Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everyway in a very happy, happy, happy
Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Sunday to you as we are chamouing on
Speaker 1: this glorious day here in NFL Sunday week number ten
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And I will be in
Speaker 1: attendance at one of the games today. As we are
Speaker 1: doing this. I am in can City on National Vanilla
Speaker 1: Cupcake Day, very specific holidays. National Vanilla Cupcake Day a
Speaker 1: very important day, and also Sesame Street Day today, Danny.
Speaker 1: I know it was very important for both of us
Speaker 1: growing up Sesame Street.
Speaker 3: And you are a big snuffle up a gift guy.
Speaker 1: I am, I am. I love snuffle love gus big
Speaker 1: military weekend as Veterans Day is tomorrow, it's US Marine
Speaker 1: Corps Day today. It's also it's the Marine Corps birthday today,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot going on. And as far as
Speaker 1: the Malar meet and greet, which was yesterday, as we
Speaker 1: normally like to point out Danny on this podcast, now,
Speaker 1: I sent some stuff out on the socials yesterday at
Speaker 1: the landing over in Liberty.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I saw pictures that looked like it was
Speaker 3: a good turnout.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I like to let this stuff breathe and
Speaker 1: kind of collect my thoughts. It's been a whirlwind this weekend,
Speaker 1: and in just a few minutes.
Speaker 4: They the real reason is you want content for next
Speaker 4: weekend's podcast.
Speaker 1: Exactly, And I'm saving content. I know Terry and England
Speaker 1: loves that. He always likes to point that out, how
Speaker 1: great it is. Always looks forward to me saving content
Speaker 1: for the following week. But yeah, so we'll have, you know,
Speaker 1: have some of the stories and I'll have more stories. Today.
Speaker 1: I'm going to the Chiefs game. They're playing the Broncos
Speaker 1: this afternoon at Arrowhead and I will be tailgating the tailgating.
Speaker 1: Danny begins, the gates open. I think it's seven thirty
Speaker 1: this morning, the gates open. So I again, no sleep,
Speaker 1: but I'm fine, you know, I'm having a good time.
Speaker 1: I'm having fun. Everyone's been very nice here since I
Speaker 1: got to town, and I'm just enjoying a rare and
Speaker 1: appropriate weekend away because I normally do not travel at all,
Speaker 1: especially since I've started doing the TV show the last
Speaker 1: couple of years during football season, don't do it. But
Speaker 1: I made the exception, so I'm going to enjoy the
Speaker 1: hell out of it. Today. I am going to consume.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big drinker, but I will be consuming
Speaker 1: large amounts of alcohol and barbecue today. That's the plan.
Speaker 1: At the game, we do have the mail bag. This
Speaker 1: is a mail bag podcast, Danny. But before we get
Speaker 1: to that, I wanted to do the Idiom of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you prepared for the idiom of the week?
Speaker 3: The idiom of the week?
Speaker 1: All right? This one came from p Air from Springfield,
Speaker 1: friend of Alf the Alien Opiner, and he said, how
Speaker 1: about cornering the market? Since I've heard that phrase. Wants
Speaker 1: to know about cornering the market? So for those of
Speaker 1: you in the back of the room, it's rather obvious,
Speaker 1: but maybe not. What does the raise corner of the
Speaker 1: market mean? Well, make a long story short, it essentially
Speaker 1: means in business. You've acquired enough of a company, like
Speaker 1: the shares of a company, to be able to manipulate
Speaker 1: the price of the company. Hence the name. The market
Speaker 1: is backed into a corner where there is no room
Speaker 1: to move because you have cornered the market, and the
Speaker 1: corner is as old as trade itself. And this is crazy, though,
Speaker 1: I thought, well, this is probably a phrase from like
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds or something like that. No, no, it
Speaker 1: goes all the way back to a Greek mathematician, and
Speaker 1: I believe the name is Thales. I believe is that
Speaker 1: how you pronounced it? Dan, You're a big Greek guy, mathematician,
Speaker 1: asked astro astronomer. Easier for me to say philosopher. And
Speaker 1: according to the legend, I think I just butt youered
Speaker 1: all this. But according to the legend Aristotle on you
Speaker 1: got that one right, Yeah, corner of the market on
Speaker 1: olive oil presses. And so this this goes back to
Speaker 1: ancient Greece and all that. And so this, this guy,
Speaker 1: the mathematician, was able to predict the upcoming large crop
Speaker 1: of olives, and he knew he'd done the math on this.
Speaker 1: He figured it out the rudimentary numbers. He figured it
Speaker 1: out correctly and decided to make the best of it.
Speaker 1: He raised a small sum of money. He paid deposits
Speaker 1: for the whole of the olive presses, and you know,
Speaker 1: hire them these other people at low rent. And when
Speaker 1: the season arrived, there was a sudden demand for these
Speaker 1: olive presses and he made a ton of money. It
Speaker 1: cornered the market. So the phrase cornered the market goes
Speaker 1: all the way up, all the way back to ancient Greece,
Speaker 1: and it involves Aristotle and then also a famed fellow
Speaker 1: Greek mathematician and philosopher who was involved with Aristotle. So
Speaker 1: for the idiom of the week, cornering the market, cornering
Speaker 1: the market.
Speaker 3: Idea, I was going to learn something.
Speaker 1: It's educational. It's a teachable moment.
Speaker 3: Danny.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the mailbag. What do you say you
Speaker 1: want to mail bag? We got the mail bag, right,
Speaker 1: it's this mail bag. Thank you very much, ohio Al,
Speaker 1: the legend that is the great ohio Al. And right
Speaker 1: to the mailbag we go. These are actual letters by
Speaker 1: actual listeners. You can send in your questions anytime. You
Speaker 1: can do it right now, you can do it tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you can do it the day after. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Just put mail bag or mail in the headline on
Speaker 1: the email that you send, and make sure to send
Speaker 1: it to Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's
Speaker 1: Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. First one, Mike
Speaker 1: in Fullerton writes, and he says, hello, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: in response to Louis in Delaware's question from last week's mailbag.
Speaker 1: I don't know about masshole, Mickey, but I'm convinced that
Speaker 1: Alf and Ferddog are both AI chat box and they
Speaker 1: aren't even good bots of that. Everything they say on
Speaker 1: the show is stupid. According to Mike and Fullerton, even
Speaker 1: their names are stupid. Alf's spin off the air for
Speaker 1: over thirty years. If I were you, Ben, I'd stop
Speaker 1: reading their tweets immediately. Not to go all third rail
Speaker 1: on you guys, but I'm curious how much election coverage
Speaker 1: you guys watched back on Tuesday. It worked out well
Speaker 1: that it was called a little before Ben's show came
Speaker 1: on the air. Mike says, so yeah, I'll go first.
Speaker 1: I was trying to find something to watch I get
Speaker 1: ready for the show, and I usually watch basketball. There
Speaker 1: was no basketball, God forbid, the NBA plays an election
Speaker 1: night because their fans are they're so stupid they can't
Speaker 1: watch a game and vote, so they cancel all the game.
Speaker 1: So I ended up watching the Bruins and the Maple
Speaker 1: Leafs and the Kings in the wild. I was flipping
Speaker 1: back and forth. Those games were co inciting for a
Speaker 1: fair amount of time, for a fair amount of time.
Speaker 1: But then after that ended, I did turn on the
Speaker 1: election coverage, and I had it on in the background,
Speaker 1: and I was putting monologues together, notes for monologues, and
Speaker 1: I'd look up every you know, every ten minutes or
Speaker 1: so and see what was going on. And I was
Speaker 1: flipping to the different news channels, and people were not
Speaker 1: we're not handling it very well. In some of those
Speaker 1: liberal outlets. They were freaking out. They were like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, this is not right. They're like, well, there's
Speaker 1: still time, you know. Not only but I did watch,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was I'm not a huge political guy,
Speaker 1: but I do enjoy the election coverage and the drama
Speaker 1: of it all. What about you, Danny.
Speaker 4: I brought back a present from the airplane and getting
Speaker 4: home from Seattle. You ever have those flights where it
Speaker 4: messes up the pressure in your head Oh yeah, in
Speaker 4: your ears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have terrible hearing. I mean my headphone and
Speaker 1: headphones have destroyed my earring. And yeah, I've got all
Speaker 1: kinds of issues.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wasn't feeling well. Not only was I coming
Speaker 4: off a busy weekend for work. When I got home,
Speaker 4: I just felt like I had been run over by
Speaker 4: a truck. So I was in bed Monday. I worked,
Speaker 4: but I went right back to sleep as soon as
Speaker 4: I got home. I did the same thing on Election
Speaker 4: Day and evening, so I'm laying in bed. I had
Speaker 4: the coverage on. I was flipping around to see how
Speaker 4: the different channels were covering it, and I fell asleep,
Speaker 4: like in a kind of under the weather days where
Speaker 4: you hear things and you start having dreams about what
Speaker 4: you're hearing on the TV.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you confuse dream land with reality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 4: And in my dream, Donald Trump was calling the network again, and.
Speaker 1: Buddy, that's right. You were friends with President Trump. That's right.
Speaker 3: Eh, Yeah, he voted for me. Remember to get a raise?
Speaker 1: Last question? Did you tell my producer Danny g that
Speaker 1: he deserved a raise when you called last time?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? I said, you get the president, but you really do.
Speaker 5: You have a great show, and he's a nice guy.
Speaker 5: But I said, you get the president of the phone,
Speaker 5: you deserve a raise. I haven't done too many of
Speaker 5: these calls lately.
Speaker 1: Now that he's president again, you should send him a
Speaker 1: letter and say, hey, by the way, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4: That the best he could do right now for broadcasters
Speaker 4: is to ask for us not to get laid off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: So I wake up out of the stupor, and it
Speaker 4: was perfect timing because they had just one of the
Speaker 4: networks had just called it. As I woke up, splashed
Speaker 4: some cold water on my face and brushed my teeth.
Speaker 4: Trump was going to come out for his speech, so
Speaker 4: I got to watch all of that unfold.
Speaker 1: Good timing, way to go, and I didn't. I was
Speaker 1: hoping we would get a concession speech that night, but
Speaker 1: we did not, so I had to I did. I didn't.
Speaker 1: That happened while I was I was sleeping the next day,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was a wild night, man, just
Speaker 1: a wild couple of days because he had all the
Speaker 1: usual suspects before the election, like oh yeah, Trump's gonna
Speaker 1: lose blah blah blah blah blah, and then obviously that
Speaker 1: did not happen.
Speaker 3: You fired.
Speaker 1: Ron from Florida writes some of the mail bag. He says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, how did you gen survive? Here would
Speaker 1: go again? A lot of political emails? My man third
Speaker 1: rail mo man. Ron says, how did you get you
Speaker 1: gen survive another? Election? Uh? Election cycle? So I I mean,
Speaker 1: we just talked about it, Ron, but it's pretty much
Speaker 1: just plug away, right, put one foot in front of
Speaker 1: the other, keep your head down, that kind of crap.
Speaker 1: And I did enjoy some of the insane stories that
Speaker 1: we got from this election cycle. The two that I
Speaker 1: loved the most were a large number of people the
Speaker 1: day of the election who googled did Joe Biden drop out?
Speaker 1: On election Day? You talk about not having a clue,
Speaker 1: right you met it is the day of the election,
Speaker 1: and you're like, did Joe Biden drop out of the election? Well?
Speaker 1: How else? Why else would his name not be on
Speaker 1: the ballot? Dummy? So that was pretty amusing.
Speaker 3: Those are the same people who ask you when is
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's the same crowd. And then my other story,
Speaker 1: which I love and it's a great way to rip
Speaker 1: the younger generation, which we both love so much. It's
Speaker 1: the number one pastime. Is this story that there were
Speaker 1: long delays in a lot of places because the younger voters,
Speaker 1: the eighteen plus voters that hadn't voted before eighteen, nineteen twenty,
Speaker 1: that didn't get to vote in the last presidential election,
Speaker 1: the younger voters did not know how to sign their
Speaker 1: name because they have not you know, they don't have
Speaker 1: to do that anymore in school. And so they couldn't
Speaker 1: sign the voter registry because they had never written their
Speaker 1: name out, or they didn't know how to write their
Speaker 1: name out, and you have to sign. You have to
Speaker 1: sign your name when you go in.
Speaker 3: They don't learn cursive yeah.
Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly, that's what you said. It better than me.
Speaker 1: But so they didn't know how to sign their name
Speaker 1: in cursive writing, and so it became this whole to
Speaker 1: do and which is just perfect. You talk about the
Speaker 1: zeitgeist of the times, say, then, I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: you're on your phone all the time, you're on computers.
Speaker 1: You know, we're dinosaurs, Danny. We had to learn how
Speaker 1: to write with a pen and use a typewriter, not
Speaker 1: a computer, a typewriter. But that's just so hilarious to
Speaker 1: me that at places across the country, from from Maine
Speaker 1: to Hawaii, the kids were like, I don't know, you
Speaker 1: want me to sign my name. I don't know what
Speaker 1: are I supposed to do? I just sign my name
Speaker 1: Kevin in Texas Rights And he says, Ben, you had
Speaker 1: said sarcastically on this podcast you do with Danny that
Speaker 1: you expected writing after the election, why didn't we get
Speaker 1: the mass looting Kevin from Texas? I think we covered
Speaker 1: this earlier, Danny, But I am surprised. I thought that
Speaker 1: we would see I'm happy that we didn't. We saw
Speaker 1: more violence after the Dodgers won the World Series? Am
Speaker 1: I correct in saying that than we did after the
Speaker 1: presidential election? Which is surprising?
Speaker 3: Control, wasn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And I think it's because the Weienioles and whoever else
Speaker 4: might have voted for Kamala. They were crying on their keyboards.
Speaker 4: I don't think they were going to go out and
Speaker 4: do anything in the streets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's it's great. I mean, I'm obviously I
Speaker 1: love it. I think it's ridiculous burning stuff down because
Speaker 1: your favorite political hero didn't win. I think the whole
Speaker 1: thing's absurd, and it is a rather large upset that
Speaker 1: I didn't I haven't seen the numbers the last couple
Speaker 1: of days, but I at last I checked Trump. I
Speaker 1: don't think all the voting totals are even in yet,
Speaker 1: but Trump, I think he won the popular vote. He
Speaker 1: was winning the popular vote, which is now that is stunning.
Speaker 1: That is that's a that's a bigger upset since remember
Speaker 1: one University Maryland, Baltimore County and Farley Dickinson, those sixteen
Speaker 1: seeds won in the NCAA tournament. Like that, that's like
Speaker 1: that big an upset to me, a sixteen seed beating
Speaker 1: a one that Trump ended up winning the popular vote.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Mike and Iowa writes, and he says, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny, do you think these celebrities and athletes like
Speaker 1: Lebron James are feeling like they failed because they endorsed
Speaker 1: the loser people did not list some of them and
Speaker 1: vote for their candidate in the presidential election. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of political email this week day. It's almost
Speaker 1: like people are more concerned about the election than they
Speaker 1: are anything sporty. I guess, so, yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think this is gonna what do you think that.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is going to change how athletes
Speaker 1: approach this kind of stuff. I mean, my belief is
Speaker 1: when you reach a certain level of celebrity like lebron
Speaker 1: and to a lesser degree some of the Hollywood people,
Speaker 1: that you live in a different dimension. You're not in
Speaker 1: the same world we're in. They're in a bubble and
Speaker 1: they're insulated from the real world and they live in
Speaker 1: a different universe, and they hang out with people who
Speaker 1: share their ideology and their dogma and all that, and
Speaker 1: and so they're convinced that they have all the power,
Speaker 1: and obviously they don't. Right otherwise, I mean, then the media,
Speaker 1: then the celebrities, the election would have come out differently.
Speaker 4: Well, the celebrities can't relate to our day to day lives.
Speaker 4: I saw Beyonce posting stuff on social media and the
Speaker 4: first comment are underneath her post for Harris said, what
Speaker 4: the hell are you talking about? You haven't been to
Speaker 4: the grocery store in decades. You don't know what the
Speaker 4: hell's going out there, and you got paid ten million
Speaker 4: dollars to side with who you're siding with. I don't
Speaker 4: know if that checks out or not. That she got paid,
Speaker 4: But you know, I take it with a grain of salt.
Speaker 4: Who cares what a rich celebrity says about politics?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm right there with you. And
Speaker 1: I'm at the point now I'm old enough, like I'm
Speaker 1: kind of grown up. I guess I still talk about
Speaker 1: sports for a living, but I'm kind of growing up.
Speaker 1: And I know what I like in life and what
Speaker 1: I don't like in life. And I know what I
Speaker 1: want to have happened and what I don't want to
Speaker 1: have happened. And I don't need Lebron James or anyone
Speaker 1: else for that matter to tell me. And I do
Speaker 1: think it's very pretentious. In fact, I saw I think
Speaker 1: it was Aaron Rodgers this week. I did one of
Speaker 1: his paid interviews with Pat McAfee, and he was mocking
Speaker 1: the celebrity endorsements like Lebron and whatnot. And I think
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of where I am on it. Like
Speaker 1: I think we agree we're in lockstep when it comes
Speaker 1: to that. Oh me, since he Tommy writes in he says, uh,
Speaker 1: here Benny the Brazen and Danny Ganja the Wife and
Speaker 1: I finally tried raising canes this past weekend, and one
Speaker 1: word sums it up. Amazing. Amazing is the word that
Speaker 1: since he Tommy said, whodos to you, gentlemen for speaking
Speaker 1: of the deliciousness that is raising canes. Tommy says, I
Speaker 1: told the girl at the pickup window that Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: sent us, and she said who who? I quickly explained
Speaker 1: to who you are, and she said she'd give your
Speaker 1: show a try. Just out there repping your show and
Speaker 1: packing my grill with amazing dummy chicken fingers. Have a
Speaker 1: great day, gentleman. Who day from Sincy Tommy. The Bengals
Speaker 1: planned back, of course, on Thursday against the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: So there you go, Danny, we got a guy to
Speaker 1: go to Keynes. We should we should have Keynes as
Speaker 1: an advertiser or something like that. Come on, buy some
Speaker 1: spots on the podcast. All right, I want my chicken
Speaker 1: is one of those birds going.
Speaker 3: Damn you?
Speaker 1: All right, mass whole Mickey. He is next on the
Speaker 1: mail bag and he's he said he was riding this
Speaker 1: while he was waiting for the Boston Globe truck to arrive,
Speaker 1: and he always listens to our podcast, and he did
Speaker 1: confirm here massle Mickey Danny that if everything goes well
Speaker 1: and the TV show gets picked up that he knows
Speaker 1: people and I can end up going to Wooster, about
Speaker 1: a forty five minute trip west of Boston and throw
Speaker 1: out the first pitch at a at a minor league
Speaker 1: baseball and that'd be awesome.
Speaker 3: You mean throw out one of your lollipop pitches.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what you say, Danny, But listen, I am
Speaker 1: a veteran of the first pitch honors. It is a
Speaker 1: tremendous honor to throw out the first pitch, and I
Speaker 1: will put on a show. Well I bring back the
Speaker 1: lollipop curb. I don't know. Maybe I'll throw a knuckleball,
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll throw a fastball. Who knows. And Mickey also
Speaker 1: says there's a.
Speaker 3: Great maybe you look like one of the neat Crow brothers.
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 1: That is a cancel drop? So anyway, mass whole, Mickey says,
Speaker 1: there's a speak easy there. He says, it's a tell
Speaker 1: vernon where Babe Ruth used to drink during prohibition times.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool, right, that's awesome. Go to a
Speaker 1: bar that Babe Ruth got hammered at during prohibition? Can
Speaker 1: you imagine they tried prohibition again today on like anything.
Speaker 1: How how ineffective that would be, right? I mean, the
Speaker 1: fact that they were able to do it for several
Speaker 1: years when they did is rather crazy. But imagine you're.
Speaker 4: Telling you what my telling you what my new job
Speaker 4: would be. I'd be a bootlegger.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well I heard stories when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and maybe it was my grandparents making it up, but
Speaker 1: they lived through prohibition and in LA what they would
Speaker 1: do is they'd all go on to a boat and
Speaker 1: they'd go out into international waters and just get hammered.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a drinking boat because you couldn't
Speaker 1: drink legally here. But if you're out how many I
Speaker 1: think we've had this conversation before, But how many miles
Speaker 1: is international waters? It's a certain number of miles off
Speaker 1: the coast. But you go out there and you're done.
Speaker 1: You're good. Do whatever you want, gamble, you can drink
Speaker 1: and do all kinds of debauchery out international waters. Alf
Speaker 1: from the future or is it the past? He says, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: did you ever envision a future in radio where you
Speaker 1: would be broadcasting remotely or producing for talent in a
Speaker 1: far away studio from weekend overnights to weekday overnight's, periscope,
Speaker 1: videos to YouTube and all things in between. It's hard
Speaker 1: to believe that in the last twenty years how media
Speaker 1: has changed, especially since the invention of the smartphone and
Speaker 1: social media. So he says, alf, well, yeah, absolutely, it's insane.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was in my early days in
Speaker 1: radio and Mike Thompson was the boss. He came up
Speaker 1: to me and I was working local radio in LA.
Speaker 1: We got covered up a lot by Dodger baseball and
Speaker 1: we were doing a show in the evening and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers played during the summer every night pretty much when
Speaker 1: we were on, so we weren't on very often. And
Speaker 1: my boss is like, listen, there's this thing we want
Speaker 1: to try to do. We're going to have you do
Speaker 1: your show, but it'll just be broadcast on the internet
Speaker 1: like a podcast. And we both looked at him like
Speaker 1: he was speaking Chinese, like you what are you Chinese? Russian?
Speaker 1: What is that? And he's like no, no, So we
Speaker 1: didn't test it out. It's new technology, and at that time,
Speaker 1: everyone and their mother was listening to to the radio
Speaker 1: and nobody was listening to streaming music. I think at
Speaker 1: that time, maybe what was that what was that thing?
Speaker 1: The streaming service was just getting going? What was that
Speaker 1: music one? The Napster I think it was. Was it
Speaker 1: called Napster? I think that was it. Yeah, Napster, I
Speaker 1: think it was around that time, but it was it
Speaker 1: was still kind of a new thing and not everyone
Speaker 1: was aware of it and was it legal? Is it
Speaker 1: not legal? And all that stuff. So we were like,
Speaker 1: you're nuts, what are you talking about? And we never
Speaker 1: actually ended up doing it, But now we have such
Speaker 1: a large aunt. The numbers on the Fox Sports radio
Speaker 1: channel on iHeart, which is the largest streaming service in America,
Speaker 1: if not the world. There are how many different channels
Speaker 1: are there on the iHeartRadio I don't know, like fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's something like two thousand.
Speaker 1: Two thousand, and Fox Sports Radio is in the top
Speaker 1: five every single time the ratings come out on iHeart,
Speaker 1: we're in the top five out of two thousand channels.
Speaker 4: That is insane And that's why we haven't been laid
Speaker 4: off in radio yet.
Speaker 1: Thank god, people are actually listening, which is great, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know what I I I love that. I was
Speaker 1: talking to some of the guys in the the I
Speaker 1: T Department, the social media team at Fox and and
Speaker 1: they were telling me that we knew very well on
Speaker 1: my show with people waking up in Europe and whether
Speaker 1: they don't know whether it's ex pats or people that
Speaker 1: they assume it's it's you know, ex Americans that you know,
Speaker 1: former Americans that are living abroad. But when they wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning all over Europe, the numbers spike
Speaker 1: up on on my my show or for the the overnight,
Speaker 1: which is early morning in you know, in the UK.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, that's kind of kind of bizarre,
Speaker 1: but I guess it makes sense if you're from the
Speaker 1: States and you just kind of want to get little
Speaker 1: taste of home. You'll turn on some sports talk and
Speaker 1: we're talking about all the bull crap that's going on
Speaker 1: in American sports, and we're not talking about football. We're
Speaker 1: talking about football. You know.
Speaker 4: It's Yeah, imagine hearing that heavy accent all day long.
Speaker 4: Turn your show on, and all of a sudden you
Speaker 4: hear weed man, hippie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, weed man, angry Bill, Doc Mike, the whole trifecta. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: the industry is is nuts. I still haven't gotten over, Danny.
Speaker 1: We used to have when you did remotes, we had
Speaker 1: this thing called an ISDN line. It was a hard line,
Speaker 1: hardwired line, and it was very reliable and worked wonderfully.
Speaker 1: But now everything is pretty much done internet based, and
Speaker 1: I still don't trust it, don't. I can't get over that.
Speaker 1: It's my issue, Danny. I still don't trust them. I don't,
Speaker 1: but everyone in the business. It's an industry standard now
Speaker 1: to use this Wi Fi, but I still don't trust it.
Speaker 4: Dealt with that for a few days this past week
Speaker 4: with internet issues in the county that I live in.
Speaker 4: And I'm all so old enough in radio to remember
Speaker 4: when we did hard lines for the remotes. There was
Speaker 4: one radio station where the general manager had this whole
Speaker 4: system where there was like actual phone cable that was
Speaker 4: rolled up and we had to find a phone jack
Speaker 4: wherever we were broadcasting from the plug into.
Speaker 1: Oh When I began, we would send out well, I
Speaker 1: did reports. We do the reports over landlines, and I
Speaker 1: like when I was a stringer at Dodger Stadium that
Speaker 1: all started and I would call up at every fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty minutes or whatever and do an update from
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium on a landline, and you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: who has a landline? I know nobody had a landlines.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about landline?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: You lost your mind, you old man. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see your next one is from Stevo, he says, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I saw a news story this week. Chaos had descended
Speaker 1: on a small town in South Carolina. He says. They
Speaker 1: were over forty monkeys broke free from a research facility.
Speaker 1: And I said, there's a large monkey breeder, one of
Speaker 1: the biggest in the entire world. It's based in South Carolina. Ben,
Speaker 1: I know you were in South Carolina not that long ago.
Speaker 1: What does this sound like to you? To me, it
Speaker 1: sounds like a great documentary, is what it sounds like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the same people that made The Lion King can make
Speaker 1: this right, or you know, the Tiger not the Lion King,
Speaker 1: the Tiger King. Can you imagine a documentary about the
Speaker 1: day that forty monkeys escape from a facility and like,
Speaker 1: where did they go? Ye doing?
Speaker 4: When you were talking about that story, I couldn't help
Speaker 4: but picture Jerry Jones and his famous drop.
Speaker 3: I am a monkey fan.
Speaker 1: No, for sure. I think that's well, good for the monkeys.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a funny story about I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've talked about this on the podcast or not,
Speaker 1: but I grew up in Orange County, in Irvine, in
Speaker 1: Orange County, SoCal and years and years ago from I
Speaker 1: think it was the Santa Ana Zoo in Orange County,
Speaker 1: there was a prison break of parrots, those exotic parrots.
Speaker 3: I've heard this story before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I'm the one that told you, But they
Speaker 1: escape from the Santa Ana Zoo and there was a
Speaker 1: jail break. They all got out, and there are now
Speaker 1: multiple generations of parrots flying around Orange County, California that
Speaker 1: are the second third generation of that original escape from
Speaker 1: from the zoo, and they've just they live in the
Speaker 1: area and they fly around and people that live there
Speaker 1: see them. They fly in the afternoons in the mornings,
Speaker 1: and they fly in convoys around Orange County. Parrots, wild
Speaker 1: parrots that escaped from and every one of the animals
Speaker 1: in the zoo must look at those parrots and say, someday,
Speaker 1: that's going to be me. Right, someday, I'm going to
Speaker 1: escape the zoo and I'm going to be like those
Speaker 1: beautiful parrots when they make their way around all right.
Speaker 1: Last one on the mail bag. This one comes from David,
Speaker 1: who is in Vegas. He listens every every Sunday, loves
Speaker 1: the mail bag, or so he says, probably lying just
Speaker 1: so i'd read this on the air. But David, good
Speaker 1: luck it worked, And he says, you guys, being in
Speaker 1: radio your entire career. I want to know what you
Speaker 1: thought about the story this week that the AI radio
Speaker 1: station turned out to be a complete disaster. So he
Speaker 1: sent me this. So this is from New York Times.
Speaker 1: A state funded radio show in Poland could not find
Speaker 1: an audience, right, so they listen. You know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do We're gonna experiment with AI hosts, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have all AI Hosts're gonna try to appeal the younger listeners.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone wants that younger demo. They don't want
Speaker 1: that younger demo. So they went to AI AI generated
Speaker 1: gen z hosts and there was initially a little bit
Speaker 1: of an uptick, but eventually the results are in and
Speaker 1: it turns out it was a complete disaster and they
Speaker 1: had great intentions. They painted the whole picture. This is
Speaker 1: really great. The future of media AI blah blah blah blah, blah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I didn't. It turns out people actually like
Speaker 1: human beings talking to them and not AI bots, so
Speaker 1: it turned out to be a total debacle. And obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy knows, Danny. We're we're pro human
Speaker 1: that's a very controversial position. But we like human being
Speaker 1: doing radio jobs and podcasting jobs. And I'm sure at
Speaker 1: some point we'll all lose our jobs to AI, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to think that we'll be long gone by
Speaker 1: that by the time that happened.
Speaker 4: And even if something like that were to come to
Speaker 4: fruition in the future, if there are some broadcast owners
Speaker 4: that said, you know what, let's do away with the
Speaker 4: live people, they eventually I think would still have to
Speaker 4: bring them back then because broadcasting companies have tried this
Speaker 4: in the past and failed.
Speaker 3: Let's just do all music.
Speaker 4: Let's test that there were radio stations across the country
Speaker 4: that experimented with just playing music, kind of like what
Speaker 4: Pandora does nowadays. But Pandora is supposed to be without personalities,
Speaker 4: that's supposed to just be a playlist. Radio is the relatability.
Speaker 4: It is the warm feeling you get from feeling like
Speaker 4: you're with a live human being. And that goes away,
Speaker 4: whether it's a robot AI recordings like VOICEO for stuff
Speaker 4: that some radio stations try to trick listeners with, like
Speaker 4: let me pre record something and pretend like it's live
Speaker 4: on an FM music radio station. The listeners can sniff
Speaker 4: that stuff out.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, more now than ever. I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: And then the whole point, the advantage that we have
Speaker 1: in radio. I say this all the time, and we're
Speaker 1: twenty four hour shop. We never close is the fact
Speaker 1: that at any moment, if you're by yourself and you're
Speaker 1: driving on some deserted, dusty road down the Winnemucker Road,
Speaker 1: if you will, and there's nobody around, and you want
Speaker 1: to have a connection to another human being, if you
Speaker 1: turn on a radio show, you can hear other human
Speaker 1: beings and you're not alone. On a podcast, like I mean,
Speaker 1: we're doing podcasts now, we can do this whenever, right,
Speaker 1: you know, of course this you know a week ago
Speaker 1: and you never know. But on live radio it's a
Speaker 1: much different communal experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So in fact, this is last week. We don't even
Speaker 4: know what happened in the election yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, we actually did this about three months
Speaker 1: ago and the joke's on you.
Speaker 2: This doesn't have the number one station anymore.
Speaker 1: Is it? All right? We'll get out on that. I
Speaker 1: am off tonight. I'm traveling back. I'm going to the
Speaker 1: Chiefs game today, and there were no flights that would
Speaker 1: get me back to LA in time to do the show.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. The flight you have to stop.
Speaker 1: You have to stop again on the way back.
Speaker 3: What a slacker? How dare you take a day off?
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm taking the first flight out on Monday,
Speaker 1: and then I'll be back Monday and Tuesday on the
Speaker 1: radio show and probably be sleeping all day and all that.
Speaker 1: And Danny, what do you have going on?
Speaker 3: There's like an apool person beside it and another one inside,
Speaker 3: and it has big guys that're looking at us.
Speaker 4: Ben, look forward to a lot of conspiracy theories next
Speaker 4: week on the podcast, because Alex is going to fill
Speaker 4: in for me. What the wife and I decided to
Speaker 4: do was not go on that Christmas cruise. It wasn't
Speaker 4: in the cards. But our anniversary is coming up next weekend,
Speaker 4: so we are going to instead go out of town
Speaker 4: and celebrate our anniversary.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, a happy anniversary to you. Danny and
Speaker 1: your wife, and hope you have a wonderful, wonderful time
Speaker 1: and thank you.
Speaker 4: Oh the conspiracy from Alex. What do you think he's
Speaker 4: going to say about the election. I'm going to make
Speaker 4: a prediction. He's going to say, Ben, this is the
Speaker 4: last election that's ever going to happen in our country.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a royal family. He's going to
Speaker 4: say that. Watch mark my words.
Speaker 1: Baron Trump will be the next president of the United States.
Speaker 3: I bet you he's going to say something like that.
Speaker 1: I can only I can only wait. So get your
Speaker 1: emails to the Vegan. Alex, the Vegan, the conspiracy theorist
Speaker 1: will be in next weekend with me for at least
Speaker 1: part of the weekend. Then Danny, I'll talk to you
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. Man, have a fun time
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you on this podcast next weekend.
Speaker 1: And Daniel, I'll catch up with you next time you're on.
Speaker 3: Thank you, brother. Aasta pasta gotta murder. I gotta go