WEBVTT - Staying Awake with Jake 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.440 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:36.080 back at it on a Friday. Halloween season is upon us. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.320 There's a coolness in the air, and the Fifth Hour 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.720 with Me Ben Maller is in the air everywhere. As 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.600 we said, eight days a week, because four hours a 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.159 night are not enough. Back in the podcast studio at 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.959 his secret location in the north Woods, and I Am 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:56.680 not going to do a bunch of small talk here. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.840 I'm gonna get right to it because there's a man 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.880 standing by right now on the phone that is responsible 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.000 for putting this podcast studio together. I'm sure we'll get 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.280 to that at some point, a man that knows the 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:15.200 early days of me at Fox Sports Radio. Jake Warner, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.640 a member of the Miller Militia, my engineer on the 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.440 old Weekend Overnight show for many years, worked with me 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.760 on the weekday show. He's a renaissance man. He is 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.120 the lead engineer for the Los Angeles Clippers, my favorite 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.640 NBA team. He is the lead engineer for the l. A. King's, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.880 my favorite hockey team. He worked for the l A. Dodgers, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.759 my favorite baseball team, as an audio engineer. He traveled 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.520 the United States with the great Vince Gully and all 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.200 the legends of the Dodgers. Traveled the world with those 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.000 guys for many, many years. He's a podcasters. I mentioned 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.880 you's got the Big Brother Jake podcast and he's a 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.800 girl dad. He's very active on social media. Yeah, there's 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.880 a lot going on with this guy. And so let's 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:08.160 give it up now to Jake Warner. Stay awake with 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.840 Jake and Jake. I have been doing this dopey podcast 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.079 for several years now. I can't believe it's been several years. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.240 Why have I not had you on the podcast? And 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.919 I think it's because you know, I decided to leave 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.799 the show and you held that against me, and now 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.720 you don't want me as a part of anything, but 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.640 you know I'll do it. I love being around you 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.639 being I always want to be around you know. I 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.320 always want to do whatever it takes to make you 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.320 happy being and I'm glad to be all the p Well, no, no, no, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.640 se no, I appreciate that, Jake. And you know I 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.720 loved doing the show with you. And remember I did 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.440 not want you to leave when you originally left the 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:46.960 first time, I didn't want you to leave. And then 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.919 the second time I didn't want you to leave, and 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.399 and and so I just want that on the record now. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:54.840 And as I have on, I try to have all 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.800 my friends on who worked at fs ARE back in 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.600 the day. So, how how are my association? Yeah? How 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.880 are the alumni association meetings? And are those going? Well? 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.880 The meetings are fine. You know, we we all try 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:15.320 to make ourselves available to sports radio. Would possible. Um, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.519 I have not been asked to be president of that 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:22.160 alumni association happen yet, but I am an active man. Yeah. Well, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.600 And I saw I ran into Tom Looney the other 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.880 night at Dodger Stadium. Yeah yeah, so I saw I 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.359 ran into Looney. And and he's, of course the founding 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.720 member of the fs ARE Alumni Association. He even before 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:38.960 he got hired at the company, and then once he 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.640 got hired, he knew eventually he would be part of 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.080 the alumni association. And that's why I have all the 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.720 members on as many as I can, Jake, because I 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.440 also will at some point be a member of the 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.640 fs ARE Alumni Association. But I've been able to last 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.640 a while, but I will be coming and I would 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.560 be paying my dues to those meetings. That's going to happen, Jake. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.080 It's gonna happen, and you need to. Yeah, there is 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.160 a dude, there's a you know, membership dude. But you know, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.960 sometimes you can get me go to ticket like you 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.600 do with your show, you know, and not not to 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.760 pay those dudes. But I'm one of those people. I 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.640 just don't tell them. Yeah, No, I I know. I'm 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.360 really bad with dates. I think everyone is around my age. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.000 I always do, even when they're a lot older or 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.279 a lot younger. I just assume people are kind of 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.000 around my age, and I'm bad, as I said, with dates. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.560 So when did you start at Fox Sports Radio. I 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.080 remember in the early days you were there pretty early 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.560 on at Fox Sports Radio, and then yeah, you went 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.520 to work with a dog just which we'll talk about 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.080 a little bit later. But when did that, When did 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.880 you begin you remember like roughly what year it was. Yeah, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:53.000 I believe it was two thousands. Um I started. I 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.120 believe it was. I'll get the two thousands. I know. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.359 It's like two weeks after the network started when I 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:05.400 showed up and UM, they put me on overnight weekends 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.159 and that's how we ended up meeting up. I was 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.760 a board op for Oh my goodness, who was very 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.120 board opping for at that point. There's so many people. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.760 Steve Mason, I believe it was UM And yeah, that 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:25.080 was that was a little rocky, but that didn't end well. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.720 But you know, I I was very opinionated at that time. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.800 I think I was a little more rough around the 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.280 edges and didn't take as much crap from anybody at 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.920 that time in my life. But I've since calmed down. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.400 But that's when I started around that time, and it 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.279 drew it to be a full time gig and I 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.200 have worked for them. To everybody on a network at 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.320 that point. Yeah, and there's not many left right at that. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.680 I mean, that's a long long time ago, and I 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.320 we were you the board op, the Steve Mason who's 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.720 now for those that have lost track, he does a 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.560 show in l A still and then on the afternoon drive. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.760 I don't know that amazing. I don't know Mason Ireland 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:12.120 been on forever. Yeah, so I don't know they're on 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.279 some day part during the day when I'm sleeping there 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:18.240 on or whatever. Fine, But so so anyway, there was 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.400 a Steve Mason show, and I actually brought this up 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.560 to Mason a couple of years ago. He had Jim 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:31.880 Bouten on, but he thought it was Jim Bowdend Okay, yeah, yeah, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.720 this is one of this is one of the great 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.960 bloopers in the history of Fox Sports Radio. And I 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.800 don't know Steve's upset I'm bringing this up, but it's 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.040 twenty years ago. I think the statue of limitations has 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:47.680 run out right, Jake on this. Yeah, So I remember 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.520 I was there that night too, so we were both 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.680 there and we both witnessed. Yeah, it was an amazing 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.760 It was an amazing interview because I've had this happen 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.280 to me, but it wasn't ever as awkward as this. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.880 So Macon and was interviewing what he thought was Jim Boughten, 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.839 the guy that wrote the book Ball four Right, wasn't 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.440 he the guy from the book? Yeah? And and if 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.880 you're if you're unfamiliar with the book Ball four. It 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.960 was a legendary book about all the kind of debauchery 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.080 that the Yankees. This guy he wrote he documented all 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.560 the things that the guys were doing for one one season, right, 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.800 I think it was with he was on the Seattle Pilots, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.480 I think, and then he went to the Yankees, if 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.040 I remember correctly. Anyway, he I don't know all the details. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.960 I'm just talking out of my toshoet, but I know 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.119 the book was about all the nonsense that the guys 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.120 were doing off the field, and you know the why. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:36.920 I think the big thing on that book was the 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:42.600 wife swapping. Uh yeah. Anyway, so Mason, again, he didn't 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.440 realize he was talking to that guy. He thought he 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.480 was talking to Jim Bowden, who who was the general 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.000 manager of the what was he the Cincinnati Reds at 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.320 the time, I think it was at the time. Yeah. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.520 So so Mason's doing the interview and he's he thinks 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.360 he's talking to you know, guy A, and he's talking 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.400 to guy B. You know, and that didn't that didn't 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.240 go so well. And uh but then Boughten, who's a 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.080 you know, I think he passed away a couple years. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:20.080 Total jokes, total jokes, and yeah, yeah totally went with it. Yeah, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.280 and he starts, he starts talking like he's he realizes 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.960 Mason doesn't realize he who he is, and so he 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.840 starts giving these outrageous answers. Remember with every question, if 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:36.120 I if I remember correctly, like every answer got more ridiculous. Yeah, 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.559 it was getting here and trade here. And I remember 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.240 the producer's name was Josh Rimmer. His dad actually is 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.800 um TV guy for the Columbus Blue Jackets uh NHL, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.120 and he's the one that was producing that night. And 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.719 I said, Josh, I don't think this is who you 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.480 think of this? Like I knew right away. I was 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.640 like this, he's answering these questions. Weird. This isn't right. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.320 He's going it's him, it's him. I'm like, I think 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:09.679 you got the wrong guy. And in the top back us, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.280 this totally isn't who I think it is. Yeah, everyone 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.360 picked up on it. So even though joke, Mason picked 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.920 up on it, and then he starts going with it too. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.400 This is a weird set of events after that, man, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.839 But yeah, I'll remember that night. Yeah, Yeah, that was 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.480 one of the funny stories that in those days in 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.920 Fox Busts Radio. I think Bowden had Ken Griffey Jr. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.320 Was on the Reds at the time, and I think 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.760 he had him traded. I think, if I remember correctly, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.280 there was something with Griffy that had come up in 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.439 that in that time period. So I remember you were 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.320 with me on the weekend overnights early on, and remember 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.920 when the network started, there was no weekend overnight show. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.920 When I started, they had put tape programming on the overnights, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.640 and then I I was given the weekend overnight show 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.000 and we were on no affiliates. There was hardly anyone listening, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.880 and it was pretty much just throwing stuff against the 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.200 wall at that particular point in the early days, and 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.760 we were on enough. If I remember the early affiliates, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:17.640 we're like Binghamton, New York. Pittsburgh was the first Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.880 there were like a few random scattered affiliates. But no, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.280 it was it was it was kind of like a 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.199 private conversation, right Jack. No one was really no one 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.680 was listening at that's us talking with the mics on 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.880 and people just happened to listen, you know. Binghamton New 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.040 York was always representing you know, uh that in the 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.400 one commercial we always used to play in Housecat Yes, yes, yes, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:47.320 everyone yeah, left me my better dreams. I still hear 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.760 that damn song. Um. But those were fun days because 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:56.199 we could do anything we wanted and nobody was listening. Upstairs. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.839 They're all asleep or under you know, actification homes when 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.200 we're there are yachts because you know, they were making 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.560 the big money. We were over there swimming in the studio. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.160 But that was a lot of fun. We got away 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.160 with a lot of stuff and something I couldn't do nowadays, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.960 and that's what made it a lot of fun. And 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.920 you know, before I became friends with you, I was 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.320 always a fan of yours, you know, living in the 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.840 l A. Are you listening to you and Dave Smith 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.599 on the Extra Sports eleven fifty? I was a p 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.400 one back then, and uh I was listening. I listened 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.120 every day and I still here the last track that 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:36.199 you guys would play after everything. But I love the show. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.160 And then when I found out you were coming over, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.880 I was like cool. And then I found out I 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.240 was gonna work with you, and we both were big 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.560 fans of Jimmy Hilly here in l A. And you know, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.920 so it's like, hey, you got sound effects playing them, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.960 you know, jigging ball, the old you know, funny stuff 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.160 in Tono Losorda, And I was like, man, I'm right 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.439 there with you. So I would kind of just gauge 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.200 when you were doing with certain things and I would 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.200 be able to play something the right when I just 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.400 saw your eyes, you know, like what you or what 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.280 do you want it? Or you'll treat you with your voice? 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.079 And you bought and so that actually helped me grow 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.880 and I had a good time and taught me how 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.080 a lot of our radio you know, behind the scenes. Um, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.560 but you allow me a lot of creative freedom and 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.360 and that's what made it fun. It was a lot 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.360 of fun working. Yeah, I love I love the j 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.679 and people ask about the show and I did goofy stuff. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.640 Back in the nineties, we got away with a lot 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.600 of stuff. And before I got the Fox Sports Radio 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.680 was much different. People were not all uptight. You could 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.160 goof around and you know, people were fine with it. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.800 Now people and I think most people are still okay 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.680 with it, but there's just enough people that complain that 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.680 it's it's it's not it's not the same. But yeah, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.800 when when we were on the weekend overnights and people 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.160 ask about the Mallary militia and all that stuff. That 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.960 all started on the weekend overnights because we were we 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.880 started picking up more radio stations as the network started 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.679 to grow and more people kind of heard the show 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.600 and got the show. And but we we, you know, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.040 we we just would look for anyone. I remember that 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.160 when people would call up. We were shocked that anyone 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.840 called up because we weren't on anywhere. So I and 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.360 then we would just start I would just start blabbing 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.800 with people. And that's that's how we the show kind 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.760 of morphed into we Genie and Medford and some of 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.679 the people. Doc Mike. You were there when Doc started 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.959 calling the show, And oh yeah that I'm trying to 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.319 think of the early caller we had, Doc Mike Cowboys 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:34.400 been calling forever. He's he still calls me. He's still 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:40.440 called yeah he Oh that guy and nothing would shake him. Man. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.480 I would play so many crazy sound effects and trying 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.679 to throw him off, and he was so dedicated and 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.240 it used to make me mad. I think I got 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.319 him one time when I DoD like I made sure 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.680 the whole world knew. I was happy about it. Yeah, well, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.959 and that's great because you can explain Jake as the 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:03.400 producer engineer what lay too cow We had Cowboys Corner, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.800 and then over there, over time it morphed in You're 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.079 just playing a bunch of sound effects while Cowboy drones 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.480 on about who died this week in sports and what 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.280 his junior high school teacher told him when he was 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.400 you know, and he was late to school one day, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.520 like all that stuff. The magic of Cowboy John Brad. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.680 But he was pretty monotone, right, He's always been monotone, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.880 and so, yeah, exactly, it was kind of weird. But 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.080 I wanted to throw him off because like you would 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.040 kind of be funny, Well you're always funny to me, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.320 but like you would be funny and like tough, like 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.440 over him to the audience, and he would never pick 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.120 it up, something like well and then it's talking over 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.520 him and he doesn't pick it up. I would trying 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.720 to throw him off. So I would play sound effects, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.840 you know, I'd hear certain things he would say and 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.160 try to find like the sound effects that would match it, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.240 and it would throw him off. So My goal after 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.800 that was to make sure I could break him. And 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.880 I say thousands, you know, hundreds of calls, thousands of 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.120 calls that I sat in and did the show not 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.280 after night. Um. One time I got him, and I 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.640 think there was like a streaming lady or something or 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.080 you know, some crazy drop and he just stopped and 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:26.680 he kind of chuckled, like I got him, I got him, Gotti. Gotti. Yeah, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:29.920 I am stunted, Jake. I am stunned, Jake, Jake. I 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.120 am stunned that he still called after all these years 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.000 he's had he had a stroke, he said COVID, like 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.520 I know the whole Cowboys story. I know all the 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.320 ailments he's had. I remember when he was on uh, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.440 the CBC in Canada did a story about him. They 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.400 called him the Handsome hoarder, I think, or he called 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.960 himself the handsome horder and he the Canadian government had 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.600 to like take him out of his home in Windsor 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.600 because he had so much like stuff, newspapers that he 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.280 had piled up. And he is living in Squalor and 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.280 and but he's still he always found a way to 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.000 call the show, until at one point he stopped for 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.960 a while because he didn't have phone service. I guess 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.480 because he phone got cut off. He had so much stuff, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.560 but it was it was crazy. And then some of 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.400 the I'm trying some of the other called Pete, and 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.400 Pittsburgh was also there in the day. Another one, he's 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.880 another one, yeah, knucklehead. Then his head got big because 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.400 you know, I started going on Howard Stern, you know, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.440 so he thought it was too good to call the 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.840 Big Manage Show. And I'm like, bro, you're Pete and 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.400 Pittsburgh nobody gives a rat's ass who the hell you are? 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.960 And we used to battle on Twitter all the time 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.560 until one day he was just like here, man, I'm sorry. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.800 I didn't need to be mean to you. So yeah, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.760 well Pete, Pete, yeah exactly. Pete became one of Stern's 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:52.120 whack pack guys and he called us before he called Stern, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.920 and he the Stern used to put him on. I 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.120 will give Pete credit though, when I got whacked from 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.600 Fox Sports Radio in oh nine and I was I 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.720 was like bummed out and I was like this sucks. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.600 Pete in Pittsburgh called the Howard Stern Show and dropped 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.200 my name and talked to Howard about about me because 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.120 there a bunch of people got laid off and let 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.280 go at that time. And uh so, I I I 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.080 appreciate Pete because I didn't hear it live, but I had. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.760 I have a lot of relatives that were, you know, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.320 big Stern fans and still are big Sterns fans, and 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.440 so they heard my name and then they're wait a minute, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.359 were they talking about you? And uh so that was 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.080 that was pretty cool. Pete does not call anymore. I 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.680 did reach out to Pete in Pittsburgh recently, somewhat recently 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.280 about coming on the podcast. I thought I would shoot 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:45.160 the shoot the ship with him Jake on the podcast. Yes, yes, yes, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.440 we are allowed. It's the reason I do the podcast. Jake. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.480 You can say naughty words, you can't stay on radio. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.719 So but now Pete we were. I was like, hid 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.680 Pete come on the show? And I called Pete up. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.959 It was kind of late at night. He's in Pittsburgh. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.600 He is stinking drunk, he says. He's walking on the 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.520 side of the highway there in in Pittsburgh, just kind 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.840 of wandering around. He started screaming my name. It was 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.240 he was not in good shape. Jake he was not 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.160 in good. Now. I hope that was just a bad 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.080 night and and things are better for Pete, but he 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.679 was not not doing particularly well that night. Here's another 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.080 blast in the past, Jake. And these are all names 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.000 that the listener might not realize if you're listening to 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.720 this Podcastler, I don't know who that is, but these 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.440 are these are called We had Troy the gambling man, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.440 who was Yeah, Troy drove a sweeper truck around Nashville, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.560 and and and again, Jake. The point of all this, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.520 we put these people on right because we just I 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.840 was just looking for people. Anybody that called up, we 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.360 want when I want to hear the story. You wanted 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:50.920 to have some fun, you know, change it up a 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.399 little bit. And so that's that's what happened. And and 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.600 he would call up and give the worst gambling picks 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.479 of all time. And he was he was a terrible 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.720 gambler at handicapping NFL games. But he uh, he's like, oh, 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.960 you know, I he thought he was great. And that's 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:10.480 the thing that made the bit. He thought he was 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.960 really good and he was not. But anyway, so you 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.399 you left FSR. Jake, it's all we gotta get back 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:17.800 to you, Jake. This is all about you. So you 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.480 left FSR and you got one of the great jobs 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.520 in broadcasting. You got to work for the Los Angeles 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:32.800 Dodgers and travel the United States and the world with 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:38.760 Dodger baseball. And that was a great, wonderful What's the 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.040 coolest thing you got to experience when you were traveling 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:45.920 with the Dodgers, oh Man, so many, so many things 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:50.760 I got to do. Um one of the coolest things was, 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:54.840 I'll tell this story. I told it on my podcast, 0:19:54.840 --> 0:20:02.679 which is a big Jake podcast by the way, you know, 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.400 I'm gonna get it in. But the coolest moment, I mean, 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:11.399 of course seeing all the history ballparks, and luckily my 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.359 tenure there, I got to go to like Fenway, and 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:19.040 I got to go to Wrigley, you know, and all 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.359 the great ballparks. But my favorite memory of working for 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.280 the Dodgers it was two thousand four. It was the 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.240 the game before last game of the year against the 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.720 Giant and it was for the division. And as when 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.520 Steve Finley hit that Grand Slam to beat the Giants 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.840 and take the division. That day, Vin Scolly was doing 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.480 radio only it was just it was just then and 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.360 I in the booth um producer Tom Bowman was downstairs 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:52.879 ready for the champagne. Rick Monday was already downstairs. Ralphs 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.119 Porter was downstairs. Everybody's downstairs, so it's just then and I. 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.320 As soon as Steve Finley hit the ball, then lost 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:05.440 the ball. I saw the ball and mccarl clus day, 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.639 it's way back and wherever it is. She looked at me, 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.040 and I'm doing the home run signal to him. You 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:17.639 know wherever it is, it's a grandfriend home run did 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.600 He laid out, turned his mic off, turn around and 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.119 look back to me, said Jake, Mike Shannons and St. Louis. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.080 When we get there on me, thank you for saving 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.960 my bacon. Were right back to announcing like nothing happened. 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:36.040 That's awesome, that's great. Helped the great Vince Scully on 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.120 a home run call. That's a lot, that's what. When 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.560 then he was that the last year he did radio 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.760 only because he he didn't do that right, but it 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.400 was a simulcast off the TV for a while at 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.600 the last few years that he did it right. He 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:53.000 didn't just do the radio. He would I don't think 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:58.160 he did radio only at all. After like was it no, no, no, no, no, um, 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.119 you know, the only time he do radio only in 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.639 the playoffs, of course, but his last game was a 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.760 regular season game against the Giants in San Francisco, and 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.600 that's how he wanted to end it. So he pretty 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:11.800 much after that, like he didn't do any just like 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:16.840 radio only broadcast. Yeah. Yeah, when when I first started 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:21.359