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Speaker 1: She's interrational, quick triggered, nuclear overreactor. He's a masterful storyteller
Speaker 1: who consistently finds himself drouting in a sea of awkward.
Speaker 1: It's time for Monday and Ben, all right, it's time
Speaker 1: for now turning and Ben and Skin. I know we
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to catch up on this in a while.
Speaker 1: And Christina, I haven't talked to you about it either.
Speaker 1: Where are you guys with your video game playing these days?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: I can't stop playing all these FSPs? What's that? I'm sorry? FPS? Is? Oh?
Speaker 1: First person shooter? Yeah? Man, I like probably, I don't know,
Speaker 1: bro eighteen hours a day and I.
Speaker 2: Told you to say that I don't know your son?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that what they're called?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yes, heyst shooter games?
Speaker 1: Okay, I've never referred to them in that way, but
Speaker 1: I have heard that seeing that in magazines and stuff.
Speaker 1: Wait are you telling about first person shooters or FPS
Speaker 1: is I don't. I just really say what game I play.
Speaker 1: But when I read a magazine, that's what they say. First,
Speaker 1: I've never eared abbreviated.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I talk about FPSs and magazines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weird. Do you not read first person shooter magazine?
Speaker 1: They do not? Are there magazines? Yeah? By the way,
Speaker 1: islden stream and FPS? I do think. I do think
Speaker 1: there's a chance for magazines to come back.
Speaker 2: All right, No, I agree with that. Didn't Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: do something with that not too long ago and it
Speaker 2: sold out?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Here's why, because it's really hard for people to
Speaker 1: connect with consumers on social media these days. The algorithms
Speaker 1: are crazy and a lot of that social media is toxic,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I think there's an opportunity. I
Speaker 1: get these regional marketing magazines in my mailbox. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a neighbor here's a magazine for your neighborhood. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, great, these are all local ads and
Speaker 1: it's all stories about my neighborhood, and you know what,
Speaker 1: kind of like it? All right? I think really we
Speaker 1: need to explore us further.
Speaker 2: That's that's weird because I thought, I have a Life
Speaker 2: magazine from like nineteen sixty eight, and I think it's
Speaker 2: badass because it's big, and you're right, this is kind
Speaker 2: of like the vinyl element. Yes, you can actually put
Speaker 2: your hands on it and look at it, and it's
Speaker 2: really cool. But I don't know if i'd want to
Speaker 2: read about my neighbors really.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I live in a community, so you probably live.
Speaker 1: You probably don't interact with your neighbors, right, No, we.
Speaker 2: Do have our next door neighbor. Sylvia is a very
Speaker 2: nice lady.
Speaker 1: So you wouldn't read an article about Sylvia.
Speaker 2: I guess I would if she had some gardening tips.
Speaker 1: There's no way you would read an article about Sylvia.
Speaker 2: Sylvia. You haven't met Sylvia.
Speaker 1: I haven't, but I'm guaranteeing you're not going to read
Speaker 1: an article about her. I bet you read the first
Speaker 1: paragraph of that article and then get distracted by a
Speaker 1: first person shooter game.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes I would, but it is bishop art. So
Speaker 2: if there's like.
Speaker 1: I can see you there's a cultural magazine down there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a new business or something, I would read
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's like, I think the things that
Speaker 1: you're closest to and closest proximity, the people that live there,
Speaker 1: the dining experiences, all the experiential things make you a community.
Speaker 1: That's why I like Facebook groups or pages for a
Speaker 1: small community because it kind of unifies and brings everyone together.
Speaker 1: But as those get less productive because the algorithms and whatnot,
Speaker 1: social media is assesspool and I do think it is.
Speaker 1: There is a nostalgic flavor for it. I think there's
Speaker 1: the possibility for magazines to be back in play, whether
Speaker 1: it's super small and it's just local centric, or whether
Speaker 1: it's something like Life magazine. I just I think there's
Speaker 1: a possibility that they could bounce back. I think the problem,
Speaker 1: or let's not say problem, let's say the conundrum is
Speaker 1: can you get it in big enough circulation because generally
Speaker 1: what were magazines end up now as they end up
Speaker 1: in offices, and like, man, I'll go into an office
Speaker 1: now and there will be d magazines from three years ago,
Speaker 1: and it's just they're just stack it up, you know.
Speaker 1: And so it's kind of like what them was talking
Speaker 1: about the reason that those things newspaper, it's the same
Speaker 1: thing as a newspaper. The reason it went away is
Speaker 1: because everyone's reading everything on their phone. If you can
Speaker 1: figure out a way to get people off their phone
Speaker 1: and picking up physical media, like you were talking about vinyl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the reason vinyl works is because people feel attached
Speaker 1: to that product because they really like the band or whatever.
Speaker 1: If not, they're just gonna stream. And so if you're creating,
Speaker 1: you know, they used to call these fanzines, like the
Speaker 1: Beastie Boys had one. It was called Grand Royal, and
Speaker 1: it was everything in their world right, and it was
Speaker 1: probably my favorite magazine of all time. Like I loved it.
Speaker 1: I loved the articles in it. It was great. But
Speaker 1: they also had like a music career, so they didn't
Speaker 1: have time to do a magazine full time. But fanzines,
Speaker 1: you were just mentioning Taylor Swift. Yeah, that's the Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift army, like Beyonce could do it too, right, And
Speaker 1: you used to see that a lot more frequently. But
Speaker 1: those are things that they would sell at bookstores and
Speaker 1: record stores and those things are those are gone? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't even like when we were in d magazine,
Speaker 1: we won I think Best Radio Shows the award we
Speaker 1: won Best Local Radio Show. Are you know when we
Speaker 1: got to The Eagle initially and I was like, okay, awesome,
Speaker 1: where do I go get it? Ye wasn't sure where
Speaker 1: to go get it? But that's not necessarily what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. So if you take like our Ben and
Speaker 1: Skin Facebook page, we have twenty thousand people that are
Speaker 1: on our Facebook page that say we like this show.
Speaker 1: We want to stay connected with this show. Okay, over
Speaker 1: the years they've said we like this radio show. If
Speaker 1: I put a post up on the Ben and Skin
Speaker 1: Facebook page, it might reach ten of them because the algorithms.
Speaker 1: So there's twenty thousand people there that want to interact
Speaker 1: with us that can't. And so where I like is okay,
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I wouldn't be successful if I tried to
Speaker 1: produce some huge magazine and tried to sell it all
Speaker 1: over town to the nine million, eight million people here
Speaker 1: or whatever. But if I send it directly to those
Speaker 1: twenty thousand people, that would be pretty cool, and it'd
Speaker 1: be a great way to get our information with those people.
Speaker 1: Our advertisers could advertise in the magazine. That's essentially what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's the stuff I believe in because social
Speaker 1: media is broken, and what I'm talking about is more
Speaker 1: of a direct mail situation where if the you don't start,
Speaker 1: you don't put put out these magazines and thinking you're
Speaker 1: going to get rich from making them, but you use
Speaker 1: it as a way to connect with your people that
Speaker 1: are into that, you know what I mean. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: we get one in Allen, I forget the name of it.
Speaker 1: When we lived in Plano, we had one called Plano
Speaker 1: Profile and so yeah, it shows up in your mailbox
Speaker 1: and can you get to people like and I think
Speaker 1: the drawing that is what's on your cover. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it got to be what's on the cover as it'll
Speaker 1: go on a pile. One percent and some of them
Speaker 1: are done by the way, I can't stop saying one
Speaker 1: and I can't stop saying it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Two of the things on that list. KT brought up
Speaker 1: if you know you know, Ben, if you know you know,
Speaker 1: the cover has to be good, right and the content
Speaker 1: they're Like, as I'm sitting here advocating for this thing,
Speaker 1: I realized eighty percent of the ones that are out
Speaker 1: are complete crap. I very rarely open the ones I
Speaker 1: get very rarely to me if they feel like they're
Speaker 1: high quality and like the cover is compelling. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: they spent some money on this sectual looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm into it. So I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this because I think it ties
Speaker 1: into this. How involved are you guys in getting your mail?
Speaker 1: I mean, I see it on my counter, right, what
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 2: Such a man thing? It's it's definitely because I don't
Speaker 2: know why. I look forward to getting the mail every day,
Speaker 2: especially when you're expecting a package, right right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: definitely checked the mail first thing. I'll sort it out
Speaker 2: whatever is under his name, I'll put it up there
Speaker 2: and it's still there for like a month. But no,
Speaker 2: I'm very involved in the mail process.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's a funny out of context saying so
Speaker 1: at my house, I'm the only one that acknowledges that
Speaker 1: we have a mailbox. Okay, all right, And I think
Speaker 1: the main reason for that is probably because I pay
Speaker 1: the bills so and you know a lot of people
Speaker 1: have auto draft. After whatever, I'm an idiot. I still
Speaker 1: like to get the bill and go. So what I
Speaker 1: do is I get the mail and sometimes if I
Speaker 1: have a long day, like if I have a MAV game,
Speaker 1: I'll get the mail at eleven o'clock at night. No one.
Speaker 1: They'll walk by it, they'll drive by it, they'll walk
Speaker 1: by it. Who could know what's in that thing? I
Speaker 1: who would ever touch that? I don't know? And so
Speaker 1: then I get it. And then what I do is
Speaker 1: I'm usually in a hurry, and so I start doing
Speaker 1: two stacks like this, trash, Look at trash, Look at trash,
Speaker 1: look at maybe give to the wife. So if I'm
Speaker 1: doing that process and I'm going through those things, you know,
Speaker 1: we get a lot of mailers and you know, advertising things,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. If I'm looking at it and there's
Speaker 1: something on it that intrigues me, I'll put it in
Speaker 1: the fourth stack and go, Okay, maybe I'll look at that.
Speaker 1: But if not, it just immediately goes to my recycle stack.
Speaker 1: So there's got to be something fourth stack. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: there's got to be a fourth stack. Yeah, if it
Speaker 1: can move to the fourth stack, I think you're I
Speaker 1: think you're going somewhere. Yeah. I would do a Grand
Speaker 1: Royale style magazine for our show quarterly or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's what they did, Yeah, and you know, do it
Speaker 1: with our advertisers. And so I just man I'm just
Speaker 1: so disenchanted with social media, I think is the way
Speaker 1: to put it. It's just become so toxic and it's
Speaker 1: just so hard to connect with people. I'm just tired
Speaker 1: of someone suggesting a new platform I've never heard of.
Speaker 1: How did that even come up? How do we bring
Speaker 1: up the magazines? You go by the way, I think
Speaker 1: magazines are making a comeback. And I was like, that's
Speaker 1: a great way to show. I'll have to review that tape. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of video games, I brought up video games. But
Speaker 1: there's a Las Vegas strip club that is now offering
Speaker 1: for their patrons to be able to play video games
Speaker 1: with strippers, and I thought, man, this is the worst
Speaker 1: idea I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: Well, are the strippers good?
Speaker 1: That's the thing. What you think.
Speaker 2: If they're good at video games, then yeah, that might
Speaker 2: be fun. But if they're just bad, that's just a
Speaker 2: waste of time.
Speaker 1: Usually their day job is just getting high or doing coke,
Speaker 1: so I mean they have time. The point is stripper like,
Speaker 1: let's look at the stripper. Let's not look at the
Speaker 1: video screen with her dressed up as you know, some
Speaker 1: a digital character and getting your team killed because she
Speaker 1: sucks at video games. Oh yeah, So I thought it
Speaker 1: was the whole idea of you can sit on a
Speaker 1: couch next to her and she pretends like she cares
Speaker 1: about you.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: You know, He's like, oh, man, chick's totally play video
Speaker 1: games with me.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of guys would love to play
Speaker 2: video games with just a hot girl.
Speaker 1: So a hot girl in their lap, maybe you care. Look,
Speaker 1: you care more about just winning and being competitive. I
Speaker 1: hate playing with people who are terrible. I hate playing
Speaker 1: with people that are going to wander off into another
Speaker 1: direction that are going to keep your team from winning.
Speaker 1: I only want to play to have a chance at winning.
Speaker 1: Are we moving into an era where the guy goes
Speaker 1: in the strip club now and he goes, Hey, how
Speaker 1: much for a lap? Two K? Sit in my lap?
Speaker 1: Let's play two K? Yeah? Yeah, I mean is that
Speaker 1: the thing now? I don't get it, Christina, you go
Speaker 1: to strip clubs? Is that what people are doing now?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. Never step foot in one.
Speaker 1: It's called Crazy Horse three. It's in Las Vegas and
Speaker 1: they just opened a new interactive VIP room featuring everything
Speaker 1: from PlayStation and we consoles to a karaoke machine.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, is that why Katie went to Vegas?
Speaker 2: He knew this was opening, so he had to be there.
Speaker 1: What are people trying to do? I don't think they're
Speaker 1: understanding the whole stripper industry. Anyways. There you have it,
Speaker 1: small magazines and strippers playing video games. That all magazines
Speaker 1: and big boobs. Yep, that was that was trending in
Speaker 1: Ben all right, coming up next, man, this could have
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