Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought more hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere
Speaker 1: as we are back at it, happy happy, happy Friday.
Speaker 1: The weekend begins here on the fifth Hour with Ben Maller,
Speaker 1: back at it again, even on a holiday weekend. Here
Speaker 1: we are slaving away over the microphones of the I
Speaker 1: Heeart Podcast Network. And thank you for finding the show.
Speaker 1: Share the show. You gotta share the show. It's very
Speaker 1: important to share the show. Uh here eight days a week,
Speaker 1: that the overnight show, five nights a week in the
Speaker 1: overnight and then back on the weekends to do this
Speaker 1: and you can listen whatever you want on demand. And
Speaker 1: here again a shockingly this weekend from West of the
Speaker 1: four oh five sash his way in with canned crowd noise.
Speaker 1: David Gascon is right there there, he is making his way.
Speaker 1: You know you didn't hit the button today the button
Speaker 1: is broken. What happened to the button? Why didn't you
Speaker 1: hit the button? Button? What's wrong with the button? Canned button?
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. It's canned, crowded.
Speaker 1: It's like the nineteen fifties sitcoms, is what it is
Speaker 1: with you. I don't think it's anything like that. I
Speaker 1: like the sachet, though I prefer waltzing in but I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I can do both. I can I continue doing eight
Speaker 1: times pirouette on the catwalk, triple LUTs. I don't know
Speaker 1: if yes lutz or just a klutz either one, yes,
Speaker 1: absolutely so. Yeah, it's it's it's back again. Now listen
Speaker 1: to today is a little different. Guess why is this
Speaker 1: day different than most days? Mom? Because it's eighty degrees outside,
Speaker 1: a cloud in the sky, and most of the people
Speaker 1: throughout the country are stuck with shitty weather. No, I
Speaker 1: know the weather is not really bad right now. It's made.
Speaker 1: But that's for them, not I'm talking about us. It's
Speaker 1: all about us. I don't care about us. I don't
Speaker 1: go outside. I could live, I could live in Des
Speaker 1: Moines or whatever. It wouldn't matter to me. I don't go.
Speaker 1: You don't want to live in Iowa. I was people
Speaker 1: and I were funny. They're kind. Everything west of the
Speaker 1: four or five is not. They're hard working. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievably unbelievable they do in Iowa. It's great. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan football, I like the I like a lot.
Speaker 1: I should really be in the Midwest. I have Midwestern values.
Speaker 1: I do know you do not. I absolutely I work hard.
Speaker 1: I put my head down one foot in front of
Speaker 1: the other. Yes, I do. You're treat people kindly. You
Speaker 1: are an introvert. You're a fit for the East. You're
Speaker 1: fit for Boston. You're an introvert. And your money hungry.
Speaker 1: Like that's about it. So you're not really money hungry.
Speaker 1: If I was money hungry, I wouldn't be doing an
Speaker 1: overnight show. I would be doing a show somewhere where
Speaker 1: I make a lot of money. You do realize that
Speaker 1: all these qualities about you, all these traits, are condemned
Speaker 1: by certain people. To you realize that, right, what's that
Speaker 1: hard work and working on anual? I know I have
Speaker 1: learned in this business over the years that, uh, you
Speaker 1: know what, the way I was raised and we I've
Speaker 1: often talked about the the Code of the West, right,
Speaker 1: the Code of the West, and how important that is
Speaker 1: and the tenants of that, and and then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Oh there's other people that don't do that,
Speaker 1: and then they end up. You know, I think good
Speaker 1: things happened to them. But you know, that's life. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Right? That's life. Can you talk
Speaker 1: about any experiences personally that you've seen, witnessed, experienced. Uh? Well, no,
Speaker 1: Off the top of my head, I cannot, off the
Speaker 1: top of my head, I cannot. Have you ever cut
Speaker 1: the line? I'm trying to think if I cut the No,
Speaker 1: I did weekends. I did fill in at Fox for
Speaker 1: ten years. I got an overnight show, I then got fired,
Speaker 1: then came back started again on weekends in the overnight. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then had to do the filling stuff, and then
Speaker 1: eventually got the the overnight show again. So I don't
Speaker 1: think no, I think I've put I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: such a red ass about it. Uh, that's interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't, I didn't cut out you. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Well, I mean you're a red ass about it,
Speaker 1: Like you're you're very you're very authoritative when when your
Speaker 1: colleagues take days off from work and you're working on
Speaker 1: the holidays. Well again, I like hard work, I mean,
Speaker 1: and again the code of the West. You know, not
Speaker 1: to be all corny, hokey and mushy, but the code
Speaker 1: of the West is living. Stay with check, take pride
Speaker 1: in your work. Check. Always finish what you start right,
Speaker 1: do what has to be done. Be tough, but fair,
Speaker 1: and when you make a promise, you keep right. Ride
Speaker 1: the brand, right the brand. That's all part of the
Speaker 1: code of the West. Right there. You could agree with
Speaker 1: me then that you quit Ben Mallard dot com. Then
Speaker 1: so that's kind of not living by the coat of
Speaker 1: the West. No, no, no, I did not quit Ben
Speaker 1: Mallery dot com. I sold Ben Mallery dot com to
Speaker 1: Fox Sports dot Com and then Yahoo, and then when
Speaker 1: they stopped paying, it died. Kind of like if you
Speaker 1: if you are you have a plant, a potted plant.
Speaker 1: Here's the announce You have a pot of plant, and
Speaker 1: it lives and lives as long as you water it.
Speaker 1: When you stop watering it, it dies. So I was
Speaker 1: the potted plant in this example, and I stopped getting water,
Speaker 1: so I died. There you go, it's unfortunate does that
Speaker 1: mean that you still have access to the domain name though, Like,
Speaker 1: can you resuscitatetion? No, I don't. I don't have that.
Speaker 1: Actually I'm done with that, but I would bring it again.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to bring that back. It takes a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of work. I had people that the Pentagon and
Speaker 1: the White House that were fans of Ben Mallert dot com,
Speaker 1: and they assumed that I, you know, I had I
Speaker 1: was aggregating all this content that I had an army
Speaker 1: of people. I had my inbox. I had people sending
Speaker 1: me resumes wanting to join the team, and I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: what team is there? There's one fat guy sitting on
Speaker 1: a computer all night. That's it. There's no there's no team.
Speaker 1: If I had to look inside your your apartment at
Speaker 1: the time, it was probably to your left resumes and
Speaker 1: to your right. Fast food rappers, yes, oh yes, oh
Speaker 1: my god, oh my god. Let me tell you man,
Speaker 1: I had. I knew every deal at the fast food restaurants.
Speaker 1: Del Taco had Taco Tuesday, three tacos for a dollar,
Speaker 1: going there, four bucks. Ban You're loaded with taco like
Speaker 1: Porky the Pig when you're walking out of there, and
Speaker 1: you know Tommy's Cheeseburgers and that Hollywood location. I live
Speaker 1: in Hollywood near Hollywood, Hollywood adjacent and i'd go in there,
Speaker 1: uh you know night, pull up a couple of cheeseburgers,
Speaker 1: chili cheese for eyes. Had that of course in and
Speaker 1: out burger. I you're not going to in and out
Speaker 1: because there was that one location at that time on
Speaker 1: it was in on Hollywood both of Sunset I think
Speaker 1: it was on Sunset, yeah, and that was always jammed
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to wait in line for the
Speaker 1: in and out burger. There was a Carl's Junior down
Speaker 1: off Fair Facts that I used to go to quite
Speaker 1: a bit and I get the double Western bacon cheeseburger,
Speaker 1: no bacon, Uh you know, I don't don't eat the bacon,
Speaker 1: and so I get that, but I love the barbecue
Speaker 1: sauce and the onion rings and all that. That was
Speaker 1: a go to Tinto's Tacos. I was close enough to
Speaker 1: get to Tito's. I'd go there a couple of times
Speaker 1: a week. Johnny's Pastrami in Culver City was a regular
Speaker 1: hangout spotiues to go to. Did you ever have a
Speaker 1: fat moment. Uh. I don't know, say like dessert, but
Speaker 1: like ice cream parlor, ice cream shop, anywhere you'd go
Speaker 1: for the dessert. Well, you know what I like. I
Speaker 1: like the Uh. The thing that really I enjoyed was
Speaker 1: the ice cream. So I've talked about is this ice
Speaker 1: cream sandwich, which is to me, the perfect dessert is
Speaker 1: the thick two scoops of vanilla ice cream jam together
Speaker 1: and a thick chocolate chip cookie on each side. And
Speaker 1: I would double up on those. And occasion when I
Speaker 1: go to when I go to Tito's Tacos, they overcharged
Speaker 1: for the drink. So I would go down to the
Speaker 1: seven eleven down the street and I'd get the super
Speaker 1: duper duper duper triple triple triple double double double big gulp,
Speaker 1: and then I would use that and uh. And you know,
Speaker 1: as I've said before, I was so um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I was so able to gluttonize in those days, devours.
Speaker 1: I would. I would shovel in the soda or pour
Speaker 1: it in rather, and I drink half of it in
Speaker 1: the seven eleven before I checked out, I'd refill it
Speaker 1: and then then then I check out. Now with the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard dot com website. Were you pre booty models? Like,
Speaker 1: did you have like those booty model picks of the day,
Speaker 1: those those models or those college Oh no, that was
Speaker 1: that was Brooks. That was sports by Brooks. He was big.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened here, but he used to
Speaker 1: have he had the bikini models that he was doing.
Speaker 1: Didn't Larry Brown have it to Larry Brown Sports? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Larry actually's uh, that's a spinoff of my website.
Speaker 1: Larry Uh. Larry uh followed what I did and kind
Speaker 1: of took that model and uh and went with that.
Speaker 1: But I, yeah, I didn't. I didn't know any women
Speaker 1: and I didn't I didn't want to pay any women
Speaker 1: to pose for photos. So I was a tough spot
Speaker 1: to be in there. Yeah. Well, the power of Instagram nowadays.
Speaker 1: And you know, the chive dot com is a good website.
Speaker 1: What is it? Chive chive dot com? I've never heard
Speaker 1: of that. I gotta google it, man, I don't know
Speaker 1: what that is? Sandia link for it? What is that? Um,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much No, No, it's not an important site.
Speaker 1: But you have girls that are modeling clothes, bikinis, shirts, shorts,
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards and getting paid for this is
Speaker 1: probably they're probably getting paid a little something. Certain days
Speaker 1: they have days that they promote either tops or bottoms.
Speaker 1: If you get what I'm saying. Oh okay, yeah, so
Speaker 1: boobs and butts. Okay, that's pretty much all the internet is.
Speaker 1: If you want, that's the teas, right, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the pool. You working sales, you did have your your cat.
Speaker 1: You need to have that hook and bring him on end.
Speaker 1: So t N a man, t NA the old it's
Speaker 1: the number one item that people buy t NA. That's uh,
Speaker 1: they love it, can't get enough of it, you know. So, uh,
Speaker 1: the reason this is different than normal. Normally on Fridays
Speaker 1: we have somebody come in and we you know, shoot
Speaker 1: the bull crap with him. But I thought there was
Speaker 1: such a big story this week in radio, and being
Speaker 1: a radio nerd, I thought, well, we got to spend
Speaker 1: some time, more than a few good minutes talking about
Speaker 1: a neutron bomb in our profession. Because the one of
Speaker 1: the greats of all time in talk radio, Russia, Limba I,
Speaker 1: passed away a few months back and Russia had been
Speaker 1: sick for some time and he he finally checked out.
Speaker 1: But they've been trying to find a replacement for Rush
Speaker 1: Limbaugh and they've been going around. You know, we gotta
Speaker 1: get somebody in there. Blah blah blah. Now we full disclosure. Uh,
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio in this podcast are under the Premiere
Speaker 1: Networks umbrella probably the Premiere Radio Networks. So uh, we're
Speaker 1: in the same family here. I. You know, when when
Speaker 1: I used to go into work back in the day
Speaker 1: before I was gifted the home studio. Um. But but
Speaker 1: when it was the Premier studios in in Sherman Oaks
Speaker 1: as where we we broadcast from. We have the Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio studios on the first floor and then uh,
Speaker 1: the big the great Premiere Network shows have their studios elsewhere.
Speaker 1: So but in the building and so we I you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the back story. But Premiere, which owned the
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh Show, had announced this. This came down on
Speaker 1: Thursday morning while I was sleeping. We talked about it
Speaker 1: a little bit on the Overnight Show UM on on Friday,
Speaker 1: but we'll expand on it. So they announced the replacement.
Speaker 1: If you have not heard yet, Mega dittos to uh
Speaker 1: my lead, not my lead, and I was his lead
Speaker 1: in Clay Travis, who has been named along with Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1: They are gonna team up for the Clay Travis and
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show starts in late June, and they will
Speaker 1: take over that hallowed ground, the Rush Limbaugh noon to
Speaker 1: three Eastern time slot on hundreds of radio stations across
Speaker 1: the country. Rush passed away back in February, and so
Speaker 1: this this show is is on, It's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: take place next month. So congratulations to try to Clay.
Speaker 1: I sent him, send him a message over there, so
Speaker 1: good for him, I guess guy. I just wanted to say,
Speaker 1: this is another another feather in the cap of the
Speaker 1: Mallard brand. Wait, how's that a feather in the cab?
Speaker 1: He didn't work? Well, you I helped build Clay's audience
Speaker 1: up as a lead in for Clay for several years,
Speaker 1: and without the Mallard militia crossing over and supporting what
Speaker 1: Clay Travis has been doing on his morning show, then
Speaker 1: we would not have this happen. I'm convinced we had
Speaker 1: a small part, so another successory. Keep in mind, in
Speaker 1: the past we've had some of the Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: morning people. I'm trying to think about, can name all
Speaker 1: the morning This is Actually this would be a funny thing.
Speaker 1: Can I name all the morning host at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio since you've been at the network, since I've been well,
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno. It depends East Coast or because we have
Speaker 1: East Coast Morning Show on the West Coast Morning Show.
Speaker 1: Because of the time difference, Bruno did the West Coast
Speaker 1: morning show. Uh. Steve's Aban was a long time morning
Speaker 1: man at Fox Sports and loves Abe gotta get on
Speaker 1: this podcast. We gotta get it on this podcast. It
Speaker 1: was wonderful. Uh. He did the morning show for a while.
Speaker 1: Then there was Jack Trudeau, remember Jack Trudeau, the old
Speaker 1: Colts quarterback. He did the morning show with some other guy.
Speaker 1: I forget the guy's name. My apologies. Uh, stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith did the morning show. It was just the normal dude. Well, no,
Speaker 1: he had been whacked by ESPN and then he came
Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio and actually that's not your so.
Speaker 1: Originally stephen A was a writer in Philadelphia when I
Speaker 1: first came across him, he was a columnist in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: He got hired as a weekend host at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and then eventually got hired at ESPN. Then got well,
Speaker 1: I go by ESPN and Stephen A came back to
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio as the morning guy. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't really click, it didn't really work.
Speaker 1: And then he went back to ESPN and then became
Speaker 1: this megastar. Uh. Then we had, of course Andy Furman,
Speaker 1: Mike North, couple of legends radio guys that were so good,
Speaker 1: and and then Clay. I'm trying. I'm sure I'm forgetting
Speaker 1: some other you know what to considered Dan Patrick a
Speaker 1: morning guy? Do you well? On the West coast, he's
Speaker 1: considered a morning guy, but the East coast because most
Speaker 1: of the people live on the East Coast, that's the
Speaker 1: prime prime. I mean, I consider myself a morning guy,
Speaker 1: gagon because the five am our people getting out of
Speaker 1: the house early to start work. And we have a
Speaker 1: lot of people in Boston and in in Pennsylvania and
Speaker 1: all over the Washington d C. Area that tell me
Speaker 1: they get up early and they're trying to get a
Speaker 1: jump on the traffic. Some guys that live out in
Speaker 1: Maryland that are going into you know, they're going that
Speaker 1: Beltway at d C. It's a total ship show with
Speaker 1: the traffic and all that. So I think you'd be
Speaker 1: better served in the morningtime anyway, do you think I
Speaker 1: would be Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Uh, I like
Speaker 1: doing the overnight show. They leave me alone. But the
Speaker 1: money would be so good, Holy crap, the money. But
Speaker 1: you could be really loose in the morning show, and
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 1: we had Jerry Callahan on from Boston and he was
Speaker 1: loose with with Kirk Minihan. But that's a local that's
Speaker 1: like a local station. Though, what you would think it
Speaker 1: would be easier to get away with that kind of being,
Speaker 1: you know, having fun on radio and goofing around if
Speaker 1: you were doing a local show as opposed to a
Speaker 1: national show where you're on four ations instead on EI
Speaker 1: has got a network of like thirteen stations. But still, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like the atmosphere here at
Speaker 1: Fox is not like it's like the wild wild West.
Speaker 1: But I do feel that we are not limited to
Speaker 1: what we can and can't say. Uh no, no, I
Speaker 1: mean they're very the bosses are very cool here. We
Speaker 1: you know, we have very few restraints, like we're not handcuffed.
Speaker 1: And I talked to I have friends that work at
Speaker 1: some of our competitors and they not that they're held hostage.
Speaker 1: I think that's too dramatic. Um, but the powers that
Speaker 1: be do a common deer a lot of what they
Speaker 1: can say and what they cannot say, right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: that they have to there's certain certain past they have
Speaker 1: to go down, and if they don't, then they they're
Speaker 1: independence is under attack. Yeah. I can't imagine that. It
Speaker 1: would be weird to go to a different format where
Speaker 1: you have someone that's trying to put you in three lanes.
Speaker 1: It's like driving on a freeway here in l A.
Speaker 1: You can't go into the fast lane of the car pool.
Speaker 1: You can only stay in the slow or the number
Speaker 1: two lane. It was so weird. Yeah, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's gotta be difficult. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: don't have to do that. I don't think I would
Speaker 1: want to do it. I think I just get out
Speaker 1: of it and do something else, or just do a podcast,
Speaker 1: like a standalone podcast. Yeah, because you're not you, You
Speaker 1: wouldn't be your pure, genuine self. You lose a sense
Speaker 1: of that, and then you have the right to be
Speaker 1: careful and then anything you go off of God forbid,
Speaker 1: off the beaten path, and you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of energy. It's like, wait a minute, you can't say
Speaker 1: that Ben, Ben, you pissed somebody off. Ben. That's a sponsor, Ben,
Speaker 1: that's an average. It's like, wait a minute, no, listen.
Speaker 1: It's not to say it hasn't happened, because it mean occasionally,
Speaker 1: you know, you do a tap dance on the third
Speaker 1: rail and eventually you might step across the third rail.
Speaker 1: But as far as Clay Travis replacing Limbaugh, I mean,
Speaker 1: the line had always been, you want to be the
Speaker 1: person that replaces the person that replaced the legend, right,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be the one that walks in
Speaker 1: the footsteps of jazz. But it's still a different Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Rush passed away, so it's not like, you know, Rush
Speaker 1: will be commenting on things Clay says or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Um So, I mean, well, I hope, I hope the
Speaker 1: show does well. And I know Clay is very popular
Speaker 1: in the political radio world and he's got a following
Speaker 1: the air, and you had to know something was up
Speaker 1: when President Donald Trump called Clay twice on his morning show.
Speaker 1: I still am amazed by that, a sitting president calling
Speaker 1: into a morning sports show producer of that book. That jeez, man,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good job by him or her.
Speaker 1: But Buck Sexton's bill with Premier Networks, and I think
Speaker 1: since seen he's had a couple of conservative talk shows
Speaker 1: either midday or in the afternoon. So you know, I
Speaker 1: don't really know. But I've never heard Buck show, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. I assume he's pretty good. I don't
Speaker 1: know much about him, so I can't say that I
Speaker 1: don't I can't give a firsthand opinion into that. Have
Speaker 1: you ever worked as when you were down in San
Speaker 1: Diego with six nineties, did you ever jump on Cogo
Speaker 1: or any of the other news stations down there to
Speaker 1: do any kind of crosstalk. No. I popped up on
Speaker 1: kf I actually with the great Tim Conway, uh once
Speaker 1: or twice. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. And
Speaker 1: I've been a guest on some shows on kif I
Speaker 1: or they've they've called me up for stuff and not
Speaker 1: in a long time, Not in a long time. Kif
Speaker 1: I has a big news station in l A fifty
Speaker 1: all over the United States station. Uh, I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever been on Cogo. Yeah, I'd be kind of
Speaker 1: curious to see what that. Oh wait a minute, hold day,
Speaker 1: I ran the board into State and they had their
Speaker 1: games passed off to Cogo. So technically I was on Coca.
Speaker 1: But I mean being in that that news talk format
Speaker 1: with a political old pundit or just a news talk
Speaker 1: show host, because I was on Cogo when I worked
Speaker 1: down there at thirteen sixty. But the host down there
Speaker 1: at the time was it was an afternoon host, and
Speaker 1: in the fourth hour we would do a full hour,
Speaker 1: which is called just man talk, or he would bring
Speaker 1: two other guys in. One of them was me, one
Speaker 1: of them was from the rock station, and then he
Speaker 1: bring a female in, so it's three men and one female.
Speaker 1: And it was just straight man talk obviously, like you know,
Speaker 1: we'd be like in a bar or a club or
Speaker 1: some other bullshit, and it was pretty it was pretty loose.
Speaker 1: I was really surprised for it being a political show.
Speaker 1: They allowed us to do that for sixty minutes. No,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Uh yeah. I mean there's there's some of
Speaker 1: that that's still around, but there's not there's not much. Man,
Speaker 1: everyone's walking on eggshells these days, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: looking around. You know, it's like it's it's safely across
Speaker 1: the street. I mean, it's it's it's true. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the way it is today. The accusation
Speaker 1: is enough to do you in. Maybe the accusation, like
Speaker 1: it if if the mob on social media says something happened,
Speaker 1: they didn't like it happened, even if it's not that way.
Speaker 1: And it's this thing we often talk about that there
Speaker 1: have always been a percent of people that just bitched
Speaker 1: and complained about everything, but only with the advent of
Speaker 1: social media do the rest of societies think that that
Speaker 1: opinion matters back in the old days and who's that idiot?
Speaker 1: Who the hell cares what they think? But now it's
Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, No, we need to
Speaker 1: give them a deep tissue massage, a Swedish massage, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta give him a tongue kiss. We mean, it's
Speaker 1: come on, yeah, that's wild. It is. It's truly, it's
Speaker 1: truly wild. But that's the beauty about doing podcasts when
Speaker 1: we could do this and and rip away. I guess
Speaker 1: the one thing is all of these you know networks
Speaker 1: have these digital platforms, and you mentioned the Ben mallary
Speaker 1: dot com website. You do get some portals out there
Speaker 1: that will grab snippets of a show or a segment
Speaker 1: and then edit in such a way that it looks
Speaker 1: like you did say something that was either disingenuous or
Speaker 1: or crude or hateful, and they blow it completely out
Speaker 1: of context. Before you know it, you've gone viral. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that happens all the time, out of kind
Speaker 1: of I mean, look look at our show. I mean
Speaker 1: we have fun and all that, and uh and I'll
Speaker 1: say some goofy things from sometime from time to time,
Speaker 1: and Roberto slice it up and make it seem like
Speaker 1: I said something that I did not say. It's pretty good,
Speaker 1: that's not right. Yeah, And I just I see an
Speaker 1: opportunity for something that I think would get, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe someone to smile just a little bit, not a
Speaker 1: full smile, just a half a smile. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I can go down that the road where it was
Speaker 1: just generic, or I can just try to spice it
Speaker 1: up a little bit, and I try to go down
Speaker 1: the road where you can spice it up a little bit,
Speaker 1: just you know, make it more enjoyable. And then these
Speaker 1: idiots cut up the thing and then play it for
Speaker 1: twenty years. That's good entertainment. At least you're around for
Speaker 1: twenty years, right, some people get half that time. Perseverance,
Speaker 1: gag on. You gotta have perseverance, right, maniacal maniacal mallard.
Speaker 1: I'm trying. How's that going for you? I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's I don't know. If you tell me,
Speaker 1: you just gotta keep you know, listen, you gotta keep
Speaker 1: keep going. You gotta keep throwing the towel you got,
Speaker 1: you're throwing the sponge and then you know what good
Speaker 1: is that? So? What are systems if we have because
Speaker 1: we do this all the time, if we had to
Speaker 1: set some gambling lines on the next host that replaces
Speaker 1: Craig Clay Travis, who is your who is your leader
Speaker 1: of the pack? Who's your odds on favorite to be
Speaker 1: that guy or girl? Um? Yeah, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know who they're considering. I don't know really know. The
Speaker 1: lineup on the weekends usually it's somebody from the weekends
Speaker 1: that would do it. Um. There's also the other thing
Speaker 1: with these jobs is it's often the big name name recognition. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what I had. I had the battle
Speaker 1: is at Foxbus Radio for years and I was close
Speaker 1: to getting a midweek you know, daytime show or not
Speaker 1: daytime show, but during the week show. And I lost
Speaker 1: out the bigger names several times because the company wanted
Speaker 1: the bigger name. And so it's a battle you always
Speaker 1: have trying to make your mark. And you can't become
Speaker 1: a big name unless you get the opportunity to become
Speaker 1: a big name. And I get I understand why the
Speaker 1: company does that. It's much easier. It's the easier path
Speaker 1: to get a big name. And you can sell a
Speaker 1: big name. And a lot of the people in the
Speaker 1: advertising world don't really listen. They just hear the big
Speaker 1: name and they think, well, that must be good. There's
Speaker 1: a big name, there's somewhat of influence, and you know
Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter where that person's complacent and careless
Speaker 1: and does shoddy work. It's their big name, you know,
Speaker 1: And so that's how that works. But uh, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I listen I don't know what else we can say
Speaker 1: about any as far as the morning show, Who do
Speaker 1: you do? You have a name Gascon that you would
Speaker 1: like to throw out that you think I think I
Speaker 1: think Jonas would be a good fit. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it would be a good fit, especially going from your
Speaker 1: show to his, because I work with Jonas on the weekends.
Speaker 1: I work with him. I was Sam Bucky Brooks sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, he works. Jonas works with Brady Quinn on Sundays.
Speaker 1: But I've worked with Jonas on the Overnight show when
Speaker 1: he first started and when he got on air the
Speaker 1: first time it was on the Friday into Saturday, Saturday
Speaker 1: into Sunday. So yeah, we worked together on those those shows.
Speaker 1: But he's loose and it's the same like you he does.
Speaker 1: He doesn't work, which is he doesn't disrespect the chair.
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing where you get a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys that do take it for granted,
Speaker 1: the opportunity, and Jonas does not. Like he you know,
Speaker 1: if there's days where someone is not here and that
Speaker 1: dude doesn't sleep for twenty four hours, he'll fucking come
Speaker 1: in and work and you know, yeah, listen, I'd be
Speaker 1: great I'd love Jonas to get the the morning show.
Speaker 1: I don't know if his wife would want him to show.
Speaker 1: That's three am to six am in the West, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure it would pay pay pretty well
Speaker 1: and it's a morning show, so i'd be great. I'd
Speaker 1: endorsed that fully. Yeah, that'd be fantastic. I don't know
Speaker 1: who the leader of the pack would be, but i'd
Speaker 1: like to see him. I have no idea, you know,
Speaker 1: and I have no People have been tossing my name
Speaker 1: out on Twitters. I I don't have any I highly
Speaker 1: doubt that, and that's not necessarily my ambition. But money
Speaker 1: talks and fools walk, right. I mean, if you if
Speaker 1: you get moved over there, you gotta let me know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can start waking up a little earlier and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just start talking. Oh my god, you would
Speaker 1: agree that the energy, the life, the spunk, the enthusiasm
Speaker 1: for what you do has been elevated over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. It just feels like it seems like it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because if it's gain weight
Speaker 1: in me, I don't know now. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: means to an end, is what it is it's a
Speaker 1: means to an end. That's that's how that goes. But
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But I you know, I hope
Speaker 1: Jonahs gets it, or you know, somebody don't want to.
Speaker 1: Somebody that's gonna work hard and represent radio, you know,
Speaker 1: and put the work in. That's all I want. That's
Speaker 1: wants the hell out of me. When I and I
Speaker 1: hear people and I hear about people that just just
Speaker 1: completely as we say, you mail it in and don't
Speaker 1: just check out, I can't stand. I do think that here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say for other networks, the larger
Speaker 1: ones like CBS and ESPN, but I do think here
Speaker 1: we have a we have a truck full of personality
Speaker 1: where we don't have black and white dudes that are
Speaker 1: just you know, straight down the middle. They don't want
Speaker 1: to piss you off. They don't want to piss me off,
Speaker 1: theyn't want to piss her off. We call that the
Speaker 1: francesa model of radio. Well you just here's the Yankee lineup,
Speaker 1: you guy. Yeah, we we have dudes that throw throw bombs,
Speaker 1: and we have guys that are colorful. They'll they'll they'll
Speaker 1: throw out their takes. I do think that we don't
Speaker 1: hold much back, which is which is strong. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want guys that are sucking cow taw to
Speaker 1: people and into the public just for the sake of
Speaker 1: doing that. No, you do not. We have study this.
Speaker 1: We we used to do this back in the day.
Speaker 1: I thought, there's some some things I found scientifical. We'll
Speaker 1: get scientifical. Does that mean we're going bitcoining, we're going crypto? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's just like some stuff that I found that, uh,
Speaker 1: that was intriguing, intriguing. Shall we sit Alright, So scientists
Speaker 1: have figured out a way to turn food scraps like
Speaker 1: you know, banana peals and cabbage into construction material How
Speaker 1: about that one? Wow, that's interesting, right, They can turn
Speaker 1: banana peels, seaweed, and cabbage into struction materials that are
Speaker 1: at least as strong as concrete. How crazy is that?
Speaker 1: That's pretty damn tough. Yeah, some smart BRAINI acts in Japan,
Speaker 1: they have figured out a way to turn food waste,
Speaker 1: as we said, these products, and they uh they build
Speaker 1: it in into a different form obviously, and the in
Speaker 1: construction projects, they they use a heating press concept that
Speaker 1: turns wood powder into construction material. They tweaked that by
Speaker 1: using vacuums ride food scraps instead of mixing the food
Speaker 1: powder with water seasonings. Uh. And and they put it
Speaker 1: in at a temperature to test the strength, taste, smell,
Speaker 1: and appearance. And according to the study here or the
Speaker 1: report out of Japan, all the materials exceeded the researchers
Speaker 1: strength targets except for the pumpkin. So the pumpkin did not.
Speaker 1: They say Chinese cabbage leaves produced a material over three
Speaker 1: times stronger than concrete. Chinese cabbage leaves. Future buildings could
Speaker 1: be built on the foundation of cabbage. What about the
Speaker 1: Mallard mansion? Would you consider going down that that road? Cabbage? Yeah,
Speaker 1: save me a couple of bucks. If it's as good
Speaker 1: as are better than concrete, why not. And it will
Speaker 1: be cheaper than lumber. Right now, everything's cheaper than lumber. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Wow. And it says the material is
Speaker 1: not negatively impacted by you know, rot fun guy and
Speaker 1: all that, or insects, and there was no appreciable change
Speaker 1: to the appearance, the taste, or whatever exposed supposed there
Speaker 1: for four months. Yeah, science baby, Wow. They they estimate
Speaker 1: the worldwide. The food is wasted every year. There's one
Speaker 1: trillion dollars worth of food scraps that are wasted every year.
Speaker 1: So are you guilty? Someone is going to get so
Speaker 1: freaking rich off this, right. They are going to get
Speaker 1: a scrap business. Instead of throwing your food scraps away,
Speaker 1: give it to us and they're gonna turn that into
Speaker 1: concrete and they're gonna become gazillionaires. And this happening back
Speaker 1: to the future. To remember when Marty McFly would go
Speaker 1: and fly into the future, they would go into the
Speaker 1: trash can and grab the trash and put it into
Speaker 1: not the flex capacitor, but they put into I think
Speaker 1: it's like Mr Fusion. I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1: But they used banana peels, beer, They use all kinds
Speaker 1: of waste to make the Dolorian fly. Is that right? Yeah? Interesting?
Speaker 1: I haven't watched back through the future in many, many years,
Speaker 1: A long time, I know, you know. All right, here's
Speaker 1: another one that caught my attention. You can live to
Speaker 1: be a hundred and fifty years old. Well, scientists have
Speaker 1: created an app that claims it shows humans lifespan could
Speaker 1: nearly double, but that this is in Singapore. Now I
Speaker 1: don't know if I buy this or not. My bullshit
Speaker 1: detectors going off, but they say they've developed an iPhone
Speaker 1: app that accurately estimates biological aging. It discovered that life
Speaker 1: expectancy has the capacity to be almost double the current norm,
Speaker 1: which is somewhere in the seventies. So what are we
Speaker 1: doing wrong then? Uh? Because life expect life life expectancy
Speaker 1: on the average has continued to grow. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of scientifical things in here, but they say if
Speaker 1: a person's trends hold into old age, the app finds
Speaker 1: a complete loss of human body resilience won't occur until
Speaker 1: around a hundred and twenty to a hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: This study appeared in the journal Nature Communications. Also included
Speaker 1: the step count data from around American adults. They did
Speaker 1: some blood samples from people in the US and the UK.
Speaker 1: So there you go. I mean, I don't could you
Speaker 1: live two hundred twenty with your body frame right now? No?
Speaker 1: I mean I think to do that you'd have to
Speaker 1: they'd have to have you on a certain diet from
Speaker 1: the time you're born probably probably. Yeah, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: some damage has been done here. The old body I
Speaker 1: don't think it's Hey, Elon Musk. You never know, he
Speaker 1: could be doing something wonderful behind the scenes, right and
Speaker 1: make you a cyborg or something exactly cyber mine systems
Speaker 1: all right? Well, where the chocolate chip cookies? Half of
Speaker 1: Americans hide their favorite snacks from other family members. That's
Speaker 1: I agree with that one. When I Girl Scout season,
Speaker 1: when they would sell the thinment and Girl Scout cookies,
Speaker 1: I would put those in the freezer, but in the
Speaker 1: ice trays, so they're up top and no woman see
Speaker 1: where they're at because they'd be tucked into the trays,
Speaker 1: out of sight, out of mind. That's right, and people
Speaker 1: would be looking for him. No chance, none new new new. Um. So,
Speaker 1: they said that nearly half of people that were involved
Speaker 1: in this study had stashed their favorite delicious treat around
Speaker 1: the house. Now would many admit they had no plans
Speaker 1: to share them with the rest of the family. Now,
Speaker 1: were you chips ahoy kind of guy? Or milano? Was
Speaker 1: more chips ahoy? But I could eat the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't need to leave any I would just eat
Speaker 1: the whole containers. I'd go for the whole thing. Good.
Speaker 1: Nobody around a judge you just fucking take it all down. Say.
Speaker 1: Those responded said they didn't want to share, that's why
Speaker 1: they did it, said the people they live with would
Speaker 1: eat them all all right, So how about this them
Speaker 1: on the on the note of finishing them all? Um,
Speaker 1: when you get fast food, did you ever go fries
Speaker 1: first and then burger? Or was always burger than fries? Alright?
Speaker 1: So I would go a little bit of the fries,
Speaker 1: burger and then back to the fries. Alright, what about you?
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, we had to bring sack
Speaker 1: lunches to school, but every so often my mom or
Speaker 1: other friends moms would bring like Jack in the box
Speaker 1: for McDonald's for the kids. But because you know, the
Speaker 1: French fries were always there out there first, kids would
Speaker 1: always grab the French fries from somebody else and not
Speaker 1: the burger. So whenever I got it, I always chowed
Speaker 1: down the French fries first. I eat French fries first,
Speaker 1: and then the burger. And I've continued till this day.
Speaker 1: I do no matter what. Yeah, back fries, French fries,
Speaker 1: the whole smash. So you're still living like a child, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's something I have not been a chucky cheese in
Speaker 1: a long time though, or Disneyland. That's because you're not
Speaker 1: allowed either one. There's a photo of you, there's face recognition,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed in either one of those cases changed
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, I don't know about that. What
Speaker 1: else do we happier? Let's see page Dan, page Dan.
Speaker 1: All Right, this one's interesting and this is something that
Speaker 1: I have been aware of. But you study is back
Speaker 1: up my my long standing beliefs. So, uh, memories will
Speaker 1: fade as you age, They'll get to a point where
Speaker 1: you just remember the basic gist of what happened, right,
Speaker 1: and so so this is always and it's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons like in court cases the witnesses aren't very
Speaker 1: reliable because as the further away from an incident you get,
Speaker 1: the less you remember, right. Researchers in the UK have
Speaker 1: discovered new insight into how people bring back old memories,
Speaker 1: and their findings reveal as more time passes, only the
Speaker 1: most meaningful elements of those experiences stick in your mind,
Speaker 1: which makes sense, and it's totally true. Like I have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun memories, but I don't remember all
Speaker 1: the minutia, right, You don't remember that you don't have
Speaker 1: room for that. Do you feel like you do that
Speaker 1: now as an adult in your twenties and thirties and forties. Uh,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, like stuff that happens right now,
Speaker 1: do you feel like you just you process it and
Speaker 1: then eliminate it. Uh? No, I mean I I the
Speaker 1: thing about it. I think it's important, especially as the
Speaker 1: talk shows, because you gotta tell stories from time to time.
Speaker 1: It's story time, so it's very important to remember and
Speaker 1: I try. It's also something like I've heard comedians talk
Speaker 1: about this, like, because when you're talking about things that
Speaker 1: happened in your life, the key to it is actually
Speaker 1: remembering it. A lot of people don't remember this, so
Speaker 1: I try to. I try to be cognizant of things
Speaker 1: that happened and try to remember it. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: I remember certain parts like this Clay Travis story, like
Speaker 1: I'll remember you know, Uh well, I remember I remember
Speaker 1: the announcement, I'll remember that, I remember working as a
Speaker 1: lead in for Clay, And I don't know that I'll
Speaker 1: remember a lot of the other stuff, you know that
Speaker 1: has transpired over the years. So anyway, do you remember
Speaker 1: everything you have? Some people have like Cowboy and windsor
Speaker 1: one of my guys. He's like rain Man. He remembers
Speaker 1: everything's got a photographic memory. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: that's photographed. There's something beyond photographic. Yeah, I wish you
Speaker 1: had a photographic memory. I'm really good with numbers and
Speaker 1: memorizing numbers, but I have in twenties and my thirties,
Speaker 1: I have taken information and just did away with it.
Speaker 1: I just discard it right away. For some reason, I
Speaker 1: do that a lot. I think it's a bad habit,
Speaker 1: but I try to remember more now than than never.
Speaker 1: But it's just part of that thing where, you know,
Speaker 1: social media and television you're just over sensitized with with
Speaker 1: content and filtering things in and out. It gets challenging
Speaker 1: for me at times. Yeah. Well, all your senses right there,
Speaker 1: they're all overwhelmed, every single thing, attack, attack, attack, attack
Speaker 1: to five basic senses touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste
Speaker 1: all inundated. So anyway, how much time do we have here?
Speaker 1: Guess a gun. I don't have like cluck here, not
Speaker 1: that this is a clock show, of course, No, no
Speaker 1: seped breaks or anything like that. No, No, we don't
Speaker 1: do that. We have a I have a couple more
Speaker 1: here and then we'll no herd out put the baby
Speaker 1: to bed. Seeing that all right? Uh, apparently it is
Speaker 1: true when you're having a good time, time speeds up?
Speaker 1: Time does. A new study finds your brain really does
Speaker 1: perceive time is passing faster during certain events. However, just
Speaker 1: like the old saying time flies when you're having fun,
Speaker 1: researchers from the Ohio State University dot the I say
Speaker 1: it only applies to positive events. Oh yes, about that,
Speaker 1: People perceive time when they're anticipating either a positive or
Speaker 1: negative event to arrive. For positive events like an upcoming vacation,
Speaker 1: researchers say people judge these activities be further away than
Speaker 1: they really are, Like if you've got a big trip.
Speaker 1: According to this study, here to like Hawaii maybe a
Speaker 1: week away, but to them it feels like a month away.
Speaker 1: Says Also, people also feel as if happy events like
Speaker 1: a vacation last for a much shorter time than unhappy interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I travel, like if it's via car or plane,
Speaker 1: depending on the destination, I'm excited about it, But sometimes
Speaker 1: it feels like forever to get there, and and not
Speaker 1: so much in a short period of time. But doesn't
Speaker 1: it on road trips, and I love going to roaches,
Speaker 1: but it's always like quicker on the way back because
Speaker 1: you kind of know where you've been and you know
Speaker 1: you can kind of anticipate how long it's gonna take.
Speaker 1: But it is true. I mean unpleasant things, We've all
Speaker 1: done them. The simplest thing when you're in grade school,
Speaker 1: when you go to detention, they say, never look at
Speaker 1: the clock. That's the worst. When you're a kid in
Speaker 1: elementary school and you look at that clock and that
Speaker 1: fucking second clock barely moves, and you're like and you
Speaker 1: look up again and it hasn't, and like, what the
Speaker 1: hell is going on here? Why is the clock not moving?
Speaker 1: They're rigging the clock here. It's brutal. Yeah, let's see here,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on more of this study. Uh, people,
Speaker 1: when time flies, people spend more money. Study authors believe
Speaker 1: they're finding could even affect how people plan for future
Speaker 1: vacations after you know, the pandemic ends and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But they said when participants in these studies only considered
Speaker 1: how long a fun activity would last, people believe the
Speaker 1: event would last longer. It's only when people start thinking
Speaker 1: about how long they have to wait for their fun
Speaker 1: to start at the time of these activities seems to
Speaker 1: fly by. That's interesting. There you go fun facts, that's fun.
Speaker 1: It's science, which of course has been hijacked over the
Speaker 1: last year. What is science? Um, it's kind of like doctors, right.
Speaker 1: Science has become like doctors, where if your doctor tells
Speaker 1: you something you don't like, go to another doctor. Find
Speaker 1: one that tells you what science tells you. What you
Speaker 1: don't like, go to another scientists, find one that believes,
Speaker 1: and you will. Eventually, there's enough scientists out there that
Speaker 1: you will find one that is in line with what
Speaker 1: you were hoping for. And that's the that's getting awfully
Speaker 1: close to the third railbo man, my mind, what do
Speaker 1: you do in my mon? All right, maybe I'll pop
Speaker 1: up on claych They can put me ont of there
Speaker 1: as a guest. All right, we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: We've got Saturday fun. We'll have another edition of the
Speaker 1: award winning pop quiz Got the mail Bag on Sunday,
Speaker 1: some other surprises on Saturday as well. Have a wonderful,
Speaker 1: glorious rest of your Friday. Again. Congratulations to Clay Travis
Speaker 1: replacing Rush Limbaugh. And someday I can tell my friends. Actually,
Speaker 1: tomorrow I can tell my friends that I knew Clay
Speaker 1: before he replaced Rush, who knew. Have a great to
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