WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Free Drinks with a Flag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 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 soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.720 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.920 In the air emywhere just relax your mind because the 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.680 weekend has begun, at least for me, and I don't 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:39.240 know for Danny. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:40.680 He's still got other stuff to do. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.519 But it is the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.559 and the man booing over there, Danny g. As we 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.080 slide in to the extra Crispy not original recipe. This 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:56.840 is the Extra Spicy Fifth Hour podcast. And it is Friday, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:02.080 the third day of May. As we head into the weekend, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:06.640 it's Kentucky Derby weekend, which means over the weekend we 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.280 will have lots of photos on social media of really 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.440 wealthy people and people that think they're very important wearing 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:13.520 really funny hats. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.120 If you hadn't read the DraftKings, Kentucky Derby commercial of 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.480 the past two weeks. Would you have known that it 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.160 was coming up this weekend? 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:28.960 No, We've done that National Thoroughbred Racing commercial a ton. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.400 Oh yeah for the safety, yeah, the improvements of the 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.000 safety of the sport. Yeah. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.720 So I'm not that bright, I admit it. I don't 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:36.360 really know that much. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.039 But I figured that since we were doing that, there 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.080 must be a big horse race. And then I was like, well, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.959 it's I can't believe it's already May. That's usually what 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.840 happens after April. And I was like, okay, so this 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.080 is around the time we have the Kentucky Derby. And 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.480 sure enough, the Kentucky Derby is this weekend, which at 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.800 one point when I first started at the Premiere then 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.840 it was called the Premiere Radio Networks. Now it's just 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.000 called the Premiere Networks. I think, I think that's what 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.000 it's called, but I don't even know the name of 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.120 the company. But they carried they were the play by 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.560 Blay home of the Kentucky Derby. They had the rights 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.919 to the Kentucky Derby when I first started at the company. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:21.320 And it's the perfect sporting event for today's times cause 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:22.680 it's the greatest two minutes. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.080 In sport, you can give two minutes to the Kentucky Derby. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.480 You don't have to sit there and watch all the 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.960 nonsense before and the nonsense after. But you're fine for 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.920 a couple minutes if you can time it, if you 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.520 know when the post time is and you can get 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.040 in there, it's perfect. You know, you can enjoy it 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.200 and then move on with your day and you can 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.000 watch it on your phone or whatever you want. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:44.400 Perfect. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.480 It's a perfect sporting event. Perfect. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.040 Yeah. I watch this every year, but the build up, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.519 the lead up to the race, it's so time consuming 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.400 and I get kind of antsy. I'm like, I want 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.160 to see the race already, and by the time they 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.320 finally get to it, it's just man, talk about two 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.360 three four hours of lead up for just two minutes. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.640 It feels like when you're at a theme park and 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.920 you wait for two hours to get on a stupid 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.000 roller coaster that lasts for thirty five seconds. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.840 Well, some have used the analogy, and this would be inappropriate. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.840 I should not say this, but some have used the analogy. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.200 To me, it's kind of like dating. You know, a 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.239 lot of meals, a lot of you know, going out 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.600 a lot of small talk for about two minutes. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.280 You know you can finish in eleven seconds, and you 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.720 finally get with her exactly. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.400 He spent all this time, and then the payoff does 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.400 not last all that long. Now, if Rob Manford ran 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.200 the Kentucky Derby, he'd be like, all right, we got 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.360 short in this race. It's too long. It's two and 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.080 a half three minutes. We gotta get this thing down 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.240 to sixty seconds or no one's gonna watch, dud. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.040 You're not kidding men. Can I tell you about that 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:59.440 B game in Arizona? It's the extra innings. My wife, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.520 he walks in the bedroom. I have it on and 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.880 she's like, why do they still have the stupid runner 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.920 on second? And I say, you gotta ask your boy 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.280 Rob Manfred about that. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:10.560 Yeah, man, fraud. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.880 They already sped it up. It's fast enough, get rid 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.360 of that. I explain to her that in the postseason 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.200 it goes away. She's like, that's stupid. The game's already 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.920 fast enough. Now get rid of that altogether. Yeah. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.359 They just want to get everything over with as quickly 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.640 as they possibly can. It's like once they get passed, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.400 they don't want to play past ten o'clock. Most of 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.600 the games start at seven o'clock. Some of them now 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.479 start a little bit before seven. In your local city, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.400 it'll start like six fifty or something like that. But 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.240 they they don't want to go past ten, like something happens. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.760 It's like if you go past ten, you're in molten 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.480 lava or something along those lines. 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:49.920 Anyway, it is. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.760 It is May thirty, as we stated, and it is 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.440 National Paranormal Day. That's not really that big for us, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.680 but if you're George Nori, this is a massive day, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.000 right if over there at coast to coast and all, 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.640 it's a massive holiday and you try to figure out 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.560 the paril normal, fascinated with the unknowable. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.880 The other side, there's. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.240 Like an a fool person beside it and another one inside, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:14.000 and it has big guys. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.160 They're looking at us. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.719 Yeah, big guys. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.960 I'm gonna go get some alien beef jerky on my 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.440 way to Vegas, is what I'm gonna get. In beautiful Baker, California, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.440 it's International Wild Koaladay. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.880 Today, which is which is big. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.040 And my favorite Koala thing when I was a kid 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:37.520 is a big deal. My mom spent about seven months, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.240 as I remember it's probably about a week, but for 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:40.920 when I was a child, it was like seven months. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.560 She was so excited that they had koalas at. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.360 The San Diego Zoo and we were going to go 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.359 on a family trip to the San Diego Zoo to 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.719 see koalas. And she kept telling me about koalas and 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:51.720 I was like, Oh, this is going to be the 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.080 most exciting thing in the world. And we went to 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.880 the San Diego Zoo to see quals when I was 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.960 a kid, and A they were hiding, couldn't really find them, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.159 and B when we saw them, they were like sleeping, yawning. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.360 It was it was like the Yeah, it's a huge ripoff. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.600 It's like the famous otter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.359 This otter is famous for dancing around and communicating with 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.560 people through the glass. I mean, schools would bring their 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.080 kids filled on buses to see this dumb otter. So 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.039 I finally go there. I take my girlfriend. At the time, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.679 I'm showing off like yeah, wait to see this famous otter. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.479 We get there, this little bastard's curled up in a ball, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:34.760 sleeping the whole time. The whole time, and then I'm like, well, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.880 we'll come back, We'll come back at the end. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:37.719 Came back. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.640 The bastard was still asleep. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.000 They probably gave it adderall to do the commercial. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.560 You saw him after his morning crash. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.960 Yeah, but we did talk about this on this podcast. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.800 The greatest Koala bear thing is actually the video of 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.000 them fighting in Australia. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.279 It's an old video. We thought it was new, but 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.400 it's actually an old video. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:06.160 But they literally sleep like what was it fourteen fifteen 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.600 sixteen hours a day or something like that, some ridiculous 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:09.080 amount of time. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:09.840 They're hardly awake. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.000 And when they're awake, aren't they always drugged? Because of 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.480 the eucalyptus they. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.800 Eat sounds like some of your listeners and what they 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:17.680 do in the daytime? 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:22.400 Ow dare you anyway? So international wild? The Koala day 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.400 always big. They also we mentioned the Kentucky Derby. It 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:30.960 is Kentucky Oaks Day today, which I'm told this is 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.360 also part nobody talks about Kentucky Oaks. Have you you know, 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:35.440 have you been to the Kentucky Derby. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.000 I've never been to the Kentucky You've never been. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.680 No, you know, a guy did college radio with you 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.080 would not know this because how would you know this 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.160 a guy did college radio with at ksb Ard Satify College, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.360 ended up becoming the public address announcer at Churchill Downs. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.880 He got into horse racing. I've told the story a 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.239 few times over the years. I had an opportunity early 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.800 in my radio career when I was working in San 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:05.840 Diego to be the track radio reporter, and I did 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.320 consider it. Now, I did not like horse racing at 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.440 the time. I've grown to like it as i've gotten older. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:11.920 At the time, I didn't know anything about it. I 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.040 didn't never been to the track. But the job was open. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.520 And if you remember, this is back in the Stone Age, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.480 before the Internet, and so the way it would work 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.440 is the local race tracks, Hollywood Park and Santa Anita. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:29.000 They would pay someone a lot of money to call 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.600 in every hour on a couple of different radio stations 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.679 and give the results from the third race at Santa 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.560 Anita or the fourth race at Hollywood Park. And you'd 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.280 give the results and that was your gig, and you 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.079 got paid a lot of money for it. At the time, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.440 it was a lot more money than I didn't have 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:46.320 any money at the time. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.120 This was before ESPN the phone caught on. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.360 Yeah, it was a long time ago, but I needless 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:54.880 to say, I didn't a I didn't take the job 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.600 and be that job doesn't exist anymore. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.120 But at the time, I was like, this is pretty. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.360 Attractive because there's money, but I do it because I 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.679 didn't really care that much about horse racing. It's one 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.520 of those decisions that in hindsight, I think I made 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:07.520 the right call on that one. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.839 You know, you're you're a radio nerd, you would love this. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.640 So when San Francisco, when the Giants there had an 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:20.240 opening for their voice, their public addresses, the public address. Yeah, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.040 the stadium public address announcer job was open. And as 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.559 you know, these are very rare jobs to open because 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.360 when people get in those jobs they stay until they croak. Yeah. Right, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.360 it's a high paying gig, and it's a high profile gig. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.120 As you can imagine, every radio guy within three hundred 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.120 miles showed up and lined up for the tryouts. And 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.320 I was just a kid at the time. So I 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.280 go there. I line up with a couple of radio 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.480 buddies from one of my first I think it was 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.840 my very first radio station, and Ben it was so funny, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.960 the very first guy and you got they gave you 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.679 lines to read, and so your voice this is booming 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.040 through the stadium. The very first guy was like some 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.720 famous DJ from like a big FM oldies station in 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.720 the Bay Area. His voice boomed through the stadium Like God. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.480 Half the people got out of the line and went 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.960 back to their cars. Yeah, I'm not competing with that, dude. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.720 Why And it turns out they hired in the very 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.080 very San Francisco thing to do. They hired the very 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:33.280 first female that MLB ever had as a public address announcer. Yeah, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.840 and let me tell you, and I'm not being yeah, 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:42.679 not Neanderthals, but she was not the best who audition 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.000 that day. She just was not. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.080 Yeah, So they gave it because they wanted to, you know, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:48.800 impress their friends, I guess. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.240 But I actually it's like what your rams did back 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:56.040 in the day and what they'd still do with cheerleaders. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.160 All right, Well, I don't look at the cheerleaders. I'm 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.839 there for the game. But anyway, I actually have a 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:06.800 public address announcer a story that I indirectly know the 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.320 public address announcer the New York Yankees, and we have 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.440 a mutual friend and I've I've been introduced to him 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.360 I've met him a few times. His name is Paul Olden, the. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.920 Great Ted so Yeah, I know that guy's name. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.640 Yeah, Ted Ted Soble and Paul Olden kind of grew 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.000 up in LA radio together. They went to school together, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.280 and Paul Olden went on he went to Dorsey High 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.479 School where my dad went by the way in l A. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.480 And was a play by play guy for. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.200 The Angels, the Devil Rays, the Cleveland and he's all 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.280 these teams back in the day and and he he's 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:47.000 most famous though for one question that he that he 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.559 asked Tommy the sorta what's. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.960 Your opinion of Kingman's performed? How do you think my opinion? 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.880 King Guy? 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.160 Anyway, so that guy, Paul we gotta ask that question. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.880 He is now the public address announcer at Yankee Stadium. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:10.120 He replaced Bob Shephard. Bob Sheppard had been the Yankee 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.160 Stadium announcers since the nineteen fifties, early nineteen fifties, so 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.320 he was back when you know, Yogi, Bearra and all 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.880 those legends, and Paul Olden replaced them. And I don't 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.600 want to get too inside baseball, but from what I understand, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.160 Paul Olden makes a lot of money, more money than 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:32.040 I make. And he just does the eighty one home 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.240 games and then they send him to Florida for spring training. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.880 He does the games in March in Tampa. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.280 Like that's what I said. People hold onto those jobs 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.120 until they croak. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.520 Yeah, he works roughly, and if the Yankees made the playoffs, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:47.719 they'll have to work a little bit more. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.320 God forbid. But he ends up working. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.079 Maybe one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty, probably 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.120 not even that many days a year and gets paid 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.640 an unbelievable amount of money enough to live comfortably in 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.040 New York work. I think they take care of some 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.760 other expenses of the Yankees. They really take care of their 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.880 public dress announcers. So and the Bob Shephard, if you remember, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.880 he was the guy who was like old school. He 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.120 had the big announcing. He had the announcing voice, not 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:20.960 a radio voice, more of a number two Jita Derek Jita. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.360 Almost like a Broadway. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.600 Yes, yes, that's like yes, like you know Broadway, New 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.640 York Broadway. He had that kind of delivery. But his 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.200 famous one was was Gita number two lead off hit 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.240 number whatever he said, And it's on. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.640 You know YouTube if you want to look it up 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:37.960 and all that. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.199 Well, here's a good question for you, because for a moment, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:42.200 you did Dodger talk. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.160 I did briefly, very briefly, probably bad at it. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.480 But yes, I remember being a little kid here in 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.280 Los Angeles and you were on AM five seventy l 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:55.559 A Sports doing Dodger Talk, Like, who's this guy? Little 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.560 did I know years later be spending all these hours 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.280 doing radio with you. Now, would you rather be a 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:07.040 baseball play by play announcer or the public address announcer 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.240 at a stadium? 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.840 So it would be more fun to be the play 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.560 by play guy you would have, I think today, based 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.160 on the climate, you'd be more stable as a stadium announcer. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.360 I actually did do the stadium announcing for one Dodger 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:22.280 Padre game. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:22.960 Uh. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.320 The public address announcer at the time, Mike Carlucci, was 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.760 late to the ballpark. He was recording a video game. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.120 As I remember, Mike, one of the great guys, Mike Carlucci, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.240 a just wonderful. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.680 Guy, which is your voice was booming through Dodger Stadium. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.040 Yeah, so this is a great story, right, So I'm there, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.040 you know, I'm freeloading in the press spot. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:41.320 This is. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.840 Back in the days, I was there every night. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:43.760 Now I can't even get. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:44.520 A pass most nights. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.920 But back when I was, you know, cool, before Otani 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.160 and all of Tokyo came in to cover the Dodgers racist. Well, no, 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.080 I was there when No More Mania was going on 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.880 and all that. But but so the public address announcer 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.040 Mike Calucci supposed to get there an hour before the game. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.200 You're supposed to do all the pregame introductions and all this, 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.200 you know, all this stuff. So they start doing the 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.760 pregame stuff and he's not there, and so I get 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.280 a tap on the shoulder from Ed Arnold. I don't 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.120 know if you know who Ed Arnold is. Ed was 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.960 on Channel five in l A great man. Ed Arnold 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.480 sportscaster at Channel five and h and Ed says, Hey, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.800 the PA guy's not here. We need somebody, you know that, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.880 the Dodgers looking for somebody. I recommended you. And I'm 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.640 looking at it, Ed, I'm like, why would you know 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:32.200 what are you doing? 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.400 I mean, you know, Ed was just so thoughtful. He 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:38.760 knew this would be like a big thing. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.320 And so I went over there and they're like, yeah, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.480 we need you know, you got to do the starting 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.240 lineup for the Padres and you have to introduce like 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.480 the national anthem and read the pregame you know, note 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:50.680 and all. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.200 Were there any names where you got nervous right away? 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:54.720 Like Ship? 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.120 Fortunately there were no names I could not pronounce. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.000 I would that would have been more, can you imagine. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.360 But here's a fun fact on that. The guy that 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.160 was in the lineup that I remember it was Ross 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:12.000 Newhan's son, David Newhan, I believe his name, the baseball 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.040 writer was the lead baseball writer for the LA Times. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.520 His kid actually was a Major League baseball player and 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.680 this was his first game at Dodger Stadium. And I'm 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.600 doing the PA introducing introducing him. But by the time 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.640 the game started he showed up. So I only did 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.200 the pregame stuff. I didn't do do the game. But 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.720 still did they pay you? Oh god, no, no, Although 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.560 I did have a copy of it on a cart 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.440 which I can't play anymore. I don't even know what 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.280 the cart is, but I had. I did have a 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.400 recording of it on a cart. We used to The 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.600 guys on the station used to bust my balls because 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:43.960 of how bad I was at it. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.000 But anyway, that was. That was something I did not 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:47.840 plan on talking about. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.320 That's never I've heard just about every one of your stories. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:52.440 I've never heard that one. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.560 Yeah, it was wild and Ken Caminetti, the late Ken Camanetti, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:01.400 was on the padres. I remember introducing his name. He's dead, John. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.360 I'd have to go back and look, I could, I could. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.240 I know the date. I have it written down somewhere. 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:06.520 I'd have to go back and look at the date. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.800 Did you say no? Roid it up? 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.880 They were all on roids in those days. Man, it 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.320 was a steroid palooza. So now this week is Friday. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.200 We're having a good time here. I woke up, I 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.200 want to say it was on Wednesday of this week, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.119 and I had the sniffles. And you know when you 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.040 wake up and you have the sniffles, You're like, oh crap, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.160 this is a four shock. This is the beginning of 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:32.640 an illness. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.600 Especially when you feel like scratchiness in your throat. Yeah, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.720 that's bad. I got to stave this off. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:38.000 Man. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:39.880 You have five dollars for that word, so. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.640 It's a big word. So what I did is I activated. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.440 I activated my superpower. My right hand was getting a workout. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:55.680 How dare you I went into not the medicine count. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.679 I acted like an Egyptian. You know, the Egyptians worship this, 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.639 and I'm like an Egyptian. I worship it too. I 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:09.480 got a nice big handful of garlic, and I took 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.080 my knife. Out of course, I peeled the garlic. I 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.119 then cut the garlic in half and sucked on that 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.080 thing like a jolly rauncher, jolly rancher candy. And and 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.040 it worked. I did not I did not get sick. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:28.000 I continue to preach at the altar of the garlic. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:33.960 It is a super strong natural antibiotics, nature's antibiotic. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.960 Maybe you can suck on it and that'll make it better. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.040 If you can get it. You gotta get it early, 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.119 because I have tried this after I've gotten all the 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:45.560 way sick, and it doesn't work. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:46.600 It does shorten it a. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:52.200 Little bit, but it does kill the infection in your 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:53.160 throat if you get. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:53.639 It right away. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:59.560 And so I tip of the headphones Danny to the garlic. 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:01.639 And again we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:02.800 I think maybe it was last week. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:03.119 I don't know. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.320 It all runs together, but the Egyptians worshiping garlic as 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.720 a god, and in this house, in the Malor House, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.120 I worship it. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.160 As I think that was on the tail of your 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:14.240 Gilroy trip. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.720 Oh that's right, Yeah, in the Gilroy infact, we got 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:22.399 some little garlic things, you know, different garlic stuff at 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.080 the gift shop there, and I told my wife we 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.400 had like garlic chips or not garlic chips, garlic bits 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.199 that I hadn't seen anywhere else, not garlic powder, garlic bits. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.960 So I told my wife her brother, my brother in law, 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.480 lives not far from Gilroy. That's why we went there. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.440 So I said, hey, we're gonna have to go see 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.000