope you have a wonderful, wonderful time 607 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 1: and thank you. 608 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 4: Oh the conspiracy from Alex. What do you think he's 609 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 4: going to say about the election. I'm going to make 610 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 4: a prediction. He's going to say, Ben, this is the 611 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 4: last election that's ever going to happen in our country. 612 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 4: It's going to be a royal family. He's going to 613 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,439 Speaker 4: say that. Watch mark my words. 614 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: Baron Trump will be the next president of the United States. 615 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 3: I bet you he's going to say something like that. 616 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,320 Speaker 1: I can only I can only wait. So get your 617 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,800 Speaker 1: emails to the Vegan. Alex, the Vegan, the conspiracy theorist 618 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: will be in next weekend with me for at least 619 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: part of the weekend. Then Danny, I'll talk to you 620 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. Man, have a fun time 621 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you on this podcast next weekend. 622 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: And Daniel, I'll catch up with you next time you're on. 623 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 3: Thank you, brother. Aasta pasta gotta murder. I gotta go