Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
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Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
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Speaker 1: Hot Takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air Everywhere
Speaker 1: another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, back
Speaker 1: at it on a Saturday. Here we are very exciting
Speaker 1: myself at Danny g Radio the most anticipated podcast Nanny
Speaker 1: of the weekend, the much awaited blow by blow recap
Speaker 1: of a trip to Radio Row, which is a very exciting,
Speaker 1: very exciting for me. I've not been to Radio Row,
Speaker 1: so we we will get into all of the goodness
Speaker 1: that is Radio Row. And I cannot wait to get
Speaker 1: it because I've been waiting. You know. I told some
Speaker 1: of the stories Danny on the radio, but I didn't
Speaker 1: get into it too much. I figured, why not save
Speaker 1: this for the podcast. That's where it's all about, right,
Speaker 1: the podcast. So yeah, save it as you should. And
Speaker 1: this is way better than a recap of the game.
Speaker 1: Who watched that game. This is more about Radio Row. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean listen hundred and twelve million, but there's like
Speaker 1: three d thirty million people in America, so more people
Speaker 1: didn't watch the super Bowl than actually watched the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But a very limited amount of people, very limited amount
Speaker 1: of people get to hear this podcast. This is a
Speaker 1: very exclusive groups. So I've got Serendipitous debonair, customary bunkering,
Speaker 1: and critically acclaimed. This is a jam packed fifth hour.
Speaker 1: The amount of content that you were going to get
Speaker 1: on this edition the fifth Hour is insane, right, I
Speaker 1: mean it's just NonStop unless it's not all right, So
Speaker 1: Serendipitous Danny, And this is actually before I even ran
Speaker 1: into you at the l A Convention Center where Radio
Speaker 1: Row was last week, so I finally making it there
Speaker 1: and and being part of the ambiance. But getting their
Speaker 1: parking was a nightmare, as they had artificially inflated the
Speaker 1: price of parking taking advantage of the Super Bowl crowd.
Speaker 1: So right around Radio Row the parking was like fifty
Speaker 1: bucks a lot of those places, but uh, I ended
Speaker 1: up parking about two miles away, at least according to
Speaker 1: my step tracker, it was two miles away, and they'd
Speaker 1: cleaned up a lot of the homeless. I don't know
Speaker 1: where they put them, but they cleaned them up a lot.
Speaker 1: And anyway, partly it was like still thirty bucks the park.
Speaker 1: So that was the first kicking the in then having
Speaker 1: to pay thirty bucks to park. I wasn't playing me
Speaker 1: there for like two or three hours, Dan, Yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I ended up we ended up staying a lot longer.
Speaker 1: But my plan was only to be there a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what the city of l A did
Speaker 1: what they always do. They put some pocket money into
Speaker 1: their jacket, put them on a bus, and they dropped
Speaker 1: them off in Palmdale. Classy. Yah, Well they'll all be
Speaker 1: back now. They're probably already back now that the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl is over, and I don't care anymore until the
Speaker 1: next big event and then they're gonna ship all the
Speaker 1: homeless homeless out. But it's very weird, you know, you
Speaker 1: know how things happen in life. And so I ended
Speaker 1: up parking in a lot. I usually had this lot
Speaker 1: that I parked in when I would go to games
Speaker 1: in downtown l A. But I decided not to park there.
Speaker 1: I want to part a little closer, and then I
Speaker 1: ended up parking further away, but in a different direction
Speaker 1: where I decided a park a couple of miles away.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was a long walk. It's fine,
Speaker 1: the weather was great, whatever, but it was It was
Speaker 1: a serendipitous decision because if I had parked somewhere else,
Speaker 1: I would not have been able to run across who
Speaker 1: I ran across there. My path took me directly into
Speaker 1: the man known as Helmet Man. Oh yes, I'm actually
Speaker 1: on the Live are yes, you're on the superhero Helmet
Speaker 1: Man just happened to be out on the street there
Speaker 1: selling his products. It was like a light shining from heaven.
Speaker 1: I fell asleep. That's the man right there, the great
Speaker 1: helmet Man. And he hadn't called the show in a
Speaker 1: couple of years. I was telling you the story, Danny,
Speaker 1: when we were at the restaurant there. But he had
Speaker 1: not called the show in a couple of years. I
Speaker 1: was concerned. Eddie was concerned. We were all concerned because
Speaker 1: he had come by the studio and just like knocked
Speaker 1: on the door and we put him in and we
Speaker 1: hadn't heard from him, and he'd always checked in with
Speaker 1: us every once in a while see what was going on,
Speaker 1: and so we were worried he had passed on, gone
Speaker 1: to the Pearly Gates or something like that, and uh no,
Speaker 1: I ran into him and he acted like nothing had happened. Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: you know like that, And it was great to see him.
Speaker 1: He actually called into the show early this week. I
Speaker 1: heard your Monday Morning show and I heard you tell
Speaker 1: a little bit of this story and Eddie and everybody
Speaker 1: seemed really happy that he was there with us. But
Speaker 1: I didn't know he called the show though. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: called in a couple of days later and he said
Speaker 1: he was at the super Bowl and he sold a
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow Bengals jersey for a hundred bucks. I was
Speaker 1: his big sale there, which is a big deal for
Speaker 1: helmet man. And he also said he was at Sofa Stadium.
Speaker 1: So they've changed the name of Sofa It is now
Speaker 1: Sofa Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. He said he
Speaker 1: lives over there now that that he moved. He relocated.
Speaker 1: But it was he's very charming man and it was
Speaker 1: nice to to catch up with him and a great
Speaker 1: start to a very fun day, uh, you know, around
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and all that stuff and so so
Speaker 1: that was my my serendipitous uh trip. And and then
Speaker 1: as far as the Radio Row, I mean, you've been
Speaker 1: to these things before. Danny had not been to Radio Row.
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of grab bass, a lot of
Speaker 1: grab bass going on. Not good at grab bass, not good. Uh.
Speaker 1: An introvert does not do well at radio I thought
Speaker 1: I did pretty good all things considered. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: trying to be social. Yeah. No. When we were finishing up,
Speaker 1: I made the joke that it felt like Jerry McGuire
Speaker 1: where he is taking his wide receiver to do a
Speaker 1: lap and he's like, come on, I know you're not
Speaker 1: very social, but let's do a lap. Let's work the
Speaker 1: room one time, as I see. And at the end
Speaker 1: he was like, that wasn't hard, right, Well, you were,
Speaker 1: you were escorting me. We were a tag team here
Speaker 1: walking around Radio Row. And there's definitely a class system
Speaker 1: that I noticed at Radio Row. That was one of
Speaker 1: the first things I noticed, Like most of the station's
Speaker 1: have just a crappy little table and a box of
Speaker 1: equipment and maybe they have one of those vinyl signs
Speaker 1: behind them if they're lucky. So you've got that's the
Speaker 1: vast majority of Radio Row. And then we have the
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio hundred thousand dollars set, which they put
Speaker 1: in the company put in UM and there were some
Speaker 1: other big draft kings at a big stage. I saw
Speaker 1: CBS had a big one. I mean there were a
Speaker 1: few of them that were pretty big. Most of them
Speaker 1: were pretty pretty small, and everyone's rubbing elbows with everyone
Speaker 1: else on this. I remember it was either Miami Beach
Speaker 1: or Atlanta, because they had huge sets like that at both.
Speaker 1: My former program director at NBC Sports Radio was at
Speaker 1: one of the tables, like you're talking about and when
Speaker 1: I saw him, instead of saying hi, he looked up
Speaker 1: at our set and he said, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: Set up for a Metallica concert? Yeah? It was, And
Speaker 1: I said this. I was on with Jason and Harmon.
Speaker 1: I went on for a segment or two, and I
Speaker 1: I wasn't kidding, like I've unfortunately had a year I
Speaker 1: worked in television at NBC and Stanford, Connecticut. I was
Speaker 1: never on a set that was as nice as the
Speaker 1: one for a week at Radio Row. It was insane
Speaker 1: uh nice that was And I felt like I felt
Speaker 1: a little shame because I feel like I'm more. I'm
Speaker 1: more like the guys at the card tables, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like it was. It was a different
Speaker 1: world being on the stage and all that. Not that
Speaker 1: I'm complaining, but it was. I felt guilty because all
Speaker 1: these guys are looking as you said, they're looking up.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, look at you big shots coming in
Speaker 1: here with your your massive set and all that stuff
Speaker 1: and your fancy pants set, with your Lamborghini here at
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. But trust me, Ben, it's way better
Speaker 1: than riding in one of those Pinto's. And the Mallard
Speaker 1: militia would agree that after all these years of doing
Speaker 1: sports radio, you deserved a Lamborghini there at the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But it was nice. It was very cool. And uh,
Speaker 1: and I guess I can. I can go p O
Speaker 1: B if you want. I can drop some names you
Speaker 1: can drop. I jotted down a few names of people
Speaker 1: I met. I met Big Jim Murray and mass from
Speaker 1: the Felgern Mashow that is the number one afternoon drive
Speaker 1: local big market radio show that's on our affiliate, our
Speaker 1: Fox Sports radio affiliate, Night point five FM, the Sports Hub.
Speaker 1: And so those guys are great. I'm in fact, Big
Speaker 1: Jim Murshed is he's gonna come on the podcast. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get him on in a future podcast and shoot
Speaker 1: the crap about his rise up on the Felgern Mash
Speaker 1: Show in Boston, and that show dominates the radio waves
Speaker 1: there in Boston. I'm trying to think who else there
Speaker 1: had a very brief you were actually part of this,
Speaker 1: a very brief encounter with the one million dollar man,
Speaker 1: Pat mckiw fee. Yeah, because he was a guest on
Speaker 1: radio row with me in Atlanta for outkicked the coverage,
Speaker 1: and dude had a crazy good memory. You know. I'm
Speaker 1: talking to him about a Super Bowl from a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, and he was like, oh yeah, He's like,
Speaker 1: that's when Buffalo Wild Wings had me on your set.
Speaker 1: He was right, that's exactly what happened. And so I
Speaker 1: was able to then turn it over to you and
Speaker 1: got a couple of good pictures of you guys, and
Speaker 1: you guys chopped it up. He wanted to know when
Speaker 1: you slept. Yeah, we were talking very debonair, very debonair.
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee full as you see on his TV radio
Speaker 1: show whatever it is there. If you call ripped jeans Debonair.
Speaker 1: Well you know, it's modern debonair, and he was the
Speaker 1: only radio guy that had an entourage. He's like the
Speaker 1: bro of sports talk radio. And he did have a
Speaker 1: huge entourage. I mean, he even had some live performances
Speaker 1: going on by different hip hop artists that were stopping
Speaker 1: by throughout the week. And I'm proud of him because
Speaker 1: at that time, I remember Clay Travis asking me after
Speaker 1: the fifteen minutes with us at that Super Bowl. He
Speaker 1: was so good that Clay said, hey, Danny talked to
Speaker 1: him and his manager, see if he can do a
Speaker 1: weekly hit on out Kick that would be great, And well,
Speaker 1: you know the rest of the story. He went on
Speaker 1: to do his own show. Yeah, and that was the
Speaker 1: single greatest paid guest in sports radio over the last
Speaker 1: year was Aaron Rodgers. No one's even close. Like every
Speaker 1: week because of the circumstances of you know, him not
Speaker 1: getting the vaccine and people complaining about that and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and the Packers, who were the top team
Speaker 1: in the NFC during the season, is every week. It
Speaker 1: was something it was like on the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 1: But good for him. He got a hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: here from what fan. Do I think it was? Is
Speaker 1: that the one that or DraftKings, one of the gambling
Speaker 1: outfits paid him. So that was nice to meet him.
Speaker 1: It was nice, very nice. A brief conversation there and
Speaker 1: he but he did have that flotilla of people around him.
Speaker 1: They're writing his coattails. But he's like a former NFL player,
Speaker 1: so does that like he's not He played in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He was a punter, so you've got that. There was
Speaker 1: a a name radio person that we walked past Danny
Speaker 1: and did not acknowledge us, not acknowledge us. And I'm
Speaker 1: pretty pretty sure, pretty sure the person saw me surprised motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Who was it? We will not reveal the name. We
Speaker 1: will not reveal the name, but it was someone his
Speaker 1: last name rhymes with flick, with someone we both know.
Speaker 1: And it just just randomly we were walking in he
Speaker 1: was walking out, ships passing in the night and uh no,
Speaker 1: and no even fake hello we got. I don't think
Speaker 1: he saw you because he was looking kind of the
Speaker 1: other direction, or he looked right through you, maybe because
Speaker 1: you're so thin. Now, yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: He definitely looked my direction. Now, maybe you know because
Speaker 1: you're around, You're in a strange environment. There's a bunch
Speaker 1: of random people. It is possible, not probable. It's possible
Speaker 1: that he did not connect and I. And to be fair,
Speaker 1: I mean he's one of the guys that I haven't
Speaker 1: seen since I lost a lot of weight. So maybe
Speaker 1: he didn't put two and two together. There is that
Speaker 1: possibility that he expected me to be a total large
Speaker 1: ass and I didn't show up as a total large ass,
Speaker 1: and so that might have been the the issue there. Uh.
Speaker 1: As far as the hospitality, Danny, it was okay. They
Speaker 1: had for the media. They had a lot of chips,
Speaker 1: soda right, there's vending machines that they had in the
Speaker 1: green room. One of the highlights, man of walking around
Speaker 1: that event with you once you would I got NFL bags.
Speaker 1: We were able to really go to town and put
Speaker 1: free bees in the bags. And what I loved is
Speaker 1: you had a calculator in your head. Every time we
Speaker 1: got something for free. We were like, there's one dollar
Speaker 1: off my parking, there's five off my parking. That's ten
Speaker 1: towards my parking. That is outstanding. That TV slash radio
Speaker 1: guy to their core adding up the free bees to
Speaker 1: make sure the parking got paid. Yeah, so I did.
Speaker 1: I did the math on this, and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: with inflation, with with Biden, the price of everything going up.
Speaker 1: I figured per gatorade three bucks per gatorade, the soda
Speaker 1: probably around the same, maybe a couple of bucks for
Speaker 1: the si I've going well, fo dollars, two dollars for
Speaker 1: the soda, two dollars for the soda. Bag of ships,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Maybe a buck fifty maybe maybe two
Speaker 1: bucks depending. So I was doing the matter old spice products. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was old spice, although we really botched that we
Speaker 1: could have got more of that. We missed out on
Speaker 1: some Panini football cards that we didn't know about until
Speaker 1: it was too late. So there were a couple of
Speaker 1: misses on our part. But we know we did clean
Speaker 1: up pretty good though. Yeah. Like I remember, I was
Speaker 1: walking back to my car through the mean streets of
Speaker 1: downtown l A there, and that bag was pretty heavy,
Speaker 1: pretty heavy, and boy, we going to the the what
Speaker 1: do they call it wasn't just a gift shop, it
Speaker 1: was something else. They had some name for it. I
Speaker 1: forget the name of it. It was the NFL Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Store. Yeah, so we walked through there, and you
Speaker 1: know how you go to like Disneyland, and when you
Speaker 1: walk through a ride, they let you out in the
Speaker 1: gift shop. It had that kind of vibe and Disney
Speaker 1: like prices. The NFL, they really know how to make
Speaker 1: those cash registers should change chi ching, chi ching, chi ching.
Speaker 1: And you look at the prices. Hell now, yeah, you're like, no,
Speaker 1: I can't be that much. I only got a couple
Speaker 1: of hats and it's sent me back over a hundred
Speaker 1: bucks with two hats. This hats made out of gold.
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness. And you were you were running
Speaker 1: around there trying because you were buying some stuff for
Speaker 1: some people, right, you had some like a Bengal fan
Speaker 1: and some mother other people, the the the Queen Tinderoni. Well,
Speaker 1: so I got her a nice hat that matches her
Speaker 1: colors that she loves. We both were able to get
Speaker 1: a couple of shirts on our way out. Oh that's right, Well,
Speaker 1: that was that was a great well, that was the
Speaker 1: unexpected bonus. At the end of the night, we were
Speaker 1: leaving and I was only planning on staying for like
Speaker 1: two hours. I thought, I'll just go for two hours,
Speaker 1: get the hell out of there. We ended up deciding
Speaker 1: and I think this was a great decision to avoid
Speaker 1: the gridlock l A traffic rush hour getting out in
Speaker 1: the belly of the Beast there in down Ton, l A.
Speaker 1: We both determined we were having a good time, so
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, let's just stick around. So we ended
Speaker 1: up staying I don't know when we leave eight o'clock
Speaker 1: or something like that. At night. We cut the place
Speaker 1: down pretty much, which was a good decision because you
Speaker 1: were able to go on Live with Jason Smith and
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, which was a lot of fun. And also,
Speaker 1: and let me back up a little bit. When we
Speaker 1: were on Radio Row talking about being on live radio,
Speaker 1: we met your boy Q, one of the main hosts
Speaker 1: on Raider Nation Radio Las Vegas. We're talking to him
Speaker 1: about Vegas and the Super Bowl coming up on a
Speaker 1: couple of years and we were having a fun little
Speaker 1: conversation with him. He had the headset now. Prior to
Speaker 1: talking with him, I asked him, I said, you're not
Speaker 1: on right now writing so no, no, no, it's cool.
Speaker 1: I'm in a commercial break. He lost track of time.
Speaker 1: We say goodbye to him, he puts his headset on
Speaker 1: and I hear him talking to his engineer back at
Speaker 1: the Raider Nation radio and he was like, what three minutes?
Speaker 1: You've been playing my intro music for three minutes? Beautiful
Speaker 1: made him three minutes late to his radio. So some
Speaker 1: some jamok driving around Vegas is like, why is this
Speaker 1: jackass not talking about the Raiders? Why is he playing
Speaker 1: this music? What is it going on here? Yeah? That
Speaker 1: P Diddy classic? Well that would be like if three
Speaker 1: minutes of that just ran without saying a word. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what happened to your boy to there in Vegas.
Speaker 1: The whole They have a whole radio station in Vegas
Speaker 1: just Raider four seven Raider programming. That's right in your wheehouse,
Speaker 1: Danny G. That format is crazy, all right. So we
Speaker 1: stayed till we were past traffic and our way out,
Speaker 1: we'll go back to the radio row. We're giving you
Speaker 1: the blow by blow because this is the kind of
Speaker 1: content you didn't know you need, but you can't get
Speaker 1: enough of. This is the kind of audio content you're
Speaker 1: looking for on a Saturday. So on our way out,
Speaker 1: you know those those a decent crowd of people just
Speaker 1: mulling around outside the exit, and there were some bunch
Speaker 1: of people selling the bacon wrap tot dogs. I mean
Speaker 1: they lined them up on both sides of the street.
Speaker 1: It smelled really good, really really good. And then there
Speaker 1: were a couple of dudes with bags of shirts and
Speaker 1: they were Super Bowl shirts. Like, these are good looking shirts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did a good job on them. These are some
Speaker 1: of the l A entrepreneurs that we liked to support.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, Ben, check the tags on the shirt.
Speaker 1: He checked the quality of the shirt, make sure that
Speaker 1: the print on both sides was nice, and then made
Speaker 1: sure the price was right. Yeah, no, it was inside
Speaker 1: the price gouging NFL store, that same shirt would have
Speaker 1: been sixty bucks probably something like that, ye, sixty five bucks,
Speaker 1: and we got it outside for twenty bucks. And it's
Speaker 1: it's a good looking shirt, it's it's well made. It
Speaker 1: past the Mather test where I I kind of pulled
Speaker 1: it apart and let me look at that, and I
Speaker 1: was like I was ending. But the price of even
Speaker 1: counterfeit shirts has gone up. At the World Series in seventeen,
Speaker 1: I bought a couple of those shirts out on the
Speaker 1: streets outside Dodger Stadium and I paid ten bucks a shirt.
Speaker 1: So in five years from two it's got up, but
Speaker 1: you know half it's double. Yeah. Yeah, So yeah, these
Speaker 1: guys are smart. They know exactly where the price point
Speaker 1: was on the inside of the event, and so they
Speaker 1: knew that their price point outside of the event was
Speaker 1: a bargain. Yeah. Yeah, No, I didn't we I was
Speaker 1: gonna do it, but I once I saw the quality
Speaker 1: of the shirt, I was like, okay, because I was
Speaker 1: gonna get a shirt, and I was like, that's pretty expensive.
Speaker 1: And then you don't know how much you're gonna wear it.
Speaker 1: But if you got a deal like that, you gotta
Speaker 1: take advanta to that for sure. Hats on the inside
Speaker 1: that were official and shirts on the outside which were
Speaker 1: semi official. Yeah. Also, we we went I'm bouncing around here,
Speaker 1: but we went to a restaurant. Now I did not eat.
Speaker 1: I was a douche because I was fasting, man, and
Speaker 1: I sat there and you had you had a delicious
Speaker 1: plate of chicken fingers. I I was, I was, I
Speaker 1: was in pain. I was like, that looks so delicious.
Speaker 1: And Harmon and and Burs singer Ryan Burr Shinger keep trying, Ryan.
Speaker 1: We all went to this restaurant across from from the
Speaker 1: crypt Arena, whatever it's called there. Yeah, we went to
Speaker 1: Tom's at l A Live there right across from the event,
Speaker 1: and I was bummed out because you know, I haven't
Speaker 1: got to break bread with you in a while. You know,
Speaker 1: back in the live radio days with you, we used
Speaker 1: to have pizza parties all the time. You and I
Speaker 1: would go to cheesecake Factory in places like that to
Speaker 1: break bread. Um, so I know your style of food,
Speaker 1: I know what you love. The menu was right up
Speaker 1: your alley. Oh, I love bar food. I love bar food.
Speaker 1: But I'm I've been able to work out in a while, Danny,
Speaker 1: because my treadmills on the fritz. And and so I'm
Speaker 1: so paranoid as I recovering fat man every time I
Speaker 1: eat a big meal out like that. And then I
Speaker 1: figured I was gonna eat later. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get fat. Don't do that, Ben, don't do that.
Speaker 1: So I just drank water and uh sorry, maybe next year.
Speaker 1: Next year, I'll protect But the food looked great. It
Speaker 1: was a great conversation. I love radio meals where it's
Speaker 1: just a bunch of radio people telling radio stories. That's
Speaker 1: the greatest thing. And I don't have many of those
Speaker 1: anymore because of COVID. We haven't had those in a
Speaker 1: long time. I haven't seen a lot. I don't think
Speaker 1: i've seen harmon uh since since all this happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: I haven't been in very much, so I haven't seen
Speaker 1: any any of you guys that much. And a lot
Speaker 1: of the hosts and other announcers are remote from their
Speaker 1: homes this past year or two, like Dan Buyer, who
Speaker 1: we saw, I hadn't seen him since Kobe passed away,
Speaker 1: and we were eating together at the Miami Beach Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Crazy Ride the past couple of years. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I had not seen Gottlieb or Buyers since. We went
Speaker 1: to a golf tournament. They had a Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: golf tournament in the middle of twenty nineteen, which somehow
Speaker 1: somebody screwed up and invited me to that, and I
Speaker 1: had a wonderful time. It's a tournament you spoke about
Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks on the podcast. That's right, Yes, Bucky.
Speaker 1: Bucky was one of my golf partners there and saw
Speaker 1: me hit the worst shot in the history of golf
Speaker 1: that I hit a folding chair, which I still don't
Speaker 1: know how I was able to pull it off just
Speaker 1: ram it. But yeah, that was cool. I was a
Speaker 1: good time, even though I didn't eat. Just the company
Speaker 1: was great hanging out with you and Harmon and and
Speaker 1: and Burr Singer. After the bar, you spent five ten
Speaker 1: good minutes with a horse. I did. I did, That's right,
Speaker 1: I got I apologized. You guys had to wait for me.
Speaker 1: I was very rude. I've always been a fan of
Speaker 1: the Cavalry the Los Angeles. I do the same thing
Speaker 1: when I go visit my brother in New York. So
Speaker 1: it's not just l a police, but it's like the
Speaker 1: police on horseback. It's just like, for some reason that
Speaker 1: just gets me every time. I'm like fascinated by that, right.
Speaker 1: And so we were walking back and there was a
Speaker 1: couple of horse officers officers on horseback, and they weren't
Speaker 1: actual horses, and so I went over to see the
Speaker 1: horse and talk to the officer, and it was it
Speaker 1: was pretty neat. He was telling me about how difficult
Speaker 1: it is. There's very few officers that are on the
Speaker 1: cavalry or whatever they call it, and there's only like twenty,
Speaker 1: I think, in all of Los Angeles, and so it
Speaker 1: was it was interesting. He was giving me a little
Speaker 1: inside skinning. And now if you're on the officers, you
Speaker 1: you have to pass all these tests like it's a
Speaker 1: very elite group of people that are allowed to do it.
Speaker 1: And so I took a photo. Maybe i'll post that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I posted that one last week, but
Speaker 1: I did take a photo with the horse. I think
Speaker 1: he came out pretty good. Everyone the horse was looking,
Speaker 1: I was looking, the officer was looking. Everything was everyone
Speaker 1: was happy and and all that stuff. So that was
Speaker 1: a good photo. And but you guys had to wait
Speaker 1: for me to get done, and I appreciate you waiting.
Speaker 1: Another radio guy we're dropping names here, former very briefly,
Speaker 1: a colleague of ours at Fox Sports Radio and one
Speaker 1: of the great late night hosts who's done it a
Speaker 1: lot longer than I have, and someone I respect in
Speaker 1: radio because he's been good at it for a long time.
Speaker 1: That'd be relevant. Yeah, that was one of the highlights
Speaker 1: of the entire trip to Radio Row. I remember being
Speaker 1: a little kid in the car when my family moved
Speaker 1: from l A to the Bay I remember being in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area and he was the first sports talk
Speaker 1: radio guy to simulcast his show. Actually got to see
Speaker 1: what he looked like as he did his show on
Speaker 1: cable TV, and then we would hear him on the
Speaker 1: radio as we drove in the car. And one of
Speaker 1: his sticks was his listeners would call in and they
Speaker 1: would tell him what kind of alcohol they would like
Speaker 1: him to pour. Pour me in Old English, and they
Speaker 1: had different sound effects of the alcohol being poured. All
Speaker 1: these years later and all the success he's had, it
Speaker 1: was very cool to talk to him in person and
Speaker 1: then see how much he looked up to you and
Speaker 1: guys like you, because you guys have a lot in
Speaker 1: common obviously. Yeah, it's great. I've known, you know, I
Speaker 1: listened to Scott two before you know, I was actually
Speaker 1: in the business, but it was kind of early on
Speaker 1: and stuff. But Scott's been on forever and we worked.
Speaker 1: I worked with him his west he was working at
Speaker 1: Westwood One. His syndicated show was picked up by the
Speaker 1: local affiliate I was working at, and then you know,
Speaker 1: they tried to make it like a local national thing
Speaker 1: because he was in l A. He was living in
Speaker 1: Orange County, and so he came to some remote and
Speaker 1: we kind of hung out together there and then he
Speaker 1: came through Fox Sports Radio briefly, but It was great
Speaker 1: to talk to him. He's very kind. He said some
Speaker 1: nice things about me on the show, which was cool.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get Scott on the podcast. I think
Speaker 1: he's he's good to go. He says he's good to
Speaker 1: do it. And we were catching up and we're talking
Speaker 1: about his days at Fox Sports Radio and he's told
Speaker 1: me he knows me. And there's like a few other people,
Speaker 1: it's hardly anybody that It's crazy how long he's been gone.
Speaker 1: It seems like he was just there. To me. My
Speaker 1: concept of time, of course, like Einstein's quote, what is time?
Speaker 1: This time even exists, but it seems like I can
Speaker 1: remember it, like it seems like it was like two
Speaker 1: months ago Farrell was working at our place. But it's
Speaker 1: probably been fifteen, sixteen years, seventeen years since he worked.
Speaker 1: There's something along those lines. It's been an insane amount
Speaker 1: of time. And so yeah, everyone's pretty much turned over
Speaker 1: multiple times since then, as is the radio world that
Speaker 1: we live in, right, A lot of change, a lot
Speaker 1: of that. Although we've had some pretty good stability lately
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio, what kind of Clay getting promoted
Speaker 1: kind of ruined that. But that's good for Clay because
Speaker 1: he got the Limbough Show and all that. So it
Speaker 1: was it was neat talking to Farrell and and his
Speaker 1: thing and his radio run and he does some internet
Speaker 1: TV thing as well, so he's got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: He's it's so weird because you know, I knew Farrell
Speaker 1: before he really had a family or anything like that,
Speaker 1: and now he's, you know, all grown up. We're all
Speaker 1: grown up, I guess. Yeah. He was telling us about
Speaker 1: how two of his boys are basketball stars at their school,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you're right then to hear somebody talking about
Speaker 1: their kids in high school and stuff like that, You're like, wow,
Speaker 1: times are passing. Yeah, yeah, time does not slow down
Speaker 1: for anyone. The train keeps a moving, uh, that is
Speaker 1: for sure. Now that the customary part of this, Danny.
Speaker 1: So we both were in agreement on this, and we
Speaker 1: had such a good time here. We made some contacts
Speaker 1: for the podcast, we booked future guests for the podcast,
Speaker 1: we networked, we were schmoozing that we are. I think
Speaker 1: we're both in agreement and the company is not gonna
Speaker 1: send us these things because you know, but since the
Speaker 1: next two Super Bowls, super Bowl fifty seven and Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty eight are geographically desirable. I think our plan
Speaker 1: is to try to make it to Arizona and Glendale, Arizona,
Speaker 1: and then Las Vegas after that. That's a big one
Speaker 1: for you, Danny, the Las Vegas super Bowl. But we
Speaker 1: can get into radio row. So I think the plan
Speaker 1: is I might even, you know, go a day early
Speaker 1: and do the overnight show from a radio station in
Speaker 1: Phoenix and then and then that way I'm in town
Speaker 1: for the next day. But I think we're gonna do it, right,
Speaker 1: that's the plan. You know, who knows, Maybe we'll both
Speaker 1: get different jobs. I don't know, maybe you'll do something else.
Speaker 1: But assuming we're in the same situation here, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be there, right, that's right there. If it's in driving distance,
Speaker 1: then we'll do it again. Look out, Ben Maller on
Speaker 1: the loose. Yeah, you'll go from not having gone to
Speaker 1: any of the radio rows for how many years to
Speaker 1: all of a sudden three years in a row. You'll
Speaker 1: become a fixture of radio. I'm excited about that. And
Speaker 1: since we'll be on the road, we can do like
Speaker 1: a mini Mallard meet and greet in uh in Phoenix,
Speaker 1: in Vegas and all that and the next of course
Speaker 1: years down the line and all that, and it didn't happen. Well,
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, hasn't happened yet. We're looking forward
Speaker 1: to now as far as bunkering is concerned. I got
Speaker 1: several emails. I didn't want to use this in the emails.
Speaker 1: We're going to do the email tomorrow and I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that here. But I got several people
Speaker 1: asking what did you eat during the Super Bowl? We
Speaker 1: were asked what I was going to eat, and so
Speaker 1: I just wanted to pay that so you stopped asking me.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that's so interesting. Who the hell
Speaker 1: cares what I eat? Seriously, I mean, it's it's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: but uh so, uh my answer I probably will surprise you.
Speaker 1: We're having some work done still, after all this time
Speaker 1: at the Mallard mansion, there's still slowly work being done,
Speaker 1: and my wife is orchestrating all that. I'm encouraging her
Speaker 1: to try to get a lot of this stuff done
Speaker 1: quickly because I'm tired of the sporadic construction. We're both
Speaker 1: tired of it. So anyway, she had scheduled some some
Speaker 1: work done in the kitchen of all places. Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I was hunkering and bunkering down in my studio
Speaker 1: slash office, and my wife actually had to work on
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday, but she did. She she works at
Speaker 1: night like I do. But on her way out of
Speaker 1: the door, she felt pity on me, Danny, because I
Speaker 1: couldn't go into the kitchen. It was off limits. It
Speaker 1: was a construction zone. So I'm bunkering in the studio
Speaker 1: and she very nice. It's good. You know, you picked
Speaker 1: a good wife, and she's picked the right person. Maybe
Speaker 1: not I'm I'm not the right person. But she she
Speaker 1: made these big bowls, these big snack bowls, so I
Speaker 1: I had one for the first half and one for
Speaker 1: the second half. But it was all like popcorn, flint, Almond's,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff because nothing I can because if
Speaker 1: I had had access to the air fryer or the oven,
Speaker 1: I would have made like many tacos, two keto's that
Speaker 1: you know, that finger foods, that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 1: you were at work, weren't you, Danny. Were you in studio? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was part of the coverage team with plankin Spaniard.
Speaker 1: I got to the studios at two thirty PM. I
Speaker 1: left eighteen minutes into your second hour. Did they buy
Speaker 1: pizza for you and the guys? They did? Big Mike
Speaker 1: came in to have a meeting with his editing crew.
Speaker 1: He also brought in Mulberry Street pizzas. Yeah, now that's
Speaker 1: good pizza. That's high end pizza. But my one complaint,
Speaker 1: the slices are so big. It goes quick. The slices
Speaker 1: are massive on the Mulberry Street. That's called nitpicky. I
Speaker 1: did a lot of those Super Bowl shows back in
Speaker 1: the day to do they still get a lot of
Speaker 1: calls during the game. I was always blown away by
Speaker 1: that that you'd be on competing against the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and you'd have a full bank of calls and everyone
Speaker 1: wanted to talk and it just blew me away. But
Speaker 1: it's cool. Yeah, it was very cool there. There's actually
Speaker 1: people who like our network so much they muted the
Speaker 1: broadcast team and had us on instead as their audio track.
Speaker 1: So that was really flattering. And you're right, a lot
Speaker 1: of calls and interaction. I thought it would be more
Speaker 1: tumbleweeds and crickets, but there was a lot of people listening.
Speaker 1: That is pretty cool, all right. So we'll get out
Speaker 1: of here on this. This is critically acclaimed, Danny. So
Speaker 1: we have been begging. I've been begging. You've been requesting
Speaker 1: people actually right reviews on the Apple page for the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast, and we have since I last checked
Speaker 1: Danny three reviews. So in honor, we're gonna we're now
Speaker 1: going to read the reviews. I a person very close
Speaker 1: to me told me, Ben, you really should read the
Speaker 1: reviews when somebody sends a review in since you're begging
Speaker 1: people to send reviews and you should read him. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, that makes a lot of sense. So ohio
Speaker 1: Al gave us a review five stars, says he loves
Speaker 1: the Danny G edition. The Fifth Hour is always entertaining
Speaker 1: to fill the weekend while waiting for the next week
Speaker 1: of the Ben Mallor Show. Keep up the good stuffs
Speaker 1: from ohio Al, a fan of yours and mine. Thank
Speaker 1: you for that, ohio Alan. He's a little biased because
Speaker 1: he provided a song that we play every weekend on
Speaker 1: the podcast for the mail bag, and also Robin Vegas
Speaker 1: wrote any headline Fifth Hour great podcast. Big Ben is
Speaker 1: a radio legend, huge upgrade, adding Danny G. Then he
Speaker 1: takes a potshot at Gascon. He says, the other guy
Speaker 1: Blue Major chunks one word narcissist. Well that's not very nice, Rob,
Speaker 1: how dare But thank you for the review, Rob, thank
Speaker 1: you for the review. And Sassy Jojo, thank you, Sassy Joe.
Speaker 1: Joe says, great show, very entertaining. Danny g is good too,
Speaker 1: So you got you got that thrown in there as well, Danny,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Rob, and thank you Joe Joe. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Ohio all as well. Yeah, the three, Yeah, the three
Speaker 1: of you. If we can now multiply that like Gremlin's Ben, Yes,
Speaker 1: let's get three more. Let's ask for three more reviews.
Speaker 1: That's it. We'll shoot low. And I promise you from
Speaker 1: now on I I get on tee every week when
Speaker 1: you make a review, we'll read it. We'll read it
Speaker 1: right here on the podcast. We'll give you a little
Speaker 1: love on the podcast because you're giving us love. We'll
Speaker 1: give you a little audio love as a thank you
Speaker 1: as because I know it's a pain in the y s.
Speaker 1: Who wants to do that? What a pain in the
Speaker 1: You don't want to sit there? You gotta fill out
Speaker 1: that whole thing. You're like, well, it's a waste of
Speaker 1: my time, but we thank you for it does matter
Speaker 1: and so thank you. And well, I think we'll check
Speaker 1: out for today. We got the mail Bag on Sunday,
Speaker 1: right Sunday, Sunday, Sunday the mail Bag. Can't wait for that.
Speaker 1: Let's be fun. And boy that Friday podcast if you
Speaker 1: missed it a doozy. We don't need to bring Jonas in.
Speaker 1: Go back, download, listen the whole thing. Have a great
Speaker 1: rest of your Saturday, though, and we will chat with
Speaker 1: you again tomorrow. Oh and I almost forgot Ben. Lastly,
Speaker 1: at Danny G Radio on Twitter, I have COVID tests
Speaker 1: for sale. That's right, compliments of the NFL Radio row
Speaker 1: I kept giving us free COVID tests. I think I
Speaker 1: have like five of them. Their first sale. It was wonderful.
Speaker 1: I see you guys. Population