WEBVTT - An NFL Embargo 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought more hours a day, dred minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.119 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.400 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.000 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:30.000 Maller starts right now that it does, and we are 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.720 plausibly in the air everywhere for this week's edition of 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.920 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, and we allowed David 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.519 Gascon again because four hours are not and off a 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:45.120 special added bonus as we are powered by I Heart 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.599 the global reach of podcasting, and it's heard weekly. If 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.720 you don't know this by now, every week about this time, 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:53.479 give or take some weeks. It probably won't be at 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.080 this time, but most of the time will be here 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.160 dropping around the same time early afternoon in the east, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.960 late morning in the west. And you can download the 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.840 podcast well, if you subscribe, you don't even have to 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.600 worry about it goes right to your phone, boom done 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.480 like that way to go and and and we're back 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.080 at it, and I gotta tell your guest on you 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.920 know it. My voice sounds great. This week doesn't sound 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.199 any different than any other week. So still saying those 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.720 stupid emails your Maron's I don't need You've you've woken 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.400 up on the wrong side of the bed today. It's 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.280 it's very apparent, and you've brought me down that road 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.600 to I am exhausted because I've had to stay here 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.959 overnight to monitor your show. You've brought up special guests 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.520 to me and your listeners. We deserve an apology. Uh 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.640 you did not. I saw you leave the building. There's 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.040 security camerage camera footage of you leaving the Psychopaths, So 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.200 you did leave the building. And you know, I don't 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.440 know if you got attacked by bed bugs or something 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.200 like that. And you probably don't have a sleeping over 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.880 bed like I have. No um so yeah, but but no, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.360 I mean listen, it's uh we do this. We tape 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.680 this thing during the day and uh so sometimes I 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:03.200 can be rambunctious when that happens. But anyway, we're back 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.840 at coming up on today's edition. Through I give you 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.160 the rundown here because I like doing the rundown nice. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.920 So this is what we're cooking up here. On the podcast, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.600 we'll talk about we'll call the embargo Baby. I have 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.920 not mentioned this before. This is we try to give 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.200 you like insider stuff. Somebody pointed out, by the way Gascon, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.640 that we did no sports conversation last week. There was 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.400 zero sports conversation, and as someone who is the producer 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.960 of the podcast, gas Gun, I fully blame you. In fact, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.960 I want you to know that if anyone complains, my 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.440 default response and when management calls up and says I 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.680 didn't like what I heard there on this podcast, I 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.359 just blame you. I say, it's not my fault, it's 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.720 gas Gun's fault. You're my fall guy. Well, the beautiful 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.720 thing is, as you mentioned the top is we're under 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.120 the I Heart Media umbrella, so it's not strictly Fox 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.679 Sports and I heard media, so we encompass all that 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.399 is in this good world. That's true, and well that's 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.519 my my thought on this movie. I do four hours 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.760 of sports talk, plausibly sports talk, so this is not 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.800 it's not I'm trying to circumvent sports talk. But one 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.200 of the things that I would like is that I 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.800 want this thing to last, this podcast, as far as 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.600 the fact that if you listen to it. I listened 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.400 to podcasts from time to time, and when the sports 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:25.280 in the sports corner, when stuff is dated, it's it's 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.680 I evaded, you know, bipad, I sidestep, but whatever you 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.160 want to uh and so uh you know a lot 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.960 of these sports issues we talked about, unless we just 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.960 do really generic things, which I'm not against, you know, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.400 I mean from time to time. You know you love 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.040 list radio. Gas got invented list radio. Um it's I 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.600 feel it's disastrous, but we could do like top ten lists. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.960 We could do top five lists, you know, we could, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.120 we could do all that stuff. We gotta keep it 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.880 more open ending. We can't really do We could do 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.360 that because I mean, after all we've had we can record, right, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.800 we can just record out a general sports topic and 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.280 then not even worry if it changes the subject in 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:01.960 a day or two or even hours after that, Right, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.880 something breaks and we stleft some recorded content that's still 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.240 that's not evergreen, but it's it's what we have. Well. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.560 For for example, um, the was it two weeks ago 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.120 we were talking about it. We actually recorded a part 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.760 of the podcast talking about Antonio Brown Benny versus a Penny, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.200 and we had to we had to delete that. Well, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.960 I it's team when it when it's a team, Yeah, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.240 it's in this in this respects this balancing act. Yeah 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.200 you know, but yes, and so that content had to 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.560 be deleted because it was dated and all that story 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.280 had changed. And that happens a lot with these dopey things. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.359 But you know that already anyway, So I want to 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.360 put you. We talked about this. I need to have 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.680 you on one of my games, on a television game 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.840 for Fox out here on Fox Sports. I would love 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.480 I would love that. I would I would do nothing 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.760 but sports cliches. I might get fired. No, no, no, no, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.120 I think it would be great and and uh I 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.320 think they should just just a bit to improve ratings. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.280 I would I would do that. I haven't been to 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.920 a high school game since you know, I was in 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.560 high school, but I would absolutely go. I would have 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.080 a great time. It would be a lot of fun. 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.640 And let me tell you something, all right, the amount 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.040 of hard oh sports talk that I could do here 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.720 if you if you want, I am a contributor. I 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.840 don't I kid around about this, but if you go, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.720 I'm gonna give you a website. You go to sports 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:30.600 cliche dot com and you click on there's a link 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.919 there near the tops called mission Statement and Links, and 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.400 it's lists all the contributors of the people that sent 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:42.560 in these things, and my name is prominently displayed there 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.720 on that particular page. I have contributed to what I 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.880 feel one of the great websites out there, Thank God 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.039 for the Internet. Not many people know about it, but 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.240 sports cliche dot com, well you had You've had a 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:59.640 couple of fantastic uh monologues with sports cliches from sports personalities, 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.600 right athletes. Uh yeah, yeah, Well I love it. Well 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.360 I did. We did a parody song years ago, which 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.920 I'm very proud of. When the it was like a 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.599 pandemic all of a sudden hit, and it was everyone's saying, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.119 it is what it is like all so I put 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.120 a Of course I had someone else to it, I 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.680 because I pointed at someone else. But we put a 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.120 song together and it was the it is what it 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.680 is song, And it was like ten different people in football, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.600 the big stars at the time, and they all, uh, 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.000 they all just said it is what it is like. Belichick, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.680 Elim Lijah Manning, Tom Brady, they're still around. They were 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.160 doing it and all that stuff. So, but just think 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.320 of me like I have to. You know, I end 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.000 to review the high school coach down by two touches? Coach, man, 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:47.359 how do you stay hungry? You're up by you know, 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:48.920 you're you're up by two times? Are you're down by 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.400 two whatever? And uh you can go down that and 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.240 uh go down that road? What else? What's your feeling 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.520 coach heading into the locker room right now? Yeah? Yeah? 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.440 What do you tell your team at halftime? Coach Boom? 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.200 I love that one. That's a great I all that 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.919 from Aaron Andrews. I did I stole that from Aaron Andrews. Uh, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.880 coach the match up, Your numbers look terrible, looks like 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.600 you have no chance to win, But the stature misleading, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:17.680 aren't they? And you can survive As an NFL field reporter, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.520 you'd be in a good spot. Yeah, I think I'd 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.160 be all right. I think I think I can handle that. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.520 Not the one thing that you cannot say during a 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.160 broadcast like that, which a lot of radio hosts do 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.040 now or even television personalities, they always use unmitigated disaster. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.800 That is a catchy phrase over the last year. You 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.920 do you do, but you don't use it as much. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.480 Other people, I think use it as a crutch. I 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.600 don't know if why is that not allowed? I mean 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.960 it's okay, but you go back to the cliches, right, 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.640 the dumpster fires or you know whatever. It is something 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.840 that's catchy. It is what it is. Those things were 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.320 played on for a long period of time, and not 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.240 unmitigated disaster is one of those. So that this is 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.800 like an earworm for you. You hear this, You're annoyed 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.680 by this, you're troubled by this. I just think that 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.880 it's overused, right, A lot of this nonsense is overused. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.040 I mean it's everyone's using the same image. I do 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.360 try to change it up, though. That's I get fatigued 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.600 from using the same words, and I do need to. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.520 My goal for the next week is to use the 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.120 the the word horn swoggle more. I don't use that 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.080 word enough. I love the word horn squogg. I feel 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.559 like the great word. It's perfect words, fun word. Kids 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.680 laugh at it, adults think it's interesting. Uh that don't 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.400 always hear the words. So I like the word horn swoggle. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.560 I need to use that more. It's a bad job 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.520 by me. Well please use it tonight. Then you know, no, no, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.680 wait a minute, I guess gone though. Yeah, you do 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.320 these high school Friday you do a game, is there right? 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.120 So yeah, for Fox Sports West that will do high 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.480 school football games, and then when you get into winter, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:53.600 it's usually college basketball and volleyball and baseball stuff that 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.120 you don't really care about, so don't no, I'd have 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.880 no interest in that. But it's on Fox. You should watch. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.520 Well not here. We work good I heearts, so it's 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.280 this is an I Heart only product, so you don't 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.920 do anything. Be sure to catch live editions of The 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.800 Ben Meller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.360 pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.400 Radio app Get Out of Dog, Get Out of Dodge. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.760 As they say, but no, I would have fun. It 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.240 reminds me of I think we talked about this. I 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.839 don't know we did on on the podcast or not. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.960 But when I used to do the Football Show, The 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.160 Hard Old Football Show with Looney Tunes on the weekend, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.120 we had a great time. We had asked seven years 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.640 I did that show and we had to interview every week. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.160 We had the stars of the NFL on Fox that 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.840 would come on the play by play people and everybody, 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.520 even Joe Buck had to do this and come on 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.600 with us, and we had players every week from the 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.680 winning locker room is never the losing locker room because 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.719 the reporters were afraid to have them come on the 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.920 show and they wouldn't come anyway. So we do this 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:58.360 every week and uh looney. One week we tried to 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.920 change it up because we were asking really good, thoughtful questions, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.720 deep questions, you know, the kind of questions that you 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.960 gotta do some soul searching for the athlete to answer 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.640 the question. And it was it was such a disaster. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.680 It was it was painful. So we changed it up 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.000 and Louni would just ask one one week, he asked 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:26.200 nothing but sports cliches, uh to the to the players, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.320 he spoke their language like, hey, you really brought your 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.480 a game today, didn't you. Yeah, and things like that, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.040 you know, and they just they just ate it up. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.280 They just and they were tickled to death that they 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.760 were asking these questions. And it was a tremendous improvement. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.480 So that's a little lesson. If you ever get a 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.560 show where you have to interview athletes after football games, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:53.480 don't ask them those deep soul searching questions. You know 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.960 where they could get lost in thought. You don't want 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.079 you don't want introspection. You don't you want simple, you 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.720 want right. They're as simple as it gets, is what 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.199 you want. I feel like there's a boilerplate template that's 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:11.480 available for field and court side reporters, for halftime and 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.680 for postgame, just immediate questions that come off your lips. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.160 How do you feel what led you to victory? What 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.800 was the turning point in the game. What are you 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.680 gonna tell your team at halftime? Coach? Right, halftime adjustment? 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.120 What are you looking forward to next week? Okay, awesome? 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.200 So c I have a theory on this, A you're right, 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.200 this goes on everywhere. There's I don't know anyone that's 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.400 really outside that that certain lane they stay in, y'all 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.960 lane and all that stuff that they I know that's 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.360 saying fortune favors the bowl, which I use from something, 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.120 but not when your sideline report, Uh, it is not. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.240 You want to keep your money. You have to you 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.000 have to play right. The other thing is that people 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.320 have just become programmed to watch football or any sport, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.520 and they expect, you know what it is like a 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.280 certain expectation It's kind of like when I watch a 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.280 game and I know it's a blowout, and it's uh, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:09.160 every broadcaster learns that sportscaster clown class that hey, uh, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:14.320 we can't say the game is over. We have to lie, right, 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.480 We have to lie to these people's years and to 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.520 their face. And I said, you should not turn the 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.600 game off. You know it's a bare face lie, but 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.600 you have to say it anyway because you're trying to 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.040 keep your audience. It's harder to get new people than 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.559 keep the people you already have, So it turns into 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.760 a in a blowout, it's pathological line there when there's 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.640 a chance they could come back. Yeah, and once out 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.640 of like a thousand they come back. And then when 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.000 the team does come back, then it's like, well, I 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.240 told you, see, you should never turn the game up. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.400 Nine nine point nine percent of time if you consider 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.480 all the factors, the game is over. But it's a blowout, 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.800 and and you and you use weasel words gas on 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.000 your own how do I use the reasl word. They 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.400 say that a broadcaster makes his or her money during 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.920 blowouts because that's the only way that you can keep 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.400 an audience around. It's like a talk show host, right, Like, 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.280 you can have a strong opening monologue, but if you've 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.120 got no salt, no pepper, nothing in the middle towards 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.560 the back end of the hour, then your game over. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.280 You're there for what fifteen minutes? So in a game 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.760 you need the backstories. You need the players, you need 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.120 their stories, You need to know how they came about, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.600 where they came from. I think those things are important. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.439 You just have around a conversation. See, I disagree with 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.800 your analogy here. It is the thing that it's like 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:38.679 you you know firsthand, there's only host that provide a 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.000 good opening monologue and they check out after that. Well 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.000 that is true, alright, is true. But I would say 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.400 the bigger issue in our industry if I were to 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.320 give you a conversation about sports radio in general. And 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.480 I don't listen all that often because I don't want 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.600 to take other people's material and I feel like you 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.760 might listen, I might copy something somebody else does, so 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.440 I don't. I don't actually listen as much as other 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.319 people do. But when I do sample sports talk radio, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.760 all right, my analysis here, my diagnosis is that it's 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.840 it's part of the calendar, like that this time of 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.560 the year. During the NFL, there is usually five to 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.160 ten pretty good stories a day, some better than others 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:23.600 some days. But it's coming in in May and June 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.600 and the months where there's not a lot going on, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.400 that's really not a lot of meat on the bone, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.720 and to still put out and turn out a decent 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.120 to above average show that. I mean, it's just people 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.440 just pack it in. They get lazy, they don't they 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.720 don't have the the chops to it. But so I 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.200 think that's where like that's our blowout in sports radio 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.600 when there ain't crap going on, the ship going on. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.440 We say that in the podcast, of course, and yeah, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.160 so it's you know, it's it's how to do it. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.080 And I guess in the layman's terms, it's almost like 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.640 the real estate market. Anybody can be an agent when 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.280 the real state market is hot, but when it comes 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.840 down and it cools off, then you see the feast 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.880 and the famine that takes place. That's what it's like 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.120 during the dog days of summer for baseball. Because there's 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.640 not a lot of people that will delve into Major 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.240 League Baseball. They won't talk a lot about that. They 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.640 don't go back to the National Football League and then 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.640 of course the NBA had some offseason drama over the 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.960 last couple of years, but that's been pretty much it. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.080 So you really got to manufacture, which comes back to 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.080 your original point why it's important not to stick to 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.680 sports because there's so many other things that are going 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:35.560 on that make a show for three or four hours entertaining. Yeah, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.440 I mean you've got a mix and match and and 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.520 all that stuff. Yeah, even the hard oh sports shows 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.040 is I find it a hard listen. I know that 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.400 some people that love that and they like it, but 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.920 it's it's like nighties sports radio, where like you'd read 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.120 the read the lineups before games during the day, you know, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.920 the Yankees lineups out. That's read the Yankees lineup. It's like, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.080 okay on the phone to see that. Yeah, didn't you. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.200 I mean, I remember you're telling me a story about 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.920 a couple of New York broadcasters that would actually do 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.720 that for the radio shows in the morning time. They 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.560 would read it would be box score radio. Oh it 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.160 was actually Mike frances Is the legend of this, Like 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.760 FRANCESSA would kill like segments of his show just reading 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.240 the lineups and the box score and and it was 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.960 and he say a name and then he paused for 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.200 like thirty seconds, and I mean, he just dragged it out. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:29.760 But I don't know if he still does that or not, 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.160 but he I'm guessing I'll have to check with fun House, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.400 but I'm assuming he does actually do that. Anyway, I 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.560 was in the middle of the rundown. I was doing 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.800 a formal rundown this Nanny this week. So we have 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.040 Embargo Baby, the Power Lunch Study, this which I like, 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.800 and we've got marginal questions from It's in the Bag, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.080 It's in the bag. We've got that, which I would 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.880 like to see better questions now. Last week I thought 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.560 the questions were pretty good. And then don't stick of Sports, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.119 which will be really a blind we there's no production 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.359 meeting on this. I have no idea what five stories 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.520 guestcn's gonna pick. He was in a big hurry to 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.480 get this thing going year, so we'll we'll we'll kind 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.560 of play that by year. So that's that's what I think. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.160 That's that's a good podcast. I think that's a solid 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.360 discussion has the ability to be a solid podcast. It's 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.800 really up to to you not to eff it up. Okay, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.160 be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.960 Show week dam eastern eleven pm Pacific. Can I give 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.639 you at least an obligatory sports story to kick this 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.200 thing off? Yes? Alright, oh, we that would be great 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.919 because that would appease, that would pacify the people that 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.239 are upset. You never talk about sports, just borring. I 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.879 don't care about what you had for lunch. All right, well, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.000 here we go. Here's our obligatory sports story. Jennifer Lopez 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.560 will be doing the halftime performance of the upcoming Super 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.920 Bowl j Lo JL man. She looks good for her age. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.760 Does that mean a rod is gonna be hanging out? Also? 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.879 Will he be part of the festivities? Maybe with the 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:05.720 answers in the back? Isn't it usually a group effort? 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.800 You know what I mean? So it'll be her? Who 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.320 is she gonna be with? I mean, there's gonna be 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.040 some ensemble group there, right, the assemblage, usually the SUPERO 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.159 I have some kind of tandem. That's that's my like. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.920 They'll they'll bring some surprise musician who would be I'm 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.280 not big on the music there, guess and I listened 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:23.600 to it, but I don't know a lot about like, 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.080 who would be someone that people would get all excited 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.800 about and fascinated by if j Lo did some Jenny 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:35.320 from the block worked with somebody else. I mean justin 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.760 timber Lake comes to mind. Yeah, yeah, of course, I 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.240 mean justin timber Lake with Jack Jackson. Well that was 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.320 the super Bowl war wardrobe malfunction. Yeah, I think Gray Momanson. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.439 We were, we were, I was on the ear doing 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.240 a show during the super Bowl. What about if P 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.960 Diddy comes out? Then you get a little friction right there, 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:58.000 because that that whole a Rod relationship will obviously j LO. 0:18:58.200 --> 0:18:59.920 But P Diddy is the one that kind of brought 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.399 her up from where she came from the block. J Lo. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:08.880 She's got a Derek Jeter like card of her her 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.520 list of accomplishments there her conquest j Lo. But she 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.080 had the gift basket. I don't know that she has 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.960 the gift basket or not, would you si? How old 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.720 is she by the way, Credit's yeah, she's fifty. For 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.000 her man, she's fifty. Where she probably spends a million 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.240 She's like called Brian James. I bet Jennifer Lopez spends 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.520 a million dollars a year probably to try to maintain 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.879 the body and she's been When did she first broke 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.800 in in like the early nineties? Right, Yeah, that's right. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.840 That's a long that's like thirty years of j Lo 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.639 Jenny on the Block. Do you remember the show in 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.399 Living Color? I do. I I didn't watch it. I 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.320 watched it sometimes, but it was it was it was 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.080 a Fox show. It was very popular in the yearly nineties. 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:54.919 So she was a flag girl dancer in that and 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.760 that was a that's early nineties, yea. So if the 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.040 miss Wayne's brothers, right, that's right, Jim Kelly was on 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.320 that too. Um, if the misses getting gave you a 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.640 get at jail free card and jail want to uh 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.119 to lay with you one night, would you sign an 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:17.720 n D A Like no, not not now. I mean 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.639 maybe five years ago I would have. But you know 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.639 it's like, you know, look, it's when you're younger, Like 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.919 you know, Pamela Anderson at one point was the hottest 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.120 woman in the world, but now probably not. She's got 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.480 some I got some issue is the little older down 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.080 so you move on. Yeah, but some of these women 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.720 j Lo some ahya, even Demi Moore, they're they're in 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.159 their fifties and they still look gorgeous. Well, it's the 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.960