WEBVTT - Legend of Radio Row 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.360 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 Hot Takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:32.360 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air Everywhere 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:37.120 another addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, back 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.960 at it on a Saturday. Here we are very exciting 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:47.920 myself at Danny g Radio the most anticipated podcast Nanny 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:54.640 of the weekend, the much awaited blow by blow recap 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:00.600 of a trip to Radio Row, which is a very exciting, 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.480 very exciting for me. I've not been to Radio Row, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.360 so we we will get into all of the goodness 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:10.000 that is Radio Row. And I cannot wait to get 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.600 it because I've been waiting. You know. I told some 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.720 of the stories Danny on the radio, but I didn't 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.640 get into it too much. I figured, why not save 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.680 this for the podcast. That's where it's all about, right, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.480 the podcast. So yeah, save it as you should. And 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.160 this is way better than a recap of the game. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.039 Who watched that game. This is more about Radio Row. Yeah, 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.800 I mean listen hundred and twelve million, but there's like 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.759 three d thirty million people in America, so more people 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.080 didn't watch the super Bowl than actually watched the super Bowl. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.720 But a very limited amount of people, very limited amount 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.760 of people get to hear this podcast. This is a 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:53.040 very exclusive groups. So I've got Serendipitous debonair, customary bunkering, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.680 and critically acclaimed. This is a jam packed fifth hour. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.680 The amount of content that you were going to get 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.560 on this edition the fifth Hour is insane, right, I 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.840 mean it's just NonStop unless it's not all right, So 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.480 Serendipitous Danny, And this is actually before I even ran 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.080 into you at the l A Convention Center where Radio 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.799 Row was last week, so I finally making it there 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.519 and and being part of the ambiance. But getting their 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:29.080 parking was a nightmare, as they had artificially inflated the 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.720 price of parking taking advantage of the Super Bowl crowd. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.040 So right around Radio Row the parking was like fifty 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.120 bucks a lot of those places, but uh, I ended 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.880 up parking about two miles away, at least according to 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.280 my step tracker, it was two miles away, and they'd 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.440 cleaned up a lot of the homeless. I don't know 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.959 where they put them, but they cleaned them up a lot. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.200 And anyway, partly it was like still thirty bucks the park. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.720 So that was the first kicking the in then having 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.280 to pay thirty bucks to park. I wasn't playing me 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.600 there for like two or three hours, Dan, Yeah, it wasn't. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.520 I ended up we ended up staying a lot longer. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.240 But my plan was only to be there a little bit. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.040 I know exactly what the city of l A did 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.160 what they always do. They put some pocket money into 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.720 their jacket, put them on a bus, and they dropped 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:23.720 them off in Palmdale. Classy. Yah, Well they'll all be 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.080 back now. They're probably already back now that the Super 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.480 Bowl is over, and I don't care anymore until the 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.720 next big event and then they're gonna ship all the 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.880 homeless homeless out. But it's very weird, you know, you 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.400 know how things happen in life. And so I ended 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.080 up parking in a lot. I usually had this lot 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.360 that I parked in when I would go to games 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.520 in downtown l A. But I decided not to park there. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.160 I want to part a little closer, and then I 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.560 ended up parking further away, but in a different direction 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.760 where I decided a park a couple of miles away. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.240 And you know, I was a long walk. It's fine, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.520 the weather was great, whatever, but it was It was 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.360 a serendipitous decision because if I had parked somewhere else, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.520 I would not have been able to run across who 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.960 I ran across there. My path took me directly into 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:14.240 the man known as Helmet Man. Oh yes, I'm actually 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:19.400 on the Live are yes, you're on the superhero Helmet 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:25.240 Man just happened to be out on the street there 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.719 selling his products. It was like a light shining from heaven. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.560 I fell asleep. That's the man right there, the great 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.440 helmet Man. And he hadn't called the show in a 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.000 couple of years. I was telling you the story, Danny, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.280 when we were at the restaurant there. But he had 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.240 not called the show in a couple of years. I 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.159 was concerned. Eddie was concerned. We were all concerned because 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.160 he had come by the studio and just like knocked 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.839 on the door and we put him in and we 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.640 hadn't heard from him, and he'd always checked in with 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.360 us every once in a while see what was going on, 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.760 and so we were worried he had passed on, gone 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.359 to the Pearly Gates or something like that, and uh no, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.200 I ran into him and he acted like nothing had happened. Hey, Ben, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.440 you know like that, And it was great to see him. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.560 He actually called into the show early this week. I 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.080 heard your Monday Morning show and I heard you tell 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.520 a little bit of this story and Eddie and everybody 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.000 seemed really happy that he was there with us. But 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.400 I didn't know he called the show though. Yeah, he 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.039 called in a couple of days later and he said 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.120 he was at the super Bowl and he sold a 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.039 Joe Burrow Bengals jersey for a hundred bucks. I was 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.120 his big sale there, which is a big deal for 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:40.680 helmet man. And he also said he was at Sofa Stadium. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.720 So they've changed the name of Sofa It is now 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.200 Sofa Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. He said he 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.839 lives over there now that that he moved. He relocated. 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.640 But it was he's very charming man and it was 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.159 nice to to catch up with him and a great 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:59.520 start to a very fun day, uh, you know, around 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.360 the super Bowl and all that stuff and so so 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:07.520 that was my my serendipitous uh trip. And and then 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.200 as far as the Radio Row, I mean, you've been 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.720 to these things before. Danny had not been to Radio Row. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.599 But that's a lot of grab bass, a lot of 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.320 grab bass going on. Not good at grab bass, not good. Uh. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.560 An introvert does not do well at radio I thought 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.320 I did pretty good all things considered. Yeah, I was 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.600 trying to be social. Yeah. No. When we were finishing up, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.120 I made the joke that it felt like Jerry McGuire 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.760 where he is taking his wide receiver to do a 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.440 lap and he's like, come on, I know you're not 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.080 very social, but let's do a lap. Let's work the 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.680 room one time, as I see. And at the end 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.159 he was like, that wasn't hard, right, Well, you were, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.360 you were escorting me. We were a tag team here 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.080 walking around Radio Row. And there's definitely a class system 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.040 that I noticed at Radio Row. That was one of 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.360 the first things I noticed, Like most of the station's 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.000 have just a crappy little table and a box of 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:08.479 equipment and maybe they have one of those vinyl signs 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:12.200 behind them if they're lucky. So you've got that's the 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.720 vast majority of Radio Row. And then we have the 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:20.520 Fox Sports Radio hundred thousand dollars set, which they put 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.120 in the company put in UM and there were some 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.320 other big draft kings at a big stage. I saw 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.360 CBS had a big one. I mean there were a 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:30.960 few of them that were pretty big. Most of them 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:36.000 were pretty pretty small, and everyone's rubbing elbows with everyone 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.880 else on this. I remember it was either Miami Beach 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.920 or Atlanta, because they had huge sets like that at both. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:49.160 My former program director at NBC Sports Radio was at 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.400 one of the tables, like you're talking about and when 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.040 I saw him, instead of saying hi, he looked up 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.560 at our set and he said, what are you guys doing? 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:05.680 Set up for a Metallica concert? Yeah? It was, And 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.560 I said this. I was on with Jason and Harmon. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.480 I went on for a segment or two, and I 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.600 I wasn't kidding, like I've unfortunately had a year I 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.520 worked in television at NBC and Stanford, Connecticut. I was 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.240 never on a set that was as nice as the 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.160 one for a week at Radio Row. It was insane 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.480 uh nice that was And I felt like I felt 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.000 a little shame because I feel like I'm more. I'm 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.120 more like the guys at the card tables, you know 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.319 what I mean. Like it was. It was a different 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.360 world being on the stage and all that. Not that 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.400 I'm complaining, but it was. I felt guilty because all 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.560 these guys are looking as you said, they're looking up. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.640 They're like, oh, look at you big shots coming in 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.160 here with your your massive set and all that stuff 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.120 and your fancy pants set, with your Lamborghini here at 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.600 the super Bowl. But trust me, Ben, it's way better 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.920 than riding in one of those Pinto's. And the Mallard 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.360 militia would agree that after all these years of doing 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.240 sports radio, you deserved a Lamborghini there at the super Bowl. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.880 But it was nice. It was very cool. And uh, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.920 and I guess I can. I can go p O 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.840 B if you want. I can drop some names you 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.200 can drop. I jotted down a few names of people 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.439 I met. I met Big Jim Murray and mass from 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.800 the Felgern Mashow that is the number one afternoon drive 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.280 local big market radio show that's on our affiliate, our 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:32.000 Fox Sports radio affiliate, Night point five FM, the Sports Hub. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.280 And so those guys are great. I'm in fact, Big 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.079 Jim Murshed is he's gonna come on the podcast. We're 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.480 gonna get him on in a future podcast and shoot 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.920 the crap about his rise up on the Felgern Mash 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.600 Show in Boston, and that show dominates the radio waves 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.240 there in Boston. I'm trying to think who else there 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.240 had a very brief you were actually part of this, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.360 a very brief encounter with the one million dollar man, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.040 Pat mckiw fee. Yeah, because he was a guest on 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.719 radio row with me in Atlanta for outkicked the coverage, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.719 and dude had a crazy good memory. You know. I'm 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.880 talking to him about a Super Bowl from a couple 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.320 of years ago, and he was like, oh yeah, He's like, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.920 that's when Buffalo Wild Wings had me on your set. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.440 He was right, that's exactly what happened. And so I 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.360 was able to then turn it over to you and 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.560 got a couple of good pictures of you guys, and 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.960 you guys chopped it up. He wanted to know when 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:32.479 you slept. Yeah, we were talking very debonair, very debonair. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.440 Pat McAfee full as you see on his TV radio 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.479 show whatever it is there. If you call ripped jeans Debonair. 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.840 Well you know, it's modern debonair, and he was the 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.679 only radio guy that had an entourage. He's like the 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.840 bro of sports talk radio. And he did have a 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:54.200 huge entourage. I mean, he even had some live performances 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.320 going on by different hip hop artists that were stopping 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.000 by throughout the week. And I'm proud of him because 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.680 at that time, I remember Clay Travis asking me after 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.079 the fifteen minutes with us at that Super Bowl. He 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.360 was so good that Clay said, hey, Danny talked to 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.760 him and his manager, see if he can do a 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.839 weekly hit on out Kick that would be great, And well, 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.280 you know the rest of the story. He went on 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.160 to do his own show. Yeah, and that was the 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:27.040 single greatest paid guest in sports radio over the last 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.280 year was Aaron Rodgers. No one's even close. Like every 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.720 week because of the circumstances of you know, him not 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.400 getting the vaccine and people complaining about that and all 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.160 that stuff, and the Packers, who were the top team 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.480 in the NFC during the season, is every week. It 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.839 was something it was like on the Pat McAfee show. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.240 But good for him. He got a hundred million dollars 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.520 here from what fan. Do I think it was? Is 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.120 that the one that or DraftKings, one of the gambling 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.640 outfits paid him. So that was nice to meet him. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.360 It was nice, very nice. A brief conversation there and 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.760 he but he did have that flotilla of people around him. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.040 They're writing his coattails. But he's like a former NFL player, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.840 so does that like he's not He played in the NFL. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:18.160 He was a punter, so you've got that. There was 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:24.080 a a name radio person that we walked past Danny 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:30.080 and did not acknowledge us, not acknowledge us. And I'm 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:35.960 pretty pretty sure, pretty sure the person saw me surprised motherfucker. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.680 Who was it? We will not reveal the name. We 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.040 will not reveal the name, but it was someone his 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.280 last name rhymes with flick, with someone we both know. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.640 And it just just randomly we were walking in he 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.800 was walking out, ships passing in the night and uh no, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.200 and no even fake hello we got. I don't think 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.080 he saw you because he was looking kind of the 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.319 other direction, or he looked right through you, maybe because 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.760 you're so thin. Now, yeah, I don't know about that. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.640 He definitely looked my direction. Now, maybe you know because 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.280 you're around, You're in a strange environment. There's a bunch 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:22.240 of random people. It is possible, not probable. It's possible 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.439 that he did not connect and I. And to be fair, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.600 I mean he's one of the guys that I haven't 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.720 seen since I lost a lot of weight. So maybe 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.800 he didn't put two and two together. There is that 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.120 possibility that he expected me to be a total large 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.199 ass and I didn't show up as a total large ass, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.560 and so that might have been the the issue there. Uh. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.000 As far as the hospitality, Danny, it was okay. They 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.080 had for the media. They had a lot of chips, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.160 soda right, there's vending machines that they had in the 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.000 green room. One of the highlights, man of walking around 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.920 that event with you once you would I got NFL bags. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.319 We were able to really go to town and put 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.800 free bees in the bags. And what I loved is 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.719 you had a calculator in your head. Every time we 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.559 got something for free. We were like, there's one dollar 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.760 off my parking, there's five off my parking. That's ten 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:27.360 towards my parking. That is outstanding. That TV slash radio 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.640 guy to their core adding up the free bees to 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.680 make sure the parking got paid. Yeah, so I did. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.480 I did the math on this, and I said, you know, 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.040 with inflation, with with Biden, the price of everything going up. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:46.400 I figured per gatorade three bucks per gatorade, the soda 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.440 probably around the same, maybe a couple of bucks for 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.760 the si I've going well, fo dollars, two dollars for 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.920 the soda, two dollars for the soda. Bag of ships, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.120 I'm not sure. Maybe a buck fifty maybe maybe two 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.920 bucks depending. So I was doing the matter old spice products. Yeah, 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.760 there was old spice, although we really botched that we 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.960 could have got more of that. We missed out on 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.520 some Panini football cards that we didn't know about until 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.720 it was too late. So there were a couple of 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.160 misses on our part. But we know we did clean 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.160 up pretty good though. Yeah. Like I remember, I was 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.880 walking back to my car through the mean streets of 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.840 downtown l A there, and that bag was pretty heavy, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.400 pretty heavy, and boy, we going to the the what 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.040 do they call it wasn't just a gift shop, it 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.880 was something else. They had some name for it. I 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.520 forget the name of it. It was the NFL Super 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:42.240 Bowl Store. Yeah, so we walked through there, and you 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.080 know how you go to like Disneyland, and when you 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.800 walk through a ride, they let you out in the 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.360 gift shop. It had that kind of vibe and Disney 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:57.200 like prices. The NFL, they really know how to make 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:02.920 those cash registers should change chi ching, chi ching, chi ching. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.720 And you look at the prices. Hell now, yeah, you're like, no, 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.080 I can't be that much. I only got a couple 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.280 of hats and it's sent me back over a hundred 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.880 bucks with two hats. This hats made out of gold. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.280 I mean, my goodness. And you were you were running 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.200 around there trying because you were buying some stuff for 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.880 some people, right, you had some like a Bengal fan 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:31.680 and some mother other people, the the the Queen Tinderoni. Well, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.640 so I got her a nice hat that matches her 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.600 colors that she loves. We both were able to get 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.320 a couple of shirts on our way out. Oh that's right, Well, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.360 that was that was a great well, that was the 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.720 unexpected bonus. At the end of the night, we were 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.920 leaving and I was only planning on staying for like 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.960 two hours. I thought, I'll just go for two hours, 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.200 get the hell out of there. We ended up deciding 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.480 and I think this was a great decision to avoid 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.200 the gridlock l A traffic rush hour getting out in 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.760 the belly of the Beast there in down Ton, l A. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.440 We both determined we were having a good time, so 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.080 we're like, oh, let's just stick around. So we ended 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.760 up staying I don't know when we leave eight o'clock 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.720 or something like that. At night. We cut the place 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.600 down pretty much, which was a good decision because you 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.240 were able to go on Live with Jason Smith and 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.240 Mike Harmon, which was a lot of fun. And also, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.240 and let me back up a little bit. When we 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.399 were on Radio Row talking about being on live radio, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.480 we met your boy Q, one of the main hosts 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.920 on Raider Nation Radio Las Vegas. We're talking to him 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.840 about Vegas and the Super Bowl coming up on a 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.480 couple of years and we were having a fun little 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.159 conversation with him. He had the headset now. Prior to 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.800 talking with him, I asked him, I said, you're not 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.120 on right now writing so no, no, no, it's cool. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.080 I'm in a commercial break. He lost track of time. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.680 We say goodbye to him, he puts his headset on 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.520 and I hear him talking to his engineer back at 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.120 the Raider Nation radio and he was like, what three minutes? 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:06.679 You've been playing my intro music for three minutes? Beautiful 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.840 made him three minutes late to his radio. So some 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.719 some jamok driving around Vegas is like, why is this 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.000 jackass not talking about the Raiders? Why is he playing 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.080 this music? What is it going on here? Yeah? That 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.840 P Diddy classic? Well that would be like if three 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:28.600 minutes of that just ran without saying a word. Yeah, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.160 that's what happened to your boy to there in Vegas. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.000 The whole They have a whole radio station in Vegas 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:38.640 just Raider four seven Raider programming. That's right in your wheehouse, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:43.280 Danny G. That format is crazy, all right. So we 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.080 stayed till we were past traffic and our way out, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.760 we'll go back to the radio row. We're giving you 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.119 the blow by blow because this is the kind of 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:56.080 content you didn't know you need, but you can't get 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.400 enough of. This is the kind of audio content you're 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.080 looking for on a Saturday. So on our way out, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.000 you know those those a decent crowd of people just 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.879 mulling around outside the exit, and there were some bunch 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:14.720 of people selling the bacon wrap tot dogs. I mean 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.200 they lined them up on both sides of the street. 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:22.560 It smelled really good, really really good. And then there 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.080 were a couple of dudes with bags of shirts and 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.359 they were Super Bowl shirts. Like, these are good looking shirts. Yeah, 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.040 they did a good job on them. These are some 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.000 of the l A entrepreneurs that we liked to support. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.480 I'm gonna say, Ben, check the tags on the shirt. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.040 He checked the quality of the shirt, make sure that 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.280 the print on both sides was nice, and then made 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.440 sure the price was right. Yeah, no, it was inside 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:53.760 the price gouging NFL store, that same shirt would have 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:58.600 been sixty bucks probably something like that, ye, sixty five bucks, 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.280 and we got it outside for twenty bucks. And it's 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.679 it's a good looking shirt, it's it's well made. It 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:10.040 past the Mather test where I I kind of pulled 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:11.760 it apart and let me look at that, and I 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.640 was like I was ending. But the price of even 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.600 counterfeit shirts has gone up. At the World Series in seventeen, 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:20.960 I bought a couple of those shirts out on the 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.920 streets outside Dodger Stadium and I paid ten bucks a shirt. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:31.199 So in five years from two it's got up, but 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.400 you know half it's double. Yeah. Yeah, So yeah, these 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.680 guys are smart. They know exactly where the price point 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.240 was on the inside of the event, and so they 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.000 knew that their price point outside of the event was 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.639 a bargain. Yeah. Yeah, No, I didn't we I was 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:50.920 gonna do it, but I once I saw the quality 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:52.920 of the shirt, I was like, okay, because I was 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.520 gonna get a shirt, and I was like, that's pretty expensive. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:57.280 And then you don't know how much you're gonna wear it. 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.480 But if you got a deal like that, you gotta 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.719 take advanta to that for sure. Hats on the inside 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.040 that were official and shirts on the outside which were 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:12.520 semi official. Yeah. Also, we we went I'm bouncing around here, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.840 but we went to a restaurant. Now I did not eat. 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.680 I was a douche because I was fasting, man, and 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.800 I sat there and you had you had a delicious 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.080 plate of chicken fingers. I I was, I was, I 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.399 was in pain. I was like, that looks so delicious. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.760 And Harmon and and Burs singer Ryan Burr Shinger keep trying, Ryan. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.960 We all went to this restaurant across from from the 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.400 crypt Arena, whatever it's called there. Yeah, we went to 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.359 Tom's at l A Live there right across from the event, 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.240 and I was bummed out because you know, I haven't 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.840 got to break bread with you in a while. You know, 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:48.879 back in the live radio days with you, we used 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.240 to have pizza parties all the time. You and I 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.840 would go to cheesecake Factory in places like that to 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:58.359 break bread. Um, so I know your style of food, 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.960 I know what you love. The menu was right up 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.080 your alley. Oh, I love bar food. I love bar food. 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:06.640 But I'm I've been able to work out in a while, Danny, 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.960 because my treadmills on the fritz. And and so I'm 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:12.600 so paranoid as I recovering fat man every time I 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:14.399 eat a big meal out like that. And then I 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.239 figured I was gonna eat later. I was like, oh, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.240 I'm gonna get fat. Don't do that, Ben, don't do that. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:24.160 So I just drank water and uh sorry, maybe next year. 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:27.119 Next year, I'll protect But the food looked great. It 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:31.479 was a great conversation. I love radio meals where it's 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:33.960 just a bunch of radio people telling radio stories. That's 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.200 the greatest thing. And I don't have many of those 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.199