Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
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: back at it on a Friday. Halloween season is upon us.
Speaker 1: There's a coolness in the air, and the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Me Ben Maller is in the air everywhere. As
Speaker 1: we said, eight days a week, because four hours a
Speaker 1: night are not enough. Back in the podcast studio at
Speaker 1: his secret location in the north Woods, and I Am
Speaker 1: not going to do a bunch of small talk here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get right to it because there's a man
Speaker 1: standing by right now on the phone that is responsible
Speaker 1: for putting this podcast studio together. I'm sure we'll get
Speaker 1: to that at some point, a man that knows the
Speaker 1: early days of me at Fox Sports Radio. Jake Warner,
Speaker 1: a member of the Miller Militia, my engineer on the
Speaker 1: old Weekend Overnight show for many years, worked with me
Speaker 1: on the weekday show. He's a renaissance man. He is
Speaker 1: the lead engineer for the Los Angeles Clippers, my favorite
Speaker 1: NBA team. He is the lead engineer for the l. A. King's,
Speaker 1: my favorite hockey team. He worked for the l A. Dodgers,
Speaker 1: my favorite baseball team, as an audio engineer. He traveled
Speaker 1: the United States with the great Vince Gully and all
Speaker 1: the legends of the Dodgers. Traveled the world with those
Speaker 1: guys for many, many years. He's a podcasters. I mentioned
Speaker 1: you's got the Big Brother Jake podcast and he's a
Speaker 1: girl dad. He's very active on social media. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on with this guy. And so let's
Speaker 1: give it up now to Jake Warner. Stay awake with
Speaker 1: Jake and Jake. I have been doing this dopey podcast
Speaker 1: for several years now. I can't believe it's been several years.
Speaker 1: Why have I not had you on the podcast? And
Speaker 1: I think it's because you know, I decided to leave
Speaker 1: the show and you held that against me, and now
Speaker 1: you don't want me as a part of anything, but
Speaker 1: you know I'll do it. I love being around you
Speaker 1: being I always want to be around you know. I
Speaker 1: always want to do whatever it takes to make you
Speaker 1: happy being and I'm glad to be all the p Well, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: se no, I appreciate that, Jake. And you know I
Speaker 1: loved doing the show with you. And remember I did
Speaker 1: not want you to leave when you originally left the
Speaker 1: first time, I didn't want you to leave. And then
Speaker 1: the second time I didn't want you to leave, and
Speaker 1: and and so I just want that on the record now.
Speaker 1: And as I have on, I try to have all
Speaker 1: my friends on who worked at fs ARE back in
Speaker 1: the day. So, how how are my association? Yeah? How
Speaker 1: are the alumni association meetings? And are those going? Well?
Speaker 1: The meetings are fine. You know, we we all try
Speaker 1: to make ourselves available to sports radio. Would possible. Um,
Speaker 1: I have not been asked to be president of that
Speaker 1: alumni association happen yet, but I am an active man. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: And I saw I ran into Tom Looney the other
Speaker 1: night at Dodger Stadium. Yeah yeah, so I saw I
Speaker 1: ran into Looney. And and he's, of course the founding
Speaker 1: member of the fs ARE Alumni Association. He even before
Speaker 1: he got hired at the company, and then once he
Speaker 1: got hired, he knew eventually he would be part of
Speaker 1: the alumni association. And that's why I have all the
Speaker 1: members on as many as I can, Jake, because I
Speaker 1: also will at some point be a member of the
Speaker 1: fs ARE Alumni Association. But I've been able to last
Speaker 1: a while, but I will be coming and I would
Speaker 1: be paying my dues to those meetings. That's going to happen, Jake.
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen, and you need to. Yeah, there is
Speaker 1: a dude, there's a you know, membership dude. But you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can get me go to ticket like you
Speaker 1: do with your show, you know, and not not to
Speaker 1: pay those dudes. But I'm one of those people. I
Speaker 1: just don't tell them. Yeah, No, I I know. I'm
Speaker 1: really bad with dates. I think everyone is around my age.
Speaker 1: I always do, even when they're a lot older or
Speaker 1: a lot younger. I just assume people are kind of
Speaker 1: around my age, and I'm bad, as I said, with dates.
Speaker 1: So when did you start at Fox Sports Radio. I
Speaker 1: remember in the early days you were there pretty early
Speaker 1: on at Fox Sports Radio, and then yeah, you went
Speaker 1: to work with a dog just which we'll talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit later. But when did that, When did
Speaker 1: you begin you remember like roughly what year it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe it was two thousands. Um I started. I
Speaker 1: believe it was. I'll get the two thousands. I know.
Speaker 1: It's like two weeks after the network started when I
Speaker 1: showed up and UM, they put me on overnight weekends
Speaker 1: and that's how we ended up meeting up. I was
Speaker 1: a board op for Oh my goodness, who was very
Speaker 1: board opping for at that point. There's so many people.
Speaker 1: Steve Mason, I believe it was UM And yeah, that
Speaker 1: was that was a little rocky, but that didn't end well.
Speaker 1: But you know, I I was very opinionated at that time.
Speaker 1: I think I was a little more rough around the
Speaker 1: edges and didn't take as much crap from anybody at
Speaker 1: that time in my life. But I've since calmed down.
Speaker 1: But that's when I started around that time, and it
Speaker 1: drew it to be a full time gig and I
Speaker 1: have worked for them. To everybody on a network at
Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, and there's not many left right at that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a long long time ago, and I
Speaker 1: we were you the board op, the Steve Mason who's
Speaker 1: now for those that have lost track, he does a
Speaker 1: show in l A still and then on the afternoon drive.
Speaker 1: I don't know that amazing. I don't know Mason Ireland
Speaker 1: been on forever. Yeah, so I don't know they're on
Speaker 1: some day part during the day when I'm sleeping there
Speaker 1: on or whatever. Fine, But so so anyway, there was
Speaker 1: a Steve Mason show, and I actually brought this up
Speaker 1: to Mason a couple of years ago. He had Jim
Speaker 1: Bouten on, but he thought it was Jim Bowdend Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is one of this is one of the great
Speaker 1: bloopers in the history of Fox Sports Radio. And I
Speaker 1: don't know Steve's upset I'm bringing this up, but it's
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. I think the statue of limitations has
Speaker 1: run out right, Jake on this. Yeah, So I remember
Speaker 1: I was there that night too, so we were both
Speaker 1: there and we both witnessed. Yeah, it was an amazing
Speaker 1: It was an amazing interview because I've had this happen
Speaker 1: to me, but it wasn't ever as awkward as this.
Speaker 1: So Macon and was interviewing what he thought was Jim Boughten,
Speaker 1: the guy that wrote the book Ball four Right, wasn't
Speaker 1: he the guy from the book? Yeah? And and if
Speaker 1: you're if you're unfamiliar with the book Ball four. It
Speaker 1: was a legendary book about all the kind of debauchery
Speaker 1: that the Yankees. This guy he wrote he documented all
Speaker 1: the things that the guys were doing for one one season, right,
Speaker 1: I think it was with he was on the Seattle Pilots,
Speaker 1: I think, and then he went to the Yankees, if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly. Anyway, he I don't know all the details.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking out of my toshoet, but I know
Speaker 1: the book was about all the nonsense that the guys
Speaker 1: were doing off the field, and you know the why.
Speaker 1: I think the big thing on that book was the
Speaker 1: wife swapping. Uh yeah. Anyway, so Mason, again, he didn't
Speaker 1: realize he was talking to that guy. He thought he
Speaker 1: was talking to Jim Bowden, who who was the general
Speaker 1: manager of the what was he the Cincinnati Reds at
Speaker 1: the time, I think it was at the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so Mason's doing the interview and he's he thinks
Speaker 1: he's talking to you know, guy A, and he's talking
Speaker 1: to guy B. You know, and that didn't that didn't
Speaker 1: go so well. And uh but then Boughten, who's a
Speaker 1: you know, I think he passed away a couple years.
Speaker 1: Total jokes, total jokes, and yeah, yeah totally went with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he starts, he starts talking like he's he realizes
Speaker 1: Mason doesn't realize he who he is, and so he
Speaker 1: starts giving these outrageous answers. Remember with every question, if
Speaker 1: I if I remember correctly, like every answer got more ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was getting here and trade here. And I remember
Speaker 1: the producer's name was Josh Rimmer. His dad actually is
Speaker 1: um TV guy for the Columbus Blue Jackets uh NHL,
Speaker 1: and he's the one that was producing that night. And
Speaker 1: I said, Josh, I don't think this is who you
Speaker 1: think of this? Like I knew right away. I was
Speaker 1: like this, he's answering these questions. Weird. This isn't right.
Speaker 1: He's going it's him, it's him. I'm like, I think
Speaker 1: you got the wrong guy. And in the top back us,
Speaker 1: this totally isn't who I think it is. Yeah, everyone
Speaker 1: picked up on it. So even though joke, Mason picked
Speaker 1: up on it, and then he starts going with it too.
Speaker 1: This is a weird set of events after that, man,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll remember that night. Yeah, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: one of the funny stories that in those days in
Speaker 1: Fox Busts Radio. I think Bowden had Ken Griffey Jr.
Speaker 1: Was on the Reds at the time, and I think
Speaker 1: he had him traded. I think, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: there was something with Griffy that had come up in
Speaker 1: that in that time period. So I remember you were
Speaker 1: with me on the weekend overnights early on, and remember
Speaker 1: when the network started, there was no weekend overnight show.
Speaker 1: When I started, they had put tape programming on the overnights,
Speaker 1: and then I I was given the weekend overnight show
Speaker 1: and we were on no affiliates. There was hardly anyone listening,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty much just throwing stuff against the
Speaker 1: wall at that particular point in the early days, and
Speaker 1: we were on enough. If I remember the early affiliates,
Speaker 1: we're like Binghamton, New York. Pittsburgh was the first Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there were like a few random scattered affiliates. But no,
Speaker 1: it was it was it was kind of like a
Speaker 1: private conversation, right Jack. No one was really no one
Speaker 1: was listening at that's us talking with the mics on
Speaker 1: and people just happened to listen, you know. Binghamton New
Speaker 1: York was always representing you know, uh that in the
Speaker 1: one commercial we always used to play in Housecat Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: everyone yeah, left me my better dreams. I still hear
Speaker 1: that damn song. Um. But those were fun days because
Speaker 1: we could do anything we wanted and nobody was listening. Upstairs.
Speaker 1: They're all asleep or under you know, actification homes when
Speaker 1: we're there are yachts because you know, they were making
Speaker 1: the big money. We were over there swimming in the studio.
Speaker 1: But that was a lot of fun. We got away
Speaker 1: with a lot of stuff and something I couldn't do nowadays,
Speaker 1: and that's what made it a lot of fun. And
Speaker 1: you know, before I became friends with you, I was
Speaker 1: always a fan of yours, you know, living in the
Speaker 1: l A. Are you listening to you and Dave Smith
Speaker 1: on the Extra Sports eleven fifty? I was a p
Speaker 1: one back then, and uh I was listening. I listened
Speaker 1: every day and I still here the last track that
Speaker 1: you guys would play after everything. But I love the show.
Speaker 1: And then when I found out you were coming over,
Speaker 1: I was like cool. And then I found out I
Speaker 1: was gonna work with you, and we both were big
Speaker 1: fans of Jimmy Hilly here in l A. And you know,
Speaker 1: so it's like, hey, you got sound effects playing them,
Speaker 1: you know, jigging ball, the old you know, funny stuff
Speaker 1: in Tono Losorda, And I was like, man, I'm right
Speaker 1: there with you. So I would kind of just gauge
Speaker 1: when you were doing with certain things and I would
Speaker 1: be able to play something the right when I just
Speaker 1: saw your eyes, you know, like what you or what
Speaker 1: do you want it? Or you'll treat you with your voice?
Speaker 1: And you bought and so that actually helped me grow
Speaker 1: and I had a good time and taught me how
Speaker 1: a lot of our radio you know, behind the scenes. Um,
Speaker 1: but you allow me a lot of creative freedom and
Speaker 1: and that's what made it fun. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun working. Yeah, I love I love the j
Speaker 1: and people ask about the show and I did goofy stuff.
Speaker 1: Back in the nineties, we got away with a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. And before I got the Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: was much different. People were not all uptight. You could
Speaker 1: goof around and you know, people were fine with it.
Speaker 1: Now people and I think most people are still okay
Speaker 1: with it, but there's just enough people that complain that
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not it's not the same. But yeah,
Speaker 1: when when we were on the weekend overnights and people
Speaker 1: ask about the Mallary militia and all that stuff. That
Speaker 1: all started on the weekend overnights because we were we
Speaker 1: started picking up more radio stations as the network started
Speaker 1: to grow and more people kind of heard the show
Speaker 1: and got the show. And but we we, you know,
Speaker 1: we we just would look for anyone. I remember that
Speaker 1: when people would call up. We were shocked that anyone
Speaker 1: called up because we weren't on anywhere. So I and
Speaker 1: then we would just start I would just start blabbing
Speaker 1: with people. And that's that's how we the show kind
Speaker 1: of morphed into we Genie and Medford and some of
Speaker 1: the people. Doc Mike. You were there when Doc started
Speaker 1: calling the show, And oh yeah that I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of the early caller we had, Doc Mike Cowboys
Speaker 1: been calling forever. He's he still calls me. He's still
Speaker 1: called yeah he Oh that guy and nothing would shake him. Man.
Speaker 1: I would play so many crazy sound effects and trying
Speaker 1: to throw him off, and he was so dedicated and
Speaker 1: it used to make me mad. I think I got
Speaker 1: him one time when I DoD like I made sure
Speaker 1: the whole world knew. I was happy about it. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and that's great because you can explain Jake as the
Speaker 1: producer engineer what lay too cow We had Cowboys Corner,
Speaker 1: and then over there, over time it morphed in You're
Speaker 1: just playing a bunch of sound effects while Cowboy drones
Speaker 1: on about who died this week in sports and what
Speaker 1: his junior high school teacher told him when he was
Speaker 1: you know, and he was late to school one day,
Speaker 1: like all that stuff. The magic of Cowboy John Brad.
Speaker 1: But he was pretty monotone, right, He's always been monotone,
Speaker 1: and so, yeah, exactly, it was kind of weird. But
Speaker 1: I wanted to throw him off because like you would
Speaker 1: kind of be funny, Well you're always funny to me,
Speaker 1: but like you would be funny and like tough, like
Speaker 1: over him to the audience, and he would never pick
Speaker 1: it up, something like well and then it's talking over
Speaker 1: him and he doesn't pick it up. I would trying
Speaker 1: to throw him off. So I would play sound effects,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd hear certain things he would say and
Speaker 1: try to find like the sound effects that would match it,
Speaker 1: and it would throw him off. So My goal after
Speaker 1: that was to make sure I could break him. And
Speaker 1: I say thousands, you know, hundreds of calls, thousands of
Speaker 1: calls that I sat in and did the show not
Speaker 1: after night. Um. One time I got him, and I
Speaker 1: think there was like a streaming lady or something or
Speaker 1: you know, some crazy drop and he just stopped and
Speaker 1: he kind of chuckled, like I got him, I got him, Gotti. Gotti. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am stunted, Jake. I am stunned, Jake, Jake. I
Speaker 1: am stunned that he still called after all these years
Speaker 1: he's had he had a stroke, he said COVID, like
Speaker 1: I know the whole Cowboys story. I know all the
Speaker 1: ailments he's had. I remember when he was on uh,
Speaker 1: the CBC in Canada did a story about him. They
Speaker 1: called him the Handsome hoarder, I think, or he called
Speaker 1: himself the handsome horder and he the Canadian government had
Speaker 1: to like take him out of his home in Windsor
Speaker 1: because he had so much like stuff, newspapers that he
Speaker 1: had piled up. And he is living in Squalor and
Speaker 1: and but he's still he always found a way to
Speaker 1: call the show, until at one point he stopped for
Speaker 1: a while because he didn't have phone service. I guess
Speaker 1: because he phone got cut off. He had so much stuff,
Speaker 1: but it was it was crazy. And then some of
Speaker 1: the I'm trying some of the other called Pete, and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was also there in the day. Another one, he's
Speaker 1: another one, yeah, knucklehead. Then his head got big because
Speaker 1: you know, I started going on Howard Stern, you know,
Speaker 1: so he thought it was too good to call the
Speaker 1: Big Manage Show. And I'm like, bro, you're Pete and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh nobody gives a rat's ass who the hell you are?
Speaker 1: And we used to battle on Twitter all the time
Speaker 1: until one day he was just like here, man, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I didn't need to be mean to you. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well Pete, Pete, yeah exactly. Pete became one of Stern's
Speaker 1: whack pack guys and he called us before he called Stern,
Speaker 1: and he the Stern used to put him on. I
Speaker 1: will give Pete credit though, when I got whacked from
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio in oh nine and I was I
Speaker 1: was like bummed out and I was like this sucks.
Speaker 1: Pete in Pittsburgh called the Howard Stern Show and dropped
Speaker 1: my name and talked to Howard about about me because
Speaker 1: there a bunch of people got laid off and let
Speaker 1: go at that time. And uh so, I I I
Speaker 1: appreciate Pete because I didn't hear it live, but I had.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of relatives that were, you know,
Speaker 1: big Stern fans and still are big Sterns fans, and
Speaker 1: so they heard my name and then they're wait a minute,
Speaker 1: were they talking about you? And uh so that was
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. Pete does not call anymore. I
Speaker 1: did reach out to Pete in Pittsburgh recently, somewhat recently
Speaker 1: about coming on the podcast. I thought I would shoot
Speaker 1: the shoot the ship with him Jake on the podcast. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we are allowed. It's the reason I do the podcast. Jake.
Speaker 1: You can say naughty words, you can't stay on radio.
Speaker 1: So but now Pete we were. I was like, hid
Speaker 1: Pete come on the show? And I called Pete up.
Speaker 1: It was kind of late at night. He's in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: He is stinking drunk, he says. He's walking on the
Speaker 1: side of the highway there in in Pittsburgh, just kind
Speaker 1: of wandering around. He started screaming my name. It was
Speaker 1: he was not in good shape. Jake he was not
Speaker 1: in good. Now. I hope that was just a bad
Speaker 1: night and and things are better for Pete, but he
Speaker 1: was not not doing particularly well that night. Here's another
Speaker 1: blast in the past, Jake. And these are all names
Speaker 1: that the listener might not realize if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this Podcastler, I don't know who that is, but these
Speaker 1: are these are called We had Troy the gambling man,
Speaker 1: who was Yeah, Troy drove a sweeper truck around Nashville,
Speaker 1: and and and again, Jake. The point of all this,
Speaker 1: we put these people on right because we just I
Speaker 1: was just looking for people. Anybody that called up, we
Speaker 1: want when I want to hear the story. You wanted
Speaker 1: to have some fun, you know, change it up a
Speaker 1: little bit. And so that's that's what happened. And and
Speaker 1: he would call up and give the worst gambling picks
Speaker 1: of all time. And he was he was a terrible
Speaker 1: gambler at handicapping NFL games. But he uh, he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I he thought he was great. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing that made the bit. He thought he was
Speaker 1: really good and he was not. But anyway, so you
Speaker 1: you left FSR. Jake, it's all we gotta get back
Speaker 1: to you, Jake. This is all about you. So you
Speaker 1: left FSR and you got one of the great jobs
Speaker 1: in broadcasting. You got to work for the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Dodgers and travel the United States and the world with
Speaker 1: Dodger baseball. And that was a great, wonderful What's the
Speaker 1: coolest thing you got to experience when you were traveling
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, oh Man, so many, so many things
Speaker 1: I got to do. Um one of the coolest things was,
Speaker 1: I'll tell this story. I told it on my podcast,
Speaker 1: which is a big Jake podcast by the way, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it in. But the coolest moment, I mean,
Speaker 1: of course seeing all the history ballparks, and luckily my
Speaker 1: tenure there, I got to go to like Fenway, and
Speaker 1: I got to go to Wrigley, you know, and all
Speaker 1: the great ballparks. But my favorite memory of working for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers it was two thousand four. It was the
Speaker 1: the game before last game of the year against the
Speaker 1: Giant and it was for the division. And as when
Speaker 1: Steve Finley hit that Grand Slam to beat the Giants
Speaker 1: and take the division. That day, Vin Scolly was doing
Speaker 1: radio only it was just it was just then and
Speaker 1: I in the booth um producer Tom Bowman was downstairs
Speaker 1: ready for the champagne. Rick Monday was already downstairs. Ralphs
Speaker 1: Porter was downstairs. Everybody's downstairs, so it's just then and I.
Speaker 1: As soon as Steve Finley hit the ball, then lost
Speaker 1: the ball. I saw the ball and mccarl clus day,
Speaker 1: it's way back and wherever it is. She looked at me,
Speaker 1: and I'm doing the home run signal to him. You
Speaker 1: know wherever it is, it's a grandfriend home run did
Speaker 1: He laid out, turned his mic off, turn around and
Speaker 1: look back to me, said Jake, Mike Shannons and St. Louis.
Speaker 1: When we get there on me, thank you for saving
Speaker 1: my bacon. Were right back to announcing like nothing happened.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's great. Helped the great Vince Scully on
Speaker 1: a home run call. That's a lot, that's what. When
Speaker 1: then he was that the last year he did radio
Speaker 1: only because he he didn't do that right, but it
Speaker 1: was a simulcast off the TV for a while at
Speaker 1: the last few years that he did it right. He
Speaker 1: didn't just do the radio. He would I don't think
Speaker 1: he did radio only at all. After like was it no, no, no, no, no, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the only time he do radio only in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, of course, but his last game was a
Speaker 1: regular season game against the Giants in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: that's how he wanted to end it. So he pretty
Speaker 1: much after that, like he didn't do any just like
Speaker 1: radio only broadcast. Yeah. Yeah, when when I first started
Speaker 1: years ago, um, in the mid nineties, he would do
Speaker 1: radio when the games weren't on TV because not every
Speaker 1: game was on TV. And it was one of my
Speaker 1: my favorite memories. We were the Dodgers were in New
Speaker 1: York at at Shasee Stadium and you know what a
Speaker 1: crappy press boy almost yeah it was. It was horrible, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. It was a horrible ballpark. It was. I
Speaker 1: can't believe that was a New York City ballpark that
Speaker 1: was newer, you know, at the time they built it.
Speaker 1: It was the model ballpark. Supposedly was dump but but
Speaker 1: it was a day games, very hot, humid in in
Speaker 1: New York and in the summertime in like August. Just
Speaker 1: always used to go in August in those days. And
Speaker 1: so Vin was doing radio only and he was we
Speaker 1: were in shorts. He had like they gave him some
Speaker 1: Dodger shorts and he had a T shirt on, and
Speaker 1: as it was, it was it was the wildest thing
Speaker 1: to see the great Vince Scully and just going casually. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, because he always you were around him all
Speaker 1: the time, He's always dressed up and looking good. And yeah,
Speaker 1: if you saw him dressed down the only time, what
Speaker 1: he would were dressed down with a polo shirt and slacks.
Speaker 1: That was being dressed down for him. To me, that's
Speaker 1: being dressed up. That's like fancy duds for me, because
Speaker 1: you know the reason why I got in my radio
Speaker 1: so I didn't have to wear a sup you know.
Speaker 1: And I do have another I do have another crazy
Speaker 1: n story story. Give it to me. I love any
Speaker 1: Vince Scully story I want to hear. He actually saved
Speaker 1: my life and this is a true story. Um. The
Speaker 1: very first time I met Vin in a professional capacity,
Speaker 1: because I met him being in the press box, you know,
Speaker 1: he says hi, you know, that was the extent, and
Speaker 1: that was already like I could die now. But the
Speaker 1: first time I got to actually talk with him, we
Speaker 1: were in Mexico City in two thousand three. It was
Speaker 1: a spring training series against the Mets, and um, we
Speaker 1: went to a soccer stadium to work and it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, in Mexico City, the elevation tired. In Denver,
Speaker 1: there's like seven thousand feet. I'm asthmetic. There's no elevators,
Speaker 1: and being an engineer, you have to like love all
Speaker 1: this equipment, you know. So I'm my third trip up,
Speaker 1: I'm dying. It's hot, and I did right to the
Speaker 1: boots where we work. Damn. I collapsed face first onto
Speaker 1: the floor, hurt myself and I blacked out. The next
Speaker 1: thing I feel is cold water going down my neck
Speaker 1: and I are you okay? I was like, dude, I
Speaker 1: just hear the toy's point. I died. I'm in heaven
Speaker 1: and you never any death. Poured water on my necks,
Speaker 1: rubb in my back and he's like, I saw you
Speaker 1: fall and then scared me. Are you okay? You must
Speaker 1: And I was like, and I don't do a good impersonation,
Speaker 1: but I was like, holy shit, and he starts laughing.
Speaker 1: And ever since then we had a really cool relationship,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, so he would always say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're in Timver, you better take it easy. I don't
Speaker 1: have any cold water like Oh, you're funny, you know.
Speaker 1: And Vin Vin probably at the times like, holy Conoli,
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna die in front of me. What am
Speaker 1: I gonna do here? Right? He's probably thinking, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta do something. You can imagine how
Speaker 1: that's gonna play. Dodgers go to Mexico City and you
Speaker 1: know engineer Jake Warnered, you know, if something happens and
Speaker 1: in the booth and Vin's right there, oh man, that
Speaker 1: would have been a big deal. That would have been crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would have been news, you know, especially be in
Speaker 1: a Mexico city. But that was that was another thing
Speaker 1: that was cool. And and I think one plane ride, um,
Speaker 1: he usually sat in the first class and then it
Speaker 1: was like broadcasters, team staff and then the players are
Speaker 1: in the back and Ross Porter would always trying to
Speaker 1: sit next to him, like all the time. And but
Speaker 1: in this particular moment I got on the plane, I
Speaker 1: think we're heading even Denver. It was it had to
Speaker 1: be a West coast city because Vinn never went past
Speaker 1: Denver at that time. And he was like, hey, have
Speaker 1: a seat. I'm like, oh, so maybe I'm just sitting
Speaker 1: there before the flight takes off that I go in
Speaker 1: the back, and I was like, let me put my
Speaker 1: stuff in the back, good, and I'll come back and say, no,
Speaker 1: sit here with me. I was like really, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: Boody Dewerry, the old Travelague secretary God blessing Um. He
Speaker 1: usually sat by Vin or it was Ross Porter, but
Speaker 1: Billy didn't make that trip, and Ross is looking at
Speaker 1: me and they just getting another seat. So for three
Speaker 1: hours I got to suit with Vin and just talk
Speaker 1: about Jackie Robinson and his days, you know, starting out
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, and that was something I wish I
Speaker 1: had to take recorder for that conversation. And Billy he
Speaker 1: mentioned Billy de Leary also he was with the team
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, right, wasn't he with the team? Yeah, he goes,
Speaker 1: but he went back to the Dodger he was there.
Speaker 1: Very the skinniest man I ever came across in my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a small was extra large to him. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's such a security number was one. I
Speaker 1: love Billy because he didn't take ship for nobody. He
Speaker 1: didn't care who you were, you know, but he always
Speaker 1: looked out for me. When I needed something like tickets
Speaker 1: for tonight, I got you young man. He could never
Speaker 1: memorize the name for ship. No. No. He would always
Speaker 1: take care of me and God bless us though. He
Speaker 1: was one of the great people. And of course we
Speaker 1: had like the great student ahand God bless him soul
Speaker 1: as well. Probably with Rutching Vin and Student Ahan talked together.
Speaker 1: That was pure comedy. Loved it. Oh, those the best
Speaker 1: couple of seasons on my life. Highlight of my career
Speaker 1: working with the Dodgers. Man Yeah, and uh Billy de Leary,
Speaker 1: you know, hard edge, kind of Brooklyn guy, thin guy,
Speaker 1: as he said. And when I started, when I first
Speaker 1: started doing stuff with the Dodgers and I was we
Speaker 1: were I would make the East coast trip because my
Speaker 1: brother lived in in New York, so I'd go back
Speaker 1: there and I could see him. And then when I
Speaker 1: first started going, I don't know if this happened when
Speaker 1: you were there, there were these old dudes that would
Speaker 1: hang out in front of the hotel that we're like
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodger. They were kids when the Dodgers were playing
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn and they'd show up. They were like the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodger fan club and they'd hang out outside the hotel.
Speaker 1: They get photos and autographs and it was it was crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know that can't be many of those guys
Speaker 1: left right at this point. Probably not, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean just being in Bureau Beach. I know this is
Speaker 1: so sinister, but it's perfect for the fifth. We'd be
Speaker 1: sitting in the booth in Dodgertown and we're hearing ambulance
Speaker 1: and you would say, oh no, we want to lost another.
Speaker 1: I mean, and everyone understands. It was all gray and
Speaker 1: blue hair. Rarely you see somebody my age at Dodger Town,
Speaker 1: you know. But well, well, yeah, and I've told this
Speaker 1: story before Jack on the podcast. You'll appreciate this. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe I told it to you also on
Speaker 1: the when I did your podcast, the Big Brother Jake Podcast.
Speaker 1: But my my Tommy Hawkins story with Vero Beach when
Speaker 1: we showed up to Vero Beach and it was a
Speaker 1: big deal spring training, Dodger spring training. I heard so
Speaker 1: much about Vero Beach and this is great. This old
Speaker 1: school training facility had been in since they were in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn the oh Man. So I show up there and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a single guy. We're doing the Ben
Speaker 1: and Dave show back to l a and Tommy Hawkins
Speaker 1: one of the nicest people. Rest in peace. Tommy Hawkins,
Speaker 1: the greatest pe the ball time. Yeah, played with the
Speaker 1: Lakers when they came from Minneapolis and told some amazing
Speaker 1: stories about that and just one of the nicest human beings.
Speaker 1: So go up to Tommy. I'm like, hey, Tommy, you
Speaker 1: know where do we want to go out? You know,
Speaker 1: we have a night off in Vero. We want to
Speaker 1: go out, you know, maybe you know, meet a nice
Speaker 1: young lady. And I don't think we phrased it quite
Speaker 1: that way, Jake, but anyway, So Tommy's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: got the perfect place for you. I got the perfect place,
Speaker 1: and he and I wish I remember the name of
Speaker 1: it was. It was a bar restaurant they like live,
Speaker 1: like live music, if I remember correctly. And Tommy's like,
Speaker 1: this is the spot, This is the spot you're gonna go.
Speaker 1: You have a great time. So I go there and
Speaker 1: Dave the guy, Dave Smith, we go show up and
Speaker 1: we walk in there and hand the goud Jake. The
Speaker 1: youngest person in there was like in their early sixties.
Speaker 1: You know, we're like in our mid twenties. We're like,
Speaker 1: what the heck? And this was the this was the
Speaker 1: swinging Vero Beach bar, Jake. This was where the cool
Speaker 1: the young people hang out in Vero was that. It
Speaker 1: was that bar. I know, I've probably been all three
Speaker 1: establishments that were in the fine night life of beach. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then we we left there and I think we
Speaker 1: had to go to another It was at Port St. Lucy.
Speaker 1: We went somewhere on that one of the Highway one
Speaker 1: stops and we we we did find a bar that
Speaker 1: there were a few younger people. The problem was the
Speaker 1: younger people, the good looking women were hanging out with
Speaker 1: the ball players that were in the party. They wanted
Speaker 1: nothing to do with us. So that did not work out.
Speaker 1: And that's where all the Mets players were in Port St. Lucy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly exactly. So you you
Speaker 1: helped this podcast studio. You built this podcast, dude, this
Speaker 1: is a product. I'm doing this from the Jake Warner
Speaker 1: podcast studio deep in the north Woods here, and I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for that, Jake, because you pointed
Speaker 1: me in the right direction. I had what I thought
Speaker 1: was a podcast studio with a crappy microphone and a
Speaker 1: couple of other things, but it was not broadcast quality.
Speaker 1: But you, being a professional radio engineer and knowing good
Speaker 1: audio quality, You've led me the right direction. I did
Speaker 1: have to dust off my wallet, Jake, but I want
Speaker 1: to thank you because you and I appreciate it being
Speaker 1: like you know, I was trying to tell you, but
Speaker 1: you you know, you you you you laced me. It
Speaker 1: was cool. I appreciate that. But no, man, that's one
Speaker 1: of my passions. You know, podcasting is the big thing now.
Speaker 1: And you know I worked for a company called podcast One,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I love building studios, I love
Speaker 1: having fun doing it, and I'm glad that I was
Speaker 1: able to help. You know. I also helped Eddie Garcia
Speaker 1: build his studio for this amazing podcast you know. So
Speaker 1: you know I I think I've helped many people fs
Speaker 1: are their podcast studios. Well, and this is this is
Speaker 1: a little cottage industry, Jake. I think you should offer
Speaker 1: this service to people. You are willing for a nominal
Speaker 1: fee to help them out to build their podcast studio,
Speaker 1: to make the podcast dreams come true. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: anybody who needs something, you know, hit the boy up.
Speaker 1: I'm ready, I'm ready to work. You know, any chance
Speaker 1: I did here you are a hustler, Jake. I give
Speaker 1: you credit now when you when you left radio the
Speaker 1: first time, well when was a second when you left
Speaker 1: our show and you went back to your alma mater. Right,
Speaker 1: you gotta got a job at your alma mater. And
Speaker 1: how long you did that for for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then you got you got the radio bug, right,
Speaker 1: your lifetime radio. You seen your d n A. Right,
Speaker 1: you had to come back. Oh yeah, yeah, you're you're
Speaker 1: You're born into this life. You know it. Shoose radio.
Speaker 1: You don't choose radio, radio, choose okay. And the thing
Speaker 1: is I always had my foot in radio. I was
Speaker 1: doing part time work, but I was I worked at
Speaker 1: my alma mater, University of Liver for four years, and
Speaker 1: each year got worse than the other. So I was
Speaker 1: really like oppressed, Like I'm not even kidding, Like I
Speaker 1: had to take a leave of accidence from work because
Speaker 1: I hated my job so bad. But I had a
Speaker 1: family to feat you know, and so funny story, there's
Speaker 1: a true story. So as I took some time off
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, when I get
Speaker 1: to go camping, which I hate camping. Um, but at
Speaker 1: the time, my wife at the time. She was like, well,
Speaker 1: the family wants to go campaign. We're gonna be some friends.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, So I told her, I said, after
Speaker 1: this trip, I'm going back to radio. I can't do
Speaker 1: this anymore. She's like, I understand, Well, if you find
Speaker 1: something I do, I support it. I bullshit you not
Speaker 1: being right. Before I went to hill where there's no reception,
Speaker 1: I get a call from a m Fosta and it's
Speaker 1: a person we both Brian Blackmore, a good friend of ours,
Speaker 1: and uh Brian called me and says, hey, what's up, sucker.
Speaker 1: You know, like, hey, what's up man? What you need?
Speaker 1: And he says, what are you doing right now? I said,
Speaker 1: I'm about to go up they hear him, I'm about
Speaker 1: to lose you. He's like, whatever you're at pool. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1: So I pull over to this gas station literally at
Speaker 1: the base of the head and he says, our engineer
Speaker 1: literally just click for the clippers and the kings. You
Speaker 1: know you've got Dodger experience. What do you say? I said,
Speaker 1: I'll take it done. Signed me up, coach, I'm ready
Speaker 1: to play. Put me in yeah, And he's like, I
Speaker 1: didn't even tell you how much to pay. I don't
Speaker 1: care if it doesn't pay, I'll take it. He's like, seriously,
Speaker 1: I was like, isn't do I just work the games
Speaker 1: at Staples Center. Yeah, a couple in Anaheim. I'll take it.
Speaker 1: And I literally take it, not even know how much
Speaker 1: you paid. That's how bad I want to get back
Speaker 1: in the radio. And and it was we have you know,
Speaker 1: comparable you know, uh compensation and it'll work out way
Speaker 1: comes and numbers and you know I'm not I'm going
Speaker 1: on my fourth season um with Clipper Nation and which
Speaker 1: they've embraced me. And now, yeah, exactly you are. That's
Speaker 1: your historian of the Lakers. But you have come and
Speaker 1: seen the light, Jake. You have had the come to
Speaker 1: come to Clipper Daryl moment here. You've moved over to
Speaker 1: the to the dark side with the people's team here.
Speaker 1: And I love it when I see you send someone
Speaker 1: out on social media, and you are prolific on social media.
Speaker 1: But when you said a positive message out about the Clippers,
Speaker 1: that that warns my heart considering I know your past, Jake,
Speaker 1: and I know because there there's a rule, as I
Speaker 1: told you that to work at Fox Sports Radio, you
Speaker 1: had to be like behind the glass. You had to
Speaker 1: be like a Laker fan, and and that was required.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't put you on its Lakers Raiders. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: like you know, if you didn't meet that criteria, then
Speaker 1: you know, you weren't allowed to work the board producers
Speaker 1: ever from out of state. So they were always like
Speaker 1: different fans. But you know that was the prerequisite to
Speaker 1: be a board off by Fox Sports Radio, which I
Speaker 1: hate the Raiders. I'm a Charger fan. Raiders can kiss
Speaker 1: my ass um you know, and I'm like your fan.
Speaker 1: And Dodgers for sure. Loved the Dodgers. My grandfather, God
Speaker 1: rest his soul. As soon as I was born, put
Speaker 1: a doctor head on me, took a picture to leave
Speaker 1: the Dodger for life. I don't care, you know so,
Speaker 1: and he passed away right before I had a chance
Speaker 1: to introduce the bed Scory. That's his favorite broadcast, you know. So. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: like deal with the Clippers, especially after last year and
Speaker 1: witnessing what I witnessed with them going to the Western
Speaker 1: Conference Final, I had never and I worked Kobe's last game,
Speaker 1: which that was the loudest I've ever heard Staples Center,
Speaker 1: the second loudest I ever heard the Staple and I'll
Speaker 1: covered concerts there. I've covered Laker games, Cooper games, team games, everything.
Speaker 1: I was very at the Stanley Cup final everything. When
Speaker 1: the Clippers won against Dallas, the Dalla Utah to man,
Speaker 1: that's how best of my brain is. Well, they beat
Speaker 1: they beat Utah and then they they beat Dallas in
Speaker 1: the first round. Utah, this is this is this is
Speaker 1: the greatest moment. And Clippers they beat Dallas the first round,
Speaker 1: which is not the greatest, mother but but beating Utah
Speaker 1: when I got hurt, yeah okay, yeah yeah yeah okay.
Speaker 1: So when they beat Utah and that buzzer went off,
Speaker 1: I have never other than the Cody game Hurd Staple
Speaker 1: Center as loud as it was. And my all my
Speaker 1: friends called me sell out. All my friends are like,
Speaker 1: you suck, I can't believe you. Trade it over and
Speaker 1: Cooper Nation said, listen, we know you're a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: but you worked for the greatest organization in l A.
Speaker 1: We accept you into coopernation. So they embraced me, and
Speaker 1: I think I got like four extra follows on Twitter
Speaker 1: and Instagram through Cooper Nation. Like you know, I would
Speaker 1: always kick the fan base down Oh that's a little
Speaker 1: brothers JP. You guys are writing staples saying blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But these fans are so passionate and
Speaker 1: they come in night and night out and cheer for
Speaker 1: their squad, and they're always so cool. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: high fiving people when I'm engineering the great noware eagle,
Speaker 1: you know, people are like, I'm high five on the crown.
Speaker 1: I'm standing up getting excited. You know, it's crazy to see.
Speaker 1: And then this is the thing I hate about Laker fans.
Speaker 1: Laker fans will dress up in their jerseys and come
Speaker 1: to a Cooper game and cheer against them. Like that's
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. Man,
Speaker 1: this comes from a guy to grow living the Lakers.
Speaker 1: It's like, why don't you waste your time to go
Speaker 1: to a Clipper game and boo them in your Laker game?
Speaker 1: Cooper's getting that money, bro, what are you doing. I've
Speaker 1: witnessed a lot of things Laker fans have done, the
Speaker 1: Cooper fans, and it's embarrassing and it's sad, but you know,
Speaker 1: I I love the gig. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: One I get to be with No Eagle every night,
Speaker 1: the Great Adam Austin that does a pretty post game
Speaker 1: show and we have a good time. We legit have
Speaker 1: a good time every night. We laugh where the dance
Speaker 1: and the music. We have a great time. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's a great atmosphere. It's not all stuck up and
Speaker 1: stuffy like a Laker game would be. And I'm on
Speaker 1: my catch help for this being but I don't really
Speaker 1: give it, damn, because Coliper Nation has embraced me. I've
Speaker 1: embraced them and it's been fun. Man. It's a good writer.
Speaker 1: I don't want it to end. I want to stay
Speaker 1: there until to keep me out well. And in a
Speaker 1: couple of years you're gonna be at the taj Mahal.
Speaker 1: That arena they're building in Inglewood is going to be insane.
Speaker 1: And see, this is what I told you, Jake. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't listen to me back in the old days. I said,
Speaker 1: the Clippers of the People's team, right the Lake terms
Speaker 1: are the Hollywood team. It's a whole different vibe in
Speaker 1: a Laker game versus a Clipper game. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you that No Eagle, I was a little
Speaker 1: skeptical I'm not gonna lie, Jake. You know, I was
Speaker 1: Ralph Lawler guy when they hired No Eagle, and you
Speaker 1: know he's just guy out of college. You know, he's
Speaker 1: good though. He is really solid as a broadcaster. I
Speaker 1: guess it. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Speaker 1: because I know his father. I and Eagles very good
Speaker 1: on television. But oh yeah, I was a very nice guy.
Speaker 1: I love I and I got to meet him several times.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'll tell you. I'll tell you a story
Speaker 1: real quick. I ain't Eagle came. It was one of
Speaker 1: the games where they were both working together, and of
Speaker 1: course you know they did this whole like production piece
Speaker 1: on it, just that the other I comes up to
Speaker 1: me and hey, I just want you to know my
Speaker 1: son speaks highly of you, and he I thank you
Speaker 1: for looking out for him, because you know, he was
Speaker 1: like new to l A. He didn't know much about
Speaker 1: the city, and you you embraced them, and I was
Speaker 1: at all thanks and I said I'm a fan of yours,
Speaker 1: just so you know. And it was it was like
Speaker 1: a cool moment, you know. And I was skeptical of
Speaker 1: no because I've never heard of him. I never heard
Speaker 1: of him, and you know, I was like, I ain't
Speaker 1: he goes kids? Is that why he got the game?
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, like, I like, yeah, yeah. Then I've
Speaker 1: worked with him the first game and I'm blown away
Speaker 1: because this kid so mature. He's like, you know, for
Speaker 1: being twenty four to almost twenty five, super mature, supermature
Speaker 1: and firm of me around. Knows the game, and he
Speaker 1: knows everybody. I mean everybody in the industry. We'll be
Speaker 1: sitting there, you get like Doris Brunt come up to him, Hey,
Speaker 1: you're doing a little bird. So that's what they call him,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike Brenner come up to Mark Jackson, all
Speaker 1: these broadcasters from every team. You know, they respect him
Speaker 1: because of his father, but they also respect him because
Speaker 1: of his workers. The kid he perhaps, he does good work.
Speaker 1: He's amazing on the air, he's engaging, his references are fun.
Speaker 1: It's just a good guy to be around. Yeah No,
Speaker 1: he's really really he's really good. And you know that
Speaker 1: he's gonna end up doing tell just like his dad.
Speaker 1: I end up doing television. And yep, I already I
Speaker 1: already told him. I said, man, it's nice working with
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you mean you quitting. I said, bro,
Speaker 1: you're gonna blow up so big, bigger than your dad.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be that guy who said, oh I
Speaker 1: was his first radio engineering. He's like, I'm staying here forever.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, now, I know you're young. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's no taking the opportunities. Yeah, he will. He will
Speaker 1: be doing TV before, you know, like full time. I mean,
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. I guy's gonna get Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: you already want to end me for the whole Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: NFL playoff game in New Orleans, so that one and
Speaker 1: Andy and he was part of that. And he's doing
Speaker 1: CBS College Football every Saturday now, so I mean he's
Speaker 1: a big time But I was like, man, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's staying with us another couple of years. So
Speaker 1: I did him at least that much longer. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to see him go. But he's so good
Speaker 1: he's not gonna stay. And I'll say it on the
Speaker 1: fifth hour, I know that's gonna happen. I don't want
Speaker 1: him to go, but you know, when you're that good,
Speaker 1: you're in high demand. But he's amazing to be around.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you the Colippers have been nothing good
Speaker 1: to me. It's just been a fantastic experience, better than
Speaker 1: I thought it would be, and I don't want it
Speaker 1: to end. I'm I'm looking forward to going to the
Speaker 1: new arena and you know, the Clippers will finally be
Speaker 1: out of that whole identity thing with l A. You know.
Speaker 1: But I don't understand, especially now, that the hate that
Speaker 1: Laker fans have for Corpers fans. I don't get it,
Speaker 1: like Coupper fans don't care about Laker fans at all.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you that from the inside, people are like,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't care about the Lakers. You know,
Speaker 1: we were about us. Lakers are rent free, you know,
Speaker 1: Coopers are rent free. In the Laker fans head, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy to see. And they're they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm still getting They're literally building the arena right now,
Speaker 1: the new Clip Arena, which is being paid for by
Speaker 1: Steve Bamber in Inglewood, and I'm still getting messages the
Speaker 1: Clippers are moving to Seattle or Las Vegas or something
Speaker 1: like that from all from Laker historians that are like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, well you've got to get them out
Speaker 1: of l as so it's the jealousy. Why would you
Speaker 1: be jealous? It makes no sense. I never understood it.
Speaker 1: You know, back in the day, I was part of
Speaker 1: that being done, as you know. But I've had people
Speaker 1: telling me I have sources that I'm telling me that
Speaker 1: the Clippers going to Seattle. I'm like, um my check
Speaker 1: stub said Los Angeles Clippers on it. I wouldn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're leaving before you are, you know, because they're not
Speaker 1: have to look for work but going anywhere. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're sticking around. So you've got the podcast, which
Speaker 1: you've already promoted Jake. You've already promoted the Big Brother
Speaker 1: Jake Podcast. So but for those that maybe miss that
Speaker 1: and weren't paying attention, make the elevator pitt now. I
Speaker 1: was lucky enough to be on your podcast. But make
Speaker 1: the elevator pitch right now. On why a random fifth
Speaker 1: hour listener, a member of the Mallard militia who maybe
Speaker 1: does not remember the Jake Warner era on the show,
Speaker 1: why should that person tune in to your podcast? Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you so the Big Brother Jake Podcast
Speaker 1: powered by Podcast One of course. Um, the reason why
Speaker 1: you want to listen to the Big Brother Jake podcast.
Speaker 1: Is because I am such a relatable person to the
Speaker 1: average Joe. You know, I'm a single father of three
Speaker 1: that's gone through the voice, that has had problems with,
Speaker 1: you know, being a single dad. I've I've I've had
Speaker 1: mental illness, I've had conclude the press moments of my life.
Speaker 1: I've also know how to have a good time to
Speaker 1: be a single man. I love sports, a love music,
Speaker 1: and it's just like talking to one of your friends
Speaker 1: at the bar if your brother's like talking to one
Speaker 1: of your people's at the barbershop. We just have a
Speaker 1: good time. On my show, we were like Jerry Seinfeld
Speaker 1: Show of Podcasts. We talked about everything and nothing at
Speaker 1: the same time. Show us about absolutely nothing. But it's
Speaker 1: a big party. We have a good time. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the things I talked about is my hate
Speaker 1: for Valentine's Day because it's the Hallmark holiday and people
Speaker 1: know that people come from love advice, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: being single, it's been very fun for me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start on the line very but you know, I'm really
Speaker 1: live in my naval days. That's what we do. We
Speaker 1: just have a good time. Everything is relatable if you're
Speaker 1: going through something, you know, you're your vetterm, you know, PTSD.
Speaker 1: I'm I suffer from PTSD, you know. But if you're
Speaker 1: like wanting to have a good time on a budget,
Speaker 1: I can tell you how to do that. Like I
Speaker 1: talk about all kinds of different lines issues, pop culture,
Speaker 1: sometimes politics, you know, I try. I try to be
Speaker 1: an escape from politics, but sometimes things happen that are
Speaker 1: so big you have to, you know, discuss it. So
Speaker 1: the Big Brother Jade podcast in comp of Sason, everybody,
Speaker 1: it's all like it's inclusive, everyone's welcome, we all have
Speaker 1: a good time on a bit of podcast. You could
Speaker 1: find it on Ulstree platforms, iTunes, Google Plays, Spotify, tune In,
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio, Amazon everywhere. Brother Yeah and Jake, let
Speaker 1: me let me tell you you you I'm oppressed and
Speaker 1: I was on the podcast like there are no women
Speaker 1: in comparison that listened to sports talk radio right that
Speaker 1: it's a very small there's a we know. I think
Speaker 1: we know the names of all the women that listen
Speaker 1: to my show. Yeah, I think that I'll seven of them,
Speaker 1: yes exactly, And they're very nice women and we thank
Speaker 1: them for listening. But your podcast, you have a pretty
Speaker 1: big following with with women, which is surprising. I mean,
Speaker 1: to me, I'm not ripping you, Jake, but you're you're
Speaker 1: a sports radio guy, just as surprising as you are.
Speaker 1: My biggest demographic. You know, it's inside talk, I know,
Speaker 1: but like, my biggest demographic, my biggest listener base is
Speaker 1: in middle aged women thirty five and fifty four. And
Speaker 1: because I'm relatable to these women, because it's like, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell a little something. Those that are listening that
Speaker 1: are single, dad, use it to your advantage. Women love
Speaker 1: to seeing men taking care of their children. And I'll
Speaker 1: go out to the mall with my three daughters and
Speaker 1: two of them are there in the grown and these
Speaker 1: women are like, oh my god, like like how cute
Speaker 1: he is with his kids and the grooves and they
Speaker 1: love it. They eat it. They eat it up, bro,
Speaker 1: And so you know, I'm just tell them something. Most
Speaker 1: of the time I'm out with like a podcast hurt
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to promote the brand, you know, and
Speaker 1: so oh yeah, the podcast. I'm like, listen to the podcast,
Speaker 1: you know, you learn more about me and what I do.
Speaker 1: And then the feedback is great. They tell their friends,
Speaker 1: they tell their friends and showing the soft forth and
Speaker 1: it becomes like a phenomenon. So yes, I'm just as
Speaker 1: surprised as you that women listen to the podcast of
Speaker 1: us as they do. And it's been a lot of
Speaker 1: fun doing it. I've been behind in the scenes for
Speaker 1: twenty years, so to be able to get on the
Speaker 1: microphone and talk, it's a different animal. Like damn, everybody
Speaker 1: does this for like four hours a day every day,
Speaker 1: like like an hour or two once a week, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, I gotta come up with stuff. But
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun. I love that side of
Speaker 1: the glass. You know. My my main level always be
Speaker 1: audio engineering and max thing. That's my main love producing.
Speaker 1: But being on, you know, behind on the microphone, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And yes, I encourage all the
Speaker 1: women and then to listen to Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: And I when I went on and we we I
Speaker 1: hopefully we had a lot of the people listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast. I didn't I promoted it, but I hope
Speaker 1: they tuned in and listen. Second second most listen to
Speaker 1: episode ever in the show's history. Look at that number two,
Speaker 1: number number two. We're dropping a duce right now. We're
Speaker 1: number two coming, Yeah, and climbing because my my most
Speaker 1: listen to episode is my hundredth episode. But I had
Speaker 1: like Jerry Springer on there. I had like kids from
Speaker 1: Kids and Play people like that. You had Jerry Springer
Speaker 1: on your podcast? Yeah, he made a quick guest appearance.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah. Yeah, I had some friends pull some strings
Speaker 1: for me that all me favors from years ago on them.
Speaker 1: Hey I got Dodger, took you some you need some,
Speaker 1: And they'd asked me for him and I give it
Speaker 1: to him while I cast some favors in like seventeen
Speaker 1: years later. And you you're still friends with with stephen A. Right,
Speaker 1: you worked with him in Fox Sports Radio. We worked
Speaker 1: together and I almost actually took a job with him
Speaker 1: in New York City, but I was married. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was married at the time. The family was not trying
Speaker 1: to move to New York and they didn't want me
Speaker 1: to commute and come see them three days a week,
Speaker 1: which I was seeing the three days week. We're kidding overnight,
Speaker 1: so I never saw him anyways, Like would you would
Speaker 1: have me Friday mid Friday to the early Monday, And
Speaker 1: they're like nah, no, no, no, no, So yeah, we
Speaker 1: still talk I mean, he got his moments some big
Speaker 1: time to me. But then I called him a moment.
Speaker 1: Oh really? You know his birthday the other day and
Speaker 1: I called him real quick and I are you busy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on the set of SO and stuff. I don't
Speaker 1: tell me. Yeah, I'll just tell you, dumbass, happy birthday.
Speaker 1: We'll appreciate that. Brother. Yeah, well that that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of how to have things go. Now. But that's cool.
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, I mean, and you know, Steve,
Speaker 1: he worked a lot of people don't even know he
Speaker 1: worked at Fox Sports Radio. They don't even realize that
Speaker 1: when at two different times. Yeah, yeah I knew I
Speaker 1: met I don't know him what I you know, casually
Speaker 1: I met him. He did a weekend show. His first
Speaker 1: radio was he just showed John Ireland on the weekends.
Speaker 1: And that was before John Ireland was the Laker play
Speaker 1: by play guey. I was just I think he was
Speaker 1: doing sidelines occasionally for the Lakers. But they did a
Speaker 1: show together on Saturdays, and yeah, I remember that. And
Speaker 1: then Steve and a blue up. He went to ESPN.
Speaker 1: He blew up and then he came back. Everyone comes back, Jake,
Speaker 1: Everyone comes back At one point, they all do all
Speaker 1: do it. Here's the thing, stephen A. And I told
Speaker 1: stephen A this to his face. He could think Tony
Speaker 1: Bruno and the best day and sports shuff for blowing
Speaker 1: him up, because like Tony Bruno, the great godfather of
Speaker 1: sports talk radio that we both love, dearly good friend
Speaker 1: of ours. Um, he would have stephen A come on
Speaker 1: the show all the time, you know, because that's what
Speaker 1: he was writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer. So stephen A
Speaker 1: got to do with articles. Of course he was in
Speaker 1: with I ever sin, so we used to get a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, nice school features. Jake Glazier would
Speaker 1: say about things are going on in the NBA because
Speaker 1: he had everybody here like Shock with Talm stuff called
Speaker 1: me with Talm stuff, and um so he blew up
Speaker 1: off of that. And then when he came back to Fox,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I would work with him all the
Speaker 1: time on different things because he was just you know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't really doing the radio thing, but he's he's
Speaker 1: getting better at it. So we would sit hours hours
Speaker 1: going over schematics, um, planning, fiction, how to talk, how
Speaker 1: to do things. And he was very thankful. And that's
Speaker 1: why to this day. We've remained friends because I looked
Speaker 1: out for him and then when he was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: can you help me put a highlight roil together? So
Speaker 1: I put a highlight roll together for him, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I just got signed by ESPN
Speaker 1: bro seven figure deal. Turn around me. When I come
Speaker 1: to l A. I was like, Oh, when you get
Speaker 1: I'll be at the airport wait waiting to catch my
Speaker 1: sticking lobster dinner. And I did dinner. That should be
Speaker 1: what's the most expensive restaurant in l A. You gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta find that. There's my guts, you know how
Speaker 1: much money? You're responding, Jake, You're you're a star maker, Jake,
Speaker 1: that should be your your nickname. Well that's the funny thing, man,
Speaker 1: Like any all the in terms of work under me
Speaker 1: A Fox, I've got three Amy winners, so it's like
Speaker 1: and I'm Marconi winner, So it's like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: what the hell here I am? I can't even win
Speaker 1: the People's Choice Award, Podcast Awards dot Com And I
Speaker 1: had like stars like you know, advertising and promote and
Speaker 1: all that. I have started studying people in the business,
Speaker 1: you know, and I still couldn't win. I was tty
Speaker 1: something vote shot. Yeah, well, well let me know next year. Well,
Speaker 1: tell me about that, remind me, Jake. Well, we'll put
Speaker 1: a campaign together to get you the award. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Well, it's just it really is an
Speaker 1: honor to be nominated. I've been nominated for six awards. Um.
Speaker 1: I was nominated for a couple for Black Podcast Awards
Speaker 1: dot com or something like that. I didn't win that either.
Speaker 1: You know, I guess I'm half black. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, but I'm working on it. Look
Speaker 1: at me controversial, like shut up. That's the third round,
Speaker 1: my man. That's the third round, Jake, third round, my man.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, trying to make it through the podcast
Speaker 1: Jake out there. Yeah well yeah, I've been in the
Speaker 1: business a long time too. The only thing I've gotten
Speaker 1: I've gotten food dishes named after me. That's why. No awards, No,
Speaker 1: not even close. I don't even get nominated for awards.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. That's better. I don't have a
Speaker 1: cookie name after me. That's it. You have a cookie? Yes? Um?
Speaker 1: All right. So one of my childhood friends, her name
Speaker 1: is Jesse Morton or Jesse dollas child. I forget that
Speaker 1: she's married but a family. Uh, but she has this
Speaker 1: this is a cheap plug. Um. She has a cookie
Speaker 1: company called fabruyet the cookies dot Com. And she had
Speaker 1: the Big Brother Jake cookie named after me. It's a
Speaker 1: chocolate chocolate chip with Riese's peanut buttercup in it. And
Speaker 1: that was an honor for me. I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: I got a food name after me. Usually when I
Speaker 1: hear my name there's crutch words that proceeded, so you know,
Speaker 1: from certain people by life. But but yes, um, so
Speaker 1: it's not as tools being in Kansas City and having
Speaker 1: some chicken thing is named after you. Been an hour,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's amazing. You know. I started
Speaker 1: to be like you won't day with you know that
Speaker 1: I go behind the glass to the microphone side, and
Speaker 1: I could get a fan base like the Malin Militia,
Speaker 1: which I love to death, and their supported the Big
Speaker 1: Brother Day podcast too. You know, at all the old
Speaker 1: school p one day, they're like, man, we miss you,
Speaker 1: whendn't you coming back? I don't think they made me back?
Speaker 1: We want me back. At this point, well no, I
Speaker 1: did it. There was a point where I was like
Speaker 1: trying to get you back, and then I didn't. It
Speaker 1: didn't work out. I couldn't you know you didn't. You
Speaker 1: had something going on, and I, yeah, I wanted to
Speaker 1: come back, but circumstances wouldn't allow me to come. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bureaucracy, Jake. There's a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of red tapeing life. I I gotta wrap this.
Speaker 1: I could do another two hours with you, Jake, but
Speaker 1: it must have wrap this exactly, man, listen continued success.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see you at these Clipper games. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get out there once. The Clippers keep changing pr people,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna find out who I need. I don't
Speaker 1: even I haven't move bought something there, but I love them.
Speaker 1: I love him. I'm not listening him, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I gotta I gotta track down who I need
Speaker 1: to talk to to get out there. But I will
Speaker 1: come out and we'll see you here. I'm going back
Speaker 1: to these games. I've been these Dodger games and some
Speaker 1: NFL games and whatnot. So Jake, good success and again
Speaker 1: the podcast. How can people find the podcast, Jake? How
Speaker 1: can they tune in and listen to you all right,
Speaker 1: So to find a Big Brother Jake podcast, you know
Speaker 1: the podcast one dot com. In the search boxing you
Speaker 1: type in the Big Brother Jake podcast that pops up.
Speaker 1: You can do the same but iTunes, Google Play, Spotify,
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. You just type in the Big Brother
Speaker 1: Jake podcast and you could find all of my old episodes.
Speaker 1: I think I've got a hundred forty four episodes under
Speaker 1: my belt and county not gonna stop anytime soon. That's
Speaker 1: where you can find me. Show some love, rate and
Speaker 1: review it. Because if you rate and review it, don't
Speaker 1: let me keep doing it in a podcast one. So yes,
Speaker 1: rate and review. I don't care if you hate the show.
Speaker 1: Just give him some traction. There you go, help help
Speaker 1: this man out, help my friend the great Jaguar. Thank
Speaker 1: you Jake, any time being any time with the pleasure
Speaker 1: being on your show, and you know I would want
Speaker 1: to come in and do the regular show anytime you
Speaker 1: want me back, brother, I'm so down.