WEBVTT - Pilot 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.680 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.320 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.520 old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.040 in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.560 poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of hot takes break 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.400 free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:33.080 starts right now, a podcast about a podcast. Your dreams 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.519 have come try. We are in the air everywhere the 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:41.240 vast power of my heart and the global reach of podcasting, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.960 or so I'm told. Anyway, this is the maiden voyage 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:50.080 of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, and it is here. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.400 It is finally here. And the reason we're doing this 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.960 is because four hours are not enough. Clearly, four hours 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.760 of the Overnight Show or not enough. But this is 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.440 not a radio show. This is not a Rao show 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.400 at all. But this is literally going to be a 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.759 podcast about a podcast, and we will have Benny versus 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.920 the Penny on a separate standalone podcast on this particular thing. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.199 You probably already saw it if you've gone to this 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.959 this particular show. Um, so just kind of walk you 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.559 through what's gonna happen here, and I went to school. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.720 I didn't pay very much attention when I was in school, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.280 but one of the things and I took part of 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.240 was the who, what, where, when, why and how. You're 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.760 basic journalism one on one, Who what, where, when, why 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.600 and how? And so I will walk you through that 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.760 to who, what, where, when, why and how, even though 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.160 you already are here and clearly you are buying in 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.160 to the nonsense that we're doing. Who that would be me, 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:51.000 Ben Hi, hello friend? Uh And And I didn't say 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.760 this person's name because he is such a controversial person, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.080 this particular person who will be with me on this. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.400 I didn't want to jump the gun because I know 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.600 people have been the malle Militia and our vicious Now 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.480 I did essentially spell out who this person is. So 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.480 if you, if you, unless you're a complete dope, you 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.280 knew exactly who this is without even saying his name. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:16.360 David Gascon is going to be so good. You're not 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.720 my right hand man, Gaston, You're my left hand man. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.799 You know that, right I'm left handed, So it actually 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.960 works out perfectly for me. You know what it is, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.320 It's like you are the Bruce Wayne and I'm to 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.800 you as Batman is and you are the heel. You 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.800 are offecially known in the I Heart media building as Gagon, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.800 you are known as the con man. Uh, you are 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.880 known as that. And but we use this podcast, uh 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.760 and we'll we'll, we'll do get out. I am concerned 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.919 of this podcast even gets up guest on because when 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.720 you filled in for Coop when he was on a 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.880 European vacation last time, as I recall, my inbox filled 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.320 up with people upset because they had issues. Well, so 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.280 are you are you actually gonna get this up on 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.799 the internet. Well, let's be clear though. The first thing 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.959 on this is that you specifically said on the fifth 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.840 hour with Ben Mallory teaser that this podcast would be 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.480 better than the radio version of what you Do Monday 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.280 through Friday. So that in itself is not only an 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.160 indictment on the listeners that complain about me, but it's 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.359 more of a compliment to me because you know, at 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.079 the back end guy on all of this, I will 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.160 make this thing look pristine as we go good night. Well, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.640 you are what we call a volatile person. That is 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.560 what we call you, and so I know we will 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.720 find out if people listen. You know, I've been told 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.880 I just I mentioned your name. I didn't say your name, 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.960 but I hinted around that you're gonna be on the show, 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:41.440 and I had people I can't listen. I'm upset. I fact, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.800 in fact, I got an email. We will read later, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.880 the reading of the email coming up later. But anyway, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.880 we're doing the who what where went away? You're already 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.200 distracting the gas the who is us? All right? The 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:57.880 what this brand? Smanking new? I heart original podcast? How 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.400 cool does that sound? Uh? And it's more so gonna 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.520 be about sports, gamily. But that's that's Benny versus the penny, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.360 and that will be for the next twenty weeks or 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.200 whatever through the super Bowl, whatever the timeline on that is. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.840 And then we'll have pop culture, well behind the curtain 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.000 on the radio show. You know what they call that, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.760 gust on inside Baseball, Inside Baseball, we'll do we'll do 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.720 some of that, uh, you know, non non sports stuff. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.920 We don't have to stick to the sports on a 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.600 podcast and talk about whatever it is interesting here. And 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.479 the cool thing about this is that we it can grow, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.320 it can evolve. It's like a living thing, and we 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.640 can do different things that interviews occasionally with friends of 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.040 the Mallard Militia. We could. I'd even be willing Guestcot. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.080 I know you hate the Mallard Militia, but I'd be 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.920 willing to like hang out for like five good minutes 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:51.960 with uh, somebody like Chris in Houston, maybe Mark the 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.120 full name, got somebody like you know, just to hang out, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.360 you know, catch up with them and uh find out 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.120 a little bit about them and stuff like that. The 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.880 people out on the other side of the radio they call, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.360 and so I'm open to doing that kind of and see. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.120 Unlike you, I actually spent some quality time with a 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.360 listener of your show, Blind Scott. We spent about it. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:09.719 I thought you were gonna name I thought you were 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.560 gonna name a different list No, no, but she will 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.560 come later on. But alright, and I have five six 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.680 hours traveling through Boston. Sharon some bears some great stories. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.640 So this is good. I will see this. Though this 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.800 is not an authentic fit that with Ben Maller podcast 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:31.599 until use some colorful language and that bottle needs to 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.200 be cracked. Well, we will do that. I would I 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.560 throwing the who, what where when I've already done the 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.800 who and the what I have to get to the where, when, why, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.120 and how? I think we'll waiting on you. Alright, So 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:46.040 so the where is the I Heart original podcast riches 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.760 where we are right now, and it's gonna be heard weekly. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.160 We're gonna drop this thing weekly, which means I we 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.920 we've better put them out there. We might have to 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.800 do some evergreen ones from time to time, see if 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.360 people can figure that out. But we will have a 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.719 weekly podcast, come hell or high water here on the 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.640 I Heart Podcast network, and it's available wherever you get 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.719 your podcast. You don't have to just listen on I Heart. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.279 You can listen on uh the you know, the apps. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.599 Now we're supposed to promote I Heart because the company 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.560 likes that, but there you can. People get podcasts on 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.359 different places. But I believe I'm told it's available everywhere. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:23.040 Maybe they lied to me. But what's iTunes? I too? Yeah, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.640 I'm I'm a big iTunes guy. Um. Somebody who was 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.680 complaining they love Spotify. I'm not really a Spotify guy. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.120 I don't much about that, but I do listen to 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.400 a decent amount of podcast uh you know, but I'm 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.360 a radio guy at my soul. I'm a radio guy. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.000 Myself when the podcast. I think I mentioned this Aredo, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.719 it is gonna drop Friday's so it'll be available in 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.640 addition to the Friday Show Overnight. Boy, that's a full 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.359 weekend of entertainment. Guest, your people are gonna overdose on 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.640 on the show. Well, it's good because if you get 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.920 listeners that like, let's say in Los Angeles or San Francisco, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.279 New York, and they're typically stuck in ninety minutes worth 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.679 the traffic when they have to commute tent to teen miles, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.920 this will consume their entire trip. There you go, yeah, exactly, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.520 And you know on the on the weekend, who wants 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.400 to spend time with their families and stuff, you can listen. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.760 And we got one thing about the third shift man, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.920 these guys work their ass off overnight. I mean a 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.800 lot of these guys are working in six seven days 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.960 a week. They don't have any days off, so they're 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.120 you know, looking for stuff to listen to. So so 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.800 we're gonna do it every Friday, and we'll at least 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.320 have one a week. I think I imagine guests, Gunn, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.840 you're gonna want to because you're an egomaniac. Um so 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.160 we'll probably do two a week, but every Friday and 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.840 the hy Uh very simply. I I have considered doing 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.920 this kind of thing, this kind of podcast for years. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.520 I had no time. I was doing the show at Fox, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.800 which I'm still doing. I was moonlighting. I was double 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.680 dipping at w e I, the great sports talker in 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.720 Boston for almost two years. Had a fun time doing that. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.120 It was crazy, it was wild, it was fun. The 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.960 station was nuts. So the uh, the Patriots were great, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.000 the Red Sox won the World Series and all this stuff, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.880 and it happened to happen coincide against my my team's 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.000 the Red Sox beat the Dodgers and the Patriots beat 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.640 the Rams. So but anyway, Uh, we changed. The affiliates 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.160 were very excited to be on the sports tub and 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.240 Boston on the overnight show. It's a great radio stations, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.040 probably the number one radio station the entire country as 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.120 far as listenership. But that man, I had to give 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.200 up the w e I job, so I had more 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.320 free time. Uh, here we are and I talked to 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.640 the company. They were interested, and we have the deal 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.240 in place, and how we are doing this through the 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.880 very expensive broadcast studios of the premier networks, the same 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.319 place that like Steve Harvey and Rush Limbaugh and all 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.319 these big shots work at. And so we've got We 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.079 even had an engineer come in to make sure our 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.520 guy Ciras came in to make sure that this sounds good. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.760 You know that's great. Uh. And so we will mix 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.600 in just like the Overnight Show, a proper amounts of sarcasm, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.840 snark and satire and you have to figure out which 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.199 is which, Which is sarcasm, which is snark, which satire 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.440 and which is actually real. So we have all that 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.840 and guess con, I'm very competitive. I don't know if 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.360 you know that. I'm very competiant to beat everyone. So 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.199 I'm looking here. This is this podcast stand alone podcast 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.160 is new to me. So who are we competing against? 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.160 I looked on the I heart side. They have the 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.200 top most popular podcast. Here's our competition. We're gonna have 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.199 to take down Ron Burgundy. We're gonna have to take 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.280 down Ron Bergen. He is podcast is very probate. Joe Rogan, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.720 Joe that Joe Rogan experience has no idea what's coming. Uh. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.320 Of course he has no idea who we are. But 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.040 we we are going to. I mean, this is this 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.400 is our competition. Doctor Death. I don't even know who 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.400 the doctor you ever heard of the Doctor Death podcast? 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:44.560 Apparently it's popular the Atlanta Monster, which who is the 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.280 is that? I don't know who the Atlanta Monster would be. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.720 I'm trying to think of an athlete, but I don't 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:55.000 think anymore right now in Atlanta. Wow, Well it's appropriate. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.079 Come on, it's not dated reference, you know, but it's appropriated. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.960 Who else we are the orders on here boy Cowherd? 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.640 We are taking down the Cowherd network unless we're not. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.559 Uh see what else do we have that The Ted Hour? 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.600 You ever listen to those Ted Hours? Those sometimes are 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.280 pretty good. There's a lot of intellectual nonsense, but every 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.320 once in a while they give you some good information. Yeah, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.079 I will say that's the lead guy that you mentioned 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:20.680 on this is as a colleague is a part of 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.439 the I Heart radio platform. So we're competing against everyone. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.880 It seems like on this podcast endeavor that we're on. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.480 it's it's eating our own is what we're doing. So 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.120 it's excited. I'm excited about that, and uh, listen to 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.400 the people have been very loyal here. The reason we're 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.119 able to do. This is because the radio show podcast 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.640 does very well, and so they figured, hey, if you 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.839 actually convinced people to listen to that crap, you can 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.680 serve more crap and they'll probably eat it as well. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.600 Uh And and anyway, and moving on, we we get lighters, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.280 we get letters. Uh and that's right. Even on the 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.640 fifth hour with Ben Mally we get letters. Now, for example, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.840 one of the drawbacks, and I do believe this, one 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.160 of the drawbacks to the podcast platform is that we 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.720 cannot get real time feedback. I mean it's impossible, right 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:16.320 because this is obviously you know, spoiler Alert been recorded 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.160 at some point and it's available on demand, which is 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:20.840 cool that you can listen whenever you want here the 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.240 whole show and all that stuff. But one of the 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.240 downsides is, uh, like for years on the Overnight Show, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:26.800 one of the things that we do that we're very 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:31.200 proud of is we've consistently gotten immediate feedback from the 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.280 peanut gallery, the upper balcony of the show, the guys 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.760 that are working in the grocery stores and driving trucks 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.760 and stuff and security who let us know what is 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.839 good and what's back. We get that immediate feedback. Uh 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.880 and and so I would like to incorporate some of 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.040 that on the podcast, because this is the podcast about 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.880 the podcast, the Maiden Voyage of the Fifth Hour. So 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.520 we'd like you to gree So I was thinking, and 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.720 I'm just kind of brainstorming here, guest, like we could 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.680 do you know, the good, the bad, the ugly. We will. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.480 We'll give out the email and the social media channels 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.000 and all that and we will have you great us. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.600 Like what you think of the party is what can 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.760 be better on the party, which is very dangerous, very 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.280 you want to open up that kind of worms. Well, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.160 I mean yeah, I'll just ignore the negative stuff and 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.960 the positive stuff I'll watch on. Okay, so you're on 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.600 record by saying you're gonna ignore the negative stuffs. That 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.120 means any kind of shots that are taking at me 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.680 as you lay me underneath the bus very gently and softly. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.600 You ignore those. Well, no, no, no, those those I 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.720 will make sure to get on the air. Yes you are. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.680 You are a punching bag. You are the pinata and 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.760 you don't even realize you're the pinata. Um so, but 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.200 but anyway, listen, we will also make same We're gonna 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.840 have a feature. I think we should call it, although 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.320 it's tentative. It's in the bag or it's in you know, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.800 in the bag, which is like a mail bag, right, 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.560 because this is the way to do we can't really 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.960 you know, social media. I guess we can include social media, 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.760 but it's you know, the cheap rip off version of 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.120 what we do on the Overnight Show. Ask Ben. You 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.960 could just call this ask Bend, but I thought we'd 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.760 change it up because, like you know, new name means 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.960 a big deal. So you can send questions in we 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.880 will I think since it's a five fifth hour, we 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.080 shoot like five questions. Yeah. Uh, And so I'm excited 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.880 about and we and we can like debate stuff if 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.320 you have something you know, we want to debate. We 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.160 were on one of that the email address. We we 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.160 have a new email address for this show exclusively, which 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.920 means if you want to email me about the the 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.800 other the Overnight Show, you don't email me here. But 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:36.480 we we started a new email address, Real fifth Hour 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.679 at gmail dot com. That's all for those of you 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.199 that don't know how to spell R E A L 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.680 and then fifth which is F high. Almost forgot how 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.120 f I it's f I F T H and then 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.760 our h O. You are at gmail dot com, so 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.559 it's just the fifth Sometimes people put a five there, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.920 it's not the five it's f I F T H 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:06.360 real Fifth Hour at Gmail. And you can emails a 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.120 question you want for a future edition of the Fifth Hour, 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:11.719 and you know, doing whatever, as I say with the 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.280 lame jokes we do on the show. You can email whenever, 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.080 you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or whatever. And then the 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.320 social media channels are still the same. I assume you've 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.840 already found those, but you can't assume people sometimes don't. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.840 They just listen to podcast. But it's at Ben mallor 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.240 on Twitter, and what are you gag on? Is that 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:36.680 your Twitter? It's at David J. Gascon when A s 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.440 c O and Benny, you forgot to mention we're publishing 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.000 this on Friday. What time do you want to publish 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:47.280 this at? Because I know your hours are drastically different 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.040 from the rest of mankind. So, out of fairness to 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.600 the audience that typically listen to your show live and 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.080 the others that love to use the podcast, what would 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.000 be an appropriate time on the West coast that we 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.960 should release these Yeah? Yeah, that's that's a good point. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.720 So I'm curious, like I don't know when the actual 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.080 podcast gets dropped. I do know when it doesn't get dropped, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.640 because people tell me that it's not there, and I 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.120 wake up, I have a bunch of email from people 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.480 very upset thinking that I am heathen um. But I 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.400 would say we should give it a little breathing room 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.760 between the overnight. But one thing I will say, we 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.280 get a lot of downloads. From what I'm told from 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.200 the the people that crunch the numbers, that a lot 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.560 of the downloads come in the morning. People are going 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.520 to work the old I call them the ex overnights, 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.680 the the X third shifters that work the first shift 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.920 down have to you know, live real jobs and real 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.720 lives and all that stuff. So they a lot of them, 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.920 very very cool. They download the podcast in the morning, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.280 so it can't be too late in the morning. But 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.160 we you know, I like that we're having this production 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.920 meeting on the year. I think that's very important that 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.400 we do this on the This is a step up 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.760 from your normal show because you don't have those things 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.200 like a meeting. You don't talk to your colleagues, you 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.760 don't talk to your producers or technical directors or update anchors. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.600 So this is you were whistle blower. Well, we're taking 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.280 a step up. I didn't name any names. I mean 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.920 when when I was there in in full force, I 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.960 was you made me work into the morning time to 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.800 produce your show when I was live. That's because you 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.040 were slow. No, you've had some slow producers. You do 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.880 have the slow producers right now. Wow, I mean, what 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.000 are you doing here? And you're just trying. You're causing trouble. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.600 Is what you're causing here is what I mean. Mine, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.720 my staff is magnificent. That's hard to talk to them 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.720 when they're not there before the show. I can't really 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.600 talk to anybody before the show they're not there. But 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.440 those that are there I usually say hello to. We 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.720 have a very good time. It's a cherished moment there 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.200 in the hallways. And you know what we do. We 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.960 save it for the show. We believe in the save 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.200 it for the show show strategy. We don't want to 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.600 waste any material off of the microphones. So we do 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.200 not even talk. We don't acknowledge each other, we don't 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.360 ask how we're doing. None of that stuff. Well, I 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.600 will say this much. And this is a great thing 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.160 for us here at the I Heart Radio studios. When 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.080 we we produce these podcasts, the studios are clean, so 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.560 you won't have to you want to have to high 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.280 jump over some trash cans. You won't have to pull 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.000 vote over some broken chairs or a dead microphone. You're 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.760 in a good spot now. We brought you home. Yeah, 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.520 that's true. I don't see any cockroaches running around. The 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.200 cock roaches running around and all that stuff, so that's nice. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.240 But anyway, back to the I think I was interrupted. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.600 I gave out the Twitter. We're on a Facebook now. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.120 The Facebook show pages Ben Mathers Show, which we'll use 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.439 for this show, but it's it's all tied together. And 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.639 then Ben Mallers Show on Reddit, which I really like. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.000 I'm a big Reddit guy. I love it, you know, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.399 and I want to build that Reddit page up because 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.280 I think it's pretty cool. It's a way for people 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.680 to post stories and interact with If you've been on ready, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:45.840 you know what it is. I don't have to explain 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.280 to but if you're not, you should go on there. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.240 I think i'd like to see to me redd, it's 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.399 the most fun of the social media platform with Twitter 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.720 is just a cess pool. But I like it. H 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.240 you know occasionally, but you use your real name on 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.760 Reddit though, that's the only problem. Why do you go 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.840 on that side of any of them and use your 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.760 real name? Well for the show page, I do. I 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.879 mean I might have some other accounts. I mean that 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.720 I used. But that was one of the problems with 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:12.840 the Reddit page that one of the one of the 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.280 p ones got upset with me because I I would 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.119 check the Reddit page, but I wouldn't log in, and 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.920 so they didn't think I was ever like using it, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.680 and you know people they was. It was a hostile 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.840 takeover the Reddit page. But we worked it all out. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.040 So anyway, this is a This show has a zero 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.400 ad budget. I don't know if you know that. There 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.720 are no bumper stickers, there are no billboards, there's no 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.639 promotional items that we're giving out. So the bedrock all 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.439 this is a public reminder here the bedrock of this 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.000 show is is independent, even though we're working for a 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.760 big radio I don't like the word radio broadcasting conglamerate. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.439 In I heart media. We consider ourselves at least I 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.560 do Guesscon's elite, but I consider myself the little engine 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.680 that could. Right, we're the underdog and all this, we're 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.639 competing as the big radio stars like Colin Cowherd and 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.399 these other people. So so we have to do it 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.040 ound and we don't have the budget. Fox Sports Radio 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.960 has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.400 all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.080 and within the I Heart Radio app search f s 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.520 R to listen live. But the way we can win 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.159 is the generosity. And I'm not asking for money. I'm 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.520 not like the beggar in Miami who's asking for one. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.159 I'm not like that schmuck. All right, here's what you do. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:32.119 All right, all we need is the currency of your mouth. 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.439 And what I mean by that is just recommend the 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.480 show to your friends, to your family people, your your guys, 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.000 your boys that love sports or whatever, your or your 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.600 girls that love sports, and just have them to subscribe 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.800 and that's it. Just you know, they can try give 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:48.880 a shot, you know, sample to tell mus like Costco 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.479 and you can get a sample. And and also if 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.080 you know some guys that are a little older, I've 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.080 already gotten some emails guests gone from some of the 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:57.639