WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Karaoke and Trivia Mics 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.320 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day dred minutes 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.400 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:32.800 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.960 Welcome in the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:41.920 g back in the podcast Dojo. We thank you for 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.600 finding the podcast. The download numbers continue to be good, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.160 so we keep doing the podcast. And you know, Danny, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.640 the moment those numbers go down, we're out right. We're done. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.479 That's it, We're out of here. We don't have to 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.840 do this anymore. But as long as people are there, 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.280 if the audience is there, we will continue to do this. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.360 Danny j Yes, there's no reason why either of us 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.760 would want to sleep in on an early morning. Now, 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:06.840 there's no reason why we would not want to do 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.600 extra content. Both of us now working on shows during 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.480 the week. Danny's got the daytime slash nighttime. I've got 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.680 the overnight. So this doesn't have the number one station anymore, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:22.240 is it. Yeah, my right hand was getting a workout. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:28.120 How dare you on this edition the Saturday podcast? We 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:33.640 have on the menu at Benny's Bodega Social Butterfly? Did 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:39.280 we do this? And pink I and even backscratcher? We'll 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.240 do backscratcher as well. Think guy, I don't know what 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.800 that is. See, this is why I wake up early. Yeah, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.920 this is the kind of content that you need. This 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.040 is the content you didn't know you need it, but 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.640 you really do need. Right. It's always the drama. Right. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:02:01.720 I hope Bella farted on your pillow. It's the only 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.480 thing Bella hasn't done. Yeah, you want poop and pee anywhere, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.240 Bella will give you that. You give her ten minutes 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.280 and she will produce some kind of excrement. All right. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.560 So last weekend, the wife was working a little over 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.520 time Danny, so I had some downtime. I had some 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.280 me time, and I ended up making the most of it. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.800 I made some dinner plans with my gambling buddy. People 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.760 very fascinated about my life. So I made some dinner 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.480 plans with my gambling but he had to cancel at 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:37.560 the last minute. So then I pivoted and I start 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.119 sending h I sent some flyers out to some different people. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.600 It's like, I gotta find somebody to hang out with. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:46.079 So I pivoted in the original Prince of Darkness, Lee Kleine, 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.280 your former mortal enemy, and a somebody who's been on 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.919 this podcast. We've had Lee on a few times on 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.359 the podcast and he's like, yeah, i'll meet you whatever, fun, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.200 I'll meet you whatever. So he's been a friend of mine. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:02:59.919 I've known him for many many years. He's known me 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.680 since I was a teenager and he was a radio 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.760 guy caf I did Clipper Talk, has anyone if I 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.320 wanted to talk about the clips, did some radio in Philadelphia. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.720 So we go way back. And I had not really 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.200 seemly much since COVID. He has he has not left 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.320 his house much and he's he's got the heebie jeeps 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.200 by all that, and so we met for some soul food. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.760 We met at Katella Delhi in the in the l A, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.799 Orange County border area. We we were hanging out there, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.200 a fine establishment watching We sat at the bar area 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.680 Danny watching playoff baseball and college football, showing down on 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.880 pastrami sandwiches with matzo ball soup and fries. And it 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.240 was yummy, yummy, yummy to my tummy. It's a good time. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.640 And on my way though, here's the part of the 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.080 story where the there's the plot twist, the dramatic plot twist. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:54.000 So on my way to meet my friend Lee, I 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.600 at some time in the car and so I called 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.440 another one of my buddies in Texas, guy that I 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.080 grew up it went to elementary school with, and he 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.000 lives in Dallas, and so I said, hey, uh, what's 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.240 going on? I called him up, Hey are you doing whatever? 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.560 He says, You're never gonna guess where I am. So 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.920 I'm like, let me think you're where you at. I 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.840 don't know. There's a Texas Oklahoma football game? Did you 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.960 go to that? Uh? No? No I No I did not. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.160 Uh Like, where do you you take a day trip 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.400 to San Antonio or Austin or something like that? No, no, 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.240 I didn't do that. And it turns out he was. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.560 He was in southern California, like he had flown out. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.919 I didn't know he was coming out here, but he 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.760 flew out, and so he actually got he missed his 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.440 original flight because of the Oklahoma Texas game. The traffic 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.679 and the train schedule got all messed up in Dallas, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.000 and so he actually missed his his original flight. But 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.880 so after after my my dinner with Lee, I headed 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.920 over to a karaoke bar. Oh yeah, I was at 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.520 a karaoke bar. That is not a place I picture 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.240 you walk no, no, and I I want usually nothing 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:04.720 to do with karake. I alway used to go to 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.200 Dimples in Burbank when I worked in Burbank, which was 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.920 a famous kara which closed. Mr Belding, Yeah, you were 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.400 just there to hang out with the principle. Yeah, well 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.839 he was a listener actually, and he follows me into it. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.000 But he got off Twitter years ago, and I think 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.279 he I think he moved to Tennessee. The the actor 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.760 that played Mr beld and he moved anyway, it's not 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.000 the way. So so my friends like, hey, he loves 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.480 doing karaoke. He's like an Elvis impersonator. He's got like 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.960 a nine to five job, but he likes doing Elvis 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.440 stuff and singing songs at karaoke. So I'm like, whatever, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.400 I'll meet you whatever. That's the only time I could 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.560 see him because I've worked during the week, and so 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.640 he loves to perform as a social butterfly. I was 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.159 the guy holding the camera there. I was the guy 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.800 holding the camera. And here's some observations I made. I 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.040 don't really want to go back to a karaoke bar. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.320 That's the first observation. Number two. A lot of middle 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.200 aged people. And I'm fine, I guess I'm middle aged too. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.040 But a lot of people who think they are rock 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.760 and roll stars Danny and are convinced that whatever they 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.479 ended up doing in life, they missed their calling. And 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.240 these people were really getting into it, like they were 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.640 not just doing karaoke. Half asked, like you could tell 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:27.320 these people had practiced, that they had they these songs 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.680 meant a lot to them and they were all about it, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.120 and I'm like, well, good for them, But it's not 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.719 really my jam here, it's not really my scene. You know, 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.320 what would your go to song be if you had 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.960 to go up there and sing? Well, I I did 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:44.560 perform in junior high school with this guy, the guy 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.560 that I met at the karaoke bar, and we did 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.120 Rubber Biscuit. So I guess I'd have to go back 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.400 to some blues brothers. You got two slices of bread 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.640 and you wish you had some meat bow. Wow, Wow 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.360 you do that? Wow you missed your calling to Yeah, clearly, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.919 What about you, Danny? What would your karaoke song be? 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.480 You know I always had this thrown at me because 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.800 of my voice. I had to do tone low, funky 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.640 cold medina. You do have the deep pipes. You do. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.920 Definitely have that going for you. Creep you out. I 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.000 think it would creep me out if I was in 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.960 there with all the adults being rock stars. Yeah. You 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.640 know the thing about that I was I didn't really 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.600 know what to expect. This is the place I've never been. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.440 I had to put it in my map thing on 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.480 the phone to try to find it. And I got 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.720 there and it was late at night because I'd already 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.840 eaten the games were over. I go in there, like 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.080 the first thing the waitress says to me when I 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.920 walk in there's a to drink minimum. And I said, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.160 I said, wait a minute, I'm not even doing the karaoke. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.320 I'm just here to meet a friend. I'm not. No, 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.480 she said too, if you're gonna be here doing the 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.000 at the karaoke bar to drink minimum like, what the 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.280 bleep bleep is there so many fans show up just 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.360 to watch the amazing singing that they have to make 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.720 sure you buy a couple of drinks. Yeah. Yeah, So 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.360 it's the other thing. I was holding the camera for 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.280 the my buddy who was doing karaoke and he was 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.320 doing on Facebook Live, and they were like two people 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.520 washing doing one person. I was like, what are we 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.280 doing here? And I was like, when you should go 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.440 out to the street corner and there'll be more people 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.120 driving by in cars that will see you. It's all 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:27.000 all good. Maybe they'll watch it later. Didn't we do this, dady? 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.440 What what is this? Did we do this? Oh? Man? Well? 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.079 You know, after post production of Coveno and Rich on 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.720 Monday night, I had a dilemma because the Raiders and 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.640 The Chiefs were already playing, and at this point it 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:46.360 was seventeen to nothing Raiders. I pretty much knew after 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.800 that missed roughing the passer call that all the calls 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.080 were then going to go to the Chiefs. I knew 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.600 it was gonna be bad after that. I still had 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.360 a decision to make, though, I'm like, if I get 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.280 in my car and sit in traffic and drive home, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.720 I'm gonna be trying to listen to their network on 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.920 their app, which always craps out. So I might as 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.200 well just walk across the street to the galleria in 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.920 beautiful Sherman Oaks, California. What could go wrong crossing a 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.520 very busy street there German Oaks where people don't know 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.160 how to stop. Yeah, exactly, and there's five homeless people 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.320 to walk over as you go to the galleria. Nice 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.920 smell and as well, it really is good. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.480 at least you could jump into the fountain. I'll wash off. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.720 I got across the street safe enough, but I had 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.040 Wings on my mind. I'm like, man, well I'll go 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.199 get uh six wings, maybe a side salad since I've 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.280 been eating healthy the past couple of months. Buffalo Wild 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.280 Wings is right there. I'm thinking to myself, I'm sure 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.079 it's crowded in there, but I'll find a chair. So 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.600 I go in walk straight to the bar area. It 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.480 didn't matter at all because there were so many Raider 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:08.000 fans in there. Ben even I was uncomfortable scary looking dudes. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.480 And no, it wasn't that they were scary, it was 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.160 just that they already had taken over the place, kind 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.640 of like how you felt going late to the karaoke party. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.160 I felt like I was very late to this raider tailgate. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.920 There were two Chiefs jerseys sprinkled in this abyss of 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.079 silver and black. I find a chair to sit down. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.040 I find a screen right right in my view that 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.720 I can watch, and UM clean the chair off. You 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.880 know how they do there when they're busy. They don't 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.520 even bother cleaning off a chair or table when one 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.640 opens up because they're so they're just so slammed, right, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.240 So I cleaned it up myself. I sit down many 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.719 times when you and I hosted Monday night football at 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.320 places like Buffalo Wild Wings. Think back to the beginning 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.480 of your career, Ben, how many Monday night did you 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.920 spend on a microphone at an establishment like that hosting 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:11.439 hosting Monday night football. Did we do this? Yeah, yeah, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.720 we've lived that life. We have done that. Yeah, we've 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.839 got trivia. We've got trivia. I want to win a 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.240 free uh set of chicken wings. And I almost felt 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.359 guilty because as I sat there, I was very frustrated 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.600 with this guy who kept talking on the microphone and 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:33.400 interrupting what I was trying to concentrate on every couple 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.040 of seconds. He was making a comment on the microphone 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.560 any time the game went to any sort of little break, 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.760 even if it was just a time out. I'm trying 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.880 to listen to what's going on on the call for 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.920 Monday Night Football, and this guy is blabbing about ticket 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:56.280 numbers and trivia and blah blah blah blah blah. Shut up. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:01.600 I want to watch the game, like, Hey, silence is golden. Yeah. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.000 When Kelsey scored his second to last touchdown, there was 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.679 some obvious holding Max Crosby. The chief player had him 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.559 by both shoulder pads and kept him from running after Mahomes, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.880 which would have been a sack. The only thing that 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.680 was nice is this guy on his microphone pointed out 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.520 they were holding Max Crosby right there. Okay, well, at 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.120 least he saw that, like most of the country did. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.320 But still, that was the point where I got up 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.240 and walked out. Didn't have a menu. Had this guy 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.440 bullshitting on his microphone constantly. I guess it's kind of 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.880 like when you're at a Super Bowl party and it's 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.439 getting on your nerves because the food might be good, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.600 but people won't stop talking. Yeah, The worst place to 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.400 watch the super Bowl is at a super Bowl party. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.760 It is the by far the worst. And I did 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.240 local radio. We used to have super Bowl parties and 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.680 they they had this thing one year they had this 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.920 all you can eat thing at the super Bowl party. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.680 They ran out of food. They did not provide the food. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.280 You know how many people were upset? Danny, Oh my god, 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.839 he said, you said all you can eat, there's no 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.760 They ran out of food by the third quarter. There 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.720 was no food left. Did you end up ordering anything 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.840 or do you do what happened? I never got a menu. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.440 I never had service during all of that nonsense. So 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:30.600 I walked over to the cheesecake factory. Their TVs are 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.440 so small at their bar. I couldn't even see the 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.240 TVs when I walked in. And I walked over to 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.760 the bar and there they are, like little small TVs 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.839 we had in our bedroom back in the nineties. Um, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.000 but I'm like, I could pull up a bar chair 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.600 right in front of one of these little screens. That's 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.400 what I did. I ordered Asian lettuce wraps to try 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.120 to somewhat keep it healthy, and it was nice. But 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:58.160 now this bartender was trying to talk Raiders and Chargers 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.280 the whole time because he was a Chargers fan. So 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.800 I don't know what was worse, guy bullshitting on the 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.520 microphone the whole time with no service at Buffalo Wild 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:14.560 Wings or sitting in the company of a Chargers fan. Yeah, well, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.360 at least you got out of Buffalo Wild Wings before. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:18.840 I mean, you would get it. Sounds like you got 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.840 a headache and that one man, and I got a 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.560 headache watching me how that game unfolded on that fourth 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.320 down call. You know, had Josh McDaniels not been a 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.280 brainiac and gun for two there, he would have had 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.440 the luxury to run Josh Jacobs on that fourth and two. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.760 I'm glad. I'm glad you brought that up because I 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.240 got into a debate with Roberto who's a fellow Raider 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.840 fan like yourself, and he he thought it was great 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.560 to go for two, and I'm like, no, that in 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.600 that situation is four and a half minutes to go 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.400 in the game, the Chiefs are having kicking issues, what 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.120 are you doing? No faith in your defense at all? 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.960 And the Raiders still ended up getting a stop and 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.720 they got the ball back obviously after that, But you 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.000 gotta just kick the extra point. It's all but a 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.440 sure thing. And then you know, you know you have 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.760 an opportunity, and that was like two seconds to go 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.120 in the game, and you want to go for the win. 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.760 I'm okay with that, but I'll tell you exactly what 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.720 I said. I looked down for a second because I'm 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.800 like dipping one of these lettuce things and it's in 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:25.440 its Asian sauce. I look back up and I see 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.520 the Raiders coming onto the field for a formation for 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.080 two points, and I said, what the funk are you 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:36.200 doing that for? Exactly what I blurted out at this bar, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.680 and and I still will will I'll live and die 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.040 by that, because you don't outsmart yourself when the points 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.680 are there to take and it's gonna tie the game. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.720 That puts the pressure back on them. And McDaniels explanation was, 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.280 I felt like that would put pressure on my homes 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.440 and them. No, you, dick, that puts pressure on you 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.520 on your final drive because now you have to get 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.440 a first out, you have to get points. So with 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.920 that much time on the clock, that is the stupidest 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.040 decision you could ever make. Nobody could ever sway. My opinion, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.160 of that. No, I agree with you. I was watching 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.960 the game and I have no skin in the game 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.440 at all, but I was like, I can't believe he 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.280 did that. Why would he do that. I'm like, he's 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.800 got to be a puppet. He' says Josh McDaniels is 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.400 a sock puppet to the analytics because there's some algorithm 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.080 that says you have to go for it in that situation. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.280 Well wait, wait till the Raiders and Charges play again. Yeah. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.640 I feel like analytics are the new excuse for when 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.880 you make a dumbass decision. Well, it is a wonderful alibi. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.360 You can pretty much do anything you want now in 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.040 the NFL, and if somebody calls you on it, you say, listen, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.080 that's what the analytics said. And who's the question that 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.840 nobody understands the analytics other than the nerds question that, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:55.160 come on, I don't I don't get it. Anyway, we'll 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.400 move on from that, the the tail that you never 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.680 know who's listening. So this week I got a random 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:08.280 text from a former producer of mine out of the blue, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.200 and the reason I got that texts because his name 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.199 came up in conversation on the radio ship. So the 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.680 other night we were talking about Monsey was in who 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.919 she was doing Eddie. Eddie took the night off to 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.520 go to a hockey game. So Mancy was in there, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.400 and she had just come from a volleyball game. So 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.879 she was like apologizing. She's like, I'm all sweaty, I 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.840 came from a volleyball game and like whatever. So then 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.560 I said, well, by the way, at least you showed 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.280 up for work. I had a producer who was late 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:49.360 to work one time because he was playing kickball. Yeah, 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.480 Greg Bergman Cooper loops to let me guess, and he 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.880 named Greg Bourbon on the air and I said, yep, 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.040 that's the guy Burton and and so he I have 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.600 not I not talked to them for years, and and 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.679 we we share a bond myself and Greg Bergman for 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:10.520 life because we were both on the air the night 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.920 we found out we were about to get excommunicated from 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:20.120 Fox Sports Radio back in January of oh nine mass 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.800 layoff and we were part of that. We were on 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.680 the air and about I forget. It was like ten 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.840 to ten to thirty minutes into the show. I got 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.280 an email from management who said there's a mandatory meeting 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.439 the next afternoon. Management never sends those emails out past 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.560 like five thirty, so the only way they would send 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.919 that out is if you're getting removed and you have 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.520 to be there. And so I remember Bergie was freaking 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.960 out and I was trying to calm them down. I'm like, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.639 I was like, listen, you're not really in radio until 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.280 you've been let go at least a couple of times. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.560 So this is like a badge of her here. It's 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.000 like you gotta as a boxer, you gotta get punched 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.480 in the face a few times. You gotta get a 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.480 couple of bruises right here, as you're not really part 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.400 of it anyway. So Bergman called me up. And he's 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.320 done very well for himself. He's an assistant program director 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.080 at Big Sports station in l A, not the one 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.480 we work with, and he works with Mason in Ireland 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.159 and all that. And he checked in. He was at 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:24.840 the Dodgery game. You want to know if I was there. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.440 I was not at that particular game. And so we 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.480 caught up. And he also got the nickname Pink I 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.119 because he missed work. He had pink yeah, and I 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.800 that yeah, and and and there's so many Bergman stories 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:44.359 because he was the guy when I went outside and 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:46.880 I had to call into the local station, the Lake 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.440 Great Joan McDonald. I did cross talk with him, and 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.520 there was this vagrant outside in Sherman Oaks who kept, hey, 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.240 are you on the radio? I want to go on 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.439 the radio? Are you on the radio? We were gonna 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.960 and put me on the radio. I'm Henry Hill. Put 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.879 me on the radio. I'm Henry Hell, you know. And 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.479 that was the great Henry Hill story. And and I said, no, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.359 I'm not on the radio. And then I walked in 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.320 and he starts banging on the door. I'm Henry fucking Hill. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.359 Let me on the radio. I get he's slurring his 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.040 words because he's drunk, and and so I was like, Hey, 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.719 that guy says he's Henry Hill from Good Fellows. And 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:24.679 I told I said, Bergman, go take care of that. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.680 Bergman is like, he's you know, he's a beam poll, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.280 he's a he's a number two pencil and uh, I 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.399 told her. I said, we'll take care of that. And 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.679 then then we famously looked up the photo of what 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.400 Henry Hill looks like because he had made some appearances 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.440 on the Howard Stern Show, and that was Henry Hill. 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.639 That's just nuts to me that it's just nuts that 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.879 a mob guy was like right outside the door and 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.760 I walked right by him, and I it was he 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:53.399 was so drunk at that point. I don't know, you know, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.359 he's dead now. But I got a soft spot for 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.520 Burgie because I used to work with him at NBC 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.280 Sports Radio. Oh did you okay? So you worked with 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.600 him after he left Fox Sports Radio? Yeah, and then 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.159 I worked with him again when he went back to 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.840 Fox Sports Radio. But it was so funny because they 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:15.160 had internet issues at NBC Sports Radio and Bergman used 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:19.560 to have classic meltdowns, this fucking place. I can't do 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.720 my job like this? How much bookcast when there's no internet, 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.720 and he would smash things and throw things. I saw 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.000 him unhinged, and he's not really like that. He obviously 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:35.639 was really frustrated with that fledgling network back back in 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.440 the day. Um and I used to keep my composure 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:41.159 and he used to tell me. He used to say, Danny, 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.320 you're too good for this place. You're too good for 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.400 this place. You're you're such a good worker. I don't 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.760 even know what you're doing here. So when there was 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:53.000 an opening at Fox Sports Radio for your show, when 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.919 your tech producer, big brother Jake, was leaving. Bergman was 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.240 the one who called me and said, do it. I 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.240 got the perfect job for you to get away from 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:06.040 that fucking place. They went out of business, They went away, 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.119 they sure did. And he was the one who gave 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.680 me the heads up to get my stuff in, to 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.159 turn my resume and tape and stuff into the guys 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.600