1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Kutbooms. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maler and Dany g Radio, 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 3: A Happy Friday to you. We have slid into the 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 3: twenty ninth day, the final Friday of the month of August, 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,959 Speaker 3: and big college football weekend got underway last night and 14 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 3: I am looking forward to, as you probably are as well, 15 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 3: the big game tomorrow. 16 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: Texas and Ohio State. 17 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 3: The arch manning Camp Pain underway, and then the weekend 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 3: wraps up on Monday. Bill Belichick back in the spotlight, 19 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 3: North Carolina and TCUs has some good games to watch 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: this weekend in college football. 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: But this is not about that. 22 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 3: As you know the Fifth Hour podcasts, it's more than just. 23 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: About the games. 24 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 3: In fact, it's often not about the games. It's often 25 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 3: not about the games. But on this podcast we have 26 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 3: Pigeon Power and the whistle Stop. Pigeon Power and the 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 3: whistle Stop, and will begin with this. We look back 28 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 3: before we look ahead, we go back to Lost Wages, Nevada, 29 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 3: a wacky weekend of what we like to call malor 30 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 3: magic in old Viva las Vegas. Now we have said 31 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 3: on the Fifth Hour podcast so many times Viva las 32 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: Vegas that I believe it's practically a radio family crest. 33 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 3: Now the Neon de Conival and the weekend was a 34 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 3: reminder that Vegas is less of a city. It's actually 35 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 3: Paradise Nevada where all the hotels are. But Vegas is 36 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 3: the term. It's the colloquial term. Vegas is less of 37 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 3: a city and more of a mirage. It's got the plumbing. 38 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 3: It's a town built on oxygen tanks and hope and despair. 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 3: And you see a lot of people that are down 40 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 3: the luck. There's some people that are very wealthy and 41 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 3: they mix and mingle. And now before the meet and greet, 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: we will get to that. We'd like to alert all 43 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 3: the podcast affiliates down the line. 44 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: We will get to the malord meet and greet. 45 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 3: Before the handshakes the selfies, the inevitable guy who wants 46 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 3: to take his shirt off and show you the obscure 47 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 3: sports tattoo he got when he was drunk in college 48 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 3: because he lost a bet. We had a radio show 49 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: to do. The real reason for the trip was the 50 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 3: meet and greet. We decided to get there a little 51 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 3: early the Circus Act, before the Circus Act, if you will, 52 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 3: under the Big Time up broadcasting from Las Vegas Thursday 53 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 3: into Friday on the overnight, one night only, one night only, 54 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 3: a fast turnaround, white. 55 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: Knuckle style racist. 56 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 3: Now, me and the wife packed up the Malowmobile and 57 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 3: we headed east from southern California. I'm at the point 58 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 3: of my life where I have done the drive so 59 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 3: many times. It's like reading a music sheet. Like I 60 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,679 Speaker 3: don't even need to read the music sheet, you know 61 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 3: what I mean. 62 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: You just know the music. 63 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 3: So out of LA you get through the traffic in 64 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: Los Angeles, you get out, you gotta go through his Spare, 65 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 3: you go up a hill, you go through Hysperia and 66 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 3: Apple Valley is out that way, and then you go 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: to Barstow. They've got a famous Del Taco which is 68 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 3: a fast food restaurant. They started in Barstow, they have 69 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 3: a special menu. You keep going, keep going. There's some 70 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: outlet stores in Barstow. You keep going, you get out. 71 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 3: There's there's a little stop on the way to Baker 72 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 3: where they have Eddie World, And there's a couple of restaurants, 73 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 3: Peggy SU's Diner in your mo and so you can 74 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 3: stop at Eddie's Diner, get some gas, good bathrooms, and 75 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 3: some overpriced candy. 76 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: Get back in the car. Keep going, keep going, keep going. 77 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 3: You get to Baker, they've got the Mad Greek Restaurant 78 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 3: and a bunch of fast food places and the eternal 79 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 3: thermometer stabbing into the desert sky. Now eventually you cross 80 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 3: the crossover. Now, on our way in to Vegas, we 81 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 3: went through Death Valley, which is kind of near Baker. 82 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 3: One hundred and seventeen degrees on the thermometer on the car, 83 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 3: one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and seventeen, So keep drawing. 84 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 3: It's about another hour outside of Baker. You get to 85 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 3: the state line, prim which is very depressing. It used 86 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 3: to be the bread basket, the appetizer to the entree. 87 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 3: Now technically it's still there. Mostly a ghost town, mostly 88 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 3: a ghost town. Now the famous hotels, Buffalo Bills, and 89 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 3: Whiskey Pets are gone. There's a gas station with a 90 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 3: donut shop and Starbucks, and there's. 91 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: One hotel left. 92 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 3: I went in there to put some bets down later 93 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 3: on on my way back to la and it was very, 94 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 3: very depressing. There was this great mall which is pretty 95 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 3: much all gone. Anyway, The last time I did a 96 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 3: show in Vegas was pre pandemic, and I went to 97 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 3: what I call the Old iHeart Building. Now that doesn't 98 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 3: mean much to you. That doesn't mean much to you 99 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 3: because you don't know where the Old iHeart Building is. 100 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna try to paint a picture for you. 101 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 3: So the Old iHeart Building, where I broadcast many shows 102 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 3: from in Vegas, was a warehouse across the interstate that 103 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 3: looked like a place where accountants go to retire and 104 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 3: just you know, just generic. You don't really pay an attention, 105 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 3: you don't look twice, there's nothing special about it. The 106 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 3: setting outside of the building were homeless encampments, flickering street lights, 107 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 3: the scent of broken dreams in the air. 108 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: And it was. 109 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 3: Such a juxtaposition because you have this dump and then 110 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 3: you can see off in the distance, the strip with 111 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 3: all the neon and all the lights and all that stuff. 112 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 3: But the iHeart Building, the old iHeart Building was that 113 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 3: scene in old Westerns where the outlaw rides into a 114 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 3: ghost town and there's just a tumbleweed, which also is, 115 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 3: by the way, what it's like now in prim Nevada. 116 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: But I digress. 117 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 3: So anyway, that was the neighborhood where the old iHeart 118 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 3: Building was. It was surrounded by tens cardboard cities, the 119 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 3: forgotten souls and the people that are hanging out on 120 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 3: the hard scrabble streets. They were all there. All of 121 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 3: them were there. And it was a place where doing 122 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 3: radio in a city like Las Vegas, well this is Vegas. 123 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 3: This is an entertainment capital. It's wonderful. But doing radio 124 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 3: at that building felt less glamorous than if you were 125 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 3: cleaning toilets at a truck stop on the Jersey Turnpike. 126 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 3: It just you could not feel less glamorous. And so 127 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 3: when the Fox bosses, my bosses at Fox Sports Radio 128 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 3: sent me a new address, I braced for another warehouse. 129 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 3: I said, well, this is not the old place. This 130 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 3: is probably just going to be as bad. It'll just 131 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 3: be a different location instead, much to my amazement and 132 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 3: very rarely at this point in. 133 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: My life, I am amazed by anything. 134 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 3: I witnessed the taj Mahal, now, not the actual taj 135 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 3: Mahal obviously not that. However, in terms of comparing what 136 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: I had been in the last building to this. 137 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: Wow wow wow wow wow wow. 138 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 3: And they're sitting right there in the heart of Fremont 139 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 3: Street in downtown Vegas. To me, that's the real Vegas. 140 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 3: The neon reflected off the glass of the radio station. 141 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 3: There was a white castle next door, not a water burger, 142 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 3: a white castle. You know, those little square grease bombs 143 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 3: that taste like nostalgia and regret once you've eaten them, 144 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 3: and you feel a white castle when you eat it, 145 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 3: and then you feel it for the next three days 146 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 3: because you can't just. 147 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: Eat one or two. 148 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 3: You got to eat like a whole pack of them. 149 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 3: And that's how they do it. And there was a 150 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 3: police station right next to the iHeart Fremont Street studios, 151 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 3: which is very important, very important for obvious Fremont reasons, 152 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 3: which you really do appreciate. If you've been to Vegas 153 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 3: and been to Fremont Street, you appreciate it. Once you've 154 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 3: seen what's out and about the critters, the creatures, the 155 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 3: goblins that are called street performers on Fremont Street at 156 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 3: around two in the morning, it's not pretty. Fremont after 157 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 3: midnight is less sirkd through Solet and more sirk through Sketchy. 158 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: The legendary DJ. She's a DJ in Vegas. Dj Ice. 159 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: She let me in. 160 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 3: She was our contact at the radio station, and she's 161 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 3: kind of like the bouncer at the door of Oz. 162 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 3: And they even put my Ben Mallor show logo up 163 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 3: in the remote studio in Vegas. How cool is that? 164 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 3: My logo the equivalent of someone hanging your kid's macaroni 165 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 3: art at the louver. 166 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: It felt like that. But there I was. 167 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 3: I was surrounded by all these different monitors. They had 168 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 3: my logo on. I was like, wow, this is kind 169 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 3: of cool. 170 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: This is neat, you know. I got that vibe. 171 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 3: They don't do that at the main studio I'm at 172 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 3: in La So the show ran smoothly. There were a 173 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 3: few bumps, but smooth. Loraina stopped by. My wife was 174 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 3: with me during the broadcast. She wanted to come hang out. 175 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 3: They had gatorade and some other drinks that they provided. 176 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: They provided me with snacks and drinks. How cool is that? 177 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 3: I didn't eat the snatches. I don't eat at night. 178 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 3: I do that fugazy fasting. But they did provide me 179 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 3: some drinks, and so there I was, and it's like Vegas. 180 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: Wanted to remind me of the balance. Right after the show. 181 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 3: I'd done the show, I turned the mic off, unplugged 182 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 3: my headphones, put everything. 183 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: Away, and I walk out. 184 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 3: By this time, you know, the show ends on the 185 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 3: West Coast at three in the morning, so it's about 186 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 3: three thirty in the morning, and you're literally on Freemont Street. 187 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 3: So I walk out, and I've got my wife Ice. 188 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 3: There was another gentleman there, and I walk out and 189 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 3: immediately saw a homeless man, barefoot, no shirt, chasing a 190 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 3: pigeon with the focus of a defensive back trying to 191 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 3: slow down Tyreek Hill back in his Kansas City days. 192 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:42,599 Speaker 3: Looking this person for pigeon power. The whole bow was 193 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 3: looking for pigeon power. Now, unfortunately, I wish this was 194 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: a happy story. I don't know whether or not he 195 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 3: caught thee the pigeon, but what I do know is 196 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 3: he wasn't trying to keep it as a pet. 197 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 1: If you know what I mean. 198 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 3: I think he was looking for a little late night snack, 199 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 3: late night munchie with the pigeon. But Vegas is always 200 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 3: both sides of the coin. It's the glitz inside, and 201 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: that was just pure desperation outside. So then I went 202 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 3: back to the hotel, which was just down Fremont Street. 203 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 3: More neon buzzs, a lot of cigarettes, smoke. I never 204 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 3: see people smoking cigarettes in Los Angeles is banned. 205 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: Everywhere you go to Vegas. 206 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 3: Everyone's smoke, which is fine if you don't have to 207 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 3: do a talk show, and it messes with your throat 208 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 3: if you do. 209 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 1: Anyway. 210 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 3: So the end of the overnight show, I'd gotten a 211 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 3: message from r P one and the Twin Cities guy 212 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 3: named Corey. He said, Hey, you gotta say hello to 213 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 3: the boys on Kfan. They're literally right across from you, 214 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 3: he said. One of the guys from the Power Trip 215 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 3: crew was across the street over at circum So I 216 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 3: was debating and I was like, listen, it's the middle 217 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 3: of the night here. I just got done doing four 218 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 3: hours of talk radio. 219 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: I drove all day. I'm tired, I got no sleep. 220 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 3: I should just go and kind of chill out a 221 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 3: little bit, go to bed, and then we had Friday 222 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: to kind of futs around, and then the big event 223 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 3: on Saturday. And then I was like, you know what, 224 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 3: this guy Corey wants me to go see these guys. 225 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 3: Some other listeners started to say you should go see 226 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 3: the Power Trip guys, and boom, I'd said, you know what, 227 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 3: the hell Minnesota Morning Radio Royalty. 228 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: So I walked across Fremont Street into the. 229 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 3: Circa the Sportsbook Cathedral And if you've never been to Circuit, 230 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 3: it's an adults only hotel. 231 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:33,199 Speaker 1: They actually card you. 232 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 3: You have to give your idea to get in there, 233 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 3: which means they're the riff raft does not get in there, right, 234 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 3: the riff raft does not get in there. And this 235 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 3: is a glowing temple of excess for sports and it's 236 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 3: just magical and wonderful. 237 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: They've got an amazing pool. 238 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 3: And I'm sure I'll talk a lot more about Circus 239 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 3: we go forward. 240 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: Anyway. 241 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: Chris Hawkkey aka of a Hawk, was the person that 242 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 3: was broadcasting from Vegas and he works on the Vikings 243 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 3: radio broadcast and whatnot, but he was the star there. 244 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: He treated me like an equal, which was pretty cool. 245 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 3: You know, I'm just the nocturnal creature, the critter at 246 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 3: night who works in the hours when most people are 247 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 3: drooling on their pillows. And they were very polite, they 248 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 3: very kind. The guys on the show said they listened. 249 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 1: They said they actually. 250 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 3: Enjoyed the show. I actually wanted to believe them, and 251 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 3: I think I did. I think I did believe that 252 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: they listened. Meat Sauce was cool and Corey back in Minnesota. 253 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 3: They do the show on the internet, so I was 254 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 3: on camera. They put me on the air for about 255 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 3: about ten minutes, give or take about ten minutes, regardless, 256 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 3: though even those ten minutes popped online louder than anything 257 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 3: I've posted in many, many months. 258 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: That's the power trip that must be by their name. 259 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 3: The power trip like plugging your old guitar into someone 260 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 3: else's amp and then suddenly you're Hendrix, right, you know, 261 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 3: it's an ego trip. Sure now, I floated out of there, 262 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 3: out of the circa, could have moon walked back across 263 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 3: Fremont and all that Fremont Street, and then I was 264 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 3: overwhelmed with kindness. Minnesota people are just different. I learned 265 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 3: that when I went to Minnesota. They say nice Minnesota nice. 266 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 3: It's it isn't just a trait. It maybe it's like 267 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 3: a survival mechanism when you live in a place where 268 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 3: it's just Siberia, the winter lasts longer than a lot 269 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 3: of the Hollywood marriages take place. They were very kind, welcoming, generous. 270 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 3: It flattered me, It humbled me a bit. It reminded 271 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 3: me of why you attend these these things, why you 272 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 3: want to meet other people in the business, and you 273 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 3: want to hang out and meet listeners whatever. So Vegas 274 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 3: was the backdrop, but this was this was that day 275 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 3: was about connections. I love talking to people that are 276 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 3: love radio, that are radio lifers. I enjoy hanging out 277 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 3: with listeners. Some of you have become my friends over 278 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 3: the years. And those moments that you didn't plan but 279 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: end up replaying your head like highlights. That really is 280 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 3: the jackpot. And that's one of those moments. That would 281 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 3: be one of those moments. And now to the main event, 282 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 3: the main event. So there is a bit of nervousness. 283 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 3: Nervousness if the man could speak to this, there always is. 284 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 3: I've pointed out, we promote, we promote, we promote, but 285 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 3: we're not getting bankrolled by corporate. A lot of the 286 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 3: other shows go out, they have budgets, they have sponsors. 287 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 2: This is. 288 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 3: Not that where the Overnight Show. They don't allow us 289 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 3: any of that. They don't promote the show out at 290 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 3: these things, they don't book it. For years, I've asked management. 291 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 3: I said, listen, we can go out, we can do 292 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 3: a tour and go around the country and it could 293 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 3: be sponsored. 294 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: And they said, well, we're. 295 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 3: Trying, but it never works out. So in this case, 296 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 3: you think you're just going to a bar in Las Vegas, right, 297 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 3: just a bar. We've been promoting it for a couple 298 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 3: of weeks. You think you're just going to sit with 299 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 3: some people who listen to you drone on and on 300 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 3: and talk into the microphone on the radio in the 301 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 3: dead of the night. 302 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: And then you realize this is actually a referendum. 303 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 3: It is a referendum on whether or not you actually matter, 304 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 3: whether or not the many many hours that we do 305 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 3: not talk about but spend preparing the malor monologues and 306 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 3: the other nonsense that we do on the show, and 307 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 3: then you go into the studio somewhere yammering and hemming 308 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 3: and hahn about sports. But it's really about life, and 309 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 3: it's about goofy stuff and your moonlighting about nonsense. And 310 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 3: you have to cut through the static, right, you gotta 311 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 3: cut through the static enough that a group of mostly 312 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 3: strangers will leave their homes and spend their money. I'm 313 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 3: not paying, and these people to be here and stand 314 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 3: in the Nevada heat just to look at your fat 315 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 3: ass and the eye and say, hey, I listen, and 316 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 3: that that's what that's about. This was the twenty twenty 317 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 3: five Las Vegas Mallard Meat and greet, and I will 318 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 3: tell you it felt like a campaign whistle stop more 319 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 3: than a fan gathering. My wife calls it that. She says, 320 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 3: this is the whistle stop tour. It's a political tour. 321 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 1: And she's right. 322 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 3: Like these things, they do have the texture of politics, 323 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,719 Speaker 3: because much like politics, you never know if you're running 324 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 3: unopposed or if the crowd will simply not turn out, 325 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 3: which is very embarrassing. 326 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: And I've been lucky. 327 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 3: The smallest crowd we got was in Wisconsin, but that 328 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 3: was really because it was last minute. It was an appleton, 329 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 3: it was at a Mexican restaurant. But other than that, 330 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 3: it's mostly been it's mostly been great. There's always an 331 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 3: anxiety that there'll be an empty room and there's the dread. 332 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 3: You see all the chairs and the tables are unoccupied, 333 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 3: and you're like, oh my god, I am such a loser. 334 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: And that's the thing. Radio, as you know, is a 335 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: very lonely medium. 336 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 3: It's one of the great things about radio is it's 337 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 3: a one on one thing, even though you're not in 338 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 3: the same room. 339 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: But radio is a lonely medium. 340 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 3: You talk in a dark room into a microphone, you 341 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 3: throw your words into the abyss, into the a. 342 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: Void, and then you're on a wing and a prayer. 343 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 3: You're praying that someone on the other side catches those 344 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 3: words and that they like them enough to keep listening 345 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 3: and maybe that too. And then when they do, and 346 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 3: then when they actually show up in the flesh, it's hallelujah. 347 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 3: It is career validation unlike any kind of ratings or 348 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 3: podcast download numbers can. 349 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: Ever ever provide. 350 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 3: And they show up, and they come from all over, 351 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 3: from far out in the wild, blue yonder, everywhere in between, 352 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 3: near and far. The cast of characters in the Malad Militia, 353 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 3: there's no audience quite like this. There's no group of 354 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 3: people that can match it. Take Carnival parade, and each 355 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 3: more distinct than the last. Some and I'm gonna forget 356 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 3: some names. I'm telling you right now. I'm trying to 357 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 3: remember this as much as I can off the top 358 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 3: of my head. I did write a few notes down, 359 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 3: I was very busy. I didn't have time. And so 360 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 3: Queen Roxanne, we'll start with the Queen flew in from Denver, 361 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 3: got to meet Coop again and met Loraina for the 362 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 3: first time. So Queen Roxanne flew in from Denver, a 363 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 3: reunion almost ten years in the making, so happy. She's 364 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 3: got a really good job and was just glowing with 365 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 3: goodness and big smile on Queen Roxanne's face. It was 366 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 3: great to see her. She had the right Bronco head on. 367 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 3: She had the old school eighties style Brocco cap, which 368 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 3: is the only acceptable Bronco cap. So that was great, 369 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 3: really cool seeing Queen Roxanne. Surfer Todd, the comedian by 370 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 3: trade Wink Wink, a fashion adventurer by preference. He arrived 371 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 3: with his wife Deborah in the standard technic color garb 372 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 3: that made Fremont Street look underdressed. 373 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: I just made a look underdressed. 374 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 3: Jay Dot drove all the way, lives north of Salt 375 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 3: Lake City, lives in Ogden, Utah. 376 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: Drove all the way from Ogden down to Vegas. 377 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 3: No small feat from a man Jay Dot, And especially 378 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 3: when the thermometer is staging a rebellion against the laws 379 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 3: of mother nature, It's like, oh, what are you doing? 380 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: No Stradinis, I did not know. 381 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,479 Speaker 3: No Stradenas was going to be their a profit of 382 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 3: all things absurd flew in from Seattle with his vegan 383 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 3: wife in tow because no matter how eccentric the character, 384 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 3: someone at home is keeping them honest about kale. Now know, 385 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 3: Studinis did point out that while his wife is wonderful 386 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 3: and lovely and all that, she is of course not 387 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 3: perfect because she does not eat meat. Now, tiger Man, 388 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 3: that was a surprise. Tiger Man he arrived. I love 389 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 3: this guy. Good dude, Hey, it's tiger reminds me of 390 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 3: me when I was a little younger. Tiger Man arrived 391 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 3: all the way from Missouri Warri's now living, and he 392 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 3: might as well have had stripes of Lsu purple practically 393 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 3: painted across his face. 394 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:32,959 Speaker 1: There certainly across his spirit. 395 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 3: There was a young guy, I don't remember his name, 396 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 3: guy from French Lick, Indiana, famous town, Larry Bird, the 397 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 3: hick from French Lick, guy from French Lick, Indiana, who 398 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 3: was in Vegas. The town of course, as you mentioned, 399 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 3: no for Larry Bird and not much else. He intercepted 400 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 3: me when I first arrived and the proceedings were just beginning, 401 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 3: and he was waving his phone like a campaign aid, 402 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 3: insisting someone very important was on the line. 403 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: Well, this must be like. 404 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 3: The President of the United States, or it's Elon Musk, 405 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 3: or it's that guy from Facebook, the red haired guy, 406 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 3: a Zuckerberg. And so he puts me on a zoom, 407 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 3: not a zoom, but like a Facebook call, and there 408 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 3: he is. Can't close the deal, Neil the legend, can't 409 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 3: close the deal. Neil who could not make the event. 410 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 3: He was on FaceTime, could not make the event, but 411 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 3: it was important enough for him to force I think 412 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 3: it was his cousin. I think, I'm not sure, maybe 413 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 3: not some relative, very nice gentleman I forget his name, though, 414 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 3: but encouraged him to go to the event and be 415 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 3: part of it. He wanted to be part of it, 416 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 3: so that was great. We had Kathy and Madison, who 417 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 3: was not there, but she did a virtual concert while 418 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 3: it was going on, and so that's how it went, 419 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 3: you know, with Vegas magic in its purest, most uncut form. 420 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 3: Big Lou came up from LB because he's on number two. 421 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 3: Somebody actually asked me, is that the Big Lou from 422 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 3: the commercial? 423 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: I said, yes, it is. 424 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 3: That's the Big Lou from the commercials, unless it's not 425 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 3: Big Lou. Larger than life as always Supermarcus Steve. He 426 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,719 Speaker 3: was there with his lovely wife and the legend behind 427 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 3: the world's most famous Tierra Massou. You had Dante, a 428 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 3: Georgia transplant now living in Las Vegas, and young guy. 429 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 3: He shook my hand. He was very excited to meet me, 430 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 3: which made me feel good. He whispered about his dream. 431 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 3: He told me he's got big plans. He's working at 432 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 3: a gas station right now, but he told me he 433 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 3: says his plans from Georgia. And when you're from Georgia 434 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 3: and you love a certain restaurant, you're in Vegas, they 435 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 3: don't have that restaurant. You got to bring that restaurant 436 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 3: to Vegas. And he said, listen, I want to open. 437 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 3: Dante told me, I want to open the first waffle 438 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 3: house in Sin City. I told him that's not a dream, 439 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 3: I said, Dante, that's essentially a civic duty. And Las 440 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 3: Vegas does not need another show. It needs hash brown scattered, 441 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 3: smothered and covered at three in the morning. That's what 442 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 3: it needs. There was Big Balls Bob, the Great Big 443 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 3: Balls Bob Breakout Star of our Karaoke contest, which did 444 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 3: turn a small stage. 445 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: He did. 446 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 3: He turned this little small stage into his own personal 447 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden really just like the Hollywood Bowl, just 448 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 3: nailing it. And karaoke did get a little heated. There 449 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 3: were some temperatures that were raised. It was heated in 450 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 3: the way only karaoke can. Right your half delusional, half competitive. 451 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 3: There's the haze of booze, the alcohol softening the edges 452 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 3: a little bit. So that was going on the Boston 453 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 3: Cabby great character, he told me. He said, a little 454 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 3: slow in Vegas with the tourism, but I'm making a 455 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 3: lot of money on kickbacks. He's directing people to houses 456 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 3: of ill reproach or you know you know what I mean. 457 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you know the rub and tug places that 458 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 3: Robert Krafti likes and some other places that get contraband 459 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 3: David from Vegas David from Vegas. He resurfaced like an 460 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 3: old sitcom character popping back up for a cameo. It 461 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 3: was great to see him and bonded with Snooker, who's 462 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 3: become a caller now and his wife. Snooker a Vietnam 463 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 3: vett who's lived lived his life lifetime in the Air Force, 464 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 3: A real great character from Chicago. But he's a Yankee fan, 465 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 3: loud and proud. And of course there was Slug and 466 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 3: his partner in crime, the logistical geniuses that were able 467 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 3: to secure us the venue, the stakeout Barn Grill near UNLV, 468 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 3: a joint with the kind of sticky floors and stiff 469 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 3: drinks that make you feel like you're you're in the 470 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 3: right place, like you stumbled into the set of every 471 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 3: good Vegas movie. That isn't the Hangover. 472 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: It wasn't one of those all. 473 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 3: Perfect places in the strip. It was on the strip. 474 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 3: It was it was different as a near a college, 475 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 3: and it was cool and Slug was able to book 476 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 3: the place. It was booked for two hours. The event 477 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,479 Speaker 3: was from three o'clock till five. We ended up staying. 478 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 3: I think by the time I got back to the 479 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 3: hotel was seven. It was nearly four hours. And that's 480 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 3: how it goes. Do you think you're going to shake 481 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,159 Speaker 3: some hands, pose for some pictures, say some thank you 482 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 3: and all that, and instead these things In this case, 483 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 3: it became like a church. 484 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: Not the kind with the pews. 485 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 3: And the stained glass and the you know, the Bibles 486 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 3: all over, but the kind where the congregation is a 487 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 3: bunch of strangers who found you. 488 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: Late at night. You know, people lonely. 489 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 3: Maybe they were in a bad place in their life, 490 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 3: they went through a breakup, they lost a relative, maybe 491 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 3: they were sick, battling some creeping crud or something worse, 492 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 3: and it just needed a voice and background noise, and 493 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 3: for some reason they settled on you, and they kept 494 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 3: going and. 495 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 1: Then just like that, it was over. That's all she wrote. 496 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 3: We spilled out into the one hundred and twelve degree 497 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 3: Nevada heat on that late late Saturday afternoon. 498 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: It was one hundred degrees at one in the morning 499 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: in Vegas. 500 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 3: It's the kind of heat that makes you feel like 501 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 3: you've opened up the oven door and forgotten, forgotten to 502 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 3: pull back. 503 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: You know, it's like, what are we doing? 504 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,239 Speaker 3: Everyone scattered into the neon afternoon back. Some people went 505 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 3: to the airport to catch flights. People were going back 506 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,719 Speaker 3: to the Strip. Some people were going out to Fremont Street, 507 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 3: Quiet Corners of tim Buck Too, somewhere out in Springfield 508 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 3: or Sheboygan or Rancho Cucamonga. 509 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: And that was great. 510 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 3: I mean everyone from you know, we said most of 511 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 3: the name of the giant fan I mentioned. 512 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: I don't know if I mentioned him, he his wife 513 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: or there it was. It was just it was pretty cool. 514 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. 515 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 3: And if I did not say your name, I'm a schmuck. 516 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 3: There was a big construction. 517 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: Dude, big mogul guy there. It makes a ton of 518 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: money's loaded. Good for him. And it wasn't just an event. 519 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 3: It was proof of life, proof that the words that 520 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 3: we just throw out there do not evaporate into the ether. 521 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 3: Proof that the tribe known as the Malard Militia is real. 522 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:29,959 Speaker 1: Baby. 523 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 3: And I'm gonna tell you this, a Malard meeting. Maybe 524 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 3: you'll never go to one. You probably won't. Most people 525 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 3: don't go to these things. We don't do them that often. 526 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 3: But a Malard meeting, especially in Vegas, it's not about Vegas. 527 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 3: It's about it's not about it's about radio. It's about community. 528 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 3: It's about a weird family of strangers, characters that you 529 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 3: grow to love. It's about finding that somewhere out there 530 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 3: in that endless haze of static or bad way I 531 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 3: FI where you're listening on the stream, somebody heard you, right, 532 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 3: and so I do want to thank you. If you attended, 533 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 3: I want to thank you. If you thought about attending 534 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 3: but didn't attend, I want to thank you if you're 535 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 3: planning on attending a future event. We plan on being 536 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 3: back in Vegas sometime in August of twenty twenty six. 537 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: As for Boston and Ohio, Mike in. 538 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 3: New Hampshire and the Leprechaun have both been very kind. 539 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 3: We're efforting some dates on that, so we'll let you know. Ohio, 540 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 3: we want to do Ohio. 541 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: We need a. 542 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 3: Venue in the Cincinnati area, and it's a bit of 543 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 3: a race against time. We don't want to go to 544 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 3: Cincinnati when the weather's really nasty. Don't want to do 545 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 3: that obviously, So if we don't get it done soon here, 546 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 3: we're going to have to push it back to the 547 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 3: spring of twenty twenty six. Now, I did have a 548 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 3: listener full disclosure, I think I mentioned this in a 549 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 3: previous podcast or radio show, but it all is a big, 550 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 3: big fog. So I had a listener that reached out 551 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 3: and offered a place, a mom and pop business that 552 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 3: I thought would have been perfect for the Malor meet 553 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 3: and greet, and we were going back and forth, back 554 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 3: and forth, and then they ghosted me. Now it's possible 555 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 3: that they're out of town. It's possible that you know, 556 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 3: their email got hacked or something like that. But if 557 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 3: you know, you know who you are, reach reach out 558 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 3: to me. Because it's been it's been a minute and 559 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 3: I'm thinking this, you changed your mind, or your your dad, 560 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 3: who kind of runs the place or owns the place, 561 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 3: change their mind. Anyway, I'm not going to go unless 562 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 3: I can get a place to host us and do 563 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 3: this right. 564 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: I want to do it right. The Ohio event is 565 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: going to be big. 566 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 3: I don't want to do half ass, and I want 567 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 3: to meet at some random restaurant and some weird part of. 568 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: Town, you know, an odd hour, and I don't want 569 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: any part of that. So we are effitting that and 570 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: the Boston thing. 571 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 3: And there isn't a southern California meet and greet that 572 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 3: we're planning on doing as well. So if you're interested 573 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 3: in helping us out again, we have no budget. 574 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: This is all grassroots. As of now, I. 575 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 3: Will be the only one that goes to Ohio, unless, 576 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 3: for example, somebody wants to step up and cover some 577 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 3: of the costs for our travel. 578 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: I will go out of pocket. 579 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 3: But the Rain and Coop I do not believe we'll 580 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 3: be We'll be doing that anyway. 581 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: That's it. 582 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 3: We'll have new podcasts. Dani will join me at some 583 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 3: point this weekend. We'll have a new pot on Saturday 584 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 3: and Sunday and have a wonderful, glorious arrest of your 585 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 3: Friday and later skater asta pasta. 586 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how it goes. Did I do it right? Danny? 587 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: Now you're nodding your head. I see you over there 588 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: behind the glass. You're no in your head. 589 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 2: Now, got a murder? 590 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: I gotta go.