WEBVTT - Two on One 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka boom. If you thought more hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.520 a week was enough, I think again. He's the last 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.240 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.320 He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.560 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.360 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:30.720 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.760 as we are back at it, happy happy, happy Friday. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.280 The weekend begins here on the fifth Hour with Ben Maller, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.760 back at it again, even on a holiday weekend. Here 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:47.199 we are slaving away over the microphones of the I 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.920 Heeart Podcast Network. And thank you for finding the show. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.320 Share the show. You gotta share the show. It's very 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.480 important to share the show. Uh here eight days a week, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.320 that the overnight show, five nights a week in the 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.400 overnight and then back on the weekends to do this 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.240 and you can listen whatever you want on demand. And 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.680 here again a shockingly this weekend from West of the 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.000 four oh five sash his way in with canned crowd noise. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.240 David Gascon is right there there, he is making his way. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.080 You know you didn't hit the button today the button 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.440 is broken. What happened to the button? Why didn't you 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.160 hit the button? Button? What's wrong with the button? Canned button? 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.840 I don't know what you're talking about. It's canned, crowded. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.360 It's like the nineteen fifties sitcoms, is what it is 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.679 with you. I don't think it's anything like that. I 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.120 like the sachet, though I prefer waltzing in but I couldn't. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.360 I can do both. I can I continue doing eight 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.120 times pirouette on the catwalk, triple LUTs. I don't know 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:49.040 if yes lutz or just a klutz either one, yes, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.240 absolutely so. Yeah, it's it's it's back again. Now listen 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.080 to today is a little different. Guess why is this 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.840 day different than most days? Mom? Because it's eighty degrees outside, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.040 a cloud in the sky, and most of the people 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.000 throughout the country are stuck with shitty weather. No, I 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.240 know the weather is not really bad right now. It's made. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.440 But that's for them, not I'm talking about us. It's 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.880 all about us. I don't care about us. I don't 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.040 go outside. I could live, I could live in Des 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.560 Moines or whatever. It wouldn't matter to me. I don't go. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.960 You don't want to live in Iowa. I was people 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:26.000 and I were funny. They're kind. Everything west of the 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.880 four or five is not. They're hard working. I mean, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.919 it's unbelievably unbelievable they do in Iowa. It's great. I'm 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.960 a big fan football, I like the I like a lot. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.880 I should really be in the Midwest. I have Midwestern values. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.080 I do know you do not. I absolutely I work hard. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.160 I put my head down one foot in front of 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.919 the other. Yes, I do. You're treat people kindly. You 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.400 are an introvert. You're a fit for the East. You're 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.440 fit for Boston. You're an introvert. And your money hungry. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.440 Like that's about it. So you're not really money hungry. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.240 If I was money hungry, I wouldn't be doing an 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.360 overnight show. I would be doing a show somewhere where 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.400 I make a lot of money. You do realize that 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.799 all these qualities about you, all these traits, are condemned 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.360 by certain people. To you realize that, right, what's that 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:14.880 hard work and working on anual? I know I have 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.440 learned in this business over the years that, uh, you 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.079 know what, the way I was raised and we I've 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.320 often talked about the the Code of the West, right, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.600 the Code of the West, and how important that is 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.440 and the tenants of that, and and then you're like, oh, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.520 wait a minute, Oh there's other people that don't do that, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.680 and then they end up. You know, I think good 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.760 things happened to them. But you know, that's life. What 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.960 are you gonna do? Right? That's life. Can you talk 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:46.520 about any experiences personally that you've seen, witnessed, experienced. Uh? Well, no, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.440 Off the top of my head, I cannot, off the 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.120 top of my head, I cannot. Have you ever cut 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.080 the line? I'm trying to think if I cut the No, 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.960 I did weekends. I did fill in at Fox for 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.680 ten years. I got an overnight show, I then got fired, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.400 then came back started again on weekends in the overnight. Uh, 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.560 and then had to do the filling stuff, and then 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.280 eventually got the the overnight show again. So I don't 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.960 think no, I think I've put I don't know, maybe 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:22.400 such a red ass about it. Uh, that's interesting. Well, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.240 I didn't, I didn't cut out you. What are you 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.159 talking about? Well, I mean you're a red ass about it, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.400 Like you're you're very you're very authoritative when when your 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.960 colleagues take days off from work and you're working on 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.960 the holidays. Well again, I like hard work, I mean, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.440 and again the code of the West. You know, not 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.240 to be all corny, hokey and mushy, but the code 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.279 of the West is living. Stay with check, take pride 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.280 in your work. Check. Always finish what you start right, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.400 do what has to be done. Be tough, but fair, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.279 and when you make a promise, you keep right. Ride 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.760 the brand, right the brand. That's all part of the 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.320 code of the West. Right there. You could agree with 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.560 me then that you quit Ben Mallard dot com. Then 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.360 so that's kind of not living by the coat of 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.440 the West. No, no, no, I did not quit Ben 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.640 Mallery dot com. I sold Ben Mallery dot com to 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.160 Fox Sports dot Com and then Yahoo, and then when 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.599 they stopped paying, it died. Kind of like if you 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.560 if you are you have a plant, a potted plant. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.159 Here's the announce You have a pot of plant, and 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.440 it lives and lives as long as you water it. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.719 When you stop watering it, it dies. So I was 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.760 the potted plant in this example, and I stopped getting water, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:41.440 so I died. There you go, it's unfortunate does that 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.440 mean that you still have access to the domain name though, Like, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.680 can you resuscitatetion? No, I don't. I don't have that. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.919 Actually I'm done with that, but I would bring it again. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.520 I'm willing to bring that back. It takes a tremendous 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.120 amount of work. I had people that the Pentagon and 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.400 the White House that were fans of Ben Mallert dot com, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.400 and they assumed that I, you know, I had I 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.760 was aggregating all this content that I had an army 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.720 of people. I had my inbox. I had people sending 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.880 me resumes wanting to join the team, and I'm like, what, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.640 what team is there? There's one fat guy sitting on 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.440 a computer all night. That's it. There's no there's no team. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.680 If I had to look inside your your apartment at 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.560 the time, it was probably to your left resumes and 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.839 to your right. Fast food rappers, yes, oh yes, oh 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.560 my god, oh my god. Let me tell you man, 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.599 I had. I knew every deal at the fast food restaurants. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.359 Del Taco had Taco Tuesday, three tacos for a dollar, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.599 going there, four bucks. Ban You're loaded with taco like 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.360 Porky the Pig when you're walking out of there, and 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.680 you know Tommy's Cheeseburgers and that Hollywood location. I live 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.880 in Hollywood near Hollywood, Hollywood adjacent and i'd go in there, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.440 uh you know night, pull up a couple of cheeseburgers, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.880 chili cheese for eyes. Had that of course in and 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.280 out burger. I you're not going to in and out 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.920 because there was that one location at that time on 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.560 it was in on Hollywood both of Sunset I think 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.400 it was on Sunset, yeah, and that was always jammed 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.800 and I didn't want to wait in line for the 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.479 in and out burger. There was a Carl's Junior down 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.920 off Fair Facts that I used to go to quite 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.360 a bit and I get the double Western bacon cheeseburger, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.040 no bacon, Uh you know, I don't don't eat the bacon, 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.240 and so I get that, but I love the barbecue 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.080 sauce and the onion rings and all that. That was 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.760 a go to Tinto's Tacos. I was close enough to 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.840 get to Tito's. I'd go there a couple of times 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.160 a week. Johnny's Pastrami in Culver City was a regular 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.440 hangout spotiues to go to. Did you ever have a 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.600 fat moment. Uh. I don't know, say like dessert, but 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.320 like ice cream parlor, ice cream shop, anywhere you'd go 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.240 for the dessert. Well, you know what I like. I 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.000 like the Uh. The thing that really I enjoyed was 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.360 the ice cream. So I've talked about is this ice 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.720 cream sandwich, which is to me, the perfect dessert is 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.320 the thick two scoops of vanilla ice cream jam together 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.720 and a thick chocolate chip cookie on each side. And 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:01.280 I would double up on those. And occasion when I 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.080 go to when I go to Tito's Tacos, they overcharged 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:05.360 for the drink. So I would go down to the 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.800 seven eleven down the street and I'd get the super 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.440 duper duper duper triple triple triple double double double big gulp, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.160 and then I would use that and uh. And you know, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.720 as I've said before, I was so um, I don't know, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.720 I was so able to gluttonize in those days, devours. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.720 I would. I would shovel in the soda or pour 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.160 it in rather, and I drink half of it in 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.560 the seven eleven before I checked out, I'd refill it 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.440 and then then then I check out. Now with the 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:39.040 Ben Mallard dot com website. Were you pre booty models? Like, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.120 did you have like those booty model picks of the day, 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.920 those those models or those college Oh no, that was 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.640 that was Brooks. That was sports by Brooks. He was big. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.040 I don't know what happened here, but he used to 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.520 have he had the bikini models that he was doing. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.760 Didn't Larry Brown have it to Larry Brown Sports? I 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:01.160 don't know. Larry actually's uh, that's a spinoff of my website. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.880 Larry Uh. Larry uh followed what I did and kind 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.760 of took that model and uh and went with that. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.640 But I, yeah, I didn't. I didn't know any women 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.320 and I didn't I didn't want to pay any women 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.640 to pose for photos. So I was a tough spot 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.680 to be in there. Yeah. Well, the power of Instagram nowadays. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.880 And you know, the chive dot com is a good website. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.400 What is it? Chive chive dot com? I've never heard 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.720 of that. I gotta google it, man, I don't know 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.280 what that is? Sandia link for it? What is that? Um, 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.600 it's pretty much No, No, it's not an important site. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.319 But you have girls that are modeling clothes, bikinis, shirts, shorts, 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.000 the whole nine yards and getting paid for this is 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.800 probably they're probably getting paid a little something. Certain days 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.680 they have days that they promote either tops or bottoms. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.000 If you get what I'm saying. Oh okay, yeah, so 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.360 boobs and butts. Okay, that's pretty much all the internet is. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.720 If you want, that's the teas, right, that's the that's 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.120 the pool. You working sales, you did have your your cat. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.760 You need to have that hook and bring him on end. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.440 So t N a man, t NA the old it's 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.080 the number one item that people buy t NA. That's uh, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.200 they love it, can't get enough of it, you know. So, uh, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.800 the reason this is different than normal. Normally on Fridays 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.480 we have somebody come in and we you know, shoot 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:19.920 the bull crap with him. But I thought there was 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:24.000 such a big story this week in radio, and being 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.520 a radio nerd, I thought, well, we got to spend 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:31.199 some time, more than a few good minutes talking about 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:37.920 a neutron bomb in our profession. Because the one of 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:42.480 the greats of all time in talk radio, Russia, Limba I, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.920 passed away a few months back and Russia had been 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.280 sick for some time and he he finally checked out. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.960 But they've been trying to find a replacement for Rush 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.240 Limbaugh and they've been going around. You know, we gotta 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:59.240 get somebody in there. Blah blah blah. Now we full disclosure. Uh, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:03.720 Fox Sports Radio in this podcast are under the Premiere 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:09.400 Networks umbrella probably the Premiere Radio Networks. So uh, we're 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.960 in the same family here. I. You know, when when 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.040 I used to go into work back in the day 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.200 before I was gifted the home studio. Um. But but 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.120 when it was the Premier studios in in Sherman Oaks 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.600 as where we we broadcast from. We have the Fox 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.280 Sports Radio studios on the first floor and then uh, 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.640 the big the great Premiere Network shows have their studios elsewhere. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.640 So but in the building and so we I you know, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.240 that's that's the back story. But Premiere, which owned the 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.000 Rush Limbaugh Show, had announced this. This came down on 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.520 Thursday morning while I was sleeping. We talked about it 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.240 a little bit on the Overnight Show UM on on Friday, 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.480 but we'll expand on it. So they announced the replacement. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:55.439 If you have not heard yet, Mega dittos to uh 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.480 my lead, not my lead, and I was his lead 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:04.520 in Clay Travis, who has been named along with Buck Sexton. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.440 They are gonna team up for the Clay Travis and 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.840 Buck Sexton Show starts in late June, and they will 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:17.320 take over that hallowed ground, the Rush Limbaugh noon to 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:23.120 three Eastern time slot on hundreds of radio stations across 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.199 the country. Rush passed away back in February, and so 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.400 this this show is is on, It's gonna it's gonna 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.080 take place next month. So congratulations to try to Clay. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.120 I sent him, send him a message over there, so 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.320 good for him, I guess guy. I just wanted to say, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.360 this is another another feather in the cap of the 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.600 Mallard brand. Wait, how's that a feather in the cab? 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.200 He didn't work? Well, you I helped build Clay's audience 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.840 up as a lead in for Clay for several years, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.520 and without the Mallard militia crossing over and supporting what 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.760 Clay Travis has been doing on his morning show, then 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.880 we would not have this happen. I'm convinced we had 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.560 a small part, so another successory. Keep in mind, in 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.880 the past we've had some of the Fox Sports Radio 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.640 morning people. I'm trying to think about, can name all 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.720 the morning This is Actually this would be a funny thing. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.760 Can I name all the morning host at Fox Sports 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.280 Radio since you've been at the network, since I've been well, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.880 Tony Bruno. It depends East Coast or because we have 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.880 East Coast Morning Show on the West Coast Morning Show. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.520 Because of the time difference, Bruno did the West Coast 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:33.040 morning show. Uh. Steve's Aban was a long time morning 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.960 man at Fox Sports and loves Abe gotta get on 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.800 this podcast. We gotta get it on this podcast. It 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.360 was wonderful. Uh. He did the morning show for a while. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:46.280 Then there was Jack Trudeau, remember Jack Trudeau, the old 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.559 Colts quarterback. He did the morning show with some other guy. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.800 I forget the guy's name. My apologies. Uh, stephen A. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:14:00.240 Smith did the morning show. It was just the normal dude. Well, no, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.679 he had been whacked by ESPN and then he came 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.720 to Fox Sports Radio and actually that's not your so. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.680 Originally stephen A was a writer in Philadelphia when I 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.920 first came across him, he was a columnist in Philadelphia. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.280 He got hired as a weekend host at Fox Sports 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.680 Radio and then eventually got hired at ESPN. Then got well, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.760 I go by ESPN and Stephen A came back to 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.160 Fox Sports Radio as the morning guy. Uh, and then 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.240 you know, I didn't really click, it didn't really work. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.480 And then he went back to ESPN and then became 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.520 this megastar. Uh. Then we had, of course Andy Furman, 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.840 Mike North, couple of legends radio guys that were so good, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.160 and and then Clay. I'm trying. I'm sure I'm forgetting 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.560 some other you know what to considered Dan Patrick a 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.280 morning guy? Do you well? On the West coast, he's 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.520 considered a morning guy, but the East coast because most 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.120 of the people live on the East Coast, that's the 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.440 prime prime. I mean, I consider myself a morning guy, 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.520 gagon because the five am our people getting out of 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.960 the house early to start work. And we have a 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.440 lot of people in Boston and in in Pennsylvania and 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.120 all over the Washington d C. Area that tell me 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:09.720 they get up early and they're trying to get a 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.200 jump on the traffic. Some guys that live out in 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.320 Maryland that are going into you know, they're going that 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.280 Beltway at d C. It's a total ship show with 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.320 the traffic and all that. So I think you'd be 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.480 better served in the morningtime anyway, do you think I 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:28.040 would be Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Uh, I like 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.600 doing the overnight show. They leave me alone. But the 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.560 money would be so good, Holy crap, the money. But 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.680 you could be really loose in the morning show, and 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.520 I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean, 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.120 we had Jerry Callahan on from Boston and he was 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.360 loose with with Kirk Minihan. But that's a local that's 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.360 like a local station. Though, what you would think it 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.640 would be easier to get away with that kind of being, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.320 you know, having fun on radio and goofing around if 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.240 you were doing a local show as opposed to a 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.240 national show where you're on four ations instead on EI 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.080 has got a network of like thirteen stations. But still, yeah, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.720 I don't know. I feel like the atmosphere here at 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.720 Fox is not like it's like the wild wild West. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.360 But I do feel that we are not limited to 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.600 what we can and can't say. Uh no, no, I 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.280 mean they're very the bosses are very cool here. We 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:25.160 you know, we have very few restraints, like we're not handcuffed. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.320 And I talked to I have friends that work at 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.360 some of our competitors and they not that they're held hostage. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.480 I think that's too dramatic. Um, but the powers that 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.960 be do a common deer a lot of what they 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.720 can say and what they cannot say, right, yeah, right, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.800 that they have to there's certain certain past they have 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:49.960 to go down, and if they don't, then they they're 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:55.720 independence is under attack. Yeah. I can't imagine that. It 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.200 would be weird to go to a different format where 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.280 you have someone that's trying to put you in three lanes. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.160 It's like driving on a freeway here in l A. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.359 You can't go into the fast lane of the car pool. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.200 You can only stay in the slow or the number 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.720 two lane. It was so weird. Yeah, yeah, I know, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.000 it's uh, it's it's gotta be difficult. I'm glad I 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.360 don't have to do that. I don't think I would 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:17.840 want to do it. I think I just get out 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.040 of it and do something else, or just do a podcast, 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.280 like a standalone podcast. Yeah, because you're not you, You 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.720 wouldn't be your pure, genuine self. You lose a sense 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.240 of that, and then you have the right to be 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.960 careful and then anything you go off of God forbid, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.520 off the beaten path, and you have a little bit 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.360 of energy. It's like, wait a minute, you can't say 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.520 that Ben, Ben, you pissed somebody off. Ben. That's a sponsor, Ben, 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:44.600 that's an average. It's like, wait a minute, no, listen. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.639 It's not to say it hasn't happened, because it mean occasionally, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.760 you know, you do a tap dance on the third 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.920 rail and eventually you might step across the third rail. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.360 But as far as Clay Travis replacing Limbaugh, I mean, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.600 the line had always been, you want to be the 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.240 person that replaces the person that replaced the legend, right, 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:04.439 you don't want to be the one that walks in 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.840 the footsteps of jazz. But it's still a different Unfortunately, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.520 Rush passed away, so it's not like, you know, Rush 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.240 will be commenting on things Clay says or anything like that. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.280 Um So, I mean, well, I hope, I hope the 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.600 show does well. And I know Clay is very popular 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.480 in the political radio world and he's got a following 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.320 the air, and you had to know something was up 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:29.520 when President Donald Trump called Clay twice on his morning show. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.800 I still am amazed by that, a sitting president calling 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.600 into a morning sports show producer of that book. That jeez, man, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.400 that's a that's a good job by him or her. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.520 But Buck Sexton's bill with Premier Networks, and I think 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.359 since seen he's had a couple of conservative talk shows 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.359 either midday or in the afternoon. So you know, I 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.199 don't really know. But I've never heard Buck show, so 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.520 I don't know. I assume he's pretty good. I don't 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.240 know much about him, so I can't say that I 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.560 don't I can't give a firsthand opinion into that. Have 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.240 you ever worked as when you were down in San 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.440 Diego with six nineties, did you ever jump on Cogo 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.320 or any of the other news stations down there to 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:12.359 do any kind of crosstalk. No. I popped up on 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:17.600 kf I actually with the great Tim Conway, uh once 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.560 or twice. Be sure to catch live editions of The 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.320 Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.720 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.320 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.879 Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. And 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:35.840 I've been a guest on some shows on kif I 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:37.440 or they've they've called me up for stuff and not 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.120 in a long time, Not in a long time. Kif 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.720 I has a big news station in l A fifty 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.240 all over the United States station. Uh, I don't think 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.320 I've ever been on Cogo. Yeah, I'd be kind of 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.600 curious to see what that. Oh wait a minute, hold day, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.640 I ran the board into State and they had their 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.000 games passed off to Cogo. So technically I was on Coca. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.000 But I mean being in that that news talk format 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.040 with a political old pundit or just a news talk 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.240 show host, because I was on Cogo when I worked 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.000 down there at thirteen sixty. But the host down there 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.359 at the time was it was an afternoon host, and 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.720 in the fourth hour we would do a full hour, 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.920 which is called just man talk, or he would bring 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:20.680 two other guys in. One of them was me, one 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.440 of them was from the rock station, and then he 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.960 bring a female in, so it's three men and one female. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.560 And it was just straight man talk obviously, like you know, 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.199 we'd be like in a bar or a club or 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.440 some other bullshit, and it was pretty it was pretty loose. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.119 I was really surprised for it being a political show. 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.680 They allowed us to do that for sixty minutes. No, 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.240 that's cool. Uh yeah. I mean there's there's some of 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.920 that that's still around, but there's not there's not much. Man, 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:55.080 everyone's walking on eggshells these days, Like I don't know, 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.800 looking around. You know, it's like it's it's safely across 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.960 the street. I mean, it's it's it's true. It's like, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.880 you know, it's the way it is today. The accusation 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.080 is enough to do you in. Maybe the accusation, like 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:17.080 it if if the mob on social media says something happened, 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:21.000 they didn't like it happened, even if it's not that way. 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.520 And it's this thing we often talk about that there 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.760 have always been a percent of people that just bitched 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.879