WEBVTT - Upward Trend 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.840 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day dred 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.520 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.240 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.320 He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.360 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.120 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:27.840 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.720 and we are back at it in the Magic Podcast 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.159 Shop here as we are in the air everywhere the 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.880 vast power of my heart, the global reach of podcasting, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.920 and thank you for choosing us to listen to. We 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.000 appreciate it. A lot of audio options and we're glad 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.160 you have chosen to stumble into the Fifth Hour and 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.920 myself Bennell with the man that does not know how 0:00:54.960 --> 0:01:01.120 to park in a normal way David Gascon And wow, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.280 I really appreciate that, you know, I'm I'm only one 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.119 of the two people in this party that's been driving 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.480 and parking and actually showed up to work every day, 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.160 and so uh yeah, and I appreciate the eloquent introduction 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.240 done now, Well, you don't need to pat yourself on 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:22.480 the back. I am following company guidelines. I am following 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.120 what my bosses have told me to do. And I 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.000 want you to know that I did have some traffic 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.960 making my way to the studio in a previous show 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.440 because I Bella was laying in the hallway, so I 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.760 had to I had to jump over Bella to get 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.000 in here. You're like, easy, You're lucky you don't drink. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.280 I mean, because you could. You can really do some 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.600 damage if you trip over her. That's A's a little dog. Yeah, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.040 she's the size of an ee walk. She's smaller than 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.200 an e walk. Uh, yeah, she was. She fell asleep 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.520 though she was bored the other night with my monologues. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.960 And I looked over and she was like, I see, 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.400 I texted you before you started that shell and I said, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.280 this is gonna be hammock Radio by Ben Maller and 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.440 sure ship your dog passes out while you're doing a monologue. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:11.200 Well keep in mind, though, Guesstcon, you're very uncomfortable with originality. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.760 That's not originals and uh and all that. That was 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.160 one of the more Now this Gascon was upset because 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.000 we did the Sour Hour where people called up and 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.119 just bitched and complained invented about things that were going 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.600 on in life. What you don't understand, I'm gonna teach 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.680 you about radio guests gone that kind of stuff. People 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.560 loved all right. The people could not get enough of that. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.400 We spilled that into a second hour. It was magical. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.840 So that you're wrong, You're just completely wrong. I don't 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.440 know if people love that. People have been watching the 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.120 news seven and they've been watching all the negative pub 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.079 social media, why do they need an hour strictly for 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.160 that on your show? Because it's you don't understand this, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:56.840 because you know you don't. You live in a bubble, 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.000 your West of the four oh five guy. But there's 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.160 a lot of people that listen to the radio that 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.880 are by themselves, and people who don't have any family around. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.520 They're boxed in their apartments and they they're just they 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.079 feel like the world has been boxed off for them. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.119 And if you give them the opportunity and they're alone, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.200 they're scared to get on the radio and complain and vent. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:28.480 It's it's therapeutic, it's empowering. People love it. They can't 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.680 get enough of it. You don't understand. You think everyone's 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.079 got a bunch of family around a bunch of friends, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.080 and it's not like that for a lot of people. Unfortunately, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.960 for whatever reason, life has led them astray and they're 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.600 by themselves and they the only friends they have. Or 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.120 the radio. Wait a minute, they have the radio, they 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.080 have social media, they have a telephone, Like, why not 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.480 pick up the phone or call somebody or send a 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.040 text message? Send you the hell? Are you gonna call 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.800 guests on at three o'clock in the fucking morning? All right? 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.400 When I'm on, who you gonna call? First of all, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.360 I'm awake during that time. Second? Loser? Wait, I mean 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.200 I'm a loser. So you're calling your own listeners losers 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.160 because they're also wake at that time. I'm calling you 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.520 a loser is what I call. You're a loser. You know, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.280 I'm not usually working. I'm usually cutting up sound for 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.080 your show, trying to make your podcast better. By the way, 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.279 I got some great news for you, and I have 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.640 a wonderful idea that I have not disclosed for you 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.240 just yet with this podcast. A right, Well, don't wait, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.000 are you teasing that? Are you gonna pay off the 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.200 tease right now? I will wait. I will wait, because 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.560 you have some things on the menu as well. I 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.360 do have some things on the menu. So we've got 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:37.200 the Kiwi Pink Slip, the Lenny Review, and we'll get 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:38.960 to that. We might get some other stuff as well 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.680 along the way, but we've definitely got those stories to 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.920 get to. So I'll start with the Kiwi Pink Slip 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.919 and I have been impacted by the coronavirus. The economy 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.520 has started to affect me here and if you've followed 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.480 the show, you know that. In addition to doing the 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.279 radio show for Fox in this podcast for years, I 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.200 have been, believe it or not, an international radio correspondent 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.320 for Radio Sport out of Auckland, New Zealand, which is 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.560 a national network. New Zealand is not a huge country, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.400 but it is on all over New Zealand and they 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.400 talk about things like cricket and soccer and things like that. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.560 But they have me on once a week and I 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:25.760 have been doing this for about a decade going on, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.279 making weekly appearances talking in US sports because they get 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:35.200 the US sports games football and basketball, mostly not so 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.159 much baseball, but they get those games on television in 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.080 New Zealand and so I had become over the years, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.640 I was a staple with Darcy walder Grave, who was 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.839 a big radio personality in New Zealand. He did a 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.160 morning show. I started on his morning show as a correspondent, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.280 and then he moved to afternoon drive a number of 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.080 years ago, and I went on with Darcy in afternoon Drive. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.839 And we become pen pals, We become friends. We text 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.920 each other. Uh. Just a radio guy. And I love 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.400 the fact that we can tell, you know, trade stories 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.760 about what radio is like in New Zealand. And he 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.840 he'll tell me his stories and I'll tell him the 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.320 struggles that I have here doing a radio in the 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.800 United States. And so we shoot the ship a lot, 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.400 and on and off the air, and on and off 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.440 the air, and uh and and so it turns out 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.680 that I got a phone call. Yeah, I was out 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.720 for a walk. Actually, I was taking my walk around 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.719 the neighborhood and Darcy says, I got some bad news 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.000 for us. I said, okay, I'm ready for the bad news. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.560 What's the bad news? And he said that they were 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.920 shutting down the entire network that radio Sport, which had 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.240 been on the air for like twenty years in New Zealand, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.840 and they were they were going off the air. And 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.760 he didn't have a lot of information. Um he just 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.760 told me that there's no guarantee it comes back once 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.720 the uh everything's done and we get back to normal 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.159 life in the world. So he didn't know about that. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.760 There's no guarantee it'll ever come back and uh so, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.520 So I lost that gig and they paid me a 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.240 little bit of money every week to go on there. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.080 But I I really feel bad for the people that 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.640 I'd become friends with obviously wore out of work. Darcy 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.560 said he'll be okay because he's saved up an f 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.240 you fund, which is important. Most people haven't done that. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.880 Um so, so, yeah, I lost the gig in New Zealand, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.160 won't be calling into them anymore and I'm hoping that 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.400 they will be able to bring that back once all 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.000 of this madness in the world that comes to an end. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.400 That's unfortunate. Now did you or have you during your 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.520 time your relationship with Darcy, have you ever watched more 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:38.920 sports down Under? Like well it's Australian rules basketball, um 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:43.200 or rugby or maybe some Australian soccer anything like that. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.360 Have you have you dipped your toes and tell God no, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.680 the only thing that's annoyed me. Is I have been 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.160 preempted at several times because of cricket. And I didn't 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.400 know anything about cricket before I started doing this, And 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.840 the cricket is a big sport there, and these games 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.080 will sometimes they go like three to seven days. You'll 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.520 have a cricket match that will go three to seven days. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.800 There's no clock. People complain about baseball, but imagine being 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:14.080 handcuffed by cricket. My god, I'd rather be drugged, handcuffed 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.920 and gagged and I have to sit through seven days 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.720 of cricket. But U But yeah, so you know it's 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.360 and we have a lot of listeners. You know that 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.320 our show, the Overnight Show, was picked up at night 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.000 on Radio Sport in New Zealand. We've got a cult 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:32.080 following in that Country's hopefully you guys can still listen 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.920 to this podcast if if you're hearing it now, and 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.959 you can hear the radio show on I Heart Radio. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.160 And it's not just that. Now, I have our buddy 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.199 Art Martinez AREDI Martinez, who had been working at the 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.240 NBC Sports Radio network. They shut down that network here 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.880 in the United States. They went out of business this 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:56.080 week and that's it. They're done, no more NBC Sports Radio, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.120 and so he lost his job. I gotta tell you, 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.559 though I've never told this story before, but years ago, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.920 when my deal was up at Fox, I had had 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.360 some conversations they were interested in the Mala brand over 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.040 there at the Peacock Radio Network and uh they had 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.720 reached out to me about possibly doing some stuff with them. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.040 And fortunately it never got that serious because Fox ended 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.280 up keeping the show obviously, and I'm still hearing, very 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.679 happy to be here, but they they were flirting with 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.880 me a while back doing the old mating dance, and 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.680 I am so happy that I did not did not 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.680 end up making that that option. I didn't. I don't 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.560 really have that option to make. It was building towards that, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.680 but I'm happy that didn't work out for obvious reason. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.800 But it does suck for the my friends and radio 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.240 that I've known for years that are that are out 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.040 of work there. It reminds me of a story when 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.440 I returned home from from Bakersfield after a six month 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.000 tour with the Mariners High affiliate, and I had an 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.160 offer that was sort of on the table from this UH, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.720 this recruiter who was doing work overseas and uh it 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.680 was actually a state run news channel. Uh, and the 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.160 People's Republic of China. And I remember you encouraging me 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.520 to take this job. I did, I did. I told 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.400 you to go to China. I told you to move 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.880 to China. Why didn't you move to China? You could 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.400 have been right in the front lines of media coverage 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.680 in China. Yeah, I could have been on the firing squad. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.120 Could you have a man the choices we do and 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.480 do not make? That would have been quite a moment. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.600 I don't even know if I survived. Be sure to 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.400 catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.200 two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.160 and the I Heart Radio app. Isn't it? It's the 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.360 old philosophy about life, right. Life is just the product 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.800 of the decisions you make right every every day. The 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.559 decisions you make leads to the ultimate outcome of your life. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.800 You make the good decisions, and you don't even know 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.120 at the time, Like, who the hell? Who knows? You think? 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.240 Nobody could have predicted three months ago that we'd be 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.040 in the position we're in right now, right, you know? 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.679 And so the same people now seem to think they 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.480 know what's going to happen three months from not you 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.600 don't know, right and speaking and speaking of which, since 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.920 we've we've had a bump in in certain things across 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.400 the platforms, I think it's a good reminder to tell 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.000 folks that listen to this podcast or listen to your 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.600 show is the first thing that I would recommend to 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.240 do from a financial sense, is to call your credit 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.719 card companies, call your home lender, and call anyone that 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.440 you have an equity line set up with. Because credit 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.280 card companies right now are offering either zero percent a 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.559 p R or they're not charging any finance fees for 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.360 the months of of March to April, not April to May. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.880 So uh, those are good things to point out right now. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.880 And if you have a situation, whether you're a homeowner 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.400 or you're renting, I would talk to the people upstairs 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.280 because they're gonna be in a position they're willing to 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.440 negotiate with you because you have what they want and 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:01.240 that's the money, it's not the property itself. So these 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.680 are trying times for everybody. Obviously, it feel bad for 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.959 for you losing your gig down down Under, but there's 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.000 actually some good news Ben, because we had just gotten 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.040 word earlier this week about the Fifth Hour with Ben 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.400 malle a lot with some other podcasts are on the 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.679 I Heart platform. But month to date, for the month 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:26.960 of March, we were up sixty seven percent, Wow, sixty 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.319 seven percent compared to the month of February. And over 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.560 the last sixty days we're actually up thirty nine percent 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:37.559 from from where we were prior to that. So, uh, 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.640 there's a lot of good reasons for that, and I 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.120 think part of it's the overall health of Ben Mallory. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.720 You don't have any kidney stones or gall stones. Uh, 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.480 you don't have a burnt mouth, You're not sick anymore. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.480 You're not losing your phone at Costco anymore. You're not 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.040 getting backed into by cars in the parking lot of 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.920 cost Nothing bad can happen if you don't love you 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.560 leave your house, and right, I mean we're gonna where 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.880 everyone's generally, you really have to have some bad luck 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.520 if you injure yourself just staying at home all day. Yes, yeah, 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.160 we're doing it now. Part of the reason why I 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.760 brought up those numbers is I have a good idea 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.440 and I think it's a great one for us that 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.920 we should execute in the in the month of April 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:24.200 is because just yesterday we had a good conversation, especially 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.000 you with the great Prince of Darkness, League Kline, and 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.200 I think in the month of April we should do 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.920 something a little bit different for the audience where UM, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:39.119 I pick either a date or sport or one particular 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.080 athlete in your lifetime that you can reflect about, and 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.520 we can do this in a short form version fifteen 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.960 and twenty minutes and to be an isolated event. So 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.200 if we were to start this for the month of April, 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.160 one player in particular I want you to talk and 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:00.560 reflect about would be Jonathan Broxton. So I do other 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.200 random it is. It is random, but there are some 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.000 great moments, especially because we got worried earlier this week 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.520 that the Dodgers are back on television. UM, you and 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.240 Lead talked about a ton of things, mostly Clipper related, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.760 but they're athletes and they're players, and there's dates that 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.040 come to mind for everybody, and especially in the sports world. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.240 I think if you had a chance to point about 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.040 that person or that event for fifteen or twenty minutes, 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.600 it's a lot of the background stuff that you know, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.160 you as a fan can elaborate on just because the 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.760 anguish or the excitement that you had or do still 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.640 have about that particular person. So I think that'd be 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.280 a good treat, just a little bit of an appetizer 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.160 before we get to the main course with everyone else 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.080 that we bring. So we can add that to the 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.680 two future editions of the show. But you know, Broxton. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.480 The first thing I remember about Jonathan Broxton, my memory 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.400 of him as a Dodger was that home run he 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.600 gave up in the against the Philadelphia Philist Stairs. Yeah, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.360 was at I was at that game in the auxiliary 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.600 press box, and I think that ball is still sailing 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.960 around the world. I believe it is. It's like a 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.480 comet at this point. That ball was hit so so 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:16.440 fucking far by Matt Stairs. It was unbelievable. Uh that, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.680 And I remember Broxton just being morbidly obese. He was 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.920 like three pounds, some massive human being. Jonathan Broxton, he 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.400 was huge. I was hoping he'd maybe recapture a little 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.160 bit of his glory when he went to Cincinnati, but 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:34.200 after Matt Stairs just destroyed him, Oh that was it. Yeah, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.040 he was never he was and he had been a 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.720 dominant pitcher for the Dodgers the first few years he 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.680 was there, Uh, the relief guy, their closer. He was 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.480 e r a s that were ridiculously low and he 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.440 was a dominant picture. But he never trusted him. You know, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:52.840 It's like it was one of these guys. He had 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.520 great numbers, but then it seemed like in big spots 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.320 he would puke all over the mound. And and I 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.720 recall that, and he bounced around after he left the Dodgers, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:07.040 he went from team the team, the team, and he 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.360 played for four other teams. He's not even that he 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.640 should still be pitching, but he was so bad and 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.400 he's out of baseball. I think he's you're like thirty 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.520 five now and he's not not pitching at less. Well, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.520 no one's pitching anywhere right now because what's going on. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.320 But he's he's been out of baseball for a couple 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.800 of years. I believe he's done skis at this particular point. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.000 That ball was absolutely crushed. I I haven't seen a 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.000 ball hit that hard since Mark McGuire did that back 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.720 in Dodger Stadium in the in the Glory days. Were 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.800 hit one out of the stadium, but man, he fucking 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.560 tattooed Broxton in that game. And that was the That 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.520 was the m the Dodgers. Yeah, it was. It was 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:49.280 absolutely insane. Uh And and because of that, you talk about, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.600 you know, decisions or and this wasn't really a decision, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.160 like it was a poor decision, but it was an incident. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.320 Like Jonathan Broxton's career went to ship after that home run. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.000 And Matt Stairs is for the rest of his life 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.480 Philadelphia sports legend. Like my guy Fats in Philly and 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.280 all you guys in Philly, this guy's because of that 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:15.440 Pinship home run, that two run moonshot at Dodger Stadium. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.919 That that and and for those who don't recall, the 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.200 Dodgers would have been even up to two in the NLCS. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.320 It was. It was Game four and because the Stairs 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.199 at that home run and some other things happened, the 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.719 Dodgers lost the Phillies one. They were they were up 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.000 three oh of. The series was pretty much over, and 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.879 it did turn out to be over. But Matt Stairs, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.119 I believe he was doing some television work for the 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.200 Phillies and uh he I know he's beloved there because 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.000 of that home run, and he didn't play for the 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.879 Phillies all that much. He There's another guy, Matt Stairs. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:49.760 I remember him mostly with the with the Oakland Athletics, 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.800 but he played with a bunch of different teams. He 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.919 bounced all over the place. But in Philadelphia, man he is, 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:56.840 He's all about it and they love him. Yeah, it 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.960 was like it was like Stairs, Daniel Murphy. There were 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.880 just certain guys during the Dodgers run of the last 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.160 handful of years that have picked them apart. Like Daniel 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.640 Murphy was batting four hundred. I think in a couple 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.280 of series against the Dodgers, Matt Stairs ruined them. And 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.399 then of course you know what happened with Houston too. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.280 But they're just guys in particular that really lit up 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.440 the Dodgers and in crunch time situations. I gotta tell you, though, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.879 I liked Matt Stairs, although no, I don't like what 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.919 he did to the Dodgers, but I remember when he 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:30.199 was a young player. Um, he came up with Montreal 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.879 and he played somewhere else. But I remember him in 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.000 the mid nineties with Oakland and they came in. I 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.800 was covering the Angels and he came in there and 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:42.639 he remember I was in the a's dugout, and he 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.600 walked into the dugout and he looked out at the 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.640 field at the Big A and he just like, oh, 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.600 this is so excited. He had never been there before 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.040 at that point, and he was like so excited, like 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.760 he like he was like like a kid. Like it's 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.840 it's the same reaction like I would have if I 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.159 was a kid walking into a ballpark, or any of 0:18:58.200 --> 0:18:59.879 us would have for the first time. How cool was 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.480 It was just neat to see that because it was 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.160 like it was humanizing. You know, a lot of these 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.520 guys are complete douchebags and they're just you know whatever. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.919 But he was like he really was appreciative of the moment, 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.760 which is kind of cool. That's what I mean. That's 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.440 what minor league players talk about. Is the show, right, 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.080 Like you always think, well, what's the show? Like the 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.639 show is is major league Baseball. It's like when you 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.040 get between the lines, that shock and you are in 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.560 a major league facility, not not rookie ball. I'm not 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.879 a double A facility, not somewhere in the sticks. But man, like, 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.359 when you get to the show, it's I mean, it 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.600 doesn't matter if you're playing in Oakland or Pittsburgh where 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.320 it's an empty yard like when you're there, that's that's it. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.000 That's that's real. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, man, it's and and 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.480 then way these the baseball stadiums in the major leagues, 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.960 it's it's the taj Mahall. It's insane, like there's no 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.280 There used to be some some shiphole stadiums that were 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:55.159 terrible and disgusting, you know, like Sha Stadium, Comiskey, Wrigley Field, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.800 even before they renovated Wrigley Field was just the visiting 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.800 locker room. You had to walk like a stair maze 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:04.600 to get to the locker room. You have to walk 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:08.440 through a little catwalk where the fans were below you, 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.960 and it was wild. And it's not like that from 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.359 what I understand anymore. They've admitted much better. Um So 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.160 everywhere is first class. All the way they they they 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.680 say clubhouse, it's really like at a five star golf resort, 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.080 and you know, like you're at a golf resort in 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.159 the locker room and the way it's set up and 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.399 all that. Um Now, I wanted to bring up the 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:36.040 Lenny Dikestra interview from last week. Alright, so, uh, now 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.560 we both had the same idea. After we had talked 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.240 to him, I thought Lenny was great man. Was he entertaining? 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.320 You told some wonderful stories, wild and crazy. It was 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:50.800 classic Lenny Dikestra. So I figured, hey, we get some 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.919 publicity out of this, right because Lenny said what I 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:58.720 felt were several newsworthy things. We didn't get any though, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.320 gasco now and I found out why. I reached out 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.440 to some of my friends who work in the mainstream 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:11.119 media at big newspapers, and they almost all said the 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.480 same thing, some version of the same thing. They essentially 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.760 said that they are ignoring Lenny. It's like the Boy 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:25.120