August 5, 2023 • 34 mins
Danny G. is on baby-watch, so Alex Teichert joins Ben Maller for some Saturday fun! They're talking: Ben tells a few stories about his past life within covering sports, a recent event that happened to him while watching the Dodgers this weekend, if the guys enjoy hearing their own voices, and the hollow earth society listens to the Big Ben Maller?! ...Subscribe, rate & review "The Fifth Hour!" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fifth-hour-with-ben-maller/id1478163837
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
He's the last remnants of the old republic.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
A sol fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the
ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill poppers in
the penthouse. Wow, the clearing House of Hot takes break
free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahllor
and not Danny G. This weekend, Danny away awaiting the
arrival of Little Danny G. So in his place. We
have spared no expense and we are rolling out the
red carpet to one of the viral Internet sensations who
(00:51):
also happens to moonlight at Fox Sports Radio. We know
him as Alex the Vegan. That's not his legal birth name,
but Alex is here. What's going on out unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You're here, Big Ben. What an honor to be a
guest on this distinguished Fifth Hour podcast, Because we all know, Ben,
four hours is just not enough for you, right well.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Not enough for the company. For me. It's the people
that run the company. They said, we need more. We
need more, and so here here I am Alex, and
I thank you for doing this. I know we were like,
I don't know, Danny can't really do it this weekend
because of the kid thing and then all that. So
there you were willing and able despite your many ventures,
(01:35):
and you were on the podcast. Was it last year
we had you on? I think it might have been
last year. Maybe yes, last year, I believe. So. Yes,
you were talking about your your anime domination and also
you're dabbling in the TikTok and you're you're all over
the place with yes, yeah, So it's still going well,
(01:55):
you're still stud in that area.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Ben, It's it's going too well. If that is a thing.
It's kind of amazing to see that the TikTok continues
to go viral so constantly, hundreds of thousands of millions
of views. What's really funny, too, Ben, is that I
wanted to test something and just to see how a
much of a presence TikTok has right on the world now,
because as you know, and we've seen within the sporting
world that the progression of streaming now is the forefront
(02:22):
for anything you want to watch. So, for example, Lino
Messi the superstar that's here for soccer unless you have
Apple TV. Good luck watching him, unless it's for highlights
on MLS, on Twitter whatever it is or X right. Yeah,
so it's crazy to see now that within this anime
world in TikTok alone, I put a basically a work email,
you could say, for my own TikTok page. I'm made
(02:42):
so the anime SEMPI put a work email, and the
hundreds of emails these different companies send me now to
be either a sponsor a promoter, to work with their
company to put it within my podcasting. It's crazy to
see that the simplicity of just using an app that
is so prevalent within the market today and using your
off with it and being your own boss can just
(03:03):
take over your whole life. In a sense, it's kind
of amazing to see the outlet it's given me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's cool and that means money, right, money, money.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Letter cheese exactly, the cheddar cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Go look at that outstanding. Well, it's good to hear,
and you'll teach me about TikTok because when I lose
this job, I'll just move to TikTok.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You might as well. You might as well.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'll become a TikToker. Probably too old for that, but
what the heck anyway, So later on we'll get through backscratcher,
we've got pop golls, the culture, and we'll get to
the phrase of the week. But I did want to
recap for those that missed it, that were not listening
to the Overnight Show this week. Tremendous moment, one of
the great moments, I would say the moment of the year,
happened at Dodger Stadium, Alex and I happened to be
(03:44):
a part of it. I was just sitting there minding
my own business. The Dodgers are playing the Oakland Athletics,
which is a Triple A team. Used to be a
Major League team, but now they're in Oakland, they're gonna
move to Las Vegas. And there were a handful of people,
actually there were a lot of people because they were
giving something away at Dodger Stadium. But they give free
stuff away, people run out there quickly. So I'm out
(04:06):
there doing my wing, getting ready for the show, minding
my own business, keeping to myself. And I notice it
was like the fifth or sixth inning of the game,
might have been the fifth inning, and I'm wrapped up
in my prep for the show, and I noticed out
of the corner of my left eye there is a
flying projectile that is coming towards my location. And I
(04:29):
then immediately went to survival mode. But as you know,
I'm very nimble, Alex and acrobatic, and so I was
able to with one hand, I was able to protect
my laptop like it was my baby. Wow. And then
I rolled up my sleeves and with my left hand.
(04:53):
Now I'm right handed, so with my left hand, I
then reached out at the flying projectile, which turned out
to be a piece of cow hide and uh, and
then I it hit my my not my middle finger,
my ring finger, and then it one hop boom, grab it.
So I then then I grabbed it and then that
(05:15):
was my that was mine, my souvenir. I got a
little baseball. So but it shows you how agile and graceful.
I think that's the word graceful, that tremendous athleticism Alex.
To get the the baseball from Ahmed Rosario, you have
no idea who that is. Uh, you never heard of him,
nor should you. He's a random baseball player, but he
(05:38):
has now been blessed. He has now been given the
blessing that he will have the courage, he will have
the fortitude in the playoffs when the Dodgers get there
to dominate because there's a bond and a lot of
baseball players don't know and people don't realize, but when
you hit a foul ball and somebody gets the foul ball,
there's a connection. And so there's a thing. Yeah, yeah,
(06:02):
there's a cosmic thing. I don't I can't really explain it,
but I promise you that Ahmed Rosario with the Dodgers
in the playoffs will not be a lightweight. He will
not be a pushover. He will play well, big hits,
big hits, NLCS, MVP. I see that in my crystal ball.
So anyway, that was kind of what And also while
(06:24):
I was at at the old ballpark there, Alex, I
did run into someone who reminded me I'm getting old.
Now you're not old, Alex. So you don't have to
you don't have to go back down memory lane and
all this. But I'm going to tell you what is
going to happen to you at some point, because it's
starting to happen to me. So the Athletics were in
(06:46):
LA and I years ago when I was first starting
out in radio, they had reporters they paid money to
to cover games. They don't do that anymore, wow, and
because they don't need to because the Internet. But they
paid paid me to go out the game. So I
was a radio stringer. So I go out do live
call ins, like you know, seventh th inting the Dodgers
(07:06):
are up four to three, and I back to you whatever.
So that was my gig and I did that for
a number of years. I first started, not that long,
like two or three years. And and one of the
side hustles I had before the Internet, so you got
like all these side hustles. But back in the year
and the Stone Age, we had to get like these,
you know, paying radio things on the side. So one
(07:28):
of the jobs the Oakland Athletics they used to have
good teams, and I don't really have good that terrible now,
but they had some really good teams in the eighties
and the nineties, and one of the teams they had
in the mid in the like I honestly the mid
nineties or so, they hired reporters from different ballparks around
baseball to do that they called it the Coca Cola
Road Report, And so this was kind of a cool
(07:49):
gig because I I just did my normal work and
then in like the fifth of the sixth inning of
the A's game, when they went to commercial break, it
was after the bottom of the first inning, before or
bottom of the inning, before the top of the next inning,
they would say, it's a sponsor's secret. So so they'd go,
let's go to uh. They called it the Coca Cola
(08:09):
Road Report, and they tossed to me UH in Anaheim
giving an update on the Angel game. So whatever it was,
it was fun. And but the guy that did that
a lot was this guy named Ken Korak, who is
the radio play by play guy of the Oakland Athletics.
So the A's were in town. Ken still the radio
play by play guy for the open and so but
(08:33):
you know, I hadn't seen him in years. It's been
a long time, and so I ran into him. I
was he was getting something to drink in the media
mess hall there and getting getting a little beverage, and
so I was, hey, Ken, what's going on? He remember
we were talking. We told I told my Bill King story,
which he enjoyed. He enjoyed the Bill King story, like
(08:54):
that story because we brought back some good memories of
Bill King. And and then he told me that he
he has now been the play by play voice of
the Oakland Athletics for twenty eight seasons. Twenty eight is SAE,
which is pretty much as long as you've been alive, right, yeah. Yeah.
So it was like wow, And I was like, wait
(09:16):
a minute, because I remember when he started with the
a's because I was like, I was doing it and
he was like the first second year guy, and that
was holy crap. How the hell did that as a
rude awakening Olex? Wow, cause we were talking and he
didn't want to say much about the team moving to
Vegas because they haven't moved yet, but we were talking
about that. But the main part was that it was
(09:37):
just great to see him, a very nice man, King
Cork and he loved the Bill King story. Now my
Bill King story, Alex. This old Bay Area broadcaster named
Bill King. He passed me years ago, but Bill was
the voice of the Raiders. He also was the voice
of the Athletics. Obviously did Golden State Warriors basketball. He
did all like the Bay are eighteens and this guy
(09:58):
was like a total hippie. He had this mustache. He
lived on a boat in the Bay Area. Yeah, you know,
he was going for it in life. You know, he
lived his best life. And but Bill was such a
hippie that occasionally if the A's were on the road
and it was hot, you know, summertime baseball, And this
happened in Anaheim. So I was doing I was brought
(10:20):
in to do stats because I knew the guys from
the A's broadcasting, so they brought me in when they
were in Anaheim. I did stats. So I sit in
the back behind them, and then they're in front, front
row and I'm in the back and I'm doing the
stats and all that. And then in like the fourth
inning of the game, because it was the third to
the fourth inning, Bill King started doing play by play.
(10:40):
Tossed to Ken Korak to take over the play by play,
so they go to commercial. He then walks up the steps,
He walks down the hall, up the steps in the
press box in the booth, walks behind me, and then
proceeds to take his shirt off and his shorts because
it was too hot. He then goes back down to
(11:00):
sit and is now in his underwear and he's just whatever.
He said it was too hot. Yeah. Yeah, So he
sat in his underwears, tidy whities and in the press box.
And I was like, I did I could. I was like,
what are you doing? In my head, I'm like, this
is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I legend.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, And then apparently he did that all the time,
like it was too hot, he just took his clothes
off because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
He wanted to cool down. I mean, I do the
same things. I can't complain.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But it's just the visual. I mean of a stadium
there's probably thirty five thousand people, and not that everyone's
looking there, probably no one's If anybody happened to look
over Alex and they saw they saw him just sitting
there without a like a shirt.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
On, shirtless guy just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah he was a good guy. Yeah, very nice man.
And uh but I just I love that. I hadn't
thought about that story in a while. And so the team,
the baseball team gets f's, but the broadcaster guys get
get a's in it.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, it was pretty cool. Now you do that sometimes
when you're running like the Jason Smith Show, You'll just
get down to your your underwear.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, you know, it's it's kind of crazy from all
the hot takes in here. Bet I usually go skateboarding
shirt lists. I'll be outside my house shirtless, usually a
little speedo shorts, just getting the nice tanning. But most
of the time now in the studios, if we ever
have the AC, go down. I mean I'm shirtless. That's
how you know if we have AC or not.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Now that is one of the big upgrades from the
new studio is air conditioning. Yes, I don't know about
you because you're in a different room than me. But
the room I'm in the old Steve Harvey part of
the building. You're in the Limbaugh part of the building,
but I'm in the Steve Harvey part of the building.
And the air conditioning amazing, I mean quality on ours,
oh so good.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We have three vents now you used to have one.
I'm in the old studio right now. You can see
the old vents above me.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah. I do like the fact, and I think you
agree with me that since the old studio we left
there a few months back and it's empty, and so
I go in there. I guess you know. I get there.
You say, what are you doing here? Yeah? Like I
show up early a lot and to work and you're like,
what are you doing here? I'll go into the old
studio because it's soundproof.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Nobody usually is on that side of the building, so
nobody bothers you because it's on the other side of
the building. And it's it's it's really cool. It's great.
I can kind of focus on what I need to do,
and it's.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I thought of the same thing when you asked me
to do the podcast. I was like, perfect, we have
a whole professional studio just sitting there. So even now
I plugged in our own microphone to my interface and
I sound like Rocket Gold.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm jealous. I have Mike envy Alex because you Yes,
Alex is using an amazing microphone. He's using the top
notch broadcast microphone. Yes, that I use, but not here
out of the pot. I have a different microphone I
use on the podcast, which is not bad. I have
a good podcast. I have. This is like the Joe
Rogan style podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Mike, oh the shmurs or something like that, right, yeah, sure,
the sure, yes, yes, yours are nice too.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, these are pretty good, but you're using the electro voice.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh man, this is like, as Tom Looney says, get
up in close and personal with the fans.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Tom.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Do you know Tom still just randomly sends me messages
voice messages on Instagram all the time, Like he'll literally
see a post I do and it just sparks him.
So I'll get fifteen voice messages from Tom and then
never hear from him for months.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Again, Yeah, I know I talked to Tom. I don't
talk to him. I don't actually talk to him at all.
Pretty much. I text him everybody. He'll text me same thing,
but we disagree a lot politically, same same.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, you're on my.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Team, I think, and he's on the other thing. So
we will go back and forth and I will goof
on his team. He will then goof on my team,
and then we we kind of do that. That's our
that's our stick alos.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You know what's my favorite is I'm with you two
on a lot of things, but the one is like
intermittent fasting. Right, So you and I practice fasting a lot.
So I'm getting ready for a seven day fast, if
not fourteen days, depending on how my body feels during it.
So I posted this video and Tom it just sparked
like the passion of the Christ in this man, Like,
I literally posted a video about this guy that's been
studying a lot about cyanide and different type of fruits
(15:11):
and vegetables, and he's talking about how you can basically
kill a lot of cancer cells by certain fruits and vegetables.
And the two he talked about were apple seeds and
apricot kernels and he said they have B seventeen and
also low doses of cyanide in him that it actually
confuses these cells in your body, especially the cancer ones, like,
oh the B seventeen, I want that, so it grabs
(15:32):
it and also takes into cyanide and kills cancer cells
in your body naturally. So I posted this video and
I just said, the more you know, like information, right.
He listed a book written by a doctor that had
like I think. The book is called A World Without
Cancer and he talks about how you can kill it yourself.
And Tom was just like hot as can be. He
was like, how dare you share this information with the world.
(15:53):
You are not a doctor. I don't see a coat on.
He was like, Tom, it's a video. It's a guy
who talked about something and I posted it because I
found it interesting. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds like Tom. That's on brand.
It is a normal rant. But I do like occasionally
he'll he'll send me an air check because he works
at a different station in ls Yes, a news news station,
which is just a ten that the news guy is
named Looney at a news station in Los Angeles, the
(16:23):
number one market. It is just absolutely wonderful. Yeah, he'll
send me like an air check. I never send air
checks of anything. I don't like hearing myself. Do you
like hearing yourself? I don't like hearing myself. I don't
like my boys. I don't like this. I always nitpick
when I make mistakes, and do you really Yeah, I
know that I'm not perfect, and it bothers me that
(16:44):
I screw up a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
To you, don't you find beauty in the imperfection though
that you aren't like perfect in that sense?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Well, I find beauty in the fact that management does
not have alex. I have no you know, but personally
I always try to put a masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's the old John would quote, make every day your masterpiece. Well,
most days are like a finger painting, but every once while,
every once in a while, you get a masterpiece. But
the effort was made. There was an effort. Eight, right,
that's your were That's the important thing there.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well, that's a fun question that you asked, though, Ben,
because for myself, like, I've never really listened to my
voice until I started doing content and getting into radio, Like,
it's not something I think most people, if they don't
do anything with their voice like that, listen to it.
So I never really knew much.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The first time anybody put me on game for my
own voice Bend was back at In and Out when
I worked it in and out, in and out. That's
what dude, I'm telling you about it all about. I'm
telling you it's crazy because I was doing like the
drive through and eventually when it gets like stupid long
lines like it always does, they give you those little
kiosks and they tell you go outside and get all
the orders in so they can cook them faster. Right,
(17:54):
So I would go outside and I literally walk up
to cars. They'd be like, Hi, welcome to in out.
What can I get for you? And they're like okay.
So then like they kind of were tooken back right.
I was like, okay, whatever, So then I give them
their order, so I have to repeat it. So I
was like, we have two double doubles, one with onion,
one without holwirl on the side hole openions for one
and chop chillis for the second. They're like, do you
do radio? And like it kind of sparked the idea.
It's like no, but now that you think about it,
(18:15):
I've always loved talking. I loved my voice and people
put me onto it. So that was like the first
time I ever really listened to myself. So I started
doing stuff and like recording content and so for myself,
like when you ask do I like my voice? I
kind of do, like, it's it's me. It's it's kind
of cool, Okay, what's good? No?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And I wish I was like you, but I also
have this neurosis Alex. When I was early on in
the radio business, they used to have these air check
meetings and so you'd go shit the office with the
program director and they would it was a cassette tape.
This out the old technology, and so they'd put a
cassette tape in and they'd start the show and then
(18:54):
every two minutes they'd pause and then they it was
the old compliment sandwich. You know, were they.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Good thing improvements, good things end right?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, they say no, they say good thing, you are
a scumbag, is terrible, and then they'd finished with a
good thing no kidding. Yeah, that's the compliment sandwich, which
is really just hiding the main point of the compliment
sandwich is to criticism. Wow, you've been in meetings. That's
what happens most meetings, is that that's like the standard.
(19:27):
They had a webinar years ago. All the bosses of
the world decided in the webinar, we're going to go
with the compliment sandwich, and so they start out compliment,
they go to the main point of the meeting, to criticism,
and then to make you feel good on the way out,
they give you a compliment. Yeah, it's all anyway, getting
(19:48):
carried away in that. But I always I'm going to
say something wonderful and brilliant. But I like that you
like you was when you were in and out. I've
heard stories from friends of mine in the past years ago.
That's a pretty good place to meet people today.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yes, or maybe just was that for you?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Actions you had the pipe. So when you were getting
those double doubles and the animal style fries ready for people,
were they they give you a little flirts the action
going on there.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Let's just say, Ben, it wasn't on the extra sauce
on the burgers.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, just no.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It's true, Like if you think about it, so in
and out is such a young person thing because you
think of a fast food place or not, and especially
something distinguishes in and out. Ben, it was like the
Olympics in that place, I'm telling you, whenever they had
these in and out meetings. So they'll have like events,
they'll have a soccer event, a basketball event, a baseball event,
a softball event. They'll put an event on for the
(20:44):
entire year for all in and out employees who can
bring family and friends. It's like an Olympic meet every time,
where you're going to the same place from the people
from the same industry or whatever, and you're just linking
up and connecting. The most amount of women I talked
to in my like illustrious young career of single life.
It has been in and out like it's insane, the
amount of tail you can pull just working there and employees.
(21:05):
Ben it was crazy. I would think that you you
would do very well there. Did you have crazy?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Did you have to go to in and out university?
Did you have to? Because I have been by the
headquarters which are in southern California off the ten Highway
ten there in the San Gabriel Valley, but I did
see their headquarters. They have like an in and out.
I don't know if they called it university or something
like that, but they had a maybe that's for management people,
(21:32):
I don't know, but they right, they had the building there.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So so that is so true is that there's like
levels in a process within and out. So if you
ever go to an in and out and see anybody
with the red apron, they're the manager of that store.
And the only way to become a manager is you
have to start as a level one. So there's nobody
within management or anything that's within a store that didn't
start at the bottom level and climbed to the way
up through levels. Which is why they're such a fantastic
company to work for. It personally is that every time
(21:56):
you level up two ben from a level one two
three goes up to like seven and then you become
like assistant manager, shift lead stuff like that. You get
a raise every time. So within a year, if you're
very good at the job and pick up quickly, you
can end up making six seven dollars in just raises
right there within a year. It's crazy, it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And there's there's different tiers. So it's kind of like scientology, right,
there's a little things. And then well, I mean you
get to the very top and you realize that the
burgers are actually from an alien planet somewhere and surprise.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Can we talk about the fact that government just comes
out and says aliens are real? We're like, okay, so
what else do you got's where's all the money from
the taxes last year?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You know, well, if the aliens are real, does that
how does that benefit us? By the way it does it?
That's what's funny. And I do think the aliens are real.
But the thing, how come the alien technology? A lot
of the stuff that we have like that we're using now,
I feel like, is alien technology?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Is it is?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So how come that's in the private sector? You know
what I'm saying, Like, it's it's just like people are
getting this and the different gadgets and gizmos that we
use in our everyday life.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
That's a fair point.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I also you wonder what's next, right, Like this, Wow,
is just all just starter stuff? It is, and then
it's like you know, you feed a child baby food
and then eventually you get to the real the stake
in the main event.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I mean, think about it. So if you look back
on any time of history, especially the stuff we can't
even process or understand. So if you go to like
the Great Pyramids of Gaiza, right or Geeze whatever the
pronunciation is, if you look, yes, if you look at
these pyramids, man, even to this day, you'll have any scientists, archaeologists,
anybody go there and be like, I don't know how
they cut those, I don't know how they stack those.
(23:44):
I don't know how any of this was made or
even the preminis of any of this. And that's the
craziest part. Like you said, I think it's just increments
of release technology as like a kind of like a
test survey and be like, Okay, here's electricity, Okay, here's
a cell phone. Okay, here's the internet. Let's see how
they do. Oh they're doing good. Okay, they need something new.
Let's add better internet. Let's do five G remote access.
(24:07):
Let's use Wi Fi. Like nobody, Ben, I don't care
how many people you tell me. If you and me
right were dropped in the middle of the woods and
we started a society of human beings off nothing and
just repopular, repopulated, I don't care how long we're there.
Nobody's going to just create an iPhone. That's not how
this works. Like nobody sits there and is like, I'm
going to make a handheld device. I'll let me call
somebody from another village. No, they're throwing smoke signals and
(24:29):
stuff like. You don't just incorporate this crazy knowledge from nothing.
It's given to you, like it's it blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, it blows my mind. I mean the the fact
that you can airdrop photos and crazy yohs is just
mind blowing. When you think about where humanity was for
hundreds of years and where it is coming and really
the last one hundred and twenty one hundred and forty years,
it is being insane. Ben.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
This I'm seeing videos from early nineteen hundreds of people
with electrical scooters and different stuff back then that we're
just getting again. So it's like, what's really going on here,
like where's this timeline and how is it all mixed
that it's now We're like, oh, electrical cars, bro, they
had electrical cars. They just took it away because they
couldn't make money off of it, you know, Like it's
crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well the other theory, and I don't want people to
think that I've been hanging out with Aaron Rodgers drinking
the ayahuasca. But I'll go I'll go to our belt.
What if they're not aliens? What if it's another subspecies
that lives in the planet, Alex, good question, some kind
of portal, I would agree out in the ocean and
they just fly out and zoom out of the ocean
(25:36):
because they these sense ufo things have been flying into
the water. So what if these these little creatures and
whatnot live inside the core of the planet. That would be.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Ben What if it's hollow like hollow earth thing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh, don't get started with that, because I still get
email from the Hollow Earth Society, do you really, yeah society, Yeah,
there's a Hollow Earth Society. Years ago actually because of
the radio show Kyrie Irving when he was with the
Celtics talked about the flat earth. So we did a bit,
we did a few monologues on the flat earth, and
(26:13):
then this guy called up I think he was from
Kansas and he was a hollow earth guy. And then
some other people were listening who are also part of
the hollow Earth movement stop and they started emailing me.
And I still get messages every so often from the
hollow Earth people. Yeah, they still said, Wow, they sent
me stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I've thought about it, Ben, because, as you said, the ocean, right,
it's like, what if that is really the way out
if you think about it, Like what if it's not up,
it's down? Because think about it, NASA's started as an
actual ocean exploration company. And then then I think it
was like four or five years like yeah, we're not
doing that, We're going up. It's like what happened?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, tapped out?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah, it is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Well, hey, the phrase of the week, the phrase of
the week, what is that? The phrase of the week
would be call it a day, call it a day.
You ever use that phrase? Probably that you have not?
Have you heard of that phrase out? No, you have
to You've never heard of that? Really?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
No, I don't think so this is.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Not a good phrase of the week. But call it
to day is like, hey, you're at work and you're
maybe you leave early. It is like, I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
A day, right, Oh, got you okay? So kind of
like ending something with the theory there, I got you okay.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So it means to stop doing something for the day.
You know, I got you, say or whatever. But maybe
you're at school, you like, I'm leaving early. I get
to go to it.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, most of the kids, I usually says like, all right,
I'm gonna hop out. I'm heading out. I'm like, okay,
for sure, call it a day in a sense exact, I.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Can't concentrate, I'm gonna call it a day. This expression
actually was originally called call it a half day or
half a day, and it goes back to eighteen thirty eight,
and it does mean what it still means today. But
call it a day came later in the early nineteen hundreds,
but it goes back to eighteen thirty It was first
(27:59):
recorded call it a day, call it half a day
back back. I loved half days at school. Gosh. At
the same time, I thought, how pointless is this? Why
don't just let us have the whole day off? It
hasn't because I had to get up early.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
And right and I'm already up in here. Why am
I leaving? Let's just get this over with that exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And the backscratcher of the week. We had one great
review from the night Owl in Tennessee. This is on
the Apple podcast page. Now you know this, Alex, because you,
of course are tech savvy and all that it's very
important to get reviews and likes and.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yes, yes important, all for your algorithm.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Right, yeah, exactly. So we at the company here at
iHeart the powers that be, it's very important the Apple
podcast page. They value that very much. So we've asked
people to support the podcast, and many people have done
a great job. Although based on the percentage of downloads
we get, Alex and the number of people that have
(29:00):
actually taking the time to write a review, it's like
less than half of one percent, but still we're okay
with that anyway. Night Owl Tennessee. I thought this was
kind of cool, she says. I love the nightly show.
I am a night owl, thus the name listen every night.
But I thought podcasts were dumb about that. Everyone has one.
(29:20):
That is true, everyone's gonna put some people have two
or three. I have two, you have two? See, yeah,
I have this one. I've done other podcasts in the past. Anyway,
night Owl says, decide to listen to the fifth hour
and I am hooked. Always some interesting commentary A plus
keep it up. And here's the kicker, Like she is
(29:40):
not in the podcast demo, she's very proud to announce
she's eighty one years old. Alex, Wow, grandma, great grandma.
But she's cool. She's got the coolness to her that
she still listens. I love that about the night Owl,
that she's still she's in the game. That's what's all.
You gotta be in the game. You can't the game right,
(30:01):
you want to leave the game. It's lights out. You
got to stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The game. Wow, it's like that EA Sports in the
game slogan.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But I believe Ben, What's what's up with that? Like
everyone has a podcast?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Is that like an actual saying.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, it's true that there are more podcasts, but there are.
See it's if you get and you you've done very well,
and I give you credit. It's very tough to get
any kind of footing. Like a lot of people do
podcasts and it's uh, it's F and F friends and family, right,
friends and family. Look downloading it, you know what. It
(30:38):
kind of reminds me of in the early days of radio,
when the technology kind of started, there were a bunch
of pirate radio stations. Yes, people would do their own thing,
and that's kind of the reason the FCC got it
became a thing because there were so many different people
doing their own broadcasting. You couldn't hear anything because it
(31:00):
was all mumbled and jumbled and all that, and so
they licensed too can broadcast and all that. But unfortunately
they don't do that on the Internet.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Wait till they try to do well, it's coming. I
will say that. I was just going to say, Ben,
I think it is really cool that everybody has the
ability to make a podcast, Like you're saying, it's a
little different than radio because you have the frequency, but
at least the podcast of the internet and selection wise,
I think it makes a better opportunity for really talented
individuals to shine because you're overloaded with such mediocre ability
(31:31):
of an entertainment platform. So to have someone like yourself
who has done entertainment for so long for somebody to
stumble across it it's like night and Day rather than
some guy named Tim and his basement by himself, you know,
just he wanted to do one, so he did one.
There's the audio qualities terrible, there's no direction. The entertainment
value sucks. It's like a TV show, you know, like
there's so much good movies out there. It's because there's
(31:52):
a lot of bad ones. So I think it's a
cool thing. Oh yeah, no, it's great.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And I remember when I was starting out, like the
only way to get your reps was to really just
do a show, but you had to have somebody hire you,
and you weren't good and so it was very difficult.
But h people emailed me from time to time asking
for like advice, like I have some kind of secret code,
which I don't, But I always say, it's just getting
(32:17):
I'm a big believer in the you know, ten thousand
hours or whatever. Yes, yes, some people have tried to
debunk that, but I think it's true. The more you
do something more comfortable you get just it becomes an
easier thing.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
It's like writing anything.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, it's like riding a bike and all that.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I've talked to friends too.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I'm like, if you just want to go talk to girls.
If you have a hard time, just talk to girls,
just get the reps.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, that's always the numbers game, right if you must
go one hundred girls for one of them to actually
be okay with it. But you know, you just got
to you have to play the game. It's the part
of the game. Can't and Mouskin, we'll move pop culture
to the Sunday podcast. Go off the mail bag and
we'll put the baby to bed now. But we will
have another podcast. Alex teischert is his name, He's Alex Lvegan.
(33:04):
You want to promote Alex. I know it'll be in
the promo for the podcast. But how can people find
you if they do not hear the Sunday Podcast. Where
can they track you down?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Oh yeah, it's very easy. Just look up. It's three words.
If you've never heard of anime before, you're interested as
to why there's all these billboards on the side of
the freeway, what is this anime expo? Why does my
kid have these stickers on their cars? It's called anime
sempi podcasts. It's very simple. You can find me on anything.
I'm everywhere. It's an abundant amount of enjoyment. I talk
about life, animation, Western Eastern. I break down everything from
(33:36):
the culture to my opinions. I bring everything from entertainment
for that I've learned from here, from hot takery and
my endeavor of my perspective and enjoyment and what's the
best things the worst things to watch? Just look it up.
It's anime, SEMPI podcasts and then Ben Also, as you said,
everybody has a podcast. If you like to listen to
live stuff and have somebody motivate you and be your shrink,
you don't have to pay for Listen the Shallow Oceans podcast.
(33:56):
That's my other one too.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, I like that. That's very cool. Motivation positive man, Alex.
All right, well, thank you, Alex. We will We'll be
back tomorrow. Have the Sunday podcast. Have a great rest
of your day. And uh, what's Danny saying? Danny would
say later, Skater, I think that's what can I say it?
I'll do it for him later, Skater.
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
He's the last remnants of the old republic.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
A sol fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the
ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill poppers in
the penthouse. Wow, the clearing House of Hot takes break
free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahllor
and not Danny G. This weekend, Danny away awaiting the
arrival of Little Danny G. So in his place. We
have spared no expense and we are rolling out the
red carpet to one of the viral Internet sensations who
(00:51):
also happens to moonlight at Fox Sports Radio. We know
him as Alex the Vegan. That's not his legal birth name,
but Alex is here. What's going on out unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You're here, Big Ben. What an honor to be a
guest on this distinguished Fifth Hour podcast, Because we all know, Ben,
four hours is just not enough for you, right well.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Not enough for the company. For me. It's the people
that run the company. They said, we need more. We
need more, and so here here I am Alex, and
I thank you for doing this. I know we were like,
I don't know, Danny can't really do it this weekend
because of the kid thing and then all that. So
there you were willing and able despite your many ventures,
(01:35):
and you were on the podcast. Was it last year
we had you on? I think it might have been
last year. Maybe yes, last year, I believe. So. Yes,
you were talking about your your anime domination and also
you're dabbling in the TikTok and you're you're all over
the place with yes, yeah, So it's still going well,
(01:55):
you're still stud in that area.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Ben, It's it's going too well. If that is a thing.
It's kind of amazing to see that the TikTok continues
to go viral so constantly, hundreds of thousands of millions
of views. What's really funny, too, Ben, is that I
wanted to test something and just to see how a
much of a presence TikTok has right on the world now,
because as you know, and we've seen within the sporting
world that the progression of streaming now is the forefront
(02:22):
for anything you want to watch. So, for example, Lino
Messi the superstar that's here for soccer unless you have
Apple TV. Good luck watching him, unless it's for highlights
on MLS, on Twitter whatever it is or X right. Yeah,
so it's crazy to see now that within this anime
world in TikTok alone, I put a basically a work email,
you could say, for my own TikTok page. I'm made
(02:42):
so the anime SEMPI put a work email, and the
hundreds of emails these different companies send me now to
be either a sponsor a promoter, to work with their
company to put it within my podcasting. It's crazy to
see that the simplicity of just using an app that
is so prevalent within the market today and using your
off with it and being your own boss can just
(03:03):
take over your whole life. In a sense, it's kind
of amazing to see the outlet it's given me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's cool and that means money, right, money, money.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Letter cheese exactly, the cheddar cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Go look at that outstanding. Well, it's good to hear,
and you'll teach me about TikTok because when I lose
this job, I'll just move to TikTok.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You might as well. You might as well.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'll become a TikToker. Probably too old for that, but
what the heck anyway, So later on we'll get through backscratcher,
we've got pop golls, the culture, and we'll get to
the phrase of the week. But I did want to
recap for those that missed it, that were not listening
to the Overnight Show this week. Tremendous moment, one of
the great moments, I would say the moment of the year,
happened at Dodger Stadium, Alex and I happened to be
(03:44):
a part of it. I was just sitting there minding
my own business. The Dodgers are playing the Oakland Athletics,
which is a Triple A team. Used to be a
Major League team, but now they're in Oakland, they're gonna
move to Las Vegas. And there were a handful of people,
actually there were a lot of people because they were
giving something away at Dodger Stadium. But they give free
stuff away, people run out there quickly. So I'm out
(04:06):
there doing my wing, getting ready for the show, minding
my own business, keeping to myself. And I notice it
was like the fifth or sixth inning of the game,
might have been the fifth inning, and I'm wrapped up
in my prep for the show, and I noticed out
of the corner of my left eye there is a
flying projectile that is coming towards my location. And I
(04:29):
then immediately went to survival mode. But as you know,
I'm very nimble, Alex and acrobatic, and so I was
able to with one hand, I was able to protect
my laptop like it was my baby. Wow. And then
I rolled up my sleeves and with my left hand.
(04:53):
Now I'm right handed, so with my left hand, I
then reached out at the flying projectile, which turned out
to be a piece of cow hide and uh, and
then I it hit my my not my middle finger,
my ring finger, and then it one hop boom, grab it.
So I then then I grabbed it and then that
(05:15):
was my that was mine, my souvenir. I got a
little baseball. So but it shows you how agile and graceful.
I think that's the word graceful, that tremendous athleticism Alex.
To get the the baseball from Ahmed Rosario, you have
no idea who that is. Uh, you never heard of him,
nor should you. He's a random baseball player, but he
(05:38):
has now been blessed. He has now been given the
blessing that he will have the courage, he will have
the fortitude in the playoffs when the Dodgers get there
to dominate because there's a bond and a lot of
baseball players don't know and people don't realize, but when
you hit a foul ball and somebody gets the foul ball,
there's a connection. And so there's a thing. Yeah, yeah,
(06:02):
there's a cosmic thing. I don't I can't really explain it,
but I promise you that Ahmed Rosario with the Dodgers
in the playoffs will not be a lightweight. He will
not be a pushover. He will play well, big hits,
big hits, NLCS, MVP. I see that in my crystal ball.
So anyway, that was kind of what And also while
(06:24):
I was at at the old ballpark there, Alex, I
did run into someone who reminded me I'm getting old.
Now you're not old, Alex. So you don't have to
you don't have to go back down memory lane and
all this. But I'm going to tell you what is
going to happen to you at some point, because it's
starting to happen to me. So the Athletics were in
(06:46):
LA and I years ago when I was first starting
out in radio, they had reporters they paid money to
to cover games. They don't do that anymore, wow, and
because they don't need to because the Internet. But they
paid paid me to go out the game. So I
was a radio stringer. So I go out do live
call ins, like you know, seventh th inting the Dodgers
(07:06):
are up four to three, and I back to you whatever.
So that was my gig and I did that for
a number of years. I first started, not that long,
like two or three years. And and one of the
side hustles I had before the Internet, so you got
like all these side hustles. But back in the year
and the Stone Age, we had to get like these,
you know, paying radio things on the side. So one
(07:28):
of the jobs the Oakland Athletics they used to have
good teams, and I don't really have good that terrible now,
but they had some really good teams in the eighties
and the nineties, and one of the teams they had
in the mid in the like I honestly the mid
nineties or so, they hired reporters from different ballparks around
baseball to do that they called it the Coca Cola
Road Report, And so this was kind of a cool
(07:49):
gig because I I just did my normal work and
then in like the fifth of the sixth inning of
the A's game, when they went to commercial break, it
was after the bottom of the first inning, before or
bottom of the inning, before the top of the next inning,
they would say, it's a sponsor's secret. So so they'd go,
let's go to uh. They called it the Coca Cola
(08:09):
Road Report, and they tossed to me UH in Anaheim
giving an update on the Angel game. So whatever it was,
it was fun. And but the guy that did that
a lot was this guy named Ken Korak, who is
the radio play by play guy of the Oakland Athletics.
So the A's were in town. Ken still the radio
play by play guy for the open and so but
(08:33):
you know, I hadn't seen him in years. It's been
a long time, and so I ran into him. I
was he was getting something to drink in the media
mess hall there and getting getting a little beverage, and
so I was, hey, Ken, what's going on? He remember
we were talking. We told I told my Bill King story,
which he enjoyed. He enjoyed the Bill King story, like
(08:54):
that story because we brought back some good memories of
Bill King. And and then he told me that he
he has now been the play by play voice of
the Oakland Athletics for twenty eight seasons. Twenty eight is SAE,
which is pretty much as long as you've been alive, right, yeah. Yeah.
So it was like wow, And I was like, wait
(09:16):
a minute, because I remember when he started with the
a's because I was like, I was doing it and
he was like the first second year guy, and that
was holy crap. How the hell did that as a
rude awakening Olex? Wow, cause we were talking and he
didn't want to say much about the team moving to
Vegas because they haven't moved yet, but we were talking
about that. But the main part was that it was
(09:37):
just great to see him, a very nice man, King
Cork and he loved the Bill King story. Now my
Bill King story, Alex. This old Bay Area broadcaster named
Bill King. He passed me years ago, but Bill was
the voice of the Raiders. He also was the voice
of the Athletics. Obviously did Golden State Warriors basketball. He
did all like the Bay are eighteens and this guy
(09:58):
was like a total hippie. He had this mustache. He
lived on a boat in the Bay Area. Yeah, you know,
he was going for it in life. You know, he
lived his best life. And but Bill was such a
hippie that occasionally if the A's were on the road
and it was hot, you know, summertime baseball, And this
happened in Anaheim. So I was doing I was brought
(10:20):
in to do stats because I knew the guys from
the A's broadcasting, so they brought me in when they
were in Anaheim. I did stats. So I sit in
the back behind them, and then they're in front, front
row and I'm in the back and I'm doing the
stats and all that. And then in like the fourth
inning of the game, because it was the third to
the fourth inning, Bill King started doing play by play.
(10:40):
Tossed to Ken Korak to take over the play by play,
so they go to commercial. He then walks up the steps,
He walks down the hall, up the steps in the
press box in the booth, walks behind me, and then
proceeds to take his shirt off and his shorts because
it was too hot. He then goes back down to
(11:00):
sit and is now in his underwear and he's just whatever.
He said it was too hot. Yeah. Yeah, So he
sat in his underwears, tidy whities and in the press box.
And I was like, I did I could. I was like,
what are you doing? In my head, I'm like, this
is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I legend.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, And then apparently he did that all the time,
like it was too hot, he just took his clothes
off because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
He wanted to cool down. I mean, I do the
same things. I can't complain.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But it's just the visual. I mean of a stadium
there's probably thirty five thousand people, and not that everyone's
looking there, probably no one's If anybody happened to look
over Alex and they saw they saw him just sitting
there without a like a shirt.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
On, shirtless guy just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah he was a good guy. Yeah, very nice man.
And uh but I just I love that. I hadn't
thought about that story in a while. And so the team,
the baseball team gets f's, but the broadcaster guys get
get a's in it.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, it was pretty cool. Now you do that sometimes
when you're running like the Jason Smith Show, You'll just
get down to your your underwear.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, you know, it's it's kind of crazy from all
the hot takes in here. Bet I usually go skateboarding
shirt lists. I'll be outside my house shirtless, usually a
little speedo shorts, just getting the nice tanning. But most
of the time now in the studios, if we ever
have the AC, go down. I mean I'm shirtless. That's
how you know if we have AC or not.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Now that is one of the big upgrades from the
new studio is air conditioning. Yes, I don't know about
you because you're in a different room than me. But
the room I'm in the old Steve Harvey part of
the building. You're in the Limbaugh part of the building,
but I'm in the Steve Harvey part of the building.
And the air conditioning amazing, I mean quality on ours,
oh so good.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We have three vents now you used to have one.
I'm in the old studio right now. You can see
the old vents above me.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah. I do like the fact, and I think you
agree with me that since the old studio we left
there a few months back and it's empty, and so
I go in there. I guess you know. I get there.
You say, what are you doing here? Yeah? Like I
show up early a lot and to work and you're like,
what are you doing here? I'll go into the old
studio because it's soundproof.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Nobody usually is on that side of the building, so
nobody bothers you because it's on the other side of
the building. And it's it's it's really cool. It's great.
I can kind of focus on what I need to do,
and it's.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I thought of the same thing when you asked me
to do the podcast. I was like, perfect, we have
a whole professional studio just sitting there. So even now
I plugged in our own microphone to my interface and
I sound like Rocket Gold.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm jealous. I have Mike envy Alex because you Yes,
Alex is using an amazing microphone. He's using the top
notch broadcast microphone. Yes, that I use, but not here
out of the pot. I have a different microphone I
use on the podcast, which is not bad. I have
a good podcast. I have. This is like the Joe
Rogan style podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Mike, oh the shmurs or something like that, right, yeah, sure,
the sure, yes, yes, yours are nice too.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, these are pretty good, but you're using the electro voice.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh man, this is like, as Tom Looney says, get
up in close and personal with the fans.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Tom.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Do you know Tom still just randomly sends me messages
voice messages on Instagram all the time, Like he'll literally
see a post I do and it just sparks him.
So I'll get fifteen voice messages from Tom and then
never hear from him for months.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Again, Yeah, I know I talked to Tom. I don't
talk to him. I don't actually talk to him at all.
Pretty much. I text him everybody. He'll text me same thing,
but we disagree a lot politically, same same.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, you're on my.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Team, I think, and he's on the other thing. So
we will go back and forth and I will goof
on his team. He will then goof on my team,
and then we we kind of do that. That's our
that's our stick alos.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You know what's my favorite is I'm with you two
on a lot of things, but the one is like
intermittent fasting. Right, So you and I practice fasting a lot.
So I'm getting ready for a seven day fast, if
not fourteen days, depending on how my body feels during it.
So I posted this video and Tom it just sparked
like the passion of the Christ in this man, Like,
I literally posted a video about this guy that's been
studying a lot about cyanide and different type of fruits
(15:11):
and vegetables, and he's talking about how you can basically
kill a lot of cancer cells by certain fruits and vegetables.
And the two he talked about were apple seeds and
apricot kernels and he said they have B seventeen and
also low doses of cyanide in him that it actually
confuses these cells in your body, especially the cancer ones, like,
oh the B seventeen, I want that, so it grabs
(15:32):
it and also takes into cyanide and kills cancer cells
in your body naturally. So I posted this video and
I just said, the more you know, like information, right.
He listed a book written by a doctor that had
like I think. The book is called A World Without
Cancer and he talks about how you can kill it yourself.
And Tom was just like hot as can be. He
was like, how dare you share this information with the world.
(15:53):
You are not a doctor. I don't see a coat on.
He was like, Tom, it's a video. It's a guy
who talked about something and I posted it because I
found it interesting. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds like Tom. That's on brand.
It is a normal rant. But I do like occasionally
he'll he'll send me an air check because he works
at a different station in ls Yes, a news news station,
which is just a ten that the news guy is
named Looney at a news station in Los Angeles, the
(16:23):
number one market. It is just absolutely wonderful. Yeah, he'll
send me like an air check. I never send air
checks of anything. I don't like hearing myself. Do you
like hearing yourself? I don't like hearing myself. I don't
like my boys. I don't like this. I always nitpick
when I make mistakes, and do you really Yeah, I
know that I'm not perfect, and it bothers me that
(16:44):
I screw up a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
To you, don't you find beauty in the imperfection though
that you aren't like perfect in that sense?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Well, I find beauty in the fact that management does
not have alex. I have no you know, but personally
I always try to put a masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's the old John would quote, make every day your masterpiece. Well,
most days are like a finger painting, but every once while,
every once in a while, you get a masterpiece. But
the effort was made. There was an effort. Eight, right,
that's your were That's the important thing there.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well, that's a fun question that you asked, though, Ben,
because for myself, like, I've never really listened to my
voice until I started doing content and getting into radio, Like,
it's not something I think most people, if they don't
do anything with their voice like that, listen to it.
So I never really knew much.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The first time anybody put me on game for my
own voice Bend was back at In and Out when
I worked it in and out, in and out. That's
what dude, I'm telling you about it all about. I'm
telling you it's crazy because I was doing like the
drive through and eventually when it gets like stupid long
lines like it always does, they give you those little
kiosks and they tell you go outside and get all
the orders in so they can cook them faster. Right,
(17:54):
So I would go outside and I literally walk up
to cars. They'd be like, Hi, welcome to in out.
What can I get for you? And they're like okay.
So then like they kind of were tooken back right.
I was like, okay, whatever, So then I give them
their order, so I have to repeat it. So I
was like, we have two double doubles, one with onion,
one without holwirl on the side hole openions for one
and chop chillis for the second. They're like, do you
do radio? And like it kind of sparked the idea.
It's like no, but now that you think about it,
(18:15):
I've always loved talking. I loved my voice and people
put me onto it. So that was like the first
time I ever really listened to myself. So I started
doing stuff and like recording content and so for myself,
like when you ask do I like my voice? I
kind of do, like, it's it's me. It's it's kind
of cool, Okay, what's good? No?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And I wish I was like you, but I also
have this neurosis Alex. When I was early on in
the radio business, they used to have these air check
meetings and so you'd go shit the office with the
program director and they would it was a cassette tape.
This out the old technology, and so they'd put a
cassette tape in and they'd start the show and then
(18:54):
every two minutes they'd pause and then they it was
the old compliment sandwich. You know, were they.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Good thing improvements, good things end right?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, they say no, they say good thing, you are
a scumbag, is terrible, and then they'd finished with a
good thing no kidding. Yeah, that's the compliment sandwich, which
is really just hiding the main point of the compliment
sandwich is to criticism. Wow, you've been in meetings. That's
what happens most meetings, is that that's like the standard.
(19:27):
They had a webinar years ago. All the bosses of
the world decided in the webinar, we're going to go
with the compliment sandwich, and so they start out compliment,
they go to the main point of the meeting, to criticism,
and then to make you feel good on the way out,
they give you a compliment. Yeah, it's all anyway, getting
(19:48):
carried away in that. But I always I'm going to
say something wonderful and brilliant. But I like that you
like you was when you were in and out. I've
heard stories from friends of mine in the past years ago.
That's a pretty good place to meet people today.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yes, or maybe just was that for you?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Actions you had the pipe. So when you were getting
those double doubles and the animal style fries ready for people,
were they they give you a little flirts the action
going on there.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Let's just say, Ben, it wasn't on the extra sauce
on the burgers.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, just no.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It's true, Like if you think about it, so in
and out is such a young person thing because you
think of a fast food place or not, and especially
something distinguishes in and out. Ben, it was like the
Olympics in that place, I'm telling you, whenever they had
these in and out meetings. So they'll have like events,
they'll have a soccer event, a basketball event, a baseball event,
a softball event. They'll put an event on for the
(20:44):
entire year for all in and out employees who can
bring family and friends. It's like an Olympic meet every time,
where you're going to the same place from the people
from the same industry or whatever, and you're just linking
up and connecting. The most amount of women I talked
to in my like illustrious young career of single life.
It has been in and out like it's insane, the
amount of tail you can pull just working there and employees.
(21:05):
Ben it was crazy. I would think that you you
would do very well there. Did you have crazy?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Did you have to go to in and out university?
Did you have to? Because I have been by the
headquarters which are in southern California off the ten Highway
ten there in the San Gabriel Valley, but I did
see their headquarters. They have like an in and out.
I don't know if they called it university or something
like that, but they had a maybe that's for management people,
(21:32):
I don't know, but they right, they had the building there.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So so that is so true is that there's like
levels in a process within and out. So if you
ever go to an in and out and see anybody
with the red apron, they're the manager of that store.
And the only way to become a manager is you
have to start as a level one. So there's nobody
within management or anything that's within a store that didn't
start at the bottom level and climbed to the way
up through levels. Which is why they're such a fantastic
company to work for. It personally is that every time
(21:56):
you level up two ben from a level one two
three goes up to like seven and then you become
like assistant manager, shift lead stuff like that. You get
a raise every time. So within a year, if you're
very good at the job and pick up quickly, you
can end up making six seven dollars in just raises
right there within a year. It's crazy, it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And there's there's different tiers. So it's kind of like scientology, right,
there's a little things. And then well, I mean you
get to the very top and you realize that the
burgers are actually from an alien planet somewhere and surprise.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Can we talk about the fact that government just comes
out and says aliens are real? We're like, okay, so
what else do you got's where's all the money from
the taxes last year?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You know, well, if the aliens are real, does that
how does that benefit us? By the way it does it?
That's what's funny. And I do think the aliens are real.
But the thing, how come the alien technology? A lot
of the stuff that we have like that we're using now,
I feel like, is alien technology?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Is it is?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So how come that's in the private sector? You know
what I'm saying, Like, it's it's just like people are
getting this and the different gadgets and gizmos that we
use in our everyday life.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
That's a fair point.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I also you wonder what's next, right, Like this, Wow,
is just all just starter stuff? It is, and then
it's like you know, you feed a child baby food
and then eventually you get to the real the stake
in the main event.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I mean, think about it. So if you look back
on any time of history, especially the stuff we can't
even process or understand. So if you go to like
the Great Pyramids of Gaiza, right or Geeze whatever the
pronunciation is, if you look, yes, if you look at
these pyramids, man, even to this day, you'll have any scientists, archaeologists,
anybody go there and be like, I don't know how
they cut those, I don't know how they stack those.
(23:44):
I don't know how any of this was made or
even the preminis of any of this. And that's the
craziest part. Like you said, I think it's just increments
of release technology as like a kind of like a
test survey and be like, Okay, here's electricity, Okay, here's
a cell phone. Okay, here's the internet. Let's see how
they do. Oh they're doing good. Okay, they need something new.
Let's add better internet. Let's do five G remote access.
(24:07):
Let's use Wi Fi. Like nobody, Ben, I don't care
how many people you tell me. If you and me
right were dropped in the middle of the woods and
we started a society of human beings off nothing and
just repopular, repopulated, I don't care how long we're there.
Nobody's going to just create an iPhone. That's not how
this works. Like nobody sits there and is like, I'm
going to make a handheld device. I'll let me call
somebody from another village. No, they're throwing smoke signals and
(24:29):
stuff like. You don't just incorporate this crazy knowledge from nothing.
It's given to you, like it's it blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, it blows my mind. I mean the the fact
that you can airdrop photos and crazy yohs is just
mind blowing. When you think about where humanity was for
hundreds of years and where it is coming and really
the last one hundred and twenty one hundred and forty years,
it is being insane. Ben.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
This I'm seeing videos from early nineteen hundreds of people
with electrical scooters and different stuff back then that we're
just getting again. So it's like, what's really going on here,
like where's this timeline and how is it all mixed
that it's now We're like, oh, electrical cars, bro, they
had electrical cars. They just took it away because they
couldn't make money off of it, you know, Like it's
crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well the other theory, and I don't want people to
think that I've been hanging out with Aaron Rodgers drinking
the ayahuasca. But I'll go I'll go to our belt.
What if they're not aliens? What if it's another subspecies
that lives in the planet, Alex, good question, some kind
of portal, I would agree out in the ocean and
they just fly out and zoom out of the ocean
(25:36):
because they these sense ufo things have been flying into
the water. So what if these these little creatures and
whatnot live inside the core of the planet. That would be.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Ben What if it's hollow like hollow earth thing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh, don't get started with that, because I still get
email from the Hollow Earth Society, do you really, yeah society, Yeah,
there's a Hollow Earth Society. Years ago actually because of
the radio show Kyrie Irving when he was with the
Celtics talked about the flat earth. So we did a bit,
we did a few monologues on the flat earth, and
(26:13):
then this guy called up I think he was from
Kansas and he was a hollow earth guy. And then
some other people were listening who are also part of
the hollow Earth movement stop and they started emailing me.
And I still get messages every so often from the
hollow Earth people. Yeah, they still said, Wow, they sent
me stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I've thought about it, Ben, because, as you said, the ocean, right,
it's like, what if that is really the way out
if you think about it, Like what if it's not up,
it's down? Because think about it, NASA's started as an
actual ocean exploration company. And then then I think it
was like four or five years like yeah, we're not
doing that, We're going up. It's like what happened?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, tapped out?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah, it is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Well, hey, the phrase of the week, the phrase of
the week, what is that? The phrase of the week
would be call it a day, call it a day.
You ever use that phrase? Probably that you have not?
Have you heard of that phrase out? No, you have
to You've never heard of that? Really?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
No, I don't think so this is.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Not a good phrase of the week. But call it
to day is like, hey, you're at work and you're
maybe you leave early. It is like, I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
A day, right, Oh, got you okay? So kind of
like ending something with the theory there, I got you okay.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So it means to stop doing something for the day.
You know, I got you, say or whatever. But maybe
you're at school, you like, I'm leaving early. I get
to go to it.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, most of the kids, I usually says like, all right,
I'm gonna hop out. I'm heading out. I'm like, okay,
for sure, call it a day in a sense exact, I.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Can't concentrate, I'm gonna call it a day. This expression
actually was originally called call it a half day or
half a day, and it goes back to eighteen thirty eight,
and it does mean what it still means today. But
call it a day came later in the early nineteen hundreds,
but it goes back to eighteen thirty It was first
(27:59):
recorded call it a day, call it half a day
back back. I loved half days at school. Gosh. At
the same time, I thought, how pointless is this? Why
don't just let us have the whole day off? It
hasn't because I had to get up early.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
And right and I'm already up in here. Why am
I leaving? Let's just get this over with that exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And the backscratcher of the week. We had one great
review from the night Owl in Tennessee. This is on
the Apple podcast page. Now you know this, Alex, because you,
of course are tech savvy and all that it's very
important to get reviews and likes and.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yes, yes important, all for your algorithm.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Right, yeah, exactly. So we at the company here at
iHeart the powers that be, it's very important the Apple
podcast page. They value that very much. So we've asked
people to support the podcast, and many people have done
a great job. Although based on the percentage of downloads
we get, Alex and the number of people that have
(29:00):
actually taking the time to write a review, it's like
less than half of one percent, but still we're okay
with that anyway. Night Owl Tennessee. I thought this was
kind of cool, she says. I love the nightly show.
I am a night owl, thus the name listen every night.
But I thought podcasts were dumb about that. Everyone has one.
(29:20):
That is true, everyone's gonna put some people have two
or three. I have two, you have two? See, yeah,
I have this one. I've done other podcasts in the past. Anyway,
night Owl says, decide to listen to the fifth hour
and I am hooked. Always some interesting commentary A plus
keep it up. And here's the kicker, Like she is
(29:40):
not in the podcast demo, she's very proud to announce
she's eighty one years old. Alex, Wow, grandma, great grandma.
But she's cool. She's got the coolness to her that
she still listens. I love that about the night Owl,
that she's still she's in the game. That's what's all.
You gotta be in the game. You can't the game right,
(30:01):
you want to leave the game. It's lights out. You
got to stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The game. Wow, it's like that EA Sports in the
game slogan.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But I believe Ben, What's what's up with that? Like
everyone has a podcast?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Is that like an actual saying.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, it's true that there are more podcasts, but there are.
See it's if you get and you you've done very well,
and I give you credit. It's very tough to get
any kind of footing. Like a lot of people do
podcasts and it's uh, it's F and F friends and family, right,
friends and family. Look downloading it, you know what. It
(30:38):
kind of reminds me of in the early days of radio,
when the technology kind of started, there were a bunch
of pirate radio stations. Yes, people would do their own thing,
and that's kind of the reason the FCC got it
became a thing because there were so many different people
doing their own broadcasting. You couldn't hear anything because it
(31:00):
was all mumbled and jumbled and all that, and so
they licensed too can broadcast and all that. But unfortunately
they don't do that on the Internet.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Wait till they try to do well, it's coming. I
will say that. I was just going to say, Ben,
I think it is really cool that everybody has the
ability to make a podcast, Like you're saying, it's a
little different than radio because you have the frequency, but
at least the podcast of the internet and selection wise,
I think it makes a better opportunity for really talented
individuals to shine because you're overloaded with such mediocre ability
(31:31):
of an entertainment platform. So to have someone like yourself
who has done entertainment for so long for somebody to
stumble across it it's like night and Day rather than
some guy named Tim and his basement by himself, you know,
just he wanted to do one, so he did one.
There's the audio qualities terrible, there's no direction. The entertainment
value sucks. It's like a TV show, you know, like
there's so much good movies out there. It's because there's
(31:52):
a lot of bad ones. So I think it's a
cool thing. Oh yeah, no, it's great.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And I remember when I was starting out, like the
only way to get your reps was to really just
do a show, but you had to have somebody hire you,
and you weren't good and so it was very difficult.
But h people emailed me from time to time asking
for like advice, like I have some kind of secret code,
which I don't, But I always say, it's just getting
(32:17):
I'm a big believer in the you know, ten thousand
hours or whatever. Yes, yes, some people have tried to
debunk that, but I think it's true. The more you
do something more comfortable you get just it becomes an
easier thing.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
It's like writing anything.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, it's like riding a bike and all that.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I've talked to friends too.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I'm like, if you just want to go talk to girls.
If you have a hard time, just talk to girls,
just get the reps.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, that's always the numbers game, right if you must
go one hundred girls for one of them to actually
be okay with it. But you know, you just got
to you have to play the game. It's the part
of the game. Can't and Mouskin, we'll move pop culture
to the Sunday podcast. Go off the mail bag and
we'll put the baby to bed now. But we will
have another podcast. Alex teischert is his name, He's Alex Lvegan.
(33:04):
You want to promote Alex. I know it'll be in
the promo for the podcast. But how can people find
you if they do not hear the Sunday Podcast. Where
can they track you down?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Oh yeah, it's very easy. Just look up. It's three words.
If you've never heard of anime before, you're interested as
to why there's all these billboards on the side of
the freeway, what is this anime expo? Why does my
kid have these stickers on their cars? It's called anime
sempi podcasts. It's very simple. You can find me on anything.
I'm everywhere. It's an abundant amount of enjoyment. I talk
about life, animation, Western Eastern. I break down everything from
(33:36):
the culture to my opinions. I bring everything from entertainment
for that I've learned from here, from hot takery and
my endeavor of my perspective and enjoyment and what's the
best things the worst things to watch? Just look it up.
It's anime, SEMPI podcasts and then Ben Also, as you said,
everybody has a podcast. If you like to listen to
live stuff and have somebody motivate you and be your shrink,
you don't have to pay for Listen the Shallow Oceans podcast.
(33:56):
That's my other one too.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, I like that. That's very cool. Motivation positive man, Alex.
All right, well, thank you, Alex. We will We'll be
back tomorrow. Have the Sunday podcast. Have a great rest
of your day. And uh, what's Danny saying? Danny would
say later, Skater, I think that's what can I say it?
I'll do it for him later, Skater.
Host
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