WEBVTT - Radio Alert 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:06.840 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific Boom. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.280 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.840 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.480 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.400 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.439 pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of Hot 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.240 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:37.960 Ben Maller starts right now that it is well, come 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.760 into the beginning of the Fifth Hour with Ben Masse. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.839 My name is on the marquee there because four hours 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.319 are not and off and we now do this thing 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.479 eight days a week. The question is will we continue 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.880 to do it eight days a week and obviously spin 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:55.720 off of the radio show. But you've found it, you've 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.880 downloaded it, you subscribed, you've told your friends, you've told 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.600 your enemies about it, and we welcome in. It's it 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:07.880 is a gas bag chat, a chat with our friend podcast. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.560 We'll get to him in a second. We welcome in 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:18.640 David Gascon from West of the four or five I 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.680 have in front of a studio audience here and wonderful 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.319 Sherman Oaks, California. It is interesting that you are able 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:30.280 to get that particular SoundBite. But I don't really get 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.920 any drops. I don't get any rim shots. I don't 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.640 get any applause, any laughter, any of that. It's a 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.360 pretty good job of, you know, patting yourself on the back, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.880 you know, making it all about you, as you know 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.440 liquently said, uh, it's all about you during your shows. Well, no, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.960 I was the Tom Looney school of radio. That's not 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.160 my school of radio. But I did take advantage of 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.840 a situation that was bad and turned in into a positive. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.520 Because anything that you learned that after he gave you 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.680 advice on how to invest in the real estate market 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.560 and that turned out to be a dudd you'd stop 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.800 listening to him. But here we are in the month 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.640 of September and appears to be no slowing down. You 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.040 and Tom Leney, Well listen, I don't actually talk to 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.120 Looney much. We text, which is not really talking, it's texting, 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:15.840 and we go back and forth in that. But uh, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.760 but he is wrong about everything, certainly as politics are 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.040 all messed up. So we go back and forth on 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.520 that but enough enough about me. Oh wait a minute, 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.600 Wait a minute. We have Gascon tonight if you're listening 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.239 anytime early in the day on Friday, this podcast, the 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.959 Friday Podcast. We made our maiden voyage last week. We 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:44.760 did Benny versus the Penny YouTube stars YouTube stars only 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.280 on the YouTube and it went better than I expected. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.160 There were only limited mistakes by you um and people 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.120 seem to enjoy it, and we had a live crowd 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.680 that was interacting with the show on the chat on YouTube. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.400 It was a lot of fun and more importantly, we won. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.960 At least I won on my my bet, so we 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.760 came out ahead, which is the most important thing. And 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.079 we're gonna do it again tonight, same situation on the YouTube, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.080 and it is at nine o'clock Pacific on Friday, which 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.800 is midnight Eastern. That's the Witching Hour. Guestcount. We're gonna 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.040 be on on the Witching Hour on the East Coast. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.839 We'll do it live, so that'll be fun. I'm looking 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.320 forward to will pick every NFL game from the weekend 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:32.040 card against the spread. We'll have winners on every single 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.360 game and we will attempt again to win some money 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.520 and the and the best part is is is we 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.280 will unveil something a little special for for those that 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.880 are actually watching the uh the stream too. So you 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.760 and I had talked about this for the last couple 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.560 of weeks and it's a little give back to to 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:54.000 those are participating in in the broadcast tonight. So what 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.240 do we give? What are we giving them? Um? You 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.120 know it's it's something that has to I'll give him 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.280 a hand. It has something to do with your Iowa 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.280 Hawkeye hat. Oh yes, all right, well I have you. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.920 I wore that the other night the Iowa hawk Eye had. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.040 It's good looking at that's good looking at. So I 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.840 took some notes from from the first broadcast because I 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.640 know that typically when you go on the air, you 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.000 don't wanna you don't want to listen to what happened 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.960 after when it's all said and done. So, um, I 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.760 have fourth wall, Christmas and economy. Those are the three 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:31.080 things I like. I like that you're doing monolog that's 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.800 because typical West of the four or five. Absolutely, and 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.760 love with breaking the fourth wall, like that that live 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.400 feed with with viewers typing in comments, you could not 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.760 get away from. It was like a kid in the 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.920 fucking candy still it was like your first Christmas unwrapping 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.000 a nice g I Joe or Transformer, and you were 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.279 just fixated on it until you broke it. Like the 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.400 broadcast went nearly two hours, which you didn't give me 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.680 any credit for because I helped you through that two 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.800 hour fast that you needed to complete. And then on 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.400 top of that, you said, this thing is gonna suck. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.840 I know it's not gonna be good, it will not 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.479 be technically savvy. And then all of a sudden you 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.240 got to flame Mignon as opposed to you know bull. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.640 But a couple of things. First of all, I like 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.200 that you made this all about you and just to 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:25.320 celebrate yourself, which is which is good. And as far 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.200 as the chat uh a, it was unexpected, so I 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.800 didn't expect that to be an option, so I didn't 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.800 think we'd have any real time feedback and and be 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.920 it kept me from having to just focus on you. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.000 I could focus on other things, which is good. That's good. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.680 And see this is the difference again, you are proving 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.919 yourself what's as not being a man of the people. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.160 I am a man of the people, and I like 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.200 to interact with the unwashed. You do not uh, you 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.440 think these people are below you, the riff raff right, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.080 and all those scum and the lowest common denomena and 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.279 all the mean things you say about the Mallard militia. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.919 You call them vermin and rodents and all that. But 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.599 these are my people. These are my people. There. I 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.240 like hanging out with the peasants. I like hanging out 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.479 with the hoi poloi and all that, and uh, you 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.760 know these are my guys. Well, I mean, like you, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.159 like you said, is that if you're performing, which this 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.080 is a performance, there's a there's a stage, and then 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.320 there's an audience. And you never have the stage and 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.680 the audience run parallel to each other. Usually one is 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.960 on top of the other or vice versa. So I 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.240 think in this point the audience is behind the stage 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.200 of what we're doing virtually. So if you don't mind 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.720 for the future, let's temper this down a little bit, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.760 because you know we've got business schedules here, and I 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.839 know you've got two hours to spare when you're at 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.360 home doing shows from your bed and and broadcasts. Well yeah, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.440 not in my bed. I mean a professional radio studio 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.160 which has top notch equipment. I have better equipment than 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.359 i'd say five percent of the sports radio stations that 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:03.080 are all raggedy and all that. So so uh yeah, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.760 I mean I I've been to a few radio stations. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.360 I've been blown away. I remember one in Oklahoma. In Norman, Oklahoma, 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:10.960 I went to a radio station there because I had 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.200 to record something. I was there for a college football game, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:18.400 and the radio station was at the transmitter site and 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:22.160 it was like a portable like when I was in school, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.000 in elementary school, you know, I had those portables out 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.240 in the back of the school. It was the radio 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.920 station was in that Like, oh my god. I was like, 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.160 this is my profession here and I but then you 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.920 go to like New York or l A and then 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.400 these big massive skyscrapers and you've got show showcase studios 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.520 and all that. But there's more radio stations like the 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.120 one that was at the transmitter in Norman, Oklahoma, in 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.400 a little portable building than there are other places. But 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.400 then I don't beat the knocking the home studio. I 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.160 have great equipment here. I'm gonna upgrade the studio later 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.080 this month. I got some things coming in here. They're 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.920 gonna make it even better. So I'm all about that man, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.280 all about that action. That's good. We have one show 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:07.280 in the book, we have another show tonight, and I 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.600 think this is I think this is important because the 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:14.760 more feedback the better, but also the the activity level, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.400 because we're gonna be giving some things back to the audience, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.320 so they need to be aware of like what's like. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.760 If you like what we're doing, great, there's ways to 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.880 support that. But if you don't like some of the things, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.960 that make sure that you you voiced those through the 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.480 live feed or through the comments section or even the 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.360 podcast you can rate, you can subscribe, and then you 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.040 can chime in as well. Because and I think what 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.000 you're really saying is we need more people watching. I 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.760 think that's what you're really say. I think we and 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.160 the most effective advertising. Yes, and you know this, and 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.080 this has always been my thing. I have no ad budget, 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.280 there's no marketing budget zero. The most important thing is 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.600 what I call guerrilla marketing, word of mouth advertising, and 0:08:55.640 --> 0:09:00.320 that that is I don't need billboards, I don't need tvmercials. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.400 They'd be nice radio commercials. I don't need any of that. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:09.160 But the real hype, the real advertising, is just you saying, hey, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.880 so and so this is this is one of the 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.960 reasons this is important, like one of the cool things. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:15.600 Is one of the reasons that I Yelp is so 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.680 popular and and and Amazon people buy products based on 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:23.360 the reviews is because we value other people's opinion. Obviously 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.160 it's human nature. But really, if people we know, right, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.080 people you know who are in your circle, not in 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.120 my circle, but in your circle, your your family, your 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.560 co workers, you go to school, people around you say hey, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.880 I got it. I got this thing on YouTube that's 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.640 like kind of cool, but nobody knows about it. See 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.240 that that adds some some drama their guest because and 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.400 really nobody knows about this, right Well, it's not like 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.960 lights camera action. It's like, all right, turn on the 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.840 little dusty candle or you know, like the little candle 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.880 and here we are. Yeah, which is fascinating to me 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.839 because I don't know why you had a problem with 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.880 my avatar picture that if nobody knows, what's the issue 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.840 with you and my back I don't get that. No, listen, 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.680 I think that's great. I know you use that on 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.880 grinder and I think that's pretty cool there, and I 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.240 know you've had success with that picture, but uh, you know, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.280 I just thought maybe it was unprofessional. How about that 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.679 you have multiple pictures sent out to all these radio 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.480 stations and their photo shot pictures of you. No, no, no, 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.360 not photoshow. Those are just old pictures. Well there's one fat, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:29.640 there's one skinny, there's one and they so well the 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.120 problem is, and if if you really hate me and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.200 want me to get fat again, tell tell scotch Aapiro 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.680 and management of Fox Sports Radio to have a photo shoot, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.880 because I guarantee you I will gain eighty to a 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.040 hundred pounds before said photo shoot. It happens almost every 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.800 single time I've very rarely in radio do they do 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.160 photo shoots for the talent. And I have timed it, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.720 I believe probably seven out of the eight times I've 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.920 had to do those things over the years, roughly ball 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.360 park figure. I have ballooned like a turkey before Thanksgiving. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.480 Uh and it never ends. So uh, you know, whenever 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.520 I'm lean and mean, very rarely do I get my 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.160 photo taken for those photo shoots. So it's only when 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.000 I'm fat. So then if we go, if you're on 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.520 a video feed, then does that mean you can clean 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:20.920 up a little bit? Can we get you, like in 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.800 a suit and a tie or at least a dress 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.719 shirt and rolled up sleeves. And you want me to 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.920 dress up? Oh why not? It's better than being in pajamas. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.280 Look like No, I wore a nice T shirt. I 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:37.680 had a cap. Again, I'm relatable. I engage with the people, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.560 all right, I engage. You're Johnny one note over there. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.439 Let me dress up here, I'm gonna look all I'm 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.520 gonna be like Cramer from the CNBC, and I'll do that. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.360 And all the shots of the Speaker of the House 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.880 this week, I saw that. I did see that. All right, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.800 we're going very long. This is an interview situation task 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.720 on this is a chat. You're so long winded here. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.840 It's a bad job by you. You have buried the lead, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.840 my man. So we're excited we're gonna have here right now. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.360 He is standing by Bernie Fratto. You know him. He's 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.880 on Fox Sports Radio on Saturday nights, my old time. 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.559 So I just one hour show Saturday nights, eleven pm 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.360 in the West, two am in the east, straight out 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.000 of Vegas, all the inside dirt, right in the middle 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.600 of the weekend. So essentially, when you lose your ass 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.560 on college football. You listen to Bernie. He gives us 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.200 some info, some important info on what's gonna happen on 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.600 Sunday in the NFL. So you can get your your 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.800 your money back, conceivably get your money back and all that. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.559 So let's welcome in now. He's worked in radio and 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.800 Detroit and uh, he's a soap cow guy, so he's 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.400 he's lived an interesting life in the radio business. Let's 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.880 give it up now for Bernie Fratto and Bernie, why 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.400 don't we start with this, How the heck is that 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.760 show doing? Then? Uh? And David first, thanks for having me. 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.719 It's going great. He's having my two year aniversary this 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.640 week and donal looads have increased and uh, no one's 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.400 tried to shoot me yet. But you're at eleven pm 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.880 Saturday night, Pacific time, and it's a one hour show 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.080 and the center piece of the show, and of course 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.360 it's called Straight out of Vegas. The centerpiece of the 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.920 show us of course sports betting. However, the content is 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.920 a little bit more broad based and eclectic than that. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.240 I like to offer a journalistic commentary. I like to 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.840 give insights. Uh, you know, give my cake as they say. Uh, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.319 it turns out that we're finding that about the people 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.480 who listen to the show don't even bet. However, they 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.520 like to hear what we're talking about and maybe have 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.880 brightening rights over their friends and such, and we try 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.480 to drop a lot of knowledge. We try to be 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.800 keen observers have been at this a long time and 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.199 I used to have a joke. You know, if you 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.079 go to medical school and finished last in your class, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.880 they call you a doctor. If you go to betting 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.920 school and finish last in your class, that might call 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.760 your books. So we'd like to intertwine and common sense 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.440 strategies as well, like money management and various things like that. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.560 So we tryd of make it a correct I guess 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.520 we can then within the framework of being betting centric, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.960 because you know, people want to hear your opinions on 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.640 games and events. Well and Bernie, uh, and I'm sure 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.760 you are because you do a professional show. I didn't. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.280 I do an amateur show. So you don't have to 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.360 worry about the crazy people that call up right and 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.200 harass you on social media at that time and not 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.000 because that that is a party time slot. Bernie. I 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.320 know that downloads are good and all that, but in 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.000 real time doing the show live at that time that 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.280 is right in the middle of the weekend, and that 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.800 is party central. And I know from years past, Bernie, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.520 that the people that are listening at that time live, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.360 they are feeling no pain, if you know what I'm saying, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.720 No doubt, many folks are just exiting their favorite watering 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.520 hole that might have had a couple of creamed emments 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.200 and learn a certain type of mood. And what's interesting 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.720 about that is I get people tweet at me during 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.280 the show. People tweet at the show, um, and what 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.960 surprises me, never ceases to surprise me, is how many 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.560 of those tweets are coming from the Eastern time zone, Philadelphia, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:12.000 New York, Virginia, Beach, Virginia, wherever. And so as you know, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.240 uh liter hours, there are always listeners out there. The 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.600 guy text me is listening from Sydney, Australia. So what's 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:25.000 interesting is because of the wonderful platform that Fox Sports has, 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.760 and you know, you've got a hundred and sixty eight 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.080 hours in the week, I just do one. All you 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.720 guys do such a great job. People have it keep 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.600 it locked on Fox Sports. So I find that more 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.840 people are listening sometimes and we realize, oh, I agree 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.600 with you, and and the cool thing about that it's 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.040 a lot of fun is that these people listening around 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.000 the country. We're on Fox Sports radios on the American 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.960 Forces Network or whatever they're calling it now. So we 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:54.840 have a lot of military, uh and non military that 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.800 happened to be working for the government that are in 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.560 you know, Asia or different countries around the world where 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.280 US military is and they listen on the American Forces Network. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.160 So it's pretty cool. But that's cheating, Bernie, because it's 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.960 like an afternoon show. It's not an overnight show for 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.880 these people on these different parts of a life. Ran 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.920 once said, we're in the air everywhere. I don't know 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.320 who would say something like that. I have no idea, Bernie, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.440 who would say that. But now do you consider I 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.000 think of you as a radio guy. That's one of 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.520 the reasons I like you, Broke. I think of you 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.000 as a radio guy, But you've done a bunch of 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.400 other stuff as well. Now do you consider yourself part 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.920 of the Rob Parker radio tree or is that incorrect? 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:37.560 It's correct, So let's unpack this. I began my radio 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:42.720 career in at w t K in Ann Arbor and 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.800 the first night I ever and I'm gonna build up 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.640 to the Rob Parker thing. I'll get there on a second. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.040 But the first night I ever had a credentia was Friday, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.840 June seventeenth, was at the Old Tiger Stadium. They were 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.320 hosting the Toronto Blue Jays, and that was the first 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.440 year they put martyrs in the press box and watched 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.240 the game. But there was no sound. Well, that night 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.920 we were watching the game, we were watching a little 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.440 thing that became known as the Yo J Bronco Chase. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.000 And then later on a fine gentleman's faith kept popping 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.040 on the screen, a guy you made it out a 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.680 world named David Gascon And I'm watching the screen and 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.320 my first night in the press box, and all these 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.199 things are hitting me, and I couldn't hear what he 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.040 was saying. So when I got home about eleven thirty 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.120 that night, I made sure I watched all the replays, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.600 and of course the rest is history. I spent several 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.439 years at w t K covering Michigan football, had my 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.760 own show on Sunday called The View from the Chief Seats, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.160 another show called Inside the Frattle house, and then Rob 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.119 Parker and I became friends and started corresponding on things, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.200 and I found all the way over to CV yesterday 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.000 eight won the flagship station w k r K Detroit, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.400 which is now w x y T. And not only 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.920 did I work with Rob, we covered the World Series, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.720 the super Bowl, the NBA Finals. Also was a part 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.360 of the Lions pre and postgame show broadcast team from 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.000 two thousand and eight and the fall people in that period. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.400 Then I saw everything. It was Barry Sanders last year 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.560 and to all the way until two thousand and eight, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.840 which when the lines went Owen sixteen under Rob Marinelli 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.280 and I saw everything in between. So I lived three 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.760 lifetimes covering the Lions, and then I left Detroit in 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:22.119 two thousand ten February, came to Las Vegas, joined up 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.040 with the ESPN Radio here co hosted some shows, also 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.920 hosted rube Lextra, which is a post game show for 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.359 you and of you run a rebel basketball Along this 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.560 whole way, Rob and I kept in touch. We've known 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.800 each other for twenty five years. And worlds collided because 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.960 R J. Bell had started a show called UM Straight 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:43.320 out of the Guts, and they wanted to add a 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.560 Saturday night show, and I got into Scotch Shapiro, and 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.239 as I said, the planets aligned. And so about this 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.040 time in two years ago now they created the Saturday show. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.120 They said, can you make the commitment? I said absolutely, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.720 And here we are. Look at that and the rest 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.280 is history. And will you do a great job, Bernie 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.520 on the show. And now you're a big national radio star. 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.880 You've become international, right, international radis. But I love Rob. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.879 I went out. You know, I've known Rob not as 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.280 long as you, but I've always been a big Rob 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.600 Parker fan. I like this style, He's no nonsense style, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.879 and how he's willing to tear it people down and 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.840 all that. A lot of these guys don't do that, uh, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.320 you know, the athletes and whatever. So when I went 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.240 out one time, we do not have a meal with Rob, 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.960 and we were just trading stories about like nineties radio 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.800 and how different it was compared to what we can 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.200 do now. Do you have a really good Rob Parker story, 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.240 Bernie from back in those Detroit, those wild local FM 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:44.400 radio days in the Motor City. Well there's a tell. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.600 I'll tell you a couple of classics. No, we're uh 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.480 in in two thousand nine, Rob used to joke with 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:56.280 rod Man and Elly, uh you know that his uh 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:01.520 southern law when we began a eventsive coordinator marry his 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.359 daughter and and Rob used to joke with Rob. I 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.919 used to I bet you wish your daughter would have 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.400 married a better defensive coordinator. And you know you might 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.320 not have gone in sixteen and both the room down, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.280 Rob Mary Milly didn't think we still have funny. But 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:15.600 the paper one I was going over forget Ben was 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.879 when Jim Leland take over the tires. And in the 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.760 fall of two thousand and five and the first year 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.000 out of the gate, they go to the World Series 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.080 and there wasn't a person in town. They played the 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.080 same Louis Cardinals that you They were e three and 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:31.639 seventy nine, and that was the David uh the shortstop 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.600 but David x x xteen, Thank you very much, sir, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.639 thank you. So they are all story longer. The Cardinals 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.880 beat the Tigers four games to one. And before the series, 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.200 while I was the only guy in town that predicted 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.760 the Tigers would not win the World Series, and man, 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.199 you'd here to think he would have assassinated, you know, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.600 the president or something they were coming at him right 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:57.520 and left. And you know, Detroit is a very provincial 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.960